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Year: 1866

A CHEAP AND GOOD SdoKHousE.-
A Western New York farmer publishes
his plan of small, cheap aud yet good
smokehouse, which, as it may contain
some practical hints for our readers, we
append it:


"No farmer should be without good
smokehouse, and such an one as will be
FIRE pooof and tolerably secure from the
theft Fifty hams can be smoked at one
time in smokehonse seven by eight feet
square. Mine is six by seven and is yet
large enough for most farmers / first
dug all the ground out below where the
frost would reach, and filed it up to the
surface with small stones On this laid
my brick floor in lime mortar. The walls
are brick eight inches thick, and seven
feet high, with a door on one side two
feet wide. The door should be made of
wood and lined with sheetiron. For the
top [ put on joists, two by four, set up
edgewise, and eight and half inches
from center to center. covered with brick
and put on a heavy coat of mortar. !
built a small chimney on the top, in the
center, arching it over, and covering it
with a single roof in the usual way. An
arch should be built on the outside, with
a small iron door to shut it up, similar to
a stove door, with hole from the arch
through the wall of the smokehouse, and
an iron CRATE over it. This arch is much
more convenient, and better to put the
fire in, than to build fire inside of the
smokehouse. Good corn-cobs or hickory
wood are the best material to make smoke
for hams. The cost of such a smoke
house as l have described is about $40,
Year: 1866

COUNTY SCHOOL TAx.-In order ia
comply with the requirements of Sec
tion 81 of the new school law, the Su-
pervisors, at their last session, increased
the county tax for school purposes, from
twenty five to thirty-five cents on each
one hundred dollars Of taxable property
If the amount of taxable property in
the county this year is the same as last,
the sum of $6,0lS Is will be paid into
the school fund from this source.
Year: 1866

THE AMERICAN FLAG exceeds
in variety and interest of its
contents any paper west of the
Rocky Mountains. 1t is justly
entitled to the friendship of all
Union men. The press general
ly have accorded it the honor
due to their giant cotemporas'
ry.-Esmeraida Union.
Year: 1866

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The FLAG is TO be trusted as a
true Union paper without deceit
which no motive of interest can
turn from its course and which
cannot be swayed by favor or in
timidated by threat. tits a first
class journal, and ought 10 re-
ceive the hearty support. of the
true Union men of San Francis
CO and the interior.-Stockton
Independent.
Year: 1866

THE AMERICAN
FLAG is the ablest.
truest and most fear
less defender of the
Union cause in this
State. There is no
other paper that can
compare with it in
any respect. 1t is in
dependent ofcliques
cabals and factions:
Nevada Gazette
Year: 1866

PIrrsBuRG.-All work has been suspended
on the Kellinger claim for the present
Twenty tuns of ore from the upper tunnel
was smelted in San Francisco last week, and
If the yield is equal to expectation, work will
be resumed in q short time.


The old Pittsburg mines around the base
of Bully Hill are yielding well wherever
water can be procured. Sanford has struck
good diggings. and the Bamboo Company are
still taking out good pay.
Year: 1866

MANMorH.-This company are carrying on
work vigorously-running the mill, getting
out rock, and sinking shafts. The Mammoth
men have shown good grit and perseverance
in prospecting their claim, and we hope they
may strike it rich
Year: 1866

CONDITIONAL SALE.-The stockholders of
the Crystal ledge, South Fork district, have
effected conditional sale of their mine to a
San Francisco company, The company
agree to prospect the lode until the first of
January, and at the expiration of that time
will either relinquish it to the original own
ers, or pay them the sum of $4,000 and
retain it permanently.
Year: 1866

LAW Montgomery Blair recently
declared in public speech that Judge ADJ
vocate General Holt was guilty of numbering
on innocert woman when Mrs Surratt was
hung. Holt has commenced suit against
Blair for defamation of character, and will
probably learn the old reprobate to be more
careful in his future assertions.
Year: 1866

NEW RoAD.-An effort will soon be made
to build a wagon road from this place to the
South Fork mines. The distance in direct
line is only six miles, and Col. Magee thinks
q good road can be built in seven and half
vns1oS
Year: 1866

RICHARDS & Co.-This firm have done an
incredible amount of blacksmithing and wa
gon making this season, and their shop is
still surrounded with work yet to be finished.
The new buggy just built for DIR. Gutman, of
Horsetown, is as neat and perfectly finished
a vehicle as can be seen anywhere.
Year: 1866

