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Year: 1865

A MISTAKEN THEA thief not having the
fear of ,Crinoline' before his eyes, made raid
upon a clothes line at the east end of town, a
few nights ago and stole several pairs of draw
ers. We can imagine the thiefs discontinue,
when he made the discovery that the stolen ar
ticles belonged to the female gender. Moral,
don't leave your clothes out o nights
Year: 1865

WATER IN THE MINEs.-It is the gen
eral impression in the various mining dis
tricts of the upper country, that there will
be no lack of water to work the mines with
this season. The snow has fallen to great
er depth in all the mining camps the past
winter than usual, and mining operations
will commence later than common on ac-
count oft great depth and the coldness of
the weather However, when the spring
thaws commence there will be plenty of wa
ter to work with from the melting snow, and
when this gives out the numerous water
bitches will supply the mines until late in
the fall, unless the summer happens to bean
unusually dry one. At present all the indica-
tiOns appear favorable for prosperous min
ing season throughot all the surrounding
camps, and the gold and silver yield promi-
ses this year to double that of the last.
Year: 1865

Too LATE.-The President, it is an
nounced, has signed a Congressional bill
which is intended to prevent military inter-
ference with elections. The bill provides
for the punishment of officers and others in
the military service who shall in any man
ner interfere to prevent the right Of suffrage.
A bill for this special purpose was brought
up in Congress and thoroughly discussed
one year ago. It's adoption was then advo-
Gated by both Democratic and Conservative
members, and given the cold shoulder by
the Republican and radical members. 1t
was fully and clearly shown at that time
that military interference with elect
ions had become so prevalent in the States
of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Mis-
souri,, that elections there were farcical.-
Unusual test oaths were prescribed for yo-
ters by military officers, and army orders
were pompously issued by fanatical Briga-
diers, which were purposely designed to pre-
vent all except the most intensely radical
Abolitionists from voting. Military inter
ference went on from bad to worse until its
operations extended throughout some, if not
all, of the Northern States and until it had
accomplished about all it could do and leave
the semblance of free ballot system in ex-
istence. But it must be remembered that
military interference with elections one year
ago amounted to "a military necessity" A
loyal President had to be elected the ensu-
ing Fall, and "military interference" was
necessary to accomplish so desirable result.
1t was disagreeable even with the most de-
yout fanatics to employ the coercive aid of
military power to make their election sure;
but "the end justified the means" and the
Congressional bill to prevent military inter-
ference with elections was last year indef-
nitely postponed Subsequently "the right
man was put in the right place" as Chief
Executive, by the help of military interfer-
ence and systematic intermeddling, and
after that there was nothing to gain by con-
trolling elections by the ilitary system. So
to give matters color of fairness and to
show TIE public that the Union party is
"bound" to maintain the purity of the bal
lot-box, the Administrations worshipping
members of the recent Congress have per-
mitted bill to pass which is designed to
punish all the petty tyrants who shall here
after interfere to prevent American citizens
from exercising the right of voting for the
men of their choice. The bill should have
passed one year ago, and it would have been
but for the opposition it encountered from
the members who belonged, soul and body,
to the Administration. The necessity for
the passage of such law was obvious to
all who recognized the right of citizens to
vote for whOmsoeyer they saw proper, longer
than one year ago, and it is to be regretted
that one could not be passed sooner. The
bill has finally passed, but too late, very
likely, to be of any practical utility, as all
the measures of the Administration, of ev-
cry nature, can be put through by those
who have been elected to Congress through
the aid of "military interference"


M n n r
Year: 1865

ASHLAND IRON WORKs.-We regret to learn
that the Ashland Iron Works have decided to
stop operations by the 1st OF July. The Com
pany has been compelled to come to this con-
clusion on account of the decline in the price
Of iron, and the heavy freight and high price
Of labor and coal. A large number of work
men will thus be thrown out Of employment.
The product Of these works has been from ten
to fifteen thousand tons per annum Of the finest
quality OF pig giron.-Baltimore American.
Year: 1865

We learn, says the San Antonio
News, that about the middle of last
week, a Mexican and German were
robbed beyond Dhanis, by four Jay
hawkers in Conf ederate uniform and
we'll mounted. They are supposed
to have just come from San Antonio
as they had a spruce appearance
Five thousand dollars was taken
from the Mexican and about four
hundred from the German. Capt
Swope, with part Of his company
has been sent to arrest them, If they
can be found. This occurred with
in one of the frontier counties, and
the public would like to know why
immediate pursuit was not made, by
come company in the frontier ser
vice.
Year: 1865

The attention Of our town authori-
ties is directed to the dangerous con-
dition IF the crossing corner of Milan
and Edwards streets, and We hope
they will repair the same. During
the past few weeks our authorities
have been working on the streets OF
the town, and doing the best they
could under the circumstances. We
are sorry to learn that the military
authorities have refused to assist in
the way of furnishing lumber. Why
this should be we cannot conceive.
Year: 1865

ES~The communication of Property
Holder in this mornings Clarion suggests
several things that we think should at
once be carried into effect. The build
ipgs recently erected in Jackson are
almost all of such material as to be pc
culiarly liable to fire, and more than ordi-
nary care should be taken to guard
against such an event. So much prop
erty has been destroyed here during the
war, and its results were SO disastrous to
the wealth of the people, reducing the
largest portion to absolute penury, that
the burning of any considerable portion
of the city now would effect its prosper
perity for years.


The State is greatly interested in this
matter. The Capitol, the Executive
Mansion and other public buildings are
liable to be consumed in this way, and
we think it would be wise and altogether
consistent with gid economy for the
L 'gislature to appropriate sum to aid
in the.purchasing whatever may be nee
essary, to furnish first rate fire compa
ny. If the State neglects this, the Mayor
and council should at once impose tax
for this purpose.
Year: 1865

E6- Great injustice has been done the
members of the Legislature who changed
their votes on the negro testimony bill,
by the insinuation of city paper, that
they had been influenced in their course
in consequence of having interviews with
certain Federal officials. We have the
authority of member Of the Legislature
an original advocate of negro testimony.
that not one OF the members of the
House, who had interviews with the
officers referred to, is known to have
changed has vote. On the other hand many
changed their votes on this question who
had no conversation with Federal officers
in relation to it, but who had committed
themselves against it before hearing the
matter discussed. However, after Lists
ening to the arguments in favor, as we'll
as those opposed to negro testimony
they became perfectly convinced that
Justice to the negro demanded it, while
no real harm could be entailed on the
white men from its admission.
Year: 1865

The wild man OF OrOnoko said TO priest:
Thou keepest thy God in achurch, as
though he were sick and needed thy care
Our God is or the mounIain-top, directing
the storm and guarding as in the still watch
es of the night"
Year: 1865

GEN. BANKs.-In the Boston Journal Of the
29th we find the following just tribute to
Major Gen. Banks:


We are gratified to learn that the reports
made by Gen. Banks on his campaigns in
the Department of the Gulf are completed,
and are soon to be published gentleman
writing informs us that the numerous ad-
mirers of the General win be abundantly
satisfied with the able and elaborate history
OF his military and civil career III louisiana
No one who has ever regarded Gen. Banks
with pride or favor, even, win, on reading
his official report, have canse to regret their
pride or favoritism. On the contrary, they
viii be more than ever satisfied with his
whole career, evincing, as it does, that wis
dom, patriotism and craftsmanship which
have ever distinguished this favorite son of
the republic. The report will remove all
aspersions which have been cast upon him
and his scharacter-executive and military
viii stand out as distinct and invulnerable
as Gibraltar itself, and he will be more than
ever intrenched in the hearts of a Just and
grateful people,
Year: 1865

has this sharp paragraph:


Lord Palmerston declared in his late
speech in Parliament that the recognition
of belligerent rights in the rebel States was
a matter of necessity with the British Gov
ernment, and not Of choice. As there can
be no doubt that there is no longer any ne
cessity existing, it is good time for the
Government to act upon choice and with
draw all the proclamations acknowledging
the rights of belligerents in this anti-national
insurrpction
Year: 1865

Tim, to set at naught the authority
of my wife. You know her way
cool, quiet, but determined as ever
grew. Just after we were married,
and all was nice and eozy, she got
into the habit of doing all the churn.
ing. She finished breakfast rather
before me one morning, and slipped
away from the table, she filled the
churn, and set it down where I
couldn't help seeing what was want
ed. So I took hold readily enough
and churned till the butter came.
She didn't thank me, but looked so
nice and sweet about it that felt
well paid.


