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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

A Book SroRY.-In June, lS+4, pedier
called ar A cottage at Blyton, and asked an
old widow named Naylor whether she had
any rags 10 sell. She said "No!" but offered
him some old paper; and took from shelf
the book of St. Adams and others, weighing
nine pounds, for which she received nine
pence. The pedler carried them through
Gainsboro, tied up in string, past chem
ISIS shop, who, being used to buy old paper
TO wrap drugs in, called the man in and,
struck by the appearance Of The Boke, gave
him three shillingS for the lot. Not being able
TO read the colophon, he took It to an equal
" ignorant stationer, and offered 1t to him
for guinea, at which price he declined 1t,
but proposed that il should be exposed in his
window as means Of feliciting some lnforma-
ton about it. It was accordingly placed
there, with the label: VERY old curious
work" \ collector of books went IN, ana
offered IS. Cd. for it. This excited the suspi-
cions of the vendor. Soon after, Mr.. Bird,
the Vicar of GainSborO, went in and asked
the price, wishing TO have Il very early speci-
men at a reasonable price-not knowing,
however, the great value of the book. While
he was examining the book, Stark, very IN
telligent bookseller, came in, to whom MIR.
Bird at once ceded the right of pre-emptlon.
Stark betrayed such visible anxiety that
the vendor, Smith, declined setting price.
Soon after, Sir c. came in, and took the
book to collate, and brought it back in the
morning-haying found it imperfect in the
middle-and offered E5 for it. Sir Charles
had no book OF reference to guide him to its
value; but in the meantime Stark had en-
ployed friend to obtain for him the refusal
of it, and undertaken TO give little more
than Sir Charles might offer. On finding
that at least Ej coull be got for it, Smith
went TO the owner and gave him two guineas,
and then proceeded to Stark's agent AID sold
j: for Il IS. Stark took it TO London, and
sold it to the Right Hon. 7. Greenyille for
seventy or eighty guineas. The volume was
afterwards splendidly bound, and is now the
only copy in the British Museum.-HistoTi-
cal MGseatDs.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

FLowERs.-How the universal heart of
man blesses flowers. They are wreathed
rourd the cradle, the marriage altar, and
the tomb. The Persian in the far East
delights in their perfume, and writes his
love in nosegays, while the Indian child
of the far West claps his hands with glee
as he gathers the abundant blossoms-the
illuminated scriptures of the prairies. The
Cupid of the ancient Hindoos tipped his
arrows with flowers, and orange flowers
are bridal crown with us, a nation of
yesterday. Flowers garlanded the Gre
clan altar, and hung in votive wreaths
before the Christian shrine. All these
are appropriate uses. Flowers should
deck the brow of the youthful bride, for
they are in themselves lovely type of
marriage. They should twine round the
tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty
is q symbol of the resurrection. They
should festoon the altar, for their fragrance
and their beauty worship before the Most
High.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

A Nut FOR THE SAvASS.-A discovery OF
ancient relics was made a short time since
near Rosebury Topping high hill Of the
North Riding that looks into the vale Of
Tees. The district is much cut up BY eXca-
vations for irC nstone; and in making new
roadway at about fourteen feet below the
modern surface, the diggerS came upon frag-
ments of pottery, broken urns, bones Of
animals, and, as is said, part Of a human jaw
containing 3teeth. The bones comprised those
Of oxen, deer and sheep--the last SO small
in size as to lead to the inference that di-
minutive breed of sheep once inhabited
Cleveland. All the marrow-bones are broken
in two, which may be regarded as evidence
that aboriginal Britons, after picking off the
meat, knew how to get at the marrow. One
OF the smaller bones has been bored-probI-
bly that it might be suspended BY a string
and, among other things which showed signs
OF handiwork, were pegs Of wood and bone,
and Jet ring. Jet, as some Of our readers
will remember, has boon dug out OF the
cliffs of Cleveland, from time immemorial.-
No weapon or implement has been discover
ed but there are quantity Of sticks, twigs,
leaves, nuts and acorns. and considerable
bed of musSel shells-all Of which have been
opened. Neither are there any signs Of a
dwelling hence it is questionable whether
the deposit has been formed at the bottom of
a pool, or under huts raised on piles. The
date of these interesting relics is as yet un-
certain; but it must be assigned to the Celtic
period. There are archaologists enough in
Yorkshire to investigate this point; and we
hope to hear of their taking it up with spirit.
We conclude our brief notice with the state
ment that the human jaw is described as re-
markably massive and large, as if it had be-
longed to person OF huge proportions; and
that "the three teeth, which are still in their
sockets, are of great size and very much
worn down; indeed, nearly the whole crown
is worn away-a fact which testihes plainly
enough to the coarse nature Of a very con-
siderable portion of this ancient mans daily
bread
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

