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Year: 1865

ASswERED.-A few days ago we took the
ground that the Southern States couldn't have
been 10 and out of the Union at one and
same moment. A learned editor in Butte
county says they could. Such argument is
not TO be answered -MarysuHle Express.


The Express shows its good sense in dis
posing Of the question by SO short a method
AID not attempting to reply We propose for
The consideration of the Express that passage
Of Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address.
which reads: " We Che people Of the United
States) are all Republicans, we are all Fed
eralists." Did Jefferson mean that every man
10 the United States was at ",he one and
same time both Republican and Federal
hti The expression we are all Republicans.
we are oil Federalsts," standing by itself
would seem to affirm this And yet Democrats
have always taught that Republicanism. now
called Democracy and Federalism, are the an
iipodes OF each other. But perhaps Jefferson
was not SO much OF scholar nor so learned a
man as the editor Of the Express. who, if be
had been on editor 10 Jefiersous time, would
have made short work Of him by some vulgar
snub.
Year: 1865

CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE. Calayeras
Chronicle in noticing the large number OF
candidates for office in that county, gives the
following hint regarding their qualifications
That they should be long enough resident Of
the county to establish character That
they should possess and own some real estate
to establish and secure their permaueucy in
the county. The Chronicle thus wiuds up its
article upon candidates We have sent men
in early days, to the Legislature who never
came back to thank Us for our kinduess-we
may do so again
Year: 1865

RAnRoAp IN Mk1Ico-The entire leng h
of the new railroad between Vera Cruz and
Mexico will be three hundred and ffteer
miles, and the highest summit level eight thou
sand three hundred feet above the level of the
sea, being double the height of any other rail
road in the world it will have an incline o.
twenty-three miles, and grade OF two hun
dred and twelve feet per mile, on which the
curves have radius OF FIVE hundred feet
There is one bridge TO be built two hundred
and ninety feet high.
Year: 1865

UrPATRIorIc.-lt is unfortunate for Mexi.
90, says the Call, that her leading men fail to
comprehend the true spirit Of patriotism. II
does seem as if on every occasion the spirit oil
Action must crop out among the people Of that
unhappy country. Even now, when the Re-
public is beset BY determined foe, and the
liberties Of the people hang trembling in the
Balance. faction protrudes its hideous head.
General Ochoa and the Mexican Consul advcr
tire for Mexican loan, and show their powers
to negotiate it. General Vega and friend
come ont and deny that Ochoa has right to
negotiate loan, and assert that they only are
authorized TO negotiate it, OF course this &C,
sion Of General Vega is calculated to injure
the cause Of his country. by deterring those
from action who feel disposed, and have the
power to aid it. Such pst,y squabbling will
never get Maximilian out Of Mexicn. II Mex
leans would be free. they must lay all petty
jealousies and personal animosites on the altar
Of patriotism, and together put their shoulders
10 the wheel. The gods and men help those
who help themselves.
Year: 1865

A Big SeIDER.-A sudden panic fell upon


the worshippers Oh Easter Day in a large
church at Lisbon. An enormous spider was
suddenly seen 10 descend TO an ancient web
that is said to have existed for many years.
The creature was so formidable that the wo-
men began to scream. and scene of general
terror aud excitement followed. When cap
tured it was found to be. with legs extended,
nearly five feet long. and weighed six pounds
Year: 1865

will be in readiness for all to parake of that wish
National salute at sun down by Colonel Richeys
Artillery Company.


The exercises of the day will conc lude with
Grand Ball the proceeds of which, and any surplus
funds after defraying the expenses OF the day, Will
be appropr ia ted 10 the Improvement OF the road to
Honey Lake.


cordial invitation is extended to all TO partci-
pate in the celebration of our nations birth day.
BY order OF the Committee,


JAS YOUNG, Secretary.
Year: 1865

The following is to good to be lost.
We clip it from an exchange paper, and
respectfully call the attention to it of
several persons who feel disposed to spread
in the newspaper line:---


