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VOLl'ME X.
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traded M.
Oflee f on Coloma Street*
Carts, Etr.
HEN J. BHEBWOOD,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
PWcerTlUe, El Dorado County, California.
Office—Dorsey's Butldlny (upstairs), Slain it.
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THOB. J. OROON,
ATTOHNIiT-AT.UW,
El Dorado, El Dorado County. (mal7
F. jL HORN BLOWER,
attorney and counsellor at law,
Win practice In all the C.mri* of the 11th Judicial
District. OFFICE—At Filvt Hill, El D«-rado Coun
ty. may 11 -#m
F. W. Fa*i>khj«v», Gao. E. Williams.
SANDERSON & WILLIAMS,
'attorxeys-atlaw.
Office— Douglass' Building, next do* r to the Gary
House, Main street, dec 6
G. W. GORDON,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Virginia City, N. T. Office in Collins* Ituildln*.
li. street. [n- \ 2T3
A. C. PEARLS,
ATTORN EY-AT-LA W ,
Office in Douglaaa* Building 4 tip stairs), Mair. r-r
• Fifteen ille.
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HUME & 8 LOSS,
A T T O REET8-AT-LAW,
office tnCit)' Elot*, Placa-ruHr.
WjU ;*r u-lice Lsa m the foarts of K1 Dorado and
niljtor.il.s Counsio#—ia the Supreme Court, and the
CaarXdt »f Utah T-mttay. mil*
G. D. HALL, G. YALE,
J'ittctrr 1 If**, St in FmurtHt'o %
Vractica I*a m it* all the Courts of Utah.
aXhees, at Caraoo and Virginia City. jeSO-tf
LI. K. SHEARER,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, AND
NOTARY rUDLlC.
Offer, at Residence. Main street, three
d>*or« above Red ford Avenue, Plaeerv iUe. aulO
GENERAL AGENCY
AT REESE RIVER.
Twill attend to asm ai:*ines.< intrust**
to me, hucIi as the collt ction of debts, buying
and sailing real estate, buying, selling, locating and
pitying asset* me tits on mining interest*, amt fur
niching information of a general or special charao
ter, faithfully and promptly.
A D. ROCK,
[noviltf] Austin, Lander County, N. T.
33oofes, Stationery, Etc.
PLAZA BOOK STOKE,
PLACER Y ILLS,
Has just received a splendid assortment of
Standard and Miscellaneous Works,
STATIONERY, SCHOOL BOOKS,
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c.ift noon*, alui ma, crvLKiv,
TOTS, BOLD rg»S, TIOLIK*,
GCITABS, AOCoBUMOiS, Mlllf SOOK,
koZ-AN STEI9C*, KTC., KIs*.,
Selected expreaaly for the Country Trade, and selling
at greatly reduced rates. Also,
AOEltTS
For Sacramento Union, Alta California, Bulletin,
Mirror, etc.
NEWSPAPERS AMD PERIODICALS
Kept constantly on hand, and sold unusually low.
oct4 R. 8. HERNANDEZ.
S. HARRIS,
Corner of il<iin Street tin<l the riaiij
ruciiviui,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Unman Cigars, Tobacco, Books, Sta
tionery, Cutlery, Playing Cards,
Yankee Notions, Fruits, Green
nnd Dried, Nuts and Candles,
at sax rmuciaco races.
Also, receives by erery Steamer the Istest Atlantic
and European Newspapers, Mayaslnes and Periodi
cals, and all the WEEKLY CALIFORNIA NEWSPA
PERS and MAQAQNEB. octt
W. M. BRADSHAW,
— DEALER IX —
BOOKS, STATIONERY,
VARIKTIEB,
CIGARS AMD TOBACCO,
Postoflice Block, RIain Steed,
PLAOERVZLIiE.
ALSO—Agent for all the leading European, AUan
tic and California Papers and Magazines.
UP" NEW BOOKS received by every Steamer.
MTtt W. M. BRADSHAW.
THE l* SO* SALOOS,
Comer Main and Coloma streets,
P. J. McMAIION... PROPRIETOR.
OLD 8HEBBY AND PORT WINE
BY THE BOTTLE,
Kr Entrance on Coloma street. [febl
of ALL KINDSFOK SALK
THE MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT.
PLACEKVILLK, EC DORADO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1802.
—— .*%* a
THK UK AD ADITS.
There lived once r.. j,
bachelor, about forty years of age, called
Peter Gortx, who had the reputation of
being a very pious, bat rather austere and
thrifty, man.
He kept but one servant, an orphan,
j shorn, aa a child, he took to wait upon
him, and afterward taught her to read
and write, boasting her fidelity, and in
dulging her as if she were bis daughter.
