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narrow gorge, where the water rose
suddenly, leaving only one poor Mongo-
Ian to tell the tale. The destruction Of
bridges was great, all of the bridges on
the south Yuba being carried away, and
every bridge on the main Yuba going
out except tie one at Simpsons. All
along the Honcut and Feather river, the
flood was extensive.
On the 18th the flood had completely
subsidized at Marysville, aud matters were
beginning 10 assume their wonted APP
pearance.
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HONORABLE MEN "A. /. ScoyilI
q Co. Of Cincinnati, Ohio, whose medi.
cines we have advertised for the past
year, are just such men as we like to
deal with, They are honorable men,
and are so different from most wholesale
medicine manufacturers in their manner
Of dealing with printers that they de-
serve a notice at our hands. They are
the only men we ever heard of who pay
bills when they become due, and without
dunning, as they have served us that
very caper twice during the past year.
There are two reasons for it. First
They were raised in Vermont, where
they early learned the virtues of honesty
and fair dealing with their fellows. Sec
ond their medicines sell, solely because
they are good. They purify the blood /;
pure blood cleanses the heart; clean
heart makelh an upright man. Ergo
Scovill's Blool and Liver Syrup is the
active principle Of honesty. We wish
some of our subscribers would buy a
bottle.
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Yours ever,

The regular Washington correspond
ent of the Post thus refers to the same
subject:
THE prophets of an advance Of the
army are very numerous to-day upon the
avenue. The general sentiment is that
we are upon the eve Of important events.
Mr.. Lincoln does not hesitate to tell his
friends that he expected those events to
occur a month ago. 1t takes much lon
ger to prepare a coast expedition than
people who do not understand such mat
tiers suppose. To concentrate twenty
five thousand men at Annapolis or For
tress Monroe for such an expedition oc-
cupies weeks, if not months. The pre-
paration for an advance by column Of
eighty or hundred thousand men takes
many weeks. Such has been the case in
Kentucky, where an advance has been
delayed for weeks by physical impede
ments which could not easily be over
come
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HEAVEN OUR HOME.-IIeaven is not,
then, a great bleak shore to which you
are driven by the storm, and where you
are cast among savage inhabitants. Heav-
en- is blessed place of rest. 1t is your
home You have friends there, the best
and chiefest among whom is he who loves
you, who gave himself for you, who has
ever watched over you during your earth
ly pilgrimage, and who soon, very soon,
will come for you as he has for yours
They are glorious there; and in all their
glory if they could but speak word to
US, world it be such a poor, stumbling
word as that which they spoke in the hour
of death? If they could speak to us
from the eternal world, what hope and
consolation would they give US?
That one comfort, then, is this media
torship of Christ. He has made Heaven
our home. 1t is bis house, and we are
his children, and he loves to bring us
there and he will very soon DO it.
Beeeher.
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4. A. EARLE, EDITOR.
lRASBURGH, FRIDAY, JANUARY II, 1852.

