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Year: 1861

As one doth sit within a lonely cave,


And watch the crested bilows rise and fall
Knowing that death comes on the moon-swayed


wave,


Dark death that closes all -
And looking through the lessening arch discerns
The lifting mist unye the lovely ships
Then checks the kindlng hope that starts and burns
To speech upon his lips
Yet hopes their welfare, all things blent and lost,
Ofequal value in his hapless mind
And the sweet sunlight that he leaves behind, ;
So seem governed in my lonely life
The careful shadowsialling round my head
To mark the drowning waves, whose gathering strife
Shall sweep above the grave when l am dead.
The sky into its bosom draws the mist;
see the sails that bear my dearest friends
Pass and re-pass as freely as they list


The magic line where sky with ocean blends
Some that have climbed the world with pride come


in,


And some stand outward for golden shore;
Hope swelis the canvass Hope hath ever been
Heavens pilot true, and shall be eYermore
Pass on, ye ships before the fayorng breeze!
Inward or outward; how the morning smiles!
Sweep through the golden calm OF summer seas,
And gather riches from Il thousand isles s.
Year: 1861

cester, will please finish, and forward to the
committee rooms, as fast as possible, as mitens
are needed as soon as they can be furnished
1t is suggested that piece of soft leather
sewed upon the bail of the thumb and finger
adds greatly to the durability of the mitten
We trust the importance of the measure will
secure its general adoption.
Year: 1861

e1 The English Chaucery Courts are
teeming vita stories of the unseemly kau-
teur displayed by the Lord Chancellor IN
his new judioiaI capacity. The tone and
Language in which he is reported to have
commented upon the Judgment of low
er court is arrogant and offensive in the
extreme, passing not merely the limits of
courtesy bat of decency.
Year: 1861

PATENT WIRE RoPE.-The late terrible food
in Trinity has destroyed extensive and valuable
fumes, conveying water from bank to bank of
that stream. Many of these were built so far
above the river that it was believed no freshet
could ever reach them. But not one remains,
and we hear of mining companies who have lost
as high as $4,000 in this kind OF property.


In many instances different companies built
fumes across the river at or near the same point
where single patent wire rope suspension fume
would answer the purpose of both. These sus-
pensions for fumes are coming into general use,
more especially, in the southern mines. No piers
are required useless timber necessary in their
construction, by which an accumulation of drift
wood may be occasiOned.


A. S. Halladie X Co., San Francisco, manufac-
ture wire rope of any required size and strength
We desire to call the attention of miners partic-
ularly to this article, believing that it may be
benefcially employed in the manner above men
toned, and at IL great saving of both money and
labor.
Year: 1861

THE RpADs.-Before the late storm we had
some tolerable good roads leading from the
basin. Now we have none, comparatively. The
place where the road was between here and
Douglas City is visible but & nary a road" We
have not learned to what extent the Weaverville
and Shasta road is damaged, but conclude that it
must be in bad condition. The road from LIE wis
ton bridge over to the Mountain House" is al
most destroyed, we are told. Mr.. Patrick Tobin
came over il on Wednesday, and reports that it
is SO badly washed as to be utterly impossible


OVerseer Williaps is endeayoring to make the
roads abpnt town passible, but owing to the
limited means at his command can do but little.
Year: 1861

THE bridge across the gulch behind the Church.
and tin one at the Josh" house were carried
down on Saturday night. An effort is being
made to have the former one rebuilt, until which
time the children will not be able to reach the
school-honse in safety.
Year: 1861

l q Il 90


| As soon as the result of the battle of Manassas
was known at the North, the Northern press com


menced disputing the responsibility for their


defeat, worse than parcel of thieves quarreling
| over the distribution of their plunder Some laid
1t on Patterson, some on Scott, some on Old Abe,
some on Greeley, some on the teamsters, and some
indignantly accounted for it on the ground that
the Southerners had balls in their rifles when they
tired-a most extraordinary and brutal proceed
ing. We are glad to see, however, that this dis


pute has suddenly stopped. There is no longer
any quest for the responsibility of the defeat be-
cause the Federals have now discovered that there
was not really any defeat-that in short rs Mr..
Mcawber would say, Hsey won the battle, and not
the Confederates. It reminds US of the ingenuity
of the lawyer in the celebrated skillet case
s" First said he, the skillet was cracked when
my client borrowed it; secondly, it was sound
when he returned it; thirdly, he never borrowed
it at ALL 1t is consoatory to know that this
vexed question of responsibility for the defeat at
Manassas has been so satisfactorily solved by the
discovery that instead of defeat it was a vic
tory.


