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Year: 1859

BRIEF, BUT COMMON HIsToRY.-l
saw him first at social party. He
took but a single glass of wine, and thai
at the request of young lady with
whom he conversed.


saw him next, when he supposed he
was unseen, taking a glass to satisfy the
slight desire formed by his social in
dulgence. He thought there was no
danger.


[ saw him again with those of his own
age. meeting at night, to spend a short
time in convivial pleasure. He said it
was only innocent amusement.


[ met him next, late in the evening.
in the street unable to reach home.
took him thithcr He looked ashamed
when we next met


saw him next reeling in the street
\ confused stare was on his counte-
nance, and words of blasphcmy were on
his tongue. Shame was gone!


L saw him yet once more. He was
pale, cold. motionless, and was carried
by his friends to his last resting place
In the small procession that followed
every head was cast down, and seemed
TO shake with uncommon anguish.


His fathers gray hairs were going to
the grave in sorrow. His mother wept
TO think that she had ever given birth
to such a child.
Year: 1859

"Do stop that girls laughing! It re
ally makes me nervous to hear her.
From morning till night her mouth is
open, either laughing or singing, just
as if there was no trouble or sin in the
world. l never saw such rattle brain
thing as she is in my life -


So Hetty w2s made to suppress her
glee, and, to sing low. This was the
utmost that her ru ,cTs could accomplish,
for the girls heart was light within her,
and overflow it would. But check after
check was given her; and month after
month she was told. with awful serious
ness, that she was too wild, too merry,
too imaginative; that it was her duty to
measure her steps, her morals, her very
smiles to hold down her Imagination
always to turn her thoughts towards
reading cooking. mending and sewing,
when she caught them starting off for
n revcl in the regions of beauty and de
and always to wait till she didn't care
whether she moved or stood still, spoke
or held her tongue, when she glowed
with quick impulse to do or say some
thing. Well, they managed to tone
Hctty down somewhat; but she never
could be made to become exactly serious
and proper until the hand of sorrow
took her heart and pressed it so hard
so reyy hard-that the joyousness which
had so long lwelt singing in it was
crushed out and went, none knew wi
ther Many burdens were bound for
poor Hetty's heart, and it bore then:
bravely till the spring Of joy was bro
ken then each additional lead pressed
down with more hopeless weight. Now
she is what blindly they tried to render
her when she was child.


o, let the children and the maidens
laugh and sing. Do not, o, do not
be always checking and rebuking them
for being gay. Little time enough have
they before care will begin it's gnawins
aud grief and pain. They will grow
old and grave anon, never fear. Their
glory will soon enough be darkeucd
their buoyancy cease The canker and
the blight will not pass them. Dark
ness and disaster sooner or later, shuts
down the morning light of all. 0, the
fated, the unconscious youngl But le
them, while the impulse yet is in them
laugh and play, and dance and sing
And if, perchancc, ere the merry day:
are over, any slecp, murmur not. CLAP
py the early dead. - U'Nis's -Nusica
World
Year: 1859

There was once a lad who, at four
teen, was apprentice to a soap boiler
One of his resolutions was to read one
hour day, or at least at that rate and
he had an old silver watch, left b. his
uncle, which he timed his reading by.
lie stayed seven years with his master,
and his master said, when he was TWEEN
ty-one that he knew as much as the old
squire did. Now let us see how much
time he had to read in seven years, at
the rate of an hour day. 1t would be
twenty five hundred and fifty five hours;
which, at the rate of eight reading hours
day, would be three hundred and nine
teen days, equal to forty-fve weeks
even to eleven months, nearly years
reading. That time spent in treasurine
up useful knowledge would pile up {
very large store. 1 am sure it is worth
trying for. Try what you can do. BE
gin now.
Year: 1859

parted ones, Tor those whom they dear
ly and tenderly loved, it is then that
our sympathics are called forth, and we
are induced to administer the balm of
comfort which only sympathising heart
can supply. In all cases of misery or
pain this natural attribute of the heart
prompts US to afford succor and relief
Such acts from the satisfaction of hav-
ing done right, always fully repay those
who engage in them, and yield as much
happiness to him who gives, as to him
who is the recipient of such sympathy
1t is duty that we owe to those who
suffer, not merely to sympathize with
them, but let our sympathy lead 10 ac-
tion by charity and kindness.-Month
Iy Offering.
Year: 1859

