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Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

DYING NArIoNs.-Why do nations die Gull
tvated Greece and all conquering Rome,
Vandal, and Goth, and Hun, and Moor, and
Pole, and Turk, all dead or dying! Murdered
by nations more powerful? Swept away by
pestilence and plague, or starved by ptiless
famine? Not by any of these. Not by the light
ming and the thunder not by the pest and the
storm not by poisoned air or volcanic fires did
they die, and do they fall.
They perish by moral degradation the result
of gluitony. intemperance and effcminacy. When
q nation beeoms rich, then there is leisure and
the means of ndulging in the appetites and
passions of our nature which waste the body and
wreck the mind. As with nations, so with fami-
lies Wealth takes away the wholesome stimulus
of effort, idleness opens the foodgates Of pas
sonai Indulgence, and the heir of millions dies
heirless and poor, and both name and memory
ingloriously rot?
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

JAPANESE on AMERICAN PoIITIcs.---A cor
respondent of the New York Times, (who is sus-
pected of being Howe the Pasha,') indites a
second epistle purporting to be written by one
of the japanese ambassadors to his friend
Moonsk
"But the government Of the country, oh son
of Frum, is that which has most filled the souls
of thy cousin with wonder The people choose
a tycoon from among themselves once in four
years. In making choice they do not say Has
this man wisdom? Have the planets rained
their treasures upon him? But they say Can
he run? Thus, one party has chosen man
whose legs are longer than the mandates Of
Mikado for they say: Behold, he can run like
the bird of the desert. And they say of him, he is
used to the splitting of rails. In the wonder of
my soul | said to Gen. Scott Kam, Is rail
splitting one of the qualifications Of the tycoons?
And he made answer that this people designed
to fence this country in, and that Honest Abe
will do it. Another party desire TO have a tycoon
whom they call Dug.a-l las bnt the people say he
cannot run we'll which must be true, as his legs
are exceedingly short and his stomach is round.
Another party say that for tycoon they wish a
great scribe whose name is Ever-at-et. He
delineates the sentiments of his soul upon q
paper called the Led,ger, and he signs himself
BONNER 1t was this great scribe who wrote
that Book called the Gun-maker Of Moscow, as
thou wilt remember is translated into the
language OF Niphon, and which the Grand Lame
reads with joy"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01
NUMBER 33.
The Might.
ny BARRY CORNWALL.

oh, the Summer Night,
Has smile of light,
And she sits on sapphire throne,
Whilst the sweet winds load her
With garlands of odor,
From the buds of roses o'erblown.
But the Autumn Night
Has piercing sight,
And step both strong and free;
Aud voice for wonder,
Like the wrath of thunder,
When he shouts to the stormy sen.
And the Winter Night,
Is cold and white,
And she sngeth song of pain,
Till the wild bee hummeth.
And the warm Spring cometh,
When she dies in O dream OF rain.
oh the Night, the Night,
'Tis lovely sight,
Whatever the cline or time.
For sorrow then soareth.
And the lover outpouretb,
His soul in star-brlght ryhmc.
II bringeth sleep
To the forest deep,
The forest bird to its nest;
For care, bright hours,
Aud dreams of flowers,
And that balm to the wenry--REsT.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

An AFFECTING SCENE" Not many years
since" says Froser's Magazine, " certain miners
working far underground came upon the body Of
poor fellow who had pershe6 in the sHffocatng
pit forty years before. Some chemical agent to
which the body had been subjectcd~an agent
prepared in the laboratory of nature-had effect
uaIiy arrested the progress of decay. They
brought 1t to the surface, and for while, till it
crumbled away through exposure to the atmos
phere, it lay there, the image of fine sturdy
young man. No convulsions had passed over
the face in death---the features were tranquil ;
the hair as black as jet. No one recognized the
face-a generation had grown up since the day
on which the miner went down his shaft for the
last time But totterng old woman, who had
hurried from her cottage at hearing the news,
came up and she knew again the face which,
through all these years, she had not quite forgot.
The poor miner was to have been her husband
the day after that on which he died. They were
rough people, of course, who were looking on a
liberal education and refined feelings are not
deemed essential to the man whose work it is to
get up Goals. or even tin but there were no dry
eyes there when that grey.headed old pilgrim
cast herself upon the youthful corpse, and poured
out to its deaf ear many words of endearment
unused for forty years. 1t was touching
contrast-the one so old, the other so young.
They had both been young these long years ago
but time had gone on with the living and stood
still with the dead"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

