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Bmtsw VOL. XIII. LOS ANGELES, GAL., SATUKDAY, JAMIAKY 30, 1864. NO. 39. €05 /2rXt%t[t5 0tar: PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, At the STAR BUILDINGS, Spring Street, Lao Angeles, - BY H. HAIH.TOSI, TERMS: Subscriptions.per annum, in advance, .$5 TJO For Six Months 3 00 For Three Months 2 00 Single Number.^., ^ 9 12J Advertisements inserted at Two Dollars per square of tea lines, for the first insertion ; sad One Dollar per square for each subsequent insertion. ▲ liberal deduction made to yearly Advertisers. San Francisco Agency. Mr. C. A. CR 1KB is the only authorized agent (or the Las Anqesles Star in Sau Francisco. All orders left aft-his offioe, Northwest corner of Washington and Sansome streets, Government tulding, (ap stairs) will be promptly attended to. HOTSESL.S- BELLA UmON HOTEL, LOS ANGELES. JOHN KING & HENRY HAMIIEL, Proprietor*. THE SUBSCRIBERS having leased the above named Hotel, wish to assure their friends and the travelling public that they will endeavor to keep tbe Bella Union what it has always been, THE BEST HOTEL IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Families can be accommodated with large, airy rooms, or suits of rooms, well furnished. The Bills of Fare shall be inferior to none in the State. AU the Stages to and from Los Angeles arrive at and depart from this Hotel. The Bar and Billiard-Saloons shall receive the must strict attention, and the patrons shall find that this house will be carried on as a Srst class Hotel ought to be. Los Angeles, May 3-1, 1862. J. J. MURPHY, PROPRIETOR. THE SUBSCRIBER having leased the above house, wishes to assure his friends H and the traveling public, that he will pn- |!1 deavorto keep the WILLOW GROVE HOUaE A FIRST CLASS HOTEL. This House iR half a mile East of the Town of Lexington, oa the main road to the Colorado River. Families can be accommodated with large rooms, as the above House has been newly furnished and well ventilated. The bar is well supplied with the best of LIQUORS and CIGARS. Attached to the Hotel is a large STABLE and Corral, where the best of HAY, BARLEY and CORNis kept for sale and feed. This is the only place where there is plenty of water. J. J. MURPHY. Bt. Montr, Oct. 25. 1863. oct3l-tf THIS HOTEL, newly opened, in the principal place of business in EL MONTE, is fi» lesigned for the ACCOMMODATION of I'j'Mj'M TRAVELERS on the road from Los Angeles tu San Bernardino and the Colorado River. Animals are well taken care of at the S1AB£E AND HAY-'JARD, . Which is abundantly supplied with WATER, and where FEED can always be obtained on reasonable terms. J. W. EVANS, Jtt. F. Q.U1NN. El Monte, Sept. 28, 1863. Cor. Sansome and Halleck Streets (OPPOSITE THE AMERICAN THEATRE,) SAN FRANCISCO. THE UNDERSIGNED respectfully informs the Traveling Public, as well as the more permanent Boarder, that he has leased the above well nown and centrally located Hotel, and intends keeping it as A FIRST-CLASS HOUSE, At Moderate Prices. In the last three months there has been expended a arge amount in Re-modellng and Re-fwrnlslilng, the EXCHANGE, and it will now compare favorably with the first class hotels of the city. WE HAVE SPLENDID SUITS OF APARTMENTS for Families; also a large number of line single rooms for gentlemen. It is the purpose of the Proprietor to make the EX- HANGE one of the most comfortable and home-like otels In the State, and make the Prices to Suit the Times. THE 1? A. IO Tj DE! ■Will be supplied with every delicacy the season affords. Attached to the house are fine BATHING ROOMS for Ladies or Gentlemen. JOHN W. SARGENT, Proprietor. CLARK'S PEi THE CHEAPEST AND BEST ARTICLE For Marking Linen. ? For sile by the gross, at 305 Montgomery street, Room No. 2. San Francisco. eb22 W. HOLT. KTOTIOE, \mrnm Curbs. B. S. GRAY WOULD respectfully informthepublic, thatheispre- pared to perform all services pertaining to the interment of deceased persons. He will attend to the laying ont of bodies, arranging for funerals, furnish badges, gloves, etc., If requested. Any orders left at his residence, New High Street, near the Catholic Church, or at his store, on Main Street, opposite the New Market, will be promptly attended to. 49*N. B,—All orders for DIGGING GRAVES, must be loft at the earliest moment possible. JM Angeles, June 1*3,1863. A. B. CHAPMAN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. OFFICE in Tfemple's Building, near the Land Office. aug29 ARCADIA BLOCK, Next to Corbitt & Barker's, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Gents' Furnishing Goods, l>ress Goods, White Goo^s, Embroidery and Lace Goods, Dress Trimmings, Hosiery, Gloves, &c. jan4 S. HELLMAJf, TEMPLE'S BLOCK, tt ' »- MAIN STREET, Los Angeles, — DEALER IN — Books and Stationer^, Cigars. Tobacco,. Candy, Cutlery and Fancy Goods, Sic. CIRCULATING- LIBRARY. GARDEN SEEOS. DR. J. C. WELSH, PHYSICIAN AND SjURGEON, Office, CITY DRUG STORE, Main street, Los Angeles. Office hours, 9 to 12, m ; and 2 to 9, p.m. August 1, 1859. S. & A. LAZARD, IMPORTERS, And Wholesale and Retail Dealers in French, English and American Dry Goods. Corner of Melius Row,LosAngeles. 1 62 PHINEAS BA FORWARDING and COMMISSION AGENT, New San Pedro and Los Angeles. • ±VM • MLB ^J JL' JL' *l J.VJH.« (SUCCESSOR TO GEO. THACHER & CO,) — Wholesale and Retail Dealer In — Willi AND LIQUORS, Syrups, Bitters, Cordials, AXiE, SORTER, ACTS CIGARS, Main street, Los Angeles, Cal. ■ Lower side of Plaza, near Clay St., SAN FRANCISCO. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE AND GENERAl^AGENCY. Furnish all kinds of help for Families, Hotels, Farmers, Mining Companies, Mills, Factories, Shops &c. Also, have a Real Estate Agency, and attend to business in that line. feb22 FOR San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, San Pedro and San Diego. ON and alter the first of April, and unti^further notice, the steamship __, SENATOR, Will Make two trips per month on the Southern Coast, leaving Broadway Wharf, On the 3d and 18th of each Month AT 9 O'CLOCK, A. M. JgrfP' Bills of Lading Vill be furnished by Ihe Purser on board. For freight or passage apply on board, or at the office of S. J. Hensley, corner of Front and Jackson streets. dec9 S. J. HENSLEY, President. LEMON TREES FOR SALE. THE SUBSCRIBER NOW OFFERS FOR SALE 3,000 DWARF LEMON TREES, one .yuv year old, which will commence bearing in two years time; tbis fruit tree cannot be procured in any other portion of this State, aud its truly remarkable productiveness recommends it to general cultivation, needing no more land, norgreater care for its cultivation than the ordinary California grape vine, the net income is at least TEN-FOLD MORE THAN THAT DERIVED from the cultivation of AJVY OTHER FRUIT. Whilst tbe market can never be overstocked with lemons, the owner.of every garden should at least bave a sufficient number ol this choice fruit for bis own consumption. Now is the time to transplant them. JghFlRST COME, FIRST SERVED.