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Year: 1863

BANNocK CITY, !. T., May 10, 1868.


EDS. STATESMAN In my last letter prom
ised to visit this city and mining camp and re-
port This place, in point Of location, rivals any
mining town have ever visited. 1t is situated
about fifteen miles from Paceryille, in a southerly
direction, with the Warm Springs to the west,
two and a half miles distant. This is a better
mining camp than that of Placervie, for many
reasons, and the first and main one is that
it is better supplied with water, The camp in
cludes Moore's creek and Elk creek, with their
tributaries which run at right angles with each
other. Bannock city is built in the forks of these
two creeks, on an elevated and beautiful piece of
ground, with pine tree here and there for shade
and ornament.


There is one saw mill in active operation here
1t is situated on Moors creek and is propelled by
water. I understand that there are several porta-
bic steam saw m on the way to this place and
Placerville. Letrhem come; there will be work
for them all.


Mr.. Greathouse, the Walla Wala stage man,
has Just arrived here with a coach, which, l be-
lieye, he intends to run between this place and
Placerville.


DISCOVERY OF A QUARTZ LODE.


There was quite an excitement here few even
ings since about the discovery of a quartz lode,
some four miles distant from town. The lode
is said to be very extensive and rich and has been
traced over three quarters of a mile. Other
lodes have been found, but not so rich and ex-
tensive.


MINERS, MERCHANTS, &c.


Miners are just getting to work properly on the
bars the main Creeks being too high to work to
good advantage.


Merchants are doing well, selling everything
at good profit and getting their dust


don't know whether greenbacks are taken
here in exchange for goods Or not, but am under
the impression that they don't 60 from the fact
that have not seen any in market.


Miners supplies and merchandise of all kinds
are getting scarce and high. 1t is my opinion
that four-that article which would not pay
freight sometime ago-wll be sold at high pri-
ces before it will be subjected to another fall
There are not enough goods of any kind in mar
ket to supply the demand for the next two weeks.
see by the STATESMAN of the 25th ult., that
some of the discouraged portion of our popula-
ton have found tn cir way back to Walla. These
persons I suppose represent the mines as hum
bug, and so they have proved to all who came in
late and found no claims taken up and held for
them by friends but be this as it may, believe
this is good mining camp.
Year: 1863

You all stand looking into the gulf
we dare 90 that much-but what critic of
the faults of Free Press will leap in >
No, you cackle around the brink, each ask
ing the other to do what he dare not, him
self, perform.
Year: 1863

How 4 MAN FEELS IN BATTLE.-There
can be nothing more puzzling than the anal
ysis of ones feelings on battle field. Yeu
cannot describe them satisfactorily to your
self or Others To march steadily up to the
mouths of hundred cannon while they
pour out fire and smoke and shot and she'll
in storm that mows down the men like
grass is horrible beyoud ription-appal-
ling. 1t is absurd to say that q man can do
it without far. Daring Hanceck's charge
at Fredericksburg. for long distance. the
slope was swept by such hurricane of death
that we thought every moment would be our
last, aud | am willing to say for one, that |
was pretty badly scared. Whatever may be
said about I" getting used to it" oil soldiers
secretly dread battle equally with new
ones But the most difficult thing to stand
up under is the suspense while waiting, as
we waited in fredericksburg, drawn up in
line of battle on the edge of the field watch
ing the columns file past us and disappear
in n cloud of smoke, where horses and men
and eolors 60 down in confusion, where all
sounds are lost in the screaming of shells,
the cracking of musketry. the thunder of ar
tillery, and knowing that our turn comes
next, expecting each moment the word
g forward" 1t brings strange kind of re-
lief when the word forward comes. You
move mechanically with the rest Once
fairly into it your sensibiities are strangely
bunted you care comparatively nothing
about the sights that shocked you at first
men torn to pieces by cannon shot becomes a
matter of course At such time there
comes latert sustenance from within us or
above us, which no man anticipates who has
not been in such a place before, and which
most men pass through life without knowing
anything abont. What is it? Where does
come from.-Cor. Springfield Republican.
Year: 1863

too, were swept away, horribly sprawling in
the flood.


