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Year: 1865

"Generation after generation" says a
fine writer, "have felt as we now feel, ,and
their lives were as acliye as our own.
They passed like a vapor, while nature
wore the same aspect Of beauty as when
her creator commanded her to be. The
world will have the same attractions foT
our offspring yet Unborn, that she had
once for US as children. Yet little while
and all will have happened. The Ihrob'
bing heart will be stuffed, and we shall be
at rest Our funeral shall find its way ,and
PRAYERS will be said. and we shall be left
alone 10 silence and darkness, for the
worms. And it may be for short time
we shall he spoken Of, but the things Of


ife will creep in,and our names will soon
)e forgotten. Days will continue 10 move
on, and laughter and song will be heard IN
the room in which we died; and The eyes
that mourned for us will be dried, and
gllsten again with joy, and even our chill.
dren will cease to think Of US, and will
not remember to lisp our names.
Year: 1865

Each and every one in his life has a
work assigned him, each has his office TO
perform, and 10 oder that be may fill this
office successfully, he must adopt some
pursuireariy, follow it steadily. never
looking back to the turned furrow, but al.
ways forward 10 the new ground that is 10
be broken. There ale some, believe,
who think they are placed here for no
other purpose save that Of enjoyment, and
devote their whole time to seeking pleas
ure.


Look, for instance, at the young lady,
who reclines al her ease, with her mUslc
and novels lying beside her, begulllng
hours, days and weeks, never dreaming
of her responsibilities, but folds her hands
and contents herself with the thought that
there is nothing 10 DO. To-day with her
is the same as yesterday, and tomorrow,
in all probabilities, will be just as to-day,
and in this manner she drags through
life. in kind of uphill fashion, with not
much good done herself or any one else,
and the reason, perhaps, is, because she
did not study TO make herself useful.
While, on the other hand, the good in.
fuence she might have had over The cir
Gle in which she moved cannot be proper
Iy estimated. Means Of doing good are
abundant, if the will and action are right


y adapted 10 them. A really charitable
and benevolent disposition is 10 be admi-
red; bur IN what does it consist? Is 1t in
profession Does the mere grasping OF
the hand, or a lrlalng act Of kindness in
times Of adversely, make known the true
characteristics Of this disposition Yes.
And though smile or kind word spoken
TO those in distress may seem little, and
almost beneath our Oolce, yet they sink
dgep into the hearts Of the afflicted, and
will spring up in love 10 those who be.
stow them, and in after years, when grey
hairs have fringee the aged head, and the
limbs louer beneath a load Of years, more
wildly will the recollection Of by-gone
days present itself to our view, as We lIl
the curtain Of the past and ask ourselves
Year: 1865

Yesterday evening passing down Leigh
street, in company "l'h gentleman who
formerly held commission in the Fifth
Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Ar
my, our attention was attracted 10 mag
nifceni bay horse, ridden by a United
States officer, csntering towards us. As
he drew near our companion said that he
once owned the animal, but lost him in
one of Gen. Early's fights last fall IN the
Valley, where he himself was wounded
and The horse csptared, and that so great
was the attachment Of the horse TO him
then, that he believed he would now re-
coguize his voice. Seeing we looked in
credLlous, 10 remove our doubts he pro-
posed trying the experiment; so stopping
the officer, lie commenced 10 relate The
circumstance, as an excuse for SO doing,
when The horse with loud neigh OF re-
cogniton rushed up TO him, and could
moi be restrained from rubbing his head
and neck on bis former master. he
seemed, by his every action. tying 10 ex.
press his delight and pleasure al The NEE
Ting, and, when we left, required the most
vigorous application Of whip and spur TO
prevent his following his former master.
His present owner said that since he has
been in his possession, he had been IN
constant use, but was very vicious. never
before allowing any one 10 fondle OF play
with him.
Year: 1865

THERE seems to be great deal more i'm
portance attached to the Fenian agitation
and the movement for revolution IN Ire
land than the facts justify. The Irish rebel
lion. that is to be, in ''the good time coming
has been talked of and promised for many
years. But the signs Of its approach are no
more promising or threatening today than
they have been any time within the memory
of man.


revolution in Ireland under present cir
cumsiances is impracticable. The Fenian
organization, which has in charge the revolu-
tion in Ireland, has fallen under the ban OF
the Roman Catholic Church, and the people
OF Ireland are so devoted to the church that
it Is out of the question to enlist them in a
revolution under the auspices of the Fenian
Brotherhood.


