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Year: 1861

ME EDITOR We hear much in converse tion, and see much in print, about the blame ant responsibility which rests upon the North, fol the political troubles in which we are plunged In many instances this charge is repelled Ground is taken, and facts are brought to sus tain the position, that the leaders at the South the perverted public sentiment, there the rebel llous opposition to the constitutional workings of the Government, when crossing their fayorite ideas, is the grand cause which troubles our peo- pie and darkens our land. This is true At the same time, the North is in a manner responsi ble. By her public men who not only vilify, but lie about the party soon to come into power ;- by her public journals which spread these sent ments and SOW broadcast those seeds which neAer yield other fruit than dscord and stife by doughfaces, false to every principle of truth and patriotism, who represent the North and the Republican party as intensely hostile to the peo- pie and institutions of the South ;-who declare that the Administration which is to succeed the one whose imbecility alone marks it's existence will pervert the Constitution, and by law and power take from the slaveholding States their rights, their equality-all that is dear to them as sharers in a common Union. It is these false statements, aciyuly made,-for the authors and promulgators of them hnoac better, that assists in inflaming the ardent Southern m;nd and urging forward to treason and to ruin

 

 The popular Southern mind is not SC much tc blame for it's excited state of feeling. It has nc means of knowing but one side, or Of hearing but one version of the story. The fite-eaters anC rabid Secessonists control and exercise pow erfal influence over the public mind, and oul northern Judas Iscarots are lending their aid in the unholy cause.

 trust that the time is rot far distant when the Republican party can by its acts vindcate its principles, and give the lie to these state ments ofits intentions.

 l can, Mir. Editor, pardon and overlook the wild threats and warlike, traitorous preparations of the masses at the South, but have nc patience with, and would give no quarter to those men both North and South, who k,aou better, and who still persist in their present course. If the worst comes upon us, on the heads will rest the blame and the blood too, i that IS shed. DR. ICKzACK.
Year: 1861

A curOGS circumstance Is ObSefFaDle Tn a DOT tion of the writings of the author above mention ed, which it is possible may have been the resul of harmonious accident, and the author not ever subsequently, fully conscious of it. It is that they are written in blank verse, of irregular me ire and rythms. The passage properly divided into lines will stand thus:

 NElLY's FUNERAL.

 "And now the bcll-the bell She had so often heard by night and day,

 And listened to with solemn pleasure,

 Fen as living voice Rang it's rcmorseless tones for Ter, So young, so beautiful, so good.

 Decrepit age, and vigorous life, And blooming youth, and helpless infancy, Poured forth on crutches, in the pride o

 And health, in the full blush strength

 Of promise, the mere dawn of life To gather round her tomb. Old men were there

 Whose eyes were dim

 And senses failing Grandames, who might have died ten year ago, And still been old-the deaf, the blind the lame

 The palsied, The living dead in many shapes and forms, To see the closing of this early grave.

 What was the death it would shut in, To that which still could crawl $ creep about it 

 Pure as the new fallen snow

 That covered it; whose day on earth

 Had been as feeting. Under that porch, where she had sat when

 Heaven

 In mercy brought her to that peaceful spot, She passed again, and the old church

 Received her in it's quiet shade" Through the whole of the above only two un. important words have been omitted-in and its " grandames" has been substituted for grand mother" and cen" for almost" All that re- mains is exactly as in the original not single word traasposed, and the punctuation the same to the comma. The brief passage that concludes the funeral is profoundly beautiful. "Oh it is hard to take to heart The lessons that such deaths will teach,

 But let no man rejectl 1t,

 For it is one that all must learn, And is mighty, universal truth, When death strikes down the innocent $ young For every fragile form from which he lets

 The parting spirit free,

 A hundred virtues rise, In shapes of mercy, charity and love, To walk the world and bless it.

 Of every tear That sorrowing mortals shed on such greer Some geod is born, some gentler nature

 comes."

