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Year: 1868




FIRST MONDAY IN APRIL,
Enter upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


"If any person shall willfully make, or give,
under oath affirmation, false list of his or her.
their taxable property, false list of taxable
property under his, her, their CONTROL such per
shall be deemed gnilty of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor, as
is by law provided for the punishment of perjury ;
and any property willfully concealed, removed,
transferred, or misreprescnted by the owner or any
agent thereof to evade taxation, shall upon dis
covery be assessed at ten times the amount of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon it and fifty per cent. of the amount
such additional tax when solicited shall be paid
to the person persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property conceal
ed, transferred, removed misrepresented and the
remaining fifty per cent, after deduclng the usual
per ccntage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State


Attention is also directed to the following section
of the Act of lS65-6, relating to Shasta county


The Assessor of said county is authorized and
it is hereby made his duty collect all the poll
per capita tax except the road poll tax, and the
taxes upon all movable personal property and upon
the entry of any assessment of movable personal
property 10 any person, nrin, coIpoI"lioh, dssoca
ton, or company, who does not own real estate
sufficient in the opinion of the Assessor to insure
the payment of such tax within the county, to de-
mand the payment of the taxes upon the same ;
and if such person, firm, corporation, association
company shall refuse neglect to pay such
taxes, the Assessor shall, by virtue of the power
herein vested in him, proceed to collect such taxes
in the same manner prescribed by law for the Col
lector."


If Tax Payers we're to have a list Of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, as well facilitate my work


A. p. LADD,


Assessor of Shasta County.
Shasta, March 2, 1867. MI
Year: 1868

Submissive all know that breast
swimming is the style usually adopted all
over the world Beginners commence on the
breast, and in nine instances out OF ten they
continue TO move through the water on their
breast all through their lives. 1t is in the
water what walking is on land. To the be-
ginner it has the advantage of being the ca
sest to learn, and to the adept it has the at
traction of having last about it, Long dis
tances are mostly performed in this STYLE as
being more steady, and consequently less
fatiguiug $50 that here the breast frequently
conquers its more dashng rival the side
Also, when swimming for pleasure, rather
than for glory, we instinc'ively take to the
breast The chief rules are


l. Spread out your bands fingers closed J
widely so as to describe as large circle as
you possibly can. If YOU watch good breast
swimmers you will at first be surprised to
observe what a broad sweep they thus
make.


.. The same rule holds good for feet you
cannot describe too large a circle therefore,
send them out to their utmost length and
breadth.


3. After you have described this circle in
order to complete the stroke, bring the heels
together sharply and vigorously. Remember,
it is this jerk and quick meeting of heels
which sends you forward.


1t is in this particular that Gurr especially
excels,. so that he can propel himself five or
six feet eash stroke. A long stroke could
not be made in another way. The secret
of the matter is this--that after the sharp
contact of the heels, the body instantly floats
along, or rather cuts. through the water those
five feet, without any other effort on your
part. The stroke made with hands or arms
really is of small service except to maintain
your balance ON the water
Year: 1868

From the Detroit Free Press. 18TH


The most important question that has
claimed the attention of street railway
corporations during the last fifteen years
has been the discovery of some method
of preventing the vast mortality among
horses, occssioned by the arduous nature
of the labor to which they are unsvoid-
ably subjected. That this is a question
of really great Importance is fully shown
by the fact that horses used for street
railway purposes last only about three
months, and the expense attendant upon
the purchase of fresh stock three times a
year, it will readily be conceded, detraets
largely from the profit Of such enter
prises.


Various plans, which it was thought
might obyiaie this difficulty, have been
tried, but with no measure Of success
that would warrant the adoption Of any
one Of them.


