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Year: 1860


But One Pair of Stockings to Mend tonight.
An old woman sat by her bright freside
Swaying thoughtfully tn and fro
In an ancient chair whose creaky crsw
Told tale of long ago;
While down by her side on the kitchen floor,
Stood basket of worsted bals-a score.
The good man dozed DER the latest news,
Till the light of his pipe went out;
And unheeded the kitten with running paws,
Rolled and tangled the balls about;
Yet still sat the wife in the ancient chair,
Swaying to and fro in the freight glare.
But anon, misty tear-drop came


In the eye of the faded blue,
Then trickled down IN . furrow deep,


Like single drop of dew;
So deep was the chsnnel-so silent the stream,
The good man saw nought but dim'd eyebeam.
Yet marvelled he much that the cheerful light
Of her eye had weary grown,
And marvelled he more at the tangled balls
So he said in gentle tone,
81 have shared thy joys since our marriage vow,
Conceal not thy SORROWS from me now"
Then she spoke of the time when the basket there
Was filed to the very brim, a





And now there remained of the goodly pile


But single pair--for him;
Then wonder not at the dimm'd eye.light-
There's but one pair of stockings to mend tonight.
cannot but think of the busy feet,


Whose wrsppings were wont to lay
In the basket, awaiting the needles time
Nor wandered so far away;
How the sprghtly steps to mother dear
Unheeded fell on the careless ear.
For each nook in the basket told


By the hearth there's an empty seat;
And miss the shadows from off the wall,


And the patter of many feet;
'Tis for this that a tear gathered over my sight
At the one pair of stockings to mend tonight.
Twas said that far through the forest wild


And over the mountains bold,
Was land whose rivers and darkening caves,
Were gemmed with the fairest gold
Then my frst-born turned from the oaken door,
And knew the shadows were only four.
Another went on the foaming wave,


And diminished the baskets store
But his feet grew cold-so weary and cold


They'll never be warm any more
And this nook in its emptiness, seemeth to me
To give forth no voice but the moan of the sea.
Two others have gone towards the setting sun,
And made them home In its light,
And fairy fingers have taken their share,
To mend by the fire side bright;
Some other baskets their garments fill
But mine! oh mine is empter still
Another-the dearest-the fairest-the best
Was taken by the angels away,
And clad in garment that waxeth not old,
In land of continual day,
o! wonder no more at the dimmed eye-sight,
While mend the pair of stockings tonight!
Year: 1860

To KEEP TIRES TIaHT ON WHEELs.-The fol-
lowing, if reliable will prove valuable. A cor
respondent of the 'Soathern Planter" says:


81 ironed q wagon some years ago for my own
use, and before putting on the tires / filed the
fellies with linseed oil and the tires have worn
out, and were never loose. l ironed buggy
seven years ago, and the tires are now as tight
as when put on. My method of filling the fell
lies with oil, is as follows: I use long, cast
iron oil heater, made for the purpose; the oil is
brought to boiling heat, the wheel is placed on
a stick so as to hang in the oil, each felly one
hour for common-sized felly.


'The timber shonld be dry, as green timber
will not take oil. Care should be taken that
the oil be not made hotter than boiling heat,
in order that the timber be not burnt. Timber
filled with oil is not susceptible to water, and
the timber is much more durable. / was anus
ed, some time ago, when l told a blacksmith
how to keep tires tight on wheels, by his telling
me it was profitable business to tighten tires,
and the wagon-maker will say it is profitable to
him to make and repair wheels, but what will
the farmer who supports the smith and wheel
right say9"
Year: 1860

A BEAUTIFUL ExTRAor.-To the majority of
men we are satisfied the soil is nothing but
dirt; but to the chemist who knows its origin,
its history, its nature and its capabilities, it is
wonderful mixture of those beautiful elements
which In their ever-varying forms, become the
ambient air, the liquid ocean, the precious opal,
the amethyst, the jasper, and the still more pre-
cious diamond or the delicate blue bell and the
violet, the smarynth, the lilly and the rosebud,
the spire of blue grass and the cedar of Lebanon;
or again the ruby lip, the matchless orb of the
love lit eye, the nobly palpitating heart and yet
more wonderful brain g


These are the jewels Of which the soil is COM
posed. and out OF which the husbandman so un-
beedingly strives to force the food his hunger
Graves. @ 9 - 4a


