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Year: 1863

A proposition was introduced into the
House yesterday inqui,ing into the expe-
diency of investing the military affairs and
power Of the State with the G. werner and
State Understanding them into a Mill
tary Board for that purpose. This sug-
gostion ELECTED warm discussion yester-
dav, and will continue to do so until it 10
disposed O.. AS we understand the pro
position, it is not intended to deprive the
Governor Of any constitutional authority
as Commander in chief Of the militia of the
State, but in measure to relieve him Of
the responsibility of acting alone in the in..
portant contingencies which may arise in
the present critical condition Of public af
fairs. A good man, one who sincerely
desires to promote the best interest and
the common welfare of the people of the
State, should not object to counsel in dc
termining the duties aud responsibilities
which may devolve upon him. Nee ssari


y large discre tiol. in the conduct Of the
military affairs of the State mus, be inves.
ted somewhere, and IT is proper that the
prevailing sentiment of the people should
be represented and respected. We do moi
know what exigency may arise before an-
other Legislature convenes, and therefore
it beco @es necessary, in view Of the pc
culiar condition of the country to provide
for the difficulties and troubles that may
occur. SO far as possible. The question
for the Legislature to determine is, wheth-
er this discretionary power shall be reposed
in the Governors exclusively. or be divi
ded with co ordinate authority?


1t seems to US there can be but one
opinion in that regard. The people OF the
State are divided in sentiment as to the
policy of the Government. The Cover
nor represents only portion cf the peo-
pie. He is the representative Of a party
and as such he seeks to advance its princi-
pies and purposes. Can it, with justice
be asked that the whole power Of the
State should, under such circumstance :
be placed at his conrole! Certainly not
The recent election shows that majority
Of the people differ with the party that The
Governor represent Is it not right that
their wishes should be respected and rep
resented in .he conduct aud direction of
the authority and power cf the State? This
much must be conceded by every righ
thinking citizen. Wha. then! In some
way the majority must have a voice. al
least an equal voice, in the control of mill
tary affairs. The people will not consent
that this delicate ard responsible trus
shall he left with one man, We therefore
favor the proposition ola Military Board
including the Governor, with whom shal
be invested the military power of til,
State State Sentinel.
Year: 1863

Be KIND TO THE AGED.-Age, when
whitened for the tomb, is an object of sub
Unity. The passions have ccased-hopes
Of self have ceased They lingcr with the
young and pray for the young and o!
how careful should the young be to reward
the aged with their fresh hearts, to diminish
the chill of ebbing life The Spartans
looked upon rcvercntial respect for old
age as a beautiful trait Of character. BE-
kind to those who are in the autumn of life,
for thou knowest not what suffering they
NAV have endured, or how much of it may
still be their portion. Do they seem un.
reasonable to find fault or murmur? Allow
not thine anger to kindIc against them re-
Duke them not for doubtless many have
been the crosses and trials Of earlier years,
and perhaps their dispositions, while in the
spring time Of life, were less flexible than
thine own. Do they require aid of thee
Then render it cheerlul!y, forget not that
the time may come when thou mayest desire
the same assistance from others that thor
renderest unto them. Do all that is need
tul for the old, and do it with alacritv, and
think it not bard if much is required a
thy hands, lest when age sets his seal or
thy brow and fills thy limbs with trembling
others may wait on thee unwillingly, anc
feel relieved when the coffin lid has covered
thy face forever
Year: 1863

A young couple had passed the first few
weeks of their marriage at the house of 1
friend. Having at length occupied their
new home, they were taking their frs
breakfast, when the following scene took
place:


| The young husband was innocently open
ing boiled egg in an egg cup. The bride
observed that he was breaking the shell al
what she considered the wrong end. "IIow
strange it looks" said she, "to see you
break your egg at the small end, my
dear No one else does SO; and it looks SO
odd" -.
"Oh. think it is quite as good: in fact
better than breaking it at the large end,
my love, for when you break the large End
the egg runs over the top" replied the hus.
band.


But it looks very odd when nobody else
does so,' rejoincd the wife.


