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STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. t THE BEAUTIFUL SNOUT. Ob ! the mo, the beautiftil snow, filliiiB the sky and earth below ; Over the housetops.over Uio street, Over the iieads of tie people yon meet, .i Dancing, y FlirtinjV - - .. Skimming Along : Beautiful snow t it can do no wrung. Flying to kiss a fair lady's cheek. Clinging to lips in a frolicksoine freak. Beautiful snow frotu the Heaven abdve, Pure as an angel, gentle as love ! Ok ! the snow, the beautiful snow, ilowsthe flakes gather and laugh as they go Whirling about in the maddening fun. It plays in its glee with every one. . ' ' Chasing, . , , Laughing, slurrying by ; It lights on the face and it sparkles the eve ! And aven the dogs, with a bark and a bound, Enap tt the crystals that eddy around ; The town is alive, and its heart in a glow. To Welcome the jcoming of beautiful snow 1 Sow wild the crowd goes swaying along, ailing each other with humor and song ! llow the gay sledges, like meteors, flash by, Bright for a moment, then lost to the eye; Ringing, 4? ". T Swinging, Dashing they go, Over the crust of the beautiful snow ; Snow so pure when it falls from the, sky, To be trampled in mud by the crowd rushiuz bv. To be trampled and tracked by the thousands of feet, Till it blends with the filth in the horrible street Once I was pure as the snow but I fell ! Fell tike the snow-flakes from heaven to hell ; Fell to be trampled as filth of the street ; Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat ; , Pleading, Cursing, Dreading to die. Selling my soul to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread. Hating the living and fearing the dead ; Merciful God ! have I fallen so low T And yet I was once like the banaiiful snow. Once I was fair as the beautiful snow. With an eye like its crystal, a heart like its glow ; Once I was loved for my innocent grace Flattered and sought for the charms of my face ! Father, Mother. Sisters, all God, and myself, I have lost by my fall ; The veriest wretch that goes shivering by. Will take a wide sweep, lest I wander too nigh ; For all that is on or above me, I know,- There is nothing that's pare as the beautiful snow. How strange it should b that this beautiful snow, Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go ! llow strange it s&ouia be, wnen the night comes again. If the snow and the iee struck my desperate brain, t aintmg. Freezing, - : Dying alone, Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan. To be heard in the streets of the cfaiy town. Gone mad in the joy of the snow coming dovrn, To -He, and So die in my terriblo wo, With a bed and a shrould of the beautiful snow, XissAxmk Sckratt. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times thus alludes to this unhappy young lady, who has, by the cold-blooded murder of her mother, by Secretary Stanton, been made an or phan : The many friends of Miss Annie Surratt will be glad to learn that her health has Seatly improved within a week or two, al ough she is far : from, being the happy, joyous girl that she once was. Hundreds of sympathizing friends have called to see her during .the last ten days, but to most of them she begged to be excused. She feels deeply the kindness whieh they manifest, but she is not yet equal to the duties of society. In deed, 'a deep and settled melancholy seems to have taken entire possession" of her na ture. She never smiles, and the expression of her face is that of agony struggling with resignation. Her only relief is in the conso-1 lation of religion ; and if it were not for that, she would probably die. Her greatest grief is, that she is not allowed to lay the remains f her mother in consecrated ground, nor to say a prayer over her last resting:placo. She lives only in hope of being able to do this,' and it only needs one word from the Secretary of V ar to enable her to do it. Why is his permission withheld ? Is not justice yet satisfied ? "Was not the require ments of the law fulfilled when the life of the probably innocent woman was taken ? 3Iust vengeance pursue her beyond the tomb ? , Shooting RetVksed Rebels. A St. Lfcuis correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says, no doubt with entire accuracy : " Accounts are received from the interior daily of difficulties between loyal men and returned rebels. It is currently reported that there are many cases of shooting re turned rebels which are never printed. The perpetrators do not report such incidents, and the friends of the victim deem it inex pedient generally to make any noise on the It is but fair and true to say that the reb els who have returned to Missouri have gen erally conducted themselves in the most un exceptionable manner. It is true, too, that omeof -them have been killed, and that pi any of them have been driven out of the State. . Of the death and banishment ofthese fnen, the public hear but little. No matter how unprovoked may be the homicide which ends their days, no matter if it amounts to a cool and cruelly barbarous murder, the friends of this murdered man as the corres jxradent admits, think