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Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-04-03
WEAVERVIILE. CALIFORNIA, APRIL g. 1862
An Ember Picture.

HOW strange are the freaks OF memory
Inc lessons Of life we forget
hniie trine, trick Of color,
IN The wonderful web 10 set.
SET by some mordant Of fancy,
And despite the wear and tear
vi Time or distance trouble
insists on its right to be there.
chance had brought rs together;
our talk was Of matters OF course;
We were nothing one TO the other,
But short half hours resource.
We spoke Of French acting and actors,
And their easy, natural way
VI the weather, for 1t was raining
A we drove home from the play.
We debated the social nothngs
Men take such pains to discuss,
The thunderous rumors OF battle
Were silent the while for US.
Arrived at her door, we left her
With drippingly hurried adeu,
And our wheels went crushing the gravel
Of the oak-darkened avenue.
As we drove away through the shadow,
The candle she held in the door
From rain-vanished tree trunk to tree trunk
finished fainter, and flashed no more
Flashed fainter. and wholly faded
Before we had passed the wood;
But the light of the face behind it
Went with me and stayed for good.
The vision Of scarce a moment,
And hardly marked at the time,
1t comes unbidden to haunt me,
Like a scrap Of ballard-rhyme.
Had she beauty, Well, not what they call 50
You may find thousand as fair,
And yet there's her face in my memory,
With no special right to be there.
As sit sometimes in the twilight,
And call back to life In the Goals
Old faces and hopes and fancies
Long buried-good rest to their souls
Her face shines out of the embers;
] see her holding the light,
And hear the crunch of the gravel,
And the sweep of the rain that night
'Tis q face that can never grow older.
That never can part with its CLEAN;
'Tis n gracious possession forever,
For what is it all but a dreami
james Russell Lo,reH.
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NEW ALMADES M1SE.-This mine is under the
superintendent of DR.. J. E. Mayo 1t has been
worked since ls4e, paying well all the time.
There are Mexicans working in it, who pack ore
upon their backs. In some places the chambers
are fifteen feet high and twenty feet wide. All
the ore is taken out of the main shaft, where are
twenty-five Mexicans breaking and asserting it.
For hosting, there three engines, Of "a, l6
and Is horse power. These engines are ID the
mine, and steam is conveyed to them through
pipes from the surface. The mines are 1000
feet from the reduction works, the ore being run
in cars direct from the mine to the furnaces, of
which there are sereu, holding from $4,000 TO
900 pounds each. Each furnace works from
four to FIVE charges per month. The fues from
these furnaces run up the hill 200 feet where the
smoke and fumes issue, killing all the vegeta-
ton around. This is one of the richest quick
silver mines in the world, and employs force of
FIVE hundred and fifty men in the mining and
reduction of the ores. 1t ooif HA'
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-04-03
NUMBER 49,.
Definition OF Character.

Inc virginia (Nevada) Enterpri.s gives the
following:
having seen some definitions of character 60
.hs hs sne iounos we have concluded to give under
the same head few definitions. irq rr
Fine People-The man, who nresents won with,
9nassessaoie stock the man who always intro
auces you TO his friends, Baxter, Boulton, Barry,
ofaoy ana bell the moment you ask him 10 take
urinh, ana the woman who bids against you at
an auction. 'F3,-r
GenHe feopt-The young man who spends ten
noars day at smiling in front of popular dry
goous stores the woman that carries, ten
pound poodle, and the man who asks YOU for
half dollar because he is too proud to beg.
industrious Peopie-The proprietor of a faro
bank hurdy girl who has found a flush oull-
teamster, and a broken hummer In search OF his
morning bitters. a1ee nose 20 aa) ii IN
Unpopular Peopls--The bewitchipg young lady
who is selling tickets for petticoat rattle the
woman who takes her babe to the theater, and
the young man who comes to you three times a
day to be plagued about Miss Smith. ~ s,a7t
Timid Peopie-The man with $50, 900 to invest
in stocks the man who is to reply to present
alton speech, and the widow who is about to
take second husband. . ,4,.r
Dignjfed People = Your wife's mother; the
man who caught you kissing his wife, and a
country justice in hog suit. o'a9n'
Unhappy PeopLe-All the married women who
live within hearing of Mrs. Tausig's new piano
a man at a social hop with hole in the seat of
his trowsers, and an old maid with false teeth at
a candy-pulling.
Humble People - The wife who wants a new
bonnet; the man who is running for Congress,
and the man who invested in stocks six months
ago.
Mean People The lodger that finds bugs in
his bed the boarder who is suspected of having
a tape-worm, and the washerwoman that asks
for her pay.
Sensible People-People who mind their own
business people who let other peoples tusi-
ness alone, and the people who died last year.
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A DARK AFFAIR.-Yesterday Thos. Fitzgerald,
a gentleman of the colored persuasion, was
brought up before Judge provinces, charged with
assault and battery the person of Hannah
Blowers, also member OF the colored frater-
nifty. He was also charged by George Hamil-
ton, "cullud posson," with having feloni-
ously, and with malice aforethought, uttered
threats against his life, contrary to statutes made
and provided in such cases. 1t appears that the
gushing Hannah has been living with the impet-
uous Fitzgerald for seven long years, in all the
joys that matrimony favors its victim with
During that time she combed her wolly locks
for him alone, and her ivores glistened at his
approach, like streak of sunshine breaking
through thunder-cloud. In those days Fitz-
gerald was happy, for Hannah's heart beat res
sponsive to his own; but viper came, regu-
lar black snake, and invaded his Eden. His
dusky partner favored the ebony serpent,
George Hamilton, Esq, and she clave unto him,
and for it Fitzgerald threatened to clave his
head; but Hannah espouscd her lovers cause
and said unto him, 81 will go with thee; thy
people shall be my people," Thereupon the
outraged Fitzgerald took his foot away from her
Grecian bend II few times, for which he was ar
rested. He pleaded guilty and will be sentenced
to-day. Hamilton, being now sole possessor of
the blushing damsel, magnanimously withdrew
the charge of threats, and, on Fitzgerald s
promise not to trouble him, that part of the case
was dismissed. Oh, frailty,' thou art found in
female bosoms of every color; yea, verify
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Sneisty Aptiees.

N TStsfsy Lodge, No. ~, r. = n. .u.-Hoid
their regular Masonic Hail. weaverve
the last Saturday of each month Hour of meeting SIX
O'Clock p. JOHN McMURRY, W. NJ.
M.F.GRIPPIN, Secretary Avs
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Tar HIeHrsr MousrArs ~ EUsopE.-Elburz,
the highest peak of the Caucasus, was ascended
during the last summer by party OF English
men. and i,s height found to be ls, ,52s feet As
the boundary line between Europe aad Asia is
now recognized by geographers as the axis of
the Caucasus range, and Elburz, is on the Euro
pearl side of that line, it is therefore the highest
mountsin in Europe. Mont Blanc 10 some three
thousand feet less in height. .aoeisf
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NuTMEGs.-Nutmegs are the frait OF DEBUT
full tree which grows in the. Molucca lsianos .
and in other parts of the East. All the paris o. of
the tree are aromatic, but only those portions o.
the fruit called mace and nutmegs are matke1 aSant
ble The entire fruit is Of au oval form ,ss., seou'
the the size Of peach. The nutmeg Is the niss Inner
~, ~ kernal It is surrounded by skin, WHOA
nosIsd oIs of off constitutes the mace Of comnesee.
Tbe tree annually three a Gf0ps !: aa nAi bsst ess.
ynsh n gathered 70 aps aos
Ine Cod outmegs should be dense apd heaSy,
d oel free from worm-holes. When me worm
ana a nave been arti6cally filled up, the feeling
~ n ,;phtness in the hand is means on detecting
the fraud An attempt has been mace 70 eaatl-
.a.e .a. uutmees in the West Ipdies, but without
success. is =. ..--- =. -npI-
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~ TrtSssH Chapter, No. 10, RovsI.4reh .n1.
meet on the second and fourth Tuesday In each
It the Masonic Hall, Weaverviile. &c. BURCH, H. z
MI GRIFFIN, Secretary. Avs
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sSwsS u,ees socOnu ana IOurtn Iuesuhy ~
q the Masonic Hail. Weaveryille &c. BURCH, II. 2.
M.F. GRIFFIN, Secretary Avs
81 North Sssr Lodge, No. 81, 4. o. o. H.'
holdsits regular meetings Odd Fellows Hail.
on Thursday evening at7 o'clock Members Of the oroer
from abroad are cordially invited to attend , ~ n
VIM H BACHFJnpR Rs Avs.
~ SssHs Eseampssssf, No. IL, i. Q. o. r.,
the evenings and third Tuesday OF each
month"; Odd Fellows Hail. Weavervilie at O'CLOCK "a
triarchs from abroad are invited to visit u.s.
JOSEPH CRAIG, c. P.
r. W Sw,rH Scribe Avs.
IA Comet Lodge, JN'o. 81, L. o. Q. f., Trinity
Center holds its regular meetings Saturday
Odd Fellows Hail. E. X. SKIES, NJ
y.C DoRl, RS.
~ Bsseos Lodge, .N-O. 900, l. o: ef q. IT,
their hail. second story Of Hoslinger Co Dud
ing, Weavervile, every Sunday evening at o'clock.
CHARLES hAKTMAN, W. C. 7.
GEo. E. NooyAN, W. s. IZio.
~ The German HOspffSI Society or Trfstiy
county holds its regular Quarterly meetings at the
building the first Sunday in March, june ana
December CHAS. HARTMAN,
Avs Secretary.
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Mohamm.d,s Tomb.

