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Year: 1865

counter at the grocery. Is it only dime
he gives for his drink? No but he lays
down on the counter his wife heart, and
his children's bread. And that other
man that sells it behind the bar. Is it
only 50 much fiery drink he sells, to help
his neighbor on to ruin? No but he
empties that decanter, he pours away his
own hopes of heaven, his part in God, the
water that baptized him, the share he has
in the blood of Christ who died for him.
There is third party here, hideons
thing curled up like black ape on the
counter. He acts as attorney between the
parties. He claims his fees, and for pay
ment takes mortage on the souls of
both. AZ .as.,f


ooh if had the power, would COM
pei that wicked fend to come up here in
his own shape, and make him point out


the unfortunate creatures that he has


bought and confess what he paid for
each. can imagine his confession to be


something like this: M


81 bought that miserly looking man


for few promissory notes, and some ten


ement houses That other one near him


cost me coporation contract Some of


my bargains were cheaper | bought
two or three of them, soul and all, for


right to vote upon false oath. That


young girl with paint on her face, for a


nights dance and beau. That other


one for a new cape add that old woman


sold out for some blankets, and few bars


of stolen soap. That little politician gave


me his soul for an office +; and--do you


see that man that looks as if the wages of
9 all the laborers of the parish had gone


into his one body-he and trade. in
souls; | bought his for corner grocery
and he brings me whole army Of drunk
g ards. ....... ..s -
And then, when the wicked Spirit had
ended his confession, | would ask for an
angels trumpet, that | might shout over
. the heads of the whole congregation, with
a voice like that which will one day star
tie the dead in their collins, those words
of Jesus Christ What profit shall a man
, have, if he gain the whole world and
: lose his own soul; or what exchange


shall man make for his soul p"
Year: 1865

rHE ARGUS WORKS CnEAP,


For Pay in Advance


For Pay in Advance
THE ARGUS WORKS CHEAP,


For Pay in Advance
THE ARGUS wOPKS CHEAP,


For Pay in Advanc.
THE ARGUS WORKS CHEAP,


For Pay In Advance
THE ARGUS WORKS CHEAP,


For Pay In Adv.ne.
ALL BUSINESS MEN


Should Subscribe for the ArguA
ALL BUSINESS MEN


Should Subscribe for the Argua
ALL BUSINESS MEN


Should Subscribe for the Argus
ALL BUSINESS MEN


Should Subscribe for the Argus
ALL BUSINESS MEN


Should Subscribe for the Argus
ALL BUSINESS MEN


Should Subscribe for .he Argu4
ALL BUSINESS MEN


Should Subscribe for the Argua
ALL BUSINESS MEN


Should Subscribe for the Argua
all BUSINESS MEN


Should Subscribe for the ArYM
Year: 1865

Thanks to the Defenders Of Nashville.


The Legislature of Tennessee recently
adopted the following resolution of thanks
to the defenders of Nashville:


Resolved by the General Assembly of
the State of Tennessee, That the thanks
Of this General Assembly, in their own
name and in the name of the people of the
State of Tennessee, be presented to Major
General George h. Thomas, and the off,
GERS and the soldiers under his command,
for his wise and spirited, and their brave
and patriotic conduct in the battle of
Nashville, in defense of the capital of the
State, in December, 1864, and that gold
medal be struck in commemoration of the
great and decisive event. and be presented
to him"
Year: 1865

WAsHrSarox, December "A special to
the Post says: While the President was pre-
parinq his message the French Minister EN-
phstically stated that the Emperor would
much regret any expression in the message
which would make it impossible to recede
from his Mexican scheme without humilia-
ton. The Minister also assured Secretary
Seward that the French troops would be
withdrawn from Mexico in little while,
and asked for patience on the part Of our
government -. :.


II is reported that Gen. Logan is satisfied
there is to be no difficulty, and that the Re
public of Mexico will soon be peacefully re-
instated.


Basis Of Representation.