-^ Trees neatly packed for transportation and "full directions given for their cultivation. SAMUEL ARBUCKLE.. Lob Angeles, December 9th, 1863. Bancroft's XKCap ofthe Pacific States, EMBRACING CALIFORNIA,Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah. Arizona, British Columbia and Sandwich Islands. Size, 62x64 inches. Scale, 24 miles to the inch. Elegantly engraved on Copper, and colored in ' Counties. This gWat work is sold only by subscription. An energetic and reliable canvsser Ib wanted for Los Angeles. Apply to S. HELLMAN, ju4-6m General Agent for this Connty The tears of affection are the dewdropa from tbe blue sky of the soul. WASHINGTON. BT PARK BENJAMfiJ. Of all the heroes whe have s hone On history's starry page. The light, the glory, and the pride Of each successive age— Whose name's the bri ghtest and the best ? Whose fame the dearest won ? They are thine own, imperial West! For thine is Washington. The laurels that adorned his brow Are fresh as when the grew; For he was first in war and peace, As brave as he was true; And Irom oppressions iron grasp, With strong and constant hand, He ransomed all his countrymen And saved his native laud. In counsel wise, in prudence firm, And spotless in renown, He put away ambition's geuds And spumed a kingly crown; Wealth had no lure to drag him down From his traDscendant place ; For dearer than the world to him The freedom of his race. He was the Joshua of his time; All men obeyed his will, Aod in the valleys, where he fought, The sun and moon stood still. Tbe soldier of the Lord he went Held by a mighty hand, Till he bad passed the wilderness And reached the promised land. No warrior of the cla?sic roll Called out a juster praise; For Caesar, gaiued no grander spoils And wore no greener bays. Like Caesar, too, how well lie wrote, Though not witb blood stained pen, A record of the noblest deeds Acheived by noble men I Great while he led his armies on, Great while he ruled tne land, And greater still as he resigned His ccuntry's high command— When, great as be had lived he died, Submissjye to depart, "America" was found engraved Upon his inmost heart. He loved the Union, "Guard it well," The dying hero said. "That hour which sees its broken bond Will see your freedom dead, Oh. guard it well, and let it stand For its own sake secure; Then Peace sustained by Liberty, Through ages Bhall endure." Alas! could he have seen the hour That we have lived to see, He might have deeply mourned the loss Of Peace and Liberty. And could we listen to his voice As oft he spoke before, Our broken bonds might be rejoined And Union rise once more. Ob. that bis spirit might descend To day tike heavenly fire, And light upon our country's shrines The old, fiaternal fire: That Love and Peace might live again And Hate and War be done, As with accordant lips we hailed The name of Washington I During this abolition war at least one hundred thousand men bave been killed, four hundred, thousand have been disabled for life ; thus half a million have been subjected to death, wounds, and to sickness worse than wounds in the armies of both side. What amount of human misery has oc [From the Illnlrated London News.] Among the evils of the war wich has called oul all the violent passions ofour American relatives is the generation of habit of what'we are discrib- ing in the mildest language when we called it profanity. No person ot honest nature would be too courred beyond and behind the armies we shall hard UP0Q a "an who at time of fierce excitement IFrom New Tort Herald.] Wliat the Abolitionists have Accomplished. During the past week the abolitionists have been holding a sort of jubilee at Philadelphia. Acording to all accounts tbey have bad a pretty good time of it. Tne abolition press has felicitated them, and they have felicitated themselves, upon the great work they have accomplished and the great succefs they have achieved. Tbe Tribune claims for them that elecled President Lin- cold in 1860, and states that "posterity will do them justice." Contrary to its usual habit, the Tribune is altogether too modest. The abolitionists have accomplished a good deal more than the election of Lincoln, and in the matter of doing them justice, we shall proceed to anticipate posterity. In 1860 the American abolitionists, ppre aDd simple, numbered about one hundred thousand persons. In 1840, when they ran Mr Birney for President, the abolitionists polled seven thousand votes. In 1844, with the same candidate, they polled sixty-two thousand votes. In 1848 tbey intermingled with tbe free sdilers, and gave Van Buren three hundred thousand votes. From that time forth the pure abolition vote is so mixed op with the Iree soil vote and the republican vote tbat we cannot get at it with much accuracy. Still we believe that one hundred thousand is a fair estimate of the number of true, radical abolitionistB who have followed tbe flag of Garrison and Phillips, and wbo are entitled to share in the credit of tke abolition work and in the glory which now crowns the labor. In this number we include all such old women as Greeley and such young women as Tilton of the Independent. What these one hundred thousand abolitionists have accomplished may be stated in a few words' They bave accomplished the present war. They have worked for it thirty years, and here it is. Tbey have wrecked a powerful and .happy oonntry. They have arrayed brother against brother, father ngainst son, children against parents. They bave filled tbe land with widows and orphans. They have transformed the country into a vast graveyard. They have sbed an ooeon of blood and squandered mountains of money. They have made the air heavy with the ehreaks of the wounded, the groans of the dying and the lamentations of the mourners. Tbey have devasted the fields and plantations of the South and destroyed tbe commerce of the North. They have given a check to the progress of civilization and democratic institutions from wich it will take years to recover. All this they have accomplished in thirty years. One hundred thousand fiends let loose from the lowest bell and inspired by the most infernal malice could not have accomplished more mischief in tho Same space of time. If tbis be anything to rejoice. If tbey desire to raise a monument to perpetuate the remembrance of their triumphs, our battle fields