Mr.. A. A. Wilder, of this city, has COM
pletsd an invention, which, in the opinion
of large number of scientific gentlemen,
who have witnessed its operations, is des-
tined to revolutionize the whole system
of street railroading. Mr.. Wilder's in
vention consists Of steam condenser,
and appliances for attaching locomotive
engine to the forward platform Of the car
in such manner that neither steam,
smoke, nor cinders can escape; and the
Roise made BY the machinery is not so
great IS that produced BY the working Of
a Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine.
The boiler is locted upon the platform.
and occupies space twenty inches in
Year: 1868

calls; but it ought to be added, in order
to make the statement correct, that
thousands of Union men, who are not
Radicals, are also disfranchised. 1t is
not true that there was the least provo
cation in 1867 for calling out the
militia. That was simply an unprovoked
declaration of war on the part of the
Radical authorities. The most decep-
tive portion of the extract, however, is
tat which asserts that there is dispo-
sition on the part of Brownlow's party to
liberalize its policy. Nothing of the sort.
The policy was adopted to put Radicals
in Office, and as long as the Office holders
thus created have the matter iu charge
they are not likely to cut their own head
Off This is the long and the short Of it.
= Courier Journal.
Year: 1868

Georgia correspondent says that Root,
Hog, or Die" is the right exhOrtatiOn to be
addressed to the Southern people of all races
that their besetting vice is Incidence, or apa-
thetic waiting for something favorable to turn
up. He proves this true by adding that they
are now waiting for Reconstruction, and seems
to intimate that this is natural if not laudable.
What nonsense The South was never before
so we'll nor so chcaply governed as she is to-
day, and never before did her producing classes
labor with such fullness of assurance that the
law would protect them in the quiet enjoyment
of their righteous earnings.


The bugbear ConfscatiOn has vanished. No
body even affects to fear that any one is to be
molested so long as he behaves himself Now,
then, why not all go to work Land is eve
rywhere cheap and abundant; timber. water
power, food even, are to be had for money;
and money, though scarce, may be had for
honest work. We hold it the true course IS
for every man to find something to do and
do il with all his might.
Year: 1868

him make his home in some suburb, where q
lot of naked ground does not cost the price OF
a good farm. But it were better for nine-tenths
of our mechanics to resolve to find or make
homes in the broad, free, healthful country. Let
a shoemaker, a tailor, blacksmith, tinman, a
cooper, a wagon-maker, &C., to the number of
thirty or forty, resolve to migrate together, and
they may make village on lands that cost but
a trihe; nay, they might, by advertising, find
landhoders ready to gire them all the land
they need in some young village, i'll order
to increase the value of the residue.


In one way or another, our cities should be
depleted of their surplus population and the
country blest with a large increase of its agri-
cultural and mechanical force. The nation
would be vastly stronger and richer, its people
would be permanently nobler and happier, if
Two or Three Millions of the population of our
cities were transferred to localities where land
is superabundant and people too few. And we
trust the stern experience of the present Win
ter will impel very general movement from
cities to the open country
Year: 1868

There is q movement among some Of the rural
villages down toward Philadelphia and Balti-
more TO saddle upon the Government (for the
benefit of the Camden and Amboy Monopoly
midnight mail between Washington and New
York. Not long ago there was an Owl-train y
running about that hour as far as Philadelphia,
but the only service it performed beyond carry
ing now and then some top-heavy passenger,
who had missed the night express, was to haul
the delayed freight of the monopoly. On
these trains they carried carpet-bag mail


without charge; but since the freigbting bust
ness does not pay the Company for running the
"owl,' they have got up scheme to exc out
their expenses by raid upon the United States
Treasury. Their project is all humbug. If the
Government is especially anxious to do a good
service for the people. let it use its influence
to set up fast trains leaving New-York. Wash
ington, Philadelphia Boston, and other centers
of business and intelligence, at about or 4:SO
a. m, and going through at tie best attainable
speed to all large towns this side of Cincinnati.
Such tgeiRs, regularly established and certainly
Year: 1868

