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XXIX
California The Yosemite.
Ufau Vallev. Cal.. Aug. 14, If 59.
I left Sacrameuto on Monday tuoruiujr
last, traveling by stage to Stockton, 48
miles nearly due south, crossing tbeiuoico-i
luuine, and keeping nrsr tuo or.m from. gtoc;ton (an tbt!SC rivers
and then the San Joaquin a few mi.es on c( loHbridges or ferries cl
our ricui, uiiu wuuut iiaw.v f
:ouut UiaDie conspicuoub
mil iuriuer es.. u t.-..- ,,
fertile nlain. Huarselv wooded near the ri-
Ters a plaiu which .-houU be, but is not
ld and icrv nroductive'
J.nere are some uuu urujiu Ku.an..
near the cities, and might well be many,
but a good part of the intermediate conn-
trj is umueloscd, and the residue maiuly
dovoted to lame ranches ('or loose and
ftlf Imhandrv j. and in less
degrf-e to "the growing of small graiu
Wheat and Barley. The etubble indi-
DIUIWIII T m V''
ontes good crops, but there is not a suni-,
cient area devoted to tticm. uncertainly
of laud titles that paramouut
naramouut curse of
... . r 1 o t
bored at a cost of 810,000 and pouring,
LU1 r
forth a copious and unfailing stream,
some teet aoove me sunaee tn uun.u. ,
:u . . , -
some feet above the surface ol tue eariu.
Ua norma is at-iucu b? iuu muju , Tr . .
, . : , (T .,i,: trr-tolv T ' I eft Lear Vallay, two hours later
thLs mcdcQuacy of cultivation, wniclr 1. .
lu . 3 . than was fit, at 6. a. m. on lhursday, ro-
trut is riot to continue. , , ... . V ,
rl u ncl soived to push through to my immediate
Stockton is situated on a bayou ot ' . . f . e J .
J , 'destination that night. My friend bad
the San Joaquin, at the hcud ot regular . J .
steamboat navigation on that river, which preceded me betimes to Manposas U
mak it the tLird city of California, with V,lcon T ? CIUp,elC PieP'bM
15 0U0 iuh.bit.nt,, abd an extensive car- j i for the trip; but we were unluckily
. , - ii;. delayed here again bv misapprehensions
rnu trade. The oetter dwelling !re lu , - - y
- r i ii. K ,io.. ana the pre-en aeineut of animals for at-
sooJ part surrouuded by fiue garden.- a4 v o
,rJ j i j i- - :f T cr.-....' tendance on a camp-mcetiug, so that it
well fi ed with delicious fruit. in sooie , f f3' , ,
r ! i -,- i -r,i;nnlN ' was hih noon when we reached the end
of them the primitive, wide-spreading oai. o
, . F , ;P;.f m n 'of the waonroad, 12 miles below Man-
have been preserved, giving tb m an as-.
nave uttu Mt , c r,fQfi ' nosas, where the saddle is the only re
sect of beauty and coolness most gratetul l . n ;i
J , , r ijic 'source, whi o it is still nearly 40 miles
to those recently arrived from the Tlaics. : --Ul" ' J
' , , q, . t a ..I,,.,, '(many of them steep ones) to the lose-
Stockton ha- the State insane xstuiu, v . J r '
and a very interesting commencement of e fall. Every one assured u. that to
a Cabinet of Natural History; better still, B r0USb that day was impossible, yet
, . . . UT ii i iii ii, f 4,1T, :I had no more time to give to tho jour-
Bbe has an Artesian Well 1.000 leetdeep,, u
Dcd as it is, it penetrates ou:y successive, . .
