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Year: 1861

GRAND RoNDE MINEs.-A correspondent OF
the Portland Advertiser, writing from Orc
Fino September 18th, says:


We return after journey of between ff-
teen and sixteen hundred miles wtout finding
any prospect whatever on the following streams,
upon which gold had been reported to have
been discovered. Crooked river, Buck creek,
and the Mulheir river and its tributaries
These are not all the streams that we prospec-
ted on Meeks' trail, but many others, without
getting the color We prospected Burnt river,
where we could raise the color, but that was
ALL From Burnt river we crossed the dividing
ridge and spent some time in prospecting the
tributaries OF Powder river, where by great
deal of labor we could get as much as three
cents to the pan-all from the bedrock
Leaving this stream, we crossed the Blue
Mountains and struck on the head of Grand
Ronde river forty or fifty miles above and
south of the old immigrant road. We spent
several days prospecting. We sunk several
holes on the bars where we would get from one
to twenty-nine cents to the pan. The gold
that we obtained exceeds anything in fneness
OF quality that l have seen since l have been
IN this mining region and | am tolerably con-
ylnced that there can be made from five to ten
dollars per day to the hand, if men are proper
y fixed to work. l have spent the most of the
time that | have been here on the Orc Fino
and Rhodes creeks, for the purpose of ascer-
tanning what kind of prospects men are working
Tor, and Also what men are making per day
and It IS only by making such examination
that have come to the conclusion as above,
III regard to the Grand Ronde river.
Year: 1861

CoLUMBIAD ExPLosIoN.-During the target
practice at Alcatraz Island short time since,
one of the Columbiads burst, the conclusion
stripping the clothing clean off one of the men
who was serving the gun, but doing no other
injury.
Year: 1861

The case of Mrs Gurney, who eloped with
her foolman, has been before the divorce
court in London, and divorce has doubtless
been decreed, as the case. is too clear for any
defence. On the evening of the day on
which she eloped, she sent the following note
to her husband:


MY Poor HUsBAND-I have, indeea, eft
YOU al d our poor children, but you know my
heart has been long anothers, and therefore
could not be happy with you any more
Please send my luggage and Dick to PIG
Mar,lebone road, also the small books
brought from Cation, and my work. Your
miserable wife. MARY JARY GURNEY.


pray God TO forgive me and to preserve
YOU and the children


Upon this note the London Times makes
the following comment: "Now it is impos-
Sibe to conceive a few lines expressive of
more concentrated wretchedness and self-a-
bandonmcut than these. What did the abash-
ed woman think Of her poor husband when
she quilted his -oof confessed that she had
long been guilty, asked for her boxes, her lit
Tie dog and her work, and signed herself
.Nour miserable wife 1t was too late then
To repent. 10 rcnect upon tne past, 10 cast
glance upwards from the bottom of the gulf
OF shame But what. in days to come, will
be the DESTINY of this hapless creature, bound
by criminal ard adulterous ties to lacquey
whom she must scorn and loathe, and who
has made her womanhood grovel in the DUST
" hat will be to her the use of wealth, of pa
rci.;agr. OF social position Millions could
not redeem her lost name the penitence of
the longest lite could not restore her to the
honorable companionship of her sex; she
has sacrificed all for the sake of gross, dis
cased, reckless and unscrupulous passion :;
and what is she now, and forever, so long as
Ter existence in this world endures, but an
example. a warning and breathing symbol
OF humiliation -
Year: 1861

The Vermont and Canada railroad is being
constructed through sand bank at Burling-
ton An earth tunnel of 800 feet in length
is to be carried IS feet below the surface
The work is conducted by boring. With
long ausers, holes are bored horizontally in
TO the sand, into which wooden pickets, about
two inches thick by three inches wide, and
eight feet long, are driven, touching each
other and forming an arch of somewhat lar
ger diameter than the bore of the con:empla-
ted tunnel. From under this arch the earth
is excavated, leaving mi-cylindrical hole,
about teet high in the middle. This oven
like excavation, or heading is pushed for
ward, keeping about 80 feet in advance of


the main excavation below. AS the sand is
removed from under the pickets, wooden
arches, three feet apart, are sprung under to
support them, and as fast as necessary new
sets of pickets are driven under and in ad


vance of those already driven. The earth
Year: 1861

own left, and holding it up with an iron
grasp, passed his right hand under, until his
pistol pressed against the others forehead,
when he fired. The other instantly relaxed
his hold, and with terrible cry, fell back a
corpse.


