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Year: 1860

To both houses of tile legislature that ne
are determined to pay no tares on real estate
unless sales for taxes are made to conveV a
Ualid and good title, and the holders of larqe
real estate are made to pay their taxes. We
have paid our taxes every year in good faith
but find that the more wealthy do not pay,
and that large share of the money ,ce pay
is foolishly squandered or stolen by the pub
lie officers. We, therefore, think it is useless
for us to try to support the government any
longer without some reformation. We, there
fore, recommend that laws he Immediately
passed to effectually remedy the above evils
and that it may be made capital oifense to
all detaulting treasCrerers: and we also re.
commend that the State Constitution be so
amended that the legislature shall meet only
once in five years, by which the people will
save annually about one million of dollars in
the way of legislative expenses and thieving
bills. Wishing the State to get out of debt,
these are our views,


MANY FARMERS AND CITIZENS.
Year: 1860

MINING AT Crescent CITY.-The Crescent
City Herald says that good prospects have
been found in the sand beach near that place
1t adds: "The fact of the beach being rich
with gold for hundreds of miles, is known to
every one who has visited the beach and
used the pan; and all that is required and for
which so much labor and means have been
expended by theoretical miners, is the proper
machinery for separating the gold from the
sand, which, up to the present time, has not
been produced"
Year: 1860

EMIGRATION IN lS59-During the year
1852 seventy nine thousand three hundred
twenty two emigrants arrived in New York
This number is seven hundred and thirty
three greater than the arrivals in 1858.
Year: 1860

The gallant seventh Regiment of this city
does not wait for a declaration of war against
the enemy In order to do remarkable things
ana WIN the appreciation of the public at large.
teaee I: not faithful to its glory. Everything
1t does IS with an eye of preparation for the
rough business of actual military duty in the
neid, and In this it is a model on which our
other companies may very properly and profit
ably mould themselves. Having attained a
wonderful degree of precision in drill move
ments, it is now going in for ''the gymnastic
step'-no less. In this they seem to have
Just idea of what the modern field of battle re-
quires. That exact way of stepping altogether
on the parade grounds is not a suitable prepa.
ration for the rough and rapid movements Of
men marching under fire or advancing to
charge. All that little pedantry is knock ed on
me head where the bullets are flying. At
suca time the most perfect exercise would be
that which would teach the platoons to race
oompactly from one part Of the field to the
other-formipg or fghting-and recover them
selves If thrown into confusion. Soldiers in
such cases should move like horses, stepping
and tramping naturally and freely-a styie Of
action always exemplifed by the Zouaves and
turcos, who charge something in the manner
Of rabble, but are at the same time strictly
educated to form on the colors and fall into
their proper places. For the future il seems
almost certain that the business of men in the
held, where they do not fight the terrible long
range guns, VIII be to close as fast as possible
and use the bayonet instead of the>riAe barrel


Under such circumstances, vigorous con-
dltiOn of the soldier would be more to the pur-
pose than precision of aim or movement.
And so he gallant Seventh seems to think, for
1t Is now about to invigorate its muscles in a
gymnasium, which is to be built in LAFAYETTE
Place Although the men of the Second com


psny practice athletics Of the Zouaye drill
going through their exercises every week, in
presence Of u number of friends and admirers.
There IS great deal of good sense and manli-
ness In this, and the example promises to be
initiated. In time, no doubt our other COM
psnies and regiments will have their exercise
rooRs with all fitting apparatus of muscular
development. We are happy to see that the
master gymnast of the Seventh Regiment, who
superlntended the sports, is named Brady-a
name which we recognize and claim with
PRIDE as belonging to a race never behind
hand in anything that had reference to mill
taTy genius and the brilliant profession of the
soldier. 1t is stated that he is to be the chief
Of the new gymnasium.


This is good beginning. When once our
citizen soldiery begin to adopt such a healthful
aud animating fashion they will 90 ahead with
II, till 1t becomes the general order and rule of
our vast volunteer armament. What does our
69th say to all this ?-Neac York Irish Ne,ys
Year: 1860

NorE-This opinion is printed by one Of
the contestants before the Committee, for the
following reason: Arguments Of counsel on
both sides were heard by the Committee, and
one Of those arguments, not adopted by the
majority, was incorporated into the report Of
the minority Of that Committee and thus ha 3
been ordered published by the House; while
the report of the majority, adopting the con-
clusion of the following opinions, did not in
corporate it in their report, and thus it fails
to he published, like the other, by order Of the
House.
Year: 1860

In the District Court of the Ninth Judicial Dis


trict, of the State Of California, in and for the


County of Shasta.


