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Year: 1869

CHICAGO VS.. San FRANcIsco.-Th San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce has finally
walked up sufficiently to appoint Committee
to report some plan whereby San Francisco
can secure the trade of Utah. 1t is stated
that the enterprising merchants of Chicago
have already secured the bulk of the Utah
trade, and they will be very likely to retain
it. The merchants of San Francisco are too
selfish and old fogyish to compete with the
liberal and enterprising Chicagoans. Let
them wake up and adopt a more liberal trad
ing policy if they desire to even hold their
own
Year: 1869




Leader of December 2Sth says:


A letter from one of the civil engineers
on the Pacific Railroad thus describes a
pond of warm water in what seems to be
crater of an extinct volcano near the North
Fork of Humboldt river, in Nevada: "
must tell you about one remarkable natural
curiosity we camped near-a curious hot
spring. 1t is situated in a crater about
two hundred feet in diameter, on the top of
a knoll which rises about fifty feet above
the river. In the bottom of the crater is
long eliptical pool, perhaps l5O feet long
in one direction and 70 in the other-a
mammoth tub in shape The depth of
water is unknown, no lines brought here
having been long enough to reach the bot
tom. In one part the water is just hot
enough to enable the hand to be held in
it, and the remainder of the pool varies
from this to luke-warmness. The walls
are nearly vertical, and you can imagine
the luxury of plunge into it with no fear
of striking bottom. Just think, too, of
swimming about on cold November day,
with the rising steam deposited in front
upon rocks, in water of a temperature
which is perfectly luxurious. When l
went in | had so severe cold as to be
unable to speak aloud, and it cured me
almost entirely. The water tastes slightly
of sulphur, iron and lime.
Year: 1869

RAILROAD Gossp.-Under this caption
the Bulletin says;


+" 1t is reported in circles thought to be
well informed that the Western Pacific
Railroad will be completed at an earlier
day than has hitherto been supposed
The managers of the enterprise are said to
contemplate its completion from Sacramento
to Oakland simultaneously with the juno
ton of the Central and Union Pacific, so
that passengers by the first through train
from New York will come to the harbor of
San Francisco all the way by rail- The
work of tracklaying is already under way,
and at the rate of only two miles day
could be completed before the lst of April.
1t is natural that the Central Pacific folks
should desire to take passengers and
freight to and from this city over their.
own track, as soon as the connection is
made on the plains, in preference to trans
fering to the Vallejo road at Sacramento.
Rumor has it, also, that the Western or
Central Pacific managers-for they are the
same-will begin their depot improvements
at Oakland in very short time. The Pa
cific Bailroad being finished to San Fran
CISCO a considerable working force will be
put on the route of the California and
Oregon Railroad between Marysville and
Chico. This road may be built as far as
Shasta, forming an outlet for the whole
upper Sacramento Valley, much sooner
than has hitherto been supposed"
Year: 1869

JUVENILE MANsLAUGHTER-Th au-
thorities at Lowell are in great perplexity
over an extraordinary criminal case. A
little boy of ten years threw stone at his
playfellow, struck him on the head and
killed him. The child was tried for MUIR
der and the jury found him guilty. Not
wishing to hang one so little, the Court
and Chief Justice have been in consulta-
ton and concluded to reserve sentence for
the present So austere is the iron yisage
of the law The case is peculiarly intri
cate for the humane courts who wish to
spare him. The child was furiousl y an
cry and threw the stone in malice and OBJ
viously to kill, And so the hard featured
law cries for his blood.
Year: 1869

LAURA RENo.-The Louisville Courier
says:


Miss Laura Reno, the sister of the victims
of the New Albany assassination, who was
IN the city yesterday, is described by those
well acquainted with her as a young lady of
great beauty and accomplishments 1t is
also said that she possesses a large part of
the brains of the family. which, added to an
lnfexib.e will and an intense desire for re-
venge, will sooner or later bring ruin or
death upon some of the murderers of her
brothers. At their funeral at Seymour, a
few days ago. the attendance was quite large,
and among other persons, a resident of Sey-
mOur dropped in. He had scarcely made his
appearance, before Miss Reno rose from her
seat. and walking across the room, fercely
told him that was no place for him. that she
recognized in him one of the murderers of her
brothers, and if he did not leave Immediately
it would be the worse for him. The fellow
skunk out of the house like whipped cur,
frightened almost to death. Unless great
mistake has teen made in the estimation of
Laura Renos character, the Jackson county
regulators will find that the oath Of revenge
she is said to have taken over the dead body
of Frank Reno was no mere empty threat, to
be forgotten in an hour, but a promise of
terrible meaning.
Year: 1869

