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Year: 1865

other colonies remained faithful to the
royal cause. Under the auspices Of lead
ing British philanthropists they were
promised home and farm in Sierra
Leone, and transported to that distant
region, where they found themselves
miserably deceived and disappointed
and finally the whole settlement became
extinct. The promises that the Yankees
make the negroes of our own times viii
prove equally illusory. If there is any
home to be disposed Of here, they will
prefer to have it themselves, and not
give it to negroes. The Southern ser.
want has sagacity enough to know that
when his master makes him promise
he will keep it, and he has the utmost
reliance on his honesty and good faith.
On the other hand, when the Yankees
assure him that he shall have freedom
and home, they promise what is not in
their power to give, and what they would
not if they had. No negro is so stupid
as to suppose that, if the Yankees could
get possession of all the fine farms in
the world, they arc going to make pre-
sent of one of them to the blacks!


We feel entirely confident that if &C.
neral Lees statesmanlike counsels had
been adopted year ago, the future free
dom Of Southern white men would be no
longer question. And that is what we
are fighting for. Our own freedom
All else is but as the small dust of the
balance.
Year: 1865

In Justice to General Lee, it deserves
to be remembered hereafter that the en-
ployment of negro soldiers is not re-
cent suggestion of his, made at the
eleventh hour. We believe that for a
long time he has foreseen the necessity
which has now arisen, and has labored
in vain to meet it by the only means at
our command. AT period when it was
the fashion to declare that negroes could
not be made soldiers, and before that
fact had been demonstrated in the Fede-
raj armies, General Lee understood their
military capacities, and would gladly
have availed himself of this unemployed
element Of military strength. II his
counsels could have controlled the de-
liberations of Congress, the two hundred
thousand negroes now in the Federal
service might be in our own ranks, and
the result of this contest be no longer
doubtful.


The plan Of General Lee has been, and
still is, to hold out to this class of our
population stronger inducements than
can be presented by the enemy; to give
those of them who bear arms freedom
and home. The negro is no longer so
ignorant as to imagine that the freedom
offered by the enemy is anything but
freedom to starve, and that such thing
IS home is beyond their power to give.
In the war Of the Revolution. Z consider
sble pumbN Of negroes n Virginia md
Year: 1865

THE BURNING OF THE SURREY THEA
rRE-The burning of the Surrey Theatre,
in London, was not attended by loss of
life. The Times says:


"The last scene of the pantomime was
being performed when, it is said, part
of the ceiling Immediately over the large
chandelier by which the building was
principally lighted caught fire, and .
feeling of alarm Immediately took pos
session of the whole of the audience
that remained. At this crisis Mr.. Green,
the stage manager, presented himself in
front of the proscenium, and implored
the people, for their own sakes, to re-
main as quiet as possible, and to leave
the theatre in an orderly manner. They
could see for themselves that it was the
ceiling alone which had at that time
caught fire, and he appealed to their
reason that it must burn upwards, and
that there was ample time for them to
leave the building uninjured, if they
only did so in calm and collected man.
ner. The audience, on the whole, it is
said, followed this very sensible advice,
and were so enabled to leave the place
| unhurt.


"Mr. Green having succeeded in
abating the alarm among the audience,
applied himself with great energy in col
lecting all the persons engaged in tho
pantomime-many Of them young ballet
girls-and seeing them safe out of tho
building, he himself being amongst the
last to leave. Most of the pantomimists
made their escape in the grotesque cos
tunes in which they had been performs
ing, and took refuge in house opposite.
Little, if any, of the movable property
in the building could have been saved,
so rapid was the progress Of the fire."
Year: 1865

'no oAu uoSernment IN everything but
name; tomake it a consolidated empire,
from which the American Constitution
and the sovereignty of the States should
alike disappear to overthrow State in
stitutions and civil liberty; they adopted
the means most suitable to the end
We scarcely imagine, however, that,
even if they contemplated such results.
they calculated the cost, or, if they had
formed the faintest conception of the
magnitude and expense of the operation,
would have ventured upon that fearful
experiment: Little did they think that
Charleston, which hung out the Flag of
Independence in 1861, would not be
evacuated till the approach of tho Presi-
dental Inauguration of 1866, and that
millions of men, and thousands of mil
lions of treasure, would not even then
have made any impression upon one
vital spot of the Confederacy.


