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WEBSTER Messrs. Taylor

ltNftSE w EBSTEK.- Ncssrs. Taylor
~ 81 MAURY have few of the original SUBJ
scribers' copies OF the works of Daniel Webster.
printed on very fine imperial paper, in which Mr..
Webster inscribed his name. Six volumes |;
price $50,
T. & NJ. are the only booksellers in the United
States who have any copies in their possession.
Mar IL Bookstore near 9th 81.
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Nav 81. 1855.

II EAVES from Family Journal, from
j A the French Of Emile Souvestre, author OF
The Attic Philosopher in Paris.
Mrs.Jamesons Common place Book Of Thoughts,
Memories. and Fancies
X. FARNHAM,
June Corner l1th ST. and Penn. av
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TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND
STRANGERS

= 4
NIATCHES.--Memb of Congress and
w others in want OF perfect timekeepers would
10 well TO make their selections once, in order
10 test their quality before leaving the city.
Our assortment for both Ladies and Gentlemen
complete as at present. embracing
.very description, which we offer unusually low.
M w GAIT & BROTHER.
Penn avenue. between 9th and 10th streets.
Ian
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NEW hooks RECEIVED AT sHIi-

M EW BOOkS RECEIVED At sHII.-
In LINGTON'S Bookstore
The Dodd Family, by Charles Lcver autbo, of
harles o'Mallcy.
Behind the Scenes, by Lady Buwer Lytton
The Lamplighier, one OF the most fascinating q
books ever written.
Everything in the Book Newspaper aud Sla-
onery line for sale at
JOE SHILLINGTON'S
bookstore, Odeon Building corner A
street and Pa. avenue
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Mrs. JAMEsoN's NEW BOOK. .-i

NL commonplace book os Thoughts Memo
ries and Fancies, original and selected, by Mrs
Jameson. Price % cents.
Leaves from Family Journal from the French
Of Emile Souvestre, author Of "the Auto Philo.
opher in Paris" Paper, so cents cloth, IS
cents
Theory and Practice OF Landscape Painting in
water colors, illustrated by series of "a designs
colored diagrams Of numerous wood cuts, with
two extra plates OF Simultaneous contracts, by
George Barnard Price S5.
Just received at
TAYLOR 81 MAURYS Bookstore,
June near 9th st.
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GEO. Fl. DRAPER, Havrc.
The owners Of these ships will not be accounta
BILE for gold, silver, bullion, specie, jewery, pre-
cious stones, or metals, unless bills of ading are
signed therefor and the value thereof therein ex-
pressed. Jan 3-dtf
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MORNING wNs.--A large and Tin
INl assortment, at all prices, for sale by
WALL 81 STEPHENS,
From the Baltimore Sun OF Yesterday.
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CONSERVE and Preserved Ginger and
" Chow Chow, ,Attea and Choong Loong, Can
ton, fresh importation. For sale by
SHEKELL BROTHERS,
No 40. opposite the Centre Market
DON,T FAlI. TO Gall AT HOoD,s

nON'T FAb. To CALL AT HOODS
H. if You wish 10 purchase anything in the way
OF fine American, London, o. Geneva Watches
phai be relied on for the time rich gold
jewelry, pure silver ware, &c, NC, and save from
10 10 25 per cent, he il now receiving his
Fall supply, which will be sold At the lowest
wholesale rates.
Fine watches and Jewelry repaired and war
renlcd to give satisfaction.
Il. o. HOODS
Pa. avenue, between ~ and 9th streets, sign OF
the barge spread eagle
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tfNIL WATCHES & RICH JEWELRY.

