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Year: 1869

Gen. Grant seems to us to have done wise
thing in moderating his official requirements
of Gen. Pile. That excellent Missou1lan Is
certainly better fitted for the Governorship OF
New-MexicO than for the mission to Brazil,
for which he was indiscreetly urged, and we
are heartily glad to observe that the effort to
put square man in round hole has been
iudiciOusy modified
Year: 1869

Gen. Rosecrans hardly needs to deny that
he had any part in the supposed offer of sale
of the State of Sonora by the Mexican Gov
ernment We do not know that the sale
was contemplated-we feel certain that the
Minister was not disposed to buy. The absurd
libel upon the Generals diplomacy originated
with that ring of gentlemen in Mexico and
Havana who appear to construct news for us.
Year: 1869

No man living can believe that building as
it stands has really cost S2,00O0O0.


of course this is ITO be continued just so
long as Legislatures can be induced to vote
appropriations which our taxpayers are obliged
to meet. Until the People of the State can be
entreated to choose honest legislators-nOt in
part, but very generally-the Ring has us at
its mercy, and will keep us bleeding. Good
people of the rural districtsi help us next Fall
Year: 1869

We are often puzzled by hearing men argue
that we ought not TO return to Specie ray
ments for an indefinitely long period ana ~
the same breath that theirs is the polley "iiion
leads surely and swiftly to Specie fayinen'S'
How can they want MS to take them1
Year: 1869

negotiations to be undertaken on either side'


we hone. in the best temper and the truest
sense of Justice which nations can bring into
NAV Sir Francis Heads old bill of damages
acoinst the United States will not add any
force we think, to the practical issue before us.
Year: 1869

IT. important that when the eye is being used,
the crystalline should remain in a passive state.
If an effort is made to read with glasses too strong
or too weak, constant tension is kept on the
ciliary muscles which operate the crystalline This
not only prevents the full development of the siabt
but it hastens the deterioration of the eye and ne
cessitates gradual increase in the strength of the
glasses
Year: 1869

To the Gamblers of White Cloud.


You boast of your Mite Society for the poor
think you had much better get up TEN
perance Society. think it would be OF more
benefit. have suffered more from those dog
geries than if We had been burnt out; for
know that would not have had TO take home
the curses Of one hold dearer to me than all
the wealth that White Cloud can give. Mr..
-, want you just to think how a woman
feels with little children crying for bread, and
you to sit at the gaming table at at one grab
take twenty-f dollars from a man Who justly
swed you, and then when you knew you had
got all the money that he had. to come and
try to take what little a poor woman had in
the house. Just think. when you men took
yonr wives from kind fathers, you all swore to
provide for. love and protect them. Are you
doing so by starving the women and children
This conduct goes TO show that a fathers love
is ten times stronger thar that of such hus
bands. know my father would not see me
want for bread. know there are too many OF
you think there is no hell oalv here on earth.
1t is too true that those doggeries are the
worst hells that have found yet. Oh, little
did-I think, when left q loving father. where
knew no want, to trust one ! was so conf


dent would loveSme as nv dear father did
but will not, no, never will | speak harshly
to one whom have promised to love. now
beg of you oil. even if you think your hell is
on earth, to hereafter try aud stay out of it..
for know you will he sure Of another after
death; for If you lo.cd your God as you love
to 60 to those saloons, you would be Chris
rians. GAMBLERS WIFE.
Year: 1869

E We are now in receipt of that
splendid paper the White Cloud (Ks
sas. Chief Before the war, it was upon
our exchange list. but during onr absence.
it got dropped in some manner. Sol.
Miller. its editor. has faculty Of dealing
heavy blows upon the sham Democracy.
and for this reason. if for no other. We
hail renewal of our scquaintance with
q pleasure. similar to the grasp of the
hand of an old friend. who had "proven
bis faith by bis works"


