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Year: 1866

DEAD PIG ForND.-At 2 o'clock on yes
tcrday morning negro named Alien
Smith was found OH Twentieth street with
dead pig in his possession. Smith SAID
that he had just bought the pig, but he
was arrested, and with the pig carried to the
cage. Any person who may have lost a
pig lately will do well to call at the Chief
of Police office, at the Lower Market.
Year: 1866

BVEN's GUIcH, January pad 1866


DEAR Posf-Perhaps there are but few of your pumer
ous readers that have visited Biyens' Gulch and
having lately paid visit to the spot where as a nil
grim first efforts made to dig out the aurerous
deposits we thought that few items concerning this c
might not be uninteresting


Bvens Guch takes its rise in the same range of rnoun
ains and runs IN the same direction Mill Wisconsin
Indian and Ramshorn Creeks Its length is some nine
miles to where it enters the Stinkngwater valley Its
most direct road is twelve miles 1t has been worked and
has paid well for distance of eight miles Perhaps no
other gulch in the Territory with the exception of Alder
has ever paid so evenly and well this Certainly
there has been none in which have made their


pile in short space of time and returned to the
States as in this The depth to the bedrock on an aver
age is about six feet The gulch narrow which allowed
the pay streak to be worked by single of pits The
highest amount taken out of of the claims (which
were 100 feet each clear of all expenses was $50 OO
is now nearly worked out Some few claims which were
owned by large companies worked entirely but
are paying to the five $50 per day. During the
sion of the last Legislature company was formed and
charter obtained to bring in the water from the Ransborn
This has been accomplished during the last summer The
gold in this ulch coarc-the largest weighing
nearly two pounds The guleh has of about six feet
to the hundred rendering the working of the old ground
bedrock hunes-of which there number already con
strueted-an easy matter These fumes as far as have
been tried pecuniary success. Organic remains
animals which have long been extinct in this country have
been dug out in several places An head was
taken out in the of 1864 nearly perfect the weigh
OF which do not remember and carried the States
Large teeth have also been found similar those dscov
cred in other parts of the Territory.


Numerous lodes have been opened along its whole ex
tent the most noted of which the White Cloud and At


traction odes both silver the latter assays S46 to the ton
The victory and Saginaw gold leads both good: th
latter assays s9OO to the ton. More anon. NEWTON.
Year: 1866

GOVERNOR BRoss, ofthe Chicago Tribune who latev
visited Brigham Young thus dseourses OF the character
and political influence OF the Mormon Herareh
said of Napoleon, he is of the favored few born
to command" He is also of the shrewdest and most
cunning Of men; and sensible of the power money gives
and wha possessed Of business talents of the highest order
he is now it believed of the weahiest in the
nation While be lives, the Mormon community unless
he and they determine To defy the laws of Congress the
subject of poygamywil grow and prosper; but that firm
hand and iron will must long, despite his regular and
strictly temperate habits-he tobacco, liquor
Of any kindmus rembe and bow before the resistles
march of time; and when Brigham Young sleeps with his
fathers then viii come the searching test before which
predict the whole Mormon fabric viii crumbe 10 the dust
1t may and doubtless will continue 10 exist religious
sect bpt compact and tremendously effective Oreap-
izati0u its power viii when Brigham YOungs heart


is forever STILL In she settlement his vast estate among
his two score and more of wives and sixty children
there ample for quarres and suits potent enough
to break up the entire community"
Year: 1866

The NEW AMALGANATTNG PRoCEss-A correspondent
at Black Hawk, Colorado, writing to the Denver News
under date Dec llth, Last week, process
was tried at Nevada which has since attracted much atten
ton II is t. B. Atwater's amalgamatsr. Mr. Atwater
forces his pulverzed through melted lead without
desulphurization This lead being combined with chem
ieas does not become OxZed and ce:nbines only with
the precious metals in the The chemicals used enable
the lead to be heated red hot temperature much above It's
melting point tits curious fact seemingly proved by the
experiment that the gaena ron copper pres the
may contain not decomposed by their passage through
the molten lead but merely deprived Of the bullion they
Eay contain. The apparatus by which this separation
effected simple cheap and light resembling somewha.


waterwheel the floats which force the under tho
melted lead the wheel revolving in trough that metal


