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The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-07-18
OUR FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC

A RE respectfully informed that we they will find
II at the old stand Of Workman Boone large
and well assorted stock of BOOTS and SHOES, HATS,
CAPS, Trunks, Valices and Carpet Bags, which we
will sell as low as can be bought in this market
April 25. WORKMAN GO.
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-07-18

Negro Cloths and Blankets.
4 FULL supply of Plains Kersevs, and blankets, OF
n different qualities, for Plantation use. For sale by
Sept. q. A. NJ. q Il. KENNEDY.
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-07-18

"ATS AT COST.-As the summer is APP
Ill preaching, we offer our well-assorted stock OF
WOOL HATS and CLOTH GAPS at cost for Cash
April 25. WORKMAN & co.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09

CUPID OUT WEST. The young god of
love, in his old age, seems to be get
ting reckless as to the direction in which
he filings his fatal shafts. In Somerset,
Ohio, short time since, two girls were
so captivated with the war whoop and
dances of band of Indians who were
in that town, that they eloped
with two Of them, and proceeded as far
as the town of Putnam, when they were
evertaken by their angry mother, a
widowed lady, who called on the police
to rescue her daug hters from their new
ly chosen husbands. Finding all her
efforts Of no avail, she at length yielded
to the solicitations of a third dusky war
rior, and joining her fortunes to his for
better or worse, accompanied her daugh-
ters on their western tour!
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
JUSTICES SUMMONS.

State of California, County of Tuol-
umne The people Of the State Of
California, to the Sheriff or Constable
in the aforesaid Couuty,-greeting:
We command you, that you summon
Matthew J. Alexander, so that he be
and appear before Joseph Carly, Esq,
one of the Justices of the Peace for the
County aforesaid, at his Office in Column
bia, Township No 1, on the 3Oth day of
December, A. D. 1854, at 9 o'clock,
A NJ, to answer the complaint of John
q. Sparks, wherein $3.50 is demanded
on account
Herein fail not And in default Of
said appearance and answer, judgment
will be given against said Matthew }.
Alexander, for $3.50 and cost Of suit.
Witness my hand at Columbia, this
10th day of September, A. d. 1854.
JOSEPH CARLY.
97-3m Justice of the Peace.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
Looking for a Letter.

Dear reader, did you ever lock and
wait, wait and look for an expected epis-
tie, till your very heart ached with sor-
row, and your eyes were dim with watch
ing? Thus have / looked many a
time-thus look I now !; and 1 really
know nothing more spirit crushing
One cannot keep up ones accustomed
life and energy. 1t will ooze away
One cannot work, one cannot read, one
cannot think as be would. The burden
of the heart continually is "why don't
it come 20
All, "why don't it comes
Perhaps sickness has laid low the
hand that should and would have WELD
ed fer us the pen. Perhaps death has
stiled it forever. Perhaps-bus those
visions are too terrible, We will shut
them cut from our hearts and from be-
fore our eyes. Tomorrow the letter
may come. And thus we will await aud
hope on.
But truly, there is no greater cross to
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
POETRY
Deal Gently with my Mother, World
II. c. PaEUsS.

Deal gently with my mother, world
Her days are in the yellow leaf,
And time with her is growing brief;
She is not now what she hath been,
Her eye hath lost its glowing sheen
The rose is faded from her cheek,
And lfe's dark stream grows faint and weak
The forms which walked with her of yore,
Come back again, oh, never more
Deal gently with my mother, world.
/ was not favored by thee, world I!
Oh, life was dark, cen from my birth,
And have tired long OF earth;
But now know mine hour has come,
feel the death damp on my brow,
But, world, do not blame thee now;
Though thou hast been unkind to me,
cast no harsh reproach on thee,
My boyish dreams have passed away,
But with my dying breath pray,
Deal gently with my mother, world.
Spare her in your sorrows, world
was her favorite, da ling boy
Her earthly hope. her spirits joy.
God only knows loved her we'll
How much, no language now can tell !;
But am fallen in my prime,
AS leaves in early summer time,
And when my soul shall leave its clay,
Her last fond hope shall pass away
Then in my deep dependency,
This dying boon crave of thee
Deal gently with my mother, world.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
inn conviction that he was martyr in

