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Year: 1861

TOWNSHIP ELECTION. S. Kapple and
James Keen were elected by large majorities
as Justices of the Peace for the ensuing year.
A better selection could not have been made
Pat. Gilheoley and Pat. Desmond were elect
ed Constables. All on the regular ticket
To offset this, we have lost our Roadmaster
We regret this very much, as his was the on
ly name on the county ticket not elected
We are at present unable to say who is the
successful aspirant.
Year: 1861

The Silver City Times says there are now
running to and from that place, two daily
stages to Carson City, two to Nevada City, and
five to Virginia. They are all doing a good
business
Year: 1861

We NAV be beaten in the State, but our
county ticket is all safe and elected. The
Senator and Assemblyfnan are safe by large
maiorities. DR.. Shurtlef-s vote in this coun-
ty is perfectly overwhelming, and he will
get a plurality in Trinity. This is as it
should be- A great victory is subject of
graduation at all mes, but particularly so
at the present. Mr. Woodman is elected to
the Assembly by from FIVE to six hundred
majority, and will fully represent us in the
legislative halls of the State.


The election of our Senator and Assembly.
man has never been doubted. They opposi-
ton they have received in the canvass only
tended to nerve and stimulate them to great
er exertions. Known to possess the strongest
Union proclivities, and Democrats of the
purest type. they will fully and fairly repre-
sent the people who have selected them for
this duty.


The county officers on the Union Demo-
cratic ticket are all elected. This result was
anticipated The majorities, as far as heard
from, will be found in another colum.


Our county is the most reliable in the
State, and justly are we proud of the result.
The maiorities for State and county officers
will range from five TO six hundred.
Year: 1861

A correspondent of the London Times in


describing the Princes visit to the Western
prairies writes as follows -


The Prince was certainly most fortunate
in his visit for the time of year, be had almost
| universal sport he saw a prairie thunder
storm, a prairie fire of immense extent, and
| above all, prairie sunset The latter took


place in all its supernatural glory-a glory


which can never be described or understood
by those who have not seen it-wbile the marty


were shooting quail the night before their de-
parture. AS the sun neared the rich green


horizon, it turned the whole ocean of meadow
into sheet of gold which seemed to blend


with the great armament of reds and pinks-
pale, rosy orange hues, and solemn, angry
looking crimson clouds above, till not only the
sky but all the land around was swathed in
piles of color, as if the sinking sun shone
through the earth like mist and turned it to


rainbow. The immensty of stiffness which ay


in the prairie then-a stiffness as profound and


vast as the green solitude itself, while not
breath stirred over the whole horizon as the
great transmutatOn went slowly On, and the
colors over the land turned from rosy to pink,


to orange, to red and crimsoH-darkening aud
darkening always as the tints ebbed out like a
celestial tide, leaving the fragments of scarlet
clouds over the heavens-the embers of FIRE


which had lit the prairie in flame of glory
There was such quiet, uuspeakable richness
in this grand farewell of the day-such ter


rble redness about the sky at Iast-that one
could almost fancy that supernatural phenom-
enon bad occurred that the sun had gone for
ever, and left a deep and CORY wound across
the darkening sky. Night was relief compared
to this dread lurd fire in the heaven-a fire
the clouds seemed to close in upon, and stife
out with difficulty-a fire which, ike the pain
tiags of the sunset before the Deluge, left al
ways an ominous anger in the heavens, even
when the night was far advanced, and the
prairie clothed in blue mist which rose over
it like the water"
Year: 1861

The reading public are familiar with the
descriptions of the immense sage plains which
are found on both sides of the Rocky Noun
tans, and which are frequently set down as
irreclaimable deserts.


