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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-05-16
SHERLFFS SIZE,
Nc Clellan & YnorI
against
r. 5. Anderson.

r. 5. Anderson.
BY virtue of writ of venditioni exponas
to me directed from the Court of Common
Pleas of Belmont county, Ohio, I will offer for
sale at public auction, at the front door Of the
courthouse, in said county, ON
Saturday, the 18th day Of June 1850,
between the hours Of 10 O'Clock, A. n. and =
O'Clock P. M. on said day, the following de-
soribed real estate situate in said county, to
wit: = Il asf 8,Fs ss4t4if4a M IA
Lot Number Fifteen -
in the town Of cochransviiie, Monros ssnntx
Ohio.
Taken in execution and levied npoa a. The
property of R. s. Anderson, At the suit Of MO
Cleilen & Knox -.
C. N. MORROW,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-05-16
sHBRIFF,S SAL8.

z. III. MOKKOW,
May II, $780, 1915 !. Sheriff n C. o.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

WESTERN UTAH.-The discovery of new
silver leads is frequently reported. A new
town, called GAINESVILLE, has been laid out in
Steamboat Valley. The Enterprise alludes in
terms of praise and gratitude to the passage
by the California Legislature of resolutions
urging our Congressional representatives to
favor the creation of Nevada Territory. Re.
ferring to this topic, the Mountain Democrat
remarks that Judge Cradlebaugh is opposed
to organizing new territory, because he
believes that if Utah is left intact there will
soon be in it a Gentle population large en-
ough to out vote the Mormons, repeal all
obnoxious laws, and enact only such as are
wholesome and demanded by the people,
We have no doubt that by another twelve
month there will be majority of unsuperA
stitious Americans in Utah. but they will
covet no such job as that projected for them
by Judge Cradlebaugh, and the performance
of which would only result in precipitating
another Mormon war, and driving the Saints
to curse some other locality with their pres
ence.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

MARYsvILLE AppEAL-This is the unhack-
neyed title of geographically handsome
and editorially vigorous twenty-five cent
daily, which was started in the orchard city
last Monday, by G. W. and w. f. Bloor and
Geo. w. Derickson--all practical printers
and estimabie fellows. The editor of the
appeal is H. R. Mighels, well known news
paper writer, who will make the paper an
and locally useful institution.
The first copy of the Appeal was printed on
paper wet with champaighe. We hope this
wet sheet will lead the new enterprise across
flowing sea of prosperity. The agent for
the Appeal in North San Juan is Sam. Abb
bey.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28
CHE Aytlralllie gress.
B. p. AVERY. EDITOR.

STATE AGRICULTURAL LSoCIETY.-If any per-
son doubts that this Society has become a
vital power in the land, let him read the pro-
ceediags of its annual meeting as Detailed
in the Sacramento Union. There was strife
and wire-pulling enough over the election
of officers and choice of location for the next
annual fair, to make respectable resem-
blance to a political nominating convention.
This resemblance was made more striking
by the political names which appear in the
debates. 1t is not strange there should be
contention ip a society whose annual re-
ceipts and disbursements have reached a
figure exceeding $40, 900, and whose exhibi-
tiens attract to the place where they are
given, thousands of we'll filled country pock-
cts aching to be depleted. One would think
that the Society could now afford TO dispense
with the annual appropriation of $4,000
voted to it by the Legislature, and that the
same, or larger sum might be more judi
ciously divided among the various county
societies. AS we expected, and as we think
is right, Sacramento received 100 out of
263 votes as the locality of the next State
Fair; while Z G. Phelps, of San Mateo, was
chosen President, and O. c. Wheeler, Sec
retaly.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

A spiritual medium, or thaumaturgist as
Carlyle would say, named Collins, has been
trying TO convince people at the Bay that
spirits communicate with this world as the
Peruvians did with one another, by means
of tying knots. He allowed himself to be
bound tightly, would then retire to box
and in half an hour appear unbound, having
been released by the spirit of a deftnct sail
or. Sometimes, however, he could not be
unbound except by aeshly hands, and then
the excited audience would hiss like the
myriad demon serpents in Milton Pandemo-
mum, and vociferate fgurative allusions to
vessels propelled by steam. In the wake of
these several steamboats, finally came a
greater man than Collins, by name Irwin,
who united himself in three minutes, with
out spiritual assistance, thereby solving a
knotty problem to the relief of thousands.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

