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Year: 1861

It is humiliating fact that in times like the present there are men found unpatriotic enough to speculate on the necessities of their fellow man. Our Shylocks are using every exertion to depreciate paper currency, in order to speculate on that depreciation. Some of them, in business transactions, arc refusing to take paper except at very un- reasonable discount. The effects of this course are manifest. It seriously incSn- modes all parties. It will bring about want of confidence in the currency of the South, and thus destroy the solid sinews of war. but it is useless to enumerate further. 1t must strike every one--even the usurers themselves, that such course is unworthy of the south, and highly detrimnntal to u interests of the community. It ig too much after the Yankee style, an1 nublic sentiment will not tolerate it. I.et ne hone for better things in tho futu'e.
Year: 1861

The editor of the Gazette indalges in the following malicious strain while writing back from Memphis:

 "We southern people have our weakness as well as those residing in other regions; and one pecu- liar weakness is boosting and blowing l hare heard of sev eral patriotic southern gentlemen who had given the proceeds of their cotton crops to the number of hundreds of bales each, as an actual oratuity to the government of the Confederate States and in the conGding simplicity of my heart believed it was true in every word and every lne On this subject have been disabused, though, and learn that the patriotic gentlemen only made an advance of their cotton for Confederate stocks, | arl rnada very good sales of their crops Ly the 1 oDcratiGn On tine subject of advancing money l on Confederate stocks, learn that two free ne- | eroes in New Orleans have invested thirty thou sand dollars not in cotton, but III actual cash lQ stocks in the Confederate States at par, anu many | others have made similar advances oi smaller suns in like manner. This is done because VI

 thought to be a good investment of capital, and not for the purpose of making van glorious ols' play of patriotism.

 He hears upon the streets of Little Rock

 a report that he never cares to inquire into

 its truth, and would unwillingly hear it if

 in his power. The Congress of the Con

 federate States passed law to raise funds

 upon cotton and give in payment its bonds.

 Of this law the learned editor Is as usual

 totally ignorant. "Patriotic southarn

 gentlemen, did offer to give cotton If nee

 essary. but were informed that the govern

 ment would issue their bonds for whatever

 amount the cotton sold, and would accept no

 g1atuity. He says further: these patriotic

 gentlemen made very good sales of their

 crops by the operation" If the editor al-

 ludes to the same persons that we heard had

 offered cotton, he heard another Ee whCrSha

 heard they had made any sale. He insinu- ates that it was a speculation. In this he

 insiunates another falschood. No one has sold cotton to the Confederate States, and the Confederate States will not purchase : cotton. It will simply give bonds for the amount in cash the cotton sells for in the : hands of the merchant. The bonds only

 draw eight DOT cent. interest, figure which

 no money lender. would accept. The impression that this only half south. ern sheet would throw out against men who

 are willing to aid the cause is false, and could only be prompted by the malice the ) editor of that paper feels tor every one who r had been guilty of the crime of advocating } secession.

 Q When the elitor of the Gazette left fol Richmond We had hoped he hal left hi. = malice towards southern men behind him 3 In revolution so terrible as to shake uI such dress to the top, his friends may have : hoped for revolution in his nature. Ii : this is the business the military board ha, q sent him on, the State will reap but littl, s prof: from his efforts in his lucrative DO sition.
Year: 1861

We must require advance payment for our paper in all cases. It is right and proper that we should do so, and we trust it will give offence ts no one.

 Money remitted through the mail will be at our risk There is no objection to send ing gold dollars or even larger coin in a letter. Subscription taken at any length of time at S2 per year.
Year: 1861

4 considerable part Of the cotton brought
to New York from Fort Royal will require
ginning. and an agent Of the Government is
purchasing machinery for that purpose, to be
sent down to Port Royal to be used there.
One advantage Of this seizure Of unginned
cotton will be that the Governmcnt Will get
possession not only Of the staple, but what is
also OF great importance at this time, the seed.
Application hiss already bccn made to the de-
partments at Washington for 4 large quantity
Of cotton seed to be used the coming season
in this State, and Secretaries Seward and
Chase have taken much interest in the matter,
and promise that al the seed that cau he pro
cured shall have such destination
Year: 1861