We have been watching for some days the
wanderings of table made up from The
TRIBUNE ALMANAC protesting TO give the re-
suits in all the loyal States holding general
elections in 1867, the ostensible purpose being
to show that Congress does not represent the
people. That table, at last turns up in The
World, and now since it is SO near to our
doors, we propose to show that it is made
Intentionally false, or doctored" so as to
show the very opposite of the truth. The man
who first made it up was knavc, and those
who copy and ndorse it are entitled to fair
share of the credit. Here is the table as it
appears in The World
Year: 1868

A bill is before the State Senate for the sale
of our miserable old sheds, known by courtesy
as City Markets. Without particularly Inquir-
ing into the bills provisions, we hasten to ap-
proye the idea of breaking up at once and for
ever these dsgraceful old rookeries. There IS
10 good reason why the traditional market
system should be kept up. We have long ago
practically abandoned it and now, since the
old time monopoly is no more, and the land,
at present deflcd by such offensive heaps OF
decaying lumber and vegetable and animal
ofial as Fulton and Washington :" Markets Is
worth mint of money for wholesale trade,
we say let the rookeries be sold at open and
fair auction to the highest bidder Tear down
the sheds, and clear the way to the rivers.
Let the marketing business go up town, where
its customers went years ago.
Year: 1868

The World says that Gen. John Beatty, just
chosen to Congress from Ohio is on the Pendle-
ton platform of paying off the National Debt
in Greenbacks. If so, then he must have been
chosen on the Reconstruction issue pure and
simple: : since the Greenback or Debt issue can
have had no influence, one way or the other


But, while we regret to hear that any Re-
publican proposes to cheat the Nations cred
itors, we do not believe Gen. Beatty goes the
full length of Pendleton, who proposes an issue
of Two Billions of Greenbacks. and the pay
ment Herewith of the entire Debtor at least
of the FiveTwenties-in open defiance OF the
solemn pledge made by Congress to the bond
holders that no more than Four Hundred Mil
lions of Grecnbacks should ever be set afioat.
We challenge proof that Gen. Beatty faYor'
this fragrant, gigantic perfidy.
Year: 1868

Among the new projects before the Legsla-
ture is one to make an iron tube OF pop-gun
under the East River from this city to Brook
lyn, through which passengers and so-torth
NAV be blown back and forth by compressed
air, as school boys propel peas through qullls
That immense joker. Silas Herring, heads the
list of corporators. This is an indication that
the iron thing will he safe, at any rate BY
the way is this another dodge of the Brooklyn
Bridge, alias Union Ferry Companyf Are they
not satisfied with the control of the water and
the air Must they have the nethermost earth
also in their grasp'
Year: 1868

The returns Tor Convention three States ineonp.
The full Sgures would add at least ~ 900 to the vote hoT Of Recon
stuctOn.


emitting the Convention vote altogether and
making a fair estimate Gas above in States
where no vote was returned, we have clear
Republican majority Of about $4,000.


We have printed The World exhibit, and
shall expect it to copy ours in return. OF course
any attempt TO answer its deductions about
Congressman not representing their constitr-
ents, would be silly waste of time
That idea is not newt is only new
application of the doctrine of instruction
once popular among the Democrats of this
State. 1t may suit The Worlds disposition to
shift and turn with weathercock facility to
catch the popular gale, but that is hardly suf-
fcient reason for Senators vacating their seats
whenever the partisan balance in their State
Legislatures falls against them. When this
doctrine prevails. we presume the Hon. James
r. Doolitte will head the procession of victims
of political hari-kari.
Year: 1868

of law and an unpardonable extravaganza TO
which we call Mayor Hoffman's timely atten-
ton When the resolutions to which the Citl-
zens' Association advert are presented Tor his
signature we trust that he will not content
himself with ga few suggestions as he did in
the matter of the armOry appropriation, but
will do his duty and veto them. The Super
visors showed how much they cared for his
Suggestions" respecting armOries by voting
$4,000 more for the same purpose on the same
day. Aldermen. of course, have no shame !;
they will vote for anything if they can make
it pay; but it may be possible to reach MIR.
Hoffman through the medium of popular in
dignatiOn.
Year: 1868

