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VOL. VIII. SANTA CRUZ, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1864. NO. 44 The Value Of Dead Horses.

San Francisco Harbor Fortficatlons. Ever since the rumor about the probable witnesses of the duel, her dead husband dleeding at her feet, she lifted the ball, and with a loud voice and fierce dramatic ges- jc Santa Crlij Stutintl. rCBLIsnW) tVKRT 8ATCRDAT MORXWG, AT 8AXTA CRrZ, BT J. HYDE, O. CUMMIXGS AND O.

T. IIECOX. Office- lilting Building. Willow Street J63 Up Stairs. -u Letter Crux.

A gentleman wof Nevada, who lately madetour through this part of the country" to tho Nevada Transcript concemhJt Cruz, as follows: The ride from Santa Clara to this place is a most dilightful one of about five hours. Tho stage starts at eleven and reaches Santa Tixe Working Girls. Th irty thousand girls in New york, it is said, work for from one dollar to three -dollars a week each, and their board a lone averages within twenty five cents of as much. have combined in a movement for higher wages. Some people will no doubt be astonished to learn that large fortunes have been made fivcrj year sinc the commencement of the war, out of the dead horses of the Army of the Potomac.

The popular idea is that when Rosinante yields up tbe ghost, she is buried in some Afield, or left to moulder into mother earth in Jthe woods somewhere, Not so. She has made her last charge and gnawed her last fence-rail, but there is from $20 to $40 in the old animal yet. A contract for the purchase of the dead horses of the Army of the Potomac for the ensuing year, was let a few days ago, to the highest bidder, at $1,76 per head, delivered at the factory of the con tractor. Last year $60,000 were cleared on the contract, and this year it is thought $100,000 can be made on it. Tbe animals die at the rate of about fifty per day, at the lowest calculation.

At the contractor's establishment they are thoroughly dissected. First the shoes are pulled off; they are usually woith fifty cents a set. Then the hoofs are cut off they bring about two dollars a set. Then comes the caudal appendage, worth half a dollar. Then the hide I don't know what that sells for.

Then the tallow, if it be possible to extract tallow from tbe army horses, which I think extremely doubtful, unless they die immediately after entering the service. And last, but not least, tbe shin bones are very valuable, being convertable into a variety of articles that many believe to be composed of pure-ivory, such. as cane-heads, knife-handles, Talent and Cleverness. Genius rushes like a whirlwind: talent marches like a cavalcade of heavy men and heavy horses cleverness ekims like a swallow in the summer evening, with a sharp, shrill note and a sudden turning. The man of genius deals with nature the man of talent in his study; but tbe clever man dances here, there, and every where, like a butterfly in a hurricane, striking everything and enjoying nothing, but he is too light to be dashed to pieces.

y- The man of talent will attack theories, the clever man will assail tbe individual, and slander private character. The man of genius despises bpth- he heeds none, he fears none, he lives in himself, shrouded in the consciousness of his own strength he Interferes with none, and walks forth an example that eagles fly alone. It is true, that should a poisonous worm cross his path he may tread it under his foot; should a cur snarl at him he may chastise him but he will not, cannot attack the privacy of another. The. Washington correspondent -of the New York Journal Commerce writes ihat a curious and interesting discovory has just been made in the Department of State, bearing upon tho boundary line between tho State of Minnesota and the British Provinces.

From time immemorial all the maps that have come before the puplic have represent- -ed tho dividing line as barely touching the utmost southern extremity of the Lake of the Woods, and then passing directly to the westward. A recent investigation of the maps and treaty touching the matter, has brought to light the fact that the boundary line, after reaching the lake, passes through one half of its centre, thence westward up an extensive bay or arm, then directly south again until it reaches the main meridian, and then continues Jo the west. The op-lshot of the story is that Minnesota has a big ump of valuable land which she did not know belonged to her, and she has full com-, mand of the Lake of the Woods. The Fear of Animals. Preserve girls from fear and affectation, which, for the most part, find place where reason is excluded.

