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VOL. L
THE TRINITY JOURNAL
IS ft'B LIS II K I> KVKKY S A T U H 1> A Y M O H N I N t
BY CURTIS & GORDON,
E. J. CURTIS, l>. I-:. GORDON
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AGENTS JTOR TUB JOURNAL.
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North Fork Hamilton.
Hig Flat Ha it. J. M. IIemt.
Rig liar " • 1>. Evans.
Little Prairie Pki.treai- A Penny.
Taylor's Flat L. Drake.
Canadian liar “ ‘
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Executive Department.
Offickiih. Omens.
N'kkt.y Johnson Governor.
It. M. Anderson Lieut. Governor.
David F. Dolui.ass,. . . Secretory of State.
Henry Bates Treasurer of State.
<Jeo. W. Whitman’ Comptroller of State.
W. S. Wallace, Attorney General.
John II. Brewster,.. . Surveyor General.
James Ali.en, Statu Printer.
B. Wii.son I
F. S. McKenzie, > State Prison Directors.
Alex. Bki.i., )
.1 inlieia ry.
JVSTIl’ES OK filTREME COI'RT.
(Iron C. MrititAV Chief Justice,
Solomon Heydenfelt... Associate Justice.
I). E. Terry,
DISTRICT JUDGES.
District —Stir. . .1. M. Peters.
■, “ 9th.... Wm. P. Daingerfnld.
“ 15th 1. S. I’il/er.
. Trinity Co. Ofiii iitl Dirictnry.
Comity Judtre I!. T. Miller,
Comity Clerk II. ,1. S moan.
l)e|mty Co. Clerk, Robert (I. Stuart
Pislriet Attorney II. J. llowe.
Sh* ritf .Edward Neblett.
Coroner '.. Sh, pnrd.
Treasurer . F. I.ynn.
Assessor 1'. W. Potter.
Surveyor 11 1 . Wheeler -
HOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
District No. 1 A Monroe.
„ •• •• 2 M. Rueli.
“ 3 S. Hatley.
The Hoard of Supervisors meet the 1st Monday
In F ebruary. May, August and November,
y DISTRICT COURT—15th District.
Composed of the Counties of Trinity and Hum
boldt.
Terms —In the County of Trinity, on the 3d
Monday in February, May. August and Novem
ber, —in the Comity of Humboldt, the first Mon
day in January, April, July and October.
COl NTY COURT.
Tehms 1st Mondav in Januarv, March, Mnv,
July , September, and November.
COURT OF SESSIONS
Tehms 1st Monday in February, April, Juno
August, October and December.
PRORATE COURT.
Terms.—4th Monday of each month.
J. B. GORDON, M. D,
DU. GORDON will continue to practice Medi
cine and Surgery. Calls from a distance must
be accompanied l»y tin; Fi;i: In insure las attention.
Weaver, June 28, 1806. if:«-if.
J. S, SWELLING, M. D.
DR. KNELLING inning pc rmanently located in
Weaverville, will continue to practice Medi
cine and Surgery. 1 all- lrom a distance must be
accompanied by tin* I* in:, to intuit e his tittendance.
Office in “ .Magnolia" building, on Main street.
Weaver. Sept. 2d, 1855. ' dti tl.
Dr. B. A. THOMAS,
TENDERS his Professional services to the citi
»ens ol \\ eavert ille and ticinily.
Oljcc at the ( <(>/ lh’iifi Sturt', west side Main st.
Weuver, August 2d, 1 856. itl-tf.
0. LI. P. N0RCR0SS,
justice of the i*eai i:.
AM) NOTARY PUBLIC.
Oflice, on Court House Hill.
July lit, 185U. 2G-tf.
H. J. HOWE,
ATTORNEY AT I.AW,
AM. DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
Oflice in the Adobe Building, Court street.
July 19. 185th o u - 1 f.
JNO. C. BURCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Oflice corner of Court and Taylor streets.
July 19, 1850. 20-tf.
D. W. POTTER,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
(Oflice ou Court street, uear the Court House.
July, 19, 1850. 20-tf.
C, E, WILLIAMS,
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Office on Court street, near the Court House.
