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. IS PCBLISfIBD ITOT SATCRDAT, AT
WtATarrllU, Trialtjr Coulfi C«llfor«lA i
DAVID RGORDON,
ZbITOR AND PROPEUTOR.
OPFICB —HOSLINOER A CO.’S BUILDING, UP STAIRS,
(LATE ARMORY HALL.)
BntoaoripUtm R»t«a-I»» Advance i
One jar, $5 00 | Six months, 13 00 | Three month*, $2 00.
$&• The neper will be mailed semi-monthly to any addree*
In the Atlantic State# or Europe at the above «tM, and the
necessary amount for postage (which most be prepaid) added
on all papers going out of the United States.
lain of JdoerUstmg s
One sonar*, of 10 line# or less, first Insertion, - - WOO
Bach subsequent Insertion, - - • ’ ' ' ' _ T * uu
(00 I»r cent, discount to Yearly advertisers.)
Profcaelonal cards, (6 lines or less) per year - - - - 20 00
Notices of Benevolent or other societies, per year, - 12 00
= COUNTY OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
m eW Jndee EPHRAIM GARTER.
rwt? Jnd£' - JOHN MURPHY.
Su Pt (T J dK JAMES COCHRAN.
crajcl
GEO. H. BUNKER.
District Attorney B. F. ALLEN.
Superintendent Public Instrnctlon D.E GORDON.
Coroner and Administrator JOHN ADAMS.
HOSTETTER’S
CELEBRATED
Stomach Bitters!
A PURE AND POWERFUL TONIC,
CORRECTIVE and ALTERATIVE!
OP
WONDERFUL EFFICACY IN DISEASES
STOMACH, LIVER and BOWELS!
CURES DYSPEPSIA, LIVER COMPLAINT, HEADACHE,
GENERAL DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, DEPRESS
ION OF SPIRITS, CONSTIPATION, COLIC,
INTERMITTENT FEVER, CRAMPS,
SPASMS, and all Omplaints of ci
ther Sex, arising from Bodily
Weal-nets, whether inhe
rent in the system ,
OB PRODUCED BY SPECIAL CAUSES.
-faTOTHTNO THAT IS NOT WHOLESOME, GENIAL AND
deadly botanical balsamic herbs.and plants,
-iSSS t all ditftmiv. etlmulanta
3S JSSSSSSSI M2Rf
fnm? Olp An*, it exercises an electric influence. In
Jhe “onValMCent stage* of all disease. it operate* a* a de
llKhtfal lnTignrant. When the powe« of .nature are relaxed.
It operate* to reinforce and re-establish them.
The weak etomacb ie rapidly invigorated, and the appetite
reetored hy thii agreeable Tonic, and hence it work* wonders
in caee of DYSPEPSIA, and In lean confirmed fonns of Indi
llow. Acting ae a gentle and painless aperient, as well as
unon the liver.it alao invariably relieves the Constipation in-
S by irregular action of the digestive secretive organs.
Persons of feeble habit, liable to Nervous attacks. Lowness
of Spirits and Fits of Languor, find prompt and permanent
relief from the Bitters. The testimony on thi* point Is most
conclusive, end come* from both sexes.
The agony of BILIOUS COLIC Is immediately assuaged
by a single ifoeeof the stimulant, and by occasionally resort
ing to it? the return of the complaint may be prevented.
Last though not least.lt is the ONLY SAFE STIMULANT,
being manufactured from sound and innoccnou* materials,
and entirely free from the acid elements present more or less
in all the ordinary tonics and stomachic* of the day.
No family medicine ha* been so unlvoiually, and, it may
be truly added, deservedly popular with the intelligent por
tion of the community, as Moslsller s Bitters.
■ SOLD BY -
Druggists, Grocers and Storekeepers
»V*RTWHERX» A!»D BT
HOSTETTER, SMITH & DEAN,
SOLK AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST,
401, 403 and 405 Battery *t-,
(Corner of Clay street,) - - • RAN FRANCISCO.
— 2s.ll;26t:cnru:otc.
$lOO Beward
For an Incurable Caee!
