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Year: 1862

CURRANTs PREsERvED-Take ripe
currants free from stems weigh them,
and take the same weight of sugar; put
a teacup of sugar to each pound of it;
boil the syrup till it is hot and clear
then turn it over the fruit; let it remain
one night; then set it over the fire, and
boil gently until they are cooked and
clear; take them into the jars or pots
with skinner, boil the syrup until rich
and thick, then pour it over the fruit
Currants may be preserved with ten
pounds of fruit to seven of sugar. Take
the stems from seven pounds of the cur
rants, and crush and press the juice from
the remaining three pounds; put them
into the hot syrup, and boil until rich
and thick ; put it in pots or jars, and the
next day secure as directed.
Year: 1862

AS people usually sprinkle the floors
before sweeping them, says an old bach
elor, so some ladies sprinkle their hus-
bands with tears in order that they may
sweep the cash out of their pockets.


The meanest man in the world is living
in New Jersey. In helping him out OF
the river once, man tore the collar oi
his coat. The next day he sued him fol-
assault and battery.
Year: 1862

To PRESERVE STRAWBERRIES TO
two pounds Of fine large strawberries add
two pounds of powdered sugar, and put
them in preserving kettle, over a slow
fire, TIL the sugar is melted; then boil
them precisely twenty minutes, as fast
as possible, have ready number of small
jars, and put the fruit in boiling hot
Cork and seal the jars Immediately, and
keep them through the summer in cold,
dry cellar. The jars must be heated
before the hot fruit is poured in, other
wise they will break.


When was beef.tea first made in Eng
land? When Henry the Eighth dis
solved the Pope's bull.


1t is no misfortune for a nice young
woman to lose her good name if nice
young man gives her better.


a young girl of the delicate variety
tainted the ether day when told that gun
barrels were often exhibited without
breeches.


"Now, mind you," whispered servant
girl to her neighbor, 81 don't say as how
missus drinks; but between you and l,
the decanter wont keep full all day"
Year: 1862

HUMAN LIFE.-Men seldom think Of
the great event of death until the shad-
ows fall across their own path, hiding
forever from their eyes the traces Of loved
ones whose living smiles were the sun
light of existence Death is the great
antagonist of life, and the thought of the
cold tomb is the skeleton Of all feasts.
We do not want to go through the dark
valley, although It's passage may lead to
Paradise and with Charles Lamb, we dc
not want to lie down in the muddy grave,
even with kings and princes for our bed
fellows. But the fat of nature is mex
orable. There is no appeal from the great
law which dooms us to dust We -four.
lsh and fade as the leaves Of the forest
and the flowers that bloom and wlther in
day have not frazier hope CT life than
the mightiest monarch that ever shook
the earth with his footsteps. Genera


tions Of men appear and vanish as the
grass, and the countless multitude which
fills the world to-day, will tomorrow dis
appear as the footsteps on the shore.
Year: 1862

ANOTHER HERo.-The war is bring
ing heroes to light. not only among the
whites, but among the blacks. The col
ored pilot of Charleston is one of the first
named. Here is another:


when Burnside unfurled the Stars
and Stripes in sight of Roanoke, he saw a
little canoe padding off to him, which
held single black man and in that con-
traband hand victory was brought to the
Army of the United States of America,
led by Burnside. He came to the Rhode
Island General, and said: This is deep
water, and that is shoal this is swamp,
this is firm land and that is wood there
are four thousand men here, and one thou,
sand there; a cannon here, redoubt
there The whole country was mapped
out as an engineer could not have done
it in month, in the memory of that man
And Burnside was loyal to humanity, and
believed him. Dlsloyal to the Northern
pulpit, disloyal to the prejudice of race,
he was loyal to the instincts Of our COM
mon nature-knew that man would tell
him the truth, and obeyed him. The
soldiers forded where the negro bade them.
the vessels anchored in the deep water
he pointed out, and that victory was plan
ned, if there was any strategy about it
in the brain of that contraband, and to.
day he stands at the right hand of Burn
side, clad in uniform, long before Hun,
ter armed a negro, with the pledge of the
General that as long as he lives and has
anything to cat, the man who gave him
Roanoke shall have a loaf"
Year: 1862

*x*Devoted to the cause of fRepublicanism,
the interests of Agriculture, the advancement
Of Education, and the best good of Potter
county. Owning no guide except that of
Principle, it will endeaver to aid in the work
of more fully Freedomizing our Country.


ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the following
Year: 1862

A SCENE AT REvIEw.--There was q
beautiful instance of flne borsemanship dis
played al late review held at Vienna, on
The occasion Of the fiftieth anniversary of
the establishment of the military order Of
the Maria Theresa, when some thirty thou
sand cavalry we're 10 line. A little child in
the font row of the spectators, becoming
frightened rushed forward just as a squad
ron of hussars were charging at full tilt
swooping down with maddening velocity
almost on the child. Terror paralyzed alike
the spectators and the mother, while the
lovely and amiable Empress almost tainted
with horror. for the child's destruction
seemed inevitable. The little one was al.
most under the horses feet-another instant
would have sealed it's doom-when hussar
without lessening his speed or loosening his
hold, threw himeelf along his horse's neck
and seizing the child, placed 1t in safety in
front Of his saddle, without so much rs
changing the pace or breaking the align
ment in the least. A hundred thousand
voices hailed with pride and joy the deed,
while two voices could but sob their graft
tude: the one a molher's-the other, that
of her sympathisng and beloved Empress
A proud moment that must have been for
the hussar when his Emperor, taking the
enameled cross of merit attached II TO his
breast-a proud moment alike for the SOW
ereign aud the MANI Harper's Mag.
Year: 1862

SLEEPING ON PIcKETs.-"As for sleeping
on picket" said Mrs. Partington, TO the
three months volunteer who had dropped
in to see her, Il don't see how they can do
it without hurting 'em. Sleeping on post
would be a great deal more sensible, un-
less there's a nail in it, which might be
preiudicious to the uniform. Every one to
his taste, and such things as where man
shall sleep is at his own auction"
Year: 1862

CONG TO REsr.-Did you ever know child,
though half dead with play, who was willing
to go,to bed How they will wink, open their
poor eyes, and stare about, and liDger round
the bright lamps, and plead for reprieve,
s.just little longer, just five ten minute ~
Time will cure them of that soon enough,
poor things, SO don't try to teach them the les
son now. Let them sssit up,'' before the evil
days come when sleep is the most coveted boon
on earth when they dread nothing much
as waking to a new day, and its repetition of
weary struggles with wrong and wrong doors,
lighted by glimpses OF sunshine so few and
so transient. Crowd into the children's in
scect-lie all the happiness you can, that they
may have that at least, to look back upon,
when they have no longer the wish or the pow
er to sssit up.''
Year: 1862

A MOTHERS KIss.-A day or two since, a
ragged and dirty looking boy, fourteen years
of age. pleaded guilty in the superior criminal
court to having fired a building. For two
years past, since the death of his mother, he
had wandered around the streets vagrant,
without home or human being to care for
him, and he had become in every respect a
bad boy.'' A gentleman and lady interested
themselves in his behalf, and the latter took
him one side to question him. She talk ed
with him kindly, but without making the
slightest impression upon his feelings. and to
all she had said he manifest the greatest lndif-
ference, until she asked him if no one ever
kissed him. This simple inquiry proved too
much for HIM, and bursting into tears replied
ssNo one since my mother kissed me-" That
one thought of his poor, dead mother, the
only being, perhaps, who had ever spoken to
him kindly before, touched him to his heart,
a hardened young criminal as he was. This
little incident caused other tears than his
Boston Recorder.
Year: 1862

Some music teacher once wrote that the
art OF playing on violin requires the nj
cest perception, and the most sensibilily OF
any art in the known world" Upon which
&c The art of publishing newspaper, and ma
king it pay, and at the same time have 1t
please everybody, beats fddlin' higher than
a kite
Year: 1862

DON'T WRITE THERE.-eDon't write thcre,'
said one to lad who was writing with dia-
mond pen on pane of glass in the window
of hotel. ssWhy not 2" was the reply. ssBe-
cause you can't rub it out" There are other
things which men should not do, because they
cannot rub them out. A heart is aching for
and cold, perhaps heartIess
word is spoken. The impression may be more
durable than the diamond upon the glass.
The inscription on the glass may be destroyed
by the fracture of the glass, but the impress
sion on the heart may last forever. On many
mind and many heart there are sad inscrip-
tons, deeply engraved, which no effort can
on the minds of others.
Year: 1862