If the labor of that enormous host of
men, if the gigantic expenditures which
have been employed in destruction, had
been devoted to the production of Vic
tories of Peace, what different specta-
Gle would now meet the eye from that
which Mr.. Lincoln may behold, by look
ing beyond the delirious crowds which
attend his Inauguration, and surveying
the countless graves, the bereaved house.
holds, the desolated fields, the inextin-
guishable amino sites, which this war
has produced! The treasures expended
in it might have united the Atlantic and
Pacific by Northern and Southern lines
of railroad, and connected the whole
country by railways and canals; might
have endowed schools, colleges and hu-
name associations innumerable might
have given an impetus to agriculture,
commerce and the mechanic arts that
would have made the United States first
among nations. III the Constitution was
to be violated, it might have been vio-
lated in this way with more advantage
to humanity, and more consistency with
common sense, than trampling it be>
Meath the bloody heel of war.


We do not think, if tho President of
the United States had it again in his
power to decide the issue presented to
him at his inauguration in 1861, he would
come to the same decision. If we are
right in this conviction, all the pageantry
of the approaching ceremonies cannot
console him for the consequences of the
fatal error of his first Proclamation.
Year: 1865




From Gen. L. G.. Baker, Special Pro-
vost Marshal of the War Department.,
who has just returned from a brief trip
through some of the Southern States,
where he went on official business, we
have full confirmation of the reports that
have recently came from those localities,
of the utter destitution of the South, and
of the desire of the people at large to sub
nit cheerfully to the Government of the
United States. Gen. Baker, as may be
supposed, kept his eyes and ears wide
open throughout this journey. and lost no
opportunity of gaining information as to
the sentiments of the people.


No language can describe the destitu-
ton of these unfortunate people. With
few exceptionally of which let us be
thankful, will come within the $40, 600
clause of President Johnson's proelama-
tion-the people are actually sfdrUing.-
They come in f1ocks from the back count
ry to the lines of railroad, where they
hope to pick up something from the pass
ing trains, whereby they can support life
from day to day. Here they live in old
tents, huts and mud houses, or sleep in
the open air in the woods. They cannot
cultivate the soil, for they have no stock
and their farming implements are all worn
out They have no money to purchase
more from the North, and very many,
particularly of the class known as '.poOr
whites, have not dollar whereWith to
purchase bread for their families !,


Gen. Baker stopped at log cabin to
get something to eat. The inmates were
just upon the verge of starvation There
was young woman of about 30 years of
age, her mother, and two children. The
mother was slowly dying of consumption.
The daughter was scarcely clad enough
to hide her nakedness. Her dress consis-
ted of gunny bags seWed together, fast
ened aronnd her neck and reaching to
her knees, and even this miserable apol-
ogy for raiment was frayed and tattered
to rags. Two little children were run
ming about as naked as they were born
There was no coffee, -four, meat, or meal
in the house, literally not a crumb to eat
The young woman said, eve were al
ways poor folks, but we could always get
enough to eat. Now we have nothing,
and do not know how we are to live from
one day to another. But we are as well
off as the rest" A good many of the
people about there had died, and the
only cause was absolute starvation. The
country has been stripped by the two
armies and completely desolated. The
unfortunate wretches who have their
only home in this world in that barren
waste, are really and truly dying for want
of healthful and sufficient food. Gen.
Baker gave this poor woman five dollars,
and she begged that he would allow her
''old man. to go on his train up to At
lanta to buy something to eat. The old
man, on being produced, was found to be
hardly able to drag one leg after another
he was weak from hunger He went
to Atlanta, was furnished with trans
portation back. and gained for himself
and family weeks respite from famine.
Year: 1865

