Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-06-22
THE EVENING STAR.
WERE Bur HIS OWN WIFE.


Were but his Own wife. to guard snd TO guide
lis title Of sorrow should fall on INV dear;
so fsi Z and 50 tender bis Heat would but hear:
I'D pull the wild blossoms from valley and high
And there at his feet would lay them all down;
I'd slng han the songs of our poor SIR cken island
Til his heart was on FIRE with love like nv own.
There's = rose by his dwellins-Id tend the lone
That he might have flowers when the summer
There's baLp IN his hail. would wake its sweet
For he must have music to brighten his home.
Were but hrs own wife. to guide snd TO guard
lis little OF sorrow should fall on my dear;
For every kind glance my whole life would award
In sickness I'd soothe and in sadness I'd cheer.
Whsa think OF my true love, By night and by
Which susGes oTeEer and sh ls' on ~ rlVor
have thoughts full Of peace for his soul to repose
wereI but his own wife, to win and to WOO
Oh. sweet Il the might of misfortune closing.
TO rise Ike the morning star, darling, on you.
FRoM UTAH AND PIKE's PEAK-The pony ex-
press from Camp Floyd has arrived at ST. Louis,
Mo-, on time.
The Indian troubles in Western Utah had not
been adjusted.
The Pixies Peak express furnishes the follow
Ing items Of news, under Denver City date of
X
is actively prosecuted but few are realizing their
antciPations, or taking out more than their ex-
Penses- Some Of the lead claims containing no
paying dirt, are pretty much abandoned for the
present, miners desiring to realize immediately
There is quartz enough out now to supply not
only all the mails at present in operation but all
those on the road for the next six months The
rainy season has commenced unexpec tedly early
In the mountain, finding the miners unprepared
with shelter Timber for the construction of mills
Is scarce Large numbers OF emigrants are both
arriving at and departing from the mining regions
Five hundred friendly Indians are on the South
fark- The Arrapahoes and CheYennes are about
sending out war party against the Utes, leaving
thelr families and horses near Denver City.
EXECUTION OF PoLIcKMAN-At New Or
leans, on Friday last, the extreme penalty of the
law was inflicted upon police officer Mathew
hughes, who shot Henry Hyams in that city on
the evening OF the Sth of November last at the
door steps OF Hyam's boarding house Hughes
at the time of the murder was labOrinS under the
double excitement Of the late election and of
liquor; and In company with young man named
george Wolf, sought a difficulty with Nv
ans and his friends, because they, or one If
them, had hurrahed for Tom Parker Wolf struck
one o. the party and drew his pistol upoD him:
none OF the party quarreled back or resented IL
snrons offered; and as Hyams turned to run into
MS mouse, he was shot in the back by Hughes ard
teil dead Hughes, though an officer was not on
DUTY that night. The chief of police had pyevi-
ously met him, and seeing that he was into.ica.
ted, advised him 10 20 home. This he promised
TO do; but falling in with Others and drinkin,r
more liquor on the way home, he was led to the
commission OF the act which cost him his lifa
He was native Of New Orleans twenty-seven
years of age.