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Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-10-28

THIRTY YEARS IN A STATE PRIs-
oN.-A correspondent Of the Lyons
Republican, writing from Sing Sing,
says convict was discharged Or the
9TH ult., who had spent thirty years
in State Prison:
''Iie was sent to the old city pris-
on in 1923 for the term of fourteen
years. He was one of chain gang
sent herein 1928 to build this prison.
At the expiration Of his term he was
out about three years; then sent here
for ten years. lie was out onl y three
months was drunk all the time was
then taken mp and sent for six years !;
that time expired on the 9TH he has
been a good convict has been pun
ished only once during the entire
thirty years; he is now in good
health is ffty-siX years old, and is
superior mason and stone cutter. lie
intends to devote the balance of his
life to himsclf.'
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-10-28

NE5~A little Girl having been sent
to a shop to purchase some dye stuff,
and having forgotten the name of the
article, SAID to the clerk, "John, what
do folks dye withE'
"Dic With? Why cholera, some
timss," replied John.
"Well, believe that's the name ;
I want three cents worfh.'
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-10-28

gSAAMrs. Smith, hearing strange
sounds, inquired Of her new servant
if she snored in her sleep: 81 don't
know, marm, = replied Becky, quite
innocently: 81 never lay awake long
enough to diskiver."
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-10-28

HGg~A A barrister, blind of one eye,
pleading with his spcctacles on said
" Gentlemen, in my argument, |
shall use nothing but what is neces-
sary." "Thcn," " replied wag,
"take out one Of the glasses of your
spectaclcs.0 y
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-10-28

h@5" An English paper gives an
account Of tea-party of sixty old
women, VINO were the mothers Of
aight hundred and sixty nine chill
dren! They must have had some
thing to talk about at that teal party
we should think.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-10-28
CIGAR Ind TOBlCCO STORE
a Card.

The undersigned Is thankful for past favors, and by
hs experience and strict attention to business, he So
Icils a continuance oi the same.
j. s. BOWMAN.
Remember, if you want good Havana cigar. go
tn Rowman's Cigar Store. Montgomery street. alOt
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e whole rendDg community.
Mr.. Bfooaks' Spesoh.

Wepublish on the first p~gs of our present
issue the able speech of our Representative.
on the Kansas, Nebraska question. It has all
the characteristics of Mr.. Brooks style ); Wig
orous thought and conclusive argument, eB
pressed, in pure and idiomatie English. We
do not know that, we have ever read q clearer
exposition Of the sbsusd eeSclusiens to which
the doctrine of squatter sovereignty inevitably
leads; doctrine which conceeds to,s mere
handful of settlers, o right to exclude from
common territory, the citizens Of the Southern
States and their property. Il Do net cAoia,
says he, that tho constitution carries slavery
into territory, but do claim that as citizen,
I have the right to take my property into any
territory of the United States, and that the
Constitution which protects me. also protects
my property" lie deprecates the differences
which. have arisen.in the Democratic ranks in
tho construction Of ths Kansas Nebraska Act,
and counssls union upoe the 'one sound consti.
tutional and national prine;pIs" Of that aet.
squatter Sovereignty he denessees - equally
fatal u, the South with the Wilmos pvoviso.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1857-01-16

SALE DAY.-Thc day was cool, with a
bright sun and clear sky overhead. An
unusual number Of persons we're assembled
The amount Of proberty disposed of was
considerable Of lands, sss acres brought
$1,000, being an average Of $14,21 per
acre; one tract containing $40 acres sold
for $25,15 per acre.
Thirteen negroes soil for $11 $3.50, being
an average Of $sog,5a one negro man sold
for 81 ,42O.
At the auction rooms Of Fl. II. Kinard
eleven negroes sold for $5,0IO; in the LOT
were six children, one boy about eight years
old, and an old man and woman also, quite
large quantity of furniture, DC, was dis.
posed Of.
There was no hiring Of servants on tha,
day pnbficly as we heard Of. Men arc be.
ing hired from $12O to $3.50 ; woman from
$50 to 800; boys from $40 to ss5.
s. Nswberry Sun.
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Charles B. HUNTINGTON,

