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Year: 1862

Trains on the Baltimore 4 Ohio rail
road have run to Sfartlnsburg, from Wheeling
and hut little now remains to be done to opet
through connection. The bridge at Harper
Ferry is nearly rebuilt
Year: 1862

Tickets against the new constitution are
now ready st this Office, and for sale at ten
cents per hundred, or fifty cents per thousand.
Send in your orders from the country, If not
otherwise supplied.
Year: 1862

ARRIVAL OF REBEL PR1soSERs.-Sixty rebel
prisoners arrived in this city yesterday from
the hospital at Camp Randall, Madison There
are sixty more in the hospital there who will
be brought here IS soon as they can be re-
mnYed
Year: 1862

BLooMERs.-The magnificent weather yes
terday had the tendency to bring out among
other novelties, several bloomers. However
much We may admit their propriety at home,
and pity poor Caudle, the propriety of a
woman's wearing breeches on the street, or
the taste which suggests bifurcated garments,
ART alike decidedly Questionable.
Year: 1862

TIE Yorse MEs's CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
Owing to The increase Of their labors, the
maEagersI OF this Association have found it
necessary to secure two additional rooms in
the Methodist Church Block, which, together
with the reading room, arc now furnished ard
opened to all the friends Of the Cause All
young n,en in particular are cordially invited
to avail themselves Of the advantages Of the
reading room, free Of charge.
Year: 1862

Mur1SY.-The builders of our city
we're in . terrible stew yssterday, owing to
what they considered unfair treatment on the
part Of an architect. who had the letting Of
the contract for building . dwelling for one
Of our citizens. The builders asserted there
was a disposition on the part Of q certain
church to run the carpenter business. At one
time it was thought it would be necessary to
read the riot act, and call out the Horse Ma
rines to dieperse the crowd. The trouble
simmered down, however, without damage Or
loss Of life.
Year: 1862

PoRcrNE.-The Marshal wishes US to
state that oil those hogs now running at large.
whether they have got rings in their snouts
or not. must be put up. This is an imperative
order. At the next Council meeting the hog
ordinance may be changed.
Year: 1862

THE LAsT.-All should bear in mind
that the last Theatre Of the season will come
off next Monday evening. No time nor ex.
pense will be spared to make this the most
entertaining Of any yet.
Year: 1862

OUrRAGEoUs.-The next thing worse
than stealing mans COW is to main or dis
figure her. A few nights since some brutish
scoundrel cut off the tail of Mr.. j. n. Dnnn's
cow-for what earthly cause the owner is at
loss to imagine. As he has no enemies to his
knowledge, he is forced to the conclusion that
the fendsh act was committed ont of pure
malice. The perpetrator of the deed. if ever
discovered, will be made to sweat for this
outrage.
Year: 1862

FISHING parties appear to be the or
der Of the day just now. "The Rocks are
thronged from early dawn until dark by the
devotees of tho lamented Mr.. Walton. Fish
ing poles find ready sale, and in passing along
the streets one has to keep sharp look out or
he will find himself minus an eye. Petticoats
predominate on all the fishing grounds, and
are undoubtedly as much an attraction as the
sport of hooking the scaly inhabitants of the
Father of Waters.
Year: 1862

An AGGRAvAr1NG INsULT.-To have
. m IN knock you down without any just cause
or provoeation, would be considered Q moat
outrageous insult. bat how infinitely more ag.
gravatipg It 10 to have fellow rush up "a
you with the inquiry: "do you want bully
'localr" to which you Of course return an
affirmative answer, and then have the rascal
eoolly tell yen to stir round and hunt II up.
It viii be dangerous for any man to repeat
that dodge on ~.
Year: 1862

SOME ExpLANArroN.-We spoke of an
instance of dog killing yesterday morning.
stating that the first dog checked in the town
had been killed. There Is mistake about It.
The first dog checked belonged to Mr.. Tile.
bein, but the dog for which the fret check was
drawn .is alive and WELL There was another
dog belonging to the same person. but which
answers to q different name. and was poisoned
at the corner Of Main and Fourth streets, and
in due form Of law. There 10 no chance for
argument about it we are convinced.
Year: 1862

habit Of abuse. To which added observations
Female Diseases and other interesting matter Of the
Importance the married and those contemplating
marriage who entertain doubts Of their physical ability
that Sent to any address in sealed wrap
per. on receipt Of ten cents or four stamps.


