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Year: 1863

from the main body of their contederates they
may be simply considered as rebel stragglers
within the Union lines


We believe, therefore, that within two or
three months the rebellion, in view of its
present crippled, exhausted chop-fallen, de-
moraized and hopeless situation, must inev-
taby collapse. Only let Gen. Meade push
vigorously after the shattered and demoralized
army of Lee, and bring it to final settlement
on the road 10 Richmond, and il is altogether
probable-nay, it is absolutely certain that,
from the general collapse of the rebellion East
and West, this formidable monster known as
"the draft" will dwindle down into a very
harmless affair with the disappearance of the
necessity for any extensive employment of the
conscription. We cannot be mistaken in this
that our armies in the field have the rebellion
within their grasp, and that the end draws
nigh.


IMPORTANT FROM NORTH CARoLINA.-We
publish elsewhere highly important news
from North Carolina. The letters OF our New
bern correspondent, corroborated by the Ra-
leigh State Register, show that there is formi-
dable organization in that State to bring It
back to the Union by reconstruction, and that
the members Of it are only waiting for some
happy opportunity to do so. JEFF Davis has
thus q fire in lis rear. The old "North
State" begins to see the error Of her way,
and is preparing to wheel into line, If the
radical fanatics will only permit her, by return
ing to the original programme of the war and
abandoning all other issues.


The statement of our correspondent and the
North Carolina journal is supported by other tes-
timony that every man is willing to discuss the
question of the reconstruction of the Union.
Let the most ordinary craftsmanship bo ex-
hibted, and the thing is perfectly feasible. not
withstanding all the blood that has been shed;
for the Southern men, as well as the Northern,
must feel that in the Union are strength and
greatness and peace; that in disunion are weak
ness and the seeds Of future wars; and that the
heritage Of the Union belongs as much to the
South as to tie North, under the one great
magma charta Of the constitution. The recent
losses and disasters Of the Southern States will
dispose the population towards peace; and, il
there is any common sense, moderate co1nsels
will be adopted, and an opportunity will be
given to the wandering sheep TO return to the
fold.
Year: 1863

said to have lacked. Both the army
and the navy have greatly distinguished them
selves during the present campaign Amid the
furor OF exciting events nearer home their
achievements have been neither overlooked
nor unaLpreciated. They amply deserve tae
victories which they win certainly win and
from which they have been too long withheld.
II they require reinforoenents for the onersus
task Trey have undertaken we hope tina, the
administration will order part of General
GIANTS brave army to help them and thus
provide against even the possibility of failure.
This attack upon Charleston is conducted in
the manner we have always advised, and with
the proper number Of troops it is sure to
succeed.
Year: 1863

MILiTARY CoxPANY-Within the past
week petition has been circulated in this
place. having for its object the formation of
military company, under the militia laws of
the State, and seventy-two names have been
obtained TO the same The County Judge
has fixed the 2Sth inst. as the time for the
organization of the company, by the election
of officers, and Hon. E. Garter has been ap-
pointed to superintend its organization. This
is q move in the right direction, and we wish
it abundant success. Notwithstanding the
movement seems to be unnecessary in the
eyes of some of our citizens, vet we can see
great benefits to be derived from the forma-
ton Of q company duly armed and equipped
for any emergency. The character of the
men engaged in the movement gives promise
that no ones rights will be interfered with
on any occasion, but it also gives assurance
that if disIoyal persons at any time offer any
opposition to the laws, or attempt to disturb
the peace of the community, they will be
pretty sure to be suppressed, and furnished
with working tools for operations on the de
fenses vf the State
Year: 1863

We hope they will, for we had much rather
meet an open, well organized enemy, than
a band of guerrillas, who undertake to carry
water on both shoulders, for you cannot pin
except the name of . Democrat" and oppo-
sition to the Administration in its conduct of
the war. There is such a fascination about
the name Democrat" and there is such o
precious set. all claiming to be the simon
pure, that it is difficult to see who can read
the other oct of the party, unless they have
some definite form of organization. The cnce
good old Democratic party, to which one half
of the present Union party belonged. is no
more. Those of that party who were deter
mined to maintain the principles of republl-
can liberty, have long since deserted the rot
ten old ship, which carried them, under the
administration Of James Buchanan, to the
brink of national ruin, and have united, un.
der the name of Union,' to secure but one
object-that of saving their country from
destruction and anarchy.


