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Year: 1870

The Auburn Stars and Stripes of Thurs
VS.. Todd, accused of arson in burning snow
sheds of the Central Pacific Railroad which
terminated in the County Court of Placer
county last Saturday, witness named Jos
Hutchings was called by the prosecution
who testified substantially as follows:


| was in saloon a, Truckec last July;
while there l was approached by man
who said that if l would join their party
we will drive all the Cinnamon out of the
country. Another party asked me to go to
their meeting, and | did SO accordingly
We went to house on the other side nf
Chinatown and entered room where we
found twenty or twenty-five men. Some
one asked who l was. My companion
answered | was going to join them and be
one Of the bays. l had no money to pay
my initiation fee. My friend gave me a
two dollar and half gold piece. l
paid my initiation fee out of it, which
amounted to one dollar after which the
President administered to me the follow
ing oath: "You solemny swear you will
vote the Democratic ticket, and you will
not vote for any one who is in favor of in
troducting Chinese labor into the country,
and that you 'ciW obey all orders htat yom'
superior's shall giUe you.' After the GER
emony was concluded man rose and
abused the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany, and said he would burn every stick
OF wood and bridges they had, and destroy
the telegraph. This mans name was
Jones. Another man said, what VIII you
do with the watchman 2 The speaker re-
piled, d-n the watchman we will (
every one of them. Most of the members
said that nearly all of the watchman are
our friends. inquired what they would
do with the man at Cascade Bridge. The
reply was he was one of our best men, |
think the mans name was Higgins. Jones
sat down, and another man got up and said
he WIS ready to burn every stick Of wood
on the railroad and kill every Chinaman
in the country. Another man said, keep
cool until another Superintendent of the
road is appointed, as he might do better
than Crocker' Tom Cox, the President,
at the conclusion of the meeting, said that
we would meet again in about two weeks.
and that there would be notices posted up.
There was a fire at Truckee last Spr ing
| know James Hickey. He told me that
he WAS a member, and that the purpose of
the organization was to drive the China
men from he country, and burn the siods
of the Railroad Company, if necessary
Hickey told me he was at Truckee last
Spring. He said they got the watchman
away from the Round House, and then
set fire to it. and it made the damnedest
fire | ever saw
Year: 1870

The richest boy in America, is one who
is good hearted, honest, intelligent, ambi-
tlous and willing to do right The richest
boy is one who has pluck to fight out his
destiny and future. He is the one who has
the manhood to do right and be honest,
and is striving to be somebody.
Year: 1870

laid up against the General Government,
and some day they must be paid. But
that cannot be until the Congress of the
nlted States is under the control and
dominion, as it will be, Of the Democratic
party | shall vote to pay these claims,
because | believe these men ought not to
be kept waiting. They ought not to be
kept waiting another year.
Year: 1870

JUST So-The Democracy claimed
during the campaign that the Fifteenth
Amendment would admit Chinese to the
ballot box, or that under it the State could
not exclude thom; but now the law officer
OF the State, the Democratic ATTORNEY
General 10 Hamilton, says in his report to
the Legislature


"We may, by proper legislation under
the provisions of the Fifteenth Amend
ment and outside Of any question of SER
vitude, so regulate the question of suffrage
as to render this State independent of any
apprehended danger from this population.
In some of the States property qualica-
tion mas been imposed in Others, other
tests. | submit that it is within the power
of the Legislature of this State to impose
such tests Of qualification aud such restrio-
tions upon the right of suffrage within her
borders, as is not inconsistent with the terms
and spirit of the Constitution of the State
and of the United States, and that il would
be within the power of this State and in
harmony with the Amendment, if it be
finally adopted, so to do"


The State has power in many ways to
exclude them as mass regardless of the
fifteenth Amendment,
Year: 1870