DEATH AND FUNERAL OF GEORGE
II. PHELPs.-The body of Lieut.. Geo.
II. Phelps, whose sickness and death was
noticed by our army correspondents last
week, was brought home TO his parents
in Albany Oh Monday Of last week, we
believe. He died Of typhoid fever, at
Camp Griffin, Virginia, on the I'd inst.
His funeral took place on the Thursday
following his arrival home. 1t was at.
tended by multitude Of people, by many
more than could gain an entrance to the
church, where an excellent and affecting
sermon was preached by Rev. Homer
T. Jones. Geo. II. Phelps was young
man Of more than ordinary talent aud
scholarly a,tainments, and he bid fair to
be an ornament to his country, but he
left all to take up arms in its defence and
lay down lis life for its welfare, His
loss is sincerely mourned, but his name
will be- remembered with honor.
The following lines, written by lady
friend, were read BY the minister at the
close of the funeral exercises -
Gently, o gently lay linn to rest,
So cold, so cold, and SO sim;
Fondly we loved him. yet Jesus knew best,
And we bow to His sovereign will.
His life work is tiuishcd--hs labors are DER,
Ills country can claim him soi}jeyuo more.
Gently, o gently bear him away,
Meath the banner he died but to saves
Sadly we mourn for the loved one to-day,
As we lay him away in the grave.
lie was ready to die forhis country and God ;
lie has fallen asleep and We bow 'ncaththc rod.
Gently. o gently bear him away,
Meath the skies Of his own native cline;
Though his comrades may weep for the sol
der today
Nor the will of the Master divine,
lie hath answered the call Of the Captains
command,
Who speaks from the shore Of the fur distant
land.
They caught not the sound of the boatman's
damp oar,
As he crossed DER the deep foamiug tide,
And carried the soul which the caskct once
bore
So soon to the other side
But we know mid the tempest it could not be
lost,
For a martyr to freedom he died at his post
How sacred the grave where the soldier is laid,
We will pause whcre'er it is found
And scatter sweet buds meath the wllowy
shade,
To bloom on the thrice honorcd ground.
And we pray that when life with its sorrows
is DER,
We shall meet our brave soldier on the heay-
cn!y shore.
The death of young Phelps is the
ninth that has occurred among the Or
leans boys since they have been quar-
tered in Virginia. In addition TO those
heretofore recorded by US, Seth Bumps
of Albany, Josiah Libbey Of Barton, a
Mr.. Page of Derby, and a young man
from Craftsbury, whose name we do not
now remember, have joined that
"Innumerablo caravan
That moves to the pale realms Of shade"
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Great Events at Hand.

The New York Post says the follow
ing extract from Il letter received by a
prominent citizen of New York, comes
from a responsible source, We observe
that its predictions coincide with those
lately made by the correspondent of a
Cincinnati paper:
"WAsuNGToN, Jan. y, 1862.
Ny dear sir: The
night of the rebellion has passed, and the
dawn is about breaking. Before the
present month has gone these things will
surely come to pass General Halleck,
with the great fotilla and an army of one
hundred thousand strong, will sweep like
an avalanche down the Mississippi, where
they will be joined by General Butler in
New Orleans and Mobile. Gen. Buell.,
with nearly or quite the same force, will
march into Tennessee, capture Nashville,
and cooperate with the Union forces in
a manner and direction it would not be
polite now to point out, Generals Rose
Grams and Kelly will advance from Yves
tern Virginia, and do their share in har-
mony with the general plan. Generals
Banks aud Stone will move in Coniunc-
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The Louisville Journal says the deeds
Il Zollicoifer's hordes are as atrocious as
any committed by the rebellous Silks in
the British Indian war, and Nena Sahib
is an angel Of light and mercy compared
to the Confederate rufiians. The coun-
ties of Clinton, Wayne, and Russell are
completely overrun by him. The Jour
nal says;
The cavalry are ranging over the
country, shooting down citizens or taking
them prisoners, and taking possession of
all the horses, cattle, hogs, and bed
clothes. In some instances they have
compelled Union men to pull off their
coats and boots that they might appro-
pirate them. They have taken fourteen
citizens of Russell county away as pris-
oners; they robbed the store of John A.
Leveredge, at Rowenas, of all his goods,
and destroyed his books and notes to the
value of $4,000; they plundered the
store Of George ". Ludwil, in James
town, of all the clothing it contained, and
also took his horse"
Not content with plundering, the saw
ages perpetrated the grossest outrages
upon females,
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CHANGEs.-Simon Cameron, secreta-
ry of war, has been removed by presi-
dent Lincoln, and L. Nj. Stanton APP
pointed in his stead Cameron goes to
Russia and Cassius NJ. Clay comes home
10 be a Major General
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Letter from Don A. Bartlett.

