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Year: 1866

Home-where father and mother, broth
ers and sisters, have a unity Of interest,
sympathy aed affection becomes in mature
life the most sacred picture


THAT hangs on memory S walls.


In after years when the destroying angel
has crossed the household and silenced Its
familiar voices in theirdeath, when the hand
of changing time has torn down the wood
bines that climbed above It's portals and Its
windows, and when its paths echo only the
tread of the strangers feet how often does
remembrance lead us back to its sacred pre-
eincts, and make US realize that the home of
childhood is the brightest spot, the fairest
oasis on the desert of life. 1t is during these
moments of retrospect;oa that the religious
instructions of youth fow back upon the
soul 1t is then that we kneel by the side of
her,


''Whose breast with gentle billow


Rocked to rest our infant woes,


And lisp over the prayers she taught US
Poetry has encircled the name of mother
with halos of beauty, but its language will
never be adequate to measure her luIluence.
10 her the first years of our lives belong,
and it is then in her power to plant seeds OF
virtue that will bud and blossom in the soul
when age has pillowed deep burrows in our
pale cheeks The prayers of pious motE-
er are priceless legacy. They are like the
dews of heaven, which first ascend from ihe
earth to the skies, and then descend again
to bless and revive the unfolding plant In
fidelity may array itself against the Bible,
and It's clamors may be loud among the as
semblies Of men, bat it has not the courage
to enter tho sanctuary Of religious home,
and there listen to the earnest prayers of a
holy mother. as she points her children to
the throne Of God.
Year: 1866

The use of profane language is very un-
reasonable, and foolish There is nothing
won by it. 1t is uttered without motive
The swearer himself cannot point to mo-
tive for the commission of this sin. The de-
frauder, thief, liar, forger and other offend
ers, have some motive to urge them forward
in crime. They expect to gain something by
their criminal acts. But the swearer has no
expectation He has no hope OF being made
happier by taking the name Of God in vain.
He feels no better to those around him. 1t
puts no money in his pocket. It does not
aid him in prosecuting his life work-he can
be just as active and efficient without swear
ing. 1t does nos adorn his character. I, is
10 mark of wisdom or wit. A fool can swear.


Thus, without provocltion, one Of the
most important divine commandments is Vi
dated, and profane men themselves acknowl-
edge as much. If this be not unreasonable
and foolish, then nothing can be- If a man
were to start upon a journey. or engage in
some enterprise, without 4 motive with no
hope Of gain or benefit, you would call him
4 simpleton. What, then, must you think
of the profane person who sets the authori-
ty of God at defiance without the shadow of
a motive? In all the annals Of sin there can
not be found anything more singular or un-
wise. Satan has to make the liar and thief
believe that self-interest will be promoted by
these sinful acts before they consent to per-
form them. But he finds swearerS can be
duped without these considerations. He
does not have tolure them wtha bait-they
will bite the bare hook Are they not un-
reasonable and foolish?
Year: 1866

The Coldwater Sentinel, Michigan pa
per, following the lead of the Chicago Times,
declares for negro suffrage and honestly pro-
claims the intention of its party as follows:-
Right or wrong we would use the negro as a
ladder upon which to climb to those rights now
wrongfully withheld"
Year: 1866

Early in the month of January, 1864, the
captain and crew of a small sealing vessel,
sailing from Sidney, Australia, were wrecked
on one of the uninhabited islands Of the Anek-
land group, in the far South Pacific. They
lived there 20 months without seeing human
being other than themselves. The only tools
they had were a hammer, an axe, m adze
and gmblet. With these tools they con-
trived to make house with FIRE place and
chimney to it. They lived on seals, pidgeons,
mussels and q root which served for bread
and potatoes. Seals, which they found there
in great quantities, and which the captain in
his diary says, ''went roaring about the woods
like cattle, were their main dependence for
food. Somewhat more than year had been
spent by them in this dismal abode when 20
of the men grew mutinous, and the good cap
tam who had shared with them everything
that was saved from the ship, and had work
ca as hard as any of them was very sorely
tried.


