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Year: 1861

So denOminated from their astonishing power of
creating new life and health, it were from the
very ashes of the most diapidated constitutions
are more strongly tonic and more Immediately in
vigorating than pills; containing the same choice
vegetable extracts the latter, in different mod
ificatiOn. Although really less cathartc than the
LIFE PILLS, they nevertheless begin to cleanse tho
alimentary canal much sooner; generally slightly
operating within three or four hours, and pr0duc-
ing decided of relief to the head aud stom-
than this
Year: 1861

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Know all ti.a by these Presents: That We, the
subscribers, being Stoekhod in the James River
and Ksnawhs Company, do hereby constitute and
appoint - our trne and lawful Attorney and
Proxy, To represent each OF US In all general meet
ings OF the Stock holders of said Company held
within six months from and after the date hereof
when we are not personally present or represented
hy some other Proxy; with iuii power and author
ity, at such general meetings to give such vote or
yntas, and to do such other act acts las each of
us could give or do, as member Of the said meet
ings, if we were personally present and we do
hereby ratify and confirm whatever vote or votes
act or acts, our said attorney may lawfully give or
do for u.s. In pursuance OF the authority hereby
conferred upon him.


Witness our hands and seals, this day of
one thousand eight hundred and -.


Teste; Seal


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Year: 1861

If this prove q disadvantage 10 the
Southern States, owing to the peculiar
character OF their laboribg population.
they have no right to complain, for it is
a disadvantage they have brought uDon
themselves. Bal this vii. be a dlsad-
vantage only as compared with Us Of
the North; f07 il viii be better for The
South herself to have The negro popu-
latiOn free laborers than it is TO have
them slaves. In counting the popula-
non of the South, we mast count not
merely her white bat also her black
and colored population. The moral.
spiritual and material welLbeing of her
four millions of black and colored Deo-
pie must be considered. as we'll as the
moral, spiritual and material weil-be-
ing Of her eight millions of wLI.es.-
These black aud cOlored people are as
much human beings, whose welfare is
as imporlau. and rs net essary to he
consulted BY the statesman, the politi-
cal economist. the morals, and the
christian, as that Of any oIher portion
of her populat on and what they would
gain by their emancipation should be
thrown into the balance against what
might be lost by their former owners.
But even the three hundred and forty
seven thousand slave proprietors would,
in reality lose nothing, or gain in moral
more than they would lose in material
prosperity. We DO not believe South
ern society would, in case of emanci-
patton, BE- equal TO what it would be
If the whole population were of the
white rae. The negro element would
remain IN that society, and, wherever
it remains it will be an inferior Gle
meut; but far less so as free, than as
enslaved. The white population Of the
South must always suffer this draw
back for having collected, or submitted
TO the collection OF a large African
population On their soil, and they have
10 right to complain if obliged 10 make
expialion, as long as the world stands,
for having introduced ana sustained The
institution Of negro slavery. But aside
from the disadvantage of having lis Ia
boring population OF q race with which
the white will nc: mingle, The South
will gain by the assimilation of her la
bor system to that Of the North
Year: 1861

"I am lost" said the surgeon, in a melan.
choly voice.


"Come, don't disturb yourself in that way, ~
said the officers. eve will take ii in turns to
stay with you until you depart" In fact,
three officers who had lost all their money at
the gaming table accompanied him to his quar-
ters, and offered to remain with him.


The second day after the surgeon received
the permission he had asked for to return to
France, and began his preparations for start
Ing the following morning with q lady to whom
Murat had given a strong escort. He had Just
finished dining with his friends, when the SER
want came up to say that lady wanted to speak
70 him. The three officers accompanied him
down stairs. fearing il might be snare. The
woman was the servant who had assisted at the
scene We have described, and she had barely
time to caution him against the vengeance Of
her master before she fell dead. She had been
poisoned


The effect of this tragical catastrophe upon
the surgeon was, of course, great. To drown
his melancholy, he and his friends drank i'm.
moderately; after which they laid down on
their bed in the same room. In the middle OF
the night the surgeon was awoke by the sound
of the curtains Of his bed being drawn back.
He sat up In state of great agitation, from the
sudden manner in which he had been reused
from his sleep, and saw the same Spaniard
standing beside his bed whom he had observed





tive. The surgeon called out:


Help. como to me, my friendsl"
AT this cry Of distress the Spaniard gave
vent to bitter laugh. THE opium grows for
everybody" he said, and pointed toward the
three friends, who were sleeping soundly; at
the same moment he drew from under his
mantle an arm which had been freshly severed
from body, and thrust il close to the ewes of
the horrifed surgeon.


