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VOL. 6.
BUTTE RECORD.
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DENTISTS*
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HENRY A GASYOIV
ATTORNEY AT RAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
OFFICF —(Temper uv) with Judge Well*, opposite
Xlourt House, east side-Plaza. j \ •20
S- ROSENBAUM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OFFICK —With -I 11 It-irkrr, K 4 , ettst aide of tbo
iMaza, opposite the Court House. aug4
GEORGE
WATCHMAKER
E SMITH.
AND JEWELER.
Montgomery street, between Myers ana Huntocta
Streets Orovillle.
ALL KINDS oK JEWELRY mmfe
to or+r_Pl,\'.luMi VVnKK and
iv other Prel i ms Clones set in benulßui
style. COLD AND Wr tch
CS*Uhaiiif,Gold Buckles, Pens, Clocks,
csd nam!*,«. f ii.! Buckles,«’e
/r-'/ - If VC., *M-«.ih .
4\Yfw " ATI lies MIPAIteRD
j>«~soro)/|r.and warranted.
Don’t forge*. he name. GEO. E. :
At Rosenthall s Old Stand
uy mygf*tf
•MITIf,
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G C HARVEY
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Orovii’.e, Untie County.
Orric*—On the Plaza, opposite the Court House.
Bird street. Special attention given to the searching 6f
County Records, Investigation of Tales, and to the draw
ini? of Deeds and Conveyances for record. odd
HENRY GATEYMAN
GERMAN PAIN Tt R .
Miners’ Alley,
East side, between Iluntoon and Myers streets
OroVHlc. my 7
MIKARD II EARLEY
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIC, REAL ESTATE
AGENT AND CONVEYANCER.
OFF! E—On r.ird street, north eiile of the Plvzn
031
BURT & RHODES
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS aT LAW,
Oroville,
Office, —Hirdslrcet.ia Hurt’s new brick building,up
Karra. o!3
CHARLES F LOTT
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
AND NOT ARY PUBLIC.
Oroville Butte Co.
Or nr*—Bird street, between Myers and Iluntoon.
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THOMAS WELLS.
ATTORNEY A T LA W,
Oroville, Butte Co.
Special attention given lo the searching of County
Records,! nve»:igut ion of Titles, Jcc.,aud to the drawing
Deed sand all instruments for record
OFFlCE—lluntoon stre -L opposite the Court lions©.
8-45
jambs o'obxcn. hi- b
■particular attention paid to chronic diseases, and
•all ethers common ii* this country. Has had large
•e*jutrience in hospital and family practice, and con
fidently hopes f »r a share of public patronage.
Orru k—At the County Hospital, Lynchburgh.
n2O
JOHN S BERRY,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
OFFICE—Bird street, threo doors above the Butt©
Record office.
JAMES S LONG,
COU X T Y SURVEYOR.
Of nr k —ln the Court House. ocO
EYE- EAR & SURGIC VL INFIRMARY
Hubbard & Teed,
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS OFFICE—D street,
between Second and Third streets, Marysville
N B.—Opcraiionson the r.\© and Ear and the Treat
ment of ihoir Diseases, will receive special attention
Dr. M. Vrooman.
OFFICE —On Bird street two doors Irom the
ufflo. Theatre block. »»dlci hours, from 9A. M..
to 12 M., and from 2 I*. M, lo 0 o’clock. Calls from
the country, of responsible men, will be punctually at
tended. Kates of char; the «arß2 as adopt©! by
Ah© Butt© County Medtrai Society apl
S W W COU6HE7.
ATTORX K V A T LA W,
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OrncK—Bird street.
Oroville, Bulle County, Cal.
dec. 1. ’5B.
J. Upstone,
Comer of Montgomery arid Oak Streets, Oroville,
Dealer is d: s. steel.’springs, axles,
iiom. Coal, Blacksmith’s Tools. Carriage Lumbar,
•uc Quar z Stiver, Iron SB a ::e r - :u: I D» -■;*, made lo
order. jc>otf
Notice.
WM. WILSOX HAS UEMOVF.O
-"-J hi-, office from I; id well to 0:u\:l)c. i.ppos-ite the
ft- Nicholas Hotel. oc-10
Insolvency Notice.
OF CALIFORNIA—COUXTY op BUTTE :
Tn County Court. In the matter of Jmmes II Cola
l>an vs. His Creditors, in pursuance of the order if the
County Judge, at chambers. lh«s day made: Sou;© i*
hereby given !.* the credit »r? ol James H. pe
titioner in insolvency, to be and appear before the
County Judge of Butt© cojntv. at chambers, at h;s <>f»
fice in said county, on the T.’n day of Decern b© a i» ISSB,
at 10 o’clock a m , to >!■ w c : ;m\ they have, why
the prayer of slid petitioner should col* be granted. and
he be discharge t from his debt's : and that all judicial
proceeding- ag- inst s ,: d in-lreut remain stayed until
the dual cktUtrtni nation of his petition filled in said
Court.
Witness my hand and the s al «f said court affixed,
Ik is sth day ut Ni ' ember a d
saal M II DA REACH,
Nov. 6. 1?5? 4w Clerk Co. Court, Butte co. Cal.
Justice’s Summons.
7 UNITED STATES OP AMERIC A
St*u> of California, County of Butts b>. In Jus
tick’s Court, Opbir township. Ti e People of th'
Male of California to Ah Wi greeting: You a-e hereby
•ummoned to apj ar before me, a: my office in Ophir
Township, Count} li'uu-, 14 th day of De
cember, a. d. Hl lo K-k a. m.. lo aa»wer
unto the compUint of Ah Tim, who sued to recover
th© sum of one hundred dollars, alleged lob© due him
from you for motu-y had and received, at your si»ecial
instance and request, w!i©n judgmebt wi.l be taken
against you for the sail ;mount, ti gelher with costs
Kvi.JUhle, ;■ «UUc.umy,gn.« tl i.g: Make
service mod due n-saru hereof,
under lu .y h«KUhi, third 'dnt- of IV«mbor.