firm conviction that he was martyr in
the right cause, strengthed his pride
and he resolved to hold out until he
forced his wife to capitulate.
In the morning she met him as if no.
thing had happened, but whenever Jack
ventured to allude to the rupture of the
night previous there was laughing dew
il in her eye, which spoke her power,
extinguished hope A second time he
repaired to his lonely couch, and Sec
ond time he called upon his pride to
support him in this struggle which he
now found to be desperate. He ven
tured curses, not loud but deep, on the
waywardness and caprice Of the sex in
general and his own wife in particular /;
wondered how much longer she would
hold out whether she suffered as acute
ly as he did, and tried to delude himself
into the belief that she loved him too
much to prolong the estrangement, and
would come to him with the morning
and perhaps that very night would sue
for reconciliation. But the recollec-
ton of that infexible countenance, of
that unbending will, and that laughing
and IMPLYING eye, convinced him that
he hoped against hope, and despairing,
he turned to the wall for oblivion from
the wretchedness of his own thoughts.
The second day was a repetition OF
the first no allusiou was made to the
forbidden subject on either side. There
was look Of quiet happiness and cheer
lulness about his wife, that puzzled Jack
sorely, and he felt that all idea of fore
ing her to surrender must be abandoned.
A third night he was alone with his
thoughts. His thoughts were more Sc
rious and composed than on the night
previous. What they were, was, of
course, only known to himself, but they
seemed to result in something decided,
for about midnight three distinct taps
we're made at his wife's door. No an
swer and the signal was repeated to a
louder tone still all was silent, and the
third time the door shook with the vio-
lent attacks from the outside.
"Who's there,'' cried his wife, as if
just aroused from deep sleep. otis
me dear, and perhaps the best democrat
you ever did see," was the reply of the
subdued whig.
The revolution Of his opinions was rad
ical and paramount. He removed to
another county, became popular, offered
himself as candidate on the democrat
ic ticket for the Legislature, was elected
and for several sessions represented his
adopted county, as firm and decided
democrat.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
DaguerrcOtype
LIHENESSES!

The undersigned having established
himself in Columbia, would respectfully
inform his friends and the public, that
he is prepared to execute in the neatest
manner, and on most reasonable terms,
al orders with which he may be faver-
ed. Having been engaged for several
years in the Daguerrean business, he
fatters himself that he can give the ut
most satisfaction, in taking all manner
of daguerreotype likenesses.
Portraits, Mining Scenes, &c. exeeut-
ed in q manner unsurpassed in the
State
Daguereotypes copied on the most
reasonable terms.
C.. A. BUCK.
Daguereotype Saloon corner Of Broad
way & Washington streets.
Columbia, Sept. Is, '54-97-tf.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
The Deacon and the Irishman,


A few months ago, as Deacon Ingals,
of Sampscott, R. l., was travelling
through the western part of the State of
New York, he fell in with an Ilisbman
who had lately arrived in this country,
and who was in quest of brother that
came on before him and settled in some
of the diggings in that neighborhood.
Pat was strong, athletic man,
true Catholic, and had never seen the
interior Of Protestant church. II was
a pleasant Sabbath morning that BROTH
er Ingals met Pat, who inquired the
road to the nearest church.
Ingals was good, pious man. He told
Pat he was going to church himself. and
invited his new made acquaintance to
accompany him thither, his place Of des-
tination being small methodist meet
ing house near by. There was great
revival there at the time, and one of the
deacons, (who by-the-way, was very
small of stature) invited brother Ingals
to take seat in his pew. He accept
ed the invitation, and walked in, follow
ed by Pat, who looked in vain for the
altar &c. After he was seated, he turn
ed to brother Ingals, and in whisper
that could be heard all around, inquired:
"Sure, isn't this hir:tic church :"
Hush,' said Ingals. "Ifyou speak
a loud word they will put you QUIZ
"Divil a word will I speak, at all at
all, "replied Pat.
The meeting was opened with prayer
by the pastor. Pat was cycling him
very closely when an old gentleman who
was standing in the pew directly in
front Of Pat shouted " glory"
"Hist, yo diril," rejoined Pat, with
his loud whisper, which was plainly
heard by the minister, "be dacent" and
don't make blackguard of yourself"
The parson grew more and more fer
vent in his devotions. Presently the
old deacon uttered an audible groan.
Hist-st, ye blackguard, have ye no
dacency at all, at ALL" said Pat, at the
same time giving the deacon punch
in the ribs which came near causing the
loss of the pieus and devout old mans
equilibrium.
The minister stopped, and extending
his hand in supplicating manner, said,
Brethren, we cannot be disturbed
in this way. VIII some one put that
man out :"
"Yis, your rivirinee," shouted Pat"
-" I will !" and suiting the action to the
word, he collared the deacon, and to
the utter horror and establishment Of
the pastor, brother Ingals and the whole
congregation, he dragged him through
the aisle, and with a tremendous kick
landed him in the yestibule of the church.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09