it " inexpedient" to ay any thing about it. Why they act witli such apparent indifference cannot be com prehended by calm, humane and law-truSt- ing people in other States." The only way in which they can learn the reason why is by coming to Missouri, and going to the scene of such outrages, iudcing for them selves with unnreiuaiced ears and eyes. If (hey do not jchoose to learn in this way, they rill have to defer the acquisition of such knowledsre to the day of great and teneral judgment. St. Louis Republican. Jefferson Davis' Family. The Toronto Leader of Aug, 21st says ; At naon on, Saturday. Mrs. nowell, moth or-in-law of Mr. Jefferson. Davis, and three f that gentleman' children two sons and . flan 3-hter arrived at the Queen's Hotel in this citv, direct from Savannah. Having dined, they left by the boat at 2 o'clock for . m T 1 1 . t A I-lontreal, where tne euuaren are to w sen to school. Two servants accompany tnem The. eldest boy, : a tine, eturay iaa oi about eight sum and when asked wanted with ti.3 lick the Yanke" inow you are to t rorted a little sword '-. rentleman" what he -.on: he replied "To " Yes, Jeff., hnt you . I tL fcoy to lick fchje Tan ealA h -.. . '.-rftiii. 1 Jefl DrotEDlV mtw5 T tnr.w t orti'.Tiow. btftrwheo i become a man I t "I h "fV Who inoTV t!- in tweferrear8 that uttie leUow rtsy o irvir-i? oar, rj his threat into force i ' te head H 4tn smarmy? . vjj' - - - ;m j t' . ' r r John Adams, hein' ealiai upon f,? ac-'-tribution for foreign tabisioos, r -: ' I have nothing to ' gsW for the t .; ; but there are ia this vicinity) ntfnLtorsnot '.pnc will preach In the other's pulpit. . 1 ow I rU.J give as much, and more than any eae else, to civilise time clergymen." . v Is not the negro a man and a brother Vrr New York Independent, He may be "your brother or half-brother he is ao, relation of ours. LouiBville JoornaL . . . . . ' - Peace makes plenty, plenty mat priae Dreeos quarrel, tjtiarrel tm wajv brings spoil, and spoil porer - ly patient, and patience peace. -. PARTICULARITY GRATIFYING. TUiw York Independent says : It must be particularly gratifying to good RepublicarrB to learn that the larRnst income tax is paid i every section of the country, almost uniformly by radical Republicans. In Michigan, tor instance, that steady ratli- cal, Seuator Chandler, pays the largest in come tax of any man in tlic State, If any reasonable man is surprised that the 11 Radical Republicans" pay the larg est income taxes, he must have been asleep or torpid during the last five years. The " Radical Republicans" have been permitted to steal by one means or other, in that time, over a thousand millious of dollars from the National Treasury, and hence they possess the largest fortunes and pay the largest income taxes. Si mon Cameron stole" over five millions himself while Secretary of War. Sena tor Simmons, of Rhode Island, was com pelled to resign his seat for accepting, in one instance, $50,000 as fee for procur ing for some knave a shoddy contract; Senator Hale took 4,000 in one case for getting an innocent man out of a Federal bastile: Chief Justice Chase went into the Treasury Department a bankrupt and left it a millionaire, on a salary of $8,000 per annum ; Secretary Welles brother-in- law, Morgan, brother of Gov. Morgan, of New York, made $95,000 in two months by a Government contract given him by Welles; and Parson Dr. Bellows, as Treasurer of the Sanitary Commission, so Ileury Ward Beecher stated, was over one million dollars delinquent in his ac counts. No doubt " blood-letting" Chan dler leeched the Treasury enormously, and is thus enabled to pay the largest in come tax of any man in the St:Vie. The war has been profitable to tliese ricrt ras cals. And it is "particularly gratifying" to them to be able to pay the largest in come taxes. But what say the millions of citizens who have been swindled and leeched and robbed by the corrupt legis lation of Abolition Legislatures and the Abolition Conaress, who have been re duced from affluence to want, from com fortable condition to beggary, m order that these big income taxes could be paid by the enormously wealthy rogues who have been permitted to dip their hands without limit into the National Treasury ? Is it u particularly gratifying" to them, this thing which so tickles the Independ ent? The West has been impoverished in order that New England should be surfeited with wealth is this " particu- arly gratifying" to the people of the West ? The very fact mentioned by the Independent forcibly shows how the mass of the people have been fleeced in order that the tew ' liadical Republicans should be enriched. A Word to the Statesman. Now hadn't you better rend that long ar ticle of yours on "Personal Slanders" over again : and then read the Journal's article, ' Has Satan a Right to Lecture on Morals?" the last might do )-ou good if committed to memory. statesman. We have no need to read that long ar ticle of ours over again ; but had you not better read it, and heed it? If the editor of the Statesman can point to a single ar ticle we ever published, during the eight years we bave been connected with the