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VOL. J.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Eiecutive Department.
Officers. OrncM.
J, Nkei.t Johnson, Governor.
R. M Anderson Lieut. Governor.
Divio F. Douoi.ass,. .. Secretary of State.
Henry Bates Treasurer of State.
G*o. IV. Whitman, Comptroller of State.
W. S. tt'iUM* Attorney General.
John H. Brewster, Surveyor General.
James Ai.i.kn State Printer.
E. IVii-soN 1
f. S. McKenzie, > State Prison Directors.
|D.itx. Deli., )
Judiciary.
JUSTICES OE SUPREME COURT.
3ii oh C. Murray Chief Justice.
Solomon lleydeufelt... Associate Justice.
J*. S. Terry
DISTRICT JUPOKS.
District —8th J. M. Peters.
“ 9th... .IVm. P. Daingerfielil.
“ 15th... .C. E. Williams.
Trinity I’o. OlUcial Dirictory.
Bounty Judge It. T. Miller.
•County Clerk II. J. Seaman.
Deputy Co. Clerk Robert G. Stuart
District Attorney 11. J. Ilowe.
j-iberitf Edward Neblett.
Coroner A. Shepard.
Treasurer C. F. Lynn.
Assessor 1). \V. Potter.
Surveyor ILL. Wheeler 1
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
District No. 1 M. Griffin.
“ “ 2 L. Reynolds.
“ “ 3 W. VanSclmack.
Tlie Board of Supervisors meet the 1st Monday
in February, May, August and November.
DISTRICT COURT—15th District.
Composed of the Counties of Trinity ami Hum
boldt.
Terms —In the County of Trinity, on the 3d
Monday in February, May. August and Novem
ber, —in the County of Humboldt, the first Mon
day in January, April, July and October.
COUNTY COURT.
Terms—1st Monday in January, March, May,
July, September, and November.
COURT OF SESSIONS
Terms—1st Monday in February, April, June,
August, October and December.
PROBATE COURT.
Terms.—4tli Monday of each month.
Sheriff’’s Sale.
V virtue of n decree of foreclosure and order
n of Half issued out of the Hon. District Court
of the 15th Judicial District, in and for Trinity
Co., on a judgment rendered therein on the 21st
day of November, A. I) 1856, in favor of Thomas
•S. Fisher and against II. M. Channcey, for the sum
of three thousand three hundred and twenty-two
45-100 (3322 45) dollars, principal, interest and
costs, together with accruing costs for the fore
closure of a certain mortgage, executed by said
II. M. Chauie v and in favor of Tlios. Si Fisher,
1 will expose at pubic sale at the Court House
door in the town of Weavcrville, on
Saturday, the 20th day of December, 1856,
at 1 1-2 o’clock, p. in., to the highest bidder, for
cash, tlie following described property, to satisfy
the above judgment, interest, costs and accruing
costs, to wit: “All that certain piece or parcel
of land in said County of Trinity, known as
‘ Chauuccy’s Hanch’in Weavcrville township in
said County, on main Weaver creek, commencing
at a large pine tree with the bark peeled oil',
standing outlie west side of said creek, said tree
being the south-western corner of F. Schnablc’s
claim, thence following said Schnahlc’ssmith lino
easterly one-half mile to a stake set at the north
cast corner of said claim, thence running south
erly at right augles witli first line one-half mile
to a stake, thence westerly parallel with first
drawn line one half mile, crossing Weaver Creek
to a stake, set as the south-west corner of said
claim, tiicncc northerly one-half mile to the place
of beginning,” originally takcu up by W. liutts,
together with all and singular the hereditaments
and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any
wise appurtaining, including the Chauneeyville
hotel, and the saw mill near thereto.
E. NEHI.KTT, Sheriff.
By J. A. Watson, Deputy.
Weavcrville, Nov. 28. 1856.
Sheriffs Sale.
BY virtue of a decree of foreclosure and order
of sals issued out of the lion. District Court
ol the 15th Judicial District, in and for Trinity
County ou a judgment rendered therein on the
21st day of November, A. I). 1856, in favor of
Lewis Olson and against Clias. Thomas, for the
sum of Seventeen hundred and eighty-nine 25-100
($1789 25) dollars, principal, interest and costs,
together with accruing costs for the foreclosure
ol a certain mortgage, executed by said Charles
Thomas in favor of Lewis Olson, I will expose
for public sale at the Court House door in the
town of Weaverviile, ou
Saturday the 20th day of December, 1856,
at l o’clock, i’. m., to the highest bidder, for casln
the following described property, to satisfy the
above judgment, interest, costs and accruing
costs, to wit : “ The undivided fourth (being the
fourth bought by said ('has. Thomas from Mitch
ell, Harris, Damon A Co.) of the real estate of M.
