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Year: 1860

Moonlight, since the world began,
has been the food Of love. Cupid dane
es in her silvery rays, and his most an
tic tricks are perpetrated under her
mellowing influence 1t will be 50, phi
losophers say, and it always should be
SO, poets and lovers respond.


A poetic young lady Of our city, one
of the wild, rattle-brained sort, but en-
trely above suspicion, made the ac-
quaintance of young gentleman on the
State Fair ground, and he was smltten.
He asked to visit her, bnt some strange
freak got into the young lady's head
and she declined his visits at her home,
and so arranged as to meat him in the
evenings, and ramble with him by moon
light, often until the small hours APP
preached. What he said or how he
said it, we dom, know, but we presume
he asked to accompany her to her apart
ment, for one Sunday night she took
him to her room, stepped out and turned
the key in the door behind her.


Having performed this exploit she
awokc her father and mother, complain
ed of insults offered and told them how
she lad the libertine under lock and
key. Armed with canes and tongs the
paternal and fraternal burst into the
room, furious and in eager haste to
chastise the intruder. The young
stranger, although fast, is a youth OF
coolness and courage. He started back
in an instant, under the glare of the
light from the lamp and the fire from the
two pair ofeyes, and drew "a revolver,
telling them that if they advanced a step
he would fire every barrel at them
He let them rave on, and the old man
began to see the absurdity of his posi-
ton. Then the young lover told them
to reflect. He was in the young lady S
bed shamber, brought there by herself
Was she not more in his power than he
was in herss His love, he said, was
cooled-indeed il was below freezing
point; and he was willing to let the af-
fair rest just where it was, and that each
party should return to their own quar-
ters, with their arms in their hands. 1t
was agreed that nothing should be said
about it, but, some hints having leaked
out, we have the substance ofthe above
from one of the actors and believe it to
be true. Young ladies should not get
quite so romantic. q e flas 40
Year: 1860

Where are the blossoms of summer r?-In the
West,


Blushng their last to the last sunny hours,
Where the mild Eve by sudden Night is prest
Like fearful Proserpine ,snatch'dfr from her flowers
To most gloomy breast.
Where is the pride Of Summer-the green prime,
The many ,many leaves of all twinkling?--Three
On the mossed Elm: three on the naked lime
Tremblins-and one upon the old oak tree,
Where is the Dryad's Immortality
Gone into mournful cypress nd dark yew,
Or wearing the long gloomy winter through
In the smooth holl, Is green eternity.


Hoop.
Year: 1860

Some women are often excessively
fond of teasing those whom they love.
II is generally the very impassioned in
temperament, or the very cold, who do
50. The latter, whose love is compar-
atively languid, may do it almost con-
stantly; the former, just in the intervals
where the pulse OF love rather intermits
and in this case it seems only to be a
part or form of the general craving for
excitement Of some kind or other.
Year: 1860

A printer is the most curious being
living. He NAV have bank and coins
and not be worth cent-have small
caps, and have neither wife nor children
Others may run fast, but he gets along
swiffest by s,Hing fast. He may be
making impressions without eloquence-
may use the lys without offending, and
be telling the truth; while others can
not stand while they set, he can set
standing, and do both at the same time
have to use furniture, and yet have
no dwelling-may make and put away pi,
and never see pie, much less eat t
during his whole life; be human being
and raj at the same time; may prsss
great deal, and not ask favor; may
handle shooting Iron, and know noth-
ing about cannon, gun or pistol; he
may move the lerer that moves the world
and yet be as far from moving the globe
as hog under a mole hill; spread sheefs
without being a housewife; he may lay
his form on bed, and yet be obliged to
sleep on the floor; he may use the I
without shedding blood, and from thu
earth he may handle ***; he may be Of
rolling disposition, and yet never de-
sire to travel; he may have sleeps
foot, and not be deformed; never be
without case, and know nothing of law
or physic; be always correcting bis err
rors, and be growing worse every day.
have em~-~-' s without ever having the
arms Of a lass thrown around bin; haye
his form locked up, and at the same
time be free from jail, watch house, or
any other confinement: his Office may
have hell in. it, aud not be a bad place;
after all he might be plagued by the
depil, and be Christian ofthe beat kind
and what IS stranger still, be he honest
or dishonest, rich or poor, drunk or So
ber. industrious or lazy, he always
stands up to his business. Olirer- "a q
The richest endowments of the mind
are temperance. produce and fortitude.
Prudence is universal virtue. which
enters into the composition or all tho
rest: and where she 10 not, fortitnde
loses its name and natunre,
Year: 1860

