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Year: 1863

New TuRNPGKE TO WAsnoE.-Wthin
few days contract has been closed with
James Culbertson to construct new turn
pike, from point about five miles above
Dutch Flat to Bowman's Ranch, on the
Henness Pass road, and branch from Bear
Valley to Omega, in Nevada coLnty. This
new location is generally known as the
"Culbertsou route" and it is claimed to be
shorter than any other route from Sacrament
to to Virginia City, and Of lighter grades.
The main road to be graded will not exceed
twenty miles and The branch five. The con-
tractor expects to be able to open the road
for travel before the first of September He
he's already one hundred and fifty laborers Ell.
gagged, and we observe is advertising for
three hundred more. This looks like busi,
ness, and gives assurance that Placer county
is soon to enjoy some of the benefits to be
derived from the large and mere; sing busi
ness of Washoe and the Humboldt re gion.


The Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon
Road is also being p2shed vigorously. The
Company want to increase their force TO
full five hundred men, and expect to COM
pee the road this season. With these two
routes open Placer courty will 'be strong
competitor for tie coveted busines bey ond
the mountains, and our neighboring town,
Dutch Flat, will be the Golden Gate through
which the business will flow
Year: 1863

qusrters unt 10 house cattle There


s no reason TO doubt that the officers selected for this


prison were those whom the cold, damp climate nd


exposure would most prejudicaly II was In fact an
attempt commit murder without publicly incurrng
the odum Of slaughter.


10 these circumstances the Confederate government
determined TO make an attempt to the doomed
officers, and for this purpose expedition fitted
consisting o thirysIx officers, under the command
Of who had distinguished himself In similar dashng
enterprises, and three hundred men, The officers en-
barked at Wilmington in the Confederate Robert
Lee and landed at Halifax. The cotton and tobacco
brought by that steamer freight sold to furnish
the funds required, amounting to about Sll0 000 The
men came overland through the States in small pares
TO the general rendezvous


The intention was to surprise the federal garrison on
Johnsons Island lDerate the prisoners convey them
Canada 10 vessels provided for that purpose forward
them by Halifax TO Nassau Bermuda greater part
Of the funds being specially devoted paying their pas
sage TO one VI these points.


ANY further operations the lakes left to the
discretion OF the officer in command whose orders
stringent and peremptory TO avoid q breach OF British
neutrality and TO take that semblance OF inter-
national wrong should be prevented. Had Jonsons
Island been taken might have formed basis for other
operations against federal the lakes but the
real object Of the expedition to thousand
valuable lives from the cruelty which had devoted them
to slow but certain death in climate and situation In the
last degree inimical to them.
Year: 1863

Treasury Chief Agent for the purchase of Cotton ol
the Confederate Government within the State OF North
Carolina and will pay for the in per cent Bends
or Cash. -
buying in my rame, will bave written certificates OF
appointment


BY order of the Secretary of the Treasury all Cot
ton purchased by myself my agents, on and after
the 18th day of March, 1862 will be paid for in per
Bonds Cash. and not per cent Bonds as stated
in former advertisement Up to that time, however,
the per cent bonds will be furnished as stated


Patriotic citizens offered opportunity to
aid the Government by selling it their Cotton rather
than to private capitalists


LEWIS S. WILLIAMS.


Charlotte March "a 1863 If
Year: 1863

What the world calls avarice is sometimes no
more than compulsory economy; and even wiful
penuriousness is better than a wasteful extrava-
gance. A just man being reproached with parsi-
mony, said that he would rather enrich his enc
mics after his death than borrow of his friends in
life time


Better to be considered stingy than too poor to
pay your debts.
Year: 1863

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FAILURE OF THE YANKEE DRAFT-The New
York World, of the 10Th, says:


The daft has proved failure or that there
can be no sort of doubt. To raise 100000 men,
100000 were conscripted, and of these less than
10000 will find their way to the army, either in
person or by proxy. There was no attempt at
open resistance to the draft except in this city and
Boston, but there was unanimous determination
among all classes of citizens to in every way evade
the provisions of the law. This was manifested
even more earnestly in strong Administration
States like Massachusetts, than in localities where
the opposition are very much stronger in numbers
The city of New York, for instance, notwithstan6-
ing the heavy list Of exemptions on account of al
ienage, will send many more men to the field in
proportion to the number drafted than any of the
New England States. This, however, is due to
the supervisors substitute fund


We will not now discuss the philosophy of this
unanimous determination to nullify the cons cript
law. 1t is enough that it is fact that there has
been no public sentiment strong enough even TO
shame the most strenuous advocates of the Ad-
ministration and its measures into Loyalty taking
upon themselves the burden of the conscription.
1t universally shirked and by none more
openly and shameIessly than those who denounced
all who doubted the wisdom of such an enact
ment.


