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Year: 1862

On Friday last 10th instant, Lucien Gas
nier, in accordance with a sentence which
had been pronounced by the peoples court,
was executed at Auburn, in the Powder
river mines, As will be seen by the de-
tails of the trial, published in this issue, he
was arraigned and tried without the regular
formula of law, and executed without the
authority of judicial court. In the alb
sence of these regulations, it seems the
people of Auburn felt called upon to take
the matter in hand, and make final dispo-
sition of it. Accordingly the prisoner was
arraigned, the case investigated and passed
upon by jury of twelve men, the prisoner
being allowed the assistance of counsel
After the verdict of guilty was rendered by
the jury, we are informed the question was
taken by the mass of the people, and the
verdict was unanimously affirmed. 1t was
an aggravated case of murder and we are
in no wise disposed to censure the people
of Auburn for their prompt and decisive
action in the matter Although the evil
dence of the prisoners guilt was altogether
circumstantial, it was of that character
which did not admit even the possibility of
a doubt in his favor He has expiated his
crime upon the gallows-a crime the enor-
nifty of which rarely finds parallel among





civilized people. 1t is well-both because
the crime merited the punishment, and be-
cause it will leave a most salutary influence
in the community of Auburn. 1t will be a
warning to desperadoes more potent than
bars and cells, and will drive from their
minds the satisfying reflection that prisons
in a new town like Auburn are but the
criminals shield, and the long journey nee
essary to be taken for trial by the courts,
but gratuitous and agreeable passport to
perhaps better field for the exercise of
their villainous propensities.
Year: 1862

WE TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO
our old patrons and the public of Oregon and
Washington Territory generally that after two years
business we have established trade and facilities for
importing our line of goods that defes competition;
also, that we are selling goods in our line at San
Francisco Prices, and guaranteeing them to be
genuine stock being at all times subject to the
strictest chemical nalyzation.
Year: 1862

PROVISION SUPPLY.-Many of the peo-
pie in the Powder river country have de-
itermined net to rely upon the trade for their
supply of winter provisions, and have en-
ployed emigrant teams by giving the team
.sters certain per cent. of their cargo, to
haul in their supplies This is wise pre-
caution, and beneficial alike to the emigrant
and the miner.
Year: 1862

One of the most inconceiyablc things in
tho nature OF the brain is that the organ Of
sensation should in itself he insensiblc. 10
cut the brain gives no pain. yet in the brain
alone resides the power of feeling pain in any
other part of the body. II the nerve which
leads from il to the injured part be divided,
1t becomes instantly unconscious OF suffer-
ing. 1t is only by communication with the
brain that any kind Of sensation is produced
yet the organ itself is insensible. But there
is circumstance more wonderful still. The
brain itself may bo remoyed-may be cut
away down the corpus edidsm without dc.
stroying life. The animal lives and performs
all its functions which are necessary to sim.
pie vitality, but no longer has mind; 1t
cannot think or feel: it requires that the
food should be pushed into tho stomach
Once there, it is digested and the animal will
thrive and grow fat. Wcmust infer, there
fore, from these facts. that the part Of the
brain, the commissions, is simply intended
for the exercise Of the intellectual faculties.
or exalted kind bestowed on man, tho gill OF
reason,
Year: 1862

Yeomen, leave the furrowed sod


Arm and drill
Fight for Freedom and Its God


Arm and drill
You may do more service now,
Than by guiding spade or plow-
Abraham has told you how


Arm and drill
Students, close at once your books


Arm and drill
For your help the nation looks


Arm and drill
SEQ our land with treason rife
without honor, what is llfe'
Do the foremost IN the strife


Arm and drill
Northmen. think OF Bunker IIlll-


Arm and drill
Green Is Warren's memory still


Arm and drill.
To your history be true,
Let no traitorous Zoe subdue,
For tho red, aud whlte, and blue


Arm and driH!
Year: 1862

~ The work Of cutting down the Fed
eral tax bill has begun Everybody wants
to see his ncighbor taxed, but is anxious
that his own burden shall be light For
particulars see our special Washington dis
patches.
Year: 1862