To TA1PAYERs.-Taxpay would do wen
to call at the Shcriffs Office and pay their taxes
before the 4th Monday Of the present month.
On that day, according to law all property de-
unaucnt must be advertised for sale
Year: 1860

TAME FOR TIE CouSrY.-0n the outside
will be found complete table, showing the vote
of each candidate in each precinct and town
chip, and in the county at large. The table has
been carefully gotten up and compared with
the returns in the Office Of the County Clerk,
and may be relied on as correct. We are under
great obligations to J. NJ. Levey, Esq, Deputy
County Clerk, for a copy of the table and for
corrections of the same after it was put in type;
also, to E. F. Spence, Esq, Assemblyman elect


for valuable assistance in making the table ac-
curate 1t will be found valuable for reference.
Year: 1860

BAILEY HousE.-This magnificent New Ilo-
tel opens for the reception of the public on
Monday next. 1t is one Of the most complete
establishments of the kind in the mountains


Its rooms are large and commodious and neat
ly papered, and the whole house is finely ar
ranged giving an air of comfort rarely to be
met with We predict for Nat. Bailey success.
Year: 1860

DEsoHs1RATIoSs.-In addition to the firing
Of cannon on Wednesday, in the evening a
brilliant bonfire was lighted on the top Of Su-
gar Loaf, anyils were fired and long train Of
powder ignited. The Union Brass Band came
out and sercnaded the city from the upper bal
cony of the residence of Squire Williams. The
pubs let off little Of their surcharsed feelings
on the occasion, and well they might.
Year: 1860

A SLIGHT FLooD.-The fumc running through
town got chokcd up on Friday last and dis
CHARGED its abundant waters through several
buildings the west side Of Main street. The
damage of 5000 by the flood to Rosenihal, is
fund on accurate calculation to be somewhere
between six bits and i dollar.
Year: 1860

INTERESTING TO WIvEs.-As general
rule it is most economical to buy the bSo
articles. The price is, of course, alwaD
higher; but good articles spend best. It'd
a sacrifice Of money to buy poor cheeA
lard, etc., to say nothing of the injurious Z
feet upon health.


Of the West India sugar and molasses thO
Santa Cruz and Porto Rico are considersD
the best. The Havana is seldom clean-


White sugar from Brazil is sometimO
very good.


Refined sugar usually contains most of ttO
saccharine substance; there is probably
more economy in using loaf, crushed an
granulated sugars, than We should first SUP
pose.


Butter that is made in September ag
October is the best for winter use. LaD
should be hard and white and that whiA
is taken from hog not over year old 10
best.


Rich cheese feels softer under the pressure
of the finger Tha: which is very strong
is neither very good nor healthy. To keep
one that is cut, tie it up in bag that will
not admit flies, and hang it in cool dry
place. Ifmold appears on it, wipe it of with
a dry cloth.


Flour and meal of all kinds should bs
kept in cool, dry place.


The best rice is large and has clear
fresh look. Old rice sometimes has little
black insects inside the kernels.


The small white sago, called the pearl
sago is the best. The large brown kind has
an earthly taste. This article and tupoca,
ground rice, etc., should be kept covered.


To select nutmegs, prick them with pin.
If they are good, the oil will instantly spread
around the puncture.


Keep coffee by itself, as the odor affects
other articles. Keep tea in close chest or
canister.


Oranges and lemons keep best wrapped
close in soft paper and laid in drawer of
of linen.


The cracked cocoa is best; but that which
is put up in pound papers is often very good.


Soft soap should be kept in dry place in
the cellar, and not be used until three months
old.


TO thaw frozen potatoes. put them in hot
water.


