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Year: 1860

ROME is now the chief scat Of the art Of cam
60 cutting, two kinds Of wi. ch are produced
those cut in hard stone, ana those cut in shell.
The stones most valuable for his purpose are
the oriental onyx, and the sardoayx, provided
they have at least two different coiors in paral-
lei layers. The value Of the stone is greatly in
creased for this purpose, il it has four or five
different colored parallel layers If the layers are
so thin as to assist in marking the device Of the
cameo. For example: specimen of stone
which has four parallel layers may be useful for
cameo of Minerva, where the ground would be
dark grey. the face liPss. the bust and helmet
black, and the crust over the helmet brown or
grey. All such canoes are wrought by lapida-
ry's lathe, with pointed Instruments Of Steel and
by means of diamond dust Shell canreos are
cut from largcsheIls found.on the African and
Brazilian coasts, and generally show two layers,
one white, and the other either pale coffee col
or, or deep reddish orange. The subject is cut
with small steel chisels out Of the white portion
Of the shell. Shells adapted for cameo cutting
are dense. thick, and consist usually Of three
layers Of differently y-colOrcd shell material In
one variety Of these shells each layer is com
posed of very many thin plates, that is, lamins-
ted, the lamine being perpendicular to the plane
Of the main layer, and each lamina consisting
Of elongated prismstic cells adhercut to their
long sides. The lamine Of the outer and inner
layers are parallel to the lines Of growth, while
those Of the middle layer are at right angles to
them. In another variety known as the cowrics,
there is an additional layer which is a duplicate
Of the aurceous layer formed when the animal
h.s att,;rrd its full growth
Year: 1860

A. NOVEL PRGrER-We heard lately of
an oil gentleman who Is very regular in hav
ing family prayer, but who has more fun in
his composition than vital religion, and
therefore makes his wife do the praying;
that on recent occasion, after assembling
his family he very seriously announced to
them that the object Of the prayer that
night would be that Miss would get
a good bean" The young ones thinking it
a serious matter, knelt down and went
through the ceremony with the utmost gravi-
g. We dou't believe that prayer will ever
be answered.
Year: 1860

MA1Ls.-We hear constant complaints from the upper part of the State in regard to the irregularity of the mails. Is it the fault of post masters or stage contractors? Let all concerned look to this and correct the evil. For Gods ssake make agents and stage-drivers do their duty.
Year: 1860

TR1-WEEKLY IN THE CITY-We take it for granted that all our city subscribers to the weekly will prefer the tri-weekly; and therefore send the Tri- Weekly to all ofthem. If this arrangement does not meet their ap- probation, they will please notify us of the c.
Year: 1860

ITO those in my debt, am respectfully l compelled to remind them of my time for going East, and expect all to come up and settle. shall start in a short time for New York, and hope those indebted by note account will extend that kindness to me, which it has ever been my aim to do to them. I am ready to settle all claims ooainsf me D. c. FULTON.
Year: 1860

It has been calculated that the great Ar tesian bore at Columbus, Ohio, would, if pas sing through to the other side of the globe strike exactly fifteen miles from the great Chinese wall. abont two hundred and fifty miles from Pekin. It is suggested that they can run a telegraph through if they don't find water. They will probably however have an injunction come up through the hole from some established line.
Year: 1860

SrYE IN THE EYE.-Put spoonful of black
tea in small bag. Pour on it just enough
boiling water to moisten it. Then put it on
the eye pretty warm. Keep it on all night,
and in the morning the stye will most likely
be gone. If not, second application is
certain to remove it.
Year: 1860

n9T The successful competitor for a silver
goblet at a foot race, made the following
sensible speech:


"Gentlemen, have won this cup by the
use of my legs. TRUST may never lose the
ase of my legs by adhering too fondly to
the use of this cup"
Year: 1860

The VERY BEsT.-The following conun-
drum, whose paternity is traced to Nebraska
editor, is the very best we have ever read


Why is Nebraska shinplaster like an i'm
penitent sinner?


Because it does not know that its redeem
ar IiYeth
Year: 1860

uries of life, if with them she must accept
her cousin to live with all her life Her
cousin whom she knew to be monster in
human form! Oh, what horror was there
in the thought!


We say how gladly would she have ac-
cepted poverty and making her own living
to wealth, at the sacrifice of her happiness
in all her future, had her father only pro-
posed these terms.