The Judiciary COMMITTEES Of the House
have agreed to report at an early day an
amendment to the Constitution providing
that the number Of voters in the States shall
form the basis Of approximation in Congress.
Year: 1865

General Grant is understood 70 oppose the
retention Of the remaining invalid corps
officers in service. If any men are 70 be re-
tanned he claims the country should have
the service only of such as are able bodied
Year: 1865

WATERING WINDOW PLANTs.-Miss Nal.
ing, the autEoress OF Flowers for window
gardens in Town and Country" thus writes:
There is one universal law as TO watering
plants which a great many people entirely y
neglect. The neglect OF this one rule
causes more blight aud more unhealthy
plants than perhaps any single thing that
can be named besides. | mean the excel.
lent rule OF watering them with WARM water,
always rather warmer than ;he soil the
plants are growing in. People must surely
see the check and injury il must be 10
plants to get cold food. The organs OF
tender plants are extremely delicate and
when they are wanted 10 digest their food
it is bad plan surely TO paralyze them with
cold II we feed them, on The other hand,
with food lite warm they are slimulat ed
al once 10 make The most of their meal.
Year: 1865

seized Mr. S. TO revisit his old home, and
look once more upon New Orleans. Thirty
years had elapsed since his residence there
and the occasion of his second visit On
The second day after his arrival he dlscov-
cred among the ladies of the ST. Charles
Hotel, one who n he recognized as his for
mer wife. He Immediately sought an in,
terview with her but was refused. she re-
turning the application by the no means
consoling information tha. she had no
interest in common with him, and no de-
sire TO look upon or speak with him
The succeeding day she had left the hotel
and he lost all trace OF her. Mr.. S. was
shortly alter taken severely ill and having
occasion 10 call in a physician, Judge oil
his surprise 10 learn from The conversation
which passed between them that The gray
haired medical attendant had been the ad-
wiser of the family OF his former wife, and
from him he learned tie residence of the
lady. Prompted by feelings of curiosity
even if The old love had wholly died ort in
his heart, he again sought an interview and
was al last successful


The story of the lady was a strange one.
After the departure of Mr.. S. :or the North
she returned TO her fathers home, aud 10
the circles iE society she had formerly fre-
quenied. Her father had purposely insert
sd in the paper the announcement OF The
death of herself and child, and forwarded
it 10 Mr. S. that he might believe them for
ever lost TO him. She passiyely waited the
lapse of time until divorce was procured
on the around OF abandonment, aud a few
years alter entered upon her second mar
riase, in obedience to the wishes OF her pa
rents. The son of Dir. S. and herself was
then a colonel in the rebel army. She had
no desire to renew the Intercourse with hIm,
and closed the interview as soon as pos
sible.


Mr.. s. determined if he could not have
the wife, al least 10 have The son. By pa
tient labor his discharge was procured
from the service OF Jefferson Davis. and he
returned to The North with newly found
father. codicil was not long ago ap'
peEded TO the will o: MIR by the son re.
ceives an equal share in that gentleman Z
property upon the occasion of his death
Mr.. s. is again in The city of Chicago, aud
again fills his accustomed place in business
circles. Yet few would suspicion that in
The life of this man. familiar 10 hundreds
novel events had mingled and circumslan
ces transpired, the like whereof we seldom
find save in the pages OF romsnce.-Ckica.
go Post.
Year: 1865

WEDDiSGs OVER The wArER.--li is very
difficult for women in old and monaIchial
countries 10 gel husbands. American girls
will be aslonished to learn that there the
obligations is all on the man s side Some
time ago, couple went from Penrheolger-
rig Wales, 10 be married bat the BRIDE
groom walked off with the money which
the bride had given him TO pay the egisler
aud lost it playing pitch and loss with his
com panions. The wedding had thus 10 be
put off till the next day, when the Young
woman kept sharp lookout on her lord
nor leG Elm until she had secured his per-
son ii not his allegiance. Imagine YAM
kee or New York girl paying her lovers
wedding fee
Year: 1865

Nor long since a company OF negroes
was raised in the town of Plsua, who
were to join certain colored regiment be-
ing organized in Massachusetts. The
night preceding their departure for the
camp of rendezvous meeting was held in
the African Church at the close of which
lhe venerable minister, in a prayer, made
the following remarkable request THAT
when these men went on the battle field
they might be ss bold as lions and kd'mless
as doueS ~
Year: 1865

PLEASURES OF ADMIRATION TO be the
architect of all your own houses, and 10
avoid paying for land or employing build
er, erect them all in the air.


