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Year: 1868

A gentleman was teaching school in a
quiet country village. The second NOR
ming of the session he found leisure to note
his surroundings, and among the scanty
furniture he espied three-leged stool. "Is
that the Ounce block 2" he said to a lit
tie girl of five. The eyes sparkled, and
the curls nodded assent, while the lips rip
Piled out: I guess SO: the teachers always
sit on that
Year: 1868

Considering how many idiotic men there
are in the world with whom good women
have to live, it is blessing to good women
that they should not be able to know an
idiot when they see one.
Year: 1868

y


Srccsss Every man, mast patiently
abide hi, time. lie must wait not in
lis,less idleness. not in nselesss pastime,
not in querulous detection, bat In con.
slant. steady fulfilling and accomplish
ing his task, that when the occasion
comes he may he equal TO IL. The
talent "f success is nothing more than
doing that YOU can do we'll, withou a
thought Of fame II il -c,mes AT all it
will come because it is deserved, not
becau g it is sought after. II is very
indiscreet and Troublesome ambition
which cares so much about what tho
world says to us; to he always anxious
about the effect Of what We do or say |;
TO be always shouting to hear the echoes
Of his own voiee.-LonlfekoW. "'+
Year: 1868

The first act Of a young japanese
bride, after being conducted to her
husbands home, is to sacrifice her
beauty by shaving her eyebrows and
painting her teeth black. By this
strange custom she symbolizes to her
husband and to strangers in the
street that she renounces completely
every desire to please or coquette.
Though sacredly observed while con-
tinuing, the marriage tie to the Jap
anese is easily broken, the mutual
consent Of the contracting parties
sufficing. Once in possession of the
bit Of paper by which the husband
restores to the wife her liberty, she
readily regains her lost beauty !;
two days enabling her to transform
her teeth to their pristine whitencss,
and two months of nature giving
back to her her beautiful dark eye
brows.


In Japan the respect shown by the
lower to the higher classes is cx.
trcme; and even between equals the
forms of civility are excessive.
When two officers or merchants meet
in the street they stop still, and be-
fore passing exchange grave and pro-
found bows. Even two friends who
meet every day are careful never to
neglect this ceremony. Among wo.
men these forms are still more en-
phasized. When a friend calls and
is once seated on the mat, all bow
their foreheads several times to the
floor. The first words are thanks for
some past service which they really
or feignedly call to mind. Then the
hostess fills, lights, wipes and passes
to the new conner her little pipe, and
along with it the inevitable cup of
tea. It is taken without either milk
or sugar. A delicate drink is made
from an infusion Of peach blossoms,
which is offered to favored guest
Uarper's Bazaar.
Year: 1868

The following incident of travel is narrated
by correspondent Of the Daily Ssratogian. -
It took place on the Rensselaer, and Saratoga.
railroad:


When the train halted at Saratoga, among
the passengers from the West came man OF
about thirty years of age, elboWlng. his way
through the crowd, and bearing in has arms
child He was poor man, his clothes were
poor, he looked poor Around his hat was
tied a piece Of soied, worn Grape. 1t was evi-.
dentv all the mourning his scanty means would
permit for the mother Of the child was dead.


This man was homely, yet his face was an
honest one. He handled the baby awkwardly,
vet there was tenderness IN his sad look that
showed the purity OF fathers love. The lit
tie fellow lay asleep on his coarsely clad knee;
q stray sunbeam glanced across its tired face
They were both tired. the father aud the child,
for they had come from the far West. and as
he placed his hard, toilworn hand to shield 1t
from the golden rays, there was in his look a
mixture of sadness and care, as if his pent-up
feelings had been SO crowded back into the IN.
ner cells Of his heart that even tears could
have been no relief to the hidden anguish that
was making his lie a misery.