But, while they were casting about for some.
body on whom to lay the blame, it was singular
that, amid all their coniectures, they never as.
crbed the disaster to the true cause. Strange as it
may appear, it never once occurred to them that
sucha thing as sconquering people engaged in the
defence of their homes against invader s almost
animpossibility. If is shown by their own records
that they had over seyenty-four thousand men in
the field Of whom one halfwere actively engaged
in the battle against only fifteen thousand of the
Confedetates. Ifit would be any consolation to
them to know the cause of their defeat, we will
tell them: IT was because they were fighting in a
bad auae, and We were fighting in good one. 1t
was because right was on our side, and our men


were determined to win the fight, before they vent
into it, This is sufficient to account for their de-
feat, though there are some people who urge an
other reason. Bat conscience doth make towards
Of US all, = even where man is naturally brave
And we will elaritably suppose that it was con
science alone that made towards of the Yankees
who fed from the bloody field Of battle.
Year: 1861

order, because he happened to be a native of
the rebeious district Nor do we think that
the British Government would have an hesi.
tatOn in hanging at the yard-arm a captain
who refused to blockade port in one OF the
Irish provinces, because he happened to have
been born in Cork or Londonderry. The con-
cession once made is fatal to all military effec-
tiveness, and to all law, order, and discipline
in government We have partly recognized


it in the United States, and the demoralged
condition o: our army aud navy shows how
terrible in its effects the recognition has
proved.


The melancholy instance cited in the open.
ing paragraph is an acception to the general
role which has prevailed among those officers
who have abandoned our flag on grounds of
State allegiance. The case of General Twiggs
shows how closely these notions of honor are
allied with what every other civilized nation
on the globe calls treacherv. II honor com
pels an officer to Spurn his alIegisnce to the
GovecuHeut, it surely does net compel him to
remain at his post long after the conflict ne
tween the State aud nation has arisen to oh.
tain every secret which confidence can pro-
cure to paraIyEe the hand which has nurtured
him to draw his salary from the "tyran&ical''
Golfers OF the nation to live in apparent ale
glance until the moment Of action arrives, and
then cross over the Potomac and draw the
sword Of q traitor. So long as many of these
officers are permitted to live on half-pay with
out service. they are willing to receive their
pay aud waive the Immediate question of allie
glance, hut when the command OF duty comes,
they collect the arrears of their salary up to
date, plead their duty to their State, send in a.
resignation, and next appear at Fort Pckcns
or Fort Sumptcr trying to steal Government
FOR with stolen canuOn aud pfered powder.


We certainly do not condemn Il native OF
South Carolina for loving that State, any more
than We ceusnre ourselves for cheriShiug a
foadness towards dear old Pennsylvania. But
the soldier is the son of the nation. She is
bis military mother-and he owes her his life
aud sword. The rule recognizes 10 excep
tion aud can admit Of no deviation. To aban-
don the nGtion in its hour Of peril when it
needs all that valor aud skill can afford, is to be
guilty Of iDgratitule aud treason. The Great
Soldier OF the Age, whose loyal arm row
wieIds the sword of Washington, is an example
for all to follow Winfield Scott loves Vlr
ginia, hut ho loves his country more, and IN
giving his great mind to his country, even it
antagoniSm 10 his State, he teaches the sol.
der what true allegiance is.-Prsss.
Year: 1861

8. A good cock TO each company, who
knows how to make salt meat juisy and tender,
and to have it ready whenever and wherever it
may be wanted, is equal to two doctors and
four extra combatants.


g. Officers who love and care for their men
while in repose never have to complain Of their
conduct when in action.