PRouD OF Ir-At the late. Convention d
Southern Unionists, in Philadelphia, Fred.
Douglass was called on to make speech,
and remarked in the course of it " lie was
not in Philadelphia for the purpose of dis
playing himself, but to do his duty toward an
immense constituency-most muitifarious-
such as no other man in the Convention rep
resented. In the first place, he represented
the black race unmistakably-s plainly is
he marked by the curling of his hair and the
flatness of his nose. Then he represented the
white race nor can there be any mistake
about that either, for it was said he had the
blood of one of Maryland's early Governors
in his veins. Then he represented both
races connected, and be could say from per.
sonal experience that there could be no war
of races in one body"
Year: 1866

We congratulate the country upon the
lefeat Of the infamous tariff bill. The For
;EY-STEvENs crew are severely thrown upon
heir backs, and are badly hurt. Blessed are
he poor, for they are 10 longer threatened
gith the tariff bill
Year: 1866

At 46 UNION SQUARE, EAST sIDE SECOND DOOR
u below seventeenth street Second and Third Floors to
let Si.A private table desired desirable location for
Sauheruers spending the summer IN the CITY, References
enchAlgcd
Year: 1866

u A loving widower in San
Francisco insists upon keeping the
corpse of his late wife in the house
with him, and the neighbors object
to it. Recently he took the corpse
out of its coffin, washed it carefully
all over by means Of garden hose,
and replaced it fondly in its coffin.
This was too much for the aforesaid
neighbors, and they appealed to the
Board of Health, which compelled
the love-stricken man to inter his de-
parted matrimonial associate in the
cemetery. A singular illustration of
posthumous affection.
Year: 1866




formed by Sheriff Bird, that having sx-
tended the tune for the payment Of the
State Taxes tor 1866, as far as it was in his
power to do 80, it is important for sll per
sons in this parish owing taxes coming
under said schedule, to come forward
without delay and settle the same.


Mr. Bird has also furnished us with Q
piece of information respecting the State
tax upon cotton, which demands the par
ticular attention of planters. Every bale
of cotton weighing 400 pounds is liable
under the law to State tax Of one dollar.
This tax will be col olectable in January
next. 1t is, therefore, highly important
to planters who are planting on shares
with their hands, to make due and timely
provision for the payment of said tax in
such a manner as will obligate every one
interested in the crop to pay his proper
tion Of said tax, pro rata. Planters should
remember this, SO as to guard against the
contingency of having to pay the whole Of
said tar themselves.
Year: 1866

A FATAL DRINKING WAGER.-A
foolish wager was made at a wine
shop in Paris, which resulted in
death. At breakfast, where the
conversation turned on the quantity
of drink which a person could
take, bricklayer, named Floren-
tine, made a bet that he would drink
twelve glasses of wine while the
clock Of the Tuilleries was striking
twelve. He drank three glasses be-
fore the clock had struck three times.
At the next glass he stopped to
breathe. At the seventh he began
to drink more slowly, but, making
an effort, he drank off the eighth
glass. He then turned very pale,
and breatbed with difficu ty. His
friends wished to stop the wager, but
he SAID be would 90 on, come what
might, aud swallowed the ninth
glass. lie had hardly emptied the
glass when he fell down senseless.
A surgeon was sent for, but in spite
of all his efforts, the foolish man
died in three hours.
Year: 1866

A TELEGRAPH YARN.-A good
story is told Of an ambitious young
man from the country, who, on a
recent visit to Boston, was anxious
to send dispatch over the Atlantic
C4ble-just for the sake of the thing,
Gathering up all bis loose change,
he entered the Boston Office and ex-
pressed his wish. Having written
his message and handed it in, he
laid his "pile" on the counter, ex-
claiming chow far will this money
pay for 2" Quickly running over
the money, the operator replied,
about an inch" The would-be
sender departed sadder and wiser
man.
Year: 1866

g The weather continues bright and
charming. Splendid time this for the cot
ton harvest, and we are glad to hear the
planters, many of them, say, that the crop
is turning out much better than they ex-
pected some few weeks ago. A good
many wagons have been coming into town
laden with cotton and there is good deal
Of it undergoing shipment.
Year: 1866

