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Year: 1861

The business changes announced elsewhere,
in this issue, relieve me from further edito-
rial labor. 1t is now few days more than
six months since | commenced my duties
upon the DEMOCRAT. / believe that have
not, at any time, departed from the path
which then promised to pursue If have
ever, uuwittingly, offended any true friend Of
the United States Government, | regret it,,
and ask that mans pardon. | take this oc-
cason 10 re iterate and express my present
satisfaction with all tnat | have written in
regard to traitors of all degrees, whether in
California or elsewhere, aud whether they be
Of the open and courageous kind, or of those
in whose natures both treason and cowardice
are united, causing them to profess loyalty,
while they hate the Nation and its support
ers | have not tried TO regulate the tone of
the DEMOCRAT to please any man of my party
ho may regard party organization OF
greater consequence than the organization Of
the Nation, and the success of the Federal
arms in this war. Truly National Democrats
men worthy to follow where our great
DOUGLAS led-have everywhere written and
spoken the same views that have endeav-
ored to present to the readers of this paper.


My relations with the proprietors Of the
DEMOCRAT haze been pleasant, and in every
way satisfactory TO me. They are business
men, and have formed new business con-
nection, which will doubtless be profitable
one The only newspaper to be published
in Marysville now, fit to be received into a
Union mans house or place of business, is
the Appeal Its editor is patriotic gentle
man, and one who knows no party lines
which shut him out from fellowship with
sincere National men. AS to what should
have been done in the past, Union Demo-
Gratis differ with him. AS to what ought to
be done now, they agree with him.


Hoping that those who have been readers
of the DEMocRAr may all live to see the Ma
tional cause triumphant, | take my final
leave of them.
Year: 1861

EXTRAS NOT ALLowED-A citizen of Buffalo
refused to pay bill of $ll2 brought against
him by dry-goods dealer for articles furn-
ished his wife, and being sued for the amount
defended himself on the ground that he had
never ordered the articles, that he had never
received them, and that their purchase was
unnecessarily extravngant on the part of a
woman married to man in his crcumstan-
ces The Buffalo papers denounced the de-
fence as frivolous and mean, but the jury
found verdict for him.
Year: 1861

PATRIOTIC CoRN.-Down in Yankee land
Nature has poured from her inexhaustible
corn ucopia an ear of national corn which is
up to the times in point of decoration. The
Boston journal says that Dorchester man
has shown them an ear of corn. the kernels
are variegated, showing the national colors,
the red, white and blue, with a distinctness
and effect which is almost startling
Year: 1861

A MYSTERY CLAEARED Ur.-Some have
wondered at the ignorance concerning the
American people, SO often displayed by the
Express Perhaps an explanation for the
mystery may be found in the following, from
a wise mans pen: Languages have one in
scrutable originals have all national pecu'
liarities-and he has but an imperfect kuowl
edge of people who DOES not knoO their
language"
Year: 1861

The School TRUSTEES ought to have
said in yesterdays issue that it is the desire
Of Mr. Walsworth. our excellent and watch
ful County Superintendent of Schools, that
tho Trustees of the various districts make
their returns to him as early as the first of
the coming month Last year three districts
suffered by reason of the neglect of the trus-
tees to make returns in time Unless this is
attended to in time the school money cannot
be properly distributed.
Year: 1861

iHREE MORE NIGHTS or THE GREAT PAN
TEC -NA-THEc-A AT THE THEATER The pro-
prietor Of the Pan-tec-na-thec. will give
three more exhibitions of this splendid work
Of art at the Theater, on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings Of this week. We
should judge that nearly one half of our citi-
zens have already seen this exhibition and we
should advise the othe" half to make sure of
seeing it on these three evenings, for surely
there never has been and probably never will
be so fine thing in this place again.