July 19, 1850. 20-tf.
WM. F. VAUGHAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
and JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Ofkior with Williams A Potter,Court House Hill.
July 19, 1850. 20-tf.
miftllM AMD JlimiU I
J. LORTSDORF,
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KOItTIl Sink OK 'IAIN STIiEKT, WtUVKItVIM.el
rOULD eall the attention of the citi
and Trinity Co. ' *
zens of Weaverv ille
generally, to his new and splendid si nek of 1* me
WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
Also, a large stock of California Jewelry on
band, and constantly made to order.
Watches carefully repaired, anil choice
gpepimun Rings mu) Breast Pius made to order.
Weaver, Sept *1,1856. 33 if.
is full of scoundrels who obtain a livolil ood
i»y gorging on the frailties of poor human
nature. It is nn extensive business this
eoiisiitutiomil butchery. There is a lio-t of
people who tire w illing to become moral ban
dits, and rob of both manhood and money
in the highway of life. There is no busi
ness so base and devilish but what men can
lie found to engage in it, if it pays. Some
rob grave yards ; but. this is risky, for legis
lation protects the dead. It is safer to rob
homes and kill the living. And then, too,
there is a large class of men afflicted with
a constitutional regard for the whisky busi
ness,—men who see no particular necessity
of protecting citizens until after they are
dead, but who esteem it constitutional to
save whisky by pouring it down the throat
and destroying tlie drinker.
(io ahead ! you are safe in this world.—
That Hod’s blazing curse burns the hand
that pats the bottle to another s lips, may
be apochrypluil after all. There may be no
common Father who counts the sparrotvs ns
they fall. And if there is, he may take no
account of poor drunkards. The law of the
unruly ox tuny not apply to rum selling, and
the luimt winch lias caused the ruin, and
probably is red with the blood of more than
a score, may be found guiltless. If such lire
safe conclusions, why not, friends in the new
rum-shop, make a clean thing of it, and af
ter sidling rum ull day, take to the sheep
fold and highway nt night? If rum-selling
is right, the other tw o occupations would lie
honorable, indeed. Though you stole all
the sheep in the country, and robbed i vory
pas'-er of his money, you would not do soci
ety and individuals as much injury by night,
us in your grogshop by day.
These suggestions are very sincerely of
fered. < tillers w ill sell rum if you don’t ; so
might others steal sheep and rob travellers.
The only trouble in the matter is, robbing
in a rum-shop is constitutional, and robbing
on the highway or in the sheep-yard, is not.
Mutton is of more worth than mas.”
“ We can no oni own Kissing.”—Not a
thousand miles from this village lives a very
exacting landholder. He makes his tenants
“ come to time” on the day the rents become
due, and will only relax bis stern degrees
when a handsome woman is in the question
Not long since he called for his rent of a
very worthy mechanic, who, by the way re
joices in the possession of a pretty little wife.
1 lie husband was not at home when Shy
lock culled, and he was enchanted with the
pretty little wife of the tenant. She could
not liquidate the amount due ; but the land
lord becoming really enamored, told her ho
would gi\c her a receipt in full for just one
kiss,
Sir, said she, boiling with indignation,
“ myself and husband are very poor ; per
haps we cannot pay our rent ; but I tell you,
! sir, we are not so poor but we cun do our
own kissing.”
Ain’t that a glorious consolation for poor
folk- ? The hardened creditor may take all
their property, but be cnji’t deprive them of
the privilege oTTfissing."— i'.lmira Gazette.
A gexti.emav returned to Albany recent
ly from California, lie left in lb4t). \\ hut
bothers him is, that Ids w ile lias three chil
dren under five years of age. To use his
own language. " he can’t understand it,”—
It is a little foggy, that's a fact.
) T I I E I X'r i ’E OF TRINITY CO I TS TV.
MTV COUNTY, CAL., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER l. 1850.
What Might Have Been.
