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Year: 1860

Awaking a little past noon put on an old
blouse well ornamented with grease, turpentine,
and various pigments, went below and got my
lunch aud coming back in better spirits, began
to prepare my palette for work. The little heaps
of color were harmoniOusly arranged, the brushes
selected, and the easel, with its canvas already
dead -colored for my SKETCH set up under the sky
light, when | Remembered that inev table coat. |
must mend it by daylight, for | W shed TO SO
out in the evening to purchase fresh supply OF
crackers and cheese | was Obliged to go out
and borrow needle of my landlady. had a
faint hope that she would take compassion upon
nv feminine task for me. | had read charming
stories of the universal benevolence of woman,
feeding Mungo Park in Africa forests, and sew
ing on shirt bottoms for poor young men starving
in attics. But | was disappointed my landlady
fumbled through her red flannel needle-book,
selecting the rustiest of her rusty store, remark
ing, as she gave it to me; She never knowed
before as people that furnished rooms was ex-
pected to furnish needles likewise to tenants as
done their own mending."


Rather damped in my ideas of the universal
angehood Of the softer sex, stole back with my
rusty needle and was well at work, when there
came knock at my door. Nobody ever knocked
at my door but the laudlady or Gamboge | was
comfortably settled, cross-legged upon the bed,
and had no idea Of disturbing myself; so shout
ed out, D." Come in ~


There was a little delay, and then the door
Enclosed and saw standing, looking at me, Miss
Follett, hesiating to enter, and with her servant
behind her She had taken my invitation to visit
my studio in good faith, not dreaming that it was
a place she would blush to enter Studio yes,
of course but it was also my bedroom, my din
ing-room, my dressing room, my kitchen; fur
nished superbly with one chair, one pine box
one straw bed, q lot of frames canvas, stubs OF
brushes, and rags stained with paint and oil, q
tiny furnace with tin coffee pot, few things
in the shape of dishes, etc, upon a swing-shelf
some crayou sketches, three or four pictures in
OIL an easel, and the lord and master of them all
b. TIMBER, artist. Humph looked like al
artist, sitting there cross-egged, mending ole
clothes! | had but one possible claim to The
recognition of Miss Follett, and that was m,
claim as an artist, and now was presented It
her in the unloyely and unromantic aspect o
tailor


The beautiful woman who stood before me
blushing at finding herself in so odd a place
when she saw my occupation, forgot her momen
tary embarrassment in laugh.


Truly, Mr.. Umber," she said, merriy, it i
evident that you need wife"


"a wife ~ said /, bitterly, getting upon tht
floor as gracefully rs consistent with my for
mer position. How soon do you think will
be able to afford one, at this rate Just Tool
around Won If Won are not too much shocked q
Year: 1860

A man applied once to be shipped before the
mast. "Are you an able seaman or q green
handy" asked the shipping master.


"Why, no, not an able seaman, but yet not
exactly a green hand. have some knowl-
edge Of the water"


Ever been voyage:"
Year: 1860

A New York correspondent says There
was great commotion created in Fulton street,
the other day. A Havemeyer man had laid
a wager on his favorite, thepenalty of which
was. that if he lost, he was to sweep the
street across from the San to the Herald
Office, from o'clock in the morning until
four in the afternoon. Having lost the wager,
he commenced his duty at the appointed
hour, and worked manfully until nearly 3
ocloch in the afternoon, when, so great a
crowd having collected to witness the novel
sight as to make the street nearly impossible,
the police interfered and put a stop to the
proceeding. The man pleaded hard to be al.
lowed to work out his time, but the officer
was unyielding.
Year: 1860

New Rour TO AUsrRALIA.-The London
correspondent of an exchange paper, says
that proposition has been started for a new
route to Australia, "by running railway
across British America to the coast of Co.
lumbia,a connected with the Grand Trunk
Railway of Canada. 1t is calculated that this
would bring Australia within thirty or thirty
five days of Liverpool, provided steamers
were stationed on the cost of Columbia ready
to take the mails and passengers on arrival


