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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-10

DOTOMAC LAND FOR SALE-iae g.
dersigned desires 10 sell TRACT Of
LAND, on the Waters OF Potomac CreeA 90
Stafford County, Va, containing Ten hIN.
DRED AND TWENTY ACRES. II borders %
the Creek (Which is navIgable) y miles, All }.
distant about one mile from the RcnmoDt
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad II,
soil is very productive in all the usual giaa
crops, but particularly adapted TO the growth O.
Tobacco and Grass, though ii is Of uneven SUI.
face.
There is on the land inexhaus,lble beds orr
finest she'll Mail. a large quantity OF HicsoH
Oak and Pine Wood may be- cut from he .aa
worth on the shore OF the creek from 'Ho %
tour dollars per cord Also, good deal o! e.
dar and Locust, Yellow Popular and Wn'eOs
Timber.
There isa meadow now yielding an age'sE
of $500 worth of Hay per annum, cou'dlI.aE
fourteen Acres OF land, which may be Incred''.
to fifty acres OF prime Meadow. Grass gro"'
well all over the Lard, which renders II 'a.li.
bic for grazing purposes. Indeed, it grale' a.
nually, about fifty head of cattle m the Moo"
Altogether II is a very valuable tract, bnl AT
disposed to sell il below IT'S value, as ! o".
another large farm adjoining 1t, and nave ro' .
sufficient force 10 manage both. uH'e Z.
sons disposed 10 purchase such property 70 ~.
anime II, or communicate vita me by letter D
Accokeek Post. Office, Stafford county Va.
JOHN MINOR W. j
Il
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-10

VALUABLE. REAL ESTATE Fox SAIL
Y IN PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY, VI
RYLAND.-The subscriber offers al Pn;'
sale, one OF his farms, called BEACH NIL
containing ONE HUNDRED AND TWIN ~
ACRES, OF which twenty acres are IN "o9d a.
twenty acres meadow land, and the Os.si''
prime soil, not only adapted TO the grown q.
every corp OF our climate, bat particularly s~'
bic for MARKET GARDEN. The sI'l4o-
is six miles from Washington City, dnl ~.
miles and half from Alexandria lae's or
r%Sfts OIL The Farm some OUT BUlLDlNHS' o..
ID fine spot TOR dwelling, ogeroos'hs ,
beautiful Valley, with picturesque scene!
The Farm is not mile from eItler the bps
palian, Methodist or Catholic C4ulcaes, @,.
from primary school. The nelghOo'noo' :
very thIckly settled, and OF uneXcepionaio,'s,
ciety. There is on the farm a bklCh NIL
which the subscriber would sell 10 the puIcH'','
at low rate, which would be great s1's-
tags to any person wishing TO build On the iala
Persons wishing to purchase will De 'Ho" .
the premises by the subscriber, or by non.
Grimes, esq, both living near the farm iof ''''
Terms liberal, and can be modified I" ''''
purchasers. Address ,.,r,
GUSTAVUS FINOl -
Washington City, care OF Thomas of'.''
feb 25--eoti
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-10

THOR SALE hhds Bacon Shos!de"
II S hhds. Bacon Sides, by oorSg
jos Main O0'
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25
Brief Reference.

THE Tehuantepec company have purchased tho
steamer Quaker City, which will commence run
ming on the other side about the LIST of October;
the Pacific Mail company have contracted to
carry their passengers on the Pacific side THE
first overland stage to Memphis left on Wednes-
day week; fare, 500, without board, which costs
so cents meal at the stations. Amour 400
Chinese had promiscuous fight In Yreka without
much serious result. A FELLOW was sent to tho
San Francisco chain-gang for stealing a canary
bird A CHILD in Mariposa fell into tub Of
hot water and died Of it,. THREE mules were
killed on the Sacramento railroad recently; the
locomotive cut the team in two. . Ir is said that
ten thousand square miles Of Washington terrific
ry are covered with perpetual snow. =. THE Pa
ciGc Methodist says the Chinese of San Francisco
have Temple in which they worship the Devil
IA TEAMsrER fell dead in the road near Oro-
vile, in an apoplectic fit. IIENNEssY, n vigi-
lance exile, sued certain of the Committee in
Sierra, but no jury could be had-every body,
nearly had made up his mind against complain
ant. AN old Don Of Los Angeles took his ten
sons to the election and made them vote straight
out Democrat. .Ir is said that 1900 persons
camo on the Sonora. CERTAIN Sacramento cit
liens design erecting monument to w. I. Fer
guson. A GERMAN, working alone near Mormon
Island, was crushed by bank, and it was discov-
cred that he remained long time alive with his
lower limbs crushed his cries were heard, but
were thought to be those OF drunken man. lie
was found dead in the morning, having beaten the
ground smooth with his hands, Mercury
THREE dead bodies have been found on the beach,
supposed to be those Of the men who perished
when the steamer Oregon struck the rocks Of
Point Reyes. THE son OF Mr.. Shaffer, of Shas-
ia, was run over by wagon and killed on Mon
day week.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