q 49, The subscriber would re-
W specially inform his friends
aud the public that he has returned to
his old stand, which he has fitted up in
fine style, and is now prepared to fur
nigh as good board as can be found in
the Southern Mines, as the tables will
be set with the best the market and
season will afford. His brother has just
arrived with him from the States, and
is tip-top cook ! Call and see
s@ Every kind of confectionery,
cake, pies, &C., will be kept on hand,
fixed up in Joe's best style, and no
pains will be spared to render perfect
satisfaction.
JOSEPH WHITMAN.
Columbia, June, "a, 1S54-S5-tf
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
JOHN G.. SPARKS,

ATTORNEY 4 COUNSELLOR AT Law
Having determined to make Colum
bja his permanent home, offers his Pro-
fessional services to the public generally
and hopes to be able to render general
satisfaction, from an experience of Ito
eral practice in the States, of ten years,
and strict attention to his business.
Office on Broadway, Columbia, one
doors west of the Court Room.
March IL, '54-7O-tf.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
RANCH FOR SALE.

The undersigned wishes to dispose of
his fine Ranch, situated near Columbia,
off to the right of Gold Springs. Said
Ranch consists of one-half interest Of
upwards of three hundred acres. There
is cabin on the premises. There is
also good woodland, and between 80
and 40 acres is under cultivation.
For particulars, apply to John G.
Sparks, Esq, Columbia.
JAMES BRADLEY.
Columbia, Oct. ID, '54-lOl-tf
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09

D@ A petition now circulating in
San Francisco, and elsewhere, asking
the Legislature to pass an act prohibit-
ing gambling in California, has, it is
said received fifteen thousand sigma
lures, and the projectors Of the move
ment expect to get at least ten thou
sand more before the commencement
of the next Legislature.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
WOULD YOU?

Baby Growing on your knee,
While you sing some little dirty,
Pulls your hair, or thumbs your eye.
Would you think it wasn't pretty
Tell me. could you?
Ifyou oDned "the baby" would you!
Wife, with arms about your neck,
Says you "look just like the baby y
Wants some cash to make a"spcc,"
And you would refuse her-may be I
Could you? should you
If you owned the woman," would you
Little labor, little strife,
Little care, and little cot /;
Would you sigh for single life !
Would you murmur at your lot
Tell me, should you!
If you owned the cottage, would you
Health and comfort, children fair,
Wife to meet you at the door,
Fond hearts throbing for you there
Tell me, would you ask for more
Should you could you
If you owned "the ready" would you!
Driving out from your abode,
With a pair of wadling bays,
Left behind upon the road,
Should you curse the faster greys!
Should you would you?
If you owned the latter, could you!
Behold your neighhor's shady vine,
Trailing Ger his summer bower.
Could you with canting whine
Say, 81 guess the grapes are souri,"
Answer should you
If you owned the Jouer, would you
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
t8DA-2IDING HOUSE,

The subscriber has just fitted up his
new Boarding House, near the foot of
Broadway, and is now prepared 20 fur
nish good board at the low price of
eight dollars per arcek
The table will be furnished with eve
rything the market affords, and no pains
will be spared to make those of his
friends and the public comfortable who
may favor him with their patronage.
S. GREEN.
Columbia, Aug. 10, '54, 90 IF
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
STATIONERY / BOOK STORE.
Gazette Office Building. Columbi

