W-.:aJ .ii esyJl' ?is.-vT'. 1 " l .ta.: tea. r ;' .- s ,;: '-'i . I I . I I 1 . i ,1.. . r3 c? nzAvzr.cnD rrrr X , r r NEW- SERIES.; s ; : EBENS3URG, OS .. . . e.-:2 ; .ur.tr S " -' 4 : , : THE DEMOCRAT & SEOTINEL, is publish ed every Wednesday morning, in Ebensbnrg, .-; Cambria Co., P t $1 60 per annum, if faid . is auvaxce. if not $2 will bo charged,, ADVERTISEMENTS will be conspicuously in serted at the following rates, viz : I square S insertions, , .. L- Every Bubaoquent insertion, ' ' ; !, 1 square 3 months, " " X " 6 " " " 1 year, -- , : . " col'n I year, . ' . , '" Business Cards, " r " , -. , OCrTwclve line constitute a square $1 00 25 00' oo : 12 oo ; 80 00 -15 00 v 5 -00' fTbi World "Within. Many teU ua of the beauties Of .the world wherein we dwell Of the forest, rock, and fountain, ' ' Of the aystal stream and dell ; ' : Of the outward ties that chain us . : With a holy binding spell y .: ,. . Of the gentle word of kindness, : 1 lliat iiivite us-tliat is well. Still there's a world of beauty " . I Je3 h.idd'jn from the view The sacred world within us, ::. With its varied shape and hue. i Who can read the happy spirit ? Who can paiut the pleasing scene ? , Are not thoughts that thus inherit'"" Brighter far tlian gems may seem ?. Ilare .not hopes more, verdant foliage : ; Than the palm or forest tree ? Do not thoughts more gently ripple -, t Thau a peaceful moonlit sea? , Though the storms of adverse fortune , On the outward world may frown, ' Still the inward world may glisten , VTith a radiance all its own. The rock majestic towering, : , ' . V' " ; The cavern bounded shor", May be matched in miud's iuiugiuing 'Till time shall be no more ; The wean's vast expansion, With its fathomless abyss, And treasures deeply hidden, Are small compared to this. , . The mind's insatiate longing, With endlen motion rife," "' Knows no ending, nor a limit . . ITirough the active path of life; '. ; il'cn : then its powers expanding; . When this world no more is ef n Troves the beautiful enduring Of the world that dwells within. :: l-it r7 IBTItfQ'i LIFE OF WASHINGTON. T , X Is Washington Irving's Life of the Great Patriot, lately published,: the yreatest pleas ure is to be derived from reading his, graphic and vivid pictures of -Virginia life in 1759 3, and Washington's personal character and habits. ' These are unhackneyed themes,' and when treated with such literary skill, they 'liave a peculiar charm. . The following ex tract will give some idea of that part of the work to which wc now refer : ""From a' letter to bis correspondents in 'England, it would appear that Washington had long entertaiued desire to visit that country Had he done so, his acknowledged inerit and military services would have in sured him - a distinguished reception ; and it Lad been intimated that the signal favor of government might have changed the current of his career. ' We believe him, however to have been too pure a patriot, and too clearly possessed of the true interests of his country, to be diverted from the course which he ulti jnatcljf adopted. JIis marriage," at any rate, had put an cud to all travelling inclinations. In this letter from Mount Vernon he writes : ? I am now, I beleive, fixed iu this seat, with an agreeablo partner for life ; and I hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever Experienced in the wide and bustling world.' This was no Utopian dream' transiently, indulged, amid the charms of -novelty. It ms s deliberate purpose with him, the result of innate and enduring inclinations. .Through out the whole course of his career, agricultu ral life, appears to have been his beau-ideal of existence, which haunted his thoughts even amid the stern ' duties of the field, and to which he recurred with unflagging interest, whenever enabled to indulge his natural bias. .v, " Mount Vernon was his harbor of repose, ipbeije e Repeatedly fuTled his sail, and fan ;ied himself anchored for life. - No impulse of ambition tempted hin thence i nothing but he call of. his country, and Via devotion to ,he publie good. The place waa fdeaed to -hil b7 remembrauce of his brother Lay urence. and of the happy days he bad passed: here with that brother .in Jhe days of boy--toodj but.it was a delightful