Samuel j. Griffith VS.. Mary sophta


Griffith.


Action brought in the District Court of the
Ninth Judicial District of the State of Califor-
MIA, in and for the County of Shasta, and the
complaint filed in said County of Shasta. in
the office of the Clerk of said District Court
The People Of the State Of California send qreetinq
TO MARY SOPHIA GRIFFITH, defendant:
VOU are hereby required to appear in an ac-
Il tion brought against you by the above
named Plaintiff in the District Court of the 9th
Judicial District of the State of California, in
and for the County ofShasta, and to answer the
complaint filed therein, IA copy of which ac-
companies this Summons) within ten davs. lex
elusive of the day of service,) after the service
on you of this summons-if served within this
County; or, if served ont of this County. but
within this Judicial District within twenty days;
or if served out of said District, then within for
ty days-or judgment by default will be taken
against you according to she prayer of said Com
pIafnt.


The said action is brought to obtain decree
of divorce from the bonds of matrimony now
existing between you and plaintiff, upon the
ground of wilful desertion and cruel treatment,
all of which will more fully appear by reference
to the complaint, copy OF which is hereto at
tached


Andyou are hereby notified, that if you fail to
appear and answer the said Complaint as above
required, the said Plaintiff will apply to the
Court for decree, in conformity with the pray
er OF said Complaint.


Given under my hand and the Seal of this


District Court of the 9th Judicial District, Of


the State of California, in and for the County


of Shasta, this 25th day of September, in the


year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hun
dred and Sixty.


JOHN ANDERSON,
Clerk
Year: 1860

No critic has written of Macoulay who
possessed sufficient kecnness of analytic
insight, or clear broad sweep of thought.
enough TO do him justice; but VIXEN such
critic does write, we venture to prophesy
that the poems will be held as correct out
line paintings of


..rhe mans mind in its sntirety.o
Year: 1860

fairy-like caves in the drifts what flowers OF
rare finish and pendants Of pearls on the trees


Have you quite forgotten the footprints we
used to find in the damp snow; as delicate,
some Of them, as love-letter the mysterious
paths down to the brook or by the old hollow
tree, that we used to wonder over and set
figure fours" by, if perchauce we might catch
the makers thereof Have you quite forgot
ten how sorry you were for the snow birds
that futtered among the flakes, and seemed
tossing and lost in the storm?


And there in the midst ofthat winter, Christ
mas was set, that made the Thanksgiving last
all through the night OF the year, and what
wonder the stars and the fres burned more
brightly therefore Christmas with its gifts
and its cheer its carol and its charm ever
green branch, and its bright morning dreams
Christmas, when there we're prints upon tho
chimney tops, if we we're only there to sec
them, where Santa Cluas set his foot as Tho
clock struck twelve Christmas, when stock
ings were suspended by hearth and by pillow
all over the land stockings silken and white
stockings homely and blue, and even the littl
red sock with hole in the toe. Blessed for
ever be Bethlehems star
Year: 1860

The Hearthstone Club of New York,
which we have had occasion to mention sew
eral times. IS evidently sensible institution.
1t is a meeting Of women who have house
holds TO superintend, or expect to have here
after, to discuss all matters pertaining to the
economies and comforts of home and the i'm
provement Of social life. Why should not
women have their clubs as well as men; or
better still. why should not the men and wo-
men club together for conversation upon mat
ters of social interest and improvement 1t
would be infinitely more useful than the gos-
sip of the familiar call or the more formal
small talk of the party


At late meeting Of tho Hearthstone Club
the subject Of household furniture was touch
cd upon, and the general opinion of the wo-
men seemed to be that our houses are furnish
/ ed too expensively and at the same time in
shockingly bad taste. We agree with the
New York women on this point We run to
-howy furniture in this country, to an extent
/ that is considered gaudy almost TO barbarsm
by people of good taste in other countries.
We have gay carpets and hrght-hued uphols-
terry, and then we shut out the air and sun
light to keep them from fading, and taboo
1.-THE best rooms" to the children, that the
delicate colors may not get soied or the fra
gile structures broken.


