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Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-13
NO. II.

Priest, who can apply to them theIndulpences
OF st, Bridget gain every time they saw the
FIVE DECADES, one hundred days induleence
Tor the Greed, for each our Father, and eacl,
Hall Mary. To gain those indulgences q e
necessary tomedtate on themysteries of Rosary.
Ihose soho cannot mediate, IL su6iceth 10 san
me Beads deooutly. Decree of the Coqgrs
CATION Of Indulgence, 1880
NO. y. as often as you repeat the folLosoing
Aspirations, you gain 800 days indulgence
each time. Plus VIZ
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, offer you nv heart
and SOUL 4,
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, assist me inmy st
agony:
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, may breathe forth
my soul in peace with you?
No. 4. TO all who say three our Fathers. and
three Hail Marys in Honor of the Passion, e
Jesus, and the sorrows of the Blessed Virgin,
gain 300 days indulgence each time. Plus VII.
AH the qtoresaid Indulgences are applica6le
to the souls in Pvyatory!
VINO is there, that on seeing their friend fall
INTO merry furnace would not at least reach a
helping hand to rescue him. Perhaps be-
.ioved mother, husband, or spouse, &c, are call
Q "isAA Wy heliO tIOuDle,
lst. by HEARING MASS OR RECEIVING HoIy
COMMUNION FOR THEM
I'd. BY gicing aims to the poor, or puttino
1t into the poor-bor. for them.
ID. By SAYING SOME INDULGENcEp PRAYERS
FOR THEM.
See Indugencies No. i, 2, 8,4)
4th. By Offering to God oar daily labor
for them.
9th. By JOINING THE PURGAToRIAN Society.
For the love of Jesus, do some of these actions
daily, for the relief of the souls in Purgatory.
II no higher motive, selfinterest should at
least influence us to assist the souls in Purga-
tory, that we may have them for intercesso,s
in Heaven. hold for certain, says st. Liguori,
that soul which has been released from Pur.
gatory by your prayers, will, when entered in
Paradise, say to God: 80, Lord, do not suffer
that soul TO be lost, who has released me from
Purgatory, and fastened for me the enjoyment
OF thy glory sooner than deserved" est.
Liguori Novena for the souls in Purgatory.l
Let the members be epunctual in making their
little c6ering Of Fifty Cents gear and Mere
DiA be a succession Of perpetual daily Masses
celebrated for the relict' Of the souls in Purga-
tory. Thus, with our mite we shall emulate
those noble endowments of our Catholic Fore
fathers for similar purpose.
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THE SONG OF THE SHIRT.

BY THOMAS HOOD.
z WITH fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat- in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread
Stich! stichl stichl
In poverty, hunger, and dirt
And still with voice Of dolorous pitch,
She sang the song of the Shirt:
"Work work work
While the cock is growing aloof!
And work wordsworth
Till the stars shines through the roof
Its oh to be slave
Along with the barbarous Turk,
Where woman has never a soul to save
IfrHIs is Christian work
! "Work-work- work!
Till the brain begins to swim;
Work-work
Till the eyes are heavy and diml
Seam, and gusset, and band,
Band, and gusset, and seam,
Till over the buttons ! fall asleep,
And sew them on in my dreami
oh men with sisters dear
Oh men with mothers and wives I!
It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures lives!
stitch-stitch
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
Sewing at once with double thread
A sHRouD as well as a shirt!
But why do talk of death,
That phantom of grisly bone;
hardly fear his terrible shape,
It seems so like my own
Itseems SO like my own,
Because of the fast keep:
Oh God that bread should be 30 dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
"Work-work-workl
My labour never flags;
And what are its wages, A bed Of straw,
crust of bread-and rags
A shattered roof-and this naked floor
A table-a broken chair
And wall SO blank my shadow thank
For sometimes falling there!
"Work-work-w
From weary chime to chime;
Work wordsworth
As prisoners work, for crime!
Band, and gusset, and seam,
Seam and gusset and band,
Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed
As well as the weary hand!
"Work-work-work
In the.dull December light;
And work-work-
When the weather is warm and bright:
While underneath the caves
The broodng swallows cling,
AS if to show me their sunny backs,
And twit me with the Spring.
"0h but to breathe the breath
ofthe cowslip and primrose sweet;
With the sky above my head,
And the grass beneath my feet:
For only one short hour
To feel as used to feel,
Before knew the woes of want
And the walk that costs meal
"0h but for one short hour!
A respite, however briefl
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief
little weeping would ease my heart
But in their briny bed
Ny tears must stop, for every drop
flinders needle and thread"
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread
Stitch-s -stitch-stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt;
And still with voice of dolorous pitch
Would that its tone could reach the rich -
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Coon TASTE IN DREss--A young lady in
one Of the leading circles at Washington, was
complementary gentleman on the simplicity
and good taste Of her dress, at an evening party.
She replied:
81 am glad you like my dress; II cost Just
eleven dollars, and made every stitch OF 1t
myself"
When young ladies pride themselves upon
the home manufacture and cheapness Of their
attire, instead of the expensiveness and foreign
importation. we shall have fewer "broken'
fathers and husbands.--N. Y. Mirror.
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RULE 1.


