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The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29
SPECIAL NOTICES.

ARaMIRAcuLAs-This wonderful Medicines
is advertised by DE. ), G, Smith. 1t bears
many testimonials pronouncing It's efficacy in
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gont aud Scrofula,
and is receiving fater;ng notices from the
press, based upon the statements of relieved
patients. For sale by all Druggists and
Dealers in Medicine.
En- D. WENgAN TRAVELLING AGENT
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

The wheat crop of the States east of the
Rocky Mountains is this year fourteen per
rent less than for 1860 in quantity, though
the quality is better. Dreuth was the main
cause Of the failure. The corn crop is the
best raised for ten years.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

FouNp GuILrr.-Jos. B. Creader was found
guilty at San Andreas, on Wednesday, of the
murder of F.. Said, Superintendent Of the
Petticoat Quartz Mill, who was murdered
near Railroad Flat, in Calaveras county in
September 1868.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29
Ed. D. WENBAN, Travelling Agent.

WlSrAR's BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY.-This
medicine is "a combination and form in
deed for healing and curing all the ills
which aiiliet us in the shape of coughs, colds,
and Inflammation of the throat, lungs and
chest
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

The Bidwell mills, have sold aud Skinned
of -four from the 1st April to 1st October. GOO
tons, or 100 tons per month. The Bidwell
orchards have sold and shipped 81 ,oo3 so
worth Of fruit. The ranch has raised this
season 81. 900 bushels of grain, has sold over
10000 bushels of barley, Sl4,1T2 in cattle.
and 8, COO in horses.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

CorroN IN MERcED.-The A'yus at Smell
ling has the following in relation to the grow
ing of cotton in MERGED County.
We were shown limb frorl STALK Of cot
ton raised on the ranch of Peter Fee, by j.
NJ Strong of this place, that we think is the
heaviest laden with bols that we ever saw,
even on the richest plantations of Mississippi,
Louisiana and Arkansas. The limb is about
fifteen inches in length, and has on it eight
large, full-grown bolls, and the growth was
so rapid that though they allseem to be about
the same size, there is SO little difference in
their age that none OF the eight is etfully ma
tured The plants were grown from seed
brought here by Strong from Dickson, Ala
hama, and planted for the purpose of testing
the capabilities of MERGED soil for the produc-
ton of cotton, and which thus far has prov
ed complete and unequiyocal success. Some
of the bolls upon the lower limbs of the stalks
are open and exhibit as handsome sample
of cotton as can be found upon any of the up
lands of the Southern States, and proving
eonclusiyely to us that heavy crops of cotton.
of high grade as to length. strength and
beauty Of staple can be raised upon the most
Of the bottom lands of this county.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

The estimates of the Agricultural Bureau
places the present years wheat crop at two
hundred million brshels-forty ght million
less than that of last year.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

Thomas L. Lloyd indicted for killing John
Barry in February last, was tried in San
Francisco last week and found guilty of man.
Slaughter.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

There are spent according to Commissioner
Wells estimate, $4SS, 4el, S65 in one year in
the United States for drinks
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29
E1RTkxs.

In Stockton OCT, 18th, to the wife of r. NJ Fisher.
daughter.
At eoolins Raae, Oct, s ls7o TO the wife of George
n. Gookiu Sen.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

The Eureka mine, Grass Valley, principal
~ owned by the Watt Brothers, divided
among the owners $500, 600 during the year
ending the 1st instant. In five years the div
idends have amounted to 1854 geo.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

William Watt announces that the viii not
be candidate for Governor OF the next State
election.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

Senator Morton has declined the mission to
England. giving as a reason fer doing so, that
in the event of his resignation as Senator. the
Democrats being IN the majority in the Leg
islature they cannot fail to elect a successor
from their party. and setting forth the I'M
propriety of such course on bis part IN con-
nection with the interest of the administers
ton
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29
COUNTY SCRIP.