, 1 F , v n.,,.;! i Mines, within tho last thirty years. But
btrata of what ar nearp to be alluvial de-: J J J.
onuia. j 1 , I.U turn tit lpin r n frnrn M nrmnsas wno
t)o?it. never touching bed-rock Artesian
Fu11' . fc i-r
"VVolla nrn hocominf COQ1XOQ in Califor-
aia, and I trust are yet to play an impor
taut part in the development and esteu
taut part in me ueveiouiucut uuu uiu-
f ,r.. fi,. Ar;n!tral hnt. al.i
Poof her Miumg industry, now crippled Hussey s Steam caw-Mill, where we
(especially iu the s-outb) by the general mounted (or rather I did. for the rest
dearth of water. I have a suspicion that: had done so before), marks pretty fairly
all the water hitherto obtained by canal-j the division between the Oaks of the low
er ditchef, o expensively constructed, I er and tho Firs of the higher elevations,
could have been procured far cheaper by j though the two of course melt into eaoh
digqiug Artesian Weils, which, however I other. As we rose gradually but steadi
multiplicd, could hardly fail, at the foot ly, the White soon faded out, then the
of the Sierra Nevada, to strike copious Black, and last the Live Oak, though tho
fountains at 00 uun-aonable depth. jgenuiueness of this lst is disputed, while
I left Stockton ircst morning in a the Yellow, Pitch, and Sugar Pines, Co
carriage with a friend who proposed tojdars, aud Balsam Firs became more nu
co through to Boar Valley (75 miles) be-;merous aud stately, till they at length
fore sleeping a foat which 1 doubted the; had the ground almost wholly to them
ability of auy span of livery horses to ac- Uelves, save that the Mauzanito and oth
complisb. My doubt was misphced. 1 er shrubs (mostly evergreens also) elus
Good horses, an early start, careful, con-! terod on nearly every opening amou the
sidcrate driring. frequeut watering, and I tree-. There is little or no precipice or
the dry braciti" air of California, carried ' or bare rock for miles, and we rose along
us throcuh by a little after 10 p. in., aud ; the southern faoe of the ridge overlooking
our team would readiiy have gone ten the'Chclcbilla Valley, until wo seemed
miles furiuvr ba.J we required it. I judge! to Utc half California spread out before
that sixty miles of ju-t wuch road would 'us like a map. Our range of vision ex
have been as hard a drive in any State , tended south to the tule lake, or immense
east of the ttocky Mouutains. morass, in which the Sau Joaquin has its
Our general course this day wa east 1 source, and west to the Coat Range,
by south, passing mainly over moderately1 which alone barred the Pacific Ocean
undulating prairie of every unequal but! from our viow. Still rising, we wound
-.,ii0:.i;fl-raf. farfiliv ..rid frnHH. 'Gradually around the peak of our first
ing successively, at intervals of about 1 mountaip through a slight depression or
twenty miles, the small rivers Stanislaus, ; pass, and soon looked off upon the val
' Tuolumne, and Merced, all flowing from ! ley of the South Fork of the Merced,
the mountains westward into the Sau Jo- j which opened for miles north and east of
-11 ..-...1 f.,rV.;,l he tlifl 'us. On this side, the descent is far steep-,
mining operations in progress on their
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bnnks or in their beds. The Stanislaus :
ruos through a belt of rather light and where a mistep mu.t have landed us a
thin Oak, some two or three miles wide; lea,t a thousand feet below. In time,
the others have a few scattering Oak, this too was left behind, and we descend
and that is all. There is considerable ed fitfully and tortously tho east end of
husbandry mainly of the reaching or- the mountain to the South J'ork, where
der near Stockton and along the rivers on, sixU-en miles from Hussey's and but
aforesaid, but very little industry of any five from the Big Trees of Manposas, we
kind on the naked prairies between them, halted for rest and food. Beforo six, we
and not a drop of running water, except, were again in tho saddle, crossing tho
perhaps, a spriug or two under some of fork snd winding up over another moun
the low bill winch hae a tolerably steep tain uoithward, with a precipitous descent
bide respectively. There are a very few of at least two thousand feet beside us
deep holes iu some of the Winter water- for a mile or so. A steep ascent of half
courses at which cattle still fiod drink, a mile carried us over tho divide, whence
though of a bad quality. One settlor we descended very radidly to Alder Creek
from Massachusetts, who lives mainly by at the northern base. Following up this
cattle-growing, informed us that be camo creek over a succession of steep pitches,
.around Cape Horn eight or ten years interleaved with more level patches, we
biuco, has now about ninety head of oat- bade adieu to daylight at "Grizzly "Cat,"
tie, which ure fast increasing, and intends a spot noted for enoouuters with the mon
to erect a wind-mill this Winter, by arch of our American forests, aud theneo
whwe aid ho will be able to have a good crossed a ridge to '-'Suinimt Meadows," a.
