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I I ------------ » --J I —ES 1.5 867 , A VOL. 1. TT ' ♦ THE COURIER 9 * < Enquirer.] j III [Froth the Richmond ______ 11 ■ B j Sufferings of Prisoner«--Who iaReapou- sH . C I f. I 52 I The Little Outc: A wise I sagacious move ! A stroke of- policy I So cirlkt by thosi who know not love, Or hu nan symp! athy. " . I » But ah! those nolle L le boys in blue— Their bliod, now ^ests on i “ mo and you. » GTON’S “Mayn’t I stay, ma’am ? -] ’ll work; cut sible? wood, go for water, and! do all your I * The following is one of the feiw things errands.” The troubled eyes of the speaker were written from a northern stand-point, that AT X filled with tears. It was a. ad that, stood, pretends to do justice to the truth of his II' I I 4-4’ ii ; t “LAFAYETTE, one cold day in winter, at the outer door tory touching the late war. It refers to The rebels, pine] , d add pressed, > of a cottage on a bleak moof in Scotland YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON. the sufferings of the late prisoners of war, Offered to t sent^ihem home 1 ’ 1 I Without'oxchar —you know the test The snow had been falling very fast, and and only puts the blame where it justly be " - . p- ' ■!’ - • BY ( , For home they^did hot come ! the pporboy ïooked very cold and hungry. longs, and where history will blazon it.1* OLD BY G UN DEALERS AN D *■ ' a You may come in at afiy rate till my Outshlrfe could ot>t be spared to save cpitbet “ rebels, ” anil W# overlook the < H • UPTON, Our soldiers fronjk southern grave! bus' >and comes home. (There, sit down by ■ 'i iHir. _ _T ebels, > ” in deference to even. “ hardened rebel ' ; :— I J the fire; you look perishing with cold if TH I the justice which sees and ack now edges l Who did.such gr&vous wrong, and she drew a chair up to the Warmest „___ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, {In advance.) and proclaims the indisputable fact that tl: Ip n that gl * tha^ sad, gl^brny hour? • f ' - corner ; then, suspiciously glancing at the Prices 866. the Federal prisoners in the.South we 1 who were a i |ii< kious to prolong Meh rSr One One- Ycnr, . . ... $3 00. sacrificed by tneir own government, on a boy from the corners of her eyes, she con heir influcbc< And power. » One Copy Six Months, . .... 2 00. cold calculation, and a military strata^ |L 1”' thousand men tinued setting the table for supper. Who " cjires for ill I Iferi Presently came thé tramp ( f heavy boots, Stato retain ? If we the helm o - jfeiiCClergymen and Teachers wi'.l be Fur- They refused to exchange, because the Upwards of 2Q0,000 Furnished th Í and the door was swung opet with a quick I' Is'T U I nishcii with the C ourier at 82,00 per annum. barter of man for man would help the lew < down* mv my fiftal, m grief, Bow down; ml, in jerk, and thé husband ent‘red,; wearied numerous party, by diminishing the dds- y, ------------- ---- I, Before the GoqOf Heaven ; f I 11 . 4.. z. zw 4 1 Government’8ince 1861 with this day’s work. proportion of n umbers. Tljey refused to We failed to grai Hour men relief \ RATES OF.ADVERTISING. A* look of intelligence passed between sick, f because to leave the ’ I I ' 1 • take w- away — r their ~ ~ T ” That rebels w aid have given I K ja. his wife He' and himself. He e - * ooked at the One^Sqaare, 12 Lincs or less, one Tnser- iu the ¡South, lyould help to consume dir true, irs g good and U And sd those sol |ers A kmy R kvolvb J 44-100 in Calibre H c $3,00. - J J scanty stores*of medicine and food. It wj 8 tion, , boy; but did not seem very well ; pleased ; Died o| neglect t dm “ i me and you ” r ; 36-100 in Calibre, For each subsequent ins a very sound, tut very Satanic, policy.