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Year: 1869

Nor CoRRECT.-The Sacramento Union of the
18th instant, under the heading ' Miners rs.
Settlers" makes the following statement:


Wherever mining is clearly decayed and ex-
hausted industry, if the land offers reasonable
inducements to pre-emptors, the law should fa-
vor the latter class. If this is not the condition
in Nevada yet, it surely will become so before
many years, and when that time arrives all
classes of people will as deeply deplore any
thing that may have been done unjustly or I'M
fairly to retard agricultural development as the
inhabitants of Ell Dorado Calaveras, Tuolumne,
Shasta and Trinity do now.


So far as Trinity county is concerned the
Union is plainly misinformed. With us, mining
is not an exhausted industry, nor has it in any
manner "retarded agricultural development"
As matter of course we have nothing to regret
on that score, and the truth is that none of our
people are more anxious to promote the working
of the mines than our farmers.
Year: 1869

SENSIBLE English Judge lately instructed a
jury to give moderate damages in breach of
promise case, because it was a most miscbiev
Gus thing to frighten a man into marryino n
woman he did not like by heavy damages. 1t ia
much better for the girl that he should find on,
his dislike before than after marriage"
Year: 1869

FARE OvERLAsB.-fhe San Francisco Bulletin
thinks that when the railroad is finished, the
fare will be about Sis, with other expenses
about S2s. Only about one hundred and fifty
miles of track remain to be laid, and that win
be done by the lst of May.
Year: 1869

"HiTE PlSE.-The White Pine fever appears


to have the upper hand of the small pox in San


francisco, and threatens to carry off all who


have escaped the latter disease The avenue of
transportation to the famous new found silver
land, is literally crowded with seekers after sud-
den wealth. Probably the Pacific coast will
furnish but 1.-THE Of the population that will
rush into the White Pine district duriag the
present spring and summer. 1t is the general
opinion that the ore is not only very rich but
very extensive. However this may be, it is very
certain that nineteen-twensieths of those who
close out business in this State to seek their
fortunes in the silver mines, will be doomed to
disappointment 1t is necessary, however, for
every new country to haze its pioneers, and it
matters not how great the rush may be, the re-
turning tide will more than recompepse Califor-
mia for any loss of population she may now sus-
tain f..f
Year: 1869

WHITE PINE.-The White Pine bubble
has finally bursted, and discouraged and dis.
gusted miners from there are arriving in all
parts of the upper country and reporting
White Pine to be the most stupendOus sell
ever seen on the coast. Hundreds have ex>
hausted their little all in going there and
have been compelled to resort to every known
means Of getting away. The usual means
are adopted by those who have interests there
to keep the excitement up, and the unsus-
pecting and uninitiated are decOyed off in
every surrounding direction to hunt for re-
ported newly discovered diggiugs. Goods
are selling at White Pine at less than half
their original cost, and merchants, like the
miners, are generally preparing to leave the
country.
Year: 1869

DEFoRMEED CALvEs.-The people in the
vicinity of Spaulding's on the Touchet are
having something new in the annals of stock
raising. A farmer from that section in.
forms us that fifteen out of twenty of the
calves born there this spring have either
been so. badly deformed that they died at
birth, or il was necessary to kill them to
put them out of misery. In one instance,
there was only one perfectly formed calf out
of thirteen, and in another only one out of
six. The farmers there believe they have
discovered the cause of this singular freak
of nature in the fact that only cows that
range in the vicinity of, and lick at, certain
banks, supposed to be impregnated with al
um, have deformed calves. The residents
there are preparing to fence these banks. or
licks, and thus in future avoid the misfor>
tune that has befallen them this season.
Year: 1869

THE CRoPs.. The Oregon papers say
there has been a much larger breadth of
grain sown in that State this season than ever
before, and that the prospects for an abun
daut yield are unusually Aattering. The
wheat crop in this valley will probably ex>
ceed that of last year. The Assessors re-
port which will be completed in few days,
will give an approximate of the amount
goWn.
Year: 1869

acterize as the most pleasant, hsaIthful and
independent Of all vocations. But, taking
the sony of " The farmers life is the life
for me- as test oath, and qualifying them
as to their firm conviction Of its poetical
truth when viewed from an experimental
stand-point-such, for example, as binding
grain in harvest field on a hot day in
August, or being kicked over by an unruly
COW, in muddy corral on drizzly Novem-
Der or March morning-we imagine that if
they should affirm it they would do so with
many mental reservations.
Year: 1869

sPEER's WINES are invaluable for the Invalid and
the They the pure juice Of ths grape
with rich body, and extensively used In hosptts
for the weak and debated slckly persons should Try
them.
Year: 1869

