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Year: 1863

The abnormal conditions briefly enumerated
above in their various shades and gradaton produce
common effect; Loss of Hearing. Deafness is there
fore not disease in itself but merely the designation Of
an impaired condition Of hearing, which may arise
howe r from a variety Of causes


ii is then the hight Of absurdty to suppose that any
one remedy or any single operation remove IT, be
effects car only be removed by an eradication Of
the from which they proceeds and as in deafness
the same effects are produced by entirely different
causes specifies whether in the shape Of remedies OF
operations are impositions and imposibities. These
remarks are made from observing frequent announce
mens in the papers Of specifics such earos electric
oils acoustic oils &c. &C. and also Of new discoye
ries" or "nno modes Of treatment for docfness." y
surgeon may through study close observation, large
experience or favored by accident, be enabled 10 i'm
prove perfect discover method of treating a
particular disease Of the ar but he must indeed be pos
sessed Of most peculiar inventive genius who has dis
covered mode Of treatment for DGfaess, for in
that case be mus; have discovered mode Of trd'iES
al c rarous di.easf Of e car which result in the loss
of hearing.


Announcements Ike those 20 which We have called at
tcn;on may safely be taken evidence Of the gno
rance Of the party from which they emanate, Of the
pathology OF the and the Of Deafness, or u
desire to deceive the uususpoctiig public.
Year: 1863

Our object in publishing this Essay is to DIFF
Ease general and correct knowledge of the Of
Eeafuess and the by which II may be prevented
or removed. In connection with this subject we have
no desire to call public attention to any N0o System
Of 7rsatmsnt peculiar 20 ourselves for the restoration
of hearing, because system is similar TO that prac
Eced BY al! the we,leducaicd Intelligent aura surgeons
of the present day and is system based upon Rational
well recognized pathological principles. Being intended
for the general reader who s not supposed to rosscfs
q medical education have cndcGrorod to clohc our
ideas in clear and popular language and have avoided
as much as possible all technical terms, MS they only
tend to mystify and confuse the popular mind.


Other Essays upoD topics connected with the subject
cnder consideration and interesting TO the public we
will publish in this paper from time TO time.
Year: 1863

thank you most sincerely for the rea! wonderful
ce you have performed In the case of of my chill
drrn who was affected with Catarrh Of 50 severe ma
urc that its life was dcspaired Of Notwithstanding
some most eminent physicians had II under treat
ngut M different tines Tho child is now growing Wig
orous and healthy, thanks to your sSilfnl attendance


v. ROUSSEAU,


Iiny.nin.h street between First ana Second avs
Year: 1863

discharge in ear which has been very offensive Of
late and us far back as can remember, awaye more
less so and having been entirely restored TO hearing
since under your care feel that cannot Withhold this
actnoW edgment from any it may be to others. es'
pecaly have applied in vain to my family physician
and other physicians ofreputaticn. Yours truly


JOHN MOTT.
Year: 1863

NEWSPAPERS FOR THE SoLDIERs.-A cor
respondent Of the New York Tribune writing
from the Department of the South says:


A newspaper bought and read at home is
generally torn up or consigned TO the uses Of
waste paper. A more wanton act of neglect
to soldiers in the field could scarcely be per-
petrated. Ii the readers Of the Tribune could
only see the wistiul glances cast by the poor
fellows who have sacrificed all the comforts of
home, for the sake of the dear Old Union-the
One Grand ard Invisible Nation-if they could
witness daily and hourly, as we do, the yearn-
ing looks these brave men cast toward a
chance broad sheet in the hands of news
paper correspondent or officer, their hearts
might be touched, and their hands stayed, and
their heads put for once TO the unwonted use
of thinking, sympathetically, for the heroes
and martyrs of patriotism and liberty. Every
buyer of a loyal paper should remember, after
he has read it, that what to him is so trte and
old and stale story, may be like mamma in
the wilderness TO his brother in the field. He
should mail the nscd up novelty to the soldier.
In the wearisome routine of camp life, SOL
diers need something TO occupy their thoughts
They are isolated from home, of which the
newspaper is a faithful record. Their world is
bounded by the limits of the regimental camp;
but the newspaper gives to their minds tenn
porary furlough and excursion into the re-
mainder OF the habitable globe. Many time
fine fellow gives me the curt respectful,
military salute, and asks :-"What is the news,
sir?" or SIS Rosecrans doing well?" Some
times they say in a tone that touches my not
very tender spirit t:-"Could you lend me
paper, sir, just for ten minutes? I'll return
it, sir, sure! The boys are so anxious TO know
how things are going on" They always do
return the papers with a courteous thankful
moss
Year: 1863

