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Year: 1863

the door of those who, like myself, forgot
the necessity and stern want that often send
about these wanderers from house to house ;
and that their employment might be far
more unseemly TO them than annoying to
u.s.
Year: 1863

The following is a copy of an advertise
ment posted in conspicuous place on a
manufacturing establishment in a village
out West:


WANTEDi-Four industrious young men
wish to marry four respectable young Ia
dies who enjoy fortune of $500 each, to
evade the draft. Inquire within.
Year: 1863

The handful here, that once Mary's earth,
Iel Ii, while it breathed so beautiful a soul.
That when she died, all recognized her BIRTH
And had their sorrow In serene control.


"Not here not here ~ to every mourner's heart
The wintery wind seemed whispering round her bier
And when the tomb-door opened with start
We heard it echoed from within-s'Not here"
Shouldst thou sad pilgrim, who mayst hither pass,
Note in these fowerss delcater hue,


Should spring come earlier to this haowed grass,
Or the bee later lnger ON the dew,


Know that her spirit to her body lent
Such sweetness, grace as only goodness can,


That even her dust and this her monument,
Have yet spell to stay one lonely man.


Lonely through life, hut looking for the day
When what Is mortal of himself shall sleep,


When human passion shall have passed away,
And love no longer be a thing to weep.
Year: 1863

While only ne-fourth of the able bodied


white men of the loyal States between the


age of eighteen and forty.fve capable ol


bearing arms, have been drawn into the


military service to put down the rebellion,


we think it an established fact, that the
conscriptions of jeff. Davis have CLEANED
the rebellious States Of all the able bodied
white men between sixteen and fifty years
of age, which they can possibly spare,
without literally starving the rebel armies
and the most of the population of the cot
ton States. Press gangs in those States
hunting up delinquent conscripts and ref
ugees, and military expeditions for the
capture or determination or expulsion of
refractory Unionists, are the order of the
day. We might produce numerous spec.
ifcations of such proceedings of late, from
North Carolina to Arkansas, five had the
space for them. We are satisfied that, so
far as the reinforcement OF his armies is
concerned, JEFF Davis has touched bottom,
and that we have only to break up the
rebel armies now in the field, in order to
break up the rebellion, root and branch.
-New York Herald.
Year: 1863

PRIVATE VIEws OF THE WAR.-The COR
respondent Of a contemporary tells story
Of Colonel in General Meade's army who,
on recent expedition, fell IN with pretty
Pennsylvania girl, attired in neat dress
cut low in the neck and short in the sleeves,
who was milking COW. The officer hav-
ing tried in vain to engage her in eonversa-
tion, finally proposed that he should receive
the milk. This was Indignantly refused
He then gallantly remarked that il all the
Pennsylvania girls were as pretty as the
one whom he had the pleasure of addressing
he had no desire to conquer the Confedera-
cy. swell, sir" replied the damseI, with
an ugly toss of the head, ''if all the gentle
men in your army are as ugly as you are.
we ladies' have no desire to conquer them"


The Colonel wilted on the spot. his looks
being matter of special pride with him.
Year: 1863

A Copperhead deacon Of the Methodist
chuch in Southport Conn, felt very cross
over the news of the capture of v,cksburg,
and ordered the church bell to stop ringing.
His order was obeyed until the congrega-
ton heard of It then the bell rang livelier
than before.
Year: 1863

The following is an extract from q letter
written by Hon. John Bright, to gentle
man Of Philadelphia


House. OF Commons, LONDON, !


June Is, 1868. {
We are anxiously looking for news from
your country, and need not tell you how
much wish it may be favorable to the
cause Of freedom. The battle of the world
is being fought on your continent, and the
whole world is spectator OF the contest.
With many thanks for your friendly SEN
timents towards me, am, with great re-
spect. JOHN BRIGHT.
Year: 1863

destroy Charleston, but compel the
enemy TO abandon any position hemay
take mile beyond it. Indeed, trial
was recently made of new piece of
ordnance called the Ferris gun, and
the report states that range of nine
miles was obtained. If this is the
case an enemies ship wW Be withm range
5cfore her hM IS IN sight aJore the horizon;
for on account of the curvature of the
earth, the hull of one ship does not
come in sight of a person ON the deck
of another until withina distance Of Z
miles.