** r he nevertl_l___ __ Z_*_ him come to the N avy theless made 1 * ' i » A liberal^ deduction made OU When the in'eii* tp)ie, and To Into we feel tl i r woes, d was glad to see how heartily he B elt “k’a consequences befe.l in'ev ¡table (Self CockiDg.) Navy Ca ibre. Quartvrn*, Yearly, at id half Yearly Ad ver I I < i r | . * mòre : I)elu lod now ife ate his supper, their*prisouers they sought to divert at-tf II- i B els tiseinents. Navy size Calibre. all rest I on those But w r bering blight shall l?ay after day passed, à r _ day and yet the boy tion from tlieijr own atrocious d ( e ed, Hotel, Medical «nd Law Cards, $10,00 per P olice Wh< Vho kept these men in »Cére, Navy size Calibre. begged to be so charging g the com copsequences ,____ _ asiour deliberi __ annum. <.-r • > , kept - “ until tomorrow i-r:rr» ;” 80 jcir schemes, ital, to aid; _t As cap the« good couple, after due Consideration, Now pocket Revolver, with Loading fever. th JShtC’Coói Being the basis o,n which our act. Aided by the prejudices of '"i} < And xealiambit in’s dreads. j H f concluded, ' that, as long as he was such a P ocket Self Coeking. J rates are fixed, Currency will only be taken people, they have imposed the fraud Uf o | ? r f __ 11 l____ A__J___ l_ 1° _ —in- 1 •> » at market value. . good boy, and worked so willingly, they Repeating Pistols, Elliot pt.. Nos. 22 32 Cart, them ; so that many of the purest and b< fi Adowi ij time’s stesofibst path woijld keep him. The > P names i scorn shall w go . v men at the North, are still under the k Nr . No. 22, 30 <fc 32 Cartridge* {_ . G>nc day, in the middle v* of winter, a fest pocket ” The objects of a-Nition’s wrath— '•“J, -nutui, a pression there was actually a systenial A D -• ]♦ COUNTY OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Thoisu rninistefM -pf woe 1 pfwoe! ...: peddler, ;who often traded at the cottage, peddler,¿who attempt to starve the Federal prisoner«- tilled the 0(ieen thousand ipen Th Judge, W. C< .»»vies ; Commissioners, W Southern people may treat this o;|n ' j migo, J. w i called, and, after disposing of* several of his S ingle Barrol S hot . , using No. | 32 2 Cartridge. lux G uns C ane erished ihrt^at prison-pen ! W1 Ball, , J. il. Br >wn; Sheriff, L. L. Whit gooHs, wdb preparing to go, whed he said R evolving R ifle I , S 36 hot & 44-100 G uns . Calibre, t comb ; Clerk, S. C. Adams ; Assessor; D. witn contempt ; • but it ia ueverthek < to the woman,; ^REAcn L oading R if L e , No. 32 Calibre. Treasurer, CleUl. Ecklejs ; School widely prevalent, and, very natutally, 3L ♦In J iinuary, r, Ì1G4, the Confederates u You have I a boy out ttyere, splitting B reach L oading C arbine , N o . 46 Cartridge. Supèrintendvnt/Rvv. John S|iencejrt Coroner, cites the iudigOation of those who clieri Federal authorises wo<jd I see,” pointing to the yard. proposed Î to allo latito • < it. It constiitultes, indeed, h great obshu J; W. Watts ; ¡Surveyor, A. S. Waft. to sen|d ¡tjieir dw^Krgeons to the §outh. I !T. S, R ifled ($teel Barrel,) with Sabre Bay’t to send t 4 Yes, do you know him ?f’ 't in the way oft reconciliation. It is , It was wah pi proposed Jalsb, that these surgeons L S. v R ifled M uskct , Sprinfield pattern, uiuij ” replied AVjJlIV^ the LUC peddler, pCUUl “ X I uuiv have owes seen him, portaut, therefore, in the interest of pd?' should Mi • . and ” distribute ’■ ■ %c a. coW Issaries, 4 Where? Who is he? What is he ? •that exhibited that the truth cn this point be exhibit J ' I whatever whatever either t$i|United/State? govern “ A jau-bira; jail-bird i and the pbddler swung Our new Breach Loading Arms tl the wcrld>, worlds jn in connection with the e.K- ti ment oLprivate p Devolence should fur- r his ; pack ; over his shoulder.* “That boy, OSBORN & RATHBUN, PRO. fraqrcZin<i7jy/hd traordinary fact that, notwithstanding thp I he Confederates would nish. Of course^ IJ ’ < ycing as he looks,- I saw in« in- court myself, lave just been approved and adopted for ycung excess of northern prisoners at the South rpilIS HOTEL is still kept for the accorn- have desired asiuii ir opportunity for their OnJ vvi enrt _ -*}Teh f and heard Ki him sentenced— months.’ Military service in Europe. tbeiNorth, yeL J. modatiou of boarders ^ud the travelling over southern prisoners at tbe^North surgebnsltd toipw i fro southern irisonjdrs You’d do well to look cirefu ly after him. * 11 E. REMINGTON & SONS, according to statistics by the Federal auf at the N? Orth. «. pubìi|ì. T^efUnited Statesauthori- ■’ Oh ! there was somethin ; so dreadful lion , New York. thorities, a greater number or of Confede Confederate ties, how rpyer nev^r|gave any reply to the in the word* “jail!” The GOOD STABL.ISG, ___ /poor woman soldiers died ih northern prisons -than of u proposition, though hi tlje war continued for treiml bled us she laid away the things she Agent, A lbk H t E. U bane , San Fran- Federal soldiem in southern prisons ! »hd attentive hostlers. more than a ycariaflcr it was made. had bought of the peddje'r ; mof could she iisco, Cal. oct 23 ’66. no 39. vl. f- Ilvnest pea; Honest peqdle, whether Nórtb or South 1 In August, 1^4, when the moirtality • .4 . /. 1 í I Tn connection with this house will be must endt avor aveif to get at thb the tru truth, anc was indrefasing a| Andersonville,' thwClon- she easy till she called the boy in, and as- I . • the.Con- suted him that she knew that dark part of kept Hór*es, Buggies, Ac., Ac', to Let circulate it, though it may criminate some tq give up from’ teui ten! to his history. • federatos 1 offeredgive ; f. i . no. 34. tf. ?. horn they wpild like to consider innocent, jn reasonable terms. -1 fifteaiji .thousand unconditionally, ex ¡Ashamed and distressed, the boy -bung " " have ’ ■> cept that |the l/n^ed¿States authorises exculpate others who 4 dotvn his head : his cheeks Seemed burst- ;ht most guilty. wera ito sehd for' tabm.j After a delay of in j with the feot S. HURLBURT and’his lips quiv- quiv hot blood, and'his threap fearful mlnnfe — the most sickly of Friso ered. “ ;VVell,” he muttered, his whole ATTORNEY AT LAW 9 the yearj-khey dia send and took away frame shaking, “ there’s no use in my try I ' J. IT. HEMBREE, i n j II K thirteen ltl| M 1 tl|'ou$aud, leaving in their place r * jafeyette, Yamhill County. Oregon. Will 1 ing to do better ; everybody hates and des Philadelphia paper sometime ago, attra cted three! thousand sgutljeruers, who were even practice in the Supreme, Circuit and a!l pises jD9 m9 ; nobody cares about me.” erfi th reej th oui my attention. I j I have quoted from of the Courts of this State. more squalid and sickly than the poor fel- 4‘ Tell me,” said “ s&id the woman, “how came las constantly on hand a good Stock c in the annexed verses, which, wiihliliW lows they took Houÿi L t . you to g9 go so young to that dreadful place ? light on a notes, may assist in l throwing ’ DR. H. J. BOUGHTON. Where is your mother ?”. subject of vast important ortance, and greatly TO ./ “ Oh !” exclaimed the boy, with a abnrst “ bnrst kg a Crime? ' I a misunderstood: . ! j h .> Late Physician & Surgeon, Fall & Winter Goods. Horace Greelmr a Smit? the stealing froth of^grief that was terrible to behold. “Oh ! Full fifteen thousand men, In Hospital Depart ment, the public Treaàur; [since the Republican I han’t no mother 1 I had’nt no mother The bravé, the good,‘the true, 4 faction ciu^e iuto p fe«ver, has averaged one evtr since I was a baby. If I’d only had As captives died in prison pen, . Of The Army of the POTOMAC* ‘•They died for me and j0u!” hundred. and ffti, millions of dollar's a a mother,” the continued, while teaijs Gents* and Boys Clothing', And shall not truth’s indi ighant tongie Office in Dallas, Oregon! year ‘i\ And yep tBjb same Greeley, who gushed from his eyes, “ I wouldn’t have 4 Declare who did this grit1 vous wrong? literally (jofidemos juch awholesale corrup been bound out, and kicked, and cuffed -* i r ¡1; I i I b || tion, ’ wi^lc s; th(| whole influence of his and horsewhipped. I wouldn’t have been of the best and latest stvles On many a bloody field, » • journal, (he T’rtZvuie, to keep the robbers sai^cy, and got knocked down, and run They stood ’gainst leader hail • I ' ■ E. C. BR