But the question comes up, how is the Admins
tratlon to fill its armies? 1t wants men-certain-
ly not less than $50 900 more than the draft has
realized. TO another draft there are many and
serious objections. It would be submitted to, of
course; but it would naturally be looked upon as a
great hardship, and would excite serious discon-
tent Townships and private circles have been
severely tasked to relieve conscrpts, and another
consumption would be regarded as intolerable.
Year: 1863

Quite timely with the serious suggges-
tions inscparablc from either result to the
great battles in Eastern Virginia, comes the
announcement in the dispatches Of tho first
installmcnt Of appointments under the new
CONSUMPTION Law. The Government is
preparing rapidly 10 fill up the army. If
Hooker is forced to withdraw his battered
forces and retire on Washington, manifest
II our Cause will he in peril, unless large
force Of fresh recruits are thrown into the
skeleton regiments The army must be
filed up, in that unhappy contingency, for
the preservation Of the nation. But there
is no prospect that the call viii assume
such shape. We rely upon Gen. Hook
cr's success, and in that event, he must
have more men and 6 new army, with as
little delay as possible. The work he will
thus have well begun must not pause.


The conscription. is now near ut hand,
and cannot come day too soon for the cx-
1rencies Of the nation We may indeed
rce1et that it was not among the earliest
romplcted acts Of the late session Of Con,
nrcss. that the winter might hare beer
given to the pre1imina1ics that since ths
adjournment Of Congress has consumed
20 much t1mc, But the machinery vii
soon move. This time we are to hay'
none. Of the misplaced zeal Of State officer
to throw new regiments, fresh militar.
skeletons, into the field; but the old regi
1nents are to be filled up, their worn an


broken ranks are TO be infused with ncE
life and material, fresh from the people.
Year: 1863

have always believed that II the necessary en-.
ergy had been used by Secretary Chase in this
regard there need never have been the slightest
ground for complaint on the part Of the army.
30 much Of bis time, however, has been spent
10 interfering with the other branches Of the
Government, aud in controlling the conduct Of
the war, that he has had but little leisure left
to attend to the concerns Of his own depart
Year: 1863




Battle Delayed by the Rains.
The great battle, which it was expected
would be opened yesterday on the Potomac
was delayed by the Intervention of another
rainy day, doubtless the same general rain
which set in here last night. Such rainy
season as this in the middle of July is some
thing very unusual on the Potomac. Other.
wise the calculating General Lee would have
postponed his invasion of Pennsylvania for a
more convenient season. Had the weather OF
the last ten days been according to his almanac,
he would have crossed the Potomac perhaps as
much as two days In advance of our pursu-
ing army, and thus General Meade would
probably have been occupied all the summer in
catching or cutting off the enemy in their
movements for Richmond. As it is, these ex-
traordinary July rains, in swelling and in
maintaining the Upper Potomac beyond ford
able stage, from the beginning Of Lees re-
McuI tuS phCoCHs hasC UCCu duu alc
doing the service of an irresistible army in his
front, compelling him to halt and try the issue
of another battle with our victorious army in
bis rear. He is now so closely hemmed in by
our superior enveloping forces that we cannot
imagine how he can possibly escape a crush
ing disaster, whether he may try the alterna-
tive of battle by day or an escape by pom
toons under cover of the night We presume
that if the elements are favorable to-day he
will be brought TO the issue Of battle which
will finish on the Potomac the career of that
grand invading rebel army which looked for
ward but fortnight ago to the spoils and
plumber Of Philadelphia, Baltimore and WASH
ington.
Year: 1863




