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Year: 1865

Gov. Peirpoint in his reply to the Henrlco
delegation said I'll think it is right that
every man who pays. taxes and is loyal shall
vote; but do no5think it is proper that men
who have been engaged ia the rebellion, OF
those who have not shall combine to build up
political parties and use the power Of the
State for improper purposes When rail
road built to forward trade, commerce and
agriculture, shall, for political purposes, be 50
occupied in transporting deadheads that the
tariffs have to be Increased on freights, that
road is perverted from It's legitimate uses and
ends and wrong is done. Just so it IS if the
franchise shall be made use Of only to put men
into Office =


Inreply to tie Amelia delegation, he said
He fully appreciated the delicate and em.
barrassing position il which he found himself
placed as the Governor Of Virginia. 1t is his
earnest desire that the State shall be reorgan.
lied upon the most liberal principles, and at
the earliest possible day, so that she may take
her proper position among the States OF the
Uuion. Il alluding to the present condition
Of Virginia, he added Surely she has suffer
G / SO much from the desolating ravages OF var,
that no one can possibly desire her to suffer
more.
Year: 1865

The Fire Wardens will soon be on an inspec-
ton tour throughout the limits of this City and
those who have not yet complied with -fhe ordi-
nance relating to the construction Of proper
Aues had better attend to the matter as soon as
they can make it convenient. The ordinance
requires that brick hues be built and fixes a
heavy fine where stove pipes are stuck through
the roofs and sides of buildings. Fines for the
violation of this ordinance, we understand
would have been imposed long since had not
the severity of the weather during the winter
months prevented the Building of hues. There
are quite number of stove pipes still hoisted
in the city.
Year: 1865

LUokY.-Most of the States and Territories
are groaning under the enormous debts of their
local governments-debts contracted since the
beginning of the war. A few of the Territories
have fortunately escaped this financial burthen.
Among the lucky ones stands Washington Ter
ritory. She has not been called on to raise any
troops, and was fortunate enough to not raise
any of her own accord In this she was wise,
for it would have been the height of folly for her
to have saddled the people with debt for no pur-
pose or benefit to the government. Oregon pur-
sued vain-glorious policy in this respect, and
the taxpayers will have to bear the load of
such policy, and the State officials will get no
thanks for inaugurating it.
Year: 1865

REVENUE SERvIcE.-It seems that Congress
at its last session passed law by which each
Congressional District is hereafter to have one
appointee in the u S. Revenue Service We
learn that Mr. Russell Glover, of the Puget
Sound country, has been ordered by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to report to the Collector
of Customs at San Francisco for examination,
in which if ifsuccessful, he will be appointed to a
Leutenancy in the service, and thus have the
honor of representing our Territory as the first
appointee therefrom in pursuance of the new
law.
Year: 1865

The FIRE DEPARTMENT.-Fir Engine Com
pany No. l, of Walla Walla, we take it, is not
in an over healthy condition j1st at present.
Many of its members are absent in different parts
of the country and the number left in town is
small-much smaller than it ought to be. There
ought to be one hundred citizens belonging 70
this Company, and out of that number perhaps
the services of fifty efficient members could al
ways be relied upon when needed. Latterly it has
been difficult matter for the Company to get
twenty members together at drill If there is
not something done soon to give the Company
renewed yigor it will cease to exist. Every one
interested in the preservation and welfare of the
place feels the necessity of keeping up an eff
cient fire organization, but many of The citizens
trust to others to do the work and keep the or
ganization alive. The only way perhaps to
mend matters much in this respect is for the
City government to have respectable Engine
House built for the use of the fire department
When this is done the fremen will take some
pride in turning out at drills and keeping things
about the engine in order and ready for any
emergency, while many will then be willing to
enroll themselves as fremen who are inclined to
stand back now. In the meantime the present
members of the Company should endeavor to
keep the organization as full and efficient as
possible. All honor to the "boys" who never
desert the machine.
Year: 1865




