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Year: 1862

"Brick Pomeroy" of the La Crosse
Democrat gives the 70 lowing description
Of a cold morning in that tewn:--


This morning it was colder than ever. /.
Horses noses froze fast to the trough
while they were drinking--cows in the
stables lroze fast to the hoor--and the
ends ofstove pipes protruded from bull
dings were frozen clean off, as you would
shave the top Of turnip with case
knife. Last night it was so cold that
people had to sleep with boots and nit
tens on, anl several wells, sixty feet be-
low the surface, froze solid. This m orn
ing the words frozo as they came from
the lips of the people talking in the
streets, and great piles of conversation,
like frozen potatoes, lay heaped around
the post office, where people were wait
ing for their mails.


In one Of The schools this morning. a
teacher kissed one of his pupils, while be-
hind The door, and their lips froze SO
tight together that at noon the united eff
fort Of hundred scholars and five trustees,
had tailed to release the parties from
their novel position. The smoke over
one Of the hotels was froze solid, the COR
ners of the congealcd mass resting on The
different chimneys The sight is mag
nifcient, the column of heavy green wood
smoke rising full two hundred feet from
the roof. The hotel will be removed out
from under it at once, lest the falling
mass demolish the building. The only
way we could get to the office was by
sitting in the cook stove and hiring a
boy to draw us down while the stove was
red hot.
Year: 1862

Is it possible that the body is to liz
cold and stiff in death, and the eyes to bt
closed never to open again, to view this
beautiful earth. And the lips ARE they
too, to close never to speak again p
Yes all this must be. They eyes must
be closed although they have seen bright
scenes; and the lips although they have
spoken loving words no tears nor kisses
can bring them back to lite. see lit
tie procession enter the grave bearing a
coffin, and they pause before they open
the grave, the lid of the coffin is lifted,
there are friends and enemies there, to
take the last look at the paid face; tears
are shed and they hear the "blessed words,
1.-THE Lord glveth and the Lord taketh
away; blessed be the name Of the Lord
God forever more" Then comes the
sound of falling clods. What anguish
to a mothers heart Her darling is nc
more! She sees the enemies of her child
secs them stand unmoved beside thu
open grave into which they TOO, must err
long droop. She remembers the tear
and sobs of her darling when the enem.
had been at work. They have don
their last work now They connot in
iure her more,--the body is at rest in tn
grave, her spirit has gone to rest with it


God who says Vengeance is min


and l will repay"
Year: 1862

This gentleman, the Colonel of the 18th
Illinois regiment, fell wounded in the se
verest part Of the fight at Fort Donelson.
We are not advised whether his wounds
will prove fatal to him but we trust they
will not. He is the distinguished Rep
resentative in Congress from what is called
the Egyptian district, and for some time
after the war began, he was charged by
the Republicans with being traitor
They had no other grounds to predicate
the charge upon than that lie was a Dem.
ocrat and opposed to emancipation. He
has given the lie to the charge by pouring
out his blood upon the battle field in de-
fense Of the Union under the Constitution,
while those who made the charge have
remained at home to heap their ISLANDERS
upon other Democrat


When in the thickest of the fight and
his brave men fell fas. around him, gal
lantly he cheered them on, and fearless
himself Of the enemy's bullets that were
pouring upon them like hail, shouted tc
them thus: "Suffer death. men, but dis
grace never; stand firm; yield never"


They did stand firm, and even wher
nearly all their officers were either killed
or wounded, they fought on, and were
dobtless the means of bringing the battle
to close as soon as it did His whole
regiment was from what the Republicans
in derision, call Egypt. in Illinois, be-
cause it is almost unanimously Democrat
ic. Democrats have been the mainstay
in this war, which they are fighting to
uphold the Government, and not destroy
it, as some pretended patriots would have
them do. Had it not been for such mer
as Mcclellan, Stanton, Halleck, Logan
Buell., and the brave Col. Lawler, wh'
fell at Fort Donelson, and hosts of others
who are Democrats and enjoy the esteem
confidence and respect of the Democrat
party, W at would have become of tn
country in this dreadful crisis? Heavel
only knows.


