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The Placer herald., 1865-08-12
Regular Meetings Of Eureka Lodge, f.
A. VI. for the year 1865.
MASONIC LODGES IL PAGER CoUNTx.

f E,rnka 10 lge, No. Ii, Auburn; stated meet
ings Monl,y next preceding full moon.
Gold Hill Lodge. No. -, LincG,r stated meet
ing. ,turd ~ Of or next preceding lull moon.
Michigan City Lo ige. No. A. Michigan Bluffs;
stated meetings Saturday Of or next preceding
full moon.
Illinoistown Lodge. No. 81, Illinoisown. stated
meetings SItGrlay OF or next preceding full
moon.
Clay Lodge No. lei, Dutch Flat; stated meet
ings. Saturday of or next preceding full moon.
Ionic Lodge. No. l2l, low. Hill; stated meet
ings, Wednesday Of or next preceding full moon.
Chapters.
Lblnls Ch,pter, No. II. Iowa Hill. stated.
meetings ThurslAy of or next preceding full
moon.
Oliv4. Ch,pter. No 23 Todd's Valley, stated
meetings Wednesday OF or next preceding full
moon.
Delta Chtpter. No 27, Auburn; stated meet
irgs Thursday of or next preceding full moon,
and two weeks thereafter
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ORDER OF ODD.FELLOWS.

Auburn Lodge. No. Z, Auburn; meets every
Saturday evening.
Mountain 10 lge, No. IA, Michi gan Bluff meets
every Saturday evening.
Placer La lse No. 3s, Iowa Hill, meets every
Saturday, evening.
Washington Lodge. No. 40 Yankee Jim; meets
every Thnrsdny evening.
Minerva Lolge No. So, Todd's Valley, meets
every Saturday evening.
Olive 10 lge. No. 81, D6tch Flat, meets every
Wednesday evening.
Valley 10 lg.. No. lO7, Lincoln; meets every
Thur day evening.
American Lodge, No. lOS, Deadwood. meets
every Saturday evening.
Eucampments.
Three Pill,r Elcampment No. l6, Forest Hill,
meets the secoul and Fourth Tuesdays in every
menta.
Auburn Encampment No. 20, Auburn, meets
at Lincoln Oh the first and third Tuesdays in eve
ry month.
The Placer herald., 1865-08-12
Hoard of Supervisors.

District No. /, .mlel Dodd. District No. 2,
D. W. M.llea. District No. 3, A. B. Scott
The Board meets the first Monday in February
May, August and November.
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10 Hamilton. Chairman; A. Huntley, Secre,
tary; VIM. NJ. Crutcher. Treasurer; J. z. Ball, w.
". Price, VIM. A. Hines, Ed. Barrett, John r
Brown, Wm. NJ. Pulliam, G. Z. Newman, II. w.
Starr, and Henry GOOding.
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BE. Myres II. p; W. R. Creqne. K; Geo. W.
Appleglte, s.; Samuel Beck. c. H.. VIM. Sexton
p. S.; John S. Ag.n Il. A. c.; Samuel T. Leet
NJ. ). "; I. q. H,rper, NJ. 2. "; Mack Webber
NJ. /. "; D. W. Lubbock, T.; j. Il. Cranlall, Scc.+
e. G. Smith, G.
The Placer herald., 1865-08-12

United States Senators-James A. McDouga'
and John Conness.
Representatives in Congrcss-J. F. Highly, T.
&. Shannon, and Cornelius Cole
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DISTRICT COURT.

Hon. T. 3. Mcfarland, Judge. Meets The fys.
Monday in February, May, August aud Novem-
Der.
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Probate COnrf.

Hon. II. Fellows, Judge. Meets on the 6rst
Monday in M.rch, June, September and Deccm-
ber.
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
REWARD.

r OST or stolen from my Ranch. six
IL miles west Of Lincoln. adjoining r.
Fullcrs, on Sunday night. the 7lh of AA-A
May last. TWO dark brown horse mules, in moder-
ate order when they left. They are meay color
ed around The nose. and excellent matches. will
weigh about u thousand pounds each. both bran
ded on the left shoulder with a small II. One of
them has scar on the near shoulder. which goes
partly into the brand. When they lett they were
heavily shod all around The above reward will
be paid to any person who will deliver the mules
to me at my ranch. or to Mum Il Sharp. on Pleas
ant Grove Creek. Placer county, or send nfor-
nation of their whereabouts so that they can be
recovered.
P. Fl. ELLSWORTH,
Auburn Ravke, miles west Of Lincoln.
June "a, 1865-1m
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w. n. BULLOCK,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELO OR ATLAw.
FOREST HILL, PLACER COUNTY. CAL.
Sept. II, I864.-my
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C0uAty Court

