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VOL. II.
EUGENE CITY, OKEGOjN MARCH 28, 186&
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TO I.A ROSE (SALE.
a tribute from a emend.
Eternal progress Angels sny
Mankind inherits as a right j
Mother Earth, Father Ood is might.
And ull Ilis creatitas must obey.
Reason is Nature's brightest star,
Omnipotence no more could give;
Sin must perish 'that man may live
Eternal. None this plan can mar.
'Goodness Supreme! child, adult, all
Abm'e, progressively shall dwell,
X'fke angel bands their praises tell,
lEnchautingly to earth they call.
Emms, thou loved one, thy spirit hath fled
To the land of supmer's sweet bloom j
AVe mourn not for thee, no, Oio art not dead,
OKit will hasten back to us soon.
Tis true our hearts are oft lonely and sad,
For thy innocent prattle and glee,
" " ilorn. noou and night fails to make our hearts glad.
Nor thy sweet smiling face do we see.
Yet we're sure thou art smiling the same,
And with angels chanting thy song ;
And Emma dearest Uose-Bcd, -still is thy name.
Thou didst to the angel belong.
Blest dispensation of Reason and light,
'That spiritually opens our eyes,
And brings our loved ones back from night,
From the far olt' Celestial skies.
No more, beloved on. will father be sad,
Or grief dim thy fond mother's eye.
Returning thou'lt surely make rar hearts glad,
And attract us home to the sky.
(From the National (Knglish) Reformer.
English Help to the Blare Power.
We are compelled to confess with s wow,, in
dignation and shame, that the infamous Slave
Tower of America derives mucli ot us neip ana
tiearlv all of its encouragement from England
-and Englishmen alone. Nowhere else in Europe
are the same sentiments so loadly expressed or
the soma sympathies so unmistakably shown. In
France the Emperor stands almost isolated in
favor of the South ; in Russia even the officials
are the friends of the North. The people which
declares in its pride tlmt it stands first among
the flee, is the people that extends the best aid
to the most revolting despotism the world has
-ever seen. It is quite impossible to account for,
-as it is quite impossibble to understand, this most
remarkable and deploruble perversion of feeling.
It is a perversion so gross as almost to obliterate
the memory and cancel the obligations which
England's former efforts on behall of the slave
ihave left to her honor and created to her credit.
We have reache d, however, we hope, the climax
of our mistortune aud our shame. The honest
sentiments of our country men will soon rise
above the delusions to which so many of them
have been subjected. The friends of the slave
power have always declined the public preference
of its claims; they have been content to influence
the public mind by the propagation of falsehoods
through the press. Whenever they have ap
peared on a free platform they have been signal
ly defeated. They have indeed made an attempt
.to aid the South by associative effort ; but the
Attempt was made in a private drawing room,
before an audience of forty people, by man
who had such a reasonable dread of discussion
that he not only prohibited opposition, but in
voked the aid of the police to prevent it. The
demoralized tone of a certain portion'jf tho press
on this question has given rise to the suggestion
that some underhand Agency must be at wore to
-corrupt it. Whether that is so or not, it is cer
tain that the depravity of tone is so gross and
remarkable that surmises of the kind we have
mentioned lose tlmt extravagance which in other
matters would inevitably attach to them. If the
aristocratic press alone look p:irt in this effort ol'
delusion, tin. re would l.o much to humiliate lint
less to surprise, lint the bit t rue of the an
tocratic journals in this -jish is even surusst-d by
that of their contemporaries ho nre liber il
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Ti lexsion. ooiue oi uiose tin not long .nice
were earnest in
their denunciation if slavery.
who, moreover, saw in the adventure of old Johu
Uro n the beginning of the inevitable overthrow j
of that organized atrocity, are now tho nndis
guised friends of the very power that is seeking
to perpetuate it in time and extend it in dimon
sions. 'Is there not in all this suflkicnt reason
'to give rise to the discreditable rumors of cor
ruption to which we have alluded It this sym
pathy for the slave power were a question of
mere sentiment, there would still be enough to
cover our countrymen with confusion ; but un
fortunately it is a question -of deliberate aid and
encouragement to the South of aid which pro
vides tho means and of encouragement which
evokes the spirit to continue a contest which is
eotidoinned even by its abettors.