Special attention Is respectfully dl- •
reeled to our exclusive manufacture of
the celebrated Golden Balsam, a prepara
tion never known to fail In tho cure of SypW
lis, in all It. stages, mid used in the French Ho*
pital. for the fast ten years with the gr«t«t succ««.
or obvious reasons, we cannot publish the tutimomal. of
,e thousand, who has* been cured by It, but .n the in
timetable case. In which it ha. bean * dn,lni,t **
sve yet to learn an instance of it. failure. GOLDEN
ALBAM, No. 1, for flrst and second stages, such as tores
a the legs or body, sore eyes, etc. Golden Balsam, No. 2,
>r Tertiary. Mercurial or SypbaleUc Rheumatism, pains in
lie bones, etc. Sent by express to any part of tho Pacific
oast. Price, Fifty Dollars per dozen, or Five Dollars per
ottls.
C. F. RICHARDS *. CO.,
Yholesale and Retail Druggists and Chemists, corner Clay
and Sansoma street*, San Francisco, tola agents, to
whom all ardors most he addressed. Also, agents
tor the celebrated Spanish Antidote, a prepare
tiun warranted to core Gonorrhoea, Gleet,
Irritation. Gravel, and all Urinary de
raagements Neither of the above
genuine without oar signa
tßr tare across the far* of the
IS. label. I T .
[U. 8. Revenue Stamp, M cent*,—Sept. T, 1866,
A. J.Xe, county Clerk.]
PPm 1 ?* V! WWIiFMCTr-B THBCX
. t £.°'? U V“ * o i for .i K * county of Trinity, State of
fiwnla —la the matter of the petition of WILLIAM LIT
“ Insolvent Debtor.—Pnreuant to an order of Hon. ,
Morphy, county Judge of Trinity county, notice is he
f iT T n 10 * ll . th ? crediton, of uUd fimoiveM Wm. little, I
™ ■PP** r before the Hoc. John Morphy, elrirf fI il In
Court,***' Court room of the toe
Weaverrille. county and Bute -f rrnlii, on
Mnmdar.th. Ifith «.y On taker,
IM *’ *f, i 0 o ' c ' oek . An. of said ifag, then and there to i
cause, if any they can, why the prayer of the said
should not he granted, an smignmeit ofkkMh bJi
fro “ thdebu and u3bSS£ tap
aaM Ofthastatau in sneh case made and provided and 1
meantime all proceedings against add ituolrent be stay.
Witaecs my band and seal of said Court, this Ttl
[l*l of September, A. D, 1886.
3*6‘- A. J. LOOMIS, Cle
®l«kla Smut i) laurmil.
g JPamily: getepapu, Inkepenlmit in anti ftbiA tv tfis gtitentimrat n! lame
§hrtefc, Sfalwnt, &c.
Union Hotel!
COURT STREET, WEAVERVIIIE.
TOLLMERI, PAULSKH * WEISK,
PROPRIETORS.
THE PRUfcRIETORS AN
nonnce to their old friends
and the public that they have
just enlarged and re-fitted
this old and popular Hotel, and are now prepar
ed to famish Sleeping accommodations for fifty
persons. A fine PARLOR has been added to the
House, together with a number of
DOUBLE ROOMS FOR FAMILIES.
The TABLE will be well supplied with every
thing the market of this section affords, and ev
ery attention paid to the wants of patrons.
VST" Stages leave this House daily for Shasta
and Trinity river. OTTO VOLLMERS,
. PETER PAULSEN,
PETER WEISE.
Weaverville, August 1, 1866. 30.t0.
M&
Bank Exchange
SALOON.
FRANK W. YOITWG, - Proprietor.
Excellent Liquors and Cigars!
2 Fine Marble-Top Billiard Tables,
ALWAYS IN GOOD ORDER.
For Sale —Balia and Billiard
Trimmings, ipenorally.
Balls colored at |1 per Sett.
Weaverville, May 20, 1866. Ivll.
TRIMTV CENTER iTEL!
HALL a WILLIAMS, Proprietors.
m HAVING PURCHASED AND THOR
oughly refitted the above old established
stand, the proprietors respectfully solicit
a trial of their accommodations by sojourners
and the traveling public. The
SLEEPING APARTMENTS
Are second to no House in the North, and the
Table is supplied with the choicest of everything
afforded in a mountain market.
fjf Connected with the House are good Sta
bles, where animals will be well fed and cared
for. Every attention will be given those who
may favor the House with their patronage.
