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Year: 1860

CAN ANY ONE TELL2-Can any one
tell how it is that during these hard
times, when every merchant, manufao-
turer and mechanic is doing his utmost
to keep his nose above water, our numeU-
Gus drinking saloons are we'll sustained, b,
and even new ones starting?


Can any one tell why men, who abb
solutely cannot pay small bills, can al
ways find plenty of money to buy liquor
and treat when happening among their
friends2


Can any one tell how young men who
dodge their washer-woman and are al
ways behind with their landlords, can
play billiards day and night, and are al
ways ready for game Of "poker" or
"seven up?"


Can any one tell how lawyers who
have no practice manage to make the
ends meet, to meet the ends2


Can any one tell how men live and
support their families why have no in
come and do not work, and who others
lwho are industrious and constantly EN-,
| ployed half starve.


Can any one tell how it is that a man
who is too poor to pay FIVE cents a week
for a good weekly paper is able to pay
fifteen cents a day for tobacco and ei
gars, to say nothing Of an occasiona
drink
Year: 1860

An old man who believed that what
was to be would be, was one day going
through a region infested by very saw.
age Indians. AS he would never go
without a gun, some Of his friends tam
talized him by saying there was no dan.
ger Of the Indians--that he would not
die until his time came anyhow. "Ycs, %
said the old fellow, "but suppose 1 was
to meet an Indian, and his time had
come, it wouldn't do nohow, not to have
my gun"
Year: 1860

AT Jefferson City there is a rumor that q
party, who was commissioned to pay over to
the Treasurer of the Mount Vernon fund,
is defauter. The amount entrusted to him
was $4,000. A correspondent of the Bulletin
understands it to he the intention of the
Governor to assume the loss by paying
$4,000 out Of his own pocket to the person
authorized to collect moneys for the fund.
Why the Governor assumes the loss, unless he
considers himself responsible for it, do not
understand st Louis cor
Year: 1860

PoyERTY.-ln our walk yesterday we stun
bed over the form Of gaunt skeleton whose
remarkably long arms and legs looked like
ekln and bone, as he lay stretched out beside
the river, near the Gas Works. His arms
were exposed to view, and, although the
owner wore waisteoat, he dispensed with
That necessary article, shirt A garment,
once coat, was wrapped in sareds about his
ormi his head rested on plank, and he had
apparently dropped into sleep. We stool
moment and contemplated him, and if ever
We saw famine depicted upon human face,
We did then. We spoke to him, and he
ronsed up, apparently ashamed Of being
caught, and walked hastily toward the Amer.
lean. We threw a quarter after him, which
he picked up and thanked us for and we
tarned away, fully satisfied that really one
haH the world does rot know how the other
half liyes --Sacramento Post
Year: 1860

EXPRESS TO THE MoNo MIxEs.-We learn
the M"Iiposa Gazette that preparations are
being made in Coulte.ville, to run a horse
express twice or three times a week to the
Mono mines. The route will be upon the
divide between the Tuolumne and Merced
rivers, and will start so soon as the snow will
admit. Horses for passengers, and animals
for baggage, will be provided.
Year: 1860

ANOTHER "DTAMoND WEDDING" INTENDING
More of your fair readers who have hung
delightedly over the glowing details of the
famous Diamond Wedding in which the Gu
ban millionaire Don Oivedo Something, es-
poused fair daughter of California, viii
doubtless he glad to learn that an event of IA
similar character is about to take place in our
city, somewhere on the Fifth Avenue. un-
derstand. The prospective bride is the
daughter Of one of our merchant princes Just
returned from prolonged visit to Paris, in
which metropolis it is affirmed the parties
to the approaching nuptuals first met and re
corded their unclungeabe vows, etc Her
fdncs is manufacturer of a celebrated brand
OF champagne, and is eputed to he immense
ly wealthy. lie is now hunting on our west
ern prairies, with the purpose of bagging
some dozen of buffalo or more, to offer as a
bridal present -Ne'o York Cor.
Year: 1860

~ The city was remarkably quiet and
orderly Yesterday and last evening, but one
arrest having been made up to 10 o'clock
Julia Grant, an old offender, for drunken
ness and disOrderly conduct. At
Year: 1860