The Indisnisn is bigger thsn We are.
and can talk IS it plsases. But We in
tend to grow some more. one OF these
days. We are glad to renew the &C.
qusintsnce of the Indisnisn. Besides be.
ing sound on politics and ably edited, we
ere possessed OF the ides. from it's literary
selections. that in this department the
editor is . man after our own heart.
Year: 1869

Enter upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


"If any person shall willfully make, or give
under oath affirmation false list of bis, or her.
their taxable property, or false list of taxable
property under his, her, or their CONTROL such per-
son shall be deemed gnilty of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor, as
is by law provided for the punishment of perjury :;
and any property willfully concealed, removed
transferred, misrepresented by the owner or any
agent thereof. to evade taxation, shall upon dis
covery be assessed at ten times the amount of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon ~; and fifty per cent of the amount
OF such additional tax, when solicited shall be paid
to the person or persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property so conceal
ed transferred, removed misrepresented, and the
remaining fifty per cent, after deductlng the usual
per eentage for collection shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State.


Attention is also directed to the following section
Of the Act Of 1866. relating to Shasta county,


The Assessor of said county is authorized and
it is hereby made his duty collect all the poll or
per capita tax except tho road poll tax. and the
taxes upon all movable personal property and upon
the entry of any assessment of movable personal
property to any person. firm, corporation, associa-
ton. or company. who does not own real estate
sufficient in the opinion of the Assessor to insure
the payment of such tax within the county, to de-
mand the payment of the taxes upon the same !;
and if such person, firm, corporation, association
or company shall refuse or neglect to pay such
taxes, the Assessor shall, by virtue Of the power
herein vested in him, proceed TO collect such taxes
in the same manner prescribed by Law for the Col
lector."


If Tax Payers were to have a list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them. they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, well facilitate my work


A. P. LADD,


Assessor of Shasta County.
Shasta, April 3, 1869. ap5
Year: 1869

The following article, from the French
newspaper La Ferme, will be read with
interest. Itsuggests one of the most simple
remedies for hydrophobia, being at the
same time preventive and curative. The
paper named says:


DR.. Buisson being called to assist SUBJ
ject of hydrophobia who approached the
final crisis of the disease, bled her and
wiped his hand on a handkerchief wet with
the saliva of the dying woman. On the
first finger of the left hand he had small
confusion where the skin was broken. He
was Immediately cognizant of his thought
lessness, but trusting to the process which
he had but recently discovered, he content-
ed himself with washing himself with water
Believing" says Dr. Buisson, " that the
disease did not make its appearance until
the fortieth day, and having many patients
to visit, | put off taking my remedy from
day to day, that is, the steam baths. On
the ninth day, as | was in my chamber,
felt at once pain in my throat, and still a
greater'one in my eyes. My body felt so
light that / thought if | were to jump, l
would be able to throw myself to pro-
digious height, or that by holding on to
window frame, could sustain myself in the
air My hair was so sensitive that it seemed
to me that could count every one of them
without seeing them; my mouth watered
constantly; the impression caused by con-
tact with the air made me feel horribly, and
| avoided all brilliant bodies | had a
constant desire to run and bite, not men
but animals, and all that surrounded me-
1t hurt me to drink, and | have noticed
that the sight of water tired me more than
the pain in my throat. l believe that a
patient of hydrophobia can always drink
by closing his eyes The fits came every
FIVE minutes, and | felt then the pain start
from the first finger and run along the
nerves to the shoulder Thinking that my
means were only preventive, and not a
curative one, took steam bath, not with
the intention of healing myself, but to
sufocate myself. When the bath reached
the heat of 81 deg. centigrade, all the
symptoms disappeared as if by magic
Afterward Ineyer felt anything more.
have attended more than eighty persons
bitten by mad dogs. All have been saved
by this method. When person has been
bitten by dog, he must be made to take
seven steam baths-one each day Rus
sian, for instance, 81 deg to 63 deg This
Isl preventive remedy. When the disease
makes its appearance, only one steam bath
is necessary, rising the temperature hastily
to 81 deg. centgrade, and afterward slow
ly to 63 deg. The patient should be well
confined to his room until completely cured
Year: 1869

