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Year: 1866

Gratis had fought Government during the
war. Go to the rank and file of the army,
examine the muster-ro rolls-and even here
in these Halls-were found true Democrats
who had fought the rebellion from the be-
ginning to its overthrow. This charge that
Democrats were disloyal was not true, and
gentlemen knew it. when they made the
charge. But who are the loyal men now
Who supports the Government now? Why,
sir, this Republican party had to go down
to Nashville, Tennessee, almost to the very
heart of rebeldom, to select candidate for
Vice President. Well, they found Andrew
johnson there, held him up to the people
during the late campaign as paragon OF 10y
altv and virtue, and now what do they think
of him, and what does he think OF them
President felt it his duty to APP
pear before what they call crowd OF
Rabble, and denounced the leaders Of this
Republican organization as traitors, while
they in return say he was drunk on that oc-
casiou He hoped if President johnson
was drunk, that he had good supply Of
whisky on hand, and would use it freely to
the end of his Presidential term. III gen.
tlemen desired to ascertain who had los
tered rebellion and who had given aid and
encouragement to the rebels, let them go
over to the State Library, and there read
from the files of the NeU York Tribune,
which advocated peaceful separation OF the
States Immediately before the beginning
of the war, which said, "the Union was
not worth preserving in connection with
the South" Let them look at the Gnctn-
natl Commercial, another one of their organs
which was opposed to coercion and i'll favor
of letting the South 90, and also take
peep into the Congressional Globe
and see where Mr.. Stanton, whom
they afterwards nominated and elected
Lieut.. Governor of Ohio, claimed that this
Union could not be held together by mill
tary force. Don't they remember when
Garrison denounced the Constitution as a
covenant with death and a league with
hell" when Wendell Phillips boasted In
| q public lecture that he had labOred fol
, nineteen years to break up this Union


under the very nose of the President and
| Congress, and on the next day was
welcomed to the floor of the Senate by the
presiding officer of that body, while Others
were banished the country, because o


their devotion to the Constitution and the


Union? If that won't do, 90 back &
| little further, when Wade and Giddings
| speeches were sent into South Caroline
and Rhett's into the Reserve, by these men


to widen the breach between, the two sec
| tions. You held out the olive branch o
| peace to the rebels in the beginning, tolC
them to go; they took your advice ant


tried to go. You whipped them back ant
are now trying to keep them out after yot


have whipped then in. He regretted eX


ceediugly this discussion had turned OF


national politics, and would pursue th


subject no further.
Year: 1866

NEW iORR; January lc.


The Times Washington special says:
The Secretary Of the Treasury has decid-
ed that the prohibition of the exporta-
ton of cattle from Canada does not ap-
ply to the importation of dressed beef.


The Worlds Washington special says:
There is curious rumor here to the eff
feet that the outbreak on the Rio Grande
was precipitated by belief that some
understanding had been reached between
our Government and Macmillan invol-
wing the withdrawal of the French
troops and q quasi recognition of the
Empire. The raid was made, says re-
port, to prevent any such result.


Seven colored men, representing a
large number of colored citizens NOrtL
and South and in the District of Colum.
bia, being authorized to speak, publish
card to-day addressed to the members of
Congress, respectfully submitting that
in the issue now pending before Con-
gress for the extension OF the franchise
the action should be based on the idea
that there can OF right be no privileged
class before the law in a republican gov
ernment, and they seriously and most
earnestly object to any discrimination
in such qualification on account of color,
because to do so would be invidiously
affecting them and exposing them to a
similar class of legislation throughout
the land, and thus make US liable TO the
greatest injustice. They want the bill
to affect alike all loyal citizens in the
District OfColumbia.
Year: 1866

New YORK, Jan 18.-The Herald S or
tress Monroe correspondent says The
vigilance of the military authorities
in their search for any persons who may
be concerned in the supposed plot to llo'
crate JEFF Davis has not been in any de-
gree relaxed since the expulsion from
the district of all who were known to
have been at one time in the rebel ser,
vice. A sharp lookout is still kept on all
arrivals both by land and water, and the
corspiritors, if the plot really exists, are
left little opportunity for the prosecu'
tion of their scheme.
Year: 1866

