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Year: 1860

ROLLING Snow on WHEAT FIELps.-A cor
respondent Of the Toronto Globe e.. W.
advances the opinion that rolling the snow
on the autumn wheat in winter, would be
an effective means of preventing winter.kill,
by rendering the snow less liable to melt on
eyery sudden thaw that occurs. He says the
practice is extensively followed in Sweden
A good deal of discussion is taking place in
the columns of that paper, on this subject,
from which we gather that it yet requires
the test of actual experiment to decide wheth-
er any benefit is to be derived from the oper-
alton or not.
Year: 1860

MAKING CHEESE IN WHrER.-A correspon-
dent Of the Rural ;Ne,c Yorker regards the
present practice of making it in the summer
both absurd and expensive. The winter, he
suys, is by far the BEST time to make cheese,
because the milk is richer, moro easily man
aged, and there is no danger from flies, or
sOuring of vessels. There is also more time,
and milk can he produced cheaper, and Of u
better quality than in summer.
Year: 1860

CAvNG.-The Douglas State Central
Committee of PENNSYLVANIA have with.
drawn their Electoral ticket. They see
the absurdity Of running a man who has
no chance Of an election, aud may not be
willing to assist Lincoln by voting for
used up candidate. The Douglasites of
California, IL they are opposed to Black
Republicanism, will follow the example of
their Pennsylvania brethren.
Year: 1860

KEEP it before the people, that the only
safe plan of defeating the Black Rcpubli.
cans is, for all desiring such a result to
unite upon Breckenridge, the true Union
candidate.


Keep it before the people, that nobody
but lunatic would believe that Douglas
can carry any Northern State, unless he
sells out to the .Abolitionists, and that he
has no reliable chance of success any
where.
Year: 1860

The SLoUGH.-In the Express, of yester-
day, appeared a very reasonable article re-
commencing some speedy action on the part
of the -eity fathers in regard to the Slough
in the western part of the town. 1t does
seem as though that nuisance could be rene
died very easily by putting in sewer or
drain pipe at the outlet of the slough and in
addition building an embankment across it at
the upper end of the drain, to prevent the
river from backing up at all into it; flood
gate being placed at this point so arranged
as to close against the entrance of the water
from without, but allowing whatever may
have entered to pass out when high water
has subsided.


The cost Of such an arrangement would be
trifing, compared to the convenience afford
ed for crossing the slough at any point, in
stead of having TO travel long way around
to one of the bridges, as many have now to
do who have business "across the slough
besides the far weighher matter of getting
rid of the foul sickness breeder" as the Ex-
press justly callsit
Year: 1860

RIcH SrRIKE.--A rich lead of blue gravel
has been struck in the ridge near the Big
Tunnel of the South Yaba Canal, in Nevada
county. 1t IS said to be one of the richest
leads ever discovered in that county.
Year: 1860

KELLER's SALooN.-Every body has seen
and admired John Keller's new building on
the corner of Maiden Lane and Third street,
and when it becomes generally known that
Keller has fitted tup as a first class drinking
saloon, every body will go to see it again,
and will admire it more than ever. The
The beverages dispensed at the bar are said
to be very palatable
Year: 1860

ExCoMoUNIoATED.-An unusual' ceremony
recently took place in a church in Boston.
Three men were formally excommuuicated /;
one for rejecting the doctrine of the atone
ment and neglectng public worship; another
for believing in spiritualism and third for
wicked treatment of his wife.
Year: 1860

Ice CREAM.-An ice cream establishment
was sold out, yesterday, under the hammer
of the Constable. The fitting up of the sa-
loon cost considerable money-employment
of labor also good deal-rent not small
acknowledgement expenses tolerably heavy,
and the institution failed. This is not the
first time that an ice cream saloon has "gone
in," in Marysville. A certain Mr.. Kelley
started saloon of the kind, here in 1868, as
we are informed, (for we were not here, and
expected to do big business The first
night that he opened, he invited the public
generally to give him call and partake OF
his luxuries-free. The whole town was on
hand, the rich and the poor, especially the
rich. Men, with their families, were pres
ent who had never been known to eat ice
cream before and have never tasted any since
The old and the young We're there. Parents
who had left their children at home returned
and sent their offspring to the feast. Con-
dictionaries were also a part Of the establish,
ment, and hundreds of pounds of candy, nuts,
raisins ct ceterd, were borne away that night
in the pockets and aprons of greedy urchins
and laughing misses. 1t was free thing,
and freely did the people partake.