press of Oregon, in which we assailed per sonal character, or vented personal slan ders, against any private individual what ever, no matter how great the aggrava tion to do so may have been, we will agree to vote his ticket. We havei never ani madverted on any but men in public life, and then only as concerned their public character ; or upon men who took means to injure the cause of Democracy, by busily circulating sometimes stealthfullv and again openly slanders against its organs or its public servants. And for the paper he mentions, and its article, let us say to the editor of the statesman that, when from its apparent characteristics we conceive an animal to 1 w . De only a very small dog, but on ap proaching it discover it to be really polecat, we thereafter let it alone. We do not think that " Satan has a right to lecture on morals," buU Bice the very miserable small devil of the paper the Statesman refers to has engaged in that business, it would perhaps- be wrong for us to deny Satan the privilege so go ahead, Mr.- Statesman. . . The National Debt. An Abolition writer in the pay of the Administration, has published a pamphlet for general distribution among the people in which he endeavors to prove that the National Debt is a National blessing. The New York Independent, Times, and other prominent Abolition papers support his view of the case. We remember qf the story of the Irishman who was advised by a friend to buy a stove as it would save him half the quantity of wood consumed in a fire-place. Paddy listened ; he was convinced and a bright idea struck him "Faith," said he, "I'll buy two stoves then, and save alf the wood!" In about the same way does this absurdity that the National Debt is a National blessing, hold good. IT W owe five thousand, millions of dollars be,a National blessing, why not Esl.' it ten? thousand -millions, and so J ulie the blessing? The 'argument of Pid2j moreVixty and just as logical ss this about the debt. :; -A ., ' How1 Abomtiojt Victories aeb Gaised. The returns, from one -precinct in Prince dM-ffss Countvv Jlaryland". 'show that out of one hnndrfj m 4 eighty, votersonfl hnndred and "t!urtyes3 Lave 'b'eenisfranehised : by the registry cf ft-t States The same . :fotBef counties 3 Abolition State, Missouri and Ten- onkejii -They tried it on i in Kentucky, but failed paost signally m the ; ;ar election in that otat, " , SHOW YOUR HANDS. Here is something from the Milwaukic Sentinel, a prominent Abolition organ of Wisconsin, to which we would call the at tention of the Abolition organs of Oregon : The Union party should bo honest and manly enough not to dodge every question of any political significaiice before the country, but should take one side or the other of tliese questions, so that its position maf be thor oughly understood. If it favors a tarifi' or egro bunrage, let it say so without prevar ifioation. If it opposes a tariff and Negro Suffrage, let it say that without equivocation. Let it be a bird or a beast, and not hover be twecn the two, like the contemptible bat in the fable. If there is anvthing that ought to lie buried under the weight of public condemna tion, it is a hermaphrodite party and her maphrodite politicians. Here, as elsewhere, the Abolition party claim to be the " Union party." ' We cor dially approve and endorse what the Sen tinel says as regards the duty of any party to clearly and manfully avow its princi ples, its policy on national measures, and its sentiments on leading issues. But the Abolition press of Oregon do not seem to recognize such a course as necessary or proper. They do not show their hands on the most important issues of the day Ijidced their party brethren in most of the other States do not. In Maine, Massa chusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa, they have the honesty to come out in favor of Negro Suffrage ; in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, they evaded the question entirely So did they dodge it in California. And here in Oregon, while some of the organs favor it, others oppose it thus evidently endeavoring to play glod God and good Devil, as the exigency may require, in re gard to it. Then there is the Monroe Doctriue. It is impossible to bring them to an open, square expression upon that, especially since the dispatch a short time ago brought the information that Mr. Seward had dis covered a new theory, by which the re cognition of Maximilian was iu strict con brmity with the Mouroo Doctrine, and not in any way a violatiou of it. Next comes questions of btate impor tance. The proposition to pass a law pro viding for the disfranchisement of Demo cratic emigrants ; the proposition to annul that part of the State Constitution which nrohibts negroes from comiug into the State : that which prohibits the establish nient of any banking institution" of the character of a National Bank ; and that which would forbid any Legislature to pass any Act at one session providing for an appropriation to exceed hlty thousand dollars. The advice of their own party organ in Wisconsin is good and honest, and if the Abolition organs of Oregon arecandid,and really intend