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VOL. XIII.
LOS  ANGELES,  CAL.,   SATUEDAY,  APEIL  16,  1864.
NO.  50.
£00 Augeles Star:
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HOTELS.
BELLA UNION HOTEL,
LOS    A^QELES.
JOHN KIJVG & HEX BY HAMMEL,
Proprietors.
THE SUBSCRIBERS having leased the above
named Hotel, wish to assure their friends
•nd the travelling public that they will endeavor
to keep the Bella Union what it bas always  been,
THE  BEST   HOTEL,
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Families can be accommodated with large, airy
rooms, or suits of rooms, well (urnished.
The Bills of Fare
shall be inferior to none in the State.
All the Stages
to and from Los Angeles arrive at and depart from
thia Hotel.
The Bar and Billiard Saloons
■ sail  receive Ihe   most strict  attention, and the
patrons shall find that this  house will be  carried
on as a first class Hotel ought to be.
Los Angeles, May 31, 1862.
kmm Car Jib.
M.   CA.HLAJS",
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry,
Carefully repaired and warranted, at S. HELL-
MAN'S BOOK STORE, No. 2 Temple's Block,
Main street. feb27.
A. €. RUSSELL*^
ATTORNEY   AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
OFFICE—Io the   "STAR1
street, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Jan. 16th, 1864
BUILDING,   Spring
tf.
GEORGE H. HOWARD,
TEMPLE'S   BLOCK,
ENTRANCE on  MAIN and SPRIMG Sis.
Los Angeles. Jon. 30th, 1864. 2m.
J. J. MURPHY, PROPRIETOR.
A.B. CHAPMAN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
AT LAW.
OFFICE in Temple's   Building, near   the Land
Office
aug29
ARCADIA   BLOCK,
Next to Corbitt & Barker's,
WHOLESALE  AND  BETAIL
Gents' Furnishing Goods,
JLIress Good?,
White Good«,
Embroidery and Lace Goods,
Dress Trimmings,
Hosiery. Gloves, Sic. jan4
THE   SUBSCRIBER   having  leased the
above house, wishes to assure his friends
and the traveling public, that he will en-
VM. deavor to keep tha WILLOW  GROVE
HOUaK
A   FIRST    CLASS    HOI'Bl.
This House is half a mile East of the Town of
Lfxington, ou 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 MQU0R3 and CIGARS.
Attached to the Hotel is a Urge 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. MUBPtlY.
Er. Monte, Oct. 25, 1863. oci31-tf
THIS HOTEL, newly opened,in the principal place of business in EL MONTE, is
■ lesigned for the  ACCOMMODATION   of
 [TRAVELERS on the road from Los  An-
_»les to San Bernardino and the Colorado River.
Animals are well taken care of at the
STABX.S3 AHB  HA'ST-Ur.&.B.SJ,
Which is  abundantly  supplied  with   WATER,
and where FEED can always be obtained on reasonable terms.
J. XV.   EVANS,
JU. F. Q.UINJV.
EI Monte, Sept. 28, 1863.
MERICAN III
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
known 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
Tle-modellng and Rc-furnlshlng,
the SEXCHANGE, and it will now compare favorably with
the ttrst class hotels of the city.
WE HAVE SPLENDID
SUITS  OP APARTMENTS
for Families; also a large number of fine single rooms for
gentlemen.
It is the purpose of the Proprietor to make thaSEX-
HANGE one of the most comfortable and home-like
otels in the State, and'make the
Prices to Suit tne Times.
T BC El    TABIiB
•Will b. supplied with every delicacy the season affords.
Attached to the house are fine BATHING ROOMS for
Ladies or Gentlemen.
JOHN W. SARGENT, Proprietor.
UTOTIOE!.
B.   S.   GR A Y
WOULD respectfully inform the public, th*t li*ispre-
pared to perform all services pertaining to the interment of deceased pars. ns. He will attend to the laying sat of bodies, arranging for funerals, ftirtfish badges,
gloves. eStet,tfrequested. Anyordersleft athisresidence,
New High Street, near the Catholic Church, or at hisstore,
on Main Street, opposite the New Market, will be promptly atteuded to.
«-M. B,—Allordersfor DIGGING GRAVES, must be
left at|the earliest moment possible.
Loa Angeles, June 13,1863.
CLARK'S
1NDELIBLE_PENCILS.
THE CHEAPEST AND BEST
ARTICLE
For Marking Linen.
