October 29, 1859 (6 pages)

Nev THE NEVADA NATIONAL TAPKLY PAPER, PUNLISHED EVERY SaTURDAT HORS NG 4T GRASS VALLEY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALBORNIA TERMS: Rome aes. *s.00 siaceattnireen neesrasioeton.#898) VQT, 2, GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, OCT. 29. 1859. NO. 14. Subsequent insertion..-ceresrsssers> LO 7? E R LES ! . County Surveror's OFFIce. A COURT HOUSE, NEVADA. WOOD,EDDY & CO’S: JOHN L. GAMBLE, 1 J. OSTROM, County Surveyor. 5 Deputy. } D 1 OLD AND RELIABLE o } LL PERSONS are hereby cautioned against om . in Nevada and adjoining Counties. ; w Ge a ploying other Surveyors than such as may be bar peseageen te two months’ pay, back pay, cxtra . e a are and org deputized from this office. . r . rations ra hg eee erent seme —e . LOTTER 1Es. . Extract from the Laws of California. ' : alti ic on free nd inthe Usk Raped. onteatikiste . Lotteries on the COMBINATION, and others on the . Parti i ds of Co Cnar. 20, See 3.—Nosorvey or resurvey heresf. au attention given toalt Kinde « es Havana or SINGLE NUMBER plans . ter made by any person except the Yet gpd a i ; his deputy shall be considered legal evidence in OFFICE—On Mill St. at the Room formerly oceu or puty sh “ e 4 : wW.s 4, Esq 27 " any Court withinthisstate. JOHN L.GAMBLE. pled by E W. 8 ford, B a 27-tf SPL E N lg D s CH EMES 1 ote County Sureemae’l Ss. C. RICHARDSON With Capital Prizes of Fs ciscssliiiliaclaaccansieetain . Bia . f BN ERE : MASP. HAWLEY. '$70.000!!____ : .$50,000!! HENRY MEREDITH.] [THOMA JUSTICE OF THE PEACE (int auworous otners of coaiter denominations will) MEREDITH & HAWLEY, OFFICE—MILL ST.,GRASS VALLEY, . ay@usTAa, Geo., so WILMINGTON . ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS at LAW . OFFICE—In Kidd & Knox's Brick Building, cor. At the Room, formerly oceupied by EF. W. Spofford. . gpey, Under the superintendence of SWORN COM< * Brick ——— —--— — missioners, every ner of Pine & Broad Sts., Nevada é NOTICE. Wednesday and Sat ay ofEach Week __ ie a unternts ee certhe aren aad eagie «teva The Delaware State Lotteries: . t sg A Y" he) ~ §. ¢. RICHARDSON, — ttorney & Counsellor “ “+ LAW. Will promptly attend to all business confided to . FFICE. ansing Cass 420 Weonesmar, Aag, 3 1559." = presto 1ananen. (Out Ag Payeaeon “ao . A . atone a. se & re ME H. HARRIS & CO., “ 456 “ “ be 3 «OC / nd.) re $1 ° 3 6 a 0! ' , poo i s 31“ [Successors to Harris & Marchar ’ ef ” ' E STREET NEAR SECOND, MARYSVILLE ANTED, in Gold Dust, weekly, $100,000, for ; ae : . 3 5 st + anemia, Wr vhick the pighest price will be paid—Gold. The Single Number Lotteries: os Pint ose t* Duat sent to the Mint without charge, except for Ex . (Authorized by the State of Georgin.) gene aaa diets me pressage. Advances made at all times on dust Tt CLASS 82 DRAWS SATRDAY, August 6, 1859 ro co nee } Melting. Refiniag and Axenying. to the Mint. I have alsoa Melting Furnacs, and wil 23 13 melt gold into bars for parties desiring it. “ 24 a“ an es 20 pt s 28 DRAFTS ON THE ATLANTIC STATES, ‘im 4 “ “9 « GOLD AND ORES, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ROTHCHCHILDS' DRAFTS ON EUROPE. . E te or er = TICKETS iv any of these and earlier Schemes ic a ee nd CHECKS at par on SACRAMENTO & SAN FRANCISCO mA Motnined ferry TEN to FIFTEEN DAYS ab. . ,, We euarantes the corre trea of our Assays. 9 Special and General Deposites received as usual. . TER THE DRAWING TAKES PLACE, and the pur with pps WS. Mints. Returns made in fe Collections and Banking Business promptly attend. chaser will consequently have to hold his ticket only . : gy AP pt ode t d to. . eight or ten days beforeit is published in xeveral of *! twelve h 5 is iA residence of eight years in Grass Valley T trust . the most prominent San Francisco newspapers, and IN BABS OR COIN. has made me sufficiently well known, not to need . a file of the New York papers, containing a perfect Specimens ef Quartz Assayed and Valued Terms further onlargement.—Office at the Old Stand, ove . list of all said drawings can be found at fur Assaying, the same as in San Franciseo door below the Exchange. A. DELANO. . Wood, Eddy & Co.’s Lottery ' ee _™ MARRIS& CO. Grass Valley, January 12, 1859. * os S Office, fi g : t : : sate No. 3 , st., sNo2& 3, z “ ae ary rt 8/8 Guurvieme gente pens SANSA INANE SAT:Oooni!t a SAN FRANCISCO. es vo SI909 Harrington & Patterson, NEW STORE, NEW GOODS. Main Street. . .Grass Valley. . FURNITURE. HE SUBSCRIBER having removed to his New Fire 300 +) LONG and favorably known on Fros ” SS have removed and opened the finest Billia WRORDERS for TICKETS or CIRCULARS, show ing the Plan ef the Lotteries, and how the Prizes are esgenttoany ¢« ous of receivin +, of $10and tot n the mountains, in the new Proof Building, takes pleasure in informing the citizens of Graes Valley and vicinity that he is . Opening the Largest aud Best . : Selected Stock of Furniture, . loon be found i BRICK BUILDING, COR. BROAD & PINE STS, OPPOSITE KIDD & KNOX'S BUILDING, NF VADA . e &. may bem at the expense Express Compani ' : 7 ° ~ Hy t pi old te i and risk 1D. EDDY &C0,. and PRIZES WILL{ They be y eran invitation to all their 1 Ever Brought to this Place. RE CASHED at San Francisco. All Communications . patrons and friends to pay them frequent visits, an Ser Every ee b atrictly confidential. {thes hereby 4 ¢ themselves to give as good sat euch as Carpets Address, isfaction ax f ¥ awl Blankets, wil in ereat variety—All of . D. D. GASSNER, The Raton be furnished with new and mag which will be sold o aes } Care of Wood, Rady & Co., ni x RD TABLES, ani every Feeling tle sacle bret SAN FRANCISCO appendage com vicinity f r tt a age Sere pe cS og GR Remember that we are selling our ticketa at Tame wa ia fitted up in ee finest confident ff they call on me new, ev wil HNC . the regular State prices, and no advaace, as is other and supplied with the choicest and most cosily determined to be uadersold by no otber Store in Wie. I ’ tay Firanre wait Curate. 1, Nov 13, 1958.—n16 tf mountains, 0. JOHNSON. THE ORIGINAL 5 ‘ Empire Restaurant, Fore ign &% domestic. Hold:on boys it wea't take you long be had which the market affords. UN! During that time . will sing you a song. — . : . ; arrangements it ’ All Sorts of Game in Season. T TGNED having madearrangements tn i You may think mea quiz . am so very queer, Thaukful for the libe teanage extended to mé BOUDEAUVL& Pe ADEL PIA . Bat you will find that I am the e my opening of this Estat ‘ t a r aonstant supply of the i San Francisce j —' Charges from San Fran. pe sche ss . TO THE MINERS ANP CLTIZENS wi f ! Of Grass Valicy and Vicinity. te efter to thes a nave teen bu3ing . Phe Original Cheap John . MEALS AT ALL TIOURS, « hing can be had that the mis ‘ ‘Loan unerce] use and Quality and . am conficen fru { t Last 10 year ‘ ! L secutive li a AY Wy ts. WOULD BEG LEAVE TO INFORM ONE AND ALL scleainatiel = ee. Mc Ww ae A MS & Co., That he has again Commenced the i , eee As sO. i16 & 48 K Street, Sacramento. . ay : . g@-lam prepared to furnish Orders, as per Dili 6. B. Remember MeWIIIAMS & Uo., tacramento. . Auction & Commission Business . of Fare.on the most reasonable