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The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06
ATLANTIC MoNrHEY.-The July number of

ArLANfic MoNrHLY.-The July number of
this brilliant magazine is fully equal to any
of its predecessors. The "Professor at the
Breakfast Table" has gone up stairs prying
into the secrets of the boarders' rooms,
where he has ah amusing chat with the
'young man called john" and begins to
plot story. There is an entertaining essay
upon Lord Campbell's attempt to prove
Shakespeare an attorney, wherein it is clear
ly shown that he can just as readily be pro-
ven to be butcher, a tailor or anything
else. That much abused patriot Thomas
Paine, to whom Americans owe so much
and have paid so little of respect and graft
tude, has rather more justice done his mem
ory than is common, though saving modi-
cum of personal abuse is of course INDUCED
in. A pleasant article, entitled Crock, Tree
and Man," familiarity explains the radical
identity of the elements which compose the
mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms,
and opens with this comprehensive para
graph:
"It is an interesting thought, that win oc-
cur to a contemplative mind, that the world
contained, from the time when it was neb-
ulous mass, all the materials of the future
individuals of the animate and inanimate
reation,-that the elaborate creatures of the
vegetable and animal Kingdoms, as well as
every mineral, were floating in arnorph0bs
masses through space, Human beings, like
the genius that was condensed from vapor
at the rubbing of Aladdin's lamp, were diff
fused in gasses, waiting the touch of the
Great Magician's wand to bring them into
form and infuse them with Iife... In all the
distinct creations of God, from the time
when the waters first subsidized and the dry
land appeared, in everything organized and
inorganized, earth, air, sea, and their inhab
itants, there is no element that was not in
existence when the earth was without form
and void"
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

SPIRIT OF THE POLITICAL PREss.-Broderick
-Gwin-" dripping with corruption'-
you're another-blacks-- f-breeds-hire-
lings-Lime Pointers Kibbin-Denver-
n-fraud--deception-
reachery-myrmidon -Latham-Currey-
bribery-know-nothing- popular sovereign
ty-Cincinnati platform -Douglass-slave
code Dred -Broderick and
omega -thief4-robber--l --liar--"h -thighed'
-funkies-etc., ETC., aduyinitum, ad dnauseum.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

If the late intelligence from Mexico, pub
lished in the Bulletin, be correct, there is
some chance that that distracted country
may find peace and harmony. 1t is stated
that Miramon had decided on a radical
change of policy. A liberal cabinet had
been formed, who were in favor of proclaim
ing an amnesty to all parties, liberty of the
press, abrogation of the late law assessing
extraordinary contributions, modification of
the law concerning the goods Of intestates,
and the sending a commission to Vera Cruz
TO treat with Juarez and the other chiefs of
the revolution.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

=, An Ohio woman writes that the object of
the Daughters of Malta" is to relieve wild
overs, destitute bachelors, dandies, Hotten-
tots, and orphan male children.
. For the Widower, the Balm. Of consolation
is procured, and administered with gener-
Gus hand.
The Bachelor is supplied with all that is
necessary to make fife happy, a wife-and
buttons.
The dandy is kindly cared for, and trans
planted to richer soil, where the brain will
grow with sufficient .rapidity to gain ascen-
dancy over the moustache.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06


PUNCH AT PUNcH."-Punch has a spiri-
ted caricature entitled "The Giant and the
Dwarf which represents little Victor Eman-
uel swinging a huge sword and in act to
rush upon the foe while the Emperor Napo-
lean, tall, sleepy looking, clad in gown and
lazily putting from his nose clouds of cigar
smoke, stands listlessly by and remarks:
"Bravo, my little fellow You shall do all
the fighting, and we'll divide thegloryl" 1t
is hardly fair il Punch to poke fun at the
Emperor for not exposing his life in battle
with the same rashhess that characterizes
the King of Sardinia. tfisdeath at the pres
ent juncture would be b continental calami-
ity. Since his address to the Milancse We
feel quite kindly towards him, in spite of his
coup d etat In that document he said: "If
there are men who do not comprehend their
epoch, am not one of the number In the
enlightened state of public opinion there is
more grandeur to be acquired by the moral
influence which is exercised than by fruitless
conquests, and that moral influence | seek
with pride in contributing to restore to free
dom one of the finest parts of Europe" We
must believe there is a point where he will
cease to copy his uncle.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

