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Year: 1861

TR1.-Try for a day, beseech you, to pre-
serve yourself in an easy and cheerful frame OF
mind. Be but fer one day, instead of fire
worshiper of passion, the sun-worshipper Of
clear self-possession and compare the day on
which you have rooted not the weeds of dissat-
isfaction, with that on which you have allowed
it to grow up; and you will find your heart
open to every good motive, and your life
strengthened, and your breast armed with a
pauoply against every trick Of fate truly, you
will wonder at your own improvement.
Year: 1861

INDIAN SLAVE TRADE IN THE NORTHERN
PART OF THE STATE.-The Humboldt Times
says that parties IN remote portion of that
county are engaged in the business OF kidnap
ping Indian children and disposing of them TO
families in the towns and settlements, receiving
such a sum of money as may be agreed upon
between the high contracting powers. in each
instance from thirty to fifty dollars, according
to the trouble incurred in obtaining possession
of the children 1t is intimated-and upon
pretty good authority-that stratagem, and
sometimes force, is made use of to capture the
children, the consent of the children and their
relatives being considered of but little impor-
tance What amount of force or cunning is
required to obtain possession of tLese little
savages we do not pretend to say but any
one who has lived long Oh this portion of the
Pacific coast does not need to be told that
Indians do not, as a general practice, consent
to have their children taken to distance to
reside among strangers.
Year: 1861

MENDoCINo COUNTY.-A correspondent OF
the Union, writing from this county January
5th thus refers TO certain subjects connected
with is interests:


/ rarely ever see this section noticed, and per-
haps your readers hardly know Of the existence
of this dominion Well, then, this is large
and mountainous county, dotted here and there
with fertile little valleys. Stock raising is the
principal business except on the coast, where
an immense quantity of lumber is made and
sent to the San Francisco market, which valley
is about at the head of wagon navigation. y
There are no means Of transportation to any
extent between this and other localities north
from here unles it walks out, so huge noun
tain is there to pass between this and Sonoma
valley. Mail facilities are quite limited. A
new contract has been let, and two mails have
passed here en- route to Humboldt. Three
mule loads of matter went through. Indians
are numerous and hostile on the trail. The
streams are often impossible. The snow falls
to great depth, and mail transportation is
impracticable in every particular, and will 10
doubt be abandoned There are two Indian
reservations in this county, where the Govern
ment expends large sums Of money, ostensibly
to maintain the Indians, but they are like all
other similar institutions of the kind in the
State--a nuisance to the surrounding country
"a disgrace and dead expense to the Govern
ment-a loafng place for small, brokendowu
politicians, and no benefit to the Indians what
ever The Indians are cursed with loathsome
diseases, half-starved and i'll clad-allowed to
prowl round, and of course will steal, and then
the injured whites will kill them That is
what caused the Jarboe, Kibbe and other In
dian wars. The appropriations have dwindled
down so low that there is little or no chance
for stealing, and should judge their term Of
existence had about expired.
Year: 1861

fellows hide behind it, and fire away in perfect
safety. He keeps On doing this till all the
squad are provided with bomb shelters it
takes very strong man to do it.


The Zouaves are very strong.


The Barefoot Squad are trained in the use
of their toes. They can all use four revolvers
at time-two with their hands, and one with
each foot; they can load and fire perfectly
well with their feet. Many of them will sit
down and use both hands in eating their din-
ner, while their feet ere keeping up continual
fire on the foe


The Zouaves are very ingenious.


l am practicing now every day l can al
ready hang by my toes aud eat my dinner
wrong side up; and know that in another
week shall be able to do wonderful things


Exceptingly, DoEsrIcKs, P. B.


