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Year: 1867

How NEAR Is HEAVEN ?-Christians
sometimes look far away to heaven but
that rest is not far off The clouds
that hide the sunshine worlds are thin,
they are transient, and soon will Oh.
scure no more; the journey may end
this hour one short step may place the
Christian in world of light; one dark
hour may hang upon him but the
morning comes and no shade behind it
Day, bright, peaceful and eternal, sue
ceeds it. 4 pang may be felt for a
moment, and then flies away forever
A conflict sharp and painful may con.
tinue for a night, but victory, eterna
victory ensues. How soon, oh how
soon the Christians cares are over, his
eyes sufused no more with tears. Neal
at hand is the land of his pursuit
Hope cheers. How glorious the Oh
ject that hope embraces How holy
its spirit. Who can contemplate the
home that our Heavenly Father is fit
ting for his children, and not feel in
his soul thirst for its enjoyments
Well these delights, the happy cline
those ever yerdant plains are not fal
distant. ---
Year: 1867

To Form a VIGOROUS MIND-Let
every youth settle in his mind that if
he would ever be anything, he has got
to make himself; or, in other words, to
rise by personal application. Let him
always try his own strength, and try it
efectually before he is allowed to call
upon others; send him back again and
again to the resources of his own mind,
for industry and perseverance, will ac-
complish In his early and timid
flights, let him know that stronger
pinions are near and ready to sustain
him, but only in the case of absolute
necessity. When, in the rugged paths
of science, if difficulties impede his pro-
gress which he cannot surmouut, let
him be helped over them but never
let him think of being led, when he has
the power to walk without help; or of
carrying his ore to another's furnace,
when he can melt it in his own.
Year: 1867

a JUICY ADvERTIsEMENT-BoARD-
ERs WANTED. .-Wanted-two or three
boarders Of a decent stripe, such as 90
to bed at nine o'clock without a pipe or
cigar in their mouth. I wish them to
rise in time to wash their faces and
comb their heads before breakfast -
When they put on their boots to draw
down their pants over them, and not
have them rumpied about their knees,
which is sure sign Of a rowdy. When
they sit down to rest or warm by the
fire, not to put their feet on the mantle
piece or bureau, and not spit in the
bread tray. And to pay their board
weekly, monthly, or quarterly-as may
be agreed upon-with a smile upon
their faces, and they will find me as
pleasant as an opossum up persimmon
tree. OLD MCCALLA.
Year: 1867

SELF-DEPENDENcE.- Many an unwise parent
works hard, and lives sparingly all his life
for the purpose of leaving enough to give his
children start in. the world, as tits called
Setting young man aaoat with money left
him by his relatives, is like tying bladder
under the arms Of one who cannot swim ten
chances to one he will lose his bladders and
80 down to the. bottom. Teach him to swim,
and he will not need the bladders. Give
your child good education. See to it that
his morals are pure, his mind cultivated, and
his whole nature made subservient to the
laws which govern man, and you will have
given what will be of more value than the
wealth of the indies. You have given him
. start which no misfortune can deprive him
Of. The, earlier you teach him to depend
ppon hisoWp resources and the blessings Of
God, the better. loot sa-siodrs
Year: 1867

HIGHLAND HoNEsTY.--Two centuries
ago it was thought an insult in the high
lands of Scotland to ask note from q
debtor 1t was considered the same as
saying, Il doubt your honor" If par
ties had small business matters to trans
act together, they stepped out inso the
open air, fixed their eyes on the heavens,
and each repeated his obligation with no
mortal Witnesses. A mark was then
carved in some rock or tree near by to be
a remembrancer of the compact, Such q,
thing as a breach of contract, we are told
was then very rarely met with, so highly
did the people regard their honor, and so
truly did they fear Him beneath whose
eye they performed such acts.


