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Year: 1864

For several days ruror has asserted that the
late secret sessions of the Virginia Legislature re
had been spent in discussing certain resoiu-
tions urging the Confederate Government to
recall the outlawry Of Butler in order that an
exchange Of prisoners may be resu med. We
have no means of knowing whether the runlor
has any foundation in truth. We hope that the
Confederate Government will not allow itself
to be influenced in the least by any pressure
from outside.
Year: 1864




S. D. Houston writes TO the Junction
City paper about setting out fruit trees,
and says:


The trees selected should bethose 6rOwn
in this locality if possible, and should be
allowed to branch out near the ground
Where it can be done, they should be set
out on either the hfs sh prairie or on the
second bottom, and on clay subsoil, as the
low sandy land becomes too dry and warm
for them.


There are various suggestions, bat sns
thing is indispensable 10 life and success,
|aoa that IS that each tree is well muiehsd
VIII straw or hay for at least four or five
feet around it. Without this you will not
save one { fee in ten in three years, unless
thesseasodss are different from those Of
the pas, eigh. yes1a-. With this mulching
to.aid the tree to moisture through the dry
portions of the year, every farmer may
soon have fruit plenty add to spare. But
if some such course is notpursued, would
not pay man FIVE dollars to set out thou
sand trees for me.
Year: 1864

The fraudites have threatened to crush
us out. They have done their best to
make good their threats and most signally
failed. They now call on the military
power to aid them in their uuholy work
Witness the last issue of the Tribune
which demands of General Davis the sup.
preston of the Record and Conservative.
You can bawl until you are hoarss and
that is al: The good it will do you.- Topeka
Record.
Year: 1864

Gen. Davies, in command of Northern
Kansas. has issued an order declaring that
it shall be considered military offense
for any citizen tb complain either to mill
tary or civil authorities, or to proclaim by
speech or writing the disloyalty OF any
other citizen, without he can produce prob.
able proof of the same.
Year: 1864

Down ON LINcoLN.-The Sacramento
Bee occasionally diScloScS it's cloven foot.
1t is bitterly hostile to President Lincoln
and never let's an opportunity pass to
give him q cowardly stab. 1t lacks the
manliness to oppose him openly it does
it covcrtly the better to conceal its peril.
dy. In commenting, with characteristic
Stiffness, upon an article in the DEMOCRAT,
the Bee says:


"If YOU continue to urge your ideas of the
duty of citizen to oppose the Administration
of the Government in times of war, the penple
will care very little what you may think or
say" g..


The above is insidiouSly aimed at Pres
idcnt Lincoln. He opposed the Admin
istration Of the Government in times of
war;" he gave one Of the best appoint
ments in his gift to the man who advised
the Mexicans to welcome with bloody
hands to hospitable graves" the Ameri-
can soldiers fighting for their country !;
and he was elected President by the men
who "OppoSed the Administration of the
Government in times OF war" Be more
guarded in the future, Mr.. Bee, or your
master will question your loyalty.
Year: 1864

Clear the Tsack-Scores OF spectators,
who have substitute papers, ere preparing to
run the blockade rather than shoulder their
muskets to aid in defending the wealth they
have already accumulated out of the mialOr-
tunes Of their country. Let them 90 II they
will, but let Congress and the State Legisla-
turee pass stringent laws to fake possession
OF such of their effects as may be 1rft behind
and confiscate it to the good of the cause. ~
Tint they have left their families here ehOuld
be no plea against the Law, for they are mere
consumers, and should be sent Of to Join
their patriotic protectOD.
Year: 1864

Sent to Camp William d. Turner, claim
ing to be > resident of Orange county, was
brought before the Mayor yesterday as Q
means Of support. The Mayor turned him
over to the conscript fathers, to be put to
useful employment.
Year: 1864

Serious Accidsnt.-An accident occurred
near the corner of Main and 11th streets
about ten O'Clock on Saturday last, which
came very near proving fatal. A little boy,
named Augustus King, whose parents reside
on Fulton Hill, had been sent to the city to
make some purchases, and while sitting on
the back of . mule which he was riding, in
conversation with some other boys, one Of
them picked up switch and commenced
tickling the animal, which caused him to
kick up and throw his rider from his seat


