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Year: 1861

Devoutly inclined persons frequently imagine
that the suggestions of their own human nature
are the intimations aud directions of God.


They love TO be guided by Him, and they
love to think that their pleasant desires and
purposes are inspired by Him, thus they easily
deceive themselves. An amusing instance OF
this took place at a certain conference. Among
the attendants was very beautiful, intelligent
looking young lady, who drew the admiring
gaze of many eyes, particularly eyes masculine,
always on the lookout for pretty feminine
faces.


During the intermission, at noon, spruce
young minister stepped up TO the presiding
elder, and said, with an air of secrecy


Did you observe the young lady who sat
by the first pillar on your.left? ?"


Yes said the elder; what of her ?"


Why" said the young man, feel i'm
pressed that the Lord desires me to take that
lady for my wife. think that she will make
companion and helpmeet in the work of the
ministry"


The good elder had nothing to object.


But in q few moments second youthful
candidate for ministerial efforts and honors,
and for the name Of husband, came confiden-
TALLY to make known to the Elder like i'm
preston in regard to the same young lady.


You had better wait awhile 1t is not
best to be hasty in determining the source of
such impressions" said the prudent elder.


And he had well said, for hardly were the
steps of the second youth cold at his side, ere
a third one approached with the same story,
and while the worthy confdant yet marveled
fourth drew near with the question


Did you notice the fine nobelooking wo-
man sitting near your left hand? ?"


Yes" cried the swelling Elder.


Well, sir" went on this fourth victim of
that one unsuspicious girl, sit is strongly borne
in upon my mind that it is the will of the Lord
that l should make proposals Of marriage to
that lady He has impressed me that she is to
be my wife"


The Elder could hold in no longer.


Impossible impossiblen' he exclaimed in
an excited tone "The Lord neuer could hare
intended that four men should marry one aro-
man !'


Cosr OF A PILGRIMAGE TO MEccA.-One Of
the queen mothers of the Turkish court being
desirous of making pilgrimage to the holy
city" of her religion, instead of going by the
usual Travelled routes, which would have made
her journey pleasant and not very expensive,
preferred to go the whole way by land, cover
ing distance of 1000 or 1900 miles, three
fourths of it over sandy deserts where every
comfort and luxury to which she was accus-
toned in the seraglio was to be conveyed upon
the backs Of camels, accompanied by suit of
two hundred, including eunuchs, pipe-bearers,
cooks, carpet-spreaders, and heaven knows
what besides. This loyal victim Of bigoted
ostentation, performed her weary journey over
those desoate wastes, bringing back with her
probably some baskets of holy earth from
Mecca, few bottles of bitter water from the
fountains of Zem-Zem, and small bill for the
Turkish treasury to pay, amounting to S270,-
900. This makes it rather expensive for even
the faithful" to get to heaven from Constan-
tinople uid Mecca.
Year: 1861

1t is hardly possible that the long suspend
ed blow" at Washington can be averted beyond
very few days at most. The movements of the
army have been of such a character, recently,
as to justify almost the positive assertion that
battle will be fought there before the expira-
tion of another week and yet the delays and
preparations have been so constant that it may
not take place within the coming fortnight
But let it begin when it mAy, it cannot be much
longer delayed, aud will prove equally terrible
and successful. Strong in the consciousness Of
having right upon our side, let us be patient
yet little longer. The end will come at last.
Year: 1861

From ten to fifteen car loads of horses arrive
at Washington daily, by railroad. Not less than
two hundred cars loaded with supplies, chiefly
from New York and Philadelphia, reach that
city daily short time ago, one thousand
horses per day was the average Nearly two
miles of cars are said to be on the track at
Washington, waiting to be unloaded of their
freight.
Year: 1861

wAsHIsOTOE NAVY YARD.-The National In
'e'ligeaeer says, s,"One thousand eight hundred men
are the total number of employees at this yard.
All the guns are being riaed. Several are in the
lathes, and more ready to be put through the
same process great many have been finished
At the ordinance foundry they are casting now
nothing but brass Pieces-l2.p Founders generally.
During the past month only twelve guns were
cast. Previous to this time they averaged about
one day. In this foundry they run about one
ton Of iron per day into shot aud shell. Fiftv-
one is the total number of men employed in the
foundry in question. Orders have been recelved
to get out Immediately as large an amount of pro.
jectiles as possible. AT the iron foundry, where
are ninety men employed, they ran on Monday
might and day. about seventeen tens of iron into
shot, shell, grape and canister OF this 4O0
were nine and ten-inch solid shot. During the
last six weeks at this shop they have run abopt
ten tons of iron Per day into the proiecules
specified above.
Year: 1861