An Italian paper gives list of forty-nine
battles between the French and Austrians,
occurring in the month 'o6if June during a
period ofseventeen years, from 1892 to 1909,
in every one of which the Austrians were
defeated. To this may be added the recent
battles of Magenta, Buffaiora, Maleghaho
and Salferino. 1t will thus be seen that the
month of June is not lucky one for the
arms ofNAustria.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06
At Chicago there is an art exhibition whicl

AT Chicago there is an art exhibition which
consists of about five hundred paintings,
engravings, statues, busts and bronzes, exc
cuted by the most famous artists of Europe,
England and America, and all owned by res
idents of Chicago. The object of the exhi-
bition is to obtain funds for the furtherance
of art. Where Chicago now stands, less than
half century ago the Red man roamed, the
Monarch of all he surveyed.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The ST. Louis Republican office employs
one hundred and sexenty-six hands, at q
weekly salary of S2O74. Add this to 81 800
"A per week for paper for the Republican, $500
per week for stock for job office, 1920 for
bindery, and 1920 per week for sundry 9TH
er expenses, and the aggregate is $4,000 A
per week-the actual sum expended each
week of the year in sustaining the Republican
establishment
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The Springfield, Mass, Republican draws
an apt comparison between the two forces
now now blSodily contending in Italy:
When the bayonets think, their triumph is
half secured and the great difference be-
tween the French and Italians, and the Aus
trian soldiery to whom they are opposed, is,
that their bayoncts think, while those of the
Aus strians do not think. This difference has
told in every encounter that has thus far ia
kenplace.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The population of Alexandria, Egypt,
which In 1898 amounted to only 10000, had
increased IN 1907 to 25O,OOo, and is now
nearly 100000. 1t appears from this that
rapid increase of city population is not con-
fined TO England and America.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Rail-
road Company had meeting at Auburn on
the 23d of July, as We learn from the Herald,
and effected an organization. The amount
of capital stock was fixed at $30O,000, and a
board of seven Directors elected. Commis-
sioners were also elected for the purpose of
opening books Of subscription. The Herald
saws the road is certain to be built.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

There is a woman in Buffalo who knits in
front of the residence of her DEBTOR every
day. in the hope of compelling him, by this
public manner Of dunning him, to pay up;
She attracts large audiences, and never gets
tired of repeating her story.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

Phosphoric acid, SUCH, as comes from iuci-
fer matches when ignited, is very destruct-
i've to Bones, There have been several PAIN
full cases in the New York hospitals lately of
the removal ofdecayed jaw bones ofpersons
in match factories, and the doctors say that
the teeth are DESTROYED in the same way by
smokers who inhale the acid when they
light their pipes and cigars.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

On the 3o.h of June 1858, writes the WASH
ington correspondent of the Union, the PEN
sion Office had On its rolls the names of z53
Revolutionary soldiers. Out of this small
number forty six died during the succeeding
half year, leaving upon the rolls on the lst
of July 207 survivors.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The American Minister to the Court of
Berlin, Mr. Wright, has offered $4,000 for
the library of Humboldt, which was be-
oueathed BY the VENERABLE sage to his faith
ful companion Sieffert 1t IS said to be one
of the most complete of scientific collections,
and its acquisition for our country would
be very valuable accompaniment to the
Agassiz geological collection.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The Apache Indians have peculiar pro-
cess for making whiskey. They soak the
corn "a hours, then place it in hole and
cover it with grass, on which the family sleep
to keep it warm. By this process the corn
is sprouted in four or five days, and they
then dry, pound and boil it, Twelve hours
fermentation makes it pretty strong and
quart of it will make an Indian perfectly
happy.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

A correspondent of the Pacific calls Rus
sian River Valley the great corn valley of the
State. He there saw fields covered with
most luxdriant growth of it, which remind
cd him of the Mississippi Valley.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