The news of the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln has spread feeling of deep gloom
over the land The Chief Magistrate of the
nation has been murdered by the hand of an
assassin What dark spot in the history
Of nation claiming to be the freest and most
enlightened in the world and who that has
his cOuntry's honor at heart can but regret
that deed so foul has stained its history
Certainly, there can be none among the
ranks of honorable men who would sympa-
thize with the assassin. However widely
men have differed from the President po-
litically, none recognizing the right of free
men to differ, or entertaining ideas ofjustice
more elevated than characterized the people
of the dark ages, can exult that their differ
ences have been thus ANONYMOUSLY ended.
We know of none such, and would not know
them Neither would we know those who,
in the madness of their grief would reck-
lessly assassinate in turn and seek 70 wreak
their vengeance Ipon those who have
loved their country, and seeking for its high
est good, have honestly differed with the
President, simply because one who may have
claimed to be of their party has been base
enough to assassinate him. Let the assassin,
and his cOnfederates if he has any, die the
death he and they so richly merit; but while
sadness rules the mind for the departed, let
not charity for the honest living be forgot
ten The hour is dark one but our coun-
try will yet emerge from the gloom that
shades it now, and though the nation must
forever regret the deep disgrace that has
blotted this last page of its history, there
will yet be brighter pages written.
Year: 1865




WHO ARE CALLED ?-The Pacific Christian
Advocate, in lengthy article upon the subject
Of the ministry, endeavors to show that only
those that have received a call from God are
fitted to preach the gospel that it is not a pro-
fession to be chosen at the option of the indi-
yidual, or as man would choose to
learn the butchering business if his natural in
elinations led him into the meat shop. But if
we properly understand the doctrine taught by
the Advocate, it is that before a man can enter
the sacred precincts ofthe ministry or rightfully
don the ministerial robes be must first be posi-
tive that God has called him out. "Washing-
ton and Idaho Territories says the Advocate,
"now require at least score of efficient minis
ters to preach and build up the institutions of
religion, aud to train the children and youth in
the fear of the Lord" The Advocate thinks
the men are in Oregon who ought to be engaged
in this work. and asks, HWho will awake to du-
ty and to responsibility 2" And now before
echo answers t'who?" and before the Oregon
Conference next meets, we would suggest to
the clerical aspirants that they must knolo that
OOu hdS Ndl4Su bL4Cul w Tue lulul5Lly anu ludG
He absolutely demands their services, before
they assume the awful responsibility of assist
ing in the work of saving souls. We think
God never called out portion, at least, of the
ministers who have heretofore oficiated as
preachers in and around Oregon. If God did call
them all out tits evident that some very loose
selections were made. However, the material
to select from might have been such that the
Lord, while calling out the best, was obliged to
choose some who were not altogether fitted for
the responsible position But the most reason
able conclusion that can be arrived at, assum-
ing the theory correct, is that some Of those
who studied for the ministry, made mistake
in supposing that God had called them ont that
instead, it was their own small voices which
through brains more or less deranged, they con-
strued to be the voice of God.' Now if there is
any tangible way of getting at the fact and de-
termining who are called by the Lord and who
not, we have no debut the people of this Terri
tory would much prefer to be supplied with
ministers of real worth and of the genuine
stamp The bogus sort, bgots, fanatics, the
carnal minded and the selfrighteOus, we don't
want and from all kleptOmaniacs, "Good Lord
deliver u.s.
Year: 1865

No MORE DRAFTs.-The dispatches of this
week herald the welcome intelligence that no
further drafts for the U. S. service will be made
and that the Provost Marshal Generals have
been directed to suspend operations under the
recent call. No more men are wanted at pres
ent and recruiting will be stopped
Year: 1865

A lady sat alone in her chamber
There was nibbling sound behind
the 6re-board, which was not board,
but only frame covered with cloth.
The lady had some funny notions /;
mice seemed TO her like little plump
children she liked them.


"There," said she, ais mouse J"
and she dropped some crumbs behind
tho fre-board. This she did every
day when she heard q movement in
tho replace. "Mice," said she, :'are
innocent; 1 never fear them. But
rats! All! they are dreadful" The
lady hoped, by and by, to coax the
mouse out into her room. She lived
alone and was fond Of pets.


Once or twice there camc against
the frame Of the fre-screen a gnawing
so strong and loud that the lady was
startled. "What IL rat wore there
where i think is but a harmless mouse?''
was the quick thought that made her
flesh creep with terror. But she
would not allow herself to believe
such a thing possible; neither would
she remove the tire-frame, to examine
the darkness behind it. Pshawr W
And she continued to pamper it with
dainties.


