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Year: 1861

Ones pleasure, alter all, is much afscte1
by the quality of ones neighbors, even
though one may no, be on speaking terms
with them. A pleasant bright face al the
window :s surely better than discontented
cross one and the house that has the
air of being inhabited is preferable TO closed
shutters and unsocial blinds, excluding
every ray of sunlight and sympathy. We
like TO see the glancing cheerful lights
through the window of a cold night, or
watch them as evening deepens, gradually
creep from the parlor 10 the upper stories
of the house near u.s. We like to watch
the little children 90 in or out Of the door,
to play or 10 school. We like to see
white robed baby dancing up and down
on its mothers arms, or the father reading
his Newspaper in the evening, or any of
those cheerful, impromptu home glimpses +,
which, though we are not Paul Pry, we will
assert, 60 far to make pleasant neighbor-
hood for comfort instead of show. Sad,
indeed, some morning, on walking, il is
TO see the blinds down and the shutters
closed, and to know that deaths angel,
while il spared our threshold, has crossed
that of our cheerful neighbor. Sad TO miss
the white robed baby from the window, and
see the little coffin at nightfsl born into the
house. Sad TO see the innocent little face
pressed at eventide against the window
pane, watching for the "dear papa" who
has gone to his long home.
Year: 1861

tbs Confederate postage stamp is green
with lithographic likeness of President
Davis, with double oval border, surmounied
with the inscription Confederate States of
America" Outside of the circle, and at
the head of the stamp is the word postage,
and al the lower edge it's denomination,
GIVE cents.n
Year: 1861

He who never forgeis his old friends and
cherishes his attachment for them as ever,
no matter how much time, space ,or fortune
have kept them apart, is one Of those rare
beings with whom God has endowed the
earth that society may not utterly wi,her
though the influence of ingratitude, selfish
ness, aud the incessant changes in life.
Year: 1861

BosToN Jan. S.


The inaugural message Of Gov Washburn,
Of Maine, to the Legislature of that State,
proves an encouraging view of the material
growth and prosperity OF the State. He re-
conmends conclisation and forbsa:ance. and
tokens Of good will towards the Sou h, which
no commotions should be ailo wed to interrupt,
and the setting of ourselves right in whatever
respects We may have been wrong, as the Of
fsrings which, a. good men and parrots, we
say upon the altar Of oar country. and in do
ing this We need consent to the abatement of
not one government or littls Of the principle
effirmed by the people at the recent election.
We will stand by the Constitution of our faith
ers-the Constitution as it is, and make no
compromise that would involve us in the guilt
Of moral treason, and justly render US the
scorn of mankind.


The Governor dsvotes . paragraph to the
subject of Personal Liberty Bills. recommend.
Ing the repeal Of any statutes which may be
found to be either unconstitutional or iustly
regarded offensive. but quite plainly implying
his conviction that Maine is not really . trans.
Qreseor in this reenect
Year: 1861

IF our business men would consult
their own interest they would literally pat.
ronize the printer. Try the experiment.


BUSINESS was rather active in town
Saturday. 4 good supply of produce came
pouring in aud trade was lively in its different
branches
Year: 1861

The Northern papers are getting despond-
ent of the prospect in Missouri. The Wash
ington Star thus speculates upon the next
news from that quarter:


Undisguised anxiety continues to be
manifested in military circles here relative
to the state of things in Missouri and Ken.
tuccky. The loss of Lexington, we hear,
has greatly increased the force of Price and
other disunion commanders in Missouri
the wavering having accepted it as an omen
of the eventual defeat of the Union cause
there. Previous to it Fremont was in
greater force throughout the State than the
disunionists. Its effect, however, has been
not only to lose him Mulligan's 900 men,
but to deter others (of MissourD from join
ing him, and to induce quite ten thousand
to Join the rebel commanders, who would
have done no such thing had Price been
unable to reduce Lexington.


