The weekly union record. [volume], February 27, 1864, Image 1

About The weekly union record. [volume] (Oroville, Calif.) 1864-1866

Image provided by: University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA

                
THE WEEKLY UNION RECORD.
VOL. 11.
THE WOH RECOI
PUBLISHED EVERY
SATURDAY MORNING
in. (Mflirr. ». »- **rrn. c - »• W0OTI “*-
Publisher* and Proprietors.
•» Bird Street, between Myers end
Hunlooii Sit.
terms.
One year per Mail ™
Six Months do ij
Three Months do
Delivered by Carrier per Month
Single Copies iu
ADVERTISEMENTS:
Per square of ten lines nr less, first insertion. $3 00
Each subsequent insertion 1
am- A liberal discount will be made in favorof
those who advertise by the year.
Business Cards i averted on reasonable terms
Law of Newspapers.
I. gnfaecribers who do not give express notice to
the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue
publishers may continue to send them uotil all
'**l r *f * nbseritiers neglect or refuse to take their
paper* Irom the office or place to which they are
sen? they are held responsible until they settle
their bill, and give notice to discontinue them.
4. If subscribers move to other places nithout .
informing the publisher, and the paper s
the former direction, they are held responsible.
Vntire nhouM always be "iven of removal.
j The courts have decided th.lt refusing to take
a paper from the office, or removing and leaving'it
uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intentional |
frtud.
BUSINESS CARDS.
H. VAX AISTVXE WITT, 11. H.
Physician and Surgeon,
Will practice profession in
OROVILLK AND VICINITY.
Can be consulted at bis office as follows;
Butte Bounty Hospital iAt his office on Mont-
From «tolo a * 1 gomery street from Ito
*2. and r» to < v m .
•a-Persons wishing to be treated for any form
of disease, will he furnished pleasant rooms at the
Hospital, at a moderate charge.
E. DUNHAM;
|i. S. Assessor and Collector
OF BUTTE COUNTY,CAL.
OFFICE— On My**** Street,
TlelvecH Montgomery and Bird Street*,
OROVILLK.
THOMAS WELLS,
Atlorneyat Law & No Cry Public
Offlc— In Tllenler Bnllillng.
Has renamed the practice ot (.aw in all the courts
of Justice, in Butte and adjoining counties.
CHARLES F. LOTT,
VTTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
Orovili.k Butts County.
Office—Bird st.. between Mversaml Hantoon.
GEO. T. SHAW,
Notary Public,
And Commissioner of Deed* for Srrodet Ter.
Ollier At A. Ci. Slmpion’n Book. Slorr.
J. M. BURT,
Attorney inti Counsellor at Law
Practices in thr courts of the 'id Judicial District
and in the Supreme court.
OFFICE—Tn Burt's brick building, up stairs, on
Bird street, Orovillc.
L. C. Gkanqkb.J I A- Mai-rich. Jr.
GRANGER &. MAURICE,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Will practice in all ot the Counties of the Fif
teenth Judicial District. and in the Supreme Court.
Office—on Bird street.between Huntoon and Myers
streets. Orotili.r. aep.i'.itf.
O. C. BURLINGAME,
DENTIST,
OFFICE-In Mathews" Brick Build
ing, on Hunt *m St.. Mwocu Mont
gomery and Bird Streets,
OHO Vila laid.
DR. JAMES GREEN,
Orovillc;
OFFICE—Corner of Oak street and Miner s Ally
w. PRATT, M. D.
Physician & Surgeon,
Rock Creek, Untie Co-, i
r.k. SMITH s * KOSBNB VI M.
SMITH &. ROSENBAUM,
ATTORNEYS AT 1. \w.
Office Over Saw in A Dunbar’* al stand. Hun-
Yooa street.
DR. D.W.C. WILLOUGHBY
Office—At McDermott s Drug Store.
OROVILLK.
SAM C. DENSON.
ATTORNEY cV COI'ASF.I.I.OIt IT LAW.
Will nmevioe in ail the Court* ot the Hfleenth
Judicial District. ...
Office— With Judge Well*. Biid street. Or-n i.lc
J. BLOCK &. Co,
DEALERS IN C.ROCF.UIES AND MINERS
SUPPLIES,
Montgomery street, Oroville.
GEO. C. PERKINS,
WHOLH-ALF. AND REIT All. DEALER IN
GROCERIES. PROVISIONS AND PKODVCE.
Conner Myers and Montgomery stmts. Orovillc.
A. MCDERMOTT,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIST.
Montgomery Street. Orovillc.
FAULKNER &. Co,
M-W Wf ■— EH9.
