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The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1854-01-07
CARRIERS ADDRESS
TO THE PATRONS OF
THE EMPIRE COUNTY ARGUS,
January list, 1864.

Tuv tbincs which have been may be again DEVILS and
CARRIERS, since the earliest history Oh News4Pe'TS
morn to he Patrons of the Press Why should the Der"
of the Aaeus be denied the privilege of others
He has no poetry to jingle in your ears Calorhla
fast Country and none lucky Strikers can anord the
time for rhyme and words of sound IN sunshine anu so
he has visited abodes armed WIN ne 70
gence and may have brought gladness OF sorrow 70 may
anxious heart. For every sigh ne mas eusco, . 10
offered in rccompcnce for every smle lie hopes - '''
The Od Year with its thousand scenes in the drama OF
human life has passed away; its joys ana woes arc III INC
mast a ID the New has come. .
Wh, better time can be selected to tell you OF OF the
early history of your State? Commodore stockton ana
Col Fremont commissioned by the ,oVera t S'i s
noses into which no enquiry is sought painted the ts
and Strpes on the Pacific Coast, July lVti
months and two days after the first p@''le Oh 'he MO
Grande. -, , r A. o
such so far as the Carrier knows the story OF the con
quest which followed up by possession until te tre az
Guadalupe Hdalgo in 1885 comprises te ct sv
to ght Aurust 18th 1886 the first California newspaper
made its appearance, published by Sempie and Col'on-
January 10Th ls1s little eighteen months after
the possession of the Country gold was s
shining stuff in the race OF the oa n T of the Oce Of
Units dilapidated condition WITHIN -oo S'OS Vi '-o
The hckv fingers Of James w Marshall picked the first
specimen which is in possession of highly respectae
lady of this TOWN. resident with her husband since lo4o
and occupant of the first house erected in Coloma:
Marshall came the locality in October 1871 with otheS
for the purpose of supplying the coast market with lumber
How strange it ali But the purposes of the Govern
,nent and the object Of American emigration across ne
Plains as early as 1876 matters of fact NO eXplan
ton is attempted ,. 1o,
We know, however, that Mexican dependency Has pee
converted into State of the Unon and added STAR TO
the galaxy which adons the Flag of the Republic Inc
Eagle has dipped his wing in the Pacific wave ana tec.
ing thousands over and land, have come to pay Their
homage at the shrine Liberty in this region of gold and
promise r,.; ;. ox;storoo
Towns and Cities have sprung, like magic INTO existence
and the winged carriers of commerce whlten all the
shore The products of all the world are at your
and all tongues spoken in your hearing nearly all re
gions are practiced at your doors
Under these circumstances the CARRIER can never VISIT
YOU in his weekly rounds without something with which to
please or instruct He bears in his hand the news from
many lands' and may perchance in unexpected hours
tell of home and friends awayof hearts that love-
That happiness and "johy good luck" may await you
ALL and oy and ganes attend you through the vscitude
of the opening year, is the hope OF cuAp1Vv
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Oh! Bury Me in the Wlla Woo0s'
CHARLEY.

Oh bury me in the wild woods,
Where the birds unfettered sing,
And where in rich luxuriance
The unframed flowers spring.
There let me sleep in silence,
By the blue streams ripping tide,
Whose bright and sparkling waters
In circing wavelets glide.
Then make me soft and grassy grave
Afar from the busy throng.
Where naught is heard but the murmurinS wave,
And the gush of the wild birds song:
Where the orient beams of morning
May rest first upon my bed,
And where the Willows weeping shadow
Bends above my sleeping head.
Where the twilight shades fall soonest,
And the bright stars first appear,
AS cleaning through the forest,
They shine so pure and CLEAR;
Where the winds may sing requiem,
In the lonely autumn hours;
When bending with the rain drops,
Droop low the summer flowers.
And even there in winter
The snow shall softly fall,
And cover DER my resting place,
With pure white funeral pail.
Then would sleep in the wild wood,
Alone, but not forgot
For know kind feet will often stray
To that green and lonely spot
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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAvY.--A
Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
american, says:
The estimate for the expenses of the Navy Depart
ment for the next fiscal year have been prepared,
and learn they do not differ much from those of
last year, Notwithstanding the Secretary will re-
commend very considerable increase of the steam
This results from the fact that government has
on hand very large proportion of the material
required for ship building and that the estimates of
necessary expenditures have been considerably redu-
ced in many branches of the service.
The Secretary will recommend to Congress the
establishment of number of government mechanic
shops where machinery for our national vessels can
be prepared and thoroughly tested before being put
into the ships, as is the practice IN the English
navy.
