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Year: 1860

We publish in another place the curse PRO
nounced upon Victor Emanuel, King of Sar-
dina, by Pope Plus Ninth, for his adhesion
to the policy Of Louis Nopoleon, concerning
the temporalities Of the Holy See. He curses
him in soul and body-curses him from head
to foot-curses his eyes and his ears, his
mouth and his nose, his tongue and his throat,
his heart and his bowels, his hands and his
arms, his legs and his ankles, his stomach
and his brain, and every part and parcel Of
his corporeal frame-curses him when he
eats and when he drinks, when he lies down
and when he rises up when he walks and
when he sits-eurses him in every conceiva-
ble thing that he can do or think or say
hedges him around with curses, so that he
can neither turn o the right nor the left, nor
move forward or backward, advance or re-
treat, without meeting the anathemas of AL
mighty Rome, and feeling the breath of her
burning curse upon his brow.


To those who are brought up in the Cath
Ollie faith this Bull of Excommunication is a
fearful thing. and the language that is used
in the curse alluded to, would be well calcu-
| lated to affect the Imagination Believing
in the power of the Church, if you moved
your tongue to speak you would feel that it
was about to be palsed. If you sat, the
thought would be present that you were
doomed If you rose, it would be with the
same feeling. If you lay down for repose,
the thought that you were aceursed would
murder sleep or grmly haunt your uneasy
slumbers If you walked forth into the sun
shine, to shake the gloom from around you,
the demon thought" would be with you
still, and the sweets of sound and sight pail
upon your senses. You could not move your
You could not raise your hand, without the
fancy that an invisible blight was upon it,
wasting it to bone. You could not think of
a solitary portion of your mortal frame, with
out the inseparable thought that maedc-
ton was upon it. If you appealed to your
loftier part-the regal, self-poising mind
to disenthrall you, 10 You would remember
that the seat and throne of your reason itself
was accursed, and that the swift and subtle
brain refused to do its office, at the bidding
of your will.


Great God to the believer in the power
of the Church of Rome to make good her an
athemas, it seems to us that no conceivable
horror could be greater than curse like
this. Victor Emanuel, however says that he
can stand it.
Year: 1860

The Inauguration Of the statue of Clay at
Richmond, Virginia, a short time ago, Is de-
seyibed as having been q grand occasion.
Twenty or thirty thousand people were as
sembled, and the display was magnificent
Upon the unyeillns Of the statue, when the
sublime features Of the great orator looked
familarly down upon the assembled multi
tude hundreds, who had known and loved
the mighty statesman and patriot, burst into
tears They remembered how, in the days
Of his glory, he stood with no silent lips be-
fore them and his mute imsge yeas only too
eloquent reminder that the "heaven touched
tongue" was stilled forever.


Preceding this Inauguration was that of the
statue Of the god-ke Webster at Boston, and
preceding that, the Inauguration of the
statues of Warren, of Jackson and Of Wash
ington.


The people have been somewhat late and
tardy in erecting these memorials and per-
petuating in marble and in bronze the fea-
lures aud forms of the demi-gods of their
country But, better late than never, and it
is gratifying to see the awakening spirit of
American pride and patriotism in this re-
spect. Let these memorials and these "coun-
terfeit presentments" accumulate, till the
ewes of our childrens children shall rest upon
some monument of their country's greatness
in whatever quarter of the land they may
chance to look. History will appeal to the
few, but the marble memorials to the many.
Patriotism will be stimulated at the sight.
To know who these honored ones were in


their day and generation, and why the pre-


servation of their form and feature, for future


generations, will be the first inquiry of child
hood and youth, and old age will answer
that they did well for their country and tell
the story Of their deeds and achievements.
Who, in after years, when the present
generation shall have passed away, could
stand beneath the stll but eloquent statue of
Cav and not ask of his deeds in the elder
days Of the Republic, and who could hear of
his sublime achievements for his country,
without a blessing upon his memory? a
land which could produce such men, might
well be considered worth preserving-lnisht
well be defended with blood-might well be
sustained with every sacrifice that it is pos
sible for man or woman to make
Year: 1860

