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Year: 1866

A LupIcRous AccIDENr.-During the pic.
mic at the Encinal, on Sunday last, lady,
in order to lend little eclat to the ceremony,
concluded to have her baby christened IN the
presence of the assembled crowd. Quite an
interest was naturally excited, and the pres
sure to get a glimpse of " show was SO
great, that large number of masculines
perched themselves in the adjoining trees
A little Jew. more venturesome than the
rest. and having his curiosity excited up to
the boiling point, crawled out on limb so
as to bring himself almost directly over the
christening party. Just as the parson was
getting warm to his work, and was about to
pronounce the words, " I baptize thee in the
name.n ETC., the branch on which the jew
was sitting broke off suddenly, dropping him
squarely on the back of lady of rather
ample proportions. scattering her all over the
ground promiscuously. Medical aid restored
her, however, but not before twenty minutes
was occupied in applying such simple restor-
atives MS we're close at hand. The unfortu
nate wight, who was the cause of this mis-
hap, and who was the innocent instrument
of transforming a solemn and interesting
ceremony into a comical farce, was forced to
flee for his dear life, as the exasperated
friends of the lady hunted all through the
woods in quest of him so as to give him a
taste of Judge Lynch's recipe. 1t was un-
necessary for the minister to wet his fingers,
as the accident threw a sufficient amount of
cold water over the child as well as the whole
affair to answer all baptismal purposes
Oakland Neics.
Year: 1866

MAMMOTH MILL.-This mill will soon be
running on rock from the Harrison lode, at
Quartz Hill There is already out fifty tuns
of first class rock, from any of which good
prospects can be obtained by the mortar and
pan process. We visited the locality on
Monday last, and from the pile of rock desig
mated above made several crushings in Q
mortar with fearfully rich results. We guess
Harrison gave US the cream of the pile t.
operate on. We are satisfied, however, tha
the Harrison will prove success. There i:
q shaft down forty seven feet. From the
bottom of it the workmen will drift and take
out the lode, which is six feet wide, and looks
well.
Year: 1866

FUNERAL OF GAMBRINus.-A new liquor
lay has gone into effect in New York. On
Sunday, lately, the aggrieved lager beer
drinkers got up a characteristic performance
there. As the new law closed all the city
drinking places and gaerten, they improvised
funeral the Funeral of Gambrinus. Gam
brinus is the patron saint of the domain of
lager. So huge beer wagon, laden with
kegs of lager beer, was heavily draped with
black. Four white horses were attached to
it. Surrounded by pail bearers, and follow
ed by a long train of mourners, it passed up
Broadway and wended its way out to West
chester county, where the lager was imbibed
the maurners got jolly, the horses got frisky,
the wagon got broken, and before night the
pail bearers themselves were all dead drunk
As it is in the beer gardens and concert sa.
looms that large proportion of the mechanics
and working people pass their Sundays, the
effect may be imagined. 1t is said the law
does not operate.
Year: 1866

The FoURrH.-In our next we expect to be
able to report the most enthusiastic and nu-
merous gathering Of the people of this coun-
ty, at Horsetown, for the celebration of our
Nations birthday. Preparations are being
made on a scale of grandeur never before
attempted on a similar occasion hereabouts,
and Judging from what we can hear on the
outside, everybody will be there to partici.
pate in the ceremonies and festivities of the
day. The Shasta Brass Band will be on
hand early. and remain until the last dancer
tires
Year: 1866

New MAcHINE-The Mining and Scen-
tific Press is enthusiastic over the invention
of machine, now at work in San Francisco,
for mailing on boot soles. 1t works with a
crank A coil of wire of proper size is
placed in the machine, the crank is turned.
and, with the rapidity of the working of a
sewing machine, the nails are driven. headed
on the outside and clinched on the inner side,
making better and stronger work than can
be done hy hand
Year: 1866

His HEAD Is LEvEL.-Barnum says: II
never patronize man that doesn't advertise,
for the reason that invariably get cheated.
The penurious principle that prevents man
from keeping his business before people will
prevent him from selling cheap"
Year: 1866

QUARTZ HILL.-If any one desires quartz
claims that is the place to go to. There never
was a camp where the surface diggings paid
better, and there is no locality that shows a
greater number of we'll defined gold Bearing
quartz lodes. A good prospect can be OBJ
tanned from the groupings of any of them.
Year: 1866

1t is astonishing how sensible some peo-
pie tall but still more astonishing how
lew foIlJw out the views enunciated by an
exchange:


By taking your home paper, you encsur-
age home enterprise.


