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Year: 1865

James Gordon Bennett The veteran
editor Of the Herald was sitting in his
private Office, with his back to the open
window, calmly discussing with friend
the chances that the Herald establish
ment would escape the conhagration
which at that time was threateningly
advancing up Ann street toward Mas
sau. In the course of his conversation,
Mr.. Bennett observed However,
though have usually had good luck in
cases of FIRE, they say that the devil is
ever at ones shoulder, and -" Here
an exclamation from his friend inter
rupted him, and turning quickly, he was
considerably taken aback at seeing the
devil himself, or something very like him,
at his verv shoulder as he spoke. Re-
covering his equanimity, with the ease
and suavity which is usual with him in
all company, Mr.. B. was about to ad-
dress the intruder when he perceived
that what he had taken for the gentle
man in black was nothing more than q
frightened oursng.outang. The poor
creature, but recently released from
captivity, and doubtless thinking that he
might fill some vacancy in the editorial
corps Of the paper in question, had de-
scended by the water-pipe and instinc-
lively taken refuge in the inner sanctum
of the establishment of the Office


Although the editor - perhaps from
the fact that he saw nothing peculiarly
strange in the visitation-soon regained
his composure, it was far otherwise with
his friend, who Immediately gave the
/ alarm. Mr.. Hudson rushed in and
boldly attacked the monkey, grasping
him by the throat The hookeditor
next came in, obtaining g clutch upon
the brute by the cara; the musical critic
followed, and seized the tail with both
hands; and number of reporters, arm
ed with inkstands and sharpened pencils,
came next, followed by a dozen police
men with brandished clubs; at the same
time, the engineer in the basement re-
ceived the preconcerted signal, and gol
ready his hose wherewith to pour boiling
hot water over the heads of those In the
street. in case it should prove regular
systematized attack by gorillas, Brazil
ian apes, and chimpanzeas.


Fights among the wild beasts, such al
would have made an audience in Mad
rid wild With delight, are given will
minuteness and particularly, as though
the reporter had comfortable seat oil
q stand near by a well.protected stage
and jotted down the incidents at hi
ease. EG- It'll.


The effects of this style of reporting
may be imperceptible at the time, bu
that they are decidedly dsleterioas n,
one can deny. Children fed upon sucl
bighly-seasoned mental food lose al
taste for plain unvarnished truth, an
consequently can scarcely be induced t


read the history OF the past in the sou
bre garb in which much of it is clothed
while that of the present is continual


brought to their attention in such fame
full attire.


We should like to see change in th


newspapers Of the country in this pa
ticular, and q return to reason an


common sense.
Year: 1865

We will manufacture all kind Of Tobacco to
suit any trades that we may receive orders for.
We will assure the wholesale trade that we not
be undsrsoid Ia the West. We have been
gagged IN the Tobacco business for twenty years.
We are prepared to execute Our work in the neat
est STYLE and respectfully solicit the attention
Of dealers 70 our Tobacco.
Year: 1865

The desire to make money out of
morbid curiosity on the part of the peo-
pie to hear or read something startling
every day, has driven most of the lead.
ing papers of the country into ridiculous
excuses, while the effect of pandering
to this morbid taste, in other respects, is
most pernicious. 1t destroys an appre-
citation of truth on the part of the people,
and a regard for it on the part of the
conductors of the more prominent jour-
nails. The most trivial local incidents
are now magnifed into column items of
the most extravagaut rhetoric. A tele-
graphic paragraph of six or eight lines,
narrating an accident, is heightened
into a half column article of lavish dis
play lines and double-leaded comments.
As an evidence of how this is done, we
copy the placard headings as they read
in the New York World of July y. We
put them in small type and compress
them as to space, but give the language
in full. If we gave them as much space


as the World gives them, they would oc-


cupy at least three columns of our


paper:
Year: 1865

CONTRARY to general expectation cotton goods
are now higher, both here and at the East than
they were during war time The Southern
demand for goods, and the as yet unsettled state
of labor, in the cotton States, together with the
uncertainty as to the aggregate OF the crop which
will this year be harvested, are some of the
causes for continued high prices Many believe
that they will be even still higher. Our local
cotton crop, though quite extensive for a new
beginner, is too insignificant to affect the market.
even if we had all the requisites for its nlanufac-
ture.- This will soon have however as 81
cotton mill is being erected, near San Francisco
- Sacramento Bee
Year: 1865