GEO. WILLIAMS,
DAVID HALL.
Trinity Center, July 1, 1866. 25.t0.
GREENE’S HOTEL!
A N D
STAGE HOUSE 1
Main street, Shasta, California.
THE X T NDERSIGNED HAS PUR
— chased the old and popular stand known
•lilßasthe AMERICAN HOTEL, where he
Sfilß will henceforth be found, ready and wil
ling to devote his whole attention to the wants
of his old friends and the traveling public.
ggy- The office of the California Stage Compa
ny has been removed to the new House, from
which coaches leave in all directions daily.—
Travelers may rest assured that the
Table and Sleeping Accommodations
Will be second to no Hotel in Northern Califor
nia. A trial of the new Hotel and Stage House
is solicited by
TOM. GREENE, Proprietor.
Shasta, June 15, 1865. L3.ts.
EMPIRE HOTEL!
Main Street, Weaverville.
MTHE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFUL-
Iy announces to his friends and the trav
eling public that having thoroughly ren
ovated and repaired the above Hotel, he is now
prepared to furnish superior
BOARDING ACCOMMODATIONS
to all who favor him with their patronage. The
Table will be supplied with the best of every
thing which can be obtained, and the Bar with
chice Wines and Liquors. WM. CONDON.
Weaverville, May 10, 1866. 18-to.
NEW’ 7 "YORK HOTEL
and Stage House!
MAD, STREET, - - WEAVERVILLE.
MORRIS * BEADY, Proprietor*.
MDk
pany’s office i
KTHIS HOTEL IS FIRE-PROOF,
l and offers superior accommodations
,to both the resident and traveling
| public. The California Stage Com
ce is at this Hotel. JAS. MORRIS,
B. BRADY.
Weaverville, July 1, 1864. 25.t0.
PACIFIC BREWERY
(OLD STAND—MAIN STREET—WEAVERVILLE.)
LORENZ A HAGLEMAH,
Late of the bavaria brewery, hav
ing purchased the entire interest of Walter
* Co. in the above establishment, are prepared
to supply the public with a choice article of
Pur© Lager Beer,
IN KEGS OB BOTTLES.
fgf Attention is called to the fhet Wwm
furnishing a superior article ofßeer forN
ING PURPOSES —so pronounced by those who
have used it. Orders left at the lw
promptly filled, and Beer delivered without ad
ditional charge. Also,
lODA tad BAJRBAPAB.ILLA,
manufactured after the
JOHN HAOLBMAN.
Weaverville, Oct. 20, 1866. 42 to -
ABE YOU INSURED ?
WEAVERYILLE, CALIFORNIA. SEPTEMBER 29,1866.
WEAVERVILLE
' DRUG STORE.
M. Oberdeener,
(Successor to M. F. Griffin,)
DEALER IN
Drugs, IVledicines,
PATENT MEDICINES,
PEEFUMEEY, TOILET AETIOLES, Etc.
[AVING PURCHASED THE ENTIRE STOCK
contained in the above establishment, I
shall henceforth keep
a full and complete as
sortment of all articles
usually found in a well
regulated Drug Store.
Physlclana’
Prescriptions
i Will be carefully and
properly compounded AT ALL HOURS.
Traders Supplied on Liberal Terms.
THE
Weaverville Book Store
has also been combined with the establishment,
and a well-selected stock of
BLANK BOOKS, WRITING PAPER,
Stationery, Cutlery, Gold Pens,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
FANCY ARTICLES. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
VIOLIN STRINGS, Etc., will be kept.
ALSO,
School, Standard and Miscellaneous Books,
Newspapers, Magazines, etc.,
VHOIESALE AND RETAIL.
Weaverville, March 15, 1866. 10.tf.
PHILADELPHIA
a
m
w
HOBLIN6EE & 00.,
MANUFACTURERS AND DIALERS IS
BOOTS, SHOES, SLIPPERS,
GAITERS, CHILDREN’S SHOES, In
great variety. Saddlery, Whip*
Leather and Findings.
~ HAVING JUST RE
ceived a large stock of
new goods in our line,
■as well as a full sup-
I ply of material, we are
now prepared to sell
goods very cheap, and
to manufacture Boots
to order at short notice
.nd living rates. We have a fine assortment of
knkert’s Boots and Miles & Sons’
SLIPPERS and GAITERS, on hand.
