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Newspaper Page TextSTATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. rtBttSttBD BTEKT SaXPRDA.r,BT A B BO T T & BRO VN . It. 8. ABBOTT. I H. T. BKOWK. OFFICE IN HANNON'S BUilOING, FIRST STREET. TEBMS, M 1dVaxc : Oneycar,3j Six Months tl On Month, 50 cU.; Single Copies, 121 ct. : Correspondent writing OTer assumed signatures r anonymously, must mke known their proper name i to the Editor, or no attention will be given to their communications. an Tiir and Communications, whether on business or for publication, should be addressed Abbott Brown. to BUSINESS CARDS. J. C. fOWBLU f MSB. POWELL fc FLIXN, ATTORXETS AXR COUXSELLORS AT W AND SOLIU1TUKS ix viuuxc , flL. nina, Notary Public.) A1 LBANY, Oregon. CollecUons and eonTey- aneea promptly aiicnaoa 10. -m.v.j OFFICE OF COCSTY SCHOOL SUPERINTEND, a T WATERLOO, SIX MILES ABOVE LED Aronth.Santiam. P""' Ta51y Co. School Superintendent. O. P. S. PliUMMER, W. D.t jpjxysioian and Surgeon. ADBANT, OB.EGOS. OmCK OH MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE ttlemier'a Drug Store. Residence, on the toe V, r. tanrcn, D. B. KICE, 31. Surgeon and Physician, ALBANY, OREGON, mllANKFCL FOR TIIE LIBERAL VATRON 9 Y age received, continue, to tender his service. tT&e eitixens of Albany and surrounding coun try. Office and residence on Second street two blocks east of Sprenger hew Hotel. v3n3. tr J. QTJIXX THOUXTOX, ATRORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. WBl practice in the superior and inferior Courts of Oregon. OSce up stairs in Foster's- fire-proof brick, nearly opposite the post office. Albany, Not. 2. lS67-v3nl2yl JOHN J. WHITNEY, lnOsOTI AT L1W ANBSOTARY PrBUC, ALBANY, - - - - OREGON. OEm up stairs in Foster's Frame Building, opposite the "State Rights Democrat' Office. F. 31. WADSWOUTH, SIGN. CARRIAGE AXD ORXA3IEXTAL PAINTER. Over MeBride's Wagon Shop, between First and Seeond, on Ferry street. First-class work dona on short n&two. v3al9yl Jff. II.CRAXOH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, OrriCE In Norcross Brick BuUding, up-stairs, Albany. Oregon, W. J. HILTABIDEL. KEDFIELD. HILTABIDEL & CO., DEALERS IN GROCERIES AND FROYI aions, Wood and Willow Ware, Confection ary. Tobacco, Cigars. Pipes, Notions, etc. More on Maine street, adjoining the Express office. A, fcany, Oregon. aeiov-.nar JJEX J. IIATDEX, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, TFill attend to all business entrusted to him by Oiwns of Polk and adjoining counties. Lola. July 28, 1867. v2n51tf N. B. HUMPHREY, JiTTORJEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, ALBANY - - - - - OREGON. OfHee in the Court House. -"6. mar9v2n301y FRANK D ALTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Foster's Brick, 1st street, Albany, Oregon. feblv3n21tf lm BLAIK, 8. a- Toma. J. BARROWS fc CO., QENEKAL & COMMISSION MERCHANTS BEALERS In Staple, Dry and Fancy Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery, Boots and Shoes, Albany. Oregon. Ccnsignments solieited. oc6n8tf E. P. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Solicitor $ in Chancery and Real Estate Agent, Will practice in the Courts of the Second, Third, and Fourth Judicial Districts, and in the Supreme Court of Oregon. CfiEce in Parrish's Brick Building, Albany, Ore con. $T SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the col lection of Claims at all points in the above named Pistrfits. v2n46yl C TV, CRAY, . . S., RADIATE Of m CI5C155ATI DE5TAL COLLEGE, Would invite all persons desir Ing first-class dental operations to I give him a call. J. no Uoctor makes many new and improved styles of plates for artificial teeth. Among others be would solicit particular attention to vulcanite base in jeonneetion with gold wire gauze (a superior work in many respects), and a new improvement (late ly patented by Dr. Cool), which consists in lining the er tire eoncave surface of the plate with fine gold. This style of plate admits of a very fine finish, and in its use there is no disagreeable blacking and roughening by tobaeco smoke and other deleterious agents (as is the ease with ordi nr vnlranitfl work). It can be made much thin per at d adds very materially to its strength and durability. The extra expense is trifling in com parison to the advantages it possesses. Persons would do well to give him a call. Offiee up-stairs (a Parriah's & Co.'s brisk, Albany, Oregon. aprXV68v3n34tf ALBANY BATH HOUSE! THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT fully inform the citizens of Albany and vi einity that he has taken charge of this Establish ment, and, by keeping clean rooms and paying ' strict attention to business, expects to suit all those who n ay favor him with their patronage. , Having heretofore carried on nothing but - - First-Class Hair Dressing Saloons, he er ects to give entire satisfaction to - alL 3Childien and Ladies' Hair neatly cut and shampooed., JOSEPH WEBBER. 