>. ». IsoS. C.O. LINCOLN, Ju.ttco of !>««>
8ec.4,1?3r>. of-u d Township
THE WEEKLY BUTE RECORD.
The Faithless Nelly Gray,
BY TO* HOOD-.
Ben Rattle was a soldier bold,
And u:-ed to wars alarms ;
But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
So he laid down his arms 1
Now. as they bore him off the field,
Said he "Let others ahoot.
For here I leave my second leg.
And the Forty-second Foot!’’
The army-surgeons made him limbs ;
Said he "they're only pegs ;
Bat there's as wooden members quite
As represent my legs I*’
Now, Ben he loved a pretty maid,
Her name was Nelly Gray ;
So he went to pay her his devoirs,
When he'd devoured his pay.
But when he called on Nelly Gray,
She made him quite a solff,
Aird when she saw his w-.odeu legs,
Began to take them off!
Y ‘o, Nelly Gray !0, Nelly Gray!
1- ibis your love so warm?
The love that loves a scarlet coat
Should be mure uniform I”
*aid she. “I loved a soldier onn>,
For he was blithe and brave.
But I will never wed a man
With both legs in the grave !
‘•Before you had those timber-toes,
Your love I did allow,
Bui then, you know,you stand upon
Another footing now!"
“0, Nelly Gray! O. Nel 1 y Gray I
For all yonr jeering speeches.
At duty's call. I left my legs
In Badajos, breaches !"
■Wy then.” said <he. “you've lost the feet
Ot tegs in war's alarms.
And now ynii cannot vicar your .-hoes
L'pon your feats of arms!'”
“0. false and fickle Nelly Gray,
1 know why you refuse ;
Though I've no feet—s>mc other man
Is standing in my -hoes.
“I wish I ne'er had seen your face ;
But, now. a long farewell!
For you n il! be my death :—ala-
You will not be my JS’ell! '
Now’, when he went from Nelly Gray-,
His heart so heavy gut,
And life was such a burthen grown,
It made him take a km 4 1
Po round his melancholy neck,
A r*»pe he did entwine.
* And, for the second time in life,
Enlisted in the Line I
One end he tied around a beam,
And then removed hi- i egs.
And, as his legs were off— of conrss
He soon was off his leg*!
■And there he hang till he was dea-i
As any nail in towu, —
For though distress had ent him up
It could not cut him down 4
A dozen men sat on his corpse,
To find out why he died
And they buried Ben in four cross-roiuH,
With a stake in his inside-!
Female Virtue and Gambi.txg.— As a
proof of tire intensely demoralizing- effect of
card-playing, we give the following extract.
Our readers may think 113 too sweeping in our
condemnation of what many consider merely
an innocent amusement, which so long as they
play for “love"—which is, we believe, the tech
nical term—is no doubt harmless ; but at the
best a frivolous, untellectual method of fritting
away the lime. Either mnsic or dancing are
surely infinitely preferable, especially for young
people, and when persons are too old to dance
themselves, wo cannot conceive any greater
pleasure than watching the -enjoyment of the
young :
“The latest from a German bath tells us
how a gentleman un jcune it-mnh Iran gnrcnn
—a dashing player, dropped his banknotes;
not in the rapi 1 signification, but in tbe veri
table one. They were to the amount of 10,0(10
francs. A lady at his side was troubled with
a severe cough for a moment, and received the
condolence of all present, who of course saw
in her all the sorrows of a Violetta, freed from
her sins. The cough censed her to stoop be
side the table, and shortly a'terwards, with a
hectic flush that awoke double commiseration,
to retire from the table. There are disciples
of Voltaire still in existence. Oiie of them,
his counterpart in sharp physiognoms and cynic
smile, but looking a trifle more like the man of
elevated society, touched beau gairon on the
shoulder —“You have lost some bank notes,"
A moment's examination of the little banking
heap at his side and there is an -Un'effcl,
monsieur, vauz are: raison.’’ “They are in
that lady's pocket who has just left the table,"
said the old gentleman with the true Voltaire
malicious smile. “Oh, impossible sir." “Have
her searched quietly observed the old man.
“Impossible' I dare not." lint 1 dare even
more than youth will, then for the good of so
ciety.” A nimble step brings him to the side
of the lady. A sort of half polite, half-cava
licr tone is assumed. For a moment the lady
dottiest but seeing the stern look of the old
man and the inquiring glanceof the young one.
now at her side, she dips into her pocket. She
would see. (fit. yes 1 she found them, and was
just upon the point of giving them to the pro
prietor of the union to have them advertised!
Then, with a recovery of self-possession, site
exclaimed, with the srracc of the demi-monde,
“will monsieur not reward me for my trouble?”
The Growth oe a Sine.—This piece of
ship anatomy was, a few months since, the
home of singing birds: and it, green leaves
danced and twinkled to their music. And
now . though stripped and scenting dead, it w ill
live a gallant life : it will feel a noble sympa
thy with giant being; it will pulsate the bil
low ; it will be a portion cf a living ship; a
beautiful and fearful thing, lull-breasted, robed
in flowing snow ; a thing where grace and
mightiness marry, and are indivisibly harmon
ized. The growth of a ship 1 The growth of
a human thing 1 Why, it is alike. The earth
and sky—all the elements have done their min
istering, nursing the primal germ. And then,
as the babe is to be the man, so is the timber
to the craft. The child becomes an honest
trader or a sinful thief. The oak swims a mer
chant. or plunders as a buccaneer. —Douglas
Jerrold.
