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Year: 1859




AT the residence of J. r. Gilbert in this place
on Friday, May 18th, Mr.. ANDREW c. BERGER, OF
New York, aged % years. He was born and
educated in New York City, and emigrated with
his parents to Sacramento in 1853.


Twas spring, three years ago, when he came
among us try his fortunes. He was respected
by all who knew him. Honest noble and gift
ed, the broad world to his warm hopes was the
future scene of affluence, fame and happiness.
But alas, too soon the withering blight to him
had come with desolating tempest, and the form
SO stately and erect was marred by that fell de-
stroyer-consumption.


View the groves in autumn, and observe the
constant succession of falling leaves in like
manner the generations of men silently drop
from the stage of life and are blended with the
dust.


"All that live must die,


Passing through nature to eternity"


The most beautiful flowers soon fade, droop
and die. This is also the case with man his
days are as uncertain as the passing breeze. This
hour he glows in the flush of health and vigor,
but the next he may be counted with the num-
ber no more on earth.


Leaves have their time to fall and stars to set,
And flowers to wither at the North winds blast,
But all, thou hast all seasons for thine own, o


death. OK
Year: 1859

The following letter from the pen Of Governor
Weller was given to the public by, we should
think, doubtful friend of that gentleman, or if
a true friend, then one of little discretion


SACRAMENTO, April 81, 1859.


DEAR SIR:-Your letter of the 10th instant,
reached me on my return to the city to-day In
reply, have to say that there is no truth in the
report to which you allude, that have formed
a combination with other candidates to carry
the State Convention in June. | am candidate
for reelection to the office which | now hold
and do not intead to intermeddle with others.
| am aware that extraordinary efforts are being
made TO prevent my nomination, and the plan
adopted is to multiply candidates for the State
offices in various localities who, availing them
selves of their personal popularity, can carry
delegation wholly uncommitted upon the CUB
ernatorial question. The object is to prevent
the people from speaking upon the subject, and
thus placing the nomination in the hand of
leading politicians Now all that desire is that
ray ffierds in the respective counties will see
that full and fair expression of public opinion
is obtained. If have lost the confidence of the
people, it will give me no pain to withdraw form
the contest.


Yours, truly, 12aN B. WELLER.


The Governor believes that the {" leading pol
fiieans" are endeavoring to defeat his re-nomi-
nation. He says if the people are permitted to
speak on the subject he will be perfectly con-
sent "If," says he, 1" have lost the confidence
of the people, it will give me no pain to with
draw from the contest" We do not recognize
the force of thi. remark. The same argument
might with equal propriety be used by an Off
cial incumbent at the expiration of every term
for quarter of century, and thus, if the reas-
oning be legitimate, to wit: that so long an
official retained the confidence Of the people, they
ought to elect him-he would have life interest
in the Office which he was filling. We hold that
such Democrats as prefer Denver or Latham, or
any other Democrat, de not thereby indicate a
lack or decrease of confidence in Governor We'll
Ter. The idea is not sustainable by reason, and
the man who published this letter of Governor
Neller's, which contains it, is, we should think,
a wolf in sleeps clothing'-an Anti-W eller
man in disguise-a man who, while protesting
friendship for the Governor, is slyly thrusting a
stiletto into His Excellencys epigastric regions.


We like Governor Wellers declaration that he
aas formed combination With other candi-
dates to carry the State Convention. This is
honorable Let every tub stand on its own bot
tom. In this county the people will have fair
chance to express their preference for Governor
If Weller is their first choice he will get the en-
lire delegation. And so with the other candi-
dates. Each will have ardent friends at work.
Year: 1859

RIDICULoUs FATsEHooD.-The Los Angeles
Vlneyard says " the central route is inaccessible
to emigrants.' AS almost the entire immigration
this year came by the central route. we must be-
lcve that they are great set of ounces for pre-
ferring that route, or that the YmeHard editor
must be terribly prone to depart from the truth,
as he must have been aware of tue fact when he
made the statement.
Year: 1859

