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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-29

A bud is generally moro elegant and
complimentary offering than full-blOwn
or Over-blOwn flower. If you wish yOur
idea to expand, DO not let the whole pro-
cess of expansion take place in your own
writing or conversation; leave part Of it
for the mind of your hearer or reader.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-29

A weak man is continually Auttering be-
tween suspicion about the conduct of others
and vast surprise even if his suspicious are
verified. The wise man is less troubled BY
suspicious, and has read too much. and
seen too much. to b, greatly surprised at
anything when it comes.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-29

Every household has its pet names. Mr.
Jones enchants his helpmats By calling
her Ibis idol" Jones, however. privately
spells it idle. Mrs. Jones is nice wo-
man-an affectiOnate woman-5ut she has
q constitutional aversion to working.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-29

A medical Journal says that single wO-
men have the headache more than married
ones. That may be; but don't married
men have the headache oftener than single
ones7
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-29

Where one friend is content and glad to
be eclipsed by the other. equal nObili-
ty of character is required by both, in tho
one for self-abnegatiOn, and In the other
for not being spoiled by it.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-29

Because she is not strong enough"
whispered Ellen, "to bear crucifxtiOn for
her love sake. Oh! if all women were true,
men would not dare de6le themselves as
now."
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

Mr.. Slows ADvIcE.-"Bimelech, my son,
it isn't well to know too much, my boy
your father never did-he know'd too much
for that. Thoughts is perplexin' and the
human mind, Bimelech, is too precious a
thing to be worn ont with too much friction.
Don't abuse the gifts of mater, cause naters
one Of 'em, my son. Don'tinvestigate any
thing new, my boy, cause there's thou
sand old things of more conscience to look
arter-the first Of which is number one.-
New notions perplexes the mind, dear
there's full enough fools in the world who
will look arter such things, without your
troublin' your precious head about them
'twouldn't be cent of benefit to you. Call
'em all humbug and them as believes 'em lu-
natics and scoundrels, and that II save you
a character for dignity aud prudence, and
prudent folks makes money. Feelosofy and
siense, and them things, is humbugs, and
everything is humbug but money. Mind
ttell ye SO, Bimelech."
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

ALMADES QUICKSILVER MINE.-H was we'll
known among the natives and old settlers,
the Tulare Valley used to come over into the
Santa Clara mission lands, to get out the
native vermilion for coloring their bodiesand
dresses. The old Indians of that neighbor-
hood had many bloody battles with the sur
rounding tribes, for the possession Of the
same cinnabar mine which has caused such
an expensive outlay of late for litigation in
our State Courts. The only difference be-
tween the present white men, and the old
red ones, seems to be, that the latter shot
arrows and shed blood, whereas the former
shed ink and shoot With dollars.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

The MILITIA OF THE STATEs.-Col. Roberts,
of the United States Army, has proposed a
plan of reorganization of the militia of the
several States. He proposes a short term of
and equipped, and disciplined by Congress,
and to be paid for a few days of service each
year, when under instruction, discipline and
drill. He fixes this volunteer force at 200,-
600, and proposes to divide them in all the
States in proportion to their population, be
lieving this division will give to each State
sufficient force to preserve domestic tram
guilty, to prevent insurrection, and to en-
force the laws. When war is declared, the
militia to be subject to the call of the Presi-
dent, to repel invasion, and even TO carry
on offensive and foreign war. The plan is
before Congress for its consideration.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

HARD FARE.-The following is an extract
frou private letter written on the steamer
Golden Age:
~ advise any person about taking passage
for the Atlantic States by steamer, to go
either in the first cabin or steerage. The
treatment of second cabin passengers is
abominable. We have salt water once q
day to wash in, very often without SOAP
The sleeping accommodations are not good
for such warm elimate-no ventilation but
the port holes in the sides of the vessel
The table fare is worse than anything ever
saw during pretty hard experience in CAL
ifornia. The only redeeming feature on
board is, that the vessel is kept perfectly
Clean"
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19
The gydranlie gress.

