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Year: 1861

II H n lkOAD AMI IN ~
IL and providing for the collection Of the same, for
the year ending May, 1862.


The Trustees Of the City Of Nerdda orddn as follotCs


SECTION 1. A Road Tax of four dollars is hereby
levied upon every bodied inhabtant of the City
of Nevada between the ages oftwenty.one and fifty
years.


SEC. 2. II shall be the duty Of the City Marshal to
collect the Road Tax and for this purpose he is here
by invested with the authority as is conferred
upon Road 0verseers by the act O the Legislature Of
1860 entitled tan act concerning roads and highways
IN Nevada county, and the tax shall be collected in
the manner prescribed in said act


Sc . 3. 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 countersigned by the
Marshal and delivered to persons paying the road tax
and the Marshal shall specify in each receipt so de-
livered, whether the tax is paid in labor or money


SEC. 4. 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 on the first of
each month. All monies collected on the road tax
less his commission. the Marshal shall pay to
the City Treasurer to be used under the direction Of
the Board Of Trustees for road purposes.


SIC. 5. There shall be and is hereby levied upon
every male inhabitant of the City, Of twenty -one
years OF age and upwards, poll tax of one dollar
for the year ending MAY 1862 and it is hereby made
the duty of the Marshal to collect the same


SIC. o. The Clerk of the Board shall prepare and





which shall be numbered and signed BY the Clerk
Upon the payment Of each and every poll tax, the
Marshal shall deliver one of said receipts, counter
signed by himself, to the person so paying.


SEC. !. To enforce the collection of the poll tax,
the Marshal may seize much Of any and every
species Of property owned claimed by any person
liable TO and refusing to pay said poll tax as win be
sufficient to pay the same 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-
vous to such sae delivery of the possession of the
property by the Marshal to any purchaser shall be
deemed sufficient title in the purchaser After hav
ing deducted the poll tax for which such property
was sold, and the necessary fees and costs of sale
the Marshal shall return the surplus money. ifany
there be, TO the owner Of such property. Any per.
son indebted to another liable to poll tax md ne0
lectng or refusing to pay the same shall be liable
to pay the same after service upon him. by the Citv
Marshal, OF notice in writing, stating the name or
names OF the person or persons so liable and owing
such poll tax, and may deduct the amount thereof
from such Indebtedness.


SEo. s. 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 frst oi
each month.


Passed May 2sth, 1851.


CHAs. KENT, Pres't.
Year: 1861

A country gentleman came up to town on
business, and confded considerable sum of
money to the care of a particular friend
Having settled lis affairs, he went to his
friend for the money confded to his keeping
the latter was SO base as TO affect surprise,
and to deny having received any money
Our poor friend from the country, whom We
will call Mr. Frankheart, was almost in de-
spalr, but he went and told his case to ma
gistrate of great ability. The magistrate ask
ed Frankheart if he had taken any receipt
or il there had been any witness to the trans
action. Frankhea,t answered, that as he haG
no suspicion of the man he believed to be
MS tiiend, he had not taken any receipt, and
that the only witness was the knave's own
wife. After little reflection the magistrate
told Frankheart to step into an inner room
and he then sent for the man who had played
SO treacherous part.


On his arrival the magistrate thus address
ed him: 4 understand that you have received
as a deposit large sum of money, and that
you refuse to restore it to its right owner
The mans only answer was a denial of the
accusation. WELL replied the magistrate,
let US suppose you to be innocent; but in
order to convince me of it write to your wife
(who is said to have been a witness to the
transacton) the letter am about to dictate
to YOU.


My beloved Wife, beg of you to give
the bearer Of this letter the sum which, about
fortnight ago, you saw Mr. Frankheart con-
tide to my care | am about to restore it to
him.