THE LONDON TIMES ON SECESSION
London Times speaking of the threatening as
pect of affairs in this country, saws that a
change in this Government would be neither

advantageous nor disadvantageous to England.
1t continues:


For the safety of the Union itself, we confess
we have no fears. OF course, it will take
some time before men can cool down from the
bluster which had been so profusely used for
electioneering purposes to the language Of
moderation and truth Some men have said
these things so often that they are ashamed to
show how little they believe them, and some
so often that they have learned to believe them
themselves But when the cooler heads of the
South begin TO consider how imaginary is the
injury which they have sustained, how vast
are the interests involved how heavy would be
the cost, how considerable the danger of dis
union, and how impossible it would be for the
Southern States to maintain, in the face OF
the world, the strong position they hold as
members of the great American Confederation,
we suspect that the South will think better of
it, and turn its activity into the more practica-
bic channel of providing Mr. Lincoln with a
Democratic successor in 1864.
Year: 1861

This notable parsonage still lives. Wehave
wondered of late where he was burrowlng.
Blu: he has finally come to the surface and is
still true to his old instincts Wherever there
is party more corrupt than any other or all
others combined, we may be sure of finding
this reverend 'apostate in its ranks. Hence W.
are not in the least surprised to find him in
the rebel ranks of Iowa Democracy, an out
and out advocate of the Mahoney convention.
To have found him anywhere else would have
led us to suppose that something had happen
cd to him-that he had been reading the Bible
had mounted clean shirt, or performed
some other equally unusual exploit. But no,
he Is as true to his antecedents as the needle
to the pole. 1t is not improbable but that
Mahoney will cause Dean to open his conven-
ton with prayer. Deans voice will reach the
ceiling of any room, however large, but as to
its ascending any higher-well, we would hes
itate before risking much upon it in the way
nf n hot
Year: 1861

SOUTHERN TYRANNY.-Reports are constant
Iy received from the South of the tyranny
practiced there against those who are suspect
ed of attachment to the Union, or who hesitate
to take arms against the Government. All
Who escape from that country tell the same
story, not only Of the wrongs that are done
but of the violence amounting to 'barbarism,
that prevails everywhere. One just escaped
from Virginia says they have now a standing
order forbidding any one to leave the country,
so that if any do leave who have property,
that must be sacrificed beyond the hope Of
remedy
Year: 1861

70" HEADACHE Is the favorite sign by which nature
makes known any deviation whatever from the natural
state OF the BRAIN and viewed in this light may be look
ed on as safeguard intended give notice Of disease
which might Otherwise escape attention ILL too late to be
remed!ed and its indications should never be neglected
Headaches may be classified under two names viz -
Symptomatic and Idopathic Symptomatc Headache is
exceedingly common and is the precursor of great
rety of diseases, among which are Apoplexy Gout,
rheumatism and all febre diseases In its nervous form
IL b sympathetic Of disease of the stomach constituting
sick headache, of hepatic disease constituting bilious
headache of worms, constipation and other disorders OF
the bowels as well renal and uterine affections Dis.
eases of the heart very frequently attended with
Headaches Anamia and PLETHORA are also affections
which frequently occasion headache Idiopathc Head.
ache is also very common being usually distinguished by
the name Of hyddaee sometimes coming on sud-
denly in sate of apparently sound health and prostrat
ing at the mental and physical energies and 9th.
er instances it slowly heraded by depression OF
spirits acerby Of temper. In instances the pain
is in the front of the head, both eyes, and
sometimes provoking vomiting under this class may al
so be named Neuralgia.


For the treatment Of either class Of Headache the Oeph
ac Pills have been found sure and safe remedy


eving the most acute pains in few minutes and by its
subtle power eradcatng the diseases Of which Headache
is the unerring index:
Year: 1861

THE ANALGAMArIoS OF LASGUAGEs-There is a grow
ing endency in this age to appropriate the most
i've words OF other languages and after while to incor-
porae them into own thus the word Cephsic which
is from the Greek, sgnifyng for the head is be-
coming popularized in connection with Mr Spaldng's
great Headache remedy, but it will soon be used in
more general way, and the word Cephaic viii become as
common as Eecrotype and many others whose dstinc-
ton as foreign words has been worn away by common
usage until they seem native and to the born"
Year: 1861

