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Year: 1866

1t is strange that intelligent men and women
pay SO little attention to healthy diet. Fashion
Dictates and deluded, weak k-minded persons would
rather be out of the world than out of fashion |
suppose everybody knows it is not fashionable to
use boiled wheat for will venture to say that one
fourth OF the civilized world has never seen this
article used on the table. Life is wasted away
with fine bread, toasts and puddings, and, finally,
when 1t is too late, hypophosphite is recommen-
ded to restore health and strength All this tror-
BILE would be unnecessary if we would use plenty
of boiled wheat


Some persons bear acquaintance, and after you
once know them fully you always love them so it
is with boiled wheat, after you once learn to eat
1t, you always ik it. My husbands eyes always
twinkle and look bright, when La sees the above
named article on the table, and he says, when
through eating &C Maria, what q good healthy
meal this was have it oftener dear, and plenty
of it," ....


Perhaps not every farmers wife knows how to
prepare this healthy dish. The wheat should bc
cracked in mill. Take one quart and put into
half a pot OF warm water, and let it stand upon
the stove several hours then boil it slowly, and
stir it occasionally, till it becomes thick put in
handful of SALT For children it can be used with
milk. If left standing till cool, it is very nice to
cut in slices, and use with cream and sugar or fry
it like mush the last mentioned prefer for gen
eral use, but it can be prepared in variOns ways.


Almost every mother knows how small children
suffer with summer complaint; learned my babe
to eat boiled wheat when only year old, and i
thought it almost cure for this disease, and it al
ways makes her good -natured. So much do / no.
tice the good effect, that prefer giving her boil
ed wheat instead of severe treatment, to make her
good little girl. I used to be very nervous--my
physician said my main diet must be boiled wheat;
and have become entirely rid OF that weakness
consider it equal in taste to boiled rice and
healthier diet; and, by experience, know its con-
slant uso would save many big doctors bills.


Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1866

/ JUDGE CLEMENT G. CLAY.-This gentleman, now
confined at Fortress Monroe, was on Tuesday,
granted the privilege of the entire fortress during
the day time. This privilege came to him unex-
pectedy, and from which entities it to the
highest respect of the officers of the garrison. 1t
will render his Imprisonment less disagreeable and
tedious and it has excited great g many inquiries
there are rumors at Old Point that the release of
Mr.. Clay might be soon looked for, but of course
time can only prove their truth.


|. President Davis still remains under the same
rigid course of Imprisonment adopted shortly al
ter his Incarceration
Year: 1866

A GREAT ICE BRIDGE--The ice bridge over the
Niagara river at the foot of the American Fails
still remains intact and is crossed daily by hun


dreds of people at the point known as '-Ihe Fer,
~" The ire in the river between the Falls and
Suspension Bridge could be measured by the mil
hon cords, and it is estimated that the river Will
not lie clear before the middle of May.
Year: 1866

GRAND CoNcERr-On to morrow, (Satur.
day evening, a grand concert will be given
at LIE Claire Hall under the auspices Of Prof
Fargo, one OF the best musical instructors in
the Western country. The Chorus Club
will consist Of upwards Of hundred Of
the be st singers in the city. This promises
TO be one Of the rarcst musical treats that
has ever been offered to our citizens in this
section No one should neglect being pres.
Year: 1866

MAKE A NorE. AT No. II, West Second
street, Mas 4 Mayer keep constantly on
hand a fine assortment of ready made
clothing, in the sale Of which they can
compete with any opposition. Those need
ing an ything in their line will please make
. note.
Year: 1866

READY MADE CLornING-For anything
in the line of ready made clothing. call on
r. krausc' opposite the First National
Bank on Second street. He is furnihin,
the public with excellent goods, and at rates
as low as can be afforded elsewhere in the
CITY, Give his srock an examination.
Year: 1866

Eg- The Radicals, who are at heart in
favor of negro suffrage, but dare not openly
avow it, are now endeavoring to whip the
the devil around the stump, and accomplish
the same result by deception and chicanery
This they do by advocating an Amend
thent to the Constitution, basing represen-
tation solely upon white inhabitants.


