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Year: 1869

Wellss jewharp in this city lit used to be his
'organ'') has gone back on the Fifteenth
Amendments and now says lit may NOT be SO
strongly the policy OF the Republican party as
some people suppose Universal suffrage will
fat lose it's popularity with the Republican par
ty n the South, especially if the voters are {"
be controlled by the o slave ollsarchy and by
the capitalist" This is jus; what We have been
telling the negroes all the time These carpet
bagyers don / care cent for the negroes hem
selves Ali they want Is their votes, and now
if they can't control them by the league,


they want to take away the right of suffrage
from them As you please. MeSsieurs carpet
baggers Ii you compel the negroes to vote
We will unite with them and out-vote YOU II
you don't let the negroes vote yOmN get no
votes at all. Take yonr choice. We've got
YOU either -Ernniaer
Year: 1869

u The circulation of the ssSPEcTAToR"
is about as great as the combined clrcuia-
tion Of both the other papers published IN
this place, and has as many subscribers In
this county alone as are contained in the
whole list of either of the other papers.
Year: 1869

We, all of us compIaIn of the shortneSs OF
time and yet have much more than we know
what To do with. " always complaining
that our days are few, and acting as though
there would he no end 'f them. -
Year: 1869

In the debate on the bill to repeal the
Tenure.ofOGice Act, on Saturday, Senator
Thayer declared that he had listened
throughout the debate for good reason
why the law should not be repealed, and
then proceeded to say as a reason why 1t
should be, that if any Senator occupied the
place of Grant he would want it repealed.
Senator Thayer is evidently philosopher
and logician. His argument is 50 strong
that, if admitted, it would turn out every
inmate Of prison in the country. He
grsvely invites his brother Senators to do
what they would want done if they were in
tho White House. If this argument is q
good one it certainly existed against the
passage Of the act.
Year: 1869

An exchange suggests that the reason
why the art Of sculpture has made no great
progress in this country is because We are
so constantly engaged in cbisling each
other, that We have no time to spend in chs.
ling cold marble.
Year: 1869

USE or LEMoNs-When persons are fever ish and thirsty beyond what is natural, indi- cated in some cases by a metallic taste in the mouth, especially after drinking water, or by a whitish appearance of the greater part ot the surface of the tongue, one of the best "coolers,n internal or external, is to take lemon, cut of the top, sprinkle over II some loaf sugar, working it down into the lemon with the spoon, and then suck 1t slowly, squeezing the lemon and adding more sugar as the acidity increases, from being brought up from lower point. lnvalids with fever ishness may take two or three lemons day in this manner with the most remarkable benefit, manifested by sense of coolness, comfort and invigorstion. lemon or two thus taken at teatime, as an entire substitute for the ordinary supper of Summer, would give many a man q comfortable nights sleep and m awakening of rest and inyigoration, with an appetite for breakfast, to which they are strangers who will have their cup of tea for supper, or relish snd cake, and berries, or peaches and cream.-JOurHGl of Health.
Year: 1869

&F The other morning just after
dinner, about the time the people were
going to bed, small boy, about thirty
years old, only daughter of an old
maid, with three orphan children, who
live opposite the Post-offce, on the
same side of the way, (they don't live
there now, we're alarmed by hearing a
dumb man crying, Murder" and
looking out they saw blindman peep
ing into window, where no-armed
man was beating his wife, when no.
legged man ran in and kicked the dog
through the side of the house, slightly
killing two dead pigs that the hen
hatched a day or two after that The
cid man .sierted off for the doctor,
who had gone to Taylor's, at Tyne
Bridge end, to see ifthe gutta-percha
Kaleidoscope, three-thirds of mile
long, would enable him to sound all his
patients without leaving his fresidel
Year: 1869

of good sense, it may be added. of
good feelings, too, for if law of kind
ness be written in the heart, it will be
led to disinterestedness in little as well
as great things--that desire to oblge
and attention to the qualification of
others, which is the foundation of good
manners.
Year: 1869

E Any one who is much talked of
must be much maligned. This seems
to be a harsh conclusion: but when
YOU consider how much more given
men are to depreciate than to appre-
ciate, you will acknowledge that there
is some truth in the saying.
Year: 1869

A PUzzLE.-Here is spquestion for
young arithmeticians, and others. who
like to crack an arithmetical nut now
and then to try their wit upon:


Two Arabs sat down to dinner. and
were accosted by a stranger who re-
quested to join their party, saying
"that as be could not get provisions to
buy in that part of the country, if they
would permit him to eat only an equal
share with themselves, he would will
ingly pay for the whole" The frugal
meal consisted of eight small loaves,
Eve of which belonged to one of the
Arabs and three to the other. The
stranger having eaten third part of
the eight loaves. arose and laid before
them eight pieces of money, SAYING
"My friends, there is what promised
you; divide it between you according
to your Just rights" A dispute, Of
course arose respecting the division of
the money; but reference being made
to the eadi he adjudged seven pieces to
the owner of the FIVE loaves, and only
one to him who had owned the three
loaves. Yet the cadi decided justly.
Year: 1869

Whiskytown, June 10Th, 1860.
Ed. CoURIER:-Although the past winter
was unfavorable for mining in this locality
the summer gives great promise of of being
favorable for creek and river miners and sew
eral companies intend working in the bed of
Clear Greek the present season. P.J. Ry-
mer Co., and company of Celestials are
already at work near this point.


About four miles below here, on Clear
Greek, is section of country that is paying
very we'll. James Whittal is working
twelve Cinnamon on +" halves" he furnish
| ing lumber, etc. He informed me they took
out over nineteen ounces the week before
last He lays around and watches them
work, and allows be has as good thing as
he wants-or any other man. Maliean &
Russell are also working Chinese with good
results. Last summer their claim paid we'll,
yielding over $4,000, and was also worked
under great disadvantage. Richardson also
is working Chinese. and is engaged in bring
ing ditch from Clear Greek on his claim SO
that he can work the year round, Altogeth-
er there is quite colony below here remind
ing one of the mining camps of 40, and if
the Fifteenth Amendment should be ratified
and the supplemental legislation that would
follow should be enacted before the diggings
are worked out, this will be splendid place
for the boys to electioneer. Our cores
pondent reads the Examiner.


We have a rather warm climate up this
way. A resident of this locality found
pipped egg in the feed trough, in his stable
few days ago, carried it to the house and
wrapped it up in piece of flannel and at
last accounts a young chick was just about
ready to make his advent into this trouble
some world.


Two years ago an egg hatched on its own
hook in a manure heap in Kesler's stable
yard, the chicken raised himself under the
discouraging circumstance of not being able
to identify his parents, and is to day as fine a
rooster as can be found in Whiskytown.-
Such things, however, l believe are not COM
mon.


| heard some big snake stories the other
day. A man who lives in town said he saw
a rattlesnake on Brandy Creek which was
coiled up and resembled the worm of still,
only it was larger. and be was pretty sure
from the hasty look he took of the serpent
that it had legs. He was considerably
excited at the time which probably accounted
for his seeing the legs. The ditch tender
also saw large snake lately-ss large round
as the calf of his leg, and singular to relate
neither the man nor snake were injured.


was telling these stories to nelghbor
yesterday and be said that he could lay over
them both, as he once killed rattlesnake
on Squaw Creek, that was over twelve feet
long. He said he heard it rattle two hun
dred yards off, and that its tail part was
coilcd up, and its head was above the tops of
the surrounding bushes. 1t was whopper.
not the story but the snake" B.
Year: 1869

SLuIcE RoBBERs.-The sluice boxes iu John
Forschler's mining claim at Piety Hill were
cleaned up and robbed a few nights ago
The sluices contained considerable quick.
silver for catching gold. and this, together
with the gold in the boxes, was gathered in
prospecting pan and carried away by the
thieves. An unsuccessful attempt was also
made to rob the Mcpherson hume recently.
We understand that several claim owners
about Piety now watch their sluices at night,
and are particularly anxious to give Coroner
Lynch occasion to visit that place in his Of
fetal capacity
Year: 1869

READ IT.-We refer readers to our special
" Advertisers Directory" devoted exclusive
ly to the benefit of the regular advertising
patrons of this paper. Its condensed form
renders it easy for any one to find, without
trouble or delay, who our most hourishing,
liberal and enterprising business men are,
and what branches of business they are en-.
gagged in. 1t also serves TO direct special at
tention to the more extended advertisements
inserted in the paper, causing them. to be
read often to the benefit of both readers and
advertisers.


In this fast and fcverish age, business men
arc universally becoming aware of the fact
that constant advertising is indispensably
necessary to attract and retain custom The
old fogy business men who neglect to keep
the public informed as to their whereabouts,
and what they have for sale, are now very
soon forgotten by the mass of people who
press on without burthening their minds with
the recollection of the business or location of
those who court obscurity. Beside this. the
people Of California have become so accus.
toned to changes in business, that they nat
urally conclude that when business men fail
to advertise, or discontinue their advertis-
ments. they are either getting low in capital,
or contemplate closing out business and en-
igrating at an early day. Such impressions
are sure to keep customers away, as perma-
nent residents of the County prefer giving
their patronage TO those who intend to make
their homes here and who will hereafter favor
them on account of their continuous custom.
Advertise and prosper.
Year: 1869

Interested parties in Marysyille and Col
lusa are advocating the construction OF di
rect line of railway to connect these two
points, which are separated by distance of
about thirty miles. That such road would
greatly benefit Marysville is very apparent,
but to our view Colusa can make more ad-
vantageous application of her means in an
another direction. Now the fact must be
evident to ALL that the productions of Colusa
and the counties situated above her on the
Sacramento, are of such character as to find
their natural market at the Bay. To reach
that market then, by the quickest and most
direct route should certainly be the object for
which Colusa and her similarly situated sis
ter counties ought to strive. And, after an
examination off the railroad situation, it occurs
to us that Colusa could best promote her in
terests by securing a direct line of transpor-
tation to tide-water, an enterprise which she
could accomplish by assisting to build rail-
way from the town of Colusa to Davisville and
there connecting with the Vallejo road
By that means Colusa could not only place
herself in communication with the Bay, but
also secure railroad connection with Marys.
vile by way of the Davisville extension.


We also believe that if such connection
was formed between Vallejo and Colusa,
means and inducements would not be want
ing to secure the extension of the road to
the town of Shasta. Such an enterprise is
feasible, and we hope the people of Colusa,
Tehama and Shasta will give the matter ear
nest consideration,
Year: 1869

gentleman, after a severe sickness, had lesion
of the liver. Every quick movement or sudden lar
gave him severe pain, often laying him up for davs
Hence he unable to follow any occupation with
regularity.


In this condition, he applied over the part
affected an ALLC0Ck'S POROUS PLASTER.
At first, it seemed to irrtate, so it was taken Off
But the marked improvement he experienced after
ward gave him courage to try again, and he there
fore applied another plaster. In few days some.
thing gave way" slipped to use the gentle
mans own words. There was some soreness for
few days after, then his health was perfectly
restored. Upon being sounded by his physician
the adhesion or lesion was found to be gone


Principal Agency, Brandreth House. New York.
Sold by all Druggists. je26
Year: 1869

RAILROAD SPEcULATIoNs.-Th Butte Rec.
ord states that it has good authority for say
ing that line of survey for the California
and Oregon railroad is to be run from Yuba
City, in a nearly direct line to Red Bluff
passing four miles to the west of Chico The
Record thinks the survey crossing the Feath-
er River near Hamilton is as good as rejected
now. 1t appears to us that the Company is
in no particular hurry to locate the road
anywhere for the present.
Year: 1869

A Successive understand that the Ma
sonic Ball and Celebration which came off at
Millville on the 24th was splendid success
in every particular. Those who went from
here to attend, are profuse in their praise
and commentator of the affair. Millville
"spread herself in order to make the Cele.
bration success and accomplished the object
admirably.
Year: 1869

Our OF LUcK.-That crowd of Shasta road
sharps who left Millville early on Thursday
evening for Shasta and did not arrive here
until daylight.


The only difference between the old Shasta
and Millville road and the new cutoff is that
the distance between the two points is in
creased 90 miles by the latter route.
Year: 1869

In lumbago they act like eharm In a few
hours violent cough is relieved by Plaster ap-
piled to the chest Many persons believe a cold
cannot be taken while Plaster is worn there
this we do know, they greatly assis, in the cure of
a neglected cold, SO often the introducer of Con-
sTInu+;au
Year: 1869

Resoired, That each Supervisor Judge above
named, in of his absence refusal to act,
the person chosen assuming to act such shall
be sworn by some officer authorized to administer
oaths, or in the absence of such officer, by some
resident freeholder and legally qualified voter of
such district, that he will correctly and faithfully
conduct such election protect it against all frauds
and unfarness carefully and truly canvass and
report all votes cast thereat in such manner as
is required in of said election. And such
Supervisor or Judge shall appoint such assistants
shall be necessary to receive and take account
of the votes cast, conducting such election in all
respects provided in said Act concerning pri-
mary elections.


