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Year: 1872

A dealer inquired Of an attache
of this Office the other day if ne sup
posed it would offend rs If he were
to send us a few bottles Of vine 70
our sanctum. The answer brought
the wine, but for fear the impression
has become too wide spread, We
want to say right here that we are
generally mighty hard to make
mad. When no insult IS intended,
s bottle or even a half aozen bottles
of wine might be sent at any time
without any fears whatever, and
our fighting editor, IN such cases,
Away allows sufficient time for tast-
ing and explanations.
Year: 1872

In transmitting to you this, my fourth
annual message, II Is with thRnkfulneSs TO
the GiVer of all good that, as q nation, we
have been blessed for the past year with
peace at home, peace abroad, and Q gen.
eral prosperity vouchsaled to but few
Year: 1872

ground whatever Was found nor .
single circumstance discovered up
on which such charge could be
based That calumny has gone
the way of the rest. But l have no
not time to follow them all.
Year: 1872

The following is what the Cincin-
natl Trade List thinks of the char
acters who complain of their coun
ty paper and instead of helping to
support it, send off for large city
papers, and thus help TO sustain
them:


"a gentleman writes to us that
his country paper is so poor that
he has stopped taking it, therefore
sends us three dollars for the Trade
List. We repeat that we don't
want subscribers on those terms.
A mans county paper is worth
more to him than any other paper
in the world, or if it is not, it is his
own falt. If the county paper is
properly encouraged, it may be re-
lied upon for information of more
value to the people In whose inter
est it is issued than can be found in
all the city papers in the United
States. No man can afford TO stop
the paper that publishes the official
advertisements Of his county, the
public sales, market, court news and
other local intelligence. Ii the pa
per is poor the people are more at
fault than the publishers, for liberal
patronage will always make a good
paper However poor the country
paper may be, it is always worth
more than it costs to those interest
ed in the affairs OF its locality"
Year: 1872

We seem to have struck one OF
those streaks of bad luck which
sometimes overshalows the for
tunes of the most skillful and de-
serving. No matter what we hold,
the Radicals have just enough to
beat it. New jerseys two little
pair turned out neither more nor
less than Missouri's three little
aces, We thought we had q full
hand in Tennessee and a flush, at
least, in Alabaina-and so we did
have-but the showdown proves
them to be not worth a cent. The
raise we made on Indiana cost us all
we had won and q little more be-
sides. We had slipped Virginia in
our sleeve and hid Arkansas under
the table. But it's no use. They
beat us holding, teat us drawing,
and beat us playing. 1t is evident
~ not our moon. We had a siekly
hope that by hanging on things
might brighten. But the news this
morning is no better in one sense
and considerably worse IN another.
The best we can do is to jump the
game and try our luck some other
time. "Partner they've got u.s.
Coarier- Journal.
Year: 1872

AS the time for burning coal has
come, and most people want to
economic as much as possible, the
advice of the London Spectator
might be of some practical benefit:
The most practical suggestion yet
made toward economy OF coal seems
to be the use of solid bottoms in or
dinary fire CRATES. It's proved that
in any eplace not excessively
small a plate of iron placed upon
the CRATE viii halve the coEsump-
tion Of coal, reduce the smoke, and
leave a cheerful, free burning fire.
quite sufficient ai- enters through
the bars, no poking is necessary,
aud the fire never goes out ills the
coal is consumed.
Year: 1872

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is outand unpaid, and that yoU
are requested to pay mp ut once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit TO our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will pay expenses, and we
are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such 8
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor


Is We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1872

CHINESE LADIEs-The Chinese ladies
are as much slaves of fashion as Western
ladies. The higher classes of Chinese la
voices; that it is not polite to speak above
a certain tone. They are always studying
attitudes and effects before their mirrors
for hours at time, just like ours, and they
bandage their feet for the same reason
that our girls cramp theirs, and tighten
their waist in order to produce elegance
and gentility of form (?) In fact, small
feet mean style and beauty in China, and
it would be hard to find the American
girl who would not walk on her head if
that was necessary to "style" among us.
Chinese ladies, of the upper classes, are
exceedingly agreeable in their manners.
There is only the same sense of restric-
tion that there is in the presence of a
Fifth Avenue lady. They are much more
polite than our ladies in some respects !;
they always offer you a cup of tea and
something to eat Anything that is pref
ty and useless is encouraged for women
there just as it is with US, and precisely
for the same reason-because wealthy men
will not marry them if they have large
1eet and hands, coarse compilations, and
look as if they were accustomed to labor
There is no difference in reality between
the civilization" of the West and the
" barbarism" of the East. In both cases,
the high-class lady prides herself upon her
helplessness, upon how little she knows,
and how little she can do; and the more
helpless they are the better men like them(?)
in America as well as in China.
Year: 1872

