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Year: 1861

An English Journalist says The ration
ale OF BiOndlns performance is this-he has
perfect confidence in his own sense Of
touch and balance, and he never looks be-
meath him. That boing SO, fifty feet and
five hundred are the same to him. Ho
looks in fixed manner, and always above;
he is guided by his feet. When. therefore.
no is blindfolded. he is deprived of q sonse
which is of no use 10 him-which may in.
deed proye source of danger. Whom tho
drooP of the rope at Niagara vas forty feet.
and he was at the bottom of the curve, ho
could scarcely avoid seeing the ends of the
rope, and that was source of danger to
him. Ifhe we're to look down once, We
know not what would happen to him but
We may guoss that he would find o place
whence he would never rise to perform any
moro antics. If in life you would succeed.
you must look up. The stars are serene.
and stay forever in their sphere the tor
rent at your feot whir!s aud roArs, and any


look at It's turbid waters may plunge you
INTO instant destruction.
Year: 1861

DE-. WARNER with grateful thanks has
the honor to inform the ladies and gentlemen Of
Memphis, that, through the kind and liberal
patronage which lie has received from them, he
has been induced to settle here permanently
and become citizen Of Memphis. He cOnsid-
ers it unnecessary, in this connection, to pub
lish the hundreds of


EY0sGeTisss Testimonials


Which he has received from gentlemen Of the
highest respectability, in this city and else
where. They are in his possession and open
for the inspection Of all, but the reference be-
low are OF nature that will abundanty satisfy
all who peruse them.
Year: 1861

The great Burnside Expedition, al
most as large in the number of vessels and
as strong in armament as the one sent to
Port Royal, will sail from Annapolis in
about two weeks. This is inter dad to he
one the most important demonstrations
Year: 1861

Charlottesville Marysville Express says


"As general rule, war impoverishes nations
that engage in it. The South will be enriched
by it; and the longer the present war lasts, so
that it has a reasonable and the probable limit,
say five years, the more will it add to her wealth,
resources and power This we think, is demon
strable, if the public mind of the North was in a
condition to listen to the logic of reason"


Why does the Express want the public mind
OF the North to listen to the "logic of reason :"
1t processes great friendship for the Southern
Confederacy. If the course of the Government
in blockading the ports of that new-fangled con-
cern, is so great benefit to it, as the Express
processes to believe, why don't it lay low and
keep dark? 1t is very unkind act to the South,
to hint to the Government, that by removing its
blockade, it would do more injury to that region
than by continuing it.
Year: 1861

FINGER-BokRDs-Whoe has occasion to
pass over any of the roads of this vicinity within
Judge Stidger's district, will perceive finger
boards stuck up at many of the crossroads
These silent directories are very useful to the
traveller, and by initiating the example which the
Judge has thus inaugurated, other Overseers
would confer great benefit upon the public at
large.
Year: 1861

AVERY FOR STATE PRINTER Ben P Avery
has received the nomination of State Printer
from the Republican Convention. AS a
friend and we'll wisher of so excellent a
gentleman, and one who might possibly get
our vote in defiance of party considerations


we hardly know whether to congratulate
him or not. If elected, he will have sea
of troubles to encounter, owing to his
ignorance of the practical part of the print
ing business. This, however, may be all
overcome if he is fortunate ia the choice of
good and able man to manage the affairs
of the State 'shop' for him. He will get a
large vote in this region for the name of
Ben Avery--in personal, social point of
VIEWS considerd the synonym of every
thing high minded, generous and honorable.
Year: 1861

nA- A Northern paper makes the inn
portant announcement that it is McClelan's policy
"o quell rebellion by mighty pressure, and not by
mighty slaughter" The mighty slaughter was
tried at Big Bethel, Vienna, Bull Run, Manassas
Leesburg Oak Hill, and Belmont, but it was 'over
the left" and the mighty pressure experiment at
Wild Cat ought to convince them that neither plan
of operation will succeed. Both the slaughter and
the pressure have been and will continue to be- the
experience of the Yankee troops whenever and
wherever they dare to face Southerners in tire open
field.
Year: 1861

