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Year: 1865

.G1Credlt never permits man TO
know the real value of money, nor
to have full control over his affairs.
It presents all his expenses in the
aggregate and not in detail. Every
one has more or less of the miser's
love of money-of the actual gold
pieces and the crisp bank notes,
Now, if, you have these things in
your pocket, you see them as you
make your purchases, yisibly dimin-
ishing under your eye. The lessen
ing heap cries to you to stop. You
would like to- buy this, that, and the
other; but you know exactly how
much money you have left, and if
you go on buying more things your
purse will soon be empty. You do
not see this when you take credit.
You give your orders freely without
thought or caleulatioh; riand! when
the day of paymens'eomes, you find
that you have oyerrun the constable.
On every hand we see people living
on credit, putting off payday to the
last, making in the end some des-
perate effort either by begging or
borrowing, to scrape the money to-
gether, and then struggle on again,
with the canker of care eating at
their heart, to the inevitable goal of
bankruptcy. If people would only
make push at the beginning, in.
stead of the end, they would save
themselves all this misery. T. The
great secret of being solvent, and
well to do and comfortable, is to get
ahead of your expenses. Eat and
drink this month what you earned
last month-not what you are going
to earn next month. There are, no
doubt, many persons go unfortunately
situated that they can never accom-
plish this. No man can guard against
ill-health; no man can insure himself
o well-conducted, helpful family, or
a permanent income There will
always be people who cannot help
their misfortunes. But, as a rule,
these unfortunates are far less trouble
to society than those in better po-
sition who bring their misfortunes
upon themselves by deliberate reck.
lessness and extravaganza. You
may help a poor honest, struggling
man to some purpose. But the ut
most you can do for an unthrift is
thrown away. You give him money
you have earned by hard labor-he
spends itin pleasure which you have
never permitted yourself to enjoy.
The best pleasures-those which
sweeten life most, and leave no bit
terness behind-are cheap pleasures.
What greater pleasure can man en-
joy than the sense of being free and
independent The man with his
fine house, his glittering carriage,
and his rich banquets, for which he
is in debt, is a slave, prisoner, for
ever dragging his chains behind him
through all the grandeur of the false
world through which he moves
AUthe Year Round. .. et in.1
Year: 1865

ALL PERSONS DESTROYS OF ENTERING


II into business in a new and rapidly growing
town, or such as wish 10 build private residences
and secure homestead in o quiet and healthy To-
cation, are advised to ride or walk out to .....
Year: 1865

We have received an able argument against
the power of the state to tax, and as it comes,
not from a millionaire, but rather from one
whose profession is such that it may reason
ably be supposed he can hardly keep body
and soul together in a decent suit Of clothes
from one who is more concerned about the
morality of the thing, and true christian
charity to the soldiers and widows and or
phans who have little sums invested in bonds,
we have been strongly disposed to publish
it; but as an able committee Of the House
has been charged with an examination Of the
question, we prefer at least to wait, making
two suggestions lst, the U. s. supreme
court decided long ago that the states
cannot tax the loans of the U. SD Peters
449, 465 and I'd, that no tax can be imposed
by the state on money invested in U s.. bonds
or national banking capital, unless authorized
by act of Congress. We therefore refer all
concerned to the several acts authorizing
bonds, and to the banking act.
Year: 1865




We we're 10th to believe the statemen
that Vice President johnson had per
formed his part in the Inauguration cere
monies in . condition Of beastly intoxica
tion, but it seems there is no doubt Of the
fact. And whatever circumstances o
mitigation may be sdducsd, nothing viii
be produced in justification Of SO gross
an outrage.


Andy johnson is one of the most geni'
al, whole-souled men we have ever had
the pleasure of knowing in public life, q
man of noble impulses and fearless devo-
tion to his country and to the right. He
has made his way up from poverty and
obscurity to seat in Congress. to the
chief magistracy of his own State, and
finally to the second Office in the gift of
the people of the United States. His in
tellect must have been unclouded, his
habits good, and his industry and perse-
verance untiring through all the years Of
his early and most of the years of his
public life, or he would long since have
fallen by the way, in the prosecution of
the herculean efforts attending such
achievements. He was long time the
Democratic Senator in Congress from the
State of Tennessee, and during all that
period we never heard whisper of drunk
enness against him. At the outbreak Of
the rebellion be adhered to the cause Of
his country and exhibited the most lofty
patriotism and the most earnest self
ton. and the country is greatly indebted
to him for his efforts and influence in be-
half of the Union cause in it's darkest
hours.


