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Year: 1867

GooD ADvICE.-Now, John, listen
to me for | am older than you, or |
couldn't be your mother. Never d.
you marry young woman before you
have contrlved to happen at the house
where she lives at least four or five
times before breakfast. You should
know how late she lies in bed during
the morning, or whether the morning
wash and the towel have robbed her of
her evening bloom. You should take
care to surprise her so that you could
see her in her morning dress, and OBJ
serve how her hair looks when she is
not expecting you. If possible, you
should be where you could hear the
morning conversation between her and
her mother. If she is ill-natured and
snappish to her mother, so she will be
to you, depend upon it. But if you
find her up and dressed neatly in the
morning with the same countenance, the
same smiles, the same neatly combed
hair, and the same ready answers to her
mother, which characterized her de-
pertinent in the evening, and particu-
larly if she is lending hand to get the
breakfast read y in good season, she is a
prize, John, and the sooner you secure
her to yourself, the better.
Year: 1867

D1- A gay fellow who had Been ta king lodgings at a public house, and got considerably in debt, absented himself and took new quarters. This so enraged the landlord that he com missioned his wife to go and dun him, which the debtor having heard of de- clared publicly that if she came he would kiss her.

 Will he 2" said the lady twill ht7 Give me my bonnet, Moll; will see whether any fellow has such impu- dence.s

 My dear" said the cooling husband. pray do not be too rash You do not know what man may do when he is in passion"
Year: 1867

AS we go to press it doesn't look as if it
would rain again for year; but as Califor-
MA weather, especially during the wet sea-
son, is as tickle as coquette, there is no
telling anything about it.
Year: 1867

The Union Guard, of Copperopolis, will
give grand ball on tho 22d of Fehruarv
Washington's birthday. That it is gotten up
by the Guards is a sufficient guarantee that
those who attend will have a good time
Year: 1867

NARROW EsCAPE.-On Wednesday of last
week during the prevalence of the snow storm
a large frame building at Railroad Flat, oc-
cupied by Madame Dilharraguey and family,
was suddenly broken down by the weight Of
snow on the roof, burying beneath its ruins
six persons who happened to be in it at the
time but strange to say all escaped without
serious injury. Madame Dilharraguey and
her three children, Frank. Bingham and Reed
Reynolds were in the house, sitting by the
stove, when the roof came down with sud-
den crash. The madame and her Oldest child,
girl of twelve years, made rush for the
door, but were caught beneath the falling
timbers. The men had the presence of mind
to seize the two smallest children and draw
them under large table which shielded
them from the weight of the timbers. A
number of men who occupied the adjoining
houses, rushed to the rescue, and soon sue
ceeded in digging them from beneath the
snowy encumbrance more scared than hurt
The family occupying the house were taken
to the residence of neighbor where they
will have comfortable quarters until theil
building is repaired.
Year: 1867

Mr.. LEGER, mine host of the Hotel d'Eu-
rope, who IS always engaged in making i'm
provements about his establishment, and who
leaves nothing undone which can conduce to
the comfort of those who favor him with
their patronage, has had laborers at work
during the week hauling gravel and making
nice walk in front of the hotel. Those who
prefer solid foundation to mud will appre
ciate the change. Mr.. Leger knows how to
keep hotel"
Year: 1867

PosTPoNED.-Owing to the severe weather
and the bad condition of the roads, the West
Point Local Minstrels have postponed their
performance which was to have come off on
Friday evening last. till Friday evening next
the Sth, at which time, the weather permit
ting, they expect to greet a large audience.
Year: 1867

MACHINERY FOR SALE. The coming Spring
will see large number of quartz mills erect
ed on the various lodges in this vicinity, and
parties contemplating building are already
making inquiries in regard to the best man
ner of obtaining machinery. A fine oppor-
tunity to procure a first class engine, battery
OF ten stamps, pumps, ETC., all in excellent
condition, and ready to be put right to work,
is offered by the American Shaft Company
in Chill Gulch. Having worked out their
claim they offer their machinery for sale on
the most advantageous terms. The whole
will be sold in lot together, or the engine
and battery will be disposed of separately, to
suit the convenience of purchasers. Parties
IN search of machinery will consult their in
terests by examining this before purchasing
elsewhere. For terms, inquire of A. w.
Holbrook, agent, at the United States sa-
loon.