fhee in itself, and well calculated o-inspire the rural feeK , ' The mansion was beautifully situated, on swelling height, crowned with wood, and commanding a magnificent view np and down he Potomac. The groaads inwodijitely about t "were laid out somewhat io the .English 8t- TW estate wast appo'rtioned y into sep ; jrato rn, devpteij t'diffeVent kinds of. cul- towever, traa still -t ma auowea laoorers. :, Wnca, coTfred withild ttoo3 seamed with deep dells and runs of water, and indented with inlets ; haunts of deer, and lurk ing-place of foxes the whole woody region along the Potomac, from Mount Vernon to Belvoir," and far beyond, with' its range of for ests and hills, and picturesque promontories, affording sports of various kinds, and was a noble hunting ground. Washington had hunted through it with old Lord Fairfax, in his stripplin days : we do not wonder that his feelings throughout life incessantly turned to it. ; . - .' ; :-'. v -'.;'i ' -: ' -; These .were, as yet, , the . aristocratical day a of c Virginia. The estates jwerolarge, and continued inhe same families by entails. Many of the wealthy planters were connected with old families in England The , young men, especially the older sons, were often sent to finish their education there, and on their return, brought out the tastes and habits of the mother country. The governors of Vir ginia were from the higher ranks of society, and. maintained a corresdonding state. The ' established' or Episcopal Church predomina ted throughout the ' ancient dominion as it was termed ; each county was divided . into parishes, as in England each with its paro chial church, its parsonage, and gldbe. Well ington was vestryman of two parishes,' Fairfax and Trurn ; the parochial church of the former was at Alexandria, fcen miles from Mount Vernon ; of the latter, at Pohick, about seven miles The church of Pohick was rebuilt on a plan of his own, and, -in a great measure, at his expense. At one or other of lheo church es he attended every Sunday, when the weath er and the roads permitted , His demeanor was reverential and devout. Mrs. Washing ton knelt during the prayers ; he always stood, as was the custom at that time. Both were communicants. . . ; ; , . : " Among his occasional visitors and associ ates were Captain Hugh , Mercer and Dr. Craik ; the former, after his narrow . escapes from the tomahawk and ncalping-knife, was quietly settled at Fredericksburg ; the latter, after the'eampaigns on the frontier were over, had taken up his residence at Alexandria, and was now Washington's family . physician. Both were drawn to him by campaigning ties and recollections, and were ever; welcome at Mount Vernon ; ; ; . .- ,, " A style of living prevailed among the op ulent Virginian families in those days that has long since faded away. The ; houses were spacious, commodious, liberal in all their ap pointments, and fitted to cope with the free handed, open-hearted hospitality of the own ers. ' Nothing was more common than to sec handsomo services of plate, elegant equipages, and superb carriage-horses all imported from England. - . " The Virginians have always been noted for their love of horses ; a manly passion wLich in those days of opulence, they indulg ed, without regard to" expense.'- Tho rich planters vied with each other in their studs, importing the best English stock Mention is made of one, of the Randolphs of Tuckahoe, who built a stable for his favorite dapple-gray horse, Shakspeare, with a recess for,. the bed of the negro groom, who always slept beside him at night.' - " 'Y ' ; i : " Washington, by his marriage, had added about one hundred thousand dollars to his al ready considerable fortune, and was enabled to live in ample and dignified style. Jlis in timacy with the Fairfaxes, and his intercourse with British officers of rank, , perhaps, , had their influence on his mode of living. ... He had his chariot and four, with black postilions io livery, for the use of Mrs Washington and her lady visitors. " As for himself, he" always appeared on horseback. Ilis stable was well filled, and "admirably .regulated. His stud was ' thoroughbred, g and . in excellent order. His household books contain registers of the names, ages, and marks of his favorite