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Year: 1866

The New York Tribune lays down a rule O,
action for all the members of the Republican
party in this modest statement of its own
policy and intentions. 1t SAYS:


''We do not say to our political friends.
ADOPT our programme. or we will oppose
YOU! We shall do nothing of the sort We
propose to abide in the act with that great
patriotic party which so nobly carried our
country through the trials and perils of our
late civil war We offer our suggestion as a
member ofthat party; we shall be right glad
TO see it adopted bnt if it is not, we shall
still 60 with the Union party, believing that
we can thus do more good than by breaking
81 from It and setting up in opposition to it.
hateFer plan of reconstruction shall ulti-
mately be agreed on by the great body of the
Unionists in Congress, that we shall do onr
best to have accepted. But we shall like it
inc better the nearer It comes to embodving
fully aud only the two principles of universal
amnesty-mpartal suffrage


The Republican party is progressive.
While instinct with the spirit in which it was
formed, the current of events has opened the
way before 1t, and it has advanced the stan.
GARD Of freedom far beyond the boundaries
It set up in 1856. Now that the war has
ceased and slavery been overthrown, the
plane ofpolitical action is not well defined.
FOR months has Congress, the representative
ofthe Republican party. hAo-


- - engaged in
elsing 10 mould a just and satisfactory policy
reconstruction. The Republican Senate
has not been able TO adopt the measure Of
the Republican House. There is no differ
ence on principle at all. 1t does not affect
the unity or harmony of the party. Il merely
illustrates the difficulty of the political situa-
ton. The party that administered the Gov
ernment during the great struggle should
adjust its policy in establishing peace Har-
mony must be maintained No shade of party
opinion should assume dictatorial domina-
ton. In the spirit of Union, Patriotism,
Liberty, Justice and firmness for the right,
temperate views and moderation should be-
come principle, controlling the policy of
Republicans.
Year: 1866

nag This valuable preparation, containing in
a highly concentrated form all the properties OF
the Jamaica Ginger, has become one of the most
popular domestic remedies for all diseases OF the
stomach and digestive organs.
AS tonic, it will be found invaluable TO all
persons recovering from debility, whether pro-
duced by fever or otherwise, for whilst it mparts
to the system all the glow and vigor that can be
produced by wine or brandy, it is entirely free
from the reactionary efforts that follow the use
of spirits of any kind.


1t is also an excellent remedy for females who
suffer from difficult menstruation, giving almost
immediate relief to the spasms that so frequent
ly accompany that period.


It gives immediate relief to Nausea caused by
riding in a railroad car, or by sea-sickness, or
other causes 1t is also valuable as an external
application for Gout Rheumatism, Neuralgia, etc.


REDLrGTO.N' n co.,


Sole Agents for the Pacific Coast.
Year: 1866

LONG bands of iron hopping are now


extensively used inserted along brick
work to give additional strength. Its
suggested to have Sits on the broad
surface Of each brick Ito be formed in
the mould) to receive the but ends of
short pieces Of iron hopping. Bricks
laid side by side, or end ways, can be
firmly clutched or ironed together by a
tap with the trowel. The iron being
sunk in an indention level with the
brick, with a slight layer of mortar to
rectify any surface inequalities, there
would be no obstacle to the level set
ting Of the work. For vaults, arches,
chimneys, &C.. it would prove valuable.
Year: 1866

4 HARD H1r.-A gentleman recent
ly returned from the South, called on
the President and told him that at
Richmond there were in single school
two or three hundred white children as
poor and ignorant as any blacks to be
found in the whole South, and urged
that they needed the aid Of the philan-
thropic everywhere. President John
son replied that he was very glad cne
one Northern man had discovered there
were any white people in the South.
Year: 1866

A YOUNG gentlemen advertised for a
wife through the papers, and received
answers from eighteen hundred hus-
bands, saying that he could have theirs.