By disguising the real 'htsne of the war tmj
denying the sincerity of the North in pursuing
them, the pre, of England fosters a false senti
ment in favor of tho slave power. Men are thus
bro: ght to dispute tho existence of any moral
obligations in regard to a conflict which they are
told has nothing moral about if. They therefore,
pursue, not only without approbi'ium, but actu
ally with a certain degree of praise, those coin
mercial efforts on behalf of the South which have
justly provoked the anger of tho whole Northern
people. An English port has been employed as
a regular rendezvous of English vessels purpos
ly despatched to break tho blockade. English
rifles ot last year's make, "with the mark of her
Majesty undbliterated," havo been carried by
Engrish steamers to the blockaded ports o'f the:
South. So extensive 'has been this traffic in arms
arms whieh'could'only have been extracted
from our-arsenals by theft orsupplied'from them
by treachery that "a Northern General," says
Professor Newman, "has penned the distinct
avowal thai, had not English swift steamers,
assembled at the English port of Nassau, carried
in arms to the South, the war must ere now have
terminated for want of weapons in the hands of
the relief." English ships have been buiit and
the English flag has been employed to carry on
a piratical adventure ou behalf of slavery. The
Alabama, which has even surpassed the 'Summer
in the number and the enormity of lier crimes,
is to ad intents mid purpose an 'Eii'dis shin.
She has nev -r eitrled, never even endeavored
to enter a Confederal!' p'frt. ?h. was limit in
Eugiiii.d ; she is said to lie manned by English
sailors, and ifrtaii-l'y carries tin- English ensign
to cover her depredations. It was as an insult to
the 'E z'.UU fi ig thai the conduct of Captain
Wilkes whs resented, lint what greater jnsiili
Could be offered to the fl igof England that thai
ol eiiiploviiii; il lo covi-r the raids of a sea roll
her? llie Lug isli II ig is thus used to aid th
cause ol slavery, an long as that niMilt is not
avenged, it is impossible to boast of the honor ol
the English flag or the pride of the Eng'ish name.
lint (hat insult is 'not only not resented, it is not
even condemned. Neither fhu litntsl "CowWrrrice
I llie ly iiitain, nor tile tieacili ry or Ha! menus
he makes use of, excites the auger of the pcopli
ir provokes Iho protest of tho 'Government.
llii A'nn una, carrying tho colors 'of England,
woopi down on tho unarmed vessels of Auieri
can commerce, iho captured vessel is first rob-
lied and then burned. The burning ship, always
a sign ot distress at sea, is Used Ty the Alabama
ns it decoy, Tho ship that comes to succor the
distressed fills another prey into tho maw of the
marauder. Jt is only ou vessels from which re
sistance 'is not to be expected, that the Alabama
ventures an attack. Siie takes c ire to avoid all
those seas where a Federal ship of war is likely
to be met with. Sh displays her prowes with
the suddvtrtiess of a garoter, the treachery of u
Malay, and the cowardice of a robber of women.
She avoids the strong and tho capable, only to
assail the weak and detenceless. Aud this au
dacity is called daring, aud this cowardice courage
because it is employed on behalf of a power
which is at once without an equal in crime or n
companion in cruelly. It was to commit these
depredations that the Alabama was built, fitted
out, and despatched by English hands. It was
to take up the same business of piratical ndven
tu re that other ships are said to be now bitilJiug.
English capitalists lend their money and English
traders advance their skill to build up in the
West a monstrous and malignant slave empire.
The help we give to slavery is more effectual
than the help we have ever given to freedom.
No English ship builder ever built, and no Eng
lish capitalists ever encouraged him to build, a
single vessel to help tho redemtion of Italy.
These things, it is true, are done for the most
part in Liverpool, where, owing to a long con
nection with the slave trufttc and a close connec
tion with the slave institution, the slavo senti
meut is strongest. Ui.t they nevertheless dis
honor the hole country, and bring down upon
it the world's npprobriuin. And they aro done
with greater readiness and carried out with
greater alacrity because of the approval extend
ed to them on the one hand by the declarations
of the press, and on tho other by tho disgraceful
inaction of the Government.
The country is, of course, only indirectly com
promised by the action or individuals ; but it is
no less diroctty than dangerously compromised
when members of the Government throw over
the cause of the South the shield of approval.
