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Year: 1867

IHE delegates to the Convention which
was held in this place during the present
week were much PLEASED with the appearance
Of our town, and all agreed that it Is by far
the liveiiest camp in the county. Several Of
them informed US that San Ardreas is the
s-ickest looking place ever they saw, and ex-
pressed their astonishment that the county
seat was ever moved to that hamlet We
understand that all who can raise money
enough to pay their toll across Donnsllan' 5
bridge, are getting ready to leave that every
fine place"
Year: 1867

APoLoGETIcAL.-Our readers must bear
with us a little longer till we get rid of the
delinquent list, when We will resume our
usual amount of reading matter-Register


No apologies are necessary. 1t is the
universal opinion of your bakers dozen of
subscribers that the delinquent tax list is by
far the most readable portion of your paper.
By all means continue its publication as long
as possible.
Year: 1867

GRAND FOURTH OF July BALL.--The Fire
Department of Mokelumne Hill will give a
ball on the 4th of July next. for the benefit
of the Department. Nearly all Of the els
terms are out of repair. and the different
companies require new hose This is the
time of year beyond all others when every
precaution should be taken to guard against
the devouring element, and our citizens
should evince an interest in the matter and
endeavor to render the ball success. The
ladies of Moke!umae Hill and vicinity, with
their usual liberaiity. will furnish the supper
tendance. We shall publish the program ne
a!ryt week
Year: 1867

KEEP Cool One of the first studies of
soldier under fire for the first time, is, how
TO keep cool. So, in California, in Summer,
the prime object in life is, how to keep cool.
"How can this be done:' some might ask
Drop in at "Phirs" ice cream saloon, in the
FL Dorado and try some of that article, in
the manufacture Of which Mr.. Piper stands
without rival. We have been there, and
know that it is good. His travelling estab-
iishment peregrinates nightly through the
highways and byways of the town, when
all who feel SO inclined, may partake Of
something which will not only tickle their
palates, but show them how to obtain the
necessary amount of frigidity to Withstand
the climate.
Year: 1867

and with one accord give it their unqualified appro-
baton. We address ourselves to all who are un
acquainted with this the greatest Panacea of the age
for the healing of all diseases of the Throat and
Lungs assuring you that
Year: 1867

Voltairl said The more married men
YOU have, the fewer crimes there viii be-
Marriage renders a man mere virtuous and
more wise. An unmarried man is but half
of perfect being, and it requires the other
half to make things right; and it cannot
be expected that in this imperfect state he
can keep the straight path Of rectitude any
moro than a boat with one oar, or bird
with one wing can keep straight course.
In nine cases out Of ten, where married men
become drunkards, or where they commit
crimes against the peace Of the community,
the foundation Of these acts was laid while
in single state, or where the wife is, as is
sometimes the case, an unsuitable match
Marriage changes the current Of n man 5
feelings, and gives him center for his
thoughts, his affections and his acts. :
is a home for the entire man, and the eoun-
sci. the affections, the example, and the in
terest of his 'better-half,' keep him from
erratic courses, and from falling into a thou
sand temptations to which he would other
wise be exposed. Therefore, the friend to
marriage is the friend to society and to his
country"
Year: 1867

During last week an animal was brought
to this city from the northern part of this
State, the like of which was never before
seen. A year ago we learned from several
reliable gentlemen, who had seen it, that
such a monster was extant, though rather
too diminutive to attract much notice.
About the middle of the next month, its
keepers concluded that it attained growth
sufficient to be exhibited, and it was brought
to this city to remain till after the State
Fair; but its extreme viciousness rendered
it unsafe and improper to allow it to stay
here. The general characteristics and fea-
lures of the horse are closely blended with
those of the OK, while the name, reaching
from the forehead to the shoulder, and
sweeping to the knees, adds to the general
appearance of ferocity The horns are
heavy at the base, but very short, and re-
markably polished and pointed. The eye is
dull, but it suggests things unutterable-an
expression of latent power and deyilishness


