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Year: 1865

So you are going to keep house, are you
said an elderly maiden to blushing bride.
Yes, was the reply.


Going to have girl, / suppose p


The newly made wife colored, and then
replied that she really didn't know wheth-
er it would be a girl or boy"
Year: 1865

The testimony of Henry s. Foote in re-
gard to the bArbAritiss inflicted upon our
soldiers In Southern prisons, and Of the
direct completely OF the rebel government
in deliberate scheme to starve them, in
order to render them Ineffective when ex-
changed, is the most positive evidence
that the JEFF Davis Administration had a
share in this infAmy that We have yet seen.
Il adds another item to the mass Of proofs
which convict the Southern government of
the most fendish and Infamous ssysgerv
known to the annals Of the world,
Year: 1865

VI WASHIhGTONl Juy 3.


Now that the conspiracy trial is over,
there will soon be some definite action con-
cerning the trial of JEFF Davis. If it should
be decided to try him for treason the pro-
ceedings will take place before q civil
tribunal; but from present indications it
is more than probable that he will be tried
before military commission, IS the leader
or instigstor of the conspiracy, for, it il
said in government quarters that there is
newly discovered proof against him in this
connection.
Year: 1865

Burton Harrison, private secretary to
JEFF Davis, is still incarcerated in the ar
ssnal, where he was brought Immediately
after the arrival of bis principal at Fortress
Monroe. The route he has taken in the
prison yard when taking his daily walk is
now obstructed by the graves of four GRIM
Year: 1865

herself to defend the temporal interests of the
Hoy- See The Holy answers by refusing to the
Govern ment of Napoleon III. the right OF inter
yeuing in the affairs of the Vatican, and the
Pope replies to the advice rendered him from
paris or elsewhere, that he alone has the right
of influencing princes and directing them in
measure of which he is the judge. Lastly, he
sets the adversaries of the temporal power and
the partisans of popular sovereignty upon the
same level. 1t is useless TO argue with such an
argument of ideas Were the Papal theory to
triumph the Pope would be in future not only the
head OF Catholcity but the master of kings and
empcfors We doubt that, with the exception OF
the ex-King, Francis H., and Queen Isabella,
MANY crowned heads will accept the domination
of the tiara
Year: 1865

The PIONEER SnoP.-Notice the business card
OF John D. Wales. He has returned from Wash
oe to permanently locate, satisfied that this is
better country. Is at the old stand, prepared to
do customers justice in the line Of either manu-
featuring or repairing Give him a trial
Year: 1865

The Lewiston Radiator says the STATES
MAN misrepresents the people of Walla
Walla county on the matter of Division
A very likely story We guess the people
of this county would soon set themselves
right on the question if they were misrepre-
sented. The Radiator is endeavoring to
make it appear that the people down this
way are all in favor of division; that they
are anxious to have the county attached to
the Lewiston Territory, but the STATES
MAN misrepresents them and therefore they
have to submit to the misrepresentation.
The editor of the Radiator has been study
ing law of late, and probably that helps him
to arrive at such profound conclusions. Sup
pose you look at the other side, "honest
Alonzo," and see ifyou cannot by a close ex-
animation, with the aid of your law books,
discover a slight error in your reckoning; for
it is barely possible that you are misrepre-
senting the people of Walla Walla county,
instead of the STATESMAN.
Year: 1865

It's pleasant when our friends are rich
To meet them day by day,
Or good or i'll, no matter which,
Provided they can pay,
But is there one, you answer not,
Who would or could avouch
Esteem for one who hadn't got
A dollar in his pouch
It's pleasant with our friends to dine,
To see them we'll arrayed,
To bumper them with costly wine,
For which themselves have paid;
To smoke with them, to drive about,
Share cup, caress and couch,
But who could know a man without
A dollar In his pouchl
On sea, on shore, they seem TO say
He's rich and can't be dull;
The gold within his P0rtemonnGis
They think can fill his SKULL.
Let mammOn reign, let genius rot,
Let love, wit, valOr crouch,
They say that he's the only man
Who has the dollars in his pouch.
The maids doth love the pleading swain
Who has at his command
A brown stone front, gOOdly train
OF equipage and land;
But let his fortune cease to smile
Ere love will cease to vouch
And shell exclaim "why can't he show
The dollars in his pouch ~
If our Savior should revisit earth,
The man of toll and care
Howe'er divine-whate'er his worth
How think you would he fare?
They d all exclaim, "imposter, / dare voueh
Think you Gods son would visit earth
Without a dollar in his pouchP'


