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The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10

ISDUsTRY Is TALENT--Wc often hear persons cx-
planning how one man succeeds, while another fails
in the same pursuit, by attributing to a tllcnt
for his business but refusing it to the other. Yet
without denying that some individuals have great
er aptitude for particular ayocations than others,
we think that the problem in question could be
easier solved, by saying that the successful man
was industrious while the other was not
Bulwer for example, is considered as a man of
the highest abilities as novelist Yet, when Bull
wer began his career, he composed with the utmost
difficulty often writing his fctons twice over. He
perscvercd, however, and now stands almost at the
head of his cass--hs latest productions, moreover
being regarded as the best from his pen. Every
school-boy is familiar with the fact that Demosthc-
mes became orator only by pursuing similar
plan. Nor illustrations Of the great TRUTH that
industry is talent, confined to the higher nellectu-
al pursuits. When Girard trusted the customer
without cndorser who carried his goods home
on his shoulders the shrewd old Frenchman was
acting on this truth, deduced from his own expert
ence of mankind. All eminent persons, whether
mechanics, merchants lawyers or statesmen, were
industrious, from Watt and Norris down to Thur
low and William Pitt. Washington, Franklin
Marshall and Madison, and every other distinguish
ed American were busy men. Industry, in short,
is talent nine times cut of ten.
The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10

There IS more truth than imagination in the fol-
loving remarks of the ArguS giving reason whv
that paper would not advocate the = Maine LIQUOR
Law"
ave arc told that liquor is the cause of drunk
cnness, 1t is no more so than powder and steel are
the cause OF war. If we admit it to be- we must
also admit that good name, that gold, beauty,
ivory and religion the cause Of the other vices
referred to- No, gentlemen; the cause lies dcepcr
than the surfacc-it lies in the uncducated ILL.,
regulated heart of man. and not in any inaninate
thing without it. While you wage discriminating
with the tc'aPt["g thing, you neglect the tempted
heaH You are commanded to resist temptation,
not to 'e10rs it for it is placed and permitted in
the world by One who knows the human heart and
Its abilities bctttr than abstinence societies
II you dare not trust your own hearts, YOUR own
resolutions, how in the name of sense can YOU i'm
part confidence to Others? Is there intrnsically
any more harm in sitting down in q bar-roon, than
IN sitting down i'll a church If the former is frc-
quently scene of disturbance and brawls, is not
the latter full as often made place of assignaticn
Il liquor tempts You to madness in one place does
not beauty tempt you to perjury in the other .
Educate then yourselves your children and your
neighbors in the practice of self-control Light
your lamps by the mild and steady light of YOUR
Master, and remember that gin-sngs and brandy
cocktails are not comprised in the Decalogue-and
that the power Of doing harm does not lie in the
strength Of the liquor, but in the weakness of the
mind that is not trained to resist this or anv other
tcmpation
The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10

]J<~GooD BYE.-Thc editor of the Albany REGISTER
thus comments upon this simple phrase, SO common
and yet so full of solemn and tender meaning:
= How many emotions cluster around that word
How full of sadness and to how full of sorrow it
sounds. 1t is with us a consecratcd word We
heard it once within the year as we hope never to
hear it again. We spoke it on an occasion such as
we hope never to speak it again 1t was in the
chamber of death, at the still hour of nights noon
The curtains all closed the lights were shaded
and we stood in the dim solemn twilight with others
around the bed of the dying. The damps Of death
were on her pale young brow, and coldncss was ON
her lips, we kissed her for the last time while
living. "Good-byc my daughtcr,' we whispered
and "Good-bye, father" came from her dying lips
We know not if she ever spoke more, but = Good
bye" was the last ever heard of her sweet voice
We hear that last sorrowful word often and often
as we sit alone busy with the memories of the past
We hear it in the silence of night, in the hours of
nervous wakefulness as we lay upon our bed think
ing CT the loved and lost to us. We hear it in our
dreams when her sweet face comes back to us as it
was in its lovelness and beauty. We hear it when
we sit beside her grave in the ccmctry where she
sleeps alone, with no kindred as yet by her side
She was the hope of our life, the prop upon which
to lean when age should come upon and life should
be running to its dregs The hope and the prop are
gone, and we care not how soon we 90 down to
sleep beside our darling, beneath the shadow of the
tree in the city Of the dead.
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NUMBER 4.

