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Year: 1864

BOSTON, Sept 6.-The first great gathering
of the Presidential campaign took place at
to those who defend the integrity of the Re-
public, and favor vigorous war as the only
path to peace.


The hall was packed, and hundreds were
unable to gain admittance. Gev. Andrew was
chosen president, and made q stirring speech
Senator Wilson also addressed the meeting
Year: 1864

Almost everybody has heard of the
wonderful walking leaves of Australia
For a long time after the discovery of that
island many people really believed that
the leaves Of a certain tree, which -four
ished there, could walk about the ground
The story arose IN this way. Some Eng
lish sailors landed upon the coast one day,
and after roaming about until they were
tired, they sat down under tree. to rest
themselves. A puff of wind came along
and blew off a shower of leaves, which
after turning over and over in the air, as
leaves generally do, finally rested upon
the ground. AS it was midsummer and
everything appeared quite green, the cir
cumsta8ce puzzled the sailors considera-
bly,. But their surprise was much great
er, as you may well suppose, when after
a short time they saw the leaves crawling
along the grouad towards the trunk of
the tree, They ran at once for the yes
sci, without stopping to examine into the
natter at ALL aud set sail from the land
where everything seemed to be bewitcbed,
One of the men said that he expected
every momeut to see the trees set to and
dance jig" .,.,


Late explorations of Australia have
taught US that these walking leaves are
insects. ssaaa


:. They live upon the trees. Their bod
les are very thin aud fat, their wings for
ming large leaf ike organs. When they
are disturbed their legs are folded away
under bodies, leaving the shape exactly
like leaf, with its stem and all complete.
They are of a bright green color in the
summer but they gradually change in the
fall, with the leaves, in the brown of a
frost bitten vegetation When shaken
from the tree, they lie for few minutes
upon the ground as though they were
dead, but presently they begin to crawl
sEorg towards tie tree, which they ascend
again. They rarely use their wings, al.
though :hey are pretty velF snppliSd ID
this respect. sr'Tgea sFv
Year: 1864

get that fidelity which was due to the
court and thecause of truth and justice.
Even amidst the excitement of trial his
well balanced mind and retentiye. memo
ry always led him to admit the correct
ness Of principles, when asserted by his
opponents to which his judgment assent
ed, even though, theyswere damaging to
his clients cause, Let US initiate this
excellent trait, and, never forget to be
faithful to. the cause of truth, be the
temptation ever 80 great to depart from
it. ea a2nsq q e7nss hsa gs1aaea ue


Weihave every reason to believe that
Mr.. Reeder expected the great change
which awaited him and contemplated it
with cafmness. Not long ago | talked
with him Of his health, and spoke to him
of the dangeryof such severe laborb by one
In his condition and of its possibly fatal
result, He answered in, effect that it
mattered but little when man was called
away from this world if he was prepared
and could leave those who were dear to
him with comfortable provision. 'aFs''
One year ago, my friends, who that
looked upon his robust and vigorous
frame would have selected him as the
first among us that deaths arrow should
strike down Rsi Who of us shall be the
next? Let us be prepared and trust, as
we believe our friend did, in Him who
can alone sustain our sinking souls,
"when heart and flesh shall fail US. y


The resolutions were then unanimously
adopted and the meeting adjourned.


The resolutions are as follows:9 f ef


God ih his mysterious Providence, has
by the hand of death removed from our
humber the Hon. Andrew III. Reeder, a
much esteemed member of the Bar of
Northampton County, it is eminently fit
ting that his brethren Of the Bar who
survive to mourn his loss, should take
such action as the solemn occasion re-
quires; therefore, 'e


Resolred, That we deeply deplore the
decease of our late brother and friend SO
long endeared to us by many social ties
and professional relations, and with heart
felt sorrow for our loss bear testimony to
the high moral character and mental en-
dowments of the deceased, which formed
his worth and adorned his life as Ju-
rist and Statesman and Christian.


Resoloed, That we deeply sympathize
with his afflicted family in this hour of
their sore bereavement upon the loss of
one endeared to them by the tenderness
of earthly ties ~


ResolUed, That as token of respect
the members of the bar in body attend
the funeral and that's copy of these res
elutiops, attested= by the officers of the
meeting be presented to the widow and
family of the deceased.


re M J,SYs MAYNARD, Pres't.