OUR SENIOR PARTNER who has recently
returned from tour in she North and West.
and just arrived from the City of New Orleans,
begs leave respectfully to inform his friends and
the public generally. that he has se'ected Ane
assortment OF
Year: 1866

lall spacious building within Fortress Monroe
erected originally to accommodate officers on
4uly, pub late4y made noteworthy az the prison.
mouse OF Jefferson Davis A number of men were
engaged in removing the iron bars from the win,
aoWs and making other alterations 10 contribute
10 the comfort Of Mr., Davis His family intend to
Lake up their quarters within the hall A suit of
rooms WlIl be set apart and they will need large
reception parlor to accommodate the visitors.


tions: 0'''


These results have surprised none among us
out that class Of sanguine gentlemen who were
constantly predicting miracles for the salvation of
tne Southern Confederacy during the dark hours
OF It's brief history in rebel war Whether the
radicals will abuse the vast powers which they
now possess, it is yet impossible to conjecture.
They may either insist upon the adoption of the
constitutional amendment as the measure of our
humiliation, or they may discard it and demand
something still more degrading at our hands. But
one course is now open to US which is consistent
with both honor and dignity. We can refuse to
be made parties to the schemes which have been
devised for our degradation. We can thus pre-.
serve that honor which defeat could not take from
US and trust to the healing influences of time and
better counses. But come what may, the South
ern people should enter into no covenant or terms
which will brand them with dishonor. They are
now faithfully obeying the laws and the Consttu-
ton OF the United States; they will do nothing
more.
Year: 1866

ST. LOUIS, May 26.


Resolutions on the state of the country
were adopted by the New School Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, yesterday, which
were quite radical in tone. While the resolu
tions utter no word directly against the Presi-
dent of the United States, they rejoice at the
continued functions of the Freedmen's Bu
reau, and rejoice at the passage of the civil
rights bill, reiterates the position the Assem-
bly, took last year in regard to negro suffrage,
and claim that if the suffrage be not universal
it ought at least to be impartial and declare
that the basis of representation in Congress
should be changed so as to meet exigencies
growing out of the abolition of slavery, and
that neither the National Executive or Con-
gress should adopt any mode of reconstruc-
ton that does not efectually protect all loyal
persons in Southern States, and allege that fol
the vindication of national justice, the chief
fomenter and representatives of the rebellion,
should, by due process of law, be consigned
to punishment. A motion to strike out this
last resolution was lost by decided vote, and
the whole series were passed without a dis
senting voice.
Year: 1866

JEFF. DAVIS TRIAL.-A despatch TO the
Boston Transcript states that the President
Friday night notified Mrs Davis that he had
extended Jeffs parole to the range of the fort.
She then asked whether he was to be tried at
the next term of the court, and the President
is understood to have replied in the negative.
Year: 1866

VINHE great desideratum of this patent consists
l. in its being MADE Of continuous rings or bands,
so that after the meal has been eaten, they be
folded, one within the other, as to make it small
enough to be put into any common coat pocket. At
The bottom of the pail is cell of capacity hold
coffee tea or chocolate sufficient for meal, which
folds within the bands not to add in the least to
the bulk.


In order to be appreciated it must be seen. Per-
SONS going on picnic and pleasure excursions into
tbe country to the Islands, where the comforts of
n dinner table not available will not fail to pur-
chase one as soon they are put on sale. Every
school boy and girl will want one. The mechanic
and the day laborer need no longer be encumbered


The patentees claim this as entirely new and origi


nal and would invite the public generally to call and
nxa,nne the article at the
Year: 1866

we think, by the declaration Of an individual
standing behind US, who remarked, at the close of
the 1876 rGn, 4" He sertny plays a very cluyver
game oy bilyuds."


