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Year: 1861

Ten thousand horses had also been struck
by the balls. Some were struggling in the
convulsive agonies of death, while others,
in the widest terror, were rushing riderless
over the plain.


1t was now ten o'clock at night, and near
ly one-half of the Russian army was des-
troyed, and all the survivors were exhaust
ed and despodcnt At that hour fresh
division of the French army impetuously
entered the field This decided the day.
But still the Russians, though retiring,
maintained brave and unbroken front
The victors, utterly exhausted, sought such
repose as could be found, shelterless beneath
that wintry sky. Napoleon, according to
his invariable custom, traversed the field of
battle, to minister, with his own hands, to
the wounded and the dying. It was mid
night, cold and stormy. Perhaps never
before did earth present spectacle of such
unmitigated misery. Frightful was the
scene which the dawn of the morning re-
vealcd. Nearly forty thousand men, awful
ly mutilated, were stretched upon the Grim
soned snow. a wall Of anguish rose from
the wounded, which froze every heart with
terror, For eight days Napoleon remained
at Eylau, until all the sick and wounded
were carefully provided for, when he re-
turned to the Vistula In the spring he
again marched forth to the victory of Fried
land and the peace of Tilsit.
Year: 1861

No DIscaIxIsAT1oS-TheT Transcript of yes
terday comes down on the Hsyne Troupe with
out any discrimination. We regret to see this,
because Mrs. Hayne is the queen of all artistes
in the estimation of thousands all over the
world wherever her wonderful powers have
been witnessed. As to the troupe accompany
ing her, it is proper to say they are not well up
in their parts as a general rule. There are,
however, some exceptions. Theatricals are at
low ebb in this city, and the pieces produced
ON our boards conspire to weaken interest in
the drama. The same pieces are produced over
and over here to safety. Among the thousands
of good plays in the English language it is not
impossible to select dozen or two to take the
place of the oft-repeated Lucretia Borgia, Lady
of Lyons, the Stranger, &c.; and we will under
take to warrant success to small but efficient
company with such a lady as Mrs Hayno at
their head, who will como to Nevada and play
nothing that ever has been produced here In
the range of dramatic literature a hundred
pieces may be found which would draw and in
terest good houses all over the State. Nothing g
else will redeem the drama from neglect. We
must have more novelty. 1t is not necessary
that plays newly written should be put upon
the stage. 1t is rather hazardous. But the
nu merous and well approved plays that now lie
neglected would be as new to most of US as
one just dropped from tho pen of Dion Bourci-
cault or Bulwer.
Year: 1861

FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREEs.-The Sac.
News says it is distinctly perceptible that a
much larger number Of shade trees are being
shipped this year than heretofore. A large
number so off by steamer, as well as by wagons
to the mountains.
Year: 1861

AYARcHY.-SenatOr Douglas recently said
"Secession is anarchy; and it would be better
that a million men should fall upon the battle
field than that anarchy should prevail in thir
country"
Year: 1861

Our Grass Valley cotemporary wants the
Dice of Death or something from Caxton-so 1t
says in an article condemnatory of playing old,
worn-out pieces on the stage. We hope Rhodes
will take compassion on our neighbOr and send
him an old one.
Year: 1861

FtrTISG UP-Dr. r. NJ. Hunt is fitting up his
building next the Post Office, in elegant style,
preparatory to the removal of Bowley q Haga-
dorm into it fine sky-ight is provided for
the store, which will make it one of the most
desirable rooms in town.
Year: 1861

BRorHERLY.-The Shasta Courier is encoura-
ging nigger in that town to apply for an Office
under Lincoln. 1t is wonderful how the Virgin
ians will do their best for each other when offices
ase to b distributed.
Year: 1861

THAT PonrIco erected by Cheap Johr in front
of his store, the pillars and all that, marked
feature of the city. Substantial and yet airy,
is that beautiful appendage to the building.
Year: 1861

Bsgo When we read the account which the republican letter writers give of the terrible flight ot our army from Bull Run towards Wash lngton, we can't help thinking how completely Jeff. Davlss army would have been run over and crushed out if it had been before our troons instead of behind them. For instance. if Davis fatal cavalry had all been in the track of Love. joy, the fat Congressman" or the swift-footed editor of the Times, and of all the flying civil ians, what would have become oft? It strikes us that here is strategic movement worth think ing of--N J. Day Book.
Year: 1861

LAWS OF THE RoAp.--An inquirer,
(pro5ably a victim whose shins have been
injured by metallic hoops,) asks the edi-
tor o. the Lewiston Jmrnal:


When two ladies on a narrow sidewalk
meet a gentlemen, what is the duty of the
left hand lady? Ought she to fall behind
her companian or march boldly ahead and
compel the gentleman to take the street
Please answer through your paper.