THREE or four charming young ladies,
God bless them, irradiated our office with
the light of their presence one day during
the present week. To say that we were glad to
have them call is but feeble expression of the
genuine pleasure which their kindness and
condeseenslon in paying US visit afforded
us. Though their stay was brief, it proved
that the printers are not entirely forgotten
even by the far sex, and after they departed
we returned to our dreary, monotonous, ev
erlasting labor at the case with a lighter
heart and more pleasant thoughts than W,
have experienced for many day. Ladies
the greatest boon we can ask for you is, tha
you may always be as happy as your visi
made us.
Year: 1867

NEW SCHOOL HoUsE.-Our friends at
West Point have just completed new and
commodious school house, built at an ex-
pense of near eight hundred dollars. This
amount was raised by donation, thus saving
the Trustees the trouble of resorting to a
district tax. School will be commenced in
the new house as soon as the weather settles,
and will be taught by Mr.. Joseph Wells,
formerly OF this place. The people of West
Point evince great interest in school matters
and if the rising generation does not receive
liberal education, it will be no fault of theirs
Year: 1867

The newspapers keep US posted in
matters Of trade The people Of this
country are trading people; and socie-
gis afflicted with what may be called
the Jerer Of trade. Excess of trade is not
sign of social health; il not only in
terfefes with the sphere Of spiritual
religion, and the healthful exercise of
ideas Of God that will elevate the soul;
but it also interferes with the exercise
of genuine philanthropy. Society takes
a wrong direction, and expends ener-
gies that were designed for better pur-
poses. a Tai 'dl.tog2f of." a~I


A general haste to be rich is one of
the curses of society. In such a case
society is actuated by a wrong idea; and
men are not always happiest when they
overtake their ideals of the best oondi-
ton of man. In their haste, men often
adopt ideas of the chitf good, and fol-
low them without much consideration
whether they are good or bad. In their
haste to be rich, many men have not
time to consider the good, the true, the
beautiful. They do not pause in The
race--for charity, for social pleasure, for
mental or moral development. The
rich are not always the worst of men;
but very great number of the worst of
men are rich. 1t is easier, in many in
stances to be rich than to be Just. 1t
is well sometimes to ask--not how much
is a man worth, but-hooo did that man
get what lie hast has lie invaded the
God-given rights Of society and hu-
manity? 'a-a


The trouble in this country is that
men in the delirium Of the high fever of
trade, trade in almost everything
nothing seems too sacred to be barter
ed. Principles have price in the mar
ket. The prerogatives Of high offices
are held for a premium--think of par
don brokersl Government is a paving
institution. Bribery is a great trade.
knowledge Of future destiny is prom
ised for dollar. Chastity is mark eted.
Recently men were exported for sale in
the market places like hogs. When will
society learn to say, "There are some
things that must not be traded =" q


The excess Of trade is In supplying
the artificial wants Of society added to-
the vicious wants of men. In fact, the
business Of some men is to create mar
ket for things that are not needed, and
for things that are injurious, and when
Year: 1867

n@-An important discovery has been
made in Peru. tits of silk plant
The shrub is three OF four feet in hight.
The silk is enclosed in a pod Of which
each plant gives great number, and is
declared to be superior in fneness and
quality to the production Of the silk
worm. tits a wild perennial the seed
small and easily separated from the FIBRE
The stems of the plan. produce long,
and very brilliant fibre, superior in
strength and beauty to the finest liner
thread. Small quantities have been wo-
ven In the rude manner of the Indians
and the texture and brilliancy is said to
be unsurpassed.
Year: 1867

In order that our readers may see the
nature of the proposed Radical negro
suffrage change in the Constitution of
Ohio, we give the section that it is de-
signed to strike out, as compared with
the substitute they want In:
Year: 1867

How TO KEEP HANS THROUGH Tue
SuMMER--After your hams have taken
salt, hang them up and smoke them we'll;
then take them down and dip them in
boiling water for q few seconds; that will
kill all the eggs Of insects, if there
should be any on them; then roll them
up again; smoke them more, if you
choose. know this to, be a good way
to keep them, for | have tried 1t for two
or three years. Its cheaper than can
vasing and a great deal better Those that
do their baeonin this way will never have
any bugs or skippers on their meal. -Ru
| rug World.
Year: 1867

