Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 February 1860 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT,

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY A. C. TIIOMFSOIY, Frop'r' TE3MS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year, In Advance, 1 50 If paid after three month., 2 Of)' do. after the year expire? 2 t0 ( The ahove terms tt'iil be strictly ailhcred to, in everv instance. ! justness Carte. Ml Of IB SI HI Iff INDIANA. BRAXCil AT VLYMOCTII, 1XLK E. S.'oRfiAX, Tres. I II. KAR LY, Cashier EASTERN EXCHANGE, Drafts o- Cincinnati and Chicago, Gold and feilver, Uncur rent Money and land Warraiita BOUGHT AND SOLD. ID" Deport Received and Money Loaned. O" Exchange on Europe bought and sold. 13" Attention given to Collections, and General Banking Business Transacted June 23, 1SV?. 31 lDWARDST0tJS5 PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. IV. . Eduard) m Capt. O. ISaily,) " - Proprietors FARMS' HOTEL. (V POTITK STRKET, 'SEAR TUR IF.rOT.) PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. ,1GOD Fare, low bill and cvwry attention paid Jf to render the stay of all who patronize the iraimeiV agreaal-Ie. Coodan-iconvcKient stabling fr those haying orsps. -2tf JO SHOUT. l It. DICKSOX J- C I-KOXARI II- B DICKSON" & CO. nKAf.KR3 IX TT J. 23 "7 US, of every description, also, Stoves, in, Tieet-Iro:i au& Copper Ware voll rLYMOirni, IND C. M. KEKVE. . A. C. CATRON I REEVE & CAPROH, Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind., Practice iu Marshall and adjoining counties. REFER TO lUbcoek Si Co.. Phelps, n."k'P & Co., N. Y. Coolev, Farwell k Co., Gould k T.ro. Chicago. Loudon kC , Philad., Grair. FVnnett i Co., Pitts. Hon. A. I.. Osloni, Circ't. Jinle, Laporte, Ind. II. COREIN J- C- OSBORNE coKfcltf & osborhe: OFFICE IN RANK BUILDING, PLYMOUTH ' ND. HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN- Particular attention paid to Obstetric Practice, and Chronic diseas of Women, and diseases of Children. Olfice over O. Palmer's store, corner Michigan and Laporte streets, where he can be consulted at all hours. l-3tf. LEANDER GROVER, f TTG Ml .1 I3V .IT Jk.Zn AND KNOX. STARKE COU1STTY, IND. Will p.-actice in th several counties of this Judicial circuit, and attend promptly to the payment of Taxes, and collection of Claim?. 11 vl DR. J. T. CHALMERS, TProxxx Saltimoro Will practice Medicine, Snnrery and Obstetricks. Permanently located in Tyne'r City, Marsl-all Co., Indiana. Oifice one dooi south of Mr. J. C. Cushman & Hissel's Store. Oct. 27-1 It fBENDER HOUSE J. D. CLARK, - - - - Proprietor, KNOX, STARK CO. IND., Has refitted the same, and is now prepared to give satisfaction to all those who may give aim a call. ' Persons visiting Knox c ill and see for yourselves. : 23m3. C. H. REEVE, Cnsuranco Agent. 'or.Etpa of Hartford, Cash Assetts, $1700,000 'orPhanix do do 420,1)00 'or Peoria, Marine and fire Insurance Companv, f Peoria III., Cash Assetts $3fW),lMM Policies issued at the lowest possible rates. OlFcc n LaPortc street Plymouth Ind. 21m3 JIARTFOIID irirc 3fnsnrnncc (Lompnmj, OF HARTFORD. CONNECTICUT. "CAPITAL, $."00.0)0; suq.lus 20142 23; as ,fets Jamuuv 1, 150, 7!v,0:i2 23. Ineorpoated 1810. II IkxTiNr.TOX, President; T C Al n, Secretary; I Alexander, f Je:n-ral agent fo e West, Columbus, Ohio. Policies is-sued bv HORACE CORHtN, A-jent, e3-101v Plymouth, Ind. J. H. CASE, TUSTICK OF THK PEACE I" TAH moved his oCi ire outdoor north of Pierce fJ Clothing store, near the Democrat printin ifhce, on Michigan street, where he will giv irompt ntion to all el.iims entrusted to him fo oll-'ctioi., ' "ras Jnstiee of the peace or in high r eourts. Tu.v ing &c., promptly attended to Plymouth, Ind., spt. 3. l58-12tf. WHEN WILL WONDERS CEASE! IN PLYMOUTH? 1). F - HARTMAN & CO. . Havestarted a new Harnessand Saddle Shop two doors north of IJ Urownlee's store, on the East side of Michigan Ftieet, at No 6 where they intend keepifig on hand, Saddles and Harness of all kinds, and will sell as cheap as the cheapest. Call and examine their stock and work. All jpairinj done in order and on short notice. 14t DR. T. A. B0RT0H, Physician and Surgeon. Office over Pershing's Drug Store, in Dr. A . O Borton's Dental Rooms, Michigan street, east side corner of Gano, where he may be consulted dur. ing office hours. DR. A. 0. BORTOll, SURGEON DENTIST. Whole or partial sets of Teeth inserted on the most approved plans. Special attention paid to the preservation of the natural teeth, and irregularity of Children's teeth corrected. Fanga and difficuit teeth extracted with or without Chloroform. Can be consulted at his office at any time except on Mondays and Tuesdays. Office in Perhing'sblock , upsUirs,corner Michigan aud Garro streets, -ly)