When the march of Improvement bro't
in the new mode of doing business, they
were often pained by these inpovators
An auecdote is handed down of farmer
who had been to the lowlands and learned
worldly wisdom. On returning to his
native parish he had need of sum
of money, and made bold to ask
loan of gentleman Of means, named
Stewart. This cheerfully granted, and
tho meney counted out on the library ia.
bic. this done, the farmer took a pen
and wrote receipt, and offered it to the
gentleman.


what is this, man % cried Mr.. Stew
art, sternly eyeing the piece of paper.


at is receipt. sir, binding me to give
ye back yer gold at the right time" re.
piled Sandy.


Binding ye? Well. my man, if ye
Gamma trust yersel', I'm sure I'll ma trust
ye! Ye Gamma ha' my gold p and gath.
ering up his gold. he put it back in his
desh and turned his key on it. ,.


But sir. | might die" replied the
canny Scotchman. bringing up an argu-
ment in favor of his new wisdom, "and
my sons might refuse it to ye. But this
bit o paper wad compel them =.


Compel them to sustain dead fathers
honor y cried the high-minded Scot.
They'll need compelling to do right if
this the road yer leading them I'll
neither trust ye nor them. Ye can gang
elsewhere for money But yell find name
in this parish that'll put more faith in a
bit o paper than in a neighbor's word o
honor or his fear O. God"
Year: 1867

60 We are pleased to see that Ameri-
can ladies are at last freeing themselves
from the bonds Of allegiance to Paris, and
are awakening to the knowledge that they
are fully as competent to select styles and
materials for their dresses as the represen-
tatives of fashion ip that gay city. Iii
not at all creditable to be obliged to cory
from the disreputable portion Of the fe-
malo world in Paris for fashisns, and the
sooner our ladies assert their Independence
the better.
Year: 1867

O. Boston and Roxbury have voted, to
unite their fortunes. We hope the union
will prove happy one, and that neither
party will regret the wedding, Boston
can now expand and taxes will keep pace
with it growth, The population now is
Dear 100000, and room for million.
Year: 1867

The MAILs.-Our Washington correspondent
writing under date of August 3lst, says the at
tsntion of the Post Office Department has been
called to the manner in which the mails are
carried between Walla Walla and Portland The
contractor on the route will at once be called to
account, aud such measures taken as will secure
to our people the mail facilities to which they
are entitled. In this connection we have to add
that there is no improvement on the route in
question. The little dog,cart arrangement is
still continued, and the mails get through in
from two to three days behind schedule time.
The newspaper mail that reached Portland by
steamer on Tuesday of last week, did not arrive
at Walla Walla until Saturday night and then
onlyA portion Of it, the balance coming through
by driblets. So far as news is concerned, the
mail is entirely useless, and were it not for the
Express, as general thing, we would have Eas-
tern dates in advance of our California e1chan-
ges We trust, as our correspondent says, that


the Department will look this matter up, and
take measures to have the mail carried in such
manner as TO make it apublie accommodation.
Year: 1867

USELESS LAws.-It is quite amusing to note
the attempts of law makers to try to force things
into given channel, or to compel the natural
law that govern everything to give away to their
hobbies. The Constitution of New York, made
in 1916, forbade the suspension of specie pay
ments in the State. But of what value was it 2
The people that adopted the Constitution and
this provision paid no attention to it whenever
pinch came. In this way the people are taught
to disregard laws when it is inconvenient to obey
them. There was no need of any such provision (;
for, of course, when money was plenty, specie
could be paid as well as anything and when
scarcity occurred, and specie could not be OBJ
tanned, something else must answer. The folly
of making laws that cannot be kept is so COM
mon, it ought to be frowned down.
Year: 1867

