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Year: 1865

Gold Pens,
In solid Gold Holders!
In solid Silver Holders!
Suitable for Ladies!
Suitable for Gentlemen
Twill please the ladies and the men.
Each line they write they'll bless the pen:
The giver bless. and praise the taste
That gave for use and not for waste-


A Good Gold Penl
Year: 1865

The CIRCULATION OF THE AIR.-Winds are
put in horizontal motion. Their influence is
most beneficial. Were there no winds the
vapors that rise from the sea would be returned
back from the clouds 10 showers, to the very
same places in the sea whence they came. On
an earth where no winds blew. We should
neither have green pastures. still waters, nor
running brooks. Air is more liable TO pollution
and corruption than water stagnation is ruin
Gus to it. Ceaseless motion has been given to
it; perpetual circulation and intermngling Of
its ingredients are required of it. The necessity
of ventilation in cur buildings, the wholesome
influences of fresh air are universally acknowl-
edged. The cry in cities for fresh air from the
mountains or the sea, reminds US continually Of
the life giving virtues of circulation. 1t has
been well said that the girdling, encircing air
makes the whole world akin.


1t is the laboratory for the whole animal
and vegetable kingdoms. The carbonic acid
with which our breathing fills the air to day,
to morrow seeks its way round the world, the
date trees that grow round The falls of the \ lie
will drink 1t by their leaves; the cedar Of
Lebanon will take OF it to add TO their stature.
The oxygen we are breathing now was distilled
for US, some short time ago, by the magnolias
of the Susquehanna, and the great trees that
skirt the Amazon. BY the winds superfiuous
water is carried off aud removed to other lands
where its agency is required or it is treasured
up as the material of clouds in the crystal vault
OF the armament, the source, when the fitting
season arrives, of the showers which provide
for the wants of the year.
Year: 1865

COUNTERFEIT Sl00 TREASURY NoTEs-A
new and dangerous counterfeit is now aloat
1t is al exact fac simile of tbe 500 treasury
notes issued under the act Of February, 1862
and is so well executed that good judges might
be deceived by it. Upon close examination
however, the fraud may be easily detected
The spurious note is smaller than the genuine
one, aud the coloring on the back is paer and
less distinct than on the genuine bill The
words lone hundred dollars" on the right hard
side of the counterfeit are smaller than on the
genuine note, and the lettering around the mar
gin is also different.-Phlladeiptid -dge
Year: 1865

SToEY WITH MoRAL.-A conversation
between a New York commission merchant
and a Southern planter took place recently.
which is worth narrating as throwing some
light upon the disputed question whether the
Southern negroes are capable OF supporting
themselves in a state of freedom. The planter
complained of the hard times and OF the injus'
tice and wrong of being forced to pay bis
former slaves hundred and fifty dollars
month wages. Our New Yorker, suspecting
that the KentUckiau was drawing the long bow
and exaggerating his grievances, quietly re-
marked that white labor could be obtained IN
plenty for forty dollars a month. Very true"
replied the planter ''but they don't know how
to strip tobacco. Few white men can strip
hundred pounds Of tobacco in day, while my
slaves, who are used to the business, can strip
from seven to eight hundred pounds day, and
do it better, too. than white men, Then
REPLIED the merchant, "the negroes are able to
support themselves in a state OF freedom, aren't
they?' "Ob, as for that" says the Kentuckian,
they supported US. and there is no fear about
their ability to support themselves"
Year: 1865

The Times has lately speculated extensively
on American sffairs-always taking sides With
the South But lis Wild theories and symps-
ihies are How nearly at an end. and the treason
which il has encouraged is soon TO be buried
in q certain last diich." HouSeless. homeless,
and outcasis from their own country, the Lon
don Times can now invite 10 its own shores the
leaders, aiders and abettors Of the Southern
Confeieracy. The following extract from an
article in the Times of late dals is rich. rare
and spicy-the concluding sentence, especially,
is quite refreshing just about this time, when
the nation is rejoicing over the fall of Rich
moud When the latest news gets over the
big pond, it will doubtless have about the same
effect on the Times as throwing salt upon a
snail has. But here Is what the Times says
about the situation" when it last heard from
America. Read it and laugh:


