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DU BARRY'S HEALTH RESTORING FOOD THE REVALENTA ARABICA.
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hammer rattled in the workshops . The harbour ot San Francisco was furrowed by the keels of an increasing commerce . The sites of new towns were prepared ; old communities revived ; and San Francisco itself , which we may take as a type of the other towns , as Monterey , Kew Helvetia , and the Dity of Angels , from a village containing some two hundred inhabitants , grew , within a comparatively few months , to be a thriving little town , with a population of twelve hundred . So sudden was the revulsion of feeling in the country , that the people who had before slumbered in utter idleness and apathy , now laboured so peraeveringly , and with so much heart , to recover lost ground , that they forgot , as Captain Folsom expresses it , to divide the Sunday from the rest of the week . California , was clearly on the highway to prosperity and commercial importance . hammer rattled the workshona . Tho Whnnr
But another and more extraordinary change was at hand—a change affecting not only the destinies of California , but of the civuised world . This was the discovery , that a large portion , if not the whole , of the region westward of the Sierra Nevada , is richly impregnated with the precious metal . As soon as this fact was known , Such a scene immediately ensued in the country as perhaps has not been witnessed since Mammon first assumed his imperial sway over mortals . Tho whole male population of the adjoining districts abandoned their ordinary callings , and betook themselves to the tributaries of the Sacramento to collect the precious metal . The success which attended their efforts outrivalled the imaginative creations which the most sanguine follower of
Crcesus ever conjured up before him . In the bed of every torrent , and in every ravine , gold of the purest quality was to be found . "With the speed of the fiery cross the news spread over the whole country ; and never did clansman obey the summons of his chief with half the alacrity that on the present occasion every person in the valleys of the San Joaquin and the Sacramento exhibited in deserting his duty to join in the aureal race . No sooner was the discovery of such abundance of the precious metal made known in San Francisco , than , with two or three exceptions , every person that could wield a shovel or a pick-axe set out for the favoured region . The soldiers en masse abandoned their posts , apply to their use the officers' horses in
their eagerness to arrive sooner at the goal . Only two sergeants remained to protect the magnificent prey which the Americans had so long coveted , and but so recently secured . The sailors in the bay deserted their ships , and the labourers on land followed their example , leaving the merchandise lying like useless lumber on the shore . The merchant forsook his ledger , the clerk contemptuously flung away his pen , the lawyer threw up brief , and all , including farmers and priests , mechanics and physicians , pressed forward to the regions of gold . The Valley of the Sacramento was made populous by the influx of adventurers . A city of tents sprang up in all directions . Encampments thickened along the banks of the river ; the bivouac fires of the gold-seekers blazed in every hollow and on every hill ; waggons and teams poured in from the coast ; the Indian villages emitted their inhabitants to swell the army of delvers which swarmed and
toiled throughout the gold region . Nothing can be imagined more extraordinary than the spectacle pre-ented by the hills , valley ? , and slopes ; tents of white canvass , shining in the sun , and scattered irregularly over the country , contrasted strongly with numerous huts of sombre colour , which , constructed of rashes and branches , and stored with rude implements , constituted the only shelter of many who were rich in gold , but who could scarcely obtain sufficient food to support life . The ripening harvests had been left to r"t , or to be trampled down by the beasts , and no adequate arrangements for supplying the wants of a large population , thus suddenly collected together in an almost uninhabited district , could be expected . R » ughly built stores alternated here and there , whilst many of the gold-seekers were constrained to seek caverns in the ravines , or to be content with the hare roof of Heaven .
