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Year: 1865




Samuel Briggs, Of Porter county, In
diana, came down here to the cumber,
land Hospital to see his son; has been
here about two weeks, and still no show
of his leaving soon. He is strong
Copperhcad; said the Constitution is
half torn in two now, and asked what
right had the President Of the United
States to take one half Of the Nation
to whip the other half One Of the
men in the Hospital jumped up and
asked him if he should take him by
the throat whether he would lay down
and let him choke him. Very clear Of
il. He is here trying to buy his son
out of the army. The way he sympa-
thises, / think he had better 60 south
of our lines; If he thinks lie rebels are
the best, let him go and live on some
of Jefferson's hard tack, instead OF
eating our ratiens; FOR do hate to have
a traitor IN onr midst.


IINION SOLDIER
Year: 1865

EFFECT OF Music ON BULL.-It


is well known that music often exerts a


powerful influence over the lower ami


mails. A good story is told of its effect
on bull. A fiddler in Liverpool who


bad been out late at night on a profess
sional engagement, in returning. had oc-
casiou TO cross field where some COWS
aud bull were kept. The bull came at
bim full of fight, when the fiddler ran and
attempted to climb tree. He was too


late, and had TO dodge behind it to save
his life. The fiddler had heard of the
effect of music on animals, and as soon
as be could get chance struck up tune.
This calmed the enraged animal at once,
and he appeared delighted with it,
After awhile, finding the bull quite paci-


fed he stopped playing, and started off
on the run, but the bull would not let
him off so and put after him, with such
rage and energy that be feared for bis
life. He stopped and began to fiddle
again with all his might and the animal
was instantly pacified again. Not being
accustomed TO fiddle without pay, and
his arm beginning TO ache, he determined
TO make another effort to escape, satisfied
that his customer meantto get bis music
for nothing. He made another dash, but
it was of no use. The fury of the bull
returned as soon as the music ceased, and
this time the poor fiddler had narrow
escape. He made another trial OF the
music, and actually had to play till six
o'clock in the morning, over three hours
in all, when some of the neighbors came
to his relief. lie made up his mind from
tha, day that .-..
"sdusic had charms TO soothe the savage breast,
Year: 1865


the approach of the cholera from the east to
ward the Western parts of Europe, and it is ap
propriate to its renewed appearance and west
wand progress, as mentioned in recent jour
nails:
Breathless the course of the Pale White Horse
Bearing the ghastly Form
Rapid and dark as the spectre bark


When it sweeps before the storm
Balefully bright through the torrid night
Ensanguined meteors glare
Fiercely the spires of Volcanic fires


Stream on the sulphurous airl
Shades of the slain through the Murderer


brain


Fit terrible and drear-- fe
Shadowy and swift the black storm drift
Doth trample the atmosphere! te
But swifter than all, with darker pail
Of Terror around my path,
I,have arisen from my lampless prison.
Slave of the high Gods wrath .-z
A deep voice went from the Frmament,
And it pierced the caves OF Earth
Therefore came on my wings of flame
From the dark place of my birth
And it is said, 'Go from the South to the North
Over yon wandering BALI
Sin is the King of that doomed thing.
And the sin beguiled must fall !"
Forth from the Gate of the Uncreate,
From the portals of the Abyss-
From the caverns dim where vague Forms swim,
And shapeless Chaos is!
From Hade's womb--from the joyless tomb
Of Erebus and Old Night
From the unseen deep where Death and Sleep
Brood in their mystic might
I come--I come-before me are dumb
The nations aghast for dread
Lo l have passed as the desert blast
And the millions of Earth lie dead!
A voice of fear from the hemisphere
Tracketh me where | fly
Earth weeping about for her widowhood--
wild and desolate cry !
Thrones and dominions beneath my pinions
Cover like meanest things
Melt from my presence the pride and the pleas


ance


OF pallor-stricken kings;
Sorrow and mourning supremely scorning,
NV throne in the boundless air.
My chosen shroud is the darl-plumed cloud
Which the whirlmg breezes bear!
Was not borne on the wings of the morn
From the junges of Jessore,
Over the plain of the purple main
TO the far Mauritian shoreI
To the isles which sleep the sunbright deep
OF a coral-payed sea;
Where the blue waves welter beneath the shelter
Of heavens serenityi
From the tomb of the waters, athrst for slaugh-