THE, PARTERRE'- Many of our interior ex
changes contain passages too beautiful and full
of matured thought to die in the narrow circle Of
place in which one or more of such may be re-
printed each week, and in which no extract of
inferior merit will be permitted to appear. This
sacred corner will be on the fourth page of the
JOURNAL, and is named THE PARTERRE'-a flow
r-garden of thought in which nothing but the
o0shoots of talent and genius will be transplanted.
Position there may be recognized as acknowledg-
ment of mert-no sckly plant or useless weed
will be there dscoverable. And this little flow-
er-bed of exalted mind will be assduously tended
until every intelligent reader turns to it with
certainty Of finding the sweetest flowers that are
gathered from among the rocks, and the most
grateful incense from mountain altars,
So proscriptve and churlish are the jealousies
of portion of the metropolitan press, that they
carefully exclude from their own columns every
thing that would put themselves in unfavorable
contrast-yet those atom-ike men are forced to
acknowledge that every week newspaper articles
are written in the mountains Of California which
they could not initiate, on pain Of eternal perdi-
tion. They will search, with lighted torches,
through and through q mountain paper for a
commonplace mining item, but would not reprint
the grandest sentence ever written, if there found
They can 90 better; they cut out, parody and
print in state Of unrecognizable emasculaton.
Excepting the San Francisco Herald, Hesperian,
Times, and Sacramento Mercury, we permit these
observations to have very general application.
And this is the reason why we try to give our
mountain contemporaries one more hearing.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

PooR STATESMAN ARIsTIDES.-In a magnificent
Grafton on the death OF Senator Ferguson, Col
Baker said
"There is more than one thing in his legiala
tive career which deserves notice, and not the
least is the manner of his death. He died poor
not poor in the common sense Of the term, but
poor as was ArStdes when he was buried at the
expense of the citizens Of Athens Amongst oil
his papers, there Is not found the trace of specu
lation. He had no property-no resources his
poverty, if remarkable, was honorable. In land
where corruption is said to be rife, the more espe-
cially in legislative bodies. and which, whether
the charge is true or false, is proverbaly liable
to corruptng Influences, it seems impossible to
suppose that he used the vast power he possessed
for aught except the pnblc interest and welfare
And this alone should be proud epitaph TO re-
cord upon his tombstone"
In the history of this man is exempliled how
contracted is the Wanted dominion of King
Gold in comparison with the vast realm Of Gen
us. Who but wilhered- visagcd Sbylock ever
asked how rich was Webster, Henry, or Grattan.
and who but igpobe penny searchers ever en-
quired the worldly circumstances OF the bril-
liant young man whose sun went down at noon d?
When rich man dies, undistinguished by in
telectual greatness, he is followed to the grave
by long train Of retainers, benefciaries, exec
utors and heirs and while the worms wrangle
among his dust, humans fight over his bequests,
and then the long gloom of impenetrable oblv-
ion obscures the record Of his life the brutes
that dragged his corpse away are as immortal
as his name. But when the man of genius ccas
es to live, though the winds that cool the forsa-
ken clay whistle through the shattered howell of
poverty, old men and children uncover their
heads when the rough coffin is lowered to the un-
der chamber of death other men of genius pro-
nounce imperishabe oratons over his remains,
and bright-eyed children, taught to reverence the
omnipotence of Godlike mind, speak low and
earnestly as they near the unsculptured monu-
ment Of him who, until death, had not where to
lay his head on earth.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

