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Year: 1863

WHITE DEERs We suppose to have been
somewhat common in this region at one
time, from the early application Of the rare
name to Valley, Mountain, Township, and
Creeks in Union county. We read that


"a white deer has been discovered near
the Rice Lakes in Minnesota. 1t is an
slbiuo among the deer tribe. Nothing like
it vas ever before seen in that region"
Year: 1863

The Columbus Ga Sun is battling


nanfulIy on the right side Of the


great question that now engages the


minds Of the Southern people. The
following extract is worthy of IFS pa
teruity:


| If the people in both sections Of
the Mississippi could be allowed to


speak their sentiments at the ballot


box. the strife between them would


cease in thirty days. The people of
the Northwest have no further inter-


est in the war than the re-opsniDg Of


the Mississippi river. They eart a


market Tor their produce. They have


about as little sympathy for Aboli-


tiOndom as we have. They have


about as little respect for the small


peddlers and nasal twangers Of New


England as we have. They have
about as much patience with Puritan
intolerance as we have. They look
upon the " three thousand" Abolition
clergy as being the ministers OF the
Devil, just as We do. They are as
much opposed to high protective tar
IFS, gotten up for the exclusive bene-
fit Of W England manufacturers,
as we ever were. They regard Lin
coin as fool, as we do. they re-
gard his Cabinet as collection of
spiritless, reckless, thriftless, fanatics,
as we do. They see the doom which
awaits the present Abolition dynas-
sy as clearly as we do; and many of
them have secretly resolved Lever to
become partners in the general bank
ruptcy that is TO follow this insane
war. Hence they want peace. They
want peace upon the condition of
free aud open communication to their
original markets, but will accept it
upon no other. Would we weaken
our enemy? Then divide bis do
minlocs. Is peace gained by years
of dreadful war and carnage prefera-
Die 10 peace gained b. diplomacy,
when both modes secure the same
Then let's turn deaf
Ear TO popular sentiment in the North
yes', and fight on. There may be
! species of courage in such course,
'ut il beggars reason. Mere brute
Orce never founded an empire nor
it when established
lind, craftsmanship and diplomacy
I'LL always direct and control brute
'rce. Our generals have demon
trated their ability to lead victori-
US armies. Let our diplomatists
ow demonstrate their ability to
uile the Ship of State.
Year: 1863

Argus, from Ship Island, says:


We have seen private letter from
a soldier ON the Island. Two compa.
nies of the 18th Maine have been
kept there for a year. The letter
says there is complete insubordi-
nation on account Of the negro SOL
diers and officers there. One of
these drew pistol on awhile soldier,
and the letter very grimly says the
negro officer was found the next day
in the drink with too much water in
him, and that others may go the
same way. as % =
Year: 1863

They have divorce case in Indi-
ana, growing out Of the persistence
of wife with a pretty foot and ankle
to go on skating frolic. when ber
husband had refused bis assent. We
suppose the husband leared'she would
slip into the affections Of some other
man. IS 5aes
Year: 1863

LOVE In MA z
Twas evening in the Summer time,


When hedges hung with May,
And woods and welkin rune again


With many pleasant lay
1 wandered o'er the bonny braes.
And through the golden corn,
And saw a maiden sit in the sun,


Beneath snow-white thorn.
She was so fair to look upon,


No fairer have known,
of all the bright and beautiful


On whom the sun hath shone,
Her smile was like morning beam,
Her voice was like brook
Thatsings its dimpling melodies
Along the may nook.
Methought it was an angel world,
The birds sang sweeter far,
There was pearl in every flower,
A heaven in every star;
Peace through the shades OF silence walked
Yet LETT me not alone,
For l had found my souls delight,
And wooed her for my own.
And all the love could ne'er be told
By silver luting June,
Which murmured near that shady thorn
For many welcome moon;
Bright Summer went and came again,
Der dale and mountain wide,
To smile with cheerful beams upon
My cottage and nay. bride.
Year: 1863

How sweet the rest that labor yields
The humble and the psor,
Where sits the patriarch Of the fields
Before his cottage door
The lark is singing in the sky,


