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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Pan-Mil at the Third S ■•union of the Thirty-
Scri.nth < -oiujrt
Cuvi'. LXX.—An act to amend an Act en
titled "An Act to provide a temporary
Government for the Territory of Colorado.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of
lleiirenentatirex of the United States of Amer
ica in Congress a use in hied. That, the second
section of the act to which this act is nil
amendment bo altered so as to read as fol
lows: The executive authority in anil over
s tid Territory of C dorado shall be vested in
a Governor, who shall hold his office for four
years, and until his successor shall be ap
pointed and qualified, unless sooner removed
by the President of the United States. The
Governor shall reside within said Territory,
shall be commander-in-chief of the militia
thereof, shall perform the duties and receive
the emoluments of superintendent of Indian
Affairs; lie may grant pardons for offences
against the laws of said Territory, and re
prieves for offences against the laws of the
United States, until the decision of the Pres
ident can be made known thereon ; lie shall
commission all officers who shall be ap
pointed to office under the laws of said Ter
ritory, and shall take care that the laws be
faithfully executed.
Sec. 2. And he it further enacted. That
every bill which shall have passed the- legis
lative assembly, shall, before it become a
law, be presented to the Governor of the
Territory; if he approve, he shall sign it;
hut if not, he shall return it. with his objec
tions, to the house in which it originated,
who shall e iter the objections at large on
their journal and proceed to reconsider it.
If, after such reconsideration, two thirds of
that house Rliall agree to pass the bill, it
shall be sent, together with the objections,
to the other house, by which it shall like
wise be reconsidered ; and, if approved by
two thirds of that house, it shall become a
law. But in all such cas.-s the votes of both
houses shall be determined by yeas and
nays, to be entered on the journals of each
house respectively. If any bill shall not be
returned by the Governor within three days
(Sundays excepted) after it shall have been
presented to him, the same shall be a law
in like manner as if he had signed it, unless
the assembly, by adjournment, prevent its
return, in which case it shall not become a
law.
Sec. 3. And he it further enacted , Thai
section nine of the act to which this act is
amendatory be altered so as to read as fol
lows: Section 9. Ami he it further enacted.
That the judicial power of said Territory
shall be vested in a supreme court, district
courts, probate courts, and justices of the
peace. The supreme court shall consist of
a chief justice and two associate justices,
any two of whom shall constitute a quorum,
and who shall hold a term at the seat of
government of said Territory annually, and
they shall hold their offices during a period
of four years. The said Territory shall be
divided into three judicial districts, and a
district court shall be held in each of said
districts by one of the justices of the su
preme court at such time and place as may
be prescribed by law ; and the said judges
rhall, after their appointments, respectively
reside in the districts which shall be assigned
them. The jurisdiction of the several courts
herein provided for, both appellate and orig
inal, and of justices of the peace, shall be
as limited by law : Prodded , That justices
of the peace shall not have jurisdiction of
any matter in controversy when the title or
boundaries of land may be in dispute, or
when the debt or sum claimed shall exceed
three hundred dollars ; and the said probate
court shall not have jurisdiction of any mat
ter in controversy when the debt or sum
claimed shall exceed the sum of two thous
and dollars ; and said supreme and district
court shall have authority for redress of all
wrongs committed against the constitution
and laws of the United States ; and the said
supreme, district, and probate court, respect
ively, shall possess chancery as well as com
mon law jurisdiction and authoriiy for the
redress of all wrongs committed against the
laws of said Territory, affecting persons or
property. Each district court, or the judge
thereof, shall appoint its clerk, who shall
also be the register in chancery, and shall
keep his office at the place where the court
may be held. Writs of eiror, bills of excep
tions, ami appeals shall be allowed from the
final decisions of said district and probate
courts to the supreme court, under such reg
ulations ns shall be prescribed by law : but
in no case removed to the supreme court
shall trial by jury be allowed in said court.
