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Year: 1867

Few things in this weary world are so delightful as keepsakes. Nor do they eyer, to the heart at least. nor to our eye, lose their tender, their powerful charm. How slight, how small, how tiny memo rial saves beloved one from oblivion, worn on the finger or close to the heart, especially, if they be dead. No thought is so insupportable as that of entire, total, blank forgctfulness; when the creatures that once laughed, and sang, and wept to us, close to our side, or in our very arms, is as if her smile, her voice, her tears, her kisses had never been. She and them al swallowed up in the dark nothingness of the dust.

 Of all the keepsakes, memorials, relics, most dearly, most devotedly do we love a little lock of hair And, oh, when the head it beautifed has long mouldered in the dust how spiritual seems the undying glossiness of the sole remaining ringlet !! All else gone to nothing, save and except that soft, smooth, furnished and glorious fragment of the appareling that once hung in clouds and sunshine over an angels brow. Ay, lock of hair is far better than any picture it is part of the beloved ob- ject herself; it belonged to the tresses that often, long long ago, may have all been suddenly disheveled, like shower of sun beams, over your beating breast But how solemn thoughts sadden the beauty once so bright, so refulgent. The longer you gaze on it the more pensiye grows the expression of the holy relic; it seems to say, almost upbraidingly, "Weepest thou no more for me !" and then, indeed, tear, true to the imperishable affection in which all nature once seemed to rejoice, bears witness that the object towards which it yearned is no more forgotten; now that she has been dead for so many long weary days, months, years; that she was forgot ten during one hour of absence, that came like passing clouds between us an the sun shine of her living, her loving smiles.
Year: 1867

Hag A negro on tial before the May or Lynchburg, for striking another ne- gro, gave as an excuse the fact that the negro he struck belonged to the "old issue" Gree before the war), and there fore tried to impose on him.
Year: 1867

SENSIBLE MANA chap down in Connecticut
after the conscrption act, got married. He now
says if he can get divorce he will enlist; if he
must fight he would rather do so for his country.
Year: 1867

HAND To PRoNouNcE.-The Germans complain
OF the difficulty they experience in pronouncinc
the English language. They think it very hard
that the word Boz should be pronounced Dickens
Year: 1867

!


COUNTY OF BUTTE I


hereby certify that by order of the Hon Warren
Sexton. Judge of the Second Judicial District Court in
and for Butte county. California the foregoing
mons ordered published in the BUTTE RECORD for
the term of three months.
G MOORE, Clerk.


BY JAMES GREEN Deputy Clerk
Year: 1867

A NOVEL ARGUMENT.-In recent leader
of the S. F. Times the following argument
is adduced to prove that the Jews and Chris
tians should observe the same day as COM
mon Sabbath:


1t is easy to demonstrate that neither Jews
nor Christians has the dav which his fathers
kept, in an exact astronomical series. lii
that superficial sense. both have lost the
Sabbath. and might therefore compromise
upon a day, which consists of part of the
Saturday and part of the Sabbath Chris.
tian) of Palestine The two Sabbaths have
come together by effect of longitude. That
is to say, Sabbath in San Francisco is com.
posed of the hours which make part of the
Sabbaths in Jerusalem. Should jew and
Christian set out from the city of David for
this goodly city, one going east and the other
west, each conscientiously keeping his own
day, they would meet in San Francisco and
find that the quarrel of ages had been recon
ciled By the rotundity of the globe. Could
they continue to observe the same day with
equal honor to God and advantage to them.
selves? The Jew, by travelling westward.
would begin his Sabbath later. and the
Christian, going eastward, would begin his
earlier, week by week, till they would enter
the Golden Gate seeing eye to eye. yet with
out the least recreancy on the part of either
Taking it as certain period of twenty four
hours as an astronomical series. one has ir-
recoverably lost the Sabbath of Abraham,
and the other that Of Paul but both have
kept the day with all practicable and neces.
sary exactness. Let them go on in the new
order, one calling the weekly rest the Jewish
Sabbath if he chose, and the other naming it
the Christian. What harm is done? If.
therefore, the shape of our sphere and the
cogency of the longitude have substantially
brought US together, reverse our order Of
progress from Jerusalem. and the Sabbath
will be two days apart, which is equally
fatal to the exacting theory of ignorance, J
why can we not reverence the same day, each
worshiping as he will, in church, mosque or
synagogue?
Year: 1867