SisterL with thine eyes of blue,
Hither come aud weep "adicu
Let thy arm around me twine,
Let thy cheek repose on mine,
While I gaze into thy face,
Circled in this dear embrace.
Thou hast ever proved to me,
All that love could wish to be;
Yet / leave thy heart alone
Brother-Sister bless your own.
Mother thou hast rocked my head
Softly on its cradle bed
When the storm was raging high,
Sweetly sung loves lullaby
Yet I part-I part from THEE.
Who henceforth will sing to me,
WheB nay forehead aches with pain
4 shall miss that early strain.
Mother LEwith thy accents mild,
Blesss oh bless thy weeping child.
Father thou hast loved me we'll
More than human tongue can tell
More than wealth since childhood hour
Thou, hast lavished on thy flower. .
Now, thy locks are waxing grey,
From thy heart l pass away:
Never more thy lips, at eve,
On my cheek their kiss will leave
In thy prayer of undertone,
Mother Father bless your own.
Year: 1859

Ha- When you have quarreled with
anybody, and lawyer urges you to go
to law to redress your wrongs, you may
remember the dog, who said SO to the
cat: and then ran off with her dinner
Year: 1859

pectations, is cut down, to be seen upon
earth no more. Look upon that happy
family, now seated around the home fire
side they know not the meaning of the
words 'care and sorrow"-will it ever
be thus? Again we visit them; but
now they gaze in mute despair upon the
inanimate form of their darling. Death
has visited that family, and taken the
flower Of the household, the youngest,
from that little flock Surely now they
must truly realize the force of that short
Isentence-"They are passing away"


Come with me to the death bed Of the
Christian. His family are gathered
around him, and are listening for the
last time to his words of instruction -
Hark !! he is implor!Dg them to put no
value on the fecting things of this world
but place their trust On high. He too
has passed away and as his friends gather
around his grave, and hear those solemn
words, "Alingle ashes with ashes, and
dust with its original dust they feel
in their inmost souls the solemnity of
this truth, ''They are passing away.
Year: 1859

ALWAYS BE PoLITE.-An elderly la
dy, passing down busy street in New
Haven, was overtaken by a sudden show
er of rain. She was some distance from
any acquaintance, and had no umbrel-
la. She was celebrating what to do,
when pleasant voice beside her said.-


"Will you take my umbrella, mad
am? %


Tho speaker was boy, perhaps ten
years of age.


"Thank you" said the lady, II am
afraid you will get wet


"Never mind me, ma'am, I'm boy
and you are a lady"


"But perhaps you will accompany me
to friends not far off, and then should
not find it necessary to rob You.,,-


The boy did so. resolved the thanks
Of the lady and departed.


Two years rolled by, the lady often
related the circumstance, as often won
dering what had become of her gentle
manly little friend, but little thinking
ever to see him again. In the dull sea-
son winter this boy was out of employ
ment, and the circumstance coming to
the knowledge of this lady, she gave
him good home till March, when she
introduced him to good situation
Verify, kindness seldom goes unrequit-
ted.
Year: 1859

LOVE OF FAIR PLAY.-Strolling
leisurely about Uncle Sans big ship
yard, in Washington, the other day, we
observed regular hard weather sailor
looking chap from a man O. war, who,
in turn, was watching two men dragging
a seven foot cross-cut saw through Il
huge live oak log. The saw was dull,
the log terrible hard, and there they
went-see saw, see saw,-pull, push.
push, pull. Jack studied the matter
over awhile, until lie came to the con-
clusion they were pulling to see who
would get the saw, and as one was a
monstrous big chap, while the other
was little fellow, Jack decided to see
fair play; so giving the big one clip
under the car that capsized him end
over end he jerked the saw out of the
log, and giving it to the small one, sung
out
Year: 1859

A Quick QCARTER.-A boy worked
hard all day for quarter he bought
apples, and took them to town and sold
them on the street for a dollar he bought
a sheep. The sheep brought him {
lamb, and the fleece brought him anoth.
er dollar. He bought another sheep.
The next spring he had two lambs ant
a yearlins sheep. The three feeces h'
sold for three dollars, and bought three
more sheep. He now had six, with a
fair prospect. He worked there he foun,
an opportunity, for hay, corn and oats
and pasturing for his sheep. He took
the choicest care Of them and soon had
flock. Their wool enabled him to buy
a pasture for them, and by the time h


was 81 he had fair start in life, an(
all from the quarter earned in one day
Year: 1859

NAPOLEONS POLICY TOWARD THE ITALIANS


The Paris correspondent OF the New York Post takes
different view of the late letter Of Napoleon TO the
King oi Sardinia from that generally entertained in this
country. lie says:


Meantime however, the work of Italian emaneip,.
ton goes quietly forward. The Emperor has permitted
the curtain which hides his political laboratory from the
world to be raised little higher aud il reveals more ey
dence OF the marvellous sagacty which has marked his
treatment of the Italian question from the beginning
The revelation Is made in the form of letter to the
hing ot Piedmont who has reason be iattercd with
the evidence 1t exhibits of desire TO keen him from pet
ing into false position. IL certainly ought to
the confidence of those who have from the beginning re-
cognzed the wisdom of the peace of Villafranca and
who saw IN IT, not the deseron of Italy by Napoleon
cut evidence of the sincerity of his purpose and
the fertility of his for tile accomnlishment or
her emancipation.


ln this letter he indicates the policy of France in the
approaching Congress which is essentially the policy of
the most Italian OF the Italians except in so far as il rec
onlnendS the rcsoI alton of the Grand Duke Ferdinand
to Tuscany aud OF the Duchess OF Parma TO Modcna both
measures, however, which he expressly dsclans any
idea OF employing allowing the employment of foreign
intervention TO accomplish. lie could do no less than
this in view of the footing which he met the Enner
Francis Joseph a NIlaiauca But be il observed that
he leaves It with the parties in interest TO effect recon
citation with each other, he taking further respons
hty in the premises than good faith to Austria rus
that - carefully abstaiung from any step that might be
calculated 10 encourage the Tuscans and the Modn. in
refusing TO receive the foreign sOvcrrigns


The Emperor shows also in this letter what has not
so distinctly appeared in his previous unirtiops
that he did not overlook the interest of the Veneaus in
the treaty Of Niairanca lie says he will insist in the
Congress, that Austria shall complete the nationality Of
Neua, not only by comforting upon her a representative
government and separate administration but also an
Italian army, and the surrender of the forrcssc Of Man,
tua and feschcTa To the confederation"
Year: 1859

In speaking of the hopes of the Republicans
that the Southern Opposition will unite with
them in organizing the House ofRepresentatives,
the Standard says:


But here they are doomed to disappointment.
The Southern Opposition memters will have
nothing to do with them. They occupy po-
sition of direct aud irreconcilable antagonism.
How can they unite? How is it possible that
men can combine to secure a few offices who
cannot occupy common ground upon any
question that may arise 1t would be a waste
OF time and space to speculate on the subject
No such combination will be effected


The Standard evidently does not comprehend
the true character of men whose only principle
is to oppose the Democracy-and get into Office
The Standard has surely observed the fact that
Brownlow, the Louisville Journal, the Richmond
Wing, Winter Davis, and many other southern
men and papers are boldly declaring themselves
in faror of precisely such combination as the
editor says will not be effected.
Year: 1859

FRENCH GULcH, Nov. 5th, 1859.


EDtToR COURIER Happening to get hold of a
copy of the Red Bluff Beacon of the I'd inst,
was struck all aback with the following para
graph:


GoINa HoME.-Henry c. Moffat, hitherto one
OF the proprietors of the Shasta Herald, is in
town. en- route for his old home in Western N Y
AS politician, we believe he has always acted
with the opposition to the Democracy, but as a
gentleman we hear him spoken of as high
toned and much respected and as a Typo,
master OF his profession. We regret the depar-
ture OF SO valuable citizen from our State al
though 1t is said he has been the worst
thorn in the flesh the Shasta Democracy
have had to contend with.


Moffett the worst " thorn in the fleshn the De.
mocracy of Shasta had to contend with Won
derful! Why, I thought he was the very per-
lection of Democrat. Did not his paper give
the cold shoulder to a part of the Democratic
ticket because certain candidate thereon was
not good enough Democrat? Did not his pa
per again and again impeach your Democracy
And yet the Beacon says be was the greatest
enemysthe Shasta Democracy had Wonderful !
But believe the Beacon. And it does not ap-
pear but that he left most appropriate success
sor in the person of Mr.. Watson. Mr. W., if
am not misinformed, worked as hard as he could
against the Democratic ticket in the last cleo
tion. A more uneompromising Know Nothing
does not live. will do him the credit, how
ever, to say that he is honest He has never hes
itated to express his real sentiments But he is
a singular gentleman to own Democratic or
gan. The editor of the Herald while ago
doubted your Democracy, because of your views
on the Kansas question, and would not begin
to touch your partner, although he was the
nominee of the party, because he was not
good enough Democrat And now he associates
with himself, in the publication of a Democratic
organ" a gentleman who has never been a
Democrat for single day-who is professed
Know Nothing-and, oh horrible, horrible, who
is an out-andout Ant-Lecomptonite.


