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Year: 1861

| Only AS public man, placed imposition
Of trust by his party, and as one]pnt for
ward for other positions by a. party ct pro-
fessed honesty of purpose, is the maine OF
the individual who heads This article enti-
tied to the dignity Of notice at our hands.
| lie was lately Public Administrator of this
county and Union Democratic candidate for
the office of Recorder. He is now runa-
way and defauter, somewhere in Mexico,
probably. He was seen on board the steamer
Panama, at San Francisco, on his way to
Mazatlan, on the late departure of that
steamer. He has left, as was expected and
as was confidently predicted be would, with
all the money he could get out of dead men S
estates that came to his hands.


When he came to qualify two years ago
it was with the utmost difficulty he could
obtain bondsmen. The Office was about to
be declared vacant before he was able 10
produce bond satisfactory to the County
Judge. But at last the bond was unhappily





the county, of course. Tt would be an ex-
oeption to the general rule of defaulters'
bonds if it were. Probably nothing will
ever be realized to the heirs of the robbed
estates from it. How much money is mis-
sing is hard at this time to say. Probably
from five to seven thousand dollars.


That there is gross culpability somewhere
in allowing public officer to go on and
receive money belonging to others without
ample security against rascality and acci-
dents, particularly one whose Character for
dishonesty is SO notorious as the late es-
capped, is plain. The duty Of keeping penal
bonds in good repair is delegated to some
one, or body of men, and that duty should
be discharged without fear or favor. We
shall not stop to charge the neglect in the
case of this defalcation 20 the Board of Su-
2eryisors or County Judge, but content
ourselves with saying there is neglect if
nothing worse somewhere. 1t must be SO.
Thompson was known to all our citizens as
an inveterate gambler and whisky sucker,
and to at least one half as a notorious de-
faulter in every position of trust in which
he has been placed. 1t is reported of him
that he was guilty of two breaches of trust
in Iowa, before coming to California
Placed as clerk to represent partner in
business here, he gambled away all the
capital Of the house and broke it up
Members of the Hook & Ladder Company
in this city say he was collecting agent
for the Company and q part of the money
stuck to his fingers. And now as public
officer he has made his name immortal as a
confirmed scoundrel and thief. 1t may ex-
cite wonder abroad that one so notorious
should have been promoted to places of
trust. 1t is wonder.
Year: 1861

CHERoKEEs NOT TSEcEssIoSIsTs.-Aned educated
and highly intelligent Cherokee, who crossed
the plains this season, and has settled in the
copper district, in Calareras, informs cores
pondent of the Independent that the Cherokee
Indians are strongly in favor of Union. He
states that few of the more violent sort are
" "secesh," but that, in the main, they are true
and sound on the Union Of all the States. He
intimates that the people of Arkansas are more
numerous for the Union than the press and peo-
pie of this State seem to have any idea Of He
thinks it will not be long before the tide of af-
fairs turns in such a way in many portions of
the South, as will prove to the world that they
fully understand and appreciate the value OF
H Union and Liberty"
Year: 1861

That long-established organ of the Demo-
Gratis of Massachusetts, The Boston Post, thus
speaks of the recent proclamation of Gen.
Fremont:


at is evident that as military commandant of
the State of Missouri he has right to declare
the confscation of al property, of all that
which is property to the Rebels, however it
may be estimated by other men, especially il
that property becomes agent in the hands Of
the Rebels to assist them in successful prose-
cution of the war. Of the policy Of this de-
cided proclamation, of this sending of the shaft
home to the heart of the rebellion, there can be
little doubt. 1t is time that the Rebels under
stood that by their defiance and violation of all
law, they have, by their own suicidal hands
struck the first blow to that institution which
the political philosophy of Stephens and tn,
| sword of Davis would support"
Year: 1861

REMOVING SUNBURs.-If your young lady
friends would like to know what will take
off tan and sunburn, tell them to take a
handful of bran, pour quart of boiling
water on it, let it stand one hour, then
stain. When cold, put TO it a pint of bay
rum Bottle and use it when needed.
Year: 1861

