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Year: 1868

A DREAM REALIZED Some time during
last summer stranger stopped at a farm
house and asked permission to stay over
night, which was readily granted by the hos
pitable farmer A couple of hours after re-
tiring for the night, the stranger was taken
suddenly and violently i'll, and for several
davs was apparently deranged. On his re
coyery. he informed his host that during his
illness he had dreamed three nights in sue.
cession that he had discovered i'll certain
ravine, near the house, under rock, an
earthen crock containing large amount OF
silver At this the old gentleman expressed
surprise, and spoke of it as being a very
mysterious dream. Afterward, however,
they were walking together in that direc-
ton, and the dream was again adverted to
by the stranger An examination was at
once proposed by the farmer to satisfy their
curiosity The rock was soon found, and
after brushing the leaves carfully away, il
was removed, and to their utter amazement
there sat crock full of silver They took
it out and conveyed it secretly to the house,
and, on examination, it was found to con
tain 81 900, which they agreed to divide
equally between them. The day after this
discovery, as the stranger was about to take
his leave, he complained to his benefactor
of the inconvenience of carrying so much sill
yer, when an exchange was proposed, the
stranger receiving his share in notes. 1t
was not long after the departure Of his guest,
however, till mine host made: another diseoA.
ery-his 81 900 in silver was counterfeit and
he had thus been ingeniously swindled out oi
$500. The story was kept quiet for several
months, but it finally leaked out and we now
give it to our readers precisely as we heard
it.-Edstern paper.
Year: 1868

Established expressly to afford the afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases, Cases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1868

Now, farmers wives, don't get ang-
ry with me, but look at the statement.
consider it carefully, and then say if we
are not right. In the first place we
Will suppose that your cream is all right,
your churn sweet, &c. Well, you churn
your cream, and it finally makes what
we call butter, you wash it in good cool
water, salt it according to taste, and
rejoice in your nice fresh butter; here
you call it done. 1t just az this point
where am going to find fault.


There is no process of worKinJ4 or
washing that will secure q good article
of butter, or that will get ali the butter
milk out tillit has stood a short time,
when it must be worked over the Sc
cond time, after which it will keep
a long time. Butter that has not been
worked the second time will not keen
more than two or three days in warm
weather. / don't care how much pains
you take with it, the buttermlk that is
left in the butter becoming sour, makes
your butter rancid. have bought and
sold butter in this state, and know what
| am talking about; and here is where
the trouble begins. You are bound to
sell all the buttermilk you can, and so
long as dealers pay as much for butter
milk as they do, a nice article of butter
we cannot expect you 20 do much. L
am satisfied that there can be just as
good butter made in Indiana as is
made in the cheese and butter region of
the Eastern States. But just so long
as we pursue the suicidal policy of SELL
ing euttermilk with the butter, so long
our butter will be quoted in Eastern
markets as Western grease. North
Western States.
Year: 1868




First, to escape trouble by running
away from duty. Jonah ONCE made
the experiment but he soon found
himself where his imitators.will in the
end find themselves. Therefore, man.
fully meet and overcome the difficulties
and trials to which the post assigned
you by Gods providence exposes you.
Second, to become a good Christian of
strength and maturity without under
going severe trials. What fire is to
gold, that is affiiction to the believer.
1t burns up the dross and makes the
gold shine forth with nnalloyed luster.
Third, to form an independent char
acter except when thrown upon their
own resources. The oak in the mid
die of the forest, If surrounded on ev-
cry side by trees that shelter and shade
it. runs up tall and sickly; but away
from it's protectors, and the first blast
will overturn it But the same tree
growing in the open field where 1t is
continually beat upon by the tempest,
becomes it's own protector. So the
man who is compelled to rely on his
own resources forms an Independence
of character to which he could not 9TH
erwise have attained.