A young man, who ardently desired
wealth, was visited by his Satanic Majesty
who tempted him to promise his soul for
eternity if he could be supplied on this
earth with all the money he could use.
The bargain was concluded. the devil was
to supply the money. and was at last to
have the soul, unless the young man
could spend more money than the
devil could furnish. Years passed away
the man married, was extravagant in his
living built palaces, speculated widely,
lost and gave away fortunes. and yet his
Golfers were always full He turned
politician, and bribed his way to power
and fame, without "rducing his pile"
Of gold. He became "flbuster," and
fitted out ships and armies, but his banker
honored all his drafts. He went to Sr.
Paul to live, and paid the usual rates of
iutrest for all the money he could borrow;
but thought the devil made wry faces
when he came to pay the bills, yet they
were all paid. One expedient after an.
o,her failed ; the devil counted the time.
only two years. that he must wait for the
soul, and mocked the effort of the dispair-
ing man. One more trial Was resolved
upon--the man started newspaper
The devil growled at the bill at the end
of the first quarter, was savage in six
months, melancholy in nine, and broke
dead broke !" at the end of the year.
So the newspaper went down, but the
soul was saved. ....
Year: 1865

Never 60 to bed with cold or damp
feet.


Never sleep with the head in the draft
of an open door or window.


Never put on new boots in beginning
journey. ...


Never wear india rubber overshoes in
cold, dry weather.


Never si. for more than minutes at
time with the back against the fire or
stove.


Never begin journey until breakfast
has teen eaten.


Have an extra covering in easy reach
in case of sudden and great change Of
weather during the night.


Never deliver a speech under hoarse-
ness especially if it requires an effort or
gives hurting or painful feeling for it
often results in permanent loss Of voice
and lifelong invalidism.
Year: 1865

YOUR INTEREST is sUBsERvED
-. BY Sustaining Your County Paper
YOUR INTEREST Is SUBSERvED
!. u By Sustaining Your County Paper
YOUR INTEREST Is SUBSERvED


BY Sustaining Your County Paper
YOUR INTEREST is SUBSCRIBED
BY Sustaining Your County Paper
YoVk INTEREST IS SUBSERvED


By Sustaining Your County PaSas
Year: 1865

SUSTAIN YOUR COUNTY PAPER.


Patronize your County Paper
SUSTAIN YOUR COUNTY PAPER
Patronize your County Papen
SuSTAIN YOUR COUNTY PAPER.


Patlonize your County Paper,
SUSTAIN YOUR COUNTY PAPER


49, PatroLize your County Paper
SUSTAIN YOUR COUNTY PAPER


Patroniss your County Hnpa
Year: 1865

CAIRO, Oct 15-On the second day of the
trial of Emerson Etheridge, the accused, who
had been permitted to plead his own case, read
plea denying the jurisdiction of the Commits
sion, which the Court overruled upon which
Etheridge filed an exception to the ruling. He
then plead not guilty to all the charges and
specifications except the second specification
and second charge, to which he plead guilty
and the court allowed him to introduce the
whole letter from which the extracts was made.
This letter is known as the "Dresden letter, -
dated June 2S, in which he made the declara-
no semblance to civilized government State
or Federal, but a usurpation enforced by the
bayonets of the negroes. After some evidence
for the prosecution, the accused presented the
Court with a written statement, which admits
all the facts in the first charge, namely, the
encouragement of resistance TO the enforcement
of the laws
Year: 1865

HThe steamer Belfast, loaded with private
cotton, on her way from Demopolis to Mobile


was recently boarded by guerrillas, who COM
manded her to round to and surrender her
barge of cotton, and upon her refusal TO COM
ply. fired on her riddling the pilot house and
sending a number of bullets through the cabin


The passengers escaped by taking refuge be-
hind the cotton
Year: 1865

RThe Society for the Prevention of Pau
perism held a meeting at Boston last week and
reported two thousand five hundred and fifty-
nine applications for employment during the
past year, of whom one thousand one hundred
and forty -four had been provided with homes
and employmeut
Year: 1865

power and authority over the black man on mi.


