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Show “¥ ¢ peeeeee ; UNDER : | THE | SEAL.— CONFES-| | OVERLAND SION OF A MURDERKESS. C— se It was here, in the autumn of 185—, that an old priest finished his course. I had visited. the.village regularly for many summers, MAIL HE OVERLAND MAIL COMPANY, carrying. the Unirep Stares Mait from Salt Lake City to Virginia, Nevada, forms in connection with the .Overland Stage Line Hast, and the Pioneer Stage Company, West, the and had known him well—better, indeed, Be Ayaclar CO.|Qverland TO VIRGINIA, NEVADA TERRITORY, IN'5 DAYS. There is no more lovely village among the Pyrenees than ee 4 \. i | Stage i peas -~_ ' ) A } saa Vine Rn & ©OO. Line. PUeavenmoniag Bey HOLLADAY, . Proprietor. CARRYING THE GREAT BETWEEN ATLANTIC AND THROUGH MAIL anita L. City. BANKERS, OVERLAND than almost any one in the place, for he Successors of Powers, Newman & Co., This Line is now running OVERLAND MAIL shunned society, and dreaded making GREAT new acquaintances, which each year had EAST TEMPLE STREET, G.S.L. CITY, LINE to be broken off. An old deaf housein connection with the. BETWEEN (Godbe’s old Drug Store,) keeper and a couple of immense Pyrenean dogs were his sole companions. ATCHISON, KANSAS, AND PLACERVILLE, OVERLAND MAIL CO. Many a cigar had I smoked at the good old CAL., Dealers in. Coin, to and from man’s fireside—manya long talk had I and a perfect line of communication between had with him—and many a time had I been af ATCHISON, KANSAS, NEBRASKA CITY & shamed out of my Protestant intolerance THE ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COASTS. GOLD DUST by the simplicity and charity of the old PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA, THROUGH SALT cure. And now he was gone, and I was The Coaches of this line are Neat and Commodiand LAKE CITY. truly grieved. I followed the remains of my poor old friend to the grave, and in ous; and special attention is paid to the comfort and Coaches for Atchison and Nebraska City leave examining his papers subsequently I convenience of passengers. : every morning at ten o'clock. found several—bearing date many years The Trip from before—relating to histories imparted to A TREASURE & FREIGHT EXEXCHANGE. him in the confessional, and all beginning SALT LAKE CITY TO VIRGINIA, PRESS with the words—Since every person Pay Interest on ane Deposits, by special agreeeneral Banking Business. ment, and transact connected with these events is dead, I is made CARRIED WEEKLY BETWEEN consider that this history is no longer ‘CORRESPONDENTS: INSIDE OF FIVE DAYS; under the seal of the confessional.” One SALT LAKE, ATCHISON and NEBRASKA CITY, of these stories I thouglht worth preservie ee New York. Metropolitan Bank in charge of the most Competent and Trustworthy ° = . Philadelphia. Drexel 0. ing, and now offer to my readers. It was thence by rapid means of conveyance to Placerville, «+ Leavenworth, Kansas. -| Scott, Kerr & Co. « : Messengers. in a woman’s hand, and was headed by a Sacramento, and San Francisco, making the “P52 few words in the good cure’s writing, to This Line also runs the effect that the emotion of his peni- THROUGH TRIP INSIDE of SEVEN TRI-WEEKLY COACHES, tent Madame de M rendered her DAYS? spoken narrative so unintelligible that Carrying Passengers, Mails and Express Matter beCoacHres LEAVE he had been compelled, before giving her tween absolution, to beg her to state her case SALT LAKE CITY AND VIRGINIA CITY, in writing, pledging his priestly honor, SALT LAKE CITY, DAILY, at 1 O'CLOCK P.M. at the same time, that all she might write Sade IDAHO, viA BANNOCK CITY. Also, a should be considered equally “under the ARRIVE FROM THE WEST EVERY MORNING in time to connect with the Overland Stage for the FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC seal.” That seal is nowremoved. Here TRI-WEEKLY LINE is the record ofa sad little tragedy which Kast. BETWEEN took place years ago in this corner of the WALLA WALLA, OREGON, AND SALT LAKE DEY globe, unsuspected by all the world save Goons, OrFrIcr—¥irst South Street, adjoining Jennings’ the priest and the two or three persons New Store. CITY, wa BOISE CITY, WEST BANNOCK. © immediately concerned:— TimetoDENVER, = 5 Days. H. S. RUMEFIELD, Agent You have bidden me write my history, Time to ATCHISON & NEBRASKA CITY, 12 ‘ my father, before I die, and I accept the G.