Congress having neglected to provide for the
Fertilization and defence of our sea. coast and
lake harbors, the Government asks the Govern
ors of The States to call the attention of their
Legislatures to the subject, and have measures
taken for defense in concert with the general
government, the Inter promising to refund the
cost.


To this end Secretary Seward has addressed
letter to the several Governors urging upon them
the propriety of cooperative action at once.
Year: 1861

GgNIus.-Genius is powerful when IN
vested with the glitter Of afiiuence. Men
willingly pay to fortune that regard which
they owe to merit, and are pleased when
they have an opportunity al once d graft
flying their vanity, and praciicing their
htlfY
Year: 1861

VERY SOUR GRAPHs.-Richmond papers
state that the insurgent troops are very much
disappointed at rumor which has gone forth
among them, to the effect that they will win
ter on the southern bank of the Potomac.


We can conceive their disappointment.
They had been promised comfortable winter
quarters in Philadelphia and New York, and
the poor fellows really believed that they
would get at least as far as Baltimore. They
have already suffered SO much in their pres
ent camps that they lose their temper and
their courage at the idea of passing dreary
winter in the same desolate place.


Let them take courage. They will not do
so. They will probably have very long
winter in the far South, with work enough,
at least, to keep their chiefs fingers warm.
When our navy lands forty or fifty thousand
men on some unexpected point on the Sou'h-
ern coast there will be no longer talk OF
wiAteFing on the Potomac and the poor de-.
luded tools of Davis, Toombs & Company
win be drawn quickly 70 their homes.
Year: 1861

There are those who are wicked enough TO
call this great contest in which we, the peo-
pie ofthe North, are engaged, a Contractors
War'-to insist that, under a thin vail of
patriotism, which shines and gltters upon
the surface, there is a pool of corruption as
rank as treasonous avarice ever compounded.
If this were not common SANDER applied
to all the great operations of Government,
we should give it more heed than we are in-
clined to at present. When our late Presi.
dent, of blessed memory, fitted out military
expedition TO 90 aud regulate the domestic
relations of the Latter-day Saints, the cry
was, that 1t was a contractors war. But
when it was discovered that the clamor all
came from those who had been unsuccessful
in obtaining contracts, its falsity was under
stood, and all excitement upon the subject
subsided at once. Had the contractors, who
are well known to be the most honest, faith.
ful and patriotic of our fellow-c citizens, com.
planned the case would have been different


1t has sometimes been charged that the
head of the War Department was not quite
as honest as he might be; that, in short, some
Of the money of which the Government is
making so heavy an expenditure, falls into
bis pocket. This, we have within few days
been assured upon good authority, is a mis-
take. Mr.. Cameron is-so said our inform
ant-making great deal Of money; but he
makes it legitimately-entirely so. Our in.
formant told us how it was done: it isalways
legitimate to make great deal of money.
We gained the information upon promise
of secresy.


There are others besides the head of the
War Department whom public and private
gossip place upon the list of those who thieve
by patriotism. The reports may not be true
such reports seldom or never are-but things
done in a corner sometimes leak out, and
the parties gain no credit when pay day ar
rives, and the cost of the contractors wal
comes to be liquidated out of the pockets o.
the people.
Year: 1861

The New York Times appears to be of the
opinion that we have now arrived so near
the end of the war, that we can begin to see
through. "The truth is"-it says--''the mill
itary history of the rebellion is drawing to
its close. The impossibility of recovering
Missouri, of gaining Kentucky, of .yetaining
Virginia, are terrible eye,openers to a people
who, the other day, saw none but friends in
those States, ready to fight for them, feed
them, and protect their lines of communica-
ton as their victorious columns pressed for.
ward to the Canada frontier. The soil that
was to be the basis of measureless conquests
in the North, having helped them to no con-
quests, is itself slipping from beneath their
feet. With the blockade and threatening expe-
ditions hanging upon their shores, and the
immediate probability Of hostile advance
along the entire line of the National army-a
line which stretches from Cape Hatteras to
Kansas-the prospects of the rebellion are
obviously, to the last degree, discouraging,
and the contest substantially decided"


1t may be that the Times is correct; but if
it could only lend its spectacles to the public
and teach the rest of mankind to see as it
does, it would perform the part of general
benefactor.


