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Year: 1860

FRoM CLEVELAND TO NEW YORK.-CHARLEs
F. BRowN, the original and genuine Artemus
Ward, who for three years has given spice,
life and celebrity to the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, has dissolved his connection with
that paper and is about to remove to New
York, where he will write exclusively for
Vanity Fair, the Punch of America. We
cannot let him go without a slight, but
hearty recognition of kindly feelings for him,
expressed, not simply for Ourself, but in be-
half Of the people of Cleveland who have
known him. as genial companion, kind
hearted citizen, and dashing, humorous
writer. His "letters" have been read and
laughed over far and wide, and will now be
still more widely circulated.


CHARLIE, we are sorry to say goodbye, but
we know you won't forget Cleveland, and you
wont be above your old friends. You will
live,as you have lived in Cleveland upon the
injunction of your own Artemus, "If you
would be yirtuous, be happy and in so
doing, you will win and keep lots of friends.
We shall miss you here upon the repOrtorial
and editorial staff, but you will have a
pleasanter berth than life upon a daily news
paper will ever afford. You have worked
your way high up the slippery side-hill Of
success go on and reach higher point,
and then when you can stop and take q
pleasant backward view over the valley Of
mediOcrity, and rest awhile in one Of the
arbors prepared for the delectation of those
who have toiled we'll and fought bravely
none will be more ready to take you by the
hand and cry you good speed than those
who have known you here and the "we' who
writes these line.
Year: 1860

CHILD MURDER.-On Saturday last young
man named Hallowel, saw bundle wrap
ped up in a newspaper lying part way down
the bank at the foot Of Erie street, but paid
no special attention to the fact. Yesterday
morning, seeing the package still there, he
was curious enough to go down to it and un-
roll it. Under the newspaper he found q
piece of cotton cloth, under which was a
dead infant He gave the alarm, and the
Coroner was sent for. He examined the
child and found it male child born three
months before maturity. 1t had apparently
lain on the ground for several days. The
cloth appeared to be part Of a wOman's
skirt. No inquest was held, it being evident
that the child had been left there by its
mother or al accomplice. No clue was OBJ
tanned as to the parties implicated in the
deed.
Year: 1860

BIBLE PASoRAMA.-The price of admission
to the last exhibitions of this great painting
it will be seen by the advertisement in an
other column-has been put down very low,
so that those who have not yet seen it can do
so at very small cost. Those who wish to
see it will have to do so at once, as the ex-
hibition viii positively close on Tuesday
night, November 18th. There viii be ex-
hibitions also this and tomorrow after
moons, at o'clock, and also tonight.
Year: 1860

GS-The finder Of q black lined kid glove,
almost new, that was lost in the Leader hall
or very near to it, on Superior street, on Fri
day evening, will oblige by leaving it at the
Leader Counting Room.
Year: 1860

SIXTH WARD observation-disclosures
There will be a drill at the Wigwam Mon
day evening next. All who design taking
part in the coming parade are requested to
be present. By order of CoMMAEDAYT.
Year: 1860

ILLUMINATE.-The city should be illumi-
mated from top to bottom, from east to west,
and from north to south, on Wednesday eve
ming. We are to celebrate the triumph of
right over wrong, Of purity over corruption,
of liberty over tyranny and oppression, and
it is meet that Northern men who have
fought the good fight, and northern citizens
who are to reap the reward of the glorious
victory, should gather together in one grand
Jubilee and shout forth their exultation.-
Let every Republican light up his dwelling
or his place of business let the progress of
the army of Wide-Awakes, who come to US
from the hard fought battles of the political
Crimea, be through walls of light and ave-
nue.. of dazzling flame; let notices, transpar-
encies and banners (have none, however,
which exhibit any vindictive feeling toward
our late oppOnents) be hung upon the outer
walls, and let all sing praises to I'd


'God and our native land"
Year: 1860

TIE DROWNED MOTHER AND CHILD.-The
Coroner's inquest on the child that was found
in the canal on Friday morning, was heldo on
Saturday. We stated in Saturday mornings
Leader that the woman who was resuscitated,
refused to answer any questions as to her
name, residence, etc. On Saturday morn
ing she was more talkative and answered all
questions. She said that her name is Caro-
line Metsch, wife of Christian Metseh, work
man in bakery on Columbus street, West
Side. sne says she was married last May,
and had child the first of October. sheac
cuses her husband of great cruelty, saying
that he beat her. A wound on one cheek and
eye, she says, he caused by striking her two
weeks ago yesterday. She lett home on. Fri
day morning to go to the house of friend on
Pittsburgh street, from which time to Satur-
day morning she remembered nothing
whatever.


