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The snows nru whirling, thick and fast, The drifts assail my doorway j I doubt me If a wilder blast Blows o'er the hills of Norway. But sit thee down, my olden friend , Wetwalu will mock the weuther; And, while the fearful winds contend, We'll have a night together. O, many a year and many a storm We twain have mocked at lightly s And though our hearts te-night are warm, Our heads are powdered whltely, And snows have drifted o'er our souls, To fall on wintry heather, And hide from us the grassy noils, Where rest our loves together. Stir up the Are I we'll talk of love Of love, old friend, and sorrow For life, like rainbow arched above, Its light through tears must borrow. We'll talk of Hps that clung to ours, Though ours are now like leather We'll talk of girls, we'll talk of flowers, That now are dust together. Fill up the cup, old friend of mine, Though tears have wet our lashes For all the dead we quaffthe wine, And pledge to dust and ashes. We'll bind to-night our friends and foes With memory's silken tether And, underneath the drifting snows, We'll love and hate together. O I wintry heart I 'tis throbbing low O I wintry storm I 'tis pelting What boots It that we warm our snow T It turns to tears lo melting. But belter tears than Ice, old friend, Bo tears we'll shed together And o'er our hearts a rainbow bend, To light the stormy weuther. A Queer Case A Man with a Fork In His (Stomach. Florence, Italy, Is agitated over a veiy odd occurrence. Not long ago there was at one of the theatres in that city a com pany of Chinese jugglers. Ono of them (Ling-Lark) was celebrated for his tricks of swallowing a long sword aud then pul ling it out again. At one of those repre sentations there happened to be a young Florentine of the name of Cipriani, who, on leaving the theatre with a few friends, manifested his opinion that the trick play ed by the Chinese was as easy as the drink ing off a tumbler of water. Cipriani and his friends went an UNual to the restaurant to have supper, and after having eaten and drank for an hour, the conversation full on the Chinese Ling-Lark. Cipriani took up a fork, put it in his mouth, down In his throat, when the fork slipped from bis hand. His friends got terribly frightened, attempted to pull it out again, but all was in vain. The young man was immediately carried to the hospital Santa Maria, and there he still lies, and eats and drinks with his fork in his stomach. The crowd before the hospital has boon so great that police omcers nave been stationed at tne different doors to prevent the people break ing into the hospital. Such an extraordina ry case has naturally excited great interest iu the medical class. llTMrs. Bherritt, of New Albany, says tho Indianapolis News, made some precious ointment of tallow and red precipitate, to rid the tresses of her children of troub lesome parasites, and left it in tho skillet to cool. That accounted for the lovely brown of the potatoes Mr. Bherritt bad for his supper. It also accounted for the presence of tho doctor with his villainous ipecac, stomach-pump and things, and tho languid rippearaiivo of Mr. Shoiritt for days afterwards. THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER. A California Story. GOVERNOR MASON'S letter to tho War Department, in tho spring of 1848, reporting the discovery of gold on tho American River, and in which he said, that " no capital is required to obtain tho gold, as the laboring man wants nothing but his pick and shovel, and tin pan, with which to dig and wash tho gravel; and many fre quently pick gold out of the crevices of the rocks, with their butcher knives, in pieces of from ono to six ounces," created the most intense excitement throughout tho States, and father was among tho flint to succumb to tho gold fever. Being the possessor of moderate, unencumbered means, ho made suitablo provisions for our support, and started, a few weeks after, to seek his fortune, bidding good-by with the positive and comforting assurance that ho would return in thrco years the limit for tho return of nearly all tho pioneers to Cal ifornia. Proceeding from San Francisco to the Mariposa mining region, instead of plung ing at once into tho ditches, ho recognized superior advantages in tho investment of his capital in a small mercantile business. Ho built a commodious log house, put in stock, and in n few months came to bo con sidered one of tho solid men of the " city." This prosperity and the salubrity of the climate, induced him, in one year after he left us, to send word that we were to join him, as soon as his partner, Sam Crummcls, arrived, to act as escort. Upon taking tho stago at Stockton, after a somewhat monotonous and uneventful trip thus far, wo forgot our uninteresting escort Crummols, and were drawn naturally into intimate social relations with a largo, pleasant faced man, wearing a gray flannel shirt tucked into a pair of overalls at the waist, the overalls, in turn, tucked into an immense pair of cowhide boots. He said he had been "below," to purchase tools for himself and partners, and represented himself as one of father's customers. His tall companion he