The idol of American worship embraces
continent-nay, a world; it includes all the
future; ii claims to subjugate the entire realm
of human thought. 1t is treason and heresy TO
slop short Of the whole visible and speculative
sphere. The world is to be regenerated on
this new model the New W orld then the Old.
Accordingly, the present holders of this august
destiny can give up nothing. Itwss decapta-
tion IN China to doubt that the Emperor was
brother of the Sun and Moon, and it is political
death in America to doubt that all nations will
receive the law from Washington. annex them
selves to its mild realm, and bow to its easy
yoke In the Old w orld-whch has been
battled, aud buiieted, and beaten, by hard facts,
if not INTO wisdom, at least into submission
when a conqueror is defeated he gives up his
conquest when State cannot fight the world,
it saws so and gives in. BY the same rule,
when private man has played for great stakes
and lost, he sits down and makes the best OF II.
He knows that it is possible TO exist without a
large fortune, without q high position, without
dignfed employment without many friends,
without an acre of land without even a house
to call his own. He coDgratuates bimsef if
he has not lost his honor and sunk into caste
below his habits and natural instincts. The
most overwhelming and oversteppng ambition
may end by accommodating Itself TO q very
humble place, and finding happiness in self
respect and self content. There are few, indeed,
that have not had to surrender good eeal Of
their early day dreams. The American cannot
do this. The dream, which Others on this side
the tlautic can better describe in all its grand
eur, is too strong a reality for him. Having
worshped it and obeyed it-having laid on lis
shrine all he held dear, he is now its humble
slave He must do as it bids him, and go
through blood and flames to enforce its dire
behests. No partial sacrifice will appease it.
All or nothing he asked for; all or nothing it
demands at bis hands. So long as that idol
stands on its pedestal, the war must rage on;
and We see no symptom OF its early overthrow.
Year: 1865

A MAN has been charged with perjury IN
San Francisco for having sworn that certain
lumber was only l q inches thick, when it was
IL inches. An eight Of an inch is not much,
but the complainant in the case thinks it goes
long ways in swearing.
Year: 1865

age, falth ana cnarlty.


Make your living room the largest and
most cheerful in the house. Let the
place be such that when your boy has
gone to distant land. or when, perhaps,
he clings to single plank in the lonely
waters of the wide ocean, the thought Of
the still homestead shall come across the
desolation, bringing always light, hope
and love.


Have no dungeon about your house
no room you never open--no blinds that
are always shut


Don't teach your daughters French
before they can weed a flower bed or
cling to a side-saddle.


And daughters, do not be ashamed Of
the pruning knife. Bring to your door
the neatest flowers from the woods; cul-
tivate the friendship Of birds; scorn the
scamp that levels his murderous gun at
the bluebird or the robin. Study bot
any, learn to love nature, and seek
higher cultivation than the fashionable
world can give you.
Year: 1865

There is something worth living for
besides money. That is very good, bnt
is not all. With the rest let US raise a
crop or good ideas. While you are a
farmer, remember that you are man
with duties and responsibilities. Live
down the old brutal notion that far
mer must be uncouth, uneducated, and
unthinking-a mere plodder.


Move toward better life. Do not
keep your boys shelling corn on the long
winter evenings.


Make your farm place your sons,
and daughters cannot hep loving Gull
tivate the trees-they are Gods mess
engers Do not say that you care moth
ing for looks. You do care, else why
did you build that white house, with
blinds and cupalo, into which you never
60. Or why did you years ago, careful
ly brush up your coat, and push up your
shirt collar, when you were starting on a
Sunday evening to visit the good woman
who now shares your home?


Care much for books and pictures
Don't keep solitary parlor, into which
you 60 but once month, with the par
son or sewing society.


Hang around your walls pictures which
shall tell stories of mercy, hope, cour-
Year: 1865

WoNDEKFUL VITALITY.-A young
man from Worcester, Mass, a private in
the 57th regiment, in the battle of Cold
Earbor, year ago, was hit by ball in
the chin, which badly fractured the bone
and tore out several teeth Another
ball hit the right shoulder blade, and re-
mains undiscovered. The third ball
passed through his abdomen and brought
him to the ground. His companions
dragged him to hole, where his body
and head could not be seen by ths en-
emy !; but his logs being exposed. one
ball passed through the calf of his leg,
another cut deep groove through his
shin, another cut through the top Of the
instep, and another carried away the
next to the great toe. He lay in the
hole all day, and was then taken prison
er and starved for several months, yet
this young man is now in Worcester,
erect, and in good health, and not per-
ceptibly lame. His name is Il. 2. Rock
wood.
Year: 1865

