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Year: 1859

Over the river they beckon to me,


Loved ones who've crossed to the further side,
The CLEAN of their snowy robes l see,


But their voices are lost in the dashing tide.
There's one with ringlets of sunny gold,


And eyes the reflection of heavens own blue,
He crossed in the twilight gray and cold,


And the pale mist hid him from mortal view;
We saw not the angels who met him there,


The gates of the city we could not see,
Over the river, over the river,


My brother stands waiting to welcome me.
Over the river the boatman pale


Carried another, the household pet;
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale,


Darling Minnie I see her yet.
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,


And fearlessly entered the phantom bark,
We felt it glide from the silver sands,


And all our sunshine grew strangely dark;
We know she is safe on the further side,


Where all the ransomed and angels be;
Over the river, the mystic river.


My childhood's idol is waiting for me.
For none return from those quiet shores,
Who cross with the boatman cold ard pale;
We hear the dip of the golden oars,


And catch CLEAN of the snowy sail;
And 10! they have passed from yearning hearts
They cross the stream and gene for aye.
We may not sunder the vail apart


That hides from our vision the gates of day,
We only know that their barks no more


May sail with DER lifc's stormy sea
Yet somewhere know on the unseen shore,
They watch, and beckon, and wait for me.


fFfe q ---
And sit and think when the sunsets gold
Is flushing river and hill and shore
shall one day stand by the water cold


And list for the sound of the boatmans oar;
shall watch for CLEAN of the Tapping sail,
shall hear the boat it gains the strand, 81
shall pass from sight with the boatman pale,
To the better shore of the spirit land.
shall know the loved who have gone before,
And joyfully sweet viii the meeting be, ..
When over the river, the peaceful river, ..-1
The Angel of Death shall carry me.
Year: 1859

A CHEMICAL VIEW OF DEATH.-M. Blot, a
French author, is speaking Of a school of
philosophers whose view of Immortality are
scientific, but peculiar


Yoll do not die; you only change your
state of aggregation 1t is true your nitro
gen, your hydrogen, and your carbonate
separate; they are distributed through the
atmosphere, penetrate plants and animals,
or are absorbed by the earth; but as no
atom perishes, you Continue to exist; the
only difference is, that you find yourselt
reduced TO more simple expression.
Year: 1859

How TO CURE FRUIT STEALERs --One great hindrance to fruit-growing in the neighbor- hood of towns, and one of the greatest hil- drances to perseverance in it's culture, is it's exposure to be stolen. One may send to distant nursery for a rare and expensive kind of fruit, may watch over and nurse it for sev- eral years, and then, when his eyes are glad dened by its first productions. some ragged loafer may enter his grounds by night and de- your them. Nay, some loafers not ragged, but professedly genteel, may rob him of his treasures, and then chuckle over their success as a frst-rate joke.

 Why should not our Legislature give US a law punshing fruit-robbing with heavy pen- alties? Better that thief enter cur barns and carry off oats or corn, than enter our gar dens and strip our pear-trees and grapevines of their delicious burdcn. We wish too, that public sentiment visited the robbery with greater reproduction and disgrace. But until such a goed time comes, every man must guard his own castle in the best way he can. A neighbor of ours treats his offering visitors to dose they don't relish. For example. When his early Sweet Rough apples are be- ing nightly stolen, he takes several fine spe- cimtns and immerses them in a week solution of ipecachuana and scatters them again on the ground first marking them so that his own family shall not eat them by mistake. He treats few of the outside hills of his straw berry patch in the same way. It affords him no little amusenlement to learn privately, that the doses take effect where they were design cd to do so, his father (a doctor) being soon sent for by suspected persons to prescribe for their disordcred stomachs and unaccountable nausea This gentleman's fruit garden lies on the bank of a canal, and the indigestibity of his fruit is we'll known to the canal-drivers and all along the route !--RuraI American.
Year: 1859

of such treatment will root them out. It g ass seed IS sown where they are cut away, it will soon fill the ground and hinder the'r return, especially if the situation has allowed :hem to be burned upon the ground

