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The cause Of this difference against US is,
that all vessels bound from our ports to pla-
ces south OF the line, or beyond either of the
eapes, cross the Atlantic to the Azores or
Western Islands, for the purpose of finding
favorable winds, while vessels from British
ports run down to the same latitude and lon
gitude without the necessity of crossing the
ocean to avail themselves of the same ad .
vagtages.
The construction Of the proposed railroad
across the lSthnns will not only do away
this advantage over us now possessed by
European commerce and navigation bu, will
turn the tide in our fovor, thus:
The average distance from Liverpool,
London, and Havre to Panama by the new
route is 400 miles, from New York the
distance is 1000 miles, from Charleston |, :.
4tO, from Savannah 1900, from New Or
leans and Mobile l,6)0--making an average
distance from our principal exporting Allan
tic and Gulfpo Of about 1000 miles to
Panama. IL therefore, we admit for the
sake OF the argument, that European COM
merce with the Pacific ocean, the Fast Ia.
dia and China seas, will take the new route
aero" the Is,hmus, there will be differ.
enee OF abou, 5000 miles in our favor. Add
10 this the 500 miles now against US, aud
we find tha,we shall gain by this channel
OF communication in our relative position to
those parts Of the world, distance of COO
miles, or Ode days. ln,hc voyage ont and
home, we shall have the advantage Of our
European competitors $500 miles, aud 81
Gays as compared with thepresent route.
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roOr Richards PROVERBS.

Mr.. John Dossett, Jr. the publisher of
the New York Directory, has, by long
search and considerable expense, succeed
ed in obtaining all uubroken file Of Poor
Richards Almanac through twenty. five
years, containing vast amount of the hu.
NOR, wit, and wisdom of Dr. Frauklin.-
The New York Evening Post has made a
rich selection from the numbers during that
period, which 1--WE copy below:
Take tai, remark from R.chapI poornnil,m
W Aat'Te begun 100 ongrrenI- ~ shame
Some men gov mad by tuiyinr much to know.
Ba: who grows mad by studying good to grow
Ane1s to-day is better than hen to-
morrow.
Laws like cob-webs, catch small flee
Great one- break through before your eyes
1t pride leads the van, beGgary brings up
the rear.
Keep thy shop aud thy shop viii keep
thee.
God heals and the doctor takes the
fees.
Mary'> mouth cost, her nothing, for she
never opens 1t but at others expense.
H. ,ha, Won. i've IN peace and ut ease,
Nut not speak Al be knows, and Judge all he sccs
He that can travel well aioor, keep. a
good horse.
The worst wheel of the cant makes the
most noise.
He that falls IN love with himself will
have no rivals.
Against disease here. the strongest fence,
Il the Ce'cES!rc v!',ue, Abstinence,
/. (,
of honey will catch more flies than a gallon
of vinegar.
Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.
Beware Of little expenses; a small leak
viii sink great ship.
An ounce of wit that is bought,
Is worth pound thatIs taught.
A pluuGhmaL on his legs is higher than
gentleman on his knees.
Mad kings aud mad bulls are not 10 be
held by treaties aud pack.thread.
What maintains one vice would bring up
two children.
He's a fool that makes his doctor his
heir.
Ne'r take wife till thou hast house
(and fire. to pu, her in.
Love well, whip well.
Hunger neversaw bad bread.
Great takers, little doors.
A rlch rogue is ike fat hog
Who never does good ui dead n, log.
The favor of the great is no inheritance.
Fools make icasts and wise men cat
them.
The poor have littlc-beggars none--the
rich too much-enough not one.
Mankind are very odd creatures. One
half censure what they practice, the other
halt practice what they censure. The rest
always say and do as they ought.
Old boys have their playlhings as well as
young ones; the difference is only in the
price.
II man could have half his wishes he
would double his troubles.
Christianity commands us to pass by in
juiies, policy 10 let them pass by us.
II you would keep your secret from an
enemy tell it not to friend
The first mistake in public business is GO.
ing into il.
The idle man is the Devils hireling (;
whose livery is rags, whose diet and wa
geS are famine and disease.
Kings aud bears often worry their keep.
crs.
Scarlet, silk and velvet have put ont the
kitchen fire.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-02-16