This amendment, which has received
the vote of every Radical in Congress
Sumner, Wade, Stevens, Creswell and
Frank Thomas among them-has been
made plank in the platform of the party
in this State-has been sanctioned in State
and County Conventions, and in district
meetings. The party are therefore commit
ted to it beyond retreat, and we accept the
issue and will flight it out on that line
before the people.


This amendment is "a snake in the
grass" of the most dangerous character.
In some future article we shall endeayor
to "smoke OUT his snakeship and exhibit
to the reader his fangs which lay concealed
behind this proposed amendment.
Year: 1866

EyKeep it before the people that the
party styling itself tho Unconditional
Union party, are the only party making
conditions for the restoration of the Union,
and that therefore their claim to the title
is a fraud and false pretensc. .


Keep it before the people, that the ques,
tion of negro suffrage and not rebel suf-
frage is the issue now before the people
of Maryland. '.. " ..st .s:.I3. .r


Keep it before the people, that if negro
suffrage is forced upon the States lately
in Rebellion as condition to their restor-
alton, that they may in turn join with the
Radicals and force it upon the people Of
this State.
Year: 1866

Somebody must do the voting in the
South. Who shall it be? asks cotem-
porary. Shall it be white men or negroes
The Democracy are in favor of leaving the
control of the whole country in the hands
of the white race; their opponents would
transfer large portion of it to the man.
agemert of the ignorant blacks. Which
policy shall prevail? 1t is for the people
to say at the coming elections. We think
we know what will be the answer of the
honest masses of the North. Having an.
initiated the rebellion, they will not show
themselves so cowardly as to fear those
they have beaten in battle. They will
trust the white race of the South, and af-
filate with them rather than with the ignor.
ant and degraded negroes whom the wal
has set free. The Republican leaders can
never succeed in making this government
half black. The decent white men of the
North will utterly refuse to countenance
any souh infamous design, and will set the
seal of condemnation on the men who by
their votes in Congress have shown them.
selves ready to force it upon the country
The issue is fairly made up and the Radi.
Gals cannot blind the masses by bitter ap.
peals to the prejudice that existed against
the rebels. No man is so ignorant as no,
to know that the Southern States must
very speedily become in all respects con.
stituent part of the Government of the
United States. The question is, who shall
rule, and do the voting? What says Mary.
land? The first Tuesday of November
will tell. Shall the ruling race be black
or white? Each voter must answer for
himself.
Year: 1866

ES' The new Freedmen's Bureau Bill
which the Radicals have put through the
House by vote of ninety-six to thirty
four is as Objectionable as the one vetoed
by President johnson. Should it pass the
Senate there can be no doubt it would be
summarily vetoed. That would kill it, as
there is no likelihood that it could be put
through over tho veto. Only after politi-
cal passions have subsided will the people
of this country realize fully how much
they are indebted to the frmness, the pa
triotism and the wise craftsmanship Of
President johnson.
Year: 1866

The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger says:


"PREsroS KING-lt is not generally
known to the public that this man was for
time an incubus at the White House, and
he was made the Collector at New York
Harbor to get him out of the way. But
fAW understand why he committed suicide;
but there are those who have an idea why
he committed the act. 1t was no doubt,
his conscience. 1t was Preston King who
kept Miss Surratt from seeing the Presi-
dent on the morning of her mothers ex-
ecution. The President knew nothing OF
her being at his door steps in agonizing
tears, to ask the stay of the law for one
short day. Old King kept the President
from knowing what was going on, and, af.
ter the execution, it becoming so apparent
that the condemned was innocent Of
completely with the real murdercrs, tha,
1t narrowed up his soul. In fact he haG
no peace after her death, AMI becoming
desperate, under the lash of conscience
he committed suicide. Have the others
who bounded this poor woman on to til,
gallows, got conscience We believe the,
have, and know they must suffer bite,
stings' ........,
Year: 1866

