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Year: 1861

what may be the occasion of this necessity,
and who are to be held responsible for it, be-
longs not to this discussion, and have pur-
posely avoided it. 1t belongs not legitimate
Iy to this subject, even if it is not out of place
upon this theater. The American people
will take cognizance of the fact, and make
the proper inquisition, and pass the deserved
and appropriate judgment it.


Entertaining ihe opinions which have
thus very. briefly expressed in reference to
the amendment now pending before the SEN
ate, shall give my vote so as to retain the
duty upon sugar, as provided in the original
bill of the House of Representatives, which
provides a specific duty of l cent upon the
pound, and is just about equivalent to the
existing ad valorem duty of "a per cent. upon
the cost.
Year: 1861

I hear a shout of merriment,


A laughing boy l see
Two little feet the carpet press,


AID bring the child to me
Two little arms are round my neck,
Two feet upon my knee:
How fall th kisses on my cheek!
How sweet they are to me.
That merry shout no more / hear,
No laughing child ! see;
No little arms are round my neck,
Nor feet upon my knee
Ne kisses drop upon my cheek,


Those lips are sealed TO me,
Dear Lord, how could / give him up
To any but to thee!
Year: 1861

EMPLOYMENT AT THE WEsr.-We observe that the St. Louis Republican denies the report that there is any scarcity of labor at the West. Or. dinarily there is room there for all corners, but the Republican declares that wages are now at the lowest point there and that instead of the enlistments in the army producing scarcity of laborers, they have not yet disposed of the surplus which existed throughout all the agricul tural States of the West and Northwest,
Year: 1861

strength of their resources and purposes in the goodness Eof their cause-and that while we heartily desired them to avert civil war by peaceful separation, we now as heartily pray God to give them a happy issue out of their fiery trial"
Year: 1861

Old Buck requests the South not
to secede while he is President. He
says as an Executive officer he cannot
prevent it. His distress reminds Us OF
a quotation from one of the neglected
poets Of America, in which the poet
addresses some boys who threatened
to upset his apple cart:


BOYS and girls get off behind,


This horse and cart, it are not mine;


And if this horse should chance to start,


He'd kick up h-ll and break the cart"
Year: 1861



 TIE JOURNEY OF LrrE.-The following excellent rules, from the papers of Dr. West are thrown together as general way-marks in the journey of life:

 Never ridicule sacred things, or what others may esteem as such, however absurd they may appear to you. Never resent supposed in jury till you know the views and motives of the author of 1t. On no occasion relate it. Always take the part of an absent person who is censured in company, so far as truth and propriety will allow. Never think worse of another on account of his differing in poiti- cal and religious subjects. Never dispute with man who is more than seventy years of age, nor with any enthusiast. Do not jest so as to wound the feelings of another. Say as little as possible of yourself and of those who are near to you. Never court the favor of the rich, by fattering either their vanities or their vices.
Year: 1861

DANGEROUS FRAUD.-W We copy the follow ing from the Mobile Advertiser and Register, It's remarks are equally applicable to New Orleans:

 It is our duty to warn those who use keros- enc lamps to be careful as to the the article of oil which they purchase. The genuine oil IS becoming scarce, and to supply the demand d most dangerous and criminal fraud is put in practice. Highly inhammabe and explosive fluids are mixed with the oil, and those who purchase such mixture expose their families to great peril, for the kerosene proper being known not to be explosive the bogus article is handled without caution, and the risk of dis astrous consequences is most imminent. Moreover, the lamp not being constructed for the use of ar explosive fluid, places those around it in constant danger while it is in use. No one should purchase so-called kerosene without submitting sample to the test of fire. Certain dealers ill Mobile are now practicing this criminal rascality, and the public should beware.
Year: 1861

C.F The London Review contains an arti- cle on the sinews of war in America from which we extract the follwng:

 AS for the proposed loan, we need scarcely say that the attempt to introduce it into the London ket has proved a failure MT. A. Belmont, the New York agent of the house of Rothschild, has finally taken his departnre convinced of the hopelessness of persuading the English public to lend themselves to the speculation. The bonds of more than one of the Northern States are not worth more in the market of the world than the paper on which they are printed. We tell these people em- phatically that any Enslishman will deserve to lose every farthing of his investment, if he lend it to the North in this struggle. Our Government wisely resolved to keep herself out of the melee, if the unreasonable North will not force us into strife by invading grounds of offence and quarrel.
Year: 1861