On the 9th day If November, there viii be
an opportunity for parties holding County
Serin. to make bids for It's surrender to the
county. 4 considerable portion Of the taxes
will have been paid in BIZ that day aud it is
not unlikely there will be three or four thou
sand dollars in the treasury to be applied IN
the redemption Of County Warrants. Under
the law passed By The last Legislature oay
kind Of Scrip standing against the county may
be put in for redemption. and that bid is to
be considered lowest. which will stop the ac-
crning Of the greatest amount Of interest
against The county.
L may net be generally understood that
there is difference in tie rate of interest on
the different kinds Of scrip-all warrants reg
istered since tie 18th day Of March, 1868,
draw but seven per cent interest per annum,
while that registered prior to that date draws
ten per cent per anrum. Oar county indabt-
edness is composed chiefly Of two classes of
scrip. one being warrants drawn on the Cen
eral Fund, the PRINCIPAL being now upwards
Of forty thousand dollars and their date of
registration being from 1859 to 1862; the 9TH
er class is Current Expense Warrants, and
amounts 10 about sixteen thousand dollars,
all of which has been registered since Janua-
~ 18th, 1869.
BY mathematical calculation it will be
found under the provisions of the law regu-
lating the redemption of scrip, taking to ac-
count the difference in the rate of interest of
the two kinds and the difference in the time
which they have been drawing interest, that
there is difference Of three or four cents on
the dollar in the value Of the two kinds of
scrip for the purposes of redemption. If a
party holds scrip of each kind, and desires
to have that on the old General Fund redeem
ed, it will be necessary for him to bid three
or four cents less on the dollar, in order that
his bids may be accepted, than what the Cur
rent Expense Scrip may be offered at, unless
there shall be money enough to pay all that
may be offered. 1t seems to us that the hold
ers of scrip would do we'll to offer to surren-
der it at such reasonable rates as will ensure
its redemption. We must have reduction
in the rates Of taxation.
We DO not propose to repuGiate the debt
saddled upon us by those who managed coun-
ty affairs in the days CT our prosperity, nei-
Their do we propose to drive capital from our
county by ruinously high rates of taxation,
in order that we may the more speedily salts
fy the demands of our creditors.
The proposition is plain, that long pay
day and low rates Of taxation is the best
financial policy for the county. AT the same
time let care be taken that there be no COM
pounding Of interest, and our word for it we
shall gradually work cut Of debt and again
become @ thriving and nonulous county.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

There have been lS2 lunatics sent from
San Francisco to Stockton since January lst.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

Inc Lexington, Va, correspondent Of the
New York Tribune writes:
The facts in regard to the last illness of
denerai Lee, as | obtained them from those
about him IN his last hours. are suhsfantiallv
these Cn Wednesday. September 2sth. he
was ut Washington College and about The
streets diligently attending to the duties os
the presidency During theafternoon be pres
ided at meeting Of the vestTy os the church
in Which he was communicate. Thence he
went home. pariook of light tea, and while
. sitting surrounded by his family, he was at
tackled With stnpor, becoming SPECIFICS and
50 continuing during the night. Inthe morn
ing he seemed better and hopes were enter
| tanned that il was only slight indisposition
from nervous prostration.
tie continued apparently to improve until
Monday last, but spoke very little, and that
only in reply to questions as to how he felt.
lie did not seem rs confident of recovery as
his physicians and friends. His intellect,
however. was without cloud, and he gave
many signs that he knew what was going on
around him. On Saturday Dr.. Madison ad-
dressed him cheerfuliy, remarking: 'sGener-
al. yon must make haste and get we'll. for
Traveller, This favorite horsel is getting lazy,
and you must give him some exercise The
only reply was shake of the sick man.
head. accompanied By look that said as
plainly as words could say, that be had no
hope of engaging again il outdoor reerea-
ton.
Monday found the General worse, and
though his sudden demise was not anticipat-
ed, it was thought best to telegraph for his
sons, Gen. Fitzhugh, Gen. Curtis and Capt.
Robert Lee, to his bedside. Before the mes
sage reached them. their father was dead.
He died at % o'clock on Monday morning.
The physicians who attended him in his last
moments say that the remote cause of his
death was long continued depressing infuen-
ees incident to responsibilities resting unon
him during the last year of the war. the dis
astrous termination Of the struggle in which
all his energies were enlisted. and the affiic-
tons Of the South since the surrender Of the
rebel army
What he has gone through since. few can
know, who have not seen how he has been
burdened with the sorrows of the whole peo-
pie, who seemed to look to him as father.
He has borne calm exterior. but the very
fbers of his heart have been wearing away
by degrees, until at last they have broken.
and the vital spark has fed. His physicians
concur in the opinion that be died rather
from mental than physical causes, declaring
that his physical development was almost per-
feet, and that there was no merely physical
reason why he should not have lived many
years longer. The immediate cause of his
death, however, was, they say, "mental and
physical fatigue, inducing venous congestion
of the brain, which, however, did not proceed
as far as apoplexy or paralysis. but gradual
ly caused cerebral exhaustion and DEATH"
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