SENATOR Latham wore gray flannel shirt
across the Plains during his late overland trip
En-.
Wonderful! You don't say so? What if he
did we are Immediately acquainted with big
ger man than Mr.. Latham, who came portion
of the way across the Plains without any shirt.
- Yreka Journal.
Pshaw, that's nothing. A very distinguished
man, and lawyer at that. ran through the streets
of San Francisco, lately, with nothing but part
of q shirt.-Sac. Ne,cS.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

A JUsr REBUKE-Senator Sumner of Massa-
chusetts, called Hon. Jere Clemens, of Alabama,
a slave owner. in late speech. in reply to which
that gentleman. among other things, says:
at may surprise Mr.. Sumner to learn that l
have never been the owner Of a slave. l have
never been engaged in any pursuit or avocation
ia which slave labor would have been the slight
est benefit to me, and | Eave never been able to
buy slaves for the mere purpose OF waiting on
me- There is negro man here with whom
was raised-one who has lived with me great
deal, and who was with me throughout the Mex
lean war, but the title to him was not in met
was in my father and if Mr.. Sumner will ask
any of the surviving officers or soldiers of the
Ninth Infantry (all Of whom were from New
Engand) | think that they will tell him that it
was matter of some doubt whether | belonged
to the negro, or he belonged to me. At all
events, if Mr.. Sumner will send here in one
month double the sum that negro would bring if
offered for sale, he could not induce him to touch
it, with condition annexed that he should live
in Massachusetts as freeman"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

THE GLORY OF BoSToN COMMON" GoNE.-A
heavy storm at Boston, on the 3Oth of june blew
down the great elm tree which every one who
has ever visited the Common grounds will re-
member Abiding to the occurrence, the Boston
Journal says:
There is not native Bostonian who will not
depore the loss of the Great Elm. 1t is ass ocia-
ted with the sports of childhood, and is as famil
lar to the sight as the dome of the State House.
1t has grown with Boston from its earliest infancy,
and seems as much part of it as the very pc
nnsula upon which the city is founded.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

HOPE AND MEMoRY.--Hope writes the poetry
of the boy, but memory that Of the man. Man
looks forward with smiles, but backward with
sghs. Such is the wise providence of God.
The cup of life is sweetest at the brim, the flavor
is impaired as we drink deeper, and the dregs
are made bitter that we may not struggle when
il is taken from our lips.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

DoN QuIxoTE E-LIrrLED.-The Spanish jour
mails record a most remarkable case Of wasted
labor in the chirographical achievement of
certain Senor Marta, who has cOntrived to write
out the whole novel of Don Quxote upon a
single sheet of paper, such as the Spaniards use
for making their cigarettes. The task occupied
two years of bard work with the microscope, and
has cost the writer the sight of one of his eyes.
1t would not be easy to imagine worse misuse
Of time and patience than this.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

SCIENTIFIC SwNDLNG.-A young man under
the name Of ]. Little, claiming to be agent OF
Hoy's Minstres, is travelling the country, posting
up handbills, and running up hotel bills, and
Printers bills and numerous other bills, all on
the credit of said company, who arc " coming"
but somehow never arrive. The rascal Is travel
ing north-wll somebody arrest him Rid Bluff
Hidpendent.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

