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Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

TnE HEBREW New YEAR.-Tha Jau;sh
New Year begun on Thursday last Tho
holidays. which are kept at this period bv
the Hebrews, last ten days; after which come,
the Day of Atonement. The present Jewish
year is the five thousand, six hundred anC
nineteenth.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11
Select School for Bows.

Tie Fall and Winter term of this School will com
mence on WEDNESDAY MORNING, Sept 1st. Terms for
Tuition in the common English Branches, 50 per
month q weeks) per scholar. Algebra and Latin
each, one dol ar per month additional. Particular
attention will be paid to defamation and composition
few Boarding Scholars can be accommodated in the
family of Mr. Baker, the former principal with whom
the present principal will board Terms for boarding
s. per week-washing, 81 so per dozen.
School room on 7th street, near the Catholic Church
aug31-tf G.W.H. PECK, Principal
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

Is A squatter difficulty has arisen in
San Francisco. A man named Baxter claims
ground jointly occupied by himself and Nc
Mahin. McNIahin denies his title, and says
if Baxter interferes with him, he will shoot
him. McMahn was arrested, the other day
and made to give $500 bonds to keep the
neace
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

DANGEROUS NUIsANcE.-A petition, numer-
ously signed, says the s. F. Call, was present
ed to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday
evening, from the property y-holdcrs and resi-
dents on Natoma street praying for the re-
moval of camphene factory which is in
operation in their neighborhood. They cay,
and with great reason, that the presence of
such an establishment in the midst of private
dwellings is dangerous to life and property.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

BUGGY SMAsHED.-A teamster coming the
other day from Grass Valley, encountered q
buggy on the track, which attempted to do
its part to accommodate passage The
teamster made no effort to turn out, but with
a grin contemplated the havoc his mammoth
hubbs played among the spokes of the car
riage The chap took to bed at Grass Val.
ley that night, but was visited in his sleep
by an officer. We rather think that fellow
will have to shell out the pay for his fun -
Nevada Journal, yesterddH
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

Citizens, Steam Navigation Company
A dividend of four per cent. has been declared by
the Trustees Of this Company payable on and after
the 30th inst
on9G,Iod HORACE BEACH, sec'y.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

% A Frehehman, from Columbia, name
unknown, fell from the steamer Bragdon.
1h"r'0ay night, during her trip from Stock
ton' and was not seen afterwards. He had
S2'ooo on his person, fact that will insure
thorough search for the body of the unfor.
tuDate man.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

VB Wilson Flint, who made himself so
much noted in the Senatorial contest of 1856.
when Gov. Foote didn't get to go to the Sen
ate OF the United States. delivered an address
the other evening, before the Horticultural
Society at San Francisco, which was pro.
nouneed fine production.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

A DAMPER-Amid the brilliant array Of
articles on exhibition at the Mechanics Fair
is hearSe, of home manufacture. 1t must be
an ugly looking affair in that scene of gayety
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

The GREAT REPUBLIc.-The ship Great Re.
York for San Francisco. with coal. at Sl2
per ton. She is now on the way, and freight
ed with 1000 tons.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

Us The proprietors of the Virginia Tun
mel Co., at Althouse Creek, in Humboldt
county, took out, on the oath, a nugget weigh.
ing fifty ounces, valued at 5000.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

CS- A large clock, with four dials, of di.
menslons to be seen at a long distance, is
shortly 10 be placed in the tower of the Cath
Ole Cathedral on the corner of Dupont and
California streets, San Francisco
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11
NOTICE.

The regular meetings Of Oriental Lodge, No. 45, l.
O.. F., are held every Thursday Evening, at the
Odd Fellows Hall.
J. II. KRAUsE, n. G.
f j. ScHAEFTER, Rec seo'y
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

B- Thursday was the anniversary of the
admission of California into the Union, and
in honor of the day the San Francisco bust
ness men closed their houses
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

Us a man hamed Frank Dunn tried to
prove, day or two ago at the Bay, by his
own mother, that he was not vagrant; but
he signally failed. The old lady said she
had not known Kim to do six days work con
secutively in three years. Frank weakened,
and the Judge gave him chance to ship
before the mast" on one of the vessels living
in port
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

CB- Coal, from mine newly opened in
Alameda county, is on exhibition at tho Ne
chanics Fair. at San Francisco.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

EE- Col G.. w. Whitman, late Controller
Of State, is about to take mp his residence in
Nevada.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

Is In 80 counties Baldwins majority
now stands at 5,694.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11
NTnrysviIle MibrnrY AasOcinIion.

