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Year: 1861

UNION AND SEcEssIoS.-The young ladies Of
Burke county, Ca, offer strong inducement
for young men to secede. At a large and en-
thusiastic meeting on the 2sth of January, the
following resolution was adopted:


Resolped, That we, the young ladies of Burke
county, do henceforth reject, with a haughty
scorn and proud disdain, all civilities from any
gentleman who refuses or neglects to join thg
ranLs of any Southern State that shall, in he1
sovereign capacity, withdraw her allegiance
from the unconstitutional Confederacy, holding
it to be self evident that dastards glove car
never win a woman's love or defend her honor.
Year: 1861

SENATOR WADE's ULTIMATUN.-Ben. Wade,
of Ohio, is in favor of settling the difficulties
between the sections by stringing up two humid
red of the prominent secessionists, but if the
South insists on compromise he is willing to
take hundred and fifty to save the Union
Year: 1861

PHILOSOPHER PICKETT publishes his letters
to Latham advising him to side with the
South, for the reason that should the South
become possessed of the public property,
the Navy &C., she would make fair dis
tribution and California would get her part
of the assets; whereas, if the North should
clutch all in her dshones. paw, California
would get not particle; but the North
would re-enact the theiving game of the
northern wing of the Methodist Church
when that great sect split up!


Pickett is evidently not in love with the
Yankees.
Year: 1861

We republish from the Sac. Union the
Inaugural of President Lincoln. 1t is a
calm. gentle, and at the same time, firm
State paper, designed to conciliate rather
than exasperate, to win rather than intimi-
date malcontents to an obedience to the
laws, and comports with the character of
the eminent civilian, its author. 1t does
honor to the heart and head Of the Presi-
dent. A wise policy is observed in it, which
ought to command respect everywhere. 1t
is calculated more particularly for the me-
ridian of the border States, and will be a
powerful lever in the hands of the Union
men in that section. The President gives
them every hope and encouragement of
which they will not be slow to avail them
selves, and with effect.


There are three sections with which the
President has to deal in the present crisis.
On the North he can rely confidently. The
Cotton States he can scarcely hope to con-
ciliate in day, a month and perhaps a
year. The border Slave States, the third
section, may be said to tremble on bal
ance, and for this section is the inaugural
more particularly designed. But for the
middle section, more positive expression
of Union doctrines, more thorough expo
sition of policy and intentions, might have
been better. AS it stands, the leaders of
the revolutionists will not fail to make a
warlike document of it, to inflame the ig-
norant masses, while had it been less mild,
more auth bortative and determined after the
style of Jackson, it would have created a
| thrill of enthusiasm throughout the Union
ranks all over the nation, and might, per-


haps, have brought those less blinded by
passion in the Gulf States to take sober
second thought before committing them
selves finally to revolution. The tone of
the President is so gentle that some may
read in it license to go on in the work
of disorganization, taking care only not to
go too far, when more rigorou lang
might check them suddenly. AS the way
the border Slave States shall determine to
act will decide whether the conflict is to be
of long or short duration, it was polite in
the President to give those States every as
surance in his power that no violence would
be done by the Administration to their
rights and interests. He has done so, and
considering the interests involved, no one
can justly find cause to complain Of the
Inaugural Address of President Lincoln.
1t is in keeping with his character as a
civilian, and polite in its designs to meet
the necessities of the times.
Year: 1861

EDrToR JOURNAL Our city fathers have
provided US with a wise and necessary 0rdi-
nance for impounding hogs found running at
large in the streets, and have, also. to execute
the ordinance, appointed pound master who,
if We are to judge by the scarcity of swine in
the streets, has done his duty faithfully. But,
l make the inquiry, have not the Board of Trus-
tees overlooked a greater nuisance than the
swine ever were? Perhaps, and it is probably
the case, the Trustees not aware that a
pest in the shape of an animal exists in the out
skirts of the city, which is more mischievous
and destructive than all the hogs that ever AN
at large here elsewhere. l notice large
number of shade trees planted by the street side,
which, if not destroyed, will in a few years
beautify the city. But goats are bound to de-
stroy them if the owners of lands adjacent to
the trees do not go to considerable expense to
guard and protect them. This species of i'm
provement should be fostered and encouraged
by the city authorities as far as possible. As
no premiums or rewards are likely to be offered,
the least the Board of Trustees can do would be
to use their utmost authority to protect the trees
against enemies after they are planted. A tight
plank guard will shield the trees against goats,
but the question arises with some force, should
fifty citizens be compelled to expend twenty five
dollars each for the protection of trees along the
side walks when ten dollars would do but for a
half dozen goats that are not worth twenty five
dollars in all? In short, should fifty be COM
PEELED to pay fifteen dollars tax each, for the
benefit of one citizen to the amount of few
dollars? Pro BoNo.
Year: 1861