,s The official reports show that over seven st have been committed in the South since the surrender of Lee and Johnston. But. the Copperheads, demand that the South shall be allowed, to go on slaughtering Un.

 ionists just as long as she pleases. They

 oppose the plan of enabling the Union

 people to protect themselves by the ballot
Year: 1867

DO JUSTICE TO NArURE.-It is ingratitude
to nature not to preserve and keep in splendid
order q good set of teeth. Nothing can be
easier. All that Is needed is to brush them
brskly night and morning with Purifying So
zOdont. II will make the mouth a perfumed
palace. 60
Year: 1867

Too MUCH BASE BALL.--Persons residing
On l. street south, between n and 9th streets,
say that base ball in that section Is so much
in vogue that in the afternoon it is dangerous
for ladies or children to be on the street.


WE CALL ATTENTION to . notice in another
column of a grand Republican mass meeting
In the Seventh Ward, to be held this evening 2,
on Virginia avenue. between AZ and 9th SITS
Year: 1867

The Mongahela Pa, Republican
says: Not very long ago, the young
and beautiful wife of one of our citi-
zens was called to her final account,
leaving her husband disconsolate.
sad and bereft. She was buried in
the adjoining cemetery, and the hus-
band returned to his desolate home,


but not to forget the loved one
She was present with him by day in
spirit, and in his dreams at night
one popularity of his dreams, and


one that haunted him, being repeat


ed night after night, was this, that
the spirit of his wife came to his


bedside and told him that the under
taker had not removed from her face
the square piece of muslin or napkin


which had been used to cover her
face after death, but had screwed
down her coffin lid with it upon her;
that she could net breathe in her
grave, but was at unrest on account
of the napkin. He tried to drive the
dream away, but it bided with him by
night and troubled him by day.


In despair he sought the underta-
ker, Mr.. Dickey, who told him that
the napkin had not been removed,
but urged him to forget the circum-
stances, as it could not be any possi-
BILE annoyance to inanimate clay
While the gentleman frankly ac-
knowledged this he could not avoid
the apparation, and continual stress
upon the mind began to tell upon bus
health. At length he determined to
have the body disinterred, and visit
ed the undertaken for that purpose.
Here he was met with the same ad-
vice and persuasion, and, convinced
once more of his folly, the haunted
man returned to his home. That
night, more vivid than ever, more
terribly real than before, she came to
his bedside and upbraided him for
his want of affection, and would
not leave until he promised to re-
move the cause of all her sutferings.
The next night, with friend, he re-
paired to the sexton, who was pre-
vailed upon to accompany them, and
there, by the light of the moon, the
body was lifted from its narrow bed,
the coffin lid unscrewed, and the nap
kin removed from the face of the
corpse. That night she came to his
bedside once more, but for the last
time. Thanking him for his kind
ness, she pressed her cold lips to his
cheek, and came again no more.
Year: 1867

A gentleman by the name of Nc
Latin, residing in Rockingham coun-
ty, New Hampshire, few years ago,
possessed dog that was remarka-
BILE for his sagacity. He one day


told the dog to go and find hand


kerchief which a child had lost in a


distant field while picking berries


The dog started off with his usual


alacrity, but in the course of an hour


or two returned without the handker-


chief, looking as crest fallen as


though he had been caught in


neighbor's sheep-fo The master
cuffed his ears sharply, and told him


to go and try again, and not to come


back without it. The dog started
off with apparent reluctance, while
the master followed at distance be-
hind, and unperceived. The dog
went toward the field where the
child had picked berries, and sat
down on his launches, held down
his head, and appeared to be in q
deep brown study.


He sat in this attitude for perhaps
half an hour, when he suddenly
jumped up with peculiar yell of ex-
ultation, and started for one corner
of the field. Here he stopped for a
moment, and then commenced trot-
ting around the field, going about
three feet from the fence the first
time, about six the second, and thus
continuing to near the middle at each
succeeding circle. He went round
the field about twenty times, when he
jumped into the air with loud yell
Of triumph, picked up the handker-
chief, and started for home.


