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Year: 1861

We who preach against sin, must denounce


treason as one ef its specific forms, There


is not reason that would urge US to pray
| for the country and for the Government that
! does not call loudly for our adherence of
traitors. With US treason is not mere po-
| litcai heresy. destitute of moral character,


but foul sin, and ii is for want of distinct
conviction Of the true moral character Of this


crime, that we have seen so much vacillation


in regard to il in the loyal States. Because


it puts in jeopardy political inteSests, men
have labored to narrow it down to a political
question. Those who would be shocked at
the bare thought of hesitating in the choice
Of sides in regard to the African slave trade,
or any inferior form of plunder, seem to


think il excusable to hesitate here. And yet
a moments thought would show them that


murder theft, arson, and perjury, on scale
frightfully immense, are all parts of this So
called political question. If there ever was
moral question, touching every virtue and


every vice, pregnant with the fate of millions
living and yet to live, it is that which the
nation is now discussing with the rife and
the sword. Treason against this Govern
ment is treason against God and against hu-


manity, and the Church, reused and infamed
BY this aspect Of it, will fan the fires of
patriotism with the whole breath religion.


No ingenuity OF crime can alter its true
character; no apology can mitigate it,
Treason is only the viler when seen in the
light Of secessionist theory, or when attempt
ed to be excused by the election of Lincoln.
When criminal ambition is strong, reasons
for doing its bidding may we'll afford to be
weak. The leaders Of this rebellion, with
whatever of romance surrounded. by what
ever genius or courage characterized. are
among the worst Of mankind, and should
always be remembered as the deliberate
authors Of the misery now affecting the ma
tion, And il seems to us that whoever now
prates Of peace" or Of " olive branches" !
whoever, by word or deed, in public or pri-
yate, orally or in print, does anything to
weaken ths Government at Washington, to
give aid aud comfort" to the enemies Of the
republic, or to help in the escape of traitor
is, at heart, in sympathy with the basest
treason on which the san has ever shined.
Year: 1861


yeslI know that this life is a Wilderness dim,
Where the upas spreads many deadly, dark
bough,
And the cold winds are signing sorrowful hynn
As they stir the dark leaves o. er the travellers
brow;
Where the deep, sunless fountains so of look like
tears,


And we meet with the trace of many form
That sunk down for while mid the torture of
fears


When that dark forest bent to the pitiless
storm.
But there's loveliness still in the wilderness dim
For we often may meet with q soul cheering
flower,
While sweet hymn of gladness, instead of the
hymn,


Marbles Hope" from the depth of some rose
wreathing bower;
And when onward we struggle through lnazes Of
thorn,


Some brother, who also is wandering, starts
To our side, and in one blissful moment is born
A dear friendship that never shall fade from
our hearts
So we'll rail not to oft at this wilderness dim,
But as much as we can, give no heed 20 the
boughs
Of the dark upas stirred by that sorrowful hymn,
While we hail the least blossom to twine on our
brows.
Nor forever by upas and night shade will roam
There's garden of myrtle and laurel in store
At the end of the forest where sparkes homo
That our brothers aid sisters have entered
before.
Year: 1861

1t is gratifying to behold the manner in
which the great west repels the attacks that
few interested and disappointed spectators
bad been making on the Secretary of War.
These vindications are the more valuable be-
cause they come from class of maa in
whose confidence government can alone RELY
for support: the great producing and agri>
cultural classes of this still mightier west
We have already quoted largely from nu-
merous of the most prominent journals in
the west, the very clearest yindcations of
the Secretary of War, but the following from
another of the most respectable journals in
the same quarter, is too truthful not to be
placed on the same record in the columns of
the TELEGRAPH. for the purpose of afording
the old friends and neighbors and the great
mass of the people Of Pennsylvania, addi-
tional proof of the high estimation in which
Simon Cameron is held by the people of the
Year: 1861

No part OF our country presents greater
points of interest at the present time, than
Missouri. The recent proclamation of Gen.
Frem ont has turned all eyes in that direc-
tion. None condemn bis declaration of
martial law. 1t was not day too soon
His warning that all traitors in arms within
tbs military lines, would be tried By court
martial, and, if found guilty, shot, is the on
ly mode of treating this piratical rebellion.
None condemn him for this obvious, wise
and humane decision. The personal and
reel property of rebels is pronounced confs-
cate. This is also approved by the loyal
part Of the country.