TURNPIKE RoAp.-We learn that active steps
are now being taken for the formation of Joint
stock company, for the purpose of constructing
Turnpike Road from Cloverdale to Wcaverville,
Trinity county. The company is to be composed
OF some Of the most substantial mep. not only OF
Sonoma and Mendocino counties but of Weaver
vile and other sections of the State, and thus
gives ample assurance that if once undertaken,
the work will be put through to completion
Petalumd Journal
Year: 1859

THE CHURCH HoRN.-The people Of San Juan
in default of a bell, have bought long tin
horn" to call people TO church with. Since it
has been in use revival has taken place, the
people have quit taking their regular =" horns,"
and now give heed to the church horn.
Year: 1859

THE REGISTRATION LAY.-An act was passed
at the last session Of the Legislature to provide
for the Registration of Marriages Births, p-
yorces and Deaths" The State Registrar has
written TO the Clerk of this county, notifying
him that a true report is expected, according to
the requirements Of the act On application to
the Register prepared by that officer, we find that
most of the marriages solemnzcd during this
year have been properly recorded, while not a
single birth nor death have been entered


In order to place the requirements of the Act
before the public, we would inform citizens that
it is the duty Of any person performing the ccre-
mony Of marriage, to fe notice of the same
with the county Recorder, in regular detail ; in
case Of death is the duty OF the person in charge
of a cemetery, sexton, undertaken, or any person
having charge of such burial, or Coroner if an in
quest is held, to file such notice. When birth
occurs it is made the duty Of parents and heads
of families To file notice of the same, as above
required. \ penalty of not less than ten and not
more than one hundred dollars is fixed Tor neg
lcct to comply with the above requirements, one
half of which goes to the county, and one half to
the person informing Of such neglect. Parents,
heads of families, sections, undertakers, etc. are
notified that the above requirements, to use the
language OF the State Registrar, "will be fully
enforced.
Year: 1859

ing his fume up the creek, and preparing to work
the bed of the old mill dam the coming winter
The ground is very rich there, and will pay hand
tomey, II the report of prospects received is true
Year: 1859

IF the spring put forth 10 blossoms, in summer
there will be no beauty, and in autumn no fruit
So, if youth be trfed away without Improvement
ripper years will be contemplate aud old age
miserable.
Year: 1859

RENEWAL OF INDIAN HoSTHITIEs IN Oregon
A Government cxpressman arrived at Fort
Dalles on the 8th, bringing intelligence of the
massacre of an entire train of enigrauts while
passing caion beyond the Grandc Ronde. One
woman was carried off alive, and subjected to
the most brutal indignity. The only reason that
can be given for the massacre is the settlement
OF the country east Of the cascades by this sea-
sons emigration. No outrages have been com
mitted against the Indians the past season, and
no other justification than the above can be Of
fered. Another Indian war will be the probable
result. just at present more Indian iiiculties
exist on this coast than at any time for five years
Year: 1859

New MoDE OF TELEGR4 R4PuING.-The San Fran
cisco Times says the last overland news received
in that city was telegraphed from a new place
Pacheco Pass, near Hollenbeck s ranch-twenty
five miles beyond Gilroy, and one hundred and
ten from that city. The operator held the ma,
chine in his lap, and was seated on box, with
the Eastern papers spread before him on the
ground in the open air Thus the lines of the
ATLANTIC and Pacific Telegraph company
creeping Eastward little by little, every day ad-
ding from two to -four miles to its length.
Year: 1859

FEARFUL RETRBUTloN.-The most sickening
rehearsal Of Indian retrhution we ever read is
related to have occurred to a young man who
composed one of company of Pixies Peak ad
venturers who left Grayyille, H., last spring
according to bis previously declared intention
shot a defenceless squaw dead, by the road. The
tribe was close by, and as soon as hcy discovered
the murder, pursued aud overlook the party.
The company numbered only six, and to save
their own lives were obliged TO indicate the
murderer to the savages. lie was taken short
distance from the road and stunned from heaa 10
foot. He was brought back to his companions,
and lived long enough to tell of his torture. Few
will say the revenge was not deserved, although
more terrible than instant death.
Year: 1859

but my commission from Satan?'


Has been fulfilled =


With her eyes calmly reading his, she
took his arm and led him quietly away
to his state room.