Large , however , as was the influx of gold-seekers none were doomed to disappointment . Gold digging , however , is by no means either a pleasant or a safe pursuit , as shown by the adventures of those who have been engaged in it , and whose narratives impart so much lively interest to the work under notice ; one of these persons thus state the result of his own experience : — It is not to be denied that a trip to California is no joke . After an adventurer arrives there , unless he has a great deal of money , or its equivalent in self-denial , and an iron constitution , he is doomed to great suffering . A couple of weeks' residence at San Francisco is so expensive that it will eat up many hundred dollars . The journey to the mines
is tedious and difficult . After he arrives at them he finds the ground has been thoroughly explored , and all the best places « ' prospected " and occupied . If he starts off for any new spot he is in danger of starving to death . "What he can gather he has to expend for food at very exorbitant prices , and now and then a hug from a grisly bear , or an arrow from some unseen bow , concludes the journey . In the wet diggings , if he has strength to bear the labour of digging , stooping , and washing , he is obliged to be constantly in the water : in the dry , he is exposed to a hot sun , or the most piercing cold . Very many give up in despair , after the first attempt , and make their way back as soon as possible to the settlements , often doomed to certain death when they arrive , by attacks of the dysentery , the change of climate and its labours .
And yet there are thousands who endure all this and more , and acquire fortunes in a very short time . The gold is inexhaustible , but human life is precarious . Illustrative of this , let me relate an anecdote . Not long since a party of Philadelphi a ^ went to work on a place near the Yuaba river , and after working for some weeks , settled up their accounts , and were losing fifteen dollars each . They left in disgust , and sold out their right to another party at a little distance , who were getting out a thousand dollars per day . These last , after the Philadelphians had left , repaired to their sew purchase , and by digging only one foot deeper , struck a vein equally as profitable as the other .
A New York lawyer , who deserted his green bag in search of a fortune at the mines , gives the result of his two months experience of them in a letter to his friends ; the prospects at the diggings , be candidly confesses , were not so flattering as they ap pearedat New York . The company he was with had realised very Jittle above the expenses of living , having averaged only about four dollars a day . The work was very laborious for this amount They rose at four o ' clock , took breakfast , consisting of coffee , "flap-jacks , " and sometimes meat ; worked
till twelve , rested an hour or two , and then worked again till sun-down . Six of them , with a machine , washed about three hundred pans of dirt in a day . They frequently worked two or three days and found no gold ; then , again , they took from half-an-OUnce to eight ounces a day . " It is , " says the writer , " all a lottery . If a man is fortunate , he will strike a vein , and take from two to twenty pounds weight out of a hole . But this happens very seldom . The gold runs very irregularly , and can be procured only by hard labour , equal in every respect to that of sewer or canal digging , "
Nor was this hard life softened by any luxuries , or mitigated by abundance . Provisions were higb ; and , in order to live as cheaply as possible , the party eat nothing but "flap-jacks , " meat , and coffee—morning , noon , and night . To make money was their object—not eating . " All miners eat . sleep , and live like hogs . We sleep on the ground , covered with dust and dirt ; our table on the ground , among ants and bugs of all descriptions . I have not slept one single night without my clothes since I left home . " In short , the lawyer had not mended himself by deserting the more certain money-making profession of law for that of a goldhunter . We have already stated that the work contains vivid descriptions of the rapid growth of new towns in rarious parts of the country , and we are told , that
"With the usual enterprise of the American * , steamers , suited to the navigation both of the Bay of San Francisco and the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers , have been introduced . The small steamers are daily pushing their way higher up , and reaping a rich harvest , while they enhance the value of property , and increase the property of tho inhabitants . In a short time the waters , which two or three years ago were unvisited by any vessel larger than an Indian canoe , and were frequented by the native tribes only for the purpose of fishing , will be traversed by steamers as regularly as the Clyde , the Hnmber , or the Thames , and their streams be shickly dotted with populous and thriving communities . The facilities for communication are already good , and are daily increasing , so that in this respect later emigrants will not have to
encounter the inconveniences and hardships which had to be faced by the early gold-hunters , and other seekers after wealth . At present , the accommodation is charged in accordance with every thing olse in California , * that is to say—very high . Notwithstanding the motley character of this hastily-collected population , it would appear that "law and order " were very generally preserved , but last year A movement was made for calling together a Convention in Monterey , in order to frame a constitution , subject to the subsequent approval of the People at large . Public-meetings , ballot-boxes , and other political machinery , are familiar to American twT ?» - he want was no so ° ner 8 ta t * d a » d felt , than it was supplied . A Convention wa « organised S ?^ ° J men of « K » fe 8 t mark and terevS ^^ T ^ They met at Monwrey , in September , 1849 , after having been freelj
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CALIFORNIA . ITS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS . M'Gowan and Co ., Great "Windmill-street , Haymarket , London . "We have no hesitation in pronouncing this book the best that has yet been issued on this exciting subject . To the character of originality the author makes no pretensions , but lie has , by careful and extensive research , brought together a mass of information under the three heads set forth in the title page , which is not to be found in any other single work extant .