horses; such a Ajax, Blueskin, Valiant, ; Magnolia, (oa Arab,) eto. . Also his dogs, chiefly fox hounds, Vulcan, Singer, ; Itingwood, Sweet lips, Forester, Music, Kookwood, Truelove, etc. - He was an early riser,' often be fore daybreak in the winter, when the; nights were long. On such occasions he lit hia own fire, and wrote or read by 'candle-light. He breakfasted at seven in summer, at eight in winter. Two small enps of tea and three or four cakes of Indian meal (called hoe-cakes) formod his frugal repast. Immediately after breakfast' he mounted his ' horse and ' visited those parte of the estate where any work was going pn, seeing to everything with his own eyes, and often aiding with hia own. hands.;, . ' Dinner was served at" two o'clock. 1; He ate heartily, but was po epicure, por critical about his food, .' His beverage wag small beer or cider, and two glasses of old Madeira; He took tea, of which he was very fond,; early in the evening, and retired for tha might: about PintJ O'clock,' v v .ri.is . ' : confined to the house by bad weather, he tooV that ocoasioft ta arrange, hia paperp, post-up his accounts or write letters; pa6Bing, part of the, time in reading, and occasionally reading aloud to the family. ," : t" t'. -. j i .. He treated his negroes with kindness, at tended io' their' comforts, "was particularly careful of them in sickness, but never tolerated idleness, and exacted . a faithful performance of all their allotted tasks. c He had . a quick eye at calculating each man's capabilities. An entry in his dairy gives a curious instance of this. Four of his negroes, employed as carpenters, were hewing and shaping" timber. It appeared to him, inr noting the amount of work accomplished-. between 1 two -succeeding mornings, that they loitered at their labor. Sitting down. gi?tly bejtimedtheir operations; how long it tookthenatq get their crosscut saw and other implemements ready; how long to clear away the branches from the trunk of a fallen tree ; how long to hew and saw, it; what time was expended in : considering and consulting ; and, after all, how much work was effected during the time he looked, on. From this he made his computation how much they could execute in the course of a day, work ing entirely at their ease. '. - , , .. ' At another time we find hin working for a part of two days with Peter; his smith,- to make a plough on a new invention of his own: This, after two or three failures, - he accom-plisbed.- Then, with less than his usual judg ement, ho put his two chariot" horses to '.the plough, and ran a great risk of spoiling them, in giving his new invention a trial over ground thickly swarded.;I -T, ' ' -; ; Anoni" during a thunder-storm, a fright ened negro alarms the house with word that the mill is giving way, upon which there is a general turn-out of all the forces, with Wash ihgtob at their head, wheeling and shovelling gravel during a pelting rain , . to check the rushing water. , .-: "Washington delighed in the chase. In tho hunting season, when he rode out early in the morning to visit distant parts of the estate, where work was going on, he often took some of the dogs with him for the chance of- start ing' a fox, which he occasionally i id, though j he was not always successful in killing him. He was a bold rider and an admirable horse man, though be never claimed the, merit of being an accomplished - fox-hunter. In the height of the season, however,"' he would "be out with the fox-hounds two or three times a week, accompanied by his guesis at . Mount .Vernon and the gentlemen of the neighbor hood, especially the Fairfaxes of "Bel7oir, "of which estate his friend George William Fair fax was now proprietor. On such occasions there would be a hunting dinner at one or other of those establishments, at which con vivial repasts Washington is said to have en joyed him self with unwonted hilarity. ... : THE BATTLE OF BEANDYWTNE.' .V BT BICUAKD EVERITT. At the latter end of August," 1777, Lord Howe, with an army of about eighteen thou sand men, sailed up the Chesapeake Bay, and landed near Elk ton. ,' It was the intention, of the British commander to march directly to Philadelphia, but he was delayed, fromL vari ous causes, several weeks. J ' " ' 5 J Washington at once divined that Howe's movement was towards Philadelphia ; and ac cordingly ' he put forth every effort to raise a force capable of resisting him with some hope of success. ; - .