"Well, now, | really do think it is not
nice way you have got of eating an egg
That dipping strips Of bread and butter in
to an egg certainly is not tidy. But do
not object to your dong as you please, if
you will let me break my egg at the small
end" retorted the husband


81 am sure my way is not quite as bad as
eating fruit pie with knife, as you do, in
stealing of using fork; and you always
eat the syrup, as if you were not accus.
to,nud to have such things. You really
DO not see how very bad it looks, or |
am sure you would not do So" added the
wife.


1.-The syrup is made to be eaten with the
pie; and why should send it away on the
plate?" asked the husband


mo well bred persons ever clear their
plates as if they were starvcd,' said
the bride with contelnptuous cast Of her
head


"Well, then, am not well-bred person.
replied the husband angrily.


But you must be, if we are to live COM
fortably together" was the sharp answer Of
the fastdiouS lady.


"Well, must break my egg at tn, small
end, so it does not signify; and must also
eat the syrup"


Then will not have either fruit pie or
eggs at the table"


"Brt will have them," petulan,ly ex-
claimed the husband


"Thcn | wish had not been married to
you,' cried the young wife, bursting into
tears.


"And so do H. added the now incrnsed
husband, as he rose and walked out of the
room.


This domestic quarrel was followed by
others equally trifling in their origin, and
diSgraceiul in their character, until the
silly couple made themselves so disagree
able to each other that their home became
unendurable, and they separated Cults
Reporter.
Year: 1863

rW@ Winterhalter's portrait Of Mile


Patti is eminently successful. While he
was engaged at it, his studio was daily
overrun by the 9esoueeres of the Jockey
Club and Senate, and as many go to see it
in the vestibnle Of the italian Opera as to
hear the original demoisele, who is repre-
sented in the costume Of Rossini. She
wears mantilla over her head, and holds
in her right hand the letter which Figaro
should convey to Almivivo. This painting
is to be presented to the director Of the
Italian Opera by the young artistic who has
been so enthusiastically received there.
Year: 1863




1t is generally believed by men Of scienc
and others, that the interior Of the earth il
mass of molten matter, the heat Of whicl
is intense beyond that which can be pro
duccd by known artificial modes. Many
of the rocks which form the crust Of tie
earth appear to have been once in a fluid
condition, and no skill possessed by man
can reduce some of them by heat to the
state in which they once existed. DR.
| Siljestrom, Swedish astronomer, expresses
| it as his belief that the interior Of the earth
is occupied by currents of various degrees
Of heat, which mix with each other and
attain certain degree of temperature in
the same manner as substances subjected
to all the physical influences of the earth's
exterior. In other words, the theory is
that a mass of fluid possessing different
temperatures in different parts of its inte-
rior, must be subjected to process of con-
vocation. The result is usually change of
volume in the entire mass of circulating
fluid, causing eruptions like those of volca
noes. In lIecla, however---lhc famous
volcanic mountains of Iceland 1.-The heat
seems to be local. not proceeding from any
great depth in the Interior Of the earth a
NTiteT III tilc LDulOu QudItcIly, WIN mas
visited it, states that while vapors were
issuing from the black sand summit, ain
the crater itself, some hundred fathoms be,
low, were gaping icc-holes and great masses
cf snow side by side With sulphurous steam
jets" The poet who Uused Eecla as an
illustration of blowing hot and cold in one
breath, was true to nature; for, strangely
enough, while one part Of the cone is quite
cold on the surface, steam is Issuing from
another part higher up, showing that the
heat is local, and dependent upon the fiery
character of the under beds. This is prov
ed 10y the experiment of an Icelandcr at
another place, who discovered that the heat
began two feet below the surface. Beneath
that depth he came to violet coored layer
of soil Of sulphu~ous odor, where the heat
was greatest. Lower still it was found to
be less and less until ut the depth Of eleven
feet there was 10 heat at ALL The depth
of the greatest heat at Krisulvili was ascer
taincd to be twelve feet below the surface,
and below this the heat diminished
Scientific american.
Year: 1863