Fourth, to be growing man when
you look to your post for Influence, in
stead of bringing influence to.your post
Therefore prefer rather to climb up
hill with difficulty than roll down with
inglorious ease.
Year: 1868

Bubbles" of the "California Golden
Era" gets off the following:


begin to believe, now days money
makes the man, and dress the gentle
man. .ras


begin to believe that the purse is
more potent than the sword and the
pen together. 5l.r..t5


lbegin to believe that those who sin
the most during the week are most de-
vout upon Sunday. @,
l begin to believe that honesty is the
best policy-to speculate with until you
have gained everybody's confidence
then line your pockets.


l begin to believe in humbugging peo-
pie out Of their dollars. 1t is neither
stealing nor begging; and those who
are humbugged have themselves to
blame. #I4..... .l...f es.I ...rf5


l begin to believe that man was not
made to enjoy life, but to keep himself
miserable in the pursuit and possession
of riches.


begin to believe that the surest REM
edy for hard times and tight money
market is an extravagant expenditure
on the part of the individual-to keep
the money moving.


| begin to believe that none but
knaves are qualified to hold office under
Government-with the exception of
few natural born fools and lunatics.


| begin to believe that piano-forte is
more necessary in family than meat
and potatoes.


l begin to believe that boy who
doesn't swear, smoke and chew tobac-
co, may be a very good boy, but natu-
rally stupid.


/ begin to believe that if the devil
should die one half of the world would
be thrown out of employment.


L begin to believe that he has the most
merit who makes the most noise in his
own behalf; and that when Gabriel
comes, not to be behind the times, he
too, will blow his own horn pretty
lOul -...,
Year: 1868

y


We clip the following from the San
Francisco (Nov. 29) letter of the New
York Times;


In Monitor Valley, short distance
from Humphreys station there is a sim
gular boiling cauldren now known as
Diana's bowl. In the centre of a low
round hill composed of sedimentary
matter there isa natural bowl about
20 feet in depth. At the bottom there
is large volume ofetalding water con-
stantly in active ebullition. The water
issoremarkablypure that stone thrown
into it is seen decending with spiral
motion to great depth, being gradu-
ally drawn toward the point where the
spring seems to be sent from the rocks
beneath. The most singular feature a.
bout this spring is that it does not ap-
pear to have no outlet, yet it's level
does not seem to vary. The surface of
the water is some twenty feet lower
than the rim of the bowl, and can be
reached only with the aid of = rope.
Year: 1868

1t is dangerous for a man to grow rich
and strong faster than he grows good.
l do not think it is wise to grow rich
too fast, at any rate. don mean to say
that there may not be men of such stat
ure that they can grow rich rapidly
without being hurt by their riches /; but
generally God makes the road to wealth
one of care, so that the process is one of
education, and so that, when a man had
attained his competence, he has gone
through that which is a strengthener,
stiffener, and which prevents his being
much injured by it. But when men
come into the possession of wealth with
out having earned it they are apt to be
injured by it, because they have not re-
ceived that education which is necessa-
ry to. enable them to administer it prop
erly.
Year: 1868

P A Mobile citizen having ticket
in a gift lottery was delighted to hear
from the agent that he had drawn thirty
articles, but on writing for them re-
covered from his elation on learning
that they consisted of pint Of bisters
containing twenty-eight ingredients,
ami the bottle and cork.
Year: 1868

fBs An editor down South says he
would as soon try to go to sea upon a
single, make ladder OF log, chase
streak of lightning through crab-ap-
pie orchard. swim up the rapids of Nj
agra, raise the dead, stop the tongue Of
an old maid, or set Erie on fire with
wet match, as to stop loves getting
married when they take it into their
heads to do so,
Year: 1868

|" Printer out West, whose Office IS
half mile from any other building, and
who hangs his sign on the limb of q
tree, advertises for an apprentice. He
says, ga boy from the country prefer
red,o
Year: 1868

When a female is in trouble afflicted with disease
as weakness of the back and limbs pain in the head dim
ness OF sight loss of muscular power papitation of the
heart rrtabity nervousness extreme urinary iifcu.
ties, arrangement of digestive functions, general debility
vaginitis, all diseases of the womb hystera, sterity
and all other diseases peculiar TO females she should
or write at once to the celebrated female doctor W.
Dohery at his Medical Institute and consult him about
her troubles and disease. The Doctor is eecting
cures than any other physician in the State Of California