$.L. City, July 1, 1864. Jo. S: ROBERSON, Agent. penance, but it isthe bitterest you could ——| ONL CLOTHS, MATTING, have inflicted. You have seen how my BEN HOLLADAY, W. L. HALSEY, New York. tongue failed, and my lips refused to G S.L. City. AND jh AND 8; eak, when I strove tto tell you by word : ‘ r 4 I i etme, of mouth the history of the last few Wholesale and Retail Gaosers gpd UPHOLSTERY GOODS, weeks of my life. ‘The last, do I say? Gommission Mercha tay : BANKERS Ay indeed the last, for I know well that Ishall never leave this bed till I seek : AND DAILY COACHES cific side of Mexico. Di Ss E> 2 Ea the stone of the guacoyol is equal to the best coal, both for the length of time it burns and the intensity of heat produced. It has likewise the advantage over Ee TO ALL POINTS from the exhalation of gas, nor does it dirty the holds, northe persons who have’ to take it out; its shape is also in favor for employing directly, and it is not sub ject to spontaneous combustion or da~ mage by leakage of the ship. ‘The guacoyol, as already stated, is the fruit of the. palm, with which nature has covered the Mexican coast of San Blas and the valley of Banderas. The quantity of this fruit which can be collected annually is IN GCQOoLORADO, UTAH, New Mexico, incalculable. Arizona, IDAEXZO State 4 my boy. THE of Nevada. We are told that ‘‘like cures We wish our clever homeopaths invent a much more valuable to society by which ‘dislikes cure dislikes,” Gao _ tea, rest in’ one narrower and darker. Qh, DEALERS IN EXCHANGE father, I dare not face the future. Boise City, Idaho, Denver City, Colorado, Atchison, Kansas, I will strive to collect my thoughts, and relate all that you should know. I was born in Switzerland, in a Portland, village on the shores of the lake of Geneva. My father was a doctor, and as he possessed a little property of his own, we were rather ' better off than our Government iene purchased. _£ Will also be 189-tf have everheard. save one, I slowly on, saying ia word now and then, and. he turned back and touched. his shoulder. No. movement answered. -Andre bent down for aamoment and looked at his face; then he turned to me. “Marie,’’ aud before Andre could arrive with his burden my mother and I had made our only spare room ready to receive the sufferer. My father, surely I may hurry over what followed. That was not my crime; and I do not think that to dwell upon it need be a part of my penance.. The young stranger was a Frenchman; and for many a week I helped my mother to ntrse him. His illness was long and dangerous, but he had youth on his side, and a strong constitution, aud my father at length pronounced him convalescent. Alas! I helped as well as I could to amuse his slow recovery; and before he was well, before he had heard of my engagement to Andre, he had asked me in marriage from my father. [ro BE CONTINUED.| of the FINES 4 } , QUALITIES. 3 STRAW Caps, FLOW. ERS, SALT! Salt! SALT! Orders solicited for Montana ™ FINE TABLE SALT, WHOLESALE W. H. HOOPER, AND Opposite ‘Salt Lake House, AT at the Residence of J. B. i MEREDITH, 15th Ward, G. 8. L. City. MERRY A NEW 286-tf CHIMES. JUVENILE ‘ SOUTH (SIGN MUSIC. BOOK. By L. O. Emerson, Author of ‘Golden Wreath,” “Harp of Judah,” &. Containing Klementary Instructions, Attractive Exercises and several hundred Popular Songs, Superior to all similar Wowrks in many essential points and destined to be the Most Pepular and saleable Book for Schools, Seminaries, and-the. Young Folks at'Home ever published. "The Songs are not old and time-worn, but New, Hresh and Sparkling; suited to all occasions and Alive with the Spivit of the Times. A large number now first appear in print. Specimen pages, containing several choice pieces, will be sent to any one on application. Price of ““Merry Chimes”? 