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Year: 1863

Ministers catch it sometimes as well as
other people: A minister was travelling
where the road was difficult to find and re-
quesied a man by the wayside to direct him;
naming the place where he wished to go


"Well," said the hedger and ditcher keep
on ust as you are now going, about mile
and a half; there, at the crossroads, you will
find minister, who will direct you to the
left a couple Of miles, and there at the fork
of the road you will find another minister,
who will direct you to the right about three
miles, and so oo; at every fork and cross of
the road is minister to inform you which
road to take


"Ah' says the parson, what do you call
minister's"


Why" says the other, "those things
which stand up at the cross and fork of the
road, with something like a hand on them


"Flnger boards, you mean; why do you
call them ministers?' said the preacher.


"Because the are always pointing the way
10 other people, and never 90 themseves!'
Year: 1863

rom the Richmond Schtno


The President tells he wants In his
agony appeals 10 the ladies' for help, and
grants general amnesty 70 all desertersadvcrtisng
the sad amnesty for twenty consecutive days In overy
newspaper confedeTacy at cost OF thousands qf
dollars General Lee appears To be Of the mind with
the President. He, too wants Ifc calls upon
all mis- officers Join their respective regiments
without moments delay and appeals to the people
OF the several States to send forth every capable OF
bearing arms One would suppose that two such high
authorities would be apt 10 know what they talking
about But the newspapers including the Presidents
dear organs, diligently engaged day after day
In assuring that the nkee draft IL dead failure
that the Yankee armies wasting away by disease,
desertionx and expiring cnlstments that Lees army
numerically than Meades; and hat Lincoln Is
his last legs, in a military point OF view.


Which are we 70 believe the President and General
Lee or the newspapers We can't believe both; for II
the newspapers 10 be needed there Is need for
another in armies. All that we have TO do is to
stand perfectly stil and Lincon's legions vanish
into thin Then will march to Boston without tho
slightest inconvenience or interruption; and will be
able TO do that next fall This is no time to triae with
the people. They not fools. their spirits
not 10 be kept by Conflicting statements They know
that the conscrption of sto forty Ave. and
the call OF the President and the appeal OF General Leo
do tally with the sangunc articles Of the
What they want de usye hepes, but tho
that the President intends 10 act with wisdom and
energy. We do want more men. The Yankees try
ing TO play another trick just before tho bnttle
OF Chancelorsvc they assured us that Rockers army
only seventy thousand strong and Just before Grant
captured Grand Gulf they assured that there would bo
no more general engagements during the war Reliable
gentlemen who through the Northwest brought
that peace and alliance with tho conledcracy
positively determined on.


They are try ing to fool us again. Reliable gentlemen
"iust returned from Washington' arrive almost daily
within lines, 10 that Meade Is srcccving
no renforcements except few negro regiments &c.
We have had enough OF this stun 70 satisfy tho ad
mnistration. This the calm before the Storm That
will not wait for the dog days to expire Meade is


first thing know Ice win be attacked both TANKS,
East Tennessee invaded by forty thousand and Mo
bile invested by way of Pascagoua. The house must be
set IN order and kept So for the storm Will soon burst IN
all its fury.
Year: 1863

TIE MUAFAEllSfsDRV hAA1A31.


An apology is due our advertising pat
patrons for the literally exclusive character
Of the news in our last issue, in our full
and graphic report Of the A1urfreesboro
battle, the length Of which crowded out
their {ayors intended to appear yesterday.
Our 1eaders will be interested to know that
the graphic report itself was sent to us by
telegraph from Cincinnati, three columns
and half in length, and the longest
special news dispatch eyer sent over the
wires in the Northwest. It's transmission
took place after one o'clock yesterday morn
ing, which will explain the fact that it was
incompletely giyenIin our earliest editions
for the country, a lack specially supplied
in them this morning,
Year: 1863

MELANCHOLY AocIDENr.-On Sunday last
a most melancholy accident occurred in
this place, in The accidental drowning Of
Simeon Harris, youth about eighteen years
of age. The particulars of this sad casually
are as follows: On Sunday morning, young
Harris, accompanied by younger brother,
went to the Dutch Flat Water company s
reservoir for the purpose of bathing; in
wadng out into the reservoir he accidently
stepped into ditch in the reservoir and
went down in water eight or ten feet deep,
and being unable to swim was drowned.
His little brother Immediately gave the
alarm, but it was too late to resustate him
when found. This will prove warning to
boys vino are in the habit of bathing in the
reservoir. His corpse was taken to Grass
Valley and there buried, the obsoquies were
conducted according to the Jewish faith.


