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Year: 1866

A connubial little sermon, from the text, "Be
happy as you are, is thus preached by CO.
temporary print:


Wife and Mother, are you tired, and out of
patience with your husband sand your children's
demands upon your time and attention? Are
you tempted to speak out your feelings to that
faithful, but perhaps sometimes needless or ex-
acting husband of yours? or to scold and fret
at those sweet and beautiful ones? Do YOU
groan and say, what fool / was to marry
and leave my father house, where / lived in
ease and quiet?"


Are you, by reason of the care and WEAKNESS
of the body which wifehood and motherhood
must bring, forgetful of, and unmindful for,
their joys?-O, wife and mother! what if
stroke should smite your husband and lay him
low? What. if your children should be snatch
ed fromyour arlnstand fromyour bosom? What
if there were no true, strong heart for you to
lean upon? What if there were no soft, little
innocents to nestle in your arms, and to love
you, or receive your love? How would it be
with you then?


Be patient and kind, dear wife ; be unweary-
ing and long suffering, dear mother, for you
know not how long you may have with you
your best and dearest treasures, you know not
how long you may be with them. Let there be
nothing foryou to remember which will wiring
your heart with remorse if they leave you alone;
let there be nothing for them torememberb but
sweetness and love unutterable, if you are call
edtoleaye themby the way. Bepatient, be pitiful,
be tender of them all, for death will step sooner
or later between them and you. And o what
would you do if you should be doomed to sit
solitary and forsaken through years and years.
Year: 1866




FLOWERS. Flowers are the silent yet elo-
quent teachers of innocence, and their preach
ing has worked good in many places. Woven
into poetry, into religion, and into art, illustra
ting the most attractive morality of the Bible,
and being in themselves most beautiful, they
are likely to be the cause ofmoral beauty where
their influence is permitted. OF all things we
would urge an exhibition similar to that which
We believe was got up last year-a show for the
humble plants grownsby poor people. Mgno-
nettes and geraniums are to be found even in
White chapel, and the more to be found there
the better A child S nature is not only the
worse, but positively imperfect, if not brought
into contact with flowers, and poor children
should get chance of seeing them. Flowers
are perhaps, to working man, more relief
than books.


One of our exchanges. in noticing the pre-
sentation of a silver cup to contemporary,
says: He needs no cup. He can drink from
any vessel that contains liquor, whether the
neck of bottle, the mouth of demijohn, the
spile of a keg, or the bung of a barrel. -
Year: 1866

DIsrRlcT CoURT.-Court commenced on Mon
day last There are about eighty cases on the
docket. A large number Of them have been
disposed ofAnd the petit jury will be discharged
bt the middle Of ne1t week. The Court will
probably adjourn BY the latter part of next week.
In.the Charge Of the Court to the Grand Jury,
Allusion was mAds to- the existence Of an Or
gAniEAtiOu in this County, having for its object
the punishment Of criminals, And'ths Court said
there was probably at one time some necessity
for such an organization; that in ridding this
valley from the horse and cattle thieves who In
Tested it, perhaps good work was done for the
public, but however that might be, the Court
was Satished that such necessity no longer ex-
isted1 and it was the duty now Of all good eiti-
zenS to unite with the Court in enforcing the
laws. The Court WAs-satisied that the law could
now Be sHieientlyGn and justly administered, and
believed it would be. II Will beseen bv the re-
port OF tbs Grand Jury, which We publish, that
the views expressed BY the Court Of this Ia alter.
sre, also, taken By that body.
Year: 1866

