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Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

Artcnus Wards Opinion of Patti.

"Artemus Ward" gives us his impressions Of
the beautiful Patti in rather original critcim,
which we give below The great Snowman says:
The moosic which line most use to is the
nspirn strains of the organ. | hire artistic
Itaivun to grind for me, payin him his vittles 4
close, & spose it was them stranes which first put
mooscal taste into me. Like all furrners he
has seen better dase, having formerly been
Kount But he aint of much akount now except
to turn the organ and drink Beer, of which
bevrige he can hold n churnful easy. Miss Patty
is smawl FOR her size, but, as the man scd about
his wife. 0, Lord She is we'll blt, and her
complcxshun is what mite be called Broonctty.
Her ise is dark bay, the lashes being long
silky. When she smiles the awjince feels like
aXing her to do it sum moor, and to contlnner
don it indcnct extent. Her waste is OF the
most bootiful wastes ever seed when MI
Strackhorse led her out | thawt sumo pretty
skool gal, who had jest graduated from pantalets
* wire hoops, was II comm out to read her iust
compcrsshun in public. She cum out so bashlul
like, with her he'd bowed down, made such
effort to arrange her lips so they'd look pretty,
that wanted to swaller her. She reminded me
of Susan Skinner, who'd never kiss the boys at
parin bcens till the candles was blowd out.
Miss Patty sung sumthin or other in iurrln
tung | don't know what the sentimunts was.
Fur awt know she may have bin denonncin my
wax fggers Il sagacious wild becsts OF Pray "
don't much kccr if she did. When she opened
her mowth a army of nghtingales, boboinks,
kanarys, swallers, mockn birds, ctscttery burst
lth and flew all over the Haul.
Go il, little, seq | to myself, to a hily existed
frame of mind, ~ if that kount or royal duke
which you'll be pretty apt to marry | of these
dasc don't do the fair thing by yc yu kin always
have a home ON A. Wards farm, near Baldns-
Vile, Inianny. When she sung Cumin threw the
Rye u spoke of that Swayne she decry luyed
herself individooy didn't wish | was that air
Swaync. No, / CESS not. Oh certainly not
[That's ironcall Now that Maria Picklehomtny
has got married. (which | hopes she likes III
and left the perreshun, Adelny Patty is the
champoness of the opcry ring. She korrles the
Belt. There's no draw fight about It, Other
primy donnys may as we'll throw up the spunje
lst as last. My eyes don't deceive my ear site
in this matter. But Miss Patty orter sing in the
English tung As she kin do so as we'll as she
kin in llalyun why under the Son don't she do it ?
What cents is there in singing words nobody
don't undcrstan when wurds we do undcrstan Is
jest as handy. Why people will verslcrously
applaud furrin langwidso is mystery. 1t re-
minds me of man | once knew. He sed he
knockt the bottum out of his pork barril, e the
pork fell out, bat the brine lidn'l move a inch.
IL stade in the barril. lie sed this was mistcry,
but it wasn't mstcror than this thing Inc
spcakin Of.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

FoREIGN INTEIIIGENCE.-The San Francisco
Gazette amt Telegram has the following by "spe-
cial stool pigeon express" 1t is evidently nten-
ded as a burlesque on the wordy-very often
trashy-telegraph announcements:
The parting interview between the Queen and
Prince of Wales, was very affecting The royal
mother warned the youth not to make to free
with pretty young women in the United States,
limiting to him that if he did, the Sickle of death
might cut him of in the first verdure of his days.
She hoped this Key to the manners of the people
would be u rein upon his indiscretion
Prince Alfred shed tears, and remarked that
he'd be very careful.
Her Majesty then, with some embarrassment,
asked the Prince whether he had made any pro-
vision for Lady - -- --.
The Prince replied with painful levity, and be-
gan whistng " The girl left behind me- He
kissed his mothers hand and retired.
As he went out Prince Albert remarked,
oven have trouble with that brat yeti"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

In RELATION TO MUssEs.--Wc have been asked
by correspondent for the reason why we do not
report all muses." which take place in the
county. He says he likes to read about muss-
es." We will give him three reasons Flrst,
"musscs" are not, in many cases, Indications OF
healhful and beautiful state of civilization,
and published reports of them are not pleasant
in the eyes OF the moral and refined, class which
is vastly in the majority throughout this county
Second, we believe in the great doctrine of letting
them muss it out among hemselves-non-inter
vention forever! Third, we haven't mussng
reporter every such newspoperite is employed
upon the "high-moral tone press Of the cities.
-Amador Ledger.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

