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Year: 1868

WASdLNuiON, NAuy Aooos


In Yesterdays proceedings of the General
Conference Of the African Methodist Epis.
copal Zion church, holding its sessions
in this city, the coored divines INDUCED them
selves in a political depression. Elder w. +.
Butler moved that Friday next be set apart day
Of fasting and prayer in all the churches to petition
Jehovah to inspire the Senate with wisdom sufficient
from High to render verdict Of conviction against
Andrew Johnson that he may be removed from the
Chief Magistracy of the United States. He said he
had just learned with profound regret that the Sem
ate lacked sufficient number Of votes to convict the
President and had therefore postponed q vote until
Saturday. 1t had been said that millions OF money
have been sent here to buy up republican
Senator'S, and nothing short Of the power
Of Almighty God could direct the party to
success. His only hope was In the Saviour He pro-
posed that they devote day to endeavor to bring
about verdict of conviction. Resolutions then
adopted appointing Friday as day of fasting and
prayer. Mr.. Logan OF Syracuse N. Y, said that he
had been in consultation with the Bishop Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference, also
sitting here, and they had decided upon aiding the
movement for conviction by having grand demon
straon Of the colored people on Friday night next,
which was adopted.
Year: 1868

but by the aid Of machinery supplied by
the General Government In some of the
States provision has been made for such
test oaihs as will deter most Of the whites
from voting. 10 others, military. arrange.
ments have been made for controlling
the dissatisfied whites. In some, large
bodies OF white men are directly disfran.
chised and shut out from share in the
government. SO long as these mixed
governments exist, there will be con-
slant struggle for one class or the other
to get the upper hand. II the whites
we're in the ascendency now, no doubt
nearly all the blacks would have been
shut out from share in the government


There can be no such thing as a blen-
ded representation Of the community
as one people when the community itself
is not blended. The State governments
are sure 10 be class governments, repre-
senting not the whole people, but either
the blacks as ruling class or the whites.
We are, in, fact narrowed down TO this
choice shall the white men rule in the
South, or shall the blacks there rule the
whites2 Strive as we may, we shall be
able to bring the problem only TO one or
the other OF these solutions.


The great evil of negro govern ment
will not be that a few negroes may get
into Congress or into the State Legisla-
lures; that would be small evil A few
we'll chosen negroes might teach good
manners to some of the white members
Of the present Congress. The great evil
Of negro suffrage is that il means, in
many districts, negro justices Of the
peace and negro constabes. The home
governments of neighborhoods are the
governments most important to the mass
of men. If these are not such as TO con-
duce to order, content, and comfort, the
country at large cannot have its just
measure of peace, industry, and pros
perity. There is no Northern neighbor-
hood which could endure negro magis-
trates and negro local officers; either
the negro officers would be expelled by
violence or the whites would abandon the
neighborhood. &.


There is no such thing possible as put
ting the negroes and the white men at
the South on footing of equality. Ma
ture forbids it. Unless they can be put
on such an exact footing of equality that
in every relation of life the distinction Of
color is lost sight Of, there can be no such
thing as the representation Of one people
in the proposed governments at the
South. The public officers of all kinds
will represent one people or the other;
they will represent the majority, and the
majority will always be either the black
people exclusively or the white people.
Class governments under universal negro
suffrage at the South are inevitable. The
whites, being disfranchised, cannot now
assert their natural superiority; and the
negro governments which may get into
power will resort to continued disfran-
chisemsnt as their means Of retaining
the control.


Negro suffrage, enforced by the North,
means, practically, not negro equality,
but negro superiority that the negroes
as class shall rule the whites.
Year: 1868

A French physician publishes long
dissertation on the advantages OF groan-
ing and crying in general, and especially
during surgical operations. He contends
that groaning and crying are two grand
operations by which nature allays az
guish; that those patients who give way
to the natural feelings more speedily re-
cover from accidents and operations
than those who suppose it unworthy
man to betray such symptoms of coward
ice as either to groan or cry. He tells
of a man who reduced his pulse from
one hundred and twenty six to sixty, in
the course of few hours, by giving full
vent to his emotions. IL people are at
all unhappy about anything, let them go
into their rooms aud comfort themselves
with loud boohoo, and they will feel a
hundred per cent better afterward. In
accordance with the above, the crying of
children should not be too greatly dis
couraged. If it is Systematically re-
pressed, the result may be St. Vitus
dance, epileptic fits, or some other dis
ease of the nervous system. What is
natural is nearly always useful and
nothing can be more natural than the
crying Of children when anything occurs
to give them either physical or mental
pain. Probably most persons have ex-
perienced the effect Of tears in relieving
great sorrow. 1t is even curious how
the feelings are sllayed by their free
indulgence in groans and sighs. Then
let parents and friends show more indul-
gence to noisy bursts of grief-on the
part of children as well as Of older per-
sons-and regard the eyes and the
mouth as the safety-valves throegh
which nature discharges her surplus
steam.
Year: 1868

