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THE WEEKLY U.MON RECORD. VOL. 11. IM IBM RECORD. PUBMtiUED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING ill. momer. a. ». enrra. 0- " »:»>" Publivher. and I‘roprietorn. )Mr< •» Bird Street, kH»«n Hjirl ■ lanlon SU. TBFIMa. )l< ;»'!»T Mail »•' °° 4i rbi ■ .-i Iti a d n ,3 00 Cnr.e Month. do 3 00 Hdivcred by Carrier per Month 50 Angle i itpiea •-■ ■ ■ 1“ AHVKRTISEI ,\T'- Per •oii.v** of ten line- or lea- IP- n ' lf ‘ 1 5 * '•** Ui..ewho adverti-eby the : -«r. OB'tu linn nT*irf~*- Law oC Newspaper*. 1 Hubo-rilier. who do not give eaprena not.- «to lh.n--ntrury.ir- cotudd red a* wishing to conU.no th« mlMcriptloii. , j. if Mbooriben with their paper, diacontinned. publisher. mar continue to -end them until all * k j .nbn-riher. neglect or refo-e to tike their fit per. trom the office or place to which they .re •Till they »r« held r.aponvWe until they ««Ule Ih-ir hill, end (tire notice to them. 4. If .ulweriber. move 'her ~la. ■« without informing the li»her. and 'he pi|--r '« to the former directum, they are held re-p-n ihle. notice -bouhl alway* !«■ given of removal. 6 The court* have decided that refii-insr to take . "paper from the office. or removing and leaving it unralled for, is prima fa-ia evidence of intentional fraud. IUISKs'KSS GAUDS. E. DUNHAM; I', s Ansfvor an.l Collixtor Ob' BETTE COCNTY.CAL. OKFICK—On Mj er* Slrrrl. fiettmern Montgomery and liinl Street*, OROVILI.K. THOMAS WELLS, Attorney «» Law N. .Nofi v l’nl>l ic OAr In Thratrr llnll«lli«£. lU* reoimej thepraeli-e of 1,-vw in all "" court* J uatice. in I! itte »m! adjoininK .o,olllo*. CHARLES F. LOTT, 4TTOUSBV AXf* COrXSKI.I.OK AT I.AW. ASli NOTARY PUBLIC, Otiimu Bt tti; c’.irsTv. * OHlc* Bird »t., Between Mjer. ami llnntoon. GEO. T. SHAW, Notary I‘ublic, And i'ammintioner of Dfrti* fitr .\rvailm 7rt ■ timer %( A. O. Slmpron’* Ho«»K S|«»rr. J. M. BURT, Attorney and 1 lit in tin* oihiiU at the -J Judi t •<! h.flriet and in the Supreme ennrt. UKKM’K in Kurt *•* l*ii -U hiiildinj?, ■ p ijm on Hini »tirct, OnnilU*. I .C.OitaviKn.l ( '■ A'n. uu >:..lr GRANGER &. MAURICE, ATTOIiNKYS AND C-ioXSKhI.'UIS nM>NN Will i.r.i :• °* ~,.u i h J udieial IH-trit l Ifli.-e .hi l»n«l Hlreet.ht ►lreel-*. Ok >v 11 i k. the ('•mut«»f the I* it an,l in tie* ><«{«'<me Omrl ;ivecn II nit •••ii and M ver> D. C. BURLINGAME, ])ENT 1 s T , OFFICE I" W * Un- k Bold II tween Mont g.nuery an.l Bird Stm-t*. OllUt It.l-l - - DR, JAMES GREEN, OFFICE Corner of Oak.tr.. tarn! Miner - . \IIt w. PRATT, M. D. l*h?»»<*.an Siininin, U<ok C m k . Hull* to„ ( »I. r. a. s*mi it HtHIIMI U M SMITH &. ROSENBAUM, AT TO UN F. V S AT I. AW. Ofllrr Over Saw in »V l>unl*ar •« "Id ‘‘land. H un to* n strtH’l. DR. D.W.C. WILLOUGHBY Office At McPetmotC* Peng Store. OIIOV t1.1.K. SAM C. DENSON, tTTDIOKt 4 ( ()! t.Kl.Mtll AT 1. A . Will practice in all the Court, ot the Fifteenth Judicial Pirtrifl. ... Omen With Judge Well*. Bird street, Orottlle J. BLOCK &. Co, I'KAIKU-t IS OROCKIiIES \XP MISF.BS SUPPI.I F.S. Montgomery street. Oronlle. GEO. C. PERKINS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PF.AI.ER IX CBOCKKIES. PBOVISIOMS aNPPBOPIi b Corner Mnns and ‘I -ntgomery streets. Oreille. A. McDERMOTT. WHOLESALE AXP RETAIL PRUOC.IST, Montgomery Si reel. Orov tie. FAULKNER &. Co. it » » «•* * »»*, ■ Mo* r: V 8 et» I ■ E. LANE & Co. ■« .m. m' m*. i stixvt. Oroville. a.g. mraoK-l rnrts. in to A. G. SIMPSON, fhoWV and B.tail in BOOKS AXI STATIONERY, STAPLE AND b AM \ articles •Jtrv Block, Huatoon street. Oroville HOTELS, &C. International Hotel i *»r»«er nn<l Lincoln »(•.. onovi LLE. BIRD & LOWRY, PKOPIIIKTIIUS. JL I) Wlt V . II AVI X c; PITRniASED • in Interest in I' U -I. the proprietor* wmiM assure the resident* "r;»vi and the traveling i»u!.l. that n*» itifaiu* u »eft tit *-»ed to enable them to deserve a •hare -*f the*: -airoaage v V THE TABLE i V♦‘very luxury of the wmimi. «n<) '* supplied wiT: .*• 1:j } QMorv iht comfort of every Ih’ng wi e do, the guests ai this bouse. THE BAR Will always b« supplied with choice iiqnora and cigar*. Sin(lr Mral> 50 (>■!«. I.mtiiiu* SO lo 75 Out*. t*L. The Office of the California Stage Company is at the International. •#" Singes leave this hotel every day for all part* of the country. uai.i*n bird. JAMES LOW BY. BARNUM HESTAUROT for. >1 oiil;(»iii( i\ A llimfooil Sts., OKOVILLK. THE INDERSICNED. PRO prictor ol this establishment.' >nerch\ informs the Public that lih is prepar'd to furnish meal- at all hour, day and night, composed of all the suh-tant ial-and delica cies of tin* season which the market atlords BALLS, PARTIES, .Inti .U.teinhhes of era y nature, will W •implied with Dinners. Supjwrs and Colla tion*. in tlie Lett style and on the m*»»t lilsral terms. Connected with the Restaurant is a BAR. where can always he found the hest nad every description ot Liquor*. TERMS: ll«>nr*l |»« r Week %(• OO Single M« «U VI llnnr'l prr tVrrk vs 111* 7,00 I.ml things jht l5 apl 'lt J. REYNOLD. Proprietor. ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, rjIHE CNDERSICNED WORLD UKSPECT ■ fully uiforin hi* friends and the public gene rally that he has rented the • <T. NICHOLAS HOTEL,** (formerly kept by Frank John- n.) in Ormille. and he would Is* pleased to *s-c his friend*, when ever they will give him a call. HiHiERT O N Ell.. Proprietor. On»ville, June 10th. ls«» 3. What Cheer House, ouo v i 1.1. e, .Uoulttomcr) —reel BrtW' Cii Myers and Huntoou Street?. '■■AUK MItstTUIIF.U i:KsrE<rn'i.i.v IN -1 ft*rnis his friends and the public, that lie fur nishes at the ah ova h»n-e th • he>t board and lod ging for the following prices; Igi me per week .. i 6 AO B-7rd per week.. ... $:. 00 Single meals 26 Beds .25 and 50 A Splendid Bar Containing the very best of Liquors and cigars has been added to the establishment. Call and examine for yourselves. R. OLI\ KIL MAIERS HOTEL, MVKiIS STREET. BET'VKKX BIRD ANI> ROB INSOX. OnO VITTLiB. 1). >IA IKK, Proprietor. rail! 15 HOUSE IS XKWI.Y BE FITTED. FUR- I ni.hol. anil »»11 arran»rj. »nd pr>»»lf<l »Hh piraviat rooms. affurdlOK plraaaal boats for fam- Hir. anti transient Boarders. Board and Lodging at Reduced Price*. nil I*- SAIKB. BRANNON HOUSE! Susans Hie. Henry Lake Valley. PLUMAS COUNTY . J. I. STEWARD, PKOPKIETOR. IN.I TAKEN. AND TIIiAROV.HI.V ItKd and refurnished the Brat-nott House. . - irav, - ■ 'h.e a - i - and for the xeemoStMt ol - to receive a »hare ol patronage, ih'o wi’.l t»e >uppllod with thv sidKtantiao rus of the and the Hit with choice :id vicars. „ J. I. STEW ABB. Maple Spring House. A. RAPP Proprietor. Uvated >ix utiles above Doc Town and one mile above Lovtkvk-• C«*od fare and atvommo datioes* The patronage oi the public is solicited. OROVILLE, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 80, ISO 1. To rest l*enealii lb« bright green s*.«d This weary heart would 1 -ng. With -wret flowers blooming o’er my head. And bright birds warbling ""tig. Or laid l**snle -*»rae marmnring stream; Beneath vine dear old tree. This—tin* would be my prayer, dear love. Oh! were it not for dee. For there, no cruel, unkind w >rd, CouW ever break my re-t, IVar mother earth, how many hearts Find pence upon thy breast. They say the tomb is cold and dark. This world is colder far. And darker 100 when life's o’er cast, Without one glimmering star. Thy love it is the one bright learn, That ever ••hcer« me on. How dark and drear this world would scam If thou dear one were g**no. Oh! Iwt me linger by thy side. From thee no more to mam, Life's every ill. I’ll gladly share. Oh! cal! me but thine own. How oft I lean my weary head Upon thy faithful breast. The joy 1 feci no words can tell, 1 only know I’m bles-*:! i ■«»* i,,nin - That thou art *rue u* rue That this would be an empt; Oh! were it not for thee. cl£! • t * He is dead! Oh- what anguish Wring** the heart with accents wild. Stricken now. they grieve and languish; Friend and brother, wife and child. Long h.i< death st«»od watching o'er him,— Claimed him for hi* own at last; Otii.-k tiro shadows fell Ik*fore him, As the swift-winged angel passed. Odd and chill the corse is lying; All is calm within the breast, ( h»<edthe scene the pain of dying. Breaks no more his silent rest. So. the mandate,kindly given. Bade him here no longer roam. *T\vas the voice of one in ileaven Child, y«»nr Father calls •‘Come home,’’ A home in heaven ! joy supernal! Weep no longer for the dead. Heath’s the gate to life eternal; The kingdom of our living Head. Soon shall thou in rolres immortal. To those higher courts ascend. In whose wide and op’ning portal. Pain and death shall have an end. w i\phrkh. From a lecture by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the "Conduct of Life." we extract the fol lowing remarks on the Taried expression of the exes of the human family ; Eyes arc bold as lions—roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They •peak all languages; they wait for no intro duction: they are no Englishman; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor \ irtuc, nor sex. bill intrude, and come again, and go thro .'ll and through you, in a moment of lime. U hat inundation of life and thought is diseha ged from one soul into an other, through 111 nil The glance is natural magic The rays' rices communication estab lished across a In ase. between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. I he communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily sypibol of identity of nature. We look into the eyes to know it this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie. hut make a faithful confession what inhab itant is there. The revelations are sometimes tenific. The confession of u low. u-urping devil is there made, and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats, and horned •hoofs, where he looked for innocence and sim plicity. Tis remarkable, too. that the spirit that appears at the windows of the hoit'c does at ome invest himself in a new form of his own. to the mind of the beholder. The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the nccular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over. When the eyes say one thing and the longue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first. If