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Year: 1861

NORTH SAN JUAN BAND.-Our young friend
10. B. Low came over on flying visit from Silver
City, in the Washoe country, to procure the
services of our Brass Band, to perform for the
Union men in that place on the Fourth of July.
The Band had already been engaged to play on
the 4th here, but we believe willingness has
been expressed by citizens generally, to let them
go, if the members can so arrange their business
as to be absent from home for few days.
Year: 1861

ABANDoNED.-The effort to secure general
celebration of the Fourth of July at this place,
has been abandoned, in Difference to the invita-
ton received from the people of Nevada. Most
,of our people, who feel sufficient enthusiasm to
celebrate at all, will join the exercises at the
latter place, where the display promises to be
grand and imposing.
Year: 1861

Hair TOn1c.--To persons residing in warm eli
mates, this compound will be invaluable specific
in retaining to the skin healthy action and neutral
Zing any of the evil effects which by continued or
frequent perspiration must cause to the hair.


To children. the youngest infant, it may be used
with the greatest Freedom for however thin weakly
the hair may apparently be, by the of this
pound all irritation will be allayed


This tonic is more particularly recommended for re-
storing grey hairs to their original color and with few
exceptions it is acknowledged to be inallible but in
all it is Acknowledged to be superior like pre-
parations now in the market.


This is no hair oil for simply greasing the hair, but
achcmiea preparation free from grease other inu-
rious ingredients.


Manufactured and sold at the drug store of T..
Watts, Marysvie. and sold by traders and druggists
throughout the State.
Year: 1861

Capt. Battersby:-I have now in use at my Of
fee, the "Leclair Lamp which obtained from
you. have given it fair trial, and am satisfied
that it is superior to any light have ever used
The fame is soft and brilliant, giving equally as
much light as two Kerosene lamps of equal size,
and at least three sperm candles. For cheap
ness it cannot be eXcelled.
Year: 1861

Our New York exchanges give copious cor
reepondence from the seat Of war on the
South Carolina COST, from which we col1aee
st random various matters Of Interest st this
time. The dates are to the 18th and 18th in
Year: 1861

THE POLICE OF Observation-Disclosures you
70 in England, Ireland or Scotland, the police
are sure to attract the admiration of the
stranger. They seem to be everywhere the
same class of men. all dressed in the same
uniforms. each Of the required height of six
feet, drilled TO walk erect, with military
step, and to maintain an air of responsibility
and authority that gives character to them
blue swallow tailed coats, and pants of the
same color, the coat being buttoned up to
the throat with metal buttons. Their hats
are of fur, with oil-cloth tops, and they
wear their numbers on the hatband in silver
figures. The fact of their all being of uniform
hight, and of erect. manly carriage, shows
that they are picked men, none of them
seeming to be forty years of age or under
thirty. They are never seen without white
cotton gloves on, or with the slightest
evidence OF negligence in dress or personal
appearance. They move about with their
cleanly shaved faces and neat appearance
like so many walking statues, always alert in
the performance of their duties, and when
ever they have occasion to interfere, it is
with voice and air of authority that no one
would dare to dispute. They are not allowed
to lean against lamp-posts, smoke cigars,
talk on the corners with acquaintances,
enter taverns except on duty, or to slack
their vigilance for a moment under any
pretence To the stranger, their services
are invaluable, and they will, with the
politeness of a Chesterfield, impart whatever
information may be required, or direct him
to pass on to the next officer, who will point
on. the locality ne is in search OF.
Year: 1861

