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Year: 1861

IN Did you ever have the Sick Headache? Do you
remember the throbbing temples the frvered brow, the
loathing and dipust at the sight of food How totally
unfit you for pleasure conversation or study. 0Ge
Of the Cephalc Pills would have relieved YOU from all
the suffering which you then experienced For Il is and
other purposes You shoud always have box of
hand to use occasion requires.
Year: 1861

SECESSION IS SUBMissIoS.- Richmond
Whig very justly argues that Secession is
submission" The principal ground Of
Southern complaint is that the North seeks
to exclude that section from participation
in the Territories, won by the common
blood and treasure of oil the States, and in
which all sections should be admitted to
equal rights. But by secession, the South
virtually abandons the subject in dispute,
and leaves the North in the quiet enjoyment
Of the Territories Secession is the worst
policy the Southern States can possibly
adopt to maintain their rights for there Il
not single wrong of which they complain
that will not bc materially aggravated by
leaving the Union.
Year: 1861

A PACIFIC REPuBLIc The Silver Age,
published at Carson City, fayors the estab-
lishment Of Pacific Republic, in case the
Union is broken up and four or FIVE cOnfed-
eracles formed. 1t says:


We do not look upon the secession Of South
Carolina as dissolution of the Union, any
more than the death Of one, the baby, out OF a
large family, would break up the family. But
should the Slave States organize separate
Government for themselves, and the present
Federal Government destroy itself by falling to
perform the functions Of Government, thereby
making it necessary for reorganization, and
the formation of from three to five distinct con-
federacies, we are decidedly in opposition to a
union with any Of them, fully believing that a
separate and Independent existence, would be
greatly preferable to dependence on any OF
the petty republics or free cities, that might
spring up from the ashes Of the Union. In
these views we hold that there is no treason to
the country, no oencouragementto seceders, and
that their distinct avowal at this time, does not
conflict with religious devotion to the Union.


In the event the Union is destroyed, and
from three to nve con!ederacles formed, it
will then be time enough for the States and
Territories on the Pacific TO determine their
course. Bat any movement now towards
the formation Of a Pacific Republic, would
be merely playing into the hands Of the dis
uuionists, and assisting them in their trea'
eonable work. We should not regard the
secession OF all the Cotton States as the
breaking up Of the Union, and as CaIifor-
MIA cannot be materially affected by the
troubles at the East, we can we'll afford to
remain as we are until the present Difficult
ties are settled.
Year: 1861

portion Of the arm8 taken out OF the
prize captured of the rebel coast and brought
into New York few days ago, are to be sent
West at once, for the armiug Of our Illinois
troops. No better use could be made OF them.
Our boys will send the rebels bullets In pay
ment for their guns.
Year: 1861

The telegraph informs us that the order
for the evacuation Of Fort Sumter has been
sent to Charleston. Like the pulling Of an
obdurate tooth, it is thing 10 be done
quickly ifdoue At all While the act itself
will occasion general and acute pain, the
anticipation is far less tolerable. Let US
trust that Ills il Buchanan's last legacy Of
shame to the new Administration.
Year: 1861

"A young man in country town
who had recently commenced
business, was green enough to be
sold BY an adviser who profess
ed to give information "How to
succeed in business" 10 obtain
the secret he RENTED half a
crowns worth of postage stamps,
and received in reply the advice
to "tura Methodist"
Year: 1861

NICE DIsTNcTIoN.-The papers of this
State in the interest of South Carolina deny
Indignantly that they argue secession
They attempt to prove themselves in favor
of the Union, and still opposed to the use
of force if necessary to execute the laws
The distinction is nice one indeed. South
Carolina and several other States have de-
clared themselves out of the Union. II
they mean what they say they intend to be
out and remain out. They will not submit
to the majority at all unless compelled to
do So Those who are opposed to the use
of force recognize the Secession States as
out of the Union, and their policy is to let
them remain out. What is this but disun-
ion q? and what are these but disunioniSts
The South Carolinians are for staying out
of the Uuien peacably if they can, forcibly
if they must; the California sympathizer is
for allowing them to do as they will. One
says he will 60, and the other tells him he
may.
Year: 1861