AT last, one evening, as she sat by
her table writing, she heard strange
noise, and, turning towards it, saw,
with great alright, monstrous rat,
sitting on her hearth stone, and gazing
with bold and wicked eyes upon her.
The poor nervous lady was made quite
sick by the disgust and terror which
this revelation caused her.


Children, there is moral to my
story. Can you think what? 1 am
thinking Of it; ah! my blood runs
cold as ] consider that Of which this
story is figure. How many of you
are chsrishing sins which you consider
only as innocent mice, but which are
really as strong and dangerous rats,
waiting their time to spring out upon
you and have you in their power?-
How many such mice am l cherish
ingy Let US all examine carefully
and in good time the true character
of our pets.-SprmqheM Republican,.
Year: 1865

See the wealth of the country every
where voluntarily burdened with a
heavy tax to provide free schools for
tho children of all. See the Cooper
Institute, in this city, with its mag
nificent reading-room and its admira-
BILE lectures, free to all comers. See
the Astor Library, the Lawrence Sci
entific School, and hundreds of similar
establishments scattered over the
country, all designed to aid the poor
and friendless in elevating their nature
and position. s


Along with this kindly feeling there
is one also of mutual respect. Cen
orally the native born American whe
employs men in his mandatory or
his business, looks upon them as fell
low citizens, and not as hostile and
degraded enemies. He has an in
stinctive consci1isness that the prac-
tice of petty tyranny is degrading to
the one who practices it, as we'll as to
the one upon whom it is inflicted and
that there is infinite dignity in the
observance Of manly courtesy towards
all with whom he has TO deal. There
is also quiet self-respect among
workmen, in striking contrast with
the extreme severity generally observ-
ed abroad.


We have sometimes thought that
the rapid growth Of wealth, the in
creasing congregation of people in
large cities, and the influence of for
eign immigration, both of employers
and employed, were tending to build
up hostile class-feeling in this coun-
try; but it is probable that these in1u-
ences are more than counteracted by
those of an opposite tendency-that
the steady growth of democratic prin-
ciples, the equality Of all men before
the law, popular suffrage and free
schools, are spreading more and more
widely among the millions of our peo-
pie the spirit of universal good will.
-Scteatifc american.
Year: 1865

There is omeshing awfully grand
in the cont, n pl ltion Of vast steam
engine. ST., n amid its ponderous
beams and bars, wheels and cylenders,
and watch their unceasing play; how
regular and how powerful! The ma
chinery of lady's Geneva watch is
not more nicely adjusted the rush of
the avalanche is not more awful in its
strength. Old Gothic cathedrals are
solemn places, preaching solemn
things; but to deep thinker, an
engine room may preach more sol
emn lesson still. 1t will tell him Of
mind-mind welding matter at its
will-mind triumphing over physical
difiiculties-man asserting his great
supremacy-"in intellect battling with
the elements" And how exquisitely
complete is every detail how subor-
dinats every part toward the one great
end! how every little bar and screw
fit and work togetherl Vast as is tho
machine, let bolt be but tho tenth
part Of an inch too long or too short,
and tho whole fabric is disorganized.
1t is one complete piece of harmony
-an iron essay upon unity of design
and execution. There is deep poetry
in the steam engine-more Of the
poetry Of motion than in the bound
Of an antelope-more of the poetry of
power than in the dash of cateract
And ought it not to be lesson to
those who laugh at novelties, and put
no faith in inventions, to consider that
the complex fabric, this triumph Of
art and science, was once the laugh
ing stock of jeering thousands, and
once only tho waking phantasy of a
boys mind as he sat, and, in seeming
idleness, watched a little cloud Of
vapor rise from tho spout of tea
kettle?
Year: 1865

Would through this medium acknowledge their
thanks TO the Public for the very liberal patron
age received during the past season, and would
take this opportunity to announce to the citizens
Of East Saginaw aud the Saginaw Valley gene
rally, that they have on hand and are constantly
receiving one Of the best assortments Of
Year: 1865

named Davenport is roaming through
the valley. Last week his gang came to
the first station below Wauhatchie and
robbed a man named Weaver.