Its weight is about twelve thousand pounds and whole
apparatus capable Of passing through twenty per day.
can be packed in single wagon. The experiment was
unfortunately brought untimely close by breng
OF pnion but will be again renewed shortly when trust
Twill be able to write you of It's Colonel Hare
said assayed some of the through tho machine
the day of the trial. and found it TO be completely
deprived of its precious metals trace of gold or
silver being left behind If further experiments prove the
success of this amagamaor the long wished for desider
atum is found"
Year: 1866

PIRACY on THE SAN JOAQUIN RIvER-The Stockton


Independent of Dec. 27th has the following On Salr
day afternoon boy named George Dyer aged seventeen
years sent of by Lee hunter with small oar-boat
containing eight quarter kegs of powder and one hundred
pounds of shot, to be taken Disappointment SLOUGH and
delivered to Tdeu, Lees hunting partner The lad was
towed down the river for distance about nine miles by
the steamer Paul Pry. The river being narrow at Nine
Mile Slough in making sharp turns the steamer disturbed
the water much that he had 20 loose his fastening and
fall backs He continued his journey by of the oars
to within about two miles and half OF Disappointment
keeping close to the shore avoid the OF the ow


boat who approached and ordered him TO stor The lad
paying attention to the order, he saws was again
with threat Of having his head broke peremporiIy or
dered TO stop and at complied Then being near
shore he ordered 10 out Of the boat which he did
stepping into the water knee deep. The man tnok the
boats to the side of the river fastened them to the tes
then took the boy bound him hand and foot and len him


The yagaoond then took away both boats robbed the e
of its and sank it The boy managed to et clear OF
as shekles waited until next morning when BY travelling
about six miles he succeeded Tuesday morning in find
ing some Chinese fishermen who took him across the river
TO Branches During all this time he was withoat food


He was captured and bound about eight o'clock on Satur-
day night he describes his oaDsor stout man with
black mustache, rotten teeth and wearing brown hat
with broad black ribbon, and of sort of faded
yellow The hoy says it clear moonlight the time
and he particularly noticed the mans hat and teeth
He thinks the river pirate foreigner Judging by his
voice which the boy says did net sound like that Of an
American Fears entertained that the boy had
drowned as the boat had been swamped with only
appearing above water but fortunately the boy and the
boat were both safely brought back last evening by the
steamer Arrow.
Year: 1866

MINING IN NEVADA COUNTY, fCAL-)-The following is
from the Nevada Transcript" of December 22d: THE
city of Nevada stands upon excellent placer
any found in the vicinity. In places the
ground has been worked close up to the buildings and
the city, The ground about Main street. the bridge
thought to contain considerable gold and parties have
gone to work with view to prospect it. company
running tunnel from the abutmen of the bridge under
the street. The tunnel being strongly mbered and the
dirt being through suices taken ont Although
the enterprsng prospecors may make money do not
think the work will be calculated add sodty the city
foundation. quartz ledge which shows exceedingly well


in the croppngs has recently been located in the vicinity
Gregory & CO. sawmill The owners are now engaged
for mill test. claim located on Wednesday
last about two miles east of Grass Valley which promises
to be big thing The ledge is twenty-five inches thick
and is very rich in free gold and suphurets
Year: 1866

AUDACIoUs RoBBERY.-The following account of the
robbery of Wells, Fargo Co.'S Express appears in the
Virginia Union of the Goth ult About three O'Clock
this morning the Overland stage arrived at the office of
and bullion, at which time the driver missed one sack
bullion from the boot. AS could learn par
ticulars they follows The driver says were
two sacks of bullion weighing two hundred and forty
pounds in the front boot that they were there when he
stopped at the International Hotel for the purpose Of allow


ing the passengers TO get out that he went into the saloon
for the purpose of getting drink with friend as he was
going n he requested of the parties standing
keep lookout for the horses; he gone but few
moments when he returned and drove TO the Office where
he missed the bullion The driver quite confident that
the bullion the coach when he stopped at the Inter
national Hotel man arrested and charged with the
robbery when he agreed to show the officer where the bull
lion provided they would allow him leave the county
without prosecution Whether the officer agreed to this
not. cannot say; however, they went with him and
returned in short time with the bullion which was taken
to the office. The bar is valued ut SS25"
Year: 1866