The supreme court, or justices thereof, shall
appoint its own clerk, and every clerk shall
hold his office at the pleasure of the court for
which he sludl have been appointed. Writs
of error, and appeals from the final decisions
of said supreme court shall be allowed and
may be taken to the supreme court of the
United States, in the same manner and un
der the same regulations as from the circuit
courts of the United States, when the value
of the property, or the amount in controver
sy, to be ascertained by the onth or affirma
tion of either party, or other competent wit
ness, shall exceed one thousand dollars : and
each of said supreme and di .trict c uirts shall
have and exercise the same jurisdiction in all
cases arising under the constitution and laws
of the United States as is vested in the cir
cuit and district courts of the United States;
and the said supreme and district courts of
saiil Territory, and the respective judges
thereof, shall and may giant writs of habeas
corpus in all cas-'s in which the same are
granted by the judges ol the United States
in the District of Columbia: and the first six
days of every term of said courts, or so much
thereof as shall b,- necessary, shall be appro
priated to the trial of rinses arising under
the said constitution and laws ; and writs of
error and appeals in all siieh cases shall be
made to the supreme court of said Territory
the same as in other easts. The s tid clerk
shall receive in all such cases tlu- same fees
which the cleiks of the dis ri t courts of Or
egon Territory received for similar services.
See. 4. And he it further enacted , That,
the provisions of sections on<» and two of this
act shall be applicable to the Territory of Da
kota, and shall have like effect as in the Ter-
ritory of Colorado.
Ai'Pßovr.n, March -, 1 Mi;i.
[Prni.ii' —X<>. 77. ]
An act to modify existing laws imposing
Duties on Imports, and for other Pur
poses.
lie it enacted hi/ the Senate and House of
llepresentatires of the United States of Amer
ica in Congress assembled, That, all goods,
wares, and merchandise now in public stores
or bonded warehouses, on which duties are
unpaid, having been in bond more than one
year and less than three years, when the act
entitled "Ail act increasing temporarily, the
duties on imports, and for other purposes,"
approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-two, went into effect, may be en
tered for consumption and the bonds can
celled, at any time before the first day of
June next, on payment of duties at the rates
prescribed by the act aforesaid, and all acts,
and parts of acts, inconsistent with the pro
visions of this aet are hereby repealed.
See. 'J. And hi' it farther enacted, That
section fourteen of an act entitled, " An aet
increasing temporarily the duties on imports,
and for other purposes," approved July four
teenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be,
and the sitne hen by is, modified so as to
allow eotton and raw silk as reeled from the
cocoon, of the g owth or produce of countries
beyond the Cape of Good Hope, to be ex
empt from any additional duty when im
ported from places this side of the Cape of
Good Hope, for two year; from and after the
passage of this aet.
See. 3. A/id he it farther enacted, That so
much of an act entitled " An act to author
ize protection to be given to citizens of the
United States, who may discover deposits of
guano," approved August eighteen, eighteen
hundred and fifty-six, as prohibits the export
thereof, is hereby suspended in relation to all
persons who have complied with the provis
ions of section second of said act for two
years from and after July fourteenth, eight
een hundred and sixty-three.
Sec. 4. And he it further enacted, That
the proviso in section fifteen of an act enti
tled "An act increasing temp irarily the du
ties on imports, and for other purposes," ap
proved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, shall bo construed to include any
ship, vessel, or steamer to or from any port
or place south of Mexico down to and in
cluding Aspinwall and Panama.
Sec. 5. And he it further enacted. That in
lieu of the duties now imposed by law there
shall be levied and collected upon printing j
paper unsized, used for books and newspa
pers exclusively, twenty per centum ad val
orem ; upon seedlac and sticklac the samo
duties now imposed upon gum shellac; upon
polishing powders of till descriptions. Frank
fort black, and llerlin, Chinese, Fig and
wash blue, twenty.five per centum ad val- i
orem.
Sec. 6. And be it farther enacted. That
from and after the passage of this act, the
duty on petroleum and coal illuminating oil,
crude and not refined, when imported from
foreign countries in a crude state, shall be
twenty per centum ad valorem, and no more.