Mr. Gladstone did so at Newcastle more dis
tinctly than any other of his colleagues has done;
and though ho now, in a letter to Professor New
man, denies that he ever expressed any sympa
thy for the Southern cause, he yet so far forgot
the words he has uttered as to speak of the efforts
of the North as a " hopeless and destructive en
t!rpris." It the cause of tho North merits
thesf epithets, that of the South must merit the
opposite ones j and so Mr. Gladstone has just
m otlu-r words repeated that expression ot'svm
luilhy which he writes to deny ever having used.
Hat if the causp of the North it ' hopeless," it
is Enulish gold that has h Iped to in ike it so
Mr. G adstone, however, i right i.i his other
epithet, though in ad-ffereiit 4'iis to the one he
intended. The cause of the North i detruct
ivs ;" but it is destructive to the most iniquitous
sud revnltinir system evr craned hv men.
Is
it on that nccouut that Mr. Gladstone condemns Couldn't bk Ciikatkd. A dealer advertised
jtj .eye glasses, by the aid of which a person could
But Mr. Gladstone is not alone h his hatred easil r,eaJ tho finest print. A well dressed
of tho free North. The whole Government u nian called at tho counter ono day to be filled
tainted by the same deplorable hostility. .t ia ! to a pair of spectacles. Ashe remarked that
notpossibloothert'iso toacC6untfJ'rtho"reiriiss.t'cll,,dneve'' wor" a,0r 8on,10 we handed to
ness of its behavior in the matter of the ships at l,lln tllftt ;"g'id very little. He looked hard
Liverpool. It allowed tho Alabama to escape, I through them on tho book set before In in, but
though it had received the Complaint of the Amer dt'cla,'tid ho 001,1 J ",ako out notl"ng- Another
iMntoi.,il n.,rl ti, n,i;i ,,f ,.,.,: U'ltir f stronger power were saddled upon his
ing from its own law officers a declaration of
illegality. Laws, we know, can be stretched or
tightened at the will of those who are appointed
to execute them. That they are stretched in this
caso is apparent to all who remember 'tho case of
Halt s roeiu'ts. Those Tuckets were being made
to aid in tho liberation of Hungary ; they were
therefore seized. . , The Alabama was being built
to resist tho liberation of the slave-; sho was
thereforo allowed to escape. There could bo no
more evidence of illegality in the case of the
rockets than in the case of the Alabama. Why,
then, if the Government pretends to fairly exe
cute the law, does it do in one caso what -it does
not do in another ? This vat'iod action on its
part admits of but ono interpretation that the
Government now in ofliee is moro friendly to
Austria bent on subduing Hungary, than it is
to America determined to free the slave. It is
natural to forgive lax execution of the law when
moral considerations intervene. But in tho two
cases mentioned all tho morality was, on the
ono hand, on the side of 'the rockets, and on the
other, on the side of law-; for it is m monstrous
perversion of facts and malignant misinterpreta
tion of events that the cause of tho North is any
longer deprived of the prestigo of freedom and
progress. There is, however, an opportunity
iifl'orded the 'Government uow to redeem tho
credit of tho country. Nine ships are building
at Liverpool this moment such is tho common
report, undisguised and tin denied" for the pur
pose ;ot following tho criminal career of the Al
abama. It tho (jroveriuiieut has any real friend
ship lor America, any real sympathy for the
honor of our country, it will take steps to pro-
ei.t iho escape if these monstrous ntiuradersof
ilio sea. It It does, it will help to re-establish
die tViendlv relations of England wild her off
spring. If it does not, it will jrtstify the rising
animosity if tho iNortli towards us.
This animosity wo might afford to despise
ought, indeed, to despise if the cause which
gave rise to it was approved of by our conscien
ees or sanctioned l.y morality. Unless, however
tho argument of those divines who seek a sanc
tion tor slavery m religion is a righteous one,
our efforts on behalf of the South can never be
moral in themsuives or approved of by tho con
science of our country. These efforts can have
Iml onu ol jeet, and il successful but one end
tlx ..TOnitieli t establishment in tho world of an
empire based for the first timo ou slavery alone.
is this uu object winch English, net), proud of their
freedom aiul of their love of it, ought to cherish?