During three and one-sixth years OF prl-
vate management of the State Prison at San
Quentin, the total number OF escapes was
27o; while during two years of State man.
arement only 3S escaped. These figures do
not include the numerous escapades under
the last reign of McCauley.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

AT a meeting of Congregationalist clergy
men in Massachusetts,, Rev. Mr.. Lacey of
California stated incidentally that. the action
of the vigilance committee in San francisco,
years ago, had resulted in good, and that
city he thought was the Best governed city
in the Union Of it's size.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The remains Of the American heroes who
fell in the battle of Lake Erie have recently
been exhumed in the vicinity Of Erie, Par
by the laborers excavating for the Erie and
Sunbury Railroad.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The expenditures of the U. S. Government
for the fiscal year ending June 3Oth, 1859,
exclusive of trust funds and payments on
account of the'public debt amount to $780,
,5S6 &c. The total value of foreign i'm
ports, from July lst 1858 to April lst 1859,
was $233, 1872 ,275; and of exports $246,6so-
194.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06
Gle 5lvtlraulie 2ress.
3. p. AVERY. EDITOR.

THE CALIFORNIA NAvIGAToR-Hutchin
Magazine for August is a number of COM
mendable excellence. Its pictorial and lit
erary contents are unusually meritorious,
and have an abiding value. We especially
commend for perusal an amusing yet phio-
sophical article on the "Mountaineers of CAL
ifornia," and the ''Brief Memorials of Alex
ander Malaspina," which latter are contrib
uted by DR.. Taylor of Monterey, whose
original articles on our native condor are so
well known. "Malaspina was employed by
the Spanish government, between the years
1884 and 1884, says DIR. Taylor, "as scien-
tifc surveyor and photographer Of the Pa
cifc coasts of Spanish America, from Cape
Horn to Behring'S Straits. His charts and
maps of Pacific Mexico, California and North
west America were published by the Spanish
government under the ndf1es of other au-
thors, and afterwards formed the most rel-
able data for Spanish mariners down to the
revolution of 1926" besides being i'those
hlost III use oy tHe EhSllSn ana american
pilots in the Pacific trade" down to a bdribd
even later Malaspina was rewarded for his
services as many have been before him.
Having given offence to a Spanish ruler he
was imprisoned for number Of years, and
the credit of his surveys given to others, his
name being suppressed in the published ac-
counts of the expedition he commanded
But for this persecution he was afterwards
rewarded by having the great Humboldt
acknowledge his services to science in terms
of warmest praise.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

Beecher says that lying is one of the few
domestic manufactures which need no pro-
lection, and fourishes without benefit either
to the producer or consumer.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

Three-f -fourths of the population of New
York are distributed amongst the dwelling
houses at the average rate Of about six fam
lilies to each domicil.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

Kosshth advises his countrymen in Amer
ica not to be in hurry to repair to Europe;
it is not yet time for them to move. They
shall have due notice.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

Ex-Presdent Van Buren is said to be hale
and hearty, and looking no older than he
did twenty years ago.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

New Yolk statistics prove that more than
nine-tenths of all persons who are convicted
for crime are intemperate.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The Minnesota ginseng does n0tfdlfl ex-
pectations. The fact is. the autumn is the
only time to dig it, and that dug this spring
is poor stuff, and does NOT find ! market.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

A down east doctor advocates swinging as
a preventive and cure of pulmonary COM
plants.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

Real estate in Marysyille is increas lag 2
price. Some corner buildings brougns $50 q II
varying from FIVE to six thousand doilaFs
each lately.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

Frank F. Fargo has commenced the pub
lication of an excellent weekly paper; called
the Alqmeda County Herald at Oakland 1t
is liberal Republican in politics.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The famotis tunnel under the Alps has
cost thus far ST 500 per yard.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06
sluice and Building Lumber,
| And BLOCKS nf aIl kinds. on short notice.

