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Year: 1866

One of the latest fashions with the ladies


is wearing long ends of narrow ribbon around
the neck. Few of the uniniated know the
significance Of the same. When they wear
tho ends hanging in front, it means that the


lady is married; down the back, that she
has feller coming to see her but isn't en-
gagged over the left shoulder it means, Eel
lels follow me-" If she does not wear any
it means she is engaged, and don't wish to
have anything to do with any other fcller.' y
Year: 1866

The Texas papers state that the Indians
have created such an alarm in many OF the
frontier counties that many families are lea
wing, and the people will suffer great deal
unless sufficient force be sent to drive tho
savages from the country.
Year: 1866

INCIDENT OF The WAR.-Duriug the
severe bombardment of Atlanta, a lieu
tenant of one of the Alabama regiments
was surveying the lines accompanied BY
two privates. Suddenly the well knosu
cry of mind the SHE'LL" but rather too
late, and as the shell struck parapet the
lieutenant and bis two men jumped into 3
rife pit on the other side Of the parapet,
but had hardly reached this place Of
fancied security, when another cry is
beard by the Lieutenant, as the shell
bounds into the very pit where our three
men were squatting. At thst moment
one of the privstes, who was over his
lieutenant, seeing the death dealing mis-
sile reaching its explosive point. extended
his arms over bis officer and murmured
Lieutenant, We are gone. but ! may
save you!" These we're his last vords.
The shell burst. One Of the prisates bad
a leg shattered, and the lieutenant held
in his arms the mudlated body of the
other, whose death had saved bis life.
Year: 1866

We are here to-day especially to pay
honor to those who having gone out from
this very spot to take their places in the
ranks Of war, never returned to rs.


Here they we're trained for the duties
Of life and for that higher destiny which
Year: 1866

THE STORM which prevailed on Thursday
night and Friday morning proved very dam.
aging in its effects at New York. The
wharves and piers wero seriously injured.
One hundred feet OF the wharf at the foot Of
Clarkson street gave way and fell in. The
rear Of building in process Of erection in
Brooklyn was blown down and crushed
through dwelling-house, but nobody was
injured. The storm also prevailed to con.
siderable extent along the Hudson.
Year: 1866

The number Of births in Franco is evi
IDENTIFY diminishing 1t is announced that al
the beginning Of the present century five
children wa, the maximum for each married
couple, whilst now the average is three chill.
dren, and in Paris it is but two children.
This small number of births does not augur
well for tho increase Of the population Of
France.
Year: 1866

'Tis not for man to trife Life Is brief.


And sin is here.
Our age is but the falling Of leaf,


dropping tear
We have no time to sport away the hours,
All must be earnest in world like ours.
Not many lives, but only one have we,
81. One, only one;
How sacred should that one life ever be,
That narrow span
Day after day filed up with blessed toll,
Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil
Our being is no shadow Of thin air,
No vacant dream
No fable of the things that were,


But only seem.
'Tis full of meaning as Of mystsry,
Though strange and solemn may that meaning be
Our sorrows are no phantom Of the night,


No idle tale;
No cloud that floats along sky of light


On summer gale.
They are the true realities OF earth,
Friends and companions even from our birth.
o life below! how brief and poor and sad


One heavy sigh.
O life above how long! how fair how glad


And endless joy.
Oh to be done with daily dying her
Oh to begin the living in yon sphere!
Year: 1866

Any one who has made a veritable sea-
voyage, says Chambers Journal, cannot
have failed to notice the intensely blue
colors of the water in certain parts OF the
ocean. In the vicinity of land, he will
have seen the water of a bright green COL
or, which will be found to prevail until
soundings cease to be struck. In the deep
Questionable parts of the ocean, he will
have seen the water of SO deep blue az
to be fully as dark as the strongest sou-
'ion of blue vitrol, and even in the regions
where deep blue water is the general color
of the sea, he may have seen, if he have
been in the Gulf stream, or gone "down
the Trades" deeper blue than the deep
est in certain localities. There is a current
in the China Seas that washes the Aleutian
Islands, and is so dark as compared with
the other waters of the ocean, that the
japanese call it the Black Stream. Other
ocean streams there are, and particular
portions of the ocean itself, which are more
blue than theic neighbors. Every West
India voyager knows the marvellous blue
of the Trade wind waters. The true cause
of this blue color of the ocean is to be
found in the saltness of the ocean and in
the case of the West India waters, to the
absence of those causes which are in full
operation in more northern latitudes, and
which as clearly mark the seas OF those re-
gions to be different from those more south
erly, as their respective climates are dis
tinguished by different degrees of heat and
cold 1t ia observed in the pools or brine
watts of salt works that the more concen-
trated the water the bluer the color of it,
the safest of all being of hue nearly as
deep as that of the intertropical waters.
The light green color of the North Sea and
the Polar Sea is to the blue or the more
southerly waters what the middle brine-vat
is to the vat in which crystaiization takes
place and the Gulf Stream, off the coast
of the Carolinas, and the waters of the
Trade-wind region, are to the other waters
of the Atlantic what the last vat is to the