Corner Myers »ad lloalomcry Streets. A
HOTELS, &C.
International Hotel
Corner Montgomery and Lincoln st*.,
OROVILLE.
BIRD & LOWRY,
PROPRIETORS.
JLOWRV. HiTTXIi PURCHASED
• an interest in this well known and popular
Hotel, the proprietors would assure the residents
of Oroville and the traveling public, that no means
will lie left untried to enable them to deserve a
share of their patronage.
THE TABLE
Is snpplied with every luxury of the season, and
every thing will be done to insure the comfort of
the guests at this house.
THE BAR
Will always [re supplied with choice liquors and
cigars.
Single Meal* o® Cents.
Lodging* 50 to 75 Cents.
*■*. The Office of the California Stage Company
is at the International.
a#” Stages leave this hotel every day for all
parts of the country.
RALPH BIRD.
JAMES LOWRY,
BARNUM
RESTA.tTRA.KT
1 lor. Montgomery &. Hnntomi Sts.,
OROVILLE.
the undersigned, puo- as^
printer of this establishment, v
* hereby informs the Public that vo
lie prepared to furnish meals at all hour, day and
night, composed of ail the substautials and delica
cies of the season which the market affords.
BALLS, PARTIES,
And Assemblies of every nature ,
will)* supplied with Dinners. Suppers and Colla
tions. in the best style and on Hie most Literal
term- 5 .
Connected with the Restaurant is a BAR. where
ean always lie found the best and every description
of Liquors.
TERMS:
Hoard per Week $0 OO
Single Mcnls 50
Board per Week wllli Lodging .. . 7.00
Lodgings per Mglit *<W
ap!9tf J. REYNOLD,Proprietor.
ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL,
Orovill o .
rjAHE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT
JL fully inform his friends and the public gene
rally that he has rented the
“ ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL."
(formerly kept by Frank Johnson,) in Oroville,
and he would be pleased to see his friends, when
ever they will give him a rail.
ROBERT O’NEIL, Proprietor.
Oroville, June loth, IS6J.
What Cheer House,
OROVILLE,
Montgomery street
Between Myers and Hun toon Streets.
IAIIE SUBSCRIBER RESI'Ei TEE LEV IN
forms his friends and the public, that he fur
nishes at the above house the best board and lod
ging for the ftdlowing prices:
Board and lodging per week sr» Ort
Board per week.. $5 00
Single meals 25
Beds .23 and 30
A Splendid. Bar
Containing the very best of Liquors and cigars
has been added to the establishment.
Call and examine for yourselves. R. OLIVER.
MAIERS HOTEL,
MYERS STREET, BETWEEN BIRD AND ROB
INSON,
OROVIIiLiE.
r>. MAI EH, Proprietor.
Tims HOUSE IS NEWLY RE FITTED. FUR
nished. and well arranged, and provided with
pleasant room-, aff Tiling pleasant homes for fam
ilies and transient Boarders.
Board and Lodging at Reduced Prices.
nil D. MAIEU.
Maple Spring House.
A. RAPP Proprietor.
Located six miles above Dog Town, and one
mile above Lovebxk’s. <l*xi tart- and accommo
dations. The patronage of the public is
K. LAKI kfiOSH
E. LANE & Co.
>C IW .K »« ,
Montgomery street. Oroville.
A.O.SILFSON- ‘THOS. CALLOW
A. G. SIMPSON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in BOOKS AND
stationery, stable and fancy
articles.
Theatre Block, Hantoon street. Oroville.
OKOVU.LK LODGE 10,!, F. A. M.
a THE STATED COMMUNIC ATIONS OF
Lodge. No. 10r.,0f F. A. M..are
fnrAheld on the last Saturday of each month,
and called meetings every Saturday, at the Masonic
Hall.ove! JL. McDermott's Drug Store.
GEO. C. PERKINS. W. M
Maa Bkooss Sec y.
OROVILLE,
The patriotic concurrent resolutions intro
duced in the Assembly at an early day of the
session, by Thompson Campbell, of San Fran
cisco —which were unnecessarily delayed by
debate and triSiag disagreement were at
length adopted without material change, in
both Houses, on the 17th iost.. with additional
resolutions requesting the Governor to transmit
copies of said concurrent resolutions to the
President of the United Slates, and to each of
our Senators and Representatives: and that he
be requested to telegraph immediately their
substance to our delegation in Congress. They
are sound and loyal to the core, and speak em
phatically and unequivocally the sentiment cf
the loyal masses of California. We print them
in full, as follows:
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate con
curring—l. That the people of the State of
California are uncompromisingly loyal, and
that we repudiate the political heresy of State
supremacy when brought in conflict with Fed
eral authority, holding lhat each has its proper
sphere, but that in ail National affairs the
Constitution, and the laws of the United States
made in pursuance thereof, are the supreme law
of the land, and which no State, either by leg
islation, judicial decision, or otherwise, can
disobey, controvert or evade, without violating
this great fundamental principle of our Gov
ernment, for the maintenance of which the
people of this State are prepared to die rather
than surrender.
2. That the rebellion is a war of the Southern
slave-owning aristocracy against the democracy
of the nation, and is a blow struck against all
free Government.
3. That we indorse ail the measures of the
Administration adopted for the purpose of
subduing the present most wicked rebellion ;
and. first, we indorse the abolition of slavery in
the District of Colombia ; second, we indorse
the Act making free from slavery ail territory
belonging to the United Slates: third, we in
dorse the Confiscation Act: fourth, we indorse
the Conscription Law ; fifth, we indorse the
suspension of the writ of habeas corpus; sixth,
we indorse the enlistment of negro soldiers to
fight in onr National armies; seventh, we in
dorse the noble stand taken by President Lin
coin, that all who wear the uniform of the
Union shall receive the same protection ; eighth,
we iudorse the financial policy of the Govern
ment, and the Legal Tender Law. ns the great
administrative measure for successfully cam ing
on the war against the rebellion, and which we
pledge ourselves to defend ami uphold; ninth,
we iudorse the policy of establishing Military
Governments in the revolted .States, as ncees
sary to enable the President to see that the
laws therein are faithfully executed ; tenth, we
iudorse the Act admitting Western Virginia,
into the Union.
4. That we indorse the proclamation by the
President of the United Slates, of January
first,eighteen hundred and sixly-threc, declaring
the slaves in all the territory which it covers
forever free; and we hold that its operation is
not contingent upon the occupation of any
territory by the National arms, but lhat it is
self-acting, and gives to each slave a full and
complete legal title of freedom, and we will
never consent that they shall, for any purpose
or for any end, be returned to their former
condition of bondage; but we pledge ourselves
10 stand by and support President Lincoln iu
his noble determination to maintain the plighted
faith of the nation inviolate, as expressed iu his
last Message, when he says : “1 shall not at
tempt to retract or modify the emancipation
proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any
person who is free by the terms cf the procla
mation, or by any Act of Congress.''
5. That we indorse ihe plan of reconstruction
as set forth in the proclamation of the Presi
dent, and appended to his last Message:
First, because it establishes in the rebellious
States now under Ihe National ting, or that
may come under it, a rallying point for the
organization of all loyal men: second, because
it guards and protects the emancipated slave
against the possibility of re enslavement; third,
because it will enable the United States to
practically guarantee to every State to which
11 applies a republican form of government, and
to protect each of them against invasion :
fourth, because it pain's out a mode by which
the deluded masses of the rebellious States may
return to their allegiance, with the restoration
of all their rights, while it reservi s the right to
punish the guilty instigators and leaders of the
rebellion for the great crime they have com
mitted ; fifth, because it provides for the sup
port and protection of the freed men of the re
bellious territory as a condi'ion precedent for
pardon and the restoration of forfeited rights;
sixth, because it presents a mode by which the
National authority over every loyal State
Government may be established, and the State
thus restored to its place in the Union : and
seventh, because it precludes the possibility of
any peace which shall acknowledge the exist
ence or reestablishment of slavery in any part
of the rebellious territory covered by the
emancipation proclamation.
6. That the proposition of the Copperhead
members of Congress, to send Commissioners
to Richmond to sue for peace from armed trai
tors, should consign their names to eternal in
famy, and he who would treat with armed
treason is himself a traitor, and deserves a
traitor's punishment; California will accept no
peace which is not based upon an unconditional
surrender.
7. That we iudorse the construction of the
Confiscation Law which has for its object the
unconditional forfeiture of the property of
rebels; and our Senators arc hereby instructed
and our Representatives in Congress requested
to urge its adoption.
8. That wo tender cur gallant army and
navy, officers and men, the heartfelt thanks of
the loyal people of the loyal Stale of California,
for their glorious achievements, for the renown
which they have given to the American name,
and we guarantee to them that, while they are
fighting our battles, traitors at home shall not
be permitted to deprive them of the least of
their civil rights.
9. That the President's proclamation of
pardon, as appended to his Message, i> limited
to the people of the rebellious States, as therein
specified, and has no application either to pris
oners of war, or to pt'rsons who have been
tried, convicted and sentenced by the Courts
of the country.