•Short Sf Co., described as follows: Tim tiouriug
and saw mill situated on Weaver creek, in said
county about three miles below Weaverviile, and
the out houses and ground adjacent thereto, and
thereunto belonging. Also a lot of ground situa
ted on the south side of Court street in Weaver
viile, in said county, commencing at the north
east corner of Mountforts Corral! lot, thence
f lining westerly along the south side of said street,
seventy (70) feet, thence southerly and at right
•angels with said street one hundred and twenty
feet, thence easterly and purulell with said street
seventy (70) feet, thence northerly to the place
of beginning. Together with the tenements, hcrc
ditments and appurtenances thereunto belonging
or in any wise appertaining.
K. KEBLETT, Sheriff.
Jiy J. A. Watson’, Deputy.
Weaverviile, Nov, 28, 1656. 45,
ASSAY OFFICE.
No. 52 J Street, between 2d and 3d,
H A C K A M 11 JV T O.
1-VL.AKK Co.
A SHAVERS OF GOLD AND ORES of every
/Y description, are now prepared to execute bus
iness entrusted to them promptly, and on the most
reasonable terms. Our assays have been thor
ougly tested at American and European Mints, and
we guarantee their correctness, and will pay ull
differences arising front the same.
Through recent improvements we are enabled
to make returns for Deposits within six hours.
L. 8. Mint Coin scut to our patrons in the coun
try Gy return Express. Advances made ou He
posits, liars discounted at Hau Francisco rates.
•Sacramento, Nov. 1,1856. 4 l-ftm.
•SACRAMENTO
OMOKED FALMON, for sale by
H H. 1*. HEIXTZEI.MAX.
Wcgver, Nov. 15, 1856,
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WEAVERVILLE. TRINITY COUNTY, CAL.. SATURDAY HOMING, DECEMBER (5. 185(1.
THE TRINITY JOURNAL
IS P r II I. I S II K II K VEKY SATE H DAY M O It X I X 0.
BY CURTIS &. GORDON,
K. J. CURTIS, L>, E. GORDON,
EDITOltS AND PROPRIETORS.
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“ six months 5 00
Advertisements conspicuously inserted on the
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p'fl" A square consists of Ten lines, or less.
A reasonable reduction from the above rates
will be made to yearly advertisers.
Book and Job Printing.
We have connected with the Jovrnai., a full and
complete Job Office, where every description of
work will be executed neatly and promptly.
AGENTS FOR THE JOURNAL.
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Rig Flat Cart. J. N. Rest.
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Little Prairie Pei.treai A Penny.
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Main Street, nearly opposite St, diaries,
WHOLESALE AN'D RETAIL DEALERS IN'
P R OV1SIONS, *
Si G-LiOTSTOS
BOOTS AND SHOES,
II VRDWARE, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE. 4c.
Weaver, Nov. 1, 185(5. ll-tf.
HOMEWARD BOUND
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by the next Steamer, will flml
CHEAT HEN El’T AND GOOD PEKPARATK>N
for the voyage, by taking from one to three of
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KLECTTUMTIE.MICAL BATHS! ! !
which extract CALOMEL and MERCERY in all
its forms. IRON. ZINC. l.EA 1C etc., etc., and all
INS 11*101 S DR ECS ami I’OISt INS from the hu
man system, and speedily euro
R11 El M ATISM, PARALYSIS.
Neuralgia Stiff Joints, Fever anil Ague. Jaundice.
Indolent I’lcors, Swellings. Tumors, Chronic
and Acute Difficulties of the Itlnrlder,
kidneys, and all old affections of the
SEXUAL ORCANS. and are
also the most
L V X V It lots H A T II
ever administered, imparting permanent warmth
ami animation to the system.
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SANSOME AND COMMERCIAL STS.
San Francisco.
