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Year: 1865

acquire to perfection, though, by con-
slant practice, the most stupid can par
tally acquire it, yet it takes two or three
generations of babies to make q perfect
fnguist. ,-..t.. ....-


The effect baby produces on q family,
no matter how sober said family may be,
! is wonderful to behold. Il completely
turns the heads of all e any particular
ono behave more insane, or is carried
away more than the rest, we think grand
ma will bear off the palm, although pa,
ma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, and long list
of cousins are not counted out by any
means. We think the mother acts the
most sensible though even she has her
weak points in regard to baby, and will
occasionally exhibit q trace Of insanity
whom dilating upon his charms and aocem-
plishments. n.. Z. "a


The effect babies have on progression is
aaH-evident. No one ever knew q baby
inferior to any preceding baby. On the
contrary, each one is little in advance
of any yet born; and when We think of
the vast numbers yet to be, and how eve
r one will be trife superior to its pre-
deoessor, what glorious future awaits Us!
We shan eventually reach perfection.
How can those persons who believe that
We retrograde instead of progress, recon-
cile this fact with their absurd theory?


Some people, little enthusiastic, look
upon baby "as q thing of beauty and q
joy forever" Now we have seen some
whom we thought had . liberal discount
on their beauty and their "ioy forever I"
would quickly vanish on having to COM
mence to cry and "refuse to be comfort
ed" when left IN our charge, and We
busily engaged in reading and writing.


It must be comforting to man, no mat
ter how ugly or despised he may be, to
think he was once a baby, beloved by q
lar e circle of relatives and friends. It is
comfort We would not deny him. There
are quite Q number Of this worlds people
who were not loving babies great while;
they arrived at years when people cease to
love them quite early in life, and have
never been babies since.


Babies resemble wheat in many respects.
Firstly-neither are good for much till
they arrive at maturity. Secondly-both
are bred in the house; also the t2o,oer of
the family. Thirdly-both have to be
Graded Fourthly-both are generally
well thrashed before they are done with.
Year: 1865

For the benefit of those interested,
we call attention this morning to the
proclamation of the Governor of Ken
tucky, relative to the election on Mon
day next. The Governor holds the Off
GERS of the law responsible for the
enforcement of the provisions of the
franchise act. He sets forth who are
legal voters and who have forfeited that
privilege. Those who have been in the
service of the so.called Confederate
Government in civil or military
capacity, are disfranchised, and will
not be permitted to vote. Each voter
when challenged has to swear that
he has not given, directly or indirectly,
voluntary aid and assistance to those in
arms against the Government of the
United States or the State of Kentucky"
Loyal men throughout the State are re-
quested to report to the Governor any
disregard of the provisions of the cleo
ton law on the part of officers or citi-
zens, that they may be called to an
account for such dereliction of duty
The Governor talks plainly. There is
no misunderstanding his meaning. he
desires legal voters alone to decide the
great question whether Kentucky shall
be free and prosperous State, or
whether she shall retain slavery until
forced to abandon it by the action oi
other States in endorsing the Constitu
tional Amendment If all who have
given the rebellion aid and comfort il
Kentucky are excluded from the polls
there is no doubt as to how the contes
will terminate. Freedom will triumph
aud civilization rejoice.
Year: 1865

The leading commercial and manufac-
turing men in the North must look with
considerable solicitude at the anticipated
consummation Of abolition triumph in
those States whose peculiar products
have made the United States one of the
first commercial and manufacturing ma
tons of modern times. The probable
amount of cotton and rice which will be
raised by free labor is most interesting


question to solve. At best, it is not GER


tain that voluntary negro labor will equal


tho amount produced by slave labor


Experiments in other countries are not


encouraging. St. Domingo and Jamaica


ore calculated to beget certain degree


of dependency. There. is possibility


that the newly-emancipated Africans


may be Of opinion that they have worked


enough all their lives, and that the time
has come for rest and recreation. We
do not know that we have any right to
an opinion on the subject, but We have
sometimes suspected or imagined'that


there is lack of energy and enterprise
in the African constitution, taken as =
whole, and that, with occasional excep~
tons, it prefers = contemplative to an
active life. If it should turn out that,
after becoming free, they will work no
more than is n eoessary to supply the
few wants of m IN in fertile country,
il would be = sad trial to the CONNER
cial and manufacturing interests. The
United Sta tes would, in that event, be nc
longer the great cotton and commerce
Republic, and would become very com


nonplacs, Canadian kind OF country
It's decline in material power and great
ness would be compensated, however, p
! The slsyAapg oqneisl lSfation Of hsy'nsss
Year: 1865