Wo wiio havo welcomed Kossuth, who have
sheltered Worcoll, who have applauded (iara
La'i'i we who have sympathised with every
eilbr; however desparat.;, over every victory
small, ou behalf of human freedom shall we of
all the peoples in the world rte the means of re
uniting thek broken chains of the slavo 1 In the
name of tho honor of our country, in tho name
of the happiness of tho world, let our countryman
protest against the crimu and the treason of
English help to Slavery
Negro Testimony.
It seems, so far as we can learn, that the prin
cipal objection to negro testimony, is the danger
of making the negro equal to a white man. The
people ot tho East, both in slave as well as free
States, have not been afraid of such equality,
and have only looked upon the privilege as an
act of justice. A negro will not be thought any
more of because his testimony is allowed in
Court s neither will he be any nearer a white
man in condition or color. A Court, or a jury
can decide on the truthfulness of a negro's tisti
mony, as well as that of a white, man, and admit
or exclude. The watch dog's bark is evidence
that burglars may be about, aud if the dog had
human reason, many rascals would be brought to
justice, so it is with the negro, who not only
gains n position that will protect himself, but
will prove a cheek, to some extent, where guil
ty criminals have evaded the law and continued
thoir outrages upon peaceable citizens. The ne
gro should have some recourse for wrongs com
mitted on him by white men, which is the main
object of admission of his testimony. We be
lieve every person, of uny color, is entitled to
justice and when the negro who has industriously
tolled for a pittance, becomes dispossessed by a
whito villain, it is not humanity to deny the ne
gro justice, for want of white evidence. As the
negro is obliged to pay tuxes the same as white
persons, the law should protect him in his right
to preserve and recover property. We do not
look upon this ns a political measure, but as an
act of justice. Such laws in nearly all tho East
ern States were adopted by Democratic Legis
latures, and never were regarded as political
issues by any party. We have no idea that
white men will descend to the level of the African
either in intellect or energy, by thu admission of
such testimony in courts ot justice, and we think
a man is of very little account, any how, who
believes that a negro can crowd him nut of the
good opinion of white men. If tho democrats
can reason favorably against the example set by
tho an uuren Democracy ol Acw lork, and
other States, iu reference to this subject, we have
no doubt that tho next Leirn'aturj will repeal
(ho bill, and the dam ige t!f cted will not be soje,t i brother's love ; the dearest a man's love;
enormous ns to ruin tho country. Political rap. nnj tno geetest, longest, strongest and dearest
it'll Itinar lit. .iii... iii aiiiiii. U!1V nlul tfc-M h iVH I I . - ,.f l.....n
yet to see any mcususre enacted by thu present
Slate and National Administrations suitable to
several Democratic newspapers of the country,
Yrtl-ii Jonrnil.
I nosi. but unsiiiH'assiii I v as before. frurthnV tri
uls were made, 'until at length the almost dis
cocraged dealer passod him a pair which magni
lied more than all tho rest in his stock. The cus
totner, 'quite as impatient as the merchant at
having to try so many, put on the last pair and
glowered through them at the printed pago with
nil riis might.
' "Can you read that printing now 1 " inquired
tho dealer, pretty certain that he had hit it right
this time, ut any rate.
"Sure, not a bit," was (ha reply.
"Can you Tead at all ? " said tho merchant,
unablo to conceal his vexation any longer.
"Kadeat all, is it ?" cried tho customer.
"There's not a singla word among them that 1
can identify tho features uv."
" I say do you know how to read J " exclaim
ed the dealer, impatiently.
" Uut wid ye ! " shouted tho Irishman, throw
ing down tho spectacles in a huff " If I could
rade, what 'ud 1 bo afther buyin' a pair of spec
tacles for ? Ye chato tho paple wid tho idea
that yer glasses 'ud help 'em rado print aisy ;
but it, as big lio, it is ! Ah, ye blackguard, ye
thought I'd buy 'em without tryin 'em !'
The Ccmmos Law os Surnames England.
Great consternation fell ou tho snobs of Great
Britain, not long ago, through a butcher named
Smith, or something like that, determining to
call himself Norfolk Howard. Tha Butcher as
serted his right, by tho law of England, to change
his surname whenever ho pleased, and to take
any surname that pleased his ear. Presently
ix Mr. Jones, a Welchmarf, determined to uso tho
same privilege, and began to write himself Her
bert a prettier natrio than Jones. Now Mr.
