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Year: 1860

A young man, who had left his home i
1aine ruddy and vigorous. was seized wit
he yellow fever in New Orleans; and thong
ursed with devoted care by friendly strang
RS, he died When the coffin was bein
losed, ".Stayi" said an aged woman who wa
resent, ''let me kiss him for his moMerr
Let me kiss him for his motherl


Ere ye lay him with the dead
Far away from home, another


Sure may kiss him in her stead
How that mothers lip would kiss him
Till her heart would nearly breakl
How in days to CONE she II miss himl


Let me kiss him for her sake.
Let me kiss him for her sake.


Let me kiss the wandering buyj
1t may be there is no other


Left behind to give her joy.
When the news of woe the morrow


Burns her bosom like coal,
She may feel this kiss of sorrow


Fall rs balm upon her soul.
Let me kiss him for his mother


Heroes ye, who by his side
Waited on him ss brother


Till the Northern stangcr died.
Heeding not the foul infection,


Breathing in the lever-.breath,-
Let me, of my own election,


Give the mothers kiss in death.
"Let me kiss him for his mcther!'


Loving thought and loving deed!
Seek no tear nor sigh to smother,


Gentle matrons, while 20 read.
Thank the God who made YOU human,
Give yo plying tears to shed;
Honor yc the Christian woman


Bending DER another's dead.
Year: 1860

HOPE writes the poetry OF the boy, but
Memory that of the man. Man looks for
ward with smiless but backward with sighs.
Such is the wise Providence of God. The
cup of life is sweetest at the brim, the flavor
Is impaired as we drink deeper, and the
are bitter that We may not struggle when it
Is taken from our lirs.
Year: 1860

THE chief charm Of existence is the love of
warm, devoted hearts, aud these, one by one,
as the tide Of time rolls onward, cease to boat
on earth, till at length the survivor experien-
ces dread that he shall be left isolated amid
new generation, the last leaf on a tree. the
last wave upon desolate shore.
Year: 1860

THE LATEST MIRAcLE.-Dr. T. L. Nichols,
the convert from spiritualism and free love
to the Catholic church, is lecturing about
the country in defense of his new faith. His
chief argument is built on the miracles,
which he asserts are still wrought in the
Catholic church, and in that church only,
thus establishing its divine authority
Among the latest of these miracles is the
cure of Mrs. Mattingly, devoted Catholic
at Washington, of cancer of the stomach,
with which she was nearly dead. Her friends
wrote to Hungarian priest, famous for his
mighty works, and he fixed day when he
would say mass for her cure, the same SER
vice to be performed at the same time in her
presence. She lay in bed, and it appeared
that she was never so low as on that morn :
ing. The ceremony was performed and she
received the holy communion, although it
was at first doubted whether she could sur
vive it. In "a moment after it was completed
she arose from her bed, returned thanks,
went down stairs and received the congrat-
ulations of over three hundred visitors come
to rejoice over her recovery. All symptoms
of disease had vanished, the ulcers had dis
appeared, and the cure was effected Instantly
Among those present on that occasion was
President Buchanan.
Year: 1860

A HARMONIOUS PARTy.-Mr. Tilton, the
Intellectually contested, is said to be the only
Republican in the House, and the Times re-
marks on this head:


"We shall look for entire harmony in the
party in that branch of the Legislature
When the factions of the Democracy are en-
gagged in wrangling and dispute, he can tell
them to look upon and initiate the patriotic
harmony and concord of the Republican
party. 1t will stand as a unit, harmonious
and strong, and if there be any truth in the
saying that in union there is strength, then
must the Republican party in the Assembly
be the strongest"
Year: 1860

CAST STEEL BILLIARD BALLs.-A man in
Sonora, Tuolumne county, has invented a
machine for the purpose of making billiard
balls of cast steel. The balls are to be hol-
low spheres, and are about the size of the
common ivory balls in use. The balls are
first made and nicely turned in the shape OF
half spheres, and are then soldered and
brazed together with gold. The inventor
claims for his invention that he can give
steel a greater elasticity than is in ivory;
that he can make the ball a more perfect
sphere, and above all, that they can be made
a cheap substitute for ivory. The machine
for turning and fitting the balls is most
ingenious contrivance.
Year: 1860

