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Boise Nttns. PiTBi.isnEB Evert Saturday Eyemno, bt T. J. & J. S. BUTLER, Editors and Proprietors. TERMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION : One year........................„.....$12 00 Nix mouths............................. 7 00 Three mouths........................... 4 00 Blllgle copies............ . ................ 50 rates of advertising: For one insertion one square................$5 One sq.(teu liucs or less) four insertions... $8 W® All advertisements of half column ormore will bo inserted by special contract. s w Advertisements, to insure insertion, mus be handed in as early as Thursday, and the num ber of insertions desired should be noted on the margin BOISE NEWS AGENTS. Bannock City— Henry II. Knapp, carrier and general agent, to whom all dues are payable. Pa pers are also for sale at the office of Wells, Fargo & Co., at the Salt Lake Express Company, at Swinncrton's book store and Rosenberg's variety store. Pl.vceuvii.le —James Hawley, carrier and gen eral agent, to whom all dues for subscriptions arc payable: papers are also for sale at the office of Wells, Fargo and Co. and at Schroder & Tiner's book store. Centerville —P. W. Johnson, at Wells, Fargo & Co.'s. Pioneer Citt—A lfred Slocum, at Wells, Fargo A Co.'s. Walla Walla— E. E. Kelly. Umatilla— Z. F. Moody. Portland —W. W. Chapman, jr., and Tracy King. Official Directory. [Territorial capital, for the present, at Lewiston.] Gtcernor, ................William H. Wallace. 'p'Ading Gov. and Ter.Sec'y ......Wm. B. Daniels. Ter. Aud tor .....................B. F. Lambkin. Territorial Treasurer, ............D. S. Kenyon, V. S. Marshal, ....................D. S. Payne. Judge 2nd District Court, ......Samuel C. Parks. Clerk h District Court, ...... . . J. C. Henley. Boise County—Bannock City, County Seat: Probate Judge .............Daniel McLaughlin JJist. Att'y., .....................Geo. C. Hough. Auditor .....................W. B. Underwood. Sheriff, ............................S. Pinkham. Treasurer .....................Cuas. D. Vajen. Assessor, ............................J. Judge. ( Frank Mooke. County Commissioners, .......... ■< J. Smith, and (H. I. Crow. * Bannock Precinct: Justice of the Peace, ......'....Charles Walker. Constable, ....................John G. Howell. Plaocrville Precinct: Justice of the Peace, ........Thos. H. Stringham. RELIGIOUS NOTICES. Rev. Father A. Z. Poulin will hold divine service at the St. JoscphChurch, corner Commercial street and East Hill, every Sunday, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Preaching will be held every Sunday, at 11 A. .M. at the American Hotel, in Bannock City. ' Rev. Father T. Mesplie will hold divine service at half-past 9 A. M., and vespers at three o'clock P. M., every Sunday, at the upper end of Main street, Centerville, until further notice. f Idaho Lodge— U. D.,—F. & A. Y. M. hold their regular meetings on Saturday night succeeding the full moon of each month, at Masonic Hall, corner of Wail Street aud Montgomery. Called meetings every Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock. IStf S. S. RICE, Secretary. LODGE—97 of the Occidental Brother hood meet each Tuesday evening. By order of 20tf G. U. E. D. HOLBROOK. A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Office on Main Street, below Wall, next door to the Probate Judge's office Bannock City. February 6th, 1864. *20m3 v** ISAAC S. HASCALL. LA W Y E R, Bannock City, Boise County, I. T. January 2nd, 1864. 15tf lit. B. Snelling, ATTORNEY COUNSELOR AT LAW (NEXT DOOR TO LEVIS STOKE,) Montgomery Street, Bannock. 9-tf DR. A. J. HOGG, (Late of the United States Army,) BANNOCK CITY, I. T., S PECIAL ATTENTION given to diseases of women and children. Office at the Union Drag Store. Residence, East Hill. u7-3m C. A. UKKJ). J. CUMMINS. HEED & CUMMINS. COUNSELORS AND ATTORNEYS AT LAW Bannock City, Boise County, I. T. •B3-Office east side of Main street, between Commercial and lUallulu streets. Gold and Silver Mining Company. H EED & CUMMINS, of Bannock City, are agents for the BANNOCK GOLD AND SIL VER MINING COMPANYl Persons who •"have interests in quartz lodes, will do well to call at our office and take stock. n7-tf A. K SSI. A.H. ROBIE. ASaAl ffilHHKMB, WALL STREET, ABOVE MAIN STREET, G OLD AND SILVER, and Ores of every de scription, assayed and returns made in four hours. n7-3m ROSSI & ROBIE, DR. L. WILLIS, Surgeon anil Dentist, Office on Main St., Opposite International Hotel. Call and examine his specimens of new work. Drs. Raymond 4t Bette. W Physicians and Surgeons. O FFICE in the rear of A. A. Mix'i Store. Montgomery street, Bannock City. VOL. I.) IDAHO CITY, BOISE COUNTY, IDAHO TERRITORY, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1864. (NO. 23. H. C. ANDERSON. NOTARY PUBLIC. Office, Hawk-Eye Store, Wall Street. Bannock City, December, 25th, 1863. 