A member contributing FIFTY CENTS YEAR,
shall be entitled to the following benefits, viz
Two Masses each month shall be offered for the
grace Of happy death Of all the members md
on the death Of member, the first EIGHT
MASSES that are sad for the Society shall be
offered for the repose of the soul of the last
deceased. By forming this intention, all Of
the members are equally pr0pided for at death,
though housands Of miles distant.
RULE H.
Persons admitted as members in their last
illness, shall be admitted only to the General
benefits, which extend to the deceased mem
bers and friends Of members; also, TO the most
desolate souls in Purgatory.
"1he matyrs' dark prisons, chains, and tor
lures, the roasting alive on gridirons, &c, were
refreshing when compared to the pains suffered
by the souls in Purgatory." Such is the Ian
guage of St. Augutine and St Gregory. The
angelic St Thomas goes ther, and says
"their torments exceed that of our Blessed Lord
in his Passion" ExEcUToRs and others who
are charged with the responsibility Of having
Masses said for the dead, will have dreadful
account to render to God, if by their neglect
those poor souls are detained in the fiery furnace
Of Purgatory.
dHe SIeaC uoctor, oI oeTome, uoeS not ncSl-
tate to affirm, that the souls which are tortured
in Purgatory, for which tho Priest is wont to
pray in the Mass, while the sacrifice is cele-
brated, feels no pain. ID, Thom. Opusc. 21,
alter 90 do sac. alt. O. 25)
Next to the Holy Mass, Indulgenccs afford
the grestest relief to the souls in Purgatory.
OF the many indulgenced devo;ions the follow.
ing have been selected as most richly endowed
with those Celestial treasures, as the Coun-
Gil Of Trent calls them.
No. /. The Stations Of the Gross, is the
greatest of all indulgenced deyotions. Many
souls may be released from Purgatory each
time we practice this simple devotion whom
otherwise might have to suffer for years in
this prison of woe.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29
Tho Ere at Nexndn

Extras from Nevada and the Sacramento
papers have fully informed our citizens of
the particulars of the terrible calamity which
hss again befallen Our IIeighbors at Nevada
City. Most sincerely do we sympathise
with them in their misfortune. The total
4oSs is estimated at about $780, 900, which
falls chiefly upon men of small means-those
who were unable to provide for security
from fire by brick walls. Great, however,
as has been the calamity, we are pleased to
learn from the Nevada papers, and from all
Whom we have seen from that place, that the
flre has produced no destftution, and that
no actual suffering exists there, such as
! should call for pecuniary aid. Coming, as
it has, SO closely upon their previous calam-
ity, and at time when there is such gen.
eTal depression in business, there is not SO
much activity in rebuilding as would have
been evinced under other circumstances
Still many have already commenced to build,
and many who possess the means are making
preparation to rebuild with brick. The com
plete safety which has attended brick build
ings at this fire has inspired much more
confidence in the security of such buildings
than has heretofore obtained. Not a single
brick building was burned. Nearly all the
merchandise in town was saved, either in
neighboring bricks, or by being carried to
places of security. The Journal thinks the
total loss of merchandise will not exceed the
sum Of $10,000-a loss inconsiderable, in
deed, when we take into account the extent
of The fire. The Journal contains list oi
sixty sufferers, the heaviest of whom is Mr.,
Frisbie, proprietor Of the Theater and the
adjoining hotel. Their loss.is set down at
$4,000. The next greatest sufferer is Mr..
J. G. Abbott, $4,000 only five others reach
the amount of $4,000, and thirty y-five range
from $4,000 to 81 1000; the balance, nine
teen in all, range from $500 to $500.
The fire, undoubtedly, arose from careless
ness in opium smoking in China washhouse.
The Court House and all the Churches were
saved.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29

