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Year: 1867

The most violent opponents of Congress,
and the bitterest denouneers of the Radicals,
are almost invariably men of Northern birth
or Southerners who took good care to keep
out of the war Show us man who at this
late day raves furiously about the tyranny of
Congress, and predicts the revival of the
81 lost cause" and in nine cases out Of ten we
will show you an ignorant Northern dirt
eater, or Southerner who did not possess
the courage to enlist and fight for the cause
he processes to love so well. Such men are
not respected anywhere, nor by anybody
They are ostraeised in the. North and despised
by the brave men of the South.


General Yorke, who lost an arm while
fighting valiantly in the Confederate cause,
recently rebuked group of these Southern
gasconaders and Northern doughfaces, who
were indulging in loud denunciations of the
tyranny Of the Government, in the following
pointed style:


81 You don't know what you're talking
about, y cried the one armed veteran, address
ing the principal speaker. II tell you we've
got the most mereiful Government in the
world. What's the use Of trying to disguise
the fact? We attempted to destroy the Gov
ernment and failed any other would have
hung me for my share in the matter, and
would have perfect right to do it. | con.
slider myself standing proof Of the mercy of
my government. five get into war about
this Mexican business, III try and show the
Government how | appreciate its generosity
to me-" One of the blowers said, 1.-The war
isn't over yet" "Isn't it? ?" said the Gen
eral. Well, maybe you haven't had
enough of it. But the men that did the
fighting have. l don't know of anybody that
isn't satisfied to quit, except the stay y-at-home
sneaks. You are very full Of fight NOR; why
didn't you show some of it when we wanted
you in the trenches at Richmond?"
Year: 1867

OPPosITIoN.-An Anti-Vigilance Commit
tee has been organized in Helena, Montana,
for the purpose of hanging the Vigilantes.
Opposition is the life of trade, and the pros
poets are that the hanging business will be
quite lively in Montana the coming summer
Year: 1867

Va Hope for the Afilicted.-Tn another part
of this paper will be found the advertisement of the
celebrated Institute established by DIR. }. Z.
YOUNG, in 1850. In this age of deceit and char.
latanism it is boon to the suffering to point out
to them where they of obtaining the wished
for relief and cure Under the care of the skillfu
Doctor the sick and troubled divest themselves
of their burdens of pains and shame lay aside their
cross, and secure health and happiness. If you
are sick or in trouble, do not hesitate. Read the
advertisement and follow the advice. Do not for
get the number nor the of directing your
letter. CONSULTATION OFFICE, $50 Washing
ton street, San Francisco.
Year: 1867

NJ Office IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
~ pursuance Of an order of the Probate Court
ofthe County of Shasta, in the State Of California
made on the Sd day of April, A. D. 1867 in the
matter Of the estate Of David SALESMAN, deceased.
the undersigned administrator of said estate, will
SELL at public auction, to the highest bidder, for
cash, in gold silver coin of the United States, in
one parcel, and subject to confirmation by said
Probate Court on
Year: 1867

PUNcHING CANSoN.-The mechanical world
has lately been astonished as new English
invention for punching cannon of ten and
twelve inch calibre. The machine possesses
such power as to force punch down through
a red hot steel ingot four feet high, and
weighing three tuns. The inventor Of this
apparatus has also perfected another machine
for punching out railroad locomotive wheels,
SO as to avoid the necessity of welding. 1t
is said that these two inventions will revolu


tionize certain branches of mechanics.
Year: 1867

The St. Louis Republican of July 24th says


Yesterday we made reference to Gen. Sheridan s
vulgar pomposity in New Orleans. From the
same gentleman who gave US information on the
subjects therein related, we learned of the follow
ing disgraceful and humiliating scene-a scene
which must wound the pride and mo tify the spir-
it of every American citizen who has any regard
for republican institutions and civil liberty.