The entertainment ended at last, and Kelly
looked around to see what was left. Not
only was every particle of ice cream gone,
but there was not a raisin, or n nut, or a stick
of candy high or low, in the entire building
Next day, Kelly closed out, lie had nothing
left, upon which to proceed in his business
His capital and his stock were both exhausted
He had expected to invite attention to his
business and acquire popularity, by giving q
free feast, but he did not expect to be eaten
clean out and teetotally devoured at the first
onslaught.


The present clse-the failure Of the saloon
alluded to at the beginning of this article
is not a parallel one with the case Of Kelley,
but suggests it, and we mention it as fact
connected with the history of ice cream sa-
looms in this city. BY the way. it is some
what strange that in a city SO much com
planned of abroad as being intolerably hot
ice cream saloons go down, because it is toe
cool for demand for the commodity.
Year: 1860

THE Prince of Wales will be accompanied
to New York not only by "a Secretary of
State, as representing the Crown, but by her
Majesty's first great officer of the household
and one who has been Lord Lieutenant of
lreland-thus to a certain extent representing
the Queen herself. and adding an additional
Importance and dignity to the visit of the
Prince.
Year: 1860

INQUEsT.-At an inquest held in San Fran
cisco Monday, on the body of Geo. WyckofT,
the jury found that deceased was from New
York, aged SO years, and that he came to his
death by pistol ball, fred by himself, for
the purpose OF destroying life, while under
temporary mental alteration. We are told,
says the Bulletin, that Mr. Wyckoff was a
confirmed dyspeptic when he first came to
California-and lately his dyspepsia had been
very distressing Only those who knew him
best knew what frightful world, how blue,
and gloomy, and wretched it was that this
Protean malady led him in.
Year: 1860

SHOOTING GALLERY.-The lovers of the
gentlemanly sport of pistol shooting will find
a pleasant place for recreation at the shooting
gallery of J. E. Brophy, near the corner of D
and Third streets.
Year: 1860

| lars annually from our pockets, anC
sacrificing thousands of lives upon tn
coast of Africa, in that terrible cline
to prevent onr going there to get few
negroes. If it is right for us to 90 Il
Virginia and buy negro and pay
$4,000 for him. it is equally right for
us to go to Africa. where we can ge
them for fifty. Here is the condition
we are placed in, and you may as vel
come to your senses and face the mu
sic.


There are 1000 of our negroes now
down at Key West. begging anc
pleading not to be sent back. If they
should be sent back, what would b,
the result? One half of them would
die before they got there. and the 9th
er half would be turned on the coast o.
Africa-upon the coast of Liberia
among strangers, to be eaten up by
cannibals. or be caught and sold again,
or die of starvation: and this you cal
humanity say it is piracy, | say
that our Government is acting against
right and reason in this mater; and i
the Southern men had the spunk and
spirit to come right mp and face the
North, believe the Northern Democ-
racy at least would come to the true
doctrine Of popular sovereignty and
noa-intervention.


Think of it, two thousand of these
poor barbarians from Africa caught
within the last four weeks, and kept
upon the miserable island of Key West
dying there from disease and starva'
tion; and what do not die are to be
sent back by our Government at an ex.
pense of one or two millions, though
they are begging not to be sent back
and landed upon the coast of Africa
1t is cruel, inhuman, wrong, and / ap.
peal to the good sense Of the American
nation against it. Look at John Bull
he has bound us to catch all we can,
and we send them back at an expense
of twenty five dollars per head. We
send them back, but what does Johr
Bull do when he gets them? He ap'
prentices them out again, and makes
slaves of them. That is the hypocrit
ical treaty that you are bound by, and
yet | hear no Southern voice, or North
ern voice, raised against this aggress
ion upon the law of nature and of ma
ture's God, but | intend to raise my
voice against it, humble as it is.


