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Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15
The Parish Spectre.
BY C. MoNTo KENDALL.

A QUARTER of a century ago, the good
people of the villege of N---were thrown
into commotion from two causes; the one,
that they had lost their schoomaster who
had been enticed into aneighboring town by
the offer of a salary of six hundred year,
TWO hundred in advance of what he had been
receiving; the other that strange appara-
ton fitted about in the old churchyard of
late, to the terror and sore perpexity of all
its well-disposed citizens.
The first admitted of something like a rem
edv. for another teacher could be procured
but the latter was an affair with which they
did not know precisely how to deal. Few
doubted this spectral existence, for Deacon
David Simpson had seen it with bis own eyes,
although it fled from him, as if conscious OF
the dignity Of the position which he occu-
pied in the church. Several old ladies and
village swains had caught a glimpse at it.
the latter while returning from the nocturnal
sparkling of their sweethearts, 0, it was
well authenticated Although this was the
favorite topic, yet the more matter-of-fact
subject of a new schoolmaster demanded inn
mediate action, and was discussed according
ly.
"Good morning, squire" said the deacon,
meeting Squire Noddle in the post-ofiice,
any letters for me this morning.
Yes, several"
If one were to judge from the veriety OF
his professions, he might pronounce the squire
a man of varied attachments; for he not only
acted as postmaster. but played the parts ol
justice of the peace, apothecary and green
grocer, and all very acceptably to the villa
gers of N.
"Ah, very correct" said the deacon, re
garding one of his letters with a close scru
tiny; "a good writer, spells correctly, ano
uses very decent grammar"
AN application, should surmise;" said
the little Squire.
Even so; and he very properly writes
that he shall do himself the honor to apply
to me'in person, as chairman of the schoo
committee, tomorrow" replied the deacon
with an air of consequential dignity.
"Then, deacon, it will be the legal mode
to notify the members of this board to meet
for the examination Of the candidate"
"Sueh was my purpose; and | pray Hea
ven that the next master may be above thC
temptation of filthy lucre. To think, tha
after all our kindness to Master Slater, tha
he shopld treat US with such ingratitude; i
only shows the aerrayity Of human nature
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

Such A GooD 'UN.--Taiking about hoops,
we know a hoop story that's about as good
as any of them, and the best of tits that it's
a fact, On the last steamer from the States.
a young lady arrived at this city, who is very
pretty, and fair, and such figurel but from
"A somewhat heightened residence in the conn
try, rather rustic IN her manners. She uses
many phrases not exactly acceptable to ears
polite, such as you don't say So" Il want
to know" Now du tell" ect A certain
young gentleman in this city, very distingpe
in personal appearance and perfectly unex-
ceptlonable in manners upon ordinary occa-
sions, paid visit to family where this
young hdy was staying The conversation
turned upon hoops, aud after very learned
dissertation upon the subject by one Of the
company, our hero turned to the Young lady
before mentioned, and asked the very simple
question:
" Do the young ladies at the East wear
these hooped skirts now to any great ectent?"
" Why was the reply, "they don't weay any
thing else" The deuce you say" said our
young Asmodeus, "wouldu't | like to see
one Of them"
If the readers Imagination is particularly
vivid, and his appreciation of a good thing
ordinarily keen, he may imagine the scene
that pnsued. IL is enough to say that hoop
ed skirts have not been mentioned in that
house since.
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A. i. II 0 Y, NJ. ID.
Dentist.

C-A Permanently located in Volcano.
"a having comfortable and convenient
~-1ILIiJ Odce, with all the necessary lstru-
nnis Toolsand appliances, viii do any kind of
work that pertains to the profession of Dentistry,
% manner which shall give entire satisfaction or
lf woHcg refuHdcd..
Artificial teeth inserted on Gold Plate or Pivot,
rs the case may require. Teeth plugged with Pure
|God, or extracted. Chdr,ns Teeth regulated
when necessary; and all diseases Of the GUMS (the
most of which f. called scurvy of the Gums,) cured
Tor so PAY. Chloroform administered if desired.
.2S~ Terms reasonable. ~IsG
oct27 3m
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15
The wife's Remonstrancc.