time. Three years after. he was taken as part-
ner by his benefactor with third part of the
profits. viz
Soon an insiduous disease cast Herr Richter on n
pea OF Sickness and kept him for two years conn cd
10 his couch Gottleib, redoubling his cxertions,
became the soul of the whole business Herr P;cb'
ter closed his eyes in death in the sixtysxth wear Of
hlsage In the year 1925 ten years after the house
OF Gottlelb Bern owned three large ships and the
care Of Providence seemed especially to watch over
the interest OF their owner. lie married the daueh.
ter Of his benefactor
1t Is but few years since this child of poverty,
OF honest industry, and of misfortune, passed awov
in peace from this world wy
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright
for the end of man is peace" r''o"''
The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10

Hills in the journey of life like the hills which
alarm travellers upon their road; they both appear
great at a distance but when we approach them
we find that they are far less insurmountablc than
we had imagined.
The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10

You rarely, if ever see politician, with smooth
hair, great scholar with fine hair, artist with
red hair, fop with coarse hair, a minister with
long hair, editor whose hair is carefully ad-
justed.
The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10
" Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How | wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high.
Like a diamond in the sky"

His seemed like prophetic voice But a few
moons have wancd and little c. is now star in
heaven. Before he died he sang the very strains
which had delighted him, and he now sleeps in
peace near the rivers brink, where in spring g-time
the flowers shall bloom above him which he so
much loved and where they will not cease to be
watered by parents tears" How many bereav-
ed heart will be touched by this
The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10

My DEAR" said an Irish gentleman to his wife,
II would rather the children were kept in the
nursery when | am at home, although sholud not
object to their noise if they'd only keep quiet 4
The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10

cotomporary, after the most laborious research
says the navy of Mexico consists of two smacks
and a raft-the former being mounted with twelve
marines, and the latter with hen coop.
The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10

HERolSN AND CRUELTY.-A most touchinn in
stance of hcros, and one of the most atrocous acts
OF cruelty the truth of which is vouched for Inv th..
most respectable authority occurred during tho Co,
lumbian struggle for independence. The Spanish
General Norlo, the most blood thirsty and reach.
erous tool of the Spanish King, was created Count
OF Carthagenia and Marquis de Ia Pueria. for scr-
vices which rather entitled him to the title ofbutcb
er and hangman. While seated in his tent one dov
he saw boy before him drowned in tears. TIe
chief demanded of him for what purpose he was
there. ""'
The child replied that he had come to bcr the
He OF his iather, then prisoner in Morllos camn
J., nat can you do 10 save your father 2" asked
the general.
= can do but little. but what oo,, l., aLou,.
donc.' Wv '''''' '0
Morillo seized the little fellows ear. and said
"Woud you suffer your car to be taken off to nro,
cure your fathers life ?"
certainly would was the undauntcd replv.
A soldier was accordingly called, and ordered to
cut OF the ear with single stroke of the knife.
lhe boy wept, but did not resist while the barba
rous order was executed
" ouid you lose your other ear rather than fail
OF your purpose 9 was the next question.
have suffered much, but for my father can
suffer stlli," was the answer of the boy
ne ether car was taken off piccemcal without
dlnchlng on the part Of the noble bow
And now go" exclaimed Morillo untouched bv
this sublime courage, the father of such a son
must die T.
In the presence of his agonized and yainly suffer-
lng son, the patriot father was executed. Never
dld lie picture exhibit such truthful lights and
shades III national character such deep, trcacher
Gus villalny' such lofty enthusiastic heroism
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MMEL C0LOMA, Ell DORADO COUNTY, CAL SATURDAY MO-

BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.--I saw the temple reared
by the hand of man. standing with its high pima
cles in the distant plain; the stream beat upon it ;
the God of Nature hurled its thunderbolts against
it; and get it stood firm adamant Revelry
was in its hall the gay, the young, the happy and
beautiful were there.
| turned and the temple was no more its high
walls scattered in ruins the moss and ivy grass grew
wildly there, and at midnight hour the owls cry
added to the desoation of the scene the young and
the gay, who had reveled there, had passed away.
saw the child rejoicing in his youth tkc idol of
his father. | returned and the child had become
old. Trembling with weight of years he stood, the
last of his generation; stranger amid the desola-
ton around him.
[ saw an oak stand in all its pride on the noun
tain, the birds were caroling on its boughs. re-
turned-the oak was leafess and saplessNthe winds
We're playing their pastimc through the branches.
"Who is the destroyer!' said to my guardian
angel.
1T is Time said he "When the morning stars
sang together with joy over the new made world
he commenced his course, and when he shall have
destroyed all that is beautiful on earth plucked the
sun from its sphere; yelled the moon in blood yea.
when he shall roll the heaven and earth away as q
scroll, then shall angel from the throne Of God
come forth, and with one foot upon the land, and
one upon the sea, lift up his head towards Heaven
and Heavens eternal, and say
lime is, Time was Time shall be no longer .
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For the Empire County Argus.
HENRY Is COMING HOME!