Dr.. Scorr, in his farewell address 10 his
church, says:


have insisted and do insist upon it. that n
pastor has nothing to do with the partisan poll
tics of the day, but that his whole duty is to
preach the word of God, and cause the people
to understand il, and to leave all secular an1
civil matters te the citizens of the Common
wealth. hold that the church session, Pres
bytery, Synod and General Assembly have no
right, either from the Bible, or from the Consti-
tgtion of the Church, nor from the Constitution
of the United States, to handle or conclude any
thing that is not ecclesiastical or spiritual that
Christ is the sole and only and the Supreme head
of the Church, which is his body his spouse,
the family and kingdom of God and consc-
quently that the Church has nothing to do with
the politics of the hour.


l have never asked which was the popular
side Of any question. l have never stopped to
CONT the number of tn, hast opposed to my
views but always have tried to know what God
said on the sabject. | have, therefore, studied
his holy wold. and tried to teach you what it has
taught me.


What was DR.. Scott doing when he was
slandering Henry Clay9 Preaching the word
IF God Was he leaving secular and civil
matters then 20 citizens of the common
wealth? Was he when he compared the
infamous wretch Davis to Washington p
Was he trying to teach them what God 5
holy word had taught him? Has he been
clear of having nothing to do with the pei
itics of the hour, confning himself to his
duty of preaching the word of God?
Year: 1861

REMovAL.-The editorial and count
ing room Of the DsHocaAr AND NEws will be
found hereafter in the second story OF Grigg's
block, Perry street The entrance 10 at the
main doorway. Office at the head OF the
fight, first door on the left.
Year: 1861

The above table shows an increase in the re-
ceipts Of nearly go 600 bushels during the weak,
AID Of the shipments about 10000 bushela.


Under good export demand at New York, and
a material improvement in prices, the market for
spring wheat was active and buoyaat; but in con
sequence Of 3 very material advance In freights
the upward tendency WAS checked; and under tho
influence Of reaction in the East, prices close st
a decline On the week Of 5D6c per bushel


4 large proportion Of the receipts Of spring
wheat is still Of the old crsp, and in some por~
rions Of the country the stock is by no mesns ex
haueted. The aew spring wheat is OF very excel
lent quality, and It is in especial demand By New
York ahtppers-


The supply Of Red Winter Wheat is dsily in
c1aatipg, and owing to an active demand by chip
pers the market has been buoyant and prices ruled
shade higher than at the dste OF oar last weekly
review; but yesterday and to-day, owing to dull
markets East and an advance in freight., the Ar
ket has declined 4@5c per bushel. White Wheat
hes beer scarce and in good demand both by mill.
ers End shippers


We quote the closing prices Of all grades OF
Year: 1861

CoNsTANsTINoPLE, Dec. 81, 1860.


Letters which ! have received to-day by express
(Tartar express) from Persia, bring startling
news | have already informed you that the Per-
slams have been carrying on, for some time, almost
a war of determination against the Turkomans,
who have always kept certain portions of empire in
terror by their warlike and predatory habits. The
Persians have hitherto been successful, and have
gained several importan. victories; but great
battle has just been fought by the main body of
the Persian army, some 10000 strong, and large
force of Turkomans, in which the Persians, under
the Prince Hanna MirZa-the chief military officer
of the empire-were utterly routed, and the great
part of the army either killed or taken prison
ers.


The Shah is terribly exasperated by this defeat,
and publicly declares that he will tear out the bow
els of Prince Hanna Mira with his own hands,
and cause to be put to death all the soldiers who
may have escaped alive.


1t cannot yet be known what effect this defeat
will have upon the Persian empire, but it would
not be surprising if it led to serious connections,
and perhaps the overthrow ofthe present dynasty.
1t is impossible, however, to calculate with any
certainty the results of any such thing here in the
East. You know exactly what to expect
from Orentals.


PROGRESS OF THE BULGARIAN MOVEMENT.


The excitement among the Bulgarians is on the
increase. The Porte has refused to accede to their
demands for new national church organization,
and is doing its best to reconcile them to the Greek
patriarch, but there is no spirit of concession
either side and no hope of relief in this direction
100000 Bugarians solemnly declare that they will
never again submit to the oppressive rule of the
Greek church, and they will not.


