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Year: 1862

If we rightly comprehend the OBJ
jcct of education, il is to prepare the
pupil for the duties of life. If this
view be correct, education is not SIM
ply pouring an process ; not merely
storing of the mind with words, or
even with ideas neither is il merely
an exercise Of the memory, by which
the opinions of others are made famil


lar to the mind but it is, as the ORR
gin Of the word clearly indicates,
draaetns om operation. teaching the
pupil to rely on his own resources, to
invent ideas for himself, to apply the
knowledge obtained from books to
the affairs of every day life.


He, whose mind is simply an inn
mense storc-house filled with crude
mass of knowledge gained from books,
or from the living teacher, without
the capacity to distinguish between
that which is of u practical aud USE
ful nature, and that which is not such;
who has not been taught to think, rca-
son, and conclude for himself is but
poorly prepared to meet the stern re-
alities Of life Such a one will be
unstable in all his ways" and,
like the vanc upon the spire, will be
continually shifting to accommodate
himself to the ever varying opinions
and circumstances which surround
him.


The great mass of educators for
get, or do not realize, the true object
for which they should labor, and do
not sufficiently obligc thcir pupils to
exercise their own mental faculties
The fond parent who should always
carry his healthy, robust child, lest
the exertion of walking should weary
him, and who, as a natural conse
qucnce, dcprives him Of ever gaining
the ability to walk, commits much
smaller injury than that teacher who
carries his pupils over all the hard
spots, and always does their thinking
and planning for them. ..... ...-.


Teach pupils to think for themselves
when young, and to SO reason that
they can arrive at just conclusions.
and they will make men of sterling
worth in society, and not merely tools
to be made use of by willy aud de-
signing men. Teach them that the
only use to which they can apply
their knowledge is in the transactions
Of life, and that every species of
knowledge should be discarded which
does not tend to make a man better
qualified to discharge his duties as
man and a citizen, and the foundation
will be laid for an intelligent and viz
tuous generation TO succeed us, one
into whose hands we can safely COM
nit our free government and free in-
sttutions, with the full assurance that
they will be preserved unimpaired,
and in turn be transmitted in all their
perfection to generations yet unborn.
Year: 1862

The old chimney corner /! 1t is en-
deared to the heart from the earliest
rccollcctions What dreams have
been dreamed there What stories
told what bright hours passed 1t
was place to think in, place to
weep in, to laugh in, and much the
coziest place in the house to rest in.
1t was there where dear old grand
mamma used to sit at her knitting,
warming her poor rheumatic back
against the warm wall; where grand,
pa used to fall asleep over his news
paper; where mamma used to place
her spinning-whccl, and papa used to
sit there too, and read in the great
armchair.


1t was there where you used to
read fairy tales inyour childhood fold
ed all so snug, and warm, and cozy,
in its great warm lap, while the wind
of winters night was whistling
without. Your favorite plum-cake
was never so sweet as when eaten
there, and the stories you read hy the
sitting-room fircside were never half
SO fascinating as those read in the
chimney corner.


you were sad, you went there to
cry. lfyou were merry, you, with
your brothers and sisters, nestled
there, to have right merry time.
Even puss and the house dog loved
the old chimney corner!


Look back to the old house, where
every nook is so full of pleasant rec
ollections-thc family sitting-room,
where were so many happy meetings +;
your own chamber, with its little
window, "where the sun came peeping
in Mt morn :" mothers room, still sa-
cred with her presence. But, after all,
the brightest memories cluster about
that chimney corner. You long to be
folded in its faithful old bosom again,
as you were in childhood, and have "A
good cry over all those past happy
times. 1t is dcsolate now. The
bright faces that clustered there of
yore will never come back again.
Black and dingy are the loved walls,
and the smoke from the kitchen fire
never makes them warm any more
But still memory sets mp some of the
holiest and most beautiful statues Of
her carving in the old chimney corner.
Year: 1862

Hail to the flag of Stripes and Stars
That floats in beauty Ter us
Ie sons and daughters of the free,
Ring ont the joyful chorus
The ties that bind us State to State
Foul treason shall not sever:
That starry flag shall proudly wave


