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Year: 1860

The RACES. We look for the rainy wealth.
sr to clear up soon. If it does, the track at
the Mnrysyille Park will be in fine order for
the races next week. A good deal of blooded
stock is already here, and more will come.
The Park has been fitted up in a superb
style. An elegant stand has been built for
the ladies, so that they may not be jostled or
disturbed by the crowd, as they look at the
races. Mr.. 0Hanlon is ar experienced hand
at experimenting places and occasions of this
character, and he will make the Park, not
only during the races, but hereafter and at
all times delightful spot to drive to- lie
has already made it the best race ground in
the State
Year: 1860

WHILE Elder Knapp was preaching recent
iy, in Boston, some remarks which fell from
him displeased certain people in his audience,
and during prayer these uttered some un-
seemly expressions of disapprobation there
was prospect Of general tumult, but the
superintendent of the hall shut off the gas
and subdued the crowd bY darkness
Year: 1860

A LARGE party of business men at San
San Francisco not yet connected with any
company at washoe, are making arrange
ments to leave for the land of silver in few
days. According to the Gazette, they will
take with them very large amount of capi
tai
Year: 1860

MUNIFloENT GIFr.-The Telegram under
stands that it is the intention of the men,
bers of the recently dsbanded Sansome Hook
and Ladder Company, San Francisco to do
nate their building for the benefit of the
Protestant Orphan Asylum of that city.
Owing to the generosity of Mr. Lick, the
ground on which the building stands is also
the property of the company and they will
thus be enabled to make their gift complete
in its munifeence.
Year: 1860

We write to the music Of the rain. We
cannot exactly keep time to its rhythm on
the roof or its patter on the pane, but its in.
lluenee is so much upon us. that we feel, at
this moment no inspiration whatever from
any other theme. As we look forth, through
the window, in vague search, as it were,
for some floating thought that may be abroad
in the ether, we see but the elean-washed
roofs aud the dancing drops, hali-golden, ns
they sift through the struggling rays of the
sun; for the heaven is bright, despite the
clouds We hear, too, the incessaut shower
Of the bursting crystals overhead; and We
cannot disconnect our thoughts from the
rain. With each drop, distinct and indiyid
ual as it is, seems TO come memory or n
by gone dream. How they throng upon us
from the depths Of the past What form is
this that bends over US, with a loving look
from out those tender eyes, and a fall of raven
hair, threaded with gray like midnight
cloud that is riven by the glances Of the
moon? Alas, it is vision of the by-gone
times-those eyes are dust, and she, who
wore that silver-threaded midnight hair, is
a thing of vaguest mystery to us lost in the
unknown and the unseen. A memory OF
boyhoOd and of budding youth, being kind
and loving, patient, forbearing, good; but
she is gone. How melancholy are the whis,
pers of the rain, Of those far distant graves
that cover what was dear and valued, beyond





all that the world can ever give again /!


What fearful remembranees, 200 sacred to be


named, are woven with those rain drops as
buried, and what dreams have we not all
mourned, that como TO us again with the
soft music Of the rhythmic rain? Have we
: trusted, and been deceived ? Have we loved
and been seorned Have we lost what we
loved ? Have We seen Joy after joy fade in
the sky of our Fate? All comes TO us again
in sad and mournful memory, as We listen to
the patter of the ram. Each one Of us has
his own peculiar sorrows and his own pc
cular joys,-spectral sorrows and spectral
joys,-eonjured from the past by the mystic,


witching melody of the rain.


How bright how beautiful arc those crys-
tai drops. as they come dancing to the
earth r What perfect emblems of stainless
purity But see them meanly mingling with
the common dust Even thus are the sweet
and innocent thoughts of our youth too
speedily debased and soiled by the rude con
tact of earthly things But, the morning
sun may exhale the drop, and recrystalize it
in the clouds and so may We, "worn by the
scofls of time" and bespattered with its foul
ness, find ourselves repurifed in another and
a better sphere.