Our informant states that he was one day, a
short time since, summoned to attend one of the
civil courts in the city as Witness and while upon
the stand, giving in his testimony, he observed a
lieutenant, with file of soldiers, enter the court
room, the soldiers being armed with guns and the
lieutenant with his sword drawn. Without cere-
mony or hesitation, they marched up to the Judge
bench, and the lieutenant delivered to the Judge,
citizen of great worth and high character pa
per writing, which the Judge opened and silently
perused As he did so, our informant says he saw
the judges color come and so with rapdity which
indicated that he was laboring under deep emotion
In few minutes, after the Judge had apparently
finished the perusal Of the paper, be stepped from
the bench and entered into an animated converse
ton in an under tone, with several members Of the
bar, whereupon the lieutenant, without ceremony,
leave or license, walked into the judge stand and
in loud and peremptoy voice, dismissed the
court, ordering all to leave. As amatter Of course,
Year: 1867

A FEN1AN ADVENTURE New York Times
Of Sunday, published what it characterizes as "a
curious and romantic but true marathon of the
adventure Of party Of Fenians, who fitted up a
vessel and sailed, in April last, from New York for
Ireland, from which they returned few days since.
There we're three hundred and fifty of these bold
but foolish adventures, all picked men, thorough
ly armed, and well supplied with warlike stores.-
They were all believers in the oft-repeated state
ment that the people Of Ireland were ripe for rev.
olution, and that if an organized body of troops.
capable of forming the nucleus of an army, were
to land on any part of the Irish soil and raise the
green flag, the entire country would rush to their
support. They got to the Irish coast in safety,
touched ut different points, and landed an armed
force at the promising locality. But nobody gath
cred round them, or knew anything Of them or
their project, or cared anything at all about .hem


And 50, after series Of mishaps misfortunes and
daring attempts, in which number of them were
captured, the bark Plato has returned to New
Year: 1867

man-ofwar made of shingles; or take up her resi-
dence in q card house, as dream of attaching her
self to lady killer.


Women worth the name are seldom deceived
into thinking our ladys man the choicest specimen
of his sex. Whatever their ignorance may be,
womanly intuition must tell them that the men
who live for great object, and whose spirits are
so firmly knit they are able to encounter thestorms
of ife-men whose depth and warmth Of feeling
resemble the powerful current of mighty river,
and not the pebbles on its surface, who, if they


love, are never smitten by mere beauty or features
that these men are more worthy even Of occupy
ing their thoughts in idle moments than the fops
and men about town, with whose attentions they
amuse themselves. If we were to tell him this, he
would only laugh; he has no pride about him, al
though full of vanity; and it matters not to him
what we may broadly affirm or quietly insinuate


Soft and delicate though he be, he is rs imper-
vious to ridicule bod carrier, and as regardless
of honest contempt as city alderman Were you
to hand him this article, he would take it to some
social party and read it aloud in the most meliAu-
GUS voice as homage to his own attractions.
Year: 1867

there was much excitement at such an outrage,
and great deal of honest indignation, though
there was no manifestation of violence, other than
that used by the lieutenant and his cohort of sold
iers. 1t was practical illustration of the Con,
gressional plan Of reconstruction which makes the
military superior to the civil power.


The paper writing handed to the judge proved
to be military "order," from "these headquar-
tiers" commanding the judge to appear before his
royal highness, Philip the First, Vice-Royal Of the
Radical party, and future Duke of Louisiana, there
to answer for something, we know not what
quite likely for his presumption in daring to ex-
ercise the functions of civil magistrate without
leave first having been obtained.
Year: 1867

will be seen how men come to the West anglehsn-
ded, and make farms in one year. s.s'i


We viii pass that way again as winter approach
es, to observe all the evidences of pioneer farm ap
pointments, in the snug plain cottage, built alto
gether with pine lumber, the capacious straw pile,
the rick of prairie hay and the rustic stabling.-
Thus it is that new farms are opened from year to
year, in the most quiet manner imaginable.