. For sale by the gross, at
305 Montgomery street, Room No.
S.   HELLIAN,
TEMPLE'S BLOCK,
MAIN STREET, Los Angeles,
— DEALER IN —
Booing and Stationery,
Cigars, Tobacco, Candy,
Cutlery and Fancy Goods, Sic.
CIRCULATING  LIBRARY.
GARDEN SEEDS.
DR. J. C.WELSH,
PHYSICIAN AND SjURGEON
Office, CITY DRUG STORE,.
Main street, Los Ahgeles
Office hours, 9 to 12, m ; and 2 to 9, p.m
^ 5
August 1, 1859.
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IMPORTERS,
And Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
English   and
Dry Goods.
French^
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American
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PHINEAS BANNING,
FORWARDING and COMMISSION
AGENT,
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FORWARDING AO
3MDESSE6.OH^lT>0",T,S,
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Bprll-1863.
(SUCCESSOR TO GEO. THACHER & CO,)
— Wholesale  and  Retail   Dealer In —
wins mm liquors,
Syrups, Bitters. Cordials,
ALU,   I'OaflB,, AND  CIGARS,
Main street, Los Angeles, Cal.
v GEO. W. GHAFIN & CO.,
Lower side of Plaza, near Clay St.,
SAN FRANCISCO.
THE "ESXTRA.'
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San Francisco.
W.
HOLT.
EMPLOYMENT   OFFICE   AND
GENERAL_AGENCY.
Furnish aU kinds of help for Families, Hotels,
Farmers, Mining Companies, Mills, Factories, Shops
Also, have a Real Estate Agency, and attend to
business in that line. feb22
Aug. Stosrmer
GWM SMITH,
MAIN   STREET,
Opposite the BELLA UNION HOTEL.
—DEALER IN—
SHOT GUNS, RIFLES & PISTOLS.
—ASL80,—
In Gun Materials? and Sporting
Implements.
Also, CAPS, POWDER, &c. &c.
SHOT GUNS AND filFLES RESTOCKED,
Orders from the country promptly attended to.
All work done in a workmanlike manner, and
guaranteed
The evening shades were falling fast
As several urchins hurried past
The Record office, screaming out,
"Extra 1" "another rebel rout."
Io haste we flung the pen aside,
And threw the window open wide
To hail the urchin, ere he might
Get with the tidings out of sight.
With anxious band we clutched the sheet,
And plunged into the nearest seat,
Kan o'er the first poge in a minute,
By thunder ! there was nothiug in it.
What! could it be a newsboy's trick?
No, there was day and date this week;
So gulping down a fit of rage
We turned to view the other page.
Ah! here it is, the second column :
And there, in fact, with vision solemn,
We saw, in letters large as life,
The various rumors ol' the strife.
I.
"Great battle ! Union victory !
Defeat of General Tweedle-dee
By Tweedle dum.   The rebel driven
With slaughter, and no quarter given."
II.
"The late engagement.    Fresh details
About the fight.    Our geueral fails
To follow up his victory.
Death of the rebel Nweedle-dee!"
III.
"Still later news.    Tbe telegraph
Communi'cations all cut off,
The river riBiug.    Tweedle-dum
Reported last at kingdom come.
IV.
"Special dispatch received by hand.
The rebels rallying for a stand.
Our late success.    The rebel rout
Not so complete as first given out.''
V.
"Second dispatch ! Alarming news!
The rebel weakness all a ruee.
Strange rumors.   Tweedle-dee not dead,
His army pushing on ahead.''
VI.
"Astounding news! The rebels meet
The Union forces, aod defeat
Them totally.    Tbeir whole camp captured.
The rebel army quite enraptured.
The following curious item next
Appeared among tbe "extra" text.
'Twas dated ''Washington." and headed
"Latest," besides being double leaded.
"The army in high spirits ! The
Advantage gained by Tweedle-dea
Part of the plan by Tweedle-dum
To bag his force at kingdom come."
'Tis said the one who father's lies
Wa« lately Been in human guise;
He's now employed says one who watches,
In  wiiting government dispatches.
[Metropolitan Record.
TUe New   IH'aft.
"Joseph is not, and Simeon is uot, and ye wil1
take Benjamin away." Such is the wail that will
rise from thousands of humble homes all over the
land when tbe six short lines, signed "Abraham
Lincoln," whicb we published a short time since
shall find their way into the lowly dwellings. One
and a half millions of hale, hearty men, our husbands, our son, our brothers, have already been
sent forth to this horrible war ; and noiv half a
million more are called for to satisly the appetite
of this insatiate Moloch ! One aod half million of
hale hearty men bave been taken from the productive labor which has made the greatness,
wealth, happiness and honor of our beloved country; and now half a million more are to go!