WHAT MAKES A CoMMoSwEALTH.-Th
Indians grew very inquisitive after knowl-
edge, both in things divine and also human,
and as one of them, meeting with an honest,
plain Englishman, would needs know Of him
what were the first beginnings (which we call
principles) Of a Commonwealth. The Eng
iishman, being far short in the knowledge of
such matters, yet ashamed that an Indian
should find an Englishman ignorant Of any,
thing, bethought himself what answer to give
him, at last resolved upon this, namely, that
the first principle of a Commonwealth was
sak =; for, saith he, by means of salt we can
keep our flesh and fish to have it ready when
we need it, whereas you lose much for want
of it, and are sometimes ready to Starve. A
second principle is iron /; for, thereby, we
fell trees, build houses, till land, etc. A third
principle is ships, by which we carry forth
such commodities as we need, as cloth, wine,
etc. "Alas % said the Indian, "then fear
we shall never be Commonwealth for we
can neither make salt, nor iron, nor ships :"
And so it has remained with their descen-
dants and brethren ever since. And, alas I!
our unhappy friends in Dixie are beginning,
practically, to work out the same proposition,
and seem to find it one exceedingly difficult
to solve.-WTnthrop's His. of Mass.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09
Speech of VIM. ID. Kelley.

The following eloquent passage is an ex-
tract from Mr.. KelIey's speech, made recent
ly in the House of Representatives, at Wash
ington, in reply to Mr.. Brooks, Of New York ::
"Sir, am no son of Massachusetts, or
New England, as the gentleman is; but
remember that in my wayward youth being
free from the indenture that had bound me
TO a long apprenticeship, but not having at
tanned manhood, wandered from my native
PENNSYLVANIA, counter to the current tide Of
emigration, in pursuit of employment, and
found home in MASSACHUSETTS, and may
be pardoned If l pause for moment to
feebly testify my gratitude to her IN whom l
found gentle and generous foster-mother.
l thank God for the Puritan spirit of Massa-
chusetts.
"A boy, poor, friendless, and in pursuit of
wages for manual toll, found open to me IN
the libraries of Boston the science, history,
and literature of the world. At a cost that
even the laboring man did not feel, | found,
night after night, and week after week, in
her lyceums and lccturc-rooms, the means OF
intercourse with her Bancrofts, her Brown
sons, her Everetts, her Channings her Pres
colts, her Emersons, and scores of others
as learned and as able, though perhaps less
distinguished sons tnan tneSe. lnuS ItdIueu
what it was to be an American citizen, and
to what length American civilization will be
carried and found four years of life spent
at well-paid toll, worth to me what the same
number of years in a college might have
been.
81 thank the men of Massachusetts, as Will
the scholars in public schools fashioned upon
her principles in the City Of Charleston in
good time They may be white, they may
be black, they may be yellow but when the
civilization Of Massachusetts, shall have PEN
etrated that dark city and fashioned its inS;i-
tutions, as it will, the pleasure Of the pupils
in the schools will be to thank God, night
and morning, for the spirit Of Massachusetts,
which kept liberty alive, and finally brought
its blessings to the entire people OF the coun-
Try. Yes, sir, Massachusetts, in the past two
o: :hree years has given a practical applica-
tion of those principles which in twelve or
fifteen centuries gave freedom to Europe,
and is about giving it to all the people of
America.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

