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Year: 1865

| A few enterprising men, with little cash
capital. are seriously wanted in this vicinity;
not that we may rob them not that any body
wants their money at two or three per cent.
per month; but because we want them to
develop this county by the erection of mills
for the separation Of gold from quartz. A.
the present time there are three mills in op
Grafton that have fully demonstrated that the
lodes upon which they are built are rich
rich far beyond the highest hopes of those who
embarked in the enterprise. A fourth mill
has just started some six or seven miles from
town, with satisfactory prospects. So much
as base for operations is in sight for any
one to judge from. Now We know of many
lodes in this vicinity that have been partially
prospected, and which show equally as well
and some of them better, than those upon
no doubt would richly remunerate any person
or persons who would improve them. There
| is no business in this county at present SO re-
munerative, for the amount of capital invest
ed, as that of quartz milling, so far as it has
been tested. Stock in the Washington and
| Highland mills, Of French Gulch, is held far
| above par, and the same may be t.uthfully
said of the Spring Greek mill


This all being true, why don't mill men
come among us and make themselves rich,
insteal of piking around in isolated districts,
squandering their money in trying to work
mineral that contains so much of base metals
as to disenable them from doing anything
more than to simply ruin themselves.


Gold is still at para fact that capitalists
seem to have lost sight fin their greedy hunt
for silver in far OF and almost inaccessible
districts. We know and fully understand
the difficulties attending the effort to induce
capital here, the greatest of which is that the
county is well and generally settled with an
industrious and intelligent population, roads
are good, wood plentiful, and supplies for the
consumption of man and beast are cheap
With these drawbacks we can hardly hope to
induce monied men to even take look at
what we have to offer, and which may be had
for the taking; but tbs said "where there
is well there is way," and we propose to
keep trying till gold ceases to be equal as q
currency to baser metals.
Year: 1865

Iow -Tbare are some things in human
sbone az low and contemptible that descrip-
tion is impossible. These creatures are iuii
of malice towards, and envy OF that portion
of thu human family that are really respect
able. They have no ambition but to bring
o,hars down to their level. The idea of rails
;nr themselves to the level of responsibility
seems never to enter their narrow craniums.
Such creatures seek such mediums as the
San Francisco Sunday Varieties or some 9TH
er equally as dirty channel, for the accom-
plishment of their leveling schemes.


As an appropriate illustration of this spir
it and temper we instance the fact that some
thing over year since when worthy lady
of this place was engaged in getting up a
concert for the improvement of her pupils,
some one or more of the "genus dispicable"
attacked her through the columns of the Va
rieties and attained anything but the desired
results; the lady's character sustaining her
over the cowardly assault A kindred spirit
to the contributor of the Varieties found a
saio Hiei'uhi ior ike uiol toheu IeNciiSe up
on an innocent young girl by enclosing a
dead rat in package, inscribing her name
upon it, and hanging it upon the Christmas
Tree. Another package, of even more Of
fensive nature, was prepared and placed up
on the same tree for another lady.


Now we most heartily congratulate our
oil +ba Ca ttotv u l.
edge or suspicion as to who the perpetrator
or perpetrators of these acts are. We hope
we may never be 50 unfortunate as to know
any human being so low, so contemplate, so
cowardly. so utterly unworthy the esteem of
any one, so little entitled to the designation
Of man, or to association with even respect
able dogs.
Year: 1865

STATE SUPT. PUBLIC INsTRUCTIoN.-ln the
Annual Report Of this officer we find that
many County Superintendents are censured
for not having strictly performed their du-
ties Where remissness of duty is glaringly
palpable in the higher officer, such charges
come with bad grace, and fail to produce
the good effect intended The State Super
intendent should have apportioned the State
School Fund. and notified the Comfy Treas
urers and County Superintendents of his
action, prior to January 1st. Up to this
moment the Superintendent of Shasta county
andas consequence is unable to apportion
the County School Fund.
Year: 1865

NORTHERN SEcEssIoNIsTs,- s,-The following
is from the pen Of Judge Stone of Tuolumnc
county. lifelong Democrat, and who is well
acquainted with the reptile he describes:


There is an article would briefly notice
1t is a Northern secessionist. He wants an
office, or he wants the fame of Southern chiv
alry-perhaps both. He desires that it
should appear that he is Southern all over
flesh. bone. and muscle, in sentiment, and
feelings and sympathies. He is sensible of
the misfortune of having been born up
North, and possibly away down East, where
they say " keow," bat is determined to make
up in zeal for the ignominy of his birth He
is one Of the class that out Herod Herol. He
swears by the South, eats and drinks to the
South, and prays thai when he dies he may
90 to the sunny South, land if South means
downwards he will he very likely to Lave his
parycr granted.) He plays the toady and
lick spittle and drt-carrier to everything
Southern; drinks to the health of jeff Davis.
and damns the flag of his country in "A lou er
key than any of his can-6rst, because his
conscience reproached hin, and he tries to
stife it by swagger: second, to convince
Southern men-who are always suspicious
and dstrustful of Northern men-of his
soundness IN their cause. Ifa novelist should
apply to me to point him out some living
subject combining all the elements ofhuman
shamelessnes and baseuess. | would at once
direct him to Il Northern secessionist, for |
cannot conceive of any lower or meaner
object. Toward a Southern secessionist some
charity is due, for his strong sympathies
with his people and his kindred may well be
supposed to warp his Judgment. But the
other Is reoreant to all natural ties-a vile
renegade from his people, his kindred and
the land of his birth.
Year: 1865

SUGGEsIiyF-Il viii be seen in our tele-
graphic dispatches that the civil authorities
of Savannah do not surrender as people
or city eoerced OF suhjugated by military
-farce. but accent the Amnesty Proclamation
of the President. Verify. the last ditch has
been discovered, and those who have seen it
have an antipathy to diving in it.
Year: 1865

There is a further sum Of g 500, now due
to be collected


Large streams from little fountains fiow,"


A loyal people thus cheerfully contribute
the sinews of war that they may continue to
have free and respectable Government.
Year: 1865

What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks
should be as agreeable as possible in converse
tiun and demeanour; so that good humor may
be said to be one of the very best articles OF
dress one can wear in society; the which to see
exhibited in Lady KS honest face, let us say, is
more pleasant to behold in a room, than the
glitter of Lady rs best diamonds. And yet,
in point of virtue, the latter is, no doubt. a
perfect dragon. But virtue is home quality /:
manners are the coat it wears when it goes
abroad.
Year: 1865

Particular attention is called to the following pro-
vision OF the Act of the Legislature of March 49, 1854


Sand If any person so interested shall fail to pay
his proportion by the time fixed in said notice, then
any such deficiency arising from such failure may be
paid by any other person persons holding bonds or
claims secured as aforesaid and the person so pay
ing any deficiency aforesaid shall succeed to all
the rights which the person failing to pay aforesaid
would have had if seasonab]e payment had been
made by him. subject however to the further right of
redemption as hereinafter provided"