BoTToM OF THE OcEAN.-Mr. Green, the famous
diver, tells singular stories Of his adventures
when making search in the deep waters Of the
ocean He gives some sketches of what ho saw
on the Silver Banks near Hayti;
The banks of coral on which nay diving9, mar
rated in the previous chapter, were made, are
about forty miles in length, and from ten to
twenty in breadth
On this bank of coral is presented to the diver
one of the most sublime and beautiful scenes the
eye ever behed. The water varies from ten to
one hundred feet in Depth and so clear that the
diver can see from two to three hundred feet
while submerged, with little obstruction to the
sight.
The bottom of the ocean in many places on
these banks is az smooth as n marble floor in
others it Is studded with coral columns from ten
to one hundred feet in hight, and from one to
eight feet in diameter. The tops of these more
lofty support myriad OF pyramidlca pendants,
each forming a myriad more giving the reality
to the imaginary abode Of some water nymph.
In other places the pendants form arch after arch
and as the diver stands on the bottom Of tho
ocean and gazes through these into the deep
winding avenue, he feels that they fill him with
as sacred an awe as il he were In some Cathedral
which had long been buried beneath " old oceans
wave" Here and there the coral extends oven
to the surface of the water, as If those lofter
columns were towers belonging to these stately
temples now In ruin.
There were countless varieties OF diminutive
trees, shrubs and plants in every crevlcc OF the
corais, where the water had deposited the least
earth. They were all of faint hue. owing to
the pale light they received, although of every
shade, and entirely different from plants am
familiar with that vegetate on dry land. One in
particular attracted my attention IL resembled
q sea fan OF immense size, OF varegated colors,
and Of the most brilliant hue.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

" MISS JosEPHrNA," said thick cherry ook-
ing Tipped negro to one of Afric's daughters.
Miss Josephine, will you do dis niger de
anticipation of dancin' Wergnia reel wild m?'
81 doesn't assent to dance wulgaracious dances
OBJ dat sort, Mr.. Casus." said Miss Josephine.
turning up still higher her wel-rounded lip. 81
dances only do porker."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

A ScoTcHMAN having hired himself to far
mer, had cheese set down before him, that be
nigh help himself The master said to him
" Sandie, you take long time to breakfast"
q" In troth, MASTER" answered be, "a cheese o.
this size is nae sac soon eaten as ye may think"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01
G9e Grinitp gournal.
WEAVERVILLE, CAL,
Saturday Morning, September 4, 1860.
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

Hr. T.. P. Fisher is our only authorized Agent
in San Francisco to receive adver tsemens, receipt for
the same and to transact business generally for the
TRINITY JOURNAL. Onice-No 172 IL Washington street
nearly opposite Maguires Opera House. up stairs
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

An enterprising New York mamma has inven-
ted a soap by which she is enabled to get her
daughters off her hands.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

JouN BELL-The Honorable John Bell was
born on Mason and Dixon's land, of rich but
pous parents, and was noted for his ringing
voice. His extreme personal beauty suggested
that delicious poem, In which the poet asks bis
friend, Brandon:
"Did you ever see the beautiful Belle Brandon?'
He spent the earlier days of his life on plant
alton, acquiring such fine cultivation, that his
epistoary efforts are regarded with admiration
by the whole world, aad no man is considered
good scholar who is not familiar wihth BelPs
letters. As Mr.. Bell grew to manhood he gradu-
ally esehewed all youthful society, and cultivated
cold" gentlemen exclusively, and was noted for
his venerable virtues On one occasion he won
the friendship OF teatotal society Of old maids,
under the following circumstances Being asked
if he believed the use of tobacco to beinjurous
he promptly replied:
I" II tobacco is chewed in q certain way, 1t
will do no harm to any one"
al How is that" asked an antiquated Miss.
alt should be es-chewed," returncd the emf
nent statesman.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01

