Petaluma Weekly Argus from Petaluma, California • Page 1

I -1 ----mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmt 1 A ft Mi i JOURNAL ARGUS. RATES OF ADVXRTlSUf Ch Oae sonars lines), week, 00; tare weeks, 4 00; six weeks, i 00 tareeameatim, a7C Half a square. ee week, tl t2; three weeks 3 SO six weeks, wt 00; three asoath, S3 00. One-third af a square, erleea. ewe week, tl 00 three week, 300; six week, $3 00 three month 4 00.

gsssial ntlsas will be charged eae-aali more than regular advertisements. fp- A liberal discount from the above rates wil he made to yearly advertiser. jy All legal aad traasieatadvertisemeats ana be paid far in advance. fy All advertisements net inserted for a (peel fied time, will be charged for until ordered diseoa tinned iy Job work, of all kinds, neatly aad promptly executed, and open the most reasonable term. ryAll hill payable ia U.

8. gold er silver ceia CALIFORNIA. EQUAL RIGHTS AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN." PETALUMA, THURSDAY JOURNAL ARGUS. rtntntt i tHUSDAY MORNING, Petalmaa, 8oom CaLt HENRY L. WESTON.

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author's urn. "ksrri; et deaths ioMrted free ofcharge- WILLIAM D. BLISS, AT LAW. wW. CARPENTER, physician.

Surgeon Accoucheur aTb. derby, ESTATE JtGEJTT, t-jTsTshepherd, HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR, kit residence. Liberty (treet, on block M. B. Church.

Sooth. JOHN KNELL, TEACHER OP instrumental if Vocal JlUslc, PETALUMA. -jMice on Keller street, between Waahingtoh iod Eflh- pDintlortd Tuned. Order may be 1 old Comer News Depot. 17 DR.

J. F. REMARQUE, Practical English, French and German Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur OBee, on Keller 8tret, between Washington and r.li.i treet. Petalnma sr. from 7 co 8 and 11 to 12 1 to 2 1-tf DR.

A. J. HOFFMANN, GERM A PHYSICIAN, Litjf San Francisco; formerly Physician to the Coonty-and the German Hospital of Weaverville, Trinity county. Office in Mrs. Bradbury's new building, south of the American Hotel, Petalnma.

2-3m aTa. C. WILLIAMS, M. Physician and Surgeon, (L Brig. Surgeon United States Sharpshooters.

OFFICE In Phoenix Block, next door to Dr. Wllbirt Deom! Booms, Main street. Petalnma RESIDENCE At the house of Dr. Wilbirt. enr-roi Fourth and streets.

7-tf A. W. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND IlEJL ESTATE BROKER, Loan, negotiated, and special attention paid to Rita of l.aois on Commission. To persons desirous of ellin farms, unusual advantages are offered; and rJv forwarding to me memoranda of premises, Dri and terms, full advertisement audiMicatiou at San Francisco will be obtained. iy Office Hill's Building, Petalnma.

Htf A.A. WILSOS CASSIDAY WILSON, REAL ESTATE A6ENTS, Monterey street, opposite Williams' Hotel, G1XROY, CALu ATTENTION PAID TO ALL MATTERS pertaining to Real Estate, such as huy. Inland selling on Commission. 10-tr FASH10NABLEM1LLINERY. DRESS AXD CLOAK MAKING.

City Hotel Bulldlnc, Corner of Fnglish and Kentucky St. PETALUMA Latest styles of goods received by every steamer Bonnets and Hats bleached and pressed MRS. FRANK LEWIS, 14tf MRS. FRANK ADEL. SEO.

rSASCB. PEARCE n. at. W. MATOX.

SEATON, ATTORNEYS JtT EJiir, Main Street, PETALUMA. Will practice in all the Courts. Particular atten tion paid to cases in Bankruptcy. D. M.

W. SEATON. NOTARY PUBLIC, Booms 2 and 3, Doyle' Building, Main Street" MRS. PAINE, Lately from the East, is about to open a class in VOCAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, sod alo in the Fancy Branches). Prices: Piano So 00 Vocal 3 0 Combed Worsted Flowers 5 00 Kaised Worsted Work 5 00 Ornamental Hair Work 4 00 Also instructions in Tlain and Fancy Heedle Work.

Rooms just below the corner of Main and streets. 5-3m I. G. H. B.

AT WATER. 1. 6. WICKERSHAM BANKERS, Eaxt side of Main Pitaluma. "T)ny and cell Foreign and Dene tie Exchange and Legal Tender Motes; LOAN MONEY; Make Collection and Remittances, and transact a General Bantttnar busineaa.