Sec. 7. And he it. further enacted, That
from and after the passage of this act, there
shall be allowed a drawback on foreign salt
petre, manufactured into gunpowder in the
United States and exported therefrom, equal
in amount to the duty paid on foreign salt
petre from which it shall be manufactured,
to be ascertained under such regulations as
shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, and no more: Prorided, That ten
per centum on the amount of all drawbacks
so allowed shall be retained for the use of
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1803.
the United States by the collectors paying
such drawbacks respectively.
AI'I'IIOVRD, -March 3, LBGJ.
[PCHLIC —No. 78.J
An act to promote the efficiency of the Corps
of Engineers and of the Ordnance De
partment, and for other Purposes.
He it enacted by the Senate and House of
Repre*entatire.i of' the United States of Amer
ica in Congress assembled. That the corps
of topographical engineers, us a distinct
branch of the army, is hereby abolished, and
from and after the passage of this act, is
merged into the corps of engineers, which
shall have the following organization, viz :
one chief engineer, with the rank, pay, and
emoluments of a brigadier-general: four col
onels : ten lieutenant-colonels: twenty ma
jors: thirty captains; thirty first lieutenants,
and ten second lieutenants.
Sec. 2. And he it further enacted. That
the general officer provided by the first sec
tion of this act shall be selected from the
corps of engine rs as therein established:
and that officers of all lower grades shall
take rank according to their respective dates
of commission in the existing corps of engin
eers or corps of topographical engineers.
Sec. 3. And he it further enacted. That
no officer of the corps of engineers below the
rank of a field-officer shall, hereafter, be
promoted to a higher grade before having
passed a satisfactory examination before a
board of three engineers senior to him in
rank : and should the officer fail at said ex
amination, he shall be suspended from pro
motion from [for] one year, when be shall
be re-examined, and, upon a second failure,
shall be dropped by the President from the
armv.
Sec. -I. Anil he if further cnactnl. That
there shall be added to the ordnance depa«t
incut one lieutenant-colonel, two majors,
eight captains, eight first lieutenants; the
additional officers herein authorized to be ap
pointed bv promotion, so far as the present
officers of the ordnance corps will permit:
and the residue to be appointed by transfers
from other regiments or corps of the army ;
Prorhled, That no ofliccr of the ordnance
department below the rank of a field oliicer
shall be promoted or commissioned to a
higher grade, nor shall any oliicer of the
army be commissioned as an ordnance officer
until lie shall have passed a satisfactory ex
amination before a board of not less than
three ordnance officers, senior to him in
rank: and should such officer fail 011 such
examination he shall be suspended from pro
motion or appointment for one year, when
he may be re-examined before a like board :
and if, upon such second examination, an
ordnance officer fail, he shall be dismissed
from the service, and if an officer of the army
he shall not he commissioned.
Sep. o. And In' il furthn • innrlnl, That
section two of the net approved March three,
eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled
" An act to provide fur the payment of horses
and other property lost or destroyed in the
military service of the United States," shall
be construed to include steamboats and
other vessels, and " railroad engines and
ears," in the property to be allowed and paid
for when destroyed or lost under the circum
stances provided for in said act.
Sec. G. And he it further enacted, That all
payments of advance bounty made to en
listed men who have been discharged before
serving out the term required by law for its
payment in full shall be allowed in the set
tlement of the accounts of paymasters at
the treasury; but hereafter, in all such cases,
the amount so advanced shall be charged
against the enlisted men. unless the discharge
be upon surgeon's certificate for wounds re
ceived or sickness incurred since their last
enlistment.
Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That
upon any requisition hereafter being made
by the President of the United States for
militia, any person who shall have volun
teered or been drafted for the service of the
United States for the term of nine months,
or a shorter period, may enlist into a regi
ment from the same state to serve for the
term of one year, and any person so enlist
ing shall be entitled to and receive a bounty
of fifty dollars, to be paid in time and man
ner provided by the act of July twenty-sec
ond, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for the
payment of the bounty provided for by that
act.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
the officers of tlic medical department shall
unite with the line officers of the army under
such rules and regulations as shall be pre
scribed by the Secretary of War, in super
vising the cooking within the same as an
important sanitary measure, and that said
medical department shall promulgate to its
officers such regulations and instiuctions as
may tend to insure the proper preparation of
the ration of the soldier.
