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Year: 1865

Mobile letters state that thirty thousand
bales of cotton were found in that city, and
that one hundred thousand bales Of cotton
and seventy-fve THOUSAND barrels of rosiD
were on the Alabama river, within reach of
our army
Year: 1865

RICHMOND Nov. 27-At meeting of the City Coun-
ell this afternoon, communication from General
Turner read, to the effect that in consequence
the dimunition of the military force in this district
and the scarcity Of medical officers it is necessary
that the city authorities assume charge of the City
Almshouse and the inmates without delay. Another
communication from the same source, notified the
Council that the military police force will be with
drawn on the 25th fnext month
Year: 1865

IF you value your own health and that of your
Family, do not pass another day without bottle of
TARRANT's EFFERvEsCENT SELTzER APERIENT in
your house, sudden Bilious attacks dispelled by


few doses. and Headache Costiveness, Sour Stomach.
Indigestion and Liver Complaints, are permanently
cured by the timely use of this most wonderful
remedy Sold by all Druggists. no 27-2w
Year: 1865

SINGULAR OBITUARY.-The Atlanta (Ga.) Messenger
gives the following odd notice to deceased citizen
of that place:


He was the father of eleven sons five of whom
married five sisters. He had one hundred and eighty
nine grand children and at his funeral. two weeks
ago last Sabbath, two horses stung 10 death by
bees and another came very near losing his life by
the same'
Year: 1865

No one can question that q gfander develop
ment of this nation is to flow as a direct result
from the war we have just passed through.
Wars for national life and d great cause always
develop, invigorate and inspirit people, how
ever small their power may be; and If they are
finally crushed by such wars they go down
better ond greater people than they were when
the war began-a people higher in the social
scale. But when war is waged on so stu
pendous a scale as ours has been, and by peo-
pie with SO much intellectual aad moral force,
so much capability OF growth, it cannot be but
that the changes and progress that it must in
duce will be such as to belittle all the examples
of the past and to revolutionze completely the
present.


We believe that the influence in that way
that the war is to have upon the country will
amount to scarcely less than Il new organlza-
ton of our national life. Through all the fu-
ture we shall be a different people from that we
have been. We have sloughed away in these
few terrible years the forms of the older life,
and already we are taking new ones with an i'll
stinctive sense of what we are to be. Our ma
tional character grows larger in the contempla-
ton of what we have done and by contact with
great events. In the seventy years past Amer
leans showed that the rudimentary freemen OF
the revolutionary days, developing all the arts
'Ol peace, COulu ue SlSdtSl uiSChaHlNSi lhNSu'-
ors, traders and sailors than any other men
and now we have 81 own that Americans, taunt-
ed for their success in those arts and their love
of the almighty dollar" are possessed also of
the grander manhood that succeeds in war I;
that they make also better soldiers than any
other men, and that they can carry war to the
same high pitch of development that they have
carried so many other arts. The consciousness
of this influences the national mind and char
acter, and will stamp with large and noble
spirit the literature, history and philosophy
that will grow out oft.


Our national industry any commerce will al
so feel this revolutionary effect, and vastly i'm
proved and enlarged commercial and financial
systems will be the result. The undaunted
spirit of the navy will communicate itself to
mercantile marine that will make our flag fa-
miliar on every sea, and the world will derive
new wealth from the fact that the attention of
this people has been for the first time ixed up
on the great question incident TO the national
finances Industry. assuming a thousand new
forms, will give us the full benefit of the un-
told resources of this great continent, and we
shall be richer, more prosperous in all ways,
more happy and more free than we ever were,
or than any other people ever were. From the
memorable epoch Of the closing of this war the
great revolution in our national life begins, and
we take fresh and glorious start.-M Y.
Herald.
Year: 1865

consult my own feelings alone, but to give an
account to the whole people. (Applause.)


In regard to my future course | will now
make no profession, no pledges. have been
connected somewhat actively with public af
fairs, and TO the history OF my public acts, which
is familiar to you, refer for those principles
which have governed me heretofore and will
guide me hereafter. In general, l will say
have long labored for the ameoration and ele-
vation of the mass of mankind.