to act fairly and squarely, they will act in accordance with it. Let us see if they will do so. Be birds or beasts not bats, 3Iessrs. Abolition co- temporaries. An Extraordinary Discrimination. Among the multitude of inconsistencies which characterize the acts and views of the present Administration, no one is more remarkable than that which concerns the status of the amnestied citizens of the South. The President claims the power to issue to them all an amnesty or genera pardon for what is called their offence of rebellion. By proclamation he does issue this amnesty to all but certain excepted classes. Yet the individuals who are thus pardoned are deprived of certain rights which appertain to citizens, notwithstand ing the amnesty professes to return them to full citizenship. For instance, they are not permitted to vote at State or genera! elections, nor to hold any civil office. The terms of the amnesty does not provide that anv right shall be withheld from them ; it is simply a caprice of the Presi dent or his military commanders which does this, after the amnesty has.been grant ed. Surely, this ia against all law, justice reason, or sense. A person may commit robbery, arson, manslaughter, murder, or any other felony or capital crime ; be tried convicted, and sentenced therefor. The Executive grants him a pardon which re stores him to the full rights of citizenship lie can thereafter vote, and if his fellow citizens eee fit to, elect him to any civi office, he can hold the position, notwith standing his past criminal career. How it happens that the President's amnesty can convey full pardon to a repentant rebel, and yet that any authority can, with out the commission of any offence on his part, divest him or, or withhold trom him the right of suffrage, the privilege to hold civil office, or any other right or privilege guaranteed to citizens, is something we cannot understand. A pardoned cnmina who has committed the most atrocious of capital crimes, may vote and hold office but a person in the South who has simply performed what he conscientiously behev ed to be his duty in upholding his State after having received full pardon for that act, cannot enjoy these rights and privile ges ! it 13 a queer, most inconsistent and, we think, a most outrageous interpre tation of authority. Can any Solon of the Abolition party, learned in the law, make plain to us why this unusual discrimina tion between a pardoned rebel and a par doned criminal should be exercised t Among the Jewish Members of Parliament already returned are : tiaron i. v. Koths child for the City of London, Mr. Alderman Salamons forGreenwich, Baron M. A. De Rothschild for Hythe, Sir Francis Goldsmid for Reading, Mr. Frederick Goldsmid for Honiton, and Mr. N. M. De Rothschild for Aylesbury. - : Snake River. The navigation of this stream by steamers has been successfully ac comnlished by the O. S. N. Co. They dis patch boats regularly now to points on the river. .. . ... --.. STnAiffr.K Fatalitt. The Keview says TliAfl W' Hudson, son of T. R Hudson th 20th of last month fmm eflfccta of swallowing a head of timothy, ten days previous. The gate of heaven ia not be broken with a golden primmer, THE KENTUCKY ELECTION. Outrages by the Military Negro Troops Drive Away VotersEx eesscs of the Anti-Slavery Party. ! We give below extracts from late States papers to inform our readers of :ie outrages perpetrated by the Aboli tionists in the recent election in Ken tucky : Correspondence of Cin. Commercial Abolition Lexington, Ky., Aug. 7, . 1865. The most flagrant attempts were made here his morning to carry the election by aid of the military power. A list of pro scribed persons had been made out by some self-constituted Committee of Pub ic Safety, and was placed in the hands of military orhcer. Lvery one whose uame appeared in it was arrested if he ppeared near the polls. There was no appeal from the list, and a willingness to take the test oath ot Governor Bramlette did not save the nroscribed. Private malice, in mauy cases, was the only' in stigator of the proscription. Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Covington, Ky., Aug. 8, 1865. Offi cers and soldiers in the United States unitorm were stationed at the polls at every voting-place in the country, and, in iuii co-operauon wun me -voomion party, took control and directed who should ote and who should not. Iflany of the best citizens, who purposed to vote the Democratic ticket, were ordered away and actually driven from the polls at the point of the bayonet. At the Cold pring Precinct, men were assaulted. seized, and their hands tied behind them, aud then they were bound with their backs to trees Our informant was so Sield, and suffered in that condition from o'clock m the morning until about o'clock in the evening, (except about thirty minutes respite at noon), not only suffering all the pain and agony of such a confinement, and the intrusion of gnats, flies and musquitocs stinging him in the face, without the power to brush them off, but also the jeers of the Abolition partisans, and the repeated cursings and coarse abuse of the Captain in command on