A GooD HusBASD-when you rec a Young
man modest and retiring In hs manners, who
cares less about dress than his moral character,
depend upon 1t, ladies, he will make an excellent
husband you get the one who is kind and at.
tentiee to his mother affectionate to his sister,
Industrious in his habits, and economical In his
business rest assured you have found one Of whom
you never will be ashamed The ballroom no
place to find husband, the fashionable assem-
bly, is no place. it Is In the retirement of home,
the place Of business. where you can study char.
acter and disposition, and where the best is not
pat on for effect and pisplay. Many young
woman sadly misses It who lie carried away by q
bright look and splendid dress The man. that
makes the most polite bow. aud is most graeesss
in his tiiauners is not always the most suitable,
person for husband. Look at the heart study
the character, and learn the disposition,
Year: 1860

ANY notice Of public meeting or anything
else looking in the rrmotest degree Of rep,.,lia-
| sion as its object. can have no place by favor
or money in our columns -GazeHe.


Nonsensel We speak Knowingly when we
say that fifty cents will at any time secure the
insertion Of a Brothel advertisement in the
columns Of the Gazette
Year: 1860

THE June number of the treat West
is out and will be sent to every family in this
city 'JJfree gratis for nothing" We take pleas
urs in calling the attention Of the readers OF
the DEMOCRAT AND News to r. H. Parks adver-
tisement in this number of the Great WsM
Year: 1860




fattering. 1t is as follows:


NEVADA CITY, July %, 1860


Dear Father: We left ST. Joseph's the 10th
of May; arrived at Denver City the 18th of
June (; left Denver the oath, and arrived at Ne
vada the 9th. We had very pleasant weather
all the way; yet it was a long and tiresorne
journey. 1t will be three months, the stb Of
August, since have been in house or sat in
chair: l am now sitting on the ground, with
a board for table, and that on my lap. II
| had known what journey it was to come
here, 1 would never have seen the Rocky
Mountains. 1t Is too hard for any woman to
come here. Over one hundred women started
back to the States last week. My advice to all
women is, that they had better 20 to the poor
house than come out here. 1 have not spok en-
to a woman since came to the mountains. l
have had to sleep in my wagon ever since
left st. Joseph's. do not know what dry
clothing is. / sleep in a wet bed, and wear
damp clothing all the time. Most of our
company were sick on the way out There
are great many down with the mountain
fever, which is very dangerous. There is a
great stampede here now. Everybody is going
home. There is hardly any money in the
country. As for gold, have seen some but
it is not plentiful yet Next year will be
better than this for making money here There
are sixteen mills in this gulch, and as soon as
they get TO work times will be better. have
not been two yards from my tent since came
here. 1t is an awful hard life here, and bave
had enough of Pixies Peak. A man or woman,
to live here, has to work like fits" and then,
If they do not get sick and die, they are we'll
Year: 1860

Tic good time wllicl, NIL have agreed to
expect, since August 1857, ia here People
with whom croaking has become chronic
men who arc willing to make oath that the ia-
vor Of Heaven las been withdrawn from this
land never to dawn again who see in every
thing an augury Of coming woe, deeper and
blackcr than that in which they arc now
plunged-will bo astonis14ed to know, that,
in spite Of nll the jeremials which have been
said aud sung, tue country is really thriving
and prosperous Yet sllcli is. tho fact. The
man who in Chicago has tho nominal owner
ship Of outside property ,llat he las not paid
for and cannot sell-who is consumed
by the inevitable interest on notes over due,
and haunted by threatened foreclosures which
may strip linn bare; or the merchant, who, in
days Of cheap and easy credit, built himself
modern palace with the money that ought to
have swept off balances at the East, and who is
now "ca:Tied By men who do not like to
hold him up ard cannot let lin ta1l, lie paying
the cost Of carriage Mt more than fast freight
rates." by which his profits arc melted down
as fast as they accumulate; or the dealer Of
any sort, who, in 1856 and the early part Of
81, was insane enough to believe that the in
toxication which then prevailed was tue nor
mai and healthv condition Of tie West. who
threw about lis bills as children throw hands
ful Of torn paper into the air, aud who, since
that day. has never had between his LAWSUITS,
duns, and Cummings, any clear idea Of his con-
dition OF prospects, none Of these nor none
others upon whom debt from any misfortune
or folly is piled like IN incubus, will see that
the proposition with Which we set out is true.
But it is true nevertheless. The crops Of the
country prove to have been for the past sea-
son capital in. quality, and reasonably plentiful
in quantity: They hare sold, and arc coutinu-
ing to sell, at prices which, If not large,
are. such that the farmers may nccept
without loss. The proceeds hare gone
to the settlement Of balances between noigh~
bora:at home and to creditors in the East 4
mountain Of debt has been thus removed, none
meanwhile being contracted. In a word. the
West has lived closely, worked hard and saved
industrlously. The balance Of trade is in her
favor. She las sent out moro than Sue has
brought in And tllat--no mattcr what czoak-
ers may say-in spite Of the sneers Of tue yep-
turcsome gentlemen who think all times are
dull in which they cannot make fortune in
six months operations in corner 1ots-tl,at is
prosperityI It is more real aud substantial
prosperity than tho West Las enjoyed since
1851 Tits prosperity TINT the country be-
gins to feel in all the avenues Of industry and
trade, and it has to be continued only year
Or two more to give IN impetus again to the
growth Of every city in the land.