The expense of this enterprise would be
small, as the land would cost nothing, and
abundance of timber could also be procured
for the falling. And ifgoveFnment were to
grant the company certain extent of land
! on each side of the line of rails, the sale of
Ibis would soon pay the cost of the under
taking"
Year: 1860

h DECISION OF THE SUPREME CoURT.-Guiod
V. Gourdon ct dl.was a suit to secure premises
at one time occupied by plaintiff and her
husband as homestead The action was
based on the alleged invalidity of a convey
anee made by the husband, without plaintiff
signature. Opinion by Chief Justice Field.
The Court held that the statute conefrs upon
the wife no right to the homestead, indepen-
dent of the husband, which he can enforce
against his consent 1t is around the actual
not the former homestead of the head of the
family, that the law throws its protection
The demurrer was properly sustained. Judg
ment affirmed-Stdndard
Year: 1860

The MAN, NOT THE CoAT.-Burns paid but
little difference to the artificial distinction
OF society. On his way to Leth one morn
ing, he met man in holden grey-a west
country farmer; he shook him heartily by
the hand, and stopped and conversed with
him. All this was seen by young Edinburg
blood, who took the poet roundly to task for
his defect of taste. "Why, you fantastic go
merh," said Burns, 'it was no great coat
the sconce- bonnet, and the Sanquhar boot
house l spoke to, but the man that was il
them and the man, sir, for truth and worth
would weigh you and me, and ten more such
any day.
Year: 1860

The New York correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal relates curious story of the
morning prayer meetings of a fashionable
Episcopal Church in that city, where, at
times, the sexton and the minister being the
only attendants, after ringing the bell the
sexton has to go into the pew and make the
responses, while the whole service is read by
the rector in his robes, without a soul present
but the minister and door keeper.
Year: 1860

ANOTHER case of white and black amalga-
nation has just taken place in Detroit. The
husband is jet black negro, who had one
wife before, and the female is Scotch girl of
sixteen, who, it is said, has another husband.
She was bar tender for her father, and in
that way made the acquaintance of her ebo
ny lover. There is a heavy penalty for per-
forming the marriage ceremony in such cases,
and the colored clergyman has been prose-
euted.
Year: 1860

AT a meeting of the "Young Mems Nation
al Democratic Association" of Cincinnati, a
resolution was passed to the effect that it was
the duty of Congress to pass an act to REIN.
burse from the public Treasury, the State of
Virginia, the expense she has been put to in
consequence of the late bloody foray into her
borders by John Brown and his forces.
Year: 1860

DEAD CATTLE.-We are informed says the
Standard, that the cattle on many of the
ranches beyond the American river are ac-
tvally dying from starvation The frequent
frosts, which came unusually early last fall,
killed the young grass which was just spring
ing up after the long drouth of summer, and
the cattle have little or nothing to eat, and
now, since the heavy rains have come, the
soil in many places is miry, and the poor
animals, enfeebled by starvation, have not
strength to extricate themselves from the
mire, and lie there and perish One farmer
has lost eight, another ten and third fifteen
valuable cattle within the past week. Our
informant says that in passing along the Au.
burn road, within the space of one mile he
saw no less than fifteen dead bodies of cattle
which had perished from starvation. Their
owners were engaged in skinning them, in
order to sell the hides
Year: 1860

THE GREATEST SEMINARY.-The freside is
seminary of the greatest Importance. 1t is i'm
portant because it is universal, and because the
education it bestows, being woven in with the
woof of childhood, gives form and color to the
whole texture of life. There are few who can
receive the honors of college, but all are grad
yates of the hearth. The learning of the uni
versity may fade from the recollection ; its cas-
sic lore may moulder in the halls of memory;
but the simple lessons of home, enameled upon
the heart of childhood, defy the rust of years,
and outve the more mature but less vivid pic
lures of after days.


So deep, so lasting indeed, are the impressions
of early life, that you often see man in the i'm
becility of age holding fresh in his recollection
the events of childhood, while all the wide
space between that and the present hour is
blasted and forgotten waste. You have per-
chance seen an old and half obliterated por-
trait, and in the attempt to have it cleansed and
restored, you may have seen it fade away, while
a brighter and more perfect picture, painted be-
meath was revealed to view. This portrait
first drawn upon the canvass, is no inapt illus
tration of youth; and though it may be conceal
ed by some after design, still the original traits
will shine through the outward picture, giving
it tone while fresh, and surviving it in decay.