Let no false delicacy prevent but apply Immediately
and save yourself from painful suerings and premature
DEATH All married ladies' whose delicate health
circumstances prevent increase their families should
write or call at Dr. W. k pohertys Medical Institute
and they will receive every possible relief and help The
Doctors offices are arranged that he be consulted
without fear of observation.
Year: 1868

FEMALES, OWING TO THE


peculiar and important relations which


they sustain, their peculiar organization


and the offices they perform, are subject


to many sufferings. Freedom from these


contribute in no small degree to their


happiness and welfare, for none can be


happy who are i'll. Not only SO, but no


one of these various female complaints
can long be suffered to run on without
involving the general health of the in
dividual, and ere long producing perma-
nent sickness and premature decline. Nor
is it pleasant to consult physician for the
relief of these various delicate affections,
and only upon the most urgent necessity
will true woman so far sacrifice her
greatest charm as to do this. The sex
will then thank us for placing in their
hands simple specifics which will be
found eficacious in relieving and curing
almost every one Of those troublesome
complaints peculiar to the sex. ~ =
Year: 1868

The Queen Of Spain has been provid-
ing against a stormy day for some time
past, so that, in pecuniary point of
view, the revolution does not find her
unprepared. She has been selling her
property at every chance, and collecting
from the treasury every kind of claim
that could be made up in her behalf. or
that of her family. 1t has been stated
that she has carried off twenty three
millions of reals that belong to the treas
ury; but this is, probably, only an in
correct version of the fact which we
have stated above. Her money has been
mostly invested in London. In this she
has only followed the example of her
mother, Queen Christina, who left the
throne of Spain with mighty fortune,
and of her cousin, Francis H., whom
Garibaldi did not drive out of Naples
until he had placed millions enough in
foreign countries to make him one of the
rich men of Europe. s5ai5 9a3 a5 3y1ss- p
Year: 1868

We extract the following letter from the Brooklyn Duly Union It is supposed to have been written by grandson of Dr. Beecher son of native of the place, who was among us few weeks since Our readers will hardly subscribe to all the writers views, but they are certainly out-spoken, nextly expressed, and not un-
Year: 1868

In the conclusion of this number, let me
ask Virginia" what morality, upon his
theory, the State is to adopt and prac-
tice? Is the State at liberty to learn
morals from the Scriptures or not? If
yes, then, why not other revealed truth
also? My friend l suppose is little
afraid to have the State go to the Scrip
lures for any light, because he has him
self asked, Where will she stop if she
ever begin, learning from the Scriptures !!
If then, in consistency with this appre-
hension he deny the States right to
take anything from Christianity, what
code of morals will he have her adopt !?


SOUTH CAROLINA.
Year: 1868

The drunkard dreamed of his old retreat,
Of his eozy place in the tap-roOm seat,
And the liquor cleaned on his gloasing eye,
Till his lips to the sparkling glass drew nigh.
He lifted it N with an eager glance,
And sang, as he saw the bubbles dance,
"Ahai | am myself again!


Here's a truce to care, an adieu to pain.
Welcome the cup with It's creamy toaml
Farewell to work and mopy homel
With jolly crew. and flowing bowl
In bar-room pleasures love to roll"
Like fash there came to the drunkard's side
His angel child, who that night had died!
With look so gentle and sweet and fond
She touched his glass with her little wand;
And oft as he raised it up to drink
She silently tapped on its trembling brink,
Till the drunkard shook from foot to crown,
And set the untasted goblet down.
sEe, ,AanV' - uost, "what meansth