Repairing done at short notice. The pub
ic is requested to give us a trial.
J. M. EINFALT,
V. HOSLINGER.
Weaverville, June 5, 1866. 19.t0.
I. COMSTOCK, I JOHN MARTIN,
RED BLUFF. I WEAVERVILLE.
Sim
(SNmhwfi to Pitre*, Church it C 0.,)
FOBWABDEBS
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Fire-Proof Brick Warehouse, formerly occupied
by PIERCE, CHURCH k CO.,
H.Okk street, near Steamboat Landlng.'SS
ISRAEL COMSTOCK will attend to the For
warding and Commission business in person.
We hope to receive a continuance of the patron
age heretofore extended to the old firm.
Red Bluff, June 1, 1866. 45 td.
THEDB’S
CANYON CITY AND WEAVERVILLE
EXPRESS!
THE UNDERSIGNED HAS COMMENCED A
regular semi-weekly Express between the
above points, leaving
CANYON CITY ON MONDAY AND FRIDAY,
AND WEAVERVILLE ON TUESDAY AND SATURDAY,
Toccmiio Burn wais at
JUNCTION CITY,
ARKANSAS DAM,
EVANS’ BAR,
STEINER’S FLAT
and DOUGLAS CITY.
made, and a general Express
business done. All orders promptly filled.
GUSTAV THKDE.
Weaverville, June 20, 1866. 24.t0.
HENRY OYERMOHLE,
—DEALER IN
HAVANA CIGARS, TOBACCOS,
FANCY GROCERIES, TOYS. CUTLERY.
Genuine California Meerschaum Pipes,
PLAYING CARDS, CONFECTIONERY,
fruits, FASCT ARTICLES, AC.
Howe’s Brick Building, Main Street,
1. (WIST BID!,) WEAVERVILLE. 11-
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS.
All persons knowing themselves
indebted to the undersigned are requested to
settle their acconaU before the
. FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER,
next, and from this date all accounts contracted
with me must be settled monthly.
CHAS. KUPER.
Donglas City, Sept. 1, 1866. 34:lo.
iksure nr the unioii
Wecfelji ® natty Jattntal.
County Wmrrmnts and fh-nmbmcit§ taken at
their ruling value in payment for subscriptions to this
paper. To soldiers in the Governmeat service the JouaHai
will be furnished for Greenbacks at pirn.
Weaverville, Saturday, Sept. 29,1866.
Pass Him Abound. — The News Dealer, Major
Jack Stratman, of San Francisco, distances all
competitors. Before the Eastern news was an
ticipated by Pony Express and telegraph, the
outside barbarians could form but little idea of
the immense traffic carried on in Eastern papers
and pictorials; but since then the trade has
grown to an immense business and Stratman is
at the head of it, being the exclusive wholesale
agent for all of Frank Leslie's and Harper’s pub
lications, and also Bonner’s Ledger —receives
subscriptions at office rates. He is liberal to a
fault. All the editorial fraternity of the country
press have reason to thank the gallant Major for
many favors, and we cordially recommend him
to our readers. —Sunday Mercury.
We concur, and have “ the papers” to prove
the latter part of the Mercury's paragraph .—Sac
ramento Bee.
We have, during the past few years, been
repeatedly placed under obligations to the “gal
lant Major.’’ —Solano Press.
True enough. If there is any one individual
at the Bay City who is more devoutly esteemed
by country publishers than all the rest, Strat
man is the man.— Trinity Journal.
Stratman’s heart is as large as his mustache.
When we say say this, we have said as much as
if we devoted a column in his praise. When
ever Jack wants to be Governor the interior pa
pers will see to it that he distances all competi
tors.— Oakland Neics.
We “go our bottom dollar” on the Major.
A man who never forgets the printers, can be
trusted in any position. Pass him along.—Ama
dor Ledger.
Stratman is among newsmen what Norfolk
is among race-horses. He is the first to start and
invariably comes out ahead. He is now prepared
to walk over the course without danger of com
petition. Red Bluff Independent.
One of our exchanges calls this a good thing.
