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Year: 1863

A young man l9 years Of age named Riley,
who had fallen In love with beautiful young
woman, a school teacher In New York City,
named Mary ]. Whithers, was recently enlisted
In the Volunteer Naval service By his par ents
who were averse to his forming an alliance with
the lady in question, John's parents being
wealthy and the lady depending only upon her
own energies for her support. Mise Whithers,
believing that her affianoed had been inveigled
into the service against his will, applied to Mr..
W. F. Howe, who aued out writ of habeas
corpus directed to the commander of She North
Carolina, and had the young man brought be-
fore Judge McCunn. Mr.. Howe moved that
the young man be dischared on the ground that
he was minor and not voluntarily enlisted -
He stated that he would like to have the writ
adjourned to give him time to collect the evil
dence to substantiste the grounds of bis motion.
Meantime he would ask the Judge to solemnize
q marriage between the said John Riley and
Miss Mary ]. Whithers, who was then present.
Mary at once stepped forward and John clssped
her hand warmly. Both parties stated that they
were desirous the ceremony should proceed, and
they we're speedily made husbsnd and wife,
They think they have about as good an under
standing Of the practical workings of the writ
Of habeas corpus as any one In the community
Year: 1863

is cxnctly what he does not want either
Lee or the public for the moment to know.
Let the people therefore be patient In a
very few days We shall haye complete
history Of the movements Of both armies,
and We hope the complete victory Of our
Year: 1863

the safety Of any Of our positions, even with
the proposed great reduction in the number
of troops. Folly Island will be retained for
The present, and sufficient force will remain
there to render It's capture BY the rebels i'm
possible,
Year: 1863

THE BALLOT Box AND THE jury Box.
These are the strongholds of the De


mocracy, it is by and through them that
they resist the unjust aud unconstltu-
tional enactments of an abolition Con


gress Our opponents threaten force,
and in some parts of the country attack
the press by means of their mobs. The
Democrats are law abiding men: much
as they oppose the unconstitutional acts
ot minority Congress, and the whole
tribe of swindling contractors, they are
content to NEE. all these wrongs at the
BALLOT freely exercised not by the
bayonet, though their opponents threat
en- il. They will also resort to the courts
and the jury box, not the cartridge box
when their rights ara invaded. Tho
Black Republicans wish to inaugurate
a civil war when they find that ballots
fail them. The Democrats second no
such violence as that. They will put
down the whole tribe Of despots by the
ballot, as they overthrow the reign of
terror in the early history of the Re


public. ,ae
Year: 1863

Sit by the window and look over the
way to your neighbor's excellent rnal,-
sion which he has recently built and
paid for and sgh-"O, that | was rich
mani"


Get angry with your neighbor and
think you have not q friend in the world
Shed tear, or two, and take walk in
the burial ground, continually saying to
yourself, "W hen shall be buried here?'


Sign note for friend, and never
forget your kindness, and every hour in
/ the day whisper to yourself-"I wonder
| if he will ever pay that note"


Think every body means to cheat you.
Closely examine every bill you take, aud
doubt its being genuine till you have
put the owner to great deal of trouble.
Believe every ninepence passed you is
but a sixpence crossed, and express
your doubts about getting rid of it if
you should venture to take it.


Put confidence in nobody, and believe
every man you trade with to be rogue.


Never accommodate if you can pos.
sibly help it. Never visit the sick or
afflicted aud never give fa-thing to AS
sist the poor.


Buy as cheap as you can, and screw
down to the lowest mill Grind the
faces and hearts of the unfortunate.


Brood over your mis.ortunes, your
lack of talents, and believe that at no
distant day you will come to want
Let the workhouse be ever in your
mind with all the horrors of distress and
poverty. .......


