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Year: 1860

Col. L. D. BAKER.-Oregon rumors are af1oat
to the effect that all the political elements of that
State in opposition to the Administration Democ- =
racy will unite on Col. Baker and send him to
the United States Senate. Such result would
not be surprising, nor one to be regretted by the
people of the Pacific coast. We hope he may be
SENT and believe that his going would be benefi-
cial not only to Oregon and Washington, but to
this State also. We can pretty well imag gine
what the result of canvassing tour by Col. Ba-
ker through that State would be. The people
seldom have opportunity of listening to language
as eloquent and expressive as falls from Baker s
tongue, either political or other subjects. Col.
Baker was too great a man to be politically sue
ccssful in this State.
Year: 1860

Tae world, dear John, rs the old folks told us,
Is world of trouble and care
Many a cloud of grief will enfold us,
And the sunshine of joy is but rare.
But there's something yet to be bright and blest


in,


No matter how humble the lot;
The world still gives us home to rest in,
Its holiest. happcst spot
Sweet home! dear home on the northern heather,
On the funniest southern plain;
The Lapiand hut in its winry weather,
The tent of the Indian main =
Be it gorgeous wealth that our temple is drest in,
Be it poor and of little worth,
Oh, home OUR home-a home to rest in
Is the dearest thing on earth.
But time, dear John is using us badly,
Our homes crumble day by day,
And we're laying our dear ones, swiftly and sadly,
In the dust of the valley away.
There's death-robe soon for us both to be drest


in,


A place for us under the sod
Be Heaven at last the place we shall rest in
The rest of the people of God
Year: 1860

"MY LADY."--We wish the dictionary con-
tained words strong enough to express our de-


testaton OF this phrase, applied by man to
his better half Why substitute it for the good,
old fashioned, honest, lovcable, loving word -
wife? There are no four letters in the language
expressive of SO much that is holy and sweet
Wife that is a word claimable only by one, in n
Christian community That is her proud, in
disputed, indisputable title Let her hold on to it
Year: 1860

A FRIEND.-Oh the blessing it is to have n
friend to whom one can speak fcarlessly on any
subject, with whom ones deepest, as well as one s
most foolish thoughts come ont simply and safely.
Oh The incxpressbc comfort of feeling safe
with person, having neither to weigh thoughts
nor measure words, but pouring them all right
ont, just as they are, chaff and grain together,
certain that faithful hand will take and sift
them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with
the breath of kindness blow the rest AWAY
Life for Life.
Year: 1860

VOLUNTEER MovEMENT.-The Humboldt Times
Of Jan. 2lst contains statement from citizen
of lIydesvilc, that life and property In the
southern portion of the county is at the mercy of
hostile Indians. In the Bald Hills region cattle
are daily run Off sometimes in the face Of their
owners An attempt was being made to form q
military company by State authority.
Year: 1860

BRIGHAM YouNG oN STEAIING.-Brigham Youn &
in late sermon, said 81 have had no revela-
ton in regard to the stealing that is going on in
this Territory. When the Lord wants it stopped,
lie will stop it believe that man can steal
and be justified in the act.'
Year: 1860

THE Buffalo Republic gives the following
the Michigan Democratic Platform for the present
year " Shall the Pembina Indians be prohibit
ed from voting the Democratic ticket more than
five times each, at every election"
Year: 1860

EcLIPsE or THE SUN-About the middle Of
July of the present year. total eclipse of the
sun will be visible. Darkness will commence
aud terminate on the land in California, aud on
the shnres of the Red Sen
Year: 1860

from outrage. Shall sho look IN vainP She


wants, now, military skill and science to direct
the courage and energies of her people She
looks to her army AMI navy officers to supply that
want. Let Them return homo at once, without any
hesitation whatever They need have no more
doubt Of South CaraliDa's going out Of the Union
than of the worlds turning round. Every man
that goes /" the Convention will be n pledged man
pledged tor immediate separate State secession,
in any event whatever. once out Of the Union,
nothing bes conquest will bring her back. She is
resolved-sick OF the Unon-disgustod with it up
on any terms that are within tho range of ,he
widest possibility


Her sons, however, will be taken care Of what
ever the result Of her seccssion-for that is fixed
fact Let them not hesitate but rather let .hcir
promptitude bospeak the amount Of their devotion
to their native State Charleston Mercury.
Year: 1860

