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Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

" Mary, where's the frying pan ?" Jem-
my's got it, carting mud and oyster shells up
the alley, with the cat for horse" "The
dear little fellow, what genius he will make.
But go and get it, we're going to have COM
pany and must fry some fish for dinnern
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01
The Heart Can Trust No More.

Hopes once gone are gone forever,
They return not to the heart;
Though we seek them, yet they never
viii again their light impart;
Thus if loves first VOWS are broken.
Every dream of bliss is DER.
Truth, once sulied, is the token
That the heart can trust no more.
Wealth and beauty, swiftly flying,
Outward griefs can all be met
While on plighted VOWS relying,
Fortunes frowns bring no regret;
But if truth has once departed
Loves fond dreams of bliss are DER,
Then, alas the broken hearted
Feels the heart can trust no more.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

In certain benighted part of the country
may be seen, on the outside of an humble cot
tage, the following inscription in large gilt
letters =" A seminary for young ladies'"
This was, perhaps, too abstruce for the vii
layers, as Immediately underneath there is
added, in rude characters, "Notey bene-
also CALLS skooln
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

SPuRGEoN, the great preacher over in Eng
land has discovered, says the London NetOs,
" that dancing is a very healthy exercise, and
TO he commended but it is the dancing OF
ladies with gentlemen that is so Objectionable,
and SO be recommends that they practice the
entertainment separately"
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

We have been told of blind young lady,
who lately discarded her lover, because cou-
identiaI friend informed her that the young
man squinted
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A Frenchman, having feud with Ven
etian, went out to waylay his enemy, and
slew an innocent man by mistake 81 beg =
Thousand pardons," said he to bis victim, "for
this little error; but, upon my honor, took
you fer anothern
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

Come here and tell me what the four sea-
sons are? Young prodigy answers, Pepper,
mustard, salt, and vinegar; them's what
mother always seasons with"
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

Steel your heart said a consderate faith
er to his son, "for you are now going among
some fascinating girls" ! had much rather
steal theirs said the unpromising young man.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

"I HAVE lived TO know" says Adam
Clarke that the greatest secret of human
happiness is this Never suffer your energies
to stagnateD
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

MEN scanning the surface, count the wick
ed happy they see not the frightful dreams
that crowd a bad mans pillow.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

throng so cold and passionless. have for their
solitary life some such cause as that which
made my friend bachelor ! Surely there
lives not man nor woman who has not at
some period loved (; and thousands, like the
heroes of fiction, make but one cast of the
heart.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

MODERN tourist calls the Niagara River
" the pride of rivers" The pride certainly
has tremendous fall
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A Pennsylvania editor, in an appeal to his
patrons, says: 1.-THE editor wants grain,
pork tallow, candles, whiskey, linen, bees
wax, wool, and anything else he can eat"
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A PARTY of Norwegian Mormons passed
through Cleveland, Ohio, recently, en- route
to Salt Lake City. They had the appear
ance Of being very poor
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

If pair of stockings are hose, is a single
stocking a hoe? If a pair of glasses are
spectaces, is one spectacle ? And if so, is
it not bad show for a sight?
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

Mrs. Smith hearing strange sounds, in
quired Of her new servant if she snored n
her sleep. al don't know, marm," replied
Becky, quite innocently, never lay awake
long enough to diskver"
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A little stealing Is dangerous plan, but
stealing largely is a noble art: tits mean to
rob hen-roost of hen, but stealing mill
ions makes US gentlemen.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

ExTRAvAGANcE OF the most abominable
kinda man, who is blind of one eye,
lighting two candles to read a newspaper
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A WEAK mind sinks alike under prosperity
aud adversely A strong and deep mind has
two highest tides when the moon is in the
full, and when there is no moon.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

when remember all
The girls I've met together,
feel like rooster in the fall,
Exposed to every weather.
feel like one who treads alone
Some barn-yard all deserted,
Whose oats are tied-whose hens are dead,
And of to market started.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

OF six hundred and twenty young ladies
who tainted last year, more than half Of
them fell into the arms gentlemen. Only
three Of them had the misfortune TO fall on
the floor
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A DANDYIsM-a slice of ham is now under
stood as an elegant extract from Bacon J"
Only used in polite circles.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