Persons may outgrow disease and be-
come healthy by proper attention to the
laws of their physical constitution. By
moderate and daily exercise, men may
become active and strong in limb and
muscle But to grow beautiful, how
Age dims the lustre of the eye and pales
the rose on beauty's cheek; while crows
feet, and burrows, and wrinkles, and lost
teeth, and gray hairs, and bald head and
tottering limbs, and limping, most sadly
mar the human from divine. But dim
as the eye is, pallid and sunken as may
be the face Of beauty, and frail and fee
BILE that once strong, erect, and manly
body, the immortal soul, just hedging its
wings for its home in heaven, may look
through those faded windows as beauti-
full as the dew drop of summers morn
ing, as melting as the tears that glisten
in affections eye-by growing kindly, by
cultiVating sympathy with all human
kind, by eherishing forbearance toward
the follies and foibles of our race, and
feeding, day by day, on that love to God
and man which lifts us from the brute
and makes us akin to angels.
Year: 1865

A New York letter writer says that
something of sensation has been created
among the denizens of the Fifth. Avenue
and other fashionable up town thorough-
fares, by a mysterious foul air which
sweeps up along that select section of the
city. All endeaVors thus far to discover
it have been unsuccessful Some think il
proceeds from the sewers some think the
gass houses are to blame others the reek-
ing pestilential tenement houses, but none
of these theories are satisfactory. The
odor is Of the most horrible description,
and SO offensive is it, night. after night,
between eight and twelve clock, that not
few people of delicate olfaetories have
been obliged to remove to more whole
some region. The prophets of evil tell us
it is precursor of the plague or the
Asiatie cholera, buff the plague or cholera
is worse than the precursor, it must be
shocking indeed s
Year: 1865

What a feeling does that simple word
convey to his ears who knows the real
blessings of home-that shelter from
the world, its jealousies and its envies, its
turmoils and its disappointments-where,
waters VAT sleen IN silence while the storm
and hurricane are roaring without-where
glad faces and bright looks abound
where each happiness is reflected from
every heart, and ten times multiplied, and
every sorrow comes softened by consola-
ton and words of comforts and how lit


tie like this is the abode of the great
ledger of fashion, how many of the fair
est gifts of humanity are turned back by
the glare of hundred wax candles and
the glitter of gilded laequeys and how
few of the charities of life find entrance
where the splendor and luxury of volupt-
uous habits have stihed natural feelings,
and made every sympathy questionable.
Year: 1865

prosperity to misfortune. You owe him your best epdsavors to secure him the best chance I to work and earn that he is now able to em. brace. You owe him constant solicitude for his welfare and for ihat of his wife and ebil dren. You owe him lifelong gratitude--activs and practical-for your Liberty and Nation. ality preserved by bis valor, his peril, bis self sacrifice. Never let the maimed Union soldier feel that you grudge him anything which he needs and you can justly give him or do for him. And your. obligation can best be dis. charged by concerted, systematic efforts by the whole community to fulfill the obligation resting equally. end uringly, on all.

 Men and brethrenl let us all resolve to con. sider-in our gatherings on the Fourth of July next, where no other day shall be especially designated for the purpose, our duty to the surviving soldiers of the Union, especially to the disabled, and to the widows and children of those who have given their lives to their country -lndepsndent. .-
Year: 1865

TIE expression "Ai," !" applied popular
IL to everything of the first quality, is
copied from the symbols of the British
and Foreign shipping list Of the Lloyds
A. designates the character OF the hall OF
the vessel; the figure i, the efficient state
of her anchors, cables and stores; when
these are insufficient in quantity or in
quality. the figure is used. The char
acter A is assigned to a new ship tor
certain number of years, varying from
four to twelve, according to the material
and mode of building, but on condition
of the vessel being statedly surveyed, to
see that the efficiency is msintatned
When vessel had passed the age for the
characterA, but is still found fit for con.
yeying perishabIs goods to al parts Of
the world, it is registered Gsterisk in
red. Ships Il in black form the third
class, and consists of such as are still
found, on survey, tit to carry perishable
goods on shorter voyages. Glasses ( and
comprise ships sufficient TO convey
goods not liable TO sea damage the one
class for voyages of any length. the other
for shorter voyages
Year: 1865

President johnson is working most
assiduously and successfully in the re-
construction of the South, and is bring
ing back the late rebels to their consa-
tutional allegiance. He Is working
better in the South than in the North
in this labor, strange as it may seem.
The Southern people sre falling into
the loval line with a rapidity and cheer
fulness never known under similar cir
cumstanoes. The only obstruction to
the Presidents wise and constitutional
policv comes from the Jacobin element
of the North and his own ofsice-holders.
The officials of the Custom House and
the Internal Revenue Department are
in league with the Jacobin crew 10
throw obstacles in the Presidents way
and raise row about negro suffrage
The return of the Southern people 70
their allegiance and their former pros
perity will be speedy and easy if the
| ofice-holders and Jacobins put no OBJ
structions in the way of the President 5
plans, as they seem determined to do.


