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Year: 1861

The meeting of each Annual Conference.
excltes an interest both among our preachers
and people, in view CT the important charges
that in connection with our sys EN-, must in
evitably occur. Many OF our charges are
expecting a new pastor, and many OF our
preachers must take new fields Of labor
There are some things unpleasant in connec-
ton with these changes, but there is e nu'
tual understanding on the part Of both preach
ers aud people,, that they arc inevitable, and
hence preparations are made 10 meet them.


Our system has been thoroughly tested in
its practical operations, and all arc compelled
to concede that it works well, and 50 marked
has been the success, that none can question
the reality Of the Divine approval and if
there be trials connected with it, they should
be cheerfuIIy endured for Jesus sake. Before
our next issue, the preachers of the Vermont
Conferences will be upon their way to their
fields of labor for another Conference year.
They 90 to their work, not kno .ing what III
the providence Of God may await them, hav-
ing not few anxious cares il regard TO the
results. Each preacher should pray that Lo
may be sent to the place where it is the pleas
urc Of the Lord that he should labor-to the
place " here he can do the most for the glory
Of God, and the salvation If souls. There
is an approp' late place for each minister,
called OF God to this work, and it is a matter
of great moment that each should have the
place to which be is best adapted. In con-
ncction with this desire to be divi ely direct.
ed, each miniHcr should 60 to his charge per-
suaded that his sincere prayer has rot been
offered in vain, and that God will be with him
to own and bless his labors The preacher
should go to his appointment resolved upon
doing the work of Gcd, whether the people
precapiate bis labogs or not. 1t is pleasant
to meet with the favor of the people, and rich
ly share in Their sympathy and support, but
we buy this at too dear a price, if to obtain
| it, VIC do vio!ence to conscience or the stern
demand of religious principle and truth


Let US all 20 to our work for the next Con-
ference year, fully resolved on the blessing of
God in the prosperity Of his cause. 1t is our
duty and privilege to know that our labor is
not in vain in the Lord We may do all
things through Christ strengthening US, and
VIC are not called upon to 60 to this work in
our own strength. 60 to the people of your
Year: 1861

A midshipman asked priest to tell him


The difference between priest and jackass.
The priest gave it up. One wears his cross
on bis back the other On his breast said the
MILDLY. Now, said the priest, 'telI me the
difference between MILDLY and . jackass
The MILDLY gave it up, aud asded what it was
The priest said he did no: know of any.
Year: 1861

A MUSICAL Guosr.-A young gentleman.
VINO must be nameless, met with bit of a
fright on Monday night. A year ago teach


er OF music occupied sleeping room in the
second story OF house on Washington street


near Gregory Boriug's store. He had
piano IN the room on which he played great
deal. lie left and went to Sacramento and


not long since, Intelligence reached here of
his death. Within a week or two. some wag
started the story that the ghost of the de.
tunet music teacher was nightly visi, or of
his old sleeping room, and could be heard in
the awful stiffness of the night, bringing weird
music out of ghostly piano The Young
gentleman to whom we have referred. was
induced, by some of his many friends. to
sleep in the room on Monday night. Full of
the thought of the spiritual pianist, he GOT
into bed, when one of his companions intro
duced music box into the room and set it
gong The victim of the trick sprung out of
oed IN the dark tulnbled down stairs. and
rushed up street to the Young America Sa-
loon' where he arrived in his night dress.
more dead than alive 1t is a shame to play
sGch tricks, and yet there is something funny
ao0H' them after all,-Neuada 7ranscTipt
Year: 1861

We perceive that certain of the bob-tailed
still in favor of trying the experiment of a
Pacific Republic. The public sentiment of
California is against it, but they have set
their hearts upon it, poor fellows, and it
seems pity to disappoint them. They think
it would be $50 NICE" as the feminines say
to have pretty little government of their
own, and to play Pacific Republicing as the
boys play building cob houses. Surely no
one would be so rude as to come and spoil
their pretty little play, by knocking over
their pretty little Pacific Republic!