FISL WATCHES q RICH JEW ELKf.
III q. HOOD, Pennsylvania avenue, between
ID ~ and 9th streets, has just returned from
,hs north with good assortment OF the most rich
AMI fashionable Jewelry in the market, which he
purchased for cash at very low prices, and now OF
fsrs tor sale the same, nj wholesale retail, much
cheaper than goods of like quality have ever been
sold for IN this section Of country. Please call al
his store sign ofthe large spread eagle.
N. B. Special attention paid 10 the repairing of
,,atches nv w w Holnys sworth
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- val, st Bladensburg on the night Of Tuesday
last, a DARK BROWN MARE, with her fore
feet bare, " bite stsr in the forehead and marked
on the back with saddle pinch the said mare bad
a saddle on. Whoever viii return said mare, or
give information where she can be found, viii
receive many thanks, and Five Dollars as re-
ward JOSEPH JONES, Manager for
CHARLES b. CALVERT,
Gossburg Prince Georges Co MarvIapd
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nIGEsT OF ExCHEQUER REPORTS.
IL from 1894 to 1854, inclusive, 1 volume.
Williams on Personal Properly, with American
notes, | vol
The Reporters. Chronologically Arranged, by
John Wm. Wallace, vol
The Greed Of Christendom, by w. X. Greg.
Habits and Men, by DIR. Dorsu.
Guy Rivers. by William Gilmore Simms, vol
edition
Bits Of Blarney, by X. Shelton Mackense,
volume.
Bartl~y's Poems, volume.
Lippencous Pronouncing Dictionary Of the
World, vol, Svo FRANCK TAYLOR.
Sept Is
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WAsnISeroN, Nov. 2e. 1854.

nsy~ DEBow's INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES, three
handsomely bound volumes upon the Progress
and Wealth of the United States, 500 pages royal
octave, double columns, clear print, library edi.
ton, may still be ordered. Price SO delivered
at the expense OF the euther
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TREBLE PATENT IMPROVED EYE
let Machine.

March l7-1aw2m
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n 4 NWCsNfCHN SFVNIs"AN' CoH-
tanning Hints 10 Sportsmen. Notes on Sport
ng, aud the. Habits of the Game Birds and Wild
Fowl Of America, by Elisha J. Lewis, M d., with
numerous illustrations, For sale at
TAYLOR * MAURY'S
LIN 4 Book SInrr near Ninih sfrrnI
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COMMENTARIES OH the jurisdiction
" Practice, and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the
Courts of the United States, vol. |. by George
Ticknor Curtis. ~
History of The Crusades, their Rise, Progress,
and Results, by Major Proctor, Of the Royal
Military Academy.
Cummings Lectures the Seven Churches
On sale at
TAYLOR a. MAURY'S Bookstore,
Nov rs near 9th street.
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"ARPER'S MAGAZINE for September il
Ill MAGNIFICENT number filed with superio

HARPER'S MAGAZINE for September is
Ii magnificent number, filled with superior
engravings, and for sale at SHILLINGToN's book
store.
The great Illustrated Magazine of Art for Sep
tember is one of the best that has been issued
Leses Ladies' Gazette for September contains
all the new Fall fashions.
The Knickerbocker Magazine for September,
Godey's Lady's Book, Graham's Magazine, ana
Putnans Magazine all for September, received
an,i for sale al
SHILLINGTON'S Bookstore,
NS HE FAILURE Of Free Society.-Soci-
i oogy for the South, or the Failure of Free
Society, by George Fitzhugh On sale at
TAYLOR & MAURY'S
Book Store, near 9th street
GTONE QUARRY am prepared to fur
~ nish from my quarry, opposite the Little Falls
and adjoining the quarry of the late Timothy
UNeale, any quantity of stone that may be needed
for building purposes. Apply TO the undersigned
Al his house H. between 18th and 10Th streets,
the First ward, or to Mr. Paine, at the quarry.
fully 81 WILLIAM g. SCOTT
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18
NUMBER Is.

BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcT.-I saw the temple reared
by the hand of man, standing with its high pima
clcs in the distant plain the storm beat upon it,
the God of Nature hurled His thunderbolt against
1t, and yet it stood as firm adamant Revelrv
was in its hall, the gay, the young, the happy and
the beautiful were there. returned and the tenn
pie was no more; its high walls were scattered in
ruins, and moss and ivy grew wildly there, and at
midnight hour the owls cry added to the dcsolation
of the scene; the young and the gay who had rev.
eled there had passed away
| saw the child rejoicing in his youth the idol of
his father. ! returned and the child had become
old. Trembling with the weight of years he stood,
the last of his generation a stranger amid the des
olation around him.
saw oak standing it all its pride on the noun
tain; the birds carrollng on its boughs |
returned-the oak was leahess and sapless-the
winds were playing their pastimc through the
branches.
"Who is the destroyer p said | to my guardian
angel.
at is Time said he. "Whcn 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-pucked
the sun from its sphere--veilcd the moon in blood
yea, when he shall have rolled the heaven and the
earth away as a scroll--then shall an angel from
the throne of God come forth, and with one foot
upon the land and foot upon the sea- lift up his
head towards heaven and heavens Eternal and
say: Time is, Time was Time shall be no more"
Pudding.
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