NKNTysVIIIt hIIUIsIIy IhTHVNA'AIIVH'
Members and others having Books belonging to this
Library are hereby particularly requested to return
them this week Attendance will be given from to
10 o'clock, every evening, from Wednesday, Sept sh
to Saturday, the 18th inst, to receive the same.
The customary fine will be enforced In all cases after
4t{
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

EB" The citizens of Humbug City are an
excellent people So says the editor of the
Plumas Argus Who would.have thought so
well of lot of Humbuggers?
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

EB- The Record complains that low
type Of bilious fever is prevailing in Oroville
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

MR. +. D. DAVIDSON Is our Agent In Sacramento,
and is authorized to receive subscriptions and adver-
t.sements, and to receipt for the same. once at E.
d. Dlvidson's Post Ofice Exchange, 4th street, be
tween anl X, near the Post oaice.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11
M WILLIE.
SATURDAY SEPTR IL, 1853.

~ hare s,oorn on tie altar ofHy country eter-
nal eamity to eUsry form or tyranny oeer the
mind Of man" Vhos. JEFFERSON.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

ArPoNrED.-Henry D. Bequette has been
appointed Locating Agent of the Visalia
Land District, vice VIM. II. Sherman, de.
clined
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11

Agency NOtice.-Mr. L. P. FISHER "a ous only
authorised agent in San Francisco to receive adver-
tsements, receipt for the same, and to transae bus
ness generally for the DEMOCRAT. once NY Wash
IN ;ton street, (up stars) nearly opposite Magures
Opera House.
Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11
Notice.

Ifyou want to smoke something very fine,
Then try John S. Bowman's Genuine.
NEW CORNER TOBACCO AND CIGAR STORE,
ie6 Cor % and sts., Marysville.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

I'll NoTE FOR THE OTHER MAN.
The following story is told of a revo-
lutionary soldier who was running for
Congress:
1t appears that he was opposed by a
much younger man, who had never
g been to the wars" and it was the
wont of the Revolutionary" to tell
the people of the hardships he endured.
Says he:
"Fellow citizens, / have fought and
bled for my country-I helped whip
the British and Indians. 1 have slept
on the field of battle with no other COW
ering than the canopy of heaven. 1
have walked over the frozen ground
till every footstep was marked with
blood"
Just about this time, one of the "sov-
ereigns," who had become very much
affected by his tale of woe, walks up in
front of the speaker, wiping the tears
from his eyes with the extremity of his
coat tail, and interrupting him says:
"Did you say that you had fought
the British, and the Injines?"
EYES, responded Revolutionary.
"Did you say that you had slept on
the ground while serving your country
without any kiver?''
eyes, sir, did,
"Did you say you had followed the
enemy of your couiftry lover the frozen
ground till every footstep was covered
with blood?"
eyes," exultingly replied the speak
er.
swell, then," says the fearful "sov-
ereign," as he gave sigh of painful
emotion: "I'll be blamed if / don't
think you've done enough for your
country, I'll vote for the other mani"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18


a PETRIFIED WoMAN.-A few days
since, gentleman residing in Rising
Sun, Indiana, who had married Sec
ond time, wished to remove the body
OF his wife to new cemetery. Prepa-
ratlons were made to that effect, and
laborers opened the grave in the usual
manner; but when they reached the
coffin, they could not lift it, so great
was the weight. After obtaining con-,
siderabl, assistance, however, the men
succeeded in raising the coffin from the
tomb. They then had such curiosity
that they could not resist the tempta-
ton of .peering into the coffin, and
learning the reason for its unusual
weight. They did SO, and found, much
to their surprise, instead of the remains
of corpse, stone figure, the exact
counterpart of the woman who had
died. This strange story soon spread,
and hundreds and thousands of persons
were present to see the strange specta- ,
Gle.
The husband took the body of his
departed spouse home, and has it there
now, where it is visited by hundreds
of the curious and scientific. The body
seems to have been petrifed, and TO-
have become perfect stone woman.
The probability is that the body has be-
come adipocerc, and will before long
melt or crumble. -
How the living wife likes the de-.
ceased, or how she relishes the idea of
seeing No. inst slled, though a statute.
in her place, and herself neglected, is
more than we can say. The affair, at
best, Is peculiar and novel one, and
we marvel that the sapient Indianians
do not arrest the twice married indi-.
vidual for bigamy.-Csn. Eng.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18
A Hundred Years Ago.