over t.lh. or Cher ro.crvoir. of water,
wbich thej raito for use in irrigation, are
very cotuinou id Stockton, and are rapid -
, J. , . ,,. n..v.r;
ly going Up Uirouguom iuiuuib v-.mu. u.
Ho has to iro seven miles for his fuel,
fericiDg-stuff, &c, on the Stanislaus. His
nearest neighbors, on the road we travel
ed, are some five to ten miles distant, but
I believe ho baa nearer. Ho is doubtlesB
richer here than he was in Massachusetts,
but I cannot realize that his family are
happier or more favorably situated for
mental and moral improvement, thero
being no school within reaob, and the
children depending for instruction on
their 'New-England mother alone. But
thoir children will not have New-England
mothers and what then? I fear
.
this cattle-ranohiiig, with long intervals
betwucn the ranchT8, i8 destined to half
barbarize many thousands of tho next
generation, whom schools' can hardly
ji;ui;lJ tiii i i w . w w
!"churclHgoiugboll" will be astrangerr
INI o t of the uariculturists of this region,
however, came here from Missouri or Ar
kansas, or Texas many of them from
Missouri or Arkansas by way of Texas
and do not seem to regard common
scu00i3 as essential to civilized -life
We orossca the Merced 60 miles
are oross-
harges, SI
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and now our
rDad bucan.e rupced and
, , , ... , ...
bad as we rose
tho first of the foot hills of the Sierra.
Thm far, we had seen few traces of min-
save the muddy colored wntcrs of
the rivers; but heven miles further brought
r, a f nrinltif iif in flm AnnfAr nf n Hon p.
. waabc.l-oat valley of gold-bearing
vo,. aud .bcDCe our AVay Jed seven
., r!ir i,;,.!,,,- fnnt
. . -ir u. .! c j r.:. .
into Bar Valley." wbei-o we found friends
and "fateful rest ine next day 1 devo
ted tdan examination of Col. Fremont's
and work of whieb r k
,inr:if,(r mt mnst noiv imrrv on to the
f . Yoscmite.
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".7. au 7? ' f ";MU 3
rirtor tv'I.iU I nan hnrp v ndn nt all. not
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bavin,? epcut Qve' hours on horseback,
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save in mv visit to the Kansas U old
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nrnnn. nan '.d and PUided us knew a
accoai pait ed and guided us knew all
about the journey that we didn't" which
is savioir a creat deal so wo pressed
-
buoyantly, confidently on
;er, and we traversed for miles a mero !
. 4w .ilnr t n ft. 1 A Sk rf till fTlflliriflin
traco along tbo 6ido ol tbe mountain,
STROUDSBURG-, MONROE
succession of mainly narrow grassy lovels, ing water oourses (mainly dry al this sea
which wind in and out among tbo prom- fon), or inconsiderable depth, and only
ontorics of more or less shattered granite receding sufficiently to make room for a
which made down from the mountain very narrow meadow inclosing the river,
peaks on either side, but pursue a gener-jto the furthest limit of vision,
ally eastward direction to pour their tiny We discussed the propriety of camp
tribute into the Great Chasm. Our route ing directly at the foot of the pass, but
led us sis or eight times across these decided against it, because of the inadc
MeadowH which were often bo boggy as'quacy df the grass at this point for our
to requiro a very nice choice of footing, tired, hungry beats, and resolved to push
across the generally wooded promonto- to tho nearest of the two houses in the
rios which deflected the probably contiu- valley, which was said to bo fb'ur miles
uous meadow ioto what seemed to us ma- distant. To my dying day. I shall re
ny, until we stood -at length, about 10 p. mfember that weary, interminable ride up
t'the vallev. 4 We had been on foot-eiuoe
halted a moment to tighten girths and
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take brefoth for tho descent.