Such men fight not for their own glor,
or the aggrandizement of others, but fol
their country and nothing else All hon
or to them say we-a grateful country
will honor the living and cherish the mem
ory Of those who have fallen Terre HUT
Journal
Year: 1862

A friend--a republican--writes us
from Ohio that he is tired--yes, sick of
the Niger question. We would to God,
that the whole party was in the same
state of mind, and then the whites could
hope for something at the hands of our
present Congress. The necessities of the
soldiers and our country would receive
some attention. Let those of that party,
of the niger, urge their friends to drop
him, for time at least. When twenty
five millions of whites are suffering,
it is time for us to turn our sympathies
homeward. When our country is bank
rupt and divided it is time for us to look
after its interest. Who but an abolition
disunionist would not get sick at the fol,
ly of our present congress ?-Freepor1
(Ill. )Bulletin.
Year: 1862

Always look on the sunny side,


And though life checkered be.
A llghtsome heart bids care depart,
And time fly pleasantly;
Why sit and mourn DER fancicd ills
When danger is not near
Care is sell consuming thing


That hardest nerves can wear.
Always look on the sunny side,


And though you do not find
All things according to your wish,
BE not disturbed In mind
The greatest evils that can come


Are lighter far to bear,
When met by fortitude and strength
Instead Of doubt and fear.
Always look on the sunny side
There's health in harmless fest,
And much to soothe our worldly cares,
In hoping for the best.
The gloomy path is far too dark


For happy feet TO tread.
And tells of pain and solitude,


or friends estraDged and dead.
Always look on the sunny side,


And never yield to doubt;
The WAYS of Providence are wise,
And faith will bear you out.
II you but make this maxim yours,
And in its strength abide,
Believing all is for the best


Look on the sunny side.
Year: 1862

A PRETTY RIDDLE.--A gentleman who
was paying his addres to lady, at length
summoned up sufficient courage to ask
if they are agreeable 10 her, and whether
he might hatter himself with a chance oI
ultimate success ? The lady replied
Stripes" telling the gentlemen to trans
pose the letters so as to form out o.
them another word, which was her an.
swer. The reader who can find out the
word need never fear being non plussed
by lady. Those who cannot decipher it,
must either wait till they overcome the
difficulty. or may give up all thought o.
wooing.
Year: 1862

Come back come backl The spirits wall
For other happier days gone by,
Which viewed through recollectiOn's veil
Seem brighter to the mournful eye
Brighter alas than e'er they were


For memory recalls each Joy,
But Rlotting out each actual care,


They seem as gold without alloy
Came back come back 0, mournful sound
Request to which there's nOTeply;
Lest JOY that never may be found,


Yet mourned with many a weary sigh.
The past the dearly cherished past


How fearfully we scan it DER;
we sigh because it could not last,


And weep because it comes no more
Come back! come back All, if it could.
'Iwould seem no brighter than to-day:
But viewed through our regretful mood,
lis tairer, new It's flown away.
lis this alas and this alone


In which consists its magic power
The mOurnful halo round it thrown


Belongs not to the present hour. LAURA.
Year: 1862

We give below statement OF the doings OF
our late County Treasurer. Mr.. Brown. during
the past year Of his Office, which be has kindly
furnished to Us at our request, for the iniorma-
ton of the public The law provides fo' the
publication of the County Treasurer's quarterly
report By the Board of Supervisors, but they
have never deemed it worth complying with,
and consequently all the information Of the
doings of this important Office remain hidden
from the public eye, except when the officer
furnishes statement to an enquirins citizen,
who publishes it for the benefit of the people,
who have right BY law, to have it officially
every three months:
Year: 1862

There IS meeting to be held to-day at
Chico, for the purpose Of organizing plan to
divide the county; not, however, with any
hope of accomplishing the object the present
session Of the Legislature. To say the least Of
this secession movement, we predict that it Is
unwise and premature in the present condition
of affairs, both national and domestic. 4 d.
vision will result in increased taxation to sup
port a seperate set of officers and to pay of q
heavy part of the present debt of the county,


