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VOL. 11. THE MIDI RECORD. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING Hi. Sl< - tDIO,T ' Publishers and Proprietors. Office on Bird Street. Between Mytra and 11 mi toon Stretls. TBHM3. One year per Mail *2 "® Six months do "y” Three months do - v® Delivered by Carrier per month i’® Single copies 10 ADVERTISEMENTS : Per sqnare of ten lines or less, first insertion f 3 00 Each subsequent insertion I A liberal discount will be made in favor of those who advrrti-e by the year. Business Cards inserted on reasonable terms. BUSINESS CARDS. JAMES GREEN, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS FOR IMovncln Territory' Office—Comity Cle rk"* Office, Conrt House, H. VAN ALSTYNE MOTT. PHYSICIAN" AND SURGEON, Will practice his profession in Oroville and vi cinitv- Can be consulted at his office as follows: [latte Bounty Hospital i At his office on Mont- From Gtolo a m i gomery street from Ito 2. and 6 to 7 r M. Persons wishing to lie treated for any form of disease, will he furnished pleasant rooms at the Hospital, at a moderate charge. F. M. SMITH ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW Office—Up Stairs, Huntoon Street, Oroville. A. MAURICE, JR. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW Will practice in all of the Counties of the Sec ond Judicial District, and In the Supreme Conrt. Office on Bird street.between Huntoon and Myers itreeta. Oroville. sep.29tf. E. S. OWEN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Forbcstown. Butte County, California. FAULKNER & Co. ■K AIW M-m. Corner Myers and Montoiuery Streets, Oroville. E. LANK. }■ ■{ J. CONLY E. LANE &. Co. M « « ."V a: as na . Montgomery Street, OROVILLE. a.G. aitrsoN. \ 1 ™os. callow A. G. SIMPSON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in BOOKS AND STATIONERY. STAPLE AND 1 AVI articles. Theatre Block, Huntoon street, Oroville. E. DUNHAM; U. S. ASSESSOR and collector of butte COUNTY. CAL. OFFICFa-Ou Myn * Strett, Briiceen Montgomery and Bird Streets , OROVILLE. THOMAS WELLS, attorney at law and NOTARY PUBLIC. Oliic —In Theater Itulhiing. Has resumed the practice ot Law in all the courts ol Justice, in Butte and adjoining counties. CHARLES F. LOTT, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Obovilli Bittb CorsTT. Office—Bird st.. between Mversand Huntoon. J. M. BURT, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Practices in the courts of the 2d Judicial D.strict and in the Supreme court. OFFICE -In Burt's brick building, up stairs, on Bird street. Oroville. D. C. BURLINGAME, DENTIST, gre"-:cy OFFICE-ln Mathew-’ Bri-k Build "v'y’i'ask mg n. Hunt ...u St , between Mont- OROVILLE. W. PRATT. M. D. rHYSI O I AN AND SU R GEON Hock Creek. Butte Co^Cal. S. ROSENBAUM, attorney and counsellor at law, Office—Court House. Oroville. JAS. O’SRIEN, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Particular attention paid to Cbrmic Dis?a«e*. to this country. Has large experience in hospital and family practice, and confidently hopes tor a >harc of public patron age. Offer —Within two doors of Clark A Bro. s store. Myers street. Oroville- J. BLOCH & Co, 'ALEP.S. IN GROCERIES AND MINER: SUPPLIES, Montgomery street, Oroville. GEO. C. PERKINS. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN GROCERIES, PROVISIONS AND PRODUCE. Corner Myers and Montgomery streets. Oroville, T O PRINTERS A SUPER PvOYAL WASHINGTON PRESS Nearlv new, for sale at this effi.e. THE WEEKLY UNION RECORD. HOTELS, &C. International Hotel Corner Montgomery and Lincoln st«., Oroville- RALPH BIRD, PBCPBIETOR. THE PROPRIETOR would assure the residents of Oroville and the traveling iitiMie. that no means will he left untried to enable him to deserve a share of their patronage. THE TABLE Is supplied with every luxury of the season, and every thing will be done to insure the comfort of the guests at this house. THE BAR Will always be supplied with choice liquors and cigars. Single Meals 50 Cents. Lodgings 50 to 75 Cents. The Office of the California Stage Company is at the International. Stages leave this hotel every day for all parts of the country. RALPH BIRD. BARNUM RESTAUR Corner Montgomery eL Ilnnloou Streets, OROVILLE. THE UNDERSIGNED. PRO . prietor of this establishment,'L l i -J hereby informs the Public that i- prepared to furnish meals at all hour, day and ight, composed of all the substantial and delica ies uf the season which the market affords. BALLS, PARTIES, And Assemblies of every nature , will l*e supplied with Dinners. Suppers and Colla tions, in the best style and on the most liberal terms. Connected with the Restaurant is a BAR. where can always be found the best and every description of Liquors. • TERMS: Bonrd i»«*r Week s.*» ftO Singh* Meals 'i~r Hoard per Week, with Lodging. . 6O I Lodgings per Night. *-J-» aplOtf J. REYNOLD. Proprietor. ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, Oroville. rpiUE UNDERSIGNED WOUT.D RESPECT u fully inform his friends and the public gene rally that he has rented the “ ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL,” (formerly kept by Frank Johnson.) in Oroville, and he would be pleased to see his fiiends. when ever they will give him a call. ROBERT O'NEIL. Proprietor. Oroville. June 10th, I^OS. WHAT CHEER HOUSE, OROVILLE, Montgomery street Between Myers and Hun toon Streets, npm: subscriber rfspectfui.i.v in*. forms his friends and the public, that he fur ni>hes at the above house the best board and lod ging for the following price*: Board ami lodging per M eek ? ; Oft Board per week.. V, ( ,o Single meals 25 Ueds V. .. . ij 'audio A Splendid Bar Containing the very best of Liquors and cigars has been added to the establishment. Call and examine tor yourselves. R. OLIVER. GOLDEN' GATE iSI Corner of Montgomery & Hnntoon sts., OROVILLE. The undersigned having purchased the e.it;--* imeres* in this establishment, he is n w thoroughly repairing an: r.ew’r refilling every depart ment. lor the accomm-dation of all who may favor him with iheirpvr mure. Having been engaged in the business f>r the : as: fif teen years he ho 4 es lo give general sa;.-faction to all. Uny mid IST i-lit. Board ran be had by the day or we k on the most reft* r.»*'> *''-tr.s. Me;.ls at a.I b.«>ura, dty Rich: - CAL. NOR. RAILROAD A . sfiiv- * MARYSVILLE dc OROVILLE REF.ri.AR TRAINS LEAVE MARYSVILLE for Oruvilie daily—connecting at Oroville with Stages Stag Steal and the Northern Mines. l.oaving Marysville (Sunday ex:epted)al CA. M. ami 3 P. M. l.eavir. * Or:-v : .;le (Sanuav excepted) at SA. M. and 6 P. M. S -'.days —l eave Marysvill at 3 P M. Leave Oro vi’le at E P. M. Freight reaching Marysvrie by steamboat, con vened t*v‘Care of Railroad.“will be received on the car- at the Steamboat Landing, and forwarded to Oroville without cost for forwarding commission, or dravage. At Clroviile. merchandise for *• up country” will be stored in the Railroad Depot, and delivered to order of owners free of charge. feb?Otl ANDREW J. BIN KEY. Sup *t. OROVSLLE, SATURDAY MORNING, 31 AY -28, 1864. THE POOR NYOOD-HATJLEK. Do you tliink of the forty years ago. When you and I were smaller. And the odd. dead man that was found in the 'new. Whom we'll call the poor wood hauler ? With a manly heart be was bartering w >od, From the home where love had bound him. To deal with an honest hand the food To the flack that caddied round him. When that staff we loaned upon was broke— In that awful hour, my brother— We had nothing left to lean upon. Bat God and a Roman mother. But that mother's form is trembling now, (Though her spirit is strong as ever) And is tottering down with a feeble step To the banks of a rmy river. Hark 1 I hear a voice on the river’s roar— Tis a voice that seems to call her— And it comes trom that man on the misty shore— Oh, I see—'tis the poor wood-hauler. THE SCHOOL MEETING. A SKRTCIT. On the doors of the blacksmith shop, the tavern, the village store, and on the guide board down by the cross roads, people for sev eral days had noticed little handbills calling together the taxable inhabitants of . "to take into consideration the propriety of building a new school house.” The village pastor, on the preceding Sunday, had also read the notice from the pulpit, adding a most urgent solicitation to all of his maif hearers to "come out.” and do what they could to wards obtaining the much needed building. It was scarce dark, when a few persons congregated around the door of the old school house at the bottom of the hill, waiting until the proper moment to enter. They were coming from all directions—from over the bill, from the four roads that met by the school house, and numbers came stalking across the fields. Ooon one cf the trustees appeared, with a couple of tallow candles, and a large key. After inserting the latter in several apertures (all of which extended entirely through the door), he succeeded in unfastening the door, and the people poured in. The little fourleen-by-eighteen room was speedily filled; the people crowding on the tops of the desks, with their muddy boots rest ing upon the benches. Numbers gathered around the stove, although there was not a spark of fire wilhin. This position, however, afforded the oppoitunrty of ejecting tobacco juice against it, and of rolling the exhausted quids beneath if. The audience was divided into two parties —the one in favor of the new school house, and the other opposed to it. It was known that the latter were five or six iu the majority, and that they were very determined iu their opposition. Iho friends of education were resolved to be conciliatory, knowing that they could not otherwise succeed. Directly a tali man arose and said : ‘•Gentlemen. I nominate, as chairman of this meeting, Samuel T. Jones, Esq. Is the motion seconded ?" A half dozen shouted ‘‘Aye 1” The nom inee was known as one of the bitterest oppo neotsoftbe new school-house. Our friends, however, voted for him. They knew that his election could cot be prevented, and that as chairman he would be more harmless than a mere voter. Besides, they wished to seem friendly toward their opponents, and here was a good opportunity. Samuel T. Jones. E-q.. sat in majestic sil ence. and when the tall spokesman announced that he was ‘unanimously elected, without a dissenting voice,” he sat a moment, as if to di gest this honor, arose, walked with a calm dignity to the table, surveyed the audience and said: Fellow citizens, it is necessary that we should have a secretary. Who will you nom inate? “I nominate Aaron Heed,” called oat a weak voice by the stove, fern which quarter also came a grunt "I second that nomination.” Aaron Reed was a young gentleman of eighteen, who was reading law, and wasregar d. d as