PoLIT1cAL CoNvENTIoNs.-The Democratic
State Central Committee has called State
Convention, to be held in Sacramento on the
last day of next month, for the purpose Of
choosing eight delegates to the Presidential
Convention which meets a: Charleston on
the 23d of April. The two wings Of the De-
mocracy have failed to unite, the test pro-
posed by the regulars-''did you vote at the
last State election for majority of the can
didates on the Lecompton State ticket?D eff
fectually ruling out the Douglas men. The
latter will send no delegates to Charleston.
The Republicans hold Convention at the
Capital on the 22d of February, when they
will elect delegates to the National Conven-
tion which assemblies at Chicago in June
next.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

Edward Everett concludes his Mount YER
non papers, for which Bonner paid him ten
thousand dollars, with a description of the
Ledger establishment. The Ledger circulates
about 100000 copies, and the paper on
which it is printed costs 100000 per an
mum. Eight power presses and forty five
persons are needed to strike off this immense
edition, which in one year makes 100000
folio volumes of 416 pages each, or about
four times the number of volumes in the
Astor library. Mr.. Everett pays Bonner a
high compliment for enterprise, energy and
liberality, and says his own connection with
the Ledger has proved, contrary to his ex-
pectations, relaxation and pleasure. He
will contribute to its pages occasionally in
the future.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

SALE OF School LAND.-The Placer Herald
says that School Section No. l6, of Town
ship II, north range east, Mount Diablo
base and meridian, situated in Placer county,
was sold by the Sheriff on the 18th inst
The land was sold to F. B. Higgins, of Au-
burn, at the following prices: 16O acres at
81 per acre; $50 at So SO per acre; and 16O
at So per acre. The section is situated
within short distance of the new town of
Lincoln. The lowest price it could have
been sold for, under the law, was So per
acre. Some of the land is considered as first
quality for farming purposes.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

STATE PRIsoN.-A joint committee from
the Senate and Assembly has been sent to
the State Prison. Such committees are
termed "joint" because they are usually
treated to extra cuts of meat when they in-
vite themselves to San Quentin. Cattle and
sheep, turkeys and ducks roam and waddle
in perfect security about the Penitentiary,
except at such times as the Legislature takes
occasion to make optical inspection of that
nstitution.-AppedL.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

Thirty1eight of the Stockton insane owe
their mental alienation to spiritualism. Act
ing upon this hint, with sort OF poetIcai
Justice, legislator has introduced bill to
tax spirit mediums who make public exhibl-
ton of their gifts. We believe this is the
first legislation aimed against the new reVe-
lation. 1t will hardly 60 down. Religion
makes lunatics as well as spiritualism, and
if the teachers of the latter are to be taxed,
those of the former should be also.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

That notorious verbicide, Parker Fl. Pierce,
who formerly resided at North San Juan and
once condescended to represent Nevada
county in the Legislature, is now living at
Carson City, where he does business as a
real estate and mining claim agent and con-
veyancer. Another old resident of our town,
E. c. Dixson, is running weekly express
to Carson City from Placerville.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

A Democrat who owns a lead mine at
Shullsburg, Wis, was candidate for the
Legislature. On election day he hired %
Republicans to work in his mineI after he
had got them all l3O feet below the surface,
the ladder was drawn up to have some neto
rounds put in it, and he neglected TO return
it till the polls were closed, which resulted
In his election by 81 majority.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28
A ATHREADBARE SUBJECT.

