December 15, 1853 (4 pages)

f a oe diel ap penge RRE e ty : For. one year “in ee ee » $7,00 For six-montits,. .6.. YESS Eee , 4,00For three mnths,» tec. oc ics ed ee oe . 2,00 * ~& SpnplelOMns,.8 iT. eos Fs. « os oe oop . 25 ets THE TELEGRAPH, 4 WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN GRASS VALLEY. JWING OLIVER, . PUBLISHER AND EDITOR. Main Street, opposite the head of Chogh Street. TERMS: Ray Advertisements ab reasonable rate Vs PEL RORAP EL Sab. Printing. Establis fain St., Grass Valley. Having recently received a large and well selected assotment of “SORBBING MATERIAL, . We are ‘now prepared to execute “ALL KINDS OF PRINTING In a Superior Manner, Miners, or Companies of Copartnership, wishing . Certificates of Stk . can be accommodated at short notice. We shall keep constantly on hand Notes of Exchange, Bill Heads, Deedsy * Notes, Checks. Also at short notice we are prepared to strike off CIRCULARS, LABELS, POSTERS, And in short, all kinds of Job work will be quickly, done, neatly done, and well done, and on the : MOST REASONABLE TERMS. a THE AMERICAN BANNER. a “°C may that spotless fla: 10 Sarled Wave high in triumph o'er the world, And may each freejman’s chorus be, My native land and !‘berty.’’ . Who among us can read (he filew Sig ac knowledgment and compliment to 4hé Amer. ican people, from the London «Advertiser without feeling the hot blood nysk * of a national pride flashing throggi nerve : ‘ “ An American corve‘ie, the St. Lenis tered harbor or lay in it. Informeor the facts, the captain boarded the Austrian brig. . He insisted on seeing the prisoner, would . take no refusal, and would listen to no subterfuges. M. Koszta was produced. Bleeding and stunned. he could give no explana. tion, and maintain no claim. The Amarican . commander was compeiled to leave him till accurate information was procurable. But he warned the Austrian not to weigh his an. chor, and put himself in a position to prevent a flight. The passport was found, and the ” a} iS se hrou . cumja ‘ing business. Law Blanks, . to.relish it. #. no man better in the shop. ~ . ness, he certainly must do twice as muchas . his:partner ; and his vacations ar not half as HAND-BILLS [ long. To believe what the it Se say. you , ——— HE IS KILLING HIMSELF WITH WORK. Men’s wive’s differ in most things. Some of them prefer silks. aad some baréges. Some like operas, and a few prefer to stay at home. Nature has provided that in their tastes and dispositiuns there should be a healthful variety. But in one matter they are alike, or nearly all ;—there possibly may be exceptions, ‘We are not much acquainted in the south-ws @and there is a strip of land cirPetapsco Bay, of which we are not cu . .t to speak from experience. But . generally, all wives agree in thinking that ‘their dear husbands are killing themselves with work&—good. wives we mean, of course. If there is such a thing in all creation as a lazy, good-for-nothing wonian, sh will 4 out: her helpmeet.asa lary va t~too idle for anything but te eat th: that busiersbands Have earned for bin a smar# woman is full @f cha*ity huspand is working himself to Gea © ery day, He has not aminyic so spare f for hi family ; he grows haggard with the perpetual . excitemeac of his business. His best days he shuts himself up from the bright face of nature, and in his shop or his office pores perpetually ove his work. He dreams of it nights, He .alks of it days. He falls asleep when he goes .to church—poor man, he is so tired !—and dozes in the company of the most Mteresting ladies, unless the circle of the con+ versation is made to embragg his all-engrossTrue, he does go out with her evenings, occasionally ; but he does not seem He does not weigh as much as he did a year ago. For the work he does, he ought to be better paid—albeit the boss pays If he is in busiwould tremble for the race, les#¥ts constitution should be broken in its youth, and the deerepitude of age creep in upon the terribly hard-worker,; before his sun has attained the meridian. But there is a respectable number of middle-aged men yet snryivine and b--} yer at thelfsvork. They gosm apperii were i ye as weli enongh to stave ahead. when they were young; but nowthe-are’ eld, ‘they should favor themselves. Working all day, and part of the night. is well encugh for-people in their prime ; but old folks cannot do it with impunity. Ah! their constitution was ruined in their youth. The old man smiles as it is said.—he rather likes to remember how he used to ruin his constitution, and thinks if he were young again. he would turn to a better account a good many hours that were wasted. We repeat it. wives are all alike; their husbands all labor too hard ; they are killing themselves with over-work. A REMARKABLE CIrcUMSTANCE.—We saw in captain of the St. Louis re-demanded M. market on Saturday morning. a mulatto man Koszta. He armed his boats, cleared his} named William Thompson. who for the past flecks, and showed he could act as well as . ten years has been gradually turning white, talk. M. Koszta was set free, and is now in. the charge of the Consul of France, and is saved from the gibbet of the friend of Aberdeen and “ young hope of his country.” We have something to say and something to ask. We say, what all see, that America can, and that she wit protect her citizens and guests. She has no standing army—she has scarce a navy, but her flag is upon every sea and the name of “AMERICAN,” and the passport of America, isa warrant from affront and outrage. Unarmed, unharmed, she takes her place among the nations, and is treated with respect and awe. We saw this in the Hungarian war, when Daniel Webster made the Austrian Government abjectly eat the leek. We see if again now. The reason is plain. America represents that principle of liberty that makes every people her ally.— American statesmen speak and write in the interest of a country, nota class. The act of this American captain is the theme of England, of Germany, and France. Their journals express what the people feel. Even the Charavari jests no more, but shouts ‘Long live America!’ The refugees, the Pariahs, the maligned of Europe, are'living men once more. America claims these waifs of liberty. and offers them the safeguard of her flag. The hulks of Austria, motionless beneath the pointed cannopys: of America, render up their victim. The noble conduct of her marine at Smyrna isa great fact in history. The news of the demand of M. Koszta by her Minister at Constantinople, sets the seal upon her magnanimity. March forward, Young America, in humaznity’s cause, and shout the rally shout ‘ Go-a-head!’ which makes every heart beat high !” TE “ Daddy, I want to ask youa question.” “Well, what is it, my son?” “Why is neighbor Smith’s liquor shop like a counterfeit dollar?” “I can’t tell,my son.” “Because you can’t pass it,” said the boy. The old man was carried off on a shutter. and is now of as fair a color all over his body, with the exception of his face and hands, as white persons who stay in-doors a great deal. His hands are nearly as black as “ull blooded negro’s, probably because he works in the sun and wind a great deal, but hee is of the color of an ordinary mulatto’s. The process of blanching is now eradually spreading to his face and hands. and there is no doubt that in a couple of years he will be entirely white. The skin is of a heal. . thy color, and the old gentleman, who is seventy-eight years of age, enjoys as good health as could be expected of one of his years. He is industrious, cheerful, and communicates the singular circumstances of his physiology with freedom and politeness. “He has quite a spirit of indevel@™™M\ce about him, and says he has rejected ammffer of $3,000 which a showman made hit for an engagement of two years, to travel and exhibit hims@f io the public ; also geveral other similar offers. He says that he 1s able to make a living, and wil! not resort to such a mode of making money. His parents were mulattos, and Vas born in Pennsylvania. °He,lives « hy miles from west of the city, where ie farm which furnishes produce to su, market.—Indianapolis Jour. on Faxny Fe@y.—The Transcript says that the newspaper articles signed “Fanny J'ern,’ are written by Mrs. Farrington, formerly Mrs. Eldridge of ton. The lady is the daughter of thle sc able Nathaniel . Willis, Esq., for many ye®ts editor and publisher of the Boston Recorder. It will be seen that ‘-Fanny” belongs to a literary family. == An inquisitive lawyer, famous for exmining witnesses, had a nice old gentleman, and witty withal, upon the stand questioning him upon his ability to loan mouey and give credit, resorting to all sorts of interrogatories to draw from him a statement of the amount of shis property, and in what it consisted—in fact how much he was wo%h. The old gentleman considering the questién rather impudent, for he was quite w thy, answered that he had a wife—he always called her dear—a boy and girl he would not sell for any money—a mortgage on two cows down east—a nice litter of pigs and the mother of the same—a barrel of cider that never saw daylight, and “a puppy that knows more than you do, for which I have been offered twenty-five dollars.”— Boston Post. ‘ter, London. o i SLEEP on—~sleéy on—above thy The winds their Sabbath keep, The wave is round thee—and ths Heaves with the heaving deep ; O’er thee, mild eve her beauty fii And there the white gull lifts her ¥i And the blue'halcyon loves to lay Her plumage in the holy wave. ‘ +t. Sleep on—n6 willow oer thee ben With melancholy’air, <* No violet springs, némdewy rose Its soul of love lays bare ; But there the sea-flower bright anf young Is sweetly o’er thy slumber flung And, like a weeping mourner fair, © The pale flag hangs itgtresses the oe & had " ~ < _gt ovean’s Corai-w: a i eaieathy bright urn—thy requiem mt ¥, e music of its waves < 7 he purple gems forever burn ~* fadeless beauty round thy urn: And, pure and deep as infant love, The blue sea rolls its waves above 14 * Sleep on—sleep on—the fearful writh O€ mingling cloud and deep, May leave its wild and stormy track Above thy place of sleep, But when the wave has sunk to rest, As now ’twill murmur o’er thy breist ; And the bright victims of the sea Perchance will make their home with thee, , Sleep on—thy’corse is far away, But love bewails thee yet,--: For thee the heart-wrung sigh is breathed, And lovely eyes are wet :--: And she, fhe young and beauteous tride, Her thoughts are hovering by thy sile ; As oft she turns to. view with tears ‘&° The Eden of* départed years. : LITERARY RELICS. The house in which Milton resided between the years 1851 and 1659, existed only a few years back, at No. 18 York street, WestminsJeremy Bentham, to whom the house belonged, put up a tablet on the back wall (believed to have been the front in the por*’s time) inscribed, ‘‘ Sacred to Milton, ‘e of poets.”” This habitation, wherein of “ Paradise Lost’? was undoubtedly »sed, was at the time we allude to, rented to two or three poor families, the ground { 100} _ picturesque then, than at present. font the B&ws, nore active than they nty . : years aro, anf eprightly as young men about . their business; Their wives enjoy their worhands” imprudent exertions, reprevithom . that they will Cle young met _Anevu Den theiy mien get old, thes ee ‘ Pe yqQzysp they sit eSntinuc their excespe. laho y wEt-confident they wil! not live out half irday:, if they Keep on ai such ar’te,. It ing converted into a chandler’s shop. rom the parlor windows the poet could have commanded a view of St. James’ Park, more At Chala Buekinghamshire, is another residence of Milton’s, in which he composed “ Paradise Regained.’ Though the pear tree, said tobe plasted by Cromwell, in Sidney College, Canbridge, was cat down in March, 1833, the . mulberry tree planted by his illustrious Latin secretary, Mi'ton. has more fortunate, Still ‘flourishing-in” the pléaddnt=parder sf Christ’s College, where it was planted by if youthful student. Some years ago it suffered considerably froma violent gale of wind, which sadly shattered it; but its aged boughs were carefully propped up. and its trunk protected bya partial covering of lead. With these aids it promised to look green for many years to come. Its fertility appeared to have undergone no change ; in the summer it was laden with fruit, of which more than two bushels of the finest flavor were gathered in the season of 1835. The smallest fragments from this tree were religiously cherished by the poet’s numerous admirers. In August, 1790, when Milton’s coffin was discovered brried under the desk in the channel’of th® ehurch of St. Giles, Cripplegate, some friends of the over. seer contrived, at night time, to possess them. ti selves of the hair and some of the teeth o! the immortal poet. 3 Inthe grounds of Abbington AbF thamptonshire, stands Gavrick’s nv ae, with his inscription upon copper . to one of the limbs: “ “his tree was., ed by David Garrick, Esq., at the request «. Ana Thursby, as a growing testiniony of theb friendship. 1779.” Henry Kirke White’s favorite tree, wi on he had cut “ H. K. W.,1805,”’ stcod on the sands at Whitton, in Northumberland, till it was cut down by the woodman’s axe ; but in veneration for the poet’s memory, tke portion bearing his initials was carefully preserved in an elegant gilt frame. Some years ago, a curious arm-chair, which had belonged to Gay, the poet, was sold at public auction, at Barnstable, his native place. It contained a drawer underneath cle seat, at the extremity of which was a ‘smaller drawer, connected by a rod in front, bv which it was drawn out. Benjamin Franklin’s “fine crab tree walkng-stick, with a gold head, curiously wrought in the form of a cap of liberty,’’ we all know, was bequeathed, in a codicil to his will, “to the friend of mankind, General Washington;” adding, “‘ that if it had been a sceptre, he has merited it, and would become it.’? General Washington has a fame beyond the price of sceptres. Pope’s house at Binfield has been pulled down, but the poet’s parlor still exists as a part of the present mansion, erected on the spot. A patch cf the great forest near Binfield has been honorably preserved, under the name of Pope’s Wood. His house at Twickenham is gone, the garden is bare, but the celebrated grotto remains, stript, however, of se all that gave it picturesqueness, grace and . beauty. Cowper’s house, at Olney is still standing, in the same ruinous state se humorous!y described by the poet; his parlor ir vied as a girl’s school. The summer } he garden, in which he used to sit” is verses, also remains. its walls e¢ ch visitor’s names. His residence i ¥» s¢ighboring village of Weston has been much al. 2& tered, but is still beautiful, with a profusion of roses in it. : Goldsmith’s cottage at Kilhurn, wherein he wrote the Vicar of Wakefield and the Deserted Village, was taken down a few years ago, to make way for new buildings. . ’, DECEMBER 15, 1853 ~ ee > rk ; ; a RiN . Wrong in principle, to enact by statute ; from all stimulatitig drinks, is simply nonsenscrupulous men. Here you have it in a nut$$ —_— ——— ras ar For the Telegraph. ; wipe out. thevbloédy statutes from our civil THE CALIFORNIA EXPRESS ON THE} escuteheons which give to men the legal right ‘ MAINE LAW. *. ‘to murder, and rob their neighbors. “They The California Express of Nov.23d, condesign’ to hurl down the hoary monster Alcotains a leader which may be thought a demolhol from his throne of sknlls, where he has ——s of the Maine, Law hambug. The . feasted and gloated for centuries on human strong points in that powerful leader are Bodies and souls ; and to bury him, face downthese: Ist, “The Maine Law is one of the . wards, and so deep that he will never scratch greatest humbugs of the age ;”’ 2d, Its agita. 5444 again. tion is pernicious in the extreme, worthy the TUnserupulons! -Certainly they are. They censure of every upright citizen. ; 3d, Tt has,. classify the rum traffic as a system with’ theft, received a terrible quietus in Ohio—is retrohighway robbery and, murder—more ruinous grading in public opinion, and the Express . in its vesults than.all these combined, and does not regret.it. Why? “Because, 1st, It's: Sah ly, without their consciences hurti en must be grave, temperate, ‘abstaining : sical—smacks of pantomime ; 2d, It “causes men to be hypocrits—to wear long cold wa-. ter faces abroad, and guzzle at home;’’ 3d, It is gotten up for effect by designing, unvery unscrupulous. 4 Lastly, itis slain with a guiefus—dead and neral sermon without a tear. * Alas, alas! for it was a promising child. But hold on—it is shell, but not in regular order. What do you . jot dead yet—neithgr shrouded, coffinéd nor think of it? We are nonplussed. We have been trying to load up with a little Maine Law thunder, being something of a temperance man, and designed visiting Marysville, . in connection with other places, to blaze away in the name of God and humanity. in favor of such a law for rum-drenched California. But as “its agitation is perniciousin the extreme, and worthy the censure of every upright citizen,” we will have to stay at home, and hold our peace. Mr. Telegraph, we will comment a moment or two on that powerful leader. — Ist, It is wrong in “principle.” Beg your pardon, Mr. Express. You don’t quite hit the principle. It is not the principle of the Maine Law to make men grave, temperate and to abstain from stimulating drinks. There is not a word in any prohibitory law of any State where it is adopted, about men being grave, or what they shall or shall nof drink. The fundamental principle of the prohibitory measure is this: that no members of society have the right to traffic indiscriminately in a . ” deadly virus, which. directly «destroys more lives—causes more human suffeting and misery—induces more crime, and* demoralizes and inebriates humanity gener all ys: any and all other agenc cereménts. Truth crushed to, earth will rise again; The eternal years of God are hers,; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. _ * The Maine Law is not. dead—neither ‘4s it sick. True, over in Ohio, the friends of pre hibition have been defeated this year. ‘There northern Ohio to defeat them, we fear, for some years to comé. But the’end is not: yet. The cause of humanity will prevail there. It ‘. is going on gloriously