Oh love me as you used to love,
When this warm heart of mine
Came like trembling bird to make
It's springfield bower with thine,
Ere fading flowers and autumn leaves,
With wilhering sadness, fell
Der many darkened dream to warn,
"Not wisely but too wel'
Oh loveme as you used to love-
My way is often dark,
And tempest-clouds thou knows not of,
Close wildly round my bark;
And, buried meath the warning waves
Lies many a heart-blown flower,
That shed its fragrance fresh and pure,
In childhood's riiled bower
Oh, love me as you used to love
This heart once light and free,
Is numbered now with many things
And oft a care for thee
That in the busy world Of man,
Things may forgotten be-
That in The shaded bower Of home
Are all the world to me.
Oh, love me as you used to love;
Why should the heart grow Old
With all its wealth of feeling, still,
The deepest yet untold
The strength, that bravey battles through
Temptations gloomy hour,
The love that softly folds its wing
Beside the dropping flower.
Oh, love me as you used to love,
Ere one ungentle word
Had with prophetic touch. the heart
With doubt and sorrow stirred,
When hope with rainbow wings unfurled,
Reflected, glad and bright,
Full many joyous day to come,
And ne'er darksome night.
Oh. love me as you used to love,
When all my grlish pride
Was echoed in tn ambitious dream
To be thy chosen bride.
Full many a moon has waxed and wancd
Above our tryst-ing tree,
And still thou art the world to me-
Is there no change in thee?
Oh, love me as you used to love,
For soon the trcacherOus wave
That bears our life-boat on its breast,
VIII close upon our grave;
And then a mournful memory
VIII sometimes haunt the spot
And whisper of loves early VOWS
Neglected or forgot.
Oh, love me as you used to love,
And ever love the same
Hard was the struggle in my heart,
The willing bird to tame
Then teach it not, in stranger bowers
Its nesting songs to sing,
Nor plant, with careless hand, barb
Beneath its folded wing.
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15
Notice

A ] meeting of the stockholders Of the Vol
H.. : \ cano Water and Mining Company, held in
oicano, the following members were unanimously
Ueced Trustees and Officers:
TRUSTEES.
T. b. Harris, NJ W. Gordon, j. c. Shipman, j.
J. rTiey, Geo. Muncion.
OFFICERS.
D. HARRIS, Pres. Treas. and GeaH Supt.
GEo. MuNcroN Secretary.
volcano, Feb 7. 1856. febl6-I7ly.
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Notice.

Iameeting OF the stockholders of the Aqueduct
C''y Ditch Company, held at their office in
-ll llodact city. June gath, 4. D. 1856, the following
O'Ao'Is we're duly elected:
TRUSTEES.
: a. X Johnston, George Mckenzie, J. Jhonston.
r. w. r. Johnston and L. Chamberlain.
TeQrsa Mckenzie, Secretary and Treasurer.
d. Il. Johnston, President
iaIy5 37-lv
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

PHTSTCT.aN md SURGE
OPFICE at Hoy q Smiths Drug Store, Main ST.,
~ Volcano. Residence on the alley, in the rear
o' the Drug Store
n. B. The books of the late irm Of Goodin *
Smith can be found atm my Office. Persons indebted
FI. DO well to call and settle
f4h22. ls,fr
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ED. G. JOHNSON,

ATTORNE AND COUNSELLOR,
VOLCANO, AMADoR County, CAL.
May be found at present at Justice n KLEN's office.
as- Notary Public & Conveyanoer. ~0N
may3-2Sf
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Notice.

A ~ persons indebted to the subscribers will
n please call and make immediate payment, or
'A'y W'll have cost to pay,
A. KLAUBER & co.
mar % %
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

ALI the gold in the world, if melted down
and cast into a solid mass, would make a col
umn no more than 10 # square and so high.
The municipal regulations are so strict in
the Arctic regions that DR.. Kane was kept
from going further by the North Pole-ce
When men grow yirtuous in their old age.
they make a sacrifice to God of the devils
Ieayings.
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15
UNION EOVEH,

r !, tlDDLETOWN, CALIFORNIA.
,ANa ,Nla this method Of announcing to the public
,.ee! ,e! 'his house has been entirely renovated and
ito.- and Is now ready for the reception of Wis
Xxi. no pains or expense has been spared to
'0o we nion' equal to any hotel in the county.
aug rs 4O-3m
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

