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Year: 1867

Works LIKE CHARM.-W Wherever thus far


primary meetings have been conducted under the
provisions of Porter's Primary law, the result
has been entirely satisfactory. The Union Cen
trail Committee of this county will be called to-
gether in short time, and unless we are great
ly mistaken in the men who compose it, will
unanimously recommend its use in conducting
the approaching primaries. If it is a good and
beneficial law, As is alleged in the localities where
it has been tested, there is no reason why its
adoption should be delayed until next year or
the year after. We are decidedly in favor of it,
and if the Central Committee decide in favor of
using it, the people of the county will be allow
ed an opportunity of ascertaining just what its
provisions are through the columns of this paper.
Year: 1867

Bar The following estimate of French literary taste, from the editorial "Nebulse' of the last Galary, is more true than flat tering:- ...

 1.-The French are in their daily lives the most prosaic and material of all peoples ill philosophy and science the most logical They are the most precise of business men, and their women in bus- ness are no less precise. In their households and their personal expenditure they gre given up, as nation to the practice of small economy and to the patient attainment of small advantages But to make up for all this upon la Gotre for the na- ton and te Seatimem for the individual they run stark, staring mad. And the individual indulges his taste for te sentiment not in his daily life which he works by the rule of three but in books and at tho theatre. It is upon these points only that Frenchmen justify the saying that they have every gift but common sense; for upon all others they are she most common sensible of human crea- lures. The man who would as soon think of may rying female megatherium as a woman without dot the woman who would doubt if she were re- ally married if there were not diamonds in her houssedG, will melt into tears or rise into ecstasy over le sentiment of book that is fit only to move reasonable human beings to laughter The con- tinued favor in France of Paul ct Virginie"-that spooniest of all books ever written, 7only slang will give utterance to the mental nausea of our memory)-and the high appreciation there of La martins, are examples of the Frenchmen in this respect
Year: 1867



 Wewere lately obliged to obtain the last completed grand lists of the respective towns in this county, for the purpose oi calculating the county tax and assessment. From these we have copied and calculated the following tables of county statistics which we hope may enable the people oi the different towns to compare their esti- mates with those of their neighbors, be- sides affording reliable information on mat ters of general interest and importance.

 The first table contains: the population of each town according to the census of 1860; the number of polls; the total taxa. ble property, and the average of taxable property belonging to each individual:
Year: 1867

There is an old adage, says an exs
change, that "nO man can serve two
masters, and do justice to both,
which is pOintedly verified by the
Radical destruction acts. For By it
the Southern people are required to
violate their oaths Of amnesty, which
in good faith they have taken and
lived up to:


do solmenly swear or affirm, in
the presence of Almighty God, that
| will heretoforth faithfully defend
the Constitution of the United States
and the Union of the States there
under, and that l will, in like manner
abide by and faithfully support all
laws and proclamations which hare
been made during the rebellion with
reference to the emancipation of
slaves. So help me God.


No man having taken the above
oath, can live up to the requirements
of the Reconstruction acts, and
not violate lis oath, or commit per-
jury. And yet this is what is requir-
ed of the Southern people in order to
make them loyal. What require
men to take an oath that they will
" hencefOrth faithfully defend the
Consultation Of the United States and
the Union Of the States Hereunder"
and then compel them to obey Laws
which are in direct violation Of every
principle of that Constitution, and
destroy and trample under the feet Of
military despots, ten States Of the
Union Radical members of Con-
gress We know do it daily; but it is too
much to be required of honest men.
Year: 1867

1t is unreasonable to expe that the
public press viii always publish only such
things as We, individually, like. 4 person
Of strictly religious habits and tastes will
be offended it he aces in newspaper the
account Of prize fight, or Of some-
thug obscene and sinful. He forgets that
the newspaper is but the reflection Of the
world at large aud if be is so fas,idious
he should retire altogether from life, for
10 . single street no will find, at any given
hour Of the day, what will offend almost
all hls senses He need not read what
he considers TO be Objectionable 10 like
manner, he need not eat at a tabLe dhote
any highly scasoued dish. lie may not
like yenisou and game, high. Let him
order something to his tasie--a veal cut.
let without sauce. But my Lady Godi.
ya may like a few Of tho indelicacic< oi
the season, and Lord Coventry may have
a stomach for anything.