Young Kings foot becoming entangled In
the st!rrup of the saddle, he was dragged
some distance before assistance could be
rendered, and when he was extricated from
his perilous situation streams of blood wero
flowing from his head and face. For some
time life seemed extinct, but by prompt
medical attendance he was soon restored to
consciousness, and hopes are now entertained
of his recovery. This should be Q warning
to youths never to interfere with a. fractious
an animal a. q mule but moro especially
when an inexperienced rider Is on his back.
Year: 1864

Railroad Acefdsnt- Collision bstpesn thrss
4paIaS accident occurred ON Saturday
afternoon last at Coalheld Station on the
Danville road, which resulted in the serious
injury of one person and the breaking up Of
a locomotive and several passenger aud
freight cars. AS the coal train which was
going up was in the act of running through
the turnout at Coalfleid to permit tho mail
train coming down 10 pass on to this city,
the two came together with terrible crash


Scarcely had tho shock of the collision been
felt before the material train, which was very
near, came dashing IN from behind the bend
In the road at tnat point, and with full speed
ran into the two colliding trains, resulting In
the breaking of lady's arm, and the smash
ing up of one locomotive and several cars.
The excitement produced by these collisions
was one Of the most terrific character, and
the screams of the women and children on
board could be heard for miles. so great
was the speed at which these trains were
running that several Of the cars were driven
through each other, and the great wonder ia
that human suffering was not greater than it
was We learn that the distractions on the
road caused by these collisions have been
removed, and that there will be no Interrupt
tion in the regular running of the trains.
Year: 1864

SORGHUM SYRUP. Some Of our farmers
appear to have been in too much of hurry
in getting their syrup into. market. The
specimens we have examined are quite crude,
and reflect but little credit on the manipula-
tor. They SAVIOR strongly Of the vegetable
acid, and are covered with froth, which is
full of speeks and small pieces Of the cane.
These are defects which might be so easily
corrected, that our friends will take it kind
ly if we submit few simple directions in
the matter. 1t is absolutely necessary for
the good keeping Of the syrup that the acid
should be neutralized; and every farmer has
the means at hand for doing it. While the
syrup is boiling, pour into it from time to
time small quantity of ley, which is TO be
repeated as long as there is any eferves.
cence or fosming-skimmiug each time, so
as to reject the matterthat rises to the sur
face. And continue to boil until the syrup
becomes thick. This may be ascertaiued
by taking up small quantity ina spoon
and letting it cool, when the desired consis,
tency will be readily apparent. Better to
have ten gallons of rich, thick syrup, of
golden color, than twelve, or even fifteen Of
a vatery consistency, which no one will buy
as long as he can get superior Article. -


Petersburg Express.
Year: 1864

The same test has to be applied to jour-
nalism as to everything else the man of
brains succeeds in building up name and
10 acquiring wealth, while the droue goes
to the wall. The active duties of the po.
sition require extraordinary powers of mind
and body, and no one ever achieves a per-
maneut success without them. AS to COM
fort and personal ease, as little. attaches to
newspaper life as to any other that can be
thought of. A cotemporary thus gives his
"experience."


We frequently hear people express de-
sire to belong to the fraternity. They lit.
tie know the annoyances of editorial life, or
such wish would not 90 forth. Ifa paper
says friend in the harness, has too much
political, or too much literary matter in it,
nobody wants it. If it contains too little,
its not worth taking. If the type are small
they are unable to read it. If:large, we
want to economise. If we publish the tel.
egraph reports, people say they are nothing
but a batch Of lies, and if we dent publish
them, they declare we are not able to pay
for reports. If an occasional joke finds its
way into our columns, we are dubbed rat
tle-head, aadif none appear, we are declared
40 old fossil. If we publish great deal of
editorial, they say that is easily done; that
the evidence of good editor is in selec-
tions. If we scissor great deal, We are
cursed for not giving them what has not np-
peared in some other paper. A compli-
mentary notice appears, and We are called
partial, and if none is written, we are styled
selfish hog. If we occasionally publish
something to please the ear Of the ladies,
or tickle the fancy of young misses, men
damn the paper for printing such atrash,"
and if nothing is given for the ladies', the
paper is not fit to have in the house. If we
attend church, it is to cover our hypocrisy,
and if We fail to 60, we are condemned for
not practicing what we preach. If we COM
mend any act of the Government, men de-
clare We dare not speak otherwise, and if
We do see fit to sometimes find fault, there
is class to call us traitor. If we de-.
nounce General for want of capacity, we
are impairing confidence; and if we make
no mention of him and he commits an error
we ought to have let the world known be-
forehand that he was not the "right man in
the right place." We cannot remain in our
Office to attend to our business, without re-
marks being made about lack of sociabit
ity, and if we do miDgle with our fellows,
they can't see how We attend to business.
These are only few of the anuoyances Of
editorial life, but they are sufficient to sat-
isfy any one chat it is not such an enviable
life after all.-Raleigh Progress.r
Year: 1864