WHAT THEY DO SAY THEY DO Do IN THE
SOUTH.-An Illinois paper-the Lake county
D ;mocrat-has South Carolina correspondent
who furnishes, among other things, the follow
ing:


They have recently invented some refined
cruelties for testing how strongly suspected
strangers may be tinctured with Abolitionism
1t is true they barrel up men and throw them
into the streams, but this is only done after they
are proved to be Abolitonists. Prior to this
they undergo the following formula of tests, in
which have been an eyewitness: They take
the unfortunate and tie him by the feet to the
tail of cart and let the horse run away; they
then fasten him down to the sidewalk, pin back
his eyelids, and compel the passers by (men
and women) to spit tobacco juice in his eyes,
they then stand him up, bore holes into him
with small augurs, fill tho holes with Chinese
crackers, and touch them off; finally they take
off the top of his head, scoop out his brains and
fill the cavity with Republican ideas and prin-
ciples. If he survive this tests, they conclude
he is "sound on the goose" and after unjoint-
ing his legs allow him to travel
Year: 1861

CAN'T CLOSE Ir.-Reterring to the matter of
the Cotton Confederacy, which is to include the
mouth of the Mississippi river, the Quincy (Ill J
Herald expresses the sentiment of the Great
Northwest, in the following style: :" No mat
ter what may be the fate of the Union, the peo-
pie of Illinois will fight for the free navigation
of the Mississippi river to the last ditch, to the
last day, and till very late in the evening"
Year: 1861

The last Pony brings intelligence that
the Pacific Railroad bill las failed. In the
ordinary course of events we would be sor-
ry, exceedingly so, to chronicle the defeat
of this measure of so much Importance to
the springing Empire of the Pacific. But
the distractions in the country and at
time when the Exchequer of the Nation is
"plethoric with nothing, invite US to con-
slider the policy of committing the country
to the great work until internal disseu-
sions are settled. In the present aspect of
the expenditures necessary to restore peace
and order. The first business is to secure
existence. Convenience and progress must
come afterwards. 1t would be impolitic
in financial view, while the dark cloud of
civil war impends over the country, to under
take great and expensive work which we
can contrive to do without as we have done
in the past. The inconvenience Is undoubt-
edly much to our growing State, but our
people are patriotic enough in the hour of
their country's trial to suffer deprivations
even twelve years longer for the sake of
the Union and vii attribute the cause to the
same source which has deprived them Of a
railroad during the decade just finished.
While the South held the reins of govern
ment no railroad could be had, and now
x,-tap
the control of the nation, the same oppo-
sition is to be fought in another form. The
secession, anti-raiiroad states are provid-
ing ways for all the resources of the coun-
try that no railroad can be built. Under
ordinary circumstances the railroad men
in Congress would be in a fair way to glat-
ify their wishes by comm itting the govern
ment to the great National road. But in
view of the condition of the country it
would be impolitic at this time to begin
the great undertaking. We regret the pos
ture of affairs. Our hopes and wishes
have been long deferred, and our hearts
are sick by the delay.


But we cannot but indorse the action of
the powers that be. The Pacific Railroad we
are forced TO admit, has beenw isely left for
after consideration. Why should millions be
spent for the improvement of any section
of the Union till it is known where, and
where not the doctrines of Calhoun are to
prevail? We hope, and are confident that
they will be extirpated from the whole
country try no expensive experiments on an
uncertainty. Those parts of the Union that
have cost the most, like Florida, Louisiana,
and Texas, are the most unruly and un-
grateful. While the patriotic people of
California would repel the insinuation that
they would do likewise in any emergency,
they cannot but see that the incentives for
northern and eastern representatives in
Congress to vote for appropriations a great
share of which must be paid indirectly by
their own States, are small indeed while Sc
cession doctrines hold prominence in any
considerable portion of the Union.