Those who have read “ Enoch Arden” can see
the point, however, and we leave them to judge:
—ln Richmond, a few days since, we learn from
the Examiner, there was a concert and tableaux
for the benefit of the poor. The tableaux, among
other things, represented Enoch Arden as he
came back from his voyage, looking sadly in the
window of his old home to find that his wife had
married and was doing something in the Arden
business for that other man I While all was still
and the large audience silent as the grave, the one
who represented Enoch turned his face to the
crowd and slowly asked; “Who’s pin here
since I’s pin gone?” The Examiner, says the
effect was electrical beyond power of description,
the storm of applause which followed the “hit”
would have made “Brick” Pomeroy happy for a
month, ami even forced a laugh out of Hellflicker
Snicksmacker himself.
“$3 ie You Knock Her Out. —Among the
side shows at the State Fair the favorite—after
the gambling-hells, of course—is the one where
the above sign hangs on the outside of a tent. —
Within is a happy-looking Irish woman, stout of
build and voluble as a parrot—a woman forty
years old, and dressed in a powerful head-dress
and a balmoral skirt —a woman who goes for no
thing as to speed, but whose bottom is sound—
and "she stands in a ring three feekiin diameter,
and any speculator who wants to pay twenty
five cents for a chance may stand behind her and
strike her with all his force with a large, long
handled mallet which is covered with sacking,
and if he knocks her out of the ring he gets $3
for it. They don’t hit her in the head. She has
never been knocked out yet, perhaps.— Union.
New York Democracy.— The New York Citi
zen walks into the corrupt Democratic city gov
ernment with a vigor that has never before been
equalled, and which is making itself felt. It
says “We are rulled out of the gutters ;we
are dominated by the sewers of this metropolis.
Our local representatives are for the most part a
gcum a beetle-browed and brawny banditti, as
ignorant as they are base, and not less dishonest
that shameless —such as no decent citizen would
willingly admit to the familiarity of his stables.”
Swells.— lt never happened before that so
many members of Congress were re-nominated
as in the case of the late Congress. Wonder if
Johnson can see any “ ground-swell ” in that ?
—American Flag.
There is this much “swell” about it. The
whole country is swelling with indignation at
the arch-apostate. It will keep swelling till it
bursts him out.— Red Bluff Independent.
Grand Officers. —The Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows of the United States met at Baltimore on
the 17th instant and elected the following offi
cers :—J. P. Sanders, of New York, M.W.Grand
Sire ; E. D. Farnsworth, of Nashville, Tenn.,
R. W. Deputy Grand Sire ; Jas. L. Ridgely, of
Baltimore, G'rand Secretary ; Joshua Ranzant,
of Baltimore, Grand Treasurer.
Johnson’s biography says : —“ At four o’clock
the President goes to dinner, having first taken
an appetizer in the shape of a stiff glass of whis
ky.” It is also added that the President is in
possession of an ingeniously constructed clock
which strikes “four” fifteen or twenty times
a day.
Lucky Sick Man.—A Western editor apolo
gises to bis readers in the followingstyle“ We
expected to have a death and a marriage to pub
lish this week, but a violent storm prevented
the wedding, and the doctor being taken sick
himself, the man recovered, consequently we are
cheated out of both.”
Union Insuranck Company, of San Francisco,
—Cash capital, (fully paid in gold coin,) $750,-
000 : surplus, $102,911 20. Caleb T. Fay, Pres
ident; Chas. D. Haven, Secretary ; Samuel S.
Thomson, General Agent; D. E. Gordon, agent
for Trinity county.
In an old family Bible, in Connecticut, the re
cord of a birth is entered in this wise :—“ Eliz
abeth Jones, born on the 20th November, 1787,
according to the best of her recollection 1”
The Mobile Times says Grant did not whip Lee,
“ but smothered him to death with a quarter of
a million of Irish and Dntch.”
The total vote of Boise county, I. T., includ
ing Idaho City,this year, was 3,285. Two
ago it footed up 6,232—a falling-off of one-hair.
THE SONGS WE SANG UPON THE OLD
CAMP -GROUND.
WORDS AND MUSIC BZ H. L. FRISBII.
Oh Sinn for me to-night those merry songs we sang
When bright and warm the cheerful camp-fire Maz’d,
At twilight’s closing hour, with comrades gather’d round,
We gaily sang those oft repeated lays.
How quickly beats my heart when comes the echoed strain.