10 thaw frozen apples, put them in cold
water. Neither will keep after being frozen.
--HouSekeepers' Friend.
Year: 1860

After the report had heen read 1'y the Clerk.
the Recorder addressed the grand jury Al fol-
lows:


Gentlemen: can only say that / am under
great obligations to you for the business you
have done, and particularly for lending your
influence as body to track up and bring to
light some part Of the shameful system OF cor
ruption which Is sustained by this city govern
Year: 1860

ing woods, and wreck along the ground


How lightly the spire springs into the
air, as If it would touch the heaven With
its silent finger how gracefully it rcfues
away as it rises, and watch the workman
swinging higher and higher, as it visitly
grows, from day to day, 1or the sound OF
hammers comes family down, like the
tick of a distant clock, and the men
creep like atomies nearer to its point, and
hang like gathcrers Of SAPPHIRE above the
world.


But when time lays his heavy hand
upon that swaying sPire, and It's pure
white is furnished into gray, and the
worms are busy in crumbling timbers,
ana it crashes downward in a cloud Of
dust, and lies an unscemly wreck upon
the earth, and we look upward at the
empty air, that closes silently above Its
fall as if it lad never heen, all grace and
beauty are stricken from the thought
b. f. Taylor.
Year: 1860

-A4<4
There are some hearts that like the loving


vine,


Cling to unkindly rocks and ruined towers
Spirits that suffer and do not pine,


Patient and sweet as lowly trodden flowers
That from the passers heel arise,
And give back odorous breath instead of sichs,
But there are other hearts that will not feel
The lowIy love that haunts their eyes and


ears;


That wound fond faith with anger worse than


steel,


And out of PHYS spring draw idle tears.
y, Nature shall it ever be thy will
In things with good to mingle good and i'll?
Why should the heavy foot Of sorrow press
The willing heart Of uncomplaining love
Meek charity that shriuks rot from distress,
GentleneSs does her tyrants so reproyc.-
Though virtue weep forever and lament,
VIII one hard heart :urn to her and relent?
Why should the reed be broken that will bend.
And they that dry the tears in others eyes
Feel their own anguish swelling without end.
Their summer darkened with the smoke of


sighs2


Sure. Love to some fair Eden of his own
VIII fee at last and leave US here alone.
Love wcepcth always; weepeth for the past,
For woes that are, for woes that may bctide
Why should not hard ambition weep at last,
Envy and hatred, ayarice and pride?
Fate whispers sorrow ever is our lot,
They would be rebeIs-lo rebellcth not
Year: 1860

Think Of the pair Of green leaves that
have come out Of the ground, as they
make their way steadily up through the
rain aad through the sunshine, through
the day and through the darkness, until
they reach the limit OF the law Of oaks,
and the breezes make music in their
branches, when the moon is breathless.


How lightly those ponderous arms
swing out into the middle region of the
air between cloud and cloud; how the
birds flash in and out Of their green re-
cesSes; how the shadows in sunny wealth
er, yibrate east and west, far out from its
base, beet day how the rosy fingers
Of thc Morn are laid in blessing on its
coronal, and its leaves burn with the lin
gering Suns 'good night"


So, like the temple Of God, has It gone
noiselessly y up the stroke Of its great
pulses is never heard more silent in It's
building than the nest the robbins are
making; softer in It's going, than the crys-
tai lapse of the reeGy stream.


And ali the way along it went without
an effort. The stag often rubbed his
antered head against the swaying sapliDg
a little while ago the oak wrestlcs with
the wind to-day, and its arms prevail:


But when that frame begins to be dis
mantled, and Nature to take down the
column she has buiIded, how different is
the order Of its going. She has uuflcd
it with moss ; she has removed one by
one its crcaking branches but she cannot
alleviate its fall; when it comes at last,
there IS q crash. and an ccho in The sound
Year: 1860