"When, in God's name ! is^all this to end?" we
may suppose to be the auxious exclamation of
many worthy matrons, aBshe takes her Beat at the
frugal board for the evening meal to-morrow and
next day, as tbe doleful news shall reach the farm
houses throughout the land.
"When, in God's name ! is all this to end ? Robert was killed at Bull Run; John at Chancellors-
ville ; Sam has returned, mutilated and bed-ridden lor life from bloody Chickamauga; Thomas
alone remains to U3. Peace! Peace! Oh God,
give us peace. This war is not worth wbat we are
paying for it. Our own fair fields will remain un-'
cultivated ; our own botneB will become deBolated
to say nothing of the still greater misery inflicted
upon our Southern brethern if this horrible war
continues. Shall "we longer suffer, and inflict all
this for the emancipation of the negro, who is
much happier, slave as he is, than free as we would
make him? When, Oh when shall this cruel war
stop ?"
The father listens to this apostrophe of his wife
hut sits by pale, thoughtful, and silent. Thomas,
too, finishes his meal without a word. "Tom, my
boy, you'll have to go this time, I fear," says the
father seriously, leaving his chair. "Will I!" is
the short reply; and there is something in the eye
and about the lip of Tom, which suggests to his
parent tbat Tom is not quite of the same opinion
with the father.—V. Y. JVews.
The Republicans organs boasted that we had
several weeks ago, 80,000 niggers in the field, aqd
that the number has been rapidly increasing since.
Well, what bave the eighty or a hundred thousand niggers done ? What have they achieved to
justify the expense or a tenth or twentieth part of
the expense incurred in raising, organizing
clothing, and feeding them?—Louisville Journal
Theodore Tilton, of the New ..York Independent* said in a lecture the otber day at Portland, that it was "the prime duty of all to grasp
God with one band and the.negro with the other."
It is not difficult to say whioh he would grasp
most cordially.—Louisville Journal.
TERMS.  CASH.
The reifalta of the draft last summer were as foi.
lows : Exempted for disability, 75,000 ; exempted for other causes, 74.000 ; paid commutation,
41,000 ; procured aubatitulutes, 34,000; drafted
and served, 11,000.
The new comet is approaching the earth rapidly
fe      I and will be visible very soon.
Grand National  Raffle.
UNPRECEDENTED SCHEME !—500,000 MEN TO BB RAFFLED FOR ON THK lOlH OF MARCH.
'The Subscriber informs the publio that he has
completed his arrangements for his patriotic, philanthropic and religions entertainment. His1
wheels, tickets and enrollment are upon an improved system. Loyal Leaguers will be pleased
with the arrangement by whioh fortune will favor
those wbo "rally round the flag" at home. The
interest in the raffle will be greatly inoreased by
dramatic Bcence. Among others, I will mention
the payment of the widow's last dollar to redeem
her son. The thrilling tableau ofthe seizure of
the father of the provost-marshal, and the weeping of the wife and children, in this act bas been
viewed with pleasure by the prominent clergymen
and the leading editors of the loyal press.
The undersigned assures the public that no expense has been spared in getting up the entertainment. His agents are liberally paid, and enter
heartily into his purpose of giving the publio a
spectacle unparalleled since tbe last days of the
Roman republic under Nero. Tha whole will be
enlivened by original jokes, tales, songs. &c.
A. Lincoln, Manager.
N. B.—As there is a prejudice in the minds of
Borne against raffles and lotteries, the manager informs the public that he has submitted tbe moral
and religious question to a number of eloquent divines. He is assured by them that it ie promotive
of religious philanthropy—freedom to raffle for
the precious lives and blood of our citizens. It is
only opposed to the law of God to get up lotteries
to feed them when they are hungry, to comlort
them when they are sick, or to bind up their
wounds when they bleed upon our battle-fields.
Everything of this kind will therefore be carefully
avoided. A. L.
Reference—Rev. S. H. Tying, Simeon Cameron, H Ward Beecher, J. W.Forney,   and others.
The Republican Programme.