this2


Is the cove sick? or the dram amisS?
Cheer up, my ladl quick the bumper quail"
And he glared around with 6endish laugh.
The drunkard raised the glass once more,
And looked at its depths as so oft before;
But started to see on its pictured foam
The face of his dead little child at home
Then again the landlord at him sneered,
And the staggering crowd of drunkards jeered;
But still, as be tried that glass to drink
The wand of his dead one tapped the brink
The landlord gasped, Il swear, my man,
Thou shalt take every drop of this flowing canl'
The drunkard bowed to the quivering brim,
Though his heart beat fast and his eye grew dim /;
But the wand struck harder than ever before,
The glass was flung on the bar-room floor;
All around the ring the fragments lay,
And the poisonous current rolled away.
The drunkard woke. His dream was gone;
His bed was bathed in the light of morn;
But he saw, as he shook with pale, cold fear,
A beautiful angel lowering near.
He rose; and that seraph was nigh him still;
1t checked his passion, it swayed his will,
1t dashed from his lips the maddeuing bowl,
And victory gave to his ransomed SOUL
Since ever that midnight hour he dreamed
Our hero has been man redeemed,
And this is the prayer that he prays alway,
And this is the prayer let us help him pray;
That angels may come, in every land,
To dash the cup from the drunkard's hand.
Year: 1868

"Virginia" denies that the Confession
of Christ is one of the official duties OF
the magistrate or State. And his first
argument IN denial (see No. p is that
there are men, and there is a communi-
ty, whose great function it is officially to
do this.


Let us examine the weight of this ar
gument: Ministers of the Gospel are
the men whose duty it is officially to con-
fess Christ, and therefore magistrates, as
such, may not do so. The Church is the
community whose duty it is officially to
confess Christ, and therefore the State
may not do so. Now, Mr. Editor, if this
reasoning were sound, it could be applied
equally well to the family, as to the
State; and we might say, on this princi-
pie, that neither families nor heads of
families as such have any right to pay
homage to the Lord. Observe, upon
|'Virginia's'' principle, the State and
the family not only are not bound to pay
, their homage to the Lord, but they have
no right to do so. COnfessing and honor
ing Christ cannot be ascribed to the
State (says "Virginia" in No. p with
out identifying it with the Church. "
Let ministers then and the Church pay
homage to the Lord-that function be-
longs to them; but families and States
must be goddess


His second argument is that the people
of the United States do not all believe in
Christ, and therefore their confession of
Christ would be hypOcritical and wrong.
The proper use of this argument in the
hands of my brother should lead him to
urge that the first duty be done by the
people, with view to their going on to
a performance of the second. But In
stead of this we find him laboring all the
time to prove that they have no duty and
no right, as represented, to believe in
Christ at all. What would he say to
''the brethren on the other side" if in
fencing the table, they should warn sim
ners not only not to make profession
without believing, but not to believe
His way of fencing the State from a by
pocritical confession, is to insist that they
have a right neither to believe nor to
confess at all. But Gods Word on the
contrary requires this at their hand.


But my brother very candidly asserts
in the third place, in so many words, that
seven if the people of the United States
or their representatives in Congress had
all of them been believers in Christ, ii
would have been ''out of place" for them
to have recognized Christianity in their
constitution. My friends position is that
the State, even were it composed exelu-
sively of Christian believers, is not to
acknowledge God at all-that is the
Chureh's Office. The separation Of
Church and State is not complete, if the
State be not utterly goddess. Christians.
in the divinely constituted association Oi
the family, may pay homage to Christ
without intruling on the Church's office
but divinely associated together as the
State, for them to pay such homage il
wicked. Let US hear no more then abOu
Year: 1868

The FEAR OF GoD.-The fear of God
is mingled with hope: "The eyes of the
Lord are upon them that fear him, npon
them that hope in his mercy" Fear is
to hope as oil is to lamp-it keeps it
burning. The more we fear Gods JUS
tice, the more we may hope in his mercy.
Year: 1868




A VERY RICH FARM.--The narrator
says: 81 went over last summer with
two friends, and Jones took usqup on q
four acre lot he had just prepared for
planting, We all went to the centre
of the lot, and he here made single
hill and showed US cucumber seed.