10. That the barbarous treatment of Union
prisoners by the rebels is without a parallel ic
the annals of civilization, and should bring
down upon them the execrations of the whole
civilized world : and we hail with delight the
recent action of the Government in placing the
whole phalanx of rebel prisoners under the ju
risdiction of General Duller, that great rebel
lamer, and we earnestly invoke such a system
of retaliation as will force the barbarism of
slavery to yield to the humane rules of civilized
warfare.
11- That in Abraham Lincoln. President of
the United States, we recognize purity of life,
singleness of purpose, the tar seeing, conscien
tious statesman, the uncompromising, unsullied
patriot, the aim of whose life is the preservation
of the Uuion and the restoration of peace upon
the immutable and eternal foundations of free
dom and freedom only; that to bis wisdom,
sleepless watchfulness, unselfish patriotism,
prompt action and determined will to pursue
the right aud abandon the wrong, the people
The Patriotic Resolutions.
of these United States are indebted for the
proud position which they this day occupy on
the great map of nations; that, when wc con
sider the fiery ordeal through which this mac
of the people has passed unscathed and un
tainted. it is not strange that public confidence
in him should remain unshaken; and that,
while we revere and honor other noble patriots
who have performed so well their several parts
in this great drams, the pconh still look to
Abraham Lincoln as the instrument selected by
Providence to lead their country in safety
through all its peril 2, and restore it again to a
peace in which no element of discord shall be
found, and that we do most heartily favor his
re-election.
The President.
The following article from the Topeka State
Record, a leading newspaper in Kansas, is so
Just and appropriate that we are sure oar
readers will thank as for printing it :
From the army. from the New Kngiand
States, open the trains, wherever you will. East
or West, at the mention of the name of Abra
bam Lincoln, the people indicate that they are
for him. They feel that be is an honest man.
and a true patriot, and care not to try experi
ments by calling any new, untried man into the
Presidential chair. The people are content to
let well-enough alone, and feel like taking no
chances npon any new man at the present im
portant juncture in National affairs. The
masses are for him—the soldiers are for him
everywhere—all thinking men. with one voice,
say .Mr. Lincoln must close this war. and settle
the future policy of the country. There is
justice in all this. Mr. Lincoln was elected
constitutionally, and, elected thus, has a right
to bo President of the United Slate*— all the
Stales. lie bad a right to expect the faithful
observance of their sacred obligations to the
General Government by all the States, but
found instead some of them setting thcauthorily
of the Government at defiance, all of which he
has endured with patient faithfulness and honest
patriotism, lie is regarded as a patient, saga
cious, wise aid humane man—none more so
among living American statesmen, lie is
radical in all that requires radical aclion. The
class of people who are talking of this man, or
that man, as embodying the principles of a
radical party, better than Mr. Lincoln, are
mythical in all such remarks, when the climax
ol all that was held radical by the extreme wing
of the Republican party has been carried out,
and made prominent measures of. this Admin
i,-tration ; so there is nothing remaining, even
in theory, to be further prosecuted by a radical
party. To admit that Gen. Fremont or Gen.
Hunter each moved in radical war measures
ahead of President Lincoln, at this time has
nothing of argument whatever, as the President
has fully kept puce with public opinion on all
these measures. The Proclamation nf Freedom
was duly made and adhered to. The policy of
mustering and arming negroes as soldiers is
fully maintained, and that, too. with great
success. The confiscation of rebel property is
also being done bj the Federal Courts, where
ever such property is found within their juris
diction. Mr. Lincoln is careful of what he
does, and rash in nothing.
For these reasons, we say that Kansas should
be bold and unanimous in her support o! the
President, and we have no doubt she is and
will be. The history of Mr. Lincoln's admin
istratiou will be a bright and shining light in
the history of our country. He will be hailed
os the liberator of the bondsman and the
restorer of the great American Union.
Tecmpixo for Recruits.—Gen. Sonic, at
Denver City, in liis poster advertising for a
few more recruits, gets off the following.—
Read it:
Pii.oßiMs' ScrroßT.-5d02.000. ‘’Poor
Old Thing.'' "Old Sweetness" for your Rip
roaring Bull Whackers, ami fatigued Miners,
who are loyal to your country, and would like
to put iu a few day 's service before the close of
the war. “That's What’s the Matter." Von
will get 8302,000 in greenbacks as bounty.
874,ditto start in with,Bs6 at the end of two
months, ami the rest in instalments. Only
thirty more men wanted in the First Cavalry
of Colorado. Any man can go in a “Pauper,”
and be mustered out with the Regiment, and
have money enough left to start a bank or
run a quartz mill. If you want good cloths
“till you cant rest,” come to the office. If
yon want a “square meal” come and eat with
ns, and we won’t charge you a red for it.—
You bet your life we are “on it” and suffer
with pleasure.