In the midst Of this general approval,
comes up 9 faint rumbling cry of dissatisfac-
ton because the slaves of rebels are declared
to be FREE MEN. Why in the name of our
country, is this kind of property to be held
more sacred than any other? Are they not
laboring to raise provisions for the rebels ?
Are they not employed on their Notifications
and even in military capacity? No other
" property" can be so inpor tant to the rebels.
Yet we have some thin skinned individuals
who demur to this manifest duty of the bold
mcuntaineer commander Of our Western
army. They want the same thing done, but
they want it CLOSED over with /" contraband
Year: 1861

We have repeatedly called attention to the
fact that the Mcconnell party were plotting
secession, disunion and treason under the garb
of loyalty. That conclusion was forced upon
US by the mysterious perrigrinations OF known
secession satellites through our own county !;
and the observations of the last few days have
confirmed the Justice of our suspicious. Were
this diabolical plot confined TO one locality,
county or town, it would not, perhaps, be wor-
thy of notice, but, extending, as it does, into
nearly, if not quite, every town throughout
the length and breadth of the State, it should
be warning to Union men to be upon their
guard and not allow treason to catch them
mapping. As an evidence of the extensive
ness Of this reasonable organization, we quote
few brief extracts from State papers. The
Marysville Democrat says:


The belief is gaining ground that as soon
| as the election is over, and false professions OF
| fraernal love by secessionists are no longer
necessary for partisan purposes, some attempts
to disturb the peace will be mads by them in
this State.


The Morning Call has the following:


We hear positively of various secession sym
pathizers in this State who VOW positively to
resist. even by force, the collection of the Uni
ted States Property and Income Tax.


A San Francisco correspondent. writes to
the Union, that evidences of the existence Of
large organizations of secessionists in several
of the interior counties are not wanting to show
that our State possesses an element of treason
that will bear watching.


A writer in Tuesday Alta Californian says ::


assert arhat l know when l state that,
throughout the length and breadth of this
| State exists a secrect secession organization,
its ramifcations extending into nearly every
city and town in California. \ = Comb-
nations, fall of danger, are forming about us,
and it is our own fault if we sleep in fancied
security Sumer-like, until we are placed at
their mercy. In this very city the traitors
are active and numerous.


A card published by Sheriff Van Luven, of
San Barnardino county says:


"There are held in this county midn ight
| Secession meetings. They are collecting all
! lue forces lney can, anu uOiiiS all Nnty Cdu "
assist the Confederate principals, for which we
have appealed for troops until our cries have
become lost in the fog, and the commanding
officers have turned their eyes to more peace
ful places where they can sit with folded arms
and have nothing TO do but train"


We take the following from the Napa Re-
porter


A noted Secessionist here predicts that
there will be bloodshed in California within
twelve months, if the Government undertakes
to collect direct tax and it is beyond ques-
tion that the anxiety of the Secessionists about
the Sheriff, &c, arises from the expectation of
trouble of their own brewing.


We might add still more to the list of extracts,
but we deem these sufficient to convince any
unbiased mind it is time for Union men to
awake to the fearful condition of things in this
State, and prepare themselves to meet and
crush the first open attempt to strike blow
| at the Union and Constitution
Year: 1861

STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY We ac-
knowledge the receipt of complimentary
ticket TO the Sh Annual Fair of the Society.
which copmences on the 10th of september
aud confines to the 2lSt inclusive. We re-
turn thanks for the invitation, and will endeavor
to be there. The State Fair is one of the
liked things of our State, and we look to its
proceedings with more interest than we do to
the Legislature, in fact it is a more useful and
beHefcient institution.
Year: 1861

We desire to call the attention of the public
to the following clauses in the thirty fourth
section of our statutes concerning Elections
(" And if more persons are designated on any
ticket for any Office than are to be elected TO
such Office, such part of the ticket shall not be
counted for any of them" As California is
entitled to but tlco Representatives for the
Thirty-seventh Congressional term, voting for
three candidates for Congress upon any ticket
would invalidate the choice Of the voter for
any and all of the candidates on the ticket for
that office. And the Thirty seventh is the next
Congress- and but two candidates should be
voted for,-vz: McKibben and Edgerton, the
Convention nominees.
Year: 1861