Now, if an organization can be formed out
Of the conglomerate mass who claim to be
Democrats, having for its object any princi-
pies higher or better than those of the Union
party, we can assure them that they will
succeed, for so long as there was the first
principle of right in the old party. this coun-
ty had shown itself to be Democratic to the
ba ,1a h,,a phap rod hair
principles any more than was necessary to
keep step to the music of the Union but
they are resolved to adhere to our present
form of Government, even if it is at the sa-
crifce of their old party leaders and Office
seekers, who have been left to weep over
their departed glory.


There are four classes of Democrats in
this county. all claiming TO belong to the old
organization those claiming to be Union
Democrats and in favor of prosecuting the
war, but a. e more opposed to the Administra-
ton than in favor of the war; then there is
the open, out-spoken secessionists, who say
the Constitution has been abolished, and the
Government at Washington and the Union
army are nothing but mob, and that there
is no such thing now as the United States !;
then there are two mongrels, or lick spitte
partisans one class claim to be for main
tanning the Union, but say the rebels cannot
be conquered by force of arms. and the only
way the Union can be restored is by compro
mise; the other class claim to be in favor of
maintaining the Union. but think our armies
should be withdrawn, propositions of peace
made to the rebels in arms, and, if necessa-
ry, the independence of the Southern Confed-
eracy acknowledged The latter are North
ern dough- faces. and are disgrace to the
name of American citizen; the former are
believers in Southern chivalry, and that
Ihose born in toe slave States are entitled to
dictate to the Northern people who shall be
their rulers, and fill all the lucrative offices.


If the leaders of the Democratic party can
reconcile all these elements, and organize a
party out of the material, we will be rejoiced
to note the fact for it will add just 500 votes
to the Union party in this county at the next
election.
Year: 1863

Cal. STAGE CoMPANY-"he stages of this
accommodating company are now doing a
heavy business on this route On Wednes-
day morning last Jerry Robbins, driver of
one IF the lower stages, took down twenty.
one passengers, being tie largest load of the
season. Much of the travel is from the north.
and going to the Washoe and Humboldt
mines. A large number of the passengers
going up are bound for the northern mines
The uniform rates of fare of this mpanv
enables each traveller to determine with &C
curacy the cost of his trip to any given point
We have never known more accommodate
ing set of agents and drivers on any stage
route than there is from Yreka and Weaver
Vile to Marysville.
Year: 1863

LIcurNING.-Ath half past twelve o'clock on
Monday last, during violent hail and rain
storm, the lightning struck the telegraph
wire in this vicinity and went along the wire
into the telegraph Office in this place, where
the operator was at work at the instrument,
and ran up his arm, but fortunately did no
damage except to raise him of his feet and
give him big scare Before the second
shock came the wire conducting the line to
the ground was put on, thus preventing any
damage being done the Office or those engag-
efi in II
Year: 1863

DOUGLAS CITY RIFLEs.-Lieut. Swift, and
the non. commissioned officers of the Douglas
City Rifles passed through this place'on Sat-
urday last, on their way to Oakland, to at
tend the State Camp of Instruction. They
are fine looking body of men, and we are
informed that the most of them intend to en-.
list when they arrive below, to go East and
take part in the defense of cur country.