Sec. 9. And he it. further enacted, That
cooks shall be detailed, in turn, from the
privates of each company of troops in the
service of the United States, at the rate of
one cook for each company numbering less
than thirty men, and two cooks for each
company numbering over thirty men, who
shall serve ten days each.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted , That
the President of the United States, be, and
he is hereby, authorized to be enlisted, for
each cook, two under-cooks of African de
scent, who 6hall receive for their full com
pensation ten dollars per month, and one ra
tion per day—three dollars of said monthly
pay may be in clothing.
See. 11. And be it j>n ther enacted, That
the army ration shall hereafter include pep
per, in the proportion of four ounces to ev
ery hundred rations.
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That
the increase of rank of officers, and in the
number of officers provided for in this act,
shall continue only during the existence of
the present rebellion; and thereafter the
several officers promoted under this act shall
have the respective rank they would have had
if this act had not passed, and the number
shall be reduced by the President to the
number authorized by law prior to the pas
sage of this act.
APVHOVKD, March 3, 1803.
WHAT is CillißK ?— PROY pardon tin* nan
of a slang limi; Impudence will not do, tor
it may exist without shrewdness; nor Self
possession, for tliat is a passive rather than
an active virtue; nor Courage, which is often
allied with inodestv; nor IJoldness, which a
man may have without humor. True, vou
may say that a man has tho face to sav or do
anything; hilt that is a roundabout way of
expressing oneself, and you cannot speak of
his face in an allegorical sense, or call him
/inn/, (irant me the term, then, ami I will
endeavor to explain it to my young-brotlier
less lady readers. Cheek, is a rare
union of fun, impudence, readiness, persever
ence, and intelligence, endowing its possessor
with thi' powi-r of walking quietly over social
obstacles ; which form an impassable brrrier
to the majority of mankind. For example, it
was " check " that gave IMagones the ndvan
tagu over Alexander; that procured wives
(it is groat at that) for the early Unmans;
that got dearold Falstnft'out of all his scrapes,
enabling him to "make a good end" instead
ot a parlous b-d one j that procured James
Hoswell admission to a club and nicli in his
tory denied to many a better man; that en
abled tin) great Partium to gull his fellow
creatures out of a fortune, and when he had
spent that, to make a second by telling his
dupes, fire to fice, how he had done them.—
Onre it 11 'n k.
TIIB ADVANTAGE AT CHARLESTON ON
THI: L\X ION SI IM:. —The rebels begin to have
'vivid glimpses of the "situation," since the
fall of Yieksburg, and Port Hudson, the de
feat of Leo, and the nearly successful as
sault upon Fort Wagner, which the Charles
ton Mercury says is the key to Charleston.
That paper of the 14th of July, says:
It appears to us useless to attempt to dis
guise from ourselves the situation. By
whose fault we got into it is vain now to in
quire. The Yankees have gotten possession
of the southern half of Morris Island.
There is but one way to save the city of
Charleston, and that is the speedy and un
flinching use of the bayonet. If the fight
on Morris Island is to be now fought by en
gineering and cannon merely, the advantage
is with the enemy. With their iron-dads
011 water, and their men in occupation of
tho land, it is likely to become a question of
time. The fall of Fort Wagner ends in the
fall of Charleston. Fort Sumter, like Fort
Wagner, will then be assailable by both land
and sea, and the fate of Fort Pulaski will be
that of Sumter. (Jen. (iilmorc, commander
of the department, is the man who reduced
Fort Pulaski.
fgr" An old lawyer was giving ad vice to his
.-on who was just entering upon the practice
of liis father's* profession. "My sou," said the
councellor, "it you have n case where tleilaw
is clearly on your side, but justice seems to be
clearly against yon, urge upon the jury the
vast importance of sustaining the law. It on
the other linnd you are in doubt about the law,
but your client's case is founded on justice,
insibt on the necessity of doing justice though
the heavens should fall." " But," asked the
son, " how shall I manage a case when both
law and justice are dead against me?" "In
that, case," replied the lawyer, " talk round
it!"
