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Year: 1861

7 EWING A ROAD AND POLL TAX,
IL and providing for the collection Of the same, Sf
the year ending May, 1862.


The Trustees Of e City Of Neuadd Ordan as follOau


SECTION l. A Road Tax of four dollars is hereb,
levied upon every abe-bOdied inba btant Of the Ciy
Of Nevada between the ages oftwenty- one and City
years.


SEC 2. 1t shall be the duty of the City Marshal
collect the Road Tax, and for this purpose he is herr
BY invested with the authority as Is conferred
upon Road Overseers by the act of the Legislature Of
lS6O entitled an act concerning roads and highways
in Nevada county" and the tax shall be collected in
the manner presctibedin said act.


Sc 3. The Clerk of the Board shall prepare and
deliver to the Marshal sufficient number Of blank
receipts, which shall be numbered and signed by the
Clerk. Said receipts shall be countersigned by the
Marshal and delivered to paying the road tax
and the Marshal shall specify in each receipt so De.
yered, whether the tax is paid in labor or money.
SEC. 4. The Marshal shall keep a correct list Of
the names Of all persons paying their road tax 10
cash, and the names of those paying in labor, snd
shall report the same to the Board on the first Of
each month All monies collected on the road tax
less his commission. the Marshal shall pay over to
the City Treasurer to be used under the direction Of
the Board Of Trustees for road purposes.


SEC. 5. There shall be and is hereby levied upon
every male inhabitant of the City, Of twenty-One
years of age and upwards, poll tax of one dollar
for the year ending May 1862; and it is hereby made
the duty of the Marshal to collect the same.



deliver to the Marshal proper blank poll tax receipts
which shall be numbered and signed by the Clerk
Upon the payment of each and every poll tax, the
Marshal shall deliver one of said receipts, counter
signed by himself to the person paying.


SEC. I. To enforce the collection of the poll tax
the Marshal may seize so much of any and every
species of property owned or claimed by any person
liable to and refusing to pay said poll tax, will be
sufficient to pay the and costs Of seizure, and
may sell the same at any time or place, within the
city limits upon giving verbal notice one hour pre-
vious to such sale delivery of the possession Of the
property by the Marshal, to any purchaser, shall be
deemed sufficient title in the purchaser. After hay.
ing deducted the poll tax for which such property
was sold. and the necessary fees and costs of sale
the Marshal shall return the surplus money, if any
there be, to the owner Of such property. Any per-
son indebted to another liable to poll tax and neg
ecting refusing to pay the same, shall be liable
to pay the after service upon HIM, by the City
Marshal, Of a notice in writing, stating the name
names of the person or persons so liable, and owing
such poll tax. and may deduct the amount thereof
from such Indebtedness.


SIC. s. The Marshal shall keep recorded list Of
the of all persons paying their poll tax, and
shall report the same to the Board the first Of
each month.


Passed May 2sth, 1861.


CHAs. KENT, Pres't.


II. II. FLAGG, Clerk.
Year: 1861

danger, as opium eating or tobacco chew
ing. How far 1t has extended, 1t is impos-
sible to cay. But everything connected
with the practice, and with the effect Of the
drug as used in medicine, is in fair way
of discovery.
Year: 1861

NAVIGATION ON THE UPPER SACRAMENTO
There is little doubt but that new town will
be laid out on the upper Sacramento River
this Winter. Men have been engaged for
weeks past, in blasting rocks and otherwise
clearing the river of obstacles. We under
stand that Latona, the name given to the place
where those steamboats, which have heretofore
navigated the river have landed, is the site Sc.
lected. 1t is situated between two and three
miles below the lower crossing on Clear Creek,
on the bank of the river, and is a splendid To-
cation. II arrangements can be made with
the Steam Navigation Company to run up to
the place selected, (which has been the great
drawback heretofore) we look upon the under>
taking as success. 1t is the Intention of the
projectors to build dams at the most difficult
points in the river, for the purpose of throwing
the water into the main channel Northern
Arrus
Year: 1861

The Q. S. TREASURY LOAN NoTEs AS Ex-
CHANGE MEDiUMs.-The Bee says, concerning
the new q. ). Treasury notes, bearing $40
per cent. interest, which are now offered for
sale in California