New FALL Day GooDs.-Messrs Fletcher d
Hobson have just received large importa-
tion of Dry Goods for the Fall trade, embrace
ing leverything pertaining to the business,
articles far too numerous for us to mention
here. Read their advertisement in this morn
ing's DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1861

Wa stcoats should always button up high.
Shirts wear out with washing. Boots and
shoes are of all articles Of attire, the most
temporary and fugitive. All holes in them
not onlv attract the animadversion of be-
holders, but also sensbly inconvenience the
wearer. There is a point beyond which
their mendine cannot be carried consistently
with ease. Patches gall; and upper eath
ers through otherwise fit to be soied, often
get uncomfortably trodlen ali one side. You
hardly economize in Blnchers by wearing
slippers indoors; YOU must walk for the
state Of your health: and, besides, riding is
more expensive than shoe leather. Glove,
need only be worn in cold weather. They
should be dark A sign that suit Of cloth
es has lasted nearly as long as possible, is
the circumstance that when the wearer ap
plies to take his place at a railway Office, he
clerk gives him third class ticket When
beggars cease to importune You, it is time
to begin to think about purchasing new
apparel. Some respect is due to the
opinion of Others. A black coat which is
so old and threadbare that the sIovenIest
philosopher woud not 90 about in it by day,
will, if only iron smoothed, pass muster with
wonderful success 10y a candle H. ht in the
crowd Of an evening party. A dress coat
will last a careful man through many fash
ions.
Year: 1861

A man who hal won fat turkey at a
rattle, and whose pious wife was very inqnis
itive about his method OF obtaining poultry,
satisfied her scruples at last by the remark
that the shakers gave them to him.
Year: 1861

The most remarkable case on record is
that Of the Yankee soap man, who IN vlo-
lent storm 81 sea, saved himself firm death
by taking a cake Of his own soap aud wash
ing himself ashore.
Year: 1861

1es-Thc question is often askcd--"Why is it
that Dr.. J. G. Young is so successful while other
advertising Physicians are falling from day to
da ?" The answer must be or should be, plainly
apparent TO all: it is, that he understands his
profession. and attends to it; and as his practice
increases his knowledge extends SO close has
been his application to his unprecedented prac,
tice that he is perfect master Of his profession.
and can insure all relief from their trouble; and
while others are daily sinking into the Oblivion
from which they were never fitted to be delivered,
his course is Onward and upward. placing him at


the head Of his arduous profession. SO great has
been bis increase Of business that he has been
obliged to associate with himself two other physi-
clans, both of extended knowledge and practice
We would advise all afflicted to call upon him in
preference to any ether Physician. We are in
formed that he treats entirely on the vegetable
system. and will always warrant perfect cure.
His Office is 75l Clay street. opposite the upper
cOrner OF the PlnZn.
Year: 1861

Although we are opposed to the system Of ad
rertisng. for good and sufficient reasons still w
deem it but justice to say thnt DR.. Young is on
of the most irdusdriousa ipdefntigable yotnr
les of the medical science in the United States
Year: 1861

Art OF DINING AT A IloTEI.-The art of
dining at a hotel is thus told by cores
pondent If you have taste for delicacies
and diplomacy you can slip quarter into
your hand aud then tumble for moment
with the back part of your coat collar; the
quarter some way disappears, and John will
expediate things to you in the most myste-
rious manner But the better plan is to
place your quarter on the table under an
inverted wine glass, place the part OF a
convex lens; John takes IL TO be half dol
lar The eXertiOns that he makes to secure
it are really surprising. You get along
with your fish before your neighbor's soup
plate is removed aud the dessert chases up
chicken with astonishing rapidity. Then at
the close Of the repast, If you are an artist,
and wish to catch The expression of deep
disappointment, just remove the glass. re-
turn the quarter to your pocket, aud walk
off uncoucernedly. John has bad mis- re-
ward, be has enjoyed the pleasures of antc-
ipation; and there is good reason to believe
that they far exceed those of reality. But
never occupy the same seat again.
Year: 1861