Mention was lately made Of the dis
covery at Pompeii, of a temple of Juno,
with more than three hundred skeletons.
Those remains which crumbed to dust
by degrees as they were brought to light,
were those Of women and children who
had been buried beneath the burning
ashes thrown out by the volcano, at the
moment when the sacrifice was being Of
fered up in the temple of the Queen Of
the Gods, no doubt to implore her to
avert the terrible calamity which men
aced the city To the arm Of one of
these skeletons, which, from the rich
Jewels with which it was covered, is
supposed to be that of the high priestess,
was still attached by gold ring, cen
ser Of the same metal, filed with calcin-
ed perfumes. This vessel is of the form
of those now used in the ceremonies
of Catholic churches, and is of beautiful
workmanship. and inlaid with precious
stones. The statue Of the goddess is one
Of the most magnificent relics yet found
in that city; its eyes are of enamel, and
on the neck and arms, as well as at the
ankles, are jewels and bracelets Of prec-
ious stones Of the most exquisite finish
and elegance of form. The peacock
placed at her side is almost entirely com
posed Of precious stones. The tripod
before the alter is, like the censer held
by the high priestess magnifeently work
ed in gold. The temple also contained
lamps, artistically chased, of bronzied
iron, silver and gold; branches of foliage


vine stems, interspersed with flowers and
fruit of the most beautiful form. The
space round the alter is paved with
splendid mosaics in excellent state OF
preservation. and the rest of the temple
is inlaid with small triangular pieces Of
white and purple agate. The spot on
which the sacrifice is made, is paved
with marble. All the instruments used
on the occasion were still lying on a
bronze table, and the sacred vases were
filed with a reddish matter, which il
supposed to have been blood.
Year: 1865

product, since the waste acid that flows
| from the petroleum refneries is largely
applied to the imitation and adulteration
of cream of tarter, which is the chief
substance used for making bread light.
can American chemist has recently
taken out patent for making printing
ink from the various cJlors and extracts
of petroleum, and the black ink he thus
manufactures is said to be better than that
made with linseed oil and can be sold for
half the price. Some ofour largest pub
fishing houses are now constantly using
lit, and this very article, for aught we
know, may be printed with it. The
consumption ofthis compound is already
very great.


"The most exquisite dyes are also OBJ
tanned from petroleum-amongst them
the new and elegant girofa, surprising
in its beauty the most brilliant produc-
tions of Tyre and Persia.


There are several fine colors produc-
ed from the residum Of petroleum. One
in the Oil Greek region, bright and fixed
cerulean blue, perhaps a shade darker,
but still brilliant, and is called the Hum
boldt color. These colors form combi-
nation Of naptha and tar. The refinery
used twenty six stills, and probably
three or foar hundred barrels Of petro-
leum per day when running to full capa-
city. Another delicate and fashiona bic
color is light blue called 'asuline'
which, as we'll as the famous and popular
color, magenta is now produced from
petroleum. A fourth called roesine, is
in course of experiment. These colors
are ascertained by dropping the oil in a
certain state into the water, by which
the most beautiful hues are brought out.
Year: 1865

Every week or two some new use is
found for this extraordinary article, and
the Petroleum Chronicle for March, sets
forth some Of these uses elaborately. 1t
is not merely to its uses as an illumina-
tor, lubricator, and steam generator,
that petroleum can be put, but the fol-
lowing additional uses are now claimed
of this discovery


is becoming universally used by
tanners, after the naptha has been ex
tracted from it, as a substitute for fish
oil, and the leather prepared in this
manner is found to be better and more
durable than that tanned in the old way
The naptha obtained can then be used
as a substitute for alcohol in liniments
and other medicinal compounds. 1t is
also said to be the best solvent that can
be used for India rubber, and with it
rubber varnish for leather can be made
which will render it perfectly water
proof.


1.-The heavy qualities of the oil strain
ed in cold temperature yield the para
fine which is employed to adulterate and
cheaper spermaceti, beeswax, ETC., and
also for making candles, a very fine sam
pie Of which, that nearly equalled sperm
aceti, paraffine or adamantine, and at
very much smaller cost, was shown US
two or three days ago.