Efy" AT hotel table at Meridian, Miss
Union soldier arose and kindly waited
upon one armed Confederate soldier who
could not help himself very WE'LL The
attention was naturally and delicately paid
and gratefully received, and it made de-
cided impression upon the other guests
The Meridian Messenger, which relates the
incident says:


"Tbe spirit of that one gray haired Fed
eral soldier would do more toward recon
Cling the North and South than any spirit
which has ever invaded the room where
the Committee of Fifteen hold their ses-
sions, and pump all sorts of stories out Of
all sorts of witnesses.
Year: 1866

re a party of Radicals from this neigh
borhood who are endorsers of the Civil
Rights Bill" recently visited Martinsburg
toprosecute suit for the recovery of a
horse or the value thereof, when they were
slightly quized by the introduction of three
negro witnesses by their opponent. They
hardly supposed that their favorite theory
would so soon be used against them to their
disadvantage. AS you SOW so shall you
reap.
Year: 1866

Green Clay Smith, distinguished SOL
dler in the Federal army during the war,
and now member of the House of Repre-
sentatlves, wearied out with the perpetual
clamor of the Republican leaders about ne
gro loyalty, gave his views upon that sub
lcet in recent speech in these words:


l happened to sec myself in the field
colorod men who were volunteers in the
rebel service; who were captured with arms
IN their hands; and who confessed that
they had gone into the rebel service Of
their own accord. have seen in the city
of Washington since | have had the honor
of being member of Congress, black men
whose whole sympathies were with the
South, and | must say in opposition to the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Kelly
that do not feel like hanging these men
of dark complexion who have voluntarily
gone into the rebel army as privates. |
wish to forgive them. Yet these men, as
black as the ace of spades, went into the
rebel army of their own accord to fight a.
galnst the government and against you,
and yet you would not hang one of them,
while you would hang the white men who
volunteered as they did to go into the
rebelarmy.
Year: 1866

Gf7'We wish all to remember that sub
sc"isaio"s TO this paper must invariably be
paid in advancc-that no paper is sent from
the Office until paid for. From these terms
we shall not deviate for high or low, rich
or poor, friend or foe. kith or kin.
Year: 1866

Eg-A meeting of negroes has been held
in New York to agitate for Negro Suffrage.
The same thing is being accomplished in
Marylandbym maintaining the Registry Law.
Room is being made at the polls for the
negro by keeping white men away.
Year: 1866

SAN FRANcIsco Cusron HousE.-The Bav
papers are full Of eulogium on the new Col
iector, General Miller, who has introduced
numerous happy reforms in the Custom House.
Positions are now awarded on account Of merit,
and not on party grounds. In acting thus, it
is said the General is only following the in.
structiors of President Johnson, who is carrying
out the same principle on q more extended
scale The country cannot but profit by this
new mode of management
Year: 1866

The Paris correspondent Of an English paper
processes to have discovered the object of Gen.
eral Scho6eld's mission, and says be is in
structed to purchase an island in the Mediter-
ramean for the establishment of an American
depot and dock yard This story is said to
create much alarm among people who do not
wish to see . formidable demonstration of our
naval power in the Mediterranean.
Year: 1866

has been diminished to less than fifty
housanG. the war is over, bat the Un


ion is not restored Did war restore the
Union Let every soldier and every Of
ticer answer If war restored the aUnion,
what were they doing here advocating
the Presidents policya They all did
their duty like brave men. 1t was no
fault of theirs that their work did not re-
store the Union. They broke down the
armed hostility to the Federal Govern
ment, and it was because, in the eternal
nature Of things, by decree Of the Onn1-
potent God force could not cement a Un-
ion made by consent, that the Union was
not restored and now the entire Demo
cratic party is where it has always been
and every soldier and offices who fought
! in that war should come forward and
unite with ihe Democratic party in seek
ing to acon, plish through the ballot the


work that war conld not accomplish.
Year: 1866

A German forest keeper, eighty years


Old, not wishing TO carry to the grave
with him al Important secret, has pub
lished in the Leipsic Journal a receipt he
has used for fifty years, and which he says,


has saved several men and a great mum ber


of animals from a horrible death by hy


ldrophobia. The bite must be bathed as soon
as possible with warm vinegar and water,
and when this has dried, g few drops OF
1muriatic acid poured or the wound viii! de
stroy the poison OF saliva. and relieve the
patient from all present or future danger.
Year: 1866