7*0t~AH the " Homeward Hound" who are suf
fering from Hheumatism, Paralysis, or any other
affection, should arrange to remain in San Fran
cisco several days, or a week or more, before the
day of sailing, that they might be able lo free
themselves from their difficulties prior to rh port
ure. ns many very many severe cases of Rheuma
tism, Ac.. Ac., are POSITIVELY CLUED in from
ONLY ONE lo TWO W FEES.
/t*f~Seo large advertisement in another part of
this paper, for additional information.
San Francisco, Oct. 24, 18fi(i. 10.
CITYDRUG STORE.
PL R E DRECS & MEDICINES,
PEREEMERY A FAN< Y AR
TICLES for Toilet, PAINTS. OILS,
and DYE-STUFFS, HOOKS &.
PERIODICALS. STAPLE
AND FANCY STA
TIONERY,
CARDS ii DRAUIMa PAPER.
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A good assortment constantly on hand, select
ed with care and for sale by FAGO A FEAST.
West side of Main Street, Weaver.
PhyMcinn*prescriptions careful It/compounded.
Weaver, Oct. 25, 18jfi. ' 40-tf.
T. mi:i: dhls,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER
West side of Main street, Weaver,
(OITDSITK THE “ IIIANA,’’)
as for sale an extensive assortment of
|,D AND SILVER WATCHES.
PLAIN AND DIAMOND RINGS,
WATCH CHAINS.
HUE AST PI NS. HRACELET8, and
JEWELRY of every description,
CLUCKS, etc.,
REASOSA1II.lt TERMS.
articulur attention given to the repairing ot
Iches. ...
pecimens neatly set. and all kinds of ( alitor
Jewelry manttraclnred to order, no. 13 tt
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF TRINITY COUNTY.
The Past.
Viewed with joy and then with sadness,
Traced with smiles and then with tears.
Linked with jirief and then with gladness
Are the annals of past years.
Here, the memory loves to linger
On some bright and sunny spot,
Sweet with odors from Hope's garland,
ltieh with Fancy’s gems of thought.
There, the mind in sadness wanders
O'er a burning, sterile waste,
Views the flowers of Hope all withered,
Walks a path in sorrow traced.
Sadly, almost w ildly asking—
‘ Why has God dealt thus with me?’
We receive the kindly answer,
' It was mennt for good to thee !’
Learn, in clouds as w ell as sunshine,
To see but a Father's hand,
Seeking to direct thy footsteps
To that bright anil better land.
Where the veil which dims thy vision
Shall be lifted, and thou see
Why thy God, in love and mercy,
lias thus, kindly, dealt with thee.
Seek, while turning back the pages
Of thy life, to learn from them
What thy duty is to others,
Wherein thou hast self condemned.
Let the star of Hope e'er gflide thee,
Piercing thro’ the deepest gloom,
Like a holy faith prepare thee
For pure bliss beyond the tomb !
San .fuse Tribune.
Country Editors.— We cannot help pub
lishing the following from the Olive Branch.
The writer must have seen inside a country
newspaper office once, himself, llow often
is it that men are seen to treat the country
weekly paper as a matter of little value, not
knowing that to condense and extract from
the great mass of trash laid before him du
ring the week, in the shape of huge daily
prints, nine-tenths of which is a perfect nu
isance to the general reader—has required
a deal of the hardest kind of labor ; and
thinking himself very smart to despise it,
shows to the intelligent his perfect want of
appreciation of true merit. It is but a small
matter to write, where the only object is to
till the columns of a paper ; and it is still
less to clip from foreign publications whole
columns of print. But to read, digest and
condense into a small space, all the more in
foresting items, sentences and sentiments
contained in a multitude of daily prints, not
only requires severe labor, but a degree of
patience, perseverance and taste that nine
tenths of those who sneer at them, are whol
ly incapable of. Here it is :
‘ All honor to the Country Editor ; the
hard toiling, honest, unappreciated country
editor ; with no rest for head or foot, no
time for love, amusement or conversation,
up in the morning at the cock’s crowing ;
the evening till the cock crows at twelve—
up after that, sometimes, until the cock crows
again at daybreak ; and never down until
every other mortal has been in bed three
hours. Almost always is added to his other
duties that of physical labor, because—well
he told us once not to tell that he was poor,
because the world was very apt to estimate
a man’s abilities by his dollars and cents—
he sets type probably, because Ac li'.cs it. —
mere play for a man who has nothing else
to do but edit a newspaper. lie does his
own thinking, and does it well ; seizing up
on every little incident and event ns it passes
around him, giving it a candid consideration,
and expressing his own earnest views of it,
in fear of 110113. lie is a man of good taste,
witness his excellent selections. If you want
choice tit-bits and scraps of wisdom, run
your eyes over his unpretending columns—
there they are. We could mention too of
ten where they arc not; but ‘ discretion is
the better part of valor.”