Carrie was true hearted and noble
minded girl, and she determined not to
wound her fathers feelings, by herself pro-
posing them.
Year: 1860

Ere we parted for the evening,
While fingered 10 the hall
Half doubling, when to leave her,
III ever left at all
She asked me II 'twoTe possible
To change my vote this fall.
She knew me fora DeInOcra.-
The roguish little elf,
Knew that loved my party less
Less than did herself;
SO she told me l might kiss her
IfIlaid Doug on the shelf.
Could lose an opportunity


Available as thisy
Could think OF hesitating,
When stood so near 10 Bliss
No! Egad-'7Uas fer the Unioni-
So TOOK the protIered kiss.
Year: 1860

The visit of the Prince Of Wales to this
country, is at least, an important event in
his own life, and a very interesting one to
every American. sovereign. As heir of the
British crown, be is entitled to national
welcome amcng US, and is but decently
courteous and polite in our government to
give him so much. AS Prince most likely
to reign over the mort powerful kingdom of
the world, and the kingdom to which We are
SO nearly allied by blood, language and reli-
gioD /; q common origin and common bisto-
ry, up to a tima within the memory of men
still living he should be well received by US.
As the son and heir of most virtuous queen.
the wisdom and harmony of whose reign, and
the love ard happiness of W hose subjects have
been the glory of the age, we would gladly
show him through our country, and explain
our institutions. But while according so
much. let Us remember the dignity of man
hood for which our fathers contended. We
have no sympathy with that spirit of snob-
berry which forgets God to do obseq uious
honor to prince. We do not believe in the
''divine right of kings" nor do we recognize
the prestige of birth. 1t is the fundamental
doctrine Of publicanism to repudiate one
mans inherent right to ride upon the backs
of other men. Our fathers established a
doctrine in the Revolution our institutions
embody and perpetuate it. Let us remem-
Der, then, that we owe TO this prince kind
ly greeting, but not survle homage, either
social or political. We owe So much to him,
not because he is prince of the blood, but
for the reason that, in one sense, he is the
ruler elect over great nation made up of
men like ourselves.
Year: 1860

. By the quiet freside of home the true
mother, ia the midst of her children, is SOW
ing, as in sesof earth, the seeds Of plants
that shall sometime give to Heaven the fra
GRANGE of their blossoms, and whose fruit will
be rosary of angelic deeds-the nobest Offer
ing that she can make through the ever as
cending and ever expanding souls of her
children to her Maker. Every word that she
utters goes from heart to heart with a pow
er which she little dreams. Solemn is the
thought, but not more solemn to the Christ
ian mother than the thought that every word
that falls from the lips. every expression OF
her countenance, even in the sheltered walk,
and retirement, may leave an indelible i'm
preston upon the young souls around her,
and form, as if it were, the underlying strata
of that education which peoples heaven with
celestial beings, and gives to the white brow
of the angel next to the grace Of God, its
crown of glory. Traceller.
Year: 1860

Lavater, in his "Physiognomy, makes
the following curious remarks:-"l have
had occasion to observe some infants imme-
diately on their birth, and have found an as
tonish ing resemblance between their profile
and that of their father. A few days after.
the resemblance almost entirely disappeared;
the natural influence of the air and food,
and probably the change of posture, has 80
altered the design of the face, that you clu'd
have believed it different Individual. at
terwards saw two of these children die the
one at six weeks and the other at four years
of age-and about twelve hours after their
death they completely recovered the profile
which had struck me 80 much at their birth !;
only the profile of the dead child was, as
might be expected, more strongly marked
and more terse t',an that of the living. The
third day their resemblance began to disap-
pear. knew man of fifty years. and an,
other of seventy, both of whom, when alive,
appeared to have no manner Of resemblance
to their children, and whose physiognomies
belonged, if may SO express myself to o
totally different class. Two days after their
death the profile of one became perfectly
conformed to that of his eldest son, and the
image of the other father might be traced in
the third of his sons. The likeness was
quite as distinctly marked as that of the
children, who, Immediately after their death,
brought to my recollection the physiognomies
which they had at their birth"
Year: 1860

the women cried, Do not cease. Gad will
help u.s.


cat length. on the morning of the sixth
day the m ufled sound of blows from within
met the ears of the workmen in the shaft
A signal ran along the rope, and told the
news to the waiting multitude above, who
rent the air with joyful shouts. Soon COM
munication was made. They were saved-at
least some were saved.


