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Year: 1859

Chained in the market-place ne stood,
A man OF giant frame,
Amid the gathering multitude


That shrunk TO hear his name
All stern Of look and strong OF limb,
His dark eye on the ground -
And silently they gazed on him,
AS on lion bound.
Vainly, but well, that chief had fought,
He was captive now,
Yet pride, that fortune humbles not,
Was written on his brow,
The scars his dark broad bosom wore,
Showed warrior trne and brave;
A prince among his tribe before,
He could not be slave.
Then to his conqueror he spake-
"My brother is a king
undo this necklace from my neck,
And take this bracelet ring;
And send me where my brother reigns,
And will fill thy hands
With store Of ivory from the plains,
And gold dust from the sands"
"Not for thy ivory nor thy gold


Will uhbind Thy chain
That bloody hand shall never hold
The batile.spear again,
A price thy nation never gave.


Shall YET be paid ior thee
For thou shalt be the Christians slave,
In lands beyond the sea-"
Then wept the warrior chief, aud bade
To shred his locks away;
And, one by one, each heavy braid
Before the victor lay.
Thick were the plated locks and long,
And deity hidden there
Shone many wedge Of gold among
The dark anu crisped hair.
sLook, feast thy greedy eye with gold
Long kept for sorest need
Take it-tliou askest sums untold,


And say that am freed.
Take tiny wife, the long, long day
Weeps by the cocoa tree,
And my young children leave their nay
And ask in vain for me-"
T take thy gold-bnt have made


Thy fetlers fast and strong,
And when that by the cocoa shade


Thy wife will wait thee long"
Strong was the agony that shook


The capiive's frame 10 hear,
And the proud meaning OF his look


Was changed 10 mortal lear.
His heart was broken-crazed his brain
At once his eye grew wild
He struggled fiercely with his chain,


Whispered, and wept, and smiled
Yet wore moi long those fatal bands,


And once al shut of day,
They drew him forth upon the sands,
The foul hyena's prey.
Year: 1859

The editor of the Louisville Presbyterian
Herald. in replying to Il subscriber who in
quires how he should prevent young men from
calling to see his daughter on Sunday, says:


Call your daughters in and make them
recite the Catechism, and politely invite their
visitors to come in and see how we'll they can do
it. Ina month, you will not be any longer
annoyed in that way"
Year: 1859

POWER or Sr.AM.-A pint of water may be
evaporatrd by two ounces of coal In its eva


Grafton it SwClS into two hundred and six
zen gallons of steam; with mechanical force
), I'll ient 10 raise weight of thrty-seyen tons
n foot high. The steam thus produced has
pressure equal TO that of common atmospheric
air and 10y allowing it to expand, by virtue
of Its elasticity further mechanical force may
he obtained at least equal in amount to the
former. A pint OF water, therefore, and two
ounces Of common coal, are thus rendered ca
pabe of doing as much work as is equivalent
TO seventy four tons raised a foot high The
circumstances under which the steam engine is
worked Oh Il railway are not favorable to the
economy Of fuel, nevertheless, pound of coal
burned in a locomotive engine will evaporate
five pirtS Of water In this evaporation they
will exert mechanical force sufficient to draw
two tons weight on the railway distance of
two minutes The great pyramid of Egypt
stands upon base measuring 200 feet each
way, and is 800 feet high, its weight being
twelve thousand seven hundred aud sixty mil.


lions of pounds lt is stated that in construct
ing this prodigious'pile 100 900 men were coa-
Stantly employed for twenty years Nov how.
ever, by the means of steam, the materials Of
this pyramid could be raised from the ground
TO their present position by the combustion of
about 4S0 tons of coal
Year: 1859