My opinions as to the nature Of popular gov
ernment have long been cherished, and consti-
tuted as l am, it is now too late in life for me
to change them. believe that government was
made for man, and not man for government.


This struggle Of the people against The most
gigantic rebellion the world ever saw has de-
monstraied that the attachment of the people
to their Government is the strongest National
defense human wisdom can devise. (Appause)
So long as each man feels that interest, SO long
us the public heart turns in the right direction
and the people understand and appreciate the
theory ofour Government and love liberty, our
constitution will be transmitted unimpaired.


If the time ever comes when the people shall
fail, the Government will fail, and we shall
cease to be one of The nations Of the earth. Az
ter having preserved our form of free govern
ment and shown its power to maintain its ex-
istence through the vicisstudes of nearly CEN
tury, it may be that it was necessary for us to
pass through this last ordeal of intestine strife
to prove that the Government will not perish
from internal Weakness, but will stand able TO
defend itself against all foes and punish treas
on. (Applause.)


In the dealings of an inscrutable Providence
and by the operations Of the Constitution have
been thrown unexpectedly into this position.
My past life, especially my course during the
present unholy rebellion, is before you. have
no principles to reti act. defy any one to
point to any of my public acts at variance with
fixed principles which have guided me through
life. have no professions to offer-profess-
ions and promises would be worth nothing at
this time. No one can foresee the circumstances
that will hereafter arise. Had any man, gifted
with prescience four years ago, entered and
written down in advance the events of this pc
riod, the story would have seemed more mar
vellous than anything in "Arabsn Nights.
shall not attempt to anticipate the future. AS
events occur and it becomes necessary for me
to act shall dispose Of each it arises, defer
ring any declaration or message until it can be
written paragraph by paragraph in the light of
events as they transpire."
Year: 1865

FUTURE HoUsEKEEPERs.-We sometimes
catch ourselves wondering how many CT the
Young ladies whom We meet with, are to per-
form the part of housekeepers, when the young
men who now eye them so admringy, have
persuaded them to become their wives9 We
listen to those young ladies of whom we speak,
and hear them not only acknowledging but
boasting Of their ignorance of all household
duties, as if nothing would SO lower them in
the estimation of THEN friends, as the confess
ion OF an ability to bake bread and pies, or cook
a piece of meat, or disposition to engage in
any useful employment. Speaking from our
own youthful recollections, we are free to say
that taper fingers and lilly hands are very pret-
ty TO look at with young mans eyes, and
sometimes we have known the artless inno-
cence of practical knowledge displayed by a
young miss to appear rather interesting than
otherwise. But we have lived long enough TO
learn that life is full Of rugged experience, and
that the most loving, romantic and delicate
people must live on cooked or otherwise food,
and the house kept clean and tidy by industri-
Gus hands. And for all the practical purposes
of married life it is generally found that for a
husband to sit and gaze at his wife's taper fin
gers and lilly hands, or Tor wife to sit and be
looked at and admired, does not make the pot
boil, or put the smallest piece of food therein.
Year: 1865

H1PFALuTIN.-A young gentleman having
occasion to ask lady for the snuffers across
the table, addressed her in the following EN-
phatic and enamored language:


"Most beautiful and accomplished lady, Will
your adyship, by an uDmeriled and undserved
condescension Of your infinite goodness please
to extend to your most obsequeous, devoted
and very humble servant that pair Of isnOpo-
tent digests, that l may exasperate thee ex-
cresences of this nocturnal cylindric luminary,
in order that the rcfulgent brightness of its
resplendent brightness may dazzle the vision
Of our occular optics more poieutlv.
Year: 1865

The BAYoyET.-The modern sabre bayouet
is certainly the most appalling of all implements
of death, and only veterans with nerves of steel
tempered in many fiery struggle can withstand
its cold and cruel onslaught even for an instant.
Our troops are taught to rely upon it as the
grand argumentum ad homlnem by which
doubtful fields are decided, and they WELD it
more and more effectively each succeeding
campaign. OF late they have been using it
with fearful energy and corresponding success
iu carrying intreuched positions of the most
formidable character. The rebel sodiery are
brave and bold, and under fire as steady as our
own; but they don't relish the iucisive steel


