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Year: 1862

In speech delivered in New York
last Friday, John Van Buren, said


They have talked of arresting promi
nent men on our side. They have sp'.
ken at times of arresting me. laugh.
ter.) Not to me they would not tell
such nonsense to me, but to sick rela
tives, women and children. (Renewed
laughter.) I told them that they dare
not arrest me in New York city. The
physical force was so strong. They
thought they would arrest me in Phil,
adelphia, where they had majority,
and went there to see if they would.


Laughter.l They did not do it there,
and I went to Baltimore, and as they
did not do it there, l went to Washing
ton, and into the Presidents house.
daughter and applause.) And as my
business there has been subject of
considerable conversation, I now state
that I had no business on earth there
except to see whether they wanted to
arrest me, but they did not dare to so
long as I kept inside of the constitution
and the laws and though a very mod
crate lawyer, l knew the law enough
not to violtae it, while / knew perfectly
we'll that they did not dare arrest me
as they had arrested women, I know
this that if any man connected with the
illegal arrests that have been made in
New York State sets his foot upon the
soil of New York State, l will arrest
him. (Cheers long continued,) And
so help me God, he shall be brought to
such punishment as the Constitution
and the laws of our country admit.
(Renswed cheers.
Year: 1862

provisions OF the confis cation act, the


President having issued his proelama-
ton as provided for by said act warn
ing all those in rebellion to return tc
their allegiance, more than sixty days
before the commencement Of the action
and that plaintiffs, Notwithstanding the
proclamation, continued their rebel
lious practices.


This defence brought directly before
the court the constitutionality of that
section of the coniiscation act which
declares that of all who shall for sixty
days after the Presidents proclamation
continue in rebellion, their property
shall be forfeited to the government
and authorizes the President to seize it
and appropriate it to the use of the
United States. The act further de
clares that it shall be bar to all ac-
tons to plead and prove that the plain
tiff is in rebellion against the govern
meat.


The.2 section of the 3D. article of
the constitution of the United States
says "The Congress shall have pow
er to declare the punishment of treason
but no attainedr shall work corruption
Of blood or forfeiture except during the
life of the person attalnted." If the
object and intentions Of the confsca-
ton act is to work forfeiture of the
estate Of the rebel without previous in
dictment, trial and conviction for the
crime of treason in a court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, as argued, then in the
Judgment of the court it was a clear in
fraction Of that portion Of the constitu-
tion quoted above. In sustaining this
view of the question, the court aptly
alluded to the practical working of the
law, if carried into execution. In ef-
feet it clothes every judicial officer
from the Chief Justice Of the United
States down to the Police Judge of the
petticst village, with power indirectly
ty try every suitor, plaintiff, in his
court for treason-and that, too not un-
der the regulations governing criminal
trials, but according to practice of the
civil tribunals of the country. Then,
too, the citizen, under this law, mi ght
be deprived of his property by judg
ment of civil courts, and afterward up
on Indictment and trial in the criminal
courts be pronounced innocent.
Year: 1862

One day person entered Dumas
study and said "Ah Monsieur Dumas
l have called upon you because know
what generous heart you have and
that family in distress will never
call upon you in vain. A poor man
that I know is dead, leaving wife and
three children in such extremity tina,
they have not money enough to pay
the expences Of hi. burial. Give them
that sum.


"How much is it ?''


"Fifty Francs


The novelist went to his escrotoire
and took threesnapoleons from a drawer
and gave them to the petitioner.


"Here," said he, "take this. What
was the husband 2"


"a cor stable''


"A what? A constable My hcav-
ems my dear fellow-hcre, take these
other napoleons and bury the last three
constables and if you know of any
more constables to be buried just call
On me.


