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Year: 1862

WHAT THEY PROPOSE TO Do.-The Sar
Francisco Bulletin has the following in relation
to what some Of the merchants Of that place pro-
pose to do with those who do not come up to
their regulations with respect to the greenbacks


"If any refuse, or after agreeing to pay fol
goods in gold pay in greenbacks at par instead
then his name will be entered in black book
and the firms all over the State who have entered
into the agreement will be notified, so that wher-
ever he may thereafter deal, he will have to pay
for his goods in yellow gold in adUance.
Year: 1862

RUSH TO Bo1sE.-Late accounts from
Auburn are to the effect that the rush from
that place to the Boise mines has for the
past two weeks been more general than ev-
er before. The late skedaddle from these
mines seems to have been upon the same
principle as that from Powder river last
spring. and miners are now returning to
prospect the country, assured that there
are good diggings there.
Year: 1862

The present number completes the frs
volume of the STATESMAN, though a lit
tie more than year has elapsed since WE
commenced its publication


The newspaper business is not one thai
insures to all who engage in it an easy in.
come, yet this idea has seemed to prevail
to great extent on the Pacific coast, and
too many have embarked in the business
who have had no practical knowledge of il
nor any qualifications above their own
ideas of peculiar adaptation" The his
tory of such has almost universally proven
a failure, and hence many are 10th to sub
scribe for new paper, fearing, and Justly
too, that their subscriptions will expire,
with the paper, before volume has been
completed. In the outstart we had this
difficulty to contend with, and though we
had no doubt that we should succeed, there
were those who, basing their opinions upon
the cases cited above, kindly predicted for
us premature, demise. The many however
of the citizens of the city and county ex-
tended their support and have assisted us in
placing the STATESMAN upon firm basis.
Though we enter upon the second volume
under lauch more favorable auspices than
we did upon the first, it is with no more de-
termination to complete it; yet we are
doubly assured in saying to all who would
become patrons of the paper that there
need be no fears of non-fulfllment of our
part of the contract Believing in the doc
trine that " the laborer is worthy of his
hire" we also adhere to the principle that
the master who performs his own labor is
least likely to defraud the laborer, and do
ing the most of our work within ourselves
we are not liable to the necessities which
overthrow those who have to pay the high
prices demanded in the country for labor
This much by way Of assurance to those
who may need 1t.


AS to the future conduct of the SrAEs.
MAN, we can only point to the past as a cri.
terion though we hope, with the advan-
tage of the experience of the past year
the increased facilities for obtaining news
and the knowledge we have gained of tn,
country and the wants Of the people, tc
make Volume II superior to its predecessor
In short, we hope to merit the patronage
of the public in general. and it is on this
ground only that we ask it.


The publication of newspaper, as all
other branches of industry, should be en-
gagged in as matter of profit or income
yet it is of such nature that the interests
of people or a community are identical
with those of the publisher, and he, prop
erly performing his duty to himself and his
patrons subserves the interests of the whole
Then, in the pursuit of our legitimate bus
lnessit can be our only aim to work for
the Interests of our patrons in general, and
with this as our motto, we shall hope for q
continuance of their patrOnage-not as q
matter of necessity to ourselves alone, but
as a source of mutual benefit.
Year: 1862

Mr. EDITOR IL wish to call the attention
of the ladies of this place to way in which
they can be useful to our poor wounded SOL
diers. William A. Hammond, Surgeon Gen.
eral of the United States Army, has publish.
ed card to the g loyal women and children
of the United States" in which he says that
"the supply of lint in the market is nearly
exhausted The brave men wounded il de-
fense of their country will soon be in want of
it. appeal to you to come to oGr aid in
supplying us with the necessary article
There is scarcely woman or child who can
not scrape lint and there is no way in which
their assistance can be more usefully given
than in furnishing us the means to dress the
wounds of those who fall in defense of their
rights and their homesn The ladies of
Shasta en- aid in this work, and in this way
sustain the high reputation for patriotism
which this town and county so eminently
possesses. Let q start be made at once.