Hast thou arrived so far as to have foes ?
praise thee, then, for all are not yet good.
Though thou conceal it, yet be not ashamed
That thou hast foes--for he who cannot bear
To have foe, deserveth not friend.
They must be foes to thee, who fear the truth
They must be foes to thee, who twist the right
They must be foes to thee, who swerve from


honor


They must be foes to thee, who have no frien ds
But only fellows of their lawless lust /;
They must be foes to thee, who have no foes,
Because--to ensure like pardon for itself,
The world toe lightly pardons. They must be
Thy foes, whose friend thou art not. Strongly


bear


The hatred of the bad IT'S weak and vain.
And if thou standest like pure, warm beam
Ofheavenly fire, then thou shalt warm and cheer
The good and they shall link themselves to thee.
Meanwhile be thou thy foeman's truest friend,
And cease not from him with the faithful word,
With looks, example, cen with silence, long
though sore reproach to thee
He gains the highest praise of goodness, who
Knows how to win the fool to what is good.
And 10 the unhappy one has, pleading, for him,
His father and his mother, from the grave
His loves all plead for him-his children, too
His own shy glances intercede for him
A God pleads with thee for him in thy breast
:" Desist not from thy brother o my child ~


c. I. B.
Year: 1863

ern States party questions would bring
civil war between Democrats and Repub-
licans, when the South would step in
with her cohorts, aid one party to con-
quer the other, and then make easy prey
ofMe vidorS Their scheme was car
mage and civil war in the North. < x
This very dissention be warmly depre
Gated as giving victory to secession, and
thus inaugurating anarchy in its worst
form, and bringing among us all the hor-
rors of tie French revolution


Shall we permit political tricks!ers to
throw dust in our eyes and fill our ears
with more party catchHords, that they
may attain some petty political triumph,
whilst the nation goes down in the dark
sea Of anarchy and ruin? Which then
do you choose, and TO which will you be
deaf-the s)lumn warning Of the patriot
standing at the very portals of eternity,
or these latter utterances, these inham
matory appeals 10 the people against the
government, SO seditious as to starte the
loyal ear and chill the popular heart :?
Let every man answer to his conscience
and his God.


u
Year: 1863

RECOvERING.-We are more than pleased
to announce that Lieut.. Cabannis, who was
80 severely injured by being thrown from
his buggy couple of weeks since, is recov-
ering. The universal gloom that overshad-
dowed the people Of both the town and gar
rison at the time when it was thought he
could not recover, and the general joy that
has been manifested upon the news that he
is becoming convalescent, shows the high
estimation in which he is held by his large
circle Of acquaintances. VII


Teams and pack trains are still crossing
the Blue mountains on the different roads
without hindrance from the late snow storms
Year: 1863

ANOTHER IIERo.-An incident Of the siege OF
Washington is given in n letter from Massa.
chusctts officer, from which it is copied In the
Boston Post, When the pilot Of the steamer
Escort was shot in the head, he graspcd the til.
Ter for twelve minutes afterwards, steering, his
boat safely beyond the rebel battery, excaming
that if he could only take Gen. Foster safely by,
he was willing then to die. He accomplished
his wish, and nobly pcrlshed in Hic gallant per-
fOTmanCc of his duty.
Year: 1863

AMENs.-Personally, we are fond of hearty
amens In prayer and sermons. They have an
earnestness and inspiration no ways faulty"
Yet they are sometimes strangely put In. The
other evening at the missionary ratification
meeting in New York, Bishop James was speak
ing, and incidentally observed that he hoped
to come to the point of his speech-aAmen,"
cried good brother, causing burst of laugh
ter, in which the Bishop joined. One preach
er was struggling in the bush for half an hour.
At length he extricated himself, and to one of
his first appeals came "Amen" The preacher
looked over the pulpit and said in low tone,
IF you had said that half an honr ago it would
have helped me-now can get along without
it.-lNor Western Advocate.
Year: 1863

By way Of sset Off to the good advice Of
SOUS" let me admonish him, in closing, to at
tend little closer to his legitimate duties;
and not to get into a passion unless he is
"waked up;" and when again he acts the
knight-errant to be sure that his cause is real
and not imaginary.