And here let me renew myl!tributo
f f' ma,nai.nQ Knimftr and hRa'ntv of
the ferest-of this whole mountain region.' Yet we pressed on, and on, through clumps
The Sierra Nevada lack tho glorious gla-jof trees, and bits of forest, and patches
ciers, the frequent rains, the verdure, the 'of meadow, and over hillocks of mountain
abundant cataracts of the Alps; but they Ve6m,mainly granite boulders of every
far surpass them they surpass any oth- size, often nearly as round as canon balls,
cr mountains I ever saw in the wealth , forming all but perpendicular banks to
and grace of their trees. Look down ; the tmpricioua torrent that brought them
from' almost -any of their peakB-and your hither those stupendous precipices on
range of vision is filled, bounded, satisfied , either side glaring down upon us all the
by what might be termed a tempest tossed
sea of evergreens, tilling every upland vat
ley, covering every hillside, crowning ev
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nrtf noil- huf. thp, hiuhost with" thftir nnf a-'
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ding luxunence. That 1 sawuunrjg tbis(wuicn seemea aistmcc ana unmisiaKauio,
day's travel many hundreds of Pines i but which, alas ! a nearer view proved to
eiubt teet in uiameter, witli Uedars at
least six feet, I am confident; and there
were miles after miles of such and small
er trees of like genus standing as thick
na lhn milf1 nrnw ffopn mnnnf nin.xirlpK .
..;.nf!- ..... i. .. lr n Yin un '
Uliuniu!: inline riuuL.i i. w r , u it , xcua wvv
rank, without obstructing each other's
sunshine, seem peculiarly favorable to
the production of these serviceable giants.
But the Summit Meadows are peculiar in
their heavy fringe of Balsam Fir, of all
sizes from those barely one foot high' to
those hardly less than two hundred, their'thrown myself recklessly from the Saddle,
branches surroundiug them in collars,
their extremeties gracefully bent down by
the weight of Winter snows, making them
here, 1 am confident, the most beautitui
trees on earth. The dry promontories
which separate these meadows' 'are also,
covered with a species of Spruce, which
is only less graceful than tho Firs afore
said. I never before enjoyed such a tree
feast as on this wearing, difficult ride.
Deneent iuto the Yosemite is only prac
ticable at three points one near the head
of the valley, where a small stream makes
iu from the direction of the maiu ridge of
the Sierra, down which there is a trail
from the vicinity of Walker River, Utah
a trail practicable, I believe, for men
ou foot only. Tho other two lead in near
the outlet from Mariposas and Coulter
ville respectively, on opposite banks of
of the Merced, and aro practicable for
sure-footed mules or horses. Wo, of course
made our desceut by the Mariposas trail,
on the south side of the little river which
here escapes from the famous Valley by
a cannon which water alone can safely,
if at all, traverse, being shut in by lofty
precipices and broken by successive falls.
My friends insisted that I should look
over tho brink into the profound abyss
before clamberiBg dowu 'its side, but' I
apprehending giddiness' aud feeling the
the need of steady nerves, firmly declined.
'So wo formed line again, and moved on.
