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SiUAW Co., Eutfeue City, Oregon. To Advertisers Business men throughout Oregon and California will niid it greatly to their advantage to adver tise in t.ht-STtTK KKpmi.irAX. THE STAR SPANGLED BANNEK. Oh ! say, can yon see bv tho dawn's early light, What so proudlv we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through tho peril ous tight. O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming Amid the rocket's red glare, the homo's bursting m the air, Gave proof through the uight that our Hag was still there? Oh ! say, does thut star spangled banner yet wave, O'er the laud of the free, and the home ot the brave ? On the shore dimly seen, thro' the mist of the deep, Where the foe's haughtv host iu dreud silence reposes, What is that which the 'breeze, o'er the towering steep, ' As it titfully blows, half conceals, half discloses. 'ow it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, Its full glory reflected now shines on the stream? "Tib the star spangled banner ! oh, long may it wave O'er the laud of the free, and tho home of the brave ! And where is the band who so Tauntingly swore, 'Mid the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country they'd leave us no more ' Their blood has washed out their foul footstep s pollution '. No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave. And the star spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the laud of the free, and the home of the brave ! Oh I thus he it ever when freemen shall stand, lletween their lov'd homo and war's desolation, Hlctt wilh viet'ry and peace, may the heaven rescued band I'ruise the power that has niado and preserved us auution ! Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just ! And this be our motto, 44 In Cod is our trust." And the star spangled banner iu triumph shall wave O'er the land of tlio free and the home of the bravo ! Chips aud Porridge by the Spoouful. AH diseases speak to us solemnly and elo- tjucntly, except tho dumb ague. The rebel troops generally are not sound on the bayonet question. They won't come to the point. When you see a drunken rebel black with mud, you may conclude that ho has dyed iu the last ditch. Tho Confederate coat-tails at this time belong to tho order of tho " Straight outs." Tho rebel generals are groat in strategy, but in learning their strategic movements, they must have gone to school to a crab. Tho rebels likened the Monitor to a cheese box. It proved itself, however, to bo more like some cheese strong and mitey. As might be supposed, therefore, its modo of warfare is an offensive one. If some politicians were burned, they might possibly rise, like the Phusnix, from their own ashes ; at any rate, it would do no harm to try tho experiment. " Dost thou clean my furniture, fair handmaid en 1" asked N., of tho pretty servant who was polishing escritoire. " I dust," replied the hand maiden. A giddy student having got his skull tracturcd, was told by the doctor that the brain was visi ble ; on which ho remarked, ' Do write and tell lather, lor he always said I had none." An Irishman on going with a friend to dino at the house of an acquaintance, on a muddy day, in order to save time, said, " scrape for me while I knock for both of us." Young America must be a very pious young fallow ; ho makes every day a fast day. The only blusterer frcm whom tho brave man will take a blow, is the wind. Why are fixed stars like wicked old men t Bo cause they scintillate (sin till late.) Probably the reason why so little was written in the Dark Ages, was that people couldn't sec to write. There is a Gealic proverb " If tho best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would rnake him pull his hat over his eyes." M Mr. D , if you get my coat done by next Saturday, I shall be lorever indebted to you."j It won't be done, upon such terms," said the (taylor. Every portion of the hog is put in use now in Cincinnati. They have finally succeeded in turn ing the squeal to account by using it in operas. The rebels like to fight on the tops of hills and mountains, for then they can easily slope. Let our soldiers, if they would hit our ene mies in the weakest part, shoot at their knees. Everything is dear in the rebel Confederacy except the rebels themselves ; they feel mighty cheap. Commodore Foote has made his ten strike. Prentice .ays there is not a braver soul on earth than the soul of our Foote. There comes up a fierce hissing from the South like the hisses of myriads of adders. It is not strange that the Union victories falling like Niagara of cold water upon a million of hot and blazing fire eaters, should produce a terrible hiss I say, Sambo, can you answer this conundrum : Spose I give you a bottle of whisky corked, shut wid a cork, how would you get the whisky out without pullin' de cork or breakin' do bottle 1 " Why, push de cork in, stupid niggah." An Irishman attendiug a Quaker meeting heard a young Friend make the following announce ment : " Brethren and sisters, I am going to mar ry a daughter of the Lord." " Oeh, 'n yo are, faith and bejabers, and it'll be a long time before ye'll see yer father-in-law," An Ecmpsk. Tho Confederate Almanac for 1802, published by Rev. Dr. Summers, at tho Southern Methodist Publishing House, announces " an