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On Thursday night, after Mr.. Fox had presented
the testimonial to Mr.. Cowdery, Mr.. Tyler
called the attention of the Speaker to the
fact that the Pages desired to present something,
whereupon Mr. Wm. Fl. Carlson, one Of the Pages.
came forward and presented the Speaker with a
splendid ebony gold headed cane with the following
neat and appropriate ad ress: q Mr.. Speaker: The
time has arrived when we must part, perhaps
never to meet again. The Pages of this Assembly,
desirous OF expressing the high esteem aud regard
which we feel toward you, present you With this
testimonial The tear that dims the parting no ir
mostens tie cheek, and all seem sad, but
the thought of once more seeing home,
sweet home, and the smiling eountenances
Of friends dear to us makes the heart throb with
joy, and disperses all feeling OF melancholy. By ap-
point ng us to this position you have conferred an
honor upon us which all recognize. Our mis-
takes ave been manifold, but you have ALWAYS
overlooked them, and often through your kind
words and pleasant smile caused peace to sit en-
| throned where erstwhile dscord reigned supreme.
We have tried hard to perform our duties properly,
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TO LET OR FOR SALE.

Advertisements of five lines in this department are
inserted for % cents for time three times for 80
cents rs cents per week
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THE DAILY RECORD UNION.

Entered a,the Post Sacramento as second class
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SACRAMENTO, April 16, 1850.
The Assembly met pursuant to adjournment,
Speaker Cowderv in the chair.
Roll called and quorum present.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
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AFTERNOON SESSION.

message was received from the Senate ann
ing that the Senate had adopted the report
Conference Committee on the Appropriation bi
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mI ohSItu 'hc ioiONiiiS
WHEREAS, The lights which should illuminate the
steps, Discerning from legislative eminence to
plebian obscurity, have not been kept burning at
the time when could discover their illuminating
power; and whereas, several hundred pounds OF
legislative ponderosity has been wrecked thereon
owing to the darkness of those lights, and whereas
| was one of the unfortunates who wasted their
sweetness on the desert air, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the lights which have had the par
ties in charge be reprimanded and discharged down
the steps.
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NordenskioId.s Reception.

CoPENHAGEN, April 16th.-The steamer
Vega has arrived with Professor Nordensk-
jold on board. Arrangements are making to
give the Professor brilliant reception. A
banquet will be given tomorrow by the Dan
ish Geographical Society, and Nordenskiold
will dine with the King ON Sunday
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A Ten.Aere " e.

Yesterday Solomon GlasI, colortd man
whose experience in agricultural pursuits
has enlightened his neighborhood, came to
town with view OF getting divorce from
his wife. When asked upon what grounds
he replied
"Sufficient is de grounds Of dis occasion.
When ] rented ten acres and worked one
mule married oman suitable for de oc.
casion. Now l rent 60 acres of lam and
work five mules. My fust wife is mighty
good ten-acre wife, but she don't suit de
occasion OBJ 90 acres. needs 'oman
what can spread more"
When told by lawyer that the grounds
were not sufficient, he remarked:
81 kin produce de histry to show woar
I'm careck. rs learned man an can
read clar arouud' de majority of colored
gentlemen an great many white feliers
De reasons belong ter de French history,
an, though l doesn't speak French. | talks
about it. You know Napoleon fnst mar
ried Josephine de Beauharia."
eyes," said the lawyer, "but you may
become trfle too historically opulcns i
you proceed much farther."
"Dat's all right. An you know da'
when he got to de head oh de gubernment
an had charge OBJ all de commisseries, hs
wanted wife what would spread more, an
he got dispeusation from Josephine and
hitched onto Maria Louisa, case she coult
spread more. Dar's de history an dai's d'
prscedent, an ef man can't get dispen
sation on desc groun's, whar's yer court
houses, and whar's yer Law ?"-Arkansa
Gazette.
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The aALlowS IN 1879.
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE MEN HANGED
sEvENTY-FoUR LYNcHED.

