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Year: 1867

FASHIONABLE WOMEN Fashion kills more
women than toll and sorrow. Obedience 10
fashion is greater tranSgresslon to the laws
of voman's nature, greater injury to her
physical and mental constitution, than the
hardships OF poverty and neglect. The slave
woman at her task will live and grow old, and
see two or three generations Of her mlslrcsses
fade aud pass away The washer woman, with
scarce ray of hope to cheer her in her tolls
will live to see her fashionable sisters all die
around her. The kitchen-mai id is hearty and
strong, when her lady has to be nursad like a
sick baby.


It is sad truth that tashion-pampered wo-
men are almost worthless for all the good ends
of human life They have but little force OF
character; they have still less power of moral
WILL and quite as little physical energy. They
live for no great purpose in lite they accomp
lish no worthy ones. They are only doll forms
in the hands Of millincrs and servants to be
dressed and fed to order They dress nobody
they feed nobody; they instrucc nobody; they
bless nobody They write no books; they set
no example OF virtue and womanly life Ii
they rear children, they are left to the care OF
servants and nurses And when reared what
are they? What do they ever amount TO but
weak scions Of the old stock? Who ever
heard fashionable woman child exhibiting
any virtue or power Of mind for which it be-
came eminent? Read the biographies of our
great and good men. Not one OF them had a
fashionable mother. ... ...
Year: 1867

RIDING DRESSES. Es.-No costume mora utter
ly unsuitable for the purpose could be devised
than the present style of habit adopted by la
dies in riding. They could hardly get into a
worse habit, and they are making. endea-
vors to get ont of it. How long will it be be
fore ladies on the Atlantic slope will follow the
example Of their sisters in Marysville, Caliior
MA? Wee quote;


They propose to throw away the cumbersome
and horse.scaring hounce and adopt the Turk
ish style of habit, use the male saddle. and
mount their steeds the same as 'other folks. .
And why not? Physicians recommend ln-
valids to take exercise on horseback. But this
remedy under the prevailing custom of riding
on side, saddles, is quite as much to be feared
az the disease, and many of the ladies' think
they may as we'll die of consumption as broken
backs or crushed brains. The ladies' have been
taking this matter under consideration of late,
and have bravely resolved to defy old iogyism
and ride as sense and comfort dictate. We
understand party composed OF FIVE or six of
our most respectable citizens are preparing
their Turkish dresses and will be ready to take
the air on horseback the latter part of this
week We notice this style Of riding is being
introduced among the English ladies.
Year: 1867

In recent lecture in New York, NJ. Du
Chaillu described q species of African ants,
some Of which are so terrible to man, and
even to the beasts of the woods, from their
venomous bite. their fierce temper and vorac
ity, that their path is freely abandoned to
them. The most remarkable and most
dreaded of all is the black Bashikouay.-
There are two other varieties of Bashikouay
besides the black kind, These black Basbi.
kouays may be we'll called the lords of the
forest. 1t is the most voracious creature l
ever met 1t is the dread Of all living ami.
mails, from the leopard to the smallest insects
1t is their habit to march through the forests.
in long, regular line, line about two
inches broad, and often several miles in
length all along this rank are larger ants
who act as ofheers-stand outside the ranks
and keep this singular army in order. If
they come to place where there are no trees
to shelter them from the sun, whose heat
they cannot bear. they Immediately build an
underground tunnel through which the whole
army pass in columns to the forest beyond.
When they grow hungry, as by sudden
command, the long line spreads itself through
the forest, advancing forward, attacking and
devouring all living things with fury that
is qsite irresistible. The elephant and the
gorilla fly before them the black men run
away every animal that lives in their line
of march is chased. In an incredible short
space cf time those that are caught are over.
whelmed, killed, eaten, and only the bare
skeleton remains. They seem to travel day
and night. Many a time have l been
awakened out of sleep and obliged to rush
into the water to save myself from them
When they enter house they clear it of
everything. Cockroaches are devoured in
an instant: rats and mice spring around the
room in vain. They will not touch vegetable
matter thus they are very useful. clearing
the country of many insects. When On the
march, the insect world flies before them,
and | have often had the approach of a
Bashikouay army heralded to me by this
means. Wherever they go they make clean
sweep, even ascending to the tops of the
trees in pursuit of their prey. Their man
ner of attack is an impetuous leap, instantly
the strong pincers are fastened, and they
only let go when the piece gives way. At
such time this little insect seems animated
by kind of fury, which causes it to disre
gard entirely its own safety. The negroes
relate that criminals, by which they gener
ally mean wizards, have sometimes been
exposed on the path Of the Bashikouay ants,
tied to tree so they might not escape, and
been devoured to the bones. They are larger
than any ants we have in America. The
number ofone of their armies is so great that
one does not like to enter into calculations
but have seen a continuous line passing at
a good speed a particular place for twelve
hours. So you can imagine how many mil
lions there may have been,
Year: 1867