As to the passengers of a storm-tossed
bark, lier arrival and safe mooring at the
haven to which her voyage was directed,
there is in the touch of land, the release from
ship-board, and escape from the perils of the
deep, an influence which speedily consigns to
forgetfulness the alternated fears and hopes
that each bosom bore day after day, with
the ocean raging around them ; so we, in
the triumphant realization of our hopes, the
joyful attainment of our ends, pause not to
reflect on what might have been the record
of the past live months. It is a glorious
picture that now adorns tlm pages of our
city’s history ; a people crushing tyranny,
vet sparing tyrants ; a revolution not only
avoiding excess, but unmarked by the slight
est abuse of power ; a community submit
ting to be stigmatized as traitors, and re
fraining from revenging the perpetrators of
the in-itlt ; a mob of ruffians marshalled
under a banner hearing the sacred motto of
law and order, defeated without a buttle,
captured without a struggle, and compelled
to submit to a higher law than that which
offered encouragement to crime, a more per
fect order than slavish submission to tyran
ny and outrage.
15ut it might have been far different.—
There might have been in lieu of a popular
triumph, attained bloodlessly, a struggle
such as our country has not vet seen.—
There might have been days of carnage and
nights of horror ; mornings in which tiie
rising sun shone but to show the rillemun his
mark, the cannoneer his aim. There might
have been crumbling walls and living shot,
mul men mowed down like grass before the
scythe. There might have been children
dy ng in the arms of mother’s, or orphans
wandering from street to street in frantic
search of fathers only to lull and die upon
their discovered bodies. Innocent anil guilty
would have fallen side by side or front to
front, for battle knows not discrimination.
The friend of yesterday might in that day
have been the tirst to threaten and fell with
his sword the one so lately held dearest ;
the ruffian might have escaped the death
that relentlessly bowed down the patriot.—
Vnd amid flaming ruins, and men raging
like wild beasts, what limit would there
have been to outrage, what victory could
have been gained, whose rejoicings would
not have mingled with the sounds of wo?—
llow feeble the pniisc, how empty the lion
-cem with which the popular heart greets
•: rots (l"'t aver 1 id this calamity a hen
compared with their deserts, and with what
should he our thank fill ties 1 And yet this
is a year in which we leave not yet named a
Day of Thanksgiving !
If the feeble picture we have drawn from
imagination had in multiplied horrors been
copied from reality ; it the earnest determin
ation to do right whatever might he the
temporary stigma attaching to it, had not
made waste paper of the Governor’s Procla
mation, what would have been the feelings
of that misguided official now? For him
there would have been no more peace on
earth. For him, had Providence punished
his crime by denying him death in stteh a
contest, there would have been no future
days of walking happiness, or nights of un
disturbed rest. On him would have fallen
the full responsibility of such a calamity.-
To him would orphaned children have cried
for fallen fathers, on him would widowed
and childless mothers have called down the
vengence of Heaven for homes made deso
late. No fur-traveled letter of an egotistical
divine could in its tardy coming have
brought him its logical eon-olation. Hurled
from his position by an indignant community,
vanquished, and branded traitor by the
slandered patriots his action had called to
arms against the State, he might in some
far land have found a refuge where he would
at. least have had opportunity for repentance,
and time to experience such a reaction of
opimon, as could alone offer him hope of
pardon for his culpable weaknos. It has
been the will of the Almighty that such
should not he his fate ; let him not be un
grateful for that mercy ; for if ever man had
reason to thank God that his 11111111111' had
not become a crime, of deepest dve, a sin of
highest magnitude, that man now sits in the
Executive chair of this State. And yet it
i- he who would deny us uu opportunity fur
Thanksgiving !
There are few men who can control cir
cumstances ; fewer who are not in great
measure their creatures. Prayers have
gone up to Heaven from Christian lips when
in the eyes of law and those in authority
Christianity was a crime. And centuries
later many a heart has swelled in the utter
ance of petitions to the throne of the Most
High, in our period of peril, whose suppli
cations have no record in time, and will
find publication only in eternity, it i-> not
by a Governor’s neglect that such utterances
can he stilled. Stieli a duty needs not in
spiration from the highest of earthly mag
istrates ; and the most potent of mortal
Governors cannot prevent its fulfilment. -
Such prayers have been borne upward on
the wings of angels, and they have found an
answer. No gubernatorial authority could
prevent our reception of the blessings that
Providence has showered on us, and it is
equally impotent to repress our gratitude’s
expression. There will be days and nights
of Thanksgiving throughout our State, as
there have been of earnest prayer, even
though our people are not called upon to
unite on a particular date in oltermg up
their acknowledgments to the Almighty —
And there is one day in the future .vhieli
will lie by the Governor’s m l, involuntary
though It be, one of general Thunk-giving
—of 11 n versa I joy. It is almost needless to
miy that it will be that in which he vucutes
his seat for his successor.— 11 We lilts/.