the man is off his center, the eyes show it. You can read in the eves of your companion whether vour argument hits him. though his tongue will not confess it. There i* a look by which a mao shows he is going to say a good thing, and a look when he has said it. \ ain and forgotten are all the fine offers and offices of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye How mar y furtive inclinations are avowed by the eye. though dissembled by the lips! One comes away from a company in which it may easdv happen he has said nothing, and no im portant remark has been addressed to him ; and vet, if in sympathy with the society, ho shall not have a sense of this fact, such a stream, of life has been flowing into him and out from him through the eyes. There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep wells that a man might fall into; others are aggressive and devouring, seem to call out the police, lake all too much notice, and require crowded Broadways, and the security of mill ions, «o protect individuals against them. The military eye 1 meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows. Tis the city of l/iccda mon ; 'tis a stack of bayon ets. There are asking eyes, asserting eyes, and eyes full of fate—some of good and some of sinister omen. The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beas's. is a power behind the eye It must be a victory achieved in the will before it can be signified in the eye. Tis very certain that each man carries in hia eye the exact indication of his rank in the im mense scale of men. and we are always learning to read it, A complete man should need no auxiliaries .to his personal presence. Whoever looked on him would consent to bis will, being certified lha: hi- aim- were generous and uni versal The reason why men do cot obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. Tun Chicago Tribune says that Thomas P Brvan. of that city, has purchased the original manuscript of the Presidents Emancipation Proclamation, having paid the managers of the Northwestern Pair the handsome sum of tkrtt thousand dollars for it. He has Since donated it to the Soldiers' Home, by whom it will be again sold for the Sanitary cause. It will be recollected that this original d-afl of the proc lamation was first donated by the President to be sold for the benefit of the Sanitary fund. So this famous document is proving of service in other good works besides the freeing of slaves. [For Uni n Record.} Oh! Were it Not For Thee. [For Union Korord-J Weep Not for the Des^ The Expression of the Eye*. The Calamity at Santiago, Chili. The following particulars of the late terrible disaster at teantiago. by which over fl.uOO human beings perished by an awful death, are from the Valparaiso Mercurio of Dec. 19th : On the evening of the Slh l>ecember, 3.(XXI women and several hundred men were c animed within the walls of the Jesuit Church at San tiago. celebrating the rites of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Still, the outside crowd fought to get in that they might hear their favorite priest. I’gartc. a passionate and vigor ms declaimer. Eizagnirre. the Apostolic Nuncio abd favorite of Plus l\ , also founder >f the American College at Homo, was likewise vnnounced to preach. Eizaguirrc having wounded the pride of Ugart*. by declaring hat the illuminations in the Santiago church were nothing to compare with the illuminations at Home, L’garte determined to matte, on this occasion, the grandest display ever witnessed upon the continent. The lighting of the lamps and candles had been hardly finished when the liquid gas. in a transparency on the high altar, set on fire its wood work.and wrapped in fames a kind of tabernacle wholly composed of can vass. pasteboard and wood. In less than two minutes, the altar, about twenty-three yards high and ten broad, was an inextinguishable Isonfire. The advance of the fire was perhaps even more rapid than the panic of the audience. When the fire had flown from the altar to the roof, the whole tiock of devotees rushed to the principal door. Those near the lateral doors were able to escape at the first alarm : others, aod particularly the men, gained the little door of .he laeriely, and lastly, those near the chief nutlet forced their way through the throng, even still straggling to get in, and, indeed, part of which did get in, even in face of the fire, stimulated by the deeire of e r,lm S a pood place, which on this occasion meant a good place to die in. Then, the flames having crept along the whole roof, and consequently released the lamps of oil and liquid gas from the cornices to which they were strung, a rain of liquid blue fire poured down upon the entangled throngs below. A new and more horrible conflagration broke o.t then in that dense living muss, np palling the affrighted gaze with pictures tenfold more awful than those Wherein the Catholic imagination has labored to give an idea of the tortures of the damned. In less than a quarter of an hi ur. about tiro thousand human beings bad perished, including many children, but very fes- men. Although many heroic men performed prod igies of daring and strength, in tearing some from the death grasp of the phalanx of death that choked the door, in some cases literally tearing off their arms without being ahff- to extricate them, the number of the saved by this means falls short of fifty. More than 500 persons of our highest society have perished, the greater part young girls of fifteen to twenty years. One mother has perished with her five daughters. Two thirds of the victims were servants, and there are many bouses in which not one has escaped. Several houses have been noted by the police as empty, because all their inhabitants have perished. Never had such pyrotechny been seen before. 