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Year: 1864

All the day was the witness of his
skill and power, as he guided our little
steamer, in a low stage fthe river through
the count 'ess intricacies of the navigation
I was deeply panied witness, too, of his
dreadful profanity. Frightful oaths, in
startling frequency broke from his lips.
Yet he was kind, good natured, frank and
open hearted, and I could not but feel a
lively interest in him. I could not but
press him, as we parted, to look after his
eternal welfare, put in such jeopardy by
his wicked life. He fetched my exhorta-
ton to an abrupt close by the reply I!
" "Strangerl a man that pilots stern
wheel steamer on this river, ought to 60
to heaven anyhow "


Are there not many who have as absurd
self.righteous schemes of reaching heaven
as this profane pilot on the Father Of
Waters p Congregatioualist
Year: 1864

While facts and figures continue to bear
us out, we shall never grow tired of re-
peating that the Confederacy is tottering
iuto nOthingness. It islike a piece of burnt
paper, which will soon crumble away
into impalpability. It's reputation is being
scorched up in the indignation of the very
people who were deluded into helping to
rear it. JEFFERSON DAVIS is the first
and last President Of the Confederacy.
He is a member of church, and the Pope
has prayed for him. He is particularly
pious and invocary on such occasions as
the Fourth of July and WAsHINGroN's
Birthday. He / especially fond of fast
ing and prayer, though it is p ssible lie
monOpolized the latter, the people compul-
sorily practicing the former, whether they
like it or not.


But all his convictions of being in the
right have not yet set him in the right
place. JEFF. DAVIS and his commates are
on the high road to destruction. Thisold
King Cole Ind his fddlers three are in the
same box. And all who side with them
will share their fale in the opinion of
posterity, to whatever different levels the
tenor of the present time may seem to
consign them. Like the verse which eel
ebrates the achievements of two young
gentlemen who went to church '' because
they had a pew
Year: 1864

THE older John Adams, while Pres
ident of the United States, as he was
returning from the country to his FAM
lily in Boston, was interrupted by a
New England snow storm, which effect
ually blocked up his way. He was
then at AndOYer, twenty miles from
Boston, where his family, as he had
learned, were waiting for his arrival.
Sabbath morning the roads becamefOr
the first time passable. On the ques-
ton of going to Boston that day, it
was the opinion of the clergyman that
the circumstances of his detention,
and the sickness of his family, would
justify his travelling on the Sabbath.
His reply was, that the iustifable oc-
casion in this case would not prevent
the bad influence of his example on
those who might see him travelling on
the Sabbath, without knowing the
cause. He therefore decided to wait
till Monday. Have we chief magis-
trates now who are as scrupulOusly
careful to shun the appearance of evil?
Year: 1864

the metre in which posterity will celebrate
the sayings aud doings of JEFF. DAVIS and
his merry men, North and South, will as
sign them one common place, however the
construction would seem to argue a dis
tinction.


There is no doubt that Richmond is one
Of the hotbeds of decentralization. It is
the great Morgue intowhioh the dead body
of Rebellion will some day be carried, and
where none but enemies viii gather to
recognize the suicide, take him away, and
bury him decently. But the demoraliza-
tion is not confined to Richmond, although
it gathers there as busy as a bee. Allover
the Southern ConfederaOy, Unionism and
rumors Of Unionism are extending. BRAGG
Year: 1864

reflect that sound mind and body the most neces-
sary requisites to promote cOnnubial happiness. In
deed without these the journey through life becomes
weary pilgrimage the prospect hourly dsrkens 20 the
view: the mind becomes shadowed with despair and
filled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness
of another Incomes blightel with onr own,
Year: 1864

A SOLDIER in Sherman's army, in private
letter to US, says Of the Sanitary Comnis
sion have heard the medical director of
this Corps say, annmber of times, that the
Sanitary department was as important to the
health and comfort of the soldiers as the
medical department. He certainly ought to
be able to Judge But there are some men
in this place who know, in their own opin.
ion, more about it than the medical director
of the 18th Army Corps!
Year: 1864

The Vinton Eagle urges State Editorial
and Publishers Convention. Such Con
vention ought to be held, if for no other pur.
pose, to establish a uniform and higher scale
of prices. The Convention held last year
should have made a permanent organization
and adjourned to meet at some stated time
and place this year.
Year: 1864

