May 4, 1855 (4 pages)

oo, VOL. 5. SARGENT & ° Jie JAW dG ob; Naaticx’ iNE =SXPeEI NEVADA JOT Dire-nroof Purl iine i. SeeOie =, a” * repared 1 BILLS OF F ARE CiRCULAPS, VAMPHLETS. RALL TISCEETS FOSTERS. 44AW BLANKS TRAFPTS. F oy Ai UNYRECEDENT to execute in the EI WEE = LiVERY Si aoee, JAS. H. OELM, Proprietor. EE POR ee Vittsburgh, Riggs & 00. 2.05 605+5+.. Wasnigpton Oty. St. Louis tes Of Depositor , Bulli and Cert Lat the highest market rz MT. SHERMAN, ox ee lersigned would jn! cr. gS SS ae form nd the pub LO wy hi nerally thet he is Pua if tToust ntly making Additions to his 4 vet ‘=F aT? i fy TAMA Banking STOCK Or FAST HORSES . te ~— too JES SAE DAU ele nee i r cities has sho to be right a And Kesp now » ever has done, the best and Opel stest animais ¢t n this city mn Ks I received ¢ a he disy a th Fer ! fully posite er hi eh i ext morning , ut } 1 h ‘ , ‘ ne ‘ ’ ’ Y he entertai < Ass. \ i I INA i vl I ver I 0 2 2; ED re ) is he fore, pay ¢ i @ vilre , ; = Bin 1 : ng interest at extibit sand ever, at the rate of the fk k Wing. > from 19 o'clock ¥ aten¢ me ! onside by us advantageous to the LEVERS, pi as wellas ourselyes. . VERS Cooper furch 36—m LUCAS, TURNER & CO. b> sagetafead Mrraeaciied Vi ateles, for) JOHN N. MOODY ) Badies, every variciy of , : aS ee GOLD & SILVER ANCHOR, NP CYLINDER ESCAPEMENTS. Guid, Guasd, * st ins, Dinmond Rings eye all patter eals, Keys, Bi cele ts, Arm. te.g. Necktaces, Goid Pins, iiings. Ear Rings, Cutt Pjos ‘Guard slides. Deli and Fob Buckles. JEW ELRY IN SETTS, i tld Fens, th silver and veld cases, Spectacles that can be c:.t'ed for. QUARTZ RGCK JEWELRY made toorder, . Diamond Setting done in the latest and most aproved style Canes meunied and all articies of Geatife, nia Jewelry manufactured to order. i Particular attention paid to Watch repairing. Neveda, May is 1854 3th AMERI ae JAN LIVERY AN PU SUBSCRIBER RETURNS HIS THANKS to the iy Citi zens of Nevada, for tne tiberal patronage thus wed sstablishment, and would inform ro keep che best selection of HORSES, country will afford. a fur bestowed upon his . them that he continvss SADDLE. their necommoda'icn, chai th For ! : no ily call the ) e lies to his » would espeviaily call the ion of th > hi oy Sor SPIRITED but GENTLE ANIMALS at such times . a tt -y are desirous to enjoy 4a healthy and vigorating fl lesire Jos t , ri ie sat J.B. LOBDELL, Broad ~treet. ride. Shaving Saioon and Bath Rooms: At the Metropolis Hotel. Bo The upgersigned oro pr pared Pa tothe comfort . of the F inthe enercise —— " fof their profession at all heurs } “wD A yt RP Atk CUTTING, SHAM-. nS) ILA . nN and SbAVING done lo the brst m¥nner. on) POOtN Er li-fiited BATH HOT SE in connection with . There isa we a ee “ at } Th _ _ where warm and cold buths may ba bad at ieir Sak . 5 rf “rv of all kinds on hand. o oR : UNINCG'S REPRODUCTOR, celebrated for 5 Fe at Jowers over che human hair. ltentirely eradrt uf. onens the pores of the skin, } the di-eased organs of the head t hair to assume its forand by iis frequent J : 2FiPiant gppearzace Sold only by 2 mer sl talin gcd Sriliant wpe PIEODORE LAMPE. 2—tf FREDERICK MAY. Mi scopciis Shaving & Hair Dressing Saloon. pe ce ee tee eee THE UNCLE SAM. . > IGN —=T. SAMUEL his friends and the puband one ofthe its meuic cbs icates Scurf or Dandrt 23 3 perfect action t* give B i aS oe Noyer er ar y inform ould mosi respectfulty into liv nore that be has now on h Ae LARGEST STOCKS O: aid Hino Exravana Cis” . Choice Virgima Leaf Chewing yee “ie Of almost every Brand and description. tly une? not rena Team of his own, He ls freq ‘ Anu will unce pgs so dor cH AT EMENT. IN aa ER THAN AKY r¥ Street, below the Fl Dorado, c ts, next door «<7 ick 5 1 . will be found constantly Si : rick Store, where Wl four un Z po’ “0G aes, CHEWING and SMOKING TOBAC( ° o1. hand = very description, qualities and prices to —_ mS > Fine lot of PERKFUMERY and CANDIES, in MEXICAN PLAYING CARDS, a large ee OM AION and FANCY PIPES, &c. : — COMBOE TE CALU and examine for yoursely as, fl going to be beat by apy one in ——s 18 ‘le. & & ° and Good articles. Garden Seeds. — ui ds for sale at re{AF ER’= 200 vee ae ad gireet Drag Store. e Zuced — = the Broad 8 ". G, ALBAN. Pebiuary 14 Ba ° ne a st hve nlace om Broad: Cali at his pre : . sabato ig “ener of Main and Commercial stree —_— iifornia Garcen See 20 ABRCUITECT, No, 191 Merchant street, San Francisco. . pP* (NS, Specifications and all other documents ting to buildings prapared with punetuality teh, on application. either personally or by nd charges moderate in all eases. having an extensive acquaintance among t factures and dealers in building materials in San Francisco, will pay particular attention to the m ru vctamis euacmaer . ¥ {any orders received for the purchase and fozwardrof ion work, > bive al! &e. He will engage tit such orders falfilled with the best of materials and at the lowest ruling rates in the mark et. aprill3-3m trone work, 16 @ Hall bbls. New Orleans Sugar: 18) 300 bbls and hf bbls crushed Sagar: 150 bbls & ht. bbls do § cranul'd Sugar 500 mats No 1 China Sucar; f 2,C00 mats No. 1 China Rice; 150 bf bbls Carolina Rice: 500 bxs and hf bxs Adamantine candles: 200 bags of Walnuts; 190 cs Sardines, hf and qr bxs; 200 cs Olive Oi}; 100 cs Salt, 5,10, 15 and 20 lb bags; 150 doz super Brooms; 1,000 gross R W Matches; 50 gross Yeast Powders; 100 es assorted Jellies and Jams; 150 cs Baltimore Oysters; 100 cs Lobsters and Cams; 100 es ‘Turkey and Chicken; 100 es Strawberries and Pineapples; 50 es assorted Preserves; 150 es ado Syrups; 200 es Pie Fruits; es hf and qr Brandy Peaches: 150 es hf and qr Pickles; 300 kegs 3, 5, and 10 gal pickles; kegs 5 and 10 gal. Cranberries, forsale by GOODWIN & CO,, April 13, ’55. 50-1m. 62 California st. BBLS Fay’s new hams, in brine; 150 bbls Amet & Billings’ Ham; 50 hhds extra clear Pork; 50 bbls do do 75 hf bbls Family Market Beef; 500 hf bbls Corn Meal; 150 kegs Lard; 100 cs 10 Ib tins Refined Lard; 50 cs 20 1b do do 100 hf bbIs extra No 1 Mackerel; 75 cs choice Dairy Cheese; 150 firkins New Butter, in dbl packages; 150 do do single do; 2,000 bags Chili Beans; 109 bbls Am. White Beans; 100 earoons Chili Peaches: 200 hf bbls Dried Apples; 350 bxs Fresh Layer Raisins; 500 kegs East Boston Syrup, 5 and 8 gal: 1,000 bags Rio Coffee; 200 bxs Y. Hyson and Gunpowder Teas; 206 bxs Imperial Tea, 1 15; 250 packaces BI’k Tea, hf and 3d Ib pa’ps, 150 do whole Pepper, Allspice, Cassia; for sale by GOODWIN ¢CO, S0Outh-west corner of Sansome and Commercial Street SAN FRANCISCO. =.J. Armstrong. Wm, P Ridgway. PROPRIETORS, Beh. 5c $15 66 to $25 00 per week 19 09 “ee 1 99 Board and I OAGIB.ccceeessescereesescer succes 43—3-m. ** night REMOVED. BCc.xT.L.HORN {VE REMOVED to 95 FRONT STREET, Corner ot ~ Merchant, San Francisco, April 6—1m DISTILLERY & FACTORY SYRUPS. DELAFONT & CO., French Importers and Dealers in Wines and Superior Liquors. e. Washington street, 130, between Montgnmery end Mareh Sansome Streets, San Francisco NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, n Act to Suppress Gaming. cople of the State of California, reputed in Senate and Assembly do enas follows : 1. Every person who shall open or to be opened, any gaming bank or “chance, the whole or part of which to him, in any house or other place er, whether the said house or place d or usually oceupied by said per»t, and likewise every person who 1 for, or otherwise conduct, or asnducting the affairs of such bank and also every person who shail ich bank or game to be opened in » under his control, may be pros‘indictmeat by the Grand Jury uty in which the offense shall ‘ committed, or before any Jus» Peace, or Recorder’s Court of y, and on conviction, upon evime or more credible witnesses, 1ed in a sum not exceeding five ollars, nor less than one hundred the first offense, and double int for each subsequent offense ; eases, the house or place, in a illegal gaming is carried on or ot it be done without the knowle owner thereof, shall be held he fines imposed on persons for 1 gaming within the same. The owner, tenant, or occupant ise or building in which money aall have been lost by gaming, nowledge or consent of such ‘upant or tenant, shall on conreof, be fined not execeding five lars, nor less than one huns for the first