The Pittsburg people are preparin Q
to celebrate, with public parade, ora
tions, professions, &C., on the 25th
instant, the centennial anniversary of
the capture Of Fort Duquesne, which
stood on the site now occupied by their
city. Abiding to it, the Pittsburg
Post draws the following sketch of the
era in which that event occurred
One hundred years ago there was
not single white man in Ohio, Ken
lucky, Indiana, or Illinois Territories.
Then, what is now the most fiourishing
part of America, was as little known
as the country around the Mountains
of the Moon. 1t was not until 1859,
that the Hunter of Kentucky, the gal
liant and adventurous Boone, left his
home in North Carolina to become the
first settlers of Kentucky. The first
pioneer Of Ohio did not settle until
twenty years after this time A hum
dred years ago Canada belonged to
France, and the whole population of
the United States did not exceed a
million and half Of people. A hun
dred years ago, the great Frederick of
Prussia was performing those exploits
which have made him immortal in mill
tary annals and with his little monarchy
was sustaining a single handed contest
with Russia, Austria, and France
the great powers of Europe combined.
A hundred years ago Napoleon was
not born, and Washington was young
and modest Virginia colonel and the
great events in the history of the two
worlds in which these great but dis
similar men took leading parts were
then scarcely foreshadowed. A hun
dred years ago, the United States were
the most part of the British Empire,
on the political horizon no speck indi-
Gated the struggle which, within a score
of years thereafter, established the
greatest republic of the world. A hun
dred years ago, there was but four
newspapers in America-steam engines
had not been imagined and railroads
and telegraps had not entered into the
remotest conceptions of man. When
we come to look back at it through the
vista of history, we find that to the
century which has passed has been
allotted more important events in their
bearing upon the happiness of the
world than almost any other which has
elapsed since the creation.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18
NUMBER 30.


John w. Forney, in speecb 81
Camden, N. j., on October 9th. made
the following announcement: -
Now, gentlemen, 1 have a most
melancholy announcement to make in
this connection. It is that the pews-
paper. the Press, is stopped-my Press
is stopped! Sensation.1 I did not
expect, in coming here, to be compelled
t. make this sorrowful announcement:
but it is nevertheless the fat. Tho
Press is stopped-not the establish
ment, but the single copy which the
President Of the United States takes
lis stopped. Uong continuedsshouts
oflaughter.) | expect.I shall survive
IT. (Renewed Laughter.) / have no
doubt l shall survive it. But it was a
terrible blow. / do not think two
.nts ever created so much havoc be.
t ire. But we shall recover; we shall
get over it. And now for the bright
part of the story: / shall receive. in a
few days, almost the only dollar that
| have ever received from the Federal
Administration-which will be about
$50 in payment ofthe Press Laugh
ter.)
30 we see that this prescription runs
from great to small. 1t attacks pop
llar tribune, and it strikes down a
newspaper. 1t turns out postmaster,
and it refuses to pay two cents to an
independent journal: -sls.e
To o., hooe ,so. ,,..,.s
Thus we see the Administration Of
the Federal Government, presiding
over thirty millions of people, with all
its vast patronage, with all its great
power, forgetting all its duties and all
its pledges, and becoming a party to
the petty prescriptions which village
politicians would despise, and which
honorable men would laugh at. Zap
plause.)
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

