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Year: 1863

Asevcrything which tends to the improvement
Of Common Schools is now considered of some
Importance, thought it would not be ,,miss
to allude to desirable change which might and
could be so easily introduced and established in
our schools; as fixed feature in tho all eady
extended programme of our system of erluca-
ton. Each year the Teachers and Directors,
in common with others, who are deeply inter.
ested in tho school cause, see very plainly that
the system is far from perfect; and that there
is plenty of room for changes, or innovations,
as some might be pleased to term them. Strict
attention to the manners and department of tho
children, during school hours, should be insist
cd ON, and, in fact, see no reason why proper
department should not be included among the
list of branches to be taught, as well as any
other study now called for. IF proof can be
brought to show that attention to manners is
unnecessary and superficial, let us at once dis
miss the subject, without further comment; but
il, on the contrary, good reasons can be shown
why manners should be taught, we may then as
well discuss the matter, evenif by tho discussion,
we should gain but few converts to our opinion.
In all schools, either of private or public char
acter, but especially in the latter, where such





of one individual, great care has to be taken in
order to secure any thing like quiet for the reci
tations; and often the most strict discipline fails
to secure the order so much to be desired. And
whyl Because the children 60 there with the
firm conviction, that it is only their minds which
are to be attended to and not their manners,
and therefore they are only awed into submis-
sion by the strong will and mental superiority
of their teachers; and are ready to break back
from the imposed restraint, upon the slightest
relaxation of discipline But, let US ask, how
would it be if those children went there with
the full knowledge that their manners were to
be attended to, as well as their minds, and that
a lack of improvement, in that respect would
not only be considered derogatory, but made the
basis of sufficient grounds upon which they
should be excluded from the advantages of a
liberal education in any of the free schools.
think, so far as my limited experience will per-
init me to Judge, that if the latter idea was fully
impressed upon their minds on first entering the
school, much good might be accomplished, and
many unpleasant occurrences avoided, which
will naturally take place in schools, where such
a diversity of dispositions are brought in con-
tact. Manners or proper department, style it
as you will, should be commenced in the prima-
ry department, on the same footing rs any other
fundamental braach taught there, and as strict
attention paid 10 their department, in that re-
spect, as any ether study taught; all of which
should be thorough. plain, and suitable to their
In that department, even the
smallest child could be,madc to discern, by the
we'll dirsctsd excrtions Of iudicious tnacher,
Year: 1863

gle benefit to the cause of the Union has result


ed from its promulgation. But there is one
thing more it has done, and which should not
be omitted. 1t has so far estranged the people
from the Administration as to render all laws
for CONSUMPTION or draft utterly imperative,
no matter what may be the action Of Con-
1rasg ..
Year: 1863

A New WAY TO WEDLocK.-The Dayton
tOhio) Empire of a recent date, publishes the
following singular story, which is doubtless
true, as the names of the parties appear among
its marriage notices


Esquire Turner met with matrimonial
incident, yesterday, to which we will briefly
allude. Yesterday morning gentleman and
lady from village few miles north of this
arrived here, for the purpose of getting mar
ried. A gentleman who resided in the same
place, hearing of the departure of the young
couple, and learning their purpose, stated his
determination to follow the party and marry
the lady himself


Swain No. p arrived here soon after No |
had deposited the lady of their mutual love at
at the house of an old acquaintance, and ascer-
tanning where the lady was, he called at the
house, and induced her to get in his buggy and
take ride. While out No. persuaded her
to marry him, and when they returned to the
house it was with marriage license and Jus
tiee Turner to administer upon the document.


OF course No. was badly put out, but how
could he help it? He turned philosopher
Didn't he come here to get married And
what matter to him what woman it was when
they were all the same to him? He'd get even
on the game. Returning to young lady in
the room, Ne asked her if she would marry
him. She replied in the affirmative; and re-
questing the justice to stay in the house, he
returned in a short time with license, when
mony"
Year: 1863