that day at that election precinct. A Lancaster (uirard county) corres pondent of the Louisville Democrat says On Sunday evening before the election, several United States trausfers (wagons). oaded with negro soldiers, were drawn into the county and sent to the several voting precincts. So soon as the polls were opened the arms were stalked con spicuously in close proximity to the vo ting places, the officers of each squad taking a position near the stand at one preeinct the omcers actually sitting with the judges), with their lists in hand, or with would-be loyal citizens at their sides to point out their victims as they ap proached. At the same time, men of the same political creed were running around telling voters of the Union Democratic party that they ought not to "approach the polls, for their names were on the list, and, if they did, they knew they would be arrested. Larly in the morning several quiet," civil citizens, who were willin" to take all the oaths required were arrested and put under guard of the negro" soldiers; and the arresting and threatening continued until about noon, when it became certain the Radical ticket would be successful. The Louisville correspondent of the Chicago Times thus writes : At the usual hour, on the morniue of the election, the polls were opened; but this was no sooner done than armed guards of soldiers were placed in close proximity to them, and although it is alt leged that they were not placed there for the purpose of direct interference, they were undoubtedly there for the purpose of intimidating all who wished to vote against radical measures, and thus secure the election ol the Abolition candidates. fter this was done, several detectives were stationed at the ainerent voting precincts, and thev would accuse Demo cratic voters of being rebels, &c, when they would at once be arrested and hur ried off. Early in the day a number of our most influential citizens were arrested, and thus the farce was fully played. The result was that the Radicals carried the city, the vote being a small one. In one ward 01 mis city, me 11m, wnicn nas never before polled over 400 votes, 850 were cast, 663 of which were for the Radical candidates." The Government ambulances were freely used as election eering chariots, and numbers of soldiers, who had never lived in this btate, were permitted to vote, while old and well known citizens were refused that privi lege- . In one precinct ot the lUth ward, a gentleman by the name of Mr. Kierolf. after he had voted the Democratic ticket, was accusea 01 Deing a reDei, naving printed circulars, &c., for the rebelsf and he was placed under arrest without the slightest grounds for the accusations. It was then said that his vote would be stricken from the poll-books, but, instead of this, the vote was changed from the Democratic candidates to the Republican, as an examination of the poll-book to-day showed. A Kentucky cotemporary says : At Mower's precinct, in Lewis county, the Democrats and Conservatives were chased away from the polls with guns and rocks. In order that we may show our readers that all testimony on the subject does not come from the Democratic papers, we copy the following from the Lexington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commer cial, an Abolition paper : " Vote as you please, but if you vote against Napoleon you'll be shot." And the first consul was elected Emperor by a large majority, not from the fact of hia great popularity, or the desire of the peo ple of France to see him on the throne, but from a singular and unaccountable aversion men seemed to have to being shot. " Vote as you please," said, in effect, a few -of the leaders of the Amend ment party here yesterday morning, " but if you vote against our friends we'll have you arrested' But the people of Ken tucky are not Frenchmen, and those who attempted the Napoleonic method of election found, ere long, that they had reckoned without their host. The first reminder I had of it being election day, yesterday, was a file of soldiers passing along the street, with several citizens un der arrest, and on their way to the guard house. . It called to mind scenes of war and conflict in the distant South, which I had foolishly supposed were brought to a conclusion with the surrender of the rebel armies. I went to the vicinity of the polls and found a state of affiirs existing for which history furnishes no parallel but that of France, which I have quoted. The most corrupt feature of the election was this : Sleii were proscribed by a w'f- constituted " Committee of -Public Safety," list was made out, and the command was given to the soldiers, who guarded the polls, to let no man whose name was on that list Vote, and not only so, but to arrest him if he attempted to vote. Now, should like to know by what right a party of men, whose loyalty has been more vigorously di,played 111 holding of fice than in any other way visible to the naked eye, sat in judgment upon the character of others, and decided whether they were traitors to. or friends to the Government. I believe military inter ference, to the extent contemplated by Governor