v II
i Holders of Shasta county. that he will, on the


First Monday in March,
enter upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. He would call particular
attention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


90 If any person shall willfully make, or give,
under oath affirmation, false list of his or her,
or their taxable property, false list of taxable
property under his her, their control, such per-
son shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor, as
is by law provided for the punishment of perjury
and any property willfuly concealed, removed,
transferred or msrepresented, by the owner or any
agent thereof to evade taxation, shall upon diseov-
ery be assessed at times the amount OF tax Tor
that year. which would otherwise have been assess
ed upon it and fifty per cent. of the amount OF
such additional tax, when collected, shall be paid
to the person or persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property so conceal
ed transferred removed or msrepresented, and the
remaining fifty per cent, after deductng the usual
per eentage for collection shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State"


IfTax PAYERS were to have a list of their pro-
nertv prepared ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them, they
vonld thereby save themselves some annoyance,
perhaps, as well as facilitate my work.


A. P. LADD,


Assessor of Shasta County.


Shasta, Feb. %, 1867. f23
Year: 1867

New WAY OF TRAPPING RATs.-Get q
common round wire trap. Bait it with the
most inviting food, and wait patiently until
a rat is caught. Instead of killing this rat
and waiting perhaps for weeks before you
are fortunate enough to trap another, keep
him alive and feed him as much as you would
a pet squirrel. In few days he will be-
come reconciled to his cage, and you are
now ready for business. At night, bait the
trap we'll and set it where rats resort most.
Some one or more of them, seeing q rat
quite at home in the midst of plenty, will
enter the trap without any suspicion of
harm. Next morning pump or pour water
thoroughly over the trap to clean it, and to
make the killing of your prey more easy
Have an empty barrel into which drop the
contents of your cage the prisoners being
we'll soaked, will be so heavy and slow that
you can easily knock them on the head
Treat your partially tanned rat, however,
las if you loved him." and return him to
his cage; this is easily done by lowering the
cage into the barrel. Repeat the operation
from night to night, and you will be surpris.
ed to see how easy matter it is to outwit go
cunning an animal as an :" old rat" Be
careful not to keep large one for your
tame rat. He will frighten off all the
younger FRY, and none of them will dare to
enter. The only difficulty is to get your
first rat. 1 had wire trap well baited for
weeks before could entice one to enter it.
To get the first, is something like Astor's
recipe for getting rich Get thousand
dollars clear of the world, and it is all very
easy" Since have caught my first rat,
have failed but once for many nights in get.
ting from one to four to keep him company


If your readers will try my plan, think
something may be done to abate one of the
most intolerable nuisances of this county,
To say that millions of dollars worth of oul
property is annually destroyed by rats


would not be an extrayagant assertion.
Year: 1867

A FOUNTAIN TREE.-A healthy poplar,
seven or eight years old, is taken from its
native soil, and cold iron borer is run up
the heart of the trunk. from the roots, for
six feet, by which means the pith is removed
and the trunk is made to assume the charac.
ter of pipe. A hole is then bored through
from the outside of the trunk, to communi.
cate with the highest point reached by the
former operation, and in this second hole a
spout is fixed. The same is done at short
distance above the root, in part of the trunk
which will be buried in the earth when the
tree is replanted, and the poplar is then fixed
in deep ground. with the pipe at the root in
connection with one of the little runs of water
which abound in meadows at the foot of hills.
A well known property of fluids produces
then the strange effect of an unceasing flow
of water from an iron spout in the trunk of a
living tree; and. as poplars love water, the
fountain tree thrives. and is more vigorous
than its neichbors
Year: 1867