This person, who has so lately occupied
the public attention in criminal way, says
the New York Tribune, reached the prison
on Friday evening last. The Warden at
first designed to place him in the hat shop
to work-but Huntington being cabinet
maker by trade, was placed in the cabinet
shop. He preferred it to the hat shop. On
monday he WAS busy mailing together bed.
stead Stats, and packing finished bedstcads
for removal. lie maintains bis fortitude,
and worked checrfully. The overseer of the
shop in which he works, desiring to inure
him gradually to hardship, which is the
practice with new arrivals, for the sake Of
health, told him that he might work with
his coat on for few days of this cold
weather ; but Huntington took off his coat
and worked as actively and as cheerinlly as
though he had all along been working at
the BENCH instead Of engaging in feats Of
financial ground and lofty tumbling in Wall
street.
1t was Huntington's luck, at his fret prison
dinner on Saturday, to march into the hall
next to and be seated at the side Of large
sized specimen Of the African race. This
sudden transition from luxury to prison fare,
from spacious, richly furnished and beauti-
ful apartments 10 narrow, gloomy, meanly-
furnished cell, cold and dark, is change
which must produce most painful sensations
in his mind. lie has expressed his desire
to the keeper to be made, acquainted with
the rules Of the prison, so that he may strict..
ly observe them, and he will make the best
OF it.
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Cotton Seed Oil.

We Published Il paragraph few days
since, from the New Orleans Iicayunc, no.
ticing the shipment of cotton seed from the
South to Rhode Island, to he there manu-
facturcd into oil aud oil cake. The fact of
the application Of cotton seed to such a pur-
pose has been extensively remarked upon,
rs though it were new, when it is exactly the
reverse, and the planters Of the South have
been sagaciously called upon to husband
their cotton seed, in view ofthis novel dis
covcry. For years it has been known that
valuable oil can be extracted from cotton
seed, and many attempts have been made
to extend its manufacture. But in nearly
every case, though the factory has been 10.
Gated at convenient point for the ship
ment Of the oil, yet it has always been at Il
very inconvenent point for receiving the
seed. This has been the primary cause in
the failure Of all such undertakings.
And the cause of failure in this case has
only been part and parcel ofthe suicidal pol
icy Of the Southern States in all such nm
dertakings, at the very moment when they
are most loul-mouthcd in their denunci-
tons of Northern monopoly. Instead Of
going TO work and building up factories to
convert the raw material at home, and thus
save to themselves tho factory profits as
we'll rs the cost Of transportation, they call
conventions and assemble theorists with
nothing better to do than to gricvc over the
prosperity of others. If they wish the pres.
ent state of things altered, the entering
wedge will be to diversity the soft scenery oi
tho South with the busy hum of the factory
wheel, and thus make the transportation OF
"cotton seed" or any other raw product ol
agriculture to "Rhode Island" or elsewhere
subject Of surprise and not Of graduation.
The practicabiIity Of making gas, also,
from cotton seed was broaclIed in SilIiman's
Journal many years ago. The theory was
as beautiful as the light, but defective from
the fact that cotton seed was too bulky to
bear transportation 10 points where gas was
needed-the expense Oh it prevents it from
entering into competition with coal and
rosin' Tho same difficulty, we imagine,
will be found in converting The seed into oil
at distant points. 1t will be found to fur,
nish no equivalent, after the transportation
is paid, for the loss of its efficiency as fer
tilizer-the only really profitable use ever yet
made Of cotton seed
If small establishments for the manu-
facture Of cotton seed oil were 90 located in
the South, as to be convenient to the seed
and also readily accessible to market, capi.
tai prudentl7 invested aud carefully manag-
ed, might obtain some reasonable reward
But that 1t can ever be transported to
Rhode Island, where it 10 gravely announ.
lced it. is worth two or three centsa pound
and become paying article Of export, af
ter deducting carriage, is simply preposter.
ous.-BaH. diner.
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The Newly Invented War Engine.