20.000 lights, mostly campliene, in long festoons of colored globes, blazed the church into a Hell of Fire. Hut the performance hod not yet begun, when the crescent of tire at the gigantic image of the Virgin over the high altar over flowed. and. climbing up the muslin draperies and pasteboard devices’to the wooden roof, rolled forth a torrent of flame. The suddenness of the fire was awful. The dense mass of women, frightened out of their senses—numbers faint ing and all entangled by their long swelling dresses —rushed, as those who know that death is at their heels, to the one door, which soon became choked up. Fire was everywhere. Streaming along the wooden ceiling, it flung Ito paraffine lamps, hung in rows there, among the struggling women. In a moment, the gorgeous church was a sea of flame. .Michael Angelo’s fearful picture of Hell was there, b■; t far exceeded. Acts of sublime heroism were performed, and among the noblest were the efforts of .Mr. Nelson, I’. S Minister to Chili, and bis coun tryman, Mr. Meiggs. A lady named Orella, having in vain implored some bystanders, on her knees, to save her mother, rushed in and shortly afterwards mi racnlously issued forth, bearing her glorious load I A young lady of the name of Solar, just before the smoke suffocated her, hail the presence of mind to knot her handkerchief around her leg. so that her corpse might be recognized. The fire, imprisoned by the immense thick ness of lh.‘ walls, had devoured everything combustible by 10 o'clock. Then, defying the sickening stench, people came to look after their lost ones. O what a sight the fair, placid moon looked down upon. Close packed crowds of calcined, distorted forms, wearing the (earful expression of the last pang, whose smile was once a heaven—the ghastly phalanx of bla' k statues twisted in every variety of agony, stretching out their arms, as imploring mercy —and then of the heap that had choked up the door, multitudes with the lower parts perfectly untouched, and some all a shapeless mass, but w iih one arm or foot unscathed. The ? lence, after those piercing screams were burned in death, was horrible. It was the silence of the grave, unbroken but by the bitter wad or fainting crv. Two thousand souls had passed through that ordeal of fire to the judg neut-seal of God. Alter the close of the awful scene, and while the smouldering heaps were yet sending up the smoke and eftlnvia to Heaven, the people be came frantic with wrath and demanded the demolition of the remaining walla of that huge temple of human sacrifice, so that a monument could be erected on the spot to the martyrs. The municipal body seconded toe people, and on the 19th December a petition to that edict was presented to the President ol the Republic, then at Ike capital. A decree in accordance with the petition waa ordered. The priests are bitterly opposed to woat they call the sacrilegious work, and. at last accounts, threat ened resistance to the decree. The Government it weak and raciHating, but the people are strong. aa-I donbtles* their will has triumphed. California Bun 'Wat.Krra. — We saw. to-d»v. in the Pacific Fruit MarkeN a species of hard shell nut v-liich is found growing wild on the banks of the lower Sacramento river. The nuts are enveloped in a i Aguiar black wal nut burr, and are generally about half the siz" 1 of black walnuts as found in the Atlantic States, which they resemble in Saver. i'bere is. however, a combination of the hickory and black walnut in the shell, which on the outside is smooth and of light color, closely resembling the bickorv. while the interior shape is similar to that of the black walnut. The tree is a native of California, and ha; been noticed for manv vears. but this season is the first that any of the" nuts have been collected and sent here for sale. It is of very handsome appearance, and well adapted for shade purposes, large numbers of them being now raised by people living in the vicinity of the {jacrameclo.— S. F. Bulletin. The Payton Journal says that John Mor gan has made more reputation in getting oat of the Penitentiary than he did in getting in It shows that be is a better burglar than Gen oral Failure of the Tree-Cotton. Oi nut Jan. 22,1864 I-ast winter, thr-iiirh tbe kindness f Mr Avery—then editor of th; Appeal-—-I received a package cf Tree Cotton seed—.