He was her only friend. At sixteen Oar
oline de Riggh was as comely a girl as
eyes need sft, with the gait of a peacock,
and skin like new milk ; but from ber si
lent, almost haughty disposition, the
| young men called herpiude, the young
women —fool; though mothers,even of less
lowly station, would point her out to their
own giddy geese, and cry : ‘Take pattern
by poor Lina!’
Suddenly she appeared to grow timor
ous and melancholy ; and, one day, was
seen by a neighbor to hurry from her mas
ter’s house in great agitation. Peter Gortz
pursued, but missed her, the neighbors
sought her with better fortune, and over-,
beard her muttering to herself—
‘The \ irgin forbid I should be so rash
—yet—anything rather than that! I can
bear it no longer.' .
This roan instantly seized and question- 1
cd her on the meaning of these words,
but she only trembled, blushed and wept.
He forcibly led her back to her master,
who looked pleased at her return, and on
; what she bad said being repeated to him,
merely laughed out:
'I was too strict this morning, perhaps;
silly weneb,don't quarrel with thy second
father.'
Lina was about to retort, when Peter
bade the other leave them. What was
(his ; erson's amaze, when next morning
bis wealthy neighbor ran to him, all af
fright with the tidings that his bouse had
been robbed of gold and plate, to a large
■ amount, though no locks were broken,
and bis servant either murdered and con
cealed, or carried off alive, which seemed
most likely, as everything that had be
longed to her was missing, and no signs
of contention had disturbed her master in
the night.
The menaces she had used tempted
their hearer at once to suspect her,though
the loser diJ net. She must, it was sup
posed, have taken the road to her native
village. Officers of justice pursued that
route, and ov< rlnking a wagon whose dri
ver looked alarmed at their appearance,
insisted on searching it. There, indeed,
they found n female answering the de
scription given them, hidden with her
trunk, amid the straw. She denied her
name, but a sheath knife was found about
her on which it whs graven.
‘Well,’ site cried, ns if bewildered, ‘no
lnw can force me to return to him.’
Not heeding her, they lifted out her
box.
‘Tis heavy enough,’ said one, signifi
cantly.
'Is it?’ she screamed to the driver.—
TR'is'appenl caused them to arrest him
also. Falling on bis knees, he swore by
all the saints that he only knew this girl
as having hired him'in the next town to
come privately to a certain boose for her
self and baggage; that he had gone, stolen
in, moved the box from her room to his
wagon, where, by another bribe, she had
induced him to conceal her. Tbe lid was
forced, and at the bottom of the wardrobe,
sewn into some articles of apparel, were
discovered a sum of money and several ‘
articles of silver, hearing the initiate of -
Peter Gortz. In pusitive distraction Caro
line shrieked—
‘I refused to be his wife, and told him
I would leave him. Oh, he threatened to
punish me !' |
•You had threatened, too,’ said one of
her captors, ‘and now, of course, would
fain criminate your accuser.’
‘Nay, then, 1 am lost indeed!’ she cried,
and was conveyed to prison in the town
she bad just left, amid the execrations of
its assembled inhabitants, who bad never
before heard of such a way as hers for re
quiting an offer of marriage from a supe
rior.
She was tried immediately on her ap
prehension. Who could bear witness in !
ber favor ? Who knew her character so
well as Peter Gortz himself? He gave
bis evidence with extreme reluctance;
everything tending to prove her guilty.
She was condemned to die without delay; ;
yet the priest who attended her could
gain no avowal of the theft; finding her
so impenitent, he tried all the powers of
terror on her soul, with but the result of I
unnerving ber for the awful fate she was :
to meet.
I cannot grace my story with a word in
praise of her heroism. She begged for
lime, she supplicated tbe Virgin to inter
pose and save her young days ; she gro
veled at the feet of her guards; her shrieks
and groans rung from the very scaffold,
she struggled with the executioner, till
even he was half overpowered by her
pleading beauty. At last her strength '
and reason failed ; she became insensible. J
The fatal cord was adjusted and tbe poor
wretch left to bang for the usually ap
pointed time.
Her body, according to the sentenco of
the law, was given for dissection. It fell
to tbe lot of a rising anatomist, named
Kbreson, who had it conveyed to the
wonted scene of his scientific vigils, a
large arched cellar, beneath his house,
chosen for its coolness; the air was noi
some, and its walls discolored; it wa6
lighted from the ceiling by an antique
lamp, whose rays fell on the instrument
of bis labors, and the still more terrific
looking preparations upon which he had
toiled.
The operator was accustomed to attire
himself, for these experiments, in a dark
dress, which tightly fitted his gigantic
figure, and left his lean arms bare. His
fiery eyes, cadaverous and strong features
set off by the black locks that streamed
over his shoulders, must have rendered
him a frightful picture. Before him, on
his table, lay the body of Caroline, parti
ally covered with a cloth, often before
used for similar purposes, and, here and
there, stainod from tbe blood of tbe dead.