A gentleman who has spent twelve years Of
his life in these regions. aud who adds TO the
opportunity of observation, the capacity TO
observe to advantage, expresses to Us the opin-


on that these sage plains, generally condemn.
ed as worthless, will prove to be the great wheat
fields Of the continent. His theory is, that a
soil which will bear the sage, will bear other
forms Of vegetables, and be cites the expert
euce Of the MormonS in their occupation Of
the San Bernardino mission in California,
which they have made so famous by its agri-
cultural productions He says that the Nor.
mons at that mission first sowed upon the bot
tom or grass lands. The growth was too
rank. They got plenty of straw, but no
wheat. 1t was then that as an experiment,
but one in which they had no confidence, they
commenced the cultivation of their sage lands,
and with the most surprising success. And it
is these sage lands, and not the bottom lands,
whose productions have given such an agricul-
tural celebrity to this mission.


The sage has a stalk of the average thick
ness of a mass arm, and grows to an average
height of eighteen inches, or two feet. A
sage field has such an aspect as an apple orch
ard would have, with the trees reduced TO the
size of the sage


There is probably no such thing as real
desert existing between the Missouri river and
the Rocky Mountains, and, perhaps, no region
where the difficulty of occupation is auy great
er than it was in what was called the grand
prairie of Illinois, thought twenty years ago
to be incapable Of settlement. Water may
be raised from wells, where there are no run
ming streams, and the want of timber may be
supplied, temporarily by railroads, and per.
manent!y BY growing wood.
Year: 1861

Do not use avocation for vocation; the latter
| signifies occupation, employment business the
| former signifies whateve: withdraWs or diverts
US from that business.
1t was impossible to suspect the veracity of
this story it should be, truth of story vera.
city is applicable TO persons only.
| had rather walk it should be, I would
rather walk and denotes past possession, not
desire.


doubt not but shall be able; it should
be, | doubt not shall be able.


He was too young to have felt bis loss; ii
should be, to feel his loss.
| seldom or ever see him now it should be
| seldom or never, or seldom If ever


Do not say, rather childish, rather satish
as the termination ISL and the word rather
have the same meaning such expressions,
though very common, are Pathological.
| expected to have found him it should be-
expected to find him.
intended to have visited him ; it should be
intended to visit him.


hoped you would have come it should be,
hoped you would come


| rode in a one-horse shay it ought to be
one-horse chaiSe there is no such word as
shay


He can write better than me say than


When two things are compared, we must
say, the elder of the two, not the eldest the
richer of the two not the richest my brother
is taller that /, not the talleSt.


Though who is applied to persons, and which
to inanimate things, yet to distinguish one of
two or more persons, which must be used
Which is the happy man not who which If
these ladies
The observation of the Sabbath is a duty
it should be, the observance of the Sabbath
( observation means remarking or noticing OBJ
servaRce, keeping or obeyiDg
A child Of four years old it should be, a
child four years old, or aged four years
The negligence of this leaves US exposed
it ought TO be, the neglect of this, etc Rcgli-
gence implies habit neglect expresses au act.
No mau had ever less friends it should be,
fower less refers to quantity.


Be that as it will ; it should be, as it may


The above discourse it should be, the pre-
cediRg discourse.
The then ministry it should be, the minis
try OF that time


All oVer the country it should be, over all
the country.


Provisions were plenty say plentiful.


propose to visit them it should be, pur-
pose TO visit them.
Year: 1861

An INGENIOUS REBUKE-A general officer,
who was in early life addicted to profane
oatbs, dated his reformation from remarkable
check he received from Scotch clergyman.


When be was lieuteuant, and settled in New
castle, he got inYo we'd in brawl with some
of the lowest class in the public streets the
altercat on was carried on by both parties with
an abundance of impious language.


"Oh, John John what is this | heard
You only poor collier-boy and swearing like
an laird Oh, John have you no fear of what
will become Of you ? 1t may do very well for
the gallant gentleman (pointing to the lieu
tenant to bang and swear as he pleaSes, Bot
for you-yOu John, it is not for you to take
in vain the name o: Him in whom you live and
have your being


Then, turning to the young lieutanent, he
said


You'll excuse the poor man, sir, for he's
an ignorant body, and kens nae better"
The Young officer shrank away in confusion
unable to make any reply.