The Boy OF THE TmEs-Wc like an ac-
tive boy-one who has the impulses Of the
age-of the steamboat in him. A lazy,
plodding suail-paced chap, might have got
along in the world fifty years ago. but he
don't do for these times. We live in an age
of quick ideas, men think quick, eat sleep,
court, marry and die quick-and slow coaches
are not tolerated "Go ahead if you burst
your boiler !" is the motto of every age-and
he succeeds the best in every line of business
who has the most Of I" do or die in him.
Strive boys to catch the spirit of the times;
be up and dressed always not gaping and
rubbing your eyes as if you were half asleep;
but be wide awake for whatever may turn up
and you will be somebody before you die
Think, plan, reflect as much as you please be-
fore you act, but think quickly aud closely,
and when you have fixed your eyes upon an
object. spring to the mark at once But
above all things be honest If you intend to
be an artist, carve it in the marble--if a
merchant, write it in your ledger. Let hon
esty of purpose be your guardian star-In
dian Arcdaa.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

All the grapdure of life is out of sight
all that appears is but the affect.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A SECRET, like an oyster, cannot be kept
too close for the moment it is opened it
ceases to exist
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A LADY advertises in the GiasgosO Herald
that she wants q gentleman for breakfast
and tea."
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A DISTINGUISHED lady once reproved her
librarian for putting books written by male
and female authors upon the same shelf
Never do it," said she. without putting a
prayer book between them"
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

The man who carried out bis moral resolu
tions did not bring them back again.
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01
Samuel j. Ia. Handy,
Millwright.

HEREBY give notice thatI am prepared to take
4 contracts for all kinds of Mill building, inclu-
uing FIGURING, Quartz and Saw Mills. propelled
either by steam or water power. All work guaran-
TTea 70 perform as represented. Address me al
jackson, Amador county.
DAVID ARMSTRONG,
OF Armstrong; Mills
mar 20 25-6m
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

A GENTLEMAN wrote as follows to female
relative
How comes IT, this delightful We lther,
That U and can't dine together 7"
To which she replied:
"My worthy coz, it cannot B,
cannot come till after t."
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

Honesty ought to shine through and Illus
trate the whole sphere Of our action
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01
For the Hair and Skin.

KAHN Of Thousand Flowers; Lyons Kathai
~ ron and Barry's Trlcopherons, at the
JACKSON DRUG & BOOK STORE
sprls xss-
Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01
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We are prepared to do Job Printing of every de-
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Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-01

WANTS TO MARRY TURK.-The Turkish
Admiral, Mohammed Pasha, has ceased to
be lion in New York, writes q correspondent
of the Sacramento UuiOn, only because be
has gone to Washington. 1t is well under.
stood that the good natured and gentleman
ly Turk was glad to escape the clutches Of
Aldermen Van Tine and Boole, who were
extremely anxious, among other attentions, to
show his Highness around the city by gas
light. Several ambitious danes of the St.
Nicholas, it is privately reported, bothered
the Admiral exceedingly. His Highness,
having Travelled in Europe, has of course,
learned the fashions" in Paris and London !;
and, when asked by strong-rninded lady at
the st. Nicholas, whether he brought any of
his wives to this country, he replied in the
negative-slyly adding, however, that he
might be obliged to carry several away with
him. This equivocal proposition was, Of
course, reported among the thousand residents
OF the big marble tenant house, ard it pro-
duced laughter or anger among those who
understood the point of sarcasm, and soft
tutterng in the hearts of two or three am
bilious marketable ladies, who had more mon-
ey than brains. A rich old m-hnmarried la
dy, fat, fair and forty" with an income OF
twenty thousand dollars year, suddenly be-
came desperately smitten, and made demon
stratlons of attack. Being encouraged in
her aspiring hopes by some of her envious
and less wealthy rivals, the lady was induced
to play more ridiculous part towards the
Turk, than did poor Miss Coutts to Mario
the singer. The signing fair one threw her.
self in the way Of the whenever
he walked the grand corridor-dressed in the
richest style, with bare arms and shoulders
and exhibiting wide view of the surround
ing scenery When Mobammed and bis
suite appeared at the dinner table, the candi
date for the honors Of harem always man.
aged to be seated in full view Of her coveted
lord, and when he went out for a ride, hel
open carriage and spanking greys were always
in full view. At the opera, and theatre:
too, which the Turk visited by invitation
Miss Languish managed, invariably, to ap
pear in full view of the besieged, and his de
parture at the end of the third act was thu
signal for Lydia to follow. In the midst o
all this, and at the moment when the LADY
spiteful female con6dants had almost brough
her to the point Of declaring her love TO
Mohammed, of he popped, to visit Presiden
Buchanan and see the menagerie at the Ma
tional Capital But the fair one has also de
parted, and, it is said, has gone to the cit
which contains her coveted one.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