continent has passed away forever. | want


Them TO Understand it is DESTROYED, and with il:


death the compromises Of the Federal Coustitu


ZION, the laws Of Congress, the black laws of the


late siaye States and of the free States. and all


'he political dogmas and ideas upon which the


system depended, must be numbered among the


things of the past


The Dred Scott Interpretation Of the Cous;i-


tution from the Supreme Court, under which
the negro has no political rights which white
man n bound to respect. goes with all the other
rubbish into the dumping ground Of slavery.
Immense cheering.) want them 10 understand
that their black code and their black laws and
all they have done to hold men in slavery was
abolished forever with slavery itself, and serve
here to-day notice upon them that have pre-
pared bill, which Iintend TO introduce. too,
on the hrst day Of the next Congress, for the
/ personal liberty OF every freeman on this conti-
nent, and want them 10 understand that be-
long to body Of men who are accustomed to
sleep on the field of victory-a class Of men who
accept the doctrines of the New Te.tament-who
accept as the living faith of the North Ameri-
can Republic, the Declaration of Independence.
class OF men who represent the principles Of
hoerty, OF humanity, of justice, and set Of
men who never were and never can be defeated


Nothing is more sublime than the record
OF the black man in his struggle. They
have stood by our brave soldiers and sailors
in the thickest fights. They have guided
them against the enemy They have
stood by our men when fugitiyes from starry
ing prisons and given them food. They
stood by the country faithfully in the hour
ot trial, and the country will stand by
them"


''lt is said if they possessed the right of
suffrage they would vote as their former
masters dictated to them If there ever was
an utterance that had not the scmblance of
truth in 1t, that is It, ! believe il the gov
ernment had told the rebels when 1t forced
them to lay down their arms that they must
do justice TO the negro and give him his
franchise, they would gladly have done it;
bnt am not here to find fault with the gov
ernment, and shall keep my faith in it until
1t Is roken. And believe the president of
the United States, who told the black man
in the capital Of his own Tennessee that, If
no one else would, he would he the Moses.
will be to hem what Abraham Lincoln
would have been TO them had he lived to
carry out his great and glorious principles.
understand the Southern white men saw
they hold the right of suffrage in their
hands. I want them to understand that
an act Of Congress prohibits them from hold
ing cfhces under the government, and until
justice is done to the negro those gentlemen
will 10 minus the Offices. Pardons won I
give them to them. | am not in favor of
compromises generally ; but we NAV accept
as compromise justice to the negro"


In conclusion Mr.. Wilson urged his
hearers to temperance, industry and ecomo-
my to educate themselves and their child /
rem to be an ornament and blessing to the |
Year: 1865

a Successful MEDICINE Scovi,'s Blood
and Liver Syrup has attained its present
unexampled reputation and popularity, not
by exaggerated statements OF imaginary
cures, but through the influence Of what
the community know by experience Of its
intrinsic merits in cases Of all forms Of Blood
Diseases, such as Scrotula, White Swelling,
Goitre, Erupticns Of all kinds, and other
diseases growing out of an impure stale of
the blood. This medicine is now used by
eminent physicians in oil parts Of the
country in their practice with great sue
cess


Reader, if you are afflicted with
any kind of eruption or humors, try this
medicine, and our word for it, you will be
satisfied
Year: 1865

CLoTHisG AND FURNISHING GooDs.-The
attention Of our soldiers is directed to the
immense assortment Of clothing and fur
nshing goods kept by Hess L Stern, in No.


. I'd st. No ether house in the city is able


to compete with them in good fits and low
prices. Give them call before purcha sing
Year: 1865

IL is true that in some Of the States
the demorahzing effects Of war are to
be seen in occasional disorders-"


Thesc effects are 70 Be seen in the
North as well Is IN the South


but these are local in character. not
frequent 10 occurrence, and are rapidly
disappearing as the authority Of civil
law is extended and sustained Per
picking questions we're naturally 70 Be
e1pected from the great and sudden
change IN the relations between the two
races but systems are gradually deyel,
0plng themselves uuder which the
freedman will receive the protection TO
which he is justly entitled, and By
means Of his labor make himself use
iul aud independent member Of the
community in which be has his home.
From al ihe Information in my posses-
sion, and from hat which i have recent
" derived from the most reliable Az
thoriiy, I am induced 70 cherish the
belief ihat sectional amin q iiy is surely
End rapidly merging itself into q spirit
Year: 1865