Resotred, That at the primary election to be
held July 10th, the voters be and they are hereby
requested to vote either in favor against adopt
ing the Crawford County Plan at the next primary
election. c. MCDONALD, Chairman


GRANT |. TAGGART. Secretary


je 81 County Central Committee
Year: 1869

HE UNFORGIvING CHRISTIAN
Bourdaloue, near the close of his SER
mon on Forgiveness, makes the unfor.
giving Christian say in his daily pray
er to God, "Forgive US our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass
against US. -.-


"This is to say to God: o Lord,
as | bear in my heart an aversion to-
wards him which nothing can remove,
have Thou the same hatred for me;
as | wish never to see him, and that
he should never see me, forbid o God
that | myself should ever see thee in
thy Kingdom. Work for my ruin as
| work for his, and cover me in hell
with eternal confusion, as | would
wish on earth to cover him with shame.
Pardon me no more than | pardon
him; and as this reconciliation into
which my friends have drawn me is
only apparent, be Thou no otherwise
reconciled to me; | am always his en-
emy, be Thou always mine; as | wait
ed for the opportunity which is now
lacking, to take revenge on him, do
thou, o Lord, seize on the first which
presents to take vengeance on me-
Year: 1869

The world is old and the world is cold,
And never a day is fair, l said.
Out of the heavens the sunlight rolled,
The green leaves rustled above my head,
And the sea was a sea of gold.
The world is cruel, l said again,


Her voice is harsh to my shrinking ear,
And the nights are dreary and full ofpain.
Out of the darkness sweet and clear,
There rippled a tender strain;
Rippled the song Of bird asleep,
That sang in a dream in a budding wood;
OF shining fields where the reapers reap,
OF "a wee brown mate and a nesting brood,
And the grass where the berries peep.
The world is false, though the world be fair,
And never heart is pure, 1 said.
And 10 the clinging of white arms bare,
The innocent gold of my baby's head,
And the lisp Of childish prayer.


-OUerland Monthly
Year: 1869

To turn from sin is WELL
And better still to fight
To meet the monster face to face,
And claim our earth born right:


But better yet,


And higher far,


To turn to Christ,


The Morning Star.
To turn from sin is hard,
And harder still the war
Which holds this enemy in check,
Without higher power:


That power is Christ,


The Son of God;


Our earthly friend,


And heavenly Lord.
To turn from sin we may,
From guilt we may be free;
But what avails the turning hour,
Except ye "turn to me"


My voice says come"
My word is " sure"


And souls are lost


Without my power.
To turn from sin we must,
We dare not die alone,
We cannot pass the Last Great Day,
While only fearing sin.


The love of God,


The Spirits power,


Our souls possess,


And make us pure.
Then, turn to God, who will;
Ye cannot bear the pains
OF endless punishment from Him,
In everlasting chains.


wanderer come"


Make no delay;


But turn to God


While yet ye may.


E. w. Hatch
East Berkshire, w.
Year: 1869

Agent for the Orleans County Marble Works at
Barton, would return his thanks to the public
for their patronage the last eight years and would


say that he is now prepared to finish
Year: 1869

for polishing and Can furnish work at prices
that no man can live and pay his help, who does
his work by hand. Now is your time to pur-
chase in winter when we have more time to fin


ish, and we will set up next summerto
Year: 1869

MEN WITHOUT HEARrs.-We some,
times meet with men who seem to think
that any indulgence in affectionate feeling
is weakness. They will return from a
Journey, and greet their families with ads.
taut dignity, and move among their chill
dren with the cold and lofty splcndor Of
an iceberg surrounded by its broken frag-
ments. There is hardly more unnatural
sight on earth than one of these families
without heart. Who that has expert
cnccd the joys Of friendship, and values
sympathy and affection, would not rathcr
Loose all that is beautiful in mattress seem
cry than be robbed Of the hidden treasures
of the heart? Cherish, then, your hearts
best affections. Indulge in the warm and
gushing emotions Of filial, paternal and
fraternal love.-lMrs Crdik.
Year: 1869

The Chicago SOrosis (the newspaper,
not the Club has the following logic


Two things can be equal, but not the
same. ...-r


Woman does not claim mans sphere,
first because she does not want it, and
secondly because such a claim would
be nonsense.