As to the fiends who had stopped at the first
crevice, they ran in a body down the river
to look for the mangled remains of their
brethren, and the undermined bank giving
way under their weight. every fiend OF them
was carried away and drownded.
So pershed the whole race of fends.
As to the Devil be had learned a still deep
per lesson. His tail. also. the ensign of dew
iltrv. was irredeemably dislocated by his
last. life saving blow. In fact, it had ceased
to be any longer a needful weapon; its an
tagonists were all gone never a tail re-
mained to be branished at it in deadly en-
counter.


So. after due repose, the Devil sprang
lightly over the chasms be had so success
fully engineered. and went home to rear his
family thoughtfully. Every year he brought
his children down to the Dalles and told
them the terrible history of his escape. The
fires of the Cascades burned away: the in
land sea was drained, and its bed became
fair prairie, and still the waters gushed
along the narrow crevices he had opened
He had, in fact, been the instrument of
changing a vast region from barreu sea in
to havitabe land.


One great trial, however, did remain
with him and made his life one of grave
responsibility All his children born before
the catastrophe were cannibal. stiff tailed
fends. After that great event, every new
born imr of his was like himselfin character
and person. and wore but faccid tail, the
last insignium of ignobility. Quarres be-
tween these two factions smbittered his days
and impeded civilization. Sill it did ad
vace. and long before his death he saw the
tail disappear forever.


Such is the Legend of the Dallies-a legend
not without moral.
Year: 1863

CoRNs--For the beneftof those who hobble
through the world under the affliction of corns,
we publish the following, which is said to be
a thorough cure: "a little white bread soak
ed in vinegar. applied to the corn night and
morning, will remove it in short time.
have tried it and four applications cured my
-
Year: 1863

The Hearts IdOl--Passing down street
we met the Undertaken carrying in his arms
small coffin all draped in black he was
bearing it to some home where the Angel of
Death had been and stilled forever on earth
the tongue of some fond mothers sweet little
prattler ere il had learned to lisp her name /
for the coffin was tiny one. That small mar
row coffin would soon contain the lifeless
form Of the little angel sleeper The
light ofa household was gone, aud an aching
void left in mothers heart The little form
is gently laid in ITS grayeeradIe Unseen
hands will rock it nowl Tread lightly around
the tiny coffin, for angels are towering near /
Whispersoitly their anthems are swelling
on bigh2 But now the lid is closed aud light
and joy shut out from the mothers heart
One less in that home--another star in hea.
ven.
Year: 1863

New METHOD OF COOKING FOR Sol
DIERs.-When they camp for the night
the nearest corn field supplies them with
thousands OF small bake ovens in the
shape Of corn husks. Each man procures
an ear of corn with the husk still on il;


the husk is slightly parted at the top to
allow the fingers to be inserted, the ear is
twisted around until it breaks loose at the
bottom, and is then drawn out leaving
the husk clean and complete cup. In
this the -four is mixed and seasoned, aud
after closing the top Of the husk again, il


is buried in the hot ashes of the camp, fire
for half an hour, after which it is drawn
our and the charred husk pulled off, dis
closing . fresh hot roll. .grfnn55 t-If Al
Year: 1863

An eccentric physician once said, DIT is hard tc
tell bile from misery" Our word "melancholy, I,
derived from the Greek, means simply "black
bile" Check the functions of the liver, the sys,
TEN becomes aundiced, and the whole world looks
yellow The world has not changed, the eye has
But there is, so TO speak, liver Of the mind as
we'll as of the body, and the former is much more
easily deranged than the latter. When the ment-
al hepatic functions are disorderd hypochondra
ensues and the wisest of men becomes fool full
of despair plagde, pestilence and famine, war,
death and taxes mount him like so many night
Mares and run him at Gilpin speed through an i'll
terminable Slough Of Despond. His eye fickers
and droops, his nose acquires a permanent snivel,
his voice eroaks like tie voice OF an ancient bull
frog He is diseased as thoroughly as Job was,
only his boils and scabs are concealed from view
under his brain pan; and what is worse his disease
is both contagious and infectious. Let him but
ton-hole YOU for five minutes, and you are lost
Let him tell you his tale, ard you gone forever
His words have more poison in them than the sail
va of the lama Peru. You will intone like rain
crow The blackness of darkness will cover the
earth If you attemot to laugh, your face will
sput like a piece of warped Notwithstanding, or
chopped lip in winter, or a pegroS heel in sum-
mel time The sight Of Confederate money will
give you pain in the stomach. a jar fly on an
ASPEN limb will shock you like battery of artille





