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Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

THE THEATER THE announcement that
Bourcicaults great drama of the Octoroon
would be performed last evening drew an
immense audience to the theater. The piece
was strongly cast. The Salem Scuddor of
Mr.. Wheatleigh was no burlesque, but
genuine and perfect representation of the
honest, intelligent and enterplising Yankee
We have not time to speak at length of all
the characters, but we could suggest no i'm
provement in Mr. Buchanan's Wah no-tee,
Miss Buchanan's Zoe, Mrs Saunders Dora
Sunnyside, Mr.. Mayos Jacob McClosky'
or Mr.. Popes Pete. The other characters
were oil well represented Mr. Buchanan
has concluded to stay one more night in
Marysville. lie will take benefit on to-
morrow (Monday) evening, on which
occasion will be presented Bulwer's mas
ter-piecc - Richelieu, with q powerful
cast of characters, the entire company
appearing Mr.. Buchanan's personaion of
Cardinal Richelieu can not be excelled by
any living American actor, not excepting
Forrest. In some passages he is unapproach
able. The play of Richelieu is deservedly
popular We can assure our readers that
they will not often have an opportunity to
see it as well performed as it will be to-mor-
row night
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

The GREAT PAN-TEE-NA-THIc-A WHICH Is
coMING.-We learn from the Stockton papers
that the great Pan tee-na- thec-a, which has
been on exhibition at the Agricultural Pa
vilion' for thepast ten days, gives the utmost
satisfaetion and met the appreciation of all
who visited it, and was perfect success
The large and spacious hall, which was but
recently completed for the late county fair,
being filled to overhowing every evening by
an admiring crowd, of city and country peo-
pie. So hold on to your bits, boys, until
Tuesday evening
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

APPoINTMENTs-Gov Downey has
commissioned the following officers OF the
Pacific Guards Volunteer Company, Second
Brigade, Fourth Division: B F More, Cap
tain; Charles NJ Knapp, First Lieutenant 4;
George W Bradley, Second Brevet Leuten-
ant Also, G c Bush, County Judge Shasta
county; Jno Anderson, County Clerk, shasta
county Thomas 2. llawley, Notary Public
for Nevada county; Eugene Dupre' Notary
Public for San Francisco, and Edward Bur-
rows, Notary Public for Calaveras county.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20
MAR YSVTLLE.
AGENCY NOTICE.

Mr.. Z. p. FISHER is our only authorized Agent at
San Francisco to receive advertisements receipt for
the same, AMI to transact business generally for the
DeNocRAr. ofhcs-No. 171N Washington street
nearly opposite Maguire's Opera House, upstairs.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20


No law should be allowed to remain on the
Statute book that cannot be enforced, nor
should one be passed which does not receive
the sanction of the people. The passage OF
obnoxious laws, and their ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
have II very unhappy effect on the commun',
ty. They teach the people to disregard and
disrespect the laws. The ignoring OF one
law is a step toward disregarding another,
and thus society is gradually brought to
chafe under restraints and anarchy isthreat
ened No matter how well and good law
may be, if it does not coincide with the
wishes of the people, it is folly to pass It, be-
cause in this country the people are the mas
ters and they will not bow to the VIII OF
their rulers unless their own wishes are con-
sulted.-bapress
Does the Express mean to recommend the
repeal of the Fugitive Slave law
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20
The Rnrlesaue school of the Drama.