The first men were homeless wander
ersi the patriarchs dwelt in tents, and
shifted their place to suit the pasturage,
without a sigh; and for children-the
prehistoric, the antique people of our day
moving is rapture. The last dinner
in the old house, the first tea in the new,
so doleful to their elders, are partaken of
by them with joyous riot. Their ghrill
trebles echo gleefully from the naked
walls and floors; they race up and down
the carpetles5 stairs they menace the
dislOcated mirrors and crockery; through
all the chambers Of desolation they frolic
with gayety indomitable save by bodily
exhaustion. If the reader is of moving
family,-and 50 he is as ne is an Ameri-
can,-he can recall the zest he found du-
ring childhood in the moving which had
for his elders-poOr victims of factitious
and conventional sentiment-only the
salt and bitterness of tears. His spirits
never fell till the carpets were down no
sorrow touched him till order returned :
if heaven so blessed him that his bed was
made upon the floor for one night, the
angels visited his dreams. Why then, is
the mature soul, however sincere and
humble, not only grieved but mortified
by fitting2 Why cannot one move with
out feeling the great public eye fixed in
pitying contempt upon him? This sense
Of abasement seems to be something quite
inseparable from the act, which is often
laudable and in every way desirable; and
he whom it has afflicted is the first to
turn, after his own establishment, and
look with scornful compassion upon the
overhowing furniture-wagon as it passes.
But imagine that Abraham'5 neighbors,
when he struck his tent, and packed his
parlor and kitchen furniture upon his
camels, and started off with Mrs. Sarah to
seek a new camping-ground, did not
smile at the procession, or find it worthy
of ridicule or lament Nor did Abraham,
once settled, and reposing in the cool of
the evening at the door of his tent, gaze
sarcastically upon the moving of any of
his brother patriarchs.-AAandc Moathiy
for December
Year: 1870

We have received the prospectus of the
Prohibition Era, a politico-temperance jour
nal to be issued at Cleveland during the
present month. Being in possession Of a
full knowledge of the origin and objects
of this paper, we frankly state that its
course can not but result injuriously to
the temperance cause in Ohio.


At the recent annual session of the Good
Templar Grand Lodge, held at Cleveland,
the organ of that body, which has been
published since 1862, was discontinued.
On the last day of the session, and after a
very large majority of the delegates had
departed for their homes, the organized
faction who remained for that purpose,
secured the adoption of a resolution au-
thorizing such discontinuance and direct
ing the transfer of the subscription list to
the publisher of any temperance paper,
This action was not only unnecessary, but
absolutely unwise and in defiance of the
wishes of the Good Templar organization
of this State. If it had been really nee
essary to discontinue the old organ, its
subscription list and good will should have
reverted to the newspaper published by
the Temperance Alliance-an clement, i'll
influence and numbers, next to the Good
Templar order But it was not the de-
sign of the leaders of the Temperance po-
litical party who originated this suicidal
policy, to adopt such measures as would
best subserve the general interests Of the
cause of temperance. While they are at
perfect liberty to form as many temper
ance political parties as they choose, we
deny their right to speak for those who
are not in favor of such formation. The
Prohibition Era, in advocating the peculiar
views of the $500 persons who supported
the ticket headed by Jay Odell, at the Oc-
tober election, will not truly represent the
sentiments of the great body of temper
ance men of all classes and denominations
in this State,


What is this Temperance political par
ty2 An answer sufficient to satisfy every
consistent temperance man will be found
in the fact that last year, it seriously en-
tertained the idea of nominating Drunken
Dom Piatt for Governor!


Prior to 1867, the leading temperance
organization in Ohio had been steadily
increasing in membership, and if no un-
toward circumstances had subsequently
arrested its progress, it would have num-
bered, at this time, more than one hun
dred thousand members, During the
past three years, the question of 'polit-
ical action" has been introduced and agi-
tated, which has resulted most disastri-
ously to the cause. A loss of one-half of
the membership and disscntions among
the disorganized portion remaining, are
the legitimate fruits of this effort to Gre
ate Temperance political party.-C;rcic-
uHe HeraH
Year: 1870

Report cfhe Committee Of he Ohio C6ater-


ence.