You get information concerning affairs in
your own community. which yon could not
get through paper from abroad.


1t is the medium through which you ad-
vertise 10 The world The nature of the bust.
ness in which you are engaged; thus bring
ing it to the knowledge of hundreds whO
would otherwise know nothing of it. .s...


Through its columns you gain knowledge
of the business enterprise Of other men. of
opportunities for favorable investments, and
of selling the pro luct of your labor and en-
terprse to the best advantage.


Your home paper is an institution which
cannot be dispensed with-an absolute ne
cessity, which all admit should be sustained.
Year: 1866

DrRINa the first five months of the pres
ent fiscal year the receipts from customs at
the mort Of New York exceeded by nearly a
million dollars the total receipts from that
source during the year 1863 and 1854. The
receipts for the present month are estima-
ted at ten millions.
Year: 1866

on the speech:


alt is impossible to describe the magical eff
feet produced upon all present 10y the grave and
significant words OF the Emperor. When we
remember the great example that the august
father Of our sovereign gave during his life, to
the noble and generous projects that their
MacsticS cherish for the happiness OF Mexico,
the Imperial discourse could not fail to inspire
in all those who had the happiness TO hear it
the pureSt and noblest love for the sovereign
and the country"


The ceremony put the seal to the august and
melancholy gravity suitable to the mourntul
event that t recalls.


The Emperor wore his Generals uniform, so
remarkable for its simplicity. The epaulettes
were covered with Grape, at the collar the
Mexican eagle.
Year: 1866

Rev. Thomas W. Gilmer, of Charlottes-
vile has received unanimous call to the Presbyte
rian Church of Fredericksburg.


"A member Of the national House of Rep
resentatiyes SEM resolution to the Clerks desk to
be read That individai was unequal to the task'
and upon asking the member TO reaG his own writing
the worthy member failed.


Gen. Grant will send an expedition in
May next to examine the route between the Mime
sofa border and the Territory of Montana with avew
of establishing continuous chain of military posts
for vhe protection of emigrants.


An old German in New York lately got
thousand dollars for leaving. three months before
the expiration of his lease, house which he only
paid eight hundred dollars a year for. merchant
had bought the se andEanted to begin the erection
of his warehouse at once.


Gen. Grant has decided to hold publishers
of newspapers in the Southern States to more strict
accountability during the continuance of martial law.
He recently remarked that these papers were doing
more to hinder the work of reconstruction by keep
ing alive the spirit of hatred between the two
tons than all the politicians in the land put together


"A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercaL states that the record of every case brought
before the Supreme Court is printed at the Govern
ment Printing Office, is great saving to their eye
sight, but costs $4,000. We submit that it would be
cheaper for Uncle Sam to furnish the Judges with
spectacles.


"A painful sensation was created on the re-
cent opening of the French Senate by communica.
ton from Vice-Admral Baron Grivel apologzing for
his non appearance in his seat in the Senate his off
eial duties retaining him at his maritime station at
Brest in consequence of the recent outbreak of the
cholera in that port As the French steamers from
New York to Havre now touch at Brest, since the
completion of the railway from that city to Paris
great caution will have to be exercised by the New
York authorities in regard To the passengers on board
shsss steamers.
Year: 1866

-Coai was first used as fuel IN London IN
the latter part of the thirteenth century. But the
smoke was considered injurious to the public health
that Parliament petitioned King Edward L. to pro
hibit its burning as an intolerable nuisance. He
complied, and issued proclamation against it. The
most severe measures were then employed to abolish
its use fines imprisonment, and the destruction of
furnaces and workshops where it was used.