Such is the range being obtained
that we may expect in Little while
to be bombarded successfully by guns
entirely removed from sight and out
of hearing; enabling us to obtain a
knowledge Of the enemy's position
only from the direction in which the
projectiles comes.
Year: 1863

ANTIQUITY OF MANN his last es-
say, in the Atlantic Monthly, Agassiz
throws out the following on this inter-
esting topic


81 do not offer any opinion respec-
ting the fossil human bones so much
discussed recently, because the evil
dence is at present too scanty to adj
NIT of any decisive judgment concern
ing them. 1t becomes, however, daily
more probable that facts will force us
sooner or later to admit that the crea-
ton of man lies far beyond any perio d
yet assigned to it, and that success
sion Of human races, as of animals,
have followed one another upon the
earth. 1t may be the inestimable
privilege of our young naturalists to
solve this problem, but the older men
of our generation must be content to
renounce this hope. We may have
some prophetic vision of its fulillment,
we may look from afar into the land
of promise, but we shall not enter in
and possess it."
Year: 1863

grasp that bound us together then is
still warm in our memory; but alas
there is gap in the ring that can
never be filed. Four faces are miss
ing, and four true hearts have gone
back to dust.


Shall the remainder ever meet again
this side eternity? Shall we ever sing
Aud Lang Syne again at the chapel
door9 Shall we ever stand again in
the halls of our Alma Mater Some
indeed will, but the class will not be
there, for beside the living that do as
semble, the tombstones of the dead
will even tell the sad and iireparable
bereavement that has fallen upon the
class Of 1S4--.
Year: 1863

Authorized Agents for the same. In these cases
il is necessary that you should apply to office
that has had experience We are now receiving
daily returns from our extensive b siness, and
can obtain your claim sooner than any office in
the county.


All claims Of the kind promptly attended to,
and information given without charge. Any as-
sistance given 10 those who have charge Of the
effects Of persons who have died in the army let
ters written, and information obtained for small
fee.


Office in Post Office Block. 4-52tf
Year: 1863

The following is an extract from letter
Received by gentleman of this town from
Captain West. of the s Shasta Guards 1t
is interesting. Read it. In speaking of
Copperheads expecting the votes Of his COM
pany. Capt. West says:


What unblushing effrontery, By what right
claim votes of men that of their nominees so
grossly insulted two years ago? Have forgotten
the remark made by James D. Mix to a committee
of ladies' who asked him to subscribe towards a flag
for Company c.? He then would rather give two
and -a-half to buy rope TO hang us-to hang men
who were willing to stake their lives in defense of
their Government, and now he, the traitor, and his
party would make il appear that these men be in
suited will support him for Office. Never, for be
is a traitor in heart, and know it; neither will
his party fare any better-not vote will either
Copperhead candidate get.


One who is mean enough to live under flag he
would trample under foot. and give aid and com
fort to the enemy-all he dares-and yet prate
about democracy, is to be watched. and watched
closely you have some that you should keep
your eye on. These men make the word 90 democ-
raey' serve their purpose. They use it step
ping-stone to mount to power so they mouth it on
all occasions, and deceive many who dis osed
to do right !; but hone there are but few in Shasta
sounty who can be fooled into supporting the Cop
perhead nominees.


Democracy. Yes, South Carolina is democratic,
SO is Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and
Virginia-all democratic trying to carry out dom
oer 10 nriuc xrh ich is rrr1a ruip
their brothers and co-workers in iniquity in New
York. The same party would desolate onr own be-
loved State could they do it, because the leaders
would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven


Such men do not believe in democracy. The
people are tools to toll and labor-the hewers of
wood and drawers of water-it only to serve their
masters, the leaders of the beautiful Copperhead
Democrats. I am sick of their kind, and in Com
pany C, you can rest assured, not one will vote that
ticket.


1t is true we did not go East; it was not our
fault; but feel assured that presence in this
State aided in keeping down just such men as We
have to fight politically at the ballot box this fall
and, if they so elect, fight them in the field and
prove entered for the war, and both able and
willing to sustain the Stars and Stripes long
there is man left in Company C. This you can
bet on.