term. CLARK ae At his Old Established Corner, } . errr = Child knows, and where he will be } FIRE, MARINE & Lh E INSURANCE. H. MACKIE, Agent, NEVADA, Ty ~~ ‘ W . hs} Cc treated the same as a growa up per-on =. . ’ ATT OUY. , Cheap John will feel thankful to all who may CLUB HOUSE GIN. enil on him at the above locality, and SUDGE FOR THEMSELVES THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BEEN appointed SOLE AGENTS for the sale of this PURE BEFORE GOING ELSEWHERE AT FREEMAN & CO.’S EXPRESS OFFICE, NEVADA, Pp eam ligtelartrr in AT CHEAP JOHN’S FIRE INSURANCE ty the Trade with an article that has NO Fatal . You can Gnd every thing froma Needle to sya segord Pire Insunanee Co. Martiord. N THIS MARKET, being the PURE ARTICLE in its an Anchor. Pheauix Iusurnace Co.. ‘ finest drinkable condition and flavor, : B82 Out Door Sales attended to,—Neal Estate Merchants Tuserance Co.. ‘ aly a aco. vies go ge and Personal Property Seld on ommission, at a . G@oedhue Lusurance Co..New York. by Mexers. W. 5. CO) N &CvO., of New York, who Low Per Centage ) . % sur re C *hiladelp have made arrangements with the late firm of CAM aa Mining Claims Sold on Small Commission Quaker City insur ance Co.,. Philadelphia. Gerard Insurance Cov.,.. hid PBELL BROTHERS for the soie importation and sale 10 L. KELLER, Auctioneer. : in the United States and Canada. : alt : vide : es Marine Insurance. Weasctenresttivte ” NEW sj ) 7 W ‘(i I Q . Quaker Cily Insvrance Co.,. Philadelphia. ONLY GENUINE . ali Ss ( RE. NE G ( ) S. -Vieplune Insurance Co. . ¥ CLUB HOUSE GIN The Subscribers having completed their Life Insurance. EVER IMPORTED TU THIS MARKET NEW, FIRE PROOF BRICK STORE, United States Life Insurance Co. And we are satisfied that a trial will obtain for it On Main Street, Grass Valley, Vew York. the high reputaion it sustains where itis introduced . Have just opened one of the Largest, and A as ry Heaga SNONE IS GENUINE untess the bottles have most Complete Stocks of AN it, it It, 0 ad] 3 3 y On Policies issued fer the above Companies, will be the LABEL of W. 8. CORBIN & CU. on them. For sale by the principal Liquor dealers in San ™” promptly paid in Casb, at our Offi eageee. OS. See at al g M.E.COR. CLAY & BATTERY STS, 43m 50 California st.,sSan Fra i co SAN FRAACISCC _ — ——____—____—_—_Ever offered in Grass Valley, and which — ———— THOMAS Ss. LEVY, we are determined to sell at prices, C0 L L E () T ] N G JOHN W. ROBERTS, . ( Ch r than Lumber & General Dealer, eope Of Freeman & Co's Expre=«,) Any Establishment of the kind Valley Lumber Yard, j ~LEAVE to inform the citizens of Grass Valley and ¥ 7 IN THIS PLACE. Sircet, 0 site Western Hotel ‘ inty that he will promptly attend to eae GRADE VALLEY. ‘ Our stock consists of a very large assortmentof (. the Collecting of acounts, or notes, that may be ae THE LATEST STY LE OF handedto him His charges will be moderate, and! AVING control of ALL Lumber manufactured SP R 1 N G CL oO T H i N G ; he can be found a all times at the Banking House . Vist d Sugar Pine Saw Mills, of A Delano atthe Buena Vista an rg Wie ueth-atonteat coun anaueaaet PINE LUMBER, OF ALL} DRESS & MINERS BOOTS is oT L R NER’S DESCRIPTIONS, “INDIA in tele pee oa oS BLANKETS, OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY AND IN ANY A RUB OODS, q ‘ ' QUANTITY. Hats, and Gentlemen’s SYNGE a WIRE ? Laths, Pickets, Shakes, Shingles, Cedar Posts, &c, &c. Ba . have, direct from the Manufactories, SASH, SASH DOORS, BLINDS, FRENCH WINDOWS, Panel Doors, Newels Bantsters, &c, &c., &c Which . offer for sale at prices below competition. minis anes ini . CHARLES CARL, — TURENS OF in kines eee STATE OF CALIFORNIA, JUSTICE’S COURT e.These BITTERS, manufactu from the County of Nevada, se. W.B. Clapp, . choicest medical roots, barks and herbs, by Turner Baers & STATIGHAR Y . Township of Grass Valley.) Justice of the Peace. . Brothers. are WARRANTED to be the best now in use 9 TT People of the State of California,to CLARK he baperint — one can be taken with perfect . W. LEWIS, Greetine :— . safety by persons of all ages and conditions School Books at reasonable Rates You are hereby summoned to appear before =, } set 4 BROTHERS, Manufacturers of every y es at my Office, in said Township, on Monday the . description of Syrups, Cordals, Bitters Ke. at N be HOLESALE & RETAIL, 12th day of December, 1859, at 10 o'clock, A. M., to . York, Buflalo N. Y. and San Faanciseo, Cal Country Orders solicited, and promptly attended to. . answer tothe complaint of GEORGEN. BROWN, who . GINGER WINE Particular attention paid tovorders for all kins of . demands of you the sum of Two Hundred dollars, as . CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—Therhpotation awarSchool Boooks and School Stationary ; Rowse ae onan .' ico, when . ded to TE RNER’S GINGER WINE, and the unequaled COUNTY CLERKS can be furnished with all kinds of ij . popularity it bas received, has been the means of amount, together with costs and damages, if you fail . putting into the market many spurious articles j pas to . . BLANK BOOKS. Te. pow pel Constable of said County,— . Sa” Beware of these base counterfeits! We caution all ‘Forest WINE BITTeERS, Furnishing Goods. — URNER’S FOREST WINE BITTERS are a cure for We will give the public achance, once more, of Fever and Ague, Flatulency, Dyspepsiv, Costive dressing up in fine style for atrifle. Call uext door . ness, or Heaviness, General Debility. Nausea, Head tothe CENTRAL MARKET. . ache, Irregularity of the Digestive Organs. Nervous J. CORN & BRO, _ Prostration, Neuralgia, Rheumatic Affections, and . —_-—_—--— ome . most of the ills that flesh is heir to, They will be . found not only a curative, but also the best PREVEN . tative ever introduced in California. SUMMONS, For County Purposes, made to order of the Greeting :—Make legal service and due return hereof consumers of GINGER WINE to examine the label, . B Material. Given under my hand, this 9th day of September, . as none is genuine save such as have our portraits 5 A. D. 1859. ’ W. B. CLAPP, ina circle, on asteel plate, surrounded by the inser Catalogues sent on application 8.3m Justice of the Peace of ssid Coun. . iption— “TURNER’S GINGER WINE, prepared by . IURNER BROTHERS, New York, Buffalo N. Y. and PAT we San Francisco, California @@ Justices’ Blanke, ef Every Description for) gg Manufactory and Salesroom in San Fran Sale at this (thee. seo. cor. Broadway and Front Street rgd j CHARLES CARL. Corner Montgomery & Merchant Sts, . San Franciseo. . 