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Year: 1862

RAILRoAD.-The cars are now running
regularly over seven miles of the Sacramento,
Placer and Nevada railroad. BY this, we
get our mail matter in this place an hour
sooner than formerly. 1t is confidently as.
serted that the road will be completed to
within five miles of Auburn by the FIRST of
October next, when persons eau pay a visit
to Sacramento and return ths same day.-
This will have decided tendency in lessen
ing the price Of all the necessaries of life,
and ere long our entire community will reap
the benefits Of this long wished for enterprise


Dutch Fiat ENQUIRER.
Year: 1862

1t is now well understood that the Breck
inridge Secession party has agreed to vote
the tickets in the different counties to be
nominated by that section of the Union
Democratic party which is 80 fearful of be-
called Republican that it cannot consent to
act with the organization. Sac. Union


The above is q COAX
Year: 1862

HEAvEs.-The Farmer and Gardner gives
the following as a cure for the heaves in
horses


Take a smart weed, and steep it in boil
ing water till the strength is all out give one
quart every, day mixed with bran or shorts,
for ten days. Give green or cut up food,
wet with water, during the operation, and it
will cure.
Year: 1862

The Federal Administration has millions
in circulation of what is called legal tender
notes-it is at this time getting off another
batch of them-the press runs night and
day printing them off-there is not time to
write the signatures of the proper officers to
them, that too is printed, by steam. These
notes are declared 10 be receveable from the
government and in the payment of debts be
tween citizens, as gold and silver, and it is
made public offense to refuse them. They
are at this time at discount, below gold of
from s to 20 per cent, yet when you offer
one of these notes, to government officer
TO pay duties at the custom House, he pre-
emptorily refuses them.


The farmer must take it for his wheat,
corn, oats and cattle. the aborer for his la.
Dor, the merchant for his wares, the sailor
for breasting storm and battle, the soldier
for risking life, or having lost his life, it is a
precious heritage to his heirs, but never a
cent of this paper will Mr.. Lincoln and his
appontees receive for government Dues
This is the administration the Union Dem.
ocrats desire to sustain
Year: 1862

cat, far down among the barrels in the dark
damp cellar, or mounted high upon the
wood.house Of moonlight night; never
again will you stretch yourself out upon
the warm and genial hearth when howls
the borean blast without, and snow drifts
high around the kitchen door; never again
will the elbow Of your mistress arouse us
from balmy slumb:r in time to hear the
command "do get up and let that cat out !"
never again, Thomas, will that command
cause us to run our shins in the dark against
the chairs, or turn summcrsault across
the table, landing with naked feet upon the
shells Of sundry hickory nuts, and all,
Thomas, for the purpose Of opening the
door that you might go out when you had
a bad cough; never again. Thomas, will
the recording angel while drowsily nodding
over his ample volume seize his pen with
a startling grasp to enter down against us
some ponderous word imprudently uttered
on those occasions. And now Thomas.
good night"


The morn begins to streak the eastern
sky, and we will close this address, my
canine friends, by informing you that we
are now provided with a wolf trap, bot
tie of strychnine, three guns and an ample
supply of ammunition, and in limited way
we have embarked in the wool growing
business, resolved to kneel as seldom as
possible to the imperial plant Of Carolina.


ELIpHALET PRICE.
Year: 1862

How He STARTED THEM.-A Methodist
preacher, whose hearers were in the habit
of going to sleep over his preaching, got
tin whistle, and on Sunday, when he saw
a goodly number under the somnolescent
influence, he drew forth his whistle and
blew shrek. In an instant the whole
congregation was wake, upon their feet,
staring at the minister, at one another, and
wondering what in the name of human ma
ture was to come next. you're a set of
smart specimens Of humanity, aint you ?"
said the divine whistler, as he slowly gaz-
ed around on the astonished assembage
"Wh hen preach the gospel to you, you all
go to sleep; but the moment 60 to play
ing the devil you're all wide awake, up
and a coming, like rush of hornets with
a pole III their nest"
Year: 1862