Well, we are inclined to be lenient with
these artless youths, and we say-give them
a chance. We suppose the cactus might
grow on the Farallone Islands. Let them
have the Farallone Islands, and let them there
experiment with the Pacific Republic Let
them cultivate the cactus, but be careful not
to prick their pretty little fingers or to sit
down, without looking. They will necessa-
rily have to have something to eat, and the
gulls eggs, with which the islands abound,
are just the thing for them. They can, then,
gull themselves in more ways than one, and


whatever is gullible will naturally gravitate
in that direction, so that after while, they
may have quite a lot of youthful experiment.
ers and Gullivers (gull-ivers) in their bounds.
On the Gull-lslands they could play" Pa


ciic Republic for long time, and nobody


would interrupt them. The only trouble
would be that each one would think that he
was the very boy to play" President, and


betwixt Sam, Charley and the balance, it
would be long time before the play could
begin But, after it did begin, what nice


little play it would be


On the Farallone Islands, we say, it would
be all right but, we cant consent to have


the schoolboy freak performed in the State


of California at large 1t is well enough to


let the boys amuse themselves, but, then,
e they cannot be allowed to do it at the ex-
t pense of the general welfare We cant al


low these innocent youths to amuse their de-


lighttul adolescence with tampering with the
, machinery of our State Government, as it
6 ~" ''"lld7' 10 ACCOMMODATE lnelH we caht


stand idly by and see them lay their thought>


less hands on the springs and wheels of


which they know nothing and send every


thing clatteiing to destruction, Just for their
= own boyish qualification. If they undertake
;, this, they will have to be taken up and
: spanked. Smart boys and precocous lads
: are licensed on the playground, but they


mustn't play their tricks outside
Year: 1861

Moon SrRUcK,-A colored man in San Fran.
CISCO who gives his name as William b
waugh, steward on board one Of the river
steamers, has been taken up for insanity. He
says OF himself, and his friends say of him,
That he Is affected with insanity every change
OF the moon, though at other times he is
sound When in one of his freaks. he is ant
to run into the street in state of nudity.
He does not drink.
Year: 1861

GREAT CUnosIrY.-There is on exhibition
in the room on d street formerly occupied as
the Office of the California Stage Company
an Electro Magnetic Engine, so called be-
cause of its electrical motive power. 1t de-
monstrates the practicabAity of propelling
any sort of machinery by electricity which
is Low propelled by steam, and seems to be a
decided success 1t is a very great curiosity
and none should fail to see it. In addition to
the engine, there is tremendous magnet, ca
pable of lifting one thousand pounds There
is also powerful galvanc battery on hand,
and those desiriug shocks can have them
Various electrical experiments win also be
given for the qualification of visitors.
Year: 1861

1t seems that certain persons object to the
location Of the State Reform School in this
vicinity, because of the unhealthiness of this
region Well, this nonsensical idea about
the unhealthiness of Marysville and vicinity
has prevailed long enough and it is about
time that the cry was hushed The mortua-
~ statistics will show that the deaths annu-
ally in this locality are es few, in proportion
to population, as in any quarter of the state.
1t is very convenient for parties whose inter
ests lie on the coast to give out the idea
that everybody in the valleys Of the Iuba
and Sacramento is walking skeleton or a
corpse semi u1agnetzed into animate exis-
tence. The health Of this region has been
persistently misrepresented, and We do not
intend. for our part to submit to the injns-
tice any longer.


1t is the cheap excuse for every refusal to
give this vicinityithe benefits Of any public
work whatever. And it has been urged in
the face of truth to such an extent that it.
repetition is beginning to partake Of the
character OF an insult.


lfthe State Reform School is removed from
here on any such preteXt as this, we think tn,
people of this section viii note down the
names of the parties engaged in it. UuheaI
thy. foresooth We live as well here and
live as long, as people do in general in any
quarter Of the State We are getting tired
Of this eternal humbuggery about the heat,
and the dust, and the "malara" of Marys-
willie and vicinity. We injustice, and fur
thermore We will have it.
Year: 1861

I, STARR klSa-Ths gentleman, as per
announcement, viii deliver lecture, this
evening at the Presbyterian Church, on the
Life and Character of Washington-a theme
which cannot fail to be of deep and absorb
ing interest We predict the largest house to
hear this lecture that has ever been assem-
bled on a similar occasion, in this city. The
subject has a bearing upon the immediate
interests of the hour, and the fame of the ora
tor ISL such as to ensure a not unworthy treat
mcnt of the theme.


