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Year: 1863

travels, and consequently desire to persist In
their old policy Of excluding foreigners, or that
they believe that the, proceedings of the two
governments are founded in injustice, and that
their object is merely to gobble up Japan, -
France is now gobbling up Mexico If the lat
ter is their idea, it is not far from The truth.
Let either or both Of these Powers obtain foot
hold in their country, and it will soon lose its
independence. That the Japanese do not ex-
hibit the same jealous suspicious and apprehen-
sions Of us arises from the fact that their en-
voys had penetration enough to discover that
the policy Of our government is not that Of ex-
tension but conservation. tse 20 e1Httsa
Year: 1863

Missouri, Tennessee and half Of Virginia re-
deemed; Arkansas Texas, Louisiana and half
of Florida essentially in our possession; q
slice of North Carolina ours, and Mississippi in
the balance-such are the results; and yet the
miserable partisan spouters tell their audiences


that we are no nearer to tie end Of the war
than we were two years ago. From the glance
we have given, any one not blinded by party
zeal may see that, though fewer brilliant vic
tories have been gained than were expected,


we have made steady and great progress to-
wards the accomplishment Of the objects Of the


war, and are now in the position to strike blow
that will do 1t more harm than any one blow
has yet done. gt


So much for the territorial aspects Of the
situation; but, as we have said above, the rebel
armies are now the important objective points.
Here also our progress has been great; for the
rebellion in this respect is In such position
that at any one Of the three points-right, left
or centre-we are able to strike almost at its
life; and the overthrow of rebel army at any
one of these points would now be vastly more
disastrous to the rebellion than it could have
been at this time last year.
Year: 1863

sensation purposes, BY sansAhs Of oyphsrs'ksown
only to the initiated, and the public are abused
almost daily in this way.


The present system of censorship only half
does the business it was intended for, and is
more Of nuisance than benefit either to the
government, the press or the people
Year: 1863

From some of the officers of the United States
Revenue cutter Shubrck we learn that an attempt
(Which proved nearly successful, and possibly may
yet prove SOY was recently made in Victoria to
send to sea pirate to prey upon American com
merce on the Pacific 1t seems that the Hudson
Bay Company's steamer Thames; which arrived
from London few weeks since, is for sale and
deeming her well suited for their purpose, the
Secessionists of Victoria set about raising the
wherewth to purchase her. They succeeded in
obtaining all the money required save seven
thousand dollars, and at last accounts were at a
standstill for this amount. Should they obtain
complement of men for there is no scarcity of
idle and desperate characters in Victoria, who
would sooner cut throats than labor for a livel-
hood According to the programme of the pro-
ectors of this scheme, of the first exploits of
the pirates was TO be the capture of the Shubrick
and Joe Lane, which they designed also to con-
vert into pirates. That such a project as the
above has been suggested, we think there is little
doubt; but we are slow to believe in the sincerity
of those who proposed it. The Thames has an
armament of some eight or ten guns, several of
them heavy calibre, and could readily be convert
ed into rather formidable pirate.-P. s..
Herald


THE END OF A RUNAWAY MATcH.-A few
years ago the marriage of Miss Boxer, young,
beautiful and accomplished lady, with her fathers
coachman, John Dean, set all the scandal mon
gers of Gotham on end A sad addendlun to the
"strange eventful history" has now to be added.
After the marriage the couple, notwithstanding
their different 'bringng up" lived happily enough
together, in a small cottage over in Williamsburg
The husband obtained an office in the Custom
House, and saved money enough to open public
house at the foot of Grand street, Williamsburg
But alas for John Dean, he could not keep
hotel 1t is said "he was his own best customer" :"
and as natural result, he commenced treating
his wife badly.