PREPARE FOR YoUR VNEYARDs.-No man
who has plot of ground fit for vines,
should let this season pass without prepar-
ing to plant vineyard even if only small
one, for his own use. Our 'ssidehills" are
all fit places for the grape, and the most OF
them far superior to all other places for the
vine. Let no one fail to plant few, so that
his own family may feast on fresh grapes
Cal Farmer.
Year: 1860

MoRMoNIsM.-Iti is computed that there are
at present about one hundred and twenty
one thousand Mormons in the world. Eighty
three thousand live in Utah, of whom four
thousand six hundred and seventeen have
sixteen thousand and five hundred wives
Year: 1860

Since the introduction of my Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps into the United States, number of Liquor
Mixers in New York. Boston, Philadelphia and San
Francisco, have been engaged in putting up mixed and
poisonous Gin cases and jugs to be palmed offupon
the unwary for my genuine Schnapps. At first, they
boldly counterfeied my name but soon stopped that
by causing several o. them to oe arrested They now
confne themselves to closely atng the appearance
and shape of my bottles, and the peculiar wrapper
which have always used, viz YELLOW PAPER,
printed with RED and BLUE INK, PASTEBOARD
PRINTED CAPS
Year: 1860

worked by two shafts; length of levels $50
feet; width of vein IA feet; pays 81 per ton.


The two mines are consolidated and from
them is discharged an average of one hun
dred tons per day. The mine, as consolida-
ted, is undoubtedly the best gold mine in the
world now known. This IS no puf, but fact
The steam mill has forty stamps, of four
hundred and twenty-five pounds each, pro-
PEELED by double engines of eighty horse
power, and crush per day sixty-fve TONS
One water mill, twelve stamps, four hundred
and twenty-five pounds each, crush twenty
three tons per day. Water is scarce in sum-
mer. Average per year about one hundred
tons-computing "a running days per month
If any one is incredulouS, you may refer them
to the banking house of d. O. Mills & Co.,
through whom | ship the gold. I take out
from $25, 900 to $50, 900 monthly, and have
now proved for at least two years rock, or,
as l term it, have two years rock in sight of
equal value. I am constantly employing
about ninety men. Total monthly expenses
about $4,000.


A WORD TO MINERs.--A correspondent of
the San Andreas Iadtpealdent thus sensibly
observes:


1t is evident to every thinking mind that
the country cannot stand forever such drain
of gold as she has had for these last ten
years. Ask every intelligent miner in re-
gard to the placer diggings-no matter of
what locality-and he will tell you that the
diggings are pretty well worked out, and
that they, as body, cannot make as much
now as they have done in years past There
is no way of cultiVating the ground to make
the thing grow. Manure your claim we'll
and wash it off; it is not likely to produce
more gold on that account. Cover it with
guano and plow deep, yet you will not find
one speck more gold in it. The thing can
not be made by man, neither can we devise
means to make it grow. Yet 'sfolks must
do something for their bread" and we have
the remedy within our own hands If we
remain On these mineral lands let us have
at least two strings to our bow; let every
miner secure to himself piece of land that
can be irrigated in summer; fence it well,
and plant it in grape vines; tend to them
well, and in few years they will find that
the making of wine is better business than
gold digging. Let as spend our spare cash
purchasing few good sheep; increase our
focks whenever we can, and the time will
soon come when mining will be a secondary
business; the people will soon produce more
wealth from wine and wool than ever has
been made by mining in its brightest day ;
let every bachelor procure him one of the
prophet Nathan's slittle eve lambs )" let him
carry her to his dwelling; let her feed at his
table, and let her lay on his bosom; then
will we be happy and contented people
Year: 1860

INFERENoEs FROM Coon AND BAD SPELL
ING.-Many great men have been unable to
spell Give himself, the favorite example
in these cases, would certainly have been
rejected on this score, for his letters are
very ill-spelt indeed. But the fact,is that
good spelling and bad spelling both imply
something more than appears on the sur
face of the matter. Spelling is learned by
reading. No vocabulary or expositor"
will ever teach man to spell. The power
is acquired insensibly by the exercise Of the
eye and the familiarity with the aspect Of
words which necessarily follows. If man
is in doubt between two methods of spelling
a word he can usually convince himself by
writing it down under both forms, and OBJ
serving which of the two meets his eye
most naturally. Another illustration of
the fact, too, may be readily found Though
there arc no Latin spelling books, boys
never misspell Latin. This is because Latin
is learned from books, and not from conver-
sation, so.that when word is remembered
at all it is remembered as it looks on pa
per. When, therefore, candidate can
spell correctly, it is pretty safe inference
that he reads habitually; when he fails in
spelling, it is probable that he is not a read
ing man. In this way orthography carries
with it "a presumption of other requirements,
and gives the examiner certain insight
into the general habits of the competitor
before him.
Year: 1860