But he was wise and successful in his treat.
ment OF them. Three months after his record
OF the mutinous disposition, he wrote in his
diery i have adopted q measure for keep
ing the men IN order and subjection, which I
hnd to work admirably, and it also acts bene-
nciaiiy on my own mind. This is teaching
school IN the evening, and reading n,.vees'
and reading and expouning the scriptures to
the best OF my poor ability. We have done
this for some time now. The men are get.
ting particularly fond of reading and hearing
the bible read. Some of them cannot read
yet, but are learning very fast, and have not
heard profsne word for long time. So
much for moral suasion.


At last the captain determined to leave the
island Their only craft was little dingy in
which they had escaped from the wreck.
g There Was extreme peril in crossing the oceen
in that crah. Only two beside the captain
consented to 60 in her, aud they - o9 ,aad
reached New Zealand in sa6sg, ard q onee
chartered vessel and retained for thsir con-
rades, whom they found and ssscasd.
Year: 1866

From all parts of Indiana, and indeed the entire
West, accounts come that the wheat on the ground
has already been considerably damaged, and is
likely to be still moro so, in consequence of the
freezing and thawing which takes place in the alb
sence Of the usual protection derived froma cove
ring of snow. The season thus far has been q re-
marksble one, and If some injury does not accrue
to incoming crops from the exposure to wind and
frost, itwoud be rather surprising than otherwise
But it il too early to anticipate the extent of the
damage ge.--(Toledo Blade.
Year: 1866

The grain dealers Of Chicago seem TO be rack
ing their brains for expediens to dispose of their
damaged wheat Here is the latest dodge, as
give by the Milwaukee News:


We are informed upon reliable authority that
from Eve to ten loads Of Chicago wheat are
being shipped from Chicago to Milwaukee daily,
for the purpose Of securing the sale of the rotten
stun from this market Before being palmed of
as MIvaukce wheat il is probably mixed here
with the wheat Of our own market This is .
transaction which should meet with prompt and
explicit condemnation. We should regret to know
that any Milwaukee dealer would cou3 tenaace the
disgrAcefnl business, that our business men
would knowingly assent 10 il.
Year: 1866

There is a charming tradition connected with
the sights on which the temple of Solomon was
erected. 1t is said to have been occupied in
common by two brothers, one Of whom had
family; the other had none. On this spot was
sown field Of wheat. On the evening sue
ceeding the harvest the wheat having been
gathered in separate shocks, the elder brother
said to his wife,


Ny younger brother is unable TO bear the
heat and the burden of the day; will arise,
take of my shocks and place them with his
without bis knowledge"


The younger brother being actuated by the
same benevolent motives, said within himself


Ny elder brother has family, have none
will contribute to their support; will arise,
take my shocks and place them with his, with
out his knowledge"


Judge of their mutual astonishment when,
on the following morning, they found their re-
spective shocks undiminished. This course of
events transpired for several nights, when each
resolved, in his own mind to stand guard and
solve the mystery They did so; when, on the
following night, they met each other half way
between their respective shocks, with their arms
full. Upon ground hallowed by such associa-
ton as this, was the Temple OF Solomon erected
80 spacious and magnificent, the wonder and
admiration of the world Alas in these days,
how many would sooner steal their brothers
whole shock, than add to it single sheaf.
Year: 1866

Over the river they beckoh to me-


Loved ones whove crossed TO the farther side;
The CLEAN of their snowy robes see,


But their voices are drowned in the rushing tide.
There's one with riuglets of sunny gold,
And ewes the reflection of heavens own blue
He crossed in the twilight gray and cold,
And the pale mist hid him from mortal view,
We saw not the angels who met MIN there;
The gates of the city we could not see:
Over the river over the river,


