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Year: 1861

WHAT IS EXPECTED anxiety
is felt in the mountains to know how the Legis-
lature will interpret the popular sentiment in
this State in regard to secession. Its duty is
plain enough; but will the Legislature pursue it
Tho first Joint act of the two houses, after their
organization has been completed, should be to
declare, BY emphatic resolution, that California
is loval to the Union as it exists-recognizing
the right of no State to separate herself by VIC
lence from her sisters-and pledging her moral
and physical power to the General Government,
to assist in upholding the Constitution, and en-
forcing the laws of Congress.


Now is no time to falter or hesitate If there
are traitors among US, let them show themselves,
that they may be placed where they belong
There is not member of that body but has'ta-
ken an oath to support the Constitution-some
of them double oath--which honor and patri-
otism demand should be respected.


The Pacific Republic men, if there are any
such, should also "sort themselves" Let us
know every mans status-his hight, his calibre,
his spurpose, his influence and the depth of his
patriotism. The people are sound to the CORE
They are for the Union as it is. If the Legisla-
ture attempts to represent them otherwise, it
will place them before the world in a faIse posi-
ton.
Year: 1861

A LITERARY TREAT PRoMIsED.-Calvin B.
Mcdonald was in this place day or two ago,
and promised to return within the coming fort
night, to deliver public lecture to the citizens
of North San Juan. His abilities as writer are
better known to the editorial fraternity than to
the people of the State at large and are of high
literary order. The subject selected is "RIcHE-
LIEU''-a name familiar to the reader of history
and the admirer of the modern drama. Bulwer
has used it to immortalise one of his best plays,
and France points to it as distinguished in her
annals for all that was crafty in diplomacy and
commanding in ministerial statesmanship. One
of her writer's has said, that Richeieu "made his
sovereign Oouis MID play the second part in
his monarchy, and the first in Europe; he de-
graded the king, but he rendered the reign illus
trious." A well-drawn portraiture of such a
man, could not fail to entertain an intelligent
audience; and Judging Mac by his reputation as
a newspaper writer, we think he would acquit
himself with honor and to the entertainment OF
his hearers.
Year: 1861

PIGMY STATEsMEN.-Some men there are
whose unbridled passions lead them into every
kind of sensual indulgence The statistics of ali
nations prove this defect of the human mind to
be peculiar to no people, but common to all ra-
ces. Vices, therefore, which often lead to crime,
summed in the aggregate of human calamity,
without exciting particular comment notice.
They are to be expected. But to bear professed
legislators and statesmen talking S'party" when
the interests of their constituents and the well
fare of the State involved, strikes as indi-
eating puerility of soul and narrowness of
mind rather to be expected among Hottentots
than an enlightened and Christianized people,
The application of these remarks can be made
by those who are willing to acknowledge their
applicability.


When aeiW the mothers of the land present us
with 4 race of men who can rise above the deba-
sing forms of caucus and party dictatonl
Year: 1861

THE OLD VETERAN GoNE.-A dispatch re-
celved by the last Pony states that Ralph
Farnham, the last survivor of the battle OF
Bunker Hill, is dead. He Was 05 years of
age. Several Revolutionary pensioners now
living, have attained "a greater age than
Farnham but he was the last survivor of all
those who took part in the first battle Of the
Revolution.
Year: 1861

WIcKET.-The times not being particularly
flush nor busy, afford the Boys frequent oppor-
tunities for healthful recreation. Wicket has
therefore become the popular amusement of
fair days, on the planked street in front of the
Union Hotel.
Year: 1861

ply=The State Agricultural Society will
meet in Sacramento on the 30th inst, to
select a place for holding the next annual
Fair. An effort will be made during its sit
tings to locate the Fairs permanently at that
eity.
Year: 1861




The battery described in the following ex-
tract appears to have been built upon plan
similar to that of the Stevens Battery, which
we have already described:


The submerged naval battery, which Ed
win Stevens is building at Bordentown, N.
j., which is the famous Hoboken battery on
a small scale, is nearly ready to launch. The
length of hull, over all, is one hundred feet
breadth of beam twenty feet four inches
depth of hold seven feet. The whole struc-
ture, except the deck, is strongly built of
iron. 1t is possible the deck will be plated
with iron, which will render the whole she'll
proof. There are four water-tight compaIt-
ments in the hull, with spaces for the accom-
mediation of limited number of gunuers
and men to manage the vessel. There are
two engines of great power, securely placed
beyond the reach OF shot and shell. The
magazine is in the same position. There is
one gun near the bows, rified cannon, Ca
pabe Of throwing TO great distance sixty
eight pound shell. Two full twelve-p Founders,
one on each side of the deck, occupying
places near the stern.


