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Year: 1861

AT the rate the printers and others engaged in
TINS Office have left and are leaving for the war; we
will soon be without the necessary force to get ont
respectable paper. Seven have gone, three more
leave leave for Pensacola on Saturday for the Crescent
Riiies now there, and about ten more are on the
ron OF different companies, and will soon receive
marching orders. ;Sich is life
Year: 1861

WOULDN'T TAKE THE 0ArEI.-some thirty mem
bers Of Col Corcorans New York Ir N Regiment
Baltimore few days %go, from Washington they having
they assert with about hundred in all of the regiment
fu cd to take the special allegiance President Lacoln
These were almost in starving condition,
deasorng to make back to New York on foot
Year: 1861

New Orleans as VIC learn from late New
Orleans papers, is bankrupt city. At n
meeting of the Board of Aldermen. on the
18th inst, tho Chairman of the Finance
Committee stated TO the Board, that "the
city was dead broke, and that he could not
see financial daylight" Another Alder
man, of large property, resigned bis seat,
and the Finance Committee reported in
fovor of suspending all new works to relieve
tho finances of the city in that quarter -
The Delta, commenting on the city's ad-
mltted bankruptcy exposes another source
OF anxiety. A large number of taxpayers,
it says, arc, at the present time, "utterly
destitute Of the means necessary to pay
taxes on their small property" and should
tho time for payment not be extended,
many will be compelled "to allow their
homesteads to pass under tho hammer of
the sheriff"


The Delta alleges that the bankruptcy
OF the city, though "little over four months
OF the year have passed." is largely owing
to expenditures in furthering the military
movements set on foot since the secession Of
the State; but it is evident that the utter
destruction of her credit and business. as
the inevitable result of Secession, is the
real cause ofthe bankruptcy of the Crescent
City, and the destitution to which n large
portion OF her people arc now exposed.
Year: 1861

The Boston Traveller states that the
South Boston Iron Foundry now employs
two hundred operatives in the manufacture
of heavy ordnance and projectiles for the
government. Some of the machinery is
kept in motion the whole twenty four hours,
so urgent are the demands. The Traveller
adds


AT this foundry are now making not on
ly twelve and thirteen-inch shell for NOR
tars, but shell for ten-inch Columbiads, and
shot and she'll for twelve and six-pounders,
with canister and grape. From two to
three hundred Of shot and she'll arc made
per day, and about twelve guns per week.
Many persons suppose that mortars and
heavy ordinance are cast hollow, ready,
after finishing, for use. This is mistake.
Tho gun is cast solid and then bored.


Tho Government inspection is Of the
most rigid character, and for the slightest
deviation, even the thousandth part Of an
inch, the gun is rejected. We saw one
heavy nine inch DahIgren navy gun which
was cut in three pieces for the furnace, sim
ply because in finishing tho outside, where
it could not be turned, the workmen had
Clipped off bit of iron as big only as a
ten cent piece. The gun was just as good
as any one that had been made, but the in
spector had rejected it,
Year: 1861

The New York Herald offers for tho con-
sideration cf the Congress of tho United
States, at its July session, scheme for the
establishment of United States Bank and
the enactment of general bankrupt act.
A proposition so impolitic and impracta-
bic, at this time, one would suppose, would
come from just such a source.
Year: 1861

The book Of job is generally regarded
as the most perfect specimen Of the poetry
of the Hebrews. 1t is alike picturesque
in the delineation of individual phenom-
ena, and artistically skillful in the didac-
tic arrangement of the whole work. In
all the modern languages into which the
book of Job has been translated, its i'm
ages, drawn from the natural scenery of
the East, leave deep impression on the
mind. "The Lord walketh on the heights
of the waters, on the ridges of the waves
towering high beneath the force Of the
wind" "The morning red has colored
the margins Of the earth, and variously
formed the covering of the clouds, as the
hand of man moulds the yielding clay"
The habits of animals are described as
for instance, those Of the wild ass, the
horse, the buffalo, the rhinoceros and the
crocodile, the eagle aud the ostrich
We see the pure ether spread, during
the scorching heat of the South wind, as
a melted mirror over the parched desert.