DR.. HosrETTER's STOMACH BITTERs Wherever
there is dyspepsia, they are in demand. Nor is it
for Indigestion alone that they are specific
Every disorder of the stomach. the liver. the
bowels and the nervous system, seems to yield to
their influence. They are an antidote to pain;
they refresh and reinforce the exhausted animal
powers; they counteract the morbid principles
Of disease they regulate the whole vital machine
ry, and may be justly termed the strongest ally
that science has ever brought to the aid Of nature
in her struggle with sickness. Sold hy Druggists
and dealers everywhere. Aug. Is, '62.-lm
Year: 1862

japanese Salve.-Ths article is proved to
be the bcst for the cure of the various complaints
for which it is recommended, that is known. 1t
can be used with the most perfect safety. and
will work like charm proving the fact that
great good has resulted by the opening of trade
with the japanese. See advertisement.
Year: 1862

stand from under. This is not the time to
speculate in the interests Of this or that pO-
lltlcai faction for the time has now arrived
when all cur concentrated efforts are needed
TO restore our beloved country TO its former
glory, and to throw around it such safeguards
as will prevent the scenes of to-day from oc-
curing at any future period, however re-
mote. Yours truly, RIB
Year: 1862

WELL PUT.-A cotemporary says :-ssPrOh-
ably when our people drafted to go South
to encoun ter the bullets of the rebels and IL G
diseases of the swampS, they will come to the
conclusion that negro is no better than
white man that in this contest the colored
people have as good right TO be shot as the
whites''
Year: 1862

An old farmer tells us that it is a singular
fact that there are few no crows now in the
country hereabouts. They have all disappear
ed. Where have they gone To the horrid
banquet in Virginia !-Hartford Times.
Year: 1862

The LOWER CLAss.-Who are they The
toilng millions, the laboring men and women,
the farmer, the mechanic, the artist, the in
ventor, the producer Far from it. These
are natures noblity-Godis favortes-the
salt of the earth. No matter whether they
are high or low in station, rich or poor in pelf,
conspicuous or humble in position, they are
the s'upper circle'' in the order of nature,
whatever the Fictitious distinction of fashion
able society. 1t is not low; it is the highest
duty, privilege, pleasure for the great men and
the whole souled women to earn what they
possess, TO work their way through life, to be
the architects of their own fortune. Som Q
may remark the classes have alluded to
are only relatively low. and in fact the middle
classes. We insist that they are absolutely
the very highest. Is there a class of beings
on earth who may properly be denominated
low If so, it is composed of those who con-
sumo without producing, who dssipate the
earnings of their fathers or relatives without
laboring or doing anything themselves.
Year: 1862

The arguments and appeals for the Intervention
and recognition in England are stronger than we
could suppose, from The revelations and utterances
of opinion permitted to reach US through the
selections of the Northern press. We simply
mention the fact, and do not wish to express an
opinion We believe if we had shown less desire
for recognition and more active 'exertions in and
for ourselves, recognition would have been ere
this accorded.


The London Standard, of the 22d October,
devotes a leader of nearly two columns to this
topic. We quote the following:


.sEyerv circumstance that ever justified inter-
vention iustlhes it in the case of America No
war was ever such nuisance to the neutral world
No attempt to subjugate reluctant people was
ever less excusable or more helpless The South
is ineomparably more worthy of aid than we're the
Greeks .or the Begians; the Federal Government
is infinitely less respectable than Holland and its
present mode of vaging war more barbarous than
that of Sultan Mahommed. .a


If ever joint intervention was required it is
in this case, and in preventing or holding aloof
from it, England Eeglects her duty and her honor.
We should have right to interfere alone in aid
of a good cause and kindred people--in vindica-
tion of humanity and of national freedom-and
it would clearly be our interest to doso, for peace
costs US more than war would cost. But we have
scarcely the right to withhold others from doing
the duty from which we shrink; and If We allow
them to do it without US we shall risk our place
among the great powers, as surely as Prussia and
Austria did BY their pusilanimous behavior in
1854.
Year: 1862

TIE MILITARY MASSACRE IN Missouri
Some time ago we published statement from a
New York paper, that Brig. Gen McNeal, of the
United States Army, had caused ten Confederate
prisoners to be shot at Palmyra, in Missouri, be-
cause tory citizen Of that State had been captured
by our forces and carried off prisoner We now
have full particulars of the massacre from the
Palmyra Courier, a Union paper. 1t is tale of
dcmonsm and horror, such The annals of the
had not before paralleled. 1t is a much
worse case for the enemy than the account hereto
fore published; for, with all its bitterness and
opposition, the Courier clearly shows Allsmau to
have been Legitimate prisoner of war, as well as
that most odious and detestable of characters,
spy and informer against his neighbors.