Ny brother stands waiting to welcome me
Over the river the boatman pale,
Carried anothcr-the household pet;
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale
Darling Minnie see her yet.
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And fearlessly entered the phantom bark;
We watched il glide from the silver sands,
And all our sunshine grew fearfully dark.
We know she is safe on the farther side,
Where all the ransomed and angels be;
Over the river, the mystic river
Ny childhoods idol is waiting for me.
For none return from those quiet shores
Who cross the stream with the boatman pale;
We hear the dip Of the golden oars,
And catch CLEAN of the snowy SAIL
And 10! they have passed from our yearning heart;
They cross the stream, and are gone for aye;
We may not sunder the veil apart,
That hides from our vision the gates of day.
We only know that their barks no more
NAY sail with us DER life's stormy sea-
Yet somewhere, know, on the unseen shore,
They watch and beckon and wait for me.
And sit and think, when the sunsets gold
Is flushing river and hill and shore,
| shall one day stand by the water cold,
And list for the sound of the boatman's oar.
shall watch for a CLEAN of the tapping sail
shall hear the boat as il gains the strand;
] shall pass from sight with the boatman pale,
To the better shore of the spirit land
! shall know the loved who have gone before,
And joylully sweet will the meeting be,
When over the river, the peaceful river,
The Angel OF Death shall carry me.
Year: 1866

Marriage is to a woman at once the happiest
and saddest event Of her lfe-it is the promise
Of future bliss raised on the death Of present
enjoyment. She quits her home, and her pa
rents, her companions, her smusements-every-
thing on which she has hitherto depended for
comfort, for affection, for kindness, and for
pleasure. The parents by whose advice she
has been guidcd-the sister TO whom she has
dared to impart the embryo thought and feel
ing--the brother who has played with her, by
turns the counsellor, and the younger children
to whom she has hitherto been the mother and
playmate-sll are to be forsaken at one fell
stroke-eyery former tieis lnnsonod-the spring
of action is changed and she flies with joy in
the untroddsh paths before her; buoyed up by
the confidence of requiteA love, she bids fond
and grateful adieu to the life that is past, and
turns with excited hopes and joyous anticipa-
ton to the happiness to come. Then woe to
the man who can blight such fair hopes-who
can treacherously lure such heart from its
peaceful enioyments and watchful protection
of home-who can, coward like, break the il
lusions which have won her, and destroy the
confidence which love had inspired.
Year: 1866

WosDERFUL.-Tberei is young lady in st.
Louis. Miss Ann E. Leak, who was born with
out arms. and who writes and does fine needle
work with her toes. She is good looking and
any young man in want Of wife who can't
pull his hair, scratch bis eyes, or thump him
on the head wife broomstick, should pay his
addresses to Hiss Leak.
Year: 1866

The new York WsrLd thinks that if the
Presidents peace proclamation doesn't
restore the writ of habeas corpus, or put
an end to military supremacy in the
eleven States, he might as well have pub
lished a conundrum.


It is a conundrum, and what is worse
the author has forgotten the answer
Sdnduskg Register.
Year: 1866

MIXED METAPHORs.-A bombastic
lawyer was making an argument before
a jury, in the course of which he de
livered himself Of the following speci-
men of mock eloquencc:


"But, gentlemen of the jury, the
whole subject is entirely i'll the dark,
till VIC come to the testimony of Mr.
B.; then it is that the cloud of
of doubt begins to crack, and the cat is
out of the bag~


A waggish brother lawyer sitting by,
who was good at sketching, caught up
his pencil and a slip of paper, and with
an eye to the rules Of testing the cor
rectness of rhetorical figure by paint
ing it, drew picture, exhibiting n
cloud, a crack in the cloud, the mouth
of bag hanging down out of the crack,
and to complete the picture, said law
yer grasping the cats tail and holding
on. Then sliding the picture along the
table to the next brother lawyer, it
passed around till he had made = fin
ishing work of oversetting what little
gravity had been left among the mem
bars of the bar, by Sir Bombast's deliy-
cry of his most eloquent sentence.
Year: 1866

WHAT IT CosTs.-The sending of q
telegraphic despatch to Europe is illus
trated in story told Of an ambitious
young man from the country, who on a
recent visit to Boston, was anxious TO
send a dispatch over the Atlantic cable
Just for the fun of the thing. Gather
ing up his loose change, he entered the
Boston Office and expressed his wish.
Having written his message and
handed it in, he laid the cash OIL the
counter, exclaiming, "How far will this
money pay forT Quickly running over
the money, the operator replied, "about
an inch" The youth departed a sadder
and wiser man.
Year: 1866

BUSINESS on the wharf was not as
lively yesterday as ON the day previous.