SOMKTHI.VU TO LOVE. —The human heart
has of course its pouting fits; it determines to
live alone; to fieo iuto desert places; to have
no employment, that is, to love nothiug; but
to keep on sileutly beating, beating, boating,
until ueath lays his little linger on the sulky
thing, and ail is still. It goes away from the
world, and strnightwny, shut from humau
coinpany.it falls in love with n plant, a stone,
yea, it dandles cat or dog, and calls the crea
ture darling. Yes, it is the beautiful necessity
of our nnture to love something.
A\' KIIROR CORRECTED. —Jerrold was se
riously disappointed with a certain hook
written by one of his friends. This friend
heard that Jen old had expressed his disap
pointment.
Friend, (to Jerrold) —" I hear you said
was the worst book I ever wrote."
Jerrold —" No, I didn't. I said it was the
worst book any body ever wrote.
THH HEASO.N WHY.— One evening at the
Museum Club a member very ostentatiously
said, in a loud voice:
" Isn't it strange, wc had no fish at the
Marquis' last night ? That has happened
twice lately'. I cau't account for it."
" Nor I," replied Jerrold, " unless tbey ate
it all up stairs."
YOUNG LADIES' ACCOMPLISHMENTS. —BIess
their little fillagree hearts! before they marry
they ought to perform quarantiuo in cotton,
and servo seven years to pies and puddings.
SELF-RESPECT. —SeIf-respect! why it's the
ballast of the ship. Without it, let the craft
be what eho will, she'a but a fine sea-coffin at
the best.
[Prom the Sacramento Union.]
Military Growth of the Nation.
In tile lmrry of exciting events attending
the death throes of the Southern rebellion,
we are apt to overlook the astonishing growth
of military capacity upon the Union side.
Turning hack to the Spring of 1861, when
the confident traitors opened their batteries
against the Government, it will be found that
thrt nu-n who were conspicuous agents in
firing the Southern heart, held and expres
sed n cheap estimate of the fighting temper
of those busy, toiling, trading communities
north of the Potomac. In fact, while preach
ing the beauties of seceFsion, some of the ora
tors of Dixie assured their ignorant auditors
that there would bo no war, because the
" Yankees " had no stomach for the struggle.
Others were confident that if President Lin
coln dared to take up the gauntlet of the
Palmetto knights, a Southern army could im
mediately march for the North and dictate
the terms of peace in Philadelphia. The con
ceited Peauregard sneered at our first raw
levies as an " armed rabble led by an octoge
narian," adding that the person who cocld
doubt tho issue of the contest must be demen
ted. We have been subject to taunts on ac
count of the ninety days prophecies of Secre
tary Seward—predictions probably designed
tot>crve a diplomatic purpose; but it is the
simple truth to say that, at the beginning of
the war, there was scarcely a rebel orator or
editor who did not predict the decisive tri
umph of the usurpation, by force of arms as
well as by foreign recognition, before the
close of the first year of the contest. Foreign
critics sneered at the military movements of
both belligerents. We were told that volun
teers would not submit to rigid discipline;
that we had no leaders capable of handling
large armies, and that our battles would be
nothing more than skirmishes. Allowance
can lie made for the ignorance and intense
prejudice of these foreign critics. Put how
are we to account for the absurd boasting of
Jeff. Davis, Peaureganl and others who had
fought side by side with Northern soldiers in
the Mexican war I Were they blinded by
the mists of conceit, or were they deliberately
deluding the ignorant masses of the South?
The truth was that while there was abundance
or personal pluck 011 both sides, when the re
bellion began, neither belligerants was pre
pared to carry 011 a war on a grand scale.