The poor child cried it might be the little
thing was tired it might be it missed its
mother; perhaps it was hungry: perhaps 1t
was sick, and so it cried. The tears rolled
down its baby cheeks; the father wiped away
tine drops as they fell, and then tried to feed 1T:
He was 50 awkward with the bottle-his had
been life OF toll and hardship-and he knew
not how to give his darling its nourlshment.- =
As he made effort after effort to stite the cries
and check the tears of his motherless babe,
how he must have missed her who IN his hte


l. lol Eoo, co1oo nd
comfort An unbidden tear started to his eye,
but he brushed it quickly away. All who saw
him pitied him. At length woman richly
appareled, with an infant resting on the lap of
her nurse beside her-she had been watching
the man-said in gentle tone, "Give me the
child" The Door fellow looked at her with
look of gratitude, for there was mothers ten
derness in her voice. With humble res!gna-
ton, as thoug it was pain to part with him,
even for a moment, he gave her his boy. The
woman took it; it's soiled clothes rested on her
costly silk its tiny head was soon beneath her
shaw, and in a moment all was still. Like the
Grecian daughter who through the iron bars
fed her starving father, so did this high born
lady from her breast feed the hungry child,
and when on her gentle bosom the little one
Law in calm and unyexed sleep, she put aside
the shawl. :,


The fathers heart swelled with gratitude.
lie said as tear weled in his eye, and his
voice was thick with emotion, THANK you. l IL
take him DOW" Then the woman's nature
spoke forth, as she gently answered, Not yet;
YOU will wake him." and for mile after mile
that noble-hearted woman held that poor man g
child, and it was not until her own babe re-
quired such nourshment as only mother can
give she gently rose and placed the stranger
boy with its father .,.. :.
Year: 1868

effect that sound mind and body are the Is,.'>t
necessary requisites to promote connubaI hap
piness Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes q weary pilgrimage; the
prospec4-hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness T.
another becomes blightcd with your own,
Year: 1868

have e few temporary buildings which are
inadequate to requirements, and would urge upon
the friends Of education and human Improvement TO gye
their material aid and support by donations and SUB
scrptons until We can put our mechanical and manu-
featuring departments under successful operation, an
hope that win receive such substantial responses
from pledges that gven and may be obtained, that
we will have every OF inauguratng its great
purposes free from incumbrance and rslng liabilities
Any person desiring 20 bequeah means 10 carry forward
this institution can have any investment made OF ~
promptly they direct to the incorporation and the pro
ceeds will be applied TO the institution. We need at this
time to secure proper buildings alone, $4,000
besides the expenses may be forced TO make TO con
tnue cur school In progress consisting hund
red students Now, each friend viii contribute TO our
efforts by advancing to our agents what they able 10
give and will give us an annual pledge for small sum
per for four succeeding years. we will then nave
ample Of the Of the institution and the
coored citizens will have institution for their develop
ment eaualng the first OF s class In country Ger
tanly the amount be easily applied by the benevo.
lent humane and generous OF land Our Agents VIII
receive whatever subscriptions and donations
NAV be viking contribute, whether moneys articles
of service In conducting the Agricultural Farm and Stock
and Tools of all kinds; commence the instrc.
tions OF youth mechanics and the establishment OF
Cotton and Wooden Mills for further development and to
this enterprise self sustaining in all tho necessities
OF ie required by advanced civilization; which VIII
DO duly Acknowledged and thankfully received Address
the General Financial Agent and President Of the Board
Peter LOwery, Nashville, Tennessee
Year: 1868

he will, on the


FIRST MONDAY IN APRIL,
Enter upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. lie would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


d" If any person shall willfully make, or give
under oath affirmation a false list of his, 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 willfully concealed, removed
transferred, or msrepresented by the owner any
agent thereof, to evade taxation, shall upon dis
covery, be assessed at ten times the amount of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon it and fifty per cent of the amount
OF such additional tax, when solicited shall be paid
to the person or persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property conceal
ed transferred removed or misrepresented, and the
remaining fifty per cent, after deductlng the usual
per centage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State


Attention is also directed to the following section
of the Act of 1866, relating to Shasta county:
" The Assessor of said county is authorized and
it is hereby made his duty collect all the poll or
per capita tax except the road poll tax, and the
taxes upon all movable personal property and upon
the entry of any assessment OF movable personal
property, to any person, firm corporation, associa-
ton, or company, who does not own real estate
sufficient in the opinion of the Assessor to insure
the payment of such tax within the county, to de-
mand the payment of the taxes upon the same /;
and if such person, firm corporation, association,
or company shall refuse or neglect to pay such
taxes the Assessor shall, by virtue of the power
herein vested in him, proceed to collect such taxes
in the same manner prescribed by law for the Col
lector.''