tiers,


rose that thirst to safe
The green isles are graves in the waste OF waves,
Their beauty is desolate
From the wild Eyrthean, the noise of my Pean
Rolled on the Southern blast
Eternal Taurus made answering chorus,
From the glaciers lone and vast
Did not pass his granite mass,
And the rigid Caucasian Hill
Over burning sands--over frost-chained lands
Borne at my own wild will
Then bark to the beat of my Fastening feet,
Thou shriIed in the sea-
Where are thy dreams that the ocean streams
Would be safety unto thee
Awaken! Awaken my wings are shaken
fAthwart the troubled sky;
Streams the red glance of my meteor lance,
And the glare of my meteor eye!
Hearken, oh hearken my coming shall dlrlSen
THE light of the festal cheer;
In thy storm-rocked home on the Northern


foam,
Nursing of Ocean-hear!
Year: 1865

WHEN used to tend store at the q Regulator
in Syracuse the old man comes round one day,
and says he:


% Boys, the one that sells the most 'twixt now
and Christmas gets vest pattern present. y


May be we didn't work for that vest pattern.
tell you there some tall stories told in
praise of goods just about that time; but the
tallest talker and the one that had more check
than any one of us was a certain Jonah Squires,
who roomed with He could talk dollar
out of man S pocket when the man only nten-
ded to spend sixpence and the women-Lord
bless you they just handed over pocket-books
to him, and let him lay out what he liked for
them.


| One night Jonah woke me up with, I" By Jo.
old fellow, if you think that eres got any cotton
in it, III bring down the sheep it was cut from.
and make him swear to his own WOOL 'Twon't
wear out either-wore pair of pants of that
kind of stuff myself for five years, and they re
as good now as when first put EN- on Take
it at thirty cents, and I'll say you don't owe me
ANYTHING Eh too dear? Well, call it twenty
eight cents. What dye say? Shall I tear it
All right, ii g bargain.


could feel Jonah's hand playing about the
bed clothes for an instant, then rip tear went
something and hid my head under the blankets
perfectly convulsed with laughter, and sure that
Jonah had torn the sheet from top TO bottom.
When l woke up next morning found-alas
unkindest tear of all-that the back OF ny night
shirt was split from tail to co!aT-band.
Year: 1865

GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR AND HIS PART
SER.-' Government Inspector visiting lu-
natic asylum. saw the medical superintendent.
and said - don't wish to 90 over the ASYLUM
in the usual way, but to miDgle with the patients
as if were an officer, surgeon, or even one OF
themselves. By so doing Shall be better cna-
bled TO judge of their intellectual state, and of
their progress in the direction of sanity"


With pleasure, " said the doctor :. it is Sat
urday, and we usually have dance on Saturday
night. If you 60 to the ball room as we call it,
you will see them dancing and talking withou,
reserve"


Would it be Objectionable if dance with
them D. asked the official.


Not at ALL WAS the reply


The official walked into the ball room, nnC
selecting the prettiest girl he saw for a partner
was soon carrying very animated converse
ton with her In the course of the evening h'
said to the doctor, - Do you know, that girl il
the white dress with blue spots is a very curiou!
case ! I've been talking to her and for the lif'
of me cannot discover in what direction he
mental malady lies. OF course saw at once tha
she mad-saw it in the odd look other eyes
She kept looking at me so oddly. asked he
if she did not think she was the Queen of En-
gland, or whether she had not been robbed of {
large fortune by the volunteer movement, or jill
ted by the Prince of Wales and in various Other
ways tried to find out the of her lunacy
out could not-Sne was 100 artIul.


Very likely" answered the doctor ; s'you see
she is not patient-she is one of the house
MAIDS, and sane as you are


Meantime the pretty housemaid went to al
her fellow servants and said, ''Have you seen the
ne" patient He's been dancing with me. \
hne tail man, with beautiful whiskers /, but as
MAD as March hare. He asked me if was the
queen OF England; If volunteer hadn't robbed
me OF large fortune; if the Prince of Wales
didn't wan: to marry me and so many other fool
lsh questions He is mad-but isn't il o pity
Such fine young man ~
Year: 1865