"Who can imagine the feelings OF the un-
fortunate men. buried five days and mig hts,
without food, when first the day cleaned ia
upon them, revealing human face


.'Of a hundred who had been imprisoned
over seventy survived. and with them Hu-
BERT Without him, indeed, probably no one
would have been spared to tell the story.


''This noble act, done in place and at a
moment when no praise of men could have
been looked for, echoed throughout Europe,
and obtained the praise and gratitude of the
world. The ten thousand miners of Liege
hailed their fellow laborer with delight and
pride. Napoleon beard and admired in his
palace at paris, and sent reward to the
peasant nobleman. He sent him his Cross
Of Honor, the mark which all the high and
great coveted, and, better still, offered him a
pension which raised him above want for the
rest of his life."


When God unfolds in heaven the secret
charity of men, many such heroes shall stand
covered, sending nc testimony to the world.
Their Father who seeth in secret shall re-
ward them openly.
Year: 1860

1MPoRrAST.-The price of coal at the
Davenport COAL yard. corner Of Brady and
Fifth streets. has been reduced from ten to
eight cents This will make very important
difference in the household expenses Of many
Of our citizens.
Year: 1860

1t seems that the long established max
i'm Of "carly to bed and early to rise, " is
getting to be decidedly unpopular with a
great many; and now having the opinion
Of the eminent DR.. Hall, to sustain them,
we infer that their habits Of early rising
will not be very materially promoted. He
says in the February number of his Jour-
nal Of Health:


"One of the very worst economies of
time is that filched from nccessry sleep.
The wholesale but blind commendation of
carly rising is as mischicvous in practice
as it is arrant in theory. Early rising is
a crime against the noblest part of our
physical nature, unless it is preceded by
an early retiring. Multitudes of business
men in large cities count it saving of
time if they can make journey of hun
dred or two miles at mig ht by steamboat or
railway. It is ruinous mistake. It nevl
er fails to be followed by want of genera
well-fecling for several days after, if, in
deed, the man does not return home actu-
ally sick, or so near it as to be unfit for a
full attention to his business for week
afterward. When man leaves homo on
business, it is always important that he
should have his wits about him that the
mind should be fresh and vigorous, the
spirit lively, buoyant and cheerful. No
man can say it is thus with him after a
night on a railroad or on the shelf of a
steamboat. The first great recipe for
sound, connected and refreshing sleep is
physical exercise. Toll is the price of
sleep. We caution parents particularly
not to allow their children to be walked up
Of mornings; let nature wake them up,
she will not do it prematurely; but have
care that they go to bed at an early hour !;
let it be earlier and earlier, until it is found
that they wake up themselves in full time
for breakfast. Being walked up early, and
allowed to engage in difficult or any stud
les late and just before retiring, has given
many beautiful aud promising child the
brain fever, or determined ordinary all
ments to the production Of water on the
BRAIN"
Year: 1860

The NATIoNAL.-Brother Dibble has as
sumed his new vocation as editor of the
Grass Valley Nalionah with harness on
We were always aware that he was a talen-
ted lawyer, but had no idea he would proTe
SO ready with the pen. why, he writes like
an "old stager." His Wit is sparkling, and
his,penetration goes down to The very bottom
of things. Could we believe less, after that
Swinging" puff he gave us? And was not
that proof positive that we speak truly p
"Well, for your favor, sir, why, give God
thanks, and make no boast of )" and re-
member, as the erudite author OF the above
quotation remarks, ito be well favored
man, is the gift of fortune; but to write and
read, comes by nature"
Year: 1860

ApoTHEcARY STUFFs.-The Mcguire broth
ers have been receiving large supply OF
fresh articles in the apothecary and drug
line, the particulars of which are duly set
forth in our advertising columns.
Year: 1860

bEd UHOhIy ~ t


PENDER & PAGE, Proprietors.
TFNHIS LARGE AND COMMODIOUS ESTABLISHMENT


for the reception of visitors The House is lO
Gated in the most eligible and pleasant situation for Summer
Resort in Eastern North Carolina being immediately in front
Of the inlet from the Atlantic Ocean, with the least OBJ
stdce to obscure the view either of Old Ocean,, Core
Sound Bogue Sound, the Town of Beaufort


AS tine FISHING GROUND as the HaTbOr affords is i'm
medae in front of coorades which surround the Southern
and Western portion of the building aordng the board
the opportunity of angling without exposure to the sum-
while seated under the coorades from their chamber
windows if they prefer the House is situated immediate
ly over the water.