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RHYMES FOR THE TIMEs.--Here is fair parody
upon Goldsmith's celebrated stamps, beginning
&C When lovely woman stoops to folly" &c.
1t is from the n. Y. Mirror
When lovely woman wells her bosom,
With muslin fashonably thin,
What man with eyes could eer refuse 'em
Cautiously from peeping in
And when his ardent gaze returning,
The muslin heaves to deep drawn signs,
Would not his fingers ends be burning
To press-his hat down DER his eyes
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THE BEGINNING OF FoRTUNE.-Peruse this, rea-
der it will do you good.
In Norfolk, Va, opposite the National Hotel, is
an old fashioned outlandish house, with one of its
corners cut down as if storm with straight
edge in its front had passed along Their and cut off
In that house once lived poor young man, who
had thought to better his fortunes by marrying
girl as poor himself The fast men" of the
present day pronounce all such marriages proofs of
insanity in those that commit them. Not So the
subject of this sketch.
His wife kept little store in that house, while
he used to 60 up in North Carolina after ship tim
ber
They toiled on, recprocally contributing their
savings to the general fund.- until at last the aggre-
gate enabled him to build ship.
He kept increasing and finally removed to more
populous part of the world.
Lately he built mammoth Ship the largest
ever launched, the Great Republic. This mans
name is Mckay.
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The total shipment of treasure by the steamers
of Saturday was 1892 7O2 80
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Farther" said little Teddy, chow can the sea
run when it's all tide ?"
SIT don't rum my child" replied the father, 't sets
STILL
"How can it set when it has no bottom1n
Teddy was led out doors by the hair of his head.
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n.S L, 1911, winch II IL
will be sent to the dead
sons calling for letters
January |, 1854.
Ayres jackson 8
Abe geo W
Adams d
Albrat chas e
Ably isaac
Adams John
d" leara 2
Abercrombie jno Ii 3
Ablin S b 2
Allen thos
Allen ephraim
Aldrach judge
Ackden q & 6
Allen VIM c
Alexander jno h 2
Anderson chas
I" robt m
L" david b 9
Amadden | b
Asbatch robert
Andrees palm f
Arnold W W
Anold oscar d
Ashby b b 2
Ashenfeller david
Armstrong adam
Ayers C h p
Arnold moses
Atcherson t j2
Austin daniel s
Ayres v B
i" geo W 2
Alinard fred 3
Agnue WIN r
Butler thos j
Bycrs aleq 8
Bruer perry 2
Bruhel chas f
Boyer thos r
Brewer wilson
Breeze lanson
Bateman AARON
Banister a 8
Baldwin thomas
Banning thos e
Buchler joseph
Ballinger john p
Batheder z m
Bartlett jno W
Bader frederick
Barvis john
Aarnett VIM 3
Barry Joseph
Barker mr.
Barlin jno b
Baker IN c
Barlarke gorhart
Barnett joseph
Barber b
Barnwell p
Blankenship b
Blackstock jas 6 ;
Blackmer IN
Black thomas
=" robt h 2
Brown lenard j
A." asariah r
4" george W
/" thos
(" miss mary
Boot dr. s 2
Brook uriah
Brauly john
Brauzer august 2
Brayden john
Brown a h
" geo W
/" samuel j
Bercher h
Brottom f
Brown h
Branch geo W
Bramell squire
Brassureel j IN 2
Briggs job
Brown b h
Bragden joseph
Bramell squire
Briggs john
Bradley hugh
Brakes h
Drilling anthony
Chute daniel
Critwin m
Crystal francis
Clyde thomas h
Chunte danl
Cline joel
Cynet a b
Cable WIN .t
Castle sherman
Gender timothy
Carka saml m
Case Ephraim
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have been successfully initiated. Byron never; the
reason is because he was untrue to nature He has
one merit; he helped to disenchan poetry from the
letters of Grub street His part of the mission
of a poet who swan, swore drank, and was one of
the dandies of the Nineteeth Century.
The ordinary dandy may be despsed; but the
true Species the Brommells, DOrsays, and Byrons
have in them an iron grasp, Of which let the COM
mon dandy beware Alciades was dandy, and so
was the triumvir who disputed the world with Au
gustus. Wellington said that the dandes were his
best officers Sir Humphrey Davy and Lord Pal
merston were dandios in their day, and Lord Byron
of all others, shed halo over the dandyism of the
nineteenth century. He says he is not one of them
though they were always very civil to him. and that
he had tinge of the dandy in his minority. He
always a shrewd business man. His letters to
Murray show this l do not think that it is going
too far to couple his name with Shakespeare as the
two greatest masters of expression in the English
language. Travellers have noticed that one line of
Byron's exhausts landscape better than pages of a
tourist. He lays his hand upon the oceans 'mane;"
he tells how,
&C From peak to peak the rafting crags among,
Leaps the live thunder.
For him the breathing marble
"Consents to death and conquers agony"
Say what we will, the voices of the world leave
him the first poet of the nineteenth century--the
greatest poet since Milton.
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M w., Coloma January list, 1904.
Atwood f Johnston Alex
Arnold Henry B .Ianary VIM
Bowman VIM Jordoo Geo II 2
Baxter X A Jones T
Brezett Louis johnson Mathew
Bailey M Kimball r o
Barcley VIM G Kennedy James
Brown Hosea keene B f
Buns John S Lord Geo A
Blanchard Il Co Messrs Loomis Alfred
Canady Martin Morse Thomas
Cleveland Daniel Mott Elijah 2
Collins Joshua Moore Willard s
Church George Morse Chas u Co
Cotton Casney2 Mcclure Wm2
Cox VIM Miller Jos b
Doty James May Geo w
Delany VIM Morrison James
Edison Geo p McAnnick Saml
France James Morath Joseph
Fox Chas Mauphin f G 6
Foster Chase 8 Osborne N S or A II
Fisher Josepha Phillips Robert
Fields John Pomroy Grille
Ford George Palmer VIM
Farwell M Potters n L
Gouldng Thos Patterson Cream
Galligar James Palmer Josiah
Gordon Henry Richardson S 2
Gregory Thomas Robinson Muuson
Goolall Thos II Rice Fl
Gorlson John Reeves A f
Hull VIM Sargent Jno w
Helm f G Sford J G
Horght & Go Shelley Elizabeth
Hines VIM Scheitz Andrew
Hill Stephen Smithe Samuel G.
Howe John Sprack Rev JBcob
Hedges Frances w Nogt & Bros
Harris Henry Woodwork w w
Hodges Thomas Warner Mrs h J
Hankey John Wilson Ephraim
Harris Theodore w Williams Jos ]
Heath Daniel WEIGH II B
Hale A w Williams Edward A 2
Hall VIM Wilson VIM
Heinmans Henry c.
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LIST OF LETTERS

EH ENIAININCi in the Post Office at Coloma January
e. 1854, which if not called for within three months,
will be sent to the dead letter Office dead letters Per-
calling for letters will please say Advertised y
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LIST OF LETTERS.

ND EMAINING in the Office of WELLS, FARGO &
E0 CO., Coloma January list, 1854
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a ClTf AsLEEP--A Jay or TWO ago, we VlSlteu
city, populous city, whose houses will outlast New
York, for they shall endure till doomsday."--
Strange to say, it is not noted on the best maps ;
stranger to say, though its population is daily in
creasing, no colony ever issues from its borders.
The golden chime of Pacifc's waves has never
charmed a single ear there; the shout of the Pio-
neer in the further West has never lured them
hence, to seek new homes. Indeed, the city we
speak of stands alone, like rock bound isle in the
midst of II turbulent ocean, the busy world whirls
and roars around but there it remains unmoved.
We visited it in broad day, but the streets were
empty not familiar voice to greet u.s. not single
footstep to make music to the ear. 1t was indeed
strange very strange there shone the sun, with the
mild and beautiful radiance of autumn, and yet no
sound of living thing. Marble mansions were on
every hand, but of the solemn tenantry, for it
was solemn city, came forth to meet and welcome
us. Names were graved on every portal but they
that owned them where were they7 1t was a city
of names and not of things; of words and not Of
works
AT length there came a train--there was an ar
rival On it came, noiselessly, slowly. Was it all
dream! By mansion after mansion it passed, and
stopped. A tenant for another dwelling; home
for another wanderer o rest for another weary.
So it seemed to us as we stood there and so the
shadows thickenng over the thought, we hurried
away from Greenwood, and were once more min
gled with the tide of the living.--N. Y. Tribune.
