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Year: 1865

On Wednesday last the Union Convention
met IN Shasta, to nominate candidates for the
suffrages of the Union voters of the County
and they did it. For particulars see report
of proceedings.


Seldom have the people of our county been
so well represented. We do not remember
to have seen on former occasion such con-
gregation of respectability and good looks.
We are more favorably impressed, than ever
before, with the idea that Shasta is the place
for unmarried ladies in Yankee land to come
to. Call at our Office. ladies. and we will
tell you who we saw and where yon can ind
them


In the nomination of full ticket by any
Convention, there must be many disappoint-
ments. In the past one there was probably
as little of it rs at any of its predecessors.
The nominees are such as every consclen'
tous man can support without eavil. Except
four, the nominees are tried men-men who
have occupied the Offices to which they are
renominated for the past two years. The
Convention wisely endorsed them. The new
men-viz: Chandler, for Treasurer; Fol
lansbee, for District Attorney; Carter, for
Superintendent of Public Schools; and
Lynch, for Public Administrator, are Off
cially untried, and successors Of men who
have ably, honestly, and carefully discharged
their duties. Of course we make ourself an
exception to the above in that connection
and here take pleasure in congratulating our
Young friend on his coming honors-com-
mending him and his curls to expectant
damsels seeking the honors of a certificate,
Girls, fear not For your sakes we would
we were boy again''-and for our own,
too.


The nominee for District Attorney, though
not member of the legal profession, is a
man whose talents and pure moral character,
industry and pride in doing well whatever
he undertakes, is sufficient guarantee that
the duties of that office will be efficiently
discharged.


What we have said of the nominee for
District Attorney, may be duplicated and
applied to the very good nominee for County
Treasurer.


Every body knows Dan Lynch. nominee
for Public Administrator. If honesty makes
a man suitable for the Office, the Convention
have struck it.


One word for our present County Treasurer
None have heen more faithful or more
efficient. lie made a strong fight for re-
nomination, and lost it, Mr. Chandler will
have a good set of books passed over to him,
in which plain road is we'll laid out. If he
but follow it. land we doubt not he will J be
will render a good account to the people
We neither doubt his ability or honesty. On
the whole the ticket is such one as to com,
mand our hearty support.
Year: 1865

The little town of Ega, on the Upper Am
azon, in the heart of South America, origin
ally mission village of the Jesuits, but now
a thriving Brazilian settlement, lies pretty
nearly in the center of the most extensive,
unbroken forest on the surface of our globe.
1t requires little effort of imagination, even
to those who have not travelled beyond the
limits of Europe, to form some general idea
of what such realm Of arboreal vegetation
must be, lying within few degrees of the
equator, bathed all the year through in an at
mosphere like that Of forcing house for
plants, drenched by tropical rains and heated
by vertical sun. The total length of this
vast forest, from west to east, is 200 miles;
its breadth varying from 600 to 800 miles
Towards the east, indeed, it contains 700
miles further, terminating only on the shores
of the Atlantic This easterly portion, how
ever, or that which clothes the valley of the
Lower Amazons, exclude from the present
description, since it is, in one part, much
broken and contracted in breadth by large
tracts of open grassy land. The forest of the
great plain of the Upper Amazons has sufi-
cient compactness and popularity to be





is no complete break of continuity, the state
ment of Humboldt (who had a glimpse of
the immeasurable wilderness only from its
western commencement, in Peru, still holds
good, to the effect that flock of monkeys
might travel among the tree tops, were it
not for the rivers, for 1000 miles in a straight
line without once touching ground, viz: {:
from the slopes of the Andes to the shores
of the Atlantic AT the top of the grassy
slope on which the town is built, rises a
compact wall of foliage with small, narrow
gap in its midst; the leafy barrier is the
frontier line of the forest, kept from en-
croaching on the few acres of cleared space
only by the inhabitants doing constant bat
tie with the powers of vegetation, and the
gap is the entrance to the only road by land
that the townspeople possess. A few min
utes' walk under the shady arcade, and the
traveller finds himself in the heart of the SOL
itude. The crowns Of the tall trees on both
sides meet overhead, and admit the rays of
she sun only at intervals, where some forest
monarch has been uprooted by the storm
The path leads to few small plantations
belonging to the poorer inhabitants, and at
the distance of about mile dwindles into a
mere hunters track, which none but native
can follow. Beyond this point all traces of
the presence of man cease, the land untrod-
den and unowned, and so it continues for
hundreds of miles Good Words.
Year: 1865

HoRRIBLE.-If man during fifty years
ehews every day two inches of solid plug to-
bacco land millions do it) it will amount at
the end Of that time to nine thousand three
hundred and sixty-six feet, or mile and
quarter of tobacco, half an inch thick and
two inches broad, and will cost one thousand
Eve hundred dollars.
Year: 1865

