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Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-05-05

NOTICE.
IN and after the "a Of January the underN'ehso
~ BANKERS In The city % Davenport, will ov~n ~.
. nlces for business Al = o'ci,-k A. NJ, aud close - :
t'clock p. NJ until! furth,r nuticr.
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Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-05-05

TnE TvRF.-The Burlington track
has been opened. The first race came off
Saturday. The fastest horse wont
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-05-05

~irEAMnoAfs Suk II LAkE PErIN.-
Wsilnderetaod thnt ~ steamers. War Ia
gle falls City, aud 6s,ena sunk in Like
feTh. wliie "ltenpl ag to elic' a passage
thrSigh the lee. The lime and slide, which
sura above the Lake has been raised, bL'
theh Altman is It'll inp bad condition. AT
latsI ad, ices the akel,ad not opened
The Davenport ami keokuk Packet
i.iIs entered upon theirt new arrangement
ycsriay The Ben Cappbell leaves this
rnof,ine.
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-05-05

I'VE have this day admitted into our arm Hos
w JAMES J. LNpLRy, late OF Missoun. and "
continue the practice of the Law under the name Of
COOS, DlLLON 4 LBNDl9Y.
In consequence - this. all persons will call ~ once
and settle, o. our old business must and shall he
closed.
April l, 1857. dan COOK 4 DILLON.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07
CROSTHWAIT s. PETERS,
FREIGHTERS AND FORWARDERs
STOCKTON.

PARTICULAR attention paid to the rccciv-
ing of Merchandise from Steamboats, and Sailing Yes
sel and with dispatch and at the lowest rat
of freight without any extra charges OF Commission
otherwise.
K3-N B.-The tcst of references given when requi-
rod -LN no9 If
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07
SYMPATHY FOR THE FALLEN.-For m

SYMPATHY FOR THE FALLEN.-FOr my
part, confess have not the heart to
take an offending man or woman from the
general crowd of sinful. erring being, and
Judge them harsbly. The little have
seen of the world, and know of the histo-
ry Of mankind, teaches me to look upon
the errors of others in sorrow, not anger.
When | take the history of one poor
heart thai has sinned and suffered, and
represent to myself the struggles and
temptations it has passed, the brief pulsa-
ton of Joy, the feverish inquietude of
hope and fear, the tears of regret. the
feebleness of purpose, the pressure OF
want, the desertion offiiends, the scorn
of the world that has but little charity.
the desolation Of the souls sanctuary,
and the threatening voice within; health
gone, even hope, that stays longest with
us, gone, have little heart for aught else
but thankfulness that it is not so with me.
and would fain leave the erring soul of
my fe4low-being with him from whose
hands it came.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07

GOODNESS UNPARALLELED.-A mer.
camille firm of this city received this week
letter from the captain of one of the
brigs they chartered, dated Barbadoes,
in which he informs them that as he be-
lieves the United States are about going
to eternal smash, he sold ship and cargo
and pocketed the money, which he didn't
think they will ever see again. He con-
cludes with some complimentary a1lusions
to our countrymen. and wishes he had
never seen any of them. The vessel is
the brig Boston.-Boston Gazette.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07

PRoGREss OF SCIENcE-Col. Green, Of
the Boston Post, recently made speech
in Boston in which he used the following
striking language:
The talking wires are now long enough
to circle the globe four times, or more !;
and when the magnetic hand of New
foundland shakes the iron finger of the
Irish coast, we shall know the gender of
Victoria's next heir to the throne before
one-half of the citizens of London have
heard Of the birth.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07

One HAPPY HEART.-Have you made
one happy heart oday? Envied priv
ilege! How calmly you can seek your
pillow; how sweetly Sleep In all the
world, there is nothing so sweet as giving
comfort to the distressed, as getting a
sun-ray int gloomy heart. Children
of sorrow meet us wherever we turn
there is not moment that tears are not
shed and sighs uttered. Yet how many
of those sighs are caused by our own
ihoughtlessness How many daughter
wrings the very soul of fond mother by
acts of unkindness and ingratitude ? How
many wives. by recrimination, estrange
and embitter loving hearts? How many
husbands, by one little word, make a
whole day of sad hours and unkind
thoughts How many brothers and sis
ters meet but to vex and injure each other
by making wounds that no human heart
can heal All if each one worked upon
this maxim day by day-strive to make
some heart happy-.jea'ousy. revenge,
madness, hate, with their kindred evil as
sociates, would forever leave the earth.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07
WEEKLY COLU MBIAN
The Good Great Man.