Portland, July 26 1S65-dH
Year: 1865




Last woek we took occasion TO speak o


a great annoyance to travellers, being re


quired to give up your seat. To-day We will


refer to another which, If anything, is worse


than having to stand after you have paid


your fare for scat. 1t is more unpleasant


and injurious to health. We allude TO the


practice that some travellers have Of raising
orlowcring the car windows. There are some,
who, no matter how inclement the weather,
or how much it may incommode or iniure
others, will have the window opened. They
argue that the mir never hurts them, and that
they prefer TO have it, even in wet cold
weather. You may reason with them for an
age, and then leave them unconvinced that
they are injuriOusly affected by the damp,
unwholesomo air, although they are invaria-
bly, afflicted with colds from this imprudence
when travelling. They will never admit,
however, that the air blowing on them by
having the car window open, caused their
Illness, but will endeavor to account for il
by assigning any other cause but the real
one. II is matter of regret that people are
so imprudent and neglected. of their health,
but the worst part of this evil is, that those
who violate the laws of nature, and render
themselves liable to disease, are not the only
persons that suffer. Every one in the car ia
more or less affected, and if it should be
your misfortune to get seat Immediately in
the rear of one of these individuals, you may
be made to suffer intolerably, TO crafty
nonsensical whim. Our experience has been
that il is useless to appeal to their reason, as
persons of that class do not appear to COM
prehend the force of argument; you have no
right TO resort to physical measures to correct
the abuse, but there is a mode, which, if
adopted by RairOad Companies, will remedy
the evil, and protect the rights of all the
passengers. The windows should be 80
constructed that the passengers cannot
open them, and yet due regard be had to
ventilation The Eastern cars have sky
lights, and the windows so arranged as to
prevent them being opened, so as to interfere
with the comfort and health of the passen
gers, and yet all sufficient for proper ventil.
lation, and to allow travellers to have a view
Of the country through which they are pass
ing Hundreds of people have had their
health impaired to crafty those ill-natured,
contrary people, who have no regard for the
comfort of Others exhibit little knowledge
Of the laws of health, and total Indifference
as to their own. Some means should be |
taken to prevent it. Let the cars be con
structed on the plan of those in the East or
let the windows be secured so that they can
neither be raised or lowered and skylight
placed in the top, 80 as to afford proper ven
tillation-or il need be, let a car be set apart
especially iorthosew preferit, without slid
ingwindows. Noother process will reach the
evil, and MS the vast majority of the passen-
gers are people of intelligence, Railroad
Companies should consider it their duty TO
make proper provision for their health and
comfort TRAVELLER.
Year: 1865

An INTELLIGENT FREEDMAS.-As has been
suggested by revercd and estimable citizen,
''if good.common sense, intelligent and wide
spread observation qualify amy one to give
sound advice to his fellow freedmen, as to the
best and wiscst course to pursue in lie new
rcIa. ion to which tbcy stand to their former
owners; Mr. J. II. HARRIS OF North Carolina,
is certainly that man; and they would do much
better for themselves by needing the advice OIL
such prudent counsellor hlan listening to
those who are in no way qualified to direct
them, but who are only urging them on in a
course which will ed in their own certain
misery and destruction" "Ifthc blind lead the
blind both will fall INTO the ditch"


We give below The remarks of this freed
mans friend, and would ask the reflective and
intelligent portions of our colored population
to read and we'll digest its contents;


A SENSIBLE NEGRo's SpEEou.-A con-
vention Of negroes was recently held in
Raleigh, N. G. The best speech during
its sessions was made by Mr.. ]. II. Harris
native. of Raleigh, and late the delegate
from the league to tile Convention at
Cleveland. "Mr. Harris labored to show
the colored people that their best friends
were the Intelligent white class in the
South, aud not the people at the North.
That their freedom had been achieved BY
law Of necessity, as military measure,
and not BY benevolent crusade of the
Northern army, as many supposed. He
cited the prejudice prevailing at the
Moth which shut the colored man out
from every avenue Of employment while
in the South every branch of industry in
the mechanic arts and the cultivation of
the soil was open to him. There had
never been such exhibitions of diabolcal
and murjerous hate exhibited towards
the colored race in The history Of the
world as were developed in the New York
mobs of 1868, and in other Northern ci>
ties. It Was no place for .he colored man
to look for an asylum. They must re-
main where they are ard work out their
destiny side by side with the white man.
They could not and wculd not migrate
/. Travelled ~ geo
miles in search Of Il better country-he
had made the circuit Of the West India
Islands and gone o7er Africa bit he had
now returned to bis native State Of Nprri:
Caroliua, where he inteydrd to live, to
die and hc buried. He course!pd mJ,t-
Grafton, kindness, and a patient and res-
pcctabe Cemcanpr toward the whites,
and the effort to make their Interests
mutual, showing them they (the col"red
people) were not their enemies, but frir;.d.
The past should be buried in Oblivion:
and the future only engage their efo's to
improve and elevate themselves. This
speech was in the happicst vein, and kept
the house in roar Of merrimcnt. Its
effect was most happy upon the. multi
tude, and must do much to disabuse
them Of many false injurious notions.
He was not in favor Of making large de-
mands at this time for their rights. but
allow the present misunderstanding and
consequent i'll feeling to cool, when they
would be sure to receive what they had a
right to claim God was on their side,
and be saw a glorious future before the
colored race in the Southern States"
Year: 1865