Dr.. NErTLEroN adopted the follow
ing as maxim for the government Of
his Life; ''Do all the good you can in
the world, and make as little noise
about it as possible
Year: 1866

One day, shepherd, on going to bis
flock, which were feeding on the higher
part of the Grampian Mountains, took
his little boy with him, as also his dog.
The child was only three years old.
The father left him alone while he look
ed after some sheep, when suddenly a
thick fog came on. The anxious faith
er hastened back to find his child; but
it was SO dark that he could not see
him, and unfortunately he missed his
way. After a search of many hours
among the caverns and holes in the
mountains he was overtaken by night.
Still wandering on, he discovered by
the light of the moon that he had
reached the bottom of the valley and
was within a short distance of his cot
tage. He hoped that the child had
gone home; but when he inquired, he
found that his wife had not seen him.
To renew the search that night was
equally fruitless and dangerous. He
was therefore obliged to remain where
he was, having lost both his child and
his dog, which had attended him faith
fully for years. Next morning, the
shepherd, accompanied by band of
his neighbors, set out in search of his
child; but after day spent in fruitless
fatigue, they were at last compelled by
the approach of night to descend from
the mountain. On returning to his
cottage, the shepherd found that the
dog, which he had lost the day before,
had been home, and receiving a piece
of cake, had instantly gone off again.
For several days the shepherd renewed
the search for his child, and on return
ing at evening disappointed to his cot
tage, he found that the dog had been
home, and on receiving his usual al
lowance of cake, had instantly disap-
peared. Struck with this singular
circumstance, he remained at home one
day, and when the dog, as usual, de-
parted with his cake, he resolved to
follow him, and find out the strange
conduct. The dog led the way to
waterfall, at some distance from the
spot where the shepherd had left his
child. The shepherd, stepping, from
crag to crag, crossed the roaring stream.
The dog at last disappeared into cave,
the mouth of which was almost on
level with the torrent. The shepherd
with difficulty followed; but, on enter
ing the cave, what were his emotions
when he beheld his little boy eating
with much satisfaction the cake which
the dog had just brought him, while
the faithful animal stood by watching
his young master with love and pleasure
In his look.


From the situation in which the child
was found, it appears that he had wan
dered to the brink of the precipice, and





then either fallen or scrambled down
till he reached the cave, which the
dread of the torrent had afterwards
prevented him from quitting. The
dog, by means of his scent. had traced
him to the spot, and afterwards pre-
vented him from starving by giving up
to him his own daily allowance. He
appears never to have quilted the child
by day or night, except when it was
necessary to go for his food, and then
he was always seen running at full
speed to and from the cottage.-Har-
per's SagGcity Of .4nimals.
Year: 1866

ADMIRABLE STUPIDITY affair
recently occurred abroad which is wor-
thy Of noting here, not only from the
intense stupidity displayed in the prem
ises, but since similar blunders have
occurred in our midst, and the lesson
taught may be Of use. Two men in


England were set to repair the pumps
of a well, but as the lighted candle
lowered below went out, it was consid-
cred dangerous to descend. Instead of
removing the carbonic gas, they abso-
lutely lowered two pals Of fire, and
these were left to burn out, thus de-
stroying what little oxygen had been
left, and increasing volume of pois-
onous air. Next day one man went
down. After while he began to feel
queerly, and was hauled up, but fell off
before reaching the tip. Another man
was fastened to a rope and lowered
He managed to withstand the deadly
vapor until he had fastened himself and
the other to the rope. When they
were about fifty feet from the bottom,
the rope broke. Then air-pump and
hose was got, but, instead Of pump
ing out the carbonic acid gas, leaving
the air to rush in and supply its place,
air was pumped in. Another man de-
scended, fastened strap to one of
those below, who was hauled up to near
to the top of the well, when the strap
broke, and down went the body. The
next day the two bodies were got out.
The coroner's Jury recommended that
people descending wells in future should
be securely fastened SO as to be drawn
out safely if the air was foul! They
did not recommend any one to refuse to
20 down until the air had been purified.
1t was quite enough to take precaution
10 rpt tbn dead bodies
Year: 1866

A ROUGH old sea captain, when the
terrified passengers persuaded him to
petition to Heaven for cessation Of
the tempest, preferred She following
brief request: ''Oh, Lord l haven't
been in the habit Of calling upon
Thee often; and if You will shift the
wind from the southwest to little
more south, | won't trouble You again"
Year: 1866

Alta meeting of the New York Health


Commissioners, DR.. Sayres, of Brook
lyn, gave the following general rules
for the treatment Of cholera patients {:


"Great fear and an anxiety had great
deal to do in the prostration and spread
of disease, and influenced the physical
condition to such degree as to make
persons more subject to it than they
would otherwise be. He thought if the
people understood the single fact that
the cholera is not necessarily fatal
disease, and that it always is preceded


by certain premonitory symptoms, such
as lassitude, great languor, debility,
and diarrhea, and that in this stage
of the disease it is nearly always Gu
rable, if the proper precautionary meas
ures are taken, it would tend to allay
the popular error. At this stage of
the disease, it is of the first Importance
to pay attention to the first symptom,
which is diarrhea. At the first ap-
proach, the patient should assume
horizontal posture and retain it, with
the hips higher than the shoulders, and
under no circumstances assume the per-
pendicular, even for a moment. Alb
solute, positive rest is needed, the body
being kept in warm condition. Any
artificial means can be used for that
which may be necessary. The main
thing is the horizontal position, and
perfect rest at the very commencement
of the disease. If the patient is down
stairs when taken, let him stay there
or be carried up; but not let him walk
up. If he is out visiting, let him stay
at his friends house. Keeping this po-
sition for 4S hours, in the majority Of
instances the disease will pass over, and
the patient, on recovery, need make no
very great changes in his mode of life.
Of course, if he has bad habits, he
should reform them; eat and drink IA
tionally, and attend to business as
usual, but not overdo himself. In the
present state of the atmosphere, when
pestilence is abroad, the system is rem
dered more liable to exhaustion, and he
should husband his strength by avoid
ing violent exercise. With these few
precautionary measures, and a proper
sanitary condition of the city, and
rigid enforcement Of quarantine, We
may hope to escape any pestilential
epidemic.'


Let all who fear the cholera save this
prescription, for the cholera is bound to
come to San Francisco.
Year: 1866

SULPHURETs.-Quartz miners just begin to
learn the real value of sulphurets. The
Grass Valley National says:


Recently a most valuable discovery. cal.
culated to greatly increase the value Of the
Blue Cement claims of Little York township
has been made. A gentleman from San
Francisco visited these mines and mills. He
examined the sulpburets and asserted that
they will pay well for working. Experiments
were made and it was found they paid we'll.
In a number of the mills sulphurets are now
saved. and offers from fifty to one hundred
dollars per day have been made for them
1t is thought that enough gold can be obtain
ed from this source to pay for the working of
the mines and mills, thus making what are
now the gross proceeds of mines. clear gain
TO the owners. The miners of Little York
have never troubled themselves about sui
phurets and during the last year more than
a hundred thousand dollars have been wash.
ed into the ravines. This one discovery is
equal to the opening of dozen new mines,
If the snlnburets are of one half the value
for them. Each dav we have some new de-
yelopment. and after men imagine they have
obtained all the gold from their mine, they
Suddenly find out that they have thrown away
large portions in the refuse. In many places
in this county rock has been worked over two
or three times with fair profits. The result
of these experiments in Little York is cal
culated to give new impetus to mining. and
claims which would not pay before. will be
worked with the sulphurets taken from them,
at a very good profit.
Year: 1866

DoN'T LIKE IT MUcH.-We have seen a
letter from Gray Harris to his mother, dated
Ruby City, June Sd. He confirms the
statement copied elsewhere from the Index,
and adds that their journey from Summit
Spring to Ruby was very hurried and un-
pleasant one The Indians left them nothing
but the clothes they stood in-blankets, pro-
visions, extra clothing, all gone. and in that
condition they travelled through constantly
falling rain and snow until they arrived at
Ruby or Silver City. He worked the first
week after his arrival, and made S27 So
With this sum he paid his board, bought an
under and over shirt and pair of drawers, and
had one dollar left. Truly country to make
money in, il a man could but go naked and
without food He says, further. that our old
townsman, 10 Short, now resident of Silver
City, was very kind to him, taking him in
and sharing q comfortable bed with him. In
the course of another week or two he hope;
to earn enough money to buy him pair o
| blankets. 10 assures him, however, that ht
will do we'll there. And then somebody elst
wants to 90 to Idaho or Montana. It's Sc
pleasant, you know.
Year: 1866