The detective. having accomplished the
purpose of his visit, did not delay his return
to Paris, but having explained the whole az
fair to the proper authorities of P, ne
departed.


And thus was the earth ridden of two as
great monsters in human form as ever lived.
Year: 1861

puss, she uttered an exclamation of surprise
at finding it SO heavy. The lover hastened
10 open the animal, when out fell shower
ofgold. There were a thousand lOuiS con-
cealed in the body of the cat; and this sum,
which the old miser had starved himself to
amass, became the reward of the worthy girl
and her disinterested lover.
Year: 1861

o. In any of the above. or in other towns pay
ments may be made. when more convenient, to
the Postmasters thereof; or the amount may be
sent directly to this office; but we must insist on
settlements every wear
Year: 1861

Jesus, Heavenly Sheperd, hear me,


Bless tiny little lamb tonight;
Through the darkness be thou near me,
Watch my sleep till morning light.
All this day thy hand has led me,


And thank thee for thy care
Thou hast warmed, and fed and clothed me
Listen to my evening prayer,
May my sins all be for -iven;
Bless the friends love SO well
When l die, take me to Heaven.


Happy there with thee to dwell.
Year: 1861

At last ii has dawned upon the slow
obtuse and over-indulgent Northern mind,
that is very foolish to be Petting, protect
ing and fostering that element in the South
which is employed most effectively against
the Government; that it is idle to declare
dumb ships aud dead acres confscated,
while doing nothing about property that
can think, talk, dig trenches and fight
The simple absurdity of this appears to
have struck many minds at once-the folly
of longer upbolding and strengthening the
only element of the Southern population
that gives the rebellion formidable char
aeter Gin. Gazette H75
Year: 1861

Sr. PAUL's CLOCK, LONDON A writer
thus describes the machinery of the great
London clock The pendulum is fourteen
feet long, and the weight at the end is 100
pounds; the dial on the outside is regula
ted by smaller one within; the length
Of the minute hand on the exterior dials
is eight feet and weight Of each seventy
FIVE pounds; the length of the hour fin
gers is two feet and two and half inches.
The fine tone bell which strikes, is clearly
distinguishable from everv other bell in
the metropolis, and has been heard audlbly
at the distance Of twenty miles It is
about ten feet in diameter, and is said to
weigh four and half tons. The bell is
tolled on the death of any member Of the
royal family, Of the Lord Mayor OF Bishop
of London, or the Dean of the Cathedral,
The whole expense of building the Cathe-
dral was about million and half pounds
sterling. ''7s1- - -
Year: 1861

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his ser
mon on Thanksgiving Day, took ground
very decidedly against any emancipation
Of the slaves by act of Congress He
said = .....


1--WE who boast of our Constitution,
must not violate it ourselves in p@tting
down those who violate it. We must not
by Congressional legislation declare poGti-
cal emancipation. l wish We could. l
wish Adam had not sinned, and his poster
ity had not been affected but that does
net help the matter. | wish our fathers
bad stood out against what are called the
compromises Of the Constitution. Better
then than now, The serpent just hatehed
is not half so much to be feared as the SER
pent full grown Sour troubles have IL
creased with every generation, and hat is
the use Of sighng over what can't be
helped Our fathers signed the bond, and
we acceptedit. Can we afford to break
it for even so magnificent result as the
emancipation of the Saves? Shall We
rend the crystali Instrument joy of the
world, and our pride? 1t is very easy to
say, ''now it is state of war-let US de-
clare emancipation. The war has not
driven us out of cur Institutions. We are
not ourselves in state of rebellion. We
cannot expect by destroying the Constitu
ton to put down the rebellion. If any one
ask me whether law or constitution are
inferior to original principles of morality
and justice, say no; but plighted faith is
itself in the nature of sacred moral
principle. Our faith is given and must be
kept.