Such is the freside-the great institution fur
nished by Providence for the education of man.
Year: 1860

NIGHr AIR.-In her notes on nursing, Flor
ence Nightingale says 10 regard to the common
impression that night air is injurious:


What air can we breathe at night but night
ar2 The choice is between pure night air from
without and foul night air from within. Most
people prefer the latter. An unaccountable
choice. What will they say if it is proved to
be true that fully one-half of all the diseases we
suffer from is occasoned by people sleeping with
their windows shuta An open window most
nights in the year can never hurt any one
This is not to say that light is not necessary for
recovery. In great cities, night air is often the
best and purest air to be had in twenty-four
hours. I could better understand in towns
shutting the windows during the day than du-
ring the night, for the sake of the sick. The
absence of smoke, the quiet, all tend to make
night the best time for airing the patient. One
of our highest medical authorities on consump.
tion and climate, has told me that the air in
London is never so good as after ten o'clock at
night. Always air your room, then, from the
outside DIR if possible. Windows are made to
open, doors are made to shut, truth which
seems extremely difficult Of apprehension
Every room must be aired from without, every
passage from within. But the fewer passages
there are in hospital the better.
Year: 1860

ANTICIPATING EvLs.--Enjoy the present,
whatever it may be, and be not solicitous for the
future, for if you take your foot from its present
standing and thrust it towards Tomorrow event
you are in reckless condition. 1t Is like retu-
sing to quench your present thirst by fearing
you should want drink the next day. If it be
well to day, it is madness to make the present
miserable by fearing it may be i'll tomorrow;
when your belly is full of days dinner, to fear
that you should want the next days supper:
for it may he that you shall not, and then to
what purpose was this days afflction? But if
tomorrow you should want, your sorrow will
come time enough, though you do not hasten it;
let your trouble tarry till its day comes. But if
it chance to be i'll to day, do not increase it by
the cares of tomorrow. Enjoy the blessings of
this day if God send them, and the evils of it
bear patiently and sweetly for this day only is
ours-we are dead to yesterday, and we are not
yet born to tomorrow. He, therefore, that en-
joys the present, if it be good, enjoys as much
as is possible; and, if indeed, only that days
trouble leans upon him, it is singular and finite.
Sufficient to the day." said Christ, sis the evil
thereof sufficient but not intolerable. But if
we look abroad and bring into one days
thoughts the evils of many, certain and uncer-
tain, what will be and what will never be, our
load will be as intolerable as it is unreasonable.
-Jeremy Taylor.
Year: 1860

A contemporary gives advice to unhappy
married people," class of beings who, we trust,
form but small minority of the community
But the experience of our contemporary would
seem to have been extensive. We quote for the
benefit of whom it may concern


1t happens seldom that two human beings are
so exquisitely adapted to one another, by nature
and education, that they can acquire the art of
living happily together without both being COM
PEELED to make painful sacrifices of habit, taste
and feeling. After the glow and delusion of the
honeymoon are past, each has to learn that the
other has faults which were not perceived be-
fore; each has to discover that the other is fall
lible and limited human being-not an angel,
not hero, not saint. Each has acquired, in
their previous course through life, bundle of
those obstinate things called habits, some of
which are sure to seem unreasonable and un-
wise, and none of which can be laid aside with
out an effort. Each has formed strong attach
ments, and, perhaps, strong opinions. The hab-
its conflict, the opinions clash, and unless each
of the mated two cherish the true spirit of
friendly compromise, unhappiness is certain to
follow quick upon the tumultuous Joy of the es
pousals


Generally, this spirit of mutual concessions is
not acquired Immediately. The art of living to-
gether justly and joyously is one which is in-
trlnSlcally dlmcult, ana upon Wnlcn Ine ap-
pointed teachers of men throw but very little
light If tenth part of the genius and toll
which have been wasted upon questions of met.
aphysics, had been expended upon calculating
the laws relating to the human temper, we
should, by this time, probably, have reached inn
portant and definite principles, the knowledge
of which would greatly smooth the path that
leads to married happiness. AS it is, we have
all to solve the great problem unassisted, and to
learn the secret after many months or years of
experience, more or less bitter according as our
own natures are more or less reasonable One
error, we find, is cherished by nearly all unhappy
married people, namely: each thinks that the
fault is all on the other side. The husband
takes it for granted that all would be we'll with
them if only his wifS were little different from
what she is, and the wife feels sure that perfect
happiness would be the instantaneous result if
only that husband of hers were not quite so un-
reasonable. In almost all cases this opinion is
erroneous. There cannot be a quarrel unless
both are in fault. There can seldom be per-
manent estrangement without previous fault on
both Sides"
Year: 1860