The veracity of this narrative may
be relied upon. We received il
from Mr. r, a Baptist clergy
man of great responsibility. Now,
did the dog reason mathematically2
Does this not 60 to add proof that
instinct is but another name for rea-
son?
Year: 1867

Two centuries ago it was thought
an insult in the Highlands of Scot
land to ssk note from debtor
1t was considered the same as SAYING
81 doubt your honor If parties
had small business matters to trans
act together, they stepped out into
the open air, fixed their eyes on the
heavens, and each repeated his obli-
CATION with no mortal witness. A
mark was then carved in some rock
or tree close by to be remem-
brancer of the compact. Such a
thing as breach of contract, we are
told, was then rarely met with, so
highly did the people regard their
honor, and so truly did they fear
Him beneath whose eye they per-
formed such acts.


When the march of Improvement
brought in the new mode of doing
business, they were often panied
by these Innovations An anecdote
is handed down of q farmer who had
been to the Lowlands and learned
worldly wisdom. On returning to
his native parish he had need of
sum of money, and went to ask
loan of a gentleman of means, named
Stewart. This was cheerfully grant,
ed. Mr.. S. counted out the gold on
his library table. This done the
farmer took pen and wrote re-
ceipt, and offered it to the gentle
man.


"What is this, MANI" cried Mr..
Stewart, sternly eyeing the slip of
paper.


1T is receipt, sir, binding me to
give We back yer gold at the right
time,' replied Sandy.


Binding ye! Well, my man, if
ye Gamma trust yourself, I'm sure I'll
ma trust ye! Ye Gamma ha' my goldr'
and gathering it up, he put it back
in his desk and turned his key on it,


''But, sir, might die," replied the
Gamma Scotchman, bringing up an
argument in favor of his new wisdom,
''and my sons might refuse it to ye
But this bit O. paper wad compel
them


compel them to sustain a dead
fathers honor!" cried the high mind
ed Scot. They'll need compelling
to do right, if this is the road yer
leading them; I'll neither trust ye
nor them. Ye can gang elsewhere
for money. But yen find name in
this parish that'll put more faith in
the bit O. paper than In a neighbor's
word O. honor and his fear O Godr'
Year: 1867

EE Sir T. Trowbridge, one of the
heroes of the Crimean war, died re-
Gently in London. During battle his
right leg and left foot were shot off.
On returning to England he was
made a Colonel, and received the
Victoria Cross direct from the hands
of the Queen, who made him one Of
her aids de camp. The story of his
life was still further distin guished by
the devotion of the lady to whom he
was engaged. He offered to release
her from her troth, but she replied
that she would marry what there was
left of him if he was willing. He
was, and she did. She died in August
last, leaving a young family.
Year: 1867

A meeting was called on last Thurs
day evening at the school building
to take into consideration the propo-
sition made by the NJ & c. R. R.
Co., to build railroad TO this place.
M. Bosworth, Esq, was called to the
chair, who stated the object of the


meeting as above, and introduced
Hon. W. p. Cutler, Vice President ol
the M. IL G. R. r. We were not
present, but understand that all Mr..
G. requires of us, is, to take the
bonds of the company he repres ents
to the amount of S350,000 at 7 per
cent. interest, and he will insure the
railroad. Mr.. C. was followed by
H. B. Smith, Esq, and others, all
favoring the project Every citizen
of this county will at once see that
this is a fair proposition, and one
that may never again be offered us