I iik rebel prisoners at Camp Douglas. Chi
cago, have all sorls of things sent to them by
their sympathetic friends. Upon examining a
turkey sent from Kentucky, in the center o( the
dressing or “stuffing” a small homocpathic vial
was found, neatly corked and sealed, which,
upon being opened, was found to contain a 850
Government greenback. A neat, square piece
of head-cheese was received three or four days
later, inside of which was found 820 in grecn
backs. very securely protected from moisture in
the same manner. Ten dollars were found in
the middle of a loaf of cake sent one of the
prisoners—evidently doubled across the end of
a case-knife blade, and shoved to the center
of the cake.
Cottos and Lancashire Pauperism.—By
recent news from England, it seems that pau
perism has slightly increased in the manufac
turing districts, but it was expected that other
employment woold soon be furnished to all who
were capable of working out of doors upon
public works, for which large appropriations
had been made under an act of Parliament.
About 30,000 bags of cotton per week have
lately been consumed, of which there were from
America 2,500 bags, Kgypt t.SOO, Brazil 3.000,
West Indies 1.000, .and East Indies 19.000.
The supply is not equal to the present demand.
A few weeks ago. a returned sutler called
at the residence of a highly respectable family
in Half Moon, Saratoga county, N V . m l
sold his overcoat. The garment was taken ami
washed. The family, at the lime, comprised
efght members—a husband and w ife and six
grown up children—fou r sous and two girls.
In the coarse of a few days, the whole family
was s'ricken with disease ; father and son die-d
and were buried ou the same day. Two sons
soon after died, and were buried at one funeral.
The fourth son died shortly after, and a daugh
ter. The last son was buried last week. The
mother and surviving daughter have been low
with the same disease. The disease was fever,
and it is believed to be yellow fever by some.—
Exchange.
SqUATTER Troubles. — There is likely to be
a serious difficulty in the Truckee Meadows,
from the fact that the land is coming into
market, and outsiders have commenced jumping
ranches, under the impression that the persons
in possession, who have them enclosed, cannot
hold more than ICO acres. The que-tion is an
intricate one, and its discussion will, perhaps,
lead to rim and bloodshed. Parties go armed
aud are ready to engage in the coullict at a
moment's notice.
A saw mill on a new plan has just been put
in operation at Cheshire, Mich . by J. el. Lind
say, the inventor ; the saw works horizontally,
cutting the lumber from '.be top of the log. and
after passing through the log, it is turned over,
the carriage is started the other way, and the
saw works back again, cutting the log as before
For the Union Record.
Memories.
Tis twilight hour—the sun has set
Behind the di?tant bill;
The little birds hare hushed their songs—
All nature now is still ;
The lengthening shadows gather fast.
The winds no longer sigh ;
The stars soon slowly, one bj one.
Will light the aaure sky.
What thoughts cf scenes and friends I've loved
Cling round my heart, to-night 1
And. though for manv years I've roved.
Their memory still is bright;
I >ie my mother's gentle smile.
Her loving voice I bear.
As last she said farewell to me.
And dropped the parting tear.
My father, too, his blessing gave—
How many times I've thought
What kind advice his lips have breathed—
What useful le«ons taught!
My trot’ ers and ray sister dear—
How vainly i have tried
To stay the tears that still would flow.
To see them by my side.
But oh I a memory cherished more—
More sacred than the rest:
My darling wife was snatched away—
The one I loved the best I
I see my little cottage homo.
Amid the trees and flowers,
When bright birds warbled all the day,
Soon sped those happy honrs.
Her dark blue eyes and golden hair.
Her heart of love and truth—
How can I evermore forget
That dear one loved in youth?
With breaking heart, how day by day
I watched my bright star fade !
Too so< u, alas! she [Kissed away.
And in the tomb was laid.
One little child to mo she gave.
My hopes around it clung ;
Soon I was sunk in sorrow’s wave—
I lost my only son!
So now a w anderer on the earth—
A stranger and alone—
How oft, at this lone twilight hour.
Sad memories 'round me come! cloudv.
Copperhead Soliloquy—Past and Present.
Before I take that ‘‘laucoln oath,”
I will starving go from place to place ;
The “abolition" cloven foot
May stamp me in the back and face,
Bat never turn my thought and will—
My In*pes will be in “copper" still.