Ger all the land forever


Hail to the flag, sc.
New tars shall cluster on its folds,
But never one shall vanish;
The radiance once arisen there


No traitor hand shall banish
Her empire Freedom shall extend
Beneath our eagle pinion;
From North to South, from East to West
Shall stretch her broad dominion!
Then hail, all hail. the Stripes and Stars,
That float in glory . er us
Ye sons and daughters of the free,
Ring out the joyful chorus
Year: 1862

When You go to MuGrcgor, ii you want q
nice Watch, call on w. A. Giles ut the City
Jewelry Store. If you want clock that yon
can depend upon, call at the City Jewelry
Store. If you want first rate Jewelry of any
kind. call ut the City Jcwelry Store. Ii you
want silver or plated-ware, gold pen, a pock-
ct knife, portmonac or wallet, call at the City
Jewelry Store If YOU want your watch re-
paired so that you know it will he right, go to
w. A. Giles at the City Jewelry Store-he
warrants all his work and you can depend
upon him. SO just call on him when YOU 90 to
McGrcgor you want any thing in his line.
Year: 1862

Hope writes the poetry of the boy.
but memory that of the man. Man
looks forward with smiles, but back
ward with sighs. Such is the wise
providence of God. The cup of life is
sweetest at the brim, the favor is i'm.
paired as we drink deeper, and the
dregs are made bitter that we may
not struggle when it is taken from
our lips.
Year: 1862

Sorghum Convention. The Importance
of the Sorghum crop and its availability in
duces the undersigned TO solicit a Convention
of all those interested in The same, to be held
at Huston Hall, or some other commodious
room, in the city OF Dayton, ON Tuesday and
Wednesday the 3Oth and Slst days Of Deeem-
ber


We would suggest to all those contributing
specimens Of Sirup, Sugar, Vinegar, Cane,
Seed, Paper, Machinery or any other articles
the products in whole or part Of the Caine
Crop, to accompany the same with written
statement of the mode of production or
manufacture as in the opinion of the under
signed the publication of such information at
this particular time is more important to the
public than any award Of premiums could
afford


1t is to be hoped that those who cannot at
tend in person, will send specimens and state
ments, prepared, TO the care Of Mr.. l.. MArot,
Editor OF the Dayton journal
Year: 1862

Independents-You are here notified that
the regular meeting of the Independent Fire
Company will be held this evening at o clock.
Business of Importance will come before the
meeting. L. S. ALLAN, Sec'y.
Year: 1862

Sugar, that the price Of Sugar has
gone up to point unprecsds high, and
the cane crop in Louisiana, although said TO
be abundant cannot be secured for the want
Of help, and we will be without our necessary
supply for some years to come, it would be
the part of wisdom for our farmers to try
TO ind a substitute.


Sorghum sirups, when properly manufac
trged, offer an admirable substitute for Or.
leans mOlasses and sirups Mr.. Hedges, Of
this city, has succeeded in presenting the
public with quality Of molasses from the
Sorghum cane equal to any strap we ever
tasted. In the matter Of molAsses, then, We
are likely to be pretty well provided for in the
course Of another season,


We believe that oil efforts al getting Sugar
out of Sorghum have thus far proved fail.
ure, We understand that attempts in the
granulating process have demonstrated the
impraetieability Of the thing The yield Of
maple sugar is inconslderabls. II won't do to
depend on it The amount produced will make
no Pereeptible influence on the market Ii is
plain that we must look to some other source
than Sorghum and Maple for a supply of Gu.
4 gar for some time to come


About twenty years ago the Sugar Beet
was introduced in this country, and scientific
gentlemen made experiments with il in the
way of producing sugar, and their success in.
dicAted that it could be prO6tably employed.
But New Orleans sugar was then selling for
4 cents per pound, and the cultivation Of So.
gar Beets for the purposes Of sugar.makinR
was abandoned.