4-30 i . grese of recent important case, where the . ted, and has lately entered upon a ten years . reoived it, rin feeble health, at best,”’ said he, “and I am afraid that this will kill her.” door, I said, in alow toue: . ders seemed to denote a construction with ' taining the aforesaid list. NEVADA NATIONAL BOOK & JOB PRINTING MAIN STREET. GRASS VALIEY We bare. in ermnestion with the Nrrata Namowst Vewerarre Betas: ienxest. a JOB head 9B erpeble ork. such a« hint, Hears, Postar Law Trasts Baus. Tiere, Paocramwra, Ruisor Fare toons and Pawpnixte, Erc., which will be excee vith neatnessand diapateh, on reasonable terme a el “Look here my little mmn,” said the clerk, ‘what is your grandmother's name, and where dose she tive 1” “Why. she's my gtandem, and lites in Louisiana.” ak a 1 “ Yes. I see that on the letter, hat it will “Geox bliss ye for that sir, bat Michal) never get to her if her name isn’t put ony lives in Chie: te I told bim nld not diepute that, but . Boston and Chicago were two distinct cities robber was in possession of 7 mail key, j and the letter was addressed to both, and . unless you tell me.’ by medhs of which he bad pany exten. that Boston being the first named, it had . «© Why. sir she’s my gra: dma—don’t you e 4 enet . : . sive depredations. He was at length detec . heen retained there, aad his friend had not. know her? She used to live at my bouse.”’ After a display of coasiderable ingenuity . term ip the State prison. . “Sure asd I thonght Boston was in Chicn. on the part of the clerk, and a deal of innoOx bis arrest be manifested much solici . po! that's what ye call a daid letther, is it? cent evasion by the chiid, the old Indy's « POST OFFICE FACTS. from the office to which they were directe . THE INVALID Wire. within a certain time. were seat to what is Not the least painful of the various duties called the Dead Letter Office at Washington conageted with the detection of crime is the . Citf, and from thence, if cootaiuing anything sometimes necessary one of revealing a hus} valuable, to the persons who wrote them, bands guiit to his wife. I anticipated a severe trial of my feelings and the pls . eae in making neh a dieclosare daring the pro snd the place where ehe lives. ** Well, please pnt it on, sir.’ * But Tsball not know what her name is; gn.would overpower ber. “She it . the tether, waw daid.”’ Y decortained, and added to the address after . which the little one went on his way rejoic. ing in the assurance given by the clerk that pearance called one day on a prominent New his “dear grandmathet would certainly reEngland postmaster, wi etter in her . ceive the important epistle from ber darling funds, a part of the proceeds of the rubbe-', s Vane lee me tee : i A z hand, which she insiste P nen broke } ries, which ber husband had committed to ig ' ve insisted bad been br nen . ‘ . ‘ i a open and re-sealed. She ban > lette her keeping. Furnished with a written or P cone he banded the letter . . mnie to the postmaster, who examined i ( der from the prisoner, and leaving him in the _— : , ion oe —e wokaa bis ‘ earances certa eeme fy her asMarshall's custody, I proceeded to call on pearances certainty seemed to jastity her a the invalid, racking my brains, while on the eertion. She further declared that sho well he inv d, cK vy ains, Ww J J ‘ . e shal be 5 Ay ne seiain' design alias Se Siteie:tniitiy of tai knew which clerk in the office had broken it . . hall find them very fat and monotonous municating the n truth which °P° and that be had previously served sey. like hand-orgaus, we have beard all their unica bd } tunes. should disclose it gradually, and spare her : : Upon fzeliags as much as possible. hearing this, the postmaster requested ber. M. Lain, professor of Chemistry at the On my arrival at the boarding-house the to walk inside the office, and point out the . College of Besancon, bas proved the presence note was eent to the ludy’s room. It read as P°rse® chen Gregus {in considerable quantity of arsensic in the . Suehan unusual phenomenon as the ap-! wire from which pins are usually made, “My dear Susan: Will you hand to the . Peerence of a lady inside the office, produced . three or four serving to give a perceptible : pring ’ niga .» a decided sensation among the cle ore ome = bearer a roll of bank notes I left with you. : . “i jon among the ole — Che re . quantity in the common form, ‘Bowne 2? assembled. Nor was the sensation diminisha ee ae : city 3 ed in intensity when the Postmaster inform. ; sige = a4 ast iid 4 : The lady soon made her appearance. She ed them that the Indy was there for the par. nothing interesting in the paper to day, is was young, rather preposessing, and evidenthe ncxgepie ¢ ; : < oy oOuN f * a hed I _igisieceioty bet Twas . Pot of identifying the person who bad been . there? No, love ; but I hope there will y ia delicate health. Finding that I was guilty of breaking open her letters be one day, when we shall both be interestthe bearer of the note, she addreased me, ex‘ ™ " ed.” The young lady blushed, and of course ‘cb nen besthat Nee tnatand’ ted This announcement at once excited the . Poe ress ire: & prise tie , MUSDAL € ° Ps . oe a. e i ‘ id ee si ae liveliest feelings of curiosity and solicitude . the said, “For shame, Charles? sent a request so unusual; and with an air of : in the mind of almost every one present.and. Inasmall party, the subject turning on independence observed that she did not sae i; amas ! ‘ ‘ : k ' E : ' each one, conscious of innocence, indulged . matrimony, a lady said to her sister, ‘I now about paying money over acer such . iy conjectures as to who that somebody else . wonder, my dear, you have never made a might be, whom the accusing ange! (?) was. match : I think you want the brimstone :’ to fix upon as the culprit. . to which she replied ‘No, not the brimstone All their conjectures fell wide af the mark. _on)y the spark 1” After looking about for a moment, the lady . pointed to the Inst man whem any one in. “ the office would have suspected of such an judge to» prisoner at the bar. “Why, your offence—one of the oldest and most reliable . boner, I weed tobe Gentint—~now lama of their number . pugilist. Theo I put teeth in—new I knock es. po pag Ba npr = band’e ad “That is the person,”’ said she, indicating . em ont. ee ery 2g 1 : si Pi y $8 . him by a slight nod of the head, ‘and if be A pedagogue threatened to punish a pupil taken “gen the mails, y him. ere is ” persists in making free with my letters, I who had called bim a fool behind hie back. m stake a rout itHe has had . mail key “Don’t ! don’t !? said the boy. “I won't do whicb I bave a pe ed, and has “et " so again, sir, never! I never will say what full acknowledgm mat of bis numerc us parpose, I esanot imagine; bat if aay more 1 think again in my life!” redations. I beg of you to bear this dreada 3 . A a : ioe aes : ‘ of them are touched, he will wich he bad let, A chemist at Lyons has discovered the ful news with fortitude. Noone will think ‘a te them alone. means of removing instantaneously from the This direct charge, and these these threats, bands the stains produced by nitrate of sil’ produced a greater commotion among bis ver in potograpby. It is simply to put linfellow clerks than in the mind of the gentleseed in the water ueed. man accused. Waiting for a moment after . she had spoken, he -broke the breathicss silence that followed her words, by saying, mly, “Mrs. , I believe?” could ever produce such aneffect; for as soon . = a : ey — as I had Goished what I was saying, she stood Suet tony Atm, Me eee aie sabe nate iy ~ . “Have you concluded your remarks, madif possible, more erect than before, and with m?” some fire in her eye, and one arm “akimbo,”’ . . BI Ae __ . tade for his wife, fearing the intelligence of jraith and I thought it was Bridget and uot . name and, place of residence were finally BE, PIONEER pit dpton , THE BITER RIT. : A lady of very genteel and respectable t was necessary, however, that I should ° 7 genteel and respectablos see her, in order to get possession of some GLEANINGS. Some men are very ertertaining for a first interview, but after that they are ex hansted, and ron out; on a second meeting unpleasant 2 eral of ber letters in the same way. follows: circumstances to an entire stranger.” Desiring not to mortify her unnecesarily by making explanations in the presence of others, . requested her to step into a vacant room near at band, and, after closing the “What has been your business?’’ said a “Itis an extremely painfal thing for me, Mrs. M———-—. but as you do not seem inwill certainly have him arrested. Why my letters should always be selected for thi, I expected to see the poor woman faint immediately, and had mentally prepared my. self for every emergency; but a moment after. I should bave been more likely to have . fallen into that condition, if astonishment A Frenchman mounted on a showy horse met an old priest trotting along on a quiet jackass. “Ha, ba,’ exclaimed monsieur, “how goes the ass, good father?” “On horseback, my son, on horseback,”’ replied the priest. Asaproof of the hardness of the times, “I have, sir, for the present?” there’s a man in Ohio who only kille halfa “Then, madam, I will take the liberty to . ** , inform you that your husband is the person Pig Ato time. on whom yon ought to expend your indigna-. “Scatter the germs of the beautiful.” as tion. He has at different times taken sevethe poet said when he kicked his wife and ral of your letters from the office, opened children out of doors. and read them and after re-sealing, returnA witness was asked bow he knew the ed them to the letter-box, having made cerparties to be man and wife-—‘’Cause I tain discoveries in those letters to which he heard the gentleman blow the lady up,” was forced me to listen, as furnishing eufficient the reply. ground for his course and justifying former suspicions! He earnestly requested me never to disclose who had opened the letter and . should have continued to observe se. i : crecy, had not your accusation forced me to introduce cotton into Turkey.” this disclosure in self-defence. If you wish, When awonan can faint and hasa capital tohave my statement corroborated, I think OPPportunity for fainting,and yet doesn’t faint During my term of service at the genera, lean produce a reliable witness.” you may be tolerably sure that she bas some delivery of this office, it was my custom, up, . The lady did not reply to this proposition other feint in view. on receiving dead letters from Washington . but made a precipitate retreat, leavingthe A wealthy Frenehman who died recently City, to make a list of the names of the par-! clerk master of the field, and was never . in Corsica, was refused interment in conseties to whom they were addressed, and stick . gterwards seen at that post office. crated gronnd in consequence of a copy of it up in the lobby of the office, with a notice,! Th» following anecdote are illustrative of the Protestant New Testament having been “Call for Dead Letters.” the amusing incidents which occasionally found amongst his effects. One day an elaborate specimen of Erin’s . come under the eyes of post-office clerks. . son’s, whose brawny fist and broad shoul. ! she replied iv a spirited manner: “Well, if he Aas done that, he’s a darned fool to own it-—I wouldn't!” She gave up the money, however, soon af ter, and although the reckelssness displayed in the speech above quoted seemed to make it probable that she wasimplicated in her basband’s guilt, it aflerwards appeared that . this exhibition of “spunk”? was due to the) impulses of a high spirited and excitable na. ture, which sometime, as in the present in, stance, broke away fromcontrol, and wen, beyond the bounds of decorum. THK DEAD LETTER. The following is contributed by “Dave,’ of the Columbus (Ohio) Postoffice: A wag, on seeing an old gobbler trying to swallow a cotton string, very facetiously remarked, * That was the last attempt to A son of Galen, who was very angry when TO MY GRANDMOTHER. any joke was passed on physicians, once de A little bright-eyed, flaxen-baired boy feuded himself from raillery by saying, “1 Was one day cbserved to enter the vestidefy any person whom I ever attended. to bule of the post office at Washington, with a accuse me of ignorance or neglect.” ‘ That letter in hishand, and to wait very modestly you may do safely,” replied the wag, ‘‘ for him throngh the window, and asked him for the departare of the crowd collected about . you know, doctor, dead men tell no tales.”” what waste: matter. . the delivery window. Assoonas the place) A butcher, who was once afflicted with “Ol! Mr. Postmaster, I see ye have a daid . Was cleared, be approached the letter-box that obliquity of vision known as strabisletther for me. I spect me sester in Ireland’s . 80d carefully deposited his epistle therein, mus, was about slaughtering 9 bullock, and daid, and it’s not a wake since I sint her a. lingering near, as if to watch over the satety be employed a stout segre to stand by the tin pound note to come to Ameriky wid— . of the precious document. His motions at. nimal’s neck, grasp bis horas, and hold his and kin ye tell me bow long she’s bin daid, . tracted the attention of the clerk stationed head steady, so that he (the butcher) would Mr. Postmaster?” . at the window, whose curiosity induced him . have acertainty of knocking himdown. As I asked him his name, found the “letther,” . to examine the superscription of the letter the butcher poised bis axe in the air, he and after a request from him to “rade it, sir, . just depsited by the little fellow. The adseemed to be looking directly at the negro and rade it aisy, if you plaze,” opened it . dress on the letter was simply, “ To my dear . instead of sertagged bullock, “Look here, look and told him not to cry; that bis sister was. Grandmother, Louisiana,” doubtless some . here, bosey,”” exclaimed the Gesmny. with a not dead, but that it was a letter written by . 800d old lady, whose memory, in the mind . great deal of uerven? weapon, Pe. — himeelf, and directed to Micbael Flaherty, . of her ianocent grandchild, was redolent of . Ewin to strike whar you is lookin aa * Of Boston, Chicago. . cake and candy, and all the various “good. course, I am, you black scoundrel,” was And is Michael daid, Mr. Postmaster?” . ies,” which grandmothers are generally so . the reply. “Den you git somebody else to “No, I guess not,” said I. ‘Well, who ie daid, sir?” Jexplaired to bim that tetters not taken . an eye single to American Railroads, loung. ed into the office, and up to the board conHe looked at ita, moment, and burst into tears. I spoke to ready to,supply to say nothing of the various hold de bullock,’, ejaculated the negro. . wel] meant offices of kindnets to which the’r . “ Yoo isu’t gwin to knock dis ebile’s brains . sometimes blind affections prompts them, . out.” aw