Kbreson, who had hitherto been constrain
ed to study from such revolting remnants
as his elders might leave of their church
yard spoils, was gratified in attaining an
entire figure, so recently deprived of life.
He had not attended Caroline’s trial tbo’
he bad listened, with a sad, shuddering
interest, to the account of her early crimes
and punishment.
lie commenced his examination. The
limbs were scarce yet rigid; and when be I
i bared tbe Cue, ha otervcd that the •»•«-1
ner of her death had neither blackened
nor distorted it; far the drat tee lie was
aware of her identity with one he had
seen walk the world in teiden pride; oft
had he felt inclined to ask the young
thing’s name. He knew it new—end half
forgetting bis art, sighed forth:
‘Had she been as good as she was fair,
this is not a breast which I could lacer
ate!’ „ .
He turned away to make some prepara
tion for his bornd work, fahee •>
sigh, which seemed to bear on its breath
the word, 'Mercy!’ recalled him to the
side of Caroline; be seised her wrist—a
feeble, fluttering pulse vibrated thrtttingly
to his touch.
She opened her eyes, gazed upon him,
saw the surgeon, and all his accompany
ing horrors. She sprang from the board
and threw herself at his feet, her own dis
array affected her not. the feelings of this
world she beliered had passed forever, but
in the most earnest accents sbe articu
lated :
‘I know not whether I am in the pres
ence of God or a devil, but I am inno
cent !’
‘Innocent 1’ repeated Ebreaon, in his
! sepulchral voice.
‘Yes,’ she replied, wringing her hands,
‘in pity torture me not! or say that this
dismal place is but purgatory—that I do
deserve, for I did carry a knife about me,
that I might put an end to my own life,
rather than be his; but of tbe crime for
which I suffered he knows me guiltless;
and thou, terrible being 1 cans’t read in
my soul that I speak tbe truth. Ob !—
thou look’6t just! this will not last eter
nally. Spare, save me t and I will wor
ship‘thee!’
I Such an appeal, in such circumstances,
! and under such a delusion, could not for
a moment be doubted. Ebreaon, in a
transport of gratitude, poured over that
i dear bruised throat the vinegar which be
kept at hand, as a disinfector, weeping
forth :
‘lie calm, my child! and fear me not—
you are with a fellow creature who be
lieves, and will protect you. This earth,
and the life so miraculously preserved,
shall yet he endeared to you.’
Instantly screening her limbs from the
chill air, he led her to his own room, con
signed her to hed, and brought her food
and wine, while his servant slept, and
would have left her to rest, but that her
state still bordered on delirium; so he sat
all night, like an elder brother, beside her.
Hut now, what was to be done? To an
nounce her existence to the world, cruelly
as it had used her, and branded as was
her lowly name, might but provoke fresh
: prosecution ; she had no power to prove
the crimes of Gorlz; her new benefactor’s
hare assertion of her innocence would not
have impressed others with a like convic
tion; for Kbreson was, as yet, an obscure
and needy man. The only course left for
her was to fly, call herself something else,
and, in a distant part of the country, live
in retirement; hut how could she gain a
living, while unable to mix with her kind.
; Kbreson resolved never to abandon her;
: he could toil for them both. He would
trust no one with bis secret; Caroline, he
thought, would no longer be exclusively
his, tl he shared the knowledge of her life
with his dearest friend. He had one broth
er in the place, a Catholic cure. Locking
up his treasure, he stole out ere dawn,
i awakened this holy man, borrowed all his
money by telling him that debts snd some
quarrel, consequent on s hasty marriage,
forced him to etiange his name and resi
dence.
The priest charged himself with for
| warding all goods. Kbreson then hired a
swift conveyance, bade Caroline array
1 herself in his attire, packed up bis books,
i instruments, wardrobe, and started.
When his servant rose, the cure was
i ready to account for everything. Ebre
■ son found in his poor Caroline such intel
| lect and virtue that he married her. The
; good cure settled with them, and they
knew not what had become of Gortz, save
that he had left the theatre of hts great
wickedness.
One night Frere Basil entered their
abode with a face of dismay,
-Brother,' he said, T came from a shock
ing sight—the death-bed of a despairing
sinner. I was called in to administer tbe
consolations of religion to an aged man,
who has not long resided here. He will
have no physician, though the people
about him think he cannot see another
sunrise; yet poverty is not the sole cause
of his recklessness. He refused the sa
crament, calling himself unworthy of it;
so I hastened to secure your charitable
aid.’
‘What is this unhappy patient's name?’
asked the wife.
‘Gortz, sister.’