MANHATTAN ISLAND.
Year: 1865

NEW AND FATAL DIsEAsE.-The Contra Costa
Gazette of January 7th, has the following


t'We learn that there are many and sudden
deaths occurring lately in the neighborhood of
Somersville, in our county. In spite of the skill
of the doctors the cases seem uniformly fatal
Some call this disease malignant scarlet fever.
The symptoms are thus described by Rev. j. j.
Powell, who lives in the vicinity: Cold chills
with a stiffness about the neck, and pain in the
back of the head Then violent fever which
lasts from one to three hours. During the fever
there is no pain After the fever the patient
seems to be drowsy and sleepy; then the col
lapse comes on, the lips turn pale, the eyes glis-
ten. After death the corpse becomes spotted
with brown and red spots, and the general ap-
pearance of the body is blueish. We trust there
will be no epidemic, but that the evil will yield
to more thorough examination and the appli-
cation Of appropriate remedies"
Year: 1865




Nor BAD.-Brick Pomeroy, of the La Crosse
Democrat, takes the result of the election good
naturedly, and comments upon it in the follow
ing jocose Style


"Election is over, and all who are sensible
people will once more be friends. The Repub-
licans say we abused them and their candidate.
So we did. And they abused us and our can
didate. Here we are even. They voted against
us. We voted against them. Here again we
are even. They spent time and money. So
did we. Here again we are even. And beside
it cost the Republicans more to elect their Pres
ident than he will ever benefit them. Here we
have the advantage. And again-tbousands
who have worked for Old Abe-beautiful Abe,
in hopes to be rewarded with office, will be dis
appointed, and for years feel sore at heart
Here we have them again. And still another.
They begun this war-let them be responsible
for its ending.


1t is bad time to swap horses when crossing
a stream. Let US rather drown the horse Let
him carry his load through The Republican
party has disarranged our finances. Let it rem
edy them Republicans are holding United
States Bonds. Let them hold them In four
years from now no one else will want to Re-
publicans want to free the negro. Let them do
it. They want to do the black a kindness
by sending him to war. All right Let none but
negroes 90 TO war. w e can stand II. Here we
are even. Republicans do not intend to go to
the war. We do not intend to go. Here we are
even again. They won't go to the war And we
won't. Here again we are even with them. The
Republicans will have no more drafts. And we
will have no more. Even again They intend
tc stay at home to watch Copperheads. We in
tend to stay at home to watch them. Here we
have them again Over two millions of men in
the North voted for Mcclellan. Quite band of
brothers, Here we have them again.
Year: 1865

No Mail or Express matter arrived from the
lower country this week, consequently we are
obligedto go to press with little news. Mail
and Express matter is expected to arrive here
on Sunday next.
Year: 1865

Convention was recently held in Philadel-
phia consisting of ministers of various religious
denominations, to form National Association
for the purpose of procuring an amendment
to the Constitution SO as to recognize the exist
ence of God and the Christian religion in it.
1t is understood to be movement preparatory
to annexing Church with Government affairs in
this country. 1t would be as well for most of
our latter day ministers to preach more of God
in their churches and less of politics, before at
tempting to meddle with the Constitution.
Year: 1865

RECENT rains along the foot of the noun
tains have cut up the roads in that vicinity
badly. Gentlemen from Coppei informs us
that the roads in that vicinity and thence to
Lewiston are in worse condition than they
have been for years, on account of being
washed out by the rains. None of these
heavy storms have visited this section.
Year: 1865