To see one half of it is worth more than the
price of admission. A large number of ad-
vertisers will be selected from among that
portion Of the audience who may choose to
remain after the exhibition is over, to whom
elegant presents will be given, consisting of
silver watches, gold clasp bibles, silver cake
baskets, elegant books, jewelry, dc Among
the list of presents for Monday evening is an
elegant Silcer Ice Pitcher, valued at forty
dollars, which will be given to the person Sc,
lected who will tell twenty persons about the
exhibition. This is a great way to advertise,
but we think the Pan-tec-na lhec-a man loses
nothing by it.
Year: 1861

No HoPE.-At late hour Friday evening
Captain Lendrum, who was injured at San
Francisco few days ago while riding with
General Johns, was at the point of DEATH
His physicians had given him up.
Year: 1861

DLAru.-Oscar Ban, who has long been in
tie employ Of the Stage Company, as driver,
died on Friday at Dowrieville and was
brought to this city and buried yesterday
The funeral was largely attended. All of the
Company's coaches in the city were in the
procession. The deceased was faithful to his
employers, and the attention exhibited by
them to his remains shows that they esteemed
him highly.
Year: 1861

REBEL CREDULrY.-A gentleman lately
arrived from the South, Gays great many
ignorant people in that section firmly believe
that Gen. Scott is dead. There is also a be-
lief in remote parts of Dixie that President
Lincoln and his Cabinet have sought refuge
in Philadelphia and reside there.
Year: 1861

A CANDIDArE-A. G. Turner of this city


will be candidate for the position of Ser
geant-at-arms of the Senate. We know Mr..
Turner well, and take great pleasure in en-
dorsing him as a thorough-going Union man.
lie will not be candidate before any caucus
in which sits single man tainted with dis
loyalty He will seek the support of all the
Union Senator's
Year: 1861

Gov. NYE's QUARTERS. The Silver Age
says that Governor Nye has got into his new
rooms, opposite the Penrod House. in Carson
City, and only lacks the necessary furniture
which will be shortly forthcoming, to receive
the calls of his friends in a suitable manner.
The old office occupied by him was very
small and inconvenient, but when he arrived
in the Territory he did not look so much tc
decoration and finish, as to any place wher


the business of his Office could be dispatched
Year: 1861

VOLUNTEER ADvIoE.-The Morning Call,
having published a violent editorial denoun-
cling Fremont, is thus rebuked and counselled
by the Mirror:


Character cannot be killed in that man
ner. neighbor. You are altogether too Sc
vere The true method is to grant an oc-
casional virtue, whether merited or not. and
then claim the right to refer to the vices of
the victim. Above all, keep cool avoid any
exhibition of malice. and drive the dagger
home with a moan of sorrowing friendship
with the hypocritical cant of Brutus, who
"slew his best lover for the good of Rome.
Fe fel you know nothing of the business
of paragraphic thrusts and party. You work
with an unwieldy bludgeon. which some
times wounds, but oftener misses the mark
and breaks the arm that wields it. Mingle
judiciously littly honey with the gall, and
then the compound may be tasted, if not
relished. Try the "more in sorrow than in
anger" dodge, diminutive neighbor. 1t some
times works well. The unadulterated worm
wood is evidently not your telling style
Year: 1861

man, and to promote the interest Of the commu
niy it is just to support it by taxation upon the
whole State but so far as it is mere luxury.
to support i, by taxation is of very Fashionable
justice and propriety.


Ts provide for lunatics and cure as many As
are curable, is matter Of utility, necessity, and
justice, az we'll as Of humanity.


To provide the necessaries of life for pauper
children who are deaf, dumb and blind, is a mat
ter of justice and necessity-but this NAV be
done at county poor houses. To teach deaf and
dumb children to read, write and cipher has
some utility in it, and therefore it is just and
proper to do it at the public expense; though
the utility of teaching that class is small compar.
ed with the benefits derived from teaching per-
sons in the possession OF all their faculties. An
extended or accomplished education for that
class of persons is mere luxury. and not usually
attended with much utility.


To teach a useful art and practical industry to
the blind, is utility to them and to the commu.
nifty; bat to teach them to read raised letters ia
q mere luxury to them, without practical utility.


1He ROOu VI Inc Csdtc, as "ch oS humanity
and proper regard for the welfare of the deaf
aud dumb required the establishment Of such an
Asylum as the one at Flint, tor the purpose of
giving them the rudments of an intellectual edu-
cution, together with an industrial education, to
fit them for usefulness and enable them to live
by their own industry and to provide for them
selves; but neither justice nor humanity re-
quires the people of new State, with very little
accumulated wealth, to furnish to such persons
an extended, accomplished aud expensive educa-
ton.