will furnish tbem witb enough human skulls for a pyramid, and Wendel Phillips or Beeeber would be only too happy to deliver the address at the laying of the corner skull. now inquire. The amount of property destroyed during the war may be roughly estimated at five hundred millions of dollars. The injury inflicted upon our commerce aDd carrying trade may be stated at one hundred millions of dollars. This is rather under than above tbe marks ; for the rebel Maffit asserts that he alone has destroyed eleven millions of dollars worth of ships and cargoes, and Semmes has certainly destroyed much more. The war debt ofthe North and South amounts to about five thousand millions of dollars. If tbe war ends by the abolition of slavery we shall have to ke.ep a standing army ofa hundred thousand men and support two or three millions of indigent negroes for several years. But we will leave that probability out of the count, and will also refrain from estimating the millions and billions af dollars which the now impeded industry of this country would have produced had not the abolitioniBts caused this war. We wish to confine ourselves to facts and figures*m indisputable authenticity. And what do these facts and figures show ? Estimating the white population of the United States in 1860 at twenty-six millions—and this is within a few hundred of the official figures—we find that the abolitionists have been instrumental in causing tbe death of one man out of every two hundred and sixty people, and the crippling or otherwise disabling on one out of every fifty-two people. Aleo the the abolitionists have caused the destruction of property valued at six hundred millions of dollars and a war expenditure of about five thousand millions. If these are things to be proun of let the abolitionists bold a perpetual jnbilee. Taking the above statistics as a basis, a very simple proces of arithmetic will demonstrate that each one of our one hundred thousand abolitionists has caused the death of one man and the life long disability of four men, and has already cost the country fifty-six thousand dollars. What are the cruelties and expenses of slavery when compared to this? It is very evident, howe.ver, that the loss ot life and limb and money during this war should not be so equally divided among cne hundred thousand fanatics. Individual abolitionists bave been more or less guiky according to their oppor« tunities and their influence. Garrison, for example, should have more than one dead man, four wounded and crippled men, and fifty-six thousand dollars worth of destroyed property set down to his account, Wendell Phillips is in tbe same case. Greeley has probably caused the death ofa thousand men,.and the remainder ofthe injury wbich he has inflictedupon the nation and upon humanity must be increased in proportion. The same remark will apply to Beecher, Cheever, Tilton and such prominent abolitionists. Sumner, Wilson, Chandler and other abolition politicians have eyen a large share for which to answer. This sad ac count will certainly have to be settled some day— not in tbis world, herhaps, but certaioly in the next. Then, if the abolitionists can find any food for gladness in this facts, it will be when they enter Hades and discover that tbe worst fiends receive them with respect, and tbat Satau, Mephis- topheles. Beelzebub, Moloch and the oth r devils vacate their thrones to offer the new comers all the insignia of pre-eminence in evil. The jubilee in Philadelphia will be nothing in comparison to this grand satanic reception. I The Presidency.—Lincoln is in love with his place and its power. He has been President long enough to wiBh to be President longer. He is even now working for re election. The poor old man has not sense enough to see that he is not fit for the place he holds, and that the people only tolerate him because they must tolerate him until they can Constitutionally get rid of him. J He might have secured a second leaBe of power if he had only done right, regardless of consequences— if he had only exercised his office honestly and independently for the good of the whole country, instead of allowing himself to be used by a set of radical and unscrupulous demagogues, who are only interested to carry out one fanatical idea a^ the expense, if need be, ofour national unity and liberties. But he was too weak to resist tbe ultra Abolitionists, and they have used and are using him to his own disgrace and the ruin ol hiB country. He is litor- ally nowhere in the coming contest for the succession. His feeble, fickle, vacillating course haB put bim equally out of the respect, the sympathy, and the support of the radicals and the conservatives. There wae, in the outset of his official career a plain path of duty and policy open to him, and if he had resolutely pursued it, be might have saved bis country and made for himself an enviable re- reputation in history. But he bas miserably botched wbat he sails his "job." He has, in hiB office, been but a bull in a china shop." He h»s rushed and plunged wildly and blindly about within the sphere of his power, breaking .things generally, and disgusting everybody jwho hoB auy interet in the precious wares he has trampled on and destroyed. Indeed. Mr. Lincoln's'extraordti*- ary assumption of power, and his unfitness to exercise it, put us in .mind of the shining bolt which Burke launched against the absolutism of the National Assembly of France. "That," said the most brilliant of sound thinkers, "since the destruction of the orders, has no fundamental law, no strict convention, no respected usage to restrain it. Instead ol finding themselves obliged to confbrm to a fixed constitution, tbey bave a power to make a constitution which shall conform to their designs. Nothing in heaven or upon earth can serve as a control on them. In. such a state of unbounded power, for undefined and undefinable purposes, the the evil of a moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function must be the greatest we can conceive to happen in the management of human affairs." The justness of this opinion appears to be too manifest for doubt. And in the opinion we believe so many of the loyal people ofthe Union concur, that Mr. Lincoln's aspiration for a second term in the Presidency is destined to wither under a frost as killing as that which nipped the root of Wolsey,—Phil-Met cury. should be too much moved to be very careful of his tongne. When directing the "currents of a heavy fight," neither Napoleon, Wellington, nor Clyde, waB particular as to the form of emphasis in which hasty orders were delivered ; and a good deal of expletive may, under such circumstances, be