Under these circumstances, and the gene
raj impression among the military men
that Fremont is not adequate to his COM
mand, the impression is rife here saht the
next advices of battle in that quarter will
continue unfavorable to the Union canse.
We state these facts in order to prevent the
Star's readers from becoming dishearteued
by any approaching result in that quarter.
Year: 1861

THE SPEcULAToRs.-"We constantly
hear of the operations Of the monopolists
of the articles of Bacon and Leather
They, and their agents, with the scent of
bloodhounds, smell afar of every pound of
bacon and leather which can be obtained,
and on which an extortiouate profit can be
made The State is thus; in its purchases
for the soldiers most grossly imposed upon
by these harpies."'


The above from the Raleigh Register is
as true as preaching not less true
than it is shameful, mean, and treacherous.
We have taken the pains to procure few
names of the above named class of coward
ly extortioners and money leeches, whose
names we mean to give to the public when,
ever favorable opportunity offers-at any
rate, we shall surely do it, when the war
ceases, in order that they may reap the just
indignation of our returning soldiers whose
comforts they have sapped and whose in
terests they have betrayed.-Sahsbury
Banner.
Year: 1861

1t is undeniable that there are men who
have taken advantage of these war times to
enrich themselves at the expense of the peo-
pie. The darling object with these sort of
men is to get rich, thiss is the acme of their
ambition, and the sum total of all their en-
deavors. They have no regard for man or
devil, only so far as they may be made tribu-
tary to these ends. They are the horse
teaches of the ody-politic-the vampires
of soclety-in whose presence widows weep,
and the wall of wretched orphanage is heard
in vain Their iron boxes are gorged with
gold and silver, aud this is the Ark of their
Covenant with He'll, and the depository OF
coinage from tears and blood. The laugh.
ing 6end keeps guard over these boxes and
bags of gold, aud grius horribly at the pres
ence of hollow-eyed penury. The beggar
is dismissed empty, with a grimace of which
hell is made ashamed, while the lean arms
of the 6end caresses the gold-like coiled
snakes in the darkness of his Infamous den.
Such an one is ripe for the flames Of the
pit, and should have the badge of damnabIe
doom nailed upon his forehead by the his
sing populace 1t is with shuddering feel
ing we think of such men our souls revolt
and We sparn them back as the refuse
and of-scourings of ation.-.Selma Ala
Jama RepuIic
Year: 1861

We commend the following we'll timed
article, from the Augusta Chronicle d Sen.
tinel, to the attention of all our readers
and more especially to our farmer friends.
The advice offered is worthy of the strictest
observance. Read, and at once resolve to
heed the patriotic admonitions of the wrl'
ter:


The people are just now beginning to
feel the effects, the hardships and trials OF
a state of war. We had hoped that before
winter the war would have been pushed to
a successful and glorious termination, and
there is still time enough and perhaps am
pie means at hand. We have larger
force in the field than the enemy, and his
enlisting has already been brought to a
stand still, while our men are still volun-
teering. The enemy must resort soon to
drafting, toa forced conscrlption, to ill up
ranks to half million, for he has yet not
much more than half that number in arms.
Perhaps he will be able to get the half mil
lion, perhaps not, but we should act as If If
he were certain to get them. And although
we are in superior force, and our men have
proved themselves Individually aud collect
lively the superiors of the Lincoln troops,
on almost every occasion, yet the look OF
things now is not promising for a speedy
close of the war.


If the war does not end, or the block
ade is not raised within three months, We
shall have hard times in real good earnest.
And we ought to prepare for the worst, tits
wise and prudent to do so, for if the best
come we shall still have lost nothing by
preparation for threatened evil. We should
study and practice encouomy in all things,
and make what We have got produce its
greatest benefits. With cotton a drug in
the market, We should eudeavor to supply
ourselves to the fullest extent with coarse
cotton goods. The little wool We have
should be husbauded, applied where it is
most absolutely necessity, for soldiers
clothing and covering; and we ought not to
kill the sheep for food, if we can avoid it,
when they are so valuable for wool bear
ing. We should use as little bacon as we
can we'll get along with, and be sure tc
convert all the spare grain and peas in tc
meat, for after bread that is the next great
need. 1t would be great hardship if the
negroes were deprived of bacon, but II
should be given them as spariugly as the
case will admit, while the white people
Year: 1861

except the soldiers ought to use none, if
they can get other meat.