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OXi X3 THE SEXTON. Could lines more beautiful than these -frbm Ihc New York Etening Iosi-be foünd in the English lansruairc : On a marble slab in the Churdi yardold Sitteth the sexton gray, At mid of night, as the olden yea Is singing its lift; away Tale and cold from the half-hid moon Falleth a gentle bean, Playing along his frosted locks With a glittering ilvef gleam. Little he recks the clinging damp, As he bows in silent prayer; Nor the wind that springs with a lohHy chill, From the dead entombed there. He slcepeth now on a sculptured urn He resteth his weary head, ' While noiseless round him gather All of his angel dead. liittl. ones hurled In olden time, Ilisf-u from out the iiii'uld, Brushing across his silvery locks Rinir'cts of silken "old. One of a fair and angel lorm Hendcih over liim lo v ; He sniilctli, for in hi dreaming, Ileclaspcth her fondly now. Madge, with her tresses of sunny tint, Ihow of heavenly snow, Wly dii-d sind.rokcn and scorned of all, Wearv long vears airo. Madge. wh:had died on his Iieavingbreast, Penitent, sobing the while ; Now, in God's Heaven of Holy Love, Shriven of all her guile. Softly ihc pillows the old man's head On her bosom of driven snow. Whispering tales of the olden time, Of the buried long ago. Faint, from the tall cathedral spire, Cometh a feeble shout ; Heavenly now are the brazen bells Ringing the old year out. Gently Ids dream is fading away, The litth' ones all have flown ; Yet not for a wearily passing year. Ij he left upon earth alone." The bells that are ringing the old year out, Toll for the sexton dead. Lying upon the marble cold, Where he pillowed his weary head. Histcllancou $. ft'raisc Your Wife. Praise your wife, man; for pity's sake, give her a little encouragement; it won't do her any hurt. She has made your home comfortable, your hearth bright andshudng,; nurf'Mid agreeable for pity'a sake, tell her you thank her, if nothing more. Sh don't expect it; it will make her eyes open wider than they have this ten years, but it will do her good, for all that, and you, too. There arc many women to-day thirsting for the word of praise, ! the language of encouragement. Through sum- j incr's heat, through winter's toil; they have drudg- ! od uneomphiininglv; and so accustomed have their fathers, brother and husbands become to their monotoiioiis labors that they look for and upon them as they do the daily lining of the sun and its daily going down. Homely, c very-dav life m iy be made beautiful bv an appreciation of its very homeliness. You know that if the floor is clean, mutual labor has been performed to make it so. You know that if you c in take from your drawer a clean shirt whenever you want it, somcliody'g fingers have ached in the toil of making it so fresh and agreeable, so lustrous. Everything that pleases the eye and the ensc, has been performed by constant work, much thought; great care, and untiring efforts, bodily and mentally. It is not that many men do not appreciate these things and feel a glow of gratitude for the numberless attentions bestowed upon them in sickness and and in health, but they are so selfish in that feeling They don't come out with hearty 'Why how pleasant you make things look, wife ! ' or 'I'm obliged to you for taking so much pains !' They thank the tailor for giving them 'fits; they thank the man in a full omnibus who gives them a seat; they thank the- young ladv ho moves along iu the concert room; in short, they thank everything out of doors, became u is the custom, and come home, tip their chairs back and their heels up, pull out the newspaper, grumble if w ife asks them to take the baby, scold if the fire has got down; or if everything is just right, shut their mouths with a smack of satisfaction, but never say 'I thank you.' 1 tell you what men, young and old, if you did but show ordinary civiiity towards those commrii articles of housekeeping, your wives, if you gave them the one hundred and sixtieth part of the compliments you almost eh )ked them with before they were married, if you would stop the badinage about who vow are going to have when number one is dead, (such things wives may laugh at, but they; siik deep son.etimes,) if von "would cease to sneak oi tneir faults, However bantennglv before others, iewer women would seek tor other sources of happiness than your apparently bold, so so-ish affection. Praise your wife, then, for all the good qualities she has and you may rest assured that her denciencies arc lully counterbalanced by your own. "Ixfant Baptism." An incident occrred in a small town in an adjoining county, a few bays ago, which is worth relating A gentleman and his wifo (who had been married perhaps legs than a year) converted during a revival among the old school Babtists. After the immersion of several converts includlngthe husband the preacher turned to tho lady and inquired if she was prepared, when she very innocently and seriously rejoined "Not at present, sir, as I am opposed to infant baptism. ———<>——— ——>A MONSTER.