States would, nevertheless be previously destoyed


by the shock Of revolution. The forty million
dollars worth Of that kind of property which it is
estimated thc State possesses, would be offered ne
holocaust on The altorfres Of revolution, and as
the initiatory sacrifice. When the smoke Of battle
had cleared away, it would be found that tho ne
groes had vanished in the darkness, like @ ligh-
land clan in mist. Therefore, if Missouri is
certain to be an ant-slavery State in four years
II the Union lasts she is equally certain to be mn
antslagery State in less than half tho time, il the
Union does not last. The emaucigaionsts are
equal to either fortune, but with all their detesta-


ton Of slavery, and love for free labor they would
torego the latter and bear with the former for an
indefinite period rather than climb on the ruins
OF the union to The attainment Of their purposes.
The faction for which the Bulletin speaks would
destroy the Union to perpetuate slavery.
Year: 1860

sists in sleeping upon our arms at night-in dOub
ie-bolng and barring our doors-n establishing
and maintaining an efficient patrol torce-in buy


ing watchdogs, and in taking turns in watching
our sleeping children, to guard them and ourselves
from the vengeance Of these same glowing ser


vants"--a vengeance which, though now smoul
derng is liable to burst out at any moment, tc
overwhelm the state in spite Of the Palmetto flags
or state precautions.


You at the North arc not tho ouly onos who arc
suffering financially by this new panic. The
planters among are really suffering from the
depreciation of their property. Already negroes
are not worth half price. No one daros to buy a
servant fearing lest he, in doing so should bo in
Producing upon his plantation one tinctured with
the idea Of freedom.


My husband has but few servants-I believe
but thirty-One all ,old-st feel land so does he
that they thirty-one too many in such times as
those. He would sell them Immediately if il were
possible, but tho truth s, he could realize nothing
for them at present. at most not over half their
real value. Slaves are drug in the market my
husband says, and you know him well enough to
Judge of his judgment in such matters.


Now, one word Os to the military force of the
State TO protect us against an instruction.
presume, with the exception of Charleston, and
perhaps few large towns, that the remainder OF
the State is situated very much as we are here )
and l will give you an idea of how well prepared
we are to resist mob. Upon our place of about
200 acres we have: OF white males husband,
two overseers and my son of l8 yosrs-tota
four; females-self and cousin, little Lucy and
Df tba uiga ,f yrbo al,
four at the most are capable of bearing arms to
offset which we have at least seventeen field hands,
sturdy young negroes, besides the female servants.
Ard this is fair representation of the force upon
cur plantations. Considering such state of facts,
do you blame me for desiring to absent myself, my
husband and children, from the State2
Year: 1860

10 behalf of the people Of the State of South Car
olina, We would this day call upon each and all Of
her sons, who are now engaged in military service
of the Government Of the United States, 10 re-
nounce at once the sword and rations Of the vu-
gar oppressor, and to hasten Ot once to the homes
that gave them birth, for the protection of their
nSive soil, the preservation Of the Institutions of
their State, and the maintenance of the liberty Of
frsemen, bequeathed them by their fathers.


South Carolina wants her soldiers around her
now. The mother looks to her sons to project her
Year: 1860

breakers, which are now shaking her 10 pieces.-
We sincerely believe that he has earnestly and
truly done his best to avert the catastrophe Of a
dissolution of the Union. lie has failed, where
we believe no man could have succeeded, All he
can do now, as q magistrate and citizen, is to
make the dissol ction of the UniOn peoee6ble.
Year: 1860

TN reading tho last annual Message of Pres
ident of the United States to Congress, We cannot
forbear tho expression Of our sympathy with him,
as the head Of great Government dissOlving un-
der his administration, Causes beyond his con-
troll, have driven the ship of State amidst the
Year: 1860

SOME OF Mr. BUcuANAN's remarks in private
conversation upon ha duty to collect the revenue
at the port Of Charleston, ing been telegraph
ed to the Charleston Mercury, that paper Says


1--WE certainly deprecate war with the Northern
people through the General Government; but Mr..
Buchanan may be assured that the first attempt,
in any form, to coerce South Carolina into subms-
sion to government she has thrown off, will be
considered war. lie may call it by what name be
pleases but the sword will be tho final and only
arbiter between us. All hopes (f he has ANY, of a
readjustment of the relations between tie two
sections of the Union under one government, will
have ended, and ended forever.





