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Year: 1866

AUGUSTA. GA, Oct. 16-A freedman was
shot and killed in Columbia county last
night. The affair originated from difficult
ty with white man, which the freedman
reported to General Tillson, who advised
him to seek redress from the civil authorities
Last night party of white men surrounded
his house and murdered him whilst attemp-
ting to escape The citizens are indignant
at the outrage. A military force has been
sent to arrest the perpetrators =


Several jayhawkcrs have been arrested in
Newton county by the military.


A slight frost has been experienced in this
vicinity. The weather is favorable for the
cotton crop, which is looking better.
Year: 1866

What is permanent, true and abiding, and
what merely sensational and ephemeral, who
shall tell us? Where shall We draw the line,
and who, fifty years hence, will be admitted
into The permanent and classical niche of fame,
and who swept away as the scum upon the
wave? At this moment, Mr.. Bonner, of the
NeU York LeCtger, Is announcing an engage
ment with Rev. Henry Ward Beecher to fur
nlsh his paper with "a story" Certainly, we
may all say that truth is stranger than fc-
ton III these days; but yet the most popular
article Is the best paid, we suppose on account
of the regularity and the largeness of the de-
mand.


Is this piece of sensa tionalism in its con-
ception, aim and end or is it going to give Ms
something which, like Uncle Toms Cabin, u
by the authors sister, may be called sensation
al and ephemeral by those who do not like
its ideas, but will yet prove a power in the
earth, shaking established institutions, and fol
good or evil making itself felt as a nucleus oi
future public opinion? Such are the questions
now being asked. Is the pastor of Plymouth
Church going to show up some of his refracto
ry brethren, or is the brother of the authoress
Of bred or the Dismal Swamp" about to
teach the people how President johnson
ought to restore the South and reconcile black
and white in that region?


1t IS nice question how far all that is per


manent in literature and thought must neces


sarily begin by making strong sensational i'm


preston at the first. Scott was denounced il


his early days as a mere sensational poet, unit


Byron, with his mad passions and gladiatoria


exhibition of himself, threw him and all thu
gentler sensatiOnalists Of that day into thu


shade. Yet both have effected the most per


manent changes in our poetry and the lofties


fame for themselves.


| Yet not all effects are durable in proportion


to the momentary impression they create =
? Sensational acting at the theatre, novel writing


lecturing and preaching, and political speaking
how they die out In half a season now tn,
great rising star proves only an exploding rock
ct that ends in an empty tumbing stick.
The Beecher family all have their eccentri
cities, and such as catch the public attention. =
In this, and in the strength and pertnacit
with which they ply the public mind witt
them, they are like their father-one family
.. There is, too, so great liberty to disagree
claimed by them, that they all seem almos
6 alike in being no two alike, and not long con
tinuing stationary in any opinion, but alway
growing into something different from tbei


Former selves 1t is in each case n famil
!. rrowth-a native American growth-a stron
Growth. But it is most perfect specimen !
the Darwinian theory. Each one OF them, b
; the selection of some germ Of an idea, grow
: into three or four new species in the course {
Year: 1866

The Democrats are greatly excited over the
election OF. two respectable colored men to
the Massachusetts Legislature. But which is
the most disgraceful-a black face in the Leg
islature, or a bLack.leg?
Year: 1866

RATkILLINa aExTRAoRDIEARY-W lille
the workmen were tearing down an old
livery stable one day last week in Van
Vert, the sporting men and dogs congre-
gated and had lively time at rat killing.
One hundred and thirty-six Norways were
slain and many put to flight.


A Child ScALDED TO DEATH.-In Ere
mont, the other day, a child three years
old tell backward into tub of boiling hot
water which was standing on the floor.
The mother happened to be cut of tie
room at the time, but hearing cry she
hastened in. when she found the baby in
sitting posture in the bucket. 1t was
past help and died in two or three hours.
The attending physician remarked that
the flesh on the lower part of the body was
scalded to the bone.