Her husband was sworn. He said that tn e
woman was difficult to live with; that she
had spells of temporary arrangement, when
she would perhaps not speak for five or six
hours, or would mix articles of food which
she was cooking in the most senseless, man
ner. He says he did strike her once, three
weeks ago, when she greatly provoked him,
but that the wound spoken Of she got by fall
ing. On Thursday lasta woman went to the
house and apparently tried to arouse her
jealousy against him, when he forbid her
going to the house again. His wife wanted
t. go home with the woman and take her
child with her; he said she could go if she
left the child at home, which she was not
willing to do. On Friday afternoon when he
went home from the bakery she was gone
and he found no trace Of her except dress
which was in the stove and partly burned.
He thereby inferred that she had another
deranged attack.


The woman at first refused to see her hus-
band, saying that she was afraid he would
strike her, but they finally talked together
and apparently settled matters amicably.


The letter which was found when she was
taken from the canal, was found to be long
nonsensical com position, which she said was
"charm" against all dangers.


She is at present staying at the house of D,
Odell, Hill street, and will probably be re.
moved to the Infrmary, as her husband il
poor, and evidently finds it difficult to sup,
port her.


The Jury returned verdict that the child
died from drowning at the hands of its moth
er, but do not hold her responsible, not
knowing what she did.
Year: 1860

The NORTHERN DlsTEIcr FAlR.-Ihe time
for The holding of the Northern District Fair
has been fixed for the week commencing the
Sd day of september next We hope our
citizens will take a general interest IN aiding
the officers Of the District Society to make
the exhibition worthy Of The district Of
country it is intended to represent. The
citizens Of Marysyiie are expected to render
that aid that is due from them, considering
the Fair ie to be held here. The officers de-
sire that our citizens make extensive prepar
ations in the way of articles for exhibition.
There is no time to be lost the work must
commence at once and all should do their
duty. Our neighboring towns and cities are
expected to be fully represented, as well as
the great farming and mining sections of the
northern portion Of the State. 1t is well
known fact that the northern portion of the
State can boass of the best farms, orchards
and gardens, and Of the finest stock. ant
there should be, therefore, full representa-
tion of the same at the coming Fair Th
officers of the Society have determined upo
making every arrangement for the grandes
exhibition ever yet held in the State. TIL
Pavilion will be enlarged by additions an,
thoroughly renovated and ornamented so a
to make the same commolious and attractive
The cattle grounds will be arranged con
venient to the city and Of sufficient dimen-
sion5 to accommodate one thousand head o
stock, and have half mile track within th'
enclosure. In the center Of the cattle grounC
will be erected the judges stand, surrounded
by show ring and covered amphitheatel
that will seat 10000 persons. With these
improvements the exhibition at the cattle
grounds will be rendered most interesting
To the farmer and the mechanic and those o
every trade and calling, we say, prepare il
time for the great Northern Exhibition, and
to all we say, fail not to make preparation:
to come and witness the same.
Year: 1860

A PROTEST AGAINST EARLY RIsING.-Dr Hall in the
February number Of his Journal of Health says:


One OF the very economies of time is that fched
from necessary sleep. The wholesale but blind commen-
dation of early rising is mischevous in practice as
it is errant in theory. Early rising is crime against the
nobes part of physical nature, unless it is preceded
bv an early retiring. Multitudes of business men in
large cities count it saving Of time if they can make
Journey of a hundred two miles at night by steamboat
or railway 1t is a runous mistake. 1t never fails to
be followed by want Of general well feeling for several
days after if indeed the does not return homo
taly sick or so near it TO be unfit for full attention
to his business for week afterwards. When a man
leaves home on business it is always important that he
should have his wits about him. that the mind should be
fresh and vigorous the spirit lively buoyant and cheer
full No man can say that it Is thus with him after a
night on a railroad or on the shelf of steamboat.


