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Year: 1867

ONE of the humanitarian movements of
our times, although little known as such.
can hardly be over estimated i'll its impor-
tance upon the well being of our widely
scattered communities. The population of
the American States is in many sections
so sparse, that skillful physicians are hardly
available to them. Vast numbers of our
people are obliged to employ in sickness such
medical relief as they can hear of from each
other, or indeed any they can get from any
quarter. Hence arises the great consumption
of patent medicines among us, greater by
far than in any of the old countries, where
skliful physicians are accessible to all
classes. Unprincipled men have long ayailed
themselves Of this necessity, to palm off their
worthless nostrums, until the word has
become synonymous with imposition and
cheat One of our leading Chemists in the
East, Dr. AVER is pursuing a course which
defeats this iniquity. He brings not only
bear, for the produ ton of the best remedies
which can be made. These are supplied to
the world. in a convenient form, at low
prices, and the people will no more buy
poor medicines instead of good, at the same
cost, than they will bran instead of -four
The inevitable consequence of this is, that the
vile compounds that flood our country are
discarded for those which honestly accom-
plish the end in view which cure. Do we
over estimate its Importance, in believing
that this prospect of supplanting the by
word medicines, with those of actual worth
and virtue, is fraught with immense conse-
quence for good to the masses of our people.
-Gazette and Chronicle, Peru, Ia.
Year: 1867

Section 20. No person shall be allowed to vote
except at the polls held in the election district
where he resides nor unless his name is enrolled
on the poll list where he offers his vote in such
district, nor for local or representative officers


unless he shall have had his residence for thirty
days next preceding within the territorial limits
prescribed for the election of such officers If anv
person enrolled on the poll list, whose shall be
objected to on the day of election 5y any qualified
eieetor, shall be proved to the satisfaction of the
Board ofJudges, either by his own oath or by the
oath ofany other qualified elector and householder
Of the district by other clear and competent evil
dence not to be legally qualified and entitled to be
enrolled on said poll list OF if it be proved afore


said that he is enrolled more than one poll list
when he offers his vote is otherwise not legally
qualified to vote at such election, his vote shall be
rejected. 2Ss
Year: 1867

CnlNAMAN KILLED.-On Saturday last a
Chinaman was killed by the caving of a bank
in mining claim on Dry Greek, near Horse
town. The body was taken out horribly
crushed and bruised, and examination show
ed that one of the ribs had been driven
entirely through the heart. Justice DAILY
empannelled jury and held an inquest on
the body, when a verdict was rendered in
accordance with the above facts.
Year: 1867

g. &c. 10. Every white male citizen of the
y United States, and every white male citizen of
Mexico who shall have elected to become a citizen
of the United States under the treaty of peace ex-
changed and ratified at Queretaro, on the 3Oth of
May, ls4S, of the age of twenty-one years, who
shall have been resident of the State six months
next preceding the election, and the county or
district in which he claims his vote, thirty days.
shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are
now or hereafter may be authorized by law.


Sec. II. For the purpose of voting, no person
shall be deemed to have gained lost a residence
by reason of his presence absence the service
OF the United States, while engaged in the nav
igation of the waters Of this State or of the United
States or of the high seas; nor while student of
seminary OF learning nor while kept at an aims
house or other asylum, nor while confined in any
public prison.


See. u. No idiot or insane person. or persons
convicted of any infamous crime, shall be entitled
to the privileges of an elector


Sec IL. crime shall be deemed infamous
which IS punishable by death or by Imprisonment
IN the State Prison.
Year: 1867

While at Leavenworth, on bis way to the
Indian country, General Sheridan received a
summons to report at Washington to testify
before the Congressional Investigating Com
mittee. He promptly obeyed the summons,
and the loyal people of the East have en-
braced the occasion to testify their apprecia
ton of the hero of the Shenandoah, and to
express their opposition to the evil policy Of
the corrupt man who removed him from
command at New Orleans.


