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The Empire County argus., 1854-05-06

JOHNSTON LIVINGSTON, JAMES MCKAY.
EL1JAH p WILLIAMS, A. REYNOLDS
EDWIN B. MORGAN, A. NJ c. SMITH
HENRY D. RICE.
EDWIN B. MORGAN, President
JAMES Mckay, Secretary.
GUR regular semi-monthy Express despatched from
9p San Francisco the lt and 10Th, and from N York
the 9TH and 10Th Of each mouth by the mail steamers
in charge Of our own GER through to destination
Treasure and small parcels received for shipment up to
the latest moment before the departure of the steamers
Treasure insured under open polces in of the New
York companies, or at Loyd, in London, the option
shippers.
Our regular semi-monthlv Express for OREGON dospotc
ed by the steamers Of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
INLAND Routes An Express for Sacramento and Aarys-
vile despatched daily (Sundays excepte) o'clock p
NJ in charge of careful and trty messengers connecting
at Sacramento with Rhodes & Lusks Daily Express to
Shasta and lreka and with Hunter y Co.'s Daily Express
to Placerville and all parts of El Dorado county
daily Express is sent from office in Sacramento to
Rough and Ready, Grass alley and Nevada Also daily
Placer county.
Todds Express for Stockton Sonora Mokelumno HILL
Marpoa, ana all the principal camps in the southern mines
is despatched daily from our office in SAN Francisco Our
messengers supplied with iron safes for the security of
treasure entrusted to their Our connections the
Atlantic side are equal not superior to any other Calto
MIA Express. We connect at New York with the following
we'll known lines, viz: The American Express Company
running via Buffalo and Dunkirk Cleveland Sandlsky
Toledo Cincinnati, st. Louis, Detroit Chicago, Gelena
etc The Harden Express to Boston, Philadelphia Balt
and Canada LAlrcss Davenport, Mason u Co.'S New
Bedford Express, and Livingston, Wells Co.'S European
Express. In connection with their express business, they
ton business General and special deposits receyed-co
lecon and remitances in all parts of California Or
cgon the Atlantic States and Europe, with pomptness and
despatch
Gold Dust gold and silver coin and bullion bought and
sold Money advance gold dust deposits, for transmits
sion coinage Sight exchange New York and Boston
| FOR sale at current rates.
Drafts also drawn payable at the following Places Wis
! NEW YORK. PENNSYLVANIA
Albany, Troy, Utica, SYRIA Philadelphia Erie Potsville
cusc Oswego, Auburn, Cie- Reading.
neya, Canandagua, Lock MICHIGAN.
port Rochester, Buffalo, Sill Detroit. Monroe Adrian Ann
yer Creek, Dunkrk, West Arbor, Niles, Battle Creek
field INDIANA
MASSACHUSETTS. South Bend Michigan City.
Boston. ILLINOIS,
RHODE ISLAND, Chicago, Gaena, Springfield,
Providence. Peoria.
CONNECTICUT. WISCONSIN
Stonington. Milwaukee, Racine.
OHIO. MISSOURI.
Ashtabula, Xenia, Cleveland St. Louis.
Newark, Munstela Column CANADA WEST
bus, Springfield, Sandusky, Toronto, Hamilton
Toledo, Paiusville, Dayton, CANADA EAST
GAINESVILLE, Cincinnati, Iitfn Montreal, Quebec.
Mt. Vernon. WELLS FARGO & co
KENTUCKY. MCCONNELL N Co., Agents.
Louisville November l9-1tf
The Empire County argus., 1854-05-06

lfyou make love to a widow who has daughter
twenty years younger than herself, beein by de-
clarlng mat you thought they we're sister.
The Empire County argus., 1854-05-06

The last case Of jealousy, is that of lady who
ing OF on his voyages, he said he hugged the shore
The Empire County argus., 1854-05-06
DRUGS AND MEDICINES !!
Nhnlesala G, Retail

" NUItbdI0 q LtLGII,
FBy AILOR & THOMAS are now in receipt of their
q winter supply comprising full and conn plee assort-
ment of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Fcrfunery,
Fancy Articles, Paints, Oils, Trusses, Patent and
Fa tly Met'icino &c, &c, which they offer to their
frieais and the public they be bought at
other House in California. All articles sold by
WI he put up with great care and in every instance
raaJoi FRESH and GENUINE. Among our large as
soyment are the following articles:
India Cholagogue, Iaync's7Ills,
Jaynes ExYectorant, Wrghts g
' Alternative, Moliatts g
Wistar's Balsam, Grafenberg g
Sands Sarsaparla, Brandreth'S 90
Townsend's 6 Lees
Ayers Cherry Pectoral, Thompsons Eye Water
Davis Pain Killer, IIaraem Oil,
Mustang Liniment British Oil,
Nerve and Bone 8 Seidtz Powders.
Dysenterry Syrup Snuff &c. &c.
Those wishing TO purchase are invited to cali Main
street, Cooma, door west of Adam IL Co.'S Express
nov 26-2G
The Empire County argus., 1854-05-06

Night dreams are the many-colored mental
patchwork made from the spare clippings of our
Gay thoughts.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25
Sandwich Islands.