WHEN SHALL WE HAVE A BoAT?-This has been
the all absorbing topic of conversation in this
locality for the past several days. In fact there
has been little else to talk about. In the alb
sence of mails from below, above, or any other
point and from the lack of local excitements
or the transpring of events of general interest
to the community, everybody has gone to spec
ulating and cogitating as to the time when a
steamboat will probably arrive at Wallula.-
The general impression seems to be that boat
will reach there on Sunday next. Some say
that the river is entirely free from ice all the
way to the Dales, with late rise of four feet of
water and no impediments to navigation. 9th
ers assert that there has been no rise in the rv-
er at all, and that boat cannot make the trip
up until there is a rise. The statements are
set forth with great reliability, and founded up
on incontrovertble evidence, Notwithstanding
the fact that they conflict in every particular =
All are anxious for the early arrival of boat,
and especially that portion of or citizens who
are engaged in business pursuits.
Year: 1865

ANOTHER SEIRMIsH.-The soldiers sent to look
after the Indians on the Snake had another skir-
mish with them, the particulars of which we did
not learn. 1t is stated, however, that ten of the
Indians were killed and number of prisoners
and some stock were taken Whether there were
any casualties on the side of the troops we are
not informed. They got out of ammunition,
which, had the Indians known, they might have
easily won the fight Teams loaded with provi-
sions and ammunition were dispatched yesterday
from Fort Boise, and the men will probably be
kept there as long as there is a necessity for
them.-Ldaho Statesman.


The Overland Mail comes in regularly of late
within the schedule time, seven days from Salt
Lake. The bags have to be packed over the
mountains yet, the snow being too deep for We
hicles.-Lb.


Nat Cornish Co. intend to run their stage
line from here to Idaho City tri-weekly, in the
course of few days.--Ib
Year: 1865

The EAGLE CREEK DITcH.-The water will be
let into this ditch early next month, or as soon
as it quits freezing in the mountains A few
more weeks, then, will test the richness of the
Eagle Greek mines.
Year: 1865

FROM BURNT RIVERA correspondent, writ
ing from Burnt river under date of Feb. 10th,
says they have had three months of severe win
ter there, and it was showing fast at that date.
The snow was then three feet deep on a level.
Poor cattle were still dying off very fast there,
excepting those on Dixie Creek, near Scott's
Ranch, on the south hill-sides of which snow
has not lain on the ground thirty-six hours at a
time all winter.


An avalanche Of snow came down the noun
tain on Burnt River, near Wilson & Sicilys
ranch, on the 18th, and came near catching
some of Weston's freight teams. Three of his
teams had got past the slide before the snow
came down and two were just behind it. The
snow damned the river up anG flooded the bot
tom and road with snow and water to depth of
three to six feet, rendering the road impossible
for two or three days.


The bridges are not all completed on Burnt
River yet, but will be in short time. There is
but little travel on the road just now, but there
are ample accommodations for travellers.


Prospectors have found six and eight dollar
diggings on Burnt River this winter. The dig
gings are about mile above Scott ranch. Be-
sides this, several quartz ledges have been dis
covered, which prospect equally as well as the
Rockfellow lode. 1t is believed that Burnt
River will yet prove to be very rich mining
camp Prospectors will do well to give it trial.
Year: 1865

Don't take back word. Bummer and
his associates are bores AS to the logic
we have nothing to dispute; we only see the
matter in the original light. We give the
retort place for the want of any thing else
and declare him one of the bores to whom
we alluded, We knew of what we spoke
and said Just what we meant.
Year: 1865

State Of Michigan They eau plead this spe-
cislIy, or in some way bring il before the
Court and if the position is sound their re.
lease is assured.


Should it be feared, as intimsted in your
communication, that in this case fair and
impartial trial con not be had before the civil
tribunal would say that very liberal pro.
visions have been made under orr statutes in
reference to the selection Of jurors; the Court
in which the trial is had may grant a new
trial and after conviction, the defendants
If they consider themselves aggrieved by any
opinion, direction or Judgment OF the Court
may bring error,