 If the farmer who does no more would sim ply make it rule to now the fence corners of his grain-felds every year, and every pas ture lot containing any injurious plant, he would soon make a marked improvement in the appearance of his farm Nor should the roadsides and borders of the woodlands be negected--these often afford crops which seed whole neighborhoods with pernicions plants, and entail many losses and vexations upon the er--Country Gentleman.
Year: 1859

In the progress of Horace Greeley's Over. land Journey, he had an interview of some two hours in length with Brigham Young, which Mir. Greeley describes in his graphic manner. He told Young and the Elders assembled tha, he had visited them for the express purpose of obtaining fuller knowledge of the doctrines and polity of the Mormon Church. Brigham was willing to answer, and Horace proceeded to catechise him.

 From the conversation that ensued, we learn that the Mormon asserts that there can be no true Christian church without priesthood directly commissioned by Christ and in imlne- date communication with him, and that all other churches who have not this direct rerc- lation of Gods will are heretical and out of the way of salvation-that the name they give their church is that of The Latter-Day Saints i; that they believe in the existence of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but not as one person that the believe in a personal, malignant dev- il in the eternal punishment of the wicked :; in the practice of Baptism on adults by i'm mersion, but do not practise infant baptism that they consider it obligatory on all Saints to join tl.em in their country, and to be pre- pared for the triumph of the church.

 On the topic of slavery, Young said that they considered it as of Divine Institution and not to be abolished until the curse pro- nounced on Ham shall have been removed from his descendants He farther said there were slaves already in Utah. If slaves are brought into the Territory, their escape from their masters was not encouraged, but that the Territory would enter the Union as Free State, because slavery would be useless and improbable. Utah is not adapted to slave labor

 Mormon converts are required to pay over to the church onc-tenth of their productions and earnings, although no compulsion is used to obtain it. It is left to each mans own con- science. The money thus collected, is devoted to building temples, to helping poor converts to reach the territory, and to the support of l the poor among the Saints None of it goes not penny, Brigham says-to the support ol the Bishops, Elders or Deacons They must support themselves and their families by the labofs of their own hands. Young said he

 had never received cent from the church They had never made up what he Was strip ped of when driven from Missouri and ther

 from Nauvoo. He was worth $250,OOc, yet

 it had not come from the church, nor for any Iservice as Minister of the Gospel

 I MT. Greeley then enquired why the sect wert

 so much spoken against, and Young replied
Year: 1859

CANPHEyE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
have been made, during the past week, by
Louizenheiser, as to the difference in the
c,st OF burning Camphene and Kerosene or
Coal Oil. He informs us that q saving Of
25 per cent, at least, is made by using the
Kerosene oil. Another discovery which he
has made is that II will burn well in Cam
phene lamps and give quite as much light as
that dangerous fluid.


The Office and table lamps fol sale at Nc
Laughlin's are got up in neat aud pretty
style. The latter is an article that every
family ought to have. The prices Of these
lamps have been put at very low figure,
being imported direct from New York
Year: 1859

sE.s'- The most singular lynching opera
tion on record recently took place at South
Bend Indiana. The ladies OF that place as.
sembled to the number of two hundred, and
lynched woman Of ill-fame, tarring and
feathering her. The proceeding does not
seem to have had the unqualified approval
of the entire male population. Two young
men, however rushed in and helped the la
dies smear with tar and feathers well the
erring one. The embodied male population
Of course did not make an attack upon the
female lynchers. but they took in hand the
volunteer young men. and lynched them in
the most approved-style.
Year: 1859

es- Our friend VIM K. Spencer has our
thanks for the first supply of Atlantic pa
pers. If you want anything in the book or
stationery line, call and see him, next door
10 the Post Office.
Year: 1859