We don't remember of single instance
in which the Roman Catholic Church. has ia.
Yored revolution, in the interest of freedom.
for the last three hundred years, and to do 50
would be in direct contravention of her prin-
ciples and policy. And there are no people
on the face of the earth who are so character.
istiealy reliable as the servitors and support
ers of despotism in Church and State as the
Irish


In the wars of Europe, for three hundred
years past, you viii find thousands of them
volunteering on the side of despotism. but
none on the liberal side. They volunteered
10 defend the despotism of the Pope, in Eu-
Fope aud in America they are the most vio-
lent supporters Of slavery and of the Copper
head party. The Irish are not at all imbued
with the principles of civil and religious free
dom but have, on the contrary, settled hos
tility to the ideas which have prompted all
such revolutionists in modern times. And
until there shall be revolution in the ideas
and principles of the Irish on the subject of
civil and religious freedom, we need not look
for any revolution in Ireland. And as the
matter now stands, without the countenance
of the church, it is not likely that there will
be even a national insurrection in the interests
.ot Popish despotism, which is the only thing
practicable with the Irish Catholics of the
Emerald Isle
Year: 1865




The Government steamer Florida, which
carried the assassination conspirators, Mudd,
O'Laughlin, Arnold and Spangler, to Fort
Jefferson, on the Dry Tortugas, has returned
here from that place on the 26th, and from
Key West 27th. The prisoners were not
aware until after starting on their journey
that their destination had been changed from
the Albany penitentiary to this ord spot of
the Southern coast Of Florida, and being in
formed of it, were unpleasantly affected, but
after their arrival on the island, which is
about Ii acres in extent, enjoying free sea
breeze there, is very healthy, and was not so
bad place as they had supposed, they were
agreeable disappointed, and congratulated
themselves on the change.


They reached their place of imprisonment
on the 18th of July, and were Immediately
put to an appropriate service, Mudd being
placed in the position of an assistant surgeon,
Arnold that Of clerk, Spangler pet at work
at his trade of a carpenter and O. Ihughlin put
to an employment by which he cal be useful.
There are about $50 prisoners ndw confined
on the Dry Tortugas.


Statements recently published Ind the North
ern papers regarding the bitter feeling Of
hatred, sa:a to be entertained BY large por
ton of the old inhabitants of North Carolina
towards the National Government and Union





people, have led TO correspondence on the
subject between North Caroliniahs in this
city, interested in inducing northe In emigra-
ton to their State, and Gov. Hidden The
Governor says that such feeling is bot general
Some newspapers Of rebel erduasion are
strongly opposing the proposed amendment
to the Constitution abolishing SLAVERY They
say that slavery is to be re-establi{hed in the
State as soon as it is free from military con
troll. and the inhabitants of several OF the
southern tier of the counties il is said design
s<nding their delegations into the State Con-
yention with instructions TO this effect


The Heralds Charleston correspondent
says the preparatory order for muktering out
of troops at present serving in the military
district of Charleston has been published


Superior and criminal provost courts of a
very extensive range have been organized by
Gen. Gilmore and are now in full operation
Cotton is now coming into Charleston from
the interior more freely than heretofore,
the result of additional repairs to the railroads
Year: 1865

TIE Democratic party of Ohio which was
reduced to rather~diminutive dimensions by
the Nailandighamers, is now to be divided in
to two branches. Two Democratic State
Conventions have been called in that State.
while IN our State, the leaders of the party
hay mt the pluck to call one, but compromise
on Possum movement false to the principles
Of free Government.
Year: 1865

WASHINGTON, Aug. g
The man brought hither from the West. who
was supposed to be John H. Surratt, is said
in quarters where he was known, to be some
other individual. His real name is thus far
kept secret.
Year: 1865

Private adyices from Cuba state that the
Captain General has given permission for the
formation of a society in opposition to the
slave trade. The members of the association.
who are already numerous, pledge themselves
not to buy any negroes that have been newly
landed on the island. The formal organiza-
ton of the society will take place on the
Queens Saint Day, the 10Th of November.