(A'nn Gassifpivm —wi h the request that 1 si plant and give the result to the pub) c. Now, as my experiment »s-a failure, a, a.: attempts with this plant must continue to bo in this climate.' I shall enter into no iKla >. but vv: . merely give a porti n of tl effect. I plan ed one half acre, three seeds in each bill, which were seven (eet apart. I‘his was done on the Ist day of March; by the 10th. nearly every seed hud pushed to the sur face a healthy looking plant, and by the middle of the month there were only thirty plants alive ont of eight hundred or a thousand. 1 his destruction was occasional by cut-worms— -igrofis Hilina —and of course the climate cannot be blamed. Of the thirty remaining plants, I can say that they grew thrifty, a: d seemed destined to make ben ttifal trees ; but, unfortunately, the first autumnal frost nipped to the very foundation of their lives, and left for me. in lieu of cotton trees, a like number of dry, stout weeds. Hence 1 conclude that Tree Cotton will never be a product of our trlalc, being too sensitive to frosts. Now. Mr. Kditor, with yonr permission. 1 wish to notice an article which I find in th Sacramento Union of last week. It was cor municated by Mr. (laraszthy to the Wii Wool and Stock Journal, and headed, 1 \ * Method of Propagating the Vine." Vw, this new discovery, as it is called, has I een known a number of years, and used more or less by horticulturists ever since my earliest recollection. I planted grape rine eyct, or buds, here in California, four years ag >, and was successful, as I anticipated being, for 1 had often seen it tried in the Eastern States. Now became the vine will grow from a single bud. it does not na’u-ally fellow a- a consequence that all other fruits could be produced in a similar manner; for the vine will grow from a cuttm g—some fruit trees r nil nof. Perhaps the fig. quince or any other easily propagated tree or shrnb, such a? grow readily from cat tings, might be thus produced : out others, such as will refuse to form roots, as catlings, I feel certain would never grow f:om plant ’d buds. Three years since I trial this bud planting process w ith the poach, pear, npplc, plum and apricot, and, though I used several hundred eyes of each kind, not i ne ever sent a shoot to see the sun. Yonrs, etc.. Geo. W. Pbixtv. Whisky. —This lavoritc l everage is about to be subjected to a crushing lax. if a tax cun crush a fluid of which lightning is the chief in grcdic-nt. The only argnnu jt we can think • f against the proposed taxation is the (fleet it will have upon the rebels. Will they ever consent to live under a go' ernmrnt that singles out their staff of life os l ie most tit article for taxation? We fear not. It will be regarded as a Yankee trick to make the enemy pay the expenses of the war. I hero will be mourning in Dixie—mourning to- 1, in the North. There are people in this .Slate who will not willingly forego their regular fif'ecn drinks a day; but it is to be hoped their patriotism will sustain them. If the brick in their hat gets heavy, they can console themselves with the reflection that the Government made something by their weakness. The morning headache will be soothed by the sr.me reflection. There arc wise men in Cong' ess—men who know where to strike. Whisky will be consumed, lax or no tax. It is a r jumlabout nay to make men temperate, but i: , this case it pays to go round. If whisky is to 'je taxed one dollar per gallon, let wine be taxi din proportion. The rich will have their champagne and burgundy, cost what it may. Shoddy is flush with greenbacks, some of whi -h belong to the Government. There is pei-'.ic justice in this sort of thing. A inue is al rays its own reward : let vice pay the penalty of its own sins.— Cal. Leaser. Politeness or I’vri..-—An old poet has quaintly (alltd our Savior "the first gentleman that ever breathed." Paul's politeness, too. must not be overlooked, compounded as it was of dignity and deference. It appeared in the mildness of the manner in which he delivered his mort startling and solemn merges, both to Jews ami Heathens; In his winning reproofs the “excellent oil which did notbre kihe head ; ” in the delicacy of his allusions to his claims and services: and. above all. in the calm, self-possessed, and manly altitude he as sun ed. and manly attitude he assumed before the rulers of his people and the I Toman au thorities. In the language of Peter and John to their judges, there is an abruptness savor ing of their rude fisherman's life, titer (or the tough echoes of the Take of Galilee than for the tribunals of power. Hut Paul, while equally bold and decided, is far more gracious. He lowers his thunderbolt before his adversary ere ho launches it. His shaft is polished as well as powerful. His words to King Agrip pa —"1 would to God that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day. were both al most and altogether such os I am. except these bonds" —are the most chivalrous utterance re corded in history. An angel could not bend more gracefully, or assume an attitude of more exalted couriesey. Barbarism and Civilization.