Bennett, Of the New York Herald, makes
the following bold statements in reference TO
the California gold mines. If true they
would make ont the late treaty with Mexi.
co one Of the cu!sst bargains Brother iona
than ever made, aud one too, which ifmade
by one man with another, would eu,itle jon
athau 10 a free ticket to the inside Of any
peniieutiary in the country. We give no
credence to these statements. If we did,
weshoud say al once Mexico has been base
Iy swinded, and the honor Of our county
would demand that the treaty be declared a
nullity.
We are not going to California, but we are
going 10 remain behind, for the purpose of
giving correct, faithful history of all the
movements that are being made by the Cali.
Iornia emigrautS. We have a clear, un.
doubted right to write 4 history of those
movements; f,r our record would com.
menoe some years ago. We knew all a.
bout this gold early a. June, 1914. In that
month, we saw in the Secretary or States
Office al Washington city, samples of gold
brought ON by Captain Stephen 4. Smith,
who was then purchasing mills 10 take out
10 Upper California, IN the ship California,
belonging to him, then lying a. New Bed
fort. Captain Smith proposed to us that we
should then 20 out with him. His advice is
contained in the following extract from an
original letter, now in our poSSesSion'-"Y You
conld establish yourself in businessin Mon.
tcrey as merchant, oaver branch Of your
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Agw lopCrtiarlllcnts.
L. W TO OK y.

%5=-Sfv-A A 4 the Chicago Book
w "a SiDTs, l.! Lake street.
10 assortment OF Law Books
l!e o the %ei f;a at@oas yhG yo ARE
Digest Governs Reports. y Y Hills do Easts
do Demos do Bree~c~ do; Scnmmons Reports
Ill GImOn's do; Curtis I : Digest, lncomb's
supreme Court Digest, Ch.t,y's crm law do Plea
dncs, Storys Eq Digest do jurisprudence; do
Conflict oiHw do on partnership do on bNmcnts;
do on sales DO on p,om.ssoy notes do on bills Of
exchange do on agency Co.yer on Partnership;
Statutes Of Illinois Whcatons international Law
Roberts on Fraudulent Conycyarcng Blydcn5urg
on U.ry; Eden on Injunction, Mathews Prcsump-
tive Evidence Tidd'S Practice Saunders Reports;
Ro,cocs Criminal Evidence; Russell on Crimes
ArchboIis Grim 7 ending DO Civil do Coukln's
Treatise Philips on Insurance; Durr on do Bar
bours Chancrry Practice Daniels do Lubc's
Equity Pcndngs Blacks,onc's Commentaries
Burgc on Sucr,y.hp; Neutrality-suspicious. Sug
den on Ncndols; Adams on Eccuncnt; iillIard on
Sales HUMPHREYS Prcccdcnts, kirtiaud's Surro-
gate, Reeves Domestic Relations; Land Owners
Manual; Nharon's American Grim Law Clerks
Assistant, POlhicr on Contracts, and Abbot Oh
Shipping.
The above we will furnish IA low "a they cnn be
had in Now York, Gentlemen of the bar will find
Itor their interest to gave usa cal before purchasing
Feb l6 A IL & {. Burnley.
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A New Ct.y,


We have within "A week received three
numbers Of the american Flag, of different
dates, very ably conducted and business.
like looking paper printed at Brownsville,
Texas, a new city, already Boosting over
1000 inhabitants, that has sprung up since
the war at Fort Brown, opposite Matamoras.
The paper is the old MGtGmorQS Fidg in a
new and more congenial locality. Browns
vile is evidently destined TO be n city of no
small note IN very few years. 1t must be
to the valley OF the Rio Granie VIVA, New
Orleans is TO the Mississippi valley, While
its location is infinitely more healthy and
pleasant than that of New Orleans. There
is evidently the right sort Of a population at
Brownsville to make it ego ahead" Area.
dy the enterprise ola abroad to Pt. Isabel is
spoken OF in the paper before uS as one to be
undertaken Of course very soon; aud other
bold improvements seem to be projected.
The "Califcrnia fever" alone seemed to
prosperity Of Brownsville; but
this has been happily stayed in its ravascs
by most seasonable aud effective ''counter
Of which we have the following
nccoun, in the Flag:
Discovery OF GOLD IN CAMERON Cow.
ry.-Just as our paper is going TO press, we
have been shown what is said to be vali.
able specimen of gold ore, found within thr.
" miles of Brownsville. The gentleman
who possesses this specimen has travelled
G extensively in mineral regions and feel,
quite confident that il il ,nly the beginning
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\ mOb's a monster ads enough butno
Nothing humber than ambition hen n,
about 20 climb.
The discounted man finds no easy chair.
When prosperity was well mounted, She
let 60 the bride aud soon came tum6!ing out
Of the saddle.
The masters eye will DO more work than
both hands.
y change Of fortune hurts wise man 10
more than achaugc N the moon.
lie that has \ trade has an Office Of prrtit
and honor.
\ false friend and shadow attend only
while the sun shines.
Plough deep whit sluggarls slstp.
Aud you shalt have corn To sell and 10 keep
II you would not be forgotten as soon q,
You are dead aud rotten, either write things
worth reading or do something worth Wi.
ting.
Nothing dries soouerthan tear.
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The islhmus Rail ..oai.

