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Year: 1859

hear the solemn midnight bells


In startling numbers tolling,
And Ger ny soul in heavy waves


A tide Of grief is rolling.


While all around, the happy world
In sweet repOse is sleeping,
feel so lonely and so sad,


My strength it yield; to weeping.
I'm thinking DER those youthful days,
Which bore no clouds of sorrow;
When bravo with hope, gladly wished
The com ing of each morrow.
Alas! ! wish no morrow now


Lile's hopes are from me taken
And now tread each shadow'd way,
By every joy forsaken.
About my room strange phantoms fit
My cherries fire is dying
And round the window comes the wind,
In mOurnful cadence signing.
Oh, where are they fondly loved
In youths bright summer weather?
What cruel fate hath broke the chain
That bound us then together?
| oft repeat their cherished Rumcs,
But no response is spoken
Alas my eyes are filed with toars-
lily once stout heart is broken.
Year: 1859




DEAR SIr;-On reflection we have con
cluded to return to you the jewels which
we won of you in Mobile several weeks
ago. They seem TO be very old acquain-
tances of yours, from what you said about
them, wher you put them up against our
money, and so much valued by you on
that account, that we think it pity to
part you and them, more especially as we
seized your cash pile You will find in q
bundle, which we send herewith, all the
jewels except one or two which the dealer
with whom we exchanged all of them for
other articles, had sold before we came to
our present conclusion, and which, there
fore, we cannot recover We send this
letter, and the bundle containing the jews
els, by friend of ours who is merely pass
ing through New Orleans, and will not
have time to hunt you out and deliver
them. We have, therefore, requested him
to put the letter in the Post-office, and TO
leave the bundle at the bar of the st.
Charles Hotel, with directions that IL is to
be delivered to you whenever you call for
IT, Go, as soon as you receive this letter,
and get the bundle, ask no questions, and
admit that we are the men that can do a
Year: 1859

by HELEN TRUEsDELL.
do not ask single pledge,


From thee sing 10 vow
I'd only look upon thy face


AS am looking now.
Iguzeupon thy lofty brow


Where genius sits enshrincl
Aud read the truth Of all lhou'st said,
The purpose fthy mind.
I'd scorn to hold thee by chain
That thou mighsl wish to break,
Nor will | in this parting hour,


One word or promise take
Nor shall my woman's weakness prove
Itself in words or tears
But still the same thou wilt be to me
Through dim and distant years.
Such love as mine, when once arou seJ
1t never more can sleep,
But ever lowering round thy shrine,
A lireless watch shall keep.
But should the future prove that hope
Has circled me about
With dreams TOO fond, one word Of thine
Would quickly blot them out.
My womans pride would aid my heart
TO break the fearful spell
And bidding back each struggling tear,
I'd fondly say farewell.
Year: 1859

Within the last fifty years steam
power and labor-saving machinery
have wrought a mighty revolution in
industry, and rendered almost super
fuous manual labor in the great de-
partment of mechanical industry. In
the British Islands the work done by
machine power is computed by Lord
Brougham to be equal to the labor
of eight hundred millions ofmen
Year: 1859

sure, Jim Thorington has sunk by his own
weight from a prominent candidate for
United States Senator, to the vulger station
OF turnkey and bailiif but that does
not improve Hirams prospects an iota.
Bnrryng one beggar will not make anoth-
er one rich.


We confess that we will be malicoue
enough to enjoy Hiram's rage and shame
and modification, when be finds that his
only supporters are Long John Thompson
and the trio Of nobodies which I've mean
what we say in using the pronoun Which, }
Scott county has sent to the lower House.
We can see the bold Hiram foam at the
mouth as George g. Wright ambles past
him. We can see him clench his fists when
the unmistakable odor Of the great un
washed" Sam kirkwood salutes his nose
as that delectable combination Of dirt and
u.ury swaggers by him. We can almost
hear him swear as the political parson leave es
him behind on his pious pilgrimage to the
lobbiss of Washington.