penultimate vat, that is to say, the dark


blue is salter than the light green sea, and


the deeper the blue the salter the water.
Year: 1866




In the quiet of the churchyard,
The weeping willows wave
Their slender, dropping branches
In the chilly autumn air
And the wither'd church-yard grasses,
Above each lonely grave,
Utter sad and mournful whispers
Ger the dead who slumber there.
In the golden months of summer
Comes the honey laden bee,
To hum amid the clover


His drowsy, murmurons song
While the yellow-hearted daisies
Grow thick and fair to see
And the sky looks down upon them
With q smile the whole day long.
Then, at times, I love to wander
Among the peaceful dead,
Where the golden-netted sunbeams
Sleep gently on the grass
And to think on friends departed,
And the years forever fed
While across the marbles whiteness
Falls my shadow as pass.
What calm, unbroken slumber,
What sweet and perfect rest,
In the quiet of the church-yard
For evermore to lie;
With the tired hands gently folded
Across the pulseless breast,
-g In summer and in winter,


While the feeting years 60 by!
Not any thought of sorrow,
Nor shadow born of care;
No eager, restless longings,
OF this busy life part;
No dream of proud ambition
g.t5 Can ever enter there 400.
Or the turbulent emotions


That crowd the beating heart.
sCLs
Sometimes when very weary,
When the days seem dark and drear,
: y And my heart beats low within me,
By sense of grief opprest,
Then the graves within the church-yard
More beautiful appear,
And a longing fills my bosom
For the sweet and perfect rest.
Year: 1866

A YEARS Observation-Disclosures l COM
pare the troubles we have to undergo IN
course of year to n great bundle Of tag,
gots far too large for us to lift. But To d
does not require US to carry the whole at
once. He mercifully unites the bundle, and
gives us Gcst one stick, which we are able
to carry tomorrow. and 80 on; This we


might easily manage, if we only take the
burden appointed for each day hat we
choose to increase our trouble by carrying
yesterdays trouble over again 10 day, ana
adding to-morrow's burden to our load De-
| fore We are required 10.
Year: 1866

BEAUTIFUL 1LLUsTRATIoN.-The keeper at
Calais was boasting of the brightness of
his lantern, which can be seen ten leagues
at sea, when visitor said to him What
if one of the lights should go out ?" "Nev-
er, impossible" he cried, Mortified at the
bare thought "Sir," said he, pointing to
the ocean, yon'ler, where nothing can be
seen there are ships going to all parts of
the world. If tonight one of my burners
were out, within six months would come
perhaps from some place never
heard of-saying, such a night, at such an
hour, the light at Calais burned dim, the
watchman neglected his post, and vessels
were in danger. All sir, sometimes in
the dark nights i'll stc"my weather, l look
out to sea and feel dc if the eye of the
whole world were looking at my light. Go
out2 Burn dim? o, never p


Was this lighthouse keeper so vigilant
Did he feel so deeply the Importance of his
work! And shall Christians neglect theil
light, and suffer it to grow dim, grow dim
when for need of its bright shining, some
poor soul, struggling amidst the waves o.
temptation, may be dashed upon destruc
ton? No. Holding forth the word o
life" This is the way to save souls. "Hold
ing forth the word of life," says the apos
tie why that may rejoice in the da.
of Christ, that have not run in vain"
Year: 1866

Clink, clank, sound the hammers now;


The sturdy anvils ring;
The bellows roar and the hot flames pour
Their ruddy light far over the floor;
And the brawny Smiths they sing.
Whirr, whirr, go the busy looms