REBELS AT SWEETwArER -t9n Satur-
day night a gang of euerrillss went
to the house Of an cid man named
Pennington, living four miles above
Sweetwater and demanded what meat
he had. Fearful of receiving such
visit, the old man had hid MS meat and
when the band asked for it he refused
to tell where it was Determined to
have it, the villains took him of a short
distance and hung him to tree until
he was nearly dead, then they took him
down, and on coming too, ne disclosed
the place of Its ConCealment


RETALIATION While Colonel GOWNS
command was engaging the rebel cut
throats near lafayette, a few DAYS age,
one Of the gang was cornered by a
ECove tory, and seeing escape was i'm
possible, he cried out, "a surrender
Mister, Mister :" "The hi you do
replied the tory, and shot him deadI
Year: 1865

The tailor to the King of Italy has just
introduced an article that is likely to make
a sensation. 1t is a black velvet dress
coat, with jet buttons and "A white satin
lining. This coat is particularly intended
to replace the old fashioned black cloth
dress coat. The waistcoat to accompany
it is of white moire or white silk. The
pantaloons is of light gray cloth, falling
over the bottine, which initiates an en-
broidered silk stocking
Year: 1865

The Boston Herald saws that number of
young men at South End have organized
themselves into a band for the purpose OF
patrOlling the streets in that section of the
city during the earlier part of the evening,
as a protection against the rascalities being
committed. We are glad to find that our
citizens are beginning to prepare themselves
to stop the lawlessness which prevails. and
to show this we would say that within the
past three days one firm in this city has
sold over 3GO revolvers.
Year: 1865

the Cabinet Organ is superior to a small pipe Or
gan costing twice as much. Tt is safe to say that
no Pipe Organ be built for less than doub the
cost Of g CABINET ORGAN, which will equal the


latter in power and quality of tone and variety Of
Year: 1865

The Department of State has received,
from the United States Consul at Gibraltar,
a communication stating that the Sanitary
Board at that port has declared the place
free from cholera and that clear bills Of
health are issued by the authorities The
Consul states that Spain and Morocco will
now probably admit to full privileges the
arrivals from that port and that the sanitary
Gordon by land will soon be raised by the
Spanish Government.
Year: 1865

to all the actors. Herr Gotthardi COM


pares him to his own Serlo, in "Wilhelm


Meister," who could raise the most medic


ere talents to wonderful ability by the ex-


act insight that he impaired to them i'm


perceptibly. His way of judging new


players was marked by the same care and


thoroughness. He looked first at the per-
son of the novice, to see if there was any,
thing engaging about it, and if there was
nothing engaging, whether the actor could
put on any attractions for, as he remark
ed, the life of an actor is a perpetual de-
nial of his own personality-a perpetual
of a strange mask; and an
actor who cannot put on the mask Of at
tractiveness when he wishes to be favor
ably judged by stranger, can have very
little talent. When this question of the
exterior was settled, Goethe turned to the
voice
Year: 1865

WASHINGTON NEWS.


NEW YORK, November 24.-The Tribunes
Washington special says: The Secretary of
the Treasury will recommend in his report
considerable increase in the National bank
ing capital made necessary by the CONNER
cial necessities of the country, and especial
ly the destitution Of the banking capital Of
the South. He will ask for discretionary
power to Withdraw the legal tender and com
pound interest notes, retiring them when
necessary, by the loan of money at per
cent
Year: 1865

Y The regular term of the Probate COugt for
this county was held here on the 9th inst Ow-
ing to the very embarrassing condition of judi
cial affairs. little or no business was attempted
Neither the judge nor any member OF TIE bar,
vas willing to assume the grave responsibility
of treating as nullities ali the acts OF tie cosrt
regarding administrations since the secession OF
tho State. The ruinous consequences OF such
a course would be felt directly or indirectly by
every family and every department Of business.


The court shruuk from the contemplation Of
such havoc of the private interests of innocent
persons. On the other hand there was nothing
in our constitution or laws authorizing him to
take up the docket and proceed with the cases
as he forad them. Things are at q. dead lock,
and it is difficult to conceive any other, or quick
er remedy than properly authorized conveR-
ton. Seine governments are SO hastily and
bungIingly gotten up, that it is scarcely worth
while to mend them. Impossible, indeed, when
those who control them oppose all amendment,
and keep of those who could
Year: 1865

PRESIDENT JoHSsoN.-Pre-id -ident job son
is reported to have recently said to Governor
Fletcher, Of Missouri


This is a country for white men, and, by
Cd, so long as | am President, 1t shall be a
Government for white men.


