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Year: 1865

No PARA. From time whereof the mem
ory of man runneth not back to the contrary,
it has been usual for all hands about print
ing Office to cease labor daring the
HOLIDAYS. We shall observe the rule, though
regretting that it win necessitate the omission
of two issues in succession. There will be
no paper until Wednesday morning.
Year: 1865

CAN'T GET THEIR RIGHrs.-Tuesday night
we celebrated. Wednesday morning we met
a Copperhead whose whole energies have
heretofore been given to the holy cause of
securing to the rebels-or. rather, the South
their rights. He gave utterance to the
fear that that delectable people were about
to fail in accomplishing that object" they
were not going to get their rights Assur-
ing him that they would, unless the hemp
crop failed, we left him to his sad medita-
tions
Year: 1865

@a- Hope for the Affiicted.-In another part
of this paper will be found the advertisement of the
celebrated Institute established by DR.. j. c.
YOUNG, in 1850. In this age of deceit and char.
latanism it is boon to the suffering to point out
to them where they of obtaining the wished
for relief and cure. Under the care of the sklful
Doctor the sick and troubled divest themselves
of their burdens of pains and shame lay aside their
cross, and secure health and happiness. If you
are sick in trouble, do not hesitate. Read the
advertisement and follow the advice Do not for
get the number nor the manner of directing you
letter. CONSULTATION OFFICE, $40 Washing
ton street, San Francisco.
Year: 1865

EXTRA SEssIoN.-Why put the State to the
expense of an extra session Of the Legisla-
ture, in order that the constitutional amend.
ment may be endorsed? The only reason
we have noticed among our exchanges
many of whom are discussing the question
is, that our incoming Legislature may not be
sufficiently loyal to carry it. If that be so,
then let it go by the board. Let California
be recorded as a State disloyal. We think
the incoming Legislature will give greater
majority than the existing one. If it does
not, why then we have only te say California
will be good State to emigrate from.
Year: 1865

MILLvILLE MEETlNG.-Last week, IN no.
ticing that there would be meeting OF the
citizens of our county residing on the east
side of the river. we stated that the meeting
was for the purpose Of protecting their out
side stock ranges from being occupied by
persons driving in stock from the lower eoun-
ties. We were misnformed. The object was
to organize detective torce, and raise mo-
ney to make that force effective in bringing
to justice class of that community, or ada
cent, who have been preying upon any stock
that might be running ''around loose" with
out regard to marks and brands or ownership
The owners Of stock in that district have been
plundered most outrageously, and the course
they have taken to protect themselves, and
punish raiders inside the law, instead Of
resorting to the demoralizing code OF
Lynch" speaks well for that community.


The meeting adjourned after appointing a
committee to collect evidence against sus-
pected persons and present the same to the
next Grand Jnry, also committee to collect
money, by donation, to defray necessary ex.
penses in carrying out the measure
Year: 1865

BAD PoLIcY.-Roads out of the State, and
inducements to our citizens to travel them,
is the theme of the Red Bluff independent
Nearly every issue is filled up with pufs and
blo,os Of the superior inducements offered by
some road out. Reading it induces the theory
that that town and the State has asuperfiuity
of population, and that it is discharging a
labor of love in getting rid of the white por-
ton, to make room for Cinnamon, who can
live in greater numbers in less space. For
the petty qualification of getting road trav
eled, it would deplete the State of its indus
trious population by locating five acres of
moonshine three or four hundred miles away,
building road to it, and then recommend
everybody to travel it. Better exercise your
talent, Mr.. Independent. in finding induce
ments for people to stay at home.
Year: 1865

1t Is remarkable with what uniformity the
Copperhead presses of the country haveioined
in one general attack on christianity. They
seem to vie with each other in pouring ou,
their vile vituperations against not only the
churches of the land. but also against the
ministers of every Protestant denomination.
They cannot descend low enough into the
depths of iniquity to find expressions of guile
and contempt to satisfy their own besotted
and brutal spirits in venting forth their spleen.
There is not sanctuary in the land but what,
to them, is polluted. The whole system Of
but corruption in all the religious influence in
the country. They labor to assassinate and
destroy the influence of loyal preachers. They
villifv, traduce and belle their names. They
generate minds are susceptible of originating.


