Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-19
Lonely.

Sitting lonely, ever lonely,
Waiting, waiting for one only
Thus count the weary moments passing by
And the heavy evening gloom
Gathers slowly in the room,
And the chill November darkness dims the sky.
Now the uutlcss busy feet
Cross each other in the street,
And watch the faces fitting past my door:
But the step that fingered nightly,
And the hand that raped so lightly,
And the face that beamed 50 brightly,
Come no more
BY the firelights itful cleaning
am dreaming, ever dreaming,
And the ram is slowly falling all around
And voices that are nearest,
Offriends the best and dearest,
Appear to have Il strange and distant sound,
Now the weary wind is sighing,
And the murky day is dying,
AndIthe withered leaves lie scattered round my
door,
But that voice whose gentle greeting
Set this heart SO wildly beating
At each fond and frequent meeting,
Comes no more !-AHMe Year Round'
A Bone OF CONTENTION. neighbors in
Nevada Territory are beginning to wrangle
a little over the location of their seat of G ov-
ernment. AT present the Legislature is sit
ting in a stone building, situated about two
miles from Carson City. Virginia and Car
son are each trying to become the capital of
the Territory. We find the following upon
the subject in the Silver Age:
We learn that the citizens of Virginia are
raising money to not only provide suitable
rooms for the Legislative Assembly, but also
for the purpose of boarding the Members free
of expense to themselves We can hardly
believe the citizens of Virginia would COM
nit so gross bunder as to offer a bribe.
SINGULAR CASE OF INsANtTY.-A young wo-
man who had been pronounced insane by
proper authority in San Francisco arrived in
this city yesterday morning, accompanied by
her husband and in charge of an officer, for
Che purpose o! gaming admission as pa
tient to the Insane Assylum. The husband
was man, wealthy and well known in San
Francisco, some sixty years Of age, while the
wife was comparatively child. They pros
ceeded to the Asylum where the husband
hoped to fnd accommodations for his wife,
private and apart from the patients further
advanced in the stages ofinsanilv expressing
his willingness to meet any additional eX-
pense incurred thereby. The State having
made as yet no provision for special privil-
eyes to patients in the institution, bv way of
separate apartments for individual cases. it
was found impossible to make any dstinct-
ion in the present ease. and after consuta-
tion, the husband determined to return with
his wife to san Francisco, aud left in company
with her on the boat last evening. That
which is most singular in this case is the or
gin of the wiIe's insanity. The husband is
"A Jew, while the wife was reared and educa-
ted in the Catholic faith which however,
since her marriage, she has adiured and en-
braeed the religion of her husband. From
the date of her marriage, her friends have
forsaken her, while on the other hand, her
husband has been the special object Of scorn
and contempt 10y those of his own religious
faith, who place no confidence in the sincer-
ty of the wifes professions in the adoption
of the Jewish creed. She is therefore placed
in position to render her life miserable,a and
since her insanity imagines that persons are
in search of her for the purpose of taking her
rway from her husband. She is not Violent
y insane. but might soon become so if placed
in the same apartment with til use who are
thus unfortunate. The case at best, is a
painful one, and is the result of a species OF
religious intolerance which can hardly be
supposed would occur at this late day; yet
such is the fact-Stoctton HdepeadanL