Down ON THE PRoJEcT.-The Sacramento
Reporter, which is trying very hard to in
gratiate itself into the good graces of the
Central Pacific Railroad Company, is fierce
ly opposed to the extension of the California
Pacific Road to this place. As the Reporter
probably does not WELD very heavy infu-
ence over the minds of the officers and prin-
ciDal stockholders of the California Pacific
Company, we are not alarmed at its opposi
ton. In fact we are rather encouraged bv
the opposition of that sheet, as we never
knew anything which it advocated to sue
ceed, or anything it opposed to fail. So far
as the California and Oregon road is con-
cerned, we are now and always have been
friendly towards it, but if the building of
that road is to be delayed until the present
generation is ready to shuttle off this mortal
coil, we feel justified in looking elsewhere for
assistance. That a road connecting US with
Vallejo is an inviting and feasible enterprise
is selfevident, and we have good reasons for
believing that the subject is receiving favor
able attention in the right quarter
Year: 1869

RAILROAD RUMoRs.-We understand that
the Yuba Railroad is to be extended to Chico.
and from thence to Shasta, in the course of
the summer We had hoped, for the sake of
the interests of the Northern California
Railroad and the citizens of Oroville, that the
Yuba would unite with the present road to
Oroville, and the extension take place from
Oroville. If the rumors are correct this is
not to be. 1t is said that a railroad can be
constructed as cheaply from this city to
Chico as from Oroville to Chico. Ifthis is
correct it has much influence against pur


chasing the California Railroad. appeal.
Year: 1869

PIETY HILL.-The Gibbon claim, at Piety
Hill, is now in full blast, aud the indications
are that it will prove highly remunerative.-
The banks are deep, but the free use of pow
der skaters and crumbles them up so as
to render sluicing easy. A large head
of water is used.
Year: 1869

A PRoPHET.-The Sacramento Reporter
predicts that the COURIER will be forgotten
before a railroad is built from the Vallejo
line to this place. The COURIER may be for
gotten, perhaps, but the reputation which
John Bigler. editor Of the Reporter, acquired
during his connection with the official affairs
of this State, precludes the possibility that
he will be forgotten for generation at least.
Year: 1869

Last week we alluded to the subject of ex
tending the California Pacific Railroad to
this place. The suggestion has led to con-
siderable comment in this community, and
the almost unanimous opinion of our citizens
is that such an enterprise is not only feast
BILE, but would prove highly remunerative.


On examination Of the map, it occurs to us
that either Dayisville or Woodland, in Yolo
county, would be the most advantageous point
from which road in this direction could be
started. A line extended from one Of these,
along the west bank of the Sacramento river
to this place, would traverse the best and
most valuable portion of the Sacramento
Valley, and would furnish an outlet for pro
ducts which, in the absense of facilities for
transportation, fnd no market. Whenever
cheap transportation and a market are Sc
cured, the rich agricultural lands of Culusa,
Tehama, and Shasta will be cultivated and
the grain yield enormous. Our great need is
means of transportation whereby we can get
our products direct to market at rates which
VIII itaNe producers II TedSOliaDie llidT 9lH iOr
profit. Navigation on the upper Sacramento
is uncertain, ard docs not accommodate or
meet the demands of our population. As we
are now situated, if we ship anything below,
freights and commissions about equal the
market price of the article shipped, leaving
no balance worth mentioning to the credit of
the producer. On account of high freights
our merchants are also compelled to sell their
goods at higher prices than we can we'll
afford to pay. A railway placing us in COM
munication with Sacramento, Vallejo and San
Francisco would quickly remove all these
difficulties in the way of our prosperity, and
greatly benefit the northern portion of the
State In fact, the interest of Northern Cal


iforna imperatively demand the facilities and
aid which such a road would confer, and we
ask careful consideration of our suggestions
bv all who feel an interest in the CONNER
cial, agricultural. mining and general bust


ness prosperity of Northern California.
Year: 1869

We have good many female prize
skaters. One OF them the other day prom
ised kiss to the first man who caught her
upon the pond The successful pursuer
was a colored person-vulgate, niger