1t is bat recently that intimations have
been bruited abroad that he was addicted
to drinking 10 excess. He has fallen.
But he is man Of sense and of resolution
and it is to be hoped that his fall is not
irretrievable. And whatever may be bis
fate. msy we not hope that the outburss
of indignant condemnation which has
greeted his fall the country over, may ar
rest the footsteps of many of the promi.
nent public men of the land whose habits
are even worse than Johnson's, though
fortune has thus far spared them SO ig-
nomipious an exposure. Let the warning
not be lost on younger men and men Of
40 special influence. who are just begin
ing to indulge in an occasional drink with
friend, or an occasional social spree, for
although they may never reach Johnson's
high position, yet they have entered on
the pathway which leads to similar dis
grace and will eventually overwhelm
them with like contempt in the circle in
which they may chance to move.


Aud now, while one of the political
parties Of the country is exalted to most
unaccustomed state of indignant and tri-
umphant virtue in view of rare example
of intoxication in the case of dis
tinguished leader of the opposite party,
and the other feels chagrined and humili-
ated, let us unite in cul,ivating public
sentiment which shall in the future pre-
vent the possibility of similar demonstra-
tra,ions on the part of our public men.
Year: 1865

In accordance with time-honored usage
for which we have the highest respect, we
shall not issue the COURIER on the coming
week, except so far as is necessary 10 give
our legal advertisements proper c'reuia'ioh.
A half sheet will do that. The time thus
Gained We shall devote to settling up the busi-
ness of the past year. We are going to pay all
we owe ON the first day of January, and we
most sincerely hope that all our patrons will
do the some thing. It wild save us much
,rouble. YOU know. The sums due US are
sn,ol,-but numerous. The aggregate Is
buoe and so is our family and responsible
ties Our friends can, by promptly coming
10 time make US easy in our boots, in our
business and family responsibilities, and we
hone this gentle insinuation will be deemed
sufficient by all to justify them in coming for
wa,d and rendering unto US the sums they
know to be due. Do it, and we hereby
pledee ourselves not to get mad, but 10 tako
and receipt for the same with smile most
beaming.
Year: 1865

The Union party stands redeemed from
factious Influences. The sober second thought
Of this great patriotic political organization,
numbering IS it does the true lovers and
well wshers Of the Government, has, by its
representatives in the Legislature, admins
tered to factions dic.ators and would be
leaders rebuke that we hope will be long
remembered. For some time before the last
election the organization of the party seemed
in danger from the selfish action of men who
aspired to high positions through its intlu-
ence. The masses were treated like cattle
in the market. Money and promises of place
were freely offered for their purchase, and to
judge from the tone of party organs, they
could and would be bought The sufferers
are the corruptionists. The gamers are the
people, whose representatives have so nobly
discharged their duties, electing to the United
States Senate man who then and now stands
a representative of the whole Union party.
knowing no north, no south, no east. no
west, no " long" no g short" He advo
Gated the right, nor sought to destroy the
party by creating faction personally attach
ed to himself by the hope of Office o. money
Boldly and honestly he stood on the whole
platform of the Union party, willing to abide
the judgment of his country in deciding upon
his merits.


We congratulate Mr.. Cole upon his success

and more heartily, if possible, we congratu-
late the Union party upon its redemption
from the stigma cast upon it in the assertions
of the opposition and the acts of factonists.
The Sacramento Bee, in the course of an ar
ticle on the Senatorial election, says


The election of Cornelius Cole as the sue
cessor of Senator McDougall in the Senate of
the United States will be the means of con
solidating the Union party of California
Being himself neither the representative nor
advocate of faction but on the contrary,
the champion of the whole party, and the
rights of every portion thereof, he cannot but
frown upon all attempts to maintain present
scaisms or to create new ones, and his influ-
ence will be exerted to the healing of local
divisions, and building up in more than pris-
tine yigor the great party of he nation.
Year: 1865

ANOTHER NJ URDER.-Last night about
twelve o'clock cold blooded murder was
committed at the Nine Mile House, on the
Shasta road The name of the murderer is
George B. Gudgel, and thatPof the murdered
man is David Saulsman. We are indebted
to Deputy Sheriff Cushing for tine following
facts It seems that the two men had been
drinking somewhat during the evening and
at the hour above mentioned proposed to 60
to bed when some words ensued. Saulsrnan
struck Gudgel in the face with his open
hand and made for the water bucket-Gud-
gel thought he was going to kill him, and
he seized his rifle which was standing in a
coruer loaded. and took aim and fred, the
bali taking effect near the back of the ear
There was no one present in the room. -
Gudgel told Mr. Cushing that he started in
to do it and had done it damned well. He
also said that there was no use in wounding
a man, as there was no telling the conse-
quenccs afterwards. When the inmates Of
the house were aroused and saw what was
done, D. b. Matlock, who was stopping at
the house, made the murderer sit down in
chair and kept his pistol drawn on him for
nearly six hours until the'officers arrived
The coolness and careless manner of the
prisoner when taken in charge by Sheriff
Smith, was remarkable, and it was not until
he reached the cell in tt e jail that he fully
realized his position.-R. B. independents
Year: 1865

PERsoNAL.-Mr. Louis Laventhal and
wife will leave our town on Sunday morning,
to take up their residence at San Francisco,
where Mr.. u. will employ himself in import
ing goods direct from the East for his store
here, which he leaves in charge of his brother
Sam, whose recent m.sfortunes have com
PEELED to go out of business for time. Mr..
L. says that by this new arrangement be can
keep up much more desirable assortment
for his customers to select from. and at lower
rates than now.
Year: 1865

THE AMERICAN Fl.AG.-A very good name
for a newspaper that advocates the integrity
and unity of the Nation and Of the Union
party. 1t will not do for a paper that would
weaken both by creating third party, the
effect of which could only be the weakening
of both to the advantage of none but the
Democratic party. No paper should adyo
cate measure of the kind with such sig
nal at its mast head. The Flag" means
if it means anything, the whole Nation. Nc
party that selfshly seeks its own aggrandise
ment is entitled to any such name To sc
use it is desecrcaction.
Year: 1865


above as saved to the county, and we have
the snug little annual saving of 81 .o25 Pa
sum that would pay the county debt in less
than seven years.


A law in accordance with the suggestions
given above would, we believe, meet the ap-
probation and approval of nineteen -twentieths
of our citizens.


The Red Bluff Independent: Quincy Union
and many other journals are advocating re-
trenchmcnt; and many of them Il law that
shall take effect Immediately. Such legisla-
ton we are opposed to. The present incum-
'bents-we mean those elected at the last
election-bave spent their time and money IL
good faith, and all who are elected should be
entitled to enjoy the prize for which they
contended and were fortunate enough to win.
While we would oppose any measure increas-
ing the emoluments Of any Office we would
in like manner contend against reducing the
value CT vacating of any such. Let the law
be made for the next election, and then none
can complain of unfair legislation.
Year: 1865

A HORRIBLE Story, BUT TRUE ONE.-We
have Just learned the particulars of one Of
the most horrible outrages that has ever been
perpetrated in any community, and we very
much doubt if another person could be found
in the world who would be guilty of a sim
liar action. Some weeks ago, when the
smallpox was prevalent in this city man
was taken down with it at a hotel; 1--WE re-
frain from giving the name at present, as the
matter will come before the Courts shortly.
and we co not wish to create prejudice in
the minds Of our citizens J after the pustules
made their appearance, and the case became
we'll marked, he was sent to the Small-Pox
Hospital Shortly afterward, woman and
her child were conveyed to the same insti.
tuition from the same hotel, both suffering
from continent smallpox. So severe Was
the disease that the child died in a few days.
and the mother. though she recovered, was
horribly disfgured by the marks. After she
had partially recovered, she ono day fell
into conversation with the gentleman, when
he incidentally asked her where she con-
tracted the disease. She replied, g. At the
- Hotel" Why, that is the same
house in which | was taken sick, was his
reply. The two then compared notes, when
the lady learned that the gentleman was re-
moved from the house at two o'clock one day,
and she placed in the same room whence he
was removed, at three o'clock of the same
day, and before the room had been fumi
gated, or eren the sheets upon tile bed chang
ed. As natural consequence, both the
mother and child contracted the disease
and it would have been miracle if they
had not. a week or two ago, the lady was
discharged from the hospital, when she con-
suited an attorney relative to bringing a
suit against the proprietor of the hotel, and
the complaint is now being prepared. The
case is one that is too horrible 10 comment
uDOn-CQW
Year: 1865