THE STATE FAIR.-Arrangements are
being made by the Dayton people to pre-
pare the grounds for the State Fair with
all proper accommodations, including q
half mile track The time of holding the
Fair is now fixed for September 25th.
The Fair continues four days, including
the 29th.
Year: 1866

Company B.-All members of this Company
who have taken their arms away from the Armory
are ordered to return them forth WITH as they are
ordered to bs turned over to the AdJatant General.


mayl:3Il JASON CANFIELD, Captain
Year: 1866

NEw York, May The Herald's For
ress Monroe correspondent says that JEFF.
Davis is very anxious for his trial to come
of. His health has perceptibly failed since
his Incarceration and it is reported ne can
not live the summer through IN prison.
Year: 1866

Unleached ashes, applied to
land, often do harm instead of good
mot that they are useless as a
fertilizer, but for the reason that
too much of a good thing is used.
Those who have had experience in
clearing new land will probably
have seen proof of this. From
carelessness or want of information
on the subject, farmers sometimes
leave the ashes where log heaps
have been burned, undisturbed to
seeding time; and the consequence
is that at the succeeding harvest
they find the crops in all such pla-
-ces to consist of nothing but a
heavy growth of straw, the heads
having no wheat in them. There
was too much of a good thing
The ashes should have been spread
over the other portions of the
ground in the vicinity of the heap
thus imparting general aver
age of strength and uniformity in
yield at harvest time. We have
known lands long down to grass
and become nearly worthless, ex-
cept in the way of producing moss
and the like, rendered vigorous and
productive by the aid of a thor
.ough narrowing and a liberal top
dressing of leached ashes. In
this state a much more liberal sup
ply should be used than when un-
leached. 348T
Year: 1866

To BUTTER MAKERS. s.-As this is
the season of the year when those
engaged in the dairy business are
much troubled by a small fly (well
known to housekeepers) gettingin
their milk and cream, we offer the
following simple eficacious RENE
dy for the removal of the annoy
ance: Take the leaves Of the ell
der bush, (very common in most
localities, and hang them in sew
eral places about your milk room
or vault, renewing them as they
become old and wilted. You will
find yourself rid of q disagreeable
vexation, at but a small expense
Of time and trouble. Try 1t.
Year: 1866

The people of Holland, West
ern Massachusetts, were not a lit
tie surprised the other day to see
the sexton driving into town at a


brisk pace, in a light trotting skele-
ton buggy, with coffin strapped
to the axle, and the funeral pro-
cession coming up in the rear as
fast as possible.
Year: 1866

b A curious instance of the effects


produced by the electric fluid oc-


cured a week or two since to two


girls who were en- their way to


the market at Bressuire, with a


basket of live fowls slung from


their respective shoulders. They


went chatting along, when a few


great drops of rain, which came


pattering down, warned them that


a storm was at hand. There hap


pened to be an enormous rock
near; which projected over the


road, and beneath this they took


refuge. Presently, without previ-
GUS warning, they were half STUN;
ned by loud report, and simulta-
neously with the report they saw
a ball of fire fall into the road
few PAGES from where they were
standing. The only effect that it
produced on them was as though
they had been violently shaken.
AS soon as the storm had passed !
over they continued their journey,
not a little agitated by what they /
had seen and felt. 1t was not un-
til they reached the market they
became aware of the exceedingly
narrow escape they had had. On
their baskets being lifted from their
shoulders, they found that the
whole of their fowls had been
stripped of their feathers in the
cleanest possible manner. 2
Year: 1866

If you have good wife consult
her IN all matters pertaining to
your mutual benefit and advan-
tage. Gen. Cass large fortune Of
four or five millions of dollars had
Its origin in his fortunate invest
nentin real estate in what is now
the heart of the city of Detroit;
and the heirs of the deceased states
man may thank the late Mrs. Cass,
who died in 1856, for the great
wealth they inherit. Repeatedly,
when the property was rising in
value years ago, the Gen. was anx-
ious tosell, and was only restrained
by the earnest advice and remon-
stfances Of his wife. The moral
of which is-take your wife's ad-
vice. If you have no wife, get
one, and more advice gratis than
you can enjoy or will care to fol-
low. We do not give this as our
opinion-as Doesticks used to say
we "read it in a book" s
Year: 1866

the said money should be applied to the


patriotic purpose Of the donors, and this
Convention is informed that the said moneys
are in the hands Of the so-called FreegaRte
General Committee. of which -is Pre-
Year: 1866

