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VOL. 2.
THE TRINITY JOURNAL
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Executive Department.
Officers. Offices.
J. Neei.v Johnson Governor.
K. M. Anderson Lieut. Governor.
David F. Douglass,... Secretary of State.
Henry Dates Treasurer of State.
Geo. W. Whitman,. .. .Comptroller of State.
AV. S. Wallace, Attorney General.
John 11. Hrewster,. .. .Surveyor General.
James Ai.len, State Printer.
K. Wilson I
F. S. McKenzie, > State Prison Directors.
Ai.ex. Dell, )
J udicinry.
JF.STICKS OF SUPREME COURT.
Hugh C. Murray Cliief Justice.
A. C. Monson, Associate Justice.
D. S. Terry,
DISTRICT JUDGES.
District—8th.... J. M. Peters.
“ 9tli,.. .Wm. P. Daingcrfleld.
“ 15th... .C. E. Williams.
Trinity Co. Oflicial Dirictory.
County Judge U. T. Miller.
County Clerk 11. J. Seaman.
Deputy Co. Clerk, Robert G. Stuart
District Attorney H. J. Howe.
Sheriff Kdwnrd Ncblett.
Coroner A. Shepard.
Treasurer C. F. Lynn.
Assessor I). W. Potter.
Surveyor II. L. AVliecler
HOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
District No. 1 M. Griffin.
“ “ 2 L. Reynolds.
“ << 8 AV. A'anSehaack.
The Hoard of Supervisors meet the 1st Monday
la February, May, August and November.
DISTRICT COURT—15tii District.
Composed of the Counties of Trinity and Hum
boldt,
Terms —In the County of Trinity, on the Sd
Monday in February, May. August and Novem
ber, —in tiie County of Humboldt, (lie 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, Juue,
August, October and December.
PRORATE COURT.
Terms.—1th Monday of eacli month.
fiVei a. 1 .VEi T?H «K Es .T3. S*l5 a
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) RJ
COONTV OP TbIKITT, |
In the District Court of the 15th Jud. Dist.
Hull, Baker A Bobbins, Plaintiffs, u Watkins and
Witter, Defendants.
rp H E PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALT
.1. FORNIA, To JAMES O. WATKINS ami
CHESTER WITTER You are hereby summon
ed to answer the complaint of Alpheas Hull,
George P. linker and William ltohbins, bleu
against you, ns follows : If served ou you in this
County, within ten days; if served out of said
County and in this Judicial District within twen
ty days'; in all other cases within forty days, in
each case exclusive of the day of such service, in
au action commenced against you in the aforesaid
Court, on the 18th day of August, A. D. 1856,
wherein the said PlantHTs prays judgment against
you, the said Defendants, for the sum of two
thousand and seventy-five 88-100 dollars, costs of
suit and money disbursements, being amount due
on a promissory note made and executed as pet
forth in said Plaintiff’s Complaint. If you fail to
answer said complaint as herein directed, the
PI an tiff’s will take judgment against you by de
fault, for said amount of $2,07o 88-100, costs of
suit and ntouey disbursements, us in said Com
plaint demanded.
Given under my hand and the Seal of
. the District Court of the Ffteentk Judi
( ) cial District, this Fourteenth day of
j ,--8 ' f November in the year of our Lord one
—y— thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
II. J. SEAMAN, Clerk.
£„ii Raker A Robbins, ) District Court Ifitli
1 yH )' Judicial District
ifamesO. Watkins, Chester I State of California
WDJ 1 County of Irinity.
On reading the affidavit of n,
examination of the papers now on in- 111 ,UL
trict Court of Trinity County in the can.- ’- 11
pvdered that service be made on each of the abo. "
named Defendants by publication of the summons
iii the above cause, once a week for the period of
three month.; in the Trinity Journal, a newspaper
printed and published in \\ eayorvillo, JI runty
County California. IL i ■ -' ,J I', 1 ’..',. 1 ' •
County Judge, Trinity County Calitorma.
Attest: 11,J. Seaman, Clerk of the 15 th
Judicial iMfipt Court, Trinity County.
Weaver, Nov. lfitb, 1856, 4:ur -
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SAN FRANCISCO.