‘Now, all gentle saints be praised !' she
cried. ‘No questions, brother; our neigh
bor, the notary, must accompany us all.
Pray heaven we are not too late I’
This party accordingly hurried on to
1 the wretched abode of the dying man.—
! As they entered his chamber they heard
him rave:
‘Talk’ not to me of sealed confessions —
the whole world gaped on her degrada
tion, and 1 have wandered for twenty
years, like the accursed, undying Israel
ite; still no rest from that thought. I can
give ye nothing, mercenaries! If ye find
any gold, bury it at the gallows’s foot, or
lay it out in masses—but not—no hopes
of pardon for thy murderer, innocent
Lina!’
Caroline drew aside bis curtain. At
Erst he stared without recognition. When
she called him by name, believing that he
beheld her spirit, he coweringly hid his
face, but she, removing his hand from his
eyes, whispered:
‘Peter Gortz! take courage 1 I bring
you peace and pardon. You are no mur
derer. The queen of heaven enabled her
servant woncjrously to save me from death
and you from despair. I am a happy wife
and mother. Yonder is my husband,
come to servo you if be can.
The moment Gortz was assured of her
life, he started up, and—retributive jus
tice again ! begged for one hour’s—for but
one half hour's breath.
‘Some potent restorative,' be cried, ‘my
poor girl’s lame must be cleared to all the
world, and os much atonement made as
wealth can do.'
The draught was given- -the notary was
ready. To him Peter deposed that, be
lieving Caroline thought herself entirely
dependent and in bis power, her rejection
of his suit and threats of departure, had
stung him to vindictive madness. She
>*ULW. <V» » 'kJ r» gtu)| to set
forth with the Untight Md insisted on
leaving the bones to seek a conveyance,
telling him that she had left her trank
open he might starch it if be would, for
she had stolen nothing. These brave
words gave bis hitherto indefinite desire
for revenge a feasible shape; and, daring
bar ab— not, ha had actually sewed into
her raiment the plate and money, which
he coooealod at tba bottom of her box,
leaving it apparently just as be found it;
. ve<; "Wsbe returned, bidding ber fore
well with the semblance of relenting, ere
he retired for the night Having made
this statement be formally consigned the
whole of bis hoarded wealth to her, and
sunk into a peaceful slumber, from which,
he never awoke in this world.
Living in.Heakts.— It is better to live
in hearts than in bouses. A chance of
circumstances or a disobliging landlord,
may turn one out of a house to which he
has formed many attachments. Remov
ing from place to place is, with many, an
unavoidable incident of life. But one
cannot be expelled from a true and loving
heart save by his own fault; nor yet al
ways by that, for affection clings tenaci
ously to its object, in spite of ill desert;
but go where he will, his home remains in
hearts which have learned to love him;
the roots of affection are not torn out and
destroyed by such removals; but they re
main fixed deep in the heart, clinging still
to the image, the object, which they are
more eager again to clasp. W hen one re
visits the bouse of his childhood, or the
plage of his happy abode in his life’s
spring-time, pleasant as it is to survey
each familiar spot, the house, the garden,
the trees planted by himself or by kindred
now sleeping; there is in the grasp of the
hand, the melting of the eve, in the kind
salutation, in the tender solicitude for the
comfort and pleasure of his visit, a delight
that no mere local object of nature or art,
no beautiful cottage, or shady rill, or quiet
grove can possibly bestow. To be re
membered, to be loved, to live in hearts—
this is one solace amid earthly changes—
this is a joy above all the pleasure of scene
and place. We love this spiritual home
feeling, the union of hearts which death
cannot destroy; for it augurs, if there be
heart purity as well as heart affection, an
unchaning and imperishable abode in
hearts now dear.
A capital example, writes a reader, of
what is often termed ‘taking the starch
out,’ happened recently in a country bank
in New England. A pompous, well dress
ed individual entered the bank, and ad
dressing the teller, who was something of
a wag, inquired:
‘Is the cashier in ?’
‘No, sir,’ was the reply.
’Well, I am dealing in pens, supplying
the New England banks pretty largely,
and I suppose it will be proper for me to
deal with the cashier.’
‘I suppose it will.’
‘Very well, I will wait’
The pen-peddler took a chair, and sat
composedly for a full hour, waiting for the
cashier. By that time he began to grow
uneasy, but sat twisting in his chair for
about twenty minutes, and, seeing no
prospect of a change in his circumstan
ces, asked the teller how soon the cashier
would be in. .
‘Well, I don’t know, exactly,’ replied
the waggish teller, ‘but I expect him in
about eight weeks. He has just gone to
Lake Superior, and told me be thought he
would be back in that time.’
Peddler thought be would not wait.