The Dutch Flat Enquirer says several water
companies are constructing reservoirs to supply
the mining districts between Dutch Flat and
Cold Springs, which will develop mineral
district comparatively unworkable hitherto on
account of a want of water.
Year: 1861

Yesterday morning package of New Orleans
Bank notes, addressed to the Bank of New Orleans,
was stolen out of one of the parors OF the ST.
Charles Hotel The loser promises to ask no
questions and to pay a reward of $500, upon the
restoration of the bundle of bills at the office Of
the hotel. This liberal proposition is advertised
in another part of this mornings Crescent.
Year: 1861

Concerning such crisis as has now come
upon us, Mr.. Adams said, with his accustomed
forethougbt:


ain the calm hours of self possession, the right
of State to nullify'an Act Of Congress, is too
absurd for argument, and too odious for discus
sion. The right of a State to secede from the
Union is equally disowned by the principles OF
the Declaration of Independence. Nations ac-
knowledge no Judge between them upon earth,
aud their governm ents from necessity, must, in
their intercourse with each other, decide when
the. failure Of one party to contract to perform
its obligations absolves the other from the recip
rocal fulflment of its own. But this last Of
earthly powers is not necessary to the freedom
or independence of States, connected together
by the immediate action of the people, of whom
they consist. To the people alone is there re-
served, as well the disolviDg, as the constitu-
ent power, and that powor can be exercised by
them only under the tie of conscience, binding
them to the retributive justice Of Heaven
With these qualifications, we may admit the
same right as vested in the people of every State
in the Union, with reference to tho General
Government which was exercised by the people
Of the United Colonies with reference to the
supreme head OF the British empire, of which
they formed part--and under these limitations
have the people of each State in the Union a


revolutionary right to secede from the con
federated Union itself.


"Thus stands the RIGHT But the indls-
soluble link of union between the people
of the several States of this confederation,
is after all not in the right, but in the
heart. II the day should ever come (may
Heaven avert it) when the affections of
the people of these States shall be alenated
from each other, when the fraternal spirit shall
give way to cold indifference, or collisions of in.
terest shall tester into hatred, the bands of po-
litical association will no. long hold together
parties no longer attracted by the magnetism
Of conciliated interests and kindly sympathies;
and far better will it be for the people of the
dsunited States to part in friendship from each
other, than to be held together by cOnstraint.-
Then will be the time for reVerting to the pre-
cedents which occurred at the formation and
adoption of the Constitution, to form again a
more perfect Union, by dissolving that which
could no longer bind, aud to leave the separated
parts to be reunited by the law of political grav-
itation to the CENTRE"
Year: 1861

believe there ia no period of fife as that
in which thriving lover leaves his mistress af.
ter his first success. His JOY is more perfect
then than at the absolute moment Of his own
eager vow, and her half asserting bushes
Then he Is thinking mostly of her, and is in a
certain degree embarrassed by the efforts nee
essary for success. But when the promise has
once been given to him, and he is able to escape
into the domain of his own heart, ho is q con-
Gueror who has mastered half continent by
bis own strategy. 1t never occurs to him; he
hardly believes that his success is no more than
that which is the ordinary lot of mortal man.
He never reflects that all the old married TO
gies whom he knows and despises have just as
much ground ror pride, if such pride were en-
during; that every fat, silent, dull, somnolent
old lady whom he sees and quizzes has at some
period been deemed as worthy prize as his
priceless galleon; and so deemed by as bold
captor as himself. Some one has said that ey-
ery young mother, when her frat child is born,
regards the babe as the most wonderful produc-
tion of that description, which the world has yet
seen. And this, too, is true. But doubt
whether that conviction is so strong as the cen
viction OF the successful lover, that has achieved
triumph which should ennoble him down to
later generations.
Year: 1861