POWDER MILL PlErY.-Said little girl
who had just been reading the newspaper
account OF an explosion, "Ma, don't you
think that people who work in powder
mills. ought to be pious?' There was a
great deal Of human nature in that ques'
ton. The world, like the little girl, thinks
that all who are especially exposed, ought
to be prepared for sudden death. But is
not the whole world vast powder mill :?
The very air we breathe may become pois
onous and slay US. The water we drink
may contain some deadly ingredient which
neither sight nor tase can detect. We are
encompassed even by unseen dangers. We
are never certain of tomorrow. Then
should we not be prepared, whatever our
age, our business, or our locality, for sud-
death?-C;n. Chi. Herald.
Year: 1862

WThe old proverb that "many true
word is spoken in jest" was forcibly illus
trated few days since. A Free Church
minister in Glasgow gave out as the mora.
ing lesson the fourth section Of the 10Th
Psalm, and while the congregation were
looking out the portion in their Bibles,
he took out his null, and seizing hasty
pinch with finger and thumb, regaled his
nose with the snuff; he then began the les
son. my soul cleaveth unto the dust"
The litter that ran round the church, and
the confusion of the poor man, showed that
the congregation and he felt the psalmist' S
"plnch."
Year: 1862

w Have you heard of the fellow who
ran aboard a steamboat at st. Louis, with
an order for passage on the Missouri


This is not the Missouri, SIR said the
captain.


What faint the Missouri


No, sir; it is not


What do you have it printed on her for
then p


We don't have it printed on her, sir


You don't! What do you call M-e-r-
Curry? If that don't spell Mesury, I'd like
to know what it does spell p
Year: 1862

az Long aftliction will much set off the
glory of Heaven. The longer the storm
the sweeter the calm; the longer the win
ter nights, the sweeter the summer days.
The new wine of Christ's kingdom is most
sweet to those who have long been drink.
ing gall and vinegar. The higher the glad
der we shall be when we get to the top oi
it. The longer our journey is, the sweete1
will be our end and the longer our passage
is, the more desirable will the haven be.
Year: 1862

The SAILORS "CLosET."-A seaman
who was brought to acknowledge Christ on
board the North Carolina in 1859, when
speaking of his private devotions, said
Il can always find place to pray when l
have heart to pray. can communicate
with God leaning orer the brsech Of a gun,
and hold communion with God though fifty
men were walking the deck at the same
time.
Year: 1862

t-"My dear" said an alderman to his
devoted wife, as he was looking in his glass,
81 cannot understand how it is that my
whskers are turning quite grey, while the
hair on my head remains black" "The
only way can account fer it," she replied,
'is that you work great deal harder with
your jaws than you do with your head"
Year: 1862

The love Of truth is the root to all the
charities. The tree which grows from it
may have thousands Of distinct and diverg-
ing branches, but good and generous fruit
will be on then all.
Year: 1862

w A husband recently cured his wife
Of divers ills by kissing the servant girl,
and allowing his wife to catch him at it.
He says she was up in an instant, forgetting
all her complaints, while he has never had
to pay q cent for help since.
Year: 1862

w we fly by night as the young
lady said when she got out Of the window
to elcpc with her lover. Quite at liberty
to do So responded her dad, who appeared
at chat instant, but you don't rum
Year: 1862

~ In most quarrels, there is fault on
both sides. Both flint and steel are neces-
sary to the production Of a spark either Of
them may hammer on wood for ever, and no
fire will follow.
Year: 1862

The girl stood on the steamers deck,


While men In arms were thick around
And from Jacinto's threatening sides


A score of cannon On her frowned.
She bade them leave her father there
She challenged them to do her hurt
She madly laid her bosom bare,


And feariessly exposed her--chemise!
Year: 1862

KEEP MovISG. give up if you
happen to fail in anything you undertake.
Tryit again-try it hundred times if you
don't succeed before, and all the while be
studying to see if you have not failed
through some negligence or oversight OF
your own. Do not throw down your oars
and drift stern foremost because the tide is
against you. Never anchor because the
wind don't happen to be fair; beat to the
windward and gain all you can until it
changes II you get to the bottom of the
wheel hang on !: never think of letting go,
the next turn will bring you to the top.