AB SHAW, i •’ T in office. I Luring the whole administration away, and then stole,^because I was hun And though| at last constrained to yield; DRY GOpDS, of the government t by the thè Democratic party, gry. Oh ! if I’d only a mother.” Their spirits did not quail; from 1801 to 18^1, there’Was less than The strength was all gone from the poor They safely passed their baitties through 1 1- A. I 1 • t 9 « • FANÇY GOODS, • i I boy, and he sunk on his knees, sobbing And yet “ they died for me and you.’’ ten^millions ten^millioos of dollars stolen from the pub- pub I . »1 ' “ ¡1 ( H T , .i ■ lic Treasury, d^aUations included I ! In ;r|at choking sobs, and robbing the hot i They pined for home, sweeit home, deed', we are Jof |the i i opinion, opinion, that the tears away with the sleeve of his jacket.* COUNSELOR AT LAW, AND deed', we are «of ';the that the BOOTS and SHOES, < And for their daily bread!; The woman was a mother, and though LICITOR IN CHANCERY. amount stolen by the Repuplicans since I Alas! assistance did not com IO, their! advent into bowery exceeds all the all her children l“'-" / slept ’ | the ‘r cold r - -J under sod ■ And now — they ’ re with the deadl j ■ ( Lafayette, Oregon. •HATS and CAPS, expenses* df thé civil department of our L in n . the churchyard, she wasia was]a mother still. rebels felt their grief, E fen ’en hardened __ 1 u furnish i-. no -lllv /• i IV ill practice in the District and Supr erne govejnmenit government from |80y to 1861. Let us She put her hand kindly on the bead of the And yet . could relief! II Courts of Oregon. compute jifl by figures/ es/~ _ The expenses, expensea of boy, and told him to look up, and said GROCERIE, The rebel leaders durst py*Taxe8 Paid, Collections made,'and government forthb40 "1 years prior to Gen. from that time he should i find in her a Not do what we have done; J . Proceeds Promptly remitted. 4 Jackson’s idmiçisiration, avoya^ed about mother. \Yes, she even put her arm around I Though many hearts with inguish rst HARDWARE nine’ milfidns a year; being in all $360,- the neck of that forsaken, deserted child ; At tales from “ Andersofo »> • - - f ■ 00. j Front the time Jackson became she poured from her mother’s heart sweet, - F ii j- t : j,nt until j.80i, being 27 years, the kind words, words of counsel and tender CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, QUEENS- Their own den 7 HE undersigned would respectfully an ditUrps 'itères $vera averaged, jed, probably probably, $35,000,- ness. Ohl bblr sweet was her sleep that • " '.'.F Ì iv jqu vorv must be wv told ,viu The sad tale night—how soft her pillow pillow ; ’ She had nounce to the travelling public, that he 1 year^ year; or $980,000,000 iu in the aggre- 000 has, at the Lafayette crossing of the Yambill, The brave, (he true, the good, WARE, &c., Ac. Thia gate in all. ; , i would - ‘ count $1,300,- *W’- plucked some thorns from the path of ,a While we were busy coining gold, striying mortal. 000 00 for 60 £ears Democratic rule, In«» ittle sinning but striving They died for want of food! A LARGE, NEW AND SAFE FERRY BOAT, pqor now.a^ promising man. Please call and examine our Stock o That poor boy is now.a defalcations and all speculations, I ' Those fifteen thefasand boys in blu ) on which he can cross Teams, Stock, &c., As victims died—“ for me and youj. D ’ side. Aside from Hii foster-father is dead, his foster-mother Coffee, Sugar, Tea, Syrup, Oream Tartar, r the B tadteal . aged and sickly; but she i knows no want, awful; expenses of government, the — I . ' \ Nails, Pocket Knives, Saleratus, Tobacco, EXPEDITIOUSLY AND CHEAPLY. The rebels in their need, .lier support. — The “ .poor outcast ” t !" - friends of;Mf. Grëeïey, according to It ice, etc. . , 13 „ partjr friends of;Mf. Greeley, according to Once, twice, and yet again, Nobly do«3 he repay the trust reposed in ' i. / j The roads leading to and from this crossing Mr.lGreclty, havd stolen, have, indeed, Did all that they could