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Year: 1862

the late elecuon. The leaders of the party that
came into power two years sgo TO win
success. made great promises to the people.
and they have not redeemed those promises.
nor sought to redeem them, and a dis
appointed and indignant people have administered
rebuke. Ineficiency. partiality and corruption
have pervaded the public service, and just and
honest people have passed their verdict upon it.
The Constitution has been trampled upon and
the citizen imprisoned and denied a trial, and
Constitution loving and just people have de-
manded restoration of their rights. Abolition
lists have sought to control the policy of the Ad
ministration and to place their purpose above the
Constitution Of the country and to make the sup
posed interest of the negro paramount to the
rights of the white man, and a great people,
mighty in their conservatism, have now said to
President LlScoLS, We stand by you in the resio-
ration Of the -Univu, ia the maintenance Of the
Constitution and in the enforcement of the laws,
but we demand that the institutions of our coun-
try. as our fathers made them, shall be preserved
terpose their policy between the Constitution and
the people.


In kindness. but frankly, wesay to the defeated
politicians of Indiana, your course has lost you
the confidence OF the people. and that confidence
has again returned to the stable and ancient
Democratic party. and the voice of the people on
last uesday is the result.
Year: 1862

The Journal since the election of Mr. LINCOLN
to the Presidency has advocated and favored a
peaceful separation Of the StateS-permitting all
that desired to leave the old Union to go in peace
aud establish a cOniederacy of their own. Ii has
favored the war only for mercenary considera-
tions because it and It's friends could make money
out of it, and not upon principle or policy, for
did il not declare with great vehemence and so
lemnty that civil war would be a thousand fold
worse evil than the loss Of dozen Statesf


The Republican central organ has got new
kink. According TO its theory the secession OF
South Carolina, which it justified as being IN
harmony with the philosophy of our government
and the revolutionary principle upon which il is
based, was a virtual dissolution of the Union.
it so stated when the news came that thar State
had peaceably slid off from its connection with
the balance Of the States. 1t is now cautiously
but artfully broachng new idea-a new combi-
nation for the Northwestern States. Daily il in
ssts that the result of the recent election ia Ind-
ana and Ohio is a verdict of their people in favo
of uniting the destiny of the Northwest and the
South under one Government. II will not ac-
cept itself, permit any one else to place diff
ferent construction Of that expression Of public
sentiment. Knowing that il would be both i'm
prudent and impolitic to openly advocate the idea
which it says the late election emphatcally de
clares, it takes the next best method of accom-
plshing that object BY boldly avowing that the
people by large majority have decided for it.
By repeating and reafirming with great peril
nacity and apparent candor this view of the ques-
ton, it hopes by famliarizing the public mind
with the idea OF annexation to the Southern Con-
iederacy, to finally persuade them to believe that
that was their purpose when they deposited their
votes in the ballot box.


The sentiment of the poet will forcibly apply
to this attempted generalization Of public senti-
ment by the Journal and its present policy:


Vice is q monster Of so frightful mien,


As 70 be hated needs but to be seen;


Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face.


We irst endure, then pity, then embrace.


Such is the philosophy OF the Journal.
However repugnsnt to 'he people of the North
west may be the idea of secession from the old and
union with the Southern COnfederacy. il hopes
by keeping the subject ever before them TO make
them familiar with her face" 50 that the mon
ster which at first they would have hated. they
will "6rst endure. then pity. then embrace"


The Journal has also another purpose in view
in its new kink. 1t encourages and gives life to
the rebellion by advertising to the South that
majority of the people of Indiana are traitors to
their own Government and are in favor of union
with that of the rebels.


Beware of wolves in sleeps clothing.
Year: 1862

A Republican friend. speaking of the effect Of
JoE WRIeHr's recent canvass Of Indiana. SAYS ir
is a remarkable fact that with two or three ex-
ceptons the counties wherein he spoke 1--we given
large increased Democratic vote and the coun-
ties he did not visit gave Republican gam. AS
an Illustration. he stated that the Governor failed
in his appointment in Warrick and Posey and
there the Republican vote is largely augmented,
but in jackson, Floyd. vanderburg. Sullivan.
Vigo. Allen, &C., &C., his influence was most
deleterious to the cause he espoused. as is shosn
by the large increase in the Democratic vote.
The Governor bOasted that he had made seventy
FIVE speeches during the canvass and behold the
result If he had made one hundred and fifty
they would have added twenty thousand 10 the
Democratic majority.