E. J.. FOX, Sec'y.
Year: 1864

Fasten nail or key to string, and sus-
pend it to your thumb and finger, and the
nail viii oscillate like pendulum. Let
some one place his open hand under the
nail, and it will change to circular motion.
Then let a third person place his hand up
on your shoulder, and the ran becomes IN
moment stationary.
Year: 1864

OF At the late election for school officers
at Iowa City, the Catholic priest in that city
voted for the Union nominees, and stood at
the polls and worked all day for the success
of the ticket He was asked at the polls by
d prominent Copperhead how he came to
vote the Republican ticket 81 did it" said
he, Sin order to get out OF bad company !"
Year: 1864

@Persons wishing to see the editors
will generally find them at the printing Of
fee. In their absence, however, invitations
to dine and challenges to fight, should be left
either with the devil or in our table drawer.
Year: 1864

6FA little boy coming home from GER
tain church where he had seen person per-
form on an organ, said to his mother, 'Oh
mama,I wish you had been at church to-day
to see the fun "a man pumping music out
of an old cupboard p
Year: 1864

GIVE HIM TRApE.-If education is the
great buckler and shield of human liberty,
well developed industry is equally the buck
Ter and shield of individual independence.
As an unfailing resource through life, give
your son, equal with good education.
good, honest trade. Better any trade
than none, though there is ample field
for the adoption of every inclination
in this respect. Learned professions and
speculative employments may fail a man !;
but an honest handicraft trade seldom or
never-if ITS possessor chooses to exercise it..
Let him feel. too, that honest labor crafts are
honorable and noble. The men of trades the
real creators of whatever is most essential to
the necessities and welfare of mankind can
not be dispensed with. They, above all
others in whatever repute they haze been
held by their most fastidous fellows, must
work at the oar of human progress, or all
is lost But few brown handed trade work
ers think ofthis, or appreciate the real powers
and position they compass. Give your son a
trade, no mater what fortune he may have
or seem likely or inherit. Give him trade.
With this be can always battle with tempo
rary want. and can always be independent.
Year: 1864

ORIENTAL BAYADEREs.-The Bayaderes of
the East are remarkable among the women
of the world for their grace and power OF
physical endurance. They are trained from
childhood as gymnasts; they cary heavy jars
on their heads to Improve strength and fig
ure they ay kites to acquire = statuesque
attitudes and graceful surprises - they must
learn t, lay the back of their hand flat against
their wrist, to partially bend the arm in
bosh directions at the elbow. and, inclining
the whole person backward from the waist
tn swesp, the floor with their hair. Some
of them are marvels of airiness and agility.
presenting to the fascinated eye that follows
them through the mazes of some bewildering Q
waltz, the living embodiment of the poet
ry of notion;
Year: 1864

NOTICE is hereby given that -, - OK


~ piration of thirty days after the publication of
this notice. soon thereafter my application
can be heard, make application to the Hon. Board
of Supervisors of Shasta county foF license to es-
tablish and keep public ferry across the Sacra-
mento river at the most eligible point above, and
within one half mile of the mouth of Cow Greek,
where said creek empties into said river.


And at the same time l will petition the said
Board or Supervisors to lay out and declare pub
lie road, commencing on the Shasta and Copper
City road in Bear Valley thence running south to
Cow Creek Valley, and down on the west side of
said creek, by way of Fort Reading. crossing the
Sacramento river, and continuing in direct line
so as to intersect the present Shasta and Red Bluff
road at Leans and Fosters, on Cottonwood creek.
mrs WM- MAGEE.
Year: 1864

FOREIGN born citizens and foreigners should
ponder on this sentence from an article in the
San Andreas Register:


90 1t should cause no surprise TO the for
eigners that Americans who love their coun.
try should dislike to hear them speak i'll of it
and when the happy hour comes that our
country again stands upon peaceful and
more permanent basis, should it happen that
they fail to meet with the same favor that
they have heretofore, let them attribute it to
their disloyalty and not that they are foreign
ers. We know that there are many loyal for
eigners. and where YOU find them, they are
most earnest loyalists; we would that all
were son
Year: 1864