stiffness and appear to you as timber a cotton
cravat in August. The price of putty will be ap-
palling- The child of yours who dares to eat more
than one thin bacon rnd for dinner will be regard
ed by YOU as a murderer There will be weak
ness in your knees,-you will be water jointed and
slack twisted generally. It will occur to you that
the interest on Confederate bonds ought to be s
per cent. day. payable in gold. You will look
upon Mr. Memminger personal enemy and a


-. IL, u
clothes will l'become inefa5ly precious reading to
you. 1t will suggest itself to you that the duty of
wife in war times is either to take in washing
and support herself, or else to remain in bed and
limit herself to chicken scrag a"week The
length Of the war. and the age of Methuselah will
strike you as identicaly the same, There will be
great many sour grapes this year. Peach fuz
will you mao, and the plug out Of green wa
termelon will give you the dropsy. You WILL won
der why President Davis don't come and explain
things to you, and you will wish that he and his
Cabinet were hung with cow-itch vine. The
population of the North will be four billion
the population of the South will be- about three
hundred and eleven, mostly infants at the breast
All the grit in the Southern gizzard will turn into
weak ley; and every blade of grass, every leaf in
the forest, and every grain of sand will turn into
Yankee, armed with ten inch columbiad. You
will think it high time for Gabriel to blow his
horn. Finally, you will take to believing tele-
graphic dispatches and to borrowing newspapers
And then you will die.


Beware q croake Wig.
Year: 1863

LINcoIe COUNTY: July 9th, 1863


The time is approaching when The voters of this Con-
gressi3al District will be called upon select some
represent them in the House of Representatives
of the Congress of the Confederate States. Among
other gentlemen who qualified and capable of fill
ing that honorable position, ask leave through
your paper suggest the name ofCol. R. D. Johnston
as suitable to fill that office. When the war


first broke out, Col. Johnston among the first that
into the service of his country battle for the
cause of the Rights of the South. No gentleman was
willing go in defence of his country than Mr.
Johnston and he is still in the service; and should he
TO be candidate, may be assured he will
perform his whole duty well. MANY VOTERS.


Iel,-
Year: 1863

The following is full report of Sec


retary Chase's remarks to the Missouri


and Kansas delegation, who had called


at his residence to pay their respects to


him on Wednesday night:


1t is hardly in rule, gentlemen, that a


host should receive such a compliment


as you have just rendered me, from
guests assembled under his roof 1t is
perhaps less in rule that the host should
reply to it. 1t would, however, show an
Indifference which ] cannot feel if did
not say something. Let me say, then,
simply, that you are welcome, Missou-
rians and Kansans, all of you to my
house. l feel myself honored by this
visit ] rejoice to see you who were ar
rayed few years ago against each other,
-How united in the holy cause of freedom
and Union. Most Sincerely do sympa-
thize with you in the distresses broug ght
to your homes by wicked rebellion, and
most earnestly do l wish that you may
find the deliverance from them that you
seek.


You have, understand, laid your case
to-day before the Chief Magistrate of the
nation. | cannot anticipate his dec:so
He will give it, | am sure, according to
his honest conviction. In times of Ii
vided opinions on vital questions, when
men are arrayed on different sides. the
true rule of duty, in my Judgment, is to
ascertain in the first place what is right
and then do it. In these days the first
question to ask is, who are the men in
any State who most earnestly and un-
couditionally maintain the Union against
the rebellion? Having found out who
they are, go with them 1t is not so i'm
portant to know now many take the
straight path, as it is to go ourselves
with those who take it


The first duty of the hour is to restore
the integrity of the Republic; the second
is to found the restored Republic upon
principles which will insure it against
future disorder l have long believed
that universal freedom, and Just wages
tor labor, are the true foundations of a
Democratic Republic This faith, am
glad to know, is your faith. / have main
tained it through some trials; you are
now maintaining it amid greater trials. |
Do not doubt your final triumph. Diff |
Guilty, danger and calamity may yet at
tend you for a while, but guarded and |
susta ned by this faith, you will, I am
sure, soon find in your distant Western
homes peace, prosperity and happiness. |
Most happy shall l be if by any act or |
word of mine | can promote in any way |
5he speedy coming of that day.
Year: 1863