If the State l. too poor to finish both the Asy-
lulns immediately, should not the legislature dis
tinguish between them, and finish that one first
which is the most useful and necessary, and has
the strongest claim upon the justice and human
ity OF the people of the State. s.
Year: 1861

Var department, Jan. Is, 1861.


SIR-Your letter of the 18th inst. addressed
to the President of the United States, has by
him been referred to this Department. and he in
structs me to express his qualification at the
promptitude with which you have ordered the
expulsion Of the lawless men who recently occu-
pied Forts johnson and Caswell He regards
this action on the part of your Excellency as in
complete harmony with the honor and patriotic
character of the people of North Carolina, whom
you so worthiy represent.


In reply to your inquiry, whether it is the pur-
pose of the President TO garrison the forts Of
North Carolina during his Administration, am
directed to say that they, in common with the
other forts, arsenals, and public property of the
United States, are in charge of the President,
and that if assailed, no matter from what quar-
ter or under what pretext, it is his duty to pro-
tect them by all the means which the law has
placed at his disposal 1t is not his purpose to
garrison the forts to which you refer at present,
because he considers them entirely safe, as here
tofore, under the shelter of the law abiding sem
timent for which the people of North Carons
have ever been distinguished Should they,
however, be attacked or menaced with danger
Of being seized and taken from the possession OF
the United States, he could not escape from his
constitutional obligation to defend and preserve
Year: 1861

GIThe following good joke occurred not
long since in one of the churches in the western
Part OF Onondago county:


San aged clergyman, speaking of the solem-
nifty attached to the ministerial office, said that
during the whole term of forty or fifty years
that he had oticiated therein hls gravity had
never been but once disturbed in the pulpit
On that occasion he noticed man directly in
front OF him, leaning over the railing of the GAL
lery with something IN his hand, which he soon
discovered TO be huge chew of tobacco just
taken from his mouth. Directly below sat
man fast asleep with his head back and bus
mouth wide open. The man in the gallery
was intensely engaged 10 raising and lowering
his hand, taking an exact observation, till at last
having got it right, he left the quid drop, and
it went plump into the mouth OF the sleeper
1 below The whole scene was so indescribably
/ ludcrous, that for the first and last time in the
I pulpit, an involuntary smile forced itself upon
the countenance Of the preacher.
Year: 1861

BY J. o. WHITTIER.
Now, by our fathers ashes where's the spirit
OF the true hearted and the unshackled GOMEZ


Their names alonep
Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within usi
Stoops the proud manhood OF our soul so low
That mammons lure or party vile can win us


To silence nowl
No when our land to ruins brink is verging.
In Gods name let speak while there Is timel
Now, when the padlocks on our lips are forging,


SILENCE IS CRiNBi
What shall we numbly ask, as favors,
Rights all our owni In madness shall we barter
For treacherous peace the FREEDOM Nature gave US


God and our charter ?
Here shall the statesman seek the free TO fetteri
Here Lynch law light its horrid fires on hiQb7
And in the Church, their proud and skilled abettor


Make truth a liel
Tortue the pages Of n hallowed Bible,
To sanction crime, and robbery, and blood;
And, in oppressions hateful service, libel


Both man and Godl
Shall our New England stand erect no longer,
But stoop in chains upon her downward way,
Thicker TO gather on her limbs and stronger,


Day after day.
mol methinks from all her wild, green Mountains
From valleys where her slumbefing fathers lie
From her blue rivers and her yelling fountains


And clear, cold sky
From her rough coast and lies, which hungry Ocean
Gnaws with his surges-ffom the fishers skiH,
With white sail swaying to the pillows motion,


Round rock and cliff
From the free ilreside of her unbought farmer
From her free laborer at his loom and wheel
from the brown smith-shop where, beneath the hame


Rings the red steel
From each and all, IL God hath not forsaken
Our land, and left us to an evil choice,
Loud as the summer thunderbolt shall waken


PEOPLES vo1CEi
Startling and stern the northern winds shall beart
Over POtomac's to st. Marys wave;
And buried Freedom shall awake to hearit


Within her grave.
o, let that voice go forth The bondman signing
BY Santee's wave, IN Mississippi's cane,
Shall feel the hope, within his bosom dying,