Follow these recipes strictly and you
will be miserable to your hearts con.
tent-if we may speak so, sick at heart
and at variance with all the world
Nothing will cheer or encourage you,
nothing throw a gleam of sunshine or a
ray of light into your heart.
Year: 1863

TIE MoRNING AMT is common
notion with many people that the morn
ing air is the purest, most healthi'nl and
bracing; but the contrary is the fact
The air is then more full of dampness,
fog aud miasm at about sunrise, which
the sun gradually dissipates Before
engaging in anything like work or ex-
.erclse outdoors, it is Conductive To
health to take a cup Of warm coffee and
milk, IT breakfast cannot be prepared
before hand. 2"f'd ~
Year: 1863

The MoTHER.-It has truly been
said, The first being that rushes to the
recollection of soldier or sailor, in h; 8
hearts difficulty, is his mother. She
clings to his memory and affection in
the midst of all the forgetfuIness and
hardihood induced by a rowing life -
The last message he leaves it for her,
his last whisper breathes her name. -
The mother, as she instils the lesson of
plety and fila obligation into the heart
of her infant son, should always feel
that her labor is not in vain She may
drop into the grave; but she has left
behind her Influence that will work for
her The bow IN broken, but the arrow
is rped, aud will do it's Office"
Year: 1863

ProposND REMOVAL OF THE PARK BAsgACxs-.
One Of the reforms suggested by General Hays
since his assumption Of the duties OF Provost
Marshal is the removal Of the Park Barracks
to the Battery. The idea is an excellent one,
and should be imme liatcly acted upon. II will
conduce not only to the physical health OF tho
soldiers, but to the moral health Of the city.
Year: 1863

ENurLm BLOCKADE RuNNNa.--There Ia an
old but true adage that "honesty is the best
policy" When the profit and loss account Of
the English firms engaged in blockade running
comes to be nade up we suspect the majority
Of them will appreciate the truth Of the
maxim ,
Year: 1863

with rheSpenior member omitted. emoubt 20
whom oompaspd with such splendid swinatins
operations as aSe occurring every day under
the very nose Of the government In shoddy
and other sham contractsf We warrant
that there is an amount of ds1y
swindling in the quality Of the article
of whiskey alone, furnished and paid for By
tho government at the very highest rates, to b.
used p particularly for sanitary purposes In the
army and the navy, that would cover the en.fp
amount lost by the abstraction Of all Of thesS
bonds allowing that they should ever be 70.
quired to satisfy tho demands Of tho United
States for violation Of the revenue regala-
tions. These and other swindlers ON large
scale are the leeches who exhaust the blood In
the veins of the public treasury. They, We
cay in too many cases, are suffered to pass
without punishment, and almost without
notics in some instances, while some poor
devil of ON assistant quartermaster or commis-
sary is punished by dismissal from the service
or in somo ignominious manner becanse he
fails to make return of ten dollars worth Of
manure, which be may have sold instead Of
paying Tor having carted out from public
stables.


But all wars lead to corruption, and opportm-
mites constantly occur during their existence
to enable any person Of ordinary aocumu-
lative talents to cheat the government w
would stop corruption among contractors and
government officials, II we would stop cheat
ing the government, the government must stop
the war by "crushing the rebellion" or, what
perhaps would be better thing, hang soore
or 50 of the contre ctors most interested In
having the bloody contest continue.
Year: 1863

Co Forney, in letter from Washington
to the Philadelphia Press. p edcts the course
which will be adopted by the sympathzers with
secessionism in the state of Pennsylvania. His
remarks may be good for other la,iules"


During the contest for the Presidency in
1860 | predicted that the Shareholders would
destroy the railroad between Baltimore and
Washington in order to prevent the Inaugura.
ton Of Republican Chief Magistrate. Mr.
Lincoln was, however, duly installed but nv
prediction was substantially fulfilled in the sue
ceeding April. | remember well that when
this prophecy when made was regarded as rash
and unfounded Some of our good friends
classed it among the impossbiities.


"Had the people believed such n thing to be
probable at that time, many of the evils of Sc
cesSion would have been anticipated and
crushed. now feel like rsking another pre-
diction, which will have the great advantage of
seeming to he reasonable in view Of the extra
ordinary events of the last year. The demo-
cratic leaders are preparing to sanction the dis
solution Of the Union. Their whole policy
looks to this, and TO this alone. They conceal
it from their followers by cries against the
aboliionists and Black Republicans but they
cherish it in their hearts, and make it the real
inspiration of all their actions.