eclipse of tho sun, visible over tho Confed erato States !" Heading which, the Philadelphia Express ex claims : " And now, oh ! gifted prognosticator of celestial mysteries, vouchsafe to announce that there will be a total eclipse of the Confederate States shortly, visiblo all over, creation." A correspondent of tho Philadelphia Enquirer relates that a skull was found iu tho late camp of a Mississippi regiment at Manassas, upon which were curved the words, " All that is left ot a 1 ire Zouave. Jeff Davis has been threatening to " take the field," for a good while. It appears, however, that McClellau has been permitted to take the field, while Jen Davis " took the road." Though the rebels are said to be poor, they are ui luck, lhey have not succcoded in getting an advance upon their cotton, but almost every day they are favored with important advances upon their towns and cities. " May I be married, ma 1" said a lovely girl of fifteen to her mother the other morning. " Married," exclaimed tho astonished matron, " what put such an idea into your head 1" " Lit tle Emma has never seen a wedding, and I'd like to amuse tho child," replied the obliging sister, with fascinating simplicity. It seems singular that the fierce flame in the bosoms of some of our charming rebel women does not sot their cotton on fire. Prentice says, " It is thought a dangerous thing to board a man-of war ; but we have known fifty sailors, each a man of war, boarded by a simile landlord but he was a host." " Miss Julia, allow mo to closo thoso blinds ; tho glare of tho sun must be oppressive." " You are very kind, sir, but 1 would rather have a little son than no heir at all." An Inch rope for a halter and a wire for a nose piece, will make a mule as docile as a lamb. jVashvule Union. The very article that Uncle Sam is about try ing on some of his incorrigible children down South. Caleb Whitford, ot punning notoriety, once observed a young lady earnestly at work knot ting fringe for a prtticoat, asked her what she was doing. " Knotting, sir," replied she. " Pray, Mr. Whitford, can you knot 1" " I can-not, uiadame," answered he. A man who had a cause in court said, " that if ho lost in the common pleas, ho would appeal to the supreme court, and from thence to heaven." "And there," replied tho gentleman, "you will be sure to lose, for you will not be present to answer for yourself, and no attorney is ever admitted there." A music teacher once wrote that " the art of playing tho violin required tho nicest perception and tho most sensibility of any art in the known world." Upon which an editor comments in the following manner : " The art of publishing a country newspaper, and making it pay, and at tne same time have it pleaso everybody, beats the art of fiddling higher than a kite." It was wittily, but somewhat ungallantly, said that a woman is the very reverse of her mirror, the one reflects without talking, the other talks without reflecting. A western editor wishes to know whether the law recently enacted against tho carrying of deadly weapons, applied to doctors, who carry pills in their pockets ? A military officer, one day, while reviewing his company, happened to be thrown from his horse, and as he lay sprawling on the ground, said to a friend who ran to his assistance, " I thnurrht. I hnrl Imnrnvprl in hnrftpmnnshin Vint. I find I have fallen off." " Mrs. Jenkius ," said a little red headed girl, with a pug nose and bare feet, " mother says you will obligo her by lending her a stick of fire wood Idling this cruet with vinegar putting a little soft soap in this pan and pleaso don't let your turkey gobblers roost on our fence." Lord Campbell said he himself heard a Judge at Stafford thus sentence a prisoner to death lor forgery : " And 1 trust, through the merits and mediation of our blessed Redeemer, you may experience that mercy in another world which a due regard to the credit of paper currency of tho country forbids you to hopo for here." Curran said to Father O'Leary " Reverend Father, I wish you were St. Peter." " Why," asked the priest. " Because, then, having the keys of heaven, you'd let me in." " I bad better have the keys of another place, and then I could let you out." " My dear boy," said a kind-hearted country school mistress to an unusually promising schol ar, whose quarter was about up, "docs your father design that you should tread the intricate and thorny path of the professions, the straight and narrow way of the ministry, or revel amid the flowry field of literature? "No, marm," replied the juvenile prodigy, " daddy says he's goin' to set me fo work in the tater pitch." I EUGENE CITY, OREGON, Sydney Smith writes of a Miss Markham : " In carving a partridge, I splashed her with gra vy from head to foot ; and though 1 saw three distinct brown rills of animal juice trickling dow n her cheek, the had the complaisance to swear that not a drop had reached her. Such circumstances are the triumphs of civilized life." The Second Illinois cavtlry are pnblishing a paper at Columbus, Ky. , At its head it has for a motto : In Dixie's Land we'll take our stand And live aud thrive in Dixie. Old Abe has sometimes a dry way of putting the question. Par example A clergyman re cently gave the President his views of conduct ing the war, and after talking five miuutes, drew