To which the editor says:


A true lady will always in such a case
fall behind her companion, thus yielding
sufficient of the sidewalk for any person
whom She may meet to pass; the woman
devoid OF lady-likc qualities will always
usurp the whole sidewalk, and if she is
particularly i'll bred, will express satisfac-
ton at her exhibition Of rudcness by an
audible gieeIe or an air Of superiority in
dicatine entire Indifference as to what in
convenience she may subject others to.
Year: 1861

ARoosTooK DOES HER WHOLE DUTY.-The
Aroostook HeraM says.


Let 80 man accuse Aroostcok Of not
furnishing her quota for the war. Patri.
otisn and loyalty is at no discount with
the masses. \ few months ago secesh ;
prophe,ed that one company could not be
raised in this County, and even some of
the most loyal thought We could not spare
more than that. What is tic result p
We have sent coo of our stalwart sons to
help swell the grand army of the Union
war forces. Pres4ue Isle has done much
more than her part. There are but two
or three unmarriedmen lett in our village.
Sixty have enlisted from this town. What
place has done better than this in proper
ton to the number Of inhabitants?
Year: 1861

Run AwAr.-Somebodys team, from the
country, ran away, up Second street, yester-
day afternoon. Divers parties tried to stop
them in their mad career, by shaking clubs
in their faces, and various other ingenious
performances They were not to be diverted
from their course, however. but kept straight
on. increasing their speed, till they had passed
the last corner, and saw directly in front of
Them the fence at the end of the street, when
they voluntarily slackened their pace and
came tos halt without material damage to
themselves. the wagon or the fence
Year: 1861

PREMIUM APPLEs-We acknowledge the
receipt of "A box of Briggs apples which took
the first premium at the State Fair. recently
held in Sacramento. We fully concur in the
report Of the committee that awarded them
the premium.
Year: 1861

Our pickets stationed near Prospect Hill
were driven in last night by the rebels In
force, their object being doubtless to as
certain the position Of our advance.


All our troops are in comfortable cOndi-
fiou
Year: 1861

TIE SoN OF TIE KING OF SARDINIA
Prince Humbert, son of Victor Emmanuel, a
youth now in his seventeenth year-a bold
and elegant rider, first-rate marksman with
the rife, exhibiting skill and endurance In
all manly exercises, endowed with q fair,
open countenance, in which the soldier-like,
honest mien of the father is blended with the
delicate features and sweet expression OF the
mother, distinguished by affable manners and
graceful address-wins golden opinions with
the multitude as he goes along the thronged
streets, bowing when bowed TO, mounted on
his light-grey Arab. The seed which his
father and grandfather sOwed in sorrow and
in blood, viii have grown up into q full and
glorious harvest by the time this fortunate
Youth succeeds to the throne. That throne
to which SO many of his race aspired in the
secret of their hearts, almost ever since the
days of the First Humbert, will fall to the lot
of This Fourth Humbert by series OF pros
porous vicissitudes, than which nothing more
marvellous was ever woven in the mysterious
web OF Providence. The fnllness Of the time
Is almost at hand, yet the final issue stll
trembles in the scale Of fate.


There are 1900 Carolina troops now in &c
| A. 81
Year: 1861

The following good joke occurred not long
since in one of the churches in the western
part of Onondaga county:


:" An aged clergyman, speaking of the So,
lemnity attached to the ministerial Office
said that during the whole term of forty or
fifty years that he had oficiated therein, his
gravity had never been but once disturbed
in the pulpit. On that occasion be noticed
man directly in front of him leaning over the
railing of the gallery with something in his
band, which he soon discovered to 5e hugs
chew Of tobacco, just taken FROM his mouth
Directly below sat man fast asleep, with
his head back and his mouth wide Open
The man in the gallery was intensely engags
ed in raising and lowering his hand, taking
an exact observation, till, at last, having got
it right, he let fall the quid. and it went
plump into the mouth of tie sleeper below |!
The whole scene was so indescribably ludi-
crous that for the first and last time in the
pulpit an involuntary smile forced itself mp
% the eounteaanss Of the preacher"
Year: 1861