HONE. 49, Genius has its triumphs, fame its
gories, wealth its splendors, success its bright
reward, but the heart only has its home. Home
only What more needeth the heart? What
more can it gain? A true home is more than
the world-more than honor, and pride and for
tune-more than all the earth can give-the
light the MONDAY sun may not yield, and yet
the tiny flame Of one pure beam of love enkn-
dleth and sympathy makes to burn forever
Wash Wriah
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

LOOK UP.-A young man once picked mp n
piece of gold lying in the mud. Ever after
wards, as he walked along the road, he kept
his eyes steadlasty fixed on the ground, in the
hope of finding another And in the course of II
long life he did pick up at different times, II
good sum of gold aud silver But all these days
as he was looking for them, he saw not that
heaven was bright above him, and nature beau
tful around. lie never once allowed his eyes to
look up from the muddy filth in which he sought
the treasure and, when he died, a rich old man,
he only knew this fair earth of ours as a dirty
road to pick up money as you walk along.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

one hundred and seven citizens of San Francisco,
Placer, Nevada, Tulare, Santa Cruz, Alameda,
Napa Solano and Sacramento counties, appeared
in the Sacramento Union Of the 10th, requesting
representation from each county in the State at
Union convention to nominate Bell and Everett
electors. The convention will be held On We'd
nesday, the 5th day of September.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

ANOTHER MOUNT EcLRsE."-The Amador
Ledger relates that a party of Jacksonians went
to the summit OF what was known as Polo's Peak,
situated between Jackson and Mokelumne Hill,
to view the late solar eclipse, and after due GER
emony named the aforesaid summit Mount
EclpseD
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

SHARP.-By the law in Nebraska, single man
or woman can prc-empt lG0 acres Of land. Du-
the session of the last Legislature married cou-
pie procured a divorce, and each Immediately
pre-empted 100 acres. Having gone through the
necessary forms they married again the next day,
100 acres better off than if they had not been
gnnarnlnl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

BIG FEE.-Senator Benjamin, who is on his
way to this State as counsel in the Almaden mine
case, has received, says the New Orleans Delta,
retainer of $4,000, with contingent, which
will amount to fully half million, should he
succeed in gaining the case
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18


MISTAKES or PnYsICIANs. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, physician, philosopher and poet,) in a
lecture upon physicians, gives in the atlantic
MonttIy the following account of some mistakes
which have been made in medicine
Sooner or later everybody is trippod mp in
forming diagnosis | saw Velleau the great
French surgeon, tie one Of the carotid arteries
for supposed aneurism, which was only n liUtle
harmless tumor, and kill his patient. Mr.. Densc,
of Dublin was more fortunate in case he boldly
declared an abscess, while others thought 1t an
aneurism. He thrust lancet into il, and proved
himself in the right. Soon after he made a SINH
lar diagnosis. He thrust in his lancet as before,
and out gnshed the patients blood and his life
with it, The next morning Mr.. Dease was found
dead, and floating in his blood. lie had divided
the femoral artery. | have doomed people, and
seen others doom them, over and over again, on
the strength of physical signs, and they have
lived in the most conumacious and scientifically
uniustifabe manner as long as they lived, ana
some are living still. | see two men in the street
very often, who were both as good as dead in the
opinion of all who saw them in their extremity.
People will insist on living sometimes though
manfestly moribund. In DR.. Elders life OF
Kane you will find q story Of this sort told by
Dr. Kane himself. The captain of ship was
diving Of scurvy, but the crew mutncd, and he
rave up dying for the present to take care OF
them An old lady in the city, near her end, got
little vexed about the proposed change IN her
will, made up her mind not to die just then, or
dered Il COACH was driven twenty miles to the
house of a relative, and lived for four years lon
ger. Cotton Mather tells some good stories
which he picked up in his experience, or out OF
his books, showing the unstable equilibrium OF
prognosis. Simon Stone was shot in nine places,
and as he lay for dead the Indians made two
hacks with a Ratchet to cut his head on lie got
well, however, and was Il lusty fellow in Cotton
Mather's time. Jabcz Musgrave was shot with
bullet that went in his ear and came out OF bis
eye on the other side. A couple of bullets went
through his body also. Jabez got well, however,
and lived many years. Per contra, Col. Rossiter,
in cracking plum stone with his teeth, broke h
tooth and lost his life. We have seen physicians
dying, like Splgellus, from a scratch and man
who had a crOwbar shot through his head is alive
and well. These extreme cases are warnings
But you can never be too cautious in your prog
nosis in the view of great uncertainty of the
course Of any disease not long watched and the
many unexpected turns it may take,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18
New Orleans bar
AND RESTAURANT.
Board $40 a week.