In the factories dark and high
Where the timid sunbeam softly falls.
Through the crusted pane ON the blackened
walls,


From the pure and beautiful sky.
stitch, stitch, go the needles bright,


And the silVer-gleaming thread;
Women toiling early and late,
While the eyelids droop with heavy weight,
To earn their daily bread.
Click, click, go the slender types,
AS they fall from the printers hand;
Scattering wide each burning thought,
As it shaped itself in the mind that wrought,
Far over the waiting land
Burr, burr, go the busy planes
In the homely workshops, where





Their noisy craft, and the shayings fly,
And their fragrance fills the air.
Ring, ring, chime the virgin coin,
AS the mighty lever falls
On the solid bars of silver and gold
BY the swarthy coiners fashioned and rolled
In the great mint's yaulted halls
Delve, delve-hear the miners at work
Far down in the hidden mines,
Toiling by day and toiling by night
Mid the noxious glooms, where no ray of


light


From the warm sun ever shines
On, on, speed the sharpened pows,
AS they turn the heavy soil,
Where the sturdy farmer guides the share
Through the last years furrows, cleaning


bare,


With the horny hand of toll.
These are the workers, hour by hour,
With hearts that are brave and true,
From dawn till dark, through the whole


days length,
Each gives with an earnest will his strength
To the work he finds TO do.
But grander task for all remains
Which will only end with time;
And this grand task is mid the ceaseless din
OF the constant struggle that hens us in
To make our lives sublime.
Year: 1866

A YEAR AND HALE WITHOUT FooD.-
About year and half ago an army officer
arrived at Louisville, and put up at one oil
the leading hotels. After few days stay,
he disappeared, leaving his trunk behind
him and an unpaid bill The trunk was
stored away, among the collections of un.
called'for baggage, and remained there un-
disturbed until a few days since, when the
pile was examined


In this trunk was found quantity of am.
munition, some caps, bullets, few books
and other articles. A singular tin box was
also discovered, which was punched full Of
small holes. This was opened, and revealed
to the astonished observers horned Mexi.
can toad, as lively and cheerful, apparently,
as when he was first put into the box.


There he had been in that box, confined
in that trunk for a year and half To the
certain knowledge of the proprietors of the
house, and how much longer they did mot
know. His toadship refuses all food and
does not seem anxious to feed after his long
fast. He has been an economical boarder,
for one that has resided year and half in
one of the best hotels.
Year: 1866

calm, full moon, with mellow light


A soft, white hand, clasped IN mine own
A dark eye, liquid, lustrous, bright


A low voice with a silver tone.
The night wind fluttered softly by;


Sweet sounds of music, far and near
Joined in weird cadence with her sigh:


"God knows how much love you dear!"
Alasl how quickly some love dies,


To find the frozen heart its tomb;
Whence no forget-me mot may rise


In tender beauty and perfume.
The pale moon shines down calm and still
On lustrous eyes and rosy cheek.
We meet; and no wild passions thrill


Along the formal words we speak.
But where Affections corse was laid,


The angel Hope stood smiling by,
And with melodious accents said


"Give her no grief-Loye cannot dep
Anon, upon my darkened night,


With fairer mien and sweeter face,
uprose an angel-form of light,
And took her dead earth sisters place.
Thus gol thou hollow, mocking thing


would not have thee back with me;
No shadow doth thy memory fling
Der this soul passion, full and free.
Thine was the fiction of heart


A gaudy, hollow, worthless toy
Thy plot and plan wretched part.


To win and wound, to murder joy.
But pure and true as angels are,
Is she who nestleth by my side,
Farewell forever, false as falrl


Glad welcome, my pure spirit bride
Year: 1866

The following is the report of the House committee on Library, etc;

 The committee to whom was referred the report of the Territorial Librarian, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report:

 That they find the Territorial library in a hour;shin; condition, with many rare and useful books therein, and that great credit is due those having the charge and management of the same, for the energy displayed, and taste manifested in the selection of the books.

 Your committee would recommend that the Librarian bc authorized to procure a room suitable for the convenient and safe keeping of the library, the one now in use for that purpose being in the opinion of your committee wholly inadequate, the expense of said room not to exceed two hundred and iif- ty dollars per year.