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TIE NEW METAL, THALLIUM.-Mr. Crookes,
the discoverer of this new metal, gives the
following description of it in the Proceeding
of the Royal Society :-ssThallium in the pure
state is heavy metal, bearing a remarkable
| resemblance to lead in its physical properties.
Its specific gravity is, however, higher-about
II. The freshly scraped surface has brill


liant metallic lust.r not quite SO blue in color
as lead, and If furnishes more rapidly than this
latter metal. 1t is very soft, being readily cut
with knife and indented with the nail it
may also be hammered out and drawn into
wire, but has not much tenacity in this form.
II easily marks paper. The fusipg point is
below redness, and with care several pieces
may be melted together and cast into one
lump. There is, however, generally a loss in
this operation, owing to its rapid oxydatiou.
The metal itself does not appear to be sensibly
volatile below red heat. l have made no
special attempts at present to determine the
atomic weight, although from two estimations
OF the amount OF sulphur in the sulphide it
appears TO be very heavy. The figures OBJ
tanned did not, however, agree well enough to
enable me to speak more definitely on this
point than that be lieve it to be above 100.
may mention that | obtained this element
in the pure metallic state and exhibited it to
several friends as early as January last, and
should then have published account of il,
had it not been for the reasons already men,
toned. Thalium is soluble in nitric, hydro
chioric, and sulphuric acids, the former at
tacking it with greatest energy with evolution
of red yaDors''
Year: 1862

10th Of October 1891 Those refusing such oath
will be rejected as aliens


Any neglect on the part OF the army volunteer
geons Of their duties the sick wounded will be
ported to headquarters immediately


1t is stated that Of tho medical officers prisoners
OF war; have failed to give proper attention to their
sick and wounded. In OF this kind the medical
officers viii 10 deprived of ther parole and placed in
close confinement upon the facts being reported to head
Quarters
Year: 1862

Hon. GREEN ADAMS, Auditor Of the Treasury
for the Post Offics Department, has returned
from his trip to Kentucky, and is again in the
performance OF the duties of his Office. We
are pleased to embrace this occasion to ac-
knowledge the capacity and efficiency Of q
faithful public Cficer, than whom, none other
connected with the Department, is more gen.
tlemanly In the treatment of those who have
business with the public Offices. We are also
grati6pd to learn Of the Auditors success, since
his connection with this Bureau, in bringing up
its business to the deservedly high standard
which II now maintains.
Year: 1862

The civil war still exists, and for aught we
can now see, II Is likely to exist for long
time to come. Much speculation and copjec-
turc as TO the probable time when the rebel
lion will be crushed, has continued from day
t. day, and the man does not live who
can penetrate the future and tell when peace
shall be restored to our distracted country
There are many reasons for this delay in crush
ing out treason. and almost every man has
one of his own. One will tell you It is the
politicians another, that we havnt men
enough others, still, that It is this or that
general. In short, there.is every variety Of
opinion expressed. We shall not undertake
in this connection to give full discussion Of
this vexed topic. 1t is oil we can now find
space or time to consider, viz the one reason
why the rebellion is not put down.


The reason is political one. The politi.
clans are the guilty parties. Don't misunder.
stand us: we don't mean the Republican pol.
iticians. No Republican and no Republican
politician has had any other interest than to
make short and quick war Of this; and hence


in every loyal State we find three fourths Of
all the soldiers gone to the war to be Repub.
licans. With the officers It 10 quite otherwise
50, also, is It with contractors. Both Of these
classes come largely from the Democratic OF
Hunker school, and It needs no prophets ken
to discover the wherefore Of certain delays.


While we would make no invidious charges;
while we are free to admit that among the
masses Of the Democratic party there are many
thousands Of as loyal men as can be found in
the country, and while we believe that there
are some truly loyal and patriotic officers, both
high and low, from the Democratic party, still
it is nevertheless true, that this war has been
and is being protracted by pro-slavery Hun.
ker Democratic politicians.


