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The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-04-23

Hon. VIM. Vandever has bee n appoint.
ed aid TO Gov. Kirkwood.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-04-23
ANY ARTICLE YOU MAY CHOOSE FOR
sa~ ONE DOLLAR. -@s


RETAIL FROM 500 TO 400 PER CENT MORE
Than the price at which they are now offered
the whole having been originally manufactured
expressly for the Retail Trade, and now dispos.
ed of because CASH MUST be realized.
IL Send the Dollar by Mail or Express, and
upon receipt of it we will forward any one of
the beautiful articles above named State
whether you wish us to forward by mail or ex-
press, nd your direction will be complied with
faithfully and promptly.
+. ADAMS,
Agent for the Manufacturing Jewellers Associ-
alton.
los North Fourth street, 81 Louis.
April 2, 1861 (3m)
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-04-23
OVER 10000

w Eh III, 100
Of these Machines having been sold within
five years.
mother fact, j. II. Nanny made the first com
bined Redping and Mo,oing Machine in the ,CorM
and of the many that have since sprang up
none equal it-but those work the best which
copy it most closely
Another Fact, In 1859, at the great Chicago
Fair, where were exhibited the largest and best
assortment of Reapers ever collected.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

The 200 columbiads lately shipped from
Plttsburg to Fort MeHenry, were spiked in
the streets of Baltimore, and it was not dis.
covered until they were mounted in the fort.
Brig Gen. Pierce, will sHpercede Gen. Jones
and elatter will 90 to Fortress Monroe.
Several of the Old Dominion soldiers were
taken prisoners by the Vermont regiment, and
several of the Zouaves, acting as scouts, seized
60 kegs of powder and tons of lead in a
house four miles from Alexandria
The forces in Alexandria expect to advance
tonight.
CHLIcoTHE, Ohio, June 1st.-Last night a
train going East, with the 22d Ohio regiment
on board, was thrown from the track by the
breaking of an axle. Geo. w. Ballou, of
Chillcothe, was killed, several others were
bruised and slightly injured.
CHICAGO, June lst.-Senator Douglas pass
ed very comfortable night his physicians
say he is no worse
ALEXANDRIA, June 1st.-A sentinel posted
at Clarks Mills, on the outskirts of Alexan-
dria, was shot dead last night, and another
wounded by the rebel troops.
The steamship Quaker City, on yesterday,
brought up prize schooner from Rio Janeiro
with cargo of 5000 bags Of coffee.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

THE SoNoMA QUICKSILVER MINEs-The
Petaluma Journal mentions that the quicksil-
yer mines in Sonoma county are just at this
time exciting more than usual interest, and
sales of stock are taking place at advanced
rates The advance is attributable to the de-
veloping of the mines. The Pioneer Company
are now actively engaged IN working their
claim, and with the very best prospects LOO
TASKS passed through Petaluma q few days
since for the use of this company also a large
force Of operatives, together with the necessary
tools, implements and machinery for extensive
operations.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15
LA TER

NEW YORK, June lst.-The brig Mastie
has arrived from Indianola with 200 Texas
troops and 30 women and children.
The N Y. Posts dispath says the Govern
ment forces had a conflict with the rebels at
Aqua Creek. Several rebels were killed.
The dispatch also states that there was a
skirmish last night at Falls Church, six miles
back of Arlington Hights our Pickets were
attacked and one soldier wounded.
Later dispatches state that force of U. S.
Cavalry and 45 Infantry under Lieutenants
Tompkins and Gordon, attacked the rebels at
Fairfax Court House. Lieut.. Thompson re-
ports 80 rebels killed, and that their force
amounted to 1900. They had previously sup
posed there were about 200 there. Tonight
our troops will advance on Fairfax Court
House and take it. Another dispatch says
the rebels are retreating from Fairfax Court
House
A letter from East Tennessee says there is a
great majority there for the Union, and that
10000 Government troops could be raised
there, owing to the noble stand of Johnsol.
and Nelson.
Large bodies of troops advanced on Fairfax
this morning at two o'clock. A dispatch says
two batteries at Aqua Greek were destroyed.
ALEXANDRIA, June lst.-Shortly before l
O'Clock last night, skirmish took place at
Wellington Mills, between a company of Zou-
aves and company of the Michigan regiment
and scouting party of the Virginia troops.
The Federals drove them away. One of the
Zouaves was killed and one wounded.
HARRIsBURGH, June 1st.-A scout returned
from few days stay at Harper's Ferry, and
reports that quantities of provisions have been
taken there from the Maryland side.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

