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Year: 1866

DGdges OF the Republican Party.


II is amusing to any one who has
been at all Observing, during the
past five years, to compare the
shifts and lodges the leaders Of the
party in power have resOrted to, to
keep the control of the Govern.
ment, and to accomplish their IA
natical schemes.


They came into power upon the
plea of retrenchment and reform,
with subtle and special arguments
they deluded a majority of the peo
pie into their support. No sooner
were they firmly seated in power,
than they began the most wasteful
and prodigal expenditures the
world had ever seen-yoting hund-
reds of millions without an hourde-
bate and without any restrictions
thrown around its disbursement.


They declared that they had no
intention Of interfering with slav-
cry where it existed, and one of
their first acts was to abolish the
Institution III tho District of Colum-
bia. They were the avowed cham
pions Of free speech and free press,
and they had not been in power a
year until they had completely
muzzlcd the press, and arrested
hundreds Of peaceable citizens for
exercising free. speech.


They declared the war should be
conducted with a view only to the
suppression of armed resistance
and the restoration of the Union,
and in less than a year the whole
force Of the Army and navy was
pledged to securing the freedom of
the negro.


They declared that the Union
must be preserved, and that seces-
sion was heresy and could not ex.
ist-that no State could by any act
Withdraw from the Union; and vixen
the war closed they declared that
they had restored the Union by
force Of arms, and asked the people
to sustain them because they had
done so much good in the world.
They now declare that a State can
secede, and that all the States late
ly in rebellion are out of the I'm
ion, and have no rights except as
conquered provinces. Such med
ley Of Inconsistencies ought to de-
stroy any party, and it would de-
stroy any except the Republican
party, two-thirds of whom want on.
ly to know the will of their lead.
ers, and they are ready to follow,
without thought as to the justice
or tho proprjety OF the measures
advocated.
Year: 1866

King James the First, gave all manner Of
liberty and encouragement to the exercise Of
buffoonery, and he took great delight in it him.
self Happening once to bear somewhat hard
upon one of hls Scotch oourtiers, by my
soul, " retorted the peer, he that made your
Majesty King, spoiled the best fool in Christ
eudom ="
Year: 1866




The following poem was written by James
a Scottish poet but little known
n this country. Who that ever lost a brotbe,
'r sister could read these lines without q
altcs in the voice or tear in the eyei
They tell me first and early love .aaf
Outlives all after dreams; ..s ID.
But the memory of the first great grief
To me more lasting seems
The grief that marks our dawning you th
To memory ever clings, # "A
And DER the path of future years


A heightened shadow filings.
oh oft my mind recalls the hour


When to my fathers home
Death came an uninvited guest


From his dwelling in the tomb. H.
had not seen his face before


shudiered at the sight
And shudder yet to think upon


The anguish of that night .....
A youthful brow and ruldy cheek
Became all cold and wan, ..s
An eve grew dim in which the light
Of radiant fancy shone; -. .....
Cold WIS the cheek and cold the brow.
The eve was fixed and dim ..'..s
And there moancd brother dead. .
Who would have died for him
know not II twas summer then,
..a know not if twas spring: af-.-....s
But d the birds sang in the trees -
DID not hear them sing;
If flowers came forth to deck the earth
Their bloom did not see
1 looked upon one withered flower,
And none else bloomed for me
A sad and silent time it was


Within the house Of woe:
All eyes were dim and overcast,


And every voice was low.
And from each cheek at intervals


The blood appeared to start.
AZ If recalled in sudden haste ....
To aid the sinking heart! a
Softly we trod as IL afraid


To mar the sieepers sleep,
And stole last looks of his sad face .
For memory to keep. .............
With him the agony was o'er,


And now the pain was ours, --..
hs auouSHes W bto sweet CiiiitnoOu rose,
Like odor from dead flowers.
And when at last he was borne aflr
From the worlds weary stlife,
How oft in thought did we again


Live Der his little life.
His every look, his every word,
a His very voices tone,


Came back to US like things whose worth
Is only priced when gone!
The grief has passed with years away,
And joy has been my lot;
But one Is remembered