4 . apr4v.3n33tf , - BLANK DEEDS, of the latest and most ""approved form, for Bale at this 6ffi.ee. Warranty s,nd2I)rtgage, - nlcfea. 4 k3Jt A: JLJJL VOL. III. ADVE11TISKMKNTS. MRS. DUNNIYAY, T AKES PLEASURE IN INFORMING HER patrons that she has received her Invoice of -ABD FURNISHING GOODS, DIRECT FROKI NEW YORK! and I am now ready to accommodate ant or TOtr with tho BEST AND LATEST STYLES, At the Most JReasonahle Price ! As A cent for Madame Dcraorest'a Incomparable CXirror of Fashions, I am enabled to furnish gratis a cpy of tbe Magasine for one year, beginning with tbe July number, to any person who shall purchase spring Roods in my lino to tUo amount of Ten Dollars 1 ! Send In your orders at once, ladles, that I may know bow many of you will glv me the pleasure of prescntine you aflrst class parlor Magazine os Premium on your pur chases. A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF Yerj Choice Jlllllncrw tioodft! AXD ALL TIIE OTHER NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON! She has also secured the Agency of Sd'mc Df merest! World-Rr nowncd Pattr mi. and all of the many useful and orna mental article adverted in her justly popu lar Magaiine. COME LADIES I "all of you together," and eee if I have not tbe Cheapest and Choicest Millinery Goods! IVEB OrrtRED FOR SALE IS ALBANY ! DRESS A SI) CLOAK-MAKING In the Latest Styles ! Perfect Fits Warranted. BLEACHING AND PRESSINO! In the best nianuer at tbe very lowet rats. NEW STAMPING PATTERN! BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS 2&r Don't frgct the place. Southwest eorncr Main and Broad A'.bin streets. Albany March 30, 186S e2Sr3n7!y PACIFIC HOTEL THE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY informs tbe public that this House 1HAS JUST BEEN FINISHED, A!D IS 1ST O "W OPEN for the accommodation of ail who may favor him with their patronage. THE FURNITURE Is entirely new in every department, and is of the latest and most approved styles. THE TABLE will always be supplied with tbe beat tbe market affords, and no pains will be epared for tbe comfort and conve nience of bis guests. Persons arriving by boats accommodated at all Konrs. da7 or -oieht. Spits of rooms and superior accommodations for families, A long exptrienee in tbe business warrants tb proprietor in promising satisfaction to all who may favor him with their patronage, if it can bo done by bountifully supplied tables, pleaeant rooms, cleanly beds and assiduous attention to their wants. J. B. SPREXOER. Albany, June 6, 1853. v3n42tf LOOK HEBEi Patronize Home Industry, and Sare Money. The undersigned, having opened TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT (On First street, north side, next door east form Washington), in Albany, takes this method of informing the public that be is prepared to MAKE, CUT, AXD REPAIR CLOTIUXG! OF ALL KISDS, 111 TIIE LATEST STYLES! A2fD AT THE MOST REASONABLE RATES ! T2n44f ' IT. W. PARMER. IB A A. VILLI R. A r. VILLI R, MILLER & BRO,, (Sueeet$or$ to Philip Miller,) MARBLE W O RK S, ALBANY, OREGON. Shop on Washington, bet. lft andgdSt's. THESE GENTLEMEN BEG LEAVE TO IN form tbe publio at large that they ore now prepared to furnish MA RULE MONUMENTS GRAVE'S TONE S ! OF EVEEY STYLE AND PATTERN, At tho Most Reasonable Prices. TOr.lESTOriES CUT. TO ORDER On the very shortest notice. Mar7v2u29tf MILLER y BRO. J "" """ ALBANY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1868. V O E T 11 Y. THE DEVIL'S VISIT TO WASHING TON. The Devil sat on his sulphur throno. And heard, with a bitter grin, Reports from tho planet ho deemed his own As bis black subs brought thetn in. The Fcnlun scare in Oroat Britain pleased 1IU eynloal temper well j And tbe news from liriull and Paraguay, From Haytl, Peru aud SUal Bay, Not forgetting tbe late Chineo affray, Rather tickled tho King of Hell. But when bis scouls of this "Happy Land" DolivetTil their dark report, Tbe Demon waved in tbe smoke his hand. And gave a triumphant snort. "TbU new," be ytlled, "is tbe best I've beard Since sin on earth Vgan ; The work I favor gom brTcly on, Tbe 'Model Ilepubltu' is dead and gone. And the powrm that govern at Washington Have adopted my patent plan." Then turning to Moloch, Hi Darkness said t I'm ofT for Ibe Ten Mile Square