Dutch Fiat Enquirer.
Year: 1863

SUSPENDED UNTIL AFTER ELECTION We
have the best authority for saying that Leo
nard SWEET told an eminent lawyer in San
Francisco, a few days ago, that the order for
the military seizure of the New Almaden
mines had not been Withdrawn by the Presi.
nent, but only suspended for the time being
Mr.. SWEET, it will be remembered, is the i'm
dividual sent out here as agent to take pos
session of the mine, and he doubtless knows
what be is talking about. He claims TO have
dispatches directly from the President We
demand in behalf of the people to know what
position the administration occupies in this
important ter.-MarpsvHle Express.
Year: 1863

ESCAPE OF JOHN II. GAss FROM THE JAIL
AT .SAoRAMENTo.-The Sacramento RepubH-
can Of 23d July says:


Johu II. Gass, who has been held here for
a long time on some bakers dozen of charges
of grand larceny and forgery, who made a
very fair attempt to escape from the Jail not
long since, and Notwithstanding an order
was issued previously for his removal to Au
burn he having been granted change Of
venue to Placer county, made his escape
from the county Jail on Sunday night How
the thing was effected is a mystery which is
being investigated by the Grand Jury. The
facts are that false key was found in the
door which opens from the Warden's office
into the Jail proper; that key was also found
that fitted the paddock which fastened the
door of his cell; that he had lately been
transferred from the cell in which he had
lately been confined to that which he occu
pied when he made the previous attempt to
escape. 1t seems that he passed directly
through the Warden's office, where Deputy
Wardens Mice and Lee and William Gordon
an attache Of the Water Works, were sleep
ing. 1t also appears that the flooring of the
Court room, immediately above the aisle Of
the prison adjacent to Gass's cell, had been
bored through with an augur, and portion
thereof, about ten inches square, taken up,
and sx-inch plank adjoining was also
bored through on one line. This was, doubt
less, done with the view Of enabling Gass to
escape in that direction, But further oper
alton in that respect we're discontinued prob
ably because there was still another plank to
to cut through below, or possibly because the
bird had flown. The escape is most dis
graceful to the officers of the prison-a
thing that they should have guarded against
with the utmost vigilance in view. of the
magnitude of the charges preferred against
the prisoner and his previous adroit and
nearly successful attempts to escape. The
fact that the Deputy Warders, one of whom
should have been awake and on duty, were
both ASLEEP, certainly requires explanation.
Probably the Grand Jury will examine and
report on these matters.


Gass was to have been transported this
week to to the Auburn JAIL for the purpose
of being tried in Placer County, for his of.
fences.
Year: 1863

Loss TO oPENNsYLvANIA.-It ia estimated
that the loss now sustained and that which
will necessarily be sustained hereafter, even
under the most favorable circumstances, by
the people of Pennsylvania in consequence
of the rebel invasion, will amount to fifty
millions Of dollars.
Year: 1863

IS A prominent republican, says the
Mountain Democrat, boasted on the streets
of San Francisco, few days ago, that if the
ber the next Legislature would pass an act
granting the right of suffrage to the negroes
Of California. This said he exultingly, will
secure the triumph of the republican party
at all future elections.
Year: 1863

A MINERAL CABINET FOR THE STATE AGRI
Cultural SocIErY.-The Secretary of the
Society has issued circular, expressive OF
the desire of the Society to collect together
specimens from all parts of the Pacific coast
and build up in their rooms, at Sacramento
City, a "Cabinet Of Minerals" which
shall be accessible to every citizen. 1t is an
enterprise in which all should be interested;
and every person is invited to contribute to
the enterprise by forwarding to J N. Hoag,
Secretary of the Society, at Sacramento
City; such specimens from different mines OF
the Pacific slope, as will illustrate the char
acter Of our mines. They can be sent free
by the different express and stage companies
Of the State, the Society having made ar
rangements to that effect.
Year: 1863