The steersman, engineers, fremen and
gunners are nearly all out of sight. Only
one man at time is necessary on deck, and
he to sight the great gun. He is protected
behind the cast-iron housing in the rear,
Willie hi dlOuB luO bluCS uldnoANO tilAlbCL
projection serves the double purpose of O
paTapet against rife balls and a guard to
prevent the rolling of the vessel in the water.
The large gun is loaded from the hold, by
the lowering of the muzzle for the purpose,
when it is instantly elevated aud sighted for
action. The striking popularity of this bat
terry is this: il is all sunk nearly under waterl
The only thing perceptible of it at a short
distance is the low chimney rising out and
smoking from the wayesl The entire hull,
with the propeller, armament, and body OF
forty practiced gunners, are sunk down to a
level with the seal


The process of sinking the battery can be
accomplished in one minute. The whole
structure can be brought up again to surface
position in three minutes. 1t can thus be
sunk and raised at pleasure, and made to
serve a double purpose in resistance and
attack. The principal point of assault is the
bows, which are made of immense strength.
The ventilation and light are all that are
necessary for the comfort and convenience OF
the combatants. The propeller, being
worked by two powerful engines, forces the
vessel along at rapid rate, SO that it can
charge line on shore, or ships at sea, re
treat, advance and change positions at the
greatest possible advantage, without being in
the least danger from the ordinary weapons
OF an enemy. a
Year: 1861

A laughable incident is told of a nervous
man, who imagined himself very sick; reports
were in the neighbOrhood that he was given
over by the doctor. He was observed early
in the day making rapid strides through the
streets. His alarmed neighbors met him.
"How are you, friend ~ "Sick, very sick"
"Where now ~ "After some one to sit up
with me tonight; am so plagued for watch.
ers that there is no one | can depend UPON
Year: 1861

An order has been given by the command
ing General forbidding the sending of war
dispatches by newspaper correspondents.
Every dispatch relating to the war is, for he
future, to be, skilled" unless approved by
the Government, and is to be given to the
public only through the medium of the As
sociated Press,
Year: 1861

HIS VERY SORRY Now."-There is ship
from Portsmouth in the harbor Of Mobile
At the time Of the Presidential election she
was in the harbor Of Portsmouth. Her
owner was rabid Linconite and tried to
prevail upon her Captain, who wished to
vote the Bell ticket, to vote for Lincoln.-
The sturdy skipper would not do it The
other day, since his arrival in this port he
received a letter from his Portsmouth owner
in which occurs the expression, IL would
give ten thousand dollars, now, il had not
voted for Lincolnl" He's very sorry, now
but It Is too late y Boeniag News.
Year: 1861

Captain Wilkes, of the San Jacinto, is
about tifty-six years of age. Though ev-
cry inch sailor, and not often given to
the melting mood, the blind god, accord
ing to the Brooklyn Times, once succeed
ed in sending one of his shafts clear
through his rough Southwestern, which
found lodgment in his honest heart
The bow from which the shaft was sped
hung in the eye of fair girl, and
straightway the jolly tar fell head over
ears in love. He prosecuted his suit with
vigor. The girl was "a lass who loved a
sailor" and so called upon him and con-
sented to be his wife. But he had rival
in the son Of a respectable tallow.chan-
dler, well-to-do, called Slidell and young
Slldell, feeling considerably cut up by be-
ing cut out, refused to accept " the nit
ten,' but, not having spunk enough TO
throw down the glove to his sailor rival,
contented himself with poisoning the
mind of the stern parent" of the fair
one until he refused his consent to his
daughters marriage with the bold Charlie
Wilkes, and insisted upon her giving he,
hand to young Slidell, which, after MANY
protestations and the customary amount
of tears and Mysteries, she did, and became
Mrs. John Slidell. The bold Charlie
Wilkes did not speak and pine, or let his
melancholy feed on his weather beater
checks, but went to sea and smothered his
grief in attending to duty, and sustaining
the honor of his nations flag, never seeing
his :" lady lass" again, nor meeting his
successful rival for her hand and hear
until he saw him standing prisoner OIL
board his ship, traitor to his country
and rebel against the flag the honest tai
had spent his life in defending. Such i!
the romance of war.
Year: 1861

