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Year: 1861

lhe recent instance Of private William
johnson, Of the Lincoln Cavalry, shot dead
IN the presence of a division Of the army
Of the Potomac, in accordance with the
finding Of a Court Martial, opens q new
cru in the war. Hc is the first to expiate
with his life the crime Of treason. True,
his military offence was desertion: but 1t
was more than that, because hisflight from
our lines was towards the encmy's camps,
His design was not merely to escape service
IN the ranks, but to betray to the rebels
important secrets with regard to our forces
and their position. So full was he
OF this purpose that it escaped him
at his first interview with what he sup-
posed were rebel pickles. Fatally for him,
his traitorous revelations were made by
this mistake to our own nen, and his ar
rest, sentence and death followed in rapid
succession. The necessity Of the stern ex-
ample was undeniahle, and the entire divis-
ion was marched by his bleeding corpse
to make more sharply apparent and real
the deserved penalty Of treason.
And this humble Pennsylvania private is
the first who has paid his life forfeit to
the dark disloya1ty which las precipitated
upon the land the horrors Of civil war
From his dishonored grave solemn voice
calls that lie should not be the last and
only one among discovered traitors to meet
thejust doom Of treason. Tardily drawn,
the sword of Justice should s1uite others
far more guilty than this poor soldier
Earlier than now, seven months after the
Inauguration Of this rebellion, the Govern
ment would have won dignity and vindica-
ted itself more unmistakably before tie
world, by q rigor humane because preven-
tive, righteous in every point Of view, and
made the more notab1c in seeking out for
examples traitors, 1ot1icr in position and Of
darker guilt.


If it was q capital offence for Il lowly
trooper to 60 over to the enemy with the,
al best, scanty means Of injuring the Gov
erument by his revelations, what should it
be for officers high in position to transfer
not only themselves but their important
trusts, military and naval, to the side Of
the rebellion? What should be the doom
Of those detected and arrested while con-
spring against the Government? Have
we won respect abroad by misplaced gen
tleness in the treatment Of these greater
traitors, and has not the rebellion grown
r. r


under Buchanan; and continued up to the
present period? Punish the lowest often
der, but let not the highest escape. Prompt
quick, and stern justice should be meted
| 011f tn the nnfira 1iet
Year: 1861

The plan Of finance, by means of National
currency, 80 ably presented by the Secretary
Of tile Treasury ,is now under consideration by
the senate Committee On Finance and the
House Ways and Means Committee; and bill
to carry out these objects will probably be
reported in few days. Such bill, it is sup
posed, will enable the Secretary to obtain all


the money he requires for twenty year bonds.
Year: 1861

We are glad to learn that Col. Jennison
has now temporary command Of d brigade.
Faithful in all things, he has merited d
permanent position like that he now occu-
pies, We have Major Generals who will
do well to learn from him His aim has
been to look out for the Government, and
"1et slavery take care Of itself"
Year: 1861

A GREAT ATTRACTION AT THE FAIR
GRousp.-Visitors to the Fair Ground should
not fail to visit the tent of Professor Grimes,
she great fancy glass blower He has beau
tlful glass steam engine, and can blow glass
into any desired shape or form. Open during
the day admission Is cents.
Year: 1861

TuR premium STocK OF Dry Goods
can be found at WApswoRru's. Persons visit
ing the city should not fail to call ani examine
it. ~ they cannot fail to be we'll repaid for so
dong and they will have an opportunity OF
securing some good bargains.
Year: 1861

wounds on the left side two being near the
aXila, and one about six inches below it also
one wound on the posterior and left side Of
the chest two and "A nalf inches below the
left seapula also one wound on the posterior
and right side of the chest, one inch below
the interior edge of the right scapula there
were also four wounds on the left arm the
one confused wound was on the anterior aud
right side of the chest. The lower wound on
the anterior and left side Of the chest, one
inch above the nipple, penetrated the cavity
of the chest, between the third and fourth
ribs, passing from without inwards. and a
little obliquely downwards to the right pass
ing through the superior lobe of the left lung
ou its internal edge, and penetrating the
pericardium, and passing through the left
auricle of the heart. This wound was the
cause of death.