Ion. II. Fellows, Judge. Meets OF the first
Monday iu March, June, September and Decem-
bcr
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13

A Cheerful life must he busy one.
And a busy life cannot well be other
wise. Frogs do not croak in running
water. Active minds are seldom
troubled with gloomy forebodings
They come up only from the stagnant
depths of spirit unstirred 10y gener-
Gus impulses or ,he bloated necessities
of honest toll.
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13
Calico Printing.

The printing of calico is attained by
the web passing over brass cylinders,
about six inches in diameter, upon
which the print or figures are engra-
we'd. These cylinders or rollers, hav-
ing length equal to the width of the
web, revolve in the ink or paste which
is to give the desired color. The web
is al the same time passing over these
rollers. But before the roller reaches
the cloth it has passed over a scraper
so nicely that every particle of that
coloring matter has been removed, ex-
cept that in the interstices of the en-
graved figure, SO that when the cloth
passes over it, it sucks this dye from
out these interstices, and thus bears
away the figure. For each different
color it must pass over cylinder a
separate time, since but one color CAN
be imprinted at one time. If piece
of calico have three different colors, it
must have as many passages over as
many different cylinders. The machine
ry for this must be of the most exact
kind, and its working conducted with
great skill. From the time the piece
of cloth enters the mill, its washings
and its soakings, its printings and It's
dyeings, its surging and its mergings,
until it comes to its foldings and turn
ing, must be very numerous.
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13
The Soldiers Orphan Asylum.

If any one will take the trouble to
look at the articles of incorporation Of
the Iowa Soldiers Orphan Asylum he
will find that the institution is not in
tended to be exclusively for soldiers
orphans, as is generally supposed.
This orphan project was incubated
and hatched at Des Moines during the
winter of 1868 4, and is emphatically
a Des Moines scheme, although for
blind there is something called a
Home" now located in Van Buren,
county. The chief incubator of this.
egg was Mrs. Anna Wittenmyer, and
in casting about for godfather the
Rev. Pearl p. ingalls, was hit upon as
one peculiarly suited to the position, as
the hundreds of thousands Of dollars
begged and received from the soldiers
and their friends fully demonstrate
The question naturally arises-To
whom is the Rev. Pearl responsible
for the enormous sums of money he re-
ceives, and how much of it lies buried
deep in his breeches pockets! AS al
ready limited, the plan is to locate the
Institution at Des Moines, and the
next General Assembly will be called
upon to appropriate one hundred thou
sand dollars for erecting the buildings.
The Reverend Pearl is to he Superin-
tendcnt, and Mrs. Anna, Matrono the
Institution and, if Annals old hus-
band can be disposed of, the two are
to be joined in :" the holy bonds of wed.
lock-" and have a comfortable endow.
ment for life in the Institution. The
asylum will make an excellent "poor
house" for the little chicken thieves
and beggars Of Des Moines, while the
friends of soldiers orphans will un.
doubtedly seek comfortable homes for
| such children in respectable families
throughout the State where their men
tai, moral and physical training will
be properly cared for. Vire Ia hanabug
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13

These are the military rates. Civil
ians pay nearly twice as much. Thus
you see it costs something to travel
by steamboat as we'll as by railway.
In consequence of the low stage of
water, our deeply laden vessel was
obliged to "lay up" at night. This
rendered the voyage somewhat
lengthy We were also delayed at
Cairo and Vicksburg. The time was
nine days from st. Louis to Natchez.
need hardly say that ! observed
with great interest those places on Ell
ther bank Of the river where our
troops had met and conquered the
armies of the Confederacy. They have
been so frequently described during
the rebellion that shall not undertake
their description. | will say, howev.
er, that while passing Fort Pillow
felt more like fighting than | ever be-
fore felt during the war. If, before
going into action with the colored
troops garrisoned at this place, an
called upon or have the opportunity
to address them, Fort Pillow shall
be the battle-cry, as they enter the
conflict.
We could not see the site Of the
Fort from the deck of the steamer, il
being some little distance from the
shore and over the high bank Of the
river. The bank at that place is be
ing gradually washed away by the
Father Of Waters Rise and roll
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13
Ladies Should Read Newspapers.