NEUTRAL PAPER.-Our friend StruYe, OF the
Vancouver Register in retiring from the editorial
tripod, very truthfully prOnOunces strictly
neutral paper confounded humbug." To which
he might have added that men who understand
the newspaper business never attempt to "humN
bug the public in this way. 1t by no means
follows that a paper to be useful must be parti-
san. On the contrary, the ablest and most use
full papers the world over are those that main
tain strict independence, and aim to become
the tribunes of the people rather than the mere
mouth-pieces of party. The London Times, a
paper that belongs to no party and yet is feared
by all parties, is perhaps the most brilliant
illustration Of this class of journals. On the
Pacific coast we have the Sacramento Union and
S. F. Bulletin, both thoroughly independent
papers, welding the widest influence. Indeed, it
is not too much to say that the late revolution
in California politics is mainly to be attributed
to the influence Of these two papers. Independ-
ent of all parties, these papers were in posi-
tion to rebuke the corruption that had crept into
the Union organization, and through the expos>
ures thus made the people were induced to turn
their backs upon party whose leaders had at.
tempted to auction off the highest Offices in the
State. A Anewspaper thoroughly independent and
entirely fearless is an acquisition to any commu-
nifty and can render a service altogether beyond
the reach of the mere partisan journal The
one is outspoken and free, the other is the organ
Of faction, compelled to " blow hot or blow
cold as its masters dictate. The highest mis-,
sion of the press is to champion the rights of
the people, and this duty can best be discharged
by an independent paper.
Year: 1867

LEGAL TENDERS. = Treasury notes obtained
very general currency for the reason that BY
act of Congress they were made a legal tender
in the payment of all debts public or private.
Without this provision, in face of the well known
repuguancy of our people to paper money, it is
quite certain that these notes never could have
gained any thing like a general circulation on
the Pacific coast. This feature, however, gave
them a specific value, and hence they readily
passed from hand to hsnd. We are led to these
remarks in view of the fact that notes issued
by the National Banks are rapidly superceding
the legitimate Government issues Most persons
take these National Bank notes under the i'm
preston that they are just as good as illegal
tenders" This is a mistake, as can be seen by
reference to the inscription on the back OF the
notes The fact is they are not illegal tender''
for any thing, and can only be used in the set
tlement Of debts by the consent of parties. The
sole advantage these notes have over the wild
cat" currency that cursed the Western country
a few years since is, that they are secured BY
deposit of Government bonds, and that in the
event OF the Bank elsOA Z" Nv


lay of year or two, will receive "legal tens
der" notes in lieu of his worthless National
Bank issues. If we must have paper money, let
US give the preference to the illegal tenders,


and thus avoid the use of notes issued by Banks
that are liable to fail at any time and involve
the holders of their notes in temporary if not
permanent loss. If these Banks were located in
our midst and the profits Injured to our local
advantage, there would be a plausible reason
for encouraging the use of a currency of doubt
ful value, but when it is borne in mind that
these notes are all poured in on US from abroad,
we think that there is abundant justification for
discountenancng the whole system. We take
up a package of these National Bank notes and
examine them at random The first in the lot
halls from "New Canaan, Connecticut" but
who can tell US whether this modern Canaan is
a "land flowing with milk and honey or in
the event of the Bank failing, how long we shall
have to wait for our money? Next is a note
issued by the "First National Bank of Freeport,
Illinois" locality of which we are ignorant,
but which certainly is under no obligation to
furnish us with circulating medium. And so
we might run through with the list and show
that these notes hail from all points of the COM
pass, and thatthey are issued by Banks of whose
solvency or insolvency we know nothing 1t is
proper that the people should understand that
these National Bank notes are issued altogether
as a matter of private speculation aud that the
ho1I talya tha oh Cft ha RanE fail no
and with the failure the certainty of having to
wait a year or two for his money.
Year: 1867

This system has become so important branch
of the Postofice Department, that increased fa>
cilities have just been added for the transaction
of business. The receipts from this system not
only defray the expenses attending it, but affords
q handsome income to the Department,
Year: 1867

This department is daily in receipt of large
numbers of complaints from residents of Idaho,
Washington, and other western Territories, in
relation to the newspaper mail. 1t appears that
at the last session of Congress the postage on
papers by the overland route, was increased to
the same rate as of that on letters. 1t is appar-
ent from the tenor of the complaints, that this
is working great hardship on the people oi
your section of the country. The department is
unable to do anything, save call the attention oil
Congress to the fact al its next session.
Year: 1867

