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Year: 1861

There is q large assortment Of tickets where
from TO select candidates to be voted for next
Tuesday; we advise no one for politics sake
to support bad man in preference to good
one; but we are sure that the Union candi-
dates are at least equal in ability and worth
to any antagonists, while many Of them are
manifestly superior. The combination of such
names as those Of LUCIUs ROBINSON lnd
DANIEL S. DICKINSON OH one State Ticket
eyinces q determination to hold party conside-
rations subordinate 10 the great object OF sus-
tanning the Government in its struggles against
n gigantic rebellion which aims to divide and
destroy tho Nation. The Union Increment
means this, and it means nething more. We
hall vote for Messrs. Dickinson, Ballari, and
Tappen, not because we have bce1 converted
to their views or they to ours on the ques-
tions which have hitherto placed US in political
antagonism, but because we agree that, IN The
present terrible crsis, Farty should give way to
Country, and that we should all together staud
b. the flag Of the Union.


Now, we do not say that earnest Union
men will not vote the adverse ticket; We
know that Thousands will; but that rOie UW not
prors their dsrotior TO he Union. !Oa the con-
trary. il will indicate that, however strongly
they may love the country, they do not love 1t
well enough to subordinate TO il their partisan
affiliations.


There were members OF our last Legislature
who could not be aroused, oven by the bonn
bardment Of Fort Sumter, to a consciousness
that patriot must sometimes forget his party
TO serve his country They are now sorry for
it-at least, so many Of them as are candidates
profess to DO. We believe the voter who now
supports party ticket rather than that which
stands simply on the platform Of the Union,
will soon renlize that he has made similar
mistake.


Whatever may be the issue Of this contest,
the principle of obedience to Law aud rightlul
Authority must be established. 1t must be
settled that party which loses an election IL
as much bound to respect and obey tho fairly
chosen rulers OF the Nation as though it had
won. The Shareholders rebellion makes war
on tho vital principle of free institutions and
renders Popular Elections farce. 1t were
absurd TO 90 on voting if voting is but pre-
liminary to fighting. We who stand by the
Union ticket attest by our votes our confidence
in republican institutions aud our determination
10 maintain them. When we shall have estab-
lished that an election really means something,
concludes something, it will be high time to
resume our party contentious if there be any
ground of contention left But it ia To-Day'f
duty to vindicate the legitimate authority Of the
Nation, and to the efficient discharge OF that
duty all thoughts, all energies, shonld be
directed. Patriots Frcemen! let us give ex'
preston TO our oyerrulng love Of country by
our votes on Tuesday next
Year: 1861

The name of LEWIS B. WQoDRUFT. Peoples
candidate for Judge of the Superior Court
was enormously printed Louis, yesterday
See to it that the ballots are correct Such n
blunder upon the ticket might elect the Tam
many candidate.
Year: 1861

THE SOUTHERN RAnRoADs.-Mr. q. q.
De Grove, late revenue collector at Nash
Vile, Tennessee, and who has lately arrived
from that place says:


The railroad Interests of the South having
become subservient to those Of the Confed.
crate Government, all the energies OF those
most interested have been bent to the task
of systemizing, consolidating and central
izing the affairs and operations OF all the
railroad companies throughout the South,
so that some one point should be the nucleus
the heart Of all these various interests so
concentrated. so that the aggregate capital
of the roads may be used separately or as
whole, for any purpose that the Government
may Indicate; and all the united rolling
stock of these roads can at any time be con-
centrated on any one Of them which 1t is
most desirable to be used for Government
purposes, or in the event Of the others being
rendered useless by any Of the accidents Of
war. And the property of the various roads
cars and engines-can at any time be
thrown upon any particular road where adj
ditional accommodations are needed for
Transporting troops. To such perfection
have they carried this system, that any
number Of Confederate troops can be trans
ported from Manassas to any Southern
point, over any one of The railroads, with
out stopping or changing cars.
Year: 1861

Ffom sho 'iaho Napi"s h"sies


We need hardly call espscial attention to
the Presidents every way mastery exposi.
tion of the question Of the exact weight OF
the decisions Of tho United States Supreme
Court. The brevity OF the argument is not
less remarkable than its exhaustive force. No
double volumed treatise on the subject could
make the point clearer; no legal axiom was
ever laid down by Story or Kent with great
er precision and self-evident truth. Brief as
the argument is. wo doubt il any creed or
party can be hereafter formed, under any
name or circumstances, that shall dare ignore
or oppose the principles thus established
Upon the the question Of the status OF sav
cry in the Territories the President says:


"Shall fugitveS from labor be surrendered
by national or by State authoritiesl The
Constitution does not expressly say. Must
Congress protect slavery in the Territories
The Constitution does not expressly say
From questions Of this class spring oil our
constitutional controversies, and we divide
upon thom into majorities and minor ties
If the minority will not scquisce, the majority
must, or tho government must cease.