&es,Sstah es5Ssah j. NiILTI,
iiiE3 Late of Shasta, has leased the New Or
$3.50 iHaalaR1dd leans Bar, and intends keeping first
class Billiard and Drinking Saloon and
Boarding House.
His Table will be inferior to none, having de-
termined to furnish the best Board ever given in
Weavervle at TEN DOLLARS 4 WEEK.
Lodging by the night, week or month. Warm
Suppers furnished at any hour of the night.
The Saloon is supplied with two excellent Bill
Hard Tables, the Bar with the best brands Of Ii
ouors and Cigars, and the Kitchen with the best
the market affords both animal and vegetable.
Give the new Restaurant trial, aud Judge for
yourselves. J. MfLTZ.
Wcaverviilc, June 90 1860. 23td.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

A WARNING TO GRLs.-One of our subscrib-
ers desires us to state that young girls wearing
straw hats with little bells hanging from tho
brm. will, In the short space OF three months,
become cross eyed He has seen instances -his
neighborhood Of moformation in the eye caused
by wearing those little bells, aud is desirous
that the subject should be brought to the atten-
tiou Of parents Syracuse Standard
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

In HURRY-A dispatch to the Sacramento
Bee Of last Friday stated that Senator Latham
and wife would soon leave by their own convey
ance, overland, by the Central route, for Wash
ington. Where's the use of hurrying off thus
early?
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

PETER FRANCISCO, THE VIRGINIA GfANT.--A
correspondent of Life illustrated, travelling in that
State, tells the following incident of a celebrated
character who in early times lived in the vicinity
Of Willis mountain
"But Peter Francisco, the Virginia giant was
a wonderful man, and deserved to be mentioned
with all great feats Of arms and of courage. Pc
ter was large, muscular, and swarthy; by no
means giant in size, however, but n giant truly
in strength. We can form no estimate Of his
power beyond the feats he accomplished At ono
time he defeated nine of Tarleton's troopers and
captured their horses, and at another lac threw
horse and his rider, who had come to challenge
him, over a garden fence. We hear oil his taking
up two large and enraged men, one in each hand,
and beating them together at arms length, and
Of his picking up the largest men as we would
small children, tossing them up in the air and
catching them again with as much apparent ease
as ii they were feathers
An old and intelligent friend OF mine who
knew Peter well, has told me many anecdotes Of
this wonderful man. | have only room for one
but may tell the rest some other time, ii your
readers are Interested Peter was sitting ono
afternoon in grocery at Cairo, when tall and
powerful Irishman entered and inquired for
Mstber Francisco stating that he had come
great distance to try his strength with the mighty
man, boastng at the same time his intention of
takin' the concate out oy him in five minutes
The lrishman was introduced to gentleman who
could show him Peter which he did with
vengeance, The giants eyes kndied' and grim
smile lit up his mobile features as he took tho
champions hand in his ylcelike grip. The great
cords in his snewy arm swelled out as the mas
sive paw closed upon the victims hand, when
crash went each bone as if as it were but fanc-
fal creation Of pastry. The strangers astonish-
ment was greater than his pain, as he exclaimed,
'Ye must be Francisco or the - and vanished
amid the eers of the crowd.n
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

IMPROVEMENTS OF TUE AGE.-Two centuries
ago not one in a hundred wore stockings. Fifty
years ago not boy in thousand was allowed
to run at large at night. Fifty years ago not "a
girl in thousand made waiting maid Of her
mother. Wonderful improvements in this age
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

CAPT. RYNDERs, the notorious New Yorker,
who was lately Deputy U. S. Marshal, and under
indictment for permitting the escape of SLAYER,
has been committed for insanity
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

BAcKMG.-A card appears in the New York
Herald, purporting to be from Morrissey, denying
that he is the author Of the challenge to Heenan,
lately published.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

PuNcu says "To resuscitate drowned Yam
kec- search his pockets
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18
E. VOGEL, A. HEALEY.
Union Hotel,
E. VOGEL,