We have not at this moment, any stAtis-
ties relating to the culture of sugar bsets, or
the results Of experiments of It's manufacture
into sugar. We remember, however, that ac-
tual experiment tested the prActieability Of
the sohemsi and We advise our intelligent
farmers to provide themselves with statisiies
on this subject with view to the cultivation
Of the beet root for the purpose Of sugar ma
king. And we hereby invite information on
the subject Il Is pretty evident tha. We will
have TO produce large amount Of sugar in
the North for several years to come, OF pay
enormous prices for the article
Year: 1862

Bookkeeping taught as n practical Art
which can only be learned In the doing of it.
No class or mere lecture process can ever
make expert aeoodatan,s. IL you doubt this
ask practical boOk-keepsES


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Year: 1862

We are now past the middle of june
in couple more days midsummer will be
upon us-snd as yet no fatal epidemic has
broken out among the soldiers of the Union
army. Tho latest reports from New Or
leans are that the troops are remarkably
heslthy-not more than one in ten being
unit for duty. There are rs yet no signs
of yellow fever. and it is believed there will
be none during .he season. From McClel-
lan's great army in front of Richmo ond. the
accounts are equally cheering. Care has
been taken in the selection Of camping
grounds, and this. with other sanitary reg
ulations. has kept the army in remark
ably healthy condition. From Halleck's
Western army we have also good tidings
as 10 health. The sickness which pre-
vailed in the vicinity of Pittsburg Landing
has almost entirely disappeared. and tha
men are now in fine condition. From
Hunter we have no special information.
but we presume if there had been any greas
fatality we should hear of IT, All things
considered, we have reason to be thankful
that the Summer is passing away without
the appearance of any one of those fatal
diseases upon which the rebels placed 50
much reliance for assistance,
Year: 1862

LONG BAR, Dec. I0tn, 1907.


EDS. STATESMAN :-Presuming it is your de-
sire to give the mining intelligence from all the
camps in the upper country, without respect to
places, will give you the little news of this camp
that is worthy of note.


Lcng Bar is situated some fifteen or twenty
miles below the mouth of White Bird creek, on
Salmon river, and there are at present somewhere
between seventy-6ve and one hundred persons
engaged in mining on it. Some are working
with sluices, but the majority use the double
aproned rocker. The bar or bank is too high to
get water on it by means CT bitches, and the cur
reht-wheel is used to raise water for sluiclng but
even this mode is not practical in many places.


Tie average wages of miners on this bar IS
probably not far from $40 per day. Some claims
are paying as high as $25 per day. but think
there are not many that pay that well. This
may seem to be small wages to those who are
hunting for "big thing" but we have one ad-
vantage here over most other mines In the north
ern country, we can work all the year round
neither high water nor cold weather affects US.
The latter we have had none of as yet, and don't
exnect any that will interfere with mining opera
tons and the former can't touch us-we re
"aboye it." In fact, we are we'll situated here,
and don't want to hear any big Boise stories.


Some persons who mined here first, skinned
of little top dirt of late wash and thought
their claims worked out, others have taken up
these "played out" claims, prospected little
deeper, and are now making double that the first
holders did besides having deep strata of pay
dirt


There are great many miners at work on the
bars higher up the river, and | believe they are
generally doing moderately well. 1t is my opin-
ion that theie are plenty Of gold depostes along
tlis river that will eventually be found and
worked. Indeed scarcely week passes by but
what some paying ground is discovered in this
immediate vicinity.


/ have no items of particular interest to give
YOU at this time but if anything should turn up
worthy of attention hereafter your humble SER
want Will take pleasure in communicating it.
Year: 1862

We call the attention of the citizens OF
Walla Walla city and county to the call for
a railroad meeting in another column, and
de so with view to having the mat
ter thoaght over in the intervening time
and have every one attending prepared to
do something towards the furtherance of
the enterprise.