u AMERICAN FLAG.'-L. P. McCarty, business
agent for that paper, was here two days this
week, and we are glad to hear succeeded in add
ing quite number Of subscribers to its list.
McCarty is genial individual, and should
imagine capital hand for the business in which
he is engaged. He is also proprietor of COM
pound which is pronounced certain cure for
Fever and Ague, and hope be will leave a
plentiful sprinklng Of it at Trinity Center as he
passes north. Mr.. McCarty has also opened 4
Purchasing and Commission agency at the Bay,
40 which he will devote his entire attention after
the first of December.
Year: 1865

10 Hope for the Afiicted.-IN another part Of
paper will be found the advertisement Of the celebrated
Institute established by DR.. j. C. Young, in 1880. In this
deceit charatanism it is boon to the suffering
point out to where they Of obtaining the wish


ed for relief and cure Under the the skul Doctor
troubled dyest themselves of their burdens
pain and shame lay aside their and secure health
and happiness you sick trouble do hesi
tate advertisement and follow the advice. Do


forget the number the of directing letter
CONSULTATION OFFICE 5I0 Washington Fran
cisco 44.3msn.
Year: 1865

ADN's RAycH.-Senator Jones, owner Of that
property, situated on the Trinity below the mouth
of South Fork, last week sold it to B. Lack. of
Hoopa Valley. We hear that mill and
Touring mill will be erected on the property,
both of which will be important Improvements
for that section of the county,
Year: 1865

PRESIDENT JoHNsoy.-Many Union papers in
this State are, very unwisely, we think laboring
to convce their readers and the public that the
President is committing great errors in his poll
icy of reconstruction. While all such criticism
is perhaps entirely legitimate, and may result in
no evil, it will do no good. We have the great
est faith in the honesty, ability and ixedness Of
purpose of President johnson, and believe that
his labors to the end of just reorganization of
the Southern States will be ultimately crowned
with success. Therefore we coincide in the fol-
lowing remarks from the Sacramento Bee =
o Some papers denounce President Johnson and
his policy. Some simply condemn, without sug-
gesting better course; while Others propose
schemes which are at least open to the principal
objection urged against the project they con-
demn-they are all untried. They should bear
in mind that he is travelling road which has
never yet been traversed by any of our states
men. He has material chart guide, nor
convenient handbook ready made past ex


perience to lead him on. His position is most
peculiar and trying, and instead of idle blame,
equally fruitless adulation, let all good men aid
him with their wishes, with practical sugges


tions, and with earnest prayers that he may re-


ceive light and strength frou On high to carry
our people through their present trials, and lead
them into the promised land, whose threshold
they have reached through the red of war.
Year: 1865

~ County Warrants and GrsenbaeIs taken at
their ruling value in payment for subscriptions to this
paper To soldiers in the Government service the
will be furnished for Greenbacks at
Year: 1865

THE Amador Ledger has entered its eleventh
volume. We are doing editor Springer no more
than simple justice when we say that he furnishes
his patrons first rate newspaper We can
hardly realize that the Ledyer and Journal have
been exchanging weekly visits for a decade. YET
it is nevertheless true.
Year: 1865

PLENTY OF THE KIND, WE EXPECT Thomp-
tells the editor of the Louisville Journal that
the only people in the South who wish to do any
more fighting are those who didn't 90 any when
they had a chance.
Year: 1865

MYSTERIOUS sDIsAPPEARANcE.-Some weeks ago
the announcement was made public here that
John J. Huscrolt had suddenly disappeared from
Red Bluff. Sheath l. Boarrhan, of that place,
advertise in the Union for information in regard
to his whereabouts. The card says he - left Red
Bluff October 20th, to drive in some cattle to
slaughter, saying that he would be back in few
hours. Since then nothing has been heard Of
him, except that the 2lst he going
through Chico on horseback at a full run. lie
left a sick wife and sick child. 1t is supposed
that he has become insane" Then follows full
description of the man whose disappearance is
shrouded in mystery.
Year: 1865