FREE TRADE.-A correspondent, who signs
himself "a Republican, wants to know,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, what we mean
by free trade. We mean, saws that paper,
such an adjustment of the tariff and internal
revenue laws as will give the Government the
revenue it requires, and be, at the same,
time, the least burthensome to the people.
We have now free trade unqualiiedlv between
the States of the United States, and we ali
appreciate how beneficial that free trade is.
No duties and no custom house officials an
noy and vex and burthen the people of Ohio.
where they receive the products of Pennsyl-
vania or Louisiana. Free trade among all
the nations and peoples of the world would
be equally as beneficial. But Government
must have revenue, and to get it they must
levy taxes in some shape. Until recently,
the practice of the United States Government
has been to obtain its revenue mostly from
taxes called duties on imports. The several
items of duties make what is called tariff
As all taxes are more or less hurtaensome
and letters an industry and business, the
nearer we get to freedom from them the bet
ter.
Free trade with us, therefore, does not
mean absolute free trade. but qualified free
trade that is, as near absolute free trade as
the revenue wants of the Government will
permit. The same principle that demands
as near an approach to absolute free trade as
the revenue wants of the Government will
permit, demands at the same time the arpli-
cation of another Democratic principle, and
that is, frugal and economal adminisra-
ten of the Government. AS General Jack
son we'll said, the earnings of the people are
better In their own pockets than in the cof
fers of the Government; by which he meant.
that NO more taxes should be collected from
the people than are necessary and proper for
the Government. administered as economical
ly as a sufficiently vigorous execution of its
powers demand. The nearer we can get to
that, the closer we approach absolute free
trade. As it is, our phrase 'free trade"
means simply and no more than such on adj
iustment of the tariff and internal revenue
laws as will give to the Government the rev.
enua it requires. and at the same time, make
the burden as light, and distribute it as fair
ly as possible on the shoulders of the people.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

Thanksgiving Prosiamatien hv the prc~i-
dent

WHEREAS. Il bchoves people, sensible ol
their dependence on the Ami hty, publicly
and collectively, to acknowledge their graft
tude for Ills favors and mercy, and humbly
TO beseech for their continuance
And whereas, The people Of the United
States, during the year aaw about to end,
have cause to be thankful for general pros
perity, abundant harvesis, exemption from
pestilence, foreign war ard civil strife,
Now, therefore, be it known that /, Ulys-
sis :. Grant, President of the United States,
concurring in any similar recommendation
from Chief Magistrates Of States, do hereby
recommend to all citizens to meet in their
respective places of worship on Thursday,
the 9th day Of November next, to give
thanks for the bounty of God during the year
about to close, and to supplicate FOX its con-
tinuance hereafter.
In witness whereof have hereunto set nv
hand and caused the seal OF tho United States
to be affixed.
Done MT the city Of Washington, the 2lst
day Of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, and Of
the Independence of the United States the
ninety fifth.
(Signed U. S. GRANT,
By the President.
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary Of State.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29

OVERLAND MONTHLY. The November NAM
Der of this ever welcome Monthly has come
to hand with the following contents. 'The
Bed Of the River To the Big frees To the
Statute on the Capitol at Washington The
Sabre Of Honor The Angora Goat At San
Diego and the Gold Mines tNo. y; Spilled
Milk; The Aleutian Islands; The Cocoa Tree;
The Yuba; The Imperial Prison AT "Pre-
sdio" in War Time; The Career of an
American Princess An Evening in Cali
fornia Garden; A Hone Grandmother s
Story The Had of Sandy Bar and Current
Literature.
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-10-29
HAMILTON Frsn, Secretary of State.