KILLED WHILE RoBBING HIS OWN House.
The Milwaukee Sentinel gives the following =
We learn that Wednesday or Thursday
night last the Treasurer of the town of Erin,
Washington county, whose name we believe,
was Whaling, was shot dead while attempting
to rob his own house. 1t appears that he had
collected some twelve or fifteen hundred dol
lars of the town taxes, and LETT home in the
afternoon, telling his wife that he should be
gone all night. Toward evening travelling
peddler applied at the House for a nights
lodging. The wife at first refused to admit
him, but finally yielded, with much reluctance
to his request. Some time in the night the
peddler was awakened by the noise of men
breaking into his room. Taking them for rob-
bers, he drew pistol and fired at them. One
fell and two fed. Lights being procured, the
dead body of man, with blackened face and
otherwise disguised, was found upon the floor.
Upon further examination it proved to be the
proprietor of the house himself, who had re-
sorted to this stratagem to steal the tax money
collected, and had met with this terrible ret
ribution
Year: 1859

Bones FOR TREEs.-Bones are always accu.
mulating in villages and about country resi-.
dences which might be put TO better use
than to cucumber the streets, or to emit
disagreeable odor from under the fences.
There is nothing like decaying bones for all
sorts of fruit trees They are perhaps best
for pear trees, next for apples, and then for
qninces; but are good for any kind of fruit,
unless it be cranberries, which seem to live
and grow on little but water. The true way
would be TO make the bones into superphos-
phate of lime by grinding, and then adding
half their weight Of sulphuric acid, to be ap-
piled in small doses every year. But as there
are not bone mills every where, and as the ma
king Of superphosphate is trade, which 1t
could hardly be recommended to all cultiva-
tors to learn, the next best thing to be done Is
TO break them up into inch pieces and mix
them with the soil in which trees are trans
planted. From half peck to a peck for
dwarf trees, and two to three pecks for trees
designed for standards, is enough. The &C
ton will be slow but very lasting, continuing
through the life of ordinary tree. Bones
are richly worth saving for this purpose; and
at the small price at which they can be had
in most country places, they can be bought to
advantage. They render a tree vigorous and
healthy, and greatly improve its fruit. 1t 10
not a bad plan to dig the soil about old trees.
Year: 1859

SHARP, SHARPER, SHARPEsT.-They have a
sharp set of fellows in Kansas City. We
heard good story OF trick played by one of
the residents of that city short time ago.
A lean, lank, sallow faced individual rode a
mule into Kansas City and wanted to sell him.
A genius, standing by, offered to sell him for
five dollars. The offer was taken, and the
mule disposed of; the auctioneer warranting
good title. The purchaser had scarcely got
his mule home. when Shawnee Indian came
into the city in search of mule that had
been stolen from him. The auctioneer was
on hand again, and offered to show the Shaw
nee where the mule was, If he would plank
downaV. The Indian paid, and the auction
eer after pointing ont the mule. went to the
new purchaser, and told him how the case
stood, at the same time offering to run the
mule across the river for ten dollars. The
bargain was struck, and the auetioneer noun
ted the mule, and that was the last that has
been seen of the auctineer or the mule
Learen,rorrh Times.
Year: 1859

Fanny Fern says, 'sif one-half of the girls
knew the previous life of the men they marry,
the list of old maids would be wonderfully in
increased" and the Boston Post adds that IL
the men could only look into the future life
of the women they marry the number of old
maids would be greatly advanced.
Year: 1859

On I've recently stated that our confrere
Charles Rufus Street. had been taken from the
mud by the Democracy of this county, and that
hence he was guilty of ingratitude in refusing to
support the entire Democratic ticket. He says
this is an indirect fling at the miners Bah =
Do you take the miners to be fools We sup
pose we have done as much mining as ever Mr..
Street has done. But, says Charles Rufus, we
formerly labored on the macadamized roads in
Virginia We plead guilty to having labored on
one When school boy, in company with our
companions, we each took contract to break
several perch OF rock, for Col. Musgrove, now of
this county. We all completed our contracts by
working before and after school hours, and thus
had abundance of marble money. The connec-
tion of this school boy incident with this ques-
tion, and the ntimation that we made a fling at
the occupation of mining, is most ridiculous,


and we doubt not Charles Rufus feels that it is.
Year: 1859

1S- Mr. Street says it is false that Mr.. Hinck-
ley writes for the Herald. That he did not write
sundry of the heavy articles which have ap-
peared in the Herald, this community needs nc
evidence, as it is universally known that he is
not only polished writer but understands the
the art of spelling according to Webster.
Year: 1859