Eg- The following is an extract from
speech made by Mr. M. B. Lowry, member
of the Pennsylvania State Senate, at Loyal
League meeting in Philadelphia few even-
ings since:


"This war is for the African and his race
The six hundred colored men who have
recently fallen have elevated the race. For
all know, the Napoleon Of this war may
be done up in black package. Iaughter.)
We have no evidence of his being done up
in white one as yet. When this war was
no larger than my hand, said that if any
negro would bring me bis disloya mas,
ter's head | would give him one hundred
and sixty-three acres of his disoyal masters
plantation. daughter and applause) The
man who talks of elevating the negro would
not have to elevate him very much to make
him equal to himself"


To think that an audience of white men
could cheer and countenance the utterance Of
such sentiments! We commend this extract
to the Democrats who are tempted to ioin
this co-called Loyal League. To this com.
plexion would they have come at last.
Year: 1863

JUDICIAL ELECTION When the Consti
tuition Of the State was amended so as TO
disconnect the election of the Judiciary
from the election Of political officers, it was
the intention no doubt to remove the elecl
ton of Judicial officers as far as possible
from the influence of the political arena.
Viewing it in this light and for the purpose
of more fully complying with the spirit Of
our State Constitution, the Democratic State
Central Committee, which met in San Fran
cisco on Friday, the oath ult. passed a reso
luton recommending the Democratic editors
to withdraw the Judicial .ticket.from their
columns until after the political election in
September. 1t is very proper that it should
be DONE


The Sacramento Republican remarks upon
this subject


"The Democratic Convention did not
select their candidates for judicial Offices as
partzans or reward for partizan services,
but with special reference to their fitness for
the position as able jurists and unimpeacha-
bic integrity Of character. We have ample
time to discuss their merits between the
political and judicial elections, the candidates
in the meantime being left free to take such
part in the political election as their several
tastes or judgments may dictate without
the imputation of degrading the judiciary
by personal electioneering or canvassng
their own merits for a seat upon the Supreme
Bench. When the proper time comes for
discussing the merits of our several candi-
dates we have nothing to lose by comparison
with the candidates Of the oppositon; and
it is proper to say that the committee were
actuated to the Withdrawal Of these candi'
dates by no consideration of party policy,
but simply by the apparent propriety Of
their course in Difference to the clear mean
ING and intent Of the Constitution"
Year: 1863

MT. Dc Fontaine, the able and graphic army
correspondent Of the Charleston Courier. Pm.
SOME. delivered n lecture in til. Court House
On last Tuesday night. in this place. Much to
our regret We were unable to attend. We
learn from parties present that his discourse
throughout was entertaining, Interesting aud
instructive. lie touched upon the main causes
Of the war, Secession etc.-gave lucid and
graphic account Of the second battle Of Manas-
sas and sorre interesting details of the battle of
Sharpsburg; and occasional humorous anec-
dotes incident To the war. He wound up his
discourse by paying merited tribute to the
ladies OF the South for tho interest mapifested
oy them in our cause. The amount collected
from the audience in attendance was paid over
to the Treasurer of the Ladies Sewing Society.
Year: 1863

Mr.. ED1roR: 1t has been suggested by a
venerable patriot to force all spectators into
the army without regard to age This he thinks
would make them blessing instead of curse
TO our common country. lie also says that
speculation and extortion are now synonymous
terms and all thus engaged are only f t to stop
n ankes bullets instead Of the gallant noble
fellows who are daily falling in freedom,
sacred cause


CLDRIC.
Year: 1863

Near Cleveland lives hale and hearty
man whose wife says he is possessed of the
most sensitive feelings, and in proof of
which she states that when she goes into
the yard and saws wood for half day. he
sits by the fire with tears in his eyes.
Year: 1863