CoLD.-During the past week it has been
colder than ever before known in this place


Nearly all the water pipes leading water
from the hills were frozen up, and in
many places burst. Pumps were victimized
by Jack Frost, and rendered useless, much to
the damage and inconvenience of their own
Year: 1865

HIcuLAND.-Ttis company cleaned up last
Saturday, after two weeks run, and sent to
the mint for coinage the snug little sum Of
S4052. Guess this company must have struck
alkali water
Year: 1865

TIE ExamineE man tells of the morality
and virtue of Virginians. The Inference is
that all the mulattoes they used to sell South
grew on the plantations like SO many mush
rooms. We never saw the curious fact pub
lished
Year: 1865

A Coop CHRIsTIAN-l1e thirsteth for the
ID of God as given in the Holy Bible We


better Christian in Shasta than we


Of elsewhere. lie proved his great


on to the teachings of Christ by stealing


he book store of Mr.. Manasse a splen-


~ of the Holy Work, that he might
read and become assured of a happy future.
Read the Ten Commandments. and smuggle
the book back to the place from whence you
won" it, my dear sir, and nothing more
your name and pety may be coupled in this
connection unless the book is found on some
fine day laying around loose in the store.
Year: 1865

Meeting OF the Medical ProfessiOn.
large meeting of the medical profession Of the city
was held last Saturday evening at the College Of Physi
clans and Surgeons aud resolved 10 wear the usual
badge OF mourning the left during the space of
thirty days.
Year: 1865

4 mother teaching her child to pray. is an
object at once the most sublime and tender that
the imagination can conceive. Elevated above
earthly things, she seems like one of those guar
dian angels, the companions of earthly pilgrim
age, through whose ministration we are melted
to good and restrained from evil The image
of the mother becomes associated in his mind
with the invocation she taught him to his Faith
or Who is in heaven" When the seductions of
The world aSsail his youthful mind, that well
remembered prayer to his "Father who is in
heaven" will strengthen him to resist evil
When in ripper years he mingles with mankind
and encounters fraud under the mask Of homes
ty;lwhen he sees confding goodness betrayed,
generosity ridicued as weakness, unbridled ha-
tired, and the coolness of interested friendship,
he may indeed be tempted to despisc his fellow
men hut he will remember his Father who is
in heaven"


Should he, on the contrary, abandon himself
to the world and allow the seed of self-love to
spring up and flourish in his heart, he will,
notwithstanding, sometimes hear a warning
voice in the depths of bis soul, severely tender
as those maternal lips which instructed him to
his Father who is in heaven" But when the
trials Of life arc over, and he may be extended
ON the bed of death, with no other consolation
butthe peace of an approving concience, he will
recall the scenes of his infancy, the image of his
mother, and with tranquil confidence will resign
his soul to Him who died that we might live
the Redeemer of the world.
Year: 1865

BSS"It is not your neat dress, your expensive
shawl, or your pretty fingers that attract the
attention of men of sense. They look beyond
these. 1t is the true loveliness of your nature
that wins and continues to retain the affections
of the heart. Young ladies sadly miss it who
labor to improve their outward looks, while
they beStow not thought on their minds
Fools may be won by gew-gaws and fashiona-
bic, snowy dresses but the wise and substan-
tial are never caught by such traps. Let mod
esty be your dress. Use pleasant and agreea-
bic Language, and though you may not be court
cd by the fop and the sot, the good and truly
great will love to linger in your steps.
Year: 1865

