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Year: 1866

A PALPABLE HIT We are indebt-
ed TO President Johnson for the most
terse and truthful explanation eff the
Freedmen's Bureau Bill Said the
President at New York-"what is
that bill nothing more or less than
the transferring Of four millions of
slaves from their original owners to a
new set of task masters with THE
UNITED STATES TO PAY ALL
THE EXPENSES, and THE TASK
MASTERS UNDER THE GOVERN
MENT TO REAP ALL THE PROF
ITS"
Year: 1866

SCIENCE OF TAxATIoY.-The good
old way is among the things Of the
past and financial science is now the
basis. A person is taxed for all he
earns. For all he saves. For all he
raises For all his business in gross,
as well as in grocery. For all he buys
and for all he sells. For his income
and for his profits. To make other
men rich and to support them after
they are rich. And after he has paid
all the above taxes he is assessed to
pay preachers for denouncing him as
a traitor. Who says we are not good
naturcd.
Year: 1866

Reelection oE ATLANTIC CABLE
FAREs.--lt is announced that the di.
rec,ors OF the Atlantic Telegraph
Company have come to the sensible
conclusion to reduce their tariff. With
only one line connecting the CONT
nents, they are said to have been
drawing gross revenue at the rate
Of about nine hundred pound stearling
a year. With the picked-up-cable
now in working order, and making a
second line as available as that laid
this year. tho company can lessen
their charges by at least fifty per
cent, and still do a handsome paying
business,
Year: 1866

D9rA young preacher who had
just started in his travel as an timer
ant, was one evening holding forth on
the Deluge, and after describing the
manner in which Noah built the Ark,
and filed it with animals of every
kind, by pairs, closed up in solemn
tone thus: "You must know, my dear
hearers, that it was an arduous task
for Noah and his sons to get pair of
whales into the Ark p
Year: 1866

GgEELEY's PHILANTHROPY The poor
white children have to go supperless
TO bed if their fathers are unable to
earn bread enough for them but the
little niggers Of the South have their
mouths filled from morning til night
by the Fieedmen's Bureau by Stevens
q Co. "Loyalty" in this country
covers a multitude of sins.
Year: 1866

the friends of the Constitution at the
North have invited us to meet them in
council in the city of Philadelphia.


Let us send to meet them our best and
wisest-our representative men--and may
merciful God preside over their delibc-
rations, and incline their hearts to "jus-
tice, wisdom, and moderation"
Year: 1866

DISPATCH FOR THE SPRISa'.-Persons gong
to the Springs or other summer resorts can
have the DAILY DISPATCH sent them at sixty
cents per month. Orders left tour counting
room will receive attention.
Year: 1866

ARsENr-xINpED.-The latest case Of alb
sent -mindedness of which we have heard
was that of young gentleman of this city,
who, on getting up from the supper table,
put his cup and saucer on his head, instead
of his hat.
Year: 1866

THE SAGACIrY or THE GREAT NAPOLEON.
Lord John Russell, in a recent speech:
said


"If You will permit me to go little fur
ther, | would say | rccollcct hearing Il
great man--no less a man than Napoleon l..
say what he thought would be the issue
Of the Congress of Vienna. He asked me
what thought would be the issue of that
Congress, and of course | had no opinion
to give. Being young man, was totally
ignorant OF any speculation upon that sub
ject. He said the issue would be this
that all the Powers would have assigned to
them the territories which their troops occu-
pied. And afterwards, when the treaty OF
Vienna came to be produced to the world,
it was very much what Napoleon /. had
said. Lombardy was occupied, Venice
was occupied by Austria, and the whole of
Italy was governed by Austria. Poland
was occupied by Russia, and Poland was
assigned to Russia. But with regard to all
of these countries | think the time has
come when the people, the inhabitants,
will have to be heard" [Chccrs.l


The ALABAMA CLAIMs.--ln the House of
Commons, on the evening OF the 23d
ultimo, Mr.. White wished to ask the Sc
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs
whether, looking to the conspicuous good
faith and friendly feeling Of the Govern
mcnt of the United States toward this
country in its recent conduct to the Fe-
mans, her Maesty's Government was now
prepared to submit all claims and matters
in dispute between the two Powers TO an
arbitration mutually acceptable.