THE STORY OF THE RING.-The incident of
the ring of the Countess Ida of Foggenberg,
is singular She had placed her jewelcase
on the deep window sill to dry the outside
leather, which had contracted damp. 1t was
open, and favorite hawk or raven, darting
down seized the ring. Fearful of COM
municatng her loss to her stern lord she
kept it a secret from all but few chosen
domestics who were authorized to reward
any one who might find it. young
page, unhappily not of the confidential
party, picked it up at great distance from
the castle and, showing it to another page,
boasted that it was the gift of a lady. The
baron heard the vain boast, desired to see
the rng-recognized it as the one presented
by himself to his wife on their bethrotlal
rushed into her room. where he found her
at the same open window from which she
had lost her ring-and, without a word,
threw her down into the woody dell six
hundred feet below The tardy truth avaled
not the unhappy youth whose falsehood
Caused the ruin of both his lady and himself.
Three days afterwards the innocence of both
was made known by the visit of peddler,
who had seen him pick it up, and had bid
price which the other refused j; he came to
offer the sum originally demanded. Every
search was then made for the countess but
she had, though much bruised, escaped as by
a miracle and Withdrawn into hollow cav
ern. There she lived four years on wild
fruits, birds eggs, and little food from
time to time conveyed to her by an aged
woman, to whom she communicated her
preservation, and whose bounty she repaid
by spinning for her IN the night. A fayorite
dog at length discovered her retreat, and the
baron went in great pomp to remove her to
his castle; but Ida refused to return and,
as an atonement for her sufferings and the
death of the page, he allowed her to build a
convent, of which she became abbess. The
story is we'll authenticated, and has, perhaps,
served for the basis of many others founded
on the same idea in after ages.
Year: 1861

S. MOODY, formerly Of the Empire Ranch in con
and wel-known Hotel. located in the most eligible
and convenient part the city, and directly opposite
the new Office of the California Stage Company, are
prepared to accommodate the travelling public, So
journers and residents in the best and most comfort
able manner. Jan19 3m
Year: 1861


" In all things that have beauty, there is moth
ing to man more comcly than liberty MILToN.
When the dance of the shadows
At daybrea is done,
And the checks of the morning
Are red with the sun;
When he sinks in his glory,


at eve from the view,
And calls up the planets


To blaze in the bluc
There is beauty But where is the beauty to sec
More proud than The sight of nation when free!
When the beautiful bend


OF the bow is above,
Like collar Of light


On the bosom OF Love:
When the moon in her mdncss.
Is floating on high:
There is beauty, But earth has no beauty 10 see
More proud than the front of a nation when free
In the depths of the darkness


Unvaricd in hue,
With no thick cloud to cover
The Sky from our view;
When the voice of tho tempest
At midnight is STILL
And the spirit &C Solitude


Sobs on the hil
There is beauty But where is the beauty TO sec
Like the broad beaming brow Of a nation when frcci
In the breath of the morning,
When natures awake
And calls up the chorus


To chnunt in the brake;
In the voice of the echo


Unbound in the woods;
In the winding of streams


And the foaming of foods
There is beauty But where is the beauty to sec
Like the thrice hallow'd sight ola nation when free
When the striving of surges


Is mad on the main,
Like the charge OF column


or p!umcs on the plain;
When the thunder is up


From his cloul-crndlc sleep,
And the tcmpcs; is trealing


The path of the deep.
There is beauty. But whore is the beauty to sec,
Like the thrice hallowd sight ofnnntion when rrcel
Year: 1861

was got up to pay the funeral expenses OF
a certain lawyer who had died poor. A
certain wag of aD editor was applied to
to contribute bis mite. "WbstF said be,
do yod require only twenty Eve cents to
bury lawyer--tbere is dollar bill
bury me four of them!"
Year: 1861

his troops TO restore the authority of United
States Law. Wherever there is a post office
and q custom house III the South, the (eder.
al government has right TO protect both
with any number of troops necessary for
the purpose. This is view of the legality
and consliulonaliiy of the action of the
administrator which seems 10 be lost sight
of at the South. The principle towns Would
thus be occupied in succession by the ad-
vancing army, aud that accomplished, tie
surrounding territory is necessarily reduced
to submission 10 the federal power. The
state of Virginia la seized the custom house
at lis capital. The federal government has
a right 10 rctakc il and assert It's own au-
lhority. In view of the near approach Of
danger, the Virginia convention may recon-
slider the secession ordinance, or perhaps the
state may redeem lis honor by claiming thai
it Is not vet out Of the Union, and by throw
ing the responsibility on the people who are
to vote for it in May, and would probably
vote in the negative in order to save their
soil from becoming the theater of war. If
Virginia should g,ve way, The other states
will be likely 10 10 low her example, and
thus in a short time, the whole South would
be restored to the Union. If Virginia re-
sisis, the contest cabnot last very long, con-
sidcring her large slave population, which
will either become fugitives or take up arms
against their masters. Slavery would thus
be abolished, and abolitonism put IN end 10
at the same time. The majority of the
people at the North do not desire to NEEDLE
with the slave property in the southern
states; but that the war must unayoidably
result in its destruction can hardly admit OF
a doubt
Year: 1861

