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San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

THE AGE-Generations like individuals, usu-
ally knnow more of their virtues than their
faults They are quick to discern their advan-
tages and to make the most of every supposed
element of superiority. The lights rather than
the shadows of life engross them. They linger
fondly around the tokens of growth, but avoid
those of decay. Pride has its root in the sense
of expanding power and advancing greatness
Blind conceit and vain-glorious boasting are the
spontaneous outgrowth of eras distinguished for
novel combinations of old forces, for restless
activity and brilliant results in the sphere of
national achievement 1t is natural for gen.
Grafton that finds itself with great plans in gov
ernment, industry and science, and identified
with unexampled triumphs in every field OF hui
man energy, to claim more for itself than it
ought, to overrate the present as compared with
the past, and to adopt false standards of judg-
ment in order to give currency to extravagant
pretensions.
Our own time certainly furnishes no excep-
tion to remarks of this character, but rather a
most apt instance of their truth. Its strength is
vitiated by vanity. Its glory is soiled and de-
graded by indscrimnate boasting. 1t is an age
of wonders and an age of plattudes, remarkable
at once for good sense and folly, vigor and
weakness, realities and shams. Judging from
much of the published thought of the day, to
say nothing of the animus of social and indus
trial life one would suppose it to be among the
established convictions of this generation, that
the human race had just broken its shell, and
begun to comprehend the machinery of progress
that civilization and literature, humanity and
brotherhood were original creations of the pres
ent, and that the past survived only as treas
ury ofinteresting historical incident 1t canno,
be doubted that such views have much to dc
with the admitted self-suficiency of the age, and
that they prevail to degree which renders the
working million we'll nigh insensible to the debt
they owe to the preceding generations.-Re
4. n. Litleohn.
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

YoUNG GENIUs.-Mr. Disraeli has, in his
q ssConingsby,n this striking passage: "Genius,
when young, is divine. Why, the greatest cap
tains of ancient and modern times, both con-
quered Italy at twenty-five! Youth, extreme
youth, overthrow the Persian empire. Don John
OF Austria, won Lepanto at twenty-fve-the
greatest battle of modern time had it not been
for the jealousy of Philip, the next year he
would have been Maurtani. CASTOR de Folk
was only twenty 1.-TWO when he stood a victor on
the plains of Ravenna. Every one remembers
oohue and Rocroy at the ametage. Gustayus
Auoiphus died at thirty-eight. Look at his cap
talns-that wonderful Duke of Weimar, only
thirty-six when he died. Baner himself, after
all his miracles, died at forty-6ye. Cortez was
little more than thirty when he gazed upon the
golden cupolas of Mexico. When Maurice of
Saxony died at thirty-two, all Europe acknowl-
edged the loss of the greatest captain and the
profoundest statesman of the age. Then there
is Nelson, Give; but these are warriors, and
perhaps you may think there are greater things
than war. | do not. l worship the Lord of
Hosts But take the most illustrious achieve
ments of civil prudence. Innocent Ill, the
greatest of the Popes, was the despot of Christ
endOm at thirty-seven. John de Medici was @
cardinal at fifteen, and Guicciardini tells us.
baffled with his craft Ferdinand de Aragon him
self. He was Pope as Leo X at thirty-seven.-
Take lgnatlus Loyola and John Wesley-they
worked with young brains. Ignatius was only
thirty when he made his pilgrimage, and wrote
the Spiritual Exercises. Pascal (the greatest of
Frenchmen) wrote great work at sixteen and
died at thirty-seven. All, that fatal thirty
which reminds me of Byron-greater even as o
man than writer. Was it experience that gui-
ded the pen of Raphael when he painted the
palaces of Rome /? He died at thirty-seven.-
Richelieu was secretary of state at thirty-one.
Well, then there are Bolingbroke and Pitt, both
ministers before other men leave off cricket
Grotius was in practice at seventeen, and attor
ney general at twenty-four. And Acquaviva-
Acquaviva general of the Jesuts, ruled ey
cry cabinet in Europe and colonised America,
before he was thirty-seven. What a career =
the secret sway of Europe! That was indeed
position But it is useless to multiply instan-
ces. The history of heroes is the history of
youth"
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Written for the San Andreas Independent. ]
my Childhood's Home"