If Tax Payers were to have list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them, they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, as well as facilitate my work.


A. P. LADD,


Assessor of Shasta County.


Shasta March ., 1867. MI
Year: 1868

Established expressly to afford tho afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private aud Chronic Diseases Cases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1868

The New York World openly, in
a recent number of that paper, ac-
knowledges the hOpelcssness of the
election of their ticket. The
Democracy are all by the ears over
this open and avowed profession Of
their weakness and that paper is
now running a gauntlet of abuse
heaped upon it from every side, be.
cause it has had the courage to tell
its readers its honest conclusion.
Year: 1868

The Democratic organ Of this city
is still " silent as the grave" on the
Blair Letter to Col. Broadhead. 1t
is but too we'll aware of the disafee-
ton existing in its party on account
Of that letter, 1t knows as well as
we do that members of its party
who have read that letter have as
serted that they would as soon vote
for JEFF. Davis as for Frank Blairll - y
Hence its refusal to publish it, r


We desire to impress upon the
minds Of our democratic friends
who refuse to support Blair, that
the erasure of his, name from the
ticket will not affect it in the least


If they vote the Democratic ticket,
and for the Democratic Electors,
they vote for Frank P. Blair for
Vice President, and they can't help
themselves. The only posi-
bic means of opposing his election,
is to vote for Grant and Colfax! e
Year: 1868

The Blairs are highly indignant
that Frank should be asked tpiwith-
draw from the contest and Mont
gomery proposes that if any change
is to be made, Frank be paced at
the head and some civilian of equal
ability be selected for Vice Presi-
dent.
Year: 1868

cretory organs or that have difficulty in discharg-
ing the contents OF their bowels that In the
haDit of taking Pills or opening medicines should
try box of these truly excellent Pills The hap
piness Of their effects the system, and the salts
wonderful curative powers will convince you that
your faith and trust In them will become firmly es-
tabiished.
Year: 1868

THE ADDITIONAL EoTING PREcINCTs-The
committee of the Board of Common Council to
whom was referred the Aldermen's bill TO
establish in each ward from six to eight voting
precincts, at meeting this afternoon, agreed to
report the bill on Msnday night with an amend
ment making five precincts in each ward
Year: 1868

THE WHITE HoUsE.-There were a number
OF visitor at the White House to-day, nearly
all Of whom We're admitted TO see the Presi-
dent. General Rousseau and several Repre-
sentatives had interviews with the Executive
this forenoon
Year: 1868

The Practical Effect of woman suH


rage ON the Size of Political


Parties.


AS to the practical effect woman
suffrage would have upon the relative
size OF political parties, Gail Hamilton
says: no.


Does any one suppose that if female
suffrage were established in any State
to-day, the vote would be materially
changed? Would the Republican party
or the Democratic party be largerin re-
lation to it's rival than it is now? Is il
not true that, as a general thing, the
women of family are, and always
will be, of the same political faith as
1t the other way, and say the men OF
the family always think as the women
do-not necessarily from subserviencv
on either side. but from the great
natural law that birds OF feather flock
together. The contrary is sometimes
assumed. Female suffrage is opposed
on the ground that it would disturb the
harmony of families. That is, women
must not be allowed to speak
because they will oppose men. This
Is tyranny pure and simple. It shows
that the light parts of our maps are q
deluston, and that we are still in bar
barism. But do not think the har-
mony of families would be disturbed,
We know that in religion, which is
equally the t'sphere" of both sexes.
tEere is little disturbance. Many hus.
bands Indifferent to religion have wives
who are interested in it, but it is seldom
that positive, aggressive Universalist
and similar orthodox are yoked to-
gether. When there is any marked
religious leaning, husband and wife
usually lean one way. What difference
does it make then whether the male and
female thought be represented by one
vote or two? Now the one Republican
vote is met by the one Democratic vote
of the neighbor over the way. Then
the two Republican votes will be met
by the two Democratic votes; but the
be few Democratic wives of Republi-
can husbands, but there will be also a
few Republican wives of Democratic
husbands
Year: 1868

