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Year: 1865

There is strong disposition amongst the
more advanced sympathizers of the South to
assume the rebel debt, while the regular old
line copperhead leaders are content to make
things square by repudating the debt of the
United States.


The Chicago Times, the organ of the Hi
nois Democracy, says:


"Tbere is no ground of justice upon which
we can expect the Southern people to submit
willingly to the situation, unless IRE recognize
the same ralue in their funded obligations as
our orn.''


The Buffalo Courier, the mouthpiece in
Western New York Of the Richmond Van
Buren Democracy, goes for the assumption
and payment of the rebel debt, quietly trust
ing its party TO slaughter the federal debt. 1t
says:


"We vote for the Union and the payment
of the war debt Of both the North and tie
South
Year: 1865

The working men of the country organize
Trades Unions on the theory that the price
oflabor IN any one place affects the price OF
labor in every other; that working man can
not have his wages cut down ten cents per
day in Cincinnati without ultimately affecting
the price of labor in Chicago. On this fact
the Detroit Tribune bases the following per-
tinent remarks:


GAS affecting the question of wages only, .
slave may be considered person compelled
to labor for half or two thirds the wages that
free laborers would ask for the same work.
The number of slaves in the United States in
1860 was about four millions. Letus suppose
that these slaves received on an average only
twenty cents day less than would have been
paid to free laborers. The daily wages of
the four millions would have been $500, 900
per day less than would have been paid to an
equal number of free laborers. These four
millions slaves would have received then for
years labor, excluding Sundays, more than
$3.50, 600, 600 less than the same number of
free laborers would have received. If the
Democracy regard this estimate Of the saving
slave labor, and Of the loss in wages Of the Ia

them to point out the inaccuracy, and to make
an estimate themselves of the amount thus
gained by capital and lost to labor. We do
not believe that they will make any such at
tempt. ~


"Did this sum of $3.50, ,O0O, 900 per annum
saved by the shareholders affect their slaves
alone? Did it not reduce the wages of all
the free lsborers Of the South, and of the
North also? If four millions Of working men
at the North were to receive ten cents q day,
each, less than they now receive, would not
the wages of all other working men through
out the North be diminished also.


The result has proved the correctness of
the point, for the abolition of slavery has
made labor dearer at the South than before; !;
and hence many colored laborers who recent
ly worked in Chicago have left for Louisville,
Nashville and St. Louis, thereby reducing
competition and raising wages at the North.
Year: 1865

To DAVE AWAY RArs.-A correspondent
of the Canada Farmer succeeded in expelling
rats from his barn by depositing small bun
dies of wild peppermint along with his grain
as put away in the NOV. he thinks it will
have this effect every time. @
Year: 1865

The PeoR OF RIcHkoxp.-The Directors Of
the Relief Committee In this city have recon-
mcnded that the citizens assemble on Satur-
day afternoon next. at four O'Clock, at the
CITY Hall, for the purpose Of organizing Re-
lief Association. We trust there will be 4
universal response to this call. It Is true that
our people are generally impoverished, but
there are few who, by self DENTAL, cannot spare
a small amount for the relief of their suffer
ing brethren. Over two thousand persons in
this city will be left In absolute want by the
withdrawn Of the Government rations, and
unless something is done for their relief, freez-
ing and starvation are their horrible fate.
There are others, not included in this calcula-
ton, who are living in the most straitened cir
eumstances, not knowing one day where they
are to look the next for bread, and destitute Of
the common comforts of life. A good many Of
these sufferers are the widows and orphans OF
soldiers who have perished on the fields
or in hospitals, and not few have been reduced
from competency, and, in some cases. from
sfiuence, to their present miS6fAh3e condition.
We are sure that, reduced in fortune as many
of our community are, they will freely give Of
their little to mitigate such Distress and will
avail themselves of this Christmas season to
exercise the essential Christian virtue Of Cha.
rity.
Year: 1865

FARMERS who have surplus of shucks on
hand can exchange them for greenbacks II
they will bale them and send them to this mar
ket. Messrs G. B. Stacy & Son use an inn
mense quantity of them at their mandatory,
corner of Cary anda Sixteenth streets, and
doubtless there are other manufacturers mere
who are large purchasers.
Year: 1865

