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Year: 1867

The HENRICo MURDER.-The coroner's
inquest upon the body of the unknown
young woman found murdered in Henrico
on Thursday last was on Saturday ad-
iourned to Wednesday next, when it will
meet at the house of Mr.. George d.
Peasants for the purpose Of further inves-
tigation. Owing to the condition OF the
body, it was deemed necessary to bury it,
and it was decently inferred on Saturday.
The outer clothing and straw hat found
upon it are retained to assist, if possible, in
the Identification Of the person murdered.


One of the jurors who had charge of the
breastpin found upon the murdered wo-
man lost it in this city on Saturday. The
letter CIV" was marked on the inside OF
it, and on the front was the representation
of bunch of flowers. The pin had been
broken at the catch, and was badly
mended. 1t is very much desired that this
pin should be recovered, as it may assist
materially in the Identification. Any per-
son finding it may communicate with the
jury through this office.


The jury and the community generally
will use every effort to obtain information
that may lead to the development of the
circumstances of this Strange and shocking
murder. 1t is now completely enveloped
in mystery.
Year: 1867

TURNER is live news man. He fur
nished US with the veto message early yes
terday morning, and then tried to furnish
it to everybody else one day in advance OF
its appearance in the city papers.
Year: 1867

tut Itc CNfUttCecs


The West Point and Mok. Hill Road


Mr.. EDITOR Through your columns we
would like to know if any Road Overseer
has ever attempted to explore the road from
Rust's place to Albers' Ranch. At this time
of the year no road in Calaveras county is
more used than this, and none in worse or.
der. Of course no heavy teams can pass
now. but two lines of stages daily travel it.
At Rust's place the water has been suffered
to cut the road into gulleys then comes a
ditch to cross, with the bridge all broken up


then stretch of hundred yards or so, to
avoid which the stage has to make detow of
three-fourths of mile over lodges of boul-
ders and loose rocks. At Mosquito good
road can be had at cost of $75. by crossing
the gulch just below the store, then raising
up to the level of an old ditch, where is
now steep descent over rocky point, worn
bridge, then steep pull and rocky road to
the top of the hill above Albers. The putty
man on the Seventh township roads may
have hard time collecting taxes. and no
wonder; anyone who sees the roads coming
into Sandy Gulch, may have strong doubts
as to any person having charge of them. On
this line of road, throughout, it seems as if
whatever work may have been done. was
done to the least possible advantage; where
ever the ground is siding no provision is
made, on the inside of the road, for ditch:
and there were. the embankmerit is so steep
it would soon slide in and the water left to
gulley the road out at will. ***.
Year: 1867

STOCKTON AND CoPPERoPoLIs RAILROAD
We are glad to notice that previous to the
adjournment of Congress the bill making an
appropriation to assist in building this road,
passed both Houses. Work should be i'm
mediately commenced upon it so as to fur
nish a medium for ingress and egress to
Stockton next Winter. The Member of Con-
gress from this District has been jealous in
his endeavors to promote the interests of his
constituents during his entire term of office,
and it is to his efforts that we owe this ap-
preparation.


BUY your clothing and dry goods at Blum
Year: 1867

In choosing a warm dress get it as light
as you can. Think how lightly animals,
which have to endure great cold, are cloth
ed. W hatis lighter than feathers and fur?
4 bear can thus teach US a lesson of civiI-
zed science, and a goose can impart wisdom.
The principle Of the advice given by the
wise man, Go to the ant, thou sluggard, -
might well be extended to the. example of
the way in which the Creator clothes the
dumb animals he has made. They are not
heavily laden, unless, indeed, it is necessary
to protect them with armor; but even then
the material used is remarkable for its COM
binati0n Of ightneSs with strength. The
tortoise is shielded more by the arched shape
of its shell than By its thickness. There are
some animals which float in water which are
covered heavily, but the weight of their
clothes facilitates their movements in the
element in which they are intended to live.
inasmuch as it enables them to sink to the
depth necessary for them to subsist in.
But for warmth, weight is needless, and for
equabie warmth 1t Is a positive hindrance,
since a heavy dress adds the heat of pres
sure to that of protection to those more
prominent parts Of the figure upon which it
rests. If you want to be warm, choose a
material that is not only not thick but light
And when you wish to be protected from
windy as well as still cold, wear under or
over a wooden or furry fabric, the thinnest
impeTvious texture you can get. Then you
have an arrangement similar to that with
which the animals of cold climates are pro-
vided-viz: thin skin and thick features or
hair. Leisure Hour
Year: 1867