There is not much 70 be said respecting the market
this week dinerent from those which were its main
features at our last quotation. The general tone Ia
firm and steady, the changes being SO slight as
OF meats nave declined slightly owing to the close
atmosphere prevailing being unfavorabe to their pre-


vegetables easier. Fruit s not In very good supply
and for what, is offered, Is high. Fish is without
change with the exception Of shad, which nearly
out OF season. Otherwise we have nothing Of mo-
ment to record. We give below correct quota
Year: 1868

We have had an extraordinary amount t
of rain during the last two weeks, which
has improved the growing corn wonder
fully. So far as our information goes, in
travelling between this point and Bristol,
the prospects for good crop of corn is
excellent. We hear some complaint in
this county. In Carter it looks we'll. We
are informed that one farmer has forty
acres from which he expects to gather an
average of seventy five bushels each.


Greenville Uniou
Year: 1868

The New York Times (Rep.) says:


eve see necessity whatever for tho session
Of Congress next month, which a number of
prominent Southern Radicals working for. 1t
is not demanded by the state Of affairs 10 the
South, By the conduct OF President Johnson, by
any exigency connected with the Presidential
election, or by any necessity of the country. We
have no doubt that the War Department will do
ali that is practicable at the present time for the
maintenance Of peace and order in Louisiana,
Texas, Tennessee and elsewhere in the South
And, as for the securing OF fair election and the
liberty of voting to the free lmen OF the Southern
States, these are matters that must be provided
for by the State authorities. AS things now
stand we can see nothing hut harm to the
public interests from September session Of
Congress-"
Year: 1868

A correspondent writes " To see Mag
ara you buy eleven silk dresses for your
wife, and six shirts for yourself. You then
get all the ready money you have, borrow


all your friends have, and make arrange
ments for unlimited credit at two or three
good solvent banks You then take six
trunks, some more money, nurse, a col
ored servant, some moro money, and then,


after getting some more money, and extend
ing your credit at one or two more strong
banks, you set out. 1t is better, if posi-
BILE, just before you leave, to mortgage
your homestead and get some more money
Year: 1868

SF To introduce persons who are
unknown to each other, is to under
take serious responsibility, and al
ways involves the Endorsement to each
Of the respectability Of the other.
This responsibility should never be
undertaken without first ascertaining
whether it will be acceptable to both
parties to become acquainted, always
introduce the gentleman to tho lady
never the contrary. This rule is
to be observed everywhere, socially,
or otherwise. The chivalry of eti-
quette assumes that the lady is inva-
riably the superior by right Of her
sex, and that the gentlemen is hon
ored by being presented. Where the
sexes are the same. present the younger
to the elder, the unmarried to the
married, or the inferior in social rank
or talent to the superior. A gentle
should never be introduced to lady
without first asking her permission.
Year: 1868

There is said to be diversity OF opinion
among lawyers and commissioners in bank
ruPtcy rs to when the fifty per cent. clause Of
the bankrupt law went or will go into effect.
and That the question will probably be Submit.
ted to Chief Justice Chase for decision. A
glance at the law itself will show that there Is
no ground upon which to base such doubt.
In section 33 it is provided: "And I'M all
proceedings in bankruptcy commenced ono
year from the time this not shall 20 into opvs
ration, no discharge shall be granted 10 q
debtor whose Assets do not pay fifty per centYts
OF the claims against his estate, unless the
assent, in writing, Of majority in number
aud value Of his creditors who have proves
their claims is filed in the case Mt or before the
time of application for discharge"


The act went into operation Juno I, 1857.
(Edqcfeid Adpertiser,
Year: 1868

The glance of woman, says French
writer, resembles certain wheels which are
apparently gentle, but are formidable: you
daily pass by their side with impunify, and
without suspeeting snythiBg, and the mo-
ment arrives when you even forget that the
thing is there. You come, you go, you
dream you speak, you laugh. and all in a
minute you feel yourself caught and it is all
over with you. The wheel holds you, the
glance has caught you, it has caught, no
matter where or how, by some of your
thoughts, which drag after you, or by some
inaftention on your part You are lost, and
your whole body will be drawn in; series
of mysterious force seizes you, and you
struggle in vain for human aid is DO longer
possible. You pass from cogwheel TO cog
wheel, from agony to agony, from torture
you and your mind, your fortune. your fu-
ture and your soul; and, according as are in
the power of wicked creature, or you of a
noble heart, you will issue from this fright
ful machinery either dis6gured BY shame or
| transfgured by passion.
Year: 1868

How TO ADVERTISE. The Inside Tracl;
says some good thingsin the following article,
which may be of practical value to some OF
Our readers


An advertisement is not always valuable
in proportion to the space it occupies.