HUyG In EFFIGY.-Those who rode down
on the Downieville stage, yesterday, saw, sus-
pended from the limb of n tree, about two
hundred aud fifty yards above the Mountain
House, (twenty-one miles from this city, an
efigy, with a sword dangling at its side, and a
large placard across the front, with those
words printed thereon. in large characters =
" The last of JEFF. Davis" There must be
some Secessionist in that neighborhood. for
whose benefit the figure was displayed So
says the Marysville Democrat of Thursday.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

EXPERIENCE OF AN ANDRoscoGGIN Boy IN
ALABAMA.-Alden Moulton, son of Joel Moul-
ton, OF Greene, who has been at work in
Alabama, at a place q miles from Mobile,
during the past six months, arrived in town re-
Gently, and gives an interesting account Of his
experience among the chivalry. He was en-
gagged with several other Northern men in
cutting wood for a Southerner, and being
encamped some distance from settlements, the
party were not molested until Sunday morning
May 18th. At that time they were visited by
a vigilance committee from Mobile, who order
ed Moulton and the other Northerners to leave
within twelve hours, and then tied up their
employer Ia Southerner) and whipped him for
retaining Northern men in his service Moul-
ton left at once with what little be could obtain
from his employer, but failed to get more than
$50 of his wages. He passed through North
ern Alabama and Western Tennessee without
being stopped, and safely reached the United
States camp at Cairo. At all points South
ern troops were drilling and active war prep
aratioDs were going on. There were however.
many Union men in all parts of the South, who
are forced to maintain prudent silence.
The best part of Moulton's story remains to
be told When he reached Cairo, he found
the identical Southerner, who had heen his
employer and as such had been fogged, in
camp at Cairo. and actually enlisted in the
United States Army. On Moultons express
ing surprise at this, the late Southerner ex-
planned by declaring that he made up his mind
to give full payment and interest for the fog
ging which his Southern friends had bestowed
upon him.-Leriston (Me) Journal.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

Fatal AccIDENT-We are informed, says
the Yreka Union of the Sth instant, that a
Frenchman named Petit, was killed BY the
caving of drift, at Scott Bar, last Thursday
One other man was in the tunnel, but succeed
ed in making bis escape without much injury
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

ETHAN ALLEX.-The jackson Ledger says
the identical uniform worn by Colonel Ethan
Allen during the Revolutionary War can be
seen at the Union Hotel in that place.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

ALL ABOUT SNAKEs.-A correspondent of
the Union, writing from Red Bluff. June Sth,
relates the following
A few days since Ide and Wellington, both
very respectable and truthful gentlemen, stated
here that they had seen tremendous snake in
the Sacramento river, at the lower end of what
is called Ide's Bottom" abont five miles be-
low this place, measuring, as they supposed,
from seventy-fve to one hundred feet, and being
from two to three feet thick. This story was
of course doubted, and considered only "snake
story" But yesterday several of the most re-
spectacle and reliable citizens of the place
went down to inquire after his snakeship, and
upon being informed by two ladies that they
had seen him cross small sand bar which they
pointed out to them, they proceeded to the
spot, and sure enough they found his track
plainly marked in the sand. They report that
upon measurement it was two and half feet
wide and the length of one curve, as he wred
himself through the sand, was fifteen feet
This information, of course, threw the whole
town into fever of excitement. and squads of
citizens could be seen until late hour last
night, discussing the subject in the most ser-
Gus manner, and last night do not suppose
there was man woman nor child that did not
dream of snakes great many amusing sto-
ries are recounted this morning of the dreams
AS for instance, one gentleman had his arm bit
through by said snake, whose teeth he avows
were as large as the jaw teeth of horse. A
lady heard her child cry in the night, and she
screamed to her husband that the snake was
carrying off the baby. 1t is said that all the
settlers are preparing to remove from that Sec
tion of the country and it is in serious con-
temptation here to call on the Governor for
troops to extermiEate the reptile. All the
town is going out after him to-day, and if fur
ther discoveries are made will inform you
There is no doubt that there is an unusually
large snake there.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

THE San Francisco Monitor has entered
upon IFS fourth volume 1t is an ably edited
aud patriotic newspaper.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15
aaeeklg gYattt8eforb
rom our Extra of the 18th.
;uol of the Pony Express---Dates to
June I'd.

