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Year: 1860

ended only with her ife--dead to him and
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But near her lay the head villain in this
appalling tragedy--the wretch, whom it
were libel on humanity to. call man-and
from wound in his low brow still oozed the
dark current of his base life A pistol,
which he had gwen to Louisa, was still
clutched in her cold hand and, though she
had perished herself--the All Seeing Eye
only knows how horribly-she had sent one
of the vile crew to his account 3D. - taol.


For one instant Benedetto was struck lit
orally dumb with horror, which may be pos
sibly imagined-neyer justly described. %


Then, with yell of rage more like that of
an infuriated beast than a human being, he
drew his heavy hunting knife, and literally
hacked the body of Champe to pieces. Then
kneeling down by. the side of his poor, muir
dercd wife, he sobbed and wept as only a
brave man can, in utter. desperation Of misery.
And then, again, the madness of fiend
seemed to possess him; for he knew that the
rest of the murderous gang yet liyed-the
marks of their great wrong were too plain to
be mistaken, in not only murder, but rob-
berry. Selling his weapons, with steps more
rapid than those of the panther on the trail
of his victim, he leaped away in the direction
Of the camp where they had dwelt. But
they were no longer there. .....-


Slowly, as if studying out some wild, deep
plan of revenge, he walked back to his desc
late home, And calmly now, he took up
her body and bore it away to the side of
crystal stream, and washed away the death
stains. And returning to the house, he
sought out her bridal garments. and dressed
her in them. And still, without sigh or
sob, or tear, he dug her grave in spot where
often they had sat beneath the shady trees.
1t was night-fall when all this had been fin
ished-but he did not pause for rest. Sc
lecting only his fayorite weapons and ammu-
milton, but taking nothing else from the
house, he set it on fire, and in the light Of
its blaze he departed on his mission of re-
venge.


And terribly was that mission fulfilled, as
the records of California will show. No mi
ner was safe in the mines and diggings for
leagues and leagues around the Sierra Ne
vada. He never touched their gold-all he
sought was life, and that with all the cum
ming and ferocity of the tiger. Not one of
all who had followed Champe to his lone hut
escaped him; and many another fell, whose
fate, perchance, has never been learned by
those most interested. After years of sue
cess, at last hunted down by those who were
induced to the risk by large rewards, Bene-
detto was slain, and his head carried to San
Francisco. The bandit of the mines was at
rest
Year: 1860

A HOT shovel held over vanished furniture,
will take out white spots.


A bit of glue dissolved in skim milk and water,
will restore old Grape.


Ribbons Of any kind should be washed in cold
soap suds, and not rinsed.


If your fiat irons are rough, rub them with
fine salt, and it will make them smooth.


Oat straw is the best for filling beds. II
should be changed once a year.


If you are buying a carpet for durability,
choose small figures. ......


A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges of doors,
will prevent their creaking.


Scotch snuff put on the holes where crickets
come out will destroy them.


Wood ashes and common salt wet with wat
or, will stop the cracks of a stove, and prevent
the smoke from escaping


A gallon of strong lye put in barrel Of water,
will make it as soft as rain water.


Half cranberry bound on corn will soon
hiA ~
Year: 1860

The most important lesson Of life is to know
how to be happy with ourselves when home is
our comfort and all in it Do not define away
happiness by thinking that which is good may
be better
Year: 1860

AK Ia CHAPELLE.--A drunken cuss named
Chapel brutally mauled his wife on Tuesday
The officers brought him before Justice Smith,
who put end to the war by treaty of peace,
the conditions of which were that Chapel should
60 to different kind of jug for time in de-
fault of cash to pay fine of fifteen dollars.
Year: 1860

COUNTY FISAScEs.-John S. Lambert, County
Auditor, has just made his quarterly report,
from which document we are able TO give many
gratifying statistical facts touching the county
debt


1t appears that the county is walking out of
debt at a rapid pace and if the past is criteri-
on of the future, we may safely calculate that in
three or four years at most the last dollar of the
county Indebtedness will be iquidated. During
the last year more than thirty thousand dollars
of the debt has been paid The total debt of
the General Fund at the present time as given
by the County Audt-r is Sll2,S5S 7S. In 1855
the debt of the county was given q. SlG1 ,97S IS
1t will be seen by these figures that the debt is
rapidly being paid,