THE CURATIVE


properties Of the medicine direct themselves to
The organs Of secretion, and by altering the con-
diton OF the stomach and liver that the starchJ
principle Of the food fs not converted into Sugar 70
long ~ the system is under the influence Of the
CONSTITUTION WATER,
which gives those orgsus time to recover their
healthy tone and vigor We arc 8hle to statc that
the Constitution Water has cured every case Of Dl
abctis in which It has been given.
STONE IN THE BLADDER. CALCULUS,


GRAVEL. BRICK DUST DEPOSIT


AND MUCGS OR MILKY DIS
Year: 1863

A SERENADE We were favored last
evening with serenade in front of our Of
ice by Prof Hirt's Brass and String
Band of this city. We have long stood in
need of good band to discourse sweet
music at our entertainments and places
of amusement, but we shall want no lon
ger. Prof. Hirt's band is composed OF
some of the best musicians that Quincy
and our city affords, and they produce
fine music, as all can testify who have
ever heard them play. Come again gen.
tlemen.
Year: 1863

neA- There will be a meeting of the
Gymnastic Club this evening, in the third
story of the Post Oaice building, for the
transaction of important business. A
full attendance is desired
Year: 1863

DEsPoNDENCY.-The Northern paper.
are exulting over what they choose to con.
slider the despoudent feeling of Southern
people. To which the Richmond En-.
quirer replies as follows. We endorse it
all, with the exception Of those honorable
citizens of Northern birth, whose long
residence amongst US has made them true
and devoted subjects of the Southern Cou-
federacy.


We have but little respect, and no man
ner Of confidence. in the loyalty Of any
one amongst US whose heart does not re-
spond with an amen to the following.
They are already subjugated. We grieve
to say there are time servers amongst us,
as in every Southern community, who,
upon the approach of the enemy, will dis
grace themselves and families forever, and
mortify our souls, by the exhibition Of a
craven and dastardly disposition to pro.
tect themselves and their property by
Year: 1863

sing cloud. Sell dearly every inch, and make
the advance of the enemy cost life, property
and time.


But there is greater danger, to be more
feared than temporary defeats or subjection to
the rule of military governors. These kill the
body, perhaps, but that Iuns the soul and rem
ders Infamous the memory. And it is very
the mind in all its hideous loathesomeness.
It. comes in the gsrb of necessity or duty to
one's family, and thus has led many down into
depths which they would at first have shud-
dered to contemplate. 1t is the danger of
afhliation with the enemy, of taking the oath
OF allegiance, of making terms with them, con-
ciliating their favor, and asking their protec-
tlon. We fear that for our people more than
su6jugation We know that all who thus fall,
iall ''lke Lucifer never to rise again. Pity
them as We may, their sin is objectionable.
After peace and independence (which will
surely come at last)they will either live amongst
US ioathed and despsed, cut off from all hopes
Oh u preferment for themselves or posterity; or
'ney will be compelled by a CALLING sense of
shame to abandon their homes and cons panions
ior a voluntary exile amongst uncongenial
people who Will only tolerate, but neither love
nor respect them. The history of the revo-
iutlon of '76 is full of example. Some of those
VINO took British protection when the Caro-
linas were overrun by the British, continued
10 live at home, objects of scorn and distrust.
anu lett posterity who we're vigorously excluded
from all Offices of honor and trust. Others,
more sensitive, and, We think, more honorable,
LETT with the invaders, and were allowed to fall
into obscurity and poverty amongst the people
TO whom they had sacrificed all that made home
dear, and all that makes life desirable. We
do not remember single instance in the revo-
luton of one who succumbed to the invader
and renounced the cause Of his struggling
country whose posterity ever became respected
at home, or whose family having let preserved
its position and influence with the English.


