THE - VIONTROSE DEMOCRAT. E. B. HA.WLEY, Proprietor. fountg fttiotttgo gircrtarg. Tao lines fn this Directory, one year, 41.50 oath additional lino, GO eta. NEW MILFORD 0. K. HAWLEY. ntent An Empire Fewinc Machine and American Base Burning Stove. Moen Street, . W. i. DOSE dCO . Dealers In Dry Goods, Haul-, Capa, DOOM and shoes, and General Merchandise, 6u Main ~abisset, second door below the Episcopal Church. • c3ricrs 110TRL, kept by WILLIAM SMITIL on Maki street, near tete Repot.—• 11ICHOL&S SHOEMAKER. Arent for Letters donate Turbine. Nat water wbce In use. MO.faction W. a. MEAD. Foundry. and dealer In Move anti other ninepins, one door from rhinner• llot el, Maio ht. 21. V. USUER. Carriage Vete, and Undertaker, on Itsls Street, taro door. balorr Mawlry'o Store MCCOLLUM DROTRRRy, Dealers to Ormarica and Provisions. ula Main street.• S, CIAIIIIET & SON. Dealers In Flour. Peed. Meal, Salt, Uate , Cement. Groeerle• and Provisions on Main &treat, opposite the Depot. W. R T. HAYDEN. Mannfacturera of Clear. and Klanlassie desiero in Yank,. Noticing , and ' , Alley Goode. on Main tArmt. below Epiocapal etureh • X 036 t KNAP. tenth, ManafActorrro and dealer• to Morocco Finding*. Lt.. near Enlompal Church. • •INEY • EIAYDKN. Tictleta to Drnds and Medicine., and Manufacturers of Cigata, on Main Street, near tYa Dapot W. STEPIIRNIS. tlnrse Shnvinn enA reeenl n.Pniring en Main Strret, ...utb of the bricce. J. DICKSIIMAN. Ja.. Dmier In reneral mrrchandise asd Clothier. Brick Store, no Main Strert. wntprca A MEAD, Dealers In primal Derr-bandies on Male Street. • GRE.-IT BEND L. a. LEMIRIN. Manufactor, of Lelther, nod draler tirtWribi Yernhand{•e. on Maio Strret • r. DORAN, Merrhant Tailor and dral.r In Ready Nada Clothing, Dry Goode, Grocerir• and rrovilliol2o. Xmas Street.• LENOXVILLE. MEAN WIIITE. Mannfacturer of and dealer In suppri or PiO•VB and Caatln7,i. GIBSON LDWARD+ s nrts.ANr. )I.nufnetorvrs of Wazon• sad ha, near the Ingolie Store. FICIMMI .11.1111. Trltitgl.L. Dealer In Truro. 31 , -elein.,. 11 !memo. ?Ai ht, Oa*, 1), c Siaff•. 3.,,, ry olloss, cu. tvp, 11, '11) WENS & UEttft. New. Oak.. and tinder. In Cienrer In and ricertoions. Crockery. etc., Public Ateune. JAIIVt R. CARM ALT. Attorn. , et lam Oft ont door below Tarbril 11, .e. Public A•mu• • Wit n COOPER It CO ad; Parcizn Pa.- env Tick ts and Drafts oa Eugland, Ireland and Scut !afar .1. A_ TLET.III:II'S Earlnc Salt - H . .11 I• the place I* c , t In ensuk. Oyslers sad Clams. every style. Ou Mal," marvel.* ISTROI'D • BROWN. Get trial Fire etartir.• tn.nr. *nee &cants ANO. •ell Ka',mad and Aectdekt Ticket. to Kew linrk and,Platiaddpbta. Olt ea one door east of the Dank. T. It. CIIANDLI,R. Gvnrnillnfurance nod Arming 11,1 thing. Agvat. Public Avruuc.• DriVal NICUOI.S. the place to art Drat:4llnd M.-dl coln. cyan. Tobacco. Pipes. Porket-Itooke, Specta. ties, Tattkee Notloos. &c... Patti le Arennor, MIL 1.. COI, Ilarnr•• maker and driller In all articles usaarly kept by the trade, opposite the [tank. • U. FL BOYD A CO.. Deatm in atone*. ilsrdirara. and likantnetnrers of Tin and ithertiron ware. corner of Main and Turnpike stmt. I. R. YOMK, Merchant Tailor sod dealer to Clotho. Trlottnlnzo, and Furnishlnc and Arent* for iiincer Searing. Itschint. on Mato Street. Verdbars balldiug. ♦. Ti. Dri.L.kllD, Dealer In Dence.leo. rroH.iou•, liketke. Stationery and Yankee Notions, nt head of Public Avenue.* T. STORE a co_ Mulct" In Rocs.. Hardware. Agricultural Implements, Flour and Gruccr.ce, oppo site Tarbell Douse. 1114111i4FORD 4 lIITCURL. Livery and Excbsnee dtable. ha rear of Bank building. • J.. 111- DEWITT t CU.. Drillers le Dry Good*, Hard -.sew and conemi merchandise, comer, near Brick Mock.* OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. COUNTY OFFICERS. Trestdrut Judre—llon. F. U. Street,. Amorist* Jodr.c•—.l Haldarin. Ir T. A•hler. Prealoundat7 and Clerk or Court. —J. V. !shoemaker. RmUter, Record,. ke —Jerome It. Lyon.. Pirtrict Attorn. r—lt. W. Searle. Treasurer—Benjamin Gl.dden. Itheritr —Wm. 'l'. kloaler. tarpoly Sheriff—M. H. Hchne. ftorseyor—James W. Chapman. Cotatalaslobers—Saml Sharer. J. T. Ellie. Preseraed ti lads. Commissioners' Clerk—Wm A Crosamna. Jury Commissioners—F. C. Streeter. at ntEarl, Daniel pronirator,, Wm. A. Crosomon Auditors—F. B. Chandler. Tracy Hayden, 11.11. Jones. LSoautter—Dr. C. C. Ilalrey. OFFICERS OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY We. IL Jesscip, President; ELM Jones. James Klks 0.11. Vire President•; Geo. A. Jrr.up. Correeponding Secretary; Henry C. Tyler, Hemming Secretary; C. Tren.urer; H. 11. Ilitrrtir.ton, A. Ltaldrell4, AL IL tikleitier, Executive Committee. DIONTROSE & BRIDGEWATER ASYLUM. Dnanwrona.—John Trumbull, W.L.Cox. S. Langdon Treawnrw —B. Thatctwr. Peerntawy—inenj. 1.. Baldwin. •toward—David Martin Physician—Dr. J. D. Vail. DORM: Gil 'OFFICERS Et, ...