Mendocino Herald (Newspaper) - February 12, 1864, Ukiah, California URIAH MENDOCINO FEBRUARY 12, 1864. NO. 13. every at UWai at tko 07 Ftr la 00 to 2 so For throe la I When payment in delayed for three months tire of Will be So paper will be discontinued aU sua at tka option af LEGAL square of or SS 60. Bach subsequent I 7S Longer advertisements in same The current premium will allowed whan payments are made in Business allowed k Tth 8. Meets 2d of County Court trad of W. S. and J. M Meets on the First Monday la tember Meets Third Monday in of j JOHN and W. H. Meets Third Monday ia August And CANNING County Clerk County Recorder and H. P. 6MITH, Under tm NEELY District JOHN W. JOHN C. A. County R. Common HORRORS OF A professional 9eards. 23.337" himself at will attend to all entrusted to his formerly by Holden & janll 4ID IT NOTARY L. D. Will in tho Courts of the Seventh and the Supreme Mr. Latimer will regularly tho terms tt Vie District Court at March 14, 1802. HOLDEN k ' Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Will attend faithfully to all business pertaining to their profession in all the Courts of tho Seventh Judicial in Sonoma and Lake ' and IN THE SUPREME in UKIAH NEELEY Attorney and DISTRICT Tot COURT WILLIAM Attorney at Santa Sonoma Will attend regularly tho District Courts of and Marin and tho GEORGE H. and ukiah WW attend promptly to any calls in his lino of Work dono on short aad warranted to give Aug. 13, 1862. o. attend to all business pertaining to tho flurrying and laying out of Land Town Lots 4. in Court in tho SHERIFF'S E. L. EE E is TJ O Nx 1-m- Sales of of Property made in Many stories have been told of tbs attachment aDd displayed by some favorite but related by an This was oat oa tbe bankB of a to bis bo felt himself caught by tbe feet and held 6rmly, as if his had in a He made an ineffectual effort to extricate and theh more and and a hig balanc and fell back upon the Half he refrained huj but onley to find he held as fast u be straggled to Wa neither moove them or to the rightor to aud ha became sensible that lie wai gradually going The fearful flashed upon was in a A of horror came over the hapless as with a feeling of be renewed bis to one and then to the almost wrenching bis from their His despite og fast as ha could not move au Ha thus thrillingly narrates the The soft dingy sand already wedging them around so that I was unable to draw off and I could I waa sinking slowley but as though some subterraneous mon. Bter was leisurely dragging mo This very thought caused mo a thrill of I cried aloud for To There was no one within miles of Jiving the neighing of my an swered me from tho mocking mo ia my I bent forward well as my constrained position would with fingers tearing the I could barely reach the and tho I was able to mako filled up almost as soon as it bad been A though t occurred to me my rifle might support placed It was not to be had Bunk the Could I throw my body and prevent myself from sinking deeper J No the was two feet in and I should drown at This last hope left mc as soon as I could think of no plan to save could make further A strange stupor me. My very thoughts became For a moment I was After an interval my senses I made an effort to rouse my mind its in order that I might meet which I now believed to be as a my eyes to with only to the hearts of men placed iu positions of peril like As I continued to look an object attracted my Against the sky I distinguished the outline of a largo I knew it to be a buzzard Whence had it coma Far beyond the reach of man's eye it had seen or scented the and on silent wings was now descending to the feast of Presently and many mottled tho blue fields of the curving and wheeling silently Then the foremost swooped down upon the and after gazing around for a flapped off toward its In a few seconds tho prarie was tho filthy who clambered the dead antelopes and boat thoir wings each while they tore out the eyes of their prey with their I was soon relieved from the My eyes had sunk down below the level of the I had looked my last on the green earth 1 I conld now see onley the clayey wall that contained and Uie water that ran unheeding past me. Once I fixed my gaze upon tho and with a prayerful endeavored to resign myself to my Again I was attracted by neighing of my At the sound a ray filling me with fresh I raised my voice to its and called the animal by I knew that he would como at my aud I tiad him but slightly again I repeating tho words well known to For a moment thero tyas a then 1 tho quick sound of his as though the animal was struggling to free then I could the stroke of his heels in a measured Nearer and clearer tho till the gallant creature bounded oat on the bank above me. There be and uttered He was and Rooked every snorting I knew that haing seso that be would not stop untill ho hod pressed his nose against my for this was his usual Holding out my I the