Books IN a FANHY.-Give US a house
furnished with books rather than furniture.
Both if you can, but books at any rate. To
spend several days in friend house and
hunger for something to read, while you are
JrcadIne on costly carpets, and sitting down
on luxurious chairs, and sleeping upon, down
Is as If one were bribiug your body for the
sake Of cheating your mind Books are the
windows through which the soul looks out.
4 house without books Is like a room with
out windows 4 book is good company; II
is full of conversation without loquaciJy Il
talks to you, not through the ear, but an
other way
Year: 1867

THE ELASTIC EGG.-Take a good and
sound egg, place it in strong vinegar, and
allow it to remain twelve hours; 1t VIII then
become soft and elastic In this state the
egg can be squeezed into tolerably wide
mouthed bottle; when in 1t should be cover
ed with water having some sodai in 1t. In
few hours this preparation will restore the
egg nearly to its original solidity, after which
| the LIQUID should be poured of, and the bot


tie dried Keep it as a curiosity, to puzzle
your friends for an explanation how the egg
was laid in the bottle,
Year: 1867

How NATURE Covers UP BATTLE
FIELDS. Did l ever tell you. says cor
respondent of an eastern paper, among
the affecting little things one is always see
ing in these battle-felds, how, on the ground
upon which the battle of Bull Run was
fought, saw pretty, pure, delicate flowers
growing out of the empty ammunition
boxes; and a wild rose thrusting its grateful
head through the top of broken drum,
which doubtless sounded its last charge in
that battle; and cunning scarlet yerbena
peeping out Of fragment of bursted shell,
in which strange pot it was planted2
Wasn't that peace growing out of war
Even so shall the beautiful and graceful ever
grow out of the horrid aud terrible things
that transpire in this changing but ever ad-
vancing world Nature covers even the
battle-grounds with verdure and bloom.
Peace and plenty spring up in the track of
the devouring campaign; and all things IL
nature and society shall work out the prog
ress of mankind.
Year: 1867

ROBERT HALL, hearing some worldly
minded person object to family prayer as
taking mp too much time, said tia. what
might seem loss will be more than com
pensated by that spirit Of oTder and regular
ity which the stated observance Of this tends
% produce l. serves as an edge and bor-
der. to preserve the web OF life from unrav-
cling. The curse Of the Lord Is IN the
house Of the wicked; but He blesseth the
hab.tati0ns Of the righteous
Year: 1867

THE Man lives most perfectly whose con-
slant happiness is found in the consciousness
that, in doing the best that be can for him
self be Is aLodoing he best that be can for
every being that Is capable OF having good
done to IL.
Year: 1867

DEsPIsE not little sins; they have ruined
many a soul De>pise not lHr.eduries, they
have been to many naughty spirits an ex-
celient discipline Of humility. Despise not
little temptations; rightly met they have
often nerved the character for some fiery
trial
Year: 1867

WE WANT MoRE PLUMP WOMEN The
Neir York Gazette concludes a plea for
"plump women as follows: But what
ever education your girls have, LET us have
less Of American girls are notorious for their
pallor and frailty and tendency to wither
and rose their charms at an early age. This
country has no greater want, at the present
tire than of plump girls and plump wo-
men. Let us have them plump and healthy
whether they know anything or not We
can teach their childien what they don
know, If necessary; by all means let rs have
rosv. blossouing, solid women. The Pacific
railroad Is not halfs0 important to the pros
rerifv Of this country as the aggregate avoir-
dupois of It's women The female sex OF
America ought u weigh at least half as
much gain as it does
Year: 1867