Extraordinary Compromise.—At the last
Durham assizes, a very deaf old lady, who bad
brought an action for damages against a neigh
bor. was being examined, when the judge sug
gested a compromise, and instructed counsel To
ask iter what she w uld take to settle matters
“What will you take?' asked the gentleman
in the bob-tailed wig of the old ladv.
The old lady merely shook her head.
“His lordship wants to know what yon will
lake ?” asked the counsel again, this time
bawling as loud as he could in the old lady's
car.
■I thank his lordship kindly.” the ancient
dame answered stoutly ; -and if it is no in
convenience to him. I'll take a little warm
ale."— Beil’s Life in London.
OEOYILLE, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18.1858.
Sau Francisco a Ship Building Depot.
Several weeks ago Captain Davidoff. of the
Russian Imperial N'avy, arrived at this port
from the Antoor River, with Instructions from
the Emperor to have a steam gun-boat con
structed in California for the use of the Rus
sian Government on the Coast of Eastern Asia.
I he Captain has since that time been engaged
in making examinations of the different kinds
of wood produced in this country with the
view of ascertaining whether that now used
for ship building purposes would answer the
desired purpose. The oak and laurel, now
principally adopted by ship builders, has an
swered very well for small vessels and inland
steamboats, for which the usually small dimen
sions of the wood seemed to meet every re
quirement, but whether that material would
apply to as large a vessel as a gun-boat which
i- to Ire of the size of those used in the Sea of
AzotT. by the English, in the late war, another
question.
The Russian Government has ordered that
the vessel shall be ready to leave California
by July next, and to be in the A moor River
by August, This demands the utmost dis
patch ; and the difficulty of the !a-k is shown
by the fact that the timber for the vessel has
yet to be cut from the woods. The chief
trouble, however, is that the timber, after be
ing -cut and.conveyed to the Xavy Yard, at
Mare Island, requires to bo seasoned before
being put into the hull of the gun boat.
The question thus arises whether, in the
stated period, any wood can be made ready for
the prescribed purpose, and whether, in* line,
the two classes of timber now used—laurel or
oak—can bo seasoned in that space of time.
Any ‘Old Californian,” who may be well in
formed on these matters will confer a favor by
addressing to this journal their views on the
subject, as well as to what arc the most dura
ble woods used for mechanical purposes ia this
Htate. Captain Jlavidplt has, wo believe, in
structions to apply elsewhere to have the ves
sel built, in case California does not offer the
requisite natural facilities. The mechanical
portion, he thinks, could not bo excelled any
where in the world. As an officer of exper
ience in naval construction, ho expresses the
highest opinion of the work he has seen, not
only at the Xavy Yard, ul Mare Island, but
at the private ship yards in .San Francisco.
At this time, when onr own Government is
having a war steamer built at the public works,
it would be a double honor to the growing me
chanical genius of our young Slate if Califor
nia could enjoy the honor of turning out the
first vessel for foreign service on the Pacific.
For this reason, we believe that any persons
having reliable information on the subjects
above referred to will not hesitate to commu
nicate them. New York has just completed
the largest wooden vessel in the world for the
Russian Government, (the ‘‘Grand Admiral”);
perhaps as that great power increases her
commercial operations in the A moor country,
she may often become a customer of our me
chanical works. We should, in this connec
tion, add that we were in error on Wednesday
in stating that the contract for the machinery
of the new war steamer about being set up at
Mare Island had been given to the Pacific
Foundry of this city. Several firms were bid
ders lor the work, but the prices were so large
ly over that of New York foundries that Com.
Csnningham deemed it expedient, before clos
ing with any, to write t > Washington for in
structions. The lowest bid was not much un
der seventy thousand dollars.
It is a matter of great importance to show,
by incontestible evidence, that California has
within herself, not only the mechanical skill
for the construction of naval ships, but the ma
terial ot which to build them. Eventually we
must maintain a "I’acific fleet” for the protec
tion of American commerce os this great
ocean. Those ships should never leave the
Pacific, and should be built in California, and
of California material.— S. F. Times, Dec. '3J.
Oxf-To see the effects of one's surroundings,
says the Philadelphia Gazette, Uok at the re
presentatives of the central flowery and, who
sells segars on the side walk, near the custom
bouse. The name of this exotic is Hang
Whan:'. Mr. Hang Whang has been in the
segar trade and the mode! republic about foe
weeks. He made his debut with his unmen
tionables nearest his skin, and his shirt outside
—the latest style current at Hong Kong. A
week afterwards he laid aside Chinese trousers
and took to Market street pants. The next
week he left off his bine frock, and came out
in a dress coat —the tail starched so si iff that
you might use it lor a boot jack. The next
change was to purchase a Warburton hat, and
to convert Ids former one into a portable
money drawer. We yesterday found him en
tirely transmogriged into anti Celestial—his
Chinese boots traded off for brogans and his
pig-tail braided up behind his cars like a las;
years bird’s nest. Yesterday evening we heard
him indulging in profanity. If ail this don’t
goto show the advantages of civilization, then
what docs ?
Tire Dlello ix Chicago.—ln a recent num
ber of the Chicago Journal we find the follow
ing ;
A legitimate bona fide duel took place this
morning upon the Garden City race course,
between a financier of this city and a clerk at
one of our hotels. The wounded honors were
occasioned by a lady, as usual. A formal
challenge was passed, and Colt’s revolvers were
the weapons selected. To make the affair still
mere interesting, Slot) were put up as a for
feit, in case either party backed out. and one
of jthem slept on the field last night to be in
readiness The parties met this morning on
the race course, armed and equipped as the
code directs. At tin given signal the princi
pals took deadly aim at each other and fired,
but neither was bit. The seconds declared the
affair honorably adjusted, except that neither
of them can hold office after this. We con
gratulate them that they had no need of a
Coroner.