Renne's Pain-K Killing Magic Oil is used by number of the families in our town, and they speak we'll of it as remedy for curing most painful complaints. Ik is the cleanest and most delicious article to use we have found. The large size bottles are cheapest in proportion to the price.
Year: 1869

A CONGRESS OF PROTEsTANTs.
BERLIN. May "a Congress of German Protestants
is TO meet at Worms Oh the 3ls of May. The object
of the meeting is to consider and frame reply to the
recent appeal OF the Pope to Protestants
Year: 1869

Hard times, money scarce,
low prices for the farmers pro-
ducts, high taxes, and plunder-
ing Of the Government by its
officials, are the issues of the
pending election. The people
begin to understand the cause
Of their misery. The leaders
of the Republican party can
no longer deceive the rank and
file of their organization. They
have complete control Of the
finances of the country. They
can make money plenty or they
can make it scarce. They have
been curtailing the circulation
of greenbacks until money is
harder to obtain than it was
before the war. This policy
has been forced upon the Ad-
ministration by the bondhold-
ers, who are determined to bring
the bonds to par, in order that
one dollar will purchase as much
labor or provisions as three dol
lars did during the war. Thus
the net income upon their
bonds can be tripled. Are the
people in favor Of this legisla-
ton for the exclusive interest
of the bondholder and banker
If they are not, they will vote
the Democratic ticket at the
coming election.
Year: 1869

The Ohio Patriot asks these
these impertinent questions,
for doing which, the Radical
press will have the right to
have the editor of that sheet
indicted for extreme cruelty to
animals:


When the good old Demo
cratic party was in power, did
you hear ofspies nosing among
your private goods to see if
you have compiled with the
provisions of an unknown and
unpublished law?


Did you ever hear ofstamps?


Did you have to swear as to
how much money you made ?


If q manufacturer, did you
have to make a monthly report
to some lazy official at five or
ten dollars per day ?


Did you hear men Gas you
now do) advocate the policy Of
paying the laborer with paper
rags and the money shavers
with gold a?


Did you hear of a tax on ev-
erything you eat or wear i'll
addition to State, county and
municipal tax -?


Did you hear Of a President
riding about in a steamboat
wholly to his own use at the
expense of the people, wher
he was receiving a salary O
1925, 900 per year ?


Did you ever hear that /
negro was better that a white
man
Year: 1869

Those who favor paying the
bonds in greenbacks, abolish
ing the Radical tariff and a
Government ruled by white
men, will vote the Democratic
ticket.


Those who favor paying the
bonds in gold, continuing the
present odious tariff, and a
country ruled by Negroes, will
vote the Radical ticket.
Year: 1869

The following very sensible article ap-
peared in the last number of the Central
Baptist. The two last paragraphs are
especially eommendable:


We long for the day when this custom
shall be obsolete.


1t is unbecoming the truly afflicted
one. The wearer says, by the black
garments, Il have lost near friend
| am in deep SORROW But true grief
does not wish to parade itselfbcfore the
eye Of the straBger; much less docs it
assert its extent. The stricken one
naturally goes apart from the world to
pour out the tears. Real afiiction
seeks privacy. 1t is no, respect to the
departed friend to say We are in sorrow
Ii We have real grief it will be discoy-
cred. When God has entered house
hold in the awful chastisemeut Of death,
it is time for religious meditation and
communion with God on the part of the
survivors. How sadly out of place,
then, are the millinor and the dressma-
ker, the trying on Of dresses and the
trimming of bonnets. There is some
thing profane in exciting the vanity Of
young girl by fitting waist, or trying
on a hat when the corpse of father is
lying in an adjoining room. 1t is a
sacrilege to drag the widow forth from
her grief, TO be fitted for gown or to
select veil.