Declining, therefore, to take any part in
this matter,


am, very respectfully, yours, &c,


HENRY Il. CRAPO,


Governor of Michigan.
Year: 1865

George w, Curtis writes In Hdrper's Maga-
kline for July: a -


"At the time Of our writing the most con-
spicuous offender ever capitally indicted in
this country sits alone in a spacious casemate
OF Fortress Monroe with only Bible upon his
table and two silent sent nels watching him by
day and night Perhaps as he sits there or
PAGES the floor he remembers the Iapless vic
Tins OF Andersonvile and Belle Isle, or recalls
the long horrors of the war which has smeared
so many lovely fields with blood. In the ter
Flble quiet of his prison does he ever ask him.
self whether it was worth while to dare such
grievous sorrow to his country for such a
causes Does he ever argue with himself that
even II the theory of state sovereignty was
true, 1t was not wise to assert 1t at such cost
Of misery, merely for the sake of perpetuating
something which must surpass any coneeiva-
BILE injustice of the nation toward a state ?
Has he never learned that many things NAV
be lawful which are not expedient and moth
ing but the most prolonged injustice of which
legal redress is hopeless is a worse Oppression
than the remedy OF civil war?


Technically be is political prisoner. As
Year: 1865

SMASHED 1T.-An old gentleman died
in the neighboring country, last week,
and q coffin was ordered at the Cabinet
Shop in this place, to be finished by ten
o'clock Saturday, as the funeral was to
take place at two. At the appointed time.
a couple of fellows came after the coffin.
but stopped at the "hole in the WALL" and
took on a heavy cargo of liquid corn.
They then started; but having fooled away
so much time in "moistening their clay"
in town as to render their looming to
time" matter of doubt. and feeling rath.
er merry withal, they put whip to their
horses, and dashed down the Bottom at
full speed. The hind wheel of the wagon
struck a log. almost upse.ting the vehicle.
and tumbling the coffin ont into the mud.
bottom upward. completely demolisbing
the lid. There was nothing now to BE-
done but return to town and have the
damage repaired. which was done in time
to allow the funeral to go on BY daylight,
and not q word of complaint escaped the
man who was waiting to be buried
Year: 1865

No NEws.-The telegraph has been
down on both sides Of us. all week, in
consequence Of storms and sleet; and that
nuisance called Buck has become
so unreliable that We seldom expect or
receive mail by it. Therefore, we are
compelled to send ont this issue without
the latest news. There may be stirring
times in the armies, for aught we know;
or there may be nothing at all doing.
There was q rumor. last week, that Sher-
man had crushed Cheatham, and whip
ped Johnston awfully; but whether the
rumor has been co6rmed or contradicted,
we are unable to say.
Year: 1865

son inflicted that day upon his country.
Had the tables been turned, and siml-
lar offence been committed by George h.
Pendleton, we can hardly believe these
journals would have laid their fingers on
their lips in hush of criticism. As for
ourselves, we trust We are habitually
slow to speak i'll of public men, even OF
sueh as deserve dispraise; and certainly
amoug the many journals which have
aforetime been hearty in their KIND words
of Andrew Johnson, none nave been
heartier than this sheet; but II sneh au
appearance as he presented during ms
inauguration is to pass without pnbiic


rebuke, in these aud in other newspaper
columns. then there no longer remains
to the press any duty of impartial eritl-
cism of men in official stations once or
twice, we have felt it Onr duty TO speak
against the excessive use of intoxicating


LIQUORS by some of onr public men. IL
may be asked-What is the duty OF 3


public journal in such casesi Ii seems


TO us plain. We hold that il public


man is drunken IN private company


he is not amenable tn comment IN the


newspapers; but if he DO drunken


while acting his part on public occasion,
his offence is against the pubhc.and should
never be shielded from the just punish


ment of public censure. In the Senate
chamber, on the 4th of March, in pres
ence of the Senate. of the House, OF the
Cabinet, of the Supreme Court, OF the di
plomatic corps, of the newspaper press.
of a gallery of ladies, and during part OF
the time) of the President OF the United
States and on an occasion To be forever
historic-the Vice President elect pre-
sented himself to take his solemn oath of
Office in state Of intoXication. Not ia
anger hut in sorrow do We chronicle this
fact. which We have no just right to sup
press. A few weeks ago, the speaker OF
the House of Representatives, was com
manded by vote of that body to al


minister public reprimand tn member
who had committed similar offence with
less conspicuous shame. II member OF
Congress is to he punished for snch an
act, shall the President of the Senate re-
main unpunishedl OF course, the Sen
ate will choose its own method of reach
ING the case: method which, We trust,
will be kind, moderate, and just. Baf,
mednwhile, il is the plain duty Of .Hr. John
son either to apologize for his conduct or TO
resign his Office. In the name OF an in
suited people, we are compelled to de
mand that so great an affront To the dig
nifty of the republic shall he made to
bear fit penalty, atonement and warn
ing.
Year: 1865

correspondence


WASHINGTON, March 6.


