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Drowned.
BY cHALMERs CARVE.

Drowned. GA
BY CHALMERS CARVE.
Ships are tossing at sea.
And ships sail in 10 the windy cliffs of the shore;
But the ship that is dearest 10 me
Will never come in with the tide
Will ripple in the bay no more,
Riding in with the tide.
Under the froth Of the foam,
And the yeasty surge and the shuddering gusts of
rain,
Lies the lad who will never come home,
his white face hid in the sand;
He neither has care nor pain
Under the sea-weed and sand.
Down by the reefs and the shells,
Far down by the channels that furrow the dolo.
rous deep,
Where the torn sails rise with the swells
And swing in the pulse Of the sea,
he is only sleeping sleep,
Down IN the sorroWtul sea.
Above him the wrack and the drift,
The red.lit east and the dark sad glow in the
west,
The currents that change and shift,
And the rain blown face of the storm;
There is nothing but silence and rest
Under the beat of the storm.
V.
Tangled in rigging and ropes,
Ard fenced by the wreck Of spar and the ruin Of
mast,
The purple sesplant gropes
And wanders over my dead
He shall waken and rise at last
When the sea gives up lis dead.
vi.
So in the dark and dawn
In the gloom of keels and the shadow Of home.
bouni ships,
My mariner sumbers on
While am awake and forlorn,
With a weary song on my lips
Out Of my heart fOrlorn.
LLippncctts for July.
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Beware Of tooth posons vended under the
name OF "dentifrices.n Adopt and adhere TO
the only preparation that really preserves the
teeth and SaEdens the gums-frsgrant Sozodo1t4
its effects on deesying teeth are marvellous.
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The assessed value Of property IN Neoraska Is
$50 ,OOO, 900, an. increase OF si4OOOVVO over AS'
year,
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Sensation Extraordinary.

DISCOVERY OF LETTER PURPORTING TO BE
WRITTEN By JESUS CHRIST.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

Promising TO MARRY THE GIRL-We YES
terday heard rather good story on one of
our city ministers. During last Winter re.
vival was in progress in one of the country
churches near the city. Among the regu-
ular attendants on the meeting was a beauti-
ful and estimable, but rather unsophistical
young lady, whose friends were very anxious
to have her unite with the church.
She seemed, however, reluctant to do SO :
and the minister in question was requested
to p" talk to her. This he did several times,
on one occasion saying, in a ocular manner
:" Miss M, if you'll join the church I'll
marry you,' meaning he would perform the
ceremony. The girl seemed pleased with the
proposition, and a few evenings after walked
up to the altar and united with the church.
Several weeks after this the minister
preached at the church, and after the servi.
ces met the young lady. " Brother-,' said
she, you promised to marry me if I'd join
the church. Are you going to do so? l
don't want to wait any longer" The min
lister saw his dilemma and attempted to ex.
plain. II meant | would perform the cere.
mony," be said 'that's all. | can't marry
you myself, for l am already married, and
love my wife too much to desire to swap her
off for another"
The young lady became indignant, de-
clared she'd leave the church, and that she
=" never did have much faith in these town
preachers" Our ministerial friend declares
that he will never again use any other than
plain scriptural argument to induce young
lady to join the church.-Ne,o Albany Com
mercial.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

A BERKSHIRE COUNTY RONANcE-A
young man from Western Massachusetts, on
his way to New York on one of the Hudson
River boats, recently made the acquaintance
of lady of middle age, who seemed much
interested in him, and who at length told
him that he greatly resembled q son of hers
who had died not long ago. Before separa.
ting from him, she gave him an urgent in
vitation to call at certain number in New
York, which he promised to do. On arri-
wing at the place appointed he found that it
was not the residence of his fellow traveller,
but of friend of hers who had daughter
of engaging appearance. but apparently IN
i'll health. This young lady, it appears, was
the betrothed of the young man who was
dead. Owing to his striking resemblance to
the deceased lover, our friend from Berkshire
was received with great cordiality, and was
urgently invited to call again, which he did,
and before he left the city he was engaged to
marry the young lady. Shortly after return.
ipg to his home word came that his
afianced, whose health was greatly impair.
ed. was much worse, and he returned to the
city and remained with her until her death.
This young lady had about $4,000 in her
own right, and during her sickness, with the
free consent of her parents, she bequeathed
il all to her intended, and he has since
come into full possession of the entire amount
in Government bonds. Being a poor Young
man, of excellent habits, this legacy will
undoubtedly be of great use to him, though
it can poorly compensate for the loss of one
to whom he had become 80 deeply attached
under such eircumstances.-Sprinqtfeld Re-
,,ubIicda
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