The city Council of Havana have petitioned
that corn and rice be allowed to come on the
island duty free for the period of eighteen
months, on account of the destruction of
crops by the recent hurricane.
Year: 1865

PorGHKEErsIE, n. Y, Nov. 9.-The State
Convention of colored men adjourned at a
late hour on Wednesday night The proceed
ngs throughout were very harmonious. and of
an instructive nature. A State Central Com
mittee was appointed, to urge the franchise
and other questions affecting the interests Of
colored Americans.


Previous to the final adjournment of the
Convention, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:


Rcsotred, That this Convention is of the
opinion that there should be a representation
of colored men in the city of Washington from
the different sections, to be there during the
session of Congress, supported by the people,
whose duty it shall be to urge upon the mem
bers of Congress the Importance of having the
status of the colored American so fixed in the
land that his color shall not be a bar to his
occupying any position. Or to the enjoyment
Of all the rights that appertain to citizenship.


Quite a number of counties were repre-
sented. the delegates from which returned to
their respective homes to- day.
Year: 1865

The RIoToUs SPIRIT seems to be an epi-
demic Just now in England, The coal miners
of Carmlington, not far from Newcastle, struck
recently for an increase of pay and were re-
sponded to by general order of eviction from
their cottages by the rapacious landlords. But
the constables sent to enforce the order were
driven off by the miners, backed by their
wives armed with kitchen utensils as well as
picks and spades. The officers of the law re-
fused to renew their attempt, and owing to the
contumacious spirit Of the surrounding region
the supply of fuel is so comparatively scanty
that the old proverb about sending locals to
Newcastle, may lose its point after all.
Year: 1865

A contributor to the Ladies Book"
for February, promulgates the following
theory about Babies, which is so unique
and shows such an intimate acquaintance
with the staple production Of the world.
that ''multiplies and replenishes" it, we
cannot refrain from transferring it to the
columns ofthe Paladiu,s;; notwithssand-
ing the natural, and hence pardonahle,
partiality the writer shows towards his
own progeny, which he euphoniously
calls ''dew drop"


I've a theory about babies, and you
may as well hear it first as last divide
them into three classes: first. your good
natured, jolly, growing cherub, all smiles
and sunshine when it does cry you
know it, and you are immediately con-
victed of one of three things either you
have neglected the attention and courtesy
which his lordship or her ladyship de-
mands; you have made a pincushion of
1t, or, worse than all, have fallen into the
prevailing habit of converting the baby
into an apothecary's shop. But your
whining baby blinks at you from morning
to night / believe in my soul some of
them are born blinking, and with every
half glance comes a va a-ap. yap { l defy
you to term it any ything else, } as If there
was some sympathy between tho eyes
and stomach which prevented the ex-
ereise of the one without involving an
attack of collie in the other. e1 Those
babies cry and whine the first thing in
the morning, and the last thing at night.
l forgot myself, for when you find
whining baby, day and night are one,
there is no division of time it would be
the height of absurdity to entertain for
one moment the thought that you might
steel fifteen minutes of uninterrupted
peace and quiet. don't know anything
that will compare with whining baby.
A healthy baby wakens you up occasion
ally like shock from galvanic battey
but You get used to it, just as you become
accustomed TO the jumping toothache;
but whining baby literally tears your
nerves and files your temper. A score
of noisy ours baying at the moon from
beneath your window, a ratchety, wheezy,
discordant hand organ, blast from the
horns that shattered the walls of Jericho.
any and all of them are supposable and
endurable; but in comparison with
whining baby they sink into utter in
significance. Then there's your dumb,
fat babies. They are veritable owls in
human guise. once sat opposite one
of that class during half days Journey,
and, to be frank with you, felt oily
month afterward. A glance at some of
those dumb, fat babies, is as good as
weeks moisture. But it is sometimes
true that babe in house is well
spring of pleasure Here is our Dew
drop, now: a glance at that bright little
face dissipates care, however dull !; in
looking into her eyes we obtain glimpse
of heaven. What could be purer, or
fresher, or more charming than that in
nocent face, sweet as the perfume of
roses, variable as the clouds in a summer
day, clear as the dew that falls from
heayen?'
Year: 1865