Jones Herbert was not a butcher, but a gentle
man of property ; so it was determined to make
an example ot mm. lord IJanovcr-, in nis ca
pacity as Lord Lieutenant of Monmonfhsliire, re.
fused to call Mr. Jones any thing but Jones.
Thereupon ensued much bitterness-and gtnshlng
of teeth. The snobs declared that a man must
not change his name without act of Parliament;
the Joneses laughed and signed themselves Her
bert, without saying a word to Parliament or
Herald s College. Ono result of the controversy
is the publication of a pamphlet on the rules of
Lnglish law atlccting the change of surnames
by uu able lawyer. From this wo learn that,
according to all law aud precedent in England,
"A man may assume what name and as many
as he pleases," "and that the law recognizes the
new name when assumed publicly and bona
IJiJc." Lastly "that when any person has legal
ly assumed a name by his own act, it is compul
sory on courts of law to recognize the legal act."
A coustTHY boy who had road ofsuilors lieav
ing up anchors, wanted to know if it was sea
sickness that made them do it.
A Fat Girl. A fat girl has just turned up,
in the person ofMiss liosina Delight Hiclnird
son, of East Alsteadt N. II. Miss Uosim is nine
teen years of age, five foot throo inches in hight,
measuring five feet three and a quarter inches
round the waist, and two feet ten inches in a
strait line across the shoulders. Her weight is
478 pounds. For a full rigged dress on a Win
ter's day sho requires 200 yards of three quar
ters yard wide cloth.
Two ladies, while Gen. MoClollan was at din
ner at the Massasoit House, on his roccnt pas
sage through this city, robbed a military cap
which they supposed to bo tho General s, of
both its buttons, tearing them out ruthlessly, to
be preserved as mementoes, lhe inortilication
of their foelings, and the redness of their faces
can be imagined, when one ol the aids put on
the mutilated cap, and tho dener.il put on his
own, Which was intact. 1 hose buttons haven t
been preserved, but tho story has, and is told
oftener than two ltdies wish to hear it. Spring.
field Republican.
Going tub wrono Way. With many people
this is synonymous with going a dfferent road
to church. Not so much so now as in the past,
w here heaven lay on one sido of tho church door
and a world of torment on the other. Now
men look through more liberal spectacles ; and
that a good man chooses to worship his maker
afler a form different from ours, does not neces
sarily imply that he is to be excluded from
futuro world of blessedness. How strange it
would seem, in this day to meet with some
Christians of that old way of thinking I We say
"Christians," because, narrow as were their
creeds, judged by their good deed, they were
such. To meet such now seems liks closing tho
shutters at glorious noonday to blink by tho
one old tallow candle. And yet we listen to
them kindly and forbcaringly, becauso they don't
know if, their hearts are larger than their creeds;
and because shortly, by heaven's own light, they
will look back wondering upon the myriads of
their fellow-beings whom they fudged not as
Godjudgeth. Fasny Fkbx.
Love. A young laly a sensible girl gives
the f llowiiig cutiiloU'i of the dfferent kinds of
love i " Th i sw,si.t t a mo.her's love ; the long
There is no readier way for man t bring
his own worth into question, than by et;d .savoring
to detr.vt from tho worth of o'hrr non.
A word about dress
One of the greatest rrristukes 1n out dress Is
the very thin covering of dur aVfns and legs.
No physiologist can doubt that the extremities
require as much covering as the body. A fruit,
ful source of disease ; of congestion Iii the head,
chest, and obdonten, is found in the nakedness
of the arms and legs, which piovetrt a fair
distribution of the blood.
A young lady has jast asked what she can
do for her very thiu arms. she says sho is
ashamed ot them. 1 felt of them through tha
thin lace covering, and fotrrtd them freezing cold.
i iiskbu ncr wnat sno supposed would make
moscles grow ? Exercise, she replied. Certain,
ly, but exercise makes them grow only by giving
them more blood. Six months of vigorous x
erciso would do loss to give those naked, cold
arms circulation, than would a single month
were they warmly .clad.