Revive again
Let 1t go forth The millions who were gazing
Sadly upon from afar shall smile,
And unto God devout thanksgiving raising


Bless us the while.
o, for your ancient freedom, pure and holy;
For the deiverance Of groaning earthj
For the wronged captive, bleeding crushed and lowly


Let it go forthl
Sons of the best of fathers will ye falter
With all they left you perrled and at stake'
Ho again on Freedoms holy altar


The FIRE awake
Prayer strengthened for the trial come together,
Put on the harness for the coming fight,
And, with the blessing Of your heavenly Father,


MAINTAIN THE Right
Year: 1861

APPLEs.-There is scarcely an article
of vegetable food more widely useful and
more universally loved than the apple.
Why every farmer in the nation has not
an apple orchard, where trees will grow at
all, is one of the mysteries. Let every
family lay in from two to ten or moro
barrels and they will find il to DO 10 them
the most economical investment in the
whole range of culinaries. A raw mellow
apple is digested in an hour and half;
while boiled cabbage requires FIVE hours.
The most healthy dessert that can be
placed on table is baked apple. If
freely used at breakfast, with coarse bread
and butter, without meat or flesh Of any
kind, it has an admirable effect on tho
general system, often removes constipa-
ton, correcting acidities, and cooling off
febrlle conditions more effectualy than
the most approved medicines.


If families could be induced TO substi-
tute the apple-sound, ripe and luscious
for the pies, cakes, aud other sweetmeats
with which their children are too often in
discreetly stuffed, there would be dimi-
mutton in the total of doctors bills in a
single year. sufficient TO lay in a stock Of
this delicious fruit for whole seasons
use. Halls Journal of Health.
Year: 1861

AFRICAN RAILRoAD-A CAFFRE RACE.


The war of railroads has been carried
into Africa. In the month of June last.
a railroad was opened for connecting the
colonies Of Natal, and the Cape, on which
occasion there was a grand assembage of
Of wondering Caffres TO see the iron horse
for the first time. The engineer inten-
tionally run his engine at first very slow
ly, when quite a number of the athletic
sons Of the desert thought they would
try the steam horse race. Onward they
went together for about two miles, the
woolly heads getting close to the front,
when they yelled with defiant exultation
at beating the steam devil, rs they called
the locomotive. At this place the en-
bankment, which before was somewhat
wide, now became high, narrow and steep.
The spirit of the iron horse was now fair
ly aroused, so giving three tremendous
snorts, he started of at the rate of thirty
miles an hour. The last act which the
engineer saw the dusky runners perform,
was the execution of series Of ugly som.
ersaults on the top of each other down
both sides of the embankment.
Year: 1861

Another little form asleep,


And little spirit gone; III ,aHJ
Another little voice is hushed, s.
And little angel born.
Two little feet are on the way


To their home beyond the skies,
And our hearts are like the void that come
When strain Of music dies.
A pair Of little baby shoes,
And lock Of golden hair
The toy our little darling loved,
And the dress she used TO wear;
The little grave in the shady nook


Where the flowers love to grow
And these are all of the little hope


That came three years ago.
The birds viii sit on the branch above,
And sing n requiem 1t -1 e..
To the beautiful little form .


That used TO sing to them.
But never again win the little lips
To their songs of love reply;
For that silvery voice is.blended with
The minstrelsy ON high.
Year: 1861

@Prof. Morse has Just received from
the King Of Portugal the cross of Chew
aller of the order Of the Tower and Sword,
being the fifth title of that character
which has been bestowed upon him by
European sovereigns for his invention Of
the telegraph.
Year: 1861

WAVES OF FIRE.--A traveller in The
Sandwich Islands, while visiting the vol
cano near Hilo, Witnessed q wonderful
phenomenon. AS he was sitting at lunch
on high bank overlooking the crater,
with his face turned 10 avoid the intense
heat, he was startled by noise like the
rushing together of vast bodies of water,
and was obliged to run to escape the great
heat. The whole surface of the lake was
in the widest commotion. Great pillows
of fire rolled from every side Of the lake,
meeting tho fierce conflict, receding and
rushing together again with increased
force, shooting into the air, perhaps a
hundred feet, a vast spiral body of red
liquid lava, which finally combined over
and fell in graceful spray back into the
lake again. When the lake was restored
to its usual order, it seemed 10 have fall
at least ten feet,
Year: 1861

i've companies for all officers as high as Captain
and acancies above Captain shall be filled by
the votes OF the commissioned officers of the
regiment and all officers so elected shall be COM
missioned by the respective Governors of the
States, or by the President Of the United States.


