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THE STATE REPUBLICAN, DEVOTED TO THE POLITICAL AND GENERAL INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE. VOL. I. EUGENE CITY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 29, 1862. NO. 4G. THE STATE REPUBLICAN. Published every Saturday by J. ISTILWTOIN' GALE. Terms of Subscription. Th. Rkpcblic is will be published at t'i 50 year in ad vance f f 'l 00 if paid at thu enil of six months; or ti ml at th. close of the year. U no dollar additional will be charged for each year payment is neglected. jif- .o papers discontinued until all arrearage ar. paid, except at our option. Rates of Advertising. On. square (ten lines or loss) one uiouth, $3 00 Kacu additional insertion, - ... 60 Business Cards, one square or less, one year, 12 00 " " " six months, 8 00 Four squares and upwards, one year, per square, 10 00 " ' " six mouths, per square, 7 "0 " " three months, " 5 00 Administrator's Xoliccs, and ull advertisements re lating to estates of deceased persons, which bar. to be sworn to, one squaro, four insertions, 5 00 To AnvKimsER. 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Lines suggested on reading an account of the death of Colonel iSuMiison, who fell while gallantly leading his men in a charge in the late battle of Kich Mountain, lie w as an old and very dear friend. Fame has begun, thy days are done ; A country's strains record Jfew triumphs of her chosen son, And slaughters ot his sword ; The deeds he did, the Held lie won, In freedom's cause restored. Ciins't thon be fallen, nnd we be free f And shall thou taste of death Live, generous bloo 1 that flowed from thee (lush not to sink beneath ; Unto our veins its currents flee, Thy spirit on our breath. Justice, our charging hosts uloug, Now be the battle word. Great patriot, theme of sweetest song Amid patriot heroes ponied, Long grief would do thy glory wrong; l.uuugh, thou art deplored. A Fair Estimate of President Lincoln. The New York Commcacial Advertiser, in refer ring to attacks on thu President by disappointed politician., thus speaks of Old Abe : These insidious attacks on the President, situ ated as he is were always in bad taste. They tiro especially so at the present time. Never has our nation seen such a time before. It is most fervently to bo prayed that she may never see such an one again. President Lincoln feels this more deeply than any other man in America, lie is under a weight of responsibility that never rested before on the heart and hand of any other man, Tho perils of the revolution, the civil strifes around Washington's administration, the sectional animosities of the days of Adams, the partisan conflicts of thu Jefl'ersoniau period were but as the small dust of the balance in comparison with the mountainous load thrown on the shoulders of President Lincoln. Those who nee and watch him here can safely assure your readers that you are perfectly correct in your estimate of his Ability to carry the burthen suc cessfully. His shoulders are fully square and strong enough to bear all the cares of State that may (all to his lot ; and he can therefore cheer fully stand erect under the assaults ot open ene mies and pretended friends. The people of the United Stutes will do well to note carefully the men who are so loud in their professions of faith in.President Lincoln's "honesty," his "integrity," his "purity," while covertly insinuating that "his will is weak," "his judgment is imbecile," "his stories are out of place," "he is too much influ enced by others," and so on to the end of the lessons. (These phrases have all been adopted by the Salem organ of the Oregon "pizarino tums.") President Lincoln ha a will ofjiron as that of President Jackson. His judgment is cool, cau tious, and far reaching. His stories are told with a good object, nnd they usually hit those they are intended to hit videlict, the large class of political schemers who come to give him their advice. As to his being too much influenced by others, there is not a member of his Cabinet but will say that while he pays great deference to their judgments, he is one of the most independ ent men in the world. There are the best of reasons for stating that the whole plan of Presi dent Lincoln's administration was formed by him when he came into power, in full view of all the principal events that have since happened. He has at no time and in no way been taken by sur prise. Ilis programme is prepared to the end, and he will carry it out to the very end. It some men's bodies were not stronger than their minds, they would