And yet the great Hiram. King Hiram,
Temperance Hiram, Know othing Hiram,
K"sch toving Hiram will see all and every
one Of the office hunters we have named
shoot past him on the road to the Senate
as Flora Temple, Ike Cook or Princess.
would pass the mammoth jsckass, Deacon
Darden We are told that . word to the
wise is sufficient. Let Us see if King Hi.
ram is entitled to place in the category Of
wise men. If he be, he will abandon ali
hopes Of the Senate. where he must be
aware he would be as much out of place
as a bull in china shop--and content him
self with the distinction Of peddling tickets
about the polls on election dsys-a grave
duty. which might interfere with the less
dignifed responsibilities of Senator.
Year: 1859

F From the quantity Of onions
brought into market yesterday, there can
be no doubt that Scott County is justly en-
titled to her extensive noteriety, as the
greatest onion county in the United States
Formerly Withersfield stood without a ri
val but since the bo1 was sent to her
select men, she has graciously yielded the
palm. We saw no less than Elk large wag-
on loads in sight Of our sanctum at one
time.
Year: 1859

REspoNsIBILIrY.-A the editors Of
the Gazette appear to be very anxious about
the personal responsibility of the DEMocRAr
AND News local editors, we will inform
them that Ma. WEsT is one of the local staff.
and he obligates himself to be personally
responsible for any article that may appear
in the local columns The little joker Of the
Gazette need have no fear of has personal
safety, as gentlemen hesitate in Furnishing
All infant for u ndmghty act it might have
committed. The other editor is safe-what
man would strike momdn
Year: 1859

EE Yesterday gave fair prospects
of that delicious, dreamy season of the
year peculiar to the American climate,
and the Indian summer, which. of late years
it's mellow beauty. The hazy atmosphere
mantling the hills and creeping along the
valleys seemed anxious to hide the ravages
the frost has OF late been making among
the forests And the leaves of crimson and
gold cleaned with n softer light, like the
subdued flashing of jewels beneath the
gossamer veil of the bride. All hail to the
glorious Indian Summert
Year: 1859

.-Y"The great Chess excitement
is beginning to subside, while balloons are
fast going up in public estimation. Mr..
Lowe (names will go by contraries) Is
about to fill his enormous machine with
gas, which will take about a week, and the
next news we shall hear will probably he
that he with his balloon are "gone up," toe
gether with the $4,000 expended thereon
1t is said to have power enough to take up
q small sized locomotive, and if present in
tentions are carried out, will reach the
other side of the big pond" long before
the Great Eastern starts for this side, al
though some incredulous people doubt
whether such chip ever existed.
Year: 1859

sWe wish to call the attention
OF our readers to the advertisement OF
Messrs lirILs Il WAsnEURN, in another col
umn. They have lately received a large
and varied assortment Of Stoves and Fur
nishing Goods of late styles and fine finish.
The Tropic" is an entirely new style,
which struck our ideas of what a stove
should be, very favorably The plates are
all double. with a space left between for
ventilation, which prevents them burning
cut. This one improvement is Of vast i'm
portance, as the intense heat from our coal
fires has hitherto made way with stove in
short time There are other favorite pat
terms named, all Of which have been tried
and found not wanting" Be sure and read
their advertisement, and then go and look
ior yourselves
Year: 1859

git is with no small degree Of
satisfaction and pride that We notice the
strenuous efforts made by our farmers to
bring their grain to market, and liquidate
their indebtedness The prosperity of .
country 90 purely agricultural as ours, is
entirely dependent upon the labor of the
farmers, and unless the produ Is Of the soil
are brought into market at an early date,
before the roads become almost, if not quite,
impossible, we shall, this winter, be in, if
possible, q worse condition than las. At
present, prices are good, and afford fair
remuneration for labor, and there is no
good reason why the farmer should not be
entirely satisfied to receive for the products
of his farm, ten per cent. upon the actual
yalue Of his land, with the cost of raising
his crops. At the present prices. any per-
con who will take the trouble to make the
estimate, will find that the farmer receives
more then the above per cent for his pro-
ducts. Only those persone are dissatisfied
with the present prices who most foolishly
hope to be able 10 pay 20 to 2s per cent for
the money used to purchase their land. No
business can pay the per cent. and the
sooner that TACT y fully realized the better.
Year: 1859

The black republicans of Connecticut are pro.
posing that people Of foreign birth shall reside
in the state one year after naturalization before
being admitted to vote, they are advocating an
amendment te the State constitution whereby
the dis inction of color in the qualification Of
elec ors shall be abolished!