CUTTING AyFRAY.-Iu San Francisco on
Tuesday, Manuel Cruz and Simon Costa got
into difficulty, whereupon the latter cut the
former in the face with knife, making a
very bad wound. The cut extends from the
right eye to the mouth and the flesh is laid
open 70 the bone. A warrant was issued for
the arrest Of Costa.
Year: 1860

By the last Pony Express we have the fol-
lowing paragraph


"The King of Bomba was about to sacrifice
1000 persons to the memory of the late King 5
father"


The question naturally arises, is it not noble
philanthropy which would take the subjects OF
such king and place them @nder such u sys-
tenn OF slavery as that now existing in the
Southern States? We think so. Who would
not rather be the slave of Southern master,
with abundance of food and life protection
against all, thaa the slave of an African savage
king? Let the miserable dupes of mistaken
philanthropy, of a falsely interpreted religion,
of sickly, sentimental morality, of Utopian,
licentious, red republican sort of liberty read
and ponder over this little paragraph brought
by the Pony. Let them remember it in connec-
tion with the additional fact that the present
King of Dahomey actually, in the course of one
year after the decease of his father, sacrificed
10000 of his subjects to appease the names of
that dead old negro king.
Year: 1860

WHAT He SEEKs.-James Buchanan says the
election of Lincoln will cause the destruction
of this Government. And yet he has welded
the tremendous influence of the Government to
prevent cooperation Of the Douglas and
Breckinridge supporters in New York and other
Sates-thus promoting, to the fullest extent of
his power, the cause of Black Republcanism.-
What is it that this infatuated old man seek p
Dissolution The infamy of being the last
President? 1t would seem so. If he were to
order his Office holders in New York to with
draw their electoral ticket, and support the reg
ular Douglas ticket, that State would certainly
be lost to Lincoln, and his election would thus
certainly be defeated. Why does he not give
the commando Does he really seek tie infa-
nous distinction of being the last President of
this Republic, or at least the last Democratic
President?
Year: 1860

policy, or upon local issues. These affect


not mans democracy, nor yet as to who


may be our individual choices for next


president or delegate to Congress. OHr
democracy we cannot permit to be measur-
ed by pariiality for men. principles, not
men" has been the motto Of our party for
times past, and such will it continuance to
be. So long as we act upon this axiom,
will we continue 10 be united; so soon as
we cease to keep it in view, we will find
ourselves broken up into factions and
cliques, and shameful defeat will be the re-
ward of desertion from principle.


Let not the taunts Of Republicans, then,
have the effect Of destroying our present
unanimity. Their attempts to show that
this or that candidate has been nisused by
failing to receive the nomination Of our par
ty, is done only to goad Democrats into a
support Of their candidates. All sensible
men will at once perceive their object is to
distract us, and then secure an easy vic
tory for themselves. Let all good Demo
crats at once show the Republican party's
fuglers that their labors to this end is be-
yond accomplishment. We are appa-
renily irreconcilably divided in our pre-
ferences for candidates, until such times as
conventions decide the question for u.s.
After this, Republicans may well stand
aghast at the facility with which we re-
unite in support Of our nominees. The re-
cent struggle for the sherifalty in our pre-
cinct meeting some two weeks since, we
might cite as an instance. The warmth
with which some espoused the causes Of
their preferences, the ardor (amounting to


little short Of bitterness) with which they
pressed the election Of delegates who would
favor the nomination of their favorites,
may have induced the belief this feeling
would be encouraged. But let none be de-
ceived herein. The very result of that eau
Gus has strengthened our party at least thir-
ty votes in this precinct, and those who it
was then asserted sustained a defeat, will
now join heart and hand in defeat of any
men the Republicans may see ct to array
against us. In this they will be further
joined BY every disappointed aspirant for
office before the county convention. If
there is anything soothing in this to our
then let them, like bees, suck
iustenance therefrom.