Yours very truly, SUBALTERN.
Year: 1863

DY inquiry at this once. or No % Exchange ST.,
ID one can hear of chance TO buy MILK
ROUTE" in which there Is not q customer who has
failed to pay his monthly biHs. favorable chance
Is thus offered to any who may wish to engage In
the business. or to enlarge his present route"


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Year: 1863

No rm.-Notwithstanding the close
proximity to the first station house of
Messrs. Jones 4 Childrcy's store, which was
partially burned yesterday, the alarm bel
was not sounded to call togt ther the iremen
until after one or two companies had reach
ed the scene of confagration with their ma
chimes, and had put streams Of water upon
the fire. A fireman reports that he went to
the station-house to have the bell ruDg, but
finding the door locked and no one present
to admit him, he procured a ladder, entered
q window, and rang the bell.


At a meeting Of the City Council some
few weeks since Mr.. Scott made an effort tu
secure the appointment Of officers to attend
tho station houses at all hours Of the day,
but was defeated. Surely the Council Will
now see the importance of having these Off
GERS, and will appoint them. The city has
no place where u policeman can be found al
all hours, however urgent the necessity nor
has it any guard at the station-houscs to pre-
vent prisoners from escaping from them
during the day. 1t needs officers to be in
place at all times, and tho sooner they are
appointed the better for the public
Year: 1863

A RARE lssrANcE.-The bill for our usual supply of
printing ink from W. g. Johnson of Columbia, s. G. Is
accompanied BY note calling attention to the fact
unparalleled in these days-that the proprietor has rs


I'd his prices Mr. johnson candidate for quarters in
the Lunate Asylum of his beautiful City or does be real


entertain such an old fashioned article as coascnce


the way it ia right to say that his ink is the best
we have been able to obtain in the Conederacy though
we need not tell readers that is not as good as
could wish.-FayetteoiAs Observer =


We concur with the Observer that Mr. johnson deserves
marked credit for reducing his prices at time like this
We have been using his ink for some time It isebean
enough considering the price Of every thing else and Is
as good an article of the kind we presume as can be OBJ
tanned 10 the South, ..--z.
Year: 1863

Mr.. sturgiss desires us to say Tor
him that he is not candidate tor the
above, or any other office.


We learn from him that he con-
sented some time since, at the request
Of many friends, that his name should
be printed on the County Ticket as
at that time there was no other per-
son spoken of for the office, but since
that several candidates have come
out, and as it is too small an office
to canvass for, or to 90 to any en-
pcuse to obtain, he would say to all
that he dees not aspire to the posi-
ton.


We do not see that Mr.. s. would
be much Of a gamer by being elected :,
as we learn from Mr.. Wade that it
has not paid one cent during the last
five months; and as he had no inten-
ton of announcing himself as can
didate, or of working for the office,
he leaves the way clear for all who
desire the position.
Year: 1863

A man that cannot pass an even
ing withou drink merits the name Of
a sot. Why should there be drink
for the purpose of carrying on con-
versation +? Women stand in need
of no drink to stimulate them to con-
verse; and have a thousand times
admired their patience, in sitting SO
quietly at their work while their
husbands are engaged in the same
room, with bottles and glasses before
them, thinking nothing of the ex-
pense, and still less of the shame the
distinction reflects upon them. We
have to thank the women for many
things, and particularly for their
strictly sober habits. Men drive
them from the table, as if they said
to them: You have had enough /;
feed is sufficient for you; but we will
have to remain to fill ourselves with
drink, and to talk in languagewbich
your ears ought not to endure. =
When women are getting up to re-
tire from the table, men rise in honor
of them; but they take special care
net to follow their e1cellsnt exam
p1o
Year: 1863

Goop-BY TO GoD.-We do not uSt
now remember who it was that first
said God made the country, man
the city, IF there are any places
on earth from which God is thorough
" banished, they are to be found in
the great city. This leads the way
to the following story:


a child aged three years was
witnessing preparations for trip in
to the city, and got quite excited at
the idea. She had been looking on
to see her little things packed in the
trunk, and her head was full Of the
matter. On being called to say her
prayers before going to bed: she went
through the recital very sweetly, and
at the close she added, with the ut
most simplicity ;" Now, good-hy Mr..
God, I'm going to Boston in the
morning, to be gone two weeks.
Year: 1863