We understand that eight prominent men,
bers OF the Union Defense COMMITTEES, acting
as a sub committee. started for Washington
yesterday morning, to use their influence with
tho e tvernment te induce it to accept and call
nto immediate service all the regiments nov
in readiness in this city, without reference to
tia authorities Of he state Of New York.
Year: 1861

Another year has gone, and we are
brought to that period, when, following
the example of our Puritan Fathers, we
are accustomed to offer our public Thanks
giving TO the Author of all good for his
merclful providence towards US. Wonder
ful changes have occurred daring the past
year, and adversities seem to have over
taken us as a country and people; yet
we have manifold blessings for which TO
be thankful For the bounteous haryesis
Of the field, for the general good health Of
the past year, for the peaceful relations
we occupy with nations abroad, for the
aroused patriotic spirit of the People
which promises In due time TO restore
peace at home and triumphantly place our
civil and religious institutions of Freedom
on hrner foundation than ever before
for these and many other blessings we have
abundant cause for Christian gratitude
With Civil War raging in our midst, the
banner of Rebellion waving along all the
Southern border, hostile armies marching
TO the conflict, and walls Of mourning al
ready swelling from thousands of stricken
hearts and households we can still
recognize manifold causes Of gratitude and
acknowledge His kindly providence, and
confidently place our trust in His hand to
control this storm for the Nations good
may eniitle US to the renewed favor OF Hin
who doeth all things well.


To this end, j, Samuel j Kirkwood
Governor Of the State of Iowa, do hereby
appoint Thursday, the 2sth dsy Of No
vemher next, az day Of THANKSGIVING
aud earnestly recommend the people 0
the State to abstain on that day from theil
usual avocatons, and assemble ut thei


respective places ofworship to offer Thanks
| Prayer aud Praise TO Him in whose merc'
1 now more than ever Is our great trust.


SAMuE j KIRkWOOD,


/ Governor Of Iowa
Year: 1861

If we walk in Broadway, New York, or


Washington street in Boston, the crowd we


meet, passing up and down, is as large as it


was year ago. The stores and shops are


all open and everything wears the air Of


business and hustle. Yet each of these


cities has sent thousands upon thousands Of
young men to the war. 1t is the same In


village and town. The plow is handled by


sturdy hands, the anvil rings under the


hammar of the dusky smith, the spindle


sings in the mill, and the tramp of men and


women does not cease upon the pavement.


Yet every village and town throughout the


loyal North has contributed TO swell the


army of the government. The places of
the absent are filed by others, and we scar
cely miss the thousands who have gone


with arms in their hands TO save the nation
its proud name and its beod-bought free.
dom. But there are those who miss the
absent soldiers.


The wife misses her husband, and she
follows him with her daily prayer, appeal
ing TO Heaven to protect him and return
him safely home. The father misses his
son, whom he has offered upon the shrine
OF patriotism, sacrifice for his country,
The news OF every battle, the shooting Of
every picket, the capture of every federal
soldier, has painful intrest for him. He
looks over the list Of the dead and wound
ed, with breathless anxiety, fearing that the
next name will be that Of his son, The
mother misses her boy, and she monrns
over him as one dead The daguerreotype
he has left her is often wet with tears, and
she ewel!s oyer the letter written by him
in camp as treasure more valuable than
diamonds. She breads TO hear of coming
battles, fearing that the boy she i1olizes
will fall upon the field. The terrible sus.
penes which hangs over his fate from day
10 day wears deep burrows in her cheeks.
and yet she feels happiness in thinking
that he has gone to defend her country.


