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Year: 1863

A PLArFoRM.-The Amador Dispatch, a
war journal, places itself upon the following
platforms:


We are in favor Of the war for the restor-
alton of the Union as it was; but we are
opposed to the emancipation of the blacks
by this adm minstration, or for the ensave-
ment of the whites. We are in favor of re-
calling that mischievous proclamation Of
emancipation. We are in favor of such an
amendment to the CONSUMPTION law as shall
compel the rich to serve in the ranks as we'll
as the poor. We are in favor Of such an
amendment being made to said law as shall
require those in favor of the emancipation
proclamation, to be the first drafted to sus-
tain the proclamation. We are in favor of
the Constitution and the Union and opposed
to this administration and the balance of the
abolition party.
Year: 1863

OUTRAGE ON FOREIGNERS That excel
sent democratic paper, the Plumas STANDARD,
says, and truthfulIy too, that one of the
meanest acts Of the Republican Legislature
which has has just gone out of existence,
was the passage of a law requiring foreign
born citizens to exhibit their naturalization
papers before being allowed to vote. Here


tofore, they were simply required to take
their oath, if challenged, that they had OBJ.
tanned their naturalization papers. Now,
they must be subjected to the humiliation


Of being disbeeved on their oath. In the
estimation Of Republicans, they are so con-
temp,ible in character that their oahs are
considered worthless We think we can
guess the cause Of this insulting harshness
towards foreigners. The great majority Of
them have refused to join the Abolition
party. and have anchored to the great Con-
sttutonal party Of the country, the Democ'
racy. To require them to show their nau'
ralization papers is to disfranchise many Of
them, because it is no uncommon thing that
these papers have been left in some remote
and distant place, in some other State, OF
that they have been burnt by accident, OF
otherwise inadvertently lost. Thus the
double motive is subserved, Of revenge on
foreigners for being Democrats, and of a
decrease Of votes on the Democratic side Of
the house. We pity the smallness of soul
that seems to characterize this Republican
party. Amador Dispatch.
Year: 1863

THE INsoLENCE OF DEsporIsM-When
Rev. Judson d. Bendict was about to be
discharged from his unlawful Imprisonment,
Turner, the Judge Advocate General" said
to him. There aoas no reason for bringing
you here, and it was only necessary to bring
you here to Show that the military acas above
the cioil lac." If the people want to know
precisely what the Lincoln dynasty is capa,
bic of, let them never forget that this is the
only reason assigned by one OF its minions
for kidnapping citizen Of New York from
under the very shadow of Court of Justice
which had just decided him guiItess of all
offence, putting him in jails and prisons,
and dragging him across the State to be
thrust into another and more loa.hsome
dungeon, there to languish for weeks with.
out examination and to be released without
trial, explanation or redress!
Year: 1863

THE Sort OF UNION MEN WHO COMPOSE
THE REPUBLICAN PARrY.-The Helper Book
while yet the Union existed in all its in-
tegrity-long before the fatal shot at Fort
Sumter-was printed, made the text book
of the Republican party, and contained this
atrocious sentiment: Teach the slaves to
burn their masters buildings, to kill their
cattle and hogs, to conceal and destroy
farming utensils, to abandon labor in seed
time and harvest, and let the crops perish"


Sixty-seven Republican members of Con
gress set their hands to a written, hearty and
unqualified approval of that book.
Year: 1863

