and he had concluded on this method of acquainting both Mr. Burns
and Sarah of his fixed determination.

The latter part of the walk was measured in silence. Some faint
perception of the truth was beginning to dawn in Sarah's mind. Her
father's spirit began to assert itself in her breast.

Mr. Burns walked slowly along a little behind. It was tea time when they
entered the house. He went for a moment to his room. He had scarcely
entered it, when the door opened and his daughter came in. She ran up to
her father; she threw her arms around his neck; and while she wept
bitterly, Joel Burns could hear between the sobs:

'_Oh, father, father, your child has come back to you!_'

ALL RIGHT.

Little lady wants a President all smile and style and grace;
Little master wants a Talleyrand or Crichton in the place;
Little simpletons want this and that to fill the nation's chair;
But the times want ABRAHAM LINCOLN--and, thank GOD, they have him there!

GOLD

Our large debt and vast expenditures demand a resort to every just
available source of national revenue. Among these are our mineral lands
of the public domain, and especially those yielding gold and silver. On
this subject, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Judge
Edmunds, on the 16th of April last, addressed a letter to the Committee
of Public Lands of the Senate, from which I make the following extract:

'For a half century prior to the California gold discoveries in
1848, the annual gold yield of the world was, by estimate, from
sixteen to twenty millions of dollars, of which Russia produced
more than one half. In 1853 the gold product of California was
$70,000,000. * * * * Annual yield, estimating upon reported
shipments, was $50,000,000, to which by adding two fifths for
quantity taken by private hands, besides that converted into
articles of ornament and use, the total average would be seventy
millions a year. The immense discoveries of gold, silver,
quicksilver, tin, copper, lead, iron, and coal, within our limits,
justify the estimate that our mineral riches exceed the aggregate
metallic wealth of the globe. In a state of peace, with adequate
revenue from ordinary sources, the Government has interposed no
obstacle to the free access of our citizens and of the people of
every nation, to work the mines, of which the United States are the
undisputed