thought no more of than the noise of the powder that is projecting tbe ball. But it is really another thing when preachers in the pulpit and states* men on the platform think; it necessary to be impressive by dint of appeals and altesioas *hio"ffl are offensive to people of test and painful to people of religion. American speakers and writers! on both sides bave been a great deal too ready to- claim the direot superintendence aDd approbation of providence ; and those who would affect to see the blasphemy of such a man as Suwarrow, for instance, who rhymed on "Glory to God and to tbe Empress" alter the butchery at Ismail, are ten times as prompt with similar tributes at every fresh slaughter io tbe course of a fratricidal war. We do nol propose to annoy our readers by illustrations of his practice, aa those who have read the documentary history of the struggle will recall a mass of such sins against propriety and religion; but even those who have noticed the clerical menaces of Greek fire and worse, by the federal preachers, and have seen Mr. Lincoln's telegram, in which he invited one of the Generals to stand stiH and see the salvation—we scarcely care to copy the rest of the message—will not have been pre™ pared for Mr. Seward's last outbreak. Tbis for mingled folly and profanity, perhaps outdoes most of what-has preceded it. And this is the utterance, not of a soldier in the fierce heat of a fight or even ofa fanatic preacher blatant for the sake of pew rents, but the deliberate orratory of the leading statesman in the Cabinet of Washington. Mr, Seward, the Palmerston and Russell of the Lincoln Ministry, haB been making a speech in which he declares that there can be no peace until Mr. Lincoln Bhall be President of the whole United State. Then, that is to say, when the flower of the Southern soldiery shall have been slaughtered —when the cities are garrisoned by the Federals and scores of Bolters are holding tbe people in an iron clutch—when the sword and the fire bave done their work, then, cries Mr. Seward, "There will be peace, and the angels in Heaven may tune their harpB to tbe symphony of such a peace." Suwarrow, the Russiau savage, is fairly outdone by Sewajd, the Federal statesman and philanthropist. The idea wbich he calls np is to painful to be regarded lightly , though the ridiculous blends , with it to an extent which makes it difficult to repress a smile- If he bad been content lo be only portentously magniloquent instead of profane, if he could have remained outBide the barrier, and not rushed in where those be invokes fear to tread, it would have been well. Could he have been satisfied with the music of the spheres and let the morninsr stars sing together, rejoicingly "Hail, Columbia!'' tbe sentiment would have been American, and not altogether impious. But the picture which he has sought to draw iB so audacious lhat we should have hesitated to reproduce it, bnt that it is well that English readers Bhould understand tbe sort of madness wbich haB judicially laid hold of tbe men of the North. Leaving it, and forgetting as far as we may tha profane parts of tbe idea, we should much like to know Mr. Seward'sidea aB to some of the stems wilh which it would be necessary to follow np peace, whenever it is made. If it were possible that the South could be dragooned into submission, what next ?.We do not thick so ill of the Federal statesmen as to believe that tbey desire to rnle nine millions of tbe South aa Mr. Seward's idol, the Emperor Alexander, is ruling the Poles. We do not even suppose that he desires perpetual garrisons over the South, martial law, and a reign of terror. The idea probably is that if the South can once be subdued it will accept the humiliation, an.d take the goods the North provides it, and that in time ill feeling will subside and institutions begin to work again. If'theso improbable events are ever to come to pass, it is not too soon for Mr. Seward to bave begun to consider the source of • the misfortunes that have wasted the States, and what remedial measures should be adopted to prevent the recurrence of such miseries. And as even if the North should have to make peace on other terms, and should have no occasion to include the concerns of the South in any Washington legislation, the same hints may be as useful, or perhaps more so (as Federal administration, under the circumstances, will be more difficult than heretofore,) we should like to ask bim respectfully whether these are among the rearrangements which he me* ditates. Why the War Goes On.—The soldiers at Helena, in Aikansas, used to amuse the inhabitants of that place, on their first arrival, by telling tbem yarns, of which the following is a Bample :— "Some time ago Jeff. Davis got tired ofthe war, and invited President Lincoln to meet him on neutral ground to discuss terms of peace.— They met accordingly, and after a talk, concluded to settle the war by dividing the territory and stopping the fighting. The North took the Northern States, and the South the Gulf and sea-board Southern States. Lincoln took Texas and Missouri, and Davis Kentucky and Tennessee ; so that all were parcelled off excepting Arkansas. Lincoln didn't want it—Jeff wouldn't have it. Neither would consent to take it, and on tbat they split,, and the war has been going on ever since. In the House the resolution instructing tbe Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the propriety of exempting clergymen of all denomina—- tions from the draft was laid on the. table by a large majority. ■ ■ IS* CO co CO CM — o CO o> CM — ^- CO CM CM CO CM in CM CM CM CM CM o CM CO CO
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Title | Los Angeles Star, vol. 13, no. 39, January 30, 1864 |
Type of Title | newspaper |
Description | The English weekly newspaper, Los Angeles Star includes headings: [p.1]: [col.3] "Washington. By Park Benjamin", "What the abolitionists have accomplished", [col.4] "The presidency", [col.5] "From the Illustrated London News -- Among the evils of the war ...", "Why the war goes on", [p.2]: [col.1] "Nevada not a state", "The almost superhuman efforts made by the fanatical advocates of Southern extermination to keep the ranks of the army filled ...", [col.2] "Probate Court -- Hon. Wm. G. Dryden, Judge", 'The condition of the freed blacks", [col.3] "At a special meeting of Los Angeles Lodge, No. 42, F. & A.M. ...", "Portrait of Butler", "The soldier's vote", [col.3] "As to the development the mineral resources of Arizona Territory -- improvement of steam navigation on the Colorado"; [p.3]: [col.1] "Eastern intelligence", "In the Probate Court, in and for Los Angeles County, State of California", [col.4] "Summons", [col.5] "Summons"; [p.4]: [col.1] "Oft do we find", "Love's misery. By Finley Johnson", "Mr. Lincoln's Thanksgiving table-cloth", [col.2] "High priced Negroes", "T[h]e despot", "A decided fix", "The Emancipation Proclamation considered logically". |