Tho valuo of ecTcise depends upon tho tern
peratature of the muscles. A cold gymifarfium
is unprofitable. Its temperature should be be
tween sixty and soventy, or tho limbs should be
warmly clothed. I know that our servant eirU
'and blacksmiths, by constant and vigorous ex.
ercise, acquire luige, fine arms, in spite of their
nakedness. And if young ladies will labor as
hard from morning till night as do these useful
classes, they may havo as lino orms ; but even
then it is doubtful if they would get rid of their
congestions in tho head, luncs and stomach.
without mere dross upon their arms and legs.
Perfect health depends pon perfect circula
tion. Every living thing that has the latter
has the former. Put your hand under your
dross upon your body. Now put your hand
urfon.your arm. It yon Arid tho body is warm
er than tho arm, you havo lost the equilibrium
of circulation. Tho head has to much blood-,
producing heuduche or a sense of fullness : or the
chest has to much blood, producing cough rap
pid breathing, pain in tho side, or palpitation of
tho heart ; or tho stomach has to much blood, pro
ducing rtidigestion ; or tho liver has to much
blood producing some disturbance ; or the bow
els have to much blood, producing constipation
or diarrhoea. Any or all of these difficulties are
temporarily reliovcd by tho immersion of the
feet or hands in hot Water, and they are perron,
nently relieved by snch dress and exercise of the
extremities as will make the perfect circtriation
permanent.
Again 1 say 'tho extremities rcqhiro as 'much
clothing ns tho body. Women should dress thoir
arms and legs with ono or two thicknesses of
knit wollcn garments which fit thorn. Tho ab
surdity ot loose flowing rleeves and wide-spread
skins, I will not discuss.
Do you osk why the arms and legs rnay not
become accustomed to exposure like tho flico 1 I
answer, God has provided the face With an im
meso circulation, becauso it must be exposed.
A distinguished physician of Paris, just before
his death affirmed, " I believe that during the
twenty-six years I havo practised my profession
in this city, twenty thousand children have been
borne to the cemeteries, a sacrifico to tho absurd
custom of 'naked arms." When in 'Harvard,
many years ago, I heard tho distinguished Dr.
J. C. Warren say, "Uoston sacrifices five hun
drcd babies every year, by not 'clothing their
arms." Those little arms should have thick knit,
warm wollen alcoves, extending from the shoul
der to the hand. Dio Lewit, M. D.
Last wohtm or tub Patriot Clay. In liis
speech on the Compromise in 1850, tho last
of his publlo efforts, the great Clay, while depre.
eating and describing the terrible evils which Ha
confidently prcdictod would follow, referred to
the project then talked of by ultra Southerners
of establishing a Southern Confederacy to own
the Balize and conrol the mouth of the Missis
sippi,, and expressed his views in the follwing
energetic terms. In giving the quotation the
Louisvillo Journal, in an article pointing out the
utter impracticability of separating the mouth
of the Mississippi from the West, Introduced it
with theso remarks :
And here let us mark what tho imthortal Clay,
the best practical statesman that this Country
ever produced, said in the last great effort of hie
life, his speech on tho measures o'f compromise,
delvcred in tho Senate on the 22d of July, 1850 1
" If this Union shall become separated, new
Unions, new confederacies, will rise. And with
respect to this, if there bo any I hope there is
no one in the Senate before whoso imagination
is flitting tho idea of a great Southern Confeder
acy, to take possession of the Balize and tho
mouth of the Mississippi, I say in my place,
never I never ! nkvkr will we who occupy the
broad waters of the Mississippi and its upper
tributaries consent that any foreign flag shall
float at the IJalize or upon tho turrets of the
Crescent City never never I
The above eloquent declaration of Henry Clay
the Journal indorses In tho following forcible
sentences :
The high and deep resolve, thus forcibly ex.
pressed by thu great modern statesman, unsur
passed by any of the ancient times, should sink
deep Into every heart. It has sunk into every
heart. And it will be excented, in defiance, if
need be, of the terrors and horrors of myriad
wars.
Short and Swext. The Newbury port Iter aid
says the 1 resident s Proclamation has done at
once, what the Gospel lias failed to do in eighteen
hundred years or more.
ntaxt asxino ror a DivorcI. Harriet A.
McLaughlin, of Chicago, asks for a divorce front
Henry H. her hnsbanand. She is only eleven
years old, and has beon married for a tingle
month.
Raihiso tiii Prick. The San Fraucisco Calf
and Evening Journal bit papers have raised
the pri to fifteen cents per wceVi