The New York Tribune says: President
Johnson deserves the thanks of the tax
paying public for abolishing one ofice-that
of Navy Agent at Washington-and remit
ting its duties to paymaster, at saving
of some thousands to the Treasury. We
hope he may be encouraged to persevere in
this course. There are still offices of far
greater utility to the holder than to the
public, and we hope TO see them abolished
or razed as rapidly as may be. Congress
ought to take the subject in hand next win
ter; but, meantime we trust the President
will improve every chance to reduce, if by
little only, the weight Of our public bur
dens
Year: 1865

the thousands OF brutal who not only neglect but
apase those whom they bound TO CHERISH will also
ieci mat there IS some law for their punishment am
sorry cannot md In your init eating feature


have looked for h In vain, and you must be prepared
not only TO recve but TO suffer- the sentence about
70 impose To pass this sentence even In your is
exceedingly painful TO There is TO me somathng
very terrible about IL; but do In the dis barge of
solemn duty. Listen to IL and when you have been
returned To your cell let the door be opened to some Of
those good and holy men who visit those who are i'm
prsoncd seeking to do good and let your heart be
opened TO those holy influences which In the midst of
your misery can give you peace. Tho sentence Of the
Co Is that you Francis Ferris for the murder and


felony whereof you stand convicted be taken hence to


the place from whence came there TO be safely kept
and detained, and Friday the nth day OF April next
between the hours Of tn A. NJ and two P. H. of that
day, hanged by the neck until you be dead and may
God have m rcy on you.


When the last words fell from the Recorders lips the
prisoner said God bless my souln He then placed
In the custody Of the Sheriff


large number OF prisoners who indicted BY the
Grand Jury for various crimes arraigned and on
pleading not guilty. their trials set down for next
Year: 1865

An exaggerated statement has appeared In print re-
spectng the amount OF cotton In this city, which is
resented amounting 10 something between hundred
and twenty and hundred and thirty thousand bales.
The simple fact is that there Is not sixth Of the
quantity stated and what there Is carefully noted and
It's place OF deposit known 10 the military authorities,
who, should the emergency require, will electually pre-
It's going into the hands Of the Yankees and
able to state that the small lots which divers par
are understood TO have surrepously removed from
the warehouses TO their premises will have the pre-
ccdence f IL becomes necessary to apply the hre
Year: 1865

from the Richmond sentinel, March IL


We beg the particular attention OF our readers and OF
our brethren OF the press 10 the following proposition
We are ready the gentleman whenever his offer
accepted Surely the confederacy can produce twenty
four other who large Of heart - our friend
"Petcrsburg.'-


Mesrs appeal has been made to the farmers
voluntary contributions OF bacon aud hour to feed
liberal the army shed be paid well fed, and Il
stated that General Lees has not been paid Tor
several montha Hence the moned Of the country
In cannot contribute provisions let them give
their Confederate Treasury notes which some OF them say
worthless


They have pledged ~their ses their and their
sacred honor The Being out Of the army their
lives safe let them their sacred honor By CIV
ing portion Of their fortunes Let attachment 70 the
shown by work The undersigned viii be one
twenty give two hundred thousand dollars each 70
this number be had You authorized say this
will be paid any whom General Lee may desg
II the viii properly this subject 10 the
people Is believed that there patriotism and libcray
sufficient raise hundred millions by contributions to
the As 10 the ability there s question: II n
respectfully suggested that gentlemen who have their hearts
the but do not feel able contribute hundred
thousand dollars might make propositions OF hundred
thousand ty thousand and thousand dollars
each Start the work and see what can be done.