from the introduction it would appear , that it was first intended specially for the use of intending emigrants to the El Derado , and a great amount of very useful information for that class of persons , and emigrants generally , is contained in the preliminary and closing chapters . The author seems , however , to have been speedily induced , by the romantic and extraordinary nature of the subject , to abandon the originally limited plan of his work . Commencing with a graphic and interesting geographical and topographical description of this magnificent region , we are conducted flirough the successive phases of society it has presented since its first
colonisation by the Spaniards , in the year 1602 , to its conquest by the United States , in 1846 ; the subsequent discovery of the gold on the American river , and the almost incredible influx of population , wealth , and enterprise into a country which , previous to that period , was a wilderness . The work is , also , enhanced by the stirring and dramatic style in which the adventures of gold diggers are skilfully interwoven with graver " matters , and the growth of large cities , and of a mighty commerce ; the formation of a constitutional government , a legislature , and a complete judicial and municipal system , with a rapidity never before known in history , are forcibly depicted by the
¦ writer . The description of the system of colonisation introduced under the Spanish monarchs by the Dominican Friars , and applied with such success to the native tribes , is exceedingl y interesting , and contains all the elements of a systematic plan of colonisation , far superior to anything that is now attempted in that line by our enlightened philosophers , who prescribe emigration as a panacea for our social evils . Under the mild role and admirable discipline of the Friars , the Californian missions prospered in the highest degree , and amply repaid
to the state all the assistance granted to them at the outset . When the rnle of the Spanish monarchy was thrown off b y the Mexicans , however , the Republican government virtually confiscated the vast domains and large wealth possessed by the Friars , and at the time the United States took possession of the country , but little of the former high cultivation of the missions was to be seen . The governmant and the people combined to neglect the resources of the ceuntry . The native Californian residents were an indolent , proud , pleasure-loving race , among whom anything approaching to systematic industry was unknown .
The government and people , ( says onr author , ) were exclusively Roman Catholic , and the system thoroughly intolerant . No Protestant had any civil rights , nor could they hold any property , or indeed remain a few weeks on shore , unless they belonged to some of the trading vessels . Under the influence of the blind cupidity of the government , and the habitual indolence of a race such as has been described , the country gradually relapsed into wilderness and barbarism . The stock fonnd in the missions were disposed of without any attempt to replace them by breeding . The herbage was luxuriant , and at times so rank that it almost became unwholesome : yet the inhabitants were too lazy to undergo even the slightest exertion which wai necessary to provide an abundance of milk , butter
and cheese from the abundance of milch cows which cropped it . They chose rather to slaughter the vast herds of cattle which wandered from pasture to pasture , for the hide 3 and tallow , for with these the necessai ' us of life could be obtained without labour . Their flesh was partly consumed , and partly left to decay upon the ground , which in many places around the missions was whitened for acres with the bones . In the rural districts deserted villages became of more frequent occurrence . The towns fell into decay , the Indians fled into the woods to resume their old habits , or took possession of the domains formerly under the sway of the friar 3 , and thus a . region , more extensive than Great Britain and Ireland , a few years since had a population of only eight thousand white inhabitants , and perhaps six time 3 that number of roving Indians .