We have large number of cattle, and
they can never probably he of more SER
vice than now. The fine grass of the sum.
ner has kept them in good condition, and
now, as soon as they run through the pea
fields, they ought to be killed, before they
begin to decline. 1t would be good policy
for nearly every farmer aud planter iu this
section to kill one.third of his cattle as soon
as fat, and the weather is such that they
can be saved, picked or dried. Where
the corn crop is abundant it would be ad
visable to feed them corn and fodder and,
oats, after eating out the pea fields, aud
thus increase the quantity of meat to the
fullest extent that grain can be spared for
that purpose. Let hogs follow the cattle to
eat up the waste. And the COWS may con-
tribute very largely to the food of family,
black and white, in the way of milk and
butter, if properly attended to- This has
been sadly neglected heretofore and those
who have never tried it have no idea of
how much value to family few COWS
may be, if properly fed and milked, to say
nothing of milk and butter and cheese for
market. Half an acre of good land, sown
thickly now with wheat in heavily manured
drills three feet apart, will give half a doz-
en- milch COWS great amount of good win
ter food. But if you want the very best
milk md butter that can be made, feed in
addition to the green wheat, good corn,
fodder, cut up with knife and placed in
tight barrel, on which pour boiling water
and cover with blanket, and to this add
four to eight pounds day Of pea meal for
each COW.


Wheat and other small grain should now
be sown as soon as possible, even to some
neglect of the cotton, which usually impedes
the sowing of fall grain. And we would urge
upon all that they SOW largely, and on good
land, and with as thorough preparation
and good manuriug as can reasonably be
given. Food is always in demand, and
likely to be more so in the future than the
past, so that tits no danger of over-stocking
the market, not even if grain were grown
to the entire exclusion of cotton-though
that is not recommended. With the large
sowing of grain last fall and the bountiful
harvest, and with the extra crop Of corn
planted and good returns, we still see food
of all kinds high, and it will probably re-
main so. Then, by all means, put in large
crops of fall and winter grain as soon as
can be conveniently done.


We have gone into this contest to win
each one of US has all he is, or expects
to be, staked on the result. And though
we may not have comprehended fully all
fae evils and hardships which may befall
US before we get through it, yet we must
bear them bravely and nobly, and never
despair nor repiue. Unless we can bar
any and every evil probably in store for
us, We neither deserve our liberty, nor are
we made of the stuff which can long main
tain liberty and free Government And
with all the discomforts around US, and
looming up in the near future, let US nerve
ourselves to bear them, and let US labor too
aud set our invention to work, to turn the
evil into present and future good.
Year: 1861

Resolved, That the planters Of Washing
ton county will not sell one pound of their
cotton at any price to such agency.


Resolved, That we will regard all per.
sons acting as such agents, as the agents Of
Lincoln and his despotic coercion Govern.
ment, and we will do all in our power to
bring such persons to punishment for thus
aiding and abetting the enemy"
Year: 1861

The SITUATION IN KENTUoKY.-It
would seem from present indications, that
Kentucky is to be principal theatre of
the war, so far as inland operations are
concerned. Last advices represent that the
opposing forces are concentrating there, and
the probability is, that in very short time
a decisive engagement will take place in
that State, when every true man within the
border will rally to the standard of the Con-
federate States. In the person of General
Albert Sidney Johnston We have leader
of undoubted military ability. With the
disposable force which he has at his COM
mand, he will be able, not only to fight on
the defensive, but should the occasion
make it necessary, he will carry the war
into the enemy's country, and transfer the
scene of battle from Kentucky to the North
western States. This would be fine coun-
try to quarter large army, provisions be-
ing cheap and plentiful In every respect
the aggressive is the true policy for our
Government to pursue. If we make the
present a defensive war altogether, it is
simply obvious that it is uncertain when it
will terminate. .-Rtchmond Examiner.
Year: 1861

The man everybody likes is generally a fool.
The man nobody likes is usually a knaye. The
man who has friends who would die for him, and
foes who would love to see. him boiled alive is
usually man Of some worth and force.
Year: 1861

Ye would sever the Union-but can ye undo
The relation of brother to brother2
Ye may coldly regard him, and SANDER him TO
But when sorrow o'ertakes him, your heart


will be true
To the love ye once bore him, when together


ye grew.


