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. We don't believe in striking foul
blows, especially at those who are down.
The reason why policemen are never run over is
that thev are never in the wit.
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WASHINGTON CITY, D, C. au2S
PROCLAMATION BY THE
GOVERNOR.
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