II a short while all their money was spent, and
with poverty coming in at the door, love, usual,
few out of the window. John beat and abused
his wife, but all this she put up with until starva
ton stared her in the face, when she was COM
PEELED to ask admission into the Almshouse The
petition was granted, and the fashionable, elegant
and accomplished belle of the Fifth Avenue
few years ago-is now the associate of beggars
and paupers


INTERESTING TO DREssMAKERs.-Th Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue has decided that
dress making is a manufacture, and as such, if car
ried on to an extent exceeding one thousand dol
lars per year, including price of goods, requires
| license. The dressmaker is required to make
monthly returns and to pay a tax of three per
cent. on the whole value of her Manufactures
When a dressmakef makes up goods belonging
to her customers, she is required to make return
OF the same, and to pay tax upon them but
she is authorized by the law (sec. 6O) to add the
tax to her bill for labor, and has lien upon the
dresses until the bill is paid.
Year: 1863

BoNNETs.-The bonnets in which our
fashionable danes and damsels have framed
their faces for the promenade this winter
are not, to speak mildly, the perfection of
grace and beauty. They tilt skyward as if
each had received mischievous tip in front
or downward pull behind from some pass
ing woyfarer, and contain, between the fore
head and the peak, from a small measure
to half-peck of artificial flowers, ribbons
and velvet. Since the celebrated " sky
scrapers" of some thirty years ago, Fash
ion has never produced style of bonnet
so eminently ridiculous. We have yet to
see the woman who looks well in one Of
them-with one exception,
Year: 1863

Observation-Disclosures applied as pouf@
tice will eectsally cure the erysipelas. There is
not an instance known where it has failed to effect
cure when faithfully applied before the sufferer
was in a dying state Two or three applications
generally do the work.
Year: 1863

LAZY BoYs.-A lazy boy makes lazy man,
just as sure as crooked sapliug makes crooked
tree. Who ever yet saw boy grow up in idle
ness, that did not make shihless vagabond when
he become man, unless be had fortune left to
keep up appearances The great mass Of thieves,
paupers and criminals, have come to what they
are by being brought up in idleness. Those who
constitute the business part of the community
those who make our great and useful men-were
taught in their boyhood to be industrious.
Year: 1863

DIFFERENCE OF OPINIoN.-The mere
politician will tell you that the defeat of
his party is ruin to the country. Not so
sthe lurge-minded statesman. He takes the
matter philosophically. If the people have
made mistake, the people can and will
rectify it. They have pronounced in favor
of change of policy, and he is willing to
see the experiment tried. Such silent rev.
olutions are necessarily Incidental to popu-
lar government. In the right to accom-
plish them consists the essence of rational
liberty Where public opinion can be
peacefully ventilated through the ballot box
it rarely explodes in riot and disorder. Bal
lots supersede the necessity for barricades.
Year: 1863

Temperance Speech BY Admiral Foote.


AT late Sons of Temperance Festival,
at. Washington, Rear Admiral FOOte was
introduced and received with great ap.
plause.


The speaker said that he was entirely
unprepsred to speak on this occasion. He
had been a temperanee'man all his life.


He congratulated the division on its pro-
gress, and ikened it 10 the rise and pro-
gress Of the efforts which have been made
during the last twenty years, to abolish the
liquor ration in the navy. That work was
accomplished at the last session Of Con-
gress. Applause BE then gave very
brief history Of the efforts in that cause.


he entered the navy VIXEN fifteen years
ofage, as " Mildly and at the time every
man on board ship was expected to draw
his " half pint, and the grog tub was par
AIDED daily.


The first attempt made was to reduce the
ration from half pint to q gill. He
(Com. F =. wrote several articles for the
National Intelligeneer, in which he urged
this change in the naval ration For this
he was denounced BY his fellow officers
but he kept on until the final triumph
came.


BE then spoke Of the effects Of this ubOl-
ishment in the navy. Itaided in the disci-
pline on board of the vessels, and eleva-
ted the moral condition of both officers and
men.


The Admiral spoke with much warmth
and earnestness and when about TO draw
his remarks to a close, the audience urged
him to go on" The speaker said that
he could not go on, for if he did he should
get on the Western Waters. I" That's
what we want" tell us about Island No.
l0."] he would be glad to crafty them,
bnt he could not say no more on this occa-
sion.