 As the office of Regent for the First Judi cial District is now vacant by the reason of tine decease of lion. G. w Hopkins, your committee would suggest the election, at an early day, of new Rogcn; In fill the yacan cy.

 As regards Territorial buildings and grounds, the committee find them in good condition, and the title clear and without contest from any persons to this time.

 (signed.) D. II. SrIcKNEY, Chairman of Committee on Public Buildings.

 Grounds and Territorial Library.
Year: 1866

Arizona has added hcF protest 10 that of all thc mining States and Territories, against the sale uf the mineral lands The miners of Prescott and vicinity have held two meet ngs, and adopted the preamble and rcsolu- tions which appear in the proceedings else where printed. There was but one opinion, so far ~ expressed, and that decidedly ad- verse To inc bill of Senator sherman, and to all bills proposing to dispose of the mineral lands. Our miners, in common with all in the Rocky Mountains and on the Pacific slope, see nothing hut confusion and injustice as the results Of such blls as have been pre- sentcd in Congress to this time. They are not willing to sacrifice their interests to secure which they have encountered risks and en- dured hardships such as are unknown in the east They believe the revenue of which the government is in need, aud to which it Is entitled and which they would not with hold, Is more likely to be secured by an ad- herence to the present policy than by the adoption of any other. They do not forget that the lodes are the common property of the American people, but they think that the interest of all will be best subserved by their remaining in the hands of those who have discovered and are competent and anx- ious to develop them.

 We must believe that Congress, in view of the unanimity of sentiment throughout the mineral regions, will not at present favor the passage of any bill for the sale of the mines We have great faith in the influence of Speak CT Coliax and Mr. Ashley, chairman of th, House committee on Territories, which will we learn, be cast against any alteration o the time-honored policy of the government These gentlemen have by actual observation ascertained the marked injustice that sucl bills as those proposed in Congress woul' work, and it were we'll if Mr. Sherman an, his sympathizers had enjoyed the benefit o such observation before iHtFoia ing measure fraught with evil, and calculated to defea the end aimed at. They arc, to say tn least, foolish and impnldent statesmen wh act without a knowledge of what they ar doing.

 It would be deemed highly pre-, unptuou if we of the west undertook to force legisla tion regarding eastern matters of which W were ignorant, and it strikes us as equall out of the place for eastern men, who hay not been here, and who have no personal in terest here, to take the lead in urging legis lation upon the greatest and dearest interes of the west
Year: 1866

On the outside of the issue of to-day will be found the instructive report of the com- mission appointed by the Supreme Govern ment of the Republic of Mexico, upon the lands on both sides of the Colorado river be. longing to the Republic of Mexico in Lower California and Sonora, from the confluence oi the river Gila to it's mouth in the Gulf oi Cortez or California, from San Diego To Fort Yuma, and of the coasts and inlands adjacent to this peninsula in the Pacific Oceau and Gulf of t'aliG rnia.

 We copy this document from the San Fran cisco FiGg, for which ]: was translated and we invite attention to it as giving inlorins- tion regarding territory adjacent to Arizona, and some of which Is destined to come under American rule as no distant day. There is but one opinion in Arizona as To the impor- tance of our having n port upon the Gulf of California IL is indeed an absolute necessit, to the prosperity of Pima county. Either I.ibertad or Guaymas must come into our possession before that important county can be successfully developed. It is gratifying to be officially informed that the lands upon the lower Colorado, and upon the Gulf of California, are tillable and inviting to the settler. Who can doubt that if brought under our control they will speedily he occupied by an industrious and intelligent people
Year: 1866

A PACIFIC SUPREME CoURT.-A bill intro duced in the United States Senate by Mir. Stewart is intended to make radical change in the federal courts on the Pacific coast It gives to the district courts original jurisdic- ton in all cases now by law confined to the circuit courts, and makes the circuit court an appellate court solely, and in certain cases the court of last resort The decisions of the circuit court are to be conclusive, except in cases where the property involved, cxclu- sive of costs, exceeds fifty thousand dollars, or where the adjudication involves a question upon the construction of the constitution of the United States, or where the decision of the district court is affirmed because the judges of the circuit court arc equally divided

 m opinion. On hearing cases on appeal from

 the district courts, the district judges are to

 sit with the circuit judge in the circuit court

 The title of the circuit court, under the new

 arrangement, should be the der ssy supreme

 court of the United states for the Isciae

 coast. .t.S tRf
Year: 1866

A good story is told of an old parson
who was sorely annoyed by habit his
people had acquired (and which prevails
by the way in all other churches, even
now and hereabouts, TO some exteut) Of
twisting their necks around every time
anybody entered the door, and passed
up the aisle of the meeting house, osee
what manner of person it might be.