All resistance was vain. The letter was
written. and was closely examined by the
magistrate to see that it contained the pre-
else words and no others. In very short
space Of time the messenger returned with
the sum Of money which Mr. Frankheart had
contided to his !a:thless friend. The latter
convicted of dishonesty, threw himself on
his knees before the magistrate, who repre-,
manded him most severely. and to increase
his shame and confusion, called in Mr. Frank
heart, the friend he had treated so basely.-
OF course the culprit could offer no excuse
The money was restored to its owner, who
was advised by the magistrate to be more
cautious in future.
Year: 1861

The USEFUL AND THE BEAUTIFUL Some
fellow. of poetieal turn, says "rhe use
ful and beautiful are never apart Semb-
lins. of the Sierra Democrat, says that's a
mistake, for the useful is often up town get
ting cocktail while the beautiful is at home
getting breakfast ready.
Year: 1861

PIsToLs AND SHoRT-SwoRDs-A geutle-
man, generally understood to occupy n
prominent place among the Knights of the
Golden Circle, declared few days ago, that,
at the late secession meeting at the Court
House, there were four hundred seceders arm
ed with short double-edged swords and pis-
tolls and, in confirmation or illustration of
what he meant, he opened his coat and dis
played his own weapons. Here were pretty
formidable preparations for bloodshed, one
would think Wedon't know when we ev-
er before heard of parallel in II christian
community.


OF course wa cannot suppose it possible
that the Union men created any such wild
disturbances at the Court House upon the
occasion in question as were described by
our neighbors of the Courier There must
have been some mistake in the Courier's
statement for surely, if the scenes il descrb-
ed had actually occurred, the four hundred
double -bladed short swords would have
flashed and the four hundred pistols would
have cracked in vindication of the rights of
the seceders. All those terrible arrange
mcnts cannot possibly have been made for
nothing by knights so tremendously va
liant as those of the Golden Circle. To sup
pose otherwise would be to offer n mortal
aiIront to that dreadful association. And
who in the name OF Heaven would dare to
do hat.-L0uSpiHe JoarRaL
Year: 1861

400 FKCh.


o. " wish to inform my customers aud the pub
lie generally, that from and after the date of this
notice my business shall be conducted on the CASH
SYSTEM | will take all passable bank notes at par
but will sell my Lard Oil, Soap and Candies for
cash only. This rule applies to al alike and so
nobody needs TO be offended


PHILIP DECKER.
Year: 1861

The times may be sadly out of joint, bu
as long as the people do not become simiarl,
dislocated. we may consider the country pret
ty safe. The recent novel celebration OF th,
4th of July by the mongrels at Belmon
might lead persons at distance to suppos,
that Belmont County people were all demen
ted, or at least Indifferent to the result o.
the important contest now waging. They
might suppose that "the schoolmaster was
abroad" or that we did not take the papers,
and for this reason desire that the people
should speak out in tones too distinct 10 be
misunderstood, and loud enough TO be heard,
regardless Of party antecedents, or party ties.
lhe present is no time for elimination or
recrlmination. In the language of Mr..
Douglas, it is no time for a detail of the
causes which led to this war, but rather
when our institutions are assailed and
threatened, we should all, with one accord
ny to the rescue; around our imporilled
country we should lock shields, and by her
stand fall" Why then do we see party
arraying itselfas of old, meeting in Conven.
ton as ofold, and presenting its candidates ?
"Ah, but" said one of those candidates a
day or two since, in reply to this proposition,
I'VE issued call broad enough to embrace
all Union men, and if you did not see fit to
participate, is not our fault" Grant that
the call was broad enough, what does tina,
signify compared with the acts of the Con.
vention itself? Were they such as should
receive the approval of all true and uncon.
ditional Union men? What kind of men
were nominated? On the head of the ticke,
We find man, of whom l will only say, he
was never suspected of willingness to 90
very far in support Of the Government
Of the balance ofthe ticket it is unnecessar,
to speak here and now. l believe Mr.
Work to be true Union man. and therefor,
have not the least obstacle to offer to hi,
election, but must say that have no doub
he would have preferred, not only to be il
better company, but to have something tc
stand on--some principles avowed.


