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Year: 1863

IL is difficult to see for What good reason


SO large pOpor,ion of politicians are sp-


p0in'e' TO the marshalships. There was


every pro2riety in giving these places to


soldiers disabled from active service in III.
field. There might have been found enough


of these, or many certainly, fit for the post.


The office is one directly pertaining to mill
tary organization and therefore proper to


be filled by military men. Experience in the
army would be valuable in it. And this


would be found true, especially if difficulties
should anywhere arise in carrying out the
act of conscription. III armed resistance is
attempted in any localities, soldiers viii best
know how 10 deal with it. But there would
be much less likely to be any such resistance.
Here is capital consideration, that seems TO
nave been strangely overlooked or sighted.
People Will bear some degree of compulsion
20 bring them into the war from men who
have gone there voluntarily themselves. 1t
will not be the same thing to be ordered into
the ranks by man " ho has lost a hand or
an eve in battle, as by one who has cheered
on others. and kept himself away from pow
der, and stuck by the Offices. 1t is in human
nature TO have some choice by whom it shall
be driven. And there is nothing scarcely
that would do more TO heal any bad temper
that might exist in the public mind than
sustem of judieious appointments to these
places from the army.


Besides, If is due TO the soldiers. If there
are any positions of profit or honor to be
occufed in connection with this war, they
belong TO the men who have taken Its risks
and borne its tolls. There is already feel
ing, too, quite widely enough to spread, and
with quite enough of foundation in fact, that
our politicians are rather too eagerly intent
just now upon the securing of office and pat
ronage for themselves. 1t does mischief Ii
damps the ardor of the people in carrying
on the war. We do not wish to feel that We
are struggling for a government, one of
whose main concerns is TO feed its office hold
ers. The action that is being taken as to
these marshslships is likely to aggrivate the
sentiment of disgust. Here are men wait
ing, eager to leap into every place of profit
that opens BY all means they ought to be
disappointed. As a class they must be re-
garded as the most worthless creatures to
whom, in His infcrutsble wisdcm,the Divine
Being has ever given an existence. As far
as possible they ought TO be left TO starva-
ton.


1t is pleasant to reflect that by and by, as
the war ends, and the people themselves
come 70 choose, the soldiers viii have their
full share of public honors. Sometimes, in
the past, We have regretted the tendency TO
put military meu in civil stations; and there
may often be evil in If. Yet our soldier gov
ernors and Presidents have been fully up TO
the average of merit The soldier is at least
man of action, and is content TO earn his
place. This is more than can generally be
said of the politicians. AT any rate, If the
civilian gets the military places now, he must
not complain presently when the tables are
turned upon him--!SpringtfeId Republicans.
Year: 1863

n Another illustration of the ohliquity
of reasoning which pervades the whole of
rebeldom, and which has made the worse
appear the better cause, is seen in the COM
ments of the Richmond papers for the loss
of Stonewall Jackson. They derive conso-
lation from the fact that he was not shot by
the Yankees. He was killed, it is said, by
bullets from his own man. Right minded
men would regard such death as in some
degree inglorious. 1t leaves the suspicion
that Jackson was put out Of the way by
dlsaffected soldiers, or that his command was
SO panic stricken that they fired on friend
and foe promiscuously.
Year: 1863

Lines suggested by reading the death
!iptheria) of the wife, children and sister
Ir l.. w. Russell, Concord, Vt.
Only few short months ago,


And life seemed bright and fair;
And lovingly within our home


The sunbeam fingered there.
Oh. life was then pleasant thing


Just like a summers day;
Bu, soon the chilling blasts came on,
And summer passed away.
Death came into our happy home,


And plucked little flower,
Whose precious life was only given


To cheer us for an hour;
Then placed his cold and icy hand


Upon the mothers brow,
And she who was so lovely once,


In dust is slumbering now.
I'm going home -" I'm almost there "
he whispered faint-slow;
o who but loved the Savior here,
Such heavenly peace could know
soon little Libbie too had gone
TO that bright world above,
Where infant harps are very tuned
To sing Savour's love.
A heavenly smile lit up his face,
Such as the angels wear;
As though beyond deaths swelling food,
He saw his mother there.
That night while yet our grief was fresh,
Dear little Charlie died,
And in the cold and silent toomb
They're sumbering side by side.
The anguish of that fathers heart,
Wha- earthly tongue can tell,
As, gazing on his only child,