ABOUT SMoKING.-The merits and demer-
its of tobacco have been discussed over and
over again. Not even the frequent sight
Of cigar or pipe in the mouths of boys
not yet in their teens can suggest any
thing new. Accepting the practice of
smoking as stubborn fact, the query is
seriously made whether those who indulge
in it do not abuse the privileges which
this free country gives. There is no law
against smoking in the streets, nor, limit
edly, on steamboats, or on our city cars.
But how often are ladies in our crowded
thoroughfares nauseated by an inveterate
smoker who is walking before them, re-
gardless that every puff is blown directly
into the faces of the unfortunate beings,
who often vanly attempt to pass before
him. Will thoughtful gentleman stand
putting his cigar on the front platform OF
car, when the clouds OF smoke roll back
through open windows aud doors, to the
annoyance and disgust of every passenger
There are rules pertaining to good man.
ners and ordinary politeness which the
truly well-bred man seldom forgets, even
in public places, and when among strang-
erS.
Year: 1872

The Postmaster-General has reversed
his former decision as to the class of postal
matter in which engravings, chromos, ETC.,
should properly be placed. Hereafter all
such matter may be sent by mail at the rate
Of one cent for each two ounces, and in
packages weighing less than four pounds.
1t will be remembered that the former de-
cision was to the effect that art publications
were not printed matter" within the mean
ing Of the statute. The reversal of the form
er opinion was produced by the joint efforts
of the art dealers of Boston, New York and
Philadelphia, but the largest share of the
benefit will be reaped by the small dealers
who order by mail, and the thousands of
country purchasers who receive art pubIica-
tions in the same way.
Year: 1872

LOOSE RnYMEs-An individual in this
city writes to us as follows Will you
please tell me if there is any word which
rhymes with loosed?' / am very anxious
to know, and cannot think of any myself"
We are somewhat indisposed to help this
miserable being, because we are morally
certain that he is Matching out some kind of
a terrific poem, with which he intends to
torment newspaper editors who never did
him any harm. We will give him what as
sistance we can, however, with the express
understanding that he is to commit suicide
as soon as he gets it. There are only few
words which rhyme with loosed." One of
these is boost" But that word should be
used carefully. 1t would not appear to ad-
vantage in tender love poem, or in lines
upon the death of a very dear friend. 1t is
in some sense humorous word, and it
would of course be very appropriate in a
comic poem. If our young friend contem-
plates writing comic poem, we should like
to have early information of the fact, so that
he can be dispatched at once, before he
perpetrates the outrage. We will brain
him ourselves with an axe, In order to save
the human race from such misery. The word
+" roost rhymes pretty well with "loosed, y
but it, too, requires careful manipulation.
Suppose, now, you were writing a hymn,
and you jammed in the word roost be-
cause you were crazy to find rhyme for
''loosed," and that hymn should be placed
in church collection, it would cause dis
graceful merriment in the sanctuary, and the
Sunday-school boys would laugh, and have
fights with the sexton when he tried tn mt
them out. Therefore we recommend the
word "sluiced," which would work very
well in sentimental poem; or reduced .
which would suit labor poem on the eight
hour system or noosed," which might an
swer for poetic description of an execu-
ton; or refused" which, although rather
rickety as rhyme, would exactly describe
the condition of the completed poem the
very minute it got into an ditor's hands,
Figaro.
Year: 1872

The dead are like the stars by day,
Withdrawn from mortal eye,
Yet holding unperceived their way
Through the unclouded sky.
BY them, through holy hope and love,
We feel, in hours serene,
Connected with the world above,
Immortal and unseen.
For death his sacred seal has set
On bright and bygone hours;
And they we mourn are with us yet,
Are more than ever ours
Ours by the pledge Of love and faith,
BY hopes of heaven on high;
BY trust, triumphant over death,
In Immortality.
Year: 1872