LEGISLATIVE FIx.-In Colorado we learn from the pa
the Territory of Colorado summoned the Legislature tO
meet at Golden City. the LIST January 1856 bat Cover
Gilpn Of the embryo State of Colorado had already
Q6th Dec) delivered message TO the State Legislature
The Secretary of the State Chat is to be) t is said
intends to dissolve the Territorial Legislature, when IL
meets Colorado has added TO the difficulty by her acoo
the Negro question which will probably not be pleas
ing TO Congress.
Year: 1866

A special dispatch the Sacramento Union," dated
Oregon City, Dec Odd says: The Cascades brought up
the passengers and express of the Pacific from St Helens
yesterday and leaves with passengers and express this
ing. The Columbia is full of running ice. The heavy
rains and sleet which have fallen the past two days have
been very destructive the telegraph line between salem
and Portland breaking the wire the crossing OF .he
Willamette river and in many other places The weather
Is still stormy
Year: 1866

A GooD WIFE.-A washerwoman mp near the 0ro Elmo
mine has erected a sort of a mill with sweep overhead
not unlike an old fashioned well apparatus with which she
stamps enough of groupings and such rock as Is lying
around loose to aketwice the wages that her husband
does who is working by the day. The couple struck y
when they married II is not every though who
would run one stamp mill successfully. even in Owy-
hee IL C1rghes Avalanche
Year: 1866

The Galena "Gazette of the 18th Decembsr has the
following in relation TO the Uncle Sam lode will
be remembered that recently published statement
from the Montana Post relative great gold discOv-
cry lately made Helena, Montana Territory The
account says the discovery is immense ledge Of
almost solid gold, which gtters before the bewdered
vision of the behoder Mr. c. f. Duer formerly Of this
city, writes TO his friends here that the story of this great
discovery is no humbug. He has of the gold


from this lode and says is remarkably pure II IS
Year: 1866

SIOUX CITY MAIL RoUTE--In reference to the proposed
Sioux City Mail route, advocated by this paper the Ore
gonian" says: We could get mails in much shorter
time and believe at less expense in this way, than
by the long tedious and crcuitous rone by Salt Lake and
California. 1t is seldom the that get anything
overland in shorter time than two months If Montana
succeeds in obtaining the mails in the pro-
posed extension of the route TO Oregon should be sought
for We might expect to receive mails through from
the East by this within three four weeks time
Year: 1866

THE Paeifc Road viii be completed to Fremont N few


Gays and passenger coaches will regular time
ard west and from that place The whistle OF tne
locomotive and the rattle of the trains already resooso
ing IN the Great Valley The track being laid under
the management of Mr. Durans at tie rate OF mile day
God speed the Great Road-Oaaha Herald Dec !b-
Year: 1866

THE Grass Valley National says Several tchs OF
rock from the celebrated Slate Creak claim awaiting
crushing at the Gold Hill MIL The rock Is very singular
looking repued TO be rich Gold readily detected
in pieces Of rock picked and examined BY ms
Year: 1866

y" HEN 1T WAS PROMULGATED BY
w the Directors of the ELECTROPATHIC
INTTTTUTE, that disease could be entirely
eradicated from the system without the use
of poisonous drugs, the thoughtless and
those who do not look deeply into cause and
effect secuted the assertion as chmerical. and
wrote long articles replete with sophistry,
claiming that only through the digestive sys-
tenn could the blooi be purged o:the poisons
which constitute disease ; great cry went
up from those interested in the continued
supremacy of the old system of one poison to
cure another. All of the empyrics Joined in
the chorus, and in their ignorance lau ghed at
the new system. circulating base stories of its
ill-success. and quoting imaginary cases as
proofs. Time has demonstrated their dis
honesty. After five years OF uninterrupted
success the Electropathic system is the lead
ing idea in medical Jurisprudence, while by
the old system, physicians were content TO
cure one in every five cases. there, were those
who were diving deep into the science of the
curative art among these were the Electro
pathists; finally, it was discovered that the
failure in most OF the cases of organic dis
ease, was entirely due to the machine. TAX
ing this view of the case, DR.. J. H. Josselyn,
after years of experiment, has perfected an