How beautiful is that religion which teaches
me to love God above all things andmy neigh
Dor as myself Religion is benevolcnce, and
benevolence includes every virtue. The benev-
olent cannot be unchaitable, cannot be unfaith-
full, cannot be sensorious, cannot be impure in
act or thought, can not be selfish they love God
and their neighbors and they do as they would
be done by But who is religious? who is be-
nevolent who is at all times pure in thought
or deed who is at all times free from consori-
BUSINESS. from uncharitablenesS? None. Not
one. The precepts taught us as those on which
chang all the law and the prophets . the lore Of
God and the lore ot'hy ReigtbOr, may be I'M
pressed upon the heart and have the whole un-
divided assent of the understanding; while the
mind is in this state the individual is religious.
But the cares of the world and their Earring col
lsions must at times occupy the thoughts, and
divert the mind from this wholesome state
The passions which have been cherished by bad
education-the indulgences that have become
habitual before the beauty of wisdom was per-
ceived by the thousand and ten thousand oc-
currences which tempt the rich to uncharita-
bleneSS, and the poor to envy and malice, all by
turns, Danish the truth from the mind. This
has led men to the desert and to the monastery
to become hermitS and monks; forgetting that
that religion requsres to do as well as to suffer
Truth becomes effective by frequent contempla-
ton and the habitual recurrence of its precepts
induces practice
Year: 1865

ss~'Gencration after generation" says a
fine writer, 'have felt as we now feel, and their
lives were active as our own. They passed like
a yapor. while nature wore the same aspect Of
beauty as when her Creator commanded her
to be. The world will have the same attrac-
tions for our offspring yet unborn that she had
once for us as children. Yet a little while, and
all will have happened. The throbbing heart
will be stihcd, and we shall be at rest. Our fu-
neral will find its way, and prayers will be said,
and we shall be left alone in silence and dark
ness for the worms. And it may befor short
time we shall be spoken of, but the things of
life will creep in, and our names will soon be
forgotten. Days will continue to moveon, and
laughter and song will be heard in the room in
which we die; and the eyes that mournedfor us
will be dried, and glisten again with JOY, and
even our children will cease to think of us and
will not remember to lisp our names.
Year: 1865

CHURcH DIFFIcULTY.-The Shepherdstown
Register says:


ave learn that the ministers in charge of the
Berkeley Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South had excluded from the church
thosemembers that ympathiscdwith the South
except on certain very degrading conditions,
and this thing coming to the knowledge Of the
presiding elder, he visited the circuit and closed
the church against the minister, but directed the
laity TO assemble and hold prayer meetings I;
whereupon the sheriff Of the county arose and
gave notice that the preacher in chal se would
hold services as usual. The presiding elder
then threatened him with arrest for violating the
peace; that he, conservator Of the peace, was
doing all he could to violate the peace Of the
community and to divide the church Of which
he was a member"
Year: 1865

gSS~ How in the name of self-respect can one
female find il in her heart to talk disrespectfuly
about any female with whom she associates.-
Do we SANDER the fair sex by saying that there
are any women who do this?
Year: 1865




SHEEP VS.. CATrLE.-Tbere can be no
question but that sheep are infinitely more
profitable than cattle. As a rule, sheep re-
ouire less care, increase faster, and yield
larger returns than cattle. In illustration
Of the proposition, We have the statement OF
Mr.. Gardner, an eminent writer on agricul'
tural matters, who tells of neighbOr who
came to him and wanted to sell his flock Of
100 sheep. "What for ?" 81 am in debt"
well you borrow the money and keep your
sheep, and if you take good care of them
they will make you rich" The advice was
taken. Now this man has 1000 sheep
Last year be sold 50, 900 worth of wool, and
and got $500 for eulls. He is conscious,
besides, that in SO doing. he has greatly en-
riched his farm. The difference between
sheep and cattle seems to be that beef can
not be made without corn. The business
requires more knowledge and experience,
and is subject to great fluctuations. The
rule is that steer must never be hungry. -
On the other hand, if the corn is cut off
the sheep will live on the stalks, and they
can pick up much that cattle will not look
at. Sheep are safe. In answer to inquiries
as to the relative amount of meat cattle and
sheep produce, it was stated that if sheep
had the corn aud grass which goes into beef
the country would be richer with much more
meat In addition there is the wool and
the increase of Aocks. Almost any part of
fat sheep is good eating, Not so with
beef creature.