The poetic literature of the Hebrews
is not deficient in variety of form; for
while the Hebrew poetry breathes tone
of warlike enthusiasm, from Joshua to
Samuel, the little Book of the CLEANER
Ruth presents US with a charming and
exquisite picture of nature. Goethe, at
the period of his enthusiasm for the East
spoke OF it " as the loveliess specimen of
epic and idyl poetry which We possess. "
Year: 1861

But there is still a degree of cold


beyond all that, which ! have not describ-


ed. 1t is when there is a strong wind


blowing from the North at a temperature


of forty or fifty degrees below zero. The


sensation with which you endure it, |


can only characterize as a continued


struggle for life. Then you not only


feel the cold but yoE tually see it. The
air is hazy with the 'fozen MOISTURE


The sky is like a vault of solid steel, SO


hard and pale does it appear. And the


wind is like blast out Of that fabulous


frozen bill of the Scandinavians. The


touch of it on the face is like cutting with
an exceedingly dull and jagged knife.
/ endured this weather during two days
of travel in an open sleigh, but very for
tunately it was blowing on my back, or ]
would have been obliged to give up the
battle. Every man met who was trav-
elling against the wind had face either
already frozen or in the act of freezing.
Those purple faces surrounded with rings
Of ice did not seem TO belong to human
beings. DIR. Kane described to me his
sensations upon being exposed for two
days to a violent storm at temperature
of forty-seven degrees below zero. AL
though the physical effect was not partic-
ularly painful, yet the mental effect was
such as to make him and his men delri-
ious for some days afterwards. The
physical effects Of an extremely low tenn
perature-perhaps the lowest which the
human frame is capable Of feeling--is
sort of slow, penetrating, deadly chill, rath-
er than an acute and painful sensation.
But after the battle is over, on entering a
warm room then the painful sensation
l experienced a curious
to this on the African desert
During the warm hours Of monday, with
the air like the blast of furnace, l did
not suffer any feeling of intense heat (;
but after sunset, when the temperature
FELL rapidly, then began to burn and
glow through like live coal. 1t would
seem from that, that the absorption of Ell
her heat or cold into the body is much
less sensihly felt than the giving Of it out
lgain.--Bayard Taylor.
Year: 1861

Heaven help the man who imagines he can
dodge AZ enemies by trying to please every
body If such an individual ever succee ded
we should be glad to know it. Not that We
believe in mans going through the worlt
trying to dnd beams to knock his head against
disputing every mans opinions fighting and
elbowing and crowding all who differ Will
him. That, agniu, is another extreme. 9th
er people have right 10 their opinions, 81
have. you don't fall into the error Of suppo
sing they will respect you less for maintain
ing it or respect you more for turning youl
cont every day to match the color of theirs
Wear your own co!ors spite of wind and
weather, storms and sunshine 1t costs the
vacillating and irrcsolute ten times the trouble
to wind, and shuttle, and twist. that it docs
honest, manly independence 10 stand lis ground
Take what time you please 10 make up youl
mind but having made it up. stick to it
Year: 1861

They who are eminently successful in busl-
ness, or who achieve greatness, OF even noto-
riety, in any pursuit, must expect to make
enemies. So prone to selfshness, to petty
jealousy and sordid envy, is poor human nature,
that whoever becomes distinguished Is sure to
be a mark for the malicious spite OF those who
not deserving success themselves, are CALLED by
the merited triumph of the more worthy
Moreover, the opposition which originates III
such despicable motives, is sure to be oil the
most INSCRIPTIONS character hesltating at no
iniquity, descending to the shabblest IlttleneSS'
Opposition, if it be honest and manly Is not
itself undesirable. 1t is the milestone oy
which highly-tempered nature IS Poished
and sharpened and the competitor IN Ines
struggle who is of the true metal, dePrecates
not opposition of such character, but rather
rejoices in-it, as the brave warrior exults III
foeman worthy of his steel. 1t is only lnJus-
tice or meanness which wounds, and it is this
which the successful must meet proportional
ID bitterness, oftimes, to the measure fsuccess
which excites it. If man thus requires heart
of steel to breast the poisoned shafts which
shall be shot at him, alas for the woman who
is compelled to venture from the cover of pri-
vate life, if she have talents sufficient to COM
rnand success The world is ungenerous and
unjust to her sex, and the cowardly are ever
eager to persecute the more weak and defence
less If man be belied, he is not condemned
without some show of trial but in the case o
woman, accusation, from however low a source
is too apt to be conUiction. Shall none then
strive to rise? Is it better to walk the beateI
path, and remain unknown? Great intelect
and brave hearts will answer-No! The day
of justice may lag, but it will surely come
The wrongs of the present shall be eompensat
ed by the impartial judgement of the future
Let petty calumniators, then have their brie
adsy, and vent their paltry spite.
Year: 1861

