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Year: 1860

There is sentiment in the following lines whiel
will find an echo in every breast against which tn
torn of life has beaten Many a man, Scared il
he warfare of life, will feel his eyes moistcn in
alling the potency of a mothers love


Backward, turn backward, oh, Time in your flight
Make me child again, just for tonight!
Mother come back from the echoless shore
Take me again TO your heart as of yore-
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair,
Der my slumbers your loving watch keep
Rock me 10 sleep mother rock me TO sleep!
Backward flow backward, oh, tide of the years!
am so weary Of toll and Of tears


Toll without reeompense-tears all in vain
Take them and give me my childhood again!
have grown weary Of dust and decay,
Weary of lngng my soul-wealth away
Weary Of sowing for others to reap;--
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep!
Tired of tho hollow the base the untrue,
Mother, oh mother, my heart calls for you!
Many n summer the grass has grown green,
Blossomed and faded-our faces between
You with strong yearning and passionate pain,
Long tonight for your presence again;
Come from the silence so long and so deep
Rock me TO sleep mother-rock Inc TO sleepl
Over my heart in the days that are flown
No love like mother-lovo ever has shown
No other worship abides and cndures,


Faithful, unselfsh and patient like yours
None like mother can charm away pain,
From the sick soul and world weary brain
slumber's soft calm DER my heavy lids creep
Rock me to sleep, mothcr-rock me to sleep!
Come, let your brown hair just lighted with gold
Fall ON my shoulder again as of old


Let il drop over my forhead to- night,


Shading my faint eyes away from the light
For with its sunny-edge shadows once more,
IIaply will ingcr the vision Of yorc,


Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep
Rock mo to sleep, mothcr-rock me to sleop3
Mother, dear mother the years have been long
Since last listened to your lullaby song,


Sing, then, and unto my soul IL shall seem
Womanhood's tears have been only dream;
Clasped to your heart in loving embrace,


With your light lashcs just sweeping my face;
Never hereafter to wake or to weep,


Rock me to sleep, mother-rock inc to sleep!
Year: 1860

worked over so long "set like meal bags"
Make another pudding--begin the shirts
anew. Don't feel "down in the mouth"
because dust will settle and clothes will
wear out, and crockery will ges broken.
Being women don't procure you an
exemption from trouble and care; you
have got to fight the battle of life as well
as your husband, and it will never do to
give up without bold struggle. Take
things as they come, good and bad to-
gether, and whenever you feel inclined
to cry, just change your mind and laugh.
Keep the horrors at arms length; never
turn blessing round to see if it has got
dark side to it, and always take it for
granted that things are blessings until
they prove to be something else. asle


Never allow yourself to getdiscouraged
and you'll find the world a pretty com
Portable sort of place after all. = Life
illustrated. t
Year: 1860

The SuLTAN's ExPENsEs.--The private
purse of the Sultan of Turkey per annum
is one million two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. To this must be added
the annual allowance for tho Sultan's
mother and step-mother, his Majesty
brother, his sons, his sisters, married
daughters and sons-in-laws, which amount
in all to about one million ADDITIONAL
No wonder that with such an absorption
of finances tho Turkish government finds
itself weak and inefficient.
Year: 1860

Benjamin Franklin attributed his sue
cess as public man, not to his talents
or his powers of public speaking-for
these were but moderate-but to his
known integrity of character. =" Hence
it was" he says, "that had SO much
weight with my fellow citizens. | was
but bad speaker, never eloquent, sub
ect TO much hesitation in my choice OF
words, hardly correct in language, and
yet l generally carried my point. -
Character creates confidence in men in
high station as well as in humble life.-
1t was said of the first Emperor Alexan-
der, of Russia, that his personal charac-
ter was equivalent to a constitution
During the wars Of the Fronde, Mon.
taigne was the only man among the
French gentry who kept his castle-gate'
unbarred and il was said Of him, that
his personal character was worth more
to him than regiment Of horse.