This bad taste prevails from the highest to
the lowest ranks in society. The country
girl. whose wedding outfit amounts to only
two or three hundred dollars, will devote hall
or two-thirds Of the sum to the furniture OF
the parlor, to be opened only on rare occa-
sious. aud will be satisfied with inconvenient
and shabby arrangements in tho common
rooms The whole comfort of domestic life,
so far as it consists in the beauty and conven-
fence Of the house, is sacrificed to the adorn-
ment of "the best room How much bet
ter to furnish the whole house neatly and
with good TASTE and to devote what is usu-
ally spent for gaudy ornaments to few cheer.
full pictures for the walls to occupy the
pleasantest rooms. and to have the whole
house so uniformly cheerful that guests may
be allowed the liberty Of the house and fee
at home in any part of it to let in the quick
cning sunshine, and in summer time the fresh
air, laden with the fragrance of the vines that
creep over the windows. More than half the
families Of New England, We suppose, live II
dingy and melancholy back rooms, keeping
the pleasantest apartments in the house in o
state of suppressed spendol for the reception
Of occasional callars, or an annual party.
With these rooms the children have no home
associations and rather dread to enter them
than otherwise. lest they may damage or tar
nish something. There is a great deal Of
traditional folly in our social life after all oui
sef-sutiicient praise of the wisdom and re.
finement of the age we live in. The women
should take up these matters, and give then
a radical overhauling, with the view Of get.
ting the greatest amount Of comfort and i'm
provement out of our home life Springfield
Republican.
Year: 1860

RAILRoAs SuRyEv-Mr. Elliott
the engineer employed to survey a
railroad route from this city to Aul.
burn, completed the field work
and returned here on Saturday last
He is now industriously engaged with
his assistant. Mr. Ostrom, in getting
mp a profile map of the line Of survey,
and writing his report which will be
shortly forthcoming.


Mr.. Elliott has succeeded far be-
yond his most sanguine aaticipations
in finding a most excellent route for
railroad. considering the nature of
the country There is no serious OBJ
staclc to surmount on the whole line.
A grade not to exceed eighty feet TO
the mile in any place has been estab-
lished. The excavations and filings
are slight compared with those on
many railroads in the E astern States
The road from Boston to Portland
runs over moro unfavorable ground,
and that from Concord to Franconia
is infinitely worse.


BY the line of survey, but about
twelve miles of road will be in this
county. The route runs so az to in
terest upper Placer greatly in its cor
struction. Thus Nevada ard Placer
may be counted as almost unanim ous
in favor of building the road, while
we learn that the northern part of
Ell Dorado istaking considerable in
terest in it.


As soon as the report of Mr.. Elliott
is published it will be found advisa
bic we are certain. to take immediate
steps to organize a company in CON
nection with the company underta-
king the work between Auburn and
Folsom, and proceed TO an earnest cf-
fort in behalf Of the railroad connec-
ton with the cities below, so necess-
ary to the development of this section
ofthe State.


The road between Auburn and
Folsom will be constructed at an ear
ly date. The contract for building
it, it is reported. will shortly be let.
By timelr action on the part Of our
citizens the whole road from Nevada
to Folsom may be placed under the
supervision of one company and that
part between Auburn and Folsom let
as section Of the whole. This
would be desirable as obviating the
difficulty which might arise, of form :
ing a connection at Auburn should
the road be built under the auspices
of two distinct companies.
Year: 1860

- Wilson Flint publishes a card
in the San Francisco Times, saying
that he intends supporting the nomi-
nee of the Chicago Convention who
ever he may be, that he is in favor of
the doctrine of popular sovereignty,
but as tn ere is no party to stand by
it, he prefers to unite with the party
advocating congressional prohibition
of slavery, that the South threatens
to dissolve the Union and he prefers
not to leave the inheritance Of that
danger to his children, but to see the
crisis met in his own day and set
tied. Mr.. Flint declines being can
didate for Chicago.
Year: 1860

The PORE AND THE CONGRESS.-
We have received from Henry Payot
the publisher through Henry Muller,
Of Commercial street, who has them
for sale, pamphlet copy Of the eele-
brated articles which we believe, orig
inelly appeared in the AIoniteur, on
the settlement ofth Italian question.
The document is said by some to have
como from the pen of the Emperor
of,the French himself. At least it is
supposed to reflect his opinions on the
delicate question of the proper power
TO be exercised in the Italian States
by the Holy See. The argument of
the pamphlet is weA made and would
do credit to crowned head. 1t has
created no little sensation in the
courts of Europe, and its influence has
not yet reached its limit.


