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Year: 1866

Bg-Prentice says that Col. Forney
and all his numerous relatives have
been living upon the public bread and
butter until the smell of bread and
butter is exhaled so strongly from ev-
cry pore of their bodies as to be per-
ceptiblc ten yards of, yet the Colonel
has the impudence to talk tauntingly
about the "bread and butter party"
The power of impudencc is indeed
amazing.
Year: 1866

Among the important duties of the next session
of our Legislature wJl De the election OF tni-
ted States Senator There Is deserving man
for ,ha, important position in Indiana than Governor
u P Morton. The people would hail his election Win
satisfaction.


So far as our Representative is concerned. the Gov
ernor win have his support and influence hrsi, last
and all the time The people of Indiana would &c un-
grateful to deny him of any position in ther gift
Vernon Plsindealer.
Year: 1866

The following words from McMillan's Magazine arr
attributed TO Miss Mulch:
When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green,a
And every goose a swan lad,
And every lass queen,
Then iy for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Your love must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.
When all the world is old lad,
And all the .rees are brown,
And all the sport is STALE Lad,
And all the wheels run down,
Creep home and take your place there,
The spent a maimed among
God grant you find face there
You loved when yon were young
Year: 1866

Hon G. ". Julian, it IS understood, Is candidate
for the United States Senate. While we admit the
tact that he would I'll the position with credit him
self and the State nevertheless must declare our
preference for Governor Norton. The people Of the
STATE have sgnifed by the late election that be Is
their cfoce and the voice of the people should be
spectei.-f Richmond Hunming Bird.
Year: 1866

Only baby's grave


Some foot or tw0 at the most
OF star daisei. AID yet think that "od
Knows y hat that little grave cost
Only baby's grave


To children even 50 small, -
That thew sit taefe and sings small tninS
Seems scarcely grave at all
Only a baby's gravel


Strange how we moan and fret
For little face that was here sucn a space
o more strange, could we forget.
Only a baby's grave!


Did we measure grief by this
Few tears were shed on our baby dead;
know bow they fell on THIS
Only a baby's grave!


viii the little life be much
Too small gem for His diadem,


Whose kingdom is made Of suchE
Onlv baby's grave.


Yet oftener come and sit
By the little stone. and thank God to own


We are nearer Heaven tor IT
Year: 1866

To make cord of wood go great
way leave it ont of doors. 1t has been
known to 60 mile


A WAC seeing lady at party with
very low neeked dress and bare arms,
pressed his admiration by saying she out
stripped the whole party.
Year: 1866

! Keep cool: don't hurry Too much
hurry, high pressure rate of speed in
all things is the bane of our American
life We walk. work, eat. drink and sleep
/ too fast. We 60 through life with rush
and hardly take time to die and be bur
/ led quietly. Our busin ess men are 'driv


en- to death, our ladies are worked into
a condition of constant neuralgia and
nervous headache, our young people
whirl along the giddy course of pleasure
and dissipation like jockeys riding a
steeple. chase, our very children have no
time to be careless and happy and natur-
al, they have week day schools, and Sun
day schools, and public exhibitions, and
monthly concerts, and all sorts of shows
and parades to be studied and dressed
and practiced for, till the poor little crea-
lures are as hurried and worn and har-
rassed as their elders.


We say that ours is fast age, and we
say it as if we thought it was something
especially meritorious and desirable that
it should be SO. This is fearful mis-
take The speed at which we live in
wolves a fearful waste of the vital forces,
shortening of the actual term Of life and
narrowing of the range of our enjoyments
and our usefulness, as needless as it is
wicked. 1t is mistake to think that
the, pleasures or the duties of an average
term of life can be crowded into a few
brieffeverish years, that the powers and
capacities with which the Creator has en-
dowed us were intended to be burned up
in that way A man has no right to
bring all his powers, all his thoughts,
and all his time as sacrifice to the No
loch of business. Some portion of each
is due to rest, to thought, to prayer, to
recreation, to family and social inter
course and cultivation Of all those thous
and nameless amenities and courtesies
which make life pleasant and graceful.
These are as much duties as an obedi-
ence to the dec alogue or to the laws of
the land, and failure to observe them
is sure TO bring its fitting punishment in
character deteriorated, health impaired,
happiness diminished, and life cut short
when it should be but begun.