How seldom, friend, good great man nherits
Honor and wealth, with all his worth and pains
lt seems story from the world of Spirits
When any man obtains that which he merits.
Or any merits that which he obtains"
For shame, my friend !-renounce this idle strain.
What would'st thou have good great man obtain!
Wealth, title, dignity, golden chain,
Or heap of corses which his sword hath slain?
Goodness and greatness are not means, but ends,
Hath he not always treasure always friends,
The good great man? Three treasures-love and light
And calm thoughts, equable as infants BREATH
And three fast friends than day or night;
Himself his Maker and the Angel th.--Coleridge
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07

GREAT Inducements to Agents, CoIporteurs
u and PostmaSters. to circulate American National
Works Be Read the following liberal proposition.
To any person who will sell Fifty copies of either of the
two following works
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Colonial, Revolutionary. and Constitutional chiefly from
National Documents. By B. 5. LOSING and f. WILLIAMS
Beautifully illustrated. vols. royal vo CLOTH 81
IL THE STAESMAN'S MANUAL; Containing the LIVES
MESSAGES and ADMINISTRATIONS of the PRESIDENTS
WASHINGTON to PIERCE vols yo. with fine Portraits
cloth, gilt $40 and will remit the amount (less the be
raj Commssion to the Publisher. will be allowed PRE-
of FIFTY DOLLARS worth of Books selected from
the following List
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Mrs ELIs's CHOICE WORKS FOR THE FAMILY CIRCLE,
plates, vols svo.. cloth, 4 90
THE AMERICAN OpD-FEILows 5 LITERARY Museum.
80 Steel Engravngs vols. Svo. cloth on
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WONDERS WORLD, go plates Sro. 90
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07

Newspapers copying this page, and inserting the
ten times sending copy of each insertion the Pub
Usher, viii be entitled to copy Of the NATIONAL I>
TORY or STATESAANS 5 MANUAL. subject To their oritr
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07

ED- Agents wishing to engage in the good work of cir
cuating these important Publications. will please address
a line to the Publisher. EDWARD WALKER ia Fulton
street New York and they will receive Immediate atten
ton with full particulars of Commission, &c.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07
Drinking Aqua Forts.

In the pleasant little village of Had
don6eld, N. j., some years ago, there re-
sided an old fellow who was known
in the village and the country round, as
odd joe He had no particular occu-
pation-nor any particular location. He
ate where he could get bite, and slept
where he could frd lodging place. He
was harmless old fellow, and OCCASION
ally made few shillings by cutting wood
or working in the field. Joe was reg
ular old topper, and Jersey lightning had
10 more effect on his insides than so much
water Old Joe was never known to
love anything but whiskey, and he did
love that. He generally made his head
quarters at the lower tavern There
were two taverns in the village at the
time of which we write. He would sleep
and doze away the afternoon on an old
bench in the corner of the bar-room, but
was always awake when there was any
drinking going on. He said he could
never sleep when he heard the jingling
Of glasses, and the gurgling sound of old
rye and apple jack. When he was not
asked to drink he would slip to the bar
and drain the glasses of the few drops
left in them. One afternoon, DR.. Bolus,
the village physician, was in the tavern
mixing up preparation. He placed a
tumoler half full of aqua forts on the bar
and turned round to mix some other in
gradients. A few moments after, he had
occasion to use the poisonous drug, when
he found to his dismay that the tumbler
had been drained to the last drop.
'Mr. Wiggins,' exclaimed the doctor,
in alright, to the landlord, what has be-
come of that aqua forts put on the bar
few moments ago?'
Il don't know replied the landlord,
unless Old Joe slipped in and drank it,
In this suspicion they were soon both
confirmed, for the hostler said he had seen
Old Joe swallow the fatal draueht. The
doctor, knowing that he must die after
such dose, instituted a search at once
After some time spent looking through
the barns, out-houses and woods, he was
abandoned to his fate.
Some four days had elapsed, and no.
thing having been heard from Old Joe,
they all came to the conclusion that he
was a goner. The doctor, about this
time, had occasion to visit patient some
eight miles distant what was his sur
prise, when about five miles from the
village, to see Old Joe in front of a far
mer's house, splitting wood. why, Joe,
said the doctor, riding up to the fence
i thought you was dead and buried be.
fore this
why, what made you think that, doc.
tor leaning on his axe-handle
Didn't you drink that dose left or
old Wiggin's bar, few days since
Yes, replied Joe, half ashamed to owr
it.
DO you know what it was 2 asked the
doctor.
MOI returned Joe.
why. it was aqua .fortis-enough te
kill dozen men,
We'll, now, doctor, do yon know tina
I thought there was something queer
about that darned stuff, for after drank
1t, every time / bloaoed my nose | burnt 3
hole IN my pocket hamdkerchiefP
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07

A APARALLEL.-New York State, with
thirty-6ve electoral votes, pollrd at the
late Presidential election 595, $50 votes,
while twelve other States, having together
sixty-eight electoral votes, polled 595.973.
These States are Florida, Delaware, Ar
kansas, Alabama, Maryland, Texas, Lou
isiana, Mississippi. North Carolina, Ver-
mont, New Hampshire, and California.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07
The Pen and the Press.