Now. this may be secondary ques
ton before us tonight. The great
point is harmony and union in The
great Democratic party. Let us whil
the Black Republicans, let us win th'
fight. and when we have settled thes,
things, let us act together and all will
be right.
Year: 1860

MORAL FORTUNE -TELLING.-Des
cable as the practice which goes by
the name of fortune-telling is, we be.
lieve there is kind of fortune-telling
which is not only possible but easily
praticed upon correct principles.
Thus, to begin with the young. when
we see a child obedient to his or her
parents or teachers. or any one else to-
ward whom the subordinate relation
has become necessary, we have no hes
itation in predicting that good fortune
will accompany such child into early
manhood or womanhool, and ensure
fair start in adult life. If the case
be that OF an honest, energetic young
man, who has successfully advanced
from the position Of apprentice and
journeyman into that of a master me-
chanic or boss, we can tell his for
tune without much difficulty. So
with regard TO those who have chosen
profession as the means of liveli
hood. Let us see how they conduct
their business. Ifthey do this intel
ligently. inlustriously. and honestly
at the start. they will be very apt to
continue to do so, and success will be
sure in the long run. Unprincipled
men, in the same line. may get ahead
Of them at the beginning, but they will
fare bes. in the end, and so illustrate
the truth of the maxim. that honesty
is the best policy. We will confess
that we are 10 foitunc-teller, ii it does
not so turn out.
Year: 1860

Prince Jerome. the youngest and
probably the meanest of the brothers
of Napoleon l., is dead at last. He
he had lived to old age without ever
having been suspected of = manly or
creditable act His deSertion Of his
American wife and (mock marriage of
a German Princess, at the back of his
Imperial brother. were of piece with
his whole career. His son, Jerome
Napoleon survives, to be perpetual
modification and pcrplexity to his
supposed Imperial cousin, Napoleon
Ill,
Year: 1860

l say go for non-intervention in
the broadest sense of the term. say
that this whole thing should be taken
out of the hands of the General Gov
eminent. / say it is all wrong to be
spending two or three millions Of dol.
Year: 1860

HEENAN AND SAVERS. Important correspOn-
dcnce between these two istic heroes appears in
the London Times Heenan says:


AS the belt may be said to be equally owned
by both Of us, will agree to run him foot race
from 100 yards to five miles for the stakes and
belt, or will wrestle with him for the belt, or
will row with him for the belt, or will take hold
of bands and jump from a house top with him fol
tie belt. If all these offers will not do, / will
agree in two months to be ready to fight the four
best men that can be produced in England be.
ginning with Sayers, at intervals of thirty days
apart for the belt.


Sayers replies to this:


To run. swim or wresle for the belt of the
prize ring is a challenge so eminenty absurd
that one can hardly imagine it emanates from
man, and the evidence of alteration of mind is
greatly strengthened by the proposition to jump
from a house top. The same proposition was
once made by lunaic, who met bis medical at
tendant alone on the roof of the asylum


Let u.s." said the mad patient seizng the
doctor with firm grasp, jump down :" but the
medical man, with great presence of mind, re-
piled, may, any body could jump down let us
go into the street and jump up" Like Teddy
the Tiler, know something of the roofs of hou.
ses, and their foundations also, and while un.
questionably admit that HeeDan is - brck,n
hope always to be able to say with TRUTH as do
now, that am brick layer The offer to fight
four men, at intervals Of thirty days, sayors of
bounce and is unworthy of John c. Heenan. He
should remember that it might take him the first
month 10 vanquish Tom SAVERS
Year: 1860

OUR HANp.-After quoting some remarks from
the Courier, wherein The IDEA is set forth that
politicians, in endeavoring to establish State
Democratic organ at Sacramento, should call to
their aid " the knowledge and business talents of
practical printers" the Sierra Democrat asks


"Wouldn't 1t be well enough, Dosb, for the
craft hereafter TO withhold It's support from any
one but printer for the Office qf''State Print


10 this inquiry we emphatcally respond in the
alnrmatve For one, we never expect to vote in
Convention for any one for State Printer except
a practical printer, or one familiar with the
printing business either as editor, publisher or
printer Shastq Cour'iy.


Just what we said last FALL when the contest
Tor state Printer was between OMcara and Bolts,
and II we remember Alright, the Courier was on
the right side then. Like the editor of that pa-
per- we never shall vote - for any one for State
frinter except practical printer''
Year: 1860

PRETTY ALLUsloN.-After addressing his fell
made the following alluson to his good old wife


"And now, fellow citizens, please to consider
that | have been standing already half an hour
on this stage in the north end of our city, while
matronly lady, dwelling in South street. has
been expecting me to pay her visit, at least of
ceremony, which has already been due eight
mOnthsn
Year: 1860