He claimed his kiss, but allowed 1t to be
bought by the young lady's brother for
FIVE dollars, offered to him as sort OF
Hobson's choice, with a whipping II the
kiss was insisted upon. Our opinion Is
that after the V had been given to the
darkey, a spanking ought to have been
given to the young lady by her mamma.
Year: 1869

We observe a statement In the.
Northern papers that $4,000
of church funds have been loaned
for speculative purposes in Wall
street, and that several churches
are mortgaged for the same pur-
pose.


We accept this statement as
true and merely allude to it for
the purpose of showing how near
ly crazy are the Northern people
on the subject of money and spec.
ulation.


The operations of Wall street,
though made respectable by their
magnitude, do not differ materi-
ally from investments in lotteries
or gambling with cards. And yet
we find that church funds are con-
tributed to swell the tide Of cor.
ruption that has already given
Wall street reputation that the
power of money alone can counter.
balance.


We do not question even the
moral right of a church to derive
an income from it's surplus capital;
but otinvest it in the interests Of
the stock-gamblers of Wall street
is certainly matter of doubtful
propriety. 1t proves conclusively
that every interest at the North
even the churches-has it's vota-
ries bowling st the shrine of Mann
mon; and that mono Of them
are exempt from the corrupting
influences of Wall street.
When we realize that a building
consecrated to the worship Of the
living God is mortgaged for the
purpose of raising money to be
used in speculation CHATS what
they call it), We can see to what q
point of degradation our country
has sunk in its religion and its
morals.


It is a consolation, however, to
know that the free-love, free-think.
ing, free speculation dogmas 80
characteristic Of some Of the North
ern religionists have not yet raised
their hydra form on our Southern
churches. Let the Northern
churches convert their pulpits into
hustings, and their charity funds
into Wall street stoekjobbing
fund, if they will. But God grant
| that our own Southern land may
never become the victim of the
"money-changers." - Wilmingson
| Star.
Year: 1869

But such is the contempt usually
felt for the traitor that he is gen.
orally awarded his recompense in
gold, and is seldom elevated to a
lucrative place or honorable Office.
Arnold was one of the exceptions
to this rule; but Notwithstanding
the rank conferred upon him, he
was universally abhorred by the
people to whom he sought to
render such invaluable service.
But the radical party in this coun'
try, having no nice scruples about
the means by which it attains its
end, make little distinction be-
tween dirty and honorable work.
It confers upon the spy and the
traitor the same kind of reward
that it gives to the gallant soldier.
AS if to encourage others to
emulate her infamy. 1t has just ap-
pointed one Mrs. Van Lew to be
postmistress at Richmond. This
important position has been be-
slowed upon her in consideration
of her betrayal to the people of
that city when General Grant was
before it. She was entitled to
blood money for her base treachery,
but it is indecent and scan
dalous to the last degree that such
person should be elevated
TO high and responsible Office.
All other considerations apart, the
public interests demand that the
Government agents should be
selected for some other reason
than their completely with treach-
cry and falsehood. The Tarpeia
who would betray a city is not
above tampering with the mails.


Bait. Gazette.
Year: 1869

GEORGE D. PRENTIcE.-Hodge-
son, of the Montgomery Mail: who
is on the wing, in a letter from
Louisville, thus draws a pen pic
ture of what times wear and tear
has left of the once gifted and
brilliant George D. Prentice. The
writer says:


Yesterday I had an interview with
Mr.. Prentice. He is not the man
he was ten years ago. Indeed bis
genius is gone, and his person is
a mere wreck. His family is
broken up-wife dead, one son
killed on the Confederate side,
another settled on a farm down
the river-and the old man, YER
ging on three score and ten, cooks
his breakfast and dinner in his
little room on the third floor of
the Courier building, and lives
only in conversation about the
past. This man once welded an
imperial power with his wit and
and his music. Now the world
has whirled past him, and he lies
one the shore a mere stranded
wreck, just as we will all lie if we
should reach three score years
through a revolution. Such is life!
To-day an emperor, tomorrow a
cypher.
Year: 1869

n n1ASy oAo SAA


Some day in the future the
art and practice of wine making
will be as familiar and universal
among US as the manufacture Of
cider is now. And the juice of
of the grape, properly prepared, is
greatly superior to that of the ap-
pie in health and strength giving
elements. 1t is an easy matter
for majority Of farmers to provide
ample supplies of wine for their
household use, at a comparatively
tri1ing cost. A half acre in each
hundred of ofcultivated land set with
vines of ofhardy varieties would be
sufficient, if well cared for, to fur
nish both fruit and wine for the
number of people occupying, on
the average, that area. Doubtless
there are limited regions in our
country where grapes would not
succeed: but the area is vast where
they would thrive to sufficient
degree to make the growing OF
them for family use satisfactory !;
although it might be far from pro-
6table to raise them for market.
In any neighborhood or lacality
where a solitary vine does we'll, it
is certain that enough others will
thrive to supply the wants of the
population. By such universal
planting only can we hope to see
the rural population Of our land
supplied with fruit and wine; for
the products of the favored grape
regions, where the culture is car
.ried on extensively, will be mostly
absorbed by cities. Let every
farmer have his vineyard as we'll as
his orchard, not planted with a
view to selling it's products, but
to consuming them in his own
family. 1t is pretty safe to assert
that where apple trees will flourish,
some variety of grapes will do
tolerably we'll alongside of them.
The manufacture of wine for home
use should be conducted almost
precisely like that of cider. Have
the fruit ripe and clean mash it
and press out the juice with care:
let it ferment a few days, like good
cider, then rack it, and cleanse the
casks and refill them; bung tight
and rack again early in the Spring.
and the third time on the approach
of hot weather, have sound, sweet
casks, keep them full, and store in
a clean, cool cellar, and your oeV-
erage will excel in grateful flavor
and healthful, exhilarating effects,
when the hard labor and hot suns
of Summer tempt it's trial. 1t is
as easy and simple to make good
wine as good cider. The yield Of
wine will probably average four
Year: 1869

procure supply, ON account of the gem
eral prevalence Of the difficulty, and the
bad roads.


1t has been impossible to cross the
mountain from Ripton to Hancock with
teams, for two or three weeks. The mail
is carried on foot. The snow was about six
feet deep on the mountain previous to the
recent thaw, and il three or four feet
now
Year: 1869

might see this factory with its paw
roll of 100000 month, instead Of endeay.
oring to pay its debts by sale of the real
estate and entire assets. We hope this
notice of the sale will be widely pub
iisfcd and known throughout the State,
that the property may realize what it
should. Time prevents our saying more
at present
Year: 1869

HORSE KILLED.-As a specimen Of the
depth of snow in Lower Canada during
the recent blockade, an exchange is in
formed by gentleman that few days
since while sleighing in the vicinity Of
Three Rivers, at a point where the tele-
graph wires cross the highway, his horse
became tangled in the wires in endeayor-
ing to get over them and received injuries
from which it died the next day. The
citizens informed him that the wires we're
Year: 1869

Additional petitions were presented
to-day, under the rule, asking Congress
10 interpose It's authority with refer
ence to the character of the State gov
errmeut of MARY land. 1t is doubtful
whether any report for action will be
presented To Congress at this ses-
SION, but it must not be supposed
that it is the purpose of Mr.. Frank
Thomas, or those who follow his lead in
this matter, to abOndon their project of
attempting To put Maryland under rad
ical rule.


The committee on the Judiciary
thinks it has already sufficient testi-
mony to Justify them in now bringing
the mat er to the attention of Congress,
bat in order to guard against any very
tlagrant false step ut the beginning,
they have been content to wait. They
have been reading up all the law bear
ing i'm the most remote degree upon the
case, and have learned from the books
that the admission of representatives to
Congress has been decided by the courts
To be prjmG tdcie evidence that State
had a republican form of government.
This point, raised while representatives
were regularly on the floor, might prove
fatal to any proposition at this time,
but the plan t. be pursued is beginning
TO be developed by conversation and ex-
pressions of radical members. The
plan seams to be to present the testi-
mOny il the case day or two before
the close of the Fortieth Congress. No
action will be recommended.