We take it for granted that this diabollcal
slaughter of our soldiers will be suitably avenged,
and we publish the story at full length, that our
readers may understand the merits of the case.
We shall expect to hear that the Confederate
military in Missouri have already made severe re-
taliation for the enormous atrocity
Year: 1862

THE DISTRESS IN ENGLAND.-English
papers give narrowing details of the distress and
destituion in the manufacturing districts, result
ing from the American and the want OF cotton
These papers also show that the desires, and
expectations, and opinions of the yeomanry, and
the manufacturing classes, are decidedly in favor
of Intervention or recognition any other action
which they suppose would remove the evil. In
the moneyed class and capitalists, there is shrewd
desire of turning the difficulty to account by pro-
noting and forcing the growth or supply of some
substitute for cotton. 1t will be we'll, at least
pending the war, for Confederate citizens to plant
little cotton and to provide for using at home as
much as possible of what is grown


London paper says:


'The approach of winter in connection with the
Lancashire distress is very much feared, and 1t is
thought Government will have to resort to some
extraordinary financial expedlents to relieve the
misery"


The vast losses incurred by the great gale OF the
10Th and goth October, falling chiefly on the col
liers, and coasters and carriers of limited means,
may largely increase the distress or extend II to
other classes.
Year: 1862

THE COSDITIoS.-Amos Kendall. in late
letter. stated the condition of things to be this


There is but one safe course for the Gov.
ernment TO pursue, and this is to disregard all
party affiliations, and adhere firmly to the pro-
gramme originally announced, viz: The prose
cution of the war for the sole object of pre-
serving the Constitution and the Union with
the rights of the States intact to be followed
by peace as soon as these objects can be at
tanned. If there be not frmness enough in the
Administration to do this, We are on a sea Of
revolution with scarcely hope of ever again
reaching the haven of unity and peace"


The Republican party is not content with
the unanimous support accorded the Admins
tration, under its declared policy as above, al
though it sees the rebellion in swift and certain
process OF destruction. With the hope of in
ducing the Administration to adopt a more
ultra policy. they desire the people to pledge
themselves in advance, to sustain whatever
policy may be adopted in this connection. If
they can betrav the patriotism of the people
into such course, it will be an easy task to
crowd a more ultra policy on the Administra-
tion, and launch the Government on a sea of
revolution. Why should not the people ex.
hibit the firmness in opposition to the tricks of
politicians, that they expect and require of the
Administration
Year: 1862

THE FoURTH.-But for the fact that we have a
patriotic military company in OroYlle. it is more
than probable that the anniversary of American
Independence would not have visited Oroville the
present season. The guards, however, intend that
the occasion shall not pass without due observance.
national salute from the Oroville battery will
announce the break of day, after which the guard
will make their appearance for parade. In the
evening they will give ball their armory, which
will not fail to be pleasant and agreeable affair
much more so than the balls with which they VIII
pepper the rebels when they shall be mustard into
service.
Year: 1862

FLuME DowN.-We are informed by Mr.. Hewett
agent of the Feather River and Ophir Water Com
pany, that their high dume at Woodman's Ravne
fell down at about three O'Clock, on Sunday morn
ing last. The hume was erected in So, and decayed
TO such an extent to be considered unreliable
and the work OF carrying the water around it had
already commenced. Timber for the new fume
had been foated through it, which, it is supposed
FASTENED its downfall. 1t will require about two
weeks time to again have the water running in
their main ditch We understand that it will be
necessary to rebuild most Of the fumes on the main
ditch during the present year.
Year: 1862

SOME two or three weeks since, when we
said that the Republicans should be deducted
from the estimate of the Union men ia the
Northern States, as they were only condition
ally loyal, the Marysville Appeal and Mountain
Messenger took it in high dudgeon, ard went
in" to the full extent of their impotent wrath.
If they have had time to " cool their copper,
will they do US the kindnss to read Governor
Andrews response to the Secretary of War,
and say, if they can, that there is no condl-
tional loyalty in it? Hope you will not
consider this request heavy draft on your
patriotism
Year: 1862