A stranger remarks, as he looks over the broad
array of untouched green, from the car window,


lit will be long time before this land viii be till
ed" Invite him to pass over the same route in
three years 1t is altogether likely that his eye
will be met by long line of fields, with waving
corn and capacious buildings. New associations
are formed; new elements Unexpectedly thrown
together-Cor. of Country Gentleman. ~
Year: 1867

Railroads are the great power in the West-the


means through which great expanses Of beautiful


prairie is transformed into titled fields. The ab


sence of timber seems no impediment. The eye
has been accustomed for years to look over beau.
tiful piece of rolling prairie, as you pass along on
the train or by the wagon road. You wonder who
that land belongs to; perhaps to some speculatol
in Wall street, or may be to some sturdy son not
yet quite ready to pitch his tent in the West You
pass that way again in day or two, and observe a


long black line across the green grass As the train
whirls along, you follow the line with the eye till
it rests upon pair of medium sized horses attach
ed to twelve-inch breaking plow, moving steadily
along, perhaps under the guidance of some new
conner from way down in Maine--perhaps from
a point not so remote. He has come by railroad,
bought his team, plow and harness the day after
his arrival, at cost of say $3.50 to $500 for hor-
ses, and $50 each for plow and harness. He Sc
cures board in farmers family near his land at
50. so or $500 per week, and the third day after
his arrival you see the dark line across the green
sod. You pass that way in a week-the dark line
has widened into ten-acre strip. You pass again,
at the close of the breaking season, late in july
and thirty acres of perhaps fory-is inverted
and rotting, ready for crop the following season
The newcomer has turned bis team out to grass,
and is, perhaps, helping the neighbors in harvest
at $l.5O or 50 per day and board. During the re-
mainder of the season you see no evidence Of fur
ther improvement. You pass that way at mid
winter and observe the track Of sled along the out
er border of the breaking, and at distance Of
eight feet apart you see fence posts distributed,
ready sharpened for driving.


As the frost leaves the ground in April, you OBJ
serve a week very industriously put in with team
and harrow, seeding wheat and oats. Following
this you observe the solitary laborer with his por-
table bench about two feet and half high, and
maui and sledge, driving posts. While the ground
is moist and loose from the going out of the Frost
man will readily drive his forty rods day. Thus
in eight to twelve days the thirty or forty acres Of
breaking will be encircled by posts. Another ten
days will see the customary three rails, or three
pine boards in place. or if wire is used, half the
time only will be required to put it in good shape
to turn stock. We will suppose the outlay to have
been for material about as follows: For forty acres;
$40 posts at 124 cents each, would amount to a
shade under $50. Pine boards would cost, go cts
per rod, total in round numbers $500, or for posts
and boards $3.50. IF four strands of wire is used,
the total cost would be- say 10 cents per rod, each
strand, total of forty cents per rod for the wire
Total in round numbers, posts and wire, $20S. 1t
Year: 1867

A LADY's OPINION OF A LADY's MAN.-Mrs


Stephens, in her monthly magazine, gives certain
class of men, the like of whom are seen in every
community, the benefit of her opinion, as follows


Our own private opinion Of a ''lady's man" is,
that he is thoroughly contemptible-a sort of the
life hardly worth thinking about-a nutshell with
the kernel withered up-a handful of foam drift
ing over the wine of life, something not altogether
unpleasant to the fancy, but Of no earthly use. A
woman of sense would as soon be put to sea in q
Year: 1867

Having recently published accounts Of Mexican
character which were far from complimentary, We
think it but justice to present the other side. This
We do in the language of a traveller who has BEEN
much among the Mexicans He says: -. sf.


II have lived among the Mexicans In friendship
and intimacy, and know them well With permis-
sion Of the philosophers, who may consider it ia
truism, l shall mention that they are essentially
like other people, and are not so far as haveseen
inferior to our own Anglo-Saxon races except in
not having had our advantages of education and
experience. In some things which do not depend
on external influences they have shown me that
they are very excellent. have proved their kind
ness Of heart, generosity and fidelity. They hare
more SPIRITUALITY than our race eyinces at the pres
ent time, but have not the same material force es.
pecially in getting and keeping money. They are
polite and consderate of each others rights; pa
tient and long suffering, and tolerant even of injus-
tce which, perhaps, ought not to be tolerated I
speak principally Of the mass Of the people who
are not partisans Of the clergy for this relation
vitiates the natural qualities, which are what am
describing. But even the latter class often show
their good natural qualities. do not think they
are more given to robbery than the Anglo-Saxous,
and not so much disposed to murder. Nor have
seen that they exceed in any crime. Itake into
consideration the absence of checks on the part'of
the government, and give credit to the individual
who is moral and just without outward compul-
sion. 1t would seem that many have been mised
by the word Indian to associate the Mexican with
those Northern varieties of the tomahawk and war
paint or with the less offensive individuals of the
same race There could not be greater mistake.
And it has been thought that the best people in
Mexico those of European origin, and that its
regeneration isto come with the extinction of the
native races This is a gigantic error. The best
blood in Mexico is Of the American, and not Of the
European races. I know perfectly well that Mex