Influence ^ however , were silently at work destined to change this system of wasteful mismanagement on the part of the Mexican government , and ofslothandsupmenesson the part of the people . The American and English adventurers who settled in Monterey and other towns , married Calilornians , became united to the Catholic Church , and acquired considerable property . An Anglo-Saxon party had thus been gradually and unsuspectingly formed in all the principal towns , and it latterly received an immense accession ^ strength by the influx of Americans , who , having teen disappointed in Oreeon . crossed the Bear
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sHAsmSSSs ^ SKStesaq-r Sa numbers , about five millions sterling m «> und Prom the time the flag of the United States «*» raised in the country , in July , 1810 everVS began to wear a different appearance . Confluence was inspired ; lndustryreceived an impulse Crowds thronged down upon those fertile valleys which had for many years been neglected . Prosperity appeared to approach by rapid strides ; villages sprung up , as though by magic , in various parts of the conntry ; the sound of the axe was heard in the wrest ; the amil echoed among the ravines ; the
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chosen by their respective constituents in the various districts , to proceed with the solemn and important duty confided to them ; and , five weeks af terwards , they met on the morning of the 13 th . of October , to discharge their , last public corporate duty—that of signing the constitution they had agreed to . Truly , our Yankee cousins are " goahead in all respects ! Their railway speed in legislation , contrasts strangely with the cumbrous and leisurely march of such affairs at home . The composition of the convention was , of course , sufficiently varied , and wo are informed , .. chosen thwii * rmnrrti im nnnni ; i ,. nn * r . in fhn
Occasionally , an amusing scene oceurrod , which indicated the temper as well as attainments of the delegates . A section , of the constitution being under consideration , in which it was declared that every citizen arrested for a criminal offence should be tried by a jury of his peers , a member , unfamiliar with such technical terms , moved to strike out the word " peers . " " I don't like that word' peers , '" said he ; " it ainfc republican ; I'd like to know what we want with peers in this country—we ' ve not got a monarchy , and we ' ve got no Ilouso of
Parliament . ' I vote for no such law . But , notwithstanding such occasional infractions of legislatorial etiquette , according to European notions , the Con * vention succeeded in framing a constitution that may , perhaps , be safely pronounced the most liberal and advanced ever yet propounded for the government of any community , ancient or modern . State officers were appointed , and an application made for admission into the Federal Union , as a State , which is not yet decided upon , hut which , there is no doubt will be ultimately carried .
One of the most interesting chapters in the work is devoted to the history of the rise , progress , persecutions , and present flourishing condition of the sect of Mormons , in the interior of the Great Basin , where they have also organised a constitution , and all the machinery of a government , and applied for admission into the Union . That has just been refused , by the Senate at Washington ; but , we believe , with the continued influx of converts , and consequent increase of power , the end will be their recognition as a sovereign State . Four years ago the district had not a single settled inhabitant ; now take the impressions of a recent American traveller as what he saw around him in the city of the Great Salt Lake : —
I can scarcely realise that I am a thousand miles from home I The cultivation of an old settled country—the bustle and activity of a city—the necessaries and even the refinements of civilised life—together with the habits and manners of an educated race of people , are all around me ! I . im in the midst of a desert , and yet I see a large city , teeming with life and enterprise—with an exhaustless soil to sustain it—destined to become the metropolis of a mighty empire ' . I am away from home , and yet home influences are around and about me ; and , in imagination , I forgef the distance that intervenes between us ! The Mormons are a great people , and whatever may be thought of the peculiarities of their religious creed , the rapidity with which they increase , the oneness of their councils—their discipline -all foreshadow their ultimate destiny .