SNOW, boys" said he, "when put
this seed into the ground you must run
for the fence and get outas, soon as you.
can" No sooner had he dropped the
seed than he and the other started off
as if bulldog had been after them,
l was SO surprised that ] forgot the
warning until I saw vine pushing up
through the ground and making for
me. Then I ran as if for dear lite, but
before I got to the fence the vine caught
me and began to wind round me like
snake. / was very much, alarmed and
put nay hand to my poeket for my jack
knife with. which to cut myself loose,
but to my horror could not get it on
account of cucumber which hung
there and which was growing like bla7
zes 1t took four men with scythes
to cut me loose" .ae aad4faa aG
Year: 1868

A PHILANTHRoPIc AssocIATIoN.-We received
a letter post marked San Francisco. the other
night, on the outside of which pasted slip
containing the following printed article:


THE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Of San Fran
cisco find this letter in the Post office without stamp ard
the postage 10 it from the Dead Letter Office
Washington. Whatever You desire for the
will he devoted to the building erecting for
public Library and Reading Room"


AS the letter was of considerable Importance
to us, and its transmission to the Dead Letter
Office might have resulted disastriously to a
certain party, we take this occasion to express
our gratitude for the favor rendered, and also to
repay it in a manner more substantial, and one
calculated to encourage the Young Mems Christ
ian Association to not grow weary in well
doing.
Year: 1868

TIE STATE CoNvExrIoS.-On.. Wednesday next
the Union Republican State Convention will as
semble at Sacramento, to nominate Presidential
Electors. 1t is early, and will make the cam
paign an unusually long one, yet the Importance
of the contest is such, and a thorough canvass
so necessary, that all will concede the wisdom
of the State Central Committee in not deferring
the Convention to a later day. The willingness
manifested by the masses to take right hold of
the work in hand and like our noble leader,
GRANT, never relax an effort until the end is ac-
complished, fills us with the most sanguine an
ticipalions of the final result. The Convention


will bring together Republicans from every nook
and corner of the State, and cannot fail of ben
eicial results. Where the iniatory steps have
not already been taken to organize for the cam
paign, this occasion will be made available to
do SO. 1t may as well be understood at the out
set that if the Republicans expect to carry Cali
fornia this Fall they have work before
them which will require the putting forth of the
best effects of each individual member of the
party. Encouraged by their majority last year,
the Democracy will bring every corruptng infu-
ence to bear to retain the State. They won the
campaign of 1867 through division and indiffer-
ence in our own ranks. Every Republican is ex-
pected to do his duty in the coming canvass.
Victory will not crown the effects of the few,
but all must do according their ability in
arousing friends and neighbors to sense of
their duty. We must realize that great strug-
gle is worthy of great effect; that the obsta-
cles we have to overcome are by no means in
significant, and that we shall have achieved our
object only when we have deserved to do so. 1t
is because we see on all hands indications that
Republicans intend to open the canvass in this
spirit, that we venture to look forward with con-
fldence to the result.


The National ticket is one upon which all 10y
al sentiment promptly and heartily unites. If
the State Convention does its work we'll, we
shall see California quite redeemed from the
temporary spasm of false Democracy. From
one extreme Of the Union to the other the can
didates and the Platform are received with un
precedented marks of appreciation, all of which
hetokens such victory over the odds and ends
of faction as will rejoice the heart of every pat
riot in the land. Let the watchword be, hence
forth, and until the close of the polls in Novem
Der, GRANT. CoLFAx, and VIcToRY !
Year: 1868

For PRESIDENTIAL ELEcToR. - The name of
General Redington, of Sacramento, is very
unanimously mentioned AS one of the Electors
on the Grant and Colfax ticket General Red
ington is one of the pioneers of the State, and
no man more Jealous in his opposition to
the desires Of rebel leaders while war was waged,
or has been more ready to aid by every means in
his power the reconstruction of the Southern
States on the basis of freedom ard equality be-
fore the law.
Year: 1868

IMPROVED. - The propretors of the Union
Hotel have been overhauling and renovating that
old-established place of resort. The reception
room has been much enlarged and improved
and the Union is now as we'll prepared to care
for local custom and the travelling public as any
hotel in Northern California. The incredulous
are requested to call and satisfy themselves.
Year: 1868

AsToNIsHISGLY RIcH.-The rock taken from
the new quartz ledge on East Fork during the
past week is rich enough to have come from the
Comstock ledge. Two thousand dollars have
been offered for the rock already out. The aras-
ira will be running in week two Other
lodges have been discovered in the vicinity.