—In the town of Indiana, Pennsylvania, last week, a demon in human form, named Stuchel, was on trial for cruelty to his son, a boy eight years of age, in which the evidence developed such systmatic brutality as we have never befoe [sic] heard of. It was shown that he at one time suspended the boy by his thumbs from a rafter, bompel [sic] a younger brother to kindle a fire under him, and kept him in this position until terrblibly [sic] burnt,.Again he laid him upon a heated stove, and atter- [sic] ward obliged him to stand barefooted upon it. That child was in Court, and exhibited on his person the evidences of this inhuman treatment.

PLYMOTJTH, INDIANA, TIIUESDAY,

Letter from Professor J. N. McDowell, TO HENRY WARD BEECUER. St. Louis, Dec. 8th, 185D. To ihc lleo. Henry Ward Leecher ' Sir t This is the racrnlng of the anniversary of the "crosslnsr of the Delaware" by George Washington and the battle of 1 renton ine Governor oi xuississippi nas appointed to-day a day of thanksgiving in memory of tho achievements of the 'Father of his Country.' And I keep it with a twofold feeling cf a filial duty, for George Washington and .ny own father, who was with him on that dreadful night and the two succeeding days. I do moat heartily thank God, my Father in Heaven, for their deliverance in that most perilous adventure. I thank Him that He parted the ice as He did the Red Sea, to safely land on that stormy night that small but heroic band to battle with the enemies of liberty, and made them successful against five times their number. I thank Him for the freedom and prosperity of. our common country, both .North and South; and I thank Him for the preservation of our Union beneath the hollow of His hand. But abeve all things have I thanked Him that He has not made me such a man as Henry Ward Beecher, with a heart full of black ingratitude for the achievement of human liberty by that heroic band. I thank Him that not one diop of blood flows in my veins, or the veins of my family for disunion; and there still lives, tho same love of liberty in my humble bosom that impelled them to battle and to cross the Delaware, and would impel me to cross the Mississippi to battle with the foes of this Union the only hope for civil and religious liberty for the human race. Sir, let mo reason with you. and carefully read what I write you, that you may "see yourself as others see you." You profess to be a Christian, yet in no wise do you follow in the footsteps of your Master, or are actuated by the spirit of Ins religion. Iiis was of peace, yours of the sword. His was forbearance, yours assault, even uuto death, upon your friends and your country. He purchased no weapons even, to bo turned upon His enemies, while yours is the religion of the bowie knife and rille. His was mercy, yours is murder. You would turn tho brutal negro upon the unsuspocting white man and the defenceless white woman, and se them gloat on murder and rapine. He would rather little children to his bosom, while you would consign innocent white girls of your ovn race to the brutal embrace of the African. I therefore cannot address you as a minister of the Christian religion, or a follower of Jesus; but as a heartless, unfeeling, uncompromising kdave, too wise to act without a deadly purpose, loo little religion to bo a bigot or a fanatic, but pos sessing; the power to make fools and fanatics of others. In your Church 'but recently you havo raised money t excite insurrection in my native country, and when tho damning need is done, say with hypocritcal eant, I did not do it; that no forco should be ucd except moral suasion.' You send men to apply the torch to your ueighbor's dwelling, and excite black men to murder white men, then say you only wish o libeiate the slave. Such conduct no reason can justify, no honest Christian can approve. Jesus Christ lived in a province of ihe Roman Empire and never excited feelings of anger iu man against his fellow man, and never plotted treason against the Government under which he lived, but said, 'render unto Caesar what is Ciesar's, servants bo obedient unto your master's,' and that, too, when there were sixty three millions of white slaves in the Empire. If, sir, your excuse for the conduct is, that you wish to confer a toon upon the human race, why prefer the black and inferior race to the white why