To fancy Yourself t3e particular object oI
admiration, when you are walking about
with a dishrag pinned to your coat tail.


To dream of finding heaps OF gold. not
knowing next morning where 10 end q
breakfast.


To open a crediior's note, threatening
proceeding" faRcying it an invitation to
dinner.


FlaI:ering yourself with the hope of as,
sistance from rich relation.
Year: 1865

The long, weary day march was ended, and
our troops had encamped for the night on the
verge oil a vast prairie. Our pickets were
already upon duty our tents cleaned white
through the dusk our campfire had been kin
died, and the hai-famished men were eagerly
awaiting the evening rations. Far away we
could hear the roar of the Red river, and oc-
casionally rising above it the shrll cry of night
bird, or the cry OF prairie Wolf. The sky was
hecked with mottled clouds through which the
moon now and then cast dim light, and the
wind, as it swept through the tangled grass
amid which We byouacked, had the hollow,
sullen murmur that betokens a storm.


| sat in the glow Of the FIRE, wondering what
would be the tate Of the Red river campaign,
and recalling many events of our civil war
when a sergeant approached me and said


." DR., Greenhurst, | should like tospeak with
you few moments can you grant me prI-
yate interview"


"0h, yes" replied and we were soon in
comparative seclusiOn OF tent We found vacant


81 Our plckets have just brought up two per
sons"


d" And who are they " asked


&" They profess to be conIabands, " said the
sergeant " but in the enemy's country am
always afraid of spies and you know as well
as what base stratagoms they have employed
to gain information with regard to our move
ments,"


-" Yes, yes, said earnestly 81 admire
your caution, and We certainly ought to be On
the lookout but where are the strangers


" told Barret to keep them till | could see
some superior officer, and lett them on the south
side of the camp where he was stationed.


g will 60 back with you," observed, "and
test them by c few questions "


A brisk walk soon took Us to the place where
private Barrett was on picket duty. cannot
adequately sketch the picture which presented
itself as We reached the spot, but will attempt
to give you faint outline. A young girl stood
leaning against heavy baggage wagon in an
attitude sculptor might love to reproduce for
its unstudied grace her figure was wrapped in
gray cloak, which fell around her like the
rare draping Of statue her uncovered head
was iinoly nodded, and perfect luxurianeo of
chestnut hair swept about her, not curling in
heavy ringlets, but as full Of rippes as mount-
ain lake when the night breeze sweeps over ITS
surface. Her face was delicatoly chseled her
eyes and cheeks oil ailame with excitement, and
her red lips compressed as II IT required no light
effort to accomplish her mission, AT her side
might be seen child who might have counted
nine or ten summers, with tattered garments,
and bare aud bleeding feet, and bearing a strong
resemblance to her companion. The whole
scene was touching in the extreme and my heart
goftened at onoe.


"Sir," exclaimed the young stranger, " is it
true that tho poor slave may find refuge in
your camp
Year: 1865

The LILIES OF NEw ENGLAND. A friend who
has just gone up into Vermont, sends back o
word that the ponds all along the road are
STARED with lilies forming milky way for
the whole distance. These same white water
lilies are the native queens Of the New England
summer, afloat in their palaces Of ivory and gold,
and exacting homage from every passer. Bare.
foot boys along the roadside do not covet them
with more intensity than the merchant princes
in railway cars, whose Overtasked thoughts are
refreshed with the glimpse of their purity
This IS their very season. The sequestered coun-
try places where water runs and debouohes into
ponds and shadows are made regal with their
presence. 1t is nothing to see mlddle-aged men
suddenly become enthusiasts in their quest
scaling stone walls, trampling through mire
reaches OF the meadow and wading knee deep to
pull them up by their leathery stems from the
mud, with ash or alder pales cleft ut the smaller
end. They are very beautiful when c1ilcd up
in shallow glass dishes on the country parlor
tables, but their true beauty is disclosed as they
sit on the water with their white garments OF
royalty about them, opening their bright eyes
with the morning SUI, and shutting up the gates
to their golden hearts with the fading day There
is no flower Of summer--no nor OF winter either
-moIo slmply elegant, ullney fragrant, ana
regally superb, than "great, white water lily"
1t symbolzes wheteyer is pure and beautiful in
human life and character whatever is rich and
golden in the human heart. The lotus of the
Eastean streams never could be the flower to us
that the pond lily of New England is, irngiog
our inlands ways Of travel with its matchless
floating stars, and leading the thoughts along
within cool and pleasant recesses, where the
mornings are full of freshness, and tho nights
come down in peace. ce.-Bostoa Post.
Year: 1865

