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Year: 1864




In the SENATE the bill from the House to establish
mail steamship service between the United States
and Brazil was reported with amendments by Mr. Col
LAMER, from the Committee the Post Office and Post
Roads Mr. CoLLAMER spoke in favor of the bill and Mr..
TRUMBULL against it, the latter Senator holding that all
the available of the Government were now necss
say for the prosecution ofhe The amendments of
Post Office Committee which relate details Of contract
with the steamship owners agreed to and then the
further consideration Of the bill postponed till to-day


bill reported by Mr. WADE, from the Committee on
Territories TO amend tho act to enable the people of Ne
vada to form constitution and State government was
passed. with amendment which provides for holding the
election the adoption of the constitution on the first
Wednesday in September instead of second Tuesday in
October.


The bill to provide national currency, &C. was taken
up and further discussed, but not disposed Of.


In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a report was
made by Mr.. GOoCH from the Committee on the Conduct
of the War; relative to the at Fort Pill
low, which was ordered to be printed.


The House was mainly occupied in considering the bill
to reimburse the State Of Pennsylvania for expenses in
CURED in calling out militia to repe rebel invasion in the
summer of 1862. Mr. Cox offered amendment making
appropriation of 900 to deay the expenses Of
Pennsylvania Maryland and other loyal States in calling
out the militia to repel rebel raids. Mr. GARFIELD said
the Committee Military Affairs have this subject before
them and expect to receive from the War Department


of papers enclosing all the claims from those States
the intention of this committee he sad to report
bill providing for commission to sit during the to
ascertain the amount Of ell the claims and when the report
shall be made at the next session the House will be
bled to act nelgenty After long debate the bill was
passed.
Year: 1864

AFFEcTATIoN IN THE CLERGY.-Gail Ham
ilton thus satirizes the cloth


Was an orthodox minister ever known to
use the word wife in the pulpit? From the
manner in which be steers around it, one
would suppose that its utterance was ban
Your 'consort,' companion the partner Of
YOUR iovs.' or Sorrows or BOSOM is recogni
zed; but nobody ever prays for your wife
Why is not just as well to say that Mr.. A
will preach in the afternoon as in the after
part of the day?' Why not say that the man
whose life you are sketchiug was married at a
certain age, rather than that he entered into
the marriage relation? Why in the pulpit
shall we not hear our own tongue in which we
were born? If dignity cannot stand Anglo
Saxon, so much the worse for dignity. Good,
common, honest racy, idiomatic words and
phrases are not only the strongest, but often
the most eloquent. The cumbrous euphonlsms
of a pulpit patois are neither pleasant to the
taste, nor good for food
Year: 1864

A FUNNY OccURRENcE.-Th Troy Times
tells the following funny story about the loss of
a looking glass:


Day before yesterday, a thrifty citizen of
West Troy, desirous to please his better half,
and properly adorn his palatia residence,
purchased twenty Eve dollar mirror, which
was cheap and just suited her The purcha-
ser concluded to carry the mirror home him
self, and not to trust its transmission thence TO
the perls of a porter. With tired muscle
and pouring sweat, he arrived at the St.
Charles Hotel corner. The ferry boat was on
the other side of Jordan and the owner of the
precious mirror was thirsty-therefore the mir
ror was stood up against the hotel stoop, ou
the sidewalk, and small boy hidden to watch
it, while its owner stepped into the ST. Charles
bar to get something to cool himself with AT
this unlucky moment large Billy goat,which
enjoys the freedom of the city, and is familiar
to all the residents in that vicinity for his fa-
nous bucking powers, came leisurely along the
sidewalk. The small boy in charge of the
mirror fed on the double quick, in serious ap
prehenson of being bucked The goat kept
on his career until he caught sight Of another
goat reflected on the polished surface of the
glass. Then stepping back some half dozen
steps, reared aloft his caudal appendage, gave
three or four preliminary shakes of the head
and rushed on his shadowy adversary with a
power of buck which, of all the animal king
dom, goats alone possess. The glass was shat
tered in a spray of fragments, and the goat
went through the back of the mirror up to his
shoulders Whether the goat was more aston
ished at the utter demolition of his opponent,
or the owner of the mirror at bis unexpected
loss is one of the problems yet unsolved.
Year: 1864