PETERSBURG
IAs the rebel Treasury notes are worth just two
cents for each dollar and two hundred thousand dol
lars Of that paper worth only four thousand dollars
this proposition may be said TO illustrate the old adage OF
beng 'lbera within the compass Of shilling n-ED.
HERALp.l
Year: 1865

ANOTHER COLD sNAP--nRRcURy Down 70 TEN


DEGREEs-sKArTNo.


Tho sharp frost Of Saturday night brought the mercury
down to ten degrees and brought back the skating at tho
Park and other ponds which, with the exception Of the
Fifth avenue pond tncver open Sunday were crowded
with people yesterday. The Park pond presented most
lively spectacle during the whole day. The ffh
pond will be ready to-day 10 receive s patrons with ice
smooth and az clear az glass and slippery as could well
be desired


The little circular pond belonging 10 the old fountain Of
the City Hall Park invaded yesterday BY number Of
news sMcrcurys--msny Of whom were often down below
zerobag yer bootsn boys and other Wild specimens Of
juvoniiy, and converted into place for skating and
slcghing email scale The sport enjoyed by
them with quite keen relish ny those who visit
places of prctcntous merit could experience Tho
police looked on and did no, Interfere With The harmless
arnussmeRt VI the young ''sporlAn
Year: 1865




Information received by the officers At Castle
Thunder yesterday that the prisoners odd in
number) confined In the citizens in that place had
made extensive preparations for escape last night Tho
report was that each inmate had armed himself by
some means or other with knife and revolver that
ing and that at the going down Of the they were
to make simultaneous rush for these places OF egreee
and II necessary, murder the guard who might oppose
them Search was made yesterday afternoon, and the
holes described having been cut through the building
were found to exist and several other facts mentioned by
the informant found TO be true. certain lieutenant
designated the leader Of the gang but ho soutly
denied any completely in the affair. He was, however
placed In closer confinement Under the supcrinend-
ence OF Captain L. w. Richardson, the commandment Of
the prison. the examination OF the prisoners building
still in progress late hour the afternoon up 70
which time the revelations made Of the plot found
TO be correct in every particular
Year: 1865




sleeping sttschcd TO the train duo here At
20 day thrown from the track ut vanderburgs Ray
two miles above staatebure the car tumbling In the
river The contained thirty Ave forty passengen
who all less injured by tho shock and cut
with GLASS; by breaking out The Window In cndcavons
" escape death from drowning. A brakeman named
Kenny badly hurt regular passenger Was
also thrown from the track but did not 90 into the river
Superintendent Toucsys gang Of cleared the rub
bish and the road s all right sgain The accident
caused by the breaking OF . wheel
Year: 1865




Will you be kind enough TO mention in your paper TO
correct views upon the amount OF prize money
due the crew Of the Kearsargc the following
dunn II will answer many OF the letters sent to me
this subject and oblige your very obedent servant,


JNO. A. wINsLOw.


PRIZE MONEY DUE THE KEARsARGB CREW.
Tho law regulating prize applicable 10 this case
is two hundred dollars head for each person board
the Alabama This will give the crew little thirty
thousand dollars Had the Alabama been brought into
pot and sunk the whole value Of her by the przs
law would have belonged ~ the which, she cost
nifty eight thousand pounds would be nearly three hun
dred thousand dollars II viii be by this that In
rather losing business 10 Jack 70 sink shipe at sea-
and when he learns the Law made he will be read
Ing IL that he must put his shot In above the water nes
and never below.


We ioarn that the raised 10 be equally divided
among and officers Of the Kcarsarge k somethnQ
less than twenty thousand dollars In New York. ana
about eight thousand dollars in Boston
The had letter read 10 them when In the chan
mel from the Secretary Of the Navy that the n-
teniion Of the President 10 ask Congress ~ appropriate
equal 20 the full value of the Alabama FOR dstribu
ton prize money, - was judged that the services
rendered TO the country fully warrantedM
Year: 1865




pretty that during the late Yankee advance
up the Rospoke river twelve Yankee vessels ascended
eAas srean and but six Of them returned The other
nix disposed Of by the Confederate torpedoes And
another thing very certain six hundred Yankees por
ished by the explosions OF this latter fact have al
most incontestibe evidence That win do for our tor
pedoee.