What legislation cannot do, the sword
can aud will do, What we never could
have had the liberty to do, the rebels have
thrust upon themselves. There never was
! more remarkable instance in which con-
dign punishment has followed transgres-
sion than this. Having made war for the
maintenance of Slavery, they have brought
down upon their own heads this destruo-
tiop. Let US see The Southrn strength
in this self imposed war is Slavery. They
have placed this system as bulwark, and
are fighting our Constitution from behind
that. And now it has come to pass that
by their own selecting and arrangement
we are not able to fulfill our sworn com
pact to maintain the integrity Of the Union
and the Constitution Itself except by
breaking their shield Of slavery. 1t is not
political act but a military necessity
which they have compelIcd, and by that
means brought on themselves the begin
ming of emancipa ton.
Year: 1861

This is a true account of the evacuation
of Ship Island by the rebels. The report
copied by New York paper from the
Orleans Picayune, speaking Of tile i'm
mense Lincoln feet that watched their
debarkation, corresponds with the yarn
impressed upon the rebel prisoners. And
thus was won one of the most important
stations on our Southern blockade, with
one steamer of ninety men and four guns.
Year: 1861

--Ihe Duke of Wellington was remark
able for the GOODNESS with which be gave
bis directions Even in the heat of an
engagement he has been known to give
humorous observation, especially when he
could thereby raise the spirits of lis meB.
Thus, when the British were storn1ing Bu-
dajos, his Grace rode up while the balls
were falling around, and observing an ar
tilleryman particularly active. inquired the
man name. He was answered Taylor"
"A very good name-oheer up my men
our Taylor will soon make a pair of
breecbes in the wall. said he. At this
sally the men forgot their danger, burst
of laughter broke from them, and thenex
charge carried the fortress. stam
Year: 1861

and one hundred feet, the road finally leaves
the mountains.


The Bsltimors and Ohio road stands as a
noble monument OF the enterprise OF B al,i-
more. and The skill of the great engineer.
Latrobe May it long remain as a hrm
bond Of commercial. social and political
Union!
Year: 1861

at all. 1t is simply personal right which
we in America are permitted to enjoy
without institutional obstruction. Institu-
tions are not rights, but things established
upon or by virtue of some right, real or
supposed and it is not in respect to individ-
ual rights, but in respect to political institu-
tions-the framework of the State-that our
Government is defective.


Universal suffrage is as good as any other
suffrage and the right of suffrage in any
being admitted, it is difficult to escape the
admission of the same right existing in all.
1t is probable that universal suffrage, being
the most correct in principle, is safest in
practice; at any rate, in the United States,
it would be difficult TO select any order Of
people in whose hands the political destiny
of the whole would be any safer than it is in
the hands of all orders. 1t is true that we
some times find great fault with the fact that
the most Of our primary political work is
done by the least intelligent classes; but in
reply to all this it may be asked If they
did not do it, who would2 We certainly
do not know by experience that there is any
class of our fellow. citizens better fitted thar
these to do that for which they have so much
and the rest so little fonduess; and 30 far a!
either wisdom, or purity, or patriotism il
concerned, we do not know but it woult
be quite as reasonable to expect them in I
troop of bog. trotters as in an order of no
hilifv
Year: 1861

OF NO INTEREST TO THE LADIEs.--The Paris
correspondent Of the Journal Of Commerce
disccurses in this wise on ladies' fashions:


The early autumnal wrappings are short
pa'etets, made of light cloth, or of material
called curled plush. This garment is double
breasted, and in shape is the same as a mans
paletot. Sometimes a quilted waistcoat is
added, so that the paletot may be thrown
open in front. There are also Arab burnous
of white cashmere, striped with black and
edged with velvet.


Speaking of fall costumes, the writer says
one is composed of black and white or gray
and violet; one is a dress of white quilting,
embroidered around the bottom Of the skirt
with large open.work ornament in black
velvet; the shawl worn with this robe is of
black cashmere, trimmed with guipure; the
bonnet, of black crinoline, is decorated on the
outside with dropping black feather, fast
ened by lace bow; inside, the trimming is
of black and white roses. Another costume
consists of black grenadine dress with nine
flounces, the low body being covered by a
pointed pelerine, composed of very fine lace.
The bonnet is Of black tulle, trimmed with
bouquets of feathers.
Year: 1861

The CHOLERA AND INUNDATIoNs IN INDIA.
We have received by the overland mail, Via
London, most distressing advices from
Northern India. That terrible seourge, the
Asistic cholera, had again broken out, and
carried off a large number of its victims. In
one place sixteen were attacked in the morn
ing and of that number only one was alive
in the evening of the same day. The physi-
clans account for the present appearance oi
the cholera in the failure of the summer
crops, having been cut off by the heavy
rains, and the famine which had prevailed
for some months. The rains came earlier
than usual, and they were so long and so
heavy as to cause deluge which overiowed
the entire country, and caused the loss Of
many lives and vast amount of property.
Year: 1861