Why all this2 Simply because they stand up
for truth, and right, and liberty, and fearless
" assert that s'God has made of one blood all
the nations OF the earth, and further, be-
cause they are potent power in community
to aid in the formation of correct ideas of free
government and free religion. Going forth
thus armed with the truth, they become ter
ror to evil doers, and not unfrequently do
these misanthropes feel the power of their
influence. And writhing beneath the scourge
which their treason merits, they raise the pit
eous howl of abolition preachers, ard from
the brothel and the grog- shops, stepped in in


iquity, and under the influence of sod corn aud
arsenic, they enter their sanctum TO write an
editorial for their paper, and behold, when
issued it is q lecture on pufe christianity for
the benefit of the clergy. How appropriate


Like Beelzebnb, Sr., lecturing Gabriel. The


truth is that these men are not only corrupt.
but they are infdels at heart, and are pos
sessed with an inherent hatred to all that is
good. Despoiled of their power, lost to
character. graYitating downward, living amid
the poisonous civilizations of their own putrid
forms, their chief ambition eliminate in per-
sonal attacks upon that class of men that are,
and have been true to God and loyal to the
country. The lamented Lincoln said that he
was thankful to God for giving to the coun-
try the churches in the hour of danger.
And we say that we are profoundly grateful
to God for loyal ministry that will stand up
thus fearlessly for the right. God and the peo-
pie will vindicate you.
Year: 1865

asss@ Let our soldiers remember that this
Copperhead party, who are now claiming to
be par excellence the Administration party,
and who ask the support of the soldiers that
they may be placed in power in the Govern
ment, gave bat last year their full support to
GEORGE II. PESDLEToS for the second office
in the gift Of the people. Let them remem-
Der that this same GEORGE II. PESDLEToN
was public man who was on record at the
time the Copperhead Democracy nominated
and voted for him, as one who had consented
to division of the country; who had op-
posed the raising of armies TO suppress the
rebellion who had opposed the raising of
revenues and loans to support our armies, to
pay The interest on the public debt and main
tain the public credit who had opposed the
punishment of armed traitors and defended
their property and csher interests who had
endoayored TO shield she traitors and spies in
the loyal States from the consequences of their
crimes; who had endoavored in all his pub
lie acts 10 save the institution of slavery from
harm; who cried peace = during all the ar
duouS struggle of our national soldiery to pre-
serve the nation from death and the North
FROM invasion By the armed hosts of the re-
heiiion; who invited the interference Of Euro
pean monarehs in our affairs by opposing all
Congressional protests against it; and who
prosttuted the position in which loyal con-
s'itueney had placed him, to aid disioyalty,
to make vain the struggles of the soldiery and
e embarrass aud hinder the constituted au-
thorities of the nation in their efforts to vim
dictate the Union and the Constitution from
the attacks of rebels and traitors. Are there
any soldiers who will support now party
which, at the time OF the nations EXTREMIST
peril, chose for Its standard bearer a seces-
sionist and n friend of rebels?
Year: 1865

FEMALE EmGRAT1oN-The authorities OF


Washington Territory and the Governor OF


Massachusetts have been negotiating to sup
ply the Pacific coast with female emigrants
that sex being scarce in that region. The
Governor has got together three hundred fe-
males whom be Intends to send in steamer
provided by the government at Washington.
The steamer will sail from New York on the
goth of August. The emigrants are promis-
ed when they get to Washington Territory
good wages, to be paid in gold, and have the
added nducemeatof probable marriage with
in three months, if they wish. The Secretary
OF the Navy expressed a fear that they would
all be married before they got there. That
depends upon their good looks.-[St. Joe
Herald.
Year: 1865

BRANCH BANK.-Mr. W. L. Sutherland,
agent of the Bank of British North America,
has been in town this week for the purpose of
making personal examination of the pros
poets of the place, and of the adjacent min
ing districts. If found favorable branch of
the bank may be established here in the
Spring. A house of, that character would be
of the greatest convenience to business men
here, and an advantage to the whole country
Year: 1865