Having erected a large Burglar and Fire-proof vault in our Mew Hank Muuaing. we will receive oa Ipecial deposit for safe keeping, at reasonable rates, Cash Boxes, Tin Trunks, Jewelry, Gold and Silver Plate, Public Securities. Stock, Will, and other valuable property and papers. (49) Correspondent: Bank of California 8an Francisco Hessrs. Lees A.

Waller, Bankers, New York City GREEK TALLET GRAMMAR SCHOOL, -in- -AHD E3IALE HALE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE OtTTTATKD IN GREEN TALLET. SONOMA CO- three miles north of the Tillage of Sebaatopol, on the road leading thence te-Healdibaif. The second session (if this school will nmenee en Monday, May and the Winter Session No vember 1st, 1S69. Full Enetlsh and selentine coarse ef Inatraetlon Including Latin and Greek lanfuaces and Higher Mathematics. For further particulars aturese GE0KUCW.

JONES, Principal, 8. E. WINN. Vice Principal, 10-ly Sebaatopol, Sonoma Cal HOME INDUSTRY! Let no resident of this City or Sonoma County think of sendiasr hi order for Priotina- to San Fraa- ciioo aatil he ha first called a the Jouasal. ad A noes Offiee, examined specimen, and learned nee.

Eneoorage hesaa industry and home interest by patronizing rour own. eitisens- I. O. O. T.

Cosmopolitan Lodge, No. 293. I. O. G.

meet every WKINSrAT Evening, at 8 o'cl'k. at the Hall Peialnma Engine Co. No. I. All visiting ear ner! are cordially iartted to attend.

H. PANDER, T.OT D. A. GomooR, W. g.

20 I.O. O. F. Relief Encampment No. 99.

1. 0. 0. Third Saturday ia each aumth. at 7 F.

at. G- WILLIAM E1DELMANN, Scribe. Headqnartera Post No. I Dent. "T- A- a- The regular aaeeaag of thai Poet ul held the first and third Monday of each tenth, at hall of Engine Ca, Nov.

A 11 Comrade in feed standing, respectfully invited V.m. McNEAR, Post Commander. JAcroi. Poet Adlntan. i 83-tf OtIEET MUSIC-LATEST P0BLI KJ cations regular! reeeired at Cwtx's, PeUlama Book 8 tope, llin-biv'e Bailding, Main street.

SONOMA VOL. AMERICAN HOTEL, Main street, PETALUMA. DICKINSON Prop'r rttt POPULAR HOTEL. HAS RECENTLY been rebuilt, remodeled and refurnished in the most approved style, and is now open for the ne-eommodation of guests. It contains nearly 100 rooms, with alt the convenience of water, gas.

bath rooms, etc, on each aoor-, ia fireproof, sad centrally located. THE TABLE win always bsomlied with the beet the market af fords, and prompt and rentlemanly waiters will be in attendance. THE BEDS have been famished regardless of expense, and are second to none and superior to many -of tb hotel aocommodanoos In the Rata. A DAILY LINE OF STACES to all part of the Interior, leave this Hotel, and travelers can rely opon prompt connections with any desired route. A Cammoaloos OhhIsm will convey passengers to and from the steamers, free of charge.

A ARvAKJi BILLIARD ROOM is attached- to the Hotel, where the lovers of choice liquors or the game of billiards can enjoy either at their nleasore. The proprietors hep to merit and receive a lib. eral share of public patronage. 9-tf MILLINERY Selling jit Cost jMRS. SHADEK offers for sale her entire stock of Millinery, consisting of the Latest Style of Ribbons, Flowers, Trimmings, BELOW COST.

Ladles are invited to call and thus secure GOOD BARGAINS before they buy elsewhere. Pleaie remember the In tore. S. D. TOWJIH'S NEW BCILDING, nearly opposite the PostoOce.

17 3m TO SMOKERS AKD TOBACCO CHE WEES. Your attention is called to the following statement of facta. A little story I will tell, (And every word Is true;) Of the many good things kept for sale At the store of II. UARTJEI Cigars, Cheroots, Tobacco floe, Aobacco Boxes, too. With Meerschaum Pipes and Fishing Lines, Are sold by II.

RAUL' II. Bhelloilet Boxes, Scissors, drums, And trinkets not a few. With every new thing as it comes. YouH And with H. BARUH, At the old stand, American Hotel Building.

PETALtnA. All kind, of FRUIT ia their Mason. Fancy Articles in great variety. Give me a call, and if you don't see whst you want, ask for It. 17 B1HVH, JACK PHILLIPS, Fashionable Slerchaut Tailor, Main street, opposite American Hotel, PET ALTMA, fully prepared to till all orders fir anything in hi line at short notice and to the en tire satisfaction of all.