DECLARATION OF SOLE TRADER.
~ know all men by these presents that l. MA
RIA BLACKBOARD, of Grass Valley Township County
OF Nevada State of California, the wife of John
BackfOrd, Of the State and County aforesaid, do
hereby declare and make known my intention to
carry on bu sness and trade in my own name aud
on my own account as Sole Trader. in pursuance Of
act of the Legislature of the State of California
entitled act To authorize married women to trans
act business in their name as sole traders pass
ed April 18th 1852. And further declala that the
nature of said business will be Ranching Sheep
raising and keeping boarding house and all her
objects pertaining To the above business. ] fur
ther declare that my said business and trade
will be carried ON and transacted in said town
ship and county; and from the date Of these pres
ents will be individually responsible in my own
name for all debts contracted by in my said bus
mess and trade: and further declare that the
amount Of capital invested in said trade and business
does not exceed five thousand dollars.


~ In testimony weereof have hereunto set
Seal my hand aud seal this Sth day of Decem-
~ Der, a. D. 1850. hor


MARIA Y BLACKBOARD.


mark.


Attest, F. W. SMITH.


State of California County and Township of Neva-
da. On this Sth day of December A. D. 1860, before
me, F. W. SMITH, Justice of the Peace in and for said
county, personally appeared Maria Biackford, whose
name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration
party thereto. personally known to me to be the
same person described in and who executed the
foregoing declaration and the said Maria Blaekford
wife OF John BackiOrd, having been by me first made
acquainted with the contents Of said declaration ac
knowledged to me on examination apart from and
without the hearing other husband, that she e1ecu-
ted the same freely and voluntarily without fear or
compulsiOn OF under influence of her said husband
and that she does not wish to retract the execution
Of the same.


Given under my hand this sth day Of December,
1860. f.. W. SMITH. J.P..


dc4w-* Nevada Township.
Year: 1861

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN the undersigned will apply to the Board ofsu.
peryisors of Nevada County At the next regular meet
ing. or as soon thereafter as hearing can be had
for renewal of License to keep Toll Bridge at the
place known as Illinois Bar.


December 18th 1860.


decl3-4w COOPER FLAUGllER.
Year: 1861

EXTREMELY PRoBABLE.-TheNe New Orleans
Crescent says that it feels entirely confident
that there will be more economy in the South
ern Confederacy, and less plundering and pill
fering by the Government officials than in the
old Union. Taking into consideration that this
Southern Confederacy was set on foot and or
ganized by the same men who plundered Uncle
Sans treasury, and for years have been rioting
in Federal pTunder and official corruption, the
statement is very cool to say the least of it.
Year: 1861

ACCIDENTALLY SHoT.-A Mrs. Green, en-
ployed as a chambermaid at hotel in Port
Wine, Sierra county, was shot on Sunday last
by the accidental discharge of pistol. Accor-
adjusting a bed, pistol that had been left un-
der the pillow, fell on the floor and one barrel
was discharged. The ball took effect in the left
leg short distance above the knee and passed
up into the hip.
Year: 1861

am happy to be able to inform you that a
Union Club was formed last evening. 1t will,
of course, as a matter of necessity, be secret
society for the present. A large number were
present, and each handed to the chairman a list
of the names for which he was responsible.
They were sworn at the first oportunity to rem
der aid to the only Government they acknowl-
edge. l shall forward to you, and also to the
Government, the constitution of this society. 1t
comprises some good New Workers, New En-
Germans; and not an inconsiderable portion of
them are doing duty upon the Palmetto
Islands.
Year: 1861

At the last General Meeting Of the Committee, the
following resolution was unanimously adopted:


Resolved, That proxies can be conferred only upon
members Of the State Central Democratic Committee
Year: 1861

~- The Louisville Democrat says that In
Butler county, Kentucky-which is In the
southern part Of the State, close On the Ten
uessee 1ine-there was cast tha most over
Hhe1mlng vote for the Union Of any county
In the State Southern Kentucky has beaten
Louisville. They are in sight Of the armed
mob Of Tennessee, Jet strong for the Federal
Government
Year: 1861