LOYAL Still.
Year: 1862

Orr TO THE WARs-Frank Wheeler, ESQ.,,
leaves this place in a few days for the
Eastern States, whittier he goes for the pur-
fIose'of enlisting in the army of the Republic
Is private soldier. We know of no man
who would be missed so much, in this COM
munity. By his hearty good nature, his
kindliness of disposition, and his probity of
character, he has ATTACHED to himself, as
friends, our whole population. He will do
his duty wherever he may be, and the regret
that we are to lose him is softened by the
reflection that the cause of this unfortunate
country gets in him another earnest heait
and stout arm enlisted for its defense.
Year: 1862

Col. JACK HAxILTos.-We see it stated
that Jack Hamilton, one-ef members Of
Congress from Texes at the- time of its at
tempted secession has been driven out of
that State and is now in Mexico. We know
this great hearted gentleman we'll, and if
times there were tool not for him, they must
have been wnrmindeed. He will yet return to
thank that people appropriately for the cour
tesy MENTIONED. BE warred with the utmost
intrepidity against the act of secession, and
denounced the leaders of this iniquity from
sac end of the State to another, and when oc
casion presented itself, to their very teeth
Such was his influence and popularity that
he was elected from the city of Austin (the
State capitaD to the Legislature, after the
passage of the act of secession, and said that
lie was, going to take the seat, but would
never take the cath of allegiance to the
'Confederacy''
Year: 1862

WONDERED AT Ir.-The Appeal wonders
why when a quarrelsome, vicious man gets
drunk on mean whisky he Immediately hur-
rahs for JEFF. Davis. The reason is that the
positive meanness of his nature remains idle
and inactive until the circle is established by
the negative pole of rot gut.
Year: 1862

Captain West, Of the Shasta Guards, will
visit this place about the first of next month.
Captain West is, in common with other Off
GERS of the Fourth Regiment c. ", very
anxious that this regiment shall be despatch
el at once to the seat of war, and every con-
tidence Is felt that it could be of the greatest
service, if brought into action. The many
friends of this gallant officer, IN this county,
will be very glad to see him.
Year: 1862

AMERICAN TREATY WITH CHINA.-We
deem it not inopportune at the present moment
TO direct attention to the following article from
the existing treaty of our government with the
Emperor of China. The provisions OF this arti-
Gle appear to have been strangely forgotten in
certain quarters. An oppressive tax upon the
Chinese population in this State chiefly because
they furnish cheap labor, would seem to be
hardly consistent with the spirit of the treaty.
In looking forward to the more intimate inter-
course with that great Empire which we hope
to enjoy by the aid of steam communication,
and from which we anticipate so large an ac-
cession to our commerce and wealth, has it
never occurred to our wise men that this busi-
ness Of special, oppressive, "drive away" taxa
ton is game that two can play at? But there
is a higher motive than this, which profess
edy enlightened and christian people ought not
to ignore. Consistency and treaty-abiding hon
esty cannot be rec0nciled with the present cru
sade against the Chinese:


"ARTIcLE |. There shall be permanent peace
between the United States of America on the
one part, and the Chinese Empire on the other,
and between their people respectively. They
shall not insult or oppress each other for trihing
causes; and if any other nation should have diff
ferences with the Chinese Empire, or act inju-
diciously towards them, the United States will
exert their good offices to bring about an ami
cable adjustment Of such differences"


The magnanimity with which our government
proffers its "good offices" for the correction of
injudiciOus conduct ON the part of other nations
would indeed be most lunIinously illustrated by
the adoption Of measures now pending before
the Legislature of this State Mercantile Ga
zette.
Year: 1862

The NORTHERN MINEs.-By private letter
from the Dalles, dated January 23d, we learn
that there is from four to ten feet of snow on
the route between there and Walla Walla, and
mat stages and animals can no longer make
rips. The Columbia is frozen over with thick
zee, SO 1t is thought the steamers will not be
able to run for a month. Our correspondent
walked all the way from Portland, and advises
all to refrain from following his example. He
expected to be able to leave the Dalles for Sal
mon river in about a month and not before, on
account OF the destruction of the road by snow.
d DIX hundred pounds of gold had reached the
Dalles from Salmon a few days before. Reports
nom the diggings were very favorable. From
town resident We learn that John Young,
formerly ofLogtown, had visited new diggings
on Powder river and beyond Fort Boise, which
were very rich. He had gone to Washington
county to Winter, and would start with par
y to the new miRes early in the Spring. He
strongly advises his old comrades about Log
zette.
Year: 1862

