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Year: 1861

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that will be more useful than all the re
ceipts for glove cleaning, hair-dye, and
washing made easy, ever invented.


Choose the RIGHT TINE for saying
things. If your wife looks weariel or
worn out, be sure that is not the right
time to tell her that the tea is not hot,
or the bread is sour. Comfort her-cheer
her up. Use the ten thousand little STRAIT
agcms you were want to handle so skill
fully in the courting days, to bring out
the smiles around her lips.


If you are annoyed or vexed at people,
Just remember it is not the IGur TIME
to speak Close your mouth; shut your
teeth together firmly, and our receipt will
save you many useless and unavailing
regret, and many bitter enemy.


If you happen to feel a little CROSS
and who amongst us does not at somo
time or other?-don't select that season
for reproving your noisy household flock.
one word spoken in passion will make
scar that summer of smiles can scarce
ly uproot.


If you chance to be woman, the adj
vice is Just as good. Never tease your
husband when he comes home weary from
his days business. 1t is not the RIGHT
TINE. Don't ask him for expensive trim
kets when he has been talking about hard
times; that is most assuredly the WRONG
time.


If he has entered upon any undertake
ing against your advice, don't seize on
the moment Of its failure to say, 81 .ol
you sol" In fact, it is never the right
time for those four monosylabes.


Oh, if people only knew enough to
discriminate between the right and the
wrong, there would be less arrangement
Of hearts! The greatest calamities that
overshadow our lives have som etimes
their germ in matters apparently as slight
as this. Il you would only pause, read
er. before the singing taunt, or the biting
snecr, or the unkind scof passes your
lip-pause just long enough to ask your
self "Is it the right time for me to speak %
you would shut the door against many a
hcar.-ache.


The world hinges on little things, and
there are many less trivial than the RIGHT
and the WRONG.
Year: 1861

Those ma ultraists who are urging
as military necessity" the arming
of slaves to aid in the "cru,hing" pro-
cess now going on, are doing their ut
most to prove to foreign nations that
the REBELLION is to formidable for the Gov
ernment to suppress, although her ar
my is immense and her resources mex.
haustible, without the aid of the blacks.
Snch proposition is the acknowledge
ment Of Federal weakness, which should
disgrace every one who makes it. The
men who are now crying with white lips
-"Arm the Slaves - are those ranting
Abolitionists who sneered at the idea Of a
Southern rebellion, and when the calami-
ty came, spoke bcastlingly of marching
from Virginia to New Orleans with ten
thousand men, and bring the revolving
States back into the Union within the
period Of ninety days. The delusion has
been dispelled, and they now, true to their
nature, rush to the other extreme and
make deplorable acknowledgement OF
weakness by demaning that the slaves
be armed.


us III III tlic SIaNco party nave
printed and proclaimed since 1920, the
period when Aboltionism began to rage,
that the slaves of the South are at all
times ripe for insurrection, and that if war
occurred between the North and South
it would be a signal for an instant upris-
ing among the servile race, who ould
unite and destroy their opprcsscrs. They
also believed that a fear of such an event
would forever prevent the South from in
augurating war with the Northern
States. John Brown "hghted the torch
Of freedom in Old Virginia." but contrary
to the theory OF Abolitionists the slave
saw it with Indifference.


The South made war against the Gov.
crnment, and after nearly eight months
of hostilities, which have concentrated n
large proportion Of their available male
population on the Southern border and
on the coast, leaving but few men in the
populous slave districts of the interior
to guard against rising we have yet to
hear of n single insurrectionary move
ment Of the blacks, Thus a belief that
had gained wide credcnce in the North is
wholly exploded Plain Dealer. --
Year: 1861

One of the first lessons tha. should be
taught the young is, never to tell lie.
the best way to teach that lesson is never
to deceive them.