I listen then to catch the faintest sound:
I never can forget those old familiar strains—
Those songs we sang upon the old camp-ground.
Yea, sing for me to-night those brave and morry songs.
Let sweeter mem’ries cluster thick around;
For 1 never can forget those old familiar strains.
Those songs we sang upon the old camp-ground.
I hear the bugle pealing forth Its brazen notes,
I listen to the rolling of the drums;
The sounding call to arms, the battle's clash and din,
Like mocking echoes with the songs they come.
The fire is burning low, the sentry lonely treads.
With slow and measur’d step ids weary round;
All these I seem to see as I listen to those songs—
Those songs wo sang upon the old campground.
Where are my comrades now! ah! why am 1 alone!
Go, ask it of the marching echo, why!
Go, stand upon the plain, and count their lowly graves,
Where on a hundred battle-fields they lie:
Then wonder not that I should love those simple songs,
That sadder raem’ries cluster thick around;
Though others may be sweet, none are so dear to me,
As those wo sang upon the old camp-ground.
[From the Gold Ilill New.]
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
There are various speculations afloat concern
ing the cause of Seward’s real or apparent de
fection from the Union cause. Certain is it, that
the President retained the confidence of a very
large number of people for a considerable length of
time beyond the date when he would otherwise
have been unanimously discarded by the Union
party, because of the continued assurance given
by bis Premier that the Chief Executive remained
true to the grand principles of the organization
which elected him to the office of Vice-President.
The most generally accepted theory in regard
to the “condition” of Secretary Seward, is that
the blows of the assassin have produced a de
mented state of mind, in which his natural ten
dency to complacent expectation, his optimism
and his cowerdice, have been left the prominent
and working elements of his character. This is,
certainly, a charitable excuse for him ; but it is
wholly gratuitous, and, we think, certainly er
roneous. We are thoroughly of the opinion that
Seward, despite the terribly face-scarring cuts
of the assassin, and the more intellect-injuring
effect of constant snuffing and brandy drinking,
is the “same old coon”—that he has ever been,
a weak, vain, deceitful man ; apt in giving fine
philosophical expression to whatever dogma or
ideas may snit a purpose in immediate view, and
only exhibiting in his history, points contrary to
his judgment in his early life, when not his sa
gacity alone, but that of a multitude really more
prophetical minds associated with him, saw that
slavery was to grow more and more hateful to
the educated and Christian people of the North.
We hare never trusted the man, since we came
to a knowledge of his action in the U. S. Senate.
He would vote for every rotten Land Bill, every
fraudulent “privateclaim ” proposition thntcame
up for action in the Upper Hall of Congress.—
And even while he was advocating “ Free Soil ’
principles in debate with Southern Senators, he
would often—especially toward the close of a
day’s discussion—concede away half the argu
ment to his opponents ; thus almost irreparably
injuring the cause he effected to plead, and em
barrassing to a great degree those who were to
follow on his assumed sideof the question, against
the very men to whom he had granted the most
essential part of the “premises,’ the platformer
basis of the entire controversy.
V. Butsch, in his admirablespcech at the Second
Ward Union Club, Virginia, on last Wednesday
evening, said that he judged the position of Sew
ard to be thus correctly explained : He (Sew
ard) had found that the President was bent on
destruction, and since Andy’s accession to the
Chief Executive’s Chair, his premier had been
tempering down the fomer’s disposition and in
tentions as much as he was able. He was hu
moring and at the same time restraining the Pres
ident, by those arts of flattery, insinuating advice,
etc., which the stubborn traitor in the princi
pal chair knew not of, but by which he (Andy)
was at least practically, and for the preservation
of peace, managed and controlled. “ I sincerely
beleive,” said Butsch, “ that when Congress
next assembles, Seward will suddenly ‘ develop'
At» present and, as we think, queer ‘policy,’ by
saying to the leaders of the Republican L nion
party in Congress ; ‘Here, gentlemen, I have
taken care of your President for a year and a
half, and have borne all sorts of abuse for my
necessary expedients in keeping the charge im
posed upon or assumed by me; now take him off
my hands; I’ll be no more lieutenant of his nor
any longer the target of Congressmen and Union
journals who have not known and conld not
know of my real relations, and my real motives
in remaining in this place. I blame no Union
man for his denunciation of me; they were as
natural and proper as the anathemas which our
Revolutionary soldiers cast against spies sent
from onr camps to the enemy under the disguise
of deserters from the Continental forces. Now
take the President, and do the best you can with
him; for my part, with literal scars from the
great conflict and satisfied with the honors my
country has conferred upon me, I will retire to
the shades of Auburn, and spend the balance of
my days in quiet enjoyment of recollections of
the past, and expecting to witness until my time
of departure shall come the ever increasing great
ness and glory of the American Republic,”’
Old Whigs, proud relics of that disbanded but
once powerful organization, cannot endure the
thought—that Seward is really a traitor to Free
dom. It is reasonable to expect that they will
seek out and insist upon the truth of some apol
ogy for his apparent treachery. And God know
eth, the people of this land would welcome with
tears of joy, such a developement of to the cause
of Seward’s conduct, as onr worthy and esteemed
friend, Mr. Butsch, eloquently suggests. All
the battle of Seward’s life, all the evidences of
bis statesmanship would be eclipsed by the dis
closed strategy of this and the past year's devis
ing, according to the programme wc have quoted.