TIE Suns DIsrANCE.-Were the centre
of the sun to occupy the place Of the earth's
centre, that body would fill the whole orbit
Of the moon, and extend two hundred thou.
sand miles beyond it, in every direction.
From this confederation we derive some
thing approaching to clear idea of the
suns magnitude. Its diameter is $50, 900
miles, or about one hundred and twelve
times as great as that Of the earth, and
four hundred and twenty-five times that Of
the moon. From the fact that the sun ap-
pears no bigger than the moon, we may
readily infer that it must be at an enormous
distance from the earth. This distance is
calculated by astronomers to be about
uinety-fve million miles. We may con-
ceive some idea Of this distance, when we
reflect that steamboat voyage Of two
hundred miles per day, would take us there
10 thirteen hundred years; and that rail
road car, travelling thirty miles per hour,
would occupy three hundred and sixty-one
years in the journey But steamboat and
car would be burnt to cinder long before
they approached within the orbit of Mer-
curry, which planet is only thirty-seven
million miles from the great source Of light
and heat. The relative distances of the
planets was known long before their absp-
lpte distances were calculated; and 1t is to
the transit of Venus across the suns disk
that astronomers are indebted for the ele-
ments by which they calculate the absolute
distance of the sun from the earth. This
phenomenon is of very rare occurrence, and
can happen only twice in a century. The
next transit will take place in 1874, and
will be anticipated, provided for, and OBJ
served throughout the world, as a means
of rectifyiDg the present data Of astronOmi-
cal science.
Year: 1860

A New WAY TO, ESTABLISH ONES IDEN-
gentleman of Boston
presented to one of the banks in State
street a check for $7OO for payment, but
as the Teller did not know him, he declined
to pay the check, nor would he send for
any of the persons referred to by the ap-
plicant to come rorward and vouch for his
identity. In this dilemma the gentleman
assured the cautious bank officer that, if
allowed to retire to one Of the private cham
bers he would produce proof of his identity.
The proposition was assented to, and the
holder of the check exhibited his mamie
clearly written upon the margin of his shirt,
evidence sufficient to the mind Of the Tel
Ter, who at once paid the sum called for.


IL - r. IL
Year: 1860

Pedestrian CHALLENGE.-JamesK Kennovan,
the we'll known pedestrian, has forwarded
from San Francisco, to the New York Clip
per, says the Call challenge to any free
white person in the world to contend with
him in walking match, the one who lasts
the longest 10 he the winner. He is willing
to put up his champion belt in addition to a
stake If some one doesn't take him up he
probably will go to the East and walk against
Time in two or three Of the largest cities.
Year: 1860

In addition TO the sum mentioned above,
we understand that the Committee on Sub
seriptiOns have in hand about $500 more
which they hope to increase to another
81 900 to send forward Tomorrow.
Year: 1860

TEHAMA WHEAT CRor.-We are panied to
announce, says the Beacon, that the wheat
crop Of the whole of Tehama county has been
most awfully injured by the frost Those
who are not thoroughly acquainted with the
effect of frost on wheat have but little idea Of
the amount Of damage sustained, but when
thresAing time comes it viii be apparent.
Year: 1860

AocDENr.-As the editor of the DEMOCRAT
and his wife were returning, yesterday, from
the funeral of Hon. Henry p. Haun, they
met with severe accident. When passing
over the crosswalk Of c street, near its inter-
section with Fourth, one of the shafts Of the
buggy became detached and struck against
the hind legs of the horse. He Immediately
became desperately frightened, and dashed
off frantically, upsetting the buggy in very
few moments Mrs. Ridge was thrown
with violence to the pavement and severely
cut in the face, besides being considerably
bruised otherwise. Her injuries, however,
though painful, are not considered danger
Gus. The editor was pretty badly hurt but
not SO much so as to cause his confinement to
the house. The cause Of the trouble was the
loosening and coming of Of a screw'top upon
the bolt of one of the shafts, thus letting the
shaft down upon the horses legs.
Year: 1860