At St. Louis he was received by large
concourse of admiring citizens, and was
escorted through the city at the head of a
procession over two miles in length. A
similar ovation awaited him at Philadelphia,
where he was welcomed by the Governor and
most distinguished men Of Pennsylvania. =
At New York be was welcomed by a turn
out of ten thousand veterans. and the dis
matches state that his reception was s. one of
the orandest ever given public man in that
city." From New York and Brook yn he
will 90 to Boston, where the loyal people of
New England propose to welcome and greet
him as favorte champion of Congressional
Reconstruction, and stauch defender of
radical Union principles.


Truly Sheridan is the idol of the Nation,
and to day he welds greater power and
influence over the minds and hearts Of the
people than does Andrew JohLson and his
satellites who sit in high places and labor to
thwart the loyal will of the Republic.
Year: 1867

SUGGEsTIvE.-AS San Francisco correspond
ent of an interior Democratic paper states
that Judge Hagar, Democratic Senator from
San Francisco, Zach. Montgomery, and Rev.
0. p. Fitzgerald, are engaged in drafting a
new School Bill. which will be presented to
the next Legislature for passage. 1t is
understood that the new bill is designed to
change the present School Law in every
particular with the exception of the section
which provides for the maintenance of
separate schools for colored children. We
do not believe the Legislature will repeal the
present School Law but the drafting of a
new bill clearly illustrates the hostility of its
authors to the admirable system of free
schools which is to day the crowning glory
of the State.
Year: 1867

ENTERPRIsING.-At the shop of Samuel
Richards, in this place, four wagons and one
buggy is in process of construction, and all
OF them will be complete in few days The
rapidity with which Richards turns out such
JOBS is only equaled by his superior and
thorough workmanship.
Year: 1867

SOUTH FoRK.-A renewed interest has
suddenly sprung up within the last few days
in relation to the South Fork mines The
striking of rich prospects in one ledge has
led to the commencement of work on a num-
Der of others, and renewed interest is thus
suddenly excited. 1t is unfortunate that this
streak of enterprise did not occur during the
summer, or earlier in the fall so that some,
thing substantial might have been accom-
plished before the rainy season set in, to
compell the stopping of shaft sinking aud
tunuelling.
Year: 1867

TURNED UP.-A few weeks ago we stated
that man named Cooper bad disappeared
from Whiskytown, and that fears were
entertained that he had met with foul play.
Search was made for the missing man
throughout the neighborhood to no purpose
Finally suspicion rested upon certain
dissolute character residing in the neighbor-
hood, and resort to Lynch law was strongly
talked of by some of the citizens. just at
the time the feeling was running highest the
missing man returned from protracted hunt
in Trinity Mountains, and Judge Lynch's
code Immediately fell into disrepute. 1t is
generally best to 90 slow in such cases.
Year: 1867

New CHIEF-The election for Chief of Il 9
Cherokee Nation has resulted in large
majority for Louis Downey over W P Ross.
Both the Ross and Ridge factions have lost
their former power and influence in the
Cherokee Nation, and the new Chief
sensbly declares that the Cherokee people
should in future turn their attention to
something else besides quarrelling over the
merits of rivals who care for nothing but their
own personal aggrandizement.
Year: 1867

INCREASE OF PoPULATIoN.-Durin the
past few months considerable additions have
been made to the population of Pit and Fall
River valleys. Among those locating in
these rich agricultural districts are quite n
number Of families who purpose opening
farms and becoming permanent residents of
the county.
Year: 1867

TIE peculiar taint or
infection which we
call SCRoFULA turks
in the constitutions of


nlultitudes of men. 1t
either produces or is
produced by an en-


feeblcd, vitiated state


of the blood, wherein
that fluid becomes in


competent to sustain


the vital forces in their
vigorous action, and
leaves the system to
fall into disorder and
Year: 1867