The hangman's record for the past year
shows that iO1 men expiated their crimes on
the gallo ~s, an increase Of five over that for
the preceding year. Not woman We
hanged, the only one sentenced to death
having been coumuted. Two men suffer
ed ths death penalty by shooting, one 10
Utah and one in Texas, the laws giving
them the choice Of death, either on the
soaffold or by the bullet. Eight were hung
for wife murder, for outrage, for bur-
glary, for fratricide, for infanticide, 1
for killing his stepdaughter, and another
for numbering his son. There were eight
double and triple hsugings. Four per-
sons cheated the gallows by commitsing su-
icide before the day of execution.
Even "a men were hanged in the South
ern States, majority OF them being ne.
groes. Fifty-five whites were hanged, 81
negroes, Indians and Chinamap. Fri
day still maintains its reputation a. Hang.
mans Day, having 70 executions; Thurs
day comes next with 13; Wednesday, s
Tuesday, O.; Saturday, 4; Monday,2.
In addition to the above "a men wers
lynchad by mobs in the following State,
and Territories
Colorado, 0; Kentucky, 8; California, 8
Louisiana, 5; Texas, 8; Tennessee,5; Geor
gia, 4; Mississippi, 4; Dakota, g.; Nebras
ka, 2; Wyoming, 2; Illinois, 2; New Mexi
co, 2; West Virginia, Q; Arizona, 2; Mis-
souri,, 2; Minnesota, 2; Alabama, 2; Iowa
1; Ohio, 1; Maryland, 1; Indiana, 1; Kan
sas, /; South Carolina, 4; Montana, 1.()
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MSS STAFFORD. THE PATRIOT.
THE END OF LIFE THAT HAS BEEN ONE
LONG ApoRAT'oN OF UNCLE SAM.
PhilnlelnhIn n, ,mes. Iannnly 8 lh.

Philadelphia Times, Januaty S,b
Miss Sarah Smith s ffjrd. the patriot
aud philanthropist, died at Trenton ON
Tuesday night at an advanced age. Her
life was remarkable for its entire devotion
TO tue republic, TO the memory Of her be-
roic father and to relics of the War of In
dependence. Lieutenant jones Bayard
Stafford her father was with Captain Paul
Jones on the 23d OF September, l776. and
in the white heat OF the memorable battle
between he Ssraphis and the Bon Homme
Richard leaped into the sea, seized the nag
that had been shot away aud planted It
once more at the masthead. This was but
one OF the brave deeds Of the lieutenant,
who served in the .fmefican navy FOR eight
yeais, dying at last from the elect of
wounds received iu battle. From her
childhood Miss Stafford wis. SO to say, clad
in a petticoat Of red, white aud blue, and
she wore her patriotism with the pride OF
sincerity. She assailed the ears of the ear
ler statesmen at Washington with her
claims for outlays made by her mother TO
help along the revolution. aud she got the
money, too, John Quincy Adams after
wards President, Sam Houston aud Others
of the old day finding themselves spell
bound by the eloquence of ancestral acts.
When the great rebellion came about Mss
Stafford did not 90 because she did not
wear trowsers, but did what was better
turned over her fortune of $l5, 900 in gold
for the defense of the Union. Many were
the trials Of the dear old lady, for few
years ago she was robbed Of about $l5, 600,
and left SO penniless that she asked Con-
gress to give her pension. Both Senate
and House passed a bill for her relief with
such a whlrlwind of cheers as was never
before heard in the Chambers. Miss Staf-
ford was the custodian Of many valuable
relics of the revolution, "a well as the only
person of her sex who has been bonored
with a membership in the New Jersey His
torical Society. Her chief pride and glory
was that she owned the first star spangled
banuer ever made IN this country. The
flag is the same that her father saved from
the Bon Homme Richard. 1t contains only
twelve stars, because at the time OF the
battle only twelve OF the colonies had rat
ified the articles Of confederation. Among
others relics is the sabre with which Paul
Jones hewed his way to victory on the de OK
of the famous cruiser.
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The Triumph O. Chill.
N. U. Tribune.

We
The arrival of the President of Peru in
this city preceded only few hours the an
Rouncement by cable that the President OF
Bolivia had been deposed. These two sig.
nigcant facts compress into single SEN
tence the whole story Of the triumph Of the
GILLIAN Repubii: over the Allies. Presi-
dent Brude is naturally supposed to have
fed from the popular Indignation at Lima,
which has eliminated since his departure
in revolution and the installation OF Pier
ola as Dictator. The isiue Of the war is
in sing alar contrast to its beginning. All
the first successes were with the Allies, but
the rapid and brilliant victories Of the Chill
,, ians which followed were thus made all the
more striking. The Allied navy was swept
from the seas by the superior Chillian fleet,
and overwhelming victories on land follow
ed this triumph on the sea. The Allies
uuarreled. The Peruvians had been drawn
into war only by a secret treaty of alliance
which had been made some years before
with Bolivia, but once involved in 1t, found
themselves compelled to bear the burdens
of the conflict. The Bolivian troops took
keener interest in home politics than the
preservation of the National honor on the
field of battle, and at last accounts many
of them had started for home with the
avowed object of deposing the President.
That heroic purpose has now been accom-
plished.
The triumph of Chill could not have
been more decisively marked than by these
events. It is due to those elements Of Ma
tional character which cause Chill to ap-
proach the North American ideal of re-
public more closely than any Of her sister
countries. Good credit and good curren-
cy make strong sinews Of war; and intelli.
gence aud public virtue have aided in this
signal victory over two countries which are
honeycombed with corruption, aud sunk
deep iu ignorance and sloth.
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Hcrsesnoes.