Even the ardent admirers Of the Dred
Scott decision must acknowledge the cogoncy
Of this reasoning. 1t condcnces tho whole ar
gument in nutshell. The argument is sx.
hausted and ho who would add to il must be
guilty of gross surplus,ge-of "wastefu and
ridiculous excess 1t is a fair inference, in-
deed, il the Constitution does not expressly
say it, that neither the power nor The right is
conferred upon Congress to protect or estab.
lish slavery in the Territories. But the alb
sence OF any provision on the subject leaves
the matter to be decided by the majority Of
the whole people.


Proceeding with the argument, the Presi.
dent disposes Of tho general question, and
lays down aplatform SO obviously sensible and
true that all must sooner or later stand upon
it, thus: -,


The candid citizen must confess that If the
policy Of the government upon vital ques.
tion affecting the whole people is to be irrevo.
cably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme
Court, tho instant they are made, as in ordi-
nary litigation between parties in personal ac.
tions, the people will have ceased to be their
own rulers to the extent, practically, Of re-
signing their government into the hands of
that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this
view any assault upon the court or the judges.
1t Isl duty from which they may not shrink,
to decide cases properly brought before them.
II is no fault Of theirs il others seek to turn
their decisions to politica purposes"
Year: 1861

lated voice, but her ears were finely enough
corded to perceive the deep emotion that lay
beneath. "But think there is Provideace
in our meeting" he added.


They sat down and talked long together
Of times gone by, Of the causes that separated
them while their hearts beat only for each
other. of the actual present in their lives.


~ have motherless child" he said at last
la to nder little thing that lose, and to.
day find her body purple with bruises from
the cruel hand of a servant. Florence, will
you be mother to my childi You have a
noble boy who il fatherlsss, let me be to him
father. II the old love fills your heart as il
fills mine, there are golden days for us in the
future"


And so it proved. The lady and her sor
did not 90 back ~ England, but passed tc
the merchants stately residence, she becom.
ing its mistress, and he finding homo there,
and truer father than he had in former
years, called by the same name.


"Do good as you have opportunity


Only week before the lads application to
the merchant, he'd not this injunction been
urged in his hearing, by an eloquent preacher
and tho words coming to bis thought, led him
to call back the boy, after his cold, almost un'
kind repulse.


Many times afterwards he thought Of the
accident, and Of tho small event on which
such life long issue hung, almost trembling
in view Of what he might have lost, had that
slight opportunity been neglected.
Year: 1861

The following is list Of tho vessels order.
ed to sea, and that can DO made available for
purposes Of war, together with the name Of
their commanders and the armament Of each


VESSELS OF WAR.
Year: 1861




MY DEAR CIR IN regard TO the COW
ert nsInuations OF a neIghoorih9 press as as
my friend 1t IS rISht that you snould
know my post on. l am a candidate
for no promotion on the lace OF the earth
| mean to DO my duty as thion man
and to express such views as l ehterta'n'
everywhere at the ris> OF having my mo-
tiyes ImPu2ned. As TO the course tna'
should be pursued IN the present struggle
have my own opinions, Whieh nope
shall have an opportunity to express at a
time and under circumstances that Will
give no one the right to charge upon me
any ambitious views.


As the Instruments OF war hitherto
used, for the best part OF Il year have
not proved eiiectual III suPpfessing tae re-
beilion, L think 1t Is the duty oil Con,
gresS, in such manner as VIII not leopard
the rights and safety OF the loyal people
OF the south to .pfoYla' Tor the eoiliisca-
ton and liberation OF every slave be-
longing to any person who snail continue
IN arms against the authority OF the
United states, Or WAC snail and and aoct
those who thus contInHe IN arms.