A Urge stock of French Piece Good, Test Patterns. constantly on hand. Catting, Repairing and Cleaning of all kinds done to order and at moder ate price. 10-ly TREMONT BAKERY AND RESTAURANT! Main street, Petaluma, Next door to the American Hotel. OYSTER CAME, AND ALL THE DELICACIES of the season always on hand.

SIBILS SERVED AT AtL HOURS. Order received every Saturday night for the Baking of Pudding and Bean. 4 3m MRS. E. BRADBURT.

J. la. WILBIRT. D.D.S. IN PHOENIX BLOCK, MAIN with a lease for five year,) Having permanently located in Petaluma, respectfully offers bis professional services to the citizens of this vicinity in the pracrioa ei AIX RAJtCREa or naaTMTBT, guaranteeing satisfaction.

Teeth Filled with Pure Gold, from fl to AS a cavity. Full Sets Vulcanite, warranted. from )20 to 130. Call and examine specimen of work. l3-tf AMERICAN BILLIARD SALOON, American Hotel.

A first-class Phelaa CoHender Billiard Table; the beet stocked Bar ia the: county, and attentive and seatlemaaly treatment of customers, are her eflVred, My friend and the public ars-Onvtted to calL ar.u. aaaux, 10-tf Proprietor. AMERICAN HOTEL HAIR-DRESSING SALOON, ULRICH 4TWANDS, HAVING REMOVED TO THE LA SOB AKD eom odious apartment la the A mericaa Betel Building, respectfully solicit a eontlnaanee of the liberal patronage heretofore extended to them. All branches of the Ton so rial Art executed a satisfactory manner. 10-tf FIRE INSURANCE-RISKS TAKEN by Philip Owen, at the Petaln ma Book Store, BaildiDg, Main street.

NO. 19. one of the heroes of Harper's Ferry, was CbasJ Plummer Tidd, but be prob ably enlisted under the name of Plum mer, which he assumed on re-visiting New England in 1860. He was Worcester county man, we believe, and was one of the small party that escaped from Harper's Ferry with Owen Brown, into the Pennsylvania mountains. In the be visited the friends of his Captain in Concord, and there re lated a fact which, though resting only upon hie statement, is undoubtedly true.

He said that when Captain Brown first announced to his little band that be should capture the town of Harper's Feryy, instead of striking a blow in a moe remote region, they all declared it: too desperate, and refused to f.Jlow hjm. The old man persisted, till at las his eons said: "Well, father, if yoir aire bent on throwing your life away weiwill die with you," and one after- another of tbe rest of the band gave in their adhesion to the plan which they still! resarded as fatal. Tbe result is well known. Tidd had been a far mer in Kansas, and there enlisted under Brown. Early in tbe rebellion he en listed as above mentioned, and in tbe service poade the acquaintance of Miss Cutter, jthe adopted daughter of the Dr.

Calvinrotter, and a warm attachment sprang up between them. While the regiment was stationed at Ashby'sj Harbor, Roanoke Island, he became of a fever, died, and was buried ait his post. His death so affected bis affiance 1 that she became ill, and surviving him but a short time, at her request, her remains were interred at the aido of the one she loved. Subsequently Colonel Wardrop, of the naval brigade, caused the removal of the remains; to Newbern, where they now rest. THEN AND NOW.

Democratic newspapers teem with articles addressed to workingmen, endeavoring to convince them that their interests are: seriously impaired under Republican But neither facts nor figures will sustain them in any such position. Under Democratic rule, and with ten hours prescribed as a day's work, laborers skilled and unskilled could hardly make a living. Even up to 1860 the close- of Buchanan's Administration, as shown by the Philadelphia Enquirer, wages in that city were as follows: Bricklayers. SI 75 to $2 50. 10 hours; carpenters, $1 75, 10 hours; cooperq, $1 50, 10 hours; horse shoers, $2 to 50, 10 nouis; iron moldeis, SI i5.10 hours: laborers, fl 25 to $1 50, teu hours; painters, $2, 10 hours; book and job printers, 512 per week; mornirir papers, $15 per week; do seven days.

$19 per week; 28c. to 32c. per 1.000 ems: paper stainers, S2; slate roofers, $1 75 to stair builders, $1 50 to waiters 510 per montn and With the Inauguration of Lincoln came a better time for mechanics. A Republican Congress has given them an eight-hour law, and, according to the Inquirer, in Philadelphia hold as follows: Bricklayers, $4 50 to $5, 8 hours; carpenters, $3 50 to $4, 10 hours; coopers, $4 to $4 50, 10 hours; horse shoers $3 50 to $4, 10 hours; iron molders. $2 50.