CoNGR essIoNAL ADJoyRNMENr-THR DAY
FlxED.-Both Houses of Congress have voted
to close the present session on Monday tho
7th day of June, the Senate having on Thurs.
day concurred in joint resolution to that
effect previously adopted by the House Of
Representatives. This is an earlier day than
has of late years been usual, and some will
doubtless attribute it to the fact that meme
bers of Congress receive fixed salary in
stead of eight dollars per diem as formerly.
Their pay is now $4,000 per session., which
terminates on the 4th Of March, as for the
long one which ends whenever Congress
pleases. The present is the FIRST session held
under the salary regulation, and tho day des.
tined for adjournment will probably be in
some sense precedent. Six months 10 Ger.
tainly long enough even for the long session;
and if BY any possible edict or rule the
length and number of Buncombe essays read
and spouted, could be materially curtailed,
the country would have cause to rejoice.
The whole subject of the Pacific Railroad
has been postponed by the Senate till De-
cember.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24


We published, some time since, synopsi.
of this law, but it seems that 1t is not YET
very generally understood. So much of it
as requires immediate action on the part OF
those interested, and so much as directly
affects existing school organizations, may be
stated as follows:
LIST. Every civil township in the county
% made school district. and so is each in.
corporated city or town containing not less
than 1000. Muscatins county has twelve
townships add Musoatine city, and We have
thirteen districts. Each district is body
corporate. A school district within any one
Of these townships or the city, as the case
may be, is denominated a sub-district.
I'd. On the first Monday of May next there
is to be q meeting of the electors in each of
said districts, notice of which meeting is to
be given by the township trustees. The
notice is to be written, to specityshe time
and place of meeting, and to b. posSsa in Eve
conspicuous places within the district (lown
ship or city, a. the case may be,) ten days
previous to the day of meeting.
The meeting to be organised by appointing
q President and Secretary, who are to be
judges OF the election.
The electors then proceed to elect by bal
lot President, Vice President and Secretary,
to hold Office for one year, and who, with
director from each sub-,listrict within each
township district, constitute Board of Dis
trict Directors. The meeting also elects q
Treasurer to serve for one year
The members of said board are to be Quail.
lied by taking the usual oath of Office, and
must do 80 within ten days, under penalty
Of 90.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

A FASHIONABLE lrEM-MARIrAL GOSSIP
"A very brilliant marriage ceremony came
off at the church OF the New Jerusalem las t
evening, the Rev. Mr.. Story of6ciating.-
The bride was Miss Mary Ford, charming
daughter Of the late Ex-Governor Thomas
Fl. Fsrd, and the bridegroom was John
Bailey, Esq, OF Kansas Territory. There
Was highly fashionable audience in attends
ance, including many distinguished citizens,
among whom we noticed ex- Mayor Geo. :.
BestoE, His Honor Judge E. N. Powell, DR..
DIckersun and many others The bride was
given away by DR.. Dickerson, hsvisg JUS,
received the order of baptism according to
the solemn rites of the New Church. We
UNDERSTAND that the distinguished and happy
couple left Immediately, after the ceremony
for their territorial lome.-Psoria Union,
10th.
That's our J, Jay Bailey, we presume, for
merly of the Court House in this place.
Hi. intimates here inform Us that they sus-
pected he had "a bright particular stars in
the horizon of Peoria. We wish him all the
happiness his new state can AFFORD.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