SIGHT DRAFTS at current rates, la sums to
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Eharles Morgan A Co New i ork.
Darby A Barksdale, St. Louis, Mo.
ifcis'llighest price paid for Gold Dust.
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Wear crville, 17,1856. '.'6-tl.
WEAVERVILLE, TRINITY COUNTY, CAL., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1857.
McLAIN & THORP,
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COURT STRUCT, - - - WEAVKRVIIXE.
TILACKSMITHIXG of nil kinds, Horse, &
J Mule and Ox Shoeing. done in the best
manner, and on reasonable terms for Cash. \Jr
A large assortment of Miners’ Tools, Rockers,
Toms, l’icks, Shovels, Crow-liars, Tom and Rock
er Irons, Sluicing Forks, and a great variety of
II A K I) \V A 11 E ,
kept constantly on hand and for sale at our Shop.
Guns and Pistols, s Wad-Cutters
Game Rags, * Cleaning Rods,
Shot Pouches and Nipple Rcnches.
Belts, Powder l’owder and Lend,
Horns and Flasks, G. T). & Ealeyc's double Wat
erproof. central fire Caps ; together with many ar
ticles not here enumerated.
Guns and Pistols repaired by competent work
men. and satisfaction guaranteed.
McLAIN & THORP.
Weaver. Pee. 20. 1856. 26-tf,
PIERCE, CHURCH &C0.
M<W FIRE-PROOF RllTOK 1UII.DIXO,
Main Slrrrt, nearly opposite St. diaries,
WII0TXSA1.E AND RETAII. DEAI.ERS IX
ar«s esc a dss a qoqs q jacsn*»
PROVISIONS,
READY-MADE CLOTHING ;
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HARDWARE, CROCKERY, GLASSWAR E, Ac.
Weaver, Nov. I. 1856. 41-tf.
HEAI ?TI I AND LUXURY!
INVALUABLE TONIC.
GREGORY’S
VEGETABLE BRANDY BITTERS ! !
A VAST AMOUNT OF NAUSEATING AND
noxiousconipouudshavingbeen thrust into the
market under the name of “ Hitters,” it becomes
the duty of the Proprietors and Agents for the
sale of the celebrated
Gregory’s Vegetable Brandy Bitters,
to expose 1 lie fact, and absolve tiiemsoves from
giving tacit assent to any merit claimed to he
possessed by those injurious compounds. The
special qualities of GREGORY’S RITTERS are
to renovate and invigorate the body, promoting
activity in the digestive organs, and consequent
ly eradicating dyspepsia and other similar com
plaints incident to a sedentary life. To all trav
elers, either by land or sea, to miners and others
whose occupation calls (or severe muscular action
these Ritters will he found of invaluable service.
The high standing of Du. GREGORY, the discov
erer, was the first guarrantee of its superior excel
lence, its own unequalled merits has since estab
lished for it a worhi-widecelebrity. Dr. Gregory
has for years been at the head of the Medical
Faculty in London, and twice President of the
London College of Physicians and Surgeons.
These Ritters are composed of carefully select
ed roots of a tine tonic character, and the choicest
brands of French Rramlies, making them an
agreeable and palatable stimuleut, as well as a
healthful appetiser. So generally are their mer
its admitted, that they are always lo be found in
every respectable Saloon, Hotel, and amongst the
stores of every steamer or packet ship.
E. L AMLIN & CO,,
131 ( lav street,
Are the ROLE MANUFACTURERS and DEAL
ETS in this admirable tonic in California, and
MESSRS. O. EEKAUD & CO.,
Are their Agents in Sacramento.
Orders addressed to either of these firms will
receive prompt attention. A liberal discount
made to dealers. IS, LAMLIN&Co.
131 Clay street.
D. M. EDBR & CO.,
Weaverville, sole Agents for Trinity Co.
San Francisco, Dec. 20, 1 <S5H. 48-3m.
Gregory’s Vegotablo Brar.dy Bitters.