spare the one and butcher the otli2r? Why in blood instead of peace and mercy? Or, if your philanthropy must be exercised, why not begin with your 'moral suasion your bowie knives, Sharpe's rifles and bloodshed in Africa, tho parent country, where the field is wider and the harvest is ripe? But, sir, turn in at homo and look upon yourself cleanse first the Lazar house of your great Eastern cities before you begin the work of reform in Kentucky and Virginia; and when your work is finished at home, if not partial to color, we would invite your philanthropic efforts to Asia where there are four millions more degraded than tho African of your own country. Why exci'e men to fanatical deeds which must destroy both their country and themselves? Why press the Southern States to disnnion, when destruction will fall alike on both North and South? If this Union is dissolve wc must of necessity be engulfed in the raalestrom of European politics and European wars, and go down forever as a nation or a republic. The South can in six weeks make an alliance with either England or France, commercial or political, offensive and defensive, and in either case it will be utter ruin to New England and the manufacturing States. If with England your tariff system, which has ever been oppressive to the South, will bo broken as a rope of sand and scattered to the fonr winds, and you come in collision with your ancient competitor without protection, and your manufactoties must bo destroyed. And far worse would it be for you, for us. and the whole civilized world, if that alliance should bo made with France; for then the cotton, tho sugar, and all tho products of the Sou her States would be landed at Havre and purchased at a much higher rate, and Old England and New England would see the handwriting on the wall. Think you, the most sagacious and wily monarch of the French would not see the way open to crush the commerce and manufactories of England, and make her feel that she is dependent upon her ancient enemy, possibly feel tho tread of the heel of war. This opportunity offerod to Louis

Napoleon, and wo should see 300,000 Frenchmen quartered at New Orleans and at tho Chesepeake, and the South would command the Mississippi Valley and whip Ohio, Indiana arid Illinois in her confederacy. At the mouth of the Ohio who be a toll gale for the entire products of this wide and fertile country, while our railroad bridges wollld be burned and the tracks of every quarter snapped like a spider's web be the hunicano of civil war. And while tho strife between England and France is impending for the mastery of both sea and land the armed millions cf Europe would look on with breathless anxiety, while our once happy and pepceful land, but for the Abolitionist and negro, would bo the scene . e -i .1 .i.n ! ef civil war, the most deadly of all wars knife to knife, face to face, steel to steel, brother against brother, father against son, mother against child, and this fair land would bleed at every pore. Better far, that the whole African race should be annihilated, and all the silly white race destroyed, and our Union and our liberties perpetuated. If the course which has been so wickedly and willfully pursued by the fanatics of "the North is continued, the result will bea3 I have portrayed it. and your wailing for your fallen country will come too late. Palefaced poverty and dismay will stare you in the face at every corner. Your manufactories will cense and vonr starving thousands will fly to a more productive and loss fanatical land for bread. But should the South be unable to make an alliance with either England or France, think you she will tamelv submit to Northern insult and domination? No, never. She will command the commerce of tho Mississip - pi river and its tributaries, and should the - l.i ii. Iorth, after years of bloodshed, be successful in tho contest, it will cost the North mora than the price of all the negmea twice told to possess the land and the life of every white man that has a soul. The South fcr a thousand miles holds the outlets of the Fathers of Waters, and will dye them and its swamps with tho blood of thousands, both aons of the soil and its enemies. While there is a lucifer match to burn your bridges, or a stone or log to obstruct your commerce, the vengeance of the foe will be upon you. In turn you can do much to desolate and destroy; but you cannot dam up the Mississippi, nor dip it dry. Swamp foxes will be upon you at every bayou, and even the alligators will be your enemies. Pause, then, sir, and litt the veil of tho future, which is just before you, and stay the fanatical hand now lifted to strike. If you do not, like Macbeth, your own sleep will be