We publish on another page an interesting
letter from Bayard Taylor, describing the pres
ent eruption of Mount Yesuvius. The repu-
tation of the writer as an accomplished and
experienced observer and graphic delineatOr
will render his record of this remarkable event
especially acceptable to our readers.
Year: 1868

The Uorld some DAYS since. undertook to create
a popular impression that its circulation was increas
ing at the expense of THE TRIBUNE. was already
nearly as large as ours and certain soon TO exceed
ours Wo at once responded. proposing that an i'm
partial capable umpire should be chosen TO examine
thoroughly both establishments and ascertain the
exact circulation of either journal and that his re-
port DO conspcuously published in each paper so as
to set at rest all speculation and guesswork the
subject This proposition was at once declined by
The World and there we supposed the matter at rest
But our ncghbor persisted in talking largely but
vaguely of his gains insisting that circulation
was falling off $50 we stated exactly what our gains
had been for the last two weeks. and awaited like
statement from The World; yet none came Yet we
find that paper persistng in the utteranCe Of such
misstatements as the following:


a correspondent. writes to us from Hammondsport
n. Y: 1T beats all how anxious tho Radicals arc for
yo send through me tool THE TRI8UsE last year There
hundred TnBUSEs taken here last year-eye are
80 much for the falling OF Of Tns TnIngSE As 80 !s
mailing no men S are M idle this year to the i've hours during
which they were busy last year ne horta, as
TRinISE : Concerning tho Future, here is little
sum- II THE TRIBUNE has fallen OF serenity per cent IN
sa m ere e how will be before the bali stops
rolling altogether in the one case and how fast viii 1t
finally roll In the oiher|


"a
IIammondsport and more-thousands more-in tho
whole country, than it had one year ago. or six
months, or three months ago.


g. II does not require five hours less time nor any
less, to print and mail TuE WEEKLY TRIBUNE than
it did year ago.


3. We propose to print, on Monday next. the actual
subscriptions received for THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE (all
of them accompanied by the CASH. for each and every
secular day in the current month and propose TO
The Uord that ito subscriptions for each day be
likewise mado out. and the two lists printed side
by side the editorial page Of each paper and Of
every issue thereof ~ follows:


Weekly Tribune. Weekly World


Jan. i...... - copies. -co copies


Jan. 3...... - copies. copies
and 80 TO and including this, the last day of the
month.


Shall the two lists of actual subscriptions be thus
printed side by side in both journalist If The World
desires any further verfcation than the simple
affirmation OF the publishers respectively il has but
To suggest It, We mean to come at the naked incOn-
testablo truth.


Does The World accept this prOiforf If not we
shall consider tho discussion closed. We have no
room to waste on mere rhodomontade and rigmarole
Year: 1868

JOSH BILLIxos will have . good house
next Monday evening. The Moline folks
are coming down on . special train to hear
him, and the Rock Islanders will probably
avail themselves OF the same accommoda.
ton, and attend in good numbers. That
the Opera House will be we'll filed on the
occasion may confidently be expected. And
let us say to al who attend that rich treat
is in store for them-sure as fate.
Year: 1868

MAsquERADE.-The first masquerade OF
the season comes Of tonight at the river
park. Tho occasion will probably call out
largo crowd, as the evening will be
pleasant and the ice in splendid condition.
We hope nons will 'enture on the ice out
side Of the park in its present unsafe con-
dlion. We have had enough Of s:cidents
from hreakin thpouvh
Year: 1868

The satisfaction we receive from scandal
doubtless arises from the assurance it gives us
that others are no better than ourselves.


Charity When charity walks into the lowest
places of want, we see the beautiful purity of
hel robes most distinctly.