including the Railroad Bonds and the Nation
al War taxes. If the people wish TO secede
+ from Butte to form new county on the other
side Of the river they will start off in their ex-
istence with burdensome debt that will retard
their progress and increase their taxes If,
however, they wish to form a new connection
with some of our present neighbors-either
/ Colusa or Tehama-it may be prudent to con-
suit with them about the matter of accepting
a portion Of our Indebtedness, for We opine
that no more slices will be cut from our county
without cost to those who accept the slice and
take upon themselves the necessity of paying
part OF our debt. This county has already
been cut up and sliced off by our neighbors
and, in most instances, without taking part
of our debt; but no more of this will be done
without we are amply compensated for the tax
paying property thus cut off Hereafter, the
appropriations of our soil and property to their
own use, will have to assume fair proportion
of our debt and liability upon the 100000
Railroad bonds, part of which have already
been issued. But We hope, that when the tax
paying people on the other side of the river
come to canvass this matter over, that they
may be able to see that no good effects can
come TO them from an independent existence un-
der the present financial pressure of the county
and of the country.


1t is very bad time TO make new counties
and assume new burdens our whole State is
under the heaviest pressure it has ever been
called upon TO bear, and heavy burdens enough
will be thrown upon our people, without ma
king, voluntarily, any more. Let the prime
movers in this division matter think well Of this
matter, and especially the taxpayers, before
they act. We do not know the complaints of
those who wish to secede from U.s. but they had
better bear the evils which they have, than to
fly to others that they know not of.


When we learn the action of the present
meeting, we will present further views and rea-
sons in regard to this matter if the project is
to be seriously entertained by the people of our
county upon the Chico side of the river We
have serious suspicious about the plan, anyhow,
and, financially, it is not feasible, even stroke
like Tom MONEYS, for the flood sufferers,
would not save those people on the other side
from pecuniary distress.
Year: 1862

FIRE l-On Monday last, about noon, during
the high wind from the north, Mr.. Brooks res
idence was discovered to be on fire about the
stove pipe, where it came through the roof
1t had gained quite headway, and five min
utes more would have put all that part of the
town in ashes. Its timely discovery, and the
energy of some of the neighbors, with plenty
of water, extinguished the fire, after considera-
bly, wetting the furniture of the room, but do,
ing no very material damage Onr people
cannot be too careful about their stovepipes
Examine them frequently, and don't let them
get near the wood work.
Year: 1862

WEATHER.-Y Yesterday was one Of the finest
days of the season, although somewhat cold in
the shade. The snow, except in places little
exposed to the sun, disappeared rapidly A
few more such days and our streets will again
be dry, and the roads leading from the town
will be in good travelling condition. and our
village assume the active appearance of former
times
Year: 1862

TELEeRArHIc.-The telegraph line, which
was deranged and thrown down in many places
by the food, and remained so for over two
weeks, is now up and in operation to Marys-
vile and Chico. \ single span of wire now
stretches across Feather River, suspended sew
eral feet above high water mark
Year: 1862

MARYsvIILLE.-The Appeal, in commenting
upon an article in oar last issue, upon the sub
joct of the people of Marysville blocking up
our navigation of Feather river by their bridge,
suggests that we should not be in hurry to
knock them into cooked hat, Just yet, as the
railroad will settle them soon enough. That
dodge won't do Mr.. Appeal, you have blocked
the railroad too, and will allow no permanent
track to be laid to the navigation of our river
But as usual, require the tariff and toll to be
paid from your steamboat landing to the depot,
upon freight and passengers, for about a mile
that is the same old game. However, look to
your altars, well, for the town of Eliza affords
iecilities in wet times, that are beginning to be
felt in your city. Your papers are full ofteams
and trains loading at your merchant houses
for the mountains but We think some of your
heavy houses must have branches at Eliza,
from the appearance of things there the other
day. The boats cannot get within a mile of
your city, and the passengess are taxed two
and a-half dollars 10 get row up the rolling
Yuba. You will admitthat teams nor trains
cannot get down the road to the landing at the
mouth of the Yuba, on Feather river, Just
below your blockading bridge In your
Thursdays issue, you say it is in bad fix, y
and shocking condition and that freight
&c, has to be boated up to your city in small
craft, at great expense. Eliza appears to be
easy of access to the hills, and heavy freights
land there that a short time ago came to Ma
rysvile.
Year: 1862