14m3 J. K. Shafer. Edward Nugent SHAFER & NUGENT. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. O FFICE, Corner of Wall and MontgomeC Streets, Up stairs. BannocA: City Boise county, I. T. M. KELLY. Attorney and Counselor at Law. P ARTICULAR Attention paid to collections. Office Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, Plac. erville. Reference, to any of this Agents of W., F &. Co., on this Coast. Oct. 8,18C3. 3tf A. C. SWIFT. j. Miller SWIFT & MILLER. A TTORNEYS and COUNSELORS at Law. ^LJl. Bannock City, September 29th, 1863.—lir.3 ifcfe- Hon. C. B. Waite will attend to business for us during our absence. H. W. O. MARGARY. LAW OFFICE CONSULTATIONS EN FRANCA IS, Bannock Oity, Boise Co., I. T., Sept. 29,1863._1 CHAS. -WALKER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. *3-Office in the building formerly occupied by Rockfellow's Express. 4 „tf CREIGHTON & BUTTON; D EALERS in Staple Dry Goods, Clothing Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Liquors Tobacco and Miners' outfits. Washington St., Centerville, Sept. 25, 1853—ltf CHARLES B. JACQUEMIN SUCCESSOR TO S. \V. DICKINSON. Main Street Bannock City TTfATCHMAKER and Jeweler, Dealer in Jew W elry and Watches.' Solid Gold Jewelry made to order. Particular attention paid to Repairing Fine Watches I-iF" All work warranted for twelve months."C® Bannock City, September 29th, 1863. Im3 WM. GANEY. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Provisions, Groceries, and i v. filler's Supplies. Bannock City, Main St. Sept. 29th, 1863. ltf E. N. SANFORD. Bannock City, Directly Opposite City Hotel. F INE Watches Repaired and rated by Chro nometer Time. Having had many years ex perience in the largest houses in San Francisco, I feel confident that I can give perfect and entire satisfaction to all who may favor me with their patronage. All kinds of Jewelry made to order in the best manner. ALL WORK WARRANTED. Bannock City,September 1st, 1863 ltf Sign of the Mortar. T HE undersigned has on hand and is con- o stantly receiving a full and well select ed stock of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, &c. To which he respectfully calls the attention of the citizens of Bannock and vicinity. N.B. Physicians' prescriptions carefully prepared. A. A. MIX, Chemist and Drugist, Uni Opposite We Us, Fargo & Co.'a M. AINSA, Umatilla, s : : : : : : : : Oregon. No. 18 Front Street, C OMMISSION MERCHANT, AND DEALER in General Merchandise. Also, *ar GOODS STORED and FORWARDED. Sept. 29th, 1863.—ltf C. C. HIGBT. R. BLEDSOE. HIGBY & BLEDSOE. W HOLESALE and Retail Dealers in ceries. Provisions, Liquors, Clothing GEO. I. GILBERT, GEO. C. HOUGH GILBERT & HOUGH. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. OFFICE—Main Street, Bannock City, I. T. Septemoer 28th, 1863. it F. MILLER, Attorney and Counselor at Law. P ROMPT attention paid to all professional bus iuesa entrusted to his care. Charges reason able. Bannock City, September 29th, 1863. ljf Boots,Shoes,Mining Implements, Stationery 1 lacervule, corner of btandefer and Granite ree * ltf daniel McLaughlin. Attorney and Counselor at Law. W ILL attend to all Legal matters entrusted to his care. Collections made and remittances earefuily and promptly returned. Main Street below Wall, Bannock City. ltf O. D. CAGWIN & CO. AUCTION AND COMISSION MER CHANTS. General Dealers in Clothing, Grceriea and Miner's Goods. Being well known we would respectfully solicit a liberal share of their patronage. Bannock City, Main St. Sept, 291m3 floetrS. ■Si \ THE [Communicated.] MURDERED TRAVELERS. When Winter toward Spring had waned— Brought bloom and joy again. Tbe murdered travelers' bones were found Far down a narrow glen. The willow trees above them wave Their branches in the air, And many a vernal blossom gave Their odors to the fair. But there was weeping far away, And gentle eyes for them, With watching many an anxious day, Grew sorrowful and dim. They little knew, who loved them so, The fearful death they met, When traveling o'er the mountain snow Unarmed and hard beset. But long they looked and feared and wept, Within their distant homes, And dreamed, and started as they slept, For joy that never comes. So, long they looked, but never spied Their welcome steps again, Nor knew the fearful death they died Far down that narrow glen. Buena Vista City, Feb. 12th. 1864. G. W. R. [Communicated.] BENEATH THE SYCAMORE, O yes I am here in a