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Year: 1862

you say you have devoted yourself to the
profession Of law. It is a noble profession
The common law as contradistinguished from
statute law, has its deep foundation in Morals
Some base materials have been wrought iato
it 10y rude hands, during long period Of dark
ness and semi barbarism; but it is still noble
structure. The questions, which its true High
Priests perpetually ask, are what is equitable
what is JUST what is RIGHT


"Practicing your profession, always seek foI
principles and make precedeats bend TO them
never the reverse. Never espouse the wrong
side oi a case knowingly; and if unwittingly
you find yourself on the wrong side, leap out
Of it as quick as you would jump out of vat
of boiling birthstone, SHOULD you accidentally
fall into one. 1t is utterly amazing TO me bow
a man can triHe with his own mind. If you
destroy the celestial temper Of that ms runent
can you ever expect to restore its keenness
again? It is impossible! What would you
think Of poor barber, who should batter the
edge of his razor against flint as preparatory
to shaving? Well, that would be wisdom
wisdom ten times distiled-compared with


The man who would wear off the edge of his
conscience against known error. To tell a
single lie is held dishouorabl ble-and what is
known SOpl'strI but ssries of Aes-a pro-
c ,ssion Of them-which the false reasoner mar
shais and marches to their vile work. l would
not have my name 60 down in the law books
attached TO any argument, which any fair
minded man could believe to have been insin-
ceIe. If a bad man wants such work done
he shall not have my soul to do it with


This advice would seem invaluable to all
lawyers, and should not be unheeled by any
except such as aim 10 succeed by base tricke
ry and dishonesty. If bad man with a dis
honest case. asks the services of an Attorney
as soon as he understands its true nature, he
should promptly and unhesitatingy inform
him that be ought not to succeed, ard that he
cannot by honest means; and candidly advise
him to approach his opponent courteously and
adjust the difficulty in fairness al d honesty
This would be far more creditable than to ad-
wise the prosecution of an uni lSt claim, often
sustaiuable only by falsehood and perjury
which by sophistry, and trickery, and falsely
asserting and pretending to believe what HI
knotos 10 be false, might be so managed as tt
wheedie Jury to the finding of an unjus
verdict. TRUTH.
Year: 1862

Family intimacy should never make broth
ers and sisters forget TO be polite and sympa-
tbizing to each other. Those who contract
thoughtless and rude habits toward the mem
hers of their own family, viii be rude and
thoughtless TO all the world. But let the
family intercourse be true, leader and afec-
tiouate, and the manners Of all uniformly gen
tie and considerate, and the members of the
family thus trained viii carry into the world
and society the habits Of their childhood
They will require in their associates similar
qualities, they will not be satisfied without
mutual esteem, and the cultivation of theil
hest affections; and their own character viii
he sustained by that faith in goodness which
belongs TO mind exercised in pure and higt
thoughts.
Year: 1862

AN UNCLE ON HIS NEPHEw.-In the last
number of the Danville ReYiew, Rev. DR..
Breckenridge thus expresses his opinion OF
his nephew, John c.. Breckenridge:


The conquest of bis own state by arms was
one of the points in this attrocious scheme, to
the defense of which the Kentucky senator
lent himself, at Washington, in his vehement
opposition to the Federal administration; and
in the support OF which, on his return to the
state in August, 1861, the conspirator be-
came a refugee and the refugee general, an
invader Of the land to whose defense he owed
every drop Of his blood. His expulsion, as a
traitor to the nation, from the Senate Of the
United States, few months later, was the
Just and natural result. He has not even the
poor excuse that he was loyal to Kentucky
lie was traitor 60 her also, and that with
treason aggravated almost beyond historic ex-
ample and destitute of every pretext ever
plead by traitors before
Year: 1862