TV/Tessrs. E.l.aiiilin i,< o„ Progui-
IV I. etors of Dr. Gregory's Vegetable Ritters—
Common justice demands that I should thus pub
licly stale the benefits 1 have received by using
your invaluable Ritters, ns before I used them I
w as Buffering from a palsied appetite, and which
prevented me from attending to my daily labors
or necessary avocations, but since 1 have used
your truly renovating remedy I am a different
man ; can eat heartily and am entirely strength
ened. if publishing this will he of any service
to you, it may be freely used, and t cheerfully
recommend it to my fellow creatures who mnv lie
afflicted. WILLIAM MILLING.
Sworn to before me, thiH 10th day of October,
A. D. 185fi. Joii.x Mhwixtok,
Notary Public, County of San Francisco, State
of California. t 3m.
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THE TRINITY JOURNAL.
Ninevah!
Th« following learned and eloquent desertation 1
on • The ltuins of Ninevah,’ has been furnished
us by the Rev. Cl. K. Godfkev, of Shasta. Out
of the many brilliant ass-ays written by this dis
tinguished author, perhaps there is none which
equals the following in perspicuity of thought and
diction. The grandeur of the theme is admira
bly suited to the genius and scope of the author's
mind. Though the writer may differ widely from
the historians who have given to the world the
rise, the splendor, and the fall of Ninevah, as re
gards sccues, characters and dates, we may yet
in all reason, suppose that the able editor of the
late Vigilante is more accurately posted than
those historians who have annoyed the world with
their irksome details. Mr. Godfrey's bold, dash
ing style is too lofty and dignified to stoop t» the
fabulous detail of its origin. The writer, in his
marvelous power of description reconciles dates
and intervals of five hundred years, and brings
them side by side in one unbroken line of w on
derful events. Jf Fenelou or Maeauley had writ
ten a desertation upon the ruins of Ninevah, they
would have no doubt gone into u discussion as to
the paternity of Ninevah to Nimrod or the child
ren of Shorn ; or, perhaps led us through the re
volting scenes which marked the reign of the last
of the Assyrian kings, Sardanapolus, in whose
reign the empire was dissolved. Wo must there
fore accord to Mr. Godfrey a finer imagination
and more copious genius than the above named
historians.
Those who attempt to test the language of the
author by the rules of grammar, must have but a
feeble appreciation of the writer's genius. We
should not dare ourselves to attempt a eorreetion
of anything which might lie considered a fault.
We therefore give it as it dried from the author's
pen. Won't the Professor deliver a lecture be
fore our Lyceum ?—Ki».
THE RUINS OF NINEVAH.
BY KEY. OIK)YE K. UOUKKKY.
Ninevah, once the proudest city in the world,
was nt the height of its glory, when Jonah passed
through its streets three days in succession and
proclaimed ytl forty days and Nincvah shall be
overthrown.
In the days of King Solomon Nincvah had just
attained the zenith of its glory and it continued
the samo for many years, through the successive
reign of Assyrian kings.
It was twenty (?) miles in circumference and
contained a population of one hundred and twen
ty thousand souls!!
Nincvah w-us celebrated (says Yah-hu, in his
Arch aeology,) for its splendor ami magnificence
of its public buildings, such as temples, porticos,
towns and palaces, and decorated witli costliest
materials.
There were no city in all Asia where philosophy,
the fine arts and men of science and learning and
cultivated minds were carried to greater perfec
tion than in Ninevah.
History oho tells us at that time it was the most
grand and imposing city in the world ; its gran
deur, its variety, its romantic character, its splen- i
did beauty of architectural proportion were com
parably magnificent!
Nincvah was the enpitol of Assyria. She was
proud of her architectural edifices anil impregna
ble wall and gates of brass, her frowning domes
and her pencil gardens.
‘ not Babylon
Nor great Aleaino such magnificence
Equal'd in ail their glories to enshrins
Belas orScrapis their gods ; or seat
Their kings w hen Egypt with Assyria
Strove in wealth, luxury and learning!'
These advantages led to wealth and idolitry,
and universal corruption of manners prevailed,
so they were debauched and addicted to all man
ner of concupieucca.
Amidst all her gaiety and mirthfulness, her
baehanalian songs and annual festivities, she be
gan to decline on account ol her own perfidy and
finally fell through her own debauchery.