be crooked enough to ride upon their own backs. A servant girl, who was epmloyed to pickle her master's cabbage took the opportunity to cabbage her master's pickles. She is the same woman who was happy and careless when she was yours, and cappy and hairless when the was old. What cardinal virtue does water represent when frozen 1 Just ice. Still llurping-oii My Daughter, - Shylock, in Shakspeare's immortal play of the Merchant of Venice, after his daughter and only child Jessica had eloped with her Christian lover, taking with her two bags odueats and two pre cious jewels, was inconsolable for the double loss, and went about distractedly, exclaiming "My daughter ! Oh my ducats ! Oh iny daughter !" Plotting tho ruin of o'hers, and thirsting for in. nocont blood, he had himself been robbed of his most precious possessions, and wounded in tho tendcrest part. In agony of grief and anger and crushed by recoil of his own villainy) he would interrupt every conversation, and make every street resound with the exclamation we have quo ted, till all the boys in Venice followed him, "Crying his stones, his daughter and his ducats." In just tho same manner tho Democratic party of America, whetting its knife to shed the blood of tho land, nfl'ecting to claim tnerly tho fulfill ment of a bond, yet really aiming at the life of tho Union, overflowing with gall and hue against a public sentiment that is all powerful, has been thwarted in its base designs and robbed of its great support and most certain ally, the institu tion of slavery. Maddened with rago, it still goes about crying out "My riggers! Oh my niggers ! Oh my constitutional rights ! Oh my niggers !" The peoplo aro pretty well used to this cry from the political Shylock or Moloch whose dercrved ruin, like that of the Jew in tho play, is being completed by confiscation ; but it is molancholly to hear it re-echoed by avowed friends of the Union and the Constitution, which slavery with fiendish malignity, now seeks to de stroy. It is sad to think that truo men will yet adhere to a name and organization that have been prostituted to tho uses of treason. There are men and journals in California, for instance, that still delight to call themselves Democratic, and have little else than reproach for such patri ots as prefer an untainted designation and dare to hato and say they hate "the cause ot all our woe', Jfarysville Appeal. New Jersev Tiiihd District. Doctor Or estes A. Brownson, in accepting the Democratic nomination for representative in Congress iu the I turd District of New Jersey, said : I am an American by birth and conviction, and would strike down an assassin against this Gov ernment as 1 would one against my mother. would defend it against a Briton or Gaul, and far more would I protect it from a parricidal hand. My friendship and feelings were with the South before this war ; but when my Southern friends became tho enemies of tho Government they also became my enemies. I am for tho most vigorous prosecution of the war, and tho use of every means to achieve success. 1 like tho 1'res. ident's proclamation, and if I have any fault nt all to find it is because it is not strong enough, and its action is delayed too long. If 1 could, would liberate every slave in State or Territory, and proclaim thorn free from this day forever. I believe in the abolition of slavery as a war meas ure. I trust that under this proclamation, we shall succeed ; under it we can inscribe on our banner, "Union and Liberty." In Oregon such "Democrats" ns Brownson, would be called abolitionists by the secessionists, or even by the "pizarinctum" Democrats, and yet they claim tho election of such men in the East, as "glorious Democratic triumphs," whlie they denounce tho principls upon which these men were elected as "fanatical." There, Democrats find fault with the Administration for being too slow and too conservative, and run into office on that hobby ; here, they find fault be cause it is too fast and too "radical" anything to suit the local prejudices of tho peoplo. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." . Played Out. Tho term "Abolitionist." The man who smothers the sentiment of his heart for fear of being called an Abolitionist, is a moral if not a physical coward. The same persons who uso this term now against the Administration, did the same thing towards Douglas and Erode rick, when they repudiated the Kansas Lccomp ton Constitution. If we had another Buchanan Administration, which the South owned, as they do their slaves, the country would now bo at peace. Verrily, cotton is king, and the free born Americans must be moral slaves, to slave plant at;on, for such seems the ambition of degenerate Democracy. Yreka Journal. A Secessionist Disowned bt His Lotal Mother. Recently a secessionist at Wilkcsbar re, Penn., was rode on a rail. lie was then conveyed home, but his mother refused to re ceive him, a he was a trritor and not worthy to enter the house. She told the boys to take him down South and give him to JeiF Davis. She has two sons in the service ot tho United States, and regarded this fellow as a disgrace to tho family. From Australia. Tho bark Glipse bring Sidney dates to July 3oth. Great damage by flood had ocoured in Western Australia. Win. Currie Botts, one of the oldest merchants of Vic toria, had committed suicide while temporarily insane. A reef of antimony had been discovered 5 miles from Melbourne. Os fthe bet thing to resist fatigue with is music. Girls who "could not walk mile to save their lives" will dance, in company with a knock kneeJ clarionet and a superannuated fiddler from tea time till sunrise ; whiie a soldier grown weary with quietness, will no sooner hear a bugle give a flourish than he will give one himself. Th longest laugh on rcord Giles Scrog gins' when he laughed from (y)car to (y)ear. A Rabbit on a Battle Field. A correspon dent, who was with the army of tho Potomac on tho Peninsula, relates tho following remarkable incident which occurred at the battle of Malvern Hill: A full grown rabbit had hid itself away in tho copso of a fence, which separated two fields near tho centre nnd most exposed portion of the bat tle ground, Rabbits are wont to spend tho day almost motionless, and in seeming .meditation. This one could have had but littln thought if rabbits think, whon choosing iu.ptU of retreat at early dawn, that ere It was eventide there would bo such nn unwonted and ruthless disturb ance. During all the preparations made around its lair throughout the forenoon, it nevertheless remained quiet. Early, however, in tho after noon, when tho rago of battle had fairly begun, and shot and shell were falling thick and fast in all directions, , shell chanced to burst so near Mr. Rabbit's) hiding place that ho evidently con sidered it unsafe to tarry longer. So, frightened almost to death, out he sprang into tho field, and ran hither and thither with tho vain hope of find ing a safe retreat. Whichever way it ran, can nons were thundering out their smoke and lire, re.iments of men were advancing or changing their position, horses galloping here nnd there, shells bursting, and solid shot tearing up the ground. Sometimes it would squat down and be perfectly still, when sumo new and sudden danger would start it into motion. Once more it would stop and raiso itself as high as possible on its hind legs, and look all around for some place of possible retreat. At length that part of tho field seemed open which lay in tho direc tion opposito from where tho battlo raged most fiercely. Thither it accordingly ran with all its remaining speed. Unobserved by it, however, a regiment was in that direction, held in reserve, and like Wellington's at Waterloo, was lying Hat on tho ground, in order to escape tho flying bullets. Ere tho rabbit seemed aware, it had jumped into tho midst of these men. It could go no further, but presently nestled down beside a soldier and tried to hide itself under his nrm. As tho man spread tho skirt of his coat over the trembling fugitive, in order to insure it all the protection in his power to bestow, ho no doubt feelingly remembered how much he himself then needed some higher protection, under tho shadow of whose arm might bo hidden his own defense less head from tho fast multiplying missiles of death scattered in all directions. It was not long however, before tho regiment was ordered up and forward. From the protection and safety granted, tho timid creature had evidently acquired confidence in wait as the lxtyaoro wrfcit to say, " had been tamed." As tho regiment moved forward to the front of battlo it hopped along, tame, seemingly, as a kitten, closo at tho feet ot tho soldier who had bestowed the needed protcc tion. Wherever the regiment went, during nil the remaining part of that bloody day and ter rible battle, tho rabbit kept closo beside its new friend. When night came on, nnd tho rago of battlo had ceased, it finally, unmolested and quietly, hopped away in order to find some one of its old familiar haunts. The Wasted Flower. On tho velvet banks of a rivulet sat a rosy child. Ilcr lap was filled w ith flowers, and a garland of rosebuds were twined