Nf. Stevens, of Pensylvania, perhaps the ablest
man in the  Republican   party, thus sums up the
polisiy of tbe Administration :
1. That the-existing war between the United
States is a civil war, earring with it the character
of public war, in which the United States on the
one side and the Confederate States on the other
are belligerent parties, and as to each other independent and foreign nations and the character
of alien enemies attaches to all, including women and children, who in fact, or by domicile,
adhere to the Confederate States.
2. That the war has abrogated the treatry of
compact called a "Constitution" heretofore existing between the United States and the
Confederate States, or their peopll, and neither
can claim as against tbe otber the aid of the
Constitution or laws passed under it.
S. That the territory of the Confederate States,
covered by fhe Confederate flag , is a foreign country, and when we coDquer it, it is a conquered
country, whereof Ihe landB are to be confiscated
and sold, and the slaves ofthe people made free,
and the States and their laws reorganized.
4. That he who wishes to re-establish "the
Union as it waB," and to restore the "Constitution
as His," cannot escape tbe guilt of attempting to
enslave his fellow-men. "The Union as it was
aud the Constitution as it" is an attrocious idea ;
it is man-stealing. That all the inhabitants of
the Confederate States have forfeeited all rights
under the Constitution which they have renounced
and that they are forever stopped from claiming
"the Union as it waa."
Tbis programme recognizes the dissolution of
the Union.
A  Great Old  Joker
The New York Herald is responsible for the
following joke on Abe Lincoln :
Every age and country bas its great jokers.—
Greece had the great JEiop, and also Diogenes,
who was a hard, dry, caustic old wit, and made
people wince rather than laugh. Rome had a
host of jokers, chief among whom were Horace
and Juvenal. Italy had Boccaocio, who published several volumes of unctuous jokes, and notably
the Decameron, France had her Rabelais, who
laughed at thia world and the next, aod made
sport of potentates and priests with equal humor
and Beverity. England had Joe Miller, who is a8
immortal as St. George and tbe dragon, and who
is Baid to have perpetrated almost all the good
things we have read or beard during the past
cenlury. But why should we multiply examples?
Suffice it to say that America bas at last produced
ber great joker, and that his name is President
Lincoln, more commonly translated into the ver"
nacular " Honest Old Abe."
President Lincoln is a joke incarnated. His election was a very sorry joke. The idea that Buch
a man as he should be the President of such a
country as this is a very rediculous joke. Tbe
manner in which he first entered Washington—
after having fled frora Harrisburg in a Sootch
Cap, a long inillitary oloak and a special nigbj
train—was a practical joke. His debut in Washington society was a joke—for he introduced himself and Mrs. Lincoln as the long and short of the
Presidency." His inaugural address was a joke,
since it was full of promises which he has never
performed. His Cabinet is and always bas been a
standing joke. All his State papers are jokes.—
HiB letters to our generals beginning with tbose to
Gen. McClellan, are very cruel jokeB. His plan
for abolishing slavery in 1900 was a broad joke
His Emancipation Proclamation was a solemn
joke. His recent proclamation of abolition and
amnesty is another joke. His conversation ia full
of jokes, of which thoBe we publish this morning
are pretty fair 'specimens. His tittle Of "Honest"
is a sartirioal joke. The style in whioh he winks
at frauds in the War Department, frauds in the
Navy Department, frauds in the Treasury ^Department, and frauds in every department, is a costly
;oke. His intrigues to secure renomination and
the hopes he appears to entertain of a re-election
are, however, the most laughable jokes of all.
The National Debt.
The debt of this nation, when this horrible war
is over, will not be less than $4,000,000,080, and •
labor, not capital, mind yoa, bat labor alone, win
have to pay it. When the lying Adminfstration
papers tell you that wealth or capital, will take
care of the six per cent., whioh will roll np ita
frightful millions every twelve months ; when the
brazen-faced politieal charlatan mounts tha rostrum and proclaims to you tbat the people will
not break under enormous taxation, for "ne" are
so rich in resources that "we" could oarry twice
$4,000,000,000, tell tbis mountebank he lies; or if
he does not lie, he is as ignorant upon tbe subject
of national taxation, of national bebt, as a Congo
African. My bard working friend, I want your
ear, apd your attention, for yoa and I, who belong
to the bone and sinew, and muscle, of this nation,
are tha capital creators ; to us alone is consigned
the task of finding the means which must be forthcoming to meet the huge claims called interest
aod taxes.