OF course, in determining the proximity Of
the end of the war, much depends upon the
question in what the end is to consist. If ii
is to consist in repelling and keeping back
the Confederate armies from conquering the
North, perhaps it may be set down as having
arrived. If it is to render Washington safe
from capture, the thing, we are daily assured,
is accomplished. But if it is to consist in
reinstating the authority of the Constitution
and laws of the United States over the Sc.
ceded communities, and keeping them in
force there, or of convincing the people Of
the South that their enmity to the Union is
unjust, their prejudices against the people Of
the North unfounded, and that we entertain
for them nothing but feelings of the most
exalted and disinterested friendship, it is to
be feared that it is not quite so near as the
Times supposes.
Year: 1861

ton is good is confirmed by the fact that the
official hospital report, published on the 4th
instant, states the number in hospital at nine
hundred and eleven. Considering the large
number of men in the camps, the proportion
of disease is very small--hardly the average
in the case Of the same number engaged in
civil occupations and possessed Of greater
physical comforts. -g.e e..f 5a.y so if s..-
Year: 1861

HI HNWh NM VI NVT


Messrs. James T. Brady and James Ridgway coun-
e for Captain Tulh and Edward r. Lane and Gordon Hires
the the bark we'd for the discharge OF the ps
oner Hires had been cony,ed Of and Lane had
been tried but Jury disagreed The counsel argued that the
evidence the ia II Lane showed beyond the possibility OF
doubt that the statements Of the witnesses for the prosecution
false. Tho Judge said that In his opinion the evidence
insufficient convict Lane and from the testimony be did
not think ,swas guilty but the Court could not enter Ho
pvoqu the Of the District Attorney. District
Attorney Roosevelt said that 10 view Of the suggestions Of the
Court he would the discharge Of the accused Cap
tain Tu,h Lane then discharged Tho OF Hires
the Judge reserved or consideration until Monday TO he
had power TO suspend sentence
Year: 1861

Our stock Of these articles is very complete, and
has been imported expressly for our trade We shall
continue to receyeby nearly every vessel that arrives
from the Atlantic States, additions to our present
large stock
Year: 1861

THE STATE REFORM SCnooL.-The petition
for change in the present law, regarding
the State Reform School, is being signed by
highly respectable number of citizens, and
we understand will be presented to the Leg
islature in few days The object of the pc
tition is TO have law framed which will Oh
v;ate the objections now entertained by the
Governor against the operations of the
scheme under the present law. Instead oi
three there will be five trustees, and they
will be divided into two classes, the trustees
of the fret class to 60 out of office at the eX-
piraton of one year from the date of cleo
ton, SO that two trustees shall be chosen at
the end Of the first year and three at the end
of the second year. Three shall be perma-
Dent residents Of Yuba county.


Within thirty days after their election
they shall elect President to preside over
their deliberations, and act as Snperintend
ent of the buildings during the progress OF
their erection, and perform such other duties
as may be required The President to re-
ceive specified amount of compensation, if
the Board see fit, for such services a, he may
actually render.


Immediately after the organization Of the
Board, they are TO examine the contract with
the builder, and see if he has complied with
the same. If he has not, then a new contract
may be entered into This part Of the plan,
we think, ought to be closely scrutinized by
the Legislature, in order that full justice may
be done to all parties)


Should new plan be deemed expedient,
we are of the opinion that it should be sub
mitted to the Governor, and, if approved by
him. then, new proposals should be publish
ed, and new contract entered into with
the lowest responsible bidder


We are inclined to think that the present
contract is favorable one for the State, ifi
be carried out, and if it so far has been com
plid with.