By popular amusements we understand
those diversions sports, and games that
are commonly used by the young and the
leisure taking portion of the people


Amusement as a means of relaxation,
from work and for the recuperation OF
overtaxed or wasted energy, is eminently
useful, and may be innocently indulged.
Gymnastic exercises are also useful for
the development and trainingofthe phys
ical faculties and powers of the young,
and when conducted under circumstances
and in associations which exclude immor-
al influences and tendencies, are COM
mcnded to our young people as a means
of health and vigor, to be used prudently
and in moderation.


But we are pursuaded that the amuse-
ments and sports which are popular now
are much perverted from their legitimate
use. They are used immoderately, at
improper times, in improper places, and
in improper associations; and, being thus
perverted, are dangerous and damaging.


There is a class of popular amusements
which, for the general tendency to dissi-
patton, gambling, and licentiousness, are
always pernicious and to be utterly con-
demned, and against which we gravely
and prayerfully warn our dearyoung peo-
pie; the theater, the ball room, the card
table, and the baseball club, cannot be
resorted to without damage, and, if habit
ually visited, must end in moral disgrace
and spiritual ruin.


We believe our General Rules to be a
safe guide in seeking and taking amuse-
ments, which forbid "the taking such di.
versions as cannot be used in the name
Of the Lord Jesus" and also "the singing
those songs or reading those books which
does not tend to the knowledge or love
of God. " These Rules are agreeable to
the Word of God, which enjoins What
soever We do, in word or deed, do all in
the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God and the Father by him "


In this connection we can not refrain
from calling the attention of our people
to a grave and glowing evil arising from
the perversion of our State and county
fairs. These are institutions proper and
useful as originally conducted and as af-
fording opportunity to display the skill,
enterprise, industry, and success of the
people in their various avocations and
pursuits, they may be commended and
encouraged; but we observe with sorrow
and shame that they are now deteriorating
from their former uses, and are being Of
ten and largely used for foolish and wick
ed purposes; and we advise our people not
to assist or visit them so long as gam
bling, or drinking Or folly are allowed or
tolerated in the management of them


All Of which is respectively submitted,
on behalf of the Committee.
Year: 1870

Looking over the list of labels with
which we ticket our conceptions before
putting them into their places, we find,
dealing with the genus homo, the proper
one for the species BritannicuS to be pra,,-
d;als. The Frenchman makes love Glove
never returns the favor by making him),
the Italian conspires, the German smokes,
the Yankee enterprises, but the English
man alone dimes. 1t is MT the only great
thing he does; even acc admit him to the
compliment of comparison with OurSelUes,
which is more than ever occurs to us with
respect to any other nationality (and if
we knew him as well as ourselves, we
should probably be less boastfuD; but
dining is his greatest achievement, and is
the parent of most of the minor ones. TO
work as John works, to build as he builds,
to grow rich as he grows rich, to be at
once great and strong, and humane and
merciless as he is; to grasp heaven with
one hand and hell with the other as he
does to exalt his eldest children to such
thrones and crush his youngest into such
devips mud as his are lifted to and crush
ed into, he must dine as he does. Nothing
plSe Will dIlSNGI lIlc DlupOSC'


Solid substantial, leisurely eaten, well
digested, contemptuously exclusive of all
dubious nutriment, and taken at the end
of the days work, Johns dinner brings
oblivion for to-day and strength for to-
morrow You may palm bad architecture
and wretched pictures on him for the best,
make him believe that an Improvement
on the japanese praying-machine is the
gate of eternal happiness Il. e, for John
rich), put his money in a railroad to the
impossible = do anything (ercept general
iae) but you can't make him take bad
beef for good, cat it too much done, or
keep his temper over a bad dinner.