- '.' s- .A s" We will pass over the prelimniary, acts of the armies," their lnanceyering; &c, nor will we,; dwelC upon t the superhuman . exertions made by the Americans to retard the - British force, and to bring into the field a. respectable army. ; Leaving those incidental matters, we will turn at 'once, to the 11th of Sept.' '1777 Lv was about daybreak when the Britisharmy, eighteen thousand strong, in several columns began to move towards the American posi tion. ' Washington had" parted his' aarmy, which numbr.ed"about eleven thousand nien regular ;. and militia in . several , divisions around Chadd's Ford.': Sullivan La Fayette, Wayne Max well; were in command of differ ent ' portions of the infantry!, ' Tha artillery was directed by Knox, and the cavalry by the brave Pulafiku . ,7 ;!-r.;-s; ;'. . '-' The British- vanunder General Ivnyphau sen, advanced directly. uron the ford, and en gaged. General Maxwell. whoso troops ; being militia were jgradually driven back. Being reinforced,' however,: Maxwell's men charged the'enemy so vigorously that they halted fr "a short ii'ma.r"JirJbi4-ihfcjtJw'M Wry stubborn, but the British rallied,' and ax-last succeeded in i .driving -l Maxwell's forces across - the ford. AJ heavy cannonade now -commenced between tho two-; armies without any definite "results. The 'British lost some' three - hundred men, while to rthe patriots the 'damage' was'Hrifling. Knyphausen's attack proved to be a foint, for Cornwalis,ith'a rong division marched up the" Brandywine'-riveri,' crossed and J moved swiftly down against Sullivan's division, whose duty was toVwatohJb fords just above ,tho point of .-Knyphausen's 'assault ;; SuUivan was nearly taken.-fcy surprise, t so sudden s the tsovement cf the British Gen eral, i ' his array was not entirely: formed for bai. j, ihhen.' the British and -German troops t ara upon The patriots received the sho x wiih firmnefi ' The enemy's artil lery be.rperior to the American, , it 'soon made Icfpa in their -'ranks. 1'The militia receive several charges from the British reg ulars jr i returned theni with great courage. Every exertion was put forth by Sullivan and his officers to encourage-their troops. The carnage v " dreadful, and not until an over whelms : ";rce of the enemy came o", did tha A&wt iwm VwItrtra3eT',-'wicHe of fire, ' slowly, first one wing and then the other rigan to waver. In vain did Sullivan, covered with dust and blood, attempt to stay his men. La Fayette on foot," hui ried from rank to rank, and begged the soldiers to'stand firm until death I , ; But in vain I -, ; - -; ,. . The, qtorm of battle poured over - the field and both wings of Suilivans army were hurled back, shattered and nearly deStroyed. But the centre, Borne eight hundred men stood like a" living wall.. The resistless cannon , ball plowed through their ranks, but they closed them up again. The German and the Brit ish, grenadiers more than once charged in vain. . Sullivan, La Fayette and Stirling toil ed like heroes to make a final stand until re inforcements could come up. ; But La Fay ette fell, shot through the leg ; two of Suili vans aids were Silled, and" the " detachment reduced to a few hundred men were compelled to, join' their retreating comrades, and the whole body, in great disorder closely pursued by the victorious enemy rushed on toward the main army -at Chadd's Ford. ' x " ...Alarmed at the sound of battle in .the di rection, of Sullivan's position, Washington sent Greene, with his division to give aid if necessary.. His men .were marching briskly along, when messengers from Sullivan told how fierce was the battle, and this was corro borated by the heavy cannonade, which every moment grew louder and louder. The truth flashed upon Greene in an instant Corn waiis had attacked Greene's division I Orders were given to the men to march ""in double quick time" were instantly - given". The men . re sponded with shouts, and it u a matter or his tory that Wraynes 'troops marched four milct in forty mi'nuiei. .,( . 