Lord Stanlcy.-I agree i'll the opinion
which the honorable member has expressed
as to the friendly and honorable feeling
that has been shown by the Government OF
the United States with regard to this Fe-
nan affair. [Hcar.l l am very anxious,
if possible-and | can speak for my col
leagues as well as myselt;-to do anything
that is reasonably possible TO remove any
feeling of irritation or of soreness which
may remain in consequence OF circum-
stances connected with the late war. But
with respect to these claims am afraid
cannot give him SO precise and so
positive an answer as he may desire.
With regard to the most important of these
claims, a full discussion has taken place
between the Government of the United
States and those who preceded us in office.
That discussion was terminated six or
seven months ago, and during the very
short time / have been in office those
claims have not been revived. They in
volved questions of considerable perplexity
and difficulty, and l need not add that /
have had a very short time and very lit
tie leisure to consider them. In any case,
it would be premature on the part of the
Government to say Immediately what an-
swer we should be prepared to give to
claims of that kind when they are revived
until and unless they are preferred. Per-
haps may say that, with view to lessen, e:
if possible, the probability of such differ
ences arising in future, it is the intention
of the Government to advise her Majesty
to issue royal commission to inquire into
the working of the neutrality laws, Ssa. ana, II
Year: 1866

DUEL BETWEEN NEGRoEs.-Wc learn
that duel was fought on Monday last be-
tween negro man of this city and one
from the city Of Mobile. The weapons
used were five shooters; the distance was
ten PAGES. The first fire was harmless,
but by the second the Mobile gentleman +"
was slightly wounded in the shoulder. AZ
ter the fight was over, the latter procured
carriage and went to Coalfield, on the
Danyillc road, where he took the train
for his home.
Year: 1866

~ Christ, who is the foundation
Of our hopes, the object of our faith,
and the subject of our love, is also
the model of our condrct; and he
went about doing good. and left US
an example that we should follow
Lis footsteps He worked the work
Of Him that sent him while il Was
day. for he knew that the night was
coming whSr no man ooald work
Year: 1866

FRUIT TREEs.-Never prop up a
tree loaded with fruit, to prevent the
branches from breaking down. Any
branch of the tree which requires
propping has more fruit than it
ought to carry either for the good of
the tree or the fruit. The first thing
to do is to remove the smaller, poor
or, or knotty specimens. If this is
done before the growth has ceased,
aud sometimes after ripening has
commenced, the improvements of
the lower portion will more than
compensate for the reduction in
number. In those regions where
the peach bears only occasionally,
the owners often attemp to get all
they can by allowing an over-aburd-
ant crop to remain. They will get
quite as many bushels by removing
oue-half or two.thirds, and obtain
an immense superiority in flavor.
Many cultivators have observed that
the last ripening peaches on a tree are
better than the first-merely because
they are not crowded. How much
better would they be by removing the
crowded portion before ripening.
If you wish to have good, healthy,
uniformally growing trees not de-
stroycd by premature age, do not let
them Overbear.
Year: 1866

ba~The Radicals of the North say
that the Southern States, lately in
rebellion, are not in the Union, and
shall not come back until Congress
indicates the time when "these erring
sisters" may return. The particular
period at which this important event
is TO take place is now supposed TO be
the time stated by General Butler,
"whcn the Heavens shall melt with
fervent heat"
Year: 1866

SOMEWHAT AsToNIsHED.-Af family


in La Crosse, Wisconsin, have been


missing stove wood for several weeks
past On the return Of the family a
few days since, the cause was stated,
and Sunday night very pretty stick
of fuel was left with others on the
wood pile, In the stick were two
ounces of powder, for safe keeping.


Monday the stick was there-Tues-
day the stick was gone. Wednesday


forenoon an explosion was heard in a
house near, and kitchen was spared
no panes. On going to the spot a
sight might be seen. The stove had
joined a piece conference. A kettle
of pork and cabbage shot up through
the roof like an arrow. A dish OF
apples that were stewing On the stove
gave the ceiling the appearance of the
map of California. A cat sleeping
under the stove went through the win
dow as though after the devil or the
DOCTOR The cat has not been heard
from since, but a smell OF burnt Cat
Year: 1866