The horseshoe was of old held to be of
special vice as security against the at
tacks of evil splits. The virtue may have
been assigned, perhaps, by the rule Of con-
traries, from it being thing incompatible
with the clovsn foot Of the evil one, or
from the rude resemblance which the horse
shoe bears to the rays Of glory, which In
ancient pictures are made to surround the
heads Of saints and angels !; or, rinally,
from some notion of its purity acquired
through passing the fire. This latter sup
position receives some countenance from
the method resor.ed to for the cure Of
horses that had become vicious or afflicted
by any distemper that the village farriery
did not understand such disease was in
variably attributed to witchcraft, and the
mode OF cure seems TO imply the belief that
the imperfect publication by fire Of the
shoes which the animal wore had afforded
an inlet to malevolent infiuen es. Accord
ingly tho horse was led into the smithy,
the door closed and barred, the shoes were
taken of and placed in the fire. and the
witch or warlock was speedily under the
necessity Of removing the spell under which
the animal suffered. Sailors
are, for the most part, careful to have .
horseshoe nailed - the mizzeumast or
somewhere on deck near midships, for the
protection Of the vessel. The Chinese
have their tombs built in the shape of tho
horseshoe, which custom is very curious,
as it may be fairly regarded as branch OF
the superstition long prevalent among our
selves.
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Opium and sobriety.
Popular Science Monthly.

1t is asserted by DR.. Moffat that one re-
suit of the early closing Of public houses in
England is an increased consumption of
opium and !audanum. 1t would be an in
teresting subject Of inquiry to ascertain
what Is the exact ratio between the decline
Of "intemperance and the growth Of OPT
um consumption. DR.. Moffat In 1874 first
became impressed with the belief that the
consumption OF opium was moro general
among the working classes than was COM
monty supposed, and set to " ork to ascer-
tain the truth. The druggist Of certain
mining village informed him that since the
public houses were closed at 10 p. m. his
sales Of laudanum have increased from o
very small quantity to two quarts per week.
s;nilar reports were received from drug
gists In other mining villages. Nor Ii it
only in opium and chloral hydraie that the
consumption ID increased. There are many
scporifics and stimulants taken in place Of
beer. viz: absinthe, cologne water, tincture
Of rhubarb. nixtars Of opium and chloro-
form, chlorodyns and the ethers. In Irc-
land there has been great increase In tho
quantity Of sulphurio ether consumed since
the public houses in that country were
closed on Sundays.
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A J. H;s Hen
The hour was late, the gas was low;
When there came knock on the street below.

The hour was late, the gas was low:
When there came a knock on the street below.
was ou Layfayetts street, and the good
citizen put his head out Of the window and
asked:
"Who ish dot somepody pounding away
on my door?"
"C-come d.down, feller citizen; come
d-down " was the thick reply.
$50 avbay or calls some bolices on
you p
"I'n n-never do i-it," was the firm re-
DIV, and the unknown citizen pounded
away on the door until the good citizen de-
scended and opened it and cried out:
"I have some goot minds to hit you NIT
q Club What is your peezeness all arount
here ?"
Then, in accents soft and low, and high
and thin, and thick and muddy, the un-
known said he had lost his hen and had
| reasons to believe she was concealed in that
house. A fight was raging on the doorstep
when an officer arrived.
"Prisener, did you lose hen ?" asked
the court as the witness finished.
"Well, it was either hen or a dog or an
overcoat," was the hesitatiDg reply.
Have you aoy mouey?'
"Not nickel. I couldn't pay the fu-
neral expenses of canary bird"
"Do you know where you'll eat your
Christmas dinner?
al don't care much If they have fried
chicken"
perhaps they will have. You 60 up
for thirty days. Sit down on the bench
and make room for the next"
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Eunors the Bench
Albany Law Journal.