‘Oh, you can-stay if vou wish,’ said the
teller very blandly. ‘We have no objec
tion to your sitting here in the daytime,
and you can probably find some place in
town where they will be glad to keep you
nights.’
The pompous peddler disappeared with
out another word.
About Cloves.— Cloves are produced
by a tree which is a native of the Uoiuc
co Islands, and were, like nutmegs,a long
time under the exclusive control of the
Dutch government, who for many years
would not allow the tree to grow upon
any except the island Aroboyan, whence
the highest-priced cloves still come. The
tree is from fifteen lo thirty feet high,
with large aromatic leives and bunches
of very fragrant flowers. The spice is
the unopened flower buds, which sre
beaten off by means of rod6, and then
dried. The little ball at the top oi the
clove is the unexpanded petals ; but soft
ening the clove in hot water these can be
carefully laid open by the means of a pin.
The main portion of the clove is what
would be the fruit if it was allowed to
go on and ripen. Our word “ clove ”
comes from the French claw, a nail—that
being the name by which the French
call them on account of their resemblance
to a little nail. They contain a good deal
of volatile oil, upon which their value de
pends. This oil is extracted
in parts, and the cloves afterwards sold.—
These can be told by their lighter color,
and by having the buttons or rounded
portion broken off. Gloves readily absorb
a considerable amount of moisture,and it
is the custom of large dealers to keep
them in ratber a damp place, in order to
make them weigh heavily and look fresh
and plump. It is bad economy to buy
clov«3 or any other spice in the ground
state, as, aside from the risk of adultera
tion, the oi! is absorbed by the paper in
which they are put up.
Patience, bv Joan Billings.— Every
body iz in the habit of bragging on job
and iob did have konsicerable pashuncc,
that's a fac, but did he ever keep adistrik
shule for eijjht dollars a month, and bord
Vaund ? Did be ever reap lodged cats
down bill in a hot da and hav all his gal
lus buttons bust oph at once ? Did he
ever hav the jumpin teethacbe, and be
made to tend the baby while hiz wife
waz over to Perkinses tu a tea squall?—
Did be ever get up in the morning awful
dri and turf it three miles befoar break
fas tu git a drink, and find that the man
kep a temprans hous ? Did he ever un
dertaik tu milk a kicking heifer with a
bushy tail, in fli time, out in the lot ?—
Did he ever sot down on a litter of kit
tens in the old rockin cheer, with is pan
tyloons on, without salng “ damnasbun?’’
if he coaid do all these things, and praxc
the Lord at the same time, ail i have got
tu sa iz, bully for job !
Be virtuous and you will be happy.
lalf-CmlUn.
Cardinal W
the inaugural lecture of the S4th session
of the 8ontbemptoe (England) Polytech
nic Institution, bis subject being “ Self-
Culture.” After sons introductory re
marks, in which he said his object was to
show the advantages of self-culture net
only to those who wished to be great, but
to all, even though they might continue
in their present sphere of life, end point
ing out that the true, real education was
that performed within, and which none
but the individual can perform for himaelf,
(be lecturer spoke of the cultivation of
the intellectual powers. After nbticing
the first process of tboogbt, which w%8
little more thsn observation, be said :
■ “ Tbe moment s favorite thought began
to haunt the mind,when it returned again
with new vigor and the mind took a pleas
ure in dwelling upon it, it should be
checked without s moments hesitation
and cut sway; and a man having acquired
a control over his thoughts,over bis mind,
would st once determine that the ides
should not dwell in his mind. Otherwise
it might be tbe beginning of a thousand
monomanias. Indulgence in such ideas
was the way in which they became fixed
in the mind. They returned again and
again. He was not speaking of moral
consequences, but of intellectual conse
quences. There was not a more serious
impediment to self-culture than that of
allowing a dominant thought to assume a
proportion to the rest of the faculties
which was not in proportion to its own
value. Of this there was no question,
and he might lay it down as a certain in
tellectual result,and say never allow what
might be considered a favorite idea, or
fancy, or imagining to dwell for any
length of time in tbe mind. It had been
said, and he believed, with truth, that
there was hardly a mind so strong as not
to have within it the possible seed of in
sanity, and that seed might be found in
this form—a single idea, without any rea
son to account for its taking possession of
the mind, might go on developing until it
became a sort of morbid fueling, resulting
in the manner in which be had indicated.
There was a third and greater application
of the mental power. It consisted in not
merely being able to arrest thought, to
dwell upon it, but in being able to study
the principles and earnest thoughts which
were within the mind—being able to have
the power of directing all the energies of
the mind to their solution and explana
tion, and so to treasure up within our
selves the principle drawn from sound and
solid reflection, lie would not go into
detail, hut the application was this.—
There was nothing more common than
for persons to like to dispute—to discuss
a subject, to provoke by the earnestness
with which they pursue a paradox and
answer every objection and difficulty
raised against them, and then say it is all
a joke—it was done by way of trying my
skill against yours. A man ought never
to take a part which he did not believe.