~ We understand that the Ranchmen
along Bear River, have concluded to wait
a little longer yet, for the arrival of Col.
Henly, before they commence >any active
demonstrations against the fhdians. We
perceive that the inhabitants Of theN upper
Sacramento Valley are annoyed >in precisly
the same manner that our people,are here,
and that meeting of parties Interested has
been called and measures taken for a forci-
BILE election Of the Indians Hence Col Hen
ley's visit there. He will return, this way
immediately after he has affected the object Of
his visit there.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29

FATAL ACCIDENT.-Last evening about
sundown, son of Mr.. Hayes who keeps a
House on the Auburn road, about six miles
from this place, was thrown from horse in
such manner that his foot caught in the
stirup, by which he was dragged some dis
tance, injuring him SO severely that ne died
almost Immediately, He was about 16 years
old.
A party was assembling at the house for
Ball at the time, and young Hays, had
been sent to a neighboring house for some
side lamps, and was returning when the sad
accident took place. 1t is supposed that the
horse became frightend and unmangable
from the rattling of the lamps, as he rode.
DR.. Cleveland was promptly called, but the
lad was dead before be arrived. The fes-
tivites of the evening, were of course
brought to an abrupt termination, anu tne
house of mirth and joy was turned to one
of sadness and mourning.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29

ondary character, such as carbonates, phos-
pilates and molly bdates. The character of
tbe quartz is also peculiar where lead is
abundant, and by its younger quartz, with
fpseudomorphous capitalization, often in
dicates the original presence of spars.
Very closely connected with this subject
is the fact, that minerals of the same kind
from different localities, are distinguished
by peculiar physiognomic features. This is
matter well known to all who have had
their attention called to minerals. Thus
geld ores, copper pyrites, and even gossans
aandfeven quartz from different mines, can
be very correctly placed according to their
origin, by one who has once accurately no.
ticed their character. AS matter of course
experience in this matter is of great imp3r-
stance, in pvssing judgment in analogous
4cases."
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29
Stage Fnre RxtortiaS.

The California Stage company, stiIl con-
tinue to extort from the Public upwards oi
twenty cents per mile, from Folsom to New.
ada one of their stages arrived here on
Wednesday and Thursday, with seventeen
passengers whose aggregate fare would
amount to one hundred and seventy dollars
why do people submit to such gross impo-
sition ?-why do they not hire carriages, or
light wagons from the stables, by which
they might save money why do not the
Hotel Keepers, who are deeply injured by
this combination, get up " extras " for char
ter A little concert of action among the
Hotel and Stable, keepers would soon bring
that misnamed California u company to
their senses-are the People of our state
to be forever the victims of such combi-
nation.
If man chose to walk he mer ely risks
his money. If he rides, his money is taken,
and bis neck is endangered from his body be-
ing perched upon the top of a stage. @.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29

STIRRING EP THE "MUD-SnLs." - The
speech of Senator Hammond, the Great South
Carolina Exquisite, has served pretty effect
ually to stir up the "Mud- Stills all over
the Union. When man, and that man
claiming to be Democrat, can be found
who will rise in his seat in the United States
Se2ate and use such language with regard
to labor and laborers, as that senator did in
his late speech, it is indeed time that the
people should look about them and see to
whom they have entrusted the keeping of
their liberties. It is we'll that the country
should resound from one end to the other,
with dennneiatiens upon such men and such
doctrines. Asyet but one paper in the labor
ennobling State of California has been found
to stand up and openly defend such insulting
sentiments-that paper is the organ, par &C.
ceIlence, of James Buchanan, in this State
and the Congressional official paper Of Cali.
forRia The real Democracy of the State
repudiates with scorn and indignation, such
men and such papers.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29
DnratiOn of Fruit Trees-HnteresIing
10 AgrfcuIturaIisfs.