IT is said that a girl was struck dumb
by the firing Of cannon. Since then a
number of married men have invited the
artillery to come and discharge their rpieces
on their premises.
Year: 1861

SufoIDE IN YoLo-A man, who gave his
name as Charles Johnson, committed suicide
in Washington, Yolo county, on Wednesday
morning. by taking strychnine. He was
found by Samuel Carpenter in the rear of his
garden in the forenoon, in convulsions He
was able, however to speak before his death,
and gave his name as above, and stated that
he came from Dry Greek Tuesday and that
he was native of Connecticut. He stated
also that he had drank a great deal during
his six years residence in California; that lie
had lived miserable life here and wous now
about to die a miserable death he pro-
fessed to have taken the strychnhe as medi-
cine, could not have been true He lived
about one hour after his discovery A paper
of strychnine was found on his person.
marked poison" and which had been OBJ
tanned from Sweetland's drug store in this
city Every effort possible was made to re-
lieve him, but without success He ppeared
to be about As years of age Coroner Tny-
lor held an inquest or the body, and the
jury returned verdict in accordance with
the facts. The body was buried in the after
noon at the New Helvetia Cemetery. We
are informed that man-no doubt the de-
ceased called at Sweetlands drug store aft
seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, and
applied for strychnine, stating that he wassa
gardener, and needed it to kill squirrels. lie
appeared at the time to be natural calm, and
free from any unusdal excitement. It was
furnished him, and marked "poison." as is
usual in such cases -Sdcrdlsonto Union
Year: 1861

ATTEMPTED SUIoIDE-A Frenchman, named
Francis Tissen, who has been but a short time
out of the San Francisco County Hospital,
undertook. on Wednesday last, to commit
suicide by throwing himself on the Market
street Railroad track, with his neck upon one
of the rails, just as the train was approach
ing, An Irishman who was near seized him
and dragged him off, but the persistent
Frenchman again rushed to the track and
threw himself across it. The Irshman again
seized him and forced him off just as the train
came by. the wheel shaving his head and
bruising his scalp in its passage He was
very indignant at the interruption of his
self-murderous design, and intimated that he


would yet make another trial; but he was
taken to the station house and locked up.
Year: 1861

E2ttCF u UHeeF ana GtbtDCfUt


Walla-walla is alive with strangers
About two hundred persons have, come
here from below during the past three OF
four days, and are now on their way to the
mines. We are in receipt of news from
there every few days. The accounts con.
tinue still more fattering; SO much-so that
many of our farmers, as soon as they get
their grain in the ground, will leave for the
mines. No pack animals have yet been
taken across the mountains on account Of
the snow being so deep. Mossman and
Malhersoa have started an express be-
tween Walla-walla and the mines, connect
ing with Tracy & c. at this place The
express will leave here every Monday
morning. For the benefit OF those who
start from your place and vicinity, would
say the best road from Walla-walla to
Snake river is the Nez Perce trails. The
fords to the different streams that the
trails cross are good at all times The
merchants here have line supplies Of goods
for fitting out miners. Flour is selling at
from 81 so to S. 90 per 100 pounds; ba-
con 30 cents per pound beans 10 cents
per pound Several of our stock raisers
have already gone up to the mines with
their beef cattle. A number of miners
have come down from there this spring to
get new supplies of provisions l have not
seen one that was dissatisfied with the dig
gings, and twenty Of them appear to be in q
hurry te get back 10 the land Of gold.
Year: 1861

5G5~It is proper to remark that the print
ed COPY of the Presidents Inaugural in the
State papers does not deserve the criticism
as literary production, that was given by
us to the one we received. There is diff
ference in punctuation, &c.
Year: 1861

R9-The weather has been very fDe/for
the last few days. The sun came out bright
ly, and vegetation fairly leaps with life A
few more such days will make the brush
easily combustible.
Year: 1861

BS~A note from Hon. Paul K Hubbs


informs us that lie has been misrepresented
in reference to the Capital Bill. Mr.
Hobbs has written a card TO the Chronicle
in regard TO the matter; he feels certain
that the bill was enrolled by the Assistant
Clerk Of the House, Mr.. johnson. We
give each gentleman publicity Of bis denial,
and our only reason for nluding at first to
the matter was that mean inuendo had
connected US indirectly with it y
Year: 1861

Nay, speak no ill-a kindly word


Can never leave sting behind,
And oh! to breathe each tale we've heard,
Is far beneath noble mind.
Full oft better seed is sown


By choosing thus the kinder plan;
For, if but little good be known, -
Still, let us speak the best We can. .
Give me the heart that fain would hide
Would fain another's fault efface;
How can it pleasure human pride


To prove humanity but base
No; let us reach higher mood,
A nobler estimate of man;
Be earnest in the search for good,


And speak of all the best we can.
Then speak no ill-but lenient be
To others failings as your own;
IF you're the first fault 70 see,