The swallows in the caves,
And love is beRming in each eye


Beneath the summer leaves
The air amid his fragrant bowers


Supplies unpurchased health,
And hearts are bounding mid the flowers,
Mora dear to him than wealth
.Peace, like tho blessed sun light, plays
Around his humble cot,
And happy nights and cheerful days
Divide his lowly lot
And when the village Sabbath bell
Rings out upon the gale,
The father bows his head to tell


The music of its tale
A fresher verdure seems to fill


The fair and dowy sod,
And every infant tongue is still


To hear the word Of God.
Oh, happy hearts to him who stills
The ravens when they cry,
And makes the lily meath the hills


So glorious to the eye
The trusting patriarch prays to bless
His laboTs with increase;
Such "ways are the ways Of pleasantness,
And all such paths are peace y
Year: 1863

E9y"L must be pretty fast in some Of
our cities, five are to judge by the follow.
ing item from a contemporary;


ave feel bound to deny that one OF
oar lawyers put on his door, "gone to
bury my wife, be back in half an hour"
But candor compels us to say that one OF
our numbering merchants, the last sick
ness of his wife occurring in the busiest
season, was only able 10 get in in time for
the eecond prayer at her funeral"
Year: 1863

people arrive at the conclusion which
Gen. Burnside has announced, that they
must deposit their liberty during this war
and take it out pawn only after victory,
that instant secession is fixed fact."-
The history of the world does not show
one example of liberty returned, and this
people is now about to make the experi-
ment. We all recollect the fable of the
horse and the man, and stories canrot DO
Copperhead under his recent majesty, we
think that we may safely quote from
Esop;


A horse, in contest with wolf asked
the assistance of man, who on jumping
on his back soon dispatched the enemy.
The horse, with many thanks, requested
the rider 10 dismount. "Oh, no !' was
the reply IF you do not know that you
have good master, know that l have
good servant"


Horses have been ridden since that date.
Year: 1863

RESTORATION OF DEcoNPosED BoDiEs.-
The human body, in so advanced state
of decomposition as to be entirely unre-
cognizable, can now be so restored bv
chemical means as TO present an almost
completely natural appearance. This pro.
cess was lately practiced with success in
London, in the case of body found in the
Thames, which was suspected to be that
ofan escaped murderer, who had commit
ted suicide. After the body had been SUBJ
jected to the new process, the witness
were able to swear that he was not the
supposed murd erer. ...
Year: 1863

Will be inserted at two dollars per square
for the first, ar'd one dollar per square
for each subsequent insertion. A square to con.
sist of the space of II lines, BREWER type. No
advertisement considered less than a square
Year: 1863

ny Ledger takes a different view of the
matter from that expressed by its brother
Democrat of this place, as appears by the
following paragraph copied from its last
Issue received here:


"sThe action of the County Commissions
ers in voting bounty of fifty dollars to
all persons volunteering up to December
Goth. will be commended by every right
thinking citizen. Our County Commits
sioners have never failed to respond to the
calls Of patriotism made upon them in be.
half Of the soldier
Year: 1863

Nor am I wholly satisfied with this repre-
sentation. 1t is important to keep before
us the actual growth of population. We
must understand that, if we would under
stand the power of the West, We annex,
Year: 1863

We repeat, then, that the completion of
the Pacific Railroad is necessity; and as
it will pass through the heart of Kansas, it
will open up section Of country to the
settler, which for fertility of soil and gen.
iality of climate, is surpassed by no State
in the Union.
Year: 1863

UK1oSL GENERAL AEEr1Nd.-Th
will be general meeting of the members of
the Union League, at tho usual place Of meet
ing, in the Hall Of South Division Council
No. i, on this Saturday evening.


By order Of the County G.
Year: 1863

This disease depends upon inflammation Of the mu-
lining of the vagina womb. 10 is in all
cOmpaned by pain nthe BACK acroSs the bowels
ad through the hpS teaspoonfd Of the medicine may
be taken three times a day. with Injection of table
spoonful of med inc, mixed with hall put Of sof
morning and evening.
Year: 1863