A correspondent of the New York journal
oi Commerce. a!luding 10 the "Infcrnal
Machine" which Gen. Walkers friends have
recently purchased for his army in Nicaragua
thus explains its efficiency and deadly in
strumentality:
In form it resembles small grindstonc.
turned by crank, and will discharged 800
one ounce balls every minute, attend by on
lv two men. Every machine is calculated
t" destroy three regiments of soldiers in the
same space Of time. 1t can be directed
with the same case as n common rifle is
handled.
The inventor, a Yankee, is now in Eng
land experimenting before the Admiralty,
and great many old Generals, of all coun-
tries, who evince much interest, and have
written him letters expressive of their won
der and aStonisEmcnt. One distinguished
Polish General expresses himself to the in
vcntor, chat as soon as this deadly weapon
becomes in Use, wars and rumors of war
must cease" The gun, or machine, dis
charges without report and sends the ball
three times the distance OF the ordinary rifle
or cannon, rs the case may be. The
British government has offered the inventor
-'-'c,ooO H'Iiil''SS, u bc clIldT9C his
chine to discharge Ga pound shot. This
he is now doing, and informs his agent here
he slal accomplish it. The Russian Min
lister at London is anxions for the patent,
ard has Offered him his price hut he says
TO his friends, 81 mean no other nation shall
have it but England and my own country"
Previous to his going to Europe he offer
cd the right to the American Government as
Washington. Experiments were made will,
on" ounce and seven pounds cannonades,
before our naval and other officers, bv or
der Of the Secretary Of State, which proves
all have related above and to the entire
satisfaction of those present. One of those
'inferna machines" placed upon the deck
| of a vessel, one Of the Commodores remark
cd, "would sink iiigate in three minutes"
Such constant discharge Of balls just
as fast as they can be handled and rolled in
with the accuracy they can be directed,
must inevitably destroy all before it, be-
sides the great distance and being out Of
danger of the cncmy's guns.
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FOR TIE INDEPENDENT PRESS
Young Mems Christian Association q,
Abbeyille

Pursuant to notice, number of citizens
met III the Hall OF the Sons of Temperance,
on Saturday the 10th inst, at I o'clock
i. NJ.
Mr.. Il. II. Warllaw was elected Chair
man of the meeting; PRAYER was offered up
tr the Rev }. g. Williams, and the object
of The rtccting stated 10y Rev. B. Johnso,r,
committee then was appointed to draft
resolutions for the evening. fine commi,
tee, consisting Of Mcssrs johnson, IToyt and
Fair, reported the following resolutions, all
of which were adopted:
]. Rcsolrrd, That wc,lo hereby form our
selves intoa society, to be called the Young
Mems Christian Association of ALbcvillc,
on the basis Of snch regulation, is shall
hereafter h. agreed on by us.
2. Rcspi"cd, That committee Of three
be appointed, whose duty it shall be to draft
- Constitution and BYLAWS, anu report
them at The next meeting.
8. Rcsoircd, That committee of five
hc appointed to enlist members by personal
application.
4. Pcsolrr!, That .hc committee on the
Constitution, nominate officers.
Wy appointment of the Chair, Rev. j.
Johnson, W. A. Lee and Il. A. Fair, COM
pose the committee on the Constitution,
and John McBry'lc, W. NJ. Hallcn, II. A.
Fair, }. I. Owen and J. Shchanc, the com
mittcc to enlist members.
The meeting then adjourned, to meet on
Saturday the l7,h inst, at 7 o'clock T.. NJ.
in the Hall of the Sons of Temperance.
X. II. WARDLAW, Chm.
a. G. ELDER, Sec.
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MIR. Webster on the Death of His Wi

! MIR. Webster on the Death of His Wi
From "The Private Correspondence
Daniel Webster" we quote the folIowin
written lv Mr. Webster shortly after Il
death Of his wife
WAsnISGroS, March 81, 1928.
! .Ny Dcor Nephew !: I thank you for yop
! kind and atf-ctionac letter, and assure yN
| its suggestions were all in accordance viii
my own feelings. 1t docs not appear I'm,
reasonable to believe that the friendships
this lie are perpetual in heaven. Flesl, and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
but know not why that which constitute,
Il pure source of happiness on earth, indi'
vidl,l affection and love, may not survive
the tomb. Indeed, is not the principle Of
, happiness to the scnticnt being essentially
the same in heaven and on. earth The
love Of God and OF the good beings whom,
he has created, the admiration oftlie materi-
al universe which he has formed: can there
be other sources Of happiness than those to-
the human mind, nnIcss it is to alter the
whole structure and character
And again it may be asked how can this
world he rightly called scene Of probation
and discipline, if these affections, which We
arc commanded to cherish and cultivate here,
are to leave us OH the threshold Of the other
w"r'l These views, and many others,
would seem to lead to the bclieflbat earthly
affections, purified and exalted, are fit to
! carry us to the abode ofthc blessed Yet, it
must be confessed, that there arc some things
! i'll the New Testament, which may possibly
roun!cnancc n different conclusion. Tbs
words Of "rr Savior, especially in regard to-
the woman who had seven husbands, deserve
deep reflection. I am free to confess, that
some descriptions of heavenly happiness are
SO ETHEREAL and >uhlimatc. as to fill me with
strange sort Of terror. Even that which
YOU quote, that our departed friends "are as
the angels Of God,' pcnctrates my soul with
dreadful emotion. Like an angel of God,
indeed, hope she is, in purity, in happiness,
and immort>iity: but would lain hope that
in kind remembrance of those she has left in
lingering human sympathy and human
love, she may yet be as God originally crea-
ted hcr-a little lower than the angels.
My dear nephew, cannct pursue these
thoughts, nor turn back to see what have
write Ad'ru. d. w.
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Tho Present Growth and Future Supply
of Cotton.