There were nearly eight feet water,
and falling.


The Edinburgh left for Cincinnati
yesterday evening with a moderate
Year: 1866

OuTnAeEoUs.-We have enjoyed the bles-
sing of daily mail so long that it seems al
most impossible to live withoutit. By some
unaccountable oversight, or blunder. we do
not know which, the contract which was let
to D. E. Berry to carry the U. S. mail be-
tween this place and Latrobe, only calls for
a tri-weekly mail during the three Winter
months. This is just the time of year, of all
others, that we are the most anxious to re-
ceive the news daily. Congress is in session,
our relations with several foreign powers are
not of the most amicable character, and the
progress of events is anxiously watched, and
the latest news is eagerly sought for by all.
1t is not only here, but in all the towns along
the route through Amador. and the various
villages in the southern portion of this coun
ty, the loss is equally severe. A petition has
been forwarded to the Postal Agent on this
coast. praying him to remedy the evil; but
as yet no reply has been received. By the
time that statement of the facts could be
forwarded to the Member of Congress from
this District, the case presented to the proper
authorities and the contract modified, the
time for which we are limited to ri-weekly
mail will have expired. Perhaps the quick
est and best way would be to raise money
enough by subscription in the different towns
along the line to inouce the stage company
to carry the mail daily. The way the matter
stands now subjects our citizens to great in
convenience, and we might about as we'll
have no mail at all.
Year: 1866

Times are excruciatingly dull this week.
1t has done nothing but rain. rain. rain. every
day. so that person could not venture out
of doors without taking an impromptu show
er bath, and some of the timid ones wear lie
preservers. 1t may suit the farmers and
miners-very likely it does but so far as we
are concerned we vote rain a nuisance. ex-
cept slight dose once in while just enough
to lay the dust. Talk about mud! Just
step off the sidewalk and see where you will
fetch up. You will be in luck it YOU escape
with only the loss of your boots. Under
these circumstances no wonder local items
are scarce commodity. No one has be, n
kiEd enough to do US the favor of breaking
their leg, or neck. or any such little thing as
that, which generally make very readable
items, neither have we murder or marriage.
birth or burglary to chr, nicle. As for an
elopement, that is out of the question; it is
too muddy; and another thing, it would be
too much luck for US to ever get such glo-
rlous chance for an item as an occurrence of
that kind would afford. There has ben no
excitement of any kind. No fractious equine
has taken the liberty of indulging in a little
pasear on his own hook and smash up things
promiscuously and "kick up" fuss gener-
ally. Even the CANNES seem to par,ake of
the general quietude. and instead of sailing
into one another in gallant style, as in days
OF yore, vent their antipathy to each other in
sickly growls. We used to have dog-tiyht
every day. How we are degenerating.
Year: 1866

THE new mill Of Messrs. Hepburn & Co.,


which has been in process of construction for
some time past. is now completed, and will
commence crushing next week. A large
Quantity of rock has already been hauled,
and We may soon expect to see it practically
demonstrated that the quartz leads of the
Railroad Fiat district are inferior to none in
the State.
Year: 1866

SOMETHING OF WoMAN.-The Denver
Ners is responsible for the following: A fe-
male living on the line of road where Holla-
days coaches used to run. got into muss
with one of the drivers, and after abusing
him with her tongue. as only an enraged
woman can do such things. wound up with
the following interesting account of her own
life and what she could do /: 1--we been mar
ried three times am the mother of thirteen
children. and have had two ribs broken and
lost one eye; but I can just whip any stage
driver on the Holladay line." The champion
OF the ribbons wilted
Year: 1866