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Geographic Subject (County) | Los Angeles |
Geographic Subject (State) | California |
Geographic Subject (Country) | USA |
Coverage date | circa 1864-01-24/1864-02-05 |
Editor | Hamilton, H. |
Printer | Hamilton, H. |
Publisher (of the Original Version) | Hamilton, H. |
Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
Date created | 1864-01-30 |
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Format (aat) | newspapers |
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Language | English |
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Identifying Number | Los Angeles Star, vol. 13, no. 39, January 30, 1864 |
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Full text | Bmtsw VOL. XIII. LOS ANGELES, GAL., SATUKDAY, JAMIAKY 30, 1864. NO. 39. €05 /2rXt%t[t5 0tar: PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, At the STAR BUILDINGS, Spring Street, Lao Angeles, - BY H. HAIH.TOSI, TERMS: Subscriptions.per annum, in advance, .$5 TJO For Six Months 3 00 For Three Months 2 00 Single Number.^., ^ 9 12J Advertisements inserted at Two Dollars per square of tea lines, for the first insertion ; sad One Dollar per square for each subsequent insertion. ▲ liberal deduction made to yearly Advertisers. San Francisco Agency. Mr. C. A. CR 1KB is the only authorized agent (or the Las Anqesles Star in Sau Francisco. All orders left aft-his offioe, Northwest corner of Washington and Sansome streets, Government tulding, (ap stairs) will be promptly attended to. HOTSESL.S- BELLA UmON HOTEL, LOS ANGELES. JOHN KING & HENRY HAMIIEL, Proprietor*. THE SUBSCRIBERS having leased the above named Hotel, wish to assure their friends and the travelling public that they will endeavor to keep tbe Bella Union what it has always been, THE BEST HOTEL IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Families can be accommodated with large, airy rooms, or suits of rooms, well furnished. The Bills of Fare shall be inferior to none in the State. AU the Stages to and from Los Angeles arrive at and depart from this Hotel. The Bar and Billiard-Saloons shall receive the must strict attention, and the patrons shall find that this house will be carried on as a Srst class Hotel ought to be. Los Angeles, May 3-1, 1862. J. J. MURPHY, PROPRIETOR. THE SUBSCRIBER having leased the above house, wishes to assure his friends H and the traveling public, that he will pn- |!1 deavorto keep the WILLOW GROVE HOUaE A FIRST CLASS HOTEL. This House iR half a mile East of the Town of Lexington, oa the main road to the Colorado River. Families can be accommodated with large rooms, as the above House has been newly furnished and well ventilated. The bar is well supplied with the best of LIQUORS and CIGARS. Attached to the Hotel is a large STABLE and Corral, where the best of HAY, BARLEY and CORNis kept for sale and feed. This is the only place where there is plenty of water. J. J. MURPHY. Bt. Montr, Oct. 25. 1863. oct3l-tf THIS HOTEL, newly opened, in the principal place of business in EL MONTE, is fi» lesigned for the ACCOMMODATION of I'j'Mj'M TRAVELERS on the road from Los Angeles tu San Bernardino and the Colorado River. Animals are well taken care of at the S1AB£E AND HAY-'JARD, . Which is abundantly supplied with WATER, and where FEED can always be obtained on reasonable terms. J. W. EVANS, Jtt. F. Q.U1NN. El Monte, Sept. 28, 1863. Cor. Sansome and Halleck Streets (OPPOSITE THE AMERICAN THEATRE,) SAN FRANCISCO. THE UNDERSIGNED respectfully informs the Traveling Public, as well as the more permanent Boarder, that he has leased the above well nown and centrally located Hotel, and intends keeping it as A FIRST-CLASS HOUSE, At Moderate Prices. In the last three months there has been expended a arge amount in Re-modellng and Re-fwrnlslilng, the EXCHANGE, and it will now compare favorably with the first class hotels of the city. WE HAVE SPLENDID SUITS OF APARTMENTS for Families; also a large number of line single rooms for gentlemen. It is the purpose of the Proprietor to make the EX- HANGE one of the most comfortable and home-like otels In the State, and make the Prices to Suit the Times. THE 1? A. IO Tj DE! ■Will be supplied with every delicacy the season affords. Attached to the house are fine BATHING ROOMS for Ladies or Gentlemen. JOHN W. SARGENT, Proprietor. CLARK'S PEi THE CHEAPEST AND BEST ARTICLE For Marking Linen. ? For sile by the gross, at 305 Montgomery street, Room No. 2. San Francisco. eb22 W. HOLT. KTOTIOE, \mrnm Curbs. B. S. GRAY WOULD respectfully informthepublic, thatheispre- pared to perform all services pertaining to the interment of deceased persons. He will attend to the laying ont of bodies, arranging for funerals, furnish badges, gloves, etc., If requested. Any orders left at his residence, New High Street, near the Catholic Church, or at his store, on Main Street, opposite the New Market, will be promptly attended to. 49*N. B,—All orders for DIGGING GRAVES, must be loft at the earliest moment possible. JM Angeles, June 1*3,1863. A. B. CHAPMAN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. OFFICE in Tfemple's Building, near the Land Office. aug29 ARCADIA BLOCK, Next to Corbitt & Barker's, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Gents' Furnishing Goods, l>ress Goods, White Goo^s, Embroidery and Lace Goods, Dress Trimmings, Hosiery, Gloves, &c. jan4 S. HELLMAJf, TEMPLE'S BLOCK, tt ' »- MAIN STREET, Los Angeles, — DEALER IN — Books and Stationer^, Cigars. Tobacco,. Candy, Cutlery and Fancy Goods, Sic. CIRCULATING- LIBRARY. GARDEN SEEOS. DR. J. C. WELSH, PHYSICIAN AND SjURGEON, Office, CITY DRUG STORE, Main street, Los Angeles. Office hours, 9 to 12, m ; and 2 to 9, p.m. August 1, 1859. S. & A. LAZARD, IMPORTERS, And Wholesale and Retail Dealers in French, English and American Dry Goods. Corner of Melius Row,LosAngeles. 1 62 PHINEAS BA FORWARDING and COMMISSION AGENT, New San Pedro and Los Angeles. • ±VM • MLB ^J JL' JL' *l J.VJH.« (SUCCESSOR TO GEO. THACHER & CO,) — Wholesale and Retail Dealer In — Willi AND LIQUORS, Syrups, Bitters, Cordials, AXiE, SORTER, ACTS CIGARS, Main street, Los Angeles, Cal. ■ Lower side of Plaza, near Clay St., SAN FRANCISCO. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE AND GENERAl^AGENCY. Furnish all kinds of help for Families, Hotels, Farmers, Mining Companies, Mills, Factories, Shops &c. Also, have a Real Estate Agency, and attend to business in that line. feb22 FOR San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, San Pedro and San Diego. ON and alter the first of April, and unti^further notice, the steamship __, SENATOR, Will Make two trips per month on the Southern Coast, leaving Broadway Wharf, On the 3d and 18th of each Month AT 9 O'CLOCK, A. M. JgrfP' Bills of Lading Vill be furnished by Ihe Purser on board. For freight or passage apply on board, or at the office of S. J. Hensley, corner of Front and Jackson streets. dec9 S. J. HENSLEY, President. LEMON TREES FOR SALE. THE SUBSCRIBER NOW OFFERS FOR SALE 3,000 DWARF LEMON TREES, one .yuv year old, which will commence bearing in two years time; tbis fruit tree cannot be procured in any other portion of this State, aud its truly remarkable productiveness recommends it to general cultivation, needing no more land, norgreater care for its cultivation than the ordinary California grape vine, the net income is at least TEN-FOLD MORE THAN THAT DERIVED from the cultivation of AJVY OTHER FRUIT. Whilst tbe market can never be overstocked with lemons, the owner.of every garden should at least bave a sufficient number ol this choice fruit for bis own consumption. Now is the time to transplant them. JghFlRST COME, FIRST SERVED.-^ Trees neatly packed for transportation and "full directions given for their cultivation. SAMUEL ARBUCKLE.. Lob Angeles, December 9th, 1863. Bancroft's XKCap ofthe Pacific States, EMBRACING CALIFORNIA,Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah. Arizona, British Columbia and Sandwich Islands. Size, 62x64 inches. Scale, 24 miles to the inch. Elegantly engraved on Copper, and colored in ' Counties. This gWat work is sold only by subscription. An energetic and reliable canvsser Ib wanted for Los Angeles. Apply to S. HELLMAN, ju4-6m General Agent for this Connty The tears of affection are the dewdropa from tbe blue sky of the soul. WASHINGTON. BT PARK BENJAMfiJ. Of all the heroes whe have s hone On history's starry page. The light, the glory, and the pride Of each successive age— Whose name's the bri ghtest and the best ? Whose fame the dearest won ? They are thine own, imperial West! For thine is Washington. The laurels that adorned his brow Are fresh as when the grew; For he was first in war and peace, As brave as he was true; And Irom oppressions iron grasp, With strong and constant hand, He ransomed all his countrymen And saved his native laud. In counsel wise, in prudence firm, And spotless in renown, He put away ambition's geuds And spumed a kingly crown; Wealth had no lure to drag him down From his traDscendant place ; For dearer than the world to him The freedom of his race. He was the Joshua of his time; All men obeyed his will, Aod in the valleys, where he fought, The sun and moon stood still. Tbe soldier of the Lord he went Held by a mighty hand, Till he bad passed the wilderness And reached the promised land. No warrior of the cla?sic roll Called out a juster praise; For Caesar, gaiued no grander spoils And wore no greener bays. Like Caesar, too, how well lie wrote, Though not witb blood stained pen, A record of the noblest deeds Acheived by noble men I Great while he led his armies on, Great while he ruled tne land, And greater still as he resigned His ccuntry's high command— When, great as be had lived he died, Submissjye to depart, "America" was found engraved Upon his inmost heart. He loved the Union, "Guard it well," The dying hero said. "That hour which sees its broken bond Will see your freedom dead, Oh. guard it well, and let it stand For its own sake secure; Then Peace sustained by Liberty, Through ages Bhall endure." Alas! could he have seen the hour That we have lived to see, He might have deeply mourned the loss Of Peace and Liberty. And could we listen to his voice As oft he spoke before, Our broken bonds might be rejoined And Union rise once more. Ob. that bis spirit might descend To day tike heavenly fire, And light upon our country's shrines The old, fiaternal fire: That Love and Peace might live again And Hate and War be done, As with accordant lips we hailed The name of Washington I During this abolition war at least one hundred thousand men bave been killed, four hundred, thousand have been disabled for life ; thus half a million have been subjected to death, wounds, and to sickness worse than wounds in the armies of both side. What amount of human misery has oc [From the Illnlrated London News.] Among the evils of the war wich has called oul all the violent passions ofour American relatives is the generation of habit of what'we are discrib- ing in the mildest language when we called it profanity. No person ot honest nature would be too courred beyond and behind the armies we shall hard UP0Q a "an who at time of fierce excitement IFrom New Tort Herald.] Wliat the Abolitionists have Accomplished. During the past week the abolitionists have been holding a sort of jubilee at Philadelphia. Acording to all accounts tbey have bad a pretty good time of it. Tne abolition press has felicitated them, and they have felicitated themselves, upon the great work they have accomplished and the great succefs they have achieved. Tbe Tribune claims for them that elecled President Lin- cold in 1860, and states that "posterity will do them justice." Contrary to its usual habit, the Tribune is altogether too modest. The abolitionists have accomplished a good deal more than the election of Lincoln, and in the matter of doing them justice, we shall proceed to anticipate posterity. In 1860 the American abolitionists, ppre aDd simple, numbered about one hundred thousand persons. In 1840, when they ran Mr Birney for President, the abolitionists polled seven thousand votes. In 1844, with the same candidate, they polled sixty-two thousand votes. In 1848 tbey intermingled with tbe free sdilers, and gave Van Buren three hundred thousand votes. From that time forth the pure abolition vote is so mixed op with the Iree soil vote and the republican vote tbat we cannot get at it with much accuracy. Still we believe that one hundred thousand is a fair estimate of the number of true, radical abolitionistB who have followed tbe flag of Garrison and Phillips, and wbo are entitled to share in the credit of tke abolition work and in the glory which now crowns the labor. In this number we include all such old women as Greeley and such young women as Tilton of the Independent. What these one hundred thousand abolitionists have accomplished may be stated in a few words' They bave accomplished the present war. They have worked for it thirty years, and here it is. Tbey have wrecked a