Where ! Oh where ! now is her luxurious edifices
and crowded thoroughfares and promenades, the
glory that once clustered around proad Ninevah,
once the great city of Christian iniquity.
Her perfidy and debauchery have succeeded to ,
the joyous hilarity of her great population. Her
glory is now departed and scarcely a truce of her '
former riches aud magnificence remains. Her
once splendid palaces and temples have fallen
down and mouldered into dust, yet beautiful in
their ruin.
Layhnrd in his researches in Nincvah made won
derful and astounding discoveries in his Assyrian
antiquities. lie finished his exhumations in the
early part of last year and consigned them to the
London Athcnumm. They arrived there during
last autumn!
They consist ol about fifty cases of the most ar- !
tistic sculptures yet discovered in this post-dclu
vian city, representing the queen of Assyria feast
ing (?) under the shadow of the vino ; the king
engaged in a grizzly chase, ur.d after in the act
of pouring forth a libation.
There is also a splendid and almost unbroken
hunting series, comprising not only lions, csmels
and leopards, hut wild asses aud zebras, caught
in a lusso ; also, a procession of sportsmen hear
ing awuy birds, hares and foxes, and with them
dogs, nets anil other implements of .pursuit and
capture. But still more intcrcsling than these
treasures of antiquity on the' slain, hearing the
famous inscription on the winged hull at the en
trance of the palace of fsenachrib, recorded in his
memorable expedition against Hezikiab. the sov
ereign of Palestine, in which one hundred and
eighty thousand of his warrior-, unsmote by the
sword, in n single night, melted like snow in the
glance of the Lord, an event so sublimely des
cribed in the Hebrew melodies of Lord Byron :
And there lay the stud with his nostrils all wide,
But thro’ it there rol’d not the breath of his pride ;
And the foam of his gusping lay white on the turf,
Aud cold an the spray of rock-beaten surf,
And there lay the rider, distorted on poles,
With the dew on his brow and rusty liin mail,
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, I
The lances uplifted, the trumpets uublown.
Evf.it-y/vm O.ut (Vmc.v, Shasta, Jan 2f>.
\Yk n hush the following as the commencement
of reminiscence* of early days in the adventures
of our mining pilgrims to this section, aud hope
that the papers may improve in point and inter
est, for when well told, with the humor and ec
centricity that generally belong to them, they
scarcely fail to amuse. — En.
Winter Papers.
BY EVELYN*. —NO. 111.
It is pleasant in these ilnvs of mid winter, when
the snow lies to the depth of two or three feet
around our comfortable log cabins, to recur to
the earlier periods ot California history, and note
the improvements which industry and enterprise
have effected here in the short space of two or
three years.
In those days adventurers on “ prospecting"
tours, besides the inclemency of the weather, hud
to contend with a great scarcity of provisions, ns
well as the hostilities of cunning savages. Not
unfrcqucntly parties of men have been "snowed
up" in tlie mountains at Ibis season of the year,
w ith no protection from the howling storm but
such as was afforded them by an old canvass tent,
which, with other things, was usually packed
about on a jackass, the almost invariable compan
ion of prospecting companies. A single one of
these patient and enduring animals is generally
sufficient to transport from place to place all the
provisions, cooking utensils, mining tools, blan
kets, clothing and other necessaries required by
four or five men on such an expedition. A largo
stock ol patience and perseverance is however
required more than anything else, but these qual
ities are just as adequate to overcome other
obstacles, and their exercise is ns frequently re
warded.
.Many of llioso who then came very near being
frozen or starved to death in tiie mountains du
ring the early days are now delightfully situated
in some more congenial location in the older
StatcH, while those who remain have now provid
ed themselves with comfortable and convenient
homes.