1tis mistake to suppose that The returning
good times will be fell in the cities first.
Streams do not rise at their mouths without
food from the sources. Gold is not made in
the Mint; it is carried there from thousand
Year: 1860


Oh ! do love thee as but few can love!
My every hope is centered upon thee,
Nay. do worship next to God above,
Thy image, which is more than life to me
And to my vision thou dos't e'er appear
Of more than earth, a seraph from above,
Descended from thy bright and heavenly sphere
To bless me with an angels mstchless love.
When thou art near, my life like some pure stream
Flows calmly on, undimed as summer skies,
And then existence is blessed dream,
So blisstul, that the earth seems paradise.
But when thou'rt absent, time drags slowly by,
And DER my soul shadow dark is drawn,
And in that night of life, my heart would fly
To thy bright presence eager for the dawn.
When weary cares Cypress the clouded mind,
And all seems dreary as desert lone,
My thoughts l turn to thee, and ever hnd
a quiet, peaceful, charm, around me thrown.
All wealth and honor, all are little worth,
Without thy love so priceless and SO fond,
To cheer me on my pilgrimage through life,
And guide the soul to endless bliss beyond.


ASSIE MORGAN.
Year: 1860

LADIES GARDENING.-An exchange sug-
gests the following rather novel system Of
gardening for ladies;-"Make up your beds
early in the morning. sow buttons on your
husbands shirt; do not rake up any griev-
ances; protect the young and tender branch
es' of your family: plant smile of good
temper in your face, and carefully root out
all angry feelings, and count on good crop
of hapninesso
Year: 1860

lhe following poem Dy LonglelioW,
ears in the Atlantic Monthly for Septemt
Between the dark and the daylight
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes pause in the days occupations,
That is known us the Children's Hour.
| hear in the chamber above me,


The pa,tar of little feet,
The sound Of L door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice and laughing allegro,
Aud Edith with Golden hair.
\ whisper, and then silence: -
Yet know by their merry eyes
They orr plotting and planning together
10 take me by surprise.
4 sudden rush from the stairway,


A sudden raid from the hall
By three doors left unguarded


They ertcr my castle wall!
They climb up into my turret


O'er the arms and back Of my chair,
III try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost deyour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till think of the Bishop Of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine
Do you think, o blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such m old mustache US | am


Is not a match for you all?
have you fast in my fortress,


Aud will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeons
In the round tower Of my heart.
And there will keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away.
Year: 1860




A Mr.. John Roberts, living in Straford,
Vermont, attempted to commit suicide few
days since, by cutting his throat with Il razor.
Roberts was living with second wife, while
one of his sons was living with a young girl
whom he had recently married, in the same
neighborhood, and the father had had i'm
proper intercourse with the sons wife, and
had paid the son two hundred dollars in con-
sequence. Roberts was fearful that his wife
might sue for divorce, and that he should
lose still more of his money, and about ten
days since told his wife that he thought he
should cut his throat and hers too. On
Wednesday morning early he got up and,
taking large drink, returned to bed. In q
little time he drank again, and on returning
to bed his wife observed that he was trying
to conceal something in his left hand, which
she soon saw was a razor.