The one he loved so well.
He saw that soon she too must lie
By her dear mothers side
Father one kiss dear Emma said
And gently then she died.
His sisters gentle hand had soothed
Each loved ones pain and woe:
Oh, would see not be spared to HIM
Alas she too must go.
Sadly We watched her fade away,
Just like her favorite flower,
Which only blossomed to decay,
And withered in an hour.
0 bitter, bitter, was the grief
That rent his breaking heart,
As one by one like falling leaves
He saw them all depart.
All that is fair on earth must die
All that is good and pure
But though our bodies fade away
Our souls shall still endure. JEAN.
Year: 1863

DURABILITY OF WOOD.


The statement Of facts below, which
we copy from the Country Gentleman,
and which we suppose to be correctly
stated, shows that wood keptin a cold
place and fully saturated with watsr
if not everlasting, is very durable: i .


1. The piles on which the London
Bridge rests were driven five hundred
years ago, and are yet sound. 2. Old
Savoy Palace, in London, IS supported
on piles of oak, elm, beach. and chest
nut. These were driven six hundred
and fifty years ago The outside; to
the thickness of an inch or y little more
is petri6ed, forming cylindric pillars
of stone, while the inside is as sound
as ever


These and other facts of like import,
60 to prove that wood, in cold situations
where insect, will not depredate uonp
it, as often happens with the kcels of
ships, may be relied upon to last. and
retain its sustaining power as long as
any superstructures ofman will require.
Probably the piles Ct the bridge built
by Traian, 1000 years ago, would sus
tain q greater weight to-day than they
would have borne at first.


Exclusion Of ar and a low temperature
seems be the conditions. Thus, The
bottom Of a fence post lasts much long
er than the part near the surface be-
cause it has less air and less warmth.
If we were to imagine a post set
three hundred instead of three feet deep
the lover part might last as long as
the earth exists. Or, if it were set but
the usual depth, and tho sun. influence
were to be withdrawn from our plaaet,
it would last as long at least as the
piles of Trajan's Bridge have, and then
perhaps ten times rs much longer; for
if no decay takes place in " ood for the
first 1000 years, why should it in the
next period of equal length, provided
the wood remains in exactly the same
situation, and exposed to the same
in fiuence, but to no other?
Year: 1863

more. In almost every household there
is some char made forever vacant by
reh ell steel Or bullet. ...-..


Knowing all this and feeling it, we
beg you to read the following para
graph from the New York Evening
Post, leading administrators. It is
brief, but we mistake the temper of
western men if 1t be not eloquent en-
ough to stir them to the soul.


"The checks that we have received
near Chattanooga, the failure Of the
Texas incursion and other little revers
es that have occured of late, will mod
crate the zeal not only of those who see
peace few weeks ahead, but Of those
who are getting up nice little plans for
the restoration Of the Union. Are they
not counting their chickens before they
are hatched q "|r'@o-5 ".


Here is an amiable and christian
gentleman, representing by his pen
and politics a party throughout the
country composed Of amiable and chris
tan gentleman: complacently chuck
ling over these ''little reyerses near
Chattanooga which have cost the west
seventeen hendred dead men and seven
thousand wounded ones. Why does
he and they whom he represents, thus
rejoice: Was it glorious victory
which advanced our flag far into the en-
emvs country =? Not was defeat.
Why then do he and they :uncondition-
al Union men," who torment the ear of
heaven with their aenunciations Of
"copperheads and traitors why do
they rejoice at a defeat ? He is frank
enough to tell US, and we thank him
for it. Because ''it will moderate the
Zeal, not only ose who see peace
few weeks ahead, bat of those who are
getting up nice little plans for the res
toration of the Unlon.7 ~


A pleasant confession this, which we
will do we'll to remember. Rejoicing
that those noble boys whom we have
sent from our midst to restore the Un-
ion and bring back peace, have been
beaten, ay slain because their success
might have fastened the restoration of
both, and their failure has postponed it!
Rejoicing that the plans of peacemakers
end the zeal of patriots have alike been
quenched in this precious blood ! Re-
joiclng that these "chickens" of hope
which a people, weary Of this wretched
strife, were foolish enough "to count
before they were hatched," have been
turned into vultures screaming over
heaps Of wasted dead


Who shall say after this that blood
IS not cheap very cheap?
Year: 1863

How will the "growth Of the Union
sentiment at the south be- encouraged
by the triumph, in three great states
Of the north, Of a party pledged to &C =
cord no peace until the institution of
slavery is completely extinct and all
the provisions of the confscation act Isl
fully CARED out ? Is the result Of the
recent elections calculated to foster q
desire for reconstruction on the part Of
the southern people /? s-.~rssy srs
Year: 1863

BE YOUR OWN RIGHT.uAND MAN.