The only course left for true and uncondi
tionai Union men to pursue now is to com,
together: without respect to former party as
sociations, and laying aside all prejudice
based on mere partizan quarrels, and plac
before the people of the county ticket o
such men as are kno,on to be loyal, an,
against whom not breath of suspicion cal
be brought. care not farthing if they b
all Democrats, all Republicans, or all Ameri
cans, but will only demand that they shal
be Internationally and unequivocally Unior
men, who are not afraid to say that tn,
good old Stars and Stripes is their flag, ant
that the Government which our fathers
perilled all to establish is their government
and for it they will sacrifice everything ant
to crush out treason they will place in the
hands of the constituted authorities all the
men, and all the treasure needed. For such
men on such platform, will vote, and for
none other. BELMONT
Year: 1861

PATRIOTISM OF THE SAILoRs.-c)yer 6F-
teen hundred United States sailors, station
ed in our men of war abroad, have sent TO
their flag ships request to be drafted Sin
some ships serving against the rebels. =
One corvette, having only three hundred and
thirty men all told, records the names of
three hundred and ten who want to fight.
A petition from one vessel 5 crew ends thus
Surely among the ten thossand blue jack
cts serving on the coast, there must be few
hundred that ennnot burn for the fray a.
we do" 1t is said that the captain Of this
ship told his men that they were ordered to
the States, and would soon have hot work
enough to do
Year: 1861

A ORDINANCE, PROVIDING FOR


"A the construction ofa sidewalk on Pine and Church
streets:


The Trustees Of te CITY Of NeDadd do ordain as follo.


SECTION l. II shall be the duty Of the property
holders on the easterly side of Pine street and the
southery side of Church street. from the corner of
Pine and Commercial to the corner Of Church and
Main streets, on or before the first day Of January
1862, to construct a sidewalk in front of their
property.


SEC 2. Said sidewalk shall be on the grade of the
streets, of uniform width and shall be constructed
under the direction and supervision of the City
Marshal.


SEC 3. Should any property holder on Pine and
Commercial streets, between the termini specified in
the first section of this ordinance neglect or refuse
TO construct the sidewalk in front of his or her prop
ery as required, it shall be the duty of the Marshal
to let out a contract for having the work done and
the property along the line thereof shall be held re.
sponsible for the reasonable expense of the same.


Passed November 29th, A. D., 1861.


CHAS. kENT, President.
Year: 1861

HARD-Floyd lost his honor and his rep
utation. and perjured his soul, by bis thefts
in the name of rebellion. The rebel papers
now turn upon him aud accuse him of
"crime" Is there no gratitude left among
the traitorsi
Year: 1861

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. The alarm of fire at six
O'Clock Yesterday evening was caused by a
dense volume of oke proceeding from the
interior Of the Penitentary, which was found to
be caused by the burning of he carpenter shop
attached to the institution, and the flames
spreading, III the absence of any means for It's
prevention, soon set fire to the other large shops
located in proximity to the above, which, after
burning for several hours, were, with their con-
tents, reduced to ashes. The loss to the State
we should Judge to be at least fifty thousand
dollars. the greater part of which might have
been saved had water been abundant. The To-
cation of the States prison is peculiarly unfor-
tunate in respect to its means of obtaining wa
ter for extngulshing conhagratlons that may be
set agoing by the Vaccinations Of convicts.-
The fire yesterday evening was the work OF
some one of the inmates no doubt. The pris-
oners at the time of the above casualty were do
ing good service TO the State and Southern Con
federacy, by manufacturing goods for the use OF
the army. w presume that their exertions
will be put at an end for some time to come.
That is the reason, no doubt, that melted some
one of them to fire the building. The burning
of the Peniuentiarv workshops is a great loss
to the State at this juncture-more than
such an occurrence could possibly have been
happening at any other time. We did not hear
Of the escape Of any of the prisoners. Colonel
Pendletor: the worthy Superintendent, exerted
himself with zeal and effect to prevent the
spread of the flames. He was aided by q
large number of volunteer citizens we'll as
soldiers. 1t will be impossible, we presume,
to supply the loss of looms in the weaving de-
partments, the machines having been obtained
in New York. A violent rain which fell du-
ring the fire, tended little to stay its pro-
gress.
Year: 1861