The most obvious characteristic of Amer
lean bumor is its power of pitching il
strong" and drawing the long bow. It is
the humor Of exaggeration. This consists os
fattening up joke until it is rotupd and ru-
bicund, unctuous and Irresistible as FalstafE
himself. who was created By Shakespeare, and
fed fat, so as to become for all time the very
impersonation of humor in state of corpu-
lence. That place in the geography Of the
United States called Down East" has been
most prolific in the monstrosities of miTth-
Only there would tree'd coon have cried to
the msrksman with bis gun pointed, g Don't
fire, Colonel, I'll come down." Only in that
region do they travel at such speed that the
iron rails got hot enough to serve the car
riages with heat instead of hot-water bottles,
and sometimes SO bot tina. en- looking back
you see the irons writhing about Ike live
snakes, trying to wriggle off to the water to
cool themselves. Only there do they travel
so fast that the signal whistle is Of no use for
their engines, because, on one occasion at





least, the train was in, and smashed in a col-
lisiop, long before the sound of the whistle
got there Only there can blow be struck
so ''slick" as to take an animals ear off with
such ease, that the animal does not not know
he is one ear short until he puts bis forefoot
up to scratch it. Only there, surely, are the
thieves SO cute that they drew walnut log
right out of its bark, and left five sleepy
watchers all nodding as they sat astride Of
tunnel of walnut wood rind. North Caroli-
ma, we suppose, can not be " Down East"
else some of the stories that 9. Skit" tells in
his " Fishers River Scenes and Characters"
have the old family features as like as two
peas. Charles Lambs idea of the worst pos
sible Inconvenience of being in world to-
tai darkness was, that, after making pun,
you would have TO put out your hand
and grope over the listeners face to feel il
he was enjoying it. It would require broad
grin to be felt. Some of these stories are Of
the sort to produce broad grin which might
be felt IN total darkness. British Be-
viev.
Year: 1861

Oh, It's all one to me, all one,
Whether I've money, or Whether I've none.
He who has money can buy him wife,
And he who has none can be free for life.
He who has money has cares not few,
And he who has,none can sleep the night through.
He who has money can ogle the fair
And he who has none escapes from such care
de who has money can go to the play,
And he who has none at home can stay.
lie who has money can travel about,
And he who has none can go without
He who has money can be coarse as he WILL
An d he who has none can be coarser STILL
He who has money can eat oyster meat,
And he who has none the shell can eat.
He who has money can drink foreign wine,
And he who has none with the gout need not pine.
He who has money the cash must pay,


And he who has none says, Charge it, pray p
He who has money keeps dog if he please,
nd he VINO has none is not troubled with feas,
He who has money must die one day,
And he who has none must go the same way.
Oh! tits all one to me, all one,


Whether I've money or whether I've none.
Year: 1861

HTDRoPATHIo.-A man named McAuley,
somewhat given to staining his lips too often
with the ruby tumbied out Of a boat ON
Tuesday and went down into the depths of
the Cuyahoga. Not finding in water. how
ever, an element which agreed well with his
constitution, he changed his mind and came
up. With some difficulty he was at length
slowed sEuy in the bottom of the boat, a
Wetter and soberer man.
Year: 1861

Since Professor loves balloon WAS shot 81
by the Confederate artillery, he has been im'
proving his apparatus, to make it more sale'
He does not wish to be shot up in the Clouds
for fear the fall might hurt him.
Year: 1861

How TO CuoosE WIFE FOR kISG.-lienry
The With gave the following, among other di-
rec,;ons. TO the ambassadors he sent to Naples
,o omen n negotiation for the hand of Queen
Juanna:


.sTo mark and note well the age and stature
of said young Queen, and the features OF her
body, the favor of her visage, the clearness OF
her skin, the color of her hair to note well her
eyes, brows, teeth and lip,; to mark well the
fashion of her nose, specially to note her COM
plexion, her arms, hands, fingers, neck, whether
she have any sickness, deformity aud blemlsh,
and whether there appear any hair about her lips
or not. Item, that they endeavor then to speak
with the said young Queen, fasting, and that she
NAV tell unto them some matter at length, and
and to approach as near her mouth as they hon.
estly may to the intent that they may feel the
condition of her breath, whether it be sweet or
not, and to mark at every time they speak with
her, if they feel any SAVIOR of spices, rose water
OF musk by the breath of her mouth or not
Item. to note the height of her stature, and to
inquire whether she wear any slippers, and what
height her slippers be, to the intent they be not
deceived in the height and fashion of her; and
if they may corne to the sight of her slippers,
then to note the fashion Of her foot"
Year: 1861