Slaves belonging to re9e,s should not
Year: 1861

The heroism of private life, the slow
unchronicled martyrdoms of the heart
who shall remember? Greater than any
knightly dragon of old, is the man who
overcomes an unholy passion, sets bis foot
upon it, and stands serene and strong in
virtue. Grander than the Zenobia is the
woman who struggles with love that
would wrong another or degrade her own
souk and conquers. The young man, ar
dent and tender, who turns from the dear
love of woman, and buries deep in bis
heart the sweet instinct of paternity, to
devote himself to the care and support OF
aged parents or an unfortunate sister, and
whose life is a long sacrifice in manly
cheerfuli,ess and majestic uncomplaint, is a
hero of the rarest type,-the type of
Charles Lamb .s4 q


The young woman who resolutely stays
with father and mother in the old home,
while brothers and sisters go forth to hap
py homes of their own; who cheerfully
lays upon the altar of filial duty that cost
liest of human sacrifices, the Joy of loving
and of being loved-she is a heroine. The
husband who goes home from the weary
routine and the perplexing cares Of his bu-
siness with cheerful smile and loving
word for his invalid wife; who brings not
against her the gricvous sins Of long
sickness, and reproaches her not for the
cost and discomfort thereof; who sees in
her languid eye something dearer than the
girlish laughter, in the sad face and faded
cheeks that blossom into smiles and even
bushes at bis coming, something lovelier
than the old-time spring roses-he is a
hero.


The wife who bears her part in the bur-
den Of life-even though it be the larger
part-bravely, cheerfully; never dreaming
that she is heroine, much less martyr
who bears with the faults Of husband,
not altogether congenial, with loving pa
tience and large charity, and with no.
BILE decision hiding them from the world ;
who makes no confident and asks no con-
fidences; who refrains from brooding over
short,coming in sympathy and sentiment,
and from seeking for perilous "affinities; !"
who does not build high tragedy sorrows
on the inevitable, nor feel an earthquake iu
every family jar; who sees her husband
united with herself indissolubly and eter.
nally in their children--she, the wife, 10
every truth, in the inward as in the out.
ward, is a heroine, though of rather an un
fashionable type.-Grace Greenwood.
Year: 1861

THE BLOCKADE. TO BE MADE EFFECTIVE
Something will be done in Congress i'm
mediately (says correspondent Of the New
York Evening POST in reference to the ev
ident ineficieucy of our blockade of the
Southern ports. The steam privatees Sum
ter, ran the blockade in open day at New
Orleans. The Brooklyn left her position
to chase an English vessel and the Sumter
ran out. w


Such blockade as this no foreign pow
-er will long respect, and as much has been
intimated here by foreign officials. This
inefficient blockade is to-day the weakest
point in the position of the Federal Gov
ernment, and will result In irreparable mis-
chief to our cause if it is not remedied.


The New England members, from dis
tricts along the Atlantic coast, say that the
Government can arm hundred merchant
vessels in fortnight, if it will, and that
this force will sweep the privateers Of the
rebels from our seas and render the block
ade effective in sixty days. Such result
is most desirable; and if it cannot be &C
complished till the Government can build
gunboats and vessels Of war, il will be en-
tirely too late. A movement is on foot
here which, it is believed, will result in i'm
mediate and most vigorous action at the
Navy Department.
Year: 1861

sanees in railway cars, nor march troops up
to masked battesies and then back again,
nor yet lie encamped week after week in
sight of the enemy while his pickets are
shot or captured every dark night. He has
been bred in school in which performances
of this character were not popular.-Har-
per's Weekly. f
Year: 1861

and hearing that the three have mentioned
hid gone up the road, galloped after them.
j wenta mile or more beyond our advanced
piekets, when seeing nothing of them conclu-
ded to go back, And it is well did, for, as
learned the next day if had gone quarter
of mile farther, l should have run plump in
to a company of secession cavalry, and should
have had the pleasure of writing to You from
Richmond, or some other Southern town.
Year: 1861

So daROminated from their astonishing power Of
creating life and health, it were, from the
very ashes Of the most diApidated constitutions
are more strongly tonic and more Immediately In
vigerating than pslis; containing the same choice
vegetable extracts ~ che LATTER in different mod
i6cation. Although really less cathartic than the
LIFE PILLS. they nevertheless begin TO cleanse the
alimentary canal much sooner; generally slightly
operating within three or four EeEEs, and produce
Ing decided sense of relief to the head and stOm
ach, and exhilerating the mind even Ia isaa time
Year: 1861