Terr Nothing moves without a mover
Corwin and Greeley,
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, tells the fol
lowing story:
“ Among the strangers who visited us this
week was the lion. Tom. Corwin, of Ohio.
Mr. Corwin stays at the Astor House. —
Among those of our citizens who called
upon him last Thursday for the purpose of
introducing himself, was Mr. Greeley, of
the Tribune. Mr. Greeley encountered a
gentleman whom he felt assured must be Mr.
Corwin, in the rotunda of the hotel, when
he accosted him :
“ Mr. Corwin, my name is Greeley ”
“ Delighted to see you, niv dear sir,’’said
Corwin, grasping Mr. G.'s right flipper with
one hand while with the other he pulled up
his collar exactly three and one-fourth inches.
“ What do you say to a brace of woodcock
and some lleidsiek, Mr. inquired Cor
win, “ while we have a good old fashioned
talk ?”
“ Well, you know I am somewhat abste
mious, but under the circumstances cannot
decline.”
“ Very well, we’ll go to Florence’s and
order them up.”
Accordingly the gentlemen locked arms,
walked to Florence’s, entered a private
room, and at Corwin's request Mr. Greeley
ordered deviled quail and mushrooms, flanked
by a couple of pints of lleidsiek. Air. G.,
although abstemious, doesn’t lack appetite,
and soon finished up his share of the viands
and beverages, when Corwin paused in the
middle of an animated discussion, and step
ped out saying he would return in a moment
Mr G. accordingly laid back awaiting his
ret urn. 1 le waited a half hour, then another
and another ; and then remembering that
he had to w rite a reply to t hat el— d E.ryress
for the next day, he paid the bill, $S 50,
and lumbered over to the Tribune office.—
Here he found his associate Dana, to whom
lie communicated his opinion that the Hon.
Tom Corwin of Ohio was d—n small pota
toes.
“ Why do you judge so ?” asked Dana.
Mr. G. here related his recent adventure.
Dana snorted —he couldn’t help it.
“ Why, Greeley,” said he, “ you’re sold.
Mr, Corwin left in the day boat for Albany.
1 know it because 1 saw him to the boat
invself. You’ve been sold, and so duccdly
cheap that you’d better say as little a# pos
sible about Mr. Corwin or the dinner either.”
The hero of the old white coat wilted,
lie didn’t say a word, but he crushed his
hat under hi.- arm and dived into the in
most recesses of the sanctum. As the Tri
bune. of Friday contained a leader giving
Brooks particular .Jessie- a regular sting
ing, withering article, hotter than a blister
dressed with Cayenne pepper—it is a fair
pre. umption that the astute philosopher
eased his feelings during the progress of his
production. But knowing idtu as Ido, I
think the person who should ask him how
he enjoyed his dinner with Tom Corwin
would witness an explosion of wrath that
must appal anything weaker than a set of
east-iron nerves.
Home and Woman.