The Legislature named certain gentle
saea as corporators together with such per-
sons as may be associated with them
thereby including all who may desire to
aid in the commencement or completion
of the work 1t is necessary in the first
place to proceed ard organize the company,
elect officers, appoint commissioners to
open books of subscription here as well as
elsewhere, without which nothing can be
done. 1t is also necessary to determine,
as soon as may be, upon the line to be Sc
lected as the site for the road. 1t is best
to do this at as early day as practicable,
for there are but few settlers on the line
now over whose land the road will pass and
these will be willing now to grant right
of way for the passage of the road, as it
will in no way interfere with land now ac-
tually occupied and cultivated In this
way much future expense can be saved by
securing the right of way before titles are
acquired and land cultivated There are
but few who do business here who are not
able to subscribe for from one to twenty
shares of the stock. The shares will not
be called for at orce, but in installments,
and when one is called to pay one hundred
or one thousand dollars in assessments OF
from five to twenty per cent, with three
months notice wherein to collect the money,
the money can be called in, and the road
built without drain being felt upon the
pockets of the individuals subscribing
thereto.


Again, Capt. Mullan writes that he can
secure eastern capital for the work and we
want by action, to show the capitalist that
we ourselves believe in the success of the
road and are willing to put our own shoul-
ders to the wheel and start it here


Let, then, one and all attend, subscribe
stock, each according to his means, appoint
the officers necessary to carry into effect
the intention of the Incorporating act and
make such arrangements as may seem best
for the advancement of this laudable enter
prise. 1t is to be hoped that the people OF
the country will be willing to take hold Of
the matter and help to push it through, as
it is for their advantage as well as for the
immediate advantage of the city. We be-
speak large attendance at the meeting on
Wednesday, at one o'clock P. NJ, and re-
suit which will be productive of good fol
the future of the valley and the interior.
Year: 1862




Late advices from below bring us intel
ligence that an effort is now being made in
Washington city to have an army move
ment next spring across the northern Pa
cifc wagon road from st. Paul, Minnesota,
to Walla Walla. Brig. Gen. Alvord, we
are informed has written to the War De-
partment requesting that this Department
be increased by one regiment, and that the
same may be raised and brought over by
Capt. John Mullan.


The increasing Importance of the coun-
try of the north Pacific, is beginning to
show the necessity of an overland road for
army movements, and its establishment is
but question of time, and very brief pc
riod at that. At the present rapid rate of
increase in population, the country of the
the North Pacific will in a few years be
equal in Importance to any portion of the
Union, and in case of foreign war the
presence of large army will be required
to protect its forts and borders 1t is the
duty then of the Government to ascertain
and establish now, the most economical and
expeditions route for the transportation of
troops. Believing that the one proposed
possesses both these advantages, we shall
hope that the command of the first move
ment over it may be given to Capt. Mullan,
as his intimate knowledge of the country
eminently qualities him for the position and
well BELTS him to report to the Government
the true advantages of the route.
Year: 1862

THE Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald writes that the freeing of
the slaves in the District of Columbia, has
made little or no change in their domestic
condition. Most of them still remain with
their former masters and mistresses, while
not single one can be induced to leave
the District. ."-American Sentinel.
Year: 1862

FIRE.-The hotel and store of Messrs
Swift and Martin, on the Upper Umatilla,
was burned down on the night of the 22d
instant. The proprietors had just placed a
large stock of goods in their store, which,
together with all the furniture belonging to
the hotel, were entirely destroyed.
Year: 1862

GARABALDI AND ITALY.---The fate of Garabaldi is
the saddest in modern history. The Liberation of
Naples and Sicily his work, and he did invalua-
bic service in the liberation of the more northern
Italian states that acknowledge the sovereignty of
Victor Emmanuel. But he is himself prisoner of
state to the Government that he was instrumental
in creating His life is at the disposal of the tribu
naFs OF the country he saved. lie will bo tried and
probably convicted rebel, and the only hope for
his safety is in the mercy Of the sovereign whose
throne he did more than any thousand others to
establish. So strange an anomaly has never before
been known in tho worlds annals.