ANECDOTES illustrative of the timidity of
soldiers at the opening of battle were al
ways current among the men, aud were re-
peated with kind of grim relish which
showed that the subject was one of particular
interest. One, | remember, which used to
elicit the boisterous mirfh of crowds in camp,
was that of the poor little soldier whom his
captain found keeping up bravely to his file
leader, while the bullets of the skirmish line,
which preceded hot engagement, were
cutting the air about his ears Those who
have been in this peculiar situation need not
be told that it gives nervous feelings to most
men; and our captain was not surprised,
but was rather irritated, to find his soldier
lad crying bitterly, although clutching his
musket and never tagging a step.
Now, Sir. what's the matter ~ demand
ed the irate officer. Are you afraid?''
No o; | amt a bit afraid" replied the
poor little fellow, in broken voice tbut |
wish | was in my fathers barn.
What would you do in your fathers
barn ?''
- I'd 20 into the houselr
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

KNOCKS TIE SENTIMENT RIGHT OUT.-Dem
ocrats are trying to make capital out of the
fact that Lincoln compleminted Seymour for
furnishing troups. The following explains
the matter
Ex-Governor Tod, of Ohio, in a speech
lately delivered at Orwell, Ohio, made the
following reference to Mr.. Lincoln's commen-
dations of Governor Seymour's promptness
in sending troups: Seymour is an intel
ligent man. | know him well. He was
Governor at the same time | was Governor.
Mr.. Lincoln called for volunteers. | sent
him only thirty thousand, while Seymour
sent fifteen thousand. The President went
round complimenting Seymour, and saying
nothing about what had done. | took Mr..
Lincoln to task for this l said, How is it
you are complimenting Seymour for his ff-
teen thousand men and neglecting to compli-
ment Morton and meY His answer was
perfectly satisfactory. He said, why, Tod,
| never thanked Mrs Lincoln for cup of
tea in my life.' Laughter and applause.
The truth was, Morton and l had done moth
ing more than what was expected of US,
while Seymour had. He had never done the
like before, and never did afterward. 1t was
not necessary to keep a Major General in
Indiana and Illinois and Ohio. to correspond
with the President, as it was in New York
In those States the Governors acted as the
Presidents correspondents and agents. You
will remember that remarkable dispatch of
Gen. Dix to Seymour, saying: beg to let
you know that | have troops enough ut my
command to take care, not only Of the rioters,
but of you.'"
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

DAN SICKLEs ON PENDLEToNIAN STATESMAN
sHIP.-The following is from General Sickles'
speech in Philadelphia, on reception Of the
news of the Republican victory in Maine:
And then comes along Pendleton, another
fnancier, and he informs US that the war for
the suppression of the rebellion has cost him
and every other Democrat S74 %. Laugh
ter. Now, that is a statement for him i
While the whole country, from Maine to the
Gulf is profoundly agitated with the present
and future of our land while every heart
beats with solicitude to know what fate the
future has in store for us; while the widow
mourns the husband lost at Antietam; while
the mother weeps over the son who fell in the
Valley; while the orphan mourns the father
who went down in the Cumberland, gallantly
fighting to the last. George II. Pendleton was
"doing his sum-"
George II. Pendleton was calculating to
the farthing how many coppers it cost the
Copperheads to have their rebellion put down,
cheers and that is what the Democrats call
craftsmanship. That is what they mean by
keeping the eyes of the country on debt and
taxation. Oh ! Pennsylvania, you cannot,
you will not forget the countless lives lost on
the hundred fields for the preservation of the
Union. But it was reserved for Pendleton to
recount the pecuniary sacrifice it cost him to
have our triumph achieved.
Think of Benjamin Franklin counting the
cost of the Declaration of Independence
Imagine William Pitt counting how many
pennies Waterloo cost England: Think, if
you can, of Conrow counting the value of the
life Dessaix gave to France on the field of
Marengo. And then the Democratic states
man goes all the way to Maine to utter his
lamentations over the severe sacrifice he made
of seventy-four dollars and twenty-eight cents
Laughter. But as his sacrifices were only
pecuniary, they are not yet beyond the reach
of consolation. and therefore l have great
pleasure in saying to him, and his friends
who lament with him, in the name of the SOL
diers and sailors-the men who have made
unnumbered sacrifces-that we are ready to
indemnify Pendleton and all other peace men
at the rate of S74 2S head, payable in Con-
federate money
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