10 hours: laborers. $2 50, 10 hours; painters. $3 50, 8 hours: i plasterers, $4 50 to $6, 8 hours; printers, book and job, $18 to $20 per week; morning papers, $22 per week: do. seten days, $24 per week; 48 to 50 cents per 1000 ems; paper stainers, slate roofers, $3 50, 8 hours; stair builders, $3 75 to $4 75; waiters, $30 per month. Workingmen, compare these two authentic) statements, which will readily enlighten you in regard to a subject in which sou are deeply interested.

Not withstanding the country has been afflicted with a war, and otherwise se verely injured by the traitorous conduct of Democrats, it will be seen that work ingmen of every class get paid better for their work under Republican rulei than at any other time in the history of thejeountry, and that their hours of labor have been reduced. With such facts before us, it seems a mystery that any intelligent laboring man can give countenance and aid to the Democratic party-I-a party composed of aristocrats, woo ooe with contempt upon, every man who earns a living by the sweat of hie brow. It is not extravagent fancy jto express the belief that should the Democratic party ever again attain power, tbe eight-hour law will be repealed, and the wages of workingmen will be again cut down to the same fig' ores as ruled in I860. It is all well enough for our Democratic contemporaries td cry "Radical!" "Radical!" but they should tell the truth in regard to the "radical" reforms mads by tbe Re publican party for tbe benefit of the workingmen of our land. Freddy is a little one, of seven years growth, tbe son of a clergyman, who, with his wife, bad just arrived at a new field of labor.

Hearing his mother say toi bis father that she had been de ceived by his saying the parsonage was a three-story house, when ia fact it was only two, he eaid: "Ma." "Weil, Freddy?" is "now is that, Freddy?" "The kitchen is one." "YU" "This floor is two, and tbe story thai pa told is three." MORNING, JUNE 17, power which had already warned me, and was enraged at having to repeat the warning. My tbruat was compressed painfully in that fierce grip i there was anger in it. A tnrm ot norrqr again shot through me. Again the bottle fell from my trembling hands, and was crushed to fragments on the stony pavement. Again I raised my hands to my throat, though in deadly fear, but the motion was mechanical a natural and involuntary effort to tear away the thing that had seized my throat to free myself from the pain and horror of that myste rious grasp.

Again then I raised my hands, and again I felt there under my touch, plainly and unarstakably the long, hard, bony hand which I had felt before. One touch was enough. My hands fell down. I tried to shriek, but ia vain. .1 gasped for" breath, and thought that I would be suffocated.

But at length the grasp slowly and unwillingly relaxed. I breathed more freely. At length it was no longer felt I paced the streets for a long time. At first every vestige of my appetite had been driven away by the horror of that moment. As time passed it began to return.

Once more I felt the craving. True, fear of another attack deterred me but at last the craving grew too strong for the fear. Nerving myself up to a desperate pitch of resolution, I rushed back to the shop where I bad last purchased the liquor. "See here!" I cried; "I'm crazy for a drink I broke that bottle! Give me a glass, for God's sake only one glass Something in my face seemed to excite the man's commiseration. He poured out a glass for me in silence.

With trembling eagerness I then reached out my hands to seize it. With trembling hand I raised it to my lips. The grateful fumes already entered my nostrils. My lips already touched the edge of the glass. Suddenly my throat was seized by a tremendous grasp.

It was as. though the power which was tormenting me had become enraged by my repeated acts of opposition, and wished now by this final act to reduce me to subjection forever. It was as if this power was using with me the means of coercion that one uses with a dog, beat him for each of fense, add to each till he is entirely cured. This time the'grasp was terrible. It was fiercer than ever, quick and In that dread grasp my breath ceased.

I struggled. My senses reeled. I raised my bands in despair. I felt again the bony fingers. I moved my hands along bony arms.

In my madness I struggled. I struck out my fists wildly. They struck against what seemed like bony ribs. The time during which I thus strug gled seemed endless. The horror that was upon me cannot be told.

At last all sense left me. When I revived I found myself lying on a rude bench in the bar. it was early dawn. No one was near. All my bones ached.

I rose up confusedly, not knowing at first where I was, but soon the terrific event which bad overpowered me came to my memory. I rose to my feet and tried to get out. The noise that I made awakened some one inside. He called out to me Hallo there Are you off?" Yes;" I said. Wait, I'll let you out." He appeared in a short time.