called "Kentuck," and " Kentuck" always prefaced his remarks to my new found friend, with "Say, Cap." He was very patient, listening to, and answering, all our questions, with great kindness, and a certain lack of dignity, very captivating to Dawn and myself. Dawn was then only eight years old. Sho had been adopted by tho family, under pe culiar circumstances. Father found her one morning, while we were living in Washing ton, lying upon the granite step at our front door, wrapped only in an old plaid shawl. Ho was going to Baltimore, and, being up early than usual, found the little one, sleep ing quietly just as the Eastern heavens were beginning to redden with the approach of day; and mother named her Dawn. She was always beautifal in infancy and girl hood, and wonderfully so in womanhood. To Dawn and myself, the ride to Mari posa afforded little more than a series of bitter disappointments. We had set our hearts upon entering a land cooled by deep shades and plentiful streams, that the wholo surface and capacity of our joys seemed shadowed and oppressed by the semi-barrenness and muddy streams glaiing upon us through heat and dust. Then we were more a part of Nature's self, living in it, swayed more powerful by its silent influ ences than by any other earthly agency; and here was wanting all we had imagined and craved for. How charitable the hotel keepers of that time! What delicate con sideration they displayed for the feelings of travelers! With what patient assiduity would they seek to make a new-comer be lieve by intimation, at least that black was white ! Not being able to supply lux uries in other ways, they fed us by sound, applying the richest names to the common est articles, pronounced with a lucious roll that mado our young mouths water in an ticipation. At every place whore we took meals on the Tuolumne, at Ilornitos the same formula was gone through with; tho waiter looking you straight in the eye, would insinuate a plato of miserable corn bread toward you, suggesting, at the same time, in softest tones, that you "help your self to the pound cake." Toward evening of tho second day, our mud-wagon dashed, at a galloping race, through blinding dust, to the front of tho "Grizzly," where we forgot our disap pointments, for the time, in observing the crowd collocted to welcome the weekly stage. Everybody seemed to know "Cap;" and after setting Dawn safely upon her feet an act which seomed to excite the envy of the wholo gathering, composed of rough, heavily bearded miners ho turned to re ceive tho greetings. Ho called each by somo name, but I am certain no ono receiv ed tho namo his father and mother gave him. With the events of tho ensuing years up to '57, Cap and dawn are inseparably asso ciated. In '51, Cap, having accumulated a suflicicnt quantity of "dust," bought Sam CnimmtTs interest in tho store, and camo to live with our family a delight to at least two of its members. Ho was ono of those men specially created for the de light of children. Ho assisted in our homo studies and joined In our games. In tho evening, until bed time, ho would relate tho most captivating stories, every ono contain ing some useful Information. lie did not go much among men, they nil seemed to hold him in deep respect father said fear; but I could not understand why any one should be afraid of him. In '53, while listening to tho stories of two old miners, who were " going over" tho old times again, I learned why they feared him, and then heard that Cap's hand had taken tho lives of two men one in tho summer of '40, and one during tho spring of the year wo arrived. During tho conversation, I learned, also, that ho took vengcanco only after ho had forborne to notice insult and abuse, and not until pistols wero drawn and his life at tempted. The years passed into '57. I was then nineteen Dawn fifteen. All the vows im aginable had passed between us, and wo were engaged. It was long before I tmderstood tho mu tual devotion existing between Cap and Dawn. The simple, demonstrative freedom, and utter absenco of all embarrassment, in her demeanor towards him, rendered even thoughts of joalousy impossible to mo. Dawn, now in womanhood very beautiful, would at times, in one of her strange moods throw her arms about Cap's neck, in the old, girlish way, and lie still upon his broad breast, often until she slept. Ho would then place her carefully upon the most con venient resting-place, and walk away with out a word only a look of deep peace and happiness upon his face. The months of that year hurried on to a fearful day in our lives a terrible ono in the history of that community tho 25th of August. I remember it as tho ono memorable day in my life, into which the emotions of an ordinary life time were crowded in strangest confusion. The night before, Dawn had given away to one of her fits of passionate grief for some reason not known to me then, and sought her usual resting-place for consola tion. Father and mother had long looked upon these demonstrations with uneasiness. Al though satisfied for themselves that Cap was as free from evil thoughts as Dawn, yet neither having taken tho troublo to con ceal their feelings from the