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
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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.
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