magic Now be perceived and stretching spraug into the Tho next moment I hold him by the I was still going aud my Hearing the of the I caught the rein and a leather thong it under ihe saddle girths fastened it firmly I then looped the trailing making it secure my had left tho rope tho and the girths to me to and guide the noble in case the drag upon body should be to ' ' ' All this while the dumb to comprehend what I was He Uie My arrangements with a feeling of. terrible I horse the signal to move pf going off with a the intelligent animal stepped away as though he understood my I my body and the moment myself dragged out of the I sprang to my feet with a I rushed to my and throwing my armes about his embraced him with He answered my caress with a low whimper that told me I was T looked for my Fortunately it had not sunk I soon found My boots were left but I stayed not to look for being smittes with a dread of tbe plato I left them in. FROM THE A Parable for upon a time n man wno sold goods wholesale and DATES TO FEBRUARY any of ou short aad tho x May ture of tho ground on ho during tbe operation ho kept lifting his to himself from sinking There was once kept a and And he became because customers were shy and times were And he Lo I lam being and the sensation is And my ruin is more painful to because it is slow in even as water doth gradually become hotter in the pot wherein the lobster until the creature out bis soul in Lo 1 it is better to be ruined quickly than to endure this slow I Will give my money away to the poor tho which is ho who and I'll shut and wrap myself inn the and pass my days in tho purlieus of broken cursing the hardness of thu and rending my And the howling of Rome shall be as the ducal sounds of tho dulcimers and they who blow flutes and instruments of compared to tho din I will make in the ears of the iii the ears of bank And even as Se so did for lie was hot like other men who are foolish and know it and will do so and performing afterwards that which is For the sons of men arc and he borne of woman doth spite bis face by diminishing the length of the nose And lo the he who did lish a made glad by the bounty of him who sold wholesale and and ho did sound his and print them and he did blow the trumpet of ' that from rising of the sun to the going down And the printer of magnify and enlarge upon the stock of goods which was in his and did publish the and tho and the and the and tho cheapness till the all of far and near were And they said this man has gathered from tho East and tho west costly merchandise which were of the workmanship of cunning and we know it Go Wo will lay out our silver and gold in those things which the printer of aud that which ho doth publish shall bo For this merchandize is better than the banknotes of those who promise to pay and therein banks of which beguile us to our money and swindle us like But the trader was still sadl The money that these people bring mc for the goods in my store will I give to the and thus will I ruin I will do that which no man hath yet done in my time or I will make the printing whom all man scorn for his rich and ho shall be clad in fine linon and tho sons of men shall seek him in the market and the sheriff shall shun and tho scoffers shall be and take off their hats to him who was tt And he the five dollars in the of the foolish and eat For I will ruin and he who me shall enjoy my But the trading who sold and even as the unclean beast in the so stirred he not Ly reason of much And tho flocked to his stone from tie from the from the East. * r And from the Che printer aud bis fat But the trader could uot become and his and smiles of were on his And his children became mighty in the land by Mason of the dollars which the people wlie read advertisements had pourd into mooy By taking a mau is but evon with his but iu passing it over he is bis ft is not easy to straighten in tho oak tree the crook that grow in the All of youth and parente please 1 Pity it They say that will be isn't equally true that men will be 2d.-The amendment of the Senate Finance Committee to the House to the internal was to-day reported by out the provision for a tas of twenty cents additional on rectified spirits also that which taxes whiskey on hand after January 12th. They increase the tax on whiskey after July 1st. aud prior to January to 3cvonty-five after January 1st. from to eighty cents duty on imported whiskey after prior to it is increased from forty-six to fifty and after January Headquarters Army of the Feb 2.-Intercepted from rebel ladies show that of tho three thousand cavalry sent the valley during the recent cold not over five hundred have frozen to and the who had been sought refuge in farm houses and The entire movement was a total At last accounts Early's force was resting on Middle Mount abandon ed the Deserters continue to arrive from the and report a great scarcity and also a large number wating for a opportunity to avail themselves of the amnesty Tho enrollment of white and within tbe lines of the army is nearly Fortress Monroe Feb. 2.