There is no way of spending money
more agreeable to me than paying to
have constables put under the ground
Year: 1862

Massachusetts is nineteen thousand
short of her quota. The most back
ward State in the Union. She has
never been backward in thrusting her
opinions or her notions upon the
public. Her patriotism is on a par
with her nutmegs.
Year: 1862

New ORLEANS is an expensive luxury. The
Government is paying more than $4,000 a
month considerably more than the army OF oc
cupaii0n costs-to feed the starving rebels whom
Mai Gen Lowell and jeff. Davis have left upon
our hands or send in from day to day from be
yond our lines to be fed. The approach of Win
ter renders it a serious question whether the
National Government is called on to support
men who refuse to take the oath of allegiance
Gen. Butler has already organized one colored
regiment the darkest of the Numbers Of which
he is reported to have said is " about the c1lor
of the late Daniel Webster"
Year: 1862

THE NewsPAPER.--A man eats up pound o:
sugar. and the pleasure be has enjoyed is ended ;
but the information be gets from newspaper is
treasured up in the mind, to be used whenever
occasion or inclination call for it for a newspa-
per is not the wisdom of one man or two men, it
is the wisdom of the age. of past ages, too. A
family without newspaper is always an age be
hind the time 10 general information besides
they never think much, or find anything TO think
about. And there are little ones growing up in
ignorance without a taste for reading. Besides
all these evils, there is the wife, who, when her
work is done, has to sit down with her hands in
her lap. and has nothing to amuse her mind from
the tolls and cares Of the domestic circle.
Year: 1862

MYSTERY magnifes danger, as the fog the sun.
The hand that unnerved Belshazzer derived its
most horrtying influence from The want Of body; /;
aud death Itself is not formidable in what we
know Of it, but in what we do not
Year: 1862

To our unusually large stock Of Goods. Our
stock comprises every article in the C2othing and
FURNISHING line. We have constantly on hand


the largest stock and greatest variety Of CASsi-
MERE and w o IL II A T s., of any house in
the city, and our prices for these Go9ds are less
than of any other House, as we receive them
direct from the manufacturers Consignment
In sInnk of
Year: 1862

No Business Transacted I'm either Branch
OF the Leg is Said Of the
Arrest OF General Stone, &C., sc.


ALBANY, Feb. 10, 1862
Only fourteen Senators answered to their names on
the call Of the roll There being NO quorum present.
that branch Of the Legislature Immediately adjourned
The journal OF Saturdays proceedings read in the
Assembly when that body adjourned for the purpose
hearing Edward Everett. who holds forth tonight.
The report Of the Of General Stone and his being
sent the secession boarding house in the Narrows,
gives universal satisfaction here and s taken another
evidence of Secretary Stanton being the right man in
the right place


We are on the eve Of rich Developments in re-
gard the canal contracts which promise To be fully az
rich as the transactions OF the shoddy board and will
exhibit robbery Of the State in contract Alone
during the past summer, Of fifty thousand dollars
ShOddy and corruption seem 10 have ruled the roast
republican officials and honesty and integrity the
exception.
Year: 1862

and if this Government, should be enabled
to restore that Union, leaving in some Of the
States the cause of this rebellion in exist
ence, let us be thankful for success on
these terms, and in the language Of
our excellent President, whom all men Of
all parties now delight to honor, let the
"public mind rest in the conviction of
its ultimate extinction" when God
in his providence shall point out the way.


Let us then have large share of faith.
Our quarrel is just, our people reused to
the magnitude of their task /; our armies
are brave, aud the cause sweeps majestical-
ly on. 1t is vast work there must be
temporary repulses and disasters. They
cannot be avoided on a battle ground so
extensive and in campaigns embracing in
their scope 50 many points of interest and
attention. The people, in such cause is
able to stand many repetitions of Manassas,
and still emerge from the cloud of war tr-
umphant In short time, nearly mil
lion Of armed men, soldiers of the great
Republic, will have rallied to the support
of our National unity. And yet this does
not appear to have strained the powers or
dampened the energies Of the people,
Away from the seat of war, one would hard
ly suppose we were in the midst of a terri
bic conflict, so steadily are the usual avoca-
tions OF life pursued, and so smoothly run
its affairs in the various channels of busl-
ness, pleasure, and duty.