CoTToNwooD.-Th mines now being work
ed on the North Fork of Cottonwood are
paying unusually well. We are Informed
that two claims were cleaned up few days
ago, after a run of several weeks, which paid
from ten to fifteen dollars per day to the
hand. We have, on several occasions,
called attention to the richness of the pIacers
Of the North Fork of Cottonwood and Roar
ing River, and we know of no better section
for enterprising miners to emigrate to. There
are acres of ground in those localities that will
pay we'll for the working.
Year: 1867

A SUCcEss-Persons who attended the
Miilville ball and celebration report the
affair perfect success. A large crowd was
in attendance, including quite a number
from Tehama county, and all participants
expressed themselves well pleased and graft
fed at the success of the celebration.
Year: 1867

How true is the following, which we clip.
from the Albany ELyress:-


There are no persons, in all human proba-
bility, who are compelled to woIk ss hard as
PTinUeEs'dO. II is a matter of very little con-
sequence whether the thermometer is at ze-
ro, or a hundred above in the shade. A pa
per must be issued for the perusaI Of its pa
irons, who mayhap are leisurely reclining
from the excessive heat, and whose natural
debility Is very ample apology for such re-
creation. The compOsitor must toll aud per-
spire at his daily avocation. and for every
word he Encompasses, a drop of steamiDg per-
spiration OOzes from his body. In the morn
ing he manages to keep cool, at noon he Is
wasting in the hot and blistering atmosphere,
aud at evening he is still at his case This
may seem all very easy for the reader, but the
labor is Of no ordinary nature. nor the fatigue
by any means light. The days work over,
he retires, perhaps TO sleep, but more likely
to pass restless night, and when the sun
again peeps forth, he must up and away to
his work. Day in and day out his is his usual
routine. No change. no diversion from his
established course. They who peruse their
morning news over cup of coffee, think but
little Of this. They otter grumble If so be
they Dot get their paper, or there is a lack
of news, but they forget that with the ther-
mometer varying between 80 and 100, 1t is a
matter Of some labor to furnish a variety Of
news for the quiet and peaceful citizen who
looks for so much from the printer. Think
of this, kind patrons, and exhibit more for
bearance
Year: 1867

The Home Journal makes the following
truthful remarks, upon the universal desire
Of mankind to change the lot which God has
given them:


-ikttfOw often do we see persons who wish to
be taken. for what they are not. The boy
apes the man with cane and cigar the man
affects the ways of boyhood. The sailor en-
vies the landsman's lot; the landsman. for
Pleasure, goes to sea. The business man who
must travel from town to town, and from
country to country, dreams of the day when
he will be able to settle down" :" the man of
sedeutary occupations grieves over the thought
that he has TO vegetate like cabbage in one
spot, and sighs for the time when he NAV
travel. The town bred youth halls. with jov.
the morning in which he is enabled to get
out where he can breathe pure air and ram
bic among green fields; the country lad is all
wonder aud admiration when he first sees the
rows of town gas lamps tapering away in
prospective like beads of goId-and he is ex-
cited by the blaze Of gas which pours from
the windows on the. road. Your fiue musi-
clan would like to be a great painter. Your
wit diguifed philosopher, your philosopher
4 wit, able to set the table iu' roar Even
an oyster, if We could enter iutothe feelings
of an oyster, would wish to putdorth fins and
have fine, flexible tail, and sail abroad TO
see the world, while the travelled fish looks
with an eye of envy on the oyster as one who
lives without work-a fish of independent
means, who has got fixed position and
strong house of its own
Year: 1867

Every little kindness,


Every deed of Love,
Every little action,


Prompted from above
EN- cup of water,


In HIS great name given;
These are angels footprints,
Leading up to Heaven.
Every little sacrifice


Made for others veal,
Every wounded brother


That We strive To heal
Fen a word of kindness


I misfortune given
All are angels footprints
Leading up to Heaven.
Then let angels lead uE