 Not a word in the original is changed in thu above quotation, which is worthy of the bes passages in Wordsworth. The following is iron the concluding paragraph of Nicaolas Niclk el6y": The grass was green above the dead boys grave Trodden by feet so small so light,

 That not daisy dropped its head

 Beneath their pressure. H Through all the spring and summer time GaTlands of fresh flowers wreathed by infan

 Rested upon the stone. lhands,
Year: 1861

There's something in kiss-though I cannot

 reveal it; It never comes amiss-not even when you steal

 it. You cannot taste kiss, and sure you cannot

 view it, But still there is bliss communicated through

 it. am well convinced there is certain some

 thing in it. Though Lut simple kiss-we wisely strive to

 win it. There's pleasure in kiss-f nothing else would

 prove it, It may be proved alone by this-all honest peo-

 pie love it.
Year: 1861

A FRAGMENT. A bird, a song, dream. a fower How sweetly they will come, And cheer us in a lonely hour With thoughts of those who roam. Perchancs they are not far away, But if they are not here, We love the golden memories That bring them still more near.
Year: 1861

A curious circumstance is observable in DOT ton of the writings of the author above mention ed, which it is possible may have been the result of harmonious accident and the author not even subsequently, fully conscious of it. It is that they are written in blank verse, of irregular me Ire and rythms The passage properly divided into lnes will stand thus
Year: 1861

chief magistrate, place themselves in power
and in clover, and all without being inter-
fered with. They would like to make war
and have no war in return. II there is to be
fighting, they wish to have II all on one side.
They would like to have sort Of triumphal
march over Northern necks, with drums
beating and banners flying. They inaugur-
ate war, carry their points with high hand,
and all the time beg that no coercion" be
used-denounce war, and declare that they
only wish to be let alone. The government
understands exactly what this means now,
and is determined that the South shall have
peace under its old nag-thc only flag under
which it can enjoy either peace or prosper
ity. These protests and catch-words have
lost their power to bamboozlc either the gov
ernment or the people, and no man not
traitor at heart ever uses them.
Year: 1861

A Washington Capitalist on :the
Southern COnfederacy--The South
ern Loan and Southern Business
From ne Philadelphia Nor,s american, March 80


We yesterday met a gentleman from
Washington, Southerner by birth, exten-
sigely known as a capitalist and banker
In order to obtain his viws relative to the
status on Southern Confederacy," we ask
ed questions, which were answered as fol-
lows


"You are acquainted with Mr. Riggs, the
Washington banker, sir 2'


Intimately. When at home see him
every day


9 Is there any truth in the statement that
he intends to take a portion of the South
ern loans ?"


Not Il word. He would not touch a
dollar of it, and for the simple reason that
he would lose it if he did"


ado you think that any Washington
banker will take it, or any part of it ?"


No sir. What is more, nobody outside
Of the Confederate States will touch it,
and the Secessionists have no money 20
spare. Tue Northern bankers will never
lend money to people who have done as the
Cotton States have done"


"Wln foreign capitalists do p
No, sir In my opinion people who
have seeded from the Government, and rob-
bed the Federal Union of its property, can
never obtain credit from anybody. They
may put an export duty of cent pound
Year: 1861

upon cotton; and. by so doing, raise rev.
enue of S26, 600, 900, but this money, after
ali, will come from their own pocket"


How so p


Because the necessities of the Cotton
States are such that they must sell. The
planters are too largely in debt to hold the
crop, and the aggregate is so large that the
brokers cannot do it. For this reason the
Southern ConfederacY must ultimately
bring up in bankruptcy. They cannot hold
together for more than year without pro-
ducing general ruin


4" Bat do you believe that they suffer as
much as we do ?"


Z" More. Their business has dwindled
away, and their railroad receipts have fallen
off forty per cent. There are enough good
men in the South 70 redeem it from the Sc
cessionists, and the time is not far distant
when this will be done"


We left the gentleman with the great sat-
isfaction of knowing that there is large
number of persons yet having confidence in
the sterling sense of the people, and in the
ultimate restoration of fraternity among the
people of all the States.
Year: 1861

Pure M a deira Win e ,
Imported and bottled by himself, for private and
medicinal use, the best Wine ever offered for sale
to the trade in bottles. This wine is warranted
perfectly pure.
Year: 1861

There is universal desire among the


slaves TO be free. Upon this point my in


quiries were particular, and always with


the same result. When we said to them


You don't want TO be free--your masters


say you DON'T" they manifested much in.