The gold exchange was again in an excited
state to-day over q counter reaction and the
prices of yesterday were reduced 21I 8 per cent.
The fluctuations of the gold market no doubt call
out the wonder Of many who were never initiated
into the mysteries of the operations of Wall street.
and cftentimes the sudden turn in prices elicits
the astonshment of some who have been in tho
street for years. We stated in effect, on Wednes-
day that the news of temporary checks to the pro-
gress of our armies would very naturally be used
by spectators in a way to send up prices, but
when it became known that they had attained .
height that the requirements of trade did not war
rant, they would most assuredly drop, and the
evidence Of this fact is now before Whom
we received intelligence that the Army ef
the Potomac had fallen back the spectators In
gold began to exercise their power upon those who
had contracts to fill with nothing on hand with
which to cancel their obligations, and by exciting
their fears, caused them to rush into the market
and buy at almost any price of the very men who
were thus deluding them. When the shorts had
satisfied themselves the demand ceased and quite
naturally the price went down. There are minor
causes, however, which operate upon the market
to a certain extent and one Of them is the ship
ment of specie, and if the amount be large by
any one steamer, the fact is used by the bulls to
run up gold one or two per cent and, on the other
hand, il it be snail, the bears manage to force
down the price. Gold opened this morning at
1897, and before one o'clock it had gone down 70
1917 two per cent of from the first sales, and three
per cent less than the highest price obtained the
evening previous in Fifth avenue. In the after
noon it was forced up to nearly the opening sales,
but it could not be maintained, and finally closed
uncommonly weak at l52H. The following were
Year: 1863

The red fire light shed pleasant glow
over the homely old kitchen, where Dolly
and / had passed nine years OF our lives.


Dolly and l were twins, and what one
thought the other thought, and what one
did the other did; for ir soul, as we'll as
appearance, we were alike though in sex,
we differed.


We were merrier that pleasant after
noon than usual, for of late our parents
had been so sober and silent, that our spir-
its had been heavy byt hem. What caus-
ed their depressions we could not divine
but we knew that they were sorry about
something. We were popping corn; and
just as a bouncing white fellow had pop
ped from the fire and hit Dolly on the
end of the nose, making us both scream
with new mirth, the door opened and our
parents entered.


They smiled very family upon us, and
after hearing that we had been good and
happy children all the afternoon, they
bade US kiss them good night and go at
once to our beds. My mother had been
crying until her eyes were very bad, and
my father looked sadly discouraged.


"While you have snug bed to sleep
in, my children, make the best of it and
be thankful" said my mother. "What
is TO become of you and all of us now, |
don't know"


After we had tucked safely into bed,
lay long time wondering what could
have happened. 1t was not until
years after that night that | discovered
the cause of my parents trouble, and our
subsequent distress. My parents were
poor and unlearned; but were kind heart
ed, and in most instances, sensible people
They owned the small house in which
they resided, and a few acres of land
which surrounded it. They were also
the possessors Of good COW, pig, sever
sheep, and a round dozen Of hens. My
mother managed affairs at home, and my
father went coasting for seven dollars &
month. We had hourishiug garden
and from il obtained vegetables the entire
year. We were very comfortable anC
very happy. But there came an evil day
A family wished to move from the town
few miles below us, to locrtion some
ten or twelve miles farther down the riv
or; and my father was employed to move
them. 1t was good days job, to boat
the family and all their household stuff
from one town 10 another. When hi,
work was done, my father returned to hi'
home, with his wages, six dollars in hi
pocket. The incredible sum of six dollars
for one days work


After that it was no use TO talk to ms
father about seven dollars n month. HI
had suddenly gained position from
which he could look down in contempt
upou such pitlance. A boat he would
have, at some rate, and he would trans
port passengers, and produce, and furni
ture, and all manner Of merchandise from
one town to another. He would be &
poor man no longer. So my father rakec
and scraped together everything he could
get, and sold of our stock, aud got hi:
boat: but never did bo get another six
Year: 1863

A MIsTAKE.-A man in Washington
went to sleep on Saturday wrapped up in
a tent cloth, there being a dead body
near him similarly wrapped up. The un.


dertaker's men took him up by mistake
and would have buried him had he not
entreated al emphatic protest against it.
Year: 1863

dollar-a-day job. From the very hour of
entering upon his new business, his affairs
began TO go wrong, to work crookedly, to
tangle up, just as my mother feared
And now, on the evening mentioned above,
he had to look in the face the unwelcome
fact that his house, the shelter of his wife
and children, was his no longer. 1t had
been sold on a mortgage foreclosure.