SACRAMENTO, June 18th.
THE following Pony News is taken from the
Sacramento Union
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

New PuBLICATIoN.-J. w Walsh, whilom
of the Sunday Varieties, and who was incar
cerated in the County Jail, in San Francisco,
for the term of one year, for libel, has again
turned up and commenced the publication of a
weekly paper, entitled the Humorist, the first
number of which has been laid upon our table,
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15
Checks and Bills of Exchange
PROCURED AND FORWARDED.

PROCURED AND FORWARDED.
re Advances made on Dust left with us for
Assay
To those who wish to Check against their Con-
signments. Check Books will be furnished
All business entrusted to our care will be prompt
ly and accurately attended to.
a20-3m THEALL & co.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15
and ORES
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
Melted and ASSayed.

Returns made in from six to twelve hours, in
BARS or COIN. Charges for Assaying same as
in San Francisco. We guarantee to the correctness
of Cur Assays, and discount cur Bars at the very
lowest rates.
Dust consigaei to us, from the country, will meet
with prompt attention. Coin viii be returned the
following day of receipt, disbursed according to
instructions.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

Observation-Disclosures bave made
their appearance near Visalia, in perfect
swarms. and are eating up every green thing.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15
OrOville Water Works.

NJ Office is HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PER-
IN sons using water from the Oroville Water
Works, that the same must be paid for monthly in
advance at the OFFICE OF THE COMPANY y
before the tenth day of each month, or the water
will be shut off and will not be turned on again,
except upon the payment of all arrearages, and in
addition thereto two dollars for closing and opening
stop cock. JOS. GLUCKAUF.
jn-l If.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

ADMITTED TO BAIL.-Horace Smith has
been admitted to bail by the County Judge of
Placer County, in the sum of 10000.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

ATTITUDE OF THE PEAcEABLE SEcEssIoNIsrs
IN THIS STATE.-The following is the conclu-
ding portion Of vigorous editorial in the last
number of the Shasta Courier:
Now what is the attitude of the leaders of
this party in this State? Dare they avow
their treason openly and bury the National
Flag. and in its stead raise the Bear, Cactus
or kattlesnake? Not they. Like Mr.. Burch
and others, they veil their treason under the
specious name of Anti Coercion, Neutrality,
&C., and deprecate that the loyal people of
California should assist the Government in
putting down rebellion. Very patriotic, in
deed Examine their twisting, and turning,
and shifting for the last four or five months.
in the legislature and out of it. Botts-yes,
the Mr.. Bolts Of the defunct Standard, who
aspired to be "leader and not a follower of
the multitude, this immaculate and "rre-
pressble" gentleman tried his hand at PAM
phlet, justifying the right Of secession, and
flooded the State with its reasonable doctrine,
but it would not do. Next we find Benjamin
Franklin Washington, encouraging the timid
and the wavering, and actually acknowledging
the " Southern Confederacy." Then follows
the address of the State Central Committee
presided over by Charles Lindley, and remark
able as this document was it failed to create
any enthusiasm among the masses Failing in
this, they try another dodge in order to decoy
the people of California into treason, and it is
the "test" that they have adopted to be used
in their primary meetings, viz Are you in
favor ofpeace and the Crittenden COMPROMISED"
Nearly all men are in favor of peace, and this
bait, adroitly thrown out to catch the unre-
fecting, is the richest piece of this political
farce. Military men have always advocated
the propriety of conqueriug peace. The Sc
cessionsts hold that the Government should
disband all its troops, apologize to the rebels
and surrender to them all the remaining forts,
arsenas, &c. If this is not what the revolu-
tionsts of the Burch stripe mean, we are at
loss to guess. The attempt of King Canute
to stop the tide with pitcbfork was just as
sensible aud sagacious as the generous offer of
the Crittenden Compromise to the people of
California to heal the national difficulties.
FOURTH OF July CELEBRATIoN-Ex Extensive
preparations are being made for celebrating
the Fourth of July in Horsetown, Shasta
county.
VOLUNTEER CoMPANY.-The Union men of
Horsetown, are forming Volunteer Compa-
ny.
RECRUITING OFFICE MIR. Duel bas opened
a recruiting Office in Auburn, at the saloon Of
NJ. Sherman. His object, we believe, is to
raise company of Placer county volunteers
to join the company of Col. Lippett.
ADMITTED TO BAIL.-IIorace Smith has
been admitted to bail by the County Judge of
Placer County, in the sum of 10000.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-15

