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Year: 1865

NHoe III WHICH lulS country
Is involved than Abraham Lincoln


"hen the war began there were
impatient people who cried. .Oh. for


an hour of Jacksonl" But does anv


man who truly comprehends the


character and antecedents of this


great struggle, and the infinite M.


tlence and wisd m which the settle


ment of its various questions do


mands, really think that Andrew


Jaekson's qualities were those which


the situation requ res? 1t is the


great fact of no significance that the


vast and threatening opposition to
the policy of the Administration has
crumbied awsy before the steady
development of that. policy, and


crumbled without the FEAST yield;no


OF the Administration? It is an in


cldent of no meaning that In the


week of the passage of the emanct-
patton amendment by Congress, s. S.
Cox, a representative of kind of
''war Democracy" moves the thanks
OF Congress to the President. and in
thesame week the notorious Fernando
Wood, the most unscrupulous dema.
gogue and peace apostle in the
country, declares for strenuous war?
1t is nothing that the shrewdest iour-
nais of the Opposition. which. from
the first shot of the war, cried out
with Horatio Seymour that to touc h
slavery was to destroy the Constitu-
ton, now complacently announce
that the Constitutional amendment
was always n Democratic" meas
ure, sand that the Democratic party
was always an anti slavery party?
Does any body mean seriously to as
sert that the active head of an Ad-
ministration which, in country like
this, frenzied with party-spirit like
ours, torn for four years with a vast
sectional civil war, and necessarily
menaced with foreign Interference,
has directed public affairs until the
army and nrvy are every where vic
torious, and the most malignant Cd
ponentS Of the war now openly ad-
yocate it and thank the President,
who has carried steadily forward a
policy which they have steadily de
nounced-does any one mean gravely
to asserv that such head is shift
less, undecided man, ready to saeri-
flee any principle, forever housing
ronnd for peace, and anxious to bay
it at any price2


There is no man of us al probably
who wishes for peace NOR Yearnestly
tkaA the Prdsident. There Is
cef3Ainly no man who IS so little
likely to surrender any essential
point to secure it. The purpose in
the war, which he understands the
people to cherish, ho has plainly
iterated and reiterated. The con-
ditions upon which peace is possible,
and without which it is impossible,
he mas as often repeated. Peace can
not be made upon the sly or in a cor
ner. Shall we not say plainly, what
every loyal citizen sees with pain,
that it is the Tribune, which has so
long and nobly fought the good fight
against the subversion of the Gov
eminent by the slave power, that
now speaks of peace in q strain of
cringing obsequiousness to the slave
lords in rebellion, which inevitably
suggests that it would be willing to
make peace upon terms of conces-
sion to those lords which the Presi-
dent and all faithful citizens would
reject with scorn?-HarPer's Weekly.
Year: 1865

" ParueS. Upon wnat grounds are


they to be reconstructedY


There are various speculatlons uuon


this point but they all seem to us to-
be premature. Parties in a free gov
ernment divide upon the policy of
administration Butuntil the admin
istration of the Government is se-
cure, it is too early to discuss poll
cies. There may be differences az
to the means Of securing the author.
ity of the Administration. That ia
to say, the friends of the war may
differ as to how it may be made most
effective. But that is not division
into political parties.


Nor is it easy to infer from the
previous history of the country what
the division will be. The political
struggle of this country from the be-
ginning has been that between the
Southern policy and the essential
principles of the Government. Bua
now that the latter have triumphed
absolutely. and have DESTROYED the


foundation of that policy, there must


be entirely new issues. These ara
likely to arise; in the first place, from
the peculiar structure of our Govern
mentS and, in the second, from the
methods necessary to carry it on
The relative rights and powers Of
the States nd the nation, and the
fundamental question >of protection
and free trade, and the probable
grounds of future party division.