in ether States. The Express don’t read temperance néwws, or he California, by and by ; then the way you will have confusion in the rum camp will bea caution. Come on, we say—leap the Pacific . at a gingle stride,and cut and slash right and left. Hold! hold! the agitation of it is persure of every ‘upright citizen,*. ° More 4non. * 5 yo Fe , it : : For > # % a the Grass. Valley Télégraph: ¥S if et teviGuntains, are no more. They waltzed that they shall not be allowed to ifflict such evils on society for the sake of gain, any more than they shall be allowed torob, counterfeit or murder. In other words, that men shall not be allowed to murder and rob their neighbors, through the instrumentality of rum, any more than with arsenic, revolvers or bowie knives. That men shall be temperate, sober and decent, is the object to be secured by the law, just as honesty is of the law of theft, or chastity of the law of adulthey whispered with the stars, through ‘an hundred summers ; an hundred winters found their motto stifl “ United wé: stand.” But alas! the iron hand of necessity. has consigned them to the decapitating: axe—aye, and hanged them too. Isaw eagh of their proud necks writhing in the meshes’ of a Villainous rope. They nodded farewell.to,their brothers on the hillsides; they seemed to cast a furtive glance at the distant Nevadas; then trembling over the fearful plunge, they came sepulchred. And if,it'is, it will burst ins” are distilleries and rum-sheps? enough. in vould have learned that the temperance pi-"” ant, after going “away down east,” in thes =~ State of Maine, has received a mighty sword 4’ . —it cuts both .ways, and he is.wieldifig itmost scientifically. He will be over here innicious imthe extreme, and'is worthy the cen. tery. Will the Express take this principle upon his plate—chew it well—and let it digest. that he may discover whether it lacks swaying, surging, crashing down. Aswe see them fall, and hear the shout of the thought. know what the principle of the law was, he Shy 1 . , and “nonsensical” written upon its forehead, less crowd, imagination isirresistably hurried back to the days of their youthful prime— when this beautiful valley was “hushed as night.” The tread of no adventurous pale face had resounded through these sylvan colonades. The dusky savage came beneath their shadow and passed silently on his way. Heaven’s finger-posts had nothing to fear from him. Anon the white man comes wearily from the way of the plains. He is burdened with but his rifle, his compass and his knapsack. No fear from him! He measures the arrowy shafts with his eye, and counts their value in masts and spars at his far home on the Atlantic shore, then sighs as he looks upon the barren hillsides and says in his heart, “here solitude must everreign.”” Ages have passed, and the quick ear of echo is startled by a shout. It is the pale face! Alone? No! his name is legion! The lust for gold burnsinhiseye. He bears the pick, the shovel, and (alas for the * pillars that prop heaven’s arches’’) also the shining, murderous axe. With the passing breeze the forhis cn id tench wa OR, Solon est kings shook their dark plumed heads he sponse aC ae : . mournfully together, and looked down to thou hast come agzin from the shades . earth for quiet resting places. A few still 3d, “It is estten up for effect, by design-. a 5 ae ae ‘ “ wietsie. it is lingered, and a city sprung up in their shade. ing, unscrupulous men.’’ Certainly, i gotten up for effect. It is designed to “dry Gay pms pranced beneath them ; brown up” every rum hole and close every public — = mM their 7 and the evergateway to hell throughout America, to emppa oe Sat rate rae af tasted e, ty jails and penitentiaries of their convicts, Scene te Wate heme ers See cneenere asylums and alms-houses of their inmates, to of their doom. But in an Tro they fell. [ret half the crimes and criminal lit. . The crowd shouted “Amen.” Yet a tear . ee es courts, to lighten the peotrembled in the eye of the “oldest inhabitant.’ 17 10n8 Ir ’ 5 = : e . ate of one-third their burden of taxes, to . —s respect, Cayore. ‘clothe the widow, put bread in the orphan’s mouth, and to secure fire to warm them both, and to improve the public morals a thousand . cent ! Eifects! Certainly it will produce effects that will astonish the natives, and the Espress too, if it lives long enough. “ By designing, unscrupulous men.’’ Certainly they are designing; they design to . nutriment of sense? Now if he did not ought, before denouncing it. If he did, he ioes it great injustice, by giving its caricature, clothed ina puritanical, straight jacket, that the masses may jeer at it. But after all, such efforts at straining at a gnat and swallowing a saw mii/, will only split the throats of those who make them. 2d, “It causes men to be hypocrits.”’ That were a grievous fault. Already too many have been apt scholars in that science. But may not that objection be urged against every law preventing vice? Are there not men who evade every law, and yet appear honest and law abiding? Are there not thieves who move about in the garb of honesty ?—murderers whose guilt is covered with the mask of hypocrisy, and adulterers who throw over their pollution the robe of chastity? What then? Had we better repeal laws, believing that open and public vices are less injurious in their tendencies than concealed ones? So Js Among other resolutions passed at Toledo, Ohio. by a German mass meeting, met to nominate a State and county ticket, and which resolutions are published in the Toledo Republican. is the following curious piece of composition, which being read, means, Resolved, That at the ensuing election for State and county officers, we will oppose any candidate who is in favor of a temperance law. claim that. it/ought to feel the honest blows them at all.” Ah, yes, Mr. Express, they a buried; and the Express has preached its fuDok Dy The magnificent obelisks which gave.charaetet and erage tthe a aemaitol sity “et with the breeze, they flirted With the clouds, 4 a 7 s ‘ y . . : + ia ar Srey noe sae 4 i ee 4 i i + el > ' : : x Se x > ’ * ae Spt = SUEY 2a ay