THEODORE PARKER. who died at Florence,
Italy, on the 10th Of May. made 1t bis dying
request that the first eleven verses OF the
Sermon on the Mount should be read over
bis grave. and then plain, gray stone, with
bis name and age. with no further inscrip-
tion be set up to mark the place Of bis re-
mains. Mr.. Parker was one OF the charac-
! teris,ic men Of the age. He had his faults
who is without them! He has Of late years,
been regarded IS fanatic, disturber Of
the people. and an infdel. With all bis
failings. to use the language of a cotempor-
ary, q il must be said that be had great
loving heart which yearned for the the good
OF all men. He uttered many noble and
eloquent protests against superstition and
all forms Of mental tyranny, against dull,
lifeless Journalism in church a. socety, against
lack of conscience in government and all
kinds Of public and private wrong. He
stood up for the integrity Of the individual,
for the fullest freedom Of opinion, for the
dignity and inherent goodness Of human ma
ture. When most fanatical in the opinion OF
men, be said things which thrilled them in
spite Of themselves. and convinced them OF
bis honest, uuselfsh purpose. He worship
ped truth and duty, as he conceived them,
and led a lie accordant with his conception
He was able 10 do much good in the world,
and his influence for good will long survive
him."
Year: 1860

Gs- The agitations OF the past six months
have brought to their senses many who may
have thought they were doing service to
their country by appleuding the doctrines
OF Republcanism and it is possible that
such has been the case 10 an extent sufficient
to justify hope that portion Of New Eng
land even may be released from the grasp
OF fanatical tyranny.
Year: 1860

ExrLrAST--Tbe Placer Courier at For
rest Hill, is exultant over the defeat OF ,he
Railroad project. by vote of the people in
that county, Some local interest is the
cause. The people Of Placer will learn
some day tbah they should have voted diff
ferently upon that proposition,
Year: 1860

Gs- The q Journal OF Commerce " puts
down New York as "the battle ground Of the
Presidential contest" inasmnch as the Re-
publicans have thrown away their opportu-
nifty to reader that State certain. by neglect
ing at Chicago the man who was strongest
in the affections of the great masses OF the
party. Verify whom the gods would destroy
they first made mad.
Year: 1860

gES There is already one vacancy on the
bench Of the Supreme Court, which Presi-
dent Buchanan will fll. and the present
feeable state of health of chief Justice Tan.
ey. renders it extremely probable that he
will have another TO fill before the expira.
tion OF his term.
Year: 1860

TRE FOLLY OF Lowers. There is not in all
nature anything 80 utterly ridiculous as .
man so much in love as not to be able to con
ceal It from the rest Of the company. Not
only Is no ridiculous, but, in time, he gets to
be regular nuisance, and is as impairment
and tiresome as he was at Hrst laughable. he
10 always either extremely happy or wonder
fully wretched, without any apparent cause
This class Of lovers who would give their for
tune for . curl Of their sweetheart's hair, OF q
piece Of her shoe-string, generally make the
worst husbands in the world. qe H2
Year: 1860

the irrepressible conflict of north and south,
"disunion and civil war;" "By their fruits
ye shall know them, not by their plat
forms. Their fruits are anarchy" ha-
tred," and " lawlessness, "a reckless deter
mination to hazard and put in jeopardy
white mems liberties in quixotic effort to
give worse than useless liberty to black
men. Don't be misled by the +" labels" A
champagne label may cover strychnine
bottle. The devils platform in Paradise
was equality with the Gods" Universal
knowledge." His object was power. He
was anti-law and order. The fruits of his
platform was anarchy, revolution and the
loss of paradise.