—C. M. Gkre. Council—W. A. ernornton, W.Watonat.A. J. tterrittown. W. 11. de..up, C. V .Crandall, J. F. bk...a...ker, D. Drerrear,D. Y. Atonin, I". A. Deao.. Constable—John C. Howell. high Conatable—Ch..rie• J. Whipple. School Directora—Wm. D. Jessup. J. R. DeWitt. W. Watmon, D. Thatcher. D. F. An tin, C.C. llahey. EMI= iPnnbyteriuk—lle• Jacob (4. !Miler I"`.l. ll— kr , • E. A. Warriner. pfint—Rer. L. IL Funt. illlethodlot —Rev. Kind IR.lvrell. Allithigic-sc•. J. iiLstitt•ry. ASSOC/ATU.NS Warreu Clopter, No. WO. mert• at Nusonic Hall ou tirkmmtay of each month ou or before WI moon. Waft= Lodge. Nu. 260. A. Y. N.. meet: a. liteounoe all tae arrt. W.:due:day of each month us or bet ure mum, and the tkr,...und Wednesday thereon. I. Montrose Lodge, No. ISt. I. 0. of 0. F., meets at Odd Fellows Hail every Tumidity erentag. tit. John's Rocampatitit. No SO. meets at Odd Far doors Hall the ed and Ith Friday each month. nehmen Degree Ledre, No. 7, meets at Odd Felktos drat and third Friday e.ich month. Montrose Loslit;e, 1 O. at G. T. meetest Good Temp tats hall army Monday evening. Good alemerital Temple of Honor. No. 16 meet• •t Atwood ?emplane Ilia tho 3 Fraday of oath =oath. OR R. THAYER, ECLECTIC PBTSICIAT & SCEGEON Ofires his peofeesional sereleee to the eldoens of Rases wad mijoinlar counties. °Mee at hie onsidenee, Me alioppsn. MU be at Montrose 'Friday of each week. Iyieelni nitration given to the treatment of Chronic illeesaes. These having tailed to grt relief from the folnitinind dill other Physicians are .perially Invited to girt see stabil. Skier my location in this vicinity. 1 Own ticsiod I imatessibile some of the worst forms of Female lfiesknesa, Dyspepsia. Cancer, et., sfiplame. Le ratitteta taken to hoard on reasonable term.. sad their families treated gratnitortsly. sTrtiZi;for cansultation. atiOPPlilt. NW% iO. 1870.—Qa* GOLD JEWELRY. • NOWInd larrjrapply, iestme, se% fit UM Any T=, gointos (Endo. CHAHLES N. STODDARD, Dearer In Boot. and Shots, Hata and Cap.. Leather and FladinCr. Mato Street, lot door below Hoyd'a Store, Wurk made to order, and repairing done neatly. Yeatrose. Jae, I, Is7o. Lrrimns & BLAKESLEE. Attorneys and Counsellors at Las. Orrice the one heretofore occupied by R.B. tt G. P. Little. on Main street. Montrose, Ps. f April ^ A. R. P. 12711 . 11. OM P. LITTLZ, L L. SLANSALCX. E. Mcßenate. C. C. Pausoe, W. D. McCain. ncELENZIE, FAUBOT & CO. Dealers In Dry flood*, Clothing, [rare and Ml.►ca fine Shoo►. hien, agents for the Croat Amerle►o Pea and Coffee Company. [Montrose, Pa , ap. 1, ' .0, LEWIS KNOLL, SHAVING AND HAIR DRESSING. Shop lo the new Postoffice building, where he will be Synod ready to attend oil who me y want An yt hI ng In his line. Montrose, re. Oct. 13, iSht). • P. REYNOLDS, AUCTIONEER—SeHaney Goods, and Marchanlze—also aternds at Venda.. All orders len at ray house mill rucci,c prompt attention. [Oct. 1, ita3-11 0. M. HAWLEV, DEALER In DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY Hardware, Haw, ISme, Boota.Shoes, Ready Made Cloth Dlr., Paiute. OD., etc., New Milford, Pa. ISept, it, 'GS, DR. S. W. DAYTON, PITYSICIAN at SURGEON. tender. hl• reveler. to the citizens of Great Bend and vicinity. Otter at his residence. opposite Barouto House, irt. loud ?Mace. Sept. tf LAW OFFICE CHAMIIF.III.IB i McCOI.Lt NI. Attorney. and Coc, eellors at Law. ()face in the Brick Blot k over the Rant. [Lunt:tow Ant. 4. ISO. A. CSlAlMlSfttillf. • J. B. 111..170u..e5t. A. & D. R. LATHROP, DF.ALERS in Dry Goods. Groceries. crncliery and Omit...ate. tattle and pocket cutlery. Oil, 45e motif, Huts. Manta and ohne., nide leather Perfumer, dc. Drirt atii.tinlng the Montrose, Au„n•t - if A. Latrounr, D. K. LaLtinur A. 0. WARREN. ArrORNBY A . LAW. Bounty, Heck Pay. Penstoc. and Hu," on Claims attonded to, OfTor ft or bolos.• Boyd's Store, Ilona rose-.1'.. [an. I.'c9 21. C. MUTTON, Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent, •ut 611. f Frlendsvllle, Po. C. S. GILBEUT, .".11.11ctt140 , 22.c.4,1r. Great Bend, Pa 17. Mi. atlcl 1.9 t AIIII ELT, 17. B. Btasatico2a.coor. Aoc. I. lOW. Add t coo, Brooklyn. ro JOHN GROVES, F VAIIIONABLETAIIatt. Alloranrir. N. Shop nee. Chandlce• Store. A! , onlerr filled lint-nor ...utilise dune on short notice. and warranted to At. W. W. SMITIII, C %DINER' AND CllAllt 11ANUFACT1:RETSS.—trte or Main street, Ittoutruse, Pa. sang. 1. Dias. 11. SUBRITT, DBALE3 ID Staple and Fancy Dry fluodP. Crocker) Hardware, Ir.n, Stover, Dru Qe, 011r.and ham, Saute and Shoe... flat. & Capr. Purr. nodal° Robes .01rOCCTiC9 rrOPteiollll. t .e.. New Milford. Pa. DU. E. P. UI%ES, lla• permanently located at Friendly:llle for the por pose of practicing m.dlclnc nod aorgery to all It. branches. tie may he found at the Jacksott Noose. Office hoar* from 8 a. m.. to 8. p. m. Prlcud,rille, Pa., Aug, I, 1869. STROUD It UROW%. FIDE AND LIFE INTI7AANcE AGS!qTa. Al' hnolnear attended to promptly, on fair terrn•. Ofnrr !trot dour north of ' Alontroae Hotel," ervoi P)lir Public Avenue, Montrose, P. (Aug. 1,114. M. BiLtroras toruorn, - L`nsa•" L. Itnuirx. WM. D. IXSIL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ]l.mtro•c. Pa. O. oppo. •Ite ttio Torbell House. clear ibe Court lima•. Aug. 1. 