RAILROAD SoBsiDY IN IERcED-The San
Joaquin Valley llyas, published at Smelling
is opposed to MERGED County voting subsidy
to the Central Pacific Railroad Company on
Saturday next. That the Railroad Company
and parties owning lands who are to be .bcne-
fitted largely by the construction Of road
near or over their possessions, will use every
means to have subsidy granted, mono will
doubt, the Argus says;
"We SEQ in every neighborhocd in the
county, the agent of the company and the
landholders prepared with ready-made argu-
mcnts and stories to induce the people to vote
for the subsidy, and thus mortgage the pro-
perry Of the county for the payment of debt
that will cripple the resources Of the county
for the next forty or fifty years"
The people of MERGED will bemcre than fool
ish if they take upon themselves the respon-
sibility to give this great monopoly subsidy
outright for no right or privilege secured,
and which will not secure the Railroad to
them any quicker or any better than if they
do not make the gift. 1t is entirely one sid
el matter in favor Of the great monopoly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

days since, and elected the following
directors for the ensuing year B. G.
Levi, G. W. Wicks. Joseph d. Allen,
Henry Walton, E. f. Wade, A. Peter,
and A. T. Fisher; after which b. c. Levi
was elected President and Joseph d.
Allen, Treasurer. 2 0l'.
A correspondent of the st Louis Dem
ocrat referring to the Lees machinery,
says;
The diameter of the Lees cylinders
inside the bore has been incorrectly
given. On the day of her arrival here
while passing through looking at her en-
gines, / discovered that one of her cylin-
der-heads had been taken out for repairs
and, thinking the bore looked small for
forty inches, concluded to measure it,
found the diameter, inside the cylinder,
to be thirty-seven and three-fourths
inches. The Lees advantage in power
over the Natchez is not so great by more
than one-half as has been reported
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

A Coon Now. Members Of the Mem
phis Mechanics Institute are to take
charge of the mechanical department Of
the Shelby county Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association Fair. This is a
good move, and we expect happy results
from it. A committee of the Institute is
to be appointed on premiums; also, a
committee to solicit special premiums,
and committee TO prepare an address
to manufacturers and mechanics, re-
questing them to send articles for exhi-
bition. We are glad to find the Institute
taking practical step. 1t seems to be
under the control of sensible men now,
and cannot but achieve success. Fol
lowing are the committees referred to;
Committee upon Premiums-nessrs. M.
Burke, l., s. Burr, William Farris, M.
II. Baldwin, J. e. Randle and l.. La
grill. Committee upon Special Premi-
ums-E. f. Risk, j. 7. Begbie, j. Hal
stead, ]. w. Heath and P. Mallon.
Committee to Prepare Address and Sc
cure Articles for Exhibition-Messrs. A.
Plough, A. s. Livermore, VIM. White
law, Ed Burke Pickett, w. d. Andrews,
j. l.. Eichberg and ID. G. Marden. Gen
eral Committee-F. Stith, J. d. Danbury
and ], H. Humphreys.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

SEA Moss FARNE is creating a great
sensation in lthe food market, and its
uses, as set forth by the reports of scien-
tifc experts, are many and various. In
the first place, when employed in the
preparation of buildings, custards, blanc
mango, creams, gruels, and scores of
other delicaces for the family table or
the sick room, it adds largely to the
quantity of nutriment derivable from
the other materials; and in the second
place renders the dish, whatever it may
be, far more digestible and agreeable to
the taste than it would have been with
out this cheap and pure ingredient.
Such is the testimony of large number
of the most prominent hotel-keepers in
New York and other cities tits being
used largely in all the hospitals, and
will prove lasting blessing to the poor.
cod
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