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.-The subscrp.
tions to the capital stock Of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company now exceed fifty
thousand pounds sterling among the
bankers and leading merchants OF New
York city, and additional subscriptions
are being received daily. The amount
already subscribed in this city and in
London" says the New York journal of
Commerce, Ensures the success of the
great enterprise next year beyond all
reasonable doubt"
Year: 1863

THE old City Council have meeting
THE evening to install the WY elected mem.
bers in office. 1t is expected ths: . communi.
cation will te read from the Gazette establish.
ment Offering to DO all the city printing free
of expense to the city After raising such a
terrible storm about the trifllng sums paid us
during the past year, an offer Of the kind or
their part would be vastly proper.
Year: 1863

CouLp'Sr CONE Ir.-Notwiths,and-
ing the earnest prayers of our citizens for
ran. and the promising appearance OF the
skiee. but indifferent success was had In get.
sprinkle was all we were favored with in
the rain line. Dust was obtainable "on
CALL and in any quantties A little rain
jus. now is much needed by our farmers to
start their grain. nearly oil Of which is
already in the ground.
Year: 1863

Our county, or rather its people, have relapsed
into a sort of Rip Van Wrinkle snooze, from
which it is high time they were awaking. The
population of Trinity, to-day the best placer
mining county in the State, has dwinded down
to two-thirds what it was five years ago, instead
of increasing in that ratio. True, the rapid de-
population of the last year two has been oc-
casioned by the wild-goose excitements in which
all sections of the State alike have shared
What we desire to impress upon the minds Of
our people is that they have a good thing il
they viii only remain at home and attend to it


These remarks are addressed to men of capital
as well as to the laboring masses. Capital is
required for the development of mineral wealth
as well as bone and sinew. For instance, every
body knows that the greatest advantages would
result from the introduction of plentiful sup.
ply Of water into this Basin, and on the adjacent
ridges-Oregon Gulch, more particularly. With
it the town would increase in population and
wealth. There is hardly square rod of this
valley which would not pay abundantly for work
ing if a plentiful supply of water could be had
TOR the purpose Good claims are made to pay
expenses only, now because it is impossible tc
work them for more than four or five months on
account of scarcity of water Ii sy chance they
have made little money, it is expended before
the mining season comes again in building
reservoirs and digging bitches that are not per-
manently useful.


The case is the same with other mining locali-
ties in the county, and for all are these remarks
intended. There is a sort of capitrl which the
poorest possess-labor, energy enterprise. The
laborer in the mines is one of the most indie
pendent men, and when possessed of proper en-
ergy reaps the largest profit in proportion to the
capital used. Labor is the prime mover in all
! enterprises and capital seldom steps forward
until labor has created security for the invest
ment. What we desire to see is a little more en-
terprise on the part of both the capitalist and
laboring man. As we have said, our county is
still rich in mineral wealth-thousands of acres
of good mining ground to-day lies untouched for
the reason above given.


| Wake up then, and 90 to work in earnest
Aside from our placer diggings we believe Trini-
| ty contains some as rich gold-bearing quartz
! lodges as any county in the State. Yet none OF
| the many discovered have ever been fairly pros
pected. If they were located in some inaccessi-
BILE ravine some mountain top in Boise
Humboldt, Reese River or Arizona, what a rush
there would be thither, and how soon would
they be thoroughly tested. But here, where the
| judicious expenditure of few hundred dollars
might develop untold wealth. they lie year after
year untouched.