Thus ramblingly have We written of the
rain--of the rain as it falls in the daylight,


making the day look mystical but there is
a sweeter music and softer meaning in the
rain at night, the which true poet has SO
well embodied in his verse, that we here
quote his words, and leave them to conclude
our article
Year: 1860

WHERE YOU WILL FIND EVERY WISH
w gratined,
Where your rooms are always neat and clean
where your Beds are always soft and sweet
Where the Table is furnished with the st in the
ket.


where the Culinary Department is clean and whole


some,


where you will find the servants always polite.
where you will feel perfectly at home,
where every wish is anticipated and gratified.
Where you live better than at any other Hotel.
where your bill you will always find satisfactory.
Where you will find first class Hotel,
Where their charges are most favorable.
Such Hotel you will find


THE INTERNATIONAL,
On jackson ST, above Montgomery,


JOHN J. HALEY, PROPRIETOR.
me International Coach and Carriage will always
'' a.od ~ 1esuness s to convey you to the Hotel.
Year: 1860

DIED SuDDENLY.-A young man named G
Nj. Odell, lately employed in the Office o
the County Recorder, was found dead in hi
bed yesterday morning. in room in tn,
Western House, where he had been boarding
The watchman of the house, being up to
awake passengers for the morning stage,
heard him coughing and struggling for
breath, and tried to get into his room, but
the door was locked and he could not enter.
Hearing no more noise, he awaited the COM
ing of daylight and then went to Seholrs
gunsmth shop and obtained an instrument
with which he opened the door. Odell was
found lying across the bed, with one foot on
the floor as if in the act of trying to get up,
and with his mouth bloody. There was also
some blood on the bed The undertaken
having arrived, he turned the body over and
considerable quantity of blood gushcd out
from the mouth and nostrils. The young
man had been for some time sick with the
consumption, and it was evident that he had
had died from sudden hemorrhage of the
lungs He was buried yesterday afternoon
Year: 1860

From HONEY LAKE VALLEY--A CORES
pondent of the PlumOs Standard, writing
from Richmond, Honey Lake Valley, April
Goth, says;


There is strong tide of immigration pour
ing into the Black Rock country this spring
and the majority Of those going seem san
guine of success in the new silver mines. Ii
is estimated that there are over 1000 person:
in the Black Rock country and on their way
thither


There is considerable mining going on
here; the diggings paying very good wages
Several companies are prospecting the quartz
ledges, recently discovered near this place,
which promise to prove of infinite value to
the mining interests of this section.


at meeting held at Richmond, on the
18th inst, Commissioners were appointed to
survey and locate a wagon road from Indian
Valley to Honey Lake Valley via Lights
Canon The work will be prosecuted with
vigor, and by the Fourth of July next will be
ready for travel


There is a great deal of improvement going
on here; everybody is building, and lumber
is in great demand Grain and produce, of
every description, is very high.
Year: 1860

from which mankind suffer over large part of
the globe, is the consequence of diseased action
In the system, induced by the poisonous miasm OF
vegetable decay. This exhalation la evolved by
the action of solar heat wet SOIL and rises with
the watery vapor from it. While the sun is below
the horizon this vapor fingers the earth's sur
face, and the virus il taken with IL through the
lungs into the blood There ii acts as AN irritating
poison the internal vscera and excre.ing organs
Of the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
secrete not only this virus but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
in the circulation and produce violent constitu-
tonal disorder The spleen. the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathize with the liver and become
disordered also. Finally, the instinct OF our or
ganism, as IL in an attempt to expei the noxious


infusion, concentrates the whole blood of the body


In the internal excretores to force them To cast ii
out. The blood leaves the surface. and sTushes TO
the central organs with congestive violence. This
is the CaILI. But In this effort IL fails. Then the
FEVER follows in which the blood leaves the CEN
tral organs and rashes to the surface, as ii in
another effort to expel the irritating poison through
that other great excretory - the skin. In tins
also IL fails, and the system abandons the attempt
exhausted and waits for the recovery of strength
to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
are the fits or paraxysms of FEWER AND AGuR.
Such constitutional disorder viii of UNDER
mine the healta II 1t is not removed.


We have labored TO find, and have found, an
antidaaa s
Year: 1860

QUAuFIcAIoNs FOR Success AT THE BAR.
Can you live alone? Can you keep awav
from temptation in the midst of forced idle
ness, or can you create occupation for your
self? Can you live for years without the
daily solace of household affections Can
you bear up against trial and sorrow with
out aid or Sympathy Can you sit patiently
for years in court or chambers, and see young
er men passing your Can vou bear to see
inferior men succeed, when you, man of
talent, have never been afforded an opportu-
nifty :? Can you 60 on believing, until you
are grey-headed, "that there is a good time
coming, wait little longer ?" Can you do
all this without becoming intemperase, bitter,
soured, or misanthropical? Ifyou can do
all this, YOU may safely go to the bar, for
with such qualities you might conquer an
empire, Nevertheless, career at the bar
will try YOU in all these points; and a rare
man you will be indeed, if you pass through
the ordeal without some marks ofthe fire.
Year: 1860