Twenty MILLIONS DOLLARS sAvED.-Mr Spaldns
has sold two millions Of bottles of his Gel brated Pre-
pared Glue ard it IS estimated that each bottle saves at
least ten dollars worth of broken furniture thus making
an aggregate of twenty millions of dollars reclaimed
from total loss by this valuable invention. Having mad


his Glue household word, he proposes to do the
world still greater service by curing all the aching heads
with his Cephac Pills. and if they are as good as his
Glue Headaches will soon vanish away like snow in July
Year: 1861

cY Did you ever have the Sick Headachei Do you
remember the throbbing temples the fvered brow the
oathng and digust at the sight of food How totally
unfit you for pleasure conversation study. One
of the Cephac Pills would have relieved you from all
the suffering which you then experienced For this and
other purposes you should always have box of them
hand to use as occasion requires.
Year: 1861

WHERE is OUR FLEET I'm addition to the


recall from foreign stations of almost every


snip OF war we had, Government has purchased
ard niied with ornaments, or ada pied TO trans
pert service, several hundred smiling vessels
and sea- going steamers, which have been dis.
patched, as fast as possible, on some mission or
o'her. AS the number is greater than that
necessary to maintain the blockade, it is ia ir to
presume that second Hatteras expedition is
on loot. This gives plausibiIity to the report
'h@t a fleet of National! ships have rendesvou-
seo oil New Orleans, for the purpose of attack.
Ing that city. We should suppose that such
an expedition would carry large land TO- ce,
winch can have hardly been the case i is
certain however, that an enterprise of some
Kind is being directed against the Southern
:oast, of which the rebels have got wind, as they
nave recalled troops from Virginia and ore
rapidly garrsoning their more important prop.
er'y' We shall probably hear of blow being
STRUCK In some quarter in a very few days
we are now bringing our strong arm into the
contest against which the rebels have NOTHING
whatever to oppose, and which will soon begin
10 give US successes to compensate for the lack
OF brilliant achievements on land.
Year: 1861

JEPFKRsoxs S NoFIoo OF "CoERCIoY. In
answer to questions put to him in 1856, be-
fore the adoption of the present Constitu
ton. Jefferson wrote:


at has often been said that the decisions
of Congress are impotent, because the con-
federation provides no compulsory power.
But when two or more nations enter into
compact, it is not usual for them to say
what shall be done to the party who in
fringes it. Decency forbids, aud it is as un-
necessary as indecent, because the right of
compulsion naturally results to the party
injured by the breach. When any one State
in the American Union refuses obedience to
the confederation by which they have bound
themselves, the rest haze natural right to
compel them to obedience. Congress would
probably exercise long patience before they
would recur to force but if the case ulti-
mately required it, they would use that re-
currence. Should the case ever arise, they
will probably coerce by a naval force, as being
more easy"
Year: 1861

THE husband of buxom wife near Exeter,
England, had long been dying, and at length
one of the clergymen of the parish, making
one of his daily visits, found him dead
The disconsolate widow, in giving an ac-
count of her spouse's last moments, told
him her poor dear mdn kept goanins and
groaning, but could not die. {" At last" she
said, al remembered l had piece of new
tape in the drawer, and took some of that
and tied it as tight as | could around his
neck, and then stopped his nose with my
thumb and finger, and poor dear, he went
off like lamb
Year: 1861

THE ELEVENTH CoMMANDMEsT readeth thus;
" Thou shalt not carry off the editors ex-
changes, unless thoa art sure he is done
with them: neither shalt thou talk to him
when he is reading proof or writing, lest he
get angry and order thee out of his sanc-
tum; neither shalt thou occupy his chair
more than an hour at time neither shalt
thou loaf in the Office of the printer, lest he
be ;ome wroth and you suffer IN being kicked
olt.n Chapter ri. verse IL. When yea find
1t make a note for future reference.
Year: 1861

Nay, speak no ill IA kindly WORD
Can never leave sting behind,
And oh. to breathe each tale we've heard
Is far beneath a noble mind.
Full oft better seed is sown
By choosing thus the kinder plan;
For, if but little good be known,
Still, let us speak the best we can.
Give me the heart that fain would hide
Would fain another's fault etfacei
How can it pleasure human pride
To prove humanity but base'
No: let us reach a higher mcod,
A nobler estimate of man;
Be earnest in the search for good,
And speak of all the best we can.
Then speak no ill-but lenient be
To others failings as your own;
If you're the first fault to see,
BE not the arst to make it known;
For life is but passing day,
No lip may tell how brief its span;
Then, oh! the little time we stay,
Let's speak of all the best we can.