Quick ON THE TRIGGER ---"You will please OBJ
serve" said Mr. Iambwcll as he led us through his
school the other day "that the boys required to
display the utmost attention to questions and dsci
pline, and in a short time become divested of that
most annoying disposition to tease each other: in
short they soon settle down in all the gravity of
mature years, under the wholesome system which |
have introduced"
Weat this moment arrived in front ofseveral boys,
who We're standing around bucket of water, and
one had ust charged his mouth with the contents
of tin cup, while the old gentleman was STOPPING
to recover his pen from the floor, when another boy
passing behind, snapped his finger beneath the boys
car, causing him by sudden start to eject the con-
tents the redagoeues bald pate. Standing
upright, with face ana lair dripping the master
shouted;
"}} no done that?"
The ralty unanimously cried out ''Jim Gun, sir"
Jim Qua, you rascal, what did you do that for -
Jim, appalled, at the mischief he had done, NUT
tered out that it was not his fault, but Tom Owen
had snapped him
This changed the direction of old Lambwells
wrath, and shaking his hand portentously over Tom
Owens head he asked him, Did you snap Gun!n
The culprt, trembling with fear, murmured
Yes sir, snapt Gun, but didn't know he was
lcadedn
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18
COLOMA EL DORADO COUNTY, CAL. SATURDAY MORNING, MA
PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE.

PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE.
BY MRS. SARAH T. BOLTON.
Voyager upon life's sea,
To yourself be true,
And where'er your lot mhy be,
Paddle your own canoe.
Never, though the winds may rave,
Falter or look back,
But upon the darkest wave,
Leave a shining track.
Nobly bear the widest storm,
Stem the hardest gale,
Brave of heart and strong of arm,
You will never fail.
When the world is cold and dark,
Keep an aim in view,
And toward the beacon-mark,
Paddle your own canoe.
Every wave that bears you on
To the silent shore,
From its sunny source has gone,
10 return no more.
Then let not an hours delay
Cheat you of your due;
But, while it is called to-day,
Paddle your own canoe.
If your birth denied you wealth,
Lofty state and power,
Honest fame and hardy health,
Are better DOVER
But if these will not suffice,
Golden gain pursue,
And to win the glittering prize,
Paddle your own canoe.
Would you wrest the wreath of fame
From the hand of fate;
Would you write a deathless name,
With the good and great;
Would you bless your tcllow-mcn.
Heart and soul imbuc
With the holy task, and then
Paddle your own canoe.
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

BEAUTIFUL AND TNuE In a late article in Fra
zer's Magazine, this brief but beautiful passage
occurs:
"Education does not commence with the alphabet.
1t begins with q mothers look--with fathers nod
of appreciation or sign Of reproofwith sisters
gentle pressure of the hand, or brothers noble
act of forbearance with handfus of flowers in green
daisy meadows---wth birds nests admired but not
touched--with creeping ants, and almost impercep-
tible emmets---with humming bees and glass bee
hives---wth pleasant walks and shady lanes-and
with the thought directed in sweet and kindly tones,
and words to mature to acts of benevoencc to deeds
Of virtue, and sense Of all good, to God himself
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

Lady Jersey being at a masquerade stepped up to
the Duchess Of Gorden, with the usual ''Do you
know me I" Yes ignorance and impudence arc
known everywhere" was the cool reply.
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

a Yankee, writing from the West to his father
speaks of its great matrimonial facilities ends by
making the following suggestion Suppose you
get girls some new teeth and send them out"
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

A singer who led the psalm tune at meeting
short time since finding that his concluding word,
which was Jacob, had not syllables enough to fill
up the music adequately, ended thus: 'Ja-a--J-a-a
---ol de riddle---cob! p
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

A drunken loafer, on recovering from spell of
sickness, asked whether he had been afraid to
meet his God ooh no." he replied, 81 was only
afeard otother chap"
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