Well, when the next churning
came along, she did the same thing.
and I followed suit and fetched the
butter. Again and again I did the
same thing, and l was regularly set
for it every time, not. word said,
you know, of course. Well, by and
BY, this began to be rather irksome;
I wanted her just to ask me, but she
never did, and I wouldn't say any
thing to save my life. So on we
went. At last made a resolve that
I would not churn another time I'm.
less she asked me. Churning day
came, and when my breakfast-Ihe
always got nice. breakfasts-when
that was swallowed, there stood the
churn. l got up, and standing for a
few minutes just to give her chance
put on my hat and walked out of
doors. 1 stopped in the yard to give
her time to call me, but never word
said she, and so with palpitating
heart / moved on. l went down
town, and my foot was as restless as
Noah's dove. l felt as if ! had done
a wrong. l did not feel exactly how
but there was an indescribable
sensation of guilt resting on me.


1t seemed as if dinner time would
never come, and as for going homo
one minute before dinner time, I
would as soon have cut my ears off.
So I went fretting and moping about
till the dinner hour came. Home I
went feeling very much as criminal
must when the jury is out having in
their hands his destiny-life rdeath.
couldn't make up my mind how
she would meet me, but 1 expected
some kind of storm. Will you be-
lieve me-she even greeted me with
smile-never had better dinner
than on that day; but there stood
the churn just where I left it. Not
word was said. Ifelt confounded.
ly cut, and every mouthful Of that
dinner felt as if it would choke me.
She didn't pay any regard to it, how
ever, but went on just the same as if
nothing happened. Before dinner
was over, had again resolved, and
marched to the churn, and went at it,
in the old way. Splash, dip, rattle
Il kept it up. As if in spite, the
butter never seemed 30 long in COM
ing; 1 supposed the cream standing
30 long had got warm, and so re-
doubled my efforts.


Obstinate matter; the afternoon
wore off while I was churning; I
paused at last from real exhaustion,
when she spoke for the first time.
Come, Tom, my dear, you have
ratified that buttermilk long enough.
Is it for fun you are doing it," I
knew how it was in a fash. She
had brought the butter in the fore
noon. and had left the buttermilk in
for me to exercise with ! I never
set up for myself in household mat.
ters after that memorable day.
Year: 1865

KNOWLEDGE of the world is re-
garded as an useful, if not an elegant
accomplishment, but this advantage,
like every other good, is mixed with
some alloy; the acute observer of
men and manners cannot but be dis
gusted with the scenes that take
place around him, and his knowledge
may at last have the effect Of souring
his own disposition.
Year: 1865

CAUTION.-The public arc hereby
cautioned not 10 buy or negotiate for the follow.
ing certificates of stock in the 0verman Gold and
Silver Mining Company, rs the save been sold &C
cordiug to law and will not be transferred on the
books of the company, excepting the balance re-
Year: 1865

We sometimes catch ourselves wonder
ing how many of the young ladies whom
We meet with are to perform the part of
housekeepers when the young men who
now eye them so admiringly have per-
suaded them to become their wives. We
listen to those young ladies of whom we
speak, and hear them not only acknowl-
edging, but boasting, of their Ignorance
of all household duties, as if nothing
would so lower them in the estimation Of
the friends as the confession of an ability
to make bread and pies, or cook a piece
of meat, or disposition to engage in any
useful employment. Speaking from our
own youthful recellections we are free to
say that taper fingers and lilly hands are
very pretty to look at with a young mans
eyes, and sometimes we have known the
artless innocence of practical knowledge
displayed by young miss to appear rath-
er interesting than otherwise. But we
have lived long enough to learn that life
is full of rugged experiences, and that
the most loving, romantic and delicate
people must live on cooking or otherwise
prepared food, and the honse kept clean
and tidy by industrious hands. And for
all tho practical purposes Of married life
il is gederally found that for husband
to sit and gaze at wife's taper fingers
and lilly hands, or for wife to sit and
be looked al and admired, does not make
the pot boil, or put the smallest piece of
food therein.
Year: 1865