We are sorry to see SO little interest
taken in this matter by our citizens,
when it will have so much 10 do
with the healthy growth ef our town.
There are but few men in this county
who are not in favor of this pro
posed vital avenue of trade and
commerce, but talk will not build the
railroad. If the long suffering to
shippers and merchants, occasioned
by the continued low water of last
season, has not had the effect to stir
up their energies in behalf of the
railroad, we know of no other ap.
peal that will have any weight
There is another class Of men in this
as well as in Gallia county, who want
to see railroad, and they will argue
'that the road will be built anyhow,
whether they assist or not, and that
few months or a few years will
make little difference with them
They either have not the capacity or
will to calculate the vast trade that
must, of necessity, be done on this
road, nor do they, for one moment,
stop to recollect that the whole
country is passing us around and
about by their enterprise, leaving US
like set of fossils, very pyramid
of old fogyism. If there is single
spark of public spirit left more than
has already been brought to the sur
face, in this matter, now is the gold
en- opportunity for manifesting it"
And we venture the assertion, that
never again will we have such fair
proposition made US for a railroad
upon such terms. Don't hang back,
hoping your neighbor will do what it
is your duty to do. bu. let one and
all take hold of the wheel, in this
way alone can we expect or hope for
the success of this enterprise upon
which depends so much the future
prosperity of Middleport and Pom
eroy-Middleport Press.
Year: 1867

An exchange tells a novel Iove


story: A young couple planned an


elepement; the girl descended the


traditional ladder, but at the oate


they were met by the father of the


girl and minister, by whom the couple


were escorted to the parlor, where


to their surprise they found all their
relatives collected for the marriage
ceremonies, which took place at once.
1t was neat parental freak. Not
near as neat as that of fond parent
we know of. He heard his daughter
and her fellow plan an elopement
The next day the old man waited on
the young one and addressed him
thus: You're fine brave youth.
and don't object to you for a son


in-law. Here's hundred dollars to
aid in the elopement. May you live
happily in the same house, and may
10 accident occur to throw the least
shade on the sunshine of your life.
All 1 require is that you elope- with
my daughter-she's a mighty nice
girl, you know; but somehow and
her mother could never travel
smoothly with her; we don't know
her good points-elope with her to
such a distance that she won't re-
turn to her leving father and mother
any more. Good-by, sonny, and
may you be happy" There was an
elopement that evening of one
The young man went unaccompan-
led. He thought everything couldn't
be right when the old cock was so
anxious to get rid of the girl. The
father looks on this as very neat
bit of strategy, for one who has
never been on McClellan's staff.
Year: 1867

w A gentleman from Chattanoo-


o states that Lookout Mountain pre-
ssents q grand spectacle on Sunday
night. All along the slope. from the
Summertown road to the Point,
there was line of fame, looking
like the camp fires of an army on q
grand scale. The weather has been
so dry in that region that it needs
but q spark to set She woods on tire.
Year: 1867

GOLDEN RULE CoMPANY.-This quartz com,
were TO start their mill at Slewar,s Flat again
this week. They have been preparing to
work the sulphurets from their rock. A fine
roasting furnace has been erected, and other
Improvements made since their mill was
stopped. We hope TO yet hear Of good yields
from their rock. When the ledge was first
discovered it yielded we'll in free gold.
Year: 1867

Plenty of employment they give one, keep
ing them all in order but oh this def
cious unwlllingness to . suffer and he
strong" for any purpose whatever
GOING A FISHING.


Did you ever 90 o fishing for nothing in
the country? Did you ever take pretty
scarlet fly, and, with line and rod, saunter
idly along, dipping and angling in stream
where you were pretty sure neither trout
nor minnow ever lurked The sport is
very tranquil, and unless you are consti-
tutionally fond Of fish and arc accidentally
hungry, just as satisfactory as though you
hook more trout than you could carry
home. One does not always fish for fish,
but the accompanying reverie. What pic
lures follow in the wake Of the line and
rod What "reminiscences come ripping
up with the tranquil stir of the water Of
what bygoncs the sedges and the rushes
along the stream remind one What spots
long unvisited the king-fisher recalls as he
"squawls" above the spot, dipping his
wings as he goes! The water spider
spreads on the surface and skins across
tho pool the "ch;prys'' swing on the tair
mullens dl0ng the path not "a fish bites
to disturb the utter placidity Of yoor ang-
ling. oh! how delicious it is to be good
for nothing and premeditately lazy Men
fnrcet the rates of interest and the days
when notes nm sau. ,>.xnsnen. .ce,se to think
of plain sewing and the broom children
become religious in the country if any
where, and heaven itself seems nearer than
it does above tall brick houses. Labor may
have its times to be mobile and holy y but
there is dignity in fishing without profit,
and satisfaction in wilful idleness, that
every city taxpayer ought to taste to his
hearts content between this and October.