The beautiful and varied views presented to the VISITORS
from this location, alone worth trial Of this establish
The object of the propretors has been render this
the most attractive North Souh-nature and eli
having been bounu this favored spot leav
ing but little to art to improve.
The proprietors have added to the establishment
BATHING HOUSES,


sufficiently large to swim and situated that baths
be taken any hour for the accommodation Of ladies and
gentlemen who wish indulge this pleasant and healthy
pastme To nyads bathing in salt water is undoubtedly
conducive to the health Should persons prefer it. they
battle in the serf sound ediaely contiguous tt
| the House.


We have STEAMBOAT that will always be in readiness
convey passengers from MOrehead City, the terminus
the A n c. Railroad the Atlantic House, making alsC
| daily excursions about the HarbOr.


good Band of Music has been secured for the
PENDER & PAGE, Proprietors.
7. A. GRANGER, Superintendent
| Nav l7th 1850. 3S-tlS
Year: 1860

A SIcKLEs AFFAIR IN IowA-The Quincy
Herald says:-We are informed that on the
evening of the Sd inst, Orndorf a commission
merchant at Warsaw, having some suspicion
that all was not right with his wife. noticed
her through the window reading some letters,
which she deposited in a drawer on his coming
in. He pretended not to notice it. but after
they had retired made some excuse for getting
up, and read the letters They proved to be
from one Robert Sterling, a clerk till lately,
In the store of johnson Hunt His worst
suspicious were confirmed. In the letter he
professed that he was the father of one of her
children, and urged her to elope with him.
Orndof, taking his pistol, passed down to a
saloon where he knew Sterling was apt to
spend his evenings to late hour.


AS he approached Sterling, who sat playing
dominOes, Sterling turned to see who was
coming, when Orndorff shot him in the mouth.
the ball passing out through bis neck, and
cutting his tongue nearly out. Sterling rose
to escape, when Orndof shot him again,
msSing only flesh wound in his side, and
again shooting, making only slight wound on
the hip. Sterling started to 90 out, when a
fourth shot was fred which missed; Sterling
gained the street, and was chased by Orndorff
nearly round the square, when Sterling went
up stairs and locked the door, which his pur-
suer began to kick down, declaring he would
Kill him. Some friends arrived and told him
Sterling was dead but this did not avail. az
Orndorf said he knew better He was, how
ever, taken away and arrested But he has
the letters in his possession, and says he is
sorry that he has got to do the tragical work
over again.
Year: 1860

TIE PATTERSON BoNAPARrE FAMILY.-The
Paris correspondent Of the Courier des Etats
Unis, in his last letter TO that journal says ut
is rumored that the death of Prince Jerome
will furnish to his son, by his first marriage
with Miss Elizabeth Patterson, an occasion to
revive his claims as sole heir of the august de-
ceased. This is really the time for him. to
have his rights, if he has any, formally decid-
ed. 1t is true that the decision which would
emanate from an imperial family council would
not be very dubious, although certain members
have, it is said, shown themselves favorable to
the cause of the American lady. Jerome was
a minor when he was married to her by Bishop
Carroll, and it was on this plea of minority
that Napoleon broke the union. To prove
that the young marine officer had been enticed
into the match BY premeditated scheme, tss-
timonials were produced to show that Miss
Patterson had laid a wager that she would
captivate and marry the brother of the man
the fame Of whose exploits had already filled
two continents. She won the wager, but only
gained thereby premature widowhood and
the grief of losing, while still living, the man
whom she believed attached to her for life"
Year: 1860

- Not Lost Forever.
Not lost forever, though on earth we've parted


Not lost forever, though we meet no more
They do not wander lone and broken hearted,


Who see Heavens radiance on the further shore.
Not lost forever! every gentle token


That memory wins me from the far away, ID
Shall fill my soul, though all our ties are broken,
With tender grace, that never can decay.
Not lost forever while around me springing,