f a oe diel ap penge RRE e ty : For. one year “in ee ee » $7,00 For six-montits,.. .6... YESS Eee , 4,00For three mnths,» tec. oc ics ed ee oe . 2,00 * ~& SpnplelOMns,.8 iT. eos Fs. « os oe oop . 25 ets THE TELEGRAPH, 4 WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN GRASS VALLEY. JWING OLIVER, . PUBLISHER AND EDITOR. Main Street, opposite the head of Chogh Street. TERMS: Ray Advertisements ab reasonable rate Vs PEL RORAP EL Sab. Printing. Establis fain St., Grass Valley. Having recently received a large and well selected assotment of “SORBBING MATERIAL, . We are ‘now prepared to execute “ALL KINDS OF PRINTING In a Superior Manner, Miners, or Companies of Copartnership, wishing . Certificates of Stk . can be accommodated at short notice. We shall keep constantly on hand Notes of Exchange, Bill Heads, Deedsy * Notes, Checks. Also at short notice we are prepared to strike off CIRCULARS, LABELS, POSTERS, And in short, all kinds of Job work will be quickly, done, neatly done, and well done, and on the : MOST REASONABLE TERMS. a THE AMERICAN BANNER. a “°C may that spotless fla: 10 Sarled Wave high in triumph o'er the world, And may each freejman’s chorus be, My native land and !‘berty.’’ . Who among us can read (he filew Sig ac knowledgment and compliment to 4hé Amer. ican people, from the London «Advertiser without feeling the hot blood nysk * of a national pride flashing throggi nerve : ‘ “ An American corve‘ie, the St. Lenis tered harbor or lay in it. Informeor the facts, the captain boarded the Austrian brig. . He insisted on seeing the prisoner, would . take no refusal, and would listen to no subterfuges. M. Koszta was produced. Bleeding and stunned. he could give no explana. tion, and maintain no claim. The Amarican . commander was compeiled to leave him till accurate information was procurable. But he warned the Austrian not to weigh his an. chor, and put himself in a position to prevent a flight. The passport was found, and the ” a} iS se hrou . cumja ‘ing business. Law Blanks, . to.relish it. #. no man better in the shop. ~ . ness, he certainly must do twice as muchas . his:partner ; and his vacations ar not half as HAND-BILLS [ long. To believe what the it Se say. you , ——— HE IS KILLING HIMSELF WITH WORK. Men’s wive’s differ in most things. Some of them prefer silks. aad some baréges. Some like operas, and a few prefer to stay at home. Nature has provided that in their tastes and dispositiuns there should be a healthful variety. But in one matter they are alike, or nearly all ;—there possibly may be exceptions, ‘We are not much acquainted in the south-ws @and there is a strip of land cirPetapsco Bay, of which we are not cu . .t to speak from experience. But . generally, all wives agree in thinking that ‘their dear husbands are killing themselves with work&—good. wives we mean, of course. If there is such a thing in all creation as a lazy, good-for-nothing wonian, sh will 4 out: her helpmeet.asa lary va t~too idle for anything but te eat th: that busiersbands Have earned for bin a smar# woman is full @f cha*ity huspand is working himself to Gea © ery day, He has not aminyic so spare f for hi family ; he grows haggard with the perpetual . excitemeac of his business. His best days he shuts himself up from the bright face of nature, and in his shop or his office pores perpetually ove his work. He dreams of it nights, He .alks of it days. He falls asleep when he goes .to church—poor man, he is so tired !—and dozes in the company of the most Mteresting ladies, unless the circle of the con+ versation is made to embragg his all-engrossTrue, he does go out with her evenings, occasionally ; but he does not seem He does not weigh as much as he did a year ago. For the work he does, he ought to be better paid—albeit the boss pays If he is in busiwould tremble for the race, les#¥ts constitution should be broken in its youth, and the deerepitude of age creep in upon the terribly hard-worker,; before his sun has attained the meridian. But there is a respectable number of middle-aged men yet snryivine and b--} yer at thelfsvork. They gosm apperii were i ye as weli enongh to stave ahead. when they were young; but nowthe-are’ eld, ‘they should favor themselves. Working all day, and part of the night. is well encugh for-people in their prime ; but old folks cannot do it with impunity. Ah! their constitution was ruined in their youth. The old man smiles as it is said.—he rather likes to remember how he used to ruin his constitution, and thinks if he were young again. he would turn to a better account a good many hours that were wasted. We repeat it. wives are all alike; their husbands all labor too hard ; they are killing themselves with over-work. A REMARKABLE CIrcUMSTANCE.—We saw in captain of the St. Louis re-demanded M. market on Saturday morning. a mulatto man Koszta. He armed his boats, cleared his} named William Thompson. who for the past flecks, and showed he could act as well as . ten years has been gradually turning white, talk. M. Koszta was set free, and is now in. the charge of the Consul of France, and is saved from the gibbet of the friend of Aberdeen and “ young hope of his country.” We have something to say and something to ask. We say, what all see, that America can, and that she wit protect her citizens and guests. She has no standing army—she has scarce a navy, but her flag is upon every sea and the name of “AMERICAN,” and the passport of America, isa warrant from affront and outrage. Unarmed, unharmed, she takes her place among the nations, and is treated with respect and awe. We saw this in the Hungarian war, when Daniel Webster made the Austrian Government abjectly eat the leek. We see if again now. The reason is plain. America represents that principle of liberty that makes every people her ally.— American statesmen speak and write in the interest of a country, nota class. The act of this American captain is the theme of England, of Germany, and France. Their journals express what the people feel. Even the Charavari jests no more, but shouts ‘Long live America!’ The refugees, the Pariahs, the maligned of Europe, are'living men once more. America claims these waifs of liberty. and offers them the safeguard of her flag. The hulks of Austria, motionless beneath the pointed cannopys: of America, render up their victim. The noble conduct of her marine at Smyrna isa great fact in history. The news of the demand of M. Koszta by her Minister at Constantinople, sets the seal upon her magnanimity. March forward, Young America, in humaznity’s cause, and shout the rally shout ‘ Go-a-head!’ which makes every heart beat high !” TE “ Daddy, I want to ask youa question.” “Well, what is it, my son?” “Why is neighbor Smith’s liquor shop like a counterfeit dollar?” “I can’t tell,my son.” “Because you can’t pass it,” said the boy. The old man was carried off on a shutter. and is now of as fair a color all over his body, with the exception of his face and hands, as white persons who stay in-doors a great deal. His hands are nearly as black as “ull blooded negro’s, probably because he works in the sun and wind a great deal, but hee is of the color of an ordinary mulatto’s. The process of blanching is now eradually spreading to his face and hands. and there is no doubt that in a couple of years he will be entirely white. The skin is of a heal. . thy color, and the old gentleman, who is seventy-eight years of age, enjoys as good health as could be expected of one of his years. He is industrious, cheerful, and communicates the singular circumstances of his physiology with freedom and politeness. “He has quite a spirit of indevel@™™M\ce about him, and says he has rejected ammffer of $3,000 which a showman made hit for an engagement of two years, to travel and exhibit hims@f io the public ; also geveral other similar offers. He says that he 1s able to make a living, and wil! not resort to such a mode of making money. His parents were mulattos, and Vas born in Pennsylvania. °He,lives « hy miles from west of the city, where ie farm which furnishes produce to su, market.—Indianapolis Jour. on Faxny Fe@y.—The Transcript says that the newspaper articles signed “Fanny J'ern,’ are written by Mrs. Farrington, formerly Mrs. Eldridge of ton. The lady is the daughter of thle sc able Nathaniel . Willis, Esq., for many ye®ts editor and publisher of the Boston Recorder. It will be seen that ‘-Fanny” belongs to a literary family. == An inquisitive lawyer, famous for exmining witnesses, had a nice old gentleman, and witty withal, upon the stand questioning him upon his ability to loan mouey and give credit, resorting to all sorts of interrogatories to draw from him a statement of the amount of shis property, and in what it consisted—in fact how much he was wo%h. The old gentleman considering the questién rather impudent, for he was quite w thy, answered that he had a wife—he always called her dear—a boy and girl he would not sell for any money—a mortgage on two cows down east—a nice litter of pigs and the mother of the same—a barrel of cider that never saw daylight, and “a puppy that knows more than you do, for which I have been offered twenty-five dollars.”— Boston Post. ‘ter, London. o i SLEEP on—~sleéy on—above thy The winds their Sabbath keep, The wave is round thee—and ths Heaves with the heaving deep ; O’er thee, mild eve her beauty fii And there the white gull lifts her ¥i And the blue'halcyon loves to lay Her plumage in the holy wave. ‘ +t. Sleep on—n6 willow oer thee ben With melancholy’air, <* No violet springs, némdewy rose Its soul of love lays bare ; But there the sea-flower bright anf young Is sweetly o’er thy slumber flung And, like a weeping mourner fair, © The pale flag hangs itgtresses the oe & had " ~ < _gt ovean’s Corai-w: a i eaieathy bright urn—thy requiem mt ¥, e music of its waves < 7 he purple gems forever burn ~* fadeless beauty round thy urn: And, pure and deep as infant love, The blue sea rolls its waves above 14 * Sleep on—sleep on—the fearful writh O€ mingling cloud and deep, May leave its wild and stormy track Above thy place of sleep, But when the wave has sunk to rest, As now ’twill murmur o’er thy breist ; And the bright victims of the sea Perchance will make their home with thee, , Sleep on—thy’corse is far away, But love bewails thee yet,--: For thee the heart-wrung sigh is breathed, And lovely eyes are wet :--: And she, fhe young and beauteous tride, Her thoughts are hovering by thy sile ; As oft she turns to. view with tears ‘&° The Eden of* départed years. : LITERARY RELICS. The house in which Milton resided between the years 1851 and 1659, existed only a few years back, at No. 18 York street, WestminsJeremy Bentham, to whom the house belonged, put up a tablet on the back wall (believed to have been the front in the por*’s time) inscribed, ‘‘ Sacred to Milton, ‘e of poets.”” This habitation, wherein of “ Paradise Lost’? was undoubtedly »sed, was at the time we allude to, rented to two or three poor families, the ground { 100} _ picturesque then, than at present. font the B&ws, nore active than they nty . : years aro, anf eprightly as young men about . their business; Their wives enjoy their worhands” imprudent exertions, reprevithom . that they will Cle young met _Anevu Den theiy mien get old, thes ee ‘ Pe yqQzysp they sit eSntinuc their excespe. laho y wEt-confident they wil! not live out half irday:, if they Keep on ai such ar’te,. It ing converted into a chandler’s shop. rom the parlor windows the poet could have commanded a view of St. James’ Park, more At Chala Buekinghamshire, is another residence of Milton’s, in which he composed “ Paradise