TRUE CULTURE is kindliness Of feeling.
For what is culture? Is it not the power
we acquire Of sympathizing with another
ofieeling the condition under which he acts.
and Of regarding ones own circumstances as
they effect others, and not so much as they
conduce to cur own gratihcstion2


THE prose Of Mr. Robert Young, Lord
Derby prgtege for a pension as the "agri-
cultural and historical poet of Ireland,
seems to be as comical as his verse. Favor
ing he world with some account of himself,
in a recent letter, he says, from causes too
tedious to uarrates / was born in the year
II92
Year: 1867

A TERRIBLE FIREARM.-Th United
States Government is now having man
ufactured at Hartford, Conn, one hun
dred battery guns of new invention,
and which is stated will prove the most
destructive firearm ever invented. The
weapon is that it has a series of barrels
with carrier and lock cylinder, rigidly
fastened to the main shaft, and rotating
simultaneously and continuously by
means of crank, the cartridges, being
fed into the carriers from the feed boxes
thence driven endwise into the rear
ends of the barrels, then exploded and
the empty cartridge withdrawn, with
out any pause in The operation. The
inccssant loadingand fringare produced
by the simplest kind of mechanism,
there being fewer parts about the gun
than the Springfield musket. This gun
can be discharged at the rate of two
hundred shots per minute. One of its
features is that there is no recoil which
can effect the accuracy Of the aim.
When the gun is once sighted at a given
object the same aim can be maintained
at the will of the operator until thous-
ands of discharges take place. a later
al motion Of the gun may be kept up,
if desired, while the gun is being dis
charged 50 that perfect sheet of balls
can be made to sweep section OF any
circle within it, range,
Year: 1867

the eighteenth section.of the fourth ar
ticle of the State constitution, 1t will be
seen that the term of the members of
the House of Representatives and that
of one half of the members of the Sen
ate expired on the first Monday of the
present month. 1t is clear that if there
We're no intrinsic objections to the bill
itself in relation to the purposes to be
accomplished this objection would be
fatal, as it is apparent that the provis-
ions of the third section of the bill to
admit Colorado have reference to pc
riod and state of facts entirely differ
ent from the present and affairs as they
now exist, and if carried into effect
must necessarily lead to confusion.


Even if it were settled that the old
and not new body was to act, it would
be found impracticable to execute the
the members, as | am informed, have
ceased to be residents of the Territory,
and in the sixty days within which the
Legislature is to be convened after the
passage of the act that there would not be
sufficient time to fill the vacancies by
new elections, were there any authority
under which they could be held. 1t
may be proper to add that if the pro-
ceedings were all regular, and the result
to be obtained were desirable, simple
justice to the people of the Territory
would require a longer period than six
ty days within which to obtain action
on the conditions proposed by the third
section of the bill.


There are, as it is we'll known, large
portions of the Territory with which
there is and can be no general commu-
nication, there being several counties
which, from November to May, can
only be reached by persons travelling on
foot, while with other regions of the
Territory, occupied by large portion
of the population, there is very little
more freedom of access. Thus if this
bill should become Il law, it would be
impracticablo to obtain any expression
of public sentiment in reference to its
provisions with view to enlighten the
Legislature, if the old body were called
together, and, of course, equally imprac-
ticable to procure the new election of a
new body.