Visit any one of our Iunatic asylums
and inquire the causes which have
brought its inmates here, and you will be
astonished at the numb er who are mere
ly the victims to overwork and hurry.
Physicians will tell you not only that the
proportion of such cases is appallinglv
e-s>,--A- bat Abqt thav usl1ally among
for treatment The vital forces are all
used up, and when the brain gives out
under the protracted high pressure there
is nothing to fall hack upon. Only death
can end tn hopeless mental darkness,
which might have been wholly avoided
by tolerable degree of attention to ma
lures laws, by more moderation in .busi-
ness, and by abstaining from the fatal
folly of too much hurry.
Year: 1866

Some interesting experiments with
Gattling's improved battery gun have
been in progress at Fortress Monroe for
the past three weeks, under the super
vision Of the Ordnance Department, and
the results speak most fayorably for the
new projectilc. Most of the expert
ments have been made in conjunction
with a twenty four FOUNDER flank defense
howitzer. Where the howitzer throwing
canister hit the target once the missiles
from this gun hit it six times. both At
short and loEg range, the former from
three hundred to four hundred yards
distant, and the latter at distance of
from one and a half to two miles. The
howitzer did not shoot at long range.
This gun is revolving gun of six
chambers, and capable of shooting one
hundred times minute. At short
range it throws fifteen one half inch
balls, contained in each cartridge, and
| cap ball, making sixteen missiles at each
discharge, and sixteen hundred missiles
minute. At long range it fired a half
pound of Minnie balls. Its capacity to
| load and FIRE necessarily while revolving,


its freedom from foulness, and its accu-


racy have astonished every one witness
ing the experiments. Three men can
manage it, and its cost will not exceed


that of the ordinary cannon The in


ventor proposes not to give any other


nation the benefit of his invention, wheth-


er our Government adopts it or not
TScientifc American.
Year: 1866

A. California correspondent of tue
Boston Advertiser writes as follows:


..Another thing which strikes the la
tely arrived emigrant from New Eng
land as entirely unlike home habits, is
is the almost entire disregard
of the Sabbath Stores are open, mills
and mines in full operation, and, except
that it is moro of a holiday, there is little
to distinguish it from any other day of
the week In San Francisco, it is true,
there are many churches supported by
wealthy and numerous congregations,
but it is nevertheless fact that in the
mines, almost without exception, the
work is pursued the same as on any 9th
er day, and workingmen have told ne
they have not had Sunday OFF, for
six or seven years in some cases. Some
of the new companies about commenc-
ing operations in Nevada, and whose
stockholders for the most part are Eas-
tern men propose to run their mills and
work their mines but six days in the
week, believing that they shall lose moth


ing in the end by allowing the workme en-
day of rest; but it is asserted BY the
managers and superintendents of those
which have been longest in operation
that the cost of stopping the work Is toe
great; and they predict with great unan.
unity that s.the new idea will not last ano
they will have 70 come down to working
Sundays
Year: 1866

BRIDGE OVER SNAKE RIvER.-The Mon
tana Democrat says the Eagle Rock Bridge
ever Snake River is now completed and wag-
ons are crossing regularly This is said to
be one of the most important improvements
on the road from Salt Lake to Montana


The bridge IS described as situated eight
miles below the ferry, and crosses a very narS
row canon through which the river runs.
The bridge has been pronounced equal to
any so ton railroad bridge in the east. A
single sslfsupOrting span crosses the main
channel. The balance of the bridge, which
is on dry land, except in high water times,
rests on trestle work.
Year: 1866

TRAINING HEIFERS.-If you want heif-
er or young COW to break in kindly to the
milking process, make friends with her at the
outset Be soothing and gentle with her.
If she is skittish, fretful or uneasy, the milk.
er should be patient and cool. Refrain if
possible, an application of the milking stool.
1t may make her stand shiveringly in her
place, but the milk will be rendered Crude.
ingly and greatly in diminished quantity.
By patience and kindness the young cows
may be soon brought to regard YOU as a
friend. This relation once established and
the victory is won.
Year: 1866