Regained.’ Though the pear tree, said tobe plasted by Cromwell, in Sidney College, Canbridge, was cat down in March, 1833, the . mulberry tree planted by his illustrious Latin secretary, Mi'ton. has more fortunate, Still ‘flourishing-in” the pléaddnt=parder sf Christ’s College, where it was planted by if youthful student. Some years ago it suffered considerably froma violent gale of wind, which sadly shattered it; but its aged boughs were carefully propped up. and its trunk protected bya partial covering of lead. With these aids it promised to look green for many years to come. Its fertility appeared to have undergone no change ; in the summer it was laden with fruit, of which more than two bushels of the finest flavor were gathered in the season of 1835. The smallest fragments from this tree were religiously cherished by the poet’s numerous admirers. In August, 1790, when Milton’s coffin was discovered brried under the desk in the channel’of th® ehurch of St. Giles, Cripplegate, some friends of the over. seer contrived, at night time, to possess them. ti selves of the hair and some of the teeth o! the immortal poet. 3 Inthe grounds of Abbington AbF thamptonshire, stands Gavrick’s nv ae, with his inscription upon copper . to one of the limbs: “ “his tree was., ed by David Garrick, Esq., at the request «. Ana Thursby, as a growing testiniony of theb friendship. 1779.” Henry Kirke White’s favorite tree, wi on he had cut “ H. K. W.,1805,”’ stcod on the sands at Whitton, in Northumberland, till it was cut down by the woodman’s axe ; but in veneration for the poet’s memory, tke portion bearing his initials was carefully preserved in an elegant gilt frame. Some years ago, a curious arm-chair, which had belonged to Gay, the poet, was sold at public auction, at Barnstable, his native place. It contained a drawer underneath cle seat, at the extremity of which was a ‘smaller drawer, connected by a rod in front, bv which it was drawn out. Benjamin Franklin’s “fine crab tree walkng-stick, with a gold head, curiously wrought in the form of a cap of liberty,’’ we all know, was bequeathed, in a codicil to his will, “to the friend of mankind, General Washington;” adding, “‘ that if it had been a sceptre, he has merited it, and would become it.’? General Washington has a fame beyond the price of sceptres. Pope’s house at Binfield has been pulled down, but the poet’s parlor still exists as a part of the present mansion, erected on the spot. A patch cf the great forest near Binfield has been honorably preserved, under the name of Pope’s Wood. His house at Twickenham is gone, the garden is bare, but the celebrated grotto remains, stript, however, of se all that gave it picturesqueness, grace and . beauty. Cowper’s house, at Olney is still standing, in the same ruinous state se humorous!y described by the poet; his parlor ir vied as a girl’s school. The summer } he garden, in which he used to sit” is verses, also remains. its walls e¢ ch visitor’s names. His residence i ¥» s¢ighboring village of Weston has been much al. 2& tered, but is still beautiful, with a profusion of roses in it. : Goldsmith’s cottage at Kilhurn, wherein he wrote the Vicar of Wakefield and the Deserted Village, was taken down a few years ago, to make way for new buildings. . ’, DECEMBER 15, 1853 ~ ee > rk ; ; a RiN . Wrong in principle, to enact by statute ; from all stimulatitig drinks, is simply nonsenscrupulous men. Here you have it in a nut$$ —_— ——— ras ar For the Telegraph. ; wipe out. thevbloédy statutes from our civil THE CALIFORNIA EXPRESS ON THE} escuteheons which give to men the legal right ‘ MAINE LAW. *. ‘to murder, and rob their neighbors. “They The California Express of Nov.23d, condesign’ to hurl down the hoary monster Alcotains a leader which may be thought a demolhol from his throne of sknlls, where he has ——s of the Maine, Law hambug. The . feasted and gloated for centuries on human strong points in that powerful leader are Bodies and souls ; and to bury him, face downthese: Ist, “The Maine Law is one of the . wards, and so deep that he will never scratch greatest humbugs of the age ;”’ 2d, Its agita. 5444 again. tion is pernicious in the extreme, worthy the TUnserupulons! -Certainly they are. They censure of every upright citizen. ; 3d, Tt has,. classify the rum traffic as a system with’ theft, received a terrible quietus in Ohio—is retrohighway robbery and, murder—more ruinous grading in public opinion, and the Express . in its vesults than.all these combined, and does not regret.it. Why? “Because, 1st, It's: Sah ly, without their consciences hurti en must be grave, temperate, ‘abstaining : sical—smacks of pantomime ; 2d, It “causes men to be hypocrits—to wear long cold wa-. ter faces abroad, and guzzle at home;’’ 3d, It is gotten up for effect by designing, unvery unscrupulous. 4 Lastly, itis slain with a guiefus—dead and neral sermon without a tear. * Alas, alas! for it was a promising child. But hold on—it is shell, but not in regular order. What do you . jot dead yet—neithgr shrouded, coffinéd nor think of it? We are nonplussed. We have been trying to load up with a little Maine Law thunder, being something of a temperance man, and designed visiting Marysville, . in connection with other places, to blaze away in the name of God and humanity. in favor of such a law for rum-drenched California. But as “its agitation is perniciousin the extreme, and worthy the censure of every upright citizen,” we will have to stay at home, and hold our peace. Mr. Telegraph, we will comment a moment or two on that powerful leader. — Ist, It is wrong in “principle.” Beg your pardon, Mr. Express. You don’t quite hit the principle. It is not the principle of the Maine Law to make men grave, temperate and to abstain from stimulating drinks. There is not a word in any prohibitory law of any State where it is adopted, about men being grave, or what they shall or shall nof drink. The fundamental principle of the prohibitory measure is this: that no members of society have the right to traffic indiscriminately in a . ” deadly virus, which. directly «destroys more lives—causes more human suffeting and misery—induces more crime, and* demoralizes and inebriates humanity gener all ys: any and all other agenc cereménts. Truth crushed to, earth will rise again; The eternal years of God are hers,; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. _ * The Maine Law is not. dead—neither ‘4s it sick. True, over in Ohio, the friends of pre hibition have been defeated this year. ‘There northern Ohio to defeat them, we fear, for some years to comé. But the’end is not: yet. The cause of humanity will prevail there. It ‘. is going on gloriously in ether