We naturally look for some change in such
a war as this. The successes of the confede-
rates have been for many weeks 80 frequent
and continuous that we have been expecting
something, at least Of minor kind, to make
the beam vibrate or keep up the usual see-saw
Of military events. But, although the Union
lists have the lens in their own hands, nothing
seems to have occurred which they can even
magnify into victory. We might have al
ticipated that the audacious attempts to iu-
wade a Northern State would have been
promptly repelled and severely punished
But IL s2ems the Confederate force is still up
on the sacred soil Of Ohio. The GoUernOr Of
thai free State is at his lcisends. The citi-
zens seem unwilling to volunteer even to resist
an invader and PROCLAMATION threatening a
concription has been found necessary even in
an invaded State undoubtedly loyal to the
Northern Confederacy.-Lndon TIm.s dug,
4th
Year: 1862

We learn that the township Of Boston, Sum
NIT county, with voting population of only
200. has sent over one hundred volunteers TO
the war. What town can beat this? If any
can let them show their 6gures.
Year: 1862

IORDINANCE NO. L.


For Taxing Loose or unclaimed ned; Dogs: s
The Trustees OF the Town OF Auburn 90 Or
dain as follows:


SEC. |. A tax of Two Dollars per annum is
hereby levied on every Dog owned within the cor
porate limits Of the town Of Auburn, found at
large within said town, on and after the first day
of April, 1862
il shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Board of
Trustees to deliver to the Town Treasurer, as
many brass or copper tags may be necessary and
being numbered from one up to the highest num-
ber delivered to the Treasurer and said tags
shall be altered annually in shape so as to be
easily designated from the tags issued tne pre-
ceding years


SEC g. On or before the first Monday in April,
of each wear it shall be the duty of the Town
Marshal to draw from the Treasurer as many
tags as he may be able to dispose of, giving re.
CENT for the same. one OF which tags he shall
deliver to any inhabtant of the town OF Auburn,
upon payment of two dollars.


Sec. T. Every dog that shall be found running
at large within said town after the 10th day of
April, 1862, not having one of the tags furnished
by the Marshal, according to section two OF this
Ordinance. attached to collar upon his neck.
shall be liable to be killed by any person, and it
is hereby made the duty of the Marsh II to put to
death any dog SO at large without SAID tag. Al
moneys collected under this Ordinance shall be
paid over by the Marshal to the Treasurer on the
first Monday Of each month, less his per centage
for collecting the same, which is hereby fixed at
one dollar for each and every tag sold. And it
shall be the further duty Of the Town Marshal to
file report with the Clerk on the first Monday
in each month, containing list of those citizens
who have purchased dog tags the preceding
month.


Sec. 5. Ordinance No. 3, is hereby repealed.
and this Ordinance shall be in force and effect on
and after its passage.
Year: 1862

An Ordinance, levying and providing for


the collection of n tax for the payment Oh


interest upon Town Bonds.


The Trustees of the To,cn Of Auburn, do or
ddin as foiiotcs:


Sec i. There shall be, and is hereby levied upon
all assessable and taxable property within the cor
porate limits of the town of Auburn, tax OF
Two Dollars and twenty-five Cents upon each one
hundred dollars of assessabe property in accord
ance with an act of the Legislature of California
entitled "An Act to authorize the town of Auburn
to take and subscribe Fifty Thousand Dollars to
the Capital Stock of the Sacramento, Placer and
Nevada Railroad Company and to provide for
the payment of the same" Approved April 23d,
1860.


Sec. 2. 1t shall be, and is hereby made the duty
OF the Town Assessor, to proceed Immediately
after the first publication of this Ordinance, with
assessing the real and personal property within
the corporate limits Of said town. He shall take
down alphabetically, the name of each person
and describe the property of every description
assessed, with the amount Of the valuation there
Of and he shall complete said assessment, and re-
turn his assessment roll to the Town Clerk on or
by the 18th day of March, A. D. 1862


SEC. 3. It shall be tie duty Of the Town Clerk
to furnish to the Marshal a correct copy Of said
A ssessment Roll with the amount of taxes cor
Year: 1862

SALT FOR CABBAGEs.- Edward Carpenter, cor
respondent of the Farmer and Gardner. says,
that last year he tested the value of salt on cab
bages. and with satisfactory results. After
planting them out he watered them some two or
three times week, with salt water containing
about fifteen grains of salt to the pint. The cab
bage grew beautifully. and headed up very finely,
while those which had no salt water given them
produced loose. open heads, which were unfit for
any purpose than boiling. Rain water was given
at the same time, and in the same quantities as
the salt wafer. He does not know how strong a
solution of salt the cabbages would bear without
injury, but is fully satisfied that solution no
stronger than that which he used is decidedly ben
efcal
Year: 1862

OF Auburn.