180.—Lf DR. W. W. 11111T11,' DriTIST. Rooms Dyer Boyd b Corwin'. hard . ware Store. (Mee hours from 9a. m. to 4p. m. lourrose, Aug. I. 1409.—tf ABEL TUURELI, D..ALETt la Drugs, Patent Mcdicinrs, Cbernical. Liquors, Paints, Olle,Dye storm. Vandobra, Win n Grwerries, Olson Wane. Wall and Window Pa, er, Stout warn, Lamp., Kronor'', 111.1cAtort7 Trustee, Gun., AmmtMltion, Koine•, bpoct•cli. praline., Fancy Goods, JeCßeiry. Perin rv. bolo: •one tithe moot nuVororto. . xtrnalvr, and ♦aiashle collection* or Goode In Susqua boor, Co.— Xotablishcd la lxtx. „ [Montrose, Ps. D. W. SEARLE, ATTOttNET AT LAW. office o.er the Store of A. Lathrop, In the Brick Block, litontrove, Pa. [aol'69 DR. W. L. RICILUIDSON, ruysiclAN & qUItGEON. tender, ht. protenstonel •erriern to the citizen• of Montrone and 'l.l:My. Omen at hi• residence, on the corner cent of tinyre Brea. Foundry. (Aug. 1, IMa. DR. E. L. GARDNER, PHYSICIAN and SURGEO:./. Montrose. Pa. Give" eapeclal attention to disellare of the Heart and Lund" and all Sam di•ea•ea. mace over W. B. Deau.s Boards at Searle's Hotel. [An. 1. I. BERNS & NICISOLS, DEIL .RII In Drup. Medicine., Chcrnicals. Dye :As. Paints, Oil., Varnish. Liquor.. Spires Fan, yr. LACS, Paten/ Mrdicine.„ Pertomrry and Toilsi r. 11cms. rfrPrearrtption• carefully compounded.— l'uolit Avenue...shore Saarly's 'lnit.'. Mont rovr. Pe A. ft. Brows, Ago. Nrcarot..a. An;. 1, 140. DS. E. L. HANDIZICK, rRTSICIAN .t SURGEON. respectfully tenders hl professlorutl services to the eltlr.et of Frlendrville sod rielnltv. Or Office bathe °Mee of Dr. Lee , Boards at J. Boston:Vs , . Mc ISO. PROF. MORRIS, The Hayti Barber. returns his thank. for the kind pat ronage that has enabled him to pet the best rest—ha! ha! I hen nt time to tell the whole story. bnt come and see fur roarseves Cleat the Old Stand. blo loud laughing allowed in the chop. [April IL 11170. HUNT BROTHERS, scaAsToN, PA. Wholesale it Retell Dealer In HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, NAILS, SPIKES, SHOVELS, BUILDER'S HARDWARE, JUNE BAIL. COUNTE M RSUNK & RAILSPIKEs RAILROAD R INING SUPPLIES. DAM:LADE SPRINGS. AXLES, SKEINS ANL BOXES. BOLTS. NUTS and TrASEERs, PLATED BANDS. MALLEABLE IRONS, NUBS. SPOKES. PELLOES.,SEAT SPINDLES. BOWS. dz. ANVILS. TICKS, STOCKS arld DIES, BELLOWS HAMMERS. SLEIX:Es. FILM at. CIRCULAR AND MILL SAWS. BFLT/NG. PACKING TACKLE BLOCKS. PLASTER PARIS CEMENT. HAIR &GRINDSTONES. norm wimpy); or.Ass.LEAMIDIRI FINDINGS FAMBOWS SCAM. ellstAP. NsMiiSl. ISM EW WALL PAPER, Jura arrived. sad Wilma rhea Meatrete, Apel 26. ain.tganaz • MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY JAN. 4, 1871. The Montrose Democrat ...BLISAID ON WIMITIMSDAT MORNING. ►T SIOXT7IO.I NVIQVIii►RN► COITNTT. P►.. ?IT E. 33. 313.43. 1 172"7..a El lir. . AT $$ rim LITNCII IX ADYINCL—On STX AT IND 0771411 Bates of Advertising Three-fonrtha Inch of space, or Iran, make a "quart. Orie oquarc, 3 works or lest. 111.00 ; I mo. $1.15; 3 mo. 11504 I year. $3, One-el:WI col., I ma, $5.30; 3 ma. 66,50 ; 6 ma. $16..tX1; I year. $llOO. One-quarter col„ 1 mo. $6.50 ; 3 mo. $12.00 ; c mo. $2O ; Iyear. $.15. Half column, 1 mo. $12.00; 3 mp. $45.00; 6 me. $35.00; 1 year... 5.11.00. • • • On. column. 1 mo. $ 2 5.00: 3 mo. Pr n ; G mo. 'OO.OO I year. $109.170. Auditor's Notices, 5150 Executors' and Admit]lotra. tors' Notice*. 113.00. All eirumunicrtlons of limited or Individual !num.'. 10 sta. peril°, Obituary Notices, cis. per line. Marriage and Death No, ices free. Job Printing executed neatly and promptly at ral, pr' •ea. Deeds, Mortgarc.. Neter, .1121tices . , Coostabley School and other blankvfor vale. Nott'o storm. Phantom Days. Sweet-heart, when the year turns back, And over her summer track Goes trailing in robes of mist, And holding her poor pale lips, Chill with their half eclipse, Up to the still to be kissed— Then over the parting fine The dead days glimmering shine With pitiful times air. They are perfect all but breath, And I mind me of their death, lly the chill that is in the air. Yet at the sight. I yearn ; And 0, (ha. they would return With the love that I forego ! And I murmur, ah ! how long ? And sorrow takes up her song— " Till the rose blooms in the snow." So all the story in told ; Cease, fur the heart's a-cold, And the winter claims its own In the first night of the frost Beauty and bloom were lost, And what is the stalk alone? 