The father who plunges into business
so deeply that he has no leisure for do
nestle duties and pleasures, and whose
only intercourse with his children consists
in brief word Of authority, or surly Ia
menration over their intolerablc expen-
siveness, is equally to be pitied and
blamed. What right has he to devote to
other pursuits the time which God has
allotted to his children? Nor is it an
excuse to say that he cannot support his
family in their style Of living without
this effort. l ask by what right can his
family demand to live in a manner which
requires him to neglect his most solemn
and important dutics3 Nor is it an OK
cuse to say that he wishes to leave them
that competence which ho desires, Is it
an advantage to be relieved from the me-
cossity Of labor Besides, is money the
only desirable bequest that father can
leave to his children 7 Surely, well cul-
tivated intellscts, hearts sensible Of do,
nestle affection, the love Of parents and
brethren and sisters, taste for home
pleasures, habits of order, regularity and
industry, hatred of vice and vicious men,
and a lively sensibility to the excellence
Of virtue, are as valuable legacy as an
inheritance Of fproperty--simple property,
purchasqdby the loss Of every habit which.
would render that property q blessing.
Year: 1865

There is movement being made among
the mechanics Of the country to inaugur-
ate the system of eight hours labor for a
days work instead Of ten. Many Of
these gentlemen voted at the last election
in favor of exempting the wealthy bond
holder from the payment of all taxes


Horace Greeley, the shining light Of Re-
publicanism, who is in favor Of exempt.
ing these bonds from taxation, says that
the mechanics and laboring men Of the
country will be compelled to work two
hours longer each day to pay the interest
on these bonds which are exempted from
taxation. In voting for the Abolition
ticket, they voted for two hours more Ia
Dor each day, instead of two hours lees.
If working men wish to reduce their
hours of labor, they should unite them.
selves with the Democracy in the effort
to make these fellows pay their share Of
the national burden. At present the
working man is compelled to pay tax to
the government on every coat he buys,
and every morscl of food he eats, and il
Thaddeus Stevens is correct in the state
ment that these taxes must be doubled to
pay the interest on these bonds, then the
laboring man will have to toll proper
tionate number of extra hours to the in
crease of the taxes, to procure the same
scanty food and raiment he now has diff
Guilty to procure with ten hours labor
The only hope for the poor man is in
equal taxation Chilicothe Advertiser.
Year: 1865

When VIC sec a young man dressed in
the extreme of fashion, promenading the
streets, fiourishing a delicate walking
stick, ogling the ladies, and turning up
his interesting probosis with an air Of
disdain, at a neighbors son or daughter,
when we know that his father acquired
the property which bis fool of son is
making himself ridiculous upon, by col
lecting grease and ashes, we are attempt
ed to shout in his assinine ears, "Hurrah
for Goldfish"


When we see young woman, whose
highest ambition appears desire to her,
eclipse neighbors in dress, and who makes
it her constant boast that she never
washed dish or hemmed a shirt, be
cause she thinks them as vulgar accom-
plshments, we feel strong inclination
to whisper in her ears "Hurrah for Cod
fish,"


When VIC see q young man too proud
10 carry bundle in the street, when his
father is wood saver or when we see
young miss seated in parlor, perusing
a novel, while ma is doing the kitchen
drugcry, We say TO ourselves, "Hurrah
for Goldfish"


In short, when We SEQ people putting
on naughty airs, because it has pleased
Providence to endow them with liberal
share Of the worlds goods, or when we
sec the suporicileous sneer Of contempt
upon the face Of person, to show his or
her estimation of one who "woIks for a
living" we feel strong desire to show
our estimation Of them by exclaiming in
their ears "Hurrah for Goldfish |"
Year: 1865

PURITY OF CHARAoTER.-0ver the
beauty Of the plum aud the apricot there
grows a bloom and beauty more exquisite
than the fruit itself-a soft, delicate flush
spreads its flushing face. Now, if you
strike your hand over that, II is gone -
The flower that hangs in the morning i'm
pearled with dew, arrayed as no queenly
woman ever was arrayed with jewels
once shake it so that the beads roll off,
aud you may sprinkle water over it as you
please, yet it can never be again what it
was when the dew fell silently on il from
heaven. On frosty morning you may
see panes of glass covered with landscape,
mountains, lakes, trees, blended 10 a
beautiful picture. Now lay your hand
upon the glass, and by the scratch of your
finger, or by the warmth of your palm,
that delicate tracery will be obliterated.
So there is in youth beauty and purity
of character, which, when once touched
and defled, can never be restored.
Year: 1865