A MAN OF FSURsrANcc.-Rev. T. Starr King,
the Unitarian clergyman, whose advent into
California was preceded and heralded by such
a flourish Of newspaper laudation, appears
to have deserved the praise lagished upon
him. A recent lecture Of his On Substance
and Show" proves him to be o men of bot
tom-with the memory and tongue Of edo
quence. The lecture was ably epitomised in
the Bulletin. 1t was fall of Unitariaa aaind
-of broad philosophy built upon facts, and
had even smack Of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Bulletan says of it, much after the man.
ner of its author:
"If it had fault, it was lack of rugged
ness-of blunt, coarse strength. 1t was the
rocky precipice plush and rosy with howers
the Hercules, radiant ia silks and satins,
with pink in his button-hoie and bou-
quet stuck in the end Of his club-the ocean
as you sometimes see it off Tehauntepec, all
on fire with phosphorescent animalcula."
Here is passage humorously illustrating
the proposition that ideas are more substan-
tial than things:
Newton and Herschel are your true men
of substance Fenelon and Wesley were
men of spiritual substance Howard a man
Of afectional substance; Wilberforce of
moral substance. Without such substance
as goodness, love for our kind aad intellec-
tual cultivation confer, we are thin as shad-
ows-true ghosts. This world is spotted
with apparitisns in places where we look for
men; in editors chairs, in pulpits, in Con-
gress, in Offices too large for their incum-
bents. The popular notion that ghost is
a soul unclothed with body, is fallacious
your genuine CHEST is a body not vitalized
by soul-a mere machine for converting
potatoes and meat into the straps and cords
of humanity. The soulless rich man is a
mere bank paper, that adversely tears to
shreds The soulless office-holder is a blad-
der, which at the expiration of his term of
office is pricked, collapses and tumbles out
of sight. But the dandy is entitled to stand
in the first rank ofghosts-he is whiskered
essence, an organized perfume.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19
THE AppnoAoHrNe CsSsus.-It is estimated

TIE APPROACHING CBNsUs.-It is estimated
that the approaching census of the United
States will exhibit total population of 81
100000 souls-27, 100000 whites, 1000, 900
slaves, and 500, 900 free blacks. There are
233 Representatives to be apportioned on
this population, and it is estimated that of
this number the Southern States will have
50, being decrease of seven; the Middle
States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania and Delaware, will have SO, being a
decrease of five; New England will have
rs, being decrease Of four; while the
Western States will have 81, being an u
crease of fourteen. The Census takers will
commence operations next month, june
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19
or rHR AusrRAIlAN MINERs.-

TRAGEDY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MINERS
There was at Bendigo spot which was res
pected as sacred ground. On Sundays and
holidays people visited it, but there was an
air of mournfui, silent respect in their man
ner as if they conversed with sighs within
the precincts of haliowed tomb. The oath
of the reckles. digger was there never heard,
and the finger of the thief never dared to
touch the various implements strewed around
the grim windlass that marked the scene of
an unhappy emigrant's fate. The party to
whom it belonged came out together, school
fellows, all of them with gentle blood in
their veins. They had moderate joint
stock of capital al landing in the country,
which they carried direct to the diggings to
escape the allurements of city lite. They
were remarked wherever they went to work
as most temperate and Industrious in their
habits, acquiring esteem and popularity from
kind and obliging dispositions. But they
were not faEorites of fortune they always
came down on barren bottom, and their
neighbors came at length to remark on their
ill-luck, and to sympathize in their adyer-
sity. Their capital, under the strictest econ
omy, quickly dwindled away, but they were
too proud to admit their poverty, or ask for
credit; so when their money failed they dis
posed of their little trinkets and jewelry to
lucky diggers in order to procure the merest
necessaries, never in their sorest trials
evincing the slightest gloom or impatience.
Even when the last locket, emptied of its sa-
cred contents, was transferred to the rugged
bosom of an unwashed purchaser, to enable
them to carry out their last experiment they
went to work with all their wonted cheer
fuiness and serenity. On, on they worked !;
down, down they went, with steady rapid
ity as if assured of success and one day,
as the evening hour was approaching, a cry,
tone of exultation, came up from the bot
tom of the shaft, Haul up my boys; the
time is come at last !" And his mates did haul
away with gladstone hearts-the more heart
lily from the great weight coming up. But
alas alas when it came to the surface, in
stead of bucket of gold it was the body of
their dear companion. He had struck the
barren bottom during his spell below, and
detaching the bucket, he fixed a moose round
his neck and was strangled by his dearest
friends.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