7 7. . t About one mile from the battle field Wayne met the flying Americans. 7 He opened his ranks, and allowing them to pass through, showed an undaunted front to the English, and received them with well directed volleys from his artillery. Count Pulaski with his splen did corps of cavalry, also charged in a gallant and successful manner upon the - advancing squadrons, beating them back in a gallant style.- Another battle now began, and con tinued until darkness came down upon . both armies. r The British could not advance, while the retreating forces of General Sulli van were gathered and re-organized Al though pressed very . hardr Greene's corps holds its ground, and when night came on the two armies were very close together- r The British force being greatly superior to the Americans in every respect, Washington concluded not to risk another engagement, but that night his troops retreated,' and the next day marched to German town. " ' Sullivan had been censured for negligence in allowing ' himself to bo surprised by the British army,' but ' he was cleared from any such imputation by a committee of investiga tion. The battle of Brandy wine proved fatal to the American cause, although to the royal forees it was a dear victory. Their loss was over eight hundred killed, wounded and miss ing. The patriots lost in the same, manner over twelve hundred men, more .than two thirds lailitia. Ten -small cannon: also fell into the hands of the enemy. '- ' (' In, this battle,-. Count Pulaski, the accom plished Polish officer, took & prominent port. He commanded the cavalry a -fine corps which he, had "drilled to perfection.' . When the pursuing columns of English came up with Greene's; nien, , .Pulaski charged upon their ranks (disordered by the pursuits) and cut down whole platoons. Scicidk "in xhjs Bridal Chamber.- Miss Clara Haskinsyras found, dead. in her bridal dress and chamber near .Natchez, Mississippi, on the 27th inst.'-' After being dressed by her bridesmaids she requested them to retire for a short titne 'and when they returned' they found her laying lifeless upon ; her couch, with' an empty phial which .had' contained prussio acid stilt claspeofin 'her hand.'--She had adopted the desperate alternative of self destruction rather than marry a man' she could not love in obedience to parental " authoi c. ' ,,x i ' . .-s-.arA young lady walking out ono fine morning, met the celebrated John Wilkes. 7 ''.you see sir,' I have come out to get a lit tle sun &nk air." ' " ; . i b'" Too, ia4 better, madam, get a little hus band first,0 said Wilkes. 7 re 100 Pr to Taj . - , Yes, it was a lovely spot, that vil avo-, yard! Such a one, I fancy, as inpUed the ' Elegy in a Country Church yarl " ! There was less pomp and show than iu cur city bur ial places, bufwhatof that, as Jeremy Taylor says, " We cannot deeuie God and nature, for a cofUn is a coQn, though 'if be covered with a Buniptuous pall." So"a grave' is a grave, though it be piled over with sculptured marble. ' Then that Utile girl t" How her image comes ap before me, bendiDg over her moth-z-grel Hteaykod eiJ ,- and was soon drawn towards the spot where she was , kneeling .1 approached cautiously there was something so sacred in the picture of that child weeping at a new-made grave, that I feared myl presence might break 'the rapture of her taournful musing. I know not how long I might have stood apparently read ing the. rude grave stone, had not the child raised her eyes and timidly said : . "Our little Willie sleeps here. We's too poor to get a tomb-stone ; we and the angels knows where he lies, and mothers says that's enough." 7 .' -' -;, Are you not afraid to : be here alone V I asked. '7- "''". ' V V "Oh, no; mother is sick and couldn't come, so she said I must come and see if the violets are in bloom yet." ' '- i now old was your brother V, I asked , feel ing interested in the little girL ' He was only seven years old ; and he was so good, and he had such beautiful eyes ; but he could not see a bit,'' . ... . . f . 'Indeed! was he blind ?" - -. V You see he was sick for a long time ; yet his eyes were blue and bright as the blue sky with stars'in it, and wa did not know he was getting blind, till one day I brought him a pretty rose, and he asked Is it a white rose, Dora T 7 7 ' 7 ""' " "' : ' " 4 Can't you sec, darling ?' asked mother ." .No, I can't see anything. . I wish you would open the window, it is so dark.' . ; Then we knew that poor little Willie was blind ; but be lived a long time after .