The last of tho bonds issued for building the
Court House are extinguished, and the special
tax levied for the purpose of meeting those
bonds and paying the interest upon them, ceases.
This produces a reduction in the rate of taxa.
tion of 2j cents each hundred dollars, and
unless some other object needs furtherance,
taxes will be lesscned to that extent. But it is
found that the INDECENT Sick Fund is deficient,
and common schools seem to demand more as
sstanee from the county. The Board of Super
visors, we learn from the ncmocrat5 will meet
on Mondag, the 3lst instant, to consult about
the best mode of extricating the Indigent Sick
Fund from its embarrassment and also in re
gard to the demands Of common schools.
Year: 1860

Henry Ward Beocher, on recent occasion,
said


The articles of the press go farther than the
sermon, and carry with them really more weight,
certainly where one hears three, which is an
abomination before God and man. No preach.
er that is fit to preach sermon is fit to preach
more than one a day, and mau is ft to hear
more, or, if he does, he is not fit for much else.
Sermons are like boys pop guns, however many
wads You put in, it's the last wad that drives
the others out
Year: 1860

MORE BEEs.-Mr. Isaac Bird, Of San jose.
brought a dozen hives of bees to this city for
sale few days since. Mr.. Bird is reliable
gentleman and those wishing to purchase viii
be safe in making a trade with him. His bees
ne in the celebrated Langstroth patent hives
and may be seen at the residence of the Rev.
Drinrlr.
Year: 1860

DEPARTED.-We regret to say that Col. John
I. Crenshaw, citizen of this county from an
early period, left Tuesday morning for his
old home in Tennessee. with the intention of
remaining among his kindred. Gel Crenshaw
is well known throughout the State as an un-
compromising Democrat aud far better as an
honest man. In 1853 he represented Nevada
county in the Assembly, and was elected to the
Senate in the Fall of the same yead. He served
IN the Senate two years when he retired, but
was considerably talked of as a candidate for
Congress, His party, however bestowed the
Office to which he aspired on men of less ac-
count, and Cronshaw became practitioner of
law in this city, but only for short time, as he
was appointed postmaster in this place in 1857,
since which time his familiar face might be seen
in that institution almost up to the day of his
departure.


1t is not too much to say Of the Colonel since
he is gone, that as postmaster no gentleman
could be more accommodating and polite, rs
Legislator though an answering partisan, few
have been as honest, and as a man no one could
be moro kind hearted and generous to the extent
of his means. We are sincerely sorry to par
with the Colonel and we know the majority o.
the entire community is in similar mood.
Year: 1860

HE NORTH AND SoUTH-The CORES
pondent Of the Charleston Mercury thinks
there are in New York at least lO, 900 poor
people who would be happy to swap places
with southern slaves. All they want in
the world IS plenty 10 eat, decent clothes,
aud reasonable amount If labor, and that
any kind Southern master would insure
them. During one week 6OOO persons
applied TO the Almshouse Office for pit.
tances of money and coal Most of them
would work if they could. but they cannot
get anything to do, or are too sick to do il.
The cnly Liberty" that sucn po.r crea-
lures have any practical knowledge of, is
the liberty to freeze and starve, and the
only slavery. slavery to pinching want
Year: 1860

Advantages the fair sex posses ses over
man.


woman says what she chooses with
out being knocked down for il.


She can take snooze after dinner
while her husband goes To work.


She can 60 into the street without be-
ing asked To treat at every saloon.


She can paint her face If it is too pale
and powder it if it is too red.


She can stay at home in time Of war,
and get married again if her hausband is
killed,


She can wear corsets if too thck-other
tixings if too Thin.


She can eat, drink. and be merry, with
ou. costing her cent.


She can get divorced from her husband
whenever she sees one she likes better.


She can get her husband in debt all
over. until he warns the public. by adver-
tisements, not TO trust her on his account.
Year: 1860

A sourH Carolina paper notices tho
death OF mule. whose age was known
with certainty to be sxty-two years at the
time OF his death. Such an instance Of
longevity is without parallel.
Year: 1860

looks joyfully heavenwnrd. Here a man
stands 10 shuckles, yet radiant with Joy
Truly Cicero would say, Who are these and
whence come they and the only answer
could be, "These are they that have come
out'Of greet tribulation, having washed their
robes and mSde them white in the blood OF
the Lamb O.


The summit of this splendid building is
crowned with the image of her who was
pronounced blessed among women-yet che
was poor and lowly ,and her best beloved died
the cruel death of the vilest criminal. All
these have sufered--and through suffering
entered into glory, and this splendid building
stands a majestic witness of the change that
the life and death OF Jesus have made In the
world. -..


