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Year: 1865

SACRAMENTO STREETS TO BE LIGHrEp.-
The Sacramento Union says:


We mention with pleasure the fact that
the Board OF Trustees have met the general
wish Of the citizens by making arrangements
for Lighting the more prominent streets of
the city.
Year: 1865

CUTE THNGs-Pat the exact "fsre" in the
lining OF your hat, you are about to travel in car
or omnibus on a miserably cold day, when every
chinge of position is disagreeable, thus obviating
the necessity of taking off your gloves, unbutton-
lng your coat, searching your pockets, making
change and getting chilled If lady. carry the
money under the edge Of your glove.


II you are enough Of a gentleman to feel
obliged to give up your seat in car TO anything
10 the shape of petticoat, whether to mstreas or
maid, whether TO grandmother or to sweet seven
teen, whether to a dowager or a market woman,
take your seat as near the forward part Of the
vehicle as posi- lie, then your gallantry will be the
last to be challenged.


II you want pair Of boots or shoes made to
order, and wish TO be certain of az easy ft az
hat of an old shoe, put on two pair Of thick
wooen socks before your measure 10 taken.


II yyu want to avoid being drawn into the COM
mon vortex Of financial ruin by friends and re-
atons, as dishonest in reality as they are reck-
less, never indor,e for dime without your wife .
written consent, and have placed in letters, gold
go and large, over the mantle Of the family room,
and require it to be daily read aloud by each mem
Der OF the family in turn. just before ycu 20 to
business after breakfast, the fifteenth verse Of the
eleventh chapter Of Proverbs.


If you want to know certainly whether the
young lady you think Of addressing is a fairy or
fury, tread on her skirt in the street when she
is NOT aware of your being within mile Of her,
and " take an observation of that face, usually
divine, at the instant Of its being turned full
upon you


II you wish the great happiness and the ines
Unable blessing Of being always in good health
down to serene old age, learn while young to
take care OF that t"g good constitution" with which
benign creator has intrusted you.


II you have tremendous moustache, and want
to eat bread and mol,sses, put the bread In first
and tbs molasses afterward-HaAs Journal Of
Health.
Year: 1865

BUFFALO, Nov. AS far as ascertained
no serious damage has been done by the
gale of the past two days. A large fleet
arrived safely. The wind has now sub
sided The weather is cold and cloudy.
The Schooner Driver was water-logged
on Lake Michigan and went to pieces,
One man was drowned.
Year: 1865

LADIES FAIa.--The Fair now being given by
the ladies of Wala Walla, for the benefit of St.
NinceRts Academy, promises to be success.
On the opening night the receipts were over
$500, and this Notwithstanding the weather was
so inclement as to prevent very many from at
tending. Las. night, the attendance was large,
and there Was not the least diminution of the
liberality that characterized the opening night.
The Fair will be continued to-day and to- morrow, >,
and bearing in mind that the proceeds are to be
applied to, the purpose of education, it is hoped
that there will be a full attendance and that all
viii come prepared to contribute literally in aid
of so worthy a cause
Year: 1865

HEAVY FALL OF SNow.-On Friday of
last week, this immediate vicinity was visi-
ted by heavy fall of snow Fer some TWEEN
ty-four hours the fakes continued to descend
until the whole valley was covered to depth
of from twelve to fourteen inches So heavy
fall of snow, so early in the season, is some
thing unusual, the ike never before having
been known by that mythical individual
known as the "oldest inhabitant."
Year: 1865

TEST OATHs.-It is thought that many
Of the recently elected members Of Congress
from the Southern States, will be unable to
take the oath prescribed by law, and that as
a consequence they will not be permitted to
take their seats. The existing oath is sup
posed to be sufficiently stringent, but lest
there may be no mistake, Senator Sumner
proposes that citizens of States late in re-
bellion shall be required to subscribe to
the following OATH


al do hereby swear that will, at all tines
hereafter, use my best endeavurs to maintain
a Republican form of government in the
State of which am an inhabitaDt, and the
Union of the United States; that will at
all times recognize iHdissoluble loyalty to the
Republic; will always discounteuance asy
endeavors to break away or secede from the
Union; will give my influence and vote at
all times to sustain the national credit; will
always discountenance and resist any at.
tempt, directly or indirectly, to postpone,
either in any part the debt contractedby the
United States in the rebellion, or obligations
assumed to Union soldiers; will always dis
eountensnce and resist any laws paking any
distinction of race or color, aud always strive
to maintain State Government completely
loyal to the Union, where all wen shall enjoy
equal protection sud rights"
Year: 1865