A short advertisement four times is better
than a very long one once. ''Brag is good
dog, but Hold fast is better.


A prominent advertisement once or twice
will be effective, if followed up by steady
card giving your business and address.


Don't take down your sign in dull times.
People read newspapers all times of she
year.


If business admits of it, several small adj
vertisements, with your name repeated
every time will avail more than the same
collected, with your name in only once.


Don't fear to have a small advertisement
by the side of larger competing one. The
big one can eat it up.


Small advertisements, and plenty Of them
is a good rule. We we're all babies once,
yet we made considerable noise.
Year: 1868

AN industrious blacksmith and an idle
dandy courted pretty girl, who hesitated
which of them to take Finally she said
she would marry which ever of them could
show the whitest hands. With sneer at
the blacksmith the dandy held out his palms
white from idleness The poor blacksmith
hid his brawny hands in bis pockets, then
drawing them out filed with bright. silver
coins he spread them over his dusky fingers.
The girl decided that his fingers we're the
Uhitasf
Year: 1868




Enter upon the performance Of his official duties
for the current year He would call particular at
.tenton to the following section of tho Revenue
Law; Isr.f r.. rs sH8 4at -
If any person shall willfuly make, give,
under oath affirmation, false list of his, or her
or their taxable property or false list oil taxable
property under his, her their control, such per-
son shall be deemed gnilty of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished therefor, as
is by law provided for the punishment of perjury
and any property willfully concealed, removed
transferred, or isrepresented by the owncr or any
agent thereof, to ev;de taxation, shall upon dis
covery be assessed at ten times the amount of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon it and fifty per cent of the amount
Of such additional tax when solicited shall be paid
TO the person persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals heproperty SO conceal
ed, transferred, removed msrepresented, and the
remaining fifty per cent, after deductng the usual
per centage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury for the benefit of the Common School
Fund Of the State" AZ ttltEftE


Attention is also directed to the following section
of the Act of 1866, relating to Shasta county;


The Assessor of said county is authorized and
it hereby made his duty collect all the poll OF
per capita tax except the road poll tax, and the
taxes upon all movable personal property and upon
the entry of any assessment of movable personal
property, to any person, firm corporation, associs-
tion, or company. who does not own real estate
sufnclent IN tue opinion OF inc assessor 10 insure
the payment of such tax within the county, to de-
mand the payment of the taxes upon the same
and if such person, firm corporation, association,
or company shall refuse neglect to pay such
taxes. the Assessor shall, by virtue of the power
herein vested in him, proceed to collect such taxes
in the same manner prescribed by law for the Col
lector.2 rarrlrErl.Er


If Tax Payers were to have a list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them, they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, well rs facilitate my work.


A. 2. LADD,


~s- 49, + Assessor of Shasta County.


Shasta March 3 1857 y aa- ~ MI
Year: 1868


Soft falls through the gathering twilight
The rain from the dripping caves,
And stirs with tremulous rustic


The dead and the dying leaves;
While afar in the mibst OF the shadows,
hear the sweet voices of bells
Come borne on the wind of the autumn,
That fitlully rises and swells.
They call and they answer each other
They answer and ningle again-
As the deep and the shrill in an anthem
Make harmony still in their strain
As the voice OF sentinels mingle


In mountainous regions of snow,
Till from hilltop to'hill-top chorus
Floats down to the valleys below.
The shadows, the freight of even.
The sound of the rains distant chime,
Come bringing, with rain softly dropping.
Sweet thoughts ofa shadowy time
The slpmb eiOus sense of seclusion,
From storm and>intrsders aloof,
We feel when we hear in the midnight
The patter of rain on the roof
When the spirit goes forth in its yearnings.
TO take all its W ,nderers home |;
Or, iafar id the regions Of fancy.
! : Delights on swift pinions to roam
Iquietly sit by the fire-light--


The freight so bright and SO warm
For know that those only who love me
Will seek me through shadow and storm.
But should they be absent this evening,
Should even the household depart
Deserted. should not be lonely
There still would be guests in my heart.
Tie faces of friends that cherish,
The smile. and the glance, and the tone
Will haunt me wherever wander,
And thus am neveraloae, ...
With those who have left far behind them
The joys and the sorrows of time
Who sing the sweet songs of the angels
In purer and hoier cline
Then darklyy0 evening of autumn,
Your rais'and your shadows may fall
My loved and my lost ones you bring me
My heart holds feast with them all
Year: 1868

strong personal friendship will protect
him from the one and his sterling pat
riotism and soldierly rcctitude from the
other. Hehas already alienated himself
from the sympathies of the pro-rebel
Democracy by his outspoken loyalty, and
he is too shrewd man to be ensnared
by Washington politicians johnson will
once more have his labor for his pains,
even if be does not promote the very
cause be so much breads iIf T{" '1 n
Year: 1868