Vote for Copperheads, This is the richest piece
of impudence of the season. Well they know or
they are greater fools than 1 take them for, that
not will either nominee of theirs get but
the assertion that soldiers will vote their ticket
might induce some weak brother-some faint heart
ed traitor to pick up and swallow the pill prepared
for him.


B. R. WEST.
Year: 1863

We urge upon every native born American voter
to come forth and vote the Union ticket on Wednes-
day next, and thereby perpetuate the form of gov
ernment handed down to us for our protection by
those who pledged their all for its preservation.


We urge upon every son of Erin's Isle, in the
name of a Meagher, Corcoran, and an O'Brien,
who so nobly offered their lives in iefense of gov
ernment which has protected and given them an
equal Inheritance in it, to come out and give it
their support at the ballot box by voting straight
Union ticket.


We call upon all those who have left Faderland
and cast their lot amongst US, receiving from the
best purest, and happiest Government that ever
existed equal benefits with native citizens to depo-
sit their votes for the Union ticket thereby show
ing their gratitude in a substantial manner, and
adding their testimony to the patriotism of Sigel
Shurz, Rosecrans and others of German descent
who have periled their lives that this Republic
should stand as fathers intended.


We urge upon every voter of foreign birth, let his
place of nativity be ever SO remote from his adopted
home, TO show his love Of liberty-to show his
right to be free and his gratitude for the name Of
American citizen, to come to the polls on Wednes-
day next and deposit his vote for the Union ticket
thereby perpetuating the government of the lend
of the free and the home of the brave
Year: 1863

BEWARE OF SPLIT TIcKETs-Let every
voter, before he deposits his ballot see that
he has the regular Union ticket. and that the
same has not been scratched either for any
State OF county Office.
Year: 1863

The WONDERS OF MODERN GuNSERY.-
When our war broke ont we had no cannon
that could lombard Charleston from Fort
sumter. distance three and three eights miles
Now we have guns that can reach the city,
and 90 mile beyond, from Morris Island,
distance tye miles And guns have been
invented that will carry enormous missiles
nine miles One Of these on a ship could
bombsr city without being itself seen
Thus, an enemy can destroy an object of at
tack while out of sight and hearing, For at
seven miles distance the curvature of the
earth renders a ship invisible. Such is the
progress of modern gunnery
Year: 1863

Action brought in the District Court CT the Ninth
Judicial District, of the State of California, and
the complaint hled in the county of Shasta, in the
Office of the Clerk of said District Court.
Year: 1863

Action brought in the District Court of the e;h Ju
dieial District of the State of California and the
Complaint fled in the said county of Shasta, in
the office of the Clerk of said District Court.
Year: 1863

ScIENTIFIc.-A curious and interesting
experiment was lately made at Strasburg, to
effect the union of two animals, so that they
might, to certain degree, have q life in
common. 1t has, indeed, pro luced artificial
ly what nature produced spontaneously in
those most extraordinary phenomena, the
Siamese twins. Says an authority:


Two white rats of the Albino species, were
selected for the experiment, probably as be-
ing more manae cable than their darker
brethren. An incision was made on the right
side of the one, and on the left side of the
other, engaging the skin and the cellular
tissue under it. The surface of tie two
wounds were kept closely together by sat
ures and bandages until the sixth day, when
the union by the first incision was found to
have taken place. They then walked side by
side, being united by a fleshy band. An at.
tempt to poison both by the mouth of the one
did not succeed, butan injection thrown into
the jnggular vein of one animal was found to
have entered the superficial femoral veins of
the other, showing clearly that an intimate
vascular union had already taken place be-
tween them. This interesting experiment
may have most important bearing on resto-
rative surgery.
Year: 1863