Tom CoRwIN's LAsT.-At trial re-
Gently held at Yellow Springs, grow
ing out of a difficulty between. some
of the students and faculty of Antioch,
the "Old Wagon Boy" who represent
ed the faculty, was exhibiting to the
jury a foil, or cane, belonging to one of
the students, which was probably used
in the melee. Tom was in his usual
happy mood, and brought down the
house frequently by his witty illustra-
tions of the noble science of fencing;
now parrying imaginary thrusts and
anon throwing himself fercely upon
The attack.
AT last, having exhausted his full
store Of pleasantries, with one fell
thrust, he made feint to strike one of
the students, Mr.. Fisher, who sat near
by, and with look of unfathomable
gloom, and the voice of Stentor, he
cried out: And what would you do.
sir, being unarmed. if should attempt
to pierce you through ?" Imagine the
roar of laughter which greeted thislast
eloquent effort of the old "stumper,'
when the half frightened student, col
lecting again his wits, sprang to his
feet, and successfully mimieing Cor
wins most bombastic style, exclaimed:
"I'd aoe1conae you, SIR, acith bloody
hands, to q hospita6le Craze. Ohio
Press.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

sented an aspect truly deplorable. He
was not the Jedediah Brown of former
times, and it would have puzzled his
nearest friends to recognize him. The
working of his mind, and the liquor he
had drank, had left him in miserable
plight.
The justice, putting on his severest
frown, inquired into the particulars Of
the case. Turning to the prisoner, he
said:
$50 you were caught in the act
were you? Well, burglary is serious
matter as you'll find out. What is
your uame %
"Brown," replied Jedediah; "but
there is mistake"
"Brown, eh?" interrupted the JUS
tice; well, the name is against you;
there have been fourteen burglaries,
not to speak of othercrimes, committed
in this district by men of that name
within the present month"
"But Pm an innocent person; it was
in my own house they arrested me-"
" Everybody is innocent that's
brought here, of course! But we'll
soon see how you stand. Where is
the complainant in this case ?"
AT that moment a lady entered.
"There she is" said the policeman.
The prisoner looked up and met the
eyes of his wife.
What have you to say in regard to
this man, madam ?" asked the Judge.
Mrs. Brown did not immediately re-
ply. She looked for a moment longer
into the face of her husband, as if as
tonished and bewildered, and then she
exclaimed:
"Why, can it be possible? Is if,
then, really you, Jedediah % acsa E
Then addressing the magistrate, she
continued:
" / find that it is only my husband,
and have no complaint to make. But
it was so late when he came home last
night, and he was so disguised that /
was unable to recognize him."
Jedediah Brown said not word.
He knew full well how the matter
stood, and he felt not little shame for
the ridiculous part he had enacted. He
retired with his wife, very passively,
vowing in his own mind never to be
caught in like scrape again.
And that is how he became teeto-
taller.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

The CRoUP.-The Group, so danger.
Gus to young children, has attracted
much attention of late, among medical
men. DIR. ]. Cloquet, at a recent sit
ting of the Academy of Science, pre-
sented some interesting observations
lately made by DR.. Bouchat on this
subject. From these it appears that
the third period of the Group is accom-
panied by general insensibility or anms-
thesia of the skin, which increases as
the iorinous concretions of the larynx
extends and thicken, and is not COM
plete except when the obstacle to the
entrance of air into the lungs is very
considerable and has existed for some
hours. This symptom denotes the inn
minent approach of Asphyxia, and
calls for immediate recourse to the ope--
ration of tracheotomy. The an@the--
sia of the skin ceases as soon as the,
trachma has been opened. DIR. Jodip
has also sent in q paper on the Group,
in which he advocates new treatment.
Starting from the argument that the
Group and all membranaeous augin@
are but parasitical affections, he con-
tends that they require neither general
remedies nor cauterizations and that of
all the simple remedies, capable Of re-
moving these parasitical growths, the
perchloride of iron is by far the best.
1t penetrates through the fungus, lnodi-
ies the h@morrhagic state which al
ways exists in the affected parts and in
their neighborhood, and, lastly, obliges
the patient to expectorate, by which
means the false membrane is expelled,
and an Immediate cure effected.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