The condition Of the ncishboring State
OF Indiana certainly demands the earnest
attention Of the Federal Government. We
understand that the authorities at Wash
angton are incredulous; and that when
representations from the highest sources in
the State are sent forward, saying that
Indiana is on the point Of open and armed
resistance to the lnws Of Congress, the re-
ports are received with damaging expires
Eions Of disbelief, and those who bear them
are sent back without thanks for their so
called super-serviceab1c zeal. Wctell the
President and Cabinet that if what ;s
attributed to them is true, they err as men
never erred before. Indiana is to-day, in
spite Of the intense devotion Of a
share Of her people to the Union
cause, more dangerous than Mis-
souri- The existence Of secret societies,
the ayowed object Of which is resistance
to TIE execution Of the conscription law
and the tax Law, is fact that the Copper
heads themselves do not deny; and that
these meetings are attended by men fully
armed, plotting treason with muskets in
their hands, is as notorious as that tie
State Of Indiana is east Of Illinois.
The disloyal population arc rapidly arm
ing with such weapons as they can obtain;
and not political meeting Of the so-called
Democracy is held, in which treason is not
aTowcd and boosted Of, as If it were no
shame. Cheers for jeff Davis are as com.
mon as cheers for Abe Lincoln. Go owherc
one may, the evidence Of condition Of
things which waits but the spark to light
up tic whole State with the flames of civil
war, is SO pa1pable that it cannot be
mistaken nor mi.intcrpretcd..


A little rigor, little energy, q little au-
tlacity, will correct all this The plottcrs
are towards as well as scoundrels; and
they need but tue wholesome discipline
that offences like theirs require, to signify
their submission in terms as abject and hui
initiating as their brayado is loud and in
sulting. Weleave to lawyers the task of
naming the crimes that We hare pointed
out; and to common sense the task of in
ficting the punishment. And whatever
the quibbles of men who can sec treason
IN nothing less than shooting our soldiers
in the field, we know that the Government
which has not the legal powcrto defend itself
against such malcontents, or, lacking the
legal authority, has not the courage to as
sumo aud exercise it without the warrant
of positive statute, needs 4 policy of in
surance on its Life to prove that it lives.
Year: 1863

4 New Yorker to whose defence Of his
State VIC give place in to-day's paper,
proves what wa have all the while asserted
in relation to the robbery Of the West by
the excessive canal tolls that New York
imposes on our produce seeking the sea-
board and q market; and that is that the
tolls, being so high, give seeming author
ization to excessive charges for railroad
freights over routes leading Eastward; !;
hence that we suffer not only from the le-
gal e1actions Of the State, but from the en-
couragement that she lendsto the exactions
of others. And as lie makes the case very
clear, we are obliged to him for helping Us
out with the figures that cost him much
trouble to collect. But as he seems not to
be aware Of what he has done, We beg him
to study his words anew, and, in the light
Of our interpretation, see if lie is not con
vinced that we a1e right, and that his de-
fence is really justification for our attack.
Year: 1863

The Loyal National Lcague.


The following is the pledge taken By the
vast meeting at Cooper Institute, In New
York. It Is designed to make it national:


Ee, the undersigned, citizens of the United
States, hereby associate ourselves under the
name and title Of the Loyal National League.


We pledge ourselves to an unconditional
loyalty to the Government Of the United
States, to an unwayeriug support Of It's
Efforts to suppress the rebellion, and TO spare
nv tndeayor to maintain unimpaircd the na-
tloral unity, both in principle and territorial
boundary.


The primary object Of this league is and
shall be to bind together MI loyal men, Of Ill
trades ard professions, in i common union to
maintain tie power, glory and integrity Of the
nation.
Year: 1863

WhereaS We, the Democracy, of the Territory
of Washington, in convention assembled, are now
and ever have been opposed to traitors, aiders
abettors and sympathizers. with foreign foes and
domestic rebels, to all men and parties who would
-subyert and destroy the rights Of the States and
General Government, or the liberties of the people
either by force of arms or by acts not sanctioned
by Constitutional authority; and,


Whereas, We believe the principles of the
Democratic party are founded in truth, have stood
the test Of experience for the last 70 years, and
have carried the Nation safely. prosperously hon
oraby and successfully through all foreign wars,
and domestic rebeons, and that it is alone by
the strict adherence to those principles, that the
Union as our fathers made it, can be maintained
in its integrity, the Constitution be preserved in
violate, and the liberties of the people be secured
and perpetuaed; therefore,


ResOLUed, That the written Constitution of the
United States is the supreme law of the Nation;
that no power created by it is independent of, or
superior to i that all authority emanang from it,
is subordinate to i, and that any exercise of au-
thority which would ebridge the rights it guaran-
tees, is an assumption of power in conflict with
liberty which is the inheritance Of the American
people that freedom of speech freedom of the
press trial by juy, and before the civil tribunals
oflhe country, are rights which cannot be ignored,
or abridged but by recognition oftyranny.