The news from Burnsides army before Fredericksburg


sought after yesterday with the most intense anxiety
by all classes Of the community. The city was full or
defeats, Victories routs and rallies being talked
about with much Enthusiastically every assertion


as as certain gospel truth and there was no doub
~atcver respecting its reality Tho scene yesterday OK
hibts striking light the extraordinary susceptibility Of
nhe public to ts Of excitement Notwithstanding the high
pitch to which the community has bcen carried dozens
OF occasions already since the rebellion began there still


no apparent falling of in the degree of excitement when
ever any unusual newske that Of yesterday-is tele
grahed from Washington. The people rush with much
'evdity to get the news they did on the memorable
when the guns OF the rebels opened upon
1hc gallant little garrison Of Fort Sumter. The
painful anxiety exhibited yesterday, and it was
useaiy aggravated by the uncertainty which prevailed


"a 10 the fact whether troops had won victory Or
suffered an ngorious defeat There is class Of mischief
makers who seem to take advantage Of every favorable
opportunity for the dissemination Of disastrous
An II would be relief to the community If the police
would only look up these troublesome customers whose
deleh, appears to be in the agony Of others Certainly
they are Of far dangerous class than the harmless
Sta prisoners who thrown into Forts Lafayette and
Warren at the will Of the Provost Marshals.
Year: 1862

MEMPHIS December y, 1901.
E. J. PARK, Esq.-Desr Sir; have been engaged IN
tanning and manufacturing leather for fifteen years,
and may be considered 10 understand it practically a.
well theoretically. and feel it but simple justice
state that your system Of tanning decidedly superior
to anything with which acquainted 1t saves at
least fifty per cent Of bark when IL is used and equally
that in cost when bark is employed, and tans in
vastly shorter period thar possibly be done by the
old plan. The most important feature, Of course is the
great economy, in time and money, and the facility Of
using bark tanning without it. The system must
prove satisfactory to any purchaser.


Yours, ETC., J. OLDRIDGE
Year: 1862

HICKORY GROVE, KY. January 7td, 1852
E. J. PARK, Esq: have given your new discovery
thorough, and glad to say very successful trial
light stock without and with bark also on hesvy
sole leather with bark and it has more than met my
pectatons The sole leather was completely tanned in
thirty Ave days and the kip, which heavy in eight
days. and desire to say aud embrace the opportunity
do So in justice to yOu that the system is clearly
founded on scientific principles that the preparation
Of the hide for rapid tanning really strengthens the
fiber and is most decidedly conducive the production
Of excellent leather


am familiar with almost every new process, and
have used several but regard yours infinitely superior
in every respect to any with which acquainted.


Yours, etc, PHILIP BOUGHNER


COLES CORNERS, Tenn, January l4th 1862.
E J. PARK Esq; Permit me, sir to tell you about
my experience with your new system Of tanning.
supposed yours hot process, using hot oOze,
which had fully tested but which found wo1Id not
answer the purpose was pleased to find that you de-
nouneed the hot Ooze in tanning have used bark
clusively and have tanned as good sole leather as
ever 1 sold, in thirty days by your process, with
great deal less labor and with nearly half less bark
After get ny hides haired and free of lime, and put
them IN your first mixture and then put the ooze on
accomplish in one day in tanning than could
before in a month. 1 doa't want any better system
than yours it viii perform all and more than you claim
for it. The kip which tan in ten days used to
work hard to get out in five months. I am pleased
with it, and believe it will save bark enough aud labor
enough to pay for itself in six months.


Yours, ETC., J. v BRYCE.


PETONA, Ark, December &c, 1861.
E. J. PARK, Esq.-Sir Your new system of tanning
has been thoroughly tested in my tannery. have tried
it with and without bark and feel great qualification
in saying that for rapid tanning excellence Of leather
and cheapness it is beyond all comparison the best
method ever in use.