President johnson ought to look 70
these naaneuvres, and relieve himself OF
the incubus by clearing out the whole
Custom House. He should also look
after the Internal Revenue Depart
ment, or else it viii become, and, in
fact is fast becoming, rs rotten and
corrupt as the city government Sev
eral members Of the Corporation have
already GOT in there, and they are in


Producing the honest practices OF she
Cornoration into the Department Of In


ternal Revenue.-N T. Herald
Year: 1865

WHITE INDIANs.-It is generally be-
lived that there is band of white men
leagued with the indians ID the horse and
cattle stealing busines9 on the other side of
the mountains Several of the suspicious
characters who Wef8 Invited to leave this
valley last spfing are known to be lurking
along the Boise road and ia the vicinity of
where the sdpposed Itldian depreciation"
have been Committed
Year: 1865

GONE TO BITTER RooT--A goodly
number of the miners who went up to the
Ceur d'Alene have crossed over to the Bit
ter Root country. Recent favorable reports
from the newly discovered mines there give
Che hope that they can make mining profit
able in that country.
Year: 1865

A report has been current that the In
dians had attacked the town Of Auburn. 1t
is not so. The report probably grew out Of
the fact that the Indians stole some horses
snd shot at some men near the town.
Year: 1865

Less than $500 900 900 of the loan authorized by
the last Congress, are now on the market.


This amount, at the rate at which it is being alb
sorbed will be subscribed for in less than four months
when the notes will undoubtedly command a pre-
mium as has uniformly been the case on closing the
subscriptions to other Loans.


In order that citizens of every town and section of
the country may be afforded facilities for taking the
loan, the National Bank, State Banks and Private
Bankers throughout the country have generally
agreed to receive subscriptions at par Subscribers
will select their own agents, in whom they have
confidence ana who only are to be responsible for
the delivery Of the notes for which they receive


JAY COOKE.
Year: 1865

HEAVY RoBBERF.-Mohday night the
safe Of the Orleans Hotel was robbed Of So
500 in gold dust, belonging to a returned
miner from KOotenai and Blaekfoot, deposi-
ted for safe keeping over night In addition
$500 belonging to the proprietor Of the
house went at the same time. The porter of
the establishment was sleeping in the room
near the safe, the key Of which was in the
custody of the landlord. The safe is small
affair, the lock easily picked, or turned with
a key Of common description, and the thief
could not have had much trouble in gaining
access to the interior Three men, who ar.
rived at the same time with the man who lost
the money, are suspected Of being the per-
petrators of the robbery. They; were Sleep
ing in the house, and since the robbery was
discovered two of them have not been seen
here. A fine overcoat was taken same night,
and doubtless by the same men who broke


into the safe twill be well for our citizens
to keep close watch of their valuables.-
There are several characters in town whose
antecedents do not recommend them as being
at all backward in helping themselves to any
thing they find laying around CImaHLlu
Advertiser, NoU. 15h.
Year: 1865

SCAaCITY OF HOUSES. u Just at this
time there is not vacant house of any de-
scriptiOn to be found in Walla Walla. At
a time when the towns below us are deserted
this demand for houses is extraordinary. and
is the best evidence of the remarkable pros
peritY Of the town.
Year: 1865

If you ever think OF marrying a widow
said an anxions parent to his heir. select ono
whose first husband was hung for that is
The only way to prevent her from throwing
his memory into your face end making an
moving comparisons.
Year: 1865

WHEN 1 used to tend store at the
"RegulatOr, " in Syracuse, the old gentle
man comes round one day and says:


"Boys, the one that sells the most
'tWizt now and Christmas gets a vest pat
tern as a present"


Maybe we didn't work for that vest
pattern I tell you there we're some tall
stories told in praise of goods just about
that time but the tallest talker and the
one that had more cheek than any of US
was certain Jonah Squires who roomod
with me. He could take a dollar out of
a mans pocket when the man had intend
ed to spend only a sixpence; and the
women, Lord bless you, they just handed
their pocket books to him and let him lay
out what he liked for them.