1t having been certainly known on
Thursday last tha! the editor of the Pilot
had received large majority fr School
Superintendent, a collection to procure
powder was Immediately taken up, and in
tie evening salute of thirteen guns was
;lrel-we presume in his honor. As all
the exertions for this purpose were made
by prominent Abolit,onists = ircluding
Tin Horn Smith, who acted as pgcder-
monkey-we are the more heartfelt crate.
inl for the compliment. We would. how
ever, prefer that the money used fer The
salute should be donated TO purchase flour
and FIRE wood for the benefit of some OF
our soldiers families, many of whom are
lily prepared for The coming winter.
Year: 1863

Five thousand one hundred and fifty emf
grants arrived in New York city last week,
and forty nine thousand six hundred and eighty
two have reached that port since January /.
Only twenty thousand six hundred and eighty
eight arrived during the same period last year.
This gain Of thirty thousand is an army in
itself. - ~ ~,
Year: 1863

'Tis writ Judge not, lest ye he Judged"
For oft mans erring mind
Ascribes an evil motive to


An impulse well designed;
The heart may be as free from guile
AS His in Eden born,
And pure its motive, good its aim
Yet never free from scorn
Likewise "Judge not lest ye be Judged
Taught He, whose holy mind
Well knew the weakness Of the heart,
It's ev'ry thought OWNED.
The understanding, he well knew,
In man, was weak and vain,
Obscured by selfshness and vice,
And false its every aim.
Therefore "Judge not lest ye be judged ~
For oft there underlays
A firm resolve to do a good,


Where vice may meet the gaze.
So Judge yet not-for only He


Can rightly judge the soul,
Who knows the motives, see the cause,
And can at will control.
Year: 1863

We do not die wholly at our deaths we
have mouldered away gradually long be-
fore Faculty after faculty, attachment
after attachment, disappear; and death on
ly consigns the last fragment of what we
were to the grave.
Year: 1863

A young man in California, whose friends
at home neglected to write to him for
long time, adopted the expedient of send
ing letters TO various business men in the
neighborhooj, inquiring the price Of land
and stock, what be could buy handsome
farm of two or three hundred acres for, etc,
intimating that he had large sums to invest
BY return mail he received no less than
seven letters, all aDxiously inquiring after
his health when he was coming home, etc
and he has had three or four by every mail
since, including some very warm ones from
an old and very cold sweetheart.
Year: 1863

The following letter from Mr.. Sumner
discusses with earnestness the propriety of
issuing letters of marque:


WASHINGTON, March II, 1868


Ny DEAR SIR: In the freedom of that
conversation which had with you as we
drove to the Capitol recently, allow me
for moment to speak again of the ques-
ton which interested us then. **


confess that am anxious that the
issuing OF letters of marque should be
avoided, not merely because it will give us
a bad name, without any commensurate
good, nor because it wonld be departure
from the only and often declared policy of
our government, which has not hesitated
by the pen of Benjamin Franklin and John
Quincy Adams, to denounce privateering
as an enormity," but because it does not
meet, in practical way, the precise ne
cessity of this time People who advo-
cate it are obviously misled by our expert
ence in another generation, when we were
at war with a nation whose commerce was
a temptation and reward to private en-
terprise. The case is so different now
that the old agency is entirely inappli-
cable.


The privateer cruises for booty, which is
instead of rations and pay to owners, Off
GERS and men. But if the booty does not
exist, or if it is in such inconsiderable
quantities as to afford small chance of val
liable prizes, it is evident that you must
find some other system of compensation;
in other words, you must abandon the idea
of private enterprise, stimulated and sus-
tained by booty. An agency must be en-
ployed which is applicable to the present
case-precisely as in machinery a force
must be employed best calculated to do
the work in hand.


Now our present business is to help the
government in capturing the Alabama and
her piratical comrades, and also to catch
blockade runners. But letter of marque
is not the proper instrument for this pur-
pose; nor will the chance of booty be the
best way to stimulate and sustain the
cruiser, while it is obvious that such ship,
invested, as it will be, with the belligerent
right of search, which for the sake ofbooty
it will be tempted to exercise on neutral
commerce, may become the occasion of
contention and strife with foreign powers.