Straxok Ixsrr.ANCE C >se,— An extraordi
nary insurance case is pending in Detroit, Mich
igan. _ The widow of S. M. Haldcu has sued
the New York Union Mutual Company for
the amount of a policy of ?9,000 on her hus
bands life, and there were, besides, other poli
cic- on his lile to the amount of §20.000. Mr.
Halden was killed a year ago at Ann Arbor,
having been shot by some unknown person
while on the way from the depot to his house.
Suspicions circumstances developed after the
murder have led to a belief that he was killed
to obtain the money from the life insurance
companies. The defendants in the suit now
pending slate that more careful and extended
inquiries lead them to the belief that this was
the result of a conspiracy, the principal actors
ot which are now living in remote parts of
New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana
and Michigan, and as yet beyond the reach of
process. They decline to give the names of
the parties, lest the ends ot justice may be de
feated.
Death of Pail, the Pistol-Shooter—W't
are informed, by a private letter from St. Louis,
says Porter's Spirit, that Capt. E. vY. Paul,
tUc great pistol-shot, died in that city on the
morning ot October 21st. He wa=. perhap-.
the best shooter, at fancy shooting, on the
wing, 4c.. that the world ever saw. Travis,
however, could beat him at the word, and also
at stationary mark.
A Grand Concert Room. —We find in the
Y. Musical rcveiw, a letter from J. M.
Boulard of the Allcghaniaus, dated Big Tree
Grove, California, July 10th, 1 isIS, in which
the followin account ol a concert on the stump
of the Btg Tree is given :
“We arrived here yesterday ; traveled fif
teen miles out of our route for the purpose of
viewing what I consider the greatest natural
curiosities in existence. These curiosities are
nothing more nor less than trees—trees of such
mammoth proportions that any description
which might be given of them must certainly
appear fabulous to any one who has not actu
ally s on them. Within an area of fifty acres
ninety-two o! these monster trees are found
standing, aud are, beyond doubt, the most stu
pendous vegetable products in the world.
They ar-- situated in a valley in Calaveras
county, at the source of the tributaries of the
Calaveras river, fifteen miles above Murphy's
Camp. These trees vary in sice from eighty
to one hundred and twelve feet in circumfer
ence, and from three hundred to four hundred
aud lit.y feet in bight. Only one of these gi
ants of the forest has ever been cut down ; aud
to accomplish this feat it took five men, with
saws and augurs, twenty-five days ; it was cut
ofl ten feet from the ground : the stamp at
this point meamres tbn-ijMirtWm in oiJmetcr;
and being covered or shaded by a beautiful
arbor, we used the top of this stump for a con
cert room.
Friday Evening, July 10th. we gave aregu
lar “Grand Slump Cencci',” “for one night
only,'' to an audience of fifty three persons ;
we sang all our national and patriotic songs,
and the enthusiasm manifested was almost un
bounded. and was certainly highly Mattering
to ns.
We have sung in the “Mammoth Cave,”
under the ‘ lb-so Shoe,’’at Niagara Falls,
and given hundreds of concerts during the
past twelve years, but never one that will be
longer remembered by us than the one given
upon the “Big Slump Only think of it, 53
persons besides our four solves and instrument
all npon the stump of a tree at the same time!
Boston Posts.—A western paper mentions
as among the advantages derived from a resi
dence in lowa that people who have endured a
childless union for “io. these many years,” in
other states, have been blessed with “well
springs of pleasure” to the full extent of their
The editor of Harper's Weekly has been
troubled with poetical correspondents. A
contributor, who signs himsutf Beelzebub,
sends a poem, of which the following couplet
is the conclusion:
“But now thy reign is well nigh o’er.
And soon IJuiuL. ty a-:T to he no mare!' 1 •
• leasing to be no more strikes us as being a sort
of double distilled extinction. Whover ’Beel
zebub may bo, he justifies his nomine de plume
by writing d—ish bad poetry.
“Roa : ;. me alive,” said Corwin, the wagon
boy.io-his speech at Xenia, Ohio.—“ Roast
mo alive ! i haven't got much fat. but it shall
all bo tried out of me before I will vote to ad
mit a slave state, kc. Tom's drippings
would supply any quantity of spirit lamps un
less his pores have been very open for the last
five years.
'I he popular idea that there is more going
on in a day in Xew York than iu some cities
!•> ;i fortnight seems to be forcibly demonstra
ted just now. There are races for a very lofty
figure—-S-i 0,000- sparnn » matches, lectures
on five, political meetings, operas iu every
known language, a trial for murder, theaters,
•heps'at hotels, sucides, and, in act, every
thing but virtue, order and decorum.
A Xew York correspondent of the London
Illustrated News, writing of the recent horse
show at Springfield, describes some of the no
tabilities present. Among them was Gov
emor Banks, lute Speaker of Congress, who
has his eagle ei:c on the Presidential chair.”
W e are glad that he has no other part of
him on the chair aforesaid. 'Eagle eye,’ in
deed !• Don’t insult the fierce grey’ bird!
dont.
A ‘medium' pretends to have discovered
Thurston, the unfortunate balloonist, and re
ports him in a house, sufLiing from a high fe
ver. His condition was rather high at last
accounts.