The gallant hero then took his seat amid
loud applause.
Year: 1863

A few days prior to the sailing Of the
brig Tallulah from Rio de Janeiro, the
English and American Ministers had a
private dispute at a card party. It is said
that some hard words passed between them
and the English Minister limited that he
would chanege his American, Associate
The American Minister Immediately turned
the tables by sending the challenge him
self The Englishman, as soon as he
received the challenge, went on board Of
the British stOreship for protection, and
remained on board up to the time Of tbs
sailing Of the Tallulah.
Year: 1863

The President Taking of OvercOat and


hiittens.


The Rochester Union publishes the fol
lowing extract from a private letter writ
ten at Washington, on New Years Day,
5ya prominent citizen of neighBOring
county;


al have it on good authority that last
evening the President summoned his Cab
met together, including General Halleck,
and without much ado, and without even
the preface Of an apology, said Gentle
men, in the management and conduct Of
this war, from hencsforth, shall be the
head of the concern. have taken off my
overcoat and thrown away my mittens,
and shall now do something. believe
that am as capable Of debating to you
as you are to me, and hereafter, therefore,
l shall direct and order matters myself.
A change has become necessary, and now
is the time to inaugurate ii, and hence
forth will not be dictated to, and will
not be interfered with.


The gentleman who told me the above
is reliable, and believe ii to be true"
Year: 1863

are not. We are only asking common
sense questions, that we should like to have
answered in common sense way. Peace
will not drop down from the sky, nor can
we expect in these days the sun to stand
still, or water to be walled up for us I'd
march our armies across the Mississippi
river dry shod. II we are ever to have 4
peace there must be beginning to that
peace, and We want to know how we are
70 have beginning.


No sensible man looks longer TO Europe
to stop the war. and as long as both the
North and the South claim to be free from,
sin. negotiations. treaties or any kind oi
settlement s out of the question. We
want peace, and We want il now, and we
are willing TO have il upon any terms that
are honorable TO our State and section.
Many Of our people. as well as those Of the
North, are tired OF lighting for the negro.
Let the two sections separate, and let those
States that want TO ally themselves TO the
South. come in; and leave slavery as il al
ways should have been left. 10 regulate it
sell. l.lncoln's proclamation cannot take
y IRON people whose interest it's 20 have
4. nor can our laws or baynneis force il on
people who do not want il. Give Us an
honorable peace. and We will regulate sla-
very afterwards.
Year: 1863

A WORD ON NEDlTING.-Before you go fol
an editor, young man, pause and take a
big think DO not rush into the editorial
harness too hasty. Look around and see
il there is not an omnibus to drive some
soil somewhere to be til!cd-a clerk.
ship, or some meat cart to be filled-any-
thing that is reputable or healthy, rather
than going for an editor, which is a bad
business ut best. We are not horse, and
consequently have not been called upon to
furnish the motive power for threshing
machine; but We fancy that the life Of an
editor, who is forced to write, whether he
feels like it or not, is much like that Of the
stecd ia question. If the yeas aud noes
could be obtained, We believe that the intel.
ligent horse would decide that the threshing
machine is preferable to the sanctum edi.
torial. The EDITORS work is never done.
He is drained necessarily, and no wond er
that he dries up prematurely. Other peo-
pie can attend banqucts, weddings, etc,
visit halls Of dazzling light. get inebriated,
break windows, lick a man occasionally,
and enjoy themselves in variety Of ways
but the editor cannot He must tenacious.
ly stick to the quill. The press, like sick
baby, mustn't be left alone for minute
If the press is left to run itself, even for a
day, some person Indignantly orders the
carrier boy to stop bringing that internal
paper. There's nothing in it. won't
have it in the Artemus Yard.
Year: 1863

John Van Buren, one of the leaders o,
the Democracy in the old Empire State
and who has been one Of the most active
movers for an armisticc and convention
to settle the war, as between the north and
south, after seeing these overtures spurned
by all tie big and little men in the rebel
lious states, has again given the weight o
his influence for the prosecution Of the
war. In a speech made on Washington S
birthday, John made felicitous effort, in
which, referring to the northwest, he said