AS soon as the Republicans shall have
named their men for the sacrifice, we will
institute comparison between their can
iidates and our own.
Year: 1860

B6- A thunder storm, the first we have
seen for over two years, arose very sudden
ly on the evening of Wednesday last, and
has had quite perceptible effect upon the
temperature Of the air. Vivid flashes Of
lightning rent dark and portentious clouds
in the far distant eastern hoGzon, and the
loud rolling Of the thunder, as it rever
berated in a subdued but protracted echo
in the coast range of mountains, sounded
grand yet gloomy as we never heard it be
fore. Thunder and lightning is so uncom
mon here, that it invariably leaves an i'm
preston Of awe on the mind Considerable
rain has fallen since that storm.
Year: 1860

B1-our worthy contemporary Of the Reg
istsr Of Port Townsend, in its issue Of the
9Th instant, takes exception TO the terms
in which we alluded to the action Of the
commanding officer at Fort Steilacoom, in
despatching the Massachusetts with a de.
tachment of twenty men, to cruise in the
Sound, and aid in the enforcement of our
laws against the Northern Indians.


We fully agree with the Register, that
this act Of the Colonel commanding, "was
but simple discharge of duty" but we
still hold that the promptness which char
acterized it, 'is commendable, and reflects
the highest creditupon the military"


We are unable to discover in the article
alluded to, any grounds for the concluding
comments Of our friend. We are we'll
aware that the Massachusetts is not at all
adapted to the protection Of our people
against the inrOads of the saVages, and full
lyappreciate the Importance Of the subject
and the necessity which exists that the gov.
ernment should, at once, detail an efficient
war steamer to be kept actively cruising in
the Sound and the neighborhood of the
Straits Of Fuca. This we have repeatedly
urged, and trust that speedy action will be
had in the matter. Meanwhile, however
this service must be be performed by the
Massachusetts, and that it will be promptly
performed when required, we have the best
assurance
Year: 1860

BG- Some two months ago, Philip
George was convicted Of the murder Of o
man named Clark, at Corvallis, Oregon
and sentenced to be hung on the lst inst
A few days previous to the time fixed fol
the. execution, portion of the citizens Of
that place petitioncd the Governor for a
respite of the sentence for thirty days The
prayer Of the petitioners was granted, and
in due time the document was presented
to the sheriff but in order to make it legal
The signature Of the Secretary of State
must be appended. A messenger was dis
patched to Salem, the Capitol, to procure
the requisite signature, but it was hardly
probable that he could return in time to
stay the execution. The fatal hour arrived
and the culprit was led forth to the scaffold
No messenger arrived from Salem. The
prisoner professed himself ready to die,
having made his peace with God. He was
certain it was through his mothers prayers
that God had brought him to repentance
and he charged all who were present to
take warning from his terrible example
After he had concluded his remarks, the
sheriff informed the people of the facts
above stated iu reference TO the respite
He did not know what course to pursue
but finally put the question to the specta-
tors, who decided that the respite should
be respected, and the prisoner remanded to
jail. The Union says there were 5000
persons present.
Year: 1860

U"Paddy," said an employer to
his laborer, you are to begin work
at five in the morning, and leave at
seven in the afternoon" "Sure, sir,no
said Paddy, wouldn't it be better to
begin at siYin in the morning aud
lave at FIVE in the afthernoon2"
Year: 1860

SUICIDE OF A BoY.-.Newton Wright,
a lad fourteen years DID, son Of Hiram,
Wright, of Wayne Township, shot
himself in the forehead yesterday
morning at his fathers residence,
about three aud a half miles west OF
the city. lie had been to school, and
being too unwell to prosecute his stu
dies, the teacher sent for his father to
take him home. After arriving at
nome, and being in room alone with
HE sister, he remarked that when he
got we'll he would hang himself. In
a few minutes alterward ho went to
bed where he had a loaded pistol con
cealed under the pillow, took it out,
placed the muzzle against his fore
head, and discharged its contents into
his head. The noise of the pistol
sandsthe screaming: g:ofthe little girl at;
tracted the attention Of his father and
mother, who wentirto the room whore
they had left their son, and found him
in the embrace Of death. The neigh
bors were sent for, but before any Of
them arrived the boy was dead In
dSaEGDOttS Journal.
Year: 1860

and perception failed him, and he heard
and saw no more. He fell senseless at
the bottom of the engine, but even thea
his inanimate body continued TO be
whirled round as before, for Hanehen did
not dare to trust appearances in such a
villain, and would no, venture to suspend
the working Of the mill or stop the mill
gear and tackle from running at their
fullest speed. At length she heard a
loud knocking at the door, and few to
open it. 1t was her master and his fam
lily, accompanied by several Of his neigh
bors, all in the utmost CONSERVATION and
wonder at seeing the mill sails at full
swing on Sunday and still more so when
they found the poor child lying bound
on The grass, who however, was TOO te--
rifed to give any account of what had
happened.