IHE ADMINISTRATION AND THE DeUeLAs
DEMOCRATS. is NO doubt that the
Douglas Democrats of the House who voted
for Committee of Conference have been
tempered with by the Administration. The
detection of English and Hall was matter Of
common talk in Washington day or two
before the trial oans off. A special dispatch
to the N. Y. Tribune, under date Of the 18th.
says:
Every art and effort are employed to con-
cilitate sufficient influence to gain confer
ence, and attempts will be made to succeed
through absenteeism on the part of those
that dare not desert openly. Among other
expedients suggested is the tact that the New
York Collectorship may be vacated in cor
tain contingency. Other unpleasant rumors
are ahoat, but have seen no substantial
evidence verifying them.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

@We aye in receipt Of u neatly printed
and spirited paper called the W estern Rail-
road Gazette and Real Estate News Letter"
tits published weekly in Chicago, by A. NJ.
Whitney, and edited BY s. G. Fowler and J..
J. Gall agher. 1t j. the official organ of the
great railroad companies of the West, besides
being devoted to real estate matters. Sub
9 cription 81 per annum.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

+. s. Lawrence 8 Go. Is New York Bank
Note List'' Of tho 81 inst. fads fault with
the lows State Bank Bill as.d for the pus.
pose of getting the matter before The public
for discussion and ss adity, We publish ito
objections below. A. the Bank elec.ions
are not far distant, it is jhportanr t. dis.
&c. innate as much light ON the srbjsct ~ CAT
be attained, md we shall BE- rlensed TO give
both sides and I'LL sides fair hessfhEih oor
columns: 7ass, - ''sss=s'
s'The act to incorporate the State BS6f Of
Iowa, that pas ed the Senate Of that Statkfiv
now pending 10 the Assembly. The bill IL
based on the Indiana and Ohio laws, bot
differs from both in detail. The principal
provisions are those referring to securities to.
note holders, individual liability of stock.
holders, and amount of capital with which
branches may commence business. Il 10
provided that branch can CONN .ence busi-
ness with a capital of $50, 0C0, of which 80
per cent. must be paid in it is entitled to
receive up to capital If 100000, twice
that amount in circulation from the parent
bank on the next 100000 capital it receives
$l75,0O0, and on the third $l50.OOO. Thus
branch, with the full limit OF capital.
100000 would BE- entitled to circulate a.
money its bills to the extent If 1926. 900,
giving it in available money $s24,OOO There
10 3 provision that % per cent. Of circulation
must be held in ceiu, aud II 1.2 per cent.
deposited in safety fund, to be liable for the
circulation Of any insolveht branch. The
directors are made personally liable If any
violation Of the act should BE- directly proved
against :hem. Stockholders to be personally
liable to the extent of their stock and the
same amount in addition. These arc the
principal features of the bill of interest u
the public, and they will strike the careful
financial student as exceedingly dangerous in
a Western st te. to a sound currency. The
twelve and half per cent. for tie siL king
fund would soon be exhausted on the failure
Of two or three of the branches; and it IL
questionable whether it is just to carefully
managed institution thus to make it Lis 10
for the follies or faults of sister establish
ment7
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

EMIeRANTs FOR KANSAS. = Tho steamer
Skylark, from Pittsburgh, bound down the
Oh'u river, the other day, had On bnard three
hundred cabin and one hundred and twenty.
Eve deck passengers, on their way to Kansas
and Nebraska. There ware also six hundred
and fifty tons of freight, including forty seven
horses. ~
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24
Republican Congregational Convsn.

Republican Congregational Convsn.
zion.
SECOND DISTRICT.
The Republicans of the Second Congressional Dis
riot Of the State Of Iowa, are hereby notified that
a Convention will Re held 10 Iowa City, on Friday
the 18th of June. A d. 1858, for the pu pose IF
nominating = Republican candidate for Congress
for said district. the transaction Of such other
business A. may be deemed ecAsssry for the inter-
"ss Of the party.
The rsti OF representation of each county, will
additional one for every fra" ton over tfty the
Tor Governor at the last October eectioA being
the basis. Organised counties having ess than one
hundred Reput can voters, will be entitled each to
one delegate.
w. PkNN CLARKE,
JOHN A. PARvIN
HIRAM PRICE, District Central Com.
M. MeBLY, r,
s. d. CARPERTRR,
Republican papers throughout the district are
REQ uested to cOIy.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24
CITY OF MUSCATlNE:
SATURDAY, -: APRIL "a, 1858.

Republican State G. invention will be he'd at
Iowa City, on lbsisdsy, tie nth day Of June,
1883, for the purpose Of nominating Secretary,
Auditor, Treasurei Ct State AZ Attorney General,
and fer the transaction Of euch other hrsines. ~
may be deemed necessary by the Convention.
The ratio # representation Of each county will
b. one del gate fcr every ore bun drcd Republics
votes. snd an additional ono for every fraeticn
.. fifty, the vote for Governo. at the last state
election beins tie basis. Organized counties with
ess th' one hundred Republican voters will bs
entitled esch to ons delegate.
4. ]. KIHKwooD, W n. FARMER,
W. P. CLAkK, H. PRICE,
H. O'C0nnoR. g. d. WOODEN,
Committee.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

TIE VorE On THE $5,OO0,0O0 LOAN N
MlNNEsorA Judging by the seturna thus
far received, the majority in favor Of the
$1,000. 900 loan in Minnesota, viii constitute
nine-tenths Of the total vote: Of 4,343 votes
in St. Paul, only 1873 were cast in opposition,
In Winona, the vote stood 1,lSl to 2, with
an affirmative majority Of $500 IN the county.
There :s,probably not les than 1900 ma.
jority in The State ip htar Of ths losns sai
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

SPEKCHHs ON LEO0ArroN.--No measure
before Congress- has ever been more closely
essteste'', OF elected so many speeches, a
the question Of the admission Of Kansas un-
der The Lecompton constitution. Over fifty
set speeches have been delivered in tho House
in favor OF LeeomptoD, and about seventy
against it. The vote in the House on the
adoption of the Crittenden amendment was
the largest ever before given on any question.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

~"Ward's Own" spicy eight by ten
sheet publshe. at Bloomfield, Davis county,
thus immortalizes "our Pat"
A. y. Patterson, lineal descendant, no
doubt, of William alias Billy Patterson, who
was struck by an unknown indiv dual, few
years since, has turned up at Desm"ines City.
1t seems that the good pc ,ple of Muscatine
county, as mark of respect, perhaps, for
his unfortunate ancestor, sent him up to the
Capital as their representative in the upper
House of the General Assembly. This
young man, it appears, has al~o been struck,
(though unlike his progenitor.) with an idea,
as the following which we copy from the
proceedings of that august body will show:
House File No. 2l7--a bill authorizing
School Districts to subscribe for the "Voice
OF Iowa. an educational Journal.
Patterson, in a very amusing mood, moved
to amend by adding "Wards Own" the
motto of which is, "Ward Knows." 80
Hope the delivery If the idea 70 happily,
and we have no doubt Unexpectedly con-
ceived by the gentleman from Musca,ine,
was attended with no serious consequences
tO him.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

The PHILADELPHIA t'R1v1vAL CsRrlyl.
OATES Mr. NJ. W. Baldwin, PRECEDENT,
George 81. Stuart, Vice President, and VIM.
J. r. Taylor, Recording Secretary. Of the
American Systematic Benevolent Society,
have published a card stating that the bias
phemnus certificate" purporting to Be H.
sued by them, and published in the Tribune
a few days since, is entirely disapproved By
them, and that their names were attachd
TO it without their consent.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

"TuE HAPPY FAxlLY."-The Democratic
State Convention of Illinois assembled 1t
Springfield yesterday, 21st. The premoni-,
tory symptoms of q regular crowds dow"
were exhibited in the county conventions
for the appointment OF delegates, and as ex-
peeted, the State Convention split into
Douglas and anti-Douglas factions, A dis
patel, to the Chicago Journal, dated O'Clock
p NJ, says; "rhe Democracy have divided
and organized themselves into two separate
conventions. The Douglas convention 10
large, harmonious and exultant, with John
Moore for President pro tenn. TIE Buchanan
convention is bold, defiant and vndictive
and hfty-four counties are represented in IT,
with John Dougherty for President. Hon
8. S. Marshall, NJ G., from 9th district, and
Regent Calhoun are here from Washington,