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During the session or the Peace Congress in Edn-
burgh, Mr. Golden addressed large public meet
ing, in which he alluded to the small military and
naval force of the United States and asked, wheth-
er, if quarrel should arise between America and
France, the French government would measure the
resources of the American government by the mum
Der of it's armed men, or by its prodigious industry
its enormous exports, its gigantic mercantile ma
rinc, and the other resources which make this
country great maritime people? A very pertinent
question, though we do not agree with MIR. Golden
that it is wise policy in any great commercial peo
pie to leave its commerce inadequately guarded,
while other nations are prepared, not only for de-
fensve, but aggressive warfare. STILL it is pleasant
to our vanity to hear Mr.. Golden talk in this wise
Look at the Emperor of Austria boy En-
peror--who has been wasting his time ever since
he came to the throne in galloping from review
field to another to review his troops reviewing
squadrons and regiments of sometimes $4,000 or
GO, 600 men at a time and surrounded by staff
of 60 generals. If single frgate were sent from
that plain in black suit of clothes in the Capt.
tol at Washington, to Trieste, with hostile mess
age would not that bow Emperors heart be in his
very jack-boots loud laughter and cheering
Notwithstanding that he commanded 100000 or
1000 men,
Nevertheless, " circumstances alter cases." and
while the light taxation, expansive industry, and
high intellectual and moral force of our people,
make us formidable enemy to provoke, we are de-
Voutly tnanK1ul tnat inc young gentleman IN tne
jack-boots, and his 100000 men, do not reside on
this ntinent-Richmond Dispatch
COLL ON THE MoHAvE.--Captain Aubrey in his
letter to the San Joaquin Republican, says that he
found gold in considerable quantities the Mohave
even on the surface of the sand. He says: son
one occasion, while at rest for few minutes in a
deep gully, about mile from the crossing on the
west side of the river Mexican mule-boy discover
ed something glistening upon the ground which, on
examination, proved to be gold. We at once COM
menced washing sand in our tin cups, and in every
one discovered particles of gold. This gold was
discovered in dark coarse sand and black heavy
sand was found in the cup after washing away the
gravel The sandy soil was so compact that we
could not dig it up with our fingers. We washed
sand on the cast side of the river and found gold in
greater abundance than on any previous occasion.
myself washed tin cup full of yellow clay and
found about Is cents worth of the pure metal. A
Mexican boy, on washing trying painful of coarse
sand found from 40 to so Particles of pure gold,
some of which were as large as the head of pin.
We took the clay and sand from the top of the
ground without digging. The appearance of the
country also indicates gold"
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,alled Tor WITHIN three months
er Office as dead letters. PEI
II please say " Advertised. -
Cane mark
" jeshomony
Carder mary C
Carl samuel
Carpenter george
GARNER lewis
Carr jesse 2
Campbell john
CAMEL orlando
" james
" george
Camor carter
Caulber Houston 2
Cane maron
Can alien
Calden album
Cook f m
" dudley W
Calb theophilus 2
Cauyers newton
Cary john W
Camille alex
Cangerman danl
Cummiff tanners .
Carroth r a
Coan enarden
Cowan thos j
Craig DIVA m
Day be
Dawery robt h
Dain WIN h
Dagget Bemas
Dulin b f
Dafee s
Durin h vp
Davis mrs susan
" John h
David henry
Davis liblein
4" thompson
" w d
" jesse r
" avn d
" stephen
Devall gidun
Davenport stephen 8
Durtel michael
Devter michael
Dempray VIM
Dureet emanuel
Debyshire Joseph 3
Denny michael
Depter ely
Delenpaert stephen
Dean michael
Denman hugh
Deraun joel
Dickinson david p
/" frederick
Dickson john
Dickerman irwin 8
Deely nicholas
Dickerman WIN 8
Deneran thimothy
Debson henry
Delaney michael
Dren edward
Drane david
Dory q
Domeny chas W
Dodd shilton W
Doan m j
Doan david j
Dolsher john
Dodge bradford 2
Dun joseph
Duncan wesley h
Dukerman serino 8
Durpan isaac
Dunhamell benjamin f
Duden calvin W
Durlin benz frank
Eachers john
Einkery johann
Earll joel h
Eagyl eberar
Eary john
Edwards john
East isaac q
Earp n p
Edmond george
Emery S o
Enyelshehall r.
Echols james m 7
Eberhart j m
Ellis benjamin f
Eby christian 2
Elliott joseph warren
Ellis john scott
Ellis alfred
Fifield h 6
Fish benjamin 2
Fifield b g 2
Fin stephen
Fitzgerald joseph e
Fariver auyuss
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To Furnish House Complete,
GALL. Mt nONN mo a. Ia g. Nir1

Il VAIL Al DONN, BRO. IL Co.'s Ninth
~ street, five doors north of Clagett e Co.. Nos
492, 494, and AGO. where will be found in our four
large sales rooms, the most various anc complete
stock Of Housekeeping Goods in the United States in
one store, TO which additions constantly made of
everything that is new and convenient HousekeeT-
ers and those who are about commencing may rest as
sured OF finding the goods as cheap as elsewhere
with great saving of time trouble, and vexation Of
dealing in many stores.