But alas ! such a hope is a delusion. It is im
possible that it should be so. For Seward could
have done less than deny his originally professed
National sentimenta, and cry out for State Rights
—as he did in New York city at the recent recep
tion of the President—if he was playing the p«
our friend assigned him. wish
It may be that Seward is demented. a
it were possible, that we conld *“ d ' p duranC e as
revelation of patriotic «“““■“* * t 7 on for him.—
has been put in plea snd ® t y judgment, it conld
It is not, however, 1 1 h Jtimate of him to say :
hardly be an erroneou t han ftDJ . ot ij er
that having eOD ‘r lb ““ d b “can Union party, he
man to build up the < *■ F' t himself to break
has deliberately P r .°P°*£L me a National Dic
down that party, dcgtruction _
tator through the p one sense, a crazy oae :
The proposition w, « execa tion Seward
but to carry it into pr energy of a sane
is undoubtedly al pr ovoke unspeakable
inteUect. His w 1 pro Qyer itg co „.
sKUftSjraaw- e»-—■
NUMBER 38.
[From the Son Francisco American Flag.]
The School-House Garrisons of the Republic.
Public intellectual culture forms the basis of
our political system. We proceed upon the
principle that education of the masses is tbe
only effectual and certain guarantee for the suc
cess of self-government. We have faith that
men who know their rights will maintain them ;
who know the reasons and necessities of laws,
and have an intelligent voice in their enact
ment. will generally obey and respect them, and
that all persons whose minds arc stored with
practical knowledge, and controlled by the dis
cipline necessary to acquire it, will be made
thereby firmer and more devoted patriots than if
thev had been left to grove! in ignorance.—
Knowledge is power, and an enlightened people
cannot be enslaved. We therefore rest all our
hopes for the safety and advancement of the
Republic, on universal education. Constantly
depending upon the masses for that power which
gives vitality and direction to the public admin
istration, we deem it of the very first importance
that those masses shall be educated, and the
State would be considered strangely derelict
which should fail or refuse to provide most am
ple means to accomplish that end. In European
countries, enlightenment is furnished to certain
classes only, and it does not reach the lower
social orders. Where we strive to stimulate
mental efforts they are most solicitous to recess
and discourage it. We fear the ignorance of
the masses, they fear the spread of knowledc
among them. With us, general education is the
key-stone of our national strength. Europe re.
gards it as a mine beneath her social and polit
ical institutions, liable to explode spontaneously
whenever in should be perfectly laid. We pro
tect the keystone. Europe works against the
mine. Our civilization rests upon a rock, firm
as the pillars of the continent. European civili
zation hangs over a gulf concealed by the blazon
ry of power and tbe glitter and polish of nobility.