NUISANCE IN MASCHHsTER.-We are request
ed to call the attention of the trustees and po-
lice of Manchester to a nuisance which has
been annoying the citizens who reside and
have to pass in its vicinity for some months
A parcel of negroes who live opposite the rear
of the Baptist Church have accumulated there
nile of nth and offal, the stencil of which
pervades the adjacent atmosphere and renders
it almost intolerable. The proper persons have
been notified of this before, and 1T is expected
that steps will be taken at an early day to abate
the nuisance,
Year: 1865

FALL OF WALL.-Yesterday morning,
while some laborers were engaged in throw
ing up sand against a part of the wall which
constitutes a portion of the ruins of Mayo's
old warehouse, at the foot of Fourteenth
street, destroyed by fire on the Sd OF April
the wall gave way and precipitated to the
was very much frightened, but, as it hap
pened, received no personal damage.
Year: 1865

his hand, he went 10 Dawklns, and
told him that he must go to London
Mt once, but that he would return the
next morning. TO this the trainer
made no objection; Lester was at
least as respectable as other men of
his class, aud Dawkins had an addi-
tional guarantee of his honesty, on
the present occasion in the knowledge
that in addition to the sum which had
been staked on the mare for the lads
benefit, by direction of the owner, he
had expended as much money rs he
could command on his own account.


The visitors who called to see Miss
Stanley that evening, in the expecta-
ton OF meeting friends and acquaint
anccs, were sent away disappointed
with the information that she was too
unwell to receive company. Lester
alone was admitted


CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1865

A solicitor, resident in the Isle of
Wight, had business at Southampton.
He stayed at one Of those hotels for
which the town of mail steamers is
famous, and after dinner he was look
ing over his law papers while he sip
ped his port. He was aroused from
his foolscap and red tape by the
opening of door. His wife (whom
he had left at home in the Isle of
Wight) entered, gazed at him stead.
fastly, and passed out through the op
posite door. He naturally thought
that it was hallucination and re
sumed his reading with wondering
smile at his own weakness. But
within n quarter Of an hour the same
thing occurred again, and there was
on the countcnance of the spectre an
imploring look which terrified him.
He at once resolved TO return home;
with some difll6ulty got boatman
to take him across; and when he
reached his house, he was struck by
the ghastly alarmed look OF his maid
servant, who opened the door. This
woman was so frightened by his un.
expected return, that she spontane
ously confessed her intention to mur.
der her mistress; and her confession
was confirmed by the fact that she
had concealed knife under her pill.
low. This is very perplexing case
for those who think spectral phenom
ena can be philosophically explain
ed. Here you have the phantom Of
q living person projected entirely
without that persons consciousness
Let it be assumed that person II
extreme peril can, by intense volition
act on the nervous system of the uni
verse, 50 as to influence his deares


friend; but here the person who's,
likeness appeared was entirely deyoit
Of apprehension, while the servant
who alone knew what was likely tC
happen, would naturally exert nc
volition towards revealing it.
Year: 1865

f the great feet in the Ciessf bake should
happen 20 have Grants army on board. and
should turn up at Port Royal, 1t would look a
little like prescience ON the part of that noble
man and gifted warrior. s
Year: 1865

Ct We recommend to the attentive tl'e perpsai
of those whom it may concern. the General Order
from District Headquarters, published elsewhere
Severity has become necessary, since aiidness
has been Knocked at; I'VE know Of several per
sons i 10 this Parish wso could induce some good
soldiers TO return to their colors, who have been
led astray by bad example and dangerous advice
Year: 1865

The subscriptions TO the Third Series C., the
80 Notes are steaiily increasing, sometimes
running TO near four millions a day. The Treas
ury Department is now flli1- all oril-s on the
day they are received, and the country banks
and other sub-agelt viii be able to keep a fun
supply on hand for the prompt accommodation
Of their customers. There IS no necessity for
further argument In relation to the desirable
ness Of this loan.


The man who has Government bonds has prac-
tically just as much money as If the same
amount were in blnk-notes. The bonds are
simply a permanent credit---representing 50
much Of the national wealth, and available as
capital for any business enterprise, with the
advantage Of drawing interest until used.
Thus the holder Of L. 5. 80 note in every
practical sense has his money, and at the same
time gets liberal interest for It.