ExAaIxArioN.-The examination OF
Mr.. Stanley, accused of shooting negro
named Henry Curtis, seven miles south
of this city on Saturday last, takes place
before Squire Elliott tomorrow morn
ing. There is good deal of mist about
this affair, one party alleging Mr.. Stan
ley shot in selfdefense, and another
party that he shot without provocation.
1t may all be cleared tomorrow. 1t is
not likely that a man would shoot at
anything without provocation.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

AMoSIroR IN THE HOUSE. 1t has been
the opinion of philosophers, ancient and
modern, that every one should have a
monitor in his house. Now, we believe
the opinion of those old fellows to have
been good but at the same time we are GER
tain our lady friends will agree with us
that the best kind of monitor is a cook
ing-stove, and that the best kind of cook
ing-stove is Monitor, which can be had
of Wetter & Co., Monroe street, agents
for the Monitor in this city. saI
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

We are happy to announce the arrival
in this city of Frank Delucca and his
unriyalled String Band from the Hot
Springs. All orders either for day or
evening pnnctually attended to. For
further information please call at St.
Charles Restaurant or on Peter San
gnine6, corner Second and Jefferson
streets. IA
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

RowDr.-Mollie VIM, George John
son and Savannah Edwards, a sweet
scented trio. cut mp pandemoniae capers
on Sunday morning TO the great annoy
snee Of white people in the neighborhood
Of Gayoso street. They were properly
fined this morning
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

The GRAcIoUs Six HUNDRED Before
the next election day arrives it is ex-
pected land confidently hoped by those
who love fun that there will be at least
six hundred candidates in the field for
the Office of Probate Judge. Six hun
dred is the number, we believe, of the
gallant fellows who, under Cardigan,
rode into the jaws Of death at Balaklava,
and whose self-sacrifcing glory is re-
corded by Tennyson. In order that our
gracious six hundred aspirants for the
judgeship may not pass into oblivion
after the election, we have hired a ten
cent poet to chant their praises in blank
verse
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

HAIR PULLING.-There was a jolly old
hair-pulling match in South Memphis
last evening between Alice Jackson,
Bob Miles and Mary Jane Miles, all
curIy-headed folks of colored complex
ion The two women wooded the man
beautifully, and the man left plenty of
room and occasion for wisps and water
falls. The festive party were fined s.
each in police court this morning.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

UNIVERSAL REGRET. = The Bar, the
City Council, the citizens and negroes
of Nashville have all passed resolutions
of regret for the demise of Hon. John
Hugh Smith, which took place on Thurs
day last. The deceased was born in
Nashville in 1919, and was ffty7one
years of age. he had been several times
Mayor of Nashville, was a Representa-
tive in the Legislature in 1862, and was
Judge of the Criminal Court of Davidson
county when he died.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

AssAuLr.-Bin Pleasant and Alex
ander Williams, two idle negroes, en-
gagged in the assaulting business on Sat
urday night, and succeeded in getting
themselgas into the calabooses where
they were well TAD on Sunday, and this
morning, after a light 6ne, tarnea loose
to try their hands again.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11

DIsoRDERLY. : Four negroes = Trip
Baynam, Alexander Poole, Coleman
Thomas and Thomas Graham = were
anything but in quiet state becoming
Christians on the Subbath yesterday; in
fact they were so disorderly as to give
some trouble to the policemen who took
them to the statiouhouse. The Recorder
cooled them down little this morning
by a heavy fine.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11
Esc,rrxrSr. In any man among US

ExclrExENr.--f any man among us
(steamboat or ganboat will do just as
well) wishes to become popular, he must
get up an excitement of some kind, long
race or short race or anything to create
crowd, which always goes to see itself
Just announce that thousand persons
will be gathered at any given spot on a
certain day or night, and five thousand
will assemble to see them This is the
simplest mode Of obtaining excitement,
which is a great object with those who
are condemned to mill-horse round OF
existence. Indeed the most of us are
fond of excitement, and we believe could
actually live on il. We seemto enjoy
agitation for the sake Of agitation. and
are glad to stir up pool with a stick if
we cannot get an angel ito trouble the
waters. o we are jolly