Entire New and Fresh Stock.
WTE would call the attention of COUNTRY
w MERCHANTS to our usually lage stock Of
Goods. Our stock comprises every article in the
Clothing and furnishing line We have constantly
on hand the largest stock and greatest variety of
Cashmere and Wool HATS of any House in San
Francisco and our prices for these goods are less
than those of any house, receive them direct
from the manufacturers IS consignment Our stock
of Fall and Winter Goods is particularly attractive
and the great feature to the country merchant is the
unusually low prices


Less than the Cost of Importation
We also keep the STAPLE ARTICLES in the Dry
Goods line, which Goods we have purchased in this
market under the hammer, and are offering them at
New York cost, and less.


We publish this card in order that we may make
new acquaintance, and induce those who have not
heretofore purchased of us to call and examine our
stock.


Good Articles and Low Prices
Are the great inducements to all who purchase to
sell again. Merchants who buy of us can make a
good profit and sell to their customers at low fig
ure. W remain, respectfully,


Your obedient servants,


BADGER 81 LINDENBERGER,


Wholesale Clothing and Hat Warehouse


Nos. All, 4l3, and AIS, Battery street,
San Francisco, Aug. 5, 1864 34m3
Year: 1865

RETURSING. notice that the negroes
who went from this section into the army are
rapidly returning home. But two or three
are known to have been killed. As general
rule they speak favorably of the service are
pleased with their experience; are liopixed by
thSir colorsd brudern;" think the Southern
q piggerS" are green, and think they would b,
ready for foreign war. Their return will ado
about ten per cent to the number Of farm apt
other laborers
Year: 1865

Messrs. Griffith & Bro. are selling their entire
stock Of Fashionable Goods at greatly reduced prices
Call and see for yourselves. and be convinced that
their goods being sold for less than they be
bought for in the largest cities, at the whole
sale stores. They have large stock and deter
mined to sell cheap They are offering their goods
at IS per cent cheaper than prices for the same
goods month ago. Every branch Of their Stock
is we'll filled with the best Of articles and will be sole
as above stated for Cash.


nov29 GRIFFITH 4 BRO.
Year: 1865

Slavery has TO longer an existence in law
The Secretary of State of the United States
yesterday officially proclaimed that the requisite
two-thirds Of the States Of the Union have rati


he'd the Amendment to the Constitution


whereby Slavery is abolished, and power il
given to Congress to enforce the act by appro
pirate legislation. We live, at last, in coun


w where no human creature can be held as ,
Year: 1865

ABOUT SNAKES The world is amusing
itself about this time Matching out serpenta.
We have had fish breeding contriyanccs and
eccaleobiuns for relieving matronly hens from
too much devotion to the development of their
prospective brood Of infantice chickens; but
serpents' eggs have not hitherto been deemed
desirable objects to cultivate with a view to in
cubation. The egg that is the fashion nova
days, is a little artificial cone, composed Of a
preparation of mercury, which upon being set
fire to, forthwith matches out one or more ser
pents The snakes are ten or twelve inches
long, by about an inch in diameter. They
writhc and wriggle about like real sna kes they
have scay skins like the genuine article, and
they look very like serpents; but they have nc
fangs to bite with they are impotent snakes
for after they get through with their writhng
and squirming they are found to be only ashes
after all--mere worthless ashes, and the mere
harmless sham Of the thing they look like.
Year: 1865

If my ship that is out to sea
Ever gets safely to me


Josie dear,
A grand lady you shall be;
And then, wife, we will see
Those who scorned you SO, to-day,
Drove you harshly from the way
Bow the head, and cen the knee,


To you and me,
When my ship comes home from sea
Stir the fire, Josie, dear,


Throw the last stick on the blaze,
And light up with that smile of yours,
Those long-talked-of better days.
Cast aside the weary work,


And come and sit beside my knee,
While we talk of what will happen
When my ship comes home from sea.
You shall dress in silken robes,
Trimmed with laces rich and fine,
All the brightest. rarest gems


Shall upon your bosom shine,
And our house shall be as grand
As the Duke upon the square,
And the princes of the land


Shall kneel low and call you fair


ohiN d4A ti4io VII bE.


Josie dear,
When my ship comes home from sea.
Then, those ladies that. to-day.
Cast their scorn full in your face
Drove you harshly from their way,
Will discover every grace
That I've known and loved so long,
And will weave into a song


The sweet story Of your ewes
Your meek, doye-like, woman eyes,


And your hair, so softly brown,


In rich masses falling down.
And your fairy hands and feet.