The Best Family Machine.-We would call the
of readers to the GRovGE BAKER MACHINES
Their reputation well established for attempt


word in favor. but would advise any person
ing a reliable Family Sewing Machine to investigate the
merits these before buying. \ word the wise is
sufficient tl.v9.
Year: 1865

says:


The plan for the new Court House
was decided on this morning. and is q
beautiful one. Work on the building
will be commenced at an early day, and
the house will be finished the present
season. Mr.. W. P. Swift, the Commis-
sioner from this district, deserves much
credit for his efforts in favor of building
q new Courthouse; and bat for his per
severance in the matter the old dilapida.
ted structure now used for court purpO-
ses would long have continued 70 dis
grace the city and county.
Year: 1865

THE EYE, BEING THE MOST DELICATE
\ Organ, and OF the most vital Importance 10
the happiness and prosperity of man, should
never be tampsred with, either by the individual,
or those who for mere profit take upon themselves
the selling Of artificial sights. and who know
nothing Of the anatomy OF the Eye.


These Celebrated Suectaeles
Year: 1865

heart, | spoke; but to my" good even
nearer, and touched the thin hands fold
ed peacefully together. Their GOODNESS
startled me, and turned away with a
cry OF fear. Then my father came to
INV side and told me that Parson Avery
would never answer me any more-he
was dead. In another moment we found
his house keeper. He had seemed very
tired, she said and had eaten little
but after supper he had gone to that
western window and sat down, as his
habit was, to look out towards the sun
set and the graves. Once going by the
door, she had heard him murmur-


Now, Lord, is my work over. May
it be thy good pleasure that | shall enter
into thy rest''


Then her sobs choked her, and after d
minute she added softly:


:. And he haS-ycs, he has


No one ol earth could ever know the
beautiful visioas Of that last sunset
visions which had left on his face the
brightness OF such a smile Is shines ~
on the faces of The dead, who have died
in the Lord Did he see, with eyes
sharpened to penetrate celestial mEste
ries, his wife, young asain, on that
heavenly shore. with her babes once
more at her knee Who shall teal :
Beyond the sun and the stars, beyond
the JOYS and the sorrows OF this world
and this universe, his soul had gone forth
into the infinite space, to find their ful-
ness of joy.
Year: 1865

The Cincinnati newspapers. in discuss
ing the philosophy of the resent elec
tions, have arrived at the conclusion that
the overthrow of the Democratic part,
is due to the active exertions OF the
mechanics. When they are apathctic
the election is pretty sure TO be carried
by the Democratic party. 1t is aptly
suggested that if the Democracy in Ohio
had succeeded last year, Cincinnati
would now be overlooked 10y the borders
of hostile Confederacy, capital and
trade would be taking flight, and city
property collapse" Philadelphia is
even a stronger instance than Cincinnati.
That city is pre- eminently the home Of
the manufacturers and mechanics.--
They control its elections, and according
as they are active or quiet the elections
go. They took Philadelphia from the
Copperheads in the beginning of the war,
and Notwithstanding n temporary re.
pulse in 1862, have held il since. They
saw that the war was identified with
their best interests. It's failure would
have degraded labor. The great me.
tropolis of Pennsylvania would have
been on the borders of n hostile Con
federacy, and the vast interest of the
State would have been destroyed.


The strength of the old Democratic
party consisted in the alliance it formed
with the manufacturers and mechanics
The brawny arm was the emblem of its
power and now when every vestigc Of
devotion to labor and manhood has
vanished, the brawny arm remains. 1t
is said that the banished Bourbons who
live at Rome and in private dwellings on
the Thames practice all the forms of
royalty, and hang the feur de-lis around
their drawing rooms and parlor walls
The Democratic party is as much the
champion of labor as the Bourbons are
the rulers of France. Their alliance
with labor was dissolved when they be.
came the slaves of Slavery. They have
been true to that second friendship.
They served their master with restless
and INSCRIPTIONS energy. When South
ern capital demanded that the labor OF
the North should be destroyed that
Southeren Slavery might have control
of the markets of the world, the Demo
cratic party relaxed its brawny arm, and
made war upon protection. Iron,
coal, lumber, must all be sacrificed to
propitate the electoral votes of the
Cotton States. For the time this sub
serviency escaped the eye Of the labor
ing classes, but eventually The degrade.
tion was apparent and they rebelled