Mauoioi s.— A t the close of the play of
* Cnmille.’on Tuesday evening, at the Sac
ramento Theater, the following conversation
occurred between a couple of the editorial
fraternity of this city :
M.—‘That was certainly a very finished
performance of ‘Oamillo,’ by Miss l\, al
though not equal, I think, to Mrs. II.’s ren
dition of the same character.’
ft. assented, and added—‘ Mr. V.’s per
sonation of Count de Varville was to wy
thinking, a finished jierformance, also.’
Now it so happened that Mr. Y.’s rendi
tion of that same part was tire very acme of
all that was perfectly horrible in acting, as
all who were present can testify.
‘ Good God !’ exclaimed M., perfectly
thunderstruck, ‘are you in earnest ?’
‘ I certainly am,’ replied It., enjoying his
friend’s amazement, ‘ I think, decidedly, it
lens n finished performance, particularly when
he got, through with it.’
‘ Oh, true enough,’ rejoined M , and the
audience were d —n glad that it was finish
ed.’—American.
Nature IH:i.i<;hts in Oitositeu. —The day
after a storm is always- calm and lovely —
A little wishes a giant for a husband, while
the * fat girl’ sets her heart on a dapper lit
tle fellow, of the size and flavor of a penny’s
worth of allspice. Young, the author of
‘ Night Thoughts,’ was the most cheerful of
men, while one of the saddest dogs in Lon
don was Grimaldi the clown. * Home, Sweet
Home’ is a beautiful little song, and yet was
w ritten by a man who was never happy un
less in the midst of music, bustle and excite
ment.
I’oon Fkii.oW.—•'The Staten Islander , nl*
biding to the case of a young man who late
ly attempted suicide at Stapleton, by taking
an ounce and a half of laudanum, says that
the reason he made an attempt upon his life,
was that two young and equally beautiful
girls were in love with him, and the diflicuh
ty of choosing between them caused him the
direst despair, which he sought to end by
‘ pisin !’
What is more beautiful and poetical than
the child’s idea of ice ‘ Watergonetoslcep.’
Tuk M'nkk's Mountain Sncogkry in' Win
ter. — The Sierra Democrat, remarking on the
recent fall of snow on the mountains about
Forest City, says :
Winter is a season of amusement in the
city ; but what mountain man wants to leave
his snow-covered hills, to reside in the slushy,
damp, smoky, drizzly atmosphere of the
plains ? Although the cold is a little more
severe in the mountains, and there is no the
ater to while away the evenings, nor con
certs, where you go to hear women squall
and men growl out the last new air, and then
travel home through a mist thick enough to
cut with a cheese knife — 1 ba r riu' all those
city conveniences, there is no place to spend
a winter with good solid comfort like the
mountains. Brick houses can’t compare with
log cabins. Theaters give no such sense of
pleasure ns the inside of a tight log cabin,
with a glorious, blazing pile of logs in the
ample fire place. There is more music in
the wintry blast, as it whistles around your
snug abode, or moans among the pines, than
there is in a concert room. The luxury of
hearing the rain patter on the shingles, as
you nestle among the blankets ; the flicker
ing blaze of the lire, playing in fantastic
light and shade upon the walls, gives you a
sense for comfort to be realized no where
else, and you sink into sleep without having
to woo its embraces for hours.
Hundreds of miuers who are now living
in the eastern cities look back with a sigh
to the old log cabins among the Sierra Ne
vada*. They will never forget the pleasant
evenings spent with their comrades beside
the blazing lire. When the old Californian
goes into the reading-rooms in the Atlantic
States, he will never peruse a paper or mag
azine with half the pleasure which the well
thumbed paper, perhaps two weeks old, af
forded him as he read it by the light of the
pine lire in his log cabin. Hive us the moun
tains, summer or winter. I’ure air, clear wa
ter and refreshing breezes pay us amply for
the lack of those enjoyments to be found in
a Babel of bricks and mortar.