TIE summit of Mount Arrarat has been
reached by five Englishmen. 1t is IT423
feet above sea level, and l4,900 above the
plain This feat was never before performed.
About 1900 feet from the summit they came
to an oak cross that had been fixed there in
the rock by Professor Abieh, in the year l845;
it was in perfect preservation, and the inscrip-
tion, in Russian characters, was still legible.
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15
M man Klein.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE-oficce two doors
J south Of the Empire HOTEL
JOHN II. DENNIS Constable-olice, with n.
Klein, Esq.
mar y 22-3m
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

The Largest church in Europe is at Saint
Petersbnrgh. 1t was begun in III, and in
twenty years 1000 men had not finished its
walls. 1t is Of polished marble, the pillars
being of one piece, fifty feet in height, and
the base and capitals of solid silver.
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

A Curious SCRAP OF NATURAL History
Read the following, and then try and recol-
lect whether Goldsmith records anything sim
liar "a st. Louis paper says that the
Grasshoppers have eaten up the entire To-
bacco cropof Franklin county, Missouri; and
the last that was heard from them, they we're
seated on the fence-corners asking ererg man
that passed for a che,o ~
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w. AVER, VI. -.
Goo. Ek. smitll, NE. D.

Objective doors South of the Empire Hotel
oct II, II
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The MIsERABLEs.-Y oung ladies with new
bonnets on rainy Sunday, and with a Seedy
parasol
A young Doctor who has cured his first
patient, but has not the slightest prospect Of
any more.
A star actress with her name in small let
ters on the bills.
A confirmed novel reader who finds the
catastrophe torn out.
A false witness on the stand examined by
a shrewd lawyer.
A brieaess lawyer, with briehess expecta-
tions
Thar is not true goodness which seeks to
make itself known.
DIsTRUsT the sincerity of the man who az.
fects to be a friendto everybody.
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

JUsr So.-Say what you will, a marriage
by advertisement is after all union Of two
corresponding " minds.
FORTUNE is tickle. Sometimes it is sheaped
up like the snow, and like the snow melts and
thaws again to nothing.
IF man should set out calling everything
by its right name, he would beknocked down
before he got to the corner of the street.
VIRTUE is no security in this world. What
can be more upright than pump-logs and cd
itors? Yet both are destind to be bored
MrN often blush to hear what they were
not ashamed to act
Only the idler or the coward rails against
his fortune. Courage and industry will over
cone the worst of lack.
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15
wv. HENRY JONES,
Coo. l.. Gsnle.

Ja,,r Of tie Pegce, TocnSiip No. Three,
OTFICE Emigrant Street, two doors East Of
y Nahony Hall, Volcano.
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

A DICTIONARY CHMNED.-In the records
Of the town of Boston, England, for the year
1918, the following resolution may be found
Resolved, that a dictionarye shall be bought
for the scollers Of the free scooe and the
same boke to be tyed in a cheyne, aud set
upon deske in the scoole, whereunto any
scoller shall have aceesse, as occasion shall
serve y
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

I INE Cloth for Mantiilas, for sale by
mar ~ GEO. JOHNSON.
Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-11-15

\ MI. california, White aud Yellow Beans, for
VIC ol-u THECEKACF 4 CO.
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full meal, provided it does not bring it late,
than two hours before sundown; if later
then take nothing for that day in addition to
the cracker and tea, and the next day you
will feel freshness and vigor not recently
known.
"No reader will require to be advised q
second time who will make trial as above,
while it is fact of no unusual observation
among intelligent physicians, that eating
heartily, and under bodily exhaustion, is not
an infrequent cause of alarming and painful
illness, and sometimes of sudden DEATH
These things being SO, let every family max c
it a point to assemble around the family board
with kindly feelings, with a cheerful hunOr
and courteous spirit; and let that member
of it be sent from the table in disgrace who
presumes to mar the ought-to-be-blest re.
union b. sullen silence, or impatient look,
or angry tone, or complaining tongue. Eat
in thankful gladness, or away with you to the
kitchen, you graceless churl, you ungrateful,
pestilent lout, that you are. There was
grand and good philosophy in the old time
custom of having buffoon or music at the
dinner table"
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A TRUE CIVIIIZER.