There we're also found seven incised wounds,
and one confusion of the lungs. OF these,
five were of the left lung, and two incised and
one confused wound of the right lung. The
incised wounds Of the lungs were not very
extensive only two penetrating TO any depth.
There was also found a slight ncsed wound
ON the left lobe of the liver.
Year: 1861

sE- When Commodore Tatnall, now
opposing the Union forces in South Caro-
lima was in Boston during the past year,
he gave the following toast on a public
occasion "Palsied be the hand or tongue
of him who first attempts the dissolution
Of this glorious Un.R."
Year: 1861

We copy from the Philadelphia inqm.
rer the recent correspondence between
Col. Charles j. Riddle and some of his
constituents. 1t will be seen that Colonel
Biddle has concluded to resign his posi-.
ton in she army, and take his seat in
Congress, to which he was elected at a
specicl election in May last. His letter is
frank and bold in the avowel of his sem
timents-6rmly sustaining the war, yet
denouncipg alike Northern Abolition and
Southern Secession :


DEAR SIR-We have learned this
morning with much pleasure of your re-
turn, upon visit of few days, to your
family. Without wishing to appropriate
to ourselves an undue portion of the time
which brief respite from your duties in
the field may place at your disposal, we
beg, on behalf of your fellow citizens, to
suggest the propr:ety of your affording
them an opportunity of taking you by the
hand reassuring you of their continued
confidence in your ability and patriotism
1t will give them no small qualification if
it should be in your power to name a day
upon which they may tender you the
compliment of a public dinner.


You will permit US to express the hope
that your presence in Philadelphia may
be only preparatory to assuming your seat
in the Congress which is about to assemble.
The circumstances attending your recent
election to this body, the strong decla-
ration of the wishes and expectations of
your constituents, in comforting upon you,
during your absence with tbs army and
without solicitation on your part, posi-.
ton attended at this time with peculiar
responsibility, are, we trust, such as may
induce you to relenquish, at least for the
present, that military life in which, through
more than one campaign, you have al
ready earned Just distinction.


We are with much regard, your friends
Year: 1861




Yesterday morning steam plough, the
invention of Mr. John Fowler, Jr. Of Lon
don, was tried before committee of the
Pennsylvania Agricultural Society. The
trial was superintendent by Mr.. II. w. Ed
dison in whose charge the plough, with its
machinery, had been sent from England to
this country. The spot selected for the
testing of the instrument was large field a
short distance from the Lazaretto station,
on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad.
At one end of the field was twelve horse
power engine, which caused wheel to re-
volve horizontally. Connected with the
wheel of the engine, and also with similar
one attached to the anchor" which was
about three hundred and fifty yards distant,
was an endless chain made strongly of wire.
10 this chain was fastened the plough. which,
by the power of the engine, was thus made
to traverse the distance between it and the
anchor and return. The plough, which was
mounted on two wheels, had eight tcn-inch
flanges, four at one end, and four at the
other


AS the plough was propelled towards the
anchor, the four f1anges in the rear furrowcd
the earth to the depth of six or eight inches,
and width of forty, the Aanges in the front
being high in the air, owing to the weight
of the driver being over the rear fanges,
causing that portion of the plough to press
the Garth while the other was elevated In
returning to the engine the process was re-
vcrscd. The front hanges became the rear,
and thus the necessity of turning the plough
is obviated


The plough was guided by the driver,
who. by means of windcrs attached to it,
was also enabled to lcngthcn the chain or
shorten it as occasion might require. The
waving of the flag by the driver was sig
nal by which the plough could be immcdi-
ately stopped or put in motion. There was
also an arrangement for regulating the depth
to which the soil was 10 be furrowed.


Although the ground selected for the trial
was-ef f-s. JesSe tzsrn- Il nn1sar4ea
the course Of the plough. Five minutes
was the time occupied by the plough in
travcrsing the distance between the engine
and the anchor Mr. Eddison claims that
the implement will plough at the rate of one
acre per hour, and that with twelve Aangcs
he can accomplish twice that amount of work
About eighteen or twenty acres could thus
be ploughcd per day.