The aggregate length of European rail-
ways, as far as reliably ascertained, is 2O,-
S54 miles, nearly half of which is in Eng
land, Scotland and Wales; and the total
cost $2,4s5 oO,o0O-the average cost per
mile ranging from $e5,oOo to $4,000 The
most expensive roads are those in England.
One of these, the London and Blackwell rail-
way, being erected over the tops of houses
and streets, cost e3l ,9l6, or upwards of one
and half million dollars, per mile making
it the most expensive road in the world
Two other railways, the New London and
the Birkenhead ahd Lancashire, cost respec-
lively $73l 800 and $375,OOO per mile. In
1857 the nine thousand miles of British
railroads, costing about $l,5900O0,0o0
yielded gross income of $4,000, ,000-or
more than one per cent. per month. The
railway enterprises of Great Britain have
been prosecuted in the face Of peculiar diff
Gculties, such as extraordinary expenses to
secure legal and parliamentary sanctions,
purchase rights Of way, and compensate for
damages; and they have never had that nu-
ni6cent governmental aid in the shape of
land grants, nor that lavish compensation
for mail service, which are enjoyed by rail-
way projectors in America. Private expen-
diture for the promotion of private interests
this has been the chief basis of British
railway organizations, though the result has
Injured mostly to the advantage of the great
public whose means were not invested
Commerce and manufactures have had a
great propulsion at the expense of individual
capital and to this propulsion is doubtless
largely owing the marked improvement in
the material condition Of the British masses.
In view of these facts, what are we to
think of American capitalists, who hesitate
to build trans-continental railway whose
estimated cost is only ninety or hundred
million dollars-a railroad which would be
the greatest passenger and ultimately the
greatest freight highway in the world, that
it is estimated would yield an income of from
seventeen to twenty millions the first year
after its completion, and a million additional
for number of years afterwards? And what
are we to think of great government, like
that of the United States, which cannot, af
ter more than ten years consideration of the
subject, decide to lend its aid towards the
construction Of nobler work than the APP
plan way-one that would hasten the settle-
ment of hundreds of miles of territory now
occupied by savage foes, that would connect
the extremes of an immense confederacy,
add solidity to the central government and
security to States otherwise isolated and re-
mote? What must we think of a Congress
which, instead of striving to strengthen the
bonds of union between kindred sovereign
ties, rather endeavors with tongues of flame
to sunder them, and while thirty millions
of people are watching its proceedings with
painful anxiety, deports itself with the levity
and violence of mob and laughs at one of
its members who drinks two glasses of egg
nog while making a sectional speech and
tips a toast to the women in the gallery?
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

INTERESTING SUiT.-The Sacramento Bee
says young man of that city, having
owed a woman seven dollars on account of
washing since 1857, she was induced to
commence suit for the amount in Justices
Court. The debtor embraced the opportu-
nifty of pleading the statute of limitation,
upon which the woman gladly compromised
the matter by accepting three dollars and
giving receipt in full. Heavy transaction,
that, and shows considerable financial abl-
ity on the part of that lately married young
man.
Query: how could such mean fellow
persuade any woman to marry him?
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

According to the Cleaner, some of the
Jewish Rabbis of this State are in the habit
of granting divorces to applicants of their
own faith, without one having been first
procured from the legal authorities, and
sometimes without one of the parties having
been consulted in the matter! The editor of
the Cleaner very properly condemns this un-
lawful practice.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL CRITICs.-A st. Peters,
burg correspondent says that one of the po.
lice censors lately struck out of manual of
chemistry-by the way, the first book of the
kind printed in Russia-the name of prussic
acid, alleging as his reason for so doing that
it was an insult to the Emperor for so dead
ly and virulent poison to bear the name
of country governed by the uncle of his
Majesty.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

A rumor that an attempt would be made
by the present Legislature to elect another
United States Senator, one year in advance
of the time fixed by law, has been met by
indignant depreciation on the part Of every
respectable newspaper, besides calling forth
a rebuke of such action from Ex-Governor
Weller 1t is not likely the attempt will be
made
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

VIM. Carey Jones writes from New York
to the Alta that he intends to visit this State
forthwith, and give information in regard
to the attitude Of the Federal Government
toward both public and private lands in our
State that will be of interest to every lnhab-
liant of it.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

1t is thought by the P!acerville Obserrf
that much costly law-making could be saved
the State, if Boards of Supervisors were
made to consist Of at least one man from
each township of a county, and were clothed
with such legislative powers as had local
application.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

The San Francisco postmaster having de-
clined to send special boat up river when
the Atlantic steamer mail arrives after the
departure of Saturdays boat, giving as a
reason the we'll known financial difficulties
of the general post office department, citizens
of Sacramento and Marysville are signing
petition for Sunday mail. 1t should be
granted
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

1t is proposed to construct railroad from
Corpus Christi on the Gulf of Mexico, to
Mazatlan on the Pacific, distance of $50
miles, at cost of $l5, 100000, which esti-
mate includes enough running stock for
start 1t is said the road would briug San
Francisco and New York within ten days
travel of each other
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