WuArA Boy CAN Do.--A boy work.
ed hard all day for quarter of dollar.
With the quarter he bought apples, aud
took them to town and sold them in the
street for dollar. With the dollar he
bought sheep. The sheep brought him
a lamb, and her fleece another dollar,-
With the dollar he bought him another
sheep. The ne&t spring he had two
sheep, two lambs and yearling sheep.
The three hleces he sold for three dolIsrs,
and bought three more sheep. He now
had six with fair prospect. He worked
where he found opportunity, for hay, corn,
and oats, and pasturing for his sheep.
He took the best care Of them and soon
had 4 flock. Their wool enabled him to
buy a pasture for them, and by the time
he was twenty-one he had fair start in
lie, AID all from quarter earned in one
dav.
Year: 1860

BeG~ Our tc'iow-citizen-H. 0. Wheeler.
Esq formerly Superintendent of City
Sehools-has been receiving a Gaming, as
VIII be seen by a communication in another
place The article used in the operation
was an ebony, gold headed cane, and the
persons who did the deed were the CITY
School Teachers. 1t was the kind of q cam
ing that ever person is not lucky enough to
get and that few merit, in return for emf
nent services to the rising generation and
the community generally.
Year: 1860

eeas~We saw handsome specimen of the
Workmanship of Mr.. Am. Connett, broom
maker, yesterday. 1t was floor broom. made
of the freshest and finest of broom-straw.
and put together with great skin Brass
wire was used and woven into the straw so
that the broom was very symmetrical and
hrm. On the part where the ends of the
S'raws were fastened to the handle, certain
words were made to appear by the peculiar
method of weaving the wire and straw to-
gether. This household implement is a very
creditable specimen of Evansville work
manship. Indeed the broom is the finest
we ever have seen. Mr.. c. does business
over the coal Office on Water street. En-
courage home skill and industry.
Year: 1860

Since the fire Of 1855 which ended in the
almost total destruction OF the place, Grass
Valley has gone on with uninterrupted and
Increasing prosperity. All the appliances
for making people better, more sociable,
richer aud happier. have been developed
aud brought 10 bear in a most satisfactory
manner. We have large and line churches
aad they are well attended by people who
have The best Of preaching from our talen-
ted and studious clergy. The increase Of
attendance upon church since is worthy of
notice. II has certainly doubled in the last
three years, with no proportional increase
in population. Besides, the people dress
far better than they did two years ago in
fact, almost everybody is nicely dressed up
OH Sunday, thing entirely practicable in
so rich State as California, where clothes
are so cheap. You see but few persons on
Sunday perambulating the streets habited
in total neglect All this is well man
feels better for being "dressed up now and
then it evidently stimulates self-respect
and as man appears more agreeable in
this state. it contributes somewhat to the
sum OF human happiness. So among other
things, 1t is benevolent to occasionally
I" dress up"


Quite number OF new buildings are in
process Of erection and oShers are contracted
for. DR.. Mccormick has demolished his
temple af cid batchlerdom-now fortunately
useless-and is building a brick cottage.
Every new house that is now built is con-
structed not temporarily. but with an eve
to durability and tue wants of life lime
This is truly an encouraging state oftbings
Year: 1860

zs- A child recently vaccinated by n
travelling psucdo-doctor deEiist. etc. has
lately practised his art on the child Of a
respectable hard working man in this town
named Ellison. causing erys. pelas, subse-
qucnt convulsions and death


The Importance of the agency Of this
treat ment for prevention aud mitigation oi
that terrible scourge to humanity (Small
Poxl cannot be tso strongly urged on
parents and the community generally for
adoption. But the guards to iudiscrimiHatc
use Of vaccine poison are Of so ne
cessary character that IL is the positive
duty Of the Press Of this State to urge the
absolute necessity that this simple operation
should at all events have guarnteed that
the pOison is not only true vaccine but
that is taken from 4 healthy person. and
particular care taken that no hereditary
taint or skin disease exists, 80 as to propo-
gate further and worse disaster than that
which vaccination seeks TO prevent. We
therefore caution the public against indis-
criminate vaccination, either by their own
choice OF parties from whom they accept
poison and vsccinate their own children or
by having themselves or friends vaccinated
by travelling imposters. In Europe this
matter is thought of such Importance as to
be subject OF Government interference.
Physicians of repute make 80 nominal a
charger none at all-that it seems almost
nonsense for persons TO be guilty OF such
stupidity as TO employ any others.
Year: 1860