What other changes are proposed by the
petitioners, than those we have named we
are not aware of, but we earnestly commend
the whole subject to the attention of the
Legislature, and the Governor, and hope that
it may receive consideration at an carly pc
Rod 1t is a very important matter, and
something should be done with it at once.
Year: 1861

TIE Springfield correspondent of the N. Y.
Tribune says that Mr.. Lincoln returned to
Springfield yesterday. He had a reception
on Thursday evening at the Court House in
Charlestown. On being pressed to make a
speech, he declined in any way to indicate
his future policy, but expressed great gratii-
cation at the hearty unanimity with which
all parties had come forward to welcome him
on his return. He met a committee of citi-
zens from Cincinnati, who came to tender him
the hospitalities of that city, on his way to
Washington. They returned yesterday, bear
ing a letter accepting the invitation
Year: 1861

| REMARKS OF GEN. MCDoUGALL IN THE CAU-


Gus WHICH NOMINATED HIM.-IIe thanked the


members of the Convention cordially for the


great honor conferred upon him. lie was
| glad, from their action, to know that there


was a Democratic party in California he


priced his nomination because it was the
work of Democrats. lie would not discus
politics now, if indeed after what he had


said on another occasion in the other end of


the building, left him anything to say. lie


would, however, remark that he believed the


Senator who should be chosen TO represent


the people of this State in Congress should


be, first of ALL Californian. In that re-


spect he dared hope that his nomination


would be acceptable. He believed he


had made himself acquainted with the large


interests which California has at stake in the
Union. 1t was time she set apart men to
study these great interests. lie would make
their study his aim, and their mastery his
ambition. 1t was for this he undertook to
be candidate. He here would pledge him
self as loyal to the State, and avowed his
faith in ner magnificent destiny. Ours was
the noblest country ever presented to the i'm
agination of man. If elected to the United
States Senate he would try to preserve the
Union intact, would do all that man may do
to maintain it. He would not now discuss
the manner of its maintenance He believed
in the noble sentiment pronounced by Gen.
Jackson; "The Union it must epreserved
1t was the sentiment of a great man. 1t
would be his aim to make that sentiment the
guide of his action and endeavor to carry it
out to its fullest meaning. lie thanked mem
1ers for their attention. During his remarks
le was frequently applauded.
Year: 1861

There is a movement on foot IN
Memphis, says the Appeal, to induce
an issue in this city of notes for sums
o.. any amount from dime to a dol
lar. We may have somethirg to sa,
oil he policy of such proceeding


In the mean time what do our citizens
.hink of the idea Of flooding the cit.
with miniature promises to pay!
Year: 1861

The following substitute for max


ing coffee, is the latest that has come
under our observation. 1t will prove
of very little expense. Take tan
bark, three parts; three old cigar
stumps and a quantity of water mix
well, and boil fifteen minutes in d
dirty coffee pot, and the best judges
cannot tell it from the finest Mocha
Year: 1861

4 Bad .D4sensc.-Ihe Iowa Jour
ual few days ago had an article
showing a pretty bad condition OF
affairs in that State from the loss OF
Southern trade, and general stagna-
ton of business consequent upon the
Lincoln war.
Year: 1861

A letter from Fort Monroe, to gentleman
in this city, relates tie following: I'VE have
made an important discovery and hope this
will bring about a change A few days ago
party Of my co npany went out bathing at
Mil Creek, near Fort Monroe, and there dis.
covered, to their great surprise, an electric
telegraph wire, and on inspection, found it to
connect the Fort With Fox Ill., where it is
said tho enemy is entreuched III strong num-
hers.
Year: 1861

by which they were surrounded, and
to the still greater danger which
threatened the country and the insti-
tutions of our fathers, hurled from
power their unfaithful and trcachcrous
public servants, and called to the ad-
ministration of affairs an honest man
and patriot in the person of Abra-
ham Lincoln. The first movement of
the Traitors and Rebels who possessed
the Government and had ruined the
country, was an attempt to retain po-
session of power by threat to assas-
sinate the newly elected President
Failing in this they proclaimed their
determination to capture the Capitol
and prevent his Inauguration. And
when the people defeated this scheme
also, the Traitors contented them
selves with plundcring the public
Treasury, robbing our Arscnals, steal
ing our Forts, and proclaiming them
selves Traitors in open rebellion
against the Government.