Rule thou, old boy, In thy master's stead, While I ee to buinn tbero." The blackamoor carriers, one and all. Applaud their chief like mad; So be changed hi shape, as the devil can, And up to earth on a fire-treak ran, In outward seeming a Congressman Of the lovely genus Rad. Ot course His Blackness was well received, By bis troop of upeeial friends, Whu laid before him the plans conceited To compass their private cods. Tbad. Stevens, Sumner, atd old Ben Wade, Ned. Stanton and Butlrr. too ; They tll him of dodge, plot and scheme. Atrocious boyond hi foulest dreams, Until be exclaimed : "Fur me it seems There 1 nothing on earth to do." So ho turned on bis heel and went his way, A ;iMer, a wUer sprite, Observing: "A lesson I've learned to-dayj That bas changed my purpm quite. I meant to have had tht-ne follow' souls, Wuou from earthly bond tt fr-ej But no I preVr they should go it alone, In a wepsrate private bell of their own. Fr I swear by my born, and tail and throne, They're a I title too much fr me." OUR FARMERS. Their homes are their castles their hearthstone a throne; They rule without scepter tbe kingdom they own ; The ta!k and tbe vine and tbo fruit-bearing tree, Are ul'ject that bend not to tyranU their knee. But b-nd with the weight of the harvest and field, I'fr l"jal and faithful, a harvest t yield. No j lar ning and plotting among them U known, No traitor the sovereign would strike from his throne I He stand, tnidnt his res of grass, wheat and maize, Like Cruoe, "tte monarch of all he survey His bauka are the earth barks, and stand on hi farm : Tbe bank that are safe when the panic alarm. Tho tck i the eattb not fan-y In Lred ; The shar are the plowshare that score fr the Not quoted ra 'Chang in the broker array. But share on which nature will dividend pay Tbdr briks are not tboe whtb the widow con demn ; No officer pilfer dcpU from them ; If small the potatora that in thm are found. Yet none are so email as we find tut of ground. The farmer with appetite ever can eat The bread of hi table, ' god as the whet;" And lirineinont dearly hi wife, be may niter. My bread nd tnv wife I'll not bare any but her!" There's many a hearth where tie embers are glow- There's many a heart wilh it Joy overflowing? Tbe hearths and the heart form the world's rude alarms, Are safe in'thehome that are reared on our farms. Let thf. Chilprkn Sleep. We ear nestly advise that nil whp think a great deal, who hare to work hard, to take all the sleep they can get without medical means. Wc caution parent, particularly, not to allow their children to bo waked up of mornings let nature wake them up, nhe will not do it prematurely ; but have a care that they go to bed at an early hour; let it bo early until it be found that they wake up themselves in full time to"dres.H for breakfast. Being waked up early, and allowed to engage in UifiicuU or any studies late, and just before retir ing has given many a beautiful and promising child the brain fever, or deter mined ordinary ailmcuts to the production of water on tho brain. Lot parents make every possible effort to get their children to go to sleep in a pleaant humor. Nev er feeold or give lectures, or in any way wound a child, a feelings as it goes to bud Let all baqifh business aod every worldly care at bedtime, aod let sleep come to a mind at peace with God aad all the world. Ten Taxes. To-day wo are taxed about ten times on all we have or get. The faamer is taxed upon his lands and horses. Then tho United 8tates govern ment collectors demand a few dollars up on everything he Bells. If he has a walch, or crood horse and buggy, ho is taxed again. The grain is taxed in the hands of the farmer. The purchaser has to pay for his right to sell as often as it changes hands. It is tax tax and tax, all for the glorious privilege of being radicals hav ing a radical congress and a radical legis lature. Who would not bo a radical and pay ten taxes on all he cats, drinks and wears 1 But then if you are a rich radical, you can put your money into bonds and go free from tax, and this is so nice. Rich men get gold from the government, but poor soldiers have to take greenbacks. This is another reason why soldiers ought to all be radicAhj- This radical party, if not checked, will make a slave of every poor white w&i.'