In reply to frequent inquiries--I would say, that am prepared to travel to any part of the state, and will go prepared to do everything in the inc oi my profession ill the neatest possible manner Per- sons wishing my services will please drop me a line to that effect, as shall not have time to go except where have calls and will only charge the regular Memphis and eastern prices, same as I charge in my office. H N. CASE, Dentist.

 Little Rock Ark Feb g '59-ly.
Year: 1861

DENTAL NCTICE.-Dr. H. N. G CASE, office new building, opposite the UITrfy Gazette office, where he is prepared to operate in ever, branch of his profession Artificial teeth with artificial gums. from one to full set inserted so as to look perfectly natural. All full sets inserted on the sucton or atmospheric pressure principle. feel perectly natural and easy in the mouth and answers all the legitimate uses of natural teeth

 Teeth, if taken ill time, can be plugged SO as to preserve them for life.
Year: 1861

SHE WORKS FOR LIvING.-Commend
Us to the girl of whom it is sneeringly said.
She works for iying;' in her we are al.
woman-a real lady. True, We are not
prepared to see mincing step. naughty
lip. fashionable dress, Or hear string OF
splendid nonsense about balls and the
young men, the new novels and the next
psrty--no. no; but we are prepared to hear
the words OF good sense. Language becom-
ing woman, neat dress, mild brow, and
to witness movements that would not dis
grace an angel. st ~


You who are looking for wives and
companions. turn from the fashionable, la
zy naughty girls. select one from those
who work for living, and neyer-our
word for twill you repent your choice.
You want substantial friend. and not o
doll; help mate and not help-eat;
counsellor and not q simpleton. You may
not be able to carry piano into your
house. but you can buy spinning wheel
or set OF knitting needles. If you can
not purchase every new novel, you may
be able to take some valuable paper. If
you cannot buy ticket for the ball, you
can visit some afflicted family s.li


Be careful then, when you look for COM
panions, and when you choose. We know
many foolish man. who instead of choos-
ing an industrious and prudent woman for
a wife, took one from the fsshionsble oek
and is now la nenting his folly in dust and
ashes. He ran into the fire with his eyes
wide open, and who but himself is to
blame?


The time was when ladies went visit
ing and took their work with them. This
is the reason, why we have such excellent
mothers. How singular would gay wo-
man look in fashionable circle, daTnins
her fathers stockings, of carding wool to
spin! Would not her companions laugh
at her? And yet such woman would be
a prize to somebody, Blessed is the man
who chooses for his wife some despised
girl "who works for. living
Year: 1861

TEE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE AND THE Du1Y
OF THE PEoPLE.-Fellow- citizens. If / may
be permitted to utter word upon such SUBJ
ject. would earnestly counsel forbearance
and patience in reference to those charged
with the administration of our Government
Before criticising their conduct, we should
remember that we may not see all the field of
action, and may not be in condition Justly
to appreciate the difficulties which are to be
overcome. No man can doubt the courage
or loyalty of the President of the United
States, or his determination to suppress this
rebellion. To him, under the Constitution,
the popular voice has committed absolutely
the fate of this Republic. His hands are en-
titled to be strengthened by ours. That
which weakens him weakens yourselves, and
weakens the struggling country which we
are struggling to save. He is at this moment
overwhelmed with mountains of toll and re-
sponsibility such as have rested upon no
public man in our history, and is fully enti-
lied to all the support and consideration
which generous and warm hearted patriot
ism can yield.-Joscph Holt.
Year: 1861

A NEW TUNE FROM THE ScoTcH FIDDLE.-
The Immaculate Herald is in great tribula-
ton because the Hon. Joseph Holt is endeav-
oring by his eloquence to keep alive the
Northern enthusiasm, and also by this means
helpo our gallant Union brethren in Kentucky
and Tennessee. Hear this precious Scotch
fiddler:


Let him go to Kentucky, whose fortunes
are balancing in the wind, and where his
accomplishments as stump speaker may be
of some use. If there, as here, the time be
gone by for talking, he can at least shoulder
a musket and do good service in the field in
defence of the Union and of his native State
against the encroaehments of the Southern
traitors


When Joseph Holt was laboring at the oar
to save this Union from shipwreck under the
last days Of an imbecile and thievish admin
istration. the itching palm of the Sawney of
the Herald was stretched forth for the subsi-
dies that corruption in Office had yet to be-
stow, and most zealously did this Scotch Rel
yer work for his Southern masters against
the peace and prosperity of the city that had
fostered the migrate.