WASHINGTON, March, 10.
By the President Of the United States r


Anaerica-A Proclamation


WHEREAS, The twenty first section Of
the act of Congress, approved on the Sd
inst, entitled an act to amend several
acts heretofore passed, to provide for the
enrolling and calling out of the Nation
al forces, and for other purposes, re-
uuires that additional to the other law
full penalties of the crime of desertion
from the military or naval service of the
United states, who shall not return to
said service, or report themselves to the
Provost Marshal within sixty days after
the proclamation hereinafter mentioned,
be deemed and taken to have voluntarily
relinquished and forfeited their rights of
citizenship, and their right to become
citizens, and such deserters shall be for
ever incapable of holding any office of
trust or profit under the United States,
or of exercising any rights of citizens
thereof. and all persons who shall here
after desert the military or naval service,
and all persons, who, being duly enroll
ed, shall depart from the jurisdiction of
the district in which they are enrolled,
or go beyond the limits of the United
States with the intent to avoid any draft
into the military or naval service duly
ordered shall be liable to the penalties
of this section. And the President is
hereby authorized and required forthwith
on the passage of this act to issue his
proclamation, setting forth the provis-
ions of this section, in which proclama-
ton the President is requested TO notify
all deserters returning within sixty days,
as aforesaid, that they shall be pardoned
on condition Of returning to their regi-
ments and companies. or to such other
organization as they may be assigned to,
until they shall serve for a period of
time equal to their original term Of en-
listment


Now, therefore. I, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, do issue
this my proclamation as required by
said act, ordering and requiring all de
serters who shall within sixty days from
the date of this proclamation, viz. on
or before the 10th day of May, 1865, re-
turn to service or report themselves to q
Provost Marshal, shall be pardoned, on
condition that they return to their regi
ments and companies. or to such other
organization as they may be assigned to,
and serve the remainder of their origin
al term of enlistment and in addition
thereto 3 period equal to the time lost
by desertion-


In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set NV hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed Done at
the City of Washington this eleventh
day of March. in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and sixty-ive, and of
the independence of the United States
the eighty ninth. n--t
ABRAHAM LINCOLN


By the President.


WA. H. SEWARD, Secretary Of State
Year: 1865

Where aperson4 that il poor, thar 10
out Of health, .rtAak is surrounded by
many discOqFa6eAents, and that is made
to su6exA various ways, lifts himself
above his misfortunes, and cheers his
compShion and children. and fights want
on this side and on that, and bears hu-
initiation, putting it under his feet, with
out losing faith in God, and saying to al
the world, 81 can be poor. and yet be .
man-O crown him! You pass him by :
you don't know what You are passing BY.
Kings sometimes walk incoguito, and
then they do not wear crowns.


There are kings in your streets. There
are men walking about in your midst that
wear crowns in their hearts, which. II
they were to put them on their heads.
would shine SO bright that you would
think that twilight had dawned. There
are thousands who understand and obey
the injunction Of the Apostle, when he
says,.,Quit you Like men, be strong"
tell you they are heroes; and angels
know it, if you do not. And angels know
what to write down. When you laid the
foundation of that big house, they forgot
to record that in heaven And whom the
walls went up, and the beautiful apart
ments were finished, and the whole mag
nificent structure was completed, Of the
architecture Of which you we're % proud.
as sure as you live they forgot to put that
down. ----


And when you unrolled your rich car
pet, and hung your fine pictures, they
forgot to make note of that But when
that man went down out Of his splendid
mansion into fourth class house, In an
obscure street, shedding, IL may be, some
tears, as a tribute of nature, and gather
ed his little flock on the first evening
around the fire, and made the room
bright with love, and faith, and prayer,
you may be certain that they put that
down. They remember that. And when
that man went on from day to day, and
from week to week, there was not one
generous purpose of fidelity, there was
not one thing that made him q man in his
trouble, that God did not see, that angels
did not behold, and that by-and by will
not be sung in glory in Heaven.--BsscAer.
Year: 1865

bic. The former, As seems, might have


been avoided had PHARAOH not persisted
/ in his madness. PHARAoH did not be-
! lieve he was mad but he was mad,
nevertheless.