4 portion of the Halleck Rifles, company
Of Weaverville, also went below on Saturday,
bound for the same destination, where they
will remain during the continuance of the
encampment. Owing to the short notice
by the Adjutant General of the State for the
assembling of the independent military COM
panies, there will not be as large an attend
ance of full companies at the encampment as
there should be, from the impossibilty of
their making suitable arrangements of their
business in season TO be present.
Year: 1863

NOTICE is hereby given, that in pursuance of
~ the order of the Probate Court of the county
OF Shasta in the State of California, made on the
18th day of May, A. D. 1868. in the matter of the
estate of Henry Stevens deceased. the undersigned,
administrator of said estate. will sell public
ton to the highest bidder for cash United States
gold and silver con--i1 one parcel. and subject to
confirmation by said Probate Court, on
Year: 1863

Action brought in the District Court of the 9th Ju
dical District, of the State of California, and the
Complaint filed in the said county of Shasta, in
the Office of the Clerk of said District Court.
Year: 1863

Patients in the Louisville Hospitals


There are at present one thousand and
eight hundred patients in the military hos
pitfalls Of the city, with accommodations for
twelve hundred others. We have reason
70 believe, however, that few Of the sick
and wounded from General Rosecrans'
army will be sent to this city for treat
ment as there are ample accommodations
for them all at MurfreesborO. The rebel
army had prepared comfortable quarters
there for sixty Thousand men, thinking
they would occupy the place during the
winter. These quarters are of course now
held by the Federal army.-LouisUigJe Jour
nal. aao
Year: 1863

There is controversy in Canada IS to
where the seat Of Government shall be 10
Gated during the three or four years that
will intervene before the completion Of the
Government buildings at Ottawa. Since
the agreement to alternate between Que
bee and Toronto, the former has had the
Government eight years and the latter six
and the Torento Globe insists thatit shall
be at that city until removed to Ottawa.
Year: 1863

The REBEL CoNscRTPrroN or FAM
ING STRENGTH.-The extraordinary measures re-
sorted to by the Confederate government to fill
up the depleted ranks Of its army tell tale Of
failing resources in that respect more conclusive
than anything else we have yet seen. Officers
dropped from the service for military offences
are. being re-drafted as common soldiers, and in
Alabama, Georgia and the southeastern portion
Of North Carolina proclamations have been
issued by the rebel Governors offering free
pardon to deserters If they will come in and
join their regiments. Hitherto the punishment
for desertions amongst the rebels has been very
severe. This extreme severity has not been
found to work veil, and now the Confederate
authorities are willing TO condone the offence in
order to get back the men whose escape is 30
rapidly thinning their ranks. We do not see
how these new measures are going to help them
If these deserters braved death In the first in
stance to escape from their clutches, 1t is not
likely that they will again voluntarily place
themselves within their grasp
Year: 1863

Tax WHOLE QUESTION IN A NUTSHELL
The Tribune of yesterday says Of the conserva-
tive democrats They are not disunionists-
they do not desire the permanent division of
our oountry-but they do hope and expect to
achieve It's reconstruction" This is precisely
the difference between the conservatives and
the abolition radicals. The radicals are dis
unionists'-they do "desire the permanent
division Of our country'-and they do not
"hope and expect to achieve its reconstruction. y
let the people remember this distinction.
Year: 1863

in all the political traditions Of the American peo-
pie. 1t is in this view that we are more disposed
to accept as just the horoscope drawn by neutral
contemporary of New York-we allude to the
"Sun" of that city-which, in its number Of the
llth instant, says:


The news from Washington indicates that Mr. Seward
is master OF the situation He has not merely spiked the
cam OF the radicals, but has succeeded turning it
aga nst them The Senators who few weeks ago con-
spired TO drive him from the Cabinet feel the power


they have heretofore welded slipping from their hands.


The retirement from the Albany Evening Journal Of
the old Warwick Of Presidents and parties Thurlow Weed
and his formal abandonment of the hereses Of his old poll


cal associates followed it by the election of Gov
Morgan, startling evidences to the radicals Of the
strength of the power which is even yet who'll
organized Since then the movement has been gathering
volume and strength Gov Curtin has lent The
servatve party The aid Of bis popularity n Pennsyva
ard to coatest that State at the approaching election
its interest.