AT THE SAME TIME


That the black republicans OF Massachusetts
have 50 amended the State constitution. that
people of foreign birth must reside in the State
two years after naturalization before they can
vote, they sustain that provision of the same
constitution which adults negroes TO vote ON
the same terms as white native American citi,
Year: 1859

All The SAME TIME .rr
That the black republicans OF New York
have proposed by resolution in their last state
convention, that there ought to be an interval
between naturalization and voting, they Sustain
that provision Of their State constitution which
admits negroes to vote who own property Of the
value oftwo hundred and Fifty dolarsl


AT THE SAME TIME


That the black republicans of New Jersey,
by the recommendation oftheir Governor, and
by resolution of heir last Stite cenveation;
have taken ground in favor of an interval be-
tween naturalization and voting, they subscribe
to all the abolition doctrines concerning negro
equality!


AT THE SAME TIME


That the black republicans in the last Mich
igan Legislature voted Tor a proposition to ad-
NIT negroes to vote on property qualification
of tho hundred and fifty dollars, they unanim-
ousir voted against proposition, brought for
ward by democrat, to admit unnaturalized
Foreigners TO vote on the same terms!


AT THE SAME TIME


That the black republicans in all the north
ern states have made movements in favor o {
elevatng the negroes to all the rights ofcitisen-
ship enjoyed by white native Americans, they
have not any where made any movement in ta-
vor of mitigating the terms upon which forcing
ners are admitted to vote.


THESE ARE STUBBORN FACTS.


The black republicans party is as hostile to
people Of foreign birth-except when it wants
their yotes-as it is devoted in It's friendship for
negroes. Its policy, from the beginning, has
been to elevate negroes and for eigners. And
this will be its policy because majority of its
members are known nothngs in principle and
practice.


1t is most amusing spectacle to see people
of foreign birth acting and voting with this
black republican n-know nothing party.--De-
trON FLes Press H--MLal
Year: 1859

N. Y.-The Livingston Sentinel, published at
Dansville, the Genesee Valley Canal relates the
circumstances of a horrible tragedy which occur.
red in that vicinity night last week. A far
iner hearing noise in his stable, Immediately
dressed himself aud sezng club proceeded to
the scene of acten; he found his stable door open
aud two men inside. He listened and heard one of
them remark that "he could not get the bit in his
(horse's) mouth" when he Immediately stepped
to the door and enquired "who was there. This
query was responded to on the part of one of the
thieves by the presentation of q pistol to hi,
breast, but without waiting for him to fire, the
farmer dealt him stout blow over the head which
almost instantly killed him. He lived to say there
are more -" and then breathed his last. The
other thief made himself scarce. There was about
S400 found on the cody Of the dead man, but noth-
ing affording clue to his identity.
Year: 1859

GERMAN SETTLEMENT ON THE CooULLE--W e
learn from the Crescent City Herald, that a
party of about forty Germans. just from their
native country, have gone to Port Oxford, in
tending to form a settlement on the Coquille
river. They were induced to do so by one
OF the party who had lived there, and went
to Europe for the purpose of getting up the
enterprise
Year: 1859

DIT WWySOtVS THrPTVFOU
YELLOW DOCK AND SARSAPARILLA is A sure
remedy for HEREDITARY TAINT. Now is the time To
this celebrated purifier Of the blood 1t is the
great Spring Remedy, and the only medicine which
effectually cleanse the system from all impurities
of the blood. Thousands who have used it can testify
to ITS MIRACULOUS EFFECTS UPON THE BLOOD
1t creates new, rich and pure blood carries off the
putrid humOrs, ceanses the stomach, regulates the
bowels, and imparts tone of vgor to the whole BODY
DIR. GUYSOTT' EXTRACT OF YELLOW


DOCK AND SARSAPARILLA,
As manufactured under the superintendent Of the
most celebrated chemist and physician in this country
Is the ONLY SARSAPARILLA which will eTectuallv
cleanse the system eradicate disease, restore heal
thy action to all the functions of the body and KEEP
THE BLOOD PURE


For sale by all Druggists the Pacific coast and
by PARK WHITE, Agents.