DIAMOND MAKNG.-An attempt is about
being made by company at Sacramento,
who have erected machinery for the purpose,
to solve the problem whether diamonds can
be created by artificial means. The Bee
states that the grand experiment will be
tried in about thirty days. 1t also states
that "the gentlemen managing this expert
ment, have been successful in reducing car
bon to a fuid," and that they expect, by
means of the additional power for compress
sion given by their machinery, to crystalize
the fuid-thereby producing the diamond.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

Coon BoY.-We are pleased to note the
conduct of one of the Pages of the last As
sembly. We refer to James Kenney, of this
city, lad of some sixteen years of age, and
the son of widowed mother. Of his earn
ings, 1850 he paid over to his mother for
her support. His usual correct department
attracted the attention of several members,
some of whom presented him with fine
suit of clothes, and Messrs. Lamar, of Men
docino, Bailey, of Tuolumne, and Babcock,
of San Francisco, presented the lad with a
fine assortment of books.-Islegram.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

IMMGRATIoN.-Manyo ofthe Western papers
say that there is an evident determination
among many to migrate to California in The
coming Spring. 1t is true there is not much
fuss made about it, for the journey is no
longer wonder, or the undertaking of a
life-it is ''done" every day by somebody,
and has been for nearly dozen years so
that the fact Of a family packing up their
duds" and leaving for California with their
flocks and herds, is only known in the i'm
mediate neighborhood, and scarcely ever
chronicl,d in the newspapers.-Bee.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

THE CRoPs PROMISE ELARGELY.-From every
section of the country we hear glorious ac-
counts of the prospects Of heavy yields the
present season, probably much larger than
at any previous season. The late rain has
thickened up the grass to surprising ex-
tent. 1t has also been of material benefit to
late sown grain. At present the grass is
growing finely, yet we notice commence
ment at harvesting this crop in some locali-
ties.-Petdluma Journal
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

The newly-arrlved Chinese theatrical
troupe, now performing at the Bay, is said
to excel in pambers and talent any company
that has performed outside the Flowery
Kingdom. Their dresses and silk stage dec
orations are of rare and costly kinds, some
single dresses being valued at So, 600 each.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

Al story is told of an Irish hostler who
was sent to the stable to.bring forth trav-
eler's horse. Not knowing which of the
two strange horses in. the stable belonged
to the traveller, and wishing to avoid the ap-
pearance of ignorance in his business, he
saddled both animals, and brought them to
the door. The traveller pointed out his own
horse, saying; "That's my nag "Certainly,
your honor, l know that very well; but
didn't know which was the other gentle
MANS,
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

ExpoRTs.-Wheat to the amount of $4,000
sacks, and $4,000 quarter sacks of -four,
were shipped at San Francisco for Melbourne,
Australia, last week 12,5OO sacks of wheat
were shipped for New York, and the Sierra
Nevada is now loading with wheat for New
York, Also
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

TRAPPING IN TRINITY.-Charles Mcclure
and somebody else have, during the past
few months, trapped IA beaver and II otter
in Trinity river, between Lewiston and Bates
and Van Matre's ranch. Beaver fur is worth
$5a pound, making the trapping busines;
quite lucrative.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

CERRAIs.-The following statement shows
the number Of bashefs of cereals raised in
California during the year 1850, as shown
in the Surveyor Generals Report: Wheat.
5,430,39l barley, 5,Os7,l37; oats, l,464,
6ss; rye, a8, 462; corn, 776,S7s; buckwheat,
3b9C
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

Col. Haraszthy, who, has always been
among the foremost of our experimental ag-
riculturists, proposes to try the experiment
this year of raising tobacco on his fine estate
in Sonoma county. We learn that his to-
bacco plants are already in a forward con-
dition.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

The California Stage Company are now
running stages between Penmans in Plumas
county and Virginia City, In short time
they will run from Quincy.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

Mariposa Holmes says "the time has come
at last when q stranger can ride into Big
Oak Flat without exciting the attention OF
every man, woman and child in the place
made manifest by rush to the windows"
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

One of the late Japanese visitors at San
Francisco took lessons in photographing,
and carried home withs him camera and
materials with which to. practice the art.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19

Sam. Brannan has donated a thousand
dollars towards the erection Of the proposed
Pacific Observaforv.
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19
COLUMBIA HILL STORE!