MEDICAL ADvICE.-Dr. VIM. X. Doherty S
Medical and Surgical Institute is becoming sine
qua non to the welfare of our State and health
OF our citizens and his rapidly spreading reputa.
tion, although it may excite surprise, is but the
signal of skill and follows as the natural effect
of such cause. We are personally acquainted
with gentlemen who had suffered for years under
chronic disease, and who had taken advantage of
every available means that promised relief, but
without success, until they called upon DR.. Do
herty who in an incredibly short space of time,
has given them entire relief. 1t is gratifying to
announce this fact because the Doctor is q gen.
tcman who seeks not by defamation of others.
TO establish his reputation, or 10 rear the super
fame The Doctor conducts his Institute in snch
manner that must be gratifying to all his pa
tients. He examines, advises and recommends
without charge, and the patient after hearing
his terms for treatment, can accept or reject at
pleasure. In no case does the Doctor make 4
charge unless he effects cure. This, he is aule
to do, because he feels the confidence which long
experience has given, and no doubt the consola.
tion which appertains to that confidence Per
sons afflicted with either acute OF chronic disease
it can do no harm, as for consultation he asks no
fee; nor does he insist on obedience TO his advice
unless the patient places himself under his care
His Offices arc on Sacramento street, opposite the
Pacific Mail Steamship Offices. f. News.
Year: 1866

CW IT is AN INDISPUTABLE FACT THAT
more disease and suffering is cntailcd upon chill
dren by impure blood in parents than from any
other cause. Heads OF families owe it to their
posterity TO see to it that their blood is kept free
from all poisonous matter that would have ten
siency to produce disease, suffering and perhaps
death to their offspring. Adams Blood Purifier,
prepared by Samuel Adams. San Francisco, is a
strictly vegetable preparation and is scientifically
prepared from the choicest and most ehicacious
blood purifying remedies known to the vegetable
world, and if used according to directions, will
restore the blood to its proper condition in q
short time. For sale at the United States Drug
Store, corner of Powell and Bush streets, San
Francisco, and all Druggists. tebl0 3m
Year: 1866

SPECIAL NOTICE. We would call the atten-
tion of Of our readers to the Grover O. Baker Ma
chimes. Their reputation is too we'll established
for us to attempt word in their favor, but
would advise any person wanting a reliable Fam
lily Sewing Machine, to investigate these before
buying. "a word TO the wise is sufficient"
Year: 1866


Do you think if I'd baby,


That I'd let him pull my hair?
Do you think L d put on collars


just to let him soil and tear?
Do you think I'd call it pretty


When he bites his little toe i?
Yet I've known some silly mothers
With their babies, do just so.
Do you think I'd set him crying


Just to see his cunning frown?
Do you think I'd set him walking


Just to see him tumble down?
Would l call my baby pretty,


When he'd neither teeth nor hair?
Yet I've known some silly mothers
> With their babies, think they are.
Would / buy him drums and rattles,
just to hear him make crash
Would watch him more delighted
Break my mirror all to smash T?
Would [ smother him in fannels,
Just because his voice was low?
Dose him up with bella donna?


Silly mothers treat them so.
Would I think his brow Byronic,
just because ii was so bare2
And his head Napoleonic


In its shape-though minus hair?
Could | trace the marks of genius
In his eyebrows, arched and low,
Yet I've known some silly mothers,
With their babies, think just so.
Would I think my baby destined
To become a man of men,
And to govern and control them
By the might of sword or pen?
| dare say these noisy babies


Play the very deuce-I know;
And I've seen the wisest women,
With their babies, think just so.
Year: 1866

Bg~ In the practical bulls the Irish are
even more famous than in those merely log
ical the richest one we ever heard was
about poor Irish peasant who was houn-
dering through bog on small ragged
pony. In its efforts to push on, the animal
got one of its feet entangled IN the stirrup:
''Arrah, my boy ~ exclaimed the rider, If
you are going to get up, it's time for me to
get down
Year: 1866

sA- We heard lawyer and a doctor dis
putting the other day about bill fellow
owed each of them. He was only able to
pay one of them, and SO left the matter to
themselves who ought to have the money.