Henceforth, as he turns the furrow on his
field let the sleep of his thought be broken by
the reflection, this earth, thus stirred by my
plough-share, is doubtless composed in part Of
the ashes of ancestral heroes whose deeds are
the history of the past, and whose mortal re-
mains are the plastic material out of which we
are building the bodies of the men of to-day
Prof. Hoyt.
Year: 1860

A clergyman of country village desired his
clerk to give notice that there would be no SER
vice in the evening, as be was going to officate
for another clergyman. The clerk, as soon as
the service was ended, called 81 am desired
to give notice that there will be no services this
afternoon, as the pastor is going a-fshing with
another clergyman"
Year: 1860

We passed bevy of little boys on one of our
streets yesterday and heard some of them swear
ing like inebriates. 1t is dreadful to hear cur
sing and swearing from the lips of men Injured
to profanity and stepped in profigacy, but there
is painful want of nature, corrupt and bad as
it is, in such disgusting demonstration on the
part OF human beings so fresh from the creative
hand of their God. Parents who connive at
such an exhibition by allowing their children to
run at large, into bad company, are not only re-
sponsble for the violated decency of the commu-
nifty, but will be held answer ,ble to a higher
power, and their punishment will be inflicted in
the future worthlessness and degradation of their
SONS. The Good Book tells Us that, ''those who
SOW to the wind shall reap TO the whirlwind," !"
and on this authority we cannot help thinking
that some parents in this city are sure to be vis-
tied with desolate hurricane of sorrow in the
future lives of their offspring. No sensible be-
ing can deny that permitting young and impress
sible boys to roam about the streets, with every
temptation to vice and dissipation, is but poor
way to give them right character.


A MOTHERS LovE-Children, look in those
eyes, listen to that dear voice, notice the feeling
OF even q single touch that is bestowed upon
you by that gentle hand! Make much of it
while yet you have that most precious of all
good gifts-a loving mother. Read the un-
fathomable love of those eyes; the kind anxiety
of that tone and look, however slight your pain.
In after life you may have friends-fond, dear,
kind friends, but never will you have again the
iDexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon
you which none but mother bestows. Often
do sigh in my struggles with the hard, uncaring
world, for the sweet deep security felt, when
of an evening nesting to her bosom, listened
to some quiet tale, suitable to my age, read in
her tender and untiring voice. Never can for


get her sweet glances cast upon me when ap


peared to sleep; never her kiss of peace at night!
Years have passed away since we laid her beside
my father in the old churchyard, yet still her
voice whispers from the grave, and her eye
watches over me as l visit spots long since hal
lowed to the memory of my Enthusiastically.
Year: 1860

CHAPTER 1.


"How beautifully our neighbor Smith lives |"
said my wife to me one morning only three years
ago, as | was leaving for my bark mill work, my
regular round of toll, my blind horse occupation,
the daily drudgery of selling goods at retail. /
had just lett the breakfast table, and fingered on
the door steps second or two, with my good na-
ture but slightly envous of my better hall, who
could not help regrettipg that we were not able
to ride an hour after breakfast, two or three
times week, as my neighbor Smith did with
his wife. "How beautifully they livel" repeated
Mrs. Jenkins-My name is Jenkins, dear reader,
formerly known at No. 40. Buckram L ane, tape
and needle dealer.


Mrs. Jenkins had no doubt intimated this
pleasant fact to me- weekly for year, and Oa the
present occasion it was suggested by the arrival
at the moment of splendid pair of horses at
tached to an elegant pb@ton, which was to con-
vey nv neigbbor Smith and Wife to sou,e of the
beautiful and saubrious localities in the vicinity
of Trumpetville, fast business CITY less than a
thousand miles from Gotham, and famous for
luxury and fashion, and my neighbor Smith,
lucky dog, who was doing a smashing business
and getting rich, was one of its Dabobs. All! l
indeed felt as though my constant digging ought
to afford us now and then such recreations, but it
was DO use Smith Il often wondered the rich
dog did not spell his name with a W was born
under fortunate star. The fellow had every
thing to make earth paradise: rolling up mon-
ey, a fine house, to be sure he hired that, but
it was probably because he chose to keep the
cash in his business, shrewl fellow as he was,
and the house elegantly furnished, pictures OF
high cost and rare value (the rascal had capital
taste in those things) nick-nacks of virtu, good
library, and last bu, not least, refined, beauti
ful woman for q wife. All! Smith was indeed
"A man to be envied. Mrs. Smith frequently
hcnored me with her patronage, and many
snug little bill of goods have put up for her,
and to do the lady full justice, she paid me an
honest profit and cash down, but wish l could
say that Mr. and Mrs. Smith honored the plain,
unpreteDdlng jenkins, of No. 40 Buckram Lane,
with social recognition or even looked across
the street from their residence to mine in Ches-
nut Place. Alas to the modification often OF
Mrs. Jenkins, they always cut us there, clear to
he bone; they never knew US.
Year: 1860