MORE SLEEP-We have read q statement,
written by DR.. Windship, the 'strong man."
who recently lectured at the North, of rules, by
the observance of which he obtained his re-
markable strength and muscular power. To one
of these rules in particular, as being that which
men are most prone to violate, we call special
attention. The Doctor says he takes ten hours
sleep out of twenty -four, and he advises every
body to take at least eight hours rest nightly
We are convinced that most of the i'll health in
the community is due to lack of sleep more than
to any other cause. Rapidity of eating, lack
of exercise, heated rooms, over anxiety of mind,
and other causes, contribute to the i'll health and
abbreviated lives of our city population, but the
going to bed too late and rising too early we be-
lieve to be productive Of more sickness and pre-
mature deaths than of these or all of them COM
bined. DR.. Hall, in his Journal Of Health, con-
ours fully with DIR. Windship as to the necessi-
ty of longer sleep than the majority of men al
low themselves. Indeed we know of no respec-
table medical sanction for the shortening the
term to six or seven hours. We know very
many men who are rarely in bed before mid
night, yet are up alway by six o'clock in the
morning. Such men are exhausting their vital
force, prematurely. They never can reach the
limit of three score years and ten, much less live
far beyond it, as almost every man may by ta
king care of himself.
Year: 1860

81 curse the hour when we were married I"
exclaimed an enraged husband, to his better
half. To which she mildly replied: Don't, my
dear, for that was the only happy one we have
seen u
Year: 1860

The speech of this great Republican leader
delivered in the Senate Of the United States
on the 26th of February, is highly commend
ed by the Republican press. and is. of course
as able an argument, on the Republican side
of the Slavery question. as any man now liv
ing could make for no one will dispute the
very great ability of VIM, II. Seward.
| We have not read the whole of his speech,
for we have seen, as yet, only that portion OF
| it which is published in the San Francisco
Times So far as we can judge from the por'
ton that We have read, he abates not one jot
or title Of his doctrine of the "irrepressible
conflict" although he expresses very IRA
ternal feeling towards the saveholding States.
lie divides the Union into Capital States,
as he terms them. and Labor States" The
CAPITAL States are the States in which the la
boring class are owned like goods and chat
tells, by the men Of capital, who, of course,
have no use for the free laborers who require
compensation for their services These chat
tells are not recognized as persons and have
no rights which appertain to citizenship
They may be bought and sold, and otherwise
disposed Of without reference to their own
will or option in any manner whatever Free
labor is excluded from the Slave States, be-
cause it is not in demand and cannot compete
with slave labor.


The Labor States, as classified by Seward are
contradistinguished from the Capital States,
by the fact that Free Laborers are not goods
and chattels but persons that they are en-
titled to oil the rights and privileges of citi-
senship, and that they may reach the highest
offices in the land.


Free Labor, he says, must necessarily be
opposed to Slave Labor, because the owners
of Slave Labor monopolize in the hands of
the few what should belong to the many,
and, in respect to the ownership of the soil,
two or three men hold and occupy tracts suf
feient for the support of hundreds of families
Free Labor, he says, is desirous to expand it
self over the length and breadth of the Union,
and it chafes against the barriers erected
against it by the Slave States.


Therefore there is ON irrepressible conflict
between Free and Slave Labor, OF between
the Capital States" and the Labor States. "
1t can never end, until all the States are free
or all are slave Yet, he, Mr.. Seward, is in
ia 'or Of no violence neither does he believe
that there will necessarily be any violent col
lision. The majority of the white popula-
tion Ct the slave States are non-slaveholders
They will see, he says, that it is to their in
terest to put down slavery and they will ul-
timately vote to extinguish the institution
And thus will the abolition of slavery be eff
feated by peoceable means.