1t is great mistake in female edu-
cation, to keep young lady's time
and attention devoted to the faShiona-
BILE literature Of the day. If you would
qualify her for conversation you must
give her something to talk about
give her education with this actual
world and its transpiring events.
Urge her to read the newspapers, and
become familiar with the present. char
acter and improvement of our race.
History is of some Importance but
the past world is dead Our thoughts
and our concerns should be for the
present world, to know what it is, and
improve the condition of it. Let her
have an intelligent opinion, and be
able to sustain an intelligent conyer-
sation concerning the mental, moral,
political and religious Improvement of
our times. Let the gilded annals and
poems of the centre-table be kept part
of the time covered with weekly and
daily journals. Let the whole family
men and women and children-read
the newspapers.
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13
Charles City, Iowa, April l3, 1865.


In these days of practical ideas, no.
body will deny that sewing-machine
is an Indispensable article in every
well-regulated family that the work
of good machine is quite as durable
and more beautiful than the best hand
sewing, nobody will doubt and that
it will go through as much work in a
day as could be performed in a week
by hand, ten thousand workshops, and
ten times ten thousand firesides will
testify. But amid the variety of ma
chimes which are offered to the public,
it is sometimes difficult for the pur-
chaser to decide which is the best. A
trial of two years, in our own family,
enables us to say with the greatest
confidence that there is no better ma
chine for general family use than that
manufactured by the Grover & Baker
Sewing-Machine Company. 1t makes
beautiful elastic seam that does not
rip or wear with washing runs al
most noiselessly is plain, simple, ca
sy to work, and not liable to get out
of repair fastens the end of its own
thread, and uses threads and silks di-
rectly from the spools on which they
are bought. In this opinion we are
sustained by the judges in all parts of
the country, who have awarded the
Grover & Baker Machines the first pre-
miums at all the State Fairs in 1864.
The Grover & Baker stitch is peculiar
to this Machine, and is patented and
owned by the Company whose name it
bears. 1t differs essentially from the
"lock stitch" being much stronger and
more elastic.
There has been much discussion as
to the relative economy of the two
stitches but it is now generally con-
ceded that for family sewing, where
there are short seams, the Grover &
Baker stitch is found to be the most
economical. While it uses one-fith
more thread in making a given length
of seam, it wastes none, as is the case
with the lock-stitch machines, where
there is usually waste of four inches
of thread at the beginning and at the
end of each seam, to which must be
added the loss of time in fastening the
ends of the seam, so as to prevent rip
ping.
Any one wishing to purchase sew
ing machine will do well to apply to
the editor of this paper for further in
formation.
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13
Communications.
Correspondence Of the Charles City InteEgoncer.
Letter From Rev. ]. G.. Witted.
CAMP NEAR NArcHEz. Miss.
March IA, 1865.

FRIEND HILDRETH Il have been too
busy and unsettled to write you until
now, and shall probably not have time
to finish this to-day. AS this is my
first communication since leaving
home, | will begin at the beginning,
and if say any thing that will inter-
est the readers of the Intelligencer,
you are at liberty to lay it before
them.
On my arrival at St. Louis l found
three steamers bound down the river.
The best of the three, and believe
the best on the Mississippi river, was
the Leriathan, and on her l took pas
sage. She is registered at little less
than one thousand tons, but will carry
about twenty-five hundred. Her freight
was valued at nearly million dollars.
There was some talk about danger
from those land pirates yclept gueril-
las, but there are several gunboats pa
trolling the river, and although most
of them are poor substitutes for ships
of-war, the brigands fear them exceed
ingly, and but little danger need be
apprehendcd. "
The voyage down the river was
peaceful and pleasant--a little too
tame forme, though | wished little
music from old Oceans god Neptune.
But the boat was all that could bc de-
sired. The first clerk and steward
were very polite and obliging. The
first cabin was spacious and elegant.
The fare the best | ever had on sea or
shore. The taste displayed by the
seward in spreading the tables could
hardly be excelled The crew of the
boat, all told, numbered one hundred
and forty-four The expenses per day
amounted to eleven hundred dollars
The custom house at St. Louis sends
an officer on each boat to prevent CON
traband trade. Gen. Candy regulates
the charges for freight and passage.
| will give you the distances and fare,
as copied from his printed order, from
st. Louis to
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13