Young married ladies whose misfortune it has
been not to bring forth in due season, remember
God has said you should multiply and replenish
by letter or in person. No lady over thirty-fve
years of age need make application. All cOmmu-
ncatiOns by letter or person strictly confidential
Year: 1866

In one-fourth Of the time that it takes with the


old mode Of treatment In this treatment no
is taken internally. You receive the


baths seated on your chair, with no inconvenience
whatever.
Year: 1866

that ever came to this city.
Please give him a call and you will find, in his
store everything in the cIeanest and most perfect
order, and prompt and civil attention to ALL


c. SPEIDEL,
next door to First National Bank,


Rock Island.
Year: 1866

The massacre of ChinsInea by Indians, on the
route TO Idaho, mentioned las: week, It seems oc-
Cured on the 25th ult-. and at point about FIVE
miles distant from the owyhee river. The 0wyhee
lndsr says they were attacked by large hand of
Indians, supposed to number two or three hundred,
and report says Chinanan alone escaped 10 tell
the news. Lieutenant PEPooN dashed 10 the
ground with squad of soldiers and found thirty
dead bodies. He Immediately sent dispatch 10
Major MARSHALL. who was near Silver City with
company of Cavalry. The Major Immediately left
for the scene of murder 1t is stated that PEFooS
found a number of dead bodies mutiliated mos,
brutally. In many cases five or six were found
piled together. The Lieutenant folio wed the trail
i've miles and found dead Cinnamon all the way


There is but ore way to prevent these Indian out
RACES on this overland route, and that is by the
arm OF military power and the swift vengeance ef
cavalry. In this connection notice that one
company has passed on TO this route By the wav o
Chico, and another is to go to the route by the
way of Fort Churchill. Company has been or
dered to take post at Granite creek situated on the
road from Orov ille via. Susanville, Smoke creek
10 Fort McGary, Summit Lake. He is to remove
to Granite creek all the public property now at
Smoke creek. The detachment now there are TO
JOIN their Company at Fort Churchill. These
m easures ought 10 leave the route tolerabiy well
guarded but thorough mpagn against the In
dians the present summer that should penetrate TO
their camps and secret lurking places and force
them TO understand that there Is no escape from
the just punishment Of their lawless violence
would exert a salutary influence over them and
bring tn EN- to terms that they would be very likely
to regard
Year: 1866

THE SHORTEST AND BEST ROAD FOR TRANSFERS
The question of which is the best road is well IL
lustrated by the experience of two teamsters nam
ed respectively WHITING and CLARK. The latter
loaded at Oroville, and started for Taylorvlle
the 23rd OF May, by the way of Chico. He had not
returned on the 18th of June though in tending to
make the round trip as soon as possible Mr.. WHI
TING started from Oroyille with loaded team for
Taylorville on the 3lst OF May. He went by the
direct route from Orovllle delivered his freight in
prime order, and returned to Orovile in nine and
a-half days. On his return, he met Mr.. CLARK. go
ing into Taylorville with half his load having been
compelled to put off the balance in order to get
along st all. He had then got on to the Oroville
road, and was getting along finely. He intended to
return for the balance of his load, thus making
trips to perform what be might have accomplished
in half the time had be gone the best and most d.
rect road as did Mr.. WHITING. The loads and
teams were equal, but there is one hundred per
cent. difference in favor Of the Oroville road. Ii
makes no difference to Orovile which route team
s,ers may GO, but We dislike TO see them imposed
unon
Year: 1866