Ra5~ We occasionally see articles in ex-
treme Southern papers, proclaiming that the Con-
federate States are fighting for free-trade. If so,
they are fighting for very foolish and ruinous
doctrine but rather suspect that the declaration
is put forth as feeler for foreign sympathy. Our
impression has been that the South is fighting for
Independence of Northern domination, and for the
mantainance of rights which the Union and the
Constitution failed to secure. IL is further our
hope that when the war is over peace will find the
Confedemte Government committed TO no policy Of
doubtful expediency, and atits head, statesmen Of
liberal and enlarged views who will go for such
measures as are best calculated TO promote our
prosperty-agrcultura and manufacturing as well
as commercial The road to national independence
runs not through freetrade and direct taxation and
the only way to reach such independence Is by the
at home; of articles Of prime necessity,
making the attainment of this paramount object as
as possible with enlightened views of
commercial intercourse with foreign nations. :.
Year: 1861




for the grumbling tone Of editorials this week,
but the patience Of Job would be exhausted, could
that worthy be resurrected and made acquainted
with the grievances which the Government and the
people are made to endure at the hands of ardent
friends of the South whose patriotism is bounded
by see and guaged by the amount of profit in a
contract Fsult-fndiig H. to us, a very unpleasant
business, and nothing but stern sense of duty
impels us to the task. We do not know the parties
whose conduct we are constrained to censure end
therefore no charge of personal malice can be
brought against us; but we have country to serve
in our humble sphere, and, as a faithful sentinel
must give the alarm when see its interests en-
dangered whether by an external foe or a more
insidious and dangerous enemy at home They who
set up the "immortal dollar as the god of their
idoatry rarely feel higher impulse and in the
fanatcism Of their worship, country is merged in
SELF and they would tear down the temple of liberty
itself could they make dime by sellfg It's Broken
fragments.
Year: 1861

G9- The movement of the Lincoln des-
poism towards the recognition of the independence
of Hayti and Liberia adds another difficulty to the
impossibility of reconstruction of the Union. II
the Yankees consult their own taste in the item OF
negro equality with themselves and place the true
estimate, thereby, upon theft own degraded social
position they will have 10 excuse Southeruers from
a like exhibition of low instincts. We have long
been of opinion that the most highly scented Afri-
can is fully the equal of the most dainty abolition
ist, and the conduct of the Yankees has made that
opinion a conviction.
Year: 1861

uea.. Gen, Halleck has issued ain order
requiring the Union men who seek refuge in ST.
Louis to be qdartcred in the houses and fed and
clothed at the expense of the seccssionists Of the
city. Every such act will meet its punishment
sooner or later and deepehs the hatred that is TO
sundcr the North and South as far apart as the
uponrthe victims of Northern berbarity, but the
ultimate effect sill be most salutary upon the policy
of the South towards the demons it once recognized
as brothers. Let them wreok their vengeance
whilst they have the power--the day of retributon
will certainly come, and no item Of the black ac-
count will be forgotten.
Year: 1861

BesAB we puDllsh, to-uay, tne couhlouto
of the Louisville Journal the Report of the Sec
reary of War, and regret that we have not room for
his remarks, of the day before, on Lincoln's mess
age. They are as severe as they are just and but
for its previous course, one would infer that the
Journal is a rancerous Southern paper 1t would
seem though we can hardly believe it that Prentice
has just opened his eyes to the fact that the aboi
ton of slavery is a leaiing object of the war, and
with this new light before hihiz-new, because he
has wilfully closed bis eyes against ithe calls upon
Northern conservatism to the nation by crush
ing the radicalism now in the ascendant at WASH
ington. He sees now the terrible attitude in which
he has helped to place Kentucky, and foreseeing
the storm of indignation likely to be raised by the
action of the Lincoln Government on the slavery
question: and feeling that the storm ought to burst
upon his own head, he would feign ignorance here
tofore, of Northern policy and enter protest
against it under which to take shelter from the
wrath of his deluded victims.
Year: 1861




Louisville journal of the 9th inst:


We this morning publish the official report Of
Secretary Cameron. As respects the question OF
slavery, the report confirms our worst apprehen-
sons And the most grievous fact of all is that
the report on this head be regarded only as an
expansion of what the President says in the same
relation The report of the Secretary is of course
sanctioned by the President. What is said by the
one concerning slavery is but the illumination of
what is said by the other. The Secretary in this
respect is no worse than tho President; and the
President is no better than the Secretary. The
country has little to hope from either except in the
disposition that we trust both have to heed the
counsels of the couutry's own better Judgment and
better fatttre, But these cOuusels must be heard
unmistakably TO be needed. When so heard we
believe they will be needed; We now, however,
dismiss the Secretary and shall hereafter deal with
the principal in the case.