If it were better known how much infu-
ence the letters of a true and virtuous woman
have on young man when away from home,
mothers would write oftoner to their CONS,
sisters to their brothers, and sweethearts to
their lovers. The good that earnest, loving
letters do is not to be estimated. Many
man who left the parental roof in early life
TO do battle with the world can look back
and say, my mothers letters saved me from
the path that leads to death eternal" And
even, if not on the road to ruin those tender,
womanly letters encourage US of the sterner
sex to renew our efforts, nor become discour-
aged if the way seems dark before US. They
cost but little effort yet how much good
they do Then do not, mothers and sisters,
and sweethearts most of aldo not think
that because the letter you wrote a week ago
is unanswered you have done your duty, and
can afford to wait few days more before you
write again. The reason Of your letter being
unanswered may be that the young man is
taking the first step in vice, and if this be the
case how very precious would be a letter from
you at this instant. 1t may be the means Of
opening his eyes, and turning him from the
path he is half-incined to choose Let not
your letters be frivolous and empty missiyes,
containing merely the current gossip of the
day but freight them with loye.-with en-
couragement to do right, and accompany them
with prayer that they may have all the pow
er that you wish, and your labor will not be
lost, Though you may never know the good
they do, such letters must make an impress
sion, and in after years the man will thank
God for the interested friends who wrote to
him and prayed for him when he was just be-
giDning to fight the battle of life.
Year: 1869

You wish to dress your wife better than
your circumstances will allow. She wants to
have you She is woman of spirit, as it is
said aud she does not mean to be drudge
Why should our neighbors,' she says to her
husband, dress any better than we? They
are made of the same flesh and blood that we
are. See how they come out | don't think
man of any spirit would let his wife and
children 20 to church dressed as you let us
go. Look at these children. You would
think that they had Just come out of some
sop-housc If had married as | might
have married, we should have had different
times-I and my children - How many
men are stung to the quick by such remarks
from their wives Ottentmes their moral
sense reyolts, at first, and they feel indigna-
ton but" continual dropping wears a stone;"
and by and by the man is dressed little bet
ter than he can afford, and his wife and chill
dren are dressed better than he can afford 7;
and somebody must pay for the extravaganza.
| do not say that they grind. They mean
somehow to get it out of the dress-maker, or
out Of the merchant. They intend to make
one hand wash the other somehow and they
60 into petty meannesses, to bring it about.
And this desire to dress better than they can
afford is taking off the very enamel of their
virtue, and taking out the very stamina Of
their religious lie Unimportant as it seems,
ostentatious vanity in dress has ruined many
a family, and damned many a soul Henry
Ward Beecher.
Year: 1869

The HAPPy SuRPRIsE.-A lady distin-
guished as writer states that, when she was
in her fourteenth year, the great duty of con-
secrating herself to her Redeemer was brought
home to her heart and conscience; and the
SPECIAL obstacle in her way was fear of an elder
brother, then spending at home his college
vacation. He was a young man Of brilliant
promise, but with great powers of ridicule,
and she shrank from his merciless wit. For
several days the conflict. between convictions
of the Spirit and his displeasure, filled her
with agony At last she yielded herself to
Christ, and resolved to confess it to her
brother, and implore him to make the same
wise choice. With faltering tongue she in
troduced the subject when, TO her joy, he
seized her hand, and, with fearful eyes and
tremulous voice. told her that he too for some
time had been under religious impressions,
and that the great obstacle that appeared be-
fore him was the fear that ii would cut him
off from her love and sympathy. What a
happy surprise was this to both Of them -
The Messenger.
Year: 1869

LESSONS or SoRRow.-Sorrow sobers us
and makes the mind genial. And in sorrow
we love and trust our friends more tenderly,
and the dear become dearer to us. And just
as the stars shine out in the nights, so there
are blessed faces that look at us in our grief
though their features were fading from our
recollection. Suffering! Let no man dread
it too much, because II is better for him, and
it win help to make him sure of being immor-
tai. 1t is not in the bright days, but only in
the solemn night, that other worlds are to be
seen shining in the long long distances. And
it is in sorrow-the night of the soul--that we
see the fartherest, and know ourselves ma
tives Of infnity and sons and daughters Of
the Most High
Year: 1869