A late number of (Jodey't Lady's Book
contains the following truthful assertion t
Our homes- what arc their corner-stone
but the virtue ol a woman, and onwliatdoes
social well-being rest but in our homes ?-
Mu t we not trace all other blessings of civ
ilized lib; to the doors of our private dwel
lings v Are not our heart b -tones guarded
by holy forms, conjugal, filial and paternal
love, the corner-stone of church and state,
more sacred than either, more necessary than
both? I ,et. our temples crumble, and capi
tals of state be levelled with the dust, but
spare our homes ! Man did not invent, and
he cannot improve or abrogate them. A
private shelter to eo\cr in t wo hearts dearer
to each other than all in the world ; high
wall to exclude the profane eyes of every hu
man being ; seclusion enough to feel that mo
ther is a holy and peculiar name—this is
home ; anil here is the birthplace of every
secret thought Here the church and state
mu-t come for their origin and support. —
(Hi ! spare our homes, 'flic love We expe
rience there gives Its faith in infinite good
ness ; t he purity and disinterestedness of home
is our foretaste and our curliest of a better
world. In relations there established and
fostered do we find through life the chief sol
ace and joy of existence. What friends de
serve the name compared with those whom
a birthright gives us ? Our mot her is worth
a thousand friends ! our sister truer than
twenty intimate companions. We who have
played on the same hearth, under the light
of the same smile, who (late back to the
same scene and seuson of innocence and hope,
in whose veins runs the same blood, do we
not find that years only make more sacred
and more important the tic that binds? -
< 'oldness may separate,different spheres may
divide, but those who can love anything,
who continue to love at all, must find that
the friends whom God himself gave are whol
ly unlike any we can choose for ourselves,
and that yearning tor these is the strong
spark in our expiring affection.
A Lie oka Mistake.— The lielfast (Me.)
Journal of a late date says :
'flic California papers come to us with the
name of Herbert, the murderer of Keating,
at the head of the Niiow Nothing electoral
ticket. We make this announcement ns
truth, fully and frankly as we told the Irish
we thought Herbert a Democrat. He is no
Democrat ; he does not support Mr Buchan*
uu ; lie would not vote with the Democratic
party in Maine next Monday.
This w ill be news to the politicians of Cal
ifornia, and its Imrefftcednesi shows bow uu-
M-rupu|ons political editor- can c oinetime t : be.
The Grave of Steuben.
About five nines from the village of Steu
ben, N. Y, and in the town of that name,
is the grave of the Huron de Steal en. In a
five acre wood-land, on a hill fenced in, so
that the cattle cannot enter, quietly rest the
remains of the Prussian patriot and hero.
The grave is in the middle of the wood,
and was once covered by a monument, a
plain slab with the following inscription :
“Major-General Frederick William Augus
tus Huron de Steuben. ’’ We visited the
grave recently, and found the monument
tumbled down, and things going to ruin and
decay. It was an unpleasant sight to stand
by the grave of that great man and think
how negligent our country had been of her
heroes. There in the wild woods, far from
the city’s crowd, and by the “ fair forest
stream,” repose the remains of a gallant
patriot, with nothing but a ruined mass of
mortar and stones to mark his resting place
Huron Steuben was aid-de-camp to the
King of Prussia—he was receiving a salary
of $.'>,000 a year at the time of the Revolu
tionary strtggle—his sympathies were enlist
ed in behalf ol the infant colonies, and be
left his home and his situation to serve in
the American cause, and take the lead of
our armies, lie was an able general and
an experienced tactician, and rendered in
valuable service to our country. Soon after
the close of the war, Steuben retired to pri
vate life, and for seven years endeavored tir
prevail on Congress to remunerate him for
his services. At length he received a salary
of $2,fi00 a year, only half of that which be
relinquished thirteen years before to risk all
in her service. He located himself on the
farm and in the township where lie died,
given him by the State of New York, lie
cleared oil' sixty acres of land, erected a log
house, ami sat down for the remainder of
his life. With Ids trusty servants and few
friends, who still citing to him with more
than filial affection, lie wilt* lied the current
of his years drift | carefully away, without a
sigh for the splendors of royalty he had left
behind In the old world.
A tree near the spot where his dwelling
stood was a favorite of his, and under that
tree, in summer, ho used to pass many of
his hours. Ile expressed a w ish to lie bur
rieil when he died under the tree where lie
had so often rested while living. Outlie
26th day of November, 17',)7, he was struck
with a paralysis, and lived three days after
wards. lie diree'ed, just before his death,
that he should bo buried in his military
cloak, with the star of honor, which he ul
ways wore, placed on his breast. IIis weep
ing servants and few rustic neighbors formed
the proecision to his solitary place of burial,
and there, in the still wood , “ with hi-, mar
tial cloak around him,” and the star Hu h
ing on his breast, they laid the old warrior
I down to rest, lie sleeps well beneath the
soil he helped to five.