COURT STREET.,
Opposite u S. BakTy,) WEAvERvILLE.
Ir..% It1.a% THE ABOVE HOTEL IS ONE of the
Nb!!L, oldest and best conducted in Northern CAL
ifornia. No pains is spared to make guests com
Portable. Board and lodging by the day, week
and month. VOGLE IL HEALEY.
Weavervlle, July IA, 1860. &c.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18

LET Us SUPPosE.-Let us suppose two persons,
one of whom rises at nine o'clock and the other
at six Supposing each Of these persons to live
fifty years, the one who got up at six o'clock
will have enjoyed G3,875 hours, or 2,G6l days
more of active existence than the one who rose
at nine
Surprising that out Of million, five hundred
persons, who rise at quarter after nine, nine
hundred and fifty thousand could be usefuly
employed aud would rise at six o'clock instead
Of nine in fifty years, there would be G,432,292
years contributed towards the ameioration aud
social improvement of the world.
THE gentleman is still alive Gn his 92d year,
who, in June, $780, cut the first tree ever cut on
the town plot Of Gallipolis, Ohio. At that time
there was a small settlement at Marietta and an
other at Cincinnati the balance of Ohio was a
wilderness there were not, then, probably 1000
white people in it, altogether now IL contains
near 100000 inhabitants, aud has been changed
from a wilderness to one of the best agricultural
States in the Union. Who ever BEFORE in sim
gle life, witnessed such a change?
The H0me JournaI is responsible for the latest
and best definition of beauty-that which has
troubled the brain of the wisest philosophers. 1t
says Beauty, dear readers, Is the ,oonaR yo@
0pe--WhateYer she may seem " others"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-08-18
Wirscn, the snake Char,nrr.

Wirscn, tho "Snakc Charmer" who few
years since, astonshed the people of this State
with his wonderful powers over the serpent tribe,
is now in Georgia. whore he has been giving
exhibitions Of his wonderful powers over the
most hideous and venomoas reptiles which that
southern climate can produce The Georgia
htcliigmcer says of HIM
ga gentleman, named G. +. Wirscn, q Swedc
by birth, but for several years past, resident OF
California, came to Atlanta u few days ago. and
proposed to the faculty Of the Medical College
that he could submit to them some facts in rea
ton to snake charming that must forever put to
rest the idea that such II thing as charming II
snake cannot be done. Mr.. W. gave one or two
private exhibitions, and ut length he announced
public one
A box containing some twenty-five snakes
among which was u rnttlesnake with seven rat
ties, n large cotton mouth moccasn the copper
head, or rattlesnake pilot, two different species
of the viper, and several species OF tho water
moccasn. lIo first took the rattlesnakc in his
hand, shook his ratles, played with him, and
coiled him about his neck. lie next took the
coton-mouth moccasin, and went through the
same maneuyers with him, and 30 on through
with all the others. lie hod at one time the
whole twenty-five crawling around his head
shoulders and neck, playing with him, touching
his whskcrs with their tongues, and actually kis-
sing him.
He put them on the floor, and tormented them
Ia manner that we should call cruel but not
one OF them attempted to bite him. or to show
the slightest anger, no matter what he did. lIo
picked them all up, and put them all into his bo-
som, whore they coled and crawled for five min
utes, They were then returned to their box,
every one satisfied Of one thlng-that Is, his
complete mastery over them. small stout dog
was then brought in, when Mr.. Wlrsen took out
the ratesnake, and in an instant his rattles were
in motion, and the anger OF the snake aroused
Mr. W. held him in his hand while he bit tho
dog twice. lie then coicd the rattlesnakc around
his neck, and took out the cottOn-mouth mocca-
sin, which bit the dog once iercely; from tho
moment he was first bitten, and he appeared In
excellent health before, he looked dull and
dropped aud died ia an hour. This was to all,
the most satisfactory evidence that the snakes
were venomous, but perfectly charmed and inno-
cent in the hands Of Mr.. Wirsen. The utmost
satisfaction was manifested by all present"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-12-27
Washington News.
IHerald's Correspondence !