Mr.. Planche was the pioneef OF the Bur
lesque school, and his sole purpose wus to
devote holiday audiences (chieliy composed
of boys and girls, home for the Christmas and
Easter vacations) with appropriate dramatic
versions of pretty fairy tales His compost
tiuns were rather eXtravaganzas than bur
lesques, and depended for their success more
upon the ramantic interest of the story and
the wit of the dialogue than upon their satire
Mr.. Planchc may claim the merritt merit 1t
be-of having first introduced the pun into
these compositions and it must lie allowed
that he punned with discretion; which Is
certainly more than we can say of his yonn-
ger successors in the craft of joke-maklng.
When Mr.. Planche was at the height OF his
fame as a burlesque writer, these pieces were
brought out only at holiday time, in some
cases as a substitute for the pantomime,
which, in certain quarters was beginning to
be voted low and vulgar 1t sulliced then to
tell the dramatic story in sprinkling rhymes,
slightly sprinkled with puns and illusions to
the events of the day. Ballet, glttcring
fairy scenery. parodies set to popular airs
and red and blue fires, did the rest. The
satire contained in these pieces was of very
harmless kind, and rarely aimed at any game
higher than the Thames Tunnel 9: the Lord
Mayors show.
OF late years, however, places of this class
have asserted much more extended sway
They are now played in season and out cf
season. and at one If not two theatres they
hold the stage all the year round, and consti-
tute the chief attraction. The young school
of burlesque writers follow a method particu-
larly their own, though, of course, they are
largely indebted to the traditions of their
immediate predecessors The chief elements
which enter into the composition of these
pieces are pretty scenery, negro melodies,
"break- down" dances, and outrageous puns
1t is also a necessary condition TO their sue
cess that one or more oaucy actresses, with
good legs should be employed in their per-
tormance. The music and the scenery go for
much, the puns go for more, but the comic
dance goes for most OF all. The literature
which enters into the composition of the
most successful pieces of this descrition is not
by any means to be despised as an intellectu-
al effort The young men who can so indus
triously tortue the English language into
such strange and startling meanings through
a thousand lines of rhyme, evidently possess
an amount of talent and application which
if properly directed, might be Of real service
to letters or, if not to letters, to some indus
trious pursuit.
Tom Hood, who was considered the prince
of punsters in his day could have had no
conception ofthe height to which pun n 'ng
had attained (or, perhaps, We ought the depth
to which punning has fllen) in our time A
pun day would, perhaps have been the ex-
tent of the indulgence which Hood would
have allowed himself; but these burlesque
writers fire them off in volleys and glory in
startling the English language from its pro-
priety.- Cor@hW MagasiAe.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

Too Much OF Coop TMNG.-We under
stand that certain steward of one of our
city hotels is in the habit Of. getting married
in every town in which he stays q sufficient
length of time. evidently considering the
transaction capital joke. He had just be
come nicely domesticated with his better half
in Marysylle, when up comes a previous
" half" from Sacramento, spreading conster-
nation in his little household, and placing
him in dilemma with two exceedingly sharp
horns. Farther developments are expected.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20
JUSTICES BLANKS.

We would call the attention ofJustces of the Pence
to the assortment of Blanks for sale at the DEMOCRAT
office. They are of the latest and most approved
orms, and will be sold at liberal rates.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

TnE TAX LAw-Sec. l3 of the Revenue
Law, 1857, provides that
"On the third Monday in October in each
year the Tax Collector shall, at the close OF
his official business for that day, "a p. N.Y. en-
ter upon the tax list or assessment roll, n
statement that ne has made levy upon all
the property assessed in said roll and upon
which tue taxes have not been paid and
thereafter he shall charge each and every
person an addition of five per cent. upon the
amount Of all taxes to be pnid by such per
sons"
Taxpayers will DO well to give heed to
the above, and ray their taxes before to-
morrow night
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

SAD CAsUALTY-Thomas West was injured
Tuesday, in mining claim, near Downie-
vile, by cave in bank which threw n
large rock on him. lie died the next even
ing. Deceased was a young man, from
Ohio the Democrat says, where he leaves a
wife and children.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

DTcu IMPROVEMENTS We are informed
that the Feather River and Ophir Ditch Cons
pany are making extensive and necessary i'm
provements along their line of ditch-at
point near the dam on Feather river above
Enterprise, tunnel some five hundred feet
in length is to be cut through the point of
hill, materially shortening the length of the
ditch, and doing away entirely with long
stretch of old and dilapidated fume. SINH
lar improvements, we understand, will be
made wherever practicable along the whole
line of the ditch These improvements must
necessarily cost large sums of money, Lut
are rendered necessary from the decayed
condition of many of their fumes, which
have to be eitherrebu or avoided by means
of tunnels or otherwse.-Bat{e Record
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

Police ITEMS w. Mawson was fined $5,
by the Recorder. yesterday, for fast driving
Ann Daugherty, for disturbing the peace
was fined $50, with the alternative of thirty
days in the County Jail. She accepted the
alternative and selected room in the Coun-
ty boarding house Thomas Morris and
Milton Thomson, two dds, were arrested
by the police
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

People VS.. NEwsoM-The Court of Ses-
sions met yesterday for the trial of W. New
som. on charge of mayhem. The case was
called, and defendant appeared in person and
torney Upton and +. Hereford appeared as
counsel for the prosecution. The defendant
filed an affidavit stating that in consequence
of the absence of Thomas Hayes and Patrick
Harris, material witnesses in the case he
could not safely proceed to trial he there
FORE asked for continuance. The case was
thereupon continued until the 22d of Janu-
ary, 1852 Attachments were ordered to is
sue against Thomas Hayes, of San Francisco
county and Patrick Harris, of Butte county,
returnable forthwith-U Union, yesterdaH
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

HIGHWAY RoBBERY.-At San Francisco on
Friday, at o'clock, A. NJ Charles Hanson
alias Russian Charley, knocked down man
named Stone on Pacific street, and robbed
him of Sl4o He was captured. We think
this Hanson once resided in this city.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

A Dlg LuMP-In the Swiftsure claims, at
Newark, Sierra county, one day last week,
n solid nugget was found w!.5a weighed "A
amounting TO about eSoc.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

DENVER. california has fddled for such
men as j. W. Denver to dance about long
enough, and has a right to expect q change in
the programme -Hntte RecorA
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

TIE Pony Express viii be discontinued
upon the completion of the Overland Tele-
graph
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

LADY FRANKLIN.-This lady and her niece
Miss Craycroft, arrived in town yesterday
and took rooms at the Merchants Hotel
They came from Nevada.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

Design OF THE REBELs.-And if this rebel
lion should succeed in destroying the Govern
ment, as pray God it may not, then there
would be established upon its ruins either an
aristocracy or monarchy. The question
submitted to you is not "Shall we stop at
Manassas y but the issue is, you must either
conquer them or they will conquer you. If
they take Washington, do You thiNk they
will stop? No. They will take Baltimore;
and if they take Baltimore they will want
Philadelphia and having Philadelphia. they
will march to New York, until, as their Sec
retary of War said in Montgomery, they will
dictate the terms of their compromise within
the walls of lfanuiel Hall. speak plainly {:
it is their intention to give you military
dictatorship. The same bayonets which de-
stroy the Government will dictate the next.
Instead ofa Constitution, they will give you
swords and bayonets We need not mince
or hesitate in this matter. 70 speak in com
mon parlance, you must either whip them or
they will whip You. They are. many of
them, insolent, proud braggarts, like spoiled
hillren; and badly spoiled at that You
must whip it out of them or they will whip
you,-Andy JohaSon
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

THE LATE CAPTAIN STArLEs-Captain G..
W. Staples, who was recently shot in Port
land, had received a commission as a Com
mander in the United States Navy, and was
about to make his last trip to San Francisco
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

AProINrMENT.-R p. Johnson, formerly
Mayor of Sacramento. has been appointed
Consul at Mazatlan.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20
PEWS TO RENT.

The members and congregation of the Methods
Episcopal Church are hereby notified that the Pews
in said Church will be rented on MONDAY EVENING
October 2lst for the ensuing year All are invited to
be present. oclS-5F
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20
MARRIED.

In Marysvile Oct. 49, by Rev. David Deal, MIR.
Gerratus Reve to Mrs. Anna Heart, both ot Marys-
Vile
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

MILITARY MATTERs.-The following Militia
ry items are from the Union:
The steamer Antelope brought to the city,
yesterday morning, Company a, Second
Regiment of California Cavalry, under COM
mand of Captain L. A. Rowe. This company,
numbering eigAty-fve men, was raised and
organized by the Captain, in Shasta and
Siskiyou counties. They went down to San
Francisco several weeks ago, being at the
time without horses. They are now mounted
on California or half-breed horses and make
a highly creditable appearance They left
the levee at about seven o'clock in the morn
ing, passing through several of our principal
streets. The company proceeded to the north
side OF the American river, where it will re-
main encamped for day or two. lis ex-
pected that they will be joined this morning
by company IL of the same regiment, under
command Of Captain McLane, and proceed
together, when prepared to start, to Fort
Churchill by way of Placerville.
We understand that the regiment of Col
Kellogg is fast increasing its numbers, and by
the close of next week will have between
two and three hundred more than its pres
ent number. About thirty men came down
yesterday from Marysvile, twenty>one of
them for the Marysville Rifles Camp Union
will be busy locality next week
Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-20