Whoever has to send one hundred or ten
thousand dollars to his friend or factor in the
East, need only to purchase a sufficiency OF
these, and there is no rates of exchange-no
six per cent on New York ST. Louis-no
insurance-no fear of loss by sea or land, as
they can be cut 10 two and half sent at time :;
and besides this, they draw interest all the way
en- route. Thus. instead of paying interest as
one has to do by the ordinary mode of ex-
change, he receives interest. And in addition
to their handiness and profiableness for such
purposes they are the best permanent invest
ment offered. The seven and half per cent
which they bear is higher interest than any
State gives. and the security is the whole peo-
pie OF the United States We Of California
can use forty millions year in exchange
alone, and on that at the prevailing sum of
interest, we will save the splendid sum of
S2.400 900 for the United States will trans
port the gold to New York and elsewhere at
its own cost and risk. Now, if man has to
send $50 to the East. it costs him SO 90 but
with these notes, he can send it at no cost and
have his note of exchange bearing interest at
the same time
Year: 1861

Soar BoL1SG AT New SAN PEDRo.-Pre-
paratons on an extensive scale kave been made
at New San Pedro, by one Dodson, for the
manufacture of soap. An immense quantity of
tallow is on hand, watts are filled with I've. the
moulds are prepared, and the huge boilers in
readiness, and will be at work probably next
week. Steam power will be used.
Year: 1861

The PLAN OF THE RgBELs.-We cannot
believe the plan at Richmond is for the i'm
mense Southern army lately on or near the
Potomac either to attack Washington or win
ter in Virginia. They know that they cannot
attack Washington with success. and they
know too that the whole subsistence of VIrgi
pia is eaten out. Such an army as that of the
Potomac could not subsist through the Win
ter in Virginia. Notoriously the impression


in the minds of the officers and men OF the
army is that they are TO find their Winter
quarters an Kentucky. The same impression
pervades the minds of the people of Virginia !;
and what is more, it pervades the minds of the
leading Secessonsts of this State The Sc
cessionlsts of our own neighborhood and we
doubt not OF all the neighborhoods in Kentuc-
ky, fully believe that the Confederate army in
Virginia intends occupying our State through
the approaching Winter.-Lou,suHe Journal


LIBRARY FOR THE ISsANE.-The following.
from the Stockton Independent, indicates that
the well being OF the insane, in providing for
them rational amusement, is to be looked after:


The officers of the Insane Asylum COM
menced October 26th, to establish a library
for the use of the patients of that institution.
they have already small collection of some
thing less than one hundred volumes and they
now appeal to the public here and throughout
the State, who take an interest in the welfare
OF this unfortunate class of sufferers, to aid
their efforts by contributing one, two or more
volumes of such books as they may have to
spare. The books may be done up in packa>
ges, addressed to the officers of the Insane
Asylum" and to the care of Sydney Newell,
Stockton, or to the office of the Stockton In
dependent.
Year: 1861

since a Chinaman, near Volcano, was bitten
by a rattlesnake. His companions, acting
probably, on the old adage that hair of
the dog will cure his bite" made him eat the
snake. John died some time after, but wheth,
er from the effect OF the snake biting him or
his biting the snake. deponent saith not
Amador DISPATCH
Year: 1861

ern ladies-tbeir conveyance Of letters 70 their
friends about their persons, and of arms anc am
munition in their trunks, with all their spyicg
expeditions and despicsbls coquetries with loyal
men-it is impossible not to foresee an effect Of
the Rebellion upon society in the South which
threatens profound Generalization in the future.
A whole race of Becky Sharps would not afford
a very cheerful domestic picture. We may con.
graduate ourselves that the loyal children of the
Union are not obliged to be trained in the low
arts of the intriguante, and that the examples
set before them by their mothers and listers are
pure and elevating.
Year: 1861

Advices from our Minister in London indicate


certain if not speedy recognition of the "Confed-
"erate States as an independent Power by
the British Government. But there is in this
nothing to surprise or discourage.


The tendencies of the British Government have
not been secret. The success or failure of
the JEFF. Davis rebellion depends on its power at
home, not on the favor with which it may be
regarded abroad.