RECRUITING OFFICE Mr.. Duel has opened
a recruiting Office in Auburn, at the saloon Of
NJ. Sherman. His object we believe, is to
raise company of Placer county volunteers
to join the company of Col. Lippett.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-26
Eserdan7s sharp-shoOters.
Washington Dispatch to the New York Times.

Washington Dispatch to the New York Times.
Five companies of the Berdan Sharp shooters,
who are here, are at Camp Burnside, except
one that has been detached for service with
Gen. Lander Nine companies have yet to ar
rive, two of which viii reach the city tomorrow
Col. Berdan has been given command as an
acting Brigadier of this branch Of the service,
and the Secretary Of War has telegraphed TO
the Governors of the loyal States to have any
independent companies of sharp-shooters organ
lied forward at once to Camp Burnside. The
men are daily practicing and drilling to increas
their efficiency. Arrangements have been made
to have as many of the newly recruited regi-
ments as can be removed to Camp Burnside,
where the men will be drilled under the ms true
ton of Army officers and instructed in the detail
of rife practice by Col. Berdan and the mem
bers of his corps, to improve them as marks
men. He has proposed to the War Department
that from each regiment of ten companies men
sufficient to make up three companies be select
ed, who exhibit the greatest accuracy of aim.
and that one hundred of the three hundred
the best shots-be organized into company
who shall be employed to advance towards the
enemy's batteries, picking officers, men and
horses, and who, il they be compelled to retreat
can, by raising the sights on their pieces, yet
do excellent service The other companies he
proposes shall be employed as the flank compa-
MES of the regiment. The suggestion is now
under consideration before the War Depart
ment and will probably be acted upon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-26

A QUEER PEOPLE, Chambers Journal, dis
cussjng recent book of missionary travels in
Africa. thus audes to one of the tribes that are
found in that terra incogn,ta /" But the strang-
: st of all are the stories told of the Dokos, who
live among the moist warm bamboo woods to
the south of Kaffa Susa. Only four feet high,
OF dark olive color, savage and naked, they
have neither houses nor temples, neither fire
nor human food. They live only on ants, mice
and serpents diversified with roots and fruits,
they let their nails grow long like talons the
better to dig for ants and to tear in pieces their
favorite snakes They do not marry, but live
indiscriminate lives Of animals multiplying very
rapidly and with very little maternal instinct
Tho mother nurses her child for only a
short time, learning it to eat ants
and serpents as soon as possible and when it
can help itself it wanders away where it W i'll,
and the mother thinks no more about it. The
Dokos are invaluable as slaves and are taken
in large numbers. The slave-hunters hold up
bright colored clothes as soon as they come to
the moist, warm bamboo woods where these hu-
man monkeys live, and the poor Dokos cannot
resist the attractions offered by such superior
people. They crowd around them, and are ia
ken in thousands. In slavery they are docile,
attached and obedient, with few wants and ex-
cellent health. They have only one fault-A
owe for ants, mice and serpents and habit of
speaking to Yer with their heads on the ground
and their heels in the air. Yer is their idea Of
superior power, to whom they talk in this
comical nature when they are dispirited or an.
CRY, or tired of ants and snakes and wishing
for unknown food. The Dokos seem to come
nearest of all people yet discovered to that ter
ribe cousin of humanity-the ape.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-26
A ..lory OF Gen. Mcclellan.

The Washington correspondent Of Philadel-
phia paper tells the following story Of General
Mcclellan.
General Mcclellan is in the habit of riding
around occasionally in citizens dress, accompa-
MED by a few of MS stsff A few days ago he
was walking through one of the encampments
across the Potomac, and passing in the rear of
the tents, he saw bucket of coffee standing
near the fire. He asked what it was and one of
the soldiers said coffee" at looks more like
slops," he replied. 'Oh" said the soldier, at
is not fit TO drink. but we have to put up with
il, aud our other food is not bit better" swell
whose fault is it ?" he asked. so, our quarter
master is drunk most of the time, and when he
is not he is studying how TO cheat" Mcclellan
passed on, and seeing more evidence of the dir
ty and slovenly manner in which the quarter
master conducted operations in his tent, he &C
costed him with the remark that his men were
complaining of bad treatment from him. The
quarter master flew into passion and swore it
was none of his business. and that he had bet
ter not come sneaking round there trying to
make mischief.
Mcclellan answered him, telling him that he
ad better be cautious how he talked. The
quartermaster Replied, "Who are you that speak
with SO much apparent authority 7" am Geo.
Il. Mcclellan, and you can pack UP your traps
and leave !" The quarter-master was struck
dumb, and Mcclellan turned and left him.
That evening the quartermaster left to the tune
of the Rogue March played by some of the
boys wha had got wind of it. That regiment
now has quartermaster who does not get
drunk or cheat, and they would risk their lives
at the cannons mouth for the man who does
care how the men are provided for.
The story has been circulated around some
of the camps, and the officers are now always
on the lookout for the General, aud of course
do not have TOO much lying about loose.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-26
Husbands. Love yeur wives"

only leta woman be sure that she is precious
10 hsr husband-not useful, not valuable, not
convenient simply but loved and beloved; let her
De recipient of his polite and hearty attentions;
let her EEL that her care and love are noticed,
appreciated and returned i, let her opinion be
asked, her approval sought and her judgment
respected III matters of which sho is cognizant :;
In short let her be loved, honored and cherished
IN obedience to thr marriage vow, and she will
De to her husband. her children and to society,
well-spring of pleasure. She will bear pain,
and toll and anxiety, for her husbands love is
to her tower and fortress. Shi elded and
sheltered therein, adversely will have lost its
sting. She may suffer, but sympathy will dull
the edge of her sorrow. A house with love in
it-and by love l mean love expressed in words
and looks and deeds, for have not one spark
OF faith in the love that never drops QUITS to
house without love, as person to a machine
the one is life, the other a mechanism.
The unloved woman may have bread Just as
light house just as tidy as the other, but the
latter has joyousness and a spring about her,
an aggressive, and penetrating and pervading
brightness, to which the latter is stranger
The deep happiness of her heart shines out in
her face. She is ray of sunlight in the house.
She CLEANS all over it. 1t is airy and gay and
graceful, and warm. and welcoming with her
presence. She is full of Devices and plots and
sweet surprises for her husband and family
She has never done with the romance and po-
etry CT life. She is herself lyric poem, setting
herself to all pure aud gracious melodies The
humble household ways and duties of life, have
ior her golden significance. The prize makes
the calling high, and the end digni6es the
means. Her home is paradise. not sinless
nor painless, bnt still paradise, foF Love is
Heaven and Heaven is Love-"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-26
Important Fact About Compromise

The Crawford Bulletin, Democratic paper
in Southern Illinois, makes the following i'm
portant disclosures
1--WE are informed by a gentleman just from
the Ninth Congressional District, that there has
been Il complete revolution among the people
on the war question. Hon. John A. Logan,
Congressman from that District, has besn APP
pointed Colonel, and has his regiment about
ready to tvke the field. Many who few days
ago were of the compromise stamp. are now en-.
thusi@shc for the war. Logan declared that he
and other compromising men in Congress met
i'll secI ct conclave and determined 10 make q
last effort. They sent May to Richmond to as
certain II the Confederates would entertain, &C
cept or offer any compromise. No compromise
could be agreed upon, they utterly refusing,
even though blank sheet of paper be given
them to write their own terms. Logan declares
their intention is to fight, and calls upon all
Democrats to rally around the old flag, and
thwart them in their diabolical efforts to destroy
the Government.
This throws light upon All important point,
namely: why May the Baltimore Congressman,
went to Richmond just before the meeting of
the special session of Congress. The above
revelation makes all clear