Hanchen in a few words told all; and
then her spirit, which had sustained her
through such scenes of terror, gave way
under the sense of safety and relief, and
she fell fainting in their arms, and was
with much difficulty recovered. The
machinery of the mill was at once stop
ped and the inanimate rufian dragged
from his dreadful prison. Heinrich, too
was brough; forth from the miller's
chamber, and both were in a short time
sent bound under a strong escort, tc
Bonn, where they soon met the reward
of their crimes.


The history of this extraordinary act
of presence of mind concludes by telling
US that Hanchen thus effectually cured
of her pcnchaat for her unworthy suitor
became eventually the wife of the mil
ler's eldest son, and thus lived all her
life in the scenes of her great danger and
happy deliverance.
Year: 1860

ONE SERMON DAY.-Henry Ward
Beecher, who generally says just about
what be pleases, in speaking the other
day in New York, on the influence of the
newspaper press, is reported to have
spoke as follows:


"The articles of the Press go farther
than the sermon, and carry with them
really more weight-certainly where one
hears three-which is an abomination
before God and man. No preacher who
is fit to preach a sermon is fit to preach
more than one day, and no man is ft
to hear more, or if he does he is not fl
for much else. Sermons are like boys
popguns, however many wads you put
in, its the last wad that drives the others
out"
Year: 1860

HoERIBLE.-Thc marshal of A Western village recent
" arrested the Inmates Of house of l-ame and they
were taken bsbre a magistrate for examination. There
three girls among the prisoners and the eye OF
the magistrate fell upon of them, he grew deadly
pale, and hastily adjourned the court Among those
wretched and abandoned girls he recognized the once
fair features OF his daughter Several years before
while attending female seminary IN Eastern State
she had eoped with worthless fellow and her father
had never heard of her her until the terrible
morning Deserted by her husband she adopted life
of prostitution, and found her way TO the West The
father, unknown 10 her; moved also the West aud
settled in the yisge above alluded toC7egSidHd Plain
Dealer
Year: 1860

M are now prepared 20 show country Merchants uueh


w larger more attractive and cheaper stock OF spring
Niothln, an heretofore having Important advantages IN


The purchase OF goods preparations and an
experience of more than twenty years IN the manufacture and
sale oi Ctng We believe offer desirable styles ana Bet
Ter workmanship for The lower prices than any other
house IN The trade Devong The whole Of attention 70 %
branch Of business alone build the trade Of
city offer inducements those Of house In
any market In this country
Year: 1860

New YoRg, June l4.-Advices received at this
point from Acapulco state that the yellow fever is
raging among the inhabitants of that place.


Within the space Of sin weeks there we're no less
than 500 deaths.


The American Consul and twenty Americans died
with the disease.


The inhabitants of Acapulco are leaving in large
numbers for the interior in order to avoid the fever
Year: 1860

THE Loss OF CHnDREN.-Those what have
never passed through this fiery furnace which
tries the inm0st heart, cannot sympathise with
the bereayed parents whose hearts bleed over
their children dead. To describe the anguish
which rends their hearts as they gaze upon the
loved forms on whom their fondest hopes and
highest aspirations have rested so firmly, now
cold and lfeess in their coffin home, would re-
quire q pen dipped in the very essence of the
subimest sorrow itself None but the parent
can feel il, and none but those who have mourned
like them can sympathize with those who mourn
the death of their children. The loss no power
on earth can make good, or even alleviate No
power on earth can bring them back and place
them again beneath their parents loving gaze
and fond care.