DIGNITY OF OFFICIAL SrATIoN-The Shasta
Courier reproves numerous persons for censuring
Gov. Weller's act Of writing an electioneering
letter in the last campaign. The Courier is aware
that we do not delight in denouncing all persons
in office, at all times and under all circumstan-
ces, and we can, therefore, argue an abstract
principle without Incorporate language, or in
any considerable degree rejecting on Gov. We'll
er's official conduct, which, we have asserted, is
almost blameless
We maintain that no holder of office of any
considerable honor or profit should interfere or
take an active part in canvass in which he is
not personally concerned. Opposite conduct does
not necessarily involve official depravity, but it
is indecorous, impertinent and pernicious to the
purity of election. We reject the suggestion
made by some ultrareformer, that public officers,
State or Federal, should be disfranchised during
their official term, but we think that decent esti-
mate for the dignity with which they have been
invested should repel their hands from the ma
chinery of common elecioneering Governor
of n State should recognize no political divisions
in his administration; he is the chosen officer Of
the whole people and should not use his increased
influence to the detriment of the governed. Such
is a principle OF American Democracy that when
a majority elect an officer the minority yield un-
complaining obedience, and as in conventions, by
silent acquescence declare his election unani-
nous. 1t is wrong, then, and unfair, for that per-
son invested with the dignity of State, to throw
his increased weight in the balances in which
another candidate is being weighed. The minori-
ty, who are party to the contract by which he
is bound to perform certain Offices for fixed
sum, do not agree that he may employ hours in
the intervals of business in thwarting their
design in the employment of other servants
required to perfect the governmental economy.
In what estimation would rejecting men hold
Mr.. Buchanan If he should address an extra OIL
cal, political letter to any body of citizens who
might desire his great personal influence for the
advancement of their particular faction Would
not such act be censured as a declination from
official decorum? The Governor of each State
bears nearly the same relation to it's people that
the President does to the Union, aud the dignity
of his demcanor should be proportionately ex-
altcd.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

THE SENATE PREsIDENCY.-W We are induced, by
admiration for good man and consistent Dem
crat, to suggest the election of JOHN G, BuRCH
to temporary Presidency of the Senate, of which
he is second year member. Mr.. Burch is most
consistent national Democrat, and during time
when popular opinion in his own district seemed
overwhelmingly averse to Administrative policy,
he stood firm and inlexible in support of Mr. Bu-
chanan. No individual can point to a single in
stance of Burch's inconsistency of political con
duct no inquistion for defect can discover
faltering step of straightforward, honorable,
and independently thinking representative of a
free people. No citizen of this State is more es
teemed by the people he lives among; no one
abroad more creditably represents the people who
have honorcd him by election to distinguished
place no one is characterized by greater pru-
dence of conduct, decorum of speech, unpresum.
ing merit, and soldity of judgment, than our
neighbor, whom we recommend to the high con.
sidcraton of his fellow legislators
We have an admiration for quiet, mertorous
citizen whose inhexbity of principle is superior
to popular clamor we admire the strong man,
who conscious OF personal integrity and patriot
ism of intent, will walk with immutable step the
solitary way of conscience. Anybody can be a
demagogue and hurrah with the multitude, but
it requires the courage of manhood to breast the
tide of popular opinion and strangIc error in the
incoming waves. And wherever we discover this
uncbangableness of principle, we are ready to
assist in lifting the person to higher and more
honorable point of observation.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

THE Sacramento Mercury exhibits a surprising
degree of editorial industry and typographical
good the first the work of LoNG and MoNr.
GoMERY, and an excellent reporter, the last that
of Henry A. APPLETON, one of the best master
workmen in the country. The Mercury is the best
Sacramento paper, and if the State Democracy
don't support it as they should they don't deserve
agood paper Democrats, be admonshed OF these
truths, and pay for and read the Mercury.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