Resolved, That we recognize manifest differ
ence between any Administration Of the Govern
ment and the Government itself-the one is tram
STORY, limited in duration only to that period of
time for which the officers elected by the people
are charged with the conduct of the same-the
other is permanent and intended by its founders
10 endure forever


ReSoLved, That all laws passed by the proper
law-making power whether constitutional or un-
constitutional polite or impolitio should be
obeyed and enforced by every good citizen, until
repealed by the power that enacted them, or de-
clar, d null bv the courts


ReSolued, That the Democracy Of the Territory
of Washington are for the Union, the whole
Union, and in favor of the vigorous prosecution of
the efforts of the Governmentin crushing the pres
ent unholy and wicked rebellion, when such efforts
are not actuated by any other motives, than a
single desire to maintain the honor and dignity of
the Nation and the enforcement of its laws that
We are forever opposed to conclusion of any peace
involving in its terms the acknowledgment of the
independence of the so-cailed Southern Con-
federacy and that we hereby solemnly pledge
ourselves that come veal or woe, in life or death
now and forever, to stand by, and defend the flag
OF our Country in its hour Of peril
Year: 1863

THAT BEATS. In his debate with
Mr.. Cole, at Coppei city, on Monday last,
Rev. 10. Raynor took occasion to pitch
into his FRIEND Judge Wyche. Among
other hard things, he said that Wyche,
while protesting to be good Union man,
was doing nothing for him, but -on the
contrary, by his silence was doing him an
injury. The Rev. gentleman went on to
state that on leaving Vancouver, Judge
Wyche told him that if he expected to be
elected he had better go to Colville, as
many up in that country did not know that
he was a candidate. 10. said, "when
Wyche made that assertion | was thunder
struck, and had to walk away to sup
press my anger" That "while protesting
to be good Union man, he had been to
Colville and held one term of Court and
yet they did not know that he (Raynor)
was a candidate" JO did not say word
against the Federal Clique on the other
side Of the mountains, and would not per-
haps have given vent to i'll feeling toward
Judge Wyche had he not believed that
Wyche vas personally unpopular on the
Coppei, in consequence of his extra judicial
proceedings in the Bunton case.


In a conversation with some gentlemen
who came up to this place with him from
the Dalles, Raynor said that when Wyche
first made the above declarations to him
he "felt like striking him in the face


There are very few men in this county
who will not think much better of Judge
Wyche, for the reason that he has not ia
ken an active part in this campaign in
favor of the hypocritical 10.
Year: 1863

CARD-To the Citizens qf Wala Wal}a County
It has been the usual custom for asprants to Office to
claim that they have been urgently solicited to come
before the public. Ishall make such claim, but for
the sake of change urgently solicit the votes Of the
people. own that want the Office and want it for
this reason that from long suffering I have become
physically disabled from from following any ac-
tive or laborous pursuit, and have necessarily been
compelled to seek some means for q likelihood that
does not require great physical exertion The Office
ofCOunty Auditor as j believe win furni1h such
means, and If tho people win bestow it upon me
shall be under the most grateful obligations, and shall
use every effort to honor the trust. L. j. RECTOR.
Year: 1863

At Vancouver, Rev. Raynor in
speaking before an audience,
composed largely of Catholics,
referred to the Catholic church
as the good old Catholic church.
A gentleman with a brogue re-
marked that while in the pulpit
Raynor was in the habit Of call
ing the Catholic church "the
mother Of harlots The gentle
man with the brogue thought this
new electioneering dodge would
not go down with those who
knew RavnOr.
Year: 1863

WAsHrNeroN.-If George Washington
were now living and a candidate for the
Presidency, he could not get vote of
single abolitionist. His nearest surviving
relative is in federal prison, and he has
not living relative or connection in SYM
pathy with the administration
Year: 1863