Be not the first to make it known;
For life is but passing day


No lip may tell how brief its span
Then, oh! the little time we stay,
Let's speak Of all the best We can.
Year: 1861

SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERs-We learn from
different portions of the county that several
strangers have been seen prowhng about under
nretence Of peddling ,ablc cloths, &c; but acting
in such manner as to cause the belief that this
not the real object, One was seen by the
negroes of gentleman few miles from town. in
the plantation. Another, in the same neghbor-
hood was making very minute inquiries as to the
character property. &c. of different persons And
yet another in different section found talking
with negroes at a distance from any road or path.
Tt is we'll enough to watch these fellows they are
after no good Even If at nothing worse they are
engaged in illegal trading and should be detained
until the sheriff could lay hands upon them.


We learn that gentlemen in several neishbor
hoods have determined 10 arrest all snch charac-
ters who may pass them. and hand them over
for examination. A good idea that and one which
in onr belief it is the duty of everv good citizen
to act uron. Tn these times Of peril it behoovcs
everv to be on the alert. and we verify believe
no class IF persons needs watching more than
these strolng Traders WddesLoro Argus
Year: 1861

SPEcuLAFING IN PRovIsIoSs.--Neariya all
articles of provisions have recently taken sudden
rise in price. owing. we presume 10 the fact of
threatened if not yet actual blockade Of our ports
The rise in price is all wrong-and something
should be done to Int stop to it. A similar
attempt to raise the price of provisions was made
in Baltimore last week. The authorities notified
the dealers that i. wGpld not be allowed and the
merchants Immediately agreed that provisions
should be bought and sold at a fair price There
is no necessity for food to 90 up here-there is
plenty in the country and our opinion H. that they
win come down to level little If at all above the
usual rates Everybody is entitled to fair profit,
but selfpreservation requires that undue ad-
vantage should be allowed 10 be TAKEN .-,ta..


We commend this matter to the consideration
of the authorities.
Year: 1861

That BLAsY.-The editor of the Territorial
Enterprise most strikingly likens the election
proclamation to be issued by Gov. Nye, to
Gabriel's trumpet, resurrectng defunct politi-
clans, even as the dead are raised from yawning
graveyards 1t is one of the most apt SMILES
we have ever seen:


The Governor will probably have arrived
and be prepared to organize the Territorial
government by July. His proclamation for an
election will sound abroad like the blast of the
archangel's trump; politicians who have lain
in their political graves for years will raise at
the sound, their rottenness covered by the white
eerement in which forgetfulness has embalmed
them men of whose existence the community
never dreamed will come forth and aspire to
legislative honors, and then the marshalling Of
political arrays will commence. As yet the
names OF the contestants lie crouched in the
uncertainty Of the future, abiding their time
We have few issues on which these party
champions can stake their respective claims to
popular favor, and consequently the Success of
the candidates will depend principally upon
their individual merit At present, we will
only say, may the best man win."
Year: 1861

A YOUNG farmer Of Rensselaer, county, N.
Y, who went to Albany with his horse and
buggy, short time since, to see a lady in
whom he felt an interest, had some interesting
experience before he got home Having tied
his horse short distance from the residence of
his Dulcina be was astonished, on returning
for it, some hours afterwards, to find it gone.
He at once telegraphed description of it and
the vehicle to Troy and other towns near, in
order to arrest the thief, whom he supposed
had taken it, and then, in accordance with the
suggestion of friend, went to the station
house to inquire for his property. To his
great joy he found horse and wagon safe at
one Of them, whittier it had been taken by
policeman, at the suggestion of the lady before
whose door it was tied, and at once started for
home. But at Troy he was promptly arrested
on suspicion of being a horse thief, and had to
submit to detention until he could get some
friends from the country to come and establish
his identity.
Year: 1861

Over the river-the deep, dark river.