DEFoRNED CALVES. - We are informed
that gentleman living near this place. en-
gagged in the stock business, has about fifty
calves OF which there are but two or three


that are perfect in their conformation. and
even these are feeble and poor Thi. /,
only an example of the general rule through
out the State where cattle have wintered


with difficulty, from the scarcity OF food.
Meager and defective nutrition is just as
certain to result in imperfectly developed or
monstrous animal life, as stunted or sickly
plants from soil untitled for their production.
Here we learn a great lesson. Obedience
to the ihexorable laws of nature is the price
Of perfection in everything. Proper shell
ter. clothing and feeding reflnes the BODY
and the mind, and exalts the powers Of both.
When VIC study the changes which we know
do occur in animal and yege table lie, as the
result OF circumstances. the most exirava-
giant ideas in relation TO the changes which
our species may undergo-either on the a,-
cending or descending scale-arc not incom
paiible with reason. A refined education
(and the education Of the stomach is equally
important with that OF the brain) will end
in a comparatively refined existence, and
coarse education coarse victuals and coarse
associatops) will most positively produce a
creation Of gross features, and more OF less
obtuse TO perception OF the delicate and
beautiful. 1t is no. at all strange that the
Digger, living upon the dilIuse elements of
acorns, grass. clover and Manzanita berries.
with spriukling of grasshoppers and divers
Insects, as be does, should present ridicu-
lously hideons burlesque on the human phz.
Year: 1860

Wonderful fact! The number Of let
ters in the names Of The Republican candidates
for President and Vice President, is The same in
each. We have this wonderful fact from Re-
publican paper of undoubted vetacity. Won
ders will never cease
Year: 1860

THERE is man down East who has lived so
long on corn bread that his hair has turned TO
silk, like that which grows on the grain, and
his toes are so full OF corns that he expects
TO see :hem covered with htsks the next year.
Year: 1860

The Douglas people intend to get up their
ratification meeting in the same city on Monday
night, and will endeasor 10 put their best foot
foremost. There are few in Maryland, md
what they lack in numbers they intend to make
up IN noise.
Year: 1860




EDITOR JOURNAL: My attention has
been called to the unfairness of the Louis
vile Journal and Courier in their notices
of this new Evansville boat.


In these notices, the fact that this elegant
steamer is mainly an Evansville manufac-
ture, and that she is owned and oficered by
Evansville men, and was built to run as an
Evansville and New Orleans packet-these
facts are not only suppressed, but it is stated
by at least one of the papers named, that
she is a Louisville and New Orleans boat,
and was built at Paducah.


Now we ask for no more than is due US,
for simple justice only; AM while it is true
the hull was built at Padueah, it is equally
true that in all other points Evansville may
claim the boat as the result of her enter
prise and skill. The hull was brought here
and finished and furnished by the skill of
our own mechanics; and surely our Louis
vile neighbors could afford to be generous
enough to give us credit in a case where we
are so fairly entitled to it-more especially
in view of the fact that the fine feet OF
steamers which they own, land which is
an honor to their enterprise), derives much
of its support from the large freights which
Evansville supplies them.


1t is, perhaps, not predicting too much
to say that in ten years Evansville will build
and own as many boats, and have as many
lines of packets, as Louisville. Our ship
ments now bear a favorable comparison
with those of that city, and there is reason
to believe that before many years our ex-
ports will exceed hers despite the great dis
parity now between us in wealth, trade and
manufactures.


When that time comes, we shall not have
to ask for justice. 1t will be granted to MS
without the asking. X.
Year: 1860

THE ELECTION OF SPEAKER IN THE THIRTY
FOURTH CoNGREss.-We should not give up
all hope of the possibility of the House of
Representatives. being able to choose pre-
siding officer Matters have not yet assumed
as dark and threatening an aspect as was
presented in the Thirty-fourth Congress
w1en N. P. Banks was finally elected to
that office. Tt may not be uninteresting to
many to read the first and last vote taken
by the House of Representatives at that
time for the choice Of Speaker. They were
as follows: