,
Our Creed.
TVo lore religion, not the priest—
We love our country and our God;
We love tlie man who governs least}
Not one who rules with iron rod.
Each family should be a State,
Where all domestic virtues grow ;
The heart an empire—then let fate
Attempt in vain its overthrow.
We love the fiu-mer and his toil,
The talismen of life are there :
We treasure God's great gift of soul,
And His creation fair.
We love bright gold that it may strew,
Contentment in ihe paths of care:
We hate the man who never knew
That he could huve too large a share.
We love both wit and merit fine,
Though poverty their grace unfold ;
The diamonds in (lie dirty mine
Shine just as bright as set in gold.
We love the beautiful, the good—
The finished workpf nature's plan,
For when these're fully understood,
They constitute ihe perfect man.
We love in woman, virtue, truth,
And know such gems would be les3 rare,
If pity for her tender youth,
Exposed the tempter's ready snare.
Her life is often overcast,
And darkness clouds tlie future way;
But need the lesson ofthe past,
'Tis darkness tells us what is day.
Take off thy sandal, weary time,
And lay it at Hie gates—go in,
Search for some new and radiant cltmc,
TJntainted by the blight of sitt;
We wish thy realm as free and wide
As make? God's universe our Iiome,
That what we love might there abide,
And what is hateful never come.
San Jfraitrisw ?lrjbu'fecnttiif<s.
SLOAN,   HARTMAJV  &   BLOOD,
ATTORNEYS   AT   LAW,
Smi Fr.inCisco•
Office—SOUTlI-WftST CORNER MONTGOMERY AND
CO.M\ll::U'IAl, .STKKK'J'ri— Fnlrtuicc on Commercial.
Particular attentiongiven to business iu the Supreme
Court of this Stale..iiift tlie U  S. ("ourta. ju.7—3ra
Shim a man who doesn't pay bis compliments to
the ladies. He who is wanting in honor towards
curl3 and corsets, will invariably attempt to dodge
the grocer, tailor aud butcher. Faithlessness to the
dimity institution is a sure sign of a want of principle, piety and good bringing up.
The difference between a schoolmaster and an
engine driver, is that one minds the train, and
other trains tlie mind.
"I don?t care so much about the hugs," said
Mr. Wormly to the head of a genteel private fami.
ly in which he resides, " but the fact is, marm, ]
hain't got the blood to spare; you see that your-
self.
The sigh that rises at the thought of a friend
may he almost as genial  as hia   voice.     'Tis
breath that seems rather to come from him than
from ourselves.
The thoughtless and impatient, shut their eyes
to danger, rather than labor to avert it.
Little acts of kindness, gentle words, loving
Bmiies—they strew the path of life with flowers,
they make the sunshine brighter, and the green
earth greener: and he who bade us "love one
another," looks with favor upon the gentle and
kind hearted, and he pronounced the meek blessed,
Spiders have four paps for spinning their
threads, each pap having 1,000 holes; and the
fine web itself is the union of 4,000 threads. No
spider spins more than four webs, and when the
fourth has been destroyed, they go filibustering
and seize on the webs of their neighbois.
Worth Knowing.—To ascertain the length of a
day or night, any time of the year, double the
time ofthe sun's rising, which gives the length of
the night, and double the time of setting, which
gives the length of the day.
An affected singer at one of our theatres, the
other night, was told by a wag in the gallery " to
come out from behind his nose, and sing like other people."
A western editor perpetrates the following: " A
flock of sheep composed of all 'wethers' may be
said to resemble our climate.
Abaker has invented a new kind of yeast. It
makes bread so light that a pound of it only weighs
four ounces.
Good locking girls in male attire are dangerous
counterfeits.
Industry will make a man a purse, and frugality will find him strings for it- Neither the purse
nor the strings will cost him anything. He who
has it should only draws the strings as frugality
directs, and he will be sure always to find a useful
penny at the bottom ot it.
Three things to be pitied: a henpecked husband, a child with a drunken father, and a wife
with a brutal partner.
In private conversation between intimate friends
the wisest men very often talk the weakest.
"Little boys should be seen and not heard," as
the boy said when he could not recite bis lesson.
A ruined debtor having done his utmost to satisfy his creditor,1), said to them, "Gentlemen, I
have been extremely perplexed till now how to
satisfy you; but having dune my utmost endeavor, I shall leave you to satisfy yourselves."
A dog, which had lost the whole of its interesting family, was seen trying to poke apiece of
crape through the handle of a door of one of the
Philadelphia sausage shops.
A man who is furnished with arguments from
the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
If to do wore as ea?y as to know what were good
to be done, chapels would have'been churches, and
poor men's cottages princes' palaces,
A fool in high station is like a mm on the top
of a high mountain—everybody appears smr.ll to
him, and he appears small to every body ell
A parson  reading  the funeral service  at  the
grave, forgot the sex ofthe deceased, and askin
one ofthe mourners, an  Emeralder,   "ia this a
brother or  a  sister?"    "Neither,"   replied Pat,
"only a cousin."
God, who is liberal in all His other gifts and
favors, is sparing in the distribution of Lime, never
allowing us two moments at command. He gives
but the second a.-! He takes away the first, and
leaves us in absolute uncertainty whether the third
shall ever be ours or not.
An old Vermont lady was asked by a young
clergyman to what deuo ^nation she belonged?
" I don't know," said she, " and dont care anything about nominations ; for my part, I hold on
to the good old rneetin' house.''
To ascertain whether your wife is jealous—lace
np another lady's show, and let her cateh you at
it. If that don't make her turn out—become
round shouldered and epit—nothing will,- J
To Parties Claiming Payment from
tike Unite*! states for loss ami destruction of
Property during tbo ffnr with Mexico.
PARTIES desirous of having their Claims prosecuted by the undersigned before the Court of
Claims at Washington, can receive all the necessary Information on the subject, and have their
Claims promptly prosecuted on application to O.
MORGAN, Los Angeles.
aug 2   '   i    J. D.STEVENSON, San Francisco.
Clothing!
JENNINGS
Clothing !!
BEBWSTER,
Manufacturers and Jobbars of Clothing;,
No. 73 Battery Street,
WOULD respectfully call the
their large and well assorted stock ol'SPKINGAND
'on.D
their
SUHMEli CLOTHING,
New styles pi-
New styles pin
Black Dot ' '
PANT'S,
i and fancy casi
-i and fancy satl
Lin
"d K.'i
iid did
nts.
VESTS.
While nnd check Marseilles Vests ;
Plain and Fancy cassimere Vests ;
Plain and Fancy siik vests ;
SUITS,
Plain and fancy oasslmere Business Sui
Plain and cheek linen linsineaa Suits
COATS.
Black cloth Frock Oats ;
DRAWERS AND SHIRTS.
Gray ami White Men'no Shirt." end Dran
Hickory, Check and Flu nnel Shirts
OVERALLS AND SOCKS.
Pet
alia
ton, Merino;*
HATS, BLANKETS, &o.