Two Commissioners, or ambassadors, are
coming fom Japan to the United States, af=
ter all. They will be attended by nearly
fifty lower dignitaries and servants, and will
sail on the Powhattan, February 22d.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

Hon. Ed. Stanley, who was not elected
Governor of California, has quit the legal
bar, it is said, and is to be henceforth an
Episcopalian minister.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

A company has been formed to establish d
line of telegraph from the Missouri river to
Denver City, the capital of the new gold ter=
ritury, at cost of $4,000.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

Assemblyman Curtis, of Sweetland, is one
of the committee On Mines and Mining In
terest. A wise selection, as Mr.. Curtis is an
intelligent, practical miner.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

Only about FIVE hundred passengers left
on the last two steamers. A capital sign
in these low fare times. The treasure ship
ments were also lighter than usual.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

Col. E. D. Baker, who has removed to Or
egon, is talked of there as union candi-
date for Congress by the Republicans and
Anti-LecomptoniteS.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

Hives of honey bees lately sold in Sacra-
mento at prices ranging from ten to thirty
four dollars. A great reduction.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

The French and English expedition to
China will embrace $4,000 men.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

The discovery of valuable coal beds at
Pixies Peak is reported.
The hydraulic press., 1860-01-28

One restaurant in Paris feeds $4,000 peo-
L Ill
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-02-24
; A NJ IE.
BY CORA MAY.

g Father where is our Jamie tonight,
Jamie so bold and gay t
The twilight shadows are falling now,
Why does he stay away
jamie is handsome, and manly too,
And he viii be good and great;
But farther, why Is our darling boy y
A staying away SO late !
+" Our noble boy is child no more,
He has grown to man estate
He has gone eeurting Minnie Gray,
The reason he stays so late;
For the golden hair and eyes Of blue
Have stolen his heart away,
And he goes in the twilight hour
IA wooing sweet Minnie Gray =
. Why does the maiden lure him away,
Now we are growing so old 7
All! aue have shielded him all his life,
Cur love has never grown cold
The maid can neUer love him as We
Eaveloved him all his years,
Who have led him along the path of life,
Sharing his smiles aud tears
- But, Milliesremember long years ago.
When ] was handsome and gay,
And you maiden so fair and sweet
That you stole my heart away,
I had father old and gray,
And a mother kind and true,
Who loved me fondly all my life
But my heart went out to you"
! a blush crept over her withered check
Her eyes shone clear and mild;
No longer she chided the lovely maie
+ For winning away her child,
She thought of the long ago, when sht
/ Stood by her lovers side
In the little church and the man of Coz
Made her happy bride.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-02-24
.rhs proposed Tax on bachelors.

Many an old bachelor was, no doubt,
startled from his 'sreveries," by the
announeement through the. papers to
the world, that a proposition was on
foot in the Legislature of this State to
tax him SO s'for the education Of poor
Children We can imagine the stir
and bustlc that will ensue among the
bachelors ofthis Commonwealth, when
they are fully apprise to the fact that
ii is proposed to tax them $40 each for
the education of children whose pa
teraity whether the originator Of this
proposition is a bachelor or not, but if
he is, his movement against his fellow
sufferersis, no doubt intended as a
stimulus to himself and them for active
matrimonial exertion; andin that view
II is to be commended. But before It
Is terminated to mulcta large and re-
spectacle portion Of our citizens for
their celibaoy, It may be well for the
Legislature to consider whether single
bic ssedness has been the choice of the
| bachelor, or whetherit has been for ced
upon him by necessity. Wise and
iudicious legislation will discriminate
| between case where man is unmar-
/ ried from choice, and where he cannot
/ help it. And the tax. if come it must
| should fall upon the former and not
/ the latter; for it would be a.hard case
i that d man should court his utmost,
| get kicked every time and then be tax
i e5 80 for the education of other peo-
fple's children, when he has shown
]every desire and used wary effort to
transmit to posterity the name Of his
own. We say itwould be hard case
aud in the name and on behalf of the
! frightened and unsuccessful bachelors
Of this State, we protest against it;
| unless widowers, widows, and maid:
are to be included in the measure il
i that case, we do not so much object
esit would be q good rule which work
Cd both ways.
To illustrate afriend ofours is still
. d bachelor after having done grea
deal of hard counting for the las
twenty years. He courts diheren
girl every year. His repeated fail
ares have IN no wise dispirited hin
although his experience has demon
strated to him that success or the war
5f it with the fair sex is not depender
i On the weather. Here then, is q cas-
j where man is bachelor, as Moilere'
|. meek doctor was 9 physician-sn spi
j / ef himself Ito tax such . man 81
/; would be . grievous hardship. There
/ / fore we say that there should be dil
. criminaaion IN the Law. Let the 10
!. provide that the Commissioners Of L
r Revenue in each county, shall repo
for taxation any such bachelors as hal
not made efforts to get married. b
in the name of Cupid, and il REV
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-02-24