golden land Wliero nature's ever green ; Where the billows lave a golden strand Aud gold is in every stream. But still my heart clings to the vale Far from this gilded shore, Away where the river's silvery wave3 Glide 'ueath the Sycamore. Roll on, thou river, still and clear— Thy banks with wild-flowers dressed; O would that I were there again, 'Twould sooth this aching breast. To hear the murmuring of the rill. Still blending with thy roar ; Say, does the nodding lilly still Hang drooping on tby shore? Or has the hostile foe yet tread Upon those sacred plains, My kinsmen numbered with the dead, My friends among the slain ? Why should this war of brothers still Be carried on amain ? O stop the warrior's bugle-shrill. Let stop this life's blood drain. But now adieu to all those scenes, Those happy scenes of yore ; Farewell my childish sports, and green. Beneath the Sycamore. A. F. M. Pioneer City, Feb. 15th, 1864. I The Providence Post, in a very fulsome and foolish article, recently recommonded Senator Sprague as the proper man to sue ceed General Meade, asserting, among other thing's, that he "can do twenty things at once. and do them well." The Cleveland Plain Dealer thinks the following comprises a list of the feats of this twenty-horse act: " 1st, he can play on the triangle ; 2d, he can play on the trombone; 3d, he can churn; 4th, he can milk a cow; 3th, he can feed tbe pigs; 6th, he can eat a big meal of victuals; 7th, he can sing'Yankee Doodle;' 8th, he can take Richmond so quick she won't know what hurt her; 9th, he can wear No. 18 gai ters ; 10th, he can ' list to the mocking-bird ;' 11th, he can perform 'John Brown's Body' upon a bass drum ; 13th, he can stop the breathing of sneaks at rifle shot distance ; 251/^ 14th, he can do or die ; 15th, he can trip the light fantastic toe ; 16th, he can smoke cigar* if they don't make him sick ; 17th, he ean sleep four in a bed if the parties lay spoon fashion ; 18th, he can wear No. 4 boots if his feet are sufficiently small; 19th, he can takejtk* Meade's place, provided Old Abe's willing; 20th, he can keep dry when it rains by re- j maining in doors." Appointments of County Officers, The following is a list of the officers sent mi b y t h e Governor, and confirmed by the Coun cil, to hold their offices until the general elec tion, in Boise county: Sheriff, Sumner Pinkham; Probate Judge, Daniel McLaughlin; County Commissioners, d John O. Smith, Frank Moore, Henry I. Crow; a Auditor, Washington R. Underwood; Treas- j urer, Charles D. Vajen ; Assessor, George Woodman; Justices of the Peace, Bannock precinct, Charles Walker; Centerville, I. H. ™ Johnson, Charles W. Depuy ; Placerville, T. 16° H. Stringham, Charles Woodbury Walker; Boise City, Daniel S. Holton ; Notaries Pub ic, John Cummins, Henry C. Anderson, Geo. - Gilbert, Charles J. Fitzgerald; Constables, ten Idaho City, John G. Howell; Centerville, Edward Thore; District Attorney for the Second Judicial District, George C. Hough. An Election Dodge.— Following is a copy of a handbill circulated in Nevada Ter ritory on the day previous to the late elec tion: Telegraphic !—Editor of Old Piute— My Dear Sir.—I understand bogus dispatches are in circulation in your Territory, purport ing to come from Chase, Conness and Higby. Permit me to say there is nothing in it. We don't care a damn about it, whether you be come a State or not. Yours truly, A. Lincoln. N. B.—Bill Seward is with ui.—A. L. " in the the & (N. Execution in New Jersey.— Charles H. Brooks, convicted in Burlington county (N. J.), Court of Oyer and Terminer, of the mur der of his father, suffered the penalty of his crime in the yard of the Mount Holly jail on Friday, December 11th, in the presence of 700 people. Between eleven and twelve o'clock Sheriff Lippincott, accompanied by a clergyman and several other persons, entered the cell of the doomed man and endeavored to converse with him, but he appeared quite indifferent. After a prayer by the clergyman the prisoner was removed and placed under the gallows. Here he made a brief statement, confessing his guilt and implicating others in the awfal crime. He said he was there to suffer for the murder of his father, and that while he acknowledged that he committed the crime, Ridgway (his orother-in-law) ought to be in his place. Ridgway, he asserted, had for more than a year Urged him to kill his father, and on the day of the murder, while he (Brooks) was drunk, Ridgway told him to meet ' the old man at the corner of the lot and knock him over." He according ly stationed himself there, and when his fath er came by knocked him down, killed him and threw his body in the ditch. His state ment of the circumstances was substatially the same as the first story he told of it. He said that afterward Ridgway and his mother came to him and persuaded him to deny all knowledge of the murder, and he allowed them to induce him to say on Ridgway's trial that no one had anything to do with it but himself. He was sorry that he had been weak enough to lei Ridgway and his mother persuade him to commit the crime; he had never harmed any one else, and never had struck a man in his life, until the blow he struck his father. As to the Government Intention of Taxing the Mines.