Nev THE NEVADA NATIONAL TAPKLY PAPER, PUNLISHED EVERY SaTURDAT HORS NG 4T GRASS VALLEY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALBORNIA TERMS: Rome aes.. *s.00 siaceattnireen neesrasioeton.#898) VQT, 2, GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, OCT. 29. 1859. NO. 14. Subsequent insertion...-ceresrsssers> LO 7? E R LES ! . County Surveror's OFFIce. A COURT HOUSE, NEVADA. WOOD,EDDY & CO’S: JOHN L. GAMBLE, 1 J. OSTROM, County Surveyor. 5 Deputy. } D 1 OLD AND RELIABLE o } LL PERSONS are hereby cautioned against om . in Nevada and adjoining Counties. ; w Ge a ploying other Surveyors than such as may be bar peseageen te two months’ pay, back pay, cxtra . e a are and org deputized from this office. . r . rations ra hg eee erent seme —e . LOTTER 1Es. . Extract from the Laws of California. ' : alti ic on free nd inthe Usk Raped. onteatikiste . Lotteries on the COMBINATION, and others on the . Parti i ds of Co Cnar. 20, See 3.—Nosorvey or resurvey heresf. au attention given toalt Kinde « es Havana or SINGLE NUMBER plans . ter made by any person except the Yet gpd a i ; his deputy shall be considered legal evidence in OFFICE—On Mill St. at the Room formerly oceu or puty sh “ e 4 : wW.s 4, Esq 27 " any Court withinthisstate. JOHN L.GAMBLE. pled by E W. 8 ford, B a 27-tf SPL E N lg D s CH EMES 1 ote County Sureemae’l Ss. C. RICHARDSON With Capital Prizes of Fs ciscssliiiliaclaaccansieetain . Bia . f BN ERE : MASP. HAWLEY. '$70.000!!____ : .$50,000!! HENRY MEREDITH.] [THOMA JUSTICE OF THE PEACE (int auworous otners of coaiter denominations will) MEREDITH & HAWLEY, OFFICE—MILL ST.,GRASS VALLEY, . ay@usTAa, Geo., so WILMINGTON . ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS at LAW . OFFICE—In Kidd & Knox's Brick Building, cor. At the Room, formerly oceupied by EF. W. Spofford. . gpey, Under the superintendence of SWORN COM< * Brick ——— —--— — missioners, every ner of Pine & Broad Sts., Nevada é NOTICE. Wednesday and Sat ay ofEach Week __ ie a unternts ee certhe aren aad eagie «teva The Delaware State Lotteries: . t sg A Y" he) ~ §. ¢. RICHARDSON, — ttorney & Counsellor “ “+ LAW. Will promptly attend to all business confided to . FFICE. ansing Cass 420 Weonesmar, Aag, 3 1559." = presto 1ananen. (Out Ag Payeaeon “ao . A . atone a. se & re ME H. HARRIS & CO., “ 456 “ “ be 3 «OC / nd.) re $1 ° 3 6 a 0! ' , poo i s 31“ [Successors to Harris & Marchar ’ ef ” ' E STREET NEAR SECOND, MARYSVILLE ANTED, in Gold Dust, weekly, $100,000, for ; ae : . 3 5 st + anemia, Wr vhick the pighest price will be paid—Gold. The Single Number Lotteries: os Pint ose t* Duat sent to the Mint without charge, except for Ex . (Authorized by the State of Georgin.) gene aaa diets me pressage. Advances made at all times on dust Tt CLASS 82 DRAWS SATRDAY, August 6, 1859 ro co nee } Melting. Refiniag and Axenying. to the Mint. I have alsoa Melting Furnacs, and wil 23 13 melt gold into bars for parties desiring it. “ 24 a“ an es 20 pt s 28 DRAFTS ON THE ATLANTIC STATES, ‘im 4 “ “9 « GOLD AND ORES, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ROTHCHCHILDS' DRAFTS ON EUROPE. . E te or er = TICKETS iv any of these and earlier Schemes ic a ee nd CHECKS at par on SACRAMENTO & SAN FRANCISCO mA Motnined ferry TEN to FIFTEEN DAYS ab. . ,, We euarantes the corre trea of our Assays. 9 Special and General Deposites received as usual. . TER THE DRAWING TAKES PLACE, and the pur with pps WS. Mints. Returns made in fe Collections and Banking Business promptly attend. chaser will consequently have to hold his ticket only . : gy AP pt ode t d to. . eight or ten days beforeit is published in xeveral of *! twelve h 5 is iA residence of eight years in Grass Valley T trust . the most prominent San Francisco newspapers, and IN BABS OR COIN. has made me sufficiently well known, not to need . a file of the New York papers, containing a perfect Specimens ef Quartz Assayed and Valued Terms further onlargement.—Office at the Old Stand, ove . list of all said drawings can be found at fur Assaying, the same as in San Franciseo door below the Exchange. A. DELANO. . Wood, Eddy & Co.’s Lottery ' ee _™ MARRIS& CO. Grass Valley, January 12, 1859. * os S Office, fi g : t : : sate No. 3 , st., sNo2& 3, z “ ae ary rt 8/8 Guurvieme gente pens SANSA INANE SAT:Oooni!t a SAN FRANCISCO. es vo SI909 Harrington & Patterson, NEW STORE, NEW GOODS. Main Street. . .Grass Valley. . FURNITURE. HE SUBSCRIBER having removed to his New Fire 300 +) LONG and favorably known on Fros ” SS have removed and opened the finest Billia WRORDERS for TICKETS or CIRCULARS, show ing the Plan ef the Lotteries, and how the Prizes are esgenttoany ¢« ous of receivin +, of $10and tot n the mountains, in the new Proof Building, takes pleasure in informing the citizens of Graes Valley and vicinity that he is . Opening the Largest aud Best . : Selected Stock of Furniture, . loon be found i BRICK BUILDING, COR. BROAD & PINE STS, OPPOSITE KIDD & KNOX'S BUILDING, NF VADA . e &. may bem at the expense Express Compani ' : 7 ° ~ Hy t pi old te i and risk 1D. EDDY &C0,. and PRIZES WILL{ They be y eran invitation to all their 1 Ever Brought to this Place. RE CASHED at San Francisco. All Communications . patrons and friends to pay them frequent visits, an Ser Every ee b atrictly confidential. {thes hereby 4 ¢ themselves to give as good sat euch as Carpets Address, isfaction ax f ¥ awl Blankets, wil in ereat variety—All of . D. D. GASSNER, The Raton be furnished with new and mag which will be sold o aes } Care of Wood, Rady & Co., ni x RD TABLES, ani every Feeling tle sacle bret SAN FRANCISCO appendage com vicinity f r tt a age Sere pe cS og GR Remember that we are selling our ticketa at Tame wa ia fitted up in ee finest confident ff they call on me new, ev wil HNC . the regular State prices, and no advaace, as is other and supplied with the choicest and most cosily determined to be uadersold by no otber Store in Wie. I ’ tay Firanre wait Curate. 1, Nov 13, 1958.—n16 tf mountains, 0. JOHNSON. THE ORIGINAL 5 ‘ Empire Restaurant, Fore ign &% domestic. Hold:on boys it wea't take you long be had which the market affords. UN! During that time . will sing you a song. — . : . ; arrangements it ’ All Sorts of Game in Season. T TGNED having madearrangements tn i You may think mea quiz . am so very queer, Thaukful for the libe teanage extended to mé BOUDEAUVL& Pe ADEL PIA . Bat you will find that I am the e my opening of this Estat ‘ t a r aonstant supply of the i San Francisce j —' Charges from San Fran. pe sche ss . TO THE MINERS ANP CLTIZENS wi f ! Of Grass Valicy and Vicinity. te efter to thes a nave teen bu3ing . Phe Original Cheap John . MEALS AT ALL TIOURS, « hing can be had that the mis ‘ ‘Loan unerce] use and Quality and . am conficen fru { t Last 10 year ‘ ! L secutive li a AY Wy ts. WOULD BEG LEAVE TO INFORM ONE AND ALL scleainatiel = ee. Mc Ww ae A MS & Co., That he has again Commenced the i , eee As sO. i16 & 48 K Street, Sacramento. . ay : . g@-lam prepared to furnish Orders, as per Dili 6. B. Remember MeWIIIAMS & Uo., tacramento. . Auction & Commission Business . of Fare.on the most reasonable term. CLARK