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Year: 1862

DALLEs, June 10th, 1862.


EDS. STATESMAN reckless waters of the
Columbia river are still making most cruel en-
croachments upon our city, and have already COM
PEELED some of us to take up our traps second
time and seek an increased elevation in which to
pitch our tents. The water is six or eight feet
deep in the lower part of the city and is still rs-
ing. Main street is entirely inundated, and also
a part of Second street. Two or three inferior
wood buildings have been carried away but the
stone stores about which your correspondent Of
the 29th of May was SO socitous, are still stand
ing, and so far as can see there is but little dan
ger to be apprehended as to their safety.


Your correspondent was evidently disheart-
ened Webfoot, and probably one of those unfor-
tunate individuals who were taken from the tree
tops in the Willamette bottoms by boats last fall
since which time he has had a constant dread OF
water, and now seeks home on the summit OF
some towering mountain where the sweeping
floods can never reach him. And from the man
ner he treats of the business character of our
town and its courts, infer that he has also be-
come ulSgusIeu Wllu Tue DuSlle Ol lively OuSlless
and the necessary incidents and supports of civil
ization, and has gone out to establish quiet her
mitage among the Nez Perces or Shoshones.


must admit however, that or town does not
present very inviting appearance at present.
The hurry of business, which we appreciate but
which seems to annoy "Dales Senior" is much
affected by the swollen waters. The steamers be-
tween Portland and this place have ceased to
make daily trips, and have assumed the old order
of three trips a week This is done I understand
on account of the difficulties of getting freight
around the Cascades, part of the railroad being
under water The Salmon goers are much fewer
than they were a short time ago, but the home
ward travel has increased A large pack train
came in to-day from Powder river otter goods for
that place. The reports from there are very en-
couraging; considerable of the shining dust was
brought down with the train, and of course the
merchants welcome the presence of the honest
miners" and assure you it is quite refreshing to
see their faces, painfully long, contracted into a
graceful smile.


DALLEs JUNIOR.
Year: 1862

The remainder of excited prospectors up Sal
mon is swelled by daily accessons, and good
claims have been sacrificed to get off among the
first. The apprehension that one may be in the
rear by day or two, induces many to let the
proverbial bird in the hand go for two in the
bush.


1t is quite certain that many who go are acting
on what they consider reliable information from
friends, but by far the largest portion follow for
tune and their noses," knowing little and caring
less as to what may become of them. Many will
doubtless leave their bones at the foot of some
high precipice, others take trip down Salmon
face upwards while the rife of the Bannock, or
gaunt famine will claim a hecatomb. But what
is the use Of remonstrance-from Gold Lake to
Carboo the bones of the dauntless gold-hunters
lie scattered, and still other thousands push on to
new fields of adventure, and to new dangers
Dangers that would appall embattled armies are
overcome by the gold-hunter, and hardships which
nought but the thirst for riches could fortify men
to Withstand, are looked on by them as triAes.-
When 1 view the exertions of men in search of
the precious metal, adopt the view of my friend,
Mr.. Arrigoni-" the great American spondoolix
is the incentive to all exertion."


Crooked River is exciting much attention at
this time. am informed that it is a tributary of
the South Clearwater. It's exact location is not
generally known-most of those who are hunting
for it don't know-some say there are two Crook
ed rivers-the other emptying into Salmon, and
some say that Crooked river is bounded by the
"broad and crooked road that leads to-you
know where. So, that is the condition of the
Crooked river excitement at this time.