And the other soon forgot.
The gayest hours trip lightly by,


And leave the faintest trace
But the deep track that sorrow wears,
No time can e'er efface ...-
Year: 1866

A Vermont sergeant wrote to New York
girl who pinned her name TO some clothing
he received through the sanitary Commission,
and the correspondence led to oourtship and
marriage; and now the sergeant finds he has a
good wife and cool half million in money
besides.
Year: 1866

A story is told of an inveterate drinker,
who signed the temperance pledge, but was
found soon after ilnbibing as often as ever. TO
his friends who demonstrated with him, he re-
piled that the document which he signed was
invalid, because 1t had no internal revenue
stamp.
Year: 1866

The San Jose Mercury says an old man of
fifty was joined in marriage, in that city, last
week, to . girl baby Of fourteen-with the
consent and sanction OF the mother Of the
child, the father being dead.
Year: 1866

The CAUsE.-We learn that a large
amount of Eastern capital has been sent to
Reese River for the development of the
mines, but has mostly been expended to poor
advantage. Instead of opening the mines
the money was used in building fine mills,
and when the costly structures were compIe-
they bad no means to supply them with ore
This injudicious expenditure of money in the
erection of mills, instead of developing
mines, has been serious drawback 70 the
prosperity of Central Nevada. This opin.
ion, expressed by the Nevada Gazette, indiI
Gates one cause of the failure of capitalists
engaged in mining. Were ordinary econo
my to be adopted the same story of depre'
ciated stocks would not have to be always
told.
Year: 1866

Who would suppose that the elegant en-
broidery SO popular for trimming ladies and
children S garments is executed by the Sew,
ing. Machine? Apparently, the studious and
careful dexterity of the hand is necessary to
so elaborately ornament them; but we were
astounded to learn from lady friend that it
is all done by the Grover d Baker Sewing.
Machine, which has become, from its unpara


lleled merit, the favorile with all the ladies'
Year: 1866

EAGLE SHINGLE MACHINE.-The sub
l'J scriber is IN anu featuring at the West Branch
Iron Works. in Williamsport, the best and most
durable Machine for making "a and Is inch sh ia
giles ever used in this country, also the EMPIRE
MACHINE. which will cut Is inch shingles much
faster smoother and more f:om the same timb
than any machine in use also the best Saw Sett
Mill Dogs for Gate and Muay Mills ever used in
this section A. L. NICHOLS.


WilIiumsport Pa MAYS 1855 -6m
Year: 1866

There is much goodness 10 the world. al.
though at a superficial glance one is disposed to
doubt it, What is bad is noised abroad, echoed
back from side to side, and newspapers and the
hat is good goes at best, like sunshine, quietly
through the world. -a--
Year: 1866

STATE OF MATRIMONIAL curious
lady is anxious to know the whereabouts
of the state Of matrimony. In an
swer we say it is one Of the united
states. 1t is bounded by hugging and
kissing on side, and babies and children
on the other. Its chief products are
population, broomsticks, and staying
out o nights. 1t was discovered by
Adam and Eve while trying to find
northwest passage out of Paradise.
The climate is rather sultry you pass
the tropics of housekeeping, when
squally weather sets in, with sufficient
power to keep all hands as cool as
cucumbers. For the principal roads
leading to this interesting state, consult
the first pair Of blue eyes you run
AGAINST.
Year: 1866

The Montana Post relates the fol-
lowing in regard to the discovery of
remarkable organic remains in Montana
Territory: "On Meagher's Bar, oppo-
site Nevada, have been discovered fossils
that unmistakably prove that this part
of the world was at one time inhabited
by race of human beings who stood,
in maturity, from ten to twelve feet
high; and by species Of quadrupeds
at least twice as large as the Asiatic
elephant. They are imbedded about
eighteen feet in what might be termed
close diluvial deposit, and what the
con6guration of the country indicates
was once the eddy of river. AS an
evidence of the former, We now have
before US the jawbone-anatomically
termed the inferior maxillary-of a
biped, which is almost double the size
of an ordinary human jawbone. From
point to point of the condyles-the
upper projection, where the junction is
made with the corresponding parts
above-this fossil measures five inches.
1t is in perfect state of preservation,
so perfect, that, had it been of ordinary
size, one would suppose that its owner
had not made his or her exit from this
vale of tears over fifteen or twenty
years ago. The enamel of the teeth
still remains bright and uninjured by
the action of fire, or water, or air. Not
tooth is lost. They comprise six
grinders or molars (the usual number),
and ten others, being sixteen in all.
They have been much worn by the labor
of mastication, which fact proves that
this American Goliah did not cease to
use them until they had prepared for
his stomach the food of many years,
perhaps not until the other functions
of his physical organization had weak