That character is power, is true in mucl
higher sense than that knowledge is pow
er. Mind without heart, intelligenc,
without conduct, cloverness withoutgood
ness, are powers in their way, but the,
may be only for mischief. We may b
instructed or amused by them; but it i
sometimes as difficult to admire them a
it would be to admire the dexterity Of {
Year: 1860

Henry Ward Beecher, thus gives his
experience in preaching. He says -
"Where one hears two sermons day, and
still more where one hears three, (which
it is an abomination before God and men
for any man to preachDnot much Of either
can be retained. / think there is not
one man in a thousand that is fit to hear
more than one sermon day; or that is
lit for anything else if he has heard more
! than one"
Year: 1860

There is a sentiment in the following lines which
will find echo in every breast against which the
storm of life has beaten Many man, Scared in
the warfare of life, will feel his eyes moistcn in re-
calling the potency of a mothers love
Year: 1860

The New York Herald of Saturday says the
agents Of the Rock Island Railroad have been
instructed not TO make any permanent arrange
mcnts for freight business with any Eastern
road. intending to hold their influence for the
highest Qowcs.) bidder, whether it be the
Grand Trunk, the Fort Wayne or the New
York roads. As this company controls 400
miles Of road, its action is Of importance and
it's business valuable.
Year: 1860

tleman is really one of the most distinguished
looking members in Che House


Senator Wheeler is looking on quietly and
enjoying the fight on the Senatorial question
He in common with the other Douglas Demo
Gratis in the Senate voted for the gentlemen
nominated in Democratic caucus for the va.
rious offices in that body 1t is the general
opinion that hereafter Democrats will act to.
gether in spite of what few hot-heads say.
The menacing attitude Of party affairs in the
State, even now, shows that each faction will
be eager to forget past differences and rally
to its support, (for the destroying of its enc
my, by means of action IN the pdrty,) those
who, for good cause, temporarily left the
organization. The Douglas men may vet
have to cast oil upon the troubled waters. and
save the California Democracy from going to
pieces. u
Year: 1860

The following is letter from an intelli-
gent farmer of ten years experience in Cali.
fornia:


EDITOR DEMoCRAT:-In your paper of Dec
3lst, 1859, noticed an extract from the Ats
California. The author of the article mus
be practical farmer. Cultivating the cereals
has been generally losing business in thi
county, as well as in other portions of the
state. The price received for grain is moi
equivalent to the expense. The farmer i,
compelled to make, to put his crop into mar
ket' say $40 per month during ploughing and
seeding; $40 to $50 dollars during harvest
for ordinary hands. many of them lazy and
notwithstanding to be watched constantly
to get them to do anything like an honest
days work, betraying mentality degrading
In its influence and humiliating in the extreme.
That is not all. find in them generally an
entire lack of manners and discover them to
be entirely devoid of the decency of social
life. Hard to please, making remarks about
the food, which is as good as the country af.
lords; fresh butter, vegetables, tea or coffee
at every meal-better than the most Of them
were used to before coming to this State
Conducting themselves at table, in MANY in
stances, with less regard to decency than the
native root Diggers. AS soon as they can get
few dollars ahead they want to be off to
some doggery where they sell strychnine
whiskey, then to worse places Disease men.
tai and physical follows, and thus they spend
the greater portion of their time in the hos
Pital of the county, thereby becoming pub
lie expense Losing confidence in themselves.
they will stay so long as the managers of
those institutions will permit them to remain.
and, when reluctantly turned out, will start
to their old haunts, the ranches, to look for
employment; if there, refused they will beg
something to eat going away without ever
Offering any compensation in the way of chop.
ping wood, filling the buckets with water for
the lady that waited upon them, or other
small jobs, and if they find some person un-
acquainted with them and hard up for help,
they will, for the first half day, drive their
work. In some cases they hold out longer;
then relax, commence showing the coven
foot fall into the old practice of manners and
mentality nearly akin to serfdom.


There are some honorable exceptions to the
above. Those will not work for the same
wages they got last harvest, $55 per mouth
81 per day. They are the cheapest men to
hire; and, unfortunately for the farmer, there
has never been sufficient number of these to
be had, nor has not been since my residence
in this country. Yours, &c.