It was in the winter of the year 18. r > , or rather
late in the Fall that a party of lour men loll the
w est branch of Weaver creek for the purpose ol
taking up a ranch on the liny Fork of Trinity
river. 1‘robably a more jovial company of young
men never worked a claim together, or hoed po
tatoes and cabbage together in the same Held,
seemingly because they had learned and deter
mined to take the good the gods provided, with
out asking questions. Having with the pick and
shovel raised a small “ slake” on the aforesaid
West Weaver creek, they resolved to look out a
new “ stamping ground" and turn their attention
to raising vegetables. Though provisions were
extravuganlly high, they could not do without a
stock of •• grub,” so they loaded up their two
mules and n jackass with Hour, Imcon, beans,
tools aud rooking utensils.and immediately start
ed for their destination. The latter articles were
few in number, consisting only of u coffee pot in
w hich to make coffee aud peuuiroynl ten ; a eamp
kettle for the beans, and u frying pan in which
to cook meat and bake bread. They were four
days in making a trip now made in one, but they
at last arrived on the Hay Fork, w ithout meeting
with nny dilliculty on the way. They met with
no white men on the journey except a few miners
on tlie Trinity, and on the stream where they de
signed making a settlement there were but four,
one old, gray-liaired man, still a resident of that
valley, who was then herding mules, and three
miners who were prospecting in the vicinity.
The ranching party, whose names I forgot to men
tiou in the beginning of my story, consisted ol
Samuel Ingles and John Morion, of Now Vork,
and Jacob White and George Ibigiid, of Indiana.
I have stated their original place of residence be
cause, in those days at least, one of the first in
quiries made by strangers on meeting was for the
native State of each other. I can assign no oth
cr reason for this than that a stronger feeling of
friendship was in general entertained for those
who were horn and brought up in tlie same State.
A ludicrous Instance of lids kind of feeling once
came under my notice which I shall not anon
forget.
A party of some half a dozen of us had en-
I'ninped on a small stream on which another com
pany were at work who it proved were all emi
grants from tlie State of Maine. Ah w as custom
ary under such circumstances, one of our number
being in want of some tool or other which they
possessed, he called on them and politely request
ed the loan of the desired article. First, howev
er,they inquired whether there were any foreign
ers amongst us, which being satisfactorily answer
ed, they replied that they hud indeed intended to
have no dealings with any persons who were not
natives of Maine, tint had afterwords resolved to
extend their fellowship to citizens of uny part of
the United States, when the implement was free
ly handed over. It is to be inferred, however,
that if they remained any length of time in Cal
ifornia they learned to discard such an abomin
ably hellish policy, for the miners of this State
are justly celebrated, the world over, for kind,
generous and open-hearted conduct. Their fre
quent and sudden reverses of fortune probably
conduce to this humane disposition, but whatever
it may tie, certain it is that no class of men arc
so ready to yield the largest measure of aid ami
assistance to the needy and suffering us the min
ing portion of our population.
lint I am digressing from my story and forget
ting my party, which I left on the Hay Fork,
where, having encamped near Hie present resi
dence of M. Itucli, they passed the night undis
turbed by cither Diggers or grizzlies, although
both were numerous in the vicinity.
[CONTI Kl'BD NEXT WEEK.]
The Mormon Wife. A wife in Utah cannot live
out half her days. In families where polygamy
has been introduced, she suffers an agony of ap
prehension on the subject which can scarcely be
conceived, much more described. There is a sad,
complaining, suffering look, which is obvious to
the most ordinary observer, which tells the story,
if there were no oilier evidences on the subject.
The Loiisviu.k Jouknal.—The Marysville Her
ald, speaking of the Louisville Journal, pays the
following neat aiul merited complimcut to Geo.
I). l’rentice:
The Louisville Journal entered its twenty sev
enth year on the 2 1th of November, l’rentiee
asks :
‘Thus nobly grounded in the past and lifting
its hopes from so linn a basis into the distant fu
ture. who will not drink a (lowing bumper to the
Louisville Journal on its twenty-seventh birthday
and wish its endless glorious return V
Verily we will, in our far-off home, on the bor
ders, nearest the setting sun, where the surf beat
ing against the rocks admonishes the emigrant
• thus far shnlt thou go anil no farther.’ We can
rejoice that the Louisville Journal has reached
its twenty-seventh year, but there is a shade of I
sadness in the thought that the frosts of twenty
seven winters more have fallen on the head whence
sprang so many beautiful and eloquent thoughts,
some like the angry coursers of the storm, hur
rying over the plain, bearing only desolation and !
ruin in their tracks, others musical and playful ns |
1 The dashing, silver-flashing,
Surges of San Salvador.’