You bad a bad turn," said he, not unkindly. You had better take care of yourself, and not be out at nights." I thanked him and left. When I reached the house my wife waked up and looked fearfully at me Amazement came out of her face aa she, aw that I was sober. I kissed her and sat down in silence. She looked at me in wonder, and tears fell from her eyes.

She said noth ing, but I saw that she was praying, As soon as the shops were opened, I went out and managed to procure some food which I brought to the room. I then departed to go to my employment. Through the day I felt an incessant craving, but my horror was so great that I would far rather have cut my throat than risked having that hand there again. As the days passed the horror re mained undiminished. It was simply impossible for me to drink intoxicating drink.

I dared9 not do it. My wife said nothing. I saw, how ever, by her soft eyes, the gentle joy of her face, and sweet, loving smile with which she welcomed me home, bow deeply this change in me had affected her. Weeks passed, and gradually the craving lessened. Yet so vivid was the remembrance of that dread experience of mine, that my horror remained fresh and unabated.

I dared not. Thus forced to be sober, my circumstances improved daily. There was no longer any. danger of want. Comfort came, and peace, and pare domestic joy Remorse for the sufferings which I had caused to my sweet wife, made me more eager to make amends for the past, that so I might efface bitter memories from her mind.

4 1869. The revulsion of feeling was so great that she forgot that I bad ever been un kind. I made no parade of reform. I made no promises and no vow. Nor did she ever allude to the change.

She showed her joy in her face and manner. She accepted the change when it came, and rejoiced in it. I still felt an anxious desire to get at the bottom of this mystery, and once told the whole story to my medical man He was not at all surprised. Doctors never are. Nor are Doctors ever at a loss to account for anything.

"Pooh!" said he indifferently. That's common enough. It's mania apotu. The brain, you know, becomes conjested, and you see and feel devils and skeletons. Cases like yours are common enough." r-.

To me, however, my case seemed very uncommon, but whether it was so or not, my case has resulted in my salva- tlon and never will I cease, amidst my hooror, to be grateful to that power which came down clothed in terror to snatch me from ruin with that skeleton hand. UNITES Ilf DEATH. The following story is from the correspondence of the Boston Traveler, descriptive of the cemetery, at Newbern, N. C. The young lady named was the daughter of Calvin Cutter, author of several works on physiology.

At one end of tbe row are two graves, of which uncommon care has been taken, and to which our attention was called by the keeper. They bear the follow ing touching inscription: No. 1,741. 21ft Massachusetts. Betrothed C.

E. C. The name is not given on the board, but we learned that it was a member of Company of this regiment. The other reads as follows: Mif Carrie G. Cutter.

Betrothed to No. 1,744. Buried at hi side by her own request Probably many in the old 21st will know jhe circumstances and tell, the story of these two lovers; bat the in scrintion of these headboards is all we know of their life, of love or devotion at death. But other incidents we know that are full of interest to us, and we doubt not to your readers, which are recalled as we stand by the flagstaff and read over the familiar names on the white boards before us. "Falliniambo, lUtn Connecticut." An, ycsl is the very grave they told us about, and this is the ead story of love they told uf: "The soldier lying in that grave was reared by kind parents in Hartford, and at the age of twenty ao honest, intelligent young man, he went to New Haven.

There be became acquainted with a yi)ung lady by the name of Fenin, who came to visit her brother, then in college. They became engaged to be married, and all was sunshine in the path of life. But the rebellion came, and she returned to her home in Harlem, to await his return from the. war, to which he was determined to go. Two years of correspondence and two furloughs cemented their affection, until they felt that no earthly obstacle could come between them and the sweet joys of life in store for them.

But to tbe loving heart in Harlem there one day came a report that her betrothed was killed. In wild suspense she waited for his letters, but none came. Her father wrote to tbe Colonel and to the Chaplain. They could only At 1 al wve say mat ne was "missing." nun no. thought of money, or trouble, or care, the old gray-haired father, whose daughter, since tbe death of his son, was his all, searched unceasingly for some clue to the missing one even venturing within the lines of the enemy.

She, with that sublime fortitude which only a woman can command when trouble comes, and with that devotion which makes a woman's love so pure and sa-cied, shared tbe dangers and fatigues of a two year's search, knowing nothing, earing for nothing, unless it concerned her lover. Finally, his grave was found in the woods near where the 10th once formed a skirmish lin.e, and a little head board bearing his name, carved in crooked lines with a pen knife, marked his resting place. Word was sent to the mourners, and the next conveyance brought them to the spot. For a while the daughter sat in the carriage, not daring to trust herself within view of the spot where lay the dearest form she ever knew. "Come, Nellie," said the old man, and with forced calmness be assisted his daugh ter from the carriage.