Before the lecture begins, there will b
singing, by the Choir, of songs appropriate t.
the occasion.
Year: 1861

kILLED,-A man named Daniel Price, a
brother of t. D. Price of the Gold Ridge
Ditch was covered up by cave Wednesday
afternoon and killed lie was working on
the south side Of the town of Camptonyille,
near the road. and was under the water and
gravel more than half an hour. He was in
the ground sluice at the time, and had to be
washed out lie leaves a wife and three
children.
Year: 1861

The PRAIRIE Docs AND THEIR VILLAGEs-The Com
anches call the southern of the Red river, kichi
e-qu-hOno-hat is to say, river OF the town OF the
dons of the praries This name has doubtless been
ryen to it on account of quantity of those little quad
rupeds Spermophilus adovoanus that inhabited these
sotudes in far greater numbers than in the other Amer
lean wilderness. | do not think there exists in the
world as stupenCouS village the one the prairie
dogs have constructed for themselves in the plain that
leads to the sources Of the Ki-chi-e-qnihono This
village is twenty-five miles in length and equally ex
tensive in width which supposng it to be almost cir
onlar nales superGcios of ahout 625 square n1ioe
From these gigantic Dimensions one easily Judge of


the numbers of the interesting population that live there
Villages of the prairie dogs to be found extending
from Mexico to the farthestboundary ofthe q S. Inma


inc choice of site for the establishment of their colony
the prairie dogs always choose uncovered rather ell


evatpd SPOT sheltered inuudations and which grows


stunted weed that is therusua food Itto be supposed
that this ouadruped live without water for tsome
times takes up its abode in locality where neither river
nor spring is to be found for than twenty-five miles
around and the ground where not single drop of wa
fer can be obtained even by digging we'll upwards of


% deep so that the border these villages have gem
orally speaking an aspect of aridy and desolation
Those little yanals add to this sad appearance gnaw


ing and devouring all around their dwellings, every kind
of vegeation they will only spare few flowers, the
sirht of which seems to please hem-such as Ergeaon
divaracatum the solonum, the eysia myctagenca and
and two or three others of the genera The pra


dog resembles the squirrel in shape, size and physi-
ognomy; it has nothing in common with the real dog
but its cry which is very like barking. 1t burrows for
itself sometimes to the depth OF nine feet and after
wards places the earth it throws up from the galleries
within the form of cone over its subterraneous abode
Towards the end of October when the dogs Of the pra


res feel the approach of winter they fasten up with
straw and stem of flowers all the passages leading to


their burrows then they fall asleep until the return of
spring In the great northern solitudea Of Texas one
rarely takes a long journey without meeting many re-
pu1les Of prairie dogs. The borders of the Kichi-e
quihono in particular contain severe very consdera
bic ones. Able Domench.
Year: 1861

Fatal EFFECT OF FORTUNE TELLNG.-A few days
ago in Cincinnati an inquest held on the body of
Conrad Walter, Young man twenty years of age who
committed suicide by deliberately shooting himself in
the head with pistol Deceased lived with his parents
and was always considered SOBER steady and indus
trous boy 1t was given in evidence before the jury
that some years ago he went to fortune teller in the
city to consult about his fate The sybil informed him


rayely that as soon he arrived at the age Of twenty
he would die or be kied-that he could not possibly
live to the age of twcntyone except in state of misery
and woe. to which he would prefer death. Walter was
twenty years of age couple Of weeks since Happen
ing to be out of employment at the tme he believed
the prediction of the fortune teller, about to he
verified if not as regarded his death least with
gard to the misery Of his life. This it is thought in
dueed to him to commit the act of self destruction
no other reason be assigned and such in part


the verdict of the jury. The case is certainly sad
comment on the amount of faith which young people


too often place in the saying Of the unprncpled class
alluded to- lCincinnatl commercial
Year: 1861

Owe no Man ANYrHING.-This may he lad poetry,
but depend on it. It's excellent sense. 1t is an old say
ing that the debtor is slave to the creditor Ifso half
the world enter into voluntary servtude The unyer
sal rage to buy credit is serious evil in this country
Many married man is entirely ruined by it.