"OrR COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRoNG."-
The time has been when the Democratic
party inscribed this motto upon their BAN
ners, and boasted that the party was, un-
der all circumstances, true to the nation.
Who does not remember how the old
Fedcralists, who were opposed to the war
of 1912, were tauntcd and scoffId at by
the Democracy because they were for
peace: 1t mattered not how pure in
character, how lofty the aspiration, how
brilliant the intellect, or how cultivated
the mind, the man who opposed the war
was marked as q doomed man, politically.
With the fate of the Federalists fresh in
the memory, is it rot strange that the very
party that proited so much by their
downfall should now be so blind, so short
sighted, as to fall into more eXtravagant
error than did the Federalists. In the
war of 1912, there was 4 very poor, yet
there was some excuse for opposition to it,
while now there is no excuse but treason
or cowardicc. With the Democracy this
time it is our party, right or wrong"
and said party being now always wrong,
is soon destined to occupy a position so
low and disgraceful that the posterity of
Benedict Arnold will be justified in giving
them the cold shoulder, for Arnold was a
patriot compared with the copperheads Of
this generation.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

JAPANESE CULTuRE.-The japanese are
far from being as much behind times as
we are apt to imagine. There is probably
no country, not christian, in the world,
so educated, cultivated, and refined. Their
mechanics are in some things more inge-
NOUS and skillful than our own. Their
farmers, if they fall behind in enterprise,
beat them in thrift and economy, and in
the quantity of produce they raise under
the same circumstances. They had print
ed books long before we had. They
watch the progress of European science
and art, and avail themselves eagerly of
its discoveries. Their coasting trade is
large and busy. They take and read the
Dutch newspapers, and thus keep them
selves posted up in the progress of western
events. They knew of the coming Of
Commodore Perry's squadron, and were
prepared for its arrival.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

NIGHT.-There is something beautiful
and sublime in the hush of midnight. The
myriad quiet sleepers, laying down each
his life burden, insensible alike to joy or
sorrow helpless alike-the strong man as
the infant; and over all, the Sleepless
Eye. which since the world began has
never lost sight of one pillowed head.
Thoughts like these come to us i'll our
wakeful night-hours with an almost
wakeful intensity. Then eternity only
seems real, and every day as fable. But
morning comes, and the stir and hum of
busy life chase them away as the warm sun
dries up the dew drops which, like these
thoughts, perform their reviving mission
ere they depart.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

4 YANKEE NoTIoS.-An American
capitalist came to me not many months
since, says a sculptor, and opened the con-
versation by saying: "Sir, your name is
Robson" I admitted my name was Rob-
son. "And you are statuary," said he.
l admitted this fact also, submitting
sculptor. "Sir," continued he, II will
give you a commission" / bowed, and
begged him to be seated. "Robson, sir,
said he, drawing paper from his pocket,
II am remarkable man. l was born in
the cn-vi-rons of Boston city, and began
life by selling matches at five cents the
bunch. am worth, at this moment, one
million O. dollars" 1 bowed again, and
said was glad to hear it. "Sir," he went
on to say, show l Armed that million o
dollars-huw from selling matches came
to running of errands; to taking care of a
hoss to trading in dogs, tobaccos, cottons,
corns and sugars; and how l came to be
the man am, you'll find all made out on
this paper, dates and facts correct. Sir,
it's very remarkable statement" l re-
piled that had no doubt of it but that l
could not quite see what it had to do with
the matter in hand. "Sir," said my capi-
talist, everything. I wish, sir, to per-
petuate my name. You have a very pretty
thing, sir, here in Rome-a pillar with a
procession twisting up all around it, and
figger up at the top. I think you call
it Traian's column. Now, Robson, sir, /
wish you to make me one exackly like it
same hight, same size, and money no
object. You shall represent my career
in all my various trades a-twisting round
the column, beginning with the small chap
selling matches at five cents the bundle,
and ending with full length figger of me
on the summit, with one hand thus, in
my bosom, and the other under my coat
tails"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09
The Origin of Property.

The first objects of property were the
fruits which man gathered, and the wild
animals he caught; next to these, tents
and houses which he built, the tools he
made use of to catch or prepare his food
and afterwards weapons of war OF offense.
MANY of the savage tribes in North Amer
lea have advanced no further than this,
for they are said to reap their harvest, and
return the produce of their market with
foreigners into the common horde or
treasury of the tribe.
Flocks and herds of tame animals soon
became property; Abel, the second son of
Adam, was q herder of sheep; sheep and
oxen, camels and asses, composed the
wealth of the Jewish Patriarchs, as they
do still of the modern Arabs. AS the
world was first peopled in the East, where
there existed a great scarcity OF water,
wells probably were next made property ;
as we learn from the frequent and serious
mention of them in the Bible, and conten-
tions and treaties about them, and from
its being recorded among the most memoir
able achievements of very eminent men,
that they dug or discovered well.
Land, which is now so important part
of property, which alone our laws call
real property, and regard upon all occa-
sions with such peculiar attention, was
probably not made property in any coun-
Try till long after the institution of many
other species of property; that is, till the
country became populous, and tillase be-
gan to be thought OF. The first partition
of an estate that we read of took place
between Abraham and Lot, and was one
of the simplest imaginable: "If thou wilt
take the left hand. then I will 60 to the
right; or if thou depart to the right hand,
then l will go to the left"
There are no traces of property in land
III Caesars account of Britain but little in
the history of the Jewish Patriarchs none
of it found among the nations of North
America; the Scythians are expressly said
to have appropriated their cattle and
horses, but to have left their land in COM
mon.
Property in immovables continued, at
first, no longer than the occupation, that
is, so long as mans family continued in
possession of cave, or his flocks be pas
tured upon neighboring hill-no one at
tempted, or thought to disturb, or drive
them out but when the man quilted the
cave, OF changed his pasture, the first who
found them unoccupied entered upon
them by the same title of his predecessors
and made way in his turn for any one
that happened to succeed. All more per-
manent property in land was probably
posterior to civil government and laws;
and. therefore, settled by these, or accord
ing to the will of the rcigning chief.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

REMARKABLE HOLD ON LIFE.-Major
Geo. n. Lewis, of the Twelfth Regiment,
is in town, stopping at the United States
Hotel. His remarkable wound promises
to heal, and his life will be saved. Not
one man in ten thousand would survive
such a wound. 1t was a canister shot,
weighing about four ounces, and made a
hole clear through him, shattering his
spine. 1t did not displace the vertebre,
which would probably have ended his life
suddenly; but it has left hole through
him, and it is said that even now stick
can be passed through it.-HarJord Times.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09
PART SECOVp !

PART SECOND
And Row another mound in Winter made
Casts oc- oar hvarts a mourntul shade.
And leads my muse in tender tore
To weep with one who weeps alone.
To mourn ia christian brother lost,
Sister bereaycd; thrice tempest tossed
On deaths bewilIrHnG wavv: YOU nsy, you
can,
CAIN a. u living saint, the dying man.
Angel gain vour loss shall he.
Harvey now j. more than free:
He cxulr:ac now sh,t. sing
In the Heavens prizes: and king
Mora couqucror yrpwuG,! 20 rciga,
WIKI b, Savior 20 obSa!a
Higher gtvre, while he -i@ss
Heavens uuurterable ;h;nSS.
Here wife and son ho leaves,
There q daughter he received
Le: this two.ioId cord Of love
Bind YOU to the wealth above.
Happy spiri;. he has fed
Where no wish that he were des,.'
Enters now. he breathes 50 free
Safely in Eternity.
Sister gras? a brothers hand
Forward 20 the Father land
Meet We where all things appear
Light. ,ha, seem bu; darkness here.
Tenierly. y"ur brother.
~ wish tina. could have gone shis morning
: wouldh have beca - much betIc-.-t Harvey L.
CHICAGO. Feb. fth. iS5i
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