neighbors, pry ing peoplo questioned the propriety of a girl at Dawn's age showing her affection in so unmistakable a manner for a man then not more than forty, and not looking that by ton years. A number of families had, by this time, settled in tho place, and without consider ing consequences, whispers of " immodest," "brazen," "bad," circulated so freely around the small circle that we could not help catching a breath of the poison breeze. That night, after Dawn hod satisfied her real or imagined grief with abundant tears and sighs, mother wont to her and had a long talk; while her father and Cap, after closing-up time, were closeted in the sitting room until very late. The result was not very satisfactory; for tho next morning, while Cap sat at break fast, a cloud over the pleasant features, Dawn camo in, looking white and weary, and, with a sudden Impulsive movement, leaped over, taking his temples between her soft palms, and pressed tho beautiful lips upon his up-turned forehead, then slow ly walked to the oon door and stood there with folded arms and drooping head. I whs not so blinded by passion for Dawn but that somo common sense remained; aud knowing, as I could not fail to know, what had occurred tho night before, this last act was like a poisoned arrow. Yet passing up street a few minutes later, and overhearing Big Jack, the monU dealer, (standing just in front of Tex's saloon, with his back toward me) remark to Pretty Andy, " that Dawn Barker was a Mittlo loose,'" tho bock of my open baud went against his mouth with force enough to jostle a oocked derringer from his coat pocket. When he turned toward me, the expres sion of his countenance changed Instantly from a cortain forced, ferocious lookof ten assumed by bullying cowards to one of utter foolishness and humility. I lo re turned tho piBtol to its place, and began to apologizo in nn unaccountably profuse manner. Jack was not afraid, but tho sud denness of being brought faco to face with ono near the ono ho feared, mado him hum ble. Half an hour afterward, looking up tho samo street, I saw Cap coming toward tho store. Ho was very white, eyes all aflame, lips compressed, head erect, shoulders back his feet striking tho earth rapidly and res olutely. The bounding step Jlew past without recognition, into tho store; tho fiery insane eyes fixed, knowing not even Dawn, who standing in the doorway, shrank back with terror. At tho farther end of tho long counter, upon tho old pino desk, lay a great leathern belt, with dragoon revolver and largo bowio knifo attached Cap's property. Ho swung these around his waist with a quick determined movement, and was on the street again before tho buckle was fastened tho same splendid fury visablo in every action. ' Tho Johnsons in town ; been after Cap,' explained Kentuck, hurriedly, coming across tho creek from his cabin, with long, rapid steps. "Go " heel" yourself!" By this timo Cap had arrived opposite Tex's saloon, and was making for Mcln tyre's when Kentuck started on a run up the middlo of the street. In that direction, tho greatest excitement prevailed ; men running about wildly, as though an earth quake had suddenly shaken loose half the logs in town. It was between one of tho Johnson broth ers and Cap that the unfortunate affair had happened in '49, resulting in the death of the former. Both parties had their friends; the sore was an old one that had never been properly treated, and it was impossible that, once commenced, the fight would be confined to the principals. Provided with a pistol an article considered ono of the necessaries of life in those days I was hur rying toward the door, when Dawn rushed in and begged mo to stay not to stain my hands with human blood. But when I told her the Johnsons were hunting Cap, that there wero three brothers, and I roust help him, she released me at once. Before I had taken a dozen steps, a single shot rang out cloar, followed instant ly by a second, a slight pause, and then half a dozen in quick succession. Tho din of voices and trampling feet of tho turbu lent crowd, spiced now and then with the sharp crack of a revolver, aroused the wholo population, and brought them to the scene of the fray. Big Jack and Pretty Andy, running out of Mae's and across the street, were followed by one of Johnsons, who staggered out, balanced himself like a drunkon man, and fell forward upon his face, tho arms stretched beyond his head, with fingers drawn a part, clutching tho earth. Only shots and. yells within, A moment's lull, and there Is a rush for tho doors. The crowd swarms into the street, and scatters. The last who seek the open air are two formidable-looking men ; the oldest of the Johnsons, tall, powerful and finished in limb, followed closely by Cap, Kentuck nnd tho other Johnsons are mis sing. A shot from tho verandah of tho Grizzly House opposite, opens the con test anew. Thero is Cap a madman following his opponent with the activity of a wild cat, and the determination of a grizzly. Outside combatants, on both Bides, have emptied their revolvers, and now pause to watch with breathless interest tho result of the horrible contest, when suddenly a white faco and a pair of