- axe any OF tneSe leaders IN PennsYlvanla.
There is not one of them that does not insist in
private, nor act upon the idea in public, that
the Union can never be restored that the
South can never be subjugated, and, therefore,
that recognition and peace should be acceded
to at the earliest moment, in order to prevent
further expenditure of blood and treasure
could name fifty persons, now the accepted
chiefs of the democracy in PENNSYLVANIA. who
preach this theory hourly in their households.
Supposing that the government was paralyzed
in the recent elections, they grow bolder with
every hour, and nothing but the fear that the
democratic masses may lie undeceived prevents
them from prnclaiming their real purposes. II
they can still further weaken the government,
they will throw off all dsguire, and insist that
the only way to close the war is to consent to a
division of the republic. To this sequel every
intrigue for power, every attack upon the Ad-
ministraton, every effort to stir up turbulence
in the free states, every conspiracy to spread
discomfort in the army rresistbly leads. And
although the majority who second these move
ments do not think SO, the leaders do, and la
Dor accordingly"
Year: 1863

There is one test of unconditional loyalty that
never fails When you find man so intent
on finding fault with the loyal Government that
he has no waste wrath to bestow on conspira
cy to break up the Union and destroy the Re-
public, set him down as doubtful patriot. No
man, whose heart is in the right place, will per-
nit his hostility to be diverted from the Rebel
lion to those who are fighting it. He who
thinks It greater crime to arrest babber of
dsloyal sentiments without "due process of
law" than 10 strike down the flag Of his country,
will bear vigorous watching.
Year: 1863

MisCHIET FROM SoRGHUs.-The refuse
Of Chinese sugar cane or sorghum is said
to be very destructive to cattle, when given
to them for food. The outer coating Of
the cane is very hard, and contains silex or
flint and when this is broken up by grind
ing in the mill, and afterwards taken into
the animals stomach, it operates like bro.
ken. glass, producing violent Inflammation.
The independence Guardian, OF Iowa. gives
an account Of seven head Of cattle, who
were destroyed by eating this refuse sugar
cane, after the juice was extracted. A post
nOrfem examination Of the stomach revealed
this as the cause of their death. 1t is high.
iy important that the farmers who raise
sorghum for making sugar. as well as those
who grow it merely for fodder, should give
attention to this subject, and see whether
any facts within their own experience war
rant the assertion that the Chinese cane is
thus dsleterious 10 live stock. Ii it bs so,
the information should be circulated as
widely As possible, IN order to prevent q
serious destruction Of property.
Year: 1863

Will be inserted at two dollars per square
fer tho first, and one dollar per square
for each subsequent insertion. A square to con-
sist OF the space Of IL lines, BREWER type. No
Advertisement considered less than square.
Year: 1863

The GRAIN CRoPs.-We have been in
formed by farmers here that the grain crops
Jf this season in the Walia Walla valley
Will fall far short of the usual yield in pro-
'ortion to the number Of acres sogn.-


he dry weather Of the past several weeks
5 assigned as the cause for short crops
in some portions Of the valley where the
soil is Of loomy moist nature, grain looks
promising, but where the soil is of more
sandy nature there will not be over half a
crop harvested.
Year: 1863

3. n. SEXTON will be an Independent Candidate
for Representative for Walla Walla county in the
next session Of the Territorial Legislature; subject
to the decision of the people the balotbox on the
18th of July.
Year: 1863

WYE HAVE ON HAND AND TO ARRIVE
w usual, for the coming harvest full stock of
REAPERS, MOWERS and THREsHERs
of the best and most approved styles, among which
is the


New York Combined Reaper & Mower,
the peculiar characteristics Of which are
lst. Light darught; arising from a foot ground
wheel and light 30-inch grain Wheel opposite
each other.


I'd. Two pinions of different sizes the smaller one
to give a quicker motion to the knife in moving
3D.. deep level platform, which is elevated or low
cred bodily and is not tilted to alter the cut
4b. This machine be raised to cut Is or 20 inches
high if necessary.


9TH Ease with which the reaper gets off the grain
The same being laid out Of the way of the machine.
9th VIII cut 6 to 615 foot swath and eighteen to
twenty acres per day. and for the amount of labor
performed easier on the raker and team than any
other machine in use.


7th Durability; made very strong and of good ma
terias, and does notrequire constant visits to the
blacksmith shop for repairs.


This machine has also a large supply Of Extras.
and is packed compactly far shipping to remote dis
tIicts
Year: 1863

i. J. RECTORrespeotfull announces himself can


didate for the Office Of County Auditor.