murdered and the sleep of thousands. You shall n'-er wash the stain of the blood of yoar relives from yours own hands, the hands of your wife or the hands of your sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Call round you Senator Seward, Wendell Phillips, Joshua II. Oiddiugs and Fred. Dou,rla, and visit your first victim in the ! lunatic asylum. Gerrit Smith, of New ork. Call a prayer meeting and pray Ohl John Brown and his confederates out of purgatory, perhaps from hell, whore all of you should have gore before. Ask God to forgive you for your wickedness, wash your filthy garments, go thy way and uin no more, sin no longer against your conscience and your country's constitution. Tso longer lie against nature and combi ;i sense, and make niggers your equals, while you will not give your sons in marriage and negro husbands for your daughteis. Your knowledge of national history can but convince you of the truthfulness of the best authorities, that there is no identity of origin, no equality in mental or physical organization, and "that the negro lias been what he is for four thousand years, and will bo the same for four thousand years to come. Tho white man has scarcely proved the problem of self-government the neo-ro never has and never can. If your honor is engaged, and your conscience smites you, and you find that the records of your country implicate both Old and New England in the introduction of this, unhallowed traflic, who stole them trom Africa and sold them in bondage to tho South; and you wish to pay tho pur chase money back, with the interest of tho debt, and do not wih to steal and sell them aain, we would ask, where is tho money to pay for them? Where is the seven hundred millions to buy them? Where is the money to sustain them as a free people? Pay first tho interest upon yonr railroad debt of eight hundred millions before you borrow more to buy negroes, One of these two propositions mu6t bo pursued: either to exterminate the white man and give the soil to the negro, or purchase and trans port the negro, cither of which is wholly impracticable. But while you teach them to murder the white maD, and violate the white woman, you will never teach them the religion of Jesus Christ, with all your babbling preachers. The boast of the people of the North that they can overrun the South is a bravado. In every mountain pass they will meet a Jackson, a Taylor, or a Leonidas, and a Marion iu every swamp. The 'Swamp Fox' of the Pedee and San tee of Carolina was never conquered, but defeated the armies of tho then most powerful nation on the globe. They will say to you, come; thrußtin your iiorthorn sickle, and your harvest shall bo death; you shall meet loeman worthy of your steel, to the last of their blood and their breath. My dear sir, you mistake the position of the North and yourselfneither your moral suasion nor your Sharpe's liflocan subdiia or terrify the people of tho South y ou look through a medium that magnifies yourselves while it diminishes other. Allow me to draw the picture. The great inas3 ol mankind who appear upon the stage of human life, seem to bo born but to cat, to drink, to propogate their species, and to die, both lord and vassal, nobleman and peasant, king and subject, though widely separated in life, 6leep upon the same pallet of death. After the surprise of youth and experience is over, they loiter on earth and burst like bubbled on the sea of matter,

FEBRUAUY 9, 18(50. or fiirt like butterflies from sweet to sweet, from flower to flower, then disappear forever. If born to position or occupy office they are viewed iu their elevation because of their wickedness and crime, they are as odious as thev are conspicuous. But I some claim a diviner right male under a higher hv.r, sent as llabi teachers from God - t. i HI iT , C1.1H lO K.IUI iv-.itici O 11 Ulli viuu to dictate the will of heaven, who abide neither the laws of men nor the constitu tion of their country, whose puritanical Cant and hvnccrisv inalo thfin ndion trJ every sensible and honest mind. They may be ministers indeed, but not! ministers of the" religion of Jesus Christ, out oi üivme vengeance, who sometimes j destroy not only themselves but the pco 1 , . . . . . . pie to whom they preach. To this latter