N"~c1So CDeoo D"eStS1HS '''' COt""totU.
The undersigned would respectfully
inform his friends and the public in
general, that he has established himself
in the Stationery, Book, News and Pc,
riodical business, at the Gazette Office
building on Washington street, Column
bia, and that he has spared no expense
in obtaining the latest works of the most
popular authors, comprising the largest
assortment of novel and interesting
reading matter in Columbia. And he
hopes by strict attention to business to
merit public patronage.
Stationery of every kind constantly on
hand. WIN. G.. PARKER.
Columbia, aug. 26, '54 tea
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
KEEP COOL!
ICE! ICE.! ICE!i! ICE!!!!

ICE! ICE! ICE!!! ICE!!!!
All those in want of ICE, during the
coming season, can be supplied, in any
quantity, by applying at the
GENERAL Ice DEPoT,
Major Farnsworth's Saloon, on Main
Street, Columbia.
Columbia, Apr. 10, '54-75-tf.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09

Twenty-four boxes of Bullion, valued
at seventy thousand dollars, have been
recovered from the wreck Of the steam
er Yankee Blade.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09

MATRIMoNY AND COLD FEEr.-A
woman has sued for a divorce in Indi-
ana on the ground that her husbands
foot was so cold it distressed her.-Bos-
ton Post.
We have heard of divorces on account
of ineompatibility of temper, but here
is case of incompatibility of temper
ature-and temperament too.-N. 0.
Pieayune.
This reminds US of the complaint of
a heartbroken woman, who observing
a change in her husband in refusing to
let her warm her foot against bis legs.
Yes, that's just the way with you
men," sobbed the desparing lady
"When you were first married you
used to say put your little footsy toot-
sys up to mine, and keep 'em Warmly
Warmly now it's nothing but take a.
way them id cold hoofs of yor'n. -
Er.
Hand in the name of any man who
dare act in this ungallant manner.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
A G. f. N II s

A G. E N T IS,
David w. Buck. San Francisco.
Columbia, .......J Harrison,
.........A A Hunnewell.
Springfield. -. Calvin Honey.
Shaw Flat. j Street & Co.
Sonora, Yanney & Roberts
80. 49,. Woods & Purdy.
Advertisements, Subscriptions, or
communications left for the Columbia
Gazette with our agents above, will be
promptly forwarded.
JOHN DUcHow, Esq, Of Salem, Mass
is authorized to receive and receipt for
subscriptions to the Columbia Gazette
or the Eastern States.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09

9~ There is an abundance of wild
game in market at the present time,
the supply being greater than the de-
mand tor it at present prices. Times
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09

NEW DCOES3 BOOKS 3
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09
COLUMBIA DRUG STORE.

For Sale, at the Columbia Drug Store
on State street, full assortment Of
DRuGs, MEDICINES, PATENT MEDI-
cINEs, BRUSHES, COMBS, PER-
FuMERY, &C., sc.
P.S. Physicians prescriptions care
fully compounded.
Columbia, Dec. "a, 1S53.-59-tf.
Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-09

Hand in the name Of any man wht
dare act in this ungallant manner.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-16
Spiritual Dial.


The, New York Tribune says that Mr..
J. T. Pease, of Thompsonville, Connect-
cut, has succeeded in inyenting a machine
which he denominates the spiritual tele-
graph dial, This apparatus is contriyed
with a dial face, on which are marked the
letters of the alphabet, the Arabic numer-
ais, the words yes and no, and some other
convenient signs. A movable hand OF
pointer is fixed in the center, and when a
ghost wants to communicate with his pu-
pills and friends in the body, all that is re-
quisite is for it to give a gentle twitch to
the pointer, and the revelation is accom-
plished Mr.. Pease states that with a
good tipping medium to facilitate the
movements of the pointer by agitating
the table, letters will be indicated on the
dials fast as an amanuensis can write
them down. There is also an arrange
ment by which the dial may be concealed
from the sight Of the medium, so that he
cannot know what it is that is being sad
by the ghost.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-16
Gr0aning and Crying.