In Jidi'ition to the above, we have a Hue assortment of
Goods generally kept ir
Drugs   and   Medicines,
H-odixiS-tcxn. c** Co,
114 Batter}- Street,
.S..7A   FRJIJYC1SCO,
f\FFER for sale, Ex *
'Darling," -'Tornado," and "Re-
\J porter:"
T;ir tar io   Acid
Jayne's Medicines
Castor Oil
GriifenherK Medicines
Sulphur
Sand's Sarsaparilla
Hay Hum
Tbwr>serid'8 Barfia arilla
Jamaica Ginger
Bull's Sarsaparilla
Calabricn Liquorice
Shaker's Sarsaparilla
Fresh Hops in Bales
Mustang Liniment
"        ii    ii papers
Lyon's Flea Powder
Itrllde Pof asa
Brown's Essence Ginger
Adhesive Planter
Barry's Tricopherous
Sulphurate Mnrphlm
Isinglass
Shaker's Herbs
Irish Moss
Oil ISergapiont
White Glass
Oil Origanum
Yellow Wax
Oil Lemon
Epsom Salts
Oi 1 Hose
Potash
Oil Sassafras
Borax
Together with a full
as
sortment  of Drugs and  Modi-
cines, comprising; everi
ju7 3m
■tlcle required by the trade.
PEPTXGTON &CO,,
Wholesale Dnttftgists,
Drugs, Medic "nes,
Perfumery,  Fancy  Articles,   Ac.
Crowell, Crane & Brigham,
(Late K. Ctowell Sf Co..)
IMPORTKRS OF FORHQN AND DOMESTIC
DRUGS, CHEMIOALS, DYES, PATENT MEDI-
cines, Perfumery, £ancy Articles, &c,
131 COMMERCIAL STREET, (LONG WHARF,)
San Francisco.
OUR assortment now is the largest on the Pacific Ooast:
It has been selected with great care by one of cur
THE ELECTRO-CHEMICAL BATHS
OF   DR.   BOURNE,
Southeast Corner of Sansome and Commercial Streets, opposite. St. Nicholas Hotel, San Francisco
Are effecting the most extraordinary CURES of Fever and Ague, Intermittent and other Fevers, Jaundice, Diseases
of the Liver. Kidneys, he Genit.il and Ur nary Organs, all Sexual Disorders, Paralysis, Neuralgia, including lie
Doloretrx; Stiff Joints, and are also employed with astonishing success in
DISEASE     OF     THE   EYES.
Also, all Indolent Ulcers, Tumors, Swellings. AbaesSea. Cancer of the Womb, all other affections of the Womb, and
Cancerous Aii'eetiniis u,-er.ei-a!lv, and Scrofula-. These Baths seem to be Suture's own chosen fediuni for effecting
cures where all other means would fail without them ; and prove beyond the possibility of doubt, to all who take
hem, the iniquity of Medical practice which poisons the human system by administering to it calomel, arsenic,
lead, zinc. iron, antimony, quinine, iodide oi' potassa, and a ivlulu host ol." deadly drugs which remain, in the system, and are KX'i'RAUTLh 1IY THESE BATHS.
Duriftg nearly fifteen veais I have never -riven even a solitary dose of oil or salts, much less any POISON'OFS
DRUGS, or herbs, .-in dim veNEVEU seen a case in whieh they *ere requisite if Water Treatment was employed.
When will the people cease to besuch simpletons as to hire men to POISON and BLEED them, while they also retain on then- statute books laws against poisoning, maim ills- and bleeding CATTLE? Are the members of the human family less worthy of protect!m than animals? I assert in the face of this entire State and the world at
large, that there never was, is not now, and never will be, a case in which calomel, crude mercury, quinine, arsenic,
ead, Kinc. iron, an timony, iodine, or my other POISOS", should have been, or be, administered to the human system, or in which bleeding, cupping orleeehing. was required ; and further, that hundreds of thousands lill premature graves through an ill-timed or over dose of salts in* oil. Let the people ponder on these things, and if the poor
and deluded victims ol" uiedioul i-asealilv den ire lienUli. I pledge the honor of one man al least, that I will so emplo"
NATURE'S AGENCIES of Good Food, Air, Pure Water. Kio-rcisn, Clothing, the Electro-Chemical Baths, and the Sleeping and Waking Hours, that without a particle of NASTVand POISONOUS medicine, I will so arouse the powers of
their systems that, if there be any strength left they shall speedily get porfccliv well in body, with minds so
panded to tlie perception of natural philosophy, as thereafter to cau e them to set their ('aces against all profess;
al rogues or fools, and awake them tea knowledge of the evils of entrusting their own vital interest to the keeping
of others whose interest must ever be antagonist io to their own.
Address, by letter or pei soni.lly, Dr. LIDUilNE. Water Cure-Physician, Sansome street, opposite St. Nicholas Hotel
San Francisco, importer into this Slate of tlie FIRST and ONLY apparatus for giving these delightful and beneficial
Electro Chemieal Baths, and whose experience iu their use warrants him in speaking of them in the terms he employs. They require great caution in administering them, and Dr. Bourne never entrusts that duty to others thus
avoiding all danger.
43- So many lying and forged certificates, and PIlE'rENDED editorial recommendations are published, that those
truthful statements of facts which Dr. Bourne could offer, are withheld, rather than any should suppose they were
merely ''got up."
X3- Oonmltations without charge, and oharges very moderate for the benefits conferred.
c%u gxm'mn Ibhriisraunfs.
CtOTHS! CASSIMERS! TAILOR'S TRIMMINGS'
And miliarcl Clotlis !
I BEG leave to inform tbo public in general that
I keep constantly on hand a complete and well
assorted stock of ■
clotlu, Canlm.rs, Tailor*. Trimmings,Billiard
Cloths, Velvets and. Vesting.
of all descriptions.
Importing all these articles only Irom the most
prominent European Factories, I am able to satis
tv all reasonable demands. lam willing to sell
in quantities to suit, and soliciting orders 1 „„„r
atrtee they will he executed faithfully and will,"
despatch. A. L. J1LUMENTH AI'
San Francisco, Sacramento street, 142, between
Kearny and Montgomery. auglti 3m
e-'eiiT-H,
protr.ict.e.l blindneHs of more thsn
atlp himself thoroughly and scipnti-
11 the disorders of the El E, nnd
aiversal success the same treat.
PIONEER WATER CURE INSTITUTE,
Southeast Corner of Sansomeand Commercial Streets, opposite St.Nicholas Hotel, San Francisco
-Dr.  BOURNS,
Water Cure   Physician  .
ingevery facilitv for the scientific administration of Water Treatment, offers   the   advantages   i
:nal. and most efficacious mode of oaring diseise-, to invalids, in either acute or chronic stages .
ciallv to those laboring under the [lUi.NOUS Kl'FMTS OF CALOMEL, aud Drug treatment  generi
icre are no nauseous or poisonous medicines lib swallow or* pay   for,  as   Dr.   BOURNE  does not
whatever, nor bleed, cup or leech ; so it is not only the BEST hut CHE.W'E-T system for restoration I
_    In Chronic or Acute Rheumatism, Diai-rlio-a. Pvsnepsia. Fevi"- end Ague, L-fJiuius J'ever, ALL Ne
ual disorders—in fact, in all cases, the WATER CURE is of UNEQUALED VALUE.