Two very interesting articles have recently
appeared in the New York Herald, under the
above title from the pen of DIR. Alexander
Jones, one of the sub-edito of that paper.
The writer is a Soutlerncr by birth and in feel
ing; and his connection with an unprinciPled
Northern Journal IS maintained OH terms hon
orable to himself and consistent with his ale
eiance to the South. This design of the writer
Is to show that, the cotton growing States Of
this country have no reason to fear competition
from the rest of mankind, in the production of
their great staple that the consumption must
ever keep pace with the production; and that
for the development of our capacities for pro-
duction we need an additional supply Of labor.
England for the last quarter of century
hiss been seeking a supply Of cotton independ-
ent Of the United States. At the expense OF
q million Of dollars; she was induced to make
the experiment in India, which has proved a
failuye, France essayed the same experiment
in Algeria, and with similar success. The wri.
ter assigns very satisfactory reasons for thia
result and makes il appear, that the United
States probably possess the only climate and
soil adapted 10 the extended culture of cotton,
on the habitabie globe.
OF the fifty rarieties Of the cotton plant,
only about four are culitvsted for commercial
purposes, and these are annuals, reqsiring re.
planting every year The cotton, free Of the
tropics is useless for commercial puyposesS q.
it produces only q few small boils with q
fbre which iocosrse, bwsh and brittle. The
annual plant, which We .esativste. ssquires 9
climate. where rain aud ssnshine slternats
with sufficient hest TO matsss the plants. Il
cannot sustain tho extremes Of drought and
ysin. which it encounters in the tsopies; where
it can only be reared by Irrigation. wL;ch Is too
,epeusive 70 be employed on large scale
Thsss considerations are sufficient to show thai
esttsa saa peysr DO cultivated TO say great e1
sentis Ludis, ,Reypt and Algeria A!s.
The United saates pssssss RetosA s3vsatage'
fer The Epsedsetion q settea, ~hich ~ osissl
souatsyS iAsthe stesld etdoSs. E%ztsdlng 4ttu
the. twenty siSssS ~ .thets;fty-.is.ha degree,
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endon, and is now attached TO the War
Department ~ Judge Advocate General, he.
sides representing the borough Of VOL
verhamp!on in Parliament. Rumor further
saith that lie is a bachelor just turned forty.
eight years of age, highly educated, but not
Mt NIL partial to labor.
The melancholy death of Mrs. Daniels
has thrown quite gloom over fashionable
society, and the President has postponed q
dinner which was to have been given to-
morrow to the Cabinet and the Supreme
Court. 1t will be given next Thursday, and
will be the first of the "official dinners" Civ
en- at each session Of Congress, to which
every member is IN tHrn invited. They
have always been given on Thursday, and
have been followed by receptions on Fridays.
Tomorrow, the anniversary Of tho Bat
tie of New Orleans, we are to have visit
from the soldiers Of the war of 1912, yesid-
ing in Baltimore, New York and other
Northern cities. They are TO he received
at the railway station 10y their comrades in
arms, residing in the District and escorted
to the White House, where they will be in
troduced to the President,
Next Wednesday, the l4lh, the United
States Agricultural Society will hold its an-
nual sessions at the Smithsonian Institution.
The success Of the Exhibitions held by this
Society, is rendering it very popular, and
several cities are contending for the sxhib-
ition next fall. Baltimore and Louisville
have the best chance, and the liberal offers
made by the last mentioned city will prob
bly, secure them exhibition.
Workmen are busily engaged in erect
ing the temporary structure to be used by
the Metropolitan Mechanics Institute for
their exhibition. A large number Of contri-
buttons are already promised.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1857-01-16