Charles S,Cdin.
Year: 1861


Bury me in the morning, mother
Oh, let me have the light
OF one bright day on my grave, mother
Ere you leave me alone with the night;
Alone in the night of the grave, mother,
'Tis thought of terrible fear
And YOU will be here alone, mother,
And stars will be shining here.
So bury me in the morning, mother,
And let me have the light
Of one bright day on my grave, mother,
Ere Pm alone with the night.
You tell of the Savior's love, mother,
feel it in my heart
But o from this beautiful world. mother,
'Tis hard for the young to part;
Forever to part, when here, mother,
The soul is fain To stay;
For the grave is deep aud dark, mother
And heaven seems far away.
Then bury me. in the morning, mother,
And let me have the light
OF one bright day on my grave, mother
Ere Pm alone with the night.
Year: 1861

aliens against whom complaint may be
made under said law, and 10 hold them %
strict custody until the final order OF the
court, taking special care that such aliens
obtain no information that could possibly
be made useful to the enemy.


"3. Whenever the removal of any alien
beyond the limits Of the Confederate
States is ordered by any competent au-
thority, under the provisions of the said
law, the Marshall shall proceed to execute
the order in person, or by deputy, or 9TH
er discreet person, in such manner as to
prevent the aliens so removed from OBJ
tanning any information that could be us
ed to the prejudice Of the Confederate
States.


"a Any alien who shall return to these
States during the war, after having been
removed therefrom under the provisions
of the said law, shall Be regarded and treat
ed as an alien enemy, and if made prisoner,
shall be at once delivered over to the
nearest military authority, ito be dealt
with as spy or as prisoner of war, as
the case may require"
Year: 1861

kis runored that the opposition steamer
McClelland" is destined to run up to Clear
Greek. Of course we have not the slightest
faith in the report. If the owners had any
such purpose now would be the time to carry
it into effect The water is superabundant,
and, indeed, we were informed by one in the
Cal. St. Nav. Co.'s employ, who knows
there Is no serious obstacle in the way of
navigating the river from the Bluff to Clear
Cresk, or to Reeds Ferry, even in tho low
stage Of the river in summer time.


There is no belief more firmly fixed in our
mind than that Shasta may, with the addi-
ton Of horse railroad two or three miles in
length, be made the virtual head of naviga-
tion, By the expenditure of little enterprise
and few thousand dollars In no other
country in the world-in no other portion of
this State even, would fifty or sixty miles of
good navigable river be permitted thus to re-
main unoccupied by steamboats,.


Shasta is at the real head of steamboat
navigation ON the Sacramento river. This is





permit men of superior enterprise to retain it
afty or sixty miles below! This is absolutely
disgraceful Of course it will not be per-
mitted to remain thus always. So vast
source of wealth as sixty miles of good navi-
gable river will not remain unappropriated
forever The. time must come when il win be
occupied. A town, ranking in Importance
with Marysville, must yet spring up at the
head of steamboat navigation on the Sacra-
mento river. This is inevitable. Capital and
enterprise may postpone the day, it may be,
for years, but the time will come, just as
sure as the Sacramento river flows, when the
steamboat whistle will be heard daily from
the spot where we now write this prediction.


Our citizens may hasten the day if they
will. They may in few months establish
beyond dispute the fact that here, within
mile or two of our hill-begirt town, is
the real and only head of steamboat nav
igation on the Sacramento river. Will
they do it2
Year: 1861

The last Pony's news-to be found in our
telegraph column, confirms the report of
It's predecessor, that the Administration was
going to order withdrawal of the troops
from Fort Sumter Gen. Scott considers
such withdrawal military necessity under
the circumstances, if the Initiation of civil
war would be avoided. Maj. Anderson was
short of provisions, although he was allowed
to procure fresh meat from the Charleston
market every day. He had salt provisions
and wood on hand only sufficient to last ten
or fifteen days, and to reinforce him would
require at least ten thousand men, backed by
all the naval force at command. Hence the
Administration has wisely determined to re-
linquish that fort-an act of Cancellation
which will rebound to the honor of those in
power.