They feel, undoubtedly, in the north.
west, the burthcn Of this war. They have
none Of tho advantages that the eastern
people have from those contracts that are
connected with this war. They have all
the Inconvenience and trouble Of the war,
and they are sensitive and impatient; but
when they come to reflect upon the struS.
ele in which they are engaged, and to see
that the only way, now that we arc in this
thing, and the shortest way, is to go thro',
my word for it, the people Of the west will
unite with the people of New York, and OF
all the non. .slaveholding states, in carrying
on the war With vigor to conquer peace.
You will get it by conquest, and, in nv
Judgment, you will never get it in any 9th.
er way"


Like every other man who is heartily in
the work of restoring the Union, John sees
the imperative necessity of Union Of all
parties for the prosecution Of the war. He
regards the proclamation as a practical
nullity, and believes the concerted, united
efforts efforts Of the northern people can
close it out in six months. We regard him
as rather sanguine in this, but hear what
he says:


"There is no question of the courage OF
the northern people. 1t never ought to
have been doubted. There is no question
OF their genius, Of their talent, of their
skill, of their integrity. But the question
will be as to their endurance, and you will
find, when it comes to that, that the cndur.
ance Is with the people of a northern cline.
We can outlast them. That is the case
with the northern men, with the northern
women. 1t is the case with the northern
horses; it is the case with all the animals
produced in vigorous northern elm ate,
against those produced in southern, ener
vating, enieebling climate. When it comes
to the question Of endurance, the victory
will be with those who inhabit the colder
cline. Now there is nothing remaining for
US to do except to 60 on and prosecute this
war till its close. And will make pre-.
diction, as 1t is the fashion to make prrdic-
tons. No man can look over this country
the loyal states Of this Union-I do not
now speak of the non n.slaveholding states,
but speak>of Kentucky, Missouri, Mary.
land, Delaware, and other states that are
more to the north-no man can look over
this country and see its gigantic resources,
its wealth, its intellect, its population, and
not determine that in six months we have
the power here, if united, to drive from the
southern states every army that existed
there. You will find that to be the fact
II the war is prosecuted with vigor, there
will be no organized resistance in six
months there to the army Of the United
Year: 1863

tW The Dubuque Times says the old
dredge boat, which was used by the Harbor
company in 'o5 and sc, and has since lain
unused in the slough, has been purchased
and is being repaired by company who
have contract for dredging portion of
the Fox River Canal in Wisconsin. twill
be taken up the Wisconsin river on the
opening Of navigation.
Year: 1863

Il was Intended that the execution should take place
precisely at noon, but delays intervcned and IL not
until quarter past twelve O'Clock that the executoner
announced that all in readiness Al that hour the
cuprt led IN the scaod supported each side by
his spirit ial Be walked and with unusual
nrmncss and notwithstanding the gaze OF the crowd,
exhibited wonderful sell possession. On arriving
- the foot OF the sca0d he carefully scraped s boos
temporary floor after he had taken the mud
- bowed 10 o his friends who in the crowd
Year: 1863

Many are aware the Of their suffering The
Of the asynms aud the melancholy from
witness of assertion. The
suon affected by organic requires the aid
Of medicine strengthen and invgorats the system which
Year: 1863

L. J. RECTOR respectfully announces himselfa can


didate for the Office OF County Auditor.


CARD-To the Z tizenS # WaHa WaIla County


It has bee the usual custom for aspirants to Office to
clam that they have been urgently solicited to come
before the public Ishal make 70 such claim, but for
the sake of change urgently cit the votes OF the
people. own that want the off e, and want it for
this reason that from long suffering have become
physically disabled from frmu following any ac-
tive or laboriouS pursuit, and have necessarily been
compelled to seek some means tor a livelihood that
does not require great physical eXertion The office
Of County Auditor as lieve, will furnish such
means, and if the people will bestnw it upon me !
shall he under the most grateful obligations. and shall
use every effort to honor the trust. L. J. RECTOR.
Year: 1863