My childhood's home how sweetly memory dwells
On the scenes which now all past;-
How each well-loved spot through my memory swels
When e'er thought them cast
Like the around which the fragrance still springs
Though its beauteous colors be fed -
So round that bright home, blest memory clings,
Though my hopes be all withered and dead.
My childhood's home,-oft thine image returns,
As my brightest joys decay
The lamp thou hast Lit on my spirit, still burns,
And, oh may it ever there stay;
For though death around it has cast dark shade,
And loved ones who dwelt there estranged,-
Yet still from my bosom it never can fade
Its brightness never be changed.
My childhood's home,-how endearing the ties
That binds my heart to a scene,
Must brighten with love,-in memory's eyes
Must ever be fragrant and green.
Oh, the shrines of innocent chidhood's truth,
Though life with its cares become old
Yet still my heart turns to the home of my YOUTH
With love that can never grow cold.
My childhOods home,-oh how sweetly there, sped
The hours of life, when I felt
A kind mothers hand, press my aching head,
AS when at her knees have knelt.
The prayers that she taught, undying they shine,
And from me they never shall part
For they're craven deep, by power Divine,
On the tablets of my living heart.
And though fate, dearest mother bids widely part
And between us vast oceans may roll,
Thy influence sweet will be graved on my heart
Be written for aye my soul
And ever thy teachings respendently shine,
And cluster thick round my head
Till life shall be lost mid the pillows of Time,
And my form laid in the Home of the Dead
SAN ASDEEAs July Sth 1857. ANNA.
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

THE AMUsEMENTs OF ANCIENT RoME.-A re-
cent number of the Westminster Reyiew gives
the subjoined sketch of the magnifcence with
which Carinus, Roman Emperor celebrated
the Roman games in the colossal amphitheatre
of Titus, on the plain of Mars
% Into the huge ellipse of this vast concave,
sixty -four Uomsitories poured forth an immense
multitude, without trouble confusion. The
slopes of the interior were filled or surrounded
by sixty or eighty rows of marble seats, covered
with cushions, and capable of containing four
score thousand persons. The senatorial, eques-
trian and plebeian orders-these empty dis
tinctions were retained even under the equality
of despotsm-each occupied its peculiar sta
ton and in the centre, golden canopy and
the glitterlng cuiraSSeS of the body-guard,
marked out the imperial box. The spectators
were protected from the sun and rain by purple
awning occasionally drawn over their heads
Fountains cooled, and aromatics impregnated
the air with grateful odors. The stage was
strewed with parti-colored sand arranged in de-
vices, like the pattern of IA carpet. The scenery
and mechanism of the drama cOrreSpOnded to
the luxury of the theatre. The stage itself was
shifted according to the exigencies of the per-
formance. At one moment it presented the ap-
pearance of vast lake covered with armed
vessels, and replenished with the monsters of
the deep; at another, the spectators beheld the
garden of Hesperides, or the rocks and caverns
of Thrace. The appointments of the circus
were not less magnificent. The wild beasts
were surrounded by sylvan scene. forest
of large trees, torn up by the roots, were trans
planted into the arena The outrageous space
was Immediately filed with a thousand ostriches,
a thousand stays, a thousand bears, q thousand
fallow deer thousand wild boars, all of which
were indiscriminately slaughtered before even
ing. On the following day hundred lions,
hundred lionesses, two hundred leopards, and
three hundred wild boars were massacred and
amid such confusion, if we may credit the state
mcnt of a contemporary poet, the nets designed
as defense against the wild beasts, were of
gold wire, and that the porticos were gided,
and the balustrades which divided the rows of
spectators were studded with a mosaic of pre-
cious stones"
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