Inward truthfulness was as necessary to
the formation of a sound moral character
as was exterior truthfulness. lie would
say, never maintain a thing that you do
not believe—never dispute a principle for
disputation’s sake—never consider it a
mere recreation to be warring on the side
of falsehood, or immorality, or anything
that is wrong. He knew one instance in
which the fondness for disputation and
discussion had led to the person who did
not believe in his cause bringing the other
over and converting him to a falsehood.
Such a course of proceeding was a serious
moral offence. That the training of the
mind must be by the individual was self
evident No two persons thought and felt
alike. He would illmtrate his meaning
by referring to a well known fact, al
though it might be regaided as rather
com mom place. From the earliest ages
poets and agriculturists had considered
two trees as intimately united together—
the elm and the vine; and those who had
visited the beautiful plains and valleys of
Italy must have been struck by the loving
group and their verdure and fruitfulness.
Tho elm grew up a stately tree. The vine
crept up by its side, a miserable sapling,
without vigor or strength, unable to sus
tain itself. Tbe one tree lent strength,
tbe other gave beauty. They were born
together, their roots were mingled almost
inseparably beneath the soil, they lived
upon tbe same food,they sucked up nour
ishment from the same ground, they
drank the same dew and the same rains
from Heaven. An.d yet no skill, no pow
er could make them the same. The hus
bandman might trim and prune, and en
rich the soil as much .as he pleased, but
he would never bring a single grape out
of the elm and never form a self-sustain•
inh stock for the vine. They received the
same nourishment, but they'created what
was given to them into a different sub
stance. And so, two daughters growing
up together, two sons going to the same
college on the same day, would be as dif
ferent as possible from each other, and no
power of exterior culture would make
them the same. The aim ought to be not
to make them exactly alike, but to make
them both useful and good.” The lecturer
then proceeded to the consideration of
imagination and memory. In conclusion,
he observed : “ The result of all this train
ing of the intellect was the formation of
character. A man ought not to be too
solicitous about the formation of charac
ter. He could not form it Character
must grow. It must be the result of ma
ny circumstances. If there was one thing
of which men were more ambitious than
another it was what was commonly called
‘character’—‘He is a man of character.'
Now, what did that mean ? A man of
firmness, a man of determination, a man
who would carry through his projects—
that was a character the most envied.—
But experience had taught the truth—that
the firmness of small minds was obstina
cy, while the firmness of great minds was
perseverance in tbe midst of difficulties,
resembling the course taken by the water
springing from a fountain high up in the
Alps, which, after overcoming every ob
stacle, becomos a great river, and eventu
ally finds its way into tho mighty ocean.”
A Lsnai. Opinion.—It is not libellous
to call a man who has kicked you down
stairs a free-booter.
Fo» Earache.—-Take a table spoonful
of fine salt and tie it up In a little bag,
heat it quite hot and lay it on tho ear,
shifting it several times, and it will afford
speedy relict
A. Win Rnim m Inctoext.—i!
mast Trbsteattttte irutfiW» »«feie hap
pened to yowr hnaahle awint on hta re
turn borne from tbe wan. ■ I «u walkiu
•long the street, lookin’ no gallant and
gay, in mi braes koto and bln buttons,
and other military batman, when a exci
ted female rnabt not of a bows, threw'd
her sump bandies aronn’ mi neck—
which part I didn’t mind much, as tba
was Hair, round ones—and exclaimed :
“ Doo I behold the once agane T"
“ You do—ie4 i think you are boldin’
me too tasty,” ass I-Arrian to release the
eccentrick (email’s BW
“ 0, her you cam back—her you cum
back T” she wildly cride, bangin' tighter
to mi neck.
u Certainly T’re cum back,” sea I, “ or
else I wouldn’t be here. But I don't
tbink I know you muchly.”
“Not know me—your own Claretta
Rosetta Belletta— sbe who has not sot
eyes onto you for more than 2 ye*ra.-r-
Yes,” she continued, placin’ her hands
onto mi shoulders, and lookin’ up into mi
face like a dvin’ boss fly, “yes, I see my
own Alfred's eyes, his nose, bis ears,
bis—”
“ Madam," sez T, “ ezkuse me, but al
low me to correct you. Ef I air not mis
taken—these enrses, and eyses,snd noses
belong to myself individually, and your
Alfred never owned ’em scarcely 1”
“ Away with this farce,” sez she, “You
can’t deseive -your own Claretta. Cum
into the house and see your little non,
Lincoln Burnside McClellan ifeazer.”