The People of the State of California rep
resented in Senate and .Aescmbly, do enact as


SECTION l. From and nfter the first day of
March, A. D. 1862, the town of Auburn. to the ex-
tent Of its corporate limits in the county OF Pla-
cer shall constitute seperate District for road
purposes, to be known as the Road District Of
the Town of Auburn" and the residue OF Town
ship No g. in said county, Road District No. 3.


SECTION 2 All taxes, general and special. to
be levied and collected for road purposes under
the laws of this State or that may be hereafter in
force therein shall constitute the road fund Ofthe
road district of the Town of Auburn, and shall be
laid out, and expended by, and under the drec-
ton, and within the discretion of the Board of
Trustees of said Town, in the construction and
repair of Bridges and Culverts. and the improve
ment and repair of Roads and Streets within said
district.


SECTION g. From and after the time this act
takes effect it shall be the duty of the officers Of
and within said county. charged with the assess
ment of property, and collection OF all taxes, gen
eral and special, for road purposes within said
town of Auburn, to keep seperate and distinct
list or assessment of all property within the limits
of said road district Of the Town of Auburn and
cial. collected therein for road purposes and the
same shall be paid over to the County Treasurer
of said county and by him shall be kept seperate
the Road Fund of the Town of Auburn.


SECTION 4. 1t shall be the duty Of the County
Auditor of said County upon the receipt of the or
der, or orders, of the Board of Trustees of said
Town. signed by the President and certified by
the Clerk of said Board, to draw his warrant, or
warrants, upon the County Treasurer of said coun-
ty. for any sum not to exceed the amount in sold
fund belonging to said District of the Town
of Auburn, which said Board of Trustees
may order paid; and it shall be the duty OF
the County Treasurer, to pay out OF said fund the
nt IF said warrant warrants. uDOQ pre-
sentuton.


SECTION s. This act shall not be construed to
apply to any tax levied by the Board Of Trustees
Of the Town of Auburn for road or any other pur-
poses.


SECTION 6. All laws. or parts of laws, so far
as thew conflict with the provisions of this act, are
hereby repealed.


SECTION T. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.


Approved, February 25th 1862,
Year: 1862

rectly computed to each person, and the whole
amount of said taxes shall be by him added up,
and the total amount thereof charged against
said Marshal, in an account to be by said Clerk
kept; and the Clerk shall from time to time credit
the Marshal with the amounts paid by him to the
Treasurer.


Sec. 4. 1t shall be the duty Of the Marshal to
collect from each and every person the amount Of
taxes hereby assessed, and for that purpose be
may accompany the Assessor and demand from
each citizen at the time of being assessed, the
amount of taxes thus levied, and when the dupli-
cate copy of said roll is furnished him, he shall
mark thereon the word paid" opposite the name
of each person thus paying, and shall proceed to
collect the remainder of said taxes by the first Of
April, A. D. 1862, and If by said time there shall
remain upon said list any delinquent taxpayers,
he shall make out correct list thereof with
description of property, amount of assessment,
and amount of taxes due, and return the same
to the Clerk, or the Board of Trustees.


Sec S. 1t shall be the duty of the President Of
the Board OF Trustees upon the order OF the Board
to proceed, after the return of said delinquent
list. to file in the Justices Court of Township No.
g. proper complaints against said delinquents
each separately setting forth the fact of the
levying of the tax. the assessing of the property
the demand for the payment OF said tax, and the
refusal or failure so to do. and to prosecute the
same to judgments said suits being prosecuted in
the name of "the inhabitants Of the tO,Cn of
.fuburn," and to procure the issuing of execution
thereon, and the collection of said Judgment in
the mode and manner of collecting judgments
usually prescribed by the laws of this State, and
the judgments thus acquired shall be lien upon
all the real estate of the parties delinquent. but
of personal property, (if any, shall first be ex-
hausted of said delinquent before the enforce
ment of said lien against the real property of
said delinquent.