The night was clear and bright, aa all
Summer nights in this region are; the at
mosphere cool but not really cold; the
moon had risen beforo 7 o'clock, and was
shedding so much light as to bother us in
our forest path, where the shadow of a
standing pine looked 'exceedingly like the
substance of a fallen one, and many sem
blances were unreal and misleading. The
safest course was to give your horse a full
rein and trust to his sagacity or self-love
for keeping tho trail. As we descended
by zigzags the north face of the all but
perpendicular mountain, our moonlight
soon left us, or was present only by re
flection on the opposite cliff. Soon tho
trail became at once so steep, so rougb,
aud so tortuous, that we all dismounted,
but my nttompt at walking proved a mis
erable failure. I had been riding with a
bad Mexican Btirrup, which barely ad
mitted viie toes of my left foot, and con
tinual pressure on these had sprained and
swelled them so that walking was positive
torture. I persisted id the attempt till
my companions insisted ou my remount
ing, and thus floundering slowly to the
bottom. By steady effort we descended
the three miles (4,000 foot perpendicular)
in two hours, and stood at midnight by
the rushing, roaring' waters of tho Mer
ced. Tho first full, deliberate gaze'up' the
opposite bight I can I ever forget it!
Tho valley is hero scarcely half a mile
wide, while its northern wall ' mainly
naked, perpendicular granite is at least
4,000 feet high probably more. But
the inodioum of moonlight that fell into
this awful gorge gave to that precipice a
vagueness of outline, an indefinitd vast
ness, a ghostly and wicrd spirituality.
Had the mountain spoken to me in audi
ble voice, or begun to lean over with tbe
purpose of burying mo beneath its crush
ing mass, I should hardly have been sur
prised. Its whiteness, thrown into bold
-..K.. f I. it: tUa notnlinii nf trana nr clir'i.Viu'
which fringed or flecked it wherever a
few handfulls of its moss, slowly decora-
poeed to earth, could contrive to hold on,
continually suggested tbe presence of
snow, which suggestion, with difficulty re -
futud, was at once renowed. And,looking
up tho valley, we saw just such mountain
precipices, barely separated iy interyen-'auJ
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- COUNTY, PA. NOVEMBER 10, 1S59.
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daylight; it was now past midnight; all
were nearly used up and I inf tdrtuTre
from over eleven hours' steady riding on
tho Hardest trotting norse in America.
while. How many times our heavy eyes
I moan those of my San Francisco friend
and my own were lighted up by visions
wf -J
of that intensely desired
oabin viBons
... 1 .1- . j :..it. ai
ne maue up 01 mouungui uuu ouaun,
rook and tree, into which they faded' one
after another. It seemed at length that
we should never reaoh the cabin, and my
waverincr mind recalled elfish German
fct n ri ps nf the Wild Huntsman, and of
- .
men who, having accepted invitations to
midnight chase, found on their return
that said chase had been prolongued till
all their relatives and friends were dead,
and no 'one dbuld bo induced to recognize
or recollect them. Gladly could I have
and lain where I fell till morning, but this ,
would never answer, and we "kept steadi- ,
ly on,
"Time and the hour wear out the longest day,'
At length the real oabin one made of
posts and beams and wbipsawed boards
instead of rook,' and shadow, and moon
shine was reached, and we all eagorly
dismounted, turning our weary steeds in
to abundant grass, and stirring up the as
tonished landlord, who had never before
received guests at that unseemingly hour..
(It was after 1, a m.) He made ua wel
come, however, to his best accommoda
tions, which would have found us lenient
critics even had they been worse, and I
crept into my rude but clean bed as soon
as possible, while the rest awaitpd tho
preparation of some refreshments for the
inner mau. There was never a dainty
that could have tempted me to eat at that
hour. I am told that none ever before
traveled from Bear Valley to the Yose-;
mite in one day I am ooufident no green
horns ever did. The distance can hard
ly exceed 30 miles by an air line; but on
ly a bird could traverse that line, while,
by way of'Mariposas and the" South FoTk,
it must be fully 00 miles, with a rise and
fall of not less than 20,000 feet. j
The Fall of the Yosemite, eo called,
is a humbug. It is not the Merced -River
that makes this fall, but a mere tribu
tary trout-brook, which pitches in from
the north by a barely ouco broken descent
of 2,600 feet, whilo the' Merced enter tho
valley at its oastern extremety, over falls
of 600 and 250 feet. But a river thrice
as largo as tho Merced at this season (
would be utterly dwarfed by all tbe oth
er accessories of this prodigious 'chasm.