Apply personally, or address by letter, as above.
jssa- PARTICULAR   NOTICE. --5^
The "Russian," Digger Indian ! Turkish or Egyptian "Steam Baths.''—the invention of bai-bariff
■"■-EVIL COS'S KQEKXCES to Weal; Lungs. Palpitating Hearts, and Jf-.-1-.ilil-,, led Digestive and  Nutrit
'"  ' re relation to thai '-Lon->n- system than does a horse to a red hcrriiu
».thaieffect.    Dr. BOURN-E is the Pioneer and  only Water  Civre P
trating his skill hi his an with the high'-st succesa—ou"<— *"""-
r.v had placed almost beyond the confines of hope; such being the  general   C
Irecei.ing relief at his hands.    Lot them continue" to come and be HEALED, i
NOT Water C:
all the
lie. Coast.
n'mls—with all
ve Ureans,
notwithsta
nd bettoi
- of   the  cases de
erted to this  wise
nov4—3m
Los que Padescan! Lean!! Lean!!!
Druggists, Chemists. & Assayers:
JOHN TAYLOR, 132
CHEMISTS' AND ASSAYERS'  GLASSWARE.   &e— Pe,
recent arrivals,  Crucibl s,  Evaporating Dishes, Re
torts. Receivers, Mat trasses Tubein-r. Test Tubes, Anneal
'ng Cups. Acid Entiles. Syphons, Funnels, etc., etc.
In store and for sale by
JOHN TAYLOR, 132 Washington street,
ju7—3m San Francisco.
STOCK I—Bottles, Twine,  Marbi
, _    _, .'biting, Oils. etc.
In store and for sale bv
JOHN TAYLOR, 132 Washington street,
jo.7—3m San Francisco.
PERFUMERY, FANCY ARTICLES. &e.—Ju-t
finea»-wrtment   of  Perfumery,   from   tin
ofM. Boziu, Philadelphia, selected
thi
ti-ket.
Also, a line assortment of Combs, Brushc
Articles generally. For sale bv
JOHN TAYLOR. V12 Washingh
San Fr
expressly for
is and Fancy
DEOIS   WIRE   WOIiKS.
MANUFACTORY OF
Wire Cloth, Wire Netting,
Sand.  Wheat, Corn and Coal Screens, Sieves,
Bird Cage. Fcnders and Fire Guards,
Meat  Safes. Dish Coves, Patent
Gauze  Window Blinds,
Wir e Fencing, fyc.
No. 108 CLAY STREET,
BETH JEBJITBATTKIir AArB SAJVSOME,
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Particular Attention given to the Manufacture
PREMIUM  WIRE  CLOTH,
For Floirr   and Fanning: Mills   and   Threshing
jn7—3 in Machines.
Xj.   "IF*.  F'ISSEEaEm.'SS
ADVERTISING    AGEXCY,
Iron Building, opposite   Pacific   Express   Company S Office, np stairs,
SAN FRANCISCO.
»   DVEBTISEMENTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS solicited1 for
Mount;,i
'roka Union,
reaverville Democrat,
>wa Hill News
"olcano Ledger,
an Jose Telegraph,
, [Los An
he following named pap
oiiciamento Union.
San  Joaquin   Republican,     1
[Stockton,] I
Maryavllle Herald, Yolcai
Nevada Journal, San Jc
Grass VAl-ey Telegraph, Petalo
Sonora Herald, California I
~"   rnbia Gazette, Los Angela
[Pla-      geles,]
.-,_, Santa Barbara Gazette,
Cahivt.i-as Chronicle, [Mok.    Sar Diego Herald,     ■
Hill,"] , Valleio Bulletin, '
Shasta Courier, Leader.  rOal-land,]
Empire Argus, [Coloma,]        Humboldt Times,
Mariposa Gazette.
Oriental, [Chinese and English,] San Francisco,
Oregonian. [Portland Oregon Territory.]
Oregon Statesman, [Salem. Oregon Territory,]
Pion-eran ■ Demoeraf.   [Olympia. Pnget Sound, TF. T.]
Pujret Sound ' ourier, [Steilaeooni, Pnget Sound, W. T
Polynesian, [Honolulu. Sandwich Islands.]
EL GRAN REMEDIO ITALTANO
DE DE. PAIIEIRA,
Para la cierta y eficaz cura de las infermedade:
de una naturaleza privada, sin hacer cuso del\
tiempo que se ha durado y sin malos efecto.
sistema o sin pollerse en dicta.
IVuncasella faltado—1V1 puede faltn*iCtiW
T?STE   ESPECIFICO   INVALUAP.LE FUE INTKODUCIDO
:iio]i,
cmcuenta anos e:
n ,-i C'<,
Bretafia, h
dos que er, menos d"e uu a
do en lngar de todos otro
medieina de las ciudade
compelidos a reeonocer s
medades. Proprietaries (
popularidad que viau en
Comoeltrigo.ielanteelse
uelo, y como el luego
-,y pronto de.-.
- que en los puebloi
icnte, pero tambien
principals do Europa fuor
JT.M- Strcbridge & €o.,
WHOLESALE AND DETAIL
CLOTHING  EMPOEIUM,
CORNER OF
COMMERCIAL AND SANSOME STREETS,
UtitW St. HlcltolnS Hotel,
SAN FR A JVC IS CO,
/-\EFER the largest nnd most complex ufoiimtDt of
\J (Uothfng   and   Gentlcmtsi's  Fu-.-i>lsl»lne
Tlie I.n4.est and most' FasllloiwMe Stjles
nd  Cloth Vest?
^ White and Check Lii
The Eyes !   The Eyes!
OCUJLIST.
AFTEB
Dr. Pardee hi
fically acquainted with n
isrow practising, with u
ment by whieh lie was c>^	
A Word of Cant Inn.—The eye is by far tooprecious
and delicate an organ to be trifled with or made the subject of random experiments, therefore, it would be *■-:.
eeedinjfly unwise and perhajis dangerous to iccept any
ofthe "never failing cures" that are tendered by the
mistaken kindness of all around, for every one offers a
specific for diseases 'if the eye.
&ff~ Many patients can be seen at the office of Dr. Pardee, in dilfei-ent stages of recovery.
OFFICE—San Francisco, west oi" the Plaza, opposite the
oldpost Office, one door north ot the Portsmouth House,
iip stairs. ju7—3m
OFFICIAL rdliFCTlillY/5''
and Cotton Half
Gentlemen's   Furnishing  Goods
s^-o.x^a.s.io.ox"
m t of
elante.
OS, y i
puliiia
en loa llanos llevani
trmnfo.    Se quedo e
ate vid probd y fue
Al fallecim
su hijo. quie
tados DnidOf
azunbroKo,
for tuna adquerido por Dr. Pareira de la v
seisaiios que la prepavo solo alostiquaa.
ento del Doctor Io receta fue heredada
l reeientemente lo ha introducido en los
El nfimero de las curas que se ha hecle
Miles y miles "pueden. dar testimonio de
Todos los que risen, lo Caravan 1 r I
cen una suguridad. despacho y a cierto que mnguna i
medieina ha poseida.
No   tomas falsas   nostrums.
[Us an rcmedio que ha sido probado  por lo*   cinciu
anos pasados y que no se ha faltado.
GUARDANSE DE FALSAS APARIENCIAS.