We had to leave onr home-the only
home of real enjoyment that Dolly ever
knew; and went into Two rooms in an old
rookery in town. Father returned to sew
en- dollars menth and coasting. Hard
times had truly come-our parents could
not bear up under thom. Mother took to
her bed, and father took TO the bottle, and
misery and woe took us all.


Poor mother soon died, and the town
buried her; and father, not long afterwards
in fit ofdelrium, rushed from the house
and plunged into the river, and was drown.
ed.


Dolly and l were taken to the poor
house, and there we remained for nearly
two years, at the end Of which time my
sweet ard lovely sister died, and l was
bound out to trade. Many hard and
desolate years were mine after this; but
they are all over. l am now prosper
GUS and comparatively a happy man; but
never shall be able to reflect without pain
and anguish of soul, on the period of dis
aster and suffering which followed the IA
tai time when my father was tempted to
forsake the path of humble, but sure sup,
port, and to make haste to be rich by hav-
ing once earned "Sir dollars a day."
Year: 1863

All should be properly labelled while
the flowers are perfect and you are able
TO identify them. Do not be in hurry
to take up the roots as soon as the tops
are killed; they keep better if allowed TO
ripen a week or two in the ground
Lift the roots on dry day; let tnem dry
awhile in the sun, and then pack away
in dry cool cellar.-Am. Agriculturist.
Year: 1863

LINCOLN UNDER his TRoUBLEs.-
LincQla is said to be growing grey
under his troubles. The editor Of the
Cincinnati Commercial, who saw him
out recently in public, writes


The President and his wife visited
the capitol on Saturday to look at
the new buildings. The Presidents
face in repose has careworn express
sion that seems to appeal for syn.pa-
thy. He may find a good many
things yet that remind bin of stories
ha heard in Illinois, and the stories
may not be, remarkably sober or neat,
but no one cap look in his face aud
believe that he is inscnsible to the
responsibilities pressing upon him
Those who see him often say that
his harris turning grey rapidly.
Year: 1863

Hush, I cannot bear to see thee
Stretch thy tiny hands in vain;
l have got no bread to give thee,
Nothing, child, to ease thy pain.
When God sent thee first to bless me,
Proud and thankful, too, was |;
Now, my darling, l, thy mother,
Almost long to see thee die.


Sleep, my darling-thou art weary


God is good, but life is dreary.
I have seen thy beauty fading,
And thy strength sink day by day
Soon know will want and fever
Waste thy little life away.
Famine makes thy mother reckless,
Hope and joy are gone from me;
1 could suffer all, my baby,


Had but a crust for thee.
am wasted, dear, with hunger,
And my brain is sore oppressed;
have scarcely strength to press thee,
Wan and feeble, to my breast
Patience, baby, God will help US,
Death will come to thee and me;
He will take Us to his heaven,
Where no want or pain can be.


Sleep, my darling-thou art weary


God is good, but life is dreary.
Year: 1863

the following affecting incident;


In the fight with the Yankee raiders at
Wytheville, was Methodist preacher who
made himself quite conspicuous for gallant
ry. During the melee he singled out his
man and fired, and at the crack of his gun
the Yankee fell. Horrifcd at shedding
human blood, the preacher rushed to his
fallen foe, and graspiug him by the hand,
with toars in his eyes, iuplored his pardon
for having shot him, and finding the man
was mortalls wounded, fell upon his knees
and offered up solemn and fervent PRAYER,
during which the spirit of the wounded
Yankee winged its final flight to the bar of
God. The incident was affecting in the ex.
treme, and it is worthy of record.
Year: 1863

A STRONG APPEAL TO THE IRISH -
The New York Metropolitan Journal has a
long article addressed to the Irish, the oc.
casion for which is the disappearance of the
Irish brigade as an organization:


Citizen soldiers of Irish birth, you have
been massacred that the negro may be E.
maucipated-you have been slaughtered for
the enslavemenb of the whites While you
have been shedding your blood, the tyran-
ny at Washington has been engaged in q
war against the freedom of the press, against
the liberty of speech, and against citizen
rights. 1t has been their aim to convert
the South into another Ireland, and to rem
der the Union Of the North and the South
as accursed as that by which your native
land-the land of our birth as we'll as yours
is bound to the British Crown. Surely,
you have no sympathy with such despot.
ism as prevails at Washington surely, you
can have no feeling in common with an Ad-
miaistration that silently sanctions the hel.
lish outrages committed by Puritanical
soldiefy in the sanctuaries of our most holy
religion. No, fellow citizens of Irish birth,
you ut least have no cause for hatred to the
South, whose SONS are fighting for the SOW
ereignty of the States, and to save their
property from pluuder BY set of men who
are acting in defiance of all law, and every
right that is sacred to freemen. Remem-
Der that the sacking Of the Catholic church
es at Winchester, at Jacksonville, and the
desecration of your sacred edifces in other
places, have not been even rebuked by the
authorities at Washington. Remember,
while your wives and children have been
suffering destitution for want of that pay
which was withheld from you for months,
the negroes have been taken under the pa
ternal care and patronage of our abolition
rulers (apd put 10 the forefront of battle
with bayonets behind them.) Why should
you allow yourselves to be- made the tools
of the men in power? What quarrel have
you with the men of the South Have you
not been taught lesson under British rule
that you should never forget ? Is it not
time that you should refuse to be made the
instruments for the enslavement of q gal
liant, noble, and e ohivslsous people p
Let there be no more Irish brigades form
ed to aid the subjugation Of the South
But if you are to fight, devote your brave
hearts and your strong arms, under the
guidance and DIRECTION Of our regularly con-
stituted State authorities, to the preserva.
ton of your citizen rights in these Northern
States when those authorities ahall call for
your services.
Year: 1863

A. WONDERFUL, SALyE.-A paragraph
has been going the rounds ofthe press in
which an account is given of horse
heving new hoof grown on by the use
of a certain farrier's ointment Now
this reminds us Of an incident that hap
pened in Lyons, Wisconsin. A Mormon
priest named Nichols professed power
of doing miraculous things and com
pounding wonderful * medicines. He
made nerve and bone all.healing salve,
and thought he would experiment a little
with it He first cut off his dogs tail
,andzapplied .some-of the salve to the
stump ANEW tail grew out immediate
y. He then applied some to the piece
of tail which he had cnt off, and a new
dog grew out. He didn't know which
dog was which. This may seem tough
story, but we have Nichols word for it,
and we don't think he would lie.
Year: 1863

We have heretofore taken occasion to ex-
pose the base attempt Of a few quondam rebel
shareholders in Louisiana, to override the
only loyal authority there existing, by putting
In operation State Government no. only
without the forms of law, but in contraven-
ton Of all the laws now operative in the state.
A "State Executive Committee" having no
more authority or right to order an election
than 1t had to order the Execution Of Gov.
Shepiey and his subordinates, assumed the
right TO order au election for Governor and
members Of Congress. The whole thing il
understood by the loyal men Of New Orleans
10 be as bare-faced a cheat as any ACT of the
secession convention of 1861. One /. L. Rid
die and one DR.. Cotman were members of tbis
"State Executive Committee" and the former
was elected Governor and the latter TO Cen
gress; Riddle, with no certificate of his own
election and no one authorized to sign such
certificate, gave his official y certificate to
CotmaI, who has appeared with it in Washing
ton to claim his seat. The matter is before a
committee of the House and will doubtless be
disposed Of in summary manner. Cotman
was member of the secession convention of
u, while Riddle, then Postmaster Of New
Year: 1863

A CASE OF CoNscIENCE.-A lady from
Boston journeying eastward in Sept last, says
the Lewiston Journal, lost her wallet, con-
tanning $3.50, aud supposed she must have
shared the common fate of having been robbed
of which she was told there had recently been
many instances. On the 1lth Of this month
however, Catholic priest Of Boston, informed
her that stranger to him had called on him
to restore the wallet with all its contents, as
he had found them TO its owner He had re-
moved the name, and commenced spending
the money, but so great was the suffering that
conscience inflicted, and SO constantly was
that name before his eyes, that he desired to
restore all the property, which, although he
was poor laborer, it gave him only uneasi-
ness and remorse to expend.