The following is an extract from the ad-
dress of Wendell Phillips, at the Cooper
Institute N. Y. on Tuesday of last week:


Il know the danger of political prophe-
cy-a kaleidoscope of which not even a
Yankee can guess the next combination
laughter but for all that, I venture to
offer my opinion, and to say that, on this
continent, the system of domestic Slavery
has received its death blow Loud and
prolonged applause.


Let me tell you why I think so. There
are but three paths out of this war. One
is, the North conquer; the second is the
South conquer; the third is compromise,
two things. one or the other must come
Either the old Constitution or new one
| believe so far as the slave clauses Of the
Constitution of 1889 are concerned, it is
dead. 1t appears to me impossible that
the thrifty, pains taking North, after
keeping 100000 men idle for two or three
years, at the cost of two million dollars a
day-after that flag lowered at Sumter
after Baker, and Lyon, and Ellsworth
and Winthrop and Cameron and Ward,
have given their lives to quell the rebel
lion-after our Massachusetts boys, hur-
rying from the plow and the shop to guard
the capital, have been foully murdered on
the pavement at Baltimore cannot be-
| licve that the North is so lost, so craven,
that she can be put back and made to
stand again where she stood on the 4th OF
March. 1861.


But if there be a reconstruction with
the slave cause, then in a little while,
longer or shorter slavery dies. Indeed,
on any other basis than that of 1889,
she has nothing to do tut die. On the
contrary, if the South-no l cannot say
conquers-my lips will not form the word
but if she balks us Of victory, the only
way she can do it, the only path she can
tread toward it, is to write emancipation
on her banner and bribe the aristocrats
and traders of the old world to divide the
majestic Republic, whose growth makes
them envious, and whose trade cripples
their own. In either way the slave goes
free.


Unless England pours her feet within
six months along our coast, the South cal
never spring into separate existence but
from the basis of negro freedom. And l.
for one will not yet believe that the North
will again consent to share its shame
With me, therefore. fellow citizens, as a
mere abolitionist-exclusivcly as such
have little more interest," in this wal
than the frontiersman's wife had in his
struggle with the bear, when she didn't
care which whipped.
Year: 1861

1t is a very old fashioned way of indi.
eating friendship. Jehu said to Jehona.
dab, Is thine heart right as my heart is
with thine heart If it be, give me thine
hand" 1t is not merely an old fashioned
CUSTOM it is stri-tly natural one, and.
as usual in such cases, we may find
physiological reason, if we will only take
the pains to search for it. The animals
cultivate friendship by the sense of touch
as well as the sense of smell, hearing and
sight: and for the purpose they employ
the most sensitive parts of their bodies.
They rub their noses together, or they lick
one another with their tongues. Now,
the hand is part of the human body in
which the sense of touch is highly devel-
oped and, after the manner of the ami
mails, we not only like to see and hear our
friend, 1--WE do not usually smell him
though Isaac, when his eyes were dim,
resorted to this sense as a means of recog.
ntion,) We also touch him, and promote
the kindly feelings by the contact and
reciprocal pressure of the sensitive hands.
Observe, too, how this principle is illus
trated by another of our modes of greet
ing. When we wish to determine whether
a substance be perfectly smooth, and are
not quite satisfied with the information
conveyed by the fingers, VIC apply it to
the lips and rub it gently upon them. We
do So because we know by experience that
the sense of touch is more actively dcvel-
oped in the lips than in the hands.