OF the thousand and one minor excitements.
founded on news confdentially confded TOBY,
who was one of a small party of seven, who went
through wonderful adventures by land and water,
and turned up, right side up in an out-of-the-way
place in totally unlocked for direction, and dis
covered rich diggings in an unaccountable man
ner, / can no more keep the thread, than I could
detect :" the turn of the wrist in "three card
monte" 1t is enough to know that the generality
Year: 1862

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MOUNTAIN HOUSE, w. T., June ID, 1862.
When the emigration from below first began tc
arrive this spring, goodly number of persons es-
tablished ranches, on the plains below, in the
mountain canyons, or wherever they could find
good grass and water. Many of those persons
most of them probably-had no other intention
than to act honestly but there were enough left
of the rascaly kind to justify me in the accusation
that the rancheros of this vicinity had the largest
proportion of rogues among them of any other
class extant This remark is called forth by the
departure of several cabsIGdas of horses for Car
iboo which confding miners had entrusted to fel-
lows because they understand the business. >
After seeing great number Of rancheros, lay
down the following rules of action in ranching
horses To judge the ranchero's honesty, by the
length of his spurs-tle longer the spurs the less
his honesty. Secondy-never trust man who
always wears, in addition to long spurs, his leg
gings and a dourishing silk handkerchief about
his shoulders-that kind of ranchero is always
ready to leave short notice. Thirdly-when
you ranch a horse, if the ranchero treats you to
more thar his fees in liquor, consider your horse
as bound to Cariboo at once. Fourthly-avod
leaving your horse with a man who carries more
than one large six-shOoter and bowie-knife, fol-
they are most dangerous of all.


In addition to wholesale stealing, the number
of small horse-thieves, who nip single horses, is
alarming to horse owners. A couple of this kind
were caught the other day, and l can truly say oi
them that they were the meanest looking pair !
ever laid eyes on. 1t is no doubt very fine thing
to be dashing off on a stolen horse, but when
caught, the romance of the adventure van ishes
and while the culprit is being conveyed back to
the scene of his misdeeds, the whipping-post OF
the gallows must obtrude themselves on the men
tai vision. The two mentioned above are now in
limbo at Florence, and will probably get job in
the penitentiary. They plead drunkenness, and
one of them has respectable family near Port
| land
Year: 1862

How MEN REAsoN.-The great fault of
mans reasoning is not in the process, but in the
premises. We say of a man that he cannot rea-
son well because he is wrong in his process.
That is not the fault his mistake consists in not
starting well,-in his premises rather than his
process. The knave reasons as well as the saint,
but he does not start from the same premises.
The insane man often reasons most acutely, most
wonderfully. If you get into the stream of his
logic he trips you up. So sharp, so subtle is he,
and so ready to meet your objections, that you
have to go back to the false premises and con-
ceptions in the chnks and crannies of his brain,
which weakens it and makes it morbid. Starting
from these he makes the mistake. The sane
man differs from the insane man, not in process,
but in the premises. And so it is with regard to
the reasoning of men generally They start
from false premises, and reasoning from them,
at last come to the conclusion that any thing they
do is right. If they can make themselves believe
it is right to uphold certain traffic, then it is
easy to come to the conclusion that anything by
which they sustain it is right If they believe
they have right to consult expediency, then it
is but another step to believe it right to pick
national pocket-to steal an island as much as to
commit trespass upon private property. Start
with wrong premises, and all manner of eonclus-
ions will follow.
Year: 1862

A SUBJECT OF CONGRATULATIONS of the
most happy results of the election just passed, is
the final disposal Of the niger question. That
fruitful theme of demagogues on both sides, has
been played out Hereafter the man who at
tempts to ride into Office on the preudces of the
people concerning slavery, will find himself on
platform without soul or support. The people
have become thoroughly disgusted with both the
question and its agitators. The abolition "bug-
bear has been exhibited in all possible aspects by
the secessioniss in the late canvass, but without
making or losing a vote. The vices of the beast
have been proclaimed by knayes and fools into
deaf ears. The people knew it to be dead and
harmless Nobody has been hurt and nobody
frightened by the senseless howl about the " Mig
ger.'


The rebellion will kill slavery as political in
stitution in the South and the war to put down
rebellion will kill abotionsm in the North. Fa-
natics on either side are about to be left with a
harp destitute of strings. Their music may amuse
or vex, but can never charm again.


We are glad of it. The public ear has been
troubled, by far, too much, with TRADES pro and
con about institution that nobody has any busi-
ness to force into political notice. beyond the boun-
daries of the state where it exists. Let us rest
little from the Gin of demagogues.-O Oregon
Statesman.
Year: 1862

NELSON CREEK Sept. 80, 1861.
DR., J. c. YoUNG,-You will remember what
moor wretched creature was when last saw you
and the result has aStoniShed me as well as my
friends Your invaluable prescription and excellent
advice have completely overcome ailments such as
IL seems to me- never afflicted mortal before. new
er wrote letter with greater satisfaction than pen
this. shall remember you with gratitude as long
as live. That you may live long to alleviate the
suerings Of others aS you have mine, is my earnest
prayer Please accept my heartfelt thanks that you
have brought this almost hopeless to so happy
a termination. Yours, truly,
Year: 1862

never forget how pleased we were to see the
Governors Proclamation in the hands of the
minister, usually read Sabbath or two before.
and to hear the joyous sound of God save
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" Alas,
our roguish hearts were more upon the dinner
and its appendages. than upon that thankful
heart it should have been our object to at
tain.


With all the ansterity and blue tinge,, YOU
speak OF, Mr.. Editor, the season with the Pill
grim descendants was religious as it should be !;
in word, "a social home festival" as you
say it is now, and combined, we think that
they made the day answer as good purpose
as II is now made to do; then, and now, prob
ably, far less meeting its original design as a
season OF true thankfulness to the Father of
all our mercies." But let us all endeavor to
improve upon the past.


Respectfully Yours, LW.


Cumberland Centre, Dec. 1.
Year: 1862

III Is about twenty years since one of the
members of the present Cabinet was a MEM
Der of Congress from distant Western State
de had the usual right of designating single
candidate for admission to the West Point
Academy. The applications made to him for
vacancy which then existed were not many.
but among them letter from a boy of sixteen
years of age who, without any ACCOMMODATING
recommendations or references, asked the ap-
pointnent for himself The member dismiss
ed the appeal from his mind with perhaps a
passing thought of the forwardness and impu
dence of the STRIPPING who could aspire to such
place on no other grounds than his own de-
sire TO get good education at the public ex-
pense.


But happening short time afterwards to
be In the little village from whence the letter
was mailed, the incident was called 10 his
memory, and he thought he would beguile the
lew hours OF leisure that he had by looking up
tbe ambitious youth. He made his way by
amt oil much inquiry, TO small tailor's shop
on the outskirts of the town, and when he was
admitted at the door he found lad sitting
cross-legged upon the tailor's bench. meudin9
a rent in an old pair of pantaloons But this
lad had another occupation besides his manual
toll. Near by, on a small block of wood. rest
ed book of abstruse science. to which he
turned his eyes whenever they could be trans
lerred from the work in his hands, The mem
Der accosted him by the name given in the let
ter, and the lad replied / am the person.
You wish then to be appointed a cadet at
West Point?' do" he reioined. Why?v
asked the Congressman. Because, answer
ed the tailor youth, feel thatI was born for
something better than mending old clothes.''-
The member talked further with him. and was
SO pleased with his frankness, his spirit. and
the rare intelligence he evinced. that he pro-
c ured him the appointment


The member is now Secretary Smith. of In
diana, and the youth Gen. Burnside. Comman-
der-in-Chief of the army of the Potomac. We
would not be surprised If that boy-an excel
lent specimen of our northern mudsills-were
destined to hoist the American flag to its old
place on the Capitol at Richmond York
Evening Post.
Year: 1862

we are now prepared to supply the trade in large or
snlaiI quantities with an article which we warrant
superior to any offered in the market it being the


ONLY RELIABLE MATCH IN THE vABKry
Year: 1862

and coercion are necessary It's said that there
are some who are remiss and shirk from their
duty. Let the takers and writers we are speak
ing of direct their efforts to bring these laggards
M to the mark, and not commit the injustice Of
dealing harshly with the many willing, on ac-
count of the few unwilling. There are men
who, If out Of prison, will steal; they ought to
be put in prison, but it is not necessary, there
fore, to put all the community into confinement,
the honest portion included.


