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100 cases Lard, 10 lb and 20 1b tins;
400 kegs E. Boston and Stuart's Syrup:
$50 bags Rio Coffee;
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250 chests Green and Black Teas:
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1000 bags fine Salt;
Pickles, in cases and kegs; ground coffee,
pepper, allspice, cinnamon, salaratus,
smoking and chewing tobacco, &C.. for sale
by J. III. COGHILL & CO.,
Front street, bet. Jackson and Pacific.
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LANGrs)N & ERU'S

DILL
EXPRESS, PASSENGER AND FREIGHT LINE
Leaves the Office of LANGToN & Bro S
Express, Downieville, for Goodyear's Bar,
Camptonville and Fosters Bar; connecting
with the CALIFORNIA STAGE cos
LINE OF COACHES to all portions of
the State.
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DEALERS IN STOVES AND ALL KINDS OF TINwARE.
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Of Green q Purdy, by experienced work
men employed by them, and they are there
fore enabled to guaranty that all work en-
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paint, and Democratic extravaganza is to be
carried to such an extent, they say as to gild
the weather beaten eagle over tho portico It
is rumored that il wis once painted white
but that must have BEN long ago, for the rains
and SHOWS of almost bill a century have made
its head even more bald than the wood carver
who sculptnred it ever iesigned
And Hawthorne hasleft his former home, too,
apparently forever, Bat believe that, with all
It's faults, Salem il 6etr old city still to him,
and that lie will returnto il again, il not from
love, from instinct. Ar he himself has said
Of the tenacity with when the descendant Of
one Of the old Pilgtim families, who settled
there, clings to the soil o' the ancient town
"It is no matter that be place is joyless for
him that he is wealy Of the old wooden
houses, the mud and du !, the dead level Of site
and sentiment, the chif east wind, and the
chilliest of social atm, heres; al these, and
whatever faults hem SEQ 81 imagine, are
nothing to the pafns,l The spelI survives,
and just ~ p5wsiiuliy u 4 chs natal spot we're
an earthly Paradise
And applying this to himself, he has said
so has il heen in my case felt it almost
as destiny to make Salem my home; 50 that
the mould of features and cast Of Character
which had all along been familiar hers--eyer
as ona representative Of the race lay d,wn in
his grave, another assuming, as it ware, his
sentry march along the main street-might
still in my little day be seen and recognised in
the old town.
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|
orn and weary sat tho watcher, with her head upon
her hand,
r sad eyes, intensely wAkofa the pale brow before
\ her scanned
rhs lone tapor, faintly beaming throw strange fg-
IN ures round the room,
Dim and shadowy, grim aud CHASTITY, quiyerng, qua
king. in the gloom,
but she needed not the rhsnoms, or the dsep-voiced
midnight bell,
lence fell
epnds that waksnsa not the sleeper had no msssags
fvr her ear
Harm to him was all she dreaded-else she knew not
hope or fear.
Sw shc bnthed his throbbing temples with soft ca
ressing hand,
And his peaceful breathing told her quiet at her
command;
Now the hand, transparent, tossing. lay becalmed
And the ever-visions vanished-aed before affections
tone.
Now she glded round the chamber, as on floating
pinions borne,
Never pansing in her duties from the twilight till the
morn
Cooling burning lips with cordial, mingled with the
breath Of prayer
GENTLY pllowng on her bosom, aching tempes-rest-
ing there
IAN unconscious Of her presence every troubled
breath he drew
al scho in her spirit deeper than the watcher
knew.
Morn aud wasted nerved and tireless seepess the
~ eye Of day,
Ioversd she about his pillow, charming many pang
away.
onsly' Nay, she was not lonely, though the world
about her slept,
though in grand and awful silence stars along their
orbits swept;
|heagh the majesty of midnight like a mantle Ger
her fell
[dnights calm and holy presence with her thoughts
accorded well.
.onely? No, there thronged about her heralds from
irding on her spirits armor, pouring radiance on
the night.
lore than rest and moro than slumbsr the renewing
lie tney gave
ays and nights with seopess vigil toiled she by m
opcn grave.
ri.sw watchers wore the angels, guarding him she
loved SO well,
nd her heart grew strong and stronger rapt in loves
mysterious spell;
ops unfading trust unyielding strength unfailing to
the last
ow she labored watched and waited. till the crisis
isur sas past
hen he smiled in recognition on the eye that met
his own
Sister, +" Brother" thrilling accents, spoke the
soul in every tone
pd the watcher pale and trembling, soothed and ST.
ienced and carcssed,
"a with words Of murmured music lulled her feeble
charge TO rest
EFrrE.
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FOR the National Era.
NEW ENGLAND SKETCHES.
SALEM AND HAwTHoRNE.