The Catholics, who had hoped to gain this ma
ton as whole by allowing them to retain all their
own religious forms, language and everything else
they desired, with this simple stipulation that they
should acknowledge the supremacy Of the Pope
are beginning to despair. They have now adopted
another policy, and are circulating everywhere
among the Bugarians papers for signature, declar.
ing that the individual signers will come over to
them in case the Porte does not yield to their de.
mands.


In this way, regret to say, they are meeting
with much success, but for the most part among
the more ignorant casses-who neither know nor
care about names, provided they can nationalize
their church, and get away from Greek oppres
sion.


The movement, as whole, is a most extraordi,
nary one. | doubt whether the world has ever
seen such a movement before. Here are 5,000,0 ,00C
of people-mostly agriculturists-rising up in
body to throw off the yoke of church which they
have learned to hate, and willing to 60 anywhere
to escape from their present position.


1t is nothing but the bugbear of Russian intrigue
which prevents the Porte from granting the re
quest for separate organization, 1t is to be fear
ed, however, that they have not the sense to see
the folly of refusing so just demand.


ThaE III = nth nEoC C,.ur -
Year: 1861

of last evening says:


The greatest CONSERVATION excited in the
northern part of the city yesterday, by suicidal
act of a nature more than ordinarily distressing.
young wife and mother, whose remarkable charms
of person and manner are within the recollection
of a large circle of acquaintances, in fit of tenn
porary arrangement, cut her throat with a razor,
dying almost Immediately. She had been married
about fifteen months, and at the time of her death
was residing with her father and husband, (both
Department clerks,) on Tenth street, between G
and H. On Thanksgiving eve she gave birth to a
child, since which time she has been very ill, at
periods delirous, and had threatened oput an end
to her existence that it had been deemed advisa
BILE to keep everything from her reach by which
she could do herself bodily injury. Yesterday,
about l x p NJ, while the family were at dinner,
she managed to make her way unobserved to an
upper room, where she obtained razor and drew
it across her throat with so much determination O
purpose to put an almost immediate end to heI
existence. Dotted she was by her husband
and parents, their distress may be imagined. She
a truly amiable woman, and worthy member
of the Church of the Ascension. Her marriage al
this church some fifteen months ago, with every
circumstance auspicious of a happy future, was
chronicled in the Star at the time, and the an
nouncement is doubtless in the memory of many o
Onr readers
Year: 1861

A woman in St Louis, the daughter of wealthy
narents, and highly accomplished, was picked up
few davs since in the streets of that city in state
of intoxication, and taken to the station-house
Year: 1861

AN lTINERANT GHOST.-The prevailing SEN
satlon at Cleveland is phantom of variable
form and size which occasionally perambulates
the streets of that city, after ''the witching
hour OF night" to the intense terror of some
score or more of timid persons who have en-
Jeyed glimpse of his ghostship, and the in
dlgnatlon OF still greater number who irrev-
erently regard the nocturnal visitant as mis-
creant worthy only of summary punishment.
Ihe latest doings of the apparition are thus re-
lated by the Cleveland Herald of Saturday:


So much indignation has been excited by his
reported doings that on Tuesday night about
one hundred and fifty persons were on watch
tor him. Many of the watchers were armed
with pistols, and from at least some of them
the ghost would have met a warm reception.
No one prepared for an encounter has vet been
so fortunate as to obtain a sight of the white
sheeted individual


On Tuesday evening young man, clerk in a
Sqperlor-st store, was walking up Erie street,
when he suddenly beheld the ghost few feet
to his right. The figure, he says, was 10 feet
In hight, and moved smoothly and noiselessly
along The yeung man remembers nothing
more until he found himself lying on the
ground, the ghost nowhere to be seen. He had
tainted


In the same neighborhood two boys encoun-
tered the pretended apparitIon few nights
since. Picking up heavy stone, one of the
boys followed the figure, which was retreating
towards an alley Just as the ghost turned
into the alley, the boy threw his stone, and
with such correct aim that it struck the figure
full in the back. groan, unearthly enough,
6ut too vigorous for any but sound lungs of
flesh and blood, was the response.


Perhaps the ghost was admonished bv this
adventure that bis nocturnal perambulations
might De attended occasionally by dissgreeabIe
circumstances Certain it is that when man
encountered it the next night, and proceeded
to administer the castigation it so richly de-
serves, the ghost produced a most substantial
cudgel, with which he dealt his chastiser
blow that sent him reeling to the ground.