dgnation, answering, " We do want to he
| reeve want TO be for ourselves We


inquired further, /" Do the house slaves who


wear their masters clothes want 10 be free y
g We never heard of one who did not,


was the instant reply. There might be,
they said, some half crazy one who did not
care TO be free, but they had never seen
one. Even old men and old women with
crooked backs, who could hardly walk or
see, shared the same feeling. An intelli-
gent secessionist, Lewry, by name, who was
examined at headquarters, admitted that II
majority of the slaves wanted to be free.
The more intelligent the slave and the bet
ter he had been used the stronger this de-
sire seemed to be. ! remember one such
particularly, the most intelligent one In
Hampton, known as IAN influential darkey,"
(darkey being the familiar term applied TO
themselves.) He could read. was an ex-
horter in the church, and oiliciated in the
absence of the minister. lie would have
made competent juryman. His mistress
he said had been kind to him, and had never
spoken so harshly to him as captains Or
derly in the naval brigade had done, who
assumed one day to give him orders She
had let him work where he pleased, and he
was to bring her a fixed sum, and appro-
pirate the surplus to his own use. She
pleaded with him to go away from Hamp-
ton with her at the time of the exodus, bat
she would not force him to leave his family.
Sill he hated to be slave, he talked like
a philosopher about his rights. No captive
in the galleyS Of Algeirs. not Lafayette in
an Austrian dungeon, ever pined more for
free air. He had saved eighteen hundred
dollars of his surplus earnings IN attending
on persons al Old Point, and had spent IT
all in litigation to secure the freedom OF his
wife and children, belonging to another
master, whose will had emancipated them,
but was contested on the ground Of the IN
sanity Of the testator. lie had won a ver-
diet. but his lawyers told him they could
not obtain judgment upon it, as the judge
was unfavorable TO freedom,
Year: 1861




WEsAIcHEE MNEs.-The latest reports
from the Wenatchse mines appear to be
very favorable. While there is but little
said about them, there are nevertheless
parties there engaged in the business Of
mining Who arc doing weR. We make the
following extract from a letter, under date
Of 10Th iuatant. from ROcklund, opposite
tho Dalles:


"A man By the name Of Boutwell, left
this place yesterday for the Wenatchee
country. He tells me that be would not
take something handsome for his chances
I have seen plenty Of specimens from there
and ny impression is that the Wenatcbee
Is By far the best mining district. and / am
sure that 10 short time, we will be IN re-
ceipt Of gold dust There Is also a report
here that quartz lead has been struck on
EDgleS Creek, a small tributary Of the
Wenatchee These mines are only about
one huudred and City miles from here, and
probably the same distance from Seattle.D


There does not appear to have been much
dast come down as yet from the wenatchse
mines. from which We would infer that the
mining country is not very large, nor been
worked great deal.
Year: 1861

MEuco.-The minister to Mexico, Mr..
Corwin, will advocate a new policy during
his mission. His instructions are very full
in regard to the position the Government
will take, aud no time will be lost by Mr..
Corwin in trying to cOunteract the efforts
Of an agent from the Confederate States.
The policy of the present administration
will be to impress the Mexicaus that we
have no desire nor wish to annex any part
of their country, and to assure them that
we are willing to expressly stipulate this
in the most solemn and formal manner. In
return, q favorable political and CONNER
cial treaty is sought. Mr.. Corwin ought
to be very successful with Msxicans. He
gave. them aid and comfort during our war
with them.
Year: 1861

B@-Mr Lincoln and his Secretary Of
State, it appears, have issued proclama.
tion, calling upon the loyal States for an
army of 10000 men for the retaking Of all
the United States forts, arsenals, armories,
and other United States property seized BY
the Southern forces within the last few
months. We acknowledge, as we have said,
the Administrators legal authority to re-
cover, if it can, its property grasped by the
Southern spoilers, but its practical attempt
to exercise that right in the mode It pro-
poses, would, If there should be no effective
interpositioD, between the belligerent pow
ers, bring upon our whole country calami-
ties as awful as any recorded in modern or
in ancient history. Such caIamlties must
be averted if it is in the power Of wise aud
good and patriotic men to avert them. Aud
here comes, according to our solemn conVic-
tion, the mission of the Border Slave States.
We believe that the duty of these import
ant States is rendered plain and palpable in
the lurid and baleful light Of passing events.
If we were to go with the South, or If we
were to go with the North, the struggle be-
tween the two sections into which the whole
COuHLIJ hOulu Guell W ulNlu6u COulu nus
fail to bring on throughoutthe continent o
reign of blood and famine, and terror, that
would in all probility extend beyond the
years Of our lives and the lives Of our chill
dren.