She urged him to give it up; instead OF
which he began to lay bare his throat. Mrs.
R. sprang from the bed, and rushing through
an adjoining room into an entry called to a
young man in the chamber above. Mean
time her husband had divided his wind-pipe
and cut into the passage leading to the stom-
ach He then started, with the blood pour
ing down his chest, in pursuit of his wife.
Hearing him approach, his wife ran into a
room still farther on, and concealed herself
beneath the bed. The monster tore the
founce from the bedstead, but fortunately for
Mrs. R., he either became faint or staggered
back to his own room, and fell upon the bed.
At last accounts he was still living, although
there seems little chance that he can sur
yive.
Year: 1860

BITUMINoUs PAPER TuBING.--An expert
ment was recently performed in London for
trying the strength, by hydraulic pressure, of
a new description of tubing, composed of
bituminous paper. This new contrivance for
subterranean tubes was invented in Paris


The municipal authorities of Paris tried
these tubes for the conveyance of gas, and in
recent experiments made in London, a piece
of the tube was produced, which, though
stated to have been used under ground as a
gas-pipe for twelve months, had the appear
ance of being new pipe. The tubes, sub
jected to pressure of the hydraulic process,
bore strain of two hundred and fifty pounds
to the square inch without bursting-which
is more than they would be required to bear
in ordinary use. One of the tubes, half an
inch thick, and with bore of two inches,
was also tested by weight, and it only gave
way to pressure of five hundred and eighty
pounds, the bearings being three feet apart


1t was stated that the tubes might be sub
mitted to temperature of l60 degrees of
Fahrenheit, without any deterioration of the
material, The cost of the tubing is said to
be less than half that of the ordinary tubing,
Year: 1860

The New York Herald publishes lengthy
account of the condition of the negro
population of that city, Ito be taken with due
recollection of the HeraIfs unreliability, of
course from which we condense the follow
ing facts:


The whole number of this class of persons
is about 1000. About one-third of them are
paupers, receiving their subsistence from the
public and private charities of the city, one
third are engaged at labor by which they are
enabled to make bare living, and the re-
naming third live from hand to mouth, by
their wits and by thieving and pilfering in a
small way. The whole amount of taxable
property in the hands of the colored popula-
ton in the city is about 5000, 900, and is owned
by about twenty persons. Their social con-
dition is of the lowest and most degraded
type, being much below that of any class in
the Union, whether bond or free. Their re-
ligious culture is sadly deficient. and hence
the proportion of crime among them is very
great. The number of arrests for the last
year was one in eleven of the entire colored
population. But their crimes are generally
ofapetty description. They appear to be in
capable of committing outrages which require
great boldness or great ingenuity, except in
rare instances. ........
Year: 1860

FRESH FISH IN THE NoRTH.-The Times
says the shipments of fresh fish from the
docks. of Toledo, Ohio, reach from thirty to
forty tuns daily The yield never before was
so large, and the quality is in keeping with
the enormous amount caught. Strange to
say, the demand is equal 70 the supply-in-
somuch that the quantity put in salt does not
reach beyond one-eighth Of the gross amount
taken. lt..t
Year: 1860

MAcAULAY's GRAvE.-The Sexton of the
Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey is
busy opening a grave for our great historian
NOT with kings and knights of the Garter
not even with Stephenson or Telford-but
IN Poets Corner, on the south transept of
the Abbey. He will lie at the foot of Add
son statue, and close to the grave of Isaac
Barrow, one of the great Trinity of Cam
bridge men, Macauleys only college. The
historian will not lie far off Canden-almost
the father of English history-nor far from
what remains of May the historian of the
Long Parliament and near to the remains of
johnson, Garrick, Sheridan, and Clifford, the
Tory editor of the Quarterly Review. He
will lie facing the statue of the poet of "The
Pleasures of Hope" at whose funeral the no.
BILE historian helped, with wise selection to
bear the pall-London paper
Year: 1860

HENRY WARD BEECHRR says that "the les
son of resignation should be taught to all
men," We think there is more need of its
being taught just now to the ofice-holders
than to any other class extant-LouisviIls
Journal
Year: 1860

TIME, LABOR AVID MONET ED!
The ECONOMY in using good AIR-TIGHT STOVE like
the almost apparent to need illustration With the
convenience attached this Stove far greater amount of
cooking performed in given time than other
stove use while the food itself is cooked in tho
rough Being exceedingly simple in their construction
they are readily understood the of the old Premium
Stoves.
of this Stove being LINED but little heat
aie into kitchen and thus less fuel needed while
slant supply Hot Water generated by the surplus heat it
escapes into pipe renders the CHARTER OAK invaluable
in every household.