The real strength of the Republican
party-the cause Of its successful de
fense OF the Union through good and evil
report-arose from its sympathy with
labor and manhood. That is why it is
strong to day 1t will continue strong so
long as it manifests this sympathy. The
manufacturer knows that when English
capital makes an assault upon Am erican
industry, he may depend upon votes Of
the Republican party to protect him -
The mechanic saw when the Democracy
proposed to make purchasable negro
his rival at the forge and the loom, the
Republican party destroyed Slavery.
It's mission is TO advance the interests
that the manufacturer and mechanic re-
present. SO long as it remains true 70
that mission it will remain powerful
" y Tribune
Year: 1865

The causes of cholera arc, first. the
mysterious atmospheric condition Of
which we have spoken, and second.
local conditions of filth and impure air.
The disease cannot prevail without the
combined presence Of these two causes.
The first cause is beyond human control:
il advances and recsdes in obedience To
the laws of which we know nothing; il
crosses continents and oceans As freely
as the winds of heaven, and it would be
as reasonable to attempt to control the
movements of the east wind, as to con
troll the movements or this cause of
cholera by quarantine restrictions. But
the second cause of cholera, and without
which the first would be comparatively
powerless for evil, is, to a very great eN
tent, within our control, and here Is
where our duty lies.
Year: 1865

In a report made by DR. Edwin NJ
Snow, of Providence, Rhode Island, to
the Board of Alderman of that city, the
doctor says:


So far as the city of Providence is
concerned. if quarantine regulations
were of any value, they would be useless
here while we have communication a
dozen times daily with New York and
other cities but there is no principle
more certainly established in the minds
of all intelligent observers of the dis
ease than that quarantine regulations are
absolutely and utterly useless TO prevent
the introduction and spread of Asiatic
cholera


The cholera cannot prevail as an cpl
demic without The presence of certain
mysterious condition of the atmosphere
Of this atmospheric condition little is
known; but it is known that its presence
or absence IS not affected or regulated in
the slightest possible degree by quaran-
tine measures. Vessels may have the
cholera on board, and may land the sick
on our shores, but the disease will never
become epidemic. nor spread among the
people, until that mysterious atmospheric
condition is presented But that atrnos-
pheric canse may come and be pres
ent, and the disease may spread
epidemically, without any connection
with the arrival of vessels from ports
where the disease exists.


II not single vessel should arrive in
our ports during the next five years il
would not make single days difference
in the presence or absence Of the cholera
as an epidemic.





The doctrine stated so positively in
the document from the United States
Legation at Constantinople, that cholera
is contagious, is equally opposed to the
opinions of physicians and others who
have seen the disease, and is calculated
TO work most serious injury, il fully
believed, in any community where the
disease exists. If the cholera WAS actu-
ally contagious, in the ordinary accep-
ton Of the term panic would exist,
and it would be difficult to obtain nurses,
or medical attendance for the sick But
no intelligent medical observer Of the
disease in This country. IT the present
Year: 1865

Nor is the end yet. At the great fair in
Chicago last summer, an enterprising
gentleman invited Abe to attend He
had colored photographs of the old hero
struck off, and sold $4,000 worth for
the benefit of poor and sick soldiers


Has not the American eagle done its
part: K.
Year: 1865

Mr.. Bryant will be seventy one years
old on the ID of November inst. He
bears his age we'll Frost lies white up
on his ample beard, but the fire of his
youth is in his eye, and his heart still
beats strongly and steadily, with vital
force that shows no sign of serious ply
siical decay. His mind working alertly
and clearly, is as quick in PERCEPTION and
as logical in deduction As it was twenty
wears ago His slight and agile figure,
passing rapidly among the crowds OF the
street is that of 4 man of thirty years
rather than the frame which men usually
associate with septuagenarian s weight
of wears. He uses no glasses to aid his
vision. The nearest approach he was
ever known to make confession of inn
perfect sight was in my hearing about
= year rgo. Going to window TO read
newspaper, he muttered a good natur-
ed remonstrance against the fineness OF
the print, observing that he 'didn t intend
to wear spectacles so long as he could
help it, but wished the papers would not
use such small type"