“ It was evident that tbe Mbail was
mistaken— that it was not me but anoth
er roan shj wanted.
“ How old is he f” sez I.
“ Which f" sea she.
“Them little son, Lincoln Burnside
McClellan anaso4th."
“ lie’s just 6 month old—tbe little dar
ling I”
“ Well, madam,” sex I, “ ef little Lin
coln Burnside McClellan and ao 4th, la
only 6 months old, and you hav’nt sot
eyes onto your Alfred for more’n 2 years,
I think thar's a mistake sumwhere, and
that I'm not Alfred, but another man al
together."
The woman shot into tbe house like 40,
and this was the last I saw of her, but I
pity Alfred.
Unacceptable Gratitude. —Lieut, J—
late of the Sixteenth Regiment, was a few
days ago walking down Main street,when
| he was accosted by a fellow, half soldier,
half beggar, with a most reverent mili
! tarv salute :
! “ God bless your bonor x ” said the sol
dier, whose accent betrayed him to be
Irish, “ and long life to.you old fellow.”
“ How do you know me ?" said the
Lieutenant.
“ Is it how do I know your honor ?"
replied Pat, “ good right, sure, I have to
know the man who saved my life ia bat
tle.”
The Lieutenant highly gratified at this
tribute to his valor, slid a fifteen cent
bill into bis hand, and asked when it was.
“ God bless your honor, and long life
to you,” said the grateful veteran, “ sure
it was at tbe battle of Antietam, when
seeing your honor run as fast as your
legs could carry you from the rebels, I
followed your lead, and run after yon oat
of the way; whereby, under God, I saved
my life. Oh good luck to your honor, I
never will forget it in you.”
■ ■ —■ - ■ ■ —
T iikee Important Things.— Three things
l to love—courage, gentleness and affection.
Three things to admire—intellectual pow
er, dignity and gracefulness. Three things
to hate—cruelty, arrogance and ingrati
tude. Three things to delight in—beau
ty, frankness and freedopj. Three things
to wish for—health, friends and a cheer
ful spirit Three things to pray for—
faith, peace and purity of heart Three
things to like—cordiality, gdod humor
and mirthfulness. Three things to avoid
—idleness, loquacity aqd flippant jesting.
Three things to cultivate—good books,
good friends and good humor. Three
things to contend for—honor, country and
friends. Throe things to govern—tem
per, impulse and the tongue.
Lesson to Ruleks. — A certain Emperor
set put on a journey to visit the vast prov
inces of bis empire, accompanied by his
eldest son. One day be stopped his car
in the midst of some fields where the peo
ple were hard at work.
“ I took you with me." said he to his
son, “ that you might be an eye-witness
of the painful toils of the poor husband
men, and that the feeling their laborious
station should excite in your heart might
prevent your burdening them with heavy
taxes 1”
1 ■ ■ * ■ - ■—»
Never Despair.— True hope is based
on energy of character. A strong ruind
always hopes, because it knows the muta
bility of human affairs, and bow slight a
circumstance may change the whole
course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests
upon itself—it is not confined to partial
views, or to one particular object, but to
its own integrity and worth. Hope awa
kens courage, while despondency ia the
last of all evils ; it is the abandonment of
good— the giving up of the battle of life
with dead nothingness. He who can im
plant oouraga in the human soul, is its
best physician.
Remote Views. —It is common to over
look what is near,by keeping the eye fixed
on something remote. In the same man
ner present opportunities are neglected
and attainable good is slighted by minds
busied in extensive ranges, and intent
upon future advantages. Life, however
short, is made shorter by waste of time ;
and its progress toward happiness, though
naturally slow, is made still slower by un
! necessary labor.
An Irishman was employed to trim
some fruit trees. He went in tbe morn
j ing and on returning at noon, was asked
if he had completed his work. No, was
the reply, but he bad cut them all down,
and was going to trim them in the after
noon 1
The lawyer who filed a bill, cut an ac
quaintance, split a hair, made an entry,
got up a case, framed an indictment, im
panncled a jury, put them into a box,
nailed a witness, hammered a judge, and
bored a whole court, all in one day, had
laid down law and turned carpenter.
Honesty Is ever the best policy.