People who have been bolstered up
and leversd all their lives, are seldom
good for anything in a crisis. When
misfortune comes, they look around for
somebody to cling to, or loan upon. If
the prop is not there, down they 60
Year: 1863

both, and vast army has been in the field for
many months.


Snow if a stay or exemption for three years
would not be tolerated in ordinary times, did
not these circumstances constitute an emergency
that justified the pushing of legislation to the
EXTREMIST limit of the Constitution No citizen
could be blamed for volunteering. He was in
voked to do SO by appeals as strong as his love
of country. In the nature of things there is
nothing unreasonable in ersmpting soldiers pro-
perty from execution tojist lie is absent from home
battling for the supremacy Of the Constitution and
the integrity of the Union And when he has not
run before he was sent, but yielded himself up
to the call of his country, his self sacrificing
patriotism pleads, trumpet-tongued, for all the
indulgence from his creditors which the Legisla-
ture have power to grant If the term of in
dulgence seem long in this instance, it was not
longer than the time for which the President
and Congress dematded the soldiers services
1t was not for him, nor is it for us, to rejudge
the discretion of the President and Congress in
this regard. Basing ourselves on what they
did, constitutonally, the question for us is,
whether the stay granted by our own Legisla-
ture to our citizen soldiers was unreasonable.
In view of the extraordinary circumstances of
the case, we cannot pronounce it unreasonable.
We see in it no wanton or careless disregard of
the obligation of contracts, but only a sincere
effort to enable the general Government to
prosecute with success war which, IN Its
exclusive right of Judgment, it resolved to wage.


"Another circumstance which bears on the
reasonableness of the enactment is the provision
which suspends all statues of limitation in favor
of the soldier during all the time he is exempted
from process. The provisions were reciprocal
and both were reasonable"
Year: 1863

The draft has dealt quite fairly with the
Republicans of this county They have been
moderately lucky, and have, perhaps, drawn
full share of prizes in this unwelcome lottery.
We do hope they will now prove their faith by
their works. They have voted, plead, preached,
and prayed for more vigorous prosecution OF
the war and have finally been drafted therefor
We must insist upon their standing squarely up
to the work. We hope they will not throw
discredit upon the good cause. which they pro
fess to love 40 much, by sneaking out through
the $500 exemption clause. Ii they are sound
men, and able to pay $500. they are able to 60.
and leave their families better cared for than
many poor men who will be compelled to 60
because they cannot pay. Now is your time
gentlemen. Don't put your hitherto lofty and
loud-mouthed patriotism at discount by meas
uring it by the low standard OF $Soon green
backs" What the government wants is men,
not money. 1t can manufacture ''greenbaekss


with great rapidity, and in the midst Of daily i
expenditure Of over two millions what IS S3oof
Year: 1863

The mosquitoes down on the Mississ
ippi river are supposed to be rather large,
and tolsrably ferocious. am not pre-
pared 10 bsieye the story OF the man
who came TO look for his cow one day,
and found the skeleton on the ground
and a large mosquito on an adjacent tree
picking his teeth with one Of The horns
Bot | will say that it would take man
gifted with considerable imagination TO
exaggregate the prowess of those south
swamp mosquitoes. We were discussing
them one night in hotel in New Or
leans, when one gentleman Of the party
told the following anecdote


There was once q man IN the city
who insisted on il that he was mosquito
proof, and who offered TO lie down IN the
worst place that could be found and let
mosquitoes bite him for an hour for ten
dollars My friend hearing him make
the proposition. took him at his word,
ana with several others they both started
off for a nice marshy olace between the
town aud Lake Ponchartrain--a regular
mosquito paradise. Arrived on tht
ground the mosquito chap took of his
shirt aud coat and lay down on his face
/ The insects came in crowds, lighleC
on his back, and biting commenced. |
tLe man scratched he would lose his tel
dollars even squirming was Prohibite