La venta tan estensiva do ewto itsoinbro/a medieina.
caunado ya personas a yonder a los candidos una comp
eion esporia, eon apai-iofK-iiis a  Ia oi-i-rinal.  No comprii
la firtne escr'ita de A. Pareira M. D. enel evoltoriodeaft ...
de cada botella.    Todos los demas son falsos,  y  sus  fabri-
cadoves serao easfigmlos al est re mo rigor de la ley.     Pre-
cio TKES I-'EEOS LA BOTELLA.     Para vender por D. Bab-
coek, ol tiriico ugente ji-i.ra Call.ornia. Oregon y las Islas d
Sandwich   a quien  todos ordenes han   de  estar  dirijidos
Tambien para vender por Droeneros de oste Est-ado gener
altnente.     Un diseuonto liberal para los que compran poi
mayor.
D. BABCOCfv. Droguero Mayor.
133 Calle do Clay Sen Francisco.
'   Tambien para vender por   ■ J. B. WINSTON,
Drogerero Los Angeles.
Eiiata de Agonttes en el Estado.
Dr. J. B. WINSTON. Los Angeles.
R. K. STAitKWEATHER. Boih-adela Ciodad. Sacramento.
RlCf.L COFFIN Y CA.. Botiearios Marysville.
W. H. BROXEii. Botiea de Tuolumne, Sonora
BRNJ. SHUItVl.EEE, Jiofica de Shasta. Shasta.
CHILD k WORTHEN.     "      " Placei-ville, Piacerville.
JUSTIN GATES. Jr. Citidad de Sacramento.
R. W, CARR. Downieville.
Dr. JOHN'LARK, Nevada.
"     W. H. GATLIFF, Yreka.
W1IALEV k MOilSE. San Diogo,
GEORGE L, STORY. Portland O. T
Travellers J Beware of tlie Impositions of Hack
Drivers, lU.r.iieis. ««.   !
ALL PEHSONS  ARRIVING  IN   SAN FRANCISCO AND
iTO!!?rnTOl!T^fi
.ij-fttSm
MTanted.
1-1UR' WANT ED; Sea otter, Land otter. BPa-
l ver. Martin, Bear and Deer skins, and al! other
kinds of Fars, for which fair prices will be naid
at    ,n t> i. M- 1IOSENSTOCK,
No. 70. Batterystrcet. upstairs between  Sacra
raeato, and California streets, San Franc sco.
Bept30~2m
LOS ANGELES STAR
|nli ijrtejftjj v$stel)H$|ti«nf.
MAIN STREET, opposite, the Bella Dnion.BoteL
The proprietor of the Los AngeleSStar, wouldrespeet
fully inform his friends and the public, that he hai
just ruceived a large and varied assortment of new matei-i
al,and is now prepared to execute the following descrip
tionsof
PLAIN AND FANCY
JOB  X^TtXKTT'XKrcS-.
In the best style of tile Art.
Books, Circular*, X>a*v Blanks,
Pamphlets, Cards; Bills of Exchangi
Bill Heads, Deeds, Bank Checks
Labels, Notes, Program mer>,
Posters, Billets, Bills of Fare.
i any other demriptioi- ofPrinting that  maybe gwi.
119 and 131 Sacramento Str
BRE CAUTIONED
of th
To beware ofthe tricks
ners and Hack Drivers, r<
employed by. the proprie
thereby inducing the unv
telling them that it b'eloi
afterwards extorting froi
board per Week
Board per Day..
Meais, eacli	
In.addition to a large
two to three beds in each
e Hi
t Cheer House"
ge by
and  i
fro.
ixorbitant prt
 So OO
 SI OO
 50 cents.
of Rooms, having from
• 100 well finished
and neatly furnished single Bed Itooms, The Beds are
fitted up with springs and the bosl curled hair matresses
thereby making tin's the best house in the city.
Lodging pei Week..
-Lodging per Nlglit...
..$3, 3,4,.0 OO
..50c, T5,$l OO
m* FRFE BATHS -ffi$
■■ What Cheer
nth th'ena:
express
 ._ .v,  j,.i   uu purpoes
of carrying passengers and Baggage Free !    Thepropriet.or
—*-*'-- "       - * " ,ct without author!-
ishii
ty from him,
jy26-*f
.dei-bto
id that all others;
E- B. -WOODWAKD, Proprietor.
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
United States District Court for the Southern
District of California;
I. S. K. Otfter, Judge ; P. Ord. District Attorney ; C. E. Carr, Clerk ; E. Hunter, Marshal.
United States Land Office for the Southern District of  California ;
Andres Pico, Receiver ; H. P. Dorsey, Register.
United States Court of Claims;
C. B. Carr, Commissioner.
Customs Department—(San Pedro).
Collector—Col. Isaac Williams; Deputy — J. F.
Stephens.
Postmavters ;
3. S. Waite, Los Angeles.
G. C. Alexander, San Pedro.
Thomas Burdick, San Gabriel.
Ira Thompson, Monte-
First Judicial District, comprising the counties of
Los Angeles, San Bernardiao and San Diego.
First District Court.—Jndge—Benj. Hayes,
COUNTY   OFFICERS.
Cotintv Court—Wm. G. Drydcn, Judge.
Sheriff—J. R. Ban on • Under Sheriff— EU|-&
Beltis.
County Treasurer—H. N. Alexander.
County-Assessor—Antonio P. Corenel ; Deputy
—J. H. Coleman. ,.
County Surveyor—H. Hancock.
Public.Administrator—M. Keller.
Superintendent of Public Schools—James 9
Burue.
District Attorney—C..E. Thora.
Coroner—J. B. Winston.
County Clerk—John W, Shore ; Deputy—J. A-
Hinchman. v
Jailer—Francis Carpenter.
Board of Supervisors—J. R. Scott. M. Dnmin-
guez, W. M. Stockton, Tomas A. Sanchez, U. Fry-
TOWNSIHP OFFICERS
Los Angeles—Justices of the Peace—Rus-oll
Sackett, J.   S. Mallard.    Constables— Cliarlu- K.
Baker, Wm. H. Little.
CITY   OFFICERS. *
Mayor—John G. Nichols.
City Marshal—W. C. Getman ; Deputy—E. M..
Smith.
City Treasurer—Samuel Arbuckle.
City Assessor—W. H. Peterson*
City Attoi ney—C. E. Thorn.
City Council—M. Requena, N. Potter. Ignacio-
del Valle. E. Drown, J. G. Downey, Ira Gilchrist
A. Ulyard.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY.
Couniy Judge—D. M.   '-'homus.
County Treasti: er— Samuel Folfe-..
County Assessor— James Henry jRollins.
Couniy Surveyor—Alvin Stodeianl.
Public Administrator—Addison Pratt.
Superintendent Pub ic Schools—H. Skinner,
District Attorney—-51 lis Eames.
Coroner—-Wm. Cox.
County Clerk—R. R. Hopkins.
Sheriff—Robert Clift.
Supervisors—L. Roubideaux, N. Taylor. Wsi.
Cox.
Tlie taw of IVeAvspnpei's.
1. Subscribers who do not give express notice
0 the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscription.
2. If subscribers order theirpapers dir con tin tie*},.
Publishers may continue to send them until »bl:
charges are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take theis-
papers irom the office or place to which tin y are
sent, they are held responsible until they settle
their account, mid give notice to discontinue them..
4. If subscribers remove to other places without
forming the Publishers, and the paper is sent ti>
the former direction, they are held responsible
5. The Courts have decider! that refusing to take--
a paper or periodica! from the office, 01 removing
and leaving it uncalled for,is^7-i'n.ci facia ev donee-
of intentional fraud.