TAXING A SwEAr.-A Michigan paper
tells an amusing story Of a minister of that
State who took an old-fashioned sweat. and
was wrapped up in an old-fashioned patch
quilt Of many colors. In due course Of time
he walked up to find himself all over spotted
blue, black and purple. Believing that NOR
titication had already set in. he began to set
tie up his earthly accounts and prepare for
his final dissolution, while the members of
the flock gave themselves up to uncontrol-
liable grief The arrival of physician and
the examination Of the faded quilt gave an
other explanation of the spots, and turned
the house of mourning into one of laughter.
Year: 1872

A new danger threatens society. An
eminent French chemist announces that
many of the new evening silks are covered
with picrate Of lead, and are therefore liable
to tremendous explosion at any moment.
1t would be terrible thing, while waltzing
with lady, to have her suddenly blow up.
Year: 1872

A sensible New York judge said in
recent case when three thousand dollars
damages were awarded, 1t is as much the
duty Of the vehicle to keep out of the way
of pedestrians, as it is for the latter to es-
cape being run over by the former. There
fore, drivers have no right to monopoize
the privileges of the streets as they now do,
and foot passengers should make them uu-
derstand the fact by few legal experiences.
Year: 1872

The hotel-proprietors Of Berlin and other
German cities have issued pamphlet for
the purpose Of proving that it iseheaper to
live at their taverns than at those Of any
other country in Europe.
Year: 1872

The French Government have Just
handed overto Switzerlandthe hand
some sum of two millions of francs.
which is about half the debt incurred


in maintaining Bourbakis army
during its sojourn on Swiss Territory
Year: 1872

The New York Tribune persists in calling the
Opposition to the Republican party, "Liberalp.' -
We do not understand at all, that the Demo-
Gratis have adopted or express any readiness to
accept that name, and the pretense that there
is party thus called seems like the chimera OF
a defeated mans brain
Year: 1872

The license Laws for the sale Of liquor are
worthless-and worse than that-if they are not
resoutely enforced. The Grand Jury find Il at
much of the increase Of crime is due to causes
connected with them, and that the prosecutions
against persons selling without license greatly
swells the immense lists of indictments laid be-
fore them
Year: 1872

RAILROAD LANDs.-The Shasta COuT-
ier of last week has the following " We
are advised by an officer of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company that an asso-
citation of Eastern and European capital
lists are negotiating for the purchase of all
the odd sections of land which may fall
to the Company in Shasta county, said
association having in view the settlement
of these lands by Eastern and European
colonists. The same parties, in the event
of making this purchase, propose to con-
struct canals taking water out OF living
streams for the irrigation of said lands.
In case this sale is made and canals dug,
it will be big thing for Shasta county.
1t will add greatly to our population, as
sessment roll and general prosperity and
there is every assurance thai the sale will
be made as soor as certain monetary pre-
liminaries are arranged with certain par
ties in Liverpool and New York, although
the actual transfer will not be made tor
some time TO come"
Year: 1872

GOVERNOR b. GRATZ Brown has writ
ten IA letter of acceptance of the Liberal
Republican nomination for Vice Presi-
dent. 1t is a somewhat lengthy review
and cordial endorsement of the Cincin.
natl platform, the greater portion being
devoted TO the amnesty question. Brown,
furious advocate Of General Amnesty
now, entertans very different opinions
from Brown few years ago. As early
as 1863 he urged disfranchisement in
Missouri on this ground


4" 1t is not within the thought of this
nation and this people that they who have
engaged in this resistance and rebellion,
whether openly in arms or stea,thily by
device. and talsehood, shall ever in the
future have the means OF controlling OuI
institutions or shaping our policies. Fran.
chtSe is not for Such-cdnit0t be for Such
-Vtu not be for such"


When the Constitution was framed, he
was strongly opposed to many features in
it, but waved everything in consideration
of disfranchisement. AS late MS 1866 he
wrote


" l need scarcely say that I am one OF
those who have from the beginning be-
lieved that the loyal and unloyal can
never live in Missouri together, and the
latter must be forced to depart, and
believe that registration is the only mode
that will accomplish it,"