TIE CoLoRs OF NATURE lie who eX-
hibited such matchless skill in the organiza-
ton of material bodies, and such exquisite
taste in their formation, has superadded
that ethereal beauty which enhances their
permanent qualities, and presents them to
us in the varying character Of the
spectrum. Without this the foliage of
vegetable life might have filed the eye and
fostered the fruit which it wells, but the
youthful green of its spring would have
been blended with the dying yellow of its
autum. If the objects of the material
world had been illuminated with white
light, all the particles of which possess the
same degree of rvfrans'hility, and were
equally acted upon by the bodies on which
they fall, all nature would shine with a
leaden hue, and all the combinations of ex


ternal objects, all the features of the human
couutcnance, would have exhibited no other
variety than that which they possess in a
pencil sketch or Chinaink drawing The
rainbow itself would have dwindlcd into a
narrow arch Of white light, the stars would
have shonc through a grey sky, an" the
mantle of a wintry twilight would have re-
placed the golden vesture of a rising and
setting sun.-!Sir Uagid Brecstsr.
Year: 1863

." A poet asked a gentleman what he
thought of his last production, "An Ode
to sleep" The latter replied: "You have
done so much justice to the subject that it
is not possible to read it without feeling its
whole weight"
Year: 1863




Among the deserters arrested, through
the agency of the Bureau of Deserters,
was a man in Boston who had enlisted
in a Massachusetts, regiment, and after
having served some time deserted and
returned to Boston, where he went into
the business of selling himself as a sub
stitute with the intention of deserting at
the first opportunity to sell himself to
another person.


He succeeding in hiring as a substi-
tute eeven times, obtained the bounty,
and deserted each time. He lodged at
one of the fashionable hotels in Boston,
dressed handsomely aud entertained his
friends ia princely style. When he
wanted to hire as a substitute he would
dress in coarse, rough clothes, and dis
guise himself m such n way that it was
impossible 70 recognize him as the gay
aud fashionable "swelP Of the first
class hotel only few days before. lie
would probably have continued to
play this game while the war lasted
but he incautiously wrote a letter Ia
fellow soldier in his old regiment
telling him what glorious times he was
h wing in Boston, representing IN glow
ing language his new business OF going
as a substitute, told him how many times
he had fooled them" aud wound up by
advising the soldier TO desert and CONF
nome, and "coin money" by going as
substitute. The soldier addressed had
no such intention, and he showed th'
letter to his Colonel who forwarded
TO the Provost Marshal General at Wash
inston, who speedily caused the arrest o
the deserler. ubstitute, and he was for
warded to his regiment few days ag'
lie will in all probability be shot
Year: 1863

GJ~ There is graveyard in Win.
chester, Va, which deserves notice.
1t is about sixty or seventy yards
square. The graves are in rows about
two and o half feet apart, extending
the whole length. There are some
twelve or fifteen hundred graves, each
with little board at the head, bearing
the name of him who sleeps beneath.
A long trench, two feet wide. and
about four feet deep, Is dug, a man
wrapped in his blanket is laid in and
the trench is filled up just his own
length, and raised up a little above the
level of the ground, as graves general.
ly are. The next is laid at the feet of
the last and so on till the trench is filled;
then another is dug and filed in like
manner. There are fifty Of these
trenches, each one containing twenty
eight or thirty men, having a nice
little board at the head of each grave
These trenches are all filed with rebel
soldiers, who have fought their last
battle, and now sleep their last sleep.


-NOHhern Paper.
Year: 1863

THE LAST RUN.-The last run of Sal
mon-Trout and Salmon fish for this season,
has commenced, and great numbers of them
are making their way up the Walla Walla
river and its numerous tributary branches
Some of these fish have been taken out Of
the little branch which runs through the
east end of town, measuring over two feet
in length. The most surprising feature
about the matter is the fact that the water
in the branch is but three or four inches
deep and the big fish have not only to con-
tend against this odds-with their backs
sticking oct in the eold-but in order to
get within the city limits they have to
climb up through the Mandatory works, in
the lower part of town-a feat which has
puzzled the brains of the "oldest inhabitant"
to account for in rational way. He says
they climb through at night when no one is
watching, but we can't see that this helps
to throw any light upon the subject. This
matter deserves profound investigation by
our "mock Legislature.
Year: 1863