There are various accounts of the appear
ance OF the figure. Some assert that when first
seen 1T is no larger than an ordinary man, but
Immediately expands or enlarges to double
people as this miscreant has done, and the
person who catches and Furnishes the fellow
viii deserve the thanks Of the community.
Year: 1861

On a sudden the trees quivered all over, and
two sturdy cables rushed at each other. These
cables We're the two inveterate foes hanging by
the last ring of their tails each to a branch,
entwined in each others folds, like cemented
stones of bridge; and poised above the abyss
below. Sometimes they formed o convex, and
and at other times cOncave arch, and they re-
mained motionless awhile; yet even during
their apparent immobility they would crush
and pound each others rings, and under this
seeming calm there was rage despair, and
gnashing of teeth The body of one of the
boas must drop lleess to the ground, and the
other fall asleep beside his vanquished foe.


The struggle had lasted for about quarter
Of an hour, when the two champions, as if by
mutual agreement, looSened their hold of each
other, and retreated each to his former station,
till the hostties should be resumed. The war
cry was a kind of Slided hiss but more pro-
longeG than the two first we had heard, after
which both monsters slid down the smooth
trunk of the tree they had chosen for the field
of battle, and then followed violent attack
as rapid as Iightnings fierce onslaught, and
the last agonies Of one Of the combatantS SEEM
ed almost simultaneous. One of the reptiles
had drawn his adversary within his vortex,
and the rings OF his tail were relaxing their
hold by slow degrees The bodies OF the two
monsters we're now side 10y side, and stretched
at full leugth One was motionIesS the 9th.
er more agitated, and after carefully coling
himself round the tree, he at length Stllled his
adversary within his deadly embrace.
Year: 1861

The Columbiad of Paxihan pronounced
pay -zan) is large gun, designed principally
for firing shells--it being far more accurate
than the ordinary shot mortar.


A mortar is g. very short cannon with q
large bore, some of them thirteen inches in
diameter. for firing shells. Those in use in
our army are set at an angle OF forty.fve de-
grees. the range of these shells is varied by
altering the charge of powder. The shell is
cauSed to explode at just about the time that
it strikes, BY reaus of a fuse. the length OF
which is adjusted to the time OF flight to be
occupied by the ball. which, of course, cor
responds with the range. The accuracy with
which the time of the turning Of o fuss can
be adjusted by varying its length is surprising !;
good artillersts generally succeed in hav-
ing their shells explode almost ct the exact
instant of striking. In loading mortar, the
shell is carefully dropped in, and when the piece
is discharged, the shell is completely enveloped
with fame, SO that the fuse is nearly always
fired. The fuse is made by filling wooden
cylinder being of sufficient leagth for the long.
est range to be cut down shorter for shorter
ranges as required.


A Dahgren gun is an ordinary cannon, eZ-
cept that it is made very thick at tha breech
for three or four feet, when IL tapers down
sharply to less that the usual size. This form
was adopted in consequence Of the experiments
of Captain Dahlgren, of the Usitcd States
Navy, having shown that when gun bursts
it usually gives way at the breech. The Nj
agara is armed with those guns, and at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard there are sixty, weigh.
ing about nine thousand pounds each, and
six Of twelve thousand pounds weight each,
the former Of which are capable OF carrying
a nine inch, and the latter a ten-lnch shell q
distance or two or three miles and there is
one gun of this patent which weighs fifteen
thousand nine hundred and sixty pounds, and
is warranted to send an eleven-inch she'll four
miles.


4 casemate is q stone roof to q fort made
sufficiently thick to resist the force of cannon
balls, and q casemate gun is one which is placed
under a casemate.


A barbette gun is one which is placed on
the top of the foFtifcation.


An embrasure is the hole or opening through
which gaas are fixed from foTtiGcation.