In that mysterious and creeded religion
which is, despite the nominal and ex-
ternal Church Establishment, the true
faith of the unmitigated John Bull, "a
religion cannot define because it never
defines ITSELF and because, with many
years of acquaintance, have never got
to know John weH, but which | conjecture
to be peculiar and subtle form Of L
worship is the great rite. The
celebration is surrounded with precaution
and ceremony, the initiated are required
to appear in a peculiar costume and to
observe most sedate department; and
before the conclusion of the rite, ladies
are expected to retire, from belief that
their presence interferes with the efficacy
of the observances and it is never cele-
brated in perfect form except in a place
whose sacredness no idle gossip should
dcsecrate or satirical intent invade, where
indeed, may say, no one capable of So
cial sacrilege should ever be permitted to
enter,-an English gentleman's homc,-I
am permitted only to say here that in no
other place is the dinner, in all its per-
fections of form, substance, and surround
ing ever to be known-FrOm tic atlantic
Monthly for December.
Year: 1870

"Were | Diogenes," says wrathful
Charles Lamb IN one of his letters, 81
would not move out of kildeYlin into a
hogshead, though the first had had moth
ing but small beer in it, and the second
reeked claret' ] fancy this loathing of
the transitionary state came in great part
from the rude and elemental nature of
the means Of moving in Lambs day. In
our own time, in Charlesbridge at least,
everything is so perfectly contlived, that
1t Is IN some ways a pleasant excitement
to move though | do not commend the
diversion to any but people of entire leis-
ure, for it cannot be denied that it is, at
any rate, an interruption to work, But
little is broken, little is defaced, nothing
IS ayoidably outraged or put to shame.
Ot course there are in every house GER
tain objects of comforts and even orna.
ment which in state of repose derive a
sort OF dignity from being cracked, or
scratched, or organically dcbilitated, and
give an idea Of ancestral possession and
OF long descent to the actual owner; and
you must not hope that this venerable
quality will survive their public exposure
upon the turniture-wagon There it in.
stantly perishes, like the consequence OF
some country notable huddled and hust-
led about in the graceless and ignorant
tumult of great city. To tell the truth,
the number of things that turn shabby
under the ordeal of moving strikes pana
of unaccustomed poverty to the heart
which, loving all manner of makeshifts,
is rich, even in its dilapidations. For the
time you feel degraded by the spectacle
OF that torlornness, and if you are man
OF spirit you try to sneak out of associa-
tion with it in the mind of the passcrs
by; you keep scrupulously indoors, or if
a tancied eXigency obliges you to 60 back
and forth between the old house and the
new, you seek obscure byways remote
from the great street down which the
wagon Aaunts your ruin and decay, and
time your arrivals and departures so as to
have the air of merely dropping in at
either place, This consoles you; but it
deceives no one; for the man who is moy-
ing is unmistakably stamped with trans
action.-From tic ATLANTIC MONTHLY for
December.
Year: 1870

JUMPING OVER SUNBEAMs.--A suggestive
story is told of some cattle which were
being driven from the mountains, where
they were raised, to market, and on the
way they came to bridge over river
The bridge had roof, and was boarded
up at the sides. The sun was shining
through the cracks and knot-holes, and
the cattle could see the sunbeams shining
on the dust inside the bridge, just as you
have often seen them inside room when
the sun shines in and the dust has been
stirred The steers were frightened
They could not go to either side for the
fence prevented. The drivers cracked
their great whips, and shouted at them,
and whipped the hindermost ones, and
made them crowd those in front up to
the very opening of the bridge. Finding
they could not turn back or aside, those
in front started with q snort and q rum
trembling all over from fright, and when
ever they came to the sunbeams, gave a
leap and jumped right over them. So
the whole herd ran through, and did not
get over their scare for long time. How
often are men and women troubled and
frightened by imaginary obstacles, which
are not only not obstacles, but are exact
ly the contrary, and whose removal would
leave their paths too dark for them to
walk in
Year: 1870

WHEN John Wesley saw a young man
in danger of falling into the snare of evil
associates he did not watch him sharply at
a distance, and speak of his shortcomings
to Others, predicting that he was ION the
high road to ruin" He invited him to
his table, and, by genial, affable manner,
sought to give him good subjects for
thought, or hints for conduct Advice
that hospitality enforced, was very i'm
pressive. He would draw out a young
man in conversation, and learn what stu
dies he was most proficient in, which
were essential to his success, and then as
sist him to acquire the mastery of them,
Another most valuable way of aiding a
young man whom social danger threaten
ed was to make him acquainted with well
disposed, religious young men, who would
lead him into good paths. Then he watch
ed over their future career with fathers
interest and tenderness.
Year: 1870

To live long it is necessary to live slow
ly


The hardest thing 10 hold in this world
is an unruly tongue,


TIE children of God have much in
hand and much in hope.