Do you think of me and sigh


When the West.wind floating by
Der the ocean watts the murmur of my passionate
wild cry7
Does flush of crimson mantle in your cruel face
and fair,
To think the wind which wantons with the masses
of your hair
Comes weeping DER the woodlands were we wander.
ed oft and where


You are loved so tenderly7


All! the blossom on the tree


Was for other far than me;
For the South-wnd warm and tender where il crept
across the sea
With soft kiss and loving drew the foweret
from the stem;
And only felt the soft touch of your garments
broldered hem; e.
o the fierce death and the sudden, how nv spirit
longed for them


When you left me desOlate


How your pale and regal face


Showed the hauteur of your race
When my soul rushed forth to clasp you in one
passionate embrace
Ay the yearning and the hunger in my throbbing,
burning brain,
Burned eager as the parch'd sarth when it sighs
for summer rain;
But The torrent overAowing from my torn heart
burst in vain,
For you spurned me scornfully.
o. evil evil day!
Have you any word to say
That the good God should not spurn you when YOU
kneel to him and pray?
Had you any word Of kindness for my passionate
wild prayer1
Had you any thought Of pity for my look Of blank
| despair;
When you slew me with that cold word and fel
before you there?


Nay, you scOrned me utterly!


But though my life is curst,
And althoug h my heart should burst,
With this fierce paag in my bosom which the weary
years have hurst;
Never hasty word of mine shall soil the sweetness,
your name;
For the perfume and the promise of your life is still
the same,
As loved them that bright morning when thi.
cruel, cruel shame


Stung my spirit bitterly.


False face, begone from me!
I All, leave me, let me be
For my hungry soul has haunted all the mournfu
years with thee.
In the morning, in the midnight, on the sad de
serted shore,
Have wandered with the passion in my spir
evermore!
Through the billow and the breaker,-with the
sullen hungry roar,


Shines your cold face-MARIcN!


Home Journal.
Year: 1867

The remains of Charles T. Browne have
been temporarily placed in vault at Ken
sal Green Cemetery, London, whence, in
accordance with his desire, they will be
conveyed to America. For nine days be-
fore his death he was quite insensible. By
his will he leaves the bulk of his property
to his mother, and his love for children is
shownby an extraordinary number of lega-
cies to persons of the tender age. The
property beqneathed to his mother is at
her death to revert in trust to Horace Gree
ley, to be applied for the foundation of an
asylum for aged and decayed printers.
Year: 1867

We desire to call attention to the valua-
BILE suggestions contained in letter upon
this subject published in another place.
Our correspondent is an educated and
practical chemist, and is thoroughly versed
in the matters of which he writes.


In connection with the suggestion of our
correspondent, We arc glad to be able to
state that the manufacture of Fertilizers
viii be begun near this City at an early
day, company having purchased GILL
Year: 1867

HANDSOME. On SAT- lrday last the
School Superintendent of this county was
waited upon by committee Of the Teach
ers in the Public Schools of the south side,
who presented him with the following note
accompanied by large bundle:


"M Crouley Please accept this small
present as testimonial Of the esteem and
appreciation of the


TEACHERS OF THE SoUTH SIDE"


The testimonial above indicated was moth
ing less than double suits of the finest qual.
ity of woolen under garments, with socks
and pocket handkerchiefs. We have
received many personal favors from friends
in our time, but never received one that
was more highly appreciated than this,
coming, as it does, from the generous and
in telligent teachers of the south side, and
we return the large hearted donors our sin
cere thanks for their seasonablc gift, recip-
rocating fully the esteem expressed by
them.
Year: 1867