Only a Mississippi or a'Niagara could bo
adenuute to their exactions. I readily ,
concede that a hundred timeB tbe present
amount of water 'may roll down the-Yosemite
fall in the months of May and June,
when tbe snows are melting from the cen
tral ranges of the Sierra Nevada which
bound this abyss on the east; but this
would not add a fractiou to the wonder of
tbis vivid exemplification of tho Divine
power and majestj. At present, the lit
tle stream that leaps down the Yosemite
and is all but abattered to mist by the a
tnazing descent, looks moro like a tape
line lot down from the cloud-capped bight
to measure the depth of the abyss. The
Yosemite Valley (or George) is the most
unique and majestic of nature's marvels,
but tbe-Yosemite Fall is of little account.
Were it absent, the valley wuuld not bo
perceptibly less worthy of a fatiguing
visit.
We traversed the valley from end to
end uoxt day, but an accumulation of de
tail on such a subject only serve to con
fuse and blunt the observer's powers of
perception aud appreciation. Perhaps
the visitors who should be content with a
long look into the ayss from the most con
venient bight, without braving the toil of
a descent, would be wiser th'an all of us;
and yet that first glance upward froui tbe
foot will long haunt me as more impres
sive than any look downward from the
summit could be.
I shall not multiply 'details, nor waste
paper in noting all the foolish names
which foolish people have given to differ
ent peaks or turrets. Jut think of two
giaut stone towers or pillars, which rise a
thousand feet abovo tho towerinu clifl
I." I e .1. " L I..!... rlnlnil U'IMin
; uio" irmB uie,r UUBU UC,UK
Two Sisters!" Could anything bo more
maladroit and lackadaisical ! 'The
Dome" is a high, round, naked peak,
, which rises betweeu tbe Merced and its
little tributary from tho inmost recessos
of the Sierra Nevada already instanced,
which towers -to an altitude of over
five thousand feet above the wafer at iti
base. Picture to yourself a perpendicu
lar wall of bare granite nearly or quite
ono'inilo high 1 Yet there are some do
zen or score of peaks in all, ranging from
3,000' to 5,000 feet ab'ovo the Valley, 'and
a biscuit tossed from any of them would
strike 'ery near" its base, and its frag
ments go bounding and fallingtill furth
er. I cnrtainly miss here the Glaciers of
Chamounix; but I klTow no single won
der of nature on earth which can claim a
superiority over the Yosemite. Just,
dream yourself for one hour in a chasm
nearly ten miles long, with egress for
birds and water out at either extremity,
and none elsewhere save'at'thr'ee" points,
up the face of precipices from 2,000 to 4,
000 feet high; the chasm scarcely more
than a mile wide at any point, and taper
ing to a mere gorge or oanon at either end,
with walls of mainly naked and perpen
dicular white granite from 3,000 to 5,000
feet high, so that looking up to the eky
from' it is like looking out of an unfath
omable profound and you will have some
conception of the Yosomite.
We dined at 2 o'clock, and then rode
leisurely down the Valley, gazing by day
light at the wonders we had previously
passed in the night. The spectacle was
immense, but I still think the-moonlight
view the more impressive.
Our faithful beasts climbed the 'steep
acclivity 'at a littlo more than the rate of
a mile per hour so that we had still had
an hour or two of sunshine before us as
we stood at last on'the summit. I took
a last long look into and up the Valley
with the sun still lighting up the greater
portion of the opposite cliffs, and then
turned my horse's head westward. We
reached. 'at 10$ p. m , the ranche on the
South Fork, kept by a solitary man, who
has no neighbor nearer than sixteen miles
and there halted for the night.
Horace Greeley.