We cannot better conclude our notice of this valuable and deeply-interesting work , than by extracting its closing paragraph : — We now conolude our narrative of the past history , present condition , and future prospects of the Golden Land . It contains , in a condensed form , all the information , collected from a great variety of authorities , which has as yet reached this country . The desire to avail ourselves of the latest intelligence , while it has rendered the narrative somewhat irregular and unmethodical , has at the same time enhanced its practical value , both to those who may think of emigrating , and also to those who may desire to know the history and capabilities of this singular country . A more extraordinary narrative scarcelbe ined
can y imag , than that which it has been our duty , as sober chroniclers offsets , to relate , and vast as have been the immediate consequences of the discovery of the gold placers in the valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin—they are but trivial to the political and social influences which that discovery is yet destined to produce on the civilised world . It has opened up new regions for the employment of iudustry , capital , and enterprise . It will . ia a comparatively short period cause the most remote portions of tho globe to be closely connected with each other by means of the facilities which modern science has placed at the command of society . Through the agency of the steam vessel , the railroad , and ultimately by the universal extension of the electric telegraph , time and space may be almost annihilated , and far distant
continents be more closely connected for all the great purposes of commerce and civilisation , than were the northern counties and the metropolis of England a century ago . The barbarism and antagonism which are the necessary results of mutual ignorance and isolation , may be expected to disappear before the steady flow of European energy , intellect , and skill , to those far off regions . Asia , the birth place of religion , art , and industry , may by the reflex tide of western civilisation , be raised from its present semi-ni y ilised , and . in some places , wholly barbarous condition ; while in the fertile and beautiful islands of the Pacific , along the shores of New Holland , large enough almost to take rank as a fifth continent , and in the New Zealand groupe ef islands , we have already planted the seeds ot future powerfulAngloS . iXOu States .
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^ , An Anecdote of Bernadotte . —It was some time during the short peace of 1802 that a foreign gentleman came to Gibraltar with letters of credit and introduction from a mercantile house in Italy to a house of business on the rock , the ostensible object of this visit being to open transactions between the two firms . Tho merchant of the rock having read the letters , received the bearer with cordiality , and made him welcome as an inmate in his house . The foreign merchant , when introduced by his host to the Governor , expressed , as must every stranger , astonishment at the stupendous works , betraying by his observations the most profound ignorance of the science of fortification , and at the same time expressing a natural curiosity to
" see the lions , " which the Governor readily assented to , and introduced him to one of his staff as a Cicerone . The extravagant wonder and puerile observations of the man of commerce at all be saw afforded no small amusement to his conductor who , after a day or two , tired with doing the civil allowed the gentleman to rove about among the sentinels , to whom he soon became as familiar as un chien du regiment . The time of departure of the visitant was now close at hand , when one morning the hospitable Gibraltar merchant , who was in the habit of catering for himself , was on his way before breakfast to the fish-market , when he found that in his haste he had put on a wrong hat . On taking it off to examine it he recognised it as the hat of his
guest . Something , however , unusual in its appearance , induced him to scrutinize it more closelv when he observed a double crown , concealed in which , to his astonishment , he found plans and elevations , with a most perfect reconnoisance of the rock , made by tho very simple gentleman who knew not the angle of the flank from the flanked angle of a bastion , nor could tell a •¦ hornwork " from a " ram ' s-horn . " Our Gibraltar merchant , pocketing the papers , hastened to lay the matter before the Governor . In the meantime , the foreign gentleman having missed his hat , suspecting that all was not right , and that l » y remaining a moment longer he should endanger his personal liberty , hurried down to the port , and , engaging with a boatman , was beyond the range of the guns of the
fortress , and on his way to Cadiz before the friend returned home . ' The person who thus escaped from the rock , on his arrival at Cadiz , coolly called on the British Consul , to whom lie related the cause of his sudden flight from the British fortress and the loss of his papers and drawings ; " but , no matter , " said he , pointing to his forehead . " I have it all here ; my name is Bernadotte . It will be remembered that at St . Helena Bonaparte mentioned the design he had of laying siege to Gibraltar , with the mode of proceeding and the amount of force employed , and the result of which he was confident would have been success , —all , no doubt , planned from the information obtained from the man destined to wear the crown of Sweden . —Aaval andihltaru Gazette .
Capiobk op Henry VI . —At Waddington , in Mytton , stands a pile of building , known as the " Old Hall , once antique , but now much indeed despoiled of its beauty , where for some time the unfortunate King , Henry VI ., was concealed after the fatal battle of Hexham , in Northumberland . Quietly seated one day at dinner , " in company with Dr . Slanting , dean of Windsor , Dr . Bedle , and ono Ellarton , " his enemies came upon him by surprise , but he privately escaped by a back door , and fled to Brungerley stepping-stones ( still partially visible in a wooden frame ) , where , he was taken prisoner , " his legs tied together under the horse ' s belly , "
and thus disgracefully conveyed to the Tower in London . He was betrayed by one of the Talbots of BaBhall Hall , who was then high sheriff for the West Riding . This ancient house or hall is still in existence , but now entirely converted into a building for farming purposes— " Sic transit gloria raundi . " Near tho village of Waddington there is this to be seen a meadow known by the name of " King Henry ' s Meadow . " In Baker ' s ' Chronicle" the capture of the king is described as having taken place "in Lincolnshire , " but this is evidently incorrect ; it is Waddington , in Mytton , West Yorkshire . —Notes and Queries ,
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vJ WPUUiioN of Home , which was 180 , 000 is KSL ? ° ' ' r less than 50 , 000 have * eifher KnT » W ° ? luntarily < l u' « ed it ; the inquistion re-established ; the Roman Catholic religion ffln " ? very foundation ; the Pope and clergy new in contempt and hatred ; thousands killed by tne sword or musket during the siege ; widows , 2 $ « i ^ W nnd « i » treM in every shape spies and sbirn prowling about the streets in search ot their prey ( the Liberals ); diffidence introduced trn ? D '«' ! social ties-rent asunder ; an empty ™" f ' < Rl P * l currency at a . discount of fifteen tTinnt j '• ' ' ¦ the medical men and lawyers of any uient driven into exile commerce annihilated , and mBnf , ^ Of res P . eetablo families without employment and many without tooi .-Chronicle . WtanW FoilS" ? - iltes ' ^ urupled »> popuof 2 SftST W , - . afc this time a population SJfSmS'Ko . gr 0 WU fr ° ' ° ' The Cincinnati Nonpareil says that the small , nox
in oX rUUn ? ° "g tbe Sioux In « "M » , "nd that in order to atop its spread , they have burned to death a number who had taken tho disease . J" ™? 0 ME a" < l expenditure of the United Kinginw ,. tH endlns 5 th July > 185 ° . is asfo 1-! . . a- ' > - Otal reven « e , £ 53 , 429 , 072 10 s . ; total expenditure , £ 40 , 801 , 330 12 s . 8 d . balance of income over expenditure , £ 3 , 438 , 34117 s . 4 d . Going a soldiering , " as the lobster said , when thexjook uut him into the pot . ¦ 1 HONooiupnXr-A lazy boy out in Indiana spells Andre * Jackson thus . &vu Jaxn . 'Are you looking for anything in particular ?" as the rat said , when he saw the cat watching him . Xau re a hard customer , " as tho man said , when he ran against the lamp post . Immense swaiims of locusts have lately appeared « . a provm . ° , e of Tittory , in Algeria , and have wasted a considerable tract of country
. Among the lineal descendants of Edmund of Woodstock , Earl ot Kent , sixth , son of Edward I ., King of England , entitled to quarter the voval araia , occur Mr . Joseph Smart , of Ilalesowen , butcher , and Mr . George Wilnot , keener of the turnpike-gate at Cooper ' s Bank , near Dudley — Burke s Anecdotes of the Aristocracy . Difference between Make and Construct . — Omnibuses are generally constructed to hold fifteen , but somehow thej are made to hold eighteen , and on a wet night frequently more than that . The Builder states that : i pair of compasses , said to be undoubtedly Roman , but resembling in every respect the modern instrument , has been found among the Roman remains lately discovered at Cirencester .