Mis stormy career was over, and he who
had passed his life on the battle-field, bail
not a (lag to droop over his hearse, or a
soldier to discharge a farewell shot over his
grave. A nation seemed to have blotted
him out from its memory, and h it him to
die alone, forgotten, unhonored. A “lie
public may prove ungrateful,” and refuse to
erect a monument to the memory ol tlm
departed patriot and warrior, but the poo
die of the land which he helped to free will
cherish his many virtues with filial tender
ness and allertiou.
What Tin: < i tuts Sa v or Tin: Yor.su Mi v
We j i it ess it would take the .starch out of
some of the nice young mCn w ho congregate
at the watering places those who llutter
around the girls most if they could hour
the remarks the ladies make about them
when their backs are turned. A writer
from one of our most fashionable resorts
narrates the following :
“ Why don’t you dance ?” asked a lady of
an apathetic friend a few evenings since, on
the pht/./.n, w hen the music struck up
“ Oh, we* have no mni dancers here,” was
the reply,” “only a lot of little shanghais,
that tease a body to death.” Again, when
the music struck up a quadrille, a lady on
the piazza asked another, sitting near the
door, “ Who are all in there, Miss: —
“Nobody but those eveila ting shanghais,”
was the response. One of the said birds,
who sports Pursian legs, a Cape May Imt,
and a Saratoga coat, and is nil whiskers,
teeth, hows and flattery, was approaching u
group of ladies with languid shuffle, when
one remarked, sotovnrr. “ Here comes our
monkey friend !” Of another individual
who wears a crop of glossy black Imir tlmt
hardly agrees with his age—the remark u n
made, “ Merc comes our mg fiicnd !” And
so the dear develi.sh creatures talk of those
who wait upon them most devotedly These
remarks I did not hear inyself, for I have a
horror of Indies in n crowd, and keep clear
of them ; hut 111 y information is reliable. I
belong, I suppose, to the class that the pret
ty merry-makers would stigmatize as bears,
in contradistinction to the bears that bother
them so much. All the single men here are
lodged in a building which is separate from
the main hotel, and is known as the “ Texas.”
The Indies, I am credibly informed, call this
building the “ Menagerie.”
Sockatks, seeing a scolding wife, who had
hanged herself on an olive-tree, exclaimed,
“ Oh, that all trees would hour such fruit.”
In going on hoard a Mississinpisteamhoftt
Mr. Junes met Mr. Smith, "Which way
are you going, Bmith -up y,r down V’ —
“ That depends on eifcum stances. If I sleep
over the boiler, up—if in the citbin, down.’
Ijaw ij like prussic apid a dangerous
reipedy, find the apitlHeat dose generally
sufficient,
[1K0M THE I.OTISVIU.E JOURNAL.]
Pearls.
Sparkling pearls are in the ocean,
Hidden in some coral cave ;
1’ricoless pearls of heautv sleeping,
I'ar beneath the trouhled wave.
Beauteous pearls are in the ocean,
In the ocean wide ot Thought ;
Pure and bright as crystal fountains,
Onlv by the earnest sought.
Pearls are in the grassy meadow,
In the early summer dawn ;
Dewy pearls are in the forest,
And in the flower-blossomed larva.
Pearls there are of rarest value,
Peep within the starry eye
Tears that fall from woes of others
Dews of sweetest sympathy.
Pearls are hid itt every life-tide,
Had we but some diver's art,
To teach the surging waters,
Beating in the human heart.
Far within the deep soul caverns.
There are gems of beauty bright,
Oft o'ergrowu with choking sea weeds—
Worldly dross that dims their Tight.
Threads of Hope are intermingled
With these pearls of beauty rare ;
Silver threads in brightness twined with
Pearls of Truth, so God like fair.
And a pearl of steady lustre
I.iglits the pathway to the sky •
Heavenly Faith, serenely shining,
Pierces dread Kteruity.
Granada.