10 A soldier whose heart is in the cause he
fights for, is worth two who fight for their
pay.
Year: 1861

and reason the ultimate and certain establishment and
vi'dication OF the right


he$ofced, That under existing circumstances it is in
eNpedent TO call Sovereign Convention of the State at
ths ume' or to take any for the immediate or
ganzation or arming of the militia


heFooeo mat when the Legislature adjourn it adjourn
TO meet at Frederick, on.the 4th day Of June next
Year: 1861

EDuCAroRs-Upon the Importance of Edu-
cation too much cannot be said or written,
provided it be done by the proper persOns.-
There IS, however, class OF writers both in
England and in this country, who evidently
wish to engross the public attention, and to
have the privilege of saying all that is to be
said on this subject To these persons, | am
doing no injustice, when say of them, they
hare an are to grind. Some of them are seek
ing political preferment, and all of them wish
to gain o well filed purse. Parents ought to
know that he who pats their child upon the
head, calling him good boy, or writes dia-
tribes against whipping is not necessarily the
most benevolent man that lives although that
good mothers aud weak fathers seem disposed
to think so.
Year: 1861

CRUELTY TO CHlLDREN.-There are few con-
tinuous acts of wckednesS that one could not
sooner pardoa than the wanton indiction OF
misery on children none that rests SO heavy
on the conscience. To make the period OF
childhood miserable is sin which the poor vic
tim, however amable, cannot forgive. In the
very nature of things it is impossible its ef-
fects are enduring Offences in after life may
be expiated-may be overcome by benefits
may be effaced by remorse and atonement, but
cruelty to children mo, it is not in human
nature to forgive it those who are capable
Of the atrocity are almost always the most
dastardIy towards, and when brought into
contact in after life with the victims of their
cruelty, endeaVor to propitiate forgiveness BY
the baSesU SerVility.
Year: 1861

WHOEVER undertakes to put joke on the
razor-strap man is sure to get foored in the
long run. Recently while selling his straps at
Plymouth, and erpatiating the while on the
evils of rum drinking tipsy fellow cried out ;


L" If drinking rum made me lie as last as
you do selling your straps, I'd quit to day"


livery good" replied strapseller " the only
difference between your lying and mine is this
my straps enable me to lie in good warm bed
while rnn makes you lie in the gutter
Year: 1861

The RULING PAssIoN-We scarcely know
of a more touching incident of the ruling
passion strong in DEATH" than are the last
words of schoolmaster, who for upwards Of
thirty years, had gone in and out before sue.
cessive little focks in the same place, when
the film of death was gathering over his eyes.
which were soon to open in the presence OF
Him who took little children in his arms and
blessed them, he said at is getting dark
the boys may 20 out-schooNs dismissed
Year: 1861

. AN EDITOR IN DIsCUIsE.-Wm. Fl. Clark,
the editor of the Mendall, (Ill.,) Clarion loves
good joke, and never let's an opportunity slip
that promises a dish of fun. Here is his last :


DIsGUIsED-We have lately got new
suit of clothes, and no man could be more
effectually disguised We look like gentle
man. Upon first putting them on we felt like
cat in strange garret, and for long time
thought we were swapped off. We went to
the house and scared the baby into fits our
wife asked US if we wanted to see Mr.. Clark,
and told US that we would find him at the
Office: went there, and pretty soon one Of our
business men came in, with q strip of paper in
his hand He asked if the editor was in told
him we thought not asked him if he wished
to see him particularly said he wanted him
to pay that bill told him we didn't believe he
would be in I; business man left. Started to
the house again met couple Of young ladies
one of them asked the other, What handsome
stranger is that p In this dilemma we met a
friend and told him who we we're, aud got him
to introduce US to our wife, who is now as
proud of US as can be. The next time we get
new suit, we shall let her now beforehand
Year: 1861

There is a very old aud beautiful story, that
has formed the staple for poems in many tongues
that we wish we could worthily tell.


1t is of one sailing on the sea in sleep. The
ship was wrecked and shattered, aud yet he
slept. The waves bore him like an infant in II
cradle, upon the plank whereon he lay, and
when he awoke it was with music and upon II
couch of flowers, The shore was strange, yet
lovely, aud thronged with thousands who pro
claimed him king. 1t seemed as if they had
awaited him, walf though he was for there was
throne without an occupant and royal robes for
his arrayng All human willis seemed merged
in his, aud glory shone around him even as the
sun of that fair, unclouded cline. At length
there came to him reverend man, and told him
that the time would come when, eXiled from his
kingdom and powerless rs he came, there would
be 'none poor to do him reverence But"
continued the age, beyond the clouds that
skirt this land lies an unseen island bare and
drear no fountains sparkle and no flowers per-
fume no music but the wall of wind and waves;
no shelter but the shadow of rock Thither
they will Danish thee, and there thou must make
thy inevitable home. But now thou art supreme


ly blest slaves do thy bidding, and gold strews
thy pathway like sand So, seek that island out
cause the rock to be smtten, that it may gush
with living water send fragrant flowers from
thy gardens and spicy trees from thy forests let
the amaranth be transplanted and the palm shed
pleasant shade, till the wilderness shall be glad
for them, and the "desert blossom as the rose
Build there u royal mansion, aud fill it with all
things pnre and beautiful that surround the now
so thou shalt have Paradise at last and go
rejoicing into exile The king wise, and
while he cherished the realm he had ruled, yet
sought the island aud " "coloniZcd' as it were,
the half of his heart Spring was persuaded to
come that way, and she hung her robe on the
trees he had planted and left her breath on the
gale. The music of the birds and fountains, the
winds among the leaves hoated round the new
palace he had builded, but nothing of this land
had he ever beheld, Years went on, and the old,
royal glores grew dim, aud the crown was
tarnished, and by and by there was another
wreck a new king came sleeping to the shore,
and he that had ruled in palace, was not suffered
so much as shelter, for he was an exile, as the
sage had prophesied But he went not with
heavy heart. for sometimes when the wind blew
from the unseen shore, ii had borne to him the
fragrance Of the orange and the palm, and so he
knew that his gardens were growing beautiful
for his coming And he laid of the purple robe
like one dsr0bing for pleasant dreams, and put
down the sceptre as if it had been burden, and
went away to his unseen hope with IA good bye
on his lip
Year: 1861

ROSES AND TnoRNs.-We wonder what this
world would be to us If, throughout our lives,
we reposed on bed of rosesf Should we, In
reality, feel more happy than when, under the
present social dispensalion, we frequently feel
sharp thorn in our sides, and q score of their
keen, biting points starting up against our heads
in the nighttime, as il SO many little imps were
holding a carnival amidst the feathers of our
pillow? We have often asked the question, both
Of ourselves and others, but never could obtain
a satisfactory answer; and being obliged to take
refuge in the court of experience, we very soon
discovered that appearances were invariably de-
ceptive, and that the roses and thorns OF life
mingled promiscuously together that they were
inseparably unted-one for stimulant to man,
the other as a reward to him during the natural
pauses between his exertions.-.N Y. Home
IollrnnL
Year: 1861

FAREWELL TO GREECE.- Bayard Taylor, in his
last letter from Athens thus bids tender fare
well to the land of colossal heroes aud mighty
memories


Let me not lose the pensivc sweetness and sad
ness of Athens. The sun is rapidly sinking in
the clear saffron light beyond the pass of Daphne,
and purple flush plays along the high barren
sides OF Hymettus. Before me rises the Acropo-
lis with its crowns of beauty Parthenon, on
whose snowy front the sunset of two thousand
years have left their stain. In the distance is the
musical Egean dancing with the whispering
waves to fill the rock hewn saacopSagus of The
mistocles. Pato's olives send silver simmer
through the dusk that is creeping over the Attic
Plain. Many an evening have | contemplated
this illusrious landscape, but it never was rs
lovely as now, when look upon it for the last
time. Every melodious wave in the long outline
of immortal mountains-every sacred marble in
the august piles OF ruin-every bluodcd auemone
on the banks of the lssus and every asphodel
that blossoms on the hill of Collonus-i know


them and they know me- Not as a curious stran-
ger do | leave Athens, not as II traveller eager
for new scenes, but with the regret of who
knows and loves the sacred soil, to whom il has
been sanctuary aud home.
Year: 1861

The PAST AND PREsENT.-The old year has
gone to the tomb of Time, with its irrevocabe
records, and the new fairly ushcred i'll. 1t is a
terrible thought that every word and deed good
and evil, is recorded in the Book of Time past
all correction or recall. How many an erring
mortal, as the dying year, with wan and skeleton
finger, pointed to the past, exclaimed, too late
too late !"


Old Time is merciful, and from the death of
the old new year has sprung forth, full of hope,
and promise, and joy, bidding Remorse and Des-
pair away to the haunts of the lost. The future,
all dccked in roses and triumphal wreaths, may
disSipate the shadows that hung palllike over
memory regrets, and urge us to forgetfulncss
of all but hope.