the rising •phenomenon’ of the place. Thtre had not been a gathering of any kind, of late, at which he had not figured as secreta ry or vice president. He had essayed, on one or two occasions, a political speech, and was warmly applauded by the admiring adherents of bis own party. He always wore his over coat flung over his shoulders, and fastened by one button benea’h his chin. This he dclibe ratcly laid aside, walked to the desk, sat down on a chair without a back, palled out a gold pencil, and calmly awaited for the meeting to progress. “Now, fellow citizens, we are ready for bu siness,” said the chairman. -Will some one please state the object of this gathering?” What a farce was this ! Was there one present who had not known the object for the past two weeks? N'ow came a pause—the lull that precedes the tempest. Our friends waited for the oppo sition to take some step : but seeing that such was not their intention. Mr. Brown, one of the trustees, arose, and pleasantly said; ■ Mr. Chairman, the object of this meeting, as stated in the notices, is to take into consid eration the propriety of erecting a new school bouse. As this is a matter in which every one present is interested, it is not cur wish that anything be done hastily, or without due deliberation. Therefore, before any vote be taken. I would ask that there be a free inter change of views. lam well aware that there is considerable opposition, but 1 trust the most of i: will disappear. The objections, as they have reached me are. first, the heavy taxes that will necessarily be incurred by building a school house; a' u secondly, that we don't need a school house. To this latter objection I shall briefly refer. This building w-as erected over forty years ago. when the oldest of us were boys. We received our education in it. and have some veneration for these wails. While it was good enough for those days, I contend that it i= not good enough now. These hacked and mended desks, these wails from which the plas tering is falling, these little, dirty window panes, these backless chairs, these two faded pictures of the hemispheres, these low ceilings and tumble down po:eh—and most of all. this little room, into which we have to squeeze our children, so that they l ave scarcely breathing room —all these have served their day. Mr. Brown sat d wn. His few remarks wore intended as a ‘-feeler," and to bring out the opposition. Near the stove was a cough ing. spi'tirg. ahemming. and shuffling of feet, as if sotro person was making ready to rise. A dozen smiled [among them Mr. Brown], for they knew what this meant. ‘ Unde John." one of the opposition, who sent three children to school, was getting ready to throw a bomb shell among his enemies. A round, red face, with an illuminated nose, slowly came up like the rising moon, abode the horizon of the stove and he shouted in a voice that could have been heard a quarter of a mile away— We don’t want no new school house; this is good enough. Tm satisfied to have my children edicatcd here, asd I guess so is most of the people. Do you ’spose General Jack sin or Ben Franklin bad a better school house than this to !ara in?" Uncle John was a devoted admirer of "Old Hickory.” He was never known to converse an hour without bringing htscatne in. "No, sir." he shouted again; "the Gioeral hadn't no better school house than lh;s ; and didn’t he larn? Ue knowed enough to whip the Britishers cf New Orleans, and he kcowed enough to govern this country a mighty tight belter nor the President we've got over us now. What I say is, that ;f the Ginera’i co'ld larn in sicb a school house as the?, why can't onr children? lam opposed to these new fangled notions. Last year we had to build a new church, and Dow it s a school bouse that s wanted. Good heavensl what are we coming to?” "And Uncle John began a new bouse last week." added Mr. Brown, in hi; pleasant man ner: "why did he do that? ” “'Cause the old one is worn ontl” called ont L'ucle John in a loud voice from behind the stove. "Precisely! and that is why we wish a new school bouse. I noliced last week, also, that Uncie John was taking a new mowing ma chine home. If be believes in our old fash ioned notions, why dnes’nt he stick to the scV.he and sickle? If yon will go be hind the barn, you wi.l see a fine, newly painted thresh ing machine, ready for use. Doesn't Uncle John recollect when he and I were young men and nsed our flails fide by side? How is it he has aba-douod that, and resorted to this mew fancied notion of a threshing machine ? The simple reason, as I take it. is. that these new inventions will do his work better. "Mr. Chairman," said the speaker, assum ing an earnest tone, "I trust the day has gone by jvhen it is considered that any old, tumble down building is good enough for our children to receive their schooling in. Wo all take the newest and best inventions to onr farms and workshops ; we tear down onr old houses and build new ones; we erect cur handsome church ; bnt here the school house stands—an evesore in the sight of every intelligent man. Kverv thing is progressing excepting our edu national interests. Let us pull this miserable old building down, and put np one that we shall look npon with an honest pride, and in which we shall feel that our children are not being tortured as they Icaru their lessons.” “Ano her thing.” shouted Uncle