- that, -and used to put his hand on our - faces and feel if we were crying, and tell us not to cry, for he could see God, and Heaven and the Angels! 7 I'll see you too, when you go away from this dark place.' " . " So one day he closed his eyes and fell asleep ; and mother said he was asleep in ' Jesus. Then we brought him here and buried him ; and though we are too poor to get a tomb-stone, yet we can plant flowers on his little grave, and nobody'll "trouble them. I know, when they learn that Willie sleeps here.' PifJiiLOus Dssgknt is a Baiaook. Mons. Godard, with four other persons, made an as cent in a monster balloon at Cincinati, on Monday of last week. A . reporter of the Times, who was one of the aerial voyagers, gives the following account of the descent : " Soon after Monsier Godard had furnished the altitude from his barometer, he gave us notice that.we were descending. By gesture, he ordered us to lay flat down in the : bottom of the car, when ho gave the word of com mand, and not to jump out of the car under any circumstances. Just then we-struck a tremendous gale of wind, and it was evident that wo were not only sailing furiously, but desending rapidly. It was so dark that noth ing could be discovered, .but our commander mounted the side of the car, cast out his an chor acd waited the result. He commanded us to , lie down, and .we ' had hardly obeyed before ' we felt, the car brushing over the tree tops. The anchor caught and held us for a moment, ' then we dashed with' furious "speed into an adjoining oorn-field--a field, however, that was full of stumps. .Suddenly the ear was dashed with great force against a tree; then up we went; then down, now dragging on a fence, again striking a stump or a tree with great velocity and again whizzing over tho corn-stalks at a lightning gallop. Every man laid close to the bottom of the car except Mons. "Godard," who stood up,, holding upon the valve', all hoping that the monster would soon be controlled, and wc landed safely on terrajirma.,: - ' i j:j,.', ; ,11 ,,i .J.J..;,.;' ' Suddenly the balloon took, a fearful leap and brought the car with, a tremendous crash against a srump, half upsetting it. Mons. Godard's face struck the fence, and he was "thrown to the ground. ' At the same moment, Colonel Latham and Mr. Hole were thrown headforemost out of the car..,i Mr.. Belman and ourself were left in . the car alone, and, relieved of the greater portion of its weight, we expected to bound again into the' air. Mr. Belman," with great intrepidify, olamber ed. up the car side and seized thevalre rope, while Mons. Godard took, hold of th rope swinging below. A furious wind at that nio-. mcut swept past, the balloon made another bouody and dashed the car against; a tall,' heavy, dead tree. The blow kuocked us in sensible, and the next wo knew we were lying with our back upon the ground, the raiu boat ing in our face, :our head crowded tntoouo corner of the "ar, and the trunk of a tree ly ing across' our body. J We could not move It appears that the netting caught in the tree we hare 'mentioned, and so strong' was the force , of the wind that the balloon pulled it over on to the car,s and the gas then escaping rapidly, th tree held the balloon secure.Ti,J The Eird Hurler. Lieut. Gibson's explorations in the -valley of the Amazon presents to the 1 reader many interesting features We clip , te following in reUtioa to bird hunters : . : ; x ; " There are- a few individuals' anxortgtha Creoles of Santa Cruz who unerstand the art of collecting and preserving the skins of birds with arsenical soap: They 'mske their living by stuffing birds with cotton, to be boxed up ar d .exported. ' : The bird-collectot differs from the bark -gatherer ; he is found oa the -.plains as. cilAaitrtha.wooii JLI auuuu;uon. is . good powder, in small tin canisters,- different sized shot, and a small quantity of quicksilver.