WANTED.Immodiatcly two able-bodied men,
one at the north and one at the south pole to turn
the crank.
Also experienced barber to shave the face of
the earth One from the city preferred
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

The best 1ire-annihilatorn that we ever saw is
an armiul Of green hemlock wood We have tried
i1-ny others, but none that comes up to this.
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

Experimental philosophy is said to be asking
young lady to marry you
Looking indifferent and saying you were only in
fun when she refuses you, is natural philosophy.
Committing suicide under like circumstances, is
moral philosophy.
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

Nature loves novelty almost much as other
people. Every new STAR has a new direction given
to 1t.
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

WOULDN'T CoNTEND.---A cross grained, surly man,
too crooked bynature to keep STILL went over to his
ncighbor Mr. T., remarkably cool, calm, non-re-
sistant, and addressed him thus:
That piece OF fence over there is mine, and you
shant have it,
'Why,7 replied Mr.. T., you must be mistaken,
think"
NO, no, it's mine, and | shall keep it."
"Well,' said MIR. +, suppose we leave it to any
lawyer you shall choose 2"
Il won't leave it to any lawyer" said the other.
WELL, continued Mr. f., shall we leave it to
any four men in the village that you shall select -
No, shall have the fence
Not at all discomposcd, MIR. F. said, WELL neigh
bor then shall leave it to yourself to say to whom
it does belong, whether to you to me-"
Struck dumb by the appeal the wrathy man
turned away, saying:
81 won't have anything to do with a man that
ToHt c0lHeHd fer his otu rights"
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

PoETIc FLIGHT.-A correspondent sends the Ne
vada Democrat poetical contribution, of which the
following in the closing stanzas;
"keep your eye ever fixed on the American Eagle,
Whom we as the proud bird of our destiny hail;
For that wise fowl you never inveige,
BY dcpostng salt on his honorable tail ~
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

NREAM TARTAR, large lot for sale low, EP{y,O,r,s b,
u rov 262 1Al L'h
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

NoLoaNE WATER, Bears Oil, Ok Marrow, Shaving
u Cream, Tooth Powder and Brushes Extracts and a
great variety of other articles for the Toilette for sale by
nov 26-2 IAlLOR " THOMAS.
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18
GOLD DUST

OUGHT nj The HIGHEST market rates. Sight checks
rs on sacramento san Francisco and all parts of Cali
forna and Oregon :, ADAMS ~ ~ st sNo,
nov IS--Itf A. VAN NuElDkN' hSeh''
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18
BRICK STORE!

invoice of PURE SCOTCH WlIISKEY just re-
"A ceived and for sale by JNO. l.. HUNIKESS:
Coloma, Jan. 7th, 1854. ST.
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18

IUEBSTER'S works complete. Bancrofts History
" of the United States. McCauay's History of
England. Gibbons History of Rome, "Fern
Leaves" by Fanny Fern. Shakspeare's complete
works. Byron, Scott, Southey Mrs Hemans
Burns. Dante, Tasso, Moore, and all the English
and American poets For sale at the Book Store
next to Adams & Co.'S Coloma, by
D. G. WALDRON & co.
The Empire County argus., 1854-03-18
THE ENPIRE COUNTY ARGUS.

PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS.
Published every SATURDAY at COLOMA, Coun
ty seat of Ell Dorado County.
TwEI 10
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-19
Dockery,s want of ..Edication.,'