Many man goes into store for single article
Looking around twenty things strike his eye he has nc
moncy-buys on credit. Foolish man! payday must
come and ten chances to one, like death, it finds you
unprepared to meet it. Tell me, you who have expe
rienced it. did the pleasure opossessng the article bear
anv proportion to the pain of being called to pay o
it when you had it not in your power?


A few rules we'll kept viii contribute much to your
happiness and independence Never buy what you
really DO not want Never buy credit when you can
possibly do without Take pride in being able to say
owe no man. Wiyesare sometimes thoughtless, daugh
ters now and then extravagant Many time, when
neither the wife the daughter would willingly give
single pang the fathers BOSOM they urge and tease
him to get articles pleasant to be sure to possess but
difficult for him buy he purchases on credit is dun
ned-sued; many an hour IS made wretched by their
folly and imprudenee.


Never owe your shoemaker your taller, your printer
YOUR blacksmith or laborer, Besides the bad policy OF
keeping in debt injustice to those whose
abors you have received all the benefits Of tell You
what it is a man feels something like man, who can
walk the street ngling spare dollar in his pocket
knowing that he does not owe red cent in the world
Year: 1861

HARD TfNEs-Copied from the Macon Telegraph for
the benefit of editors, merchants and others;


'Ou westn they think little OF fever and .ager, as
.ho cal II hut when it once invades "a mans system
the "ager is as much fixture as anything 50 shaky
can we'll be. We have seen 'agers' of fifty years
missing the alternate day, but preceded
by no fever or any other apparent cause Il had be
come habit of the system and the patient shook with
eager lust because he expected to shake Now "hard
times tight times debt-waitiDg debtor like the lager
continue long after necessity apology for them has
failed There is no apology for very tight times now,
and there is no other particular reasonor them except
rneanness and apprehension. If every in Georgia
would manfuIy resolve Il will pay my debts far
have the means and then bring out of his treasury the
money he has slowed away against hard times, every
body would be easy at once, and probably Mr. Dodge
creditor himself would find he no worse off in res
pect to money than before Ifthe people of Georgia
will only exercise little Of the "grand confidence,
and set their money aoat there win be enough for al
purposes. Try it.
Year: 1861

NoRruERN FURxIrURE FoRTHE SOUTHERN president


The Boston Traveller says that well known furniture
dealer Of Boston is now engaged in the manufacture of
act Of parlor furniture for the hon Mr. Davis of Miss
issnpi the president Of the southern Confederacy.
Year: 1861

We sat among the ripe white sheaves;


The western skies were golden red;
We had book we turned the leaves;
But aot word we sa i'd.
A sudden lula thrilling pause;


We seemed al once one thought TO have
We little could divine the cause


That such a moment gave.
A minute that comes once and goes;
That must be snatched al once or lost;
o foolish heart but something rose


In me. Our fate was crossed.
We rose up from the shining sheaf;


We looked back al the setting sun {:
We scarcely spoke--we seemed 10 grieve
The golden day was done.
And on the morrow I was gone,


We could no: speak for paullry fear
The morrow will go gliding on,
And we find each bitter one,


Nor meet for many year
Year: 1861

The You've WTE.-The marriage of mid
die age is companionship the second mar
riage Of maturity, perhaps The reParailon OF
a mistake, perhaps the palld transcript oil
buried Joy but the marriage of The loving
young is by the direct blessing of God, aud
is the realization OF the complete ideal OF
lovely human life. Let those who have
found that pearl hold fas; and keep ii safe.
Within the door where love dwells no evil
thing should enter; and the loving bride,
Year: 1861

Fun is the most conservative element o
society, and ough; to be cherished and en-
couraged by all lawful means. People
never plot mischief when they are merry
Laughter is an enemy TO malice, foe II
Year: 1861