AS to the President it is known that the drift of
cent events has made him suspicious of the couBses o the
extremists, Of whose administrative skill and capacity he
has received few evidences that satisfactory Ii
not improbable then that the favorable disposition Of Mr.
Lincoln harmonzng does with the sentm. nts Of the
people, may by the rapid whr Of events elevate to power
an idea rather than party Tue latter may follow here
after if demanded by the exgsnces of the times and D
hat Gaze is organization may be based the firm oun
datons Of a new and enlarged nationality"
Year: 1863

10 speech delivered before the Democratic Association
Of New York the 10th instant, Mr.. JOHN VAN BUREN
ann unced his unqualified opposition 10 any views which
look TO foreign arbitration to acquescence in the de-
mands Of the secession leaders He said


eve have right mode Of dealing with the enemy ex-
cept by taking the expression Of the leading the
sentiment of the enemy What, them s their view That
We must admit the independence of the South and must
concede that they have right when they choose to secede
from the Uoion. That utterly deny. While God spares
me life, never will acquiesce in any such thing There
nothing in the Constitution to warrant it,; the do
srucion of existing form of government and be
resisted at all hazards


'OJe day yor other-I do not know when-the past
cat that has existed between u.s. the present subsan
ta prosperity that en the wonderful future that is
before the geat republic that holding up the
admiration Of the civilized world inducements that
must compel the settlement Of those difficulties, and the


sior40n of the Union and future happiness of this peo
ps In that faith am always ready do any thing that
may contribute to the peace of the country to make any
sacrifice of my individual time, means exertios
promote peace between the different members of the Con-
federacy and to restore the Union determined only sub
init to Lo.hing that may be dsgraceful to Govern
men aud yet equally determined to advocate every thing
matter what may be the hazards attending it, that pro-
misses TO restore the ancient prosperity and honor Of the
United States of America" .s
Year: 1863

brief tel graphic de patch duly informed our readers OF
the marrsg in the city of New York the 10th instant
of CHARLES s. STRATToN better known as /" General
Tom Thumb" and Miss LAvINiA WARREN, also very
dimuutive person This dwarf wedding, matter of
course created great sensation in New York and long
and glowing descriptions Of the ceremonies and other
incidents attending it have filled many columns of the New
Yok journals. We copy of the more rational CON-
mems of the g World" as follows:


Had a stranger yesterday landed in New York he
might have been excused for suppong that the city
thrilling with the news Of great victory won Any other
surpostou indeed would been insult TO our people
which should have tolerated frrm a stranger
He would have seen Broadway choked with a jubant
cowd Of wedressed women hrongiDg around the doors
cf conspicuous churches and pressing in
eager enthusiasm upon lines Of baexhaused policemen
He wud have been turned out f his to keep the
highway clear for an expected procession Of ages
Had his curiosity carried him through all impedimens to
the doors Of the beeaguered ce he would have been
greeted with the spectacle ases and an altar
ringed around with all the paraphsroala OF rare
holyday.


What could he have imagined but that these festive
igns this vail OF beauty and of excitement thrown about
house Of worship, and bewderng the ordinary com
nerce the streets the celebration ~ nations
triumph The fall If Charleston tbs capture of Rich
mond the submission Of the Conederates one or another
Of these great events he must have thought alone could
warrant al this ,nt exultation In the metropolis of
people wag ng the most tremendous civil strife in the his
tory Of man. Ef4 ta5