up to hear what tho President had to say. " Per haps you had better try to run the machine a week," quietly remarked Old Abo. Another gentleman after pouring out the vials of his wrath upon a Government officer, was surprised to hear tho President quietly remark : " Now you're just the man I have been looking for ; I want you to give me your advice and tell me, if you were in my place, and heard all you've beeu tell ing, and didn't believe a word ot it, what would you do V It was a poser. Tho S. F. Journal says that " recent occurren ces at Yorktown prove that the secessionists still keep the run of rebellion. They will soon get tho hang of it, if they keep on their present course." Tho Journal probably means that the rebels are about to suspend. We have always contended that the fellows would get into a place where they couldn't " tetch bottom." They have about reached tho end of t-eir rope, and the " noose" of their exit will be hailed with joy by all loyal citizens. Red Bluff Independent. Tub Ironsides. The New York Tribune of May 4th, has tho following in regard to this ves sel : Wednesday next, May 7th, is tho day fixed for the launch of the Ironsides, at the yard of Cramp & Son, Philadelphia. Circumstances, may, however, delay tho event till a few days later. The first " streak" or band of iron plat ing is now laid on, and the second one started. Tliesestreaksare twenty-eight inches broad. They commence four feet below the water line. On the bows and stern the plating will be three streaks or seven feet broad. These are laid on at the rate of one in fourteen days. The launch however, will not be delayed for this. The ram consists of a continuation ot the two lowest streaks, meeting from the two sides of tho bow, bolted together and projecting beyond it four feet ten inches, lhe dimensions are thus : night, 50 inches ; thicknes, S) inches ; length, 4:10 inch es. There are three hundred and sixty men now engaged upon her. This vessel, when launched, will be tho largest aimed Government vessel afloat. She has a larger tonnage than the ship- of-the-lme Pennsylvania, fehe will draw fifteen feet of water, with ten days fuel and her full ar mament on board. Her beam is much greater than the usual proportion iu war vessels, While having the capability of a sea going vessel, sho is more especially adapted for coast and harbor defense. One half of the iron plating is being manufactured in JJnstoI, Pa., and the other halt in Pittsburg. The aggregate weight of the plates will be seven hundred and fifty tons. A Mbrk Tkifls. Captain Rodman, having successfully cast a 20 inch gun, and tho test showing it to be safe and strong as smaller can non, is now at work on a pocket piece for the President, the ball of which is to weigh 3,000 pounds, to have a range of six or seven miles, of two feet and a half diameter, while the gun itself will weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 tons. It is supposed if the Warrior or any other English ship should be struck by one of the pills from this little joker, it would be difficult for the future historian to tell the precise spot where the English vessel was last seen, or at precisely what instant she disappeared from mortal view. Captain Rodman is now mushing six 15 inch toys for the now Monitors, three or four 20 inch playthings, besides Old Abe's pock et piece, the 30 inch joker. The story that a guard is set over this gun every night to keep it from being picked up and carried off by some thief, is pronounced a canard. JY. V. lnbune. Confiscation. The Government is now en forcing a law confiscating rebel property, and strange to say, there are individuals claiming to be Union men, who desire loyal men to repudi ate that doctrine. Why, the next move will bo to desire us to repudiate tho idea of couliscating the life of a traitor in fighting. Unconditional support of the Government will prevail, and political demagoges canuuot avert it. The loyal men are taxed to pay the expenses, their lives and property subject to destruction by rebels, and must we, forsooth, protect theirs. No ! the time is past ; the rebels are foreign to us, until they acknowledge the supremacy of the Gov ernment. Yreka Journal. A piiresolooist stopped at a rustic farmhouse the proprietor of which was busily engaged in threshing. " Sir, I am a phrenoligist. Would you like me to examine the heads of your children, I will do it cheap 1" M Wal, said the farmer, pausing between the strokes, " I rather guess they don't need it. The old woman combs them with a fine tooth comb onco a week." The Richmond Examiner says this is " a guilty war on the part of the United States." " Then let us proxecule it," replies a New York exchange Th Richmond Examiner states that tho war has already cost Virginia some 10,000,000, and considers the price a heavy one for making itself the "chopping block of tho North and South and cock-pit of contending nations the Fland ers of America." JUNE 21, 18G2. EASTERN NEWS. Corinth, June 5. Geiu Halleck moved his headquarters to this point to-day. Tho enemy are reported to be 80,000 strong between Baldwin and Okalona. At last accounts Pope's advance was this side of Twenty Mile creek. Tho en emy's rear guard was on the other side, still retreating. Washington, June 01. Advices from a roliable source icport floods