Privateers have never been remarkable
for the caution or reserve with which thew
employed belligerent rights 1 would not
exaggerate the troubles which might en-
sue, but when I think of these sea rovers
now, with license to overhaul neutral
ships, and to infict upon them visitation
and search, l feel how much evil may en-
sue compared with the good. You would
not threaten whole street in order to
catch few robbers who had sought shell
ter in some of its recesses; nor would you
Year: 1863

circumstances. lie presented certificate
from the Warden of the State Prison riat he
had been convict in that institution on the
charge of felony, and had served out his full
term OF imprisonment. OF course, after such
an experience he Is exempt from serving in
So honorable-a position a. that Of soldier of
the Union Army Transcript
Year: 1863

q y 1lepatcn Wes received acre today
from Beaufort stating that our forces had
obtained entire possession Of Morn, Island


The latest intelligence received from tAe
cayairy expedition which left here on the
morning Of the 18th inst under Gen. Porter
states the extensive railroad bridge at Rock
Mount on the Wilmington and Weldon rail
road was destroyed, together with several
miles Of the railroad.


The resistance to the draft in New York
aud elsewhere by the copperheads has
aronsll the indignation Of the veteran troop,
in this department to an extent which knows
no bounds, and were it possible for them 10
BE- at the scene Of shame and anarchy they
wOald slaughter unfortunately alf whc
we're engaged in this attempt 70 overthrow
the Government.
Year: 1863

HYPocRIsY.-The Abolition organs and
speakers are constantly boasting of their
attachment to the Union. Possibly they
expect to deceive some body; but the
people generally understand what they
mean. The true test to apply ls-are
you for the Union as it wasP There can
be no other until it is established by the
civil action of the people. If it is insisted
that the Union is hopelessly destroyed,
then all of US are absolved from any alle-
glance to the Constitution or 10 any per-
sons who now assume to act under it as
"the Government" We do not say that
better Union may not be formed; but
we do say that no other Union shall be
dictated to US by the Abolitionists, and in
saying so, we express the sentiments oi
nne-tenths Of the American people. The
Union as it was, strong, free and prosper.
Gus, is all that the people desire, and they
will not permit the Abolition traitors to
destroy it and erect on its ruins militia.
ry despotism. Bayonets and bastiles
have no terrors for true Americans, as
the Administration will discover if its
tyrannies be persisted in.
Year: 1863

TIE revolutionary war was fought to
establish the principle of selfgovernment
upon the American continent. And now
that the principle has been in successful
operation for more than eighty years, re-
marks the Chicago Times, and it has been
conceded by the world that an intelligent
people are competent to govern them
selves, Abraham Lincoln and the Aboli-
tion party step into power and knock
down the entire public at one blow. They
declare in effect that the people are not
capable of selfgovernment, and forthwith
supply them with swarms of rulers of
their own appointment. Instead of being
controlled by their own State machinery
as of yore, every township in the loyal
States has now some Federal official, in.
vested with power over the liberty and
rights of the citizen as absolute as that of
the Gear Of Russia. The people have
given no evidence whatever of their want
Of capacity to manage their own affairs,
except the elevation of Mr.. Lincoln to Of
fee; and for this they have repented SO
long and SO bitterly, that they surely have
a right to hope forgiveness, and to ask
that these King Storks shall be taken
away. Carlyle's satirical epitome of the
American government can now be truth
fully applied, with but slight variation -
1t is little better than a street mob, plus
Provost Marshal.
Year: 1863

STRENGTH OF THE GovERNMENT.-Gene
raj Jackson, in one of his veto messages
in speaking of the strength of the General
Government, forcibly and truly said ats
true strength consists in leaving individ.
uals and States as much as possible tc
themselves; in making itself felt, not in
its power but in its beneficence; not in
its control but in its protection; not in
binding the States more closely to the
centre, but leaving each to move unob
structed in its own proper orbit."I
Year: 1863

Self-pOsseSsiOn, but recovered 1t before morn
ing. Another had his wits blown away. He
was found jumping up and down in his rOOm'
crying at the top of his voice for boat, bis
room having become rather damp and unPleAs-
ant by reason of the amount Of water that had
Aoated him out of bed. The most important
incidents of this disaster must remain unre-
cOrded-our space and your patience, perhaps
being exhausted.


ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.