The Eveaing Post, one of the oldest
old-fsshioned Democratic organs in
the country, is of opinion that if-the
proposition of universal free trade
as the permanent national policy had
been made to the rebel agents in
Hampton Roads. 1t would have seri.
ously tempted Mr.. Hunter. an old
free trader But however probable
it may be that this question NAV
hereafter divide the country politi-
cally, it would certainly have been
an extraordinary suggestion from the
President to the rebels. Nobody
knows better than the Post that there
is the utmost radical difference upon
that very point among loyal men,
and all that the President could have
said would be no more than an ex-
preston of the probability that there
would be large free-trade party
hereafter. But whether tree trado
wonld be adopted as a permanent
national policy the President could
no more tell than Mr.. Hnnter. If no
badzssosen 70 indulge In political /,
sPecc cfatfun OF that Kind the Presi-
dent might have added, that, in his
opinion also, the doctrine of supreme
State sovereignty would be effectu-
ally exploded. But snch topics
would hardly have been timely or
judicious. What the President could
officially do, was one thing. What
Mr.. Lincoln supposed the popular
decision upon 4 vital point of differ
ence might be, was quite another.


In the present situation of tho
country there arc no grounds upon
which to construct great parties; but
there was mover more favorable
moment for the discussion of tho
cause which has brought US to this
condition, that we may not only win
victories but secure their fruits
The great fruit will be the establish
ment of the Government upon or
iginal principles. When that is ac-
complished, parties viii aturally
arise. .-Rarpsr's Weekly.
Year: 1865

,tucn, ana the balance of power be
Destroyed Whether It IS not on
the whole, fortenate thing that so
clety IS our career, and that We don't
look too deep into things? Whether
greater knowledge would be greater
blissf Whether, if dress and vanity
did not I'LL our hearts anything better
wouldf Whether, to be held s.Some-
thing better than his dog, a little
dearer. than his horse" would salts
~ n true woman's whole iheart7
Whether, to look for ANYTHING
In the future but an establish
ment, is not to prepare for ones self
weary disappointment? Whether,
with this In view, it pays to cultivate
ones mind and sentiment? Whether
it is not better for us to ignore the
existence of anything deeper than
vanIty-anything more lasting thon
pleasuref o


What is left for q woman in this
enlightened nineteenth century; what
can she attain to, higher than admi-
ration in society, and, from thence,
on towards the dizzy pinnacle of a
great match? 1t is her only road to
power, her only hope of gain; if she
have ambition, so only can she graf
ify it. 1t is contemplate for a man
to exert himselfto to secure admiration
In society-that is one of the fine
things that follow in the train of his
other successes. His talents and his
fame give him this without an effort
on his part. But, for poor woman,
it is her only chance of temporal adj
vancement and glory-a glory as
brief as it is brilliant, that will fade
with her fading cheeks-that will die
with her short youth. 1t is the slip
perry little by path on which she may
scramble up to influence; her delicate
feet pierced with numberless vexa
tious thorns; her white hands soiled
with her eager grasps at whatever
may help her on. And what does
she gain when she has reached this
eminence--t this coveted height-from
which she sees below her the fair
scenes of youth and innocence, with
the blue mist of memory and distance
around them, as far from he- as if
she had never passed through them
las impossible to regain? For the
descent is upon the other side of this
eminence, where lies the dark valley
ofthe shadow of death. The trou
bled face, in many splendid car


70 aas told me the story often.


Pretty women. put ambi-


4efeis any
iSiere; 1t does not. pay There's no
arrangement made for it in a woman's
existence--it's only meant for men,
with whom it may become a virtue
whom it may lead to splendid things
But for us, women, we must say our
prayers, and tell the children stories,
sew buttons on our brothers shirts, :
and be patient.
Year: 1865

l spoke but softly in the hail;


Yet torrent-like, her rushing feet
Dashed, like hurying waterfall,


Adown the stair my step TO greet
l scarce could whisper in the hall,


Nor end the words so oft begun;
Form that happy interval


Her beating treest and mine xere one
Year: 1865

TEMPERANCE MEETING large Temperance
gathering IN connection with the National Temperance
Alliance win take place at the Cooper Institute Saur
day nox,, al O'Clock. Qaiie number Of our local
clorgymen aud other gentlemen win be present and
take part in the meeting
Year: 1865

New York, June li.-Private adviccs from a
prominent member of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company announce the completion of the cable,
and confidence in having England and America
in telegraphic communication next month ,
Year: 1865

In the Porch.