"The negroes may be an inferior race up North,
but not down here by good deal"


So says the Charleston correspondent
of the New York TriJune. What has
made the difference Why is it that
those who have been trained in the
school of freedom are inferior to those
who have been trained in the school ol
slavery?
Year: 1865

A FREAK OF FoRIUNE.-Mr S. Drake,
one of the stock company now perform
ing at the Opera House in Cincinnati,
was made heir by his grandfather to an
almost fabulous number of worthless
Virginia acres, which have laid unattend-
ed ever since, rather AN incumbrance
than otherwise TO what now proves TO
their fortunate owner. Last Saturday
he received a letter from prospective
company who have found oil OH his pre-
mises, offering him the snug little sum
of S27O, 900 cash for bis possessions.
Year: 1865

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The President
has approved the joint resolution author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury TO give
notice to the owners of the building IN
New York City known as the Merchants
Exchange and occupied as the Custom
House, of intention of the United States
to purchase the same for the sum of one
million dollars, in accordance with the
terms stipulated in the existing lease OF
the property to the government.
Year: 1865

MONDAY morning the great gift book
sale opens at the store Of Mr.. John Bishop,
Main street, Let every one be on hand
the opening day. Get a good book and a
rich present awaits you. Now is the
time to buy an elegent Photograph Al
bum, OF handsome copy of any of the
poets. All the popular books of the day,
hundreds that cannot be found in any
other book store in the State
Year: 1865

None vii! have forgotten that we bad
lui3g the progress Of the war, & Provost
Marshal's Office in this county, which was
supported at great expense TO the govern
nent, and often proslituted to very mean
and dishonorable purposes, and SO much
so, that it became TO be considered by
honorable men Of all parties as public
nuisance


While this oflice--or rather the spies
employed in it-drew large pay from the
government, 10 corresponding benefits
were returned, and besides its employees
levied black mail on all suspected indivd-
usls, or subjected them to great annoy
ance and heavy expenditures.


This last employment was to hunt up
and arrest those who left the county or
district during the progress Of the drafts
for men to fiji the broken ranks Of the ar
my, but this work is now ended, as will
be seen By an order Of the government
published elsew here to which we would in.
vie the attention of all persons interested.


The President has pardoned the rebels,
and it was fitting that he should relieve
from arrest and punishment those IN the
North who happened to be away from
home, aud did not respond to the call Of
The Provost Marshal to go into the mill
tary service.


If there be any such in this county, we
give them notice that they can appear
openly and conduct their business as for
merly without fear Of being arrested
Year: 1865

Those Of this county who belonged to
that despicable Order, and opposed the
extension of suffrage TO the German and
Irish emigrant., are now the most noisy
and rampant supporters of negro suffrage
Ihsse men now claim that the negro i:
superior TO the German or Irish, 0, they
could not thus oppose the one, while fav
oriDg the other.
Year: 1865

You should not stay at home on the
day Of election. though you know your
county will give Iarge Democratic MAJ
Jority for The ticket \ GU must not forget
that your single vote may determine the
election of State officers in favor of the
Democratic nominees. Is there one or a
dozen Of you who would not feel mean
and as though you ought to give your
head TO some Niger worshipper for a
foot ball, if you s;aid from the polls, aud
the Republican ticket succeeded by one or
dozen majority