CHANCE FOR ANOTHER REMovAL-Accounts
from the Bay City, indicate that some of the
members of the Legislature are complaining of
the cold weather prevailing there. The next
move, for convenience and comfort, will prob
ably be to some warm climate. Better try
Stockton. The Asylum would be a magnif-
cent building for their accommodation.
Year: 1862

REoRGANIzATIoN,-Secretary Stanton, now
at the head of the War Department at Wash
ington, is rapidly reOrganizing that branch of
the Government and making its operations less
complicated and more efficient. He has thus
far shown himself better qualified to fill the
position than his predecessor, Cameron.
Year: 1862

Our last advices from the East, by telegraph,
give very encouraging accounts Of the steady
advance of the Union cause and the gradual
closing in of the Gordon of troops upon the
lines of the rebels. The sealing of the harbor
Of Charleston by the Stone Fleet" has been
a success, that will forever close that traitor
port to the commercial world, and give to the
world an example of retribution visited upon
the tory State of South Carolina, called forth
by her own treachery in leading this civil war
against the Constitutional Government of the
country and inaugurating heresies in politics
that viii forever destroy the democratic form
OF government


The victory Of Gen. Thomas over the rebel
Zollicofer, at Somerset. gives our troops on
that part of the line, an opening into East
Tennessee, where there are thousands Of Union
men who viii join our army and insure that
State to her original position in the Union.


The Secessionists hereabouts, doubt the abIl.
ity of the Federal troops to take Columbus and
pass Pillows chain, across the Mississippi, at
Memphis but We opine that their fortifca-
tions will not last as long as at Manassas, for,
if attacked by land, and the gun-boat fleet on
the river, it will find the latitude too warm
even at this season of the year-tor the good
of their health.


A new order of things now appears in the
military department of the nation, and from
the commencement Of Secretary Stanton's ad
ministration of the military bureau, we predict,
in a short period, the crushing out of the rebel
lion, successfully, and the speedy return of the
disafected States to law and order If foreign
Powers will only remain as they have promised
to, for few months longer, our loyal people
need have DO fear as to the successful final re-
suit Of the Union cause.
Year: 1862

Rs-Who has not heard of SANDS SaRsAPARrILAY
How many have cause to be thankful that it 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
required-the very success of the article is turned
against it by the cupidity of others and numerous
preparations of so called Sarsaparilla 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

BURNED TO DgATH--A correspondent of the
Columbus tGa-) Sun communicates the follow
ing particulars Of heartrending accident that
occurred recently in Dale county, Alabama
On the night in question John Vann and
wife went TO John Beveritts, leaving their
children, five in number, at home During
their absence the house caught fire and burned
them up. Vann had built room st the rear
end of the house with no door leading out ex-
cept through the front, and the children were
in that room, and perhaps asleep until the
house was burned so far that thev could not
get out. Their hearts and bones were found
two at the door which led into the room. two
others in corner. as far away from the fire as
they could get, and the infant, about three
years old, who was in bed, where the bed was
burned.
Year: 1862

Loss OF CArTLE.-We understand that r.
FL. Thomes, of this county says the Red Bluff
Independent, will lose in the neighborhood of
1000 head of cattle this winter. The general
average loss of stock raisers is one third of
their entire stock, and some have estimated it
as high as one-halt Stock will be worth
something next spring.
Year: 1862

How DID THEY GET THERE.-The Marysville
Express gains some interesting intelligence
from couple of gentlemen, residents of Butte
Creek, in this county. The most Interesting
portion Of which is the following


A number of articles came floating down
Butte creek from Oroville. A box of fire.
crackers, box of tea and keg of whisky,
were rescued from the stream.


1t would be decidedly interesting" if the
Express, or the gentlemen in question, or any
other person, would inform US through what
channel articles float from Oroville into Butte
Creek, as that stream is situated up the valley
some twenty miles, with high ground and a
creek of 70 inconsderable proportion interven
ing.
Year: 1862

MOCK PHILANTHROPY OF THE EURopEAN Go
vERNxHNTs-The English and French journals
in the interest Of the rebels have been in the
habit of setting forth the crueltics falsely
charged against the federals in the conduct of
the war as one Of the principal grounds for an
armed Intervention in our affairs. It might
easily be shown that there never before.was
rebellion in which the effort to restore the au-
thority Of the regular government was marked
by less Of vindictive and prosecuting spirit
than the present one. Even the shooting Of the
ten rebel prisoners in Missouri by COL Mcneil,
about which the tory organs in England have
raised such an outcry, initiates nothing against
this assertion. II was the act of an Individual
in command Of local force, and owing no re-
sponsibiity to the national government Were
we % turn to the history Of the Irish and Scotch
rsbellions we could point to hundreds of worse
atrocities perpetrated by militia and yeomanry
without their being called to account for II. In
the case Of Col. Mcneil there is no doubt that
II the facts alleged are established proper pun
ishment will be meted out TO him.