The object of the argument is to
show that the temporal power of the
Pope should be restrained to very
contracted bounds; that the Pope
should reign at Rome with a limited
territory /; that his government should
be paternal, rather pontiiieate than
a dictatorship; that he should rather
raise his hand to bless than strike.
The position is taken that Ronnagna
should not be restored TO the tempor-
nj power cf the Holy See, and it rs
proven that it is next to impossible.
The people are opposed to it. The
policy of maintaining an odious gov
ernment by foreign Intervention is bad
and must fail. France cannot con-
sent to he the instrument Of force.
She cannot consent that Austria
should be the instrument without a
shameful abandonment Of the glories
of Magenta and SnIfeiino. Austria's
dominion in Italy is pronounced at an
end. The point arrived at is, Il at all
Europe assembled IN Congress should
settle all questions touching a repair
tition of territory and The revision of
treaties. The author lays down the
proposition that he States of the
Church are not indivisahle, but that
they can be contracted IL territory
by Congress, AS they have been en-
larged and contracted by Congresses
befcre.


The document is exceedingly we'll
written. Its language is moderate
yet forcible, and its doctrines plaus>
able il not absolutely indisputable.
Year: 1860

The editor of the Golden Era states
that while Witnessing the hanging of
the fellow in this city, for stealing a
cheap watch, three slugs were taken
from lis own pocket.


Wonder if despair atthe loss did
not drive him to the desperation of ed
iting a newspaper,'as the most NAL ig-
nant form Of suicide.
Year: 1860

TEETH! TEETH !! DIR. Levason comes
ical Dentist of long established reputation for
professional skill. His specimens of work will
compare with those of any other dentist what
ever in natural appearance, fitness and beauty
of finish, while in all surgical dentistry his
mode of operating commends itself for its free
dom from pain and security against accident.


Office over A, Block 4 Co.
Year: 1860

Pay Up.-We understand that a
considerable part of the subscription
to defray the expense of railroad
survey to Auburn still remains un-
paid, and that the failure of Grass
Valley to "shell out" the amount cal
culated upon to accomplish the sur
vey, leaves the engineer somewhat in
arrears even if the amount subscribed
in this city is all paid in.


The surveying party did nobly,
performing a great deal of hard labor,
which should be compensated, The
fact being now established beyond
a peradventure that we are accessa-
BILE by railroad, should make us all
feel rich enough to pay for demon
strating it.
Year: 1860

Disunion San Francisco Ma
fional promulgates the opinion that
the Inauguration of a Republican
President should be resisted by force,
and that California should and will
sustain the South in such resistance.


The National comes just as near
speaking the sentiments of the peo-
pie of ofCalifornia in this matter, AS 1t
did the voice of its party in advoca-
ting the election of b. f. Washington
to the late Senatorship.
Year: 1860

Singular CustOm.-The Honolulu
Adrertiser says it was formerly the
custom and still is to some extent to
dispose of the bodies of the chiefs of
the Sandwich Islands in the follow.
ing manner: The principal bones of
the body were taken out scraped
clean and committed to the sacred
keeping of a relative or near friend of
the deceased. The remainder of the
body was taken out to sea in canoe,
and under a guiding star committed
to the deep.


Sume years since, queen of unpro-
nouncable name, embrace Christian
ity, and ordered the sacred relies of
her ancestors to be destroyed and bod
les to be buried after the civilized
fashion. So strong, however, is the
old custom rooted in the prejudices
of the people that in spite of the laws
of the realm, the sepulchres of chiefs
are said to present "A beggarly account
of empty boxes" to this day.
Year: 1860

Rigzt-Petitions are in circula-
tion and being numerously signed by
all classes, praying the Legislature,
to enact law authorizing the coun-
ty of Nevada 20 loan her credit for
the purpose of aiding the construction
of railroad from this city to Folsom.
The railroad is necessity and the
Legislature will be direlict in its duty,
if it does not allow the citizens of this
county to express their minds on the
proposed loan. Certainly no repre-
sentative from Nevada in either
branch of the Legislature will refuse
to advocate this right of the people.
Year: 1860

Peculiar English View of American De-


mOcracy--Public Opinion n Tyraut in the


United States. .....