The yiolets weep, the roses blush and bloom
And summer birds, in summer woodland singing,


Flood with soft music all the tranquil gloom.
There will be meaning in the stars, the flowers,


The grand and solemn voices of the sea-
Telling of happy dreams and happy hours,


When life was sunshine, which it caught from thee
Not lost forever! thou shalt still be near me,


Through every fortune and in every CLINE;
When cares oppress, or gentle memories cheer me,
g Thou shalt be with me, dearest, all the time!
Year: 1860

A GENIUS OF A BUTOHER.-In one of the
market houses of Philadelphia is a genius of a
butcher. Beneath his sleeves and apron he
wears the costliest broadcloth-none of the in
ferior grades, but the finest production of French
LOOMS His linen is as faultless as his exterior
garments, while the glisteniug surface of his
marble counters is no less striking than the gloss


mess of his hat and boots In the centre of his
shirt bosom sparkles single diamonds stone
of six carats weight, and of the first water
Upon the little finger of bis left hand glitters
circlet Of diamonds six in number, whose aggre-
gate value is considerably more than that of the
garniture of his shirt bosom. His complexion
is clear red and white-just that style of COM
lplexion which Partisan ladies produce by dainty
comlnixture of carmine and bisinuth. He is a


man of fine physique, and has an avoirdupois


of about two hundred pounds. His address is
polished, and bis manners courtly and suave.-


He commenced life without dollar, and is now


taxed for some $50, 900 in real estate, yet is as


polite and deferential to his customers as on the
day he first embarked in the business of con-
verting quarters of beef into chops and srloins.
A benevolent lady of large fortune first noticed
him, and placed at his disposal fund upon
which he has raised the superstructure of his
present fortune. He is now rapidly advancing
in wealth, and will probably retire upon the
eighth of million. And all through the inhu
ence of that specific against adversity-Polite-
ness.
Year: 1860

queer old miser who has just died is much talked
of at Vienna. He cut off all his nearest rela-
tves, and made very distant one, an extreme
ly handsome young girl, sole heiress of his con-
siderable property. So far there is nothing ex-
traordinary; but there is a condition added to it.
The testator was hunchback, and had club
foot, which defects probably had obstrncted
many attempts of his to marry. He has made
it, therefore, condition, SINE qua non, that the
heiress is to get the property only when she
marries man shaped as be was. She is, be-
sides, to live in convent three months in each
year to pray for his soul. The heirs-at-law
have attacked this odd last will, on the plea that
when it was made the testator must evidently
have been mad. As there is, however, no
equity of jurisdiction in Austria, they may find
their task not an easy one.
Year: 1860

3 AN ASSASSIN HosT.-In the village of Celles,
in France, situated upon the banks of the Loire,
is small inn entirely isolated from any other
habitation, and good quarter of mile from the
town. The proprietor of the inn and of the field
which extends before it, after having made use
less attempts to prevent the laying of rail-
way near the house, offered at last to under
take himself at his own expense the necessary
work of digging up the earth and making the
embankments upon his ground. The reasons tor
his persistent efforts although not at first under
stood, were, however brought to light. No
sooner was the spade put in the earth than the
workman discovered first one dead body, then a
second, third, and finally one at the foot of ev-
cry tree growing in the field. This startling dis
covery that revealed at once so many crimes,
raised the public voice and provoked an investi-
CATION; the inn-keeper, upon whom rested old
suspicious and old stories of travellers having
suddenly disappeared, feigned great indignation,
and at once denounced his accusers. But his
daughter, who had hung herself few months


before without any apparent cause the strange
rapidity of his fortune; the many efforts to pre-


vent the construction of the road through the
field; the condition of the bodies discovered,
some evidently quite recently buried, and bear
ing upon them proofs of the crimes committed !;
all these circumstances combined to lead to the
Immediate arrest OF the inn-keeper and his fam
lily. 1t appears that for more than thirty years
the more common sort of travellers, and espe-


cially pedlars, were in the habit of stopping at


this inn, attracted to it by the cheapness of the
price; and they had then, it would seem. been
Iassassinated in the night and despoiled of their
stock or money.


1t is truly an atrocous discovery, and one


which has excited the greatest horror and fear
throughout the neghborhood.- Translated from
IL'Eco d'ItaliG.