This defect might have been rome-
died by an extension of the time and q
submission Of the question to the peo-
pie, with full opportunity to enable
them to express their sentiments. The
admission of a new State has generally
been regarded as an epoch in our histo-
ry, but after the most careful and anx-
ious inquiry on the subject | cannot per-
ceve that the proposed proceeding is
in conformity with the policy which,
from the origin of the government, has
uniformly prevailed in the admission
of new States. l therefore return the
bill to the Senate without my signature.
(Signed,) ANDnEW JOHNSON.
| WASHINGTOS, January -.
Year: 1867

strate the correctness of my views on
this question, I subjoin table contain
ing list of the States admitted since
the adoption of the Federal Constitu-
tion, with the date of admission, the
time when admitted, deducted from
the United States census table. The
calculation being made for the per cent.
of the decade corresponding with the
date of admission.
Year: 1867

a very extraordinary encounter between
rat and an elephant has recently taken
place in the Garden of Plants, London,
which was witnessed with interest by hun
dreds of persons.


The keepers were engaged in destroying
a great many rats, when one of them 'cs-
capped and ran to the spot allotted to the ele-
plant Seeing no other refuge, in the
twinkling Of an eye the rat snugly ensconced
himself in the trunk Of the elephant, very
much to the elephants dissatisfaction. He
stamped his feet and twisted his trunk
round like the sails Of windmill. After
these evolutions he stood perfectly still, evil
dently rejecting on what was best to do.-
He then ran to the trough where he was ac-
customed to drink, and plunged in histrunk,
then returned to his den, and raised his
trunk; with the water he absorbed, he
dashed out the unfortunate rat, which was
in sheet of water like that issuing out OF
a fire engine. When the rat fell to the
ground the elephant seized him and made
him undergo the immersion and projection
four times. At the fourth throw it fell
dead. The elephant with a majestic a'r,
hit cool and placid, crushed his annoying
little enemy with his foot, and then went
round to the spectators to make his usual
collection Of cakes, sugar, and other daintics.
The feat was received with vociferous ap.
plausc, which the elephant seemed fully tc
appreciate.
Year: 1867

knew darkcy once, who, unlike most
of his race, was industrious and economical.
The result was that he had 'housc and
lot near little village in western Penn
sylvania. He soon concluded that it would
not do to own property of this kind without
keeping domestic animals on it, and deter
mined to stock it. His first acquisition was
an old sheep, of the male persuasion, which
he was very proud Of. lie spent many leis-
ure moments playing with the animal, teach
ing it various pranks. His chief amuse-
ment was to get down on all fours on the
grass, and nod defiance at che animal. See
ing which, the latter would make savage
plunge Mt him to try and see whose head
was the hardest. Ut is question: But
as the savage creature came forward like a
battcring-ram, mig would incline his head
suddenly and drop his face to the carth.-
The consequence was, that the sheep, mis-
sing his mark would tumble over and over,
for rod or two. One day, Dark called
couple of his ne ghbors to witness this
achievement. III came to the fence and
looked over, while il. .;ct down on his hands
and knees, as usual, and began to nod at
his property. The sheep did not seem to
see him at first, but presently raised his
head from the grass on which he had been
grazing, and frowned upon him.


"Oh, jis' watch him now!' said Sambo,
in ecc.


Old Buckley made a rush, as was his
wont, and Sambo suddenly dropped his
face to the ground. But, as the fends
would have it, his fiat nose came in contact
with sharp snag, he jerked back just in
time to receive the full shock of the sleeps
hard head between his own nose and wool.
There was such rolling and tumbling over
and over for the next quarter of a minute,
that the neighbors could not tell which was
the sheep and which was the niger. They
soon got separated, though, and Mr.. Mig.
got slowly up, grinncd foolishly, and said


''Pun my word, he neber done dat aiorc
Gcttin too smart for dis niger Use a
gwine to stop foolin' with sich u fcllah as
dat -


There was plenty of mutton in the neigh
borhood the next day, but the sheep was
never seen again.
Year: 1867

For week past the air of Washington
has been full of rumors that some sort of u
compromise was about to be patched up be-
tween the Radicals and President johnson