WheresOe'r they would,
Even let them teach Us


Whist is for our gOUd,
May they cross our pathway,


When from Heaven they roam,
Let US follow after


Footprints leading home.
Year: 1867

The Washington correspondent Of Chi
cago paper says, there has been good deal
of talk during the last ten or twelve d.evs
about summer session of Congress. The
number of those who argue that there should
be one is greater than the number of thoss
who believe there will be one. A very large
body of those technically called Radicals
stand ready with a score Of reasons why such
a session should be held but when brought
down to give an answer, most of them own
that the country does not seem TO demand
it. Three.fourths, at least, of the Republi-
cans here last week were Of the opinion that
there would be no quorum present at the
time fixed in July for a re-assembling, un-
les events occur of which there is now no
foreshadowng. The offices were filed
much more generally than it was supposed
a month ago that they would be, and thus
far the President manifests reasonably
good disposition to aid in the execution Of
the new Reconstruction Law If he con-
tinues in good ways see little prospect of a
summer session.
Year: 1867

Under the chosen method Of adjusting
the. political condition OF the Southern
States. the military arm of the Gqvern-
ment has nominally conspicuous place.
But there is no reason 10 fear that the
coercive power will require application in
reality, to any appreoiable extent Its
functions appear to be more preventive
than remedial, and in this respec', it will
probably furnish confirmation to the max
i'm Of practical philosophy, that an ounce
OF preventive is better than a pound Of
cure. The passive virtues. or rather the
virtues OF passiyity, developed under the
system already, give promise Of ultimate
results equal to the expectations Of the
Congress that adopted it. And in the
end. we doubt not, it will prove to be the
Year: 1867

THE starvation point that Las been reach,
ed in South Carolina is evidently only rela.
tive. That point of famine which no longer
admits of faslidiousuess in the choice OF
food has not yet been arrived at. They are
hungry, but some delicacy of appetite yet
remains. Thus for instance, General Sick,
les, writing to the chairman Of the southern
Relief Committee in Boston, says; "It you
send corn meallet me suggest that you send
white meal; for white persons will not eat
yellow meal. It's only given here to cattle,
and even the colored people refuse it" When
we call to mind what Union soldiers, who
crowded rebel prison pens at Salisbury and
Andersonville, had to feed upon in their
extremity, it certainly requires some stretch
of charitable feeling to arouse anything like
sympathy for people who are so very par.
ticular about the quality of the aims they
beg for.-PW. Coml.
Year: 1867

TnE SITUATION IN Turkey "A cores,
pondent Of the Pail Mall Gazette writes from
Constanliuople: Arms and ammunition to
a large extent, have been brought IN recent
ly, and although the importation has not
been allowed, smuggling has been actively
carried on. | have it on the authority If
the leading house in the trade that many
thousands Of revoIvers have been sold during
the past week. These arms are not re-ex-
ported, but remain here for what purpose
Is yet to be seen. An uneasy feeling exists
m re especially among the Mussulmans, but
waeather they mean mischief, no one can
yet positively say. The ferment among a
section of the Franks is easily understood bv
tine fact OF Russian agency being actively at
work. We are as fast as possible drifting
toward great and dangerous compl lcations,
and the Eastern question will, in coming
events assume vastly wider proportions than
we have yet known. AS an evidence that
there Is reason to apprehend some move
ment amongst the fanatica sect If the
Musseulmans, | may mention that 10 less
than hundred CT that party were recently
arrested, and without any form of trial. sum
mur'ly sent away to a remote province in
Government steamer"
Year: 1867

"A real valley Of death exists in Java.
II is named the Valley Of Poison and is
fled to a considerable height with car
bonic acid gas, which is ezhaled from
crevices in the ground. If a man or any
animal enter it, he cannot return and
he is not sensible of his danger until ho
feels himselfsink under the poisonous
influence of the atmosphere which sur
rounds him. the carbonic acid of which
it chiefly consists rising to the height of
eighteen feet from the bottom of the val
ley. Birds which fly into this atmosphere
drop down dead al living fowl thrown
into it, dies before it reaches the bottom,
which is strewed with the carcasses of
varions animals that have perished iu the
deleterious gas.
Year: 1867