We referred yesterday to the plea OF the
London Morning Herald (lligh tory organD
against the naval expedition 10 the South
ern coast based upon the danger Of aWak-
ing great slave insrrection in the cot
ton States, if the Union forces should
achieve a decided victory. While it is 9
sufficient answer to say that the objection
raised by the organ Of the British aristo-
cracy, proposes nothing less than sheer
immunity to tie fountains and hot beds OF
rebellion, while the blows are falling with
fearful weight upon Missouri and
Virginia, there is another view Of
the case which ought to be well
considered If South Carolina, fer in
stance, has 5cstercd q system Of society
so hateful and revoltingto the moral sense
Of Ch1istendom, so violating the laws Of
God and OF nature than any conclusion in
the atmosphere is likely to set it ablaze, is
it for South Carolina, the begetter Of the
conflict, to claim exemption from the con-
sequences Of her OWL double wrong doing
She has put powd>r magazine under her
own house and then wickedly and mali
ciously set her neigbbors' houses on fire.
-.II.-sAe- Ho n tGGEboring to extinguish that
fire: By 70 means. She is pi1ing up the
fuel and pouring On turpentine. Is it for
her TO cry cut "let the houses Of these
other people burn to The ground, but keep
the fire away from my premises because
there is a powder magazine under il, and
it might blow up?" Let us be just to
South Carolina. She does not enter any
such crazy plea in her own behalf She
claims no immunity from the logical re-
suits Of her own att. It is only in the
high tory circles Of Great Britain that the
CIT is raised keep the war away from the
heavy slayeholding districts, lest it lead to
an insurrection and culminate in universal
Fxarlor,, u
Year: 1861

NEW YoRK, October l5--The steamer Peer
less, which was purchased in Canada last
spring under circumstances which led to the
supposition that she was intended for the
service Of the rebels, was yesterday chartered
by the War Department.
Year: 1861

ANEcDoTE OF John G. WnIrrIER.-
They tell The following story of the amiable
Quaker poet: On 9s9ecent occasion he was
travelling with friend over New Hamp.
shire railroad, and during conversation Mr..
Whittier's friend who is also member Of
the Society of Friends, told the poet that
he was on his way to contract for lot Of
oak timber, which he knew would be used
in building the gun boats at Portsmouth,
and asked him whether he thought it was
exactly in consistence with the peace doc
trines of the Quaker denomination. With
out saying anything calculated to decide
the question, the two arrived at their part
ing place, when Mr.. Whittier, shaking his
friends hand, said ''Moses, if thee does
furnish any of that oak timber thee spoke
of, be sure that it is all sound" "-Bostos
journal.
Year: 1861

e NJ. Glatard has invented u harness
which can he detached from the horse by
merely pulling rein separately devoted to
that purpose. A brake at the same time
stops the carriage. This permits the dri-
yer, in case his horse becomes unmanage-
able, to let him go entirely free from the
harness, and so that he will not be likely
to iniure himself.
Year: 1861

t General Garibaldi has written 10 4
friend Of his in America that he expects an
outbreak in Hungary before long, which
may involve seriously Italian Independence;
and that he cannot therefore leave Europe
at the present time to accent commission
i'll the American army, however. mucls he
might desire to do it. The great Garibaldi
is desirous that Americans should be in.
formed of this through the press.
Year: 1861

80 A German gentleman wrote an
obituary on the death Of his wife, of which
the following is a copy:


If mine wife hat lived until next Friday,
she would have been dead shust two weeks
Nothing is possible nit de Almighty. As
de tree falls so must it stand"
Year: 1861

tVA prudent man advised his drunken
servant to put by his money for rainy
day. In a few weeks the master asked
him how much he had saved.
Faith, none at ALL" said he; sit rsined
Yesterday, and it all went"
Year: 1861

s A Yankee editor says: "We don't
mind recording the deaths Of people with
out being paid for our trouble though
that is not fair; but panegyrics on the dead
must be paid for; we positively cannot
send people to heaven for nothing"
Year: 1861

a Coon FAsHIoN-It is stated that the
latest fashion" from Europe, is that of
dressing very plainly when going to church
Some of the ladies of the first circle go up to
worship in plain calico. 1t is thus sought to
encourage the attendance of the poor, who
have hitherto withheld their presence for lack
of g Sunday clothes"