ESfRAGT.-The true gentleman is Gods
servant, the worlds master, and his own
man virtue is his business, study his recre-
aEon, contentment his rest, and happiness
MS reward God is his father, the church is
his mother, the saints his brethren, all that
need him his friends devotion is his chap.
lain, charity his chamberlain, sobrety his
butler, temperance his cook, hospitality his
houSekeeper, Providence his steward, charity
his treasurer, piety his mistress ofthe house,
and discretion his porter, to let in or out, as
most fit. This is his whole family, made
up of virtues, and he is the true master OF
the house. He is necessitated to take the
world on his way to heaven, but he walks
through it as fast as he { N, and all his bust
ness by the way is to mas Q himself and Others
happy. Take him in two words-a man
anda christian.
Year: 1860

An anxious parent who has just finished
whipping child three years old Now
my child, 1 hope you will be good, so
that will not have to whip you any
more"


Child-'If you have to whip any one, you
had better whip one of your size"
Year: 1860

Corns may be easily cured The most
torturlng corn can at once be extirpated as
follows; Take sharp knife, find the joint
OF the toe whereon the corn resides, insert the
knife in the articulation, pry off the toe and
throw it away; twill never return again
unless your dog brings it back to you in his
mouth. Patent applied for 70 @
Year: 1860

Don't make up your mind about any
creature in belt ribbon and velvet rosetts
without arst.asking your sisters advice
Depend upon it, one woman can read an
other better in five minutes than ycu can in
live years
Year: 1860

a man in passion is like Vesuvius in
an vomiting forth flames and red
hot stones, which descend immediately into
its own bosom, till chance directs it over the
crater, TO deal destruction to Others"
Year: 1860

duty, and the knowledge of having done 50
was all the reward she asked. However. she
finally accepted the money ard said it should
go to educate her children.


The railroad company built her a new
house, gave her and her children a life pass
over the road, and ordered all trains to stop
and let her off at home when she wished -
But the employees needed no such orders :;
they can appreciate all such kindness-morc
than the directors themselves.


The old lady frequently visits my house
at Il, and she is at all times welcome
visitor at my fireside. Two of the children
are attending school at the same place.


So you may see that little kindness cost
me nothing and saved my life.--Eechaage.
Year: 1860

her glance met mine, and felt. rather than
saw that she perceived my admiration. was
gratifed, for, slight as 1t was, a kind of link
seemed formed between us.


Before the ballet was over they rose to 20.
and L hurried out to take nv place ON the
stairs. As she passed me, I thrilled at the
toucn OF her dress, and was bewildered by the
full blaze Of her beauty.


quietly L followed, and saw her handed to
ner carriage. She had not taken her seat,
when the horses started. Her arm, outstrctched
to save herself from falling, crashed through
the window, and saw the blood squirt out in
dark jets. An artery was cut.


l sprang forward.


"I am a surgeon" cried; "I can stop the
bleeding for the present, but drive home as
quickly as possible" .


No one resented my tone of authority, and
the carriage wheeled away with us A hand
kerchicf and q Brobdignag, silver pepholder
(des gned to look PROFESSIONALISM cscrfptions
and memOranda) formed temporary substi-
tute for tourniqUet. With the pressure of nv
thumb on the injured vessel, it sufficed to stop
the flow.


BY the gas light / could Just see that she
leant back and closed her eyes as if faint.


Are you suffering! How does your arm feel
now" | asked gently.


L had almost dreaded to hear her speak, but
ner voice was music itself as she replied, my
it,"


Well it might, for the touch of that soft
smooth arm was sending the blood coursing
through my veins at fever speed


Soon, oh : how soon, we drew up before the
hotel Clinging to my arm she assembled the
stairs. had stopt by the way at the shop of
achemist L knew, and had procured all that
was necessary. Quickly the wound was dressed,
Tor 1t was a clean cut presenting no difficulty


Then after laying my card on the table,
bowed myself from the room, saying that l
would call again in the morning. If I had re-
manned a moment longer must have COM
mitted some folly.


TO BIZ CONTINUED.
Year: 1860

Our readers will ember the late fatal accident that
occurred q. the voks Garden, by which one OF the
female performers ramcd LarnGttc lost her life BY being
burned Ter clothes having taken fire while she was per-
forming the tight rope Tho proprietors Of tho Vcks
Garden intend to give benefit to night for the purpose
Of relieving her mother whose sole support she was
Several persops have volunteered their services for the
OCCASION and sincerely trust that the charitable win
respond 10 the CALL The particulars will be found in
amusement columns.
Year: 1860

G5-It Is a curious fact that in the gram.
mar of politics, that when statesman get
into place, they often become oblivious Of
their antecedcnls, but are seldom lorgetful
OF their relatives.
Year: 1860

The Cashmere goat is raised in Tennessee
Its weight in silver offered and declined few
days since for the old goat himself The blood with
one quarter mix produces wool worth eight dollars
per pound.
Year: 1860

Petitions are in circulation in Massachusetts,,
praying the Governor to call an extra session of
the Legislature, to take action to the alarming
disease now prevailing among the cattle in some
narts of that State
Year: 1860

THE GROWING CRoPs.-We publish the following
extract from letter received from an extensive
and intelligent farmer of Washington county, Md:


81 presume you have heard ere this that the hv
IS injuring great deal of wheat in this county in-
deed, never saw them so numerous, and il the
weather was not so favorable to the growing wheat
there would be no telling the consequences. We
have variety Of reports the subject, and in
some localities they said to be so destructive
that whole fields are eaten up. | think, however,
that the reports are exaggerated"
Year: 1860

MINE TO BE sPRUNG.-The Sacramento
Bee thinks that jeff Davis is about to spring
a mine on Judge Douglas. 1t says:


Not long since the Democratic Senators
proposed and discussed series of resolutions
relative to the slavery question and which
rmhody the same principle or policy insisted
upon at Charleston by the seceders


They were agreed upon in Democratic Sen.
atorial caucus, but it wns concluded not to
press them on the Senate until after the
Charleston Convention, lest such action might
distract its councils And so they remain to
he called up at any time. Now then, to force
Douglas to vote upon them is to slaughter
him politically. so far as the psesent cam
raign is concerned If he vote for them it
kills him with the North. and he could not
carry a single free State and if he vote
against them it is destruction in the South.
aud he could not carry more than four or five
if any, of the Southern States. Well, jeff
Davis intends to call up these resolutions and
force Douglas to vote upon them or dodge
behind one OF the glazed doors-and thus
accomplish by a legislative trick, the defeat
of man who could not be put down before
the representatives of the entire party in
national caucus assembled We do not think
that they will catch Douglas in the trnp-he
is too smart for them,he will not keep his Sc t
IN the Senate if this lie their game and in
this way he will evade a vote or an open.
palpaple dodge. But if he must vote on
this subject, his only safety is in voting mo "


And he aoiH vote "no. of that the Bee
can rest assured-though the heaven and
earth should knock together. But. it is a
little singular that the Bee should attach so
much Importance to his vote on those Davis
Resolutions in the Senate. Why should he
he afraid of them ? He has already voted
against them. in the Senatorial caucus, and
is thereby fully committed on the subject.
Certainly nothing is to be gained by "dodg-
ing" in thr Senate The charge of disposi-
tion to dodge, on the part of Judge Douglas
sounds strangely. He is a man who has 81
! emphatically, time after time, and occasion
after occasion, planted himself upon the
platform upon which he stands. and avowet
| his determination to stand there, whether il
victory or defeat, that he could not now pos
sinly dodge" even if he desired to. Ha(
his deposition been to dodge" he woul,
never have placed himself in the position i,


which he now is He is as fully committet &c
against the Davis Resolutions now as he ev-


er could be, under any circumstances what


ever He desires to be committed agains


them, and he will stand or fall upon the doe


trne of on-Intervention.
Year: 1860

WHERE YOU WILL FIND EVERY WISH
w gratiaed, "''4'
Where your rooms are always neat and clean.
Where your Beds are always soft and sweet
Where the Table is furnished with the st in the mar


ket
where the Culinary Department is clean and Who'll e.


some,
Where you will find the servants always polite.
Where you will feel perfectly at me,
Where every wish is anticipated and gratified.
where you live betterthan at any other Hotel,
where your bllyou will always find satisfactory.
Where you will find a first class Hotel,
Where their charges are most favorable.
Such Hotel you will find


THE INTERNATIONAL,
On Jackson St, above Montgomery.