50 cents. $5 00 a dozen. OLIVER DITSON & Co., Publishers, BOSTON. Sid&swtf MAIN OF THE Corner of Main and Eighth Streets, CLT Y.. 208 Battery St.,San Francisco, I. T. CALIFORNIA. Geo. A. YOUNG & Ga, Proprietors. PURCHASE AND SHIPMENT MERCHANDISE LIQUORS supplied AND with the finest CIGARS. General Stage Office for the Overland, AND Drawers, Walla Walla, Umatilla, Salt Lake, Owyhee, Idaho City, and South Boise Mines. 238-tf oe Ellis & Bro’s. have for Sale, MANUFACTURERS WHITE Attached to this Hotel are a first-class BARBER SHOP and BATHING ROOMS. | Tue Best Srock or Leap Parnts, Dry and Mixep O1s, Purry and Guass, in the-@ity. | f as soon in the spring ag possible a tri-weekly Time MARK to Denver GOODS Days. for Cattle and Mule Trains “BUTTERFIELD’S GOODS Eight OV’D. DESPATCH.” for Express “B. O. D. EXPRESS, Arcuison.” & MACHINERY Jul. Steenbock & Co. is always Santa F e, New Mexico, Of all descriptions of On Commission, for Utah, Idaho and Montana. The RESTAURANT conneeted with this Hotel Orders respectfully solicited. is under the immediate supervision of Mr. Young, _ -212-tf. whose long experience in the business, and well known, reputation as a caterer to the public wants, ‘ is a sufficient recommendation. The BAR and about SEPTEMBER Ist to MARK Agent for the NEW AND SPLENDID HOTEL is entirely completed, with a large number of rooms neatly finished and handsomely furnished now ready for the reception of guests. Atchison, Kansas, and Denver, Colorado; Mo. JAS. LINFORTH, Commission Merchant, House! About AUGUST Ist, 1865, the Company will have line of Express Coaches running daily between between Denver and Salt Lake Oity. over which merchandize will be carried at fair express rates YOKE,) St. Louis, }@ and STREET, OX 286-tf pe } STORE. and all kinds and descriptions of Agricultural Implements of the very best quality, constantly on hand. Office at Heller & Snyder’s. BOISE and SEED —_——O-— 26 Overland T. HAWKINS’, and WAREHOUSE REAPERS, THRASHERS, PLOWS, RAKES, GRAIN CRADLES, SCYTHES, Great Salt Lake City. ‘“ Express Departim't. 168-tf MISSOURI Boston, HELLER & SNYDER 49-tf RETAIL, sTOCK. g AGRICULTURAL Territories E. G. MORSE, SALE, to emarce eenernnme T. J. SLAUGHTER, New York. SHORES, DUNHAM & Co., Chicago. HENRY BELL & SONS, St. Louis. STRODE, RUBEY &C€o,, =“ BOILED FOR & STONE, WEST. Barnum, Fenner & Co.’s| City, and Utah invited York, Jan. 1, 1865. REFERENCES. FAY LADING, our MOWERS, O OF to the FAR AKING THEIR SELECTION. AGENTS FOR THE PURCHASING AND ForWARDING OF ALL KINDS OF MERCHANDISE FROM THE Hast TO THE WEsrT. 89-tf examine GE MERCHANTS. Lake BILL Which protects the shipper from the extreme East ET¢., ETc.) is Market are id MORSE, WALCOTT & €0., Salt THROUGH GIVES Lowa. ‘ Great ~|A GOoDs, FEATHERS,). ARTIFICIAL AND | j y GENTS? SHIRTS, | Undershirts, IMPORTERS OF FURNISHING ete. GOODS. »_14, MURRAY STREET, and Rates and Information Furnished by any of the following Agents: ‘William Martin, Agent, 68 Broadway New York. &. A. Locke, W. H. Moore, H. S. Nichols, Sidney Rice, L. E. Forsyth, . Af ohn A. Kinney, Chas. M. Mackie 1 State-st., Boston. 40 South Fifth-st-Phild’a, ‘84 Clark-st., Chicage. 66 1 Burnett House, Cinna. 6c 11S. Main-st., St. Louis. 