Glad words How full of thrilling emotions to
those around the dear domestic hearth who have u
loved one absent. Coming home! How sweetly
1all those words on the mothers heart as she hears
Oh the returning steps fher absent son. The faith
er, too, feels double thrill Of Joy as they are re-
Peated to him and the loving sister and afectonatc
brother wait with anxious looks and throbbng
hearts. Coming home oh, who has not listened to
the sound with enchanting rapture
Coming home! That brother who has long been
absent, and has grown familiar with the long-tom,
pick and shovel in the distant land of gold and for
years has been faithfully aboring to acquire pile
OF the shining ORC, is coming home. He has lived
long enough in the country to find many a warm
friend, and as they take him Ly the hand to say
adieu, tear unconsciously falls, and can only say
God bless you, and turn away. Yet he is going
home, to spend the winter among the dear ones
around his native hearth
Coming home! The best room is set apart for
his chamber. Again and again have loving hands
folded back the curtains and shook out the white
drapcry Every evening loving voices whisper, as
they gather around the cheerful freside where the
fire blazes bright and warm, he will be here tomor
row perhaps. At each meal the table is set with
scrupulous care the porker IS in the sty fattod
ready to take his last gasp when he arrives. The
chickens crow as usual little dreaming that the
sound of rejoicing within the household is but the
notes which proclaim their death knel. Street
Home! Happy greetings await him there; and
glad hearts soon will welcome him. All he would
almost leap the waters could he but know how
anxiously so many loving hearts await his coming
home, already smile lights his face as the ship
gldes brisky through the waves while he thinks of
his distant homo and in fancy sees loving hands
stretched out and bright eyes peering to catch the
first sigh Of his we'll known and cherished form
lie has been absent more than three long years
and passed through most of the vicisitudes and
many of the hardships incident to life in new and
unsettled country and has learned by sad experience
that there is no place like home" Coming home.
the very words are rapturous. They bear import
of every thing sweet and holy in domestic life, nay
more, they stamped with the seal of heaven
the angels say of the dying saint, "Hc is coming
home"
Too soon alas too we parted,
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knew the old man. he was rich and his riches
were his God. | rode in company with him con-
siderable distance through his possessions sought
means to turn the conversation from his groves
and his orchards his fields and his taresure to
something more serious and profitable Butno--his
heart was these things they cngrosscd his
thoughts and his affections. He was between egh-
ty and ninety years of age, and yeti could not
bring him for moment to speak of leaving his
earthly inheritance. TO the sabbath and the sane
tuary, and all the things of God, he was an utter
stranger.
1t was painful to man just ready to close his
eyes all that belongs to earth, refusing to admit
into his mind single thought of death, and that
eternity so shortly to be his home. With kind of
melancholy satisfaction, saw him take different
road from myself thus releasing me from my
frutless efforts to direct his mind toward that world
where his real interests lay.
Not long after this interview, diseases attacked
his mortal frame, giving doubtful ntimation that
the machine which had been moving more than
fourscorc years was about to stand still As he Law
struggling with death, he spoke of fields of corn
and then said Bring m my bundle of notes"
Inspecting one Of them, he said with earnestness
II believe we shall not lose it, or to that effect
While he thus lay holding his notes and obligations
before his face, in his withered hand--he died
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Too soon, alas too we parted
Much too soon the trace willsfade,
Which brief and ardent friendship,
On thy mind and heart have made.
Other thoughts will soon possess thee,
Older friends thy heart engage,
And those who were 50 Lately ch rished,
VIII be erased from memo~y page.
Yet, sometimes think of those whose friendship
To thy bosom late dear,
W no would share thy JOY if present,
And at parting dropt a tear.
NJ NJ r
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"SolITARY AND AloNE."--Thc Philadelphia I,-
q,,rcr says Col. Benton is now scventy-one years
old and adds;
We saw him the other day on the pavement near
his house in Washington. He is the youngest look
ing man Of seventy we have ever seen: rather
fuller in habit and broader than he used to appear
He wears his hat with knowing expression little
on the left side walks with deliberate and meas
ured tread having something like pride in its SEEM
something that bcspeaks consciousness that
he is Thomas Hart Benton He feels his powers,
and so does his country and will it ever His
mark will be left upon the era of his life. Few
men of equal intellectual power and knowledge have
appeared on this stage Of action
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HOMES BRIGHT STAR "A correspondent of the
Knickcrbocker thus writes;--Though helpless and
DEPENDENT little child has enough brightness in
his eyes and gravity in his prattle to fill house
hold with JOY. When he awakes first at the peep
Of day and imprints kisses on his parents lips,
their fragrance is sweeter than that of morn The
music of his voice is like the song of birds at the
approach oflight; his smile more sunny than the
first entrance of sunbcams into the room His little
arm chair, on high stills, is scrupulousy placed
when the fast is broken, and he is no unimportant
member at the family board. During the dav. how
pleasant the patering of his feet on the staircase,
his voice in the courtyard, his frequent bursting
into the room with some new tale At night he
kneels down whitley clad, as before some holy
altar, at his mothers knees, and his little prayer
goes straight to heaven from childs heart - Out
Of the mouth of babes and sucklngs Thou hast Or
dained praise Not unfrequent, when he sleeps
are the mothers pilgrimages to his couch, while
under his long lashcs and sealed lids the spirit ola
chcrub seems to dwell But o, if God, in Ills wise
providence, should change that rcposc into the sleep
of death, and the white flowers are placed upon
his breast, in his little clasped hands, the tears
which sparkle on his brown are bright, but perhaps
the bittcrcst ever shed Dear little c. is dead!
remember the last time | saw him was on q beau
tiful evening in autumn. We all sat in the sum-
mer-housc The moon arose, and the stars twinl,lcd
and were reflected in the waves which beat below
the cliffs. The child looked up to the brightest star
of all, and said
The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-10