1t is often terribly oppressive to the
poor The widow lift desolate with a
half dozen little children, the family
means already reduced by the long sick
ness Of the father, must draw on her
scanty purse to buy a new wardrobe
Throughout for herself and children,
throwing away the good stock Of gar.
ments already prepared, when she
knows not where she is to get bread for
those little ones. Truly may fashion
be called tyrant, when it robs the
widow Of her last dollar.


Shurely your sorrow will not be ques
TONED even if you should not call in the
milliner to help you display it. DO moi
in your affection help to uphold custom
which will turn the Affections of your
poorer ncighbor to deeper poverty as
well as sorrow.
Year: 1869

About GO miles from Houston, in
Texas, in a low, wet prairie country,
but itself on quite high and dry ground,
and surrounded by fne little forest,
is little lake, whose diameter may be
counted by rods, the waters of which
are so sour that it is almost impossible
to drink them. A number of wells have
been dug in the immediate vicinity, and
the water Of these contains iron, alum,
magnesia and sulphuric acid


Notwithstanding the difficulty Of
reaching the place and the poor accom-
modations, large numbers of invalids
90 there from Southern States to drink
the water of the wells and bathc in the
lake, and they experience immediate
improvement aud remarkable benefit.
The effect of the baths is sedatiye, and
persons who have not slept comfortably
for weeks, after taking a bath in the
lake in the evening enjoy refreshing
nights rest. The water becomes more
pleasant to the taste after few glasses,
and may be bottled or put in wooden
casks without losing its strength. The
soil is so strongly impregnated with the
same qualities as the water that if the
mud be dissolved in pare water, and a
little soda or salaratus put into it, it will
foam and effervesce, and will be as sour
as lemonade.


Before the war number OF gentle.
men were considering plans for build.
ing a large hotel at the place; but
since then the project has been post.
poned. A number of gentlemen bought
the property Of man who died about
twenty-five years ago; but according to
the laws of Texas, man cannot sell his
homestead without the consent Of his
wife, aud lady of Chicago, claiming TO
be the former owners wife, has brought
a suit to recover it under that law. The
matter is still in litigation.
Year: 1869

This is the way to cut off the neck of
bottle; With strong twine yard
or less in length, make one turn around
the neck, rapidly move the bottle from
one end Of the string to the other, that
the friction may heat the part; while
hot, dip in cold water and the glass is
cracked off as clean aud smooth as IL
cut by a diamond. A few strokes or
movements with the string are all re-
quired A bottle may be cut in two by
the same process, if strips of paper are
pasted around it, to keep the string
from slipping from the place desired.
Year: 1869

In the Middle ages the fires in the
houses were made in cavity in the
centre of the floor, over which there
generally was an opening in the roof for
the escape of the smoke; and when the
fire was out, or the family retired to
rest, the place in which it was made
was closed by cover. In those days
a law was almost universally establish
ed on the continent that fres should be
extinguished and families be all at home
at certain hour in the evening which
was notified by the ringing of bell,
that in England was called the Curfew.
Year: 1869

THE THOUSAND MILE TREE.-Just
after entering narrow canon on the
Pacific Railroad, tall hemlock tree is
seen standing alone by the side of the
road. A board is suspended from Que
of its limbs, bearing the proper marks
to indicate to the traveller that this is
just | 900 miles from Omaha.


What law Of nature could have pro-
duced this lone tree right here, or what
fate could have controlled the windings
Of the road to have made just one thou
sand miles Of track to this tree? Though
scattering groves are passed on the road
this is the only tree on the line bearing
a mark, aud ut that great distance, as
well as there being none others near il,
excites the curiosity of the traveller.