66 Atchison, Kansas. ce Main-st, Leavenworth, Ks, 6é William Morrow Denver, Colorado, N .S.Ransohoff & Co, ‘¢ Salt Lake City. a 2 17RARK PLACE, New Ma, -) 61, NORTH 267-6m = York City, AND MAIN STREET : St. Louis, Mo, ling, lately, aloaded gun, when it was lady near vicfew Union. : The Boston Children’s Aid Society, designed to take from the street boys from 7 to 12 years of age who are living in exposed and neglected circumstances, is highly prosperous. Their establishment is at Pine Farm, West Newton, Mass. 52 boys were admitted last year. ~ 7 A darkey couple got married in a church at Richmond recently, and were on their way home when the patrol picked them up for making a noise in the streets, and put them in the guard house, where they remained until morning. ‘They spent their honeymoon ‘‘sitting up.” Sambo, when released with his bride, «kissed er with. great fervor, remarking, “‘Let’s trabel_ straight home, and finish up dis spree ’fore we’s took agin,” The Virginia Enterprise says the miners have encountéred a sort of powdery substance in the seams of the rock, which takes fire and explodes with the sparks from the pick—probably a mixture of sulphur anc nitre. It astonished them a good deal at times. Percussion caps seem to be all they need now, as the finding of cannon ballsin a mine was chronicled the other day. The Oakland News is responsible for the following: ‘‘An excited young miss, somewhat famous for her beau- ty, ran out of one of our churches last Sunday, while the earthquake was on the rampage, frantically exclaiming to a young man who generally hovers near her when he gets a chance: ‘‘O dear! O dear! if we are ta die, George, arms!” his manly let us die in each other’s George, it is said, presented bosom.” It appears that twenty-three thousand and seventy-seven immigrants arrived in New York during the month of August, of whom nearly ten thousand were Germans. The total number who arrived from the lst of January to the 31st of August, was one hundred and twentythree thousand four hundred and_ nine, OF FLANNEL door, and even then making an attempt to spring to an upper window, from which the pursued surveyed her pursuer. Aman by the name of Stoddard, in Cass county, lowa, was carelessly hand- —Virg. ND Woon! na MONTA Commission he said, “I fear he has had asunstroke. He ought to have medical adyice at once. I can easily carry him to your father’s. Go on and prepare them—it may save his life.” A cold chill seemed to come over me and my happiness, but I obeyed in silence, FUR, SILK iA WuonmsaLe Grocers, HoRWARDI until we came to-a large old tree, at the foot of which a man was lying apparently asleep. We had passed him, when something in his attitude attracted Andre's attention, AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN thrown acrossa stream up to her cottage ption of the new overland telegraph line. Work on this line is being rushed up with all possible, dispatch. TRERS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS MANUF! An eastern exchange relates the story of a viper following a woman from a wood across two meadows and over a plank Several loads of poles have passed through Dayton, on their way to Westgate, to be used in the construc- Owns its transpor- BROADWAY, LIQUORS HELENA, were strolling there as usual. The heat was unusually great for the time of year, and we had been sitting close to the water's edge, Istening to its soft cool murmur, and watching its tiny waves rippling in the sun. Ah, how happy we were! We wandered (No. 330 Morse, Walcott'& Co.,. One afternoon towards the end of May, we found COMPANY __ ate Dravkr, Crarg & Co.,) Storess| AND THE like.” would system shoul discharged, fatally wounding a young named Decker, who was standing by. Stoddard and the unfortunate tim were to have been married in a days. tation, Our Stock of WINES CITIES To all localities in the Territories, the rate to include Railroad and Overlan'l carriage and all commissions upon the Missouri river. © C. S. Hursu, Iowa City, at fifteen a girl’s heart is We loved each other almost |’ sounds of the sweetest voice, . % E. G. Morsz, St. Louis, Mo. SAMUEL WatLcort, Boston, Mass. ing it at fifteen I learnt that my parents had promised me in marriage to a young lawyer, the son of an old friend of my father’s. I saw him for the first time the next day, He was tall and hand- easily won. from the first moment of our meeting, ‘and it’ was agreed that our betrothal should take place as soon