ae At his Old Established Corner, } . errr = Child knows, and where he will be } FIRE, MARINE & Lh E INSURANCE. H. MACKIE, Agent, NEVADA, Ty ~~ ‘ W . hs} Cc treated the same as a growa up per-on =. . ’ ATT OUY. , Cheap John will feel thankful to all who may CLUB HOUSE GIN. enil on him at the above locality, and SUDGE FOR THEMSELVES THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BEEN appointed SOLE AGENTS for the sale of this PURE BEFORE GOING ELSEWHERE AT FREEMAN & CO.’S EXPRESS OFFICE, NEVADA, Pp eam ligtelartrr in AT CHEAP JOHN’S FIRE INSURANCE ty the Trade with an article that has NO Fatal . You can Gnd every thing froma Needle to sya segord Pire Insunanee Co. Martiord. N THIS MARKET, being the PURE ARTICLE in its an Anchor. Pheauix Iusurnace Co.... ‘ finest drinkable condition and flavor, : B82 Out Door Sales attended to,—Neal Estate Merchants Tuserance Co... ‘ aly a aco. vies go ge and Personal Property Seld on ommission, at a . G@oedhue Lusurance Co....New York. by Mexers. W. 5. CO) N &CvO., of New York, who Low Per Centage ) . % sur re C *hiladelp have made arrangements with the late firm of CAM aa Mining Claims Sold on Small Commission Quaker City insur ance Co.,. Philadelphia. Gerard Insurance Cov.,... hid PBELL BROTHERS for the soie importation and sale 10 L. KELLER, Auctioneer. : in the United States and Canada. : alt : vide : es Marine Insurance. Weasctenresttivte ” NEW sj ) 7 W ‘(i I Q . Quaker Cily Insvrance Co.,. Philadelphia. ONLY GENUINE . ali Ss ( RE. NE G ( ) S. -Vieplune Insurance Co.. .. ¥ CLUB HOUSE GIN The Subscribers having completed their Life Insurance. EVER IMPORTED TU THIS MARKET NEW, FIRE PROOF BRICK STORE, United States Life Insurance Co. And we are satisfied that a trial will obtain for it On Main Street, Grass Valley, Vew York. the high reputaion it sustains where itis introduced . Have just opened one of the Largest, and A as ry Heaga SNONE IS GENUINE untess the bottles have most Complete Stocks of AN it, it It, 0 ad] 3 3 y On Policies issued fer the above Companies, will be the LABEL of W. 8. CORBIN & CU. on them. For sale by the principal Liquor dealers in San ™” promptly paid in Casb, at our Offi eageee. OS. See at al g M.E.COR. CLAY & BATTERY STS, 43m 50 California st.,sSan Fra i co SAN FRAACISCC _ — ——____—____—_—_Ever offered in Grass Valley, and which — ———— THOMAS Ss. LEVY, we are determined to sell at prices, C0 L L E () T ] N G JOHN W. ROBERTS, . ( Ch r than Lumber & General Dealer, eope Of Freeman & Co's Expre=«,) Any Establishment of the kind Valley Lumber Yard, j ~LEAVE to inform the citizens of Grass Valley and ¥ 7 IN THIS PLACE. Sircet, 0 site Western Hotel ‘ inty that he will promptly attend to eae GRADE VALLEY. ‘ Our stock consists of a very large assortmentof (. the Collecting of acounts, or notes, that may be ae THE LATEST STY LE OF handedto him His charges will be moderate, and! AVING control of ALL Lumber manufactured SP R 1 N G CL oO T H i N G ; he can be found a all times at the Banking House . Vist d Sugar Pine Saw Mills, of A Delano atthe Buena Vista an rg Wie ueth-atonteat coun anaueaaet PINE LUMBER, OF ALL} DRESS & MINERS BOOTS is oT L R NER’S DESCRIPTIONS, “INDIA in tele pee oa oS BLANKETS, OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY AND IN ANY A RUB OODS, q ‘ ' QUANTITY. Hats, and Gentlemen’s SYNGE a WIRE ? Laths, Pickets, Shakes, Shingles, Cedar Posts, &c, &c. Ba . have, direct from the Manufactories, SASH, SASH DOORS, BLINDS, FRENCH WINDOWS, Panel Doors, Newels Bantsters, &c, &c., &c Which . offer for sale at prices below competition. minis anes ini . CHARLES CARL, — TURENS OF in kines eee STATE OF CALIFORNIA, JUSTICE’S COURT e.These BITTERS, manufactu from the County of Nevada, se. W.B. Clapp, . choicest medical roots, barks and herbs, by Turner Baers & STATIGHAR Y . Township of Grass Valley.) Justice of the Peace. . Brothers. are WARRANTED to be the best now in use 9 TT People of the State of California,to CLARK he baperint — one can be taken with perfect . W. LEWIS, Greetine :— . safety by persons of all ages and conditions School Books at reasonable Rates You are hereby summoned to appear before =, } set 4 BROTHERS, Manufacturers of every y es at my Office, in said Township, on Monday the . description of Syrups, Cordals, Bitters Ke. at N be HOLESALE & RETAIL, 12th day of December, 1859, at 10 o'clock, A. M., to . York, Buflalo N. Y. and San Faanciseo, Cal Country Orders solicited, and promptly attended to. . answer tothe complaint of GEORGEN. BROWN, who . GINGER WINE Particular attention paid tovorders for all kins of . demands of you the sum of Two Hundred dollars, as . CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—Therhpotation awarSchool Boooks and School Stationary ; Rowse ae onan .' ico, when . ded to TE RNER’S GINGER WINE, and the unequaled COUNTY CLERKS can be furnished with all kinds of ij . popularity it bas received, has been the means of amount, together with costs and damages, if you fail . putting into the market many spurious articles j pas to . . BLANK BOOKS. Te. pow pel Constable of said County,— . Sa” Beware of these base counterfeits! We caution all ‘Forest WINE BITTeERS, Furnishing Goods. — URNER’S FOREST WINE BITTERS are a cure for We will give the public achance, once more, of Fever and Ague, Flatulency, Dyspepsiv, Costive dressing up in fine style for atrifle. Call uext door . ness, or Heaviness, General Debility. Nausea, Head tothe CENTRAL MARKET. . ache, Irregularity of the Digestive Organs. Nervous J. CORN & BRO, _ Prostration, Neuralgia, Rheumatic Affections, and . —_-—_—--— ome . most of the ills that flesh is heir to, They will be . found not only a curative, but also the best PREVEN . tative ever introduced in California. SUMMONS, For County Purposes, made to order of the Greeting :—Make legal service and due return hereof consumers of GINGER WINE to examine the label, . B Material. Given under my hand, this 9th day of September, . as none is genuine save such as have our portraits 5 A. D. 1859. ’ W. B. CLAPP, ina circle, on asteel plate, surrounded by the inser Catalogues sent on application 8.3m Justice of the Peace of ssid Coun. . iption— “TURNER’S GINGER WINE, prepared by . IURNER BROTHERS, New York, Buffalo N. Y. and PAT we San Francisco, California @@ Justices’ Blanke, ef Every Description for) gg Manufactory and Salesroom in San Fran Sale at this (thee. seo. cor. Broadway and Front Street rgd j