Neither do they depend upon it as much as our
men do. They have more faith 10 gunpowder
and projectiles than in the silent weapon that
never misses and takes no denial. The North
ern bayonet is destined to finish up this war.
Year: 1865

OUR CANADIAN CousIys.-An utterly erro-
oeous impression prevails in this country, says
the Syracuse Journal, ia regard to the state of
public opinion in the Canadas. 1t is generally
believed that We have very few friends on the
other side of our Northern boundary line, and
and that even these few would not shed many
tears at the dismembermeut Of the foremost
power Oh this Continent The real state Of the
case is altogether otherwise. The number Of
those who sympathize with the traitors of the
South Is far less in the British Provinces than
10 our own free States. The eminent men Of
the Colonies-the principal statesmen-are
nearly all favorable to the re establishment Of
the American Union and the abolition Of
African bondage.
Year: 1865

The first flowing well ever struck was
on the McElhenny, or Funk farm, and
was known as the Funk well. Funk was
a poor man when the well was sunk. 1t
was struck June, 1861, and commenced
flowing, to the astonishment Of all the
oil. borers in tie neighborhood, at the rate
of two hundred. and fifty barrels day


Such a prodigal supply Of grease upset
all calculations, but it was confidently
predicted that the supply would soon
stop. 1t was an "Oil creek humbug,"
and those who had no direct interest in
the prosperity of tho well looked day after
day to see the stream stop. But like
the old woman who sat down by the river
side to let the water run itself out, that
she might cross dryshod, she waited in
vain. The oil continued flowing, with
little variation, for fifteen months, and
then stopped, but not before Funk be-
came a rich man. But long before
Funk had given out, the wonder in re-
gard to it was overshadoned by new
sensation. Down on the Tarr farm, the
Phillips well burst forth with stream
of two thousand barrels daily Not to
be outdone by the territory down the
creek, the McElhenny tract saw the Tarr
farm "and went it a thousand better"
The Empire we'll, close to tho Funk, sud.
Year: 1865

Old coat we've seen right stirring times,
You've been to me a friend most true,
And oft in sunny Southern cllmes


You've kept my body from the dew;
When night came on and stars shone bright
BE sure, old friend, l hugged you tight.
On the lone picket, you and


Have often stood the dark night through
The cold wind passed me needless by,
As stood well wrapped up in you,
And wished the hours were far more brief
Between me and the next ''relief"
For bullets whistled DER our heads,
And, now and then, they hit us too;
The "Jobnnies" did MT like us "Feds''-
Indeed, they hated my-blue;
And though 'gainst rain I'll pit your woof,
Old friend, you're not quite Minnie proof
Strapped tight upon my knapsack,
Have carried you for tiresome miles,
Half tempted oft to throw you by


When skies above wore CHEEKY smiles,
And wearied out with gun and pack,
marched along the dusty track
But bright days cannot always last,


So still l clung to you, old Blue
And AFTER in the piercing blast,


Some "boys" looked enviously at you,
AS round in bivouac we sat,
And heard the rain fall pit-a-pat
We have lain beneath the open sky


Within Southern prison-pen,
And there I've heard the bitter cry


of slowly dying, famished men;
Poor starving wretehes, but still true
God bless them!-tO the army bluel
So long kept you that at last


A foolish fondness grew for you,
J really had not heart to cast


Away my coat of army blue;
And said, I'll take you home, to he
Hereafter cherished tenderly.
You laugh, I'm sure, at my old coat,


Ragged and useless, hanging there;
! know tits hardly worth groat,


And quite unfit for man to wear;
Yet dearer far It's to my eyes
Than any garment meath the skies
Upon the breast you see a stain,


Bright blood it was that gave the hue:
1t poured that day like Summer rain,


And drenched my coat of army blue;
For in these arms, that fearful day,
Our Colonel's life ebbed fast away
He talked of home the night before,


of faces dear he soon should see;
Our time was out in one week more,


Aud every heart beat merrily,
Thinking how soon again they'd stand
On their dear, rugged Northern land.
think said these arms-ah, well!