D Hereafter there is to be monthly pub
lieation in New York Of the estate Army
List,". embracing the entire roster Of the 100
regiments from New York, with corrections
made up to the date of each publication It
will be valuable addition to our military-his-
to1ical literature; but tile idea should be en-
larged SO as TO embrace all the regiments in
the service, ana in this shape it would find .
Dasional circulation and become work OF
preat yaIrc
Year: 1861

Levi Reynolds, in the New England Far.


ner, thus states how he effected a cure Of a
bone SPAWN :-"l have fine mare. which.
| three wears ago, became very lame from a


bone SPAWN cn the left hind leg. Afcr a


pretty hard driving for several days. she be.
came So lame that she was unfit for use


The SPAWN was very tender, and she rested
the foot constantly on the shoe when she
stood. ! took her to the blacksmith and
directed him 10 put on shoe without any
toe cork, and with blum: heel curks two in.
ches long. She Immediately travelled much


better. and when she stood, rested the foot
on the too and heel corks, thus relieving the
conti acted cord from the strain to which it
had been constantly subjected. In a short
time the inflammation and tenderness subsided.
The swelling abated, and she travelled very
well. She wore off the inside cork faster
than the outside one when she began TO be
lame aPain. then had the shoe reset and
the corks made Of the same length. and she
soon became well. Aiter few weeks | had
the corGs shortened little, and the next time
she was shod, little more, but still have
her wear heel corks an inch or more in
length. There is slight enlargement Of
the bone where the SPAWN is seated, but she
performs hard service, and is not at all lame.
Several of my neighbors have applied the
same remedy, with equally good results,
and think that little thought and observ.
alton will satisfy any one that this is the ap.
propriate remedy. The cords attached to the
part where the enlargement is seated become
inhamed and contracted, and raise up the heel
from the ground. When the horse brings
the heel to the ground, the cords are strained,
and become inhamed. The long corks keep
the heel raised permanently, and thus prevent
the cords from being strained, and allow the
Inflammation to get well. Some enlargement
and slight degree Of stiffness may remain,
but seldom enough to affect the calf.
Year: 1861

AMERICAN GESIUs.-A story is told us, and
true one it is, which will illustrate the resour-
COS of American genius. We will retell it: Last
week Messrs. Ostrom and Vanvranken, of One
"a, in this county, started out on hunting ex-
pedition. When some miles from the point Of
departure and while walking on iume of the
South Yuba Canal, stepping from one tie to an
other, Vanvranken fell and injured his hip Sc
verely, so that he could not walk. The hunters
we're far from human habitation and help. 0s-
from set his wits at work and was soon moving
his companion homeward. Not being strong
enough to carry the wounded man, he procured
board and succeeded in dragging him on il
across the ties to the ditch. Here he built a
raft and laid Vanvranken on it. Unfortunately
there was not water enough in the canal to foat
of sufficient length to reach across the ditch
from bank to bank, and going some rods down
stream he damned the ditch with it till the wa
ter flowed back and rose high enough to float
the raft. The cargo came down to the dam.
Then going farther down he constructed more
dams or locks, and in about six hours Vanvran-
ken was thus foatcd three miles. Assistance
WAS here procured and the wounded man taken
home, as near drowned as bruised to death


Ostrom ought to engrave on his coat of arms
nil despcrGndum.
Year: 1861

WATER WoRKs.-A lot of the cast iron pipe
for Charles Marsh's Water Works came to
town Wednesday and were unloaded at the
upper section. By the time half mile of thepipe
is put in the ground and covered up, it is posi-
bic that some people will begin to believe Mr..
are at work excaFating for the reservoir short
distance from Sugar Loaf, in the direction of
C. ,yoteyille.
Year: 1861