Think of this and 60 to the p ol.,-
"avery mothers son OF YOU -
Year: 1865

from the highest authority in the land to
be entirely idle all the rest ofhis life. lie
has not the faintest idea that it is necessa
ry for him to work hard in order to earn
living. An mpifcaiion of this fact
came under our observation a short time
sinct. y gentleman in an adjoining coun.
unemployed sixty hands to cut wood for
railroad. The price was very high, and
graduated according 10 the per diem per-
lormance Of each laborer. The wood was
old field pine of which q white woodsmau
would have easily cut his cord and half
per dicm. This interesting party averag.
ed exactly fourteen cords a month. Al
the end of that time they were paid off and
every man of them Except ,hree) quilted
work, and went off to Richmond to spend
their money. One of them having been
asked how many cords he had been in the
habit oil cutting when he was slave, re.
piled forty. Upon being asked why he
did not cut as many now that be was free
and receiving high p,ice for his labor,
his answer was, There is no use Of being
free if have to work as hard as I did
when l was slave" There spoke the
whole negro race, and that is their ooncep.
ton of freedom, If such be the fact, in
must be admitted that they are acting up
to their idea with wonderful consistency
From all quarters we hear complaints of
the pertnacity with which they refuse to
do anything more than the mere,t modi-
cum of days labor.


They 60 out upon the farm at eight or
nine o'clock, in most instances take Satur.


day entire for holiday, and even when
engaged in labor, use spade or a hoe as


daintly as though they burnt their fingers


1t is quite evident that farm work, requir-
ing above all work else, the most constant


and unremitting labor, cannot be intrusted


to such laborers as these for any long


space OF time, unless we wish to see the


whole State of Virginia become wilder.


ness.


We have spoken, heretofore, Of these
who do some work. OF these are compar


atively precious few For the first time


in the history Of the world-at least since


the destruction Of the Jewish Common


wcalth--tho entire laboring population o
great civilized country has been takin!
holiday oil five months duration, Go tt
any station on any railroad leading t
Richmond, at any time ia the week, an
you will see negro woman and negro mel
by scores, waiting to take the train. Wal
until the train arli yes, and YOU will fud
+ crowned by the same description Of peg
sons, all bouud on pleasure expeditions, a
f intent upon gratifying their passions 70
e locomotion and novelty of every descrir
r ton, and not one travelling in search {
/. employment. Now, as money is necess'
r ry to secure the proper attendance in sick
@ ness, and the means of sustaining life itseI
II and as these people cannot obtain none
Y except by work what is to become Of tber
o during the approaching winter ! w
!. shuddcr to think Of it. We are convince
h that the present general on cannot be il
f. duccd to labor, aud our only resource
:. to encourage immigration, that we may o.
% tain white labor.
Year: 1865

Memo TEsTLMoNY.-In a case where
several negroes were charged with gamb-
ling, one of the party was called upon to
testify what be knew Of the matter There
we're five others besides himself, and be
swore that four of the FIVE were guilty but
pointing TO his friend said be was not. His
friend was Immediately placed upon the
witness stand and convicted the former
witness. Going out Of the court room the
frst witness remarked that be didn't care
damn for the fine aud punishm ent, but
after he had sworo to damn lie 10 clear
his friend, that friend turned right round
and convicted him. Reliable witness, in
deed.-M0c0u J0,NnaS.
Year: 1865

Of all the mam rebels that this rebellion
has brought out. Mason. the confederate
minister TO ENGLAND. hears the palm. He
has written letter on the assassination.
published in London paper, in which he
goes out of the WAY TO slur Mr.. Stanton
and President johnson, and 10 speak OF
- Butler OF the notorious prefix This,
he probably thought. would divert Eng-
lish sympathy over the tragedy, by the
revival OF old hostility against Gen But
ler-a very small but MALIGNANT ariifice.
So, too, he pretends TO give a brief bio
graphical sketch of Booth. for the purpose
OF presenting the conclusion that he had
an origin and mental training little like
ly to engender the slightest sympathy with
the cause of the conservative South


As Virginian actively engaged in the
arrest and condemnation of John Brown,
Mason probably knew that Booth took
part in the same affair. Ii he did not
know that Booth was a violent secession
ist, what right had he Ia infer the CONTRA
ry9 But he caps the climax OF meanness
when he saws the murder OF the President
was 1.-the necessary offspring of those
scenes of blood>hed and murder in every
form of unbridled license which have sig
nalizel the invasion Of the South by
Northern armies, unrebuked certainly,
and therefore instigated, by their leaders
and those over them" Comment Is need
less upon such an atrocious sentiment rs
this, uttered ON such an occasion.
Year: 1865