in tho upper Potomac and the Rappahannock, and say that bridges have been carried away. The loss of theso bridges is considered serious. New York, June 0 Tho Key West correspon dent of tho Express says the frigate Potomac has arrived from Vera Cruz with information of tho complete defeat ot the French, and their re treat to Vera Cruz. Washington, June 6. Minister Morris has notified the State Department that tho Turkish Government has issued au order refusing Confed erate privateers admission to any of tho ports of the Ottoman Empire, in accordance with tho treaty of Paris signed in 1850. Builiilo, June 0. It is stated that the Hun dredth New York Regiment was mostly cut to pieces and captured iu tho battle before Rich mond. Chicago, June G. The Federal flotilla has passed Fort Randolph, en route for Memphis. Fort Wright has beeu occupied by tho Federal troops. St. Louis, June C. By order of Gen. Halleck tho State of Missouri, except tho counties ot Pe nobscott, New Madrid and Mississippi, will con stitute tho Military Department of Missouri, under command of Gen. Scofield. Rolla, Mo., J une 5. Col. White Sawsolling, of the rebel army, and James Massey, Secretary of State under Claib Jackson, togothcr with about twenty ordinary rebels, were captured at Cash ville a few days since Advices from Gen Curtis' army in Arkansas say that scouting parties in tho vicinity of Little Rock have been vory successful lately in break ing up rebel camps and running down guerrillas. Major Bowen, commanding a detachment of the ihird Iowa cavalry, on luesday fell upon a rebel camp, fifty miles West of Batesville, scat tering the rebels in all directions, and capturing much camp equipage, many prisoners and a large number ot horses. Cairo, June 0. A steamer has just arrived from the flotilla bringing news of the evacuation ot Fort Wright and its occupation by the Fedo rals. From a person who viaitod the Fort we learn tnat there are still twelve guns there a numbor of them being spiked. The buildings, filled with commissary stores, were burned; also the cotton of which the breastworks of the fort were constructed. Tho gun carriages, barracks, and every article of uso were committed to the flames. One large mortar, recently brought from the South, is bursted also another ten inch mortar There is no evidence of tho presence of the enemy at Fulton works. Tho enemy kept up a heavy firing on Wednesday night for tho purpose of covering their retreat. After leaving the fort the enemy destroyed a fino pontoon bridge across Hatchee river, which was constructed some weeks since. We have reports that the gunboats are steam ing down the river. No determined resistance is expected at any point below, If none is en countered, tho flotilla has by this time arrived at Memphis. Chicago, June 0. Lists of the killed and wounded in tho valley of the Chickahominv. have not yet been published. It is stated that the federals had six Colonels killed, two taken prisoners, and six wounded. Four Lieutenant Colonels, seven Majors, about thirty Captains ana a large number ot Lieutenants wounded. i'ront Royal, June 0. Captain Sanderson. Chief Commissary, has taken possession of all tho flour mills iu the valley, together with all the grain and flour on hand. Safeguards have been granted by the Commanding General to all lam- Hies who request them, without respect to loyal ty or disloyalty. Soldiers violating them do so under penalty of being shot. An official dispatch from Cairo to tho Secre tary of tho Navy, received to-night, says : "The dispatch boat reports tho occupation of Fort Wright, by our troops;" and adds that most of the flotilla had passed below Fort Randolph. Mount Jackson, Va., June 6. Fremont's headquarters are here. Further pursuit of Jackson is impossible to-day, owing to tho sud den riso of the Shenandoah. A pontoon bridgo replacing the bridges burned by tho rebels, be ing completed, part of .Fremont s forces crossed the river this morning. Tho river rose twelve feet in four hours to day, bringing down large quantities of driftwood and heavy timber, which parted the bridge in the middle. The material was all saved. Mo accident occurred. Washington, Juno 0. In tho Senate, Sumner offered a resolution that tho President be reques ted to cancel the letter of the Secretary of War under which Governor bUnly assumes to act. The resolution, which was laid over, was offered in consequence of tho Governor course in sur rendering fugitive slaves, contrary to tho mean ing of the Act of Congress recently adopted, and his course iu closing schools for the colored children. Sumner also offered a resolution that such au officer as military Governor is contrary to the Constitution aud laws, and destructive of tho spirit of our institutions. Laid over. Sumner moved to take up tho resolution for the expulsion of Senator Stark. Rejected 10 to 21. The Senate to-day confirmed the nomination of Allen A. Bradford as Associato Justice of the Supreme Court of Colorado, aud Kerby Bene dict as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for New Mexico. NO. 24. Philadelphia, June 7. Tho gunboat Bienville arrived last night with three steamers in tow, which she captured off Charleston while attemp ting to run the blockade. They are all from Nassau. The President's revocation of Gen. Hunter's proclamation was well received at Port Royal. Gen. Hunter had organized a brigade of contra, bands, and was about to assign them to building -fortification and intrenchments, A sharp engagement had occurred with the rebel batteries at Stouo Inlet. The Union forces were virtually investing Charleston. Newark, N. J., J une 7. A correspondent of the Advertiser, on tho steamer Augusta, off Charleston, May 29th, says : The news here in quite important. Our gunboats are now within four miles of Charleston, by way of Stono Inlet. We all expect the attack soon to commence The attacking force will include both tho mili tary and naval arms of the service, under Gen. Hunter and Com. Dupont. It is believed that tho attack will bo successful. New York, Juno 7.