JOHN J. HALEY, PROPRIETOR.
The International Coach and Carriage will always
DC IN ~ readiness to convey you to the Hotel
ap29- 3m is
Year: 1860

TExAs.-We have information of the most
cheering character from citizen of Texas Just
arrived here from that State He assures us
that the disunionists are as really feeble there,
as they are noisy. That old patriot, Governor
Houston, is moving like an aroused lion, to
put down the nullifers, and is everywhere rally.
ing the people to his support.
Year: 1860

WINTER QUARTERs.-The ambassadors from
South Carolina have hired a house in Franklin
row. This is going into winter quarters as if
for long negotiation. Manfestly, nothing is
to be done in hurry.
Year: 1860

Ihe employmentso OF mankind-what
weary, inane, monotonous things they
are. l mi ght descant upon The in.
Vulnerable loathsome cmployments
which must exist upon the earth. But
l abhor extremes, and my arguments
will be stronger, if keep to the more
favored occupations in which men en-
|ploy themselves. Let us begin with
the learned professions. Year after
year the lawyer proceeds with his
wearisome round of nice caviling, dex-
terous sophistry weaving, or dull YER
b:age spinning. The greater part of
his knowledge has no basis i'll nature,
and would be swept away at once if
men were wiser and more reasonable
than they are. The divine has wider
and deeper career, but it is always
comprehended within very narrow
limits, and it is Very dangerous for
him to think out anything Of his own.


The man of medicine, whose doings,
| must admit, have or ought to have,
some basis in nature, is also, for the
most part slave to routine, and the
sneer of Voltaire is not without some
truth, even in this age, that the physi-
clan is zone who pours drugs of
which he knows little, into a body Of
which he knows less.'' Then take
the soldier and the sailor. Their pro-
fessions seem to the young and thonght-
less very glorious, but to the rest of the
world they appear a hideous necessity.


And anything more, dull, formal and
uninteresting than the greater part of
their career can not we'll be imagined.
At least, so they are pleased to tell
us themselves, and sec no reason


whatever for doubling their word.-
The. trader, the artisan, the laborer,
the clerk, have each very narrow
sphere to act in. For. the most. part
they soon learn to do the best they
can i'll their respective occupations,
and ever afterwards it is mere mill
work for them. I had forgotten to
name the artist and the man Of letters.
They seem to have a very wide field
but it does not turn out TO be so wide
as we should have expected. Soon
they find out their speciality, and ever
-'-S~A"Ss~ @"Sy ~ NsOuIuS Ou dI ClIo
same thing, which they can do lit
tie better than some one else, and SO
they repeat themselves indefinitely,
until their generous patron the world
becomes tired Of their doings and of
them. Over all these various kinds
of work there comes WEAKNESS. numb-
ness and a sense of its inanity: the
wheels Of life drag heavily, and the
man as he lies down to rest, thinks with
a sigh that he hat done uotl,ing to-day,
better or more to the purpose than he
did yesterday, and that to-morrow's
occupation will be even as to-days.
There is quite as much vanity and fol-
ly in mems most serious work az IN
their lightest play and most trivial
pleasures. And as for these pleasures.
they may be disposed of in a single
sentence, by saying, as we can with
trath, that even in the most civilized
nations, men contrive to make their
pleasures as dull, Lonesome, and labo-
rious as any part of their daily task
work.-Frienels-in Council.
Year: 1860

BY N. p. WILLIS.
The shadows lay along Broadway,
Twas near the twilight tide
And slowly there lady fair


Was walking in her pride.
Alone walk'd she but viewlessly,
Walk'd spirits at her side. M
Peace charm'd the street beneath her feet,
And Honor charm'd the air
And all astir looked kind on her,


And call'd her good as fair
For all God ever gave to her


She kept with chary care.
She kept with care her beauties rare
From lovers warm and true
For her heart was cold to all but gold,
And the rich came not to WOO
But honor'd we'll are charms to sell
If priests the selling do.
Now walking there was one more fair
A slight girl, lil!y-pale
And she had unseen company


10 make the spirit quail
'Twixt Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn
And nothing could avail.
No mercy now can clear her brow
For this worlds peace to pray;
For, as loves wild prayer dissolved in air,
Her woman's heart gave way -
But the sin forgiven BY Christ IN Heaven
BY man is cursed away!