REMoNsTRANoE.-Ar remonstrance against
the repeal of the City Charter has been cir
sulated and numerously signed by the tax
payers of the city this week. We hear it
said, also that petition favoring the repeal
has been in motion, but have we not seen
the document, nor can we fin any one who
has we therefore incline to the opinion that,
unless it is being handled on K. G. G. or
Idaho Union League principles, there is no
such paper in circulation.
Year: 1863

FROM CLARK's Fork AND THE PALoUsE.
Capt Mullan and party returned last
week from their prospecting trip to the
Clark's Fork and the South fork of the Pa
louise. We have not seen any of the party
since their return, but learn that they re-
port having found paying diggings in sever
al places on the Clark's Fork On their re-
turn, the party spent some two weeks
prospecting on the south fork of the Pa
louise, with favorable results. They were
not within one hundred and fly miles of the
Kootenay country. They struck the "lead' y
they expected to find in the vicinity of the
Pen d'Oreille mission, but it proved to be
mica instead of gold
Year: 1863

SAW Mill FOR BoIsE-Mr. G. S. Bush,
of the firm of Robie & Bush, left this city
this week for Bannock City, with the ma
chinery for saw mill, to be erected at that
place. Messrs Robie & Bush have already
one saw mill in operation at Bannock; and,
judging from the number af mills now in the
mines and on the way thither, the people of
that country will have no cause to complain
of scarcity of lumber there next season.
Year: 1863

If there is any existing doubt about the enor.
nous imitation of prices, we think o glance at the
above comparative table will at once remove it,
1t will be seen that some fancy stocks, npon which
adividend never was paid, and probably never will
be- have doubled in price during the year, and are
even now under the influence of an advance move
msnt. We ask the attention of the public, and
particularly Of outside Dealers to this fact.


The following were the quotations at the gold
Year: 1863

the idea that the removal of some one
evil would change the nature of man,
and return the earth to its Paradisical
condition. The cause lies deeper


abolish the hells, or prevent their in
fusion into the earth, and you abolish
the cause of the war; and nothing else
touches it; and that can be and will
be only when Government is founded,
and laws are executed, on this grand
platform-"Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, with all
thy soul, with all thy mind, and with
all thy strength; and thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself" God has
made no other provision for permanent
peace or for removal of the causes
Of war. t
Year: 1863




The NerBwypor Herald, in a candid
review of the cotton prospects, comes
To the reasonable conclusion that we
shall not have full supply again, un-
der the most favorable circum stances,
in less than five or ten years-prob-
ably ten, and concludes with these Oh
servations:


elf we are to have a great reform,
we must prepare ourselves Tor some
sacrifices. Ii looks to us as it does to
Neal Dow, and therefore our surprise
at the increase of cotton mills. Peo-
pie who have fortunes have a right t.
do with them as they please but if
we had hundred thousand dollars,
and wanted to double it in the shortest
time, we would not put it into cotton
mills; rather would we invest it in
cotton, which is high, and will GO
higher; or in cotton cloth, which is
advancing and i'll our opinion has II
good margin to advance on yet. The
only thing that can check the value OF
cotton is the increase of other materi-
ais. Wool, flax and silk may be more
largely used. SILK we must import,
and flax cannot speedily take the
place of cotton, though silk and linen
are as cheap now as cotton; but wool
may be had to any extent, and is be-
ing enormously increased. Still twill
be some time before people will ap-
preciate the fact that this country is
not what it was prior to 1850, and il
will be some time after that before
factories can be built and machinery
changed I, and therefore spectators
in cotton and cotton goods havd years
10 act IN"
Year: 1863

While General Hosecrans was az
Bridgeport the other day. rebel sharp
shooter fired at him across the river,
i've hundred and fifty or sixty yards,
the ball striking the body Of tree
over his head, and another fred at the
Generals son, the ball passing within
two leet Of Ito gallant little iellow.
Year: 1863