ened from old age, when the utility
of the teeth ceased, though decay had
not marked them by single perforation.
The fact is, also, a good conjectural
argument that this being belonged to a
race similar in their habits to the exist
ing tribes of natives who, even in their
old age, are notable for the fine state
of their teeth. The jawbone is the only
portion of the remains we have seen,
but ribs and other bones near the spot,
which undoubtedly belong to the same
individual, as they are all of the pro-
portionate size. 1t has been estimated
by members of the medical fraternity
here, that the hight of this biped could
not have been less than ten and half,
and might have reached twelve feet y
Year: 1866

WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY.-The writers were few and
intellectual and they addressed them
selves to learned, or, at least, to studious
and diligent readers. The structure
of their language is, in itself,an evidence
that they counted upon another frame
Of mind, and different pace and speed
In reading, from that which can alone
be looked to by the writers of the pres
ent day. Their books were net written
to be snatched up, run through, talked
over and forgotten; and their diction,
therefore, was not such as lent wings to
haste and impatience, making everything
so clear that he who ran or flew mi ght
read. Rather, it was so constructed as
to detain the reader over what was
pregnant and profound, and compel him
to that brooding and prolific posture
of the mind by which, if he had wings,
they might help him to some more genial
and profitable employment than that
of running like an ostrich through
desert.-Taylor's Notes on Life.
Year: 1866

SoFr SoAp.-For lieutenant, cali
him captain; for middle-aged lady,
kiss her, and say that you mistook her
for her daughter fora young gentleman
rising fifteen, ask his opinion respecting
the comparative merits of razor; for
young ladies, if you know their color to
be natural, accuse them of painting.
Year: 1866

A PERSON meeting an old man with
silver hair, and very black, bushy
beard, asked him how it happened that
his beard was not so gray as his head.
Because it is twenty years younger"
the old gentleman replied.
Year: 1866

ATTENTION, PoLICElEN.--All those appointed
on the police for the First District will call with
their sureties at the mayors office during the fore
noon of to-day for the purpose of being qualified.
Those for the Second District viii call to.mor-
row; those for the Third on Wednesday, and
those Tor the Fourth on Thursday. 1t is Mr..
Monroe's desire that only those whose turn it is
to be qualified as above indicated should appear
at the municipal hall Those duly qualified will
report for duty on the first of June, when they
will be detailed for duty in such districts as the
chief Of police may direct


THg REoRa ANIzED Police OF New ORLEANS
Through the courtesy extended to US at the may
ors olice, we are enabled to present TO our read
er9~,hia morning the names of those who have
= selected by the Honorable John T. Monroe,


for Of the city, to compose the new police force
%. New Orleans. As matter of course, it would
be a matter Of impossibility to please every one
rs only about enc out of every ten applicants ior
position could be appointed. We have no hesita
ton, however, in saying that the police force, a.
now organized will far surpass in energy, ELI
cheney and integrity any that has ever yet beer
detailed for duty. They are, go far as we car
Judge, men who have been noted in the pas
for bravery and selfsaeriaee, or shrewdness in
police capacity, and we are thoroughly convinced
they wiz give good account Of themselves;
Year: 1866

EVERYDAY LIFE m GHl0Aao.-0ne hundred and
fifty individuals were arrested on the Dist inst, in
Chicago for being drunk and disorderly. A meet
ing was held on the same day to see what could
be done for the young men of that city.
Year: 1866