offense, and dounount for each subsequent ofTense. See. 3. All notes, bills, bonds, mortga‘. ges or other securities or conveyances what_ever, in which the whole or any part of the consideration, shall be for any money or . goods, won by gaming or playing at cards, dice or any other game whatever, or by ‘. betting on the sides or hands of any per4) Son gaming, or for re-imbursing or repay,. ing any money, knowingly lent or advaneed, for any gaming, or betting, or lent and -advanced at the time and place of such . gaming or betting, shall be void and of no . effect, as between the parties to the same, . and as to all persons, except such as shall {hold or claim tinder them in good faith, ‘and without notice of the illegality of the . consideration of such contract or conveyance See. 4. It shall be, and is hereby made the duty of all District Attorneys to pros. ecute all offenses against this Act, and to} . make quarterly reports to the Courts of . Sessions, or Boards of Supervisors of the . county in which such prosecution was had, . _ . of the names of all persons who shall have } been convicted under the provisions of} this Act, during the preceding quarter, together with the amount of all fines so imposed and collected from each person so convicted. See. 5. The District Courts, Courts of Sessions, Justices of the Peace and Recorder’s Courts, in the several counties of this State, shall have full and complete jurisdiction over all cases arising wader the provisions of this Act, and it shall be the duty of the Courts of Sessions to give this law in charge, to the Grand Jury, whose duty it shall be to inquire into and present all cases of a violation of this law ; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be 1 construed to include the games of Billiards and Tenpins. See. 7. One fourth of all fines collected under the provisions of this Act, shall go to the District Attorney ; one-fourth shall be paid into the Treasury of the county where the offense was committed, and the remainder shall be equally divided among the various Orphan Asylums in counties where such Asylums exist, and where there are no such Asylums, shall go into the, . “General School Fund” of the county. An Act entitled “An Act to . license gaming,’ approved April 29, 1851, are hereby repealed. . See. 8. This Act shall take effect and i be in force, in thirty days after its passage ; provided, that no license referred to in section seven of this Act shall be issued after the passage of this Act. Approved April 17, 1855. <p —ee. Harp Times att Gone.—The Mirror thinks “‘ that the clouds so gloomy and oppressive, that recently lowered upon . New York City, are breaking, rising and seattering. The radiant bow of hope gleams upon their departing skirts; and glimpses of clear skies give promise of milder, brighter and better days. The soup houses are no longer thronged by the famishing poor; and the beggars in the streets are subsiding. We hear of no more clamor for bread, or for work ; and as all departments of Trade and Industry are reviving, we believe every honest, able-bodied, willing laborer may find something too do at a rate of wages that! will enable him to live comfortably.” See. ie —-— Doo —______. . gar A pedagogue once related us a son of the Emerald Isle. He told him to spell hostility. ‘H-o-r-s e, horse,’ com-/ed her position on the nest during the ab-/to ten months old, perfectly quiet ‘Not horse-tility,’ said the. sence of the eat, and after extending to . hours. i [menced Pat. teacher; ‘but Hos-tility.? ‘Sure,’ replied Pat, ‘an’ didn’t ye tell me, the other day, . not to say oss? Be jabers! it’s wan thing one day, and another the nist.’ ——__—<a Steam FRoM Panama To AUSTRALIA.— A company in London is negotiating with Mr. Bartlett, agent of the Panama Railroud, for the establishment of a line of steamers from Panama, connecting with the British West India Line. GOD THE CREATOR. BY MRS. H. W. S. GROSVENOR, I asked the flower as it petals spread, What power had the gift of fragrance shed, What hand had penciled the beauties there, And framed its cup with an artist’s care. Then a voice stole out from the Summer bloom, Itis God who hath given me my sweet perfume; Who hath tinged my robes with a rainbow dye, And I looked to him with a trusting eye. T asked the stars in their home on high, Who had lit their lamps in the midnight sky ; Who had bid them roll in their erbit far, And I heard a voice from each beaming star,— It is God who hath kindled our silvery light, Like gems we gleum onthe brow of nightfis hand hatb created each rolling sphere, And He hath upheld us from year to year, T asked the stream in its peaceful flow, Who had given its waters their sparkling glow ; Who had bid it gladden the verdaat lea, In ifs onward course to the pathless sea, From the rippling streamlet I heard a strain, As it hastened on to the swelling main; lt is God who hath given me my gentle flow, He hath traced my path as I onward go, I asked the birds in the spring-time hour, When their strains made vocal the forest bower, Who had taught each songster his tuneful note, And the thrilling lays that around us float. The answer came ina burst of song, From the choral band of the feathery throng,— It is God who hath given us the power to sing, As we cleave the air with a rapid wing. T asked the green earth arrayed in bleom, Ere its verdure was blighted by Autumn's gloom Who had spread it out as an open scroll, And bade old ocean its waters roll. ? And a voice arose from the hill and plain, Ant the depths of ocean re-echoed the strain, God, God hath created the land and the sea, Flowers, stars, birds and streamlets that flow o'er the lea. Belleville, Mass. ——uOuuOb> aa THE EXEMPLARY WIFE. O blest is he whose arms enfold A consort virtuous as fair: Her price is far above the gold That worldly spirits love to share. On her, as on a beauteous isle, Amid life’s dark and stormy sea, In all his trouble,all his toil, He rests with deep security. Even in the night-watch, dark and lone, The distaff fills her busy hand ; Her husband in the gates is known Among the elders of the land ; Her household all delight to share The food and raiment she bestows— Even she with a parental care Regards their weakness and their woes ler pitying hand supplies the poor, The widowed one, the orphan child, Like birds assembled round the door, When sweeps the winter tempest wild. Her lips with love and wisdom fraught, Drop, like the honey-comb, their sweets ; The young are by her dictates taught, The mourner her condolence meets, Her lovely babes around her rise— Fair scions of a holy stem . And deeply shall her bosom prize The blessings she receives from them. Beauty is vain assummer bloom To which a transieet fate is given; But hers await a lasting doom In the eternal bowers of Heaven. ——————<>< ne» In the House I heard part of a debate on a report from a committee, recommending a division of the State into three. The discussion oceurred on a motion by Mr. Douglass, of San Joaquin, to print 3000 copies, and a substitute by the same gentlemen to adopt the report. The substitute was lost, 30 to 35, and the motion to print adopted. Thus the argument in favor of division goes before the people without an answer. The report argues that question of interminable discussion, Slavery. Of course it had to be discussed over again in the House, notwithstanding the friends of the motion maintained that the report settled the question forever. They wanted the House to adopt it, not, of course, to add any weight to it.— It did not need that. The argument itself was sufficient—was irresistable. They only wanted it adopted by way of a clincher—to make it a “finality”—that the subject might never more be heard of— like the compromise of 1850 and the Nebraska bill, each of which in its turn, put the subject at rest forever. By the way, the duration of this term, forever, is a subject of controversy among theologians. Wonder if our Nebraska friends could not throw some light upon it. Is it not strange that the same party that has so often assured us that the subject was dead, buried so deep that even the power of thought could never reach it, are continually reviving it? And now they must conjure up the “dark spirit”? in our Legislature, solely, it would seem, for the purpose of allaying it. Though itis ever ready to rise, it will not down at their bidding.