Put up and delivered free of extra charge.
Perfect satisfaction guaranteed the money instantly
funded. SID.
Sold who'll sale and retail, by


RICE BROTHERS CO.;


SOLE AGENTS,
No. 2 Tchoupoas street. sign of the Golden Stove ST.
Mary's Market. .z


Also
On Magazine street. Andrew and Josephine Streets
above the Magazine Market o22 81
Year: 1860

Regardless Of the example Southern houses who
Ing crops and dull times imported only half their
supplies Moody relying upon the vast yearly Increase Of
his business and taking advantage of the great sacrifices Of


feed since the Southern buyers have left the markets. has laid
invoices of goods at such manifest bar
gains oatstrp all competition and command Immediate
saes.
Year: 1860

That the business of Gift Enterprise can be made egitl
mate onethat it be conducted fairly and honoay doing
justice to all parties is not absurdy but reality that has
been demonstrated plainly True we know of hut ons man
who has succeeded in not only peeunary but has won the
confidence Of the public and the conclusion have arrived at
s that owing solely the fact e he is the only one Of
them who has dealt honoraby fairly by his patrons csr
tain is that could conduct business unfary ths
length of time he has without complaint being Mt
tered against him by the hundreds Of thousands who have been
the recipients of fayos at his hands, We refer of course 70
Mr.. Geo, G. Evans, 439 Chestnut street. Philadelphia"


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Year: 1860

OPPOAeus


There is no better eSidence of the entire
content of the country with what all con-
cede to be the inevitable triumph of the
Republican candidates at the November
election, than the perfect quiet of the can
vass. The factious few who have lived SO
long and so well by making the people be-
llevc the Union was i'll danger, that they
might get the contract for saving it, can
now get neither hearers nor readers; the
Union-saving business has fallen into the
hands of moutcbanks like Keitt and Yam
cey; there are no other men weak or dcs-
perate enough to attempt that sort of char
latnnism any longer, for the simple reason
that there is no longer any chance for it TO
succeed. If there were; if it were not n
foregone conclusion that the federal gov
ernment was to pass into the Republican
hands in March next; if the New York Ho-
tel patriots could cultivate the shadow O..
hope of resisting our ticket successfully,
the country would ring with the dangers
of its impending dissolution. The iourn-
ais of commercial christianity would labor
under the burden of letters of distinguish
ed statesmen, anxious only to ''prcservc
the heritage of their fathers" little long
er from destruction, while the churches
where traders in cotton and negroes most
do congregate would resound with the de-
nunciations of the ungodly fanatics who
presume to mix up any religion with
their politics.


1t is because opposition is useless that
there is none; it is because fusion would
not change the result that the pro-sIuvery
factions cannot fuse; it is because the tradc
ofagitation is "plnyed out" that the agta-
tors are quiet; it is because the census re-
turns will soon show that full two-thirds
of the entire white population of this ma
tion nareinhabitants of freeStntcs which have
pronounced in favor of free labor and against
the slave trade, that the; time-serving and
the mercen"ry politicians who have hith-
erto done what was done, to make the
world believe that slavery, as an institu-
ton, had hold upon the respect of north
ern people, are now nowhere to be found
by the recruiting officers of the Admins
5tration.


And that this matter of the census should
have its proper weight with the class whose
ideas of duty are shaped mainly By their
notions of policy, we propose to submit to
their consideration q few facts.


According to its rate of increase during
the ten years preceding 1850, the white
population of these United States should
have amounted on the lst of June, 1860,
to


White Inhabitants of non-slovcholding States,
White Inhabitants of saveholding statos. S29a,59a
Year: 1860

WILL rent or lease my place near the Murfrees-
boro' Pike miles from the city for the present
year. or with the privilege OF i've years. There q
: convenient Brick Dwelling with Kitchen and good
Stables, and . splendid well Of excellent water.
There ere twelve acres OF superior land suitable foE
radssnx an hhde Of Marketing.