Is 1t the same!" he asked, pointing to the
sign which the surgeon had so imprudently de-
scribed.


By the light of lantern which the spaniard
had placed on the bed, the surgeon recognized
the arm, and his silence was sufficient confir.
nation for the unknown, who, without asking
another question, plunged his dagger, as he
supposed, in the surgeons heart, and fed
HaPpliy, the point glanced along the bone,
and missed vital part, and the surgeon even
tuaily recovered from his wound


Some years afterwards the surgeon was one
night at public ball with some friends who
were acquainted with his history, when, while
In the act Of conversing with them, his jaw
some object in another part of the room, and
he appeared suddenly attack by ft of epilep-
sy- His friends turned to see at whom he was
staring, and beheld a tall, looking Span
lard, thin as q skeleton, whose eyes shone like
hre On his arm leaned q lady of great bea auty,
but who seemed to have no use of her right
arm The Frenchman turned again to ask the
surgeon If these were tho persons whom he had
encountered in Spain, but he had disappeared
By sudden impulse be stepped up to the lady
and asked her where she had lost her right
arm. She replied, without a moments hesita.
ton, "ln tho War Of Independence
Year: 1861

A CTION BROUGHT IN THE DISTRICT
n Court of the Ninth Judicial District of the
State of California, in and for the County of
Trinity. and the complaint filed in said County
of Trinity, in the office Of the Clerk of said Dis
trict Court


The People of the State of California, send greeting


TO JACOB MYERS, Defendant:


You are hereby required to appear in an action
brought against you by the above named plain
tiff. in the District Court OF the Ninth Judicial
District of the State of California ii and for the
County of Trinity, and to answer the complaint
filed therein, "a copy Of which accompanies this
Summons) within ten days, exclusive of the day
of service) after the service on you of this Sum-
mons-if served within this county; or, if served
ont of this county, but within this Judicial Dis
trict, within twenty days; or if served out OF
said District then within forty days-or Judgment
by default will be taken against you according
to the prayer of said complaint.


The said action is brought to obtain decree
dissolving the marriage between you and the said
plaintiff. and claiming divorce from you, on the
ground of extreme cruelty and other acts men
toned in complaint ETC., and that the paintlif be
declared the legal guardian of her infant child,
during its minority, and for costs OF suit, etc..


And YOU are hereby notified, that if you fail
to appear and answer the said complaint as above
required, the said plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded in said complaint.
The foregoing Summons is published by order OF
said Court.


Given under my hand and the seal of the Dis
trict Court of the Ninth Judicial District Of the
State of California, in and for the county of
Trinity, this Path day OF April, A. d.. 1861


GI.s.i NJ F. GRIFFIN, Clerk.


PIrzER Il STUART, Pltff's. Att'ys. Is.
Year: 1861

THE DEAD MOTHER.-'Twas dark and lower
ing afternoon that we stood beside the confined
form of the poor dead mother, whose lamp OF
life burned out so quickly, leaving a widowed
husband and two mOtherless babies to mourn her
early loss. Life's ftful CLEAN was over with her
now, and she slept "the sleep that knows no
waking" Sorrowng friends had robed her frail
form in garbs of spotless purity and garlanded
her hands around with Springs fresh flowers
The beautiful trust and simplicity of chldhood's
years had gone with her through early woman
hood, and at its close her love for the flowers,
those silent Messengers of the Great Eternal's
goodness, was yet so strong and pure that among
her last requests was the one that they might be
with her still through the valley and shadow
OF DEATH" even down into the graves dark
home of clay. Yes, lay her gently away to rest,
with all these sweet perfumes about her, for she
loved them in life, and pcrchance they may help
TO hallow her tomb.