. ...... . p 14 1 1 1 . J- v m.tj i llitl are so mixed up with arrogance, impudence and crime, that the most acute analysis couiu not discover one grain ot honesty in ihe composition; and if God's grace can save the sinner, the selfish hypocrite, the winged messenger of Mercy would never light on so mean a thing as you. Again, we have men who seem to ba created for a higher purpose sent on important busi ness, sent to desolate and destroy, or lo create, to build up and sustain; men not i living for tlumselves, as you do, but for the wholo human race; whose lives are the ornaments which adorn tho ago in which they live. If they appear either in public or private life the piaces they occupy are radiant with the glory of their acts; men who are stars and suns in tho pathway of lito, to cheer, to guide and save. Aot a ! f-iw have adorned your profession, sir; some j have adorned mine. But the most marked i i . , , and distinguished men of the past ae were aslungton, Jellerson, Madison, Patrick Henry, Calhoun, Clay and Webster, most of whom wer born in that State which you would desolate, and under institutions which you profess to despise. Such men are tho holy fathers of the church to which I belong, and if sent to hell for the enormous sm of slavery allow me tho privilege of choce to go with them rather than to the heaven of the canting hypocrites, whose every actis to anathematize all but his own dogma, and propogate error and falsehood iu every step he takes in life. Such men, under the garb of religion, in every age of the world and under every form of faith, have despoiled the fairest hopes ot the human race. Such men as claim to be guided by a 'higher law, than the Constitution of this country, would dash to pieces the fabric of our country's liberty, ami lay their unhallowed, polluted hands even on the stones of the very temple of liberty ere the' are grown cold from the hands of Washington and JeiTeisou. fcach men as: you, sii, would see the waves ot human passion in a storm sweep over the ruins of ihc lighthouse of the world, reared upon time's thousand miles of coast by the toil of millions of the just, the virtuous, and the wise, at whose base like the brains and skulls of tho fanatical gulls that have dashed against it. And, sir, if such men go to heavsn the should carry wiili them every creeping thing. Such men would plot treason against virtue, and sacrifice even female honor upon the altar of (heir hellish designs. I do not covet such a heaven have no desire to walk the streets of your New Jerusalem, where I am to be saluted by tho whistle of the rattlesnake and the hiss of the viper, and breathe the atmosphere poisoned by the breath of the toad and the copperhead. This may bo heaven for hypocrites and fanatics, but not for me. Many years have passed since I knew you, sir, an impudent boy, and having added wickedness to impudence, you have become a mofe conspicuous man, while my obscurity will scarcely bring me to mind. I have wielded the knife in surgery for a profession, and whether I have won laurels or not, my history and my profession mut show. But, sir, thi3 much will I say to you, that when my country is destroyed by heartless fanatics, excited to deeds of bloodshed, the knife which has never been turned on the human family but in kindness and mercy, shall be keenly whet in justice and in vengeance. My last surgical operation bhall be parformed on such destroying monsters, to cut lrom their hearts the rooted cancer, and rid the world of such canting hypocrites. I am, sir, a Hugenot Protestant cf tho Mtriou stozk, the Le Grand family of Fiance, my immediate ancestors, by my mother. My father descended from u race of Scots that never have been conquered ; of the Campbell clan, and Hob Jioy was my cousin. I have never bought, or sold, or stolen, or owned a negro; 1 am a Kentuckian, born among tho slaves, and no Judas shall sell my country for silver, but he shall receive steel instead. I am a friend of tho Union, and an enemy of all such disturbers of my country's peace, and, therefore, I am your enemy. jos, n. Mcdowell, m.d. Professor of Surgery in the Medical College of Missouri. A Statlino Ocithukxce. A lady who had returned from India three years ago, was tho other day opening a drawer in what is called a bullock trunk. To her amazement and horror a snako reared up its head, her first impulse was to push the drawer to, but it was stiff and heavy. She ran, screaming, down stairs for help. Her brother, who was in the drawing room,! ran to her assistance, and preceded her up stairs again. Tho snako wai not to bo6oen, and tho gMitleman thought it to have been his sister's imagination; so, after some little time the search was given up. The follow, ing morning a cacary that always hung in tho lady's room was missing and in looking into tho cage the snako lay curled up at ihe bottom of it, and nil that remained of the bird by his side Thero was no difficulty in destroying the enake, and it was discovered to be what is termed a green snake, whose nature is to mak a spring a th eye, when death immediately ensues. The marvel is how tho reptile lived so long and the lady escaped.