Dcpeul upon it, my friends, there are
many more links in the National chain the
people will cheerfully let out, if they are
convinced they are not to be tritied with,
and that all the powers which God has
given us, are to be energetically used in
crushing the rebellion. Satisfy them on
this point, and all will be safe. Foreign
intervention will lose half OF its terrors,
and the young giant of America, from eve
ry fall will rise with new strength and de-
termination to triumph. Then let us make
this day suggestive Of our duties to our
country. We all have our spheres Of ac-
tion-men, women and children-for all
can in some way bring aid to the common
cause Some have military skill; some q
superabundance of health and muscular
power; some the combative qualities ;
some can supply the wants of the sick and
the wounded, and like angels of mercy
minister to the heroes stricken down in our
country's cause; some can inform and in
spire the contest with proper teaching as
to its merits and bearings some can give
of their material wealth; some of their in.
tellectual some by their mechanical skill
can make contribution to the science Of
war; all can work together, earnestly


faithfully, with trust in the gracious
purposes of our Heavenly Father, and an
abiding faith that He will not permit the
destruction of nation, where humanliber-
ty and undefled religion have already made
such advances, and which still presents a
field for future developement of all that is
good and great in human nature such as
the world has never witnessed.
Year: 1862

So you have bought that pleasant farm
where Mr. Dalton used to live said Mrs
Emery, to her neighbor, Mrs. Austin. 1t
is q pretty place, but after all, shall not
envy you-for there will be the Walsons
under your elbow, and worse neighbors you
never found. Watson you know, spends
all he can get for liquor, and his wife is
little better than himself indeed, some
say if she was the woman she should be,
her husband would he o better man. And
her children the pests of the neighborhOod.
brought up to idlenesS and mischef-they
bid fair to pcrpetuate their parents charac.
ter


Poor children said Mrs. A., mournful,
ly-what better can we expect Of them
than that they perpetuate their parents
characters, except there be redeeming in
hueuces cast around them This poor
mother had much to harden her heart. She
was an orphan, cast out on the world in in
fancy. Her heart never unfolded the buds
parental love. Everything in her that
was good was checked by the evil influences
which surrounded her.-HOw can we ex
pect one to be good aud kind, who never
knew kindness was herselfl We do not
know, Mrs Emery, what q0e shold be, if our
fate had been like hers.


True-true, replied Mrs E., but il does
seem as il she might know enough to lei
her neighbors' property alone but, you
know they say she will steal.


She does not know that she should moi
steal But you and j ought to thank
Heaven that. strong as We think our prin
ciples TO be, they have not been tried by
temptations such as hers We do not know
what it is to be hungry and cold, and SEE
our little ones shivering around us, crying
for bread, while our neighbors have enough
and to spare.


] Very well, said Mrs. Emery, rather in
dignanlly we shall see how you like tC
have your clothes line and your fruit.tree'
robbed every now-andthen.


That will be very unpleasant, if it occurs
was the quiet reply but believe society
is guilty of great deal of the mischief il
suffers from such persons. They are edu
Gated in poverty and vice no smiles oI
love fall on their cherries childhood nc
kind voice warns them of the evils which
surround their path no kind hand is ex
tended to raise them up when falling bu
they are often repelled with aversion ant
contempt by those who profess to be Chris
tians and phlanthropists


You have singular notions, Mrs. Austin
rejoined her friend, For myself l confess
/ cannot help feeling an averson to sucl
J people, and wish them as far OF as possible
Year: 1862


Why do you bend above the detd ana weep.
Her tears have Piled through the slow passing years
For love you would not give and now, ye keep
Your yigils close beside her, and your tears
Fall on the brow that will not flush again
At your cold scorning. Tighter clasp your hands
Bend lower DER the lost one in your pain,
And break, H. may De, Deaths resistless 'und7.
Thus have her weep not Tor the dad
But for tile need of gentle words denied
For low, sweet VOWS of tenderness unsad,
And for the love your lips had pledged the bride
And day by day her cheek had paler grown,
Till, like lilly bli gifted by the frost,
She died in beauty and ye sit alone


In idle sorrow for tine early lost.
Well, well Gcd help you you have called her wife
For many year and perchased tonight
A dream or what you might have made her life,
Passed before you, and you feel the might
Ofa repentance which cannot avail


To bring the broken hearted back TO earth,
The pure life current to the lips so pale,
Nor 10 the eye, the olden look of mirth
Aye, weep tonight The world will mark yourwe,
And say-IIow we'll he loved her land bright eyes
VIII glance toward your palace, white as snow,
That in the bosom of the valley lics
While young hearts striving vainy to crush out
The untimely thought will long TO sooth your pain,
And 10y their Kindness teach you to forget
The voice that will not come to you again
Yes, weep Ye have but one long night to watch,
The morrow's sun will shine upon her grave
And kneeling here, may lie ye will catch
Sweet echoes from the land where white robes wave
It may be God forgiyes you weep to night
To morrow, seek the farest of the fair,
FoFgetful of the dead and in the sight


OfangleF, bind another 10 desqair.
Year: 1862

An Illinois Boy At Fort DoneIsou.


The Last Freeport Journal comes to US with
thrilling account Of the part taken by the
gallant Illinois lth in the fight at Fort Doncl-
son, as described by Capt Smith D. Atkins, Of
company A, Of that regiment. Gladly would
we give extracts from it had VIC the space to
do so. Capt. Atkins commenced the active
duties Of life as printer boy, raised himself
By his own efforts to the position of editor,
which he resigned for the legal profession
When the proclamation Of the President WAS
published calling for volunteers to sustain the
Government, 1t found him with large legal
business on his hands, and, in addition the Of
fetal duties Of Prosecuting Attorney for Win
nebsgo, 10 Dayiess and Stephenson counties,
apoEition to which the patriotic people Of
those counties had elected him.


Throwing all aside at the call Of his country,
be boldly came forward as a volunteer to shou1-
derh hisImusketlfor action. Upon the selection
OF officers for the company in which he was
enrolled, he was selected as Captain With
little or 10 military knowledge, he hcsitated,
hut at The urgent request of his men, he said
Il will try sir, - and right well he has done Lis
duty. Rising from a sick couch, for three days
and nights did he, with his brave boys, face
the enemy, and the storms, and. was among
The first to march into and take possession of
the fort and plant their battle-scarre banner
On its walls. Going into the fight with over
sixty men, he came out Of it with some thirty,
These arc the men for the times. ALI honor
to them, and all who do thus we'll 4 patriot
ic and grateful people will ever cherish their
memories
Year: 1862

An INTERESTING RELIc DR. Perkins ex.
hibited at The Missionary meeting at Lon
don, some time ago, a copy of The New
Testament, which be found IN Persia that
was 100 years Old. Il was written in the
aucient Syrian language, (he spoken By
Jesus when on earth J upon parchment,
with a reed for pen. OF course the vol
ume was bulky though not as large as We
should suppose 4 Testament made in that
way would be. II was not thicker than
Webster unabridged, and not more than
two thirds as large. DR. Perkins found
three or tour copies of the Testament in


lhls form in that country, which were If we
understood him, the only written language
that the people had By The aid Of these he
made language tor the HISTORIANS and in
strucied them IN il for near.y 30 years. DR..
Perkins said also, that this New Testament,
which had been transcribed in this rade
manner several times, and handed down
from the time of Christ, was in every respect
the same as the Word which we now have
"a remarkable proof of The authenticity Of
our Bible.
Year: 1862

To-day the people of Walla Walla county are
to meet in mass Convention at the Court House
in this city, for the purpose of ominaIing list o
county officers for the ensuing year. So far as
we have learned, there is a general disposition
manifested on the part of the people of the city
part in its proceedings. We trust that spirit oi
devotion to the best interests of the county may
rule its deliberations, and that it may be harmo-
niously conducted to this end. Although we do
not have this year sheriff and county clerk to
elect, there are, nevertheless, important offices to
be filed. Among the most important are the
members of the Legislature and the County Com
missioners-three of each. Councilman John A.
Simms holds over during the next session. There
will undoubtedly be, as usual, plenty of aspirants
before the Convention, but whether there are or
not, it will become the duty of that body to Sc
lect the best men in the county-men who are
known to be honest, competent, and faithful to its
interests-to fill the different offices. Measures
of importance to the upper country will come up
during the next session, and an efficient and com
petent delegation will be required to direct them
in such channel as to produce the most desira-
BILE results. Give us three sterling, working rep
resentatives, who are unequivocally identified with
the interests of Walla Wala county, and with our
present worthy citizen and Councilman, we need
have no fears that needed legislation will be over
looked. Add to this the delegation from the up
per counties-twelve in number, including Walla
Walla-and we may go into the Legislature with
sufficient strength to secure the adoption of those
measures which will best promote our welfare and
happiness a people. The importance of the
office of County Commissioner is always under
estimated; and being So men are frequently cleo
ted who are found to be either dilatory or incom-
petent. 1t is thankless office, and one to which
but few men aspire. 1t is to be hoIed, however,
that the Convention may be able to find within
the county three men of sufficient public spirit
and enterprise to accept nomination and per-
form the duties of the Office however onerous
they may be. This office should be filled during
the coming year by men of sterling enterprise, in
asmuch as large amount of work will devolve
upon their hands. There are roads to be opened.
bridges to be built, thoroughfares to be improved
in various directions and other county matters to
be attended to all of which will demand the ex-
ercise ofpublic spirit and some little personal sac
rifce for the good of the county. Let the Con
vention which assemblies to-day nominate men
with view to their fitness and capacity, and we
believe the county will endorse their action at the
polls on the 18th of July next.
Year: 1862