Postmasters would oblige, by a strict fulfillment
of the regulations requiring them to notify Publishers, once in three months, of papers not taken*
from their *ffice br subscribers.
nf'on
Distances.
Thefoliowing table of distances was measured
with a viameter, by Capt. Warner, of the IT
S. Topographical Engineers, in the summer
of 1848 :—
From San Francisco to Mission Dolores. .21 miles..
Sanchez Ranch	
..17
Sau Mateo	
Santa Clara...
Mission Solcdad	
.166
Ojitos  	
San Miguel	
.23T
Brakes'  Ranch	
.. 258*
Santa MiirgaritD,,..
265-
San Luis Obispo...
.276;
Capt. Dana's	
.299
Los  Alamos...
.321
Gariota Pass	
.352
Arroyo Honde	
. 359
Carpenti ria...
,.39*
Santa Clara river.   ,
.421
Canega	
.504
.515
San Juan Capistrano.542
San Luis Key	
.578 ;■
%natlt
Y.OL. VI.
LOS   ANGELES,  CAL.,   SATUKDAY,  NOVEMBEE  £9,   1856.
NO. 2.1
Co0 3.ngel£0 0tar:
PUBLISHED  EVERY SATURDAY  MORNING,
At No. 1, Pico Builoincs, Spring Street, adjoining the U. S. Land Oflice, Los Angeles,
BY   H.   HAMILTON.
TERMS:
Subscription, per annum, in' advance:. $5' 00
For Six Months, .....'.,.. 3 00
For Three Mouths.. .....'..... 2 00
Single Number    0'25
Advertisements inserte at TwoDbllars per square'
of ten lines, for the first insertion ; and One
Dollar per square for each subsequent insertion.
A liberal deduction made to Yearly Advertisers.
AaENTS.—The following gentlemen are author-
'ized Agents for the Star :
L.  P. Fisnuit. ,
Bcibss k Bubdiok, Post Office.
Whisleb. & King .	
Col, Ika TfloMPaON ■	
R. N.Gi-en-n	
Judgb'D. A. Thomas	
..San Francisco.
..San Gabriel.
..Monte.
. ..Monte.
. ..Santa Ha.i-ho.va.
...San Bernardino.
PACIFIC EXPRESS COMPANY.
THE undersigned.   Agent
of the ■■' PACIFIC EXPRESS J	
I COMPANY," will despatch by*every Stem
.» reg -la     , .,ii-ess. in charge of a Special Messenger, to
SANTA BARBARA.
SAN LOIS OBISPO,
MONTEREY.
SAN FRANCISCO, and
All parts of Northern and Southern Mines:
—ALSO —
Oregon,   A-tlautlc  States  and Europe.
COLLECTIONS made in all of the above named places.
TKEA-iURE. PARCELS, PACKAGES and LETTERS for
warded.
DRAFTS purchased in San Francisco on the Atlantic.
■States and Europe.
Particular attention paid to che forwarding of Gold Dust
to the Mint for coinage.
Treasure, Letters, etc., roceivedup to the latest taorhent
a.nd ensured to destination
un7 H. R. MYLES. Agent
T
wrape itoxes and Nawdust.
|HE UNDERSIGNED HA!
ih Grape Packer
t suitable
ipon terms lowei
;o. and of better
Samples will be
intered into, and
tal, and'dry Sawdust to
han they can bo had from
■ality.
orwarded immediately, a
n ample stock always kept
Los Angeles, June 7. 1856.
M.
id contract".1
KELLER."
NEW   ESTABLISHMENT.
Cabinet Making, Upholstering and
IT!VI> E BT AliBNG.
The subscriber would respect
os Angeles and surrouiidine
ountry, that he is now manufacturing at his new stand on MAIN STREET three ilooi..
aouth of the United States Hotel, Furniture of every
8tylt and tini.sh >.ri the most reasonable terms.
The Undertaking Business
Will receive the strictest attentiou, as he will endei
to keep nn hand COFFINS   of every style.    Persons  from
the country can have a Coffin of any finish at one hours
TJpIiOl **&& ** *:r*- S
Spring 3eat Sofas and Chairs neatly repaired, equal t<
fisy All orders filled -villi promptness and dfspatch
#9- Uemembei-  the  place—Main street,  opposite Williams' Grocery.
unT JAMES D   BRADY.
!Vew Fruit & Vegetable Matket
rp.IE undersigned having purchased the entire stock of
X Groceries an 1 Liquors of Jon.v McIIonol'OII &Co., beg
leave to inform his friends and the public that h'e has re
fltted and made great improvements in the Store','and also
opened, in connection with the
Grocery and Liquor Bu iness,
A Fruit and Vegetable Market,
AT THE OLD STAND ON
twA: jok m: r^  sb r3»c Bat mbz xd ft"c*ij-,
(Opposite Pine's Hotel.) a few doors from Commercial   Street,
Where will constantly be   found   a  choice assortment of
the above articles cheap for CASH.
- Country Traders arerespectfally requested to call
ade
9 the
HST ^-11 kinds of Country Produce taken   In
exchange.
JS£t~ Remember the place- Opposite Pine's Ho
tet, Alain street, Los Angeles.
un7 JOSEPH RICE.
SEWINO MACHINES.
G&0VER, BAKES & CO.'S PATliNT.
THE Undersigned has on hand and is constantly reoeiv-
inga supply of the above superior machines, togeth
ei with duplicate parts. Needles. Thread, &c, which he
will sell at reasonable rates.
N. B.    Machines repaired and warranted.
S. O. BlUtlHAM. Sole Agent.
For California. Oregon, and the en tiie I'acitie Coast,
Oflice. Sansome street, near California,
jn7—3m opposite Tehama House. Sau Franeisec
IPoxr Sale-
BY  THE   CASE   OK   PACKAGE,
In quantities to suit, •
LONG BILL PAPER, 1 ,EGAL CAP. LETTER PAPER,. INK.
BROAD BILL PAI'KK. FOOLSCAP, NOTE PAPER, PENCILS, BLANK ROOKS. WAFERS, kc, kc
Noisy Carriers Book and Stationery Co.,
S7 Battery st    and 64 and 6S Long Wharf, Sau  Francisco
my3—am C. P. KIMBALL. President.
ittskss (fork
O. B, THOM. C. SIMS.
THOM & SIMS;
Attorneys and Counsellors at law.
OFFICE—OJY MALY STREET,
(Opposite the Bella Union Hotel.) unl
STcHxTi. ~%j%r' Sliore,
COUNTY CLERK.
Pee.    pnj'i,I»i<!   I»ivaiiaT.ly   In    ndvnncc.
XSi*. Oarter,
OFFICE   AJfD   DRUB    STORE,
LOS ANGELES  STt'REET,
Ad'joininR Keller's Store.
JOHNSON &"ALLANSON,
Successors   to   ALttMiAdr   i£   Melius.
Wliolesalc and  Retail DcrtLcMU  In   GENERAL
MERCHHWH3B,
MAIN STREET, los Angeles. un7
SOLOMON   LAZARD,
I'MPOBTWt,
And Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
FrenCh-,'   Eisglisli   and    American
Dry Goods.