A GALLANT PREDIcAMESr.-The old Pine
street bridge, as all the city knows, and part
of it to its sorrow, has an immense gap in it of
some sixty feet in breadth-too wide altogether
for any body to straddle. Well, as the bridge
is impossible, and as Piety Hill must have ac-
cess to the town in order to save it when fires
come, the enterprising folks on the other side OF
creek, just above the water, out of the timbers
of the old bridge. The foot way is the simplest
thing imaginable, being made of straight sticks
Of hewn timber. The creek, it is we'll known,
runs there with considerable pretensions to vol
dmc and velocity, but none whatever to clcanli-
ness. On Tuesday our friend and neighbor, Sol.
Stout, gallantly undertook to convoy a lady
over :he surgiDg billows. The fumes were
crossed, the bottom of the hill gained, and the
middle of the timber reached, when a sudden fit
into Tie drink, dragging our friend Stout with
her by the hand. Sol. gallantly buffeted the
waves, throwing them back with heart of con-
troversy, as Shakespeare would say, but it was a
scene of rough and tumble fer few minutes
sach as the world has seldom and Piety Hill
never witnessed. Sometimes crinoline up
permost, and we give Stout the credit of doing
his best to keep it 80 all the time but it wa:
considerably beyond his power. After having
revolved on their axes, waltzed in every con
ccivable shape, and been turned topsy- -turvey
two or three dozen times in the muddy water
strangled to death by criuoline and mud com
bncd, he succeeded in bringing himself ono,
more to perpendicular and dragging the al
most inanimate form of his rough and tumble
companion to the gravel. Sol. Stout was the
means of putting railing to the log that very
night.
Year: 1861

IT is in vain to stick your finger in the water,
and, pulling it out, look for hole and equally
vain to suppose that, however large a space you
occupy, the world will miss you when you die
Year: 1861

Some years since in Newcastle county,
Delaware, an Irshman was knocked
down and robbed. He accused the man of
having committed the robbery, and in
due time the case came on trial. The
lrishman being upon the stand, was cross
examined after having sworn positively
to the guilt of the prisoner. by one of the
keenest lawyers, and something like the
following was the result:


You say the prisoner at the bar is the
man who assaulted and robbed you?'


Yes


WAS it by moonlight when the occur
renee took place.


Devil bit of it.


Was it starlight?'


Not a whit; it was SO dark TINT you
could not have seen your hand before
you


Was there any light shining from
any house near by?'


'Divil bit iY house was there any
where about


We'll, then, if there was no moon, no
stars, nor light from any house, and so
dark that you coulden't see your hand
before you, how are you able to swear
that the prisoner is the man? How could
You see him?


Why, yer honor, when the spalpeen
struck me, the fire flew out Of my eyes
so bright you might have seen to pick
up pin, you could.


The court, jury, counsel and specta-
tors exploded with shouts at this quaint
idea, and the prisoner was directly af-
ter declared not guilty


don't get abore your business" ms lady
said TO shoe maker who was measuring her
ankle in order to ascertain the size Of her foot.
Year: 1861

his seed begging bread;' and her heart
rose in humble yet firm reliance upon
their Divine Author


AS her children had eaten nothing all
day, and she vas still too feeble even to
rise from her bed, she now felt COMPEL.
ed, though most reluctantly, to send
forth the eldest of her children on hi.
first mission of begging, to seek from
some charitable stranger a few shillings
to buy bread, hoping she should soon be
again able to earn by her own Efforts
The child, noble little fellow of ten
years, shrank from the errand; but see
ing his poor mothers look of anguish,
he hushed his own regrets, and rushed
forth into the streets, little needing, in
his grief, what course he took; but n
higher power, though unseen directed
his steps.


AS the child walked mournfully on.
looking wistfully into the faces of the
people he met, he was too much dishear-
tened by their cold or Indifferent looks
to venture to addrcs them. The longer
he put it off, the more reluctant he was
to ask the aims he feared might be refu-
sed, and weeping bitterly he hurried on,
unknown and unheeded by the busy
throng..