Oh, Consistency, thou jewel, hast thou
fled from the face of the earth, and like
Truth taken up thine abode at the bottom
of well ? Greeley the fierce Protec-
tionist," the candidate of the Revenue
Reformers, and Brown, the champion OF
DisfranchiSement in Missouri, now the
representative of General Amnesty. 1t
is the very sublimity of absurdity, and as
ridiculous as it is absurd.
Year: 1872

SUMNER has made malignant attack
upon the President in four hours speech
and this at the close of the session when
the time of the Senate was most valuable.
The Massachusetts Senator presents the
not unusual spectacle of great talents
Joined with arrogant egotism and petu-
liant temper so AS 10 render them worse
than useless to him and the country
During the whole of his Senatorial career
Sumner has been little else than cen.
serious critic of others. 1t has not been
his part to offer kindly advice, but on the
contrary his opinions are dictated in the
tone of master. For his friends he has
no word OF praise, but towards his oppo-
nents his tongue is stepped in gall and
bitterness. He is not now, never was and
never will be in sympathy with his col.
leagues or the people. II this is states
manship we want none of it.
Year: 1872

THE S. +. Commercial says: "There
seems to be a strong disposition on the
part of several banking establishments
to embrace the gold note system in their
operations, being melted thereto by the
comparatively moderate rate of interest
obtainable, which renders the six per
cent. interest allowed on gold notes val
liable consideration. The larger institu-
tions are restrained from going into this
business because no one bank is permit
ted to have a circulation of over one mil
lion. A very decided change has occur
red in public opinion in reference to this
kind of paper money. At first they were
generally received with something like
distrust and doubt, but they have now
become so popular that the First Gold
Note Bank of San Francisco is compelled
to send out and purchase its own notes,
its supplies having been exhausted. They
are particularly acceptable to farmers
and country dealers, and are in request
by parties from the East, who find coin
rather Embarrassing to their unaccustomed
fingers"
Year: 1872

A CENTER SHOT.--The Worcester
(Mass.) Spy says Horace Greeley has
professed to oppose General Grant on the
ground that, in his view, no President
should hold the Office longer than one
term. Such ground of opposition had
not occurred to him sixteen months ago,
when he himself proposed to have Gen
eral Grant nominated for second term,
January 5, 1871, at a political meeting in
New York city, he delivered a speech in
which he praised the Administration
and uttered these words While assert
ing the right Of every Republican to his
untrammeled choice of candidate for
next President until a nomination is
made, venture to suggest that General
Grant will be far better qualified for that
momentous trust in 1872 than he was in
1861 Men call Mr.. Greeley honest, and
we don't believe he has ever been thief.
But is it honest to talk as he does now of
the one term device and forget that
he ever talked otherwise |? Certain there
was time when he proposed second
term for President Grant, and gave a
good reason for doing sO."
Year: 1872

THE New York Times remarks that
the efforts of the opposition to confuse
the real issue Of the coming canvass, viz
whether it is wise or proper to elect a
nominal Republican as President to carry
out reactionary Democratic policy, by
abuse of the Administration, will not
work. Fifteen Congressional Commit.
tees of investigation have been inquirine
into General Grants conduct, and have
found nothing against him, which fact i,
the best answer to all the slanders invent
ed by the piebald opposition.
Year: 1872

These are railroad times. Trinity county
has for long time been left "out in the
cold," and compelled to depend upon
slow-coach " arrangements. True we
now get our mail from San Francisco a
day sooner than we used to and letters
are transmitted to the Atlantic States and
back in less than one third of the time
formerly required. Still, while all of this
forcibly impresses on our minds at what
lightning rate of progress the Pacific
Coast is marching along, it also induces
comparisons between Trinity and her
sister counties, in many instances unia-
vorable TO Old Trinity as now circum-
stanced. Our turn is sure to come with
! the rest. Other sections are much better
adapted to farming, but there their ad
vantages cease. OF timber and the pre-
cious metals we have an unfailing store.
! To utilize our resources railroads will have
| to be built. We are not able TO build
them and must bide our time. When
we reflect upon the change that has trans
pired within the last ten years, we have
no reason to be discouraged. Matters are
tending our way, and that at rapid rate.
Outside capital must soon find its way
here TO utilize our many streams and de-
velop our gravel ranges. Before the first
of August next, the iron horse will cavort
along the other side Of Trinity mountain.
Not many years ago such suggestion
would have been deemed chimerical.
But railroads do not come unattended and
without casting their shadows before.
There is a whisper that the Surveyor is
abroad in our land. "Did ye not hear
it ?" Yes the fair hills and valleys of
Trinity are now being run off into town
-sectionized, divided and subdi-
vided at such rate that in few years
not a Digger will be able to revisit and
recognize the spot where he was born
and exclaim, This is my own, my na-
tive land"