FoRTY-NISE.
Year: 1860

The Hydraulic Press says


We have been informed that the Eureka
Lake Company has effected sale of two
fifths of its stock TO the Truchee Lake Co.,
for $500 900. Whatever doubts may have
been entertained heretofore, as to the ability
Of the Eureka Lake Co. to extend their ditch
to this part of the Ridge, are by this impor-
tant transfer set completely at rest. The ex-
tension is already under way, and in few
weeks will be completed. The new ditch is
three feet deep, two and half feet wide on
the bottom, and FIVE feet wide at the top,
with grade of sixteen feet per mile, and its
capacity is fully 1000 inches TO bring
water from it into San Juan Hill long high
Aume will have to be constructed at a re-
ported expense of $4,000; though it is not
impossible iron pipe may be used instead OF
fume. As to the capacity of the Company
to supply water, we are positively assured
that from 5000 to 5000 inches can be fur
nished for every day in the year. AS not
more than half or two thirds of this is con-
sumed up the Ridge, the remainder will flow
through tile new ditch to Sweetland, Birch
vile, and ultimately to San Juan. We thinl
it may now be considered certain, that tn,
desire of the miners to have cheap water i
soon to be grati6ed.
Year: 1860

Report of Marshal.
To the Hon. Mayor and Common Council Of the
city Of Adrys0ilLe &
GENTLEMEN The following is my report of
the collections and payments made to the City
Treasurer, for the third quarter, ending JAM LIST,
A n
Year: 1860

MURDER IN CALAvERAs-A few DAYS since
a man named B. F. Senior, recently arrived
over the plains, was found murdered in his
tent near the fourth crossing of the Calave
ras. He is supposed to have been murdered
by man whom he had picked up on the
plains, destitute. and whom he had employed
to heard his stock. The Chronicle of the 7th
inst, says:


Senior had been absent for from his tent for
several days; had been below to procure
money te buy more stock which he had in
view, and, it is conjectured, returned last
Saturday with the money, and was assassina-
ted by this villain whom he had saved from
starvation, and robbed of the money he had
on his person.
Year: 1860

A man never knows what he has read


until he has either talked about it or writ


ten about it. Talking and writing arc di.


gestive processes which are absolutely es-


sential to the mental constitution of the
man who devours many books. But it is


not every man who can talk. Talking i'm


plies, first of all, a readiness on the part


of the speaker, and next, a sympathetic


listener. 1t is therefore as digestive pro-


cess the most difficult, it is the most rap


id, in its operation. Writing is a differ


ent affair; a man may take his time to it,


and not require reader; and can be his


own reader. 1t is an easier, although more


formal, process of digestion than talking.


1t is in everybOdy's power; and everybody


who reads much makes more or less use of
it, because, as Bacon says if he does not
write, then he ought to have extraordinary
faculties to compensate for such neglect
1t is in this view that we are to understand
the complaint of a well-known author that
he was ignorant of certain subject, and
the means by which he was to dispel his
ignOrance-namely, by writing on it 1t
is in this view that the monitorial system
of instruction has its great value-to the
monitors is the best kind of teaching. 1t
is from the same point Of view that Sir
William Hamilton used to lament the de-
cay of teaching as part of the education
of students at the universities. In the
olden time it was necessary to the obtain
ing degree that the graduate should give
evidence of his capacity as teacher, and
in the very titles of his degree, as magis-
ter, and doctor, he was designated 4 teach
er A man never knows anything, Sir
William used to say, until he has taught
it in some way or Other-itmay be orally.
it may be by writing book. It's grand
truth and points a fine moral knowledge
IS knowledge say the philosophers; it is
precious for its own sake; it is an end to
tself But nature says the opposite
knowledge is not knowledge until we use
t; it is not ours until we have brought it
lnder the command of the great social fac
llty, speech; We exist for society, and
is null until we give it express
ion, and in so doing make it over to the
iocial instinct. -BiacklCOOd
Year: 1860