Il ought to have the money IS matter Of
course, said the lawyer, for l saved him
from going to the penitentiary."


well" said the doctor, Il saved him
from HI


Itis needless to add which one got the
money.
Year: 1866

CLEAN YouR TEETH.-Rev e. W. Be, ch.
er says that c'ean tooth never decays.
Particles of food left between the teeth de.
cay rapidly, causing an offensive breath and
decay Of The teeth at the same time. Use
quill tooth-pick and rinse the mouth after
eating; also clean it thoroughly on rising in
the morning. BY this attention the teeth
will be preserved and an offensive breath
measurably if not wholly avoided.
Year: 1866

LttHtHy


When the headquarters of New England
thus practically repudiaies the idea of negro
equality in the bogus Civil Rights Bill. its
authors can Judge Vi the detes tation in which
it is held in other portions OF The country
The utter folly of attempting TO place the
races on anything Ike social or political
equality, will be thoroughly manifested to
them by the progress Of events. No partisan
edict can eradicate the customs Of centuries
or the feelings Of races that inspired them.
Year: 1866

Have been used with the greatest success. Their
mission is not only to prevent disease. but to
cure. They search out the various maladies by
which the patient is suffering and re-invigorates
the failing system. To the aged and inlirm a few
doses OF these valuable pills will prove to bc
Year: 1866

For i'll every case they add new life and vitality,
and restore the waning energies to their pris-
tine state. To the young and middle-aged. they
will prove most invaluable, as a ready. specific
and sterling medicine. Here is dream realized.
that Ponce-de Leon sought for three hundred
years ago. and never found. He looked for
fountain that would restore the old to vigor and
make youth
Year: 1866

The Fenian invasion of the British provin-
ces by way of Eastport. is "played out, or
rather never had any existence except in the
sensation dispatches Of the press.


What is to be the next movement on pa
per to astonish the public, and humbug the
contributions to the Treasury Of the Indepen-
dent Republican government Of Ireland, it
is difficult to conceive. One would suppose
that it would be impossible to deceive the most
excitable and credulous into the investment
of money, in an enterprise which has 20 long
been hanging fire." and presents no better
prospects for the future.
Year: 1866

The New York Observer relates the case
of a citizen of Indiana, to whom his nephew
had forwarded two French vases and some
books, taken from the house of Colonel
Bird, of Baton Rouge, during the war. The
vases were beautiful, but it became more and
moro painful to the Indianian to look at
them. Said he:


a never wanted them; my wife never
wanted them; / felt like a thief every time
looked at themW


He set to work to find out the owner, and
through the aid of the Masonic society sue
ceeded To his offer to restore the vases,
Colonel Bird wrote a touching reply


"Yes, he wanted the vases and the books.
Ii was all that was left-the only link he
had to bind the past to the present. Send
them carefully; spare no expense. Such
was the tenor of his letter. And then his
thanks and expressions of regard for the
kindness and tenderness that prompted su ch
an act


Last week the vases and books were pack
ed, and are now on their way to Baton Rouge.


In view Of this circumstance, the Obser-
yer Justly remarks How many houses in
this fair land of ours have this wedge of
gold in them? How many are furnished
outright from the plumber of war? Some
know. If there is any who can sleep easy
under such load, he deserves pity" This
is well said, as it is we'll known that in many
parlors choice articles may be found that
were abstracted from Southern homes
during the war. Choice books, mantle or
naments, pictures, and in some cases rare
historical paintings, have been sent North
from cities in the far South. Elegant pri-
yate residences were despoiled Of all that
was dear as family mementoes. Even pianos
and sets of china were boxed up and sent of
as war trophies How the cheek Of the pres
ent possessor would mantel with shame
if the rightful owner should happen to sit at
tea in some house in this State, and find that
he was served with dishes stolen from his
closet And looking about the parlor OF
sitting-room, should discover ornaments and
paintings Of great value that had been alb
5tracted from his house. Yet such thing
might happen in certain localities in this
State
Year: 1866