The commencement Of surveying in
this county means a great deal. Just at
this time we know of no one thing that
would help the county more and Mt once
than complete survey Of its lands. 1t
is true that only small portion is occu-
pied, but survey, while it stimulated
the settlement OF hitherto unoccupied
land, would give all Improvements fixed
and stable value aud increase our assess
ment roll TO a million of dollars at least.
II we wish to talk with capitalists con-
cerning the resources of our county, we
must, in order 10 be clearly understood, q,
have everything represented on a map.
Ii our county was surveyed and mapped
out, our own people would know much
more about it than they do now. We
have been squatters on Uncle Sans land
long enough. When it is surveyed we
can obtain an absolute title to our land
for a small sum. A general expression
OF opinion in favor Of having our county
surveyed as fast rs practicable will go far
toward accomplishing this result. Let US
think the matter over, talk it over and
striking while the iron is hot, exert all
our influence to push ahead the survey
of this county as soon as possible.
Year: 1872

The passage of the Carpenter amend
ment to Summers Civil Rights bill AS a
preliminary measure to vote on amnes-
ty did not suit the imperious Sumner,
and he gave this as reason why he
voted against amnesty. He will perhaps
have further occasion to remember that
however distinguished public servant
may be, his personal wishes should be
subordinate TO the will of the people. In
monarches even, such exhibitions of
temper are rarely seen and never con-
sidered in good taste, how much less so
are they under our institutions. The bill
as passed the Senate is so far behind a
huge file of other bills that it has little
chance of being reached by the House
during the present session. The same
fate probably attends the bill passed
Wednesday morning extending the priv
ilege of suspending the writ of habeas
corpus to March 8, 1873. c. M.
Year: 1872

THE New York Herald in speaking OF
the French arms investigation says
" The Administration OF President Grant
not only comes out of the investigation
untarnished, but it's straight forward hon.
esty, in the whole transaction stands forth
in marked contrast to the notorious
swinding and thieving that marked every
sale and purchaseof arms under former
Administrations"
Year: 1872

A MEETING of Georgia Democrats, to
appoint delegates TO the State Convention,
June 9th, declared in favor of an alliance
with the Greeeyites. The meeting is
supposed to represent the feeling OF the
S ate.
Year: 1872

JUDGE FIELD Of the Supreme Court
tells his Democratic friends that while he
would have been glad to have supported
either Davis or Chase, as between Greeley
and Grant, he shall vote for Grant.
Year: 1872

The Presidents modesty, which Of
ten has induced him to go to the ut
most verge of deserting Presidential
dignity, to avoid the appearance of ar
rogauce or self assertion, and his gift of
silence in nation of talk ers, have given
his personal and political enemies a
chance to pursue two lines ofargument,
which they urge alternately in perfect
uuconsciousness of their elt>contradic-
ton. AT one time he is represented as
a Sphynx-a scheming potter in con-
juction with an imaginary military ring,
for the destruction of a nations liberty;
dangerous vampire, who will trans
mute the Republic into an empire with
Ulysses |, as Emperor while the next
day. perhaps, he is held up as an ig,
norant tool of designing men, only fit
to talk horse and smoke cigars


The truth is he is a careful, judicious,
painstaking man, exceedingly anxious
to discharge his duties faithfully, and
to execute the legally expressed will of
the nation. 1t is true he assumed the
Presidential duties with reluctance and
dtfiidence; but from the day of his in
auguration he has not merely sought to
learn, but, as we shall prove has sue
ceeded in finding the wisest and safest
course of progressive craftsmanship.