The first grand recipe for sound, connected and re-
reshng sleep is physical exercise Toll is the price of
sleep.


We caution parents particularly, not to allow their
children to be walked up OF mornings let nature wake
them up she will not do it prematurey, but have care
that they 20 to bed early hour let be earlier and
earlier until it is found that they wake up of themselves
in full time to dress for breakfast Being walked up early
and allowed TO engage in difficult any studies late aud
Just before retiring has given many beautiful and pro-
missing child brain fever determined ordinary ailments
to the production of water on the brain.
Year: 1860

THEIR First MEETISG-Just fancy the feelings Of our
beloved and ustrious President when the Pennsylvania
Rebel first waits upon him in his RESTORED official capa
city As the immortal Quilp said in the Old Curl
osity Shop that piH be meeting Fresh layers Of
adpose matter will deposit themselves all Forneys
body as the result of that meetng and the amisble
high-souled old gentleman who sits IN the White House
will probably chew up and extermnate Of the face Of
things various if not MORE unghted cigars during the
quarter Of hOus following that delicious rencontre.


We shall meet again said the old coon " the Wild cot
and these animals dissocisted for many years finally
came together again the counter Of hat sore.-N
7. 1Snes rtial
Year: 1860

The foIIy of the proposition ITO treat with
the North for additional guarantees and for
the repeal Of their unconstitutional laws. is
strikingiy presented by Forsyth in his Mobile
Register. Hessys;


a new Union Is possible, but new Union
can onlNbe made by the States after they have
resumed their sovereignty and declared their
independence. To treat with the North for
an adjustment IN the Union, and to await
happy result, would be as hopeless and as in
sane . task as it would be to negotiate with
Queen Victoria or the Emperor of France to
resign their seeptres and conseDt to the over
throw Of the British Constitution and the
Imperial Government.


After Southern independence is declared.
we may tfeat with any and all foreign States.
Year: 1860

d Tho Huntsville Gala Democrat of Satur-
day last, says: g.


The secession sentiment seems to be grow
ing rapidly in this section Of the State, as well
as in ali Of the region south Of the mountains.
We have been surprised at the progress it has
made in our midst We are informed, it is al
ready overwhelming in Jackson and franklin,
and u making favorable progress IN other
counties Of the Tennessee valley. dgsg
Year: 1860

OhAh OtSHAA-


An effort is again being made to re-
vive the old story, that charge Crawford
County more than l am allowed by law for
services as Clerk.


This was attempted in 1858, but without
effect.


This is matter about which there need
be no doubts.


The Clerks fees are laid down in the
Statute, and when my charges are in ac-
cordance with the Statute, it is the duty of
the Cont to allow them. When not in
accordance with the Statute, it is the duty
OF the Court, to disallow them


So if Illegal charges have been made by
me, and allowcl by the Court, there are
just reasons for removing from office the
Clerk and all the Members of the Court.


Tie charge Is untrue, and challenge in
rest;ydaiSs az to this. and all other mauers
pertaining to Dae as Clerk,


1t is true am not a candidate for clerk.
but am unwilling to let such representa-
tions be made with impunity


l. w. TALKINGTON.
Year: 1860

@ A J.WARp, Of the House of Wan,
d Southmayd, arrived home from the East
On the overland stage, on Sunday morning
4 days from Cincinnati. He will accept
our thanks for files of late papers.


They are now receiving and opening a
large stock Of goods for wholesale and re-
tail. The Ladies will take notice of the
fact, and ve can assure them they will find
JoHs in the very best of humor, ready to
take down and put up again-in word to
turn the store upside down to please them
and show the "putties.''
Year: 1860

~ The Parallel man takes what we
had to say to our Greenwood subscribers
not receiving their paper all to himself
" A guilty conscience needs no accaser," is
An old but true saying.
Year: 1860

A dispatch from Washington says that a
land patent has just been issned to Abe Lin
coin, the Republican candidate for President,
as Captain of the Illinois Militia during the
Black Hawk War,
Year: 1860

| HAVE bought the patent of Messrs ". f.
L {. J. Provosts Iron Screw and LIE.
yer Press, for the Parishes of East and Wes
Feliciana and Pointe Coupee. This press is now
ahead OF all others in use, for durability. ccono
my, strength, &c. and it is the same that took the
premium at the Mississippi State Fair, in 1858.