William Cullen Bryant geve the follow
ing excellent advice 70 young man who
offered him an article for the Evening Post


My young friend, observed that you
have used several French expressions in
your article. thing ifyou will study the
English language, that you will End it ca
pable of expressing all the ideas that You
may have. have always found it so, and
n all that have written do not recall an
instance when was tempted to use for
eign word, but that, on searching, found
a better one 10 my own language.


1.-The only true way to shine even in this
false world, is to be modest and unassuming.
Falsehood may be very THICK crust, but
in the course OF time will find place to
break through. Elegance Of language may
not be in the power of all of US, but SIM
plicity and traightforwardness are.


Be simple, unaffected; be honest IN
your speaking and writing. Never use q
long word when short one will do. Call
spade not well-known oblong instrument
of manual industry; let home be a home,
not residence place place, not To-.
cality, and SO of the rest. Where short
word will do. you always lose by using a
bUHS Uu6s w tOoC III CICAiuCooY SOu iOSo
in honest expression of your meaning aud
in the estimation Of oil men who are COM
petent to judge, You lose in reputation for
ability.


"Write much as you would speak speak
as you think II with your inferior, speak
no coarser than usual if with your supe-
rior, speak no finer. Be what you say, and
within the rules of prudence. No one ey-
er was gamer by singularity OF words or
pronunciation, The truly wise man will so
speak that no one will observe how he
speaks. A man may show great knowledge
Of chemistry by carrying about bladders Of
strange gases to breathe, but he will enjoy
better health and find more time for Lnsi.
ness who lives on common cir.


"Sidney Smith once remarked. After
you have written an article, take your pen
and strike out half Of the words, and you
will be surprised to see how much stronger
it is."
Year: 1866

We clip the following article from an ex7
change 1t is true and We commend it TO
every man who has an interest where he
resides:


Nothing is more common than to hear
folks talk OF what they pay for newspapers
for advertising &c, as so much given in
charity.


Newspapers by enhancing the value Of
property in their neighborhood, and giving
the localities in which they are published
a areputation abroad, benefit all such, partic
ularly il they are merchant or real estate
owners, thrice the amount yearly. of the
meager sum they pay for their support.
Besides, very public spirited citizen has
a laUdable pride in having paper of which
heis not ashamed, even If he should pick it
up in New York or Washington


A good looking thriving sheet helps to
sell property, gives character to the locality,
and in ell respects is q desirable public con
yenience. Iffrom any cause, the matterin
the local or editorial columns should not be
quite up to your standard, do not cast it
aside and pronounce it of no account, un-
Ill you are satisfied that there has been no
more labor bestowed upon it than has been
paid for, If you want good readble
sheet it must be supported. And it must
not be supported in spirit of charity eth
er, but because you feed necessity to sup
port it, The local press is the " power
that moves the people, "-NesoI York 4rib-
unP
Year: 1866




Our first era in life is under the influence
Of primitive feelings; we are pleased and
we laugh hurt and we weep we vent our
little passions the momentthey are excited !,
aud SO much of novelty have we to preceive
that We have little leisure to reflect. BY
and.by, fear teaches us TO restrain our feel
ings when displeased we seek 10 revenge
the displcasure, and are punished we fnd
the excess of our JOY, our sorrows, our an
ger, alike considered criminal, and chide in
to restraint. From harshness we become
acquainted with deceit the promise made
is not fulfilled, the threat not executed, the
fear falsely excited, and the hope wilfuly
disappointed, We are surrounded by sys-
tematized delusion, and mbibe the conta-
gion. From being forced into concealing
the thoughts which we do conceive, we
begin to affect those which we do not so
eagerly do we learn the two main tasks Of
life, the suppress and to feint, that our
memory will not carry us beyond hat peri
cd of arti6ce to state Of nature, when the
two twin principles of veracity and belief
were so strong as to lead the philosophers
of a,modern school into the error of ternl-
ing them iDuate.
Year: 1866