OrSince tho tragedy at Harper's Fer
ry the Democratic press have been super
bumaly industrious in attempting to at
tach the responsibility of that affair to
the Republican party, although Brown
and his associates and supposed abbcttors
have always been opposed to the organi
zation and purpose of our party.
Neither Lane, Brown nor Cook have
received 'aid' or comfort from tho Repub
licans', in tbeir lawless acts. Instead of
being rewarded they havebeen censured
and condemned. ,
But how is it with democratic "Kan
sas Leaders?', Their outrages have not
only been approved and palliated by the
Demooratio press but awarded by the
Democratic administration.
S. W. Clark murdered a man named
Barber by shooting him in the back.
For this practical illustration of modern
Demooracy, he was made a Purser in the
Navy!
James Gardner, who co-operated with
Clark in the murder of Barber, was ap
pointed Postmaster at Lawrence!.
Jones headed the mob which sacked
Lawrence. ' He was paid k)ff with a lucrative-office
in'New Mexico.
Frederick 'Emery, one of tbo murder
ers of Philips, at Leavenworth, was com
pensated by the -appointment of receiver
of the Land Office at 'Ogden!
J. S. Murphy, who helped in tho assas
sination of Philip-, and who was noto
riously one of the gang by whom Hopps
was scalped, was made agent for tho Pot
tawotamie Indians!
Rush Elmore, who made a persevering
effort to assassinate J. H. Kagi, was ele
vated to the office of U. S. District
Judjje!
Russel and Waddell furnished teams
and provisions to tbe Border Ruffians,
who invaded Kausas and siezed the bal
lot boxes in 1856. For this they havo
awarded immense contracts by the Gov
ernment. Awful. The beautiful and accom
plished daughter of a wealthy Albany
merchant was found the other evening
bea-tly drunk, lying in the street, with" a
party of boys piling leaves over her. The
girl was richly dressed. She has become
addicted to drink,- and her parents are 0
bligcd to maintain a coutinual watch 0
ver her.
A Cat. There is in the family of Mr.
John H. Noll, Brandywine street, Spring
Garden, Philadelphia, a torn cat of enor
mous size. He weighs 31 pounds, and
meas-ures 37 inches from the tip of the
nose to tbe end of the tail; and 23 inches
around the girth.
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The Administration Democrats of Ne
braska are ifctermrued that it shall uot
be tbeir fault if a republican delegate gots
admitted to Congress, and now, after it
was discovered that Daily, Republican,
oad 48 majority, a fraudulcut return of
238 votes for Eastabrook comes in from
Fort Kearney, where there are not twen-ty-fivo
legal voters. This of course gives
the certificate to Estabrook, but the House
will be sure to take it away from him in
good timo.
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The New York Court of Appeals has
deoided that a person who has contracted
to work for a given time, and beforo the
expiration of that period is, "by tho Prov
idence of God," disabled from perfoming
the service, can by bis rcpresentatieed re
cover for the labor already performed.
It is said that this question has never be
fore beon decided by the Courts in this
country.
N0.45-
Perpetual Motion.
1 About' jix years ago, wo published tho
first description of a machine invented by
Mr. James G Hendrickson, of Freehold,
New Jersey, "to go of itself." A model,
which "Mr. llendricksou had made after
whittling' patieutiv for forty years, was
brought iuto our office, and we found that
it would go without any impulse from
without, and would not stop unless it was
blooked. The power was self-contained
and self-adjusted, and gave a aullicient
force to carry ordinary clock work with
out aDy winding up or replenishing. In
short, we saw no reason hy it would not
go until it was worn out. Our announce
ment of the fact brouht ut a great deal
of ridicule; the incredulous pointed at all
of the projects to obtain a perpetual mo
tive power which had failed in the past,
and predicted the same disgrace to the
new invention. Many scientific gentle
men visited it, 'Bnd although they could
not dispute the faot that it was "going,"
they nearly all attributed the movement
to some hidden spring or ingenious trick
cry. The inventor was an old man, who
had spent his whole life in pursuit of the
object he had now attained. He had be
come so much accustomed to ridicule,
that he was very patient under it; and
the only reply he made to the cavilers
who pronounced the thing impossible, was
"but it does go ! The notice which we
printed attracted the attention of tbe cu
rious, aud for the first time in his history
the inventor found a profit in his bandi
word. He was invited to be present 'at
various fairs aud exhibitions of uew inven
tions, and wherever he went his machines
formed one the chief attractions. Ssicnco
however, turned up its nose at him, and
determined to put him down. The pro
fessors were all against him, and as they
had pronounced the whole thing a hum
bug, they determined to prove the truth
of their asfertron. Accordingly, Mr.