Accordingly, when we wish to recipro-
cate the warmer feelings We are not con-
tent with the contact of the hands, and
we bring the lips into service. A shake
If hands suffice for friendship, in unde-
nonstrative England at least; but kiss
is the token of more tender Affection
DR.. Humphrey. -,s.,
Year: 1861

THE FROZEN WELL.-A correspondent
of the Brandon Gazette says:


This may now be considered a permanent
curiosity of our town. Both winters since
he one in which it was opened, it has
,,ontained plenty of ice. Last winter the
walls were SO coated with it for some dis.
lance above the water that it was with
!ifhculty that water could be drawn with
The bucket. visited it Oh the 10th Of
August. There were large masses of ice
on the wall. 1t seemed to be six or eight
inches thick all around above the water.
About the middle of September saw it
again. Then there was scacely any per-
2eptible diminution in the quantity Of
ice. October Goth | first found the we'll
clear of ice. learned that it had been
broken off from the wall some time before,
after which large quantities of it were
drawn up for several days. If the ice had
not been disturbed it might have remain.
ed till winter.
Year: 1861

eJ- The sorghum sugar culture has
been very extensive this past season. and
the loss in the Louisiana sugar crop will
accordingly, be much less felt The value
of sacharinc productions in Iowa is stated
to be million Of dollars, and other states
have made quantities Of corresponding
value
Year: 1861

Mayer and claims to be the wife of a
Jew of that name residing in New York.
Her efforts to telegraph to him after her
arrest proved singularly unfortunate and
uuavailing.-Burtington Times.
Year: 1861

ADDRESS OF THE UNION MEN.-Thc Un- ion members of the convention have pub lishcd an address in the Gazette. It was written by some one here, probably by Fishback, the sympathiser of old Ossawa- timie Brown, as he was here several days after the convention adjourned, and we doubt if half dozen members whose names are signed to it ever saw it. Next week we will pay it our especial attention. In the meantime, to show the degree of respect it is entitled to, we will merely mention that 1t instances the withdrawal of the federal troops from Ft. Sumter as an evil dence of the pacific intentions of President Lincoln and his black republican Cabinet.

 The troops have never been withdrawn from Ft Sumter. Old Abe still holds that fort, and is trying to reinforce it. What will the people think of a set of men who will deliberately put forth such mis- representation?
Year: 1861

The President nominated republican for agent of the Choctaw nation. During executive session Senator Mitchell, of Arkansas, declared that would be no use to confirm him. as he would never be allowed to serve, whereupon the nomination was withdrawn.

 As we have often said, it is the purpose of the present black republican administra- tion to abolitionize the Indians west of Us, and make them our enemies. Is this not cause sufficient for separation from the North? Let our people, particularly, those of the west, think of the consequence of having the Choctaw, Creek and Cherokeeu
Year: 1861

Yesterday was a gala day for Memphis | The hearts of our citizens were made glad in the opportunity offered them to give some external evidence of their sympathy for the great movement looking to the in dependence of the South The Mississippi troops, whose arrival in our city by the Mis- sissippi and Tennessee railroad was antici- pated, were received with degree of en- thusiasm which could not fail to betoken that the heorts of our people are with the South to bid her gallant sons God speed

 We do not refer to the mere courtesy which was extended them in the parade of our military companies, but to the vast and multitudious out boring of the people at the depot, upon the side walks, on the balconies, in the streets and in every ave- nue of the city. The vociierous cheers that continually greeted the starred flag from fair women and brave men along it's line of march, but told too well that the best wishes of Tennessce's chivalrv would follow it in its dangerous career upcn the yet untried fields of Florida The circum- stances of the occason-the inspiring strains of martial music, the glsten of bayonets, and the tramp of disciplined soldiery-Seemed to conjurc in the minds of all fuller appreciation of the dangers that environ them, and of the octualt4 of the crisis affecting the country. Deeper feeling, or more manifest sympathy were never exhibited in a similar demonstration. Memphis has responded nobly to the draft upon her hospitality, and we feel confident that, should the service of her citizens be needed upon the field of battle, in mainten- ance of southern principles or southern honor that response will be made still more decided, fearless and emphatic.- Memphis 1PPeol, Norch 2S.
Year: 1861

"Send me the True Democrat for year and I will remit you the money. It seems to be the wish of great many in this sec ton of the State, that you issue campaign paper at reduced rates, so as to place 1t within the reach of all. Secession is gain ing ground in Benton."
Year: 1861