In this dreadful exigency, the Border
Slave States, if they are wise, will take
their position firm and steadlast between
the North and the South, and in doing so
confer mighty blessing upon both, besides
securing their own comparative welfare and
prosperity. Let us Of the Border Slave
States, at the very earliest practical mo-
ment, band ourselves together for the pres
ervation of. peace, so far as in Us lies, be-
tween our Northern brethren and our
Southern brethren. Let US be the friends
Of both, but let us be independent of both.
They can declare war if they will, but we
shall have had no agency in the accursed
work, and we shall possess q right, q sacred
right, to prevent our soil from being stained
and polluted by it. We can say to the
United States Government that we occupy
a neutral territory, and that they shall not
send troops across it for the invasion Of the
South, and we can say to the Government
of the Confederate States that they shall
not send troops across it for the invasion of
the North. We can keep them apart until
they have time to recover from their excited
passions and return to their senses.-LOEt$
nile JoWyaak sts
Year: 1861

~ We are informed by q political let
ter from Skamania county, that the people
are entirely dissatisfied with the workings
and result Of the Shoshone Convention.
The writer says: THAT Convention treated
our delegate very meanly. Some take the
ground that they are not bound by the
Convention" This feeling is wide spread
and universal.
Year: 1861

B~The latest news from the Nez Perces
country is not SO favorable. The snow was
on the ground, and the weather was SO in
clement that the miners were unable to do
much in the way of prospecting and work
ing the claims. About 1000 miners were
on the ground.
Year: 1861

FIERCE CITY, May 9th, 1861.


Mn. Collins, Dear Sir:-I will write
you a few lines as the express leaves here
Tomorrow morning for Walla WalIa.
suppose there is quite one thousand men
here now. We have had high water here
for the last three weeks, owing to the rapid
melting Of the snow, but the water is run
ming down some now. Our company work.
ed three weeks in March and averaged from
50 to $l3 per day to the hand; but we had
snow and bad weather to contend with
There are great many men that come in
here disappointed with the mines, but the
largest portion of them remain here. 1t
has been very bad time to prospect this
spring, but we that have been here all win
ter are well satisfied with what we have
seen. am satisfied that the gold country
is extensive, but it will require much pa
tienee, perseverance, and hope to prospect
the mountains. Provisions are reasonable
enough here now, and l think will be all
summer. Wages are Eve dollars per day


Mr.. Fairchild is up here now, taking look
at the country, and l believe be is very
well pleased SO far. Pierce City is laid out,
and Is fast improving on the log cabin or
der Lumber is o scarce article here now,
all the whip saws in the country are in use,
lumber zoe per foot There is good
opening for saw mill here, but don't
like the business. Every thing here is new,
aud nearly every fellow that comes along
says, cant you tell me where to get good
claim" W. F. BAssETT.
Year: 1861

The following letters were received by
Mrs. Collins from her husband on Monday
night Mr.. Collins had started for the
mines more than week ago. The writer
of the FIRST is well known here, as one Of
the party who made the first discovery Of
gold in that district and the other is a
gentleman formerly connected in business
with O. Humasop. ESD. at the Dalles.--
Tao letters are both fair and candid state
ments Of the facts:
Year: 1861

NEEDLE WoRK.-Therc is some
thing extremely plearant, and even
touching-at least, of very sweet, soft,
and winning effect-distinguishing wo-
men from men. Our own sex is inca
pable of any such by-play aside from
the main business of life; but women,
be they of what earthly rank they may,
however gifted with intellect or genius,
or endowed with great beauty, have al
ways some little handiwork ready to
fill the tiny gap Of every vacant mo-
ment. A needle is familiar to the fin
gers of them all. A queen, no doubt,
plies it on occasion; the woman-poet
can use it as adroitly as her pen; the
woman's eye that has discovered new
star, turns from its glory to send the
polished little instrument cleaning
along the hem of her handkerchief or
to darn casual fray in her dress, and
they have greatly the advantage of us
in this respect. The slender thread of
silk or cotton keeps them united with
the small, familiar, gentle interests of
life the continually operating influen-
ces of which do so much for the health
of the character, and what would other
wise be dangerous accumulation Of
morbid sensibility. A vast deal ofhu-
man sympathy runs along this electric
line stretching from the throne to the
wicker chair of the humblest seam
stress, and keeping high and low in
species of communion with their kim
dred beings. Methinks it IS token of
gentle and healthy characteristics, when
women of high thoughts and accom-
plishments love to sew; especially rs
they are never more at home with their
own hearts than when so occupied
HDrtko,ne.
Year: 1861