The Berlin correspondent of the N.
Y. Tribune, in describing the insanity
of the King of Prussia, which, as is
usual in cases arising from softening of
the brain, is intermittent, states that
the Queen, anxious to conceal his true
condition from the people, has been in
the habit of availing herself of his lu-
cid intervals to bring him before the
public. This, as will be seen, has not
always turned ont very happily:
"In the presence of the Queen of
Portugal, who celebrated her nuptials
at Berlin, her procuram, the King, was
to have publicly assisted at the church
ceremonies. Everything was ready
and ministers, aids-de-camp, courtiers,
foreign ambassadors, and the bride
herself, were waiting for him, when all
at once, despite the desperate efforts of
the Queen, he was oyertaken by the
hallunciation Of believing himself the
bridegroom. Some queer remarks he
dropped as to his singular destiny in
being married again during the life
time of his first spouse, and as to the
impropriety of his (the bridgroom's)
appearance in military uniform, left
his exhibitors no chance but to coun-
termand the spectacle which had been
announced. The boldness of the
Queens operations may be inferred
from the following incident
"There still exists an old custom
at Potsdam, according to which the
fishermen once in the year pay to the
King an old feudal tribute of fish. On
that occasion, the Queen, to prove to
the men of the people the falsehood of
the rtimors then circulating as to the
state ofthe royal mind, dared to invite
the foremost of these men to a fish
dinner, to be presided over by the King
himself. In fact, the dinner went off
pretty well, the King muttering some
words learned by rote, smiling, and on
the whole, behaving properly. The
Queen, anxious lest the scene so well
got up should be spoiled, hastened to
give the guests the signal of departure,
when all at once the King rose, and in
a laundering voice demanded to be put
into the frying-pan. The Arabian tale
of the man converted into fish became
a reality with him.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18
The Two Angels.
pY H. w. LoNeFELLow.

Two angels, one of Life and one of Death,
Passed Ger our village as the morning broke;
The dawn was on their face, and beneath,
The sombre houses hearsed with plumes of smoke
Their attitude and aspect were the same,
Alike their features and their robes of white;
But one was crowned with amaranth, as with fame,
And one with asphodels, like flakes of light.
saw them pause on their celestial way:
Then said l, with deep fear and doubt oppressed,
Beat not so loud, my heart, lest thou bctray
The place where thy belovedarc at rest.
And he who wore the crown of asphodels,
Descending at my door, began to knock,
And my soul sank within me, as in wells
The waters sink before an earthquakes shock.
recognized the nameless agony,
The terror and the tremor and the pain,
That oft before had filed and haunted me,
And now returned with three-fold strength again.
The door opened to my heavenly guest,
And listened for thought heard Gods voice,
And, knowing whatsoe'er He sent was best,
Dared neither to lament nor to rejoice.
Then with smile that filed the house with light,
"My errand is not Death, but Life" he said:
And ere answered, passing out of sight,
On his celestial embassy he sped.
Twas at thy door, o friend and not at mire.
The angel with the amaranthine wreath, ,.--
Pausing descended, and with voice divine
Whispered word that had sound like Death.
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A shadow upon those features fair and thin;
And softly from the hushed and dirkencd room,
Two angels issued where but one went in.
All is of God I. If He but wave his hand,
The mists collect, the rain falls thick and loud,
Till, with smile of light on sea and land,
Lo He looks back from the departing cloud.
Angels of Life and Death alike are his
Without His leave they pass no threshold o'er
Who, then, would wish or dare, disbelieving this,
Against His messengers to shut the door?
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

sY 1t is objected that the posses
sive "her's' is mistake in the forma-
ton of the English language. Why
not form the objective masculine in
the same way, and call it "him's p
Samuel's hymn book is certainly not of
Sans. ~ ~.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

~ An incorrigible wag who lent
his minister a horse, which ran away.
and threw his clerical rider, thought
that he should have some credit for his
aid in spreading the gospel"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

cw Women are called the "softer
sex" because they are so easily hum>
bugged. Out of one hundred girls,
ninety-fve would prefer ostentation to
happiness dandy husband to a me-
chanic. -
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

~ We wish that our ingenious
friend, who invented what is called the
paying-out machinery, for the Niagra
and Agamemnon, would get up little
machine to be used in the case ofevery
newspaper subscriber.-Prentice.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

~ A gentleman was speaking the
other day of the kindness of his friends
in visiting him. One old aunt in pay-
ticular, visited him twice year, and
stayed six months each time.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-18

W An exchange says that it is just
rs sensible move to undertake to get
married without courting, as to attempt
to succeed in business without adver-
tising. Gf aaf'fssas1T