Sec 5. All of the general provisions of the
general revenue laws of this State, so far as they
can practically be applied to the assessment and
collecting of the taxes heretofore mentioned, and
which do not conflict herewith, are hereby adopt
ed, and made part of this ordinance


SEC. 6. All moneys collected by the Marshal
shall be by him paid over to the Town Treasurer
by the first day of April. 1852. taking receipt
therefor and said receipt shall be filed with the
Town Clerk to entitle him to credit the amount
to said Marshal's account


SEC. 9. This Ordinance to be in force and effect
from and after its passage.
Year: 1862

How TO M1LK.-An agricultural exchange,
says: "The mixer should be on good terms
with the COW If mixers scold and kick,
the cow will most likely return the latter; and
moreover, she cannot kick to advantage
when her leg is in close conjunction with
the mixer. The best mixers are the quick
est, for there will be flow in less than a
minute from the commencement of the pro.
cess Take advantage of this, and prevent
its return. Milk dry; for the strippngs are
worth four times as much for butter, as the
milk that is first drawn. This is good ad
vice. A lazy scolding milker will soon spoil
good cow.''
Year: 1862

Nufsances.


Sec L. The depositng of filth of any nature or
kind in or upon the borders of Rich Ravine,
along the line of Valley Street, or upon any of
the lots or beneath any house along the line of
said Ravine or street, is hereby declared public
nuisance; and any person offending against the
provisions of this section, shall upon conviction
thereof before any Justice of the Peace having
jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not less
than ten nor more than fifty dollars


SEC 2. The filth now deposited in said Ravine
and upon the lots and beneath the houses named
in the foregoing section is hereby declared o
public nuisance, and it is hereby ordered that the
occupants of said houses and lots remove said
filth before the 1st day of April, 1862, and any
such occupant neglecting or refusing to comply
with the provisions of this section shall upon
conviction be punished in the same manner as
provided for the violation of section No. of this
ordinance.
Year: 1862

Come listen while to me, my lad,
Come listen to me for SPELL
Let that terrible drum
For moment be dumb,
For your uncle is going to tell


What befell
A youth who loved liquor too we'll.
clever young man was he, my lad;
And with beauty uncommonly blest,
Ere, with brandy and wine,
He began to decline,
And behaved like person possessed;


protest
The temperance plan is the best.
One evening he went to tavern, my Ind;
He went to a tavern one night,
And drinking too much
Rum, brandy and such,
The chap got exceedingly tight"


And was quite
What your aunt would entitle q "fright."
The fellow fell into snoozc. my lad;
'Tis horrible slumber he takes.
He trembles with fear;
And acts very queer;
My eyes how he shivers and shakes


When he wakes,
And raves about horrid great snakes!
'Tis warning to you and to me. my lad;
A particular caution to all
Though no one can see
The vipers but he
To hear the poor lunatic bawl--


"How they crawl!
All over the floor and the WALL"
Next morning he took to his bed, my lad;
Next morning he took to his bed;
And he never got up
To dine or to sup,
Though properly physicked and bled;


And read
Next day the poor fellow was dead.
You've heard of the snake in the glass, my lad
OF the viper concealed in the glass;
But now you must know,
Mans deadliest foe
Is snake of different class;
'Tis the viper that turks in the gliss!
warming to you and to me, my lad;
4 very imperative CALI
OF liquor keep clear;
Don't drink even beer,
If you'd shun occasions to fall;


If at all,
Pray take it uncommony small
And if you are partial to snakes, my ad
"a passion think rather low)
Don't enter TO see 'em,
The DEVILS Museum
'Tis very much better to go.


