The weekly union record. [volume] (Oroville, Calif.) 1864-1866, 1865-12-16
OR0VILLE. SATURDAY. DEC. is, 1865

OROVILLE. SATURDAY. DEC. Is, 1865
WHAT TYRASSIcAL GOVERNMENT The
Placer Herald, commenting upon the intro
ductiou of bill 10 the State Legislature by
Senator Shaw for the ratification Of the Con
stituiional amendment sbolishing slavery, de-
nounces the General Government for forcing
emancipation upon the seeded States at the
point of the bayonet, and upon the non seeding
slave States BY force and fraud, until the labor
interests Of those States are utterly Frustrated
and injured to an extent that no man can point
to the time OF recovery. This is the result of
Abolition domination"
The Herald ike kindred disloyal papers in
the Northern States, continues to mourn, aud
will not be comforted, because slavery-the
rebelon's souls dead How different the
feelings of old shareholders. Henry A. Wise,
once Governor Of Virginia, lifelong slave
holder, and prominent leader of the rebellion,
says lie has long been a believer in emanepa
freed from the curse of slavery. But the
Democracy of the North have enjoyed the
public patronage so long through an alliance
with slavery, and the death Of that institution
has so suddenly and certainly deprived them
of all hope of ever again getting into power
that it is but natural they should be over
whemed with grief. And so let the dead
democracy bury their dead Slavery while
the country. rejoicing that the curses are
removed, marches on with Refrigerated steps
in the career of civilization aud progress.
FRIGHrFUL ACCIDENT.-Two men, says the
Mountain Messenger of Dec. 9th John Merrill
and David Campbell, were last Wednesday
engaged in tapping the shaft Of the American
Co.'S bed rock tunQel, at Morristown, which
with the cut and bed of the dggings were
filled with water, and while engaged IN the
operation were broken 10 upon by the water
IN full force, which swept them, mixed up with
mud, bOulders and gravel, through the rocky,
and rough tunrel, a distance of 200 feet,
dumping them into the raVine, drop of about
fifteen feet, from which place they were carried
down the gulch distance of some seventy feet.
Almost miraculous TO relate neither of the
men had bone broken, though they were
both totally disabled, yet able to speak, and
Il is thought they will recover
GENERAL BEAuREGARD, now Superintendent
IF ba NJ,
Railroad, publishes card in the New Orleans
Times, December 5b, which says: when
my native State of Louisiana required My SER
vices drew my sword without hesitation. as
son rushes 10 rescue his mother from tor.
rent without thought of his own safety. In
order to escape the hatred of Northern fanatics
l thought of seeking refuge in Brazil, but
the generous sentiments expressed by President
johnson towards the Southern States persuad-
ed me, together with great many other Con
federate officers and soldiers, to remain in
Louisiana. prefer 10 live here, poor and for
gotten, rather than be endowed with honor
and riches in foreign country"
NUN pAH4NtaA"-- tSidNulG OI tue
State of Georgia convened on the fourth of
the present month, December. The following
are the officers: President of the Senate.
Nm. NJ. Gibson, Of Augusta Clerk, Colonel
j. B. Weams, of Wilkes Speaker of the
House, Thomas Hardeman, Of Bib county
Clerk james d. Wdneil, of Polk county
It is said there is no objection to 4. H.
Stephens for the long term for Senator, which
be consents TO take, aud the short term coutes.
ted by johnson and Hill. President Andrew
johnson had instructed the Provisional Gov
ernor not to Issue certificates TO Congressman
elect, and to prohibit the Inauguration of
Jenkins, the Governor elect
\ SPECIAL dispatch from Washington to
the New York Herald of December lltb,
says the evacuation of chihuahua by the
French is fully confirmed by an official letter
just received from the United States Consul at
that city. This movement of the French is
construed to mean that their commander has
abandoned the attempt at holding frontier
NNdtSS " S4NSC SuplCCtlOu 10 tit EtEiAl NION-
meut until the army is materially increased by
foreign enlistments The Mexican legation at
Washington have also news TO the same effect.
Their sanguine Interpretation of this is that it
is Macmillan intention to send them back to
France.
THIS REBELs VINO DIED IN PsSNsyLvAN1A.
The relations Of rebels who were slain and
buried in Pennsylvania prior to aud at the bat
tie Of Gettysburg, are engaged in the disiuter
ment and removal of such remains Almost
every day the battle field of Gettysburg is
visited by the friends of these dead soldiers.
accompanied by those who participated in
that memorable fight. for the purpose Of Sc
curing the remains Of the slain. that they
may be inferred in the vicinity Of their former
homes
Ok Sunday last. says the Wana WaUa
Statesman, November oath, Walla Walla Wax
ley was visited by one of the most destructive
hurricanes ever known in this section Of the