"A large and enterprising firm in this
city is now making that which they claim
to be verysuperior petroleum cosmetic
soap, as also family soap for domestic
use, Of the same material


''There is also another establishment
where the gas is made from petroleum,
and can be supplied at the rate of S1.50
per 100 feet, or only half the present
cost of gas in the city of New York !;
and it yields the brightest and purest
light as well as the most powerful heat
of any known illuminator for domestic
purposes.


"Our fair mothers, wives and sisters
will be not little astoaished, also, to
learn that eighty tons of it are used in
this country for the manufacture of mas
tic, which they buy in our candy stores,
and chew, in pretty little perfumed yell
/ low and rose-colored sticks.


"Our self-rising -four derives it's most
distinctive quality from this wonderful
Year: 1865

A NEWLY elected coroner, on being asked
recently bow he accounted for the great
mortality of this year. said he coglaa't tell,
for there were people dying this year who
never died before.
Year: 1865

UnUise above man is the man who con-
siders every hour lost which is not spent in
reading, writing or study; and not more ra-
tional is she who thinks every moment OF
her time lost which does not find her sew
ing. We once heard a great man advise
that a book of some kind be carried in the
pocket, to be used in case OfunCccupied mo-
ments. Such was his practice, and he died
early and fatitious. There are women who
after hard days work, will sit and sew by
candle or gaslight until their eyes are al
most blind, or until certain pains about the
shoulders come on, which are almost iusup-
portable, and are only driven to bed by
physical incapacity to work any longer. The
sleep of the overworked, like that of those
who do not work at all, is unsatisfying and
unrefreshing, and both alike wake up in
WEAKNESS sadness and languor, with an in
evitable result, both dying prematurely.
Let no one be worn to pain or WEAKNESS.
When a man is tired he ought to lie down
until he is fully rested, when, with renova-
ted strength, his work will be better done,
done the sooner, and done with selfsus-
tained alacrity The time taken from sew
en- or eight hours sleep out of each twenty
four, is not time gained, but time much
more lost we can cheat ourselves, but we
cannot cheat nature. A certain amount Of
food is necessary to healthy body, and if
less than that amount he furnished, decay
commences the very hour. 1t is the same
with sleep, and any one who persists in al
lowing himself less than nature requires
will only hasten his arrival az he mad house
or the grave. This is especially true OF
brain work.
Year: 1865




DID any body ever reflect how living in
such country as Australia, for instance,
must upset all ones established ideas aoout
the fitness of things. Whatever previous
experience of the points Of the compass a
man may have had is reversed The sun
no longer shines from the Southern half of
the heavens, but the northern. The Old
rule in the Biographies, Turn your face to
the sun and you will have the West to your
right hand and the East at your left" must
be exppnged from your memory. The
Australians go 'Edown Merit" to spend the
winter, and come sup South" during the
summer months The first Strawberries
come from "down North" In short, the
north and south change places, and Austria
Ian poets must sing odes to the "sunny
North and icy South.''1'ee
Year: 1865

THE Empress of the French is getting
bald and stout, and the fashions are chang
ing in consequence When the ladies all
get to initiating the shape Of the Empress,
how in the world will we be able to tell THE
single ones from the married ones
Year: 1865

Our HOME CoNcERT-This entertainment
came off last Saturday evening. To say it
was success, is weak The Hall was filed
and many left because of being too late to
get seats. The tableaux the singing. the
playing-all excellent-went to make up an
entertainment superior in attraction, and
giving greater satisfaction, than any that
our citizens have had the pleasure of wit
Messing for long years.