wild, distended eyes move swiftly past bearded heads to the centre, between tho combatants ; and just as Cap has felled his adversary and springs upon him with bare arms and bright blado lifted In air, two arms encirclo his waist, and an agonized voice breaks clear above a hoarse curse beneath, in two words of eloquent entreaty, "Stop, father!" Too late. The slight figure is thrown back tho iron aim goes down, and the savage blade crushes the quivering vitals of the last of the Johnsons. Cap stood erect, with no Bign of recog nition in the marblo face ; but a moment later, ho said: " Take her away; quick ?" I caught the slender form and hurried toward home. " Shot ?" asked One-eyed Jimmy. "No." "Cut?" from Dublin. "No." "Only fainted!" warned another; and while sho was endeavoring to restore Dawn I started out to learn tho result of the fight. Two of tho Johnsons wero found in tho street, and one in Mac's against tho bar all death Kentuck lay partly under the billiard table with a largo hole in his foro hcad. Tho combat ended, men went to their usual occupat ions with many comments, but little evidence of excitement; nnd now that the coast was clear, Sheriff Smith arrived and arrested Cap. At the examination, the same afternoon for justice was swift those days tho fol ing testimony was elicited : That given by Jerry Parker, who had heard tho words of both parties in front of Mac's was most important. Among tho minor's tho whispors of slander against a woman's namo was thought justification for homicide; and that alone, without the personal abuse heaped upon Cap, would have insured his discharge. It was also ascertained that only two of tho brothel's had fallen by the Cap's hand. Tho other had been seen exchanging shots with Kentuck, just before he staggered out of tho saloon, and it was thought tho two men died at nearly the samo moment. Jerry Parker testified that Cap, while coining up to tho express office, had been insulted repeatedly by the Johnsons, who were stationed at the different saloon?, wait ing his arrival; that he turned nftor lie had passed and walked quietly up to where tho J: iron stood, bearing his usual unruffled countenance, and in a calm natural voice, told them he did not wish to be drawn into troublo: tho stain of two homicides forc ed upon him already darkened bis name among the people; they knew that, al though the victim of one was their brother, ho had taken his lifo for no ill-will not until ho had used every means to avoid violence, and had been forced from every attempt at pacification. "I bear no malice toward you, boys," said Cap, "and hope you will go away and allow me to pass in peace." This was ut tered without giving the slightest attention to frequent interruptions, such as " coward ly cur!" "No flght In him!" "Takes water like a spaniel I " Cap now betrayed some excitement, adding in a tone slightly raised, " I tell you men not to molest me; I havo been unfortunate heretofore, and will not be forced into another of thoso affairs." The JohnsonB interpreted the manner of utterance and meaning of the words expressive as of fear, grew louder in their abuse, employing tho most offen sive epithets, and finally made somo coarso allusion to Dawn. From that moment until the end of the tragedy he was insane. Cap was discharged; but tho next Grand Jury indicted him for manslaughter, cortain members of the gambling fratorn ity, which was then powerful and respect-, able, and of which tho Johnsons were prominent members, having worked stead ily to that end. Tho required bail was furnished, and Cap still lived with us; but the interval till the day of the trial was the darkest and most unhappy in our lives. Dawn now devoted all her thoughts to him. Her lifo was changed from impulso to quiet, and tho whole atmosphere in which she moved continually associates itself in my mind with the idea of a whisper in an empty ball. When the day of trial came, sho took her hat and went away alone over tho hills toward Cottonwood, and did not return till evening. The testimony, that day, was about the same as that takea at the examination, only that a now feature was doveloped by the cross questioning. Attornoy Knight, seeing his best and perhaps only opportu nity to convict,attackcd the strongest point in favor of tho prisoner's acquittal, with the question concerning the relations ex isting between Cap and Dawn, intending to show that she had no honorable claim upon him stiong enough to give him tho right to take another's life in defence of her good namo. When the character of tho testimony was becoming more delicate every moment, the prisoner, unable to bare up any longer, requested, through his counsel, to be per mitted to make a statemont. This request being granted, the prisoner stood erect, and said: " I have not asked this privilege for my own sake, but for htrt. I had resolved never to toll this story; but tho circum stances of the last few hours have combin ed to force it from me. It will remove all doubts as to the purity and innocence of the poor child; whothor or not it improves my own name matters but little now. CONCLUDED ON SECOND PAOE.
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