ANY organization which seeks to pro-
mote temperance by legitimate means, de-
serves the cordial approval and hearty
support Of every Christian and patriot
The temperance society, the church, the
sons of temperance and various other
agencies, all have their value in that re-
gard, and are worthy to be encouraged to
do more than they have yet DONE
Theoretically, it belongs to the church to
reclaim the incorporate and preserve the
temperate from falling; but practically,
the church cannot do it. Religion will
make the drunkard sober man, and will
prevent the sober man from becoming a
drunkard; but, in point of fact, not every
drunkard, not every sober man, can be
brought sufficiently under religious in1u-
ences to render certain those desirable re-
suits. Hence the necessity Of organiza-
tions outside of The church. having it as
their object to promote, not, like the
church, every virtue, but the one particu-
lar virtue OF temperance. Some of these
organizations are better adapted to secure
their end than Others are and it is my
purpose in this paper to point out a few
particulars in which the Good Templars'
organization is preferable to the old fash
ioned temperance society.


|. 1t maintains an interest in the cause
of temperance by frequent meetings


On the subject Of temperance, as on all
other good subjects, there is need Of line
upon line, precept upon precept. The
more frequently attention is turned to it,
the more completely the mind is filled
with facts, thoughts and arguments relat-
ing to it, the deeper will be the interest
Year: 1865

lie. When his delinquency becomes
known, it is not overlooked, nor is his
name quietly erased from the records, as
is the case in the old societies, but he is
subjected to regular course of discipline,
which has as its prime object to bring him
to repentance and amendment, and in
failure of that to exclude him from the
body. The salutary fear of such a pro-
cedure as this, exerts a constantly re-
straining influence, andl the procedure it.
self not seldom effects a radical cure in
some cases where the mere signing the
pledge has proved Intellectual.


There are several other points that
might be proftably discussed, particularly
that of society, which gives the Good
Templars an advantage in enforcing the
law, that is possessed by no other organi-
zation; but this paper is already attaining
an unreasonable length, and l forbear


Covaptrr W NJ,
Year: 1865

U,HE STATE AND COUNTY TAXES ARE
| now due and payable, and the laws relative
to their collection will be strictly enforced. Pay
your Taxes on or before the


THIRD MONDAY IN NOVEMBER,
if you desire to avoid paying the additional >
per cent and costs of suit.


For the convenience of Taxpayers | will be
prepared to receive Taxes at the following times
Year: 1865

ESTABLISHED IN TIE CITY OF SACRAMENTO IN 1852,
AND REMOVED To SAN FRANCISCO IN 1862 FOR
TIE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF AFF0RDING AN ASY-
LUM TO THOSE AFFLICTED WITH CHRONIC AND
VENERIAL DISEASES, AND FOR THE


SUPPRESSION OF QUAcKeRYl
Year: 1865

BeA-The House of Representatives on
yesterday, by decided majority, passed
a substitute for the 4th section of the bill
to confer civil rights on freedmen, allow
ing negro testimony. Many members
who came here opposed to the measure,
on reflection and after hearing the oues
tion fully discussed, have given it their
support. While we have no criticism to
offer on the course of those members
who voted against the proposition, we
cannot refrain from expressing four graf
ification at the result. 1t is a subject on
which honest differences of opinion might
reasonably be expected to exist. The
prejudices of education and habit, re.
luctance to admit an apparent equality
with the former slave, and the idea that
the pressure of federal power was brought
to bear in its favor, gave it Importance
and created a formidable opposition.
We have always regarded it as necessa>
ry incident to the freedom of the negro
settled by the action of the convention
about which there should have been no
controversy. We publish the bill fin full
as amended. 1t is thought the 4th sec.
non Will pass the Senate, and that other
features In the bill Objectionable to MANY,
VIII be amended by that body.
Year: 1865

The Freedman and the Free Negro.