-The Tribune says : wo learn through a private channel, in which we confide, that the Unionists of Texas will soon be heard from. It is understood that tho arrangements for restoring the State to tho Union have boon quietly matured, and that ere this they have thrown the old flag to the breeze under the lead of Sam Houston. Louisville, Juno 7. The Mobile jVeuv of tho 31st May contains strict orders from Beauregard forbidding newspaper correspondents to cunio within twenty -five miles of his lines; also, for bidding officers and soldiers writing about army matters in their private correspondence! New York, June 7. A Fort Monroo corres pondent learns from City Point that on the 5th our war vessels in the James river had run tho gauntlet of the batteries at Drury's Bluff, seven miles below Richmond. It was rumored that the Monitor had sunk tho rebel gunboats about Kiehmond. It this be tho caso, tho Monitor is at Rickctt's. A number of powerful gunboats have gono up tho river within the past few days The fleet before Richmond is now very formidable, consisting of sixty vessels, armed with the best naval ordnance. Chicago, June 7. There is but little doubt that our flotilla has, by this time, arrived before Memphis. Olficlal dispatches received last hight said that tho greater part of the fleet had passed Fort Randolph. It is believed that between there and Memphis tho fortifications are not of such a character as to interpose any obstacles. So confident are the river men of St. Louis that the river is open, that boats are advertised to leave there next Wednesday for Memphis, Vicks burg and New Orleans. Cairo, June 7. A dispatch from New Mad rid, Missouri, says the steamer Platte Valley had passed there en route for Cairo from Mem phis direct. Tho city was indisputably in the possession of our forces, Washington, June 7. Messages received at tho War Department at noon to day, from Mc Clellan's headquarters, state that all was quiet in that vicinity. Gen. Jo Johnson was seriously wounded in the thigh by a minnie ball. G. W. Smith takes his place. The rebel loss is estimated at ten thousand in killed, wounded and missing. No material change has occurred in the enemy's position, It is concecded that our loss in killed and wounded at tho battle of Fair Oaks was much larger than was at first slated. It will probably reach seven thousand, St. Louis, June 7. Advices from Now Mex ico state that the Texan rebels are in scattered parties, and completely demoralized. They had reached El Pusso, with the purpose of evacuating the Territory, Tho remnant of tho Colorado volunteers and the Third United States Cavalry, were in tho vicinity of Fort Craig. Tho volun teers are disbanded except Kit Carson's regiment. Washington, June 7. Col. George S.Ripley, who is at present commandant at New Orleans, has, upon recommendation of General Butler, been appointed Military Governor of Louisiana. Washington, June 7. It appears that about a hundred and seventy prizes have been taken by our cruisers. Iu consequence of tho delay of Government officers in condemning tho rebel vessels and cargoes captured, it is yet impossible to estimate the value of tho prizes, which must be enormous. Some idea, however, may be formed of tho total by tho singlo case of tho Circassian, which arrived at New York a few days since. This vessel and cargo are Valued at a million and a half of dollars. Tho sailors of the crew that captured her will probably receive thirteen hundred dollars apiece. It is said there are somo fifteen vessels equally valuable now trying to run the blockade. It is stated that the English speculators in arms have shipped 20,000 Enfield rifles lo Nssau, where they dispose of them to rebel agents, who reship them with the expectation of running tho blockade This is the way England has been acting as a neutral towards the United States in order to prevent tho horrors of a civil war. Washington, Juno 7. Specials to York papers say : " Tho Tax Bill has the New passed the Senate so variously amended that the House will hardly be able to recognize its own offspring. It is currently reported that there is but one member of the Cabinet opposed to the Pres ident s policy of emancipation with compensa tion." Washington, June C Tho amendment to the Tax Bill taxing slaves was rejected by tho Sen ate to-day 17 to 28. The bill passed with only one negative vcte. Captain SchulU arrived yesterday from Eng land with tho treaty for tho suppression of the slave trade, signed by the Queen. Ratifications having been exchanged, the treaty is now the law.