But, wife dear,
1t does seem so queer TO me.
That, to-day-this very day,
When they met you in the street.
They were all too blind TO see
Beauty in your sweetest face
And did call you coarse and old.
But never mind it, Josie dear,
You can buy their praise with gold
They Will crowd to take your fee,
When my ship comes home from sea.
Bear their scOrn little longer.


Josie dear
It will nuke your heart the stronger;
And believe, now what | say,
You II have friends enough. some day.
More than You can love or trust:
But your heart will be no kinder,
Wife than it is tonight
Nor your soft eyes more love bright
And don t believe you II be
Any happier, any better,
Any dearer unto me.
When my ship comes home from sea.
Year: 1865

BIG SroRY.-An eastern paper says there is a
woman on her way from Ryegate, Vermont, TO
San Francisco, in a close pine box about the size
OF coffin. She has nervous affection of the
brain, and this mode OF transportation was re-
sorted to protect her from the noise incident to
the journey. The box has small aperture to ed-
NIT air. contains bed, and is mulfied. On stop
ping for the night she exchanges her box fer a
had
Year: 1865


FATHER BEKsos.-By the following from the
Jacksonville (Oregon) Sentinel, February 4th, it
will be seen that Father Beeson has arrived home,
and wishes to speak to question of privilege:


Elsewhere in this paper will be found the card
of Father Beeson. We would ask the people of
Jackson county, who wish to hear him. to give
him civil audience. We believe he is laboring
under that melancholy disease, Indian monoma-
mia. Under these circumstances, every person
must know that he is powerless to harm by any
thing he might say. The common dictates of hu-
manity would suggest that we look on him with
pity rather than censure. All must admit that
crazy cannot be held accountable for what
he says.


A FAIR-DEALING ENGLIsHMAN.-Ifa man, while
fighting with another, stops between his blows
to shake his fist at me, do you think would be
mean enough cowardly enough TO make such
actions excuse for attacking him when his
hands already full? No; would say to him
if | meant to fight him at all, - 1ou wait until
YOU are my equal, when you have but one to
fight, and then | will let your shaking your fist
al me annoy me- And if we, while America is
struggling for life against barbarous foe, fight
ing for slavery. let any of hers, that may
spring from an irritable temper more than from
enmtv to us cause us to attack her there are
not waters enough in the history of coming time
to wash the stain Of meanness and cowardice
from our name ---Nt,rmdH Hal.


No DRAFT.-Gen. Mcdowell announces that


no draft will be ordered in California
Year: 1865

lr7g- We the undersigned, have each purchas-
ed a FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE, and
have them now in use. We have thoroughly
tested them on work of all grades-heavy, me-
dunn and Highland our opinion is that the
FLORENCE is durable, will not easily get out
of order, is strong and simple in construction,
and its is easily learned by the most inexpe-
rienccd


1t will do greater range of work, with less
trouble and change, and we consider il atogeth-
er better than any other Family Sewing Machine
Year: 1865

STRANGE /" WOMAN AND GREAT Fool OF
MAN-Platonic love, says the Philadelphia Sun
day Herald, is very well in novel, but it is not
encountered in this matter-of-fact world of ours,
and men and women genenerally act like sensible
human beings when they come TO love each other
sufficiently to induce marriage. I" Lovein cot
ta2e, Is no longer to be thought of, and people
now look forward and count the costs before the
Bans are published. House-rent and the cost of
a raiually increasing family must be provided
for by the prudent, and in these matters most
people are decidedly prudent. But in spite of
this general rule applicable to the married state,
we have just heard of a case which proves that
if wives could be permitted to pursue the course
adopted by the lady in question, there would be
no necessity for care and anxiety in regard to
the price of fiannels, small clothes, cradles and
toys. The case to which we refer came before
our Court of Common Pleas, in the shape of a
bill for divorce, filed by Mr. E in which he
prayed to be relieved from the bonds which
bound him to his wife Dorothea. His petition
and the testimony taken before an Examiner,
developed a most curious state Of affairs. Mr..
Z. alleged that never since the day of his
rage, twelve years before the day Of the petition.
had his wife allowed him the rights of husband,
but had religiously, studiously and most careful
~ kept him at arm length. This he bore calm
ly and meekly for twelve long years, until for
bearance ceased to be virtue, and hence the
suit for divorce. No doubt he was impelled to
this proceeding by the fact that his wife only
denied him his marital privileges, but she
further, and boasted of the circumstances to her
female friends, and eered at them for their folly
in assisting to populate the world. She detailed
to these friends the success of her own plan,
and gloated over the immunity she had gained
thereby. According to the testimony, the curious
fact in the married life of Mr.. and Mrs. E.,
well known in the family, and formed the sub
ject Of frequent conversation. Mr.. E. was ap-
preached by his relatives and friends, with re-
monstranees and entreaties, and was urged time
and again to put end to this awkward state of
affairs. To all he invariably answered that he
loved his wife and was desrouS of doing moth
ing that would cause her pain and uneasiness
and for that reason he would not apply for
divorce. Twelve years OF this kind Of life at
last broke his resolution, and into Court he went,
where the whole laid before an Exam
iner, and upon his report the Court granted
divorce to the miserable man.
Year: 1865