A certain Sunday school teacher was 10 the
habit of making a collection in his juvenile
class for missionary objects. lie was not a
little surprised, however, one day, TO fnd
country note among the weight of copper. He
was not long in finding it to be Of broken
bank; and on asking the class who put it there
the donor was pointed out 10 him by one who
had seen him deposit it. Didn't you know
that this note was good for nothiug2' said the
teacher. Yes" aDswesed the boy. Then
what did you put it IN the box forg The boy
coolly replied, i didn't s'pose the little heath
ems would know the difference, and thought it
would be just as good.
Year: 1864

a very iutemperate man in London, named
Tapworth, recently went to bed tipsy, aDd in
the night call ed for water. His daughter
brought him lemonade in bottle, and left him
He was found dead next day, with the bottle,
which be must have tried to swallow, and so
sufhcated himself, sticking oat Of his mouth.
Year: 1864

TyHIS NEW BRICK AND ELEGANTLY FUR
i nished Hotel stands first in the State for conf
fort and accommodation for the travelling public
every room being well ventilated and neatly fur
nshed.
Year: 1864

We fee! safe in saying that better
selection Of men for Office vas never
presented as candidates for the suffrage
of the voters of Kansas than those nom
mated by the convention of the 18th
inst. There is not black sheep in the
4icket. Every man is worthy OF conf :
denee and support; every one qualified
FOR the posisior for which he is desig-
mated. We are proud TO float such a
ticket at our mast head. And its merit
is made the more conspicuous BY COM
parison with the miserable and imbecile
lot Of men set up on the Bib inst.-a
set that their own friends are ashamed
of. and swallow as they would nau-
seating dose of medicine, because the
master Of the movement says they must.


Ii such men as compose our ticket
are not elected by the people Of Kansas,
they do not deserve good State gov
ernment. If they should prefer the
miserable things set up on the 9th to
these nsen, (which we do not for a mo-
ment believe) they deserve to be cursed
with misrule. and all the evils Of an
archy, corruption and insecurity which
are the necessary consequences Of an
administration of weak minded men.


The convention was composed of SOL
ID. sober. candid men, and there was
but one spirit animating the delegates
Ia single desire 10 nominate rne oesf
men. and do the best thing for the gen
eral good. Personal preferences we're
sunk in the desire for the public welfare.
II am for the best men, no difference
who they are," was the universal ex-
preston Of all the delegates with whom
we conversed. It was the oyerwhelm-
ing feeling of the convention; hence.
the excellent ticket put in nomination.


We heard Of no "sxes to grind" no
favorilism to crafty; no malice to wreak;
no personal claims SET up. But there
was a fixed determination TO redeem
the State from corruption. anarchy and
tie reign of the plundeiers,
Year: 1864

We have muchloved friend; few brief years
We walk beside him down the path of life
And then it's over, and he steps before,
Or else we see our friendship turned to strife.
Thank God amid the dying loves Of earth,
We can behold land where deathess love has birth.
We have a home a circle round hearth
And merry sounds and pleasant sights there;
The wear goes round-there is an empty place.
The fire is out, the festive board Is bear.
But Ger deaths river, on the shadeess shore,
A home is gathering 10 be destroyed no more.
The eve is bright. the cheek is warm and fair
Youth health and pleasure rush through every vein
One days sharp agony, months long woe
Bids beauty bow down in the shrine of pain
Thank God. dire mschance, creeping ill,
With anguish and Woe our Fathers mansions FILL
We bask ourselves in weaths luxuriant court,
Darkness and hardness ere to us unknown;
Then suddenly wake from our bright dream
And riches and their fair train are flown,
How to know that on the changeIess shore
Dadems of fadeless gold are laid for us in store.
And oftentime on lifc's tempesuous sea
When our fra bark is tossed by wind and wave,
We should be carried down the whirlpool there
Did not a vision from atar of save


A bay where our fraagc boat shall moor
The dreary voyage passed. the raging tempest DER.
There are no scattered homes in that fair land.
No riven friends agony nor pain.