Moth found immense difficulty in organizing
armies, subjecting the volunteers to discipline
and selecting competent commanders. The
advantage of preparation was with the rebels.
They were drilling and scraping lint while
those who represented the North were toy
ing persuasively with olive branches of peace
and compromise. The enemy also had better
horses and more practiced horsemen for the
cavalry service than wo could command. A
more decided advantage still was with the
rebel side. Thoy had a definite purpose and
their leaders were zealous in seeking a cer
tain aim. Our Generals—except the earnest,
resolute Lyon—were compromise men, who
affected to discredit tho idea that the rebels
really wanted to dissolve the Uuion.
| We often speak of 'GI as our year of pre
paration. We havo never ceased to prepare
—to improve our plans and organization—to
correct our early mistakes—to prow in fight
ing capacity and knowledge of the art of war.
The strife has bred its own Generals—men
capable of handling large armies, and of ex
l li.misting the resources of attack and defense,
i We have no Napoleon—for such Generals
1 are century plants. Old Europe, with her
chronic wars and huge armies cannot boast of
a General of a higher order of ability than
Sonlt or Dessaix. Allowance must he made,
also, for the natural difficulties of the country,
the lack of topographical knowledge, and the
use of new artillery, requiring special study.
Our infantry, cavalry and artillery will now,
we think, stand the test of comparison with
any in the world. The foreigner has ceased
to sneer at our " skirmishers," and begun to
protest against the terribly destructive char
acter of ttie battles fought. As for the plan
tation opinion of the capacity of free States
to sustain a protracted war withont financial
ruin, to withstand the array of "Southern
steel," to send horsemen into the field able to
meet th« troopers of Stuart, to fight successful
ly beyond tbe cover of gunboats, and to sub
jugate traitors, we imagine there has been a
mighty, but tardy, revulsion. Hut one battle
has been fought upon Northern soil. South
ern cities carefully fortified and defended, have
been captured and held. Our cavalry have
defeated Stuart's horsemen in H dozen fights
and raided the South ina style uever equaled
by the enemy. We have repeatedly attack
ed and driven the foo from tno strongest po
sitions, and the majority of the battles fought
in the open field have terminated in National
victories. Finally, while the slave States
have been devastated, and their power of rais
ing armies exhausted, the free States have
maintained peace within their borders, enjoy
ed an extraordinary degree of prosperity, and
shown that, should the emergency require it,
they can put another army in the field out
numbering the huge masses of the past and
present campaigns. A more decisive vindi
cation of democratic institutions could not be
desired. Beneficent in peace, they have de
monstrated their tendency to strengthen the
siuews of war. It is now said that the South
is the weaker section, and that she has dis
played wonderful ability in maintaining the
struggle so long against superior numbers.
But the leaders and orginators of the rebel
lion contended that the slave States were the
strongest, and they never would have begun
the fight if they had not thought so. They
asserted that we were a nation of sordid tra
ders, whose numbers would not avail in a cou
test with the " military people " of the South.
Wo concede the vnlor of tlieir soldier* and
the proficiency of some of their Generals.
They have shown their ability to defeat any
European army that may iuvado their soil.
Dnt we have established beyond controversy
that for development in pertfce, for creating the
resources of war, and for inspiring a respect
for the law and order, the democracy of ill*
North has an immense advantage over the
aristocracy of the South. May our glorious
flag soon float over a united people, from the
Aroostook to the Rio Grande, rejoicing iu
the blessings of free institutions—prosperous
in peace—triumphant in war!
Mining Under the Sea.
Mining can hardly boa pleasant occupation.