How CONES IT ?-Last night we received
the Pio"etf,aNd Democrat and the Puget
Sound Herald Of the l4th lust, by mail
When we bad weekly mail between this
place aud the Sound, these papers usually
reaching us in about two days. Now we
have daily mail, they require ten days
for the transit Times.
Year: 1861

bB- An editor says that he hoped to be
able to present marriage and death as
original matter for his columns bnt a
heavy thaw broke up the wedding, and the
doctor got sick, so the patient recovered.
Year: 1861

ing can happen, which will increase that Insane
hatred of the North which has possessed the
popular mind Of the South for long years past
A war, which will inspire respect for the North
in that quarter, cannot possibly increase ami,
mosities there, whatever else it may do.
Year: 1861

SB- The Adjutant General of Virginia re-
ported, few days ago, that the State only had
arms enough to supply five thousand men.
This aggravates their disappointment, in not
being able to seize, arms at Harper's Ferry.
Year: 1861

~ Aot-Np -hb-Ns


Died in Berlin, after a painful illness Of
several weeks, Mr.. Samuel Curtis, aged about
rs years.


Mr.. Curtis was the son of David and Lucy
Curtis, of Trumbull, Fairfield Co. Conn,
where he was born and where he spent the
early years of his life. He came to Mont
pelier about the year / sl7 or 1918, under the
assumed name of George Garner, the name
by which he was known until his death He
had never limited to his most intimate friends
that this was not his true name. Even his
wife and family were as profoundly ignorant
Of the facts in the case, as were the rest
of his acquaintances---so carefully was the
matter locked up in his own breast. This
appears the more remarkable from the fact
that the keeping of this secret seems TO
have been a constant burden upon his mind,
subjectng to continual restraint. IL is now
remembered by those who have been familiar
with him, that he always maintained an un-
wonted reserve when the subject of his pa
rentage and early life was introduced. lie
felt, however, that he could not die and leave
his family and friends under the deception
and hence, when be became assured that ho
was near the end of liies he called his eldest
daughter to his bedside, and disclosed the
ldcNo anu uUthlntu from htF a pfoHllNo W
make them public. His statement, in sub
stance, is as follows In early life he con-
tracted habits of intemperance, in conse-
quence of which ho was induced to enlist as
a common soldier in the army of the United
States in the war of 1912. Alter serving
in the army short time, the same cause which
led him to enlist, led him also to desert
His enlistment and deserton both occurred
in the city of New York. For three or four
years after his desertion, he wandered from
place to place, under the assumed name of
George Garner. His object in assuming a
false name, was, to prevent arrest and pun
ishment as a deserter. Since the time OF his
desertion. no stated, he was not aware that
he had met but one person who recognized
him as Samuel Curtis.


During his long residence in Montpelier
and its immediate vicinity, he was regarded
as an inofensive. honest and industrious man.
For few of the first years Of his residence
here, he was somewhat incorporate, but for
the last thirty years or more, he has been
Year: 1861




MAsTERLY INAcTIvGTY.-The Washington


correspondent OF the New York World says


rather ominously:


MANY old army officers as well as promi-
nent officials, now express the belief that it is
inexpedient 90 make any extensive advance
Southwark this season They speak favora-
oly OF policy of mastery inactivity for the
present, and deem il best TO quarter the army
where It stands, during the winter The un-
certainty of the approaching season, and the
fall and winter rains which must soon COM
mence. will probably preclude any important
advance if not speedily made. To be sure
there is great ctivity in division and brigade
drills. and something must be done to insure
the keeping open Of the Potomac but it is
now argued that we should wait until the war
can be transferred to the cotton States.


The ARMY TO Now. The Washington
correspondent Of the New York World says


There need exist no longer any grave
apprehensions as to the grand army Of the
Potomac going into winter quarters in this
vicinity The President, it is understood,
has assured several distinguished gentlemen
that forward movement Of the army is de-
termined on, though at what time it is not
proper to state Those who have not been
fully posted have been quite loud in urging
an immediate advance, fearful that at the
same time it was not contemplated by those
in authority Tho impatience of the people
may be set at rest for the present. It is not
at all improbable that movement will be
made and victory achieved before the dis
taut public are aware that anything has oc-
CURED to disturb the inactivity OF the army
just now