In this connection we will say, and call
the attention of parents thereto, that at the
concert, and at all that for some time have
preceded it, there was disturbing element
in the audience that. for all future occasions,
should be suppressed. We emean the screech
ing cat.calls. and inopportune applauding-
ifsueh demoniac noises NAV be called ap
plause- of Young America. The youth of
oar town have become expert in making
themselves a nuisance in such places--a dis
comfort to every lady and gentleman in the
audience, and to all engaged in the ex.
hibition. When persons engaged in furnish
ing amusement or instruction to an audience
are apnlauded, they like to know that it
comes from those competent to understand
and appreciate them /; but they do not like
to have their ears pierced and distracted by
the unearthIy noises yelled forth at every
opportunity by some dozen Youngsters who
seem to 90 to such places for no other pur
pose than to show their proficiency in black
guardism. In our youth we were taught
that little boys should be seen and not
heard" That lesson is not taught in Shasta
at the present day. We will suggest TO the
next manager of an exhibition here, that he
procure the attendance of an officer whose
duty it shall he to put outside OF the walls
the first youth who shall so offend against
decency and propriety.
Year: 1865

A. W. BIsHoP.-The Independent gives
its candidate for District Attorney a little
puff in Mondays issue, to think ii
necessary that the fact of Els being a lawyer
needs to be published. The independent
head is right for once; and it is pity, for
Bishops sake, that the assertons of that
paper had not some weight. As it is, the
people cau't see how so much light has been
kept under bushel for so long. For many
years he has lived, but never light has
Bishop waved On the 9th, he'll waive all
claims to the chances of doing so, at the
expense of the people of Tehama county
That's all there is not much in the subject
or the man. so few words ventilateS the
whole matter.
Year: 1865

CoNsoLING.-Th week, for the consolation
OF boilers we give extracts from many of the
loyal papers of the State, which go to show
very conclusively the high estimate in which
they are generally he'd. The encomiums
[ p expressed must be soothing to their sci
fish gizzards. The bolter that don't hate
himself after the 9th of September has passed
and be has learned the lesson, as lessons can
only be taught to such narrow minded bipeds,
should Immediately emigrate to Colusa OF
Allison's Ranch, or seek employment of John
r. Ridge Of the Grass Valley National. the
Marysville Express or the S. F. Examiner,
for with such they can only find kindred
spirits. There will be no use in going to the
Red Bluff Independent. Quincy Union, Ne
vada Gazette or Folsom Telegraph for sym
pathy-they will have none to spare. Being
new in infamy their whole souls (?) will be
given up to the contemplation Of the destruc-
ton they have brought upon themselves, and
in gazing with eyes turned heavenward in
vain trying to reach with the organ of sight
the altitude from which they have fallen
They will have no occasion to look down in
anticipation of falling lower. They will
stand on the bottom.
Year: 1865

&e~ Hope for the Aflicted.-In another part
of this paper will be found the advertisement of the
celebrated Institute established by DR.. ]. C.
YOUNG, in 1850. In this age of deceit and char
latanism it is a boon to the suffering to point out
to them where they sure of obtaining the wished
for relief and cure. Under the of the skilliul
Doctor the sick and troubled divest themselves
of their burdens of pains and shame lay aside their
cross, and secure health and happiness. If you
are sick or in trouble, do not hesitate. Read the
advertisement and follow the advice. Do not for
get the number the manner of directing your
letter. CONSULTATION OFFICE, $40 Washing
ton street. San Francisco.
Year: 1865

WoRTHLEss.-We give below evidence that
should convince the most skeptical that
Shasta county as mining district has given
out; that to invest in mining business is
money thrown away:


The Highland Company, running ten
stamps, seven days run, cleaned up last
week the trifling little sum of IS, ,5S3 10
The rock from which this yield was obtained
is abundant and cheaply placed at the mill.


The Washington. because Of "a scarcity of
water, has only been running three stamps.
and they only for tn purpose of crushing a
pile Of rock that was in the way. Sixty tuns
yielded $500.


The Baker Company are driving tunnels
and prospecting their ledge thoroughly. The
other day the boys went to work and crushed
a hundred pounds of their rock in hand
mortar, to get whisky money They only
got S3o. II they are satisfied with such mis-
cradle stuff as that, Of course it is none of
our business.


Sam. Growers mill will be crushing rock
IN two or three weeks


In about ten days the tunnel at Horse
shoe Bend will be through, and from two and
a half to three miles of the Sacramento river
bed laid bare. An opportunity then offers
Tor thousand miners to employ themselves
probably, as it is the intention Of the compa-
ny to let their ground on reasonable terms.


At Qnartz Hill and vicinity some good
lodes have recently been struck Some fine
specimens from them were shown in town
THIS week. Arrangements are being made
at the Mammoth mill for the crushing of a
quantity Of the rock from one Of the newly
discovered lodges