A REMARKABLE SwINDLE.-The Oswego
IN. " Palladium of Sept. 10th has the
following:
Yesterday rural looking lady and gentle
man of Sterling, Cayuga county, called upon
one of the Justices of the Peace and expressed
a wish to be married. The pair were made
man and wife. This morning they reap
peared, and each in turn desired that the
proceedings might be annulled. The lady
was particularly urgent. She charged that
she had been entrapped into marrying the
man who stood beside her by piece of
unparalleled deception. She had been cor
responding with her cousin in Iowa, whom
she had not seen since she was a child, and
during the correspondence her relative had
wooed and won her affections He wrote
that he was coming on here in December to
claim her hand and take her to his home in
the West. On Monday last the swain to
whom she was married made disappearance,
claimed to be her cousin, and be could not
wait until December etc. On the strength
of these representations she had reluctantly
consented to wed. She had since learned
that the man whom she had married was not
her cousin, but wretch who had secured
his wife by base deception. The man
acknowledged his culpability, but pleaded
in extenuation that the Iowa cousin had read
him the letters of his intended; that these
bad influenced him to do as he had done.-
His conscience smote him so previously since
the accomplishment of his treachery, that
he made full confession to the lady he had
so shamefully wronged. He had hoped to
reconcile her to the fraud, but she would not.
He was now willing to make the only amends
he knew of, viz: have the marriage con-
lract annulled. The magistrate suggested
that he had not the power to unmarry them.
He advised that as matters had progressed
thus far. it would be better for the lady to
make the best of a bad bargain, and accept
the situation. After good deal of persua-
sion on the part of the bridegroom, the lady
finally decided to accept the advice of the
magistrate, on the assurance that the said
bridegroom would I" make it all right" with
the genuine cousin away off in Iowa. Upon
this happy settlement the lady dried her
eyes, and the happy pair departed.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

SOCIAL LovE-How sweet is social atfec'
ton When the world is dark without, we
have light within. When cares disturb the
breast, when sorrow broods about the heart,
what Joy gathers in the circle we love we
forget the world, with all its anImos,.les,
while blessed with social kindness. mat
man cannot be unhappy, who has hearts that
yibrate in sympathy with his own, who is
cbeered bv the smiles of affection and the
voice of tenderness. Let the world be dark
and cold, let the hate and animositty of bad
men gather about him in the place OF business
but when he enters the ark of love, bis own
cherished circle. he forgets all these, and the
clouds pass from his brow and the sorrow
from his heart. The warm sympathles of his
wife and children dispel every shadow, and
he feels thrill of joy in his bosom which
words are not adequate to express. He who
is stranger to the joys of social kindness
has not begun to live.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

The sentimental editor of q paper down
South relates his melancholy experience with
a swamp angel:
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17
The Philosophy of Love.

The sentimental editor of paper down
South relates his melancholy experience with
a swamp angel:
A man loves girl-be she lovely as Helen
or hldeous as squirting Sally. without intel
llgence to set a rat trap-simply because he
can't help it. He can no more control his
feelings in that respect than he can roost on
a sunbeam. We know it-we've been there.
We were smitten with a queenly creature
once, and have since fostered big disgust
for her; but it's like preaching the gospel to
a sailor futile.
Oft swore to love her never,
Yet love her more than ever
Such girl as she was, too none of your
short, dumpy, yellowish kind, feet and a
half been the eyes and built like a scuttle-
butt-nary. Her form was the incarnation
OF symmetry, and every movement was
sylph-llke and graceful-but nature didn't
break the dies she was nodded in. as there
were nine more in the family; her complex
ion was that of dazzling fairness, which all
women sigh for-like a snowy-white rose
blushing beside poppy, her eyes of heaven
ly, enchanting corulean, such as are seen but
once In creation, into which a fellow could
gaze enraptured, and fancy he had discovered
the only avenue by which his soul might en-
ter heaven-and then meltaway into grease
spot; but sometimes when she "got her vim
egar up" or q bunion hurt her foot n little.
those pretty eyes of blue would snap like a
patent gopher catcher, and flash like flint
lock, and then her mouth-oh the mouth of
her um m-m! the sweetest, pumpest pair
OF ravishing, ruby lips that ever mortal sip
ped loves nectar from, to which our own
have clung in the helplessness of ecstacy,
while all the angels seemed conspiring to
stupefy us with bliss. But we we're not
stuck after" her because she was of such
queenly figure and so personally bewitching;
1t was her Internal stubbornness that corral.
ed our sympathy. She was possessed of a
most wonderfully y-developed spirit of contrari-
ety-contrary as toe-corn, and would 90 a
mile to participate in dispute she would
stop eternity's time-piece for opportunity
She's gone now, and the honey flood of those
sweet lips is gobbled up by another. She
" flunged" us.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17
NUMBER 80.
The Grecian Bend.


