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Year: 1860

THE PRIZE FIGHT.-An extraordinary de-
gree of interest was manifested in this city
on hearing of the arrival of the late Pony
Express, to learn the result of the fight be-
tween Heenan and Savers. Watching the
masses soon after the full news was circu-
lated, we became convinced they took a
great deal more interest in the fight than
in the doings of the Charleston Convention.
Two out of three, we estimate, of those
who read. sought for the news from the
ring first on receiving their papers, aud the
largest crowds assembled where the account
Of the prize fight was read aloud. na-
tional pride was at stake, and however
much moralists NAV condemn the morbid
taste for the brutality of the ring, the lover
/ the invincibility and patriotism of his
4 countrymen. from the zeal with which they
/ espouse the cause Of one Of their number
! who has boldly crossed the ocean to droop
the plume of the champion of rival nation.
/ The masses sympathize with him, admire
his boldness, boast of his prowess, and will
glory in his triumph.


The accounts of the fight are not clear.
One report has it that Heenan's eyes were
quite closed at the last round How he got
Sayers' head in chancery when blind will
remain a mystery till the next Pony Express
arrives. The time occupied in the fight is


yariously given. One account says both


went TO grass on the last round. We give


in another column the best report of the
fight which has yet arrived.
Year: 1860

New VoLuME-With this number tn e
JoyRxAL commences its eleventh volume.
1t would not be congenial to the habits Of
the proprietors to indulge in self-laudatory
remarks in connection with the event. What
our paper has been, we are willing to leave
to the Judgment of cotemporaries and our
very generous patrons. What it is to be,
let the past be an indication and the future
tell. One thing we can safely pledge, and
that is, fearlessness, independence and in
dustry in the discharge of our duty as jour
nalists. Less we could not do except in
violation of our natures; more We can not
promise.
Year: 1860

\ SNARLING CuR.-Some ".insinuating
cuss" in the Christian Adcocatg has got hts
back up because we called Miss Munson's
lectures Theological discussions" and takes
occasion to throw out miserable insinuations
in that very Christian sheet, which we have
no doubt beit the individual if not his pro-
iession. Such beings as the writer in the
-4drocafs have existed in all ages Of the
world-snarling cures biting at the wheel
of the car of progress. Like ram in
halter, when being led to taller clover, he
makes no forward motion willingly but to
butt his benefactor OF such were those
who raised hellabailoo in Scotland when
the first tanning mill was constructed. 1t
was an outrage against God, making the
wind blow when the Almighty didn Mt want
it to blow. OF such were the burners of
witches and prosecutors of Quakers in New
England. Of such are those who have
pounded pulpit cushions from time imme-
mortal, preaching against every new science
that has arisen.


The writer in the AdUocGte would teach us
the English language. Theological dis
cussion" bawls this divinity calf What is
any discourse treating of the existence,
character and attributes of God, but theo-
logical discourse? Whether the doctrines
taught are true or false, the term is proper
one, except to the comprehension of bigot
whose notions of God only be will allow to
be correct.


The writer in the Advocate is as ignorant
of the quality of Miss Munson's lectures as
of his dictionary. A study of the latter
might give him comprehension to under
stand the former. As it is, her lectures fall
upon his crustaceous hide like the exalted
eloquence of Colonel Baker on the intellect
of stolid locofoco.
Year: 1860

The discomfort complained of in houses warm
ed by heaters arises from the neglect Of impor-
tant principles in putting them up and manag-
ing them; and we are satisfied, from personal
observation, that almost any of them could be
greatly improved in their operation by the ap-
pication of these principles, and very trlhng
expense. Instead. therefore, of ameuling the
departure of the old HEARTH let us rather set to
work and improve what we have substituted for
them, and resolve to breath nothing tut Elre
air, which is really of more IMPORTANCE to the
health than pure water, because we are com.
PEELED to use so much more of it, aud to use it
constantly, DAY and night.
Year: 1860

FALL AND WINTER GooDs.-McLaren and Jackson are in receipt of their heavy stock of Fall and Winter Goods. They invite Gall the world and the rest of mankind" to examine their stock before purchasing elsewhere, See their advertisement.
Year: 1860