1872 Washington street,


ap202m opposite the Market San Francisco
Year: 1859

If you find man disposed to complain
of the coldness of the world, be'sure you
will find that ha has never brought any
thing into the world to warm 1t, but is
personal lump Office set in the midst Of i'll
If you fiud man who complains that the
world 10 all base and hollow, tap him, and
he will probably sound base and hollow
And 50, in the other way, \ kind man will
probably find kindness everywhere abous
him-Dr. Chapt7. -
Year: 1859

At meeting of the delegates present
from the parishes comprised in the Sec
ond Swamp Land District, held at Batou


Rouge on Friday morning the 9th nlt.,
lit was


Resolved. That the second Monday III
july be recommended as a proper time
for holding a convention to nominate a
Commissioner Of the Board OF Public
Works for the Second District.
On further motion, DonaiosonVilse
was designated as the proper place tor
holding said convention.
Year: 1859

PEACH TREES For FIREwooD-It seems a
monstrous proposition to grow peach trees for
firewood, yet the California Farmer maintains
that it will pay the grower; and if so, that is
enough. 1t says


Firewood is heavy tax, and the value and
price will increase for years unless we have
railroad to the mountains and woodlands that
we may have access to them. We have several
times reverted to the value of the peach tree as
hrewood, and we ask serious attention to what
will be found true that there is no tree that
can ba planted so cheaply or that will grow SO
quickly as the peach, and while it is maturing
tor firewood the fruit will pay for the labor
three or four times. A thousand acres can be
planted on some land of little value say sandy,
grayely highland. The peach pits can be plant
ed in burrows made with plow in straight lines,
sixteen feet apart, and covered with the plow
again. The fruit that falls the swine can eat ;
and nothing is better for swine pasture than a
large orchard. The good fruit can be gathered,
cut and dried, and shipped abroad with profit
Ia six or eight or ten years. the tree will have
reached size fit for firewood and there is no
wood grown superior to it. Whoever wishes to
make his ''pile " can do so with little expendi-
ture, for this will be done by somebody.
Year: 1859

The "Tom boy" is an eager, earnest impul-
sive, bright eyed glad hearted kind souled spec
linen OF genus femme. If her laugh is a little
too frequent, and tone little too emphatic, we
are willing to overlook these for the sake of the
true life and exultant vitality to which they are
the "escape valves and indeed we rather like
the high pressure nature which must close off its
superhuous steam" in such ebulitions The
glancing eye, glowing cheek, the fresh, balmy
breath, the 1.-THE and graceful play of the limbs
tell tale of healthy and vigorous physical de-
veopment which is natures best beauty. The
soul and the mind will be developed also in due
time, and we shall have before us woman, in
the highest sense Of the term.


When the " Tom boy" has sprung up to
healthtul and vigorous womanhood she will be
ready to take hold of the duties of life, to be-
come a worker in the great system of humanity.
She will not sit down to sigh over " the work
given to her to do" to simper nonsense langush
in enRui, or fall sick at heart-but she will ever
be able to make up her burden of duty. In her
track there viii be sound philosophy, in her
thoughts bodness, and originality, in her heart
heav en- 5 own purity, and the world will be
better that she has lived in it," To her allotted
task she will bring health, vigor, energy and
spirits. and these will give her both the power
and The endurance, without which her life must
be, in some respects failure" Home Journal


There, that is true, every word of it, and we
are glad that one has had the good sense to say
it, Guide them right, and restrain only to direct.
and then let them run. 1t is to them far more
than to all the parlor ladies in the land that we
are to look for healthy women, wise healthy
mothers and healthy children. Their outdoor
exercise, their romping, and running and jump
ing, their climbing fences and trees, and driring
hoops, not Wearing them, their whoopng laugh
ing,- shouting and singing in the open air,
their playing ball, skating, driving oxen, raking
hay, and riding horses and colts all help develop
their physical systems, give impulse to their
blood and energy 10 their souls. One woman
made out of sensible TOM hoy is worth meet
lng-house full of yo r mealy mouthed, lily
fingered ladies that are fatigued almost 10 death
on walking hundred rods.-PoTtland Pleasure
Boat
Year: 1859

CONDENSED CIDER.-The Messrs Borden, O
Winstead, Conn, who have been so successful il
solidifyng milk, have also accomplished tn,
solidifcation of sweet cider. By the vacuum
process the cider, taken sweet from the press, is
reduced five gallons to one without boiling, and
a beautiful jelly is the result, which will keeT
for any length of time without mould, souring
or fermentation of any kind. By the addition
of water it is Immediately restored to its former
condition, and becomes cider again. All that is
lost by the process is the impurities that may
exist in the primary apple juice, and the green
sickish TASTE The restored ciler is much like
a drink of prepared tamarinds, but is more deli
cate and palatable. The condensed article is a
beautiful wine colored jelly, and is excellent for
the table, either with meats or as dessert
When reduced and bottled with proper delay,
the article so " extended" will ferment and be-
come superior sparkling champagne cider.
Year: 1859