This is, substantially, the Sapling
Story: Judge Marshall was peculiarly
great in his faculty Of mental abstraction.
Riding along in his sullty, the vehicle came
to full stop by the wheels ruoninz be-
tween two saphngs. The Caief. .undisturb-
ed, retained his snlkv seat iu the broiling
sun until an old negro who happened to
know him. came along and aroused him
from his reve,y with familiar" Hi Mass
Marshall, what's the matter ?"
Marshall, G. j." Well. uncle, seem TO
be stuck fast here--can't you get an ak and
cut down one of these saplings! | sup
pose can't pull through"
"Certainly, Mass Marshall, certainly
but, Mass Marshall, wha' for you no just
back your sulky ont ?"
The Chief Justice reversed his judgment
and wheels, anticipating the Fifteenth
amendment and admitting the negro to
practice AZ dnaicns curf0.
The story OF rbe thief Hogg, who i'm.
plored mercy from Lord Bacon on the
ground OF kinship, and received the an.
swer, "You win not be bacon until you
have been hung" OF course should not be
attributed to Lord Francis Bacon, but tc
Lord Nicholas Bacon, The father of Francis,
who was judg~ 10 The time of Queen
Elizabeth. You may find an amusing
passage in the proceedings Of the famous
| trial OF the Seven Bishops, worth motto
Ing. The several justices OF the Kings
| Bench had summed up the evidence, the
| jury were about 70 retire, and tho follow
ing colloquy took place
Lord Chief Justice Gentlemen OF the
jury, have you mind to drink before you
gor'
July" Yes, my lord, II you plsase."
! Wine wss sent for the jury.
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.
Dem what eats kin say grace.--Psan.

Dem what eats kin say grace.-Planta-
tion Prorer5.
It Is not the iron which has entered into
the soul Of Republican Maine; it Is the
Democratic steal.
Mr.. Edison could find profitable outlet
for his genus by inventing an unimpeach-
able election return.
The Yonkers Gazette says there's no ne
cessity of mans calling his wife Misery
because she loves company.
"Rsvolutionists, said Dumas, "are q
good deal like the street sprinklers--they
can make it muddy in sunshine, but they
can't make sunshine when it is muddy"
The Picayuns traces resemblance be-
tween boys meustache, toyed with by
the gentle zephyr, and the mighty oak, up
rooted by the tornado. Both, it says, are
blown down.
They call it a romantic marriage in
Michigan when q couple of neighbors get
the brides father into back room and
sit on him to prevent his inter- upting and
breaking up the wedding.
The Prince of Wales income will be re-
duced about 500, this year by the hard
times. The family will still keep two girls
and occasionally hire a man to chop wood
and keep the sidewalks clear Of snow.
There Is a my ,tscious disappearance.
Man in lower berth of sleeping-car bound
for Washington. David Davis in berth
above him. Grand crash. Nothing left
but part of paper collar and BUTTON
Elmira Press.
Western physicians take the lead. One
of these learned parties of Selma, Kan,
on being called to prescribe for man
who had been severely cut while engaged
in melee, &C cuce, in a most scientific
manner, began to probe for the kn' n'fe.-
Constitution.
The boy who doesn't leap over seven
hitcbing posts. kick lame dog, snatch
haudful of navy beans in front Of every
grocery stole knock over box or two,
and work the handle Of every pump on
the sidewalk on his way from school, Ia
either lazy or don't feel we'll.
Merchs nt Qoq. y" Wsel, Dona", that's
been awful times for sheep"
Douald-"Nae only for them, but ach!
a things gaen to thae devil a. noo."
Merchsnt-"Sosh, man, IL that the way
OF, be need till extern his premises.
Fun.
The following colloquy occurred on uppe
Main street. Small boy to Governor Gar
celon-Did ye hear that boy had falle'
into a we'll so feet deep, Doctor ?" Garce
lop-No; and how did they get him out
Small boy -Seut word to the Governor ant
Council to count him out.--Le,oiston Jour
nal.
A scholar in county school was asket
"How do you parse Mary MIXED the cow9'
The last word was disposed Of as follows
"Cow, a noun, feminine gender. third pei
son and lands for Macy" ''Stauds TO
Mary How do you make that outs" "Bs
cause" added the intelligent pupil, eff th
COW didn't stand for Mary, he " could sh
milk her?''
When country lad first comes to th
city he uses the very profane expressio
"Gaul darn it s" with reckless ease. A
the refinement of mstropolitanism begin
to take hold of his speech he mildly say
"By durn," and when he reaches the la,
ender trowsers, dra6 overcoat and eye-glas
state of culture he twicls his little wisp {
a cane in bis fiugeis and murmurs, "Ah
dem it r'-Neao Hduen Register.
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1as Island oi Cyprus.