The result Of the recent elections in Rich
mond has been that the majority of the candi-
dates chosen were those who had been in the
rebel army during the war. Some of the North
ern papers growl bitterly at this, and when
the radical republicans bear the news we
may expect a tremendous outcry for imme-
date negro suffrage and an appeal to President
johnson to set aside the elections. II is con-
ceded, however, that at Richmond the people
had their own way, entirely undisturbed by
the military; and this fact must be very grate-
full to those sticklers for the purity and inde-
pendence of the ballot, Messrs Ben Wade and
Henry Winter Davis. So, if one portion of the
radicals is in rage at the choice the people
have made, the other portion will be happy in
the knowledge that this choice was not inter-
fered with by the military authorities.


II Ia rather difficult for MS to understand how
the election of ex.rebel soldiers can be
legally prevented. Uoion men were put in
nomination.; but It seems that the people did
not want them in Office. This being so, what
are we to do! The mere fact Of an election
presupposes the intention Of the general gov
ernment to- allow the people to choose their
own local rulers; and II they prefer rebel SOL
diers 10 Union men we do not see how the
matter can be helped at present Indeed, the
government can have no voice In the Amir,
unless the President decide TO violate the con-
sttution in order to keep ex-rebels out
of official positions. Il must be remem-
bered, however, that, after ALL this Is
a mere question Of the records Of the
different candidates. There are no rebels
now. The soldiers Of Lees army elected at
Richmond have already taken the oath of allie
glance and been pardoned, or, at least, they
will do so before they hold their Offices. These
ceremonies, then, make them, in the eye Of the
law, just as good Union men as the rest Of us;
and we hope that they will prove 10 be so in
practice. The shortest and the easiest and the
best way, therefore, to remove all apprehen-
sions in regard 10 the Southern elections is for
us to remember that rebels died with the rebel
lion, and that all the candidates are conse-
quently good enough Unlonists for all practical
purposes.


Nothing in the world could be more natural
than for the Southern people to vote for those
candidates who had served them In the rebel
armies. The Unionists Of Richmond during
the war were very few and very silent. If they
loved the Union they kept the fact to them
selves, and only revealed II when General
Grant had made the confession perfectly safe
For all the good they did the Union cause they
might almost as we'll have been rebels. But,
waving that point, we Gnd 10 the secresy they
observed in regard to their opinions strong
proof that they considered themselves es
Year: 1865

THE PRICE OF GoLD.-There is strong feel
ing among the gold operators in Wall street for
a rise in the premium on coin. The argument is
this THAT the disbursements of the national
treasury will plethorize the money Market and,
as there is no national loan now to absorb the
surplus, demand will be created for gold for
the purpose of boarding until such time as
another government loan may be authorized,
which cannot take place until Congress meets
in December. The Increased importations have
also tendency to raise the price under the
anticipation Of foreign demand. On the
other hand, II is held that the government, with
a surplus of twenty-five millions, can at any
time prevent rise by throwing from two to
five millions upon the market, or any amount
sufficient to break down The operations and
anticipations of the bulls
Year: 1865

tranged from the sympathies Of the people at
large. Now, does any one suppose that the
people have utterly changed their sympathies
within the past few weeks! They are sick of re-
bellion; they are glad to be in the Union again;
but they sympathize rather with the men who
always thought as they did and acted as they
did than with those with whom they were
constantly at variance in sentiment. We
believe that they dislike JEFF. Davis and
the other rebel leaders who deluded
them; but 1t Is too much to expect
them to dislike Lees soldiers, who
were equally deluded, and with whom
they suffered in common. No; the Southern
voters are neither more nor less than men. We
like to see them selecting their bravest men for
office, and we desire the North to follow their
example If the Southern people were to rally
at once to elect uncompromising Unionists to
posts of honor, we should be inclined to sus-
pect such sudden loyalty. We of the North
will take care of the sufferers for the Union,
and will trust to time and education to develop
the Union sentiment in the South as clearly as
we all wish. Then, when every Southern man
is an uncompromising Unionist, there will be
nobody to complain. Human nature is human
nature, and we must not look for impossibili-
ties. Under the guidance of President john
son, who understands the South thoroughly and
who Is himself Southern man, all these things
will come right Patience viii be much
better remedy for them than immediate negro
suffrage. That would be simply stepping out
of the frying-pan into the fire. ....