Going to the grave, she walked around it read slowly tbe inscription and then, folding her arms across her breast, she exclaimed, "Oh, Charley!" and fell upon the grave a corpse. The old man, alone in this world of grief, was led away by tbe driver a maniac. To-day, in tbe asylum at New York, he is constantly inquiring in his delirium why his daughter is not married. Sad, sad tale. Almost too traglo too believe, yet hundreds attest its truth Alas! how many such incidents there have been since the war that will never be recorded.

The Springfield Republican refers to the story of the Massachusetts soldier and bis betrothed as follows: The soldier's real nataa, if he was TO TOTJNG MEN. It is easier to be a good business man? than a poor one. Half the energy displayed in keeping ahead that is required to catch up when behind will save credit, give more time to business, and add to the profit and reputation of your word. Honor your engagements. If you promise to meet a man, or do a certain thing at a certain moment, be.

ready at the appointed time. If you have work to do, do it at once, cheerfully, and therefore more speedily and correctly. If you go out on business. attend promptly to the matter on hand, and then as promptly go about your own business. Do- not stop to tell stories in'business hours.

If you have a place of business, be found there when wanted. No man-can get rich by sitting round stores andt saloons. Never "fool" on business matters. If you have to labor for living; remember that one. hour in th morning is better than two at night.

If you employ others, be on hand to see that they attend to their duties, and to direct with regularity, promptness, and liberality. Do not meddle with any business you know nothing of. Never huy any article simply because the man that sells it will take it out in trade. Trade is money. Time is money.

A good business habit and reputation is always money. Make your place of business pleasant and attractive; then stay there to wait on customers. Never use quick words, or allow yourself to make hasty or ungentle- manly remarks to those ia your em- Lploy, for to do so lessens their respect for you and your influence over them. Help yourself, and others will help you. Be faithful over the interests1 confided to your keeping, and all in good time your responsibilities will be increased.

Do not be ia too great hasta to get rich; Do. not build until you have arranged and laid a good founda tion. Do not as you hope to work for success spend time in idleness. If time is your own business will sutler if you do. If it is given another for pay, belongs to him, and you have no mora right to steal that than to steal money.

Be obliging. Strive to avoid harsb words and personalities. Do not kick; every stone in the path; more miles can be made in a day by going steadily on than by-stopping to kick. Pay as jou go. A man of honor respects hi words as he does his bond.

Ask, tub never beg. Help others when you can but never give when you cannot afford simply because it is fashionable Learn to say no. No necessity of snapping it out dog-fashion, but say it firu ly and respectfully. Have but few confidents and the fewer the better. Use-your own brains rather than these of others.

Learn to think and act for yourself. Be vigilant. Keep ahead, rather than behind the time. Young men, cut this out; and if there is folly in the argument, let us know it. Culture or Opium is Califobsia.

The enormous price of opium and the immense quantity Imported into California, should incite to the production of the drug at The poppy will grow luxuriantly almost without cultivation, anywhere on the Pacific coast; It is well known that the plant yields its narcotic juice of almost uniform strength under all circumstances of soil and climate capable of growing it There is every reason to judge that no -part of the world can produce a better' quality of opium than California. We have seen a specimen produced in the garden of the Insane Asylum at Stockton, by one of the inmates whose head was clear on this point. To all appearances it was a very superior article, and the physician Of the asylum informed us that he bad proved its activity. Theret is not a process in horticulture or in housewifery more simpler than that of lacerating the capsules and collecting, the inspissated juice. Children of six or eight years could do this, and all that is required in tbe manufacture of tbe ar tide for market except perhaps the skillful mingling with stones, cowduDg and the like, which belongs to the art of adulterating.

It is a marvel that the Chinese have not turned their attention to the Will not some of our medical men in rural districts try experiment? Pacific Medical and Sur gical Journal. Now and Thxx. The Washington, Staff whose editor was born aad bred a slaveholder, say ss The alleged decrease of the actual number of negroes since tbe war, through the loss of the patriarchal institution for their welfare and all that sort of nonsense, will be found to have amounted to no decrease whatever. They have been better fed, better-clothed, and better housed since the war than ever before, I apprehend, aad where existing in greater number have almost entirely escaped what was previously a cause, of the annual destruction of thousands on thousands of their children under one year old. I refer to the practice of overworking mothers who had infants, in cotton and sugar I have personally known plan-tations on which for a 'aeries of years seveatyfive per centam of the natsral increase of the negroes were literally murdered after that fashion; it being the received theory of profitable under slavery rule, that it was cheaper to buy able bands from tbe Eastern and Ifortheru slaveboldiog States v.