A recognition by Great Britain would doubt
less give it certain degree of moral support,
but would neither feed nor clothe its armies.
Wait little, and We may have news to
send abroad that will neutralize the influences
of that On which the Brtifh Ministry is now di'.
posed to act. We expect no favor from Eu-
rope and have sought noue.
Year: 1861

An Albany correspondent of the Buffalo CoET-
Ter thus comments upon the decease of the Re
publican organization:


Another year we shall probably have no effect
i've or formidable opposition. Republcanism is
dead and cold, and the remains of the defunct or
ganization should be put under ground without
delay. Mr.. Pomeroy, Mr.. Stewards immediate
representative in Congress, pronoHnces the party
dead, beyond the hope of resurrection, and he
implores his friends to stand by the Administra-
ton on patriotic conscientious, rejecting all
expectations of party advantage. This view Of
the case seems to be generally concurred in, as
well at Washington as throughout the country
Republicanism accomplished its mission when il
elected Mr.. Lincoln to the Presidency. In this
State the leaders of the party gave a cognOvif of
their incapacity and unhtness TO aid in conduct
ing the Government, when they voluntarily sur
rendered their organization and invited their life
long adversaries TO come in and share with them
in the advantages and responsibilities Of sustain
ing the Administration. They had an apparent
majority of at least $4,000 in the State Of New
York-they were sure to be reinforced by the
Federal Government; and yet so over mastering
was their consciousness of weakness and incapa-
blity that they delivered themselves over, bound
hand and foot, TO the tender mercies Of the men
whom they had made themselves hoarse in de
nouncing as unpatriotic, dishonest and corrupt.
Year: 1861

the press ratified the prohibition Of freedom Of
discussion and cheered on those engaged in the
fiendish work of undermining our dearest institu
tions.


But now this engine of oppression has recoiled
portion Of the Republican party who would libe-
cate and arm the slaves not finding the Admins
tration quite far advanced in philanthropic
progress as themselves, have opened their batter
les upon it; and fearing that they too may be
treated like the genuine friends of the Constitu
ton, they have become jealous champions OF
constitutional liberty and denounce the political
iDquisiti0n with great b0ldness and power Now
that the torrent of evil has reached their own door
stones they realize its destructive nature and com
bine to resist il. They numerous and infiu-
entail faction and their protests will not be ut
tered in vain. They will for time roll back the
tide of desolation, and shall soon have liberty
to think


Take courage then, friends of the liberty Of
thought Take courage ye that would think for
yourselves public affairs and on the great in
terests Of your countryl Take courage, ye that
love the Constitution and love the people Of all
this broad land Ye may yet be free to think
free TO speak-free to writel Ye may yet speak
what you think Of civil war. of coercive war, of
subugating and unconstitutional warl Ye NAV
yet put forth your strong arguments for the SOW
eregnty of the States the equality Of their rights
and the sacredness of the great covenant and
charter of the Unionl Ye may yet see your
country reunited. peaceful, prosperous and blest
of Heavenl God speed the day. A. B. j.


New Haven, Dec. 10. 1861
Year: 1861

The Confederate States have n nonuIo-
tlon exceeding nine millions-of which
nearly SIX millions are whites This is
nearly double the population of England
under King William Ill and Queen Anne.
when she successfully waged war against
the most powerful nations OF Europe. IL
Is but little below the population Of Eng


land during her gigantic struggles with the
hrst and great Napoleon. The Confede-
rate States without Kentucky. Missouri
and Maryland, which will come when
ready) cover an area equal to the cohtin-
ent OF Europe-possess an inexhaustible
supply OF minerals, and climate aud soil
adapted to the production of whatever
mans natural or artificial condition re-
quires.


! This vast region, inhabited by people
who are bred from childhood to horseman-
ship and the use of arms, and who know
what liberty is and love and adore its
portloned out for subiugaton by the dis
gushing Yankee race, who don't know how
TO load gun, and look contemplate on
horseback. That they may be drilled into
respectable military machines by the Vir-
g'nlaa, who commands them, is likely
enough but without dsjointing the
eternal fitness Of things, and dislocating
the order Of nature, that they should be-
come capable of empire, is simply absurd.
Grant that mere brute force should en-
able them TO overrun the land, like q
cloud OF Eastern loousts their reign
would pass with themselves. They possess
not one quality that fits them for COM
mand. Since their beginning as a nation,
and out OF all their seething population,
they have never yet produced a general
or Statesman. That is an effort beyond
their ability. But for organizing hotels,
working machinery, and other base me-
ehanical contrivances, they are without
equals in the world And the very law of
Nature which invests them with excel
lence in those inferior departments of
humanity, condemns them to inferiority
IN those Of nobler and more exalted
strain.