A REMINIsCENCE OF LOLA MONTE Bos-
ton Journal publishes the following incident,
which throws open new leaf in the life Of
that marrying genius, Lola Montez:


About three years ago and soon afte the
late Lola Montez had been giving a series of
lectures at the Melodeon, man called at
the City Registrars office, and asked shat
officer If he could record marriage without
having the certificate of the officiating cer-
gyman. Upon being questioned for further
particulars, the man said Lola had been re-
Gently married to young man Of this city
who had been infatuated with her, but thar
she had the marriage certificate, and had
gone to New York. The marriage had been
performed by her agent, Mr.. Burr, who for
merly was clergyman, and his friends We're
extremely anxious that it should be record
ed. After consultation IL was decided that
the man should send to New York for the
certificate, and few days after he returned
with what purported to be copy, stating
that Lola refused to part with the original.


This purported to he signed by Mr. Burr
and certified to the marriage of a gentleman
of this city with Lola Montez, under the name
of Heald, that being the name by which she
was then called. After consultation with the
City Solicitor, who advised the Registrar not
20 record a marriage upon the authority of
copy of certificate, the document was re-
turned to the man who brought it. and the
Registrar has never heard anything more
about it. The bridegroom was represented
to him to be about tweutv-one years of age,
who belonged TO a respectable family, living
IN the vicinity of Essex street.
Year: 1861

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

Nearly three years ago we expressed the
opinion, that IL railroad was ever con-
structed across the Sierra Nevada noun
tains ;, 1t would run through the Henness
Pass; aud we still think this is the most
eligible route for railroad designed 10
connect with the navigable waters of the
Bay. The distance may be little farther
than by some other routes, but it bas the
advantage of passing through the most
thckly populated mining district Of the
State, and the road now being constructed
from Folsom to Auburn can be continued
to the summit of the Henness Pass, on q
grade not to exceed in any place eighty
feet to the m lie.


The S. +. Alta had an article, few days
since, comparing the advantages and dis
advantages of the several routes across the
mountains. OF the Henness Pass route it
says:


Tn the point of way trade, the Henness route
is probably superior to the others, but this adj
vantage is not sufficient to counterbalance the



| greater distance.


In the matter of altitude the Henness Pass
has decided advantage over all the others. An
additional thousand feet of hight at the top OF
a lofty and rugged mountain chain may add
many millions Of dollars to the cost of con-
structing a railroad, which cannot have abrupt
turns or very deep grades. With the hight OF
the mountain increases the danger of total in
terruption of travel by snow, the expense OF
keeping the track clear, the cost of freight, and
the amount of repairs to keep the road in order
In altitude the Henness Pass is 400 feet lower
than the Truckee, 800 feet lower than the
Johnson Pass, and $50 feet lower than the
Big Tree Pass. This is an advantage worth
millions of dollars to the Henness Pass.
In the matter ofgrade, the Henness Pass has
an equal advantage. That Pass is on level
with Washoe Valley; there is so little ascent
going westward through this Pass that the
traveller scarcely knows when he reaches the
summit. There is, at that point, no eastern
"slope" to the Sierra Nevada; no western rim
to the Great Basin. The western slope of the
mountain is more regular and gentle than al
any other place. In October last, an eight
mule team went through the Pass from the west
with load Of seven tuns; six-mule team with
three tuns and half and two horses with a
tun and three-fourths. We have not the figures
for the loads hauled through the other passes
but they are not so large on an average as those
taken through the Henness Pass.
Year: 1861

The Government ought to employ the
General Commanding the Transcript to
launch one of his heavy columns upon the
rebel entertainments at Manassas. If the
rebels did MT evacuate Immediately it
would be evidence Of very perverted
taste on their part.
Year: 1861

We are sorry we cannot return the COM
pllment paid us by the editor of the Trans
oript, in this mornings issue of his paper,
as asagaciOus and brilliant statesman. Dur
ing bis Legislative career of three years, he
never cast hut one vote that we could un-
dersand that was bis vote on the Thou
sand Dollar Bill"
Year: 1861

II and providing for the collection of the same, for
the year ending May, 1862


The Trustees Of the City Of NeuddG OrddiH fOll0CS:


SECTION l. Road Tax of four dollars is hereby
levied upon every able bodied inhabitant of the City
of Nevada between the ages Oftwenty one and fifty
years.