CARD-T6He Citizens Qf WaHa WdLla County,
Tt has been the usual custom for asprants to Office to
before the public shall make such claim, but for
the sake of change urgently solicit the votes Of the
people. own that want the office, and want it for
this reason that from long suffering have become
physically disabled from from following any ac-
tive laborous pursuit and have necessarily been
compelled to seek some means for a livelihood that
does not require great physical eXertiOn. The office
Of County Auditor. l believe, will furnish such
means, and if the people will bestow it upon me
shall be under the most grateful obligations and shall
every effort to honor the trust. L. J. RECTOR.
Year: 1863

DEAD-HEADIFG AT THE POLLS.


The sublime zeal with which a certain
class Of our residents in this free and en-
lghtencd country have hastcned to the cx-
ercise Of the act Of suffrage, has ever been
among the prominent features Of our cleo
lion system. Pray observe that We do not
here Use the word citizen, or right Of suf-
Tagc. There has been an immense amount
Of dead-heading ut the polls. Men have
rushed to the ballot-box without stopping
to dispossess themselves Of the last crumbs
of hard bread, which had been their sus-
tcnnncc on the voyage Of emigration It
has been IN easy thing, altogether free and
easy. It cntailed no duties, and fastened
no awkward obligations


The old countryman had the vote in his
eye when he started from home, and he
vas right, for It was meant to be the load
stone to draw hithcr from the whole outer
world, q sclfgoyerning community. But
in all transactions on q true business basis,
there is reciprocity. The stocks of your
butcher and baker would 60 of more
rapidly than proitably, but for those little
formulas which undcrlie the whole system
Of business. There is something to pay.
There is no dcad-heading in trade. The
ticket seller sits at the receipt Of all such
customs, and so are the wheels Of commu-
nifty oiled and the whole machine gets for
Tard.


But voting, that was free. Sometimes
over-frcc Indeed, for sample Of free and
easy voting commend us to some Of these
yery Copperheads who are just now hig
Cling about the price Of voting at all
Now that the Courts have decided that g
man who deems himself citizen enough tc
vote is good enough Morgan for the Fed
eral enrolling officer, there is likely to be a
sensation, and FILLING of in votes. Il
some Of these Correrheads were made to
do military service in proportion to their
past Industry in voting, the va,
might last twenty-five years and find
them with service terms uncr tred
Te are glad that dead-heading at the pollf
is over. A price hos been fixed upon ths
right. 1t entails the entire duty Of citizen
ship. It is not simply elbowing once, o.
several times up to the ballot-box on al
= election day to vote for John Smith O
Peter Jones, but it involves your turning
out with Smith and Jones, when the coun
Hg is in danger. The decision is right
rous one-the rule a fair one. He Wit
Totes must fight
Year: 1863

THE YANKEE SOLDIERS KILL THEIR OWN
OFFIcERs.-A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Sunday Dispatch states that there is not shadow
of doubt that their officers have been f'picked
OUT and shot by their own men on the battlefield,
in numberless instances, to crafty private grudge
"a staff officer, in conversation with me on this
subject, says the writer, "stated that he had been
informed by surgeon, who had gone over the
battle field at Antietam, that he had found to his
great horror and surprise that nearly all the
officers killed were wounded from behind.'


They were either shot by their own Soldiers,
OF by the Confederates while skedaddling.
Year: 1863

The telegraph gives US an idea of the speech of
the,new Governor Of New jersey in his inau.u.
raj. Like Seymour and Vallandig ham, he goes for
| reconstruction. This might be expected. As
soon as the Yankees have been forced to consider
the necessity for peace, they will Of course seek
the best terms they can, and could they cajole us
back into the Cnion it certainly is their policy to
do So That they can exist prosperously without
the South we have never believed, aud their arro-
gance has never allowed them until now to con-.
| template SCI arate existence They have preyed
upon us SO long that they have consid, red in
fact subjugated comme REALLY and now that their
eyes are opening to their true situation, that OF
dependence upon the South for the support of
their manufactures, it is reasonable that they
should talk of Cancellation. Their pecunary inter
ests are all they consider politically they value
no other principle, aud have proved this by their
conduct in the contemplate sacrifce of every thing
they once professed to recognize principle.