Let each one, therefore, guard himself we'll,
and summon to the resistance Of this greater
danger all his patriotism and calm enduring
fOrtitude. He may lose property, and be for
season restrained of liberty, but he will save
his honor, and his po,teri'y will reap the
ward No one heretofore has been compelled
to take the oath Of allegiance from fear Of
death. What is property or temporary ease in
The scale against the honor and respect of ones
countrymsn!
Year: 1863

sueakiug submission, and efforts to con-
ciliate the enemy. When our indepen-
dence is established, il will draw . line
forever between them and others who may
have been found faithful in adversity.
But to tho extract:


at is a sad fate, and we do not deny
it, for helpless women to be driven out
from their plundered homes, and sent
wandering into'a wilderness waste with
their fatherless children. We do admi {
that it is an evil day for any land-the
day that sees it flooded by hordes of such
barbariaus as the Yankees. We Jo give
to the Yankee nation ali the credit that
is due for being able TO torture the inno-
cent and bully the unprotected; and, IN :
doubtedly, throughout Tennessee and Mis-
.issippi, and Western Virginia, for ages
to come, mothers will claso their little
ones closer TO their hearts at the very
name of Yankee. If this be fame, they
will have it; if to avow it be dependency
let them make the most Of it!


"DespondeDcy! Why, if a more ip-
tense hatred and seorn Of towards, a
fercer resolution to endure all and dare
all, and perish to the last man 10 the last
fastness Of our country, rather than SUBJ
init to an association upon any TENS
Whatever, with people so base and brutal
if a more profound abhorrence burned
into tine heart and soul of every Confede
rate more and more deeply every bour-
more sacred rage against them and al;
their breed-if all this can be called de-
spondency, let them take comfort. We
thank God that We are separate from such
a people at last, and forever.
Year: 1863

cry is Destroyed.


To tie Editor of the n. 7. Tribune:
SIR The recent avowal of Mr..
Gerrit Smith that he is in favor of a
restoration of the Union, even if such
restoration should involve new power
to slavery, is slight Indication of
that counter-revolutsou in public
sentiment on this subject which the
war is calculated to effect, and which
political leaders seem determined
through it to bring about.


The only period in which there
was a ghost of q chance Of giving
this war an anti-slave7y result was
the first two years Of it's existence.
If it had been taken hold of at the
outset as an instrument of revolution
to dissolve tie Union and constitute
tie North the nation-- thus liberatlng
the Government from all constltu-
tional obligations to shareholders,
aud then been rushed through with
skill and energy, under wise Minis
ters aud competent Generals, in
manner to give full effect to the pow
er of the North, Slavery would have
been swept out Of existence, and the
seeded States conquered to the
authority Of the Union, and held as
subject provinces.


But this was not done. On the
contrary, the war was employed as
a means to prevent revolution and to
maintain the Union. The object
was to force upon the slaveholders
the rights guaranteed to them by the
Constitution they dscdraed. For
nearly two years the most jealous
regard was paid to these "rights, .
ana military operations, conducted
: in a manner to inducs the Southern
people to return voluntarily to their
Federal allegiance. Inconsequence Of
this policy, the golden opportunity
slipped away-the South became u
settled and determined Power-the
North lost the prestige of victory,
and it's morale was broken.


Thus the war became a failure and
utterly ceased to bear upon the ques-
tion Of the subjugation Of the Sonth
in any manner whatsoever and now
whatever may be said to the contrary
there are few reflective minds which
have not come to the conclusion that
the independence of the South is an
established fact, whether recognized
or not.


! The war for the future, therefore,
! becomes simply an instrument in the
hands Of political managers to effect
results favorable to their own person
al ends, and unfavorable to the cause
of freedom.


What matters it that few regl-
ments of negroes, more or less under
white officers, are sent into the field?
What matters it that the Presidents
edict Of Emancipation is printed in
Little &. Brow's edition Of the L. S.
Statutes at Large? Is Richmond
ours, or even Vicksburgh? Does not
the Confederacy still stand firm and
defiant, and does it not promise to
stand SO in the future ?-And above
all, is not the Presidential election
approaching?


! 1t is now assumed that the Unio2
is an object paramount over all other
considerations, and we are told that
it must never be relinquished. We
are asked to adhere to the war, net
because tgives us successful achieve
ments in the field, but for the reason
simply that otherwise we give up
the Union. We are told also that
the institution of Slavery, like all
other institutions, (vide New York,
Times of to-day, } is Of minor impor-
tance, one way or the other, compar-
ed with the Union: that t must give