LYING ARGUMENTS 1t is strange with
what pertinacity the Secession speakers, and
the peace party press, headed by the Marys
vile Express, persist in echolng the hue and
cry that the war was commenced by the North.
Never did more unblemiShed brazen, lying
calumny emanate from the lips of pen or man.
Any one who has read the news of current
events for the past few months, knows that
the South was in active preparation and
actually commenced it months before the North
raised an arm to repel the blow. Men who
will thus pervert the truth must presume much
upon the ignorance of the people of Cal
iornia. But nothing better can be expected
of men who will cry peace, peace, while trail
tors are planting batteries almost at the very
portals Of the National Capital who cooly
and deliberately weighed the very existence of
their country iD the scale with dollars and
cents-who revile patriots, and applaud traitors ;
who secretly glory in the defeat of the Union
forces and the success of the rebels, who,
without the least remorse Of conscience can
publicly proclaim devotion to the Government
which they are bending every nerve to over
throw Such men would revel in bacchanalan
orgies while the Goddess of Liberty lay man
gled and bleeding at the feet Of traitors
Year: 1861

The SPEECH OF Mr.. HoLT TO THE KEN
LUCKY VoLUNrEERs.-We publish this patri-
otic speech on our first page. 1t shows the
true feeling in Kentucky upon the Union ques-
ton, and, taken in connection with the recent
election in that State, stamps her as loyal
sister in the Union.
Year: 1861

This will be our last issue before the cleo
tion, which comes off on Wednesday next, the
4th of September, unless urgent circumstances
should require an E1tra, which we VIII be
ready to put forth


REMEMBER,


That the Union Democratic ticket contains
not name upon it whose devotion and loyalty
to the Government is questioned.


REMEMBER,


That J. D. Pollard is the stronger of the
Union candidates, and will carry 800 votes
outside of his party, and is the only sure man
to defeat Middleton.


REMEM BER,


That our ticket wears its true character at
its head, with the Union nominee, CONFESS to
bear it through the fight.


REMEMBER,


That it is the leading object of the seces-
sionists to use all efforts in every county of
the State to elect the Sheriff and District At
torney, to foil the Government in collecting
the taxes to support the war and pay the Ma
tional debt, necessarily incurred to protect and
defend our country


REMEMBER


That the organization Of secessionists in
this county are using every effort, and sacrif-
cling everything to promote the election of W.
O. Middleton, the disunion candidate for
Sheriff


REMEMBER,


That w. O. Middleton, the secession candi-
date for Sheriff. was member of the State
Convention that was led by Bolts, Heyden-
denfeldt & Co., the ST cession leaders of the
State; and passed the resolutions teeming with
secession doctrines, and recommending the re-
cognition of the Southern Confederacy.


REMEMBER,


That J. D. Pollard the Union candidate for
Sheriff, is an unconditional Union man, whose
fidelity to his country in the present crisis has
never been questioned, nor can it be.


REMEMBER,


That we believe in the doctrine of rotation
in office, about these times and deem a change
in the Office Of Sheriff of this county eminently
proper and demanded by the people; and we
also believe that the chief Executive officer
Of the county should be a Union man of un-
doubted loyalty, and who would not vote for
an ordinance Of secession and we further be-
| leve that J. D Pollard would fully satisfy all
these demands and requisites. Elect him, and
you will not be disappointed.


REMEMBER,


That all candidates on the secession ticket
headed by j. R. Mcconnell, who say they are
Union men, and soemnly protest that they
are 10 favor of the Stars and Stripes, and OF
the support of the Government, are wolves in
sleeps clothing they are opposed to the war,
the only means of saving our country and in
stitutions, as proclaimed by the venerable
Crittenden and the lameuted Douglas.