The conviction we expressed in our columns yes
criay; and the course of action we then proposed,
gather additional strength from the developments
of every hour The radicals in Congress appear to
have things their own way. The character of the
propositions they introduce and the favor the Wild
est Of theft propositions receive are positively
Ifrightful. Congress has opened with q fanatical
howl and seems ready without pause to leap into
the furthest depths of radiCalism. The winds OF
sectional passion are unclaimed. The tempest is
ahrOOi. Inc hllloWS OF antl-SlaV VerylSm are rum
ming mountain high at Washington. Their fierce
toar is stunning the ear of the nation. The lashed
and raging sea cf fanaticism is laundering against
the barriers of the Constitution, aud threatens to
sweep them utterly away. Behind these barriers
stands the President alone; and he instead of re-
bukng the storming waves throws over them the
wtching moonlight Of his couutenance. IIe bends
before the storm. Is it not manifest that if the
President is not promptly and resolutely supported
| by the conservative sentiment of the nation, by
that beniitent and mighty genius whose real spell
has as yet fear been felt only partially at Wash
ington, there is most serious danger that the up
roarious Of anti slaveryism will presently burst
through all constitutional barriers and carry away
him and tbem alike upon lis rushing wayesl Moth
| ing appears more manifest to us. 1t appears too
plain for rational dispute.


Let them the conservative sentiment of the na-


lion come up promptly and iesolutely to the support
of the President. Let the great genius OF eonserg-
atism shake of his slaml ers, ans n once lay bis
spell truly and deeply On the officer charged above
all others with the conservation OF this glorious ark
of human liberty aud human hope. We repeat
what we said yesterday with the added emphasis ol
strengthened conviction.
Year: 1861




other day, about the suburbs, our attention was
called to the condition of number of cattle that
have been brought here to be packed for the Con-
federate Government, and we confess our utter
aStonishment that such stuff, bearing the name of
beef, should be permitted to be palmed of upon our
gallant soldiers. 1t is shame and a disgrace
Are our soldiers dogs, that they SHOULD be fed
bones wrapped up in little muscle so blue that
indigo might be extracted from itP We don't
know whose business it is to supervise this import
mt branch of the military supply, bnt we do hope
that there will be capable inspector appointed who
will throw every pound Of the beet upon the hands
that provided it. 1t is hard enough for soldiers
to risk health and life with the best that can be
furnished them, but to be put off with such beef as
is packed here, is cruel insult.
Year: 1861

pSy- Gen. Prentice, in a speech at st.
Joseph, Mo- declared that every citizen of that
town should fake the oath of allegiance or be sent
to work in the trenches at Fort Smith. The hum
best worker in trenches win have clearer con
science and clearer title to the character of a
gentleman than the brute who sends him there.
Year: 1861

Ba- The Lincoln and Cameron pro-
grammo of freeing and arming the slaves of the
South, is creating great dissatisfaction in portions
of the North whilst it is doing good service for the
Confederate cause wherever disaIection has been
manifesting itself. The barbarous proposition adds
incidentally to the strength Of the South, and upon
contempt and execratons of every civilized people
on earth
Year: 1861

saA- We would like to ask the city au-
thorites if there is no remedy for the intolerable
stencil which arises from the pork-house. There
must be some law for the abatement of nuisance
and the portion Of the town lying north of tha
establishment has peculiar right to demand tha
the law shall be enforced. The air is literally sat
urated with the efiuvia and the citizens subjected
to it can neither eat nor sleep in comfort.
Year: 1861

who have sold their pork here at twelve dollars
feeling ashamed of having countenanced such an
imposition upon the people and the Government,
have taken pains to excuse themselves by saying
the price was ofercd-and-and they took it,
They hadn't the conscience to ask it, and felt
ashamed to receive it.
Year: 1861