But about one hundred AMI forty millions Of
the Third Series OF 80 notes remain to be sub
scribed for. and our readers will remember that
a hundred millions Of the Second Series we're
taken in a single week AZ the close.
Year: 1865

ELECTION DAY.-We call the attention Of
voters of Shasta county, to the necessity of
attending the polls on the sixth of September
and casting their ballots. This is essential
not to elect the Union ticket-for Shasta
stands alone among her sisters with a ticke
unopposed but that she be enabled to claim
her full representation in coming Conven-
tons Our representation in future Conven-
tions will be calculated on the base of the
votes poled hence the necessity for turning
out in order to secure our rights. Shasta's
LOYALTY will entitle her hereafter to consid-
Grafton high above any other county in the
State, and by having her full delegation in
the next State Convention, will exercise a
great and proper influence in selecting can
didates for Representatives in Congress-
Therefore we exhort every man to VOTE
1t is a duty, and we trust it may be dis
charged
Year: 1865

CoSsIsTENT.-TheI independent, after read
ing last weeks COURIER, has attempted to
show that it is consistent in one thing at
least,-viz: opposition to Conventions
reproducing an old article published in that
paper in 1860, glorifying in the burst up Of
the National Democratic Convention, when a
majority nominated Douglas and minority
the traitor Breckenridge. At that time the
Independent was, as now. strictly selfish
paper, and of course was jubilant then, as
now, over everything that tended to disor-
ganization. Could that paper show any ar
ticle of its own condemning the Contention
system which nominated Mr. Lincoln first
and second time it would then be able to
show consistent opposition to the sysfem.-
Unfortunately for the Independent, It's col
umns show from first to last that it only ia
vors such system as brings grist to its miii'
and opposes all others. What Convention
has it opposed since the organization Of the
Union party? Did it oppose the assembling
and action of the last one in Tehama until
the discovery was made that there was no
grist there for the Independent? The fly
half buried in molasses. every struggle to es.
cape only sinking it deeper. illustrates the
present condition of the Independent-ex except
in the sweetness of the surroundings there
the f1y has the best of it.
Year: 1865

TEHAMA COUNTY PRIMARY.-The Inde-
pendent says a clique of Office seekers got
their tickets for the primaries printed in
Shasta. elected it and were nominated to Office
We notice this fact, acknowledge the truth of
the assertion, and beg all future aspirants
for political honors to note it. Shasta is a
good place to get your printing done, and if
the authority of the Independent is worth
anything, to have it done there is a guarantee
of snccess
Year: 1865

HAPPY County. After close scrutiny of
the Red Bluff Independent we have arrived
at the verv pleasant conclusion that there is
not Copperhead or rebel in all Tehama or
Colusa counties In that blessed region pa
triotic democrats, boilers, and whisky drink
ing, corrupt Union men only resides-the
latter so scarce as to be hardly worth noting,
except, perhaps as the leading men on the
assessment rolls.
Year: 1865

THE Oroville Record asks: . Does boiling
all over tho State indicate nothing?" Yes,
it indicates that there are men in the Union
party who, to subserve the purposes of sell
fish ambition, are willing to sell themselves
to the enemies of their country, and are doing
it.


Say rather 81 there were men in the Union
party &c. They didn't belong there,
though. Such critters are out of their ele-
ment where good is to be done; they only
fatten and are happy amid discord.
Year: 1865

THE RusH.-From accounts of Abolition
papers and letter writers it seems that there
is as great rush and pressure for Office at
Washington. as there usually is upon a
change of Administration The impudent
and unfeeling crowd Of applicants eagerly
demanding their promised rewards for dirty
and criminal party services, give President
johnson no rest; aud it is intimated that he
was forced to feign illness to escape their in
solent opportunities. The above proves the
correctness of the statement of the Red Bluff
Independent, that the Union party is g held
together by the spoils, of Office" 1t is a
shameless confession but an honest one =
Let the people remember it on the day of
election, and California will no longer be
cursed by "spoils' party.-Placerville
Democrat.