We devote entire time and attention 20 the treat


private diseases treated Of in pri
vate report Our DspenSSry Is the only Institution Of the
kind ia America which has been ablished by special
charter an4 this fact should give IL preference the
various Quacks Of doubtful character 10 be found in all
Year: 1862

FORT Henry AS STRATEGIC PoIYT-The
Chicago Post says: All the attempts yet made
to describe and locate Fort Henry have been
failures, because all have been more or less
Inaccurate and the importance of Fort Henry
as strategic point has been under estimated
But, from the adroitness with which the expe-
ditiOn against that point was conducted, it is
evident that Gen. Halleck knows the minutest
fact about the territory which he is 10 occupy
and hold. By courtesy it is called fort, but
it is only an extemporaneous fort and has
nothing but earthwOrks and some batteries
At this point there is a ferry across the river,
and this our forces have taken possession of.
The ferry connects and continues the important
line of railway from Memphis to Clarksville,
30 tnat this ferry in our possession, the rail
way connection across the State is cut off


By holding the ferry, we cut off railway
communication between Columbus and Bowl
ing Green; in fact, Gen. Grant controls at the
ferry nearly one-half the railways in Tennes-
see. He is in the rear of Columbus, and in the
rear Of Gen. Buckner at Bowling Green. But
as Gen. Halleck's command does not extend
beyond the Cumberland to the eastward, it is
not to be supposed that General rant has any
immediate designs upon Buckner We shall
soon expect to hear however, that Federal
troops are departing from the ferry for the in
vestment Of Columbus on the land side.
Year: 1862

A VETERAN OPFIcRR.-Flag Ofhcer Farragut,
who In to command the western division Of the
gulf squadron, in the Hartford, which recently
sailed for the gulf from the Virginia capes, is by
birth Tennesseean, and the only surviving officer
Of those who fought under Porter in the frigate
Essex, in the last war, when that frigate was as
sailed by superior British force at Valparaiso.
He was a midshipman In that desperate fight.
Year: 1862

Az INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE or SHnnH.-
The following incident ofthc battle of Shiloh is
related by an eye and ear witness Two Ken
tucky regiments met face to face, and fought


each other with terrible resolution, and it hap
pencd that one of the Federal soldiers wounded
and captured his brother, and after handing
him back began firing at a man near o tree,
when the captured brother called to him and
said, "don't shoot there any nymore-thats father y
Year: 1862

Walla Walla valley will find a good market at
home for their products, and when the mines fail,
they can export their products in other directions


l find the same disposition among merchants
and others interested here to "pitch into the
Oregon Steam Navigation Company that is mani
fest in your own city, and on precisely the same
grounds. The people here claim that they are
sighted by the company; that the preference in
the shipment of goods is given to Walla Walla
and Wallula; that the company are interested in
these points, &c. Now, it is my "private opin-
ion deliberately formed from observation, and
from experience in travelling some four or FIVE
trips up and down their line, that the company
are "slighting" neither place to advantage the
other; but that they doing the best they can
for notwithstanding all the money they can.
on the principle of every feler for himself, and
the devil take the hndmost." Now, do not let
any one construe this into apology for the COM
pany, for l never apologize for any one but my
friends VERITAs.
Year: 1862

LEWISTON, June I'd, 1862.


EDS. STATESMAN IL was somewf at surprised
on going into the express office on Saturday morn
ing about 10 o'clock to find copy of the STATES
MAN of same date there, and more amused at an
inquiry of Judge H 4" how the ID did this
get here by telegraph" If your paper were
dated, like some of the eastern monthlies month
in advance of the actual time of publication, the
matter would have been easily understood. 1t
was explained, however, both to the judges and
my satisfaction, by Mr. Mossman, who informed
us that he left Waa Walla on Friday evening
late, and reached this place in Just twelve hours
travelling time. His messenger left here for Flor
ence immediately on Mr. Ms arrival and ex-
pected to be in that place by noon the following
day. They may reasonably be called "fast" men.