1t seems fitting that there should be so
glorious shrine, so beautiful a record Of so
glorious a life and death, and no country is
so fair spot for its existence as Northern
Italy. Never were nature and art so majes.
ticaiIy married by religion in so worthy q
temple. Never shall forget that solemn
evenng-that temple throbbing and pulsa
ting with the majestic chant within, and the
silent assembly of Spotless, sanity figures
bright with the rays Of evening-,he distant
rosy Alps. Itwas worth many days of com
mon life. H. B. s.
Year: 1860

or An old author says: "Prayer is the
rope in the belfry--we pull it, and ring the
bell up In Heaven; and SO 1t 10. Keep that
bell moving. Pull 1t well, and, though the
bell is up SO high that you cannot hear II
ring, depend upon it, it can be heard in the
tower of Heaven, and is ringing before God
who will send answers Of peace according
to your faith"
Year: 1860

Ctr Melancholy is another name FOR
tough. We care not how imaginative man
may be, let him eat two picked pigs feet
and he will feel as inanimate as asack OF
Goals. What we often, think 10 mind 10 hall
the time gristle.
Year: 1860

THE OIL MASUFACTURE.-The number of
coal oil mpanies and firms IN this country is
said TO be fifty seveh the works beipg princi-
paily situated in New York city and Boston, in
The valleys of the Ohio and its ibutaries.-
Besides these there are a number OF small coal
oil works in Philadelphia, Baltimore and some
of the Western cities, owned by Individuals
The quantity of coal oil produced is estimat ted
at 10000 gallons per day, or nine millions per
annum, worth about 20 cents per gallon, or
over six millions OF dollars in the aggregate
The capital expended in coal oil works and
camel coal mining is estimated st four mill
lions. about one-fitth of which has been invest
ed in the Kanawha valley alone. This Is in
dependent of the petroleum or oil wells which
continue to shed their liquid treasures in album
dance. Fears had long been entertained that
the whale species might become extinct, and
thus the world be obliged 10 progress the best
way II could without fabrication; but the oil
wells and the oil manufactures promise sup


ply adequate TO all our wasis. Already the
persons employed in this new department OF
industry may be numbered by thousands.
Year: 1860

JuDGE LYNCH IN KANsAs.--At an early
hour yesterday morning a man named Joh n
Shear, was found with a rope round his neck
hung 10 the limb Of a tree, near the Platte
river, about a mile and q half above this city.
When the body was discovered lite was ex =
tinct. The rope by which the unfortunate
man was uspended was passed over the limb
and one end made fast to a stump, sticking fast
to which was a small scrap of paper with the
following words written on il In pencil
This man was hung, IT was proven that he is
horse thief"


As soon as the facts were known to United
States Deputy Marshal Middaugh, he forth
with summoned a jury, the body was cut
down and an inquest held Shear had resided
in this vicinity for sometime and last winter
was concerned in keeping the vasquez House
in the city. 1t appears from letters found in
his pocket, that he has wife living in Michi-
gan. On saturday night last he was stepping
at me Parks House, aud at a late hour after
ne hau fetlrPd TO rest, some person-Whom we
90 not knoW-came and desired TO see him
lie was informed of the fact ty the propriet Tor, ,
ana came down stairs partially dressed and
conVersed for some time in q low tone with
nis visitor. He then went back up stairs,
finished dressing, and the two left the house
togetneri since which time we have no infOr-
nation OF the whereabouts of Shear, until he
was found hanging as above described. Sus-
picion had rested on Shear OF being connect ted
with others in horse stealing. There are VA
rlons conjectures respecting his fate. Some
lhinking that he was thus executed AS pun
ishment for his alleged crimes, and others that
IL was done by some Of his confederates,
through fear that he might be led to confes
sions that would implicate them.--Rocky
Mountain Herald.
Year: 1860

RsaIizin the Etscts.-But few days have
passed since vessels were permitted 10 enter
The western section OF the dock, and yet the
margin on both sides is literally covered with
lumber and plaster-thus showing that the
Improvement is one thatwas IN uch needed, and
that it would give vast deal of room on the
east section for the discharge and receipt of
grain and other merchandise. If the las Sec
tion is devoted exclusively to lumber and
plaster vessels, and to canal boats, 1t will
prove Of great convenience TO other shipping
Year: 1860