SHEET IRoN.-Sheet Iron is made either by
hammering the heated metal to the proper
thickness by the same methods that by some
manufacturers are still employed for the pur-
pose of drawing it into bars, or it is made to
acquire the proper form and thickness by being
pressed, when strongly heated between smooth
rollers with polished faces, arranged in the
sIme manner as those intended for reducing it
to bars. The metal employed for making sheet
iron ought to be very soft and tough and
when thin sheets are required, snch as those
Of which tinpate is manufactured, the best
charcOaI-prepared iron only can be used To
give the metal the form of sheets, it is repeat
edly passed through sets of rollers, and when
it has been rolled into very thin sheets, such
as these employed in the manufacture OF tin
plate, the smoothing of the surface is effected
by distinct and separate operation For this
purpose the reduced metal, after being heated
to rcdnesS, in order to restore its softncss, is
laid in successive layers on q smoothly polished
surface of cast-irou, where it is strongly com
pressed by the descent of another surface. act
ed on by hydraulic pressure. A singular illus
tration of the tenacity and ductility of iron has
been produced at an establishment in Birming-
ham, England. 1t is in the form of a book,
the leaves of which are irOn rolled so fine that
they are not thicker than piece of paper
The book is neatly bound in red morocco, and
contains fortyfour of these iron leaves, the
whole being only the fifteenth of an inch thick
This curious book was rolled in the ordinary
sheet-iron rolls
Year: 1859

BUREING OF GAs-When coal gas is burn
ing, it combines with the oxygen of from ten
to twelve times its bulk of common air, or even
more, the quantity varying according to the
gas BY this combination, which in fact con
stitutes combustion, watery vapor and carbonic
acid are formed-the former being composed
of all the hydrogen of the gas, with three times
its weight of oxygen, the latter consisting of
all the charcoal, united with the oxygen, in the
proportion of six to sixteen by weight These
products, which are similar to those from a
candle or lamp, minglc with the air of the
apartment, and are removed with it in the
course of ordinary ventilation In some cir
cumstanceS the watery vapor is condensed on
the windows and in the street lamps it NAV
be seen, when the weather is cold hedewing
the inside of the globes and even collecting in
considerable quantity at the bottom The car
boniC acid is not removed in the same manner
by condensation, and it may accumulate to
hurtful extent this can only happen however
where ventilation is peculiarly defective, and
the remedy sufficiently apparent. When the
carbon is not all consumed, it flies off in smoke
an occurrence which should be guarded
against, not only on account of its offensive
qualities, but also from the great loss of light
in proportion to gas expended The emission
of light though usually the effect of combus-
ton, is yet a different phenomenon. Many
substances incapable of burning, yet emit the
most brilliant light when they are intensely
heated. Gases possess this quality in a very
feeble degree Air, indeed, may be so hot
that a solid body becomes luminous in it,while
it gives off no light itself. The temperature
at which solids begin to emit light is about
eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit they are
then incandescene, or red hot and if the tenn
perature be increased, they become more and
more luminous, until they are so brilliant that
the eye cannot look on them without pain.
Year: 1859

SPEcMENs OF MoDERN DICTIONARY
Dtstaah Rsiations-P People who imagine they
have claim to rob you if you are rich and to
insult you if you are poor.


BeAe--A beautiful but unless insect without
wings, whose colorS fade on being removed
from the sunshine ...--


Eddor-A poor wretch, who every day
emptes his Utau. in order to Gil his stomach
Year: 1859

To THE CONTINENTAL CnoIR OF
DAVENPORT Ladies and Gentlemen We,
the undersigned, citizens of Davenport,
having been highly pleased with your last
concert would be gratified to have you re-
peat the same, with such alteration as your
good taste may suggest, at as early time
Year: 1859

shall be imported in countless numbers to supply
the vacant fields OF the south. If obuthern lead
ers see no other Elysum than this In looking
forward il is better to shut their eyes, and give
the world as lost. No accumulation Of strength,
no separation of southern States into new con-
ederatiun scan effect any such change as that re-
quired to revive the slave trade great scale,
and to permit the south to measure its prosperity
by the multitude of its fresh negroes. ir .iIf


/ 1t is obvious that the desderatum we seek is not
to come by mincing phrases of careful construc-
tion upon the slavery question. To ensure peace
we must declare ourselves ready to fight for it, if
need be, and to make slavery 4est, if we can OBJ


tain no heed to reasonable doctrines Otherwise.
Year: 1859

WASHINGTON, July 25.-From information re-
ceved in this city, it appears that some of the
southern representatives, while claiming to be op-
posed to the re-opening of the African slave trade
are pledging themselves to introduce in Congress
bill repeating all the statutes upon the 'ubject,


leaving it, as they profess to desire. to the regula
ton of the several States but as tho constitution
confers on Congress the power to prohibit the
trade and as death seems to be regarded as too
severe penalty for violating what some consider
merely law regulating commerce, it is thought
that others who are opposed to the slave trade will
agree upon q measure with view to make the
prohibition and abolition more effective by the GER
tanty of punishment, and otherwise than capital
and thus they think that good will result from tho
present agitation of the subject.
Year: 1859

far excelling any and all others, in extent and perfection of detail. Among our presses is the celebrated AMERICAN FREELY CARD PRESS, capable of printing, cutting and count ing ten thousand cards per hour.