0, when will the rough winds blow, And when will the blank white Emow Cover the dead from sight ? For, like the haze on the hill, Lieth on thought and will The spell of a past delight. So, over the yellow limvc.s, And the empty place of sheaves, fidlow my aimless feet. Oh ! love that is lost to me, Are their ghosts that walked with thee In this time of the !Attar sweet? ith ! what but the heart's desire 'Can you have seen in the fire Of the autumn woods ablaze ! And what but an ended talc In the ashes few and pale Of those Indian Summer days ! Snow Flakes. Out of the bosom of the air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodland brown ood bare, Over the harvest fields forsaken, Silent, and soil, and slow IN.crods the snow. Even as our cloudy fancies take 4 Suddenly shape in some divine expression, Even as the troubled heart loth make In the white countenance confession, The troubled sky reveals The grief it feels. This is the poem of the air, Slowly in silent syllables recorded, This the secret of despair, Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded, Now whispered and revealed To wood and field. BREVITIES —Blunderbuss—the right kiss to the wrung woman, —A good rule—back your friends and face your enemies. —lron is a tonic when 240 lbs. of it are taken at once. —You cannot preserve happy domes tic pairs in family jars. —A RCM of a guu is supposed to be one of the old stock. —When are some comic papers the sharpest ? when they arc tiled. —Paper muslin—any attempt to re strain the freedom of the press. —Of all the laws of trade, none find gmater favor than the buy-laws. —Mental abstraction—stealing the ideas of others and fancying thew your own. —A handsome dress pattern never ar rests a woman's atteutiuu—she will al ways go buy it. —All the girls in Wisconsin except sev en are picking hops day times, and kick ing at hops in the evenings. —Why are horses in cold w•eetherlike meddlesome gossips ? Because they are the bearers of idle tails. —Bliudman's buff is said to be genuine human sympathy, because it is a fellow feeling for a fellow creature. —Why was Desdamona the most dis contented of women ? Because the gQor she had the lropr she wanted. —The Boston Lecturer who has been trying toprove that map is a vegetable, has himself turned out to be a did beat. —lt must hare raised a laugh At the expense of the orator, who when he went P apostrophize thp Ameripim sll}g, ex, chliMed, ffFcrever fleet that standard etude A Californian In tbe South African Diamond Fields. DismoNn FIELDS OF SOUTH APIIICA, August 4, 1870, Immediately after sending you my last letter, I organized a company, purchased an outfit, and started for the Diamond Fields. Our company consists of thr,v white men. and will employ six negroes, at one shilling per day each, and board them. Our outfit cost £l5O. We hired an eight-mule team and a spring wagon, and purchased a 'Scotch cart (similar to our American carts for haul ing dirt), and four oxen at £4 each, to haul the cart. I had a long-tom made with a chest of drawers at the foot of IL These drawers were made with perforated zinc bottoms ; there are three of them. The top seive has one-half inch holes; the second seive one-eighth of an inch holes, and the bottom seive has one-six teenth of un inch holes. Diamonds that will pass through the bottom seive are not worth the extra trouble to obtain them. We also purohased a force pump 20 feet of suction hose and 50 feet of oth er hose. We also purchased tools and seiving iron ; provisions were to be had in abundance et the mines, so we did not take much with us. We left Oulesburg on the Ist of July, and arrived at the quarters of the Diamond Fields on the sth, (200 miles.) We found plenty of grass and bush for the animals, but water was scarce, and at several farms, we had to pay one shilling fur water for ourselves and stock; this water had been collected in a kind of hole formed by damming up a ravine or depression iu. the plain ; the dams are filled during the rainy seasons and last through. the dry season. The road is excellent all the way from Coles burg to the Diamond Fields. Arrived at the Diamond Fields, a Cali fornian scene of early days presented it self. The river was lined with rockers tents, and miners of all kinds, color, sex and size, for a mile on both sides. At least 800 miners were at work, whole families, men, women and children, hav ing left their homes either in the Trans via Republic, Orange Tree State, or Cape Colony: The men;were picking, shovel ing and washing the dirt, while the wom en and children were sitting around ta bles and sorting the pebbles that have been washed, for diamonds. Before cross ing the Vaal River we applied to Mr. Kallenburg, the missionary, fur permiss ion to dig on the Pruel Farm, but he re fused, as we were strangers to hlm. lie only allows those whom ho knows to mine oft the estate, and he makes them give him one-fourth of the proceeds of their funds. There were about two hun dred people on the estate when we arriv ed, and they had found on an average, about twenty-five diamonds a day of from to 5 carats each: no large diamonds had been found on this estate up to the time of our arrival, but several have been found since—one of 10 carats, one of 171 carats and one of 43 carats. • -- We crossed the river on the sth, of Ju ly, and camped for the night near the head-quarters