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Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12
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TERMS.


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Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12

A PARsoN IN D1FF1cuLrY.-A young
parson lost his way in a forest, and
It being cold and rainy, he happened up
on poor cottage and desired lodging
or hay loft to stay in. and some fire to
warm him. The man told. him that he
and his wife had but one bed, and if he
pleased to lay with them he should be
welcome. The parson thanked him and
Kindly accepted it. In the morning the
nan rose to go to. market, and meeting
Gome of his neighbors he fell a laughing.
Ehey asked him what made him SO mer-
ry about the mouth. ttWhy.'' says he.
" can't but think how 'shamed the par.
n'will be when he wakes to find him
4.a eil,aloae IN bed with my wife..sS-lVsso
FORK :E0sning Post. f;ssti 80 .ss SIS 1fss
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12
WHAT 1 LOST BY KISSING KATE.

BY WILLIE b. PABoR. ..
There were Lizzie, Kate and Mary, ..,..
All three beautiful and young: ...
But the name of Mary ever
fingered longest on my tongue, r
And hopes in secret cherished
Ola homo where she was queen
But ono day those sweet hopes pcrished,
And left like desert scene. '-"
They and wero once together,
Frolicking beneath the moon,
In the mildest of mild weather
In tho odorous month of June;
And sweet Mary said, " since kisses
In the moonlight time are due,
Iwould take this best of kisses
From Kato's lips, if woro you"
Scarcely had the thought boon spoken,
E1o, with heart and eye clate, ...
l had claimed the honied token .,... .
From tho rosy lips of Kate, -, 81.
But alack in thus obeying, ~
had made sad mistake; ~,
For in heart the girl was saying,
Kasc will loose what shall take" %.
-" KISS KATE /" this was what sho told me
But its meaning was-KIss NE 81 ......
Oh vain heart! and oh! eyes silly,
Thus to fail the truth TO see
So we parted l with SORROW,
She with scorn, pcrhaps with hato,
And my heart grows sad by knowing
What lost by kissing Kate.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12

The N1oARAeuAN F1LBusrERs.-The
following melancholy details are the sad
closing of Walkers expedition:
1t is estimated during two years, OF
$500 enlisted or holding commission un-
der Walker, about 1000 we're killed or
died of wounds or sickness, TOO deserted,
$50 were discharged, 43o were at Rivas
on the LIST May. and 80 in garrison or on
steamers on tho river. Total. 1856
leaving So unaccouutedfor."
1t is positively known that he received
no less than FIVE thousand recruits from
the United States, and as only 1900 Of
these are accounted for by desertion, dis
charge and surrender, the others must
have starved or been killed or died OF dis.
ease.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12
a BRIDES q r EF.LEECcHTrfroN,T..Il Eff. { &c n 1, O r.
iB1 AMELIA KATE

= "A sadness steals within my breast, 3a.u
ais Icannot from my bosom spurn; $50 tsg
Though nature wears its brightest smiles
On this, my. festive, bridal morn. G.
would from each anxious gaze
Now hide the tears that gather fast,
And crush the tide Of memories 4l Il
That through my trusting bosom pass.
'Tis not mistrust that he on whom
Ny hearts deep love now, bestow ..
Will prove unworthy of the boon,
Or ever cold and careless grow. ..
All, no I'm thinking Of the time,
When, far from my parental home, -
Thoughts of the past and loved ones left
Will rise, for sure such time will come.
I'm thinking of a fathers love, ....-r
A mothers kind and tender caro-
That ever from my life's first hour
Have followed me with anxious prayer.
I'm thinking of the sad farewell, n.
The pressure Of the loving hand,
The vacant seat that will leave .a.
W hen turning from the household band.
'Tis sad to leave the dear old glade,
That with such sweet enjoyments blend,
Where sing the birds beneath the shade,
And bloom the flowers love to tend.
Yet, from those scenes of early love
l go, without mistrust or fear
Brothers and sisters, loved ones, all,
In this sad hour, how dear ye are.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12

~Courting in the country is altogeth-
er different institution from the city ar
ticle. In the former place you get rosy
lips, sweet cider, jonny cake and girls
made OF nature !; and in the latter collec-
tion of starched faces, formal manners.
fine silk. great jewelry, and girls got up
"secundum artem."
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12

AN1MALs.-There are lao, 900 animals
known to man /; yet we have domesticated
but 43. 600. In France the giraffe has
produced young that fourishes. A new
species of horse. found in the wild of
. Hindoston, has been domesticated in
.Paris.5,;s IL, 49,. sf y its.g g:ft
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12

wA Yankee proposes to build an es-
tablishment which may. drive o sheep In
atone. end, and have it come ont at The
olheras four quarters of muttonsa felt
hat, pairof ofdIaFers. aleather apron and
aEausrto ictionary.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12
Important from Central America--.
Capitulation of Walker.


New ORLEANS. May 27.-The steamer
Empire City, from Aspinwall, is coming
up with the noted General Walker, and
staff. of the 'Nicaraguan fillibusters, on
board, they having capitulated on the 1st
of May to Capt. Davis, OF the United
States sloop of war ST. Mary's. They
were brought to Panama by him. The
Costa Ricans are not known in the ar
ticles of capitulation. The two hundred
and sixty men came off with Walker.
I The steamer Illinois left Aspinwall, on
the 10Th for New York with 1000, 900
in gold.
New Granada has ceded the island in
the Bay of Panama to England in settle
ment of the Mcintosh claim.
SECOND DISPATCH.
New ORLEANS, May 27.-The Empire
City reached her wharf at seven O'Clock !;
ten thousand people were present. Gen
Walker, accompanied Col. jacques, Mr.
Pitcher and Mr.. Turner, agent Of the as.
sociated press, proceeded in carriages to
the St. Charles, where Walker spoke, ex>
pressing his thanks for the reception re-
cognizing the American love Of liberty in
the masses. and assuring them that vic.
tory was still sure. The greatest excite.
ment exists in the city: The st. Charles
is besieged by thousands. Walker spoke
twice.
The California papers discredis the sto-
ry of Crabbe's defeat and execution
Walker surrendered because Captain Da.
Wis signi6ed his intention of seizing the
schr. Grenada, which held Walkers re-
serve. Walker was kept prisoner by
the U. S. commander at Panama, not
withstanding the terms of capitulation al
lowed him and his officers to retain their
sidesrms and liberty.
Lieut.. Strain died at Aspinwall on the
18th ult.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12

Rwhy is a horse halfway through
a gate ike penny Kase tits head OF
one side and tail on the other.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12

~Punch teaches bookkeeping il
hree words-never lend them.
San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31

BSs- The agents of the Pacific Mail Steam
Ship Company in San Francisco, have, we are
informed, determined to /" crush every news
paper in the State that has the temerity TO
censure the consolidated monopoly for the loss
of the four or five hundred people who perish
ed by the sinking of the George Law. The
Herald, we are told, was the first to fall under
the mighty ban of the mighty monopoly. The
subscription to the paper was stopped, and
the advertisements of the Company percmpto-
rily ordered out. This, of course, Jared the
Herald terribly, but at last advices that peril
nacious journal was absolutely making ar
rangements with two or three banking honses,
to enable it to issue another number But Sc
riously, we think that the Company will dis
cover, by the time it gets through with its
prescribing business, that the press and the
people can get along without the Company,
much more easily than the Company can with
out the press and the people With the excep-
ton of the San Francisco Globe, every journal
in the State, whose opinions on any question
are entitled to notice, that has thus far spoken
on the subject, has condemned without quail
ficaton, the whole course and policy of the
consolidation, as well as censured it for the
wholesale massacre on the George Law-.San
JodquiR Republican.
San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31

They only tend to deceive those who put
any reliance upon the timely execution of
the contemplated plans, and the result
has been, in this case, that more persons
have found bloody graves upon the plains
this year, than in the seven previous
years of emigration. Who will be willing
to take the overland journey next year,
when the news goes back of the massacre
at Mountain Meadows, and other horrld
murders that are known to have taken
place that hundreds who started cut
never reached their destination, and of
whose fate the imagination must draw its
own conclusion. California need not look
for an increase of population till other
are established, or greater
safety secured. The Mormons must be
the Indians subdued, and
posts established. Under the
usual dilatory movements of the govern
ment, this will take at least four or FIVE
years. Till then, California can rest con-
tent with but a slight increase to her
present population.
San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31
COURT PROCEEDINGS.


COURT OF sEssIoSs-Hos. v. W. PORTER, PRE-
SIDING JuroE 10. r. 'TlnHirs AxpJs-E@FREEsEs
ASSOCIATES
The People rs. S. L. Magee-Ipdicted for
emoezzlement of public moneys.- as County
Treasurer. This indictment charges him With
irauuutentiy taking one dollar. and eighty
seven cents, interest on warrant which inter
est was charged not to have been paid -to-the
holoer OF the warrant. Verdict, not guilty.
Inc reopie u.s. 5. L. Magee-Same charge.
amount, one dollar, it being interest rs be-
Iore stated. In the first trial, Highly for the
People-A. P. Dudley and A. G. Adams for
defendant. In the second VIM. l.. Dudley
appeared with the District Attorney. having
been appointed by the Court, and with The,
concurrence of the District Attorney.
The counsel for the People asked for the
following charges, which were granted by the
Court:
That the fraudulent appropriation to his own
use, by County Treasurer, of any money of
the county, constitutes, IN itself the crime of
enbezzlement, and that the offence is equally
complete whether the amount appropriated be
one dollar or one thousand dollars.
That the defendant being of sound mind
and discretion, .feionious intent is prcsumable
from the act Itself, of appropriating to his own
use the money of the county, intrusted to his
care as County Treasurer, unless the circum-
stances of the appropriation show different
intent, or something to rebut such presumption.
The jury will not take into consideration
the punishment which follows the commission
of the crime of cmbezzlement, in arriving ut
their verdict.
The counsel for defendant asked charges as
follows, which were allowed by the Court:
That in order to constitute the crime of en-
bezzlement, the taking of the money or other
things, must have been fraudulent--that is,
with intent to wlfully appropriate what is the
property of another.
That if the jury believe from the evidence
that the appropriation of whatever the testi-
mony shows was appropriated, was the result
of mistake, and not a criminal intent upon the
part of Mr.. Magee, then they must acquit.
That if the jury believe, from the evidence,
that at the time of the presentation of the
scrip there was no money in the Treasury,
then there was legally chargablc upon said
scrip, interest down to the time of its redemp-
ton.
To which last charge, Judge Porter added:
That the redemption of warrants by the Coun-
ty Treasurer is by the actual payment of mon
ey from the County Treasury TO the holder of
the warrant, and that payment is the time to
which the interest is to be computed 1t is
the duty of the County Treasurer to keep
book containing sail disbursements by him
made, showing the amount thereof the time
when. to whom, and on what account paid"
That the defendant is entitled 10 the benefit
of every reasonable doubt, as well in regard
to the criminal or fraudulent intent, with
which the act was done, as to the commission
of the crime charged
San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31

ing taxed. True, recent statute pretends to
exclude mining claims from taxation, but the
law was Intentionally SO loosely drawn, SO con-
veniently worded, that while it seemed to pro-
mise exemption, in reality it afforded tender
mercy of per centun paid Assessors and Col
lectors A single mining claim in Butte coun-
ty-the "Cape"-has been taxed and plum
dered of nine hundred dollars, during the pre-
sent season, through the mid of sharp As
SCISSOR, and profoundly learned Board of
Equalization.
But one single paragraph of q general ma
ture has ever been enacted on the subject OF
mining rights, and that just contains four lines
and halt, and has no application except in
cases where the claim is worth less than $500,
and can be puddled over by Justice of the
Peace.
But perhaps some Legislative wiscacre, who
has wintered at the Capital, will interpose
Yes, truly, we did not legisate. because there
was no need of legislation" Indeed; no need
of it Look at the millions of dollars now in
vested in quartz operations, liable at any mo-
ment through your neglect to be hawked at,
and clutched by the foreign holders of forged
but confirmed Mexican grants. Look at the
additional millions invested in canals, bitches.
and aqueduets, subject at any moment to har-
RAISING and ruinous litigation, and considered
property only through the courtesy of the Su-
preme Court. Look at the depressed cond-
ton of mining in all its phases, in almost eve-
ry important locality in the State, and above
all consider the circumstances, condition, and
eventual destiny of the unlcky miner himself,
and then re-assert if you dare, that there is no
need of legislation.
We have needed legislation ever since the
first discovery of gold to aid, protect and foster
the mining interest; to define and guarantee
mining rights, and to ameliorate the hard con-
dition of the unfortunate miner, the vgor of
whose manhood has been exhausted in extract
ing gold, to enrich official plunderers, to fatten
avaricious tradesmen, and to enable the swell
mobs of Broadway and Montgomery, and the
money-changers on Merchant and Wall streets
to erect marble palaces, and ape the financial
feats of the RothchildS.
San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31

BUsINEss.-Our city, during the past week
has exhibited among teamstcrs and forward
ing merchants. an unusually busy season.
Upwards of three hundred tons of merchan-
disc were landed upon the Lcvee yesterday, the
larger portion of which was destined for the
interior. Our home merchants, have reapcd
good proportion of the increased trade
There is gradually growing disposition on
the part of the merchants of the interior to
make their purchases in this city, finding it
much to their advantage, when taken into
consideration with the expense attending
trip to the Bay. We shall refer to this sub
ject at some future time, and show by facts
and figures, the advantages possessed BY the
merchants of this city, which are available to
the interior trade, and through which pur-
chases may be made at large percentage be-
low the cost of goods purchased in San Fran
cisco.-Stocktoa argus, October 9th.
San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31