Alas that such a man ns Prentice should die !
Hut when the season of sear and yellow leaf has
come, the stateliest monarch of the forest, who
lifts his head highest in the clouds and beckons
lo and delies the atorm, is the first to have the
green chaplets torn from his brow and scattered
in the gale.
A Camkorma Win:. The following In relation
to honest John's ‘ better half,’ wo clip from the
Wax'trly Magazine:
We have breu told Hint when John lllgler, late
Governor of the State of California, wasa mem
ber of the State Legislature. Mrs. I!., his wife, at)
solutcly w - fished the clothes of some of the hon
orable gentlemen for so itineh a dozen. At the
time of his election. Iligler was very poor,
and his per diem w as hardly enough lor himself
and wife to live on in those prpdigal times. To
make both ends meet, and to save something
against a rainy day. Madam Riglcr put Iter shout
der to the wheel, as above related.
Now, won't this lie rather startling to the pale
faced, attenuated damsels of the Past, w ho scream
and faint at the sight of a wash-tub or a cob-web '!
Think of it! The wife of an ex-Governor, with
I her sleeves and gown tucked up, bending over the
wash-tub. while lier husband, with his clean diek
1 cy standing upright, chilling his ears, rosu to u
j question of privilege
I ‘Mr. Speaker! Mr. S-p-e-a-k-e-r 1’
: Ana then think id the ex-washerwoman being
| feted, three years after, as the wife id' the Cover
| nor of the State of California, worth a hundred
[ mid fifty thousand dollars! enough of money In
make the heads of universal snobdnlu duck and
j dive like an affrighted water fowl in a thunder
storm !
Good for the Pennsylvania Patch girl! Five
hundred years hence, when the historian lifts the
veil front the catacombs of the past.unil writes
the history of the unfnrgotten dead, lie may,
perhaps, append this little episode to the history
of one of California's Governors, and the little
ragged girls that go down to dip water from the
Kin Sacramento may think bet ter of their mothers
who have to labor, because a long time ago Mrs.
John ltigler. the Governor's wife, tilled her wash
tub from tin- same noble river.
Those ore the pioneer women of California.
There are many such, us strong-willed and as
true, who quail not at their own footsteps in the
woods, w hose hearts swell w ith hope at
The hanging of the hummer,
And the creaking of the crane.
A Fai.sk Piiii-am'IIIioi’iht. We extract the fol
lowing anecdote ol M Liigene Sue, a French nov
el writer of celebrity, from a Paris correspon
dent of a Poston paper :
Not many mouths since, Sue used to visit, ul
most daily, one of the most fashionable Indies in
Paris, Madame do , and held forth in her
richly furnished boudoir on the condition of the
poor.
■ Do you ever relieve their distresses ?’ asked
Madame do , at the close of one of these har
angues.
•Ton trilling extent.’answered Sue ; tint nl
though my gifts are small, limy are always elieer
; fully bestowed. 1 give one-fourth of my income
I in charity. ’
That afternoon ns lie left the Cufo lie Paris, at
j which place lie had been eating a costly dinner,
an apparently old woman, clad in rags, prayed
for elinrity.
•Go awny,’ was the stern rsply.
j ‘lint I am starving ; givo mo u single copper
] to purchase bread with ?’
‘ I will give you in charge of u police officer,
j if you thus annoy me.’
‘ Vou will !’said the beggar, ‘and yet Mon
sicr Kugene Sue. you nre the man Who writes so
much about the misery of Hid poor ; you are the
working man’s champion ; you are
• Who are you ?’ exclaimed Sue.
‘Mudaino ile —,’ was the reply ; and the dis
tinguished lady stepped into her carriage, which
was in waiting, leaving the renowned novelist to
his reflections.
A PnoJKCTKi) ItiVAi, to tiik ‘ Timkh,' A meet
ing for Hie purpose of establishing a newspaper
to rival the London Time*, lias tieen held in Kng
land, and it movement started to raise a paid up
capital of two and a half millions of dollars for
the purpose. The project was inaugurated by ser
rrul clergymen, who take exception to this then
logical character of the Tima, anil it is said that
fifty thousand dollars of the stock liua already
been subscribed. New -papers established to com
pete with or break down existing journals seldom
succeed, even in living long, to say nothing of
accomplishing their object.