THE CHALETs OF THE ALPs.-Those
who have not in person visited the
Chalets can form bat little idea Of the
primitive simplicity with which these
rude dwellings are built. IN soao
places they arc merely made Of large
stones piled on one another, with a
siOping roof, aud surrounded by ii
narrow gutter to carr OFF the rain ::
others, when situated within reach OF
the forests, are built of rough logs oi
wood placed across each other. the
interStices being filled with moss and
dried leaves these are better than the
stone huts, as they are much warmer
and retain less damp. The whole
building is about twenty feet by four
teen feet, and divided by slight
wooden partition, the larger portion
being used as cow shed. Above
this apartment, and under the SLAM
ting roof, is the place where the hay
Is stored, and which forms the shep-
herds sleeping chamber. The re-
malnder, a space of about fourteen
feet by SIX feet, is reserved for kitchen
and parlor, and is not unfrequentlv
shared by one or two favorite goats.
or even a pig. This part is open to
the roof, and through a trap door, kept
open by means Of long fir pole, the
smoke finds exit, chimneys not being
in vogue. 1t has also another slight
partition or screen across one corner,
which is appropriated as pantry or
larder.


There being no windows, daylight
is admitted through the door, which
is kept open for that purpose. The
floor Is OF stone, or rather a mixture
of earth, rock and stone; and there
is no fireplace, a fire being made when
required, on the ground in corner.
Its furniture consists of wooden
bench or settle, and perhaps large
stone bowlder, which serves as a table
or seat as may be required. The
kitchen utensils comprise two or three
porringers, kettle and a few wooden
spoons besides two milking pails.-
Above the hearth, which is formed OF
stones, is suspended little wooden
crane that turns on a pivot, upon
which is hung the great copper cauE
dron that the king of the herd brought
up in triumph on his head from the
village below, and in which the milk
is scaldcd preparatory to making il
into butter and cheese. There is no
lack of ventilation in the dwelling, for
around, above and between the bare
rafters which form the walls the wind
and cold air from the glaciers above,


whistle freely, though this is in meas


ure tempered by the warm and fra


grant breath of the cows, which are


closely packed every night within the


hut.-Chamber's Journal.
Year: 1866

HORSE RAILRoAD.-It will be seen bp adver-
tisement in our columns that the Directors of the
Horse Railroad have placed one more ticket in the
dollar packages While all other horse railroads. SO
far as we know, charge six cents for ride this road
has never asked but five CENTS Low iares secur-
ed by liberal patronage There is gain in the re-
ceipts this year thus far, over last year. We also
understand the Directors have increased the pay of
some who have been in the employ of the Company
for considerable length Of time.
Year: 1866

81 ACCOUNTED FORA correspondent of the Star
thus accounts for the human leg that was found in
Back Cove on Thursday. He says that a few days
since one of our doctors had his premises cleansed
all good citizens should, and usual the scrapings
tamong which was human leg) were deposited about
ten feet above high water mark on the new made
land on the back side OF the city. 4 ~, -


We agree with that correspondent that the "dump''
should not be the place where all the filth collected in
the city is tobe deposited. -.r.-s
Year: 1866

PANTEcNATHEcA.-fan any of our citizens have not
seen the fine panoramas now exhibiting at Deering
Hail. advise them to lose no time in viewing these
works of art. As pictures OF natural scenery they
are of the first Glass; and instruction and amusement
are happily blended in them. They ara far before
most OF the panoramas that have been exhibited in
this city, and has been remarked by an editor who
had visited them, as we have so often been imposed
upon by senseess daubs miscalled pictures, it is
freshing to witness work of art truly deserving tho
name. The exhibition is open every evening. There
will also be grand matinee this afternoon for the ac-
c0mmodation OF children T e a
Year: 1866

General Butler received from Lowell,
Mass. flag made for the use of the United States
Senate which was manufactured in the mills at that
place for the American Bunting Company This is
the first flag ever made in this country from domestic
materials and hoisted yesterday, and the Sena-
tors will no longer deliberate under the folds Of
dag made from foreign fabrics,
Year: 1866

TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND
Judicial District, Of the State of California. in
and for the County of Butte. Elizabeth Easter
brook vs.. r. P. olds, Action brought IN the Dis
trct Court of the Second Judicial District and the
complaint fled in the County of Butte in the
ofiee of the Clerk of said District Court.


The People of the State of California, send Greet
ing to f. P. 0lds.