tent. On the 6th we sign ed the Miners' Rules and picked out our claims-20 feet square for each partner. Ws took a claim on-the third capie, or hill, down the river; the first capie is where the Natal and King Williamstown parties took out 172 diamonds from a tri angular space of about fifty paces in cir cumference, and from six inches to twen ty-four inches in depth. Other parties had taken at least 150 diamonds from near this triangle, on the same capie. The second (=pie had proved rich sine, and about 100 diamonds had been taken out from it- The third capie had just been opened, and about 20 diamonds had been taken from it up to the time of our arriv al. At the first capie the diamonds were from / to 9, 17, 29 and 64 carats, and from the third from to 3,5, 9 and 20f carats, the lot valued at £6,000. The Na tal party have a 40 carat diamond worth 9,500. They obtained 52 in all but lager than the other parties, and the value of the lot is about £20,000. We found about 600 miners on this side, they had selected a commandant (Mr. Parker, who was formerely a trader,) and a Com mittee of Safety, consisting of twelve miners. The ownership of the country was in dispute between the Trunsval Re public. Orange Tree State, and several native chiefs, but the miners do not rec ognize either of these parties, and they speak strongly of erecting a " Diamond Republic" of their own. -I.ongfeaute Most of the miners work in this man ner; They first dig the gravel to the bed or to clay (generally from six inches to three feet In depth.) then with a meal sifter they sift the dirt and throw out all largiph stones. The middling dirt, or pebbles, they cart to the Vaal River, about ou an average, 500 yards from the mine, and tbere they wash it in a Cali fornia gold cradle; they then lay the washed pebbles on a table, and carefully sort a handful at a time with a scraper; by this means :hey get through about two carts loads of sifted "Cascalhao" day. Soule carry the water up to the mine, and after the dry sifting of the dirt, they dip the serve in the water and wash the pebbles. A few days after our arrival, I invented a shaking table for dry sifting the top sieve of one-quarter inch holes, and the bottom sieve of three-sixteenth inch holes; the top sieve is inclined one way about 25 degrees, so that all the large stones will fall off by the shiiking; the bottom sieve is longer than the top one, and inclined twenty-live de grees in the opposite direction; the dirt and grovel that passes through the top sieve falls on the second one, and the dirt passes through and the gravel to wash passes out at the end, and is carted to the river fur washing. I could put through 60 cart loads a day' with this medium, and concentrate it to 20 carts loads of gravel—but two men can only sort out four cart logls of gravel in ten hours after it has been washed, and we do not put more than twelve cart loads through in a dtiy in consequence of this, We are pow teaching, some of the negroes " sort," and we vat pct more ground through presently, On the first day of oar wgshipg we oh, Illigtllantous. tamed a 14 carat diamoned, slightly off colored, but good shaped and nearly round, valued at .£B. Vie worked this claim out and got nothing mare. We tried our several other claims on that side of the river with-no success,although:dia monds were found all around us. We worked three weeks on that side of the river without further success, and then having obtained permission from Ur. K., the missionary, to mine on the Pniel farm, we moved over here, and on the first day's washing we found two beauties of 4 and 4 carats. I also discovered a se cret in diamond raining on this side of the river, that I shall divulge only to the company that is being nosed iu New York to work a certain diamond farm by a wholesale system. lam quite satisfied with this side of the river and this claim that I have. All that I need now is a " sorting machine," that will " sort as fast as I can put the " cassalho" through the washer. I shall try my hand at inventing one. MARK TWAIN'S POLITICAL EX PERIENCE. A few months ago I was nominated for Governor of the great State of New York, to run against Stewart L Woodford and John T. Hoffman, on the independent ticket. I somehow felt that I had one prominent advantage over these gentle men, and that was, good character. It was easy to see by the newspapers, that if ever they had knowu what it was to bear a good name, that time had gone by. It was plain that in these latter years they had become familiar with all manner of shameful crimes. But at the very mo ment that I was exulting my advantage and joying in it in secret, there was a muddy undercurrent of discomfort "ril ing" the deeps of my happiness—and that was, the having to hear my name bandied about in familiar connection with those of such people. I grew more and more disturbed. Finally I wrote my grandmother about it. Her answer came quick and sharp. She said: " You have never done one single thing in all you life to be ashamed of—not one. Look at the newspapers—look at them and comprehend what sort of characters Woodford and Llorman are, and then see if you are willing to I,,wer yourself to their level and enter a public canvass with them." It was my very thought ! I did not sleep a single moment that night. But after all, I could not recede. I was fully committed and must go ou with the fight. As I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast, I conic across thisparapmph, and I may truly say I never was so con founded before: " PERJURY.