Evening Entertainments. —W. II. rai
nier, pianist, was attacked in Washington
city, at night, by two robbers and n dog.—
lie tore the dog’s jaw from the socket ;
struck one of the villains a blow that laid
his check open from the eye to the chin, and
I then pursued the other and thrashed him
I soundly. After this he concluded the eve
ning’s sport by giving a concert.
A Warning to N mar Sighted Persons.—
The following is the gist of a well, but length
ily told story that appeared in the San Fran
cisco Town Talk.
B. who is near-sighted, has been in
the habit of following strange ladies home,
and one time happened to come across the
wife (whose lineaments he had forgotten,)
of his partner ; he offered his services to gal
lant her to her residence ; she accepted, and
: upon nearing the door bade him takeoff his
; boots ; he did so ; the house was entered,
the stairs ascended, and in the room of the
lady Mr. 1!. was brought face to face with
her husband, his partner. Mrs. (}. explain
ed, and Mr. G. gave Mr. It. a lecture, the
moral of which is—lie careful. Near-sight
ed men should never attempt to conquer n
lady without being assured of whom they !
deal with.
A coruesi’omient of an eastern paper
asks ‘ Is the publisher of the New York
Ledger mad ? Did you ever see a man ad
vertise with such miraculous looseness ? —
This week he bought and paid for half a
page in one hundred and seventy different
daily new spapers, at an expense of over elev
en thousand dollars, lint, he now prints an
edition of one hundred and eighty thousand,
and swears he will reach the two hundred !
before he relaxes a pecuniary muscle !’
Jexxy Lixdandthe Sti’dKnts,— In a cer
tain German town there was a tremendous
furor r about Jenny Lind, who, after driving
the whole [dace mad, left it early one morn
ing. The moment her carriage was outside
the gates, a company of students, who had
escorted it, rushed back to the inn, demand
ed to be shown Jenny Lind's bed-chamber,
and, rushing up stairs into the room, tore
up the sheets and wore them as decorations.
An hour or two afterwards, a bald old gen
tleman, of amiable appearance, an English
man, who was staying in the hotel, came to
breakfast at the tab/e-d'-Aote, and was ob
served to be much disturbed in his mind, and
terrified whenever a student approached
him. At last he said, in a low voice, to
some gentlemen near him at the table, ‘ You
are English, 1 observe. Most extraordina
ry people, these German students ; raving
mad.’ O ! no,’said sombody, ' only excita
ble, but very good fellows, and sensible.’- ■
* 15y heavens ! sir,’ returned the old gentle
man, much discomposed, ‘ then there’s some
thing political in it, and 1 am a marked man.
I went out for a walk this morning, and
w hile I was gone they burst into my bed
room, took away the sheets, and are now
patrolling the town in all directions with
bits of them in their button-holes.’
The editor of the Empire County Argus
dies like a hero. Hear him :
We leave Columbia ns we have left a hun
dred places before, with a brass rule in our
pocket, and a light heart in our vest, bear
ing away little malice or lucre, but priding in
tiie good w ill of those among whom we have
been sojourning. Long years from now, if
life be spared, we shall turn back to memo
ry’s page where are written the bright lines
of to-day's experience ; and ns we now quit
it with regret, we shell ever turn with pleas
ure, to Column, feeling in t lie heart’s quick
ened throb as we look dow n the lulls which
stand sentinel around the golden valley, that
merry tingle of the jubilant blood, which
trills the soul as wc draw near home.
Major Downie. —This pioneer Miner, af
ter whom Downieville is named, has recent
ly written from that place to the Mountain
Messenger a communication, which closes as
follows :
A word about the ‘quartz lend’ that we
discovered this summer on the rid,ire back of
the Slate Creek House. When 1 came over
here this spring to look at the mouutain
where we are at work, 1 thought it was ad
visable to have a good look all around it,
so uwuv I goes to the ridge, and, ns luck
would have it, got right on top of the vein,
picked up a rock, and satisfied myself it was
not far from gold, but I did not see any
gold ; another rock and I might have seen
it. It seems my unlucky afar was in the as
cendant, or l was not thinking of quartz at
the time, lie that as it may, I was not to
get that ledge. A few days after, along
came a Chileno, hunting—- shoots a grouse—
the grouse falls on a piece of gold-bearing
quartz about forty ounces in weight, and by
that means discovers the ledge.