THE FROZEN SLEEP OF DEATH.-Wilson Flint,
who lately made the journey overland from San
Francisco to Washington, gives the following
touching narrative in connection with the late
severe weather in the northwest, in a late letter
to the Erening Journal:


- At one of the railway stations on the North
ern Indiana road stage driver reported that on
New Year. day, while on his route, he noticed
a house, which had stood alone on the prairie,
was burned, and no vestige of anything about 1t
left. Passing by it few hundred yards, he
found man who had occupied it frozen in the
road, and some hundreds of yards farther on,
his two boys lying in the snow, also dead, while
still, at a considerable distance farther on, and
standing in a snow-drift, was the mans wife with
a nursing infant at the breast, and two little
girls holding to her dress, all dead. 1t is sup
posed that they were keeping up an unusually
hot fire to keep out the intense cold, when their
house caught fire, and in the effort to reach a
neighbours, they all pershed. What sad and
interesting subject for the chisel of the sculptor
does this last group present no painter s PEN
Gil can ever put canvas its faintest outlines.
Nothing but cold and rigid marble, moulded by
the hand of a genius moved by deep, heart
felt sympathies that it in the dead mother S
face the love of offspring in her great agony, as
she feels the icy fingers of death stop the pulsing
heart can ever hope to initiate it.
Year: 1864

The Union County Central Committee have is
sued call which appears in another place for a
County Convention to meet in Weaveryille on
Monday, March l4th The object of the Con-
yenion is to elect delegates to the State Gonven-
ton, to be held on the 24th, and to take into
consideration such other business of interest to
the Union party as may come before it.


1t is hoped a full delegation will be present
from every precinct in the county. We are
about entering upon the most important Presi-
dental campaign which has ever agitated the
country. Before it the election of past wears
sink into insignifcance 1t will be for US to de-
eide as far as in US lies whether the Government
is to be maintained in its power, the Union re-
stored and vindicated, and the measures which
have been taken to that effect sustained bv the
action of the Nation or if at the moment when
victory is within grasp, by permitting the
Copperheads to triumph, relinquish the fruits
of the past three years and conclude an in
glorious peace 1t is for us to say whether the
blood of the heroes of Gettysburg, Shiloh, Vicks-
burg Fair Oaks, and hundred other spots
which henceforth will live proudly in our ma
tion's history, has been shed in vain, and the
cause for which they laid down their lives be
disgracefully abandoned.


There will be no local interests a, stake in the
campaign this year All our State and county
officers were chosen at the last September cleo
tion and loyal State Administration secured
for the next four years. But this is not enough
we must choose also five Presidential Electors
whose vote will be given for some true patriot
Abraham Lincoln, we hope, to occupy the Presi-
Dental chair The lack of local interest should
not prevent Union men from using every exer-
ton that lies in their power to secure the success;
of the Union nominee.


That the enemy will not be idle we can rest
assured, and the nominees of the Chicago con
vention, it matters not who they are can depend
upon every Copperhead vote in this State L
we are equally active there need be doubt
as to the result, and to this end we hope to
full representation in the Convention.
Year: 1864

They were delightful days when used to
sing those beautiful songs at Sabbath School,
They have benefited millions who sang them
when children and we hope they will not be
lost to the hosts who sing them now. If applied
to actual experience how true the above quotation
is. HErsToN, HASTINGS Co., by attention to
their business, and selling none but first-rate
clothing, add one by one to their list OF regular
customers, and from a small beginning, are now
the leading men in their line in this State. Their
store is the corner of Montgomery and Sutter
streets. San Francisco.
Year: 1864

CoMING TO THEIR SESsEs.-A proposition is up
in the Confederate Congress, for conference
with agents of the Government with view to
arranging peace. If they're sick, let them
throw up. We're in favor Of allowing them to
quit their foolishness any time. 1t will be time
enough to say what shall be done with them. af-
ter they'v passed in their checks
Year: 1864

THE New York Day Book-a secession organ,
whose efforts are wasted in abortive attempts to
prove that a Copperhead is as good as a ngger-
contains advertisement of Copperhead badges,
with an engraving, representing, to all appear
ance, the bloated and disfgured countenance OF
one of those drunken, degraded females who
may be occasionally in the prisoners dock
of Police Court, awaiting her turn to be - sent
up" Over the forehead of this horrible-looking
hag is inscribed the word " Liberty" From
the engraving and inscription it may be plainly
inferred that the sort of liberty the Copperheads
want is unbounded license to revel in the ylest
abominations
Year: 1864