Under these circumstances, Abra-
ham Lincoln takes possession Of the
Presidency and with great prudence,
forbearance and wisdom, seeks so to
administer the Government as to win
back the honest and deceived among
his cOuntrymen to sense of their du-
ty and their interest, leaving to time
and a more auspicious future the pun
ishment Of the leading thieves and
traitors of the late government. His
Inaugural Address was one of peace,
holding forth to all concerned the o.
i've Branch instead of the sword and
the work Of official action goes to
prove that his practice is even more
peaceful than his professions. His
avowal of determination to enforce
the laws, was pronounced by the Dem.
ocratic press to be threat of civil
war and all good men were called
upon to express their horror of such
threats. His practice in the Presiden
cy, however, exhibits a disposition tc
exercise great forbearance towards
the rebels and traitors of the cotton
States, and to concilate and win the
confidence and rouse the patriotism o'
the Border Slave States and behold
these same presses, of which the Jour
nal of Commerce and the New York


Herald are the leaders, Immediately
charge him with cowardice and imbc.
cility !"
Year: 1861

Dear harp OF my fathers--how OF have hung


In raIturous joy on thy life-cheering strain
Alas thy sweet chords all mute, and unstrung-


No mortal shall wake all thy music again
Yet, harp Of my fathers, tho silent each string,


That shed ts soft harmony full on the
Thy frame, though ts crushed in sadness, would bring
To the shrine where the Patriot shed his last tear
To Libertys shrine-where the Death angel stands
Now weaving garland for Freedoms fair brow 1!
Our hearts dearest hopesthe best toll OF our hands
Lost, lost to the world-if she's lost to now
But see from her trance aud her dream she doth rise
Majestic in beauty, the wand she doth wave!
The Life angel wnging her way through the skies,


Shall close the dark porta-our goddess to sayc
As erst in Judea, in stiffness Of night,


The star gazing shepherds saw glory shine
All, all, save one orb, all-refugent with light,


Were lost in the blaze Of that glory divine
The shepherd Of empire, tho midnight be drear,


Sees tho star of hemisphere coursing the sky
o sons Of Patriots! listen, and hear


The bastions Of Tyranny quaking on hight
The SPIRIT oy LIBERTY filings to the air


Her banner Of stars, On the rampire Of light,
Whose battlements frown on the demon Of war,


Below painting hotly for death in the fight,
'Twerc better, brave warrior, tho Painful, to yield


The fortress America reared in her pride,
Than sack f. ir city or shrive red field,


And bury her traitors her heroes bcsidcl
There Sumpter Of yore, bore the banner aloft


As proudly DER that fortress ii waves
De Kalb, noby brave and great Marion oft


Led heroes TO glory--through patriot graves
'Twere better the third time to open the ark,


And send forth the dove on her mission sublime
Beyond the fierce that lashing the barque,


Some olive may grow in that genial cline
There all are not false to our God and our flag


Some rally around the old banner 10 save
Down, do,e,s % The dust the usurpur they'll drag


Then the palm Der the ramparts Of Freedom shall wave
0utrding the tempest, this proud ship Of state


Is nearing the harbor fathers DESCRIBED
Though desert simeon howl at Iibcrtys gate,


And direst sirocco breathe death 'er the tide
Yet steady, o pilot, stand firm at the wheel"


With quadrant, o captain, look well to yon star
The surge spends its fury in iashng the keel,


The gulf vainy swings her dark portal ajar
The God Of the nations, who ruIeth supreme


Who crowneth the mountain and valley with grain
Hath given an Empire for man to redeem


From the heel oppression where Freedom shall reI
Too latc--thou sham autocrat--drunk with brief power


Thy chariot Of State is a numbering van
Thy triumph shall end with the dream Of an hour


The Of Improvement wheels onward with man !
The world Is aivancing--both Emperor, and Gar,
Have given humanity hope DER the wave
'Ts the tramp of the ransomed gives Empire jar


The Nations grand countermareh led BY the brave !!