He is sure to hear of it before reaching
the point, and every conductor, for the
sake Of gratifying curiosity, runs slow,
that all may see it. They look at it;
it is but tall, straight, tap,ring hem.
lock tree; they don't see anything Gu
rious until after it is passed, and then
they wonder how man and nature nctcd
so perfectly in unison.
Year: 1869

When our Lord turned water into
wine, he did nothing more mysterious,
nothing greater or more divine, than
when he now, before our eyes, turns
common water into the sweet sap of the
maple and Of the sugar cane, or into the
delicious juice of the pomegrauate, or
when he changes the materials of earth
and water iuto the luscious pulp Of the
apple and the peach, or the nourishing
farlna OF the potato, the maize aud the
wheat. If We plant together grain Of
sand aud grain of corn, it is no art Of
skill or power of ours that makes the
one to remain unchanged in the soil,
the other to break forth in roots and
stalks and "bring forth fruit after It's
kind" 1t is only the direct power OF
God himself that thus works. The power
that changes single grain of corn or
wheat into a thousand grains, is the
same that changed the "seven loayes''
into bread enough to feed four thousand
men, besides the seven baskets of frag.
mcnts that were left. When this exer.
else of power occurs in way that is not
repeated, we call it miracle. But
when 1t is repeated daily, hourly, all the
tine, all around US, We call it Provi.
deuce, or nature, or the laws of matter
But, in truth, in the one case as in the
other, it is God our Father, working as
he wills, for the good of his children.
And well may we in this sense, call our
God our Lord. The loaf on my table
tells me as distinctly of Him, as did the
loves, multiplying visible in the hands
of Jesus, tell those rude mountaincer.
of Galilee, that they were standing in
the presence Of a most gracious anG
powerful benefactor.
Year: 1869

Daniel Webster peqned tho following
beautiful sentiment. aIfEe work upon
marble. it will perish; if work upon
brass, time effects it if We rear temples
they will crumble into dust: If we work
upon our immortal minds--if We imbue
them with principles, with the just fear
Of God and love of our fellow mcn--wc
engrave on those tables something
which will brighten for all eternity. Z
Year: 1869

From the Imperialist, edited under the
auspices and at the cost Of the Secretary
Of tie Mary, Br. Adolph Borie, we Cx-
tract the following:


IAN imperialism is now possible,
which shall still leave the people free, as
well as secure, and make a nation happy
and contcnted, as well as respectable"


This journal takes for its motto the
famous exclamation Of Napoleon, "The
Empire is Peace" and for its model the
imperialism of France. A great many
very honest, short-sighted people ridicule
the movement; but in the condition OF
the country to day, and with the temper
of the public mind, trained as it has been
to submission and acquiescence in every
despotic act, a complete change in our
whole system of government might be
efectedin twenty-four hours without the
slightest effort at resistance. A people
who have submitted to SO many outrages
and usurpations are prepared to submit
to a great many more. Human nature
is the same sort of stuff now that it WAS
two OF five thousand years ago. Selfish
ness is the most prominent thread that
runs through the warp and the woof OF
its texture. The cunning and the aspir-
ing know how to promote their own sell
fish views by enlisting in their cause the
selfish feelings of the multitude. Men,
like fish, provided the hook is concealed,
greedily swallow the bait. This fact was
proven by the ease with which they were
carried away by the enthusiasm that pre-
cipitated the country into civil war, not
foreseeing the dreadful consequences
that were to be entailed on themselves.
The hook was adroitly concealed by the
ingenuity of the unprincipled dema.
gogues who stirred up the elements OF
strife that they might ride into power,
place, and wealth, and now laugh at the
dupes who were so easily gulled


So here with this movement in favor OF
an imperialism, the great mass are to be
deluded with the idea that employment
and comfortable subsistence can now
only be attained through the influence OF
strong government; that republican
form has failed to confer it, and there.
fore let some other be tried. The fact
that one of Grants Cabinet is prominent
in the movement, and willing to embark
financially in the enterprise Of starting q
paper devoted to its advancement, is sig
nificant, to say the least of it. The new
paper was quite successful on the first
issue. Over ten thousand copies were
sold before the expiration of the first
week of its publication. Grant himself
has been distributing copies to his
friends. These are straws, but they are
straws which show the way the wind
blows.
Year: 1869

The Cambridge City, (Ind..) Mirror
furnishes the following:


Remnant of my hopes May l be
ripped from the border of your esteem
and never be buttoned to the loop of
your kindness, but am strongly seam
ed to them by your beauty. May l nev'
er lose thimbleful of your favor but
you have entangled the thread Of my
understanding. Odds bodkin! ! am
surely yours every inch Of me and my
needle follows you. Therefore blunt
not the point of my endeavors, but let
me baste myself to your affections: l
love you beyond measure, but it is hard
to cabbage ono sweet look from you
that almost despair Of having enough
for my suit Pray put favorable con-
struction on this, and for the same ]
shall always sit cross legged for your
sake, being my dearest little flouncer,
and will assure you, never ravel out,
yours, IALMAGE,
Year: 1869

An English Judge has decided in a
breach of promise case that "a wife is
not necessary for an infant;" that is,
that youngsters under twenty one are not
competent to enter into binding con-
tract Of marriage.
Year: 1869

resources TO be S4546OOO including $17763 in specie
and the requisite amount of bonds 10 secure creula
tiOn and deposits.