around her neck. Ilcr face was as radiant as thu sunshine that fell upon it ; and her voice was as clear as that of tho birds that warbled at her side. Tho little stream went singing on, and with each gush of its music tho child lifted a flower iu its dimpled hand with a merry laugh threw it upon its surface. In her glee she forgot that her treasures wero growing less, und with the swift motion of childhood, sho flung them upon the sparkling tide, until every bud and bios som had disappeared. Then seeing her loss, she sprung upon her feet and burst into tears, calling aloud to the stream, "Bring back my flowers I" But tho stream danced along regard less of her tears; ami as it bore tho blossoming burden away, her words came back in ft taunting echo along its reedy margin. And long after, amid tha wailing of tho breeze and tho fitful gush of childish grief, was heard tho fruitless cry " Bring back my flowers !" Merry maiden who art idly wasting tho precious moments so bountifully bestowed upon thee, observe in this thoughtless child an emblem of thyself. P tch moment is a perfumed flower. Let its fragrance be dispensed in blessings all around thee, nnd nscend as sweet incense to its benevolent Giver. Else w hen thou hast carelessly flung them from thee, und see.-t them receding on tho swift waters of Time, thou wilt cry iu tones inoro sorrowful than those of the child" Bring back my flow ers !" and tho only answer will bo an echo from tha shadowy past " Bring back my flowers !" A War Picture. The Mountain Messenger has a talented lady correspondent, who write from a New England village the following touch ing account, showing how the "damned aboli tionists " enlist to servo their country : "It has been a short summer and a sad one. We have sent over ono hundred men to tho war within the lastthreo month, nearly half of them going from our own little village of Waterville. We have not in our district a singlo boy who is eighteen years old, and not a half dozen able bodied men. We have raised our full quota under both calls, and a full company over. This last company will go into camp at Gioton some time this week. It is a fact that we will not have men enough loft in Waterville to work tho en gine in caso of a fire. Tho town pay one hun dred dollars bounty to each volunteer. I am prond of my native town, but it is lonely here. We mis dear, familiar faces everywhere. I think wo have done all wo can. Wo have no more to go. To you this war docs not seem the dreadful reality that it docs to u. Twice within a month I have been to tH depot to see some of our brave boys start f r the war, and then I real ized more of the dreadful nature or tins iralnci dal conflict that we are now engaged in than ever before, I knew our soldiers, many of them well. They wcro boys of whom itny mother might bo proud. As the time for tho arrival of tho train that was to bear them away drew near tho ex citement in tho crowd grew greater, and parting messages wcro again and again repented. Tho cars came, nnd tho "iron horse" stood impa tiently waiting for his precious human burden. " Make way for tho soldiers !" shouted n gruff voice, and tho dense crowd parted to let them pass through tho cars. " Good bye bo a good girl, and be kind to your mother," said ono as ho passed his weeping daughter. His voice broke, ilis eyes filled, and ho hurried along. I saw part iugs there that I can never forget. God knows, nnd Ho alone, who of them all will live to como back. Sensible Advice. Professor Silliman recent ly closed n Smithsonian lecture by giving the following sensible advice to young men : " If, thcri'fbro, you wish for a clear mind and strong muscles, and quiet i.erves, and long life, nnd power prolonged in old age, permit mo to say, although I am not giving a temperance lecture, avoid all drinks above water nnd mild infusions ot that fluid, shun tobacco, opium, nnd every thing else that disturbs tho moral state of the system ; rely upon nutritious food, nnd mild, diluted drinks, ot which water is the base, nnd you will need nothing beyond these things, ex cept rest, and uuo moral regulation of nil your powers, to give you long, happy nnd useful lives and a serene evening at tho close." Strength of Oir Army. According to the Xai'i Ilegiilcr, recently published, there nre in the regular navy and marine, and in Navy Department, l,i58 officers. Of these, 4'Hi are natives of slave States : showing that the South erners who werejn tho service are not all fight ing for the rebel cause, though a very largo num ber resigned to do so on tho outbrako of the rebellion, nnd