We are advised Of number Of projects
which parties are now industriously en-
gagged in engineering through the Lessisla-
tnre, the object of which is 10 enrich a few
speculators at the expense Of the taS-paY-
ers of Chicago. Amongthc number is one
for filling up the basin in front Of Michigan
avenue for the purpose Of converting the
area into 4 Park Tic policy Of making
such change in the locality VIC are not
now disposed to discuss. 4 diversity Of
opinion prevails among our citizens on that
subject. Eut there is perfect unanimity
among them against undertaking, at the
present time, any great public work,
whereby the debt and taxes of the city will
be increased. We desire tho Legislature
to understand this fact distinctly; and VIC
assure them that they will deserve and re.
eeiye the thanks Of the people Of Chicago,
If they will summarily reject any and eve
r. bill that may be brought before them
having this end in view
Year: 1861

COLLECTING TA1Es.-Thc City Collector is
busily calling in delinquent and tardy tax-ray-
cas. We have not as yet heard Of but few
Disunionists who resist coercion In this mat
ter, though the new doctrine Of Secession is
expanding SO rapidly that no one can tell
where it will end, and there may come to be
many like our correspondent who defines his
position III another column.
Year: 1861

In this county you have many nat
ural advantages new country-its
soil has not been compelled to yield
it's most cherished treasures for CEN
turies at the command of man, but in
virgin purity it is now offered to the
plow and proposes for the remainder
Year: 1861

Persons whose constitutions have become i'm
paired the injudicious use of Mercury, will find
these medicines perfect cure, they never fail to
eradicate from the system all the effects of
ry, infinitely sooner than the most powerful pre-
mar of
Year: 1861

Some of the journals in the South are ask
ing, if the experiment of Republican form
of Government is not a failure and if it
would not be we'll to frame a Southern Con-
federacy on plan altogether different from
that of the present Federal Constitution. To
those who say that the interests of the fifteen
Southern States are Homogeneous, they re-
ply that, ct the time the Union was formed,
twelve out of the thirteen of the States were
slaveholding; and, had it not been for the
cotton gin, there would not, they say, in all
probability, have been at this day an African
slave in all North America.


Certain of the secession jaurnals tmow out
feelers among the people, by way of such as
sertions as these, that some very intelligent
citizens" think it would be wise to establish
hereditary constitutional monarchy.


Suggestions are also made that, perhaps,
it would be good idea to have a republic
whose Executive should be elected for ife--a
government in which free suffrage should be
greatly restricted Senators elected for life,
and Assemblymen elected for long period


This, Of course, would be but stepping
stone to monarchy, but we are not surprised
to see it advocated by those who hold the ex-
isting Government to be so arcca thing
as a mere league between independent SOW
ereignties.


The Confederacy of the Gulf States if in
deed it be formed, will not long remain a
Confederacy. 1t must soon be consolidated
into power which can concentrate its forces
for conquest. 1t must have area else slavery
will be stifled to death within its borders,
and, it can make no series of conquest with
out that unity of opinion and instantaneous
ness which never occur, where various equal
and Independent sovereigns are to be con-
suited, or, indeed, where the voice of imme.
date representatives, elected upon pending
issues, is to be considered.


1t is proof positive to our mind, when We
see such movements as are now going on
among the radicals Of the South, that there
is deep rooted dissatisfaction with Republi
cansm itself-we don't mean in the present
partisan sense-aEd that the Secessionists per
Sc are at heart oligarchiss or monarchists
Year: 1861

GETTING EvEN-A good looking bachelor,
who for some years has been 'scuddiug under
bare poles" has lately been courting a widow
at Red Dog the latter having beautiful set
of teeth, manufactured by the dentist. 1t
appears. says the Nevada Democrat, that the
twain had a misunderstanding a day or two
ago, and as the bachelor was about to alb
ruptly take his leave, the widow told him
there was n dead mule on his road, and ad-
vised him to take along a pair of shears and
cut off enough of the name to make a cover
ing for his bald pate. He told her he would
do So and at the same time would take a
mallet and punch and knock out new set of


teeth for her.
Year: 1861

TnE LEcruRE.-The Presbyterian Church,
last evening, was crowded with the intellect,
beauty and fashion of the city, to hear the
lecture of Rev. Thos Starr King, on Socrates
1t was genial and most beautiful tribute to
the character of that great philosopher and
conveyed by the lecturer. that the grand old
Interrogator of Athens seemed almost liv-
ing presence in the midst. There was much
in the lecture that was amusing and various
passages sparkled with wit and humor. 1t
was highly provocative of laughter, for in
stance. to hear the old splay-footed, pug
nosed, scraggy limbed philosopher described
as an embodied joke" and the more relish
sble it was for the reverential sentiment
which mingled with the jest


The closing portion of the lecture was ex-
cee6fTgly fine. teeming with thought and
glowing with pathos that touched the high
er and holer nature of every listener. In so
hastily written and SO brief notice ne this,
We cannot, of course, pretend to give an ad-
equate idea of the beauty and power of such
a discourse. We can only say that those
who have not heard it should embrace the
earliest opportunity to do so, if they have to
travel some distance for the purpose.


Mr.. King will lecture again, on Friday
evening his subject being the Character OF
Washington. He had intended to deliver
his most admirable lecture on Books and
Reading" and we are almost inclined to re-
gret the change in his purpose, but so many
persons desired to hear him upon Washing
ton. that he very kindly deferred to their
will and, doubtless, it is by no means dis
agreeable task to Mr.. King, at time like
this, to pay the tribute of his genius to the
memory of the Father OF his Country. 1t
will certainly be tribute fully equal to the
theme and the occasion.
Year: 1861

EDITOR DEMOCRAT In common with the
high-toned Southern gentry who, yesterday,
through the columns of the Express, express
ed their Indignation at that blue belied
parson who dared to apostrophize the FLAG
OF OUR UNION, feel outraged. What right
WASHINGTON would have put down treason
and traitors? What does he know about q
man born as far South as the Potomac
Don't we Southern chaps from Oberlin and
further North know that every Southern man
is a secessionist, excepting of course every
man who is not Don't we Connecticut
&outhrons who have not yet shaken the oats
which we used to sell for shoe pegs, out of
our trowsers' pockets, know that Southern
born men have placed their honor in our
keeping? OF course they have; and We,
therefore, in their name, protest against all
complimentary mention, much less penegyric
of the UNION. Have we not been taught to
believe that it is League with Death-a
covenant with Hell2" Now that that dis
tinguished Southern Yankee r. Barnwe
| Rhett has adopted the same creed, must we
not as true men, of the Oberlin-South stripe.
bring all our chivalry to bear against it ?
Nothing less can be expected of US; and we
therefore throw down the gauntlet and defy
all comers who dare to say or sing anything
about the enforcement of The Constitution,
the union of hearts. hands. lands, the Star
Spangled Banner, or any other such obsolete
twaddle. Away with lackadaisical parsons
who talk of national memories and endeavor
to arouse the fires of patriotism in the breasts
ofall They commit crime against nature a!


Yours, Indignantly, OBERLIN rel
Year: 1861

With this day closes the vile reign of the
only thoroughly corrupt administration that
has vet held executive power. Its history
should bc sealed book, only to be opened
on some possible occasion in the future when
some President of the Republic shall have
trauscressed the bounds of public decency,
and lnonstrous comparison shall be needed
TO illustrate his depravity- Let the rising
Of degradation to which it was possible for
Il man to descend who had filed public sta
ton abroad, and who had reached the high
est post Of honor at home. Let his Presi-
DENTAL career be excluded from their studies
with as much care as we would exclude an
obscene book, or the "life' Of some notorious
felon, fearful that the mans imagination
might retain the impressions of childhood.
let ii be hoped that bribery, treachery and
fraud (shau We say treason y have had theit
hst and last Presidential practitioner an(
that the Office of American President may
again become a synonym of public respecta
biity and the merited reward Of public an'
private worth. As for the wretched com
pound of all public vices who this day re
tires forever from public trust let him for t
brief space enjoy the spectacle of anarchy
which his maleyolence has created, and theI
90 down


"To the vile dust from whence be sprung,


Unwept unhonored and uusung!"