ANOTHER singular duel recently took place
in Berlin between a journeyman silversmith
and another artisan. The arms selected
were bottle of sulphuric acid. The ar
rangement was, that whichever of the two
adversaries threw the lowest with dice should
swallow the contents of tie fatal vial. Chance
favored the silversmith, who Immediately
poured out glass of the liquid and handed
IT IT to his adversary, who unhesitatingly drank
II on. but to the astonishment of his antago-
list, instead of falling senseless, smacked his
nps and asked for another glass. The Sec
onds had acted on the sensible idea of substi-
,utlng arrack for the corrosive fluid. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that the affair termi-
mated IN a reconciliation.
Year: 1867

The Partisan papers say that the Ambas-
sador of Siam was present at the opening of
the Exposition, and that at the approach of
tho Emperor and Empress, he threw himself
on the ground and insisted that they should
walk over his back. Since that was not
correct, the whole imperial cortege came to a
stand still. They tried to make the Ambas-
sador understand that his humility was un.
necessary. All in vain, and he had to be
lifted up by some officers and set on his feet.
Year: 1867

The Secretary OF the Port Huron and Lake Mich
gan Railroad Company during his late visit, is re-
ported to have sold bonds of the road to the amount
of s5O0OOO the proceeds of which are to be immedi
ately approprated.toward the purchase Of iron and
rolling stock.
Year: 1867

NEW YoRK, November 6.


The Tribune says, with three fourths OF
our Republican journals either neutral in the
contest or virtually telling their readers it
would be better for the Republican cause to
have the Republican ticket beaten this fall,
we could hardly expect to hold our own in
the State or city, but the detection In both is
far greater than could with reason have been
anticipated to let the election 60 BY default.
1t was held and argued by the trimmers and
camp followers that it would crush out what
they are pleased to stigmatize as Radicalism,
and render inevitable the nomination of Gen.
and calculations have kept fifty thousand
voters from the polls and insured the over
whelming defeat Of our State ticket.


The Times says, on the State ticket for
Secretary of State the vote of the State of
New York yesterday went Democratic by an
aggregate majority ranging from the present
figures and estimates at $4,000 10 28 600.


The Herald says New Y York, with her large
financial interest, declares against the party
Of debt and taxation, and rebukes the at
tempt to place the Southern States of the
Union under the heel of African barbarism.


The World, says by yesterdays work the
Empire State has placed herself at the head
of the noble army of the commonwealth,
whose mission has been here and now to stay
the hands of the architects of ruin, and
whose mission will be in the year and the
contests that are to come, to redeem and
restore the Union and establish peace and
representative self government throughout
ali its borders.


The Peat thinks this manifestation of the
people will mete the passing chastisement
intended, to rebuke their faults, and bring
them back to moderation, common sense
and the policy commenced.


The Advertiser accuses the managers of the
Republican party of improyidently and
thriftIessly scattering what cost so much
care and toll to save; but with this defeat
our winter of discontent-and under better
auspices, the approaching canvass will be
made glorious summer. Shaking itself free
from membranes, the Republican party res
organized, reformed and purified, will assert
its devotion to the Union aud unfurl the
Grant banner, and fight out the Presidential
campaign on this line.
Year: 1867

Hon. James Hughes, of Indiana, the Rad.
ical leader in the Legislature Of that State,
recently made speech to his constituents at
Bloomington, portion Of which is thus re-
ported by correspondent of the Indianapo-
lis Herald