It is simple and easily managed by the most nezperi
eneed hands. No fail t. make the best leather
II be follows your dire ctions It is enough for me to
say that 1 perfectly satisfied, AMI even delighted
with your process. It prove highly sasfac-
tory to every one. Yours, etc,


RICHARD WILLIAMS
Year: 1862

How GuERRILLAs OPERATE.-The State of
Louisiana, and some others of the Southern
States, are divided into parishes. shall take
one parish as type of the rest. Well, in this
parish there is probably large planter, the lead
ing man In the community. Call him Jones, if you
please. Well, Mr.. Jones has great influence among
his parishioners, and he uses that influence
to induce his neighbors-say from thirty to fifty
men-to arm themselves, each with his shot gun,
rife, or whatever weapon may be handy in the
house, and to take his horse with him. AS soon
as a vessel isseen approaching, and even before
for swift horses are kept constantly running to give
inf1rmation-Jones and his men are concealed ina
favorable spot-say under the shelter of thick
woods or behind the levee-and when the vessel
approaches, she is sauted with volley Of musket-
ry, sometimes with flying artillery, and before the
fire can be returned, if the vessel attacked prove
to be gunboat, they are off, nobody on board
knows where. Similar operations are carried on
landward. If they are chased by superior force
each man separates from the rest and flies home
ward. Pursue one of them and he lodges you
through the woods, turns his horse loose on ap-
preaching his house, and hides his saddle where
You cannot find it and when you get to his house
you find Mr. Guerrilla complacently seated on his
piazza, philosophically smoking the pipe Of peace
and presenting the appearance of innocence per-
sonified. This is correct picture Of the manner
in which the guerrias are organized N. Y.
Herald.
Year: 1862

Il lawyers brief will he brief, be-
fore frecthiuker thinks freely.


Sense must be very good, indeed,
to be as good as good nonsense.


BE what you are. This is the first
step towards becoming better than you
are.


Old fools arc more foolish than
young ones; they have had much longer
practice.


a great many drop tear at the
door of poverty, when they should rather
drop slxpence.


Satan can never undo man with
ont his aid but man may easily undo
himself without Satan's.


Would you make men trustwor-
thy? Trust them. Would you maxi c
men true? Believe them.


1t is a greater mystery that evil
oltcntimos results from good, than that
good spring. from evil. .
Year: 1862

Show AND SUBsTAScE.-We suppose
IL is useless to tell those who have little
money to spend, and have worked day
and night to get that little, to think
twice before they make an outlay Of
their hard earnings; but we can't re-
frain from saying "Whst pityl" when
we see the children OF parents in very
moderate circumstances tricked out in
flimsy fnery, when good substantial
clothing might have been procured.
have looked much prettier, and much
more respectable. We often say
"What a pity" when we see a work
ing girl Haunting showy dress bonnet,
that i'll assorts with her gown or shawl.
We often say "What apityl" when We
see clerk dressed more extravagantly
than his employer, or putting in the
hire Of dashing carriage all the earn
ings of a.week. or sporting the equip
age on the promise OF doing so without
any expectation Of performing that
promise. The rainy day of disaster
that is sure to follow all this sunshine
of folly will not see, though disgrace
and sickness, and a work-house and
nameless grave, loom up in the future
for many OF them. ave can be young
but once" is capable of more than one
Interpretation, as they seem to forget.
None but the fool looks to reap the har-
vest in sowing time; and none but the
fool expects when harvest time comes
to reap wheat where only tares have
been sown.
Year: 1862

While the gastric juice has a mild
bland, sweetish taste, it possesses the
power of dissolving the hardest food tha
can be swallowed. It has no influence
on the soft and delicate fibres of the
living stomach, nor has it any upon the
living hand, but at the moment of death
it begins to eat them away with the
power of the strongest acids.