READING AND THINKING.-It is
good to read, mark,-but it is
better to inwardly digest. 1t is
good to read, better to think
better 20 think one hour than to
read ten hours without thinking.
Thinking is to reading Gf the book
read have everything in it) what
rain and Sunshine are to the seed
cast into the ground, the influence
which maketh bear and bring
forth. thirty, forty or an hundred
fold. To read is to gather in the
barn or store-house of the mind,
to think is to cast seed corn into
the ground to make it productive.
To read is to collect Of informa-


ton; to think is to evolve power.
Year: 1863

'OANto Va "a "a ONooAOiAN1 49,


RAYNoR AND THE OFFICIALS.
In his speeches in the lower
country, 10. Raynor spoke of the
Federal officials Of this Territory
as "honest men, for aught he
knew to the contrary" In his
speech in this city he stated that
he had been charged with being
the nominee of the Federal Off
scials and denied the charge by
ldenouncing some of the officials,
aand stating that if elected to
Congress he would use his efforts
to procure their removal from of
fee. This much We had been
forewarned he would do, and so
stated last week. We believe,
and firmly too, that he has COM
promised himself in this, and
that-knowing the unpopularity
of the officials here, he only did
it to secure votes,-knoWing, at
the same time. that the news of
this position would not reach the
Sound country in time to injure
him among the friends Of the Of
fcials there. So far as the Clique
is concerned there is no doubt
that he had their full consent to
take the position he did here.


" A METHODIST PREACHER. -
We are told that one of our
quOndam friends is sorely hurt at
our course in relation to Rev. 10.
Raynor, and asserts that we are
" seeking to throw opprobrium
upon the Rev. gentleman be-
cause he is religious man and
a Methodist preacher" Now,
since Rev JOS nice allusion to the
STATESMAN, in his speech here
on the 4th, we will reserve to
ourselves the right to judge of his
religion, and will say to the friend
aforesaid, that if we have any OBJ
jiections to 30. on the score of re-
hgion they are cf an entirely neg
.4afiue character. Further, we be
lieye our respect far religion and
ministers, Of Whateyer clenomina-
ton, is equaIto that Of most men;
and we wish our friend to- DIS
tinctly understand that we would
nOtseek to Coast Opprobrium up
,on him, 10. RaynOr or "any 9th
.er man" because he is a minister.
But our respect for ministers is
measured by the same rule that
I'VE apply to men in general
MERIT and if their actions do not
show them worthy of our esteem
they must go elsewhere for "cOm-
fort" If any of them, claiming
to have had an especial call from
God to preach Christ and him
cruci6ed, set themselves up
as moral teachers, and then turn
aside from that calling to de-
nounce their friends as enemies
and traitors, and to blackguard
those whom they may dislike, we
cannot conceive that they are en-
titled to more consideration than
other men on account of their
calling; but, on the other hand,
we believe them to be more the
subjects for just condemnation;
and if they so far depart, in their
practice, from the principles that
should govern them in their high
calling as to descend to the level
of common bIackguards, they de-
serve only to be treated as such.


NoTIcE.-Applicants for Homesteads
who are too poor to pay their proportion
of expenses of the Register and Receiver.
Year: 1863

We sometimes wonder if all our Baptist
friends in Wilmington know that our kind
friend, Rev. James 5. Dickerson, Pastor of
the Second Baptist Church in this city pub
fishes such an excellent religious and tho
roughly loyal sheet as the Christian Chron--
icle. And yet it seems like nonsense even
to suppose that a paper of its character and
influence is not taken by every Baptist in
the place. A better denominational paper,
moIe uEswerying advocate of the doctrines
OF its church, or firmer defender of the y a
tional cause of Liberty and Union, cannot
be found within the pale of the church's
publications. 1t deserves to be well and
liberally sustained. Our personal knowledge
of Mr.. Dickerson warrants us in the asser-
tion that the industry zeal and enterprise he
will throw into the columns of his paper will
not be a whit behind the patronage brought
forward to encourage him in his editorial
labOrs.
Year: 1863

On Tuesday last the grand Army of the
Potomac broke up camp and started on an
advance movement. 1t had not gone far,
however, before a terrible storm arose, which
so much interfered with the march that a
dead halt was the result and by Friday or
Saturday last, the whole army was again in
its old quarters near Fredericksburg. Gen.
Burnside was in Washington on Saturday.