which prerogative they assume-they should
take receipt for goods on their arrival at
the Dalles, and that receipt should be for
warded to the shipper so that in case of
the loss of packages, the shipper may be
able to ascertain where they were lost and
obtain the proper indemnity. Under this
loose system of business, the shipper has
no guaranty whatever for the safe conduct
of his goods when once they are out of his
hands. A merchant at this place, for ex-
ample, loses package of goods in transit
from Portland. He applies to Mr.. ]. NJ.
Vansyckle, the company agentat Wallua,
for the missing package, and he refers him
to the agents below. This is at once a
stumper having no data, its recovery would
probably cost more than the package is
worth. Besides, what assurance has he, if
he were to apply below, that he would not
be as confidently referred above


A Gentleman of our acquaintance residing
in this city, recently received notice that
three packages of freight was at Wallula
awaiting his order He Immediately dis
patched teamster for them, sending also
amount of freight bill The teamster in
due tine returned without the freight said
that the clerk measured the boxes and found
balance of six dollars due, and according
to the company's rule the uttermost cent
must be paid before the goods are deliv-
cred Another teamster was dispatched
with the six dollars balance, and with a re-
quest that the goods be sent up this time,
as their receipt was matter of some i'm
portance Again in due time the teamster
arrived, bringing no goods, but receipt
for the money as freight in full for three
packages of merchandise; the teamster this
time stating that the clerk said there were
no such goods there. How that same clerk
could have measured the aforesaid goods
made an extra charge of six dollars, receipt
ed for the freight on them, and then declare
that they were not there, is most profound
and incomprehensibl mystery to the owner
of them. He is satisfied, however, that the
goods must be there; and the last we saw
of him he was holding a serious counci
with himself to devise ways and means t.
get them out Of the clutches of the compa
ny, without further trouble and expense.


This style of playing man from one re
tail shop to another all over town on ;
g white amp-black - errand, may be al
very funny, but at the same time f" business
is business The careless, Indifferent man
ner of doing business by this company, il
played out" with the people of the upper
country; and on the part of many of them
what goods cenrot be got up. p.overland frol.
the Dalles, will be brought by the opposi
ton steamer and the sailing crafts, whicl
are becoming popular means of transpor
tation on the upper river. Merchants anc
shippers should see to it that no monopoly
becomes so formidable on our waters as t.
eventually cripple commerce and subver
the interests of shippers.
Year: 1862

HORSE THIEvEs-The county officers are on
the alert for horse thieves Several of these indi-
vidualS have been arrested in this community of
late, and other suspicious characters will probably
share like fate soon. 1t is to be hoped for the
good of the country, that persons found guilty of
this crime will be punished to the full extent of
the law.
Year: 1862

EARLY VEGETABLEs.-No country that we
have ever been in is better adapted to the growth
of vegetables than the Walla Walla valley The
snow had scarcely left the foothills in the spring
when lettuce, radishes, onions and ruta-bagas
were abundant in market. New potatoes have
been in market more than a week. This beats
the lower country by at least two weeks The
Oregonians are in the habit of shipping their ear
ly vegetables from California. Henceforth we
would recommend them to ship their supplies in
this line from this valley
Year: 1862

II has been decided that the Michigan Legislature
In special session, has power to other
business than such required for the public safety
and embraced In the proclamation and message OF the
Governor. Won't tho federal Congress follow the ex-
amplef