The i" "HaWkeYe State. +"

In the Aan0is of Io,ca for January,
the editor Hon. T. S. Parvin) has
the following
Ha,ckeye State" in the explanatory
and pronouncing vocabulary, append
ed to Webster's Dictionary, new illus
trated edition, page 1856, is thus ex-
The State Of Iowa; said to be so
named after an Indian chief, who was
once terror to royageurs to it's bor-
ders." .. -" ae.. ~
The famous Black Hawk is the chief
referred to by Mr.. Wheeler, (the COM
piler of the vocabulary and his resi-
dence before and at the breaking out
of the Black Hawk war of 1882, was
ON Rock river, above the town on
Rock Island, Illinois, and we never
heard before that he was terror to
the voyagers, much less to the rogag-
eurs to its borders after that date. AZ
ter his defeat and capture at Bad Axe,
Wisconsin, and his release hy the
President, (JacksOn,) he took up his
residence in the Des Moines Valley,
where he died in 1887.
The cognomen Hawkeye" 4" origina-
ted thus
One evening in the winter of $1S3s
several gentlemen assembled in the
room of Governor Lucas, at the Bur
lington House, in Burlington, were dis
cussing the name of Badger" as ap-
piled to the Territory of Wisconsin,
from which Iowa had been but recent
ly separated, when the question was
sprung, what name should the lowans
take?
We recollect that in that company
were Governor Lucas, Secretary Con-
way, General Van Antwerp, (the Re-
ceiver of Public Moneys Jesse Will
liams, subsequently Secretary of the
Territory, Hon. Joseph Williams, j.
G. Edwards, editor of the Burlington
PGtriot, and afterwards familiarity
known as "Old Hawke" and the edi-
tor of the AnNais, (then private Secrc-
tary to the Governor).
Some one, we do not remember
whom, proposed (after various names
had been mentioncd), that of Hawk
eye, when all at once agreed, and Ed
wards soon after changed the name of
his paper to that of Hdukeyc and Bur
LHgt0R Pdtriot.
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13

A boy while chopping ice in Mitch
ell county, accidentally chopped off a
finger of little daughter of II. Hunt
ingtOn.
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13

Young woman! if rich young
man asks you to marry him, and has
no occupation or trade, or calling, by
which he could make living if he be
thrown on his own resources, you may
give him your respects but give him
the mitten.-Dr. Hall.
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13
Books.

Many Books require no thought
from those who read them, and for a
very simple reason--they made no
such demand upon those who wrote
them. Those works, therefore, are the
most valuable that set our thinking
faculties in the fullest operation. For
as the solar light calls forth all the la
tent powers and dormant principles of
vegetation contained in the kernel,
but which, without such stimulus,
would neither have struck root down
ward, nor borne fruit upward, SO it is
with the light that is intellectual it
calls forth and awakens into energy
those latent principles of thought in
the minds of others, which, without
this stimulus, reflection would not
have matured, nor examination improv-
ed, nor action embodied .-Coltoa.
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

For compensation of the Secretary OF the
Treasury, two Assistant Secretaries of the
Treasury, chief clerk, supervising architect and
assistant architect, clerks messen gers, assis-
tant messenger, and laborers, one hundred and
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13

A soldiers letter comes to us with
the following superscription:
Soldiers letter" Nary Red"
lizard tack in place Of bread
Postmaster. shove this through
Nary stamp and ten months due.
Charles City intelligencer., 1865-04-13
Utah.

On Sunday, Jan, ed, Christian
society was organized iu Utah, and
Christian services Held under the very
shadow of the Morn6n Temple. Brig
ham Young and brethren are of course
very indignant at the step, and threat
en- to tear down any heuse. inhabited
by Gentle but Gen. Connor insists
that religious liberty shall exist, and
intimates that the Utahites had better
not commence to tear. The SAT- Lake
Kdetts, daily paper published under
the Generals protection, is also a ter
rible thorn in the sides of "ye" Nor
mons
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1865-12-07
Harper's Ferry.