Whilst the unavoidable incidents Of civil war
are being constantly perverted into arguments
favoring their desire to break rs up, the indif-
ference with which the European governments
regard the horrible atrocities committed under
their own eyes In China 10 edifyins to witness
In the war now waging there between the I'm
perialists and the rebels we hear Of women and
Year: 1862

RESULTS or THE CHARTER ELECrroN--As We
predicted during the canvass, the election Of
Tuesday last resulted in complete and over.
whelming triumph Of the candidates nominated


by the conservatives, and by such majorities
that II may be safely predicted that we have
seen tho last Of the republican party in this
city. The conservative candidates for Comp
troller and Corporation Counsel have not only
been successful, but the republicans have not
been able to secure the election Of o single can
didate for Alderman or member Of the lower
branch Of tho Common Council And, were u
not for the fact that two republican Aldermen
hold over, there would not be republican ia
the city legislature. Even Of the schoolbtlcers--
Year: 1862

young gin, being nrst subjected to the brutal
lust Of the imperial soldiery and then dragged
to the place of execution and disemboweled-
oil this in the presence of English and French
Officers. Here, surely, il case for intervsn-
ton, II inhumanity In the conduct of . war for
the suppression of q rebellion is to furnish
ground for the interference of one nation in the
affairs OF another. Both England and France,
however, will allow the Chinese to continue to
cut each other'Sthroats without troubling them
selves about the matter. Their fine strung SON
sibilities have no present motive for exercise in
that quarter.
Year: 1862

Toward the close of the last century
Northumberland and the border were ter
ribly infested by those-to the bucolic
INDEPENDENTLY obnoxious specimens
of the gems thief known as .rivers," or
'lifers of CATTLE"


Almost all the rascals who followed
this not unlucrative profession trusted
chiefly to mere brute force to carry out
successfully their nefarious schemes
There was, however, one exception to this
rule to be found in the person of a ceebra-
ted freebooter, known as "Dickey of Kings
wood" This worthy openly expressed
his disapprobation of bis rivals vulgar
mode of following their profession, and re-
peatedly boasted that he could achieve
twice as much by his cunning as they could
by their brute force. Nor was this asser-
ton of his empty boasting-far from it,
In few years time Dicbey's name be-
came the terror Of the country side. No
farmer felt secure when he retired to rest
at night that his cattle might not have
vanished before m orning. So clcvery,
moreover, we're all Dickey's enterprises
conducted, that no man could ever succeed
in making personal acquaintance with him
lie openly set justice at defiance, and
laughed at the fertile efforts of law pun
ish him. Perhaps, however, the best way
to illustrate the adroitness and good luck
which characterized all Dickey's proceed
ings will be for me to relate the story Of
one of his exploits.


1t appears, then, that during the course
of his peregrinations through Northumb-
erland, one fine afternoon, Dickey's eyes
were gladened by the sight of a pair of
fine oxen which we're quietly grazing in a
field near Denton Burn, a village distant
three miles from New Castle.


Determined to possess them, Dickey
hung about the place till nightfall, watch
ed where the animals were driven to, and
his usual good fortune assisting him spec
dily secured his prize. He also contrived
by the exercise of his accustomed cunning,
to leave such traces behind him as made
the owner of the oxen certain that the free'
booer had made OF toward Tweed
Thither he accordingly proceeded in hot
haste. In the intermen, however, Dickey
had lost no time in "making tracks" to-
ward the west country, and so expeditions
were his movements that in a short time
1 he reached Lauorcost, in Cumberland
Here he fell in with an cid farmer Oh
horseback, who, being delighted with the