SPECIFIC CONTRACT LAW -Adyices from
OLYMPIA state that it is more than probable
that the specific contract law will be defeated
The clam eaters are opposed to law that
,iupIy compels men to stick to their bar
oains
Year: 1867

BIC BEND QUARTz.-A correspondent of
the Victoria CRroniele reports discoveries of
gold bearing quartz in the Big Bend cOnntry.
Of ten pounds of quartz extracted from re-
Gently discovered ledge on McCullOugh's
Greek, be says better lot of quartz it has
not been my lot to behold during many years
OF mining experience. The gold may be
seen with the naked eye through the rock.
From rough guess, should judge that it
would yield from 81 500 to $1,000 per ton.
This is great deal, when we consider that
the cost of mining and milling the ore is on.
ly Sl3 per ton in Grass Valley, one of the
most extensive mining districts ia California,
and in Australia, according to statistics res
ceHts7 furnished, they are enabled by cheap
er labor and improved machinery to extract
the gold from the quartz for 50 so per ton.
All these reports go to show, that although
the Big Bend mines last year were compar>
alive failure, with another season they will
take rank with the best paying mines on the
coast
Year: 1867

Have we any among US who are not
properly provided with the comforts or
necessaries Of life? If Il ere be any, is
such the fact known TO any but the sufferers
themselves?


The people of Mantowoc have had an
unusually prosperous season, and many of
them have added large gains to their
already accumulated revenues; but who
among them have thought To hunt up those
who are in need and taken measures to re-
lieve their wants or mitigate in any degree
the horrors of poverty. The ladies, God
bless their souls, are usually the ministeriDg
angels where sickness is, or poverty dwells,
but they have not yet for this season made
any demands upon our prosperous business
men to give anything in charity from their
great abundance.


The pockets Of men can be reached by
auickening he generous pulsarions OF their
hearts, aud this il the peculiar work of the
ladies'; and as the rigors of long winter
are moving upon us. the sooner this work
of charity begins the better for those hu-
namely disposed, and infinitely better for
those who obtain timely relief from the
rangs Of poverty.
Year: 1867

Ign Three hundred thousand people in
Sweden are On the point of starvation. The
crops have partially failed for the past five
years, and this years crop was entirely cut
off by single nights frost. For nearly a
year the people in the district Of Norrland
have subsisted upon bark bread mixed
with moss, which is not sufficient to sustain
laboring men.
Year: 1867

DANGEROUS CoUNTERFEIT-A danger
Gus counterfeit on the Five Dollar National
Bank bills is extant, and is believed to be
in extensive circulation. These bills are
well executed-the "Landing of Colum-
bus on the back, being particularly well
engraved The shading Of the letters On
the face of the bill is very heavy, although
fine The principal point of difference be-
tween the genuine and counterfeit is this: !:
In the counterfeit the ''T' in the sentence
This note Is secured" &C., at the head of
the bill, comes over the en- in UNITED
States, while in the genuine it comes over
the upper left corner of the st." By this
difference the counterfeit can readily be
detected.
Year: 1867

SAFE IN THE HARBoR The Propeller
Adriatic loaded with 600 tons Of railroad
and other iron for Chicago. which was
beached during the late storm north of the
pier, has been lightened Of her cargo and
uAloaded, and is now in the river
Year: 1867

Gen. GRANT says that in addition to a
reduction to the service Of some $1,000 of
the rank and file, according to his late Or
der he had been able to dispense with
about $4,000 civilians employed in the
various military departments.
Year: 1867

LOOK TO Your FIRES. 1t behooves
everyone to be on the watch to prevent the
destruction of property by fires. So far,
but little property has been destroyed by
fire in our village, though several times it
has narrowly escaped terrible confagration.
Are our fire engines kept always in order
and ready to do efficient service on
emergency? There is a much larger
amount of property in our town than ever
before, and there is more need for care
and watchfulness on the part of our city
authorities and and citizens, to save from
loss.
Year: 1867