How much or how little truth there may be
in these reports we do not know, but of one
thing We are perfectly well assured. Any
compromise which will relieve the Radicals
from particle of the enormous weight of
responsibility which rests upon them, ought
not to be countcnanccd fora single moment


Better that the South should remain unrep.
resented in Congress for years to come; bet
ter that it should temporarily be subjected
to military rule, outrageous as this would
be- better that the next Presidential elec-
ton should be put to the hazard of a deci-
sion in the Northern States alone, than to
make any compromise by which even a por-
tion of the dread responsibility to the future
should be shifted from the shoulders of the
Radicals. They refused to compromise at
one time when the least concession would
have avertcd war and saved all the lives lost
and all the treasure wasted during the blood
stained administration of President John
sons immediate predecessor. During the
progress of the war they forced upon the
country, they utterly refused to listen to any
suggestions Of craftsmanship, and they still
stubbornly insist upon carrying out their
extreme views. Any compromise that they
might now pretend willingness to make,
would only be delusion and a snare. No
bargain would bind them, for they rccog-
niAc neither moral nor legal obligations, save
only such as make a favor Of the negro


Nothing short of universal negro suffrage
will satisfy them. This is what they aimed
at from the beginning, though they denied
it with so much apparent earncstncss that
the people were deceived, and this is what
they will untiringly labor to accomplish, till
they succeed or are ovcrthrown beyond the
power to raise again. Let no man who
wishes to preserve the character Of our gov
ernmcnt as IA government of white men,"
commit himself to any proposal Of compro-
mise that embraces negro suffrage in any
shape. e.-Luncaster MtcH;gcnccr.
Year: 1867

Yesterday afternoon a tragedy occurred
in the lower portion Of the city, or probably
just outside Of the city limits, in the settle
ment known as Boonville, which will prob
ably result in the death Of man whose
name is unknown, and who will, in all prob
ability, be laid beneath the sod without any
one to shed tear over his grave, and with
out his relatives knowing where he is laid
The facts in the case, as near Us VIC have
been able to learn them, are about these
A few days since the wounded man took
possession Of one of the houses in Boom
vile, where he held complete sway, and SO
violent did he become in his actions that
persons feared to pass the house. Tuesday
the policemen were sent for, but it being
late in the afternoon, they did not go to the
place until yesterday afternoon, when Off
GERS Joseph Harman, Enoch Arnold, and
A. Planz were dispatched to the place to
quiet the excitement or arrest the party.
When they reached the house they endcay-
ored by persuasion to induce him to come
from the house, promising not to harm him
if he would but he not only refused to do
so, but threatened to kill any one who would
enter the house. The officers, however, did
not regard his threats, and they attempted
to enter by the way of the window, when
they were met bya shower of bricks, hurled
at them by the maniac. One of these mis-
siles struck and came near killing Officer
Harman. The officers, seeing that they
could do nothing else, fred upon the man,
one of the shots taking effect just over the
left eye, infcting fatal wound. Coroner
Dick Moore was sent for, it being thought
that the man was dead, but this not being
the fact, he was removed to the hospital.


Who the man is, or where he came from,
is not known, and his presence in the
ncighborhood, as well as his actions, is some
thing that cannot be accounted for. He has
been in the neighborhood for several days,
on last Sunday being on the road in all the
hard storm which prevailed that day. That
he is maniac no one will doubt. t.-Loui:s-
rWe Democrat, IN.
Year: 1867

Da- While yet we were enemies, Christ
died for us. Did you ever attempt to i'm
arine what must have been the state Of
mind that God was in when he looked upon
those who were not repentant, that were his
enemies still, and that were so vagrant as to
reject his long life services, as to cause his
passion, and as to work out his death? Did
you ever attempt to imagine what must have
been the state Of mind by which, after hav-
iup toiled for them, he could in tho act Of
dying pray for them, saying, They know
not what they do2 DO you get any idea OF
what the divine feeling is toward wicked,
hating, and hateful being, which manifesta
itself in dying for him as tho means Of res
toratioa,