The Rockingham Register tells of a Meth
odst clergyman in that section who received all told,
in currency and produce twenty dollars for his
last years labor. Toward the close of the year he
and he employed brother preacher. who was also
physician, who charged him fifteen dollars for his
services The itenerant was unable to pay, when the
reverend doctor took the only bedstead he had in the
world as an offset to the debt. That man will go to
- heaven. perhaps.
"A Washington correspondent says that
the National Express Company, of which General
Joe johnson is President, have instituted a suit
against the Virginia Central Railroad and other roads,
who have for two millions of dollars, sold to Adams
Express Company the exclusive right to carry ex-


press matter their respective roads for period
Of four years, unless other companies pay equal
amount. which, of course, other company do.
The colored man who edits the Alexan.
dria State Journal is much exercised about the
Chronicle. The editor has mistaken his calling: hs
bad better put out BARRIERS pole,
Year: 1866

A YOUTHFUL FORGER.-A boy fifteen or sixteen
years of age, employed IN Insurance Office in State
street. one day this week forged the name of the Pre-
sident of the company upon check for about 81 900;
presented it AZ n bank where ne was known and was
his mother he should be absent till late that evening
and took a train for New York. The police was put
on his track and soon found him in that city. The
affair causes great distress to his parents who are
most worthy people,-B0ston Traveller.
Year: 1866

8gryG KETcHUM-The Mobile Register and Adver.
tise7 eats its readers to the following:


Wa expressed the opinion a short time since that


young Ketchum's" swindIe was quite too large an
affair % keep him long in prson-that thirty Of forty
thousand dollars properly employed would make a
cheap sorry enough for him to turn hin out
This opinion, it would SEEM is about to be sustained
by actual facts A New York correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Ledger says q have it on authority
whca cannot very we'll be disputed that Gov Fenton
5s5 agoed pardon for young Ketchum, and that the
only aason he has not been released from the State
pgaon, n conformity thereon, now is desire that
h55 aauin to the outside world should be made to look
Fl A 1ad really been a subject Of consideration on
ahe part Of the prisoner"
Year: 1866




IMPORTANT VERDICT.-An important case
has just been decided in the U. s. District
Court for New York. The jury have awarded
damages to the amount of S25 900 to Charles
u. Lockwood against the N. Y. Central Rail-
road for injuries received ON their road at a
point which they, knowing to be dangerous had
omitted to make safe. Lockwood is drover.
and was in the habit Of passing many cattle
sover the road. He held pass from the
company and had signed contract which is
designed by the Company to absolve it from
all the liabilities of common carriers for injuries
that might be sustained by either man or
beast.


The judge charged the jury that public poll
cy cannot permit companies to relieve them
selves by private stipulation from the legiti-
mate duties which they owe the public, and
which are required from them by the very OBJ
ject of their creation and that.such release as
the Central Road in this case sought to set up
In defence, is no sort of protection against its
liability at common law as a common carrier;
and the jury gave their verdict accordingly-
lhis is an important step gained toward secur-
ing the rights of the public at the hands Of
| powerful corporations.
Year: 1866

Mr.. EprToR:-It is to be regretted that
any member of the Young Mems Christian As
sociation should pen such a communication as
appeared in the Argus of yesterday morning.
The Member" knows very well that neither
the Lecture Committee nor the Association can
control the subject matter, or the moral of any
lecture that may be delivered before it. The
Member" also knowns that politics and party
have been carefully eschewed in the Associa-
tion heretofore, and that members" of his par
ty have had as much to do in inviting the gem
tleman named in the Course as any Others
As for the audience forgetting the sanctity of
the House of God, the subdued applause that
greeted the lecturer showed that had the place
been any other, the demonstration would have
been far more in accordance with the feelings
even in speaking of the Chief Magistrate of the
Republic. Is the @Member' working for the
good of the Association and for the success of
the Course, or in the opposite direction?


ANOTHER MEMBER
Year: 1866

OBITUARY.-In our mortuary column will
be found the death of Mr. David Hatch The
deceased%a carpenter by trade and has been
employed in the repair shop of the P. s. &P
Railroad, in this city, for more than twenty
years. He was beloved and respected by all
who were associated with him. AS husband
and father he was kind and affectionate, and in
all the rela ions of life he sustained the charac-
ter of an honest and upright man. His death
will be regretted by the large circle to whom
he had endeared himself by his social and gem
ial manners
Year: 1866

NOTICE Reconsideration is called to the
annpuncement of Messrs. Anderson & Co, of
the opening of their new store in the block
above Casco street. By giving their attention
exclusively to the manufacture and sale of
Hoop Skirts and Corsets, they are enabled to
offer these goods at lower prices than those
who have to purchase in small quantity and at
the same time give their customers the most
are wanting these goods will do well to give
them call
Year: 1866