Our DARK STREET.-Standing on top
of the Ripley street bluffs, on dark evening,
one is sure to notice the great difference be.


tween the two cities lying before him. Over
in Rock Island that city appears to be one
blaze of light from the numerous gas lamps
scattered over the place, while at your feet the
utter darkness does not allow OF distinguishing
q single object. In Rock Island one can walk
round the streets after dark without fear Of
breaking his neck over some object lying
around loose. In Davenport, ON the contrary,
person needs to carry cane to feel his way,
and even then runs great risk Of being
slapped in the face by the pavement. Our
city fathers say they can do nothing without q
petition signed by at least two thirds Of the
tag payers along the line Of the gas posts to be
lighted. This may be SO, but we very much
fear they will find that the courts will decide
they must pay for the gas. whether they use
it or not. We think, however, that it would
be very easy matter for our citizens to get
up petition signed BY two thirds Of the prop.
srty ovnsrs, and it is the duty Of those most
iuteresGsd to make the effort. We mean by
those most interested the merchants and busi-
neas men Of our city. They are the ones to be
benefited, although it veuld be An indirect
benefit 70 every one having to be ont altar
dark. Let move be made In that direction.
Year: 1859

The following stanzas are respects
fully dedicated to the members Of the Daven-
port Bar AS We are anxious to give informa.
ton whenever it lays in our power. it is proper
that We should publish the opinion entertained
by his satanic majesty Of the lawyers as
class They will know how to treat the
old fellow when they visit his dominons, which
many of our legal gentlemen, We presume, in
tend doing:
Year: 1859

The change in time of arrivals of
trains from the East works very bad for the
newspaper men of Davenport, as they do not
get their mail matter until late in the evening.
TLis compels US to remain at our office until
after everybody should be in bed
Year: 1859

SUNDAY night a heavy rain set in,
which continued pouring down, with slight in
termi.eion. all day yesterday. This is damp
er on all kinds of business, as it keeps back
produce and obliges the fair sex to remain in
doors 1t will probably freeze up solid after
the rain ceases.
Year: 1859

EE / could write down twenty cases
wherein l wished God had done other
wise than he did but which l now see,
had l had nay own will, would have led
to extensive mischief. The life of a
Christian is life of paradoxes. He
must lay hold on God: he must follow
hard after him: he must determine not
to let him 60. And yet he must learn
to let God alone. Quietness before God
is one of the most difficult Of all Chris.
tian graces-to sit where he places us ;
to be what he would have US to be. and
this as long as he plesses. We are like
q player at bowls; if he has given his
bowl too little bias, he cries. Flee :" if
Re has given it too much he cries.
"Rub ;" you see him lifting his leg
and bending his body in conformity to
the motion be would impart to the bowl.
Thus have felt with regard to my dis
pensations; ! would urge them or re-
strain them; I would assimilate them to
the habit of my mind. But / have
smarted for this under severe visitations.
1t may seem q harsh. but it is wise
and gracious dispensation. towards a
man, when. the instant he stretches out
his hand to order his affairs, God forces
him TO withdraw it. Concerning what
is morally good or evil. we are suf6'
eiently informed for our direction but
concerning wha. is naturally good ol
evil, We are ignorance itself. Restless
ness and self. will are opposed to our duty
| ia these cases Cecil.
Year: 1859

re- Some ugly fellow thus pronoun-
ces If you are ever threatened with
a handsome man in the family. just take
a clo;hes-pounder while he is yet in bed.
and batter his head to apumice. From
some cause or another, handsome men
are invariably asses they cultivate their
hair and complexion SO ruch, that they
have no time to think of their brains.
By the time they reach thirty. their
heads and hands are equally soft. Again
we say. if you wish to find an intelligent
man, Just look for one with features SO
rough tha. you might take his face for .
nutmeg CRATER
Year: 1859

3u0
Kome to dinner, without having made
an exertion which would hurt fly,
while their wives have perhaps been
harrassed by thousand anxieties and
yet, if they should stay at home for the
evening", or especially if they should
condescend to be commonly agreeable,
they would consider themselves entit-
led to a testimonial for distinguished
good behavior.