HEALTH, TINE AND MONEY are economical by
the use Of Grover Baker Sewing Machine.
They are unlimited in their capacity, and unex-
celled in their excellence. The merit of En-
broidering-which these machines alone possess
and which style of trimming is now so popular
renders them par excellence the most desirable OF
auv in
Year: 1864

The INEVITABLE PENALTY OF CRrME.-Tbere
is Wholesome truth in the following pas
sage from Emerson, which all would do well
to lay to heart. 1t may help to ward off
temptation, when purer and better motives
may grow weak in the contest. "There is. D
he says, "no den in the wide world to hide
a rogue Commit crime, and it seems as il
a coat OF snow fell on the ground such as
reveals in thewoods the track. of every part
ridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You
cGnnot recall the spoken word, you cannot
wipe out the foor-track, you cannot draw up
the ladder, so as to leave no inlet or clue
Always some damning circumstance trans
pires. The laws and substances of nature.
water, snow, wind, gravitstion, become penr
alies to the thief"
Year: 1864

The author of the following poem was never know
originally appeared in the Knickerbocker. 1t is on
the most elegant fragments in the English language


THE SNOW.
OIL the snow the beautiful Snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below;
Over the housetops, over the street,
Over the heads of the people you meet


Dancing,


Flirting,


SWIMMING along
Beautiful snowl It can do no wrong!
Flying to kiss fair lady's cheek;
Clinging to lips in frolicsome freak;
Beautiful snow from the heavens above,
Pure as an angeLand tickle as loyel
Oh! the snow the beautiful snow!
How the fakes gather and laugh as they goi
Whirling about in its maddening fun,
1t plays in its glee with every one;


Chasing,


Laughing,


Hurrying by
1t lights up the face and it sparkles the eye;
And even the dogs, with bark and bound
Snap at the crystals that eddy around;
The town is alive and its heaN in glow,
10 welcome the coming of the beautiful snow.
How the wild crowd goes swaying along,
Hailing each other with honor and song
How the gay sledges like meteors pass by,
Bright for the moment, then lost to the eye;


Ringing,


Swinging,


Dashing theygo,
Over the crust of the beautiful snow!
Snow so pure when it falls from the sky,
70 be trampled in mud by the crowd rushing by;
no be tracked and trampled by the thousands of feet
Till it blends in the filth of the horrible street,
Once was pure as the snow-but fell;
Fell, like the snowy fakes from heaven-to hell
Fell, to be tranpled as filth of the street,
Fell, to be scotfed at, to be spit on, and beat


Pleading,


Cursing,


Dreading to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy;
Dealing in shame for morsel of bread;
Hating the living, and fearing the dead,
Merciful God! have Ifallen so low2
And yet was once like this beautiful snow!
Once was fair as the beautiful snow
With an eye like its crystals, heart like its giow
Once1 was loved for myinnocent grace
Fiattered and sought for the charm of my face.


Father


Mother,
God, and myself have lost by my fall
The veriest wretch that goes shiyering by
VIII take wide sweep, lest wander too nigh:
For OF all that is on or about me, know
There Is nothing that's pure but the beautiful snow
How strange it should be that the beautiful snow
Should fall on sinner with nowhere to 90
How strange it would be when the night conas
Ii the snow and the ice struck nay desperate hrs;r


Painting. "-i''


Freezing,


Dying alone!
Too wicked for prayer, too week for INV moan
TO be heard in the crash of the crazy town.
Gone mad in their JOY at the SHOWS coming do,r
TO lie and to die in my terrible woe
MlLna Ded ana shroud OF the beautiful snow
Year: 1864