The following we clip from an article in
the London Dispatch, which endeavors to
show that persons living under Monarchy
are freer than those residing in a Republic;


In the United States the rights of the pri-
vate subject are completely merged in the
interests of the community. He has no
rights as private citizen. All the privileges
he possesses are concessions by the whole of
his millionth share of the common stock of
power. Lynch overrules law wherever law
differs from Lynch. IL is not enough that
Jury finds man innocent; he must be ac-
Quilted by public opinion, or certainly he
will be sentenced. 1t is not even enough
that the citizen holds property by the most
certain legal title. If the tenure be incon-
venient to the majority, as in the case of
seigneuries of New York and Massachusetts,
the State Marshal will be shot down in de-
Tending him in possession, and it will be i'm
possible to induce q jury to pronounce ver-
dict against his assassins.


The most eternal truths, the best settled
principles of virtue, must qualify themselves
to the taste of the many headed monster.
You must say nothing against slavery, else
you will be tabooed in the East, and tarred
and feathered in the South. You must say
nothing against the United States or against
republicanism, if you would escape general
prescription. The individual is nothing
society is all in all. Mankind are there re-
duced to an uniform rank and file that
merges the full private in his regiment
that tolerates no idiosyncracy-th has nc
| charity for what is congenial. Every mar
| is drilled out of the awkward squad of pc
| culiar manner, into discipline of the entire
mass of society. He is a cypher that ha
value and denomination only when placed
beside the units of society at large.
Year: 1860

A CHEMICAL FACT Nor GENERALLY KNOWN.
The distinguished German chemist, Hauer,
publishes fact not generally known. He
states that when broken crystal is placed
in a solution of an isomorphous salt it quickly
RECEIVERS its original form; but when a crys-
tai is cut so as to give faces belonging to
combinations of the same crystalline system,
only these new faces are developed. crys-
tai with artificial faces, submitted to the
action of solution of an isomorphous salt,
acts exactly like natural crystal. In this
way may be produced at will any crystalline
combinations whatever,
Year: 1860

JUST DEFINITION OF THE TERM SPLURGE.
The Rev. DR.. Cox has given the following,
which we'll defines the term by illustrations


The word 'splurge" is coinage probably
not yet in any dictionary, yet meaning, as if
a great rock of the mountain disintegrated
from its summit, should rush and bound,
portentous and avalanched, into sylvan
lake at its foot there maEng SnupFSSGpiOqs
through the parted and the frightened
waves, and after dashing the spray in all
directions, burying itself in forgotten repose,
undergo congenial mud at the bottom; so
gone forever from sight, from thought, from
upper air, and all the ways of men, thus
meaning-the low aim of making a consider
able sensation at least once in society.
Year: 1860

SUICIDE IN JAPAN REDUCED TO SCIENCE.
Committing suicide has been reduced to a
science in Japan. Enthusiasts, when weary
of life, always noted down all such messages
in books carried for the purpose, they To-
Gated their wallets with aims, and armed
themselves with sharp scythe to clear the
road of the many thorns and briars said to
impede the paths of Paradise. Thus equip
ped, the poor creatures would embark on a
deep lake in small canoe; padding out a
distance, they attached heavy weights to
their bodies, and sprang into the water,
while their admiring fraternity calmly re-
garded them as men much to be envied, and
took care that the canoe should be burned
with FIRE, as vessel too sacred to be ever
defled by being applied to less noble pur-
noses.
Year: 1860

REMARKABLE ADULTERATIoN OF DRUGS.
At recent Convention of Apothecaries, in
the City of New York, one of the commit
tees reported that frauds in medicines are
carried on in this country to an extent Of
which the public can form no conception,
and that the amount of mischief caused
thereby is enormous and appalling. 1t i;
said that substances sometimes innocuous
at others almost deadly in their nature, are
mixed with various medicines, to improve
their appearance, increase their quantity, OF
in some way render them more saleable OF
more profitable,