Next day be waited on the minister, and
thanked him very sincerely for his well timed
reproof, and was ever after an example OF
purity in language.
Year: 1861

BLACK DArs-Have You ever known days
that we're black Have you ever known days
in which everything went wrong as though
scme invisible hand tarned your whole life
tousy-tu Did every sharpihstrument you
handled pierce or cut you its own accord
Did some undiscoverable individual throw
your neatly arranged work into confusion, and
abstract the book in which you were deeply
interested Did the current of your thoughts,
which usually flowed with pleasant freedom,
suddenly become stagnant? Did the persons
you least wish to see force themselves into
your preseuce, and those You loved best re-
main absent Did you labor with more than
RoAted zeal, yet accomplish nothing' Such
unbalanced days when life seems all q game OF
cross purposes, will come to meet Is land how
is this unholy spell to be broken Very often
the presence of some being gifted with strong
pure. heart, genial temperament, and syDPath-
etc nature, will chase all the shadows, restore
serenity 30 the ruffled temper, and evoke order
out OF confusion even as the voice, the look Of
one single angel can put to fight legion OF
evil spirits
Year: 1861

A GREEH#oRx standing by sewing machine
at whish a Young lady was at work, looking
alternately at the machine and at its fair oP-
orator, at length gave vent TO bis admiration
with.


By golly it's purity specially the part
covered with caliker !"
Year: 1861

COMBINATION TO PRoLoNG THE WAR -
The Cincinnati Commercial states that a
conspiracy has been entered into by Gov>
ernment contractors, and others. vino
prosper from The present civil war, to Use
all their power in making it long one,
and thus filling their own pockets at the
expense Of the people at large. The i'm
mense power that can be welded by a
heavy moneyed interest is notorious, and
will be felt by the Federal Government.
Year: 1861

She has no mother What a volume Of
sorrowful truth is comprised in that single
sentence-no mother We must go far down
the hard, rough paths of life. and become en-
ured to care and sorrow in their sternest forms,
before we can take home TO our experience
the dread reaIity-no n1ofher-WithOut a
struggle. But when it is said Of a frail. young
girl, just passing from childhood toward ths
life Of woman, how sad is the story summed
up in that one short sentence Who now
shall administer the needed cOunsel-who
shall check the wayward fancies-whO shall
bear with the errors and fittings of the mother
less girl?


Deal gently with the child. Let not the
cup of sorrow be overflled by harshness of
your bearing, or your unsympaIhizing cold
ness. Is she needless in her doings Is she
careless in her movements? Remember. oh
remember, "she has no mother!' When her
young companions are gay and joyous, docs
she sit sorrowing? Does she pass with a
downcast eye and laaguid step, when you
would fain witness the gushing of youth p
Chide her not, for she is motherless and the
great sorrow came down upon her soul like an
incubus Can yOu gain her eon6dence-can
you win her love? Come, then, TO the moth
erless with the boon of your tenderest care,
and by the memory Of your own mother, al
ready passed away-by the fuilness OF your
remembered sorrow-hy the p possibility that
your own child may yet be oherlcss--con-
tribute as far as you may to relieve the loss ol
that fair, frail ch lid who is written Mother
less"
Year: 1861

A plot of e most diabolical character, hav-
ing for its object the robbery of the mail and
express on the Pittsburgh, Fl. Wayne and
Chicago Railroad, has been discovered bv
PiBkerton, the great Chicago detective. The
gang Of conspiraiors was quite large, the ram
iGeations extending along the entire length of
the line. The leading plotters would have
soon been arrested. but the plans of the off
GERS have been temporarily frustrated by the
accidental disclosures made by one Of the
gang. Wishing a letter forwarded from the
Pittsburgh post-ofice to a fellow member at
Mansfield, he wrote letter to the Post-nas-
ter at the former place to that effect At the
same time he wrote letter to a confederate
in which the designs Of the conspiracy were
fully set forth, aud ir directing the two letters.
an exchange was made, the Pittsburgh Post
master getting the one intended for the con-
spFatnr, ard the latter the one intended for
the Postmaster


The design or the lesperadoes was to Law
mine Of powder under the track, blow up one
of the heavy mail and express trains, and
taking advantage of the confusion incident t O
the catastrophe, seize the mails and express
money packages and plumber the passengers.