Rabbid Dogs.-Yesterday morning a vicious
looking dog, believed by many to be suffering
with the raobies, was kiiled on the western
suburbs OF the city, IN the neigh borhood of the
Fair Grounds. II the stray ours that prowl
the streets by day and night were to get the
hvdrophobia among them, and each dog were
to bite one man. there would not be voter left
TO tell me tale IN less than a month. Almost
every day We hear or read of some one in
other places, dying with hydrophobia, and yet
our city fathers refuse to take warning and
adoptsome effectual me thod for the riddance of
aoss mat make the highways their home. At
this season of the year no dog ought to be al
lowed to go into the streets without first being
securely muzzted, and the city could well af-
1ord 70 pay a fair price for the scalps of all
tnat are found at large. good dog snould be
highly priced by his owner but every dog
In the State had better he killed than one hu-
man life should be sacrificed
Year: 1860

At last tie old woman and girl exchanged
glances, and expected they we're going to
break the spell, but they didn't / began to
twist and screw about on my chair like it was
hot, now and then glancing alternately at the
females, then out at the door and back again,
then leaning back and forward like was try
ing to leave my scat and couldn't. | had sat
there so long without saying any thing that
j knew the first word from me would be
like n clap of thunder to them. | mustered
up powerful resolution determined to give
them one clap anyhow. began to get mad
that had played mum so long, and just then
i thought of the weather, and felt like |
could discuss its gioominess--and at II I
'twdbS. throwed myself back in my chair,
looked out at the door, then at the female
women" brushed the hair on my lip and
chin, and said don't believe it's ever erer
g6in' to Gle 9 ar off any moo re The
old woman let her pipe slide out of her
mouth, and she and her girl looked round,
then at each other, then laughed big ! felt
like an iceberg had been rolled on my heart,
and picked up--nO, my hat had been on my
bead ali the time, and left there quick AS
| retra%eI my steps | studied which they
laughed at most, my long silence, or shaggy
! face, and concluded it was the latter No
doubt they thought | had met with a varmint
+ on my way and swallowed it, leaving the tip
/ OF It's tail hanging out of my mouth


/ My first time out taught me an important
! lesson, viz: to wait for years and nature to
make me man. | learned too the art of
turning jokes and blundcrs a little better
than most of my acquaintances, which, in
some localities, gave me the name of


TOM SLICK
Year: 1860

Be early alive to your need of Christ and
of his precious blood. Young ones need that
blood as well as old.


BE early awake to the love of Christ. Let
that love come into your heart from your car
hest days. Nothing else will make you hap
py-


BE carly holy. Begin soon to seek to be
unlike this present evil world and be like the
world to cone, and like the glorious King OF
that blessed world.
Year: 1860

N HIs medicine uDequAed for Diarhes Dysentsrry And
y other disorders OF like nature In Of RlOoaV
Elux, it unequalled The Board Of Health Of New YoTf
and the Imperial Hospital St. Peersburk both report that
most reliable agent in all the early Cholera No
should De without It, in the hour where young children
liable to suffer from the effects Of eating fruit
dy must then be apped-no time to wait the Doctor


This medicine be relied and the price is only 50 CENTS
enough to take care OF whole family for whole


mayI7 MACKENZIE r. MTNCHTN
Year: 1860

Enclose the address for what vishto
purchase the Lottery il which you wish invested, and
whether you wish Whoes Halves Quarters or Eght on
receipt Of which, send what erde By first nA together
with the scheme


Immediately after the drawing, Printed Drawing certified to
by the COMMISSIONER will be sent, with Explanation


Purchasers will please write their signatures piain and
give the Of their Post Office, County and State


Accommodation strictly confidential.


All prizes OF S0o0 and under, raid Immediately after the
drawing Other prizes at the usual time Of 40 days
Year: 1860

BY JESSIE ANTHoN
Did you ever have cousin, Will?