MAMMOTH PIcTURB.-Bierstadt is painting
He has platform to finish the upper part.
1t will no doubt be masterpiece of art. and
will set out one of the wonders of California.
Who will paint the greater than Yosemite
Valley, the newly discovered falls and valley
on the head waters of the Tuolnmnes
Year: 1866

Having established myself in San Fran
cisco in order to have facilities for supplying
my store with the latest arrivals of Goods
from the East venture TO say that there il
not as COZ" plete stock of Spring and Sum-
mer goods in the county as there is in nv
store. shall continue 10 keep it well sup
Piled with the latest and most desirable kind
o. goods. Particular attention will be paid
to The se'ec ion Of such articles in the San
FRANCISCO market. as some of my customers
"on'd see proper 10 order, if in the store
they cannot be suited


Very grateful for past iavors, will here
with soiicir that share OF patronage bere.c.
fore bestowed upon me- and shall assure tbose
who will favor me with call that
Year: 1866

I Inc editor of the Mobile Advertiser and Rcgtster, in an able article on the Assas- sination Committee" says:

 A curious collection of mutilated docu- ments is brought forward by the commit tee, to prove what everybody knew before that Messrs. Thompson and Clay were acting in Canada as agents of the Conted- crate government, and that they were endeavoring to cripple and harrass the enemy for the benefit of their own country and her cause It would be amusing, Ii such subjects could amuse to mark the pious horror with which the committee speaks Of efforts to promote disaffectlon Tn the northern states, at a time when the federal government was openly encourag- ing insurrection in the south 1t was honorable and heroic to invade the south ern states, to burn cities, destroy crops, and plunder plantations; but it was an atrocious crime to make retaliatory raid upon a village in Vermont and to frighten the women and children ofPilgrim stock, who were exulting in the ruin of southern homes aud the miseries of southern maids and matrons. But why should we speak of these things? It is very evident that what is sauce for the southern goose is not sauce for the northern gander.
Year: 1866

The Philadelphia Convention has met and adjourned, but with what results we 'are unabled to say, because of the failure of mails. From the meager report before us. we gather that great harmony prevailed, and much interest was manifested in the condition of the country. South Carolina aud Massachusetts entered the Convention arm in arm, amidst loud applause, and re peated cheering for the whole Union. It must have been sight to make glad the hearts all true lovers of the country, to see men from every State in the Union confering in concord and harmony, for the good of the whole country. An address was read by the Hon. Henry J. Raymond, of New York, from which we make the following paragraph

 And the ten millions of Americans who live in the South would be unworthy citizens of free commonwealth, degener- ate sons of a common ancestry, unfit ever to become guardians of the right principles bequeathed to us by the fathers and found CTS of the republic, if they could accept with accomplishing submission the humil- iations thus sought to be imposed upon them"

 We can hope from the evidence we have that radicalism has been seriously wound cd, by the deliberations and conclusions o this great body of the best men North and South. May it be so
Year: 1866

HENRY A. WISE ON THE CHURcHEs.-Ex- Governor Wise delivered very remarkable address in Norfolk the other day for the bene- fit of the Southern churches devastated by the war. He took the grounds while alluding to the late rebellion, which have been adopted for the first time by any Southern orator. that the war was brought about by the act of God for the destruction of slavery, and, taking this view of the subject, Governor Wise argues that no one should be punished for acts com mitted according to the dispensations of Heaven. Governor Wise said =

 He is. fear, an inidel who doesn't see that the fire and sword of this war were sent from heaven God knew that we could be torn away from our black idol of slavery only by fire and blood and the drawn sword of the de- stroying angel of war. He sent them, and we ought to praise the Most High that he did not send worse plaques, like those of Egypt, against whatever weakness or wiekedness we c!ung to like Pharoah. But appeal to Chris tian charity, and to every known law, whether individual citizens and persons ought to be vindictively punished by man or government for the acts of sovereign States and the ineyi- table interpretation of Divine Providence.