Came messenger grim,
And summoned our Alice-our gentle Alice,
To hasten and go with him;
On her breast we folded her snowy hands,
And robed her in spotless white.
And he bore her over the tsrbid stream,
To the faroff realm of light.
OH there's beautiful, beautiful realm,
Beyond that flowing river,
Where streams of perpetual blissfulness
Flow on and on forever!
And Alice-our darling Alice has gone
To that blessed, blessed land,
While on the verge of the fathomless stream
With tear-blinded eyes we stand.
All, yes, we weep, though we know she is freed
From pains and sorrows of earth:
We weep for the sweet, loved voice that well hea
No more at our family HEARTH
We all must cross over the mystic river
Before we enter the land
Where the fragrant flowers of joy and love
In fadeless beauty expand
Byand-by voice will call, and a hand
Will beckon us DER the river,
In the unseen world, where partings and tears
Are known no more forever.
All, happy land is the realm of light,
And Alice has gone before,
To welcome us after little while,


On its ever-tranquil shorel
Year: 1861

WISE LAws.-Evil men speak as they wish
rather than what they know.


He that would enjoy the fruit must not
gather the flower.


Never open the door to little vice, lest
great one should enter also.


An hour in the morning is worth two in the
afternoon.


All things are soon prepared in a well Or
dered house.


However little we may have to do, let US do
that little WELL


Nothing begets confidence sooner than pune
tuality.


Fair dealing is the bond and cement of
society.


Money is useful servant, but tyranical
master.
Year: 1861

IT was stated by leading dentist of Chica-
the amount of gold plate and leaf used in the
United States for the replacing and repair of
defective teeth was S2,250,000 This is a
fact that tests the existence of high civiliza-
tion and a good deal of toothache in this
blessed land.
Year: 1861

ONE of the curious facts revealed by the
publication of customhouse tables is that there
was imported into this country, last year, three
hundred thousand pounds of opium. OF this
amount, it is estimated from reliable data
that not more than onetenth is used for medi-
cinal purposes.
Year: 1861

An exchange has the following as an excel
lent system of gardening for young ladies =
Make up your beds early in the morning /;
sow buttons on your husbands shirts do not
rake up any grievances protect the young
and tender branches of your family plant a
smile of good temper in your face and care
fully root out all angry feelings, and expect
good crop of happiness.
Year: 1861

Welcome to California.
We welcome, here, the beautiful,
The manly and the brave;
No despot binds the freeman
In the fetters of slave;
God is our only sovereign,
And our law is liberty;
Here the heart is always open,
And the hand is ever freel
Oh welcome be the eXiled,
The sorrowing and poorl
The homeless here find refuge,
The sad an open door;
The orphan meets a parent,
And the soul sick hither flee,
For the heart is always open,
And the hand is ever freei


Mrs. Days Hesperia
Year: 1861

ENVY is the most nexcusable of all passions.
Every other sin has some pleasure annexed to
it, or will admit of an excuse envy alone
wants both. Other sins last but for while
the appetite may be satisfied anger RENTS
hatred has an end but envy never ceases.
Year: 1861

Go it strong in your praise ofthe .b-
sent. Some of it will be sure to get
around.


Go it strong when you make love to a
pretty widow. More people have erred
by too little than too much in this partic'
ular.


Go it strong when you are taking
up contribu tons for charitable pur
pose.--It will pay.


Go it strong when you make public
speech. Nine people out of ten never
take any allusion unless it cuts like
short-handled whip or rhinocerous cow
hide.


Cot strong when you ADVERTISE.
Business is like architecture-its best
supporters are full columns.


Go it strong when you pay the prln-
ter Never grudge him bis price. Rec
ollect it is he who brings customers to
your door, who otherwise would never
discover your whereabouts.
Year: 1861

A Scotch farmer, who was riding
horseback on a moonshiny night, with
his man Watt, stopped at a tavern to
bait his horse, and as be had been drink,
ing a good deal of hot stuff, it took but
few more glasses to make him drunk.
In this condition he mounted and start
ed for home. The moon was shining
SO bright that he forgot the time of day,
and SAID to his man:


"Watty, we're name the wooss for
that last glass O. Whiskey this frosty
morning."


sFaith," said Watty, blowing his fin
gers and looking as blue as bilberry
"your honor may be name the worse for
it, but I'm name the better. l wish |
was"


On they rode, the farmer gripping
hard at the horses name, and rolling
about like sack of meal for the cold
air was beginning to make the spirits
tell on him. At last they came to a
bit of brook that crossed the road, and
the farmers horse being pretty we'll u.s.
ed to having his own way, s1opPeu
short, and put down his head to drink.
This had the effect to make the rider
lose his balance, and away he went ov-
er his head into the middle of the
brook. The farmer had just sense
enough to hear the splash, and know
that something was wrong, but he was
so drunk that he did not suspect that
it was himself


"Watty, my mon, somebody's fallen
in the stream, hasn't there ?"