HE OCEAN.-Ihere is peculiar beauty
in looking off to the ocean, which, in it's
slumbers and tumultuous rolling, seem to
defy the chains of Winter, and heave and
swell in despite Of the musng spirit that how
ers over the gentle fountain or the inland
lake. Its deep and vivid blue, conrasted
with the lighter sapphire ofhesven, and it's
boundless magniicence, awaken thoughts of
poetry in the bosom even of the insensible
and uncultivated. If we look upon the sea
when flakes of snow are falling and instantly
melting, does it not remind us Of the fading
stars before the exceeding brillance of the
earthly sun! or of frail, beauteous things van
ishing in the cold sea of time! or of blessed
recollections falling from the heaven of mem
ory into the univing waters of forgetfulness!
or Of bright flowers and lovely things which
90 from the desolation of the Autumn wind2
The far-sounding, reaching, gurgling, breath
ing, snowicreated swell that unroI!s itself
upon the golden sands, and gathers together
again its colorless foldings, has volumes of
mortality and poetry in its motion. Does it
not remind us of the fading of a generation
which has done its march over the sea of
time and dashed upon the shore of death? of
the wasting of armies? Of the desolation of
hopes9 Or in its majestic, varying feature,
has it not the mimicry of a heavenly cloud9
or Of a blooming forest, moving to the influ-
ence of the sweet south wind? and does not
its breaking upon the strand, like the wind Of
Autumn, scatter the watery blossoms til they
are no more seen upon the face Of the ocean!
Yet does this unbroken water again sex the
depth of the sea and become mingled with
current of rivers; wandering vario lsly, even
to the frigid north and to the sunny south;
leapng upon jutting rocks; sprinkling the
green islands of the Mediterranean unfold
ing Itself upon the go'd-ned shores of Peru;
gurgng among the mossy recessts of the no !
low Andes, and leapng forth tothe bosom Of
the sea again.
Year: 1863

EXTREMISTS AND PEAcE.--The Boston
Post, in an article on Extremists and
Peace" makes use of the following forci-
bic language:


"There is everything to show that the
People of the South ADD Of the North de.
sire to live together on the basis Of fideli.
ty to the Constitution, just as that the
People Of the West desire to live with the
People OF the East. dow long would the
West or Northwest be at peace with the
Middle States and the East, il the latter
should set up, as a test Of country, simi-
larity Of views and Of laws as to the negro
racer But the Constitution allows diff.
ftrcnces on this question :--allows the
West to exclude the negro, and the East
to invite him to equality under the law;
and the South must necessarily be left to
the same right Of free action as the West
and the East." 80 ~ -
Year: 1863

DECEIVED D.-The Abolitionists are very
liable to he deceived by the results of the
late elections. If they will look at the
matter carefully they will see that the
Democrats have cast larger vote than ever
before, and the manner Of their defeat
will not tend to make them very compli-
ant. In every State in which elections
were held last fall, the Aboltionists i'm
ported thousands of votes; at the Presi-
dental election they will be needed at
home. Violence and fraud may succeed
for a'time, but not always, and The people
will not support party that resorts to
such means to carry its point
Year: 1863

In NUTsHELL.-"We complain" "
Judge Amasa Parker remarked in q re-
cent noble speech, that the war is not
prosecuted to a speedy termination. We
complain that its object and purposes are
perverted to partisan ends. A war waged
for the single purpose of suppressing
the rebellion and restoring the Union
would have ended long ago. A war for
the determination of slavery will be in
termlnable."
Year: 1863

4 subscriber and perhaps well wish
ing friend, writes to rs to inou re- why we adj
vertise patent medicines" We will here and
now answer him that We do not Our readers
are aware that We have for years excluded
every thing Of the sort. and the only seeming
exception that we know of Is the advertisement
of DR.. j G. Aver i Co 5 remedies. which now
stands in our columns. If our friend does not
know, we will inform him that these are not
" patent" or even secret medicines. Their com
position has been made as publicly known a
any other scientific fact and has moreover bad
the approval Of the highest medical authority
in the land. But what affords us perhaps still
greater confidence in their worth is our personal
knowledge of the man who makes them and
the results that have followed from their use
results as familiar to our readers and to the
whole community "a they arc to ourselves.


1t has been cur privilege to know DR.. Aver
ever since he graduated from the Pennsylvania
University in the same class with one of our
personal friends, nor have We ever ceased to
watch with interest his singular success in and
untiring devotion to the noble profession be
has chosen If anybody will tell us what
we can advertise Of more interest to our
patrons than remedies that will cure them when
they are sick We shall cheorfully give it the
benefit Of our circulation. TdmGrora (M)
BAPTIST
Year: 1863

rE- We have not heard Of q person who has
the least complaint to make Of any untsiIness in
the draft in any section of the State, hss the
least disturbance occurred al either Of the off
ces where the drawing mas been done. United
States troops have been ia attendance al the
several points, but owing to tie law abiding con
Duct of the people in attendance, they have hsd
nofhing 70 DO.
Year: 1863

II is added that on the ist of May, 1868, the
average rate of interestbeaiing debt was only
three and five sixty-sxths per cent. On account
OF the large increase OF sales OF five twenties The
rate has been increased II is impossible at
present 10 arrive at an accurate statement OF the
whole debt
Year: 1863

q The work Of recruiting in East Tennes
see IS progressing finely, and We shall soon have
IS 0O0 native Tennesseesns and 5000 North
Csroiniaus added 70 our army. This is one OF
the most important features Of our achievements
in thar quarter. The loyal mOuntsineers who
have fought secession, are not only ready but
anxious to 6ght for the Union.
Year: 1863

IS made on the best principle, while the foreign
watch IS generally made no principle at all.