—Perhaps, now that Mr. Mark Twain is before the people as a can didate for Governor, he will condescend to explain how be eame to be convicted of perjury by thirty-four witnesses, in Wukawak, Cochin, China, in 1863, the intent of which perjury was to rob a p?or native widow and her helpless family of a meagre plantain patch, their only stay and support in their bereavement and their desolation. Mr. Twain owes it to himself, as well as to the great people whose suffrages he asks, to clear this mat ter up. Will he do it r I thought I should burst with amaze ment! Such a cruel, heartless charge-- 1 had never seen Cochin China! I had never heard of Wakawak ! I didn't know a plantain patch from a kangaroo! I did not know what to do. I was crz.zed and helpless. I let the day slip away not doing anything at all. The next morning the same paper had this—nothing more : " SIGNIFICANT.—Mr. Twain, it will be obserbed, is sugg,estively silent about the Cochin China perjury." [Masi.—During the rest of the elm palgn this paper never referred to me in any other way than as "the infamous per jurer Twain."] Next came the Gazelle, with this : " WAN - TED TO KNOW.-Will the new candidate for Governor deign to explain to certain of his fellow citizens (who are suffering to vote for him!) the little cir cumstance of his cabin mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. rwain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in), they felt compelled to give him a friendly admonition for his own good, and so tarred and feathered him and rode hint on a rail, and advised him to leave a permanent vacuum in the place he usually occupied in the camp. Will he do this?" Could anything be more deliberately malicious than this F For I never was in Montana in my life. [After this, this journal customarily spoke of me as "Twain, the Montana thief."] I got to picking up papers apprehen sively—much as one would lift a desired blanket which he had some idea might have a rattlesnake under it. One day this met my eye: "TUE Lis NAILEDI—By the sworn affidavits of Michael O'Flanazan, Esq., of the Five Points, and Mr. Kit Burnt and Mr. John Allen, of Water street, is established that Mr. Mark Twain's vile statement that the lamented grandfather of our noble standard bearer, John T. Iluifinan, was banged fur highway rob bery, is a brutal and gratuitous lie, with out a single shadow of funndation in fact. It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such shameful means resorted to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead in their graves and defiling their honored names with slander. When we think of the anguish this miserable false hood mast cause the innocent relatiVes and friends of the deceased, we are almost driven to incite an outraged and insulted public to summary and unlawful vengence upon the tradvicer. But no—let us - leave him to the agony of a lacerating con science—(though if passion should get the better of the public and in its blind fug they should do the traducer bodily injury, it is but too obvious that no jury could convict and po court punish the peepetNitor of the deed.") 'rhe ingenious closing sentence had the effect of moving me out of bed with de spatch that night, and out pt the back door, Mao, "'We the "outraged PA in sulted P101ie" surged is the groat way, breaking furniture and windows in their righteous indignation as they C3lllB, and taking off such property as they could carry when they went And yet I can lay my hand upon the Book and say that I never slandered Governor lloffman's grandfather. More—l had never even heard of him or mentioned him, up to that day and date. if will state, in pa.ssing, that the jour nal above quoted from alivays referred to me afterward as "Twain, the Body Snatch er."] The next news Paper article that at tracted my attention was the following: " A Swkarr CANDlDim—Mark who was to make such a blighting speech at the mass meeting of the Independents last night, didn't come to time ! A tele gram from his physician stated thatT he had been knocked down by a runaway team and his leg broken in two places— sufferer lying in great agony, and so forth and so forth, and a lot more bosh of the same sort. And the Independents tried hard to swallow the wretched subterfuge and pretended they did not know what was the real reason of the