DECIDEDLY DRY-Oroville has heretofore been
supplied with water from the ditch, the break in
which has cut off the supply. We understand that
Mr. Garriott Will soon start his steam pump TO fill
the reservoir. In preparing the pump for service,
the pipe extending to the river found to be bu
ried in bed of sand, above which was water to
the depth of twelve fee:.
Year: 1862

SHOULD the Republicans succeed in making
the people Of the United States believe that
they are Union party We shall lose faith in
the promised Christian resurrection, as we
should consider them smart enough to "swindle
the angel Gabriel out Of bis horn" particular
y, if they happened to be the ruling power, and
there was any money in the Government
Treasury
Year: 1862

some of the apologists for Cameron's pecu-
lations say he done the best for the Govern
ment he could under the circumstances 1t
was, probably, the great success of riled con-
non and patriotic determination on the part
of the Republican Secretary of War to place
every possible improvement in artillery at the
disposal of the Government, that induced him
to rife the Government Treasury
Year: 1862

HARvEsT.-Most of our farmers are engaged in
the harvest field gathering in the golden grain Of
which there Is said to be excellent yield. Major
Bidwell viii. we understand harvest about one
thousand acres Of wheat which, it is thought will
yield bat little less than forty thousand bushels


The backward spring seems to have benefited the
grain crop.
Year: 1862

should be in the possession Of everybody in the
mining region As a preventative of the va7ioHs
dangerous diseases to which the gold seeker la
Die, II has no superior. While is quite pslaable
As beverage, it Is speedy and powerful in It's effect
upon the system. In all cases Of DiarrhGa. Dysen-
terry and the prevailing feve-S consequent upon
exposure. the BiIters viii be found Invaluable as q
corrective NJ man should enter upon the exposed
camp life Of miner without being provided with
Hostetter's preventive OF stomach disease. nor
should any of those who are engaged in the occupa-
tion fail TO have recourse to the Biters. Sold by
al. Druggists and dealers everywhere.
Year: 1862

A COMMERCIAL paper estimates from reliable
data, that the total liabilities of Southern 10
Northern traders is about three hundred mil
lion OF dollars. Probably but small portion
of this debt will ever be paid
Year: 1862

The Republicans. in dropping their distinc.
tive political appellation. exhibited the shrewd.
ness Of the chap who turned his stocking wrong
side outward, because the other side had a
hole in it
Year: 1862

THE Republicans imagine that by changing
the name of their party from Republican to
Union, that they are iron plating their rotton
old Republican hulk. The new craft will be
propelled by Republican scs.lle
Year: 1862

ssrWho has not heard of SANDS SARsArARILLA,
How many have cause to be thankful that il has
cured their ailments, raised them from a bed of
sickness to the enjoyment of health and strength
We wish every one to benefit by it-but caution is
against it by the cupidity of others and numerous
preparations of 50 called Sarsaparlla" 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

LEASau slAS Aluiallet jlliai 4fQELu ALleFlcAl3


Just as we supposed would be the case,
the pressure Of the war in the Atlantic
States is having the effect Of stimulating
the overland emigration to California, so
that it is now very large, and composed to
a considerable extent of those who seek to
avoid the troubles incident to the tremen-
dous conflict now raging. As the strug-
gle progresses, and the demands of the
government upon the Atlantic States for
troops increase, interfering more and more
with the regular pursuits Of industry and
commerce, of course there must be many
thousands who would gladly avail them
selves Of the refuge offered by California.
The place is too far away 10 be in danger
of attack from the Southern forces, and
too remote to be drawn upon for service
in the present war, in consequence of the
enormous cost Of transportation. The dis
couragement produced by the present dis
astrOus state Of the war, would send thou
sands to California if they could get there,
but the lateness Of the season and the re-
striction upon travel consequent upon the
preparation for a draft, operate as preven-
tiTes.