Our Office, besides one of Hoes best Power
Presses, is furnished with good Job Press and
all the necessary materials for executing plain
and fancy Job Printing with neatness and dis
no oh
Year: 1866

The local editor of the Montezuma Iowa
Republican appears to have a great horror
of cats and admiration for the style of Poe S
Raven" Witness the following poetic
effusion:


The other night while we lay musing and
our weary brain confusing o er the topics of
the day, suddenly we heard rattling, as of
serious hosts battling, as they mingled in
the fray What is that?" we cried up
starting, and into the darkness darting slap!
we ran against the door. ''Oh, it's moth
ing. Edward grumbled as O er huge
arm chair we stumbled, tbs a bug and
nothing more" Then said we our anger
rising, (for we thought it so surprising that
bug should thus offend t-.Do you think
a small insect, sir, thus would all the air in
feet. sir! No, It's not bug, my friend y
Now, becoming sorely frightened, round
our waist our pants we frightened, and Put on
our coat and hat-when into the darkness
peering, we saw with trembling and much
fearing the glaring eyes of Thomas Cat.
With sstonishment and wonder we looked
upon this sort of thunder, as he sat upon
the hoor-when resolution taking, and a
rapid movement making, 10, we opened
wide the door Now clear out, we
hoarseiy shouted, as o 'er our head our boot
was f1outed, Take your presence from my
floor" Then with air and mein majestic
this dear creature called domestic, made his
exit through the door, Made his exit with
out growing neither was his voice howl
ing. not single word he said And with
feeling much elated to escape doom so ia
ted, we went back to bed.
Year: 1866

to bit of tolerably level ground. But
rough or smooth, on good metaled road,
or in mud up to the axel, our driver is
always master of the situation, and we
refuse to think that an accident is among
the possibilities Of the journey, These
American drivers are quiet and self
possessed, where an English stage-coach-
man--assuming any of the species are.
extant-would give mp the whole concern
as lost.
Year: 1866

A DOWNFALL IN PRICEs.-There was
a general depression in the wholesale
market, at New York, last week, ex-
cept in some descriptions offlour, where
the price was kept up on account of the
short supply. The decline in cotton
was especially marked on account of
continued large receipts and unfavora-
BILE news from Europe, and during the
week was about five cents pound,
equal to two millions of dollars on the
stock held in the city. Corn declined
five cents bushel, amounting to two
hundred thousand dollars on the sup
ply held by the dealers. Wheat de-
clined from three to six cents bushel,
and nearly ono hundred thousand
bushels were sold during the week.
Most other. branches of trade showed
great duIlness if not actual decline in
prices, and it looks as though dealers
would have to make IL material conces-
sion before disposing of their stocks.
We trust the lower prices will rule long
enough for the retail markets to feel the
depression so that customers may get
some benefit from it; but this takes n
good while, and it is not best to count
on a general fall in prices just yet.
Year: 1866

A BRIDGE ACROSS FRArHER RIVERA
bridge across Feather river at Oroville is an
improvement demanded by our increasing
trade, and by the increasing business of the
people OF the county at large. Especially in
the Winter session. during which there are
frequent periods when the ferryboats cannot
run. the necessity of bridge is most felt
There could be DO better natural location for
bridge than we have Oh Feather river at the
upper part Of town. The river is very narrow,
and is confined on this side By an imperishable
wall of high bedrock, which forms the bluff.
ledge of bed rock also divides the river into
two channels, and affords solid basis for
pier to support the middle Of the structure.
On the opposite side of the river, a high gravel
bluff near the rivers edge, offers an enduring
foundation for bridge 1t is estimated that
a double-track covered bridge could be built
across the river at this point, for $4,000. As
an individual or company enterprise, no better
investment could be found the bridge would
pay for itself in a year or two, aud would be
paying institution for generations. Who will
take stock?