A letter from the Sand wich Is
lands, III the CohgregationaiiSt, fur
nlshes some facts about annexation,
with an account of Mr.. James W
Marsh'S new paper. The writer
speaks OF a r-.'tiVn ~, aiIueXatlon
to the United States, signed by 10
merchants:
As soon as it became known
that such a petition had been orig
mated, murmur of disapprobation
was heard from one end of the Is
land to the other. Iheard it among
my people, though we are a good
ways from the metropolis of the
kingdom. 1t costs considerable eff
fort to show my people that the
committee of ID who sought to re-
move the Kings ministers, and the
committee Of 10 who petitioned the
King to annex his Islands, had no
sympathy with each other, and
ought not to be regarded as of the
same character. On account of this
mistaken notion of so many, and
for other reasons, a new paper was
suddenly and without warning
thrown from the press. 1t was cal
led " IA Ma Hon. The News, J
published by J. w. Marsh, Esq,
son of the late Prof. J. Marsh, of
Burlington, Vt. Mr.. Marsh is a
scholar and gentleman. The pa
per is entirely Hawaian--a political
paper got up to let the people ofthe
Islands know what is going on
Ill the world, and what is said and
done among them, though conceal
ed by the curtain Of foreign Ian
guage.
You can scarcely conceive of
the excitement, which IA Ma Hon,
No. l caused at Honolulu, and this
was by no means abated by the APP
pearance of No. 2. Men of high
station fairly writhed under the ex-
posures made in this sheet, and it is
said the official from France appeal
ed TO the King for redress, and
threw out some bold threats. | see
not what redress he can expect TO OBJ
tain from that or any other quarter.
The publication of such a paper is
constitutional. Nothing but truth
| presume will be published. Mr..
Marsh fears God, but though
modest man, | think he fears no
man. am very glad to see such a
paper, and earnestly hope and con
hdently expect that it will do good.
! say this cheerfully, though | do
not approve Of all that the paper
If | am not mistaken, il
advocates the doctrine of annexa-
ton, a doctrine to which | am
strongly opposed. Still MIR. Marsh
has a right to discuss the question,
and as a friend to free discussion |
am glad of such paper"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25

his race, somnolence. BY looking
through spy-glass you would see
the old fisherman, bent nearly dou-
Bile, enjoying nap, which was only
disturbed by the hard jerking of the
white perch that became entangled
in his hook.
But the slumbers of father Jack
were occasionally attended by some
Inconvenience. The domestic du-
ties of Mount Vernon were govern
ed by clock time. Now the cook
required that the fish should be
forthcoming at a certain period, so
that they might be served smoking
on the board precisely at 3 O'Clock.
He would repair to the river bank
and make the accustomed signals
but alas, there would be no response !;
and the old fisherman was seen
quietly, reposing in his canoe, rock
ed by The gentle undulations of the
stream, and dreaming no doubt of
events long time ago. The I'M
Fortunate artistic of the culinary de-
partmeut, grown furious by delay,
would now rush down TO the wa
ter's edge, and by dint of loud
shouting, at length the canoe would
be seen to turn to the shore. Faith
er Jack, indignant at its being even
supposed that he was asleep at his
post, would rate those present, on
his landing, with, What you all
meek such debil oh noise for, hey
| want sleep, only noddin'"
Poor father Jack No more at
early dawn will he be seen, as with
withered arm he padded his light
canoe on the broad surface of the
Potomac, to return with the fancy
spoils and boast of famous fish taxi
Ell "on his own hook" His canoe
has long since rotted on the shore,
his paddles hang idly in his cabin,
his " occupations gone" and father
Jack, the old fisherman of Mount
Vernon, "sleeps the sleep that
knows no waking"
A huntertoo, was attached to the
household establishment. Tom
Davis and his great Newfoundland
dog, Gunner, were as important
characters in the department for fur
nishing game aud wild fowl as father
Jack i'll that of fish. SO vast were
the number of canvass back ducks
on the Potomac in that ancient time,
that single discharge of Tom Da-
Wis old British musket would pro-
cure as many of those delicious
birds as would supply the larder for
a week.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25
Butter.