Bramlette, that of protecting the civil officers of the Government, when called upon would have been eminently just ana proper, uut not content with this, it was determined by those who had control of affairs on the anti-slavery side to make a mockery ot the election to trample under foot all laws, State and National, and carry the day by a covp de main upon the ballot-box. STANTON THE REAL BUTCHER. Junius Henri Browne, of the New iovk inoune, and one 01 the war cor respondents of that paper captured and held prisoner by the rebels, publishes the following statement, which shows that Secretary Stanton is really the wanton 1.1 1T1 1 I,- DUicneroi me reaerai soldiers who per ished in Southern prisons. Mr. Browne says : Lately Mr. Charles A. Dana, alluding, in the journal of which he is the editor- in chief, to a statement in my recently published volume ' Four Years in Se cessia mat luwin .n. t tan ton is re sponsible for the failure to exchange the thousands of prisoners of war held in the South, avoided the question at issue, and entered into an elaborate explanation to show that the twenty months detention in captivity of my confrere, Mr. Albert D. Richardson, and myself, was in no man ner attributable to the Secretary of U ar Neither of the correspondents of the Tri bune has ever made any complaint, pri vately or publicly, of his long captivity ; and 1 should be deeply mortified to sup pose that any one would think that, after we had escaped, we were so lacking in good sense and humanity as to maunder or make accusations against an officer "of the Government from mere personal feel ing, when tens of thousands of captives were perishing by systematic cruelty in the rebel prisons of the South. Mr. Dana, as I have said, does not undertake to meet the main and only important question beyond the general and inci dental declaration that not one of the prisoners in the South could make Mr. Stanton responsible, for the tortures he suffered in the South. This is simply not true, as all who had any acquaintanc with the administration of affairs in Washington during two years previous to the close of the war must, I should think, have been aware. Mr. Richardson and my self ?pent nearly a week in the National Capital after our escape, endeavoring to do all- that was possible for the release of the brave men in the hands of the enemy ; and every one we met there told the same story. that the Secretary of War tens the obsta cle in the Kay of the resumption of the exchange. Moreover, Gen. Butler m his speech at Lowell, Massachusetts, stated positively that he had been ordered by Mr. Stan ton to put forward the negro question to complicate and prevent the exchange. Col. A. si. straight, 01 Indianapolis, In diana, a fellow-prisoner with us in the Libby, told Mr. Richardson, after our re turn to freedom, that, in an interview be tween the Secretary and himselfj the former declared to him the Government could not afford to exchange able-bodied men for skeletons. Other officers and civilians, whose names I cannot now re member, have assured me that he had used to them the same language in effect; and there is no doubt whatever that that was his policy and his determination until the clamors of the people compelled him to retire from his barbarous position. Every one is aware that, when the ex change did take place, not the slightest alteration had occurred in the question, and that our prisoners might as well have been released twelve or eighteen months before as at the resumption of the cartel, which would have saved to the Republic at least twelve or fifteen thousand heroic lives. That they were not saved is due alone to Mr. Edwin M. Stanton's pecul iar policy and dogged obstinacy ; and as I have remarked before, he is unques tionably the digger of the unnamed graves that crowd the vicinity of eyery South ern prison with historic and never to be forgotten horrors. I regret the revival of the painful sub ject, but the gratuitous effort of Mr. Dana to relieve the Secretary of War from a responsibility he seems willing to bear, and which merely as a question, of policy, independent of all considerations of humanity, must be regarded as a great weight, has oompelled me to vindicate myself from the charge of making grave statements without due consideration. Once for all, let mo deolare that I have never found fault with any one because I was detained in prison, for I am well aware that that was a matter in which no one but myself, and possibly a few per sonal friends, oould feel any interest ; that my sole motive for impeaching the Secretary of War was that the people of the loyal JNorth might know to whom they were indebted for the cold-blooded and needless sacrifice of their fathers and brothers, their husbands and their sons. Junius Henri Browne. New York, August 8, 1865. The Cunard Company has attained the venerable age of twenty;five years, and it is said that during the whole of this time nei ther a life nor a letter has been lost by any of their steamers. .'-. - : "Didn't vou suppose, sir, that I kerit a Rihle?" iC No. I didn't; think that you kept " 1 L I I A God's word, as I knew that you never kept your own." If your neighbor' offence ia rank, dn't let yours be rancour. WANTED. Wanted a hiind to hold my own, At down life's vale I glide Wanted, an arm to lean npoVi, Forever by my ide. Wanted, a firm and BtadT With ntcp secure amUf f To keep a traipht nnpttmapace O'er life's path with ne. Wanted, a form ert4and high, A head above lywn, 60 much that I night walk beneath Itg shadows o'er me thrown. Wanted, an eye within whose depth, Mine own might look and nee Uprising from a gnilelesg heart O'erflown with lore for me. Wanted, whose kindest emile Would fpeak for me alone, A voice whose richest melody Would breathe affection's tone. Wanted, a true, religions soul, To pious purpose given, With whom my own might pass along The road that leads to Heaven. THE BASTILE OF CALIFORNIA. The followiner graphic account of the man ner in which American citizens were treated. when incarcerated in the Bastile of California durine the late reign of terror, is extracted from the Amador Dispatch. It contain the pergonal experience ot the editor ol that journal. After detailing the circumstances of his arrestt, and his transportation to ban rranci8co, he says : " The next morning we were were safely conveyed to that lamous, or rather infamous. temple of Abolition freedom, known as tort Alcatraz, where we found about twenty other citizens, whose manner of treatment in beiDg conducted thither we lound had been some what similar to that of our own. After hav ing our pockets ransacked and searched in genuine pick-pocket style by two or three shoulder-strapped individuals, we were pre sented with one of those beautiful tokens of Abolition liberty, in the shape of an eighteen- pound cannon ball which they had so care fully attached to the legs of each prisoner, e were not Jong in maxing tne discovery that each prisoner had the glorious privilege of either working eight hours a day under guard, or being confine! in what was termed the "sweat box" a email cell with iurt sufficient room for a person to stand up in a punishment which no person could stand more than three or four days at a time. We remained on the Island for nearly five weeks, endeavoring all the while, as did the rest of our fellow prisoners, to obtain some informa tion as to what the charges were against us and even the name of those who were our accusers, but all to no purpose. Whenever one of our men would question any of the officers regarding their cases, the answer would be either that 4 he did not know, or that we would find out soon enough ;' and efen up to the present writing we have nev er been informed of the charges against us if any there were nor confronted by our accusers' A Frank Avowal. The Xew York Trib une savs : We cannot suppress our feeling that the false start in the Wirz trial was a bungle. and not a fair business transaction. There j either was or was not evidence attainable which justified the indictment of James A. Seddon, (late Confederate Secretary of War,) General Ilobert E. Lee and L. I).' Xorthop, as conspirators to murder our soldiers when in prison at Andersonville. If there was such evidence, the trial should have proceed ed as it began ; if there was not, it was un fair and unjust to arraign these persons, and send the blasted indictment all over the world. 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IN CONSIDERATION THAT MEAS ures highly important to the interests of the State and Nation require the action of the Legisla ture at an earlier period than the regular bieunial session : Therefore, by virtue of the authority Tested in me as Governor, I hen by proclaim and make known that a Special Session of the Legis lative Assembly of the State of Oregon will be con vened at the Capital of the State on Tuesday, the 5th day of December next, at which time and place the members thereof are requested to attend. In witness whereof I have hereunto gt my hand and caused the great seal of the State to be af i t t xe1, ftt the Executive Office ia Salem. " L- ? f this 5th day of October, A. D. ISCo. ' ADDISON C. GIBBS. By the Governor, Samcbl E. May, Secretary of State. HORSE EOST. STRAYED OR TAKEN (probaVy by mistake,) from near Sand Riage, about tue y'ear since, a dark bay horse, near fifteen bands high, four years old last spring; I think had a small white spot in the forehead, broad between he eyes, was bad to push at a fenea, would- paw at a gate, stable or barn doer or suit thrown on tho ground, was gentle for an unbroken horse, and had been rode a little. Any information of him re- wrded- ,OA. ' J. H. DOUTMT. Sept. 23d, 1865. if Estate of Williaim Swan!;. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that th undersigned has been duly appoint td Executrix of the estate of William Swank, late of Linn county, Oregon, deoeased. All persons having claims against said estate will present them to th undersigned at her residence near Sand Ridge, in said county, duly authenticated, for settlement, within six months from this data, and all persona knowing themselves indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment ...-i? Oct. 4, 1865. BARBARA SWANK, 4w Executes