leo has produced some exceedingly bad men, the
natural fruit of bad systems; that these ought to
be restrained from doing harm. But knowaas
well that the youth have noble qualities, and Iam
confident that better times, and the cessation of
fereien interference, will make it clear to the world
that Mexicans are capable of forming and sustain
ing national existence" .s,f .,xga:
Year: 1867

Tnr RAcTs.-In a recent lecture delly-
cred by Prof Agassiz, that gentleman
took the following position IN regard
to the white and black races


Il have pointed out over hundred
specific differences between the bonal and
nervous systems of the white man and
negro. Indeed their frames are alike In
no particular. There is not bone IN
the ncgro's body which is relatively the
same shape, size, articulation, or chem
ically of the same composition, As that OF
the white man. The negro's bones con
tain far greater per centage of calcarc-
Gus salts than those Of the white man.
Even the negro's blood is chemically a
very different fluid from that which
courses in the veins of the white man.
The whole physical organum of the negro
differs quite as much from the white
mans as it does from that of the chin
panzec hat is, in his bones, muscles.
nerves and tibrcs, the chmpanzee has not
much further to progress to become ane
gro, than the negro has to become white
man. This fact science ineXorably dem
onstrates.


Climate has no more to do with the
difference between the white man and ne
gro than it has with that between the ne
gro and the chimpanzee, or than it has
between the horse and the ass, or the
eagle and the owl. Each is distinct and
seperate creation. The negro and the
white man were created as specifically diff
ferent as the owl and the eagle. They
were designed to fill different places in
the system of nature. The negro is no
more negro by accident or misfortune
than the owl is the kind of bird it is by
accident or misfortune. The negro sno
more the white mans brother than the
owl is the sister of the eagle, or than the
ass is the brother of the horse How
stupendous, and yet how simple, is the
doctrine that the Almighty Maker of the
universe has created inherent species OF
the lower animals, to fill different places
and Offices in the grand scenery of ma
turen
Year: 1867

We should be glad to be informed how
it comes to PASS that the Tribune, the
Post, and other Radical Journals are
dealing so gingerly with the news which
reaches US from South Carolina of armed
collisions between the negroes in that
state. and the freedmen's bureau? Ger
tain Of these journals entirely suppress
the fact that the negroes, who are in
almost open insurreotion against the
United States government, have been
and are stimulated upon their violent
course by a negro lGwyer, named
Bradley, from BostOa.n 1t Is by such
dishonesty as this that the Radicals hope
to keen the masses of the northern peo-
pie in ignorance of the results Of their
own senseless and wicked policy. They
persist in keeping Hp the stupid
farce of negro loyalty at the
south In the face of the fact,
which is perfectly well known to all Of
them who know anything about the
matter, that the emaneipated negroes of
the south, as a rule, are neither loyal nor
disloyAl to the United States, but simply
and brutally bent upon escaping from all
government whatever. This is a per-
feetly natural result Of the sudden and
violent emancipation of 50 many mill
lions of people utterly unused to freedom,
and hardly more capable of self-restraint
than so many savages. It was the anti
cination of such a result which led that
original abolitionist, George Thompson,
wears ago to protest that he never de-
sired To see emancipation il il must be
brought about by violence and all the
supDFessiOns and evasi0ns of the radicals
will not prevent the truth from blazing
suddenly and terribly forth upon the
country, at no distant day, with fury
of which the Premonitory symptoms we
are continually witnessing convey bat
the very faintest notion.
Year: 1867

As far as JOSEPH Holt, late Chief of
the Bureau of Military Justice, is con-
cerned, it would be little worth the while
to hold him up to public seorn. But as
showing of what human hatred is capa-
bic, the following letter from one who is
now among the bitterest haters of the
South, and the most loyal of the loyal,
may pay for the space it will occupy:
Year: 1867