I.
wesst in the porch together;
And, under the claspiug vine.
Her floating locks we're lifted
With every breath Of nine.
Down through The verdgrous spaces
Rippled the wandering air,
And the seiltillant gold of Summer
Trembled upon her hair.
Was II visible blessing
An anreole Of graceT
Or foolish fancy cheated
By the light on lovely free
Her eyes are blue as the midnight,
And false as the waveful sea
And every azure lightning
is winged death for me


II.
So thick in the porch the woodbine
Has spread its leafy roof,
Scarce can a dripping sunbeam
Rain through the cliuging wool.
We sit in its devy darkness,
And watch asthe wind goes by,
Its leafy break and ripple
Against the far blue sky.
yainly the sunlight struggles
To crown her shadowy hair;
Yet ever my fond thought faneies
Its golden glimmer there.
Her eyes are blue as the noontide.
And deep as the fathomless sea
And all their beamy heaven
Is visible PRAYER for me-
Year: 1865

DIR. Dio Lewis gives the following
advice to girls to make free use of their
arms in walking. His advice should
be needed, for the simple reason that
many good results will follow from it ::


The first time you are walking with
your arms at liberty stop moving them
and hold them by your sides. You
will be surprised to find how soon your
companion will leave you behind, al
though you may hurry, twist, wriggle,
and try very hard to keep up. One
reason of slow walking among the girls
is to be found in this practice Of carry
pg the arms motionless. Three miles
an hour, with the arms still, is as hard
work as four miles with the arms free.


have seen the queen cf the stage
walk. | have seen a few girls and
women of queenly bearing, walk in the
street and drawing room. They moved
their arms in free and graceful man
ner. Should this habit become univer-
sal among girls their chests would en-
large and their bearing be greatly i'm
proved. See that girl walking with
both hands in her muff. How she wrig-
giles and twists her shoulders and hips !
This is because her arms are pinioned.
Give them free swing, and her gait
would soon become graceful.


You have seen pictures of our mus
cles. Those of the upper part of the
body, you remember, spread out from
the shoulders in all directions, like
fan. Now if you hold the shoulders
still, the muscles of the shoulder will
shrink, the shoulders stoop, and the
whole chest becomes thin and ugly.


But some girls will say Swinging
the arms must be very slight exercise"
True, it is very slight if you swing them
but once or ten times, but if YOU swing
them ten thousand times in a day YOU
Will obtain more exercise of the muscles
of the chest than by all the other move
ments combined. Indeed, if | were
asked what exercise | thought most eff
fective for developing the chests of
American girls, should reply at once,
swinging the arms while walking.
Year: 1865

ROMANTIC AND SPUNKY.-A drum
mer IN the Seventh Wisconsin Regi-
ment turns out to be Miss Georgiana
Peterman, a quiet and pretty girl Of
nineteen or twenty. She ought to beat
the last roll at the execution Of jeff.
Davis.
Year: 1865

MERCHANT MILL.-Messrs. Kyger q
Reese have leased the excellent water
privilege and mill-site of E. H. Barron, just
below town, and are making arrangements
to commence, in few days, the erection
thereon of large merchant Touring mill.
They propose to have none but the best
kind of machinery in the establishment
the same as used in the " Standard Mills"
at Oregon City-so that they can manufac-
ture an article Of -four between which and
the best Willamette production there can be
no distinction as to quality,-thus shutting
ont lie Willamette flour from competition
I'm bis rket The mill will contain three
run Of four foot burrs and be capable of


gina oat $50 barrels of -four per day.
lhay viii have abundance of water to run
their mill the year round, excepting, per-
maps few weeks in winter, when cold
weather may prevent IT.


These gentlemen will set the workmen to
clearing the ground tomorrow, preparatory
to the erection of their distillery, and they
expect to have the mill and the distillery
both in running order within ninety days.
Year: 1865

PARTIES who have come over from Grand
Ronde this week say that the ground in that
valley is still covered with snow The
weather has been unusually stormy there for
the past two or three weeks. the most of
which time it has been showing
Year: 1865

LIEUT.. Cabannis was thrown from horse
at the Dalles last week, and so severely in
jured in the head that his life was for sew
eral days despaired Of At last accounts he
was slowly recovering This is the second
accident of the Iliad Lieut. c. has met with
during he year.
Year: 1865

Several parties left this place during the week
for Fisherville, Kootenai mines. Those who are
acquainted with that region of country seem to
think it is too soon to start yet, on account OF
there being too much snow to admit of travel.
The parties that are on the way to these mines
expect to go as far as the snow will permit them
and then break trail through
Year: 1865

1t is not necessary that any should have an
opinion as to the guilt innocence of the parties
in the great libel suit which ended in this city
last week, in order to have very decided opinion
as to the nature of the revelations which that suit
made of the character of politics as system or
trade driven by men who make It business.


Perhaps it discovers on our part want OF knowl-
edge of the world. Perhaps we shall be considered
yerdant. But we do not desire to conceal the fact
that the disclosures made this trial appalling
to our moral sense, and such as in our judgement
ought to make each particular hair of every honest
man stand on end. The worst of all is that the
facts are of such public notoriety that no one is
shocked by them, and is considered a matter of
course that politics and politicians are corrupt, and
nobody cares e.g go f


Take but one example out of the many exposed
by this trial. that the clerks In the Custom House
were called on to contribute thousand dollars to
promote the election of Mayor in the city Of New
York. Weare told that enc party does no more OF
this wickedness than another, and we take 1t for
granted, Just now, that it is So And what then p
We have ii admitted that persons in the service Of
the General Government are taxed to pay the ex-
penses Of the election of municipal officer, whose
duties have no relation to national politics, and
whose claims to Office ought to be decided solely
local grounds What has the Custom House to do
with the Mayors Office And why should men
who hold their appointment under the United States
Government be required to pay part Of their saa-
ries to defray the expenses of our municipal cleo
Year: 1865

These works viii be printed on greatly improved
quality Of paper and while nearly all American Perod-
calls either advanced in price reduced in sizeand
very generally bothwe shall eontinue to give faithful
copies Of all the matter contained in the original editions
Hence present prices win be found cheap for the
amount Of matter furnished those Of any Of the
peting periodicals in the country.


Compared with the Of the original editions which
at the present premium gold would be about 500
year. prices f$l5 exceedingly low Add to this
the fact that we make our annual payments TO the British
Publishers for early sheets and copyright in GoId$l
costing us at this time nearly 50 so in currencyand we
trust that in the scale have adopted shall be entire
y justified by our subscribers and the reading public


The interest of these Periodicals American readers
rather increased than diminished by the articles they
tain great Civil War, and though sometimes ting
ed with prejudice they may STILL considering their great
ability and the different stand points from which they
written be read and studied with advantage by the peo-
pie of this country Of every creed and party.


LEONARD SCOTT d CO., Publishers,


No. 3s Walker Street. New York.
Jan. 2T 1865;
Year: 1865




Tv0R MLE-AT PRIVATE SALE THE NEW AND
oeAnoial manson House and Land attached belonging
70 the estate q the late Captain john Barker situated
north shore q stated between vaetoyve and Port
kichmond The house built In the very best and
contains fourteen rooms and all the modern
Year: 1865

LAKE TuExE1-Thc lake tunnel has now
reached length Of 1,7ss feet or nearly one third
OF a mile. IT ID believed TINT With tho present
tate of progress and the Increased convenieuccs
which will follow the sinking Of the lake shsft,
that the work can be completed by the Grst OF
Year: 1865

A MILITARY novelty was seen near
Fort Lyon, recently, in night parade
of two divisions of the Ninth Corps,
each man carrying lighted candle in
the muzzle of his musket. The sight
was a curious and brilliant one.
Year: 1865

Not wishing to continue farming longer, will sell
my Farm 81 miles from Town. 1t contains about
40 Acres, more than half cleared land. The wood
land is very convenient to any person living in Town
and wishing to get their own wood without buying.
1t has it very elegant Peach, Apple and Cherry
Orchard, fine Spring of Water, and number of
good Shade Trees, and tolerable good Dwelling
House with Out-Houses


l have on the Farm four good Mules, Wagon,
Harness and other farming utensils about 10 acres
Of good Sorghum Cane and good crop of Corn, an
elegant Iron Cane Mill, and two Wood Boilers all
of which will dispose of to any person wishing to
buy ! can be found my Store in Charlotte, and
will take plea asure in carrying any person out in my
buggy to show the place.


Sept I, 1865 JNO. F. BUTT.
Year: 1865

WAsHEGToS, Jan. rs.