We suggest these facts for consideration to the
phiosophiziog mind of the learned pig of the
Journal, and in connection inquire whether JoE
WRIGHT has been worth to the Republican cause
the price paid for him by our Republican friends.
We ra.her think they won the elephant in the
raffle, and that they will find the keeping of him
rather an expensive business. They have got
him on hand to provide for anyhow. and he is a
mighty hungry man. The political sOmersault
of the ex Governor. and its results. will point
moral, if it will not adorn tale. The moral is.
it is always safer to stick to your principles and
your friends.
Year: 1862

One or two thousand bodied black refu-
gees aA employed in the Quartermaster's De
partment here and upon the defenses about Wash
ington at reduced wages. The amount saved on
the difference between their pay and that OF white
laborers is much more than sufficient TO support
the FIVE or six hundred colored women and child
rem in the Government hands. This is derived
from official persons, who say the contrabands are
really a source of Government profit.


So writes the Washington correspondent of the
St. Louis Democrat This only gives preference
to niggers over white laborers, whose wives and
children may starve for all that the Abolitionists
care, il only the negro women and children are
provided for The next move is to substitute the
"colored gentlemen" in place Of white mechanics
and so on until the darling idea of the Jacobins,
that the nigger is equal to the white man, and
more so" is practically operative.
Year: 1862

During a late visit at Louisville Governor
MoRToS stated to coterie of his political friepds
that the success of the Republican party in the
election then soon to take place in this State
would be inevitable. He gave as reasons for the
conclusion, that all the influential men of Indiana
all the elite of Indiana society. all the patronage
of the national and State Governments, were ex-
ertng their influence for that result. These con-
sderations he thought sufficient to warrant his
expressing the most G1doubted confidence in
the success of his party friends. Like the msgi-
clan he considered it only necessary to move his
wand over the State to direct the thoughts and
action of the people into the channel he desired.
complete than the illusion produced by the most
accomplished professor Of the maj gical art He
tried the trick of turning rice into bon bons. but
when he opened his box the rice, and not the bon
bons, would appear.


His ExcelleDcy and a good many other
foolish people may learn one lesson from
the recent expression of public sentiment
in Indiana, and that is that influential people
and the 'elite'' of society-the bubbles that float
upon the surface-may exercise very powerful
influence upon public sentiment when upon the
right side. but when upon the wrong track they
have to go where the wind listeta. 1t is evident
that the Republican leaders have very different
impression of public opinion since the election
from what they had before. If not better per-
haps they may be wiser men, if it is possible for
them to learn wisdom.
Year: 1862

The radicals profess not to understand the oc-
casion of their overwhelming defeat in the elec.
tOns of last week. They attribute it to every
thing but the right cause. In some cases they
say it was by fraud and in Others that it was
owing to the absence of the soldiers. These
apologies are as idle as the wind. If frauds were
committed it upon the part Of the party in
power and this will be demonstrated at the proper
time. In precinct not far from this city it can
be shown that thirty Democratic votes were put
in the ballot box and only ten were counted out.
In other localities similar outrages were com
mitted, as will be proven. And it can not be
successfully denied by any candid Republican who
was at The polls during the afternoon OF
the election in this township but that
hundreds of illegal Republican votes
were shamelessly deposited in the ballot-box.
Neither did the absence of the soldiers from this
State, the sons of Indiana who volunteered to
battle for the restoration of the Union aud the
maintenance of the Constitution, occasion the
recent political triumph If they had been at
home, their votes would have made the victory
the more overwhelming The causes of the
disaster 10 the defeated party too plain TO be
misunderstood or misrepresenied. 1t was a ver-
dict of the people against the ultra radical meas
ures which have been forced upon the country in
violation of the most solemn pledges OF Con-
gress and the Administration, and a condemna-
ton of the frauds and NAL administrations which
have characterized the party in power. 1t is a
sander upon the soldiers of Indiana to charge that
they would take issue with their fathers and
brothers at home upon the questions which were
involved and passed upon at the recent election.
They are not fighting to destroy the Union and
overthrow the Constitution, hence they could not
have voted. if they had had the opportunity. for
measures which, if successful, can not fail to re-
suit in the destruction of both. And when the
soldiers return and speak through the ballot box,
it will be found that their vote will be with their
brethren at home in condemnation of radicalism,
and the fanaticism ard rascality which have we'll
nigh ruined the country and destroyed the gov
ernment of the fathers.