y newspaper would have few readers
were its dishes Of news To consist solely
OF pious pastry aud fimsy puifs. While
the tone Of newspaper is moral, the pub.
lie can not complain. The music Of an
organ may be Of the purest character
though she organ itself and the organ.
grinder likewise may sometimes show
symptoms Of the mud and 6lih that ara
picked up by, or scattered upon then
throughout the rambllugs Of The day
To the pure all things are pure. and Il
find fault with newspaper Tor every mice
offense" is TO display the hypocrisy of al
ignoramus.- London Examiner.
Year: 1867

4 BUsINEss-LIKE CoURTsHIp.-
There is story extant about a FIVE min
utes courtship between a thriving and
busy merchant. of a watering place in
England, and a lady for whom, in con-
junction whit deceased friend, he was a
trustee. The lady called at his counting
house, and said that her business was to
consult him on the propriety or otherwise
Of her accepting an offer Of marriage
which she had received. Now, for the
FIRST time, occurred to the Bristol mer-
chant the idea Of this holy estate in his
own case


Marriage" said he, listlessly turning
over some West India correspondence,
q well, suppose everybodycught to mar
~. though such thing never occurred to
me before. Have you given the gentle
man an affirmative answerY !.


"No."


Are your feelings particularly engag-
cd in the matterY"


Not particularly"


Well, then, madam said he, turn
ing round on his Office stool, I" If that be
the case. and if you could dispense with
courtship, for which I have no time, and
think you could be comfortable With me,
| am your humble servant to command" /"


There were people who thought that
the lady had a purpose in going there, but
if so, she prndently disguised il. She
said she would consider the matter. The
Bristol merchant saw her out with the
same coolness as if she was one Of his cor
respondents, and when she was gone FIVE
minutes, vas once more immersed In his
letters and ledgers. A day or two after
he had communication from the lady
accepting his offer, very considerably ex-
cusing him from an elaborate courtship,
and leaving him to name the g most con-
veuient day"


They were married
Year: 1867

The New York Herald draws the fol-
lowing picture of the State Of New, York
aud the country generally. 1t is not fiat
lering, but true. The United States,
as Nation. .'aud half the individual States,
are hopelessly insolyent, and fit subjects
for the application Of the bankrupt law.
Some fine morning there will be an ex-
plosion that will be remembered for a
century or two;


"N0thing is more certain than that We
canpot continue any longer in our present
condition. Returns recently made to the
secretary ofthe state comptroller, under
the law authorizing the convention, show
that the local indebtedness Of the cities,
towns and counties in the state will reach
nearlcy ninety millions. The state debt
is over fifty millions, and the people of
New York therefore owe at the present
moment about one hundred and forty
million dollars, exclusive oftheir proper
tion OF the national indebtedness-oyer two
thousand FIVE hundred millions. These
figures are startling; and they become
the more alarming when accompanied by
the knowledge that both the national and
state governments are in u condition bor-
dering upon anarchy. At Washington
the executive and Legislative branches
are in bitter opposition to each other
both Of them weak. laundering and obsti-
nate, and doing their best to bring ruin
upon us ut home and disgrace abroad
In our own state we are without any ros-
ponsblc government, and given over to
corruption aud political confusion. The
vagares Of our politicians are making mat
ters worse, by proving the war to have
been failure establishing the fact that
treason, against WHICH we have fought at
such ruinous cast, is no crime after all,
and. familiarizing the country with the
hateful word g repudiaton. In word,
we are at crises in our history, both as
state and as nation, aud there is no
hope Tor Us but in q prompt and thorough
change. The November election will in
augurate the new era in New York, by
sweeping away the old political organiza-
tions and building up a strong party OF
and from the people. This will form the
nucleous for the great movement Of polit-
ical reconstruction throughout the Union
which win confound the plots and schemes
Of all the old party engineers, raise Grant
to the presidency, and restore permanent
peace and safety to the nation


!
Year: 1867

want to bet three dollars that no man
ever matched himself again the devil but
what he got beat.