Think of these things, good people, for we in
tend giving you many an edition of this same
sort before another year passes over your sleepy
heads.
Year: 1863

LET THE PLEBEANs SPEAK.-We insist that
every farmer mechanic and laboring man in the
State should raise his voice in favor of making
the currency of the United States the currency
of the State of California. 1t is this class of
our citizens who suffer directly through the i'm
positions now practiced under protection of law
by importers and wholesale merchants. They
send members to the Legislature who exclude
by their enactments the currency of the Federal
Government from being legal tender in Cali
fornia. And here, in the opinion of many, lies
the sequal to the Boilers movement in San Fran
cisco at the last election. The Stockton hide
pendent, in an able article on this subject says
San Francisco dealers buy all the goods in New
York with greenbacks they can (by prescribing
greenbacks in San Francsco,) and sell the same
goods here for gold at an increased price over
that paid with grccnbacks in New York. Thus
they not only make the premium on gold, which


is from 40 to so per cent, but also their per cent
on the merchandise, which is from so to 100 per
cent more. Buying in greenbacks themselves,
as above explained, they nevertheless have com
bined together, and established a rule to receive
nothing but gold for their goods. If any into
rior merchant or trader offers to pay his debts
owing to them in legal tenders, he is prescribed
inexorably, and can never again obtain credit
to the amount of one dollar in San Francisco
among their class, which really includes all the
large dealers in that city Thus the paper cur
rency of the United States is virtually excluded
from circulation MS money in this State, and
one arm of the Government raralyzed on the
Pacific Coast
Year: 1863

VISIT YouR ScHooLs.-An exchange pertinent
ly remarks that man or woman who drops into
the school-house often, and shows an inter
est in their pupils, and in their comfort, is
public benefactcr. Both teachers and scholars
are encouraged to maintain good behavior, and
make extra effort. Who does not remember the
stimulus to the whole school of visit from
parent or other person? school visited two or
three times week, the visitors insisting that no
show or change Of programme be made, but that
all things 60 in regular course, will generally
be twice as prosperous as the school never vis-
ted. The public school should be the pet and
pride of every parent.
Year: 1863

r,r1,rrpx ny THE COFFIN OF LITTLE BABY "cHRIsIE"
God will do all things well for me,
own and trust His power,
Though heavy my Affections press
In this most trying hour
A radiant glory seems to rise
Enhancing on my sight,
Where I can read the blessed words
He doeth all things right.
The hopes built on earthly things
Have faded in the dust,
But this shall work eternal good,
Is my sustaining trust.
gloried in my treasures sweet,
My precious baby boys,
Nv mother-heart beat high and fast
Above its earthly joys.
What bliss came with my frst-born boy
Ny ALLIE, pure and mild,
How cheerless seem d the rest OF life
When death came for my child
Just thirteen months he lived with us,
1t seemed he came to draw
Our earthly hearts to better things
Than mortals ever saw.
And when my laughing CHRIsIE came,
The two seem'd d blent in one,
He was to my enraptured heart
An angel and son
Just five months old the day he died,
How swift the summer flew,
How like vision bright he came,
And faded from our view.
There's nothing but the waxen form
Of my pet darling now,
The eyes of sparkling blue are dim,
And cold the lofty brow
The little baby-arms and hands,
With snow-buds PLACID between,
Are just as pure and white as they,
And innocent of sin.
The perfect form that writhed in pain
Our hearts grew faint to see,
Is easy now, and evermore


From sin and suffering free.
But oft my heart grows sick and cold.
My arms ache for my child,
All earth grows dark as or me sweeps
This sorrow sharp and wild:
Earth has no balm for grief like this,
Oh pray that Heaven may give
My two fair boys to me again
When go there to live.
Their little graves are far apart,
AS far as East and West,
But their sweet spirits mingle now,
Forever saved and blest
My God, Thou teachest us to say
In truth, ''Thy will be done
Oh sanctify this grief to us


Through Thine own suffering Son
The father far across the sea-
The little sisters here
And | with my half-brcaking heart,
To each and all be near.
The reason why thou chastenest us,
No voice to me doth tell,
But in the future we shall know
Thou doest all things well


ANNE X. II. FADER
RoBBINsToN, Me-, October 10, 1868.
Year: 1863

Mr. RIDGE was on his way to Sacramento,
where he expects to spend the Winter reporting
for several papers.-Red Bluff Beacon.