The only true consistency then for all
good citizens who favor law and order, is to
do as Henry Clay said he would do if the
slavery agitation should continue and in
crease, and become alarming. Go in for
the party, whatever elements may compose
it, which is for the Union, the Constitution
and the enforcement of the laws. The only
party in Minnesota Of this description which
Henry Clay could have voted with, is un-
questionably the Democratic party. Where
then shall his old admirers and friends be
found, now that the great emergency has
arisen, which his prophetic eye saw in the
future, where the agitation is not only in
regard to the fugitive slave law, which the
Republican party have tried to nullify in
States of the Union, by personal liberty bills,
and even in Minnesota last winter by
Acker's bill; but when the agitation has
taken wider range, and becomes more
alarming in that it aims to keep up the
irrepressible conflict until slavery, where it
exists is abolished, and all the States made
Free or all Slave. MERR1MAc.
Year: 1860

TPThis Safe and EffectuRl Remedy for
Worms extensively used by regular physicians
any proprietary medicine whieh has made its
pearsnce in the United States.


1t 10 used with the utmost freedom and confidence by gentlemen
who stsnsd all Middle, Western and south
ern States


The great Of its popularity the fact that nothing has
yet discovered which be substituted in its place. and
that may without any fears the
suit Its perfect safety recommends it to every parent II
secreed within the system, it will speedily expel them
fail order obtain the genuine article
purchaser should his guard and look we'll to the nitiss
the bottle AID wrapper and be particular buying
B. A Fshnestock's Vermfuge and no other. noV4-wlm
Year: 1860

PURCHASE YoUR TICKETs.-ThOse in
tend to be present at the New England Fes-
tival tonight should procure their tickets
without delay in order that preparations can
be made Tor the number present.
Year: 1860

THE valiableness of the weather is in
variable From pleasant sunshine it passes to
col winds from fair winter weather to pat.
tsring rain, and snow and elect and then to
ice The fine sleighing which so gladdened
the hearts of the people few days since, is
gone. and the prospect is that the people will
have to get through Christmas without that
luxury.
Year: 1860

The river was heavily crowded with
floating ice Yesterday afternoon, and we should
not be srrprsed to see it close up any OF these
coo nights The ferry boat was making ts
trips regularly yesterday.
Year: 1860

THANKs.--We are under obligations
to the Young Settlers for complimentary tick
cts to their Annual Festival which is to take
place at LeClairs Hall on the s.h Of January
next We hope Our young friends will have a
full attendance and a good time.
Year: 1860

IlEALTHY.-Thc doctors state that the
sanitary condition of this city was never bet
not half enough practice to keep half of the
fraternity busy Such state Of affairs may
be fun .or the people but it comes mighty hard
on the doctors
Year: 1860

THE scarcity Of silver change CON
tinues TO be a matter Of serious complaint
among our merchants, and we have heard it
intimated that it lie the intention of some of
them to issue small shinplasters, as was done
two years ago redeemable in currency when
presented in Gums of one dollar and upwards
We don't think that such an operation will
meet with favor in this community, and we
warn those who mediate doing 1t to let that
kind Of business entirely alone
Year: 1860

How JoHS MILTON SPENT THE D AY.-At bis
meals he never took much wine or nnv other
fermented liquor, and he was not fas,iiiors
in his food, yet his taste seems t. have beeo
delicate and refined, like his other sonsos
and he had preference for such yiauds os
were of an agreeable flavor. In his eorl,.
years he used to sit up late at his studies on1
perhaps he continued this practice yvIiIo liz
sight was good but in bis later years he re
tired every night at nine o'clock, and hy till
four in summer and five in winter. and if not
disposed then to rise, he had some one to sit
at his bedside and read to him. When bc
rose he had chapter of the Hebrew Billie
read fur him, and then, with of course the
intervention of breakfast, studied till twelve
He then dined, took some exercise for an
hour, generally in a chair, in which he usad
to swing himself and afterward phve1 ON
the organ or the bass Niol and either Sam,
himself or made his wife sing. who. as he
said, had a good voice but no ear lie then
resumed his studies till six, from which hour
till eight he conversed with those who carn.
TO visit him. lie finally took a light sumner
smoked a pipe of tobacco and drank glass
Of water, after which he retired to rest. -
Like many other poets, Milton found the
stiffness, warth and recumbency of his he'd
favorable to composition; and his wife said
that before rising in the morning he often
dictated TO her twenty or thirty verses
flvorite position of his when debating his
verses. we are told, was that of sitting with
one of his legs over an arm Of his chair. His
wife related that he used to compose chiefly
in the winter,