LINCoLNs CONSPIRACY AGAINST LIBERTY
The wickedness OF the Llncoln conspiracy
against the public liberty exceeds anything in
history. The mere fact of substituting force
for law was crime of monsterous magnitude.
This he did by violating his oath and tram pling
under foot all the safeguards which had been
erected for the protection Of life and property.
Had he G onfined the operation Of his system Of
force to the people of the North, who had be-
come lostto all sense OF freedom and rather en-
ioyed the burden of fetters, mankind might
nave looked on the spectacle with indifference
mingled With scorn. Bot when he trsnscends
his own bailiwick and sought to impose his
chains on Tree people, he enacted rot only
the part of the tyrant but was forced to resort
to all the base expe dients which have charac-
terized the most odipus despotisms that have
ever existed. His career i'll Maryland, in
searching houses, seizing papers, disarming and
arresting and imprsionlng citizens, to reduce
that proud people to sublugation to his hated
rule, is known to the whole world. 10 extend
his sway in Kentucky and Missouri, he Is, at
this moment, diligently employed in the infa-
nous and murderous task of fomenting civil
war among the people of those States. His
emissalies are actively engaged in distributing
arms among them, that they may butcher one
another. This is cold-blooded and deliberate
murder on grand scale-of which the annals
of the world furnish no parallel A chief mag
istrate of a (professed) freeGovernment, delib-
eratey y ,maliciousy and Systematically plotting
and stimulating bloody strife, in which one
half OF community shall butcher the other
We can only conceive of fend from hell Ca
pabe of such malignity. And yet it is the
daily and constant occupation OF Lincoln and
Seward-and over the success Of which, in
prospective, they gloat with the rapture OF
devils.


| We censure ourselves for sometimes giving
way to the apprehension that it is possible for
so much wickedness to escape unpunished.-
1t cannot be. There must be retribution in
store for these monsters. Outraged justice
oppressed humanity, nfurated by divine ven
gence, will rise up to overwhelm and crush
| them.


! To estimate the enormity of their crime, we
must consider the evil they have done. They
found this country the freest and most prosper
Gus on the face of the earth-and animated by
the benign principle that peace is preferable te
force. They have converted prosperity nte
wretchedness,a and substituted for law and peace
Year: 1861

The following from the Glasgow herald, one OF
the leading commercial papers of Scotland, shows
that the persistent misrepresentation of the South
by the Northern people have not deceived every
body across the water. It is gratifying to know
that opinions like these find an utterance in the
old country, and that there are noble hearted aad
enlightened men there, who do not agree with
DR.. GUTHRIE:


TIE distinguished wisdom and success that have
marked every act of the Southern Confederacy,
and the amazing stupidity and sefishness that have
characterized the conduct of the Northern, are but
exemphfcations of the comparative craftsmanship
of the two sections.


From the beginning of the Government the
South has supplied the Union with its principles
and statesmen while the North has occupied itself
with schemes of making money out of the Gov
ernment by means of protective tariffs, fish boun-
ties war pensions and land grants. The articles
of asso.iaticn of 1916 the result of Southern
exertion and appeal the declaration of indepen-
dence OF I774 the composition of a Southern
patriot; and the Constitution of 1887 was chiefly
the handiwork of Southern statesman.