MOPKT SHASTA. BY JOB SI ft. mtDOK. Behold the dread Mount Shasta, where it stand Imperial midst the leaser hights, and. like Some mighty, unim passioned mind, com paaioe less And eoid- The storms of haavea may beat ia wrath Against it, bat It stands in unpolluted Orandeur still and from the rolling mist up-hea ves Its tower of pride e'en purr than before.

The wintry showers and white-winged tempests i leave Their frown tributes oo it brow, and it Doth sake of them aa everlasting erowa. Thus doth it day by day, and age by age, Defy each stroke af time still rising higher Into Heaven I Aspiring to the eagle's eloodlees bight. Ho human foot hath stained its snowy side, Kor human breath has dimmed the icy mirror WLioh it holds ante the moon, the- stars, and sov' reign San. We may not grow familiar with the secret Of its hoary top, whereon the Genius Of that mountain builds his glorious throne I Far lifted in the boundless bias, he doth Encircle, with his gase supreme, the broad Dominions of the West, that lie beneath His feet, ia pictures of sublime repose No artist ever drew. He see the tall.

Gigantic hills arise ia sUentness And peace, and in the long review of distance Range' themselves in order grand. He sees the snn light Play upon the golden streams that through the val leys Giide.i He hears the music of the great and solemn Sea, and over-looks the huge old western wall, To view the birth-place of uodyiog Melody I Itself all light, save when some loftiest cloud Doth for a whi'e embrace its cold forbidding, Form that monarch-mountain casts its mighty Shadow down upon the crownleas peaks below That, like inferior minds to some great Spirit, stand in strong contrasted littleness I All through the long and summery months Most tranquil eear, it points its icy shaft On high, to catch the dazzling beams that rail In showers of splendor round that crystal cone. And roll, in floods of far magnificence, Away from that lone vast Reflector In The dome of Heaven. 811 watchful of the fertile Tale, and undulating plains below, the grass i Grow greener in its shade, and sweeter bloom The flowers. Strong Purifier I From its snowy 8ide the breezes coot are wafted to the peaceful Homes of men." who shelter at its feet, and love To gaze upon its honored form, aye standing There, the guarantee of health and happiness 1 Well might it win communities so blest To loftiei teeliDgs, and to nobler thoughts The great material symbol of eternal Things And well I ween, in after years, how.

In the middle of hi furrowed trackthe plowman. In aome sultry hour, will pause, and, wiping From his brow the dusty sweat, with reverence Gaze upon that hoary peak. The herdsman Oft will rein his charger in the plain, and drink Into his inmost soal the calm sublimity And little children, playing on the green, shall Cease their sport, and, turning to that mountain Old, shall of their mother ask who made it And she shall answer, God And well this Golden State shall thrive. If, like Its own Mount Shasta, sovereign law shall lift Itself in purer atmosphere so high That human feeling, human passion at its base Shalt lie subdued e'en pity's tears shall on Its summit freeze to warm it e'en the sunlight Of deep sympathy shall foil Its pure administration shall be like The snow immaculate upon that mountain's brew PISTOL. TRICK.

The sad fate of Dr. Epstein, the Paris conjuror, who was wounded bj a splin ter if a ramrod discharged from his own conjuring pistol, illustrates (says the London Orchettra) what Robert Iloudin has insisted upon in his book that ma gicians possess no ordinary bravery to stand before the muzzle of a pistol knowing how slight a mischance may bring them face to face with death Iloudin himself used to play with dan ger with an entirely needless assurance He relates how once he had performed sotn startling fire-arm tricks before a party of Arabians, making use, the ordinary form of conjuring pistol, which is so contrived that the ramrod withdraws the bullet. While the rest of the party were expressing their ad miration, a crafty old. Marabout, who had some suspicion of the true nature of the trick, said: ''The stranger is doubtless a strong magician; will he suffer me to fire at him with my own "Yes," said Iloudin, unhes itatingly, "but first I must make invo cation to those who assist me." The next day he met the same party and offered a sauccrful of bullets to the inspection of the Marabout. Satisfied that they were lead as, indeed, they werethe Arab handed his pistols to Iloudin, who loaded them, using the Arab's ramrod.

His own friensis were in terror, and even his wife, well she knew his skill, was in perplexity when she saw him band back to the Arab one of the loaded pistols. "Now fire," he said. The Arab did so, and Houdin was seen with- the bullet be tween his teeth. "Bab!" he said, seising the other pistol, "you cannot use your own weapons. See here.