The enemy has now an additional motive
to press. the subjugation of the South. 1T
is his only way to save himself from fnan-
cial ruin. Thisshas not only been asserted
by almost every journal at the North, but
has been at last openly confessed by the
Yankee Secretary of the Treasury. While
doing his best to lift his currency, coDcoct.
ing bills to arrest speculation in gold, and
to check the issues of the State banks-to
which two sources ho attributes mainly the
depreciation Of "greenbacks"-he yet ad.
mits that none of these expedients will suf-
fee, unless they be further assisted by VIC
tories in the field. "Without military suc-
cess, all measures will fall" writes the des.
pairing fnancier. A Yankee. must be in.
deed at his wits end when he can find no
other way out of difficulty but telling the
truth Such is now the condition Of the
thiuble.rigger, Chase. 1t must have been
e source of bitter modification to him to be
thus compelled to transgress one of the first
principles of Yankee morality. How will
he face his indignant couutrymen, with the
guilt of that honest sentence-though it
may have been the only one of bis whole
life-upon his conscience? Leaving him,
however, to his fate, let US consider briefly
|. what less there are for us in his admission.


We ought to beware how we regard the
present monetary condition of Yaukeedom
as operative altogether in our favor. Itsup-
plies motives, as we have already limited,
which will cause the Yankee leaders to leave
no stone unturped in their efforts to subdue
US, and the Yankee soldiers to fight with a
desperation which they have never yet dis.
played at any period of the war, They will
strike as men strike whose property is staked
upon their weapons-as men, too, who, from
a peculiar national character, esteem prop
erty as tho most important of earthly inter.
csts. These are sordid inducements, in.
deed and we can afford to despise them
when compared with those which impe! US
to take the field, aud to stand sternly by the
alternative, victory or death. Nevertheless,
the weight which they will bring into the
contest ought not to be entirely Sighted
We should be prepared to meet an unusual
display of Yankee valor with such a courage
as shall seem extraordinary, even in land
wherecourage has already reached a height
which it is difficult to surpass. We must
transcend the deeds of our fathers; VIC must
eclipse the glories Of 81, '62 and '65; we
must fight as if life were the least thing in
the world to be considered, and defeat one
of those impossibilities which no numbers
short of the sands Of the sea side can achieve.
Doing battle in this spirit, we shall sweep
down upon our foes with Irresistible force.
Grant-ana the bordesr which he commands
will be consumed before US like prairie grass
before fire driven by mighty winds.


South Carolinian.
Year: 1864

Correspondence Saint Paul Press


IrAscA,F cb. 5, 1864.
The effects Of whi,!1ry on ,hs nervous
system have had very good illustration in
ia late case near here. An lrshnan by the
name Of Dennis kalhar bought homestead


claim near Princeton, last summer, and dur


ing the past month has been moving hi,


stock and family to occupy it. Three 0;


his children he had taken up and returned


with horse and sleigh for his wife and two
other children. Ga his way up with them


he got pretty we'll intoxicated, and his vie


becoming somewhat uneasy in his company
got out of the sleigh with her babe abou,
six weeks old, but he refused to let her


take ale other child out, and started on


The child commenced screaming for her
mother, when the father to quiet it, gave it
a blow with his fist on the side Of the head.