Would you call that lock ? It looks like
it, 1 must say. But, again, it is said that
luck attends fools. If there is this saying,
have l not made a fool of myself in vain !
Yea, an ass of myself for the past seven
years in the mountains of California park
ing blankets and prospecting tools like an
ass iu very truth.
1 will give up all idea of tumbling on a
' pile’ on the top of the ground, and will ap
ply myself diligently to mv tunnels hence
forth, Peradventure fortune may smile on
the efforts of a forty-niner, and gladden the
heart that has been so long expectant.
Shocking a Lady’s Moiiksiy, A singu
lar occurrence happened tin- past summer in
one of the provinces in France. An honest
country gentleman, possessed of a very
handsome park, had found the weather very
oppressive, and was in the habit of taking
a morning walk in his park, with a cigar in
Ids mouth and no clothes upon his hack. A
lady of the neighborhood, from whose win
dows the park might l>e seen, considered the
gentleman's proceedings as entirely too prim
itive, and cited him before a magistrate.—
The defendant contended that, upon his own
property, he had the right to do what he
pleased, and, moreover, that the lady's resi
i deuce was a mile from the spot where he was
in the habit of walking, in nnhinilLi virhi
ralibus. ‘She must have good eyes to dis
tinguish whether 1 am dressed or not,’ said
the gentleman.
Interrogated bv the magistrate upon this
point, the lady whose modesty had been so
rudely shocked, naively replied—‘Oh, but
I looked id him with the aid of an excellent
telescope !’
A VKTi itw i'uom Skuastoi’oi, There has
arrived in I,os Angeles a Frenchman named
Sanveur Murehnndi/.e, who fought at the
takingofthe MalakolT. The history of this
man is somewhat curious. He was at the
siege of Home, in the battles of Alriea. and
afterwards served in the Crimen in the third
regiment of Zouaves. His term of service
having expired, lie left France for Califor
nia, with a capital of $s(), to pay his Iravel
1 ling expenses. From Saute Fe to Los An
geles he travelled on foot und alone.
A MotiikkV Love koh inert Kimixo Sov.
Yesterday we wore called upon by a mot her,
whose son is in tin; State 1’rison, where lie
was sent- on two charges of gnnnd larceny,
and sentenced to live years for each offense.
The mother knows her son was iruiltv, yet
she would pray the Fxecutivc of tlie State,
to exercise liis clemency, to the end that she
may nnco more strive with him to save him
front the error of his ways. If the Gover
nor will pardon him, she w ill remove w ith
him from the State, and t»v returning with
him to her family in the Mast, trusts that a
reformation will be effected. Tim convict
has brothers who are married and doituy well,
tint the mother cannot hear to leave this
lost, erring one, Imt would reclaim him and
no doubt love him till the more for the troub
le he has caused her.
She has (lie names of a number of our
most prominent citizens tin her petition, Imt
the question of greatest interest to her is,
will tlie Governor pardon him ? She hopes,
she trusts he will. Gov. Johnson knew the
young man when lie first enme to Califor
nia, mid before lie became amenable to her
law s, by their violation, and she thinks that
mercy will struggle with justice until the an
gel will soften the heart of him who holds
the power in his band, and that her erring
son will lie restored to her We feared that
her hope was too strong, hut could not find
it in our heart to dash the, cup which she
held so tremblingly to her lips, to the ground,
so we added our name to tin- list, and when
she took her departure could not restrain a
prayer in her behalf. If that, sinning son
could have seen that anxious, care-worn mo
ther ns she appeared to us, we ran hardly
doubt that his heart would have been touch
ed if it never yielded before, and that he
would have resolved to sin no more, if only
to save her loving heart from so severe a
pang, —Marysville Krpress.
A Family (\iVcekt. —Johanna Wagner,
the German prima donna, about whom there
was so much fuss in London, lias married
and left the stage. We presume Gie will now
think better of the ‘ Music of the Future.’
Wiiy is Fremont to lie pitied ?
Because he got Jessie from Benton once,
and is now in a fair way to get Jesse from
the people.
Franki tv was no observing and sensible
man, and bis conclusions were seldom incor
rect. lie said that a newspaper and Bible
in every house, and a good school in every
district—all studied and appreciated us mer
ited—are the principal supporters of vir
tue, morality and civil liberty.