So praiseworthy an act should be recorded
as an example to any who may be tempted in
similar way, although 1t is admitted II should
have been restored at once. The lady consid.
cred a a reward Of $40 as a small token Of her
appreciation of his honesty, and the triumph
ofhis conscience over temptation.
Year: 1863

THE CoNFlscArIoN AcT.-It is stated by
one of the ia ieal journals that strong
effort will bs made to induce Congress to
repeal the joint resolution explanatory OF
the Confscation act, and, as generally con-
strusd, limiting the operation of the act to
the life estate in real property. The next
move will be to sbrogate the constitution
itself, which expressly provides that the
penalties of treason shall only affect the
life interest in real property of those at
tainted
Year: 1863

still it will not do to give it up and acknowl-
edge all his efforts and sacrifices to be in
vain-in the classic language of Mr.: Lincoln
he must "keep pegging away" If he does
not get Charleston he may prevent rs from
getting the Yankee army in some other
Year: 1863

Spouting The new steam Fire Engine,
Western, was 6ut on practice at the Court
House square this afternoon. She fully dem
onstrated that the frey element could not
pursue its ravages far after she would COM
mence to play upon it Quite crowd col
leeted to witness her performance.
Year: 1863

A Slight Mistake.-A cotemporary SEN
timentally says, "the years stand still for no
other human being" But that is not So for
they generally stand still for maid from the
age of thirty to forty-ive.
Year: 1863

The People of the State of California send greeting


to GEORGE P. MCGUIRE:


V0U are hereby required to appear in a action
Il brought against you by the above named
Plaintiff in the District Court of the 9Th Judicial
District of the State of California in and for the
county OF Shasta. and TO answer the complaint fled
therein, Ia copy Of which accompanies this Sum
mons,) within ten days, exclusive Of the day Of
service after the service ON you Of this Summons
If served within this County; if served out of
this county, but within this Judicial District with
in twenty days. if served out of said District.
then within forty days-or judgment by default will
be taken against you.


The said action is brought to obtain decree Of
this Court for the foreclosure of certain mortgage
described and referred in the complaint and eSecu-
ted by the said George P. Mcclure and Pauline his
wife, the l1th day of Maleh A. D. 1863 to secure
the payment of certain promissory note of that
date, for the of s., 400, bearing interest at the
rate of two ~ per cent per month, payable month
ly, that the premises conveyed thereby NAV be sold
and the proceeds applied to the payment of said
note, interest, counsel fees, and costs of suit &c.
and in case such proceeds not sufficient to nav
the same. then to obtain an execution against said
defendant, George P. Mcclure, for the balance re-
naming due, and also that the said defendant and
all persons claiming by, through or under him may
be barred and foreclosed of all right, title claim
lein. equity of redemption, and interest in and to
said mortgaged premises and for other and further
relief.


And if you fail to appear and answer the said
complaint, above required. the plaintiff will take
default against you, and apply 10 the Court for the
relief demanded in the complaint.


Given under my hand and the Seal of


the District Court of the 9th Judicial


L. S. District, this 9th day of May. in the year


of our Lord One Thousand, Eight Hundred


and Sixty-three.


my2S:5m JOHN ANDERSON, Clerk.
Year: 1863

THE BEAR--I was told by an old Della
ware Indian that when the bear has been
traveling against the wind, and wishes to lie
down, he always turns in the opposite direc-
ton, and goes some distance away from his
first track before making his bed. If an en-
emy then comes upon his trail, his keen
sense of smell will apprise him of the dan
ger. The same Indian mentioned that when
a bear had been pursued and sought shelter
in cave, ne had often endeavored to eject
him with smoke, but that the bear would ad-
vance to the mouth of the cave, where the
fire was burning, and put it out with his
paws, then retreat into the cave again This
would indicate that Bruin is endowed with
some glimpses of reason beyond the ordinary
instincts of the brute creation in general, and,
indeed, is capable Of discerning the connec
tion between cause and effect Notwithstand
ing the extraordinary intelligence which
this quadruped exhibits upon some occasions,
upon others he shows himself to be one of the
most stupid brutes imaginable For exam
pie when he has taken possession ofa cavern,
and the courageous hunter with torch and
riff it is said he he will. instead of forcibly
ejecting the intruder, raise himself upon his
launches and cover his eyes with his paws.
SO as to exclude the light. thinking that in
this position he cannot be seen. The hunter
can then approach rs near as he pleases and
shoot him down.-Prairie 1rdreier.