Who the Deixr Was it?—Brown tells us
Vermont story which be says is as authentic
as the best ot the Post anecdotes, and certain
ly nothing more can be required. -V respect
able gentleman in Windsor county, mauv
years ago, had an ambition to represent hi’s
town in the State legi hit ure. Though a man
of good character, and every way able enough
for the office besought, ho happened, as Aunt
Peggy used to say, to have -a great many
winning ways to make folks hate him,” anil
was in fact the most unpopular man in tow*.
Goi gto Squire X.. an influential man who
happened to be friendly to him. he laid his
case before him, and asked his influence; say
ing that he did not expect help without paying
for it, and declaring that if ho could gelX's
influence he was sure to be elected. The
’Sqaice “put in his best jumps” for his man ;
hut when the ballot box was turned, another
man was declared elected. The disappointed
candidate c-alh d to know how the vote stood,
and learned that he had got just three riles!
“But 1 don't understand ’ it.” said he, turn
ing to the Squire with a chop-fallen counte
nance.
“Xor 1 either," said the 'Squire; “I put in
my vote ; yon put in another ; but who the
d—l put iu the third is more than I can imag
ine.—Boston Post.
Thinking Canary.—A friend of ours is in
possession of a canary which we think is as
wonderful a bird as the old lady's hen who ob
served the .Sabbath by declining to lay eggs
on that day of the week.
This canary is a remarkable fine singer, and
from sunrise to sunset, he makes the neighbor
hood joyous with his melody. His owner is
unfortunately subject to sick head-ache, and
suffers so seriously that he is obliged to lay in
bed during the attack.
The last two or three times he has been
obliged to knock under to the malady, “Char
ley" has been perfectly mute—n d a note is
heard ; ho sits moping on his perch, and no
thing can induce him to sing: he takes his
food as usual and wastes himself, bm wont
even chirp. As soon, however as his owner
leaves his bed and speaks to him. he expresses
his pleasure by jumping from perch to perch,
and then pours a volume of melody to denote
his gratification, which makes the room ring
again.— FiremenJour.
Editorial Courtesy in Kansas.—The edi
tor of the ConstilvJionnlii!, published at Don
iphan. K. T., pitches into the editor of a Black
Republican sheet after the following manner;
“The editor of the Chief wishes us to bring
him into notice, bntjve do not wish to polutc
our columns wit it such trash, unless forced to
do so. We would gently hint to the cross
eyed crank sided, peaked and long razor nosed,
blue mouthed, nigger-lipped, white-eyed, soft
headed, long-eared, crane-necked, blobber-lip
ped. squeaky voiced, empty headea, snaggle
toothed, filthy mouthed, box ankled, pigeon
toed, reel footed, ignoble Black Republican
Abolition editor to attend to his own affairs, or
we will pitch into him iu earnest. .
Social Amusements in Cincinnati. —The
facts of the accidental shooting of a young
man in Cincinnati was recorded a few days
ago in the papers of that city. Accidental it
was called; hut the peculiar circumstances of
the case, as now narrated by the Cincinnati
Coinmc: cial, would hardly justify that term.
A group of young men were conversing upon
the subject oi shooting. Jim remarked that
he had been lately undergoing a course of les
sons from Travis, and he considered himself a
crack pistol shot. However exalted an opin
ion Jim might entertain of his prowess, it was
not concurred iu by ids friend I'om. who did
not hesitate to tell Jim so. saying he could not
hit an elephant at ten paces. This disparage
ment of the young man's skill so roused his ire
that he wanted immediately to wager a small
sum that he could hit any object larger than
a cent, or ring the beil three times in succes
sion. at a distance of ten paces, t
‘lb'iie, said Tom, T will take the bet.’
Aery Well,’ replied Jim, ’only be sure and
name a mark .os large in diameter as a cent.’
‘All right—l'll do so. it is myself.’.
‘V. hat 1 ejaculated Jim. with astonishment,
•you ! you put yourself as a mark to shoot at 1’
‘Yes, sir, coolly replied Tom, ‘I will, and
what is more, 1 do not think that the target
will be in any particular danger.'
The second sarcastic reference to Jim’s at
tainment nerved him, and, drawing his wallet
quickly, ho laid down the amount of the pro
posed bet, which was quickly covered by Tom.
The preliminaries settled, both parties, tog< til
er wall a few favored friends, repaired to the
back yard, where the grand trial of skill was
to take place. Like a hero iu a sacred cause
did Tom stand at the distance agreed up n
Mot a muscle moved, nor was any emotion dis
tinguishable in Ills features. Confident in his
measurement of Jim’s capacities, lie stood
“Heedless of ail around.”
and patiently waited Jim's readiness. The
word was given, cne—the pistol is raised, two
—ho takes deliberate aim, three—fires.
•My God 1' shrieked Tom, in the wildest des
pair, -i ni shot 1’
•Didn’t 1 tell you so V laconically spoke Jim,
without thinking to ask the extent of his
friend's injuries; ‘didn’t I tell you so ? I
knew it: lin a sure shot!'
The spectators Hew to Tom’s aid, who was,
fortunately, found to be not much hurl, the
bail having entered line fleshy part ot his leg.
Good humorcdly they all returned to the bar
room and indulged iu a smile. Since the oc
currence not one of Jim’s friends has dared to
dispute his claims as a crack shot, fearing that
the consequences may be to them a dead shot.
What a pity the develish fool was not shot
in the head 1
Advertising.— 1 have always considered
advertising, liberally and long, to be the great
medium of success in business, and prelude to
wealth. And 1 have made it au invariable
rule, too, to advertise in the dullest times, long
experience having taught me that money thus
spent is well laid out; as by keeping my busi
ir s continually before the public, it has se
cured me many sales that I would otherwise
have lost. —Stephen Girard.