The people of this land are certainly dis
tlnguIshed, to an extent unknown in other
| countries, except perhaps Great Britain, by
! profaneness A stranger might infer from
the tone OF popular conversation, from the
| exclamatlons OF excited individuals, from


the clamors OF anger and passion, that we


acknowledge the Almighty for no other


purpose than that we might have name to
| swear by, or convenient expletive to fill up
the chasms of discourse. Profaneness is a


sin the enormity of which the imagination
| cannot conceive, because no thought can
compass the Infinite excellencies of Him
| whose prerogative it is to be who sits upon
| the circles of the earth, and the inhabitants


thereof are as grasshoppers who stretcheth
out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth
them out as tent to dwell in. That puny
creature Of the dust, borne to-day and gone
| tomorrow, should have the audaeity to


pour contempt upon that glorious name


which seraphs adore with rapture, is enough
to astonlsh the heavens and convulse the
| earth. Yea, still more astonishing Is that
| miracle of patience which endures the mon
| sters when one word would arm all nature
| against them, make the ground treacherous
| beneath them, heaven terrible above them,
| and he'll ready to meet them at their COM


ing. The magnitude of the sin cannot be


exaggerated. 1t is enough to make the
blood curdle, to think of the name of God


banded about as the bauble and plaything


of fools, to point a jest, to season obscenity,


and to garnish tale. This offence cannot


go unpunished. If there be God, he must


vindicate his own magesty and glory There


must be period when all shall tremble be-


fore him. when every knee shall bow, and


every heart shall do reverence. The sword


of justice cannot always be sheathed, nor


the arm of vengeance slumber. In the


sight of angels, there can be no greater sin


than that of profaneness. They know


eonaething of what God is They fear that


dreadful name, and their imaginations, lofty


and expanded as they are, cannot measure


the height and depth of that iniquity which


can make light of 50 tremendous being.


1t is the very spirit and core of all evil, the


quintessence of ungodliness. .-Anaerfcan
| Messenger.
Year: 1865

There are women who cannot grow old
women. who, without any special effort, re-
nam always young and attractive. The
number is smaller than it should be; but
there Is still sufficient number TO mark the
wide difference between this class and the
other. The great secret Of this perpetual
youth hes not in beauty, for some women
possess it who are not at all handsome nor
in dress, for they are frequently careless In
that respect, SO far as mere arbitrary die
tates Of fashion are concerned nor in hav-
ing nothing 20 do, for these ever Young wo.
men are always busy as bees, aud it il very
well known that idleness viii fret people into
old age and ugIiness faster than overwork.
The charm, we imagine, lies in sunny tenn
per, neither more or less-the blessed gift Of
always looking on the bright side Of life,
and stretching the mantle of charity over
everybody's faults and failings. 1t is not
much of secret but it is all that we have
been able to discover and we have watched
such with great interest and a determine
ton to report truthfufly for the benefit Of
the sex. 1t is provoking that it is some
thing which cannot be corked up and sold
for fifty cents per bottle; but, ,as this isimpos-
sible, why, the most of us viii have to keep
on growing old and ugly and disagreeable as
unsual. Jenny June.
Year: 1865

The comfort and happiness of home and
home intercourse, let me here say, depend
very much on the kindly and affecionate
training Of the voice Trouble, AID care,
and vexation will and must, ofcou1se, come;
but let them not creep into our voices. Let
only our kindly and happier feelings be vocal
II our homes. Let them be so if for no
other reason, for the little children sake.
These sensitive little beings are exceedingly
susceptible to the tones Let us have con-
slderation for them. They hear so much
that we have forgotten to hear For as we
advance in years, our life becomes more in
terror. We are abstracted from outward
scenes and sounds We think, we reflect,
we begin gradually to deal with the past as
We have formerly vividly lived in the pres
ent. Our ear grows dull to external sound
it is turned inward, and listen chiefly to the
echoes of past voices. We catch no more
merry laughter of children. We hear no
more the note of the morning bird. The
brook, that used to prattle gaily to US, rush
es by unheeded--we have forgotten to hear
such things. But little children, remember,
sensitive hear them all. Mark how, at ev-
cry sound, the young child starts, and turns
and listens And thus with equal sensitive
ness, does it catch the tones of human vol
ces How were it possible that the sharp
and hasty word, the fretfnl and complaining
tone, should not startle and pain, even de-
press, the sensitive little being whose harp
of life is so newly and delicately strung, vi
brating even to the gentle breeze, and thrill
ling sensitively ever to the tones of such
voices as sweep across it ? Let us be kind
and cheerful-spoken, then, in our homes. =
Once Month.
Year: 1865