THE SEow SroRN.-For nearly a week, with
occasional intervals, snow has continued to
fall until at this writing-Friday morning
the whole Valley is covered to the depth of from
fourteen to eighteen inches. Should the snow
Venain on the ground for any considerable time
the stock will suffer severely, although most Of
'onr farmers are fortunate enough to have large
Anosuts offeed, and in this way will save the
greater portion Of their cattle. In other Sec
tions Of the country, less fortunate, the loss Of
stock will be very great. 1t will be recollected
that during the bard winter of and 81, thous-
AndS Of bead perished. Should the present via.
ter prove equally severe the loss must be vastly
greater, for the reason there is so many more
cattle in the Valley. The system of trusting to
luck, aud allowing cattle to shift for themselves
during the winter is a bad one and we are
pleased to notice that our farmers, as rule
put up feed to meet such a contingency as is now
upon US. In'this they are wise, and with an.
other season, doubtless their example will be
initiated. "The merciful man is merciful to his
beast" and on this principle ofhumanity alone,
We should provide for the comfort of the animals
chat serve Us so faithfully.
Year: 1865

We have already given Summers plan of
reconstruction, the object of which is to de.
lay the restoration Of the Union to the latest
possible moment. Following out this idea
of delay, the Senator has introduced another
bill which provides that grand juries shall
consist one-half of persons of African descent
in sections where one-sixth of the population
are Africans, and the same proportion in
petit juries where the matter relates to any
injuries inflicted by persons of African de.
scent. Upon persons not of such descent,
or Uice verso, prejudice against such Afrir
can race is made the ground of challenge and
exclusion from such jurics. To carry out
his favOrite theory of negro equality, the
Senator is not consistent with himself, for
the reason that he proposes to give the
blacks rights that he withholds from white
men. Following out the plan here indica.
ted, when female Is defendant, at least one
half the grand and petit juries should be
composed of females, and so on to the end of
the chapter. We have too much charity to
believe that radical New England will fol-
low the Senator in bis mad vogaries.
Year: 1865

The EMPoRIUM.-Portland, not without
reason, claims to be The emporium" of the
Northern country. Originally the offspring
of the Willamette trade, Portland has grown
aud prospered, until to-day, outside of San
Fran cisco, there is not town on the coast
that can dispute her pre-eminence. We
have no disposition to find fault with the
good fortune that has favored the "empo-
rum" and made her what she is, but we do
complain that she fails to make the best of
the advantages that circumstances have
placed in her way. Instead of being de-
pendent upon San francisco, selling goods
at second hand, cargOes should be laid down
at Portland, direct from the East, and thus
avoid the tax which the whole trade of the
Northern country now pays I'd California.
In another particular, the emporium ," has
always been behind the times in failing to
keep full stocks of goods. A merchant, as
We happen to know, goes to Portland with
the intention of making bis purchases. On
looking over the market, he finds that one or
two Important articles are not to be had, and
to obtain.them be is compelled to go to San
Francisco. AS result, he buys his whole
stock in San Francisco, and Portland loses a
customer. As showing to what extent the

BUSINESS men of Portland fail to keep up
with the requirements Of their position, We
quote from the Oregoni0n, Of the llth, the
following statement of the condition of the
market:


"We are credbly informed that Of so
common a commodity as cotton or linen
duck, there are not fifty yards in the city.
Of eight penny nails, an article without
which house cannot be built, We are told,
there are not twenty five kegs in the market
Before the arrival of the steamer a day or
two ago, the stock, Of coal oil was entirely
exhausted. Anthracite coal is indispensable
to ioundrymen, and though there are four
toundries in the city, there is not among
them all one fourth OF a ton Of this species
Of coal. Those vino are in want of castings
either have to wait until coal arrives or send
to San Francisco to get their work done
Cumberlaud'coAlis is used by every blacksmith,
and III every machine shop, but there are
are not three tons of it in town. We might
enumerute other articles which are in daily
use and constantly called for, but which sre
not to be obtained here in any considerable
quantities