Arc you in debt? Don't let time wear
off the edge Of the obligation. Economise,
work harder and spend less, and hurry
out. Does misfortune overtake you, don't
sit down and NOPE and let her work over
you. Keep in good humor; laugh your
self and keep up merry face
Year: 1862

HINTS FOR TIE SEAsoN.-Clcar up the
lanes and roads about your farm. Don't
let them be blocked all winter with those
old sleds, rails, logs, and filth generally
A good farmer don't need this hint. It is
intended for the t"rittless and sloyenly.


Buildings should never be painted in hot
or wet weather. The best time to paint
outbuildings is either now, or early next
spring. The paint will strike in better and
be more durable.


Form clubs for the discussion of topics
connected with the farm. These should
have good agricultural library, and meet
at least twice month. Aside from the
agricultural information acquired at such
clubs, the social value may be immense.


Next to Farmers Clubs, the best thing
for the amusement and instructions of \
neighborhood, is village Lectures. Get
your most intelligent i.en to lecture on
some topic, say once each week or month


As the evening grow colder and longer,
read your agricultural paper attentively,
and think over your plans for spring work.
Year: 1862

| AeepSng q diary.


If man keeps no diary, the path crum


bles away behind him as his feet leav: it


and days gone by are but little more than Z


blank, broken by a few distorted shadows
His life is all confined within the limits o


to day. Who does not know how ilnper


feet thing memory is? 1t not merely for.
gets it misleads. Things in memory dc


not merely fade away, preserving as they


fade their own lineaments so long as they
can be seen; they change their aspect, they
change their place, they turn to something
quite different from the fact. On the pic
ture Of the past, which picture unaided by
any written record sets before us, the per.
spective is entirely wrong. How capri.
ciously some events seem quite recent,
which the diary shows are really far away
and how accountably many things look far
away, which in truth are not left many
weeks behind us! A man might almos,
as well not have lived at all as entirely to
forget what he did on those departed days.
But think that almost every person wo'd
feel great interest in looking back, day
by day, upon what he did and thought upon
that day twelvemonths, that day three or
five years.


The trouble Of writing diary is very
small. A few lines, few words, written
at the time, suffice, when you look at them,
to bring all (what the Yankees CALI the
surroundings Of that season before you.--
Many things come up again, which you
know quite well you never would have
thought Of again, but for your glance at
those words, and still which you would bc
sorry to have forgotten.


There must be richness about the life
Of person who keeps diary, unknown
to other men. And Il million more little
links and ties must bind him to the mem
bers Of his family circle, and to all among
whom he lives. Life, to him looking back,
is not bare line, strnging together his
personal identity; it is surrounded, inter-
twined, entangled with thousands and thou
sands Of slight incidents, which give beauty,
kindness, reality.


Some folks life is like an oak walking,
stick, straight and vanished useful, but
hard and bare. Other mems life 'and such
may yours and mine, kindly reader, ever
beg is like that oak when it was not stick,
but branch, and waved, leaf:enveloped,
and with lots of little twigs growing out Of
it, upon the summer tree, and yet more
precious than the power Of the diary to call
up again host Of little circumstances and
facts, is its power to bring back the hides
cribabc but keenly felt atmosphere of those
departed days. The old times come over
you. 1t is not merely collection, an ag-
gregate Of facts, that comes back; it is
something far more excellent than that-it
is the soul Of days long ago; it is the dear
auld lang-syne itself! Th: perfume Of haw-
thorn hedges is there; the breath of breezes
that famed our gay hair when it made
sunny curls, often smoothcd down by the
hands that are gone; the sunshine on the
grass where these old fingers made daisy
aud snatcheS of music, compared
with which anything you hear at the opera
is extremely poor. Therefore keep you
diary, my fricnd.-London Magazine.
Year: 1862