The maiden misses her lover, and siebs
for him, like dove moaning for her mate,
She felt proud of his fine uniform and state
ly walk his bright bayonet and gilt buttons,
but now chat he has gone, fear triumphs
over her hopes, and the hours are darkened
by his absence. In every family from
which soldier has gone there is dear
one missing. In some, aye, in many, the
missing will never return. The turf OF the
'unny South will grow green above them,
md their blood viii enrich the enemy's
oil. They viii be missed at home, if not
m the crowded throughfare, bat their
memory shall not perish while nations
raiiiude doth last.
Year: 1861

You win not be agreeable to company. &c
You strive to bring in or keep up subject
unsuitable TO their capacities or h, NOR.


Never blame a friend withou, joining
some commendaiion to make reproof 20
down. There is no greater rudeness to
company than entertaining them with scold.
ing your servants,
Year: 1861

The question is now being debated in the
Republican party, whether it is not advisable
TO recognize the Independence Of the South
crn Confederacy, and let the seeding States
60, compromising matters with the Border
States so as TO retain them in the Union II
this latter object be impossible, then to allow
general scsaration Of the country into two
great Confedcraces, the one established on
the basis Of slave and the other Of free labor.
The National lnteIligencer strongly advocates
this policy and it seems that the question has
been discussed in the Cabinet Of Mr.. Lincoln.


Either there must be fight at once or the
adoption of this policy. The evacuation Of
Fort Sumter and the other forts in the South,
win be nothing less than virtual roeogni-
ton of the independence Of The Southern Con
federacy, 50 that the mere formalty Of word
afterwards would signify but little.


Abe Lincoln does not seem to aspire TO the
character of jackson, and there can be no
doubt that, if his present lenient course con-
tinues, there will be Southern Confederacy
established, without question from any quar-
ter Of the world. What such a coniederacy
would amount to, in the scale Of national
power and importance, time would have to
develope.


Hit be the design of Mr.. Lincoln and "thc
North TO agree to peaceful separation ol
the two sections the party in powerat Wash
ington has certainly committed an cgrcgious
blunder by its late action in Congress on the
tariff question. The bill increases taxes on
foreign merchandise TO such an extent as to
make the duties very distastelul to England
and France. This feeling on the part of Eng
land and France will estrange them from an
otherwise natural sympathy with the North.
They hate slavery, but they love their own
commerce and its interests; and, finding the
ports of the South open TO free trade, their
commercial operations will tend in that direc-
ton, and it will be their policy to cultivate
friendly relations with the Southern Con
federacy. But, the North would not, we pre-
sumo, be very slow to abolish system thus
damaging to their interests, in case of a
peaceablc separation.


If two Conledcracics are the result Of the
do nothing policy Of the present Administra-
ton, as n matter of course, California Will
stand where Senator Latham has placed her,
towit: with the Northern Confederacy. She
is free State, and it is not TO the interests OF
her people that slavery should be INTRODUCED
into her limits
Year: 1861

a RUMoE was prevalent on Monday eve
ming that decision had been rendered by
the Supreme Court in the Horace Smith case,
adverse TO a change of venue, sustaining the
judgment ofthe Court below. There is no.
thing on the record TO indicate that such a
decision has been made.
Year: 1861

New GooDs-Walker, Wilson d Go, have
received their first shipment of Spring and
Summer goods, and they are worth going to
see. A more complete and elegant assort-
incnt has not been received in the country.
See their advertisement.
Year: 1861

ants to render hostile service--not extending to
such as may be impressed by the rebel Gov
ernment in opposition to the will of the claim
ants.


"The act leaves it with the rebels themselves
to determine whether the war shall work the
emancipation OF any slave, for if they refrain
from employing slaves In the ways prohibited,
say, Congress preferred to hold out an induce
mont for the STAKEHOLDER not 30 employ bis
slaves in the rebel service, rather than to make
II, by any more sweeping course of legislation
matter OF indifference to him whether they
are 80 employed or not"
Year: 1861

D- A Maryland rife shooter gives directions
by which every man who chooses may become
q good shot. ALLOW the rife to hang 10 the
hand in an easy manner, declined at an angle OF
about forty degrees, then raise it steadily but
quickly In q line with the object, the eye raDg
ing carefully over the sights, and at the instant
the Iobject aimed at is covered, touch the
trigger. At the moment the upward movement
of the rife Is arrested, II is absolutely still.
Year: 1861