SAN FkANcISCO FoRTnCArIONS.-- General Tot
ten still remains in San Francisco, not enjoying
his leisure, but buster man than most of his
Juniors. lie has scaled the most preciptous
accessible nights Of Lime Point with an eye to
The fortifcation Of the entrances to our harbor
His men he has sent back into the country and
up the coast, from the point, to discover where
"a hostile force could be landed in the rear. Exact
ly what the General decides TO recommend in
Tie way OF additional public works does dot yet
come Oni.- RMLfiiu.
Year: 1860

GRAND JrRlEs.-Quite Il number Of newspapers
in this State, both dailes and weeklies, have de-
clared in favor of abolishiug the Grand jury
Fystem If the people of every county in the
State would petition our lawmakers for the pas
sage OF such act, they would soon observe great
falling off in county expenditures The law is
much needed such an one is beneficial elsew here
Why should it not he here?
Year: 1860

THE Sacramento Union prints figures to show
that the sum expended for State Printing during
The month Of January will equal as many thou
sand dollars as was paid hundreds the same mont


last session. The people had better kept JohI
OMeara in that position he did the work d


reasonable, yet living prices, and had no news
paper to support out Of the proceeds Of the oicd I
Year: 1860

Toll BRIDGES AND FERRIEs.-A ferry owner
on Trinity asks whether mail and express carriers
are entitled to free passage over Il licensed ferry
or toll bridge? In reply we publish Section 20,
of the law Of this State relating to ferries and
toll bridges


GAN expresses sent on public service by a
comnnndern chief, colonel or ma j0r, or from
the Governor for the time being, or the com
mandine officer Of the militia, shall be accounted
public messengers or expresses, and shall pass all
ferries or toll bridges free Of charge, within the
condition Of the bond aforesaid. if the dispatch
carried by such messenger or expresses be en-
dorscd public SERVICE and be signed by the
person sending the same but no ferryman or toll
bridge keeper shall be bound to give passage free
TO any such expresses ia time Of peace except in
case Of Instruction.


The law is plain that carriers of any kind not
employed in "pubIic service, AS above interpre-
ted, are not entitled TO free passage.
Year: 1860

NJ WHELAN q Co.-The advertisement Of the
above firm, merchants at Big Fiat, will be found
in the proper place People who live on the
river, and deal with them, speak in high terms Of
Mr.. Whelan, resident partner, both as a business
man aud gentleman, aud an acquaintance of two
years with him has lcd US to the same opinion.
The establishment is a permanent fixture at Big
Flat, and the advertisement sets forth that an
unusually large stock Of assorted merchandise,
for a country trading house, will always be found
at their store. Their goods are received by way
OF Humboldt Bay, and none but the best articles
offered for sale.
Year: 1860

THE HUMBOLDT INDIAN MAssACRE.-The pub
lished accounts of this affair are much exaggera-
i'd in some OF the Bay papers. The Pacific puts
down the number butchered" at about two
hundred. If we are properly informed, the
number killed did not overreach fifty 1t is
large enough, however, and the citizens of the
Vicinity where the killing took PLACE may soon
have reason to regret the lqsty action of the Eel
river settlers. II the same number of Indians
had been killed by the whites in defence of their
homes and property, there would have been no
ground for censure, but the fact that those cti-
Zehs OF Eel river crossed the Bay TO kill Indians
simply because they knew there were Indians
there, will tell against them. If the Bay Indians
had furnished arms and ammunition TO the noun
tain irlotS' those same weapons were originally
supplied by the whites
Year: 1860

The NEATnER.-The storm which lasted for
more than a week, stopped on Tuesday, since
when we have had pleasant days, and cold
freezing nights. Not much mining is being done
LereabOuts
Year: 1860

CELEsTIAIS GoNG.-We lealn from a San
Francisco paper that seven thousand Chinese
will embark from that city for Frazer river, as
soon as the mining season opens. The movement
northward may be prompted by the prospect OF
passage of the enormous tax bill, now before the
Legislature. California can spare four times the
number going and not miss them much. Some
OF the mining counties that luruish them employ
ment, and are benefited by the income from For
eign miners tax will notice a considerable drop.
ping off of income probably.
Year: 1860

CONSTITUTIONAL CoNvENTIoN.-Th Joint Com
mittee Of the Legislature to whom the matter
was referred, reported to the House that the
proposition for Convention was carried. They
also reported a bill, the provisions of which are
that Convention shall be held in August to
frame Constitution.
Year: 1860

ADyIcE.-Alpheus Bull, formerly Of the firm
Of Bull, Baker & Co., Red Bluff, has been to
Washoe, and writes TO a Red Butf friend that
he saw but two claims while there which were
paying an ounce of mineral, and that he would
look upon it as the hight of loolshness for man
who has a living business in this State, to leave
il for that wild region. lie made no investment,
and with the exception of the two claims men
toned saw nothing as good as q per cent. a
month, here
Year: 1860

ROAD TO HONEY lana wagon road from
that place to Honey Lake is in contemplation by
the citizens of Red Bluff. The Beacon urges the
immediate building of such road as an enter
prise which would result in great benefit to the
place.