FIRE.-A fire occurred in this city at o'clock
on Thursday morning last, which for time
threatened to destroy the whole upper part of
the city, and but for the timely labor of goody
number of citizens who formed themselves into a
"bucket company" and worked like heroes, it
would have done so. The fire was undoubtedly
the work of an incendiary, and was set to a pile
OF cumbustbe rubbish in the rear of Kyger &
Reeses fre-proof brick store. When discovered,
the fire was rapidly making its way toward the
adjoining buildings, the flames shooting up to the
top of the store and curling in at window, the
iron shutters of which had for the first time been
left unclosed on that night. The heat from the
burning rubbish so intense that the iron doors
were made red hot in a few minutes The only
damage done was the burning of the porch and
the sash and casing of the window that had been
left open. The engine was promptly hauled to
the scene of cOnfqgratiOn by three or four men,
and only gave evidence that engine without
an organized company to manage it is worse than
no engine at all for it only serves to prevent
macy men from working at a fire who might
otherwise render valuable assistance. The I'M
portance Of having a well organized and drilled
fire company mere must now be apparent TO ev-
cry citizen but until such is the case, every one
on going to fire should take bucket with him.
We learn that suspicion rests upon certain in
dividual as the incenuiary, who will hereafter be
closely watched.
Year: 1863

The WAGON ROAD The contractors
are progressing rapidly with the work of
building the new road across tue mountains
to Grand Ronde valley. They have one
third of the road finished, and expect to
complete the work within two weeks from
this date.
Year: 1863

MARROW -MINDED.-A friend tells us that the
other day he overheard an admirer he did not
know the mani of the Rev. JO Raynor giving
US particular thunder" for daring to announce
ourselves in favor of better man than the afore-
sad Rev 10 for the Delegseship. The admirer
was declaring that it "would BE- bad for us" and
that he knew of four or .fUe men who would
stop their paper just on this account We don I
believe we have five patrons who would prove
themselves narrow-minded and oigoted JOS
admirer thinks. But, suppose we had ? Why,
it would take all the 10 Raynor votes that we
are able to count in this precinct and we are well
satisfied that none of them will do any such
thing, However, we will say to JOS admirer
that if he knows of any such he will do us an
especial favor by sending us their names, for
we should like to get rid of them and if the
number could be swelled from four or five to if
ty times four or five IL l0ouidnt bust as. We
must say to him further that we don't propose to
get frightened, and that long as we control a
press and have the hands to set the types, we " i'll
set them up that they will print our own SEN





best advance the interests of our County, Terri
tory and Nation, regardless of the threats or
whims of small-brained dictators.


II WONT VIVA certain sanctimoni-
Gus individual has lately scribbled to the
OregoHiaa from Walla Wala with the
view Of making 10 votes on the Sound
1t is fortunate thing that democrat can
discriminate between white and black, else
the people of the Sound could not see the
difference between the old Henry stripe of
tricksters and honest men. SOUND men
will not waver for these attempts to array
section against section. Such artful dodg-
es ont win-try dgin Bro. -
Year: 1863

JoRDAN.-We would respectfully re
mind the excitable that Jordan am hard
road to trabble," and that the new mines
on Jordan creek are long way off. Be-
sides, the country out there is id to be full
of "copperheads" and other Snakes.
Year: 1863

the law is of greater evil than strict ad
herence TO Its imperfec, provisions I, IS
iacumben. upon those only who acceps the
great charges, to risk themselves on great
occasions, when the safety of the nation, or
some OF its very high interests are at stake.
An officer is bound 10 obey orders; vet he
would ne q bad one who should do it in cases
for whieh they were not intended. and which
involved the most important consequences.
The line of Discrimination between cases
may be difficult; but the good officer is
bound 10 draw ii at his own peril, and throw
himself on the justice of his country and the
rectitude of bis motives.


l have INDUCED ireer views on this ques-
ton, on your assurances that they are for
your own eye only, and that they will not
get into the hands of news writer's. met
their scurrilities without concern, while in
pursuit OF the great interests with which
was charged. But in my present retire
ment. no duty forbids my wish for quiet.


Accept the assurances OF my esteem and
respect THOMAS JEFFERSON.