powerful and .happy oonntry. They have arrayed brother against brother, father ngainst son, children against parents. They bave filled tbe land with widows and orphans. They have transformed the country into a vast graveyard. They have sbed an ooeon of blood and squandered mountains of money. They have made the air heavy with the ehreaks of the wounded, the groans of the dying and the lamentations of the mourners. Tbey have devasted the fields and plantations of the South and destroyed tbe commerce of the North. They have given a check to the progress of civilization and democratic institutions from wich it will take years to recover. All this they have accomplished in thirty years. One hundred thousand fiends let loose from the lowest bell and inspired by the most infernal malice could not have accomplished more mischief in tho Same space of time. If tbis be anything to rejoice. If tbey desire to raise a monument to perpetuate the remembrance of their triumphs, our battle fields will furnish tbem witb enough human skulls for a pyramid, and Wendel Phillips or Beeeber would be only too happy to deliver the address at the laying of the corner skull. now inquire. The amount of property destroyed during the war may be roughly estimated at five hundred millions of dollars. The injury inflicted upon our commerce aDd carrying trade may be stated at one hundred millions of dollars. This is rather under than above tbe marks ; for the rebel Maffit asserts that he alone has destroyed eleven millions of dollars worth of ships and cargoes, and Semmes has certainly destroyed much more. The war debt ofthe North and South amounts to about five thousand millions of dollars. If tbe war ends by the abolition of slavery we shall have to ke.ep a standing army ofa hundred thousand men and support two or three millions of indigent negroes for several years. But we will leave that probability out of the count, and will also refrain from estimating the millions and billions af dollars which the now impeded industry of this country would have produced had not the abolitioniBts caused this war. We wish to confine ourselves to facts and figures*m indisputable authenticity. And what do these facts and figures show ? Estimating the white population of the United States in 1860 at twenty-six millions—and this is within a few hundred of the official figures—we find that the abolitionists have been instrumental in causing tbe death of one man out of every two hundred and sixty people, and the crippling or otherwise disabling on one out of every fifty-two people. Aleo the the abolitionists have caused the destruction of property valued at six hundred millions of dollars and a war expenditure of about five thousand millions. If these are things to be proun of let the abolitionists bold a perpetual jnbilee. Taking the above statistics as a basis, a very simple proces of arithmetic will demonstrate that each one of our one hundred thousand abolitionists has caused the death of one man and the life long disability of four men, and has already cost the country fifty-six thousand dollars. What are the cruelties and expenses of slavery when compared to this? It is very evident, howe.ver, that the loss ot life and limb and money during this war should not be so equally divided among cne hundred thousand fanatics. Individual abolitionists bave been more or less guiky according to their oppor« tunities and their influence. Garrison, for example, should have more than one dead man, four wounded and crippled men, and fifty-six thousand dollars worth of destroyed property set down to his account, Wendell Phillips is in tbe same case. Greeley has probably caused the death ofa thousand men,.and the remainder ofthe injury wbich he has inflictedupon the nation and upon humanity must be increased in proportion. The same remark will apply to Beecher, Cheever, Tilton and such prominent abolitionists. Sumner, Wilson, Chandler and other abolition politicians have eyen a large share for which to answer. This sad ac count will certainly have to be settled some day— not in tbis world, herhaps, but certaioly in the next. Then, if the abolitionists can find any food for gladness in this facts, it will be when they enter Hades and discover that tbe worst fiends receive them with respect, and tbat Satau, Mephis- topheles. Beelzebub, Moloch and the oth r devils vacate their thrones to offer the new comers all the insignia of pre-eminence in evil. The jubilee in Philadelphia will be nothing in comparison to this grand satanic reception. I The Presidency.—Lincoln is in love with his place and its power. He has been President long enough to wiBh to be President longer. He is even now working for re election. The poor old man has not sense enough to see that he is not fit for the place he holds, and that the people only tolerate him because they must tolerate him until they can Constitutionally get rid of him. J He might have secured a second leaBe of power if he had only done right, regardless of consequences— if he had only exercised his office honestly and independently for the good of the whole country, instead of allowing himself to be used by a set of radical and unscrupulous demagogues, who are only interested to carry out one fanatical idea a^ the expense, if need be, ofour national unity and liberties. But he was too weak to resist tbe ultra Abolitionists, and they have used and are using him to his own disgrace and the ruin ol hiB country. He is litor- ally nowhere in the coming contest for the succession. His feeble, fickle, vacillating course haB put bim equally out of the respect, the sympathy, and the support of the radicals and the conservatives. There wae, in the outset of his official career a plain path of duty and policy open to him, and if he had resolutely pursued it, be might have saved bis country and made for himself an enviable re- reputation in history. But he bas miserably botched wbat he sails his "job." He has, in hiB office, been but a bull in a china shop." He h»s rushed and plunged wildly and blindly about within the sphere of his power, breaking .things generally, and disgusting everybody jwho hoB auy interet in the precious wares he has trampled on and destroyed. Indeed. Mr. Lincoln's'extraordti*- ary assumption of power, and his unfitness to exercise it, put us in .mind of the shining bolt which Burke launched against the absolutism of the National Assembly of France. "That," said the most brilliant of sound thinkers, "since the destruction of the orders, has no fundamental law, no strict convention, no respected usage to restrain it. Instead ol finding themselves obliged to confbrm to a fixed constitution, tbey