We like the words. There is the ring of the
true metal about them. Andrew the second is
about to follow in the footsteps OF Andrew the
first and as the, latter extinguished the Nulii-
fiers of Seutl<Carolina in 1892, Ivy the adoption
of most Summary measures for the preservation
of the Union so does the former tell the negro
philists and disunionists of the North, that
white men shall rule the United States so long
as be is President. Under such banner, sew
en-tenths OF the white People will rally to his
standard. and Radicalism, and Puritanism, and
Niggerism, three in one, will be vanquished
forever.
Year: 1865

A SCORE or SO of amendments to the
Constitution of the United States have
already been proposed, and, new ones
are produced dailyin Congress. Among
the latest and most important are: that
of Representative Boutwell,, of Mass,
that no State shall make any distinc-
ton in the franchise on account of race
or color; that of Representative Jenckes,
of Rhode Island, providing for a direct
vote of the people for President and
Vice President, and making all men
who can read voters for President and
members of Congress; and that of Mr..
Stevens, of Nevada, declaring the
Union indissoluble and forbidding the
assumption of the rebel debt. There is
no harm in entertaining and debating
these and all other possible suggestions
for perfecting the organic law of the
nation. In this way we shall reach an
agreement as to what amendments are
necessary and practicable, and they will
be'found to be few and simpleand such
as will commend themselves to the good
sense of the people. There used to be
no anxiety for. the integrity of this
great work of the fathers Of the repub-
lie! 1t will undergo no change not
designed to make 1t more consistent


with itself, and SO more perfect and
stable. Ftls t1sl 7ytsaf1 l1tth ariaoi
Year: 1865

The RIFLE-The following is passage
from letter just addressed by Garibaldi to the
Rife Club at CansoDi, Italy: Practice with
the rife The rife constitutes the justice of
modern civilization, and, when handled by
stout arms like yours, it gives to men the right
to have no master but themselves"
Year: 1865

CHINESE in Nevada county stick polished
copper rods into the amalgam in sluice boxes,
to which it adheres. They thus rob sluices
and fumes of gold. even when the water is
passing through them. What Chinaman
does not know in the way of stealing Is not
worth knowing.
Year: 1865

The funniest story Of this age is told by
Detroit paper. A lady suspected ber husband
Of improper intimacy with the hired girl With
out Informing her husband Of her intentions.
she sent the girl Of. and that night vert TO
sleep in the girls bed. She hadn't been there
long when somebody come 10 and took the 9th
er half of the bed. Abolt two hours after the
wife rose, intending 10 reveal the intended inh-
deity of her spouse, struck light, When, 10 It
was the servant man.
Year: 1865

sifed In climate soil and productions, that every
man can surely find home and occupation suit
ed to his tastes, and none should yield TO the
natural impotence sure to result from our past
life Of excitement and adventure.


You will be invited to seek new adventure
abroad but do not yield to the temptation, for it
will lead only to death and disappointment.
Your General now bids you all farewell with
the full belief that as in war you have been good
soldiers, so in peace you will make good citizens
and If unfortunately new war should srise in our
country, Sherman's army will be the first to
buckle on the old armor and come forth to de-
fsnd snd maintain the Government of our inher-
itance and choice.
By order Of Major Gen. W. 7. SHERMAN.


l.. NJ. DAYTON,


Assistant Adjutant General.
Year: 1865

A MELANCHOLY TRurH.-When a rakish
youth goes estray, friends gather round him
in order to restore him to the path Of virtue.
Gentleness and kindness are lavished upon
him to win him back again to innocence and
peace. No one one would suspect that he
had ever sinned. But when poor confding
girl is betrayed, she receives the brand of So
ciety, and is henceforth driven from the ways
of virtue. The betrayeris honored, respected,
esteemed; but there is no peace for her this
side of the grave. Society has but few loving,
helping hands for her. no smile of peace, no
voice of forgiveness. These are earthly moral
tiles, unknown to Heaven. There is deep
wrong in them, and fearful are the conse-
Quences.