la cloar, cold Thanksgiving day, the jolly
thanksgiving dinner, and in tho dusky after
ION walk through the quiet streets, down
the monldcring wharvcs, in the still old city
Salem.
Instead Of the great East Indinmen, rich with
! riches OF the Orient, heavily laden with
|pper from Snmatra and cinnamon from Cey-
sr with teas and silks from China, now,
bling but some little coasting schooners, ly-
lnzlly in the smooth harbor, or moored be-
tho vharves discharging their piles OF
sbcr from Bangor, or tons Of sea coal from
tsn, and here and there dismal brig, just
icd from Bucnos Ayres OF from the African
~ with q cargo Of horns and hides.
'hc great square mansion-houscs on the
BIT aboyc, once tenanted By the Salem mer-
INT princes Of the Revolutionary times--the
oious warehouses;, once filed with almost
bcless treasures - the gloomy street - the
strayRling wharyes--all fast hurrying to
> place Of tho bluff sea captains, the minia-
Sir William Phippscs OF tho colony--in
Of the sturdy mariners--in place OF the
MISUNDERSTANDING nabubs of the old days,
oncc throngcd Derby strcet--now, no one
,src aud there the lazy skipper Of some
a smack a troup Of ragged Irish children,
brazsn-faced Swiss vagrant, beating out
~ tune on her tambourinc.
esc Il something very gloomy, and yet
Interesting, In the sight OF the commercial
Das of this old city of Salem. They bring
tight Visions Of fifty years ago, y when the
wAs rich and prosperous, when every port
itlaiuis IL the indian ocean was tcnanted
nks.<a - bc., kl<a Il,R .oa % "a n ,x,o oo,ok al
bix pipes and drank their strong punch
y San tavern, when the rough sailors
tlscir round Spanish oaths when good
ootw Bentley preached with holy fervor
nrnnst sermons beneath tho sounding
ID tic old East church, and when the
on the East church stecplc first shone
the eyes cf our grandfathers in all the
~ its rcsplcndent gliding
sth,rna had not to seek long nor far
the decay Of Salon, after material for
nfnling tales. There he was, in the midst
N, N the gre,st brick custom house on
pi<Inttj street. haunted by such ghosts
y a old King Derby or rich Billy Gray
I)rtat the distance OF short walk from
Ia Il. .6lvt ~clk stands tho North bridge,
tho first blood Of the Revolution was
n,F bcfe.o tho battle Of Lexington, by
klsh soldiers Of Col Leslie pricking with
IoyohetS tho resolule Salenitcs, who,
fciacd tho drnwbridge, did not hesitate
thcir h,l's 10 psevgnt the enemy from
t!.a narrow sire w. There, within n
lhfow t,om the Same dwelling, stands
cni amazon "a which ihe witch courts
|I,. a, IN whose rooms many poor
Moe innocent than her Judge, has
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|HT No writer can be more welcome TO our
ylunns than the author Of the following ex-
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The ARTISAN WILL AT CnARLEsToS-This long-talked-
of and long-wrtten-abou wethe greatest bore ia the
counry-s now likely to realize the most sanguine
pecations of its projectors The Charleston Courier
saysl
The ariesian well still yields its long-expeced stream
which, pleased TO learn, has gone increasing
since we last noticed It's progress Saturday. For a
great portion Of Yesterday the discharge estimated
approaching twenty gallons per minute and the daily
sminatons of portions show increasing tendency to
purity. The foreign ingredients that nlloyed the 6rst
gushos may be washed of the of supply below
likely to be the with the sand which has been
a troublesome This is coming up in very
considerable quantities rendering II necessary often to
clean out the receiving tanks and pipes. The operations
viii now be confined TO stirring up this sand as 10 aid
the well in the very welcome task IL TO have under
taken Of cleaning itself out We beginning 10 think
that expected glass Of pure ariesnn from all yield
ing well may be taken Christmas. We shall indeed,
be happy to join Major Welton in such glass, and to
drink TO him equal but lne speedy success in all his f
turc downward endeavors. Like FaIsaf may be ever
show nacrity in sinking
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Fur the Union
NATIONAL SONG.

JosssLys
We sing the song OF the free
The -cng oar fathers ssns,
~ aep o'es the land and
The Union dsg iuug;
And Tyranny ,nrped pale
Al Freedcm's joyous shout,
As on the western gale
It's starry folds spread
We sing The song of i,e free.
We sug the song Of lie bravol
The song our fathers sung
Hhon victory or the grave
TArouga hili and valley iungi
tnd son spi sire aiks
achieved deaihlcfp name,
And woman dared suke
For liberty and fame
We sing IN, song OF the brave
We -ihg the song Of the
The song our fathers sung
When, pain and denih n view
To faith and hope they clarg;
Nor hrrris, nor praise, gold,
Their honor pure could blight,
Or move their steadfast hold
On virtue, Truth, and riShi.
We sing the song cfs,he
The fee, The bravr, and ,hc true,
Is -iiu The song sing
The white. the red, blue
around sbern sil cling
Eternal b. the chain
Ol union-thus we swear,
AZ brothers We remnin
The world in TO dare |a
We sing the cong of the free
'''E'os, Mississippi
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Total two weeks...... a016,1oe I,i6J,467
This is large dec for the season, in which, late
years. under the influence of ships and rails
has started earlier regardless of winter and its
circumstances This year, however, the determination
get of debt reduce obligations, and
risks strong that the preparations and consequently
customary at this season. This of ITSELF while
the West continues TO pay up reasonably we'll must lead
speedy abundance of money the want of which at the
only checks the forwarding Of produce but also
export since the greatest difficulty exists in the negotiation
of bills.
The great increase in western business very marked
the OF the trunk lines East and West IN Illustration
will take the freghtsn the railroads and the