NoRTI FpRK AND EAST FORK TRADERs.-J ohm
and Christian Nickel are the leading traders in
general merchandise at the above points. Their
brick store at The former place is the only one in
the county outside of Wcaverville. They are
good men and consequently we'll patronized.


End TO OPPoSlTIoN.-A report is current in
San Francisco that the Pacific company and
Vanderbilt are about to unite-that is, Wander
blt is 70 have the line between New York and
Aspinwal, and the Pacific company between San
Francisco and Panama.


GETTING READY.-Several amateur musicians
are preparing TO give an entertainment in this
place shortly Their rehearsal room Is annoying
ly close TO the JOURNAL office


SIsKIYOU SHERIFFALTY.-The Supreme Court
has reversed the decision in the suit of Searcey
against Grow, relative TO the Sherff's office o
SiskiyOu, and remanded the cause.


SATURDAY NIGHT-Go to the " Diana" on that
evening, you who enjoy music aud a hearty
laugh. There will be rare fun on that OCCASION
we are informed.
Year: 1860

PEAoE.-Peace is better than joy. Joy is an
uneasy guest, and always on tiptoe to depart
1t tires and wears US out, and yet keeps us ever
fearing that the next moment it will be gone
Peace is not so-it comes more quietly, it stays
more contentedly, and it never exhausts our
strength, nor gives US one anxious forecastipg
thought. Therefore, let US pray for peace
1t is she gilt of God-promised to all His chill
dren; and if we have it 10 our hearts, we shall
not pine frrjoy, though its bright wings never
touch Us while we tarry in the world.
Year: 1860

BAD LUCK AND COOP LUoK.-Bad luck is
simply man with his hands in his pockets aud
bis pipe in his mouth, looking on to see how it
will come out. Good luck is a man of pluck,
with his sleeves rolled up and working to make
it come right. .sEsdssesase sstaggs-aJ
Year: 1860

Somebody, describing the absurd appearance
of a man dancing the polka, says: sos' a


he looks as though he had a hole in his
pocket and was trying to shake shilling down
the leg of his troWsersn
Year: 1860

The following extract is from q letter written
upon the death of a child:


II went in the morning. bright and radiant
Imorning-many went yesterday, more to. day,
and there are dews to be shed for the departures
of tomorrow And can it be wondered that
pleasant Summer mornings should beguile them
into going 2 1t is marvel that they do not
wait tor the burden and the noon, but follow
the lark and hear her song over the ruin of the
rainbow That these words, so beautiful, they
should make 80 true, and joy cometh in the
morning9' a


Go ia the morning. glorious morning
when the sky is all beauty and the world is all
bliss ere the dews have gone to heaven, or the
stars have gone to God; when the birds are
singing, and the cold winds are blowing; and
the flowers are out that will be shut at noon,
and the clouds that are never rent in rain, and
the shadows inlaid with crimson lie away to the
West. s M


We have sometimes seen little coffin, like
casket for Jewels, all alone by itself in hugh
hearse, melancholy with plumes and gloomy as
frown, and we have thought not so should we
accompany those little way who go in the
morning. We have wondered why they did not
take the little coffin into the carriage with them
and lay it gently upon their laps, the sleeper
there lulled to slumber without bosom or
cradle. We have wondered what there was for
tears at such going, in the early morning, from
home to home, like fair white doves with downy
wings emerging from neither night and Aatter-
ing for entrance at the window of Heaven.


Upon those little faces it never seemed to US
that Death could place bis great seal there is
no thought of tile charnel-house in those young
listeners to that invitation whose acceptance
we are bound not to forbid there should be
morning songs and not sighs; fresh flowers are
not badges OF mourning; no tears, no clouds,
but bright dews and bright drawings together.


Fold up the white robe, lay aside the forgot
ten toy smooth the impressed pillow, and gen.
tlY smile as you think that no years can make
memory old. An eternal guileless child, waiting
about the threshold Of Paradise for the coming
friend for home ~ sa Hfs1