But he stood il like a Trojau didn'


give uueranoe to single grun,. Hal


an hour passed. The ground all roun


was covered with gorged mosquitoes


who lad sucked antil they we're ,
Year: 1863

The north west wind is bowling by,


The clouds are sullen and grey,
And the trees are bare, for the damp leaves III


Thick in the gloomy way.
They lie in the pathways, withered and dead


They rustic in ut the door,
And | crush them down wherever tread,


AS many an autumn before.
The cold sleet falls on the hard bare ground


Oh the pitiless driving sleet'
And the surgee rise with rushing sound,


And the swollen waters beat.
The storm rattles by, then dies to sigh;


1t RACES from shore to shore,
And | shiver although the fire is nigh,


As many an autumn before,
When the sun shines ont with its lurid light,


Fitful and angry red,
The sharp blasts cut with as keen might


As with leaden clouds oerhead;
For November is always dreary and cold


When the harvest Summer is Der,
And it makes me think Of the damp and mould
As many an autumn before.
And IL always brings back the saddest stngs
With the pitiless storms that blow:
The saddest things and the sharpest things
When my cup was full of woe.
But sit by the blasting fire to-day


Recalling il DER and Ger,
Till my hopes can see the lamps on the way
As neper an autumn before.
Year: 1863

gust upon treason in all its forms, as q
thing only to be contemplated to be abb
horred, before the proper sentiment Is at
tanned


Great virtue and cbivalIic bearing has


been and still is claimed for deeds Of trea-
son by its abettOrs, aud I am Pained to say
that the sentiment is winked at by persons
claiming to be loyal. This sentiment must
be corrected, and the representatives Of the
loyal people of West Virginia should take
the initiative In establishing proper SEN
timent on this subject.


Mr.. President, we are making history
we (though humble as some Of rs are)
occupy responsible position-We, as the
first legislature Of the tbirty-fifIh star OF
our glorious galaxy, are not only giving
law, but to q certain extent are giving tone
TO our new Commonwealth. Much de-
pends upon the nigh or EoW standard of
loyalty that we establish for those that are
to come after us. Heaven forbid that our
actions here should be pointed TO as pre-
cedent for the encouragement or apology
Of treason or dislOyalty.


I hOPe the bill will pass. l regret If
there should be dissentiug voice. We
owe its passage to our country. We owe it
to our brave men in the field, whom we
hope to see as soon rs the rebellion is put
down take their places in civilized life.
We owe it to ourselves, as we'll as to gen.
yet to come.
Year: 1863

l. T., Aug..25, 1868.


EDS. WASHINGTON STATESMAN AS
time developes the plans and opinions, and
calls forth the actions of the Republican
regency, holding reins of executive author
ity in this territory, occasion is furnished
for reflection, fer comment, for criticism,
and alas :hat it should be so, only too
much occasion for censure. The last edict
issuing from the executive office-situated
in some obscure country village or ada
cent rural retirement in the vicinity of the
Lapwai Indian reservation, which con-
Germs more Immediately and particularly
the citizens of the Territory resident in
Boise county, is to the effect that out of
pure compassion upon the superlative igno-
rance, and in kind consideration of the
rights of the people of Boise county, His
Excellency has graciOusly removed all the
principal officers elected by the people,
and has appointed others in their stead.


The people here, upon the reception of
the intelligence with a singular want of
appreciation of the condescension, atten-
tive kindness, and especial regard for their
interests manifested by the Governor,
might every where upon the streets and in
the places of public resort, have been seen
and heard indulglng in some very impo-
lite expressions. AS the astonishment
gave way and the conviction of the truth
of the report become apparent, exaspera-
ton almost usurped the place of reason,
and more repressed indignation probably
existed in the city that night than ever
before. An expression of public sentiment
was finally talked of, in which the people
in the vicinity generally were to be invi-
ted to participate, and to announce in
terms emphatic, if not courteous, the feel
ing of residents here upon the subject.