The parties to the conspiracy are all known
now, and as any move toward carrying out
their hellish plot would lead to their immediate
arrest, they will probably lay lOw.-StGis
Journal
Year: 1861

The cotton folks are making bold calcula-
tions, and marking out brilliant programme,
which they will carry out, if Northern milk
sops no not brace up somewhat. A Washing
ton dispatch to the Tribune sayS:


A letter was received on Saturday from a
member of the Montgomery Cabinet, by the
principal banking house here, stating conf
IDENTIFY that the writer expected to dine in
Washington next winter in his official capaci-
~, and be regularly established at this CAPT
tai. The game is to make bold stroke, by
which the South will be consolidated and
then, by the aid of the Northern Democracy.
force the Constitution of the Southern Con
fedcracy upon all the States but New Eng
land. The scheme may appear chimerical,
but it is seriously entertained, and has an or
ganizcd support in the North today. 1t is a
short mode Of amending the Constitution.
which the conspisators know could not be ac-
complished through Congress or a Conveu-
tion of the States. The managers of this
revolution never expected to stay out perma-
nently. But they have organized the machin-
cry so as to provide for that contingency, and
to hoodwink the public if it did not happen.
They require to be watched carefully. Their
allies in New York are capable Of any des-
perate resort.
Year: 1861

Had Floyd been hung six months ago, it
would have been far better for the country
The Southern Gonfederacy thus acknowledges
the share which he had in the treason against
the government while a sworn officer and q
member of the Cabinet


"When his faithful loyalty to his own perse-
cuted people began its labors in our defence, in
what a condition were the Southern States p
The North had the heavy guns, the light arms,
the powder and ball, just as the North had
everything else that belonged to the common
Government How quietly we're men shifted
from our soil who might have been here to-day
t. murder us at Abraham LnPolns order
How slender the garrisons became in Southern
forts, which were made for US, and belong to
nobody else, but which a savage enemy now
chafes and RACES to get possession Of Who
sent 81 900 stand of arms to Georgia? How
came 10000 more prime death-dealing rifles
at jackson, Miss? And, in short, why have
we any thing at all in the South to mail the
strong hands of the SONS of the South witt
at this hour, when every heart, and head
and arm of her children are needed in be-
defence2 Truth demands it Of rs, to de
clare that we owe to John B. Floyd an G
ternal tribute Of gratitude for all this. Hat
he been less the patriot than he was, VI
might now have been disarmed, and at tn
4 mercy Of nation of cut throats and plunder
ers."
Year: 1861

The question as to the meaning attached by
Southerners to the word "Abolitionist," is an
swered by the editor Of the Southern Literary
Messenger, published in Richmond, Va, a peri
odical which is supposed to contain the concen-
trated essence of Southern Literature, Science
and Art" The Editor says:


An abolitionist is any man who does not love
slavery for its own sake, as a divine institu-
tion who does not worship it as corner
stone of civil liberty; who does not adore it as
the only possible social condition on which a
permanent republican government can be G.
rected; and who does not in his inmost soul,
desire To see it extended and perpetuated over
the whole earth, as q means of human reforma
tion second in dignity, importance and, sacred


ness alone to the Christian religion. He whC
does not love African slavery with this love il
an akolitionist
Year: 1861




being nearly 100000 less in amount than that
of Pennsylvania alone, and more than 1881
900 less than the population of the State of
New York.


Another fact which should be considered in
juxta position with the one we have just
stated for the purpose Of more forcibly illus
trating the serious causes Of complaint which
these States have against the Union, is that
of their being entitled to fourteen Senators
and thirty-two Representatives, to watch over
their interests, while Pennsylvania has only
two Senators and twenty-three Congressmen,
with quarter of million more of free popu-
lation and New York, with population ex-
ceeding that Of the whole Southern Cenfeder-
acy by over a million and a quarter, has but
two Senators and thirty-one Representatives.
The proposed loan of SIS 100000 will amount
it will be seen, to the sum of S. GA for every
free man, woman and child of the Confederacy;
and yet this can only be the 'beginnng Of the
end" 1t needs but a slight application of
arithmetic and common sense to show that
the experiment now making by the Gulf
States is one which is too expensive to pay,
and too greatly surcharged with the elements
of decey to endure.-4tJany EUe. Journal.
Year: 1861

The grave is indeed hallowed, when the
grass of the churohyard can cover all memory
save that Of love.