-—Sae. Cor. Eve. Jour., 28th. Oo ae City or Wonpers.—Sacramento may well be termed the “city of wonders,” as every weck they announce something new in the shape of natural curiosities. The last was as follows, in the Union. The scene is located at the establishment of Wm. Brainard, near the Fort : “A hen, having, contrary to the expressed wish of the proprictor, persisted in setting, the eggs were removed during her temporary absence, in order to ‘‘break A Sacactous Cus.—Several remarkable stories are told by a Sacramento paper of a domesticated rat, which has taken up its residence in a closet of the Orleans Hotel. We heard an incident recited of a dog in this city, which rather “Jays over” the Norway. It is known to many, that the great enemy of dog flesh has been abroad in the secret hours of the night for several weeks past, impregnating choice parcels of fresh meat with strychnine, and dropping them on the highways and by-ways where they are picked up by unsuspecting “‘towsers”’ and taken voraciously into hungry stomachs A respectable widow lady residing on street, owns, by entailment, a lazy good-for-nothing cur, which, it has long been her ardent hope, might fall a victim to the wiles of the destroyer. He had twice been thrown into the Bay with a stone about his neck, and twice escaped drowning by the slipping of the knot.— The sealds and kicks, and cuffs, and blows that he received, were beyond the power of computation. Some half dozen times he had been given away, but with that undying fidelity which has ever characterised his species, he escaped from his new owners and returned to the people and the home of his affection. These oft-repeated exhibitions of devotion began to attract towards him the kindly solicitude of his mistress. From at first regarding him with repulsion, as he retreated before her angry gaze, she gave him an occasional kind word, which caused him to bound with delight, and express as plainly as dog could do, an overwhelming gratitude for so much unlooked for condescension. This amicable state of affairs continued between the parties, until a few nights ago, when the dog ventured out on a prowling excursion, from which he returned in the morning poisoned. Moved to pity by his sufferings, the heart of his mistress gave way, and she sent to a drug store fora prescription, which was duly admininistered, and the dog recovered. The story might end here, as affording a beautiful lesson of brute devotion on one side, and woman’s kindness on the other ; but it don’t. At a late hour of the very next night, the lady was aroused from slumber by a seratching and whining at the back door of her dwelling, and suspecting that thieves might be about, of which her vigilant dog sentinel was giving the alarm, she arose, lit a candle and pro. ceeded to investigate the facts. As she . opened the door, the eye of the cur, full of intelligence, met her’s. By his side, near the threshold, lay the spaniel ofa neighbor, quivering in the last agonies of death. The truth at once flashed over the lady’s mind. He had met it in his prowlings, and sensible of its malady, induced it to follow him home, that it might be a partaker of the same antidote whtch had wrought his own miraculous cure !— S. F. Sun. ne Pursuit or Know.epce Unver DirFIcuLTIEs.—‘Can you direct me to the Hotel, inquired a gentleman with a carpet bag, of a burly Hibernian, standing on the steps of the railroad station. ‘Faith, was the reply, ‘it’s jist I that ean do the same. You see you jist go up this strate till you come to Thaddy O’Mulligan’s shap, then—’ ~ ‘But I don’t know where Thaddy O’Mulligan’s shap, as you eall it, is.’ “Oh faith! why did’nt I think of that ; well, then, your honor must kape on till ye get to the apple woman’s stand on the corner of the brick church it is, and go on till ye get to the sign of the big watch, and mind you don’t fall down in the cellar thereway, then you keep on a little furder till you come to a big tree, and after that you turn to the right or to the left, but by the bones of St. Patrick, I don’t know which.’ The traveller turned in despair to along lank Jonathan, who was standing whittling close by, and made the inquiry of him. ‘Maybe yow’re going to put up there ? queried Jonathan. ‘Yes, I intend to.’ ‘Did you come from far off ?? ‘Yes, from Philadelphia,’ was the im. patint reply. ‘But can you tell me where the ; ‘Got any more baggage :’ perturble Yankee. ‘No, this is all,’ said the traveller, convineed that the only way to get the direetion was to submit to questioning. ‘Going to stay long ?’ ; ‘Could’nt say,’ was the reply, in rather ‘But I’m in a hurry, ? asked the ima crusty manner. and would like to bedirected to the ‘Wait a minute ; T reckon you’re a married man, ain’t you: ‘No, I am not; and now T won t answer anything more till you have answered. ‘Waal, ‘Squire,’ said the Yankee coolly, ‘I'd like to oblige you, but the truth is I have never been in the city before myself.’ Baxnies.—The local editor of the Buffalo Republic has made himself one of the immortals by the publication of a dis'her up.” Before she returned, the cat of. covery which he has recently made, of laughable story of one of his scholars, ajthe establishment deposited in the nest ®/ creat importance to mothers. It is an inlitter of kittens and left. The hen resumher feline charge the protection of her Wings, repeatedly left the nest and sought to induce them to follow by her cluck, cluck, cluck. The kittens being young unsophisticated, and having no instinctive ear for such music, continued snugly in the hay and down until the old eat grew Jealous, and asserted the rights of maternity. The hen circled anxiously around the nest for some time, but finally yielded her pretensions.” fallible means of keeping babies, from two for The mopvs operanpt is as folilows: Assoon as the squaller awakes, set the child up, propped by pillows, if 1 cannot sit alone, and smear 1ts fingers with thick molasses. Then put halfa jdozen feathers into its hands, and the j young one will sit and pick the feathers from one hand into the other, until it As soon as it awakes, more place he drops asleep. ‘ molasses and more feathers, and in of nerve-astounding vells, there wit silence and enjoyinent unspeakable. Aw Interesting Letrrer.-—The Na-. ed letter written by Gencral Wintficid Scott, then a Captain in the Army, during a sojurn at his home in Petersburg. Va., on the 18th of June, 1811, just one) The year before the declaration of war. letter is not only interesting, but the con-. cluding sentence makes it remarkable : Peterspurc, June, 1811. I believe we have very little village news to give you, nor dol know what) would please you in that way. Of myself/—that personage who fills so tional Intelligencer publishes the subjoin. own imacilarge a space in every man’s nation, and so small a one in the imagin-. ation of every other-—I can say but little; perhaps less would please you more.—} Since my return to Virginia my time has passed in easy transitions from pleasure . to study, from study to pleasure; in my gayety forgetting the student, in the student forgetting my gayety. I have generally been in the office of my fricnd, Mr. Leigh, though not unmindful of the studies connected with my present profession; but you will easily conceive my military ardor has suffered abatement.— cumstances will permit, to throw the feather out of my cap and resume it in my hand. Yet, should war come at last, my enthusiasm would be rekindled; and then, who knows but that I may yet write jmy history with my sword ! Yours truly, Winrretp Scort. ee How a man cor Trustep.—‘Sir, I wan’t you to trust me for a barrel of flour.’ Knowing the customer, the merchant remarked, ‘I cannot trust you.’ ‘You shall have your pay ina week! from to-day, and no mistake. ‘If I don’t pay you, you may call me a liar.’ ‘If you will certainly pay me in a week you may have the flour.’ . ‘I certainly will.’ The flour was rolled out and carted away. called for his pay. la few days,’ said the debtor. ‘But you remember your promise.’ ‘I know it; but I can’t always fulfil my promises.’ ‘But you said I might call you a liar if you didn’t pay.’ *W ell—eall me a liar, then—I have no particular objection to it.’ The merchant waked off, and has been extremely careful ever since whom he trusted. There are men who have a peculiar faculty to put off bills from week to week, and year to year; trifling bills too, which they might contrive te pay. But they care nothing about an honest debt, and Oo es ee es Indeed, it is my design, as soon as cir-. The week came round. The merchant . . ‘Lam short to-day—I will pay you in. WHOLE NO. 260. Ixporrance ov Fonrst Trees.—Tke . following is an extract froma paper read ‘by Dr. Hawks, before the Geographical . Society of New York : . (Civilization uses a vast amount of wood, although for many purposes it is being ‘fast superceded but zt ts not the necessary ‘use of wood that (3s sweeping away the forests of the United States, s9 much as \its wanton destruction. We should lock ito the consequeuces of this. Palestine, once well-wooded end cultivated hke a garden, is now a decert—the haunt of Be. douins ; Greece, in her palmy days the land of laurel forest, is nowa desolate waste; Persia and Babylon, in the cradles of civilization, are now eovered beneath the sand of deserts produced by the eradication of their forests. It is comparatively easy to eradicate the forest of the North, as they are of a gregarious order— jone class succeeding another; but the ; tropical forests, composed of inuumeraible varictics, growing together in the . most demacratic union and equality, are }never eradicated. Even in Hindostaa all its many millions of populstion have never [been able to conquer the pheenix-life of jits tropical vegetation. Forests act as regulators, preserving snow and rain from ;melting and evaporation, and producing . a regularity in the flow of the rivers drain‘ing them. When they disappear, thunder storms become less frequent and heay‘ler, the snow melts in the first warm days of spring, causing freshets, and in tue fall . the rivers dry up and cease to be navigable. These freshets and Croughts also . produce the molaria which is the scourge ‘of Western bottom lands. Forests, al. though they are first an obstacle to civilization, soon become necessary to its continuance. Our rivers, not having their sources above the snow line, are depen dent on forests for their supply of ,water, . and it is essential to the future prosneri; ty of the country that they should be preserved. i ne yea. On no occasion, says a Missomi . paper do people seem more prone to ¢dom'mit blunders than at a wedding. The . . following occurred in that State: ‘In the midst of a crowd of witnesses, the clergymen had just completed that interesting e2remony which binds in the silver bands of wedlock two willing hearts, and . stretched forth his hands to iiplore the . blessings of heaven upon the union. At this point, the groomsiman, sceing the open jhands reached out, supposed it was the signal for him to surrender the wedding fee, which was burning in his pocket. Accordingly, just 1s the clergyman hed closed his eyes in prayer, he felt the pressure . of two sweaty half dollars upor his open palms. The good man hesiteted a moment, appalled at the ludicrousness of his . situation, but cooliy deposited the monev in his pocket and proceeded with hi: delive like heroes on the purses of others.— . votions. Such men should be avoided. An honest poor man feels his obligations to others, oa e685 A Rochester editor had the hes and is seldom if ever tormented, by hayjofreasons for kicking a cuack nostrum gaa ing a bill thrust in his face. Creditors . know he will pay when he is able, and . feel perfectly easy. > ye. Before an election in Pennsylvania, a few years since, Hans, who was a Locofoeo, went to see his father-in-law, who! j}was a strong Whig. ‘How te do, Hans ?’} lsaid the old man. ‘How te to, fader ??— ‘How you coing to fote dis fall, Hans ?’ ‘Oh, mit te locos, of course, fader.? ‘Vat! . you coing to fote dat locos dicket?? ‘Yes! fader, you know I’s a loco, and I must} ifote de locos dicket.? ‘Now, Hans, I'll) iteli you what [ll do mit you—you no ifote for te locos, and I no vote for te vigs, ‘and den you sce—don*t you, Hans /’— ‘Very well, fader.? ‘Vill you do it Hans?’ ᠀夀攀猀Ⰰ fader.? After the election Hans} lwent again to visit his father-in law. ‘How . jte to, Hans 7? said the old man. ‘Tow ite to, fader ?? ‘Vell, Hans, did you go to} ite boll?? ‘Yes, fader, [ had to do it; . ldey cot around me, and wouldn’t let me . off, fader.? ‘O, you rascal, you do not as . you say, Han!’ ‘and in his confusion rather meekly asked, . Did you go to te bolls, fader ?? “To be lsure, Han.” ‘And did you fote, fader 2 es be sure I did,’ replied the old Dutch . man, in tones of carnest Pam you suppose I know petter dan to + drust a tam loco ?? Then i Tre Mittrary Srrenecru or Russa. . The last computation of the Russia, ace) 7 ‘ding to Russian sources, is as follows: 1.) Army of Tavride, 120,000 men inthe Crimea, and 20,900 men garrison Sebac-. ‘topol. 2. Black Sea Army, 40,000 (Od>s. Isa and around Odessa, ) garrisons of WKin. bourn and Orzakoff. 3. Army of the . . Danube, 40,000 men, including the garri. lsons of Reni and Ismali. 4. Army of Po-. land, 120,000 men. 5. Baltic Army, 60,-. 000 men. 6. Great Reserve Army, 36 bad 1900 men. That is to say, 490,000 men, exclusive of the Asiatic armies in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces, or the Oxus and Jaxatres, in Kamtschatka, and on the mouths of the Armour, which amount ‘together to 120,000 men more. This ‘brings the Russian army up to 60,000 men, and seems scarcaly to be exaggeraited. —-y angela igi a . Bee A young wife remonsteated with her husband, a dissipated spendthrift, on ‘his conduct. ‘My love,” said he, “I jam only like the ‘Prodigal Son; I shall . reform by and by.” “And I will be like she replied, “for ‘the Prodigal Son, too,” F : vi I will arise and go to my father,” and off jshe went. ‘Hans was discovered, . ' pedlar out of his sanctum. The fellow, with the characteristic impudence of all who ask fur newspaper puffs, desircd the editor to try a box of his itch ointment, it being an infailible cure, and if found to janswer the description, then to certify to its merits in the columns of his paper. if —“—s2 oe Non-Coxpvuctor.—* Whiskey drinking was never known to conduct wealth into a man’s pocket, happiness to his famjily,or respectabiliiy to his character ; therefore, whiskey must be a non-eonduc' tor. PP) No such thing! Whiskey is a conduetor ; it will conduct one to jail, conduct him thence to the gallows, up the iadder, thence to Potter’s field; not only that, hut it will strengtnen the body-snatcher’s courage to conduct the pauper’s carcass to the dissecting room. Whe says whiskey i don’t conduct. an Ss cel ll lipase na pen. Each of the ten inch shells thrown by the Allied forces at Sevastopol eosts about $125, and the expense of the mainterancc of each man in the Engtish army 1s averaged at. about $5000, = acces uit Anotuer Murver—The Union Democrat . says that a man named Elias Vreeland, a quiet, _Inolensive personage, was shot and instantly {killed by a number of Chilenes, at Coultergville, Mariposa county, on Saturday night lact, as he was leaving a fandango house. Some twenty shots were fired athim. Mr. V. was formerly from New York, > A. Acetpesxt.—The Aubura Whig learns thet a bank ou the Jamison claim, at Iowa Fill caved in on Thursday last, injuring two persons badly, one of whom, Mr. Owens, had his leg broken. nie Bex* The chronometer to be prescated to Captain Duncan N. Ingraham, United States -Navy, from several thousands of the working classes of England, as the result of a penny subscription, in token of admiration asd an. proval of his course in the memorable case of ota Kosza, has been received at Chares on, S@F There arc already five Inrge and very goo’ looking weekly newspapers in Kansas : The Herald, publi ed at Leaveaworth; the Pionser, at \ickapoo; the Herald .f Freedom, Kans.s; Tribune, and Kansas Free State, at Lawrence. Another is soon to be started at Atchison. ty On February 8th, the Directors of the Bank of Ergland notified their employees that they would receive a bonus of ten per cent. on their salaries, in consequence of the present high price of provisious. -