The sale of the patent Of this celebrated Press
Tor the different counties in the Southern States
las been unprecedented; and it is generally pre-.
dleted that in few years, they will supcrcede
a.! other cotton Presses known


A word as to the cost of these presses. It has
been proven beyond the least possibility of a
doubt: that there has never been Press invented
that can begin to compare with this one for cheap
ness Therefore, if there is anything in economy.
they must certainly find great favor with the cot
ton planting portion of our community They
seldom get oRt Of repair, easily fixed. and
taking all things into consideration, no Press
has ever been thought Of by any mechanic, tha t
ID destined to prove of so great benefit to the
cotton planter, as .Proyost's Iron Screw and Lee
yer Press;


In tie language Of the M4ssrs Provost. ave
claim TOR this Press many advantages over all
The Presses in use. The Press is well adapted to
any style Of Gin House, as 1t can be worked in
or out of the lint room, taking up but little space
requires but little timber and must be durable.
az all OF Its working parts Of iron. of great
power, as it combines both the lever and the
screw, and so simple that the negroes can work
it with dispatch. We can press any weight of
bales required with ease''


As 1t Is more easy to convince persons of the
superiority OF this press by showing it in full
operation, this is to let planters know that have
one IN Bayou Sara. and will take pleasure in
showing it to any who may desire to purchase.
will also contract to put up these Presses on
any plantation in the parishes of Pointe Coupee
and East and West Feleiana Orders partieu-
larly desired, as | wish to show planters the
great superiority of Provost Press over all others
ID existence. Jell. H. TENNEY.
Year: 1860

This is the only stitch that cannot be raveled
and that presents the same appearance on each
side Of the seam 1t is made with two threads
one upon each side of the fabric, and interiock-
ed in the center Of it,


Diagram Of tie absurd Complicated Knitting Stitch


Of Grocer G BdLcer's Machine.
Year: 1860

COUNTERFEIT CENTs.-It would be Desirable
If some means could be found Of doing away
with the copper cents which are still in cir.
cuation They defeat the object of the new
currency, and are a source Of great trouble
and Inconvenience to individuals. Besides
this. they afford TO counterfeiter the means
Of carrying on their frauds without risk Of
detection At the present moment the city
is flooded with these counterfeit cents, which
are principally coined in Canada, and pro-
duce to the operator handsome returns. In
trinsically the copper cent is not worth more
than sixty per ccnt-the price of old copper.
Accepted, however, at the full value. as It
unfortunately still is, it gives to the counter.
feiter profit of from twenty-four TO thirty
per cent, exclusive Of the expenses of mint.
ing, conveyance, etc. AS it would be i'm.
possible for the government to withdraw the
old coinage from circulation without heavy
loss, the remedy must he sought elswhere.
IT the public will only combine to refuse re-
eeiving copper cents when rendered in pay
ment they will be driven as rapidly from
circulation as were the old Mexican shilings.
~ Y Heruld.
Year: 1860

VERY LIKE SWEET WoMAN.-A beautiful
young lady, Miss l., of Mobile, had quite
an adventure in one of the New Orleans om-
nibuses the other day. Just as she had pull
ed the string and was in the act of getting
out Of the vehicle a man sitting near The door
snatched her purse from her hand and ran Off
with it. The young lady, with great pres
ence of mind, sprang out and ran after him.
The thief, in attempting to dodge into the
crowd, slipped and FELL when the lady stoop-
Ing down, gracefully caught hold Of him by
the collar and said in the sweetest tones
imaginable: "Ah, you naughty man, amt
you ashamed to take my purse; give it back
to me directly" The thief was perfectly SUBJ
dued, and handed over the purse to the lady
who not until then reno we'd her tiny, Jewell
ed hand from his collar
Year: 1860

tavern keeper in New York has an
American eagle, which he offers to bet can
whip any dog in that city, large or small.
The eagle was found last winter, not far
from Boston, sitting beside the carcass of q
horse, on which it had made so full a repast
that H. could not escape.
Year: 1860

the Republicans propose to establish. The


Southern man does not want quarter-sec-
tion of land. because it is not enough for
his purpose. He wants about two thous-
and acres, on which to work his ten or
twenty negroes; and if he cannot obtain
that. he will not go to those Territories


Now. take twelve young men and twelve
young women, married yesterday; let each
couple have their one hundred and sixty
acres, on which twelve families are grow
ing up under these Christian institutions
of ours. Every one Of the boys will, in
time, be a.voter, to rule you and me.