COMPARISON SuPERLATIvE.-The San Andreas
Independent contrasting the San Francisco and
country press, says: The boisterous, bullying
character of the former is far from the charac-
ter of man of intellectual refinement, as the
business of scavenger is from that of an as
trnnnmnri
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

THE TRINITY JOURNAL says the Democracy
have made clean sweep all over the State.'-
Then Sskiyou must be in Oregon Chronicle
Cuss that inebriating old schoolmaster Why
didn't he fog us into a better knowledge Of ge-
ography, and not have a-body exposin' of body S
ignorance that away Il?
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

WE take this occasion to express obligation to
Mr.. Robert Strickland, agent for the California
Stage company, at Shasta, for the great care he
has taken to forward the JOURNAL to places which
it could not otherwise reach, in reasonable time
nor have we forgotten his kindness last winter.
No agent for that useful company contributes
more to their interest by afIability and attention
to strangers.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25
UNDER THE OLIVES. :
BY FRANK B.

Amiguito Where's your lover'
Time it is he should be here,
Has he proven gay rover
Or q faithless cavalier.
Some young Donna's new 'servients'
Frisking-fitting, shawl and fan.
Love will rove at one and twenty
Fickle, false and perjured man.
Amiga my eyes are brighter
Blacker--and as soft as thine.
Few in the Bolero, lighter,
Trip with graces like to mine.
All Of Cadz knows my beauty.
All to song my praises lend
Not to speak of honor-duty!
Think you am jealous friend I
"Where were you on last Good Friday'
Carmen Manuela l.
Were at mass-was 'Don Querda =
Did you pray when he was by'
With our shows you re not acquainted.
When the bull gored Popcs horse
Amiga they say you tainted
In his arms? Car-r.ah of course.
where's your lovcr' Amiguita!
Whittier can the truant stay!
See the daylight's growing heetcr.
See the twilght's coming gray.
Fatal are the mountain passes,
There's cross at every league.
Souls are lost there spite of masses,
Deeds Of murder and intrigue
"Amiguta look for evening!
Look for stars that twinkle dim
Look for dawning, look for morning.
Look for day-but not for him.
Loves brief day is gone and over
Strange that no tears can she'd
For an erring, wayward lover:
Hate survires though Lore is deadi
UNIoNTowN, Humboldt Co., Sept 1858.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

LITTLE DoTNGs or LITTLE MANI am a very
little man, and have n little wife, little boy and
little girl, the blessings of my life. In very
little cot live with very little state but little
tho my household be, my happiness is great. Pm
little older than my wife who's little more than
twenty, and tho but little wealth we have, con-
tent makes little plenty. Unto the bounteous
Lod of all our daily thanks express, how peace
fully we pass our lives in happy litteness.- Sac.
Mercury.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.--W Who can write or speak
language commensurate or equal to the su bject.
The slender thread of wire quietly resting on the
bottom Of the ocean, where the waters are still,
far beneath the angry waves that lash proud ma
vies into fragments, is itself the silent orator Of
the age Shasta Republican.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

ORACLEs OF THE HEARTH-SToNE.-The youth
of Athens consulted once in lifetime the oracle
of Dephos; the true believer in the Prophet
makes at least one pilgrimage in his life to the
holy city of Mecca; but the oracles of these hum
BILE, unassuming country editors are consulted by
the people of California, daily and weekly.--San
1ndyeas IqdeDendent.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

BuXGAY of the Central Independence, in a
defence Of hoops speaks of them as among the
things that we first loathe, then pity, then en-
brace.-AlJany Statesman.
A man in these parts would have to be furnished
with arms about six feet long to perform such an
operation-LouisvilLeJ Journal.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

THE Rev. Mr.. Kaloch, who was dismissed from
the pastorshp Of fashionable church in Boston
for adultery, has received and accepted nearly
unanimous invitation to return. The church lan-
guished sadly in his absence. nearly all OF the
women abandoned it.-LOuspiUe Journal.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

OLD Mrs. Beeswax, of Weaverville, has heard
scandalous story about the late intimacy OF
Victoria and Mr. Buchanan. She thinks old Buck
ought to be ashamed Of hisself to be Il jew lar
kin with that English person when there are SC
many nice, ageabe wdders.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