Comets have been described as mere visitors
of our systems, aS wandering stars to which the
most frivolous function, have been ascribed F;
wheroa, they form gigantic system extending
from the NcIy ueighborhLO Od OF the sun TO point
IN space as remote as that oi the nearest fixed
star, revolving IN elliptic orbits with periods
vary ing from I to 100 coo years But stranger
still is the mole in which these orbits are dis
trihuted In order to prevent any collision with
the bodies Of the planetary system. The planets
all move in nearly one plane, which we may sup
pose that Of our horizon, while the comets move
IN every possible plane, from horizontal to verti-
cal, aud, what is peculiarly remarkable, eylncing
the wisdom which prcslles over every part Of
the ply ysicIl world, only or comes out OF
the hundreds known to us move within the belt


which limits the planetary orbits. In order to
have a rude idea OF the difference between the
tv 0 systems Of bodies, let us suppoe all tho
planets in their greatest brightness TO be above
our horizon in q dark night free from stars
Even II placed near each other, they would not


present much more striking appearance than
the constellation Of the Great Bear; but il we


suppose all the comets Of their system to be
simultaneously visible, the whole vault of the
heavens would be one gorgeous canopy Of light.
" hat the purpose is OF such an extraordinary
gioup Of bodies it is in vain to inquire


Some Of the most distinguished N athemaii-
clans Of the present day, by assuming the exis-
tence Of repulDive force emanating from ths
sun, as an incandescent body, or as a souroe oI
electricity, have submitted 70 calculation some O
tho mole remarkable PhsnOmsns, hut with q di
Year: 1861

NEw DIsCoyERIEs.-A pair Of spectacles to
suiJ the eyes Of potatoes. The club with which
an idea struck the poet. A stick to measure
narrow escapes. The hook and line with which
an angler caught . cold.
Year: 1861

Mir. EDlroR--

 We have always heard it said that war times make hard times; while it is the ruin of many, the few are the gathers. We will allude, in ths first place. to the tanner of leather. The tanner knows our merchants cannot send off their beef hides to the north, and therefore they know that they can obtain the raw hides at their own price. We have not the least hesitation in saying that b2iore one year from now, that the tanners will fix their scheme to purchase the largest bect hides from dollar down to fifty cents, to twen- ty-tve cents per skin. Now, do they fall in the price of their leather and shoes? No. They have raised, in the last six months, enty five per cent. on ther leather, and thirty per cent their shoes. Can we stand this? Now, let us all fall to work, and tan our own leather. There is no ingenuity in the tanning business; any good farmer can tan his own leather, and there is no farmer but that wants leather, or less, even if he is not shoe maker. We will plan out means with less trouble and more suitable; say there should be tannery in every neighborhood in this county, and as many of the neighbors that would wish to join and dig large trough, at the most suitable plantation, and assist otherwise; and those that would not wish to join in, get their skins tanned on shares, and they can sell their leather on fair terms Have a trough for lime, or wood ashes will an- swer-ay the skin down, hair side up. cover with ashes, and so on until all the hides are in the trough, then fill the trough with water, and in nine days the hair will slip. With dull drawing knife or the back of it, slip off the hair, then soak the hides in clean water for nine days, they will then be ready for the bark. Every farmer can save tan-bark off his new ground, more or less, every spring two cords of bark would fill a very large trough. After the bark IS taken off the tree, scrape off the outside or rough bark then cut your bark twelve to eighteen inches long, cover the bot tom of the trough with the whole pieces of bark. and then the skins; 50 on until all are in the trough. We will tell you there is no difference between the whole faAes and the ground; it takes the whole year, at any rate, for leather to tau We have known il tried hundreds of times in the east, where tan-yards are seldom known Every spring they renew their tan-troughs; and all the hides will do for sole leather-they take it for that purpose, and the fney for upper leather And with drawing knife, We curry side of leather as well tanner, and dress it as we'll with block, with few peggs and hand mall, or flax brake or hempbrake, with little lard, in few minutes will be ready for the shoemaker, and will be just as soft and pliant as that of the tan-yard. c.