The excellence of buckwheat -four dc.
pends chiefly on the management Of the
grain between the time of ripcning and
grinding, The common way Of treating
buckwheati eifectually prevents making
good flour, it being allowed to remain in
the swath for several weeks, whenitshould
never be suffered to lie longer than day
or two, and it is decidedly better for the
grain to rake it and set it on end, as fast
as it is graded. Much less grain will bo
wasted by shclling out; tho straw will
cure and dry out sooner, and make better
fodder tho crop will be ready for thresh-
ing and housing in less time; aud the
grain will yield much better quality Of
-four. 1t is especially injurious to the
grain to be exposed to storms before it
Is set up, for dirt is spattered all over tho
grain, by the falling Of large rain drops,
Wetting and drying thetgrain several
times, destroys the 'life" Of the flour. II
will never bo so white, nor make SO good
cakes, but will be sticky aud the cakes
clammy, like the flour Of sproutcd wheat
-American Agriculturisi
Year: 1865

BLOWING Our KEROSENE LAMPS
The danger of blowing out kerosene or
carbon oil lamps from the top is greater
than people generally suppose. There
are several instances on record where lives
have been lost by the explosion Of lam ps
from this practice. The following expla
nation of the causes that produce the OK.
plosion are worth considering and heed.
ing:


First-The oil in the lamp is generally
low; leaving more room for gas.


Second-The gas is very innamable,
and will always explode when ignited.


Third-In blowing the blaze down, il
ignites the gas.


The inference is, a lamp should never
be blown out from the top. The wick
may not perfectly gil the tube, and the
flame may go down, when the gas comes
up.


Fourth The less oil in the lamp the
greater danger.
Year: 1865

fiohl tnc hoIbn NhEoiiuh luehs


II is heart sickening to see what terrible
havoc war has m ade along the line Of the At
lantic and North Carolina railroad Fields
formerly waving with growing corn, wheat,
cotton, &C., at this season of the year, are
now barren waste with not a stick Of fence
10 be seen Farm houses swept sway by the
devouring flames; forests Of pine, once tall
and beautiful now laid low by the axe Of the
pioneer Indeed, everything you behold
bears the impress Of rude, heartess and un-
feeling war. Kinston and Goldsboro, and
their vieinities made memorable in the his
tory Of the war have suffered most The
people are left almost Penniless, without pro-
visions, and in many cases without stock with
which to make a crop the present season. II
is difficult 10 conjecture how they are TO sur
vive the great calamity unless aided by the
government, which would be done most effec-
tually perhaps, by either loanng or selling
them stock with which TO prosecute their ag'
ricultural pursuits. Every valuable is swept
from the earth. The people have no currency
and nothing to sell with which TO get It,
Business is closed, shops and hotels shut up
and everything seems at q stand still,
Year: 1865

SPECIAL TRAIN.-Messrs. Low, Sbley and
johnson came up on a special train on the
Pacific. Railroad from Sacramento to this
place, on Wednesday morning last, in one
hour, on their way to Clipper Gap and above.
They are the committee who report to the
President Of the United States the comple-
tion Of sections of the road as it progresses
and upon their favorable report the company
draw bonds from the government to aid in
the extension OF the road.
Year: 1865

CURIOUS EXPERIMENT. - Mr.. Kropinp
points out the following mode of determining
which of two objects seen from distance is
further off than the other. Let the reader
suppose two trees, for instance, standing in
line with his eye; If he moves his eve to the
right, the tree which is nearer will appear to
move to the left, and the other will seem TO
follow the motion of the eye. The expert
inent is curious, and may be easily perform,
ed, only taking care to make the eve move
in line perpendicular to that in which it
previously was; that is perpendicular to the
line which joins the two objects; then the OBJ
ject which follows the motion of the eye is
the further of the two.
Year: 1865

NEVADA CoUNTy. In this county the
"Short Hairs" have nominated an excellent
ticket, and from what we are informed have
good chance to elect ii. Who saws
there is not a row in the Abolition camp?