ORoyILLE RAILRoAD.-The Butte Record,
after alluding to the extension of the Cal
fornia Central Railroad, from Folsom to Lin
coin, says:
The contractors on the road from this place
to Marysville, are manfesting q determina-
ton to have the ears running between the
two places at the earliest possible moment.
The timber for trestle work, culver and
bridges lie nearly all delivered along the line,
and will very soon be ready to receive the
ties and iron.
1t will require but very short time to
complete the grading from the Wallace
Ranch Hill into town, when the ground be-
comes softened by the Fall rains We deem
it safe to predict that within year, this and
the Central road will be completed, when we
shall be in communication with Sacramento
10y continuous line of railroad
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DOLLAR Misunderstanding of the
stores established in many cities of the
United States, where purchasers of jewelry
can have their "choice for one dollar" the
Chicago Journal says:
The principal composition used in the
manufacture of the jewelry is termed Ore.
ide, and is simply an excellent quality Of
brass. 1t is the most positive imitation OF
gold that has ever been discovered wears
like it, not discoloriug anything it touches,
as common brass or copper will; it may be
engraved or chased, being the same all the
way through ; it is much softer and more
readily fused than gold, however, and its
value may be imagined when We say that a
dozen finely chased spoons Of this metal can
be bought for $3.50, with profit to the
retailer, even at that price, of over thirty.
three per cent.
Of this metal, the New York Scientific
american, most excellent authority, says
Oreide of gold, of which so many cheap
articles of jewelrS are now made, is simply
a very beautiful brass, without single
grain of gold in its composition.
The costliest part of the oreide operation
is the molds and forms ia which the jewel
ry is shaped and cut. We're they obliged
to have these molds made expressly at each
change of fashion, it would materially re-
duce the profits; but they avoid tbis diff
Guilty by purchasing the molds in which
Jewellers have made the real gold jewelry,
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and thus also obtain the latest patterns =
Probably the most expepsive.lcoking piece
of this jewelry does not cost for the metal,
uolding, putting together and making up,
forty cents. -

TERRIBLE TYPOGRAPHICAL ANATHE-
MAs.-A young lady sends US the follow.
ing, with the request that we give it a promi'
nent place in this paper. She acknowledges
that it is not original, but clipped from a
favorite journal. This, however, does not
impair its force, nor will it relieve the con.
sciences Of those who fail to pay the prin.
ter. It reads: ,-zs5
s'THE MAN WHO WON'T PAY THE PR1N-
TER.-May he be shod with lightning, and
compelled to wander over gunpowder, and
have sore eyes and chesnut burr for an
eye.stone. May every day of his life be
more despotic than the Dey Of Algiers:-
May be never be permitted to kissa pretty
woman, even though he be already married
to one. May he be bored to death by board
ing-sohool misses, practicing their first les
sons in music, without the privilege Of see
ing his tormentors. May his boots leak,
bis gun hang fire, and his ishinglines break.
May his coffee be sweetened with flies and
his tea-cup seasoned with spiders. May
his cattle die of murrain and the pigs de-
stroy his garden. May a. troop of printers
devils, lean, lank andshuugry, dog his heels
each day, and regiment of eats caterwaul
under his window each night. May the
famine.stricken ghost of an editors baby
haunt his slumbers and hiss ssrobber,,,in
his dreaming ear. May his COWS give sour
milk and his churn rancid butter. May his
business go to ruin, his children disoWn him,
and his dogs refuse to bite. -s, So
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The Goldsboro, N. G. Convention.