four weeks residence in this Sacramento of
the upper Columbia " enables me to form some
thing of an opinion as to its prospects. Briefly
summed up, it is as follows: The place is now
second Sacramento; for much of it has been
buried up tor the past two weeks by the high wa
ters but this may not occur again in forty years,
though it is not less likely that each succeeding
year will mark just such an epoch as this in its
history. What capitalists, who take the latter
view. may or may not do, is not subject for spec
ulation There is, however, an evident hardness
on the part o: stters and business men here to
invest largely in building There seems lack
of confidence in the permanent prosperity of the
place. This of course, is not without cause. The
mines may be said to be the only thing that can
keep up the life of city in this desert region
The mines may be lasting; but reasoning from
analogy as the preachers say it is quite as like
ly that they will give out in very few years, as
have many of the rich pLdcerS of California, and
leave the towns and cities that grow up around
them means of support; for towns cannot be self
selfsustaining. There is not sufficient agricultural
country in this immediate vicinity if am correct
ly informed, to support the present population OF
the country. Then, of course, the country can
never make any exports save from It's gold mines,
and when these cease TO be it will be left without
any resources to sustain it. However so long as
the mines continue to pay-f navigation of Srake
river is practicable for any considerable length of
ume-there will be some point on the river to
supply the mines, and this point having already
acquired something of a name and fame, is as
likely as any other to secure that trade however
long it may last But | maintain that this nor
any other point in this region of country can never
become permanently prosperous city. And by
way of encouragement to the people of your own
beautiful valley, / will say that reasoning from
reason, there is no point east of the Dalles that
can claim a surer guarantee of permanent pros
perity than the Wala Walla valley. 1t has, what
no other place that have seen in the upper coun-
try can claim, agricultural resources. So long as
the mines above here yield we'll, the citizens OF
Year: 1862

In our last issue published letter, written by
Mr.. Henderson, concerning the much talked of road
between Walluls and Lewiston on the direct route.
and publish the following as correct state.
ment. and one on which our readers can rely as
being the facts in relation to the route mentioned.


By an examination Of the maps of the public sur
veys see that the route direct from wauls strikes
the Touchet in about twenty miles thence it is six
teen miles to the Mullan crossing thence eight miles
to Dobson 8, Reed creek thence twelve miles to
the Nez Perces trail at Whetstoue's, and six miles
more to the Misunderstanding sixty four miles as
the distance from Wallula to the Tukannon; while
the distance BY way of this place is thrty-one and
half miles to Walla Walls and forty two miles more
by the county survey to the Tukannon or seventy.
three and half miles in aIl-making difference in
favor Of the direct route of only nine and half miles
Now on the direct route the first twenty miles are all
sand, so we are informed by several men who have
passed over it. Next to twenty miles of sand comes
eight miles Of high rolling hills to be passed over to
avoid the Touchet canon Thence the road is equally
as good as that by this place.


Now we AJAX ift is better to travel twenty miles of
sand, with no water, and put up with the inconven
iences resulting therefrom, or travel few miles fur
ther and have easy marches, good road, and plenty
Of water at short intervals


We state the above for the purpose Of giving the
travelling public idea of the two routes and their
relative advantages being aware that the truth is
never injurious and being willing that all should
know the real difference in the distance between the
two routes.


One serious drawback is about being removed on
She route via Walla Walla-thc absence of good
bridge on the Touchet river. The contract for this
work is to be let by the County Commissioners Oh
Monday next and the bridge will probably be done in
two weeks from that time. In the meantime the toll
bridge built BY private parties out Of the Government


mbers, will be In operation about three quarters of
mile below the county road crossing, which will give
the public good route across the water until the
county bridge is completed The foods In the streams
are to bear the blame hesped upon the country by
the many travellers who have passed through it this
spring, and as Rome not built in one day, nei
ther can country three years old be expected to
have all the "infcrna improvements" as Mrs. Part
ington calls them, which belong to all we'll regulated
and long established communities.
Year: 1862

ENLARGEMENT OF THE STATEsMAN.-In order
to give more reading matter in the columns of
the STATESMAN, as well as to accommodate our
advertising patrons we have made arrangements
to enlarge it to the Size of the largest weekly
publication north of San Francisco. This will be
done 80 soon as our material arrives-probaby
in two weeks.
Year: 1862