VIZ C. COLEY has OH hand a choice assort-
w ement of Groceries. Provisions, Furniture, Mi
ming Implements. Carpenter Tools, Mattresses, Cloth
ing. and other Goods too to MENTION whicl
he Offers to the public at low rates for Cash
on1vs A share of patronage is respectfully
solicited. feb 1Stf
The hydraulic press., 1860-05-19
CAUTION 70 THE PUBLIC.

CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.
Since the Introduction of my Schiedam Aromatic
schnapps into the United States number of Liquor
Mixers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and San
Francisco. have been engaged in puttngup mixed and
poisonous Gin in and jugs 10 be paImed off upon
the unwary for my genuine Schnapps. At first, they
boldly counterfeited my name but stopped that
by causing several of them to be arrested They now
conne themselves to closely initiating the appearance
and shape of my bottles, and the peculiar wrapper
which have always used viz: YELLOW PAPER
printed with RED and BLUE INK, PASTEBOARD
PRINTED CAPS.
Be'care Of these Imitation, Bogus .Schnapps.
If the liquor were fit to drink, there would be no
Iced to palm them off by counterfeiting the peculiar
style and appearance of the GENUINE WOLFES
SCHNAPPS. Avoid these mixed and doctored-up imi-
tations, you would avoid Shattered Nerpes Ruined
Stomach aud Dctfrtuns 1remens The Pure ana genu-
inc Schnapps have my name the bottle, cork, and a
fac-simile of signature the label For sale by all
the Wholesale Druggists and respectable liquor dealers
in the United States.
UDOLPH0 WOLFE,
Sole Importer and Manufacturer,
is, 20 and %, Beaver ST New York.
The word Schedam Schnapps belongs exclusively to
my artcleall other are counterfeit, and an imposi
tion on the public. dee10 6m
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-01-12
HOW AEsFD ASSOCIATION
Philadelphia.


Epidemic Diseases.
TNHE HOWARD ASSOCIATION, in view of the
Il awful destruction of human life, caused by
Sexual diseases, several years ago directed their
Consulting Surgeon, to open Dispensary for the
treatment of this class of diseases in all their
forms, and to give MEDICAL ADVICE GRATIS
to all who apply by letter, with description of
their condition. (age occupation, habits of life, &C. }
and in cases of extreme poverty, to FURNISH
MEDICINES FREE OF CHARGE.
The Directors of the Association, in their Annu-
al Report express the highest satisfaction with the
success which has attended the labors of their
Surgeon in the cure of Spermatorrhoea, Seminal
Weakness, Gonorrhea, elect, Syphilis, the vice of
Onanism or Self Abuse Diseases of the Kidneys
and Bladder, &C., and order a continuance of the
same plan for the ensuing year.
An admirable Report on Spermatorrhea, or
Seminal Weakness the vice of 0nanism, Mastur-
bation or Selfabuse, and other diseases of the
sexual organs by the Consulting Surgeon, will be
sent by mail lin sealed envelopel FREE OF
CHARGE, receipt of TWO STAMPS for
postage.
Address, for Report or treatment, Dr. J. Skill
LIN HOUGHTON, Acting Surgeon, Howard As
ISOLATION, No. South Ninth Street, Philadelphia,
Pa. june9-7y1
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-01-12
The Reason Why Hogs Eat Ashes and
Cinders.

Mr.. Michi, of Tip Tree Hall, Eng
land, has discovered that pigs, when
put up to fatten, are very fond of Gin
ders and improve in condition by eating
certain portion of them daily. Some
persons are unable to account for this
singular propensity in swine. Poultry
are very fond of egg shells, lime, sand
&C., and it is well known these sub
stances are necessary in order to form
the shells of eggs, and to furnish ma
terial for the bones of the fowls. Now
it is reasonable to suppose that swine
eat ashes and cinders for the purpose
of supplying materials for their bones,
and this singular instinct in animals so
low in the scale of intelligence, is truly
wonderful, for ashes contain the ingre-
dients which are necessary to form
bones, namely carbonate and sulphate
of lime, prosphates of lime and mag
nesia, clay and silica gelatinized, and
made soluble by the fire. When hogs
are at large, they take in clay and sill
ca with their food, and eat bones and
roots which contain the necessary in
gradients, but when they are pent up,
they endeavor to supply the materials
necessary for keeping up their frames,
by.devouring ashes and cinders. Let
them have plenty of them.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-01-12
Necessity of Taking Particular Care of
Young Stock in Winter.