Some time ago had a pairi
But then fragment of shell


Has given me now one sleeve to spare;
See where 1t cut its fell way through
My poor old coat of army bluel
A relic of the fearful past,


A memory Of toll and pain,
of freedoms fight well done at last


The noble army of the slainl
What thoughts come DER me as view
My well-worn coat OF army bluel
Almost as useless now as you-


A battered, crippled, sickly wight,
Whose years of life are very few


still keep up heart as light
As when dOnned you, bright and new,
And showed with pride my army blue.
And while life beats within this breast,


Old friend, you'll hang not far from me
And when at last go to rest,


Perhaps some one will kindly see,
That he who fought this wild war through
Be buried with bis Army Blue.


-WoLYERINF.
Year: 1865

We are not constant reader of rebel sheets
we mean those that dub themselves Dem
ocratic-but occasionally We open and read
one For months past we do not remember
having looked at one without finding that a
great deal of ink has been spent on the ques-
ton of State Rights. These veracious jour-
nals-if you will take their words for it-are
all for a constitutional union Of these States
but as matter of principle, the one great
principle of the great Democratic party, the
principle of State Rights must be acknowledg-
ed. This much we read whenever we open
one of these precious newspapers ~; but we
have never yet been able to find what this
great principle is that the Constitution and
the whole people do not concede. There is
no right that any one has ever claimed for a
State that has been denied, except the right
of secession. Admitting this, then 4" State
Rights" is the right of secession, and to be
exercised by any one State, or any number
of States, whenever a set of demagogues have
obtained influence to bring about the suicide
of such State or States, and infict the conse-
quent murderous fatal stab that lets forth the
life blood of the Government, for it is patent
that concession Of this principle is conclu-
sive that we have no government.


Under the Constitntion-every State has
the right to make laws for its government
such local institutions as do not conflict with
decency and morality, or with the Constitu
ton of tire United States. They may make,
and uphold with the whole power of the State
and that failing, the power of the United
States NAV be called on for their enforcement.
No rights are denied the State except the
rights of declaring war, making treaties, Sc
cession. and the violation of the compact by
which she became an integral Fart OF the
Union, and thereby securing the protection
and sharing the glory of a nation.


Yet, men who say-newspapers who say
they are in favor of the Union on the princi-
pie of States Right, simply say, =" we favor a
union in order to legatize secession" This
they would not do, however, had they not
fully satisfied themselves by four years
armed investigation of the subject, that they
must have constitutioal law for their acts or
the people will crush them out. State Rights |
bah. There is too much intelligence in the
northern land to admit doctrine that cannot
be proven up by sound logic. True, it is
only by common schools they are educated,
it is equally true that all are educated SO far
as they can learn in such schools, and it is
Just as true that there is mott common school
scholar of fourteen years of age who would
not sneer at any teacher of such State Rights
doctrines-as these honorable gentlemen
would have us inaugurate. No nation could
stand for a month that had not cohesive prop
critics. Recognize this rebel doctrine of State
Rights and the Union is bound by ropes Of
sand,-a self evident fact pefectly palpable
to all-even those who try to teach differently
Year: 1865

GENERAL BUTLER.-The rebel papers of
the country are horrifed by the Jacksonian
spirit evineed by Ben. Butler toward the
rebels The following extract from speech
made by him in New York city, Nov. 14th,
is made the subject of much discussion:


Let it be understood that hereafter we pay
no more bounties from the taxes of the North ;
but. taking counsel from the Roman method
Of carrying on the war, we say to the young
men. leok to the fair fields of the sunny
South, and, unless they take cur amnesty,
let us go down there, and you shall have
whatever you get by fair division; we will
open new land offices wherever our armies
march, distributing lands among the soldiers,
to be theirs and their heirs, forever.