And tits well 10 fold the wax like hands so
quietly over the still and pulseess bosom that so
long has throbbed with all Consumption's bar
rowing pains, for her slumbers are so sweet that
no childish prattle lisped by children dear, or
husbands words of love can wake her now.
Sleep on, thou angel dreamer, and when the
curtains of the Great Hereafter shall be drawn
aside, for us to go hence, we shall hope to meet
thee, robed in purer white, and garlanded with
yet purer flowers than decked thy burial brow.
Year: 1861

The Dashaways and Good Templars Of this city
are doing much for the benefit of the community.
They have rescued many from the jaws of death
-snatching them as they hung on the impending
whirl of the fatal maelstrom. To wholly erad-
cate the evil of drinking would seem to be an
impossibilty- the practice has become almost
part of civilization itself; and the use of sim-
uants is, unfortunately, too often sanctioned by
the example of those who are among the greatest,
and wisest and best of our modern men, In fact,
it would almost that the affairs of the great
world depended upon the processes of disillation


and fermentation. The great majority OF our
public men-our leaders'i in the State and Nation
al legislatures-are, we are sorry TO say, addicted
to the use of ardent spirits They speak under
its influence, and legisate under it. Keeling
Senator's uphold the pillars of State, and stag
gerng Representatives decree the destinles OF
the nation. Drunken traitors threaten treason in
the halls of the National Capitol, and drunken
patriots confront and deDounce them. Presi-
dents messages insprited by old rye and
Ministers Of rival powers negotiate solemn treat
les with bottle of brandy or Burgundy as arbi-
traitor between them. Nor is this all. Through
all the ramlficatons of society the evil extends


It's false inspiration is visible in the rudest as
well as the most refined of the social circles. The
breath of the demon is upon the lips Of the gay
waltzer in the dance and his subtle spirit is too
often seen in the flush that climbs to beauty's
cheek. The clerk behind his counter, the judge
upon his bench, the writer at his desk, the labor
er at his task (though this latter class not SO
much as the others,) all betray to a greater or
less degree the hectic of the fever in their veins


1t is eminently drinking generaton-we may
say drinking world, for there has been no peri
cd to which the mind runs back, in which the use
ofntoxcating draughts was not known. Scarcely
an island has been discovered in the sea in which
the inhabitants have not from time immemoral
concocted their stimulating beverages; and there
never was found race Of people upon either con-
tinent without some sort of prevalent stimulus.
Is, then, this appetite natural to humanity, and
coexistent with it ?-the poison of that serpent
tooth with which the devil bit the earth from
its BIRTH" and which still infuses itself through
the veins of Adams descendants, from genera
tion to generation 1t is well known that this
appetite may be transmitted, and that children
have been born with an Unsuitable thirst for spir-
ituous liquors, which has exhibited itself at an
astonishingly early PERIODS r. Evening Journal
Year: 1861

VERMONT EIoQUENCE.--A Vermont legislator,
who was opposed TO project for a new county,
"come down. on the locality after the following
fashion


"The soil is so poor that 1t would not grow
pennyroyal Sir, you might NOW the country
with razor, and rake it with a fine tooth comb,
and you wouldn't get fodder enough to keep a
sick grasshopper through the winter. Sir, they
plant corn with crowbars, and hold the sheep by
the legs while they nibble the grass in the cracks
of the cliffs -
Year: 1861

is particularly attractive, and the great feature
to the Country Merchant is the unusually low
priceless than the cost of Importation
We also keep the Staple articles IN the Dry
Goods line, which Goods we have purchased in
this market under the Hammer, and are offering
them at .Neto York cost--dnd less We publish
this Card in order that we may make new ac-
quaintances, and induce those who have not here
tofore purchased of us, to call and inspect our
stock


All we ask is an opportunity to show the Goods
and name the prices, and we have no fear Of the
result Good articles and io,c prices are the great
inducements to all who purchase to sell again.
Merchants who buy of us can make good
profit and sell TO their customers at q low figure.
We remain, respectfully,


Your obedent servants


BADGER & lINDENBeRGER,


Wholesale Clothing and Hat Warehouse,


Nos. All, Alb and AS Battery street.


(corner of Merchant street)
San Francisco, April Is, 1861. 1913.
Year: 1861

DEPENDENcY.-The race Of mankind would
perish, did they cease to aid each other
From the time the mother binds the child's
head till the moment that some kind assistan,
wipes the death damp from the brow of the
dying, we cannot exist without mutual help
All, therefore, that need aid, have . right te
ask it of their fellow -mortals. No one who
has the power Of granting it can refuse il
without guilt
Year: 1861

"a mote uneasily shifting in the boundless
space. l get no hope in this direction; but
look down, and find that the shoulders of
all inferior creation are under me- lifting me
into the very presence of God. find that
God has been at work below me in a mass
of minute and munificent detail by the side
OF which my life is great and simple, and
satisfyingly significant.