Col. BUFoRD's Loss IN KANsAs.-From
a letter published in the Westford (Missouri)
Republican, it appears that Col. Buford,
who led the march in Kansss, has lost up
wards Of Ten thousand dollars in that enter.
prise. Col. Buford has acted nobly, and is
the more TO be admired for. the reason that
patriotism is generally it's own and only re-
ward, but if the efforts made for Kansas
had taken the shape Of five thonsand slaves
to be sold there, at about $500. a piece, they
would have been more entirely efficient
There is not an .emissafy Of the, Emigration
Aid Soristy in Kansas who would not have
given three bsndred ddlsrs for the privilege
;M be;sg the strongest pro slavery man alive.
,Eys. s.shossaDd negroes, more certainly than
i've thonsand'white men, would staEe that
'eoaptsy.'-l AG;.s- r. za.rE 1eS z 4,.~as3
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Gov. WILEAnD's RECEPTION AT JAcr-
SON MIss1ssIpP1.-Hon. A. p. Willard.
Governoreelect of Indiana, having accept4d:
ap invitation from the citizens Of Jackson.
Mississippi, to visit them, arrived in that cik
on the 23d inst, and was received amid tHe
roar Of cannon, the exhilarating straias@
music ysand tho shouts Of an immense mu!tis
tule, by the:military, and conducted to tho
Capitol, where he was welcomed By Cow
McRae in eloquent terms. Gov. Willard
responded. AT the close Of the ceremonies!
Gov. Willard, with vast concoufss6 Of ladies
and gentlemen, partook Of tho hospitalitisS
Of Gov. McRae at the Executive sSnapss0
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The AbbeviIis Academies,

i. We.wopld'i invite attention to the ADVERTISE
ment o. Mr. A.. T.. Watson, the principal Of the
Abbsyills Female Academy Tie exercises
of this Iassitstiea were resumed on last Non
day; and BIT ttos an oversighk the :sdysstise,
msnt would haFS sppsassd eatlie, VIZ. Wat.
son isa Gradusss q tie South CarolinA Collsgs
and eenss 70 % highly rssenasndsd. !. A.
-rangemsnt. hsss bsaR made to procure 2 esn-
petent iustruetress II music snd We trast. ssen
70 see . Aourishing AAadsasy, IN etF midst;
Our Fillage u aud e.se has been asiss healthy !;
boarding ean'be obtaipsd, on rsaspHabl& terms;
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Correspondence of the Courier.

NASIIINGTOE, Jan. I.
Congress has been engaged since the hol-
days, in preparing for, rather than in transac-
ting, the important business of the session.
The subject Of the tariff, the most important
one before Congress at this session, is assign
ed for next Tuesday, when it will be taken
up in Committee OF the Whole on the State
of the Union. Mr.. Boyce offered yesterday
nproject which will find many advocates, to
wit The reduction Of duties on all articles
now paying over twenty per cent. to that
rate, and embracing in the same list tin and
copper. There is a strong and increasing
disposition in the country to reduce the re-
venue to the sum Of forty-fve or fifty mil
lions, and to regulate thc tariff with a view
to an approximation 10 the principle Of free
trade.
There are fifty river and harbor bills be-
fore the House lying over from the last scs-
sion. Among these is the Charleston har-
Dor bill, which passed the Senate at tile late
session. The committee in charge of the
subject, will propose to include them all in
one bill, expecting two thirds vote for the
whole in that shape, where as some of them
might fail, and all be endangered if each be
voted on separately.
The bill fer increasing the pay Of officers
ofthsarmy will certainly pass, as was proved
by ayote taken in the House upon the sub
ject Eon Monday. But the refusal Of the
House to assign an early day for the consid-
Grafton Of the Pacific Railroad, is a proof
only that many of those ~ho are friendly
to some measure of thesot, have not agreed
upon any definite project. There are some
four or FIVE different schemes, caohtof which
has supporters. 4.:4.+a a
The debate on tie Revolutionary Claims
bill, ipt the Senate; has been very able, and
srgdnents presented by the friends Of The
sneasure are likely to prevail. The bill pro
vides for the payment of half pay for life te
each officer, with interest from 1880 till tht
day Of bis death deductiug the actual mar
ket salHe Of the certificates which they receiv
cd ID feu Of money, for csmmutation Of hal
pay, sxd which yalnswas about s'per cent
It Rstrongy argued that the government i
under equaf obligation to fedeem the Con
,insptsl lpsper mony, out the claim of tl.
officers rests upon q higher obligation thar
that ofdebt--for, in the words Of Gen. Wash
inatop, it Was "a debt Of fhoGor.", ..!- .s;sr
Hisgsnerally understood here thst ".
ar soon TO have q Britsh Minister, the va
talsy,oee lsioned By the dismissal of. Mr.
Crapption having lee1 filed by ihe ap
pointmontg Of the Right Hons Charles Pei
hsn Til icrs. He is n b:other Of fkord CIar