The chids eyes are enchanted, but he does
not know it, and be believes in all that he sees.
He does not doubt the glory and the simmer of
the scenes that lie uefore him. To him the fu-
ture is not sandy desert strewed with the bones
Of dead men; it is wide spread savanna, fruit
full as the tropics, and delightful as the Elysian
plains. He gazes down the vista of life, and ev
cry phantasm seems to his ardent sight as a real
and pleasant thing. There is not pageant
looming iE the distance, there is not one of the
dissolviDg views, which hope creates and fancy
touches up to bewidering brightness, that the
child does not accept as real, and soon to be
proved so. All the prismatic views that appear
to flash across his forward path he thinks are
really Tightening it, and that he shall be touched
and requited by their radiance when once he is
there. Bright and fair is the apparent prospect
before him, and it is no wonder the Child is in
haste to get on. There is everything to lure him
freedom, plenty, sweet gardens and flowing
fountains, noble forms, smiling faces and beck
oning hands. He sees the waving of palms and
the waving of jewels; he hears the voice of
trumpet and harp. Oh! all is before hiul-on,
on, on, and on he rushes, breahlessly, to the end
of childhood, through youth, and often into
manhood, before he becomes fully aware that the
shape, complexion and mien of his phantom have
all been rapidly changing. and that what he took
for true worth and beauty is in reality no bet
ter than q raree-shOw or q mirage of the desert.
At last, grown keen-eyed by hard lessons, he
pierces through the cheat, and sees the bare and
barren seed of life.
Year: 1860

HEAT FROM TIE STARS-It is a startling
fact that if the earth were dependent alone
upon the sun for heat it would not keep cx-
istence in animal and vegetable life upon its
surface. 1t results from the researches of
Pouilct that the stars furnish heat enough
in the course Of the year to melt a crust of
ice seventy feet thick-almost as much as is
supplied by the sun. This may appear very
strange when we consider how immeasurably
small must be the amount of heat received
from any of those distant bodies. But the
surprise vauisbes when we remember that
the whole armament is thichly gemmed with
stars.
Year: 1860

A COOP BEGINNING.-A few weeks since a
colored gentleman direct from the coast of
Africa, having been in the city about two
weeks, called on Rev. Mr. Coe and applied
for permission to attend school, giving his
age as thirty years, and being able to read
most of the al phabet.


He was admitted to the Bush Street Bow S
Grammar School as mired scholar. He
has attended that school four weeks, and at
the close of the last term he was able to
read in easy reading very well for boy,
and could write his name and some other
words.


His thirst for education knows no bounds.
AS an evidence of this, he was told by his
teacher, (being an inveterate smoker) that
his smoking might hinder his learning. when
he Immediately replied, "then l knock off,
and SO he did, an example worthy of imita-
tion by some of the fast boys of New Bed
ford.-New Bedtord Macmy.
Year: 1860

A SINGULARLY PITIFUL FORGERY.-A num-
ber of papers, Democratic in politics, but
which have heretofore been considered other
wise respectable, have given circulation to
the following untrutn


The Springfield Republican, which has
probably more influence in the party than
any other paper in New England, says Re
publicanism is SO dead that, as a party, we
really lack the stimulus to healthy excite
ment."