Hen. 1t seems that a majority of the
members of Lincoln's Congress hesitate to take the
fatal plunge recommended by Cameron. 1t will be
a terrible day for the North when the South is
forced to raise the black flag.
Year: 1861

no. Old Wool is said to have resolved
upon a visit to Richmond, from Fortress Monroe
It he goes by Big Bethel the visit will result as did
that Of Mcdowell, via Manassas. But let linn take
what road he may he win get wooled.
Year: 1861

IT is q beautiful custom in some Oriental
lands to leave untouched the dates that are
shaken from the trees by the wind; these
being regarded as sacred to the poor and
the stranger.
Year: 1861

teryal from midnight till breakfast time, and
when the official report comes from head
quarters in the morning, of a daring recon-
noissance-and successful cavalry charge
just over tho river, of rebel battery silenced
down the Potomac, of spies caught, and reb.
els male prsoners-thcn there is suspen.
sion of curiosity until nighttall-mcanwhilC
the atmosphere pulsatcs with imaginary
sounds of the coming conflict. The out.
posts of the rebels are within a few miles OF
our own alarms are frequent every night
an hour a day and a general battle may
take place.


a glacier at stages and periods is immov-
able, and held firmly bound and fcttered
When these are past nothing restraints its
resistless course. The federal army is like
a glacier, and the hour is close at hand when
it will clean its way irrcsistibly.


uANcnck
Year: 1861

MOTTO commend its energy when it is euer-
getic, and its weakness when it is cowardly
and vacillat'ng. Nor win II come up to the
proposition that it is the duty of the press to
commend and sustain the Government when
it is in the right when its ends are just,
when its choice Of means is wise, and when
Its action is energetic, and when things are
otherwise to hold its tongue. Andyet these
are the consequences of the doctrine it advo-
Gates though we confess that its practice
has hitherto been widely at variance with its
principles.
Year: 1861

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FIF-
teeenth Judicial District of the State of Caifor-
mia in and for the County of Butte.


The People of the State of California VS.. O. P
Watson.


Action brought in the District Count of the Fif-
teenth Judicial District and the complaint filed in
the County of Butte, in the office of the Clerk of
said District Court.


The People of the State of California send greet
ing to o. p. Watson: You are hereby required to
appear in action brought against you by the
above named plaintiffs in the District Court of the
Fifteenth Judicial District of the State of California
in and for the County of Butte, and to answer the
complaint filed therein, Ga copy of which accompa-
MES this Summons) within ten days Exclusive of
the day of service after the service you of this
Summons-H served within this County or, if
served out of this County but in this Judicial Dis
trlct, within twenty days; if served out of said
District, then within forty days-or Judgment by
default will be taken against you.


The said action is brought to obtain Judgment
against you for the Of S6l6 Il alleged to be due
Plaintiffs from you for taxes levied upon real and
personal property, in the year A. D. 1853 in Butte
County, fully described in Plaintiffs complaint
and If you fail to appear and answer the said com
plant as above required, the Plaintiffs will take
judgment by default against you for said sum of
S6l6 2l and for costs of suit and fees provided by
law.


49,, Given under my hand and Seal of the
I SEAL. District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial
t0-l District, this 9th day of May, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.


H. NJ. PHIPPS, Clerk.


By MILES CHAPIN, Deputy Clerk
my Ok 2-m
Year: 1861

A SKATING IScIDESr.-Some years ago,
when Boston harbor was good deal frozen,
ard refreshments booths were numerous on
South Boston Bay, for the accommodation of
skaters, the scrface of the ice was occasionally
perforated by fishermen in pursuit of eels.-
Such holes being skinned over" with ice,
were rather dangerous to the incautious and
unsuspecting. One of these eel holes happened
one day to be just behind tent on the ice-in
which something was sold to prevent the cold
weather from striking inwardly-and an ad-
yenturous skater who was cutting graceful
curves, happened to disappear through this
i" fine opening for young man." A waggish
fellow who happened toto observe the incident,
skated into the tent and addressed the propri-
etor with, Look -a-here i don't wish to
interfere with your business at all, but have
just now seen man go down into Your eel
lar y
Year: 1861

when taking these Pills. rub Holloways celebrated
Ointment over the pit Of the stomach and over the
regions Of the liver on the right side under the ribs
and you will ct once experience change for The better
In your digestion spiF appetite strength and energy
The Improvement, though b may be gradual, will be
thorough and lasting.
Year: 1861

1t is sad fact, that nearly every
young lady in fashionable life has la.
terel curvature Of the spine.