-Frceport Bulletin. A Royal Mummy. Some 18 months since, the skeleton of on3 of the Pharaohs was deposited in the Brittish Museum. The lid of the coffin containing it, was in scribed with the name ''Pharaoh Mykeri mus;' who succeeded the heir of the builder of the great pyramid about twen ty centuries before Christ. The monarch whose crumbling bones and leathergh in teguments are now exciting the wonder and numerous gazers in London, reigned in Europe before Abraham was born, and only about two centuries or so after Miz raim, the grandson of old father Noah, and the first of the Pharaohs, had been gathered to his fathers. - Tho Old Red Weigh. After mother had gone to bed I wont up stairs and brought down my writing desk. There were omo sheets of paper and some delicate envelopes, which had beeu there for months stored within, and a silver pen and pen-holder, which had been a birthday prcont in my school days. I took them out and tho ink-bottle also. Tho ink was thick, for W3 did not write' much cither of tin and I brought the vinegar-cruet from tho clowct and thinned it to my liking. Then I sat down and look ed at tho paper. Then I went to tho stairs and listened to eco that mother was not coming. Then I actually seated my self, squared my elbows, and began to write This in what I wrote : J)ear Mian Hauiiow I am a coward. I hope not in ono sense but certainly as regards you. For a year I havo lovod you. Yet, I no more would havo dared to say so than I would had you been a queen. Perhaps becauso I do not cherish a hope that you like mo. To morrow you and I will rido togeth er. To morrow I had made up my mind to try my fate, but I know I shall not dare to apeak, so I write, I will givo you this letter to road at homo. If the an swer be ,'No," it will bo easier for both of us. Will you try and think well enough of me to be to be my wife ono day 1 I love you better than I do my life, and I will do all man can to mako life happy fur you. With a little hope I can make my way in the world as other men da. I am young and strong, and not ut terly ignorant. If I am to havo that hope, givo me some sign givo a line, ytur name, only anything to show me what you mean. II I am to bo misera ble well, then make me no answer. Si lence hall mean uNo." I could not bear to sec you or speak to you after that. This h an awkward love letter, no doubt. I am not used to writing letters of any kind of late. I never wrote or (aid a word of love to any one before. That tuuu be its excuse. But were it ever so elegant it could n"t mean more. For I offer "ali the love in my heart. The only love I hare ever felt or shall ever know. Almon CttAio. I scaled this note in the daintiest en velop I possessed t and wrote Ilepsey Harrow' name on the back, and hid it io the dck from mother's eyes : aharp eyes, that looked after me anxiously as I drove away with old Iobin and tho little rod aleiyh the following evening She wat ready for mc. My mother's hint was in my mind, aud I looked at her dreas. All t hat I discovered waa that it was blue ; but her fur were good, I could judge of fur. "She must marry a rich man, or one on bis way weahhward." I said. "She hall too. I've more to start with than Washington had." And I tucked her into the sleigh and drove off to the meet ing. It was a pleasant drive, and a merry dance and supper; but as the time went on I felt glad that I had written tho let ter. For I could not have said what it said for me. It wait at the last moment then wc were driving homeward, that I mustered courage to ak her for the little red reticule she carried, cs ihe other girls did, with a bru-di end some flowers in it. I think, for they had to touch up tho curl.- and braids after the windy ride before the dance. Why do you want it?" she asked. "To put something in it which you must not look at till you reach home," I said. 'You arouse my curionity," she an swered, "I shall look the instant I have a lamp. And as she spoke I had dropped in the letter aud snapped tie clasp. Not a word could I speak. But at the door I tried, for (he Grst time, to kiss her. Her lips eluded mine, and I dared not repeat the attempt. I took the red sleigh home and waited, waited hopefully, as I .knew afterwards, for an answer. None came a day, a week, a month. Then all the horo was over. I had seen her. She had given me a little, cold, smilelc&s bow, I was rejected, "Mother," I said that niht, "we must havo some one to farm the placo X am going to some city." 