The appointments are understood to
have been partly made upon the strength
eff Memorial, sent some time ago from
here, which was concocted by few disap-
pointed aspirants for office and signed by
an insignificant number Of names--of still
more Insignificant men; not one of whom
does not stand ten chances Of being struck
by lightning to one of ever being elected
by the people of Boise county to any Of
fee The memorial was chiefly memora-
BILE for the gross perversions and suppress


sions of truth, and splendid instances Of
solid lying. 1t was taken to Lewiston by
one, himself candidate for appointment
to responsible office, and who is reported
to have returned with his commission in
his pocket, chuckling over the idea Of how
finely he did Pink-em J


Aside from the local interests involved
in this action of the Governor, let us take
a common sense view of the case on gene
raj principles. The people of the United
States are, according to the theory of Gov
ernment upon which all our institutions are
based, the source of all law and Of all au-
thority. The fundamental right of the
sovereign people is, that they shall have a
voice in the selection of their own rulers,
and officers, and correlative right is to be
chosen among such rulers and officers when
J and if found capable and worthy. This
Year: 1863

The LOST ONE FoUND.-An affecting
scene is described as having taken place at
a crossing in Chatham street N York, one
one day long since, where a couple of lit
tie girls we're sweeping a path through the
mud and holding out their dirty palms for
recompensation pence. AS a lady was
crossing the street, one of these ragged
creatures suddenly dropped her broom,
cried "mamma mamma p and rushing to
the lady seized her by the dress, and
sobbed out, "oh, take me home mamma
oh mamma, take me home - The lady
recognized the voice as that of her own
child. who was lost year or two before,
and whom she had given over for dead,
and hailing carriage she at once took the
little one home, where a process of bodily
publication aud change of garments soon
restored the poor child to a recognizable
condition. She had been stolen by one of
the wandering female vagabonds that in
fest that city, devoted to the wretched en-
ployment in which her mother found her,
in order to save few pence for the miser-
able creature who had eluded the officers
of Justice, although vigorous efforts were
made to trace her olt for the purpose of
punishment. ..- ..r..
Year: 1863

The Board of Public Works of the city
of Chicago have taken the first steps to-
ward the construction of tunnel two miles
out into Lake Michigan, to supply the city
with pure water. The proposed tunnel will
be five feet in diameter on the inside of the
wall, and will require two years in con-
struction. -Four hollow cylinders will be
sunk in the lake at a distance of half a
mile apart, the lower end penetrating the
bed of the lake to the level of the proposed
tunnel, and from these shafts the tunnel,
will be dug in two directions, and also
pushed as rapidly as possible from the shore
All these cylinders will be closed after the
completion of the tunnel, and will be re-
moved to such depth as not to interfere
with navigation, with the exception of the
outside one, which will be constructed with
reference to its becoming the inlet for the
water or gate chamber, and perhaps be sur
mounted with small lighthouse and so
arranged that the water can be shut off
from the tunnel. The cost of the tunnel
will only be 1907 ,592, and it is supposed
by the board, that if the tunnel is construc-
ted, there will be no necessity for building
new pumping works, as it will be cOnstuc-
ted opposite the old works.
Year: 1863

WHAT IS CHEEK Pray pardon the
use of slang term Impudence will not
do. for it may exist without shrew wdness;
nor Self-possession, for that is a passive
rather than an active virtue nor Courage,
which is often allied with modesty; nor
Boldness, which man may have without
humOr True, you may say that man
has the face to say or do anything (; but
that is roundabout way of expressing
oneself, and you cannot speak of his face
in an allegorical sense, or call him ''fancy."
Grant me the term, then, and / will en-
deavor to explain it to my young brother
less lady readers. Cheek, then, is rare
union Of fun, impudence, readiness, perse-
yerence, and intelligence, endowing its
possessor with the power of walking quiz
etly over social obstacles; which form an
impossible barrier to the majority of man
kind. For example, it was "cheek" that
gave Diogones the advantages over Alex
ander; hat procured wives Gt is great at
that for the early Romans; that got dear
old Falstaff out of all his scrapes, enabling
him to make good end instead of a
parlous bad one; that procured James Bos
we'll admission to a club and niche in his
tory denied to many better man; that en-
abled he great Barnum to gull his fellow
creatures out of fortune, and when he
had spent that, to make a second by tell
ing his dupes face to face, how he had
done them Once Week.