class, Mr. Beecher. allow me to say, iwywiu " nunurca dollars per cord, think you belong. Your blender virtues! tne7 hid large machinery to crush ten

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MOUNTAIN CITY, Pike's Peak, } Jan'y 3d, 1860. } (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.) In this vicinity three quartz mills have arrived. Two are in operation, doing a fine business; but rather small—the one putting up is much larger. The owner of one of them told me the best day's work he had done, he had pounded and washed four hundred and fifty dollars, and some days hardly made grub, owing to the richness of the quartz. The proprietor of the other mill says he is crushing quartz that will yield five hundred dollars per cord. or twenty cords per day, wouldn't that pay "humbug big"? Considerable nro?rpctin" fir leads in! rfnin.f An h;, i-i n u ,! going on tins winter while they can t work , , . . , , , in the gulches, it being too cold to wash. r.n i,.i . r vi . v. U e can hear the reports of tue blasts like . . , .." r i i mm distant cannon all times of the day. Iheso i,i, A ,. 4, , , T, , leaus generally run a little North of East and South of West, but some run across these main leads. I know of no irood one? vet. We will leave the leads or lodss and fo to the gulches. They were supposed to be worthless for some time after the leads were discovered in this section; but perseverance brought them out the last part of the season the bulk of the gold was taken out. W. G., or Green Russell, as we call him, has been the most successful minor in this region; he worked iu gulche3 altogether, and took out more money by digging than other man. He discovered the Russell gulch here, the best yet diacovered. It is tho mnsf ovfpnsivo hufr. gat.ip ! others pay as well for a short distance, but there is not enough water for fist work; yet a large amount of money has been taken out, although worked to many disadvantages; owing to the lateness of the season when discovered they did not have time to drain ditches to let off the surplus water, it was deep digging and a few owned so many claims that they could not open them properly this season, yet several made it pay big. Mills, Gibson & Co. worked fifteen hands and took out 220 to 300 pwts. per day and took out 11,330 pwts. from 180 feet. That's humbugery [sic] with a vengeance, isn't it? But before so much was taken out in August there came news from the head waters of the Platte and Colorado that pound diggings had been discovered there. Then such another stampede was never known. Men left ounce diggings and run for pound diggings; many left their claims and many sold for what they could get.— Several were sold for twenty-five dollars per claim, and some bought their claims back when the stampede was over, and in two months afterwards paid as high as a thousand per cent. on what they got. The gold in the gulches here is not placed as it is in California. There are no regular heavy rains here to wash off the hill-sides into the gulches, and then wash away the soil and place it on the bed rock in clay and gravel. But occasionally there comes a great dash of rain, like the breaking of a waterspout, and tumbles everything down into the gulches pell mell together, and the shower is over, and probably not another heavy shower that season. There is another kind of diggings discovered late this season: they are called patch diggings; they are in flats on the top of the hills where the leads ran, and so flat or hollow that the rains can't wash it away. With water convenient they would pay big—they pay from the top of the ground. There is a small lake on the hill back of' the town—probably half an acre in it that pays well all around it. They wheel or haul their dirt to tho lake to wash, with large and small rocker; the one that rocks pumps the water at the same time. They are all looking forward to the day when the water in the ditch will be here; they think it will supply all. I think it doubtful. A company is digging a ditch to turn the south fork of Clear Creek (Vesper River) a distance of some thirteen miles; they are pushing the work as fast as possible to get it through as early as possible. Some, think it will be through in May next, and others not till July. They pay $1.75 per day and board. Many think that money invested that way will pay a better per cent, than almost anything else. They expect to tax one dollar per square inch with a foot head, it takes several iuches to run a sluice. As soon as spring opens and work can be done there, a great rush will be made for the head waters of the Platte, Blue and Colorado rivers, as some good diggings were discovered there late this season. Some are going there already this winter. Fourteen men discovered a gulch that pays well; they claimed three hundred feet per man, and the emigrants granted it to them, then they commenced selling off fifty feet claims. and one fifty-feet claim sold for $600, and three men, the first week they