It is told of a late missionary to Turkey,
that finding his converts prescribed in their
relations as business men, by the authorities
of the church which they had left, he Dor.
rowed ten thousand dollars, bought -four
mill, and engaged in the making of bread,
in order to give employment to his neo-
phytes. The bread he manufactured proved
so much superior to that generally sold at
Constantinople-for it was there that he
sought his market-that, before long, he
had so large demand for it as to give q
livelihood to nearly all his converts. When
the Eastern war broke out, and the British
troops landed at Scutari, good bread could
not at first be had for the soldiers. In this
emergency, the missionary stepped forward
and offered to contract to furnish bread to
the English. His tender was accepted and
contract signed. The Sultan, finding that
good bread was made for the British army,
sent for the bakers who supplied his own,
and compelled them to initiate the mission
airy, In the two years of the war, the mil, !,
thus begun to feed a few converts, earned
thousands of dollars, which have been wor-
thily dedicated, We believe, to building
school-houses in Turkey.
The same Missionary, visiting the bar
racks at Scutari, found the soldiers dying
there by hundreds, and SO little care taken
of them--this was before Miss Nightingale
arrival-that their linen often remained un-
changed for weeks. He found also that the
refuse clothes were cast into a separate a.
partment, where they lay fostering, rotting
and tainting the atmosphere. He asked why
this was. The British authorities answered
that they could get nobody to wash the
clothes, for fear of infection. He offered
Immediately to undertake the job. But the
prejudices of the Turks proved greater than
even he, who had lived among them for
eighteen years, had heen led to expect
They cried out, when they saw the clothes
"The plague, the plague" and refused to
work. In this crisis, he invented a rude
washing machine, which he fixed on the
side of q running stream, so that the articles
might be partially washed without the inter-
vention of hand labor. After this there was
no difficulty. The labor saving washing ma
chine of the Yankee Missionary is still in
use at Scutari, and will probably remain so,
while there is washing to be done, even
though the original necessity for it has pass
ed away-Phtl. Lsager.
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DEATH OF A MISER.

Some four weeks ago, there arrived in
this city by the western cars, in the the ex-
treme of destitutiou, an old lady who gave
her name as Mrs Catharine Alberty-her
age she said was rs years. She was mis-
erably clad, and was bent by age and want.
She had been passed over the road, from
Salisbury, free of charge, as an act of chari-
ty, and on her arrival here, rented small
back room from tenant of Mr.. John Kane's.
She had no visible means of providing her.
self with the commonest necessaries of life
and had not, she said, penny in the world.
The attention of the neighbors was soon
attracted to her and she became at once the
recipient of their sympathy and bounty
Her health, however, rapidly declined, and
she was gratuitously attended by DR.. W. P.
Mckee, and pecuniarily assisted, also, by
him and others; but, on Monday last, at
noon, death ended her suferings.
After her death, in searching among her
miserable rags, making arrangements for
intermeut, large sum of money and the evi-
dences of other property to a considerable
amount were discovered in an old barrel
In two or three filthy bundles was found, in
gold and silver, the sum of $4,000; also,
amongst her papers, the scrip for 20 shares
of stock in the New Albany railroad-let-
ters relative to her plantation in Kentucky,
and mass of other property both curious
and valuable. A small sign-board was also
found with the inscription-"Mrs. Catha-
rine Alberty, Indian Doctress." She ap.
pears, too, to have added the mystery Of
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them by putting their hands into the water
close to the nest, on agtating which, the
male hassar springs furiously at them, and is
captured.
The ronndhead forms its nest of grass, the
fathead of leaves; both at certain seasons
burrow in the bank. They lay their eggs
only in wet weather. Observers have been
surprised at the sudden appearance of nu-
merous nests in morning after rain has fall
len, the spots being indicated by masses of
froth which appear on the surface of the wa
ter over the nests. Below the froth are the
eggs, deposited on branches of fallen leaves,
or grass, if it be the lttoral species, which
they somehow or other cut and collect. BY
what means, however, this is effected is a
mystery, as the species is destitute of cutting
teeth.
The flesh of the hassar is yellow, firm, and
very savory, and is used by the Creoles in
making soup; which they prepare with the
addition of several vegetables, such as the
okra, calabao, and fow-fow, avam and plan
tains, boiled and pounded intoa sort of plain
pudding. The whole is seasoned with pep
per, salt, and ime;juice, and forms, in reali-
ty, one of the best dishes in the country, al
though it is not at first generally relished by
Europeans.
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HOW TO EAT WISELY.