Take courage, young man. What if you
arc but an obscure apprentice, or poor neg
lected orphan Have you an intelligent mind
all untutored, though ii be p? Have you vIr-
tuous aim pure desire an an honest hear
Depend upon it. you viii be wanted


The time may be long deferred. You may
grow 10 manhood, and may even reach yonT
prime ere the call is made but virtuous aims
pure desires, and honest hearts are too few moi
TO be wanted Your virtpcs shall not always
wrap You about as mantle oiscuriiy shat
not always veil You from the multitude. BE
chivalric in your combat with circumstances
BE active, however small be your sphere q
action. it will surely enlarge with every mo
mcnt, and your influence will have constant
increase.
Year: 1861

There was not child in the house, not one;
was sure of it; when first went In. Such
a pick-and-span look as it had Chairs
grown up chairs, plastered straight up against
the wall books arranged by rule and COM
pass no dear little careless fBgermarks on
furniture, doors, or windowglass no hoop or
ball, or doll, or mitten, or baskets, or picture
book on the premises; not pin, or a shred on
the angles and squares of the immaculate car
pet the tassels Of the window shades, at
which baby fingers always make such a dead
set, as fresh as if just from the upholsters. l
sat down at the well-polisbed window, and
looked across the street. At the upper win
dow of q wooded-house opposite, saw a lit
tie bald baby, tied into high chair, specula-
ting upon the panorama in the street while its
little fat hands frantically essayed to garb dis
tant pedestrians on the sidewalk Its mother
sAt sewing diligently by its side. Happy wo-
man she has baby! She thought so, too
for by and bye she threw down her work, un-
tied the lettering handkerchief took the child
from its prison house. and covered it with kis-
ses All! she had heard a step on the stairs
the step And now there are ftro to kiss the
baby for John has come to his dinner, and
giving both mother and child kiss that
makes my lips work, he tosses the babe up in
his strong arms, while its mother puts dinner
on the table.


But, pshaw here come the the maids
was sent to see. hear the rustic of their
well preserved silks in the entry I feel prop
er all over. Vinegar and icicles how shall
ever get through with it? Now the doors
open. What bloodless look they have :
how diciionary-ish they speak how carefully
they lower themselves into their chairs, as il
the cushions were stuffed with live kittens :
how smooth their ruffs and ribbons


Bibs and pinaforesl Give me the upper
room in the wooden house with kissing John
and the bald baby Fanny Fern.
Year: 1861

him, Anderson will think proper to hold the
place after the formal demand of surrender
has been made; but it seems to be the wise
policy of the State authorities not to make
that demand until they are fully prepared to
back it with the whole military and engineer
ing resources of the State. The calculations
Of some of our best informed officers is, that
if Cummings Point is in working order, Fort
Sumpter can be taken by few hours bonn
bardment followed by a general assault We
shall see.
Year: 1861

The London Times in very recent article
states the case in this way:


Perhaps as much as anything, from the long
license enjoyed by the editors Of the South
of writing what they pleased in favor of sla-
very with the absolute certainty that no one
would be found bod enough TO write any
thing on the other side, and thus make him
self mark for popular vengeance, the sub
ject has come to be written or in tone of fe-
rocious and cynical extravaganza which is to
an European eye absolutely appalling. The
South has become enamored of her shame
Free labor is denounced as degrading aud dis
graceful the honest triumphs Of the po r
man who works his way to independence are
treated with scorn and eontelnpt. 1t is assert
ed that what we are in the habit OF regard
ing as the honorable pursuits Of industry IL
capacitate nation for civilization and refine
nent, anu That no institutions can be really
free and democratic which do not rest, like
those of Athens and of Rome, on a broad sub
stratum Of slavery. So far from treating
slavery as an exceptional institution, it is re-
garded by those democratic philosophers as
the natural state of a great portion of the
human race; and, SO far from admitting that
America ought to ;ook forward to its extinc-
ton it is contended that the property in hu-
man creatures ought to be as universal as the
properly in land or in tame animals.