What time so fitting as the present to take an
inventory of our vices and virtues What time
more appropriate to overhaul our moral log, y
note our errors and take fresh start? He that
does not learn useful lesson from the past, and
profit 10y the knowledge, is the unworthy possessor
of Gods best gift to man-reason. Like Divine
mercy, the pure, white snow has spread her man
tie shroud over the sere and embrOwned earth
hiding her nakedness and withered face. SO let
the mantle of charity fall on the poor, and cover
the sins of our erring brothers.
Year: 1861

FOLLOWING SUIr-A country girl, whose sisters
had married badly, was about TO slip her head
into the matrimonial moose herself


How dare you think Of getting married ~
asked her cousin, with the bad example OF your
sisters before you"


The young girl replied with spirit:


81 choose to make trial for myself Did
you ever see pigs running to a trough which
contained hot swill? The first one sticks in his
nose and gets il scaded. The second, third,
fourth, and so on, follow suit meeting with a
like fate But this does not deter those which
are still behind from thrusting their noses in
also So it is with the girls, in regard TO matri-
mony. Aud now, cousin, hope you are an
swered.n
Year: 1861

content with the assurance that l would ex-
press to the public and to the Senate, that the
spirit in which they come is perfectly com.
mendable and perfectly satisfactory. 1t is
gratifying to me to see that the proper spirit
"a spirit Of fraternal kindness. OF concilia.
ton and atfection--is adopted by so large a
portion of my fellow eilizens of the State to
which | belnnp.
Year: 1861




In the United States Senate, February l..
1npreseniing to the Senate memorial from
citizen of New York, Mr.. Seward said


Mr.. President Excepting the House Of
Representatives. this Senate Chamber is the
largest hall that is or ever has been occupied
by Legislative Assembly since the world
began. The memorial which | am charged
to present, is of such length that if extend
ed, it would cross the Senate Chamber in its
EXTREMIST length, eighteen times. have al.
ready presented m, MORALS from the city of
New York, signed by the citizens from that
place, to the number of twenty-five thousand.
This memorial bears the signatures of thirty
eight thousand more, making in the whole,
sixty three thousand Of the inhabitants of that
ely, who have signed this appeal TO the Sen
ate The committee who have charge of this
memorial, are a fair representation-I might
almost say, an embodment-of citizens. who
direct and wiell the commerce of the great
emporium of our country-the commerce of
a continent and commerce which this pres
ent year, owing to the distraction of the times,
is but for the first time in the condi ion of
proving itself to be the controlling commerce
of the world.
Year: 1861

The memorial which they present may be
regarded as fair expression of the interest
which is felt by that great commercial COM
munity, and probably fair exponent of the
interest in the same great subject which is felt
by the whole commercial iAterest of the Uni
ted States. In any other part of the world
such communication would command obe-
dience. In England, France, Russia, Prussia,
or Germany, a demonstration of the will OF
the commerce of the country decides ques-
tons of war or peace Happily, sir, that is
not the case in this great Republic. The in
terest of commerce is but tna.


OTHER INTERESTS,


The interests of agriculture, manufactures
and mining, each Of them is another. Each
is entitled 10 and each secures equal respect,
and the consideration which they obtain is
due, not to their nvmber, not to their wealth
but due 10 the crcumstances under WI ich
they lend their advice to Government. But
do not hesitate to say that he character of
these petitioners entities them TO the respect.
full attention and consideration of Congress.
NO BASIS OF ADJU.TAENT SUITS THE SOUTH


They have asked me 10 support this peG
ton. / have not yet found, though | have
anxiously waited for and hoped for that man
Hesitation of temper on the part of the people
of the country and their Representatives,
which would justly me in spying that the Sc.
ceding States, or those who sympathze with
them, have made propositions which the cili-
zens of The adhering S ates could accept, or,
as | desire 10 speak with impsrtiality upon
this as upon all other occ 4sions, to put the
proposition in another form, thai this or any
other of the various propositions hich have
come from the citizens OF the adheriDg States,
or those who desire to adhere to the Union,
would not be acceptable and satisfactory to
the other party.


READY FOR AN ADJUSTMENT.


l have thought it my duty to hold myself
open and ready for the best adjustment which
could be practically made, and have there
orc been obliged to ask this committee to b,