Nathik ok an Oath. In the County Circuit
Court yesterday, says the llaltimore Sun, a col
ored man was on trial for larceny, and a small
white boy was called as a witness for the prose
cution. the traverser's counsel asked him :
‘ Hoy, do you know the nature of an oath?’
Witness ■ Yes sir ; to swear agin the nigger.’
Counsel 1 That will do ; swear him ; that is the
best definition of a State witness' opinion of the
nature of an oath I ever heard.’
A roar of laughter follow d from the bar and
spectators, and the case proceeded.
Vkriiatim. A witness was examined before a
judge in a case, w ho required him to repeat the
precise works spoken. ’I he witness hesitated un
til lie riveted the attention of the entire court up
on him then, fixing Ids eyes earnestly on the
judge, begun : —-
• May it please your honor, you lie, and steal,
and get your living by stealing I’
The face of the Judge reddened, and he imme
diutelv said :
‘ Turn to the jury, sir!’
I’kksth r, of the Louisville Journal, speaking
of u gentleman with whom lie is not on very good
terms, says:
lb' talks as if his diet were lion-steaks, season
ed with gunpowder and broiled on burning lava,
whereas Ids actual diet is probably rabbits’ liv
ers, sheep’s plucks, and pigeons’ gizzards.
A LADY asked a gardner why the weeds outgrew
anil covered up the flowers. • Madam, he answer
ed. • the soil is mother to the w eeds, but only step
mother to the flower*.'
The Old Homestead.
tlY MRS. 8. K. PAWKS.
I've crossed the threshold once again,
With thoughts of mingled joy and pain ;
Inchanged it stands, an ancient pile,
lint O l miss tho well known smile
(>f the aped form, who, still and cold,
Is sleeping in the churchyard old.
The same green carpet covers o’er,
The yard before the old frontdoor ;
And there's the grove across tliewny,
The scene of many a merry play,
When wo from city homes would come,
To visit grandpa’s pleasant home.
The frog pond still is smiling there,
('lose beside the garden fair;
How oft within its depths we’ve caught
Some careless frog when fish we're Bought.
'Tis just the same, save, white as snow,
Lilies now on its bosom grow.
And there’s tiie barn with its wealth of hay,
And the pasture near where the cattle stray ;
And there's a rock o'ergrowu with moss,
And the luibbting brook i used to cross;
And just beyond is the woodland shade,
Where oft In childhood's hours I've strayed.
"l’is joy each dear old scone to view,
Thougii manv have gone who loved them too;
Some dwell in distant homes awnv,
And some in yonder churchyard lay ;
While I hare come once more to main
Around the old ancestral home.
Point or Vkiucitv. -The following laughable
Incident we take from a late number of I'orter’s
Spirit. It sounds so much like ‘ Sol.’ that It must
bo true
Out in tho village of Port .Torvis lives a young
doctor named Sol. sometimes railed by an
other name. Well, jour medium, (that's me) and
him (that’s Sol.) were blowing a cloud one of
those hot days In duly, when lit comes • Nerval,’
whose father on Sliawttiigiink feeds his dock of
while headed urchins by basket making Mid sich
like. Verdant says to Sol, ' Ar' you the doctor V
Says Sol, ‘ 1 are/
• I’fiu you |iull my lmek tooth?’
Sol. (seiitcntioiislv,) ‘ Young man, I can.'
With tlie words Sol. placed a chair and the pa
tient sat. Sol. gives instructions. * Take off your
i lint, open your mouth, shut your eyes, hold on to
the bottom of the chair, and count ten,’
Verdant (anxiously,) • Doctor will it hurt?'
I Sol. No, sonny ; no it won’t hurt you at all.’