Our readers are aware that bill has for
a month or two been before the L. 5 Senate
TO aid Messrs. Aspinwall & Co., Of New
York, in constructing raj! road across the
Isthmus Of Panama. The aid proposed 10
be granted by the bill, and which is all that
Messrs. A. s Co. ask, is that the govern
ment Of the L. s. will now enter into con-
tract with Messrs. \. & Co. to pay them
annually, for twenty years from the COM
pletion of said railroad, $3.50 900, in consi-
Iteration Of which the company are to trans
port the L. s. mail and government stores
across the isthmus for the same term Of
years, free Of additional charge.
The bill has occupied good portion Of
the time Of the senate, but it has not passed,
owing to its being Of so much importance
that every senator must waste day or two
In talking about il; and for the same rea-
son no other bill, having a similar object in
view, has any hope Of passing at the present
session. But that congress should either
pass this bill, or adopt without delay some
other efficient plan TO open a route across
the isthmus TO the Pacific, no man who will
look at the subjec, can doubt
Areport recently made TO the L. s. Sen.
ale by Mr.. King, Of Ala, in reference to
the Aspinwall bill, urges some reasons in "a
vor of its passage which are not generally
I'm lerstood, and which, one would think,
should be conclusive. In answer TO the
question why hone the European govern
ments, particularly England and France
have ever undertaken, or even favored, the
union OF the Atlantic and Pacific by a rail
way or canal across the neck Of our CONT
nent, Mr. King gives the best Of reasons, by
showing that the natural or present state Of
the thing is TO the advantage Of the Old
World, while the opening Of a short passage
between the two great seas would enure en-
tirely TO the bcnef, Of the commerce Of the
New World. lnproof OF this the repor, fur
nishes table Of distances, from which we
make an extract:
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Exports Of Great Britain and I-s,9Ud
and q the United StdieS.-lu 1917. the to-
tai exports from the United Kingdom, Of
domestic produce and manufactures. were
SOD, 100000. In ISIS, the domestic ~.
ports OF the United States were 1913, GgODlp.
II the last seventy years give oue.ha!rur
Old EaglauiS exports what will the. next
evenly do, with more liberal legislation in
Europe aud the mines OF California to hello
US Chicago Democrat.
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Total in 50 vessels via Cape Horn, 4,i76
Besides these there have gone by way Of

Making in all that have sailed from the
various ports in the United States for the
gold regions, 5,7l9.
In addition to the above list, there are
nearly $50 vessels now advertised for San
Francisco in the different ports Of the L. S.,
all of which will probably sail within the
next six weeks, aud take out not less than
5000 passengers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-02-16

MARRIED Feb. lith last, BY Rev.
Juo. Highly, Mr.. CHEI>1IAS WAGoNrR, Of
Ottawa, to Ms, ELEANOR BEooN, Of Eagle
precinct.
On iD.h inst. by the same. Mr.. NrRRAY
kiRKrArRIcE, OF Ncrmllou, To Miss DEAy-
INA l.. BALDwiS, Of Franklin precinct.
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Late News from California.

FTNIlE Subscribers wood nform all cmiglnnts to
] California that they have on hand supply OF
Common Panaoons, aud Goats. well adapted Tor
California cmigranlS mud they pledge themselves to
sell as low to those who will inyor them with cali,
ascan be bought any where, st Louis not excepted,
We will take small profits, rather than have you
take the money away. eau as soon as possible.
and such articles as we have not got here we can
get. on short notice, from our other es,abishmentin
Pcuria feb l6 kuAN & MAMDELDAuM
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Third Leoturc-at the Court House on
Tuesday evening, Feb. 20, at I! o'clock.
Suhjed; Education--by Mr. McINrosH.
Admu'ance- Members free; Non sub.
scrhcr> 10 cents.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-02-16

The Supreme Court, which was to have
been held at Ottawa, on tho Is, Monday in
February, is postponed until the second
Mondsy IN June next, by an act of the Leg.
iflature.
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We have another letter from cur CORES
pouden;; and, as we have heasl @! no enc
having been injured by The one We printed
las, week, we more readily lay this one
Gt fore cur :ea1Crs.
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VESSELS SAILED FOR CALIrOUSIA.-The
following table shows the number Of YES
sells sailed from the different ports on the
Atlantic, for San Francisco, on the Pacific,
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The WESTERN REGisrrR.-A handsome
and what promises TO be a very ably con.
Quoted monthly magazine, bearing the above
title, has jus, been commenced by l.. Pick i.
eilns 4 Co., No, 30 Locust ST., ST. Louis.
1t is devoted to Commerce, Navigation,
Science, and the Arls-each No. contains
81 pages, size of Graham's Magazine-aud
1t is furnished at the incredibly low price OF
81 per annnm, We know of no publication
that can furnishes the same amount of use.
iul formation at the price.
From the same establishment we have re-.
ceived the Jan. and Feb. No. of the "Valey
Farmer" an agricultural journal, 60, up in
the style of the Prairie Farmer a, Chicago.
Each No. contains 20pages, besides covers.
II Is edited by II. Gates & r, Abbot, both
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Col. Duncan, of tho Artillery, ha, been
appointed Inspector General of the United
States Army, in place Of Col. Croghan, who
recently died in New Orleans Of cholera.
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men who have nadr agriculture their study
and pursui; for years. Price 81 pera nnum.
\ svecmen No. tnay be- seen at cur office.
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of valuable discoveries TO BE made in our
own immediate vic.u.ty.--I.s 4me1.caE
FIG.
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ST. LouIs.-By ccnsc, just completed,
the population Of the city Of s.. Louis is
shown to be at present, G3,47l The fol-
lowing shows her rate Of increase:
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We had intended to publish heightened
extracts today from the able reports Of the
committee on internal Improvements in owr
legislature, in rel-reuce to the proposed
grant Of the right Of way to the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad company across our
state to a point opposite Si. Louis. But we
find our limits will not permit it. The com,
mittee show conclusively how suicidal it
would be in Illinois to comply with such a
request, aud asser, in strong terms the duty
OF Illinois to protect her own cities. The
report put complete quietus upon the bill
20 grant the right away so unreasonably ask
ed.
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nor lcaek and box malked"H L Channund."
i reed per cnua boat Troy November IS, l54s |;
MarpIc s. Son )" reed per can'I boat UNION Nov Z,
1918, The owners OF the above will please call NJ
our ware house on the canal pay charges and re-
ceivc the same feb Ii WkLKER Il HcRtiNG.
ERushED and Loaf Sugars, Tor safe low by
~ Apdl7 CrsuN,, & GntpLEr.
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CALIronYEA, Region OF gold dust,
Out of doors, Nov, 90. 1919.

DEAR LEEs-IIere | am IN the Gold
Region, digging like naiIor-when am
able. had, at one time, about five pounds,
which sewed up in bags, and tied to belt
had around my body. thought had
enough, aud started for San Francisco but
found, ere had got halfthe way, my excess
sive shaking from the fever aud ague had
shook out all the dust through the intristices
of the canvass. Sol bought leather bags
with the dust had left, and shook myself
back to the gold dust ground again. Yon
have seen the shaking quakers, at Leba.
non, at their worship. Put a shovel in their
hands, and make them lean aud thin, hun.
cry and ragged, and you may guess what
the diggers are in California. When YOU are
too weak to shake, you can lie down and
when you are too sick to lie or stand, why
you can die: nobody cares. The more
there's sick, the better the prospect for the
well.
Give me digging at the case, with steak
at the franklin house, at dinner time, and
you may dig for the "dusn with hungry
stomach and back as bare and ragged as a
beggar.
The way they wash the dir, in this vicini-
~ is to select the one that has the ague the
worst-the bowl in his hands is shaken
beautifully.
Your old clothes, and broken victuals,
would be a gohSend. Can't You ask the
hand, in the office to make collection to
make up package Of castoif "duds' and
send them on; and prOmime you all the
dust | can gather in "A month. ! have got
the "duSt," but, unfortunately have got
teeth, stomach, aud back, which the
dust can't help.
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MtcroloJ cal.-Thc weather is getting
no warmer fast.
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Friend Lces-If lean only get to work at
the case again beior get to be case, give
me Joy 49, Mems faces grow longerthan their
lives, very shortly here, The good book
tells us mans life is but span, and there's
not face within n mile Of me but is twice
thatlens,h.
Nv rcSpcctsto the hands
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or California.
Owners wanted,