The mother walked two miles and half to
the nearest house, and sent young man to
10 ook after her drunken husband and Child


tie found the horse loose from the sleigh.
Going quarter Of mile, he came to the
sleigh with the little girl, four years Of age,
dead, lying on the seat, with one side of her
head badly swollen and black and blue
probably from the effects of his blows. a.
mile from this he found the father lying
dead drunk in the road This is the story
as | have received it, The mother is very
kind and hard working woman, and through
her good management they have been en-.
ab'ed, within the past five years, to get
pretty fair start, and their prospects looked
very encouraging. The husband, when so,
ber, has many good qualities.
Year: 1864

An agent of the Freedmen's Association
is about to visit Oregon for the purpose OF
procuring donations from the citizens OF
that State and those of this Territory to sup
port the negroes that have been freed du-
ring the present war. Those who have
been clamorous for the freedom of the ne
groes should by all means be willing to con-
tribute literally toward their support when
freed but we notice that the Union papers
on this coast turn the cold shoulder upon
the objects of their former solicitude, and
when they deign to notice the Freedmen S
Association at all, it is done in such mig
gardly manner that the cause receives there
by much more injury than benefit. They
As much as say, "An agent of the Freed
mems Association will soon be among US
asking aims for those poor long-heeled ne
groes, but don't you give him cent, to
save his life" That is the kind of aid they
are giving, when instead, (at least to be con-
sistent) they should be giving the Associa-
ton favorable notices, and urging the peo-
pie to come forward with substantial contrl-
buttons. However, We are not surprised
to find the public pulse waning, financially,
from the over-strained pressure Of matters
of this kind. The government has taken
care to free the negroes and it is now sup
porting vast numbers of them and the bal
ance ought to be able to work and support
themselves, as white men do. We cannot
gee why the freedmen should be entitled to
sympathy and aid above poor white folks,
and we hear of no poor Whitemen's Associ-
alton being formed anywhere.
Year: 1864

GOLD Discovery AT PORT ANGELos.-
A prospecting party lately left Port Ange
los, in this Territory, and found gold or
two small streams that put into the harbol
near the town. On White creek severa
bars were found from which an average pros
pect Of five cents to the pan was obtained
Specimens of quartz rock were also found
which, when assayed3 proved to contain both
gold and silver. Our Puget Sound breth'
rem may yet have occasion to rejoice over
the discovery of paying mines in their sec
ton of the Territory. Puget Sound is al
ready noted for its valuable oyster beds, its
lumber advantages and its coal beds, and
should it also prove to be a gold and silver
producing region, will eventually be the
most important district along the Pacific
coast.
Year: 1864

Major General Irwin Mcdowell is said
to be on bis way to California, to take COM
mand of the Military Department of the
Pacific. We hope that Mcdowell will be
able to give as universal satisfaction in his


management on the coast as General Wright
has done. Gen. Wright has the advantage
of being thoroughly acquainted with af-
fairs here, besides having the confidence of
tho people, who look upon him as an able
officer and trustworthy man, while Mcdowell
will come as a stranger, having much to
learn in the new department assigned him.
Year: 1864

VALLANDIGHAM.- dispatches say
that the Democracy of Ohio have appointed
G. L. Vallandigham Delegate to the Chi
cago Convention. This may have had some
effect in the postponement of the Conven-
tion. AT all events, if he has been made a
delegate, and if such men as be are to shape
the platform upon which candidate for
the Presidency is to be nominated, the ma
tional committe would do just as well to
postpone the convention until after the
Presidential election.
Year: 1864

SISTERS SCHOoL.-The first half of the
second qnarter of the Sisters school closed
this week. The school will be opened again
on the LIST of September During vacation
the Sisters will endeavOr to complete their
establishment in order to accommodate the
numerous applications that are daily made
for boarding scholars. We are requested to
state that owing to the prevalence of the
small pox in the city during The last term
the receipts of the institution were mater-
ally reduced, in consequence of which the
Sisters will again be compelled to call upon
those who may feel disposed to assist them
in the completion of their building, SO that
they may be prepared to meet the wants Of
the public.
Year: 1864

June ZOu, lOOf.


We, the undersigned citizens of Walla
Walla county, submit the following state
ments of facts in connection with the shoot
ing and killing of Louis Raboin, familiarly
known as Loui Marango.


We proceeded from his house about one
fourth of mile to where he and his little
son had been hoeing in a tobacco patch, and
upon examination we found moccasin tracks
near by; also, the grass and weeds broken
down in three different places Immediately
in the edge of the brush, (the place we be-
lieve where the fatal shot was discharged)
and at the short distance of but twenty pa
ces from where Raboin was hoeing.


We made diligent search about and
around the place in order to obtain farther
clue to the murder, but without effect, and
from the appearances, we are led to believe
that there were two or more persons engaged
in the murder, and that they were Indians.
The shot was fred from a large sized gun or
pistol and entered the left side of the body
Immediately under the arm, the ball remain
ing in the body, producing death in about
three hours
Year: 1864

FROM KooTENAI.-Two or three per-
sons have arrived this week from the above
country Their opinions of the mines
about accord with those that we have for
merly published some expressing billet
that the mines will prove to be rich and ex-
tensive, and others asserting that if some
thing more is not found than has already
been discovered, it will not pay men to go
there This is both sides of the subject,
briefly told
Year: 1864

To TAX PAYERs.-Treasurer McAuliff
gives notice to-day that the tax books for
the county are in his hands ready for the
receipt of taxes. Those who would save
the 10 per cent added, for collection, should
remember and not hold on to their scrip and
greenbacks more than ffty-nine days from
this date,
Year: 1864

There are many well qualified young men
now belonging to the Oregon cavalry, both
of officers, non-commissioned officers and
privates, who would be glad to enter the ser
vice as officers in the colored regiments, and
it would seem to be but liberal and fair that
they should have the opportunity. These
young men are aware of the high standard
required for officers of the regiments re-
ferred to, and are willing, yea, anxious, to
submit their qualifications to the decision of
properly constituted Board of officers ap-
pointed for that purpose Oregonidn.


Give them Board by all means and let
them sail in. We have before understood
that some men belonging to the Oregon cav
airy were anxious to 60 into active service
in the East, but this is the first intimation
we have had that it was their desire to
get into colored regiments.
Year: 1864

A Salt Lake dispatch to the Sacramento
Union says that teams begin to arrive from
the East with goods for merchants of that
city The trade which has been done with
California heretofore has been diverted to
the East in consequence of the exchange on
cold
Year: 1864

General Wright informs the Alta Califor-
MIA that he has never given permission to any
party to collect money in California for the
rebel prisoners in Northern prisons and that
he has no right to give such permission
Some money had been collected, but was
paid back.
Year: 1864

DRE. .EMPTION CLAIMANTS CAN ARRANGE
with me as to complete their titles without
going to Vancouver In proof, read the following
extract from letter to me- written by the Register
OF the Land Office:
Year: 1864

they sought the steslthy shelter of prisons and
solicited the ObScurity of darkness for the graft
ficston of their passionate vengeance, they glut
it now under the MONDAY sun. and murder
wounded men in the sight Of the world. So do
the real traits Of the-enemy with whom wo arc
at ware and the real character of the struggle
in which we are embarked, begin to disclose
themselves. Between tho spirit which could
slowly torture prisoners TO death, and the spirit
which leaps TO the killing Of four hundred
prisoners on the instant, We detect no essential
difference.


There may bo room for hope that the first ac-
counts are exaggerated. but no room for doubt
that they arc founded on horrible facts. Taking
any part of the story to be true it is possible an
attempt will be made to excuse the killing as a
severity of war to which garrison obstinately
making hopeless resistance has sometimes
tbouph eyen.in the EXTREMIST cases but seldom
been put Bn, there is no such excuse. The
ruIo never had a recognized existence as OF
general application, and no'er passed INTO prac-
tice without remonstrance anu reproach.
Badaios remains an ineiIaccablc stain On the
English name and finds its most indignant
ccnsure at the hands of an English historian.
The storming of Drogheda by Cromwell, and
the putting of its garrison to tho sword, though
admitting q partial justification from military
necessity, has left shadow on the name Of the
Protector which even Carlyle's illumination
cannot wholly dispel In this case there was
neither the pallation of long siege nor Of
military necessity, and Forrest has placed his
name side by side in iniamy with that Of the
butcher Of Lawrence.
Year: 1864

troversy. But it is not so difficult we think,
for democratic lookers-on to determine which of
the three plans entertained with regard
TO the queston-the Danish claim of Schleswig
on the ground Of the treaty Of 1852 the
claim of the Prince of Augustenburg, resting
on treaty of 1850, or tho proposal OF Louis
Napoleon TO leave the decision to q vote OF the
peoples most in accordance with the principle
of popular sovereignty.