Early as 998, Errick Rande, Icelandic chief,
fitted out an expedition twenty five galleys
at Sentell. and having manned them with
sufficient crew of coonists. set forth from lee
land to what appeared to bea more congen-
ialiclimate:, They sailed upen the ocean ff-
teen days, and saw no land The next day
bTC6ght with 1t a storm, and many gallant
vessel sunk in the deep. Mountains of ice
covered the water as far as the eve could reach
and but few galleys escaped destruction.
The morning of the l7th was clear aud cloud
less; the sea was calm, and far away to the
northward could be seen the glare ofice-ields
reflected on the sky. The remains of the
shattered fleet gathered together to pursue
their voyage. but the galley of Erick Eande
was not t-iere.


The crew of the galley which was driven
further down than the rest reported that as
the morning broke the large fields of ice that
covered the ocean were driven by the current
past them, and that they beheld the galley Of
Erck Rande borne by resistless force and
speed of the wind before a tremendous field
of ice her crew had lostall control over her,
and were tossing their arms in wild agony.
Scarcely had moment elapsed before 1T was
walled in by a hundred ice hills, and thewhole
mass moved forward and was soon beyond the
horizon. That the galley of the narrator es-
capped was wonderful, it remained however,
uncontradicted. and the vessel of Erick Ran
de was never more seen.


Half a century after that a Danish colony
was established on the western coast of Green.
land. The crew of the vessel which carried
the colonists thither in their excursions into
the interior, crossed range of hills that
stretched to the northward; and had approach
ed nearer the pole than any preceding ad-
venturers. Upon looking down from the sum-
nit of the hills they beheld vast and inter
minable field of ice undulating in various
places, and formed into a thousand grotesque
shapes.


They saw, not far from the shore. figure
of an iced vessel, with glittering icicles in
stead of masts arising from it Curiosity
prompted them to approach, and they beheld
a dismal sight. Figures of men in every at
titude of woe were upon the deck. but they
were icy things then; one fgurc alone stood
erect and with folded arms, leaning against
the mast. A hatchet was procured and the
ice split away, and the features of chieftan
disclosed, pallid and deathly. but free from
decay. This was doubtless the vessel, and
that the form of Errick Rande. Benumbed
with cold, and in the agony of despair, his
crew had fallen around him. The spray of
the ocean and the fogs of the ocean had fro
zen, as it lighted upon them. and covered
each figure with an icy robe, which the short
lived glance of G eenland sun had not time.
to remove. The Danes gazed upon the spec
tacle with trembling eyes. They knew not
but the same might be their fate too. They
knelt down on the deck and muttered pray
er in their native tongue for the souls of the
frozen crew, then hurriedly left the place, for
night was gathering around them
Year: 1864




A REMARKABLE VIsIoN.--A solicitor. resi-
dent in the Isle of Wight, had business at
Southampton. He stayed at one of those ho-
tells for which the town of mail steamers is
famous, and after dinner he was looking over
his law papers while he slipped bis port He
was aroused from his foolseap % and red tame
by the opening Of a door Ibis wife (whom
he had left at home-in,the Isle of Wight en-
tered, gazed at him stedfastly, and passed
out through the opposite door. He naturally
thought thatitwas'a 4 h;sllueination. and re-
sumed his reasiiag .lExha a ywondering smile
at his own weakness. But within a quarter
of an hour, the very same thing occurred
again; and there was on, the countenance of
the specter an imploring look which terrified
him. He at once resolved to return home ;
with sowe difficulty got a boatman to take
him across; and when be reached his house.
he was struck by the CHASTITY and alarmed
look of the maid servant who opened the door.
This woman was so frightened by his unex.
pected return, that she spontaneously con
fessed her intention to murder her mistress ;
and her confession was confirmed by the fact
that she mad concealed n carving knife under
her'pillow. This, is very perplexing case for
those who think spectral phenomena can lie
philosophcally explained. Here YOU have
the phantom of a living person projected. en-
tirely without that persons consciousness.
Let it be assumed that person in extreme
peril can, by intense volition, act on the ner-
vous system of the universe, so as to influence
his dearest friend but here the person whose
likeness appeared was entirely devoid of ap-
prehension, while the servant, who alone
knew what was likely to happen, would nat
urally exert no volition towards revealing it.
Year: 1864