THE DuTcH OF To-DAY.-They are
great people for blood and kindred, and
family gatherings; and from all that |
could hear, their domestic life is pure and
respectable. The elopement of Dutch
married lady with dragoon would shock
the country very much like a breach made
in the dykes. After twelve and half
years of matrimony a married pair hold
their copper wedding, when family
gathering and distribution of copper or
naments takes place; at the twenty-ftth
anniversary, the silver wedding, with the
presents of silver, follows, and when the
tiftieth year is attained, similar ccremo-
ny, with gold for its symbols, marks the
event. There is, indeed, an antique
ouaintness in some of the Dutch customs
of social life, which is irresiStibly comic.
When a Dutch dame lies in, for instance,
the happy event is not made known to the
world in the mcager manner Of ours-Mrs.
Tompkins of son. On the contrary, we
read in the HARLEM Co,wamt, paper
which has lasted since 1850, that the Nrow
So-and-so has been very proSperously de-
livered-=eer roospoedig beralien-of son
or daughter, as the case may be. Some
times it is added. " of very well shapen"
son or daughter. So, too, in the case of
death. You meet a functionary in the
street in knee brceches, cooked hat, long
piece of Grape behind, all black and all
funeral. That is the bidder, who takes
the news of death to every house in the
street, and every acquaintance of the de-
funct. When a person Of condition dies
there will be four or five bidders making
the round, and accompanied by an official
in an extraordinary black hat, a prefer
natural wide awake, and long black
gown. He is the huilebalk, or howlcr;
and while the bidders are communicating
the news at the door, it is his business to
stand little way off and shed tears which
are charged for in the undertaker's bill.
l am sorry to add that the huilebalk is
becoming obsolete, and his employment
falling into disuse.-Co,?1hW Magazine.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

RacS TO the sc,ucs Of yorth haste
And stand amazed q. Times sal waste;
The joys OF home, Ike bird!ings flown,
And parents. friends and brethren gone
| look for faces once loved
In vaiu-tor strangers gaze unmoved
I .ous 70 hear the well-kuown voice
That made my boyish hear rcjoicr.
How changed '-'.is home 20 mc no more!
Where sped the lect,decr loaS before;
And lai, from far;s to plain would run
And ash; the wild tirr. OF; for fun"
Thr lands W. rossrrrd IN childish cicc
Are fenced and iurrowrd-no more free
Stores. houses, depoIs, spread abroad
Ger thay de.ish,iul virgin sod
Pale sickness rjo:s where ;he breeze
Bore halcyon strains from forest 'rees;
Embowrrrd beside the prairie wild
owhere expanded when child.
And dreamed OF iLme-and buildrd long
And thorsh,. of course. my castles strong;
Till Death the shive5inE arrow sped
And LETT inr gazing u: the dead.
The dad Our Parents! Father ii i; he
Thy will. u take this 5i;:cr cup from ne:
Yet, not =.y VIII bu, tiirs, o Lord, abil',
We pray. let ihi, deep s:ir. be sancti:iy,L
wevy:u.;. marx ;he rising mold
Brothers and sisters, here with me, behold
The cad the sIory-'uriI the gloom
The second birth beyond the ,oIab.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

SOME of those cordoroy preachers of the
West are as rough as the roads over which
their parishioners are obliged to journey to
get at them. Said one of them, short time
since, by way of concluding remarks" to
a sermon on the Union: "Having used up
all the arguments I could think of to stir up
your patriotism, nothing remains for me to
add but let us pray and after prayers look
ort For balItD
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

WE MUsr DIE ALoNE.-To the very verge
of the stream our friends may accompany US ;
they may bend over us, they may cling to us
there; but that one long wave from the sea
of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us
from the shore and we go forth alone! In
that untried and utter solitude, then, what can
there be for us but the pulsation of that assur-
ance-"I am not alone, because the Father is
with me-"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

AN old, rough clergyman once took for his
text that passage of the Psalms, " l said, in
nv haste, all men are liars" Looking up,
apparently as if he saw the Psalmist stand
ing Immediately before him, ne said, You
said that in your haste, David, did you :
Well, if you had been here, you might have
said it after mature reflection"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

BEAR THIS IN MIND.-Never make use
of an honest woman's name in an improp-
er place, OF at an improper time, or in
mixed company. Never make assertions
about her that you think untrue-allu-
sions that you feel she herself would blush
to hear. When you meet with men who
do not scruple to make use of woman's
name in a reckless manner, shun them,
for they are the very worst members Of
the community-men lost to every sense
of honor feeling of humanity.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09

IMMENSE CAsrING.-The largest cannon
in the world was cast at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the eleventh of February last. 1t is capable
of throwing a 7O0-pound shell, or 1000
pound solid shot. It's length is twenty-six
feet, weighs eighty tons, and will cost, when
finished, forty thousand dollars.