If prayer does not cause us to leave off
SHINING SHINING will soon make us leave
Oft praying.


IT is only by labor that thought can be
made healthy, and only by thought that
labor can be made healthy.


WHATEVER is done by those around you,
be yourself fully determined to walk in
the most excellent way.


Az army may as nationally leave the
battle to be fought by the officers alone
as the Church leave the conversion of the
world to the ministers of the Gospel.


No doubt there are some nettles in the
world. There are unpleasant things, sad,
hard things, that tend to make life mart
keenly But we put far more nettles iE-
to the world than are there originally
The real nettles are ourselves, in our own
uncomfortable, petulant, sour, selfish dis
positions, and they spread their own char.
actcr over nature.


At school in the north of England,
during lesson on the animal kingdom,
the teacher put the following question:
Can any boy name me an animal of tho
order of Gcntata, that'is front-toothless
OnimalY' A boy, whose face beamed
with pleasure at the prospect of good
mark, replied: 81 can. well, what is
the animal?' my grandmother" rc,
piled the boy, in great glec
Year: 1870

1t is a most painful spectacle in
families where the mother is the
drudge, to see the daughters ele-
gantly dressed, reclining at their
ease with their drawing, their mu-
sic, their fancy work, and their read
ing, beguiling themselves Of the
lapse of hours, days, and weeks and
years, never dreaming of their re-
sponsibilities, but as a necessary
consequence of neglect of duty,
growing weary of their useless lives
laying hold Of every newly invented
stimulant to rouse their energies,
and blaming their fate when they
dare not blame their God for hav-
ing placed them where they are
These individuals will often tell you
with an air of affected compassion
for who can believe it to be real?
that poor mother is working her
self to death. Yet no sooner do
you propose they should assist her
than they decl-..e she is quite in her
element; in short, that she never
would be happy if she had only half
as much to do.
Year: 1870

An old schoolmaster said, one
day, to minister who had come tC
examine his school:


Il believe the children know the
catechism word for word"


"But do they understand it? that
is the question, said the minister.


The schoolmaster only bowed re-
spectfully, and the examination be-
gan.


A little boy had repeated the fifth
commandment, "Honor thy father
and thy MOTHER" and he was desir-
ed to explain its meaning.


Instead of trying to do so, the
little boy, with his face covered with
bushes, said, almost in a whisper,
yesterday l showed some strange
gentlemen over the mountain. The
sharp stones cut my feet, and the
gentlemen saw they were bleeding
and they gave me some money to
buy me shoes. 1 gave it to my
mother for she had no shoes, and l
thought I could go barefoot better
than she could ,r


What a beautiful answer! The
little boy did indeed love and honor
his poor mother, and would have
Gods blessing for so doing.
Year: 1870

The boy who spends an hour O.


each evening lounging idly on the


street corner, wastes in the course
of a single year, three hundred and
sixty five precious hours, which; il
applied to study, would familiarize
him with the rudiments, at least, o1
almost any of the familiar sciences,
If in addition to the wasting of an
hour each evening, he spends five
cents for cigar, which is usually
the case, the amount thus worse
than wasted, would pay for four OF
the leading magazines of the coun-
try. Boys, think of these things.
Think how much precious time you
are wasting, and for what? The
qualification afforded by a lounge on
the corner or by the cigar, is not on
ly temporary, but positively hurt
full. You cannot indulge in these
practices without seriously injuring
yourself. You acquire wasteful
habits, which will cling to you
through life, and grow upon you
with each succeeding year. You
may in after life shake them off, but
the probabilities are that habits
thus formed in early life, will re-
main with you to your dying day
Be cautioned then in time, and re-
solve that as the hour spent in idle
ness is gone forever, you will i'm
prove each passing one, and thereby
fit yourself for usefulness and hap
piness.