"A writer IN the Lynn (Mass.) .NeaOs-B.
F. Newell, Of Saugus, calls attention to some
curious facts with regard to the duration of
fruit trees, from which he deduces the fol-
lowing argument -
Every tree springing fromm seed, has its
own period of life, and, when it dies, there
will be no one like it again that is, an ex-
act counterpart. This is why we see such
an almost endless variety of fruits, and why
this variety is constantly multiplying, as
we'll as improving in quality. No two ap-
pie trees, pear trees, or fruit trees of any
kind, springing from the seed, ever bore ap-
pies, pears, or fruit, of exactly the same
size, shape, color, taste, or odor, and never
will. True, there will be in many cases an
approximation, but never an exact likeness,
or counterpart. This truth holds good also
in regard to all the wild fruits and berries.
Science and art may inoculate and en-
graft one tree into another, and thus pro-
duce countless number of trees bearing
the same fruit but, in doing this, they have
only spread out, and rendered broader and
longer, the original tree. They have not
made q new creation. The fruit Of the en-
grated tree is the fruit of the original tree,
and the length of life of the engrafted or
inoculated branch is only the length of life
of the original tree from which it is taken.--
Whenever the fruit declines in quality on
the original tree, it will decline the same on
every engrafted branch; and whenever the
original tree dies, in the order of nature,
every engrafted branch, however remote,
will die also.
AS an Illustration of these views, he cites
The case of the Baldwin apple. The Baldwin
tree which sprang from seed, is still living.
1t must now be tree advanced il years and
cannot, In the course OF nature. last much
longer Suppose that one hundred and fifty
years be its whole life, it has, then passed
the meridian, so to speak, and must soon
decay. When it begins to decay, and the
quality of its fruit to deteriorate; the same
fact will be witnessed on all its engraftcd
branches in all parts of the country which
will die also"
From the above premises, Mr.. Newhall
argues that it is unwise to graft or bud
from the Baldwin, from the fact that that
fruit has run nearly its appointed time and
however young and vigorous may be the
stock where bud is inserted, when tie fruit
upon the parent tree begins to deteriorate
at the same time the appearance of decline
will be present in the fruit of all the multi
piled buildings, wherever they may have
been scattered.
The correctness Of Mr. Newbails theory
is doubted by many; still it presents ihat-
ter for curious and interesting enquiry;
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29
The Tea Plant.

we learn from an Atlantic agricultural
journal that Mr.. Robert Fortune has recent
y Deen cent by the Patent Office to China
.of 'ne purpose Of collecting the seeds Of the
'e@-Snroo and of other plants and is in
s1rueted to return with them to the United
States in March, 1853, when he will make
choice of localities for their cnltivation -
Investigations are now being made bv the
Patent Office, in connection with the Smith.
sonian Institute, for determining tho .o;,
and climate of those regions of the United
States best adapted to the culture of this
plant, as compared with similar conditions
in China, the results of which will be made
known in the next Agricultural Report. 1t
has already been ascertained that many por
tionS of the United States, in respect to soil
and climate, are we'll suited to the cultiva-
ton of tea, and that, with improved apara-
tus and other appliances of American skill.
the leaves can be manipulated or otherwise
converted into tea at an expense less than
the actual cost of similar preparations in
China, even with the low-priced labor of the
Asiatics.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29
Ncw Qunrtz MEncIiincrx:

The Maraposa Gazette notices model
for quartz mill at that place by Mr. Bruce,
Its constructor, which appears to possess i'm
portant advantages in its action ana In the
amalgamating process. It is cyndrical in
form, and the stamps are on the outer edge.
The interior being hollow, the battery dis
charges upon the inside as we'll as outside.
This increases facility for discharge, obvi-
ates one great difficulty now existing in ma
ny mills. An5ther feature of the mill is,
the bed retolvca. First there is a perma-
nent bed, in which is fixed friction rollers.
The second bed rests Upon these, and is
turned by means of gearing upon the outside:
Cams are SO arranged that the revolving Of
this lower bed lifts the stamps. The ANAL
gamators are upon the inner and outer cir
cles and the revolution of the mill will ope-
rate in amalgamating similarly to an aras-
ira. The machinery is very simple, and
doubtless will be found efficient
It is the invention OF Mr.: Goodman, of
Goodman, Diltz & Co., well known as prac-
tical quartz miners, and who have contribu-
ted much to the improvement of quartz ma
chinery and the development of quartz in
terests in this county. An application for a
patent has been made, and the model sh5wn
is to go on to Washington by tie next
steamer.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29

A Lone LIVED SPARK.-The Napa Report
er notices the following curions phenome-
non: 60 The other day common spirit lamp,
with cotton wick. was lighted in the store
of Messrs. M'Niel & Walker, and extinguish-
ed. as was supposed, a few moments after
Several days afterwards the wick was found
to be still ignited There was but single
spark of fire, but enough, if it had come in
contact with combustibles, to cause heavy
damage. May not this phenomenon account
for some fires which have occurred, and for
which Mt cause could be assigned? Wehave
never observed or heard of such a circum-
stance before, and therefore mention it.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29
The Ixes Expedition.

The news of the success of Lieutenant
Ives is fully confirmed. The party reached
a point $40 miles up the river. This y
says the San Diego Herald, is two hun
dred miles above the place reached by the
private vessel sent up short time ago
The party having landed, proceeded by land
up the river, and when last heard from were
about six hundred miles above the Fort
At that point they would turn southwark
and expected to arrive at the Pimo villages
the 10Th of May. From their distance above
the mouth of the Gila, they must have
steamed to the neighborhood of Green river
This, by reference to the map, will be found
to be aboat six hundred miles from the
highest point yet reached by steamboats, on
the Arkansas river. Thus reducing the dis
tance between the navigable waters of the
Pacific and Atlantic oceans to mere span
This is very important. 1t will speedily re-
veal the resources Of the valley of this great
river of the West, it opens way of exit by
steam navigation, to the produce of the ter
ritory of Utah, and just now it may be Of
great practical advantage in military
point of view. The steamer brought down
quantities of ores of gold, silver, copper,
and other metals, map of the country ex'
plored, and various official reports for the
Secretary of War.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29

CAPTURED.-The Nevada Journal states
that "Dick Woods" one Of the notorious
Webster gang, who was supposed to have
been killed by falling into shaft at the
time of his escape from the Nevada Jail, in
1856, was re-captured few days since, near
Greenhorn Crossing, by deputy sheriff Van
Hagan, of Nevada. Woods has been for
some time prowling around this place, and
very probably With several others, recently
arrested and now in Jail, has been one of the
gang of thieves which has for so long time
infested our town with their midnight TO-
rays, which finally eliminated in their sue
cessful attack upon the Nevada stage.
Whether this surmise is true or not, it is
certain that since these arrests not single
attempt at house breaking has been made in
Grass valley.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29

A NATION ATPRAYER.-A gentleman from
Ohio lately stated that, by adding his per-
sonal observations to those of a friend, he
could say that from Omaha City, Nebraska,
20 Washington, there was continued line
of prayer-meetings along the whole length oil
the road so that wherever a Christian
traveller stopped to spend the evening, be
could find crowded prayer-meeting across
the entire breadth of our vast Republic
There is great revival Throughout Canada,
and at Quebec the most intense religious
interest is felt.
Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-29

Mr.. S. G. GooDRIcH, so widely and we'll
known as Peter Farley, is now engaged on
work which promises to be one of unusual
interest and Importance. 1t is synopsis of
natural history, treating of the various top
les within the range Of that science at sufi-
cient length and with sufficient care to en-
sure the work character for accuracy
including all the recent discoveries which
have effected in many instances so great a
change in tie condition of natural history.