Aim hi, If you strike low. Tho man
who undertakes TO jump three hundred
and seventy five feet ahead will certainly
make good try.


never knu man who was alwus nnx-
ious tew repent Of his sins before he had
committed them who didn't want the
sharpest kind Nv watching.


mover bet emmy stamps on the man
who is always telling what he would have
did If he had been thare. | have motto.
ed that this kind never get thare.


Faith don't appear to me to be enney.
thing more than tiptop good sense aud
the faith that is iD this world now Won't
keep man from falling to the bottom OF
n well If he lets 90 OF the curb to spit On
his hands.


When get to not having any good
luck, it does seem TO me that | kan have
more Of it than any man | ever knew,
and not half try; ] suppose it seems just
so 10 you, my friend, don't i'll
Year: 1867

There arc some things that happen every day and arc being continually repeated, that arc hard to understand te the man who closely watches the ac- tions and listens to the expressions of men. The prevailing idea, expressed in public and private, is, that the duty of every man in these times is to en- courage home enterprise, and give aid, so far as possible, to such schemes as arc calculated to promote our common interest. But while this policy is be- ing advocated, very different system is adopted and carried out. Various efforts have been made to build a school-heusc in Dcs Arc, but signal failure has characterized every attempt, for the money required was needed for other purposes, applied to which, no benefit accMcd to tile individual or country. Or, to illustrate more fully, we have in Dcs Arc two newspapers, which for responsibility and worth. compare favorably with any in the State. These papers have labored, and do labor, for the good of the country. Their interest is the interest of every citizen of the county, they arc home institutions, and yet, by many, they arc cast aside for the worthless productions of the Northern Press, whose politics and principles are fashioned 10 suit the pockets of their Southern pasrons.- Although we may not possess perfect facilities for obtaining the latest news, yet onr paper is sufficiently filled with information based upon truth, to com pare favorably with any of those north ern productions which feed the South srn mind but for their money.

 We began the publication of tho Git izcn in dark and critical times-it has grown with the country, assisting and being assisted Those controlling ii are "to the manor born, and it is but reasonable that they should cry out against this opposite preaching and practice. If it is really the desire to encourage homo enterprise, we ask, is it consistent to patronizc the Metropol- itan Record, and bc too poor to take your county paper? 1.-the object is to get correct information regarding the South and her condition, are we not more apt to find the truth at home than abroad? Is it reasonable to suppose that news that must travel to New York and then back South, will be news when it reaches us? Another idea connected with this matter is, ev- cry dollar sent north for copy of this paper, of which we speak, is forever gone from our midst-therc is no hope of its returning, and is this the way to encourage home enterprise?

 We have singled out the Record, be- taasc we believe IL 10 De the most worthless sheet circulated in the South. Its statements arc rarely copied by re- spcctablc Sourthcrn journals, it being looked upon by them as mere catch penny; and in the city in which it is published, it is scarcely known to have existence. This paper is circulated cx- tcnsively in tllis section, patronized and read by men, many of them who say they cannot afford to take the Citizen, times are so hard and yet these same men would say, encourage homc enter prisc-kecp money in the country.- This is why we say strange things are happening, and we have practically spoken of it, believing that upon re- flectiOn, our readers will think with us.
Year: 1867