- The phot are for . ordinary birds. He puts a few drops of quicksilver .in jl .small piece of paper,- and loads his gun with it in stead of shot. The quicksilver knocks" tho humming-bird over, without tearing .the skin or disfiguring the plumage ; it stuns and - be fore the bird recovers, the sportsman has, him in hand. After the hunter has collected some five hundred kinds, he then becomes . difficult to please ; he wants the beautiful little song ster who sits' at the base ' of. the Andes and sends forth his music before . the rising '. sun. .There are many birds who feed by night and sleep in daylight; some steal v the eggs .from their neighbors ; others drive away the pa rents, feed and rear their young, , or sit- upon the eggs, and hatch them for the rightfaLown er. All these birds we peearound us have their regular hours for feeding, singing, bath- ing, resting and sleeping. ; .. . . . , 4 '.A We met a bird hunter in Trinidad; he Jiad been at work two years collecting near .six hundred different kinds. - Ho was of opinion there are over a thousand varieties of night and day birds to "be found in the ' Madeira Platte, besides snakes, lizards and any quan tity of insects. Trinidad was his headquar ters, from which he branched off in all direc tions during the dry season. His room" was a perfect curiosity shop.; 3 The birds ..were rolled up in paper after, being properly cured, and stowed away in large .wooden, boxes. Every day,- at different hours, he went to tho field ; after days of labor,' he ' would ". be seen returning with a single : bird ."differing from any in his room. He ' procures ' poisonous snakes by epliting the end of a stick to ' form a fork, which he places over the neck of tie snake, and holds him until a gourd or . bottle is fixed over his head, when , he loosens his fork and. the snake crawls into the cavity. He then corks the gourd and puts it into his pocket. After the snake starves to death or is drowned in spirits, his skin is taken - off. preserved, and stuffed, ready for transporting to the museums of the civilized world, -' ? During the rainy season the" bird hunter enters a canoe, and repairs to those ' places where the various animals are' collected to gether. He . obtains many species there, which would require a length of time to fol low op, and fills his canoe" with venison and deer skins. " -'' - L '-' ' -' "-' WosnxES or California. It is a work of considerable difficulty to believe all the stories of vegetable life that come to us in the Cali fornia papers. We can stand beets as long as a man's leg and thirty inches in circum ference, onions as large as a peck measure, and cabbages weighing sixty pounds;' but when , they swear to a hundred and twenty bushels of wheat to the acre and potatoes weighing half a hundred wc begin to hesitit. But their big trees are tho wonder of tho .world. : .The Mammoth Grove is a forest, of such monsters. : Situated four . thousand vo hundred feet above San Francisco, it has coma to be a summer resort of the people.'- The largest tree is ninety-five feet in circumfer ence, and two are sixty-five feet in circumfer ence, and three hundred feet high, and beau tiful' to look at 7, At the grove is a first class hotel. , On the body of the big tree theie Is a house twenty-four by eighty, which coutains two fine .bowling alleys. The stump of tin tree is intended for a baU-rvom f.-frBuJilo Advertiser. -: --' ; - . I - California Fashion. ' u -. -V , . .-. .. - i : .J yesterday : . , A few. days emce, a Gorman ( waa riatng along Sansom streetjoear Sacramento, whea be heard the whizzing of ball acr.r binc'fcn'i felt his hat shaken.' lie lumed about;' saw a "man with a'revolver iv his' band, and! took off his hat and "found a fre&V lajcVh(! i it -"''"" i " Did you shoot at m 2" asked th CteBman, . " Ys," replied the other: jar.y, 4that uiy horse ; it wa stolen from n recently." : '-' You must be mislaken says the Gertusu I have .owned, the horse fca- three years."""- " Well.' says th w Kc thr I ota to. look at biui I believe. oi istei. . Excuse, nic, rir; won't yc. ows sud take a drink ? The rider djounlod, Hedhis. horsetLe. two found atfcijatog salog'a.by. they hob cob bed and djok . together, and parted friaods. That v the California fashion to make acuaix tuKcv Cro. 4 , . .A .s ; . , .. .
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