In the matter of dress, Mr. Bryant is
neither Count d D'Orsay nor a Horace
Greeley. He greatly prefers cleanliness
to style; is always tidy, but blissfully un
conscious of the requirements Of fash
ion. and like Dominic Sampson, would
be quite likely to attribute to the pre-
servative qualities of the atmosphere the
the exceeding glossiness of any new gar
meut surreptltously introduced into his
apartment over night Yet he is order
ly and precise in his intellectual life
almost to the extreme of fastidiousness
and hvpercriticism, rs if natures princi-
pie of composition was specially Illus
. trated III his case. He has q hearty con
tempt for shamS, snobs and Stiffness al
mires pluck perseverance and industry;
adores nature, and works hard for the
love of work, and readily recognizes q
worker when he sees him: finds his re
creation in recondite studies, in green
fields, babblinG brooks, and the study of
natural forms-in digging among the
roots of language, i. planting trees,
making newspapers, and observing man
E<nI-in the pr3ttie of children and the
wisdom of the schools--in short every
thing that the world does and men think.


he has pleasant ways. At odd no
meuts he invites his friends to little tri-
ais OF gymnastic exercise Can you dc
that he said once to a much youn weE
man, SuItlng the action 10 lAe wofi, ana
lifting himself to the top of the floor by
his hands and swim ging up and down and
sideways, varying the sport by grasping
the decreasing and repeating the feat in
more difficult position. The junior
tried it, but failed; he had not leaped SO
many high rail fences in the country as
Mr.. Bryant had leaped, and the brown
beard could not wag in the air as the
white one wagged- Rarely, if a fence
or a gate is in the way at Roslyn, does
its owner stop to dodge it or open it
He leaps it. If horse is not harnessed
he walks If storm howls and a valued
friend is lonely in distant house. he
trudges off, with an umbella in one hand
and a boquet of flowers in the other; Of
fering the latter-and his company, where
he knows that both will be welcome.
i Examiner and Chronicle.
Year: 1865

In view Of tho position assumed by the
REPUBLICAN, yesterday on the suffrage ques-
tion, we refer with pleasure to the excellent
resolution published elsewhere, which was
unanimously adopted at the great JoHNsoS
meeting" hold at the Cooper Institute on
Wednesday evening. II is right to the point.
A man who is ct to fight for the Government
ought to 10 1T 10 vote GTj.erlls
Year: 1865

mer of light fell upon the steps. Rosa
shrank back aud whispered, " In an hour and
half at the Gregorian Church" and sprang
away up the steps. The Prince stood again
in darkness. He went into the street and
examined the building and the illuminated
windows, The sudden separation seemed
naturally very sudden to him. not that be
cared for the purse with which the maiden had
flown away but that he had not seen the face
of the unknown beauty by the light that he
did not even know her name and still less
whether she would indeed have thrown his
purse back, as she threatened should he ap-
pear to her in his true character In the
meantime he comforted himself with the Rem
devious at the Gregorian church. The watch
man had also appointed the same place.
Julian soon understood that he owned his
lucky adventure to him. but without his good
will
Year: 1865

ugly flower won't pick youv sal |
little Harry as he pulled tho daises and but
tercnps in the meadow and suddenly came 10
fine large dandelion.


The dandelion had done its best to look
bright and gay all day. and it was very sad
to hear its happy broad golden face found
fault with like this.


II wonder why nobody likes me-" it
thought sadly; "every other flower is taken
notice of, and am left neglected and forlorn.
did not make myself and do not want to
be disngreeablc. | wonder if anybody will
ever care about me, Or shall l shut ND nv
petals and die"


"No, no. whispered the breeze whish
passed over it, keep on hoping"


And just then large bee came buzzinp
through the long meadow grass, and it rested
on the yellow dandelion and found soma
honey in its heart. and said, " Beautiful fowerl
| am glad found you out !" and the dandel-
ion held up its golden face to the sun, and
said, II have not lived for nothing"


God has given us all the power of being .
comfort to somebody.