SAD AFFA1R.-A Boy Shot.--A terrible
tragic affair happened quite Recently, near
AorristowD. Belmont % County, through which G
went into room in his fathers house to get
gun to shoot hawk, and soon after re-
port was heard as if the weapon had been
discharged. Proceeding to the room, the
lads mother found her child lying on the
floor with his brains blown out. 1t is be-
leved that the little fellow undertook to
blow into the barrel of the gun, and that his
foot coming in contact with the trigger, it
went off, the ball entering his mouth and
passing out through his head, with the result
stated.
Year: 1861

THE FLooD.-The Steubenville Herald of
Monday, in speaking of the recent pumpkin
flood, says;


As to the amount of lumber, an aged citi-
zen, long engaged in that business, says he
never in all his life before saw similar
amount afloat in the Ohio. Another lumber
man declared the amount, in value, worth
from being scattered beyond the likelihood
Of recovery. Large numbers of men and
boys were industriously engaged, with skiffs,
in catching and drawing in such OF the float
ing valuables as they could secure. Happily,
although the water was at many points al
most over the railroad track, the travel on
the road was not interfered with, except
duling few hours at the crisis of the food
Year: 1861

A NEW dodge was tried by blacklegs at the
Norwich Fair and New London Conn.,
Union Meeting. One was q detective, "
with another in the guise Of a 'handcufed
at the prisoner, the detective was feeling the
pockets Of the people.
Year: 1861

A POOR man gives his mite to the cause of
benevolence, which is scarcely noticed, and
a rich man out of his abundance gives hun
dreds of dollars, and the contribution is
paraded in the public journals as evidence
not God see in the limited gift Of the one
more TO please Him than in the large dons-
ton of the other2
Year: 1861

PHmosoPHY.-A soldier of the Garibaldi
IN. W Guard talks thus:


What difference do it make-we got to die
sometimes, and what difference whether
die by bullet or die in bed? If should not
die in battle, and live many years more old,
should not want to die then any more as
do now,
Year: 1861

WE copy from the Pamela Star, the following
suggestions by correspondent, to the ladies of
Panola county We most respectfully ask leave
to make the same suggestions TO the ladies of
Lafayette, believing their patriotism to be equal
to that of any other ladies in the State. The
idea we think good one and present il to the
lady readers of the Intelligencer, especially.
Tie writer in the Star says 1--WE do not ash
Of you dear ladies' that stern selfsacrifice which
compelled Joan of Arc to ride at the head of
charging squadrons or which in later times fired
the heart of Rebecca Motto to speed the flaming
missile to her own roof-but we do ask of you,
(and we ask it with the proud belief that your
patriotism will be equal TO the sacriiice) that you
will takeof the abundance which you have hith;
erto avished upon your beautiful persons, and
offer it up at the altar of your country.


"Will not the ladies of Panola county set the
example, by arming and equippng company
of 100 men, to be called the Ladies Own, or
any other name which your fancies may sug-
gcst Say but the word, then make but the
move, fair ladies, and the ranks Of your tomra.
ny will be full to overnowing, of the chivalry Of
Panola-aye, and your sisters in other portions
of the State will emulate your example, and
will soon havein the field, without charge to the
State regiment which shall equal, or surpass,


if possible, the deeds Of the immortal Ississip-
pi First


lie who pens these poor lines, though with
the cares of a family pressing heavily upon him,
and with gray hairs beginning to sprinkle his
temples, will gladly be the first man to respond
to your call To the work then, brave ladies.
The war note has sounded-the time for dali
ance is past, and she who would hold back hand
or heart from the work of girdinAh husband, Low.
or or brother for the conflict, is no true daughter
of Mississinpi "
Year: 1861