The FOrty-firSt Congress is expected
TO convene on the fourth of March, and
when the names of the members elect
from Maryland are called objection will
be made to the oath of Office being ad-
ministered to them on the ground that
an investigation is pending. The NOV
era in this matter have been looking
about for the best course to be pursued,
and it seems now pretty we'll settled
that the disfranchisement of the State,
as herein indicated, will be attempted,
and the proposition will no doubt re-
ceiye some support from the ultra
radicals, but it is doubtful whether it
can be carried. Mr.. Frank Thomas, for
tuDately Will not be here to urge the
matter. AT the present time, however.
he seems to be confident of the strength
of the testimony adduced, and it was at
his instance that the conservative MEM
bers from Maryland We're invited to
overhaul it and produce rebutting evil
deuce. The conservative members are
attending to that examination faithful
ly, but they have yet to discover any
thing in the testimony which seems to
them to Involve very serious conse-
quences.
Year: 1869

"JOHN PAUL" has been to see the wo-
man on the flying trapeze, in New York,
and thus he reports: "She was quite a
pretty woman, neatly and simply
dressed in a girdle made of stripe or
two from a small American flag, circling
her waist. | never felt so proud of my
country's flag before. l had seen it
waving over thriving villages and ma
iestic mountain heights, but this was
the first time that 1 had ever seen it
generously protecting the waste places.
1 shan't attempt to describe how that
plucky little woman did OH the trapeze,
the rings, and the indental ropes. She
accomplished feats that made my hair
run cold and every drop Of blood in my
veins stand on end. She swung head
downward by one foot from the trapeze
bar, holding her husband by one ear
with the tips of her thumb and forcing.
er, and in that position turned ten SOM
ersaults over the bar, swinging her hus.
band over her head each time. This
feat she afterward repeated, varying it
slightly by holding her husband in her
teeth, and Messrs. Jarrett and Palmer
by the hair-One in each hand. Then
she supported herself by twisting her
back hair round the bar, fastening it
with single hair pin, and afterward
fearlessly ate a mince pie-which the
programme assured us WAS bought in
Fulton Market-while shadder of hor
ror ran through the audience"
Year: 1869

At Stone River, he commanded the
reserve division under General Thomas,
and was ordered into action at a most
critical period, his division suffering
frightfuliy in the terrible forest OF pines,
which to day stands mourntul Mauso-
leum Of so many heroic men: lhere
are now in Dayton many gallant Tel
lows who saw and admired the splen,
did figure and inspiring department. OF
Rousseau upon that fearful field, and
there is not brave man among them
who will not gladly bear testimony to
his chivalrous department. His persen-
al presence, indeed, inspired his men IN
an extraordinary degree, and rs he
dashed along the lines upon his superb
sorrel, under the hottest fire, they invol-
UNFAIRLY broke into shouts that rung
even above the din of battle. He was,
indeed, as gallant a soldier as ever wore
spurs or won honor on bloody fields.
Year: 1869

A HONE OF Youn Owx.-An ex.
change very appropriately remarks that
every poor laboring man should buy him
self a town lot-get that paid for, and
then work to gesthe necessary improve
ments-a little here and li:tls there will
in time produce home Of your own and
place you outside Of the landlords grasp


Remember that $50 year in rent will. in
very few years. pay for your own home,
and .the money it costs yon to move and
shift about, will, without any loss Of furni


ture and Of time, pay the interest Of Eve
hundred dollar mortgage against you.
property until you gradually reduce It to
nothing-why do you risk it If you fail,
you are no worse off !; if you succeed, as
any careful man is sure to do. you have
made home and established credit
equal to another which will start you in
business. Poor men. take our advice, buy
one Of the lots now offered for sale, and
see how. much better it will be for you and
sour family FIVE years after that.
Year: 1869

A DRUSxARD's WILL leave to
society ruined character, q wretched
example. and a memory that will soon rot.


! leave to my parents during the rest Of
their lives as much sorrow as humanity in
a feeble aud decrepit state can sustain.


/ leave to my brothers and sisters a
much modification as could bring upon
them.


leave to my wife I broken heaft, life
Of wretcl'edness and shame, to weep over
my premature death.


| give and bequeath to each Of my chill
drens Ignorance and low character, and the
remembrance that their father was a
brute.