AN INcIDENT-0n Sabbath morning last,
while the organist of the first Congregational
Society in Leicester was performing the yolun-
tary, two little sisters, descendants of one of
the early families of the town, walked up
one of the aisles bearing beautiful bouquet
and passing around the front Of the pulpit to
the family slip of Rev. DR.. Nelson, presented
it to him and passed on to their own slip.
There was an interest in the silent presenta-
ton and reception Of this little token of affec-
ton, which would not be apparent to stran-
ger, but it reminded the congregation that
this was the eighty-third anniversary Of the
birth of their venerable and beloved senior
pastor, whose relation to the church and soci.
ETY. had continued now more than iiity-seven
years. The token was passed over to the
partner of his youth, then sitting by his side,
who had, for nearly the same number of years,
shared with him in the cares and pleasures
of parish duties, and during the afternoon
services it graced the communion table in
front of the sacred desk.
Year: 1869

A well dressed woman is a walking shrine
at which l worship as pass She is pub
lie benefactor; the park, the street, the
church, the public assembly sigh for her
coming and are richer and happier when she
comes. | like beautiful dress, beautiful
but all these instead of satisfying me, fill me
with great desire for something more and
that is minds and hearts to match. 1t used
to be a custom for German mothers to say to
their children as they tricked them out for
church on Sunday mornings Gas | adorr
thee outside, may God adorn thee inside. -
Something of that sort | would have rich
men and women say to themselves as they
make themselves beautiful outwardly as they
have a right to, as it is their duty to-if their
money is well earned.
Year: 1869

Bleeding may give ease, because the blood len has
more room but the does not last and is followed
by permanent weakness.


BRANpRETlpS PILLS relieve the circulation and
give more surely and almost quickly bleeding
hut Brandreths Pills hurt and the good hcy do
Is permanent because they take only what the body and
blood better without. Purgasion with these pills
will be found
Year: 1869




COMING TO THEIR SENsEs.-The
election in West Virginia takes place
October 28th. A new Legislature
is to be chosen, and the chief ques>
tion at issue is the enfranchisement
of the white people of the State. The
Wheeling Intelligeucer, the most
influential radical paper in the State,
takes strong and sensible ground in
favor of abandoning the stupidly
Vicious policy which has been SO long
persisted in, and its efforts are backed
by other papers and some of the most
influential members Of the party.
They know that the appearance upon
the stage of new generation OF Vot-
ers will insure this result within q
few years at farthest, and are shrewd
enough to desire the credit of yields
ing freely what can not long be with
held. 1t is to be hoped that this
movement will be successful. At
present some twenty thousand white
citizens are excluded from participa-
tion in the Government under which
they live-a state of things wholly
at war with every principle of rspub:
lican government, and disgraceful
alike to those who instituted and
those who seek to perpetuate it.
Year: 1869

The MONEY ORDER SYSTEM
We see it stated that the amount of
money sent through the mails by
postal money orders is increasing
about 100 per cent. annually. This
year the aggregate foOts up So, ,OOO,'
OO0, against SIG, 100000 last yesr,
and it ,is estimated the amount will
again double next year. The postal
money order system is becoming
every day more popular with bust
ness men. 1t is simple and cheap,
and under the present department
regulations, it is impossible for any
one to draw the money from the
office except the person named BY
the individual sending it. 1t is the
safest and cheapest mode Of remit
ting money.
Year: 1869

SIcKLEs' INsTRUCTIoNs.-H Is
ascertained from a reliable source
that General Sickles was not author
lied to mako any demand upon the
Spanish Government; he was in"
strueted merely to act discreetly, but
with earnestness, as a mediator bes
tween that power and the Cubans
on the basis already published for
the independence Of tie island.
Leading members of the Govern
ment favor the proposition, but are
not free at present to finally acceptit.
Year: 1869