wero probably appointed because they could be counted on, iu that contemplated event. There nre in tho volunteer navy 1,800 officers ; making the total number of naval officers 11,818 ; while tho whole number of sea men is about 40,000. Tho navy, at last accounts numbered 3S7 vessels of all classes, mounting 3,035 guns, CO of them being ironclads. Mike, a shrewd Iiishmtin, was complaining of poverty last winter, and said ho had no means of getting wood, and thought ho should freeze. Deacon S. said ho felt sorry fur him, and told him ho might g i and get all the stumps he could find in his woods. Several days after, tho deacon, in passing through his woods, was ur prised to see that Mikd was cutting down and drawing off wood without regard to stump. After finding him, und giving him a severe scolding he asked him what excuse ho had for cutting down und drawing off this wood, when ho had only given him liberty to get the stumps? "Deacon," said Mike, "you said I might get tho stumps ; and how would I bo after getting them unless I first cut down tho trees 1" There not being stumps enough to satisfy Mike, his plan was to cut down thu trees and make Our Govcrnuunt has been offered from 1.0C0 to 10,000 German sailors for our navy nt $k" each, passage included, Captain Do Boise, of tho barquo Curib, re ports tint when in latitude 35 leg, 43miti. north, lie discovered what ho supposed was tho wreck of a small vessel in tho distance. They bore down to it, nnd when they had made ten miles, discovered that tho object supposed to bo n wreck was a gigantic redwood treo showing some thirty feet above water. Wade's Advertiser. Discouracino. Not a single officer in the United States army has yet resigned on account of tho emancipation proclamation. Thu army seems to like tho idea of having "tho character of tho war chaiiged;"but what shall bo said of the sudden conversion of those ono hundred and seventy-five Democratic Brigadier-Generals into fighting Abolit:o. lists? Oh "conservatism," ''con servatism P "Whither are we drifting Y' - . From Honolulu. Bark Young Hector brings Honolulu dates to October Hthi Cupt. W. M. Gibson has established a Mormon colonv on Lahina Island. The first balo of cotton from .Slol nkata had been received in Honolulu. Hie San Francisco whaling bark Coral had arrived, full of oil. About thu 31 of Oct. a schooner suppos od to be the ruiuway pilot boat Julia, was seen oil tho Islands. SrnoNo Lanouaoe. Tho following very de cided views are published in a letter from W. C. Oricr, of tho Kentucky Senate, dated October 11th, w ho ha just been burned out of house and homo by tho marauding guerrillas of the rebel Morgan : Why i all thi persecution of mo 7 Is it bo. cause I condemned this wicked rebellion, urged a vigorous prosecution of this war, and, in my place iu tho huiiato of Kentucky, opposed tho temporising policy of my own party ! For this I am burned out and hunted out of Kentucky. I am now uneqivocally for confiscation, subju gation, extermination, hell and damnation ! Biiioiit Hot. Tho Yreka Journal vouches for tho follow ing : Tho Rev. C. Miller, while interrogating the I.itllo Shasta Sabbath School lately, among other question, asked, "Who was Adam's wifnt" When a little shaver sung out, ".Mrs. Adam, " in good earnest. He was posted. CA! you tell mo how the word saloon is spelt t was asked of a cockney ly a Philadelphia!!. "Certainly," said the Ijndoiier with a look of triumph, "there sa hess, and A hay, and a hell, and two hoes, and a hen." Letter from one of McClei.lan's Staff Of ficers. The Sacramento Union says: Our New York correspondent has been permitted to make tho following extracts from a private letter : October 21, ISfrl. At present we nro lying quietly in camp, for the purposo of resting and relitting'the command utter its famous puruit of StowartVcavaly through tho length and breadth of this State (Maryland). What a burning shamo was it, that ho was allowed to escape ! General Pleas Hilton's cavalry did nil thoy could followed him marly a hundred miles in twenty-four hours, and came up with him, with 5 hundred men and two guns held his twenty-five hundred for three hours, and finally compelled him to retire three miles to secure his crossing. One regiment of infantry stationed at that ford to support them would have secured every rebel. There was a whole division of infantry within three miles, and there were a hundred thousand men within fifteen miles. Yet all the opposition that Stewart mot was from Gen. Pleasanton's brigade, that had traveled more than eighty miles to catch him halting