1t is an unprecedented thing to find treason spring
lug from excess Of patriotism. But even virtues
when they take the form of fanaticism, are danger
os, and Garabaldi's patriotism unhappily took this
form. His excessive zeal led him to an enterprise
az mad as any read of, even John Brown,
Year: 1862

Cry FOR SALr.---tiov. Letchcr has called togeth.
or the members of the Virginia Legislature in a
grand Convention on the question of salt. The
people are without the saline SAVIOR, and legislative
wisdom is invoked to provide ways and means
whereby they may get supply. While they are
about it perhaps it would be worth their while in.
qnirlng how much salt it would take to preserve
tie putrescent carcass of rebellion from total cor.
ruption.
Year: 1862

On the field of Bull Run, last month a
brave Colonel in the Union Army laid down
his life, amid hundreds of his comrades


AS the vital current ebbed from him. he
wrote few thrilling words to one near and
dear 70 hlp, accusing certain General Of
Year: 1862

While one Union army is now illustrating its
splendid qualities in the batle-felds of Maryland,
another army is rapidly being created in front of
Washington. The new evics still continue to pour
INTO the Capitol at the rate of several thousand day,
and as fast as they arrive they fall into the hands of


Gen. Casey, under whose direction the new army
is now being drilled and disciplined They could
not possibly be under better instructor than he, to
whom is due the credit of having formed the Army
OF the Potomac last year, and whose Infantry Tao
tics are now officially adopted in the service There
will be ample work for them when the fall cam
Paign in Virginia opens, with new and rcsistIess
march on to Richmond.
Year: 1862

Jackson is described as a man of very peculiar
temper and habits. He dresses in the commoncst
manner, wearing no badge that can indicate dis
rank lie lives entirely in the field, sharing the
halt-ratons Of his men, and disdaining the cfcni-
nate luxury OF house-roof and good bed At one of
his recent stopping places he induced 10 occu-
Py dwclhng-houso as his headquarters but he be.
came uneasy at such unwontcd comfort, and was
presently found again in his old place amongst his
soldiers His whole baggage is his Bible and few
maps, and when not on the march he spends his
time reading the former, lying on the ground
and studying the latter. He is of intensely religious
habits, and would seem more type Of the old
Puritan soldier than any other man in either army
Year: 1862

We hear a new Rail Road project talked
Of on the street, which, if carried out, will
be of immense advantage to our town. It
is proposed to construct a Rail Road from
Massilon to Clinton in Summit county,
which will give direct connection with
Cleveland and also with the Atlantic and
Great Western Bail Rosd at Akron upon
which cars win soon be running.-Stgk
County RepubAeGN.
Year: 1862

The President and the Proclamation.


A Washington dispatch to the New York
Tribune says substantially that the Presi-
dent viii stand fast by the policy an
nounced in the Proclamation of Freedom,
Of September 22d. He is already engaged
in considering the terms of the Procluma-
ton 70 be issued on New Years day. The
President has also made up his mind to
garrison the Southern forts with black
soldiers who viii also be used to protect
the navigation Of the great rivers soon to
be opened ta commerce.
Year: 1862

ON COMMERCIAL STREET, AUBURN,
rs NOW SELLING OUT HIS STOCK OF
i Dry Goods at Cost for the purpose of closing
out business Those who wish to buy Goods
cheap should give him call.


Mss- All persons indebted to him must make
Immediate m vment febl 62.
Year: 1862

Without being at all happy ct :he posi-
tion If matters in the Shenandoah, we
have lccn feeling for some time past that
something was necessary to stir up
Congress q little, and the passage Of
the Confs2aticn bill by the House
yesterday may be set down IS among the
first fiuits. We do not despair Of the Re-
public wlleu our legislators come up to
their full duty and strike hard blows for
the Union, even though tle5 crush Slavery
IN So Going. The hill has yet 10 pass the
Senate. We eirc The ori: :inl bill and the
amendment elsewhere.
Year: 1862

troops doing their best effect this object for heaths
sake, let alone that Of humanity The prisoners have
not all yet been away, large numbers being still
mere undisposed Of On Monday two regiments OF rebel


marched in TO reinforce the fort BENG una


ware or the fact Of It's capture They came along with
ther ooors flying and their bands playing and they
were allowed TO enter the camp without any warning as
TO who were the possessors Of It, They in all 4I0
strong and were nicely bagged without shot being
hred Our prisoners, II Is thought will now reach the
number Of about eighteen thousand; but we can
not yet fairly ascertain the aggregate Tho off,


cia reports will doubtless tell the when they
published. General Albert Sydney Johnston is very
fortunate. Everything he has undertaken has failed.
II he is their best officer Rebellion is gone 70 the dogs