In a certain town in Illinois, there was but one
birth during the past year. This may be called 2
case of solitary confinement.
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Affection, like spring flowers breaks through the
most frozen ground at last and the heart which
seeks but for another heart to make it happy, will
never seek in vain
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a minister approached a mischieyous urchin
about twelve years old, and laying his hand upon
his shoulder thus addressed him:
My son, believe the devil has hold of you
Il believe he has too was the significant reply of
the boy.
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The immortality of the age is standing topic Of
complaint with some men, But if any one likes to
be moral we can see nothing in the age to prevent
him.
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The individual who broke the ice with his mai
den speech, was drowned by applause
Southern standard., 1853-02-19
England Free Trade,

1t is astonishing to witness the brazen assumption
of England upon her commercial policy. Her whole
history is alsty-her entire policy seishness. She
Instituted slavery this continent against the ear
nest protest of the colonies and abolished it in ST.
Domingo, not from any benevolent motive; but from
the genray received opinion, that it would be the
death blow of the slave interest of the South. She
holds up her bloody hands, in horror when we talk of
war. She stands the necks of hundred oblitera-
ted naonalties and reads us lessons on annexation
conquest She forces China to eat opium and repro
bates the idea of "American commercial avarce.'-
Her wars were wars for commercial power-her diplo-
macy has resulted in net work of treaties to extend
her monopoly trade She breaches to US of slavery
with nnety-nine years apprenticeship in the Indies
and system, of brutal cruel, and heartless invoun-
tary servtude, in those unfortunate regions away from
the gaze and knowledge of the world, and from which
she withholds the light of Gospel revelation. The
Earth has been saturated with blood crafty her Ma
tiona lusts. Her starving poor, whom want and ty-
ranny have driven to our happy shores put into
tabular statistics by her press and their increased
sumption of English goods talked Of though there
degradation in the fact that she thus mis-
ery rejoice her avaricious cruelety "Free trade
free trade, free trade, we hear in every Speech anC
see in every paper that comes from England. Yet ex
anime her tariff list-so complicated that car
make it without laborious study And what do yoU
see :" ga reed shaken by the wind % No verify
You see that she taxes just what she is not absolutely
obliged free. There is one great interest il
this country-cotton That is free. There is anoth
er interest second only to the cotton-tobacco. How
does this stand TWELVE HUNDRED PER CENT TAX
And yet the London Times says to the tobacco plan
tcrs of the United States "Free trade is fnality!'
They tax tobacco at the rate of twelve hundred pc
cent: and therenpon 'the premises being duly consd
ered' Canada insists reciprocity. 1t would be al
well for the people of this country know something
more of England and her diplomatic and commercial
4 policy Her treaties would open their eyes, and thu
practical effect of her tariff sheet astonish them.
I Cotton Plant.
Southern standard., 1853-02-19
The Flag Of the Union and the Honor
able James Whitfield.

The above named sheet in its last issue, comes tc
u.s. with gratuitous assailment of the character o
the Hon. James Whitfield The Columbus Life and
General Insurance Company, with which he is associ
ated and of which he is President, and which is made
the gravamen of the personal ASSAULT needs no de-
fence at our hands does any act in the life of the
above named gentleman. The numerous manifesto
tons of public confidence given him. the universal es
teem in which he is held here are indeed worse than
"tinkling symbol and sounding BRASS" if serious
defence were needed to save him harmless, from the
scurrlous, cowardly and lying insnuations of the
Flag of the Union.
When the Flag has learned to discharge its own pri-
vae engagements with fidelity and honor and to throw
OF the slime of the cesspool which it has wallowed
from the hour of its BIRTH it may then, with pro-
priety claim censorship the conduct of others
In the present instance there is of justification
for the intimaton thrown out. No. not even in the a.
abandonment ofevery thing like truth and Justice which
is found prevalent in of the partisan journals o.
the day. For the subject of this base insinuaton has
left public life, and seeks the repose and quietude
his freside.
We close this article with the declaration that wher
the Flag ntmates that James Whitfield has defraudeC
or is capable of defaudng any individual out of the
value of one cent, it maciously and basely lies.