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Year: 1866

TIE COUNSEL OF WoMEN.-Dr Board
man, in his admirable work, "hints on
Domestic Happiness" inculcates this doc
trire, which we cordially endorse:


Tn a conversation | once held with an
eminent minister of our church he made
this fine observation "We will say no.
thing of the manner in which that sex
usually conduct an argument; but the
intuitive judgment of woman is often
more to be relied upon than the conclu-
sioDs which we reach by an elaborate
process of reasoning" No man that has
an intelligent wife, or who is accustomed
to the society of educated women, will
dispute this:


''Times without number you must
have known them decide questions on the
instant, and with unerring accuracy,
which you had been poring over for
hours, perhaps, with no other result than
to find yourself getting deeper and deeper
into the tangled maze Of doubts and dit
fculties. 1t were hardly generous to al
lege that they achieve these feats less oy
reasoning than by sort of sagaclty
which approximates to the sure instinct
of the animal races; and yet there seems
to be some ground for the remark Of a
witty French writer, that, when a man
has toiled step by step up flight OF
stairs, he will be sure to find woman
at the top; but she will not be able to
tell how she got there.


"How she got there, however, is Of
little momedt. If the conclusions a wo-
man has reached are sound, that IS all
that concerns US. And that they are
very apt to be sound on the practical
matters of domestic and secular life, no.
thing but prejudice or self:conceit can
prevent us from acknowledging.


The inference, therefore, is unaVold'
able, that the man who thinks it beneath
his dignity to take counsel with an intel.
ligent wife stands in his own light, ano
betrays that lack Of judgment which Ee
tacitly attributes to her.
Year: 1866

FAMILY PRAYER. Robert Hall, hear
ing some worldy-minded persons object
to family prayer IS taking up too much
time, said that what might seem a loss
will be more than compensated by that
spirit of order and regularity which the
stated observance of this duty tends to
produce. It serves as an edge and bor-
der, to preserve the web of life from un-
ravelling. The curse Of the Lord is in
the house Of the wicked; but be blesseth
the habitation Of the just"
Year: 1866

The London Court Journal notices a statement that
tho about leave the Isle Of Wight where he has


pretty little house and grounds al Faringford ana says
the curiosity hs neghbo He bought up all the he
could get his goudds but effect He Wetchoa
dogged wherever he II he opens window or pulls
IN blind Of eyes upon him aided ey
e tsoopes London he quiet enough no one suspects
the great poe, day to he that tall map with wideaTsks
lsne beard aud spectacleS"
Year: 1866

SHOOTING APFRAY.-Last evening Frederick Web
Der alteration front OF his residence No i9 Sixth
ST. with one William Rhodes when the Inter entered bis
residence No l and proceeding TO his apartment procured


pistol with which he fired Webbor from window the
bail striking the latter the head and causing wound
Officers Arnold and Pierce Of the Seventeenth Precinct arrested
Rhodes, and he locked up for tho night a the station


House The wounded taken into his residence where
he attended by Surgeon.
Year: 1866

LOOK Our FOR HM.-A gentleman just from
the old mountaineer headquarters advises us
that Jim Wilburn will be here within the next
six weeks with about a thousand pounds of dried
venson, portion of which is already engaged
Lovers of that delicacy had better be on the
look -out for him.
Year: 1866

THAT BALL.-We neglected last week to men
ton that the Ball recently given at the Canyon
creek crossing was very pleasant aad sociahle
affair. The sbominahle weather which prevailed
kept many from participating who had intended
to do Day S Anstead had made all necessa-
~ preparation for double the number present.
Year: 1866

THAxKsGIvING.-Thursday next is the day set
apart in accordance with National and State Gus
tom, day of thanksgiving, prayer and praise
to Almighty God. AS people we have much
to be thankful for, and due observance of the
occasion will be becoming to all. And we are
liberal enough to feel that each should be per-
mitted to return thanks in the manner which
best suits him. There will be church service.
Year: 1866

GENEROUS RoBBERs.-Not more than a fort
night since q Mark Twain the humorous lee
turer, was robbed of Sl00 in coin and fine
gold watch between Gold Fill and Virginia City.
The deed was done at - the hour when grave
yards yawn, " and next morning appeared card


in the Enterprise detailing the affair. in which
" Twain - stated that the watch highly val
ned by him as a gift, and facctiously remarking
that if they would return it they might keep the
coin. Not long after package was left at the
newspaper Office in question, which being
opened was found to contain the watch
Year: 1866

DANCING ScHooL.-To-night, if the weather is
pleasant, Mr. Martin expects to see all persons at
the fheater who desire to take part in Dancing
School this winter If the general desire is to
Year: 1866

New RoAD.-By reference to the advertisement
elsewhere it will be seen that citizens of Trinity
are moving for the Incorporation of company
to construct a wagon road from Sturdivants, on
Trinity river, TO Hay Fork Valley.
Year: 1866

. To Us does not belong the credit of the ex-
pertinent of washing the Ethiope white" ex-
claimed the Richmond Times. Very likely; but
to you does belong the credit of the experiment
of making the Ethope yellow, and you tried the
experiment on a very extensive scale, respond
ed the Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1866

Nor YET.-Up to the present time lover two
weeks since its first appearancel a COPY of the
new San Francisco Times has not beer received
office in Weavervlle. 1t may tc that the pub
fishers felt some delicacy in regard to sending
their paper into the country until they had ar
ranged for the publication of the Eastern teie-
graphic dispatches. That arrangement having
been completed, we hope to be favored with n
sight of the print about which so much has
been said. And the public is Just rs anxious
Year: 1866

! DoUBLE-DEALIXG.-Ift the facts set forth in the
following extract true, and we have no rea-
son to doubt the truthfuness of the editor of the
Contra Costa Gazette, from which it is taken, the
present State Printer,-O. NJ. Clayes,-who has
recently become one of the proprietors of the
Alta California, is placed before the public. and
more particularly before his constituents of the
Union party, in most unenvia5le light. The
Gazette says -" Our personal relations with Mr..
Clayes have never been anything but friendly,
and it anything but agreeable to feel called up
on to make public comment on conduct which
should deprive him of the confidence of those
who, with ourselves, have been his friends but
as be relies in great measure upon his past re-
lations and reputation for success in his new
connection, it should not be withheld from those
who have hitherto been his support, that the ev-
idence is beyond question, that, while affecting
to be friendly, and being entirely in the conf
dence of the personal and political friends charg-
ed with the undertaking of establishing reia-
bic metropolitan journal the Timesl to represent
the earnest loyal sentiment of the State, he was


intriguing in colluson with the party under
whose control the Aita has lost the confidence
and respect of all sorts of people to defeat the
undertaking entirely, or, in his own words. en-
poyed in letter to the senior of the Ala firm.


II we can play them thirty days longer we Will


play them out: it will not do to drop the game
after having played them so long Such is the
revelation of document, picked out of the hit
ter in the street after t1e late removal of the iHa
Office. The letter carries the imprint of the
Stockton Independent office. is addressed Dear
McCrellish, and subscribed o. NJ. Clayes.-
Without such evidence it would not be possible
to believe that one who upon confidence of his
best friends, was familiarly consulted, and knew
all the situation and resources of the projected
enterprise, should prove so false, but so we are
to believe upon the testimony"


If anything could be more humilating to Mr..
Clayes than the above publicity of his treachery
to the party and friends who elevated him to the
prominent and lucrative position he now holds,
we cannot conceive its nature. Niper-like, he
strikes the hand which warmed and befriended
him in good faith. In return, the blackest bad
faith is evident, for the leading party with whom
he was conspiring to defeat the aims and desires
of true Unionists, is known and recognized as
one untrustworthy and contemplate by men of
every political faith. McCrellish and Clayes =
Especially let the latter be remembered
Year: 1866

near Tomab, Wisconsin, is accited to tell
the following painter story


When we were in the YaZoo swamps
last summer on camp.hunting and hsh-
ing expedition, we were one day separa-
ted from the party, aud found ourselves
in a wide expanse of open woods, in
what is called an 'overcup bottom.
Far as the eye could reach there was not
a sign Of underground Of any description,
and the branches Of the huge trees
reached far out, and intermingled with
each other, making canopy almost I'M
peryious to the sun. Not sound broke
upon the solemn stiffness of the scene,
save the monotonous drumming OF a
solitary woodpecker, far up on the dead
limb Of a monarch oak.


A feeling of mysterious awe began to
creep over us, only known to those who
have been lost in the "pathless woods"
AS we were treading the gloomy laba-
rynths of this solemn forest, with rifle on
shoulder, all at once, we hear fearful
growl, resembling distant thunder, and
turning with shaking knees to the spot
whence it came, we saw an immense
panther, some twenty feet off, on the
outlying limb of a tree. His ears were
Z at back on his head, his eyes looked
like two big Brazilian diamonds, held
under forty gas jets, on dark night, and
his tail moved to and fro, with those ner-
vous gyrations we have seen IN cat,
as she watched bird


We shut our eyes -, the world turned


a. l,aly q
he made his spring at us. We expected
the next moment TO be worked up into
material for panther fat. He sprang
-, and his colossal proportions
alighted within two feet of us, but when
his warm breath was on our cheek, to
our astonishment and JOY, he came no
further, but with every appearance OF
chagrin and modification went back up
the tree with his tail between his legs.
Staggered-blt only for moment, by
the overwhelming joy of our escape
we too rushed to tree not far distant,
and went up it in double quick, carry
ing our rifle with US. Fl


Having comfortably seated ourselves,
we watched with fearful interest for the
next proceeding of our friend over the
way, and saw with the utmost trepida-
tion that he had exactly resumed his
former position, and his ears and tail
were going through the same movements
as before. Having finished these prefa-
tory exercises, he made another fearful
leap towards the exact spot where we
had been standing, and alighted just
where he did before With similar ap-
pearance of modification as in the first
instance, he again ascended the tree, and
going through the same maneuvers
sprang again, reaching this time at least
foot nearer the spot which he had occu-
pied Our fears almost gave way to
astonishment as we sat up in the tree
and saw that panther make twenty-six
leaps at nothing. All at ouce light
broke in upon us: he pas ashamed ct
his first attempt, and had been all this
time praeticing at our tracks.
Year: 1866

land in those waters, and they are
nearly all large vessels, mounting in the
aggregate about five hundred guns and
carrying over seven thousand men,
France has also quite number of yes
sells cruising among the West India Is
lands and in the gulf of Mexico.


The Times Washington special says
the committee on Banks aud Currency
have unanimously agreed to report the
joint resolution, directing the withdraw
of the issue of five cent fractional cur
tency upon which appears the head of
private individual, and an amendment
thereto provides that hereafter no head
or device of any kind shall be put on the
currency except by the express designa-
tion of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Year: 1866

A new gang, called lie tornois bur
lesq," has just been introduced into
evening parties in London and Paris,
and is rapidly coming into vogue as an
infallible mirth proyoker The Joinsters
in this novel style of tournament al
ways gentlemen) seat themselves on the
ground, with their knees drawn up, their
shins crossed, their hands clasped around
the latter. A stick nearly yard long
is then placed under the knees of each
player, and tied firmly in place with
handkerchief, in such way that knees,
stick and hands are securely fastened
together The players divide into two
squads, drag themselves about the floor,
each endeavoring to upset the other by
poking at him with his stick, and those
who are upset or only touched are at
once put out of the game, the ranks OF
combatants are soon thinned, and the
fight is presently narrowed down to a
duel. between the two most skillful OF
the rival knights. II is difficult to i'm
apine anything more ludicrous than the
spectacle presented by twenty or thirty
OF these combatants all equally united
in laying about them with their sticks,
and in avoiding or parrying the thrust
of their adversaries; especially when
perhaps half dozen Of the heaviest
have the ill luck TO lose their balance,
and founder into the most ridiculous
attitudes, in their vain attempts to get
themselves again into sitting posture