 H PAPER and STATIONERY constantly in store, for the prompt execution of every de- scription of work.

 E The senior partners of the house are practical Printers; and all give their business their undivided attention.

 Ger prices will bs as low as the nature of the work and a legitimate profit will allow.

 We desire to return our acknowledgment to our friends for past favors, and to promise our best attention to their future commands.

 lun29-3m HUTTON, CLARK & co.
Year: 1859

REP.AL OF THE FISHING BoUNTlEs.-lhe
Committee on Commerce of the House have,
by one majority, agreed to report hill repeal-
ing the fishing bounties. An effort will he
made to pass it under the operation of the
previous question. 49,
Year: 1859

A UsEFu REcEIpr.-Some weeks since we
published receipt for cleaning knives, Ia
ken from an exchange paper. in which il was
stated that il the Irish potato was cut and
dipped in the brick dust and then applied to
the knife, IL would be found to remove the
stains and clean the knife better than any.
thing else. At the time we published the
article we placed as much faith in il as in
the ordinary receipts found floating in the
newspapers. We had the experiment tried,
however. during the past week, and must
confess that we were very much surprised at
the amount Of labor saved by this simple
process. The potato was sliced, a portion
Of IL dipped into the brick dust, and then
applied to the knife, which was somewhat
stained. Almost as soon as the application
was made, the stains disappeared. aud lii.
tie more polisliing caused the blade to pre-.
sent the appearance, nearly, Of knife fresh
from the hands Of the cutler. The knife was
rapidly aud easily cleaned without the usual
scratching resulting from long rubbing ON a
hard surface with brick dust. IIousekeepers
who have not yet made the experiment, will
be very much grati6ed at its success should
they do so. Grearigs Patriot.
Year: 1859

The most remarkable woman of this CEN
fury, was Harry" Stokes, the bricks
setter, who committed suicide in the sluice
of the river Irwel, at Mode Wheel, Eng
land, lately. For about thirty years this
extraordinary person lived in Manchester
and Stafford as journeyman and master
bricksetter f; had been twice married to
other. women, had kept beer houses and
served customers at the tap as "joly
landlord. Her habits were those of man,
ard she could lift weight and set brick
with the best of those with whom she
worked. She attended daily ordinary in
the town with other bricksetters, drank,
smoked and joked with the hardest, and
joined in the evening carousa!s. Yet, with
all this constant and close intimacy with the
opposite sex, the strong minded woman
contrived to keep her own great secret and
there is every reason to believe that she has
gone down into the grave at the advanced
age of 60, or thereabouts, having through
out the whole of her remarkable life main.
tanned an unbroken check upon those pas
sions which crowd the streets of every large
town with the unfortunate of her sex. Her
great endeavor was on all occasions to keep
up the manly character she had assumed.
From child she had been accustomed to
the severe work of one of the most laborious
occupations in which man is engaged, and
the skill she had attained in the trade re-
veals an amount of perseveripg energy
which made her worthy of better fate than
that of the wretched suicide.


She was the daughter of a bricklayer in
village in the neighborhood of Doncaster.
Before she could well balance her own little
body she was made useful in the house !;
and ere many years had passed over her
head she was brought into acquaintance
with some of the roughest and toughest
work in those hard wrought days. Little
Harriet Stokes lines had not been laid in
pleasant places. She was so ground down
by the iron hand at home that when she was
about eight years old she put on tattered
suit Of boys clothing and walked forth into
the "wide, wide world" Arrived at the
village Of Whitby, she looked about for
Year: 1859

LOOK on the bright side. 1t is the right
side. The times may be hard, but it will
not make them any better to wear gloomy
countenance. 1t is the sunshine, and not the
cloud, that makes flower. There is always
that before or round US which should cheer
and fill the heart with warmth. The sky is
blue ten times where it is black once You
have troubles, it may be. So have others.
None are free from them. Perhaps it is as
we'll that none should be. They give sinew
and tone to life--fortitude and courage to
man. That would be dull sea, and the
sailor would never get skill, where there
was nothing to disturb the surface of the
ocean. 1t is the duty of every one to extract
all the happiness and enjoyment he can
without and within him and above all, be
should look on the bright side of things.
What though things do look little dark?
Year: 1859