1 White/ — The power to transmit thoughts
by means of written language, is a preroga
tive vouchsafed to man alone. To him only
has it. been given to hold converse with dis
tant friends,sending the wish and the thought
of his soul from ufnr, nlniost ns if present
face to faee at the socinl fireside. Yet this
privilege, rare and blessed as it is, there is
much reason to fear we of California have
sadly abused, through neglect. We have
therefore taken it upon us to advise our peo
ple of their short comings in this respect,
and to counsel a speedy correction of the
evil. And lirst, to the young man we would
address ouis lves, as belonging to a class
most prone to offend in this particular, while
he of all others should most guard against
it. You, young man, should he last to fail
in corresponding with your friends and fam
ily, not only from considerations of policy
ami friendship, but as a matter of principle
and duty. Kspceially should you be regular
and frequent in writing to your parents, if,
happily, they have been spared to you thus
long- as to many of us, alas, they hare not j
lenu'mbcr they are growing old apace ; per
haps already their future has narrowed down
to the thought of their children, and their
minds dwell mostly on the absent and the
past. Think how constantly your mother
meditates on her absent son ; daily her
thoughts go forth over the seas and strange
lands—nightly her dreams are of you. Re
pay not her constant care and devotion with
silence and indifference, When she is gone,
no being will ever again cherish for you such
steady and unselfish love. You cannot go
to her now, but you can and must send her
a letter ; and should do so at, once : Just a
simple letter : Think of the joy it w ill car
ry to her heart, perhaps diffuse through the
whole household at homo. Strong, too, are
the obligations of tbe husband and father,
to write often to the half widowed wife, and
half orphaned children left behind him.—
Keenly they miss his company, sadly they
need his protection, but these they cannot
have it is too much, then, that they should
hear from you by every opportunity ? Per
haps you cannot always send them money to
relieve their wants, but none so poor that
he cannot always send a message to enliven
the cheerless hours of absence and satisfy
the heart, in a word, to all, whoever you
are, or wherever you may be whether in
habiting the city, dwelling on the plain, or
toiling in the mountains, we would say, ns
the angel said to the Kvungelist, 1 write/—•
And do it ut once : Iknt’t wait for a more
convenient season, nor stop to think what
you w ill sav Most anything w ill be accept
able from one so long gone, and so far away.
One of the pleiisenlest epistles we ever rend,
was one w herein a husband related to his
wile, the (lillieiilt ies his miner fingers encoun
tered in attempting to thread u needle.—
Nfic rulin' ut o A lie.
Kxtki:mh y Intkkkstim*.— Mr. Brown, a
medical practitioner in tho vicinage of Win*
Meads, is a frequent visitor, a kind of
daily purveyor of domestic medicine, at the
l’uluee, and I lie Princess often addressed
h m thus : ' taood morning, Brown,’ omit
ting the ' Mr.’ This eamc to the ears of the
royal ‘ Mu,’who forbade its recurrence, und
threatened that, on its being repeated, she
would send Miss Guelph to bed. On Mr.
Brown’s next visit, and in the presence of
Victoria, the royal Princess saluted him as
usual, with ‘Good morning, Brown,’ and
‘ Good night, Brown, for I am sent to heel,
Brown.’ The Queen kept her word.
Dasokk ok Hours As the ludies have
adopted the fashion of wearing 1 hoops’ iu
their underdress, we feel it a solemn duty to
ueipmint them w ith the danger attending the
wearing of such ornaments. The follow ing
from the True Californian, is unquestiona
bly correct :
1 loop Incidents.—On Saturduy evening,
as 8. (' Gardiner, Esq., was passing a lady
in front of Wells, Fargo k Co.’s Express
Office, one of the hoops in her dress burst
from its fastenings, ami striking a bee line
across the sidewalk, passed through the silk
umbrella Mr. U. held in his hand.
East evening, us a purty of ladles and
gentlemen were diuiug in one of our first
class boarding-houses, at a long table, a beau
tiful Miss, occupying one end, was relieved
from the burthen of a fine round whalebone
hoop, a few inches less than ten feet long,
which, not liking its silken confines, glided
along uuder the table almost to the feet of
her vis-M-vu.
A doc., which had lost the w hole of its In
teresting family, was seen trying to poke a
piece of crape through the handle on a doof
of one of Philadelphia sausage shorn
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