Critics AND CoMMENTAToRs.-Ay young min
lister, in highly elaborate sermon which he
preached while supplying an absent minister
pulpit, said several times, when giving some
exposition of passage "The critics and
commentators do not agree with me here. =
Next morning, as he was rumnating on his per-
formances, poor woman came to see him with
something in her apron. She said her husband
had heard his sermon, and thought it was a
very fine one and as he said g the commenta-
tors did not aqree rith him here, he had sent him
some of the best Jersey Blues!
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so
are the greatest.
Watch for little opportunities of pleasing, and
put little annoyances out of the way.
More men are drowned in the wine cup than
in the ocean.
Why are teeth like verbs? Because they are
regular, irregular and defective
Good company and good conversation are
the very sinews of virtue.
Wicked hopes, like unskilful guides miSlead
the unwary. g
A child describing snake, said it was " a
thing all tail-clear up to its head
Marriage is designated I" bridal state as 1T
puts curb upon most people Il
Thorough knowledge only enables man to
think more justly.
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18
NOTICE.
sa Bounty Land Warrants. e

B6S Bounty Land warrants. 9sa
V~iE undersigned having completed arrange
n ments with his Correspondent in Wash
ington, D. c., is now ready to procure Bounty
Land Warrants, granted by an Act of Con-
gress, passed March Sd, 1856, giving land l6O
acres) to all connected with the Army or Navy
OF the United States, in any of the wars in
which the United States have been engaged
Also, State Troops, whose services have been
paid by the United States
BsA- Information given gratis
BsAeNo charge, if said warrants arc not OBJ
tained- r. THOMPSON, J. P.
AeOfhce, Centre street, next door to Stur-
ges' Stone Building, Mok. Hill feb 7-tf-46
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

CHOICE IN MARRIAGE.-LordB Byron used to say
that a man ought to marry by all means, al
though he owned that the greater part OF mar
riages are unhappy. man cannot De happy
without wife, Yet it is strange what little
real liberty of choice can be exercised on most
occasions. Many man too, fancies he marries
by choice. whereas he mairies only by compul-
sion,
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18
SACRAMENTO, July 10th,

'0-hO1t-h1rI'IOI
DEAR LoUIs:-I arrived here this morning,
and prefer San Andreas to them all. | have
been clear up to Shasta, and not made anything
at all. have run all over the northern Mines
and find that there is no place in the State
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18
CIGAR, TOBACCO AND FRUIT STORE,

Nam street. opposite Odd Fello.cs' Had,
SAN ANDREAS.
n l. J. OPPENHEIMER, keep constantly
Ia. on hand good"assortment of choice To-
bacco and Cigars. Also, Domestic Cigars,
which they will sell at low prices.
ALSO
All kinds of Chewing and Smoking Tobacco,
Green and Dry Fruit, Candies, Nuts, Cutlery,
Matches, Playing Cards, &C., &c. Please give
us call. .
oct 4-40 Il. " .. vi I+'iE1hHh,
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

F,npt,ry.-Never forsake friend. When
enemies Gather around--when the world is
dark and cheerless-is the time to try true
friendship They who turn from the scene of
distress betray their hypocrisy and prove that
interest only moves them. fyou have friend
who loves you and studies your interest and
happiness-be sure to sustain him in adyersl-
ty. Let him feel that his former kindness is
appreciated, and that his love is not thrown
away. Real fidelity may be rare, but It exists
in the heart Who has not seen ana leit It's
power They only deny its worth ana power
who have never loved friend or lapored 10
make friend happy. af no
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

RsP Wisdom allows nothing to be good that
will not be so forever no man to be happy, pu'
he that needs no other happiness than wnaI nc
has wNhin himself; no man to be grea. u po"
erful, that is not master of himself-'oe"ec"
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

s. B. STEVENS,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, NOTARY PUBLIC
AND CONvEYANCER.
VNTILL also draw up Deeds, Mortgages, Pow
w ers of Attorney, Agreements, Mechanics
Liens, and other articles in writing, and Will
give advice in regard to titles to land, free OF
charge, when he is employed to draw up papers
Agreements, Promissory Notes and Contracts
written, and all other instruments of writing
executed with neatness and dispatch
Ras~Ofice in the Jordan Bath Building.
San Andreas, January 81, 81. jan 3l-3l
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A. ROSENFIELD g. CO.

Newspaper, DUUh 0l->'
Cigar and Tobacco store,
POST OFFICE BUILDING, MOK. HILL.
HAVING recently purchased the interest OF
III Mr. S. Guthrie in the Newspaper ana re-
riodical Agencies, at this place, they would re-
spectfnlly inform the public that at their estaD-
lishment can always be found the latest Califor-
MIA and Atlantic papers, Illustrations Maga-
zines, Steamer Novels, and standard works to-
gether with large assortment of Fancy arti-
cles, best brands of Cigars and Tocacco, etc.
Mokelumnc Hill, January |, 1851. jan lott
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18

..BsE Whoever places importance III i''l'
things is subject to treat shgntiy 'ilc ino'' e
sental.
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18
The Northern Mines.

Miners generally have migratory habits. and
as at this season of the year most of them are
changing from gulch to river claims, or going
north, we publish the following extracts from
letters lately received in this camp, written by
parties who have been up north. We hope
those persons intending " to travel" will read
the following, and reflect before deciding on a
change,-or abandoning the claims they now
hold at San Andreas:- =
San ANTONIO, Alameda county,
July 4th, 1857.
FRIEND Louis Il received yours of the 26th
of May, and am glad to hear that you are well.
have been up in the northern mines, on the
Yuba and Feather rivers and to Honey Lake
Valley, prospecting, and | could not find as
good a mining camp as San Andreas. l have
spent about one hundred and fifty dollars, on
the trip, and l would advise you not to go north,
as there are hundreds of men up there who can
not get away. Wages rate at about So so per
day, and a man runs great risk of not getting
his money-not knowing who to trust. man,
even under these drawbacks" cannot get
work at that price This is the kind of place
it is, and you may well believe am tired of it.
If you know any chance for me to do anything,
write, and | will come back to your mines this
fall. l am now working for fifty dollars per
month. Yours, WM. II.
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18
THE INDEPENDENT
ARMOR s. Co., Publishers.
u. T. hoosER, o. NJ. CLAYEs, GEO. ARMoR

Is published every SATURDAY MORNING,
at San Andreas, Calaveras County, Cal. Office
in the Independent Building, st. Charles Street,
above Main.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.-One year, in
variably in advance, $500; six months, $500 (;
three months, $500.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.-On square of
twelve lines, first insertion, $3.50; each sub
sequent insertion, $l.25. A liberal discount
will be allowed to yearly advertisers. Busi-
ness Cards, not exceeding four lines $500 per
month.
San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18
Gotfls, Restaurants, Mf.

YNHIS POPULAR AND COMMODIOUS HO-
Il tel, situated in one of the most pleasant and
convenient localities in the town, is constantly
open for the reception of TRANSIENT T and
PERMANENT BOARDERS. The rooms are
spacious, thoroughly ventilated, and furnished
with view to comfort The dining hall is the
best in the place, where the patrons of the house
may depend upon finding the table spread with
the choicest edibles the market affords.
The Bar is furnished with the choicest brands
of Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
BOARD AND LODGING.
Per Week, single rooms, $1,000
Per Week. double rooms, s,................ 800
Without Lodging, ,......................... 100
Single Meal, .............................. rs
Meals at regular hours.
Bas- Payment to be made invariably in ad
vance. nov %, '56-tf-35
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LEAD Us NOT INTO TEMPTATION. The
Pbilsdelphia Presbyterian states that the
misguided course of Mr.. Porter. the de-
tanlting Secretary of the American SUNDAY
ocnool Union, was commenced twenty
years ago, during the Multicaulis fever
Mr' Z. went into that speculation, and lost
some ten thousand dollars. Not being able
10 meet the difficulty, or unwilling to part
WIN MS property for the purpose, he used
tne name OF the Union to raise the reaulr-
ed amount, probably intending to pay the
note ultimately, when he should come into
possession OF funds. But having taken the
nrst wrong step, he was led, by subsequent
unfortunate Investments, to repeat it, until
through the accumulation OF different trans
aotlons, and paying heavy premiums to OBJ
tain money to conceal his operations, the
amount grew to the enormous sum Of near
ly ninety thousand dollars.
What an instance of the peril attending
single wrong. What an echo of the sen,
timents, " he that maketh haste to be
rich, shall not be innocent" " What an en-
iorcement OF the caution, " Let him that
chlnketh he standeth, take heed lest he
laii. And how suggestive Of the prayer
winch the Saviour taught his disciples.
- Lead us not into temptation" First
Specvldti0ns, and then peculotions- how
often the two are linked together Hazar-
oons ventures, leading first to embarrass-
ment, then to fraud, then to detection, loss
OF Character, untold anguish of mind, des-
olation of hearts and homes, and perhaps
irretrievable ruin. "Oh that men were
wise, that they Understood this !''--Secrs-
tdry.
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From the New York Independent.