oo, VOL. 5. SARGENT & ° Jie JAW dG ob; Naaticx’ iNE =SXPeEI NEVADA JOT Dire-nroof Purl iine i. SeeOie =, a” * repared 1 BILLS OF F ARE CiRCULAPS, VAMPHLETS. RALL TISCEETS FOSTERS. 44AW BLANKS TRAFPTS. F oy Ai UNYRECEDENT to execute in the EI WEE = LiVERY Si aoee, JAS. H. OELM, Proprietor. EE POR ee Vittsburgh, Riggs & 00.. 2.05 605+5+... Wasnigpton Oty. St. Louis tes Of Depositor , Bulli and Cert Lat the highest market rz MT. SHERMAN, ox ee lersigned would jn! cr. gS SS ae form nd the pub LO wy hi nerally thet he is Pua if tToust ntly making Additions to his 4 vet ‘=F aT? i fy TAMA Banking STOCK Or FAST HORSES . te ~— too JES SAE DAU ele nee i r cities has sho to be right a And Kesp now » ever has done, the best and Opel stest animais ¢t n this city mn Ks I received ¢ a he disy a th Fer ! fully posite er hi eh i ext morning , ut } 1 h ‘ , ‘ ne ‘ ’ ’ Y he entertai < Ass. \ i I INA i vl I ver I 0 2 2; ED re ) is he fore, pay ¢ i @ vilre , ; = Bin 1 : ng interest at extibit sand ever, at the rate of the fk k Wing. > from 19 o'clock ¥ aten¢ me ! onside by us advantageous to the LEVERS, pi as wellas ourselyes. . VERS Cooper furch 36—m LUCAS, TURNER & CO. b> sagetafead Mrraeaciied Vi ateles, for) JOHN N. MOODY ) Badies, every variciy of , : aS ee GOLD & SILVER ANCHOR, NP CYLINDER ESCAPEMENTS. Guid, Guasd, * st ins, Dinmond Rings eye all patter eals, Keys, Bi cele ts, Arm. te.g. Necktaces, Goid Pins, iiings. Ear Rings, Cutt Pjos ‘Guard slides. Deli and Fob Buckles. JEW ELRY IN SETTS, i tld Fens, th silver and veld cases, Spectacles that can be c:.t'ed for. QUARTZ RGCK JEWELRY made toorder, . Diamond Setting done in the latest and most aproved style Canes meunied and all articies of Geatife, nia Jewelry manufactured to order. i Particular attention paid to Watch repairing. Neveda, May is 1854 3th AMERI ae JAN LIVERY AN PU SUBSCRIBER RETURNS HIS THANKS to the iy Citi zens of Nevada, for tne tiberal patronage thus wed sstablishment, and would inform ro keep che best selection of HORSES, country will afford. a fur bestowed upon his . them that he continvss SADDLE. their necommoda'icn, chai th For ! : no ily call the ) e lies to his » would espeviaily call the ion of th > hi oy Sor SPIRITED but GENTLE ANIMALS at such times . a tt -y are desirous to enjoy 4a healthy and vigorating fl lesire Jos t , ri ie sat J.B. LOBDELL, Broad ~treet. ride. Shaving Saioon and Bath Rooms: At the Metropolis Hotel. Bo The upgersigned oro pr pared Pa tothe comfort . of the F inthe enercise —— " fof their profession at all heurs } “wD A yt RP Atk CUTTING, SHAM-. nS) ILA . nN and SbAVING done lo the brst m¥nner. on) POOtN Er li-fiited BATH HOT SE in connection with . There isa we a ee “ at } Th _ _ where warm and cold buths may ba bad at ieir Sak . 5 rf “rv of all kinds on hand. o oR : UNINCG'S REPRODUCTOR, celebrated for 5 Fe at Jowers over che human hair. ltentirely eradrt uf. onens the pores of the skin, } the di-eased organs of the head t hair to assume its forand by iis frequent J : 2FiPiant gppearzace Sold only by 2 mer sl talin gcd Sriliant wpe PIEODORE LAMPE. 2—tf FREDERICK MAY. Mi scopciis Shaving & Hair Dressing Saloon. pe ce ee tee eee THE UNCLE SAM. . > IGN —=T. SAMUEL his friends and the puband one ofthe its meuic cbs icates Scurf or Dandrt 23 3 perfect action t* give B i aS oe Noyer er ar y inform ould mosi respectfulty into liv nore that be has now on h Ae LARGEST STOCKS O: aid Hino Exravana Cis” . Choice Virgima Leaf Chewing yee “ie Of almost every Brand and description. tly une? not rena Team of his own, He ls freq ‘ Anu will unce pgs so dor cH AT EMENT. IN aa ER THAN AKY r¥ Street, below the Fl Dorado, c ts, next door «<7 ick 5 1 . will be found constantly Si : rick Store, where Wl four un Z po’ “0G aes, CHEWING and SMOKING TOBAC( ° o1. hand = very description, qualities and prices to —_ mS > Fine lot of PERKFUMERY and CANDIES, in MEXICAN PLAYING CARDS, a large ee OM AION and FANCY PIPES, &c. : — COMBOE TE CALU and examine for yoursely as, fl going to be beat by apy one in ——s 18 ‘le. & & ° and Good articles. Garden Seeds. — ui ds for sale at re{AF ER’= 200 vee ae ad gireet Drag Store. e Zuced — = the Broad 8 ". G, ALBAN. Pebiuary 14 Ba ° ne a st hve nlace om Broad: Cali at his pre : . sabato ig “ener of Main and Commercial stree —_— iifornia Garcen See 20 ABRCUITECT, No, 191 Merchant street, San Francisco. . pP* (NS, Specifications and all other documents ting to buildings prapared with punetuality teh, on application. either personally or by nd charges moderate in all eases. having an extensive acquaintance among t factures and dealers in building materials in San Francisco, will pay particular attention to the m ru vctamis euacmaer . ¥ {any orders received for the purchase and fozwardrof ion work, > bive al! &e. He will engage tit such orders falfilled with the best of materials and at the lowest ruling rates in the mark et. aprill3-3m trone work, 16 @ Hall bbls. New Orleans Sugar: 18) 300 bbls and hf bbls crushed Sagar: 150 bbls & ht. bbls do § cranul'd Sugar 500 mats No 1 China Sucar; f 2,C00 mats No. 1 China Rice; 150 bf bbls Carolina Rice: 500 bxs and hf bxs Adamantine candles: 200 bags of Walnuts; 190 cs Sardines, hf and qr bxs; 200 cs Olive Oi}; 100 cs Salt, 5,10, 15 and 20 lb bags; 150 doz super Brooms; 1,000 gross R W Matches; 50 gross Yeast Powders; 100 es assorted Jellies and Jams; 150 cs Baltimore Oysters; 100 cs Lobsters and Cams; 100 es ‘Turkey and Chicken; 100 es Strawberries and Pineapples; 50 es assorted Preserves; 150 es ado Syrups; 200 es Pie Fruits; es hf and qr Brandy Peaches: 150 es hf and qr Pickles; 300 kegs 3, 5, and 10 gal pickles; kegs 5 and 10 gal. Cranberries, forsale by GOODWIN & CO,, April 13, ’55. 50-1m. 62 California st. BBLS Fay’s new hams, in brine; 150 bbls Amet & Billings’ Ham; 50 hhds extra clear Pork; 50 bbls do do 75 hf bbls Family Market Beef; 500 hf bbls Corn Meal; 150 kegs Lard; 100 cs 10 Ib tins Refined Lard; 50 cs 20 1b do do 100 hf bbIs extra No 1 Mackerel; 75 cs choice Dairy Cheese; 150 firkins New Butter, in dbl packages; 150 do do single do; 2,000 bags Chili Beans; 109 bbls Am. White Beans; 100 earoons Chili Peaches: 200 hf bbls Dried Apples; 350 bxs Fresh Layer Raisins; 500 kegs East Boston Syrup, 5 and 8 gal: 1,000 bags Rio Coffee; 200 bxs Y. Hyson and Gunpowder Teas; 206 bxs Imperial Tea, 1 15; 250 packaces BI’k Tea, hf and 3d Ib pa’ps, 150 do whole Pepper, Allspice, Cassia; for sale by GOODWIN ¢CO, S0Outh-west corner of Sansome and Commercial Street SAN FRANCISCO. =.J. Armstrong. Wm, P Ridgway. PROPRIETORS, Beh. 5c $15 66 to $25 00 per week 19 09 “ee 1 99 Board and I OAGIB..ccceeessescereesescer succes 43—3-m. ** night REMOVED. BCc.xT.L.HORN {VE REMOVED to 95 FRONT STREET, Corner ot ~ Merchant, San Francisco, April 6—1m DISTILLERY & FACTORY SYRUPS. DELAFONT & CO., French Importers and Dealers in Wines and Superior Liquors. e. Washington street, 130, between Montgnmery end Mareh Sansome Streets, San Francisco NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, n Act to Suppress Gaming. cople of the State of California, reputed in Senate and Assembly do enas follows : 1. Every person who shall open or to be opened, any gaming bank or “chance, the whole or part of which to him, in any house or other place er, whether the said house or place d or usually oceupied by said per»t, and likewise every person who 1 for, or otherwise conduct, or asnducting the affairs of such bank and also every person who shail ich bank or game to be opened in » under his control, may be pros‘indictmeat by the Grand Jury uty in which the offense shall ‘ committed, or before any Jus» Peace, or Recorder’s Court of y, and on conviction, upon evime or more credible witnesses, 1ed in a sum not exceeding five ollars, nor less than one hundred the first offense, and double int for each subsequent offense ; eases, the house or place, in a illegal gaming is carried on or ot it be done without the knowle owner thereof, shall be held he fines imposed on persons for 1 gaming within the same. The owner, tenant, or occupant ise or building in which money aall have been lost by gaming, nowledge or consent of such ‘upant or tenant, shall on conreof, be fined not execeding five lars, nor less than one huns for the first offense, and