SEC 2. 1t shall be the duty of the City Marshal to
collect the Road Tax and for this purpose he is here
by invested with the same authority az is conferred
upon Road Overseers by the act of the Legislature of
1860, entitled IAN act concerning roads and highways
in Nevada county,, and the tax shall be collected in
the manner prescIib in said act.


Sc g. The Clerk of the Board shall prepare and
deliver to the Marshal a sufficient number of blank
receipts which shall be numbered and signed by the
Clerk. Said receipts shall be countersgned by the
Marshal and delivered to persons paying the road tax
and the Marshal shall specify in each receipt de-
livered whether the tax is paid in labor or money.


SEC. T. The Marshal shall keep correct list of
the names OF all persons paving their road tax in
cash, and the names of those paying in labor and
shall report the same to the Board the first of
each month. All monies collected on the road tax,
less his commission the Marshal shall pay over to
the City Treasurer to be used under the direction of
the Board Of Trustees for road purposes.


SEC s. There shall be and is hereby levied upon
every male nhabitant of the City, Of twenty.one
years of age and upwards, poll tax of dollar,
for the year ending May 1862 and it is hereby made
the duty of the Marshal to collect the same.


SEC. 6. The Clerk Of the Board shall prepare and
deliver to the Marshal proper blank poll tax receipts,
which shall be numbered and signed by the Clerk.
Upon the payment Of each and every poll tax, the
Marshal shall deliver of said receipts, counter
signed by himself To the person so paying


SEC Z. To enforce the collection OF the poll tax,
the Marshal may seize much Of any and every
species of property owned claimed bv any person
liable to and refusing to pay said poll tax, as will be
sufficient to pay the and costs of seizure, and
may sell the same at any time or place, within the
city limits, upon giving verbal notice one hour pre-
vious to such sales delivery of the possession of the
property by the Marshal TO any purchaser shall be
deemed a sufficient title in the purchaser. After hav-
ing deducted the poll tax. for which such property
sold and the necessary fees and costs of sale
the Marshal shall return the surplus money, If any
there be- TO the owner Of such property. ANY per-
son indebted to another liable to poll tax and neg
lecting or refusing TO pay the same shall be liable
to pay the same after service upon HIM, by the City
Marshal of notice in writing, stating the name OF
names OF the person or persons liable, and owing
such poll tax. and may deduct the amount thereof
from such Indebtedness


SEC 8. The Marshal shall keep recorded list of
the names of all persons paying their poll tax and
shall report the same TO the Board on the FIRST of
each month.


Passed May 2sth, 1861


C4IAs. KENT, Pres't.


II. II. FLLs0 Clerk.
Year: 1861

The GIRLS IN ARMs.-The daughter and
niece of a colonel OF one of the loyal Kentucky
regiments concluded, The other day, they
would have little "time, and, to carry out
their plan, dressed themselves in mems appar-
ell procured an old shot gun, and proceeded TO
tine field where the colonel was at work One
of the girls shot gun in hand, took her position
few PAGES off while the other stepped up
and laid her hand on him, and said by the
authority, and in the name of the United
States army, arrest you, al guilty of treason"
The colonel submitted without resistance but
SAID :-"Gentlemen, in the name of God, what
have | done g. The reply was, that he would
learn that, and have all things satisfactorily
explained at Camp Chase, which caused the
colonel 10 turn very white and they all walked
TO the house, where tue children were all posted
in the matter and got into litter, which
caused loud burst of laughter from all hands
except the colonel, who was very beigerent
when he ioand he had actually been arrested
by two small young ladies, his daughter and
niece Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1861

LAMARTINE.-rhis literary mendicant is
still sitting in his own hall gate crying out for
aims and holding his hat, all new aud shining,
and well brushed, for the obolou of the pitying
passer by No man has ever sacriti .e1 such
a reputation as Lamartine. for no man had
ever such a reputation TO sacrifice. The man
has fallen into the very lowest abyss-not
OF contempt, but OF Reconsideration, For