FAIRBANKS STANDARD SCALES have been
public nearly forty yars that lack Of merit would long
been discovered But has added TO Their pua
ton and Standard throughout the world AT
the great PARIS EXPOSITION they received TIE highest premiums
Year: 1867

The true Machinery applied to Matchmaking not hat by it's
ue Watches rapidly but that they made correctly Very few
neope know why Watch should be other In
the first place at Wahm Watch regarded ony machine to be-
indeed little else than shop the principal work which
more upon than upon machinery to make watches with the
watches the machinery good OF there must
p no defect in the principle plan of the nae IN the
or anes of the pieces which it composed nothing their
roneis and no error their positions These points thoroughly
settled in regard each Of every variety watch rests wholly with
machinery constructed with infinite diversity of form and function
nrv for the pmpo to produce the finished pieces The method b
bed every eparmen the redupcaon of parts by mechanical
this carried the system OF the most thorough SUBDIVISION OF
labor. .alae


By means multiplying and test and inspection
for the detection Of wear in cutting tools and for faults and flaws steel
stone are made to accompany the work stage from beginning end
necessary result the goes together machine Every
found to fit properly in its place Every pin be pushed till pnch
and every screw turned Instead Of sluggish and feeble action the
balance under the htest br with


wide and free motion and has the clear and ringing sound always
characteristic of the Watch The machine tnekeper from
the


This system of Matchmaking unknown in foreign countries and
rey original with Waltham Company The Company clam that by
that cannot be aed for quality which makes
watch valuable Simple pan and correct principle the movement not
on beautifully finished substantial accurate and cheap but uniform TO the
details easily damaged easily repaired and when repaired
always good as .a -,
There are different grades finish the different varieties OF watches
Wam Company there different sizes and uo
tastes means every Watch that bears the genuine trade marx
WALHM guaranteed be good and nobody ned be AFRAID 10
buy it, - ,,,,,, ,,,,rrrr,
FOR SALE BY ALL FIRSTCLASS DEALERS IN THE UNITED


STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES "a. 7rls .9aA z
For further information address the agents, -s1s


ROBBINS & APPLETON


No BROADWAY, NEw.YORK.
Year: 1867

A CARD.-ln 1861 Morton discontinued the
discount formerly given to the JObbing Trade,
and, ignoring the services of middle men, has
sold his pens either directly to those who use
them, or to such as keep them on hand for the
better supply Of the writing public in their
own localities. There may be Jobbers who
have spoken in favor of the Morton Pen since
that time, but if so, their remarks have never
in a single instance reached his ear; and
although they generally admit that Morton
can make the best pens in the world, and used
to do so, they nevertheless put forth great
exertions to show that the Morton Pen has de
preciated in value is not what it formerly was
and that those which they vend are equal, if not
superior; now since many Retail Dealers obtain
what little they know of pens, as well as the pens
themselves, entirely from the Jobbers people are
apt to be misled by their representations.


In order that the public may judge correctly
and at the same time see how much pains
taking is exercised to give every one who orders
lust such a pen as Will exactly suit his Lind
Morton confidently refers to the many thousands,
throughout the entire country, who have re
ceived his pens through the mails during that
time, and also calls particular attention to the
following letter which has accompanied every
pen sent ,,..... w.. ,..,,,


NTN y AVnr A
Year: 1867

preconcerted signal of death. Farris
reined up his horse, drew pistol from
his pocket, placed the muzzle almost
against the head of the Senator, and
cOolly blew out his brains: This horrid
deed achieved, he hastily rode of with
the other men through the woods.
Year: 1867

- The women ought 20 make pie, 2
not to kiss man who used tobacco and /
would soon break up the practice and
friend OF ours says they ought also t
pledge themselves to kiss every man tina
don't use it--and we go for that too,
Year: 1867

Aquaint writer says 81 have seen women
so delicate that they were afraid to ride
for fear of horses running away; afraid
to sail for fear the boat might upset ?
afraid to walk for fear the dew might
fall but never saw one afraid to be
married, which is far more riskful than
all three put together"


The Atlanta Intelligencer denies that
the subject Of reputation is being ag-
itated in Georgia. and declares that
the people of that State will never repu-
diate their honest debts, their credit,
their moral manhood, or their selfrespet.