AS citizens of California, largely and al
most vitality interested in Pacific Railroad,
we can complain of nothing but the disun-
ionists that our hopes and interests are
crushed. We will lend helping hand to
put down the common enemy, and then we
will not have to ask in vain for a share of
the common benefits of Union.
Year: 1861

The national debt of the United States
amounts to about n dollar and half for each
inhabitant, while the sum of one hundred and
thirty five dollars each would be required from
thu British population if they should pay theirs.
Year: 1861

The case presented by Pro Bono is strong
one, and needs attending to. 1t appears to be
the doctrine practically carried out of the right
of every man to take his property wherever he
pleases and hold it there in spite of the devil,
no matter how offensive or detrimental to the
majority. Having never subscribed to that
doctrine, we are bound to say the goats COM
planned of should be allowed no more privileges
than the hogs.
Year: 1861

PHILOSOPHER PICKETT writes to the Sac.
Daily News that he was forced to the hu-
initiating resort of taking around sub
scription paper himself to procure funds to
pay the printer for publishing his last PAM
phlet 4 hundred and forty dollars were
subscribed, out of which but fifty have
been paid The Philosopher affirms if he
can collect enough to make the printer
good this time he will promise to write and
publish no more for the people Of Califor-
MIA, but get up and get to some other land
as soon as possible. The Philosopher is
not appreciated in this State, because South
Caroliuans are too few.
Year: 1861

The Boston Post, in an article opposing
the cls,nor for the prostitution Of this
contest into war of emancipation, says:
u "Let the line be distinctly drawn let
those who do not approve of the policy
Of the Administration in this war, take
their stand in . distinct body, and those
who sustain it gather beneath the folds
Of the glorious banner Of tho Constitu-
tion, and the weakest be forced to the
wall. IfMr. Sumner and William Lloyd
Garrison are the true cxponents of Mas
sachusetts' sentiments, let the country
know il; IL they utter the opinions Of
only mesgre minosity, 10 is essential to
the political health Of the State that ths I
fact should be established beyond equiv
ocation. DO not permit them to dodge
behind one party organization and then
another, but wherever they are, draw
them forth. Let those who believe in
them follow them, and those who no not,
cast them out. The stencil is becoming 2
rank; fumigation must take place, or po-
lisical rottenness will sink the State into
an untimely grave" A''''
Year: 1861

CAMP IN THE lNTERIoR.--The Bastrop Dispatch
OF the 10th says that the militia officers of More
house have formed camp of instruction at Plan
tersville They will remain encamped for several
days for the purpose Of becoming thoroughly ac-
quainted with their respective duties. This is a
very good move We would be glad to hear of
something Of the kind in every parish in the State.
There is no telling how the militia of the State
may be required to repel the invader from our own
Year: 1861

A young man from the country going to call on
some young ladies the other evening was told that
he must ask them to sing, and should they refuse,
menced by requesting Miss Mary TO favor him with
a song. She gently declined, said she had a bad
cold, etc


nsn dan 4 Sa& INK 9Hr ner n4pPposS


The girl tainted Immediately.
Year: 1861

My deceased uncle, says a humorous writer, was
the most polite gentleman in the world. He was
sunk; all the passengers went to the bottom. NY
uncle was just at the point of drowning. He got
his head above water for once, took of bis hat and
said: Ladies and gentlemen, you must please
excuse me !" and down he went.
Year: 1861

RICHMOND June 23.-lt is reported here that
Maryland has passed ordinance Withdrawing
herself from the Old Concern. We cannot vouch
for the reliability Of the report, as it is said the
ordinance was passed in secret session.
Year: 1861