Not one pound in five of the but
ter sold in the market is fit for hui
man food. Buttermakers should re-
member these few short rules:
The new er and sweeter the cream,
the sweeter and hig her favored will
be the butter.
The air must be fresh and pure
in the room or the cellar where the
milk is set.
The cream should not remain on
the milk over thirty-six hours.
Keep the cream in tin pals, or
stone pots, into which put spoon
ful of salt at the beginning, then stir
the cream lightly each morning and
evening this will prevent it from
moulding or souring.
Churn as often as once week,
and as much oftener as circumstan-
ces will permit.
Upon churning, add the cream
upon all the milk in the dairy.
Use nearly an ounce of salt to
pound of butter.
Work the butter over twice, to
free it from the butter-milk and
brine, before Jumping and packing.
BE sure that il is entirely free
from every particle of buttermilk, or
coagulated milk, aud it will keep
sweet as long as desired.
In Scotland, a syphon is some-
times used to separate the milk from
the cream, instead of skimming the
pans.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25
Washington's Fisherman and
Hunter.

From "Curtis' Recollections and
Private Memoirs of the Life and
character of Washington" we ex-
tract the following:
Washington ceased to be a sports
man after 1897, when he gave up
the hunting establishment True,
he bred the blood horse, and favor
tie colt of his, named Magnolia, was
entered and ran for a purse but
this was more TO encourage the
breeding of fine horses than from
any attachment to the sports of the
turf. All the time that he could
spare for active exercise IN his latter
day, was devoted TO riding about his
farm and inspecting his improve
ments. In this he was ably assisted
by several of his stewards and man
ayers, who were Europeans, and
who had brought, from their own
countries, habits of industry and
knowledge of improved agricultural
and rural affairs so that, had the
Farmer of Mount Vernon been spar
ed but a few years longer, his es-
tate would have exhibited a series
of model farms, examples to the
neighboring improvers and to the
country at large.
Mount Vernon, in the olden time,
was celebrated for the luxuries of
the table. The fields, the forest,
and the river, each in their respect
i've seasons, furnished the most
abundant resources for good living.
Among the picturesque objects on
the Potomac TO be seen from the
eastern portion of the mansion
house, was the light canoe of father
Jack, the fisherman 10 the establish
ment. Father Jack was an African
negro, hundred years of age, and
although greatly enfeebled in body
by such vast weight of years, his
mind possessed uncommon vigor.
And he would tell of days long
past, of Afric's cline, and of Afric's
wars, in which he (of course the
son of a king was made captive,
and of the terrible battle in which
his royal sire was slain, the village
consigned to the flame, and he TO
the slave-ship.
Father Jack possessed in an emf
nent degree the leading qualities Of
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25
4urtGp.
The Kansas Emigrants.
By J. G. WHITTIER.

By. G. WHITTIER.
We cross the prairie as of old
The pilgrims crossed the sea,
To make the West as they the East,
The homestead Of the free.
We 90 to rear wall of men
On Freedoms Southern line,
And plant beside the cotton tree
The rugged Northern pine
We're flowing from our native hills
As our free rivers flow;
The blessings Of our mother land
Are on us as we go.
We 60 to plant her common schools
On distant prairie swells,
And give the Sabbaths Of the wild
The music of her bells.
Upbearing like the Ark of old,
The Bible in our van,
We 60 to test the truth Of God
Against the fraud Of man.
No pause, nor rest, save where the stream
That feed the Kansas run,
Save where our Pilgrim eonfalon
Shall hout the setting sun.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25