The difficulty lies in the fact that
men always consider themselves at liz
berty, from their superior independ-
ence, to follow their inclinations, aud
do not recognize the same restraining
law of right and duty which they i'm
pose on women. Let them stay at home,
and find occupation there, because it is
right to do so, and not look upon it as
sort of convenience where they can
have their clothes attended to, get their
meas when it suits them, and be al
ways treated like boys home for holi-
day, or like privileged visitor who
commands the house, and can leave or
stay as his pleasure prompts.


The advantages OF chess as a family
game are very much lessened by the
mental absorption, which it requires
1t is not recreation, it a study, and
though an agreeable one sometimes, not
profitable one often. l myself have
practised it just enough to know that.
0eneralZy, my time would be better EN-.
ployed, and l am only woman. and
have no important affairs Of the nation
to settle.
Year: 1859

On the water, on the water,


While the summer days were fair,
Whispering words in softest accents
Thro' veil OF dropping hair;
While the little ear was peeping,


Half ashamed and rosy red,
Blushing at the earnest meaning
OF the tender words said
On the water, on the water,


Fairly shone the sunbeams then,
Dancing on the tiny ripples,


Lighting up the far off glen;
None could hear US save the Iris,
Swaying in her golden pride,
And the lilies ever moving


With the motion Of the tide.
On the water, on the water,


While the twilight shades drew nigh,
Catching at the dropping branches,
As we foated idly by;
OIL her small hands gentle pressure,
And her glance all words above,
And her soft cheeks bright carnation,
When told her all my love.
On the water, on the water,


Now float, but all alone,
And miss the silken ringlets,


And the little hand is gone;
Dies the sunsets crimson beauty,


Comes the twilight as Of yore,
All remind me Of the dear one,


Lost to me for evermore.
Year: 1859

MoRPHV-ANIA.-Psu Morpby has determined
to make New York bis future residence, and
TO enter upon the practice of the law. Bonner
is TO pay him up in the thousands for editing
the chess department of the Ledger.
Year: 1859

L County of Nevada-In the Probate Court In the
matter of the Estate of CHAS. G. SWEETLAND deceased
On reading and filing the petition Of Henry r. Sweet
land administrator OF said estate praying for order Of
sale the real estate therein described and appearing
to this Court that there not sufficient personal estate
in the hands of the said Henry r. Sweetland admins
TRAITOR to pay the debts outstanding Hgans the deceased
and the expenses of administration and that it is nece
sary to sell the whole portion OF the real estate
Of said deceased for the payment Of such debts:


II is Ordered That all interested in said estate
appear before this Court at the Court Room thereof at
the county of Nevada, Wednesday the 3lst day OF
August 1859, to show cause, il any they have why
order should be granted to said Henry p Sweetland
to sell much of the real estate OF the deceased shall
be necessary to pay such debts.


And is further Ordered That copy Of the foregoing
order be published week for three weeks, in the
Nevada Democrat, Newspaper published in the Coun'
ty aforesaid. DAVID BEIDEN. County Judge,


and ex-oficiO Judge Of the Probate Court.
State of California County of Nevada.-I Rufus Shoe
maker County Clerk Of said County, and ocio Clerk
of the Probate Court thereof certify the foregoing TO Be
copy OF the original order file in my ONCE
Witness hand and the seal OF the said Probate Court
this ninth day of August, A. n. 1889.


Attest: RUFUS SHOEMAKER, Clerk


BY Phil. MooRE, Deputy.
Year: 1859

STEAM FIRE EyGiNEs.-The indianapolis
Itls .ays the performances of Latta'.
steam fire engine in that city gave univer-
sal satisfaction 50 far as the question of its
capacity to throw water and extinguish fires
was concerned. But whether it will be OF
any great benefit in city with mud streets,
is another matter In Paducah the citizens
purchased steam Ere engine more than a
year ago. All the fires that have since oc-
CURED, have been at times when it was inn
possible 10 get the steam extinguisher thro'
the streets. Having dispensed with hand
engines for one driven by steam power, and
that being untransportable, the people have
been as badly off as when they had no en-
ginss OF any description. ..t .-