bave a power to make a constitution which shall conform to their designs. Nothing in heaven or upon earth can serve as a control on them. In. such a state of unbounded power, for undefined and undefinable purposes, the the evil of a moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function must be the greatest we can conceive to happen in the management of human affairs." The justness of this opinion appears to be too manifest for doubt. And in the opinion we believe so many of the loyal people ofthe Union concur, that Mr. Lincoln's aspiration for a second term in the Presidency is destined to wither under a frost as killing as that which nipped the root of Wolsey,—Phil-Met cury. should be too much moved to be very careful of his tongne. When directing the "currents of a heavy fight," neither Napoleon, Wellington, nor Clyde, waB particular as to the form of emphasis in which hasty orders were delivered ; and a good deal of expletive may, under such circumstances, be thought no more of than the noise of the powder that is projecting tbe ball. But it is really another thing when preachers in the pulpit and states* men on the platform think; it necessary to be impressive by dint of appeals and altesioas *hio"ffl are offensive to people of test and painful to people of religion. American speakers and writers! on both sides bave been a great deal too ready to- claim the direot superintendence aDd approbation of providence ; and those who would affect to see the blasphemy of such a man as Suwarrow, for instance, who rhymed on "Glory to God and to tbe Empress" alter the butchery at Ismail, are ten times as prompt with similar tributes at every fresh slaughter io tbe course of a fratricidal war. We do nol propose to annoy our readers by illustrations of his practice, aa those who have read the documentary history of the struggle will recall a mass of such sins against propriety and religion; but even those who have noticed the clerical menaces of Greek fire and worse, by the federal preachers, and have seen Mr. Lincoln's telegram, in which he invited one of the Generals to stand stiH and see the salvation—we scarcely care to copy the rest of the message—will not have been pre™ pared for Mr. Seward's last outbreak. Tbis for mingled folly and profanity, perhaps outdoes most of what-has preceded it. And this is the utterance, not of a soldier in the fierce heat of a fight or even ofa fanatic preacher blatant for the sake of pew rents, but the deliberate orratory of the leading statesman in the Cabinet of Washington. Mr, Seward, the Palmerston and Russell of the Lincoln Ministry, haB been making a speech in which he declares that there can be no peace until Mr. Lincoln Bhall be President of the whole United State. Then, that is to say, when the flower of the Southern soldiery shall have been slaughtered —when the cities are garrisoned by the Federals and scores of Bolters are holding tbe people in an iron clutch—when the sword and the fire bave done their work, then, cries Mr. Seward, "There will be peace, and the angels in Heaven may tune their harpB to tbe symphony of such a peace." Suwarrow, the Russiau savage, is fairly outdone by Sewajd, the Federal statesman and philanthropist. The idea wbich he calls np is to painful to be regarded lightly , though the ridiculous blends , with it to an extent which makes it difficult to repress a smile- If he bad been content lo be only portentously magniloquent instead of profane, if he could have remained outBide the barrier, and not rushed in where those be invokes fear to tread, it would have been well. Could he have been satisfied with the music of the spheres and let the morninsr stars sing together, rejoicingly "Hail, Columbia!'' tbe sentiment would have been American, and not altogether impious. But the picture which he has sought to draw iB so audacious lhat we should have hesitated to reproduce it, bnt that it is well that English readers Bhould understand tbe sort of madness wbich haB judicially laid hold of tbe men of the North. Leaving it, and forgetting as far as we may tha profane parts of tbe idea, we should much like to know Mr. Seward'sidea aB to some of the stems wilh which it would be necessary to follow np peace, whenever it is made. If it were possible that the South could be dragooned into submission, what next ?.We do not thick so ill of the Federal statesmen as to believe that tbey desire to rnle nine millions of tbe South aa Mr. Seward's idol, the Emperor Alexander, is ruling the Poles. We do not even suppose that he desires perpetual garrisons over the South, martial law, and a reign of terror. The idea probably is that if the South can once be subdued it will accept the humiliation, an.d take the goods the North provides it, and that in time ill feeling will subside and institutions begin to work again. If'theso improbable events are ever to come to pass, it is not too soon for Mr. Seward to bave begun to consider the source of • the misfortunes that have wasted the States, and what remedial measures should be adopted to prevent the recurrence of such miseries. And as even if the North should have to make peace on other terms, and should have no occasion to include the concerns of the South in any Washington legislation, the same hints may be as useful, or perhaps more so (as Federal administration, under the circumstances, will be more difficult than heretofore,) we should like to ask bim respectfully whether these are among the rearrangements which he me* ditates. Why the War Goes On.—The soldiers at Helena, in Aikansas, used to amuse the inhabitants of that place, on their first arrival, by telling tbem yarns, of which the following is a Bample :— "Some time ago Jeff. Davis got tired ofthe war, and invited President Lincoln to meet him on neutral ground to discuss terms of peace.— They met accordingly, and after a talk, concluded to settle the war by dividing the territory and stopping the fighting. The North took the Northern States, and the South the Gulf and sea-board Southern States. Lincoln took Texas and Missouri, and Davis Kentucky and Tennessee ; so that all were parcelled off excepting Arkansas. Lincoln didn't want it—Jeff wouldn't have it. Neither would consent to take it, and on tbat they split,, and the war has been going on ever since. In the House the resolution instructing tbe Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the propriety of exempting clergymen of all denomina—- tions from the draft was laid on the. table by a large majority. ■ ■ IS* CO co CO CM — o CO o> CM — ^- CO CM CM CO CM in CM CM CM CM CM o CM CO CO |
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