/ The people of the South seem to be
| initiating Pharaoh. They seem deter


mined to hold q people in bondage whom
| the LORD evidently means TO deliver.
| They have oppressed this people for
centuries. They have fattened upon the
bread wrung from their brows. They
have rolled in luxuries which were the
fruits of unrequited toil Did not PHAR-
OH the same? The South have been in
vited to let this people go, but they per-
sist in holding, and where they cannot
hold they follow, as did the Egyptians.
The Southern people have brought them
selves, through the combined influence
Of interest and passion, to believe they
are right PHARAOH was similarly in
fuenced, and thought it was great out
rage to take from him his servants. This
was the madness which preceded destruc-
ton


The South has not been destroyed yet,
but will the war end short oftheir destruc
ion? tits not now a question of the
re- establishment of the Union or the de-
struction of slavery. These are assured ;
but the question is. will the Southern
people persist until they are buried in the
sea of determination The war will go
on, as it ought to go IN, until the nation
triumphs but whether this complete
victory will be gained at the cost, to the
rebels, which PHARAOH paid for his
wickedness. cannot yet be foreseen ; but
even this great calamity may yet be in
store for our rebellious people.


But however this may be; however
near or however remote the time when
the cup of bitterness shall have been
drained, it is manifest that the sword
must now do the work which moral
suasion failed to perform and that if we
would escape the calamity of another
war in the future, we must press forward
until the nation shall be thoroughly
purged, and until those who made war
for slavery shall be adequately chastised
and brought into subjection to the ma
tional authority that is merely the instru
ment for accomplishing designs, formed,
not in earth but in Heaven, and not in
accordance with the wishes of short
sighted and selfish men, but in accord
ance with those unchanging laws by
which the Great Ruler governs the
world.
Year: 1865

BLOCKED UP.-The stage road from here
across the mountains has been blocked up
with snow for the past ten days, SO that the
stag es are no W compelled to make the trip
around by the Lees Encampment road.
Year: 1865

Ice ON THE CoLUMBIA.-Mr. Angus
Brown, of Thos & Cos stage line, informs
us that along the different rapids on the Co.
lumbia between Wallula and the Dalles the
ice is banked up to a height of eight or ten
feet. Mr.. B. thinks that this ice cannot be
removed except by high water, and that in
this case the river will probably not be open
to navigation for a month.
Year: 1865

The WEATHER The predictions of the
weather prophets, that have from time to
time been INDUCED, in reference to a severe
winter here this year, have not thus far been
verified, and, judging from the lateness of
the season, they are not likely to be. True,
we have had some winter weather, but none
that has been severely cold. On Sunday
night last snow fell in the valley to the depth
of nine inches. On Monday there was good
sleighing but, under the genial influence
of Chinook wind" the snow had nearly
all disappeared by Tuesday morning. The
present winter has thus far been somewhat
colder than the two preceding ones--the diff
ference in the cold being about the same be-
tween this winter and last that it was be-
tween the last and that of the previous year.
Year: 1865

dre more beautiill than ever. woman whose vanity


inspires her dress buys herself wrap of every seasons


cNahging fashion if she afford it, and on semi.
annual clearing days" goes distracted with the
quantity Of passee garments she has, and knows not
"ha' TO do WITH A woman whose taste and artistic
perceptions teach her TO dress elegantly boards her
money till she possess herself of shawl in itself
valuable and beautiful and it till for her all the
fashions Of this world passed away and the fair
eldest daughter with tear blind eyes takes it from the
drawer where in its first fresh folds the careful hands
sosu now. had laid 1t days BY DAY. to sda u II her