Mr.. E1dison states that one acre per hour
can be ploughcd with an engine of eight
horse power. Two men and three boys are
required to manage the machine. One man
attends the engine, another acts as plough
driver, and the boys arc employed in ad
justing the chain and the anchor.


The whole of the apparatus connected
with the plough, cost in England eight huu-
dred pounds sterling These ploughs are
land at the present time.
Year: 1861

what they'll find for me to do, for am
grave digger in this world"


1t is hardly Necessary to say that the rev.
erend gentleman was completely non -plusscd
and discharged Pat without giving him the
required information.
Year: 1861

Young men arc apt to have notion that
it is manly and soldicr-likc to smoke. The
great Napoleon was certainly soldier as
will not be disputed and perhaps the first
soldier of modern times. Let us hear his
testimony in regard to the use of tobacco.
Having been persuaded to try smoking, he
very briefly and forcibly expressed his opin-
ion Of it thus: Away with it What an
abomination Oh the hogw And he re-
nounced forever the pleasures of habit
which lie said was only fit to amuse slug
CARDS.


There has been recently excited in the
medical and scientific minds of France and
England a deep and strong conviction of the
evil effects of tobacco, and of the necessity
Of checking it's rapidly increasing uso.-
Chewing is but little known, except among
sailors, i'll any country but America.


Last year the government of France made
an estimate of the effects of the use of tobac-
co in the colleges and academies of that
country. The young men attending these
Institutions were divided into classes those
who smoked and those who did not-and
their physical and intellectual standing COM
pared. The result was that those who did
not use tobacco were found to be stronger
in body, and better scholars, than those who
did. What was the consequence Louis
Napoleon 'one of the good things which
he has done" says an English writcr-im-
mediately caused the Minister of Public In
structon to issue an edict that no smoking
should be permitted in any college, school,
Or academy. And Louis Napoleon is no
fool; he has an eye eminently to the
physical and military power of France.
Thus Gin one day he put uthirty thousand
pipes in Paris alone" Let our youth and
young men, who are struggling against the
instincts of nature and common sense, to
acquire what they foolishly fancy to be the
manly habit of smoking, put that into their
pipes and smoke it,


The strongest evidence. and the highest
testimony, almost without limit, might be
brought to prove that the use of tobacco is
inconsistent with the highest health and
strength; that it is constant drain upon
the vitality of the system. The testimony
of all writer's, even of the advocates and
slaves of the weed themselves, is that to the
young-to boys and very young men it is
only and alcoys cell.
Year: 1861

SAND GoGGLEs.-There is some sand
down in San Francisco, and occasionally
there is little wind there also. The action
OF the latter upon the former causes the at
mosphere to be muddied, and the conse-
queuce is, that human optics in people who
walk out there are in danger Of being bar
ricaded with sand bars to such an extent as
to prohibit daylight from entering the win
dows of the soul. In this condition Of
things, dust or sand goggles are placed
over the eyes as protectors. The Alta,
speaking Of them, says:


They give a mans face a comical, owlish
appearance. but that is Of little consequence
in comparison to the comfort resulting from
their use. Opticians should drive thriv-
ing business In San Francisco. The delicate
organs of sight are liable TO be impaired by
the fine sand constantly peIting Into them,
from about eleven o'clock until sundown--
that is during the business hours, when peO-
pie have most need to be abroad. The
annoyance is indicated by the pbysiognO-
mics of thousands In our thoroughfares.
whose countenances are all 'scrooched up
by the involuntary contraction of the facial
muscles, in the vain endeavor to protect
the eye by drawing the lid over it. All
this is saved by the use Of the sand google
during the six or seven hours when dust
and sand are the most annoying, while the
wearer can strut manfully along, regard
less Of dust whirlwinds, and with bis fea-
tnres composed into reasonable aud natural
proportions. Both ladies and gentlemen
have adopted them for driving out.
Year: 1861