Such is Stewards explanation of his IRE


pressible Conflict doctrine, so far as we now


know. We shall understand him better, how


ever, when we read the balance of his speech
Year: 1860

Cinnamon are queer critters" They
seem to have no particular sense of the ridic-
ulous. You frequently see twenty or thirty
of them all huddled or packed together in
some teamster's big freight wagon, bound for
the mines or elsewhere, and jabbering as they
are rolled through the streets, in the most
perfect obliviousness, apparently. of the alb
surd figure which they cut, and of the ridi-
cule leyelled at them by the crowds upon
the side walks.


But, the funniest spectacle that ever a lo
Of Cinnamon afforded to our vision at least
we witnessed last Wednesday evening, short
ly after the arrival of the boat. 1t had been
raining perfect flood, and the streets were
ankle deep with mud and water Standing
on the corner of Second and D, we noticed
an express wagon, loaded with boxes trunks,
baskets, ct ceterG,the same being very evident
ly Chinese property, laundering along down
d at a 2 40 rate, while close in the rear a
string of at least dozen Cinnamon followed,
in fast trot right through the slop and mire
and directly in the middle of the street AS the
vehicle increased or slackened its speed so
did they, and regardless of all appearances,
all comfort and everything else. they kept in
sight of the baggage. They we're bound from
the landing to the Chinese quarter of the
city on First and Front streets. They must
have been a muddy looking set of fellows
when they fetched up.
Year: 1860

Tue politest man in Massachusetts, is said
to be Mr. Chase, treasurer of the Pemberton
Mills who in passing out from the falling
building through door that was instantly
forced open by the pressure, affably paused
and allowed another person to precede him.
Year: 1860

HoMoIDE.-John Chapman who was shot
in Honey Lake Valley on the 7th inst by
Albert Smith, died of his wounds on the 10th
After the death of Chapman, Smith was tried
by the citizens of the Valley and acnni tied
Year: 1860

CARSON VALLEY.-We gather the following
from the Territorial Enterprise of March
oath.


AT Virginia City, the different companies
who have been running tunnels upon the
line of the main Comstock lead, are all of
them in fair way to be rewarded for their
perseverance. The Guild Company have
struck the vein Of silver in their ground
quite as rich as the Ophir or Mexican ore
The Dick Slide Company, the Billy Cullough
Company, and the Coppreas Company have
all struck the main lead.


The town of Virginia is improving very
fast Several assay and smelling establish
ments are being built


The Consolidated Company, at Flowery
Diggings, are about commencing to prospect
their ground thoroughly. Messrs. Raymond,
Hasey, Weber, and others, have laid off
town in the centre of that district, which
they have ehristened Flowery City.


The excitement about the Desert Diggings
still continues. The assays of the different
ores found there show very heavy per
centage of silver.


Several parties are now prospecting near
the Sink of the Humboldt.


The miners on the east of Carson River.
aud so continuing down to the Pine Nut
Valley, as they are prospected, improve in
quality.
Year: 1860

FIRE.-Last night about u o'clock an old,
rickety wooden building on The Canal Basin,
near Merwin street, was struck by lightning,
as is supposed The fremen were promptly
on the ground, and by almost superhuman
exertions, prevented the flames from com
munieating to the frame tenements adjoin-
ing, and extinguished the fire after the up
per portion Of the building was burned.
The upper story was occupied as a dwell
ling by Mr.. Morrison, and on the first floor
an old man by the name of Parrish lived
alone. The building was of but little value.
Phoenix No. A had first water on the fire.
Year: 1860

MISS HARDNGE's LECTURE LAST EvKx1ye.--
There was a good attendance at Chapin's
Hall last evening to hear Miss Hsrdinge's
lecture in explanation of her plan for re-
claiming and reforming the outcast women
of our cities. The discourse was such as
could not fail to awaken deep interest in
this hitherto neglected field of philanthropic
1ohor
Year: 1860

WILSON PARK.-Somebody appears anx-
iOus to get the goose to lay golden eggs on
this outside location. No one would probably
object to have golden eggs laid on background
especially if rent was paid in addition. The
idea Of leasing and improving this wet and
dry land at the expense of the city, is too
absurd to admit of serious consideration.


Judge Wilson is no doubt able to improve
his OVID land. Hnot willing, the Street Rail
Road Company might assist for their own
benefit.


= If this ground was offered as a gift on con-
dition it should be properly improved and
fenced by the city speedily, it would be bad
o peration to accept it. The taxpayers do
mot wish any farther increase of taxes for
ia ncy operations. ECONOMY.