Corner of Melius Row, Los Angeles.       aug 9
IDG. W. TIMMS.
Forwarding and Commission Merchant,
San Peuk'o' and Los Angelks . Cal.,
L7 H. REAti, Agent,  Loa  Angeles.
3E-'  C3--  SbC^XjXj^
i'mVortkr Un dkalur in
BlanlJ:   Boolss,' Staple   and  fancy   Stationery-
Writing faper, Sec. Sec.
Corner of Front" and Commercial Streets,
.SAN FKANCISCO.
August 9, 1856: 3m
. sis, fill shhf sins.
Tr&sVi-ip'l-a. 333 %3c\ o x? s o xx
G" "IVEg:NOTi0ETO THE RANCHEROS AND
Buti'hers ol this vicinity that he will give the
highest price for Hides, 'Calf, Sheep, and Goat
Skins. rJrid for Wool.
0?t- Liberal advances mnde  on  contracts   for
the coming clip of Wool.
, A general aHsortment. o( Red wood and Pine
Liunber, for sale at the Lumber Yard on Alameda
street, near Aliso street'.
bittce-*1"-"AIniciln Street, one door from the cor-
ier of Aliso street. un7
I
.^"otlce.
OTICF IS T-T)-:rn-;j:V GIVEN,   that all persons cittin-r
■otlierwise trespassin-r upon  my Rancho  of
utn Auilii. m the I'-.-.i-iisl,jp „i  San Uabriel, will be pro
uted to the extent of the law.
JOSEPH A.  ROWE
,OB Angeles, March 29.1856 is tf
Carriage and Blacksmith Shop-
By JOHN GOLLER.
LOS   ANGELES   STREET,
NEAK THE FOOT   OF COMMERCIAL,
rpHE subscribe! respectfully in-
JL forms the publicgenerally that
he will keep constantly on hand,
and will manufacture to order,
cOe&ehes, Buggies. Wagons. Carts &c,
iin a neat aiidworkmanlike manner. He has on handjand
(for sale a fine stock of Eastern White Oak and Hickory
iPlankjmdaj-els. He keeps constantly on hand a large variety ofCart and Buggv .vheels. Spokes, li'elloes, Shafts
Neck Yokes. Doubleand singletrees
■BEorse Shoeing and Blacksmith ing:
in all its various branches, executed with prompthesrand
pdisatch. Particular attention will he given to the manu-
•facture md repair of PLOWS, I'L-VKEGWS, and otherFarm
ring Untensils. He has an cm tensive assortment of Iron as-
/»ls, Springs, Ftolts. Plow and Spring steei, and other male-
,*-ialpertaining to the business; too numerous to mention.
Also, 20 'Tons of Blacksmiths' Coal.
""'"'"   "" ,K" k°°' "' """'"'"" " '"  Ui'" employ, he
JONAS, G. CLARK & CO.
148 tVaslniiigton street,
,.   .san KRAKqrso...
IMPOKfEBS,
Wholesale and Ketail Dealers,
:   In every description of
FURNITURE, BEDDING, &c--&c.
SE^i XT IO. nUTksj XJ 3R. El
W A R E R O O M S ,
In tlie Building opposite Washington Market,
(Formerly known us th,e Clipper Warehouse,)
And 49 and 51 Fourth street, between J and K
streets, Sacramento.
We have on exhibition and in great variety,
ROSEWOOD, MAHOGANY, WALNUT, OAK AND
PAINTED
PABLOR AND CHAMBER SETS,
SOFAS,
OTTOMAN S.
LOUUGES,
ASTD EASY CHAIRS,
Work, Centre, Dining, Extension and Fancy
: TC Jk. .O Xj es s „
Merchants' and Lawyers9 Deslcs,
BOOKCASES,
SECRETAnlES,
BUREATTS,
SIDEBOARDS aticT
WHAT-NOTS.
Office   and   Kitchen   Furniture,
O XX^-X3?L JS ,
Of all qualities, newest style and most approved
make.
targe and small French Plate Mantel nart Pier
p-gr For the TRADE, we have a large stock','
on clippers to arrive heavy shipments, and will
receive regular and .'omulete INVOICES of goods
adapted to the wants of the interior and coast.
%£f™ Particular attention and care given to
TRADE. ORDERS and the FURNISHING of
Hotels and Public Buildings.
^g?" Goods pure!)aped will be sent to  Steamers,
Vessels, and all parts of the city without charge.
JONAS G. CLARK & CO.,
No. 128 Washington street,
aug 30 3m. San Francisco-
- (Teelseontidentthat he cang
un7
satisfaetior
JOHN GOLLEP.
New   Lumber   Yard-
IN .L.OS ANGELES.
THE undersigned have established a Lumb' i
Yard, on Main street, at David Anderson's
-wagon making shop, opposite Datton's brick Vniild-
Snfr. and have on hand a large quantity of White
<'edar. of a very superior quality ; and will be receiving every month direct from the mills, every
▼ariety of sawed lumber, from siding up to flooring joice, white cedar shingles, plastering laths.
fence pailir.c*, pickets. &c, with every variety of
'"Lumber uped in, the community.
H. H.LURE*CO.
D. ANDERSON, Agent.
I«AB«»l#f>,0*4- Ut 1**...
AGltlCULiTUHAL. ODE.
BY  WM.' C.   BRYANT.
Far..back, in ages past,
The plough with wreaths was crowned,
The hand ; of kings and sages
Entwined the chaplet round ;
Til! men of spoil
Disdained the toil
By which the world was nourished,
And blood and pillage were the soil
In whieh their laurels flourished.
Now the world her fault despairs—
The guilt that stains her glory,
And weeps her cares amid the cares
That formed her earliest glory.
The thrones shall crumble,
The diadems shall wane,
The tribes of earth shall humble
The pride of those who reign,
And war shall lay
His pomp away.
The fame that heroes cherish
The glory earned in deadly fray,.
Shall fade, decay and perish.
Honor waits all o'er the earth,
Through endless generations—
The art that calls the harvest forth,
And feeds the expectant nations.
" HOE   OUT YOUR. ROW."
One lazy day a farmer's boy
Was hoeing out the corn,
And moodily he listeued long
To hear the dinner horn.
The welcome blast ho heard at last,
And down he dropped his hoe,
But the good man shouted in his ear,
" My boy, hoe out, your row 1"
Although a '" hard one" was the row,
To use a ploughman's phrase,
And the lad, as sailors have it,
Beginning well to "haze"—
" I can," said be, and manfully
He seized again his hoe,
And the good man smiled to see ,
The boy hoe out the row.
The lad the text remembered,
And proved the moral well,
That perseverance to the end
At last will nobly tell.
Take courage, man ! resolve you can,
And strike a vigorous blow ;
In life's great field of varied toil
Always hoe out your row.
A New Sugar Plant.
Mr. Wray, an American gentleman residing in
Paris, in a communication to the London Times.
describes a new plant ofthe sugar-caue species
called the "Imphee," the cultivation of which
seems deslined to bring about a revolution in the
production of sugar. The New York Post says:
The Chinese variety of this plant, called the
••'Shorgo/'is mentioned by Mr. Fortune in his
work on China ; and in 184-i Capt. Swinboi-n imported into England some seeds of it; but in 1852.
the Geographical Society of Fr'aSaoe received from
M. deMoutigay, consul-general at Sbatighai, a
parcel of these valuable seeds, Which, with characteristic sagacity, were immediately distributed
to the moSt distitigtnshec-'agriculturist's and agri"
cultural societies of France, and by tham carefully Cultivated, with' beneficial results.