The correspondent of the Now York
Times also says:


think ! have sufficient authority for ex-
plicitly denying the statement that the army
Of the Potomac would go into winter quar-
tiers within the lines of the present encamp-
ment or intrenchments. No such purpose is
by the Government, and no such
suggestion has been made by Gen Mcclellan.
Indeed within the past fortnight the activity
OF preparation has teen greater than within
the same time for the last two months. OF
course, an army is to remain in and around
Washington to defend the Capitol, and
We shall have large camp of in
struction. For the men and horses consti-
tutng this force, winter barracks will be pro-
sided, and Timely preparations making
for this but beyond this there is nothing
being done that looks like inaction during the
winter months"
Year: 1861

.
In the present position could scarcely be
justified were to omit to raise warning
voice against this approach of returning des-
potism. It is not needed nor fitting here that
q general argument should be made in favor
of q popular institutions; but there is one
p,int with its connections not so hackneyed
a most others, to which ask brief attention.


Il il the effort to place capital on an equal
footing with, if not above labor, in the struc-
ture of the Government. ..


It is assumed that labor is available only in
connection with capital, that nobody labors
unless somebody else owning capital some how
BY the use of it induces him to labor. This
assumed, it is next considered whether it is
best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus
induce them to work by their own consent,
or buy them and drive them to it without
their consent. Having proceeded 10 far, 1t is
naturally concluded that oil laborers are eth
or hired laborers or what We call slaves, and
further 1T is assumed that whoever is once .
hired laborsr il fixed in that condition for
life. 49,.


Now there is no such relation between
capital and labor as assumed, nor is there
any such thing as freeman being fixed tor
life in the condition Of hired laborer.-
Both of these assumptions are false, and
all differences from them are groundless:
Labor is Independent Of capital Capital
is only the fruit Of labor, and could never
have been expected if labor had not ems
ted. Labor is the superior, Of capital and
deserves much tho higher consideration. y
Capital has its rights, which are as worthy J
Year: 1861

MILITARY CAMPS IN THE INTERIOR The
camps at Sacramento. Stockton and Placer
Vile are fast filing up. and as we learn, with
the best of material The people from Marys-
vile, north, think they should have a camp
in their section Should one be established
there we doubt not regiment. composed of
the very best men. would soon be organized
--Morning Gall.


The Call is right. There are plenty Of good
Union men in this region willing to enlist,
provided they could 60 Immediately into
camp and be provided for. Many are unable
company to lie filled up. Let us have a
camp
Year: 1861

TAKE IT BAcK.--A Whitehall boat having
been stolen from washer woman at San
Francisco, the Morning Call hopes that if the
party who carried it of is mean enough to
keep it. it will sink with he, she or them on
the earliest opportunity.
Year: 1861

PRESIDENT LINcoLN.-An eastern paper
says:


President Lincoln makes no secret Of the
faet that when the rebellion is suppressed
he intends to make new dispensation of the
immense list Of Offices in the gift Of the Gov.
eminent lie has frequently said that he
longs for the time when be can prove his
love for the saviors of the Republic. Ly
siaeing them in ottee. of honor and profit
Year: 1861

and laid them down by the door and approach
ed the bed.


''Are you any better, dear 2" he asked IN a
rough voice, but in the kindest tones.


"No-have you found work ? If you could
get me little nourishing food, could regain
my strength"


The man gazed upon her pale face moment
and again taking up his horse went out. He
had not gone far before a woman met bin,
and sa i'd she wished him to follow and saw some
wood for her His heart bounded with hope
and gratitude, and he went after her to her
dwelling, an abode little better than his own
for poverty yet wearing an air Of comfort.
He sawed the wood, split and piled it, and re-
ceved six shIlings with which he fastened 10 a
store for necessaries for his sick wife, and then
be hurried home to gladden. her heat with the
ielicacIeS he had provided. Till now he had
no work for four days, and his family had been
starving, and from this day his wife got hetter,
and was at length restored to his iaIrily and to
health, from a stale of weakness which another
days continuation would probably have proved
fatal.


These six shaings, which did so much good,
were paid him by the poor woman from the FIVE
dollars she had received from the Storekeeper,
and the sailor had paid him. The poor woman's
dau ghter was also revived and Ultimately re-
stored to health, and was lately married to a
young man who had been kept three years alb
sent. and returned true to his troth But for
the five dollars which had been so instrumental
in her recovery, he might have returned 10 be
told that she who's memory had been so long
the polar star OF his heart had persisted.