absence of the abandoned creature whom they denomi nate their standard-bearer. A certain man was seen to reel into Mr. Twain's hotel last night in a state of beastly intox ication. It is the imperative duty of the Independents to prove that this besotted brute was not Mark Twain himsAf. We have them at last ! This is the ease that admits of no shirking. The vc.ice of the people demands in thunder-tones : -Wno WAS TUAT MAN ?"' It was incredible, absolntelv incredible, fora moment, that it ices really my name that was coupled with this disgraceful suspicion. Three long years had passed over my head since I had tasted ale, be...r. wine, or liquor of any kind. [lt shows what e&ct the times were having on me when I say that I suit. my self confidently dubbed -Mr. Delerium Tremens Twain" in the next ipiue of that journal Without a pan—notwith standing I knew that with monotott, fidelity the papers would go on calling me so to the very end.] By this time anoymous letters were get ting to be an important part of my mail matter. This form was common : " How about that old woman you kiked off your premisera which Wag beging: Poi. PUY." And this " There is things which you have done which is nnbeknowens to anybody but me. You better trot out a few dole, to yours truly or you'll hear titiv? the pavers from LTA:4;1)1;A.); Dr..' That is abort the Idea. I, e , itdd Cu. finite them till the reader .Wtl l 3 surfeited if desirable. Shortly the rincipal Republican jour nal "convicted' of wholviale bribery. and the leading Democratic paper 'nailed' an aggravated case of blackmailing to me.. [En this way I acquired two additional names; "Twain the Filthy Corruption ist," and "Twain, the Loathsome Ent bnicer."l By this time there had grown to -be such a clamor for an""answer" to all the dreadful charges that were laid- to me, that the editors and leaders of my party said it would be political ruin for me to remain silent any longer.: As if to make their appeal more imperative, the follow ing appeared in one of the !rapers the very next day. "BEHOLD THE MAN !—The Independ ent candidate still maintain; silence. Be cause he dare not sp,sik. 'Every accusa tion- against him has been amply proved, and they are endorsed aid' re-endorsed by his own eloquent "silence; till tit this day be stands forever convicted. Look upon your candidate, Independents! Look upon the infamous perjurer! the Montana Thief! the Body-Snatcher! Con template your incarnate Delirium Tre mens! your Filthy Corruptionist! your Loathsome Embracer! Gaze npou him— ponder him well—and then say it you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open his mouth- in denial of any one of them !" There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to "answer" a mass of baseless charges, and mean wicked falsehoods. But I never finished the task, for the very next morning a paper came out with a new horror, a fresh malignity, and seriously charged me with burning a lunatic asylum, with all its inmates, be cause it obstructed the view frimi my house. This threw me into a sort of panic. Then conic the charge of poison ing my uncle to get his money,, with an imperative demand that the grave should be opened. This drove me to the verge of distraction. On top of this I was ac cused of employing toothless and incom petent old relatives fd ptepare the food for the foundling hospital , -when I was warden. I was wavoririn.--wavering.— And at last, as a due and atting climax to the shameless persecutiog that party rancor had inflicted upon me, nine little toddling children of all shades of color and degrees of raggedness were taught to rush on to the platform at a public meet ing and clasp me around the legs and call MO Y.► ! I gave up. I hauled down my colors and surrendered. 1 was not equal to .the requirements of a Gubernatorial campaign in the State of New York, and so_ T ,setit in my withdrawal from the oaditlacy, ant in bitterness of spirit signed it.• "Truly pars, " °Nes a decent Inan,but•nOw "MARK TWAIN, I. P., M. 1.., IL 8., D. al, F. C., uncl L. E. • —The best thing to give ,your enemy is forgiveness, to your opponent, tolerance ; to your children. a good example 3. to yourself respect ; to all men, ch4rilY... —A poor man who was ill, being asked by a &lineman whether he bad taken any remedy; replied, no,I Ilion% taken . any, remedy, but I've Men lots of the physic. was never so:sober in .the whole eonrse of hit life r but when " his friend Jopes Asked" Min t# takp,a ph*, he mid be woula gAiPe antttait VOLUME XXVIiI, NtEMBER 1. An editor in New .Terse' bad a little nephew only six Months oat and the lit tle nephew died. Some .of the editor's friend's considered that it would be a good thing to give the : afflicted uncle a substantial expression of their sympathy, so they contracted with a local sculptor for a gravestone. The' design consisted of an angel carrying the little one in her arms and. flying away, w a woman sat weeping on