In peace by the side of your mother
Ye would sever the Union-bnt can ye untwine
The numberless ties that have bound you ?
Like the threads of creeping and delicatevine,
They have silently spread, in the rain and in


the shine,
Till, when ye would burst them, each gossamer
Turns to cord and to cable'' around you !!
Ye wogld sever the Union-whatl ye who were


nursed s
In the arms of so holy Mother :?
Would ye dare to pronounce her astray and


accursed,
Who rocked you to sleep in one cradle at first
Who shielded your head from the storm when


it burst


And never gave the charge to another
Ye would sever the Union-but can ye forget
How your Fathers, stood shoulder to shoul-


der?
How like one, in privation, their stern hearts


were set,
How like one, in the conflict, our foemen they


met.


How like one, they melted by sorrow. and yet
How in danger grew bolder and bolder.
Ye would sever the Union-but will ye divide
The flag of our freedom and glory?
It waved DER the field where our forefathers


died


Their children unfurled it with reverend pride /;
And whose shall the task be to throw it aside,
And tell the sad nations the story
Ye would sever the UniOn-but who then shall
The grave of our country's defender2
Will the North and the South fan the fuel to


fame.
And fight Ger has ashes, whose glorious name
As watchword of Liberty, Justice'and Fame,
We would su sooner die than surrender
Ye would sever the Union but wo to the day
When ye mingle in council no longer
What shall keep rulers from deadly affray
What love shall be potent the people to sway
Ye shall find yourselves powerless the torrents


to sway,


Of hate and the right of the stronger!
Ye would sever the Union-our Union and


why?


Short and few are the words of the reasonl
The North thinks the South should adjure sla-
The South thinks the North does not tenderly
To view ell her deeds with unprejudiced eye,
And each finds q refuge in-TREAsoN!
Judge not, that ye be not judged. ."-Leaye


unto G


The right Of condemning your brother;
Until like an owner, ye stand on his sod F.;
Until your feet in his pathway have trod;
Uutil you are scourged, both alike, by the rod,
Never dare to pronounce on another.
But cherish the Union-with heart and hand,
As ye cherish your home and your altar
Through the length aud the breadth Of our


wide-spreading land,
Alone by the eye of omnipotence spanned,
Rise up on your strength, and the craven with


stand,


Who dares to dissemble and falter!
Ifye sever the Union, then Liberty dies,


To restore her-in vain they endeavor
She will soar to yon distant and cloud-mantled


skies;


And in vain will the world lift its questioning


eyes
She will not be moved by rs grief or surprise !;
Once mute, she is silent forever!
Year: 1861

BY JAMIE TYLER.
You will come again, lady?'
Would you really like for me TO eomeP
I said as bent over the low bed.
Il will die if you leave me now.
Then | shall come; but now it is time to
retire-a nights rest will do you aworid OF
good
Year: 1861

One day last week, we happened in the Guar
termaster's Office in this place, when one OF the
most respectable farmers Of the county stepped
in and enquired if gun could be furnished fol
his son, who was going out to join the Church
vile Cavalry. Some one present asked if anoth
er son belonging to the same company had not
been killed by the enemy at Rich Mountain
eyes, said the gentleman with emotion, 'sand
his brother goes to take his place." The gur
was promptly furnished. 1t is unnecessary to
comment upon such an incident, but we take the
liberty Of adding that the gentleman alluded to
is Mr.. James Wilson, who, while bis heart is still
bleeding for the loss of one son, sends forth an
other to risk his life.
Year: 1861