In went (lie instrument the turnkey received
a sudden w rench. and Sid. stood back triumphant
ty with his trophy in his hand. At the sumo mo
ment the anxious Verdant bounded in the air,
and looking for an Instant at the doctor with un
utterable rage and disdain, seized his hat und
coniliieiictul making lor the door. Ilefore leaving
how ever, he turned upon iliu doctor, and witli an
air and accent of it deeply injured man, exclaim
ed, * You said it wouldn't hurt —you ar' a d -d
liar, that'll ail!' und sloped,
Nivai. Ankiuiotk. -There are many incidents
in tlm early naval history of our country which
are worth preserving. Among them is the fol
lowing anecdote of tho heroic Tlngoy :
When lie commanded the (tangos, In 1790. be
ing oil' Cape \icida Mole, he was hoarded by a
boat from the Lnglish frigate Surprise, and nil tho
Knglishmcn on board wore demanded for tliesef-
I vice of bis royal majesty, George III ! The right
was ul-o cliumed to examine the protections of
I the American seamen on hoard. Captain Tlngey
I returned the following noble answer :
; ■ A public nil ip carries no protection for her
men but tier Hag. I do not esheet to succeed in
a contest with you, but I will (tie at my quarters
j before a man shall bo taken from this siiip.’
The erew then gave three licurty cheers, and
hastened with alacrity to their quarters, calling
for Vankeu Doodle, 'flic captain of the Surprise,
on hearing the determination of tlis Yankees,
chose rallierto pursue his course than do battlo
for dead men !
A Novi i, Pium'TioN. The following, says the
\nin 'iVim,was on the back of a letter deposited in
tlie Sacramento l’ost Olllce yesterday, and which
we sincerely hope will roach its dustiiiutiou. It
j would seem as though tlie writer had suffered
j slightly from the effects of ‘ ealico and auburn
I hair,’ otherwise he could not liavo written so
feelingly upon tho subject:
(•ivu this a start and send it right,
To St. Louis in the State of Pike,
Where John O'Mellon may he found,
f iallantiiig some man's girl around.
Hand him this and tell him to beware,
Of Calico and Auburn hair.
A ci.kiuivwtv had been staying lame time at
i the house of a farmer, and being about to leave
called little L’ddv, the farmer's ion, and asked
liim what lie should give him for a present. Kil
dy, wlio had been brought up in the fear of God,
ami Imd great respect for 1 the cloth,’ thought it
was his duty to suggest something of a religious
nature ; ro ue answered, hesitatingly :
‘I II thin/. I should like a Testament, but
I know 1 should like a nquirt-yun.
As in.n NKiiiio, returning one night from u dan
cing frolic, when crossing the river lost his oars,
nnd came near swamping Determined to do what
he had never done before, he dropped on bis
knees and exclaimed, ‘ Oh, Mnssa Lord ! if eber
gn ine to help old Ira, now’s do time.’
A ‘ Tol lin’ hiTiMciinmit to a country paper was
struck from its mail list, because he wouldn't pay
up. 'J'ho delinquent's wife insisted wratblully
that ‘ she knew wlmt was newspaper law—that
she did tho proprietor was lotiml to send the pa
per until <ill arrturugta were paid /’
fJivK torn Diiii.iitiKN v 1’ai'i k. -A child begin
ning to read becomes delighted with a newspa
per. because he reads the names of things which
ore familiar, and will make progress accordingly.
A newspaper in one year is worth more than a
quarter's schooling to a child.
An enterprising but ignorant South American
has sent to au Albany locomotive shop for one
hundred ' cow catchers.’ He expects to use them
in taking wild cattle on tho plains of Paraguay,
in pluco of the lasso.
Sm CllARi.irt Naimku wrote very beautifully and
touchingly to a lady on the eve of his great vic
tory at Meaner ‘ If I survive I shall soon he with
those I lore ; if I full 1 shall be with those I have
loved.
Nationai. Deht.—The population of Great
Britain and the United States are about equal i
yet the interest op tho debt of (treat Britain
amounts annually to more than throe times mo
whole amount of our debt!
Victors To persist in kissing a pretty, ldack
cyed girl, when she resolutely declares she wish
es you not to. It looks just as it you would nt
take her word.
PnoiiAM B „it is said that no man who has paid
regularly for his newspaper, was ever known to
have been bitten by a mad dog.
A wa<; says that Dr. Kane tried to got to the
pole to deposit his vote, but the iceberg faction
prevented him.
NO. 2.