— The Sacramento Bee of the 20th January says: One of our Con gressional delegation writes to a friend here, who questioned him concerning the Govern ment's intent to tax the mines, and says: I do not know with certainty, what the plan of Gen. Beale is, but I shall see it in a few days, as it will be printed at length with the report of Commissioner Edwards. We hear now and then, an expression in favor of rais ing revenue from the mines by taxation, but these thoughts spring from a general desire to get funds to meet the very extraordinary ex penses of the Government imposed by the war, and not from any purpose or wish to make a specialty of the mines in taxation. Miners now pay their income tax the same as people engaged in any other occupation, and this, doubtless, they are willing to do, but no more. To put mining on a more unfavorable basis than any other productive industry, would, it seems to me, be unjust, and, as a Government measure, decidedly impolitic, for its tendency would be to curtail a product more needcd now tha ? an y other - But J have seen or heard^no specific plan for taxing the P rec i° U8 metal mines. -- The number of letters mailed at the San *' ranci . 8C0 Bost-Ofiice in 1861 was 682,019; r n .1663, 90^,596. Increase. 38 per cent, Tbe number of newspapers forwarded in *661 wa ® 677,126 , in 1863, 1,389,702. In crea8e » 165 per cent. The registered letters sent in 1861 num bered 3,484; in 1863 they were 8,507. In crea * e » 144 per cent, The number of newspapers received in 1661 was 1,752,960; in 1863, 2,860,433. In crease 63 per cent. for the fourth quarter of 1861, the number 8ta ™P 8 8 °ld was 385.043, and of envelops 161?»6§3, amounting in value together to $35 920 » 45 - For ^e fourth quarter of 1863, the 8tam P* * old wer ® "69,545, and the envelops 1713,718, amountingftogether in value to $60 500. Increase, $14,579,74. The estimated number of people visiting Fostoftice daily. 16,900. in j As Charles Sumner's cases of books were lately being carried to his rooms at Washing on, one of the packages broke, and there a a grand chaos of law religion, romance and poetry. A IJoly Bible straddled Kent's ^ - - » ------------- Commentaries; somebody on International Law S ot mixed U P with Herve y' 8 Meditations; the jaws of Statutes at Large swallowed up tbe Fsalms of David; Tom Jones, the rascal, d ' sd 8 ured Shakspeares frontispiece; Byron a . nd Blackstone reached the pavement at the j simiil^neously ; the Life of A. Lincoln was , 08t J n . AnBtomy of Melancholy, and 1 , Constitution of the United States ™ ade a * a £8 e vacuum between Sumner's Ora 16° ns and Common Sense. ' ~—-- Death of the ''Poughkeepsie Black SMITH.-William H. Van Wagener, known foi ten years throughout the United States as the " Poughkeepsie Blacksmith," expired at his residence in this city on Thursday. Mr. Van Wagener was a very popular speaker, and for years made himself felt in the political field and in the advocacy of total abstinence. His stentorian voice has been beard during the past 23 years in almost every place of note in the Atlantic States, and to his forcible and purely natural eloquence can be attributed the salvation of many a poor soul that was tottering on its way down the road to perdi tion.—[Poughkeepsie Press. Bullion in NevADA Territory.— During the week ending January 16th, Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped from their office in Virginia (N. T.), $203,291,6^ Boise Nfn >0 Sob <8>f5t« B OOK .CARD, AND JOB PRINTING OFP1CR —East Hill Bannock City. The proprietors beg leave to announce to tbe people of Bannock City and vicinity, that they havea varied and completeassortmentof PLAIN and ORNAMENTAL JOB AND CARD TYPES., which make their facilities forexecuting all kinds of plain and ornamental printing unsurpassed by any office in the upper country. All orders for jobs will be executed with neatness and dispatch t5[F" Job Work must be paid for before it is tA ken from the office.? of a Exciting Times at Denver City.—A man named Kittery shot a soldier named Duffield through the window of a house of evil repute, in Denver, on the 27th of Dec., the soldier at the time being intoxicated, and bad broken the window. A large crowd soon gathered about the premises turpentine was freely poured about the chebane;, and in a few minutes everything was a sheet of dame. They then proceeded to a dance-house near by and burned it to ashes. Nothing was allowed to be taken out or saved, except a few trunks that belonged to the wretched girls who were inmates of the dwelling, 'lhe murderer was confined in the guard-house, "here a large and excited mob of citizens and soldiers were collecting, when some one went to the church and called out Col. Chiv ington who, until then, was ignorant of the excitement. The Colonel, looking very good naturedly, advanced through the crowd to the steps of the guard-house and addressed them in the following sensible language : "Fellow-Citizens and Soldiers: Two wrong# never can make one right. A man, a Com rade of some of you, was last night shot down in the prime of life, from a window. The cowardly villain who took this advantage of the man, is now in this building bound hand and foot, heavily ironed. We live in a land of Law—where every man has meted out to him equal and exact justice. It would be just as cowardly for 10 or 20, or all of you men, to take him out from here, bound as he is, to hang him, as it was for him to shoot your comrade from that window. I did not know anything of this excitement until a gentleman called me out of the church just now, else I should have been here much earlier. Now I request you all to go home, let the law take its course, respect yourselves, and do not be guilty of a row here. And to you, soldiers, let me not hear that any one of you has said, '•it -would be a good thing to take him out aad hang him," or, " I should like to see it done," or anything of that kind; for I tell you, he will meet with the full punishment of his crime, and if you should hang him with out a trial, you would be just as guilty of a cowardly murder as he is." California Items. Captain Hawkins, Recorder of Esmeralda, died suddenly of heart disease, at Aurora, ou Wednesday last. Captain Waller, convicted of murder in Nevada county, has been sentenced to be hung on the first Friday in February. Frank King, a German, aged forty-five, a resident of Clover Creek, Shasta county, was drowned in Little Cow creek on the 13th inst. He leaves a wife and three children. F. F. Hunter, who was tried at Jackson, Amador county, last week, for the killing of McKenna at Sacramento, has been acquitted. The Baptists of Napa propose to buy the brick church erected and owned by the Meth odist Episcopal Church South. Several of the prominent citizens of Napa are forming a Joint Stock Company for the purpose of establishing a woolen faetory in that vieinity. John K. Dowling, a private in Company E, Second Cavalry, died on the 29th December last, at Visalia, from the effects of a pistol shot received at the hands of B. F. Merrill. John P. Hale, in answer to the attack of Hon. John Conness, says: ** I was opposed to an Improper use of the public money by Democrats when they were in power, and am no less opposed to the same thing now that my political friend* are in power. I have been too long in public life to desire to hold on to it a day longer than I can without making concessions to those who would prey on the public treasury, or their confederates." Fast Men of England.— When my Prince (King George Fourth) did actually distinguish himself, it was in driving. He drove once, in four hours and a half, from Brighton to Carlton House—56 miles. All the young men of that day were fond of that sport. But the fashion of rapid driving deserted Eng land, and, I believe, trotted over to Ameri ca. Where are the amusements of our youth ? I hear of no gambling now but among the obscure ruffians; of no more boxing but among the lowest rabble.—[Thackeray's Four Georges. The Beggars ''Striking."—A mong the f iensioners ''at the corner" there is an elderly ady who has always been contented to re ceive a five-cent bit. She astonished us yes terday, by returning it with some disdain, ex claiming : " Why, yer honor, don't ye know everything is riz ?'' As she was evidently on her strike we yielded. The Smith family' is numerous in Balti more. There are 652 persons of that name reoorded in the city directory just published. The Browns stand next, numbering 297; and the Jones third, numbering 256. The city has 160 churches, 149 stationed ministers, 304 physicians, and 391 commission mer chants. Ladies who make the shopmen sho R goods, but never purchase, are called, in ical parlance, ''counter irritants."