Even at a very early age you may cover, with a many colored veil, many imr aginary fears for instance, you may tell a child that the first clap of thunder that he hears is tbe rolling of the chariot on which the long expected spring arrives or you may yourself unconcernedly regard animals which alarm by the rapidity Of their movements, as mice or by their size, as horses or by their unpleasing forms, as spiders or toads. Then direct the child's eye from the whole to the individual, beautiful limbs, and gradually, without compulsion, draw child and beast together for children have scarcely any other fear than that produced by strangeness. One scream of feaf from a mother may resound through the whole life, of her daughter for no rational discourse can extinguish the mothers scream. Yoti Imay make any full stop, colon, semi-colon. or comma of life before your children, but not a note of exclamation 'l With a magnificent diamond a man aa- write his name, as on glass, upon tbe bard est female heart.

sale of the Anglo-Chinese fleet to tbe rebels, i gaa Francisco has been considerably exer- cised as to a possible descent of war-ships upon the harbor, from across the Pacific, and doubts have been expressed as to the ability of the fortifications to resist such an attack. The fact that the War Department does not make a special business of publishing what improvements it may be engaged upon, is popularly taken as evidence that nothing is being done. But in fact, soon after tho war had swelled into such proportions as to render foreign complications pos sible, or probable, the Government had ta ken all requisite steps toward securing this vital point from invasion by sea. DEFENCES AT THE G0LDEX GATE. At Fort Point, in addition to the well known powerful fort, there is in course of construction a battery in the rear of the fort, to mount some fifty large guns commanding the harbor, its entrance, and also its approaches.

This is a "covering" or auxiliary batttery, and together with the tremendous fort below it, can direct a plunging fire capable of destroying anything attempting to enter the Golden Gate. On the opposite or Marin county side, a battery or fort has been projected, and the plans drawn and forwarded to Washington, which, if adpted, will be even more formidable than those on the San Francisco side. It is to be on Lime Point, and will mount the heaviest guns known to modern warfare. This latter work, however, is not yet commenced, and of course is not available for any present emergency. BATTERIES OX ANGEL ISLAND.

Three batteries are now nearly completed on this island, one of which is now ready for the guns and the other two ready for the platforms. The guns, which are at Mare Island, are of large calibre and will bo speedily mounted. The island is a scene of great activity, a large number of men being employed. Comfortable barracks have been erected for a company of artillery stationed there. A wharf has been built for the landing of ordnance.

The batteries, amount ing in the aggregate to twenty-three guns, are located on the three salient points of the island. That on Point Stewart commands Raccoon Straits and Saucelito, aud has a cross fire with the guns of Fort Point at the entrance of the harbor. That on point Knox ranges around twe-thirds of the compass, crossingfires with Alcatraz, Fort Point, and Black Point mny le said to command the harbor in a'l directions. The third of these Anrrel Ii-'andbattcries is on Point Blunt, its eastern extremity, and, together with the fire of Alcatraz, sweeps the bay to the northward. ALCATRAZ.

This great fort i- familiarly known to most of our citizens. It is one of the strong-est forts in the country. 'BLACK (OR SAX JOSE) POINT. These batteries are right in town, and can be reached in a few minutes' drive. They are located on the bluff in the rear of the house in which Broderick died.

They consist of a semi-circular line of earthworks, overlooking the harbor at an elevation of about eighty feet above tide water. The earthworks are backed by extremely solid masonry, in the rear of which extensive excavations in the rock have been made for magazines and fighting room. As the works, extend quite around the point, subterranean passages are being made, connecting the two batteries so that in an engagement the garrison would be perfectly protected. The whole of this battery is upon the latest and most approved plans such as the valuable experience obtained in the present war has suggested. San Francisco is impregnable against any combination of ships a foreign enemy might bring against it.