THE COUNTY JAIL. - Disclaiming dis
position TO dictate or in any manner inter-
fere with the peculiar province Of the Grand
Jury, we have this to say, that the circum-
stances attendi lg the release Of Donahue and
AllertOn from the County Jail should be
thoroughly investigated. No sane man pre-
tends to believe that these men effected their
escape. Indeed, all the facts go to show that
the way was prepared for them, and that they
only left after their prison doors we're thrown
wide open. In the interest of the peace and
well being of society, it becomes important
TO know who it is that has committed this
high>handed outrage. Men charged with
the commission Of grave crimes - one of
them convicted felon-have been allowed
to ego unwhipped of justice" and it is for
the Grand Jury to inquire into and make
presentment of the parties to this great
wrong, Our people are heavily taxed for the
administering of public justice, and yet if
the county Jail is to be opened and prisoners
turned loose at pleasure, it would seem that
this taxation is altogether useless. At pre-
sent, the Jail is little better than place of
refuge, where criminals are boarded at the
couuty's expense until such time as convent.
ence or pleasure calls them elsewhere. Such
condition of affairs is not to be tolerated,
and it is for the Grand Jury to apply the
remedy. In a community like this it cannot
be difficult to ascertain who it was that forged
the keys that were used to unlock the prison
doors. This point gained, an important step
will have been taken toward unraveling the
mystery, and all that will remain will be 10
bring the guilty to punishment. The Sheriff,
the Prosecuting Attorney, ard indeed all
who are in any way connected with the ad'
ministration Of public justice, should aid in
this investigation. Let it once be under
stood that the Jail is little better than place
Of refuge, and care will be taken that crimi-
mails are not permitted to reach its friendly
shelter. Offenses against person and property
will be punished on the spot, and instead Of
the slow but sure process of the courts, we
shall have the caprice and uncertainty Of a
mob. This is a condition of affairs not to
be contemplated without pain, and hence it
is that we ask that measures be taken to fix
the guilt of those who usurped the preroga-
tive of justice and turned Douahue and Air
lertOn loose, to possibly enter upon new
career Of crime.
Year: 1866

RETURNING MINERs.-We have seen and
couversed with four or five men this week
who have just returned from the BlackfOot
mines. They belong to the disappointed
class, and naturally enough their account Of
that country is not DER Aattering. They
state that the country Is in every respect
greatly "overdone;" that where there is
one good claim there are a hundred others
that will not pay "grub," and that not more
than one out of every ten miners there can
find steady or profitable employment that
the rich claims we hear shout in Mcclellan,
Deep and other Clutches are altogether the


exception and not the rule, and that even in
these very rich claims the miners sometimes
work for days and do not secure more than.
wages. They instance cases where claims
pay as high as nine hundred dollars for a
single day and then for weeks they do not
pay the expense Of working then. They re-
port, further, that there rs large number Of
miners from this side on their way back to
the old camps, and that the returning tide
may be looked for here in a few days or
weeks. Many of the packers and others,
they say, who went from this side With goods
are quite discouraged at prospea of not
realizing more than cost for the articles they
have transported thither. As an offset to
this, ne have seen others who have arrived
from there this week, who tell the id story
about the exceeding richness of tha couur
try. among the fortunate ones firm this
place who have secured good claims there
are Messrs. Seth and J. W. Seauan and


Ned Skunk.
Year: 1866

SCHOOL ELEcTIoN.-Ane election will
be held in the Campo Seco School Dis
trict on Monday April I'd to decide
whether tax shall be levied for build
ing new school house The amount
to be raised is $1,000 and the rate Of
taxation will be one per cent. on the
taxable property in the district.
Year: 1866

DUTIES OF AssEssoRs.-The Registry Act
which has recently become q law. imposes
new duties upon County and Township As
SCISSORS. Section is as follows:


at shall be the duty of the Assessors of
the several counties. personally or by such
persons as they may depute for that purpose.
to enroll and return to their respective Coun-
ty Clerks, from time to time as the same shall
come to their knowledge, the names of all
unregistered inhabitants of their counties
who, by this Act. are quired to be register
ed, together with the particulars required to
be entered and set forth in the registration of
such persons as provided in section three. to
the end that such persons be registered in
the proper book as therein required and the
Assessor shall examine on oath each person
SO enrolled and returned in relation to the
facts and particulars SO required to be set
| forth, and in his returns shall note the fact
of such examination and verifcation by the
word" sworn" with the date of administer
ing the oath. The County Clerk. find ng the
returns sufficient for the purpose, shall regis
ter the names returned accordingly. Any de-
fects in such returns shall be pointed out by
the County Clerk. in order that the error OF
defect may be corrected when practicable
and that persons entitled to registration may
suffer no prejudice or unnecessary delay
thereby. The County Clerk and Assessor





shall be allowed for their services aforesaid
payable out of the County Treasury, such
compensation as the Board Of Supervisor.
shall fix. not exceeding twenty-i cents te
the County Clerk for each name registered
and twenty-five cents to the Assessor fol
each name duly and properly returned a.
aforesaid"
Year: 1866