Adaptation and fitness are the con-
ditions precedent to the exercise of
any right or function.


The heart and brain can not change
places, or perform each others work,
but who will say that both are not
equally important?


Do not the nervous and arterial sys-
TENS run parallel, and together ramify
every portion of the human system?


Can the nerves say to the blood,
't-you are out of your sphere when you
persist in following us into every min
ute part of the-bOdy ?D


Thus in the body polite should the
two elements enter, man as head, wo-
man as heart, both equally important
and necessary.
Year: 1869

Those New York journalists who
give attention to the changes of fash
ion, announce that there will be but
slight, scarcely perceptible, change
in the bonnet this spring. It's size is
not to be disturbed, and those ladies
who did not use up their last years
bonnets can now have an opportuni-
ty to make them useful for another
season without in the ledst doing vio-
lence to the laws of fashion. To
those who have thin purses, this will
be good news, and it is for them and
their hard pressed husbands that we
make the gratifying announcement.
Year: 1869




Tue N. Y. Post holds to the notion
that women need not wear an ugly
dress in order to emancipate them
selves from their slavery to fashion.
They Ike to look pretty and have a
right to indulge the taste. It does
not see swhy sensible women should
not combine to settle upon some fash
ion Of walking dress, like the very
pretty, modest and yet convenient
short dress which was generally.worn
last year, and adhere to that as a
street costume, tolerating no arbitra-
ry change. of cut prescribed by the
fashion tyrants. Then, if they would
agree upon some equally sensible and
tasteful style of evening dress, and
absolutely refuse to change this style,
no matter what Paris or London says,
their emancipation would be as near
ly complete as seems practical. With
such a set system Of dress there would
still remain room for the exercise of
individual taste in the choice and
harmonious arrangement of cOlors,
and in the selection of material. 1t
would be possible to dress as richly,
as brightly and as soberly as inclina-
ton dictated.
Year: 1869

If any of the readers of the Courier
does not know, and would like to-
know how to make excellent corn
bread without the aid of soda, sour
milk, baking powder, or other poison.
Gus or unwhOlesome ingredients, let
them Try the following method:


Moisten any desirable quantity Of
corn meal with cold water. Then
add boiling water sufficient to make
thin batter. Nothing more is needed
but a little salt.


Bake in a pan, in a hot oven, for
about twice as long as soda bread. It
is good either warm or cold. PFy il,
and if you fail the first time, try again.
Courier.
Year: 1869

A few days since a daughter of gentle
man in Peoria, H., swallowed glass but
ton. It lodged in her throat and she be-
gan to choke and was unable to make
known her trouble. Her aunt, who hap
pened to be in the room, saw at once that
she was choking and that prompt action
was necessary. She seized the little girl
by the feet and held her head dOwnwards,
directing another child to pound the back
of the one she held. The prompt action
was successful, the button was removed,
and the life of the child saved.
Year: 1869

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT A WEDDING
"A minister named Anthony, who
was performing a marriage ceremony
in Andersonville, Georgia, on Thurs
day last, while in the middle of the
ceremony, was interrupted by the
step father Of the lady, who ordered
him to desist. He demonstrated with
the intruder, telling him 1t was too
late then, and that he ought not to be
guilty of such unseemly conduct. The
mans response was the raising and
the firing, at almost point blank
range, of a double barrel shotgun
loaded with buckshot, the entire load
taking effect in the lower part of his
victims stomach. The brave old man
fell to the floor, but by a tremendous
effort raised himself up, and saying,
81 will finish the job, " proceeded with
the ceremonys and pronounced the
couple man and wife. He then fell
over and expired.
Year: 1869

HOusekeepers will be glad to know
that if tubs and pals are saturated
with glyceFine they will not shrink
and dry up, the hoops will not fan off,
and there will be no necessity Of keep
ing these articles soaked. Butter
tubs keep fresh and sweet and can be
used q second time. Leather treated
with it also remains moist, and is not
liable to crack and break.