— The trad! tional glory of the savage body is yielding be fore medical statistics; it is becoming evident that the average barbarian, observed from the cradle to the grave.does not know enough and is not rich enough to keep his body in i's highest condition and development, but on the coutrary, is small and sickly and short lived and weak, compared with the man of civiliza tion. The great atbletm of the world have been civilised; the longlived men have been civilized: and the average of life, health, size and strength is highest to day among those ra ces where knowledge and wealth and comfort are most widely spread. And pel. by the common lamentation, one would suppose that all civilization is slow suicide to the race, and chat refinement and culture are to leave man last in a condition like that of the little cher ubs on old tombstones, all head and wings. Brr One Country.— Titus and Tiberius, sons of Lucius Junius Brutus, descendant of a patrician line, were displeased with the sim plicity of republican forms inaugurated on the banishment ef the Tarqnins. and joined a con spiracy, while their father was acting consul, to refits'ate the banished family The plot was discovered b- a slave and exposed to Bru tus. who sat in judgment on the offenders and found them guilty as charged: and they were afterwards beheaded by ms iictors in the public forma. On being reproved for his impartial aeveritv. Brutus replied. "A man may Late many tiore children, bat never more thau one country. ’ Encouraging to Young Mechanics. — lion. Schuyler Colfax, the newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives, is a native of the Si it, of >'ew York, box bits resided, since his boyhood, in South Bend. Indiana. Mis prin cipal education was isceived while be worsed as a printer's boy—bis common school educa tion previous to his entering the printing office being very meagre- At twenty-one years of age he became editor and proprietor of the South Bend Register ; and, a'ter occupying several prominent political positio.vs in Indiana, he was sent to Congress, where the people have kept him ever since. The Character of President Lincoln. fbc Rev. H. Fowlor An N V in hi? Thr k«gn ivg: scrr.i •: . firtw the ft l-owirg pic :re of the I'resiJ - winch will lx rvceg : a? a sink nj pi rtra;'. in many pari ca 'l’he progress of thi Pres illustrate.-* the progress of t \ r Stanly s "... as I .. r . ■. ■ ..i and 1 1 a Jew ish history. His two sick i sympa.hy enabled him to unite the pacing a: I c niir.j epoch. Soch an epoch of per plexi y, lra;.s»tion and change is not often wiin ssed. In e very such passage of a nation l her; ought to lx a character like that of Sam uel. M suoderslovni ari l misrepresented at the time ; attacked from both sides ; charged ui h not going far enough and going 100 far ; cl ireed with saying too much and l«>o little, he slowly, conscientiously ard honestly works oat the mighty problem. He was not a fonn » cr of a new spate of things like Moses: ho ras r.el a champion the existing order of things bke K jui». He slu**d between the two; the lo ii.g and the dead; between the past and the present; between tin old and the new; with that sympathy for each which a! such a period is the best hope for any permanent so lution of the question winch torment it. His duty is carefully to distinguish between that which is temporal and that which is eter nal. He has but little praise from partisans; but is the careful healer,binding up the wounds of the age in spile of itself—the good surgeon, knitting together the dislocated bones of the disjointed times. £»uch a man was Samuel among the Jews, such a man was Athanasius among the early Übrisliaq*: such a man is Abraham Lincoln in this day. The explanation for his every act is this—be executes the will of the people. lie represents a con trolling majority. If he bo slow it is because the people are slow. If he has done a foolish act. it was the stupidity of the people which impelled if* His wisdom consists in carrying out the good sense of the nation. His growth in political knowledge, his steady movement toward emancipation, are but the growth and movement of the tia tiona! mind. Indeed, in character and culture lie is a fair representative of the average American. His awkward speech and still more awkword s.lcnce. his uncouth manners, his grammar self-taught and partly forgotten, his style miscellaneous, concreted Ironi the best authors like a reading book and yet of Saxon force and classic purity; his humor an argu ment and his K»gic a joke, both unseasonable at times and irresistable always; his questions answers, and his answers questions; his guesses prophecies, and fulfilment ever beyond his promise; honest yet shrewd, simple yet reticent heavy and yet energetic: never despairing and never sanguine ; careless in form*, conscientious in essentials; never sacrificing a good servant once trusted, never deserting a g«nnl principle once adopted; not afraid of new ideas, nor de spising old ones; improving opportumes to conless mistakes: ready to learn, getting at fac’s, doing nothing when he knows not what to do; hesitating at nothing when lie sees