What would have been the emotions of such = stran
gor had he been informed that all this jubilee had been
evoked BY the fact that unfortunate pgmes two peo
Die 10 when Nature had denied the fair proportions Of
their kind about to be married The dead upon
hundred bate- Ids the wounded in hundred thousand
homes the sad catalogue Of widows and Of orThans enQth
enng with the engthenng shadows of every setting SUM-
the nations extremity and bitter agony all forgotten The
Of the giants maddenng to its crisis in all the land be-
side and in the lands chief city wedding OF dwarfs
XII ding such pageant might become the passage Of
conquerorr ~
Year: 1863

the deences about Washington which he did not see in
the bill


Mr, FESSENDEN spoke in favor of the proper defence
for the State Of Maine from foreign Powers


Mr.. ARNOLD briefly reviewed the bill and advocated
guubosts instead Of land Notifications


MIR. WICKLIFFE said there no apprehension of u
foreign war at this time We destroying ourselves
fast enough.


MIR 81 lEVESS replied by saying that there danger
OF foreign war about one year ago and he not
certain now that should not have foreign war we
have already had foreign intermeddlng in aars II
the Secretary Of State had been Of sufficient energy
we might have been involved in foreign We ought
to be satisfied with losing more than our honor and
digbity.


MIR ). offered amendment, which was adopted MAX
ing an appropriation Of two hundr thousand dollars for
competng and erecting Notifications for the defence
of Washington


The committee and reported the bill to the House
with recommendation that il pass.
The bill as amended in committee passed


After which the House adjourned.
Year: 1863

Butien-In consequence Of the report that the Vice.
roy OF Egypt had placed battalion of Egyptisns at the
disposal of the Emperor the British press has suffered it.
self to indulge in supp0sons which it is proper to cor
rect The following is the fact Experience having
taught, the OF the negro companies from our West
India sent to Vera Cruz the negro race
was not like the white 10 the influence Of tho
yellow fever the Emperor has asked from ths Vicaroy
not the permission to recruit soldiers the Brtsh Gov
ernmen did during the in the Indies but the tempo


ary transfer cesson) OF negro regiment Of twelve hun
dred men, fully organized with its officers and noncom
missoned officers The Viceroy unable for the time
being to dispose Of than four hundred and fifty men,
whe are to do garrison duty at Vera Cruz This measure
adopted IN sense of humanity cannot give rise 10 the
least criticism
Year: 1863




JAMES O. wELLING, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
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Year: 1863

A RICH WAIF.-A splendid prize was re-
Gently picked up by the captain and crew of
the Annie Vernon, a British steamer trading
between Newport, Monmouth, and other ports
in England. While on her voyage, OF Holy
head, she fell in with large East Indlaman,
which had been abandoned, took her in tow
and brought her in. ShU was laden with teak
wood and rice, and the cargo alone is valued at
10000. The salvage yields to the captain
such a sum as will enable him to retire, aud
the other officers and men each have hand
some share.
Year: 1863

The scccssionists al Norfolk are not at all
of that city, as they are quite aware that our
Navy could shell the place at their leisure, and
make ii too hot to held even the hottest secesh
Year: 1863

A dispatch has been received, dated the 10th
inst. Tho enemy have not crossed the river,
and there is every indication they are retreat
ing, though they still have some artillery and
sharpshootcrs on the NHnsCmond. Our boats
shot down a number of their men to-day with
canister, and we had three wounded, making
in all five killed and eighteen wounded in our
little nutilla.
Year: 1863

The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
mG'lo the following decision concerning pro-
cccdIng5 against dclilQucnts and violators Of
tho excise law: Whenever a collector has ocCa-
sion to commence proceedings for the recovery
of sumo due on assessments or on penalties, he
will report the same to the United States dis
trict attorney for the district, whenever the Office
of such attorney is moi too remote to permit the
reference of the cnse TO him. When a consul
tation cannot be had with the district attorney,
without great inconvenience, the collector is
authorized to employ counsel to initiate such
proceedings as may be necessary, who will
report to the district attorney. The proceedings
will in all cnses be commenced in the name Of
the United States, and in the district or circuit
court Of the United States, and the manage
mout of every case so commenced will be On
trusted to the district attorney for the district.