It is with no ordinary feelings Of satisfac-


ton, says the New York Day Book, that we
/ lay before our readers this week the following


noble and patriotic message from his Honor


Mayor Gunther, refusing to be party to re-
Ijoice over the success of the present wicked


war upon American civilization and Jeferso-


nian Democracy. Mayor Gunther has shown


himself as brave man as ever led corps
into battle, or ever set a squadron in the
field" The entire Common Council pros
trated itself before the Moloeh of Abolition


ism, but it couldnot shake the frmness Of


the Mayor or drive him from his well-setted
convictions that no Abolitionist was ever
friend Of the Union. Hence he tells them
that their victories are not "Union victories" !"
and he might truly have added, that they are
miscegenation victories, and have so resulted
in Louisiana, and wherever else the party in
power have, by the force of arms, acquired
control. This letter of Mayor Gunther will
give him worldwide reputation, and his
name will 60 down to posterity as the one
Grave and true official, who, in the midst of
base and cowardly subserviency to disgust
ing delusion, dared to do his duty and vindi-
cate the cause of civilization and Democracy,
even in the darkest hour of their history.
The following is the document referred to 81
Year: 1864

IF Lincoln should be reelected, and coffee
continue to go up for the next three years, as
it has for the last three, it will take the whole
days wages of IA laboring man to buy apound
of it'll
Year: 1864

Dying alone!
Too wicked for prayer, too week for nv moan
To be heard in the crash of the crazy town.
Gone mad in their joy at the SHOWS coming down
To lie and to die in my terrible woe,
With bed and shroud of the beautiful SNOW
Year: 1864

The national medal department of the
Mint has become most important and in
teresting part of the institution. The re-
production of national and other American
medals Of historic interest has been re-
ceived with great favor by all who are in
terested in 1umismatics, and by all who
desire the developement of native genius,
and skill in this branch Of the arts. Me-
dals of honor for the navy, in recognition
of noble and patriotic services in defence
of the national homo. and life, have been
prepared here, which reflect the highest
credit on the artists and workmen engaged
in their preparation.


Rare and valuable coins and medals have
been added to the Mint cabinet during the
year. The cabinet has become very
attractive place, and the daily crowds
of intelligent visitors attest its value and
importance as numismatic collection.
Year: 1864




] would fain live at peace with all
mankind nay, more, [ would fain love
and do good to them all but the william
and the oppressor come to set their foot
upon my neck and crush me into the
mire, and | must not resist? And when,
in some luckless hour, yield to my pas
sions-to those fearful passions that
must some day overwhelm me-when my
whole mind is darkened by remorse, and
[ groan under the discipline of conscience,
then comes the odious. abominable hypo-
crite, the deyourer of widows houses and
the substance Of the orphans, and de-
mands that my repentance be as public
as his own detestable prayer! And can
I do other than resist and expose them
My heart tells me it was formed tobestow;
why else does misery that | cannot re-
lieve render me wretched ? It tells me,
too, it was formed not to receive; why
else does the profered assistance even
of friend fill my soul with Indignation?
But i'll do my circumstances agree with
my feelings. [ feel as if [ were totally
misplaced in some frolic of Nature, and
wander onwards in gloom and unhappi-
ness for my proper sphere. But alas
these efforts of uneasy misery are but the
blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops
around the walls Of his cave e.-Rober,
Burns.
Year: 1864

The well known "Occasional," Wash
ington corresponding Of the Philadelphia
Press, writes as follows to that paper op
the coming Presidential campaign:


Talking to a very radical man, a few
days ago, one of those who think that
Mr.. Lincoln has not come up to the ex-
treme standard, and he hesitates to take
what is called ultra ground, he said, in
his frank way, that he guessed, after all,
Abraham would have to submit to an
other term. 'Never aoas there more
unpropitious time, he continued, TO
swap horses than noao.' A few months
ago | thought we were near the end Of
the rebellion at present | don't think
we have reached the middle Of How
do you think new, fresh man would
meet all the terrible troubles growing out
Of such state Of facts? Even if he were
Of our own party he would make many
changes, and Heaven knows how many
experiments. IF Of the other, then God
help our poor country. Many things
have taken place under Lincoln that I do
not approve-very many but | would
rather such mistakes, wholly unintended
as they were, should be perpetrated by
one I support and confde in, than that
I should be oppressed by the dreadful
thought that they were committed by one
who was laboring for the destruction of
this country" What better argument
could be made against the lone term"
cry? Two terms have always been ac-
corded to a faithful President. IfWash-
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
jackson were reelected, why not Abra-
ham Lincoln? Do you want fresh man
introduced into trying and responsible
position which it will require years to
understand? Mr. Lincoln came into his
high Office inexperienced and new. His
native common sense, his even temper,
and his consistent refusal to be driven
when he thought reflection was best, and
to be forced away from position once
deliberately selected and held, are now
added to knowledge of his duties and
to full familiary with the people. He
has not an enemy who, in the midst of
his satire and his SANDER, does not ad-,
NIT that he is honest What an i'm
mense advantage 1t is to have a sponta-
neous verdict like this in favor of the
head of Government, in the midst of a
war such as no nation has ever expert
enced / have never pretended that
Mr.. Lincoln has not made mistakes He
admits himself that be has made many.
But who would have passed through such
tempests as those of the three years gone
by with less? And what new man would
be able to pass through the hurricanes
before US, and near US, without commit
ting thousand times more, no matter
how honest or how able %
Year: 1864