No broken hearts. treacherous fortune there;
No darksome grave where lifelong love is lain,
No trial. temptation and no sin;


The ransomed race Of men to angels are akin.
Heed not the thorns that strew thine heavcnward
Press onward, upward. glorious is the prize;
Forget thy sorrow Ger thy ruined home,
Beyond thy lost friends grave. lift up thine eyes
70 Him, who when lifc's troubled dream is DER,
Will welcome thee at last upon the shadeless shore.
Year: 1864

Trousers AND PErrIcoATs.-When men wore
tight pantaoons, women wore skinny petticoats
1t was at this time that the French Lord Ogleby,
in farce, giving his tailor an order for panta-
looms to fit tighter than his skin, ends with this
warning, :. Mind, that if | can get them on, |
shall not take them Towards the end of the
last century the French Revolution shook, with
all other things the empire of dress. 1t gave
liberty to the limbs of men 1t emanclpated
them from tight clothing hair powder, and pig
tails it banished breeches and buckles and in
troduced trousers. Pantaloons fingered for Il
time, but the steady tendency of the age was as
much to looser clothing as to liberal ideas. In
deed, the two went together, and trousers was
for some time adopted or opposed and reprobated
as an outward and visible sign of political opn-
ions. Cyril Jackson the Dean of Christchurch,
exerted all his authority and influence in his
college to put down trousers, regarding them as
symbols of revolution ; and his success in en-
forcing the tight apparel brought Upon him the
expression of regret that the Dean had contract
ed the loose habits of the age. At this period,
the female fashion was behind the age in ease
The petticoat was so narrow that it was difficult
to walk in it. 1t was, in fact, pantaloon of
one leg for two legs. The waste was just under
the arm-pits. This thraldom was broken by the
Peninsular war, which introduced what was
called the Spanish dress-very pretty, indeed,
but only the Spanish OF the stage. As If to IN
demnify themselves for their long restraint in
the narrow clothing, the ladies then shortened
their petticoats very literally and ankles were
no mystery. But emancipation was yet partial
and imperfect, the parallel to the trouser being
still wanting but it came with vengeance
with the crinoline-- The crinoline is the peg-top
tfouser exaggerated, and turned the opposite
wsy-the peg at the waist the wide end down.
wards. Women now live in tents-under can
vass, as it were. They expatate within their
airy enclosures. They delight IN the free and
easy. All their ways are unconfned. They walk
up and down within their premises They have
succeeded in the enroachment which would be
described by Blackstone as making larger es-
tate than they,are by law entitledto- They have
enormously aggrandized themselves. They are
geographically thrice what they used to be in
observation-disclosures
Year: 1864

A CTION BROUGHT IN THE DISTRICT Court
n of the Ninth Judicial District of the State
of California, in and for the county of Trinity
and the complaint filed in said county of Trinity
in the office of the Clerk of said District Court
The People of the State Of California send


greeting to LE.uUEL &. .NE.9D.


You are hereby required to appear in an action
brought against you by the above named plain
tiff in the District Court of the Ninth Judicial
District of the State of California in and for the
county of Trinity, and to answer the complaint
filed therein IA copy of which accompanies this
Summons) within ten days, (exclusive Of the day
of service. after the service you of this Sum
mons-if served within this county or, if serv-
ed out of this county, but within this Judicial
District within twenty days: if served out of
said District then within forty days-or judg-
ment by default will be taken against you accor-
ding to the PRAYER Of said complaint


The said action is brought to obtain a decree
divorcing the above named plaintiff from the
bonds of matrimony contracted with said deten-
dant, that she may be permitted to assume her
maiden name, and again to contract marriage
if it should please said plaintiff so to do, that
she have by said decree the right to hold to her
any and all property, credits, debts and
demands made by her during said marriage with
defendant, and that she have such other and fur
ther relief in the premises as to this Hon. Court
may seem meet, just and proper, costs of suit,
&c. And you are hereby notified that if you fail
to appear and answer the said complaint as above
required, the plaintiff will apply to the Court for
the relief in said complaint demanded.


Given under my hand and the seal of
the District Court of the Ninth Judicial
- District of the State of California, in


LIS. and for the county of Trinity, this 2Sth
~ day Of January, in the year of our Lord


One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty


four. NJ. F. GRIFFIN, Clerk


BeSH Published once week for three months
by order of the County Judge. 3.l3
Year: 1864

INpupENr QrEsrloXs.-To ask an unmarried
lady how old she is,


To ask lawyer if he ever told lie.