"But if he chooses TO begin the game of blood
shedding, we shall not decline il, for we know as
well as he does that it win drag the other States
into tue movement of dissolution while the
Banks Of the north are crashing around him,
and bankruptcy sits in the Capitol, the sword will
be fitting accompaniment to the vllainies and
tyrannies which have produced the present calam :.
itous state of things. We are ready"
Year: 1860

This terribly suggestive expressiot
was used the other day by one o
the prisoners now under sentence Of
death in our county Jail. The occa
sion OF its utterance was ss follows


A party went to- visit the prisoners
in Jail, one of the prisoners recognized
one of the visitors as former residen,
Of the same town in Ohio. His wid.
owed mother lives there stin, and some
of his sisters. The visitor asked him
if his mother knows of his situation.
He replied that she does and he had re
ceived letter from her but q few day
previously. Immediately upon this al.
lusion to his mother, his mind seemed,
to wander back to the scenes of his
youth and the home of his early af:
tections and his face gave evidence OF
an intense and indescribable anguish
OF heart, SO painful and terrible that he
was pitiable to look upon. He burst in.
to tears and addressing his visitor, who
was a lady, he exclaimed:


sOh, Mrs., little did I think
when l saw you in Ohio that I would
ever come to such condition as this.
Little did l think that I would ever
come to the dishonorable death l am
doomed to die, and break the heart
OF my poor old mother, and disgrace
all my relations. Oh, my God! my
heart will burst! Inever killed w ood
but I was drunk and I was present at
his murder. Had I not been drunk
would not have been there. 1t is
whiskey that has ruined me. Whiskcy
led me into the gallows. The tempta-
tons of the whisky shops first led me
astray. Yes, Mrs., the whisky
shop has been the road to He'll, and
now if was able I would have print
ed over the door of every whisky shop
in Dubuque and elsewhere, in big let
ters that everybody could see, these
words of truth: THIS is THE
ROAD TO HE'LL"


Here the poor fellows head sank
upon his hands and his agony seemed
terrible. He doubtless felt the truth
and force Of what he said, and all who
saw him pitied him. As the words of
a doomed and dying man, his. forcible
and agonized remarks made a deep
impression on ali who heard him.
Dubuque Herald.
Year: 1860

~ We have heard Of no less than
four dssths occurring in this vicinity. al Of
them resulting from injuries received by falls
on the ice. Great caution should be used by
those who indulge in skating and coasting.
Year: 1860

DICKINsoN N. Y, Jan. Z.
Henry Meacham shot his wife last night In
the presence of her father and mother and af
terwards cut her throat and shot himself
through the head. Both are dead. case Of
domestic trouble and inidelity on the part Of
the wife,
Year: 1860

NEW York Jan. Z.
The Tribune mentions report that detach
ment Of the Knights Of the Golden Circle"
let this city few days ago for some part Of
Mexico. but With what design Is not publicly
known.
Year: 1860




Next to farm yard manure, lime is
in almost general use as manure, though
it is one of quite different character; !;
and when judicionsly applied, and the
land laid to pasture, or cultivated for
white and green crops alternately with
an adequate allowance of putreseent
manure, its effects are much more last
ing, and in many instances still more
beneficial, than those of farmyard ma
nure Fossil manures must produce
their effect, either by becoming con-
stituent part Of the plant, or by acting
upon its more essential food, so as to
render it more fit for the purposes OF
vegetable life 1t is, perhaps, in the
former of these ways, that wheat and
some other brought to perfection after
lime has been applied upon land that
would not bring them to maturity, by
the most liberal use of manure alone.


When lime, whether freshly burned
or Stacked, is mixed with any moist f.
brous vegetable matter, there is a
strong action between the lime and
the vegetable matter, and they form a
kind of compost together, of which a
part is usually soluble in water. By
this kind of operation, lime renders
matter which was before comparative
inert, nutritive; and as charcoal and
oxygen abound in all vegetable mat
ters it becomes at the same time con
verted into the carbonate of lime to
arabic land, there some general rules
commonly attended to by diligent far
mers, of which we shall present an ab-
stract.