THE PRIVATE SoLDIER.-If there is a
being in the world who is deserving of pri-
vate affection and public gratitude, it is the
soldier who marches as a private in the
ranks of the army, to fight for his country,
and offers his blood and life as a sacrifice
for the maintenance of the Union and the
Consultation. And yet, how seldom it is
that they get the honor and reward their
services entitle them to! 1t is the private
who carries the gun, it is the private who
marches on foot through mud, frost and
snow, it is the private who erects bridges
over swift streams, and rears the lofty forti-
fications, and it is the private, who, with
the bayonet set, charges on the deadly rifle
pits and against the squared columns of the
enemy and yet, how seldom is it that he
receives the honors and the rewards of his
noble conduct.
Year: 1864

l stop the courier to add that L have just
heard that our cavalry are skirmishing with
General Lees rear beyond Pine tree Church,
near Spottslyvania village. It, is the inn
preston here that unless his presence is
demanded near Richmond, General Lee hss
fallen back to the North Anna river for o
new defensive line.
Year: 1864

reflect that sound mind and body the most neces-
sary requisites to promote connubal happiness. In
deed, withsut these the journey through life becomes
weary pilgrimage; the prospect hourly dArkens TO the
view: the mind becomes shadowed with despair and


allied with the melancholy reflection that the happiness
OF another becomes bligAted with our own,
Year: 1864

The California papers are very amusing,
and some Of them have been so for year
past. They operate to charming effect in
this line, by their continual harping Of the
old song: "Ours are the best mines, and our
people are the most prosperous Washoe is
humbug, and silver lodges delusion; and
the climate is insuferable, and everybody is
coming back" They have harped that for
nearly two years, in fact; and still harp it.
Editors in dilapidated, shriyeled towns in the
dry diggings, who year by year see their bus.
mess going into decay, try to keep good
face on affairs, when the only real object
hoped to be accomplished is to keep the rem
nant Of their population. from crossing the
Sierra Nevada. =. .....-..--.-.. ~


We all know that the population Of this
Territory is continually increasing. We
know that it draws on California for this in'
crease; for the people who cross the plains
are not so sharp as Californians, and have
not yet learned better than to keep right on
through Silverland to the old Golden State.
Then where is the sense in SO much talk
about people having their eye-teeth cut and
abandoning the Territory? Some go, while
others come; but the stages with great uni
formity carry larger loads hither than they
take away. AS to the climate; no one pre-
tends to rate it with California; and that is
corroborative testimony that there is some
thing here worth stopping for. Assuredly
people do not quit the magnificent climate
under the genial skies Of California, to swelt-
er and shrug in this inhospitable land, with.
cut improved prospects in the great game Of
life-money- making. ....a.... .a


1t is great folly, tending to some bitter
ness Of feeling and productive Of no good
this snarling at the young Territory and de-


picting disaster as the common lot of :hose


who visit it or abide in it. The Territory is


a good customer to the Golden State, paying
high prices in hard bullion. 1t is building


up the State, which had begun to fall into
the slow-going style Of the Atlantic States.


Our people go to California for recreation,


and spend their money liberally-profusely;
and when they have acquired a competency,
many have taken up their abode in the old
State, to viii h they we're attracted By adyan-
tages of climate and soil, and by pleasant


memories. Most of US have lived in Califor-


MIA, and love it still; and must decline being


arrayed against it, as jealous Of its prosperity.
There is a hard metal bond Of sympathy uni
ting the Territory and the State, and the


prosperity Of one should delight, as it bene-
its, the other.-HumboLdt Register. "