SPONTANEOUS CoMBusTIoS.-A death by spon-
taneous combustion has not unfrequenty occur
rod--the victims in most cases being fat and aged
women of Incorporate habits. y case is now
going the rounds of a man who had been Il hab-
itual drnkcr for years, who was found standing
in an outbuilding completely enveloped in silver
covered fame, like the wick of a candle in its
fame, and being shaken by the shoulder the fire
was Immediately extnguished, and though nearly
all the flesh sloughcd from the bones, as the
veins remained and the viscera were uninjured
he fingered thirteen days without being conscious
of much bodily pain, though he declared he was
suffering the torments of hell. Two cases of this
kind have occurred in the same town in this vi
cinity within the last thirty years both of them
women given to constant indulgence in liquor.
One of them was found still alive, enveloped in
flames, which proceeded from her mouth and
nostrils and the other was brought to a mass
of greasy ashes, while the walls of the room and
the furniture were covered with thick coat Of
lampblack. -Newburyport Herald.


BosroN pays million of dollars annually for
Year: 1865

BIERsTADT's PAINTING OF MouSr Hoop-A Bos-
ton correspondent of the California Christian
Aap0ed's describes in the following paragraph
bierstadts celebrated picture of Mount Hood,
which has for some time been on exhibition in
that city:


IN the foreground at the left is q group of fir
trees, green with their deep summer luxuriance,
and solemn with the still lingering shadows of
the night. In the middle of the foreground is a
ravine running down from the lake. but whose
depths are concealed by a dense growth of wood.
Next to the right is an open space where herd
of deer are partly browsing and partly asleep.
At the extreme right of the foreground is mass
of gray rocks and clump of trees, whose trunks
and boughs, like the illuminated edges of cloud,
are trans6gured with the soft light of morning,
and through whose foliage is seen an abrupt rock
shooting up, gray, steep and massive. Beyond
! this rock the eye catches view of lesser peaks,
that seem white with accumulated SHOWS and
Fastening away into the distance, as though anx-
ious not to come into comparison with Hood
Directly before the ravine and open space sleeps
a lake calm the silent winds and sentinel
mountains can make it, as blue as the heavens
above it, and dreamy as an exhalation which you
dare not call a mist lest the readers idea become
too misty, can render it, spreading all over its
surface. Towards the left of the lake a volcanic
| IOCh rises udfh anu SOiu dS IL IL "OiC Juse Pi07
jected by earthquake force above the calm water.
Beyond the lake rise up in the middle ground the
wooded sides of the great mountain, Scared by
vast ravines, while here and there CLEANS of de-
| scending streams enliven the prospect One OF
| these pours its flood over high rock and falls
at last stream of silver, through cloud OF
still more silvery vapor to the lake below. From
this girde of green forest Hood scars in conscious
majesty toward heaven. The mountain is clad
in the SHOWS of ages, through whose dazzling
whiteness here and there appears the ragged
summit of a cliff. Three long ridges of rock run
| from the wooded belt toward the summit. Those
on the right and left form shoulders to the noun
tain S head which the middle ridge rears in sol
itary grandeur against the sky. Along these
ridges the painter makes the finest display of
color, and sharpest contrasts of light and shade.
! Along each ridge lies the dazzling whiteness of
the snow, which here and there changes to
roseate hues under the sunbeams. Under each
ridge, just beyond the line of spotless white, is
the dense shadow first grayish, then deep pur-
pie, then black as night. The effect of the paint
ing is excellent. With fewer of the splendid
effects of cooring than arc seen in Lander's
Peak, there seems to be in this more unity and
intensity of impression Here the mountain
leaps up with sublime energy to heaven, a breath
of awe overspreads its inaccessible heights, and
an air of mystery shrouds its unmelting SHOWS.
One almost fances he hears its voice of minatory
warning, procul, procm, est profani.
Year: 1865

SNAKEY.-A gentleman passing near the
corner of Van Buren and Sherman streets.
saw a woman standing at the door of one of
the little residences in that vicinity. with
what seemed to be an unusual mammarv
development. He stopped to ask question,
and she, putting her hand INTO her bosom,
drew forth the head of reptile, whose fork
ed tongue and arched neck told of a danger
ons neighbor. Slowly she drew forth her
portege from his nesting concealment, and
wound the Shiny thing around her neck. 1t
was rattlesnake, of the genuine Southern
breed nearly four feet long, with three rat.
ties on his TAIL and the poison fangs undated
and envenomed, as in state of nature. The
gentleman drew baak modestly, but she
exhibited no fear; after fondling with the
reptile awhile she put him back in his hid
ing place. and told the story of his capture
He was taken in Alabama, by her husband
who had recently returned from the war
and now rivals him in her affections, anc
one would think dangerously so, as he is un
doubtedly close bosom friend Chicagt
| Tribune,
Year: 1865

BRUMMEL once met with a pompous old
French Marquis, and managed to put some
finely powdered sugar into his hair powder.
The poor Marquis made his appearance at
dinner powdered to perfection, but had
scarcely begun to eat when the flies began to
desert the wall and windows to settle upon
his head The weather was exceedingly hot,
and the flies of course numerous The Mar
quis relinquished his knife and fork to drive
off the enemy with his handkerchief, but
back the whole swarm came, more teasingly
than ever. Not wing was missing. Those
of the company who were not in the secret
could not help wondering at this phenome-
non. as the buzzing grew louder and louder
every moment. Matters grew still worse
when the sugar, melting. poured down the
Frenchmans brow and face in thick streams,
for his tormentors then changed their ground
of action, and having thus found a more
venerable part, nearly drove him mad with
their stings. Unable to bear it any longer,
he clasped his head with both bands, and
rushed out of the room in cloud of powder
followed by his perse sering tormentors and
the laughter of the company.
Year: 1865

A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE IN MATRIMONIAL
HIGH LIFE-A curious case of matrimonial
incontinency is related by the Lowell Mass J
News, which says: "A married woman.
moving in high circles, left her home one
evening lately. and taking a conveyance to a
hotel in the rural districts, was soon joined
by an unfaithful husband who ought to
have been at home taking care of his own
family instead of engaging in intimate com
panionship with those outside of his own
household. The couple ordered room to-
gether, representing themselves as husband
and wife. At later hour the same night a
carriage drove up to the door of the hotel
with another couple, who engaged lodgings
in an adjoining chamber. All passed off
quietly enough until the next morning. when
the two couples were summoned to the
breakfast table. There they met when-lo
and behold, there was mere change of part
ners, each gentleman having upon his arm
the wife of the otherl Although there was
a mutual blushing, mental cursing and re.
crimination, it was deemed best, after sober
second thought, to let the matter rest as
quietly as possible but the coincidence was
too remarkable one to avoid the ear Of the
oyer-curious"
Year: 1865

LEVI II. TowER.-In obituary notice Of this
recently deceased citizen of Shasta county, the
Courier says - In June, 1850, lie one of
several who took passage on board schooner
and coasted north in search of Trinity river
hoping to find there harbor that would admit
of and encourage the building of Il city, the
Trinity mines being then esteemed the ElDorado
of California. Failing to find the object of their
search the party set out from Humboldt Bay to
the mines on Trinity river. established a ferry on
the South Fork of that river, and opened a trail
to Arcata, on the sea coast, which is still trav-
cleo
Year: 1865

hearty response from every true patriot


My acquaintance began amid the hours Of deep
and overwhelming socuie which filed what justly may be
called nterreguum which occurred between the election
Abraham Lincoln the Presidency in November 1SGo
his Inauguration. amid the dangers of revolution siege
assassination March, 1Sl while Edwin NJ Stanton
acting member Of the waning Administration of
James Buchanan From that time, through all The period
which elapsed until April 1863 when the siege of the Capt.
and the fearful tragedy the country
with Chief Magistrate who
had it, hourly closely observed by night and
by day the Secretary of War him organize and con-
duct of pure repression greater than any which
mankind had before experienced In all that time
great or serious committed ] you have all
the greatest military results achevedresus which
the whole world regarded impossible. There is of
those results that less directly due to the fer
tile invention sagacious preparation and ndomabe
and of the Secretary of War Applause
have known him express beray thought
in regard to country which not divine What
mains to be DONE by exhibiting military force in bringing
the nsurrectonary States out from anarchy into condition
of internal peace and cooperation with the Government
be safely trusted to him."