Suddenly kind voice spoke to him.
and looking up he saw mild, benevo-
lent-looking gentleman, dressed in black
and wearing three-cornered hat. Ia
king the child's hand in his, and lead.
ing him gently onward, the stranger gen.
tleman soon drew from the little boy
their whole history-the fathers name
and death, the mothers struggle to gain
n support, her recent sickness, aud their
subsequent suffcrings; and then he badc
the child lead him to his home, though
shopping at a provision store on the
way to order II supply for the poor
family. Entering the house, the quick
eye of the stranger soon discerned the
cause of the mothers feebleness, and ln-
PRODUCING himself as physician quite
suited to her case. though not regular
practitioner, he offered to write pre-
scription, which he said he was sure
would prove beneficial. Leaving the
paper on the table, after saying few
kind. cheerful words to the mother, he
left the house, promising to repeat his
visit in few days and then to renew the
prescli ption if necessary,


When he was gone, the widow looked
at the paper, and found it to be an Or
der for hundred dollars to be paid on
demand, and signed by GEORGE WASH
INGTON.


This is a true incident. Such was
the father Of his country, man fearing
God, not less pititul to the sorrows OF u
child and the anxieties of
widowed mother, than great in the ar
mics of his country and the councils of
the nation. Thus were the widows pray
ers answered, and the seed of this faith
iul Christian not suffered to 'Jeg Bread.
Am. Hes,
Year: 1861

strong enough to maintain it, and the
people of outraged city will hang every
traitor found within its limits, This
feeling and assurance were confirmed by
others.


The heart of South is right. but the
head is crazed at present by the gross
est deccptions, the mast subtle sophis-
tries that near the semblance of truth,
and by general ignorance of the kind
ly feeling always held and still enter.
taiued by the people of the North toward
those of the South.


My conclusions are, that, underlying
the secession sentiment that covers the
whole surface of society at the South,
there is deep and abiding love of the
old Union; silently praying for deliver
ance from despotsm which has few.
parallels in the history of the world.
1t needs only to be informed and assur-
ed to become fearfully energetic.
Year: 1861

Many, many years ago. in desolate
little cabin in the suburbs of Philadel-
phia, sat lonely widow surrounded by
her fatherless children. Her husband
had fallen in the battles of his country,
but since then she had earned scanty
subsistence by her own hands without
being burdensome to any; aid her little
ones, though but poorly fed and clothed, I,
had never felt that bitterest ingredient
of poverty -alms-seeking from the pub
lie. But recently sickness had laid its
heavy hand upon her, and stern want
starvation almost, had followed closely
in its footsteps. Yet did not her faith
fail; she repeated the words that so often
before had cheered her sad heart
Leave thy fatherless children, and will


preserve them alive. saith the Lord !


have been young. and now am old, ye
never saw the righteous forsaksr, mol
Year: 1861

"IT seems to me have seen your physiognomy
somewhere before" said swell to a stranger the
other day but cannot imagine where"


Every likely" replied the other, 81 have been
the keeper of prison for the last twenty years"
Year: 1861

THESE INSTRUMENTS ARE RADICALLY
l. different in principle and construction from
all others, combining what is valuable in all 9th
ers with neW principles of vast utility.


The Bow used in these instruments is not a
spring, but soft iron, to be shaped at pleasure to
fit. The power which is in the short steel spring
is also lever, and is entirely controlled by a
screw, making the pressure light or heavy, at
pleasure. The Pad works over a knuckle, Civ
ing at the same time an inward and upward
motion, whereby not more than half the usual
pressure is required, and very little on the back
1t cannot work up or oat of place the Pad bear
ing is changed, or the Pad itself changed in size
or shape with very little trouble. These lnstru
ments are the smallest lightest, most durable,
(no rust) most cleanly, as the covers can be ta-
ken off and washed at pleasure and will do more
for relief and radicdi cure than any ever offered
to the public. Send for descriptive pamphlet.


EDWARD HALL q Co,
Wholesale Druggists, 53S Washington street,


303m. San Francisco.


va Sole agents for the Pacific Coast.
Year: 1861

To our unusually large stock of Goods. Our
stock comprises every article in the Clothing and


FURNISHING line. We have constantly on hand
the largest stock and greatest variety Of CAssI-
MERE and WOOL II A T s., of any house in
the city, and our prices for these Goods are less
than of any other House, as we receive them
direct from the manufacturers on consignment,
Onr stool, Of
Year: 1861

SLIGHTLY ALTERED FROM CALIFORNIA EXPRESS.