To laugh until their sides are sore is
inevitably the lot of all spectators OF the
game. even to the most saturnine.
Year: 1866

A letter from an intelligent planter OF
South Carolina says: "The negroes are
doing far better than ever thought they
would. They are generally inoHensive,
and are working as well as could be ex-
pected under the circumstances. The
crops are very unpromsing; very bad
stands of cotton and very backward. 1t
has been the most unpropitious spring
our old folks have ever known. | have
no doubt as to the very short crop of cot
ton, owing not only to the causes stated,
but also to the certainty that there is not
more than one-third Of the land planted
that was formerly. There is another
cause which will operate, the cotton will
not be as we'll cultivated, and another
cause, which operates but partially, per.
haps, the extreme scarcity Of food and
no money. Many have not grain Of
corn. General ruin stares nearly all in
the face. Creditors insist on being paid,
and there is nothing TO pay with. Con-
fessions of judgment and ass ignments
are the order of the day. | have no
thought that one-hslf of the land can be
kept from sale, unless where it is settled
in trust
Year: 1866

WEST POINT, May IA cloud oil
gloom has settled down upon West FONT


the loveliest spot on the hudson Is vis-
tied in shadow-General Scott IS deaq.
There is sorrow in every heart and
tear in every eye. Here the old veteran
was best known for it was to this place,
to the Military Institute which has made
it famous the world over that ne devoted
all the quiet years OF his lie For iorty
years past he has made West foint ms
summer residence, and it was for thus
purpose that he came here by speclai
steamer on Thursday, the 10th inst. AT
that time he was very feeble, as, indeed,
he had been for some years past. In
spirit, however, he was as cheerful as
usual, although to his most inilma'e
friends he frequently stated that he be-
lieved his end was drawing nigh. on
the day of his arrival he SAID to captain
Boynton that he had come to West Point
to die. Captain Boynton replied that ne
hoped not; but the General repeated his
statement, by which 1t would seem ne
had presentiment that his mortal ca
reer was rapidly reaching its close Not
wiihstanding his feeble health, however,
he was able to rise as usual every morn
ing, and went out riding every afternoon,
until Sunday, when his physician advised
him to remain at his rooms. On Satur-
day afternoon he not only took his accus-
toned drive to Cozzens, but devoted sew
eral hours to writing letters. de was
exceedingly weak after this labor, put
apprehended no i'll effects from 1t,
although he felt more than usually ex-
hausted f1i


During the night he slept soundly, and
in the morning seemed to be much re-
freshed !; but he kept his bed for most ot
the day, in obedience with the physician,
the assistant surgeon of the post, Or.
Marsh. On Monday, his daughter, Mrs.
Hoyt. who came upon visit from the
city. on Saturday returned to New York,
leaving her father, as she supposed, on
fair way to recovery He was in excel
lent spirits; and, although he felt that
the end was nigh, he did not apprehend
that death was then standing by the bed
side. ready at any moment to give the
fatal blow. During Monday night he ex-
perienced chill, but the doctor thought
It would pass off in the ordinary manner,
and that no Immediately unfavorable
result would come of it. This, how
ever. did not prove to be the case From
that time until his lips were closed for
ever he uttered but few words Even
this fact did not create any alarm among
the officers of the post, as the General
had experienced so many attacks Of i'll
ness during his sojourn at this place
thew were periodically expected At 9
o'clock this morning he was known to be
very i'll. but although he died at ll:5
o'clock, it was not until lO:45 that it be-
came evident that death was very near


AT this time the chaplain of the post
the Rev. j. A French, was sent for, and
Immediately hurried to the bedside of
the diving man. Gen. Scott was unable
to speak a word, but sgnifed, by look
and motion, that he was conscious that
he was soon to die The chaplain took
Year: 1866

Every one who has the slightest personal inde-
pendence or manhood about him will approve of
the following sentiments of the New York Post


The manner in which politicians are trying to
use the President S name and influence, In State
and local elections, of late, appears to us one OF
the most disgracefnl and mischievous evils of the
time In this State, in New Hampshire, in
Maine, Connecticut, to read the newspapers, one
would think that the only question an American
voter asks, on his way to the polls, is, not what
is for the best interests of the country, or the
State or the town, not which candidate is the
more honest and capable man, or upholds the
wisest principles; but (which ticket does the
President of the Uuited States wish to succeed?'