disease which flesh is heir, always to be un-
derstood that the case is not so far advanced
as to show destruction of the vital tissues.
We do not claim that the use of medicines
may not he more advantageous in some cases,
but, that in connection with medicines, it will
perform a cure much sooner than without,
and also that diseases hitherto deemed incur
able, can be cured by this system but the di-
rectors would take this opportunity To info-m
invalids that the Resident Physician is
regular graduate, and has had large exper-
ence in the treatment of diseases, both with
and without the aid of electricity, he has also
discovered several eclectic vegetable reme-
dies that will cure almost any nameable dis
ease, which he will send to any part of the
Pacific Coast upon receipt Of q complete des-
cr;ption of the disease with which the appi-
cant may be afflicted, aud will warrant per-
feet cure in all cases. where the medicines are
used according to directions, and more es-
pecial in cases of FEMALE TROUBLES,
tOhere great care and caution are necessary
to a faUorable result. From early morn until
late at night this instrument is employed,
imparting health and strength to all who are
so fortunate as to obtain its services. Dis
eases (Which by the old system took months,
or even years to cure, are now cured in few
days or weeks. The cost, too, is not so great
as by the old system. besides the saving of
time. Connected with this system is the re-
nowned


Acknowledgements BatEas.


than which there is no more powerful auxil-
iary in the world for the radical cure of dis
ease There is no institute in the State
where the electropathic system is practiced,
except at the
Year: 1866

than which there is no more powerful auyil-
iary in the world for the radical cure of dis
ease. There is no institute in the State
where the electropathic system is praeticed,
except at the
Year: 1866

TNHE subscriber has established new brick
i yard on the bluff, beyond the old grave yard
near Mr.. Boyer's place, where he will manuiac-
ture the most superior building brick and sell
them as low or lower than the lowest. People
who contemplate building had better give him a
call before contracting.
| he has the best clay to be found anywhere in
this vicinity, and will make brick equal if not
better than any other yard; and his workmen are
of the first class, JOHN B. LONG.


Rock Island April 19. d2m
Year: 1866

We have endeavoreG, heretofore, to
keep our readars posted as we'll as our
means of information would enable us,
in regard to the plans and movements
of this rganization-not that we are
in favor of the movement they are
attempting to set on foot, or that we
have any idea that the Brotherhood
will ever accomplish anything. The
movement, growing out of the war be-
tween the North and South, begun to
assume proportions about the time the
war ceased, and the opportunity which
it afforded q set of restless plundPrers
to profit by such state of affairs no
longer existed. It would be unjust,
doubtless, to assert that there are no
honest, sincere lovers of old Ireland in
the organization, but it is at least re-
markable that it receives its chief aid
and countenance in the United States
from class of glory-seeking, liberty
loving, so called, individuals, who re-
duoed robbery and arson to system,
and legalized the most heinoGs crimes
known to criminal law. Some of the
leading men who are now SO anxious
to liberate poor enslaved Ireland, have
heretofore been identified with move
ments which had for their object the
crushing out of the last ray of hope in
the breast of once free and happy
people. Friends of Irish independence !
Such men have no concern above the
qualification Of their own ambitious
desires. We wish the Irish people a
better fate than will be likely to attend
| the efforts of the Fenian Brotherhood,
even if they have the pluck to cross
swords with the British Government.


But it is scarcely likely that they
will have the temerity to beard the lion
in his den. The great mass of the
people of Ireland are mfavorable TO
the movement, wisely concluding, per-
haps, that it is ''better. to bear the ills
they have than fee to others they know
not Of" Fenianism is now ''big
thing in the North. That filibuster-
ing, always clustering people are ever
ready fer an tenterprise. 1t will be
remembered with what remarkable
energy they engaged in the flibuster-
ing schemes of Walker in Nicaragua


But when the "groy-eyed man of des.
tiny" began to need something little
more substantial than big words and
pats on the back, they left him to his
fate. The Fenians, if they have the
boldness, will share the fate of Walker


and as in his case their Yankee ad


mirers und hissers on will be on tn,


safe side Of the water.