49, 1t is provided that every stockho1der,
in addition to his regular dividends, shall
receive an equitable rebate on the amount Of
business furnished by himself payable an
nually thus, the stock being widely dis
tributed, and every stockholder having a


special interest to augment the business of
Year: 1868

A MAN in New Haven who wished to
have his little daughter sent to the aims
house, so that he need not support her,
had her arrested on the charge of steal
ing dollar from his wallet Well bet
that man belongs to the party founded
on "great moral idea"
Year: 1868

tho,Bonds. Tie Times desires his defeat be-
cause of his course in Impeachment, and is
anxious to have Mr.. Dana elected as much
because he opposed impeachment and is
considered a Conservative Republican as for
any other reason Now, if it is proposed to
make the question of Impeachment an issue
with Gen. Butler, it will of course be made
all over the country; and if the defeat OF Gen.
Butler is to be understood as a rebuke for his
services in the Impeachment trial, he will
probably be elected by majority almost or
onite as large as that which elected him in
1866. We shall next have The Times desiring
to oppose Republicans because of their refusal
to support the Philadelphia Convention. 1t Is
as sensible to attack them for the one thing
as for the other. The Times had better confine
its war to the financial issue, and not make
new one on matter in which the Republican
party was almost unit.
Year: 1868

In and about our State Department rcigns
dreadful pother. Is the Spanish Minister gen
tleman of high social rank or is he Minister
Considering the weighty matters that the United
States have in hand in this quarter which require
instant letters, eacha scoreof pageslong between
the Minister Tor the gentleman ofhigh social rank)
and the Secretary, to be duly embalmed next
year for admring posterity in our stately
volumes of Diplomatic Correspondence, we are
lost in alarm for the welfare of the country TILL
this great question shall be authoritatively
settled. We contribute our share this morning
toward a satisfactory solution of the problem.
If now Mr.. Seward will only do as much, all
may vet be well.
Year: 1868

The contracts for mail transportation be-
tween the termini of the California and Omaha
branches of the Pacific Railroad seem to be
involved in an unpleasant muddle The only
thing clear about it is that party agreeing
TO do the service for about third of million
dollars is not doing it, and that another party,
proposing to charge nearly million and a
quarter therefor, is to be called in.
Year: 1868

The President is still at it. Cannot the
Democratic journals join us in denouncing this
suppression of official reports for partisan pur-
poses 7 They had good deal to say about it
a few days ago we beg them not TO weary in


well doing, now that they have detected not
only the crime but the criminal. For the rest,
it is only needful to observe that the Secretary
of War promises to let us have the Camilla
report which Mr.. Johnson has been suppressing.
Year: 1868

The Rebels in Baltimore have been used, in
are preparing for another now. The police
are watching them, but not all the police in
Pennsylvania can keep all colonized Rebels
from the polls. VIII not every honest man do
everything in his power to aid the officers
Let us have a pure election next Tuesday, and
the day is won.
Year: 1868

As our Democratic ncighbors have not
seemed fully able to satisfy themselves
about Connecticut, and as the true organ
which "TELLs THE TRUTH has been dis
tressed at the "blue" appearance of things
"down there" we cordially invite their atten-
ton to the latest facts we have been able to
collect for their benefit, as printed in another
cnliinnn
Year: 1868