Satanella, the N. Y correspondent of the
Call, says:
Speaking of women, the " opening day, for
the Fall fashions will be next Tuesday, and
the sex is on the qui riUe already to ascertain
what will be the novelties of the season. As
the ch'gnon is now longer than ever, and has
crept up very nearly to the crown of the head,
the nat, bonnet, or whatever else we choose
to call the trif1e of lace and ribbon that sits
on the chignon aforesaid, must still remain
dimlnutive thing. 1t cannot be expanded.
That Is out OF the question. AS to the dress,
why, all that can be said at present is, that
the panier is to be increased in size, and ex-
tended still more around on both hips, SO as
to make considerable projection all about
the wearer, except in front, where the dress
Is to fall In and be made as plain and fat as
possible. Add the "Grecian bend" to this
costume, and you have the "hight of fash.
lon." Despite all the ridicule heaped upon
1t, despite all the sneers, all the taunts, all
the tun, the carcatures in the pictorial sheets,
and the ludicrous paragraphs in the Press
generally, the - Grecian bend'' comes more
and more into favor. They call it the
gripes." they laugh at it as the colic,"
and yet the ton go STOPPING over at an angle
of thirty degrees as they walk, and mince
their footsteps on their toes, apparently look
ing for lost aixpence on the ground ahead
of them. This is the Grecian bend 1t is
most awkward, most ungraceful, most vulgar,
most abominable-but bah it is also NEST
fashionable. Why refined, educated, fastidi-
GUS women should want to cultivate SO hid
eous vulgarism, / cannot imagine. Fashion
orders it, and that's enough. Fashion says
it is beautiful. and nobody dares to say, to
her face, that it is not. Fashion says it shall
be the prevailing thing, the style, the mark
of elegance and taste, and it is Heaven
save the mark but one cannot help smiling
at the absurd figure woman cuts with the
paniers behind, and stoop in front, as if
they had severe cramp. But n'importe;
Fashion wills. and "ObeY!N is the word
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

home, and doomed to fight with wild beasts
IN the amphitheatre. He was one of that class
who were sentenced to be despatched within
a year, whom, ordinarily, no mercy was al
lowed to reach.
fancy yourself, then, in the Coliseum at
Rome, begun to be built by Vespasion, finish
ed by his son Titus; that sublime building,
which even now, in its ruins, is the wonder
OF the world: Every one who enjoys the pre-
eminent privilege of visiting Rome goes to
see 1t, especially when the moonlight, with
its gllmmerings of fairly land, sheds its mys-
tic lustre over the rent walls.
In the days Of its glory it could contain
elghty-seyen thousand spectators 1t derived
Its name from Colossus or gigantic statue of
Nero, that stood near it. How these enter
talnments were lavished on the people =
Tralan, celebrating his triumphs over the
D-cians, gave spectacles there every day for
one hundred and twenty three DAYS in sue
cession, during which eleven thousand glad
iators fought
The emperor sat in the Podium on an
elevated spot canopied over with silk, his
senators with him, fifteen feet above the
arena. The knights sat next to the mobiles,
or senators, on fourteen rows of cushioned
seats. The masses of the people occupied
seats OF bare stone. By means of special
apparatus, perfumes of the most delicious
kind were breathed over the..whole assem-
blage; while thousands of the loveliest ladies
of the worlds conquering metropolis, glitter
ing with gold ahd jewels, look on, delighted
with the death agonies of brave men. In the
days when our runaway slave lived, gladia-
torial games and struggles with ferocious ami
mails were in all their glory. At the feast of
Minerva, therefore, be was brought into the
arena, to be torn and mangled, - to make a
Roman holiday" He stood there alone,
sword in hand, awaiting the advent of some
Numidan lion that had been kept without
food for two days, in order to make it more
greedy.
AT length a low door was opened, and lion
rushed out with loud roar. Itcame bound
ing toward him it stared at him with blood
thirsty eyes but suddenly it stopped-then
it came up to him with mild and joyous look
and Androcles recognized his dear friend of
the African cave. 1t crouched at his feet
He threw his arms around its neck Never
so strange, so happy meeting before on a
Roman arena.
The emperor rose and demanded an ex.
PLANTATION of a scene so strange This An
drocles gave him in simple, manly words
The emperor was much moved gave him a
full pardon and his liberty made him pres
ent of the lion and enriched him with large
sum of money. enough to support him and
his shaggy friend for the rest of their lives
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