Wm. Clemens i Co. are making prepara-
rations to pack one hundred tons of rock
from the Pacific ledge to this place to be
crushed, and if the gold is saved to anything
near the assay it will pay. It's twenty miles
from the Pacific ledge to this place and
freight is not less than d cents per pound
and with all the other expenses, it will be
rich ore indeed to pay dividend to the ledge
holders Mr.. Clemens and his partners de-
serve credit for their enterprising energy.
Year: 1865

and rightly managed. win be ma
tional blessing" and arguing from
these premises quantity maintains,
that "the funded debt of the United
States is the addition Of three thou
sand millions of dollars to the preyi-
ously realized wealth Of the nation.
1t is three thousand millions added
to its available active capital. 10
paw this debt would be to extinguish
this capital and to lose this wealth
would be an inconceivably great ma
tional misfortune


The proprietary interest in the
finances Of the country, now becom-
ing so universally diffused among the
people as holders Of the "seven-thirty
bonds" is one Of the strongest ties
undoubtedly to bind the people to-
gether in that unity of feeling which
arises from 4 community of interest,
and must have a goodly effect upon
the permanence Of the restored Union.


This, in substance, is one of the
strong points urged by the writer in
support Of his theory, and by a
parity of reasoning, be brings tor
ward the significant fact, long since
acknowledged. that British consols
which are held by the English pub
lie as a frst-class mortgage upon
all the wealth and resources of the
empire, act as spur to the industry,
capital and enterprise Of the pec-
pie. cementing them into one great
bond of union, and keeping alive a
spirit OF energy and discrimination to
support and perpetuate the Govern.
ment under which they live.


President JOHNSON, i'm a late in
terview with Gen. LOGAN, remarked
with reference to our public debt,
"that the finances of the country
were in a hopeful condition; that
probably it was possible to resume
specie payments immediately, were
it not for the commercial distress it
would create throughout the country
generally. AS to the public debt of
the country, he was in favor of pay
ing it to the last dollar, and would
never c0untenancs any man, party,
sect or measure that even squinted
at repudiation in any form. The
debt was incurred to save the coun-
try. 1t was a legacy of the war be-
queathed to us tor good OF evii. IL
was not possible to shirk it. On the
other hand, the great question would
be to make it, if possible, an instru-
ment Of good, not evil, to the public
generally"


The hopeful view taken by the
President of the country's finances,
tallies with what was publicly stated
by Mr.. MCCULLocH, the Secretary
of the Treasury, several weeks since,
and is certainly one of the most en-
signs Of the times.
Year: 1865

CorroN AND COMMUNICATIONS
who speculate on the future of cot
ton are too apt to ignore or but i'm.
perfectly to recognize the part
which peculiar advantages Of soil
and climate played in securing the
supremacy in cotton culture to the
Southern portion of the United
States. OF the two foundations on
which rested Southern ability to
defeat competition in the growth of
that staple everywhere else one,
black slave labor, has been shatter-
ed. Hereupon some commercialists
seem to think that the whole ques
ton Of restoring prosperous cotton
culture in the South depends upon
the restoration in substance Of the
same labor under a different name.
This labor question is certainly a
matter for very grave consideration;
but as regards the competition OF
the South with other countries in
the prodution of cotton, it is not an
essential element Of calculation.


The abolition of slavery can do
no worse than place the South en-
an equality AS to labor with other
countries where cotton has been
cultivated without slave labor
She still possesses singular ground
of superiority in point of soil and
climate. This advantage is indes
tructible at least political causes
cannot overthrow it. If the war
had the effect of developing what
seemed a dangerous foreign compe-
tition in cotton culture, 1t has also
more fully revealed the fact that
the South, on equal terms, has moth
ing to fear from competition.


1t is now placed beyond denbt.
that in none of the competing coun.
tries can cotton be produced with
the same facility and certainty and
Of as good a quality as in the splen-
did cotton belt of the United States,
lying between 81 and 35 degrees of
latitude and stretching from the
Atlantic to the borders OF the West.
ern desert, Their inferiority in
point Of quality has been especially
manifest.