At the moment when the crisis occasioncd by the Luxemburg question seemed certain to end in war, an un- dcrstanding was come to between England, Denmark, Sweden and Hol- formed into treaty, and the object of which was to preserve the integrity of Holland against all danger from what ever quarter it should come; and the knowledge of this understanding was not without influence on the Paris and Berlin cabinets.
Year: 1867

lFrom the New York Timesl


1t may be worthy of note, as an in
dication of the times, that the GaleDa
Gazette, the paper published in the
place Were Grant resided before the
war, which is moreover said to be the
only paper that Grant regularly reads;
and which seems to,9 have always
maintained very intimate relations
with the ancient tanner Of Galena. is
strongly urging Grant as candidate
for the next Presidency. on the plat
form OF peace, Cancellation and frater-
nifty. The Gazette discusses the sub
ject in recent able leader, inquiring
into the kind of a man the coun-
try wants for next President.
1t argues at length that we do
not want a man who twill imag-
inc himself to be the State" nor an
ambitious man, 8 who will imagine
that the people were made for him."
nor do we want a cunning, crafty,
confidence operator, who thinks that
politics is only game of thin ble-rig.
Nor do we want man whose whole
aim will be to fan and keep alive the
embers of discord. In short. that we
want neither knave, nor fool, nor
coward But" says the Gazette
" we do want an honest man for our
next President, who has faith IN the
potency of strong handed and cool
headed Justice" and it then goes on
to eulogize warmly an unnamed indi-
vidual, adding at the close: His
name we need not mention. The
whole world knows it. 1t will never
be forgotten. The people demand
the use, for the best good of the coun-
try, of his uncommon executive pow
er." All this is of interest as appear
ing in the Galena Gazette.
Year: 1867

SAN Francisco, August pa
dispatch from Olympia, Washington
Territory, says party making the
survey for the Northern Pacific Rail-
road found the route over the Com
litz Pass to the forks of the |Cowlitz
extremely favorable. The survey
over the mountains will be finished IN
thirty days. M rs Us


The political contest in California
is very bitter and exciting. As the
election draws near, efforts are being
made to concentrate the Union vote
of San Francisco on the Legislative
ticket The Independent party con-
tinue their opposition to Gorham,
but support the general ticket, and
urge the election of Congressman and
Legislators to ratify the constitution
al amendment.
Year: 1867

BUFFALO, August 23.-In view of
the discrepancies in the Liverpool
market reports, as furnished by the
New York City, Associated Press
through the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, and regular foreign
letters and circular received, the
Board of Trade have appointed
committee to investigate the matter.
Year: 1867




fA A REMARKABLE LAKE,-The jacksonville
(Orignn) Sentinel of late date seys =
Several of our citizens returned last week
from visit to the Sunken Lake, situated
in the Cascade Mountains, about seventy-fise
miles northeast from jacksonville. This lake
rivals the famous valley of Sin5ad the Sail
or. 1t is thought TO average two thousand
feet down to the water all around. The
walls are almost perpendicular, running
down into the water, and leaving no beach.
The depth of The water is unknown. and its
surface is smooth and unrufled, and it lies
SO far below the surface oftbe mountain that
the air currents do not effect it. Its length
is estimated at twelve miles, and its breadth
at ten. No living man ever has, and prob
ably never will be able TO reach the waters
edge. 1t lies silent, still and mysterious
in the bosom Of the everlasting hill,' like
huge well, scoopcd out by the hands of
the giant genii of the mountain in unknown
ages gone by, and around it the primeval
forests watch and ward are keeping. The
visiting party fired rifle several times in
the water at an angle of foty.f degrees
and were able TO denote several seconds Of
time TO from the report of the gun until the
ball struck the WATER. Such seems incred-
ible. bur is vouched fur by some of our most
trustworthy citizens The lake is certainly
most remarkable curiosity.
Year: 1867

Can AM One TELL-Can any one tell
why men who cannot pay small bills. can
always find money to buy liquors, and treat
when happening among their friends?


Can any one tell how young iien who
dodge their washerwoman and are always
behind with tehir landlords, can play bill
liards night and day, and are always rsady
for game of poker or seven-up?


Can any one tell how men live and support
their families who have no income and dc
NOT work. while others who are industrious
and constantly employed. half starve /?