NARRrAGE.-Young man don't be in a
hurry about getting married. And what
is more, never content yourself with hav-
ing a common place wife. You want one
to stir you up. to keep you moving-to
make something OF you. Don't fear you
can't get such a one. remember a reply
that friend of mine made to young man
who expressed fear that a certain young
lady of great beauty and attanments.
would dismiss him if he became serious.
my friend" said he, infinitely more
beautiful women than she is, have married
Infinitely meaner men than you are" Ii
you are honest and honorable, if you are
industrious and the master of your bust
ness; ifyou are Independent and can stand
before woman with respect for yourself
and f.arlessness of her; you can marry al
most any body that is worth having. So
don't be in hurry; don't give yourself
entirely up to calling and complimsnts.-
Remember that here as well as elsewhere,
distance lends enohantment to The view.
Rather first master your business--t a
position in seciety--and make "ali of the
man out Of yourself that the material will
admit Of" ana my word for it. the marry
ing part will come all right at the end
Timothy Ttcomb.
Year: 1861

ES- The New Albany Ledger says q
man calling him mself William Brown, hail
ing from the South, is imposing upon the
Masonic fraternity, by appealing to their
sympathiss for aid to reach Sandusky, o.,
and that at several places he was success
full in his swindling operations. The
brotherhood everywhere are cautioned to
be on their guard against this man. as well
as many others, who are prowling over
the country at this time endeavoriug to
work upon the sympathies and appealing
to the passions and prejudices. which are
now vulnerably and easily affected. in q
time oe excitement people are to apt toe
give credsnce to rumors and representa-
ton Of wicked men, when little calm ra
Election would enable thom to detsct the
imposition, and thwart the cunning o.
the knaves who mako it their business te
dupe honest people.
Year: 1861

kg- A happy woman is not she the
the very sparkle and sunshine of life A
woman who is hsppy because she can'i
help it--whose smiles even the coldest
sprinkle of misfortune cannot dampen--
men make terrible mistake when they
marry for beauty, for talent or for style,
the sweetest wives are those who posses
the magic secret Of being coutented under
any circumstances. Rich or poor, high or
low, it makes no difference the bright
little fountain of Joy bubbles up just as
musicaly in their hearts. Do they live
in log cabin tn. fire light that leaps :p
on its humble hearth becomes brighter
than the gilded chandeliers in an Aladdin
palace Was ever the stream Of life so
da X and unpropetious that the sunshine
of a happy face falling across it's turbid
tide would not awaken an answering
glsam Why these joyous te empered peo-
pie don't know half the good they de-
Year: 1861

Nor PERsOsAL "A printing Office il
no place for men or boys to congrsgate te
to talk laugh or sing--it may bs fun tc
them but death to the proprietors.


There is not a typo on earth wo can dc
his employer justice when idlers stand al
his elbow talking and laughing every few
minutes during the day, when printers are
IN hurry making up forms carrying
'galleys' reading and correcting proof i
is great annoyance to have to walk around
and stsp over a half dozen pair of loug
legs. and be board with the dlscordan
notes of each ones fly trap.


A printing office is no place to loaf a,
and the editors exchanges were never in
tended for the accommodation Of the pib
lio--they are exclusively private property
In word a printing Office is place fo
business. is not place of general resort
Harr,sonriHe Democrat.
Year: 1861

~ Considerable interest has been man
ifssted in New York in regard TO an in
voice Of Peruvian Cotton recently received
via Panama. We understand that it is
part Of a shipment Of fteen hundred bales
most Of which was consigned to Europe.
The quality is very beautiful. and the sam
pie shown would sell readily at fifteen
cents, even in the presen; state of the mar
kct. The plaLt from which il is taken Is
said to be- a perennial shrub in Peru. indig-
enous to the soil, the growth of which AL
ready extends over considerable tract of
country. and needing only little labor in
the way Of cultivation 10 yield large re-
turns.
Year: 1861

The suggestion, that if the people of this
city would take hold heartily of the proposed
overthrow of the Government, it might be
made the capital of the new Southern Confed-
eracy, was probably thrown out by Mr.. Iver-
son, as an amusing experiment upon the gull.
bility of mankind. And if anybody is caught
by the suggestion, we venture to say that no.
body enjoys the Joke better than the Senator
from Georgia.