As young animals are most suscepti-
bic of cold, they should be closely at
tended to in winter, and comfortable
shelter and suitable food provided for
them. Colts and calves are sometimes
neglected until their shivering frames
and staring coats proclaim that "some-
thing must be done" to save them from
perishing. When your stock of any
kind suffer from cold or hunger in the
first year of their existence, their
growth becomes stunted and they new
er arrive to their natural size.
Hogs are very sensitive of cold, and
it will be to the farmers interest to keep
them very warm in winter, and to feed
them with cooked food. In order to
economic forage Of every kind,
steaming apparatus is strongly recon-
mended, as with the aid of this, and a
straw cutter, the farmer can convert
seemingly insipid material into nour-
ishing pabulum, and as the American
farmer has always abundance of fuel,
there can be no excuse for his not
adopting this approved plan of feeding
stock. When the domestic animal
take the field in the ensuing spring,
their condition will speak for the good
or bad management of their owners.
As provender is scarce and dear, it is
necessary to economic it, and at the
same time, to use every means of pro-
noting the health and Improvement of
the stock.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-01-12

Punch thus POLITICALLY PHILOSOPHERS upon sena-
tor Broderick, slain by Chief Justice Terry:
TT was a noble Senator erect in Freedoms cause,
A potent, grave and honored man to frame Column
bias laws
II was yet more honored one, chief who held
The rights, the liberties, the lives OF kindred sons
of dust.
That naughty high-souled Senator, that venerated
Judge,
Had nursed between them daintily some paltry
case of grudge,
Till Anglers fame too clearly rose for such brave
men to smother,
And New World ethics now laid down that one
must kill the other.
Forth from the stern Chief Justice then blood
craving missives sped,
And Judge and Senator, or both, are numbered
with the dead.
For gloating gossips said that if the bully Judge
should fall,
Would fellow ruffians take his place, with "blood
for blood their call.
One after other, while the slain their vengeance
would bequeath
To monsters, such of old has sprung from Cadmus'
dragons teeth.
OH blush Columbia, blush for tales like this are
types
and stripes.
Senator Broderick sleeps in death, struck down by
felon glaive,
And Justice Terry walks the earth Cain-branded
to his grave"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-01-12
Projections of Strawberries in Winter.


I'm protecting the strawberry there
may be too much of good thing
All varieties of this fruit that we
have ever experimental with, are
benefited by covering. They come
out in spring earlier, and seem to start
stronger. But many who are not ac-
quainted with the habits of the plant,
kill them with kindness. They pile on
coarse manure, straw, leaves, or fine
sea-weed, until the plants are smoth-
cred. While the plant is in its mac
tive state, there is little to prevent it
from decomposing by the action OF
heat and moisture, like other vegetable
matter An examination of a plant
taken from nnder a manure heap,
would show that the leaves and crown
had rotted.
The Strawberry, in its uncultivated
state, grows among the grass, which,
in its decay, forms all the protection
the plant needs. Nature provides but
a light covering to shield it from the
sudden changes of the atmosphere.
For this purpose almost any coarse lit
ter, pea or bean vines, corn-stalks or
sea weed, kept in place by brush, are
good enough. They must have air in
winter as we'll as in summer.-Anaeri-
can AgricuztswuIss.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-01-12
WILLIAM L. PATTON,
Having established himself as a

H OuSe 3 uilde r.
VXTOULD say to all in the village and the ad-
w joining country, that he is now prepared to
furnish and build by contract or to take charge of
work by the day, my buildings in any of the
different orders of architecture, and is also pre-
pared to
Saw out Brackets and Fringe Work for
Cornices, in any Style Required.
Doors, Sash and Blinds, Window and Door
Frames made to order Whitewood Lumber and
Shingles taken in exchange for work Place of
Business first floor of U. C. Squires' Machine Shop
Front Street, Dowagiac, Mich.
October 9th, 1859. oct27-27y1