Can any one tell how it is that man
who is too poor to pay for newspaper, is
able to pay a dollars or two week for tobac
co, whiskey or eigrrs ? ss $50. 4.
Year: 1867

many children. there Is no preparation OF fruit
so wholesome, go cheap, and 3 much admired
as this homely conserve. The fruit should be
clean. picked in dry weather, and to every
pound Of berries put half pound Of coarse
brown sugar boil the whole together for three
quarters OF an hour, or one hour, stirring IL
well the whole time. Put 1t in pots like any
other preserve, and ii will be found most use-
full in families. as 1t may be gwen to children
instead Of medicine. ~
Year: 1867

1nrAsslBLs.-The condition Of Second
street, between Main and Harrison, filled -
it is with the building material Of tho
block going up in that vicinity gives rise
to considerable complaint. We can see no
necessity for thus obstructing the street.
The contractors on the stone and brick
work Of the building should be obliged to. ~
least, leave room for the teams to pass. Tho
City Marshal should cause the obstruc-
tions to be removed.
Year: 1867

BoY KILLKp.-A dispatch dated Benicia, Novem-
ber 10th, says: boy of fourteen years of age. the
son Of Timothy Sage met with fatal accident this
morning, by the accidental discharge of both bar
rels Of gun, while he was getting into boat with
some other boys; the explosion blowing of the top
of his head and killing him instantly
Year: 1867

GOLD DIsCovERIEs.-In the mountains of Perm;
the discovery of rich and extensive gold mines is
reported said to exceed those of California but not
not quite equal in richness to those discovered in
Alaska back af Sitka Poor California
Year: 1867

H..r ROMAN CATHOLIC INFLUENCE. .
n The Roman Catholic Bishop OF Montreal
has added his voice to that of the three or
four Bishops who had previously issued pas


toral letters recommending Confederation to
their flOcks, and directing them to elect only
those who had all along been in favor Of Con-


federation. The letter prescribes certain
forms of special solemnity for the religious
services of the Sunday preceding the election.
Special prayers are prescribed in order to OBJ
tain from the Mother of Mercies that the
elections should be conducted without offence
to her divine Son, and that they may have a
happy result. On the days of the election,
all the priests shall recite before their Mass
the "Veni, sancte," &C., and say the collect
Of the Holy Ghost, in order that all the elect
ors may be enlightened by him who is the
Eight of hearts," The holy Relics will tie
exposed all day long, during the time OF the
said elections, with the usual ceremonies, in
order to obtain the intercession of all the
Saints, that there may be no excess of liquor.
The anxiety Of some of the Protestant
journals is excited BY these and other efforts
to kindle tn, religious enthusiasm Of the
Catholic popnlation in behalf Of party. La
MinerUe Of Montreal, boldly declares that the
Catholic element will ere long be able to rfle
the New Dominion on account Of the great
majority it can command in Lower Canada,
which viii more than neutralize the majori-
ties against It in the other provinces. OF
course it does not pretend that the Catholics
Of Quebec can hope to rule in their own
name, but in the name of political party;
by which arrangement they will get strong


minority Of the other Provinces to vote with


them, in return for certain proportion of Of


fees and power In this connection La Mi
neree makes the following calculations and
remarks: Io4n 7e sf I'd SEQ s
Year: 1867

Habits are forming like masonry
Every thought seems small as every
brick seems small. And yet, l notice.
in the building that is going up behind
my dwelling, that, small as bricks are.
one by one, being set in mortar day by
day, and man by man, the wall thickenS
and rises, and solidi6es, and the huge
structure is piled up at last Taken
singly, these bits Of burnt clay are of no
great significance; but all Of them to-
gether are of tremendous significance.


Now, a mans life is made up of little
thoughts any one of which are like
bricks in the hands Of the builder. The
walls Of your character are going up
day by day. And YOU are building, not
slone for time, but for eternity. And
you have more interest in that building
than anybody else has The effect Of
those habits and dispositions that Won
are forming-do you know that YOU will
never be rid Of it to all eternityi There
ia not a day that does not use its troweI:
There Is not a day that DOES not carry
up somewhere in you wall that never
will be shaken down. As you build. 50
You will stand. Inthat course in which
Won think and feel and act Won are n