We are reliably Informed that two dumb
Secessonists remarked, few days since in
the presence Of several deaf persons, that it


was their settled determination to prevent
the Inauguration of John Conness, if he
should be elected Governor; and that this


would be done at the point of the bayonet
if necessary We do not pretend to givethe


exact language used, but this is the substance


ls it true that this is the settled purpose o


the Dixie party? We can scarcely credit it


and yet the source from which it emanateC
forbids our treating the matter with levity
| Here we have the assurance that the Seces-
sionists will not submit to the inauguration
of a Democrat, who is duly and constitutions
ally elected, and has received the endorse
ment of the people as their choice for Gov
ernor. Yet these hypocrites, who have
innamed the passions of the people of the
South, and made them believe that they had
"A right TO rebel against a constitutionaliy
elected President, turn around and toll Us
that they are determined to follow the ex-
ample of the South, if the election does not
result in their favor. The Secessionists have
already manifested, in an unmstakable man
ner, their contempt for the Constitution and
laws, and hence we need not be surprised at
anything they do. They have determined
to drench this State in blood, if the people
do not bow their necks to the yoke they have
prepared for them. 1t may be true as as
serted that they are determined to prevent
Conness' Inauguration, if elected, at the point
of the bayonet, but we very much mistake
the people of California. if they will be de-
tered by threats, from the free and untram-
meled elective franchise. The Secessionists
may threaten a military despotsm, and they
may have the disposition to establish one
over this people, but we very much doubt if
the people of this coast are prepared for one
They know the only way in which this can
be avoided, is to elect men who are opposed
their influence to bring that worthy to his
senses They see the condition of poor, de-
graded Virginia, now writhing beneath the
tread Of contending armies, and the bare
threat that they intend to overturn our own
State Government, should suffice to arouse
the people to a sense OF their danger. We
suppose if Mr. Conness should be prev ented
by force from being our Governor after he is
elected, they will foist John II. Mcconnell
upon us in spite of the popular will, and this,
too, at the point of Confederate bayonets.
Or they may select general Twiggs to rule
over us.


Remember, people of California, with
whom you have to contend, and at the ensu-
ing election save yourselves from the clutches
of these despots by elocting Mr.. Conness the
only true true friend of popular liberty and
of the Union now before you for your suf-
frages for Governor Arouse yourselves and
carry him into the Gubernatorial Chair, bv
such an overwhelming expression of popular
will as will effectually put an end to the
threatened despotism Rembemer, your lib
critics are at stake
Year: 1861

The BULL Run TICK ET.-All who rejoice
over the result of the battle of Bull Run,
must vote for the Bull Run county ticket,
and thereby try to secure another such a
victory. After the cause goes down in Sep
tember the California Dixieites will have to
go into some quiet business. No Secession
lst can can ever again make his bread by
holding office, great or small in this State.
All OF them who depend upon politics for
living, must take their stand in Dixie's
land. Away awayl"
Year: 1861

A QUESTION OF ORGANIZATION Two or
three Years ago those who now lead the Sc
cession party of this State were very tena-
nious about Organization. They thought
principle ought to be sacrificed little, rather
than that Democrat should leave the Or
ganization of the party. Now they bolt the
organization of the Union itself Was the
organization Of e party of more consequence
in their eyes than the organisation of the
Government of the Nation?
Year: 1861

CALIFORNIA VoLuNTEERs.-A San Francisco
dispatch of the 18th, says:


large number of recruits for the Over
land Mail service have been made to-day.
Some of the volunteers held meeting this
morning, and appointed a committee to wait
on Gen. Sumner and ascertain if the compa-
nies now being raised would be accepted
sumner replied that he could give no answer
until the Governor issued his proclamation
a great deal Of indignation was expressed at
the tardiness Of the Governor Many of the
volunteers are here from the interior. and
waiting here under heavy expense. They
threaten to disband unless the Governor acts
soon. The companies already formed have
CHOSEN their officers, and should the Cover
nof refuse to confirm their choice many of
1he volunteers will back out.
Year: 1861

WORK ON THE CAPIToL-The work on the
State Capitol under the new contract of
Blake Connor, was says the Union, COM
menced Monday, pursuant to the terms of the
contract. But few men were employed
but it is the intention of the contractors to
put force enough on TO push the work for
ward with all possible dispatch.