There are two mistakes about it. One is
that which DR.. Watts mas sanctioned in his
celebrated lyric, that souls were paired when
sent into this world, and somehow have got
mixed and jumbled up, scarcely any one
getting his true counterpart, or having any
chance of doing so; and that hence are the
Earrings of the married state. many people
lay off their miseries Upon this mystic fatal
ism, and think, if they had only their true
partners, they should have been supremely
happy Now the truth is, there are no
persons but those regenerated or becoming
so who can be brought into any intimate re-
lation, least, Of all the most intimate, with
out drawing out all the mutual points of
repulsion in their character. =


We are not sent into the world paired
and nicely fitted to each other without any
agency of our own; we are brought here
with selfish natures to be subdued. and an
gelic natures to be unfoldea from within
and this done through constant watchings,
self-denials, and efforts. Let two persons,
then, with hearts intensely natural be
brought together in the most sacred of all
relations. They think they are matched.
They are so. But it may be either for a
draw game at self or for walking Gequis
passabus, on the heavenly road IF they be-
gin in earnest life of regeneration, intern
al evils, as they come successively into the
consciousness, viii be denied, and have all
their jagged points fled off and finally, will
be cast out entirely and whereas there
union at first might have been only external,
at length it may become so perfect, that fol
aught we know, they may only appear in
the spiritual world, as Mr. T. L. Harris,
says, like one person instead of two. Al
any rate they may become together a com
plete humanity halved and split in twain.


Or on the other hand, suppose regener


ate life does not begin, but selfish anc
worldly living rather. Then the jagged
points Of two selfish natures will begin t.
Year: 1865

general JAcKsoN's MoTTo. Think
before you act, but when the time for action
comes, stop thinking" This is the true
doctrine Many men fail In life and 20 down
to the grave with hopes blasted and pros
poets Of happiness unrealized, because they
did not adopt and act upon this motto.
Nothing SO prepares man for action as
thought; but nothing so lIl6ts q man for
action in the course Of action. Better by far
adopt some course and pursue it energetic
ally, even though it may not be the best,
than to keep continually thinking without
action. SO ahead, ought to be printed in
every young mans hat, and read until it
becomes part of his nature, until he can
act upon his judgment, and not be turned
from his course by every wind Of interested
advice. In conclusion, we would say,
Think before you act; but when the time
for action comes, stop thinking
Year: 1865

WgoM TO MARRY.-When q young
woman behaves to her parents in a manner
particularly afectionate and respectful, from
principle as well as nature, there Is nothing
good and gentle that may not be expected
from her, in whatever condition she may be
placed. Were to advise friend as to his
choice of a wife, my first counsel would be,
Look out for pious girl, distinguished fer
her attention and love to her parents The
fund of worth and affection indicated BY such
behavior, joined to the habits of duty and
consideration thereby contracted, being
transferred to the married state, will not fail.
as a rule, to render her amid, obliging, and
valuable companion for life."
Year: 1865

THE FIRST WOMAN From THE RIB OF
MAN. We take the following beautiful pas
sage from Matthew Henry's Commentary
on the second chapter of Genesis


Woman was made from RIB taken ont
of the side of Adam; not out of his head
to top him, but out Of his side to Be equal
with him, under his arm to be protected,
and near his heart to be loved.


Surely this eloquent little extract ought TO
be committed to memory BY every man who
Is married or inten ] to get married, 8 =
Year: 1865

CHARIrH.-Let my lips be sealed with
charity, that may open only for the good of
my nHighbors. Let my eyes be veIed with
charity, that they may rest on good, and that
wickedness may be shut from my sight. Let
charity close my ears to all unkind and ma
hcious slander. Let charity keep my hands
busy with profitable work, and my feet
turned in the path toward those whom God
hath given me power to benefit. May char


ity keep my heart from secret sin, from evil
'maginations, from the tempting whispers of
The evil one, So that shutting every door
against uncharitab,,eness, my soul may be
made strong in love to the Father Of all men.