The following are the resolutions adopted
at the Convention recently held in Colds
boro:
Resolved, That the interest as we'll as the
honor of North Carolina naturally and i'm
peratively demand that her political connec-
tions hereafter should be with her sister
States IF the South and not with the States
of the North, opposed to her as they are in
social institutions, and in pecuniary inter.
ests, and enemies as they have shown them
selves to be in both relations.
Resolved, That we respectfully recon-
mend the formation of an organization
whose object it shall be to disseminate the
facts and present the arguments bearing
upon this issue to the people Of every Coun'
ty in the State of North Carolina, which
organization shall be called the Southern
Rights party of North Carolina, believing
that when the facts prior as we'll as subse-
quent to the day of election, (2Sth Februa-
ry, 1861, } are fully understood, the citizens
of North Corolina will reconsider their &C.
ton and demand from their servants, the
Governor and General Assembly, an oppor-
tunity to so express their wishes through
the ballot-box.
Resozved, That for the purpose Of dis
seminating these facts, and presenting the
arguments deducible therefrom, We suggest,
first, that the President of this meeting ap.
point State Executive Committee of two
from each Congressional District, whose
duty it shall be to adopt all honorable and
proper means for carrying out the objects
and defending the principles of the South.
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CONSERVATIVE REACTION IN THE
NORTH. The New York Tribune gives
the following particulars Of the conseryar
tive reaction in the North:
"But our town elections have just been
held 10 38 Of our 60 counties, aud the ag-
gregate result is, 529 Republican superyls
sors to 215 of all sorts-a larger portion OF
Republicans than were ever before chosen.
Yet, in the face of this unmistakeable de.
moustration, and of the kindred response
of New Hampshire, which has just elected
a Republican Governor, Legislature and full
delegation to Congress, by round 4, ,ooo
majority-more than the average Republl-
can majority at all-her State elections since
the Republican party was organized there
MIR. John Cochrane, the cast-of servant
of cast.oA and utterly used up party, as
sumes to re.assure Virginia, in the name
and behalf of the State of New York -
Could imposture be more impudent Ws
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The FRENCH MODE OF GRATING
The French are practicing new method OF
grating, knowledge Of which may prove
valuable to American horticulturalisss, in
asmuch as it can be performed at any sea-
son of the year, when the sound matured
buds can be had, whether the sap is in a
flowing state or not. 1t is performed by re-
moving a small piece Of bark and wood,
leaving smooth and fat surface, to which
a similar piece containing the bud, which
is to form the future tree, is fitted, which
is sealed over Immediately with oollodlon.
This forms strange impervious cutlcle,
which secures free circulation of the sap
on the approach Of warm weather and per-
feet union Of the parta. .-a
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Ex-Secretary Floyd.

The Atlanta (Ga) Southern ConJedera-
cy of the 10th instant, in an article review.
ing Ex-Secretary Floyd's defence, takes
occasion to pay the following tribute to that
gentleman: .
"But for the forest ght and 6rmness and
patriotic providence of John B. Floyd, in
what stress and peril would the cotton
States be foundering this day.! He saw
the inevitable doom of the Union, or the
doom of his OVID people. For many months
past, from his s*and- point, he had an expand
ed field of v.ssion, which enabled him to see
the great danger which threatened US, but
which was hid below the horizon from the
eyes of most of us. When his faithful 10y.
atty to his own prosecuted people began its
labors in our defence, in what condition
was the Southern States The North had
the heavy guns, the light arms, the powder
and ball, just as the North had everything
else that belonged to the common Govern.
ment How quietly were men shifted from
our soil who might have been here today to
murder US at Abraham Lincoln's order
How slender the garrison became in South.
ern forts, which were made for US and be.
long t, nobody else, but which savage ene'
my now chafes and RACES to get possession
of! Who sent $1,000 stand of arms to
Georgia? How came 10000 more prime
death. dealing rifles at jackson, Mississippi
And, in short, why have we anything at all
in the South to mail the strong hands of the
South with at this hour, when every heart
and head and arm of her children are need.
ed in her defence? Truth demands it Of
US to declare that we owe to John B. Floyd
an eternal tribute of gratitude for all this.
Had he been less the patriot than be was,
we might now have been disarmed, and at
the mercy of a nation of cut-throats and
nlunderers."
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ern Rights voters cf North Carolina.

ResolOed, That we respectfully recon-
mend to the Southern Rights citizens of
each County in the State to form, at the
earliest practicable time, County organiza.
tious, whose proper executive officers shall
correspond with the Southern Rights State
Executive Committee.
Resolved, That the forts of the Federal
Government, on the soil of North Carolina,
were intended to defend and protect, and
not to menace aud subjugate her citizens,
and that any additional force, placed in
such forts, not simply without the request,
but against the wishes of the people and of
the State, must be regarded as menace,
and as preliminary step to subjugation,
which, as North Carolinians, we must not
only denounce, but in the last resort resist
at all hazards.