So, if may not believe in "pistareen
Providence" must make God Of the uni
verse itself, or pass into the hands of many
Gods the worlds creation and governance
If the God that made the bee and the ant and
the daisy made me, then He is not above
taking care Of me, and of maintaining an in
terest in the smallest affairs of my life. The
faith that lives in reason is never stronger
than when it stands on flowers. There is
not a fly that floats, nor fish that swms,
nor an animalcnle that navigates its little
drop of sea-spray but bears burden of hope
to despairing humanity eff God so clothe
the grass which to-day is and tomorrow is
cast into the oven," then what, Mr. Emerson |?


This subject is a very large one, and can
present only one more phase Of it. A great
multitude-the larger part, in fact-of the
human race are engaged in doing small work





the Almighty Maker Of all things has done a
great deal of the same kind of work, and has
not found it unworthy or Improbable en-
ployment. Let them remember that it is
jus, as hard to do small thing well as
large thing, and that the difficulty of deed
is the gauge of the power required for its
doing. Let them remember that when they
go down they are going just as directly
towards iniinity as when they go up, and
that every man who works Godward works
i'm honor.


1t was very forcible reflection to which a
visitor at Niagara Falls gave uttcrance, when
he said that, considering tho relative power
Of their authors, he did not regard the catar-
act as so remarkable piece of work as the
Suspension bridge; and it may be said with
truth, that there is no work within the power
of man so small that God has not been below
it in work smaller and possibly humber
still, il,-certainly humber when we consider
the infinite majesty and the ineffable dignity
of His character. My maid is too proud to
go into the street for pail of milk my God
smiles upon me in flowers from the very gut
ter. My ncighbor thinks it beneath him to
till the soil, working with his hands, but the
Being who made him, breathes upon that soil,
and works in it, that it may bear food to keep
human dignity from starving. There are
men who set themselves above driving
horse no part of which the King of the uni
verse was above making Ah human pride /!
Alas human dignity! ] do not know what
to make of you.
Year: 1861

The USE OF A SERMoN.-"I never" said
an eminent living preacher to us once in con.
versation, never allow myself to think oi
sermon as an end 1t is mere tool
What's the use Of a mans grinding and pol
ishing his axe all day long, without once re.
membering that it was made to cut?" Then
spreading the palm Of one hand and tracing
lines upon it with the forcfingcr Of the other
he continued, When an engraver is at work
on steel plate--though he reaches out his
hand now after tool for coarse one--he
keeps his eye always on the uork. What
does he care for the tools?
Year: 1861

THE STEAM Ram MANASSAS A FAILURE.-
As o vast deal has been said about the in-
vinoibility Of the famous Captain Hollin's
steam ram, It will be we'll enough to keep
in view the exact performances of that craft
when the Southern navy attacked our
blockading squadron in the Mississippi
river. In the darkness of the night she
drifted afoul of the Government steamship
Richmond, by which accident she broke her
iron nose, which was to have annihilated
the entire Union feet; disarranged her ma
chinery, and finally ran away towards New
Orleans when only two guns Of the squad.
ron were bearing on her. This iron-clad
noudescript was constructed at the cost OF
over two hundred thousand dollars, and
appears to be about as formidable as a
dredging machine.
Year: 1861

RICHMOND, JAM o, 1901.
Governor Floyd and Senator Mason have arrived here
Senator Mason will speak here on Tuesday night with
a view to urge the policy Of prompt secession
The Legislature will hold private session at ten
O'Clock tomorrow to mature some plan Of action and
avoid any conflict Of opinion when they come to act in
regular session.


have carefully canvassed the sentiments Of the
bers Of both houses and find that they generally favor
secession


Hon. Mr.. Jenkins is here to urge that policy upon the
delegates from his district.


s generally reported to night that Governor Letcher
favors central confederacy in his message. The mea
sure appears TO receive no favor.
Year: 1861

The impending Ruin Of the Repp,iic, DC.