So much good did the five dollar piece do,
which Peter Chancery, Esq, so reluctantly
paid to Mr.. Lasts apprentice boy, though little
credit is due 70 this gentleman for the result that
followed. 1t is thus Providence often makes
bad men the instrument of good to others. Let
this little story lead those who think a ''small
bil'' can stand because 1t is small bill, remem-
Der how much good five dollar piece has done
in one single day, and that in paying one bill
they may be paying a series of twenty bills and
dispensing good 10 hundreds around them.
Year: 1861

gin Alabama farmer very recently bad
his butter seized by the clerk of the market for
short weight, and gave as reason that the COW
from which the butter was made, was subject
to the cramp, and that caused the butter TO
shrink in weight.
Year: 1861

We thought that the European fnan-
ciers had exhausted all the contrivances by
which money could be extracted from un
willing x-payers. 1t has been reserved
for the ingenuity Of the rebel Government
to give them new wrinkle BY notice.
which we copy from an Alabama paper, it
will be seen that the members of the Con-
federate Congress are stumping their res
pective States in order to get the subscrip-
tiOns for the fifty million loan taken up
These subscription are to be paid from the
proceeds Of the sales of specified numbers
Of bales of the growing cotton crop, The
bonds are to be secured by tax to be
levied next session. This is. after all.
nothing but "shinning"-a practice so
much in vogue with business men who are
hard up, If the Jeremy Diddlers of the
rebel administration can hit upon no bet
ter plan Of raising the wind than this, VIC
can promise them that they will soon be
out at elbows---NcW York Herald.
Year: 1861

"Old Hundred"
o Lord Of Hosts Almighty Kingl
Behold the sacrifice we bring
To every arm Thy strength impart,
Thy spirit shed through every hearti
Wake in our breasts the living fires,
The holy iaith that warmed our sires;
Thy hand hath made our Nation free;
To die for her in serving Thee.
BE Thou a pillared fame to show
The midnight snare, the silent foe;
And when the battle thundcrs loud,
htill guide US in It's moving cloud
God Of old Nations ! Sovereign Lord
In thy dread name we draw the sword.
We lit the stary hag ON high
That fills with light our stormy sky.
From trsason's rent. from murders stain
Gard Thou it's folds till Peace shall reign
Till fort and field. till shorr and sea
Join our loud anthem. PRAISE TO THEEl
Year: 1861

STATE PRINrER.-Nothiug could have given us
more pleasure than the nomination of B. p. Ave
ry, of the Marysville appeal, for State Printer.
Avery was formerly editor of the San Juan Press,
a paper which, during his editorial control, was
not excelled by any mountain journal. Being an
able writer and polished gentleman, he was call
ed one year ago to take charge of the Marysvlile
Appeal. the central organ of the Republican
party. Since his connection with the Appeal, it
has gained the reputation Of being the most fear
less, consistent apd honest political sheet in the
State Avery's nomination was upaGmous, all
other competitors Withdrawing We sincerely
hope and believe he will be elected, aud feel as
surcd, should such be the case, that the people OF
California will never have cause to regret his
selection .......r
Year: 1861

SHERIFF. Richard Clifford announces himself
as an Independent candidate for that oiiice, llo
is in the field for election, and not for the simple
purpose OF defeating other candidates. The per-
sons giving circulation to this insnuation may
fud him TOO formidable in the coming canvass to
triae with. II is not our object TO laud any man
or set of men for Office, nor do we care much who
is next Sheriff, so he is an honest man and capa-
BILE. Mr. Clifford has claims as an old and well
tried citizen. and man who has always contrib
uted to every public enterprise calculated to ad-
vance the interests of the county. We cannot see
why the mere form of nomination should be bar
to all others. Can you, reader
Year: 1861

Can IT DE DoxE ?-It is the desire of many
business men to close business on the 4ih until
the celebration exercises are over. Every one
wants TO participate in the demonstration Will
business men come to an understanding aud
close their houses until after the GRAFTON