The radicals pretend not to understand that
they have been weighed in the balance,
and found wanting. And their defeat
would have been the more complete if thousands
had not been artfully led to believe by designing
and corruptive politicians that the Government
and the administration are indentical, and that
condemnation of the ultra measures of the latter
would be a blow at the former. The election
has dispelled this illusion. The verdict thus SO
significantly rendered will be approved by the
great body Of the American people, and the result
will be the crushing out OF Abolitionism and fa-
naticism. the consummation of which is the only
hope of restoring the Union and giving renewed
vitality to the Constitution. 1t is not strange
that the radicals die hard, when they that the
power for which they have SO long struggled
must soon pass from them.
Year: 1862

When the English Parliament declared in 1915
that this was "a great and eficacious remedy"
they apparently spoke for the present age, as well
as their own, and especially for this nation, as its
existence in our National and most of the State
Constitutions fully teStifes. At the present time,
however, this safeguard against the encroachment
of an absolute prerogative can not be enumerated
among the rights of the American citizen The
British Government did not dare to override it..
even in the case of Napoleon, when they held him
a prisoner on board the Beilerophon-but hurried
him of to sea, and TO bis island prison in the
southern hemisphere, without regard to the safety
of the ship or the preparations for the voyage, in
order to avoid the great Writ of Liberty.
Year: 1862

Ali but four of the fanatical representatives OF
radical abolitcnism have been driven into OBJ.
scurity by the voice of the people of Ohio. Such
at least is the look OF things now. The vote up
on the State ticket will show a m iiorty of TWEEN
to thousand against AbOtionism, in 4 State " hic
gave President Lincoln forty four thousand votes
over Douglas OF all the radicals now in Con
gress. Ashley is the only one left to point the
finger OF scorn at.


Indiana has also done nobly She has left
Dunn and Colfax at home. and elected a majori-
ty of DemOcrats-possibly all except three-to
the next House of Representatives-elected a
Legislature which will make choice of a true
Union man-a man who will give to the COnsIi-
tuition and the Government an earnst and hearty
support-and then clinched all by giving to the
State ticket majority of at least ten thousand.


From Pennsylvania. we are without as full ac-
counts. bat this very TACT justifes the belief that
all Is right there. The defeat of Grow, the Al
clifton Speaker of the House. is as good an in.
dex want of the extent of the revolution in
that State. and We content to wait for details
Meanwhile, all hail to Ohio, Indiana and Penn.
sylvania--they are redeemed from the curse of
AbOlitionism


What else remains? The revolution will 60
onward with the force Of an avalanche The
people are weary and disgusted with that radi
caiism so prevalent in the present Congress which
would destroy the Government: sooner than give
up political power.


New York next month will vote more over
whelmingly against that radicalism than Ohio
has done. Massachusetts is preparing to follow
suit Michigan will be revolu.ionized, and the
"blood letting" Chandler will share the fate of
Sumner in Massachusetts New Jersey will be
all right, and our near DeighbOr. Illinois, never
ont done in anything. will vindicate her reputa-
ton by electing majority of conservative men
to the House. She is already terribly aroused by
the attempt to food her territory with the run
away negroes, whose very presence is offensive
to the people, and with whom they DO not want
to come in contact in any way. While this good
work is being done in those States. Missouri
should not be found wanting in the hour of
trial
Year: 1862

In all the speeches which made to you in the
spring and Summer of 1861, as well as in print
ed address the people of the State, on OF about
the Goth Of May, 1861. declared, in substance,
that if had believed it was the object OF the
North to subjugate the South and to emancipate
our slaves, in violation of the Constitution, l
would have gone as far as the farthest IN advo-
eating resistance to the utmost extent