A LAWYERS OATH.-The following oath
to be administered to legal gentlemen when
admitted to the bar, passed the Massachu
sets Senate by vote of Ii to 3:


You do solemnly swear that you will do
no falsehood, nor consent to the doing o1
any in court; you will not Willingly or viii
lingly promote or sue any false, groundless
or unlawful suit nor give your did nor con-
sent to the same you will delay no mar
for lucre or malice, but you will conduct
yourself in the Office of an attorney within
the courts, according to the best Of your
knowledge and direction, and with all good
fidelity, as well to the courts as to your
clients-So help you God.
Year: 1859

CLRELEssNEss-YesterdSy morning. market
man, having taken his horse from his wagon, drew
the latter up to the sidewalk, with the shafts rest
ing upon post and protesting over the walk A
gentleman who was passing, soon after. and had
bis head down to avoid the rain, struck his face
violently against the end of the thill, which how,
had If struck an inch lower, might have resulted
very seriously. As it was, his face was badly
bruised. Teamsters and eountrymen should think
of these apparently little things and place their
wagons where no harm can be the result.
Year: 1859

SPURIOUS GoLD CoIN.-The New York rogues
have lately circulated large quantity of gold cop
which has lost part of its lawful weight. The
method of adulterating the coin is a singular one
Five dollar gold pieces are placed in lathe and
made to reyolEe with great rapidity. A delicate
and tiny chisel is then brought to bear upon the
edge, which outs away the inside Of the coin, al
most to the oeuter, leaving mere shell, which is
afterwards filed with alloy, and the edge heavily
washed with gold to prevent detection. When thus
prepared, S. gold pieces weigh 10 grains less than
the genuine, and yet the ex erna appearance is Sc
perfect that experienced money handlers and bank
ers have bern deceived by them, We have heard
of none in this part of the country as yet
Year: 1859

The New Orleans Bulletin states that
new process for extricating the oil from cot
ton seed, 10 In successful operation in that
atty. which will add millions to the value
Of the cotton crop.
Year: 1859

New and rich dgeings have been discoy-
cred on Sailors Flat, about ten miles east
OF Nevada City We visited tia, locality.
few days since aud saw one dollar to the
pan washed from dirt. taken from the tunnel
Of the white Squall Company. The gold
is coarse and resembles that taken from the
Forest Hill lead. The pay dirt. or gravel,
is found at depth Of from ffsy to one hun
dred feet from The surface


Several tunnels are now running into the
Hill for the head.
Year: 1859

BLUE TEST.-Conside.able excitement was
raised in the vicinity of Blue Tent on account
of the discovery Of rich and extensive quartz
leads. Blue Tent is about four miles above
Nevada City, on the South Yuba River. We
have heard no report Of the new claims be-
yond the rush OF miners TO stake of and
record claims, and that rumor Gays it is
rich.
Year: 1859

- The Agent Of the San Francisco Ma
liOnal is now 10 our town. a more able and
sound Democratic paper than the National
is not published in the state, md we hope
il will have long list Of subscribers in this
County.
Year: 1859

J. G.. CLARK d Cove refer our read
ers to the advertisement of the above House
appearing in our columns this week. The
House is too well known already to need
much comment, yet to show the extent Of
their business, we may say that more packa.
ges come to their House than TO any other
in the city.
Year: 1859

COLLINS & Cove would refer our read
ers to the advertisement Of Collins & Co., in
another column. They keep everything
known 10 the line of beds ind bedding, and
the largest stock on the Pacific coast
Year: 1859

YourHFUL CONucTs.-A young man and
girl were rent to the Penitentiary from Licking
county last week for stealing horse, and lit
tie brother Of the girl for perjury. Collins, the
young man, was sent for four years, and the boy
and girl three years each. r sod.
Year: 1859

We think if any man is disposed to make
mnggins of himself through the papers, the ed
itors thereof should refuse him the opportunity,
just as they would refuse to aid in the perpetra-
tion of cruelty upon any other animule. Hence
we think the editor of the Beacon should have
assigned the letter published in his paper of
Wednesday, headed Senatorial Falsehood"
(by the way, new sort of falsehood) to the
flames instead of putting it in priat.