One WORD TO YOUNG MEN.-There
is divinity that stirs within you.
God has implanted in each of your
bosoms sense Of honor. Never vio-
late it. Stand up with the frmness
of a granite pillar-of promontory
which through unknown ages has
withstood the fury Of the clements
against the charms and fascinating
pleasures of q sinful world. They
dazzle but to bewilder they smile
but to deceive. Do this, and you
will be prosperous You will have
peace, honor, and dignity you will
be classed with the wise and good.
You may be poor, but you will pos
sess what is worth more than gold :,
true nobility of mind and character
You will tread the upward path Of
virtue you will win an immortal
prize. O young man, follow your
higher nature, and you will fashion
for yourself a diadem more precious
than ever adorned the brow of an
earthly potentate.
Year: 1863

The conservative party through
out the country is pledged firmly to
the Union cause. The radical party
is everywhere engaged in sowing the
seeds of disurion by teaching the
people that the Union as it was is
not to be desired, and that we are
fighting for some new government
which is to be constructed The only
rule of faith ought to be the Constl-
tuition, the sole object OF the war
ought to be the old Union. That Is
worth fighting for. But as for new
vague. underlined government to suit
radicals, that is not worth fighting
for. Let us keep the war to its true
purposes.-JournoZ Of Commerce.
Year: 1863

&s- 1t would be great favor to us,
and qualification to the people generally, II the
superintcnGents would exert themselves little
to send lis an early report Of the election at the
different precincts in the county. We would
like to publish the full vote in our issue Of Satur-
day, goth inst. -ssS
Year: 1863

A CERTAIN, newspaper in Cleve-
land, Ohio, having advertised that
they would send a copy Of their pa
per gratis for one year, to any one
who would send them a club Of ten
received the ten spot Of clubs from q
young lady in that country.
Year: 1863

"The desire here is that the Northern people
may taste the bitter dose SO fully administered to
the people Of the South, that they too may the
better appreciate the blessings of peace, which
wc"have been SO barbarously deprived. There is
but one sentiment in this section, and that is
peace, but it must be upon such terms as involves
no surrender of honor, an everlasting separation
from the North.-Salisbu,y Watchnaan


Yes, "everlasting separation from the NORTH
that's the only way we ever have permanent
peace, 1t seems impossible that any southern man
who is not crazy, should desire a reunion with
people who have acted like savages and have
done everything they could to incitc insurrection
among our negroes.
Year: 1863




lowing from the Milton Chronicle


Col. BROWN AGAINST REcoNsTRUcrIoN.-
We are authorized by the Hon. Bedford Brown to
state that any impression sought to be made either
from party prejudice or from misapprehension of
his remarks, that he had advocated reconstruc-.
ton of the old Union, is entirely destitute of
foundation. Believing as he did that the destruc-
ton of the Federal Union would bring incalcula-
bic calamities the country he opposed itewith
whatever ability he could till Lincoln resorted TO
coercion. That being in conflict with his State
Right doctrines, he voted for secession in the Con-
vention; for the largest means of men and money,
both in the Convention and Legislature, to resist
it, besides having voted with his colleagues for
resolutions before the Legislature explicitly de-
claring against reconstruction. More than this,
he has, in answer to numerous enquiries as to the
question of reconstruction, uniformly declared
that he believed it impracticable and undesirable,
after the violent civil and internal war which had
ragged between the two sections.


Thus it will be that this gentleman is no
reconstructionist and we hope people will stop
doing him the injustice to represent him recon
structionist. 1t is a slander on the man, the.
county, the State, the South.-1lHton Chronicle.
Year: 1863

RuMoRED FIGHT IN NORTH CARoLrNA- Passen,
gers from lvor yesterday afternoon brought up
report that the expedition Of negro troops which
left Norfolk in the early part of last week for a
raid in the Albemarie region of North CarOlna
and who have been reporied in the Northern papers
as being in possession of Elizabeth City, were met
by our forces under Col. Gritfin somewhere In tho
vicinity of Elizabeth City or South Mills, and
fight came of on Saturday last. The result they
could not learn.-PeterSburg E1press.