, 1862-09-27

The paper falls from a lifeless hand,
And she goes to her heroes side;
But smile is stamped on her rigid lip,
In the life Of a mothers pride;
For there steals on the air, like battle prayer,
To bless her souls Gawn-
Fighting he fell, with his face to the foe,
Cheering his comrades on.n
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THE GREAT WATER Spout NEAR Los ANGELES
The Los Angeles .Neaos gives the following partic
ulars of the water spout that occurred in the Sar
Francisco canyon, about sixty miles from Los An
geles, Aug. 16th
1t appears that on that day, about one O'Clock
P. NJ, heavy rain cloud which had been hover
ing over the canyon, burst with a noise like thun
der discharging huge volume of water instantly
filling up the canyon with roaring stream, car
rying everything along in its resstless course.
party from Kern river, on their way to Los An
geles, were in the narrow part of the canyon al
the time, of which party c. J. Chevalier and wife
were members. They had been on visit to the
parent of Chevaer at Kern river, and were on
their return to San Francisco. AS soon as the
torrent struck the wagon, Chevaler attempted to
seize and save his wife, but tree floating down
struck HIM and threw him aside, and the wagon
was carrieG down, upset, and Mrs. Chevalier
buried beneath it. Tie body was soon recovered.
The water in the canyon, when the party entered
it, was less than three inches, and when the tor
rent came it was over fifteen feet deep. The
stream followed the road for the distance of a
mile The oxen of the team were killed, and the
teamster had narrow escape. 1t was past day
light the next morning ere the torrent subsidized.
SILK CULTURE IN CALFoRNIA.-L. Provost
writes in the California Farmer:
In my last letter on this subject, to insure the
success of the silk culture in California said
that it was necessary /" to simplify the work, and
reduce it more than half of what is required in
Europe" now say that according to the Cali
fornia culture one man Cor lady, no matter) can
raise and take care of more worms than six or
eight could according to the system followed in
France and Italy. The climate is so favorable
here that we have very little to do to raise our
own silk. The great objection the price of labor,
does not exist any more Now it will devolve on
our Representatives to have this important branch
Of industry extended all over our State. l will
pledge myself to prove what have said, and will
write description of that culture in small pam
phlet of very few pages it is so simple that every
one will understand ii. And more, if any rich
man that has plenty of land would make large
plantation of mulberry trees, would go and turn
all his leaves into silk, before any quantity Of per-
sons that would like to come and see the Califor-
MIA silk culture l have certificates and letters
from Europe, that the California silk has been
acknowledged there to be of the first quality.
ANOTHER FIRE IN YREKA.-The particulars of
another fire in Yreka are thus given in the Yreka
Union of August 23d:
About twenty minutes past three o'clock on
Wednesday morning last our citizens were again
aroused from their slumbers by the cry of fire. and
by the time they were aware of the danger the
Arcade Saloon was burning mass, and the flames
we're rapidly spreading to wooden tenements in
the vicinity. After the destruction of large
amount of property, the citizens and fremen sue
ceeded in subdung the fire. The loss cannot be
Taylor, the owner of the Arcade, whose loss is
$6,000-no insurance. ]. P Smith is loser of a
large amount-covered by an insurance of $780,
900. NJ Hamburger, loss Of 1900. Rosen-
burg & Co., $1,OOO-no insurance H. H. Rker,
800. ]. Greenwald, $4OO. There is every in
dcation the fire was again the work of an in
cendiary.
BUTTONS, BEWARE "A warning to the extreme
ly juvenile among our army officers, given to un-
due vanity in regard to buttons and gold lace, is
conveyed in a little incident which occurred at
the battle of New Bridge, Va, in which the 4th
Michigan regiment, Col. Woodbury., so distin-
guisbed itself.
al might have shot you half dozen times, y
remarked one of the prisoners, after the fight, to
Col. Woodbury..
"Why didn't P" asked the Colonel.
81 took you to be some damn common order
ly," was the response.
If the Colonel had decked himself out in all his
GLORIOUS array" he would undoubtedly have been
obliged to content himself now with plain ma
hogany overcoat and silver-headed buttons.
SUCCEss.-Every man must patiently bide his
time He must wait, not in lstless idleness, not
in useless pastime, not in querulous detection, but
in constant, steady, and cheerful endeavor always
willing fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that,
when the occasion comes he may be equal to the
OCCASION The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can do well, without a thought
of fame. If it comes at all, it will come because
it is deserved, not because it is sought after 1t is
very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which
cares so much about fame, about what the world
says of us, to be always looking in the face of
others for approval, to be always anxious about
the effect of what we do or say, to be always
shouting, to hear the echoes of our own voices
PRESIDENT LINcoLN's PRosIIsE.-Isaac N. Ar
mold, member of Congress from the Chicago dis
trict, says that he paid a visit to the President
just before the adjournment of Congress, and re-
marked to him /: " 1 am about to return to that
people by whose voice you were placed in the
Presidential chair. What shall tell them p
Mr. Lincoln, in the olden time you rnauled rails
the time has now come for you to maui the reb
els" Lincoln replied, "Tell the people of Hi
nois that Iwill do it."