EARLY PLUNS have been shipped from MaryS
vile to the San Francisco market where they rea
dily sold at forty cents per pound. We call atten
ton of our gardeners to this fact. When railaoad
connection is completed with :'acramen to. it will
take but sixteen hours to place the finely favored
table fruit produced by the climate and soil of Oro
roville, in the San Francisco market. This will
place Orove in fair competition with ranches i'm
medately surrounding the Bay, and with the deci-
ded advantage of being able to produce ealer and
more finely favored fruit, and in greater abundance
than the localities of the lower vallies which
visited by cold winds and enveloped in fog. In ad-
dition to this, those engaging in such productions
here will have the advantage of mountain market,
which is entirely beyond the reach of the pro-
ducers of the lower vallies. The railroad will be
running through to Sacramento another seaso ;.
to engage in the pleasant and profitable business of
cul;ivating table fruits The locality ommands a
mountain trade unequalled by any other section.
and can place its products in the San Francisco
market in as fresh and good condition as those
who are located around the Bay. There is room for
ten thousand profitable gardens, in the yallies and
foothills surrounding Oroville, and they can have
choice of the best markets in the world. Let those
who would realize profitable business, give this
subject their attention. 1t cannot fail to be most
remunerative for the advantages of communication
that another year must bring 10 Oroye will render
each garden established here worth much a
productive gold mine, and at a uch lighter expen
diture Of cost of cost labor.
Year: 1866

The Red Bluff ObseTrer of Saturday last has the
following on the subject of freighting to the north
ern counties:


THE Northern Teamsters' Association have re-
duced the price of freight from Red Bluff to Neva
da. The price by teams to 0wyhee is ten cents
per pound but there is not any freight in town for
that point. f. STEELE, Esq. reports TO the Sisk-
you merchants the result of his negotiations with
the Association. He says the arran cement is tenn
porary, and may be annuled at any time by either
party. From the tone OF the report and the re-
marks of the Journal, we judge that the Yreka men
will demand different terms; and, failing in that.
will make effort to obtain their goods by some
other route than by the way of Red Bluff


When we take into consideration the fact that,
the same amount of freight, by weight, that the
steamers charge $40 for landing at Red Bluff, can
be placed in Orovlle for 81 is not surprising that
there should be no freight in Red Bluff to be trans
ported to Owyhee The business men of Red Bluff
themselves can save SIS or $50 dollars per ton,
weight, by shipping their goods to Oroville and
hauling thence overland. They will also fad, if
they will only tryt, that they lose little or nothing
in time as goods by this route can reach Red Bluff
in four days from San Francisco. When railroad
connection is made between Lincoln and Marysville
they can be landed in Red Bluff on third day. 1t is
farther from Oroville to Owyhee than it is from
Red Bluff 10 Owyhee. and why should shippers 70
0wyhee pay $40 TO take one ton Of goods (weighi)
to Red Bluff, when they can be landed at the more
accessible point of Oroville for 81 Shippers
beginning to realize the difference between steamer
measurement, and weight. as well as the fact that
direct routes are the cheapest. If the business
of Siskyou would ship their goods to Oroville, and
send their teams here for them, they would find
saving of at least SIS per ton (weigh) Red Bluff.
This is an item that should have some weight with
prudent business men. The Northern Teamsters'
Association instead of coniiuing their operations to
the delivery Of goods north of Red Bluff should
tend their operations TO Orovile, and deliver
freight from this point to all parts of the northern
country. They will find daily communication with
san Francisco, instead of weekly, as at Red Bluff
and profitable business in delivering freight even
at that point in advance of the steamer. Let the
Association figure upon the proposition, and see if
, they cannot find it profitable TO do so. They may
thus help to relieve the communities they supply of
oppressive monopoly, and encourge the exten-
sion of the railroad into the northern counties of
the State. They viii find they can deliver freight
bg this route at less figure than they can by the
river route to Red Bluff, and will thus please the
/ Siskiyou people, instead of being compelled to
wraasle with them about the price OF freight.
Year: 1866

DIED MARTYK TO ITS FAITH.-The Susanville
Sage Brush was NOT found among our exchanges
this week. Upon inquiry concerning it we learned
that supply of paper for that Office had been or
dered by the Chico route. That accounts for its
non appearance. However, ii will probably be ont
again in July or August. Why don't you get 1t By
the waY of Oroville! We shall always be happy
to supply you in case of emergency.
Year: 1866

MEETING OF THE STREET CLEANING COMMISSIONERS.