We have for some time past intended to call
the attention of the government and of thepub-
lie to the great interests at Harper's Ferry
which for four years past have been idle and
altogether unproductive. The United States
now has in its employment at this important
point only 80 to 40 workmen, repairing and
cleaning arms, and this must cease, if economy
is 20 be considered. The great power is dor
mant. although it is worth, if it has not cost,
millions of dollars.
1t is one of the best sites in the Union for
great manufacturing community. Lowell bears
no comparison to it. The Potomac and the
Shennendoah. both furnish an abundance of
power; and by the liberal use Of capital thrift
ty community of eight or ten thousand people
would in few years be gathered at the juno
ton and along the banks of the two rivers. The
Shenandoah has succession of waterfalls for
more than two miles, and there is room for "a
National Foundry, for cotton mills, paper mills,
nail factories, and almost every branch Of man
ufactures which an ingenious and industrious
people couldsuggest. For a paper mill, though
either river would afford an ample supply of
water vet, to guard against the muddiness
which freshets produce, an unfailing feeder of
clear water could be had from spring on the
hill side West of town. No better point in the
whole country could be found for a supply of
rags, fuel and iron than Harper's Ferry.
We trust if a renewal of the Armory is out
of the question, that the government will soon
put this unrivalled property into the market,
and thus give new life to region which has
suffered greatly from the ravages of war.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1865-12-07
Sensible Views.

The New York Times is a Republican paper
Of great ability, and its chief editor is Henry
J. RAYMOND, a member elect to the next House
Of Representatives. The following paragraph
from late number, elected, no doubt, by the
extreme views of.Ex-Speaker Colfax, is worthy
of consideration. The policy to be pursued is
sketcbed with the pen Of a true Statesman:
The real question is, whether an early res
toration of the South is expedient Thosewh
really believe this find no difficulty in support
ing President JohnsOn's plan, as both just and
and efective-just, because the prerequisites
insisted upon are the logical consequences of
the war, and effective, because the Southern
States can and viii acSpt them, with full
purpose to abide by them. To oppose that
plan is nothing else than to 90 for pOstpOning
the restoration Of the South indefinitely. No
project could be worse than that Its whole
working would be to hinder all good, and to
promote all evil 1t is Of utmost vital conse-
quence to the finances Of the couRtry that the
industry Of the South should be speedily re-
established, and the great Southern staples be
again produced in something like their old
mighty measure. This cannot be done so long
as To South remains under military govern
ment, and with a future altogether uncertain.
The capital which is necessary for the pUr-
pose will not 60 to the South without
the certainty Of a settled condition of
society, which civil safeguards alone can guar
antee. To postpone the restoration is not only
to sink the national credit, but is to keep the
Southern people impoverished and Inundated,
and to excite in their hearts the very worst
feelings against the Government The whole
North has been astOnished by the universally
and promptness of their submission to the gov
eminent, after the overthrow of their armies
A year ago few deemed such change possible.
The present spirit of the South is surely re-
markable, aHa we ought to make the most of
it in using it, while still fresh, to re-cement
the Union. Ifrepelled, it will inevitably turn
to bitterness and hate, and work endless discord
and confusion. The Union party would belle
its name if it failed to sustain President john
son in his opening Of the only feasible way for
a speedy return of the South to its old conS6-
tutional place in the Union.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1865-12-07
Financial.

The Report Of the Secretary of the Treasury
will be looked for with much interest, under
the impression that he will make suggestions IN
reference to resumption Of specie payments
at no distant day. We think it vain to excite
public expectation on that subject, for the
withdrawal of Treasury greenbacks and the
substitution of a diluted currency, that OF the
National Banks-paper founded on paper.
1t is stated that in the South money is worth
from ten to fifteen per cent year on the best
security, personal and real. How this rate is
to be diminished by making money SeoTcer, we
cannot comprehend. In our humble Judgment
relief can only come from a full Southern crop,
and in the way suggested by the National IN
telligeacer, thus
cater all. the first financial necessity of the
Government is economy. Let Congress sweep
off one half of the blood-sucking official swarms
which were brought into existence by the.war,
and which, though no longer necessary for the
public welfare, seem to have political power
enough to perpetuate existence. When the
revenue shall largely exceed the expenditures,
Government securities will be in demand at
home and abroad.