'Why," she said. "To make my fortune," I said. "For that girl-thc school ma'am ? she asked, bitterly. "No," said I, "nover for her." Mother knelt down beside me as I sat on a low stool. Sho put her hands on my shoulder and looked in my face. . "She didn't dare refuse you?" she said. " Boy, I know you aro in trouble. I'm your mother, tell me." " She did not accept me," I said. "The naughty minx," said my mother. " I ." Then sho burst into tears. - " And that's to part us," she said. " Not if you'll go with mo," I answer ed. But she would not leave her home, and I went alone. In tho frosty morning, as I turned to look back at tho little village, from the top of tho old stage, I saw the children filling in at the school houso door, and caught a glimpse of Ilepsey's dress beyond only a fold of her dress, ; but I knew it. The school-bell was ringing, but it did not say " turn again " to me, as it should have done, had I been such a prophet as Whitington. I made my fortune. I had a cousin in New York who was deep in the mysteries of Wall street. Ho helped me j bo did Luck or Fate. In five years I was a moderately rich man. My mother want ed nothing but my presence. She would not come to me, but urged me to return to her. At first my heart was too weak to be truatod among those old familiar scenes. To have met Hepsey would have been too much to bear. But time helps us all. At the end of five years I wrote to my mother : . ' ' - " I am coming home again, since you will not live here with me. Expect me tc-morrow." And on tho morrow I went. My mother had not altered much. But I had grown a long, light beard, and was a boy no longer a fact which troubled her. There wcro changes in the placo too. Girls wero married- old people dead. Tho tallest, handsomest man I remem bered, had met with an accident and crawled about a wretched cripple. The cnurch was rebuilt, and the huts in the hollow had been burnt. A factory had risen, and the factory people's houses wero about it. Instead of the frame school-house was a brick building with many windows and a cupola. Who was the teacher? Was she there Hepsey Harrow ? I dared not ask. Idly I sauntered about the houo, painted and refurnished now, and idly, in tho evening of my heeotid day at home, I went out to tho shed where the little red sleigh stood tho shabby old thing, with a green patch on the cushions. " It ain't been touched since you left, Almon," said my mother. " Poor old Dobbin 1 How smart ho used to take it round! I felt as if I'd lost a friend when ho died', llcmember my patchia' tho cushion?" She lifted it as sho spoke. From be lit ltd dropped something. What? Of loather, blue with mould, crushed by its long lying under the cunhion, but a reti cule for all that, Ilcpf-ey Harrow's leti cuta ! I opened it. There lay a comb and brush, an artificial rose how well 1 remembered it in her hairand my let ter, that she had never read, never seen, never known of. " What's tho matter, Almon V asked mother. " For a few moments I did not know, At laftt I spoke. " It L Miss Harrow's reticule." " She rauH have lost it when you took her a slay-riding," said my mother. ' Just like her to lose it and not know, the extravagant critter. She's teaching yet; likely too she ain't married; no doubt she'll be an old maid, and serve her right." The rest my mother said to herself, for I waited for no more. I took the reticule in my hand and went over to the long forgotten path toward the school-house. School was over. A figure stood alone near the gate. I did not know it at first, but on a nearer view I found it was a moro mature edition of Hepsey Harrow's elender frame not so slender now, but pretty just as pretty in tho face, and fresh and buxom. I walked up to ber. he gave me a puzzled look. Then her check fished. "Mr. Craig?" she said. "Yes, Miss Harrow," I answered. "I am hero to restore your property. You lout a reticule in my sleigh five years ago. To-day I found it. There is something in it which I asked you to look at when you were alone. 1 make the same request now. May I see you this eveniog?' Sho bowed. I walked away. That niifht I went once more to see her. She had been weeping; the letter lay upon her knee. Such an odd relic of those foolish old times," she aaid. I took her hand. "You never answer ed it Hepsey," I said. "Will you answer it now T "After all this time," sho said. "Yes," I said. She said nothing, and I kissed her. Our wedding was a quiet one, and our lives have been quietly happy from that day to the present hour. Dyi.no Hours of Buchanan. The night befoie his death a goblet of water was brought to him from a favorite spring on his estate. Ou drinking it the old man said : " Doctor, I do not know if the spirits of the dead ever revisit tho earth, but if mine should ever do so, I doubt not that I wou'd be found vandcring around that old spring." Mr. Buchanan was very particular in regard to the monument over his remains. He expressly stipulated that there should be nothing expensive, merely a simple, oblong tomb, tha cap-stone to