This fact is too patent to be longer over.
looked by even the most superficial observer.
We see in the recent Western elections the OBJ
vious fruits Of this delay. The men who plan
ned this very do-nothing policy to which our
army has been subjected, did it for purpose,
and we shall make this appear in future ar
tices.
Year: 1862

Gen. Hunter is an extensive slave
holder, was born and reared in a Slave
State, and knows slaves and slavery
more thoroughly than almost any man
who talks about them. He is by educa-
ton and choice a soldier of the Repub
lie, and probably never voted in his life,
nor took any active part in politics.
Year: 1862

Worcester's new dictionary gives the
following passage in illustration of the
amount Of hard labor that is required
Of the convenient little word to get: l
got on horseback within ten minutes
after got your letter. When 1 got to
Canterbury, l got chaise for town but
I got wet through before got to Canter-
bury, and / got such cold that
shall not be able to get rid of it in a
hurry. got to the treasury about
noon, but first of all got shaved and
dressed. l soon got into the secret of
getting memorial before the Board,
but l could not get one the next morn
ing. AS soon as I got back to my inn,
got my supper and got to bed. 1t was
not long before | got to sleep. When I
got mp in the morning, got my break
fast, and then l got myself dressed, that
| might get out in time to get an answer
to my memorial. AS soon as got it,
got into the chaise, and got to Canter-
bury by three and got home. have
got othing for you; adiou.
Year: 1862

RE7URS TIE 8ooKs--A large number Of
hooks, taken from the Librlry Of the
Young Mems Association By members, are
not yet returned, and very many have been
out over year The Managers contemplate
publishing the names Of The delinqucnts in
their Annual Report, soon to be issued and
those who haye books and do not wish to be
l'ut in the delinquent list, are advised to look
them up and return them as soon as possible.
Year: 1862

. re- The reader must excuse the meagre
amount Of reading matter in this weeks
paper. The election and job work occu-
pied large portion of our time, besides
being behind-hand for several weeks. in
addition. Perhaps We will have to treat
the reader to smother "slim" number; for


We want to get back to or regular day


Of publication, without missing an issue,
Year: 1862

~ The Mongrel pspsrs. during the
late canvass. made their entire issue
against Gen. Lsne. and are beaten worse
than party was ever before beaten in the
State. Are they willing to accept it q
. Lane triumph? ? It will be SO regarded,
and not without some plausible grounds.
Year: 1862

! Sald young person TO a lady recently,
who sat holding her child What good is all
your education going to do you ? You have
spent much time in study, graduated with
high honors, learned music and painting, and
onIy married farmer. Why did you not
teach school or DO something 10 benefit the
world with your talents or, If you choose to
marry, why not take a teacher, a clergyman
or some professional man But as it is, you
did not need no much learning for farmers
wife. The lady made the following reply


You do not look az far as do into the fu.
ture. Do you see this boy on my lap |
need all the study, all the dlscp inc, both of
mind and body, that could possibly get, in
order that may train him Alright You SEE
have the iirs, impressions to make on the
fair blank Of his poor heart, aud unless my
own mind was first Gu tivsted, my own heart
first purified, how could | we'll perform the


task now placed before me ? And do you
aot suppose that farmers have tastes and
hearts like other men, even if they hold the
pillow and till the soil for their support? Do
you not suppose their minds are j-st as sus-
ceptble oil cultivation as other men? Have
they no love oil the beautiful in art or nature
or does tie evening hour never pass pleas
antly with them When they gather arourd the
piano after the days labor is finished .? Oh,
my young friend, you have made sad mis-
take in your reckoning. OF all occupations
give me that Of farmer. Ii is the most
hcalthful, his lite is free from care, his sleep
is sweeter, his treasures safer. A farmer
need not be the slave OF any, for he has none
to please but himself Not so with almost
any tradesman mechanic or professional men,


They have more or less to do with the world
at large, and have all manner OF persous to
deal with so that they have need of the pa
thence of Job to live. They are we'll aware
hey must not freely speak their minds at all
times, if they do they will lose custom, for
they depend upon the people for u living,
therefore they are the servants OF all. Theu
what can be desired more? What is more
peaceful, prosperous, honest, healthtu and
happy, thsna farmers life and farmers wife
Year: 1862

Below We print the talk Of President Lincoln
the other day with cOme eolored gentlemen in
reference to colonization. The subject is one OF
great Importance, and We are glad to see the
President opening the discussion
Year: 1862

The above is only given us the Substance OF
the Presidents remarks.