~THE WEAKEST PLACE IN SrcEsstoy .-
Many of the people in the seeded States
are evidently disappointed at the warlike
altitude OF the other States they did not
suppose that war call would be tremen-
.duoussy responded to by all classes Of free
S'aters they supposed that the republican
party element alone would endeavor 10
sustain the republican administration. Here
The southern leaders exhibited what will
prove to be weakness very disastrous to
secession. 1t will be found that If the south
people can systematically secede the north
people can more skilfully prepare TO Gebt
secession. But the southerners lanph at
the idea OF being fought to submission. n
isn't however. healthy laugh.
Year: 1861

CURIOSITY IN DYING MAN.-It was a
bright thought that of Smithson, when he
was dying Of an unknown complaint. lie
bad had five doctors, and they had been
unable to discover what his disease was.
At length they told the patient that be must
die. Calling them all around him be said
my friends, after die, make a post NOR.
tenn examination, and find out what ais me.
Tor really / have heard such long and
learned discussions on the subject, that am
dying TO know what the disease Is myself"
Year: 1861

MELANCHOLY RESULTS OF FoRTUNE-TELL-
ING.-The coroner at Cincinnati on Tues
day, held an inquest on the body of Conrad
Walter, young man of twenty years of
age, who committed suicide on Monday
night, by deliberately shooting himself
through the head with pistol. The Ga
zette says:


Deceased was always considered a sober,
steady and industrious boy. 1t was given in
evidence before the jury that some years
ago he went to fortune-teller in the city
to consult about his fate. The sybil in
formed him gravely that as soon as he ar
rived at the age of twenty he would die or
be killed-that he could not possibly live to
the age of twenty-one, except, perhaps, in a
state of misery and woe, to which he would
prefer death. Walter was twenty years of
age couple of weeks since. Happening to
be out of employment at the time, he be-
lieved the prediction of the fortune-teller
was about to be verified, if not as regarded
his death, at least with regard to the misery
of his life. This, it is thought, induced him
to commit the act of self-destruction, as no
other reason can be assigned, and such was
in part the verdict of the jury. The case is
certainly a sad comment on the amount of
faith which young people too often place in
the sayings Of the unprineipled class alluded
to.
Year: 1861

A TENNESSEE HIT AT SECESSION.
Nashville Banner, strong Union paper,
thus expresses its opinions


The oligarchs of " the Confederate States
of America are remarkable for two things;
getting along without referring any of their
actions back to the people for ratification,
and the raising of standing armies. But
their guns point too much inland. The
forces they raise would be of little avail
against any coercive force which is likely TO
come against them from without-for that
must come by way of the sea. But they
are capital against their own people, The
coercion these usurpers fear is to come from
their own people, and against that it is they
raise standing armies. Thus they can en-
force silence which will give " the con-
sent of the governed to any form Of gov
ernment they may ordain.
Year: 1861

FEATHER RIVER BRIDGE-The severe storm
of last Tuesday night stopped all travel and
transportation across Feather River at this
point and for miles up and down, except with
small boats, which is dangerous mode Of con-
veyance across streams as turbulent as the
Feather is, when swollen by heavy rains and
melting snow. While ferries are depended
upon as a means of crossing, these interruptions
of communication will continue, during the late
Fall, Winter and Spring months, or for nearly
one>half the year causing vexatious delays
and serious damage to the travelling public and
the business men of our county, besides pre-
venting access to the county seat, for several
days at a time, of one>half the tax payers Of
the county. The necessities of the public, de-
mand the removal of this obstacle to communi-
cation at the earliest possible moment, by the
building of a substantial bridge across the
river, at some point sufficiently near the town
to insure convenience.