It is surprising will, wlmt rapidity (Ira
Hilda is assuming the aii: and n]>| u‘nranee of
mi American city. Hut one short year ago
lhurt' were luit very few while persons living
here, lint now nearly every t'uee seen in the
streets is white. Were it not that the In
dians from the country bring in daily their
commodities for the market, ho would sea rep
ly l>e conscious of an absence from the Uni
ted States, A change is also pcreeptublo
in the manners of the people. They now pay
some attention to their dress ; and, indeed,
so stylish are the garments of some of the
M inims, that it will he necessary before long
to import fashions When the “ latest New
\ ork and Par s fashions are adopted here,
we trust they will lie routined to the more
wealthy of the inhabitants, as, fora poor
man's wife, it would ho hard to improve the
present styles One of the most marked
ami u eful innovations upon Spanish cus
toms, is the application of wheels to carts.
Hitherto things have been trundled along
upon rollers, ,-omewhat similar to those used
in moving houses in the I'nitcd States—the
only dilVerenc, was a slight, increase in the
dianieti r of the wheel, and a moderate con
traction in its breadth. \\ ith the old style
ol carts ii i'e(|itii'e(l two yokes of oxen, two
men to drive them, and a boy to walk in
front with something in his hands to coax
the cattle along, to move any burden too
heavy lor an lnd.au to curry on his hack or
head, hut now we are beginning to have the
r. 'tilar American cart, running on regular
Ameiiean wheels, in regular American style.
It is somewhat aiuii. iug to see the Ameri
can drivers rush past the ombre looking inl
ine, and iiielaneho'y lookin' 'oxen, and lis
ten to the jolly “ ga’ lung," as the old com
pel i t or.s are lei I he hind I » fore another year
end We expect to see the American style of
edifices ciubcllishimr our city with their
"rue,'ftil formi HI \ , qnemt
lire mil. K;ei kimia r. While making
some investigations on the chemical forces
of plants, and the circulation of sap, wo
made some experiments, for the purpose of
seeing how far the colors of the (lowers was
dependant on the various salts, contained in
the earth, and which are taken lip by the
forces which are necessary to convey tho
sap.
We took a beautiful white rose, and
placed the stem of it in a solution of yellow
prosiale of potash, and let it remain there
fniir or live hums. Wo then placed it in a
solution of sulphate of iron, where it remain
ed until morning.
On examining it the next morning wo
found the petals changed of a delicate prim
ro e rotor, the leave- to a dark bluish green,
and the wood of the stem to a deep blur.—
The veins in the petals w ere al-o of a deep
blue color. The frngrnnoe of the flower re
mained unchanged, and if looked as fresh ns
ono that, was plucked at the same time, nml
w hich had been kept in a vase of water.
The rationale of these singular changes
seems to lie as follows :
Tho pruxinte of potash i- taken up bv a
capillary attraction and distributed through
every part of the plant The same is the
ease with the sulphate of iron. As soon ns
t wo sohitiomis are brought in contact, the
iron, acting ns a re-agent, revives the Prus
sian blue, that forms the base of prusinto
potash This beautiful experiment can he
tried by any one, care bring taken that tho
solutions are none too strong.
The effects noted above will not take
J'hioo if the solutions are mixed in a vessel
before using. The experiment may he va
r.ed, using any inetulic solutions, the result
ing colors of course depending upon the
salts Hindu use of. W'arerly Magazine.
M i sjc not only improves a man’s tnstes
but his morals. It gives him a taste for
home, and amends his habits wonderfully.
The man who spends his evenings with a
piano, is seldom seen in dram shops, and
never with night brawlers. We believe in
music, and candidly think that one flute will
do ns much towards driving rowdyism out
of a neighborhood, as four policemen and a
bull dog
Too Tins I’lieonl} money that does
Ilian any good, is what he earns himself.—
A ready-made fortune is like ready made
clothes, seldom fits the man who comes into
possession. Ambition, stimulated by hope
and a half idled pocket-hook, has a povyrr
that will {Humph over all ditVb'uUius, w-i
giniag with the rich man’s contumely, nnU
leaving "if with the envious man’s uialicc.
NO. 41.