OFFICERS RELIEF BILL.-The bill
for the relief of the officers of the Cal
ifornia Volunteers, introduced in tie
Assembly passed that body and after a
a reference to the Finance Cammittee of
the Senate, was reported back for their
action This bill is just one and we
would like to see it passed. The off,
GERS of our Volunteers have been paid
in greeubacks, at par, and at no one
time since their depreciation commenced
has an officer been able to pay his ex.
penses out of his pay, and ii is no more
than right that the State should help
them, and at the same time put itsell
nearer on an equality with other States
in regard to its Volunteers.
Year: 1866

fnasmucn as this law or Congress removes this
whole business of the civil rights of citizens of
the United States from the State legislatures
military authorities.


The question thus presented to the local au-
thorities and responsible citizens of the South
ern States is, whether they shall acquiesce In
this law OF Congress, or adhere to their local
regulations in regard to the civil rights of their
black people and risk the consequences. Their
only course Of safety is acquiescence in the law
until the Supreme Court shall have declared it
otherwise. A graceful submission to the law
will immensely strengthen in the North the
claims of the excluded States to a voice in the
legislation of Congress-; while the opposite
course of resistance to the law will correspond
ingly strengthen the radicals in their game of
the continued exclusion of the States con-
cerned. The President has no alternative in
this matter. He is bound to "take care that
the laws be faithfully executed"


The local authorities and people, therefore,
of the Southern States, If they desire to aid the
President in his generous efforts in their behalf
wiz throw no useless distractions in the way
of this law, but they will let it take it's course.
In this way the radicals of Congress will soon
be left without plausible excuse for longer
refusing the right of representation to the
States shut out. Let no further regard in the
South be paid to the vicious counsels of seces-
sion flre-eaters, for they are the wicked leaders
'te whom the Southern States and people are
indebted for all the disasters of their late rebel
lion, and TO whom the Northern radicals are
indebted for the power which they now hold in
the general government
Year: 1866

MISS LUCY RuSHTONS BENEFIT.


complimentary benefit for Miss Lucy Rushton has
been ARRANGED to take place Wednesday, the 18th Of
April which occasion the beneficiary will appear In
Asyou Like it," supported by an excellent company Of
artites engaged expressly for the representation Al
though not entirely successful in financial point Of
view, there few who will not conccde that Miss
Rushton has fair share OF dramatic talent and that she
possessed of great energy and perseverance and has
done her best to the public. Had she selected
some of her subordinates with more the result
might have been far satisfactory to herself She
has lost much money in striving for success and now
before the public In endcavor to retrieve a
portion Of the deficiency TO her private purse. Her
friends the city will certainly that she not
PEELED to ask twice. by making her Grst benefit prove
muneratye
Year: 1866

THE LAND QUEsTIoN.-The Richmond,
Times gives the following plan for the restora-
ton of Southern agriculture. The argument
is sound, and deserves the attention of plant.
ers:


Our lands will have to be divided into SMALL
er farms. The truth of this assertion will havs
to be realized and acted upon by the great
southern landholders before they will receive
anything more than a mere subsistence from
their vast estates. With the emancipation of
our slaves, farming on q large scale, to sneak in
slang phraseology, is played out" All who
have tried hired labor have had ample experi-
ence of the efforts made by the EMPLOYEES to
give as little labor in exchange for the wages
IS is compatible with not being turned Off
The universal neglect by hired servants Of
their employers interests, whenever these are
not protected by some fixed and inexorabls
rule, is matter of common remark among ths
farmers of Virginia; and the man who has tried
the largest experiment with such labor will
lind himself worst oft. We take it for granted,
then, that our large-landed proprietors cannot
maintain their farms by hired labor, especially
when that labor is furnished by freedmen
This being admitted, we find the farmer driven
by his necessities and the logic of events" to
one OF two conclusions-he must either sell his
| lands or lease them out. The former course al
| present would be ruinous to him, because if All
| the waste and idle land of the South wera
| thrown at once upon the market land Woull
be as low as Confederate money was the day
after the fall of Richmond. There is nothing
left, then, for own landowners to do with their
surplus lands, but to lease them And if they
wish to prevent their deterioration, and secure
their sale Infinitely at fair and remunerative
prices, they must give long leases upon them.
In this manner the lands of France Holland,
England, and other countries in Europe hava
been worked for ages, and yet they are richer
and more productive to-day than our compare
lively new fields
Year: 1866