which the general appearance of the ami
NAL confirms The muzzlefis black and ug-
ly, the wide ncstrils arguing a large breath
ing apparatus and dunconquerable endurance.
The jaw is heavy and prominent, the
forehead full but rather square. The depth
of the shoulder is very great, the fore legs
short and large, the foot broad and deeply
cleft. But here the bovine resemblance
ceases altogether, and the equine charac-
teristics begin. The body is slight and
rounded, closely covered by glossy coat OF
fine, short hair, long flowing tail nearly
smooth and little as those Of a race horse,
and the hoofs rather slight, but well formed,
contrasting with the heavy legs and cleft
hoofs of the forward part of the animal
In gait, too, is. a ludicrous cross between
that of the two 5rutes of whose natures it
seems to partake. While the motions of
the forward part of the body are slow,
awkward and shambling, those ofthe hinder
are extremely graceful and agile Al
together it is one of the most wonderful
curiosities to be found in the animal king
dom. Who viii give it name?
Year: 1867

A book with this title has just been issued
by a publishing house in New York. There
is great deal Of chaff in ii, but we think
there are few grains of sense among the
following extracts


SUNDAY CHRIsTIANs.-Herei is man who
goes to the judgment and claims to have
been man of unexceptionable piety. He
bears witness that he never violated the
Sabbath day; that he never spoke loud or
laughed on Sunday; that he never did any
secular work on Sunday; that he never
BACKED his boots, or shaved, or cooked on
Sunday; that he never rode in the cars or
on the boats on Sunday. He was ALWAYS
very scrupulous about what he did on Sun
day On any other day he would not hest
tate to take advantage of his fellow men !:
he would not hesitate to gouge the poor
woman that put hiscarpet down he would
not hesitate to cheathis customers; but.
then, he kept Sunday
Year: 1867

From letter from Nashville, published
in the Memphis Post, we extract the follow
ing: 1-


Governor Brownlow, the old man reso-
lutte, is still in feeble health, but reported as
we'll as he has been for several years. His
hand may quiver but his heart never fails.
His eye is full Of fire and resolution, and yet
it never looks ON misfortune and suffering
bit it becomes gentle as womans. His
political foes have hundreds of tales to tell
of his personal Kindness and they 90 away
from his presence with grateful memories
of how his heart yearns toward them and
prompts him to do everything for them
which is possible up to the line of public
duty. Other men will have lived and done
well, and die and be forgotten; but Brown
low will be historical name, and the his
toric muse will chronicle his eecentricities
as only giving relief to the firm will, the
resolute action, and the clear intellect that
bore him honorably and triumphantly
through difficulties such as it is given to
few men to surmount. / often think OF
some of Goldsmith's verses descriptive OF
the schoolmaster in the Deserted Village,
when am contemplating the character OF
Governor Brownlow. A littlechange makes
them applicable:


"a man severe he was, and stern to view


knew him well, and every rebel knew





Yet he was kind, or If severe in aught


The love he bore his country was his fault"


Yours, SCRIBE.
Year: 1867

Article 14.-Sectlon 1. The Union under
the Constitution is, and shall be perpetual.
No State shall pass any law or ordinance
to secede or withdraw from the Union, and
any such law or ordinance shall be null and
void.


Section 2. The public debt of the United
States, authorized by law, shall ever be held
sacred and inviolate. But neither the Uni
ted States nor any State shall assume or pay
any debt or obligation incurred in aid of
insurrection or rebellion against the Gov
ernment or authority of the United States.


Section 3. All persons born or Daturalized
in the United States, and subject to the iu-
risdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States, and of the State in which they re-
side. No State shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States,
nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due pro-
cess of the law, nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection
of the law.


Section 4. Representatives shall be ap-
portioned among the several States accor-
ding TO their respective numbers, counting
the whole number of persons in each State,
excluding Indians not taxed But when
any State shall, on account of race or color,
or previous condition of servitude, exclude
from voting at any election for the choice
of electors for President or Vice President
of the United States, Representatives, in
Congress, members of the Legislature or
other officers elective by the people, any of
the male inhabitants of such State, being
twenty-one years of age and citizens of the
United States, then the entire class of per-
sons so excluded from the elective franchise
shall not be counted in the basis of repre-
sentation No State shall require as a
property nor rs an educational qualification
more education than enough TO enable the
voter to read the Constitution of the United
States in the English language and write
his own name,


PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CON-


sTITUTIoN


Article. Every male citizen who has re-
sided in this State for one year and in the
county in which he offers to vote, six
months, Immediately preceding the day of
election and who can read the Constitution
of the United States in the English Ian
guage, and can write his own name, or who
NAV be the owner of two hundred and fifty
uOllaTs "OTth Ol I'tAdoio FIOPeityi sh'sll oO
entitled to vote at all elections for Governor
of the State, members of the Legislature
and all other officers elective by the people
of the State Provided, That no person by
reason of this article, shall be excluded from
voting who has heretofore exercised the
elective franchise under the Constitution
and laws of this State, or who, at the time
of the adoption of this amendment may DO
entitled to vote under said Constitution and
laws.
Year: 1867

The Nashville correspondent Of the Gin
oinnati Gazette, has the following upon the
state of Tennessee politics, in reference to
the action of the Legislature upon the
Militia Bill:


!" am sorry to say there appears to be
some serious discussions among the Union
members in reference to this matter, and
three or four impracticable men seem to be
on the point of spelling everything. The
Military Bill is necessary adjunct to the
Suffrage Bill. Without the former, the lat
ter will prove worse than apples of SOdom
to the lips of the Union men. And if few
individuals, who seem determined to have
their own way or nothing, shall defeat this
most necessary and righteous measure, and
thus throw the State into the power of the
rebels, they will incur fearful responsible
ity to the loyal people of Tennessee, to their
country and their God.
Year: 1867

ONE DIsLoYAL CoLoRED MAN.-Reccntiy
in speech in New York, General Fisk
bore testimony to the loyalty of the color
cd man in the following brief sentence


ain all my experience during the war /
was never deceived but by one colored man,
and he was half white, just having enough
the blood of some first family in him to
make him q traitor.
Year: 1867

"ASrBscRrBER on NINETEENTH STREET"
informs lis that the Dispatch was delivered
to him with the "Ne,0 Nation" folded in
it. We need hardly assure him that there
was no knowledge in this establishment
that any such means were resorted to to
circulate the paper in question. 1t may
have been only in his case that such
thing was done; for whatever We may say
Of the publisher that paper, we can hard
ly suppose him guilty of such an expedient
to send ont his sheet, even were the car
riers of the DiSpatch willing to so offend
those who supported them as to aid him in
such a plan.
Year: 1867

SEVERE FAIL.-YeSterday morning as
Dr.. Plume was passing up Franklin street
between Fifteenth street and Locust alley,
he slipped and fell, his side catching hard
upon the rim of small bucket he had in
his hand at the time. He was stunned by
the fall and although able to be about
shortly after the accident, complained OF
considerable pain in his side, from which 1t
is feared that he was injured internally.
Year: 1867

DISTRIBUTION OF WooD.-It will be seen
by the notice OF DR.. Parker In another
column that there will be distribution of
wood on Broad street, between First and
Second, on Monday about 8 7. NJ. Per-
sons entitled to receive wood are desired
to be present for that purpose. The Doc
tor is cxcrtng himself most commercially
for the relief of suffering persons, and


there should be no unnecessary delay on
the part of those he is endeaying to assist.
Year: 1867

WHOSE CASE BASKET A negro was
seen by 4 policeman yesterday trying to
sell a very valuable cake basket in an auc-
ton store. The policeman suspccting some
thing wrong, carried the negro to Major
Claiborne, to whom he stated that he Was a
captain Of canal boat, and that the bas-
la lad been given him as freight By a
lady. whose things lie hauled on lis boat
from Buchauauto Lynchburg. He could not
give the lady's name, and tine Major not
acirg satisfied with the story, concluded to
hold tie basket until he could find out
more about It. Itany one has lost silver
coke basket lct him apgly at once to Major
Claiborne and examine. this one.
Year: 1867

4, j. WOOD. Proprietor.
FUyHIS LARGE AND COMNIODIOUS HO-


Il tel is situated Humbug Valley, Plumas county,
in beautiful and healthy location. The rooms are
large and airy and well furnished The table is at all
times furnished with the best the market affords; the
stabling of the best 1t is home for the traveller
For nvads fine Soda Spring celebrated for its heal
ing qualities is adjoining the hotel liberal share Of
patronage is solicited.
Year: 1867