do to plead ’ i i - l-\i L ■ hinj.' I ;[ are in good repair, land persons from the For justice to these men ; perpetrated larfeeujes in 1861-2-3-4-5 We wiU sell; South going to Portland, McMinnville, Forest MWben my fathef and mother forsake But deaf, alas 1 the Nation’s ear, 1 5 L— - ; '■ and 6, b^ing nearly seven years in all, ! Groye and Hillsboro, and from the North, ' f i me, then the Lord will take me up. — The The people’s servants would not hear. about; $150,000,0^0 a year. For For seven seven going to Salem, Dallas, Corvallis, will find it t .. . ....... ; HEAFER THAN! THE A CHEAPEST. 1 years it amoudts | to. $1,050,000,000.— Standard Bearer, E’en Dams felt their grief, to their advantage to P.alronize}^’8^5f[f ■ T n ——n---- r—'■ * Gracious Heavens^! and can this be so, And sent his message forth,5 JOHN HARRIS. « C _______ O n Friday night a couple of neighbor, nt relief re By prompt exchange to ( grant that the Republican nigger worshippers Lafayette, July 31,1866. - r* I- • ■ ¡ Call Early andSatisfy Yourselfl To prisoners Sc a th an id North. U* have stolen such an enormous bum within ing women in Lower town got into a melee t T 4 j----------------------- i a And why, alas ¡1 was this not done? seven yeari? Indeed it is so. Greeley about a pig which was a troublesome eus- ; i '.- ‘ K F Î no J heart in Washington! J. T. HEMBREE. has from partisan ’feelings underrated the tomer and foraged its living away from its The Best Remedy For There was / » L ! IMI in 1VIL J I L ml 11 1 owner ’ s door. In the course of tbe quarrel PURIFYING the Blood, Strengthening the The rebels gave us leavo venality of his party associates; and the re^d Nerves, Restoring the lost Appetite, is To send down loyal mk old sinner should Jidd at least $500,000,- one of them seized * coffee pot boiling on | *Gd to* Lake & Robinson for Stoves and '• FRESE’S HAMBURG TEA. Men good and true, who i 000 to This table off Republican robberies the stove, and hurled it at her adversary, It is the best preservative against almost any tin ware. Remember the place : |he Emi Aid for that prison pen to state the whole Jtruth. Down with the which failed to hit the mark, but knocked sickness, jf used timely. Composed of herbs and tend the sufiering f grant Stove Store, Front St. next door to Jaoobips and nigger worshippen,!—down ovet a litt e girl, the coffee pot fighter’s own only, it can be given safely to infants. Full With a whole nation’s * ring, which was badly kcalded. This with the plunderer^ of the public treasury; OHS] directions in English, French Spanish and But know! th German, with every package. TRY IT I —Burlington (Io<a) Gazette and Argus. end d the quarrel, and both were assiduous, Were left to lieving the poor little sufferer.— lb. , j Go to Galland, Goodman < For sale at all the wholesale and re ta’ J ... . in n & Co. to get That Northern banners mightagai drug stores* and groceries. ■. “ The Radical ^ers boast, says Prentice, lotbing, Boots, Shoes, Dry r Goods and ’Mid Southern breezes fly; EMIL FRESE. Wholesale Druggist, ? Adam r that their t r party^ia-uow a unit. We hope Groceries. I migh rush ---------------------- > » And bold recruits might Sole Agent, 410 Clay street, thought her ’Etye-angelvcal i 4 t 1 • soon to mi ake it |t Cypher, . Their comrades from a prison-grav • ISSUED EVEUY TUESDAY, I •' J ■'? •' , FIRE . ARMS 9 4 J. EDITOK AND PUB’Sn’K i 1 DE GENERALLY. Ì, j I. t b r t . J - ■ 1 ¡LL * ■ * Irtl - i . j ] ' Í ' > U 1 * w I I — — A. ? .. __ £ * . . . . V x F. . . r. ZX T-T Jk I • - j 1 «did 1« ■ • « ’ n ------- - -, .... -, -----------} f9 I ■Í, 3 i r nF- If I - n A t VI , I VltUl . • r ., H » '¿a ■ , I LAFAYETTE, HOUSE' ir . r ■ I - r .«. . J! t i : t * L w •• • ! i ü V a _ c || pry Goods Store. I 1 * ■ * ‘ : » Ï t.4 » HI 4Ì « ¡ R : ATTORNEY AND . — * so- i. ■PUR.... J 4 j a » . ' r t A T *1 ! iumov I i f j T __________________ Í i ' ’ - X I 1 j l T i a Ü1. ' * " 'I i - ' ! I ? L . I' 1 ♦ ■. r i I .■ ■• ■t . ' ■