You are hereby required to appear in an actdS
brought against you by the above named Plaintiff
in the District Court of the Second Judicial Dis
trct of the State of California, in and for the couu
~ of Butte. and to answer the Complain. filed
therein "a copy of which accompanies this Sum
mons) within ten days. texclusiye Of the day Of
serviee.l after the service you Of this Sammens
If served within this county or il served ont of
this county but in this judicial District, within
twenty days: if served out of said District then
within forty days-or Judgment by default will be
taken against you


The said action is brought to obtain Judgment
against you for the sum of two thousand five hun
dred and twenty dollars, leged TO be due the said
plaintiff on a contract between YOU and the plain
tiff. made upon the fourth day OF October. A. u.
1859. more particularly described in the plaintiffs
Complaint; and for costs of suit and for such fur
ther order and relief may seem just: and if You
fail to appear and answer the said complaint as
above required, the plaintiff win take Judgment for
the sum Of two thousand five hundred and twenty
dollars and for costs Of suit.


Given under my hand and the seal Of the Dis
trict Court of the Second Judicial District, this
twentieth day of January. in the year of cur LorS
enc thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Il. 81 J. MOORE, Clerk


DIR. SAMPLE, Attorney for Plaintiff
(U. s Internal Revenue Stamp, fifty cents.l
COUNTY OF BTrTE-ss: Upon reading the
foregoing affidavit and il appearing therefrom that
the said R. p. 0lds, defendant in this cause is n
nonresident of the State of California and that
his residence is unknown. and that personal ser.
vice of summons cannot be had upon him, and
that the plaintiff has good cause of action upon
acconnt.


1t is ordered that the Summons in this action be
served by publication in the UNION RECORD. q
newspaper published in said Butte county, for the
space of not less than three months once each
week, the same being the newspaper most likely to
convey knowledge OF the pendency of this action
to the defendant.


Given at Chambers, January %, 1866
WARREN I. SEXTON,
Judge Second Judicial District
STATAE OF CALIFORNIAN


County of Butte.


l. J. G. Moore, County Clerk Of the County Of
Butte in and for the State of California do herehv
certify that the above and foregoing is full true
correct copy of the original order of puhlica-
ton Of summons and the original Summons in
the aforesaid entitled cause, the same now re-
mains of record and on file in the office of the
said Court.


Witness my hand, with the seal of said Count
affixed, at Oroville the county-seat Of said county
this twenty second day of January A. ID. 1866.


3m-nlS JIG. MOORE, Clerk.
Year: 1866

A NOBLE BoY.-The following
touching episode in street life-in Par
isis beautiful gem, and should find
a place in all memories, surrounded with
pearls of sweetest thought and gentlest
sympathy:


"About 9 o'clock in the morning, a
little boy of twelve, whose jacket and
white apron distinctly indicated that
he followed the profession Of pastry
cook, was returning from market with
an open basket upon his head contain
ing butter and eggs. When he reached
the vicinity of the Church Of St. Eust-
ache, the little fellow who could only
with difficulty make his way through
the crowd, was violently jostled by
stranger who was passing, so that his
basket tipped and fell to the ground
with its contents. The poor lad, when
he saw his eggs all broken and tumbled
in the gutter, began to cry bitterly,
and wiring his hands. A person who
happened to be in the crowd that gath
cred round the little fellow, drew ten
sou piece from his pocket, and giving
it to the boy asked the rest who stood
grouping around to do the same to make
up the loss occasioned by this accident.
Influenced by his example, every one
present complied, and very speedy the
boys apron contained respectable
collection of copper and silver. When
all had contributed their quota, our
young valet, whose distress had vanish
ed in moment as though by enchant-
ment, warmly thanked his new bene-
factors for their kindness, and forthwith
proceeded to count the money he had
received, which amounted to no less
than twenty two francs and thirty-fve
centimes. Bnt instead of quietly put
ting this sum in his pocket, produced
bills of the articles he had lost, and
appropriated no more than that sum,
and then observing in the group that
surrounded him poor woman in rags,
the gallant little fellow walked right
up to her, and placed the remainder in
her hand. Certainly it would have been
impossible to show himself more deserv
ing Of public generosity, or to acknow-
ledge it in handsomer manner. The
boys noble conduct was greeted by the
applause of the crowd.'
Year: 1866