To ask doctor how many persons has killed.
To ask minister whether he ever did anything
very wrong.
To ask merchant whether he has ever cheated
q customer.


To ask young lady whether she would like
beau.


To ask an editor the name of any of his cor
respondents.


To ask a subscriber if be, has paid the printer
Year: 1864

WHAT is happiness? a butterfly, that roves
from flower to flower, in the vast gardens of ex-
istence. and which is eagerly pursued by the
multitude in the vain hope of winning the prize
yet it continually eludes their grasp.
Year: 1864

parties whom General Rosecrans is afra d
to trust: He is afraid to trust God. and
he is afraid to trust man. lie cannot &C n
scientiously permit the affairs of either to
90 on without taking a hand in their di-
rection. He is a truly pious man we dc
not doubt-that is to say, he feels as other
men of the truly pious stamp are apt to
teel: That God is the wisest and justest
being in the whole universe-themselve
alone excepted; and that, if they were out
Of the way, God would be justified in ia
king his government into his own hands.
there being nobody else fit to succeed them
in the regency.


Now, ever since our Westminster cate
chism days, We have holden it as an article
Of firm belief, that Gods business could be
safely trusted Ia Gods hands-that he
did not need the assistance of man to man
age his concerns, and was never impeded
by human opposition to his policy 1t is
in his power so to overrule, that even the
malice Of the coppcrheads shall rebound to
his own glory, and the good of his cause
and his people. We have the highest re-
spect for the ability of Gen. Rosecrans-
in the line of his profession-but in re-
spect to matters ecclesiastical and theologi-
cal, as between him and God, under the
influence Of the prejudices of education
we muststill give our suffrage to the latter
Year: 1864

Summer had come, robed in her beauty,
Sunlight decked this world of care;
Birds their songs of gladness warbled,
Beauty sparklcd everywhere,
But, upon a couch of suff ring
Gentle Mary. moaning, lay,
Wasting meath the breath ofsickness,
Sinking meath its dread decay.
Two long years had Deaths dark shadow.
Hovered round that once glad home,
As if 10th to set his signet
On that brow where beauty bloomed:
But in brightness, just as daylight
GIlded first the orient morn,
Came group of unseen angels,
On the gentle breezes borne,
Floated in with noiseless motion
To the couch where Mary lay,
Maniled meath their snowy pinions-
See them bear her far away.
All there's sadness in that household,
Lone and bitter tears are shed,
Young and aged weep together
Der the loved and silent dead.
And the mother l.neels in anguish,
Clasps her treasure to her heart;
Could she thus resign her darling
Oh could she and Mary part
All start not at her anguish.
Wonder moi that she should weep;
'Tis a mothers heart that's riven
For the child she could not keep.
Other children gather round her,
Bnt the Bond is broken now,
And the clouds of sorrow gather
Round each fair and Youthful brow;
And they listen for her footsteps,
As they did in days of yore,
But they weep as they remember
Gentle Mary III come no more.
Long, ah, long those walls will echo
To the notes of sorrows wall,
And full many heart of pity,
Listen to the mournful tale,
When the twilight shadows deepen
There III be sorrow in that home;
For a chair will then be vacant
To remind them she is gone.
Mourning hearts weep moi in sadness,
There is light amid the gloom,
She III be first to bid you welcome,
When your work on earth is done.
Year: 1864

The 20,GG0-Col. Coburn. The recen
call of the Governor of the several North
western States, approved by the President
is before the public. What these men are
wanted for may be inferred from passage
in the speech of Colonel John Coburn, the
distinguished commander Of the 35d In
diana, made night before last at Masonic
Hall. The Colonel said, in substance
The loyal mon must rally. The medicine
which was good for the rebels in the South
was good for the copperheads in the North.
There was danger that a disloyal Governor
mi ght be elected in Indiana. There was
danger that traitor who would make
terms with the rebels might succeed to the
Presidential Chair. To prevent such
things as these the loyal people were now
called upon"


We do the Colonel no injustice in Civ
ing his words nearly literally. What he
.ment can be Inferred b. those who heard
him and those who heard this truthful
statement.-I State Sentinel.
Year: 1864