Section IL. And be it further enacted That all
letters written by soldiers in the service Of the
United States may be transmitted through the
mails without prepayment Of postage under
may prescribe, the postage thereon to be paid by
the recipients.


Section l2. And be it further enacted, That
the Secretary of War be and he is hereby author
lied and directed to introduce among the volun.
teer force in the service of the United States the
system of alhtment tickets now used in the navy.
or some equivalet system, by which the family
Of the volunteer may such portions Of his pay as
he may request.
Year: 1861

An OUrRAGE.-A proceeding took place
at Jackson, Amador county, recently, which
is characterized as no better than an out
rage. A preacher undertook to pronounce
a funeral discourse on the death of young
lady, which is thus alluded to by the Dis
patch:


Her nearest relations and other friends were
present, and the preacher, in manner eyin-
cling any sentiment but christian, or even COM
mon human kindness, proceeded to harrow the
feelings of the mourners until the mother Of the
deceased fell in a fit and was carried from the
church. Previous to this painful manifestation
several Of the congregation were so shocked
that they went away hearing as they departed
the hoarse exclamation of the preacher: 81
can't help it, must tell the truth" He said
there was scarcely glimmer of hope that the
sins Of the young woman were forgiven; that
her friends had no reason for believing chat she
had taken a place among the redeemed that a
short time before her death she accepted an in
yitation TO attend ball, and oh he hoped she
was not now dancing in the ballroom of hell.
Year: 1861

RELIEF ALREADY AsKED.-A correspond
ent of the Charleston Courier calls for
relief or employment, for the Federal Office
holders in that State, who will be thrown
out of employment by the secession of the
State. The writer says


A few weeks hence and South Carolina will
be beyond the reach of the Federal Govern
ment along with her go no inconsiderable
number of her sons, who leave behind them, in
so doing, their entire subsistence for themselves
and families. speak more especially Of per-
sons holding subordinate positions under the
present Government, who, in dissolying their
connection with it, are thrown out Of employ
ment; but who would rather starye, if so despe-
rate an alternative should be presentedto them,
than waver for a moment in their duty to their
State at this crisis.
Year: 1861

The AssEMBLY.-We learn by dispatch
from Sacramento, received at O'Clock this
afternoon, that the Assembly has not yet
elected Speaker aud there is no prospect
ola speedy organization. The Douglas
members lack three or four votes Of having
clear majority over both the other parties
and the latter appear determined, whatever
may happen that the Assembly shall not be
organized unless one of their own stripe is
elected Speaker. The members cannot draw
their pay until on organization is effected,
and the factionists will hold out as long as
their money lasts
Year: 1861

WADE's SPEECH.-The Sacramento Union
of yesterday, gives full report of the late
speech of Senator Wade, of Ohio, which has
stirred up considerable Of a hububin Union
saving circles. Wade announces himself as
opposed to all compromise, unless the Re-
publican platform is adopted as the basis,
and be doubtless speaks the sentiments of a
majority of his party, but not majority of
the people, of the Northwest. His position
in regard to compromise is about the same
as that occupied by the Senator'S who sup
ported Breckinridge. The latter are will
ling to compromise, and allow the gulf
States to remain in the Union, on condition
the Federal Constitution is amended so as
to conform to tho platform on which Breck-


nridge was placed as a candidate for Pres


dent, and Wade is not disposed to give up
one iota Of the platform Of his party in or
der to keep the extreme Southern States in
the Union. The latter portion Of Wade's
speech was addressed to the fears of the
South, and will materially tend to fan the
flame Of secession. lie ntmated that in
case the Southern States seeded, the North
would extend protectorate over Mexico,
establish line Of white settlements along
the frontier, and prevent the extension of
slavery in that direction; and would also
establish colonies of free blacks in Central
America. This kind Of talk has about the
same effect in the South as threat lately
made by Wigfall has in the North: That in
case of civil war the South would dictate
kumliating terms to the North in Fanieul
Hall.