These States alone will cast majority of
all the electoral votes Of the States now
represented in Congress. The coming No
ven.ber elections will increase this list and
ensure the Presidential election to the De-
mocracy, without counting doubtful States
or those Southern States now under military
and negro Government. The probability
is that the Republicans will fail to carry as
many electoral votes as SCOTT received in
1852.
Year: 1867

saT The Calumet County Reflector is the
name of a new paper-Radical in politics
lust started in Chiffon by Mr. Fogo.-
Were not the principal portioa of the read
ing matter printed in Milwaukee or some
other place outside Of Chiffon we would
gladly say it was good paper. But we
receive 20 many bastard rapers-half print
ed at home and half in Chicaeo-that we
are heartily disgusted with them, and
scarcely open one ont of ten. This method
Of printing newspapers is disgrace to the
Typographical profession.
Year: 1867

seA- Can't WITTEVBERG, who is now
at RoEF's old Brewery, left
a keg of his beer at our Office on Saturday,
and those of our friends who called in to
try it pronounced it equal to that made in
Year: 1867

The late elections have established the
fact with reasonable certainty that the fol
lowing States, all of which stood by the
Government during the rebellion, will vote
for the Democratic candidate for the Pres
idcncy in 1868
Year: 1867

p@- The London Lancet mentions q
curious instance of deception under a
surgical operation. A woman had frac-
tured her leg by tripping over the hoops
of her crinoline. She was conveyed to
the Middlesex Hospital, where amputa-
ton was pronounced to be necessary.
1t was performed under chloroform, and
as she was of timid and nervous tenn
persment she was kept for forty days
in ignorance of the fact that she had
lost her leg
Year: 1867

B%The Pine Bluff (Ark-) Dispatch
reports q number Of fatal cases of
cholera alsng the bank of the river below
that city. The same paper also says
there is much sickness in the town,
though no cholera.
Year: 1867

neA-The Governor Of Louisiana has
applied to the authorities at Washington
to have the statue of General Washington
returned to Baton Rouge, from which
place It was removed when that city fell
into the hands Of the Federals in 1862
The statue is now in the Department of
the Interior at Washington, but is really
the property of the State Of Louisiana
Year: 1867

1t is very seldom we have occasion or
take the liberty to make any use of pri-
vate correspondence, other than that
intended or desired by the author. In
this instance our only apology is, that
in answering the'queries Of our northern
friend we can at the same time answer
many very similar ones which we fire.
quently have put to us from abroad. The
South, and especially Tennessee, and
our own city wants laborers, white and
intelligent laborers, and the induce
ments we offer to such are for carpenters
from 81 to Sc per day, for brick and
stone masons from Sc to 81 per day and
for ordinary hands, not mechanics or
artisans, from 81 to So per day. If those
who come are white men without
black hearts" so much the bet
ter, and we feel assured that
those who come with prejudicesr
the result Of Radical Misrepresentation,
will be divested of the same after they
shall have learned the real feelings and
sentiments Of our people. When we are
plentifully supplied with laborers and
mechanics the wages as We have stated
them may, by competition and the mex
orable law Of supply aud demand, be re-
duced. but the same competition and
the development Of the abundant re-
sources Of our section will ere then have
proportionstely reduced the expenses OF
living aud the cost Of every necessary to
pleasure and comfort There is no field
in which the laborers are so needed aud
none where they can reap a richer har-
vest than in the South.
Year: 1867

The young man, whose opportune appearance
the cough of Mrs. Gregson from betray
ing her hiding place, was neatly but coarsey attir
ed He was in height somewhat above the mid
die sze but not so much so as to attract attention
Besides, he was so symmetricaly built, that no one
looking at him for the first time would be likely to
think him at all out of proportion. His bearing
was erect and manly, and his easy and graceful
walk at once indicated the soldier. His face, to
come to that which first strikes the attention, was
highly prepossessing. He had not indeed, that
feminine style of beauty which is required to make
duck Of man, in the language Of some ladies,
but his countenance was open, his eye was clear
hazel and met yours with an honest frankness
which won favor at once. To sum up, he was a
brave and good looking young fellow, such as you,
my dear reader, provided you are young lady,
would find very dangerous to your peace Of mind.
I declare I've half mind to fall in love with him
myself, only know that would never do, for my
heroine already possesses claim upon him.


This young man, then, as you all know, was
Captain Henry Peterson, of the Continentinel Ar.
my, and he is waiting for Einor


"Has he got gun?'' inquired Robert Gregson