REMEMBER,


That if you love your country, and wish to
preserve it as it was handed down to you that
you must sacrifice all personal considerations
and individual preferences, and vote for those
Union men whose loyalty to that country is
unquestioned, and who fear not to strike for
Year: 1861

The Secession organ of Butte County, which
has been supported in its incendiary articles
and treason for months past by the official
patronage of the present Sheriff, Mr.. Middle
ton, in its last weeks issue, after charging the
Republican party of all being Abolitorists,
thus charges upon the Union or Douglas De-
mocracy:


"The so.caled Union Democratic party are
fully committed to Lncoln's war policy, and
they are, therefore, under different name, as
much Abolitionsts as the Republicans them
selves"


This, Union Democrats, is the true light in
which you are now, and have been for long
time held by the Disunionists of our county,
who have on more than one occasion used their
best endeavors to unite you with them for the
unholy purpose of giving them the power in
this State, that they might turn upon you and
call you as their tools, now Of no more use,
and then show their real estimate of your
worth by branding you as Abolitionists. -
Oh, what a peaceful, humane, honest and
CnflStlan party lneSe DlSunloulSlo are, IL you
would only believe half their professions on
the stump Bat when the accepted time
comes the cloven-foot shows itself. Stand off,
and believe them not, when they profess to be
lovers Of the Union and our flag for their
words are used to catch the ear, and are
meaningless in truth. They are wolves, and
black ones at that, in sleeps clothing. Pin
them down to it, and they will declare that if
they were forced to bear arms in the country
great struggle for her existence, they would
use them on the Southern side.
Year: 1861

ELECTIoNEERIYG DOCUMENTS s.-The charac-
ter Of the electoneerng documents made use
of in the present campaign by the peace party
is sufficient evidence of the traitorous inten.
tions of the leaders to forever brand them with
ignominy. How men, who are at heart Union
men, can be seduced into the support Of party
which parades before their eyes as sound doc
trine, the speeches of such men as Randolph,
Breckenridge, and Valandngham, and the
documents written and prepared by G. T
Bolts, who says !" he is a Secesslonist, and he
don't care who knows it, is problem not
easily to be solved yet those documents are
sown broad cast throughout the land, and men
who effect Indignation at even an insuuation
of their disloyalty to the Union, allow them to
circulate without one word of rebuke They
even aid in circulating them, quote literally
from them while on the stump, and then have
the unblushing presumption to call themselves
the only true Union men, well knowing as they
must, that every such document thrown out,
and every quotation made is a " pat" upon the
back of treason.
Year: 1861

ELECTION RETuRNs.- Our friends at the
different Election Precincts throughout the
county, will confer e favor by forwarding to
US at the earliest moment, a correct statement
Of the result of the election therein, in order
that we may, as near as possible, gvea correct
account of the result in this county in our
issue of the Saturday morning following the
election. Let US know the result of the battle
as soon as possible.
Year: 1861

That if you love your country, and wish to
preserve it as it was handed down to you, that
you must sacrifice all personal considerations
and individual preferences, and vote for those
Union men whose loyalty to that country is
unquestioned, and who fear not to strike for
her altars
Year: 1861

UNION MEN, REFLEcT.-It is not denied
that the secessionists of San Francisco have
boldly stated that it was the determination o.
that party to concentrate all their strength
solely upon the election of Sheriff and Dis
trict Attorney, for the purpose of resisting
through these officers, the collection of the in
come tax, aud thereby bring on civil war.
This unholy purpose can be defeated in every
county in the State by uniting the whole I'm
ion strength on one mau. This should be done
in counties where the contest is doubtful. Now
is your time to convince traitors by the ballot
box that it will be useless for them hereafter
to attempt to carry out their designs By means
Of the cartridge box.


Our cause has been, and still is being most
egregiously misrepresenied. Marysutle En-.


No doubt of it at all-you have represented
yourselves as good Union men, while your
platform and principles are known to be Sc
cession.''
Year: 1861

That John Conness, the Union candidate
for Governor, has the unlimited confidence of
the Union men of all parties in the State
that he possesses more legislative experience
intimate knowledge of the Vaccinations of the
Secessionists, than any other man in the State
that he possesses more executive ability, bold
ness and determination of character, and could
thus better foil the attempts and designs of the
disunionsts, than any other candidate before
the people and that he can rally the Union
voters of the State to his support in such a
manner, that Secession will be blotted out,
and the Union triumph over all its enemies.


KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,


That all the Senators from the Pacific
States, Baker, McDougal, Latham and Nes-
mith are urging their friends, and all Union
loving men to vote for Mr.. Conness, and TINS
insure Union triumph, that no true lover OF
his country would consider sacrifice of power
or principle.


KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,


That John Conness possesses the magnetism
which eicits the enthusiasm of the Union men
of the country, and which will attract thou
sands Of voters to him outside Of his party.


And keep it before the people; that j. R.
Mcconnell, his Secessionist opponent, should
he chance to be elected, would precpitate our
State into rebellion and revolution in sixty
days, and we would behold another drama
enacted here like that now raging in Missouri.
Year: 1861

For twenty three years old Jake Willard
has cultivated the soil of Baldwin county and
drawn therefrom asupport for self and wife
He is childless. Not long since Jake left the
house in search of missing cow His course
lay through an old worn out patch of clay land
of about six acres in extent, in the centre o
which was well, twenty i've or thirty fee
deep, that at sometime, probably, had fur
nished the inmates of dilapidated house neal
by with water. In passing by this spot an il
wind dlifted Jake's title" from his head ant
malciously waited it to the edge of the wei
and in it tumbled.


Now the old gentleman Lad always prac
ticed the virtue of economy, and he immedi
ately set about recovering the lost hat H,
ran to the well and finding it was dry at the
bottom, he uncoiled the rope which he had
brought for capturing the truant COW, and af
ter several attempts to catch the hat with &
moose, he concluded to save time by going
down into the well himself To accomplish
this, he made fast one end of the rope to q
stump hard by, and was soon on his way
down the well.


1t was fact, of which Jake was no less
obvious than the reader hereof that Ned Wells
was in the dilspidated old building aforesaid,
and that an old blind horse, with bell on his
neck, who had been turned out to die, was
lazily grazing within short distance of the
well.


The devil himself or some other wicked
spirit, put it into Ned's crannium to have a
little fun so he quietly slipped up to the
horse and unbuckleing the bell strap, ap-
preached with slow and steady ting ling"
10 the edge of the well.


Dang that old blind horse !" said the
man at the bottom of the well, "he's coming
this way, sure, and amt got any more sense
than to fall in here. Whoa, Bill


But the continued approach Of the "ting a
ling" said just as plainly as words that Bill
wouldn't whoa. Besides Jake was at the bot
tom, resting before trying TO shin it up the
rope.


" Great Jerusalem % said he, "the old cuss
will be atop of me before can say Jack Rob-
inson Whoa, dang it, whoa p


Just then Ned drew up to the edge of the
well, and with his foot kicked little dirt
into it..


"Oh, Lord % exclaimed Jake, falling on
his knees at the bottom, "Im gone now
whoa! Now lay me down to sleep--w-h-o-al
pray the Lord my soul to-whoa, now! Oh
Lord, have mercy on nee !"


Ned could hold in no longer, and fearing
Jake might suffer from his fright he revealed
himself


Probably Ned didn't make tracks with his
heels from that WELL Maybe Jake was not
up to the top of it in short order and you
might think he didn't try every night for two
weeks TO get shot with his rifle at Ned
Maybe not, don't know. But do know
that If Jake finds out who sent you this it will
be the last squib you'll get.--NoJils Register.
Year: 1861

Hunts Merchant sMagazine has the follow
ing sensible view of this subject: "Notoriety
or publicityis is an indispensable element Of
success TO the merchant the manufacturer or
the mechanic, who would give a wide and
speedy circula ion to the commodities and pro-
ductions which he seeks to exchange for mon
ey He may have capital, skill convenient
position, punctuality, industry and honesty
every possible, fitness for his business-and
all this is nothing if he has not sufficient noto-
riety. This nl torety, let it cost more or less
hc must purchase or provide for as he pur-
chases his stock of goods. And it must, in
extent, bear certain relation to the busi-
ness he would do; it must be both positive
and comparative. People must not only
know him an / his business, because otherwise
they will not find him; but they must know
him, because otherwise they will find and
trade with those who are better known. To
do successful and profitable business. mer-
chant must adyertisa-no matter what he
sells"