From the organization of the Federal Govern
ment down to the present time, all that has tended
the glory and progress of the Union has been the
fruit of Southern minds; all that has conduced to
the emolument of classes, to the aggrandzment OF
the few, and to the injury of the many, has been
the product of Northern contrivanoe, ingenuity
and selflshness. The great glory of the South, in
her whole connection with the Federal Government
has been the disinterestedness and unselfshness
that have chara cterized her entire conduct where
as selshness, greed and avarice have been stamped
on every measure of Northern policy, and are
written every page of Northern history.
Year: 1861

e The Greensburg Democrat, a Pennsylva-
MA paper holds the following:


''We are informed that in the matter Of army sup
plies, the ost deliberate and wholesale swindling
is practiced. Sixteen cents per pound is paid for
beef; SIT apiece for old muskets that were sold
by the State few years ago for about % cents
each. The blankets furnished are only half blank
cts, and fthe worst possible material, and the
mess cannot be eaten. Robbery and plunder is the
order OF the day with those in power, and we ad-
wise them to make all they soon possible.
This war fe 7er will not always cover UP your spec
ulations, and you shall be held to strict account.
ability for yoar wrong doings. Steal while you
may, for it is your last chance. We have heard it
stated that Gov. Curtin is interested in the con-
tracts for furnishing supplies. Can anybody tell
us certainly if this is SO ia .
Year: 1861

As direct falsehoods about the sentiments of the
British Press, particularly of The London Tunes,
have been indus,riously circulated, the following
extract from the Ihlnderer should be kept before
the public:


'WOd not be better to recognize at once the tornd-
ton of the Southern COrfederacy, and to think little
less of constitutional pOlcers and decOr1Uns 1cch can
end in 1OhiRg but ciUa odr, and little more of ne
rotiation and arrangement by whidh alone that
civil war can be averted7 1t weuld be Ineligible
course were the President to say that he is going to
negotiate for peace say that he is going to en-
force return to the Union by the arms, but to say
that he is going to exercise the powers of the Con-
stituton ignoring the fact of secession is to make
war certain, while cutting off any opportunity for
negotiation.


WILMER & SMITHS European Times, organ of the
commercial interests, says.


"If civil war have really commenced between the
North and South we hope that the representatives
of England and France at Washington have been IN
structed by their respective Governments to tender
their aid as mediators before the struggle has reused
all the fierce passions which, if continued for any
length of time are certain TO be called into play.
Both nations wish we'll to the American people; both
are alike interested in the general prosperity OF the
country in every latitude and both impelled To-
ward it by the strongest sympathy that can animate
friendly nations. This to US the last resource
before the sword is drawn and the scabbard thrown
away, and probably the suggestion would meet the
approval of that large class in both extremes OF the
country which must IeOk with horror and dismay
at the prospect of men and brothers cutting each
others throats under circumstances so fearfuly
provocative of vengeance"
Year: 1861

Apprehension has been frequently expressed lest
the supply of powder at the South, might prove in
adequate to the demands of protracted war. This
apprehension, we think, is groundess for indie
pendent of whatever supply of the manufactured
article or of the raw material may now be on hand
the elementary substances of which gunpOwder Is
made can be extracted in exhaustless amounts from
our own soil and forests. 1t is well known by our
older citizens that in early times the settlers made
their own powder from materials easily obtained
The numerous caves of this region abound in nitrous
earth and in many of them nitre has been made IN
large quantities. If crude sulphate cannot be OBJ
tanned in sufficient quantity in our Cities the SLpi
rets of copper and iron in E Tennessee can furnish
an unlimited supply. Our willow, inwood and
ether trees can furnish the best charcoal


In this connection we will state that an enter
prise has already been set foot, having in view
the production of gunpowder material. Messrs
G. W. Rice John F. Anderson, and John ID. Borln,
have leased the celebrated Sauta cave in Jackson
county. Ala and are making extensive preparations
for the production of nitre large scale. lt IS
also the intention of these gentlemen to extend their
operations to include the manufacture of powder.
This enterprise we regard as judicious, patriotic,
and we doubt not will prove highly remuneratiye


The powder mill near Nashville is in vigorous
operation, and we expect to hear of many similar
establishments springing up magieally throughout
the South so that instead Of experiencing want of
this necessary element of warfare will. in fact,
have enough and to Chattanooga Advertiser,
HIM O.