Ny attention has just been called to a procla-
nation issued by the President Of the United
States on the 22d Of September, 1862, m which
he declares that ION the 6rst day of January, IN
the year OF our Lord one thousand eight Hundred
and sixty three, all persons held as slaves within
any State, or any designated part Of State, the
people whereof shall then be in rebellion against
the United States shall be Iienceforward ard for
ever free, and the Executive Government of the
United States, including the military and nava
authority, will recognize and maintain The free
dom Of such persons, and viii do act act.
10 reDress such persons, or any of them, il
any efforts they may make for their actual free
dom"


need scarcely remind you that ore of th'
evils which dreaded and predicted as the result
of the efforts which were made 10 dissolve tn
Union was that. in the progress Of the war, the
Year: 1862

fatted. The arrangements made to pack for the
English and ether markets in he Old World, ex-
ceed anything ever thought OF before. and. un-
less some mighty change shquid take place be
tween this and the middle of December the great
bulk of the crop wlll be packed IN boxes, and it
and the lard shipped to England and the cont
nent; and the high price OF cooperase and the un-
usually large stock of old brl. pork on hand will
deter dealers from packing in this shape. This
being the case, then, the price will be regulated
altogether by the rates OF sterling exchange. and
that by the prosecution of the war; and hence it
is that we regard the trade in rerk prospectively
in a dangerous position. IL msy prove profitable
or the reverse, the chances being about equal in
both aspects Of the case. II Is quite probable
that The competition will be strong. and that this
will lead TO high prices seem inevitable.
Year: 1862

This District did Dobly in the recent election
Two years ago CoLFAx carried it by 3.4O2 ma
jority. Now if he is elected it is only by a
meagre vote. The entire Democratic ticket has
been elected in nine out of the fourteen counties
in the District and two Senators and five Repre-
sentatives to the Legislature. Well done De-
mocracy of the Ninth District
Year: 1862

ez-The Federal Government is about TO sup
DIV every soldier who has lost leg 10 battle with
a wooden leg. So says Medical Director Abbott
Having two wooden legs Of its own il is only fair
that the Government should supply one apiece to
its soldiers.
Year: 1862

OVER MUCH OF r.-The first rain of the season
fell on the lth of November and on Wednesday
the 22d inst, was the last storm. since which
time we have had two comparatively clear, pleas
ant days. The storm period has been seventy
three days-of which on eight days no rain fell
although but two were clear-leavng sixty five
out of the seventy-three days of rain and storm


AT present the sky is blue overhead, but to-
ward the horizon not so clear, and altogether the
prospect ahead is more wet than dry.
Year: 1862

an lnStltuIlOH


THE CITY FINANCES.


The city Treasury, and the credit of the city,
are running out very fast-faster than the water
from the CITY, The Board or Supervisors have
no money to act with, and if they had they
would spend it all before next week in some ex-
travagant an doubtful experiment, in which the
members might be more or less interested in by
outside partners When the people, at the pub
lie meetings held after the 9th ult resolved
to appoint u citizens committee to superintend
and manage the levee repairs, it became obvious
that the board of Supervisors had fallen below
par in their estimation. If the members had
any grit, they would at once resign and let the
citizens committee manage the entire affairs of
the city. To-day l understand that the water
works are likely to come to stand-still for the
want of wood to run the enginc This fact. If it
proves to be one. will afford a beautiful topic of
general comment throughout the State-'the city
of Sacramento poor that no one will trust
them with wood enough to run six horse en-
gine" Wood is furnished by contract at SS per
cord. payable in warrants Warrants are not
worth more than so cents Oh the dollar Wood
being scarce, and selling rapidly for cash. of
course the contractor feels disposed to let the
city get wood from some one else.


THE CAPITOL QUESTION.