GRANT has made the journey be-
tween Washington and Baltimore
twenty-five times since the 4th Of
last March-oftener than any other
President ever made the trip during
his whole term of Office.
Year: 1869

EDITOR STATEsMAN.-I wish you or
some other mathematician would explain
TO my obtuse mind the manner in which
the county is to get out of debt in so
short time as indicated by the County
Auditor. noticed from his report to
the grand jury, that on the first day of
May, 1869, the county owed the sum of
So, ,376.Os. On the first day of October,
1869, the Indebtedness amounted to
Ss, ,39O52Adiffereuce Sl4.44, which is
the increase of the county Indebtedness
since the first day of May, 1869 and
yet the Auditor goes on to say, at the
above rate the county will be out of
debt some time in 1870. confess that
l do not understand such arithmetic.
How is it2


ADDITToN 4 SuBTRAcTIoN
Year: 1869

From the San Francisco Alta, September !.


Among the curious phenomena Of our
climate none is so incredible and so myste-
rious as the rising of the springs in the
very time when all theory would prove that
cur dricst time should be just setting in for
Il long continuance. Yet: everywhere, ere
our long term of drought from dcarth Of
rain has reached within sixty days of its


termination, the springs, instead of grow


ing moro dry to the end, begin to grow pre-
maturely moist, and water flows without
rain where not drop was seen q week be-
fore! When we read attcntivcly this law
CT nature we shall sec beautiful pro-
vision that saves our trees and shrub
berry from the destructive dcsiccati0n
that hefalls the herbage of the fields
to the very roofs. In other climates the
countcrplay Of electric forces draws water
from the upper air to feed the rooted plant
by downward percolation. In California
this action is simply reversed. There being
no water above, electric conduction finds
reason to believe that our soil has pOrosity
corresponding to this process. IN no other
climate are the waters under the earth so
abundant. They are saved from superficial
evaporation by the habitude of our streams
to sink underground and disappear from
sight. Evaporation does not cease; but
instead of being dissipated in the atmo-
sphere direct it passes through the in
tervention of the earth, and in its pas
sage it moistens all the pores and
feeds the Siree-roots in its ascent.
In the longest days aBd the hottest
sunshine evaporation takes away the
ascending surplus from the surface so fast
that none remains to show flow upon the
ground. In the latter days of August this
sun power and the length of days decline.
August is also our month of fogs. The
grain-bcaring herbage is dried up or cut
down, and the pores it kept open are glazed
over and imperyious to vapor from beneath.
Everything conspires to check the needless
waste of water through the air. And thus
it is that in our lengthening nighttime
there remains surplus to give flow to the
surface springs. Blessed be Providence for
this kind provision, by which, as the length
cning drought threatens destruction, there
comes from depths concealed increase OF
moisture, bringing to the earth resurrection
of life and salvation.
Year: 1869

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS many thanks
we acknowledge the receipt last evening OF
most welcome treat of icc-cream and cake
from the young Indies of Broad-Strcet Sun
day school, who are now holding a feast on
Broad street between Ninth and Tenth.
Long may they live and prosper. If young
men who are at loss as to how to employ
their time in the evening would call On the
young ladies they would certainly feel
that they had spent a small portion of their
lives most proiitably.
Year: 1869

The BENCHES ON THE SoUARE.-Thc
Square is being fitted with set of new
granite benches, which would do very well
but for the single iron rod which is intended
as back, and gives the appearance Of an
instrument of torture. Sambo will not find
them very comfortable.
Year: 1869

LET Us HAVE LreHT.-The wretched quail
ity of the gas furnished to our citizens
down town last night may have been highly
pleasing 10 those sanguinary individuals who
prowl about the streets amusing themselves
by knocking down and robbing unwary
mortals, but we cannot imagine the state Of
semi-darkness to have been at all pleasant to
the great majority of the people-not even to
the officers Of the gas company. Why did we
not have full supply Of gas last nights Who
can answer?