In Ohio the machinery is prepared for
outrages at the next Presidential election
The governor under the twcnty-thousand
volunteer call rcndezy )used the Stale Ma
tional Guard at Columbus, and has since
furloughed them until their services are
wanted. They will be brought out at the
next election. and democratic voters win
have to march to the polls through files Of
bristling bayonets in the hands Of LOYAL
i.caguers,' and will not be permitted then
to vote unless they will take one Of Lin
coins test oaths If Morton succeeds in
getting his twenty y-thousand men, the same
thing will be attempted in Indiana-per
haps even if the twenty thousand do not
respond. We tell democrats now that the
chances are that they will have to fight
their way to the polls next October, and
they must feel it and know it, and be pre-
pared for it, The abolitionists in the
North h-west are making movements that viii
force That thing upon the balance of the
people We hope that God in his mercy
will intervene in some way and prevent it.
But if it must come, if it be forced upon us,
let it come-and may God defend the right
Liberty or death-a fair election or a free
iight.-Dawson' Times
Year: 1864




Genearl Rosecrans has decided that.
within the Departcment of Missouri, in
order to be permitted 70 attend religious
asscmblage or convocation, man must
take the oath of allegiance or give other
satisfactory evidence Of bis loyalty to the
Government of the United States.


These religious conventicles are we sup
pose, intended as means of grace to those
who attend them-the members imparting
to and receiving from each other, as they
may be respectively lacking or redundant
in the qualities which enter in to make up
the perfect christian character.


If this is the case, we find it impossible
to discover any sound reason for denying,
even to the unreclaimed copperhead, the
permission to attend them Ifthe:r intent
and effect IS as we have conjectured, it
seems to us that persons of reasonable
proclivities are the very ones who ought to
be encouraged to give their attendance:
that the doors should be thrown wide open
to such, and the utmost care be taken to
give them every opportunity to profit By
the exercises.


Ifthis is Gods war-if its beginning was in
a revival of the religious sentiment and
i's Prosecution the best modern exempli-
iica.ion Of the spirit of the Gospel, surely
nothing is wanting to a Christian whose
mind has not settled down in its favor, but
to bring him under the right Influences.
His soul detected, perhaps, by accidental
circumstances, may then recover its equi-
librium, and he who has hitherto been bar
rem, warmed by association with his more
perfectly rectifed brethren, may bud and
blossom anew, and bring forth fruit of the
most agreeable quality.


In looking for the reason which impcll-
ed Gen. Rosecrans to make the order n
question, we have been led to doubt whcth-
er it is not to be found in the absence of
true faith on his part. The act does not
manifest that implicit reliance ON the di-
vine character with which we have been
inclined to credit that officer. He seems
to fear:


Either that God will be overcome and
made TO change His mind in respect to the
merits of this contest, by few copper
heads that may chance to find their way
into his sacred premises;


Or, that the loyal Christians NAV be
turned over by Copperhead influence, and
be set to praying upon the wrong side OF
the question.


Or else he is in doubt whether God is
really OF his own party, and is afraid tc
have the question where he stands brought
to the crucical experiment.


At any rate-granting that the politca
questions of the times may come up for an
Interchange of views between the members
he is afraid to have the principles Of hi.
party exposed to the test of free discus
sion.


| 1t is evident by this that there are two
Year: 1864

So%,'Ja s'oi
These figures show startling result
They should be we'll considered The bal
ance Of trade to be paid in gold for the
first three months of the present year is
within fraction Of thirty-three millions
of dollars. How long could any nation
stand such drain upon its resources with
out national bankruptcy? And yet in the
face of figures like these, and with the in
evitablc result which must follow the pres
ent policy Of the Government and the in
dividual extravaganza OF the people, not
n thought is given to the matter by those
in authority. or any effort made to remedy
the evil. On the other hand five
wise Western Governors. to advance
schemes ofpersonal aggrandizement, have
contracted with Mr.. Lincoln, on their own
account, to Withdraw eighty five thousand
men from the Northwestern Agricultural
States, just ut time when labor is most
needed to pat in the spring crops and tend
and harvest the growing ones, without
which the people at home, the soldiers in
the field, and of course the government it
self must suffer. And five raise no sur
plus produce for expectation, we shall of
course have nothing but gold to pay the
balance of trade against us. What then?
Can it be otherwise than bankruptcy gen
eral and individual Stat Sentinel.


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