There is dust on the sea, on land, in
the valley and on the mountain top
there is dust always and every where
the atmosphere is full of it. 1t pene.
trates the noisome dungeon, and visits
the deepest caves OF the earth; nc
palace door can shut it out, no drawer
so secret as TO escape its presence
Every breath Of wind dashes it upon
eye, and yet the eye is not blinded; be-
cause there is fountain of the blandest
fluid in nature, necessarily emptying
itself upon the eyelid, which spreads it
over the surface OF the ball at winking,
and washes every atom of dust away.
But this liquid. so well adapted TO the
eye itself, has some scridity, which, un-
der certain circumstances, becomes so
decided as to become scalding to the
skin, and would rot away the eyelids
were it not that along the edges Of them
there are little oil manufactures, which
spread over their surface a coating as
impervious to the liquid necessary for
keeping the eye ball washed clean as the
best varnish is impervious to water.


The breath which leaves the lungs
has been so perfectly divested of its
fe-giving properties, that to re-breqthe
it, unmixed with other air, the moment
it escapes the mouth, would cause i'm
mediate death from suffocation, while
If 1t lowered about us, a more or less
destructive influence over health and
life would be occasioned; but it is made
Of nature so much lighter than the
common air, that the momont it leaves
the lips and nostrils, it sscends to the
higher regions above the breathing
point, there to be recti6ed, renovated
and sent back again, replete with purity
and lie. How rapidly it sscends is
beautifully exhibited any frosty morn
ing.


But foul and deadly as the expired
air is, Nature, wisely economical in all
her works and ways, turns it to good
account in its outward passage. through
the organs of voice, and makes it the
whispers of love, the soft words of af-
fection, the tender terms Of human
sympathy, the sweetest strains Of raw
ishing music. the persuasive eloquence
OF the finished orator.


II well-made man be extended on
the ground, his arms at at right angles
with the body, making the navel its
centre, will just take in the head, the
fingers ends and feet.


The distance from stop to toe" is
precisely the same as that between the
Year: 1862

Fr m the Dubuque Times.


On Saturday evening last Mrs. Julia Smith,
wife of Geo. B. Smith, E.q, of the firm OF
Smith & Cannon, and sister of the latter
member of the firm, was most fearfully
burned, so severely, in fact that st the time of
writing this article we are momentarily ex-
pecting to hear of her death. Herself, her
husband, and her brother where in the garden
picking strawberries, when her father, who has
been suffering many years with cancer, called
her into the house to have it dressed. She
usually prepared the salve which was applied
to his cancer with q lamp filled with alcohol.
As the spirit was low in the lamp, she took a
half gallon can and endeavored to FL it while
the lamp was burning. She had scarcely
commenced the operation when the fame
communicated to the interior of the vessel
bursting it with loud report, and filing the
room with fame. Her dress and that of
servant girl caught on FIRE, as 3 matter of
course. The latter ran cut of doors, and was
met By Mr.. Smith, who promptly extinguished
the flames which was consuming her gar
ments but severely burned his hands in doing
50. Charlie Cannon rushed in the house, and
found his sister with her mouth and eyes closed
awaiting her doom. He Immediately threw 8
feather bed upon her, and with some difficulty
smothered the deyouring element.


1t is feared that the assistance came too late,
for she wss fairly roasted. Her hands, arms,
face, neck, breast, and portion of her stomach
we're burned most cruelty. Pen cannot de-
acribe nor tongue tell her terrible suffsrIngs,
yet she bore them without moan, and main
tanned ner self-possession even while all else


was wild confusion. She was marvelously
patient, and so thoughtful az to direct the ply
sician to attend to her husband before be did
anything further for her.
Year: 1862

Reconciliation between US here below is i'm.
possible, and that your blood alone can wash
out the affront have received-implore, al
least, by short and fervent prayer the elem
ency of the Almighty 5r


Then the lieutenant, taking his hat off,
cast a look at the mute and terrified witness
es Of the imposing scene, who all with one
accord spontaneously uncovered their heads.
During anoment in that group there reign
ed solemn and religious silence, which was
not broken save by the respiration Of those
assembled At length, taking up his pistol
and pointing with resolution towards his op.
ponent, he made him suffer the most intense
agony. But all at once, as il by effect Of
sudden reflection, he turned to his servant
and gave him the pistol, saying, with the
gesture, accent and smile of hah ed !. ..l =
"Here, take this pistol that officer is not
worthy Of English powderr'


The next day the Baron de W disap-
peared firm the country, and his regiment
never ssw him more. s6 D t8