In setting up for conquerors and gentle
men, they have mistaken the bent Of
their genius. They must fall, for they are
striving against the very ordinances of
Nature. Every slave, however stupid,
knows the difference between black
guard and q gentleman; and while proud
lQtsthA@Ae t6ase,Fga sTFeoplfatssarH TFeop biBs.
! dependent states TO Their seryitude by
telling them that Athens was the glory of
the world, and all who shared her des-
les partook of her glory. But there is
nothing in the Yankee character which
does not excite disgust and loathing in
every manly bosom. The very fact of being
ruled over by such a race, would inspire
such intensity of shame as to render life
intolerable. The permanent establish
ment Of their dominion is only possible
by the extinction of every generous emo
ton of the human heart.-Richmond
Whi0
Year: 1861

Will enforce, yet this case does not depend
upon the existence Of that right. but Il 4
.he case OF gift to the wife in considera-
u9n OF and as a provision for separation
which IS extinguished by the restoration
oi the conjugal relations Of the parties.


Upon this view the demurrer was
properly sustained, and the decree Is
affirmed. U.,,ry
Year: 1861

On the 9th OF February Judge Kellogg, a
Republican Representative in Congress from
Illinois, made speech for Compromise, and
we think the sentiment embodied in that
speech, will meet the cordial appreciation of
every true patriot. 1t affords us great pleas
ure to record such sentiments, as having fall
len from at least one Republican. We re-
gret that the number Of patriots among them
is so few; but it is pleasure to record that
there is one righteous man in Sodom.
Mr.. Kellogg said:


"lle had been read out Of the Republican
patty by both Tribunes big and little, New
York and Chicago, but as he was going 10
read every man out who was not for peace
and harmony between the North and South
If the Republicans would only adopt his
compromise and do that to preserve the
Union which our forefathers did to make it,
the whole strife could be settled in one hour.
He proposed to restore the Missouri Com
promise, and put it into the Constitution
that Congress nor territorial legislature
should not interfere with slavery South of
the line. What the Missouri Compromise
said inferentially he wanted to say directly.


Farnsworth, Of Chicago, asked his COL
league if his proposition was not the Breck-
enrdge platform for all territory South, and
Douglas platform for all North.


Kellogg didn't care a copper about any
platform in Gods world. lie wanted to
save the Union. His colleague would do
nothing to save it.. He advised them to mi
CRATE 20 South Carolina.


Farnsworth retorted; he wouldn't yield
the principle that slavery should be extended
over thst Territory, to save the Union. The
principles of liberty are worth more than
government. much Kissing in the galleries
Kellogg declared that his proposition didn't
so now. By the Dred Scott decision all the
territory was slave. Every foot of territory
is legally slave, and it is too late to talk
about it. Is is no extension of slavery to
recognize what the law says. He asked il
Massachusetts wouldn't unbend to save the
Union? If he must part from his friends he
would give them blessing; and if they
must wander for while in the dark paths
of tanaticism, they wonld come back and
be welcomed to the first place in the fold.


The speech made good deal of excite
ment as developing the first great controver-
sy in the Republican ranks"


Suppose the Republicans had been actua-
ted by the same spirit as Mr.. Kellogg, what,
we ask, would haxe been the condition of
the country to day. Why, instead of being
on the brink of ruin, it would have been
peaceful, happy, and prosperous. But, un-
fortunately, they are nearly all Farnsworths.
They would not yield the principle that sla-
very shall not be extended over the Territory,
even 10 save the Union. No matter what
NAV be the Constitution and the laws, they
will not surrender their opposition to it,
even though the Union should, in conse'
quence of their obstinacy, tumble to pieces.
Had they been disposed to do right the
trouble could have heen settled at once-in
the language of Judge Kellogg, "the strife
could have been settled in an hour"