It cannot be that earth is mans only
abiding place It cannot be that our life
is bubble, cast up by the ocean Of eternity
to float a moment upon It's waves, and sink
into nothingness. Else why is it. the high
and glorious aspirations, which leap ike an
GELS from the temple Of our hearts, are forever
wandering unsatisfed2 Why is it that the
rainbow and the cloud come over as with
:. beauty that l. not Of earth, and then pass
of and leave as to muse on their faded love
Iiness2 Why Is it that the stars which
"hold their festival around the midnight
throne are set above the grasp Of our
limited faculties forever mOclring as with
their unapproachablo glory and finally
why IS It that bright forms Of human bsauty
are presented to our view and taken from
US leaving the thousand streams OF our
affections 10 flow back in an Alpine torrent
upon our hearts We are born for higher
destiny than that Of earth There IS q
realm where the rainbow never fades, where
the stars win be spread oab before us like
the islands that slBmber on the ocean, and
where tie beautiful beings which pass be
fore US like shadows, win stay in our presence
forever.
Year: 1866

IRE They Pirates Pit Is held IN some
quarters, says the Missouri Democrat that
the capture Of O'Neil and his six hundred
imposes upon the Government Of Great
Britain the necessity Of demanding their
rendition under our treaty with that power;
that Great Britain viii make the demand,
and the Federal Government must either
render up the men to Great Britain, or
present that Government with just ground
for war. This view is based upon the tenth
article Of the treaty Of lS42 with Great
Britain by which parties fugitive ard charged
with crime are to be delivered up. The
terms Of the article are very plain, yet a
question may arise under the provision
that this shall only be done upon such
evidence Of criIninality as, according to the
laws Of the place where the fugitive or person
so charged shall be found would justify his
apprehension and commitment for trial, it
the crime or offense had there been com
mitted". In this case it is simply impossible
that g the offense could have been committed,
for the reason that the real ofense is war
against Britain, and could not have been
wrought on American soil. The question
would be whether these men were actual
pirates or belligerents, and we think strong
case could lie made against assuming, under
the circumstances, that they should be de-
livered up as mere pirates.
Year: 1866

negro confined in the workhouse as a vagrant
made desperate attempt to escape from it.
Selling bar of iron he struck the master black,
smith severe blow On the head inhicting pain
fnl, though not dangerous wound and then en-
deavored to make his way out the gate. The war,
dcns were too quick for him, however. Drawing
their pistols, they compelled him to surrender
and he was then placed in irons.
Year: 1866

Hail.


Mr. Richard Swain, president Of the Odd Eel
lows Hall Association, has let the contract to
Messrs. B. R. Edgworth and Henry Leith for tear,
ing down the remaining walls Of the late Odd Fell
lows Hall and removing the debris of the build
ing, 50 that the ground may be ready to commence
the erection Of another edifice The prompttude
with which the contract has been made is an
earnest that the new hall will rise up much earlier
than the public had reason to expect.
Year: 1866

AT q recent meeting Of the Transfers Asso-
citation held in Sacramento City, it was stated
that the road to Idaho by way of Susanville,
was the best, but that if the Government did
not extend protection to it, they would be
compelled to take the Humboldt road by way
of the Truckee. The simplicity of this con
cluson will no donbt excite smile on the
countenauces of those familiar with the coun.
try. For the benefit of the Teamsters Asso.
citation, as we'll as others interested in this
question. we would state, that the road from
Sussnville to Ruby City, where it turns off at
Granite Creek, is distant but sixty miles from
the Humboldt road, and that up to that point
there is no danger from Indians whatever :;
they would therefore make circuit of from
$50 10 200 miles. in the course of which, they
wonld have TO pass over a desert As miles
wide, without water, and when they arrived at
the Lassen meadows would find themselves
but sixty miles distant from the Chico road.
and all the dangerous part of the road before
them. From the points we have mentioned
above, the two roads run nearly parallel for
about hundred miles, and then form juno
tion 10 Queens River valley. This stretch is
by far the most dangerous part of both roads
and so far as danger Of Indians was concerned
there was DO difference between them. But
the recent discoveries in the Black Rock
country, has entirely altered The aspect of the
question. The formation of large mining camps
along the road will afford the most complete
protection to the travel S,isdnriue Sage
Brush
Year: 1866

tbs editor Of the Chico Courant is clamoring
for division of Butte county. No one else
seems to care anything about it.-Plaeerrille
Mirror.