I'M PAIR California Boots Just made and war
III Aou antedby !cbl5. Nm Haskell
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The DYKE CA>E.-The supreme court
to the right Of the city of 81. Louis to fil up
the channel Of the Mississippi between the
Illinois shore and Bloody Island, opposite
ST. Louis. The injunction served On the
city of St. Louis, therefore, by the apthori.
ties of St. Clair county, is perpetual, aud
must stand until the legislature Of Illinois
shall be pleased to permit ST. Louis to in
crease the depth Of the channel of the Mis-
sissippi, by taking water from our potato
patch.
This business is alright, we presume, but
we confess we find it very difficult to appre-
ciate the force Of the arguments tina. are urg
ed against permitting St Louis to fill up the
channel east Of Bloody Island. Who thinks
of ever building a city on the Illinois shore
opposite st. Louis? 1t is true, IIlinoisis in.
tereSted in keeping up the "uew ferry"
which it's said will be destroyed by filling
up this channel; but surely ST. Louis could
wen "H"IH W secure hholntt cheap Terry ~
our citizens for the privilege of filing mp
the channel, considering that she is as
much interested as citizens of Illinois can be
in having a cheap ferry. Illinois, as well as
the whole west north of 81. Louis, will be
benefited by the proposed improvement, at
that city, aud it seems unreasonable that a
little two penny ferry controversy should
justify a "pcrpetual Injunction" against it.
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We commend the following from the
Brooklyn Advertiser, to those Printers " no
have the California fever bad. The writer
lefIthe Advertiser Office, aud ioinedth New
York Regiment for California, where he
was digging and shaking gold at the las,
dates
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R.por, Of the State Superintendent Of Common
Schools.
From the returns, which arc partial in
some instances, and in which there are no
returns from 80 counties, we learn the fol.
lowing.
No. of School districts in State, a,OO2
" Schools, 2,3l7
" schools taught by males, 1865
g females, 966
" scholars in schools, 81, AL
children in counties returned
under 20 years OF age, 209,G39
" school houses, 1887
The amout Of the school fund for counties
returned is 81, 40l, 75l so. The average per
month paid for instruction is 1860 81 to
males, and $500 O6 to females.
Washington telegraph., 1849-07-11

A PErRIrIEp OIL-PAINT-We find the
following interesting item in the N. Y.
Farmer and Mechanic; Messrs. Quar-
terman g. Son, ia John Street, New
York, have made singular discovery of a
petrified oil-paint, which must prove val.
liable for variety of purposes, such as
roofs, mill races, cisterns, stucco work,
&C., &c. We have before us block OF
wood on which is layer of this paint,
and which has so much the hardness OF
stone, that knife or hatchet can be
sharpened upon it. 1t can be made to be
used either with brush or trowel, and
applied as a mortar to brick, &C. 1t Is
thought to be proof against fire. 1t IS
cheaper than white or any other pant
now in use. It can be mixed SO as to
initiate any color MIR. Quarterman has
consented to give the recipe of the mix
lures, which is as follows: l ID. Quarter
mans drier; / do. white lead, IL do
clean sand, mixed with boiled linseed OIL
Washington telegraph., 1849-07-11
A FUNNY THING.-Our friends P

A FUNNY THING.-Our trends -
and S., one evening met, at the house
of an acquaintance, some young ladies,
for whom both gentlemen entertained ten-
der feelings. In the spirit of frolic, one
of the youny ladies blew out the lamp, and
our friends, thinking it a favorable mo-
ment to make known the state of their
feelings to the fair object of their regard,
moved seats the same instant and placed
themselves as they supposed, by the lady's
side, but they also had moved and the gen.
tlemen were in reality seated next each
other. AS our friends could not whisper
without betraying their whereabouts, they
both gently took, as they thought the
soft little hand of the charmer, and when,
after a while they ventured to give ten
der pressure, each was enraptured to fiEd
it returned with an unmistakable squeeze.
It may we'll be imagined that the mo-
ments few rapidly in their silent inter-
change of mutual affection. But the rest,
wondering at the unusual silence OF the
gentlemen, one of them noiselessly slipped
out and suddenly returned with light
There sat our friends P. and S. most low
ingly squeezing each others hand, and
supreme delight beaming in their eyes,
Their CONSERVATION, and the exstacy of
the ladies may be imagined but not des-
cribed Both gentlemen sloped, and Z.
was afterward heard to say that he thought
all the while SIS hand felt hard.