There is Of course no intention or desire among
any party in the Confederacy, to endanger the
sacred institutions of our liberty, but in the heat
Of contest, in the excitement caused by the
events of the war, warm and impulsive natures
are apt to think more Of the means at hand. than
Of the object that lies in the distance 1t should
be the aim of the press to correct this very natu-
raj tendency, and to call attention back to those
sacred and lofty principles which our fathers bled
to establish, and which it is our stern determine
ton to maintain and perpetuate
Year: 1862

We are indebted to AssistanfAdjutant Gene
raj Geo. Williamson, for the following official
tabular statement Of the killed, wounded ana
missing. in the lst corps, whchis complete, eI-
cept as to the cavalry of Lieutenant Colonel
Brewer aud Colonel Lindsay. From the report
1t will be seen that this corps bore its fair share
of tie perils Of the field, and the people Of the
State which furnished the troops should be sat
isfed with the gallantry of their sons, that led
them 10 endure such a serious loss:
Year: 1862

The Boston Traveller, in mentioning the
death of the late Abel Sparks, of that city,
tells this incident of his courtship. 1t seems
that Mr. Sparks was raised in Vermont, and
was a fine, intelligent looking young man,
self-educated, and gentleman by nature
For one year he was employed by wealthy
Quaker near Boston, as hired man on the
farm, and he fell in love with the only daugh-
ter of his employer. She returned his love
but the father refused to sanction their init
macy-in short, resolutely opposed it-and
the daughter dare not disobey-that is to
say, she dare not disobey openly. She met
her lover 'by moonlight while she pretended
never to see hiul-and she pined and wasted
in spite of herself. She was really in love-
state OF 'sighs and tears which women Of
tener reach in imagination than in reality
The time passed on and the rose on Mary's
damask check passed off, She let no con-
cealment, like worm in the bud,' prey on
that damask cheek, however; but when her
father asked her why she pined, she always
tcld him. The old gentleman was a widow
er, and loved his girl dearly. Had it been a
widowed mother who had Mary in charge, a
womans pride never would have given way
but the honest old Quaker saw that his
daughters heart was really set upon the


match, and he surprised her one day by


breaking out-'Mary, rather than nope to


death, thee had better marry as soon as thee


chooses, and who thee p.eases.'


And then what did Mary? Wait till the


birds of the air had told her swain of the


change, or until her father had time to alter


his mind again Not bit of it. She clap
ped her neat plain bonnet on her head, walk
ed directly into the street, and then as di
rectly to the house of a widow lady where
) her lover was then boarding. She walked
, into the house without knocking knock
, ing was not then fashionable-ands she fount
the family just sitting down to dinner. Som'
, little commotion was exhibited at so unex
| pected an apparition as the heiress in tn
widows cottage, but she needed it not. Abe
Year: 1862

% Though we may send sample numbers
of the Press to gentlemen who are not sub
scribers, they need not fear that we intend to
press it upon them. We do not intend to take
advantage of them. We hope to receive the
names of many such, however, as regular sub
scribers.
Year: 1862

sy1 We feel grateful TO those of our Week
ly contemporaries who have published the pro-
spectus of the Press, and have entered their
names on the Daily list II any such have es-
capped our notice we hope they will give us
prompt information ofthe fact. To those pub
fishers who have kindly sent us their issues
during our season of preparation we feel es-
pecially grateful.
Year: 1862

EPsILoN.-Your welcome favor shall appear
tomorrow.


Several letters received too late for to-day.
Our thanks are due to the writers. We hope
our friends in the various sections of the State
will not be backward in writing for the Press.
We want good correspondent in every town
Year: 1862

DoN'r PUT on NO EXTRAS "A wager was
made few days since on board of a steam
boat between a couple of jokers,- one of whom,
pointing t, an extremely ugly man, bet a
bottle of wine that an ugier customer could
not be produced. The other had seen one of
the fremen as he had come on board the
boat-a man whose face was screwed out of
all shape-at once took up the bet and start
ed down stairs for his man. The joker had
an impediment in his speech, but he never
theless soon made known his business to the
fireman, and obtained his consent to show
himself to decide the wager. When inside
the social hall, the ugly man. whose nose
was on one side and his face and his eyes on
the other, began to screw and work them
about to give his face greater degree of
ugliness.


. S-s-stop," said his backer. "do MT put
on 900 extras. St-st.stand as the Lo-ord
made you-you c-a-a-nt be beat ~ The
other acknowledged that he had lost, and
paid the wager.
Year: 1862

DEATH OF FIELD MARSHAL NUGENr.-Field
Marshal Count Nugent, who entered the
Austrian service over half a century ago, is
reported dead. lie was born in Ireland in
lt71, and lived to the venerable ase'of S5.
lie was distinguished by his gaantry on every
field and rose by merit alone to be Field
Marshal, aid de-camp to the Emperor, and a
noble of the first class. He had important
commands in all the campaigns during the
wars of the first Napoleon and proved him.
self an able, faithful AND devoted friend of
the House of Hapsburg. He enjoyed the
intimate friendship and implicit confidence of
the several Emperors uuder whom he served
Of all the distinguished soldiers that Ireland
has furnished to the world, none was braver.
or better, or cherished during his youth, man
hood and old age, warmer affection for the
land of his birth than Field Marshal Nugent


We believe the deceased was of the En-
bassy that accompanied Maria Louisa from
Vienna to Paris on the occasion of her mar
riage to Napoleon. He he mas held high and
responsible positions in the Austrian Cabinet
and army; and at the time of his demise
was in command of the army at Vienna. A
dashing exploit that for moment relieved
the series of disasters that befel the Austrian
army during the last Italian war. was achiev-
ed by Nugent, when in face of the enemy he
took advantage of an Island in the Ticino
btidged the river and turned the position Of
the French.


Field Marshal Nugent in every position in
which he was placed. acquired himself the
highest distinction and reflected by his con.
dcct, the greatest honor on his race and the
land of his birth. Peace be to his ashes.-
Monitor.
Year: 1862

New JERSEY No. IA late number ofthe
Newark Daily Advertiser says:


Under the first call of the President for sew.
enty-fve thousand men to serve for three
months, it is true that New jersey was not
the first to send an isolated regiment into
the field, but was the first to send her iul
compliment, and the only one to send them
forward in one body, fully armed and equip
ed.


As was the case in response to the call for
the three months service, so also to that for
five hundred thousand men for three years.
New Jersey was the first OF all the States to
send to the field her full quota


Again Under the call of July I'd, for
500, 900, men for three years of the war,
New Jersey has furnished her entire allot-
ment, all her regiments under it being now
in the field and confronting the enemy in
active service. This is the case with no 9TH
er State and Jerseymen have the proud sat-
isfaetion of knowing that through the admir-
able though quiet management of our author
tiles. and the prompt loyalty of our people,
we have been the first and only State to place
our whole allotment under this call in front
of the now envading enemy.


And lastly, in answer to the Presidents or
der for draft OF 300, 900 men, New Jersey
is again the first to respond, and that with
out recourse to drafting-but by volunteer
ing. Promptly, on the I'd of this month, the
day designated by the Presidents order for
draft in all the States, messenger left Trer-
ton on the part of the Cover or, to inform
the Government that New Jersey had raised
her quota Of 10, AS men, and they were then
in their several camps, subject to its com
mand
Year: 1862

ALL through The West, with exceptions,
and in some of the western counties in Mas
saehusetts, the women are helping at the
harvest, IN order that their husbands and
sons may volunteer for the war.