NEW STREET.-We are informed that the
Committee on Laying out New Streets, after
viewing the premises yesterday afternoon, de-
Commercial street. This street, if laid out and
opened will take off the building on CONNER
cial street now occupied by the printers. If is
needed improvement, for there is, at present,
no street or passage way from Fore street to
Commercial street, between Maple street and
Union Street.
Year: 1866

FURs.-The ladies most bear in mind that cold
weather is fast approaching and furs must be
in greater demand than at present, and we
would advise all who are about purchasing to
call at Coe & McCallar's, No. II Markt square.
and examine their large and rich stock of fnrs
before purchasing, as they are now offering
some extra BARGAINS
Year: 1866

TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY,
l. corner Camp and Canal streets. New Or
leans. \ full Sett Of Teeth made in Thirty
Hours. Teeth inserted on Nulcanite Base,
vastly superior to gold in every respect, being
much stronger and more durable, and can be
furnished at Half the Price.


The most nervous persons can have their
Teeth inserted without the least pain. Teeth
Extracted without pain sep21-3lnO-d
Year: 1866




A SUIcIDE.-A terrible suicide was COM
mitted in Washington on Thursday morning
last few minutes before eight O'Clock, bya
man named Samuel Hanson, at the board
ing-house of Mrs. Smith, corner of -Four.
and-a-half street and Pennsylvania avenue.
About the time above mentioned the occu-
pants of the house were startled by the
report of a fire-arm, which they believed to
have proceeded from an upper room of the
house. On opening the door Of one of the
upper rooms it was discovered that Mr.. Han
son had placed the muzzle of a large navy
revolver behind his right car, discharged the
weapon, and thus instantly launched his
spirit into eternity. The weapon was found
on the bed where he was a corpse. Coroner
Woodward was telegraphed for, appeared
during the forenoon, summoned jury, and
held an inquest over the remains From
the evidence given before the jury we learn
that the deceased had been stopping at Mrs
Smiths house about six weeks, and that Il
was frequently noticed that he was in a de-
pressed state of spirits, which, he stated,
was because of his being unable to obtain
employment, together with the fact that his
brother was given to strong drink, and ne
elected to aid in the support of his mother,
who is now on a visit to some friends near
Marlborough, Maryland. The deceased was
born and reared in the Fifth Ward, but
when the rebellion began he left the city and
took position in the Rebel post-ofice de-
partment.


Within few days past deceased has stated
to the servants of the house that he would
soon leave them, but they supposed that he
meant that he was about to take up his resi-
dence elsewhere in the city. Toone of them
he expressed desire to borrow pistol for
short season. The witnesses generally
conceded that they believed the mind of Mr..
Hanson was diseased, and that his acts and
conversation were very singular. There
was found in his room a piece of manuscript
in the handwriting of the deceased, in which
he stated that circumstances over which he
had no control had reduced him from COM
paratively easy circumstances to almost alb,
solute want. The verdict of the jury was
that deceased came to his death by shooting
himself with pistol while laboring under
temporary insanity caused by family difficult
ties. The remains have been turned over to
the charge Of his late friends After the jury
retired DR.. Dove removed the ball from the
left side of the head, it having lodged but
short distance under the skim Washington
ChrOnicle Of Friday.
Year: 1866

John Vassar, colored man, whose name
is familiar TO hundreds of the Union and
rebel soldiers for his bravery and unfiinching
opposition to the rebellion, is still laboring
in Virginia. His brother has established a
seminary for the education of colored chill
dren at Poughkeepsie, New York, and John
is doing his work OH u larger theatre, and
with greater energy. His whole object is
the improvement and enlightenment of his
race. Day and night he tolls in this noble
evangelism. Curious stories are told of his
industry. If passing along the road he sees
number of people engaged at work in the
woods, he dismounts from his horse, and
Immediately strings along the trees the al
phabet, cut in block letters, and improvises a
rustic school. During the war he habitually
rushed into the hottest of the fire for the
purpose of carrying away the bodies of the
dead and wounded soldiers, and when taken
prisoner by the rebels, his first act was Ia
throw himself on his knees and to Offer
prayers in their behalf. Recently, when in.
formed that the night gatherings of the
blacks were creating uneasiness among theil
late owners and oppressors, he answered by
stating that as his followers had to labor al
day, they had no other season for improving
/ themselves save in the hours before going tC
bed; and again, when asked whether these
conventions did not look like an insurrec
tion, his answer was promptly given, mo
it is not an insurrection we are engaged in
IL is a great moral and political resurrection
that lee are ioogkin9 at
Year: 1866

MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.