By dispatches from the East, we are in
been successfully laid, and several messages
transmitted Through its entire length. This
is one of the greatest achievements of the age
and to the projectors of this mighty undertak-
ing and to those who have been mainly instru-
mental in its completion. the sntire civilized
world is deeply indebted. The principal
cities of the Eastern States are now placed
in direct telegraphic communication with
England and the continent. and we, on this
coast, will receive our European news at the
same time We get dispatches from New York,
St. Louis and Chicago, instead of having to
wait twelve orfourteen days for intelligence
by steamer. As would naturally be expect
ed, the London papers claim that the concep
ton and successful completion of this great
work is due entirely to British genius and
enterprise. That large portion of the mon
ey necessary to carry out an undertaking of
this magnitude was furnished by English
capitalists, we do not deny; but the one to
whom the greatest credit is due, and to whom
the world owes the most, is Cyrus w. Field,
a native of the State of New York. He it
was who first advanced the idea of the prac-
tieability of such an enterprise, and finally
succeeded in convincing other capitalists of
its feasibility. In 1856 he organized the At
lautic Telegraph Company, and having re-
ceived aid from our own and the English
Governments, the cable was completed and
successfully laid in 1867. For nearly
month the line worked well, and number
of messages were sent from Valentia to New
foundland. Owing to some defect in the
cable it soon ceased to work. In 1865,
new cable having been completed, an attempt
was made to submerge it; when about half of
it had been laid, the cable parted and as the
Great Eastern, aboard which it was slowed,
was not supplied with the necessary appli-
ances for raising it, she was obliged to leave
it and steam back to Valentia. A new cable
was Immediately commenced, which was
completed and coiled aboard the Great East
ern in June last. Early in the month of
July, having spliced the shore end at Valen-
tia. she steamed away for the far-distant
shores of Newfoundland, where she arrived
after short passage, without any accident
happening to the cable. Messages were re-
ceiyed from and transmitted to Valentia eve
ry day during the voyage. The cable is in


L I


to exist in the minds of those who are best
informed on the subject, but what it will
permanently remain SO.
Year: 1866

A CORRESPONDENT of the Amador Ledqer,
writing from Volcano, has the following in
regard to an item which we published two
weeks ago, in relation to the West Point
quartz gold dust:


Not five per cent. of the gold taken out at
West Point comes to Volcano, while thou
sands of dollars are sent from Amador to
Calaveras and sold for a fraction more per
ounce than can be obtained in Amador. The
truth is, Calaveras is largely indebted to
Amador for her returns of gold, and think
l can say without boasting, that the fact of
her adjoining the richest quartz county in
the State has given her prestige in the mar
ket that she never would have otherwise OBJ
tanned.


This correspondent. is either lamentably
ignorant about the subject upon which he at
tempts to write, or else he wilfully misrep-
resents the facts. We got our information
from the very persons who are the largest
shippers of dust from that locality, and they
told US that three-fourths of all the gold ta-
ken out at West Point was sold in Volcano,
or sent to San Francisco by that route. We
presume these gentlemen know as much about
their own affairs as this Volcano wiseacre
does. AS to those thousands of dollars
which are sent from Amador to this county
and sold for fraction more per ounce than
can be obtained at home" that is all CANNON.
We do not believe there was ever gold
enough brought from Amador to this county
to be sold, to pay mans toll across the
bridge. In conclusion, he says that "the
fact that Calaveras adjoins the richest quartz
county in the State has given her prestige
in the market that she would have never
otherwise obtained When we consider
that, notwithstanding the large amount of
gold which Amador receives from this coun-
ty, our shipments of dust are fully equal to
hers, and that when the mills which are in
process of erection are completed. our returns
will double theirs, the last statement of this
correspondent-appears simply ridiculous
That Amador has some rich quartz leads,
and that generally speaking she is nice lit
tie county, we do not doubt; but the limited
extent of her territory precludes the possibil-
ity of her competing with her mother in
quartz mining or anything else.
Year: 1866

A drunken Dutchman, was recently
arrested by saloon keeper and sued for
"unpaid drinks" He scorned the advice
of counsel, or assistance of attorneys, and
delivered himself for the edifcation of the
Court of the following ingenious plea:


'May it please your honor! To borrow
is the first principle of nature. Does not
the river borrow from the brook, and the
ocean from the river? Do not the clouds
borrow from the air, and the earth from
the clouds? Does not the moon borrow
her light from the sun, and the night
borrow it again from the moon? Was
not man taken from the earth, and his
''frau" borrowed from his side Since
then all nature has established this grand
system of universal credit, why should
not man, made in the image of God, have
natural claim on the credit system 3
And since the mighty ocean is not
ashamed to borrow of the puny river, why
then should not a lean 'sbummer" borrow
from fat bar-keeper? Now, your honor
knows the feeble lighted moon never
returns the borrowed light to the sun,
why then should poor beer-driuker pay
rich beer-seller? 1t is contrary to
natural law, it is an absurdity. But what
does the river do when it has borrowed
too much from the brooks and streams
1t runs away. Nature, then, has set me
an example Twill follow and run away.
And before the Sheriff could reach him
he had cleared the Court House and was
out Of reach. The most ingenious way tt
get drinks cheap, surely.
Year: 1866

This story is related OF lawyer who
has since attained eminence in his pro.
fession A case in which be was engaged
as counsel for the defendant came on at a
certain day. As he was insuficiently
prepared, be was very anxious to have the
case postponed few days, that he might
have further time for his purpose. Un.
fortunately there was a great press of
business, and he knew that this motion
would be over-ruled unless some extraor-
dinary reason was alleged. Under these
circumstances, he bethought himself of
an expedient Rising with his handker-
chief to his face, he addressed the judge
in accents of great apparent emotion !:
"May it please your honor, | have just
been Informed that my mother is at the
point of death. My emotions are too
great for me to proceed in this case. |
move that it be postponed until day after
tomorrow" This request would Of
course have been granted by the court,
whose sympathies were strongly excited
in bis behalf; but at this moment, to the
discontinue of the lawyer, and the amuse-
ment of the audience, the shrill voice of
his mother was heard from the gallery !:


IcHABoD IoHABoD !! how often have
I whipped you for lying n The case
was not postponed, nor was it gained by
the afflicted counsel. hea Clies
Year: 1866

We clip the following bit Of sentiment
from the Lockport Daily Union. 1t
brings olden memories back:


We have been to the country church
that was old when we were young. It is
neither costly nor grand, but rude and
homely, with moss growing about the
caves, where pair of swallows built their
nests in summer that is dead. There are no
lofty marble pillars near the porch nor
tesselated doors, nor has it skillful ar
chitecture; but there it stands, plain
old building, hallowed relic of other days,
1t has no gallery, where the hired musi-
clans let fall the liquid tones of sounds.


aNor deep-toned organ blown, nor sensor swung,


Nor dim light streaming through pictured pane"


But still we like the old church It
brings back to us the dasied slopes of
childhood, the joyous anticipations of the
future, and the golden CLEANS of gladness
that hover round the steps of youth. We
hear echoing through memory's corridor
the holy words falling from the pale
browed man whose guileless teachings
sank deep into our hearts. We have
listened since then to the sermons of the
great, rhetorical, and brilliant metaphors,
and poetic imagery, and flights of fancy
but their high toned beauty has failed to
touch our hearts as did the simple elo-
quence of the min ster in the old church.


There, too, is the graveyard where
sleep in dust the ashes of those who were
80 dear to US in life, aud whose memories
come to US with the rise of the sun, aud
the pale light of stars. There rest the
companions of our schooboy days, and our
youthful sports. And there, too, she
lies who roamed hand in hand With us
about the valley. who plucked with us
wild flowers beside the brook, who saw
with the appreciative eye the violet bloom
ing on the robe of May, and wept with
us happy tears at the glory and gorgeous
ness of summer sunsets. For eleven years
she has listened to the harp notes Of the
angels. Still we love to linger beside her
grave near the old church, and fancy
that the mild breathing Of the evening air
is caused by the soft rustlng of an angels
wings. Do not blame us for loving the
old church, for memories are ours, pure
and holy as the dreams of dying saint,
when we sit in the shadow of its walls.