Yesterday morning at o'clock the Street Clean
Ing Commissioners in the Mayors Ohice and the only
transacted was the adopt Of resolution TO pay the
Street Cleaning Contractors their regular senimonthy pay
III
Year: 1866

In consequence 0 Tho attcmp made yesterday upon The
life Of the Emperor Alexander st ST. Petersburg, Count
Berg tie Governor of Pollard, left Warsaw the
ing Of the 18th for the capital.
Year: 1866

doubt the policy of suppressing by the
Courts papers reasonable as any even
in this State. Aside from an unwill--
ingness to limit the Freedom of the
press, it is submitted that the cause of
good government may gain more by
the exposure of reasonable designs
through the most disloyal press, than it
would by punishment and suppression.
By restraint the disease would not be
cured, but would only become conceal
ed and more dangerous by coneealment.
The vanity, egotism and heartlessness
of our disloyal editors, can with their
limited circulation, do little harm, ex-
cept to themselves and their friends
Their attacks upon good men only dis
play their own malignity, and greatly
endear those they assail to the hearts
and sympathies of the true friends of
freedom and the country. 1t is not in
tended to urge these views, and they
are submitted with great difidence
since they seem to conflict with such
eminent patriotism and high authority.


Your attention is also called to the
laws against counterfeiting and passing
the counterfeit currency of the. United
States; and also to violations of the
revenue and postal laws of the United
States, with the hope that you will be
troubled with but few cases under
them, and after short session be per-
mitted to return to your homes con-
scious of a faithful discharge of your
important duties.
Year: 1866

Sec 8. Be 1t further enacted, That the filing by
or on behalf of any Bank, of bill in the court Of
equity, under the provisions of this act SHALL
upon the appointment and qualification of a COM
missioner Hereunder, be deemed and taken to all
intents and purposes to be o surrender by such
Bank of all the corporate rights and franchises
granted to such Bank; and all laws by virtue of
which any such Bank then exists as a corporation
are hereby repealed and such corporation. shall
be thereupon dissolved, and all the effects and
consequences following or incident to the disso-
luton of corporation at common law shall ensue
thereon; and any statute law of this State to the
contrary Notwithstanding. Provided, hosceteT,
That the estate, property, and rights of action
vested in the commissioner, provided by this
act, shall not be in any way diverted or impaired
thereby, nor shall the rights of any creditor of
such Bank against such commissioner against
the estate or effects vested in him, be thereby
impaired or in any way affected, and such cem--
missioner shall thereupon be considered as the
plaintiff in the pending proceedings; and, pro-
remaining in the hands of any such commissioner
ors, the commissioner under the direction of the
court shall distribute and pay the same to and
among those who shall be justly entitled thereto
Us having been stockholders members of such
corporation at the time of its dissolution afore
said, or their legal representatives.


Sec. .. BE 1t further enacted, That all suits on
debts due the Banks contracted with branch
Bank shall be brought in the comfy where the
branch was established, and If brought in any
other county may be dismissed on motion.


Sec. TO- Be it further enacted, That this act
shall be in force from and after its ratification.


Ratified the 18th day of March, 1866
Year: 1866

The following Act, in relation to the scaling
Confederate Currency, from the time of its fir
issue to the end of the war, passed at the recen
session of the General Assembly:


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO


ESTABLISH A SCALE OF DEPRECIATION


OF CONFEDERATE CURRENCY.


WHEREAS, By an ordinance of the Convention,
entitled " An ordinance declaring what laws and
ordinances are in force and for other purposes, b"
ratified the 18th day of October, A. D., 1865,
it is made the duty of the General Assembly to
provide scale of depreciation of the Confederate
Currency from the time of its first issue to the
end of the war; and it is further therein declared
that call eXecutory contracts, solvable in money,
whether under seal or not, made after the depre-
citation of siid currency before the 1st of May,
1865, and untitled (eXcept official bonds and penal
bonds payable to the State) shall be deemed to
have been made with the understanding that they
solvable in money of the said currency
subject, nevertheless, to evidence of different in
tent of the parties to the contract; therefore,


Be it enacted 6y the General assembly Of the State
Of North CrOli,td, md it is hereby enacted 6y the
Iuthority Of the same, That the following scale of
depreciation be and the same is hereby adopted
and established the measure of value of one
gold dollar in Confederate currency for each
month, and the fractional parts of the month of
December, 1864, from the 1st day of November,
1861, to the 1st day of May, 1865, to-wit:


Scale Of depreciation Of Confederate currency, the


gold dollar being the amt and Of valase


Tot
Year: 1866

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