DoN'r try TO TALK LArIN.-'No use in
my trying to collect that bill, SIR said a
collector to his employer, handing the dis.
hOnored document to the latter. why p
The man who should pay it is mon est,
replied the collector. Then take it and
collect it, sir. A mon est man will not fail
to meet his obligations
Year: 1862

~A little girl went to camp meeting,
and when she got home she said the sisters
in the various tents told her good many
things, and asked her questions about the
bible. On being pressed to state what they
told her, she said one thing they told her
was about Peter who swore three times
before he erowsd.'
Year: 1862

sHorticoIa," in the HortieMliurist,
states that he succeeded perfectly. in
grating a scion Of the tomato on the
pOtatoe vine. He cut about one third
Of the potato shoot of, just above a
leaf, taking care not to injure the bud
at its base. The scion, being shielded
from the sun, was every day sprinkled
with little water, and it took readily.
In the fall the tomato was loaded with
ripe and unripe fruit, and had grown
to a large size.
Year: 1862

At the battle Of Fair Oaks rebel
soldier was wounded and taken to the
Federal hospital tent. lis arm was
ampntated by the surgeon in attendance
who rendered him every attention in
his power, when suddenly the rebel
drew forth Il concealed knife and tried
to stab his attendant. The surgeon
parriel tie blow with his arm, and
with lis other hand drew a pistol from
his belt, and killed the migrate as he lay
apon the operating board.
Year: 1862

GRANGE IN THE vorE.-We have no doubt
that the change in the vote in the recent elec-
tions, and In those which are to take place in
November, will amount to 10000 ballots


This will be clear conservative gain over tho
Year: 1862

THE TAX STAMPs-The National Tax law
passed by the last session of Congress compels
the, ,use of tax stamps upon all bank checks,
drafts, notes, articles Of agreement, tclegraphic
Messages, mortgage bonds, insurance policies,
express packages, &c. This being an entirely
new feature to the present generation, there is
considerable anxiety on the part Of the people
to know the exact character of the stamps and
how they are to be used. Most of the stamps
are about the size of the common postage
stamp, got up in an artistic manner, with head
in the centre-the denomination in figures on
each corner, the words s'intsrnal revenue on
the top, and the kind Of document that it is to
be used upon on the bottom-such as "bauk
checks" contract" telegraph" DC. The m
surance stamps are moro elongated, with the
figures denoting their denomination Immediate
ly over and under the head, instead of on the
corners Of the stamp. They are ell OF different
colors, and are to be affixed to the document in
the same manner as the postage stamp to a
letter, and will present neat appearance and
be rather ornamental. Their manufacture has
been pushed forward with activity, and it will
not be long before these stamps will be as
familiar to the business community as are the
postage stamps at present.


The idea tina. this is the first time that tax
stamps have been used in this country is en-
tirely erroneous. We have before us British
and American stamps Of 1777 and 1898. The
American stamps used at that date are simply
All eagle sitting on u shield, with their denom-
nation and State in letters around the margin;
while the British consists of the royal coat of
arms On top Of red stamp, with the word
america" at the top, and the denomination, in
pence and shllings, ct the bottom These were
all stamped into the paper by hand press or
fore decided Improvement over the stamps
used in the days Of the Revolution, and far
more conv enient in every particular
Year: 1862

Fifth Congressional District.


The Republican Convention of this district last evening
endorsed the nomination Of John Duffy, who has been
nominated for Congress by the Jeersonian democrats
Year: 1862