WAsHINGroN, Dec. 22.-Senators Davis
and Wigfall received dispatches this after
noon stating that the Forts would be taken
in less than "a hours
Mr.. Davis Immediately communicated this
intelligence to the President. The Cabinet,
together with several leading Southern SEN
ators, have been in council. 1t has not yet
transpired what course the Government will
pursue. naval fleet will probably be
forthwith dispatched to Charleston.
The Committee of Thirty three were in
session to-day six and half hours. consid-
ering various propositions to arrest the pro-
gress Of dissolution and give peace to the
country.
The amendment to the Constitution pro-
posed by Mr.. Crittenden to settle the con-
troversy between the North and South final
ly and forever, by division of the country
from ocean to ocean. on the parallel of the
Missouri line, was the great subject OF dis
cussion.
Alter a long debate it was lost, under the
rule OF the Committee requiring MAORI
~ of both Democrats and Republicans-the
latter voting il the negative.
Several other propositions were proposed,
but without acting on them the Committee
adjourned till Monday.
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Pay Your Debts.

At such a moment as the present every man
who has the money, or can raise il in any way,
should promptly hquida,e his obligations. To
refuse or neglect to do so, al any time. would be
wrong but such neglect or refusal is doub
lie and iuexcusable wrong. One dollar set in
motion may pay fifty times that amount Of debt
in very lev days. Few people realize this
matter OF debt-payng as they should. They
have no conscience on the subject. They ex-
cuse themselves by saying they are very busy"
suppose You are busy. You not too busy
to neglect such a moral obligation. 81 will at
tend to it in day or two You don't know
that, for you may die-your property may be
burned, or some other providen,ial circumstance
may happen TO prevent il. "Oh, e dom, wan;
the money" How do you know thar Who
gave you that piece of information? Nothing
but the voice of your creditor can settle the
matter. He is rich and don't need small sums :
Indeed, is that your excuses How - you know
but that your neglect to pay him hundreds may
cost him thousands? Il cant stand such a rate
of exchange" You are bound to stand il, for
while You are in business you must take all its
risks. If you can't stand be exchange, how do
you expect your creditors stand your delir-
queLcJ "lf he wants mouey he has only 10 go
TO the bank Well that will do. " hen man
ie9s himself down to such level, he had better
'snuf the candle" and desert the raI ks of bus
mess men. Now, reader. this brief article is not
intended for foreign lands nor Tor future gen.
eratons, nor for your neighbor," nor for "peo-
pie generally but for you-yourself Do you
heart \. Y Independent.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-12-27

II Our JEFF. neighbor doesn't exactly
attribute the prevalence OF smallpox in
South Carolina to the election of Lincoln,
but he jussifes his course in attrbutiDg mer
camille and commercial disasters-mecbanics
being thrown out of mployment-men,
women, and children starving, and ''gaunt
famine staring them in the face" and
thousand other like ills that flesh is being af
fiic,ed with, as the direct sequence OF that
election; by saying that 1.-THE doctrines and
teachings. together with the legitimate re-
suits that uiH aow from the election Of a
sectional president, soiN man fest themselves
SO completely aeithim the nezt for, gears, as
to create as much disgust in the public
mind, as the prevalence Of the small poxf
Sufficient justif cation, truly, for our neigh
Dor to charge every misfortune and calam
ity that the country is now afflicted with
on the Republican party, because be thinks
they will fow'-'wil manifest the mselves,
oil within the next four years. We once
heard Of man who proposed 10 prevent
the disgust in the family mind. that he
feared might arise, on the same plan thai
our neighbor is pursuing with so much zeal
Going home one night after his family hae
retired, he awakened his wife and asked hel
if John had been guilty Of any thing during
the evening worthy OF stripes. The moth
er replied in the negative. and thought tina
her Johnny had been an unusually goot
boy. Well said the thorghtiul father
ON go and wake him up and lick him any
how, Tor tear Ee'll do something bad to
morrow
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rroa. the csanersrills rlass

frosf the C0aneFsrslis Times.
Has 70 BRISG THEN BAck.-We under
stand tina; Mr.. 10 Shawhan. of Rush coun-
~. recently went to New Orleans with q lot
of fine horses, which he had 10 sell. but had
been informed since his arrival in that city,
that no hoases from an abolition or free State
can find purchasers among the patriotic
denizens OF New Orleans. Mr.. Shawhan is
Democrats Breckenridge Democr~. at
that-and during his temporary sojcurn IN
the Crescent City has worn the ''loue star"
as an act of respect Tor the cause of the
South. but although this course has secured
him from personal violence, it has not ena-
bled him to accomplish the object of his
mission, and we are informed that his faith
er, John Shaw han, Esq. has written to him
to return with the horses. In his letter 10
his father 10. gives a gloomy picture OF the
state of affairs in New Orleans: SAYS he has
seen men shot because they wore no ''sar. :
and thinks II rather too warm q cimat !,
tor Northern men TO visit even in winter.