The President and Cabinet recently


made all sorts of promises to Congress that


the laws for the suppression of tie slave


trade should be respected, and carried out


to the fullest extent. We believe one case
did arise in which the Government at
tempted something of the kind, but the eff
fort was transitory, and appears to have
exhausted itself in that special instance
The crime is still carried on to an cnor-
nous extent, and many arrivals Of vessels
at Southern ports are those of slavers,
landing their cargoes of stolen negroes up
on our shores, and replenishing the supply
of slaves in the south. Only on Monday
last a cargo of one hundred and twenty
four Africans were landed from the schOon-
er Clotilde at Mobile, one of the chiefports
of the South. and, We are bound to believe,
in the face and eyes of the officials of the
Federal Government They were immedi-
ately taken off to the Alamama river in a
steamboat, ard by this time are judicious-
ly and safely distributed among the plan
ters. Such an act cannot escape the at
tention of the Government, but no effort
will be made to punish the guilty parties
until it is too late, and the guilty have es-
capped beyond the peradventure of arrest
and punishment Newark (N. j. Mer-
curry.
Year: 1860

In the eastern part of the Empire State,


in beautiful mansion, situated upon the


banks of the Hudson, lived happy fami-
ly. Happy, not merely because tlis home
was the abode of loeaLth, for o, what are
gilded trappings-what the richest coronet
that ever rested upon royal brow? compared
with the pure sunshine of peace in the
heart


The residents of this mansion were hap
py because lore dwelt there, and the joy of
one was the joy of all. Happy, because
goodness and virtue crowned the life of the
husband and father, and were sweetly re-
fected in the other members of the family.


This family consisted lat the time to
which we at first alluded of Mr.. Gordon,
his wife, and two children, bright-eyed,
noble looking boy of sixteen, and fair girl
about two years younger. The youth was
bold and energetic, and bid fair to be some
thing in the world. In education, he sur
passed most boys of his years, and at the
early age of seventeen he was thoroughly
prepared to enter college. There was
something in the intellectual light which
lit up those finely chiseled features, that
spoke of more than ordinary talents. But
there was also a restless fire in that same
dark eye, a something in every motion,
that told of an innate daring amounting al
most to recklesness, and a natural way
wardness which only kind and tender words
could check.


The sister was gentle, loving being
and though not strictly beautiful, yet to
those who knew her worth, and marked
how the beauty of her soul shone forth in
every feature, she was surprisingly lovely.
If then in the estimation of others, she oc-
cupied so high place, how must she have
been regarded by that brother? His was
a nature that could love with an idolizing
fondness, and he loved his sister with all
the strength and earnestness which bro;h-
er's love can know. He knew that often,
when almost SHINING, a soft reproof from
her had saved him from many bitter
hour of repentance.


Isabella Gordon knew her power over
her brother, and. child though she was, she
exerted it with all loving sisters tact to
urge him on in the path of right But now
he was about to bid goodbye to the home
circle, to spend years in distant college
People who knew and loved Eugene Cor
don and admired the uprightness of his
moral character, fel5 that there could be no
danger in his being exposed to the evil in
fuences which often attend college life
But Isabella was better acquainted with
her brothers nature than any one else.-
She knew that a. haLf;acqy character he
would nerer be. She saw that there was
within him, which would either
elevate him far r-above the common level, or
sil...;; him into the very depths of depravity
Year: 1860

| miles per hour, while the progress was on
ly 45 per hour. At the rate of l72 miles
an hour the velocity is one fifth that of a
cannon ball


The Cincinnati storm was distinguished
for its breadth, and especially for high
progressive velocity. In this latter respect
it stands pre-eminent The progress was
so rapid as to obscure the rotation. and to
render it difficult in some parts to detect
it at all From the cursory examination
which the writer has yet been able to give,
it seems probable that if there was gen.
eral whirl reaching across the track, it was,
at the surface of the earth, broken up into
several subordinate whirls, at one time act
ing separately, again cOmmingling either
in conflict or to unite their forces in more
deadly energy. This irregularity is just
what any one, acquainted with the nature
of elastic fluids, would expect under the
CIRCUMSTANCES.


No tornado of considerable breadth
could maintain regular rotation along a
surface so broken as the valley of the Ohio.
The case, if as supposed, is not entirely
singular. Clear evidence was obtained at
one place in the Brandon tornado, that
two whirlS co-existed side by side. This
was supposed at the time to have been due
tc the fact that about one-third of the
breadth of the storm was laboring at that
point in a dense forest, while the rest was
sweeping over cleared ground.