SUBMISSION PREFERABLE TO REPUDIATIoN.-
Senator Wigiall. in the discussion of the re
bel currency question, a few weeks ago. says


If repudiation is to be the result. he was
prepared to lay down his arms and surrender
at once, for the loss of liberty would be NOR
tolerable than the loss of fhonor. Ifthe cum
try is ruined by the incontinent madness of
the people, every man ofthem will be ruined :
if it is dishonored, they will all share the dis
honor. Let the leaders of the people and the
press explain these matters to the people, in
stead of telling them that they will gain their
independence but lose their liberties.
Year: 1864

In Germany princess goes into the kitch-
en- and she does not become the less distiague
in her circle because she knows how every
thing ought TO be done below and can rap the
cook on the knuckles the next morning
over the cabinet council because this or
that dish or entree was damaged: and she
will have il better for the future Some such
idea has seized the English, and it is not the
worst reform of the dav.
Year: 1864

AN affecting incident occurred at the New
Haven barracks the other day A woman
desired 20 zee her Observation-Disclosures him.
began to sob and cry violently Husband
gave her his handkerchief to wipe her ewes.
after which she curiously manipulated it nn-
der her shawl and returned it to him. Hus.
band took it as if it were a brickbat Officer
of guard investigated. and found bottle of
old rye whisky in handkerchief -
Year: 1864

The Burlington Times has furnished lit
tie capital TO the copperheads by publishing
an attack on Provost Marshal Crane, based
on a misrepresentation OF the facts IN the
case. If the Times had consulted Captain
Crane before publishing Walkers statement
it would have materially varied its view OF
tie case.
Year: 1864

BD- Gen. Butler and Commissioned
OnId are understood to have agreed up,
on an exchange Of all prisoners on each
side whom their respective surgeons
pronounce unfit for duty for sixty days:
Year: 1864

We see by correspondence published, between
Judge Sawyer and George @ Doherty, the recent
aPpointee official reporter in the Fourth and
Twelfth District Courts, that Mr.. o Doherty says
he is intensely loyal. \ good joke on the Judge,
to ask of the accused whether he is guilty or
not he might have known that money will make
men of his stamp almost anything. Why was
not proper investigation of the affair made it
would certainly have placed Judge Sawyer in a
better position had he done something more than
merely ask the accused whether he was Union
man or Secesh. Everybody that can read a news
paper knows that ODoherty published the
meanest kind of secession sheet at San Jose ;
there are plenty of good reliable men in the
county he is from, that will give evidence to his
traitorous sentiments.-Sicrrd Democrat.
Year: 1864

. On if there is an earthly bliss
More precious than another,
1t is when with delight you kiss-a pretty girl
when she sends certain individual out of
the room the important errand of seeing
what hour is indicated by the family time
piece down stairs


Certain individual being her brother.
While musing thus, one Summer eve,
As by the fair ones side | sat,
The time near at hand to leave@so stealing
my arm around her waist, drew her gently
to me, and when in the act of applying my
lips to hers, the door softly opened, and
her respectable q Ma " appeared, armed
with broom-stick, and before knew where
! was


| was knocked into a cooked hat
Year: 1864

Coop SCHOOL TEACHERS THE BEST Police
FoRcE.-In his recent report the county Super
intendent of Schools in Alameda makes the fol-
lowing good hit


81 suppose every believer in popular Govern
ment will admit the truth of this proposition ::
1t is the right and duty of the State to perpetuate
its life in the best and cheapest manner
That proposition being admitted, there is another
just as plain and simple: 1t is that good school
teachers are The best and strongest police force If
there is any doubt on this point we need only to
open our eyes upon our country. Why is the
Nortm loyal and the South disloyal? Simply
because at the North the State has propagated
its life through the public school, while at the
South it has not If you point to the mobs and
the Copperheads at the North, you do but
strengthen the argument. For | suppose it is a
notorious fact, that in great many instances al
least, Gov. Seymours friends have for mld-
die name.