Captain Reynolds immediately ordered
the dampening of the furnace fires, and
by thus reducing steam, we were soon
comparatively safe.


| have but little more 70 add.


We reached St. Louis in due time and
without any return Of Lieutenant IIilton's
malady, and, as may be supposed, it need.
ed but little urging for me to accompany
them to the house Of their unce-a veal
thy retired merchant of that citv-who
gave US princely welcome, worthy of
his generous bachelor heart.


Under the careful treatment of several
of the most skIlful physicians in the city,
The lieutenant was soon entirely recover.
ed.


And |?


Need add that my friendship for the
beautiful Virginia had ripened into some
thing warmer! Into lore
Year: 1859

RESPECT TO THE AGED.-Bow low the
head, boy. Do reverence to the old
nan.


Once like you, vicissitudes of life have
silvered the hair, and changed the round,
merry face to the worn visage before
you.


Once that heart beat with incidents
coequal to any you have ever felt; aspi.
ratons crushed by disappointment, as
perhaps yours are destined 10 be.


Once that form moved proudly through
the gay scenes of lie; now the hand of
Time that withers the flowers Of yoster.
day has warped the figure and DESTROYED
the noble carriage.


Once at your age he possessed the
thoughts that pass through your brain,
now wishing to accomplish deeds worthy
Of nook in fame, anon imagining life q
dream, that the sooner he awoke from the
better. The time to awake is now very
near at hand ; yet his eye kindles at noble
deeds Of daring, and the hand makes a
frmer grasp Of the staff.


Bow low the head, boy, as you would
in your old age be reverenced.
Year: 1859

Fowl MANURE.-No manure obtained
by the farmers is as valuable as the ma.
n"Tc from the poultry house. Of this
there Is no question, and yet we can hard
Iy answer the question "In what way is it
best to use it 2 The manure is made on.
ly in small quantities, and it may be tina,
as general thing, much Of it is wasted.
1t may be thrown with other manure,
muck and refuse ON the compost heap,
but our plan is to save it for special pur.
poses, and We generally use it in the veg.
etabe garden, where it is not only valua.
ble, but exceedingly convenient. When
dry, 1t may be sown with onion or rather
seeds IN the drills, at planting time and
four or live quarts put into a barrel of
ram water makes most superb liquid
manure for any beds Of young plants that
need stimulating. Ia this form we use it
for our melons and cucumbers, as soon as
they appear above ground, to put them
out OF the way Of "bugs," and on the
beds of cabbage, caulilower plants, &c,
Tor the same purpose. Celery plants, af-
ter being set out ir the trenches, may be
hurried up amazingly by being watered
two or three times a week with this liqaid
food. If magnificent sweet corn is wan
ted, half pint of the dry hen dung, fine
Iy scattered in each hill will give it, and
no mistake. If you have been able to
grow only hard, hot, wormy radshes,
next spring SOW the seed in very shallow
/ drills, (not too early) in warm shelter.
ed place, then cover the bed with thin
dressing Of coal ashes and water, with
the liquid hen manure each alternate
night, and i the season is favorable as or
dInarv, You will have no cause to repent
the trial. y little charcoal dust is better
! than coal ashcs.-RurM New YORKER.
Year: 1859

In the lives OF the saddest Of us, there
are bright days like this, when we feel
as if we could take this grea, world in
our arms. Then come the gloomy hours
when the fire will neither burn in our
hearts or on the hearths, and all without
or within is dismal, cold and dark. We
believe every hearth has its secret sorrows
which the world knows not, aud often
times we call a man cold, when he is onlv
.-LOn0tcUow
Year: 1859

never knew a cheerful man


But sometimes he was sad
Or in my life a woman who


The lock jaw ever had.
never saw a cherished pet


But suddenly it died,
Or buttered bread that ever fell


But on the buttered side.
| never saw widower,


Yet single long remain,
Or widow, for the "children's sake
But married soon again.
Year: 1859

Yes, SIR


What can you make?