This these papers make the text for sneer.
ing comments upon an alleged want of en-
thusiasm in the Republican party. What
the Springfield Republican did say, and will
frequently hereafter have occasion to say, is
this


"The Democratic party is 50 dead herc,and
everything but Reputlicanism is SO dead, that,
as party, We really lack the stimulus to a
healthy excitement"


A party which was reduced to so pitiful
garbling as this certainly deserved the death
which has overtaken it.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1860

rest and look over his newspaper. But the
balmy wind famed his forehead like narcotic
incense, and the sensation of dolce far ments
was inexpressibly delightful the closely
printed columns became mere confused
blur. and the first Mr. Arden knew he was
not exactly asleep perhaps, but certainly mot
very wide awake


Something carried him back to the time
when Nellie had been bride-fresh and
blooming as rose. How we'll he remem-
bered the blue light of her eyes and the sat
in brightness of her complexion. She had
grown wan and weary looking since those
days. Was it possible that he had been
lacking in care and tenderness 1t was ra-
ther an uneasy twinge of conscience, for he
did love her, rattle Drained and thoughtless
though he was.


He thought of her sitting alone through
the glorious April day bending over the
work Ee had assigned to her until the pallor
deepened on her cheek and the eyes grew
dim and lusterless-he remembered the ma
ny, many days she had spent in the same
wearysomc occupation. No wonder that she
loved the flowers whose freshness seemed to
revive her whole nature.


\ man may be very cruel to woman with
out beating her or denying her the necessi-
ties of life.


Suppose she should drift away from him
/ like delicate leaf upon a swift running
stream. He shuddered at the very idea
She was not strong enough. The time might
come when narrow grave and white head
stone would be all that remained of his little
wife. And thcn-should he not remember
all these things.


He started up from the troubled network
of fancy that had woven itself into vague
dream the sunshine lay brightly on the
floor and the fingers of the office clock point
ed to the hour at which he usually went to
dinner


The pudding was made-the coat in prime
order-the unsatisfactory shirts ripped apart
and Nellie, though pale and tired looking,
came to the door with smile to greet her
husband.


"Why Harry, what on earth have YOU got
there - she exclaimed as Mr. Arden came w
the steps staggering under the weight of two
or three blossoming geraniums and verbe-
mas which he had brought from down town
with incredible difficulty


Thought YOU would Ike some flowers fol
your garden, my dear explained lie, and
Nellie straghtway gave him a pleased
happy look, which he did not soon forget.


And now," said he, after dinner, there is
not much to do at the office to-day-suppose
YOU and devote the afternoon to garden
work. We can make the li:,le place as nea,
as a pink


20 Harry, that would be delightful" ex
claimed She with Frightening eyes, but tn,
shirts


20 no matter about the shirts, let EN- wal
Il want to see your cheeks little redder
my love-


Mrs. Arden wondered in her secret hear
what had wrought this agreeable change
she didn't know anything about her hus
bands dream.
Year: 1860

THESE Gums remove all
morbid or bad matter from
the system, supplying I'M
their place a healthy flow
of bile, invigorating the
stomach, causing food to-
digest well, purifying the
blood, giving tone and
health to the whole ma
chinery, re owing tn eI
cause of the disease-effect-
ing a radical cure.


Bilious attacks are cured,
and, what is better, preven-.
ted by the occasional use.
of the Liver Invigorator.


One dose after eating is
sufficient to relieve t h e
stomach and prevent the
food from rising and sour
ing.


Only one dose taken be-
fore retiring, prevent 8.
nightmare.


Only one dose taken at
night, lOOsens the bowels
gently, and cures coStiUe-
ness.


One dose taken after each
meal will cure Dyspepsia.
One dose of two teaspoon
fuls will always relieve Sick
Headache.


Only one dose immediate
ly relieves CoLic, while
Year: 1860

support TO such would be sheer suicide. Better
that black republican should elected than such a
Douglas for with black republican President
should be able 10 meet the issue at once. I noticed
extract from the New York Times the other
day IN which stated that "tovernor Yancey and
the bogus delegation OF which he q member were
set Of csnnOnss and sruptionists representing the
Of the people OF the State" An he had say 70
this sweeping char 60 that there word o
truth IN It They not disunonsts per Sc; they
not bogus delegation, and he ie certain they did not