Hcndricknon was seized afKejport, N.
J.. for practicing "jugglery," under tbe
"Act for suppressing vice and immorali
ty." At the trial, several builders, mill
wrights, engineers, and philosophers wero
called, and testified positively that uo such
motive power as I hat alleged could drive
the machine, and that there must be some
concealed spring within the wooden cyl
inder. There was no help for it; and the
impo-ture must be exploded. An axe
was brought, and cylinder splintered into
fragments. Alas for the philosophers,
there was no concealed sprinjr, and the
machine had gone of itself ! But alas, al
so, for poor Hendrickson, the machine
would go no more. With trembling bands
he again resumed his spectacles and his
jack-knife. His model once mora com
pleted, he had a new machine constructed
of brass, hollow throughout, so that the
eye could examine oil its parts. This
was brought to our office nearly two years
ago, when we noticed it once more, snd
gave to our readers some of the facts we
bave now recalled. Tho inventor was
trying to st-cure a patent for this di-cov-ery
but the work went on slowly. The
Patent Office required a working model
to test the priuciple, and one was sent on
to Washington. The moment the blocks
wore taken out, the wheels started off
"like a thing of life," ane during ten
months that the mode remained in tho
Patent Offico, it never once stopped to
breathe. Tbe inventor had perfected two
new machines, and ma do a very comfor
table livelihood exhibiting them, prosecu
ting his efforts meanwhile to securo bin
patent, intending to apply the power to
clockwork, for which it is peculiarly well
adapted. Age crept upon him, however,
before this point was reached; his high
est art could not make his heart beat por
pctual; and last Saturday afternoon bo
breathed his last, iu the old homestead
at Freehold. He had been so much per
secuted by tbe incredulous, that ho had
provided a secret piaco beneath the floor
of his b-b,opv; where his two machines wero
deposited. It was in the form of a vault,
covered by a trap-uoor, which was locked,
and the floor so replaced a to avoid sus
picion. After bis last illness commenced
he made known this secret to his family,
who examined to spot carefully, and found
the contents exactly as described. The
night after Lis death, the shop was bro
ken open, tho trap door pried off, and
both models stoteu. It in probable that
the family in their visits ?A not taken
the same precaution as tho iuveutor, aud
some prying ees had discovered- the se
cret. Fortuuately, the draniaS are pre
served, and there is a little machine, ono
of the earliest made, now running iu
Brooklyn, where it has kept its ceaseless
ticking for nearly six joar?. Mr. lleu
driekson leaves a family of four sons and
four daugters, all of them, we believe,
gi?en to iuventious. Had bodied ton,
years ago, how emphatically would it have
have been said that his life has been wai
ted in tho hopcle effort to obtain perpet
ual motion. IV V. Journal oj CommcrGy
Potatoes Planting Single j&yes.
Lewis Baily of Steuten County, NY.
eays tlrat he planted of Peoch-blow pota
toes, one eye in a hill, il feet apart, and
plowed and hoed tvrice, and made 39
pounds from one sred -j.otatoe. Of Ber
muda potatoes he mvde 160 tubers from
ono planted, llO of which weighed 5S
pounds. Where toed is oostly. or uew
varieties are wanted from a distaPse, tbia
one-eye system of plauting ia worthy of
attention.