YVHIS WELL KNOWN STAND IS KEPT


u by the undersigned. and is in good repair 1t is
healthy and pleasant for families during the hot
sickly also has good accommodations for trav
elers Thankful for past avors good share of custom
is solicited.
Year: 1867

Other wards are not quite so Dad, out
in the different wards there are $50
dwellings which contain $1,000 people I;
1893 contain an average of Ill persons
each. In single expression, the labor
ing class Of our population is crowded
beyond all precedent, single blocks con-


tanning in some places more than all
Fifth avenue. New York, with popu-
lation twice that Of Philadelphia, has
only half the number Of dwelling houses,
and these Of no sort of comparison. A


comfortable house may be bought out


right in Boston for the rent of one SINH
larly situated in New York. The yield
from one of these wretched tenement
buildings is greater than from a good


private residence. They are all full, and
the rents are collectable. Here is the
secret of the remarkable infant mortality
in the metropolis. Begotten, born and
nurtured in impurity, they are fore
doomed to death, Life would be impos-
sibls for plants, and almost for reptiles.
Year: 1867

A Washington correspondent says
II is understood that the recently ap-
pointed Indian Commissioners will con-
slider proposition which has been
submitted to them, Of forming a new
reservation, to which the Indian tribes
south Of the Platte will be removed. IL
will embrace that portion of Northwestern
Texas lying north Of line drawn due
southwest from the initial monument on
the Red river, at the southwestern corner
of the Indian territory, to the junction
OF the Southern Pacific railroad line with
the eastern boundary of the Territory Of
New Mexico, about twenty miles north
Of the southwestern corner Of that Terri
tory. This change in our territorial map
will make boot-shaped territory OF the
Southern Indian reservation and increase
them to twice their present size. The
Commission will also arrange for another
reservation north of the Platte, probably
in the northern half of Dakota Territory,
embracing land through which the tribu.
taries of the Missouri river run, and
which abounds plentifully with fish and
game. They expect to be able to meet
the Kiowa tribes first, and will make
arrangements with them to negotiate with
other tribes, who are not as friendly with
the whites.
Year: 1867

E@- The Mobile Tribune recommends
to those affected with the immigration
mania, the town OF Brownsville, Texas.
1t says, judging from the following,
which we find in the Brownsville Ran
chero, we think that city delightful
place to which to CO. Parties who are
struck with the description, we advise
to go at once


There are ninety,nine chances to one
that the fever will prevail here before
the summer is past. If we have the
fever here every unacclimated person
stands ninety nine chances to take it to
one chance of escape Again, every
person who takes it stands two chances
to recover to one to die. The fever has
been more fatal than this in Brownsville.
one or two seasons, but never any milder.
This is Just what we have to say to those
who have notshad the yellow fever
Year: 1867

say The Charleston Mercury is hope
ful. 1t says; There viii be more
money in the country this fall than
there was last fall, and it will be more
freely used in other ways tina in planta-
ton expenses. Then, by the operation
Of the free labor system, money will be
distributed in small quantities over the
whole of the interior. This will 60 to
build up small stores throughout the
country, and these stores should be
additional customers for this city. Our
merchants will be prepared TO sell goods
as cheap as they are sold in the Northern
markets, and they will sell them on sim
liar terms of payment Many of the
Northern firms are withdrawing from
the interior Southern trade into which
they rushed in 1865 &c. They find that
they can deal better with the large city
merchant or factor, and prefer to have
their transactions with them. a great
part, indeed the greater part, of the
goods bought in the North, haze been
bought at thirty days, and where there
has been any great extension of time,
the difference has been added in some
way to the price of the goods.
Year: 1867