States. The Express don’t read temperance néwws, or he California, by and by ; then the way you will have confusion in the rum camp will bea caution. Come on, we say—leap the Pacific . at a gingle stride,and cut and slash right and left. Hold! hold! the agitation of it is persure of every ‘upright citizen,*. ° More 4non. * 5 yo Fe , it : : For > # % a the Grass. Valley Télégraph: ¥S if et teviGuntains, are no more. They waltzed that they shall not be allowed to ifflict such evils on society for the sake of gain, any more than they shall be allowed torob, counterfeit or murder. In other words, that men shall not be allowed to murder and rob their neighbors, through the instrumentality of rum, any more than with arsenic, revolvers or bowie knives. That men shall be temperate, sober and decent, is the object to be secured by the law, just as honesty is of the law of theft, or chastity of the law of adulthey whispered with the stars, through ‘an hundred summers ; an hundred winters found their motto stifl “ United wé: stand.” But alas! the iron hand of necessity. has consigned them to the decapitating: axe—aye, and hanged them too. Isaw eagh of their proud necks writhing in the meshes’ of a Villainous rope. They nodded farewell.to,their brothers on the hillsides; they seemed to cast a furtive glance at the distant Nevadas; then trembling over the fearful plunge, they came sepulchred. And if,it'is, it will burst ins” are distilleries and rum-sheps? enough. in vould have learned that the temperance pi-"” ant, after going “away down east,” in thes =~ State of Maine, has received a mighty sword 4’ . —it cuts both .ways, and he is.wieldifig itmost scientifically. He will be over here innicious imthe extreme, and'is worthy the cen. tery. Will the Express take this principle upon his plate—chew it well—and let it digest. that he may discover whether it lacks swaying, surging, crashing down. Aswe see them fall, and hear the shout of the thought. know what the principle of the law was, he Shy 1 . , and “nonsensical” written upon its forehead, less crowd, imagination isirresistably hurried back to the days of their youthful prime— when this beautiful valley was “hushed as night.” The tread of no adventurous pale face had resounded through these sylvan colonades. The dusky savage came beneath their shadow and passed silently on his way. Heaven’s finger-posts had nothing to fear from him. Anon the white man comes wearily from the way of the plains. He is burdened with but his rifle, his compass and his knapsack. No fear from him! He measures the arrowy shafts with his eye, and counts their value in masts and spars at his far home on the Atlantic shore, then sighs as he looks upon the barren hillsides and says in his heart, “here solitude must everreign.”” Ages have passed, and the quick ear of echo is startled by a shout. It is the pale face! Alone? No! his name is legion! The lust for gold burnsinhiseye. He bears the pick, the shovel, and (alas for the * pillars that prop heaven’s arches’’) also the shining, murderous axe. With the passing breeze the forhis cn id tench wa OR, Solon est kings shook their dark plumed heads he sponse aC ae : . mournfully together, and looked down to thou hast come agzin from the shades . earth for quiet resting places. A few still 3d, “It is estten up for effect, by design-. a 5 ae ae ‘ “ wietsie. it is lingered, and a city sprung up in their shade. ing, unscrupulous men.’’ Certainly, i gotten up for effect. It is designed to “dry Gay pms pranced beneath them ; brown up” every rum hole and close every public — = mM their 7 and the evergateway to hell throughout America, to emppa oe Sat rate rae af tasted e, ty jails and penitentiaries of their convicts, Scene te Wate heme ers See cneenere asylums and alms-houses of their inmates, to of their doom. But in an Tro they fell. [ret half the crimes and criminal lit. . The crowd shouted “Amen.” Yet a tear . ee es courts, to lighten the peotrembled in the eye of the “oldest inhabitant.’ 17 10n8 Ir ’ 5 = : e . ate of one-third their burden of taxes, to . —s respect, Cayore. ‘clothe the widow, put bread in the orphan’s mouth, and to secure fire to warm them both, and to improve the public morals a thousand . cent ! Eifects! Certainly it will produce effects that will astonish the natives, and the Espress too, if it lives long enough. “ By designing, unscrupulous men.’’ Certainly they are designing; they design to . nutriment of sense? Now if he did not ought, before denouncing it. If he did, he ioes it great injustice, by giving its caricature, clothed ina puritanical, straight jacket, that the masses may jeer at it. But after all, such efforts at straining at a gnat and swallowing a saw mii/, will only split the throats of those who make them. 2d, “It causes men to be hypocrits.”’ That were a grievous fault. Already too many have been apt scholars in that science. But may not that objection be urged against every law preventing vice? Are there not men who evade every law, and yet appear honest and law abiding? Are there not thieves who move about in the garb of honesty ?—murderers whose guilt is covered with the mask of hypocrisy, and adulterers who throw over their pollution the robe of chastity? What then? Had we better repeal laws, believing that open and public vices are less injurious in their tendencies than concealed ones? So Js Among other resolutions passed at Toledo, Ohio. by a German mass meeting, met to nominate a State and county ticket, and which resolutions are published in the Toledo Republican. is the following curious piece of composition, which being read, means, Resolved, That at the ensuing election for State and county officers, we will oppose any candidate who is in favor of a temperance law. claim that. it/ought to feel the honest blows them at all.” Ah, yes, Mr. Express, they a buried; and the Express has preached its fuDok Dy The magnificent obelisks which gave.charaetet and erage tthe a aemaitol sity “et with the breeze, they flirted With the clouds, 4 a 7 s ‘ y . . : + ia ar Srey noe sae 4 i ee 4 i i + el > ' : : x Se x > ’ * ae Spt = SUEY 2a ay