We shall feel under obligations to any of
our friends who may from time to time ge,
possession of late Northern papers, If thew
will bring or send the same to this office.


We will also pay literally for such papers
to any one who will furnish us with them.
Year: 1861

How THEY GET NEWs.-Tho officers
Of the blookading fleet at New Orleans
receive late news by bottle express,
aoated down the Mississippi river, which
some Of their Union friends in New Or
leans and up the Mississippi send down
to them scaled This is a very good
idea, and the Union men throughoui
the South could use tho same means Of
giving correct information Of what is
going on without exposing themselves
at all to discovery. They should try
the experiment wherever the mode OF
conveying intelligence is available. All
that is going on at Richmond and al
Norfolk could be communicated night.
ly in this way.
Year: 1861

Tho carrying capacity Of the marine
feet, trading between Chicago aud
Eastern sea ports, is not far, it any, be-
low forty Ave million bushels Of grain,
yet the receipts Of produce at that port
for the present season has been so i'm
mense that this dset have been unable to
carry il of as fast as it accumulated
and at tho close of navigation will leave
at Chicago over three million bushels
of grain in store.
Year: 1861

An Experimental Shot.-We hap
pened to be present yesterday when
Mayor Baugh tested his alarm gun,
mounted Immediately opposite the
Exchange building. Several shots
We're discharged in the direction of
the point on the Arkansas shore,
about n mile and quarter mp the
river. They were thrown to the
place at which they were directed
with remarkable skill and accuracy.
We learn that our indefatigable may
or intends to mount alongside this
" dangerous customer four more
guns, forming most formidable and
destructive battery. This, in addi-
ton to the defcnses already made by
Gen. Pillow, will place the city of
Memphis i'll very safe condition
so safe that feet of fifty boarts
could not possibly run the gauntlet
without losing twothirds, if not their
entire number, boats and men.


Memphis Appea1.
Year: 1861

EouLpN'r Do IT.-An exchange paper tells
story of man in London, who determined
to spend all he made during the first year
in advertising. He soon found that 1t was
impossible, for the simple reason that the
more he advertised, the more he made, and,
after strenuous efforts to get rid of his money
in advertising, he had to give it up. lfyou
don't believe it, try it.
Year: 1861

On Saturday night, at about 10 o'clock, fire
broke out in an old shed on a lot next to A. A.
Maginnis' cotton seed oil cake factory, on Maga-
zine street, near Lafayette. This shed was partly
filled with barrels of oil, and some of them having
become ignited white flame of immense size
sprung up suddenly and fearfully. By the energy
of the tiremen much of the oil was removed and


in little while the fire was totally subdued. The
building was almost adjoining the rear of Odd Eel
lows Hall, and next to the Webster warehouse, on
Magazine street.


Between l and 2 o'clock yesterday morning the
cotton yard of the Merchants Cotton Press, at the
corner of Front Levee and Gaennie streets, suffered
by fire, the supposed work of an incendary. One
whole side of the yard was destroyed, with large
| quantity of cotton destroyed and damaged. Not
! meeting authoritative informants yesterday, we
cannot now give q reasonable estimate of the loss
| all we can say is, that the loss was heavy.


At O'Clock yesterday morning fire broke out
amid the cotton bales on the wharf No. S9, Third
District the same being part of the destined cargo
Of the ship Marmion. Five or six bales only were
| damaged before the flames were got under
Year: 1861

little son of Mr.. J. Ermon fell out of carriage
last evening, at the corner Of Magazine and
Josephine streets, and was very seriously injured.
So it was reported from the Fourth District per city
Telegraph.