H@- We have already had occasion to
allude to the utter unreliability of the
reports of outrages on the plains, which
we are constantly receiving over the tel
egraph wires 1t now turns out that the
contest between the Indians and the
surveying party under Mr.. Sleeper is a
canard. They must have a fellow out
West who did the corresponding for some
Northern paper during the war,
Year: 1867

n@- According to the Norfolk (Va)
Journal, the negroes of that city "have
resolved that they will not patronize any
merchant, or vote for any man for Office
who does not advertise in the new Re-
publican journal at that place, or other
wise patronize it according to their cir
cumstances or the business in which
they are engaged.
Year: 1867

BE- The fastest time as yet noted in
American railroading was that Of a train
on the New York Central railroad the
other day, from Hamburg to BuffalO-a
distance of ten miles in eight minutes,
or at the rate of seventy eight miles an
b.ur
Year: 1867

s@~Some one has taken the pains to
make the estimate that it Would require
a column of gold five miles and twelve
fourteenths Of q mile high, and thirteen
inches in diameter to cancel the national
debt
Year: 1867

All goods will he marked in plain figures,
and no deviation can take place, In adopting this
method, IL will enable II child 10 buy as cheap a.
the most experienced buyer.


This is not mere talk, but facts, and we shall
substantiate all we say.


In conclusion, we would remark that we will
use strong efforts to make this
Year: 1867

The House of Representatives OF
Saturday passed the following bill


Be ii enacted, &c, That in case o.
the removal, death, resignation, or in
ability both of the President and Vice
President OF the United States, the
President Of the Senate pro tem., and
in case there shall be no President Of
the Senate, then the Speaker of the
House of Representatives for the time
being; and in case there shall be no
Speaker of the House Of Representa-.
tives, then the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States
and in case there shall be no Chief
Justice, then the Justice of the Su-
preme Court who shall have been
longest commissioned, shall act as
President of the United States, until
the disability be removed or Presi-
dent be elected and qualified.


SEC. 2. That whenever the office OF
President and Vice President shall be
vacant, the Secretary of State shall, il
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives by concurrent resolution so re-
quest and direct, forthwith cause q
notification thereof TO be made to the
Executive of each State, anl shall also
cause the same TO be published in at
least one of the newspapers printed in
each State, specifying that electors OF
President and Vice President of the
United States shall be appointed in
several States on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in the month
of November then next ensuing


ProUided, That there shall be the
space of sixty days between the date
of such notification and the said Tues
day {; but if there.shal not be the space
of two months between the date of
such notification and the said Tues
day, and il the term for which the
President and Vice President last in
Office were elected shall not expire on
the Sd day of March next ensuing,
then the Secretary of State shall spe-
cify in the notification that the elect
oio ehtii oO appoiutcu vi thS lutSudy
next after the first Monday in the
month of November next ensuing, at
which time the electors shall accord
ingly be appointed; and the electors
shall meet and give their vote on the
next ensuing after the appointment of
electors as aforesaid on the next We'd
nesday in December, and the proceed
ings and duties OF said electors and
others shall be in pursuance TO the
directions prescribed by law.


SEC 3. That whenever the Office of
President aud Vice President shall
both become vacant, when Congress
is not in session, il shall be the duty
of the officer discharging the duties
and powers of the cfiice of President
forthwith to issue proclamation con-
vening both Houses of the Congress
of the United States within sixty days
after assuming the duties of President
of the United States
Year: 1867

Has she a call to be wife who
thinks more of her silk dress than her
children, and visits her nursery no of.
tener than once dayy


Has that woman call TO be wife
who sits reading the last novel while
her husband stands before the glass
vainly trying to pin together but
tonless shirt bosomg


Has that woman call TO be wife
who cries for n cashmere shawl when
her husbands notes are being pro-
tested


Has that woman a call TO be a wife
who expects her husband TO swallow
diluted coffee, soggy bread, smoky
tea, and watery potatoes, six days out
of sevenY


Has she call to be n wife who fiirts
with every man she meets, and re-
serves her frowns for the home fire
sideY


Has she a call TO be wife who
comes down to breakfast in abomina-
BILE curl papers, soiled dressing gown,
and shoes down at the heel


Has she call to be wife who bores
her husband, when he comes into the
house, with the history Of a broken
teacup, or the possible whereabouts of
a missing broom handler


Has she call TO be wife whose
husbands love weighs naught in the
balance with her next door neighbor's
damask curtain or velvet carpety