The island OF Cyprus 10 NO longer tho
object OF interest 1t Was to the English.
The large army OF 10000 mon sent TO oo-
oupy Il In the drst instance has now
dwindlsd to 800, and ths ANAL army OF
shopkeepers. speculators and merchants
Who expected to find m Eldorado, have all
left or died Of fever. Tho Asia Minor
steam Company has booked only 40 first
cla.s ps.ssrgsrs to Cyprus during the last
ak monshs. II IL doubtful, even, u naval
hsrbor wers constructed 81 Fanagnsts, Il
Il could BE- msde available, on account q
the mslaiious fevsn which infest tAaf
place. Unless Cyprus can BE- converted -
20 ) naval station. II win b useless Pc
session 70 tho British Government. tn
dsstructiou of tho mountain forests, To
neglect of the squeduots. and the want Of
sanitary precautions during tho Turkish
ruls, has blightsd tho fertility and health q
IN islssd which 10 sncisnt times Wa -
nswnsd fcr - prodoctivsnsss and sa1n-
bEity.
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A Portrait Of the Cha mig Woman.
From the London Queer

We must not confound the charming
woman with the fascinating woman. The
charming woman Is not deep nature, not
always patient and not, as rule, q good
family woman. She must have little
vanity to sustain her through the necessary
schooling, but she has pruned the egotism
that makes woman utterly unfit for soci-
ETY.. She is naturally Of quick sympathies,
and has an amazing power Of withstanding
ennui. She has the genius Of making the
best of everything and Of everybody, and
would put tho world in got temper with
itself. She has a good deal of good pature
and consideration for others and a talent
for investig ,tipg trifles with attractive
forms, like q skillful cuisinere who can
make soubs out of any small materials.
The term may be most applicable to an
accomplished hostess. She has an excel
lent tact, toning into harmony the sympa-
thies and aptipalhies Of those around her.
She need not necessarily be gifted, but she
lends herself to the gifts of others-by
turps elicits or suppresses them and car
keep table in perfect tune. She car
deftly turn a subject that Is dis agreeable
aud lead up 10 subject that can crafty
She has the eyes of Aig's watching ovel
ber guests comfort yet always appears al
ease. She loves to make the conversation
ripple, she knows how to make much Of thu
brighter nothings that are said, aud she OK
cells in the art of kindly taking down Z
bore. She neye' offends in taste and holdl
it as the greatest sin to hurt the feelings
She never drives one into q corner, neye
asks direct question, never pays direct
compliment; she has delightful fashion
of insinuatisg that she Is pleased and in
terested, aud always displays genial ap
probation Of her kind.
She never loses her individuality /; nevei
merges into that of the man she loves Sh'
is never subdued or humbled by her affec
tions, but sways her sceptre with grac'
and compels obedience to her rule. One o
her most potent spells is that she ignore
the possibility of her will not being law
She keeps up the fiction with all her ener
gy that the world is the happiest place ant
her house paradise.
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MY CIGARETTE.

MY cigarette! The amulet
That charms afar Gnlest and sorrow;
The magic wand that, fair beyond
To-day, can conjure up tomorrow,
Like loves dcsue, thy crown of fire
So softly with the twilight bleeding,
And ah mesecms, poets dreams
Are In thy wreaths of smoke ascending.
My cigarette. Can forget
How Kate and l. in sunny weather,
Sat In the shade the elm trees made
And rolled the fragrant weed together
!, at her side, beatiaed,
To h9ld and guide her fingers willing,
She, rolling slow the PAPERS snow,
Putting ms heart Ia with the filling.
My cigarettcl / see hery yet
The white smoke from her red lips curling,
Her dreaming eyes, her soft replies.
Her gentle smiles, her laughter pnrling
All, dainty ioll, whose par Iing coul
Ebbs out IN msny n snowy billow,
I, too, would burn VI might earn
Upon her lips so sweet pillow.
All, cigarette The gay coquete
Has long forgot the flames she lighted,
And you and unthnking by
Alike are thrown, alike ale slighted.
The dal kness gathers fast without,
raindrop on my window splashes;
Ny cignette and he-rt are out
And naught II let me but their ashes.
-RU card Crimson