Mohammed, the Prophet of Allah, lies buried
in the city of El Medinah, and all the world OF
Islam goes up to his tomb. About this tomb
there hangs a great deal of mystery. The Vni-
gar story of the suspended coffin has long been
| exploded, and the question now seems to oe
whether there is any tomb at all. Lieutenant
Burton, who recently made a pilgrimage to the
holy cities in the disguise of an Afghan Dervisb,
furnishes the most reliable information upon this
point. We learn from his narrative that al
| though thousands 60 yearly to see the tomb OF
the Prophet, yet no one ever saw it, In one
corner of the grand mosque of that city is A
chamber supposed to be entirely walled up with
stone or planking, inside of which, the pilgrim
is told, are the tombs Of Mohammed and the first
two caliphs, Abubeker and Omar. But this
walled chamber is surrounded outside with q
curtain somewhat like a four-post bed. No one
is permitted to look behind the curtain except
the eunuchs, who at times replace it with new
one and they say that supernatural light sur
rounds the tombs that would strike with blind
ness any one that would have temerity to ap-
proach it. This story is now universally be-
lieved among Moslems. Outside of the curtain,
leaving a narrow space between, is an iron fla
gree railing which serves to keep the crowd from
close contact with the tomb. After many pray
ers and prostrations the pilgrim is made to ap-
proach small window in the railing, through
which he catches glimps of the curtain. The
exact place of Mohammed's tomb is distinguished
by large pearl rosary and peculiar ornament
suspended to the curtain, which the vulgar be-
lieve to be Jewel of the jewels of Paradise"
Lieutenant Burton, however, says, to his eyes,
it resembled the ground shoppers of glass used
for the humber sort of decanters Through the
window of the railing the pilgrims expected
to throw their contributions, and the treasures
of the place are kept in the narrow passage be-
tween the railing and curtain. The amount is
said to be enormous, which Lieutenant Burton
doubts. No one is permitted to enter this pass
age except on the payment of an extraordinary
sum. What there really is behind the curtain
seems to be matter of great doubt. The Mos
lem authorities are divided in opinion. Some
say there is no wall behind the curtain others
say that it covers square building of black
stones in the interior of which is the tomb !;
while others say there three deep graves, but
no traces of tombs; and lastly, Lieutenant Bur-
ton strongly suspects that the burial place of the
Prophet is entirely unknown. Certainly the
eunuchs' story of the binding light that sur
| rounds the Prophets tomb looks like presly
gloss to hide defects. Yet all the world of Islam
goes up to pray at the Prophets tomb, and mil
lions believe that he now lies there with bloom
ing face and bright eyes, and that blood would
issue from his body if wounded, for no dares
to assert that the holy one is suffered to undergo
corruntion
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JUST ESTIMATE OF Horace GREELEY. The
Irish Republic says:

D.
Irish Republic says:
There is no man 10 this republic to whom the
people owe more than Horace Greeley. Others
have burst into notoriety and dazzled the multi
tude with their brilliant actions. But if Hor-
ace Greeley, and men such as he, had not pre-
pared the way for the mighty events of the past
few years, where would all your mighty heroes
be? Here is a man whose life has spanneo
three generations, and whose great aim has oeen
to elevate mankind. He started by comDAt.se sss5.
the devil of slavery, and his life bis ge has has
crowned with the laurelss of success ,be blind,
been strength to the weak, light 20 .ad nd his pen
comfort to the afflicted His so,I an been for hu-
and bis great, good heart ma %. his name is re-
IF; e. :s I: :;; +; g.; s.;
have been saved from '''p"'s's 10
light. ,rsls srais ~ -
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A SINGULAR CAsE.-We are told few days
ago of a singular case of domestic inhdelity,
which lately occurred in one of the mining camps
of the foothills of this county. Some years ago
a gentleman made visit to his friends in the
East, and while there fell in love and married on
short courtship young lady, seventeen years Of
age. The couple soon after returned to this
country, and the fruit of their married life are
four children, the youngest Of tender age. Un-
til short time since the man and wife have ga
joyed that usual degree of domestic felicity al
lowed to " sinful creatures" Lately, however,
change came over tie spirit of the wife ANA,
mother. She suddenly ascertained that her
heart was anothers, and never had been her
doting husband s. She unbosomed her secret
to her lawful lord, telling him frankly that she
loved him not, and that her soul aspred to en-
brace another mana gentleman living in the
neghborhood. The husband heard his wife's
petition with Christian forebearanee, and though
deeply attached to her. very calmly consented to-
the separation-te1ling her to go if she would,
but if she ever needed pecuniary aid, or felt a
desire to return, he should be the first to be ap-
piled to- The unfathful wife accepted the con-
dtions took up her bed and walked We did
not hear what disposition was made of the chill
dren. Considering all the circumstances, the
public will consider this the coolest coujngal
transaction on both sides. transpiring for some
time. The popular verdict will be that the
affectionate husband deserved better wife,
MarysriUe Appeal. H...f
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TIE AMERICAN GIRL.-It is the belief of Ger
tain well-meaning men who were not born in
Constantnople, that if, the American girl were
called on to meet proportion of her expenses
by her own labor, she would be publicly a
greater blessing, and personally healthier, wiser
and happier. 1t is even believed tina. her out
lay, instead Of increasing, would diminish
Practiced in the mystery of keeping accounts,
aware by the experience of the difficulty of earn
ing money, she would become clever enough to
save it. With something to do, she would put
less mind, time, and purse into the pursuit of
pleasure. Mated at last with poor man, $50
many are incorrigibly vicious that way J she
would share his burden rather than crush him
with it, If all women now were thus, we
should have no cause to cry, as we are some
times tempted to do: Oh for the slow but
cheap girl o. thirty years since Whether Democ-
racy is capable Of some such selfsaving mira
Gle as we have indicated, remain to be seen:-
Nation. o- 81 raseoe @hT s"'H
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-03
THE INAUGURAL

On tomorrow the great sealed volume
which is Grazing half the politicians to know
will be opened, and at least few sample
pages exhibited. L. s. Grant is to break
that silence which has so long made him all
enigma in politics, and the breaking OF
which will make the morning stars of some
expectant republicans sing together for Joy
and send others away in sorrow to that OBJ,
security which they fondly think themselves
so little fitted to adorn. The occupation OF
an army of idle newspaper correspondents
will, to q large extent, be gone, for there
will soon be nothing for their active imagin
etions to feed on in the way of Speculations
as to Grants cabinet. His policy will prob
ably not be very definitely indicated, part
cularly as it is not yet certain that the SENATE
will allow him to have any policy whicl
shall differ from their own. Nothing bu
some generalities which all parties will prob
ably construe favorably may be expected
Democrats will will be found as ready. ",
hope, as Republicans to CO operate with hin
in any honest endeavor he may make t,
bring the government back to economy il
administration, and peace and prosperit
among its citizens.
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What is Fusel OIL.