Whatever else may happen, the States which
adhere to the old Union, will hold on to the
old capital, with its edifces, its traditions, and
its prestige. Pride and policy combine to pro.
hibt the slightest harboring of the idea of
compromising that point. 1t is strange po.
litical logic, that if Maryland secedes, the capi
tai will be yielded, because it is environed by
Maryland. The true logic is, that because the
capital is environed by Maryland, that State
will be retained in the Union. That is the
true logic, and that will be the fact, if by any
of those chances which give ascendency to
violent and revolutionary minorites, Mary land
should be momentarily carried into any line
of politics inconsistent with her uniformly pa
triotic and conservative views. On this sub.
ject there can be no misunderstanding. The
country was invited by Mary land and Virginia
to locate the capital upon the banks of the
Potomac, and no change Of views in the
vicinage will induce the surrender Of the posi-
ton, or of access to it, or of anything neces
sary to its perfect security. Least of it, is it
conceivable that it would be permitted to be
the capital of a new Government, arising out
of the ruins of the old Union.


But il the adhering States should consent
to the abandonment of the city of Washing.
ton, it is the last place which would be select
ed for capital by Confederacy controlled
by the cotton States. 1t is on one edge Of their
proposed empire, more remote than it is from
the free States, and exposed to attack in the
wars which everybody sees must be frequent,
upon the supposition of two Confederacies.
And, in addition, politics are always largely
controlled by personal views and the South
Carolipans wish to get away from, and not to
perpetuate, the dynasty of Virginia.
Year: 1861

The first and SO far only financial measure


of the new nation of South Carolina, was to de.


cree loan of 100000, of which the eighth


part was taken by the suspended Bank of the


State. The balance, being the bulk of this loan,
after being hawked about in Wall street, where
everybody laughed at it, has been taken by an
apportionment among the citizens of Charles,
ton, who have any pecuniary means left. Those
who declined to take being denounced as dis.
affected, the whole thing is nothing, more, or
less, than forced loan, and it is only the be.
ginning Of a series of such measures. Men who
have anything to lose, Which they can remove,
or eau convert into movable property, will fly
Year: 1861

The NJ y Tribune, which was in favor Of
admitting New Mexico ten years ago, opposes
it now, on the ground that it has q Spanish
population, and too little at that How was it
in 1850?


There are reasons for and against it; but
the distinguished Republicans who support it,
deserve better treatment than the following
style of writing in the Tribune:


"New Mexico does not desire admission as
a State; is not prepared for it. To admit her
now is simply to make her over to slavery-the
scheme has no other purpose. Not South.
ern vote would be cast for her admission, but
upon the understanding that for slavery it is
now or never. In short, to admit her is but
another mode of running the Missouri line, and
carrying it further north than 800 30>.


~Though it is said that'Republcans on the
perilous committees have agreed to this dodge,
we trust they will reconsider the matter. If
you want to make concessions to slavery, make
them outright, and not pretend to lose them
by playing with cogged dice. Let us preserve
at least our selfrespect"


If the South had offered this scheme"
there would be some pretence for casting about
for Southern motives for it. But it was offered
from the North, and uoteI against by the
South. 1t is bold impertinence in the Trib-
une to charge upon Mr.. Adams of Massachu.
sets the design of carrying slavery into New
Mexico.


Mr.. Adams and those who vote with him do
not believe that slavery can get footing in
New Mexico in any event, but at least they do
not see, that making it State, and thus taking
it out of the operation Of the Dred Scott decis.
ion, increases the chance Of planting slavery
in it.


We consider it most suitable, so far as we
are ourselves concerned, to await the action Of
our friends in Congress, without intruding our
individual opinion. We know what the diff
culties are, and we believe that every one Of
the fourteen Republicans who voted upon this
proposition on Saturday, had the same patriotic
objects in view, although differing as to meas.
ure Of mere policy.


With this view of our own duty, we feel par.
ticularly at liberty to protest against the hec-
toring, bullying, and insulting language of the
New York Tribune. As that paper is in favor
of letting everybody sscede who wants to, upon
theory of free.love characterization, it is not
exactly in q position to advise those who mean
to sustain the Union, the Government, and the
administration of Mr.. Lincoln, against all Sc
ceders few or many.