Let one man from the South take his
one thousand acres. to cultivate it with his
twenty-five or thirty negroes, and what
have You there? You have one family
with two or three children; You have also
negro family Of fifty or sixty growing up
around yoH- There is no school house;
none is wanted, for they do not allow the
negroes to so school. a foreign young wo-
woman is imported from Vermont, perhaps,
to teach the young ladies of the family
such literature as may be thought desir-
able After awhile the two thousand
acres arc covercd'all over with negro slaves.
But let the Homestead bill go into opera
ii n. and on those two thousand acres you
have twelve families. In obedience to the
divine Injunction, "Be fruitful, multiply,
and replenish the earth," there will in the
course of few years be thirty or forty
children. There will be two or three
school houses, in which all these children
may be Taught the elements OF a good Eng
lish education. Instead of five or six peo-
pie. with forty or fifty negro slaves, who
are treated as mere brutes or capital, you
have raised up for this republic fifty or
sixty honest, Independent, well educated
free men and free women, with churches
and school houses, the one to educate the
intellect, the other to influence the con-
science. All over the land. in all the free
States of this Union. you will find, wher
ever you go, these churches. with their
spires pointing to heaven. They are the
lightning rods that draw away from sim
fnl race the wrath Of an offended Cod
Place on the tract of territory have men,
toned your one family with forty negroes,
and you have no school house, no church
That is the difference, my Democratic
brother. between the hated Black Republi-
can policy and the policy which you pro-
pose to inauguratc through the instrument
ality OF your boasted Democratic party.
Year: 1860

We extract the following instructive paragraph
from the late speech Of Mr.. Corwin, in Philadel-
phia: ei


Now let us see what the Democracy
North and South would haveus do. ..Oh!"
they say, "the doctrine of the Constitu-
tion is settled /; slavery is now in every
Territory of the United States" That is
as the lawyers would say. it is there s.by
intcndment of law it is not there in
fact. and it will not go there. Our Dem
ocratic people all propose to vote against
this Homestead bill.a Why? Because
their Southern leaders tell them they must
do it. ''If you give qnarter-section Of
land to the poor man and his Young wife,
thousands of such couples throughout the
country will flock to those Territories, and
they will vote slavery out. Whether we
have Douglas doctrine Of squatter SOW
ereignty. or the Dred Scott doctrine, that
while the territory continues in terrific
rial condition you cannot exclude slavery,
these people will sooner or later drive sla-
very away" That is their objection to
the Homestead bill. 9
Let us look at the two states of society
Ion the ons side. that which the Demo-
cratic party wo lid inaugurnte in cur free
territory, and On the other side that which
Year: 1860

Wherever two natures have a great deal
in common, the conditions of first rate
quarrel are furnished ready made. Rela-
tions are very apt to hate each other Just
because they are too much alike. 1t is
frightful to be in an atmosphere of family
idiosyncrasies; to see in the hereditary un-
comeliness or infrmity of body, all tho
defects Of speech, all the failings of temper,
intensified by concentration. SO that every
fault of our own finds itself multiplied By
reflections, like our images in saloon
lined with mirrors! Nature knows what
she is about. The centrifugal principle
which grows out Of the antipathy of like
for like is only the repetition in character
of an arrangement we see expressed mate
rally in certain seed capsules, which burst
and throw the seed to all points of the
compass; a house is large pod with hu-
man germ or two in each of its cells or
chambers; it opens by dehiscence of the
front door by and by and projects one of
its germs to Kansas. another to San Fran
cisco, another to Chicago. and so on; and
this that Smith may not be Smithed to
death and Brown Drowned into q mad
house, but mix in with the world again
and struggle back to average humanity.
-Ho. Professors Story.
Year: 1860

The effect of the mental feelings On the body -
wonderful An enthusiastic admirer OF Heenan,
in Detroit, became SO excited IN his champion pc
half, that his sleep has been continually disturbed
by dreams of the fight, and when he rose the other
morning he was shocked to discover that he had
black eye.