The Pen and the Press bless'd alliance combined
To soften the heart and enlighten the mind;
For that to the treasures of knowledge gave BIRTH
And this sent them forth to the ends of the earth:
Their battles for truth were triumphant indeed,
And the rod of the tyrant was snapped like reed.
They were made to exult us TO teach TO bless
Those inyincible brothers-the Pen and the Press.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07
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reports of the T. Patents granted are also published
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Several Hundred Original Engravings
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ED- Messrs. MUM 4 Co., extensively engaged in
procuring patents for Inventions and will advise
ventors without charge regard to the novelty Of their
improvements.
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and Fulton Streets have the above publication for sale in
Columbia 30-tf
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07

Golnmbia advertisement.
= FERGuS0NsS e SALOON
Main st, opposite the Post Office -. COLUMBL4.
~ The travelling public arc respectfu,.
3S=.f ly informed that this establishment continues
3.a=I open Tor their accommodation The rooms ara
AkA large and airy and are fitted with the most ole
CANT furniture and bedding.
The S.lDSpr>
Is the largest and most elegant apartment in the south
ern Mines-The fitting and decorations being upon scale
OF unusual richness and elegance. Two of Strahie S
Bros magnificent ~
Slate Bed Billiard Tables
Are IN this Saloon, and the r is stocked with +ba
II m q st Il Il a N On.
The CELEBRATED
Jenny Lind Restaurant"
Is connected with this house and those stonnpg NJ
usons can order meals at any hour most agreeable 10
.hem The best that the market affords is alwav in tho
larder of the JENNY LIND
All the Stages
Arrive at and start from Fergusons Saloon and the en-
recommends itself to citizens and stran
gers as the most agreeable and lively resort in the
No pains will be spared and nothing omitted to render
al those stopping at my house comfortable
Je2l-u 2. G. FERGUSON
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07
v arie ii e s.

At late trial, the defendant, who was
not familiar with the multitude of words
which the law employs to make very
trifling charge, after listening awhile to
the reading of the indictments, jumped
up and said" Them ere allegations is
false, and that ere alligator knows it"
The Nevada Journal is responsible 70,
the following morceau:
"Phree Durt meets D. Rick, Esq, on
the street; says P. to D. R., Did Brod-
erick ever own any niggers o. "No
stree" says Rick, but he bought
mighty mean acAite man the otAer day."
The Harrisburg lPa.) Democrat tells
the following good one:
J.R. H., recently returned from Phila-
delphia tells good story of disgusted
Fremonter, who having been pretty well
plucked by his party for necessary cleo
ton expenses under promise of political
triumphs and all Office, was approached
just after the Pennsylvania election by a
committee man with an invitation to fork
over again "for the good of the party"
+" No sir-ee!" responded the victim
i" What! nothing for bleeding Kansas"
i" Nary red-let her bleed !"
One of our north-country pitmen, who
had turned vegetarian went a-courtin to
plucky lass in the colliery village, and
"popped the question: "Oh," said she,
:" go along with you! Do you think I'm
going to be flesh of your flesh, and you
live on cabbages! No, indeed, l don't
belong to the rabbit family"
A shrewd countryman was in New
York the other day, gawky, uncouth, and
innocent enough in appearance, but in
reality, with his eye teeth cut. Passing
up Chatham street, through the clothes
quarter, he was continually encounte,e ed
with opportunities to buy. From almost
every store some one rushed out, in ac-
cordance with the annoying custom of
that street, to seize upon and try to force
him to purchase At last one dirty look
ing fellow caught him by the arm, and
DANGEROUSLY urged him to become Gus
| toner.
"Have you got any shirts 2" inquired
the countryman. with very innocent
| look.
"a splendid assortment, sir. Step in,
sir. Every price, sir, and every style.
The cheapest in the street, sir"
"Are they clean %
"To he sure, sir. Step in, SIR
"Then," resumed the countryman,
with perfect gravity, "put on one, for
You need it.
The rage of the shopkeeper may be
imagined, as the couniryman, turning
upon his heel, quietly walked away.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-07
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The Nevada journal., 1857-05-15
SHERIFFS SALE