-The steamer Union on the 14th the steamer in with u cargo of i New February 3d.-Tho Herald's New Orleans letter says that troops are being towed over Lake Ponchartrain and landed nt All agree that Mobile is to be by land and The World's Hilton Head letter says operations against Charleston have General Gilmoro goes to to rep resent affairs between himself and Admiral the and Mr. ballad left for California to Tho steamer Western New when fifty miles from captured the blockade runner of and took her 3d.-A later despatch from Washington says tho Senate Finance in their report on tho Internal Revenue drop the tax ou whiskey ou but increase cents on all manufactured the passage of tho to May 1st, and seventy cents on all Manufactured from May 1st to July 1st, and eighty cents on all manufactured Feb. 3d.-A says tho consisting of ouo company of posted at Patterson Creek eight miles east of was attacked yesterday afternoon by 500 cl under after a spirited in which two of our men were killed and ten the greater part of the company was This tbe rebels set fire to the aud leaving it to started off with thoir The employees of the railroad subsequently put out the The bridgo was partially General who was sent from by General this morning overtook tho rebels and a 1 severe engagement The were driven through then through and many of them killed and Our captures were the recovery of our men taken The enemy are still being hotly pursued by our February 3d.-The report of the committee of the Judiciary on the Hale case adopted in tho The consideration of the House Revenue was untill The trade restrictions ou Western Virginia have been removed by order of tho Treasury Tbe following was received at headquarters to-day from tho 2d: General Dodge 24th. Colonel drove Roddy to the sido of the captured all his trains -in over tweney mule hundred head of six hundred and one hundred houses and They destroyed the factory and mill which had largely supplied Tho in executive confirmed the following Duane Govenor of Utah John N. of Amos Secretary of Utah O. H. cnt of Indian Affairs of and D. D. Rear from July 4!h, 1803. f Fivo hundred of the rebel prisoners at Point Lookout have been enlisted in tho United States and about three thousand more have to be allowed to take the under the On the 21st of January an expedition went up James and Pagan Creek to to join an expedition up the under General to destroy provisions and The of 90 men aud one was under and landed at Smithfield for the purpose of marching to When live miles beyond they encountered a rebel 200 with two pieces of routing but receiving false information of a heavy force between them and they returned to Smithfield and sent for tho armed transport Smith to tho did not arrive till 12:30 oir The five hundred with four pieces of attacked Captain Lee at in where he was They held out against several furious attacks and charges from the until the Smith Briggs The enemy were repulsed in each attack with heavy sent three of truco demanding a all of which Captain Lee On when the enemy opened a heavy Ore of artillery upon Tbe chief engineer was wounded and the second is This the boat from and finally a ball struck her boiler and she Captain Lee and a portion of the men escaped by swimming across the but thu others wore and among them Captain who was Our loss in and missing is The enemy's loss in wounded and missing is one hundred and owing to their superior after the capture of the Smith Briggs she blown A special despatch to the headquarters Western on states that Col. this morning drove the enemy from aud the and In Petterson Creek at five hundred of the rebel cavalry attempted to burn the branch and Patterson Creek Bridges and cut the telegraph They were driven without doing serious February 3.-Natchez intelligence of the 23d sets forth that deserters who entered the Federal lines a few days report a rebel General with brigades of Louisana and Texas troops marching from the interior of opposite intending to the river iu order to get arms and across from tbe eastern also tnat Bragg aud staff are expected to cross there to assume command of the forces wost of tho The enemy succeeded the week before last in crossing a float containing thousand stand of and a largo quantity of near A company of tho 29th ure reported to have boon captured fifteen miles in the rear of by the rebel a few days Vanb w Steps are being taken lo organize a new county in this east of Sierra Nevada to include the Silver Mountain Tbe county is to bo mado up of parts of El Dorado and Mono and the name of Alpino is suggested as an appropriate name for the new as it is ono of tho highest countries on tho North American section of country contains a population of some 2,000, and in Wood and water and tbe climate is