for neither food or sleep on the road. I get so " riled" whenever I think of it, that I am willing to " pitch in" and d n everybody. Then 1 sco that Stewart is lauded to the skies by the press and people as a dashing cavalry of ficer, etc. So he is ; and I give him full credit ; but at the same time I can't overlook (as you nil do) General Plcasanton's cavalry. It has made belter marches bolder reeonuoissanccs nnd more extensive "raids" than ever J. E. B. Stewart did ; and scarcely a word is said about it. A more dashing or bold movement was never made than that of General Pleasanton in marching to M irtinsburg two or three weeks ago. llo fougfTt his way inch by inch, nnd then cut his way back through fivo times his number, who wcro attacking him on every side. Southern Generals nnd Southern news papers acknowledge the brilliancy of tho exploit, and also own up to n good thrashing on that oc casion ; but the " homo authorities" can sco nothing of tho kind. I shall get indignant ono of these days and inflict an ar ticle on tho . A member of the Lazy Club has just bocn expelled for go ng at a faster gait than a walk. Tho recusant olfered, in mitigation of sentence the fact that tho baileffwa nller him, but the society was inexorable. Stimulants. Close observation and correct physiological. research reach tho same conclusion, that hearty eating and steady hard work in the open air give the highest degreo of bodily vigor, endurance and lastingncss. Such persons have a strong appetite nnd a rapid digestion, which readily converts tho food into nutriment, nnd tho labor ns rapidly works the old ond useless) particles out of tho system ; hence, the newer tho man is, tho harder ho works and tho harder ho cats. But suppose in addition ho drinks liq. uor largo'y. Its clf.ct i . to arrest tho tnetamor pilosis of tho tissues, to keep longer in the body what ought to havo been worked off; hence ho s ion becomes overfull; his skin becomes dis tended, and ho is always ' tight" (a very ex pressive phrase, that). It is clear, then, that whatsoever arrests waste, nrrefit tho cnango which ought to take place in corporeal particles preparatory to their being conveyed away out of tho system, and is unnatural and pernicious. A man who has a bottle of mm will survive his neighbor at sea or in a desert, because it is tho naturo of alcohol to arrest waste and decay up to a certain point. So it is with a man who studies hard, who works the brain. Alcohol has an affinity to the br.iin. Within nn hour after a glass of brandy is swallowed more of it is found in a given quantity of brain than a given quantity of blood. This was demonstrated twenty years ago by Dr. Persy, so wo rest hero w itii a statemont of the fict. Ilcnco, a mnn with a glass of toddy will think longer, his brain will longer work with activity, than if ho had none, up to a certain point, because it arrests the metamorphosis of tho tissues of tho brain. Collco and tea do the samo thing, and so does tobacco. Thus it was that during tho Irish famine, a dozen years ago, it was often mado a subject of remark, that when an almost starving wretch chanced to get a littlo money, it was expended in tea, or to baceo, or spirits, nud when asked tho reason tho reply was made, " it went farther," than anything else. It was concentrated carbon, ro bone, no liu-.k, not an atom of waste. A cup of strong tea will enable a man to get more work out of his brain than would otherwise have been done. But this is an expenditure be fore nn income, nnd for a while the evil day of bankruptcy of the brain may bo deferred ; but its eventful coming is inevitable, nnd with it tho ruin of tho mind and of the man. The conclu sion of tho whole matter is, that tho man who drinks a cup of ten or a glass of brandy to enable him tho better to disrhargo any publio service, is already on tho high road to dishonor and drunkard's death. A Voice from tub ARMr. A Douglas Dem ocrat, iu the One Hundred and Fourth Illinois, writes homo to La Salle county, an indignant letter concerning tho action of his old political associates. He says: " There aro not forty men in our regiment op posed to tho President's policy ; and I will say further, that if the Lt Salle county Secessionists were hero now, they would be tarred and feath ered iu three minutes. You havo no idea cf the change salt pork, hard crackers, burnt coffee, anil long marches have mado in the political opinions of your La Salle county soldiers. They w ould make an Abolitionist of the most inveterate Democrat that ever lived." Mas doubles hi evils by brooding over them.