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Year: 1861

TRs INAUGURATION BALL.-As we antici.
pated, this ball, which took place on the even.
ing of the 4th, was one of the grandest affairs
ever gotten up in this city, and reflects credit
upon those Immediately concerned in its man
agement. The arrangements for comfort and
convenience were complete in every particular
The number of persons in attendance was prob
ably not as large as was expected by some, but
We judge there were between two and three
thousand ladies and gentlemen present. Every.
body seemed to be in the best of spirits, and
the dancing was kept up till four o'clock the
next morning.
Year: 1861

DEKP PI0UGHING.-TsstimOny Of lke Corn
Cri6.--iu the July Agriculturist, last year,
was published a statement from Texs sub
scriber, 10 the effect that corn planted by
him on ground plowed l5 OF ~ inches deep
was looking badly, while that on land mere
ly scratched over appeared thrifty, and an
opinion was asked as 10 whether the surface
work were not better for that section. We
replied that though the plow might have
been put in too deep at one time, yet should
n drought occur, the benefit OF thorough
working would he seen and requested to
hear the testimony Of the corn crib in the
fall. We have Just received letter from
the same gentleman, stating that he is a
thorough convert to deep plowing. A So
we're drouth came on, shriyeling and destroy
ing his corn and that Of his neighbors, on
land which had only shallow culture, while
that on the deeply plOwed field stood up
bravely, came to maturity, and gave fine
field. Ii Is well here to repeat the caution,
that the soil should generally DO deepened
gradually, say an inch or so at each plowing,
particularly where the subsoil is unit tor
growing plants; il time 1t will be ameliora-
ted by the atmosphere.
Year: 1861

Mr.. CowAN: happened few days ago
to take up the Journal of Commerce Of New
York, and read an article headed American
Society for Promoting National Unity. ]
could not be satisfied with one reading. On
second reading could not help agreeing
with the authors in one particular. They
regret that they had not sent forth their sem
timents by an "drmy Of talented lecturers"
thirty years ago (; and l, too, regret that they
did not. II such doctrine as is set forth in
the programme of this society could have
been published under the sanction OF the
Democracy, neither Polk, Pierce nor Bu-
chanan, could have reached the White House
in the capacity of Chief Magistrate Of the
United States. All those men reached the
Presidential Chair by dccciving the people,
by having one set of principles for the North
and another for the Southland although |
am in humble life, am glad to see the mask
thrown of and the real slave party coming
forward and meeting the question in its true
character.


They pretend that IL ga small army Of tai
enied lecturers" could have followed in the
wake Of Abolitionists thirty years ago, the
deplonblc events as they call them, Of the
past few months would not have taken place
what are these deplorablc events! Lincoln
is elected President constitutionally. 1t is
my wish that this society should now send
its army Of talented lecturer" and advo-
cate just such doctrine as is put forth in
their programme. We should meet the
question in its true character. Ny faith Is
that no evil will arise from the propagation
Of error when truth is left free to combat IL,
where the "puiph and school house are
upheld. where morality and intelligence
prevail.


This society for promoting National Unity
commence their programme by alleging tha,
Year: 1861

ers" that We may sec them under their true
colors--and as there is but one step between
s'arery and monarchy or military de'potism
we may realize the fact, that when the ma
jority of the people decide to make slavery a
National Institution that same majority will
be prepared 10 new model the government
and establish military dcspotism with an
army to enforce tho will Of tho de'potit
leaders.


I hope that God in his mercy will save u'
from tho evils that are the natural produc-
ton of slavery and despotism.


GANALiEL L. SMITH.
Newfeld, April 10, 1861.
Year: 1861

Corner of Union and C-lege Streets.


HIS establishment the extensive in the south
west still continues be the the fashion
sentiments of thousands, that it the great EAiP0
Rum for


khut0gPaDASs
Year: 1861

situated on the Franklin Turnpike, within half mile
of tbe ity and opposite the residences Of the late Jo
seuh W Horton This is perhaps the most command
ina site N the vicinity Of Nashville, and s most de


sirss1Ia country residence The house will be sold
vim - or Is acres Of land the purchaser may
Year: 1861

Louis NAPOLEON has decided that NOVA
BILE Photographic establishment shall be at
tached to every regiment in the French army,
under an officer yersed in all the details of
the art. During the battle, their du ties will
consist of printing blood ami thunder with
sunlight.
Year: 1861

A GENTLEAAS.-The long -mooted question
OF what is gentleman - has at last been
settled, at least in the latitude of Kentucky
In that State, a gentleman is-he who looks
out OF the window while his guest helps him
self TO Whiskey.
Year: 1861

Times of the lSth in remarking upon Presi-
dent Lincoln's inaugural Message, asks:


Would it not be better 10 recognize at once
the forma ton of the Son thern Contederacy,
and to think a little less of constitutional pow
ers and decorums which can end in nothing
but civil war, and little more on negotia ton
and arrangement, by which alone that civil
war can be ayerted? 1t would be an intellis-
bic course We're the President to say tha! he is
going to negotiate for peace, or that he is going
10 enforce return 10 the Union by arms: but
10 say that he is going TO exercise the powers Of
the Constitution, ignoring altogether the fac t
of secession, is to make war certain while cut
ting OFF any opportunity for negotiation.
Year: 1861

THE SHOE PINcHEs.-The Marysville Ex.
press is down on cur article on drafting to till
the Union army. Just as we expected. Inc
shoe pinches. The Uunion Democrats, in
horn, don't like the idea Of drafting. They
fear they might be called to do a little honest
service TO their country. Tell your kind, Mr..
Express, they needn't be alarmed. They won't
be allowed the opportunity OF going along with
a band of patriots to shoot them in the back
when charging the enemies Of the Republic
Transcript.


Such paragraphs as the above have done
and are doing more to prevent the filing up
of the California regiments than The Express
aud all its supporters can do. The writer
knows full we'll that there is not one particle
Of sympathy between Union Democrats and
the Express, yet be classes them altogether,
eudeavoriog thereby to create feeling of
distrust among Union men. We care not
how much you berate Us on our disloyalty,
for we have no fears of your being able to
drive us from our allegiance, however much
you may wish to do sos but there are those
who from these constant fiDgs and insinu'
ations become disheartened, AMI from mere
madness turn against their country, rather
than be ranked among the followers of such
selfish intriguing demagogues. We leave il
to candid men to say who has exhibited the
most "fearr 10 being called upon to do their
country service, Republicans or Union Dem
ocrats. The editor Of the Transcript stated
few days since that that Office bad fur
nished two soldiers; will be tell US whether
they we're Republicans or moi? They may
belong to that class of Union Democrats who
shoot patriots in the back when charging in
defense of their country; but we know one
who calls himself patriot, whose precious
carease they will never have an opportu-
nifty of injuring, if they wait for him to
charge.
Year: 1861

TIE Transcript. finding itself cornered in
lis assertions Of Republican Iiberality, starts
out on new tack, and endeavors to show
that Republicans are as liberal as Demo-
Gratis, and endeavors to make some capital
from the fact that the late Democratic can
didate for Recorder proved to be rascal.
There was no question that we are aware OF
about Democratic lberality; the party is an
old one, and never pretended TO that species
of liberalty that elects its political oppo-
nents to Offices. In fact, 1t is one Of the
cardinal principles of the Democracy to
elect their own candidates If they can. As
10 the instance referred to, OF the late Pub
lie Administrator, II is sufficient to remind
the Transcript man that there are black
sheep in every flock, and be can find some
in bis own party il he will investigate the
accounts Of ThOmpson's predecessors.
Year: 1861

A GRowL FROM THE SOUTHERN CANA
correspondent, writing from Manassas to a
Southern paper, says:


The most dispiriting news which has ever
reached our camp is that we may probably go
into winter quarters on this side Of the Poto-
msc-than which nothing can be more disap-
pointing and Unsatisfactory to the Southern
soldiers, with the unmurmuring patience which
they have endured the diseases that have dec;-
mated their numbers, and all the priyations
and wants Of first campaign; and now that a
benign Providence has rebuked the disease,
and health and yigor again returned to our
ranks, they cannot appreciate the policy which
would keep 250000 Southern men--a number
almost sufficient to do anything in
ice and snow five or six months, to defend Vir-
ginia alone. We have always had the utmost
confidence in our generals, but II an inactivity
here shall encourage the North to invade the
cotton States (as it WHY when frost shall have
made it safe to land along the coast, and If the
spring campaign shall find us doing over all
that has been done-when brilliant simulta-
neous movement into Maryland, and thence to
Washington and Baltimore, would secure our
recognition abroad, and enable US to eat our
New Year dinner in peace at home, we will be-
gin to think that somebody somewhere is not
the right man in the right place.
Year: 1861

r RESPECTFULLY inform the public that
L have on hand an assortment of CARRIAGES
of my own make and Of the very best finish and
quality, which l will sell low for cash, or approved
paper.


1 will execute all orders in the best manner, and
at satisfactory prices Repairing will be executed
with neatness and dispatch, and warranted to
please. Those in want of Vehicles Of any kind,
solicited to give me call, as having bad over
twenty years practical experience in the business,
am confident of my ability to give entire salts
tnction in the execution Of orders.


To my friends in Maryland and Virginia, I re-
turn my thanks for their past patronage, and hope
for continuation of the same.


ian lift ROBERT l. EDELIN,.
Year: 1861

~ y young medical student, who had
been screwed very hard at his examination
for admission to the faculty, on a very warm
day, was nearly overcome by the numerous
questions put to him, when the following
query was added What course would you
adopt to produce copious perspiration >
After long breath, he observed wiping his
forehead, 4 would have the patient examined
before the medical society"


When the celebrated Beau Nash was i'll DIR
Cheyne wrote prescription for him. The
next day the doctor coming to his patient, in
quired if he had followed his prescription
No, truly, DOCTOR said Nash, if | had,
should nave broken my neck, for | threw it
out of second-story window


"My opponent, Mr. Speaker, persists in
saying that he is entitled to the floor
Whether this is so or not, shall not inquire.
All have got to say is that he will get floor
ed if he interrupts me again"
Year: 1861

MINING INVENTION. San Juan is a great
place for inventive genius. In addition to what
has been already produced, witness the follow
ing. The San Juan Press says: San Juan
boasts another inventor. Our neighbor, 10.
Thomas, has just completed the model of a
drum for saving gold in quartz mining, which,
it strikes us, must come into general use, and
which can be seen on the hill in the rear of Mr..
Soule's residence. The invention is shect-iron
drum, ten feet in length and three in diame,er,
in exact resemblance to steam boiler. An iron
axle traverses the center of the interior, long,
tudinally, which is held to its place by six series
of spokes, with felloes, like those of n wagon
wheel, which felloes are joined and form COM
plete circles around the inside of the drum, and
serve as rifles against which the quicksilver
is deposited. The drum is placed at angle OF
one-half inch to the foot, and has rotary mo-
ton in a box, similar in appearance to a waysde
watering trough, at one end of which there is a
gate for the escape of sand, gavel and water
The pulverized quatz is precipitated with a
steady stream of water into this revolving drum
where the current becomes almost imperceptibi IL
and is yet so complete as to permit the escape
of all the tailings without the loss of any gold
or what little may escape from the drum is SURE
to be caught in the trough, where there is also q
deposit of quicksilver. Mr.. Thomas has made
an application for patent.
Year: 1861

The New York Tribune favors allowing
the seeding States to go off in tangent
and do as they please independent of the
Union. The Tribune is widespread, able
and Influential journal, and its doctrines
are bound to obtain some hold on the minds
of its thousands of readers. We regret ii
has seen fit to advocate such policy, for
let it obtain in the country and we regard
respectable republican government in
America no longer possible 1t will be a
recognition of the right of State to secede
on remaining in a Union from one year to
another. 1t would be a virtual disruption
of all national bonds, a destruction OF
American prestige and credit abroad. Ad-
NIT such doctrine to be true and foreign
loan could not be effected on the credit OF
the Government for a dollar. There would
be no security that the loan would ever be
paid. A dissolution of confederacy might
take place in order to avoid the payment oi
the debt. Does any one suppose that had
foreign capitalists entertained the same idea
of the American Government that the South
would have sold for a premium in Europe ?
No, capitalists in England and Holland
would have had them at no price. 1t was
only because they thought the American
Government possessed of stability and du-
rability that they invested in such stocks.
Admit the right of secession, and allow the
South to go without coercion, and the bonds
of the free States would find no market in
Europe and only among men of marked
patriotism at home. Who doubts but that
they would only find sale at a ruinous
discount? No other supposition can be
entertained. Mexico is country of vast
natural resources, yet her government is so
weak and uncertain that her credit is good
for nothing. She could not negotiate a
loan of fifty cents on the strength of the
faith of the government. Great Britain,
overburthened with a debt, can borrow a
thousand millions when needed. Whv?-
Because capitalists are sanguine the gov
ernmcnt is safe, and they are sure of the
interest on their money. The notes of Great
Britain are good in any market. But let
her admit the right of all her colonies to
withdraw, of Scotland, Ireland, and each
individual county to secede at will, and
she might beg for assistance in vain.


The American Government can establish
better credit by ezpending five hundred
millions in coercive war, even if it fails,
than by remaining inactive and allowing
States to withdraw from the Union at pleas
ure. A war with secessionists will demon
strate to the world that the American Gov
ernment means to act in good faith to main
tain its integrity. 1t will show how we
understand the Constitution, our national
bond, and command respect by showing we
intend to protect and defend it. A silent
acquiescence in the demands of the seces-
sionists would be interpreted as caused by
weakness or pusillanimity, and no nation
can maintain caste suspected of either.
Year: 1861

Fort SUMTER EvACUATED.-The last Pony
brings intelligence that Fort Sumter was
to be evacuated on the 23d of March. The
information is exceedingly notifying
Nothing but regret is heard on the streets
The hope is expressed that the move may
prove polite one, but the hope is not
unmxed with fear that it is not. All admit
that General Scott and the President and
Cabinet ought 70 know better than we can
what course is best to pursue. yet the evac =
uation of Fort Sumter is satisfactory to
none but secessionists, and they are jubi-
lant and taunting the Administration with
cowardce. We should not tell the truth
were we to say we are pleased with the
news. If the Government has not power
to maintain Fort Sumter against rabble,
the Union is not worth defending. We Of
fer the prediction that no good will result
from this submission to the rebels.
Year: 1861

A simple microscope may be made out of a
common pill box for few cents. Take out the
bottom and put in a piece of window glass;then,
paint the inside black, and make a small eye
hoe in the lid. In this hole place single drop
OF warm Canadian balsam, and allow it to cool.
Tins drop of the transparent resin assumes,
when cooling, the proper form of glass lens,
with considerable magnifying power.
Year: 1861

In THE RIGHT DIREcTIoN:-Mr. Banks, of
San Francisco, offered resolution in the
Assembly on Saturday, that the number OF
Senators be cut down to not exceeding thirty
and AssembIymeu to sixty, under the new
apportlonment. The suggestion of Mr..
Banks, if carried out, would save the State
a great deaf of expense. He said truly, in
his remarks on the occasion of the intro
duction of the resolution, that fifty Assem-
blymen and twenty five Senators would ac-
complish more legislation and pass fewer
bad laws than the present number. We
have no doubt that the people would vote
if they had chance for seventy-five Lsgis-
lators in place of the one hundred and if
teen at present employed in the service of
the State. The saving in per diem alone
would be four hundred dollars a day, for
the first ninety days, and two hundred dol
lars day for the after part of the session.
The saving could be safely put at not less
than fifty thousand dollars a year if Mr.
Banks ideas could be carried ont.
Year: 1861

AsPurArIoS OF AN EYE-The Sierra Dem
ocrat says more than year and a half ago, a
man was firing with pistol at target. A
piece of percussion cap struck through the
ball of one eye, lodging in the back portion.
1t destroyed the sight at once, and the irrita-
ton after lodgment was certainly very painful
He had it treated, here and at San Francisco
but to no purpose. A few days ago the eye
was amputated-cut out entire
Year: 1861

Under the administration of dIstIn-
gushed physicians, SANDS SARsAPARILLA has been
tested for twenty years in the public Hospitals as
well as in their private practice with such complete
success as to have acquired the unqualified approval
of the medical faculty and is held in the highest
esteem and is universally used.
Year: 1861

TREMENDOUS DENUNCIATIoN.-T follow
ing fierce and stormy paragraph belongs to
Parson Brownlow


l" The leaders in this movement to dissolve
this Union, the great citadel of our liberties,
and the depository of the hopes of the human
race, will go down to their graves without
any halo of glory surrounding their brows,
while on their heads will be gathered the his
sing curses of all generations, horrible as
the forked- -tonged snakes of Medusa. Their
ghosts will stand on the highest and blackest
eminence of infamy-the detestation of man
kind. Having met traitors death, they
will each and all fill traitors grave, over
which there will be no requiem but groans of
the oppressed and the execsations of the good
The monuments will be of human bones,
upon foundations slippery with human blood.
However high may have been their elevation
in Office their fall will be like that of Lucifer
And whilst from their bad eminence they
shall turn from beholding the glories of that
Constitution and Union, against which they
rebelled in the year of Grace 1861, to survey
the barren waste the boundless aad bottom
less pits of Secession, they will exclaim like
Lucifer, their illustrious predecessor:


Farwel, happy fields where joy forever dwells


Hail horrors hail Internal world and the


Profoundest hell receive thy new possession
Year: 1861

THE WHITE CANoE.-In the days of old,
long before the deep solitudes of the West
were disturbed by white men. it was the
sdstom of the Indian warriors of the forest to
assemble at the Great Cataract and offer a
human sacrifice to the Spirit of the Falls
The Offering consisted of a white canoe full of
ripe fruits and blooming flowers, which was
padded over the terrible cliff by the fairest
girl of the tribe, who had just arrived at the
age of womanhood. 1t was counted an honor
to the tribe to whose lot it fell to make the
costly sacrifice and even the doomed maiden
deemed ii high compliment to be selected to
guide the white canoe over the Falls.


The only daughter of a chief of the Seneca
Indians was once chosen as a sacrifcial Of
fering to the Spirit of Niagara. Her mother
had been slain by hostile tribe. Her ia
ther was the bravest among his warriors, and
when the lot fell on his fair child, no symp-
tom of feeling crossed his countenance At
length the day arrived it faded into night as
the savage festivities and rejoicing proceed
ed then the moon arose and silvered the
cloud of mist that rose above the turmoil of
Niagara; and now tho white canoe, laden
with its precious freight, glided from the
bank and swept out into the dread rapid from
which escape was hopeless. The young girl
calmly steered her tiny bark towards the
centre of the stream, while frantic yells and
shouts arose from the shores Suddenly an
other white canoe shot forth upon the stream,
and, under the powerful influence of the Sen
eca chief, flew like an arrow to destruction
1t overlook the first; the eyes of father and
child met in one last lingering gaze of love,
and then they plunged together over the
laundering cataract!
Year: 1861

THE CALIFORNIA MINER.-A writer in the
Dutch Flat Enquirer thus describes the Cali
fornia miner:


g The miner is like an actor, appearing in
different characters You now see him in
his claim clad in grey shirt, canvass pants,
and long gum boots so completely besmear-
ed with mud and clay that it is difficult for
one to make his eyes believe that that gen
tleman dressed so tastily and looking so
cleanly is the same man. You now see him
in his lowly log cabin, mixing his bread,
boiling his F" taters," frying his meat, max
ing his coffee, and eating his lonely meal at
a table whose surface has never been adorn-
ed with dinner CLOTH and anon you see
him in the ladies' parlor, acting and dis
coursing in manner which would contra
dict all that your eyes before looked upon
Go ramble through the deep ravines, lonely
canons, and rapid rivers, and in them all you
will find muddy miners, whose manly forms
were found in other days digging into mines
of knowledge which could only be found in
Yale, Oxford, and other institutions whose
names occupy no mean place in the vocabu-
larry of literary schools. He who calls the
miner an ignoramus, we suspect either to be
a fool or a knave
Year: 1861

An eloquent divine, in the course of his
sermon was comparing the state of the uu-
converted sinner To that Of man in boat
away from land and only one oar; when he
was suddenly brought up with a round turn
by an old sailor who jumped up and asked.
couldn't the old fool scull ?''