The Star says: Dispatches received nere
state, that yesterday morning at o'clock
a rebel feet Of FIVE vessels, the Richmond
squadron SO long being prepared, came
down the river to destroy our depots and
works at City Point. The high water
caused by the freshet enabled them to pass
the obstruction, which our commanders
had placed above City Point for the better
protection Of the place. Battle quickly
ensued between the rebel feet and our
nearest battery or fort, in which one rebel
vessel was blown up and entirely destroy
ed. while two others were SO badly dam
sged by shot and shell as to compel them
to seek safety by speedy fight back in the
direction of Richmond, accompanied by
Ithe other two, which escaped damage to
speak Of


Admiral FRrrsgut left here yesterday
evening for the scene of this action, and it
Is understood that he will at once assume
msval command there.
Year: 1865

Ths Treasury Department will shortly is
sue new batch of fractional currency,
printed upon new material, impervious
TO wster, and with tenacity superior to
parchment.


The Times special says Mr.. Sherman
writes privately to his officials the most
surprising news of the situation in South
Carolina. There is not point of impor-
tance in that State that does not lie at his
mercy.


The Wilmington Journal learns that
during the recent freshet, seventy feet Of
the railroad bridge over the Roanoke river
at Weldon, was washed away,
Year: 1865

HGTPeTs Weekly gives pair Of full page
cartoons that bring the great question of
the hour before the understanding of the
nation more forcibly than many columns
OF argument could do In one, Columbis
stands in the portal of Temple of Libarty
looking down dOubtfully and halt sadly
upon kneeiing crowd Of petitioners for
pardon and readmissi0n. Many of the
latter figures are portraits, and all are the
readily recognized representatives, of pro-
slavery rebel element, countenances dark
with the hatred of Freedom, and lily dis
sembling their rebeliious zeal faces and
Gestures that have for 3 generation pressed
foremost among the throng with whom
the great revolt was q deliberate purpose,
years In framing It is gathering Of
punished but not repentsnt rebels, willing
for the present to resume their citizen.
ship. Upon these the genius of our eoun-
try gszes down and asks, Shall I trust
these n1en-P and finishes the inquiry on
the following page. In this there stands
beside her on the threshold manned col
ored soldier of the army Of the Union.
His features are those of his race, but man
hood has set Its seal upon him, and loyal
ty has demanded its sacrifice unshrinkiDg-
ly given. Comparing this defender Of the
Union with the men who have scarcely
yet rested from seeking its ruin, Columbia
finishes the inquiry, "aald not this man q
The question Is one whose answer and its
consequences neither this government nor
people can escape. Are white rebels bet-
ter and safer material for reconstruction
than colored men, whose love of loyalty
and liberty have been 50 sbundantly de-
mnnstrsted in the past four yeals2 is
complexion or skin of more importance
than complexion OF hearth
Year: 1865

The Cleveland Herald of July 3lst7
came out in an article advising General
Cox to make no answer 10 the letters of
inquiry in respect to suffrage which had
been addressed 10 him. The Cleveland
Herald of August 10th says that 'nOthiDg
could be more tricky or dishonest" than
that very course We congratulate the
Herald on its suddenly enlightened sense
of honor
Year: 1865

is now tremblingly exhOrting Union men
to say nothing on the subject The


LEADER intends to advocate its own opin-
ions, and not to throw them aside at the


beck of this or that individual With the
Herald it Is different. 1t has no opinions
of its own, and only sspires TO follow, like
spaniel, at the heels Of this or that Promi-
nent politician.
Year: 1865

The Herald lectures Messrs. Plumb and
FAircbild very cavAlierly for their supposed
hostility to General Cox. We hsppen to
know that both of them are working earn
estly for his election. If the Herald does
IS much for the success of the Union ticket
this fall IS these two gentlemen, it will
have to stop scOlding pretty soon, and go
A, .unr liz
Year: 1865

The Herald is very anxious to prove that
Messrs. Plumb and Fairchild compelled
General Cox to publish his recent letter.
That is a slur upon the coursge and dis
cretion of a gallant officer, which We, in
behalf of General Cox, must Indignantly
repel.
Year: 1865

WASHINGTON, November 23-The dir eetors
Of the Board Of Trade have taken action with
view to the consolidation Of the cities of
Washington and Georgetown and the remain
der of the county of Washington into one
municipality, instead of being as at present
under the control of five distinct authorities.


They declare it is eminently proper that the
the Board of Trade, representing so large an
amount of the property and trade of this dis
trict, should take the lead in this movement in
order to procure an efficient and harmonious
municipal Government.


The Hon. Thad. stevens is amOng,the recent
arrivals