Weariod with the annoyance, the old
man exclaimed, on Sunday


"Brethren, If you will only cease turn
ing your heads round whenever the
door opens, and will keep your attention
on me, | will promise to tell you, as !
preach who it IS comes in"


Accordingly he wcJt on with the scr
vices. and presently made stop as one
of the deacons entered, saying


"That is Deacon --, who keeps the
grocery opposite


And thus he announced, In turn, the
advent Of each individual, proceeding
the while with his sermon as eomposedly
as the circumstances would admit when
at last y stranger came in, when he
cried out


"a little old man in green spcctacles,
aud a drab oycrcoat--dou't know him
You can al turn round and look for
yourselves this time"


It is hardly necessary to add that the
GOOD man carried bis point and there
was but little neck twisting seen in his
congregation after that day.
Year: 1866

one that they have as good Sewing Machines
for sale any one, etc. The Singer is the
oldest and most reliable machine and best
now in use, will do all kinds of work from the
finest to the heaviest that any family ever wants
done, and will last lifetime if properly taken
care of I have been agent for other machines
and have got rid of them. Please give me a call
and examine tor yourselves.


Sewing neatly done to order.


also have machine twist and thread for sae.


Any one wishing to purchase please give me a
call. r. w. T. NORRIS, Agent,
next door to Babcock's new hall, up stairs, on


Illinois street.
Year: 1866

AlI. BUSINESS AND PROFEs IONAL MED


Should Advertise in the Argua
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN


Should Advertise in the Argus.
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN


Should Advertise in the Argus
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN


Should Advertise in the Argus
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN


Should Advertise in the Argus
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MED


Should Advertise in ths Anpna
Year: 1866

w. Hope for the Afiicted.-In another part
of this paper will be found the advertisement of the
celebrated Institute established by DR.. J. c.
YOUNG, in 1850. In this age of deceit and char
latanism it is boon to the suffering to point out
to them where they of obtaining the wished
for relief and Under the care of the skillful
Doctor the sick and troubled divest themselves
of their burdens of pains and shame lay aside their
cross, and secure health and happiness. If you
are sick or in trouble, do not hesitate. Read the
advertisement and follow the advice Do not for
get the number the manner of directing your
letter. CONSULTATION OFFICE, $40 Washing
ton street, San Francisco.
Year: 1866

SnARP.-A citizen of Washoe, recently
when called upon by Uncle Sans Internal
Revenue Assessor, to account for his income,
swore that everything he had in the world
was on his back. The fellow had strapped
his money on his back in order to escape
taxation.
Year: 1866

Some families are quite successful IN making
butter in the winter season. Mr.. Scott, of YER
mont believes that it may be made as profta-
ble when the cows are fed with the right kind
of hay as when they run in the pasture. But
there are SO many who think differently, who
"don't have no luck in the winter" that milk
enough to make many tons of butter is wasted
every winter. A correspondent of the Rural
American, whose wife has made butter every
winter for ten wears, and who has himself dono
all the churning in common churn, seldom
occupying more than 10 or 10 minutes in tho
operation condenses the secret of his success, 80
far as the management of the milk and cream
is concerned, into the following pithy senten-
ees:


Cows should be kept warm and clean, and
in addition to plenty of sweet, early-cut hay,
mich cows should be treated with warm slops
and bran mashes, varied by roots and meal
They should have plenty Of pure air and exer-
else. and be salted regularly once week. Tho
stables and COWS must be well cleaned before
milking. and the treatment Of the COWS beru!cd
by patience and gentleness. The milk, when
strained, should be brought to a scalding heat
and set in warm place, where it will not
freeze The cream should be taken off before
the milk thickens, and be kept in as cool
place as it can be without freezing. Cream
managed in this way will be very thick, and
when put in the churn needs dilutiDg, which
should be done by adding warm milk till, when
well mixed, the temperature Of the cream is
such that drop applied to the forehead will
feel neither cold nor warm.