dounount for each subsequent ofTense. See. 3. All notes, bills, bonds, mortga‘. ges or other securities or conveyances what_ever, in which the whole or any part of the consideration, shall be for any money or . goods, won by gaming or playing at cards, dice or any other game whatever, or by ‘. betting on the sides or hands of any per4) Son gaming, or for re-imbursing or repay,. ing any money, knowingly lent or advaneed, for any gaming, or betting, or lent and -advanced at the time and place of such . gaming or betting, shall be void and of no . effect, as between the parties to the same, . and as to all persons, except such as shall {hold or claim tinder them in good faith, ‘and without notice of the illegality of the . consideration of such contract or conveyance See. 4. It shall be, and is hereby made the duty of all District Attorneys to pros. ecute all offenses against this Act, and to} . make quarterly reports to the Courts of . Sessions, or Boards of Supervisors of the . county in which such prosecution was had, . _ . of the names of all persons who shall have } been convicted under the provisions of} this Act, during the preceding quarter, together with the amount of all fines so imposed and collected from each person so convicted. See. 5. The District Courts, Courts of Sessions, Justices of the Peace and Recorder’s Courts, in the several counties of this State, shall have full and complete jurisdiction over all cases arising wader the provisions of this Act, and it shall be the duty of the Courts of Sessions to give this law in charge, to the Grand Jury, whose duty it shall be to inquire into and present all cases of a violation of this law ; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be 1 construed to include the games of Billiards and Tenpins. See. 7. One fourth of all fines collected under the provisions of this Act, shall go to the District Attorney ; one-fourth shall be paid into the Treasury of the county where the offense was committed, and the remainder shall be equally divided among the various Orphan Asylums in counties where such Asylums exist, and where there are no such Asylums, shall go into the, . “General School Fund” of the county. An Act entitled “An Act to . license gaming,’ approved April 29, 1851, are hereby repealed. . See. 8. This Act shall take effect and i be in force, in thirty days after its passage ; provided, that no license referred to in section seven of this Act shall be issued after the passage of this Act. Approved April 17, 1855. <p —ee. Harp Times att Gone.—The Mirror thinks “‘ that the clouds so gloomy and oppressive, that recently lowered upon . New York City, are breaking, rising and seattering. The radiant bow of hope gleams upon their departing skirts; and glimpses of clear skies give promise of milder, brighter and better days. The soup houses are no longer thronged by the famishing poor; and the beggars in the streets are subsiding. We hear of no more clamor for bread, or for work ; and as all departments of Trade and Industry are reviving, we believe every honest, able-bodied, willing laborer may find something too do at a rate of wages that! will enable him to live comfortably.” See. ie —-— Doo —______. . gar A pedagogue once related us a son of the Emerald Isle. He told him to spell hostility. ‘H-o-r-s e, horse,’ com-/ed her position on the nest during the ab-/to ten months old, perfectly quiet ‘Not horse-tility,’ said the. sence of the eat, and after extending to . hours. i [menced Pat. teacher; ‘but Hos-tility.? ‘Sure,’ replied Pat, ‘an’ didn’t ye tell me, the other day, . not to say oss? Be jabers! it’s wan thing one day, and another the nist.’ ——__—<a Steam FRoM Panama To AUSTRALIA.— A company in London is negotiating with Mr. Bartlett, agent of the Panama Railroud, for the establishment of a line of steamers from Panama, connecting with the British West India Line. GOD THE CREATOR. BY MRS. H. W. S. GROSVENOR, I asked the flower as it petals spread, What power had the gift of fragrance shed, What hand had penciled the beauties there, And framed its cup with an artist’s care. Then a voice stole out from the Summer bloom, Itis God who hath given me my sweet perfume; Who hath tinged my robes with a rainbow dye, And I looked to him with a trusting eye. T asked the stars in their home on high, Who had lit their lamps in the midnight sky ; Who had bid them roll in their erbit far, And I heard a voice from each beaming star,— It is God who hath kindled our silvery light, Like gems we gleum onthe brow of nightfis hand hatb created each rolling sphere, And He hath upheld us from year to year, T asked the stream in its peaceful flow, Who had given its waters their sparkling glow ; Who had bid it gladden the verdaat lea, In ifs onward course to the pathless sea, From the rippling streamlet I heard a strain, As it hastened on to the swelling main; lt is God who hath given me my gentle flow, He hath traced my path as I onward go, I asked the birds in the spring-time hour, When their strains made vocal the forest bower, Who had taught each songster his tuneful note, And the thrilling lays that around us float. The answer came ina burst of song, From the choral band of the feathery throng,— It is God who hath given us the power to sing, As we cleave the air with a rapid wing. T asked the green earth arrayed in bleom, Ere its verdure was blighted by Autumn's gloom Who had spread it out as an open scroll, And bade old ocean its waters roll. ? And a voice arose from the hill and plain, Ant the depths of ocean re-echoed the strain, God, God hath created the land and the sea, Flowers, stars, birds and streamlets that flow o'er the lea. Belleville, Mass. ——uOuuOb> aa THE EXEMPLARY WIFE. O blest is he whose arms enfold A consort virtuous as fair: Her price is far above the gold That worldly spirits love to share. On her, as on a beauteous isle, Amid life’s dark and stormy sea, In all his trouble,all his toil, He rests with deep security. Even in the night-watch, dark and lone, The distaff fills her busy hand ; Her husband in the gates is known Among the elders of the land ; Her household all delight to share The food and raiment she bestows— Even she with a parental care Regards their weakness and their woes ler pitying hand supplies the poor, The widowed one, the orphan child, Like birds assembled round the door, When sweeps the winter tempest wild. Her lips with love and wisdom fraught, Drop, like the honey-comb, their sweets ; The young are by her dictates taught, The mourner her condolence meets,

Her lovely babes around her rise— Fair scions of a holy stem . And deeply shall her bosom prize The blessings she receives from them. Beauty is vain assummer bloom To which a transieet fate is given; But hers await a lasting doom In the eternal bowers of Heaven. ——————<>< ne» In the House I heard part of a debate on a report from a committee, recommending a division of the State into three. The discussion oceurred on a motion by Mr. Douglass, of San Joaquin, to print 3000 copies, and a substitute by the same gentlemen to adopt the report. The substitute was lost, 30 to 35, and the motion to print adopted. Thus the argument in favor of division goes before the people without an answer. The report argues that question of interminable discussion, Slavery. Of course it had to be discussed over again in the House, notwithstanding the friends of the motion maintained that the report settled the question forever. They wanted the House to adopt it, not, of course, to add any weight to it.— It did not need that. The argument itself was sufficient—was irresistable. They only wanted it adopted by way of a clincher—to make it a “finality”—that the subject might never more be heard of— like the compromise of 1850 and the Nebraska bill, each of which in its turn, put the subject at rest forever. By the way, the duration of this term, forever, is a subject of controversy among theologians. Wonder if our Nebraska friends could not throw some light upon it. Is it not strange that the same party that has so often assured us that the subject was dead, buried so deep that even the power of thought could never reach it, are continually reviving it? And now they must conjure up the “dark spirit”? in our Legislature, solely, it would seem, for the purpose of allaying it. Though itis ever ready to rise, it will not down at their bidding.