POWER or AN AX.-The other day
was holding a man by the hand-a hand
as firm in its own texture rs leather. and
in his sunburnt face was rs intleXihle as
parchment ; he was pouring forth TRADE
of contempt on those who complain that
they get ncthing to do. as an excuse for
becoming idle loafcrs. Said l jeff, what
do you work att" ''Why,' said he Il
bought me an AK three years ago. that
cost me three dollars. That was all the
money had. lwent to chopping wood
by the cord. | have done nothing else,
aud have earned more than 5000; drank
no grog, paid no doctor, and have bought
me snng little farm in the lioosier State.
and shall be married next week to y girl
who has earned 5000 since she was cigh-
teen. My old AK shall keep in the drawer,
and buy me new one to cut wood with.


After left him ! thought to myself,
THAT Ak and no grog." These are the
two things that make man in the world.
How small a capital that ax-how sure Of
success with the motto: mo grog." And
then a farm and a wife, the best of all.
Year: 1867

PEorHECIEs FOR THE YEAR lSM.-
The year lS67 will he an cycntiul one to
every maiden who gets married. Through
ont the whole course of the year. whenever
the moon wancs the nights will grow dark.
If landics wear their boards, there will be
less work for BARRIERS. Whoever is in love
this year will think his sweetheart an an
gel, Whoever gets married will find out
whether it is true If a Young lady hap
pens to blush she will look red in the face
If she dreams of a Young man three
nights in succession it is n sign of some.
thing, If she dreams of him four times
or has a tooIhachc, it is ten to one that
she is a long time getting either of them
out Of her head. Ifauybody jumps over
board without knowing how to swim it is
two 10 one he gets drowned If any one
lends an umbrella it is ten to one he is
obliged to go home i'll the rain for his
pains.
Year: 1867

.VGcn Ctlcy of the Racine Journal
has homcly way of heing eloquent as
well as humorous. Of himself lie syas:


We have now been man. or Il sort of
"A nun, not so much as we might or ought
to have been. but more perhaps than many
expected We have been our own man
for "A long timc, but we have never perform
ed the wonderful deeds promised us by
hope, We have fought the battle of life
for great number of Years, but not with
the success that hope tattercd us should
he ours. The enemy are a great deal
more numerous. aud better posted and
more strongly fortified than we expected
when drawing our infant plan. Wchave run
the first three quarters OF the race OF lie,
aud are nov just turning into the home
stretch little hlowcd. with limbs n lit
tie sllaky and the chance of winning Il
heavy stake vcry slim, though the courage
to press forward is good; and of those who
started out with us in the race. some few
are ahead: thotsdnds have fallen ont or
Are behind. This is not to the swift.
and there is no telling who will come out
ahead; the nearer we get to the end of the
race the less attractive the stakes appear
Year: 1867

The Maine Farmer warmly seconds the
proposition so ably advocated by Mr.,
for survey of the various waters of the
State. and the publication of snch report
as will place our great manufao turing fa-
cilities properly before the public. Cover
nor Chamberlain recommendation in the
same direction is most juaicious, and we
trust this important matter will not be
suffered to drop.
Year: 1867

Faith and works are as necessary to the
spiritual life Of the Christian, as the soul
and body arc to our life as men: for faith
is the soul Of religion. and works the
body. .-Colton.
Year: 1867




CURTIS. aajsd sa.


Geo. Ticknor Curtis, Esq, of New
York, one of the most eminent constitu-
tional lawyers in the country, responded
to the invitation of the Clay Statue Com
mittee to be present at Louisville on
Thursday last, in letter which we would
be glad to reproduce entire in our col
umus 1t is replete with sound and
wholesome views that it would be well if
every man in the nation could ponder and
digest After appropriately referring to
Mr.. Clay and his great compeer Webster,
who was the tutor of Mr.. Curtis. the let,
ter says: %