WoMAN's RIGHTS IN PRUSSIA.
In the ollen times q Prussian girl
who owned 4 little property--a hu6
or q fishing boat--was thereby
legally authorized to pick out hus
band herself. II she wished TO com
menee her hunt for q husband, she
would hang up her blue apron in
front Of the door Of her house and
post herself behind it. The young
men Of the village would then pass
BY the apron one by one IN a long
procession, and dressed up in their
Sunday clothes. AS soon as the
right one appeared the girl would
rush out, throw her arms around his
neck and within three weeks there
was 4 Wedding.
Year: 1868

| No people can be prosperous and hap
/ py without the encouragement of labor,
and due respect for those engaged in in
dustrial pursuits. Neither can a nation
be strong and enduring in her political
institutions if it is neglected. Man was
made to earn his bread by toll. 1t is a
legitimate and digni6ed calling, sane
toned by the very highest authority -
Nothing can, or ought to be, more praise
worthy than industry. No bread is so
sweet as that earned by the sweat of the
brow, and no home so comfortable as that
reared by the inhabitants own hands
The builder feels it is honestly his. How
sweet the thought and ennobling the re-
Election that what we eat and wear, are
the faithful products of our own honest
industry. In adversely or prosperity. in
poverty or affluence, those who realize
this truth are rich in spirit and more
capable of approaching life's true enjoy
ments, than the millionaire with his cof-
fers full of gold lily gotten. Sleep is
peaceful to the laborer, and rest luxury.
What he has, is bis. by the sweat of bis
face. A title thereto admits of no dis
pute. It is paid for in coin without alloy.
No fellow mortal has offered to enrich
him, whilst on the other hand all are
joint partakers in his prosperity. His la
bors have added to the general sum of
wealth nor is there any miserly regret
for having done good turn towards
others


1t is impossible to portray nobler
character than that of an honest, indus
trious, upright laborer. Their lives with
Year: 1868

While we wave the palm of glory
Through the long eternal years,
Shall we e'er forget the story


Of our human griefs and fears?
Shall we e'er forget the sadness,


Or the clouds that hung so dim,
When our hearts are filed with gladness
And our tears are dried by Him?


When we think on weary ways
And His light will be the clearer


As we muse on cloudy days;
O! twill be a glorious morrow


To dark and stormy day; ..s
We shall recollect our sorrow
GAS the streams that pass away"
Year: 1868

tf rom the jackson Mich Citi1en. Dec. 25 I


Yesterday afternoon a young man giving his
name as Charles 4. Scriter, and claiming 10
hail from Hudson, Michigan offered a note in
the sum of $50 for sale. The note had the zig
nature OF two farmers named Whiting, living
IN Spring Arbor township. Scriber offered the
note Tor SIS, which Was taken by a gentleman
who reported the transaction to the officer
Constables Sharpsteen and Spencer arrested the
young man for forgery, and placed him in Jail
about Sn O'Clock last evening. The prisoner
admitted that he had forged the note. shortly
after being put in Jail Scriber sci bed a razor and
drew II across his throat, cutting the skin. but
not touching the windpipe. Sheriff Jennings
happened in just then and took the razor
fron hlm and locked him in a cell. He begged
The Sherlf 10 get him some poison, which
was refused. He then told one of the pri~-
oners that If he remained i'm lail all night
be would be q dead man by morning He then
went TO his cot and was not heard for some time
noticed Scriber sitting on his bed with a white
cloth about his neck. The Sheriff was called.
who went into the cell and found him dead He
had hung himself In order TO commit self
destruction he had taken sheet, rolled II in
the form OF rope. made a moose. put il round
his neck and tied the other end to a bar lust
above his head. sat down upon his brd and de-
llberafely strangled himself TO death. When
the sheet was taken from his neck he WAS
placed upon his bed and a physician immedi-
ately summoned. but be could do nothing To
Justice Dyer was summoned, who empanneI-
ed the fact that the deceased had inflicted a
gash in bis right arm, with a view to produce
death, but this did not result as he expect.d
hence his resort to hanging.
Year: 1868

DEPARTURE OF GENERAL MRADE-Maior
General Meade, recently appointed commander
OF the Third Military District left this morning
Tor Atlanta, Georgia, where he will relieve
General Pope and assume command of the
District. General Meade desired to leave this
morning,and will receive his instru ctions from
the President and General Grant by mail.
Year: 1868

CONDITION OF THE SOUTHERN PgopLE.-It
seems 10 be the general belief that the Presid, u
viii send message to Congress, probably
within ten days, on the deplorable condition of
the Southern people.