GOODS FOR POWDER RIvER.-One or two par
ties have left this city during the week with goods,
provisions, &C., for the Powder river market. This
city is now the nearest point of supply for these
mines, and the only thing required to secure the
permanent trade of that place is the opening of
the direct trail and wagon road from here through
the Grand Ronde valley to Powder river. We
call the attention of all citizens interested in the
permanent prosperity of this city, to the call in
another column of to-day's issue for a public
meeting to be held in the court house this even
ing, to consider the proprety of opening the road
ard to devise means therefor. We need advance
no argument by way of enforcing the Importance
of this proposition. 1t is apparent to every bus-
ness man in the city, which fact is attesed by the
numerous names appended to the call. We
trust there may be a full meeting and that prompt
action may be taken in the matter.
Year: 1862

WE TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO
our old patrons and the public of Oregon and
Washington Territory generally that after two years
business we have established trade and facilities for
importing our line of goods that defes competition
also, that we are selling goods in our line at San
Francisco Prices, and guaranteeing them to be
genuine; our stock being all times subject to the
strictest chemical analyzation.
Year: 1862

EMIGRATION FROM YREKA.-The advance trains
of the emigration from Yreka, qua Klamath lake.
arrived in this city during the fore part of the
week, and others are now coming in every day
Those who started in April report hard trip, and
come in but little in advance of those who started
a month later. Many of the earlier trains lost
most of their animals in the mountains by Starya.
ton. In crossing the mountains they we're COM
PEELED to shovel out the snow from the trail The
trail across the klamath marsh, which is practic-
able in summer time, they found impracticable,
and were obliged to cut road around it. They
came in by way Of the head Of Deschuttes thence
to Warm Springs Reservation. The route is
practicable for pack animals, at the proper season
say from the 18th Of May-but it is impossible to
bring wagons over it. Some Of the parties with
whom We have conversed express the opinion that
in the summer season the trip can be made from
here to Yreka by this trail in eighteen days.
Year: 1862

In and about Florence times are brisk, and
money plenty. The paying mining ground is
pretty well claimed up, and new discoveries un-
frequent There is not supply of merchandise
adequate to the wants of miners, and prices are
going down slowly.
Year: 1862

We are indebted to friend, who was present
on the occasion, for copy Of the following ele-
CANT extracts from q speech delivered BY DR..
Henry, our new SurveyOr-General, before the
school at Olympia, q few days since. Having
deeply at heart tne welfare Of the rising genera
ton Of our Territory, we arc glad to have II in
our power to publish the youthful experience Of
the Doctor, In order that our own youth may be
stimulated thereby, and aspire to positions equally
exalted;-


nv dear ekildrsp.


! am very much pleased with your perform
ances to day. You show great advances in the
general march Of improvement on the Pacific
coast hope you will 60 on improving your
minds while you are young, and become oFna-
ments Of the Pacific coast Youth Is the time to
apply yourselves in order to reach distinction in
later years. Iapplied myself when was young,
and you can see TO what position Of eminence
have attainedi and only through application to


when was in the States, l was generally re-
garded as greater man than Abraham Lincoln |;
could make better speech any day and Why
may not now aspire to the same place he Oc-
cupiesP


And, ny dear young girls, bright examples
are before you, too


do not doubt Mrs. Lincoln always looked
forward, from the period Of her girlhcod, to the
time when she ould become the wife Of the
President, and applied herself and in this way
lifted herself to adOrn the position she occupies


Keep steadily in view the bright examples
have cited you, and n after years you NAV follow
in their tracks, and become, like them, bright and
shining lights in Church and State.
Year: 1862

No more serious cause of complaint exists at
the present time than the total failure Of our
mails to and from California and the East. For
months We have had no communication by mail
with California. Letters and papers known to
have been mailed many weeks since, at San
Francisco and here, have not reached their dcs-
tlnation, and are not likely to dc so for many
weeks to come, unless some mode Of conveyance
other than that Of the overland mail be adopted
Three or four days ago we received the Marys-
vile Appeal and the San Francisco HcroH Of
Nov. 23d; Of Eastern exchanges We have re-
ceived none FIR three months In the receipt Of
letters we have not been more fortunate, and we
believe that many, o! interest in our family rela.
tons and Of importance to US in our business,
are now Struggling along the road, or lying still,
hemmed in by imPenetrable ice and snow, which
should have reached us long ere this. What we
state here as our experience may be stated as
also the experience Of our readers.