With his proverbial guardedness and good
sense in matters in which the public are not de-
sired to know too much until the proper time
arrives, the Secretary said near the close Of his
speech:


omit speak Of foreign nations and of the proceedings
of the Government regard them for first
cessary conducted without Immediate publicity: the other
is reason need assign. Nevertheless may in
general terms this We have claims upon foreign nations
for Injuries the United and her citizens and other
alleged injuries them their subjects. Although these
claims chiefly Of personal and pccuniary


dependence OF States and harmony the nations be-
leve that the President will conduct this part of affairs
in such yield nlemnities justly
honor"
Year: 1865

FUNERAL SERvICE.-lt was announced that the
funeral of the late Levi II. Tower would take
plsce from the Tower House at o'clock on
Wednesday, but owing to the detention of the
boat the remains did not arrive at Red Bluff I'M
Ill that day The funeral took place on Thurs
day Several citizens of this place had intended
TO be present but detained by the inclem-
ent weather and possibility of delay as above
mentioned.
Year: 1865

SERESADE AND SPEEcH.-The Courier says that
while Senator Jones tarred in Shasta on his way
to the Capital, he honored by serenade
from the brass band at that place. He responded
in pleasing speech
Year: 1865

FLUME DAxAGED.-The head of Osgood Car
sons Hume, below town, was broken in by the
Hood on Monday morning and the work badly
damaged. What the estimated loss is we have
not heard, but it will take q large amount Of
labor and material to make the damage good
Year: 1865

DAMAGE By THE FLooD.-The great rush of
water Monday morning washed out the break
water at Millen's blacksmith shop, Frenchtown,
and in the short space of an hour carried away
the barn the premises ana otherwise damaged
the property. The loss will amount to several
hundred dollars
Year: 1865

THE RECENT ErcrIoyThe result Of the october election
shows that not than two-thrl vote was poed and
this fact extensively commented upon by the of the
state We believe majority Of contemporaries ccncede
this to be the natural result Of separation of the elections
TRINITY JOURNAL.


We disposed to think that it the natural result Of
the nomination o original Secesonst by the Union state
Conventions and if the JOURNAL will privately consult the
more earnestly loyal Of its nebors il will probably asce-
tam that this opinion peculiar ourselves AegorI-
cay considered Judge Sanderson enormous and very
dsasteul pill which Union could swallow. on very
stringent pinch hut not without immense grinnne and Wig
orous remonstrance from the horax.-Americdn Flag.


"AllegorcalIy' speaking, fudge. The result
of the October election is just what it was two
years ago-about two-thirfs vote-and what it
will be in future when none but Supreme Judges
are to be chosen. If County Judge had been
elected in Trinity this year, a full vote would
have been polled. While we dislike to acknowl-
edge that any of our neighbors are "more ear
nestly loyal" than ourself, it is possible that
there arc a few who believe with the Flag that
the Union State Convention was so lost to sense
of duty to the Union people of the State as to
nominate 'Secessionist." Don't count US in
Year: 1865

BRUTAL Murder OF AN IyDIAN.-The Courier
Is informed that most cowardly and barbarous
murder committed near North Fork of Cot
tonwood, in Shasta county, recently. Two white
devels went to Indian rancheria for the pur-
pose of carrying off an Indian girl. The attempt
was resisted by the mother of the girl anda Grip
Piled Indian boy, who alone were present. The
villains were exasperated at the resistance OF the
cripple, and one of them seized him by the halr,
cut his throat. and then stabbed him to the KNIFE
hllt In the meantime the woman and girl es-
capped, and it is probable the perpetrators OF the
devilish deed will, as none but Indian testimony
can be produced against them. Hanging is too
good for such bood-thirstv outlaws.
Year: 1865

ASSrAL WEATHER REcoRD.-Mr. VIM. l.. Huds-
peth keeps a strict record of the fluctuations OF
the weather, and from it we learn that during
the year ending November 23d, 1865, it rained
sixty-nine days, but that during eleven days OF
that time but little actual rain fell. Snow tell
seventeen days in the same time. Last year the
Fall rains commenced at midnight on the 22d OF
November this year or the evening Of the lin
eleven days earlier since which time 1t mas
rained almost continuously. If a rain gauge had
been kept since the commencement OF the storm
the result would show an amount of wet which
would be absolutely astonishing.
Year: 1865

The best Family Machine.-We would call the
the GROVER BAKER MACHINES
Their reputation well established for attempt


in their favor. but would advise any person want
ing reliable Family Sewing Machine to investigate the
merits these before buying. A word to the wise is
sufficient" 4ly9.