And BLOC ks OF all kInuS, ON slOrt nDtice.
All orders satisfactorily filed and promptly delivered
N. B.. All persons indebted to SAN JUAN MILL
COMPANY for Lumber, will please take notice. that
payments must be male to the under igned alone. If
made to any other party they will not be recognized as
legitimate. A. s. WADLEIGH.
Agent San juan Mill Co.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

The grasshoppers of Virgiof~ Ave taken
to eating tobacco Such PEI lon Of in
stinct in clean and respectables insects i
without parallel.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

A Standardization Greeley remarks
III one of his Kahisas letters, that hardly half
the settlers make any sort of provision for
winterihg their cattle and for protecting them
against the fierce winds of the prairie. He
demonstrates against such iuhuman expo
sure of the poor beasts, and on one occasion
had the following colloquy with asettler up
on the subject:
az asked a settler the other day how he
could do it." Il had no time to make a
shelter for them" ''But had you no Sum
days did you not have these at your dis
posal?" 80, yesl don't work Sundays"
''Well, you should have worked every one of
them, rather than let your cattle shiver in
the cold blasts all winter-it would have
been work of humanity and mercy to cut
and haul logs, get up a cattle-stall, and COW
er it with prairie hay, which viii Warrant
to be more religious than anything you did
on those Sundays" But the squatter was
of different opinion"
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06
LUMBER! LUMBER!!

THE OPRIETORS OF THE
u North San juan sas-Ai take this Opportunity to
inform the public that they have recently purchased the
above named property which has been reted at great
expense. and that they are prepared to furnish
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-06

PREDICTIoNs.-We find the following anu
sing paragraph in an old number of the New
York Mirror, printed in July 1888. The late
balloon triumph of Wise partly realizes one
of the Items;
t:The Cincinnati Neats contains quite an
interesting peep into futurity, purporting to
be letter from Cincinnati written in 1860.
The writer has just returned in balloon
from New York, with four hundred and sixty
passengers-on the way ran foul of ball
loon from Paris-knocked it all to flinders,
killing four hundred and odd Frenchmen.
Congress was in session at the Queen of tn e
West member from Montreal OH the floor !;
the venerable President, Daniel Webster, hale
and hearty"
The Pork6polfs wag who wrote the above
could imagine such thing as the annexa-
ton of Canada and the election of Webster
to the Presidency, but the idea of submarine
telegraphic connection With Great Britain
and Europe was flight too bold for even
his powers of vaticination.
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-27
From lions Herald.
HENRY EVANS,
THE NEGRO PREACHER.

In Bishop Capers' interesting autobiog-
raphy, he refers to some of the BLACK
preachers as they are called, and many of
whom are met with at the South. Henry
Evans, of South Carolina, was one of these
useful men.
Evans was, by general consent, the IA
ther of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
white and black, in Fayetteville, NJ c.,
and the best preacher of his time, in that
region. He became literally the greatest
curiosity of the place; and strangers, pass.
ing the Sabbath at Fayetteville, very gen.
orally sought an opportunity of hearing
him preach. Evans was Virginian, and
said to be free born, shoemaker by trade,
and when quite young he became a Chris
tian and Methodist, and was licensed to
preach.
Whilst a young man, he resolved to re-
move to Charleston, S. c., and on his way,
stopping at Fayetteville, he commenced
preaching to the colored people, and with
greatsuccess. The town council ilinterfered,
and no entreaties prevailed with them to
allow him this privilege, when, withdraw
ing to the neighboring sand hills, he held
religious meetings in the woods, and
changed his appointments from one place
to another. No law was violated by this
course, and the council effectually eluded,
the mob, the baser sort, took up the oppo-
sition. These he also worried out by the
same system of changing his appointments,
and, when searching for him, he was
preaching somewhere else
Happily for Evans and the cause of
evangelical religion, his honest counte-
nance, and holy, earnest pleadings, were
soon plainly strengthened and confirmed by
the fruits of his pious labors. One after
another began to discover that their ser
wants were not made worse, but wonderful
ly better, by attending his exhortations.
The effect, too, on the public morals, be-
gan plainly to be seen in their improved
Sunday habits, and the decrease of drunk
enness among them. Soon the mob de-
sisted from their opposition, from the evil
dent change in public opinion, and the ne
gro preacher was permitted to declare the
truth in Fayetteville
AT this period there was no church IN
the town, and but one congregation, Pres
byterian,) who worshipped in the State
House, under which was the market
There was plainly nobody to preach to the
colored people but Evans, and not few
of the whites began to imagine that the
preaching, so beneficial to their servants,
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-27
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might do them good also AT first, seats
near the pulpit were appropriated to their
use, but these soon became insufficient, and
the crowd took possession, also, of the rear
ones. The negroes seemed likely to lose
their beloved preacher.
Next, the place was included in the
lneighboring circuit, Methodist Episcopal
Church here constructed, and thus was
Methodism introduced into Fayetteville.
Whenever Evans preached, there was no
room for the blacks; and to accommodate
| both classes, the weather-boards were
knocked off, and sheds added to both sides
of the house, the whites occupying the CEN
ter, Evans dwelling was shed at the
end Of the church, behind the pulpit. 1t
was Bishop Capers' habit to hold meeting
with the colored congregation in the church
every Sabbath, Immediately after morning
service. On the Sunday before the death
of Evans, the little door between his hum
BILE shed and the chancel, where the Bish-
| op stood, was opened, and the dying preach
er entered to bid his people a last farewell.
He was too feeble, almost, to stand up, and,
supporting himself by the altar railing, he
said: IL have come to say my last word to
you; it is this: None bit Christ Three
times have had my life in jeopardy for
preaching the gospel to you; three times
have Ibroken the ice ON the edge of the
water and swan across the river to preach
the gospel to you; and now, if in my last
hour could trust to that, or to anything
else but Christ crucifed for my salvation,
all should be lost, and my soul perish for
ever" Servant of God, well done? Hal
lowed be the memory of such a faithful
preacher of Christ! G.. P. d.
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-27
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
STRANGE DISEASE AND DEATH.