be of the finest and niot durable marble, on which ho especially requested should be cut, in Roman letters, the. following inscription, and nothing moro BRHS REST TRB REIT AIRS Or JAMES BUCHANAN, Fifteenth President of the United States. Born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1791, Died at bis rasideuco at Wheatland, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. On A few hours before bis death, the ex President thus expressed himself to the reverend friend who sat beside him : " My dear friend, I have no fear of the future. The principles of the Christian re ligion were instilled into my mind in my youth, and, from all I have obsc:7d and experienced in the life Provides, has vouchsafed to me, I have only become moro strengthened in the conviction of the divine character of the Savior, and tho power of atonement through .his re-decming-grace and mercy," . . . . A neighbor of ours who had repeatedly been urged by sonio giggling female ae quainces to accompany thorn to a skating yard, at last yielded, no longer ablo to re sist the blandishments of his bewitching tormentors." He went. He said he put on a pair of skates aod struck boldly out, tho next thing he knew he was himself in bed, the minister sitting beside him singing a psalm, the doctor courting his wife, and the undertaker measuring him for a walnut coffin. Younq Man 1 .-Have you a brain as big as a mustard saed ? Have you as much care for the future as a three-weeks' old kitten ? If you bays, consider well the recipe, which is warranted, if strictly ob served, to keep you forever in a poor man's shoes Drink three glasses of ale and two of whiskey every day ; smoke a fifteen-cent cigar after each meal ; take at least one buggy rido a week ; wear a cane, dye your hair, and keep a dog." That'll do the business for yon, sure t Dramat ic Chronicle. NO. 49. Francis P. Rlalr. Th Democratic candidate : for Vice President is the son of hii namesake of the Washington Glole, the life-long friend and confidential adviser of Andrew Jackson. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, February 19, 1821 ; gradua- aw a iiuviuu vunege: aaopteu tno profession of law ; wa elected a Repre sentative from Missouri to the Thirty- uiwi congress, ne-eiectcd to the Thirty-seventh Conercss. and was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. Ho was a Colonel of Volunteers in 1801, ana jn.iu was appointed a Major Gen cral in the tfrmy,and served with distinc tion throughout the war. Ho wa r elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, but resigned his seat at tho first session to rcsurao his position in tho army. In 18C0 ho was appointed by President Johnson Collector of Customs for the port of St. Louis, and to his credit be it sam tnat tne Senate rejected the appoint ment, Mr. Blair politically, has ntvav UAn an anti-slavery man ; upon general prin- .jot uuu every oiner question and meas uro presented, ho has atrrccd with tha State Rights Democracy. He held the same position as Doolittle. Dir. 7laniall and many others who left tho Democratic party on tne issue ot slavery in tbe Ter ritorics, and since that aucstion waa dJa Eosed of arc in entire accord with the cmocracy noon everv living iam m every time-honored principle of the par- iy. jiiiey iavorea tne exclusion of slave- a . t vw . ry irom tne jcrntonesj they consented to the abolition of slavery as a' war meas- UFA t.fft (liAM tiAl . I - Jt . ' .v j mvj ivjvv, me uocinne oi ne gro equality and oppose with all their en ergy the interference of the OenftMiniw. ernmcnt in the domestic affairs of a Stat aod every measure of centralization. The democratic party ot to-day has no issue with the " Free Soil Demoersmr . 11 such differences havo been forever and finally settled by removal of the cause. As early as 1804 31 r. Blair avowed that opposition to the policy of the Rad. ical party, though he supported Mr. Lin- coin as against tne lladicals of his own party. He has warmly snnoorted th policy of President Johnson and opposed the Radical measures of Qongrests, and for that reason his nomination as CnlW. tor of the port of St. Louis was not con- nrmea in IBOU. ro man in Missouri has taken a more active part against the iiadicai party in that fetato than Gen. Blair. lie refund to take the test oath prescribed by the Radical Consti tnlion and advised all hig friends to contest its legality. It was upon his motion that an appeal was taken against the test oath to tne supreme Uourt ot the United Stat and declared by that body an unconstitu tional act. it is an unconstitutional act. It is an undoubted