That's funny. 1t was given out here that the
sole object of the National editors sojourn at the
Capital was to watch the rascally Abolitonsts.
The Peace Democracy are terribly exercised just
now for fear that Stanford will leave the State
finances in fix very similar to the one in which
he received them from little Shylock Downey,
their defeated pet
Year: 1863

or twice thrown out dark hints that the sinking
of the Aquila was not entirely the act of God,
the people in the interior will be glad to learn
in what spirit this generous offer of the Russian
Admiral will be treated. If the Aquila and
Comanche are secretly in the hands of traitors
doubtless it will be passed by in silent contempt
if it does not receive kick from some of the
copperhead organs there but if it is really the
wish to save the stranded vessel, the offer ought
TO be at once and thankfully accepted.
Year: 1863

Hardly down-country paper is received which
does not devote more or less space in discussing
the question as to whether or not the San Fran
cisco Boilers - should be admitted into Legis-
lative caucus So far as we have very
few of the papers which have taken up the cudgel
in their defense ever aided in the formation of,
or ultimate triumph of the Union party, while
every Copperhead sheet in the State is loud in
its mouthings relative to the great injustice
sought to be done these San Francisco innocents
We have before expressed the opinion that the
matter should be passed over, for the simple
reason that we do not desire to see discord in the
Uuon ranks; it would only be theme for ex-
ultation by rebel sympathizers. Still we believe
that admitting the % Boilers " with the admo-
milton of "go and sin no more" is but bid for
disorganizers to follow the example in every
countv in ~ " year. They would


Francisco in justifca-


the Cn;oa ,.Az.s-, o nG


the rest of the State
1-ei ,. 1t is patent tina


.lent in the Bay city


-.-. IesuItlng in the success of the Cop.
perhead ticket some of its most earneS. advo-
Gates were men who never before were identified
with or voted with the Union party, and it is
openly charged that the two Skaters used their
utmost endeavors to elect the Copperhead cam
iidate for Judge in the 7th District in order to
further their own ends


Sincerely we don't believe these " Boilers -
are entitled to seats in the Union Legislative
caucus, yet for the reasons above given believe
with the lone Chronicle that q the Union party
of the State looking with a single eye to the at
tainment of that object for which almost mil
lion of men are in arms, should have nothing to
do with local feuds schisms of party often
but quarrels between the leaders of them let
the leaders wrangle, if they so mind, but let
outsiders keep aloof and take sides with neither.
No party was ever yet so strong as to be able for
any great length of time to adopt proscrptive
course by so doing they foment, not allay, dis
sensions."
Year: 1863

"SHAsrA COURIER. We arc under deep OBJ
legations to our old friend Conmy, editor and
proprietor of that prosperous newspaper, for the
facilities afforded us in keeping up the publica-
tion of the JOURNAL during the last six weeks
We are aware that it was done at great disadyan-
tage to himself, and trust that at some time we
may be able to reciprocate for the great favor
done us in the time of misfortune.
Year: 1863

WALKING for young and active people,
is by far the best exercise; riding is good
for the elderly, the middleaged and inva-
lids. The abuse of these exercises consist
in taking them when the system is exhaus-
ted more or less by previous fasting or by
mental labor. Some persons injudiciously
attempt long walk before breakfast, under
the belief that it is conducive to health
Others will get up early to work three hours
at some abtruse mental toll The effect in
both instances is the same +; it subtracts
from the powers of execution in the after
part of the day. A short saunter, or some
light reading before the best indulgence of
the kind; otherwise the waste occasioned
by labor must be supplied by nourishment,
and the breakfast will necessarily become a
heavy meal, and the whole mornings com
fort sacrificed by weight at the chest from
imperfect digestion of food These obser-
vations apply especially to elderly persons
who are prone to fatter themselves into the
persuasion that they can use their mental
or bodily powers in age as in youth.
Year: 1863