To supply trade so large as that Of the
Northern country, requires greater enters
prise than is disclosed in the foregoing e1-
hibit, and looking to the disclosures thus
made, it is fair to say that Portland offers
6ae opening for fresh infusion Of business
ability.
Year: 1865

FAST AND TIoHr.-On Tuesday last, at
the Dallss, the River was frOze over, and the
ice so thick as to admit of loaded teams cross
ing over. The weather was intensely cold,
the Thermometer standing several degrees
below zero.
Year: 1865

80 See the advertisement of old friend Jlcos
kEKS, in another column. He has removed his es-
ENLISTMENT to the Henry Han Building, and be has
Of the best if not sie best stock of Peee Goods
and Ready Made Clothing, in this city. Give him
call
Year: 1865

H S. r. L. is informed that we will
stop his paper whenever he presents his
account, which he says he has against
one Of the firm, and makes settlement,
and not before. If there is anything
coming to him, it shall be paid, and it is
expected he will be equally as prompt
Year: 1865

Er We have no words TO spare space to devote
reply the above card Of the "Agent of the Rebe
Refugees" to give her the benefit Of her
PLANTATION, and correct her misrepresentation of
remarks regarding her official p and oicous conduct
in the premises. We opine that when fellow
citizens feel their need of enand- ink drawing of
the "human sympathy and patriotic benevolence''
Of the citizens of the capital of the State, as an
emplar and pattern for them TO initiate they will make
sonage than this female recruiting officer of company
90 of 4. Rs. They feel that it is due them to be


first consulted, to their disposition have this
greater number of suc recruits quartered upon them
before having them brought their doors without


ing. and e to induce them provide for their wants,
make an appeal to their benevoIence One expert
ment her is sufficient for even those good
citizens, she expresses exalted opinion for md
they do not desire repetition.


In the above card this Agent" duplicates the Pal
iafinm with the 7segrdn the onslaught the editor
of the latter paper made Gov. Morton and her
sion. We said not word in condemnation of the
Governor, and our remarks were wholly confined 70
this iiieton people through her agency, with
out their knowledge consent. We protest TO be-
ing held responsible the vindctive bitter
personal abuse of the editor of TIE Tieyran, towards
Mrs. and Mr. T. We paddle own canoe" and
object seriously having it steere per force
of clear water into mud and filth, by this female
Agent or ANY other man. =.
Year: 1865

By authority of The Secretary of the Treasury, the
undersigned has assumed the General Subscription
Agency for the sale of United States Treasury Notes
bearing seven and three s1shs per cent. interest per
Year: 1865

Yesterday afternoon a number of men
engaged as laborers on the railroad near
Richmond, Ind, took passage on the
train bound for Dayton, and refusing to
pay their fare, a difficulty ensued, in
which two of the laborers were killed
and others injured. The baggage master
of the strain was also wounded. The
dead body Of one of the rioters was
thrown of, or fell from the cars, and
was lying alongside the track this side
of Richmond when the express train
from Chicago for this city passed the
place last evening. We did not learn
the names Of any of the parties, - Gin
Gazette.
Year: 1865

New YORK, Jan. 3o.-The Herald's
Washington special says the mission of
Blair to Richmond was not, as has been
generally supposed, an entire failure, but
that it resulted in fully disclosing the fact
that many of the rebel chiefs are desirous
OF peace, and are willing to submit to much
mora reasonable terms than their neWspa-
per organs would lead us to suppose, but
that all are SO Jealous aud Watchful of each
other that no one dares to make an ad
vance for fear of being made the victim of
some desperate and relentless faction.


Another correspondent says that weneed
not be surprised to soon hear of terms for
peace in the proclamations of the Govern
ors of Georgia and North Carolina.