All goods warranted as represented, and delivered
10 any part Of the District free of expense
We note the heading of what we keep:
FOR PARL0RS
Sofas, Divans, Lounges, arm Rockers Gothic Par
Tor Chairs, of rose, walnut and mahogany covered
with hair push brocatelle, damask or chintz, or in
white, for those furnishing their own covers.
Tables Of every kind and description Piano Stools
Mhat-not Mirrors Of the largest size to the smallest
Bracket Tables, DC.
DINING ROOM.
Extension and plain Tables Sideboards, Chairs, &C.
CHAMBER SETS.
Painted or imitation, of the various woods--walnut
mahogany, and cherry, in sets or detached pieces,
and Bolsters; Feathers in sacks.
PLATED GOODS ON ALBATA
spoons, Forks, Ladies, Baskets, Casters, Walters,
Tea Sets, DC.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH CHINA
In dinner, tea, and chamber sets, or in detached
pieces in fancy @. b. or white
Edwardss white Stone Ware, in sets or detached.
Glass Ware, pressed and cut a full assortment
Cutlery, from the best manufacturers
Lamps, Fancy Goods, Wood Ware, Baskets, Brush
es, Clocks, Japanned Goods, Block Tin, common Tin
Ware Children's Toys, and everything appertaining
70 well furnished kitchen (the foundation OF good
honsekeep,ng) may be found in our store, &c.
Gall and see our stock, and get n catalogue and
II VIII assist new house housekeepers in selecting
what Is necessary for making their homes comfort.
able Remember the stores No. 492, 494 and 4g6
Ninth street. five doors north of Pennsylvania ave
nov l3-1meodif DOM. BRO. A. co.
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a DIGEST OF THE LAWS AND he
n solutions Of Congress relative to Pensions
Bounty Lands, Pay Of the Army, Mileage horsss or
other property losi destroyed IN tbs Military Ser
gether with the Opinions Of the Attorneys General
and Decisions Of the Secretaries Of War aud Interior
and Of the accounting officers Of the Treasury there
ON, with full and complete
FORMS OF APPLICATION, 4
SO arranged as TO furnish all the information that
NAV be desired by claimants or their attorneys
BY C. w. BENNETT,
dec b-d8m Attorney-at-Law.
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II. NJ.
"Put none but Aa,erica,,s on Guard tonight"
KNOW-NOTHINGs! AMERICANS!
The Book for all of you.


VNIIE "k N q W-NOTHING TOKEN"
u awde-awake gift, for 1856, edited by ZONE
OF EN-"
The following distinguished American writers, on
American subjects, adorn the pages Of this truly
American Book:
w. G. Bryant, J. r. Drake R. w. Emerson, Mrs
L. III. Sigourney, the Hon. j. W. Savage, +. s. Key,
Dr. Thomas E. Bond, Joseph Hopkinson, II. w. Long
fellow H. Fuller L. G. Levin, II. +. Gould, the Hon.
Daniel Webster, Grace Greenwood, Z. Everett, T.
Dwight John NJ. Mason, John Pierpont, DR.. Beecher,
w. O. Simms, E. P. Whipple, J. g. Percival, L. G.
Levin, o. w. Holmes, Erastus Brooks w. ID. Gala
CHER, Il. II. Chaplin the Hon. George Bancroft, w. II.
Burleigh, the Hon. Caleb Lyon, G. Meiln, L. McLel-
Lam IT., j. G. Whittier Chief Justice Marshall Z.
Cakes Smith II. T. Paine Jared Sparks, Seba Smith,
Andrew jackson. a.a
The Marriage Of washington.
Goddess of Liberty.
Portrait Of washington,
Portrait az Daniel Webster.
Shirt re-
Portrait OF Martha Washington,
Together with
aWashinrton's Farewell Address
"Declnration of Independenocn
The following are few Of the strong commenda-
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ID EDUcTION In GAS FIxTURES.-
N We are now receiving tbs largest stock Of Gas
Fixtures ever offered in this city, Comprising every
variety Of style and finish. They have been selected
from the celebrated factory of Cornslius Co., Phila-
delphia, and include all Of their patterns.
Owing TO q reduction In price Of Gas Fixtures, we
now prepared TO furnish them Ut less rate than
they have ever yet been sold here or elsewhere.
To keep pace with the above improvement the price
Of gas tubing has been materially reduced and our
increased facilities warrants In saying that are
prepared and can execute any work we may under
take cheaper and better than any other establishment
in this city. -.
]. W. THOMPSON 4 BRO,
Plumbing and Gas Fitting establishment
E Pennsylvania avenue south side,
nov l3--dtJan btw. 10th and 18th SITS.