Constitutional liberty would not be worth FIVE
years purchase in this country if the people were
really as debased, as sycophantic, as the politi-
clans represent them to be. If the subservient
spirit which animates the Copperhead leaders,
which carries them again and again into the lob
bies of the White House, to lick the Presidential
boots in holes to curry little official favor-if
this mean spirit had infected the minds Of the
people, depotism would not be far distant.


We notice with qualification that the President
is himselfdisgusted with these political parasites.
lie declares according to despatch in morn
ing journal, that +" all reports that he had agreed
to support the Democratic candidate for Govern
or in Connecticut are false" He has made no
such pledges, and intends to make none it would
please him to see his political friends and assoc-
ates successful but he added that he did not in
tend TO interfere with the elections in any State.


That declaration does honor to Mr.. johnson it
shows him to be patriot and not partisan i;
and it ought to serve as a rebuke TO the polit-
clans who day after day appeal to the people to
vote not for the soundest principles, not for the
most expedient policy, but for what they try TO
persuade them the Presidents wants. 1t would be
bad day, indeed, for the country, if the Presi-
dent were the man these politicians take him to
Year: 1866




The Raleigh IN. CO. Standard of recent date
has the following


The town of Wilmington, in this State, has
recently passed by popular election from the
hands of loyal Union men into the hands of orig
inal Secessionisis and latter-day war men. The
same is true as to the county court of New Han
over, under the appointment of magistrate made
By the Legislature. is considered disreputa6le in
Wilmington to be an Outspoken, unconditional I'm
ion man. General Robert Ransom, lately Of the
Confederate service, has been chosen Marshal of
the town, with salary of 1000 General R.
is, we presume, still unpardoned.


We observe, by the way, that there is soon to
be another tournament" in Wilmington
What is the meaning OF these tournaments? Will
some friend oblige us with an accurate account of
the proposed tournament at Wilmington We
want to know all about it, The communication
will be considered strictly confidential


This is one out of many illustrations Of the
way in which the late Rebels of the South are
exhibiting their penitence for past crime and their
sense Of present obligations to the Government
of the United States. 6 s 5n
Year: 1866

The songs of the sirens were not more spe-
cious, nor more deceptive, nor more dangerous,
than are protestations and professions OF those
who seem to be leaders and managers, but who
are really tools and stool-pigeons of the Rebel
party-sometimes called democratic - and
" conservative" 6


These apparent managers give profuse assu-
RANGES of their loyalty, past, present and future,
and of their steadfast purpose 10 support the
policy of the administration.


The main question is, what are their present
aims Are they in favor of securing the advan-
tages WHICH should be secured, as the result of
the late bloody struggle with armed treason or
are they intent upon seeking political advance
ment and other set-aggrandizement, even at the
expense of the country's prosperity and safety
Are they attempting by forming leagues with
Rebels and Rebel sympathizers, and by cajoling
Union men into practical cooperation with them,
to assist in the reorganization of the old party
whose cardinal principles was that the spoils be-
long to those that win and do they desire to rein
state this old, effete rotten party, in its former
control of National and State affairs, after all
the blcod it has shed, the money it has wasted,
and the desolation il has wrought If so, they
are dangerous, in proportion to their influence ;
and, whether Influential or not, should be con-
temned and despised for the recklessness of their
aims and the mercenary sel6shness of their pur-
poses.


The man who in this important epoch, would
trifle with the countrys interests and compro-
mise its dignity for the sake Of gratifying his
petty ambition or his sordd greed of gain, is
barely less contemplate and despicable than the
false disciple who sold his Master for thirty pieces
of silver To do all this under the guise of a
Union soldier-a defender of the country honor
and the country's life-as some are doing-is to
further initiate the example of that base disciple,
who betrayed his Master with kiss of pretended
friendship and affection - Fdirnont Y edehe.