fact that ther is a prejudice among old Democrats against rranit niatr on account of hw "free soil " antecedents, but all such prejudices should bo dispelled by the circumstances of his nomination. He was the unani mous choice of the entire Convention on lion on the first ballot, Gen. Preston, of Kentucky, and the entire Southern dele gation leading off in expressions of this preference, immediately followed by the v v " Hum vttiuuiuia. jLuts courasic xcal and persistence 'with which Gen Blair has fought Radicalism in Missouri for the past three years has endeared him to the democracy ot that State and enti tied him to the support of all conserva tive men throughout the country. In natural ability, early training, education w a .a a . and all the elements of statesmanship, ho is as far the superior of Colfax as the latter is tbe superior ot George L Woods. His pluck is as well established as his magnanimity ; he fought the bat tles of th " free soil " uartv in slave State when there was neither honor nor profit to be gained in the fight ; he proved his devotion to the Union by tendering his life in its de fence ; ho left a victorious party in his State and in the nation when that party proved false to its pledges and recreant to the principles upon which the war was waged. Tho South re spect him for hi courago and magna nimity, the North will lionor him for his fidelity to principles. Oregon iieraia. Singular Dbesses. In a recent lec ture delivered in Philadelphia, Monsieur du Cbailla thxs describes the dresses of a negro king. and his court, with whom he met in his travels in afjrica ; "King Diapo was dressed in a swallow tailed coat, about tha style our grandfath ers woro, and that he must have procured from some traveler, and nothing elso be sides I His prime minister had on a white shirt, one sleeve lost, and which could not have been washed for two years and nothing elso I The second head man had a necktio on, and nothing else ! The third headman had a hat on, and nothing else Another one of the suite had a pair of shoes on, and nothing elso 1 After the king and his ministers, came his wives His chief wife carried an umbrella, and woro no clothing whatover I Gen. Lee. Mrs. Keehley, modiste to Mrs. Lincoln, has published a book, in which she gives Mr. Lincoln's opinion of lien. Jjce. : "The very morning of the day on which he was assassinated, his son, Capt. Robert Lincoln,' came into the room with a por trait of General Lee in his hand. The President took the picture, laid it on a table be fore him, scanned the face thought fully, and said : "It is a good face of a noble, brave man. I am glad that the war is over at last,' Looking up at Rob ert, he continued : 'well, my son, you have returned safely from the front. , The war is now closed, and we will soon live in peace with the bravo men that have been fighting against us. I trust the era of good feeling has returned with the war, and that henoefoth we shall live in peace." RATES OP ADVERTISING i rzft txAtt ; 0nf Colnian, $100) Half Column, $G0 j Quarter Col' nmn, $35, Transient Advertlaementi per Square often line or less, first insertion, $3 j each subsequent infer tion,$l. . - . : A square is i&e inch in spnee down the colams counting cuts, display lines, blanks, ic, as solid- matter. No advertisement to be considered than a square, and all fractions counted a full square. All advertisements inserted for a lest period than three months to be regarded Af tratf The Grand Children are Coming After all what is the use ? We set up oar house, and one by one the chih dren fly into it, like birds out of some foreign wood into a cage one, two, three, four and more. -Wilh each one comes also a cry ; and that cry is the keystone to which a hundred voices, and gradual ly swell into that strange chorus which men call human life. For each child there is to bo a fringe of care on tho edge of every day. Each child brings burdens and anxieties. Tears in their eyes are but harbingers of many more in the eyes of all who love them I Ta shape them from infancy to goodness, ta eiiape ineir nanas, to arm tneir ncaqs, to repair their mistakes, and secure theif firm footing in an honorable manhood, who can measure the thought, the feek ing, the endeavors? And then when the long task is done, is there no com-!1 pensation ? Or do they not one by one? detach themselves, and like comely fruit, fall from the bough on which they grew, leaving it bare and empty 7 That daughter just, as she began ta be a full companion, to repay all the la bor of her training is snatched away by a man who has known her fewer weeks! than tbe parents have years : she goes.