Even iron-clads, if we may judge from the experience of the siege of Charleston, would be unable to stand 6uch a tempest of shot as could be directed upon them. A concentric fire of over two hundred guns, some of them ot enormous 6ize, would inevitably sink any fleet with the hardihood to present themselves as a target and it is safe to say that not many months will elapse before that number of guns will be very materially increased. San Francisco cannot Ta any probability be captured by an attack through its harbor. It can only be assailed, with any hope 4f success, by land. The coast below here offers many points for the landing of an enemy, but whether such invaders would be allowed to do anything more than to land would remain with our hardy and brave population.

Such an invading force, however, would necessarily he very limited, in view of the immense distance which troops would have to be transported, to say nothing of the cost and other difficulties. The very isolation of California from the rest of the civilized world is its best element of protection. ture, swore that that ball should kill Lee Reed. In the afternoon, ten of the Alston party, headed by Lewis Alston, brother to the deceased, drew themselves up, rifle in hand, bowie-knife and pistol in belt, before the hotel of which the adherents of Reed assembled congratulating their chief. They sent in a message challenging ten of the Lee party to come forth'and fight them in the public square.

Much parleying ensued, which ended in the refusal of the Lees to accept the invitation. A few days after, Lee was seated at the table of the hotel in the public dining room, at which also sat men, ladies and children a large number Dr. McCormack among them. Lewis Alston entered, drew a pistol and shot. him through the liver.

The wound was not mortal. After some months of con- Snement Lee was well again and went about as usual, the bloody-minded Alston still loose among the people. They met at length in the streets of the town, and Alston shot him again, this time inflicting a mortal wound. Then there was a hideous farce of a trial. Every man in the court-room, except two, was armed to the teeth.

These two were judge and the principal witness, Dr McCormack. The jurymen all had a rifle at their side in the jury-box twelve men, twelve rifles. The prisoner had two enormous horse-pistols protruding from his vest. The spectators were all armed the Lees to X'rev-ent a rescue in case of conviction, the Alstons, to protect their man in case of acquittal. That night, the trial not yet concluded, the prisoner deemed it best to escape from prison.

He went to-Texas met on the road an old enemy whom he shot dead in the saddle; and on reaching the next town, boasted of his exploit to the murdered man's friends and neighbors. Thirty of them seized him, tied him to a tree and shot him all the thirty firing at once, to divide the responsibility among them. And so the brute's career was fitly ended. Marching on. Judge Tibbits of Arkansas, was among the merchants on 'Change yestei'J y.

In In the course of conversation he said he wrts compelled to leave his State for the North some time ago, subsequent to the breaking out of the rebellion, for expressing sentiments on the subject of disunion and slavery which at the time were classed under the head of Abolitionism." Xovr, he says, if he should in the same place, express the same views, he would be sent South a a reb el. lie made this remark to illustrate the change of public, sentiment in that State. The people here, including the largest are thorough going, out-and-out radical abolitionists no gradual but immediate emancipationists. Thus it is throughout the south iil Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, the Union men who have been on the inside of the rebellion, have grown up with slavery, have seen the workings of the institution, and are able to speak from personal experience, are bitter in their denunciations of slavery, and are in faTor of burying its dead carcass out of sight with all possible despatch. These men put to shame tho Conservatives of the Jn'ortb, who ore fearful lest the war may hurt the institution, and desire that it may, in ail its ugliness and wickedness and power, continue to curse tho Nation, and to breed at some future day, another civil war.

But we" are marching on. St. Louis paper. Pride and Exclusi vkxe ss; It is reported of tbe proud Duke of Somerset that he never stopped to speak to a servant, but signified his wants by signs. Ilia children were not allowed.

to sit in his presence. In his afternoon, nap, one of his daughters was required to stand by him as he siept. Lady Charlotto Seymour having once, when very tired, violated this etiquette, he left her ia his will 20,000 less than her sister. His second wifo onco gave him an affectionate and familiar tap with her fan. My first Duchess, said the august noble, drawing himself haughtily up, "wa a Percy, and she never would have taken such a liberty," The only titled and noble-blooded fool that ever excelled the duka, as far as our knowledge extends, was the Spanish Hidalgo, who having once fallen down, indignantly exclaimed, This comes of walking on the earth." The Printer.