MARCHING TO DEATH-The National Quar-
terlv thus depicts remarkable scene that
occurred some years since one of the Bri-
tsh transport ships. The commander of the
troops on board, seeing that the vessel must
soon sink and that there was no hope of saw
ing his men, drew them in the order of bat
tie, and as in the face of a human enemy,
bravely facs d the doom that was before them.
We know of no more expressive Illustration
of the power Of military discipline in the pres
ence of death. Look at that noble vessel in
yon high sea She has sprung leak; all
the resources on board have been called into
play for her release from the deep, but to no
avail The waters are ginning fast on her
beyond human control She must sink !
A regiment of brave, perfectly disciplined
soldiers are mustered on deck by quick roll
of the drum; officers and soldiers promptly
I'll their rank and file and shoulder arms !
See them stand in serried ranks, and com
pletely accoutered for long. long march.
Not moulnful dirge but the National An
them, is played by the band. The regimen


tai coors fiutter in the air--the staff that sup
ports them is as firm as the stout heart of the
ensign that holds it. The array of battle is
reflected in mournful appearance on the low


ering clouds, which seems anxious to vail the
water, rippled by the breath of death. In


sidiously does the water leap at last over the
bulwark of the gallant and doomed ship. and
down she goes. The martial voice of the
commandant orders, Present arms! !" A
rapid succession of orders is calmy given
and calmy executed the drums beat quicker
and quicker; the muskets thump on the
deck at the last word of command splash
at their fall, a surge of the invading waters.
the drum is silenced, an army of bubbles
swarm on the surface, and calm, silent and
steady, the last glare Of the polished steel re-
fleets dying ray of mourn.ul light
Year: 1863

ADVANTAGES OF WEDLooK.--None but
the married man has home In his old
age. None has friends, then, but he;
none but he knows and feels the solace Of
the domestic hearth; none but he lives
and freshens in green old age, 'amid tho
affections of his children. There is no
tear shed for the old bachelor; there is
no ready hand and kind heart to cheer
him in his loneliness and bereavement;
there is none in whose eyes he can SEQ
himself reflected, and from whose lips he
can receive the unfailing assurances of care
and love. No. The old bachelor may
be courted for his money. He may eat
and drink and revel, as such things do;
and may scken and die in hotel or gar
ret, with plenty of attendants about him.
like SO many cormorants waiting for their
prey. But he will never know what it is
to be loved, and to live and to die amid
loved circle. He can never know tho
comforts Of the domestic freside.
Year: 1863

does this every day, until it becomes a
habit which she will follow up through
life. Her frame, as natural consequence,
is large, her muscular system is in better
subordination, her strength more endu-
ring, and the whole. tone of her voice
healthier. Girls, think of this.
Year: 1863

Thou must be true thyself


If thou the truth would'st teach;
Thy soul must. overflow, If thou


Another's soul would'st reach
1t needs the overflow of heart


To give the lips full speech.
Think truly, and thy thoughts


Shall the worlds famine feed
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a faithful seed
Live truly, and thy life shall be


A great aud noble creed.
Year: 1863

is not drop of African blood in the veins
of his slave He bought him in Rich
mond, Kentuckey, several years ago, and
says be was sold into slavery out of some
charitable institute to which he had been
committed as a vagrant. The man him
self appears to know nothing of his par
entage or origin. He can neither read
nor write, and only knows that he is very
glad to have escaped from bondage. This
is the clearest case on record of white
man being sold into slavery. The man
is now an enlisted soldier in the Seventy
eight, and the officers Of the regiment say
he is faithful and worthy man."
Year: 1863

No PArERs.--Owing TO the importance
of the news for the past few days. there
has been great demand for papers, and
although we have published an extra
number every mosaing we have been un-
able 10 supply all our customers. and d
great many lave went away disappointed
tha. they could not hear the news. Here
after this will not occnr, for as long as
the news remains important, and when
ever an ything exciting occurs We shall
publis' extra copies enough to supply
all who may cnfl.
Year: 1863

DoN'T LIKE SEcEsH TALK.-Men who do
not read much but do great deal of talk
ing sometimes say rather foolish things.
While the Declaration Of Independence
was heing read at Liberty. on Saturday,
one of those thoughtless persons. n thor
ongh going Republican, attempted to take
friend away from the spot, as he did not
want to hear secession talk - believing the
reader to be making q speech. If any
should doubt the truth Of this, we will
give the name Of this intensely loyal cit
iZen.G n.G--Sac, Rppuh.
Year: 1863

T 30 EAST BROADWAY-A LARGE PARLOR ON
second floor, suitable for gentleman and wife, TO let.
with Board Also single gentlemen be
communicated with good Board and pleasant Rooms, on rea
sOnable terma
Year: 1863

Prom the Richmond Enquirer, Dec. Is.