The Chairman of the delegation briefly re.
piled that " they would hold consultation and
IN short time give an answer The Presl'
dent said, " Take your inll time--no hurry at
all.


The delegation then withdrew.
Year: 1862

PRISONERS OF WA9.-A military
gentleman whose business it 10 to provide
quarters for the prisoners taken. will be here
In short time With . view Of investigating
the propristy Of making this . depot for cap
tursd chivaIry. He was expected last night
but did not arrive. We hardly think The
prospect is flsstsring, but that may be left "a
the judgment oi those who understand such
matters better than We do
Year: 1862




EDS. STATESMAN Il have before me q great
many letters from friends in various parts of the
lower country, asking my advice in regard to
moving to this valley. Now, to answer all of
these communications separately would be an
endless, or at least very tedious undertaking
l therefore propose, through your paper to give
my friends elsewhere my opinions OF this country
and its advantages over other countries.


The heathfulness of this country is, think,
equal to that of any other valley on the Pacific
coast This Judge from my acquaintance with
the people here, and the health of my own fami-
ly, none of whom have had days sickness du-
ring the three years that have resided here
The climate I consider as pleasant as l ever re-
sided in. The spring, summer and fall seasons
are delightful and the winter, with the excep
ton of from two weeks to two months, can not
be equaled anywhere north of Mexico.


.4gricuItlwe- is no question in my mind
but this valley offers greater inducements to the
farmer than any other point on the continent
Our market prices compared with those of any
other market prove this beyond question; and
will only add that the expense of producing
here is not so great, and never has been since |
have resided here, as it is in the Willamette val
ley


F51tlt Raising This question has not been
satisfactorily settled by experiment, as but few
fruit trees have yet arrived at an age 70 bear fru
but those that have produce abundantly and
finely favored fruit. Small fruits-currants
gooseberries strawberries, blackbeTies, raspber-
ries, &c., have produced to great perfection.
Grapes grow well and last year my Los Angeles
grapes produced well, and l believe they will
be very profitable addition to my garden.


Vegetables yield well and are of as fine flavor
as can be produced anywhere.


Stock GrO,0ing is the natural resource of the
country 1t is that business which nature has best
fitted this country for. AS for excellence of grass
and water has no equal.


Manufacturing will some day be an import
ant branch of industry here. Water-power is
abundant, and when the material for manufactur-
ing the various articles in demand is produced
here capitalists will soon be found that will in
vest in this branch of business.


Mechanics find ready employment at nearly
all branches of business, at moderate wages


Professional Men would find their services in
good demand, as our thriving settlement is not
overstocked with that class of men yet


To conclude, l will say to men of all trades
and professions that l believe this upper coun-
try is the place AS gentleman ofmy acqant-
ance lately said, in comparing this country with
others, Nature has failed to make better place
than Walla Walla." Being, as you may say sur
rounded by mining regions it is bound to be the
center of an immense trade; and produce will
always bring a good Price here


To the emigrant would say, there is a great
deal of unoccuped land in this valley which will
make good farms for the industrious farmer.


Yours, &C. A. B. ROBERTS.
Year: 1862

THE WAR-It is an extraordinary fact that,
while the pending military operations of the gov
ernment have assumed proportions which, as re-
CARDS the numbers actively engaged on each side,
place this contest in the rank of the most gigan-
tic wars known in authentic history, the great
movements of society, of industry and trade, with
in the loyal States move on in their accustomed
channels with comparatively little obstruction or
diversion. Never was such a mighty civil war
waged with so little interruption to all the great
branches Of human pursuit which engage the ac-
tivty of men in the various ranks of social and
business life in the Northern States.
Year: 1862

DIsAPPoNTED.-Therei is a singular report of
financial troubles Of a very remarkable sort
among the Southern merchants. When they
seeded and repudiated they expected to keep
all that they did not pay to northern creditors To
their astonishment and CONSERVATION, they are
now put upon oath, required to disclose what they
owe to the North, and to pay the amount over to
the rebel treasury under the sequestration act.
They had bargained for private emolument, not
for the public gains, and this demand drives them
into close quarters.