At the termination of the draft we may
expect large migratory movement to set
forth toward the Pacific. We apprehend
seriously, that the perpetual liability to
war between the Northern and Southern
sections, will be to injure the prospects of
the border states, both slave and free
The desolation which has been inflicted
upon Virginia and Missouri, and which
the rebels are now endeavoring to car
ry into the FREQ States, will undoubtedly
letter people from settling permanently in
those regions. It behOoves us, therefore,
o see that the events of this war shall re-
lieve US Of this drawback By placing future
a0ar Of a sectional character beyond the pale Of
possibility.
Year: 1862




The New York Times, after giving an
abstract of the Presidents recent proclaim
alton, speaks of it as follows


Such is the purpOrt of the proclamation.
The wisdom Of the step taken-we refer
at present to that clause in the document
which declares free the slaves Of rebel
States after the first of January2is un-
questionable; its necessity, indisputable.
1t has been declared time and again by
President Lincoln that as soon as this step
became a necessity, he should adopt it,
Its adoption nov is not confession that
the military means OF suppressing the
great rebellion have proved a failure; but
simply that there is point at which any
other legitimate appliances that can be
called in, shall also be availed Of Slavery
is an element Of strength TO the rebels if
left untouched; it viii assuredly prove an
element Of weakness-it may be Of total
destruction-to them and their cause,
when we make such use Of it and its vic
tins as lies in our power.


From now till the first of January-the
day when this proclamation viii take eff
fect-is little over three months. What
may happen between now and then, in the
progress Of the war, it is hard to say We
earnestly hope, however, that by that time,
the rebellion will be put down by the mil
itary hand, and that the terrible clement
of slave-insurreeGon may not be invoked.
If, by that day, the rebel army be over
thrown, and their Capital captured; and,
if the slavehOlding rebels still prove ma
hgnant irrepressible, and, as in the South
west, disorganizers and marauders, then
let that which Vice-PresideDt Stephens
called the cornerstone Of the Southern
Confederacy be knocked from under it,
and see whether the whole fabric Of rebel
lion will not necessarily tumble TO the
ground.
Year: 1862

1t is possible they may soon discover
they will have their hands full in de-
Tending the conduct of some of their
own officers and men.


The Nashville Union also says:-


We are fully satisfied that great In
justice has been done him by the damag-
ing reports which have obtained circu-
lation. A just and generous public will
correct any errors of Judgment into
which they may have inadvertently fallen
with regard to brave and patriotic
officer, who has gallantly exposed HIM
self in their defense.
Year: 1862

AN APPLE PIE.-An old lady in the couu-
try had dandy from town to dine with her
on certain occasion, and on the table there
was an enormous apple pie.


"La, ma am" said tho gentleman, how
do you manage to make such pie"


easy enough" was the quiet reply; eve
make the crust up in wheelbarrow, wheel
it under the spple tree, and shake the fruit
down into IT,"
Year: 1862

A FELLOW ent West being asked whether
the liquor he was drinking was good arti
Gle, replied Wall, don't know, guess
SO. There is only one queer thing about it
whenever wipe my mouth burn hole
in my shirt
Year: 1862

az DON'T miss my church SO much as you
may suppose" said a lady to her minister.
who called on her during her illness n" for
make Betty sit at the window as soon as tho
bells begin to chime, and she tells me who
are going to church, and whether they have
on anything new" ---.-.aE ---
Year: 1862

RATHER Low -NEcKED.- The following
outside touch is related by Mrs. Tiozli. in q
letter from Bath, in 1875


A genteel young clergyman in our upper
crescent, told his mamma, about ten days
ago, that he had lost his heart to pretty Miss
Prideaux, and he must absolutely marry her
or die. The mother gravely replied


"My dear, you have not been acquainted
with her above fortuight let me recon-
mend you to see more of her.


"More of her" exclaimed the lad, why
have seen her down to the fifth rib on each
side already"


The letter writer adds joke Of her own,
that our British belles ontstrip those Of any
other nation.
Year: 1862

IMMENSE SIZE OF THE PYRAMIDs.-A
United States naval chaplain, who has re-
Gently visited the great pyramid of Cheop,
in Egypt, walng in the deep sand fourteen
hundred feet before he had passed one of its
sides, and between five and six thousand
feet before he had made the circuit says
that, taking hundred of the New York
churches of the ordinary width, and arrang-
ing them in a hollow square, twenty-five on
a side, you would have scarcely the base
mems of this pyramid take another hun
drsd and throw in their material into tho
hollow square and il would not be full.