The legislature have endeavored to put the
Capitol in boat and send it to San Francisco.
But it failed. In view of this we have an I'D
journment for q week, and have sent the mem
bcrs to San Francisco. 1t is strange what an
itching free poss on the Chrysopolis and the
attractions of the Bay gives the members. They
are very uneasy this winter. When this body
Year: 1862

UNCLE SAM s MANAGEMENT.-The QUartermas-
ters goods at Camp Sigel are being shipped to
Camp Union at heavy freight prices. Flour and
other articles of food are sent, which if sold at
Auburn would bring fine prices and could be re-
placed at Camp Union on terms that would put
money in Uncle Sans pocket. For instance the
-four would bring $40 per hundred in Auburn by
the lot, and new supplies purchased at San Fran
cisco and put down at Camp Union at IS per
hundred. But Samuel don't see it,"
Year: 1862

THE OrERA.--It is understood that Mrs. Pres
ideut LINCOLN, who attracted SO many last
evening from the Opera to the White House
will make the graceful atonement Of hcnorins
the Opera by her attendance this evening.
Year: 1862

gB-Several of the western journals have
taken steps towards organizing "Western
Associated Press" for the purpose of furnish
ing each paper connected with the Associa-
ton with the latest news by telegraph.
Year: 1862

GB- Strong brown paper is now manuiac-
tured from "cat-tais," the product of the wild
flag growing in low grounds all over the North
Experiments are being tried with a view of
maxi. white paper from the same material.
Year: 1862

sg-We are requested to call to mind that
the monthly meeting of the Horticultural So
ciety will take place at the Mechanics Libra
ry Room this evening, when officers for the
ensuing year will be chosen.
Year: 1862

FELL FROM THE BRIDGE A Chinaman,
ANXIOUS, no doubt, TO emulate Blondn under
took yesterday to cross Deer Greek at the foot
OF Broad street. on the identical stringer upon
which poor Richard Bell fell. John got along
hrSt rate till he was directly over the iume
which passes beneath the bridge, when the
water appeared to him to run upwards with
great velocity. He cast a bewildered look on
the mad waters his knees began to shake
and the next minute be took plunge, la
sam Patch, from his elevated position. He
soon found out that the water was running
downwards, for it carried him in that direction
some thirty yards in less time than you could
have said Jack Robinson" when he was for
tunate enough TO catch cross timber which
enabled him to extricate himself He was
somewhat bruised. thoroughly soaked, and
badly scared Nevada Transcript.
Year: 1862

CHICo CoUNTY.-Senator Irwin on Thurs
day last, introduced a bill to create Chico
county. We do not think Major Bidwell has
a sufficient number Of mules to pack it through
that body.


Mr.. Ferguson, the able Representative from
feat the Chico speculative project in the House
and we hope the efficient killing it received
then, will last till now
Year: 1862

PosTULEs IN SMALL PoX-If You are ever
afflicted with small pox, reader and the pos,
tuleS begin to appear, annont them with sweet
OIL and lime water, as these are prepared for
burns and water scalds and the irritation will
be allayed and the discoloration of the skin
aud the pitting of the flesh will be greatly les.
sened If you have no present need Of this
receipt, cut it out and paste it in your scraps
book. 1t is valuable, and although you may
never need it yourself, some of your neighbors
nav
Year: 1862

LIvELY.-Our streets, during the past week
have presented very lively appearance. A
large number of people from the Chico side oil
the river are in town, and nearly all of them
condemn the attempt which is being made to
form a new county out Of that portion oi
Butte.
Year: 1862

sTWho has no. heard of SANDS SARsArARu1t
How many have cause to be thankful that it ha,
cured their ailments raised them from bed of
sickness to the enjoyment of health and strength.
We wish every one to benefit by it-but caution is
required-the very success of the article is turned
against ii by the cupidity of others, and numerous
preparations of so called Sarsaparilla are in the
market. The original and genuine article prepared
by Sands, being in universal use, is sold almost
everywhere. Ask for that and take no other.
Year: 1862

The Nevada Transcript says an old resident
of that county has just returned from Washoe,
with snug little fortune of Sl20.OO0 which
he gained by selling his claims in that rich
mineral region
Year: 1862

SAN FRANCIsco papers say that there is
great scarcity of seamen in that port-vessels
being frequently detained for the want of
sufficient crew. Wages for able seamen range
from SIS 10 SIS per month.