bred millions. The British Provin-
ces contain now two and a half
millions of free white people, and
lhey can be annexed without the
expenditure of a single dollar. All
that is needed for the accomplish
ment Of that object is the manifes-
tation Of a determination that they
shall either come into the Union, or
forfeit at the earliest moment the
advantage that we have so cheaply
granted them. TO that end it is re-
CURED only that we elect to Con-
gress northern men with northern
principles, as we trust is now about
to be done. " Canadian Annexa-
ton" should, from this time forth,
be the watchword of every farmer
north Of Mason and Dixon's line
when it shall become SO, they may
regard the question as a settled one.
Aud its settlement will be attended
with The further advantage that it
will bring with it the final settle
ment of the Slavery, Fishery, st.
Lawrence aud Navigation questions.
For half century the South has
bought southern land, and has so
used it as to maintain an equality of
votes in the Senate, by means of
which five million southern whites
have made the law for fifteen mill
ions of northern men. Let the
North determine now to restore the
equilibrium, by insisting that the
South unite with them in accepting,
in free gift, vast territory having
two and half millions of
educated people. and capable of adj
ding TO the Senate eight northern
while contributing twenty
or twenty-five to the members of
the House Of Representatives. 1t
it time that northern farmers shall
learn to look after their common in.
terests, and this sham reciprocity
will force them to do, even if their
Indignation excited by the Nebraska
lniquity should fail to lead them to
it. The South has fairly thrown
down the gauntlet; let northern men
now take it up.-N Y. Tribune.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25

VEGETABLE lNsTINCr.-lf pan
of water be placed within six inches
of either side of the stem of young
pumpkin OF vegetable marrow, it
will, in the course of the night, APP
proach it, and will be found in the
morning, with one of its leaves float
ing on the water. This expert
ment may be continued nightly,
until the plant begins to fruit. II
prop be placed within six inches
of a young convolvulus, or scarlet
runner, it will find it, although the
prop may be shifted daily. If, after
it has twined some distance up the
top, il be unwound, and twined in
the opposite direction, it will return
to its original position, or die in the
attempt, yet Notwithstanding, ifrwo
of these plants grow near each other,
and have no stick around which
they Irvine, one of them will alter
the direction of its spiral, and they
will Irvine around each other.
Duhamel placed some kidney
beans in a cylinder of earth after
awhile they commenced to germin-
ate, of course, sending plume up
wards to the light, and the root
down into the soil. After a few
days the cylinder was turned one
fourth round, and again this was re-
peated, until an entire revolution
was completed. The beans were
then taken out of the earth, and it
was found that both the plume and
radical had bent 10 accommodate
themselves to every revolution, and
the one in its efforts to ascend per-
pendicularly, and the other to de-
scend, they had formed a perfect
spiral. But although the natural
of the roots is downward.
if the soil beneath be dry, and any
damp substance be above, the roots
will ascend to reach il.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25
The Romish Propaganda.

The North American says The
annual report of the Roman Catho-
liz Propaganda for the last year has
Just been Published in Europe, and
from il we CLEAN some information
o interest. This report states that
during the year 1853 the receipts
o. the Propaganda amounted to
3953,l49 francs, and the balance
remaining from the year 1852, was
l245, liz francs thus giving to-
al fund of 5,l9s,2 62 francs for OPP
cations. OF this large amount of
money Frapce contributed 1854,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25
ISSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY AT MONTPELIER,

the latch. The boy-hcro uttered a
single word of heartfelt prayer, and
then he pulled the trigger. The
villain whose hand was upon the
latch, uttered one sharp, quick cry,
and then fell upon the floor. The
bullet had passed through his brain.
For an instant the two remaining
villains were COMPOUNDED, but they
quickly comprehended the nature
and position Of their enemy, aud
they sprang for the ladder. They
did not reach it, however, for at
that moment the outer door was
flung open, and the hounds--four in
number-sprang into the house.
With deep, wild yell, the animals
leaped upon the villains, and they
had drawn them upon the floor, just
as the old hunter came from his
room. Help us help us father"
cried Philip, as he hurried down the
ladder. "Tve shot one of them -
They are murderers robbers -
Hold 'em hold 'em p the boy con-
tinued, clapping his hands to the
dogs. Old Slater comprehended
the nature of the scene in a moment
and sprang to the spot where the
hounds had the two men upon the
floor. The Williams had both lost
their knives, and the dogs had so
wounded them that they were in
capable of resistance. With much
difficulty the animals were called
off, aud then the two men were lift
ed to a seat. There was no need
of binding them, for they needed
some more restorative agent, as the
dogs bad made quick woDk in dis
abling them.
After they had been looked to,
the old man cast his eye about the
room They rested moment up
on the body Of him who had been
shot, and then turned upon the
boys. Philip told him all that had
happened. 1t seemed some time
before the old hunter could crowd
the whole teeming truth through
his head but as he gradually COM
pretended il all, a soft, grateful,
proud light broke over his features,
and he held his arms out to his
sons.
d" Noble, noble boys :" he uttered,
as he clasped them to his bosom
d" God bless you for this. On
dreamed not that you had such
hearts,
For long time the old man ga
zed on his boys in silence while
tears of love and gratitude rolled
down his checks, and his whole
face was lighted up with the most
joyous, holy pride.
Long before daylight, Philip
mounted The horse and started for
the nearest settlement, and early in
the forenoon the officers of justice
iidu Tho .---. ,5r~...,I-9 no.. tn ClIRr- ~.
while the body of the third was re-
moved. They were recognized by
the officers as criminals of notoriety /;
but this was their last adventure, for
the justice they had so long outrag-
ed fell upon them and stopped them
in their career.
Should any of our readers chance
to pass down the Ohio river, | beg
they would take notice of a large
white mansion that stands upon the
southern bank, with a wide forest
park in front Of it, and situated some
eight miles west of Owensboro. -
Ask your steamboat captain who
lives there, and he will tell you,
&" Philip Slater q Brother, retired
flour merchants" They are the
Boy Heroes of whom | have been
writing.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25