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week, and $1,100 the next. We call that pretty good for the greatest "humbug diggings [sic]. But that one is the best discovered there yet, in the Tarryall, or more properly the Grab all diggings. It is found that the whole hill sides pay well—never rained enough to wash it down. Several miners are wintering there, and many more on the Blue, to hold their claims until spring. On the Blue they have erected a fort for protection against the Indians. Some 150 Yate [sic] Indians came to Tarryall and told the miners they must leave, but they don't go—for men will stay where there is gold or women, you know, even at the risk of their lives. The Indians have committed some depredations on the other side of the snow range, killing small prospecting parties, but they have killed none on this side, but wounded one man, &c. I have not seen an Indian or snake since I have been in the mountains, nor anything more poisonous than a red-mouth- ed abolitionist, and they are not very numerous. Not much politics here. We have had a pretty cold snap; they say the thermometers were frozen up in Denver; but the cold comes on so regular we don't feel it much; and for a few days past we have had the finest kind of weather, plenty warm to work with our coats off; no snow on the South hill sides, but none melts on the North side. We don't expect to have much snow here until next March. Our biggest snow came the 28th of September: it run about a thousand out of the mountains, and some ran back to earn their grub, for we had two months good washing weather, and some washing done yet, but rather cold. As for rain we have had none since August, nor don't expect to have until next May; then rain and snow until nearly the last of the month, then no more till July. Last July and August we had about fifty days of rain and sprinkle. Bat I have seen it rain more in the States in two hours, than the whole time here. Where I was, after it commenced it rained just enough to keep up a garden, I had as fine radishes as I ever saw in any country, and peas, turnips, lettuce, mustard, &c, were good.— Rather too cold nights for corn here in the mountains, but in the valley they had splendid roasting ears, and I guess the corn ripened. Most anything can be raised in the valley that can be raised in Northern Indiana, and all the valley that is productive is taken up for farms. Great preparations are making for farming next year; those that farmed it this last year made more money than most anybody else. There will be any amount of women, children, and cows all through the valleys the coming season, there are several families there already. The men that were at Boulder City last spring, and returned to the States, would be surprised to see the town and adjoining country next spring. They are building houses, fencing farms, making roads, &c. They are making great preparations for the coming season; they have the machinery, and are putting up the largest quartz mill in the mountains above Boulder City. They say the quartz is richer there than here, and they think they will get the travel that way another year, and go ahead of Denver City—it being nigher and close to the timber.— Saw timber is not so plenty as many think it is, seeing there is so much timber. It appears that ths fires hare run through it from time immemorial, kept most of the timber small, and there are hundreds of thousands of acres with scarcely a living tree. This last season it came near burning over all that would burn, and even caught men, poneys and dogs. I heard old men say they had seen prairies burn, and thought them great "fires," but they were nothing to the pines burning. It will blow from one hill to another, for a half mile, and catch and run to the top of the trees and blaze as much higher, and the roar is to be heard for miles. There was a steam saw mill here in the summer, and lumber sold at fifty dollars per thousand, but, like the women, it has gone to the valley to winter, and expects to return in the spring. Many of the men went to the valley to winter, but have returned, and say it is warmer here than there, and plenty of wood here in the bargain. Game is plenty in different places and in different seasons—none in this section four hunters to one game; it is too close to the valley. Deer and Elk are cheaper than beef in Denver City, and are more eaten; plenty of turkeys there at a "bit" per pound, feathers and all, just as they were shot. The game here in the mountains consists of elk, bear, sheep, goats and deer. Turkeys are in less than fifty miles South, and buffalo, or bison, within a hundred miles over the snow range. The sheep are the best meat (except the beaver-tail) that I have eot [sic] in the mountains, tastes and smells like [illegible] but nothing except the horns looks like one; their hair is more like a deer, and as