A prominent bachelor politician remarked
to lady that soapstOne was excellent to keep
the fee; warm IN bed. "Yes," said the young
lady, who had been an attentive listener, "but
some gentlemen have an improvement on
that which you know nothing about" The
bachelor turned pale, sAd maintained visit
ful silence
Year: 1866

SINKS and onthOuses will, in hot weather
become foul, it is almost impossible to pres
vent 1t, unless some chemical preparation is
used Dissolve one pound Of eOpperas in
four gallons Of water, pour it over the sink
three or fonr times, and it will destroy the
offensive efnuvia. This is a simple, cheap
and efhcacious remedy, within reach of al.
and should be used generally by our citizens
Year: 1866

How TO EXTRACT A NEEDLE.-Dr.. W.
w Porter, Of Geddes, recently extracted
needle which had been for nearly four weeks
deeply imbedded in the muscles of the hip of
= child two years of age, by passing the pos
tive pole of a horseshoe magnet, highly
charged, over one extremity of the needle.
In few minutes he readily discovered the
needle coming nearer the surface, and in
less than half an hour the head was drawn
through the skin, and it was easily removed.
1t was about two inches in length. The
child during most of the process was as
quiet as though nothing unusual was being
done. This statement will interest readers
generally, and it may be Of service in cases
like the one related above.
Year: 1866

TINLIKE MOST PREPARATIONS for puri.


u flying the blood, this Purifier does not con.


tain mercury in any shape. 1t exerts an imme.


date influence upon the system, and If the use
Of it is persisted in for reasonable length Of


time, it will eradicate all latent poison from the
blood and restore the patient to perfect health.
aprl4 3m
Year: 1866

One Of the vauahle combinations Of psoful medicine
and an agreeable beverage that has been offered the
public Millions Of bottles sold throughout the North
during the last four and wherever introduced has
welcome addition the nvalids table, the family
circle and the bachelors sidebosrd


Ladies who have lost strength appetite suffer
nausea vomiting and vertigo


Gentlemen who don't feel very well just before breakfast
dinner, whose stomach Of system gene
rally derauged-


Mothers weaving children and suffering from general
debility


Children Of scky nature and dyspepc constitution


Travellers who have occasion to change their water and


All who live in masrious Districts are subject to mIas
matte Influences will find of the valuable mics
inyigorators that be taken i'll
Year: 1866

From the Atlanta Intelligencer.l


A Young and interesting lady passed
through our city yesterday, returning to
her home in Texas. She was led to the
altar during the second year of the war
BY a gallant captain In Texas regiment
who left her to join his command in Nlr-
ginia ere the honeymoon had waned.
His career was an honorable one, and in
her far-off home her heart had been
made to swell while his deeds of valor
we're being recounted by his comrades.
But few leaves of absence were given in
the Army of Northern Virginia to Tex
ans, and our captain was not permitted
to return to the rosy bowers where love
awaited him His devotion to duty knew
no abatement, and he was still found
among the faithful few when the end
came. He is known TO have surrendered
with the Texas brigade at Appomattox
Courthouse, and to have started fairly
upon the wings of love to meet the wo-
man of his choice Further than this
nothing is known of him. Other hearts
have been made glad by the return of
absent ones, but that great agony OF sus-
DfuSe mas Otl W bt iitSu ilOuu tht
heart of the fair Texas bride Unable
any longer to quietly hear the tor
ture of doubt and uncertainty, she re-
solved upon a mission of inquiry after
the one whose fate still remains a mys-
terry. Her search has extended from
Texas to Virginia, and no effort has been
spared to discover the probable cause OF
his heightened stay and while her search
has been fruitless, she is ready to wager
her future hopes of Heaven that if living
he is faithful still, and if dead her name
was mingled with his latest breath. She
returns to her home in Texas with a
mountain weight of sorrow pressing
heavily upon her fair brow. Such fidelity
is never rewarded in this life; in that
other world where sorrow is not known
will she find compensation for the deep
and poignant griefs she has borne so un-
complainingly in this.


"All the long summer did she live in hope
OF udings from the war and rs at eve,


She with her mother at the cottnge door


sat in the sunshine, ii q traveller go.
Appeard at distance coming o'er the NIL


brow,


Her eye was on him. and il might be seen


by the flushed cheek what thoughts were IN her


heart.
How her heart died within her"
Year: 1866

We learn that one of our young and
handsome mercantile friends, of most
hospitab6 nature, has been blessed with
an increase in the number of his family.
Al three are doing ,csH-BoRedr But-
ietin


How many did Won saw
Year: 1866

is cursed and scoed at as an intermeddler in other
Every man who uses the columns of the Northern
press to tell the loyal millions what takes place in
the States which their armies wrested from the grasp
Of treason, is reviled mercenary sanderer, writ
ing falsehoods for pay. Every faithful represents
tive OF those loyal millions in Congress who win
not consent that rebels shall at once rule the nation
they tried to destroy, has poured upon his head 8
torrent of that foul vtuperaton which only traitors
have learned to USE


Every loyal press, both North and South is ma
igned as a vehicle of Misrepresentation and lies


And SO the patriotic Governor of Tennessee; the
Union Central Committee of the State; the officers
and agents of the Government; the Reconstruction
Committee of Congress; the Union Representatives
In both Houses of that body, and in the Legislature
Of Tennessee; the correspondents of the loyal press
the Northern press itself; the few Union journals in
this State, and those who conduct the same-all
these are execrsted continually and denounced with
every epthet of slander, rdicule villifcation and
abuse.


PATRIOTIC FIRMNEss OF LOYAL TENNEssEEANs.
And yet against all these raging elements of baf-
fed hatred and rebel wrath-against the frowns and
discouragements of Executive power, the malignity
Of the press the hypocritcal deprecatons of polit
clans, and the sneers and contumely of so-called
society,"" the Union men Of Tennessee hold fast to
their integrity and for instance ground the
arms they yield for Loyalty and Right. Occasion
ally one falls away, and poor weak brother bends
before the storm Occasionally there is a detection
where we most looked for frmness; but the great
mass of those who in the fear of Heaven and the
strength of a righteous cause, have sworn to save
their beautiful State from the treason which seeks
again to betray her, and firm as the massive pillars
of the Capitol and keep their ranks unbroken before
the foe.


o loyalsts of the North, where loyalty is an easy
virtue, come down and dwell for time among your
struggling brethren in Tennessee. Let the tempests
that howl round them beat upon your head; and by
. contemplation of their heroism and sacrifices, con-
firm your own weak faith in Right and Justice, in
Freedom and Nationality, in Humanity and God!


Y.S.
Year: 1866

orally.


Calls persons become candidates will be inserted
ADVERTISEMENTS to be paid for invariably in advance


All advertisements which the number Of insertions not
marked viii be published and charged accordingly
Advertisements will be considered due when inserted except
those with whom we keep regular accounts


No advertisement from distance will be inserted unless
eompanied by remittance in where the adver
tiser is known to be punctual.
Year: 1866

Not few of the worst disorders that affect mankind arise
from the corruption that accumuates in the blood OF all the
dis that have made purge it out,
HELMBoLDS COMPOUND EXTRACT
1t the blood nss the vgor of health
into the SYSTEM purges out the humors which make dis
1t stimulates the healthy functions of the body and
pes the disorders that and ranke the blood Sue
remedy that could be relied has long been sought
and for the first me the public have which they
depend Our here does admit of certificates
show its effects but the trial of single bottle will show the
sick that has virtues surprising anything they have ever
taken.


Two tablespoonful of the Extract of Ssrsapara added to
pint of equal the Lisbon Diet Drink and bottle
Is fully equal gallon Of the Syrup Of sarsapara or the
decoctions usually made
Year: 1866

] am convinced that unselfsh patriotism was
never better illustrated than in the conduct of the
Union men of Tennessee. Against every influence
which talent, hatred, ingenuity and maignity can
bring to bear they stand firm the solid limestone
rocks which underlie the surface of their State.
Year: 1866

-Them's what bothers lots of
the border papers. The Klamath News is
exercised on this subject, and says:


The damage that could be done by twelve
or fifteen marauding savages is incaculable,
and as long as they are at large travellers
are in danger We derive all our supplies
from the coast, and it is more than hard that
we cannot safely travel the only road open to
us. We know that the Indians are faithless,
that treaties amount to nothing. While we
cannot suggest the proper course to be pur-
sued we feel that there must be some way 20
nut an end to these Incessant agitatlons. The
Rogue river Indians were as warlike and
crafty as the Redwood Indians yet now an
Indian is as seldom seen there as in the city
of Washington. What we want is security.
A whole community should not be kept in
perpetual ferment by few thieving, ma
rauding diggers.