An unfortunate occurrence Oh Satur-
day has provoked many angry comments,
and Mr.. Thad Stevens declares that were
the House of representatives in session,
he should move the impeachment of a
public functiOnary. The only successful
prosecution of an impeachment by the
House before the Senate, sitting in Il
court of impeachment, of the United
States District Court for the district Of
New Hampshire, was tried for unjudicial
t-conduet, and -when it was alleged, in the
articles of impeachment, that he did
appear upon the bench, for the purpose
of administering Justice, in state Of to-
tai intoxication, produced by the free
and incorporate use OF ardent spirits
disgraceful to his own char
acter as judge, and degrading to the
honor and dignity of the United States. >"
Judge Pickering did not appear before
the court, but his son addressed plain
tive appeal, in which he declares that
his father, from his youth upward,
through long, laborious, and useful
life, and until he was visited by the most
awful dispensatiOn of Providence, the
loss of reason, he was unexceptiOnable in
his morals, remarkable for the purity OF
his habits and the deviations now com
plained of are irresistible evidence of the
deraugsd state of his mind" The Sen
ate was not disposed (this was in lSOD
TO receive the excuse of insanity. Evi-
dence was abducted To show that Judge
Pickering was addicted to intoxicatlOn,
and the deputy marshal of his court testl-
fled that Oh one occasion he directed the
court to be adjourned, saying Pm
damned drunk, but I'll be sober by morn
ing" Judge OlcOtt, i'll the course of his
evidence, testified: Judge Pickering
conversed Oh some subjects nationally,
but on Others was incoberent, wild. and
extravagant. believe that his insanity
was the cause of his incompetence, al
though it was not improbable that after
his insanity had produced degree of in
temperance, the intemperance and iDsan-
ity might act mutually as cause aud Of
feet " Tde Senate were not convinced
by this reasoning and decided, by vote
of twenty To six, that Judge Pickering
he removed from the Office of judge -
This lesson should not now be lost.
Year: 1865

The steamship Great Eastern sailed from
Eng land on Monday last. She has on board
seven thousand tuns Of cable, two thousand
tuns of cast iron, nine thousand five hundred
tuns of coal, and two thousand tuns of MAJ.
chiaerv-s SO saws a correspondent of the Chi
cago Times. This vessel bears the character
of being unlucky. She was hard to launch
"a number of the most powerful hydraulic
rams being required to push her into the
water Her management was bad, and
among other mishaps she got aground in the
harbor of New York, and suffered severe in
Jury. SO far she is considered huge failure,
and mammoth item on the wrong side Of
the ledger of her owners.


However, the Great Eastern may show
herself, as some men have shown themselves,
great on great occasions. The laying of the
Atlantic telegraph may be her mission. The
magnitude of this service requires the qua-
ties and immense proportions she possesses
ample room, adequate power, ana keel
of extraordinary length-insurng an easy
and steady motion in rough sea, SO neces
sary for paying OFT in direct line, and on .
plain, the three thousand miles of wire stow
ed in her capacious interior BY this time
| bne mas commenced HeT llip, auu tue Hedit u
rest wishes for her success are expressed on
both sides of the ocean.


About the 22d or 25th of the present
month we may expect the completion of this
enterprise; by that time the big ship will
reach the American shore, and if the under,
taking proves success, the Eastern and
Western continents will he in instantaneous
connection. As scientific achievement the
cable will be worth all the labor and expense
that have been expended The additional
| amlcable relations 1t must create between
two powerful nations, whose lead in the
march OF progress is acknowledged through
ont the world, cannot but prove productive
ot the grandest results. Conmerclallv, too
we shall derive great advantages. In this
view the ship may bring a recompense tcl
the enormous sum she cost, if not to those
who footed the till at least to mankind a
large, which is probably as good way a.
any for the expenditure of surplus !ndvidua
wealth. ST. Louis Democrat, July IA.