The Tribune's special says the only new
development as to tho Blair mission, is re-
ported by two members of the House, who
dlned with the returned envoy. Although
they are democratic, they state that Mr..
Blair said that JEFF. Davis entreated him
to effect the passage of the constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery; that he
confessed that the war had uprooted and
destroyed slavery; that it had induced dis.
union, and that the hope of being able yet
to save slavery and re.enthrone il was the
only obstacle to peace and the restoration
of the UEion. This was told me on the
floor of the House on Saturday. Bets were
Instantly offered by peace democrats that
MIR. Blair had never uttered word of what
was imputed to him.
Year: 1865

a suggestion to our Legislature
Editors IntelLigencsr:


1t appears that proposition is now
pending in the Legislature, which contem-
plates radical change in our city school
law. Believing that at least ninety nine
hundredths of the citizens of Wheeling are
in blissful ignorance of the nature of the
contemplated change, and believing that
to the future welfare and prosperity of the
city should be attempted without some
expression favorable thereto on the part OF
the citizens, 1t is respectfully suggested
that the bill now before the Legislature be
submitted to vote of the people of the
city at the ensuing spring election, before
becoming law.


PUBLIC SCHOOL MAN.
Year: 1865

One OF THE EVILS OF HrREDIrARY ARrs-
rocRAcY. 1t is now nearly ten years siuce the
| House of Lords. under the guidance of Lord
Lyndhurst. Lord Brougham. and Campbell,


refused to acknowledge the right of the Crown


to create life peers ho shoul sit and vote in
Parliament: But surely there ought to be
much less difficulty than there was nine years
ago In convincing the House of Peers that an
act comforting such power on tie Lords
would be expedieht. Certainly the prospect
which lies before some legal peers is far from
enviable. In the case Of al Chancellor


the nation might have been spared the appre-
hension Of seeing an illustrious name borne
by one who still labors under the scvercst
censure pronounced BY those whc must before
long acsnoSledge lin as their equal


And should anything bcflll the Chancellor
his name will be borne by son of whom his
own father has said that his childish vanity
aud weakhcss are such that he is always the
prey Of some rascal or other,' and that IBIS
wife and six little children, $ltection for his
father and brothers aud sisters, ard regard
for his own character ard position. have not
been sufficient to Eeep him from plunging a
fourth time into mad and evil courses" docs
any reasonable person doubt that the pangs of
the Lord Chancellor are rather aggravated
than relieved by the certainty that. this worth
less creature must succeed him m--Lonaon Dai-
y News.
Year: 1865

CoTToN IN Sourn CAROLINA. People who
suppose there is but a little quantity Of Cotton
rena ming in South Caro- ina are very much
mistaken in their belief. When the railroads
are opened and Other transportation facilities
secured. We may look forward for an imrsieuso
supply of that staple in our market 1t could
no: be expected tha: the holders of cotton
would send that article to market when they
knew that they were compelled to give one
fourth to the Government, and also had an
intiination that the, restriction would be re-
moved IN course Of time, It is very we'll to
say, press the South to its utmost extremity
in order to satiats the vengeance of the North;
but. in the long run, it will be discovered that
such policy will only serve to cripple both
sections. Under the wise administration Of
President johnson, We doubt not that this
whole question Of commercial intercourse will
be favorably and benefcially settled to the
satisfaction of the ontiro country. = Charleston
Courier. ...
Year: 1865

THE New Hampshire Superior Court has
decided that an express company delivering
parcel markc with the cabalistic &C. 0. D."
= collect on delivery-may allow person to
whom it is consigned Reasonable time to open
the package aud determine whether lie will
receive it or not, The rule heretofore has
been that no examination could take place
the receiver must take the packags aud deter
mine Whether it contained what he had Or
derod or not. This decision of the court is
both legal and sensible, which latter cannot
be said of all legal decisions.
Year: 1865

z GREAT ENTERPRISE A pneumatic rail-
way is to be built under the Thames river.
England, to confiect two railway stations
Piers will be built up within caissons sunk
below the bed of the river. till they reach
%ilh'n few feet Of the river bed Upon
these VIII be laid the iron tubes which form
the passage way for the railway. These tubes
viii be laid upon the masonry in concrete,
the carriages Of the railway will be impcllcd
by the atmospheric working directly upon them
instead Of q. piston, the carriages having a
closely fitting collar or frame work of the sec
tIohal area Of the tunnel, which answers the
same purpose ns piston.
Year: 1865