While the News man cannot suggest the
proper course, we look upon the hinted con
dition Of the Rogue river country as very
spegestive.-that there is but one way to
have rood Indians They are best planted.
Year: 1866

CHURCH REFoRM.-Some time since we
had occasion to mention that our church
needed some repairs that in its then condi-
ton it was not only uncomfortable for con-
gregation. but was offensive to the eyes of
those who had occasion to pass that way. We
now take pleasure in saying that the infu-
ence of the press-that mighty lever-has
had the desired effect. The church is in
good order now, and under the energetic
management of Deacons Hopping and Cur
tiss. it will, doubtless, be kept So
Year: 1866

conviction ought to be bad and that when
these facts are fully proved, it becomes the
duty Of the Court or Judge promptly to con-
Wet the defendants in order to yiudicate the
authority of the Court. and to maintain the
adiudicated rights Of the people. But in all
cases the Court or Judge should be mindful
of Justice in exercising its authority, and not
arbitrarily adiudge the accused guilty of con-
tempt of its authority. process or commands


Upon these views the accused and every of
them are acquitted Of the charge Of contempt
of Court in these proceedings made against
them. and are discharged from the custody of
the Sheriff.


AS it appears these proceedings were in
stituted in good faith, and the character of
such cases are peculiar, and several some
what complicated questions of law arose
during the trial. costs are not allowed in
favor of either Of the respective parties in
these proceedings.


Done at Chambers, the 10Th day Of Janu-
ary, \. D. 1866


E. GARTER, District Judge.
Year: 1866

Sr VALENTINES DAY.-The good people of
Horsetown are going to have good time on
the 14th of February. At Spencer's Hall
they will dance, and in bis dining room they
will eat of as good supper as was ever pre-.
pared for all of which each gentleman will
paw the triaing sum of five dollars. All
money so collected will be donated to the
school fund Truly pleasant way Of pay
ing what otherwise night come in the way of
n school tax, without bit of fun. We hope
TO see Shasta we'll represented at Horsetown
on that occasion.
Year: 1866

A BIG TnING.-On the 22d of February
(Washington's birthday, the Lyon Light
Infantry give grand ball at Armory Hail.


If the weather permits, the company Will
parade through the town, in connection with
the Truman Head Rifles, of French Gulch,
with our Brass Band in the van. Everything
is being gotten up in the best possible STYLE
under the supervision of committe who
know how, and who know nothing Of second
class affairs. A big thing and a good time,
without reference to the mighty dollar, IS
what the company are aiming at. and they
always hit the target. See advertisement.
Year: 1866

HoxEYcoMB.-Wo ork on this lode has been
suspended until sunshine shall have abated
some three or four feet of snow now obstruct-
ing the trail between the Gulch and the
ledge. thus preventing the carrying Of sup
plies to the workmen
Year: 1866

Miners CoNvENrIoN.-This great gather
ing Of miners assembled at Sacramento on
the nth. The recent heavy storms have 50
demoralized mail arrangements that we are
not advised of its proceedings. Next week
we shall be able to give fair idea Of the


good which may result from the assemblage.
Year: 1866

DULL.-Rather a dull theme for para
graph: yet it is the most prominent subject
that presents itself just now. Dull! why 1t
is duler than q meat axe or grub hoe or an
old pick that has been worked to the eye IN
the bed rock In fact dull is no name tor the
times-it doesn't express it; nor is dullness
confined to the times-everybody's counte
nance is dali; their eyes, noses, mouths-aIl
are dull even the words which pass the lips
of people in conversation have dull sound,
and the effort that gives words enunciatlon
is dull Well, there is consolation in the
thought that any change must be for the
bettor. We are at the bottom of the dull
subject.
Year: 1866

any other Of his objects beyond the barren
courcsics which he had the ingenuity to win
fon few OF our public men, whom he con
triyed to place In Positions where tAcy did
not feel atle TO avoid showing him the civil.
ties customsruy accorded to bis official sta-
finn