Verify, the Independent is becoming an
oracle among Jeff's organs.
Year: 1865

CoMMENDABLE.-The Union men of Teha-
ma county, we learn from a correspondence
of the Union. are about to establish Union
paper at Red Bluff Such an institution is
much needed there. Every county town
throughout the State should have and sup
porta good Union paper. Tehama is the
only exception we know of now except Plu-
,pn
Year: 1865

From the San Jose Courier we have the
Santa Clara county. We recognize an old
acquaintance in the candidate for County
Treasurer, r. G. Moody. The writer of
this knew Ransom for twelve years before he
came to California, and always believed him
a conscientious, upright man. What screw
in the gearing of his brain can have become
loosened, and SO deranged it as to allow him
to falsify life long record for good. by al
lowing his name to be sunk into such deep
Afamy? There is something wrong His
family owe it to themselves and their future
good reputation to have this cleared up. He
should at once be placed under the care Of
eminent physicians. and guardians should be
Immediately appointed to take care of his
property.
Year: 1865

WHEN we see man abandon the advoca-
cy ola great principle, and at once affiliate
with the opponents of it, we set it down that
that man is fool or knave Some do it.
however, who will never attain any great
notoriety for being biq even as knayes.
Year: 1865

HONE CoNcEsT.-To-night will be present
ed an opportunity for all to see what Shasta
in the way of producing an interesting and
amusing entertainment. Not to be there
is to confess that you have not music in your
souls, or appreciation for the beautiful and
instructive; or. what is almost as bad, that
you haven't got four bits; or. worse still.
that your credit is not good enough to enable
you to borrow that sum. II Armory Hall is
not crowded to- night, we are no prophet.
Year: 1865

UNION Stand by the party 's stand
by the nation, ''vote the nominees, &c
Just such cries has the Independent been
giving forth from the organization of the
Union party, up to the time of the late Con
vention. To have been entirely frank with
its readers, it should have added and elect
us to Office, even the head, and the tail,
and the body"
Year: 1865

Gsa- Hope for the Afflicted.-In another part
of this paper will be found the advertisement of the
celebrated Institute established by DR.. J. C.
YOUNG, in 1850. In this age of deceit and char.
latansm it is boon to the suffering to point out
to them where they of obtaining the wished
for relief and cure. Under the care of the sklful
Doctor the sick and troubled can divest themselves
ofthcir burdens of pains and shame, lay aside their
cross, and secure health and happiness. If you
sick or in trouble, do not hesitate. Read the
advertisement and follow the advice. Do not for
get the number nor the manner of directing your
letter. CONSULTATION OFFICE, $40 Washing
ton street, San Francisco.
Year: 1865

AS a general thing the men who were most
clamorous for hanging JOHN BROWN are now
mosts anxious that JEFF. DAVIS should escape
the halter This is certainly rather suspicious,
for it indicates leaning to the arch-rebel which
shows some sort of approval of his treason.
There are, however, others of the school of
GERRrT SMITH and HORACE GREELEY, who
are opposed to inhicting punishment such as his
crime deserves.


The chief arguments against inficting pun
ishment are easily got at. One is that the
strength of the rebellion having been such that
we could not help dealing with the rebels as
belligerents, and therefore now that we have
them under our power, we must deal with them
as such still. In fact, we are to treat domestic
traitors IN Jne same way as IL Lncy uau ucIvns-
ed to foreign nation. To mitigate the suffer
iDgsof waf, and while the contest is yet unde-
scided, this may be necessary, but when right
full power ia reasserted and victorious, those
who have taken the risk of rebellion must ex-
pect to suffer the consequences. A minor may
submit to many indignities for peace and pre-
sent well being, but when he comes of age we
may expect him to assert his rights. So the
nation, while compelled for time to suffer in
-dignities, may endure them, but when the time
comes its power will be surely asserted against
its enemies.