Let Us look At the contrast. The foreign watch is
mostly made by women and boys By hand. While their
labor is cheap their work is dear any price Such
watches are made without plan and sold without guar
sntee They irregular construction and quite as
irregular IN movement. They designed only 10 sell
and the buyer the party thoroughly sold Those
who have kept anchors, !" " lepnes and Swiss lev
ers IN professed repair for few years will appreciate
the truth of our statement.


THE PLAN OF The AMERICAN WATCH.


Instead ofoeng made Of several hundred little pieces
screwed together, the body Of the American watch is
formed Of SOLID PLATES No jar interseres with the
harmony Of is working and sudden shock can throw
lis machinery out Of gear Secession OF part from
another Is unknown 10 its constitution and in riding or
any business pursuit. 1t IS all held together as firmly
as single PeSe Of metal Il IS just what all machinery
should be-


lst. ACCURATE


"a. SINPIE
Year: 1863

A RIGHTEoUs JUDGWEST.-A certain green
customer, Who was a stranger TO mirrors, and
who stepped into the cabin Of one Of the ocean
steamers, stopping in front OF large pier glass.
which he took for the door, he said


Il say, master when does this here boat
start ?"


Getting no reply from the dumb reflection be-
fore him, be again repeated:


q say, master, Ehen does this boat start ::


Incensed al the still silent figure, be broke
out:


Go to thunder, you darned sassafras-colored,
shock headed bullcalf You don't look as If YOU
knew much, any how
Year: 1863

A HuSDREp ToSs or GoLD.-During the
past year there was received at San Francis
CO forty-nine millions Of dollars in gold:
This amount of the precious metal would
weigh a hundred tons, and would make the
freight Of a train of fourteen cars on rail
road


A country which produces gold in sach
quantities only needs the adoption of cor
rect financial and mercantile policy 70 have
its currency upon sure foundation, and in
sufficient quantity for all useful purposes
Pbilrdelphic paper.
Year: 1863

SHrNG HoRsEs.-A correspondent OF the
Scientific American saws that horseman
should never shy when his horse shios, nor
show the least nervousness nor notice 1t in
hi, horscs, and far less to punish them for
it. and adds:


ALLOW me. having had a grest deal of e1Pe-
rience in managing horses, to add another bit Of
advice to nervous horsemen. Whenever they
notice their horse directing his ears to
any point whatever, or indicating the
slightest disposition to become afraid, let them
instead of pulling the rein to bring the horse to
ward the object causing its nervousness, pull 1t
on the other side. This will instantly divert the
attention of the horse from the object which Is
exciting his suspicion, and in nearly every IN
stance the horse will pay no more attention to
the object from which he will fly away if forcibly
driven To it BY pulling the wrong rein.
Year: 1863

NAKED Arms AND LEGs-A distinguished
physician who died some wears since in Paris.
declared, IL believe that during the twenty
SIX years have practiced my profession in
this city, twenty thousand children have been
carried TO the cemeteries, sacrifice to the
absurd custom ofcxposing their arms naked. "


have often thought if a mother were anx-
ious TO show the soft, white skin Of her baby.
and would cut round hole in the little
things dress, just over the heart and then
carry it about for observation hy the compa-
ny it would do very little harm. But to expose
the baby's arms, members 20 far removed
from the heart, and with such feeble circula-
ton at best, it is most pernicions practice


Put the bulb of thermometer in baby's
mouth, and the mercury rises TO 90 degrees
Now carry the same TO its little hand if the
arms lie hare and the evening be cool, the
mercury will sink 70 40 degrees OF course,
all the blood which flows through those arms
must fall TO within 50 or 10 degrees below
the temperature of the heart


Need | say, when these currents of blood
flow back into the chest, the child's general
vitality must he more or less compromised