SHARP PRACTICE.-Asa an instance
Of sharp practice it is related that a
merchant going to America and back,
went to an insurance office and insured
one thousand cigars, valued at 9200
against loss by water Or fire. After
the lapse of six months he made his
appearance at the office and demanded
his money, as the cigars had been all
burnt. ''But not on board the vessel,
sir" said the secretary, ''for she is in
dock now.'' eyes, on board the vessel,
l smoked them, and therefore burnt
them all myself, and the insurance says
against fire." The secretary seemed
taken aback, and had nothing to say,
so the merchant said he would call the
next day for his money. He did so,
and was met by the solicitor to the
company, who told him If he did not
relinquish his claim he would be prose
cuted as one who had knowingly and
wilfully set fire to goods insured by the
company.
Year: 1866

II would be remarkable If he spider, which
we have considered as good only ior the pur
pose OF catching flies and startling persons of
weak nerves, should prove of our best
friends. DR.. Wilder has lately delivered four
lectures before The Lowell Institute, Boston ::


He sh, wed that each single thread OF the
common web is composed CT many hundred


lines of ibtintesimal tinenoss issuing from
numerous paplile. When the spider wishes
to descend from any distance, he attaches one
end Of the line to d given point and drops,
drawing the silk meanwhile from his body
The reverse Of this process is that pracliced
by DIR. Wider lie first secures the spider
by cutting notch in card which Is fitted to
the body between the head and abdomen thus
keeping the legs away from The silk. At
tachiDg the end of the web to a little reel
about four inches in diameter, SO contrived as
TO turn by crank, ne reeled silk with much
rupidty from the spider, which was alter
ward exhibited to the audience.


The expediency of trying 10 discover any
substitute for the product of the silk-worm
was considered. The fact, known to silk
growers, oil !. disease fatal to the common
silk worm in France was quoted from a Lon
don paper. A single thread OF this spider g
silk sustains weight OF fifty four grams /; a
rope cubic inch in size would therefore hold
up seventy-six tons, or twice the weight
which Il bar OF steel OF the same size would
sustain. Tne coco0ns In which the eggs are
laid cannot De reeled, but may be carded.
They weigh from one quarter to one third of
grain each. From one spider in the South
he had reeed in one half hour three hundred
and seventy-fve yards of silk. but this was
an extraordir ary instance. From one hun
dred and fifty to TWO hundred yards may be
reeied from the same spider as often as once
u week. Each cocoon will give an average OF
five hundred eggs, from which one hundred
spiders msy he safely relied on to survive The
perls OF infancy aud the cannibal propensi-
ties OF their bigger brethren His own speci-
| mems proved that they could be successfully
raised IN this climate, though he thought ir
necessary 10 keep them in greenhouses. fe
exhibited as spider house sort of Wardian
Case, with sponge IN the bottom, to keep
| the air at 8 fhcient degree of moisture
These spiders will bite sometimes. but only on
provocation no injurious results come from
| the wound.


J The lectures have been quite interesting,
Year: 1866

but the experiments of the lecturer do not
seem to have been carried far enough to war
rant any conclusion as to the practical benefit
of this discovery, as it may perhaps be called.
The quantity OF silk which spider will
yield is much less than that of silk worm
hut it is CLAIMED to be mole beautiful. glossy
and strong. The necessary means for spider
culture are as Yet not sufficiently familiar
but the exrerim nts tried seem to be in the
right direction, and the ingenuity and per
severance of the lecturer, in attaining the re
suits already accomplished. are certainly in
dicative of something more decisive.
Year: 1866

A man recently obtained divorce from his
wife on the ground of extravagance. She III
sisted on having waterfall although she had a
cataract in her eye. This was more than he
could brook.
Year: 1866

The New York Herald, in au article
summing up the reasons for the oYerwhelm-
ing defeat of the Conservatives, draws the
following conclusion:


"Whatever may have been the real cau-
ses operating to bring about the extraordi-
nary results of this Maine election, it is too
decisive against the democracy and con-
servatives to be limited to Maine. We ap-
prehend that, as in all our political con-
tests of the past of national character,
the result in Maine indicates the general
drift of the elections coming after through
out the Northern States. The prospect
now of q conservative majority in the next
Congress is very doubtful; the prospect of
another radical Congress is better than it
has appeared at any time since December
last. In short, this Maine election of 1868
will probably mark another new chapter
in our political history, and perhaps an
other reorganization of parties and another
reconstruction of party platforms for the
Presidential election, beginning with the
close of the coming elections of October
and November" -r5eel ,a


The Herald is always pretty good at
finding out which way the wind blows if
it don't know much else.