The introduction of chloroform and
ether, with a view to prevent the pain OF
surgical operations, or blunt the effects of
nervous diseases, is hailed everywhere as
a great blessing to mankind. This view,
however, is questioned by a French sur
geon, who not long since published dis
sertation, in which he takes the ground
that the more groaning and crying during
a painful surgical operation the better it is
for the nervous system. From the bene-
fit which hysterical and other nervous pa
tients derive from groaning and crying, he
supposes that by these processes of nature
superabundant nervous power is exhaus
ted, and the nervous system is thereby
rendered calm, and even the circulation o
the blood greatly diminished. He relates
a case Of a man who, by means of crying
and bawling reduced bis pulse from one
hundred and twenty to fifty in the course
of two hours! That some patients often
have great satisfaction in groaning and
that hysterical patients often experience
great relief from crying, are facts which
no person will deny. AS to restless by
pochondrial subjects, or those who arc
never happy Tut when they are under
some course of medical dietetic treatment
the French surgeon assures that they can
not do better than to groan all night and
cry all day. By following this rule, and
observing an abstemious diet, a person
will afectually escape disease, and may
prolong life to an incredible extent.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-16

+ TATTERsALL' S IN LONDON Tattersall' S
is very famous place in London, and long
has heen fol two things-buying and sell
ling horses and betting on horse races =
Within those not hallowed precinsts there
reigns for the time being, during business
hours, the mostperfect social equality that
can be imagined. The poor and the pick
pocket, the jockey and the gentleman, the
prince, the high dignity, the rogue, the for
ger and the villain, all stand there upon
the same platform-all rank and all pre-
eminence and pretensions being merged
into one plain question--whether the per-
son is good for the bets he takes or offers;
and if he is known to be it matters not
whether be is respectable or whetherhe be
the last or lowest of English society. At
ter the grave, there is, perhaps, no spot
under the ground or above it, where can
be found such perfect equality as at latter
sails.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-16
L Beautiful Apostrophe to the Memory
of 2yyo,i.

4 beautiful ApostrOphe to the Memory
OF Byron.
Grace Greenwood, on her late visit to
Europe, of course, paid visit to New
stead Abbey, in England, the well known
residence of Lord Byron. In speakingsof
the event she beautifully and touchingly
alludes to the love of the poet for Mary
Craworth:
Strangely sorrowful, almost agonizing-
iy regrettul, were the thought which swept
over my mind, wave after wave, and shook
my heart like a tempest, as l stood in the
place where the young poet passed many
hours Of silent thought, it may Of lone
ly wretchedness. never be-
fore 81. deeply felt how passing mournful
was the story of Byron's first and only
love. That Mary Chaworth returned the
passion Of her young poet lover, have
not a doubt; but, like the Montugues and
Capulets, the houses of Chaworth and
Byron were at feud. Mary had not the
strength and truth of Juliet, and so they
were parted-a separation by far more
piteous for her, and more fatal to him
than death amid the full summer bright
ness of happy love. THIS, not Shaks-
peare's. was the true-soul tragedy. Might
she not have redeemed even his way
ward and erring nature, by the divinity Of
a pure love and steadfast faith? But
twas not to be. Mary bestowed her hand
upon a man of whom little can be said
than that he ranked ''among the most en-
incnt sportsmen of the day,'-lived, it is
said, to wild tears over The words which
have linked her name in sorrowful immor-
tallty with her lovers, and died in broken
heartedness, at last-while he, grown
reckless, restless, and defiant, the very
core of his heart turned to bitter ashes,
forgetting his God, and distrusting and dis
pising his brother, swept Oh his glorious,
shameful, sorrowful and stormy career,
till the shadows decpened, and the long
night closed in.
'The tablet raised to the memory of
Byron, by his sister Augusta, is plain,
and so in excellent taste. AS | stood on
that rude slab, in that dismal and mouldy
old church: I was struck most painfully
with the miserable unftness Of all the sur
roundings Of his tomb, who loved all
beauty with a poets intense passion. I
could not believe that that grand head,
with its clustering, dark curls, those eyes
of strange brightness, and lips Of proud
beauty, those fair, patrician hands, and
that fire and princely heart were dust and
darkness at my feet. Better would it have
been to have laid him, where he willed to
lie, by his faithful 'Boatswain' in the vault
at NeWstead