This comes out at the age Of ten or
eleven and continues slowly but stead
lily to increase even by a mother S
watchful eye, tillthe child is really de-
formed-one shoulder is much larger
and higher than the other, SO that the
dress maker is obliged to put cotton in
the dress, to make the back look fat
and square.


The boys-their brothers, have no
such trouble; why should they? The
question may we'll be asked by every
thoughtful parent.


I answer that improper dress and
other physiological errors, in which girls
constantly indulge, produce the mis-
chief.


The dress Of the girl is always tighter
than her brothers, and this begun when
she is quite young "to give her form, "
the mother says, as if God did not do
this when he made the child.


The constant pressue of the muscles of
the spine, which are destined to keep it
straight, causes absorption of those
muscles, and as the right arm is used
more than the left, the spine is drawn
under the right shoulder blade, thus
making it project. The muscles are SO
weakened by absorption, they cannot
bring the spine to its proper position,
and to have case Of lateral curvature.


In addition to this tight dress, /
have seen girls of thirteen and fourteen
with corsets on. Often these are adopted
by thoughtless mothers in the hope to
straig hten the child, but under their
cruel pressure, the difficulty rapidly in
creases, till the poor deformed cir! is
sent to spinal institution to be treated.


While this difficulty is rapidly in
creasing, the young GIRLS sent to school,
to spend five or six hours each day bend
ing over low desk, and when she re-
turns home, instead of being allowed to
play ball or any active game in the open
air, as her brothers are, is placed on Il
high piano stool, where her toes but Just
touc... the floor, with nothing to protect
her back. In this position she must re-
main one long painful hour.


Do you wonder that she has crooked
spine? 1 wonder that any escape, for
all are obliged 20 pass through the same
killing ordeal.-Lc,cis' Gymnastics.
Year: 1861




Set pitcher of water in room, and
in few hours it will have absorbed
nearly all the rc<pired and perspired
gasses in the room, the air Of which will
have become pure, but the water is ut
terly filthy. The colder the water is,
the greater its capacity to contain these
gasses. At ordinary temperature pint
OF water viii! contain pint OF carbonic
acid Sas, and several pints OF ammonia.
Their capacity is nearly doubled by re
4ucing the temperature Of ice. Hence,
water kept in the room for a while is al
ways nnfit for use For the same rea-
son, the water in pump sto2k should
always be pumped out in the morning
before any is used. Impure water is
more Injurious than impure air.
Year: 1861

The Message Of the President is truly
American. Among all the messages Of
late years it is the most thoroughly dem
oerati:. With an acute perception of
the essential point Of the c,se-th ut this
is movement Of the people or it is moth
ing, Sine the Goyernm eHt is nothing
exceptas the people uphold it-he makes
his statement and appeal through their
representatives, to the people themselves,
Bntstill more than this. While many
Presidents Of many parties would have
endelvored to save the Government by
force Of arms, not all Presidents would
SO clear y comprehend OF So simply state
what the Government was that they were
saving. This Government was founded
upon the rights Of man; and for the first
time in long years the President recog-
nizcs that fact. Presidents messages
for many years have been labored de-
lenses Of an oiigarchial and arstocratic
administration Of the Government. At
length there is Il peoples President, in
no mean sense; and the Government Of
the United States is restored to its orig
ihdl PFiHc' picS. II Is Hoi Il ihdtteF ol
party, but Of patriotic congratul lation,


The character and scope Of our system
have never been more admirably stated
than in the following extract from this
message. 1t would have been good
thing to make the reading of the Mes
sage a special order for the day in every
camp OF the citizen soldiers Of the Uni
ted States. How the cry wolld have
rung from the Missouri to the Penob-
scot, "God save the President Of the
Uni,ed States and all others in author
ity!"


This is essentially peoples contest.
On the side Of the Union it is struggle
for maintaining in the world that form
and substance Of government those lead
ing object is to elevate the condition Of
men, to lift artificial weights from all
shoulders, to clear the path of laudible
pursuit for all, to afford Ill an untcttercd
start and 4 fair chance in the race of life,
yielding to partial and temporary de-
partures from necessity. This is the
leading object Of the Government for
whose existence We contend. am most
happy to believe that the plain people
understand and appreciate this