We seem to have lost the sense ofthe bind
ing moral obligation of fundamental law.
The country is no longer governed by, or
according to written constitution. Ii is
governed by the will of a political party,
acting without reference to the constitution,
and as it sees fit to act. The consequence
OF all this is. that the relations of the Fed
eral government to the sovereignities of the
States are completely seyersed. At no
former period of our history has it ever
been imagined that the Federal power
conld dictateto State who shall or shall
not constitute part OF the sovereign peo-
pie of the State for the purpose of govern
ment. By the constitution of the United
States, it remains absolutely with the peo-
pie of each State to determine who shall
exercise the elective franchise within such
State, and he who asserts or represents that
it is otherwise deludes and deceiges those
whom he can persuade to believe him. 1t
is, too, an undeniable principle of our
constitutional law that the question of
what changes shall be made in the ex-
lsting constitution ofa State, so as to admit
to the elective franchise persons not at
present included in it, rests entirely with
those who constitute the voting sovereign
people under the existing constitution.
Yet, in sheer violation of these unquestion-
able truths, the Federal government sends
into the State a military force empowered
TO sweep away their existing constitutions,
to subvert the sovereignty Of their people,
and to summon to the polls in the act of
making a new constitution whomsoeyer
Congress sees fit to designate for that pur-
pose. We have thus entered upon the career
of founding State governments upon force
land upon external force. This stupendous
precedent cannot be without lasting, cores
ponding results. 1t marks the overthrow of
the last barrier to complete consolidation
for, if the existence of a supposed necessity
or expediency, to be judged of by present
majority of Congress, can furnish reason
to-day for subverting the sovereignty of a
State BY force, 1t can furnish just as good a
reason hereafter for the exercise of the same
force to the same end. The party adminis-
tering the Federal government has only to
will that new State government shall be
founded on the sufrages of those who are
not voters by the fundamental law of the
State, and the thing Is done by the ire
sistible and overwhelming force which the
Federal government wields. ~
Year: 1867

IL is not true that the normal relations of
those States to the Federal government
could not have been reinstated without
tearing up the foundations of their law.
II is not true that in order to recognize
them as States Of this Union, it was neces-
sary to place upon them the heel of mill
tary conquest and to stamp out their very
existence as free, selfgoverning and sove-
reign American States. For every act of
needless arbitrary power that men can do,
there is retribution and nations are no
more exempt than individuals from the
moral laws which ordain retribution. 1t
will come when We have come to the loss
of political system which has been our
glory, our safety, our happiness, our boast,
our sole safeguard against the establishment
of despotic power. 60 rl
Year: 1867

to register will, we arc told, content themselves


with simply depositing their votes against Con


vention, thus protesting against the execution


of u political doctrine they had no power to


avert, and the success of which they feel assured


will entail irreparable injury upon themselves


and their posterty.


The call for a Convention having thus been


carried by the negro hordes, let of what


material the Convention itself will be composed.


Not prominent Louisianian will be there. Not


a man of standing in the community. The Re


publican nominees who will certainly be elected,
stand as four negroes to three whites-four ilite-
rate, semi -barbarous negroes to three white ad-
venturers This will be the composition of the
Convention called to frame Constitution for
the State that gave a TAYLOR for President of
! the United States! Is not this entire thing ut
| terly revolving! Can we of the North pa1atably
swallow so gigantic Il fraud upon rights, and SO
beastly caricature upon human liberty Forty
five or fifty negroes assembling in Convention, to
do what To perform an act, of the very mean-
ing of which they are most ludicrously ignorant:
And who are their assistants handful OF
white men whose very course, in consenting to
such atfiliation, stamps their characters rs
being thoroughly worthless


There is one instinct which cannot be eradi-
Gated from the mind of white man, and that is
the supremacy of his race above all others.
Prejudice against color is but the natural instinct
OF the superior against contamination, and try
what theorists may, the barriers which caste in
that sense has erected, can never be broken
through successfully. The present farce in Lou
isana will be successful for while, but the
signs of the times too plainly indicate that the
hour is approaching when it and all other kim
dred dognas will be swept away III the torrent
of public Indignation.
We cannot stand quietly by and witness the
debasement of our own race in Louisiana. Cali
forDia, Connecticut and Maine have already re-
buked the effort at negro supremacy before its
practical effects have been seen, and We tell the
Radicals of these United States that their cheers
of joy at the success of their dogmas in Lou
isiana this day will be answered back by the
people of the loyal North, in October and No /
vember next, in such tones of indignation and
disgust as will inform the world whether our
recent war was fought for the preservation of
the Union or for the exaltation Of the negro and |
the enslavement of men of our own color