[ abominate the padded, rouged, dyed oid
sham; but heartily respect the man or woman,
pensive and sad, as some little circumstance
has impressed upon them the lact that they
arc growing old. A man or woman Is co
who is indignant at being called the Oh |ody
or the o'd gentzeman when these phrases state
the truth but there is nothing foolish or un-
worthy when some such occurrence brings 1t
home to US, with something OF shock, that we
are no longer reckoned among the young, and
that the innocent and impresslonable days OF
childhood $50 we'll rcmembcred) are beginning
to be far away. We are drawing nearer, we
know. to certain solemn realities OF which We
speak much and feel little the undiscovered
country (humby sought through the pilgrim
ace of'life is looming in the distance before.
We feel that life is not long, and is not COM
monplace, when it is regarded as the portal to
eternity. And probably nothing will bring
back the season of infancy and early youth
upon anv thoughtful mans mind so vlvidly as
the sense that he is growing old. How short
time since then You look at your great
brown hand. 1t seems like yesterday since
boy companion (gray now tried to print your
name on the little paw, and there was not room.
|


You remeinbe. it Gs it fve-and-twenty years
since p as it looked when laid on the head Of
'rendy dog tw' or three days before ;sas you
found him poisoned and dead and helped not
without tears, to bury him in the garden, under
an apple-trec You see as plainly as II you
saw 1t now, his brown eye, as 1t looked at you
in life for the last time. And as you feel these
things, you quite unoflectedy and sincerely
nut off, time after time the period at which
you will accept it as a fact that you arc Old


Lord Shaftesbury recently stated as the re,
suit of his personal investigation, that o: all
tho adult male criminals in London, not two
in hundred who lived an honest life up to


the age of 20, af,erward enter upon course
ot crime and that almost all who enter upon
such course, do so between the ages OF Sand
16. Oh, the necessity of ramlly discipline
Oh, the blcssedness of early religious lnstrue-
; ton
Year: 1861

his health if not to restore it. I've heagd
young preachers talk of feeling Aiondayist,
as though their mortal energies were neary
spent the day before, when l thought if such
efforts exhausted them--they we've most ce-.
tainly very slender. I've had an idea that
some thought it added to their dignity to be
always complaining of poor health, and frc.
quently consulting the doctor But this seems
very foolish unless man really has some par


ticular disorder If he will exercise himsc.
sufficiently in the open air, and not overtask
his brain, nor eat moro than what he needs Of
plain, wholesome food, it's my opinion ne
won't be likely to be troubled with peer
health. But one very important thing in .
minister's study is a knowledge of human ia.
ture. A man may be good biblical scholar
but without this knowledge he will succeed


but poorly. And then, lie ought to know


enough to manufacture his own sermons, and
not depend on sketch book or some sernon


that hn has heard or read, because somebody
cls may have seen it before In every ser


he should try to dig up something new, and


always aim 10 adapt his discourses to bis


hearers. But this be cannot very we'll do il


he writes his sermons before hand and then


reads them. A Methodist minister that


can't deliver discourse without reading it,


is a small fish ;that's my opinion. lie should


also know enough to stop, when he is done


Some appear to think they must talk about


so long, whether they have anything to say OR


not but this just spoi!s all they have already


said; it is like tipping up cider barrel to let


the emptins run out. And he should never


be long and tedious on any occasion IT he
has studied human nature as he should, ne


can very readily tell when his hearers became


listless and inattcntive, and that is the time
for hiu 10 stop short if he has not ut.


tered onc-half of what he orininally niended,
need not say that q preacher ought to have
knowledge Of the Scriptures, and the doctrines


they contain and if he would explain then,
clearly to others, they must be clear in his


own mind. He must love the work-not on
| ly love to preach, but visit, and attend prag
Q er and class meetings. He cannot we'll ad-
= minister to the wants of his people, unless


he knows their feelings and he cannot know
] their feelings unless he visits and convcrsc9
with them. This is "a part of the work that
r is sadly neglected, but when rightly performed


NAV be means of marked success. Men Of
= small abilities often accomplish more good IN
t this way than others of very superior talents
e But all these things cannot be attained 10
f day or year, nor all from one source. BuI
?, as the bee culls little honey here, aud lit
s tie there, so the preacher should patiently en-
d deavor to add to his stock Of knowledge from
> every source and if he labors faithfully, it.
II my opinion that he will be successful.
Year: 1861

Mayor Brown, knocked down with u
stone and slightly hurt VIM. Hay
den, book-keerer Of the State Bank.
considerably hurt, One rioter was
badly cut Oh the shoulder, and anoth-
or had his hand cut h',and one wound
ed in the leg by the.cut Of a bayonet.


The riot was caused by the action
Of the bankers on Saturday in throw
ing out Of circulation the notes of a
large number Of the banks Of this
State.