PosTPONEMEST OF WAR There is one
little matter, says the Pittsburgh CONNER
ciat connected with the eager Willingness Of
Napoleon t. tide over resort to the Las ap>
peal o.! rms for the current year, to which
sufficient consideration has not been given.
lie ha' set his heart npon the success of his
great international exposition, and he knows
that interest in comparative display of the
arts of Peace cannot be excited nor main
tanned while War is going on, or even threat
ening. He will make almost any sacrifice
to postpone actual hostilitIes for a year, but
twelve months of restraint will only make
the dogs of war the farcer when they are
eventually loosed from the leash.
Year: 1867




MI MORTON: The manual labor of writing had
always been difficult and painful to me. had never
been able to purchase a gold pen adapted to my
hand quls were too coarse and soon wore out, and
steel pens were harsh and stiff


in March, 1865, after half an hours experimenting.
you selected gold pen for me- flexible as a quill
and as fine az | wanted. l had never found any
thing with which could write half so easily before
But lost it in California, and for a few months
scratched away as best could with steel pens. On
the day after reaching New-York again, with your
aid found another gold pen in your establishment
as good as the first have used ii daily ever since,
and now write these lines with it, with an ease to
which was a stranger before l met you two years
ago One of my friends adopted your pens from the
same cause and with the same results. / am conf
dent that you can fit any hand however cramped,
and help any writer however hard to suit


Faithfully yours, ALBERT ID. RICHARDSON.
Year: 1867

Gen. Sherman, unlike Grant and Sheri-
dan, excels in oratory as well as In arms
The following eloquent passages occur in
speech delivered by him at the second
annual reunion of the Army of the Ten
nesseee, in ST. Louis, on The lith inst:


History, with its busy fingers, is already
gathering all these events and loading oui
shelves with its volumes; but TO US, the
living actors and witnesses. how feeble
seem the pictures they have drawn. Who
but a living witness can imagine those
scenes on Shiloh field, when our wounded
men mingled with rebels, charred and
blackened by the burning tents and grass.
were crawling about, begging for some one
to end their misery? Who can describe the
plunging shot, shattering the strong oak as
with ihunderbolt, and beating down
horse and rider to the ground? Who but
one that has felt them can describe the siz-
zing minnie ball, which does its work so
neatly and so well. Who can describe that
last look of the stricken soldier as he ap-
peals for help that man cannot give? or
who the dreaded scenes at the surgeon S
table; or at the burial trench?


What artist will attempt that night scene
when the gunboats and transports ran the
batteries at Vicksburg? that long black line
of iron-clads, followed by the frail trans
ports. in darkness and silence-hardly a
ripple of breath heard-when, as by the
lighining's flash, the whole sky was lit up
By the bonfires and burning buildings on
shores illuminating city and fleet, and ma
king every floating object target for those
terrible batteries.


Who will attempt to paint that grand
panorama of battle at Chattanooga, with
its ten miles of contiuons fire, Plainly visi-
bic from our hill just before the setting Of
the sun?


Or who but the poet would venture to
express that intense feeling of Joy which
pervaded all minds when on the night of
the battle at Jonesboro, We heard in the
distance the faint rcyerberations Of the ex-
ploding magazines of Atlanta, that told US
that the rebels were evacuating the city,
and that at last we had reached the goal
assigned US in that grand drama of war
which extended over a whole continent?


have always wished that some artist
like Bierstadt or Kaufman could have
stood by my side on Kenesaw that beauti
full October morning, and fixed on canvass
thst beautiful picture of the vast forest at
our feet, with its bright autumnal foliage,
and the long lines of soldiers pointing to-
wards Dallas, while in the distance was
Alatoona, begirt with the white smoke of
the rebcl assault, and occasional glimpse
of the little signal flag through an embras-
ure, which told me through the skilful Of
ficer by NV side, that Corse was there, and
consequently that the place was safe.


Qr better still, that Beard or Healy could