KEERLEss BUT OBSERVING CUss.
Year: 1859

PRENrIcIANA.-The Washington Union invites
the whole Democracy to plant themselves upon
the Cincinnati platform. That old platform
must be loaded down with good deal of dirt if
men can be planted on its. F. Times.


At all events, it is good Democratic dirt, and
not g free soil"
Year: 1859

Bagn few nights ago white man attempt
ed to run away with China woman in Sacra-
mento, by packing her on his back Being
chased he dumped his lovely burden, and with
her his coat, which the police request him to
call and get
Year: 1859

gssr Diarrhea is a very common disease in
summer time. Cholera Is nothing more than
exaggerated diarrhea. When a man dies of
diarrhea, he has died of cholera, in reality. 1t
may be well for travellers to know the first
and the most important, and the most indispen-
sable item in the arrest and cure of looseness of
the bowels is absolute quietude, on bed. Ma
ture herself always prompts this, by disinclining
us to locomotion. The next thing is to eat no.
thing but common rice parched like coffee, and
then boiled, and taken with little salt and but.
ter. Drink little or no liquid of any kind. Bits
of ice may be eaten and swallowed at will. Ev-
cry step in diarrhea, every spoonful of liquid,
only aggravates the disease. If flocomotion is
compulsory, the misfortune of the necessity may
be lessened by having stout piece of wooden
flannel bound tightly around the abdomen, so as
to be doubled in front AMI kept well in its place.
In the practice of many years, we have never
failed to notice a gratifying result to follow
these observations.-Dr. W. W. Hall.
Year: 1859

A wonderful invention has recently been test
ed in the Delaware river at Marcus Hook, by its
inventor, NJ. de villeroi The editor of the Phil
adelphia North American describes the boat
thus;


alt is 25 feet long, exclusive of the propeller
wheels, and A inches in diameter, both ends
tapering off. 1t is propelled by wheel or screw
three feet in diameter, and steered by two pad
dies The thirty-six eyes which are along the
back bone, as it were, are made for the purpose
of giving light inside. This boat is capable of
diving from 800 to 400 fathoms, and can easily
sustain the pressure of the water at that depth.
1t can navigate with eight men under water
during two or three hours, without any COM
munication with the surface of the water, and
its crew will breathe as freely as though in the
open air. 1t can be made to navigate on the
| water, under water, or few feet from the sur
face of the water, according to the necessity or
circumstances. With this salvage boat men can
get ont at the bottom of the water, work, pick
up things and walk about, just as freely as on
shore.


Speaking of the experiment at Marcus Hook,
the editor continues:


Being there by invitation, we saw the curious
boat which is above described into which, in
our presence, NJ. de Villeroi with FIVE men, en-
tered and it then with all on board, descended
into the water, remaining beneath the surface
one hour and quarter, during all of which
time the boat had no communication with the
external atmosphere. Incredible and impracti-
cable as this may seem, it is nevertheless true,
as those who were on the shore can testify. By
what wonderful new invention in science this
was achieved we cannot say, and indeed the
principle is undoubtedly the most extraordinary
discovery of the age. We saw, also, NJ. de vii
leroi's men (salors) plunge into the water and
disappear, and after entering the boat, reappear
on the surface, thus testing the power to enter
and quit the boat while she was under water
In fact, from what we saw, we entertained no
doubt whatever that NJ. de Villerors boat is the
grand desderatum for submarine operations.
Year: 1859

Gov. WELLER-We understand that the
Governor is at present in town. He will be
"in town." in different sense, if he gets the
nomination of his own party for reelection
to the gubernatorial position. The Cover
nor's day is done, let him rustic around as he
may. There was time when, if he had
taken the tide at its flood, it would have led
him on to fortune But he neglected his op
portunity lie turned the scale against him
self-denounced the men, Tor many of them
at least,) who had always stood by him in
his political contests, and would have
stood by him forever-lent his assistance,
upon the springing up of the Douglas
issue, to an organization controlled
by men who would delight in wiping him out
from political existence, and who are yet
bound to crush him. lie left his friends and
fraternized with his enemies lie made his
own bed, and now let him lie on it, If he
can find thornier one in the world, we
would like to know where.
Year: 1859

Quoting from the Shasta Courier an arti-
Gle endorsing the validity of the call of the
Lecompton State Central Committee, the
Sacramento Standard says


speaking Of the call for a County Convention
of Democrats opposed to the Administration, the
Shasta Courier heretofore u rcd hot Douglas pa
per, says


Then follows what the Courier observes in
reference to the Lecompton State Central
Committee. Now, the editor, either inten-
tonally or ignorantly,-and in either case he
deserves censuro-misrepresents the position
Of the Shasta Courier. He would make it
appear that the Courier had heretofore acted
with the Ant.Lecompton Party, and had
just at this time given in its adhesion to the
Lecompton organization; whereas that pa
per has all along supported the Leeompton
organization, on the score of regularity" !"
the baselessness of which assumption we have
frequently demonstrated, the regularity be-
ing with the Anti Lecompton side, altogeth-
| er


The true position of the Courier is this; 1t
hurrahs for Douglas but at the same time as
sists his enemies 1t acknowledges the cor
rectness of the doctrines of POPULAR SoYER-
EIGHTY and Neutrality-suspicious., but, at the
same time identifies itself in action, with an
organization thoroughly opposed to both.


We are sorry indeed to see so able and
usually fearless man as Mr. Dosh, of the
Courier, thus circumstanced. We are sorry
to see him dragging the slow length of this
Leeompton chain behind him. His soul is
not in his work His heart is with the Doug
las Party, but some spell is upon him which
he seems unable to break, and he smothers
down the native nobility of his soul in vain
endeavor to serve both God and Mammon-
to be Douglas in theory and Lecompton in
practice


We hope that he will yet burst the bonds
which enthrall him, assert his manhood, and
come forth the bold and able champion that
he ought to be of the true Democracy. lie
receives but slurs and contumely where he is
Lecompton papers denounce him as hybrid
between Broderickism and Black Republi-
canism, and all because he will not add TO his
servitude of Lecomptonism the disgrace of
kissing the fetters that bind him. We do
hope he will be what the country expects of
him, and cease to occupy his present thank-
less position.
Year: 1859

RECENTLY, at Yrella an Indian who was in
toxieated severely injured two squaws by
his brutality. He also dashed young child
on the ground, leaving it for dead The IL
quor was sold TO him 10y some white offender
of the law,
Year: 1859

WE noticed, says the San Andreas Indepen-
dent, young buck Digger passing the street
to-day with fine, large buck deer slung
round his head, which the lawless buck first
mentioned had shot down, about a mile from
town. Persons should refuse to encourage
the slaughter of deer out of season.
Year: 1859

Two men assembled to tile top of the Flag
Staff at the City Hall, yesterday, in the pre-
sence of a gazing crowd. One of them came
down, the other remained. The one that re
mained was an iron man. and the last we saw
of him he was pointing at something in the
far distance
Year: 1859

The Republicans of Wheeling, Virginia.
have addressed a memorial to the RenuGIican
National Committee, urging the selection Of


Wheeling as the place for holding the Ma
donal Convention that is to nominate the
next President
Year: 1859

MORE SERIOUS THAN SUPPosED.-The cut
upon the wrist which Jack Roper received
on Sunday night at Long Bar, at the house
of Miss Milhench, otherwise Dixon-an ac-
count of which was given in our paper yes
terday-is more serious than was at first sup.
posed 1t is said by Dr. Hague that he will
be disabled for life Under such circum-
stances, the person for whom he so gallantly
fought should see that he is well taken care
of Love and whiskey nerved him in the un'
fortunate combat, if we are rightly informed.


DESPERATE ACT OF PRIsoNER-The pris-
oners in the county Jail at the present time
appear to be most desperate characters, but
the officers with whom they have to deal are
equal to any emergency. John Shields, the
man who stole the seven-pound lump of gold
in Plumas attempted to cave in the skull of
a fellow prisoner, yesterday, with brick
bat from the floor of his cell, having suspect
ed him of giving information of the recent
attempt of Shields, Archie and Sutherland to
escape. The brick missed its mark, when one
of the officers, who was present. drew his
pistol and fired The ball struck the iron
bars and rebounded, striking one of the pris
oners on the leg of his boot, but not injuring
him. The desperate thereupon begged for
mercy most piteously. The officer ordered
him back to his cell, whittier he went with
out show of resistance Either Shields, or
Archie, or Sutherland is bound to do some
bloody deed in that Jail, ere long, if net close
ly watched.