In nearly every paper We pick up We see
advertisements for printers, and yet there
were, before the war, more papers printed
in the State Of Georgia than are now pub
lished in the Confederate States The rea
son of this is that at least seventy-fve per
cent of the fraternity have been, and are
now, in the army Many Of them command
brigades, regiments aud companies, and are
upon different generals staff while hum
dreds Of them have met death upon the
field of glory. We venture that there is
not an Office in the South that has not a
representative in the field and many papers
were suspended at the commencement Of
the struggle, in order that the proprietor,
editor, printers and all might enlist. They
are generally men Of education and always
of superior intelligence, and therefore fully
understand the principles We are fighting
for, and the hardships, disease and death
incident to the life of soldier. 1t is not
to be presumed that they were actuated by
blind fanaticism, or from love of change. or
from anv other cause than the purest mo
tves of chivalry:
Year: 1863

tive commitments. He has declared whole
States to be in insurrection, and he wages
his war against them accordingly. He
considers the government a. standing for
the people. The particular population
among US over which Ee has attempted ju-
,risdiction, he knows to be bound by our laws,
at least as firmly as any other; and yet he as
sumes the right, under the war power, to
come into our States and control them. -
We wonder another exercise of the war
power had not occurred to his most serene
IHighness. Why did he, or does he not,
issue his proclamation, releasing all our
soldiers and fighting men from the duty of
obeying our laws and following our stand
ards? Does he not see, on the simple sup
position that his war powers are unlimited
and potential, how this would close the
war in day2 %y


70 But absurd rs is this claim on which Lin
coin based his emancipation proclamation,
trouble is likely to grow out of it. That we
will admit in any form, direct or indirect,
his right to abrogate our laws by proclama-
tons from Washington, is of course .prepos
ferrous. That we will acknowledge any
virtue in them to alter the duties and rela.
tions of any portion of our population, is
of course, wholly inadmissible; for it is the
essence of the contest. Lincoln knows bet.
ter. The slaves whom he and craven Mas
chusetts are so anxious to thrust into the
fight which the brave Sumner and such as
he have made, will not destroy their obllga-
tion to their owners by running away
When caught, they are liable to be restored
totheir duty, and no proclamation Of Lin
coin can affect the question at all. Negroes
from the North, their own citizens, whom
they regard as good as themselves, we can
so consider, and shall be glad to get white
men for them; but that we are to recognize
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, and
hold our laws subject to his pleasure, is sim.
ply absurd He has the same right to abo!
ish our conscript law, and to forbid us from
Furnishing desertsrs


The issue long hid has at last been dis
closed TO the Northern people They now
see that Lincoln justi6es the cessation of
exchanges on tho ground that we do not re-
spect his emancipation proclamation and
runaway negro soldiers. We 40 not believe
that they will long submit to this new atti


tude Of the everlasting negro" and that
Lincoln will be forced to narrow his war
powers into nearer approach to common
sense.
Year: 1863

reflect that sound mind and body the most nsces-
sary requisites to promote connnbial happiness In
deed without these the journey through life becomes
weary pilgrimage the prospect hourly darkens 70 the
flsd with the melancholy reflection that the happiness
of another becomes blightsd with oar own,
Year: 1863

NEW YORK. April 6.-Dispatches received
here from Fortress Monroe state that Charles
ton papers have been received there. They
acknowledge that the attack by the Federal
army and navy upon that city had been com


menced, but contain nothing indicating
whether the movements of our forces have met
with success or repulse. 1t is fair to infer,
however, that II the latter was the case they
would have announced it in the most glowing
terms known TO the rebel yocabularly. 1t is
generally believed that at least no reyerses have
been sustained by our troops or our fleet. and
there IS the best reason 10 believe that the Iowa
people win soon &c electrified by the gratifvinp
announcement OF the capture and Occupation
OF the spot where Charleston once was located