BAcHELons.-Annic Trevor, in q late Philadel-
phia Press, gives the following dash at the bach.
clors
hate bachelors! There's bold unqualified
assertion, right in the teeth OF every bachelor
living. Did ever anybody see such cross.
surly set as they aref Why never set my foot
into Il passenger car, that ! cant tell, at tho
very first glance around me, who are bachelors
and who are not. You can read 1t Ia their
faces, and their actions show 1t plainly enough.
married man invariably resigns his seat, smi
ingly, if the car Is crowded but ye gods If a
bachelor has to get up to give q lady his seat,
such look as she gets, and such q time rs he
has grumblng about " hoops taking 30 much
room," as If it was any business Of his how much
room they take and as II passenger railway
cars were not intended to accommodate hoops AZ
well as the dear creatures who occupy" them.
Married men are always more polite, because
because they have wives TO teach them--ahem!
Can't | tell when a man Is going home to
pretty, cherry Tipped wife, and whom he isn't!
And can't | tell when man IL going home to
lonely dinner and his newspaper, and when he
isn't? To be sure | can.
| never go to the thcater that, looking down
into the parquet, ! don't see whole rows OF
gloomy .visaged bachelors, who come there to
pass away the time because they havn't wives and
babies to keep them at home, and they don't
know what to do with themselves. Poor fellows.
how pity them.
If they were all like Ike Marvo-blcss his
dear old bachelor heart we might tolerate
them but save me from them as they are!
habitually make for the other side Of the walk
whenever see one of the tribe coming, for had
rather encounter q score OF married men then
one gloomy, sour vsaged old bachelor.
Out upon old bachelors | say. Courtship and
marriage to every mothers son OF them
Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-01
Oregon Cider!

Ia SMALL LOT OF OREGON CIDER IN
) Bulk and Cases. A superior article and Of
'ered 1S low. PIERCE, CHURCH a. co.
Weaver, June &c. 1860. %.
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Oar Richmond Correspondence.


RcHxosp, Va, May l. 1850.
Egec, cf ne Nou Of ne wiadrarai Of n> Eon sur
an st1is from 0s CAarie,or cOzucn,ha-TAe rirys.al
D.issoa1 HuroN for rees-Huriiiafing zrissds o,
n> Old omston-7hs rSptasa Dstya,s wL raei
q Esriuds ns Wood Dsleeaao~-Ih Lass Of Ne De
~o-afs cerrrfrn,, DC ,ae, dc.
While the withdrawal Of of the Southern ssats
from the Charleston cooveston vas generally snucpsae
the rers nevertheless 70 have produced q very
dishcsftsnpg ontc amongst the democracy here rna
Is especially tss Gaze with the Useo men, Who believe
this drupsou be tho arm step 10 dsun,ou rncy hold
that with the Dissolution OF The denosrsic psrtywosh
DISTINCTLY foreshadoved In the acton Of the sccealns
Stairs 81 chrssscu-she last srd only political ue be.
tween the tso sections sevwed. rbsse are not TOW
.bo rejoice In this result, even here N Virginia This
class esteem any political union With pccps Who would
rcSsse the simple recognnn OF TIE right Of prosecton for
shsc property In the territories entirely Ersatnss ms
fosas becomes stronger sn vhsn they sensci hos ut
irly mgoexbe would be 10 obtain aay rceoeniaoa Of
their - rights could the North boass Of Ne sams degree
Of democratic strength that The South Asv ssnunds
The infceeoosa dcduoed from the unvunngucs On he
par u tho North 70 coocode anything 10 shs great ID
vsntwes witch the south yields TO the denscracy IN
party SrusSie, unfavorash 10 the prospects Of ho-
noeencu We cobnas,on OF the vngs Of the democracy
N che fuure This conviction reooociis very many here
o ihs dsru ~ Chariesoo who would deeply regret
The Ncrserr wns Of the party evinced any dspos.
Ion 10 oonpro>s
From the scco, us saich have reached here through
,rivse channels sSpsxr hsa The course Of NE MAORI
y Of the virginia dehxAsn has been such - mkhs veil
the Old Dominica 70 mo fcs her past Glory fhe
majority q shs delegates scs " have her n, pvincipso
overn them save shaa WHICH o. ncinssd mon ssrcussh
or ,heir favorise candidate for Ms Prsadncy rssy
r advocated The Adoption Of ne Cincinnati platform
s and simple, but finding, upos eoA sui'aipa VIM The
her southern Delegations, hat M sours would h.
Owe the lo Of the whcs Southern vcsN, shsir saadI
ae they fell back upoa The s.vs code plaA cn, aeass
hch they have bess bssalnG Win neks asS unAis ~
YER Twelve months n w. sce virsisa Isaxhe In
me ~ IN former days. n ~ Virginia on hu.,s for
csss ready 70 sdopA whatever PLATFORM would ss>urs
'oss vosss fcr NJ choice q Ne majority. n y ssaA~s
ere sha her delegation cccurssd mcss humilatise a.
tide IN The cree Of the other Southern sates, whilc
v Norhern delegations looked upon them win little e@
Tor IN ihelf efforts 70 corsilais beth sdes By poncy
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HQUAIIy mvmm
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Our special wssbington Despatch.