EXECUTIVE RELIEF COMMITTEE. = This
Committee have removed to the third story of
Market Hall, and occupy the old Armory of
the Portland Rife Corps. The other armor-
les in the hall are filled with goods which the
Committee are daily distributing to such as
are really needy and unable to supply their
own wants.
Year: 1866

VINO WAS ANEKE JANs?-Aneke Jams,
whose heirs lay claim to a large part of the es-
tate of Trinity church, and who lived in New
York when it was in possession of the Dutch,
to have obtained a grant from the King OF
Holland of a tract of land ON the west side OF
the city of New York, extending from That is
now known as Warren street to Christopher
street. This was, probably, about the Begin
ming of the seventeeth century.


1t is held, by the heirs ofthis lady, that VIII n
New York fell into English hands, the above
grant was confirmed, and that lease OF the
lands covered by it was made to Trinity church.
After this lease had expired, it is contehded
question, and that that continuance in posses
sion was an illegal one. b
Year: 1866

MEMORIAL TREE.-Soon after the death of
President Lincoln, Mayor Mcclellan received
an anonymous note, covering fifty dollars "to
defray the expense of procuring and setting
out memorial tree to the martyred Plesi-
dent" The subject was referred to the School
Committee, who, as will be seen, are moving
in the matter, and have advertised for am elm
tree which they intend to place in the yard of
the High School on Cumberland street


Better late than never;" and we hone
when the tIee is ready to be placed in the soil
In front of the school ,use, it will be planted
with such ceremonies as will be impressive up
on all who may be present, especially the
youth who attend school,
Year: 1866

LECTURE THIS EvENNG.-It will be re-
membered that the second lecture before the
Y. M. G. Association is to be given this even
ing at State street church by Governor Bull
lock of Massachusetts,. The lecture, which is
on the Five Historic Periods of America" has
been delivered in several Cities and has elected
the warmest encomiums from all who have
had the pleasure ofhearing it. As there will
undoubtedly be rush, and as the number of
tickets is strictly limited to the capacity of the
house, those not provided with tickets should
secure them early.
Year: 1866

City LIBRARY AND INSTITUTE OF sc,pxcv
AND ART.-We would call especial attentio,,
of our public spirited citizens who are inter-
ested in the diffusion of science and literature.
and taste for fine arts in this community, to
the call for the meeting this evening, at the
Mayors Office, at old Market Hall, and of all
gentlemen who intend to unite in the forma-
ton of an Institute whien. shall be an honor
to our city and a real source of benefit to our
citizens, in carrying out the blessings of pub
lie education TO those who have passed beyond
the schools. The time is opportune for such
an enterprise and it only needs a little energy
and public spirit to inaugurate such an insti-
tuition as posterity will thank us for in coming
years.
Year: 1866

To those who get up clubs of five or more sub
scribers one copy, gratis, will be furnished.


Subscribers who cut off from us during the
war, and whose time of subscription had not cN-
pired, will be furnished the paper free on the
restoration of communication, until the time be
filled If they desire the paper longer after that
time, they must renew.