INTERESTING 10 FARMERS. "A new plow
ihyeuied BY a mechanic of San francisco
is described as au adaptation Of the s rsv
propeller to the process of turning up the
earth. Instead Of share, six iron blades
are set in frame and geared togatheI
after the sly Of a marine screw and the
motion of the ma:hsne is also similar.
The bla des dip into the ground as they
revolve and not only turn and pnlverze
the earth but also serve to aid in propelli
ing the machine. Steaem or horse power
may be used in working this plow,
which, on trial has been found to work
admirably.
Year: 1868




The murder at Kingston, Mass, on Tuesday night,
OF Cornelius Holmes, brother OF Alexander Holmes,
formerly president OF the Old Colony Railroad 1t Is
stated Is not less buried In mystery than the cee-
bTated Bussey Woods tragedy There Is said to be
for suspecting any one Of the citizens and
thought that only one person was connected with
the murder and he evidently was well acquainted
with Mr.. Holmes habits which were peculiar, The
deceased was about nfty-f0ur years Old, and when
ever he left home he always took his available funds
with him. He In described as very tmid man. and
often went out OF his way to avoid the children Of
the place through fear OF being made FUN OF. With
all his eccentricittes he was never known to be in
sane or considered dangerous He was undoubtedly
murdered for his money, and the place where he
cemetery thick with trees, and on the left clump of
pines. covering an area of o thousand square feet


The body was discovered early yesterday morning
by farmer named Bates, who was driving his cows
TO pasture. The skull was crushed In and the face
presented shocking and hideous sight. coroner's
murder visited the body removed to the house OF
Captain Leach, where the deceased boarded, and an
inquest held. Upon examination Of the place where
the murder was committed, four places about ten
feet distant from each other, where large pools OF
blood have stained the earth, were found The head
OF Mr.. Holmes had been forced half way into the
earth, with portion OF the brain exuding from the
skull over the right eye and on each side OF the skull
are marks OF heavy blows. The back OF the skull
was also forced In. From the nature OF the wounds
there can be no doubt but that the murderer per-
formed his work with heavy stones.


In Mr.. Holmes pockets were 5000, some OF which
was sticking out Of his vest pocket and the theory
that the murderer was frightened away The coro-
ner's Jury pronounce the case one OF murder by
person unknown To them.


The deceased was a member OF the Baptist Church.
reward OF $4,000 has been offered by the brothers,
Edward and Alexander Holmes.
Year: 1868

Health is most important; apd the afflicted
should not use an advertised medicine, or any
remedy, unless its contents or ingredients are
known to others besides the manufacturer, or
until they are satisfied Of the qualifications of
the party so offering.
Year: 1868

They do not Want Peace but Plunder.


elf Grant would have peace why does
he not induce Congress to withdraw garri-
sons and bureaus from the South. Would
he make desert and call it peace There
is no vital industry where garrisons hold
sway, and less of any character among the
blacks taught to rely upon the Intervention
of the bureau and of politicians for whisky
or bread. Or does Grant rely upon the bu-
reau and armed bands, subject to his or
ders, to consolidate in his behalf the negro
vote ?''-iSsnacG Falls Reveills.


Surely "maks 9 desert and call it peace"
That is one way TO have peace. There is
peace where there is solitude. If Grant
can tueosed in utterly crushing out the
spirit of freemeu in the South, and can then
take care Of the negroes. he will have peace
then. That is the sort of peace he and his
party are laboring to bring about. II they
desired any other peace they could have
had it long ago.-Mo5iEe Tribune.
Year: 1868

y
Rest your head upon my shoulderI
Pshaw The world How will it know
4 is hot at core as Hectaj it is cold outside snO
Rest it there and dream my darhngl
Rest it there, and dTeam-iust so
Never shrink from my embrace


Tush what foolish tear is this ?
Others older far than you are


Pant for this same feVered bliss
Rest your head upon my shoulder!


Give me, Love, another kiss.
Hollow-hearted Base betrayers!


These the names you give to men
Let me kiss you ere I answer,


Let me kiss you once again!
Rest your head upon my shoulder,


Love, am q man in ten
And she lent upon his shouldsr,


And her girlish heart stirred
With the magic Of his glances


A nd the glamour of his word
Twas the glamour of the serpent


And the trusting of the bird
And the winter raj q was beating


Without mercy the street,
When 8 woman on the curbstone


Sank down with bleeding feet
Not single watchman moving
In the tempest on his beat
'Let me rest upon your shOulder'-spoke
These words upon her Parghed lips,
While the clock within the steeple


Measured out the midnight stroke.
Hollow hearted Base betrayer


And no more that woman woke