None but few owners of corner lots and
few who hunger and thirst for better show
Of public pap, Ms. Mirror.
Year: 1866

ATLANTIC CAsLE.-The Atlantic Telegraph
Company announce that the next laying Of the
coming year. The company is not only in
funds sufficient for this renewed adventure
but they have means enough st their disposal
to enable them to set about picking up the los,
cable and completing the connection with
Trinity Bay, according to the programme
of last summer
Year: 1866

PAcIFrc RAiLRoAD.-Colorsd having taken
her position as one of the United States, her
new Senators have gone to Washington under
instructions to labor for the change of the main
line OF the Pacific Railroad so that il shall go
through Denver and the center of population
and development in that State, and over the
Rocky Mountains BY the Berthond Pass
Year: 1866

WnLs.-Lawyers will be interested in a
case before the London Courts. In giving
judgment on question of pleading. lately, Sir
James Wylde set aside a reputed d,ctum of his
predecessor, and ruled that testator cannot
depute to another the task of making his will
for him. but be must both know aud approve
valid
Year: 1866

THR GRAIN CRoP.-The Stockton Indepen-
den says the wheat crops planted late in the
Fall are represented to be in a remarkably
fourishing condition at the present time, and
bid fair to out rival anything of the kind every
before seen in the valley. In the southern
part Of the county, near the foot of the Stan
islaus river, the grain is four or five inches
high, aud of strong and thrifty growth.
Year: 1866

No. l. COMMON ScHooLa-Our present system
of Common Schools is based upon the idea that
Education should be the common inheritance of all
the youth of the State. The State undertakes to
educate its own children; and truly it can be
queath no richer legacy than Education. Its ben
efits can not be over estimated The school sys-
tenn affords the mems to accomplish this noble OBJ
iect, and places them within the reach of all-the
poor as well as the rich. Ii does not offer educa-
ton as git affords to all alike the opportunity OF
acquiring it. If any remain in ignorance it is be
cause they do not accept the benefits within their
reach. And it is lamentoble fact that all do
not aocept-that many in 'our own County
growing up in comparative ignorance, not
withstanding all the pains taken to educate
them. 4 large number entitled to school benefits
attend only in the Winter term-many of these SO
irregularly as to scarcely hold their own"--while
others do not even have their names enrolled upon
the Report book There is a wrong somewhere.
We believe owing more TO the fault of the parents
than Of the children. The latter often kept AT
home, or in the streets, because, at school, they
are required to submit to some kind Of restraint.
and their parents encourage them in so doing. The
remedy to this evil must be applied to society. To
do this there must be a stronger p1jic sentiment IN
favor of Intelligence Do you ask how this is to
be awakened? BY agitatation by calling the at
tention of the people to their oca interests by dis


cussing educational matters, by holding education
al meetings. and Teachers Associations. Scatter
the school-law, and educational reading, among the
people. Ask Of your lawmakers that intelligence
be made q requisite to tranchsement. Let the
Pres reiterate the truth that the future happiness
of our country depends upon the proper education
of the young Yes. Keep it before the people


that ignorance is Synonymous with crime. What a
vast improvement in public sentiment might be
brought about, if every newspaper IN the State
would devote one column TO educational interests,
The eleven would then come in contact with the


s.whole lump" Our Common Schools, the Press,
and the Pulpit are the three great levers upon


which we must rely for the elevation OF Society.
These levers should work in perfect harmony Let
there be unity of effort. Although our school sys-
TEN is accomplishing much, there is much to ac


complish. Let the friends of this system strive


remove every ''hindering cause to its full effici
encv. Now that this cruel war is over" let US
try to impart to our educational machinery, an &C.
ceerated motion. Move direct upon the enemies
works" aud ignorance must begin to eapitulate


ALPHA BETA.