Was your cousin laughing girl,
With rosy lip and brow of snow,


That was shadowed by many a curl
Did you ever take ride, Will


With that cousin, some frosty night
When your heart beat time to the musical bells
As your steed few feet and light?
You tuck her up in the buffalo robes,


And away DER the moonlit snow
And If you should chance to kiss her. Will,
1t was all a mistake, you know
But you are only her cousin, Will,


And there's not bit of harm
And then if you happened to take her hand,
1t was only to keep it warm
Did your cousin ever sing to you, Will,
With voice like wildwood bird,
Some olden song so thrilling and sweet,
Which your hearts warm pulses stirred.
And where did you ind yourself, viii,
Ere the song was half complete
l wonder if 'twasn't where I once was,
Bowed low at that cousin feet
While you murmured a tale of love. VIII,
And she paused from her song, to hear
And then did her musical laugh ring out,
So silvery-yoiced and clear
They may talk to me Of their sisters, VIII,
Of the maiden we love, or wife
But while Eve voice for a toast, WILL
Our cousins I'll sing for life.
Year: 1860

A singular phenomenon in the natural his
tory of Ceylon is the appearance of full grown
fishes in places which few days before had
been incrusted with hardened clay and Sir
Emerson Tenant entertains the hypothesis
that these fishes possess the faculty of burying
themselves in The mud like crocodiles. Some
species of fish in Ceylon are. greatly addicted
to travel by land ike those Sir John Bowring
observed in Siam ascending the banks of the
river, and losing themselves among the trees
Of the jungle. There is perch which n ay be
encou: terel even On hot and dusty roads and
which has bte1 said to climb up trees.
Year: 1860

The dwelling house of an old sea cap
tain in Saybrook CT. was entered By burglares
few nigbts since, when no one was in the
house, but his wife and couple of infant
children. She met them at the door with
revolver in hand and told them if they
advanced one step they were dead men. They
lo9ke1 at her ard consulted together few
minutes, and then sneakad away As Mr.
Toodles would say, Such a. woman IS
HANDY to have In the house"
Year: 1860

On this subject recent writer says:


Among the latest of these inventions is
the monster gun cast for our government
at the Fort Pitt Iron Works and about to
be tested at Monroe. It is decidedly the
g great gun % of the army, and believed to
be the largest piece of cannon in the world.
1t was cast on new principle and is en-
circled by two large iron bands six feet in
diameter and one foot broad, which act as
wheels, the gun being the axle. Its weight
is 49, 099 pounds, its bore fifteen inches in
diameter, and about IA feet long, having
capacity of sixteen bushels. A stout
shouldered MAI can easily enter it and
pass down to the bottom


As a compliment to this new gun some
one in England has invented new kind of
gunpowder, which is said to be less dan
gerous than ordinary powder, produces We
ry little smoke, and that of less pungent
kind than usual. This article must grow
in favor with those who, like Hotspur's
courtiers, dislike the smell of tvillainous
saltpeter."


But, better still, Sir Macdonald Ste
phenson, proposes to supersede gunpowder
altogether! He is engaged upon new
mortar which is to discharge shot by the
application of high pressure steam to be
the projection of great centrifugal velocity.
Ten or more shots can be discharged for
every single discharge of the ordinary
mortar, A rotary steam engine is employ
ed to impart nigh centrifugal force to a
cyllinder, of about seven feet diameter,
and pass down the arms or spokes to the
periphery, where they are retained by an
apparatus which is regulated to release
thom at the precise time required. This
IS revolver with vengeance
Year: 1860

IMPROVING New York E'Ueniing
Post says Extraordinary buoyancy on
the Stock Exchange is the order of the
day. The speculative list is very active
and prices are again higher. The volume
of business is fast assuming proportions
which, in point of animation and elasticity,
promise to exceed all the movements of
the past three years, not excepting the
large advance attending the recoil from
the panic of 1851"
Year: 1860

As the grand campaign Of the Democracy
against the Republican Party, with the prize of
the Presidency in view, is at hand, and as the
contest will be long, strong and bitter one, and
as the NATIONAL DEMocRAr will sustain the Dem
ocratic Flag by whomsoever borne, so that he be
the legitimate nominee Of the Party, we deem II
fttiug time, to call upon the friends of the Demo
cratic cause throughout the country to come to
our support. The larger the circulation of our
Weekly in the interior. the more shall we be able
to do for the benefit the Party, and we hope to
see the friends Of Popular Sovereignty, Conservn-
tsm and the Union rally around us. They can be
assured that we shall never abandon their cause
nor betray their confidence nor prove a laggard
in the advocacy Of their principles.


The WEEKLY DEMocRAT contains in every issue
TWENTY-EIGIlT columns of reading matter, a
due portion Of which is devoted to political dis
cussion, and the rest to news, foreign and domes-
tic and to literary topics. In short, we shall en-.
deavor, as heretofore, to make the WEEKLY DEx-
ocRAT not only a staunch and reliable Political
Journal, but paper which shall be welcome to
the families and homes Of our fellow citizens.


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