A FRENCH priest has discovered that alum
is a remedy for snake poison. A girl of his
parish was bitten by venemous reptile. In
ten minutes she was in commissions. and lost
the power of speech. lie dissolved Iumn
OF alum the size of pigeons egg in a large
glass OF water, and gave it all at once. Vom-
ltIng then set in, and more alum water was
administered, until at the end Of an hour and
hail. after taking in lump of alum the
SIZE SIZE OF hens egg the patient began to re-
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

10 RAISE wATERwELoNs WITHOUT srEDs-
The following plan has been successfully
adopted by planter in Caddo parish Ions
lana; After the vine is about two feet long.
cover the vine at point intermediate between
the top and the root. After it has taken root
where 1t is covered, divide the vine between
tue old and new root, and the result will be
that the melons will be seedless. without i'm
pairing their quality.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17

l.. p. FISHER, go q 2I New Mer-
chants Exchange, is our only authorized Agent in
San Francisco. For Eastern Advertising, Mr..
Fisher is represented by S. NJ. Pettengill & Co.,
of New York und Boston.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-06-20
OTTAWA FREE TRADER: SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1868.

have not forgotten me; you love me little,
yet 2"
And Constance's eyes betrayed the truth she
hardly dared to speak.
"Iook here, girls :" exclaimed Mary Drewitt,
as she unfolded the damp newspaper at the
breakfast table, about week afterwards, there s
the clew to Royal Vanes unaccountabe absence.
He's married married to Constance Martin"
II knew how it would be-" said Anne Tighe,
Chipping her egg-shell, calmly. "Bless you,
girls, a man is as easily managed as pet puppy,
if one only knows how to do it."
Sand here's a note from the young man him
self, to tell us that he will call this evening"
said Barbara. what shall we do ?"
"We'll receive him, of course, in full dress,
said Mary, bursting into peal Of laughter.
"What will Constance say ?"
Mr.. and Mrs. Royal Vane were duly ushered
into the pleasant, old fashioned drawing room,
that evening, and waited some time before any
one made their appearance -.
81 don't see what has become OF the girls,
said Royal, after few minutes waiting. live
half mind to go and see
At that instant the door slowly swung open to
admit most incongruous procession. FIRST
came Widow Hotchkiss, bombazine umbrella
and all then Miss Amarinthia Fowle; then the
plump Bloomer finally, Victoria Maria, in bat
tie array all passing solemnly in front of the
sofa, where sat their victim.
ROYAL Vane started to his feet, turning red
and pale
"What does this mean? Who are your" he
demanded, sternly; while Constance uttered a
faint scream.
1t was echoed by burst of uncomfortable
laughter. Masks, wrappings and DISCUSSES fell
to the floor, and Mr.. Vane was confronted by his
four mischievous cousins.
"Don't be alarmed Royal" said Barbara.
"You, as a married man, arc no longer in dan
ger But how ANONYMOUSLY you were routed
that day down in the ofice.'
"Yeu little, inscrut able, tormenting, unac-
countable, good-tor-nothng minxes!" calculated
Royal; "ss it was your"
1--WE ourselves and no others. On, Royal to
think one astute could so easily be taken in ~
"Bless you, girls said philosophical Anne,
she's only man what can you expect"
And then they all fell to fondling Constance,
the new conner, and Royal subsidized into the
background.
81 am SO glad.' said Anne.
81 am delighted" said Barbara.
81 wish leap year came every six months, y
said Mary.
'Such fun J" lisped Alice Bruce.
Eyes" groaned Royal, "fun for you, but
here his eye fell on Constance's sweet, blushing
face, as he added, "and the luckiest thing that
ever happened to me. Hurrah for leap year,
And the girls echoed his sentiment with mis-
chevous mirth.
"Hurrah for leap year,