MONEY MARkEr.-Ihe money market is
in a very anomalous position. There is
great want of money in circulation, with
greta and rapid acc umulation of it in bank
and in private banking houses and capital
lists. The banks report the average sum of
Sl2, ,Ss3 AL in specie all last week, and as
the average is a rising, one there must be
nearly Sl4 900 900 now in bank. The de-
posits have also increa sed four millions of
dollars. The discount line has been further
contracted S274,76 We suppose the
contraction has now run itself aground.-
The banks having destroyed their own mar
ket for making money, like the fsbled sim
pleton of old that destroyed the goose that
laid the golden eggs. They are doing little
more in the way OF discounting than renewing
maturing notes. There is much contrac-
tion but little liquidstion-at least none to
correspond, for notes are too often only set
tied by renewals. The New York State
expected. S4 500 900 are locked up in Wall
street, or in the vaults Of the Metropolitan
Bank, to be secure from FIRE and the only
apparent benefit derived from it Is to enable
the banks to settle their balances with each
other, which are no longer required to be
paid in coin. The country needs circuls-
ton, and there is none to be had. Eastern
currency moves slowly. The city banks are
rapidly drawing in their circulation. They
have curtailed it $3.50 900 this week and
two millions from the highest point.
The bank loans are probably now at their
lowest point, but the will not rapidly in
crease, owing to the absence of material for
discount. They offerings at the banks are
much reduced, Creditors have become much
more lenient to their debtors, and hume
rous arrangements, little as we'll as
great, are making in order to get along
without loss. The banks continue to disa-
gree, and to act in disconcert. They are
| all evidently out of tune, and make discon-
dant notes and each endeavors to get the
advantage of the othet. Produce comes
tardily forward, and does less then was
hoped towards renewing activity. The rates
of exchange with the interior do not i'm
prove; and debtors are reluctant, as they
should not be, to submit to the heavy prem
| iums Tor New York funds. The importa-
tions dnring the remainder of the year, and
! in the spring, will be very light, SO that
after our importations of this year are paid
for, there will be little to remit. Th
small amount of daily monetary transac-
tions is shown by thesmall average of the
exchanges at the clearing house, in which
there has been no improvement this week
the average, SO ,6lO, SOC, being not much
different from 50, ,623 $50, that of the pre-.
vious week. Two-thirds of the impor tions
are warehoused, so that the custom receipt,
are very light The Sub-Treasury still
yields supplies to the banks BY an excess Of
disbursements over receipts. The value oi
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-11-13

ness. But if you will 60 you must change
that suit of fine clothes you have on, for
miners dress. Do not think you can go
down two or three thousand feet into moth
er earth, in fine broadcloth No, indeed. -
You will put on first of all rough, coarse
shirt; then jlcket and pair of woolen
pants well ventilated; and last of all. a
skull cap with a lighted candle fastened to
the top of it by bit of clay. Do not
think you will have such thing as sun
light where you are going. Thus changed
the fine dressed gentleman into the min
er- and by such II change your friends
Will hardly know you) you are prepared to
descend. But how to get down-that is
the question. In many mines you would
climb down ladder after ladder standing
almost perpendiculdr;--a good hours
work to get down and a still harder hour
and hall = work to return with the tenn
perature at 500, But is this all the way
can t Tor the lite Of me sec the fun in
this.
This is the way the miners have gone on
for years. Do You wonder that their faces
are thin But let us 60 to another mine.
perhaps we can find AN easier way. All
yes, here is just the thing. Machinery will
take us down an up again with very little
fatigue. stand On the little board now,
take hold Of the pm above your head to
steady yourself by, and down you 90, but
only thirty feet; step of from your resting
place ior moment to the right on to the
little spot, TIL the other board comes
Here it is; mount again and down you 20;
thus repeating the process till YOU get to
bottom. What darkness surrounds you.-
Your candle casts bu, feeble, glimmcring
lluDt in in.