Wyaudotte, Kansas, to his brother in this
village, will be read with much interest.
lie pounces upon the government quite
severely, and with some reason, we think,
and sustains Fremont with much more
reason.-ED.
There has been a great deal Of fault
found with Seward, but have always
thought him an honest man, aud although
rather weak in the knees for these times,
yet, withall, a great statesman and good
man in the cabinet. So, too, sustained
Cameron when large share Of the Re
publican West were clamoring for his
removal. Now, however, Cameron has
no enemies in the West since his great
report 10 Congress. When many were
clamoIing for action before the battle OF
Bull Run, felt that those appointed 10
control in war matters knew better than
| did. But | confess to have felt dis
pleased when Fremont was removed.
Now it is very easy for men to say as
you said in your letter, that you were
more and more convinced he ought 10 De
removed, without giving single reason
for thinking SO. nave seen " great
many men VINO sustained Tue government
in the act but few VINO could IeL why
The truth Is they have TO admit so much
in his favor that 1t spoIl5 the ie" reasons
they may have against him. Now II
there were no principle involved IN re-
mon's removal iurther than ms simple
retirement from the Office OF Command
ing General Of the West, that question
would not be worth debating. But when
we consider that Fremonts removal was
''o'e'' "D'''' - al 'O''0''''' "
ooo''' Vi MS '''0'o '"'''''''
us ue''i'''''''u 'o0' '0 - "''P 'D' >
anu '''a' Tue 'ou'H 80 '"'' ,'''''' - -
m"Su'n9s MS removal '''o al ''''po' "a"
affair. Aud the northwest are iIgn1 IN
making the government ieel IT, 100 !
firmly believe that the OBJECT OIL 'Ais war
IS to destroy slavery ana want 10 see
our nation take s'auoa as 1t sNop 'u ''s"'''''
the cause OF the war ana tHe Sin loF
"ll'cn we are P0"''"e'' ms "'' " ~
nave "ee" io' '"os"' u'''0S' '''''''J 10
aes'loyeu ~ It, W." my ie',o''' '0'
thinking 'n"' | te'no"' > i''no''' % o'
account Oh DIS "".''S'''e'y p o'''' ''''s
arc as ioI'o"9 l S'iros'' u ''u,se'
} gu i"' t see" ! ''0'''"' '''"' . "s''a''
fremont anu say ''e'o 'o i'''''"J
hc'h'nG IN 'hem DoI sor'h'se al" suppo-
sitIon--not haIt enough 10 prove man
guilty OF de,rauding his nelshbor OF 1--we
cents, in any court OF justice; and upon
this evidence, taken ex-parte before one
of Fremonts worst enemies, without CIV
ing Fremont the opportunity OF even an
sworing for himself, he Is removed
suppose you know that this IhomaS' "heh
he saw Fremont, took a terrible scathlng
from, hin, oul ,Vas finally CHALLENGE nv
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That moves to the pale realms of shade"

Found IEAD.-Mr. Xena5 Ash Of
Irasburgh, was found dead in his bed on
Wednesday morning Of last week. 1t is
supposed that he died of heart disease,
as he had been 30 afflicted with it for
several years that he could perform but
little labor. He was thirty-fye years of
age.
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War Matters.

the South, is a stupendous affair, aud
from the means taken to make it irresist-
ible, we may confidently look for most
important and glorious results to the
Federal cause. The land force, it is
said, will number from 10000 to 10000
strong. The naval arm of the expedi-
ton is of prodigious force, and we are
inclined to think will prove the right arm
Of its power. The total number Of boats
is seyenty-eight, Of which twelve are
gunboats, thirty-eight mortar boats, and
twenty eight are tugs and steamboats,.
The gunboats carry fifteen guns Of heavy
calibre each, except the flagship Of the
expedition, the BerAon, which has an
armament Of eighteen guns. Seven of
those boats cost $50, 600 each to build
They axe one hundred and seventy-fve
fee. in length; ffty-one feet six inches
in breadth, and draw five feet when load
ed. The bows and bow bulwarks con-
sist OF about three feet OF oak timber
boIted together and sheathed with the
best quality OF wrought iron plates, two
and a-haIt inches thick The sides have
the same sheathing, with less bulk OF
timber. The sides OF the boats, both
above and below the knee, incline at an
angle Of iorty-liyo degrees, and nothing
but a p'unging shot from high bluff
could strike the surface at right angles.
The boilers and machinery are so sitnat-
ed as to be perfectly protected, and may
lie considered quite out Of danger The
iron plating has been severely tested bv
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gS Weeks Magic Compound will
cure the Group.
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A Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, gives the particu-
lars of a grand advance which he says has
been planned by Gen. Mcclellan, which
includes the Simultaneous movement Of
$4,000 men, and line of operations
extending from the Chesapeake to the
Mississippi, the grand climax of which
Is to be an advance and victory at Man
assas. The preparations for this tremen-
dous movement will not be complete till
the 25th inst, but as the last division to
be ready has already started, the cores
pondent's calculations are evidently a
little loose. The same correspondent
says that the mortality in our army since
the war broke out will reach $4,000 men,
The number killed in battle, skirmishes'
&c, is about 1900, and the number
wounded 1900. These figures may
appear startling 10 a great many, but they
are reliable. The number of prisoners
South, and soldiers deserted and missing,
is about 5000. The entire strength Of
our army, as by returns in the AdJnlahl
Generals office, foots up 52l 900; about
100000 are now reported as fit for ser
vice,
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One Thousand a Year.