The New York dailies, since the report Of
analytical chemists of the Board of Excise
has been made, are asking, the questions.
Whr' IS iusei0llF Some have also made a
feeble attempt to answer the question which
IS thus propounded. The queery has arisen
from the fact that the report above alluded
to states that out of thirty-two samples of
bourbon and brandy obtained from the
liquor dealers of this city, all but four con
tanned fusel-oil. One daily gives vent TO lis
feelings in the following
u. it after all such a frightll thing
Duughson describes it as an acrid. volatile
oil, formed in the manufacture of potatc
brandy, and which is not easily separable
from it and another authority SAYS il ac
companies ordinary alcoholin its production
from potatoes aud grain. Duughson also
says that its chemical constitution is anala.
gous to that of alcohol aud that, in small
doses, it ia highly stimulating acting ike
narcotics in general while, in large doses,
1t destroys the mucous memberance Of the
stomach. The same authority also disig
mates It as potato oil, grain oil, corn spirit
OIL 'anyle alcohol, and 'hydrate oxide Of
amyle. Some medical men have considered
that IN the use of'whisky by consumptives,
fuseloIi was the effective element--bayino
the tendency to retard the processes of decay
IN the tissues of the lungs. Bnt there Is
no question of the ruinous efFacts ~ ,be
iusel-oil liquors sold in New YorL y
In regard to the effects Of fusel oil rco,,
The human system we can do no better than
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-03
Small Bed Chambers

There is reason to believe that more cases
Of dangerous and fatal diseases are gradual
ly engeudered annually by the habit Of sleep.
ing in small, uuycntllated rooms, than have
occurred from cholera atmosphere in any
year since it made ,ts appearance in thI.
country. Very many persons sleep in eight
by ten rooms that Is, in rooms the length
and breadth OF which multiplied again by
| ten for the height Of the chamber woul,
| make Just eight hundred cubic feet, while
| the cubic feet for each bed, according to tn,
| English apportonment for hospitals il
| twenty.one hundred feet. But moro in or
der ito give the air in room the highes
degree Of freshuess' the French hospital
| contract for a complete renewal Of the air o
| a room every hour, while the English asscr
| that double the amount, or over four thou
| sand feet an hour, is required.
-Four thousand feet of air every hour and
yet there are multtuies in New York who
sleepwth closed doors and windows in
rooms which do not contain Il thousand
cubic feet of space and that thousand feet
is to last oil night, at least eight hours, eX.
cept such scanty supplies as may be obtain.
ed Of any fresh air that nsy lnslnuate itself
through little Creylces by door or window,
not an eighth of an inch in thickness But
when it is known that in many cases man
and wife and infant sleep hebituaIly in
thousand feet rooms, It is no marvel that
multitudes perish promaturely in cities no
wonder that infant children wilt away like
flowers without water, and that FIVE thou
sand Of them are to died in the city of New
York alone during the hundred days which
include the 10Th Of July in every year
Another fact is suggestive, that among the
fifty thousand persons who sleep nightly in
the lodging houses of London, expressly ar
ranged on the improved principles of space
and ventilation already referred to, it has
been proven that not one single case of few
er has been engendered in two years Let
every intelligent reader improve the teach.
ings Of this article without an hours delay
--HaPS JotuHd Of Heath,
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IMPORTANT DECISION IN BANKRUPTCY

Judge Treat, Of Missouri, has recently
rendered decision Of interest and impor
lance under the Bankrupt Act Creditors
Of party who was really in failing circum.
stances but which does not appear to have
been known TO the creditors except by infer
euce from the fact Of the debtors failure to
pay his debts in the usual course Of bust
ness by threats Of suit extorted from the
debtor confession of Judgment in their
favor and issued an execution against his
property. The Judge holds that under the
present Bankrupt Act there is no distinction
allowed between a voluntary and an invol
untsry preference Of creditors, and that it il
immaterial whether the confessions Of judg
ment were voluntary or involuntary, as tn
creditors BY them sought to secure prefer
enCe over other creditors which is not a
lowed In this case the Court held that th
assignee could recover the possession of th
property which had been seized and sole
under the executions issued on these iudg
ments. If this be the correct Interpretation
Of the law no amount Of diligence on the
part of creditors will avail them anything, il
as matter of fact, at the time attachments
or executions issue, the debtor is in failing
circumstances and is within six months after
such process declared q Bankrupt. The
Court uses this language
at is immaterial whether the confessions
otjudgment we're voluntary or involuntary
and procured by pressure upon the debtor
and as the judgment creditors sought to pro
cure preference over other creditors, the
assignee may proceed by summary proceed
ings to recover the property which has been
seized and sold by the sheriff under the ex.
ecutons issued upon these judgments"