WHEN in our boyhood we read in the Bible
about the men working in a vineyard for pen
ny day, we remember that it seemed like very
small wages indeed. But let us see about this.
In those days penny was about as large as fif-
teen of our cents, and as money was some ten
times as valuable as now, the penny day was
as good as 100 of our cents, so that those men
really got as good wages as the best men now
generally have in harvest time; that is, dollar
and half day: So also when that Good Sa-
maritan gave two pence to the landlord to take
care Of the man who fell among thieves, it
was equivalent to about So; which would prob
ably bay his board for two weeks in a country
tavern, where board was very cheap. This gift
of the Samaritan was in addition to bis raiment
the oil and wine, and to the promise to pay any
thing more that the landlord might expeDd
By the same reckoning, how much was that box
of "very costly" ointment worth, which Mary
used upon the SaviOuri When the disciples
asked if they should buy 200 pennywOrths Of
bread, how many lOaves were they calculating
for, at about six cents loaf-a large price in
those dayss Remember to reckon money worth
ten times as much as now, and to call penny
worth fifteen cents
Year: 1861




IT is not often that we take notion to preach
or publish sermon, but the following briefand-
to-the-point discourse is worthy of place in
our columns


We want religion that goes into the family
and keeps the husband from being spiteful when
the dinner is late and keeps the dinner from be-
ing late-keeps the wife from fretting when the
husband tracks the newly washed floor with his
muddy boots, aud makes the husband mindful
of the scraper and the door-mat-keeps the
mother patient when the baby is cross and
keeps the baby pleasant-amuses the children
as well as instructs them-wins as well as gov
erns-projects the honeymoon into the harvest
moon, and makes the happy hours like the east
ern fig tree, bearing in its blossom at once the
beauty of the tender blossom, and the glory Of
the ripened fruit We want religion that
bears not only on the 'sinfulness of sin, but on
the rascality of lying and stealing-a religion
small baskets from the stalls, pebbles from the
cotton bags, clay from paper, sand from sugar,
chicory from coffee, beetjuice from vinegar, al
um from cream, lard from butter, strychnine
from wine, and water from milk-cans.


The religion that is to advance the world will
not put all the big strawberries and peaches at
the top, and all the bad ones at the bottom 1t
will not offer more baskets Of foreign wines than
the vineyards ever produced bottles-and more
barrels of Genesec -four than all the wheat fields
of New York grow, and all her mills grind. It
will not make one-half of pair of shoes of
good leather, and the other OF poor leather, so
that the first shall rebound to the makers cred
It, and the second to his cash. 1t will not let a
piece of velvet that Processes TO measure twelve
yards come to an untimely end in the tenth-or
spool Of sewing silk that vouches for twenty
yards to be nipped in the bud at fourteen and a
half-nor the cotton thread spool break to the
yard stick fifty of the two hundred yards of
promise that was given 10 the eye-nor all
wool delaines and all-linen handkerchiefs be
amalgamatcd with clandestine cotton-nor coats
made Of old woolen rags pressed together, to be
sold to the unsuspecting public for legal broad
cloth. 1t does not put bricks worth only five
dollars per thousand into chmneys it contracted
to build Of seven dollar materiais-nor snug
gle white pine into floors that have paid for hard
pinc-nor daub ceilings that ought to be smooth
ly plastered-nor make window blinds with
Stats that cannot stand the wind, and paint that
cannot stand the sun, and fastenngs that may
be looked at, but are on 20 account to be touch
cd


The religion that is 20 sanctify the world, pays
its debts. 1t does not consider that forty cents
returned for one hundred cents given, is accord
ing TO gospel, though it may be according to law.
1t looks on a man who failed in trade, and who
continues to live in luxury, as thief 1t looks
upon man who promises TO pay fifty dollars
on demand with interest, and who neglects to
pay it on demand, with or without interest, as a
liar
Year: 1861


(Bxtract from the proceedings Of the Military


Board.)


1t is ordered by. the Military Board, That
whenever any company which is now, or may
be hereafter organized, and ready to enter
the service of the army of Mississippi, ac-
cording to the provisions of the Ordinance of
the State Convention, entitled san Ordinance
to regulate the Military System of the State
of Mississippi" shall by communication ad-
dressed to the Governor of the State, tender
their services as part of the army of Mis-
sissippi, they Will be inspected and mustered
in with the least delay, aud if received into
the service the rank of its officers will take
date from the day when its organization was
complete as prescribed by said Ordinance.


Provided, That no commission shall bear
date anterior to that of the passage of the
Ordinance, and if two or more companies
have the same date the relative rank of the
officers of the same grade shall be determined
by former commissions or if there be no
former commissions, then by lot


Published by order of the Board.