Mary Fall, young mulatto woman, re-
siding on Culvert street, near Seventh,
died recently under singular circumstances,
and from disease that has not yet be-
come familiar to medical science.
During the early part of July, she was
afflicted with soreness in the eyes and vi
olent pain in the temples, which continued
to increase until she was often maddened,
and would lose her senses by It's excess.
Her optics grew greatly inAamed, and her
face and head began to swell visibly, her
pain often diminishing in proportion to the
swelling, though she complained of fierce
throbs shooting through her brain, that ap-
peared like her recollection of shocks from
a Leyden jar which she had taken at the
Sycamore street Museum.
Every few days the swelling would
slightly subside, but her head had obtained
twice its natural size, and sometimes be-
came even third greater than that. At
times she could not see at all, nor hear,
nor experience any sensation through her
senses, and would sink into a state of leth-
argy, in which she would remain for TWEEN.
ty or thirty hours. When recovered from
this she would be 80 weak and prostrate
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-27
NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN.

Socrates, at an extreme age, learned to
play on musical Instruments This would
look ridiculous for some Of the rich old
men in our city, especially if they should
take it into their heads to thrum guitar
under lady's window, which Socrates did
not do, but only learned to play upon
some instrument of his time-not guitar
for the purpose If resisting the wear
and tear of old age.
. Cato, at eighty years of age, thought
proper to learn the Greek language. Ma
ny of our young men, at thirty and forty,
have forgotten even the alphabet Of Ian
guage, the knowledge of which was neces-
sary to enter college, and which was made
daily exercise through college. A fine
comment upon their love of letters, truly!
Plutarch, when between seventy and
eighty, commenced the study of Latin.
Many of our young lawyers, not thirty
years of age, think that mtss P1aats, scare
faciaS, &C., are English expressions; and
if YOU tell them that knowledge of Latin
would make them appear little more re-
spectacle in their profession, they will re-
ply that they are too old to think of learn
ing Latin.
Boccaccio was thirty-fye years Of age
when he commenced his studies in polite
literature; yet he became one of the three
great masters of the Tuscan dialect, Dante
and Petrarch being the other two. There
are many among us ten years younger
than Boccacio, who are dying of ennui,
and regret that they were not educated to
a taste for literature; but now they are
too old
Sir Henry Spelman neglected the sci
ences in his youth, but commenced the
study Of them when he was between fifty