| We are glad to see that up to thii


time the movement has met with nj


favor in this section of the country


and we. are very sure that we feel quit


as little sympathy with the organiza


ton as with the British Government


and entertain about as much respec


for the head -centers and tail-eenter


as we do for Fred Douglass or Thad


Stevens. Were it not for those VIII
have real interest in the welfare o
ireland, we would say, go in. w
would like to see one fight in which W


felt no interest on either side.- Bas


trop Dispatch. ~
Year: 1866




FUTURE HoUsEKEEPERs.-- I'VE some
times catch ourselves wondering how
many of the young ladies whom we
meet with are to perform the part of
housekeepers, when the young men
who now eye them so admiringly have
persuaded them to become wives. We
listen to those young ladies of whom
we speak, and hear them not only ae-
knowledging, but boasting of their
ignorance of all household duties, as if
nothing would so lower them in the es-
timation of their friends, as the con-
fession Of an ability to bake bread and
pies, or cook piece of meat, or a dis
position to engage in any useful en-
ployment. Speaking from our own
youthful recollections, we are free to
say that taper fingers and lilly hands
are very pretty to look at with young
mans eyes, and sometimes we have
known the artless innocence of practi-
cal knowledge displayed by young
miss, to appear rather interesting than
otherwise. But we have lived long
enough to learn that life is full of rug
ged experiences, and that the most
loving, romantic, and delicate people
must live on cooked or otherwise food,
and the house be kept clean and tidy
by industrious hands. And for all the
practical purposes of married life, it is
generally found that for husband to
Sit and gaze at his wife's taper fingers
and lilly hands, or for wife to sit and
be looked at and admired. does not
make the pot boil, or put the smallest
piece of food therein, s.
Year: 1866

Coon PRECEPTs.-Society may aid
in making the laborers virtuous and
happy by bringing children up to labor
with steadiness, with care, and with
skill; to show them how to do as many
useful things as possible; to do them all
in the best manner; to set them an ex-
ample in industry. sobriety, cleanli-
ness, and neatness; to make all these
habitual to them, so that they shall
never be liable to fall into the contra
ry; and to LET them always see q good
living proceeding from labor.
Year: 1866

Young bride,-a wreath for thee
OF sweet and gentle flowers;
For welded love was pure and free
In Eden's happy bowers
Young bride,--a song for thee
A song of joyous measure,
For thy cup of hope shall be
FilPd with honied pleasure.
Young BRIDE tear for theel
A tear in all thy gladness;
For thy young heart shall not see
Joy Jnmixd with sadness.
Young bride,-a smile for thee
To shine away thy sorrow,
For heaven is kind today, and we
VIII hope as well to morrow.
Young bride,-a prayer for thee!
That all thy hopes possessing,
Thy soul may praise her God, and he
May crown thee with his blessing.


NJ f. TUPPER
Year: 1866

~ Keep out of debt. Buy noth@
ing except the money is in your poek-
ct. Have no account current at the
groceries or butchers. Go without
new clothes till you can pay for them,
Give your note Of hand to nobody
Eschew credit. Deal for cash only.
Year: 1866

~ In Chicago a young girl and
boy were recently poisoned by care
lessly holding photograph in their
mouths. The boy died and the little
girl is SO seriously i'll that life is dis
paired of. The medical attendant
states that this melancholy event arose
from poison on the photograph, being
taken into the system of the children
whilst sucking the picture.
Year: 1866

From the Mineral Point Tribune we OBJ
tain the list of persons whose income ex-
ceeds eeN9 dollars per year, and the
amou. lch excess, in this county, as
far as reported, and publish it elsewhere in
this issue The list may be an accurate
and just one, or may not be; all have a
right to judge. Our people are something
like the people of Grant county, and as
the Herald says, the statement will be
read and curiously commented upon
wherever two or more do congregate.-
The wise will read it to acquire larger
sto,l, of wisdom on human character; the
avaricious will read it as in a glass to see
themselves, and find out their natural as
sociates periured men will read it for
self justification, and to learn who else
besides themselves can be had for a price
to testify in the courts of justics; and so
any sort of character may be feasted by
just looking at this list But there are
redeeming names of men annexed to these
income statements, men who report their
every dollar, justly, truly, and in con,
science before God.


These accountings of income were not
expected to be made public at the time of
rendering them to the assessor. They
therefore show what men are made OF, and
whether of bad metal or good, these more
surely than If made with the expectation
of their being published. For it is what
men do in the dark rather than in the
light that reveals true character.