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Year: 1866

"BurrE. We have thought proper after
due reflection and consultation. and upou the
recommendation of various prominent business
citizens Of the county. to restore the word
Butte" to the name of our paper 1t is no,
good policy TO be constantly changing the
name Of paper, as there is little or no sicnif


icance IN it, the contents alone determine
ing its character and standing in the estima.
tiou of the community but We have deemed it
proper in this instance to give the paper a 40.
cal habtaton and name," and sink or swim
with Butte" county. As an advocate of the
business interests OF the county, it is advisable
to keep its location as prominently before the
public as practicable, and it is in business
point OF view, and to make it county paper,
that we have restored the original name. As
It was. the stranger picking it up was CON-
Pelled to search among the legal advertise.
ments it contained, to ascertain the name Of
the county in which it was published Butte
IS entitiod to front seat among the counties
Of the State, and We mean to maintain it.
Year: 1866

The story Of the maiden who was caused to
weep because her tears turned into pearls, is
but fable from nature The sun crossed the
eqnator on Tuesday and a copous shower of
tears descended to the earth, and are turning
into buds and blossoms that glisten like rubys
in the robe of the vale
Year: 1866

One SECRET OF Lose LlFE-In Magburglc
in Germany, learned man, DIR. julius FiSch-
weller, recently died at the old age of one hun
drcd and nine years. In his will he left the
following statement = That his great age is
entirely to be ascribcd to his constant habit of
sleeping with his head towards the North and
the rest Of his body in a direction coincidng as
closely as possible with that of the meridian
that is, with his heels to the South. From
pcrSTstlng In this habit the learned doctor con
Sldcrcd that the iron contained in our system.
finding itself in the direction of the magnetic
currents which are constantly flowing over the
surface of the globe towards the North pole,
becomes magnctizcd, and thus increases the
energy of the vital principal" " This may APP
pear tanciiul to some people, and may not be
strictly true to the extent the Doctor puts it,
but there is a great deal in the subject of hu
man magnetism and polarity worthy Of the at
tcntion of scientific men.
Year: 1866

Many curious and interesting things might
DC SAID concerning the history of numerical
characters used IN ancient and modern times ;
pu'' NOT TO prolong tins article, they must be
reserved Tor some future occasion
Year: 1866

land of liberty; and daily we see men
who have claims against the Govern
ment and. know not how to obtain the
cash. We will give them advice
(gratis that will insure them speedy
settlement Of their claims. By $ap-
plying to John O'Neill, Claim Agent,
you will secure your money, and
transact your business with genie
man of honor and integrity. See adj
vertisement. a
Year: 1866




Knock .DowN ARGUMENr.-Pete
Cartwright, the celebrated Methodist
parson, who was accustomed in his
younger days to officiate at camp meet
ings in the West, as the preserver of the
peace, and was always ready for
knock down and carry out when moral
suaSion failed of effect, has rising dis
ciple In the Rocky Mountain country by
the name Of Brother Dyer. At recent
gathering for religious worship in the
forest of that primeval region. an irrev-
erent sinner, who had partaken Of too
many installments of . forty rod" chose
10 interrupt the services, and, when
Brother Dyer requested him to be little
less demonstrative in his speech,he add
ed insult TO injury, thereby thoroughly
arousing the brothers wrath. The re-
slllt was a pugilistic encounter, in
which the partaker of the forty rod
got the worst of it. just us the finish"
ing strokes Of annihilation were being
administered, mildly disposed clergy
man interfered in behalf of mercy, but
received the following rebuke /: True
mercy Is an attribute to the Divinity,
but am now an instrument of justice,
which in strict sense is supposed to
know no mercy, and have none in this
case; 50 please don't Interfere And
the thrashing proceeded until Brother
Dyer was satisfied that he had brought
about IN the mind of his unruly subject
"a true appreciation of the wrath of the
church. He was then permitted to slink
away, while the services were resumed
in quiet. ..a
Year: 1866

A discovery Of a uery favorable ma
ture to our citizens, who have feet to
shoe this cold winter, has just been
brought to light. The cheapest and
best place to get your winter stock of
shoes and boots is at Henry Steven
sons, No. ii corner Clark and Front
streets.
Year: 1866

WITH RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES IN


w every County in Tennessee, and very shortly
throughout every Southern State. This Company
insures against THEFT or DAMAGE to Stock
while stolen. If not recovered within o..
Year: 1866

The Loss will be paid in Cash. A standing reward
of one fourth of the value of every animal in
sured by this Company is offered for the recovery
thereof. One Hunred Dollars for the arrest and
conviction of the Thief.


Persons Aaving Animals not insured by this
Company, can, by remittng FIFTEEN DOLLARS.
giving full description of Animals. and amount of
reward, have One thousand Hand-bills struck,
and furnished to all our Detective Force in the
Year: 1866

EJIn closing the campaign we part
with number Of those who have been our
readers for the past few months. With
this issue they cease to be our patrons, the
time for which they have paid having ex-
pirsd. Numbers of them would take the
paper and in time pay for it too, did We
take the liberty of thrusting it upon them
But in the commencement we resolved that
for subscription no man should owe us
that at the expiration of the time for which
he had paid his paper would be promptly
discontinued. So far we have lived up to
it, and now, when We are firmly establish
oil, VIC SEQ no good reason to alter our
course. ,.. .t


We therefore bid those of our campaign
subscribers who have not seen proper or
who do not feel able to renew their sub
scriptions q farewell, thanking them for
their oountenanoe and encouragement in
the past, and hoping that we shall not be
entirely lost sight of iu the future. During
the campaign we have labored earnestly
to do our duty in the cause in which We
were enlisted, and if we have failed to sat-
isfy the expectations of our friends, we
have the proud consciousness of knowing
that we have succeeded in drawing down
upon US the bittsrest imprecations and ha-
tired of our 70 ca. .... ........ ....


The enemy in this State, We have laid
lifeless at our feet All that is now need
ed is that he be decently sepulchcred Iu
the performances of this last, sad duty the
"Rebsl Mud Wagon" is at your service.
Its driver will take fendish delight in
hauling out the slain at the low rate of So
per annum or 81 for SIX months-pay in
advance. g.. ....
Year: 1866

,SWith such man as John Lee
Chapman at the head of the Western Ma
ryland Rail Read we think our people
may safely bid farewell to all prospects
OF a speedy completion or a successful
working when completed. Would it not
be policy for the commissioners of the
County to dispose of their stock they hold
at the best rates and cut short their losses.
Let the tax payers of the County make up
their minds to foot the bill of interest on
bonds.-Beast Butler might perhaps be
secured as Treaurer and then the taxpay-
srs can prepare to settle the bonds them
selves. All right, We suppose-no bust
ness TO be tax payess.
Year: 1866

E~The action of the board Of county
commissioners in appointing none but the
most bitter and unscrupulous of its parti-
san friends to the position of judges of
Election, could be interpreted only as an
intention to suppress by fraud and unfair
ness'the honest voice of the people, and
to pcrpetuate their hold upon the power
which they themselves have attained con-
trary to the wish of the majority. And
has not the action Of their appointees jus
tilted the Interpretation put upon their
acts.


But We have remedy in the Legisla-
ture. Let the appointing power be taken
from them and entrusted to more "loyaP'
hands. Give US, for this county at least,
a sort of Police Board, appointed by the
Governor, and entrust to their hands ev-
cry appointment now vested in the Com
missioners, as well as the drawing by lot
Of Jursrs. We think that some such ar
rangemcnt would meet with very general
approval BY the majority Of the people CT
this county.


First see to getting in your honestly
elected Representatives and then press
your projects Of reform
Year: 1866

BurLsn.-Thc New York Times says that Mas
sachusetts hns elected at least one mem ber ol
Congress who demands more for a settlement
with the Constitutional Amendment; bat 1t an


ticipates hat that member will not be more DO.
tent at Washington than he was at Big Bethel
Year: 1866

A father may transmit a SQUAD and healthy con-
stitution to his son and the latter may destroy
it by vicious excesses. Our Revolutionary faith
ers bequeathed to US the best constitution in the
world, and we are shattsring it as rccklossly as
a miserable profigate skaters his own.
Year: 1866

GVSharp was that Radical Judge in
the Hagerstown district who contrived to
get tho collie the night before the election
SO desperately as to prevent his attendance
He will not DO haunted by writs and pros
ecutions. A convenient case of collie
that.
Year: 1866

trimmed in the most fashionable and desirahl.
styies. Those ladies who have rot vet supplied
themselves with CLOAK for the winter would
do we'll to call and examine their stock before
purchasing elsewhere
Year: 1866

A tailor in Dublin, near the resi-
dence Of the Dean took it into his
head that he was specially aud divine
ly inspired to interpret the prophecies,
and especially the book Of Reveia-
ton. Quitting the shop-board, he
turned out a preacher, or rather a
prophet, until his customers had left
his shop, and his family was likely to
famish.


His monOmania was well known to
Dean Swift. who benevolentIy watched
for some convenient opportunity to
turn the current of his thoughts. One
night the tailor. as he fancied, got a
revelation to 90 and convert Dean
Swift, and the next morning took up
his line Of march for the deanery.-
The Dean whose study was furnished
with a glass door, saw the tailor ap-
proach, and instantly surmiSed the
nature Of his crrand. Throwing him
self into an attitude Of solemnity, and
his eyes fixed on the tenth chapter of
Revelation, he waited his approach


The door opened, and the tailor an
.nounced, in his unearthly voice, the
message:


"Dean Swift, l am sent by the Al
mighty to announce to you--"
|. "Comein, my friend, said the Dean,
Il am in great trouble, and no doubt
the Lord has sent you to help me out
of my difficulty


This unexpected welcome inspired
the tailor, strengthened greatly his as
surance il his own prophetic charac-
ter, and disposed him to listen to the
disclosure.


"My friend, said the Dean, u have
just been reading the tenth chapter OF
of Revelation, and am greatly dis
tressed with difficulty | have met
with; and you are the very man to
help me out. Here is an account OF
an angel that came down from heaven
who was so large that ne placed one
foot on the sea, and the other on the
earth, and lifted up his hand to hea
ven Now my knowledge Of mathe
matics, continued the Dean, enables
me to calculate, exactly the size and
form Of the angel; but | am in great
difficulty, for I wish to make him q
pair of breeches, and as that is in yom
line of business, | have no doubt the
Lord has sent you to show me-"


This sudden exposition came like
an electric shock to the poor tailor
He hurried from the house, ran to his
shop, and quick revulsion OF thought
and feeling came over him. Making
breeches was exactly in his line o
business. He returned to his occupa
tion, thoroughly cured of his prophet
cal revelation by the wit of the Dean
-CongregationaIist.
Year: 1866

Are we really older than we were
twenty years ago? No doubt the
world thinks so; and our looking
glasses, it may be, would tell the same
story. But the world knows almost
nothing about US, and what a mere
surface affair is the verdict of a look
ing-glass. | maintain tha t | am
younger than | was then. | find life
more enjoyable, the world more beau
tiful, men more noble, women more
loveable, and little children incom-
parably more attractive. | am not
conscious OF having undergone that
fossilization of the heart which is the
essence OF old age. | have not learn
ed to be suspicious, or miserly, OF
ashamed Of enthusiasm.


In this world Of care and friction
and material needs there is great dan
ger Of becoming indurated to the very
bore, or Of being converted into some
sort of a machine-a business machine,
or a housekeeping machine or a shop
ping and visiting machine. 1t is only
to let go of ones self, yield to the
pressure, and the thing is done. We.
have got into a rut, and may trundle
on day after day, growing more and
more mechanical, and less and less
human, while time writes the obituary
Of our youth Oh the parchment of our
faces, and our own conciousness echoes
the verdict of our looking-gIasses-
growing Old"


But here is the remedy: Meet the
pressure from without a stronger force
from within. The fountain Of youth
wells in every human heart, and it is
our own fault if we allow it to be
choked or dried up. To be young Is
to be plastic, impressi0nabIe, alive to
all beauty, responsive to all demands
for sympathy, capable Of growth in
all directions, and Of faith that Is
ready to undertake and achieve the
apparently impossible.


And this Elasticity, this outflow Of
Joyous life, this faith that believes, and
attempts, and performs all these must
come from a child-ike trust in God,
and settled conviction that any cir
I |cumstances are OF his providing, and
the best that his infinite love can de-
wise. He is immortal youth; and as
our life is perpetually derived from
him, why should not we share that
youth and be glad in it? Let Us ae-
cept what IS given, doing our best now.
and here leaving all burdens Of the
past. and all anXieties Of the future to
his disposal.


Givc us, dear Lord, The trusting, child-like spirit


That makes us thankful to be led by thee;


Thy iag. IN giving. let our souls inherit,


O,,r finite mirror thine nfnity."
Year: 1866

In the merry days of early prime,
Ere this head with gray was crown'd,
L courted the waves, as they rose sublime,
And away TO sea was bound.
Oh, my swift winged bark with straining mast,
Like a cloud in western skies,
Der the main sped on, and following fast
Were the widest winds that rise.
In her fOaming wake were many a sail,
Bright suns rose over the seas,
And past all peril, by rock or gale,
She rode into port at ease.
But the harbor there, that dusky night,
As she drop'd her anchor down,
LOOl1'd solemn and dread in the answering


light


That shOne from beacon and town.
And the sounding waves far out at sea,
Were sounding messages grand,
They came on the breeze and talk'd to me
Of "dim and shadowy land"
But the tale they told of wonders deep,
Hidden in ages dead,
Were specially sent for me to keep,
"You must not tell,' they said.
In the babblng years, that since have rolPd,
I've kept their secret well,
Not lisp they breath'd has ever been told
Of all that erst befell.
Oh, the beautiful sounds l heard that hour,
In sad and measured flow,
They come to me still with wondrous power
And sing of the "long ago"
And never, while constant thought shall keeT
The treasures of earth and main,
Will the song that came from sounding deer
Fer cease to thrill my brain.


A. S. X
Year: 1866

A lawyer and a doctor were dis
putting the other day about a bill a
fellow owed each of them. He was
only able to pay one of them, and so
he left the matter to themselves who
ought to have the money. q ought
to have the money as a matter of
course" said the lawyer, "for ! saved
the fellow from going to the peniten-
tiary." "Well," said the doctor, Il
saved him from h-ll." 1t is needless
to add which got the money.
Year: 1866

Oh, gaze not on the flowing glass,
That moves itself Alright,
Twill tempt thy too weak life away,
Thy dearest idols smite.
Twill bar thy soul from innocence,
And lead thy step astray;
Twill rise with vengeance unto God;
Then dash the cup away!
Year: 1866

Mr.. Boutwell, on Reconstruction.


Boston, December 2S.- Ex-Governor Boutwell,
delivered lecture in this city last evening upon
the subject of 'The Restoration of the Union
ana its Relation to Business" In the outset he
stated that the restoration of the Union was
most important to the business community, and
should be carefully considered by them. He
then clearly defined what was meant by imme;
diate restoration which many urged impatieutly
il meant the return to power of men who had
beon Rebels, and who were Rebels, men who
unquestlonably seek the destruction of the Gov
ernment. After showing by figures that slavery
had tended to prevent the growth of the popu
lation of the South and the development of 10
resources, he discussed the various plans
offered for reconstruction He condemns the
Presidents pl an, and that which suggested only
the adoption of the Constitutional amendment,
as simply restoration of power to the Rebels
and return to the ancient order of things. The
plan proposed by many of admitting the States
when they should adopt the amendment, and
also a system of impartial restricted suffrage on
a basis of education or property, was also OBJ
jected to, as it would give to the Rebels motives
to keep from the colored population education,
and thus push them from the ballot-box. The
only plan that would be just, he held, was the
adoption Of the amendment, in addition to a
law of universal suffrage
Year: 1866

From Berlin Correspondent.


A few days ago young lady whose bride
groom had fallen at Sadowa committed suicide
in violent fit of melancholy. The unfortunate
gul had been confined to private hospital, and
was seeming so far recovered that her dismissal
from the establishment was to take place in a
few days. At visit of her father the physician
encouraged him to hope for the best, at the
same time expressing a wish that the patient
should, for her recreation, have intercourse
with his own daughters, and being a very skill
ful pianist, should play with them four-handed
sonatas. This offer was gratefully accepted
and Immediately made use of.


hle the father was still in the physicians
room, discoursing with him on the probable
daY of his daughters dismissal from the estab-
lishment, the patient was sitting with the young
ladies'at the piano, exquisitely playing sonato
by Beethoven. Suddenly she started up, and,
on the pretext of finding the room too hot, she
opened a window.


The very next moment, and ere anybody could
suspect her design, she precIpitated herself
through the window into the courtyard below
where the Immediately found the death she had
sought. The cries of horror that burst from the
horriied young ladies brought the physician
and the unhappy fgther to the spot aud the lat
ter had the grief Of hnding the daughter he had
just left in a state of cOnvalescence a llfeIess,
bloody corpse.
Year: 1866

The Fifeshire Advertiser reports an elopement
Of the eldest son in one of the first families OF
Fiteshire with his fathers cook. The young
gentleman had been reared with the greatest
care, and had only returned from Eton last year
with high academic honors He was destined
by his father as the husband OF a young and
beautiful heiress, to whom he had even paid his
addresses.


The bride, who is n buxom brunette, is by
some years older than the bridegroom, and has
been in the family for a considerable period. 1t
was discovered that they had departed for Mon
trose, whether the father of the hero followed,
but only TO find them slumOering in each others
arms. So eDraged was the old gentleman th hst,
forgetting all deicacy, he was about to eject her
from the bedroom, when she collared her quon-
dam master, and hurled him headloDg from the
apartment.


The runaway son endeavored 10 explain and
pacify his insulted parent, when the lady seized
her husband, and, conveying him almost oi Ell
G,mis back to the bedroom, locked the door.
The young gentleman is entitled to consider
able property in his own right. The pair are
spending the honeymoon now at Cheltenham.
Year: 1866

NEW YoRK, December 2s.-A fresh wind from
the southwest prevailed since last evening,
causing very low water in our rivers. The
ferry navigation is very difficult on all sides Of
the city on this account.
Year: 1866

New York, December 2s.-Such is the effect
OF the ebb tide here that the steamship Austral-
asian, with news three days later from Europe,
is aground in the bay. Three schooners are re
ported ashore inside of Sandy Hook.
Year: 1866

A SPECULATIVE TURN OF .MIND.-A
Southern correspondent relates circum-
stance which recently came to his knowl-
edge, and which furnishes pointed illus
tration of that yearning tone which the
pure nasaltwanged disciple of Charles
Sumner bears to the African. A lady of
the green-spectacled and strong minded
persuasion, from down east, near the hub
of the universe, was in conversation with
a female friend, and was charging on the
dear little African pupils she had been
teaching, and was about to leave, perhaps
forever (about one hundred), when one
of them came in. The kind instructress
turned to the sable tenement of an i'm
mortal soul" and said with an angelic
kindness beaming through her emerald
glasses, "Dear Disley, | am soon to
leave you, and may never return. You
must be good girl, and apply yourself
diligently to your books. Oh, how /
love you, and all my dear colored pupils.
Tell all Of them you meet / have had my
photograph taken, and have one for each
of them. THEY must each bring dollar
and get one"
Year: 1866

From the London Times May 26l


r We have much to hope from
The strong disposition of the greater part of
Europe for peace OF the temper of the
Germans it is unnecessary to speak, and the
French are scarcely less unwilling to see
war again break out. A great and gradual
change in their character has long been in
progress, and the nation which for so many
years was the terror Of Europe, is now-as
a nation-devoted to the pursuits of peace.
The finance of the empire has given almost
every individual an interest in the Imperial
fund, and railway and other stocks are held
very largely by every class Ofthe population.
The savings of every one, whether trades
man, artisan or peasant, have been imper-
lied by the fall in all kinds of securities
since the first rumors of the war. The pe0-
pie see with apprehension the interruption
of commerce and communication; the cause
of Italy has never been so popular as might
have been expected from past alliance and
the remembrance of common victories, and
Prussia has never recovered in France the
memories of 1914 and 1915.


The Emperor Napoleon, too, as well as
the other sOvercigns of the continent gener-
ally, may well see with concern the dimen-
sions and the directions which this conflict
is taking The Italian Government has
called popular enthusiasm TO its aid, and
in continental parlance, allied itself with
the revolution. The King of Prussia is
talking about universal suffrage, and a radi-
cal reform of the German Constitution.
What may be the relations of the Austrian
Emperor toward his less well-efected and
non-Gorman provinces, three months after
the outbreak of a war, is as ye. hidden in
the future. But there is a feeling that this
war; if once begun, will assume a revolution
ary character. If these millions Of men
meet in conflict, thrones will not remain
where they are-German, Magyar Czech
and Pole will be moved as they never were
moved before. Such commissions may be
inevitable in the progress of nations, but
they are not pleasing to Emperors and Kings.
The position the masses have taken in these
countries, the intense interest Of all classes,
the enthusiasm of one country, the indigna-
tiou of another, and the proof which has
been given that if the sovereigns raise
tempest they will not be able to lay it, must
have It's effect upon every wise ruler, how
ever exalted his rank and extensive his
power.