All sorts % speeulstons being INDUCED by pouu-
,Ans IN regard 70 he two Democratic Conventions the
crshsrn ., Baltimore The is,hof June aud ths south
h Richmond the llth Of June. Tue Rchmond
Goa vsnion las the sdvsn'se account Of bang called
cAxer. Tns opiU0n amors tho shrewd politicians bore
D. nst the managers Of this Convention win abandon
evzihIg ,ha, ioos Ike seeicnAsm and that the dele
ssses opposed nopsss viii be elected 10 from every
Norshn state already represented here that
60 ceaventsen viii nominate either Guthrie, hunter
Bsec=risge, and thus destroy the Douglas movement II
Datnere she 18Th Of June.
On Ao other hand reported delegates In favor
e Deasl1s viii be elected the Southern States no,
ssvrsA.sd In the NOrssrn Convention n The time Of ~
sSjownncnt
oass a. ,unber Of delegates have returned IRON The
sees CAarlesion, and sps~S very dscour>sns terms
~f Ne pros Of The party. fhey nothing bat
s~vf IN The Gvson OF ooasss he Douglas the
scpnnsnis Of thr favore, whe The oeer sde ny they
not ssna 70 ykld 70 squss,er sovereignty and Ne
demands Of raan who could no; pledge single electoral
a vos Worth Of Macon and Hron's linz.
ks generally Believed that the samisssrAfon win hhs
$500 against nOveias upon sss re~ad Nal he d wholly
npnasaapsable iaskc south.
TIA editorial IN tke O.lsnfsan Of ssxs morning d in-
Asrprs I'D 10 tbs VA, and strong viii Be maize 10
<recore fun rerreoats.on Of the dasocracy al Rich
snond. NE friends o. Jucee DVugtas, ~ revsr, In
zsoed spra and have already ecnmeuecx the cork cf
-pondng 90. documents They bcIevs that the s11ourn.
xasnt Of the Convention vii strengthen possas a, the
l6onsh, uhls Ia wm icss Of his popularity ss shs
Moth. He M be dslnsd ~ the vaios csadlsass
Oar wsshisgtoa Csrrespoaseaee.
WASHINGTON, Nay 2, 1880
NJ Dsas KfcAnosd anf Hn Crowd Douglas Oztrul "a.
esfe Rasyosd scA<se at casyi~<a-rs eratacv~ n
R< Conrntica and As Pary-fk He~d> ~ Dvsosas
Aosm<s-outoG Esfi~as<-ytvny' Frpstis Orvs-
NJ. Eneiish, 5Tndiasa, ~ ne Nvv Egsai9y Ncscss
n IA Rsrubssoas PUty, DC.
Dsaa Rnhnosd has failed q chasiessoa ms pass Cor
eo~psssns the tremendous prosramns 81 hs railroad |
spcenlasiens were ounnnsy ooaived, ssd hh sa@s vM
sd'esy played but he he's faned and he mus sura
IN noe nom Mr.. pousls 70 nr. Seward, or tyus, lRs
other lobby iobbsrs, 70 The chAacss Of NE hour.
fhs Unsed States Bank, vim No capssAl Of ihlrsy NIL
M" "" denosnud and put down, and uamplsd undsv
soof - monster; but half dozsn sucA baahs vuull
hardly be tomp<ssnt 70 Weld power which vpuA b
wisasd By N. stupendous scheme Of y.,vsv oos,,.
lions projs csed bv Dean Richmond and The Nav y~s
Central, from the snd Of Manhattan across she oo,,a.,s
% San yrsnesoo on v This scheme were carried out
Isck 81 TIE scheme. .>Psoihe railroad from IN. NJ.
