The Placer herald., 1858-01-09
Mothers S Grave.

through the years that lie IN the shadows OF
the past, and strs my heart with the old
memories it brings upon its wings.
Twelve years ago, | sat here just as do
now. am greatly changed, but all around
me is the same; the far off hills, with their
blue, misty tops, are swathed in folds of
white clouds; the green meadows, with the
country sunshine flashing like sweet thoughts
all about them; and nearer, the gray stones,
and the cold water splashing down softly on
the white pebbles. | remember it all.
"Mo,her. i need not whisper the same
50 low, for there are none to hear me but
the birds in the tops of the great willow,
and it will not disturb her slumber No, no.,
though | sit here with one arm wrapped
closely around the grave, where the tears of
my manhood are falling thick and fast, as
the tears of my boyhood dropped upon her
bosom; | know she will not awaken.
| remember it as though it had happened
this morning-how her COOL soft fingers
used to drop like snowhakes on my hair, and
her lips murmur sweet blessings over me
with every nightfall. O, am a rich man
now The dews Of night fall on broad acres,
and the spray of the Pacific washes this
moment the keels of my proud ships; but
would give many goodly acre, many a atrea-
sure that sleeps deep in the holds, to lie
down one night under the old garret rafters,
with that sweet seraph face bending over
me, with its prayerful kiss, just as it used to
do.
summers have bloomed and fallen above your
grave, but your memory lives deep and sacred
in the heart Of your boy still; the memory
of your prayers and counsel has been with
him in the long WAY his feet have trodden.
and he has cause to thank you for this now.
Look over the shining bastions, sainted
mother; see Inc as lie here, with my checks
plowed on the cool, moist grass Here,
only here, casting off all my manhood, can
be a lid again; for the world will never
know me, dearest mother.
We shall know each other up there, too
where the snow blossoms never wther on
the everlasting hills, and the autumn never
braids its sea let fringing through the
green eternal summer. Your boy will come
to YOU, and from that land which is far off,
we shall 90 no more out forever, mother.
FARMERS, NOTE TnIs.--In a cloudy morn
inc it is a matter of importance for farmers
to know whether it will be sunshnev or
showely in the afternoon. If the ants have
cleared their holes nicely, and piled the dirt
up high, it seldom fails to bring a clear day
to the farmer. Spider webs will be numer-
ous about tops Of the grain and grass
some cloudy mornings; and fifty years obser-
walton has shown the writer of this that these
little weather guessers seldom fail in their
predictions as Il fair day.
ATTACHMENTS TO VIoLlNs-The violin, it
is well known, is one of the most difficult in
struments to finger A patent has been
granted to Jackson Gorham, of Bairdstown,
Ga, for device consisting of four fingers,
which press the string on the tinger-board
in any desired place: so that ordinary per-
formers will be able to execute music in any
key, lingering only in those keys on which
the great mass of performers play, viz: the
keys of one, two and three sharps.
The North Carolina papers have announced
the death Of a remarkable man, in William
Hill, late Secretary of State for that State
He had held that oilice-which is elective
by the Legisature-ever since the year l8l
a period Of fortysix years, uninterruptedly
In all the changes Of political parties during
that long perlod-and parties in North Car
olina have been various and tuctuatieg-he
has been always reelected.
Bones OF "BLooDED" IIoRsEs.-A Ken
lucky householder has discovered that the
the bones Of pure-blooGed horses are very
white and nearly Transparent t, while those OF
''scrub stock" are Opaque, and transmit no
more light than buffalo's horn. The bones
of thorough-breds are much heavier than the
others.
STEAM CARRIAGE.-A steam carriage made
its appearance in the streets of Manchester
near Pittsburg, recently 1t ran over the
streets like thing Of life, turning corne;,
and dodgng ruts. The driver ofan omnil u,
seeing innovation in this experiment, put whI
to his horses and tried to outrun the steam
carriage, but the latter left his coach so fal
behind, that the omnibus driver was laughed
at by the spectators. The steam carriage
went at the rate Of nine miles an hour, with
a pressure Of sixty pounds. The inventor is
John S. Hall.
BETTER TIMEs.-A New Orleans paper
says that times are every day growing bright
er in that city confidence is becoming more
general, and every department of business
veering round into its usual channel of thrift
All the banks are on their LEGS again, stand
as erect as ever, and New Orleans has the
honor of being the only large city in the
United States that has no suspended banks
A proud position truly.
THE NEGRO VoTE OF OHIo.-The Cleve
land Plain Dealer states the negro vote, cas-
in the recent election in Ohio to be estimate
at from 200 to 800. That we believe i
is also just about Chase's majority, SO that h
may be said to be elected 10y negroes.