These facts are enough to show
that, with reasonable energy aud
sagacity, American cotton can be
made to recover it's empire and to
hold it securely against all compe-
titors.-N. O. Bee.
Year: 1865

10 A we'll known lawyer in Bos-
ton had horse that always stopped
and refused to cross the mill dam
bridge leading out of the city. No
whipping no urging would carry him
over without stopping, so he advertised
him, "To be sold for no other reason
than that the owner wants to 80 out
OF town." ..
Year: 1865

Tho evontful week in the experience of
the armies Of tho James and the Potomac
has found the Sanitary Commission prepared
for its proper work. For u month past
agents and supplies have been quietly but
steadily Rccumulating at convenient points
in anticipation of the movement that has re-
suited so gloriously to our arms. The wagon
trains Of the commission entered both Rich
mond and Petersburg in company with our
victorious troops, and sdvices are received
that the section of the army now in pursuit
Of Leo is fully attended by both relief agents
and supplies. Over ono hundred experienced
and we'll trained men are now ut work In this
department; and when We consider that this
organized band had at its disposal on the 18th
instant supply Of stores "suficiecnt to
meet all necessary demands, y and that such
supply has been since increased by the arri-
val at City Point Of two Schooners loaded
with the proper material, 1t will readily Np.
pear that tho we'll ea.ncd reputation Of the
Sanitary Commission for timely preparation
ard efficiency in the Geld is being now fully
| iustilel
Year: 1865

ASHSAAAANAgNT TO@NAeHE-A -ANlbNE


TO THE PREsIDENT's-HE WILL


MAKE A SPEECH.


We observe that the Executive Mansion
and War otiice arc being prepared for an Il.
Illumination tonight.


II is understood that our citizens are to
call upon tho President at about eight
o'clock, whom he will respond in q speech.
We know not that there is any special organ.
iIatiOn on the subject, nor do we deem II
necessary that there should he. Lot the call
be an bnpromptu affair. We presume that
one or more Of our patriotic bands will volun.
teor to furnish music on the occasion.


But tho music most desired by the nation
at this hour Of the country trial is speech
from the President. If he speaks to. night
he will speak to tho people Of the whole
country who are anxiously listening to EoaI
something from him.
Year: 1865

II is heyeJy enacted By the Geoeo Asse,Jy Of the &ate
r Vermont


SEC l. There shall be established as hereinafter pro
vded institution for the discipline, correction and reior
nation of Juvenile offenders to be called the Vermont Re
form School, to which shall be committed for discipline cor
recon and instruction such persons exceeding eighteen
years Of age as is by this bill provided thus 20 commit


SEC. 9 There shall be appointed annually by the Gov
eno by and with the advice Of the Senate board Of com
mssoners to consist of three members Of their numhc
to be designated the acting commissioner and the other
two advisory commissioners


The acting commissioner shall receive besides board for HIM
self and family, salary of eight hundred dollars per annum
to be paid quarterly but other fees expenses perqu
sites whatever And the two advisory commissioners shall
receive three dollars PER diem or the time actually employed
in the discharge of their duties with travelling expenses The
acting commissioner shall constantly reside upon the State
Farm, and give his whole time 10 the dutieso his Office


The whole board shall meet at least quarterly but no
per diem to be paid any advisory commissioner for more
than fifty days any year and the salary and per dem
to be paid of the Treasury OF the State the order Of
the Auditor Accounts issued on the separate certificates Of
the commissioners


The said board Of commissioners shall give such bonds
in such amount and with such security shall be approved
by the Governor said bond to be deposited with the State
Treasurer aud in case of any vacancy occurring N SAID board
from any cause shall be filled by the Governor by appoint
ment and the persons appointed shall hold office one year
until Others are appointed


SEC. g. The said commissioners hereby authorized to
purchase land exceeding hundred acres less than


fifty acres suitable for the site and the purposes Of the said
Reform School, to be called the State Farm and located
within this State shall in their Judgment best meet the
wants and sbserve the interests of the said school the costs
of which land shall not exceed six thousand dollars Imme
dOtey upon the purchase Of the said farm and obtaining pos
session thereof the said board of commissioners shall proceed
erect suitable buildings thereon for the residence Of the
acting commissioner and the reception and accommodation OF
such male and female youths as it provided this act to
commit to the Reform School or in case buildings shall have
been purchased with the land put them proper repair and
Year: 1865

that ar the supply Of Croton voter has been somewhat


dinshed y the recent dsouth, they therefore reques


citizens to be more ecopomicai IN s use as
Tor time The Board state; 1.-THE pubiciare earnestly
TO be warned by this notice and To exercise
the almost economy in all the uses OF water TINS oe
done and even an ordinary degree Of vigilance DC o
t,eryed IN guarding against reckless and dishonest
waste 1t VIII be found that there sufficient wafer ior
all reasonable and just uses Ii nor no enort on OUT
mart can prevent results which win certainly bring TO
our citizens very great Inconvenience, and possibly H.
calculablc loss"
Year: 1865