There is another plea made on behalf of the
rebels-that it will not look well to punish
them. We have no idea of studying other ma
tions' wishes. Our duty is to render justice to
criminals. The law is to be vindicated and
sustained. Treason is to be rendered ever
more odious. Nothing will do this so effectu-
al asby letting those who attempt the life of a
nation suffer the punishment of other murder
ers. The sooner mawkish sensibility gives up
the ghost the better:
Year: 1865

Last weeks Democrat contains the following
paragraph


Depredations have again been committed
upon the flowers planted in the Cemetery. The
sexton in charge detected some Of the guilty
persons, who, we regret to say, were ladies (2)
In some places, we notice, this robbery of the
grave has been effectually stopped by COM
plant to the Grand Jury. The Directors of the
Cemetery should take measures to put stop
to the practice here. If there is to be no pro-
lection to the flowers and shrubbery, lot. own
ers will soon be discouraged from making en-
belishments Of that nature. It is severe
remedy, but we think it is due alike to the lot
owners and the public at large that an example
should be made, and if nothing else will do it,
let the guilty parties be brought into court"


We hope, with the Democrat, that an exam
pie will Be made, in order that the evil may be
put stop to- and that speedily.
Year: 1865




Mr.. EDITOR Quite an interesting fight
took place at one of our principal hotels OH
Saturday afternoon last, between drunken
man and one of the b'hoys" of the short
haired persuasion, in which, of course, the
drunken man came of second best The
" b'hoy 4 was seconded by the landlords son,
while the landlord himself stood guard over the
two belligerents to keep outsiders from mix.
ing in" Some two or three citizens made an
attempt to put stop to the proceedings, after
the drunken man had become partially insensi-
BILE on the floor, where he had been knocked,
but were sent to the rear with more force than
gracefulnsss by the landlord, while the "bhoyp
proceeded, according to orders, to "kick the
head off his fallen foe. When the vanquished
came to himself, he was thrown into the street
in the most scientific manner for discrediting
the landlords word, when he said that -" he had
been taking has part all the acay tbroughr'


The affair throughout was certainly credit
to the village, if not to the parties engaged, as
it is not every town where such exhibitions
can be witnessed, free Of charge. H.
Year: 1865

The Jersey City Times makes complaint of
its exchanges not giving proper credit for arti-
cles taken from its columns. Well, Mr.. Pang.
born, it is something to be proud of that YOU
publish psperworth stealing from. We wish
there were a few more of the sans stamp as
the Times. Its fearless and manly course. and
its bitter opposition to treason and copperhead-
ism are doing much toward redeem ing our
State from the slave power
Year: 1865

1t is no fault of the copFerheads that the
war was not failure. They opposed it at
every step-opposed raising men or money
predicted the defeat of Union arms, and in
more instances than one urged the people to
resist the draft Now that the war is brought
to successful termination, Notwithstanding
their determined opposition, they press forward
and claim the first rank as friends of the Union.
Cool, that, certainly
Year: 1865

In the list Of missing we only count those
lost in action of whom we have no account
many of them doubtless filling unmarked
graves.


Since we fought the battle ofsWinchester,
have been over the field, and noticed in one
place mound of earth marked e One hundred
Confederate dead, and another Twenty three
of the 1st vt. Cav" A. S. C.


I'VE are always pleased to hear from the
Captain, and hope he will continue his favors.
Year: 1865

We call this just the best joke of the season



at least in New Jersey. Who will say, after
reading this, that an old soldier don't know who
the next enemy to be conquered in this State
Year: 1865

June l9, 1866.


COLONEL APPLEGATE--Dear Sir-OuI cavalry
camps stretch out over the country for miles,
and we are almost doing nothing but riding a
little for pleasure, smoking, and beautifyng our
quarters A cavalryman never has time to
write at any length in active service, and his
rolls and official papers are very often written
at picket post and on the skirmish line. This
is our leisure, however, and many are hurryina
up correspondence in order that the neglected
ones may greet them on their return -
shall only write you short letter this time
but | will every week drop line or two on
some subject or other, if acceptable.


This afternoon we were counting our losses
Year: 1865

FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. u The
steamer Anodine arrived here today from
Fort Fisher. The Captain reports that
our forces had expected to make an at
tack upon Fort Anderson on the 18th,
but failed for some cause unknown to
him. Before he left Fort Fisher he saw
a bright light in the direction OF Fort
Anderson, and the supposition was that it
had been abandoned and burned by the
Iebels
Year: 1865

BosToN, Feb. l9-The hotels are fill
ing up with merchants from all sections
of the country to attend the trade sale
commencing on Tuesday. 1t will be a
great thing in the dry goods line, and
surpass any thing of the kind heretofore
known. Over 10000 bales of goods have
been entered up to this evening