A far more valuable species, however, is the
"Zulu Italia." of which Mr. Wray has fifteen varieties, collected iu Caffreland. Sugar manufactured from these plants was first imported into
Europe in the beginning of 1854. These imphee>
vary in time of growth from seventy-five to one
hundred and thirty days, the most precocious requiring only from seventy five to ninety ifays: to
arrive at maturity, others, again, ninety to one
hundred days, aud so ou up to the gigantic "Bim-
pis-clm-a-pa," which requires one hundred and
thirty days and reaches a height of thirt.-en feet*
The Chinese imphee, on the other hand even in
the luxuriant soil and climate of Algeria does not
ripen in less than one hundred and sixty days, and
is less full of juice than the Caffre variety. To
this it is principally owing that the great efforts
made by the French chemists and agriculturists to
obtain ciystalized sn^ar from the juice of the
Chinese variety, have hitherto so signally failed,
and as they are obliged to conturity and a peculiar process of manufacture, which Mr. Wray has
already patented in many countries, insure the
most complete crystaliz.tion of the concentrated
juice, and the sugar obtained from it cannot be
distinguished from tbe cane sugar of the West
Indian colonies, which it equals in every respect'
The Imphee yields from one to two and a half
tons of sugar per acre, according to the quality
ot the soil and the character of the climate, besides excellent grain and molasses: and in som
departments of France the earliest varieties yit'ld
two crops in the year from the same sowing. The
grain furnishes a good meal, and the stalks excellent fodder for cattle;: while its rapidity of growth
(at the rate of about twelve inehes a week) is
marvelous. Mr. Wray had for a long time been
laboring to introduce the culture of this plant in
France, aud has now considerable plantations in
four of the southern departments, which fortunately have n'ot been much injured iiy the recent
inandations. Official information has just been
received from: Gudaloupe showing -that the im-
phee'introduction by him into that island has
yielded four full crops'is out year from the same
sowing.
Mr. Wray haV j-nst received a communicatibn
from tbe Viceroy of Egypt,-offer.ng Mm ten thousand hectares of land- fur experimeutiug with this
new. plant within his dominions.'
BOTTIEK DE PAKIS.
Custom Made Boots and Shoes.
EDWAKD KI1HX
INFORMS the public that he is prepared
to famish custom made boots and shoes, of
the latest Paris styles.    Hs residence  is
on Main street, three doors from the U. S. Hotel.
Particular attention given to repairing, which
will be executed on the lowest terms.       augl.6
JSTotioe.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against buying or otherwise trailing for unvented horses
or cattle of our brands ; t r they will be prosecuted to the extent of the law.
ANDREAS DOMTNGUEZ.
«rj20—*f JSSUSMa,COTAdBDOMJ.NGUEZ.
Rain and Snow.—There has beec considerable
rain and some snow in Plumas county duriug the
past week. The Yuba river is reported to be
slightly swullen in consequence.
A New   A*rl,;«ii    Grnlu.
A grain,1 called the " fundi," cultivated in some
of the districts ol the colony of Sierra Leone, has
lately been described in Chambers's Edinburgh
Journal, and brought to the notice of European
agriculturists for the first tithe. It is a slender graa't*
with digitate spikes, and grows to the height of
about eighteen inches. The ear consists of two conjugate spikes, the grain being arranged'on the outer
edge of either spike, and alternated; the grain is attached by a short peduncle to the husk, from which
it is easily separated. The grain, which is heart-
shaped, and about the size of mignionette-seed, is
covered by a thin fawn-colored membrane, and when
freed from this membrane is whitish, and semi-transparent. It is highly glutinous, and has a' delicate
flavor, between that of rice and kiln-dried oats.'
When ripe, it is cut down, tied up in small sheaves
and placed in a dry situation; for, if allowed to remain on the ground and to get wet, the grains become agglutinated to their coverings. The grain is
trodden out with, the feet, and is then parched or
dried in the sun to allow of the more easy removal
of the outer membrane in the process of pounding,
which is performed in wooden mortars. It is afterwards winnowed with a kind of a cane fanner on
mats.
The Europeans and negroes connected with the
colony generally stew it in a close sauce-pan, wiih
fowl, fish, or mutton, asmall piece of salt pork being
added for the sake of flavor. This is said to innke
a very good dish. Sometimes it is made into puddings, and eaten either hot or cold with milk. The
grain appears to be quite as delicate as arrow root,
while it possesses a more agreeable flavor than sago, potato, starch, and other simple preparations.
Beauty op the Spanish Wo.vkn.—A young German diplomatist, long a resident at Madrid in a
work recently published, thinks the Spanish women very beautiful. " Asa general impression, I
should say there is more beauty both of face and
figure, to be seen here than in any other capital ;
but that the toilet in Paris is more tasteful. In
London there is, perhaps, a greater air of high
breeding in the higher circles, but incomparably
less grace. No such feet and figure were ever seen
at St, James, nor, in spite of all Ihe accessories of
dress, at the TuUeries, A French woman and
graceful tournufe is the result of art, education
and the toilet. An English woman's elegance
proceeds from her high breeding and pur sang.
But the grace of the Spanish women is pure nature. Nowhere can such eyes be seen as in Spain,
whether for size, color or expression. As an English' woman advances in years she generally grows
thin ; the Spanish SeHora is apt to become uu-
wi'eldly ; the oue contracts, the other expands;
an3 the expansion system, though it must be in-
cebvenient, preserves the beauty of the face to a
latter point of life."
A" priuter, in setting up the sentence—"We are
but parts of a stupendous whole," by the mistake
of a lettcivmade it read—" We are but parts of' a
stupendous whale,"
" Pn all contention," says Sydney Smith, "let
peace be rather your object than triumph.' Value
triumph only as the means of peace."
-  _■_*! —	
Is not every face beautiful in on" eyes, which
habitually turns towards us with affectionate
guileless smiles ?
The siia is like God, sending abroad life, beauty
and happiness; and the stars like human souis,
lor all their glory comes from the sun.
The Scottish dialect is' never more espres'sive
than when a hot forenoon is spokeu of as a "'simmer morn."
It is said that a mixture of honey with the purest charcoal will make the teeth white as snow.
The parent who would train up a child ir/the
way it should go, must go in the way he would
train up his chiid.     Example is before precept.
Good nature, like a bee, collects its honey from
every herb. Ill nature, like a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest flower.
There is a man iu Connecticut who has such a
hatred to anything like monarchy, that he won't
wear a crown on his hat.
" Grandmother," said a child on returning from
Sunday school one fiue morning, '■ is the Bible
true?"
"Certainly," replied the old lady, " but why
do you ask ?"
"Because,", replied the juvenile, ''it says that
every hair of our head is numbered, and so I pulled out a handful to-day, and there wasn't a number on- one of them."
*' What heresy!" exclaimed the old lady, aud
she lamteu clean stiff stone dead r.n the floor.
A horse dealer, who lately effected a sale, was
offi-red a bottle of porter to confess the animal's
tailings. The bottle was di'mik, and then he said
thu horse had but two faults. When turned loose
iu the field he way hard lo catch, and ho was of no
use when caught.-
A small piece of paper or liueu, moistened w^Uh
spirits of turpentine, and put into a bureau or
wardrobe for a single day, two or three tunes a
year, is a sufficient preservative against moths.
Cattle.—A drove of cattle from Los Angeles,
numbering nine hundred, head, passed through
Marysville on Sunday morning, en route for Feather River.
Stbat Shot.—It is with ideas as with pieces of
money, those of the least value generally circulate the most.
A man, for being told the truth, thenksyou the
first time—votes you a bore the second—aud quarrels with you the third.
A French woman taliks a great deal more than
she thinks—an English woman thinks a great
I deal more than she talks.
Forms.—A m%n may look at a pawe of glass, or
through it, or both. Let all earthly things be unto
thee as glass, to see heaven through.- Religious
ceremonies shc-uid be pure glass,-not dyed-iu the
gorge us cnuisous and purple blues aud- greens ot
drapery oi saints and sainleSses.
HoMtEorATHic Globdlbs.—I'd tbe well'-breddoc
tor, all balnea are angels.
A dead wail never looks so dead, aa when there
is a row of orokeu medicine bottlus o.. the top ol
it!
A man may have the " 'constitution of a horse.-"
but that is no reason why a doc-or should treat
him like au ass.
We sooti grow tired of the medicine we take
ourselves, but somehow it doesn't seem to be tlie
cares with the medicine we give toothers. It
would almost appear as if there was an in burn desire in the bean of every mau to physic another !
Three Weelu Later froitt An»ii-u!ih.
By the British steamt'r New Graauila. we hsrey
vinCaliiio and Panama, dittos from Melbourne lo'
the 15th of August, three weeks later.
Notwithstanding the heavy rains, which have
interfered materially with the diggers, the mints
continue to yield the usual average' of gold; Mini
the quartz mining operations are reported to h*»v*j
become exceedingly successful. The total amount
of dust received by escort during the week ending
Aug. 2d, was 5%&S7 ozs., being upwards of 12,001}'
ozs. over the amount received'in the eorrewpoud-
Eng week iu lSLr>;-
Tin and copper are appearing to'exisit exteunifti-"
ly in several widely-spread localities.
The wet season' was' nearly over, aud: trade bt--'
ginning to improve.'
Chinese continue to How into   the colony, up-'
wards oT 10^000 having   found   their   way to the'-
gold fields during the months oi May. June and'
July.
Agriculture in advancing prosperously, A
much larger tract of land in under 'cultiv-atit»«
than during -previous year's, »nd the crops pro«-
[afi very favorably.
The establishment of telegraphic lines throughout the entire Cobbles is attracting much alten-"
tion. It is proposed that the wire shall be extend*'
td across Asia to the ''mouth or the Amaor, thence
along the coast of China to the Eastern Arch i pel a*
go. and to meet another line from Eurupa at Sin-
Sapoi-e. | 	
Meteors.
There is no room left for the entertainment of
the question, whether ponderous manses do sometimes get precipitated to the ground when meteors fall, very weighty proof's, indeed, have beta
afforded of the fact. A friar was killed by a stone
cast out ot a meteor'that visited Crema in 1511 ;
another, a Franciscan monk, was killed in the
same way at Milan in 1650 ;>and two Swedish sailors met with a similar fate oh shipboard in 1674.
A meteoric stone was seen to' fall at Agram, in
1751, aud was dug from the ground, into which it
had burrowed IS feet deep. Others have frequently been disinterred fro lit a depfh of frd^Ji six to
twelve feet. A stone seven feet and a half across,-
fell at Otumpn. On the year in which Socrates was
born, a meteoric stone was cast to the ground ia
Thrace, which had the bulk of two' millstones,
and formed a complete wagon load.' The meteor
of Angers, on the Oth of June, 1822. and which
left a 1 ami nous tiaiti and cloud track behind it in
the sky—like the one seen on the "tli'of January
in the south of England, in the present year—de-'
posited ashower of stones, with loud detonation",-
68 miles north of Poitiers. These substantial con-
sequencesa of meteoric apparitions' are called
airolitcs.
The meteoric stone is composed oi* rarioua'mineral ingredients which are identical with matters
of familiar occurrence upbnthe earth,but amidst
these, iron is found in great abundance as it never
is found on the'earth—'that in, iu' a native state."
The surface of the tcrblit'e'al ways' has a pitch black
glazed appearance.' A perfectly vitrified or enamelled crust, something less than a tenth of an
inch in thickness, covering the inner substance,
and separated from it by a clearly marked line.'
Thfe flame of the meteor is evidently more fierce
than that of the hottest p..rcelaiu furnace, for this
is altogether ineffibient' for" the production of any
such perfect proeeaffof glacing as'the aii-olite exhibits. Meteoric stones baVe' been found to be
very hot when discovered in tlie ground, and som*
have retained their high temperature for hours.
The River Amooii..—This maguificent liver,
which runs through' the lower part of the Russian
possessions/and' eiriptiss' into' the head of the
Gul? of Tartary. is navigable seventeen hundred
miles fromits mouth to the city of Nurlhink, tin-
capital of Southern! Siberia. The country is'
densely populated, and great results are anticipated by some adventurers, who propose opening' »
communication between our Pacific possessions
and the Russian Asiatic territory. Two succesn-
ful voyages Irom San Francsco to this river have
already been made, and the steamship America,
the first oi a line of steamers to run between these
points, cleared port on the 10th of June last.
The Use of Rain.—Every inch'of rain that fall*'
oh a roof yields two barrels to every space teu
ieet square: aud severity-two barrels are yielded
by the annual rain in this climate on a similar
surface. A barn thirty or forty feet yields annually liSf barrels. This is enough for more thau:
two barrels ad-ay for every day in the year.- Many of our landlords have, however, at least five
times the amount of roofing on their dwellings
aud ether buiidiugs, yieldiug;auuual!y more than
four thousand barrels of rain water—twelve barrels, or about one hunral and fifty ordinary pails-
lull daily.    ^___	
The earliest record of oeedie -baking iu England (says an English journal), is in the year
1545, inthe reign of Henry VIII., and it ia supposed this useful branch of industry was ictro-
ducedby a negro from Spain. The historian Stow*
telis us'that needles were £old in Cheapsidc and
other busy streets in London in the reign of Queen
Mary, and were at that lime made by a Spanish
negro, who refused to disclose the secret of liii
art. Another authority states that ihe ,-rt of
making steel needles was lost at the negro's death,
but was afterwards revived by a German in 1566.
1'ropably these facts may account for ihe crest of
che needle-rnuker'scoat ol anus being the head of'
auegrrf. 	
A witness In court, being interrogated uu'to hlr'
knowledge 8l the defendant in ihe OaSe"-Hidt lie
kn*w him intimately well—'' He had supped vmh
him, sailed With liiui and horse wliipiii.-Utiiin.*-'
"Are you guilty or not guilty 1" said the clerk
of arraigns to a prisoner the other day. "And
sure now," said Pat, "what are ye put there for.
hut to find that out?"
Ill-nature in oue person disturbs the whole company, and makes them ieel cross, too. an clectrici-
t/y at one end.runs the whole length of the wirflk.
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