And need add that we ought not to bc
surprised at it, frequent recurring affections
of the tenguc. throat OF stomach have seen
more than one child with habitual cough and
hoarscncss, or choking with mucus. entirely
or permanently relieved by simply keeping
its hands aud arms warm. Every Observing
and progressive physician has daily oppurtun-
ity TO witness the same L0riS GgDiH-
dSt'cS.
Year: 1863

TIE DISTANCE CASSoN Can BE HEARD,
During the late battle of Gettysburg il is a
remarkable fact that the caunonadinS was
heard at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, dis
tance on an airline OF one hundred and
twenty-five miles. On Friday, the Sd inst,
two gentleman of the town drove ont a few
miles southwest from there, and calling al a
farm house, the owner inquired what the
news was from the battle. The farmer said
that there was a great battle going on, as
he had heard the cannon the evening be-
fore and that morning. Driving a mile or
two further they stopped at another farm
house, where they stayed for dinner, and
here learned that the firing had been heard
all the early part Of the night before and all
the morning of the 3D. When listening
these gentleman could then distinctly hear
it, the sounds being sharp and at times so
frequent that it was impossible to count the
discharges. On lying down on the ground,
they could distinctly feel the jarring.
Year: 1863

Much | marvelcd this ungainly
Reptile thus to speak so plainly
Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy
bore;


For we can not help agreeing,
That no living human being
Ever yet was hlest in seeing snake upon his
sofa cushion
Beast or snake, upon the velvet lining of his sofa
cushion,


With such name as Consultation.
Year: 1863

at is the ancient and undobted pre-.
rogative of this people to canvass public
measures and the merit of public men.
1t is home bred rights freside priv.
ilege. 1t hath ever been enjoyed in
every house, cottage and cabin in the
nation. 1t is not to be drawn into
controversy. 1t is as undoubted as the
right of breathing the air, or walking on
the earth. Belonging to the private life
as right. it belongs to public life as a
duty, and it is the last duty which those
whose representative l am shall find me
to ababandon. Aiming at all times to be
courteous and temperate in its use except
in when the right itself is questioned, 1
shall place myself on the extreme boun-
Diary of my right, and bid defiance to an
on army that would move me from my
ground.


"This high constitutional privilege I
shall defend and exercise, within this
house, and in all places. in time Of peace,
and at all times. Living l shall assert it;
and should leave no other inheritance
to my children, by the blessing of God I
will leave them the inheritance Of tree
principles, and the example of a manly,
Independent and constitutional defense OF
them. .-Daniel Webster.
Year: 1863

OUGHT THE SoLDIRs TO VoTE "A Bill is nov
before the Legislature of this State which pro
vides that the resident electors of California wht
are in the military service of the United State
shall be entitled to vote at the different elections
for all candidates that they might or could vot,
for if at home in their respective counties. Th


amendment TO the election law meets our mos
hearty appreciation, and we hope it will be passed
without delay. In some States the State Consd-
tuition prohibits the passage of such law, but
In other States there is no obstacle in the way.
The Governor of Pennsylvania recommended in
his message that the Constitution of that State be
so amended as 10 allow the soldiers the right of
the elective franchise. In Iowa they are allow
ed by the laws of the State to vote


1t is obvious to all that the soldier is justly
entitled to this privilege, and should enjoy it to
the fullest extent. When the call was made for vol
unteers to rally to the defense of the country the
most earnest, determined and patriotic citizens
flew to arms leaving friends families property
and all else dear to them lehind. None but un-
conditional Union men we're likely to become
soldiers. The consequence was that the grum-
blers and fault-fnders and the cowardly and
treacherous were left at home, where by their
schemes and plots and more particularly by their
votes they could give the enemy aid and comfort
by electng their friends to office thereby accom-
plishing their ends. This we see illustrated in
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and New York Taking
advantage of the absence of the five hundred
thousand Union men from those States the con
spirators elected men to Office who are burning
shame and disgrace to the whole United States
Had there been law permitting the soldiers of
those States to vote, there would have been no
rejoicing in rebedom at the results of the last
State elections. No circumstance ever produced
more disheartenng effect in the army than be-
ing thus assaled in the rear by those from whom
they had right to look for encouragement and
support. If this rebellion ever succeeds and the
government of the United States perishes, it will
be attributed not to the traitors confronting our
soldiers with arms, but to the sneaking miscreants
who under false pretenses are striving to bring
about that result in the loyal States.