When the frost bites, let the fish bite too:
when the children need their clothes, mend
them when the blood stirs so that mos
quitos find it too stimulating, then labor
may be noble and holy-but, in July, idle
ness is justification without works.


=. The waters in their path rejoice,


The hills together Sleep"


Even the cat by the door drowses away the
day in state of mastery inactivity, and
nobody but printers, editors, and convicts
think that it is just as well always to keep
busy?
Year: 1867

BosroS March Q, 1851.
The down train on the Concord and Manchester m
H. Railroad was thrown on the track yesterday after
noon near the latter city, in consequences Of broken
thrown under OF the cars and 80 badly injured that
ne died shortly afterwards No else Injured
Year: 1867

-Four men were killed and twenty wound
ed in Mobile, and for what reason2 Not
because Judge Kelley uttered radical opin-
ions, but because in Mobile the spirit of Re-
bellion is still unconquered. But the other
day one of her papers boasted that Mobile
was the last city to surrender to the United
States In spirit and intention the riot diff
fered not one whit from any battle of the
war, and probably only want of opportunity
prevented massacre as bloody as that in
New-Orleans. If citizen of the United
States cannot address meeting in Mobile
safely, then Alabama cannot safely be admit
ted to representation in Congress. There is
but one way to decide this difficulty deep
and broad line must be drawn between 10y
atty and treason, such a line as Gen. Sheri-
dan has drawn in louisiana After the ex-
perience of Newt Orleans it is not creditaIle
10 the military government of Alabama that
this riot should have occurred. That Judge
Kelley refused to speak again is not surpris-
ing; he should have been protected at first,
and after SO narrowly escaping with his life,
he has wisely declined to offer himself again
as target to the Rebels of Mobile.-Neo
York Herald.
Year: 1867

We are glad to learn, from q reliable source,
that the rumored removal, by military order, OF
this gentleman as President of the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad, is without foundation.
1t nav be true that certain persons about New
bern, desiring to make their new born "loyalty"
paw have endeavored to effect this object, but we
have no idea that General Sckles will give his
approval to their partizan schemes Wilmington
J0uFnel.


We had not heard of this proposed re-
moval before Mr. Thomas was turned out
of this office on account of his loyalty, and
Mr.. Whitford was put in on account of his
disloyalty. The organization of this Rail
road is bitterly hostile to the national gov
ernment. No truly loyal man can get en-
ployment from this corporation. One of
the main tests for employment and office
under it is, does the applicant sympathize
with the dead Confederacy, and does he hate
the Republican partya


North Carolina, in all its qualifications, is
still substantially under rebel rule These
rebels control every thing. They hold all
the offices, they manage all the corporations
and they have unlimited power to tax oul
people to raise money to be disbursed among
themselves All their interests, and all theil
sympathies and repugnances are, therefore
directly in the way of reconstruction. In
the first place, they do not love the govern.
ment well enough to reconstruct it volunta
rily; and in the second place, they do mo-
want it reconstructed, because they know
that when the work is done they will hav
to walk out of Office, and go to work lik
other people for living.


Our only hope hereafter, as heretofore, i
in the Congress. That body is true to tn
Union and to Liberty and Justice. 1t vii
be obliged, in order to reconstruct the Union
TO ABOLISH THE EXISTING REBEL oRGANIzA
TIoNs. This must be done, or the UnioI
may never be restored. 1t will soon b,
time for the loyal people to move in thi
matter. Congress will re-assemble in July
Let memorials go up by thousands to tina
body, imploring it to deliver us from rebe
rule and thus enable us to restore the Stat
to the Union.
Year: 1867

CoLoRED MEN FOR REaIsTERs.-Informa-
tion from Charleston is to the effect that to
secure fair registration General Sickles is
considering the plan of putting one colorcd
man on many of the boards of registration.
The ex-rebels are using every influence to
prevent this, and so far as possible to get
control of the whole matter.
Year: 1867

A NOBLE SENTiMENT,-I look
with scorn upon the selfish greatness
Of this world, and with pity on the
most gifted aud prosperous in the
struggle for office and power; but |
look With reverence ON the obscure
man who suffers for the right, who is
true to a good but porsccutld cause.