One night Jonah woke me up with


"By Josh, old fellow, if you think
that ere's got any cotton in it, I will bring
down the sheep it was cut from and make
him swear to his own wool! 'Twont
wear out either-wore a pair of pants
that kind O stuff myself for years, and
their as good now as when first put 'em
on! Take it at thirty cents, and I'll say
you don't owe me anything. Oh, too
dear? What dye say? Shall Itear it !?
All right; its a bargain"


1 cOaId feel Jonah's hands playing
about the bed clothes for an instant, then
rip tcarl went something or another,
and l hid my head under the blankets,
perfectly convulsed with laughter, and
sure that Jonah had torn the sheet from
top to bottom.


When I woke Zip next morning I found
alas unkiudest tear of ali-that the
back of my night shirt was split from tail
to collar band!
Year: 1865

difficult under the circumstances; but the


tamborine and bell doj for this simple reason


that when the Brothers are bound, the seal
is SO placed, that they can only possibly be


tied up in certain manner, and that ad-


mits of their STOPPING as they sit and picking


up the two instruments mentioned in their


mouths These they shake about till the


rickety door isabout to open; and on the in


slant of the opening they jerk them from


their mouths, while the guitar is stationary


at the bottom. This instrument is seldom


thrown out When it is, it is thrown from


one Of the hands nearest the back Of the case,


that can be readily slipped into uomplicat-
ed coil OF rope. 1t is never thrown out but
on one occasion-that is after they have tied
themselves and understand the knots. It
can be observed that when the tamborine is
thrown from the right compartment, the
lecturer opens the right door the last Of the
three so as to give this Brother a minute
more time. These statements have more
value than mere specUlations or surmises, as
they have been positively seen and by taxi
ing seat SO as to get and oblique view Of
the structure, they can be seen by any other
spectator.


Neither is the coat trick feat Of extreme
difficulty if two or three minutes are given
The Brothers tie demselces, and the ropes are
examined. As soon as the doors are shut,
the Brother loosens the seat, stands up and
slips all of, including seat, for in this, as in
other tricks, there is a great advantage in
having two in the cabinet, for it one gets un-
done first, he soon gets the other out of any
On one occasion, gentleman
who tied one of the Brothers catght the
hand just as it was going back, and held it for
three or four minutes; but he could not ex-
pose the performer inside, as he could only
just reach the opening at a stretch, and could
not with his left hand undo the door; besides,
he had the Professor hOver4ng unpleasantly
near him all the time


One word in conclusion, suggesting how
the best half of the manifestations could be
put an end to. This could be done if sotne
one among the audience would insist in ty=
ing the Brothers hands back to the ends Of
the case. or by tying their mouths efectually
mp. As the cabinet is at present constructed,
however, it is not clear how tLis could be
readily done, and the Professor constantly
ignores all suggestions likely to mar the
prompt execution of TIE manifestations. -
In the meanwhile the above facts regarding
the Btothers may be of some value to the un-
initiated, gathered as they are from repeated
observations of the performers and personal
examination Of the cabinet G. VS.
Year: 1865

In the Swedish war of the 18th cen
tury burgher of Flenborg was about to
refresh himself with draught of beer
from a wooden bottle when a wounded
Swede, fixing his longing eyes upon the
beverage exclaimed, II am thirsty give
me to drink Now the burgher was a
kind man, and replying. THY need is
greater than mine, he knelt down by the
man to give him the liquor. Then the
treacherOus Swede fred a pistol at him
wOunding him in the shoulder. There
upon the bugher started up Indignantly
and cried out Rascal I would have
befriended you and you would shoot me
in return. You shall now only have half
the bottle instead of all of it." When
the news came to the King of Denmark
he exclaimed, " A man who can do this
thing deserves to be noble" and he
created him one and gave him for his
arms a wooden beer-bottla pierced
through with an arrow.
Year: 1865

revelation of their private affairs, I think
I need only observe that amongst the


head-stones at Kensal Green the objector
would perhaps find my justification, even
had I not been careful in Disgusting
names. r. B.