"Faith, you may say that" replied
Watty, like to roll off with laughing,
''for its just yourself, MASTER"


"Hoot, fie, Watty!'' cried the far
mer, with hiccup at every word, ut
sure ly Gamma be me, Watty, for I'm
here p
Year: 1861

DRIVING QUALITIES OF WOMEN
''Doesticks," recently, in the Mercury,
gave vent to the following atrocious
Sentiments, with which we have no
sympathy whatever. Still there is a
little truth in what ''Doesticks" says:


''The minute you give a woman
charge of anything that will do any
work, that very minute that woman
begins to drive thai working thing to
it's utmost capacity, be it an animal or
a machine; and the chances are about
equal that she'll drive the animal to the
verge of quadruped grave, or break
the machine into shivered splinters in
the attempt to make it do three days
work in twelve hours.


Every person who has ever observed
human female driving horse, will
perfectly sympathize with the idea |
here set forth. Every woman who
drives a horse, not only drives that
horse to the top ofhis speed, fogging
him up hill and whipping him down
hill, and thrashing him the full length
Of every level, but she gives him a
sound trouncing every time be stops
to drink, under the wretched pretence
that she is trying to keep the flies off:
Let woman, any woman--tor they
are all alike on this subject, and no one
has any more sense than any other one
understand that Flora Temple had
trotted her mile in 2: 198, and let that
woman have Flora to drive a day, and
she'd fog the life out of the gallant
bay mare, if she don't keep up the same
speed for twelve or fourteen hours a
day, and would, the minute her speed
fell short of twenty-five miles in an
hour, whip the blessed beauty till she
dropped down in her tracks.


eff a woman owned Flora Temple,
she wouldn't hesitate to match her to
run race with an express train through
swampy country, and would cut, with
horsewhip, the hide all off the little
mare, if she didn't distance the loco
motive.


There never was woman yet who
aoould or could drive horse reasona-
bly,, and treat him properly"
Year: 1861

We know of a very pretty young lady in
town who has bashful lover named Joy
She is impatient to have him "pop the ques-
tion," and thinks of ayailing herself of the te-
male privilege of leap year. In that case she
would "leap for JOY"
Year: 1861

BEGIN WIru THE CHLD.-Let the first
word your child lisps be Washington. -
Hang on his neck, on that birthday, and
that day Of his death, at Mount Vernon, the
medal Congress, by its dark ribbon !; tell him
the story Of the flag, as it passes glittering
along the road ; bid him listen to that plain,
old fashioned. siiring music of the Union
lead him, when school is out at evening, to
the grave of his grand father, the old soldier
of the war bid him, like Hannibal, at nine
years old, lay the little hand on that Consti-
tuition, and swear reverently to observe 1t
lift him up, and lift yourself tip, to the high,
Of an American feeling; open to him. and
think for yourself on the relation of America
to the States show him upon the map the
area to which she has e1tepded herself; the
climates that come into the number of her
months; the silver path of her trade, wide
as the world tell hun of her contribution
to humanity, and her protests for free gov.
ernment keep him with the glad and sol.
emn feasts of her appointment bury lbel
great name in his heart and into your hearts
contemplate habitually, lovingly, intelligent
ly, this great abstraction, the vast reality o.


good and such an instruction may do some


what to transform this surprising beauty
into national life, which shall last while
sun and moon endure. e.-R.fas CAoate.
Year: 1861

A New Hampshire editor was lately rob-
bed while travelling. How much the thief
made by the operation may be discovered
by the indignant epistle he Immediately sent
to his victim "You miserable cuss, here's
your pocket book. don't keep no sich-
For man dressed as well as you was to 60
round with wallet with nothing in it but a
lot of newspaper scraps, q pair of wooden
combs, two newspaper stamps, and pass
from railroad director, is contemplate
imposition on the public. As hear you are
an editor, return your trash. never robs
only gentlemen
Year: 1861

The venerable and patriotic Lewis Cass
truthfully remarks that ''IIc who is not for
his country is against her. There is no neu-
trail position to be occupied. 1t is the duty
Of all zealously to support the Government
in all its efforts to bring this unhappy civil
war to speedy termination.