But what will those terrible fighting peo-
pie, hereabouts, who wanted Uncle Abe to
whip the refractory States, and said he would
whip the refractory States back into the
Union-what, we repeat, will they say to
this unexpected peace movement of the Ad-
ministration?


What will they say? 1t matters but little.
Those men who have talked most about
whipping the South, are the last men in the
world to go where danger shows its 'front.'
Men who talk fiippantly of slaughtering
their own countrymen are generally natural
towards.
Year: 1861

AS SOME of our citizens regretted the vote
cast by Hon. John White against the ''Union
Resolutions" adopted in Assembly, we ap-
pend the following resolution offered by him
as substitute for the whole, as giving his
views on the secession and war question


Resolved" That we cordially indorse
the plan of compromise, for the difficulties
now existing in the Atlantic States, of the
Hon. John J. Crittenden in the Senate of the
United States, and that pending the existing
difficulties we deprecate the use of force to
coerce the people of the seeding States, and
that we prefer compromise to war and con-
cession rather than disunion.


1t is safe to say that vast majority of the
people of this county indorse every word of
their Assemblyman's resolution. We have
not met one Democrat who has not declared
himself in favor of the Crittenden Compro-
mise. John White was in favor of that Com
promise, and yet certain Democrats profess
dissatisfaction because of his action relative
to the resolutions adopted. This is unjust.
Suppose he did vote agaist resolutions which
you approve, you know that his views are
also such as you can endorse. Who're then
is the occasion for censure.
Year: 1861

A STRONG decoction of manzanita leaves,
applied with sponge or linen rag, as hot
as the patient can bear, is said to unfailingly
effect speedy cure of the malady produced
by the poison oak.
Year: 1861

SAN. F. FRANK.-We regret to state that
Squire Frank, our occasional Pinery cor
respondent, has taken up his residence in
Tehama-having resigned his official dignity
of Justice of the Peace Immediately after
r'rfnrming very remarkable hymenial feat,
and with singularly unhappy effect upon
himself, as related by a correspondent in an
other column.
Year: 1861

When we hear the music ringing


Through the bright celestial dome,
When sweet angel voices singing,


Gladly bid US welcome home
To the land OF ancient story,


Where the spirit knows no care;
In that land of light and glory,


''Shall we know each ether there?"
When the holy angels meet us,


As we go to join their band,
Shall we know the friends who greet US,
In the glorious spirit land?
Shall we see their dark eyes shining
On us as in days of yore?
Shall we feel their dear arms twining
Fendly round us as before?
Yes, my earth-worn soul rejoices,
And my weary heart grows light,
For the thrilling angel voices


And the angel faces bright
That shall welcome US in heaven,
Are the loved of long ago,
And to them tis kindly given


Thus their mortals friends to know.
OH ye weary ones and lost ones,
Droop not, faint not by the way; ..
Ye shall JOIN the loved and lost ones
In the land of perfect day.
Harp strings touched by angel fingers,
Murmur in my raptured ear;
Evermore their sweet tone fingers
We shall know each other there.
Year: 1861




Geo. Fl. Chase, an ehterprising young
farmer of Union Springs, N. Y, writes
to the Country Geatlcman that he has
tried an experiment the present season
with salt, ashes and lime, on wheat. An
acre each was selected for three expert
ments. About two barrels of salt we're
applied to one, two horse loads of ashes
to second, and hundred bushels of
lime to the third acre. The result has
not been measured as yet, but the effects
of each are very visible, The salt
proved least useful; the ashes more so;
and the lime most of all. The line of
superiority marking the boundaries of
the lined portion was as distinct as
line fence. The increase of the crop by
lining, over the portion not dressed with
anything, is at least ten bushels per acre.
Year: 1861

A Fretty ItiduIe'


II will consent to all you desire, said
a young lady to her lover, con condition
that you will give me what you have
not, what you never can have, and yet
what you can give me. What did she
ask for? 4 husband.
Year: 1861

Gates a degree of intellectual cultivation
which is at the same time the pride of
our citizens and the safety of the repub-
lie. An expression of deep anxiety was
upon his countenance, and he proceeded