M. Carme then entertained the company with
specimens of his fancy shots, and some of them
were really wonderful. We cannot undertake to
describe them in detail. 1t may be said, gener-
ally, that he could make ball go anywhere on
the table he wished, and come back in any way he
wanted it. One of his specialities was to play a
ball against cushion, and then taking it on the
rebound shooting it on the wing make it carom
on two others. To make ball describe curve
around hat, placed on the table, and. then csrom
on another ball, seemed very easy matter to
him. He also made the cue ball travel aboutim a
most wonderful way, at one time caroming on the
top of a hat, then again making it jump inside Of
a hat held two feet above the table, then again
caroming on ball placed on the top
Of an empty bottle 1--WE sometimes carom on o
bottle ourselyes;) and finally he drove his cue
ball off the table and made it knock the deep red
off the top of the hat of young gentleman sitting
by the table. After this, the crowd evidently
thought Monsieur Carmo could do whatever he
pleased with the balls, and the crowd was about
right We were in momentary expectation OF
seeing the cue ball on the pale red, then fly
out of the window, then carom on the St Charles
hotel, then come down Graver street and turn into
Camp, then carom on the lamp post opposite the
CRESCENT Office and finally return to the hall after
calling at Sans, and making carom on bottle
of bis old Scotch whisky. Decidedly, Monsieur
Carme knows how to play billiards-and this local
has no idea Of betting any loose change he may
happen TO have in his pocket on anybody whc
may have the temegity to play against him.
Year: 1866

We find the following very beau
tihl extract going the rounds of the
papers, credited TO no paper-no
author. Its exceeding Great beauty
leads us to call special attention To
it. Let the young rcad IL and treas.
ure up the moral II would illustrate
and inculcate il in their hearts:


"Over the beauty of the plum and
the apricot there grows bloom and
beauty more exquisite than the fruit
itself-a soft delicate blush that
overspreads its blushing check
Now, if you strike your hand over
that, and II is once gone it is gone
forever; for it mover grows but
once.


"Tako the flower that hangs in
morning impareled with dew-ar-
rayed as no queenly woman ever
was arrayed with jewels. Once
shake it so that the beads roll off,
and you may sprinkle water on it as
carefully as you please, yet 1t nevor
can be made again what 1t was when
the dew fell silently upon it from
the heaven! ..R


On a frosty morning you may see
the panes Of glass covered with
landscape--mountains, lakes, trees,
blended in a beautiful fantastic
picture. Now lay your hands upon
the glass, an by the scratch Of your
finger, or by the warmth of your
palm, all the delicate tracery will
be obliteratcd. So there is in youth
a beauty and purity of character
which, when once touched and de-
filed can never be restored af'lngo
moro delicate than frost work, and
which, when torn and broken, will
never be rc.embroiderod,


A man who has spotted and
spoiled his garments in youth,
though he may seek to make them
white again, can never wholly do it,
even he to wash them with his tears.
tears. When man leaves his faith
er's house, with the blessings of his
mothers tears still wet upon his
forehead, if he once losese that early
purity Of character, it is loss that
he can never make whole again.
Such is the consequence Of crime
Its effect cannot be eradicated. 1t
can only be forgiven. 1t is n stain
of blood that we never can make
white. ,.
Year: 1866

portanco TO the threats Of the fire.
oaters, or realized the crisis which
was imminent. So IL is to-day
The explosive force of the elements
which are ut work n underestimated'
The possibility Of collision, Of con
flct, of civil war, is not acknowl'
edged. Tho causes which operate
in that direction are passed over as
of no immediate importance, and
tho influences that are most likely
to bring it about are persistently
disrcgarded."


And thus we could 60 on ad mt
nitum in multiplying extracts prov
ing the correctness of the supposi-
ton that the elements Of passions
north are ready to burst out in tho
flame of civil war.


The South has no responsibility,
we again repeat, in this state Of at.
fairs. Her submission was free and
her manly acceptance of the result
of the conf ct in which she had sac
rificed somuch was n marvel ofgood
feeling and moral magnanimity. 1t
was the Radicals of the North who
stepped in to mar the harmony. 1t
was the Northern Radicals that
lighted anew the torch Of discord
and flung it blazing into Congress.
1t is they who have excited the pas
sions and prejudice of the people
into a mutiny against the President,
and they are determined to thwart
and crush at all hazards his wise
and conservativep policy. Upon them
then let all the blame and responsi-
bility rest.-HouSton Journal.
Year: 1866




Gen. Butler spoke in Mozart Hall,
in Cincinnati iew days ago, and
took decided ground in favor Of the
impeachment of the President when
Congress meets next December
He stated the grounds Of impcach,
ment and argued their validity. ITo
also took the ground that so soon as
the House Of Congress presented to
the Senate its articles Of impeach-
ment, the Senate has the power, and
must exercise it, of ordering the
President into confinement. lie al
mtted that this would be likely to
bring on a civil war On this point
he said