We say then let the soldiers have an equal
privilege of determining who shall administer
the Government. Then tue country will be earv
and the Union endure forever.
Year: 1863

OF IT.-A correspondent writing to the Wheeling
LateHigencer, from Winchester, relates very
amusing incident which lately occurred under
his observation. The correspondent, who is an
officer in the army, was sitting in the court room
on courtmartial, when rebel lady passed by.
Rather than pass under the American flag, which
was hanging over the sidewalk, she sprang out
in the mud and water Of the street. and in doing
80 she burst the cords which held up her under
skirts, and down they came in the mud within
sight of the whole court She attempted to re-
place them by a rapid and vigorous thrust up
ward, but the effort was in vain 50 the mortified
lady broke for private quarters, her bedraggled
skirts sweeping the street behind her.
Year: 1863

New ENGLAND.-The following extract famil-
lar as it probably is to many of our readers, is
not inappropriate at the present time, when II Is
proposed by such aiders and abettors OF rebel
lion as Vallandgham, Cox, Confederate ii. ..
Foote, Wood, and host of other peace Demo-
Gratis" to turn New England, the mother of the
nation, out of the family of States. 1t was ut
tered over sixty-two years ago, by Daniel Web
ster, in the Senate of the United States in reply
to an attack made upon the State which he rep
resented, by Senator from South Carolina. We
commend it to the sycophantic revlcrs of that
sacred portion of our Union:


Mr.. President, shall enter on no encomum
upon Massachusetts, she needs none. There she
is Behold her and Judge for yourselves. There
is her history the world knows it by heart
The past at least is secure. There is Boston, and
Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill aud
there they will remain forever. The bones of
her sons, falling in the great struggle for Inde
pendence, now lie mingled with the soil of every
State from New England to Georgia and there
they will lie forever. And, Sir, where American
Liberty raised its first voice. and where its youth
was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives


in the strength of his manhood and full of its
original spirit If discord and dsuniOn shall
wound it, if party strife and blind ambition shall
hawk at and tear it, if folly and madness, if un
easness and salutary and necessary restaint, shall
succeed in separating it from that Union, by
which alone its existence is made sure, it will
stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in
which its infancywas rocked it will stretch forth
its arm with whatever vigor it may still retain
over the friends who gather round it and it
will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proud
est monuments of its own glory, aud on the very
spot of its origin.
Year: 1863

WAsHNGroN.-Just at this time the following
extract from Washington's Farewell Address has
full Significance:


1t is of infinite moment that you should prop
erly estimate the immense value of your national
Union, to your collective and individual happi-
ness that you should cherish cordial, habitual
and immovable attachment to 1t accustoming
yourselves to think aud speak of it as the pala-
dunn OF your political safety and prosperity {;
watching for its preservation with jealous anx-
ETY.. discountenancing suspicion that it can in
any event be abandoned, aud Indignantly frown-
ing upon the first attempt to ALLEVIATE any portion
of our country from the rest, to enfeebe the
sacred ties which now link together the various
parts. All distractions to the execution of the
laws, all combinations and associations, under
whatever plausible character with the real char
acter to direct, control, counteract, or awe the
regular delberation and action OF the constituted
authorities, are destructive OF this fundamental
principle, and Of fatal tendency.
Year: 1863

The Amador Dispatch propounds this import
ant question:


will the pedagogue, who under promise of
marriage, induced lady in Volcano to have her
teeth replaced fulfill his pledge, or will he pay
for the teeth ?p
Year: 1863

We heard lately of female rebel, who, on
being asked to give up a secession flag, thrust it
in her bosom and defed some good looking Union
boys to take it. But, to her great modification
and disgust, they didu't offer to, The ungallant
monsters
Year: 1863

TE following beautiful address written and delivered
by Frances Jane Crosby an inmate Of the New York
Blind Asylum at tho Broadway Tabernacle in May lSlS
when she was only fifteen years of age


Music Eyeryyyherc.
Year: 1863

Book and Job Printing.


Having just made large additions to stock OF Fancy
Display Type and other necessary Printing material
are prepared do any style of work short notice and
reasonable rates BA job work must be paid for on de-
livery. Cash must accompany orders from distance