Some people, however, by their con
duct. appear to think that Stephen Girard
didn't know how to make a fortune, and think
“there’s no use putting everything into the pa
pers ;” that their stores are enough known al
ready ; and these people will continue to jog
along at a snail's pace, and are soon distanced
by their competitors. There is skill in adver
tising as in everything else. Advertisements
should be changed olten. and their phraseolo
gy altered, or they will be considered as out
of date. This is the ago of lightning and
steam presses. Sleepers must awake up, or
they will be left behind. —New Orleans Bul
let i ' ■
A Sensible Corollary.— A writer in the
Chicago Journal gives his experience in regard
to a wheat speculation in which he had been
ecg:t;cd. The same remarks would apply al
most as well to anything else, not excepting
candles and butter. He says, in summingup :
“That to buy at ‘eighty-five’ and sell at ’fif
ty-live' will not pay, unless a man does a very
large business. That wheat, when it < noe be
gins to full, is a devlish long while in reaching
the bottom. That when it once begins to heat,
it very soon becomes too hot to hold. That,
alter all, the surest way to make money in
wheat is to plant it in good soil. And, lastly,
that a man going into the wheat market, with
even a very small capital, if he is industrious
and perseveres, may very soon succeed in ow
ing more than it is probable he will ever be
worth.”
The Growing Use or “Slano” in Decksm
Fa ah mbs. — How imperceptibly we acquire
bad habils is to be seen by the aptness with
which some adopt slang phrases. It is not
uncommon to hear a young lady in her moth
er's parlor, surrounded by all the appliances of
wealth and elegance, reply to a friendly inter
rogatory by the expressive phrase, “you bet.”
1 f you ask her to accompany you to a concert,
she may refuse by that laconic expression:
“over the left.” or, should she choose to accept
your invitation, she will signify he intention
by saying, “ob course I will, sir.” Should the
way prove rough and uneven, she will inform
you that “Jordan am a hard road to travel.”
Should she wish to advance any of her friends
in your good opinion, she w ill tell you that he
is “perfect brick." The mother tells her babe
to “dry up,” and her boys to “go it while
they're young.” and even the children catch
tire taint, and defy parental authority by say
ing, “you can't come it." I.ike a deluge of
unclean water, slang phrases are sweeping
over the land, debasing and degrading that
power which distinguishes man from brute.—
S. c: Hesperian.
Collision Preventer.—The latest new
idea for preventing the sad effecls of collisions
on railroads is to have a track laid across the
top,; of t'nc cars, with inclined tracks upon the
long cow catclicrs placed at the front ami rear
of the train. The approaching tram upon the
same track, moving in whichever direction,
instead of coming m collission, would run up
the inch:; d tracks, pass safely over the tops of
the cars that are in the way and down upon
the main truck again, all in the twinkling of
an eye. Mr. \V. L. Pursall of New York
city, is the originator of the above happy con
trivance.—Scientific Ame’ lean.
Novel Arrest.—A sheriff's officer in Nor
wich, Connecticut, made the following return
lately: “Then and there, by virtue, *c., I ar
rested the body of the within named Quinlan.
forty feet high upa while ■■nk tree , in said Nor
wich.” One of ti e items of fees, as allowed
by the court reads: “ Paid assistance to climb
tree and bring prisoner down, etc.”
The Lord’s Table.— ln illustration of the
controversy that has arisen concerning Henry
Ward Iteecher's liberal style of invitation to
the communion, the anecdote is quoted of an
Knglish Judge, wlie.on being reluscd the
bread and the cup, because he was not a mem
ber of the dispensing church, quietly remark
ed, “Oh! I beg your pardon, 1 thought this
the Lord's lab.e ; I have nothing more to say
if it is only a private little supper of your
own.”
Electric Cable without Insulation.
Some weeks since wo announced the discov
ery by Mr. John Pattison, of this city, of a
novel mode of transmitting intelligence under
water by means cf uninsi.ictcd vires. Doubt
less many, who, in their own estimation, be
long to the sc: rt.iic world have already sneer
ed at the idea. and. with a great deal of self
sufficiency. ftavo oracularly pronounced the
same a humbug. They may yet live to learn
better.
V> e have taken considerable pains to inves
tigate the principles of the new discovery <f
Mr. Pattison and we are perfectly convinced
that an uninsulated cable on his plan can be
worked for short distances, say across the Bay
of Ban Francisco, with ease. For long dis
tances there may be some difficulty not to be
foreseen ; yet, the more wire that Mr. Patti
son has used in his experiments, the more sat
isfactory have been the results. The currents
seem to pr> pare themself •» for greater efficien
cy of action the more wire is added to the
line—an angary of the happiest results in ap
plying the new mode to a very extended line.
There is something grand in the idea of mak
ing the w ide Atlantic a cup of a battery and
using it to overcome the obstacles it presents
to the communication of intelligence from na
tion to nation far asunder. Bitch, however, is
;t part o’" the plan the newly discovered theory
evolves. Principles heretofore known to some
extent by electricians are applied by Mr. Pat
tison on a more extended and expansive scale,
and yet to the effect of annihilating expense.
II tlie new di-covery prove us valuable as its
results thus far seem to foreshadow, a simple
wire will hereafter take the place of the cables
costing so much for insulation, and no inhabi
table island in tlie wide wastes of ocean but
may be able to obtain each morning the news
from the great hives of Immunity all over the
globe. .Steps have been well taken to procure
letters patent in the United States and Great
Britain for the new discovery, and ere long
its merits will be thoroughly bated. We have
great hopes, based on what we have seen, on
the simplicity of the theory of Mr. Pattison
and the results of it put in practice, that an
important era is at hand in the unity of peoples
by submarine agencies. The indications arc
certainly flattering that, unless the powerful
currents lately brought to bear on the Atlan
tic cable have destroyed I lie continuity of the
wire, that grand work, over w hich the waele
world has just rejoiced and is now mourning,
will yet be rendered useful.—Atrader Jotirnnl.