they cndeavor, by every means in
their power, to enrich their ground,
and in return it enriches them. II
our farmers, instead of laboring to
double their acres, would endeavor
to double their crops, they would
find it vast saving of time and
toll, and an increase of profits.
Many of them never think of dig
ging ten inches into the soil, unless
they have dreamed about a crock of
gold hid in the earth but if they
would set about the work Of Dig
ging, in earnest, every man would
soon find his crock of gold without
the aid of dreams or divina,ion.
We have a great advantage over
the British farmers, in the fact that
our farmers nearly all hold the lands
which they cultivate, in fee simple,
while in England they are chiefly
tenants, hiring The lands Of ,Ie NO
bility, paying enormous rents to the
proprietors, besides heavy taxes to
government. Taxes here are COM
paratively light, aud our farmers
are their own landlords. Hence
they have been able to pay three
fold wages for labor to those paid in
Europe, pay the costs of transporta-
ton, and yet undersell the British
farmers in their own market.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25

iIim'sifnust eitherHolo or oHrrs."
GREAT FARMs.-We do not be-
lieve in Big Farms, nor in extend
ing the area of agriculture over a
greater surface than can be thor
oughly and well cultivated. Talk
about eighty thousand acres an one
farm, and then think of fencing.
deep ploughing and Thoroughly cui-
Hcdfing H. 1t is all idle and nom
sensical. Divide it into eight hun
bred farms, nell titled and there
would be good sense and good pro-
fit in the arrangement, The eight
hundred farmers, intelligent, indus
trious and thrifty, would form lit
tie Republic of themselves, while
/ Tire eighty thousand acre form would
breed little else than vain pride.
rank weeds and ranker arisiocracv.
Away with the idea of whole
continent III one farm, and the
"rest of creation" for a calf pasture.
1t is said, aud "printed in the pa
pers' for truth, that a farmer in H.
lmols had last year a corn patch
of LOO acres, and fearing he had
not enough for his stock till corn
came again, bought 600 more. The
same man owns another farm six
miles long and four miles broad, and
last year paid 10000 for fencing
materials. A gentleman from Ohio
has recently bought $4,000 acres in
Illinois, $4,000 of which is in one
farm. Another has bought 100000
acres for farming.
Well, If men of wealth please to try
this experiment of farming upon the
gigantic scale, let them do it, and
reap the reward of disappointment.
A far better mode of farming is sug-
gesled by q. L. Stewart, Esq, in
recent agricultural address. Many
farmers, says Mr.. Stewart, who are
destroying the productiveness of
their farms by shallow work, as
they find that their crops are dimin-
ishing, think only of extending
their area by adding acres of sur
face, as if they supposed that their
title deeds only gave them right
to six inches deep of earth. If
they will take those deeds, study
their meaning, and apply the lesson
to their fields, they will soon realize
in threefold crops the fact that the
law has given them three farms
where they supposed they had but
one in other words, that the sub
soil, brought up and combined with
the top-soil, aud enriched with the
atmospheric influences, and those
other elements which agricultural
science will teach them to apply to
their ground, will increase three
fold the measure of its productive
ness. To show to what extent the
fertility of the soil can be increased,
| refer to statement in the last
Patent Office Report. In the year
1850, there were nine competitors
for the premium corn crop of Ken
lucky, each of whom cultivated ten
acres. Their average crop was
about l22 bushels per acre. At
that time, the average crop of wheat
per acre in the harvests of Great
Britain, on a soil cultivated for cen
turies, is about double tia. produ-
ced on the virgin soil of Ohio
Why is this ! Simply because Brit
ish farmers are educated men, and
apply work wisely. They pay
back to the earth what they borrow