John, springing to his feet ; "I don’t like what they larn now a days. Vy oldest gal come home, t'other day. with a grammar ; and the fust thing I heerd her saying, was: '1 might, have, can, should, would, will love,’ and some other like nonsense. I axed her what she meant, and she said that was the lesson she was given to larn. I told her to take that book agin, and never touch a grammar agin. Sh e'd never got it, if her mother hadn't bo't it without axing me. When I went In school, we larnt readin', 'rilin’, and 'rithraetic (I can’t forget them words, for every one begins with r), and spelling; but now a days, they've got ioegerphy. grammar, algebra, and j mmetry. I don’t believe Gineral Jackson ever heard of sich things when he went to school.” At this point the secretary whispered to the chairman, and the latter gently reminded the speaker that be was not confining himself to the question : whereupon L T rc'e John dropped into his seat highly offended, and resolved to say no more that evening. Mr. Brown arose : "I see that Mr. Brandon is in the room. I am sure we shall all be glad to hoar from him.” There was a general turning of heads to ward the door, where the gentleman alluded to was standing. He was their representative in Congress,—fine, scholarly gentleman, who was universally respected, as much by his po lilical opponents as by his supporters. He had arrived by the evening stage, and it was not known that he was present until Mr. Brown announced the fact. At that very mo ment, the opposition were preparing for a most determined argument against the other party ; but they now instantly shrunk back, as the stars hide themselves before the greater light of the sun. One thing in favor ol what Mr. Brandon might say. was. that the maj >r ity of the opposition were his political friends. It was manifest that whatever he might utter, would be listened to with respectful attention by both sides. "My friend." said he, as he walked forwaul, "I have come all the way from Washington to attend this meeting. lam glad that it has been called, but regret that a single person should oppose this measure. I think the cause of the opposition atiscs solely from mi conception. Laying aside the intrinsic neces sity of a new school-building, let me appeal to your selfishness. On my way here, 1 made the acquaintance of a merchant, who was looking for some village in which to erect himself a home, away from the bustle and turmoil of the city. He bad his eye upon this place, and in quired regarding cur school house. Truth compelled trie to reply unfavorably; at.d he added, that he should not settle in a comma ni'.y where the people were so blind to their interests. 1 took the liberty, however, of sta ting that wo would soon erect a new school house, which, like onr church, would be an or nament to the place ; and I believe, after all, we shall have him in our midst. “Don't hesitate a moment, my friends. Through the towns and villages which I have passed on my way home. 1 have seen tasteful and commodious school buildings, filled with happy at.d joyous children. And in all such places you will find real estate worth owning. It Ben Franklin and Andrew Jackson had as poor a means of ed cation as we have, it is no reason why we should hold back. L'ncle John has forgotten that these two great per sonages bad an advantage far above any of us. God gave them a quality of brains which we do not possess. To that fact, and not to any other, is to be ascribed their greatness. “We may leave our children wealth, bnt they may lose it and become paupers. We may rather leave them a good, sound educa tion, of which they can never be robbed, and which will be of far greater value to them than gold or lands. Let us not stop, then, at any means which can procure this inestimable blessing.” It was wonderful what a revolution this lit tle speech had made 1 The first who gave evidence of eonv< rsion was Samuel J. J -nes, Ksq.. who remarked iu an audible voice to the secretary : -I'll be banged if I don’t believe every word of that. Igo for the new school boose.” Mr. Brown and his friends had too much good sense to add any thing to the remarks of Mr. Brandon. They felt sure the work was completed. The chairman called for farther remarks, and waited for several minutes. There were none offered. Finally, be asked what should be the price of the proposed building. Mr. Brandon moved that it be five thousand dollars, toever.il winced at this, but there was no counter motion made, and when it was put. the resounding “ayes fairly made the window rattle. The only dissenting voice was a weal: squeak, the owner of which did bis best to coueea! his identity, by bob bing his head downward and blowing his nose with remarkable vigor. And so the new school house was erected ; and today, that, and the beautiful white church, are the ornament and pride of the vil lage. A Kiclunoad Daniel on General Entier. Humiliation. f*s! : s aid prayer a'C suitable to these days. The sc-.ffl 15 recognition of that felonu-ns Msj’r General Bu'ler as a mt.ita-y C -s tl . g nib tkt Confnnt — the practical witl.il.-uwal of ti a; public. ?■- lens proclamation det • him as a tatd and mR k rer, ■ its ie pa of mi itary 1 - ■ ability;” the kind a: i set erous puessage re ported by a cotemporary to have been sect by the felon through t' mmissioner Ou'd 'o the President, to t e effect that Major General Under is now satisfied with tiro, and that he. the Major General, is proud to belong to the ‘ Democratic party.” and cherishes a sincere admiration and esteem tor Jefferson Davis; the things promote, in a salutary manner, the chastening of the heart which properly prepares us for fasting and humiliation on this appointed Friday. Nothing is want:, e to this humbling lessen. We declare that we wi.i rot receive such a criminal under he safeguard of a flag of truce, nor treat with h.m la ti is manner. Hebrews what Confederate proclamations are made of; be dees rot coax or flatter ns by any mean? ; he does not come up to City Point to see whether he will be received or not; he simply establishes himself in our Virginia Fortress Monroe, and says : When you are quite ready, chivalrous Confederates, you may come to me, under flag of truce, ai d perhaps I may receive you" —and we go. and are benevolently received, ior Butler would not break the bruised reed : he even sends back an indulgent and encouraging message, lest we be too much cast down. Propitiated by our self abasement, he conde scends to enter upon negotiations with Com missioner Ould. and arranges a resumption of exchange under cartel. But this is not aii -. we learn by New York papers (not yet through our own official channels) that the body of Dahlgren, committed obscurely to the earth somewhere near this city, is to be exhumed as soon as possible, and restored to the sorrowing parent of that dashing house burner. Doubtless ifwill be delivered ut Fortress Monroe with military honors and under a salute of Confed erate guns ; for Dahlgren was a gradna'e of West Point ; probably a member of the Dem ocratic party, too; and how can simple civil ians, or soldiers of a mere "Provisional” army, presume to say that a West Pointer had not a perfect right to pelt us with oakum balls, and sprinkle us wi h turpentine? What can we know of the true principles of "military respectability V At any rate, humiliation ts our one thing needful. We can now point with the utmost confidence to at leas! one proclamation of the President which was intend'd to be serious, and carried out to the very letter. Confederate proclamations of a "proud.” a "defiant” or menacing lone do not, perhaps, now command much respect, but when the President announ ces humiliation, he means it. Mr. Davis has the reputation of unbending obstinacy and hauteur ; but that is for his fru nds. When his own supporters and rightful counselors, the men who created this Confederate movement and elevated him to his great office, approach him with respectful advice or remonstrance, it may be that he is hard as flint ; but let the public enemy command him, at his peril, to eat his own words and come down from his high ground, and who so polite and "reasonable” as lie? His stern self will is for us—his Confed erates—his gracious gentleness to our foes. Triumph and gratified price are for them; for us, fasting, humiliation and prayer. Thus wo prepare ourselves, and we trust our readers, also, to meet in a fitting frame of mind the services of Friday, the St li of April. Bet ns fast on this day, as only Confederates can: let us clothe our soul in the sackcloth and ashes of humility ; and let us pray, saying : “From all privy conspiracy and hiiggertnngger. from canting and recanting, and all other shuffling sin, from the crufts and a,-saults of the devil and Yankee Democrats—good Lord deliver us!" —Richmond Ex'.miner. April S. Vast Wealth of (.'Boars.— l ll our jottings of millionaires, it would seem as though these pages were incomplete without some data con cerning him whose tume has for centuries and generatii n? — fresh down to the present day— furnished the standard representative of vast wealth. Ciue-na flourished about the middle of the six h century B. C. The prodigious wealth which he had inherited bad been in creased by the tribute of conquered nations, by the confiscation of great estates, and by the golden sands of Pactolus. Perhaps some idea of the extent of his wealth mav be formed ftom the rich votive offerings w hic h he is known to have deposited in the temples cf the gods. Herodotus himself saw the ingots of solid gold, six palms long, three broad and one deep, which, to the number of one hundred and sev enteen. were laid up in the treasury at Delphi. He also saw iu various parts of Greece the following offerings, all in gold, which had been deposited in the temples by the same opulent man : a figure cf a lion, probably of the natural size ; a witte bowl of about the same weight as the lion ; a ius ral vase : a statue of a female, said to be Croesus’ baking woman, four and one half feet high ; a shield and a spear ; a tripod : some figures of cows; a number of pillars: and a secoi J shield in a different place from the first, "id of greater size. Orators Facts .vnorr Coscrzssmex. — A Washington letter writer says Mr. Ames, of Massachusetts, is the richest, worth over two millions; Mr. Baldwin, of the same State, the largest; Mr, Clay, of Kentucky, the tallest: Mr. Cox. of Ohio, the smallest: Mr. McClurg, of Missouri, the shortest ; Genera! Dumont, of Indiana, the most productive, being the father of nineteen children ; Mr. Stevens, of Pennsyl vania. the oldest—seventy-two years; General Garfield, of Ohio, the youngest—thirty-two years; Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, the hand sorriest ; Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, and Yor bees, of Indiana, the best speakers ; Mr. Cox, of Ohio, and Mr. Wasbburne, of Illinois, the best parliamentarians; Mr. Kasson, of lowa, and Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, the readiest de bates ; Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, the largest farmer, having 0.500 acres of lurd. 275 slaves. 200 sheep, and 150 blooded cattle; while Mr. Grir.nel!, of lowa, has 0.000 acres of land and 6,000 sheep ; Mr. Wallace, of Idaho, lives the farthest from Washington, and draws SC.39T for mileage, and Mr. Davis, of Maryland, the nearest, his mileage being 01 ly £32 ; Mr. Frank, of New York, the best penman, and Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, the poorest. The House has twenty five members with bald heads, thirty with mustaches, two with wigs. The bat was passed round in a certain con gregation for the purpose of taking up a col lection. After it had made the circuit of the church, it was handed to the minister, who. by the way. had exchanged pulpits with the teg niar pastor, and be found not a penny in it. lie inverted the bat over the pulpit cc-bion and shock it. that its emptiness might be known, then raising his eyes towa'd the ceiling, he exclaimed, with great fervor, "Thank God. I have got back my hat from this congregation.” The eulogies pronounced in Congress on Owen Lovejoy are said to have constituted the most remarkable demonstration of admiration, respect and love that has been made on the occasion of the death of a member of that body since the departure of John Quincy Adams. From partisans of life-long opposition to the distinguished Illinoisan tributes came sponta neously. The President's Vindication. The Frankfort Ky Common .vcal'h pub the f. I.wing letter. eir.bw rj ’,! , sob stance of what .he President said to Govern’, r Kramlette and a Kentucky C.n.m.ttvw d -.ring an interview at Washington : Executive Mansion - . Wash’s -ton, Ap 4. A. G. Hi egos. Frankfort. Kentucky—My Dear Sir: Too ask me to pal substance of what 1 verbally said the ether day, in your presence, to Governor Bram’ctte and Senate r Dixon. It was ah. ttt as I. how?: 1 am naturally anti slavery. It slavery is cot wrong, nothing is wrong. 1 cannot rente in ber when 1 did not so tkit k are! fee!. A: 1 yet 1 have never u: Jerstel that the Prcsid ttcy conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act i fficially upon this judgment ot-d feviing. It was in the oath I took that 1 wuuld to the btsf of my ability preserve, protect attei deter,! the Constitution of the United States. 1 could not take the office without taking the rath. N, r was it my view that ] might lake an oath get power, and break the oath in using the power. 1 understood, too, that, in or.! o.ry civil administration, this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my piimary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery 1 bad publicly declared this many times and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, 1 have done no i rficial act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve, the Constitution to the best of try ability imposed upon me th: duty of preserving, bv every indispensable means, that Government, that nation ot which that Constitution was ti e organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and ye! preserve the Cot stituti, n ? I!y general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb is ampu aud to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures otherwise unconstitutional might be come lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong. 1 assumed this ground and now avow it. 1 could not feel that to the bost of my ability I hud even tried to preserve the Constitution, if to save slavery or any minor matter I shon; i per mil the wreck of Government, country and Constitution, all together. When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, 1 forbade it, because 1 did not then think it an indispensable necessity. When, a little later. General Cameron, then Secretary of War, suggested the arming of blacks. 1 ob jeefed, because I did not yet think it an inJis pensable necessity. When, still later. General Hunter attempted military emancipation. 1 again forbade it, because I did not yet think the indispensable necessity bad come. When, in March and May and July. 1802,1 made earnest and successive appeals to the border States to favor compensated emancipa lion, 1 believed the indispensable necessity for military emancipation and arming the blacks would come, unless averted by that mea-ure. They declined the measure, and 1 was. in my best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the Union, and with it the Constitution, or of laying strong hand upon the colorej element. I those the latter. In choosing it, I hoped for greater gain than loss; but o this I was not entirely confident. More fhan a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations; none in our home popular sentiment; none in our white military force — no loss by it, anyhow or anywhere. On the contrary, it shows a gain of quite a hundred and thirty thousand soldiers, seamen and labor ers. 'I hese are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can be no caviling. We have the men, and we could cot have had them without the measure. And now. let every Union who complains of the measure test himself, by writing down in one Hue that he is fur subduing the reb -11 ion by force of arms, and in the next, that he is for taking these hu; dred and thirty thousand men from the Union side, and placing them where they would be bat for the measure he condemns. It he cannot face his cause so stated, it is only because be cannot face the truth. I add a word which was not in the verba! conversation. .In telling this tale. I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years’ struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems pla.u. If God now wills the removal ol a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the Sooth shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong impartial history will find therein new came to attest and revere the justice and goodness ol God. Yours truly, Adsaiiam Lincoln. Tub Orders cf Col. Dahlgben.—lt will be remembered that a short time ago it was stated that the rebels had caused the orders which were found on the body of Cel. Dahlgren. after ho was killed near Richmond, to be pho tographed in order to be used as evidence. It now appears that the rebels desire that their authenticity may be officially e-tabli.-bed, and therefore Genera! Lee, under a flag of truce, sent a letter to General Meade, inclosing pl.o tographed copies of the alleged ord> rs. and asking whether they were sanctioned by Col. Dablgren's superior officer, and approved by the Government. General Meade referred the matter to General Kilpatrick, who denied that they were the instructions he gave L'cl. Dahl gren before he parted with him during the raid The reply was communicated to Lee, and Gen. Meade also replied that be bad given no in structions to ilia late cavalry expedition not warranted by the necessities of their situation and sanctioned by the usages of warfare. The following incident occurring in Rome, is related by a correspondent of the Milan Ptrseveranza: A priest, when returning home in the evening, was s'opptd by a band of thieves, who began to rifle his pockets. While so occupied, the rascals perceiving a French patrol approaching, compelled the priest to intone a ponton of the litany, which he did, they kneeling round him meanwhile, ai d devoutly responding Uropro nob s! The soldiers, taking them for a group of devo'ees, many of whom thus pray in public. pa==rd on. and the moment they were oat of sight the thieves completed their operation and left the priest without a single bajoeco. The Pajaro Times gives a description of the Santa Urnz powder mills, on the San Lo renzo river, three miles fr;m that town. The works will tarn oat daily two hundred kegs of powder of twenty five pounds each, employing thirty five men. The capita! invested is one hundred thousand d liars, which will soon be increased to doable ibis amount. Tuk Illinois delegation in Congress, in view of the present condition of the finances of the o untrv. and at the argent request ol Eastern men. have agreed to the postponement of the Illinois ship canal measure until the next ses sion of Congress, deeming it not safe to press it to a vote at this time. A SfPEF.iOR quality of wine is now manu factured from the rhubarb or pie plant. When properly made.it is possessed of a most beautiful shade of color, and of most delicate flavor, and is of course infinitely more health ful than those infamous compounds which have cot a particle of wine in them. General Basks at New Orleans—Yankf.i Ta. nos.—Uvftrrir-f: to tbo mixed condition o the j t pie. p '' Tally, a N a Orleans, a cor resf -adent of the Fhtiadelph a Frio s nukes th( Eii.wing i-.trjJuctcry statements: Tb* process of assimiiatirg those chaotic elements is a sk>* one. General Bt: ks lias trade it a study, am has done much towards sacco.-s. He has par sue i a c.'r.ciiiat. ry p. ov. Paring the Winle be to, k the load ia social enjoyment and inter course. The camp and the ball room are differ eat agcnci s. but ia subjugating a Sate or j city, w here numbers of women dwi 1, the mush of the wal’z is as efficient as the music of th< march Ton will remember how Napoleot tnu tilized Pa: is by a review at the Champ de Mars or a fete at tb. TuiVtics. New Orlean ha? more iu com:u:u with Paris than any citj ia America, end Packs' Winter campaign ha thus b.on rather Napoleonic. The lady of tb commanding genera: was the leader of tb fashion. Her ba is were the most magnificent her receptions were largely patronized; he eatcrtaic.meats bey ;:d anything that bad eve been known in New Orleans. Zshe was sat rou: dod by ladies, wives and daughters o Ya; kee officers and Yankee merchants, inakinj as brilliant a circle as ever adorned the drawin r ‘ m of a palace. W i.al could poor woman de She loved the "bi nuic blue flag.” her "Mari land,” and her "Southern Confederacy,” an she mu-t soe the fashions and show her ow new dress. She came to the Tai kee parti at d her friends came : and according to gossip t'ey found our Yankee officers not such fcarft Yahoos after all, for they danced and mad sweet speeches, and had a certain degree o manly beauty. Before the season was ovc the anxiety to see and be seen at these festiva of the General and his friends was as grea among the rebel ladies i s it w s among ladil who b.iievcd iu the Union, and a few of thet wore actually married and given ia marriag to Y ankee officers. The Monroe Doctrine.—As the Monrc Doctrine is the only thing upon which ov m. mbits of Cot gross agreed .and as the Mexica question may involve ns in a war in defense < this doctrine, we put on record its origin, i the following extract from President Monroe annual message, December 2, 1823 : The political system of the allied powers essentially different in this respect from ths of America. This difference proceeds fro that which exists in their respective Govcr ments. And to the difensc of our own, whii has been achieved with so much loss of blot and treasure, and matured by the wisdom our most enlightened citizens, and under whir wc have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this who nation is devoted. Wc owe it, therefore. ( candor and the amicable relations existing b tween the United States and those powers, 1 declare that we should consider any attempt c their part to extend their system to any portit ; of' this hemisphere, as dangerous to our peat and safety. With the existing colonies or d pendencies of any European power wc have m interfered, and shall not interfere, lint tl Governments who have declared their ind pi nucncc and maintained it, and, on just pri ciples. acknowledged, we could not view an interposition for t he purpose of oppressing then or controlling in any other manner their destit by any European power, in any other ligl than as the manifestations of nn unfriend disposition towards the United States. The Mariposa Estate. —Fremont’s Mat posa estate is as prolific of lawsuits as a san bank of fieas, and periodically during the pa six years, suits have been instituted by parti who are desirous Of getting hold of the ric mines which are known to abound on the cstal The Inst one has just been commenced in tl District Court, and is for an amount ol tnoue which would make handsome fortunes for ! it-ge number of poor men. In 1857, John ( Fremont, being hard up for capital with whir to develop his mines, issued three bundri bonds for one thousand dollars each ; the bom hearing interest at the rate of ten per cent. ] order to make the bonds salable, a mortga; wa= made upon the estate to secure their pa ment. The b mils were taken up, and Messr J. .1, Dixwell, F. Haven, and T. W. Fierce, the oily of Boston, appointed trustees of tl estate, to secure the payment of the princip and interest of the bonds. The trustees, b power invested in them, appointed Mauri) Ketchum, J. W. Fryer and George Opdyl t'n ir successors, who, finding that neither tl principal nor interest of the bonds has be) paid, have instituted suit in the Fourth Distri) Court against Fremont for the sum of fii hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollar with interest at the rate of ten per cent , an a deetee of foreclosure of the mortgage. — S. I Call. The Confession.—A cloud was seen to pai suddenly over the features of the gentle Marii The lustre forsook her dark eyes. Her spir seemed troubled— " Triumphs the lily now on that young cheek Where bloomed the rose.” Ten times that evening did Harvey impoi tune her to acquaint him with the cause of be sadmss, but not a word escaped her lips Sadly and faintly she sat — "And now and then a sigh she stole, And tears began to flow.” "Breathes there a wretch so base as to injur you, my dearest, either by word or deed ? Te me, and by tbine heart, as pure as heaven, swear never to rest until 1 have redressed th wrongs! Is it an awful mystery, locked up i ! thy bosom, that I must not know ? Tell m ! thy secret, and, by the ringlets of thy hair, I’ swear never to reveal it, though the blac torments rack me! Four out thy soul; te. thine own Harvey what lies heavy on th breastl” She blushed—she placed her fai Lands r.ca -: her bosom—looked languid in he lover's face, and softly, "like the low breathin of an expiring saint,” she confessed : “’Ti them apples, Harv. Beat Tuts Wno Can —An old ger.tlcmai living in this county, we could not learn hi name, was in the city, a few days ago, who ba been married three times, is the father of thirl children, twenty four by his first wife, four b; the second, and two by the last, and twejve o them, boys, are in the army fighting tor tb Union. The old man is very tenacious of life an i xpressed a desire to live until the milieu ciun. — lndianapolis [lndiana] Journal. A Newt York weekly paper tersely but ia elegan'ly remarks : "Fcr a greenhorn to speculate in Wal street, at present, is just as foolish as to play euchre against three Western blacklegs, with a confederate standing behind your chair ant telegraphing what yon have in your hand Do you understand that ?” A London correspondent mentions that i discovery has been made in France which wil probably revolutionize the paper business Excellent paper is manufactured troia the wooc of the oak. Walnut, pine, chcsnut, and variom vegetables, without any addition of rags. A redaction in price of from fifty to eighty pet cent, is predicted. Samples were exhibited, and attracted general attention. A Migratory Rat.—A man who sells rat ting dogs avers that when he re-ided in Roch tster, three years ago. he branded a rat and turned him loose. Recently he caught thi eame rat in the West Division of Chicago. We suppose be went to Bnfialo in a canal boat and from thence to Chicago iu a propeller. ISO. 30.