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11. The first part of the route, for about twelve miles, is monotonous. The road is across a dead level and no variety is presented to the eve except the frequent turning at right angles around the corners of farms, all as flat as a pancake and about as brown with heat as a good one ought to be. The scene changes as you approach the Sierra Madre mountains. New trees and shrubs appear.

The ascent is easy and the views full of agreeable change. You wind along up ravines, enter dark clumps of redwood, then gracefully 'round a point, see beautiful vistas through openings in the for est shades, look off upon quiet valleys in the hills, or down steep precipices upon dark streams far below. There is now and then a lumber-berg along the road where redwood for every use is piled' in large quantities. Occasionally a little vineyard lies tipped up to the sun, where it is said the finest grapes exhibited at the Santa Clara fairs are produced. I do not doubt it.

The soil seems to be specially adapted to the growth of the vine, and frost3 on these mountains are almost unknown. Dinner is had at a rustic house on a small green patch of pasture among the trees, on the top of the mountains, where the descent is begun with fresh horses on the Santa Cruz side. Nature has provided a long narrow ridge on which the road descends. 1 he old Span ish trail that muleteers followed in days a- )ne in passing to and from the Missions of Santa Clara and Santa Cruz, is still visible in some places, looking like a deep furrow cut in the hard, rock-liko soil of the ridge. It is overgrown in spots with an almost itn-pcWtrable mass of chapparal with which a large portion of the ridge is covered.

As you descend the mountains on this side, more and more are seen the signs of extreme fertility and approaching beauties, until a grand bay bursts into view, fringed with a farming country of exquisite green, and hazy mountains beyond.You dash down through evergreen forests.across clear and bright rivulets, round curves and intj narrow and long farm-like valleys, all the timcoa a fine road flanked with the most charming scenery. Birds sit upon old mossy fences or trees ami sing as they were wont to do in spring-meadows in the days of our! boy hood. Their lays are natural idyls, calling up the sweetest charms of country life. We have reached another climate, not dry and feverish as in the interior, but fresh with the health-giving sea. A mist hangs upon the tops of the hills and drapes the trees half down with a vapory veil.

The country spread out in every direction is of freshest green, for here the atmosphere is charged with moisture, and the earth bears witness to benignant skies. Santa Cruz is the loveliest spot on the coast. Its beautiful scenery, crystal its expansive bay, fertile fields, and climate of eternal spring, to say nothing of other interests, mark it as the future Newport of the State, where the heat dust of summer and tho cares of business will be thrown aside for enjoyment and recuperation. Here flowers bloom all the year. Here are views, an endless variety, pleasing to the eye.

Here is music in tho roar of the serf, and health in the breeze. Here is life: without the formalities of cities and hygeine without the aid of doctors. I know of no spot on the coast where one can spend a month with more pleasure to himself. The pure streams abound in trout. The woods are full of game.The beach in some places is stocked with muscles and clams, and elsewhere strewn with shells.

There is bathing in the serf or in the waters of tho San Lorenzo. There are drives on the shore, through romantic glens, or across the upland country of farms. There is society in the village or where none intrudes," by the sounding ocean. There are walks by beau tiful gardens, or clamberings through wild wooded scenes fresh from the hands of nature. I shall say more of Santa Cruz in my next.

AV. The Blessed Words or Scripture. Those blessed words it is full of words that in our hours of ease or biblical criticism pass over our mind like some drowsy chime, but in the bitter day of anguish and bereavement, when the body is racked, tbe soul darkened, shine out like stars to the mariner seem then to swell their real size and meaning, and come to writhing mortals like pitying seraphim, divinity on their faces and healing on their wings. God of the Free whose judgments rest In awful justice on us now, From Xorth to South, from East to Test, While slavery dies beneath the blow -Oh, stay not here list to the cry Of piteous thousands to our land. Frail, trembling ones, who cannot die, And scarcely live with laboring baud.