Reconstruction! tie idea is horrible to the
Southern ear. Is it within the bounds Of pos
sblity for any Southern man to tolerate its Shall
dos1late hoarths and homesteads DESTROYED by
the ruthless invader be ignored? Shall mothers
and wives and daughters. insulted and grievOusly
injured, be forgotten? Shall our fathers and bro
theirs and sons lingering in cold, damp vaults cal
e prisons, be neglected and left to the villanous
to1tures of Lincolnism? Shall every principle dear
to the patriot, ignored and rejected by fanatic
people, be set aside and abandoned, when we have
been struggling to defend them and fix them more
permanently Liberty and independence forbid
it! We have achieved our independence in the
eyes of the world, however slow they arc to recog
nize it, and intend to establish it on the basis
of equality with other nations and no Cancellation
with the depraved States of Lincolndom can ever
again be tolerated By people determined to be
free.


A volume might be written on this subject, but
we forbear. If nothing else had oecured-if tho
bloodshed and destruction of our most valued citi-
zens and their dearest rights If the loss Of pro-
perty aud persons could be restored, even then a
great gulf exists that never be filed up. Lin
coins proclamation destroying, far AS in his
power, the confidential relations between the own
er and the slave, can never be atoned for in a
construction Government. That proclamation
stands before the world the final blow that sew
cred forever the late United States. 1t isthe cup
dc grace of the late Union and the tolerance ofthe
idea of reconstruction after that, would be the
death knell Of our peculiar basis of existence as
people. Let the Yankees feel the necessity of
peace, and they will ere long find themselves fore
ed to recognize the Southern Confedeiacy.-Col-'
unibia CdroliHian.
Year: 1863

The Richmond Sentinel of the 7th,
has the following significant para
graph "On yesterday morning eight
monitors and iron-clads were off the
bar at Charleston. The brief but
significant kilograms, which were re.
ceived early in the day, and nre pub.
lishcd elsewhere, tell of their work.
The long expected collision has prob.
ably come of ere this. The storm so
long prepared for Charleston has
burst at last. We shall publish the
results as we learn them. We await
the issue with buoyant hope, but not
without the solicitude which the i'm.
portance of the struggle warrants.
May Heaven shield Charleston from
the rage of her enemies and ours I"


The Sentinel, editorially, refers in
ambiguous terms to a riot which took
place in Richmond on last Thursday


which was Of such magnitude as to
cause the affair to be suppressed from
publication. From the article referred
to it appears that the city was for q
time at the control of q lawless mob
of men and women, for the ostensible
purpose Of saving themselves from
starvation by breaking into stores
bakeries. &c. The movement was
headed by q female who, the Sentinel
says, was above want, and the whole
affair was simply to rob and plunder
under the excuse of a scarcity Of food.
Millinery. dry goods and fancy store,
suffered as much as those containing
the uecessaries oflife. The movement
appeared to have resulted from the
high prices Of goods generally.
Year: 1863

TEE PEACE MBN AND THE MOB.


The New Gospel of Peace. according
to St. Benjamin, Part Cd, contains the
following notice Of the proceedings of the
blessed peacemskers who composed the
New York mob: .


And it came to pass that man in
Gotham met some of tho Pahdeer. and
they suffered him to talk to them.


And he ask them. Why do ye fight
the Fleece? And they answered and
said, Because the Fleece began the riot
by withstanding us when we would have
driven out the officers who cast the lots
against US. For if we may but do our
own will, we indeed would trouble no
man.


And he asked them, Why do ye slay
'he officers Of Unculpsalm? And they
answered and said, Because they turn
their swords upon the people. For have
not the scribes of the Kopur-hedds and
the Phlunkees and the Ouecnees told
you that we are the people. 100.
And again be asked them, But why
do you slsy the Niggahs. which are meek
and lowly, and Withstand no man, but flee
before you? And they said unto him,
Confess now, is not Niggah the cause of
the war? And he said: Yea, verify. And
they answered him, Behold thou hast said
it. We slsy the Niggah because he is
the cause Of the war, and we are the ap-
ostles Of the new gospel of peace. which
we do minister unto you with fire and
sword this day. ie.a


And ifthe Niggah choossth to submit,
he hath the right to submit. For we have
vowed that no man shall fight against
his will; and this is the right of the Mig
gah under the Great Covenant. And If
he resisteth, then all the more will We put
him to death. For we stand by the Great
Covenant.


And after five days the tumult was en-.
ded. But for FIVE days there we're muir.
derings and burnings and destruction.


And the smoke Of the city went up day
and night like the smoke Of a furnace; and
the air was filled with groanings and
with the cry Of woman and children to
whom was administered the new gospel
of peace.