LIST. As the effects of lime greatly
depend on it's intimate admixture with
the surface soil, it is essential to have
it in powdery state at the time it is
applied.


I'd. Lime having tendency to sink
in the soil, it should be plowed in with
q shallow furrow.


Sd. Lime may either be applied to
grass land, or to land in preparation
for green crops or summer fallow, with
almost equal advantage; but in gen.
eral, the latter mode of application is
to be preferred


4th. Lime ought not to be applied
second time to moorish soils, unless
mixed up as compost after which
the land should be Immediately laid
down to grass.


5th. Upon fresh land, the effect of
lime ismuch superior to that of manure.
The ground likewise, more especially
where it is of strong nature, is more
easily cultivated in some instances it
is said, the saving of labor would be
sufficient to induce farmer to lime his
land, where no greater benefit derived
from the application than the opportu-
nifty thereby gained of working it in a
more thorough manner.
Year: 1860

In proof that cane which produces
ripe seed looses its sweetness and juice
and becomes dry and pithy, l would
simply say that l made it my particu-
lar business, while my cane was grow
ing, to determine it's peculiarities, so
far as | could, that / might know how
to cultivate it proftably. I cut stalks
every few days, after it tasseled out,
until dead ripe, and fonnd that before
the seed was full in the milk, the juice
had a greenish, unpleasant taste, al
though very sweet; when it was full
size it had no unpleasant taste, the in.
ner portion of the stalk was about as
sweet as candy, and the stalk perfect.
When the seed began to turn dark on
the tip of the heads, I found a small
hollow forming in the center of the
stalk next to the head, and as the seed
ripened, this extended down the stalk
from one-half to two-thirds its entire
length, and the stalk had a pithy ap-
pearance. The juice about this hoI-
low became fiat and insipid, with but
little sweetness, and tasted very much
like the last run Of maple sap, after the
buds have started. The lower Joints
OF this same stalk would usually re-
main sound and very sweet, while the
upper portion as the seed ripened, be-
/ came nearly dry, and very much resem-
BILE the inside Of corn-stalk. From
these observations I came to the con-
clusion that when the seed is fully form
ed and about to turn dark, then the
stalk is at the highest state of perfec-
tion for use, and will make either su-
gar or syrup, as you desire, that after
the seed ripens it becomes unfit for
syrup or Sugars. E. Chapman.
Year: 1860

county OF Shasta.


Samuel j. Griffith Mary Sophia


Griffith.


Action brought in the District Court of the
Ninth Judicial District of the State of Califor-
mia, in and for the County of Shasta, and the
complaint filed in said County of Shasta. in
the office of the Clerk of said District Court
TIE People Of tie State Of California, send grcetinq
to MARY SOPHIA GRIFFITH, defendant
NOU are hereby required to appear in an ac-
4 tiOn brought against you by the above
named Plaintiff in the District Court of the 9th
Judicial District of the State of California. in
and for the County ofShasta, and to answer the
complaint filed therein, IA copy of which ac:
companies this Summons) within ten DAYS. lex
elusive of the day Of SERVICE after the service
on You OF this summons-if served within this
County; or, if served out of this County. hut
within this Judicial District within twenty davs.
or If served out of said District, then within for
ty days-or judgment by default will be taken
against you according to the prayer of said Com
plant.


The said action is brought to obtain Il decree
OF divorce from the bonds of matrimonv now
existing between you and plaintiff. upon the
ground OF wiful desertion aud cruel treatment.
all OF (which will more fully appear by reference
to the complaint, copy OF which is hereto at
tached


And you are hereby notified, that if YOU fail to
appear ana answer the said Complaint as above
required, the said Plaintiff will apply to the
Court for decree, in conformity with the pray
er of said Complaint


OIyen under my hand and the Seal of this
District Court of the 9th Judicial District, OF
the State of California, in and for the County
OF Shasta, this 25th day of September, in the
year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hun
dred and Sixty.