Tho impending catastrophe to be Fastening 10 its
concentration too rapidly TO make any discussion des
rablc which may not tend to arrest the calamity The
military view clearly the most obnoxious that be
taken under existing circumstances; but the public
Year: 1861

During dull weather the corn and potato
fields should have the attention of all far
msr,. Corn fields are usually titled three
time. before the middle Of July. Some far
msrs are satisfied with two hoeines FOR the
season. ba, We are well satisfied that third
hosins is essential to produce full crop
For when q Geld is once planted and ma.
nured the additional labor Of third hOein;
will always 30 well repaid by the increased
production. A man will hoe an acre IN q
lAy.
Year: 1861

ia IS which crowd around esety such do
N ste romance as that which [ relate


There IS one fact, however, which j;
IS important that you should know
important, because such events are gen.
orally supposed to be the end Of ro-
nance and the beginning OF reality !;
and as / never wish TO trespass much
Oh the domains Of the later. like to
finish of the first with thu flourish.


In the morning they were married .
Year: 1861

While treason rings on every passing gale,
And traitors 'gainst their country madly rail.
lis fit that thus we celebrate this dav,
In hope that anger will soon pass away
In hope that peace will bless us soon again,
And soften hate and Danish every pain.
But should the spirit of our Chief appear,
And, on our Union gaze, with eyes of fear,
Aud see the country that his followers freed
Once bound together by a sacred creed,
His noble heart would suffer untold woe
To see his country ruined by no foe
Born on soil meath other climes and skies,
But brother 'gainst his brother man arise


III.
Alas, why should this revolution reign,
To raise the fearful war-cry once again?
Should other powers strive to gain our land,
Them arm for freedom and our rights to stand;
Then fight together our loved land to save,
Protect it for twas sacred hands that gave,
But never fight TO sever this fair land
And praise dsunion's ever bloody hand.
Great God protect us in this awful hour;
Dispel the clouds that DER our country lower,
And make his bright example TO our view
Recall our duty to what's right and true
Make every man who's called Columbia's son
Rival the deeds OF noble Washington
Forget there's such thing as North aud South,
But cry our Union with a willing mou h,
And swear to rally meath Union cry,
The star gemmcd Banner ever wave on high


w.
And Washington name We'll reverence ever,
Though Liberty fall and States may sever.
He strove for freedom with generous zeal,
No lack of courage his deeds reveal
And when we see that starry banner wave,
His names the watchword to lead the brave
The thought of him our fathers cherished,
1T gave a nerve to resolute hands.
Our Constitution they sign, tho they perished,
And by it we boast of our homes and our lands.


vi.
Our lands greatest patriot! sweetly repose
In thy grave, where with tears thou vast lain,
And be not disturbed by our country great woes
That on its bright name casts stain.


VII.
Ahen ie' 10 ui0 0OOiiS' 'ii"h scNct the ChlOH--
Before it is done let us sleep meath the sod
For what is life worth without country or freedom
Deprived ofa blessing bestowed by our God


Will
Then let us all VOW his example we'll follow,
That every act of his viruous life hollow
Wen engrave on our hearts with a vow that's no
TO think of our Chieftain in midst of this strife,
Then up with our Banner and swear to defend it
'Ganst traitors and madmen, 'gainst every foe;
And take for example the Chiettain we honor,
Ills spirit will bless us wherever we go.
February 22d, 1861.
Year: 1861

Ir Is lIEnE.-Spring is upon us. The uni
versal air is beginning to be burdened with
its olois, The citizens of Marysville have
scented its coming from afar off and their
spirits are rejoicing. In front of every house
in town may be seen at least half dozen
'phare phemales,' clad all in odious shakers
and soiled gloves, tearing up 10y the roots
sundry cherished shrubs and plants with ap-
parentiy as little compunction as they tear
out fellows heart, sometimes. And after
they get them up, they take great ugly sharp
instruments and clip them and cut them
down TO a shape to suit themselves, and then
dig IA hole somewhere else and bury them al
most out of sight-NationaI Democrat


When we read that, the mountains which
wall in the town were whitened with snow,
and the atmosphere was full of it-Sierfa
Democrat
Year: 1861

The PALMETTO FLAG.-South Carolina. af-
ter much tribulation in the premises has fixed
on the following design for her flag: "a
blue field with a white palmetto tree in the


middle, upright. The white crescent in the


upper flagstaff corner remains the same as
before the horns pointing upwards" If she
would "haul in" her horns it would be a more
sensible thing-if she don't, she may come
out at the small end of one -Amadoy Ledaer.