OREGoN.-The aggregate vote in Oregon at
the late election was 81 100000 more than
at any previous election. We are agreeably
surprised at this, for we had supposed that
Weller and Beriah Brown would have in
creased the vote at least 10000, They were
we'll watched, doubtless, ,,and then again were
deceived by their too sanguine Democratic
friends, who no doubt thought an increase OF
1000 would carry the election. Their bag
gage had better be examined for patent bal
lot boxes, at the next election, or they will
carry the State by ten or twenty thousand,
Just to show that it was not their fault that
the election was not carried this time.
Year: 1866

PERsoNAL.-Mr Frank Grant, long a resi-
dent miner at and about Whiskytown and
this place, after an absence of something
over year, trying the mines of Yuba, near
Smartsville, returned to take up his abode
with US once more. He says he has learned
enough during his absence to assure him that
Shasta is better mining district than any
of those below, but that we here are sadly
behind in enterprise and in the improved
modes of mining. He proposes to soon give
us a practical illustration of the way they
work below and make poor diggings pay.
Year: 1866

A BOHEMIAN AT SOUTH FoRK-The fol-
lowing was picked up from a writing desk
at Ellsworth's mill, and the finder, knowing
the rules governing the Sacramento Union
would not permit the appearance of the un-
finished letter without signature, it was
handed to us by a friend, who guarantees the
document genuine:


Mr. Eadetar sur of the Union in complyence
with your wish to keepe you poasted on the
South Fork mines will submit the following
thar is the sheeago that is arful rich wei sur
the fact is you can see the sulfreets of selver
Copper lead al mixed & Conglommerrated to
gather which makes powarful rich in fact
don't believe thar has bin as good thing
sence Old Solomens time.


The following explains itself, and was ev-
identity left for the perusal Of those who had
captured the above, that they might be tie
recipients Of the writer's keen sarcasm:


Myster Eadeter Sur please except the fol-
owing from South Fork as it is a true state
ment of fax peopl here have got som good oar
here and now mvstake but they air awful
green herebouts you may depend for sumo OF
um seede thatar luther letter | rit to you and
made Cradle of fun of my spelling | said
nothing | nows who is the smart on and he
ant they ant to blame for being fulish fol-
they dident make themair selves you now ii
was their father or some one else.
Year: 1866

CREDULTY AND CRIME.-Ihe New York
Daily News of May 22d makes public story
of deception and crime seldom met with. 1t
appears that when Mrs. Gen. Eaton, so fa-
nous as the leader of social and fashionable
life in Washington during the administra-
ton of President jackson, became widow
in foreign land, she returned to this coun-
try, taking up her residence here She
adopted two of her grand children, boy
and a girl, and with a competence amount
ing to at least 500, 900 was living very hap
PLY. At length an Italian adyenturer
named Bourgonais was employed as dancing
master for the children, and they took such
liking to him that they prevailed on their
grandmother to allow him to be introduced
to their home. The result was that be mar
ried Mrs. Eaton, and succeeded eventually
in getting possession of all her property
Nor did he stop here, but prevailed upon her
to place in his charge the property She had
set apart for her grand children, all of which
he had the full use and benefit of. He then
set at work corrupting the girl, and finally
sailed for Europe last Wednesday, taking
her with him as his wife, lie left a note
for Mrs. Eaton, in which he told her he had
converted all her property into cash, and
would allow her twenty dollars per week if
she would keep the matter quiet.
Year: 1866

AIR SHIP-On the Goth of May last bal
loon, prepared with wings to propel he1
through the air in any desired direction, was
tried and pronounced success by the in
~entor and others interested So says the
New York Herald. We may now look fol
the pioneer of a regular line of air ships any
day. 1t is claimed that mile in three min
utes can be attained against strong wind
Of an affair SO very ETHEREAL we do not care tc
give an opinion, but await results
Year: 1866

KILLED.-On Friday last an Indian was
found dead on the road side ON the Canon
House hill. He had been shot in the back of
the head and his skull beaten in on the fore
head with plowshare. He is said to have
been Chief of all the Indians around here,
and to have been good Indian" in his
life time. We have no information as to
who killed him.
Year: 1866

SINGuLAR-A San Francisco dispatch to
the Bee gives the following:


The negro servant of DR.. Hueston blew
his brains out yesterday afternoon. The
doctors son had been given an old revolver,
which he was swapping at those about the
house. believing it to be unloaded. The
negro took the pistol, put it to his temple,
saving. Look at me kill myself" pulled
the trigger, the pistol went off, the bullet
crashed through the unfortunate mans head,
and be fell to the ground quivering corpse.
Year: 1866

HARD.-0ld Weller, IN one Of his speeches
in Oregon, had the brazen impudence to say
the Democracy had been the means of saw
ing the Union and putting down the rebel
lion, when he was politely informed of the
opinion of the audience by being called "a
id living Abolitionist"
Year: 1866

DENTIsTRY.-Dr. Hamilton will return
from professional tour on Monday next,
and thereafter will make Shasta his perma-
nent place of business. The extent of his
professional business at this locality justiies
this arrangement, and his many friends will
be pleased to learn Of the fact
Year: 1866

WAR.-The news from Europe is of very
threatening character. Armies are being
mustered and equipped on scale of grandeur
second only to our own for the suppression
of the rebellion. Money matters are unset
tied. The stir there disturbs the monied
circles here. Gold is in demand on the other
side; hence gold goes up and greenbacks
down.
Year: 1866

A PRoBLEM.-An Atlantic paper wants to
know whether johnson means to stick to the
party that made him Vice President or that
which made him President. Andy evidently
believes that he owes allegiance to the party
that gave him the highest Office.
Year: 1866

CHoLERA.-This dreadful scourge actually
exists in the city of New York, but not to a
very alarming extent. The Board of Health
are using every effort to prevent its spread
ing, and are meeting with good success. A
rigid quarantine is maintained in the harbor,
and disinfectants are used by the cart load
wherever there Is the least necessity.
Year: 1866

There was a brisker demand than usual on Saturday
for foreign exchange and the rate for bankers sterling
advanced Y y per cent This was mainly due to the
decline OF gold which is not expected to continue; and
hence the purchase before the reaction sets in
The quotations for consos and American securities in
London we're as follows to-day and previous
Year: 1866

We would call attention to the COM
in another column, relative
10 the establishment of House OF
Refuge. We are glad to know that the
movement TO provide such an institu


tion is making favorable progress
The REGISTER having been the first to
>rrccst the idea which is now being
aioptcd, and having frequently urged


and advocated what is now
being generally deemed q pub
lie necessity, We do not think :it neces-
sarv to repeat our views in regard 10
this enterprise. We shall only say that
- far from having undergone any
change, they have been confirmed by
later experience, and our estimate of
their correctness is only increased by
seeing numbers of able and influential


gentlemen heartily cooperating for a
purpose in whose behalf the REGISTER
stood, at one time, almost alone. 1t is
extremely gratifying to have this final
endorsement of work we were the


inst TO advocate, and it is no less pleas


ant for US to invite the public to exam


ine the subject and, if possible, take
favorable action in providing a House
Of Refuge for at least a portion Of the
Year: 1866

The cold weather we are now ex-
Pcriencing, while not unexpected, has
doubtless found many poor families in
our city unprepared for the rigors Of
winter. There is probably much suffer
ing within few steps from the doors Of
many of the readers of the REGISTER
this morning. Public charities cannot
reach one half of the meritorious cases,
and there are many needing relief
who will not report themselves and
should not be reported to the
0verseers of the Poor. As q general
rule, those whose condition is worthy
ofmost sympathy and who are best en-
titled to aid are the most patient and
the least obtrusive. Such cases should
be sought out by the charitably dispos-
ed and such assistance afforded as willre-
leve them without wounding their
sensbility. Let each individual
who reads these lines make inquir-
les in his own neighborhood for
persons who are even now suffering for
want Of some of the comforts we can
readily supply, and more good will be
done than can be accomplished by any
public charity that has been or can be
devised. We assure you, friends, that
There are many persons in Wheeling
who will endure almost unutterable suf-
ierlngs during the present winter,
unless relieved by such private be-
He'oience as We suggest. Let
Us all endeavor to do our whole
uu'y towards those whose mis-
fortunes have placed them in need of
Tue necessaries and comforts of life; and


We should need no other incentive to
active, warm-hearted benevolence than


contained in the scriptural declara-


nOn that "He who giveth to the Poor,


'endeth to the Lord" Be assured, the


security is ample and the principal win


efeturned with interest.