Ialways have been, am now, and always
expect to be, opposed to negro suffrage, but
it is fixed fact and will, in short time,
exist all over the country, North and South.
The Republican party is neither committed
for or against il, but If it shall commit itself
to this doctrine, shall not abandon the par
ty, but | shall accept the situation. pre-
dicted last fall, in speech at Harrodsburg,
in this county, that the Democratic party
would be in favor of negro suffrage aud my
prediction has already come true, for the
Democrats are counting on the negroes; and
there is but little doubt that they will vote
them in the South.


i am opposed to negro suffrage, not be-
cauae they are negroes, or are black, for those
are matters of taste and prejudice, but be-
cause the right of suffrage has already been
too much extended anu cheapened in this
country. While am opposed to extending
the right of suffrage TO the negroes, l am in
favor of DISTINGUISHING one-half of the white
people Of this country. Our fathers commit
ted great and fatal mistake in extending
as they did the right of suffrage. All histo-
ry proves that there is but one interest that
is conservative and that can be safely en-
trusted with the governing power, and that
is the property interest. When man is
possessed Of property, he has a stake in the
country, and desire a strong and stable gov
ernment, and will not endanger his property
by unwise legislation or by involving the
country in war. The great object in our
form Of government has been the want of
strength and power of the Federal Govern
ment. 1t will be impossible to govern this
vast and rapidly increasing crountry under
the operation of universal suffrage. Our
system of government has been materially
and radically changed during the war, aud it
can never be restored TO what 1t was prior
to the war. The Constitution is not worth
the paper upon which il is written. The
first effect of universal suffrage will be to
make the, Government nearly approach a
pure democracy, but this cannot last long.
We follow the example of other governments.
The strife of factions will 60 on until ulti-
matey the Senate or the President will as
sumo the control, when we will have strong
and stable government. The British Gov
ernment is the best Government that
has ever existed on Gods earth, and the
sooner ours assimilates itself to that of the
British Government, the better it will be for
the country. do not hesitate to declare, no
matter how unpopular it may be, that If the
negro race, and one-half of the white race,
has good masters and mistresses, they would
be much better of, and the Government
would be safer and stronger. sFfa
Year: 1867

FIVE years ago General Hunter issued his
emancipation proclamation in Missouri. an
act which was repudiated by the President,
and which brought down upon the unlucky
General the censures of scores Of those very
journals which would have us now believe
that they have been the special champions Of
the black man. Congress could have pro-
claimed negro outrage in the South just as
well two years ago as last March, but refused;
and, as striking illustration OF the temper
Of the Radical party, when they had the
power In Maryland, in 1864, while remodel
ing the constitution of that State, they re-
fused to confer the ballot on the blacks, and
again, when assembled in convention at
Philadelphia In September last, they declined
committing themselves 10 negro suiiraPe.--
The negroes may be ignorant, but there are
many OF them of sufficient intelligence 10
know, as General Garfield frankly admitted
IN a speech made last February, that The
Radicals have befricnded the negro not from
sympathy for him or from love Of justice, but
from interest. Who In the future will have
greater interest in doing the colored man
justice than tbs white men OF the South p
Nat0nGi in,eI9eneer.
Year: 1867

A GLANCE AT THE EMINENT SERV.
a ice and great public usefulness of this we'll
tried arr thoroughly tested Corporation, may be
obtained from Perusal of the following figures
of loaa maid
Year: 1867

A writer in the Augusta Press is
reviewing, in a series Of well-writ-
ten articles, the position Of Gov.
Perry, and in opposition to his
views, From his last article, we
quote the following cogent reasons
why the people of the South should
push forward the work Of restora-
ton:


Why is it that the New York
or Boston broker can obtain all
the money he needs at six cent:
on the security Of shares in any
bubble enterprise at the North,
when our landowners. merchants
and manufacturers are refused a
dime? Why is it that the NOR
chants of two Of the largest and
most populous cities in Georgia
are compelled to ask for a re;
duction Of rents; on the ground
that they are not making expense?
Why is it that thousands Of acres
reproductive land, already planted
in corn and cotton, have been
abandoned because the owners
have been unable to procure pro
visions to feed the laborers and
beasts ofburdcn necessary to culti-
vate them and gather the crop ?
The answer is, all this is the case
on account Of the political chaos
which exists among us, the insta-
bility Of our Government, and the
suspension Of all law, as an emf
nent authority has justly defined
martial law, or the government Of
the sword. While this condition
Of affairs continues, property is
insecure, industry and enterprise,
which depend altogether for sue
cess on peace and a faithful ad-
ministration of just and stable
laws, are paralyzcd, and society is
in continual apprehension of the
disturbance and trouble which
would result from a declared anita
gomism between the white and
black races. But restore to US the
power to make Cur own laws, SC
Iect our own officers, and regulate
our own affairs; relieve US from
the arbitrary and capricious domi-
nation Of the bayonet; protect us
against the spy, the inforner and
the detective; and place us again
under the agis ofthc law, as defn-
ed and limited by the Constitution.
Give us peace and the right of
selfgovernment, and we shall at
once command whatever money
and credit we need to rebuild our
trade, commerce and industry,
and re-establish the prosperity of
the whole people. Until these are
restored, and the oppression and
instability of military rule are at
an end, it is folly to expect that
our material condition will i'm
prove. Without capital, all our
intcrests-agricultural, mercantile
and industrial-must languish and
die, and to command capital we
must command confidence"
Year: 1867

As the trials Of life thieken, and the
dreams of other days fade, one by one
in the deep vista of disappointed hope
the heart grows weary Of the struggle
and we begin to realize our insignii


canoe. Those who have climbed TO the
pinnacle OF fame, or revel in luxury and
wealth, go to the grave at last with the
poor mendicant who begs pennies by the
wayside, and like him are soon forgotten.
Generation after generation, says an elo-
quent modern writer, have felt as we
feel, and their fellows were as active In
life as ours are now. They passed away
as vRpor, while nature wore the same
aspect Of beauty as when her creator COM
manded her to be. And so likewise shall
it be when you are gone. The heavens
will be as bright over our grave as they
are now around our path; the world will
have the same attraction for offspring yet
unborn that she had once for ourselves,
and that she has now for our children.
Yet little while, and all this will have
happened! Days will continue to move
on, and laughter and song will be heard
in the very chamber in which we died /;
and the eye that mourned for us will be
dried and will glisten with Joy ; and even
onr children will cease to think of US, and
will not remember 10 lisp our names.
Year: 1867

For the information of our readers in
terested in the matter, We publish the fol-


lowing synopsis of the general law of Pen
nsylvania relative to stray cattle. 1t is
worth preserving:


persons having stray cattle or horses
In their possession are liable in the sum os
five dollars, and will receive no compensa-
tion for damages or costs, if they fail to.
report the fact to the town clerk within
four days, and it is his duty to record of
the same, subject to the same punishment
In default thereof. IF the owner of the
estray presents himself to the clerk with
in ten days, he is entitled to receive his
property on payment of charges. If af-
ter the expiration of that time, no owner,
is found, the person possessing the estras
Is required to advertise it; and if within
sixty days thereafter, no owner appears
the person taking up the same shall ap-
ply to Justice of the Peace in the town
ship, who is required to issue his warrant
to Constable, who after giving ten day.'
notice, is required to sci! the same-the
money for which is to be paid into the
hands of the Justice of the Peace, who is
to pay all reasonable charges for the cost
OF keeping, registering, advertising, SELL
ing, &c., and the balance if there be any,
to be paid into the county treasury"
Year: 1867

In eternity it will be a terrible thing
for many man TO meet his own pray
ers. Their very language viii condemn
him; for he knew his duty and did it
not Those feryent prayers which the
good man has labored 10 make effectual,
will be shining ones" in white raiment,
to conduct their author into the ban
quoting house Of the Great King. But
the faisehoods uttered at the throne Of
grace viii live again as tormenting scor-
pions in the day Of the Lords appear
ing. 'Be not rash with thy mouth, nor
LET thy heart be hasty to utter anything
before God, is an objection that for
bids more than irreyerence in prayer.
1t forbids us, by implication, to ask for
that which we do not sincerely desire
Above all, it forbids the asking from
God those blessings which we are him
dering by our neglect, or thwarting by
our selfshness and unbel:ef