If practice make perfect mankind should
certainly know how to eat wisely; yet the
following excellent advice, from DR.. Halls
(ever suggestive) "Medical Journal" con-
tans wisdom that will be new to NEST peo-
Pile;
81. Never sit down to table with an anx-
ious or disturbed mind; better hundred
fold, intermit that meal, for there will then
be that much more food in the world for
hungrier stomachs than yours; and besides,
eating under such circumstances can only,
and will always, prolong and aggravate the
condition of things.
"2. Never sit down to e msal after any
intense mental effort, for physical md mental
injury is inevitable, and no man has right
deliberately to injure body, mind, or estate
"Never go to full table during bodily
Observation-Disclosures by some as being
worn out, tired to death, used up, done oyer,
and the like. The wlsest thing you can do
under such circumstances, is to take crack
er and cup of warm tea, either black or
green, and no more. In ten minutes yoH
will feel degree of refreshlment apd liveli-
ness, which will be pleasantly surprising to
you :; not of the transient kind which glass
of liquor affords, but permanent; for the tea
gives present stimulus and little strength,
and before it subsidies, nutriment begins to
be drawn from the sugar, and cream, and
bread, thus allowing the body, gradually and
by safe degrees, to regain its usual vigor.-
Then, in couple of hours, you may take a
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SLEEp.-Observation confirm the fact that
heJraim is mourished, repaired, during sleep.
If then we have not sleep enough, the brain
is not nourished, and like everything else,
when deprived of sufficient nourishment,
withers and wastes away, until the power Of
sleep is lost, and the whole man dwindles
to skin and bone, or dies maniac /?
The practical inferences which we wish to
impress upon the reader are two:..
1st. By all means sleep enough, give all.
who are under yousleepenough, by requiring
them to go to bed at some regular hour, and
to get up the moment of spontaneous waking,
in the morning. Never waken up any one;
especially children, from asound sleep, un-.
less there is urgent necessity it is cruel 10
do so; to prove this, we have only to notice
how fretful and unhappy a,child is, when
walked up before the nap is out. Z; s:
I'd, If the brain is nourished during Sleep,
itmust nave some vigorin the morning, hence
the morning is the best time for study for
then, the brain has most strength most ac.ss
tivity, and must work more clearly is
'the midnight lamp" which foods the world
with sickly sentimentalities, with false Nor
ais, with rickety theology, and with all those
harum scarum dreams of human elevation,
which abnegate Bible teachings.-Dr. Halls
Monthly.
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guard from the oppression of the class which
by monopoly of the soil and of slave labor
to till it, might in time reduce them to the
extremity of laboring upon the same terms
with the slaves. The great body of nom
slaveholding freemen, including those of the
South, upon whose. welfare slavery is an op-
preston, will discover that the power of the
General Government over the public lands
may be benefcially exerted to advance their
interests and secure their independence;
knowing this, their suffrages will not be
wanting to maintain that authority in the
Union which is absolutely essential to the
maintenance of their own liberties, and which
has more than once indicated the purpose of
disposing of the public lands in such way
as would make every settler upon them q
freeholder.
IF the people intrust to me the administra-
tion of the government, the laws of Congress
in relation to the Territories shall be faith
fully executed. All its authority shall be
exerted in aid of the national will to re-es-
tablish the peace Of the country on the just
principles which have heretofore received
the sanction of the Federal Government, of
the States and the people of both sections
Such policy would leave no aliment to
that sectional party which seeks its aggran-
dizement by appropriating the new terrific
ries to capital in the form of slavery, but
would inevitably result in the triumph of
free labor-the natural capital which con-
stitutes the real wealth of this great country
and creates that intelligent powerin the mas
ses alone to be relied on as the bulwoak of
free institutions.
Trusting that I have heart capable of
omprehending our whole country, with its
varied interests, and confident that patriotism
exists in all parts of the Union, accept the
nomination of your convention, in the hope
that 1 may be enabled to serve usefully its
cause, which I consider the cause of consti-
tutional freedom. Very respectfully, your
obedient servant. j. C. FREMONT.