TWIN BROTHERS IN POLITICAL AFFLcrIoN.-
In commenting on the speech of Fernando Wood
at a democratic ratification meeting in Clinton
Hall, Horace Greeley, in an editorial article'
intimates that the ex-Mayor of New York is
candidate for Fort Lafayette, and if he only
gets his due he will be completely success
full In speech made by Greeley ON Friday
evening, at a republican ratification meeting
held in Brooklyn, Greeley denies that he is
candidate for the same distinction; but If he
could serve his country by going into Fort La
fayette he would have no objection to the spare
diet of that establishment. If Wood deserves
incarceration for his speech, certainly Greeley
deserves to swing from sour apple tree for his
Grafton. The political history Of both since the
outbreak of the rebellion is very similar, with
one or two striking points Of difference Wood
declared himself in favor of the secession Of the
city Of New York from the State, and Greeley
proclaimed that he was in favor of letting the
rebellious States 60. Again: Greeley, after the
battle Of Bull run, came out in . violent demand
for a change of men and measures This is all
that Fernando Woed asks for now. They
agree therefore, on the principle, and perhaps
they are both right Why should they differ
about the consequences? If, on the principles of
IIangman Clay, Greeley should get short
shrift and long rope. why should not brother
Wood attend him to the gallows as chief mourn
er? And if Wood should be sent to Fort Lafay-
cite, why should not brother Greeley accom-
pany him in his affliction, and amuse his weary
hours by playing backgammon with him In
some retired corner of the PRISON.


If there are points of fraternal resemblance
between these two men, there are also points OF
difference. Wood says he cares nothing about
the negro and tells the truth; Greeley says his
heart is bursting with philanthropy for the
blacks: but the truth is not in him, and he plays
the hypocrte. There is another remarkable
difference Wood never assailed the Stars and
Stripes. Greeley has published song of trea-
son against the flag of the Union, in which he
denounces it as vile rag, and calls upon every
man to ''pull down the Haunting lie." General
Dix gave orders to shoot on the spot the first
man who pulled it down, and General Butler
actually hanged man for hauling down the
national symbol. What is the penalty due to a
man WHO fears to pull it down himself. but
calls uron everybody else to do it? When Fer
nando Wood is rewarded with cell in Fort
Lafayette, even-handed justice will require a
more elevated position for Horace Greeley
Year: 1862

The New AMBULANCE CoRPs.-We under
stand that the manual for the instruction aud
drill of the force composing the amb ulancc
corps, now in process Of organization, is to be
embodied in Gen. Halleck's new military work.
The force Is to consist of about twelve thou
sand men. If these are TO be tass from the
ranks Of the army we cannot help thinking that
great mistake has been made. The govern.
ment has thousands Of contrabands on its hands,
who are source Of immense expense to it, and
who might easily be trained to the duties Of this
service. They make excellent servants and
nurses, and we cannot see why they should not
fulfill all its requirements. To take able bodied
whites. when we stand so much In need Of fight
ing men, for duties which can so easily be per-
formed by negroes, is, il must be admitted, a
singular diversion Of such military strength Us
we possess. Ii it suggested, we should like to
know by the idea that the assignment Of the
blacks to the care Of the wounded would be
degradation to this now highly favored race?


-


THE REPUBLICAN PARTY A FAMuRE.-Never
did any party break down SO completely as the
republicans. They are an utter failure But
the democratic party is not, therefore, q sue
cess. The party opposed to the radicals are
not democrats, though the democratic leaders
call them SO. They are conservatives. AS for
the democratic chiefs, including the Albany
Regency, they are the same corrupt men who
aided and assisted the secessonists Of the South
aud the radicals Of the North to break up the
Union and involve the country in civil war.
They still remain unchanged. But the republi-
Year: 1862

PkRsoKL-Dr. Brock McV1ckar left the
city LAST evening to join Gen Banks division
of the army In his new capacity Of Brigade
Surgeon He will I'LL the position with credit
and vii prove an excellent representative Of
Chicago surgery.
Year: 1862

Board Of 4rAde Meeting.


The President Of the Board Of Trade announced
today that special meeting of the Board Of
Trade Will be held at the Exchange Rooms to-mor-
row tFridaEl evening, at seven o'clock, to take
into consideration g communication from the
waEchDuetmen,
Year: 1862

FIRST OF MAY REc1pE-To CLEAN PAINT.
Smear piece Of flannel with common whit
ing, mixed to the consistency of common
laste, in warm water. Rzb the surface to be
cleaned quite brlsk]y, and wash off with pure
cold water Grease spots In this way will be
almost instantly removed, as well as other
filth, and the paint will retain its brilltncy
and beauty unimpaired.