THE CRITICS AND THE DoGs.-A
young Partisan artist lately painted a
portrait of a duchess, with which her
friends were not satisfied, declaring that
it was totally unlike. The painter pro-
posed that the question of Resemblance
should be left to little dog belonging
to the duchess, which was agreed to..-
Accordingly, the picture was sent to the
hotel Of the lady the next day, and o
large party assembled to witness the
test. The dog was called in, and no
sooner did he see the portrait than he
licked it all over, and showed every de-
monstration of the greatest joy. The
triumph of the painter was complete,
and all present insisted that the picture
had been retouched during the night,
which vas actually so, the artist having
rubbed it over with thin coating OF
lard! The dogs nose was sharper than
the critics eyes.
Year: 1865

SERMON ON TEETH.-Did You ever
think of what inestimable value is u
sound well-fOrmed set of teeth to "A man,
and more especially to a woman--what
influence they have upon the character
often through life? Independent of
their animal uses, their moral effect is
greater than one wqaid suppose. For
instance, take two girls of fifteen say
the one with beautiful teeth, the other
with Il very deiectiveset We will sup
pose they have equal beauty of person,
ard are equal in all intellectual endow-
mcnts. You will find vast difference
IN the development OF character as they
Unturejnto wonanhopd. The one with
splendid teeth viii soon know they are
the adqiiFation Of all, and we are apt to
dwell! upon what we are most admired
for. she will court every opportunity
to show her teeth ready to smile, and
laugh, and be gay while the other,
unfortunately, will be constantly told
Of her misfortune! "What beautiful
girl, but such teethn' She, unlike the
more fortunate one, will try to conceal
her teeth, will laugh as seldom as pos
sible; and, when she does laugh, it is a
suppressed laugh-a sort of pucker Of
the lips.
Year: 1865

n YANKEE NOTION. DIR. DiO Lewis,
| the latest apostle of gymnastics, is the
principal of what we may perhaps term
a Hygeihic. Educational Seminary for
young ladies, at Lexington, Mass, near
Boston, wherein Theodore ID. Weld is
one Of his associates. We hear that, at
a recent closing animation at the


Seminary, one of the exercises consisted


of a careful measurement of the waists


of the pupils respectively and n COM


parison of the result in each instance


with a record preserved of u similar


measurement ut the opening of the
term, showing an average net gain of
y inches in circumference since the lst


of October last. Some girls who enter
cd upon the term invalids had mean
time been trained to walk ten miles
without fatigue; while their intellectu-


al progress had kept full pace with their
physical.


The subject of physical cducation--or
rather of the simultaneous symmetrical


development of the intellectual and


physical powers-justly commands in


creased attention. Yet the interest ta-


ken in it is by no means so general as


its Importance demands. We trust the


day is not far distant when to educate


the brain and neglect the muscles will


be deemed as mistaken and absurd "a to


provide schools for part of our youth
and insist that the residue shall have


no public teaching whatever.
Year: 1865

a CASE OF CONsCIENCE.--D Gay had
for some time missed the hay from his
barn, and was satisfied that IL was ato-
len. With view to detect the thief, he
took dark lantern, aud stationed him
self near the place whero he supposed
he must pass. In due time, person
whom he knew, passed along into the
barn, and quickly came out with IA big
a load of hay as he could carry upon his
back. The doctor, without saying Il
word, followed the thief and took the
candle out of his dark lantern, and
stuck it into the hay upon his back and
then rGtreatcd. In II moment the hay
was in u blaze, and the fellow, throw
ing it from him in utter CONSERVATION,
ran away from his pcrishing booty
The d9ctor kept The affair secret, even
from his own family; and, within a
day or two, the thief came to him in
Great agitation, and told him that
he wished to confess to him n griev-
ous sin that he had been tempted to
steal some of his hay and, as he was
carrying it away, the Almighty was so
angry with me that He had sent fire
from heaven and set il to blazing up
on his back, The doctor agreed TO
forgive him Oh condition of his never
repeating the otfense.-- ,Sproguc's
american Unitarian Pulpit.