1--WE arc told that this will bring
on struggle, Very well. ! am
convinced Of one of two thinga: OIL
thcr that the struggle, if it should
come at all, must come in this way,
or it will be prccipitatcd upon us in
the next Presidential election, when
we come to inaugurate our Presi-
dent-whcn the States still in rebel
lion, if they shall not have accepted
the terms Of Congress to come back,
will cndcavor, by the aid Of their
sympathizcrs Mort !, to foi,t upon
the Northern States a President Of
their choice; and in such Il case it
might not be so clear where exactly
was tho legal right. If | am cor
ie It in my statement of the law Of
impeachment and the form of trial,
the right and form, if right, are
clear. And, therefore, if the trouble
must come, which God forbid, let it
come in March, 1867, not in March,
1869. let us have this thing done
with. This country has been in
turmoil. and trouble, and difficulty
and commotion long enough from
traitors and their sympathizcrs.
Let us settle this question at once
and forever. If Baal be God, let
us serve him-if the Lord God be
God let us serve Him !"


We suppose it will hardly be de-
nicd, after this speech, as the Gin
cinnati Enquirer says that it is tho
intention Of the Radical Congress
next winter to depose the President,
Nor will it be denied that civil war
will follow the attempt. Butler
says let it come. But what. say
the people? What say men of fam
ilics? What say men of property?
What say the holders Of Govern
mcnt securities ? TO avoid this
threatened reign Of terror and
blood, there is bit one way, and
that is to vote down the Radicals at
the polls on the 9Th. II the people
condemn, by their votes. this Radl-
cal programme, the Radicals of
Congress will not dare put it into
exccutio'. Therein lies our only
hope Of future peace But if moth
ing else but little more blood let
ting will satisfy the crazy radicals,
let them have it to their hearts con-
tent. Let every democrat and con-
servative who desires the restora-
ton of the Union, the maintenance
of tho Constitution, the equality Of
the States, prepare themselves with
arms and ammunition 10 sustain the
President if he should stand in
need OF assistance. The President
must be sustained 6r r.
Year: 1866

A correspondence of the Chicago
Times says that during the session
of the 1oyatists Convention at Phil
adelphia, the hotel keepers removed
all small articles from their rooms.
Ben Butler assured his landlord that
he did not intend to do any stealing
during his stay and moreover he
deposited with that person war
rant for one thousand acres of land
in Lower California, as surety for
his good behaviour.
Year: 1866

THE WIDOw.-1n the great an
nual exhibition of picture Of Paris
there is this year portrait Of n la
day, with the simple title Of The
Widow" in the catalogue. There is
terrible story connected with thus
picture, and it is thus related by u
correspondent: "The lady is the
Countess D, who, although
twenty four years Of ago, has been
twice widowed. She is said to be
of humble birth, but when only six
teen years of age her great beauty
attracted the attention of the Mar


quis de D, who married her.
On leaving the church, however,
the Marquis ives assassinated by
some obscure ritual, and the lady
was left q widow with an immense
fortune. The Countess retired TO a
convent, where she remained until
her twentieth year. She then made
O journey to various parts Of Europe,
and visited among other places,
St. Petersburg, where one of the
most wealthy boyards of Russia
placed at her feet his heart, his dia


monds, and his millions. The mar
riage was celebrated in the house of
the bridegroom's mother, in remote
parte of Russia, some distance from
her own estate. The newly mar
ried couple left for their new home
in a magnificent sleigh. On the
way they were attacked by the
wolves, and the Count, in trying TO
defend his bride, made false step,
fell out of the sleigh into the snow,
and was Immediately devourcd by
the wolves. The horses, mad with
terror, dashed off with immense
speed, and did not stop till they ar
rived at the Counts chataau, which
was brilliantly illuminated for the
reception of the pewlymarried cou-
rle." 5 Il ....
Year: 1866

SIMPLE MODE OF COMPUTING In.
TEREsT,-New method Of ofcomputing
interest on any number of dollars at
six per cent, appears very simple


Multiply any given number of dol
lars by the number of days interest
desired, separate the right hand
figure, and divide by six; the result
is the true interest Of such number
of days, at six per cent. This rule
is so simple and sure, according to
all business usages, that every bank
er, broker, merchant, or clerk,
should post it up for reference and
use. There being no such thing as
a fraction in it, there is scarcely any
liability to err or mistake. BY no
other mathematical process can
the desired information be obtained
with so few figures. .,