The absence of suu and all natural lignt, tba
dripping sides of the Hliaft, tli« danger of ex
plosion from the fire damp, of jutting rock*
and numerous*other perils, invest it with vague
terrors to active imaginations. But when the
shafts run under the sea, and the swell of the
ocean is distinctly audible, it must suggest
many fears to the diligent miners. The fol
lowing graphic discription is taken from an
English paper:
We are now four hundred yards out under
the bottom of the sea, and twenty feet below
t'le sea level. Coast-trado vessels are sailing
over our heods. Two hundred and forty feet
below us men are at work, and there are gal
leries yet below that. The extraordinary po
sition down the fare of the cliff, of the engine*
and other works on the surface, at Bottallie in
now explained. The mine is not excavated
like other mineH under the earth, but under
the sea. Having communicated these partic
ulars the miner tells us to keen silent and lis
ten. We obey him, sittiug there speechlesa
and motionless. If the reader could only
liave beheld us now, dressed ill our copper
colored garments, huddled close together in a
mere cleft of subterranean rock, with a flame
burning on our heads and darkness enveloping
our limbs, he must certainly have imagined,
without any violent stretch of fancy that he
was looking down upon a conclave of gnomes.
After listening a few minutes, a distant
sound becomes faintly audible—a long, low,
mysterious moaning that never changes, a
sound that might proreed from incalculable
distance—from some fir, invisible height—a
sound unlike anything that is heard on upper
ground, iu the free air of heaven— a sound so
sublimely mournful and still, so ghostly and
impiessive when listened to in the subterra
nean recesses of the earth, that we continue
instinctively to hold our peace as if enchanted
by it. and think not of communicating to each
other the strange awe and astonishment
which it has inspired in us from the very fint.
At last the miner speaks ngain, and tells us
that what we hear is the sound of the snrf
lashing the rocks a hundred and twenty feet
above us and of the waves that are breaking
on the beach beyond. The tide is now at the
flow, and the sea is in no extraordinary state
of agitation, so the sound is low and distant
just at this period. But when storms are at
their height, when the ocean hurls mountain
after mountain of water on the cliffe, then the
noise is terrific; the roariug heard down hen
in the mine is so inexpressible fierce and aw
ful that the boldest men at work aro afraid to
continue their labor; all asceud to the surface
to breathe the upper air, and stand on firm
earth, dreading—though no catastrophe has
happened yet—that the sea will break in
upon them if they remain in the cavern be
low.
Hearing this, we get up to look at tbe rack
above us. We are able to stand upright in
tbe pobition we now occupy; and flaring oar
canales bitber and tbither in the darknesa,
cnn see tbe bright, pure copper at roaming
through the gallery in every direction. Lunpa
of ooze, of the moat lustrous green color, trav
ersed by a natural network of tbin, red veins
of iron, appear here and there in large irregu
lar patches, over which water is drippiug
slowly and incessantly in certain place*. This
is the salt water percolating through invisible
crannies in the rock. Ou stormy days it
spirts ont furiously in continuous streams.
Just over our heads we observed a wooden
plug of the thickness of a man's leg; then la
a hole there, and that plug is all we have
keep out the sea.
Immense wealth of metal is contained ift
the roofs of this gallery throughout its fqtfm
length, but it will always remain untouched}
the miners daro not take it. for it is a part
(nnd a great part) of tbe rock which la their
only protection against the sea, and whleh hat
been so far worked away here that iis thick*
ness is limited to an average of three feet onlv
betweeu tbe water and the gallery in which
we now atand. No one knows what might ha
the consequence of another day's labor with
the pickaxe on any part of it.
Music. —There is something very wonderful
in music. Words are wonderful enough, bat
music is even more wonderful. It speak* Mi
to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight
to our hearts and spirits—to the very son
and root of our souls, If osic soothe* us, at in
us up; it puts noble feelings into ns; it Melte
us to tears, we know not bow; it is a lan*
gunge by itself, jnatas perfect iutta wayaa
speech, as words; just as divine, just as
blessed.
Whenever I find a great deal of irati
tude in a poor man, I take it for granted that
there would be as much generosity if he wan
a rich man.— CW/M.
i ■ . , ti
A WIFE AT Forrv.—"My notion offwlfc
at forty," said Jerrold, " Is, that a nan should
be able to change her, like a bank Bote, far two
twenties."
NO. 42.