all humanity and justice, don't impose
q tax of $40 upon poor fellows who
have been kicked from Dan to Beer
sheba If the Commissioner of the
Revenue shall be unable to. determine
whether a bachelor has made that de-
gree Of matrimonial effort as would ex-
empt him from taxation, let jury be
empanneled at the next county court
to inquire into the fact; and let the
marriageabIe ladies of the bachelors
vicinity be summoned as Witnesses
Thus would justice be attained-fat
iusticta ruat cdsEtm.
We have been apprehensiye all
along that tax like this was coming.
When we have seen propositions to
tax free negroes, oysters and dogs, we
told our bachelor friends that their
time would come next, and warned them
to fee to the ark of matrimony for safe
| ty. Bnt.our admonition has been un-
heededby many, who have never in
their lives breathed or whispered vows
oflove into the ears of listening beauty.
Upon all SUCH we say, let the $40 fall
with all the crushing effect that SO
can haye, And if the eontunlacieus
bachelor does nothing for himself and
his country under a tax Of $40, after
the lapse Of FIVE years let the tax be
/ 500. If after that time he courts the
same girl three times without success,
1let her be taxed $50, and let SO be
added on for every time that she
thereafter discards him. And if ii
contempt of all this legislation mar
! dies without having ever courted any.
bodg, iethis estate escheat to the Com
monwealth. If woman discards fv,
men, let her punished from wearing
new bonnet for two years; if she re
4 jects the sixsh man, stop her from
wearing high-heeied shoes and hoop
/ ed-skirts.
4 Let the suggestions and modifca
!. ltions mode herein be incorporated i
|. the bill to tax bachelors we will go i
for it, Richmond Enquirer,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-02-24
IS he Id s,

rev Orleans Tyrs F'oundrv, Prin-
sers' Furnishing aHd Conhrnission
Paper Warehouse No. 66 GFagier ST.
opposite Bank Place. New Orleans.
Will keep eonssantly on hand q large
And varied assortment Of I'gpe ana
Presses, Card and Pepper Cutters !:
ava. Book and eolored Inks OF all
Ainia Printers Elanks, Gard and
Gard Boards /; EnasnelIed and China
Cards and Gard R0erda News, Book.
Note, Leiless Caps Glazed and other
apers; as alao every article used in
printing essahlishfaeras. All of which
:RilI ho sold nt nlAna las;tuFers9 prices.
8 THl FL. SHIELDS.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-02-24

a i 2 =
n- One Of the resolutions passed
BY the bogus portion q tho amanufac-
tnrers' lately asseas0led IN Meriden,
Conn, wass following, which con
tains The fall measure Of the patriot
ism of Black Republicans generally,
and these regard for the walfare Of the
Union, all in a nutshell:
Resolved, That as manufacturers, We
know no North, mo South, no East, no
West, in TIE sale of orr naerchandiz;e
only the Union bound together in
States BY the ties Of common brother
hood, and cemanted by the blood Of
our fathers
A more shameless avowal of meree
nary objects in suchaa connection VIC
do not recolIect to have seen before
It's declaration to the South, and to ths
entire county, that they are Unior
men only so far as they can make
money by the sale Of their goods and
wares. Richmond Wing.
4 {
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D The ''niggers' who do the ''men-
ial'' work at the Capitalare shrewd
set Of fellows. Tuesday one Of them
was standing by one Of the doors Of the
House looking in at the members
The door-keeper said, Jim. they're
talking about niggers in there. -
s.Well," !" was the response, 'dat's de-
business. I1or bless you If it wan
for de niggers dere wouldn't be no Con
grsss.'