A CoiNcrn.'xCE.—A night or two ago we
were in the Lyceum Theatre, during the re
presentation of the "Marble Heart." The
play, as many of our readers know, is an illus
tration of the life of a fashionable coquette,
who first wins, by her wiles, the affections ol
a young, ardent and inexperienced sculptor—
afterwards rejects him for a wealthy fool, and
drives him, first to madness, and then to death.
She breaks his heart, and in the last act, after
lie lias discovered her treachery, and when The
lit of madness seizes him, lie clutches his friend
and gazing fixedly in the air, exclaims—"Do
you not see the marble-hearted Marco?" On
the ever,in" in question Mr. Booth delivered
this passage with thrilling effect, and while he
was staring upwards towards the dress circle,
we observed that a beautiful young lady, who
sat near to us turned d. a ly pale, and only bv
a great exertion saved herself from fainting.
It may have been the warmth and closeness of
the air that produced this unanticipated effect,
but wo happen to know that only four short
months have passed since the accepted lover
of tliis young lady was laid in "the silent
tomb,” and that he, like poor Itaphacl Da
chalet. in the drama, died of a broken heart.
The coincidence, at all events, was queer.— -Si
F. Spirit Times.
Kdwin Forrest’s Retirement. — Talking of
the retirement of Forrest from the stage, the
Xew York II raid say; c
For thirty-two years lie ha ; b.'en the prime
favorite with the play-going public, and with
but a limited repertoire, he has preserved a
hold upon their affections equal to that which
lias been enjoyed by the most brilliant lights
of the histrionic world. Garrick, who Was es
pecially favored by formic, and a lio was a nian
ager as well as an author and actor, retired al
ter thirty-live yours of theatrical life. Maek
lin. Who died a centenarian, acted cbir ng sixty
four years. Talma was Kmpcror of the 'Thea
tre Francaise thirty-live years. Kdinund Kean
died in the harness after a career of twenty
years. Maeready retired thirty-six years al
ter he made his debut upon the London boards.
Booth was thirty years before the public ; ami
Walluck.wko is now conducting the aflat is of
his theaters in Xew York with all the vigor of
middle life, made his first appearance in Lon
don fifty two years ago. Ol ad the foregoing,
only 'Talma. Forrest. Booth and Kean have .
pursued their art without intermission from
any cause whatever.
A Governor Nonplussed.— The other
night, as the ministers were returning from the
Conference, on the Hast Tennessee and Geor
gia Railroad, an amusing occurrence took place
between Governor Brown and Parson Brown
low. ,hi;t before the cars at rived at Knox
ville. Governor Brown came up, and taking
the Parson by the hand, remarked :
“How do yea do, brother i rownlow? I
am happy to see you.”
The courtesy was returned, when the Gover
nor continued :
"I hope you will mr derate in all your no
tions of pr priety in regard to your fellow cit
izens—lire a goo 1 Christian—and lasl,.lhough
not leas*, become a good Democrat.”
The Parson, with the eccentric look pecu
liar to Inmseit, stretched himself up and re
marked :
‘•Governor, an old gentleman of your poli
tics, many hundred years ago, took onr Savior
upon a mountain and preached just such a
sermon.”
The outburst of laughter can be belter im
agined than described, — Cincinnati Gazette.
£••/> " Old Mrs. Checkerbury says slit thinks
it very droll that the Fourth of July comes so
often on Sunday, or Sunday corn s so often on
the Fourth of July—site isn't sure which—and
she says that Mr. Buck Cannon or the Con
gres-latnre ought to do something about it.
In her opinion it taki s all the oh! fashioned
speril and patriekisin out of the Fourth of in
dependence to have them come so—this mix
ing of holidays and holy days ; this looking at
the* minister, when your mind is running on
malicious officers with feat hews in their t aps ;
and tryinir to sing psalms when one is all the
time thinking of Yankee Doodle.”
A Goon One.—The Grand Jury iti their
report, say ;
■; We would recommend to the Board of Su
pervisors that when they let anew the contract
fur keeping the county sick, that they also
provide good and new bedding.”
We were not aware that the county was
sick, and did not know that the Board of Su
pervisors had kept it sick. If the county is
in ill health it certainly should have good and
new bedding.— Awidar Ledger.
fetr* An ignorant minister having remark
ed in the presence of Dr. South that the “Lord
had no need of man's learning,’ that witty di
vine replied, “still Jess has he need of man's
ignorance,”
A Tale of the Present.
On a pine wo. -il shed, in an alley dark, where
scattered moonbeams, sifted through a roVf
of t. tiering chimneys and an turning tf.ru
and droop'iig, fell, strode buck and forth, with
still ami tense drawn muscle and peculiar tread,
a eat.
His name was Xorval; on yonder neighbor l
ing shed his father fought the cats that catno
in squads from streets beyond Dupont, in
search of food and strange ad' dure.
Grim war be courted ; and his twisted tail,
and spine upheaving in fantastic curve, and
claws distended, and cars flatly pressed against
a head th own back defiantly, told of impend
ing strife.
With eyes a-glcam. and screeching blasts of
war, and steps as silent as the falling dew,
young Xorve.' crept along the splintered edge,
and ga?.ed a moment through the darkness down,
with tail e-wag triumphantly.
Then with an imp location and a growl—
perhaps an oath in direst vengeance hissed—
he started back, and, crooked his body like a
lei ter S. or ra-iier like a U inverted, stood iu
herce expectance.