1 'll. T ■ M
i mNM
Ccunr or IbMailiPI
!<«u) fruitless ittanl IMHH Mil
river at the Sttspeuefeei TIHtod*Tl1T~'
illustrates the tramaaMM'WWWPte
current of the MeONseth' MMsPQHhfi
ca—strong^emttighAoalMlii^InjM^te
depth IfciH
' MI OTJ MW WMWTVWflNV
surface feiriy, with tfepetofr£ieh%jjfi
longer sight than ■ hiShS
Cue, abept on# *b uodrsd foat tteumdhU
stream, and aUppsd along Uko t<U|an
til it was checked by the wire, TTfjpM
commenced healing in diroto. atoms
made the Iron bounce like a belywjhon a
I am satisfied that no metal haasamcMSlt
specific gravity to pieroa this cwrurt
even with amomontnm acquired by a
Call of two hundred and
The velocity of the iron, when aMUiL
must have been equal to one bwlfw
and twenty-four feet par ssom^MffWjh
thousand' pounds. Its surfoan snphmd
to the current waafifty aaperMttSeMV
This will give an idee of the atmt0k«g
that current, and at the mm* thee hfnt
at the Titan fcroee that ham. been at
work to aooop oat the bedef the tfimam
river.” , .
■ «*•♦» ■- ■—i ..'"-31
War Fkahr.—Josh Billiogs takwa
logiWal vu of war frame s
“On tu
kuaeed rubles willshow-It " I7T
“ Parralel lines” ere them Wadnf^fr
Wd>M wtl
galon of wkisim to mmfM-pilmimt' ™
v Military strategy ’Vtoyhsg UctodMU
a swamp by ketcbin the bilyeua turn ott
of it . «d
“ Onluee the deg* ef war," bntnmteb
the darn krittera; of you 4nt jmM|r
will get hurt.
“ War of exterminashsn t\fo beg*
belongs holey to the kora foam sUpett
ment - »?
“Advanse Gard "—this ie a gmd ten
hav tu hav in our arms tu keep ewrtek
lows from pitcbin in tn the enemadfoM
wards.
“ Rare Gard "—this b a ga|d tha bar
tu hav tu keep our fcKews, when fMr
are surrounded, from pitcbin ftj'th' Hie
enemy backwards. 1
“Awl -quiet on the Pottermnok thh
shows what perfect sobfeekahon oarId
lers are under. 1 •
“ Pickets ” —Them are chape tbatnre
cent out tu borrow tnrbecker of the opto
ma, and tit see Of (he kuaeed rebels bee
««»P—•
be said, “ we must subedt tbaae fonmMe
the discretion of the President.” Jut
Jackson said, “ the la»* ( grtfc
SUtes must be executed.' I harem die
cretionary power on the ■nfcjaei" «]Hfv.
Dickinson wain a follower of Tsrtsenj hi
would tell Mr. 'Lincoln that it is We «My
to strictly adhere to the laws, becaomhb
hss no discretionary powers. The uifo*
stitution is his master.
A deaf and dumb man eallad npon «•
on Saturday, in great tribulation. In
informed ue (by writing on nr atetoj
that President Lincoln StfsiuetiSed M>
as a traitor because he dM net «4npi
out" in fovor of the war. — {BeratCgb Bbl
tinel.'
A vriAK flavor of genius in aw emon
tially common person ‘i irtlltlHs It
spoils the respectable neutrality of OQm
mon-place character, as the nosing* of
an unwashed wine glam spoils a diwftdf
firewater.
.<!»> I., .mi. ifv*
A net-years-old, who, th«gfciuimpg>
ernable, calls his father gorsvnpr, snifl
his oldest sister, “ la the fovaracr ap
stairs, Maria r" “ If yon teeanlWhor
yes.” “ Well, then. Ml hkn if herniate
to speak to uie about staying out WWW
a night he had better come deahs fmddu
so now, as 1 have got an appninhnafokak
ten o’clock to take the two Miss Sour*
kies 1 Be lively, there’s a good gh+T**
A cubic inch of water converted late
steam will raise a ton weight one teefc
high. Bless us, what danger la agtete
of water.
A wise mam’s kingdom is bis note
breast; or, if he ever looks farther, it wui
only be the judgment of n aearot Aw,
who are free from prettiudiee% and tefpn*
bio of giving him solid and sabateafihd
advice. » - ~ A -v
Human Lira is often Ukenod to a teg
age. It is a voyage to eternity, attended
with grant danger, as vraH na amehkmd
ship and toil. The am wa han >e anal
gate, viewed in preapsetiva, foehn amnaii
and inviting; bat its emrfoae aenmate
■bosk, quicksands and reehs; unMMM
multitudes, in attempting In Nmh flKe
distant shores, are teHrt
As omen who was meliW'lii
company one msmluft Spied n ptteifis
whose shirt waa aadiy hegCimadL *1tel*
rick O’Flynn,” called the lyklstei ~%ll
with bis band to «■ ttf H *i§ lw|
do you wear a shirt t" thundered on Of
fleer. “Twenty-eight tpehew* tofc/jjfo
prompt reply. '
I A toyhd
*RT he wooJd,
Jokss—Don’t wmfcyuamurteMhjmfo
sion, my deer. I give In;
iTol un B rlyS m temdved fote^w.
smack iu the dark; . . r-nroH