I am sick—toy mind is shaken—
The reas n I cannot explain ;
1 feci better, now the oath is taken—
My sickness will uot now remain ;
1 find that the “pang of conscience”
Is nothing more than stuff and nonsense, r. 1
The Song of the Cat.
The oat! the cat!
She sits on the mat.
All day a-vviuking and purring ;
’The lazy cat.
She's blind as a bat.
When the rats and mice arc stirring.
The cat I the cat!
She's sitting, as sat
The cats fur Adam to feed 'em—
The sly old cat!
Mother Eve cried “Scat!"
Tu the sell-same cats iu Eden !
The cat! the cat!
Nor this, nor that.
Has changed since the first blind kitten.
The cat is a cat
Since Cain, the brat.
For pinching her tail was bitten.
The cat I the cat !
The same that sat
On the knee of Lot in Sodom ;
Twas just such a cat
That hissed and spat,
In the Ark, by Noah trod on !
The cat 1 the cat!
Like this one sat.
Whom Pharaoh’s prayers were said to ;
The same old cat
His priests bowed at.
In the temples of Thebes and Edfou.
Our sleepy cat,! -
There’s never a rnt
Or mouse afraid to wake her!
Our harmless cat.
For the matter ot that.
Is the very cat tor a Quaker!
The cat! the cat !
What would she Ik? at.
If left as her own provider ?
Poor cat! poor cat!
She'd starve on her mat.
And the mice would dance beside her.
How to J i mp Safely from the Cars.— We
often see persons make a bungling jump from
cars while in motion, and often see them thrown
down. This arises from a want of reflection,
a= they could jump safely (if they only knew
how), though it is better and safer to wait till
the cars stop than to run any risk. Now there
is a way, that all persons should know, by
which one can jump safely, even though the
cars arc going at great speed. Take care to
have sure foothold when you are about to jump,
then jump easily forward at a little angle from
the cars the same way they move, and continue
your pace easily when you strike the earth, and
you will not fee! any more sensation than in an
ordinary run. If the cars are at a very great
speed, and necessity requires you to jump to
save your life, then give all your vigor and
strength and jump with the cars, yet at a slight
ar.irle from them, and jump as high as possible
into the air—the higher the belter —for the
body will soon lose its momentnm and you will
descend and light upon yonr feet without injury.
This can be seen by sending an apple or a
rocket into the air; when its strength upward
is gone, it falls to the ground in a direct line :
so persons that jump up in this way. without
fear, are safe. Any other way is always
dangerous to life. — ExcJmnge.
The father of the press in New England,
Hon. John Prentiss, of Keene. N. II , in a
communication to the Portsmouth Journal,
after briefly following the prominent men who
have been mentioned in connection with the
next Presidency, concludes 4 that there is no
wiser course than to continue President Lincoln
another that he may • have the opportonity
of carrying out his great and noble designs. ’
A Doctor of Divinity did a fine thing, the
other day, in ringing the changes on ‘-Lie that
bath cars to hear, let him hear.’’ 'He that is
accessible to auricular vibration.” said the
Doctor, ‘let him not close the gates of'his
tympaiii.'
Dl'btxg the thickest of the battle at Lookout
Mountain, a soldier laid down his musket and
coolly sang “Root Hon or Die.’, to Ibo great
amusement of his comrades, who stopped
fighting to listen.
An Irishman tells of a fight in which there
was but one whole nose left in the crowd, “and
that belonged to the tay-kettle.”
Killing a Hero. Hovelistically.
Wasboe is fail of editors, old newspaper
men and literary cusses Kerry day she edi
tor of the Enterprise is astonished at hearing
some stock broker, merchant, maledriver.
i cook or wood sawyer, whom he had never
suspected, plead guilty of having wreHed the
sword subduing weapon. “Yesterday, says
the Enterprise, of a recent date. * a trailer in
feet said in conversation on literary matters :
‘Weil. 1 once ran a paper myself. It was in a
small village in California. I was editor,
book keeper, collector and roller-boy. This
was well enough, bat I turned story writer—
I thought 1 mast have a long story, Tanning
through the various numbers of my paper. I
cot alemg verv well for several weeks. My he
ro was a splendid fellow —a regular love of
a hero. He was to be* kilted, f ream the first
he was doomed to death. But how to kill him
j now be'eamo the plague of my life. The sto
re was getting oatrageoosly long. Kvery
week I said, "Now. 1 will kill* him 1 and the
next week found him aiivc and more of a he
ro than over. Never was there a hero pos
sessed etf such d—d vitality. I once took him
ail the way down to Me'xico, got him into a
deep, dark canon—l was now determined to
kill. But, d—n the fellow 1 he was always
finding out seme new and glorious adventure,
and I hadn't the heart to kill him till it was
finished. He got out of the canon alive,
and shone a hero more brilliant than before.—
All the trouble of getting him into the canon
was lost, and I bad to take him to some new
place to kill him 1 gave np nearly everything
else and devoted my whole time to planning
the death of my hero. In spite of the impor
tunities of creditors, I pursued him. week af
ter week, with murderous intent, yet he was
snch a splendid fellow that I couldn't kill him
I never would have been able to give him the
death stab, had not the paper busted up :
then, in the last number, in a fit of despera-.