JOHN ANDERSON,
Year: 1860

Owing TO the high water within the pas
week, we are unable to issue full-sized paper
and to comply with the requirements of law
we publish this slip containing the legal ad
yertisements.
Year: 1860

This species of deception is accomplish
ed BY removing one of the faces OF sill


YER coin, and soldering the thin face of a
gold coin of similar Dimensions upen the
silver coin, suitably gilded. Thus the
half dollar of 1901 arm onizes sufficient
Year: 1860

THIS method OF reducing the value Of
coin consists in sbstracting portion of
precious metals By means Of mercury
If the process be carefully conducted and
not carried too far, the coin may be rob
bed to a very seriou. extent, and yet the
impression 90 its faces not be observably
impaired as to awaken suspicion.
Year: 1860

PERILoUs PosITIoN.-Two men who were
blasting a shaft in the English claims at
Grizzly Hill, last Saturday evening, were
caught in a position of peculiar danger
They were at the bottom of the shaft, which
is sunk in hard rock about fifty feet, and had
just got ready to touch off blast by firing
the safety fuse. One of them took hold of
the rope depending from a windlass at the
top, for the purpose of climbing up in order
to haul up the other as soon as he should
fire the fuse. The rope parted near the wind
lass, and the men were helpless prisoners in
stone pit, at such a distance from any hab-
itation that they could not hope to make
their voices heard. Water began to sipe in
upon them from seams in the rock, and
gradually rose around them through the
night until it was eight feet deep. There
fortunately happened to be few projections
at the bottom of the shaft on which the men
stood in a very painful position and kept
their heads above water, or else they must,
of course, have been drowned. In this try
ing situation they remained until late on
Sunday morning, when other workmen came
to the diggings and discovered them.
Year: 1860

OVERLAND MAlL-By badly constructed
sentence and typographical error together,
we were last week made to express pref
erence for the st. Louis and Memphis route
for a daily overland mail. Our choice, of
course, like that of almost every other CAL
ifornian, is for the most direct route prac-
ticable. We are glad to see that the de-
mand for daily mail will be earnestly
pressed upon Congress. The Post Office
Department is said to have notified contract
ors that the San Diego branch will be dis
continued. The Butterfeld route may be
Strengthened soon, to terminate at New Or
leans; and the Salt Lake route put up to
eighteen days.
Year: 1860

SLUIcE RoBBER LYNcHED.-Late at night
on the Sd inst, Mr.. Barber, a watchman, OBJ
served man entering the "Buck Il Breck


claims, at Sweetland, and proceeding to the
tunnel with the evident intention of robbing
sluices. Mr.. Barber followed and overlook
him, and presenting double -barreled shot
gun at him, ordered him not to move or he
was a dead man. The fellow very coolly
asked him if he was tson the shoot" and
being satisfied that he was, surrendered at
discretion and walked in advance of his
captor to town. Late as 1t was, near mid
| night, a number of miners assembled and
organized themselves into court by choos-
ing jury of twelve men, who found the
man guilty of an attempt to rob sluices and
sentenced him to receive forty lashes on the
bare back with rawhide. A Communication
of the sentence was offered the man if he
would divulge the names of his confederates,
but he persisted in the assertion that he had
none, and received the whole forty lashes.-
The trial and 'hogging were not concluded
until after two o'clock in the morning. The
wretehis back was then washed and some
stimulus given him, after which he coolly
asked the barkeeper of the public house to
which he had been taken, if he hadn't a ci-
gar to give him. He was told to clear out
and never come about the place again.


We have always deprecated the use of the
lash, either by legal officers or popular ju-
ries, believing it to be not only vitiating in
its tendencies and inbumane, but absolutely
useless for heprecention ofcrime, which ought
to be the only aeotfgetor punishment. But in
this particular instance such unusual mode
ration was observed, and the crime of sluice
robbing is one so common, SO ruinous to the
honest laborer, and the sluice robber can so
seldom be caught or convicted, that we do
not feel disposed to comment with any Sc
verify upon the practice we have heretofore
opposed. We remain of the opinion, how
ever, that fogging does not lessen the num-
claim nowadays, knows that he is risking
his life by the actor every paying claim is
guarded by night watchman-and if the
fear of death will not deter him, fear of the
lash must prove much less potent. At any
time we would rather hear of the shooting
of robber right in his tracks, than of that
utterly useless cruelty which weakens the
sentiment of humanity in those who behold
it, violates laws formed by the people them
selves, and affixes stigma to the name Of
our entire State abroad.