Loop holes are openings in walls to Ere mus
kerry through Scicatlfc american.
Year: 1861

was quickly summond to attend Saltoun
in severe attack of delirium tremens. There
lay the strong man, raving of devils and
snakes, as he expressed it, creeping things in
Vulnerable, both small and great his face
flashed, his eyes bloodshot and glistening, his
tongue bitten through, and his black lips
streahed with foam. He was struggling with
all bis strength against imaginary demons, and
shouting at the top of his voice that he was
devil possessed, and that his timesswas come to
how they glare on me Messengers of Satin,
sent to buffet me, I'll have it out yet. On oil.
| say, crawl, crawl, creep, creep


Then would issue fearful parOxysm, and
he would make snatches at the bed clothes or
cover beneath them, or peep over the edge OF
the bed, with an expression of horror and
fright difficult to forget-murderous in its
terror 1t required the utmost efforts OF four
able men to keep hm down in bed. Now,
unless physical force be applied so as not only
to be perfectly adequate, but also to appear
overwhelming. I have always found it produc-
tive of more harm than good so after repeat
ed trials, [ adopted the plan of keeping him
in o recumbent position by means OF q strong
webbing across his chest. which was fastened
down to the two sides of the bed. He made
several attempts, when he broke loose by
accident, to throw himself out OF the win
dow


He told me afterwards that he perfectly
remembered this, and that he did it, not for
the desire of suicide which he afterwards eX-
pcrienccd but that he felt the conviction Of
being able to float painless on the air His
screams and yells were awful. and when the!
ceased he gabhled incessantly-it seemed a
verita6e diarrhUa of words. sometimes in
senseless solloQuy, sometimes in ejaculation
addressed to the imaginary being who crowded
his chamber impIoring their pity, or depre-
eating their insults throughout, c0nciaus-
ness was broken up into fragments. exhibiting
an utter abScerce of that alternative contlnu-
ity which l have had occasion to remark as
present in genuine insanity.


In brain fever the same incoherency is gen
orally noticeable. When he became little
more quiet, he was prey to sort of uaiYer-
sal dread, in which every form, every sound
all the relation of the existence seemed TO IN
spire him with Il nameless fear. For this he
did not attempt 20 assign any reasonable
cause ; and it was pitable to see how he would
start and tremble even at the shutting OF o
door or the entrace OF his servant into the
room The delrium ran its course, leaving
him in q state of settled election, for days he
would, If allowed, sit dumb and motionless,
apparently without desire or will bis arms
folded, his head sunk on his chest, and his
eyes fixed Oh the gronnd with an epreSSlon OF
the deepest gloom the utmost that Guild be
extracted from him in reply to any question
was " yes" or " no ."-H0race Salon" IN the
C0rnhH Magazine.
Year: 1861

MoTHERs.-God has 50 ordered It that most
great men have owed their best qualities to
noble mothers The mother Of Napoleon was
distinguished for courage. The mother Of
Washington was famous for frmness. John
Wesleys pety, firmness and conscientiousness
were traits inherited directly from his mother.
Is any achievement in war, or art, or letters,
greater than this Of giving to the world man
whose deeds leave their impress upon the age?
Can there be any object Of ambition greater
nobler, more inspiring, and more purifying
than this, which should animate the soul Of
every true mother so to train her child that
in whatsoever place God Ray put him, he shall
do mans work in the world
Year: 1861

PREDIcT1oNS FOR 186l.-The year 1861 will
be q very eventfnl one-to every maiden who
gets married Throughout the whole course
of the year, whenever the moon wanes the
nights will grow dark. Whoever is in love
this year will think his mistress an angel
Whoever gets married will find ont whether II
be true He that loses his hair this year will
90 bald He that loses his wife will become
a widower If young lady should happen to
blush she will look red in the face if she dreams
Of a young man three nights in succession it
will be sign of something.
Year: 1861

The hopes of the South that the New Eng
land operatives would be brought to state
of starvation by secession schemes do not seem
to be speedily realized. On the other hand
we learn from the Boston journal that during
the past six months large additions have been
made to the Pacific Mills, the Pcmberton
Mills have been rebuilt on inlargcd scale, and
the Evertt Mills have also b1en prepared for
the manufacture of cotton. All these estab-
lishments are situated in Lawrence, will come
into full operation during the first quarter OF
the present year, and will require about $500
operatives. lthas been supposed until recently
that it would be difficult to find operatives in
New England for these great establishments,
but rs the boot and shoe business has been
overdone for some time past, il is now pre-
sumed that enough operatives will be found in
that vicinity.