Our surest protection against anarchy is found
in the freedom of the individual mind, and the
culture of tbe general mind. A celebrated writer
ascribes the French Revolution of ’BO chiefly to
the fact that for a long time previous, the Gov
ernment of France had permitted freedom of
discussion in philosophy and politics among the
lower orders, theretofore steeped in most wide
spread and wretched ignorance, and he consider
ed it a singular judgment against such folly
that the monarchy and nobility saw the Imperial
capital deluged in blood by massacre ; peasants,
clerks, and briefless provincial attorneys flocking
into the National Convention, the King execu
ted, the estates of the clergy confiscated, the
churches closed, the motto of Atheistic despair,
“ Death is an eternal sleep,” written upon their
doors and upon the gates of tbe cemeteries, the
harlot Goddess of Reason drawn in triumph
through the streets, royalty abolished, and God
himself declared a tyrant and deposed! The
“judgment” was against the crime of the Gov
ernment in having kept the lower orders, the
masses of the people and their ancestors, from
the remotest periods, in the lowest depths of
ignorance and poverty. Judgment for such a
crime could not be enforced against the Amer
ican people.
During the recent war of rebellion it was clear
ly demonstrated that opposition to the Govern
ment came from the most ignorant and debased
among our people. This was every where ap
parent and in every community of the North
strenuous efforts were made to counteract their
baneful iuflence ; successfully as the sequel show
ed. We had great confidence in our Monitors,
but the free Common School houses were
stauncher iron clads than they. That the rebels
feared and hated the latter most is proven by the
fact that, after the war, and when opportunity
was afforded them for wreaking transitory venge
ance upon the loyal freedtnen, they instinctively
applied the torch and axe to their School-Houses.
A statesman could calculate the force such a
document as tbe Proclamation would have in
crippling the rebellion and a skillful General
could estimate tbe effects of campaigns and the
weight of armies in the work of crushing it out,
but who shall presume to estimate the power
which the Public Schools exerted in that work ?
How the rebels and Copperheads cursed and
raved at them during the war ! Wherever they
might be in the length and breadth of the loyal
North, the schools presented a united front
against them 1 Away up in the forests of Maine,
on the shores of the clear Sebec, the flag of the
Union floated oyer the log school-house, and
daily when the sun shone down from Katahdiu,
kissing the morning, and again when his declin
ing splendors trembled along the blue Acadian
heights, the “ Yankee school ma’am” summoned
the rustic sons and daughters of the lumbermen
to stand in rank before the rough benches and
sing the glorious Battle Hymn of the Republic,
and then, over the land it sped like the echoes
of an Alpine horn. The rivers bore it to the
sea and the sea gave back the shout. Millions
of youthful voices swelled the majestic chorus
in town and city, on the mountain side, and in
the pleasant rallies, under the forest trees, and
on the flowery prairies of the West, till the loyal
armies took up the notes and thundered them
above the clangor of arms, the roar of artillery,
and the infuriate yells of baffled traitor hosts—
“ Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
Ho la tramping out the vintage where his grapee of wrath
are stored:
He haa loosed the fitful lightnings of his terrible swift sword,
His day is marching on V 9
Not a School House in the North where the
flag did not float, and where such hymns were
not sung. But not in hymns and songs alone
did the future of loyal and free America speak
in the school room. Histopr of tbe Republic
was taught, lessons in Constitutional Law reci
ted, catechisms against the crimes of secession,
slavery and treason committed, and war dcs
patches from the front read and explained by
the teachers. Such was the picture which the
common Schools of the Union presented during
the rebellion, and in such a way did they give
US hope and ’confidence that the glor.ous estate
of liberty for which we were fighting would
never be squandered or given up to p.rates,
slave lords, and traitor, by our children. With
Slave ioru , legacy is safe. Domestic
treachery may again lift the knife and fling the
of rebellion, and foreign enemies may
invade onr coasts, demolish our forts, burn our
cities and sink our monitors ; but, while the
Common School-Houses remain, and the children
of freemen are allowed to assmkle within their
walls, Liberty and Union have a line of fortifica
tions which cannot be broken —a garrison of in
vincibles who cannot surrender.
Oregon Senator. — In the Union caucus held
Sept. 17th, Gov. A. C. Gibbs, (Radical) was
nominated for U. S. Senator. On the 18th he
received a majority of four rotes ttn the State
Senate for that position. -
The All-Pervading “ John.” —The placer dig
gings of the Boise Basin are being fast yielded
to Chinamen. It is estimated that Boise will
soon contain ten thousand of them.
Back Again. —Dr. L. I. Czapkay, a carer of
all ills who is held in grateful remembrance by
many old Trinitarians, has returned to San Fran
cisco after an absence of two years in Europe.

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