the right; lacking the recognized qualifications of a parly leader, and yet leading the party as no other man can ; sustaining his political cn craies in Missouri to their defeat, sustain ing his political friends in Maryland to their victory; conservative in his sympathies, and radical in his acts; Socratic in his style and Laconian in his method; his religion consisting in truthfulness, temperance, asking good peo ple to pray for him. anti publicly acknowled ging in events the hand of God, be stands be fore you as t lie type of “Brother Johnathan,” a not perfect man ami yet more precious than fine gold. T;if. Lkadinv. Export of the P \st Vkar Statistics, which have been carefully kept du ring the past year, show, says the Bullclh . that §52,500.00 1 of gold and silver were re ceived in San Francisco from the various mines of the Pacific coast. Of this amount, 812,- 000.000 comes from the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada; 85,000,000 from Oregon, Idaho. Washington and British Columbia ; 82,000,000 from Mexico, mostly in coin ; the balance being the product of the mines of Cal ifornia west of the Sierra Nevada. These figures exhibit a considerable increase upon the treasure receipts of last year, for which the silver mines of Washoe are entitled to nearly all the credit. Considering the present won derful activity in mining enterprises, it is probable that another year will show a larger increase in the production of precious metals than has the last; but 85a 000.000 may be regarded as an outside estimate of the product of 1804 from ail the mines of the Pacific coast over which the United States exercise juris diction. • Evert Man His own Salt make*. —Tbe Augusta Constitutionalist complains of the short supply ot salt. It says: "Salt must be had, or the supply of meat next year will lie much less thau this year. There are hogs enough and corn enough to make for the next year more bacon than we have had heretofore; but, unless salt can be got, the bacon will not be saved. Clearly, then, it is our interest to increase the available salt supply a- largely and quickly as possible. It is not yet too late for the farmers and planters to make their own salt, and some to spare. The salt brine of the Atlantic is abundant and easy of access. Nu merous companies and individuals have been at the work for months past, and they have found it extremely profitable. Hut their number should be increased, and that soon. Tits Fashionable Bonnet. Are ladies generally aware that there are very few female countenances whose comeliness will sustain it self under the burthen of a flower garden over hanging the forehead ! Even a wreath on the bead is very trying to the average of women's faces, and when to its effect is added that of a straw coop, walling up the sides of the brow and destroying the beautiful curve in which nature causes it to vauish into the side hair, the result is trying to the sight of any one po-sessing the least medium taste. We laugh at the coal-scuttle bats of our grandmothers, and chuckle over English dranrrhtmen's deline ations oi the prim maidens of the household, bearing bonnets whose flaring uprightness is so c - ant with their gu - ress a trac ter, vet never gut?, that, under the pencil of a 11.-garth, Cruiksba: k or Doyle, the costume of g. : Lenten and ladies of our period w... be as ; rolific of amuomeiit to our descendants as it is of self complacency to us. Questionable Identity.—An old farmer, who had visited ibe city with a load of wood, once upon a time, arid had imbibed "the ar dent ’ pretty free'y on los "homeward bound trip, while riding astride the "tongue o. h i .a cart, fell asleep. The oxen, hearing nothing front th-ir master, concluded to stop and take a Toe ic;. . was found in Inis position cn tbe road oy some wag-, who, for the sake of the fun. unhitched the oxen, wuicli started for home at once. The authors of the mischief took a position behind a fence to tear what the farmer would say when be -waked up.” In due lime he was heard uttering ; "Where am I. and who am 1? If Tm Joe Jones (hie) Tvc lost a yoke of oxen If Tm somebody else. I've (bic) found a cart RrVE.IDV J NA-.'nV I.IT! S - c SI.AVRRY A? 1 S impor'-a'l r ' ,i ir t! rye Reverdy J ■ t. Maryia StHte? > ... I' might bo a’milled. ho t!.. tight. th .t in tl , . . , . v t se State#w re they are s I ' ; . arc pcrs . - a.? ■ K ’ :..-e '.a' in C ; grv is based :i ho a■; '.hat 1 1 y arc ;-.r>,-:i Though Slav. - -. arc ; o . i - v owe ;.ll o . 1, thong - Court has dec - i -i that. ut-Jir th 1 clause d fining the jar -; o; . t >.■; that C nr , .- yai i. ei*i ■ y Constitution it may bo far a .;' r,- t. The have the protection of the Government to certain eaten!, at hast, an] ■» y should the not coolributi t ts As properlj tl y may b . for the pa! c use i cM pensation to their owners b. o mad:. As t the eomjH'nsa! ■ s ".no cot;:’'’., ts ha;! bee made, ari jast.v, p ■: ap=. t.s th-' Sc'ate thought, in regard t > th.' inarn-r to which tl law had been ixecut.d by s * the agent of the Government. This. h 'Sivi r. sh hi’... induce 11 c Seoati r to lift ate or his arm o’lt .fit i • \y. ak< or one -era; the Government lit its efforts to s.v.