Eleven Americans , on their way to California icross the plains , have been murdered by the Yumas-Indians ; and at tho crossing of tho Colorado there is said to be a gang of American and Mexican outlaws , who rob and murder travellers . The whole number of vessels which have sailed from the Atlantic ports of the United States for those or California , since the discovery of "old in that region , is 1 , 257 , including thirty steamers . Tho aggregate tonnage of these vessels is nearly 400 , 000 tons . '
A Fact for Naturalists . —We give the following as a striking instance of affection in the swallow , and power of instinct to overcome difficulties which occurred lately in the neighbourhood of Montrose : —From the flaw in the construction of a nost the increasing weight of the callow brood it contained caused it to fall , which being observed , and the young ones uninjured , it was resolved by some youths to attempt their preservation . A smjill box was fixed whence the nest had fallen , with an opening to admit the parent birds ; the youns ones were then placed in the box . The old ones / aftei the
rcconnoitering structure , and cautiously watching for half nn hour , ventured to look in , and finding their progeny safe , at once commenced feeding them in their new abode . But , after , all , it seemed not exactly to suit their architectural ideas ; a « d they immediately set about improving it , by filling up the crevices and spare corners ol the box , and narrowing the aperture to the usual shape and size , completing the whole by noon next day . It was observed that the repair was made solely bv one of the birds , while the other did the duties of nurse The young ones are now ready to take wing .
The Gateshead Observer has recently received " a lock of a lady ' s hair , "—alocksnow-wliite , blanched by 119 winters . The person from whose tresses it was cut is Miiry Benton , who was born near Itiiby Castle in 1731 , and can still walk in the garden . She resides at Elton , with her grandson , a farmer . Her daughter keeps a public-house , and her husband ' s mother still survives , in her ninety-sixth year ; so that the daughter is probably singular in the extreme longevity of both her mother and her mother-in-law . Why is a minister like a locomotiro ? -We have to look out for him " when the bell rings !" Vim is the condition of a medical man without patients like that of a Sabbatarian eating a hot dinner on a Sunday ?—Because it is Profession without Practice . —Punch .
In tears gone by , when it was tho fashion for ladies to trim their straw bonnets with artificial wheat and barley in ears , a satirist of the time " let on as follows : — " Who now of threatening famine dare complain When every female forehead teems with grain ? ' See how the wheat sheaves nod amid the plumes—Our barns are now transferr'd to drawing-rooms ; And husbands who indulge in active lives , To fill their granaries , may thrash their wives . " JonN Wilkks was once asked by a Roman Catholic gentleman , in a warm dispute on religion " Where was your Church before Luther ? " " Did you wash your face this morning ? " inquired ihc facetious alderman . " I did , sir , " " Then pray where was your face before it was washed ?"
• ' How long will it take me to reach the next town ? " asked a pedestrian on a turnpike road . " Walk on , walk on , " said the person interrogated Thinking he was misunderstood , tho traveller repeated the question , when the same answer whs returned . Fancying that the man was crazv , the pedestrian moved on at an accelerated pace . ' " 'Look hero , ' said the interrogated party , calling after the traveller , ' It ' 11 take you half an hour . I couldn ' t tell you , till I saw how you walked , what time you'd take ! " '
A Quibble on Alarm . —A man is indicted for striking at the Queen , with intent ( among other things ) to alarm her Majesty . It turns out that the very judge has forgotten the legal ( which is ako the military ) meaning of the word . An alarm is originally the signal to arm . Query : Is it not formed from the cry a I ' arme , which in modern times is aux armes ? The judge said , that from the courage of her family , most likely tho Queen was not alarmed , meaning , not frightened . But tlie legal intent to alarm merely means die intent to make another think that it is neccssnry to tnfcr measures of defence or protection . When an alarm is sounded , the soldier who is not alarmed is the one who would be held to be frightened .-A ' olcs and Quenes .