THE COUNTRY EDITOR.--The editor of the
Mountdn Messenger, one Of the very best Of our
Interior exchanges, thus speaks OF the labors Of
the mountain editor. After referring to the
number OF persons usually employed on the daily
Journals, he continues " How is il with the in
terror journals? Why the individual known as
editor has TO be one of general usefulncss-hc
must set type assist in doing job work, scissorize
and write by candle light discharge his duties
III the cooking department, travel over the noun
talns on foot, (he cannot often indulge III the
luXnries of a mule rde,j do his own cOllec ting,
aud travel about during spring and summer to
collect mining items for his little paper. Now
we do not pretend to assert that every country
editor performs all the labors above enumera ed ,
but majority OF the mountain editors do. We
will venture the opinion that there are not ten
interior journals in California now employing
each person to do the editing alone-in fact we
do not know of one mountain paper in the State
that could afford TO employ man for the sole
purpose of editing. Economy is quite necessary
IN the business of publishing a mountain paper
II success be attained, and many ghastly newspa-
per corses in this State annually are but proofs
that rigid economy must be practicpd to prolong
newspaper life. Those who think the local paper
trivial affair, and begrudge their mite of sup
port TO II, have very indefinite idea of its i'm
portance in the trouble incurred in publishing"
Year: 1861

Notwithstanding the enormous amount
ofsiver which the mines of Peru have
yielded, only very smaIl portion Of the
silver mines have been worked. II is we'll
known fact that the Indians are aware of
the existence of many rich mines, the stu
alton Of which they will never disclose.
Heretofore, mining has been to them all
toll and little profit, aud il has bound them
in chains from which they cannot easily
emancipate themselves For centuries past
fhe knowledge of some of the richest silver
mines has been, with inviolable secresy,
transmitted from father to son. All en-
deavors to prevail OH them to divuIge these
secrets have been frutless. Ia the village
Of Huancayno there lived a few years ago
two brothers, Don Jose and Don Pedro
Yriarte, two Of the most eminent mineros
Of Peru. Having obtained certain inform
alton that in the neighboring mountains
there existed some veins of pure silver,
they sent young man, their agent, to en-
deavor TO gain further knowledge on the
subject. The agent took up his abode IN
the cottage of shepherd. TO whom, howev-
er. he gave not the slightest intimaion OF
the object Of his mission. After little
time, an attachment sprung up between the
young man and the shepherds daughter,
and tic girl promised to disclose TO her low
er, the position of very rich mine. On
certain day. when she was going out to
tend ber flock. she told him to follow at a
distance, aud to notice the spot where she
let drop her manta by turning mp the
earth on that spot, she declared he would
find the mouth of mine. The young man
did as be was directed. and after digging
short time, he discovered . mine of consid-
cradle depth, containing rich ore. Whilst
be was engaged in breaking out the metal,
he was joined by the girls father who ex-
pressed himself delighted at the discovery,
and offered to assist him. After they had
been at work for some hours, the old In
dian handed to bis companion cup of CHI
cha. which the young man thankfully ac'
cepted. But he had no sooner tasted the
liouor than he felt ILL., and he soon became
convinced that poison had been mixed with
the beverage he had tasted. He snatched
up the bag Of metal he had collected, mount
ed his horse, and with the utmost speed
rode off to Huancayno, where he related
all that occurred, described as accurately
as be could the situation of the mine, and
died on the next day. Active measures
we're Immediately set on foot to trace out
the mine, but without success. The Indian
and his family had disappeared, and the
mine was never discovered.
Year: 1861

"BENEFACToR OF THE WIDOWS. ."-Buchan-
an on his retiring to private life. in his
speech at Lancaster, said: "I come home
to pass the remainder of my days among
you as o good citizen, faithful friend, an
adviser to those who need advice, and q
bcnefactor to the widows and fatherless"
We hope our venerable Ex-President will
have better success taking care of the wild
,ws and fatherless than he had running the
United States Government.
Year: 1861

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN the undersigned viii apply to the Board Of SUI
pervisors of this county on the first Of May, or
soon thereafter as hearing be had for renew
al of license to collect toll trail and bridge across
the Middle Yuba opposite Orleans Flat and also for
trail and bridge opposite snow Point.


apr6 4wpd H. DIEVENDORFF.
Year: 1861

/ gentlemen such hunts are not uncommon
when a tiger is rash enough to attack the
young babeons, which often happens. Al
! these creatures for miles round, assemble and
pursue their enemy with relentless fury to his
death. Sometimes The chase lasts for days;


but it invariably elos.s with the destruction OF


the tigsr-s striking instance that the ides Of
retribution is not confined to man alone.