Tbis load of debt will not be less than fonr thousand millions, and must be carried by the Working
portion of the 20,000,000 of tbe North. Any
statesman that supposes that the South, whatever
may be the result of tbe war, oan be made to work
out anything more than her owo debt, is a fool.
Our debt must be paid by the North, if paid at all.
But let us see who are to pay it. Agriculture,
mining and manufactures alone must pay tbe debt.
But how many people are engaged in these three
important branches ?
In 1860 there were employed in the entire North
and West, io agriculture, 1,551,293 hands, In manufactures 807,125 ; total of producers 2.358 423.
I will add tor miscelaneous labor, not embodied ia
this total, that labor which finds employment in
building, fabricating, etc., not embraced under tha
bead of manufactures, say in the entire North and
West 2,000,000, making iu round nuxbers, 4,500-
000 persons, whose task is to create the wealth of
the country, without which this debt, or its interest even, can never be paid. Now the tacts are,
that the bodies of these 4,500.000 producers of the
North are mortgaged for the payment of the war
debt, whatever it may be. If we call the debt
$4,000,000,000, and to-day it is three-quarters of
that Bum, we shall not be far-out of the way, and
you and my toiling brother, are in this grand aggregate of mortgaged millions destined to sweat
out our proportion ofthe debt if it is {laid at all.
How do you and I stand, my friend? Divide
$4,000,000,000 into 4,500,000 parts, and we carry
near $889 each. It is our task, as working men,
to see that six per cent on $880, besides preparing
for our otber taxes, is saved from the surplus of
our yearly toil, to go into the pockets of the lazy
non-producers, who will finally contrive to stand
as Government creditors, carrying the war debt
of $4,000,000 000. Are you satisfied to day $54
per year, besides your general tax, as long as yoa
live, to sustain the credit of an nnconststntlooai
and infamous war loan ? Do you desire to burden
your clildren-with a tax of $54 per bead all tbeir
lives, in addition to tbe taxes they will otherwise
have to pay ? These taxes, labor, and labor alone,
will have to carry, spite of the sophistry of the
demagogue, who tells you that the rich men are the
sufferers. Tbe interest must be worked out; the'
principal, if it is ever paid, must be worked out.
You and I my agricultural friends, must part either directly or Indirectly, with $54 war debt inter-,
est per year. Beside our ordinary taxes, this sum
aleo must be taken from the results of our toil.
Our children and our children's children, nmst be
hewers of wood and drawers of water to the mea
who are supporting tbis war, for vast fortunes are
being made in prosecuting it and this fortunes will
be invested in the great war loan, and their children will make our children sweat out, in big drops
of blood, the cent per cent which impoverished
one portion of the country to benefit another.
A national debt is one of the most terrible
curses which ever visited a people. Look at England. See her busy millions, and tbeir abjeot poverty. They are crushed to the earth by tbe power
of interest or taxes. Let us suppose tbis war debt
to draw interest for only eighty years. Let ua
thoroughly understand tbat the interest must ba
created by labor, and then follow it out, Io twenty years this interest will be equal to the principal.
Allowing that the interest it five per centre pay
on $4,000,000,000 $200,000,000 per year. In
eighty years we shall have paid on the war debt
alone the sum of $16,000,009,000 in Interest, more
than all the wealth which tbe North bas created In
the past eighty years, by at least $5,000,000,000.
But this is not all. What, in the meantime, is to
become ofthe Government requirements, tbe civil,
military and navel expenses; at least $200,000,000
more per yeaj? How are we to meet these? Ia
eighty years these items will also reach an aggregate of $16,000,000,000 and the gross expenditures
ot the aation, at the moBt economical reduction
which a peace establishment would permit, cannot
in eighty years come to less than $32,000,000,000
and not the reduction ofa single dollar of tbe war
debt.—Day Book.
There is now in sight of this city a white girl
from Providence. Rhode Island, who is married
to a negro, with whom she is living. The wives
of Republicans are in the habit of visiting ber on
terms of friendly intimaoy. The girl is rather
good looking, and her husband is as black as a
Tartarian night. With that pair tbe "equality"
which Mr. Lincoln seeks to establish is fully realized.— N. Y. Day Book.
The Alabama has captured in all fifty-eight large
vessels.
The SMSaysville Bulletin (Kentucky) is
not over complimentary to SMSr. Lincoln.
It says : - *
"The Chicago Journal says that we
have called President Lincoln an idiot.
We never did. One time we tried to
he sarcastic as we could, and csalled him
Honest Old Abe."
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