s'wipps river San rrsscs 20, with al ne Millions q hpd
srssts and subsidies 10 none from the govern ren, I'M
ssy ,he conrol Of three Companies whose roads
sssesd from The Nssssrp 10 Ne York and The chs.fof
use ocrpsnIes The New York V7nsohtaisa c.rsai
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he shove IN an probability would not b able 70 vcss
for President and certainly not without soma bargain
and sale arrangement, because they would - equally
divided On . choice Of candidate We have Chased the
anti Iscompscn democrats with the democracy. which,
side they take hey cannot effect the vote Of any
state excsp. nnos where Hon. Isasc ~ Morris, anti
Leo mpson democrat has the power Of throwing he ass
On ether SIDE the deesaiou, besides him, conpossd
OF four democrats and four 70 ,ubncans.
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~ Chicago. rational their charssAsr asd serrssivs
uTen nsnksr the rights of labor capital bot n thar
,Iari, sse prseucs coneucve the bssi inssrsss q DE
Rseived Ii Thai the sspablcan party Of shs So, AZ
vssna cordially approve Of the doctrines contained "
surror, Of The romrauoIs made IN pursusocs shsrss
Retoived ID, Tea are In iavor q such tariff a.
produc's Of The vhiis hborine men q our cvn cassrv
e apst noss ~ foreign oouutrssaL
nso'vSd %, That We ", IN fsvvv q eguaasy q rsns
se.eus, Of biz cpskns o. ss PEE. q SirsS q
Resoved Oh, That In WV a Ne rsopaf evssh q sSs
), he psss, ssSssss me- % p. ss;s
ss ss a.. ss n z.,ss e..sas % .s.. Ne
rSs * der ss,s srs sersi, snss = ,nns 80 e =,
'Ep,sssser' into ioreso Gnss, 90 shsy we're Amsri
Resolved, h. rhs, .. ar. cordially ...ch.s 10 N.
prcysors q the Ponssssd ban = orslnssed and pssse
BY NE rfubkan party In the Hcoss q Rcpruseataiivvs
hclops, AZ We 90 that our unsettled ssss shoald Be
ftciysa er irte hcmes 70 reemsn, Who VII redeem d
Resolved eth That II. ncm any Unforeseen cause, ssy
ss sss osso ~ % - sssss he
,a,.ss The ssh ssss .he nay ss present shall have
snsssssee Al he cosvessson. '' s'''e IN
Of The Tree nssrcts q the Upnsd sass, those thai
into The american tropics where they may IN The ian
gusee q Mr. Jsnerscn, become independent p~ooIe
relvs tAe me- vks hscssr Scm he rs,,s,ar ana
chase ne rvs bessntsrs both races extending and n.
our eem msree By reciprocal Interchange q The
prt ducn and manufactures c The temperate pope cr shs
rcpxa ocucsors OF great and strong colony Of FREE
Resolved ssh, That merit National ssate Con vs,,o,
pe PEG ~ NE CITY Rchuord, upon such day OF the /
~ lsos - We sssie Executive Committee appointed nv
hs Convention shall determine -ff'e W
!. " moucn M ClrpvrI, Resolved, Thai the rxecu
w soemnses Which has been appointed by sh,s meet
os o,sc,ea ~ feir convenience 70 appoint an eccso
n no'on a NJ frmmsI, Resolved, That ten ta,u.