No longer can they the leading traitorsl
livein the land Of America Mexico. the
Wess India Islanis. or some place that care
not to name, because / know no land hard
enough to be cursed with their presence, shall
be their dwelling place. They shall never
come here again.
Year: 1865

CoPPERHEADs FRATERNIzING WITH NEGROES.
of the Negro ball in Grass Valley the
Union of that place says:


We had beautiful illustration of the Cop
perhead idea of Negro equality at this Eman-
'cipation ball-we there saw party of four
regular ehivs. who got drunk and feasted
with the Negroes. and would have made love
to the wenches but they were put out for
being disorderly Another fellow, in order
to obtain admission into the hall, said he was
a Negrol At which one of the hostlers at
Watts stables remarked, g well that is play
ing it low down. for white man to say he's
a nigger in order to crowd himself among
niggers." We thought so too. But the best
joke of the day is that of Leavitt one of the
most intense copperheads of tbs place, firing
the salute for the Negroes in honor of their
Emancipation with the very identical cart
ridges that were prepared to fire in honor of
McClellan's victory at the election in Penn
sylvania! "Ye e gods and little fishes p
Only think of a copperhead firing democratic
gunpowder at dollar pop, in honor of Lin
coins Emancipation Proclamation.
Year: 1865

BULLY HILL.-This company have now got
their lower tunnel in over 700 feet, and, it is
supposed, are within from twenty to fifty
feet of the lode Last week a vein of very
fine rock was struck, which is thought to lie
feeder of the main lode-a prospect that
has created a considerable upward tendency
in the feelings of the stockholders.
Year: 1865

THE New AGE is the title of a new weekly,
published in San Francisco. the first number
of which has made its appearance on our
table. tits a credit to the newspaper world.
1t is devoted to Odd Fellowship. literature
and science. Success attend the New Age.
Year: 1865

NEwsPAPERs.-Th Sacramento Union
made its first appearance in 1865 in a bran
new dress, which is certainly very becoming
and well deserved


The Sacramento Bee, too, commenced a
new volume and the new year with an equal
ly superb new dress to that of the Union. We
congratulate both on the enjoyment of a
prosperity that permits such elegance.


The Marysville Appeal commenced its
I1th volume on the 4th. without any new
clothes. 1t doesn't need them.


On the 7th the Mining and Scientific Press
commenced new volume. Probably no
paper on the coast possesses as much of in-
terest to the miner and capitalist as does the
Press.


The Trinity Journal commences its 9th
volume day.
All sound Union journals, and we hope
may long continue to flourish.
Year: 1865

The MAMMoTH.-On Sunday last we visit
ed this mill and mine. The mill is good
one-solid. and apparently well constructed,
but. (alas for that " but, h)-there is a
scarcity of water. To us it would seem a
strange oversight in q company that would
go on and erect a fine mill, at an expense OF
many thousands of dollars, finishing up ev-
erything to the last touches of the mechan-
les art, to simply discover that they had not
a suffcency of water. Certainly no less
wisdom would have teen shown if they had
first built the mill on some good water power
and then prospected for quartz to feed it
Personally we are not judge of quartz, but
the appearance of the Mammoth lode and
the work on it to our eyes looks we'll; and
if half we have heard of its richness proves
true the company have good thing, IT :"
sufficient water can be obtained to run the
mill
Year: 1865

oUARrz.-Again we call the attention OF
business men to the fact that Shasta county
abounds in gold bearing quartz-in iodes that
are rich and easy of access. Within the
present week our attention has been called
to some half dozen that we had not previously
heard of. Most of these have been prospect
ed to a limited extent, and one or two have
been we'll prospected-enough to satisfy any
oae of their richness. 1t seems almost wick
ed to permit this store of wealth to lie hidden
for want of capital and enterprise to take it
out. We are spunky enough to go in if we
had anything to 60 in Without who ever
knew printer to have money enough to
build quartz mill, with even one stamp
and worked with one horse power? But we
are willing to give the use of our brains and
columns to the forwarding of this much
neglected interest. Come forward, gentle
men with kale," and see what we have to
offer If we don't make you rich, it will not
be our fault.