From earth they have taken their final depart
ure, never. never to return. The little chair
they occupied, the little plate and knife and fork
they used, will be Of service to them no more,
but merely lonely mementos Of their existence.
The patter of their little feet upon the floor, and
the music Of their sweet, sweet voice will greet
the parents ear never again on earth. All will
he a recurrence of what is deary and dismal
But hope, pumed by religion, points to happy
meeting in another and better world. The
earth's sorrow will be swallowed up in heavens
joy. The earth's tears shall be wiped away, and
the parents and children will meet to part nc
m0re-never more Most cheering consolation
for afflicted humanity ETchdnge.
Year: 1860

How TO DO UP SHIRT BosOMS.-We oft en- hear
ladies express desire to know how the gloss is
produced on a new linen bosom, etc, and in
order to crafty them, suboin the following
Teoipe


Take two ounces Of white gum arabic powder,
put 1t In pitcher, and pour on pint or more
boiling water, according to the strength you de-
sire let it stand all night, and in the morning
ponr carefully from the dregs into a clear bottle,
and cork it for use. A tablespoonful of this
gum water, stirred into a pint of starch, will
give lawns either white or cOlored, look of
newness, to which nothing else can restore them
after they have been washed


For washing fine and elegant colors, the
Scientific American advises ladies to boil some
bran in rain water, and the liquid cold
Nothing can equal it for ease upon color and for
cleaning cloths.
Year: 1860

COUNTR MEkCHANIS
TO our unusually large stock of Goods. Our
stock comprises every article in the Clothing ana
FURNISHING line. We have constantly on hand
the largest stock and greatest variety Of CAssI-
MERE and WOOL H ATS, of any house in
the city, and our prices for these Goods are less
than of any other House, as we receive them
direct from the manufacturers on consignment.
Our stock of


FALL and WINTER Goods
is particularly attractive, and the great feature
TO the Country Merchant is the unusually low
priceless than the cost of importation.


We also keep the Staple articles IN the Dry
Goods line. which Goods we have purchased in
this market under the Hammer. and are Offering
them at .Neu York cost-and less. We publish
this Card in order that may make new ac-
ouantances and induce those who have not here
tofore purchased of US, to call and inspect our
stock.


All we ask is an opportunity TO show the Goods
and name the prices, and we have no fear Of the
result Good articles and low prices are the great
inducements to all who purchase to sell again.


Merchants who buy of us can make good
profit and sell to their customers at q low figure.
We remain, respectfully.


Your obedient servants.
BADGER & LtNDENBERGER,


Wholesale Clothing and Hat Warehouse,
Nos. l03 and l05 Battery street.


San Francisco, Oct. 6, 1860. 1913.
Year: 1860

sentatves and then in the Senate, down to this
day, always supporting it and never voting
against it l have made more speeches, and
introduced more measures, and done more la.
Dor, to pass homestead bill than all the repub.
lican leaders in the country. We would have
succeeded long ago in getting good home.
stead bill through, and having it the law of the
land, if the negro question had not stood in the
way.


The fact is, on this subject of the public lands
have felt deeply. While our land system is
admirable in most respects, that portion of it
which offers the lands at public auction for
spectators t buy, in my opinion is abomina-
Bile. have repeatedly said In the Senate that,
if could have my way. there never should be
another land sale on the American continent.
would apply the provisions of the pre-. emp.
ton law and the homestead bill to all ur lands,
and no man should ever take an acre of them
except for actual settlement and cultivation.
That has been my policy for years, and, but for
the negro question, we would have carried it
through. So it is with every measure affecting
the prosperity and material interests OF our
country. You cannot get one passed until you
drive out of Congress this negro question. The
democratic party desires to get the negro ques-
ton out of Congress, in order that white men
can have a little time for their business. The
republicans tell you, if you will duly put them
in power, they will do all these things. They
are going to do these things. and yet they are
going to keep the negro question forever in
Congress. tell you that. so long as that excl.
ting question is kept there, it will absorb all
others. 1t diverts public attention from the Fl.
nancial interests, State and National. and make
elections turn solely on the negro question, in
stead of upon others affecting the material in
terests in W ich we all have SO much at stake.


"a PANIC" says the New Orleans Plea
yune, On the receipt of the telegram announ.
cling the defeat of the Democracy in Penn
sylvania, "was produced in the money mar
ket in our city" In New York the election
had no effect upon the maket.