You have been unable to draw blood from my flesh, and I will draw blood from yonder waM." He aimed at the wall fired, and immediately a stain of blood was seen. The Marabout went np to the wall, and when he had dipped his finger in the blood which was trickling down, his awe and amazement were so great that his features assumed a ghast ly hue. Yet the trick was simpl enough, two; prepared ballets having been successfully substituted by Houdin for the leaden bullets be took up from the saucer. But the experiment was quite new, and Houdin tells as that he trembled, and could scarcely control his terror, as he saw the Marabout drawing the trigger of his pistol. Attempts have been mads to burn the Lincoln School House at Searv meato.

There are ninety cases cf small-pox at BlackwelFs Islandt New York. Peru baa granted belligerent rights to Cuba. THE SKELETON HAND. Yielding to a I miserable habit had ruined me. It had blasted my prospects, destroyed my business, alienated my friends, and brought me down to the lowest point of existence.

The habit bad Itogether overcome me. In vaiffj I struggled against it. The imploring looks and words of my wife the of my wan-faced and emaciated children turning their eyes to me, the author at once of their being, and of their misery; the spectacle of Uhe proud home and broad lands, onco mine, but sow in the hands of strangers all these, which might well have stung to madneso or driven to despair a less 'degraded being. reached me nor affected me in the depth of degredition. I had reached a point at which no motive that might be urged could any longer affect.

One evening I was sitting in my mis erable home. The children were asleep bed. They $ad cried themselves to sleep irthunger My wife sat opposite to me on the other side ef the wretched fire-place, stitching some rags of clirth- ng. I was sullen and silent. At last I felt ja eraving for the stimu lus that now wis necessary to my life.

Rising, I walked to the cupboard where it was kept. My wife knew well; my ntention. She: followed me with her eyes. I went there desperate and careless, only eager for the gratification of my, ap petite. I reached forth my hands, trembling ly seized the bottle, and was'about rais ing it to my lips.

But at that very moment, just ae the bottle touched my lips, I felt a terrible sensation. It Was as though someone had grasped me by the throat. "Wife!" I cried in a deep, fierce voice, hag I you dare? and turning with clenched fist, I struck at what I supposed was my wife, fur I thought that she was trying in this violent way to keep me from drink. But to my surprise I saw my wife sit ting at the firej-place, with her work in her hand, looking at me id, wonder. It could not bate been her, evideptly.

A terrible feeling passed through me. ShudderiDgly I raided my hand to feel what it was that was at my throat, or if there was anything there at all 'which seemed to be grasping me so tightly. Horror of horrors I As I raised my hand I felt the unmis takable outlines of a bony thumb and bony fingers pressed against my flesh. It was a skeleton hand that clutched me by the throat. My hand fell down powerless by my side the bottle crashed on the floor.

My childret) awoke at the noise, and wife and children all stared at me with white faces. There trembling in every limb, stood transfixed with terror, the awful feeling of the supernatural now fully possessing me. Unable to speak, I gasped with fear. I drew away my body, but my bead was still held by the same dread and invisible power. 1 could not move that.

Unspeakable hor ror filled me. None but those who have experienced something like this know what it is to have such feelings. The body seems paralized, while the mind seems to be endowed with extraordinary activity, and thus possesses new capacities for But at last I felt the grasp relax. I staggered back, the grasp ceased altogether, and I drew off to another corner of the room, endeavoring to go as far as possible from the place where this mysterious thing bad seized me. Soon my wife and children turned away, the former to work, and the latter to sleep.

They knew not what it was that had affected me, but concluded that it was some pain arising front sickness or sudden faintness. I did not speak a word, but resumed my former seat. And now, gradually my craving re turned. Yet how could I satisfy it? My bottle was broken. It lay in frag orients on the floor.

All my liquor was gone. What was I to do I bad to yield. So I took my hat, fumbled in my pockets and found a few cents, and taking an old bottle that lay in the corner, 1 went tortn into tne darkness. it was not without some feeling of trepidation that I entered the dark passageway Fear lest the same thing of horror might return again, agitated me. Bat I passed on unharmed, and reached my old re sort where I laid my bottle on the coun ter.

The clerk soon filled it. With an irresistable impulse I eagerly clutched the bottle, and rushed forth to drink the liquor. I hurried off for a little distance, and came to the head of a wharf. Here, unable any. longer to resist my crating, I pulled out the cork so as to drink.

It was yery dark np one ws4 near me. In the distance arose the hum of the eity out in the harbor might be heard the noise of sailors and boatmen I had a general idea of this as I stood there, though all my thoughts were con centrated on the bottle. At last I raised it to my mouth. Scarce had the bottle touched ay lips when again I experienced that terrible feeling. -was ni.a.l Vi I timA mnrA I violently, more fiercely, as if by some.