LAuGHABLE.-An old gentleman, past the age
of sixty, while promenading the streets of Phila-
delphia, lately fell in with pretty Italian girl
who had stand on the corner of one of the
streets where she roasted and sold chestnuts-
The old gentleman was at once struck by the
beauty of the daughter of sunny Italy, and to
introduce himself bought pint of the roasted
merchandise. Had he stopped here all would
have been well. But the heat of the chestnut:
impaired such a warmth to his feelings that he
commenced ogling the merchantess, and finally
became too familiar with the damsel, when she
seized the pan of chestnuts from the furnace
and dashed them at the bending form of the gay
LotharIo. One chestnut fell beneath his shirt
collar, and. Kissing hot, traversed down his spi-
nal column until he seized it by his coat tail
and rushed from the scene, evidently laborine
under the effects Of secret sorrow and roasted
chestnuts
Year: 1859

ANOTHER GAS SToRY.-At q hotel in New York
recently, an old gentleman came down stairs and
inquired of the clerk whether he had any tallow
candles Being informed that he could be suppl
cd with tallow lips, the old gentleman said:


Then wish you'd giveme some; | want some
thing can blow out, for I've been blasting away
at the cussed iigger in my room till I've no wind
left" The clerk, by spasmodic effort. kept his
countenance and ordered up IA pound of dips to
room Mo-"
Year: 1859

She Is modest, but not bashful--


Free and ensy, but not bold;
Like an apple ripe and mellow
Not too young and not too old.
Iialfinviting, half repulsive,


Now advancing and now shy,
There Is mischief in her dimple,


There Is danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature


She is schooled In all Its arts
She hns taken her diploma


As the mistress ofall hearts.
She can toll the very moment


When to sigh and when to smi'e
True. M ,iden is sometimes charming,
But the widow all the while.
Are yon snd2 how very serious


viii her handsome face b ,comc;
Are You auRry2 she Is wretched,
Lonely, friendless, fearful. dumb.
Are you mirihful2 how her laughter,
Silver sounding will ring out.
She can lure, and catch, and play you,
As the angler does the trout.
Year: 1859

PARTY NEWsPAPERs.-The Phila-
delphia Press thinks, that the index of
an improving public taste, and ola spirit
of inquiring independence on the part of
the masses, is to be found in the rapid
decadence Of mere party newspapers.
It does not mean by its remarks re-
buke Of any one especial party organi-
zation, for there is much to disapprove
in the ultraisms and follies of all parties.
Nor does it desire to be understood as
frowning upon papers advocating party
principles Its only object is to show
that the great institution of journalism
in the United States owes its vast success
to the fact that it is rapidly escaping
from the thraldom of mere men, and is
improving parties by improving itself.
That paper is certain to WELD the largest
amount of power which, while eloquent
" defending its own peculiar opinions,
does not hesitate to denounce its own
organization when wrong, and to honor
its adversaries when they do right
Year: 1859

THE AsIATIC TRADE.-In the course
of the long argument, which has been
protracted through many years, in favor
of the construction of Pacific Railroad,
it has often been stated that the carry
ing trade with the East would enrich
any country possessing it, and that it
was worth while to build the railway
merely to secure the transportation Of
Eastern goods, Latterly the wisest
friends of the road have advocated its
construction for higher and more con-
vincing reasons, such as its great value in
consolidating the different sections of the
Union, and its Importance for the pro-
lection of the States and Territories on
the Pacific, in the event Of oreign war.
They have shown that the commercial
value Of the road in relation to the Asi-
attic trade has been greatly overrated.
The total value of imports from Asia
for the year ending June 30th 1857 was
S22 ,204, ,534 The most of the articles
making up the list are not of such
character that they would bear the addi-
ton to their cost of heavy overland
freight; whilst the costly stufs, silk
shawls, spices and drugs, would weigh
comparatively little, and might be car
ried across the continent in one or two
trips. The grand argument in favor of
a Pacific Railroad is, the national ne
cessity for such work.