as the fcw months had expired that were wanting to complete the year of mourning for his mother. My parents were not strict, and I used to wander for hours with 4indre by the shores of the lake, listening to the songs of the birds, and to the & 416 GLAY STREET, D. P, CLARK & BRO'S,, FOR MINERS, TRADERS AND EMIGRANTS. peacefully for several years, and on leay- and Consisting of Supplies neighbors, and I was sent for my education to one of the best convents in the ne'ghborhoed. . Here I. passed my time some, Stock of SUGAR, TEA, COFFEE, SPICES, Together with EASTERN 208-tf GROCERIES, ‘ all of the SAN FRANCISCO. ‘ We haveon band e rabid ‘je Oregon, Vouchers (anes 414 & oe Victoria, British Columbia. 4as~ Collections made and returns promptly remitted at Current Rates of Exchange. Draw Bills on Liverpool, London, and Paris. Collections: made in Great Britain and France. little VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. ; AND that my soul might sleep there with my GOLD DUST, body! ..Oh, that eternal forgetfulness at the might be mine, instead of eternal memory and wakefulness! But if even OFFICE OF THE OVERLAND STAGE LINE, EAST TEMPLE STREET, G.S.L. CITY, now I -never close my eyes without the AND scene of my crime and my agony being present with me,—how far worse will it VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA TERRITORY, be when the faintness leaves me which WILL PAY THE HIGHEST RATES FOR is now my only relief? Oh! it is terrible to think of existing for years, perhaps | GOLD DUST AND COEN. for centuries, with my brain and heart on SELL SIGHT AND TIME BILLS ON fire with pain as they are now, and that me rest by refusing tto suffer more. Yet Virginia City, Montana, if I die without Aids forgiveness—my Idaho City, Idaho, ONTRACTS can be made with this company through their agents, to transport freight from > Ifyou are a good boy, I will take you out to see your grandmother’s grave, this evening.’’ | HOLLADAY & HALSEY, says The city of Mexico has been inundated by the breaking of the canal aqneduct. ‘The property loss is reported at twenty millions of dollars. | “Papa, can I go tothe circus?” “No, Territories, AND of tons,. o+ AND Montana Thousands the 'Tepic newspaper, can be gathered ata very slight expense, and easily supply all the steamers of the Pacific coast— the difference of price between it and coal at. San Francisco being about one half. The objection is that, the supply can only be temporary, as the daily consumption of one vessel would take the produce of thousands of trees to supply it.— Mining and Petroleum Standard. CARPETS, pe experiments coal, that there is no disagreeable smell WIGHTMAN & HARDIE, IMPORTERS & DEALERS JOHN J. ROK & CG, From made on board of English war steamers, it has been discovered that, used as fuel,. AND FOREIGN HOME sei FUEL. © A. newspaper of Tepic, Mexico, speaks in high terms of alate discovery that has been made to apply to purposes of fuel the stone of the guacoyol, the fruit of a species of palm that grows on the Pa- is STATES. ! NEW BUTTERFIELD’S | SCOTT, KERR & C0., THB PACIFIC re oe cas: G.S. Kansas. J BEN. , “E. P. Bray, 68 Broadway, N. Y. President. W. K. Kitchen, at Nat’l Park Bank, N.Y. Treasurer Atchison, Kansas, General Supt. . eee De | thirty-nine thousand seven hundred seventeen of them being Germans. and A Paris correspondent tells the following story: A newly made daocter, practising in the environs of Paris, was called in by a small shopkeeper to see her child, suffering from a sudden illness. He gave a prescription, went away, and called again two days after. The woman met him on the threshold, wringing her hands, her face bathed in tears. “How is the child?” ‘“Dead,” was the agonised answer. “Dead! what. with?” “The measles,” gasped the weeping mother, “Measles! ” thundered the doctor. “Wretched woman, you have killed your child. If you had only told me that it was the measles, I could have prescribed for is directly.” |