- The home is empty of her. Her rooms, her drawers, ber books and school taks, fondly preserved, carry a sadness to the mothers heart every time they are looked upon. The boys, almost before you, dream that they have ceased to be boys, come along asking a fathers blessing on a new comer. By the time thp father and mother are conscious of age and infirmity, the whole brood is scattered and gone. The old house is solitary. It used to be' straitened for rooms when all the chuV dren were at home ; but now here is room too much. It used to be unquiet and noisy, but now one might doze all day for' all the noiss that is made.- Only the fire snapping out suddenly, or the drowsy old clock ticking behind the door, or kitten. mewing to get in, or out, or a squealing mouse or rat, make any audible noise. When the children ere all at home, a man i3 like a Norway spruce, whose well grown branches, beginning from the lev el of the ground, rise no in a -perfect pyramid, shaping the tree to exquisite t i mi proportions. jjui eaca cnua married Is a bough lopped off, leaving a wide space, nntil the parent trunk is finally trimmed up like a shaft, and all the ver dure left clings to the top. In European communities, the children often marry and settle down around their childhood home. But this is rare in America. The endless circulation that is going oq sweeps away the children: and to be' married is almost synonymous with goin away from borne. o All this, Mr. Bonner, describes my state of mind last week. It is very dif ferent now. Word has come that the grandchildren are coming home. Com ing home? What I both the children? and their mother ? for a good long visit? Bles3 their little hearts, let them come. ThereVjnothing in this house too good for them. Now then we shall have a houses hold once mere. Children are the flow ers which God sends from Heaven to en liven and cheer this life. What was I saying a little while back about the care and anxiety, and pain, and trouble, of bringing them np ? Stuff mere stuff, Mr. Bonner I assure yon. Don't believe a word of it. I was surely in a dream. It was a half nightmare. I am awake now ; and do assure yon that he who is fit to have, and rear children, will see ten, yes, a hundred joys to every sorrow; and the sunshine of their smiles will turn into rainbow every tear which they shed or cause to be shed. If there is anything in the world that pays as it goes along, it is taking care of children; Raising flowers is all well enough. But flowers have no mischief in them, they behave well, they lack hu man nature, they need the iredescent qualities of disposition that flash from every surface of childs life. Children a trouble ? Do they pout ? frcd ? disobey' and go wrong? Don't you wish asters and honeysuckles would show as much life ? What would yon give to have a singing vine, or a flower that could learn to say its prayers ? Why, trouble in thennrseryis a parent's pastime. If one don't believe it let him be left awhile without children. He will soon be glad to hear that the grandchil dren are coming home. Weil, we must get ready for them. Let the drawers be filled with candy. Get out the crib and put up the dear little narrow bed again. Hunt up thP dolls, the wagons, the) play house, the picture books, the strings. Where are the tall chairs for the table, - and the little cups, and knives and forks tor a childs hand I It looks like again! living? Now we shall be waked in the mornv ing by a chubby rogue climbing up on the bed and playing tricks with my eyes and nose I Then will come . trooping' down to breakfast, all the table antics. Then we will all go up to family prayers and what a time those children will make of it. Children are not natural worshippers, " , But how patient will we be ! Nothing shall fret us, Already we are more ro bust, and let out the buckle of our girdle one or two holes. In short, the grand children are coming; and, in bringing themselves back tons they bring back the childhood of their parents too, and bring us tack to ourselves Beecher A Happy Woman. Is she not the very, sparkle and sunshine of life I A woman who is happy because she can't help it whose smiles even the coldest sprinkle of misfortune cannot dampen ! Men make a ; terrible mistake when they xnarry.;fcr beauty, for talent, or for style; the sweet est lives are those who possess the magic; secret oi baing content under any circum stances. Kich or poor, high or low, ; il makes no diTer ence; the bright little founV tian of iov bubbles un iast as musically i.i - - - " th e heart,-