Oh, almost anything in my line
Can you make devil 2


Certalnly-just put up your foot, and
! will split it in three seconds. never
saw a chap in my life that required less
alteration.'
Year: 1859

What they think Of Buchanan in the
South as a Warrior.-In speaking of
Senator Davis in Congress asking to Of
fer resolution "authorizi ng the Presi-
dent to take possession of the island of
Cuba until the Spanish Government
atoned for the insults and damages done
to the persons and property of the citi-
zens of the United States" the New
Orleans Crescent speaks of tho PROPOSE
ton in this manner: "For our part VIC
earnestly hope the authority a.ked for
will not be granted. old Buck is no
more fit to be at the head of Government
in time of war than an old iron pot,
with plenty of holes in its bottom, is for
a passage round Cape Horn during the
stormiest period of the year. He would
surely cave in, if lie did not cause the
country to cave in with him. Oh, no,
we don't want Cuba on such TERMS"
Year: 1859

Here is letter from q wife in Massa.
chusetts to her husband in Califarnia.--
She don't intend to go through the world
with the blues:


My Dear Hus6and-Asitis is some time
since you left for California, suppose you
would be glad to hear how We are getting
along in your absence. ! am happy to
say that We are enjoying very good health
ou the whole. Just at present two Of the
boys have got the small pox. Amanda
Jane has got the typhus fever Betsey is
down with the measels. Samuel got hook
ed by cow the other day, and little Peter
has chopped off three of his fingers with a
hatehet. 1t is mercy that he didn't che ?
them all of. With these trif1ing excep-
tions, we are all we'll and getting along nice
ly. You needn't be at all anxious about US.
/ almost forgot to say that Sarah Matilda
eloped last week with tin peddler. Poor
girl she's been waiting for the last ten years
for chance, and I'm glad she got married
at last. She needn't to have taken the
trouble to elope, though, for I'm sure
l was glad enough to have her go. She
was great eater, and l find that baked
beans don't go off near so fast now as they
did. The way that girl would dip into
pork and beans was caution to the rest
of the family. The cow took it in her
head yesterday to run away, which was
very fortunate, Pm sure, for the barn caught
fire last night and was consumed. / was
in hopes the house would go too, for it's
very inconvenient, but the wind was the
wrong way, and SO it didn't receive much
injury. Some boys broke into the orchard
the other day, and stripped all the fruit
trees. am very glad of it, for if they
hadn't presume the children would made
themselves sick eating too much fruit
Hoping yor enjoy yourself in California as
well as We do a. home, remain your afec-
tioDate wife,"
Year: 1859




An offense at common law, known as
champerty, was considered very dis
graceful one, and when proven upon an
attorney, was sufficient to silence him in
Court. Blackstone defines it:


"a bargain with plaintiff or defendant
to divide the land or other matter sued
for between them if they prevail at law !;
whereupon the champerter is to carry on
the party's suit at his own expense. '
In the English sense Of the word, it signi-
fies the purchasing of suit. or right OF
suing: practise so much abhorred by
law, that it is one main reason why chose
in action, or thing of which one hath the
right, but not the possession. is not as
signable at common law because no
man should purchase any pretence to sue
in snother's right. These pests of civil
society, who are perpetualiy endeavoring
to disturb the repose of their neighbors,
and oficiously interfering in other mems
quarrels, even at the expense of their
own fortunes, were severely animadverted
on by the Roman law, and were punished
by the forfeiture of third part of their
goods and perpetual INFAMY."


Similar restrictive laws have been passed
in the several States against this offense.


ain New York it is misdemeanor
knowingly to take conveyance of lands
or tenements, or of any interest therein,
from a person not in possession, while the
title is controverted by suit in any court ;
also to buy or sell, or make or take any
agreement to convey any pretended title
to lands or tenements, unless the party
selling or agreeing to sell, has, or he and
those by whom he claims have been in
possession of the same, or of the reversion
or remainder, or have received the profits
thereof for one year before"