The following circular was ssued to-day addressed
10 Assistant TreasureTs and others:


The supply OF fractional currency at this Office OF the
denomination of 10 cents and cents nearly exhausted
AS more fractional currency Will be printed until the
completion OF the ISSUE which will probably not DO
ready for distribution in less than six weeks 1t is sug
gested that In the mean time you select from the rao
tiOnal currency received by for redemption or any
other purpose all notes OF the denomination above men
toned which t for ISSUE and them In Your pay
mens to meet any applications for notes Of these demon
inatiOps which may be made 20 you.
Year: 1869

THE BILL FOR THE PAYMENT OF DELEGATES


BERLIN May 12-In the North German Farla-
ment to-day the bill for the payment OF delegates
came up for its third reading and after protracted
debate was rejected.
Year: 1869

To KEEP CLEAR OF BED BUGs.--
Take the whites of four eggs and
ten cents worth of quicksilver; put
them into a bowl and beat to a
perfect froth. Take a feather and
dip into this preparation, and ap.
ply to every part of your beds
stead where bugs conceal them,
selves, do this once a year and you
will never see bedbug in your
house.
Year: 1869

A GOOD JoKE.--A stranger got
off a good joke on one of our
livery stable men. Having asked
for horse and buggy, he was in-
formed by the livery man that
strangers must be vouched for or
identified by some one, before
horses could be given them out of
that stable Tho man asked how
much the rig was worth. The
reply was $50. He gave that
amount TO the livery man, took the
horse and buggy, used and re
turned them in good orler Hav.
ing got back his roll of bills. the
stranger started away, when be was
reminded that bo had forgotten 10
pay for the use of the rig. Said
the stranger, DO you take me
for fool? I'm not in the habit of
paying Tor the use Of my own rig,
and walked off. The livery man
won't hear the last OF it for some
days to come --Er.
Year: 1869

The Ravonnu Democrat of last
week makes mention OF simple
ton in Kent, by the namc of Costly,
who pointed d revolver at his wife
pIayfully and pulled the trigger,
sending The ball into her leg above
the knee so deep that the surgeons
could not extract it. Just previ
ous to this occurrence, he placed
the muzzle in his mouth and tried
the trigger, but tho pistol missed
fire, and he supposed it was not
loaded. A pistol ball will never
find that fellows brains.-.E Liuer-
pool Record.
Year: 1869

Melt a small piece OF butter in q
stew pan until it is slightly brown
ed; beat up one egg and add to it;
put in as much finely minced ham
as would cover q round Of buttered
toast, adding as much gravy as
will make it moist when quite hot
When all the ingredients are in,
stir them quickly with fork, pour
on to the buttered toast, which cut
in pieces afterwards, any shape
YOU please. Serve hot.
Year: 1869

The Davenport Democrat says that
two young men left New Orleans
some time during the summer, for "a
trip TO the north, perhaps to the
Source of the Father of Waters aud
adjacent parts. As they wished to
be independent Of steamboats, and
palace cars, they had skiff made,
twenty. five feet long, by five wide,
stout and strong from stem 20 stern.
With this well stocked in guns, am
munition, and fishing tackle, they
started ON their long trip, rowing
leisurely up the broad river. enjoying
the grand scenery, the fish aud game.
During the whole OF their trip, they
have used no bread, living entirely
upon the products Of the shotgun
and fishing-rod. They arrived at
this port yesterday, and as the wealth
er Is getting rather chilly concluded
to tie up and waite for the warm
spring winds to help them on their
upward voyage. They intend prose-
cutting their journey early next sea-
son. They do not complain of
fatigue, aud they have had splcu,
did trip thus far.