God of the feeble human frame, And woman's patient, suffering soul, Oh let not man' heroic fame His power to guard, defend, control, Siuk to a selfishness so deep There is a deep (and i't not here At which the holy angels weep, And woman sheds her bitter tear. She asks for bread, for clothes, for more For comfort, culture, virtue, peace. She asks and, by the Leavens so pure, By God's great arm, by man's increase, By all the iowers above, below, Her righteous prayer, so long deferred, Shall soon be answered; earth shall know The judgments which its' crimes have stirr'd. Yes, patient ones, 'tis not alone One form of bondage now that tails Jehovah makes thy canriehU own, And man shall tremble when He calls. Ob, long account of labor crushed Of honest, anguished, starving toil I And who art thou, oh man, so flushed At such a price, with such a spoil? See rising thousands, hear their tnunp, From seats of weariness and pain, From gloomy garrets, Celler3 damp, And crowded streets a numerous train-Win do not threaten, cannot take The bolder measures man employs, But "simply ask of him to make Life's burden lighter, more its joys.

Aud will it be despised refused? Better that Heaven's high arching rocf Be hung with thick all trade accursei And all professions stand aloof From the great judgment which impend The curse of 'd, and greed, and theft, Which the Eternal Father sends, li suliem.g children to perfect. I Come! the great day, the glorious When Freedom's self at last shall move When man's superior gift of power, And woman's quivering. soul of love, And hearts and handd, all joyous things," And myriad voices tuned Combine bl-'ss the Power that brings Freedom to souls and bodies too. A Southern Duel. From Pa.rton,s Life of Cutler.

The principals of the duel were Colonel Augustus Alston, a graduate ofWest Point, an 1 Colonel Lee Reed planters both chief men of thtir country politicians of course long-standing, bitter feud between the families, aggravated by political aspirations and disappointments; the whole country sym pathizing with one or the other eagerly, wildly sympathizing. At length one of "the Vlston party, on slight pretext, challenged Reed, which challenge Reed refused to accept; no man but A-lston for Jiis pistol. A-nother Alstonian challenge, and yet another he declined. Then. Alston himself sent a challenge Alston, the best Bhot in a State whose citizens cultivated the- deadly art with the zeal of saints toiling after perfection.

This challenge Lee instantly accepted. Weapon, the rifle, hair-trigger, ounce ball. Men to stand at twenty paces, back to back to wheel at the word one to fire as soon as they pleased after, the word-; the seconds to continue counting as far as five; after which no firing. Lee was a slow, portly man a good shot if he could fire in his own way without this preliminary wheeling. Ho regarded himself as a dead man he felt that he had no chance whatever of his life on such terms, not one in a thousand, no bought a coffin and a shroud, and arranged his affairs for immediate death.

The day before the duel his second, a captain in the army, took him out of town and gave him a long drill in ths whcel-and-fire exercise. The pupil was inapt could not get the knack of the wheeling. If he wheeled quickly his aim was bad if ho wheeled 6lowIy there was no need of his wheeling at all, for his antagonist was as ready with wheel as with trigger, from old practice at West Point. Lee," said the captain, you must wheel quicker, or you've no chance. Stimulated by this remark, Lee wheeled with velocity, and fired with such success as to bring down a neighbor riding along the road.

Lee sent his coffin and shroud to the field. Mrs Alston accompanied her husband. "I have come, 6he said, "to see Lee Reed shot." The men were placed, and the seconds counted one. In swiftly wheeling, the light capo of Alston's coat touched the hair-trigger, and the ball whistled over Reed's head, who 6tood amazed, with his rifle half presented. The word two recalled him to himself; he fired, and Alston fell, pierced through the heart.

Mrs Alston flew to her fallen husband and found the ball which had slain him. In the sight and hearing of all the.