(That's soD
And visit regular show.
Year: 1862

VIE REG TO ASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT


w the we'll known reputation of these Machines
for RELIABILITY will be fully sustained, and
in our rapidly increasing business the same care
will be faithfully exercised in every department
of their manufacture. Every Machine sold by us
rs WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.
Year: 1862

her bosom not less than $4,000 disciplin-
ed troops, aud have commanded the au-
thoIities to haul down the Confederate
flag


Sailing through miles of the heaviest
artillery, it does not appear that so much
as a single shot was fired at these two
little steamers. On the contrary, every
thing seems to have been prepared be-
forehand for their quiet reception. The
troops were Immediately withdrawn lest
they might feel disposed to demur, all the
defenses on the lake were dismantled, the
guns were thrown down without being in
jured, the steamboats, that could have got
ten up steam in an hour and been off
were burned, and the defenders were
drawn off to distant point.


Never since the world began was there
such transaction--so extremely dark, so
mysterious, so altogether unaccountable.


Terrible suspicious are afoat, but we
hold it best not to give voice to them uu-
til something more definite shall have
reached us"
Year: 1862

A QUAKER ToAsT.-This is me and
mine to thee and thine. / wish when thee
and thine come to see me and mine, that
me and mine will treat thee and thine as
kindly as thee and thine have treated me
and mine.


This is new version of the old compli-
ment which runs somewhat after this
wise 81 wish that thee and thy folks
loved me and my folks as well as me and
my folks love thee and thy folks. For
sure there never was folks, since folks
was folks, that ever loved folks half SO
well as me and my folks love thee and
thy folks" p
Year: 1862

Homes not merely four square walls,


Though with pictures hung and gilded;
Home Is where affection calls


Filled with shrines the heart Hath builded !
Home. 90 watch the faithful dove.


Sailing meath the heaven above US;
Home is where there's one To love


Home Is where there's one to love US.
Homes not merely roof and room;


Home needs something to endear 1t;
Home is where the heart can bloom.


Where there's some kind Que to cheer H.
What is home with none to meet


Nome to welcome. none to greet US
Home Is sweet-and only sweet
When there's one we love to greet US!
Year: 1862

hastily opening the door again. just as he
fingered an instant at the gate.'
'And the fever powder and the cough pills,
too said Mary; and be sure you wear your
muller these cold nights,-that's pinned In
side the breast pocket; you must tako care
OF your health. you know 1


A gay nod was their only answer, and
they knew not that the quick jerk he gave
his cap was only to dash away tear that,
in spite of his fortitude, blinded his eye as
he gave them his last glance. r------
Year: 1862

xaon Of Florida win be successful In practice Is
beautiful In theory But, be that may the military
expedition, although II may not DO very active yet Il
must be prominent, and the eore desirable Captain II
Of course, almost went OF the handle Captain Hanar
thinks he is tan enough 70 fresh breeze .here is
any going Catain p Is back with the train LEI him
a. Bowling Green; viii be up ia few days We are
10 a regiment.


Colonel II. is as disagreeabe a. ever am afraid you
viii be responsible for the Decentralization OF your staff
for leaving II in such company can have few days
IN ONO, 70 get my horses should like g. my road 10
JOIN you IN the East think nexpedient 10 bring any
tnng except horses and the
box the mess chest and all that kind OF stuff, will
leave The horses in good ccndton-they stood the
march finely.


We are now marching about i've miles per day the
pike from Louisville to Bardst0wn. Each day have
little skirmish with the enemy few cavalry that have
been soaring Buell. since he left Huntsville One
thousand cavalry will keep Buels army line Of battle
at q distance Of nvc miles. Yours, as ever,


. o. q SWAIN
Year: 1862

mated Al rs 0C0 men, who have either psrshed or oeen
disabled II the whole truth known they woio pIo
baby reach hundred thousand BY the eid OF the
for the eeahs from disease in hospitals IN camp ana
home generally exceed those in battle For every year
the continues must expect our CASUALTIES W W
quite a. heavy they have been the present.