E1press.
Year: 1861

How Do You MARCn?-Do YOU march,
reader, with these who "carry the flag and


keep step to the music of the Union" or
with those who are willing to let the Union
slide before they will surrender one iota OF
the Chicago Platforms The Democratic
party is willing to make concessions to pre-
serve the Union; the Republican party de-
clares its fixed determination to "sand firm
and yield not an inch to the slave power"
Under which banner, reader, will you enlist?
Year: 1861

Small men must use small mean, especi-
a''y IN retaliation. The editorial profession
has more OF those means in varied degree.
than any other Envy, slight, malicious
construction and unmanly excuse are char
acterlstc in newspaper intercourse But Of
all the meanness none is more contemptibe
than the lying excuse of not being able to
get the paper which "has been saying some
thing about US"
Year: 1861

The following account of practical
joke recently perpelrated by some of the
Jolly "coves'' of Victoria, V. l., is related
10y the Colonist, and exhibits some of the
characteristics of the people of that flour
shing little city:


"A man inhabiting a small one-story house
across the ravne, retired to rest about ten
o'clock, rather the wors for liquor, and soon
fell into u sumber and visited the sweet
land of dreams How long he had slept he
knew not, but was awakened sometime be-
fore daylight bv a sensation as if cold water
was being thrown on his face and, when
fully aroused discovered that tho rain was
falling upon him, and his bed,clothes, shirt
&c, were completely saturated. To leap
from his couch was The work Of moment,
but, to his great surprise and discomfort, he
alighted in pool of mud and water. He then
sought to regain his bed, but after searching
for sometime, and finding it not, gave vent
to piteous cries for help, which were finally
heard 10y his nei ,hbors, who repaired to his
assistance with lights and found him stand
ing in the street, in state of seminudity,
almost perished by his exposure to cold
wind and a hesyv shower Of rain. lie was
extricated from his position and escorted to
his house-no, the place where it had once
Stood for it was there no longer! An exam
ination developed the fact that it had been
stolen from over the poor wight's head while
he slumbered, and he himself carried out on
his matrass and laid in the soflest mud to be
found in the neighborhpod. After day
light search was instituted, and the unfor-
tunae mans house found near Rock Bay in
good state OF prese'va ion. 1t came out
during the day that he had been the victim
Of party of wags, who, taking advantage
of his ''soggy" state, produced by numerous
drains, had played the joke off upon him.
The house being very small and of light con
slruction, and resting upon four loose stones
as foundation, offered no obstacle to the
successful carrying out of their designs.
A suit will be commenced against the par
ties at once, by the victim, we learn, for
damages sustained in the shape of rheumatic
pains and pleursy."
Year: 1861

When Warren Hastings was Governor


General of India, he observed that in the
district of Benares, little below the sur


face of the earth. is to be found a stra-
tum of kind Of fibrous woody sub
stance, of various thicknesses, in hori
zontal layers. Maj Roebuck was in
formed of this, and went out to spot
where an excavation had been made,
displaying this singular phenomenon.
In digging somewhat deeper for the pur-
pose of further research, they laid upon
a vault, which on examination proved to
be of some size, and to their astonish-
ment; they found a kind of printing
press, set up in the vault, and on it NOV
able types, placed as if ready for print
ing. Every inquiry was put on foot to
ascertain the probable period at which
such an instrument could have been pla-
ced there, for it was evidently not OF
modern origin, and from all the Major
could collect it appeared probable that
the place had remained in the state in
which it was found for at least one thou.
sand years. We believe the worthy Ma
jor, on his return to England, presented
one of the learned Associations with a
memoir, containing many curious specu-
lations on the subject. Paper we know
TO have been manufactured in the East
many centuries before we had any knowl-
edge of it; and we have many reasons to
think that the Chinese had been acquain-
ted with the mode Of printing they now
employ many centuries before Faust in
vented it in Europe. 1t certainly does
no credit to the inventive genius of the
Romans, to know that while they ap-
preached so near as to engrave in style
not to be equalled in the present age, on
gems and stones, and of course the ia
king of impressions from them, that they
should still have remained ignorant OF
the art which has bestowed so many
blessings upon mankind.