lion, and at a most unsuitable lime. I laid him
stiff and cold in a single paragraph.' 1
The Murderer of Gen. McCook.
We are informed by an officer who was
confined in one of the prisons at Cin-!
cinnati, that while Morgan was in the |
neighborhood of that city, an old gen
tleman came in and inquired of Gen.
Morgan's officers “if there was such
an officer in his command as Captain
Gurley.” The officer addressed re
plied that there was not. “ Well,”
says the old man. “ I can sleep, but I
had determined, if Captain Gurley was
in your command, neither to eat nor
sleep until I had revenged myself in Ids
blood for the murder of my son.” The
old gentleman remained a few moments
longer, talking of his former deeds of
valor and the service he had done his
country during the war, with his splen
did repeating rifle, although the duties
of his office as paymaster has not re
quired his presence in the field. When
he rose to depart, he remaked that he
was sorry that Captain Gurley was not
with General Morgan, for he had
resolved to wreak his vengeance on him,
even if ho had been a prisoner; but as
he was not with the command, he sup
posed he would have to kill somebody
else of Morgan’s command. When he
had gone, Dr. Miller, surgeon for Dick
Morgan’s regiment, asked the Yankee
officer of the day who that man was.
The officer replied, in some astonish
ment at his ignorance. “ Why, sir,
this is the great Major Dan McCook,
the father of the ‘ lighting McCook
I supposed everybody knew Major Mc-
Cook . ” —. It la >i}n Inteliigenre r.
A Dog Mail Train.— The follow
ing extract from a private letter from
Pambina shows how the mail is trans
ported from that point to Crow \\ ing :
“The mail had to lay over one trip on
account of the lameness of one of the
carrier Jogs. You will probably think \
it strange that the groat United States
mail should bo delayed several days for
such a cause, but nevertheless it was.
The mail is carried from bore to Crow-
Wing, a distance of 350 miles, by dog
trains, and if one set of dogs get foot
sore when their turn comes, the mail
has to lay over. To-morrow, they say,
the dogs will be right and the mail
will go forward, I saw the first dog mail
train leave here on last mail day. It
consisted of three middling size dogs.
They looked more like wolves than dogs.
They had regular harness, very fanci
fully ornamented, and buckskin saddles,
gorgeously worked with beads. The
dogs arc driven in tandem style. They
go from forty to fifty miles per day,
the half-breed driver trotting behind
most of the way.”- — St. Paul (Minn.)
Pioneer.
Antiquity of the Pig.— The is the
existing representative of a very ancient
race of animals which lived and died j
upon this earth long before there were 1
Christians to devour, or Jews to abhor
then- flesh. The same species of
wild boar thatxvas haunted by our fore
fathers was contemporary with the
mammoth, cave-bear, and long-haired
rhinoceros. Some persons imagine that
geology deals only with fossil shells or
fishes ; but thers is a vast deal of in
terest attached to the geological history
of the predecessors and representatives
of our domestic animals. \N e know
that the wild ancestor of our domestic
pig was in existence before the separa
tion of England from the continent of
Europe; and that the hunter—had hun
ters then lived, might have chased the
boar through forests the site of which
is now occupied by the waves of the
England Channel. Mammoth tigers,
and rhinoceroses perished, but the wild
boar lived, and lives still on the con
tinent of Europe, though extinct here.
Sc me one advised Ales. Logan, a
witty Scotch advocate, to read a bomb
astic book on a good subject, saying,
“ Don’t you like to expatiate in that
field ?” when he replied—“ I cannot
get over the style.”
Probably the wittiest saying in the language
is Douglas Jerrold's definition of dogmatism—
that it U puppyism come to maturity.
Romance in Real Life.—
Washington Republican say- that eo®
martial' do not always arrive at r®i
rcct conclusions. For instance. i®j
manv days since information reach®
the President that a young man. 1®
longing to the Army of the Potom®
had been sentenced by court martial®
be shot for desertion. The boy v®j
doomed to die in a few hours when t®
despatch was received. No time si
to be lost. A telegram was sent®
Gen. Meade suspending the execuuc®
An examination of the case w as order®
by the President, when it was asc®
tained that the young man ought H
have been promoted long ago tor galia®
and meritorious sen ice. instead of bet®
shot! It appears that upon the mar®
of the Army of the Potomac towar®
-Maryland, on the occasion of Lee's fir®
raid "northward, live young man allud®
to became exhausted, and fell out H
i the ranks, and. as soon as he recoverc®
he proceeded on after his regiment,bfl
not finding it, and there being no tin®
to lose, he fell into the ranks of anoth®
regiment, and fought gallantly at Sow®
Mountain and Antietam, and w®
wounded in the last-named battle. I®
was sent to a hospital, which fact, I®
the absence of a proper system in su®
cases, did not reach the.officers of hfl
regiment. At last he was arrested ®
a deserter, tried, condemned, and w®
about to be shot, when, by the inteß
ferenec of the Executive, his life w®
saved, and a young man, hastily co®
detuned to an ignominious death,, w®
suddenly restored to honor. I
A Goon Hit for a Youth.— A l
old chap in Connecticut,who was one
the most niggardly men known in thal
part of the country, carried on thl
blaeksmithing business very extensive!®
and as generally the case in that Statil
boarded all bis own hands. And tl
show he envied the men what they cal
he would have a bowl of bean soul
dished up for himself to cool, while thal
for the hands was served up in a largl
pan just from the boiling pot. Thil
old fellow had an apprentice who wal
rather unlucky among the hot irons!
frequently burning his fingers. Thl
old man scolded him severely one dayl
for being so careless. ‘"How can I
tell,” said the boy, “if they are hotl
unless they are red V’ I
“Never touch anything again till yol
spit on it; if it dont hiss it won’t burn.’!
In a day or two the old man sent thl
boy in to sec if his soup was cool. Thl
boy went in—spit in the bowl; ofcoursl
the soup did not hiss. He went bael
and told tbc boss all was right. I
“Dinner !” cried ho. I
AH hands run ; down sat the old mail
at the head of the table ; and in wei.i
a large spoonful of the boiling hot souij
to his month. I
“ Good heavens !” cried the old mail
in the greatest rage. “ W hat did yoJ
tell me that lie fur I you young rascal !’■
“ I did not lie,” said the boy, vei l
innocently. “ You told me I shoull
spit on everything to try if it was hotl
I spit in your bowl, and the soup dil
not hiss, so I supposed it was cool. ” I
Judge of the effect upon the jours!
That boy never was in want of friend!
among the journeymen. I
It takes Frenchmen to he ingenious J
One of them, Dr. Burg by name, haJ
just discovered a cure for the cholcra.l
He alleges that copper and some other!
metals is a preservative against cholcraJ
and in proof of it he declares, no doubt!
on good authority, that in the different!
visitations of the cholera in I ranee,!
the men employed in copper and iron!
works, and especially in the former, en
tirely c=caped any attack of the disease,
though it caused devastation around
them. The same fact, he adds, was
observed in Russia, in Germany and in
other countries. Ho recommends the
wearing of a sheet of copper around
the breast. This discovery will lead
to a revolution in tailoring and mautua
making. Instead of cotton or flannel
underthings, we shall wear copper
waistcoats and undershirts of the same
material,stitched by the blacksmith w ith
half inch rivets and tenpeuny nails.
Wo shall bo copper-fastened, like
steamships. There’s nothing like pro
gress.
A Goon Day's Work.—A German
editor in Pennsylvania givcs’the follow
ing account of what he accomplished
intone day : The day before the last
election, being out of wood anil out of
monev to buy it. I borrowed m_\ neigh
bor’s team, drove five miles to the tim
ber. pulled off my coat, chopped a cord
of hickory, took it home, sawed it up in
to stove-wood : then went to the mill,
which is four miles distant,got my flour;
returning home 1 stopped at the brew
ery. drank a gallon of lager and went
home, took ray supper, went to my
office, wrote a two-column editorial,
went down to get something to dririK,
oot into a quarrel with a Copperhead,
knocked him down, made him hurrah
for Curtin ; then went home, went to
bed, fought a night-mare two hours,
came off victorious, took a spiritual
flight to Deutschland, drank some Rhein
wein, came back, and got Lome in time
to vote the wholl Union ticket.
Punch says ; “ Women arc said to
have stronger attachment' than men.
It is not so. Strength of attachment
is evinced in little things. A man is
often attached to an old hat; but did
you ever know of a woman having an
attachment for an old bonnet ?”—Echo
answers—“ Never I”
:nto i