PROFESSIONAL TACT.-A wealthy lady
had tickling in her throat, and thought
that bristle of her tooth brush had gone
down and lodged in her gullet. Her throat
daily grew worse. 1t was badly infamed,
and she sent for the family doctor. He
examined it carefully, and finally assured
her that nothing was the matter-it vas a
mere nervous delusion, he said. Still her
throat troubled her, and she became so
much alarmed that she was sure she would
die. A friend suggested that she should
call in DR.. Jones, young man just COM
mencing practice. She objected at first,
but finally consented. He was person of
good address and polite manners. He
looked carefully at her throat, asked her
several questions as to the sensation at the
seat of the alarming malady, and finally
stated that he thought he could relieve her.
On his second visit he brought with him a
delicate pair of forceps, in the teeth of
which he had inserted bristle taken from
an ordinary tooth brush. The rest can be
imagined The lady threw back her head;
the forceps were introduced in her mouth;
pick-a loud scream and twas all over;
and the young physician, with a smiling
face, was holding up to the light and in
specting with lively curiosity the extracted
bristle. The patient was in raptures; i'm
mediately recovered her health and spirits,
and went about everywhere sounding the
praise of "her savior" as she persisted in
calling the dexterous operator.
Year: 1863

THE LONDON TIMES SUBsIDIzED.-A
distinguished Alabamian, who has succeed
ed in escaping from Dixie with his family,
says that he is cognlzant of the fact that
the London Times has been subsidized by
rebel gold. OF the S2l 100000 of specie
belonging to the New Orleans banks, and
which was spirited off into the interior of
Georgia when that city was restored to
Federal authority, $4,O0O,OO0 found its
way to Europe through our blockade. And
of the cotton that was run through our
lines, the most of it was upon the rebel
Government account. The proceeds of
these shipments formed the nucleus of the
fund which went and still goes to subsi-
die the Times and its coadjutois on the
Continent and in England in their work of
corruptng public sentiment over the water
against the national cause and the cause of
human liberty.
Year: 1863

M. DE GRooF, of Bruges, asserts that
after i years study he has invented the
means of flying in the air in any direction,
and only needs money to demonstrate it
beyond question. The machine is small,
he says, and will enable man to move in
the air with the swiftness of the swallow
and the vigor of the eagle"
Year: 1863

ayes Charlie, left nothing undone for that
poor woman's comfort and she seems calm and
more resigned now, but ah would give all
possess to bring back that dead boy and with a
fresh burst of rem orseful tears, Mrs. Huntly laid
her head on her husbands shoulder. He put his
arm around her, and said


don't cry, darling you meant no harm and
though the matter has ended so unhappily we
have, l trust, both learned lesson for the flu
ture."


"Yes, and shall never forget" said the young
wife, lifting her dark tear-flled eyes to her hus-
band. alt is never to say, Go and come again.
to those whom l employ Oh! l never knew be-
fore, The worth of ONLY DOLLAR
Year: 1863

"You're not going away mammal P Please do.
not go away and leave Willie alonei" and the sick
child raised his arm appealingy from the pallet
in which be lay, while the fever flush deepensd iu
Year: 1863

"Only dollar Charlie"


"Only dollar, eh," said the young husband
with smile, as he placed one foot on the rung of
his wife's chair while she leaned her elbow on hs
knee, and watched him open thesteel clasps of his
pocket book. A solitary note and few loose
pieces of silver were all that presented them
selves.


Lucky enough Adelne, that your demands
unroled the crumpled paper, for settled debt
OF fifty dollars before came home, in hurry 10
see you"


"Say rather to see your dinner answered the
pretty wife, as she put up her mouth like a rose
bud for kiss


swell, pussy, guess twas little of both for
you better believe was hungry. Here, take this
too )" and he emptied the silver into the rosy
pam. won't this do till supper time ?"


"Oh, yes You see, I've nothing in the world
to purchase, but l owe a dollar to that poor
woman who brought home my muslin wrapper,
and told her she should have the m oney to-day
for sure and certain as Bridget says"


Adeline Huntley was charming little wife,
and the young husband thought SO, or he would
not have fingered another half hour by her side,
when he knew so we'll he ought to be at his store
But there was strange magnetism in the pretty
face-in the dainty movements of the graceful
head-in the light talk that reminded one of the
humming bird, as it futtered over the sweet lips.
And all these things held the husband like so
many chains, until at last, with desperate effort,
he seized his hat pressed his lips upon the fair
forehead, and hurried away.
Year: 1863

Faith and Love are like pair of compass
es: faith, like one point, fastens upon Christ
as the centre and love, like the other, goes
the round in all the works of holiness and
righteousness.