1t is well known that the late Preston
King committed suicide in temporary in
sanity brought on by the persistence and
clamors of the horde of office-seekers who
beset him in his official position. 1t is a
shame to our people that such spirit of
ofice-seeking finds place among us-such
a greed of places that bring large salaries
and little work. The Tribune says of this
matter:


We find it hard-we living men-to
traverse the fearful decision that made a
Senator suicide. flour community is so
as to hunt public officials to the
grave, why censure men of a sensitive,
womanly nature, who 60 to the river and
find peace from their opportunities in its
deepness. Stand all apart! Look on this
dead man-rest has come to him at last
rest from strife and crime and selfshness,
men eating their fellow-men, and living
like ravens and crows on the the offal Of
public life. Are there no fields to be
titled in the Far West, no rock.concealed
mines to be torn to pieces for the gold that
is in them, no canals to be dug, no roads
to be built--nothing, that this poor man
must be picked to death merely because
he is an officer of the Revenue. He has
a thousand offices, you say, and therefore
you would clean his bones. Shame upon
us, upon our manhood, that we cannot be
men, but vermin. The guilt of this death
is not upon the soul of the suicide, but
upon the souls of living men, upon those
who hunted him with such eagerness and
rapacity, that life was dreary burden,
reason fell, and death became welcome
blessing. -f- rs T-.-.r.-
Year: 1865

A nation cannot last as a money-making


mob; it cannot with impunity-it cannot
with existenee-gO ON despising literature,
despising science, despising art, despising
compassion, and concentrating its soul on
pence. And again, extending the idea to
embrace all preference of material wealth
and advancement to the true, the spiritual
wealth and life of the soul, Mighty of
heart he says, Mighty of mind-"mag-
nanimous"-to be this is indeed to be
great in life, to become this increasing
ly is indeed to "advance in life"-in life
itself, not in the trappings of it My
friends, doy remember that old Scythian
custom when The head of a house died.
How he was dressed in his finest dress, and
set in his chariot, and carried about to his
friends houses; and each of them placed
him at his tables head, and all feasted in
his presences Suppose it were offered to
you in plain words, as it is offered to you
in dire facts, that you should gain this
Scythian honor, gradually, while you yet
thought yourself alive. Suppose the of
fer were this; you shall die slowly, your
blood shall daily grow cold, your flesh
petrify, your heart beat at last only as
rusted group of iron valves; your life
shall fade from you, and sink through the
ice of China; but day by day your BODY
shall be dressed more gaily, and set in
higher chariots, and have more orders on
its breast and crowns on its head, if you
will. Men shall bow low before it, stare
and shout round it, crowd after it up and
down the street. build palaces for it, feast
with it at their tables heads all the night
long; your soul shall stay enough within
it to know what they do, and feel the
weight of the golden dress on its shoul-
ders, and the furrow of the crown-edge on
the skull-no more. Would you take the
offer verbally made by the death angel
Would the meanest among you take it,
think you? Yet practically and verify we
grasp at it every one of us, in measure; ;
many of us grasp at it in its fullness of
horror. Every man accepts it who desires
to advance in life without knowing what
life is; who means only that he is to get
more horses, and more footmen, and more
fortune, and more public honor, and-not
more personal soul. He only is advanc-
ing in life whose heart is getting softer,
whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker,
whose spirit is entering into living peace.
And the men who have this life in them
are the true lords or kings of the earth
they, and they only.
Year: 1865

THE editor of the freka Journal won bet
of s. that he made with Copperhead, who,
on the strength of an assertion made by the
Yreka COpperhead paper, foOlisbly wagered
his money that the Presidents message con-
tanned certain statement which, on examina-
ton, couldn't be found in it The next time
be bets, he viii probably seek for better
authority than a Copperhead paper,
Year: 1865