CHARLES CARL. Corner Montgomery & Merchant Sts, . San Franciseo. . 4-30 i . grese of recent important case, where the . ted, and has lately entered upon a ten years . reoived it, rin feeble health, at best,”’ said he, “and I am afraid that this will kill her.” door, I said, in alow toue: . ders seemed to denote a construction with ' taining the aforesaid list. NEVADA NATIONAL BOOK & JOB PRINTING MAIN STREET. GRASS VALIEY We bare. in ermnestion with the Nrrata Namowst Vewerarre Betas: ienxest. a JOB head 9B erpeble ork. such a« hint, Hears, Postar Law Trasts Baus. Tiere, Paocramwra, Ruisor Fare toons and Pawpnixte, Erc., which will be excee vith neatnessand diapateh, on reasonable terme a el “Look here my little mmn,” said the clerk, ‘what is your grandmother's name, and where dose she tive 1” “Why. she's my gtandem, and lites in Louisiana.” ak a 1 “ Yes. I see that on the letter, hat it will “Geox bliss ye for that sir, bat Michal) never get to her if her name isn’t put ony lives in Chie: te I told bim nld not diepute that, but . Boston and Chicago were two distinct cities robber was in possession of 7 mail key, j and the letter was addressed to both, and . unless you tell me.’ by medhs of which he bad pany exten. that Boston being the first named, it had . «© Why. sir she’s my gra: dma—don’t you e 4 enet . : . sive depredations. He was at length detec . heen retained there, aad his friend had not. know her? She used to live at my bouse.”’ After a display of coasiderable ingenuity . term ip the State prison. . “Sure asd I thonght Boston was in Chicn. on the part of the clerk, and a deal of innoOx bis arrest be manifested much solici . po! that's what ye call a daid letther, is it? cent evasion by the chiid, the old Indy's « POST OFFICE FACTS. from the office to which they were directe . THE INVALID Wire. within a certain time. were seat to what is Not the least painful of the various duties called the Dead Letter Office at Washington conageted with the detection of crime is the . Citf, and from thence, if cootaiuing anything sometimes necessary one of revealing a hus} valuable, to the persons who wrote them, bands guiit to his wife. I anticipated a severe trial of my feelings and the pls . eae in making neh a dieclosare daring the pro snd the place where ehe lives. ** Well, please pnt it on, sir.’ * But Tsball not know what her name is; gn.would overpower ber. “She it . the tether, waw daid.”’ Y decortained, and added to the address after . which the little one went on his way rejoic. ing in the assurance given by the clerk that pearance called one day on a prominent New his “dear grandmathet would certainly reEngland postmaster, wi etter in her . ceive the important epistle from ber darling funds, a part of the proceeds of the rubbe-', s Vane lee me tee : i A z hand, which she insiste P nen broke } ries, which ber husband had committed to ig ' ve insisted bad been br nen . ‘ . ‘ i a open and re-sealed. She ban > lette her keeping. Furnished with a written or P cone he banded the letter . . mnie to the postmaster, who examined i ( der from the prisoner, and leaving him in the _— : , ion oe —e wokaa bis ‘ earances certa eeme fy her asMarshall's custody, I proceeded to call on pearances certainty seemed to jastity her a the invalid, racking my brains, while on the eertion. She further declared that sho well he inv d, cK vy ains, Ww J J ‘ . e shal be 5 Ay ne seiain' design alias Se Siteie:tniitiy of tai knew which clerk in the office had broken it . . hall find them very fat and monotonous municating the n truth which °P° and that be had previously served sey. like hand-orgaus, we have beard all their unica bd } tunes. should disclose it gradually, and spare her : : Upon fzeliags as much as possible. hearing this, the postmaster requested ber. M. Lain, professor of Chemistry at the On my arrival at the boarding-house the to walk inside the office, and point out the . College of Besancon, bas proved the presence note was eent to the ludy’s room. It read as P°rse® chen Gregus {in considerable quantity of arsensic in the . Suehan unusual phenomenon as the ap-! wire from which pins are usually made, “My dear Susan: Will you hand to the . Peerence of a lady inside the office, produced . three or four serving to give a perceptible : pring ’ niga .» a decided sensation among the cle ore ome = bearer a roll of bank notes I left with you. : . “i jon among the ole — Che re . quantity in the common form, ‘Bowne 2? assembled. Nor was the sensation diminisha ee ae : city 3 ed in intensity when the Postmaster inform. ; sige = a4 ast iid 4 : The lady soon made her appearance. She ed them that the Indy was there for the par. nothing interesting in the paper to day, is was young, rather preposessing, and evidenthe ncxgepie ¢ ; : < oy oOuN f * a hed I _igisieceioty bet Twas . Pot of identifying the person who bad been . there? No, love ; but I hope there will y ia delicate health. Finding that I was guilty of breaking open her letters be one day, when we shall both be interestthe bearer of the note, she addreased me, ex‘ ™ " ed.” The young lady blushed, and of course ‘cb nen besthat Nee tnatand’ ted This announcement at once excited the . Poe ress ire: & prise tie , MUSDAL € ° Ps . oe a. e i ‘ id ee si ae liveliest feelings of curiosity and solicitude . the said, “For shame, Charles? sent a request so unusual; and with an air of : in the mind of almost every one present.and. Inasmall party, the subject turning on independence observed that she did not sae i; amas ! ‘ ‘ : k ' E : ' each one, conscious of innocence, indulged . matrimony, a lady said to her sister, ‘I now about paying money over acer such . iy conjectures as to who that somebody else . wonder, my dear, you have never made a might be, whom the accusing ange! (?) was. match : I think you want the brimstone :’ to fix upon as the culprit. . to which she replied ‘No, not the brimstone All their conjectures fell wide af the mark. _on)y the spark 1” After looking about for a moment, the lady . pointed to the Inst man whem any one in. “ the office would have suspected of such an judge to» prisoner at the bar. “Why, your offence—one of the oldest and most reliable . boner, I weed tobe Gentint—~now lama of their number . pugilist. Theo I put teeth in—new I knock es. po pag Ba npr = band’e ad “That is the person,”’ said she, indicating . em ont. ee ery 2g 1 : si Pi y $8 . him by a slight nod of the head, ‘and if be A pedagogue threatened to punish a pupil taken “gen the mails, y him. ere is ” persists in making free with my letters, I who had called bim a fool behind hie back. m stake a rout itHe has had . mail key “Don’t ! don’t !? said the boy. “I won't do whicb I bave a pe ed, and has “et " so again, sir, never! I never will say what full acknowledgm mat of bis numerc us parpose, I esanot imagine; bat if aay more 1 think again in my life!” redations. I beg of you to bear this dreada 3 . A a : ioe aes : ‘ of them are touched, he will wich he bad let, A chemist at Lyons has discovered the ful news with fortitude. Noone will think ‘a te them alone. means of removing instantaneously from the This direct charge, and these these threats, bands the stains produced by nitrate of sil’ produced a greater commotion among bis ver in potograpby. It is simply to put linfellow clerks than in the mind of the gentleseed in the water ueed. man accused. Waiting for a moment after . she had spoken, he -broke the breathicss silence that followed her words, by saying, mly, “Mrs. , I believe?” could ever produce such aneffect; for as soon . = a : ey — as I had Goished what I was saying, she stood Suet tony Atm, Me eee aie sabe nate iy ~ . “Have you concluded your remarks, madif possible, more erect than before, and with m?” some fire in her eye, and one arm “akimbo,”’ . . BI Ae __ . tade for his wife, fearing the intelligence of jraith and I thought it was Bridget and uot . name and, place of residence were finally BE, PIONEER pit dpton , THE BITER RIT. : A lady of very genteel and respectable t was necessary, however, that I should ° 7 genteel and respectablos see her, in order to get possession of some GLEANINGS. Some men are very ertertaining for a first interview, but after that they are ex hansted, and ron out; on a second meeting unpleasant 2 eral of ber letters in the same way. follows: circumstances to an entire stranger.” Desiring not to mortify her unnecesarily by making explanations in the presence of others, . requested her to step into a vacant room near at band, and, after closing the “What has been your business?’’ said a “Itis an extremely painfal thing for me, Mrs. M———-—. but as you do not seem inwill certainly have him arrested. Why my letters should always be selected for thi, I expected to see the poor woman faint immediately, and had mentally prepared my. self for every emergency; but a moment after. I should bave been more likely to have . fallen into that condition, if astonishment A Frenchman mounted on a showy horse met an old priest trotting along on a quiet jackass. “Ha, ba,’ exclaimed monsieur, “how goes the ass, good father?” “On horseback, my son, on horseback,”’ replied the priest. Asaproof of the hardness of the times, “I have, sir, for the present?” there’s a man in Ohio who only kille halfa “Then, madam, I will take the liberty to . ** , inform you that your husband is the person Pig Ato time. on whom yon ought to expend your indigna-. “Scatter the germs of the beautiful.” as tion. He has at different times taken sevethe poet said when he kicked his wife and ral of your letters from the office, opened children out of doors. and read them and after re-sealing, returnA witness was asked bow he knew the ed them to the letter-box, having made cerparties to be man and wife-—‘’Cause I tain discoveries in those letters to which he heard the gentleman blow the lady up,” was forced me to listen, as furnishing eufficient the reply. ground for his course and justifying former suspicions! He earnestly requested me never to disclose who had opened the letter and . should have continued to observe se. i : crecy, had not your accusation forced me to introduce cotton into Turkey.” this disclosure in self-defence. If you wish, When awonan can faint and hasa capital tohave my statement corroborated, I think OPPportunity for fainting,and yet doesn’t faint During my term of service at the genera, lean produce a reliable witness.” you may be tolerably sure that she bas some delivery of this office, it was my custom, up, . The lady did not reply to this proposition other feint in view. on receiving dead letters from Washington . but made a precipitate retreat, leavingthe A wealthy Frenehman who died recently City, to make a list of the names of the par-! clerk master of the field, and was never . in Corsica, was refused interment in conseties to whom they were addressed, and stick . gterwards seen at that post office. crated gronnd in consequence of a copy of it up in the lobby of the office, with a notice,! Th» following anecdote are illustrative of the Protestant New Testament having been “Call for Dead Letters.” the amusing incidents which occasionally found amongst his effects. One day an elaborate specimen of Erin’s . come under the eyes of post-office clerks. . son’s, whose brawny fist and broad shoul. ! she replied iv a spirited manner: “Well, if he Aas done that, he’s a darned fool to own it-—I wouldn't!” She gave up the money, however, soon af ter, and although the reckelssness displayed in the speech above quoted seemed to make it probable that she wasimplicated in her basband’s guilt, it aflerwards appeared that . this exhibition of “spunk”? was due to the) impulses of a high spirited and excitable na. ture, which sometime, as in the present in, stance, broke away fromcontrol, and wen, beyond the bounds of decorum. THK DEAD LETTER. The following is contributed by “Dave,’ of the Columbus (Ohio) Postoffice: A wag, on seeing an old gobbler trying to swallow a cotton string, very facetiously remarked, * That was the last attempt to A son of Galen, who was very angry when TO MY GRANDMOTHER. any joke was passed on physicians, once de A little bright-eyed, flaxen-baired boy feuded himself from raillery by saying, “1 Was one day cbserved to enter the vestidefy any person whom I ever attended. to bule of the post office at Washington, with a accuse me of ignorance or neglect.” ‘ That letter in hishand, and to wait very modestly you may do safely,” replied the wag, ‘‘ for him throngh the window, and asked him for the departare of the crowd collected about . you know, doctor, dead men tell no tales.”” what waste: matter. . the delivery window. Assoonas the place) A butcher, who was once afflicted with “Ol! Mr. Postmaster, I see ye have a daid . Was cleared, be approached the letter-box that obliquity of vision known as strabisletther for me. I spect me sester in Ireland’s . 80d carefully deposited his epistle therein, mus, was about slaughtering 9 bullock, and daid, and it’s not a wake since I sint her a. lingering near, as if to watch over the satety be employed a stout segre to stand by the tin pound note to come to Ameriky wid— . of the precious document. His motions at. nimal’s neck, grasp bis horas, and hold his and kin ye tell me bow long she’s bin daid, . tracted the attention of the clerk stationed head steady, so that he (the butcher) would Mr. Postmaster?” . at the window, whose curiosity induced him . have acertainty of knocking himdown. As I asked him his name, found the “letther,” . to examine the superscription of the letter the butcher poised bis axe in the air, he and after a request from him to “rade it, sir, . just depsited by the little fellow. The adseemed to be looking directly at the negro and rade it aisy, if you plaze,” opened it . dress on the letter was simply, “ To my dear . instead of sertagged bullock, “Look here, look and told him not to cry; that bis sister was. Grandmother, Louisiana,” doubtless some . here, bosey,”” exclaimed the Gesmny. with a not dead, but that it was a letter written by . 800d old lady, whose memory, in the mind . great deal of uerven? weapon, Pe. — himeelf, and directed to Micbael Flaherty, . of her ianocent grandchild, was redolent of . Ewin to strike whar you is lookin aa * Of Boston, Chicago. . cake and candy, and all the various “good. course, I am, you black scoundrel,” was And is Michael daid, Mr. Postmaster?” . ies,” which grandmothers are generally so . the reply. “Den you git somebody else to “No, I guess not,” said I. ‘Well, who ie daid, sir?” Jexplaired to bim that tetters not taken . an eye single to American Railroads, loung. ed into the office, and up to the board conHe looked at ita, moment, and burst into tears. I spoke to ready to,supply to say nothing of the various hold de bullock,’, ejaculated the negro. . wel] meant offices of kindnets to which the’r . “ Yoo isu’t gwin to knock dis ebile’s brains . sometimes blind affections prompts them, . out.” aw