A x mark on the paper indicates the ex-
piration of the subscription
Year: 1866

We may point with just pride to the re-
suits of our city election, detailed in an
other column. They afford new evi-
dence of the mistaken and anseduccd de-
votion of the Union men of Cleveland.
Though the weather was forbidding,
though the Offices to be filed were unim-
portant and though from that cause the
vote in our strong Republican wards was
very light, we have doubled our last falls
majority, and won most gratifying tri-
umph, both in general and in detail. This
has been done, too, in the face of and IN
spite of, the recognized desertion of the
President to the Democrats, and our vic
tory sets the seal of condemnation upon
the Presidential policy. The telegraph
will bear TO Congress to-day the news that
the people eff Cleveland are with them,
and are still true to freedom.
Year: 1866

EyWe, wish all to remember that sub
.scriptions to this paper must invariably be
paid advance-that no paper is sent from
the Office until paid for. From these terms
we shall not deviate for high or low, rich
or poor, friend Sr foe, kith or kin. I
Year: 1866

BIGAMY BY THE QUEENS COMMAND
The recent marriage of Prince Christian.
OF Augustenburg, to the Princess Helena.
OF England, has very much pained and
shocked many worthy Englishmen. This
young girl has been sacrificed by her
mother to man who has already a wife
and children living. He contracted a
morganatic marriage years ago, and had
never been divorced. The morganatic
wife Is as legal a wife as any woman can
be, and the children are perfectly legiti
mate. A prince, therefore, who has a
wife living and nevertheless contrc.cts
marriage with another woman, commits
bigamy, and there may be doubt whether
the second marriage is legal as to the
woman. This is the condition in which
it is said the unfortunate Princess of
England has been placed by the -obsti-
macy OF her mother, who insisted upon
the match, and would not be satisfied
until it was indissolubly ratified. 1t is
surmised in some quarters that the Prin-
cess did not know of this unhappy cloud
which will lower over her happiness
but the Prince of Wales did 1t was
really his place to give away the bride,
but he fatty refused to do so, and was
present under protest The Duke of
Cambridge, uncle of the bride, did not
come at all, and it was given out that he
had the gout, to account for his absence.
The English are somewhat of sensitive
people on these subjects, and very prop
erly so, aud they are beginning to doubt
whether the malady peculiar to the
Georges is not once more active in the
occupant of the throne We may truly
pity the poor girl who has thus been
thrown away upon a poverty-stricken
German adventurer, and the happiness
of her life wrecked. And We may also
deplore, in the interests of humanity,
that English stupidity maintains the
Royal Marriage Act, statute grossly
unjust to members of the royal family,
and which peculiarly exposes them to
such wrongs as that which the Princess
Helena is now suffering.-PhiladelphiG
Inquirer.
Year: 1866

The unpleasant truth is thus made
apparent that the people of these Terri
tories are subjected to heavy tax for
the acquisition or dissemination of gen.
eral information-a most unrighteous
requirement on the part of the Govern
ment, but one for which our postal Off
cials can in no wise be held responsible.
Salt Lake Vedette.
Year: 1866

THE LAW IN RELATION TO POSTAGE
ON ALL TRANSIENT PRINTED NATTER
Some difference of opinion having existed
as to the proper construction of the law
of Congress prohibiting the transmission
of transient printed matter at the ordi-
nary rates of postage within certain pre-
scribed limits, (the western boundary of
Kansas and the eastern boundary of
California;, the question was referred to
the Department at Washington, by act
ing postmaster Aaron Stein, of this city.
The following letter has been received
in reply:
Year: 1866

F. OrTo respectfully announces to his friends
and customers and the public generally, that his
store having been removed from its former stand,
adjoining Days Drug store, to the large store and
warehouse building,


ON THE SOUTH EAST CORNER OF THIRD AND


LAUREL STREETS,
He is fully prepared to keep on hand one Of the
largest and most varied assortments OF the above
articles to be found In the city OF Baton Rouge.
With his increased and increasing facilities Tor
obtaining and storing merchandise, he is enabled
to meet all present and future demands, and
therefore invites the special attention OF pur-
chaserst TO that fact, hoping by spirit of accom-.
mediation to please all, and to always sell on as
reasonable terms as the state Of the markets will
permit, TO secure liberal share of regular patron
age. Please call and examine before purchasing
elsewhere. augI0-tf
Year: 1866

The massacre in Jamaica by the Negroes
happened rather inopportunely for the cause
of Negro Suffrage in the South, 1t is a
crushing argument against it, Ifthere are
such things as special providenccs, that in,
surrection must have been a special prov
idence, designed to admonish our people
not to be in too great haste in elevating the
Negroes Of the South to political equality
with the Whites. -