al hare just learned by telegraph from above,
that report has been put in circulation in your
town that Gov. Weller has withdrawn from the
canvass in the race for U S. Senator The re-
port is malicious fdlsehood got up by the friends
of Denver in the North to injure Weller"


Now, suppose such falsehood had been put
in circulation, how could it have injured Gov
Weller at the capital, where the votes that he
seeks are If the race for Senator were before
the people, such report, just up IN the eve of
the day of battle might injure Gov. Weller-but
now-poh the mans certainly demented. Gen.
Denver has no friend who will make himself so
great an ass as to put in circulation or believe
that any body else has put in circulation so rid
icuous Munchausen. The idea of John B.
Weller Withdrawing from 90 canvass in the race
for United States Senator" or any other office,
so long as he has the slightest possible chance,
is belied by his whole political life. Three
cheers from Weller's opponentsl] Hold on, fell
low Democrats. The same is true of every man
who is a candidate for United States Senator
So long there is ghost of a chance of cleo
ton they will not withdraw. Ay, so long as
they can perceive the ghost of chance hang
ing on the hook of hope by its eye-lids, they
will hold on. Hence we say man must be a
perfect simpleton who would attempt to fool the
public by starting the r,port that one of them
had Withdrawn before the fight had commenced
Anything else might be swallowed by the pub
lie, but not that
Year: 1859

SsJF Among the scons of the house of Bona
parte is son of Lucien, the Prince de Canio-
The young man is priest of the Romish Church


and being the personal protege and favorite rel
atiye of his imperial cousin at Paris, has seen
himself raised from one clerical dignity to ano-
ther, till at last the influential post of Private
Secretary and Almoner to Pho Mono himself had
to be accorded to him. Nothing else stands be-
tween him and the purple of the Cardinal. but
the fact that he is not yet thirty. II is tbor,L.


however, that the law may be varied from ~
suit the case, and that on the decease of Pc
X he may be made Pope, through the influence
of Napoleon ILL.,
Year: 1859

MuRDER.-0n Wednesday night China
man was murdered near Briceland's Mill in the
inquest upon the corpse but ELECTED no facts
which would tend to fix suspicion upon the
murderer He was killed by lick upon the
forehead with piece of wood. 1t is generally
believed from the fact that the Chinese manifest
no sort of interest to find the murderer, that he
was killed by one Of their own number.
Year: 1859

HuMBuG-It is thought that Prof. Lowe is
a low-bred humbug His mammoth balloon is
supposed to be mammoth humbug, gotten up
for the sole purpose of catching pennies by ex-
bibitiou. and with not the slightest intention to
attempt in it a trip across the ocean. Lowe
once figured in this State under the name of
Wilson. It will be remembered that he once let
off news-boy in balloon at Oakland He
has been playing his game of humbug lowe
fowu
Year: 1859

B=ss" The London Literary Gazette says that
when a lady desires to compose her mouth to
oland and serene character, she should, just
before entering the room, say Bosom, and keep
the expression into which the mouth subsidies
until the desired effect upon the company is Wis
lole. If on the other hand she wishes to as
sumo distinguished and somewhat noble
bearing, not suggestive of sweetness, she should
say Brush, the result of which is infallible. We
knew painter who used to say when lady
sitter desired to make small mouth and look
pretty he told her to say Flip, but when the
mouth was already too small and needed en-
larging, he told her to say Cabbage Perhaps a
due attention to these rules might be useful to
all persons intending to submit to the modern
process of daguerreotype portraiture."
Year: 1859

SHAsrAMADE WNE.-0ur friend Chas A.


Jager. OF this place, presented with bottle
Of wine made by himself We have tasted it
several times 1t is glorious stuff, or as would
be said away down South, admirable "truck"
it really does a man good to drink wine made of
the real genuine juice of the grape. Mr. jaeger
made some sixty odd gallons from the grapes
grown in little vineyard in his back yard
We have no hesitation in pronouncing it supe-
rior to. any wine we have drank in Shasta. A
little more age will make it tis for the gods to
quaf. Evidently the foot hills are admirably
adapted to grape growing and wine producing
Year: 1859

Hon. JOHN WHITE This gentleman paid our
town visit last week. His friends will be
pleased to learn that he was looking well. He
has since left for the capital. Mr.. White enjoys
the full confidence of his constituents. That
the same may be said of him at the expiration
of his term we have no doubt.