Scion o. 7hacher claims to have been
lawyer in New York. II so, he was not
ignorant of that principle of the common
law, nor of the statute law of New York,
neither was he ignorant of those princi-
Piles of natural ethics which underlie all
law, and is the basis of Christianity itself:
"Do to Others as ye would have Others
do unto you )" and yet, as will more full
ly appear by an article elsewhere, headed
"a Fillainous Lawyer will make an Un-
just Judge" this man Thacher has
stepped in and bought lawsuit, and i'm
plicated himself in such a manner as to
render himself, under the civil law, sub
ject to perpetual infamy; under the COM
mon law, to fine and Imprisonment uu-
der the State..laws, generally, subject to
expulsion from the bar, and other penal
ties and under the laws of Kansas, to
fine and Imprisonment. And yet this
villainous lawyer desires the people next
Tuesday to elect him to an Office enabling
him to decide questions in which life,
liberty and property are involved. Such
a man is unworthy of any position but
that ascribed him by the Roman law, to
wit perpetual Infamy."
Year: 1859

FRANKLIN, Nov. 21st, 1859.


EDITOR HERALD 'oF FREEDOM Dear
Sir Il see fzzle in your paper of last
week, in which the writer undertakes to
make it appear that I am in rather bad
box. Now, sir, the writer Of that article
knows well enough that never have pre-
tended to be politician, nor have ever
aspired to any Office, but was present at
the caucus in Franklin of which he speaks,
and did object to my name being used,
but said that if the people would elect
me, that l would serve them to the best
of my ability, for am no partisan. But
if ever fill an office, it will be for the
good ofmy country, and not to serve the
aims and ends of any party. Further,
when Mr.. Geo. Reynolds informed me Of
my nomination, l did object, and gave
him my reason, which was this, that they
had done it without my consent, or the
knowledge of my neighbors. As for
Thacher, Williams & Co. ever offering me-
the Probate Judgeship, or any other Of
fee, it is as false as the Devil was when
he deceived Eve, for there never was a
word in the world between either of the
Thachers and myself on political affairs
but the writer of that article only wants
me out of the way, to make room for
himself.


Oh, IA Friend of Right" thou that
seekest an office and findeth none, but all
thy neighbors are taken before thee, and
thou only art left alone, to cape it out in
anxious depravity and when thy Bu-
chanan friends promise thee little Office,
thy neighbors will not give it thee. All,
there's the trouble. Mr.. C.'s compass may
be all right, but he has been running by
false chart, and has missed the corner


"a friend of Right" did he say? Rather
friend of might, for he that will obey
the winks and mods of the Pro-slavery
party for little Office, is surely friend
of might, for he would have Old Buck
rule us with rod OF iron. Oh, Friend
of Right, thou canst try it again if you
please, but never expected to fight so
cowardly an enemy; but 1 consider the
source from whence it came, like the lit
tie boy, whom the jackass kicked. Now,
if these friends Of right, Judas and Gam
aliel, can do no better, they had better
give it up.


May our country ever be green with
prosperity, and clear of liars.


JOHN PIERATT.
Year: 1859

tors Guide" for many years President
Judge Of the twelfth judicial circuit, and
more recently one Of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of 0hio-a RepuGicon
from prinaple-ya, because hedid not bo1 to
PARTY DRILL, he tcas deposed from the bench
This fact shows that Republican Judges
are not to be left free to decide according
to the principles of law, but must conform
their decisions to the dictates of partisan
conventions. The class of Judges of the
olden time-the stern, inhexible, impair
tial men, who could neither be caioled nor
driven, by parties or Legislatures, from
adherence to natural right and fundamep-
tai law-are fast passing away. The Of
fee once conferred on the highest judicial
talent, is now the price of party services,
given to those who can be best relied on
to sustain the fayorite measures of their
respective parties. But base and degrad-
ing as is the party estimate of what a
Judge should be, S. o. Thacher has found
lower depth of subserviency and fawn-
ing sycophancy to which he would pros
titute the judiciary of the future State of
Kansas. To vote for him, is to indorse
his idea of an imbecile judiciary, is to pay
premium to ignorance of the principles
of natural and constitutional law, and to q
shameless betrayal of the rights of the
people of the Fourth District. If just
to themselves, the freemen of Kansas
will spurn the force of party drill, and
repudiate the author of SO degrading and
Infamous theory of the sphere and dn-
ties of the judiciary.