-pr so th rebellion. W!.-.u lire ;. .'.hority the t> "ori ment i.s restored to its fa”, extort, then inqnir might and w -;1 iho ::t n.to ah sooti matter; As to the siav, himsoif. o iiijicLsata n div-.sto the owner of ail his rights, and ipso fact emancipated him. it would l>e disgracofu after the employment of colored men to dofen its existence, that this Government shoal permit them to return to slavery, lie thanke God they never could be re-eu»Uved. It gav him pleasure to remember that, whoa be fat merly had the homw of twcupying a »*at o; this floor, in he declared, in a dobat upon the subject of slavery, I ■ ■ wronj as a system, morally . I e dally rconomicaiiy. Slavery was . ~ -.obit The people of this country Wire rap. : y be coming w iser on this subj ot. Pardon of Gantt.—This rop."i‘-.nt robe Brigadier, who has n .- ntly been ng si H able and j>ointcd si- echc-s lot tl:o 1 ’ .on am against slavery, ;;t A rati’ sas, has wived i fall par i, :i from the Pr< sidi nt V■ ■ ■ ton dispatch of Dm "I ■ P ■ dent has signed a pardon exempting if- AV Gannt, of Arkansas.fi ; treasoi which ho incurred by a.v p*r. e .. 1 exercisini the office of Prig i fior-Gei ■ ral in the servie'O o the rebels. The pardon also re.rotates Gen G. in all his rights of property, cxe ;ptn g thus relating to slaves. Tims.—To show us the worth of time, God who is most liberal in all other things, is c\ ceedingly frugal in the ilispi: - ng ol lin t ; foi he never gives u?two moments U'gi 'o r. noi grant? us the second till lie has withdrawn thi first, still keeping the third in bis own hands so that wo are in perfect uncertainly wlicthei we.shall have it or not. Thetiue manner o preparing for the las*, moment is 10 spend al the others well, and ever to expect t'uc.t. W( dote upon the world as if it were never t< have an end, and we neglect the next as if if were never to have a beginning.— fhiu-fon. A Ff.iknd of ours, visiting a neighbor, foam him disabled by having a horse sthp on bus foot Hobbling out of the stable, the sufferer ax plained how it happened. "J was standinj here,” said he,“and the horse set his f *ot dowi on mine.” Our friend looked at the injure! memlier, which was of the No. 14 pattern, am quietly remarked, “Well, 1 suppose the horsi had to step somewhere.” Remarkari.e Dis-overt in lowa. The lowa City Press - ivs Dr. Murray and Mr. M W. Davis, of that city, have recently exhumer human bones, w! cb. 1: otn all iu lieatiot s. may have been buried : . rc .in cat !i.. i-.'.' .1 years They ■ ■ i the boues any f peop v living ‘ nt These bones were fou: 1 some f. :r mi! s fron lowa Oily, covered with a m ui- ■of irtli. oi top of which is a growth of timber not less than two hundred years old. Oregon Election —The Oregon papers arc ; beginning to discuss the next canvas? in tha | State. The election t.. 1: - place ra> the ftOtl of March next. 'I he Statesman says the cam paign for 1 '■<’,4 may i 'v he adored cp 1 The Stats Central U:. ; jn Comini'tee rav« I i.'SueJ a cal: for a Convention on the Kith o March atives in Congress an ! Stale Printer, and t( provide for the selection of candidates foi Presidential electors. “Artemis Warp. ”—T! • t erritorial Hater prise says Artcmns i- lying unite ill at Sal! Hake City, and has not yet been able to dclivei his lecture lo the Saints. We hope he may soon be able to give them s me account < f the ■•Babes of the Wood.” They believe iu “babes," whether in the wood or out of it. “Ir takes a gold mine to waik asilvcr mine.’ It bos been estimated, aystbe \ irginia C mon, that bereti fore al it So I . 1: vested in mining 1:. Nevada Terr:', ry to SI in bullion mat ta 1 • , er haps not an over -lima'' '1 h I nion thicks, however, the balance w.il sc.a be turned. A new kind of carriage has made As appear ance on Broadway, New A r..—a two!: rsc boggy propel 1 . teal 1' - i Boston in vention. A bod of c- al? will run it thirty miles. The inventor i? desirous if matching it against any trotting horse in the world fu: one thousand dollars. A wag upon visiting a medical museums iu shown some dwarfs and other ipacimeaa of humanity all preserved in alcohol. “Well,' 1 said be, T never thought the dead could bs in such spirits.” Internal Revrnce receipts, fr-'tn July Ist to January : Itb, . ted I'bees ite of r< nd year, m ier t ■ law, reach one hundred and -cvccty millions. It is said that Gen. Grant has captured, e his ■ - ■ tnnie w k-?S tha f- ir 1. ir. , ar, : SvVcEty ami uinetv thousand it; - ? from tlic enemy. None are few are so wisely Just as 1 r * reel mistakes—a . esj • the mu takes ut prtj j l -.;cc. The conversation of a good many people consists in great part of ‘said Paid said he ‘•aid he. always having the tforst of it. A Bill i- perfecting - ogt ■ for tbs er a*.i o f a new t rrit y ■ • : C Idaho and Utah, to be called Montano. John Minor Botts declines the appoint men! of U. S. Senator from Virginia, iu a brief eloquent and patriotic .et'er. The dis v rer fth '■ e »f the Nile Capt. Speke, i- to be knighted >ro i;