Opinion and Confirmation No matter how
firmly we believe an opinion, it is always
strengthened by anorhers assent.


1t has been beautifully said that 'the veil
which covers the face offuturity is woven by the
hand of mercy"


Truth-The truth should be maintained
without protestations. 1t loses dignity if too
much asseverated.


One of the most important rules in the science
of manners is an almost absolute silence in re-
gard to yourself.


Men and Women.--The men who flatter the
women do not know them sufficiently and the
men who only abuse them do not know them
at all.


The essence of true nobility is neglect of self.
Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty
of a great action is gone, like the bloom of
soiled flower.


Politeness and kind Attentions The forms
and ceremonies of poiteness may be dispensed
with, in measure, In the relaxa tons and in
timaces OF one 8 own fireside, but kind atten-
tions never.


Try the effect of good will and hope upon the
man VINO has Wrapt himself In the covering OF
a reckless and sullen dispair, and you will see
verified the old apologize of the sun, the wind
and the traveller.


Patience under Censure. Pope Julius ILL.,
ordered all the attacks upon him and his gov
ernment to be laid before him. ''If true" said
he, they will serve for counsel; if false, for
diversion" .ro5


1t is an old saying and a true one that God
helps those who help themselves In an i'm
mense majority of cases the circumstances by
which men suffer themselves to be overcome
might be controlled and surmoun:ed by vigorous
effort.
Year: 1868

A MATTER OF DENIAL.-Mr. John German
called on US yesterday, and requested US to,
say that the copy of certain agreement which
we published in last Saturdays paper, in refer
encc to the stipulation between certain parties
and himself, for the payment to him Of $4,000
for his personal services in the canvas, in be-
half of the Peoples ticket" i'll the event that
John S. Gray shall be elected Sheriff of this
county at the ensuing election, was not copy
of any genuine agreement concerning him. Mr..
German declared to us that it was not true
that he had made any such agreement. We
cheerfully give him the benefit of his denial
Of course, we know nothing, personally, of the
matter in issue. The thing was shown to US.
and, as we should have done in any other SIM
liar case, we gave it for what it was worth.
Mr.. German positively declared to rs, yester-
day, It did him much injustice, and we willing
ly give him the benefit of his declaration.
Year: 1868

MosT INFAMous-At n Radical meeting in
Grass Valley, California, a few days ago. Judge
Mcfarland, one of the speakers, gave express
sion to the following infamous language:


It is better to give your to the gambler,
your money to the thief your daughters to prostitu
ton and yourselves to the Devil, than to give the
rule Of the country to the Democratic party.
Year: 1868

Every department Of business has an imme-
diate interest in the markets of the country. and
in It's financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who faas to keep himself properly ad-
vised az TO the rise and fall of the markets. as
controlled by the laws Of demand and supply.
and the relative condition of the currency, is
exposed to constant loss and must necessarily
tall behind his more intelligent and enterprising
neighhors. In order TO make our paper valuable
AZ well as interesting we shall continue to
make this SPECIAL FEATURE. Our Daily
Market Reports. domestic and foreign. by teie-
graph and our City Reports. gotten up at heavy
expense. have challenged the commendation OF
our best business men; while our current Finan.
eiai Reports from all the loading u.ouey centre


d tho country are fuller than have ever


published by any other journal In Tennessee
Year: 1868

s The Democratic runners yesterday


started rumor that three companies
ofU.S. troops were on Wheeling Island,
and that they. had been sent here to


prevent the Democrats voting to-mor-
row. Lies like this show great barren
ness of invention. We suppose they
will get off something better to-day.


They ought to start something that
would be more probable and not so
easily refuted.
Year: 1868

We beg that some good friend at each
Soting place in the county will bring or
send the returns to this office at the
earliest moment possible after the vote
Is counted. Ifyou cannot get the whole
vote in time, get that for Governor,
Congress. Senate and House of Dele.
gates. Bring them any time before
four O'Clock tomorrow morning.