PROFESSOR WEBSTER, of the Scott Valley Bo-
vine Institute, (butcher-sbop,) has been lectur-
ing on political economy An Irishman, hearing
the lecture, remarked
sAn' be Jasus it'll be haard for him to make
the miners b'lave all that till he drives better
bafe on the river = Yreta Union.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

CASoN CREEK.-Our correspondent, Il. O.,
says he didn't go to Frazer river, but did go up
the fume.' Miners are doing well working the
creek bed, but they haven't enough of water-so
low is the stream
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

We have to thank Mr.. A. NJ Kruttschnitt for a
keg of the purest Lager Bier-there is none made
better. We are grateful for the present,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

SET 'EM UP 1.-Two ten-pin rollers quarreled
the other day. and one knocked the other on the
head with a ball-and fight ensued.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

Hs- A tear, the Hesperian says, is the concen-
trated extract of agony, distilled from bitter ex-
perence and the wreck of hope.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25
WEAVE RVILLE:
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25, IS5S
A. II. MURDOCH

Is the authorized Agent of the TRINITY JOUR-
NAL for Uniontown and Eureka, Humboldt Bay
Subscriptions and advertisements received.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

The ALLEGHANIAN' vocalists expect to be here
about the lst of October. Their performances
are approvingly spoken os 5y all newspapers
where they have been.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

CoMPENsArIoN.-The Brandon (Miss.) Republi-
can prints an article of ours without credit, and
credits us with one not ours
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

FELL AMONG THIEyEs-We are grateful to the
National Democrat and Red Bluff Beacon for res
cuing our Fallen Monarch who fell among
thieves. Guess the thief will let i'm drap.'
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

WORRYING A DEAD LIoN.-In its first issue af-
ter Ferguson's death, the Sacramento Union
could mt refrain from sticking few editorial pins
in the remains of an ancient enemy, intimating
that sundcr other circumstances the deceased
might have been great, &c. and in every refer
ence to him making note of his moral infirmity.
Demonstrations of war in a graveyard saving at
midnight when ghosts are said to be abroad, are
not the most conclusive evidences of vaor. The
Unions ill.concealed malevolence towards n
dead foe does not increase the slight estimation
in which we hold the principle of that paper
great many persons with no prominent virtue
or distinguishing talent indulge in that tortured
lamentation, it's pity he drinks without con-
viction that abstinence from that particular vice
will not make themselves the equals Of the men
of genius whose infrmites they deplorc. What
if he does drink, ard drinking, ascendsheyond the
hail of the commonplace pretenders who would
have him damned for one sin Are there not
other vices of which public men are sometimes
guilty, and which are not enumerated while their
graves are being prepared Do we ever hear in
funeral drges that deceased was dishonest, a de-
faulter, profigate, liar, blasphemer, fire.
quenter of harlots' houses Why then should
the crime of intemperance alone, be engraved
on q tombstone and underscorcd in the biogra-
ply of great men Why could not Ferguson's
obituary be written, narrating his professional
and official character, without particularizing
what concerns not the public If some thought
less person should send that paper home to his
old mother, what sobs of agony it would wiring
from a heart laboriously pulsating under the
weight of many years She would heed no re-
cital of her dead sons intellectual fame, but
would wiring her wthered hands that he had for
gotten the prayer which his mother taught him.
There is an inconsistency, a cruelty, baseness
in thus illustrating the penalty of sin by dead
statuary which every thoughtful and humane
person must despise.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

IF Victoria's message to the New World be a
fair sample of her Majesty's ideality and compo-
sition, we are not surprised at her harmless pop
ularty; she is DEAR good old Royal Aunty,
who will not be guilty of international arson.
Old Bucks reply has somewhat of the Fourth of
July in it, with few flaps Of the American eagle.
Neither are to be admired.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

MEMORY's BELLs.-Rng on, memory BELLS ring
on find an echo in every heart for few indeed
they be who have no Holy Memories Of home,
and friends, and childhood's hours.-Hesper:an.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25

A SPECIAL election for Constable is ordered in
Canon Creek township on the Let Of October.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-09-25
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