Notwithstanding all that has been said and
done for years past, the petitions circulated,
charters granted and promises made, we ap,
pear to. be no nearer realizing the desired OBJ
ject than when the matter was first talked of,
years ago. There are those interested in the
building of bridge who have acted thus far,
no doubt, with pure motives, and have done all
in their power to accomplish it, but have, un-
fortunately, had those associated with them
who are so narrow minded, selfish and penu-
rous, not to say meanspirited, that they would
neither aid in furthering the enterprise or give
place for those who would Such men should
now be compelled to stand one side by the
voice of public opinion, and enterprising men,
with capital, enlisted aud encouraged in prose
cutting the work. The building of bridge is
an absolute necessity, and any further excuses
or delays will impair the confidence reposed in
those who have control of the enterprise.
Year: 1861

RTcH DIGGINGs.-R Recent prospecting has
demonstrated the long supposed fact that rich
deposits OF gold are contained within the bo-
som of Table mountain, near Cherokee Flat
and very Short time will now, beyond a
doubt, open one of the richest mining districts
ever discovered in California. The great basin
will be tapped IN few months, by the Table
Mountain Mining Co., when its immense rich
ness will be fully known The district thus
opened is very extensive and will consume
years Of toll before it can be worked out We
are not disposed to be over joyous or enter tntc
VEN OF braggadocio, but we do firmly believe
that Butte county will very soon take the lead
IN extensive and rich~paying mining operations


UNIFoRM.-The Oroville Guards have made
arrangements for the manufacture of their uni
form in San Francisco, and expect to have
them delivered by the middle of December.
We understand that it is the intention of the
company to have grand military ball after
the arrival of their uniform.
Year: 1861

REBEL Speaking Of the cap
ture of Mason and Slidell, and the decrease oi
the chances Of the recognition of the rebel Con
federacy by European Powers, the Shasta
Courier says quite sensibly:


While on this subject, it may as well be re
marked, that there has apparently been toe
much importance attached to the fact of recog
milton by European Powers of that bastard
Confederacy. The fact of recognition only
says this: We recognize you as a nation of the
earth That is all. 1t does not disturb or in
any way affect the position of that people SC
recognized as nation, toward any other Pow
er, and particularly power engaged in prose
cutting an energetic war against it, Indeed,
we can see reasons why Davis government
should be the last to demand recognition from
the European Powers, and especially from
France and England. The two Governments
are bitterly aud deeply opposed to the nstitu-
ton of slavery. 1t is safe to say that all
Engshmen and Frenchmen are abolltionists.
Slavery, as Vice President" Stephens has
Informed US, being E" the chief corner stone of
the Confederate constitutional is not easy to
see how these nations could do very great
deal 10 the way of sympathy for thing they
abhor. 1t might be mentioned that Mississippi
owes to the citizens of these Powers near
thirty millions of dollars This they would
have to pay, and it would materially modify
the chivalric zeal of that most honorable State
if it knew that it had to come down" with
that little balance, once repudiated by the
advice of this same Davis. The truth is thew
have everything to dread from this recognition.
while to the United States it is really matter
of indifference
Year: 1861

Social PARTY.-The second of the series oi
parties now being held. at stated intervals, at
the Armory of the Oroville Guards, will take
place on Friday evening of next week. A
general invitation is extended to all, to join in
the pleasures of the dance, and our friends in
the country who may be pleased to grace the
Hall with their presence, will find no attention
neglected that will tend to make their visit a
pleasant one, or their happiness complete. Fill
up the Hall, ladies aud gents, and let pleasure
be your motto.
Year: 1861

SALMON RIVER MINEs-It appears that a
small place has been found on Salmon River,
nearly up to the best class of placer diggings
in California in l948. A few men have taken
out three or four hundred dollars a day. That
vicinity will doubtless yield large amount o.
gold next year. Immense crowds have focked
there from Oro Fino, and the prospect is that
the immigration of miners from California will
continue to increase, and there will soon be
more people there than there are west OF the
mountains.-[ OREGON Statesman.
Year: 1861

DELINQUENT TAXES = By reference to a
notice published in another column it will be
noticed the delinquent tax payers will avoid a
suit and costs by calling at the County Treas
urers Office and squaring accounts, before the
expiration of twenty days, as the delinquent
tax list is now in the hands Of the District
Attorney, who will use every means to enforce
naYment.