-—Sae. Cor. Eve. Jour., 28th. Oo ae City or Wonpers.—Sacramento may well be termed the “city of wonders,” as every weck they announce something new in the shape of natural curiosities. The last was as follows, in the Union. The scene is located at the establishment of Wm. Brainard, near the Fort : “A hen, having, contrary to the expressed wish of the proprictor, persisted in setting, the eggs were removed during her temporary absence, in order to ‘‘break A Sacactous Cus.—Several remarkable stories are told by a Sacramento paper of a domesticated rat, which has taken up its residence in a closet of the Orleans Hotel. We heard an incident recited of a dog in this city, which rather “Jays over” the Norway. It is known to many, that the great enemy of dog flesh has been abroad in the secret hours of the night for several weeks past, impregnating choice parcels of fresh meat with strychnine, and dropping them on the highways and by-ways where they are picked up by unsuspecting “‘towsers”’ and taken voraciously into hungry stomachs A respectable widow lady residing on street, owns, by entailment, a lazy good-for-nothing cur, which, it has long been her ardent hope, might fall a victim to the wiles of the destroyer. He had twice been thrown into the Bay with a stone about his neck, and twice escaped drowning by the slipping of the knot.— The sealds and kicks, and cuffs, and blows that he received, were beyond the power of computation. Some half dozen times he had been given away, but with that undying fidelity which has ever characterised his species, he escaped from his new owners and returned to the people and the home of his affection. These oft-repeated exhibitions of devotion began to attract towards him the kindly solicitude of his mistress. From at first regarding him with repulsion, as he retreated before her angry gaze, she gave him an occasional kind word, which caused him to bound with delight, and express as plainly as dog could do, an overwhelming gratitude for so much unlooked for condescension. This amicable state of affairs continued between the parties, until a few nights ago, when the dog ventured out on a prowling excursion, from which he returned in the morning poisoned. Moved to pity by his sufferings, the heart of his mistress gave way, and she sent to a drug store fora prescription, which was duly admininistered, and the dog recovered. The story might end here, as affording a beautiful lesson of brute devotion on one side, and woman’s kindness on the other ; but it don’t. At a late hour of the very next night, the lady was aroused from slumber by a seratching and whining at the back door of her dwelling, and suspecting that thieves might be about, of which her vigilant dog sentinel was giving the alarm, she arose, lit a candle and pro. ceeded to investigate the facts. As she . opened the door, the eye of the cur, full of intelligence, met her’s. By his side, near the threshold, lay the spaniel ofa neighbor, quivering in the last agonies of death. The truth at once flashed over the lady’s mind. He had met it in his prowlings, and sensible of its malady, induced it to follow him home, that it might be a partaker of the same antidote whtch had wrought his own miraculous cure !— S. F. Sun. ne Pursuit or Know.epce Unver DirFIcuLTIEs.—‘Can you direct me to the Hotel, inquired a gentleman with a carpet bag, of a burly Hibernian, standing on the steps of the railroad station. ‘Faith, was the reply, ‘it’s jist I that ean do the same. You see you jist go up this strate till you come to Thaddy O’Mulligan’s shap, then—’ ~ ‘But I don’t know where Thaddy O’Mulligan’s shap, as you eall it, is.’ “Oh faith! why did’nt I think of that ; well, then, your honor must kape on till ye get to the apple woman’s stand on the corner of the brick church it is, and go on till ye get to the sign of the big watch, and mind you don’t fall down in the cellar thereway, then you keep on a little furder till you come to a big tree, and after that you turn to the right or to the left, but by the bones of St. Patrick, I don’t know which.’ The traveller turned in despair to along lank Jonathan, who was standing whittling close by, and made the inquiry of him. ‘Maybe yow’re going to put up there ? queried Jonathan. ‘Yes, I intend to.’ ‘Did you come from far off ?? ‘Yes, from Philadelphia,’ was the im. patint reply. ‘But can you tell me where the ; ‘Got any more baggage :’ perturble Yankee. ‘No, this is all,’ said the traveller, convineed that the only way to get the direetion was to submit to questioning. ‘Going to stay long ?’ ; ‘Could’nt say,’ was the reply, in rather ‘But I’m in a hurry, ? asked the ima crusty manner. and would like to bedirected to the ‘Wait a minute ; T reckon you’re a married man, ain’t you: ‘No, I am not; and now T won t answer anything more till you have answered. ‘Waal, ‘Squire,’ said the Yankee coolly, ‘I'd like to oblige you, but the truth is I have never been in the city before myself.’ Baxnies.—The local editor of the Buffalo Republic has made himself one of the immortals by the publication of a dis'her up.” Before she returned, the cat of. covery which he has recently made, of laughable story of one of his scholars, ajthe establishment deposited in the nest ®/ creat importance to mothers. It is an inlitter of kittens and left. The hen resumher feline charge the protection of her Wings, repeatedly left the nest and sought to induce them to follow by her cluck, cluck, cluck. The kittens being young unsophisticated, and having no instinctive ear for such music, continued snugly in the hay and down until the old eat grew Jealous, and asserted the rights of maternity. The hen circled anxiously around the nest for some time, but finally yielded her pretensions.” fallible means of keeping babies, from two for The mopvs operanpt is as folilows: Assoon as the squaller awakes, set the child up, propped by pillows, if 1 cannot sit alone, and smear 1ts fingers with thick molasses. Then put halfa jdozen feathers into its hands, and the j young one will sit and pick the feathers from one hand into the other, until it As soon as it awakes, more place he drops asleep. ‘ molasses and more feathers, and in of nerve-astounding vells, there wit silence and enjoyinent unspeakable. Aw Interesting Letrrer.-—The Na-. ed letter written by Gencral Wintficid Scott, then a Captain in the Army, during a sojurn at his home in Petersburg. Va., on the 18th of June, 1811, just one) The year before the declaration of war. letter is not only interesting, but the con-. cluding sentence makes it remarkable : Peterspurc, June, 1811. I believe we have very little village news to give you, nor dol know what) would please you in that way. Of myself/—that personage who fills so tional Intelligencer publishes the subjoin. own imacilarge a space in every man’s nation, and so small a one in the imagin-. ation of every other-—I can say but little; perhaps less would please you more.—} Since my return to Virginia my time has passed in easy transitions from pleasure . to study, from study to pleasure; in my gayety forgetting the student, in the student forgetting my gayety. I have generally been in the office of my fricnd, Mr. Leigh, though not unmindful of the studies connected with my present profession; but you will easily conceive my military ardor has suffered abatement.— cumstances will permit, to throw the feather out of my cap and resume it in my hand. Yet, should war come at last, my enthusiasm would be rekindled; and then, who knows but that I may yet write jmy history with my sword ! Yours truly, Winrretp Scort. ee How a man cor Trustep.—‘Sir, I wan’t you to trust me for a barrel of flour.’ Knowing the customer, the merchant remarked, ‘I cannot trust you.’ ‘You shall have your pay ina week! from to-day, and no mistake. ‘If I don’t pay you, you may call me a liar.’ ‘If you will certainly pay me in a week you may have the flour.’ . ‘I certainly will.’ The flour was rolled out and carted away. called for his pay. la few days,’ said the debtor. ‘But you remember your promise.’ ‘I know it; but I can’t always fulfil my promises.’ ‘But you said I might call you a liar if you didn’t pay.’ *W ell—eall me a liar, then—I have no particular objection to it.’ The merchant waked off, and has been extremely careful ever since whom he trusted. There are men who have a peculiar faculty to put off bills from week to week, and year to year; trifling bills too, which they might contrive te pay. But they care nothing about an honest debt, and Oo es ee es Indeed, it is my design, as soon as cir-. The week came round. The merchant . . ‘Lam short to-day—I will pay you in. WHOLE NO. 260. Ixporrance ov Fonrst Trees.—Tke . following is an extract froma paper read ‘by Dr. Hawks, before the Geographical . Society of New York : . (Civilization uses a vast amount of wood, although for many purposes it is being ‘fast superceded but zt ts not the necessary ‘use of wood that (3s sweeping away the forests of the United States, s9 much as \its wanton destruction. We should lock ito the consequeuces of this. Palestine, once well-wooded end cultivated hke a garden, is now a decert—the haunt of Be. douins ; Greece, in her palmy days the land of laurel forest, is nowa desolate waste; Persia and Babylon, in the cradles of civilization, are now eovered beneath the sand of deserts produced by the eradication of their forests. It is comparatively easy to eradicate the forest of the North, as they are of a gregarious order— jone class succeeding another; but the ; tropical forests, composed of inuumeraible varictics, growing together in the . most demacratic union and equality, are }never eradicated. Even in Hindostaa all its many millions of populstion have never [been able to conquer the pheenix-life of jits tropical vegetation. Forests act as regulators, preserving snow and rain from ;melting and evaporation, and producing . a regularity in the flow of the rivers drain‘ing them. When they disappear, thunder storms become less frequent and heay‘ler, the snow melts in the first warm days of spring, causing freshets, and in tue fall . the rivers dry up and cease to be navigable. These freshets and Croughts also . produce the molaria which is the scourge ‘of Western bottom lands. Forests, al. though they are first an obstacle to civilization, soon become necessary to its continuance. Our rivers, not having their sources above the snow line, are depen dent on forests for their supply of ,water, . and it is essential to the future prosneri; ty of the country that they should be preserved. i ne yea. On no occasion, says a Missomi . paper do people seem more prone to ¢dom'mit blunders than at a wedding. The . . following occurred in that State: ‘In the midst of a crowd of witnesses, the clergymen had just completed that interesting e2remony which binds in the silver bands of wedlock two willing hearts, and . stretched forth his hands to iiplore the . blessings of heaven upon the union. At this point, the groomsiman, sceing the open jhands reached out, supposed it was the signal for him to surrender the wedding fee, which was burning in his pocket. Accordingly, just 1s the clergyman hed closed his eyes in prayer, he felt the pressure . of two sweaty half dollars upor his open palms. The good man hesiteted a moment, appalled at the ludicrousness of his . situation, but cooliy deposited the monev in his pocket and proceeded with hi: delive like heroes on the purses of others.— . votions. Such men should be avoided. An honest poor man feels his obligations to others, oa e685 A Rochester editor had the hes and is seldom if ever tormented, by hayjofreasons for kicking a cuack nostrum gaa ing a bill thrust in his face. Creditors . know he will pay when he is able, and . feel perfectly easy. > ye. Before an election in Pennsylvania, a few years since, Hans, who was a Locofoeo, went to see his father-in-law, who! j}was a strong Whig. ‘How te do, Hans ?’} lsaid the old man. ‘How te to, fader ??— ‘How you coing to fote dis fall, Hans ?’ ‘Oh, mit te locos, of course, fader.? ‘Vat! . you coing to fote dat locos dicket?? ‘Yes! fader, you know I’s a loco, and I must} ifote de locos dicket.? ‘Now, Hans, I'll) iteli you what [ll do mit you—you no ifote for te locos, and I no vote for te vigs, ‘and den you sce—don*t you, Hans /’— ‘Very well, fader.? ‘Vill you do it Hans?’ ᠀夀攀猀Ⰰ fader.? After the election Hans} lwent again to visit his father-in law. ‘How . jte to, Hans 7? said the old man. ‘Tow ite to, fader ?? ‘Vell, Hans, did you go to} ite boll?? ‘Yes, fader, [ had to do it; . ldey cot around me, and wouldn’t let me . off, fader.? ‘O, you rascal, you do not as . you say, Han!’ ‘and in his confusion rather meekly asked, . Did you go to te bolls, fader ?? “To be lsure, Han.” ‘And did you fote, fader 2 es be sure I did,’ replied the old Dutch . man, in tones of carnest Pam you suppose I know petter dan to + drust a tam loco ?? Then i Tre Mittrary Srrenecru or Russa. . The last computation of the Russia, ace) 7 ‘ding to Russian sources, is as follows: 1.) Army of Tavride, 120,000 men inthe Crimea, and 20,900 men garrison Sebac-. ‘topol. 2. Black Sea Army, 40,000 (Od>s. Isa and around Odessa, ) garrisons of WKin. bourn and Orzakoff. 3. Army of the . . Danube, 40,000 men, including the garri. lsons of Reni and Ismali. 4. Army of Po-. land, 120,000 men. 5. Baltic Army, 60,-. 000 men. 6. Great Reserve Army, 36 bad 1900 men. That is to say, 490,000 men, exclusive of the Asiatic armies in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces, or the Oxus and Jaxatres, in Kamtschatka, and on the mouths of the Armour, which amount ‘together to 120,000 men more. This ‘brings the Russian army up to 60,000 men, and seems scarcaly to be exaggeraited. —-y angela igi a . Bee A young wife remonsteated with her husband, a dissipated spendthrift, on ‘his conduct. ‘My love,” said he, “I jam only like the ‘Prodigal Son; I shall . reform by and by.” “And I will be like she replied, “for ‘the Prodigal Son, too,” F : vi I will arise and go to my father,” and off jshe went. ‘Hans was discovered, . ' pedlar out of his sanctum. The fellow, with the characteristic impudence of all who ask fur newspaper puffs, desircd the editor to try a box of his itch ointment, it being an infailible cure, and if found to janswer the description, then to certify to its merits in the columns of his paper. if —“—s2 oe Non-Coxpvuctor.—* Whiskey drinking was never known to conduct wealth into a man’s pocket, happiness to his famjily,or respectabiliiy to his character ; therefore, whiskey must be a non-eonduc' tor. PP) No such thing! Whiskey is a conduetor ; it will conduct one to jail, conduct him thence to the gallows, up the iadder, thence to Potter’s field; not only that, hut it will strengtnen the body-snatcher’s courage to conduct the pauper’s carcass to the dissecting room. Whe says whiskey i don’t conduct. an Ss cel ll lipase na pen. Each of the ten inch shells thrown by the Allied forces at Sevastopol eosts about $125, and the expense of the mainterancc of each man in the Engtish army 1s averaged at. about $5000, = acces uit Anotuer Murver—The Union Democrat . says that a man named Elias Vreeland, a quiet, _Inolensive personage, was shot and instantly {killed by a number of Chilenes, at Coultergville, Mariposa county, on Saturday night lact, as he was leaving a fandango house. Some twenty shots were fired athim. Mr. V. was formerly from New York, > A. Acetpesxt.—The Aubura Whig learns thet a bank ou the Jamison claim, at Iowa Fill caved in on Thursday last, injuring two persons badly, one of whom, Mr. Owens, had his leg broken. nie Bex* The chronometer to be prescated to Captain Duncan N. Ingraham, United States -Navy, from several thousands of the working classes of England, as the result of a penny subscription, in token of admiration asd an. proval of his course in the memorable case of ota Kosza, has been received at Chares on, S@F There arc already five Inrge and very goo’ looking weekly newspapers in Kansas : The Herald, publi ed at Leaveaworth; the Pionser, at \ickapoo; the Herald .f Freedom, Kans.s; Tribune, and Kansas Free State, at Lawrence. Another is soon to be started at Atchison. ty On February 8th, the Directors of the Bank of Ergland notified their employees that they would receive a bonus of ten per cent. on their salaries, in consequence of the present high price of provisious. -