As this is an evil very easily remedied we
hope the remedy will be applied with as little
delay as possible. We understand that the
San Francisco postmaster assumed the responsi.
biity Of sending up the mail by the last steamer
to Portland; cannot he send steamer to the
Sound with the back mails so long duel lie
would receive our lasting gratitude by so doing


Of one thing the Postal Department should
De fully satisfied by this time, and that is, that
an overland mail service between California and
Oregon, at this early day, is utterly impractica.
ble. Thus far the mail has not been carried
with regularity for more than q month at time,
and it cannot be carried, during the winter
months, with any certainty for six consecutive
days We hope our Delegate will give this i'm
POrtant matter his early and bis earnest attention.
and exert his influence for the restoration Of the
ocean mail service. That and that only, is now
adapted to our wants. The other has been tried
and found wanting.
Year: 1862

In Love WITH A USUoRM-A military uni
form, with man in il is one Of the things that
take hugely with the girls, who cannot resist
the glitter Of ePaulsttes, sashes and swords. A
damsel in Germany, the daughter Of wealthy
baker, inspired BY the iondness Of her sex for
such ornaments, fell in love with young lieu
tenant in the army, who obtained her fathers
consent to marry her on condition that he
should give up his military profession and settle
down to the baking business With the ear
nessness Of . true lover the lieutenant at once
complied with the terms, and assumed the garb
Of . civilian. The transformation was too much
for the giddy-headed girl however. She i'm.
mediately grew cold toward him, and refused to
iulal her vow. She had loved the uniform and
not the man. The young soldier then sued the
parents for damages for the breach Of contract,
and the Court compelled the defendants to pay
HIN the life annuity Of 525 forms, that being the
amount Of pay he bad resigned for the girls
sake.
Year: 1862

umph of the slavebolding Rebels would be the
opcniug of new era Of anarchy and chaos,
whereof no men foresee the end. For the
present, We only know that tho States which
have already elected Members to the next
House have chosen as follows:
Year: 1862

The scarcity Of silver is to SOMA ex-
tent accounted for by the great abund-
anoe Of American coin in Canada. Il
is reported that the country is flooded
with United States coin. and that every
body there is seeking to tnrn it into pa
per.
Year: 1862

A CHLD's FAITH-In the High
lands OF Scotland there is a mountain
gorge twenty feet in width, and two hun
dred feet in depth. Its perpendicular
walls are bare of vegetation, save in the
crevces, in which grow numerous wild
flowers of rare beauty. DESTROYS of OBJ
tanning specimens of these mountain
beauties, some scientific tourists once Of
fered a Highland boy a handsome gift if
he would consent to be lowered down the
cliff by a rope, and would gather a little
basket full of them. The boy looked
wistfully at the money for his parents
were poor, but when he gazed at the
yawning chasm, he shuddered, shrank
back and declined. But filial love was
strong within him, and after another
glance at the gift, and at the terrible fs-
sure, his heart grew strong, and his eye
flashed, and he said:


81 will go if my father will hold the
rope"


And then, with unshrinking nerves,
and heart firmly strong, he suffered his
father to put the rope about him, lower
him into the wild abyss, and to suspend
him there while he filled his basket with
the coveted flowers. 1t was a daring
deed, but his faith in the strength of his
fathers arm, and the love of his fathers
heart gave him courage and power to
perform it.
Year: 1862

CURE FOR RHEUMATIsM.-Our rheu-
matte friends need not despair of being
cured, as we are credibly informed that
the following simple remedy is sure and
efficacious Take two small potatoes and
wear one in each pantaloon's pocket. In
q short time they will become hard, and
the disease will grow less severe until
the person is rid of it entirely. Two in
dividuals, who have been greatly afflicted,
have tried the above, and have been much
benefited,
Year: 1862

At two and a half o'clock the report Of
the joint special committee on the revis-
ion Of the compiled statutes, came up for
consideration.


There was quite lengthy discussion
upon the question of revision, but our
colums are too much crowded to publish
even the substance of the remarks. The
resolution however, was finally rejected