lack the support Of the people With excop-
tons the press OF New York took great pleasure
repress ntpg the cond ton OF affairs public opinion
ibe South. Douglas knows very wen that the people OF
Alabama are opposed " him, and hence his organ the
New York Times, seeks the opportunity N make the
people In the North believe that we are split up
inso factions in this state, and that 1t is only
the Yancey clique who opposed ~ Mr..
porglas You all know how ridiculous are these state
nep.s OF our beng cut up INTO factions, &c Never
the democratic party Of the State o Alabama united
never more determined TO stand by tho consttu-
ton than s to-day. cloud applause The speaker then
went on 10 say that the pursued by the Mobile
ner IN trying 10 throw cold water upon the action Of
the State Convention very coniempuble The RrStev
was the Douglas organ Of this State however, and what
more could be expected? QAughter) Tho democracy Of
Alabama wouo survive ali the ISLANDERS and machnatons
Of the few Douelases In the State mater how strenu
the efforts bring delegates to harles
ton inio disrspr with the delegates from the North


question on the adoption Of Dr. Grants resolutions was
put and agreed to.


The meeting then adjourned in high spirits
Year: 1860

CAMrToNvILLE. May 10th.


EDITOR DEMOCRAT There is nothing new
going on in Camptonvile mining has been
at a stand still during this entire season, the
miners having become tired of trying to sat
isfy the cormorant appetite of the water com
panies prefering to save their ground un-
til some future time, rather than pay all they
get out for the necessary element


The report of the killing of Winnemucka
is doubtless incorrect, for on one of these re-
cent snowy nights he slept at John Sterrett's
cabin, and informed Sterrett that there would
be war, and endeavored to pursunde him to
get his companions together and 90 back
again to California, saying that his band was
powerless as compared to the balance of the
tribe assisted as they would be by the other
tribes OF the great basin, including the Pit
River Shoshonies and Snake Indians. He
also said they had commanded him to with
draw from the neighborhood of the white
settlements, aud the probability is that he
did so, and has not been killed, rs the report
n few days ago would lead US TO believe.


Two of our citizens have responded to the
call, add gone over to join the Downieville
company and presume some others will 90
over in day or two.


A purse of SIX hundred dollars was raised
last night at San Juan, and this morning n
party of twenty-five started from there for
the eastern side, and this afternoon eight
more went out on foot The party of twenty.
five were we'll mounted. T.
Year: 1860

Again, if it is said that the isherman's IL
eense was devised because of the dislike for
Chinamen and aversion to their coming to
this country then please to consider how the
case stands in regard to us Chinamen How
came we here? Not in the ships of our own
country: we did not walk. nor did we fly
hither but. for the most part, we were hrot
in the merchant vessels of your honorable
country. Then, first forbid your slips trans
porting men, and afterwards the coming Of
Cinnamon will be cut off.
Year: 1860

A few days ago, boy, ten years of age, return.
ing from school, near Conemaugh Pa, saw large
red cap that his sister wore, he raised it and ran
waving it up the road, along which a train was
then laundering. The train fortunately ar
rested in time, the consequences must have been
fearful
Year: 1860

A few days ago we copied an article from
the Detroit Free Press, giving an account Of
riotous proceedings between the negroes and
white people in the neighborbood Of Chatham,
Canada. In few days thereafter the Black
Republican papers on the border denied the &C
count, and stated that there was no foundation
for the disgraceful rumor Every one who
knew anything at all felt that there was some
foundation to the rumor and the negro-wor-
shippers saw the necessity Of giving some mild
relstion which might account for the rumors In
the papers A Chatham paper was then made
to say that "onfortuately a change Of teachers
was made at one Of the negro schools which
justly gave oifense TO the neRroesl" At auoth-
er school, darkey parent, getting his back up
about the negro school, took his children
to the white school, and seated them with the
white children. When the teacher came be
mildly observed-"You must remove your chill
dren; it is against the rules !" The negro pas
rent in the most smiable way possible removed
his pickaninnies. merely observing-"I hope
I've not offended !" aud the teacher replied,
"0h mol" And this, it was claimed, was the
extent Of the fracasI


But this made matters no better The Chat
ham paper had drawn the thing entirely too
midi 1t was sickening No one could swal
low t. Something must be done to put the
matter upon a creditable basis, and account for
the "nigger under the wood pile" The tele-
graph is invoked-it brings the word that the
whole difficulty grew out of a fight between the
white and colored scholars Of the schools -
Then there was fghtj and it was between
whites and blacks only they were boys l.
There is lie out Some two or three have
already been told by the Black Republican pa
pers about the matter.
Year: 1860

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