RY virtue of an execution. issued the Hon Di
- trict Court of the 18th Judicial District and TO me
directed and delivered for udgm rendered in said
Court on the 2d day of May D. 1851 in favor of Jonas
G Clark and G Wilbur and against j. C Abbott &
T. Edwards for the of Seven Thousand Three
Hundred and veuty Nine Dollars, with interest on the
said of S7379 from the 2d day Of May A. D 1851
ten per cent per until paid together with s3( 80
costs of it, and all accrung costs, have levied upon
the following described property which had heretofore
ached, to-wit Brick Building and the lot oil north
side ommercial street, near Pine, Wooden Building
andlo on Pine street east side north of Commercial st
lot corner of Pine and Church also houses and
dot south Commercial and Pine: also dwell
ng house and lot north side ommeroal street above
Pne-all in Nevada City and County; also Eleven
shares in the Hydraulic Mining Co Is claims on American
Hill in Nevada county, and one-sixth interest in the
Whizgig Mining to.s claims, Gold Flat IN Nevada
county Notice in hereby given tha. on the th day of
ne, A. D. 1857, at , o'clock P. NJ l will sell all the
right, title, interest and claim of said Abbott and It
Ew ards in and to the above described property at the
Court House door of Nevada county, at public auction
for Cash in hand to the highest and best bidder salts
ty said Execution and all costs
WIN. BUTTERFIELD,
Sheriff of Nevada COUNTY
The Nevada journal., 1857-05-15
SHERIFF'S SALE.

pY VIRrUE L of an order of ale, to ne directed is
sued out OF the Hon District Court of the l4th u-
dcia District on judgment rendered therein on II
llth day of May, d 1851 in favor Of Henry A. Iohes
and a.alnSt NJ flurshutz and aroline Flurshutz for
the sum Of Five thousand and 81 y Three 33-l00 to
lars Ceo % 5 win interest on the sum of S5063 81
thc rare OF wo and one halt per cent per month fom
the 9TH day of May. A d. 1857, until paid together
with al costs OF suit herein taxed AT Si69 65, c4n
manGel to sell the followng described pro1ety tovt:
All that certain piece parcel of property living and be
ing situated in the town of Nevada, county and STA e
aforesaid described llows Being on the east Side
of Main street above the junction of Commercial street
Immediately Moth of the brick house OF A Johns hay
ing front &c of twenty-five feet, less Main
street, and running through easterly to Washington
street Cayoe street. with the frontage thereon
being the same lot upon which sands the story brick
no sc formerly occupied by said Furshuz and by i'm
mons & Co. Crockery Store. with all the buildings
and improv rights, members privileges aid ap-
purtenances thereto belonging in any wise appern
Ing.
Notice is hereby given that Saturday the 9Th day
of June A. D. 1857 At O'clock P NJ, will expose at
public sale a the Court House door Of Nevada counfy
the above described property.
WIN. BUTTERFIELD,
Sheriff of Nevada County
The Nevada journal., 1857-05-15
The atre.

The PENNSYLvANlANS.- troupe
which has lately made its advent into
the State, appeared at Frisbie's Thea
tire, on Saturday and Monday nights
last. Good audiences greeted them on
both occasions, on the latter night the
house being full. A respectable num-
Der of ladies were present, and to say
that the entire audience were pleased
with the entertainment, is not trans
cending the truth.
The Misses Vaudeville have sweet
voices, but not the compass and power
desirable to execute some particular
pieces. Neither of them is Jenny
Lind, or Kate Hayes, though their mu-
sic is better adapted to the appreciation
of nine-tenths of the people, than that
of either of the Queens of Song. Al
least, we confess, it comes within the
range of our tastes, while more artifcia.
efforts fail to please.
But johnson is the Star of the Penn
sylvanians, and would be Star any
where. His equal we have never seer
as comic vocalist and actor. He KEEP
the theatre in a continual roar. Th,
audience were delighted, calling hin
out again and again, and seemed dispo
sed to test the inexhaustable fund o
originality and humor which johnson
evidently possesses. On the drop 0
the curtain he came out and said he wa
highly gratifed with the reception givel
him by the audience "and SO was Mrs
johnson"
The troupe left for Grass Valley o.
Tuesday, promising to accede to the re
quest of many of our citizens, and returl
in few weeks at farthest, when we be
speak for the Pennsylvanians a crowde
house.