A wipe must learn how to form her husband ' s happiness by seeking to know in what direction the secret of his comfort lies ; she must not cherish his weaknesses by working upon them , she must not rashly run counter to his prejudices . Her motto must be , never to irritate . She must study never to draw largely upon the small stock of patienco in man s nature ; nor to increase his obstinacy by trying to drive him ; never , if possible , to have " scenes . I doubt much if a real quarrel , even if made up , does not loosen the bond between man and wife , and sometimes , unless tho affection of both be very sincero , lastingly . If irritation should occur , a womnn must expect to hoar from most men
a strength and vehemence of language far more than the occasion requires . Mild as well as stern men are prone to this exaggeration of language : let not a woman be tempted ever to say anything sarcastic or violent in retaliation . The bitterest repentance must needs follow such an indulgence If she do . Men frequently forget what they have themselves said , but seldom what is uttered by their wives . They are grateful , too , for forbearance in such cases ; for , whilst asserting moat loudly that they are right , thoy are often conscious that they are wrong . Give a little time , is tho greatest boon you can bestow , to tho irritated feolingo of your husband . -rAe English Matron
Jack-o'Lantebns . —Upon this apparently barren and unpromising theme a modem writer airings S £ ° SWing originaIand amusing moral reflections :- « Every man has his Jack-o ' -lantern ; m night or noon-day-in lonely wild or in populous city-each has bis Jack-o ' -lantern . To this man Jack comes m the likeness of a bottle of old port , seducing him from sobriety , and leaving him in a quagmire ; to that man ho appears in the form of a splendid pheaton and a pair of greys , driving him into tho open jaws of ruin . To one he presents himself m the guise of a cigar , keeping him in a constant cloud ; to another he appears in no shape but that of an old black letter volume , over which he continues to pore long after his wits are gone . Jack-o -lantern is to some people a mouldy hoarded and
guiuea— these ho leads into tho miser ' s slough of despond ; while to others , when he pays them a visit , ho rolls himself up in the form of a dice-box —and then he makes beggars of them . Poetry is one mnn's Jack-o ' -lantern , and a spinning jenny is another ' s . Fossil bones buried fathoms deep in tho earth act Jack ' s part , and lure away one class to explore and expound ; Cuyps and Claudes , in the same way , play the same part with a second class , and tempt them to collect , at the sacrifice of every other interest or pursuit in life . Jack will now take the likeness of a French cook , anddvaw a patriot from his beloved country to enjoy a foreign life , cheap ; and now he will assume the appearance ef a glass of water , ' persuading the teetotaller , who drank like a fish" is his young days , to drink a great deal mere like a fish in his old days .
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HE SLAVEHOLDERS ASD THEIR ALLIES . AS AMERICAN FOE 1 I . Quench every free discussion light-Clap on the legislative snuffers , And caulk with " resolutions" tight The ghastly rents the Union suffers I Let Church and State brand Abolition As heresy and rank sedition . Choke down , at once , each breathing thing That whispers of the rights of man ; Ga" the free girl who dares to sing Of freedom o ' er her dairy pan ; Bog the old fanner ' s steps about , And hunt his cherished treason out . Do more . Fill up your loathsome gaols With faithful men and women—set The scaffold up in those green Tales , And let the verdant turf be wet " With Wood of unresisting men—Aye , do all this , and more—what thbs ? Think ye , one heart of man or child Will falter from , its lofty faith , At the mob ' s tumult , fierce and wild , The prison cell—the shameful death ? 3 « o!—nursed in storm and trial long , The weakest of our band is strong . ° Oh ! while before us visions come Of slave-ships on Tirginia's coast—Of mothers in their childless home , Like Rachel , sorrowing o'er the lost—The slave-gang scourged npon its way—The blood-hound and his human prey—We cannot falter ! Did we so , The stones beneath would murmur out , And all the winds that round us blow Would whisper of our shame about . ~ So I let the tempest rock the land , Our faith shall live—onr truth shall stand . Trne as the Yaudois , hemmed around With papal fire and Roman steel—Firm as the Christian heroine , bound Upon Domitian ' s torturing wheel , We bate no breath—we curb no thought-Come what may come , we faltee sot ! Jons 6 . WmniEH
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Du Barry's Health Restoring Food The Revalenta Arabica.
DU BARRY'S HEALTH RESTORING FOOD THE REVALENTA ARABICA .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 24, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1588/page/3/
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