Is there man a whit the better
For his riches and his gains2
For his acres and his palace
If his inmOst heart is callous,


Is man whit the better2


And if a mans no whit the better
For his Golfers and his mines,
For his purple and fine linen,
For his vineyards and his vines,
Why do thousands bend the knee,
And cringo in mean servility,


If o mans no whit the better?


Is man whit the worse
For lowly dress of rags?
Though he owns no lordly rental,
If his heart is kind and gentle,


Is man bit the worseg


And if mans no bit the worse
For poor and lowly stand,
For an empty, even pocket,
And brawny, working hand,
Why do thousands pass him by
With a cold, and scornful eye,


If mans no whit the worses
Year: 1866

FURNISHING YOU'VE LADIES OF SIENNA.
RY.-A number of young men Of Indianapo.
lis have given the principal of the Baptist
seminary IN that city considerable trouble by
persistently making love, orally and by let
ter, to the young ladies under his charge.
The other day the principal learned that
some of his pupils had packages of letters
from young gentlemen OF the city-tender
epistles. Exasperated beyond endurance,
fore the entire school, and read the letter.
in full, with the names of the writer's. There
was q fiuttering in the school.
Year: 1866

NEW YoRK May 14-General Santa Anna
vas expected to arrive in this city to-day,
but he did not appear up TO eve P. NJ. It's
stated that he will not come here until to-
morrow afternoon, when he will make the
necessary arrangements for a mass meeting
in favor of the Mexican Republic.
Year: 1866

hang yourself in less than three days, but
still weuld suggest that you thus en-
ploy that tenth. Even though it do lead
to suspension By cotton or hemp the world
would be better off for the sacrifice.


The fact is the world is never going to
be much better as long as everybody en-
joys satisfaction in making everybody
else appear at as much disadvantage as
possible. Ah the tongue is mightier
than the sword for evil 1t breaks law,
estranges hearts and destroys that COM
mon brotherhood which were it kept in
violate, would open for all paradise on
earth. Unless this paradise can first be
brought to the freside it will never be
found anywhere, but it will never be
found here so long as one half Of the con-
versation By this freside is SANDER and
the other half light, foolish, senseless, tri-
vial conversation A talk in which the
heart and mind are not represented, aud
which as consequence, produces no
good fruit.


Friends of the home circle; you who
belong to its holy membership, see to its
elevation. Encourage, aye, give COUNT
nance and sanction to nothing less than
the good, the beautiful and the true, for it
is holy ground though you may never
have thought seriously on the fact before.
Guard it then above your honor, and as
inseperable from your happiness. Sup
ply it with the choicest of books and the
purest of thought, and then all the little
auxilliaries that are needed from the out
side world will come pure and true and
there will be no jar or discord, but you
will reap the fullest happiness possible
for mortals to enjoy on earth.


Curb well your tongue, though it may seem


too late
Raise up your thoughts 10 things of high es-


tate;
Deal not with things of infamy, unless
1t be some erring one of earth 10 bless:
Live for the good, the beautiful, the true,
Or else give up the ghost and sink from


view.


ICHABOD WHACKHAMMER.
Somey here Jan. %, 1866.
Year: 1866

Io! ye who start a noble scheme,


For general good Designed
Ye workers in cause that tends


To benefit your kind
Mark out the path you fain would tread,
The game you mean to play,
And if it be an honest one,


Keep steadfast on yonr way.
Although you may not gain at once


The points you most desire,
Be patient-time can wonders work


Plod on, and DO not tire;
Distractions, too, may crowd your path,


In threatening, stern array,
Yet finch not /! fear not ! they may prove


Mere shadows in your way.
Then while there's work for you to do,


Stand not despairing by
Let Forward" be the move you make,


Let "Onward" be your cry;
And when success has crown'd your plans,
Twill all your pains repay,
TO see the good yoar labor's done


Then droop not on yoar way!