Against the man, who, in q the heat and
burden of the day." threw himself into the
breach to battle with treason, this eleventh
hour hypocrite, fearing for the safety of his
congenial spirit in the War Department, now
seeks to raise his hand. If he will only
preserve this attitude and hereafter not seek
to beslaver him when the voice of the people
is heard and answered at Washington, we
will pardon him now the only fear we have
is, that with the consumate impudence and
egotism for which he has become famous, in
the day and power of Joseph Holt. he will
then as industrously seek to convince the
public that @ the Herald was foremost to dis
cover the latent virtues in the man that an
ungrateiul Republic was tardy to recognize"


Cameron and Bennett: Bennett and Cam
eron: Arcades Ambo: They are worthy of
each other. 1t is retributire Justice that con
demns Simon Cameron to accept of the nau
seous doses of the Herald, and there is no
surer evidence to the country that the War
Department needs purifcation than when
James Gordon Bennett vainly seeks to avert
it by cautious attack upon the man to whom
the Nation is now stretching wide its arms
as the only man for the emergency which is
now upon us. Cameron and Bennett Ben
nett and Cameron: We may well say with
Jafier: "Faugh how it stinks. y Tanity
Far.
Year: 1861

RAILROAD BETWEEN FoLsoM AND PLACER
vILLE.-In reference to this project, the
Mountain Democrat says:


% We are perfectly safe in predicting that
the railroad between this place and Folsom
will be built speedily. Some of our wealth
lest and most energetic business men, who
know no such word as fail, who have the
means and the ability to accomplish what
they undertake, have taken the enterprise in
hand with the determination to carry it
through promptly and successfully. 1t is
with more than ordinary pleasure, with
something akin to exultation, that we an
nounce that sixty Ave hundred dollars have
already been subscribed, and that the sum
will be vastly increased before the next issue
of our paper. The Subscription Committee,
we learn, meet with far better success than
they anticipated. All seem anxious to con-
tribute something to an enterprise so impor-
tant and necessary, and which promises to
be Of incalculable benefit to Placervillc, and
those who have already subscribed have sig
nifed their readiness to increase their sub
scriptions if necessary.
Year: 1861

The following is the conclusion Of an article
in the Cincinnati Commercial on the lament
ell Col Baker:


TIE writer met Gel. Baker in June last on
Il steamer going from Baltimore to Fortress
Monroe. He said he did not expect to sur
vive the war; that, IN his judgment he never
should See the shores of the Pacific again
This was hardly so much a presen,iment on
his part as a calcuiation. He said tho troops
were green, and it would be necessary for
The officers to expose themselves. He had
seen service and would feel it duty to lead
his regiment. The enemy had plenty of
snarpslootcrs, and he presumed they would
pick him oil. He said he believed it would be
his fate to die at the head Of his regiment
and so he died.


1t may illustrate the temper and character
Of the man to mention that, after saying with
as perfect calmness as he could have named
the most trivial circumstance, that he believed
1t would be his fate to fall i'll battle, and that
he should never see his home on the Pacific
again, he retired from the guards where he
had been engaged in conver alton, to the
cabin, and seating himselfat the piano, played
with skill and grace remarkable Tor a gentle
man amateur on that instrument, several
touching airs, among them that fayorite Of
the English soldiers before Sebastapol-sweet
and mournful Annie Laura.


In person, Col Baker was erect, tall and
commanding. His features We're regular in
outline and refined in expression; his eye
blue end keen; his clean-shaven face rosy
with health. The top of his head was bald,
and the fringe of hair about his ears and col
lar was as fine as unspun silk and white as
snow


We believe he never was married. His
mother is living near Springfield, Ill. He
visited her little more than year ago, and
spent several days in her humble home.