Nor have these principles been merely inert
| or speculative. For the last ten or twelve
years slavery has altered her tactics, and from
a defensive she has become an aggressive pow
er. Every compromise which the moderation
of former times had erected to stem the course
of this monster evil has been swept away, and
that not by the eneroachment of the North
but by the aggressive ambition of the South
Year: 1861

Dispatches from San Francisco state that
a company Of filbustersis is soon to leave
that place for Sonora. The names of the
officers are given, but we have no definite
information as to the objects or designs of
the party. For week or two past rumors
that secret military organization was be-
inr formed have been circulated in different
parts Of the State, and generally credited.
Many supposed that the object was to seize
the Notifications at the Bay, in order to
further compicate our national troubles.
But it is more likely that the object OF the
organization is to make descent upon So
nora; seize that country, and eventually
annex it to Texas or the confederacy of Sc
ceeding States. There arc men enough in
California who would gladly embark in
such an expedition, but it is doubtful
whether money enough can be raised in this
State to purchase arms, munitions, and fur
nsh the means Of transportation, for force
sufficient to take and hold Sonora. 1t is
not improbable that they are acting in con-
junction with the Knights of the Golden
Circle, and that project is on foot to in-
wade Northern Mexico on a grand scale.
This may be movement TO counteract the
threat of Senator Wade, that in case the
South withdrew from the Union the North
would establish protectorate over Mexico,
and thus conGne the area Of slavery within
its present limits.
Year: 1861

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-A man named Chas'
gurdett. an inmate of the Yuba county Jail
attempted TO commit suicide few days
ago, by cutting gashes across his arm with
fragments Of broken bottle, but did not
succeed in making dangerous wound.
lie was suffering with delirium tremens at
the time. The same man-or at least
man Of the same name--was confined In the
Nevada Jail some months ago, while suffer
ing with delrium tremens, and came very
near putting an end to bis existence by
drinking vial of lOudanum which had been
left in the jail as medicine.
Year: 1861

MIssIssIPPI.-The first action taken by
the Convention of Mississippi, after passing
q secession ordinance, was to interfere with
the free navigation of the Mississippi river.
On the morning of January 18th, detach-
meht Of artillery was ordered TO Vicksburg
to hail and question every passing steam
boat.
Year: 1861

RED BLuFF.-Owing to the settlement of
land titles in this town, it is increasing in size
and importance rapidly. The Independent says
it has doubled its size within year. 1t will
be the metropolis of the upper Sacramento, as
Marysville will be Of the middle country.
Year: 1861

ONE of the wells lately sunk in the desert on
the Southern Overland Mail route is l03 feet
deep, walled up with stone, and contains about
nine feet of warm and sweetish water. Arsenic
in it, perhaps.
Year: 1861

TREASON DEFINED IN FLORIDA. - An act
just passed by the Florida Legislature
declares that, in the event of any actual
collision between the troops Of the late fed
eral Union and those in the employ Of the
State Of Florida, it shall be the duty of the
government of the State to make public
proclamation of the fact, and thereafter the
act of holding Office under the federal gov
ernment shall be declared treason, and the
person convicted shall suffer death. This
act was approved by the Governor Of the
State on the 18th Of February.
Year: 1861

eB- Parson Brovnlow says, IN his third
address to the people Of Tennessee, asking
them to elect him Governor Of the State:


II endorse the Inaugural Address of Lin
coin, and I commend it for its temperance
and conservatism, and for its firm nationality
of sentiment. From it infer that We shall
have no war, unzsss it be forced upon the
the country by the seeding States"
Year: 1861