Along the center of the path of lorna
do the barometer stands lower than the
average, and on the borders higher. The
lowest depression is directly under the
place of greatest violence; but as the top
of the whirling column inclines forward, its
base does not reach any given place till
the lowest depression of the barometie wave
has passed. This explains fact mention
ed by our correspondent from Walnut Hills;
that the barometer began to rise just before
the severest part of the blow.


Ihave entered, Messrs. editors, upon no
explanation of the cause or causes which
can keep in action forhOurs, and sometimes
for days, such enormous forces, except so
far as the great currents spoken of may
serve for an explanation.


All the steam power on the globe fall
far short of the Cincinnati tornado.


MIAMI UNIVERSITY, June Is, 1850.
Year: 1860

The New Haven Palladium says


We have very carefully compared the
manuscript of the letter with the other
manuscripts of Mr.. De Forest, and find
the resemblance most striking. The only
marked difference is the small d. In his
other manuscripts the top of the d is
thrown to the left in a curve-but in this
last letter it is the ordinary d, similar to
this one which we print But all the 9th
er words and letters have the same appear
ance in all the manuscripts. Even the
loop on the back of each small f is the
ames in all.
Year: 1860

In one Of the market houses of Philadel-


phia says the North American, is a genius


of butcher. Beneath his sleeves and apron


he wears the costliest broadcloth-none Of


the inferior grades, but of the finest pro-


ductiOn of French looms. His linen is as


faultless as his exterior garments, while the


glistening surface of his marble counters is
no less striking than the glOssiness of his
hat and boots. In the center of his shirt
bosom sparkles single diamond stone
of six carats weight, and of the first water


Upon the little finger of his left hand gilt
ters a circlet of diamonds, six in number,
whose aggregate value is considerably more
than that of the garniture Of his shirt
bosom. His complexion is a clear red
and white-just that style of complexion
which Partisan ladies produce by dainty
eommixture of carmine and bismuth. He
is man of fine physique, and has an
avoirdupOis of about 200 pounds. His
address is polished, and his manners court
ly and suave. He commenced life with
out dollar, and is now taxed for some
$4,000 in real estate, yet is as polite and
deferential to his customers as m the day
he first embarked in the business of con-
verting quarters of beef into chops and sir
lOins. A benevolent lady of large fortune
first noticed him, and placed at his disposal
a fund upon which he has raised the su-
perstructure of his present fortune. He is
now rapidly advancing in wealth, and will
retire upon the eighth ola million.
And all through the influence of that
specific against adversity-pOliteness.
Year: 1860

CASHIER OF New HAVEN BANK-SR:-
l am owner f--shares in the capital
stock of your Bank. For some time past
have not drawn tie dividends on them.


L have recently given to Messrs. MAILER
& Quereau, of the firm of Mailer, Lord &
Quereau, Wall street, New York, a power
of attorney to enable them to receive on my
account VIII you Oblige by sending to
me directly through the mail a statement
of the amount of dividends so paid to them
by yOu-alsO the price of the stock at Ia
test sales.
Year: 1860

So many mysterious disappearanees occur
that our readers can hardly charge their
memory with them. Day after day they
excite moments discussion, or point a
newspaper paragraph, and then fade from
the mind of all. save the family friends Of
the missing. into whose heart the sorrow
sinks like lead. The dread uncertainty,
perhaps, is solved by the finding of man.
gled corpse, or worse than that, ever hangs
over life's journey, feeding a constant hope
that the lost one may return, and causing
a start at every foot fall, distorted by fan
cy into the familiar tread of the long ab-
sent one.


A wealthy young man-E. L. De For
est-Of Watertown, Conn, left the Metro
politan Hotel in New York, January II,
1859, to 60 over to BroOklin to SEE an
aunt and make final arrangements with her
for transatlantic tour After leaving one
of the Banks, from which he drew a con-
siderable sum of money, he was no more
seen. All that love, wealth and persever-
ance could do to solve the mystery were
uuavailing. Mr.. De Forest was mourned
as dead; his great estate went into the
hands of an Administrator, and last year
as we rode past the rural cemetery of Wa
tertowm, on our way to Litchfeld, we saw
the marble monument to his memory
But a New Haven dispatch has told us that
the cashier of the New Haven Bank has
received the lnllnwinn latter.