the ground. "ft was executed horribly. The tombstone was sent to the editor, with the simple request that he would accept it. As he west absent the junior editor determined to acknowledge it, althritigh he hadn't the slightest idea what it meant. So the next day ho burst ed out with the following remarks : "Art ..Vetes,—We have received from the hands of our eminent sculptor, Felt Halloos, a comic bat relief designed fa an ornamental fire-board. It mpreset fs an Irishman in his night-shirt, running away with the little Clod Cupid while 11,, Irishman's sweetheart hides her head in differently in the corner. Every try. work of art tells it own story; and s e understand, as soon as we glance at this that our Irish friend has been coquetted with by the fair one, and is pretending to transfer his love to other' quarters.— There is a lurking smile on the Irishman's lips, which expresses his mischevious in tentions perfectly. We think it wou:d have been better, however, to have cloth ed him in something else than a night shirt, and tc have smoothed down his hair. We have placed this chef trotters be neutll our parlor mantel piece, where it will surely be admired by our friends when they call. We are glad to encour age such progress in local art." This was painful. A committee called on the editor when he returned, and ex plained the tombstone to him; and that night an assistant editor was seen coming down stairs six steps at a time and flying up street without coat or hat TUE COST OF DRINIEING.-A philan, thropie individual estimates the cost of an "occasional drunk" in the following on iire manner: For three drinks per day at ten cents for one year, 8189,50. Foi twenty-tire years, compound interest at lc per cent., $11,845,19. And genuine in terest hereafter. The cost would be the same it'an "occasional smoke" or a chance game of billiards were indulged in for the same number of years. This calculation worthy the consideration of those of on: readers addicted to either one of the_fool ish and expensive habits. —What is it that wo drink at feativo times, though it is sometimes a woman and sometimes a man ? .4. toast. —Sumbo, why am dat nigger down dat in de hole ob do bout like a chicken in de egg? I gibs um up. Because he conk: not get out but for do hatch. —A bog,ns Odd Fellow has been going for the Portland brethren's sympatbyand purses lately. Be lett a good many I. O. Cs with the I. 0. P's. La.lies. just now, are anxious about the trimming of their bonnets; but it won't do to trim them any closer or there will he nothing left. —ft is sahl that some babies are se small that they elan creep into a quart ni aolov. but the way some adults can walk into such maasnrelf is astonishing. _Louis Napoleon recently in a severe tit of the gout.. told his physician that fir, sulfured all the horrors of the damned. The doctor only answered, " what, alrea dy." -Ham Piatt is authority for the story that Sunnier was reoeutly arrested as a vagrant while attempting to get into his house late at night. —.t el ni) of hen-pecked husbands meet once a week, that - meeting being on ly darof enjoyment and rest. When they adjourned they called it the rising of the tied. • —A shoddy dame in Northern New York, late a domestic, in ordering silver ware, desired the astonished clerk to have her entrails, B. M., engraved on eack, piece." —" Will yer honor take a dab?" said a London call-driver to a gentleman. " No thank you, I am able to walk;" said the gentleman. " May yer long be able, but seldom willin!" was the witty reply. —An Irishman was challenged to fight a duel, but declined on the Plea that he did not with to Ism his ould - mother att orphan. —When we know how to appreciate a merit we have the germ of it within our selsee.—Goethe. "She isn't all that fancy painted her," bitterly exclaimed a rejectt4 lover ; and worse than that, she isn't. ell Alio painta —roar-year old who hod been , enjoy ing the measles, as ho was „getting well, laid to his younget broithbr,."Gkeortje, you May .huyo 'the •Moasles then" Ten done with 'em." ._ - -Clara, who is l i o'oking at a milliner's window. Aren't they handsome? Susie, whose thoughts are across the street. Yes; especially the onthrith the }noun taehe, editor out West manna his tall reade.c&cgitillott.tisaing etti*twonten, the habit 4o:rendered btineell exceeding ly round t!houldered,.. .....osta t ea; de takers az," she pottitoelt ap;'you rAseal; 1, PPrif•Planb 3 alrterdaY.:" " Fitnow daf,..tnasia;.but de Bogs got 'is hi s' n i t' , gl l '. Am i lit' Nelivgaglard 'violater, who a e t , t out , to , livvada-about a year ago, anus home that, ahelas already a bßaband and a [lir or to am hasul got, wadi 11C. ggaiuted yet. —Captaih Gladstone to &British marl , nerettlie - mast head- 0 Bow :does the sea look _ahead there?" Biltlah into tuay —"VC I 'eve t 9 4 "I" COO; 14 ; 111 `toiiag go, _ A Trinhlt Error. VA RIETIEL
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