Commenting on the above the Marysvile Ap-
peal says


. Patriotism, a holy regard for government
and law, is most ardent where public schools are
most regarded The South could never have
maintained slavery with system OF tree pubic
schools for all her people. If she had always
maintained a thorough system OF public instruc-
ton, slavery had long ago died natural death,
and the now instead of being one vast battle
field her soil drunk with human gore, and her
ground filled with the slain, would be far ad-
vanced in such career of prosperity and true
glory as we little dream of and her whole peo-
pie would be filled with the most ardent loyalty,
instead of gloryfyng in their shame.
Year: 1864

They have an editor up north who is
so full of fight that the opposite party is
not enough for his trenchant blade.


He pitches into copperheads with a
will, but into brother republicans with
a willer His name is Felt, and he seems
determined to do his best to make him.
self felt. He edits the West Union Rec
ord, butmakes anything but a consistent
record for his professions. The Musca-
tine Journal and the Iowa City Repu6-
5icdn are just now the objects of his ven-
geance, and were his success equal to
his zeal, both these papers would soon
be as though they were not.


He said if G.. G.. Cole was nominated
for Supreme Judge, he and the voters of
his District would not support him. We
said, in that case, they would help to
elect the copperhead candidate. He
says: "That sounds to us very much
like lie." Now, Mr.. Record, will you
keep cool long enough to tell us what
the effect will be if you and your friends
refuse to support the regular nominee
of the Republican party? If it does not
help the copperheads, who does it help?
r He accuses the editors of the Journal
and of this paper of being governed by
somebody else. We can anunderstand such
an assertion only in this way: Not
knowing either of us, he judges us by
his own standard. Now, brother Felt,
Just keep cool. We are with you for a
fight with the enemy, but we have no
stomach to fight our friends.-Io,Ua City
Republican,.
Year: 1864

H9 Serious apprehensions are felt
that much sickness will prevail among
the troops in Sherman's army during
this season. Anunprecedentedquantity
of rain has fallen in Georgia the past
few weeks, making the movements of
the army slower than they otherwise
would have been, and the soldiers are
necessarily exposed to all these storms,
frequently without even the slight shell
ter of tent. The warm days are sue
ceeded by cold nights in southern lati-
tudes and render more covering necessa
Soldiers on the march and daily engaged
with the enemy often lose their blankets
and overcoats, and are consequently
without sufficient protection from the
cold night air. Every precaution possi-
BILE is being made to guard against this
danger, and to provide for the sick.
Year: 1864

THE DEMOCRATIC CONvENTION-The
Democrats have made sad blunder,
and yielded the first line of intrench-
ments to the enemy. The adjournment
of the Convention is a serious mistake.
1t is idle to conceal it, for now the only
hope is in getting wisdom into the
heads of the managers. who appear, as
in old times, to be pulled by wires. AL
ready faction lifts it's head. Another
Democratic committee is in the field,
and it is hard to say which is the real
authority, if there is any authority
Unless the Democracy look out there
will be a scrub race among various SUBJ
divisions who will grow up during the
summer, and, as in the donkey race, the
question will be who shall come in last,
for no one will think of winning by be-
ing ahead.-N. Y Journ0lof Commerce.
Year: 1864

Persons returned from the Idaho gold
mines bring discouraging reports. No
further discoveries of the precious metal
have been made, and the greater PORTION
of the people in the region are unable to
make q livelihood.
Year: 1864

The Courier takes up our comments
upon the gold panic, and attempts to be
very funny at our expense, because we
suggested to our readers that while gold
was appreciating or greenbacks were de-
preciating in value, our people, most of
whom in the West are producers, are
receiving more for the products of their
industry. Does Mr.. Thayer, or any of
his stripe, deny this proposition? Not
ut all, but content themselves with ex-
hibitions of silly twaddle.


Because produce goes up we never ar
gued that our people ought to be graft
fed over the going up Of gold. What
we intended to convey to our readers
was, that while the rebel emissaries OF
the North were endeavoring to bring
the credit of the government into dis
credit, they must remember that other
things besides gold were going up.