The two addresses made on Thursday last
before the Equal Suffrage" club, and which
we have printed in full, present some features
of interest, not only as to principles advo-
Gated but with regard to the persons who
enunciatcd them. Gen. BANKS aud Gen
SWIFT are not unknown in this country.
Ever since thcre was political organization
against the political power of slavery they
have been attached to II. Both were in at
the beginning and left the service only at
the close of the war They have had no com
mon experience in the South. With the
numbers and wealth of the loyal States of
the South they are familiar. With tho pref
udices, passions, and purposes of the disloyal
element thoy have been cogniSant. With
the characteristics, capacities, and condition
of the black people they are informed by the
best Of all teaching, that Of close experience
Both gentlemen unreservedly announced
their belief in the right and policy of suffrage
extension. No one could charge them with
lack of sympathy or hesitation of statement


Yet they each of them sustained the position
Of the President on this great question.
General BAKKs emphatically says, not by
central legislation are We to extend this
boon. By administration, not by statutes,
will the negro be protected in his rights and
advanced in his position. While heartily
desirous of the application Of the principle of
equal suffrage in this District, Gen. SWIFT
says, in effect, compulsory suffrage on unwil


ling communities must be sustained by mill
tary force, and would injure the very cause
it sought to assist. The assumption of cen.
tral power is always unwise, if not dangerous
lie says, also, that he "never can consent to
the doctrine that the States have been out of
the Union. No sounder maxim exists, than
the power which creates can alone create. .
Coming as these two gentlemen have,
from immediate contact with the people of
New England, New York. and n Jersey,
participating largely with the campaigns
lately held in those sections, rel. .ews are
not only valuable rs an exl"' lion of their
own judgment, but as reflection of the calm
sense of the masses of the people.
Year: 1865

The question of suffrage is upon us. 1t
can neither be lodged or postponed. Its
settlement controls the destiny of the Repub.
lie. Settled by the Abandonment Of princi.
pie to the senseless clamors Of prejudice, and
We fasten upon the future calamity with
woes as manifold as ever Pandora fatal box
produced. Settled in that way and the
South is hopelessly retarded in her progress
and forever given over to degeneracy and
destruction; while the North by the same
miserable policy, will be the section of count.
less divisions, perpetual wranglings, and in
terminable feuds.


The solution Of this problem is easy or diff
fcult according to the method used. Treated
in a manly and purely American way, and it
will present few obstacles in our path. The
manly way to deal with it is to meet it fairly,
squarely, without fear, and without reserve.
The American way is to apply to it those
principles which underlie the foundations of
our Government, restricted only by the lin
itations Of our Government. If we have the
constitutional right to make all men, includ-
ing negroes, voters in the State they inhabit,
let us do it. For to withhold the franchise
from any human being solely on account Of
his color, is unmanly unchristian, and un.
American.


If by the nature Of our institutions we are
precluded from regulating suffrage in the
States, let us honestly admit the fact and
cease the attempt "to do evil that good may
come" It is hardly to be believed that this
nation, which exerted its grand energies to
suppress q sinful rebellion which sought to
subvert its authority and government after
succeeding, should itself violate and disre-
gard its own laws. We are a law -honoring
and lsW-abiding people. If our statutes are
wrong, let us repeal them. If our legislation
is incomplete, let us correct IT, not by forced
construction, but by calm and prescribed
rules.


While We believe that the negro, on the
basis of intelligence and patriotism, should
be permitted to vote; while we will plead
with all our ability for the extension of this
privilege to him everywhere, and back up
our entreaty by casting our own vote in his
favor when and where we have the right SO
TO do, we have yet to learn how, either as
m inherent right of our nature or the civil
right we receive from the laws, we can com
pei other men to accept our views, and fOsi
our convictions upon communities of which
we make no part with any title Of authority,
or any sanction of conferred power. Wher
ever this nation has the power it should pro
tect the people. Wherever it can it should
equaliue rights, regardless of color, race oI
creed.


Having most conclusively that power
over the District of Columbia, we are for the
extension Of suffrage here, Were in Ten
nessee, says ANDREW JOHNSON, 81 should
seek to give to the black man the privilege
of voting, with certain qualifications. The
same rule that should govern the law.maker
Of Tennessee should govern the lnw.maker Of
the Capitol Ci'v When we have the right
let us perform the duty. When v have not
the right let us cid Humanity by our exam.
pie, and not involve 1t by an assumption Of
authority.
Year: 1865

TT 1hc attention Of the public and the trade is


Il invited to our New SCALE OCTAVE
ume and purity of tone are unrivalcd by any
hitherto offered in this market. They contain
all tho