FLAas.-A immense number Of secession
flags has been made in New York. 1t is
said that the reason that they are not made
at the South is, that the moths get into the
original packages and before they are made
up they are ruined. 1t is emphatically a
country where s'moths corrupt and thieves
break through and steal.''
Year: 1861

It will be seen that in most cases the duty
is double, Or 100 per cent. greater, at the
North than at the South. If the proposed
Southern tariff goes into effect it will divert
commerce from New York and Boston to
Savannah and New Orleans, and the United
States will not only lose the revenue but her
people, as consumers of great portion OF
the goods imported, will pay taxes to the
rebel government. In short, unless our
government succeeds in putting stop to the
treasoaable designs of the seceders it will
be seriously crippled if not ruined. 1t is
uselessto talk of establishing line of Gus
tom houses along the frontier Of the seeded
States. The frontier is not clearly defined,
and will not be till tho Border Slave States
finally decide whether to go with the North
OF the South. 1t is suggested by some that
a simple notification to foreign powers that
no goods could be either cleared or entered
in Southern ports under the authority Of the
United States government, and consequently
would be liable to forfeiture wherever found,
would be sufficient to cut off nearly all trade.
But the most feasible plan appears to be
that of stationing vessels off the Missis-
sippi, tho mouth of the Savannah river and
Charleston, to collect the revenue at sea.
This would avoid bloodshed, as no land
forces could be employed, and the Confeder-
ate States have no navy with which to resist.
If the President has not the power to adopt
this measure, we hope Congress will be con-
vened without delay to confer it upon him.
Some action must be taken soon, or we might
as well surrender the government at once to
the traitors.
Year: 1861

A BATTLE AxTICIPATED.-In consequence
of the action of the Government in sup
pressing the transmission Of dispatches rel
live to military movements, we have but
little information in regard to the position
and number OF Federal troops in the vicinity
Of Washington. Il Is known that large
uumbers of troops arrived at Washington
since the battle of Bulls Run, and nOtwith-
standing the discharge Of several regiments
of three months volunteers, there must have
been an immense Federal force in the neigh
borhood of the Capital, at latest advices.
An item by the last Pony, states that the
rebels had virtually abandoned Manassas
Junction, but says nothing % to where they
have gone. It is not improbable that they
advanced towards Washington, and If such
was the case great battle could scarcely
be avoided.
Year: 1861

MACHINE SEwED HOsE.-We call the ate
tention of miners to the advertisement OF
Messrs. Terry & Irving, manufacturers of ma
chine sewed hose, Broad street, Nevada. Their
hose is now being used by many different min
ing companies in this county, and all who have
fairly tested it prefer it to that manufactured
by hand.
Year: 1861

A PRIVATE letter received from Richmond
shows how thoroughly martial law is there en-
forced. A lad who applied to Walker. Secre-
tary of War. for pass to leave the State, was
told by him that "No person was allowed to
leave Virginia unless at the head of an army"
Officers of the rebel army cannot leave Rich
mond without passes. The people are well in
formed of Federal movements, even Of the
changed quarters of single regiments.
Year: 1861

How TO MAKE AN AMERICAN FLAG.-It
should be one half longer than wide. TIE
stripes should be alternately red and white
seven red and six white, top aud bottom
both being red The field should be blue
and extend over seven stripes, commencing
at the top, four red and three white. The
stars signifying the number of States
should be white, arranged on the blue field
We have seen many flags with thirty-four
stars which is not correct, as by an act oi
Congress the additional star is not added
to the Flag until the Fourth of July sue
ceeding the admission of the new State.
Year: 1861

A NOVEL BATTERY.-A new railroad bat
terry, terribly destructive instrument of
war, in the shape of an iron car, has just
been completed in Philadelphia, for the use
of Government, and is to be used on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad 1t is very formidable looking
object, the sides and top being of the best
boiler iron, warranted to resist rife balls.
One-half the car is furnished with port
holes, so as to allow the use of formda-
BILE cannon, which has been placed on a
pivot table, at any point on the side or
trout of the car. 1t has numerous holes
for look-outs or for the use of men armed
with rifles. With this battery in front of
a locomotive, and cannon loaded with
punchings from boiler iron, death will be
the portion of all offering enemies.