"Wiu it do to marry on : 1000 a year ?''
writes q young lady, who adds that she Is moder-
ate in her wishes, but desires 10 preserve " a
respectable and genteel" appearance. She wants
20 know, also, if such a result can be best accom-
plished by boarding or keeping house
Why a young lady should apply to US for sage
advice and wisdom of this kind is a mystery
still. if she wants i free and unbiased opinion
she j. welcome 70 it. Marry on u thousand a
year by all means; and, if properly managed,
1t will not only preserve q respectable appear
ance, but leave something as q nucleus for future
operations besides. Keep house, also, if you
desire the pleasures and comforts of a home.
Never mind being cooped up, or subjected to
unnecessary expenses, in order 10 be near friends.
Ii Is q wife's duty TO make her home the center
Of attraction TO her husband, and not depend on
others To make it 50 to her. Her own s~atisfac-
ton and reward in it will come all in good time.
We are almost afraid to suggest, in this refined
age, so vulgar and Outre a proceeding; but still,
if 4 young lady has natural good sense, courage,
tact and industry, she would facilitate her plans
greatly by ignoring Z" help until domestic aid
becomes a necessity. At least one-third of the
current expenses would be saved, and a sufficient
SUN monthly to handsomely clothe a woman of
taste and moderate wishes. To live well, and
especially to save, on small means, requires simply
method in expenditure, and knowing how and
where TO ecOnomize. Some people live in wretch
ed tenement houses, and think they cannot afford
a nice article of furniture or decent garment,
who waste as much as these would cost in hiring
lazy help, in drinking, in wasteful living, and in
carousing with people as idle and shiftless as
themselves. Others board, because they cannot
support an establishment equal to some of the
least honest and most extrayagant of their friends,
and suffer the consequences in the loss of all home
pleasures, and n constant desire to fill the void
with exciting and expensive amusements.
Those may marry on a thousand Il year who
don't care a fig for Mrs. Grundy; who are self
reliant and independent; who are not afraid of
meeting a little difficulty and in fighting it alone
who are courageously determined to do the best
they know how under such circumstances, and
do not accept the duties and responsibilities Of
such a position only for the purpose of attaching
a claim for free board and millinery bills to some
unfortunate individual for the remainder of their
natural lives. Does "Young Lady, feel like
taking her share in the battle of life, and per-
forming it cheerGully and well? If she does,
then the recipient of a thousand n year is n very
fortunate man, and the sooner they marry the
better but if she is weak in the knees and weak
in the back, or especially weak at heart and
weak in her head, she had better wait until some
one comes along who is willing and able to sup
port, as a wife, such a mass of imbecility. What
will Young Lady" do ?-Erchange paper.
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four-boat ship can pick up two thousand barrels
o. sperm oil in four years, she Is considered 70
have made an excellent voyage New ZEALAND,
New Holland, the West Coast of North and
South America, the Austrilasian and East Indian
s=s- from Java Head TO japan, all at one time
god sperm whaling grounds at various seasons
Of the year, are now nearly deserted And If by
chance u few are seen. they are generally 80 wild
that it Is difficult for the boats To get up to them
u fIsten. Schools now rarely heaye-to when one
Of their number Is struck, bat take of to wind
ward head out.
After sperm whaling declined. right whaling
WAS equally successful for several years but now
that appears to be gradually on the wane also.
About forty years ago the English and Scotch
had many vessels employed IN Davis Straits and
Greenland, whaling, and ~ way Of encourage
ment they received bOunties from the Govern
ment but, like sperm whaling, ii has failed also
for want Of whales. There are still 4 few vessels
which 90 North every year and manage 70 pick
up fair voyages these, however, do not coniine
themselves 10 whaling: they capture seals, or
anything else that can be converted into oil. The
whalers are too scarce and shy To be relied on
exclusively for a cargo.
breed rs fast as they are killed, or that they have
found feeding grounds where they are not dis
turbed. We are inclined to the opinion that
they are killed faster than they multiply, for we
cannot trace upon the map OF the globe any sea
which has not been explored by whalers, except
the Polar Seas, which have yet to be discovered.
We have heard several theories about the time
required to produce a whale, but none of them
are satisfactory. Some men contend that whales
calye every year, because they enter well known
Bays at certain times for that purpose but, pre-
vious to that period, nothing can be known.
The analogy between an elephant and q whale,
taking their respective sizes into consideration, is
the only mode by which an approximation might
be inferred about the time a whale requires to
produce a calf. Those who have examined large
whales infinitely for the purpose of ascertaining
their age, agree that they have discovered marks
upon the teeth and jaws of sperm whales which
indicated that they were fire or SIR hundred years
old! We might write 4 volume upon this point
without enlightening any one but one fact is
real, and that is-whales, of all kinds, are very
scarce in every sea where they were very plenti-
full fifty years ago.
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Whaling.