FACTS FOR THE CURIoUs.-If taIlow
candle be placed in gun and shot at a
door, it will 90 through without sustain
ing any injury; and if a musket ball be
fred into water, it will not only rebound,
but be fattened, as if fired against solid
substance. A mushvto 1@lL may be fired
through pane of glass, making a hole
the size of the ball, without cracking the
glass; il the glass be suspended by thread
It will make no difference, and the thread


viii not even vibrate. Cork, if sunk 200
feet in the ocean, will not rise, on account
Of the pressure of the water In the Arc
tic REGIONS when the thermometer is below
zero, people can converse more than a mile
distant. DR.. Jameson heard every word
Of a sermon at the distance Of two miles
Year: 1860

HAPPINEss.-There are two things
which will make US happy in this life, If
we attend to them. The tirstis not to yex
ourselves about what We can't be- p; and
the second never to vex ourselves about
what We can help.
Year: 1860

New WATER CoMPANY.-A party of gentle
men yesterday left, in company with Mr..
Won Schmidt, ex-Engineer of the BeDsley
Water Company, for the purpose of visiting
a stream of water about half way between
this city and San Mateo, to ascertain if it is
of sufficient capacity to furnish constant
supply of water for consumption in this city.
If there should prove to be a sufficiency, we
learn that number of our captalistsl will
take the matter in hand Immediately r.
G0zefLe
Year: 1860

In many parts of Alameda county, the far
mers are already cutting their hay, which is
some ten days earlier than they commenced
last year. The crop of grass is very heavy
this year, and large amount of hay will be
cured
Year: 1860

Nothing to US is moro plain than that the Re
publican party is not to be relied on as the party
Of Freedom /; and though they may succeed this
are, before another Presidential election there will
be radical abolition party in the field, and con-
servaiVe Repubconism and Douglas d mocracy
will be found acting unitedly together. The diff
ference between them is now mcrrly nominal
Douglas squatter sovereignty is to be modified By
the doctrine as held by Mr.. Thayer, Republican
Member Of Congress from Massachusetts, and be-
como a prominent plank in the Republican plat
form. Mr.. Thayer would give the right to the in
habitahts of new Territory to organize
themselves, appoint their own officers,
MIX, th9ir own laws and form their own in
stitutions, without any enabling act of Congress ;
the U. S. Government having no right TO intervene
except to take care of its property in said terri
tory


We know many democrats who think this the
only true ground, and they will readily unite with
their republican brethren in its support. In this
way says conservatism, the troublesome slavery
question can be disposed of and the party become
popular and predominant.


From recent articles in the Tribune and the
Tines it is plainly to be they already IA
voring this doct'no, ss also quite number of
the present Republican Members of Congress.


The party have ruined themselves by their un-
called for concessions to slavery. They have been
always ready, hat ia hand to assure shareholders
they did not intend to interfere with slavery in the
several states and territories where it is already
established, and Mr. Lincoln assures them that he
would be for admitting a new state with slavery If
the people desire it. They only mean to prevent
it from going into territories where it has not al.
ready gone. Can Sumner Love;oy, our own Sedg-
wick and many others, narrow down their opposi-
tion to this internal institution to this point?


If the people who Ike slavery are to continue it
where it now is, why not let majority of tho peo-
pie introduce it where it is not if they wish to do
so. We ask our Republican friends if their posi-
toh IS not clearly illogical and inconsistent.


The doctrine of squat.er sovereignty as taught
by Thayer. is thousand times more consistent
than this kind of opposition to slavery where there
is no slavery to oppose.


Gentlemen, there is only one OF two ways open
before you, you must take either Squatter Sover-
eighty, or Radical Abolition. On the former plat
form you are sure of defeat, on the latter of
ultimate triumph.
Year: 1860

CHiNEsE MEDICAL PRAcTIcE.-The Chi
nese do nearly every thing by the rule Of con.
traries, and they do not depart from This
practice, even in the payment Of physicians
The medical adviser Of Chinese family is
paid certain amount as an annual salary to
look after the health of the family. When
ever any member OF the family is sick, The
salary of the physicien ceases until the
health Of the person is restored They thus
make it for the dirsct interest Of the physi-
clan to preserve the health OF the patient
instead Of making it for bis immediate inter
est to prolong the sickness.
Year: 1860

DEER CAUGHT.-The Nevada Democrat
says that two deer were caught last week in
the South Yuba Ditch, by one Of the agents
We learn that more or less Of these animal.
are caught in the ditch about this time yearly
when they are travelling. In crossing. they
occasionally mistake the width OF the ditch
and fall in, and in consequence ofthe depth
Of water lhey are not able to get out and are
easily taken.
Year: 1860

There is now in Richmond lad between
six and seven years of age, who is said to
play chess with extraordinary skill. II 10
thought he will soon become rival Of
the celebrated Paul Mcrphy for the champ
ion chess belt.
Year: 1860

PROUD oF THE CRlFr.-A New Jersey pa
per boasts that there is not a single printer
in the State Prision OF that State. and but
one in the Legislature , Good for the
printers Of New Jersey.
Year: 1860

The Nevada Democrat, in abiding TO this
road speaks as follows. with regard to its
probable continuation over the Sierra
New ada -


" We have good reason to believe that
this road will form a portion Of the great
railway that must sooner or later unite the
navieable waters Of the Mississippi and the
Pacific ocean. The Henness Pass is one oi
the most favorable for railroad that has
been discovered on the Sierra Nevada range
and the road from Folsom will approach il
at such an angle with the base OF the noun
iaius that heavy grade will not be requir-
ed. When Nevada is reached oue-half OF the
altitude OF the Pass. little more than half
the distance from Folsom to the summit,
has been accomplished. Three millions OF
dollars will construct the road from Folsom
TO Nevada, and experienced engineers who
know the country well, are satisfied that
three millions more will carry the road from
Nevada to the summit of the Henness Pass.
There is another advantage that this route
possesses over any other, From Sacramen-
to to Eureka South, distance Of about one
mile, the road would pass through the most
thickly settled, the most prosperous, and
most permanent mining section Of the State
1t would be the thoroughfare, for trade and
travel, of not less than seventy-five thousand
inhabitants. In no other part of the State
can a road be built Of one hundred miles ia
length, that would be the thoroughfare fol
SO large population"
Year: 1860

A large amount of statistical matter, per
taing to the business which might be expect
ed to pass over the road, has been collected
and was appended to the Report. This in
formation. however. has not yet been pro
perly digested and in its present state is OF
no value to the general reader.
Year: 1860

If we may credit the report of the southern
papers, the blind slave boy, Tom, of whom we
have already given our readers some account,
is one of the most remarkable instances of in
explicable genius that has ever been heard.
All great men have moments of Inspiration
that seem to be the effect of some visitation of
a supernatural power rather than the result of
mere human intellect, and this, though often
evlnced at an early age, cannot be called pre-
cocity. There have been poets who in early
youth have poured forth strains that all their
production of maturer years could not excel
Among musicians and artists there are similar
instances, which can only be attributed to
some mysterious gift of deity that cannot be
explained The negro boy, Tom, though on a
different scale of action, is another argument
in behalf Of this theory. Though blind slave
boy, without musical culture, and without
he evlnces an ability in musical execution that
usually requires years of labor and undoubted
musical genius to attain.


few nights ago, in New Orleans. the mana
ger or conductor Of his entertainments request
ed any of the audience to play on the piano a
piece OF music not common or popular. A lady
present played Spanish piece of some length,
and rendered more difficult by elaborate varia-
tions. As she played the boy listened, leaning
his elbows on the end of the piano, his hands
clutched In the wool over his ears. his sightless
eyes rolling upward, and his whole body with
ing and twisting as if in pain When the lady
finished he played the piece so as to astonish
everybody. The lady detected few faults,
and, being requested, again played the selec-
ton. Tom listened again, and afterwards
played it without mistake. A few days after
he remembered it perfectly, and played it
again when asked.


Wig Tom this is rather an exercise of mem
ory than of absolute musical talent, for his
memory is as great though less intelligent in
other things. If long sentence is said to him
in any foreign language, he will at once repeat
1t just as it was spoken, but without really un-
derstanding q word. So it may be with music
He probably does not understand it, though in
this case the facility with which he can find
the right notes on the piano is as marvellous as
the memory which can retain the piece after
one or two hearings Mozart had this memory
when he heard and then reproduced on paper
the music of the Miserere at Rome; only, his
was an Intelligent memory, cultivated in the
art of music, while Blind Toms memory is a
gift, of which the lad cannot appreciate the ex-
tent
Year: 1860

Over the beauty of the plum and apricot there
grows bloom and beauty more exquisite than
the fruit itself-a soft, delicate flush that over
spreads its blushing cheek. Now if you strike
your hand over that it is gone forever, for
it never grows but once. The flower that hangs
in the morning impearled with dew-arrayed as
no queenIy woman ever was arrayed in jewels
once shake it 80 that the beads roll off, and you
may sprinkle water over it as you please, yet it
can never be made again what it was when the
dew fell silently upon it from heaven! On a
frosty morning you may see the panes of glass
covered with landscapes, mountains lakes and
trees, blending in beautiful, fantastic picture.
Now lay your bands upon the glass, and by the
scratch OF your finger, or by the warmth of your
palm, all the delicate tracery will be obiterated.
So there is in youth beauty and purity of
character, which when once touched and defiled
can never be restored---a fringe more delicate
than frost work, and which, when torn and
broken, will never be re-embroidered. A man
who has spotted and soiled his garments in
youth, though he may seek to make them white
again, can never wholly do it, even were he to
wash them with his tears. When young man
leaves his fathers house with the blessing of his
mothers tears wet upon bis forehead, Ii be once
loses that purity of character it is loss that be
can never make whole again. Such is the con-
sequence of crime. Its effects cannot be erad-
Gated, 1t can only be forgiven.
Year: 1860

New WAY OF GETTING A LIvINe.-Coleman
in his work on Butterflies, gives the following
description "A deadly enemy to the whole cat
erpillar race is ever on the alert, winging about
in the shape of a small, black fly, in search of
an exposed and defenceless caterpillar. Having
first selected her victim, the fly pierces his body
with sharp cutting instrument she is armed
with, and in the wound deposits an egg the cat
erpiar winces little at this treatment, but
seems to attach little Importance to it, Mean
while his enemy repeats its thrusts, until some
thirty or forty eggs, germs of the destroyers, are
safely lodged in his body, and his doom Is cer-
tain beyond hope. The eggs quickly hatch into
grubs, who begin to gnaw away at the unhappy
creatures flesh, thus reducing him gradually,
but by a profound instinct, keeping clear of the
vital organs, as if knowing full well that the
creature must keep On feeding, and digesting too,
or their own supply woiid speedily fail, just as
assurers, while draining client, keep up his
credit with the world as long as they can
Weaker grows the caterpillar, as the gnawing
worms within grow stronger and nearer matu-
rity sometimes he has strength to take the
chrysais shape, but out of this he never comes
a butterfly; the consuming grubs now finish vi
tails and all, turn to pup@ in his empty skin, and
come out soon black flies like the parent.
Year: 1860

BY GEO. D. PRENTICE.
That dark bright eye-that dark bright eye
Where thoughts are pictured pure and high,
And loves young visions softly CLEAN
Like rose-tints on the twilight stream
That dark bright eye-oh, have felt


The witchery of its magic rare
Come o'er me till could have knelt


To worship the bright spirit there.
That raven hair-that raven hair
That woos the soft and amorous air
And DER thy brow's pure whiteness flows
Like clouds DER mornings drifted SHOWS
That raven hair--I love to mark


Its clusters DER thy temples rove,
While sweetly from its ringlets dark


Is breathing all the soul of love.
That lovely cheek-that LOVELY cheek
Where joy and beauty seem to speak
From every lineament, and twine
Their fower-wreaths Ger its virgin shrine
That lovely cheek-how sweet to muse


On the dear tints that DER it rise,
And gazing on those breathing hues,


To dream of love and Paradise.
That floating forin-that floating form
With heavens own glowing spirit warm,
So beautiful, the vision fair
Seems bright creature of the air
That floating form-oh, have dreamed


Such forms were in the bowers above
Too bright for earth the vision seemed,


A thing of ecstacy and love.
Year: 1860

CONTROLLING THE INoLINATIoN.-It is hard
work to control the working of inclination, and
turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,
know from experience. God has given Us, in
measure, the power to make our own fate; /;
and when our energies seem to demand sus-
tenance they cannot get-When our will strains
after path we may not follow-we need neil
ther starve from inanition, stand still in de-
spair; we have but to seek another nourishment
for the mind, as strong us the forbidden food it
longed to taste, and perhaps purer; and to hew
out for the adventurous foot road as direct and
broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against
us, if rougher than it.-ChGrl0tte Bronte.
Year: 1860

FACTS FOR Poor FARMRRs-"Those farmers
who have most difficulty to make both ends meet
always plow most and keep most stock Now,
these men take the true plan to keep themselves
always poor, because their crops and stock are
always poor and bring little" So writes John
johnson in letter to the Secretary of our State
Society; and he thus illustrates his statement
''lt Is good profit to raise three hundred bushels
from ten acres, but when it takes thirty acres to
raise that amount it is raised at loss So it is
with cattle and sheep; you will see the think
ing farmer making four-year old steers worth
from $50 to $50 each and bis neighbors at the
same age not worth over $25 to $40" His ad-
vice to the latter is, If his land Is exhausted he
should plow no more than he can thoroughly
manure. Seed with clover and grass and let it
rest, and that field will not only pay well for til
lage but it will furnish manure (f rightly man.
ged) to make another field of the same size rich
also" And then keep it rich do not run it
with grain until again exhausted, or 1.-THE latter
end OF that land will be worse than the frst."-
Country Gentleman.
Year: 1860

CAN ANY ONE TELL ?-Oan any one tell why
men who cannot pay small bills can always find
plenty OF money to buy liquor, and treat when
happening among their frends2


Can any one tell how young men who dodge
their washerwoman and are always behind with
their landlord, can play billiards night and day,
and are always ready for game of poker or
seven up?


Can any one tell how men live and support
their families who have no income and do not
work, and why others, who are industrious and
constantly employed, half starvea


Can any one tell how it is that man is too
poor to pay for newspaper who is able to pay
a dollar or two day for tobacco, whiskey and
separs
Year: 1860

IHE EYE OF THE NEEDLE-The Scriptural
slmile, that 1t is harder for rich man to enter
the kingdom of Heaven than for Camel to go
through the eye OF needle, which has pnzzled
many an unearned head, is clearly explained by
modern traveller.


In the East, all walled cities have small gate
along side of the great gates, which is called, in
the hgurative language OF that region, "the eye
OF the needle" When it is understood that the
large gates are closed at night, and that trav-
eler arrived afterwards, must enter through the
''eye OF the needle" through which he can take
his camel, if he desires to do SO, only divesting
him of burden, and causing him to kneel down
the metaphor is as clear as it is simple and
beautiful
Year: 1860

To LADIES WHO HAVE DANCED WITH THE
PRINoE.-What an event among crinolinedom
We are afraid he will have much to answer for.
Young men who weie formerly considered par
agons of perfection by the same young ladies,
will doubtless be snubbed ncontinently. A
hand that has been grasped by live Prince.
will not be bestowed upon every chance conner,
depend upon it. Have care, girls! Don't
carry your heads too high, or at least not so
high that you may not have the pleasure of tell
ing to your children ''all about the Prince" In
short, don't be SO pufed up that one Of those
DAYS somebody will point out withered old
maid, and somebody else will exclaim, incredu-
lously in your hearng-"What the Prince
dance with her! Well truly, there is no ac-
counting for taste!" Not the solitary "Oh but
she was pretty once,' will take the sting from
the rejoinder, rs it possible F'-Panny Fern.
Year: 1860

Truthful expression of our admiration of the
good qualities of others is the surest way of fix
ing in their hearts determination to excel, and
this species of admiration is very far from fiat
tory