We gain nothing by falsehood but the dis
advantage of not being believed when we
speak the truth.


A mans good fortune Of; en- turns his head ;
his bad fortune as often averIs the hearts of
his friends.


The earth is a tender and kind mother to
the husbandman and yet, at one season, he
always harrOws her bosom, and another plucks
her ears
Year: 1861

An examination of the figures of the late
census, reveals facts that few, probably, either
in the Northern or Southern States we're pre-
pared for We hear and read so much more
of South Carolina than we do of New York
or Pennsylvania, and the term Southern Con
federacy" falls on the ear with so imposing a
sound, that almost unconsciously we acquire
the habit, even at the North. Of rating their
importance at about the same estimate as do
the inhabitants of the Gulf States themselves.
The census shows US the free population"
(including, of course, white, free colored and
Year: 1861

MoDE OF GETTING RID OF BLACK AxTs.-
We take sage tea. and strew small quantities
where they frequent, and Lave never yet fail.
ed in getting rid of item, not for day or
two only but for the entire Summer. Try IT,.
you that are plagued with them, and VIZ war
rant you success. We hear much about CAM
phor, but that with us never Provcd succSas.
fUl.
Year: 1861

1t ia inconteetible that there is much more
passion and ardor among the officers Of the
Southern than among those Of the Northern
army. 1t is insisted in the secession camp that
this ardor, this disinterested devotion to the
common cause, Is shared by the soldiers; that
in the South they serve through honor and con.
victioD; that among the Federals the, soldier
knows no other allurement than pay, no other
impulse than that of want-the best recruiting
officer among the populption OF large cities.


Certainly 1t is going too far to generalize o
fact which may be true to some extent. Indi.
vidusl bravery is incontestibly superior in the
Confederate camp; but the Union army makes
up for this disadvantage by more advanced
military organization and knowledge, at least
among the soldiers; 30 that matters being al


most equally balanced, tits difficult enough TO
foresee towards which side the fortune Of war
will incline. sal hl'


1t is true the victory Of Bull Run is Of ma
ture to excite to the higest pitch the confidence
and enthusiasm Of the Southern men; but find
it impossible to see in the result of that battle
one Of those solemn judgments, without appeal
which condemn one side to bow the head be


meath theIinesistible aseendency Of the victor
These men, after all, are nearly Of the samt
race, or the same mixed races, and, despite Tho
divergence Of opinion, they have common
fund Of ideas, manners and feelings, which does
not permit line to be drawn through the thir.
tieth degree of latitude, and to have il said: All
that is north of this line is inferior to all that
is south of 1t. 1900


To estimate the'e event Of July 81, we must
leave wide margin for the local incidents, the
chance and unexpected encounters on the geld
OF battle, the unforeseen events which take hold
Of the imaginations Of the mssses--all second
ary causes which operate on the war by 80 much
the more ae the armies have less experience
discipline and knowledge. hn.
Year: 1861

SIcK.-We much regret to state that
Marshal Mcneil is very low upon . sick bed
lie has not been out for an entire week. We
hope the disease. which is Intermittent fever
may take favorable turn shortly.
Year: 1861

PAYING DEBTs.-" Men may sophlsticate as they
please, they never make it right and all the
bankrupt laws in the universe can never make it
right for them not to pay their debts. There is sin
in this neglect clear and deserving church dis
cipline, as in stealing false swearing. He who
violates his promise to pay or withhods the pay
ment of a debt when it is in his power to meet his
engagement ought to be made to feel that in the
sight of all honest men he is a swindler. Religion
may be very comfortable cloak under which to
hide; but if religion does not make man deal
Justly it is not worth having"