Twas well. With eyeballs glaring and
ears all aslant, and open month in which two
rows of fangs stood forth in sharp ami dread
conformity, slow up a post from out the dark
below a head appeared.
A dreadful tocsin of determined strife young
Xorval altered ; then, with face unblanched,
and moustache standing straight before his
nose, and tail Hung wildly to the passing breeze,
steppe! lack iu cautions invitation to tire foe.
Approaching the other, and, with prepara
tions, dire, each eat surveyed the vantage of
the field. Around they walked, with tails up
lifted and backs high in air. while from their
months, iu accents hissing with consuming
rage, dropped brief but awful sentences of
hate.
t hrice rouml the roof they went in circle,
each with eye upon the foe intently bent; then
sidewise moving, as is wont with cats, gave one
long-drawn, terrific, savage yawl, and buckled
in.
Tire fur flew. A mist of hair hung o’er the
battle-field. High ‘hove the din of passing
wagons rose the dreadful tumult of the strug
gling cats. So gleamed their eyes in frenzy,
that to me. who saw the conflict from a win
dow near, nought else was plain but fiery stars
that moved in orbits most eccentric.
An hour they struggled in tempestuous
might, then faint and fainter grew the squall ol
war, until, all sound was hushed. Then I went
forth with lanthorn, and tlie field surveyed.
What saw 1?
Six claws—cite ear—of teeth, perhaps a
handful; and save fur, nought else except a
solitary tail. That tail was Xorval’s—ny a
ring I knew’t. The ear was—but we ll let the
matter pass. The tale will do without the
ear.— Gulden Era.
Tins Stranoer Primrose is Australia-.- 3
The Loudon X, ws presents the most beautiful
engraving we ever saw ; it represents the Aus
tralian reception of a Primrose plant from
England. The Primrose, so common in thd
Uriii.-lt Jslis. is not a native of Australia A
few years ago it was announced in Melbourne
that one of these delicate flowers had arrived,
blow,!ing from England. Directly thousands
of people turned out to see the landing ef the
gentle pilgrim front the old home of the exiles,
Old men and maidens, grandmothers anil thetr
children's children, grand sires and their sons,
and sou's wives, greeted the Primrose on shorn
and followed it in procession, and knelt down
and kissed its face upturned to strange skies.
The picture represents them all, including the
hunter, dressed in skins, the savage bush man,
the clown with his dog. the tradesman with
his child, in his arms, and the half clad native,
looking in wonder on the crowd. A country*
man and Lis wife sit by with faces downcast
and sonoWful, and near them the beautiful
girls kneel by the flower, ready to kiss its
blushing cheek, w hile a little boy is holding
back a spaniel that would curiously thrust his
nose among its sacred leaves. The express*
=ion of every face is complete in character,
forming! together, a most touching picture of
that beautiful sentiment of all civilized lands,
which would .inctify the lowliest thing that
had been born from the dust of their native
country.
Beautiful type of that heaven-implanted
love of kindred dust, which makes the perish
ing exile rise Irom death's embrace to implore
the tomb-shelter of his fathers, and to descry
through the gathering gloom about the ctcr
nal gateways the white cliffs of Abion, which
once frowned on the expatriate, bat from whose
brows time has smoothed the wrinkles and
wrought instead a welcoming smile for the re
turning prodigal. What human even w ith the
curse of banishment upon him, could behold in
a foreign land the fl.c al child of spring, uprisen
from the turf hisj infant feet had trod, aud
nut exclaim—"My country. I forgive thee ;
give me but a grave iu thy bosom!" Who of
us on America’s evening land-verge, like the
Briton worshiping his pilgrim heather bloom,
would not kiss the very cinque-foil that had
parted the barren sands and trailed its vines
over sorrowful ground baptized by a mother's
tears Who wouldn't exclaim—
‘•fst.iml Lick I for -he is tender,
And delegate, and Bender ;
And a rude, 100 boisterous greeting, well meant al
though it be,
Might endanger our sweet stranger, from the land
beyond the sea."
Sanctified be thou, Home! And when the
messenger of blessing and peace would descend
earthward, let him tirst journey east with ben
edictions on the broken household, and return
ing bring to the lonesome cabins along the
American Hesperida the welcome tidings “it
is well !" Trinity Journal ,
C.U'i-tNu TtiK Climax.—A certain political
speaker was addressing a large audience in
Virginia, and descanting vehemently against
proscription of foreigners, when his eye fell
upon a little German Jew, a peddler of ready
made clothing, wno seemed to be very much
impress d with the argument of the orator,
greedily swallowing up cvcrthing he uttered.
This was 100 good an opportunity not to make
the must of, and, looking the little peddler full
in the eye, he exclaimed ;
"Furriner, didn't you conic to tliis country
to escape from tyrannical, down-trodden at d
nppres-.d Europe .' Didn't yon floe to these
happy shores to live in « land of freedom,
where the rignt of suffrage is guaranteed to all?
Didn't you, furriner?"
He paused for a reply, when the little ped
dler squeaked out,
■Xo, sir; 1 comes to dis country to sell
sheap ready-made clothes."
The Retort Courteous.— Hon. Alexander
IL .Stephens, of Georgia, was once running for
< Congress with an opponent of unusually large
stature, and on the stump one day the discus
sion became exceedingly warm ; whereupon
the large man said to Stephens, who was small
and delicate :
"Why, I could button your cars back and
swallow you whole, sir."
To which rude remark Stephens retorted :
"And if you did, you would then have more
brains in your stomach than you ever bad iu
your bead."
The laughter which followed effectually di»-
sipaU-d the ill-humor which was fast gaming
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