Experienced whalers have long entertained the
opinion that whaling must gradually decrease for
want of whales. Thirty years ago sperm whales
were plentiful in the Atlantic Ocean, between
South, but now ships may cruise months in the
Atlantic without seeing a spout. True there are
still a few small vessels which, after a year or
two, manage to pick up a hundred or two barrels
each among the West India Islands or off the
West Coast of Africa but, as 4 whaling ground,
the Atlantic may be considered cut up. The
same is true of Japan, once the most productive
whaling ground IN the world. Both of-shOre
and ~in-shore, thirty years ago, the coasts of Japan
were well supplied with sperm whales of great
fatness. In a couple of seasons at most, any
ship with ordinary perseverance, could pick up
a voyage A season commenced in May and end
ed the latter part of August, the weather during
the res. of the year was regarded then unfit for
whaling in consequence of severe storms and
dense fogs; but recently We learn ships have
cruised there most of the year. When this
ground was FIRST discovered, ships would lie with
their topsails on the caps for weeks at a time with
whales always in sight. When one fare was
nearly disposed 4 of a couple of boats would be sent
after a large whale, and would have little diff
Guilty IN turning him up and bringing him along
side. Thus n ship would sometimes roll in a
thousand barrels in q few weeks without cruising
a dozen miles We have heard it stated that so
plentiful were the whales, and . easily turned
up, that several ships would not take anything
but held-r1atter- That Is, they rejected body
blubber altogether, because its oil was less valu-
able than that from the head. But all this is
nov changed, the coasts of Japan are nearly as
bare of whales as those of the Atlantic.
The seas in the vicinity of the Sychelle Islands
were about the same time famous for school
whales, which, when one of them was struck,
would hubble together like n flock Of sheep, thus
afforsiing boats a chance to kill as many "a they
p,eased. We have often heard of fifteen school
whales having been killed ut 4 single lowering,
rs many as a ship could take care of to try out
before the blubber blasted. Ii was not uncom-
mon to kill, rs long as the whales would remain,
without reference to being able to use them. The
excitement Of successful whaling, like that of
successful war, is too potent to be restrained
within reasonable bounds. We have little doubt
that for several years after the discovery of the
Sychelle and Japan whaling grounds, as many
whales were killed for mere sport as for oil. Now
like japan, Is considered cut up. The
same is true of nearly all the great sperm whal-
ng grounds of twenty or thirty years ago. ffa
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Notice !

yVNHE UNDERSIGNED INTENDS LEAV-
ing this Kingdom per Comet, (or the United States and
EurcPe) and requests all claims 70 be Immediately presented
20 him for payment. and would thank those who have not yet
settled their accounts 10 do 80 Immediately.
296lm Ohm THoMAS