"a city cotemporary" which has won a
little ephemereal notoriety by persis
tent effort to make itself the organ of the
unreasonable negro haters of the State,
thinks the freedman is amply protected
by placing him exactly in the condition
of the free negro before slavery was abol
ished. Let us see where the free negro
stood in 1859. In the case of Mitchell vs..
Wells decided in 1859, the High Court
decided that the free negro could not
plead or be impleaded, d,-could not testify
could not own property, real or per-
sonal, either by inheritance, purchase or
gift. That was and is the legal status of
the free negro. The Convention made
it the duty of the Legislature to pass laws
for the protection of the property of the
freedman, thus clearly extending to them
the right to hold property and protec-
ton in its possession. The free negro has
no such right; and yet the organ of ne
gro prejudice tells US that it is all suffi-
cient to give the freedman the same rights
heretofore enjoyed by the free negro. 1t
is perfectly clear, therefore, that the ed
itor either does not know what the
status OF the free negroe is in this State
or that he is unwilling to give the freed
man any rights or protection whatever.
If the former he is culpably ignorant for
an editor and if the latter, he is too
deeply stepped in the mire ofprejudice to
be safe adviser of the people.


JUSTICE.
Year: 1865

The reLly of President johnson TO GOV.
Humphries. contained in the telegraphlc
correspondence, published in our last
issue. is in strict accordance with the
policy heretofore avowed, in reference TO
the restoration of Mississippi and other
Southern States, and is, we have no doubt,
the settled policy of the Government.


The President states in plain terms that
he desires no concession from the people or
the Legislature but loyal compliance
with the laws and Constitution of the
United States and the adoption of such
measures as will insure protection to the
freedmen in their rights of person and
property. He says the people must have
faith in the Government and the Govern
ment confide in the people.


1t is plain that the troops will be re
moved and civil authority permanently
established whenever these measures are
adopted by the Legislature and not before
The President does not expect US to es-
tablsh by law, social or political ,[equality
with the negroes. He does not require
us to give them the right to sit on juries
or to vote, but he does expect us to pro-
teet them in the ordinary rights Of hu-
manity Any legislation that stops short
of granting full protection to any species
of property they may acquire, and the
right to testify will be useless and only
involve us in more difficulty and trouble.


We all acknowledge that the war, and
thai the events of the war, have given
these people their freedom. The ConVen-
ton, to whom the Legislature owes its
existence, acknowledged this, and made
it mandatory on the Legislature to pro
tect and secure the persons and proper
ty of the negroes. and guard the State
from the evils of emancipation.


The question of limiting the property
OF freedmen to personal, and prevent their
acquiring real estate, was debated in the
Convention and defeated. How ridicu-
lous, then, to call it concession for the
Legislature to allow it?


1t is already the supreme law of the
State, beyond their power to change or
modify. Besides, we think it dictated by
sound policy These people are free
they are free by the lars of the country
we need them as laborers, and should
stimulate their industry by permitting
them to invest their earnings in any kind
of property they choose. Let US deal lib-
orally and justly with the freedmen En-
courage the industrious, punish the
vicious, and force all to work for sub
sistence by vagrant laws.


This kind of Legislation will restore us
to our place In the UuiUu, establish civil
authority, and cause the removal of the
troops and the Freedmen's Bureau,
Year: 1865

SINGULAR OB1TUARY.-The Athens, Ca,
Banner gives the following odd notice of
a deceased citizen of that place:


He was the father of eleven sons :
five of whom married FIVE sisters. He
had also one hundred and eighty-nine
q and children; and at his funeral, two
weeks ago last Sabbath, two horses were
'tung to death by bees. and another came
near loosing his life by the same.
Year: 1865

HENRY WARD BEEoHzR, in his Lecture
room Talks in the Independent, thinks that
health is the first step towards a healthy
religious experience. He says:


You will say, perhaps, "What, then, is
there no religion for the infirm and sick ?"
Yes; but that does not alter the fact that.
in their religious experiences, they are
more or less gloomy and Responding. It
is not always the effect of disease to pro-
duce gloom and dependency. Sometimes
it hightens the sensibilities; but, as a gem
eral thing, religious experiences are sound
er and more rational in q healthy mind
and healthy body. So say that. as the
first step, you must be healthy, if Won ex-
pect to have broad and deep and sweet
experiences. Health is Christian dutv.


l have heard persons prayine-and
praying-and praying for the presence of
God and l have thought that, if they
would eat less and work more, and spend
twice as much time in the open air, they
would not need to pray 60 much. What
they wanted was not answer to prayer, but
simple obedience to the laws Of God in ma
ture,n