The snow at Eureka. Sierra county, is said
to be as deep as at any time during the Winter
of 1852. The miners there are anticipating
good times in the Spring, when the snow melts
away
Year: 1865

FAEMGNG.-The fair weather for the past two
weeks has been the delight of Farmers in Feather
River valley. The first and second rate lands ale
in finer condition for cultivation than they have
been for years past, in the month of January, and
the volunteer looks more healthy and prosperous.
There is no farmer i'll the valley idle now-they
improving the favorable opportuniry-from one to
five teams may he seen in the different fields all


through the rich and fertile valley Of Feather river
Year: 1865

Oescrters Disfrnnchised Unless They Re-


port within Sixty Days.


Whereas, the twenty drs the act OF Congress
approved on the Sd instant entitled amend the
several acts heretofore passed. provide for the enrolling
and calling out the national forces purposes
requires that in addition to the other lawful penalties
the crime Of descrton from the military or naval service
g all persons who have deserted the military or naval
service Of the United States who shall not return
to said service report themselves to a provost
marshal within sixty days after the pro-
clamamion hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed and
taken to have voluntarily rengushed forfeited their
rights Of citizenship and their right become ctizen
and such deserers shall be forever incapable of holding
any oco Of trust profit United States or OF
exercising any rights Of citizens thereof and all persons
who shall hereafter desert the military or naval service
and all persons who being duly enrolled depart the
Jurisdiction of the district in which he enrolled or 60
beyond the limits Of the United States with intent to avoid
any draft into the military naval duly ordered
shall be liable to the penalties Of this sectIon and the
president is hereby authorized required forthwith
on the passage OF this his proclamation set
sing forth tho provisions Of this section which procla


aton the President is requested notify desertcrs
returning within sixty days. aforesaid that they shall
DO pardoned on condition Of returning their regiments
and companies to such other organizations as they
may be assigned TO until they shall have served for


e:nd Of time equal 70 their original term OF enlistment


Now. therefore, be !: Known that !, ABRAHAM LIN
colin, Prosidcpt Of tho United sais DO issue this my
proclamation q required BY said act ordering an1
qung all dcserters TO return 70 their proper poss and
J do hereby notify them that all deseYters who SHALL
within sixty days from the date Of this proclamation
viz. before the 10th day May 1885, return to
service report themselves TO provost marshal shall
be pardoned condition that they return to their eg
ments and companies such other organizations
they may be assigned to and the remainder OF their
original terms Of enlistment and, in addition thereto
period equal 70 the time lost by descrtion.


In testimony whereof have hercunto set my hand
end caused the seal Of the United States TO be affixed


Done at the city Of Washington this l1h day Of March,
in the year Of Lord 1865 and OF the independence Of
the United States the eighty ninth.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN.


BY the President:


WILLIAM II. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
Year: 1865

Apropos to the report of the drunkenness
of Vice President johnson on the day OF
the Inauguration, the Washington cor
respondent of the Daily Ne,os says: Zone
of the stories told of the President-I
am not sure it was told by him-ran thus:
When Gen. Hooker was about to start for
the South. west. to take q command under
Sherman. he called at the White House and
saw Mr.. Lincoln. Some conversation en-
sued, the President was In good humor, as
is usual with him, and the General was
highly pleased at being so well treated after
the blunder and slaughter of Chancellors-
Vile. When he was about leaving, the
President. assuming serious tone and
manner, requested him to wait moment,
as he had some important ADVICE to give
He then told General Hooker that he
must promise not to visit a certain county
in kentucky. Hooker asked him what
county he meant. We'll, General said the
President, Il mean Bourbon County; you
must avoid it, Hooker understood the
joke"
Year: 1865

TnE Police MAcIsTRAcY.-We knew it
everybody seemed to know that Squire
Blood would be the nominee for the office Of
Police Mag 'strate; NOT, perhaps, because the
people were unfriendly to Squire Wheeler,
but because there seemed to be genera,
impression that he didn't really want the
office that he was on the track more from
tnrce OF habit than otherwise; and further,
that it is unfair to ask any ono man to serve
in subordinate capacity longer than he has
served. 1t would have been better had he
declined outright--but after all, It amounted
to the same thing, He has one consolation
at lsast--that he was beaten by an excellent
man.