In this enlightened age, when progress is written
on every thing, and when mind is subduing the
physical and rendering it subservient to the wants.
the conveniences, and the happiness of man, it is
not merely important but Indispensable that states
men-that men of talents and information should be
placed in offices of trust and honor. The people,
VINO are governing themselves, entitled to able
men to execute the laws 1t is their government,
and they naturally look for competent and enlight-
ened officers to carry it on.
zen. Dockery Pounds his claims to office, among
other things upon the fact that he is uneducated
man! Now, the lack of education is often msfor-
tune yet it is sometimes fault 1t is misfortune
when the person has had no opportunities, or but
few opportunities for obtaining it; it is fault when
as in the case of Gen. Dockery the person has been
in the full blaze of intelligence for twenty five years,
and has still made improvement
Why, look at Daniel Shelly, and Roger Sherman,
and Andrew johnson, now Governor of Tennessee.
The two former shoemakers, and had not half
the opportunities that Gen. Dockery has enjoyed
and the latter tailor and did not learn to read
until after he married. Shelly and Sherman
were both educated men, and so is johnson but they
educated themselves. Look at Elihu Burnett the
blacksmith who is the master of forty languages
and look at Alfred Dockcry, not yet the master of
one!
Really, fellow citizens, this is too badl This is a
country in which all speak the English tongue, and
our public records kept in that tongue; and yet
claim is set for the election of citizen as Chief
Magistrate who neither write nor speak that
tongue correctly Still a man who thinks clearly
whatever his defects of education may be- speak
clearly and correctly, and with some show of logic
which Alfred Dockery cannot do.
L
of the State for the reason among Others that
he lacked education, especially when he is himself
to blame for it. If Gen. Dockery, dull he is, had
exerted himself earnestly and steadily to improve
his mind as he has to the dollars, he would
have been this day of good education and
candidate of whom no portion of his party would
have been ashamed
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Bragg and Victory! Cheering News
from all Quarters!

We have cheering intelligence from all quarters
in relation to the prospects of Mr.. Bragg. The De-
nOcracy are enthusiastically for him and united upon
him to man; while there are Wings who will not
support Alfred Dockery.
Northampton will give her favorite son between
one and two hundred majority and Warren, his
native County, will roll up for him such vote as
ae has never cast before. Brother Democrats!
Dear in mind, and emulate the zeal and the efforts of
your brethren in these two Counties, and all will be
~l-you will count your majorities by thousands.
Let US all determine to take care of both the Legis-
azure and the Governor. Our adversaries, satisfied
Iat they cannot carry the Governor, are bending all
"'f energies to secure the Legislature; and they
"s counting more upon divisions than their
WIN strength. Let our watch words be, UNION,
HARMONY, DEMoCRACY-cast all other issues and
considerations to the winds The prospect is indeed
''eflng provided we are true to ourselves.
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The only hope for Free Suffrage is
through Bragg.

EXperience-thel legislative records and the course
of the Federal leaders generally has shown the fact
beyond all doubt that the only hope for establishing
Free Suffrage is by and through the Democratic
party.
The Federal candidates for Governor have hereto
fore bitterly opposed this measure; the Federal lea
ders to the number of fifteen combined defeat it
in the last Senate; and even at this moment there
Federalists in the field opposed to this great
right; who have the assurance to ask the Commons
voters to sustain them. Gen. Dockery pretends to
be for this measure, and yet he cordially sustained
Messrs. Manly and Kerr, who were opposed to it;
and he proposes to obtain it by Convention, well
knowing that Convention cannot be called Prac-
tcay therefore, and to all intents and purposes he
is against it, He was willing, in 1885, to extend to
free negroes the privilege of voting but he is not
sciUing in 1854, to permit free white to vote
unless they will receive permission in his way, and
in a way which he knows cannot be obtained.
Every vote for Dockery will be vote to put off
Free Suffrage, and to render the chances for obtain
ing it still more uncertain. Rally, then, Free Suf-
frage mentally to Mr.. Bragg, the candidate of
party pledged to the issue, and which will lose
occasion to press it to it's final triumph.
AS the Constitution stands, the Senate voters
control the elections in both branches of the Assem-
bly,. Is this just?
If the Federalists should triumph in this contest
this injustice will be continued Remember that,
when you to the polls
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-19

DEATH OF GOVERNOR GEORGE w. TONNES, OF
GEORGIA.. The many friends and acquaintar ces of
this gentleman residing in Petersburg and the sur
rounding counties, will learn with that he is
no more.
gentleman of this city, "a warm personal friend
of the deceased) received Geographic despatch
Saturday, announcing the melancholy intelligence.
10 o'clock, at his residence in the town of Macon.
Gov. Townes was gentleman of intelligence, and
almost unbounded popularity. He represented his
district in the Congress of the United States for
eral years, and was elected Governor of the State
few years since, defeating for the distinguished Office
the highly popular and celebrated Gen. Clinch. He
married in the county of Chesterfield many years
since, daughter of the late Hon. John Winston
Jones, and was known and esteemed by a very large
circle Of friends and acquaintance in that county
also in this city.
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