MINING ITEMs.-Started out yester-
day morning in search of items heard
that Mccall & Co. had struck it SIS 90
to the pan-went up to their claim,
none of the company there-found a man
who had been at work for the Company,
and who spoke very indifferent English.
He informed us they had found gold-how
much couldn't understand learned
that the company had stopped work the
day before, and intended to start a new
shaft, which satisfied us they had struck
something pretty good-or would not un-
dertake to sink new shaft. This COM
pany have been at work over two months,
a greater portion of the time night and
day. They first sunk shaft 70 feet deep,
the water coming in about 35 feet below
the surface in such quantities as to re-
quire constant bailing day and night, with
two men at the windlass. Struck shelly
ing rock, and started horizontal drift,
which they extended SO feet from the
main shaft, the water causing so much
inconvenience they were compelled to
erect horsepower to bail it out. At the
end of the drift, and 20 feet under ground,
they erected a windlass and sunk shaft
80 feet-making 100 feet in all, struck
in the channel among wash boulders and
gravel, where they received sufficient of
prospect to induce them to sink another
shaft, which we learned they would start
next week. Success to them, say we; as
they are justly entitled to it for their per-
severence, and labor performed under
difficulties.
Saw some men at work in jerks ranch
just below his house.-Went over-in-
formed it was the "Plug Ugly" claim.
Two shafts sunk close together-56 feet
deep and connected at the bottom Five
men and one horse at work-three men
with windlass, at one shaft-two men
and the horse, with a whim, at the other,
all bailing water like sailors on sink
ing vessel. This is another case of labor
under great difficulties; but the men are
of the right material, and nothing will
damp their ardor, Notwithstanding they
must be aoet all the time, judging from
the quantity of water we saw. The horse
power is kept going constantly day and
night, bailing with fifty gallon cask,
and then the water is kept out with diff
Guilty. The "Plug Uglies" are evidently
on or very near the channel, and from
the lay of the land from McCall's claim,
must be very near the bottom. May they
strike a basslcl of the pure staf, is all the
luck we wish them.
San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31

Let the citizens of Murphy's, Vallecito,
Angels, and other places in Calaveras, if
they do not wish to be swallowed up in
this new county scheme, endeavor to con-
ciliate this wonderful and influential giant
lest heshould successfully accomplish this
project dear to the hearts of Columbia S
people. Satisfied that the business men,
miners and industrial classes generally, of
the southern part of Calaveras can have
no serious thought of encouraging this
scheme, we have hardly thought it neces-
sary to treat of it in serious and thought
full manner.
San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31
Beg The San Francisco Times a

Beg The San Francisco Times ana
TaM recommends the sending of pcti-
tions to Congress, asking of that body to
award the carrying Of the California Mail
to some other Company, whereby an op-
position may be started, which would ell
sure greater regularity in the mail, and
add greatly to the convenience and accom-
modation of the travelling public A pc
tition of that nature would be the most
effectual way by which public opinion
will be able to control the monopoly. The
Times says:
" 1t is probable that at the coming session
of Congress an effort will be made for the es-
tablshment of an additional semi-monthy
mail to California, and quite likely that the
endeavor will prove successful. 1t is gener-
ally believed that the efforts of the two Cali
fornia Senators will be enlisted in behalf of
awarding the contract in question to the COM
panies now controlling the line between Cali
fornia and the Eastern States. a petition
against such an award, circulated for month
in this State, cannot fail to obtain ffty thou
sand signatures. Such document, detailing
the misconduct of the companies in providing
accommodations for passengers their dilatory
delivery of the mails; their employment of
unsafe ships and utter disregard of popular
protests against such conduct could not fail
to have its effect on Congress, and would prob
ably result in such an award of the contract as
would secure the permanent establishment of
an opposition line, either vio Panama or Mic
aragua.
The petition should contain the suggestion
that tue mails from New York be required to
be delivered in San Francisco in twenty-three
days from their time of departure, and each
failure to comply with this proviso should be
punished with a heavy fine. This would ne
cessitate the placing of new and swift steamers
on the Atlantic side of the line, and would eff
fectually prevent any such tricks as that by
which the California and Panama were re-
Gently submitted for first class ships. This
proviso, even in the event of the mail compa-
nies securing the additional sem-monthly
contract, would force them to at least give the
public better service than they have done.
and would remedy the tardy receipt of inteli-
gence from the Atlantic which we have been
forced to endure for a year or two past And
in showing the companies that the people have
way as well as a will to act, it will exert
beneficial influence on their course, in regard
to the travelling public"