T The Des Moines Statesman, the Off
cial organ Of the peace-war party, keeps stand
ing at the head of its editorial columns a
forged order of the War Department, pur-
porting to dismiss New Hampshire lieuten-
ant from the army for circulating Cooper
head tickets" No such order was ever
issued by the War Department. It's authen-
ITCHY was long since denied. Yet it is by
such villainous means that the enemies Of the
Government are striving to stir up sedition
against it. After their SANDERS and forger-
les are exposed they reiterate them, on the
principle, we suppose, that ga lie well stuck
to is as good as a truth"
Year: 1863

The Copperheads are most profound
expositors of law. The Constitution author
ICES Congress to ''raise and support armies, "
and these fellows want the Administration to
wait until the Courts decide whether a law 70
''raise an army" is constitutional or not
Why don't these enemies of the country say
what they mean-that they wish to prevent
prosecution of the war, the recruiting of the
army, and thereby ensure the ultimate success
of the traitors and the overthrow of the Re.
public. @
Year: 1863

~ A St. Louis paper states that nearly
all the rebel soldiers who have come up the
river are .desirous of taking the oath, and
even of entering the loyal ranks. However
much any one statement may be exaggerated,
the evidence comes from so'many quarters,
and in many cases from such reliable sources,
that we cannot doubt the existence of a
strong undercurrent at the South, which, il
not now Union in the strictest sense of the
term, must ultimately become 50.
Year: 1863

SAFE KEEPING OF REBEL OFFICERS. AS the
rebel officers captured are likely to remain in
custody for some time to come, arrangements
have been made for their accommodation at
Sandusky, Ohio, and they are being forward
ed to that point as rapidly as possible, and all
Of this class of prisoners who az fall into
our hards will he sent there. hereafter, urtl
the rebel authorities are disposed to carry out
faithfully the cartel of exchange. 81
Year: 1863

LIE Grand Byington passed through this
city yesterday morning with the nomination
Of a new candidate for Governor of Iowa in
his breeches pockets being the result of the
Copperhead Central Committees deliberations
at Burlington on Thanksgiving day, which
Fisher on their ticket, the latter having de-
clined


Gen. Tuttle is now in the service Of his
country in the field, and is either earnestly in
favor of the war or is hypocritically engaged
in it for the sake of Brigader Generals
pay. He presents the singular anomaly,
however, of being the candidate of a party
avowedly and bitterly opposed to the war
and in favor Of peace. Whether he will ac-
cept nomination thus insulting his honor
and stultifying his manhood, remains to be
seen. If he does accept, the hypocrisy of the
platform or the heartlessness of the candidate
perhaps toth-will disgust all honest men,,
and platform and candidate must sink into q
depth Of infamy from which they can never
be resurrected. e.r.se....


This change of base on the part of the
enemy is too transparent a sham to deceive
even the most ignorant and unsuspecting


Every body knows that the Democratic party
of Iowa is owned body and breeches, by
men uncompromisingly opposed to the war
and who denounce all engaged in it as slim
coin hirelir gs" The traitorous leaders Of
the party, knowing that the rank and file are
loyal and in favor of putting down the re-
bellion by force of arms, in order to deceive
them into the support of their own base pur-
poses, have selected for their candidate one
who is engaged in the war and whom they
expect to- mould to their designs, in order
that the very element they use may be sub


served to defeat itself. Even Hen-Egged
Thayer, who says he stakes no stock in this
war;" is found taking stock largely in Gen.
Tuttle. The plot cannot but fall through
and bury its originators in the ruins. --
Year: 1863

The ASSAULT ON FORT WAeNER.-The nu
merous accounts of the affair at Fort Wagner
that have been published all point to the
conclusion that the assault was i'll advised,
and involved too great slaughter, even if it
had been successful. With the array Of
monitors and great guns we had there, and
our batteries and much lauded engineering
skill on land, some reduction ought to have
been effected in the defensibility and arma-
ment of the fort before our men were pre-
cipitated upon tito be n1own down. And in
he second place, when the assault was made
and the terrible slaughter incurred, it was
not well supported, and that which might
have succeeded at great cost of men was a
sacrifice Of the cost without success.