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Year: 1859

This is a simple song, 'tis true,


And songs like these are never nice;
And yet well try and scatter through


A pinch or two of good advice.
Then listen, ponous friends, and learn
Never 10 boast Of much renown;
For fortunes wheel Is on the turn,


And some go up, and some come down.
We know a vast amount of stocks


a vast amount Of pride insures;
But fate has picked 80 many locks,


We wouldn't like 10 warrant yours
Remember, then, and never spurn


The one whose hand is hard and brown;
For he Is likely TO go up


And you are likely 70 come down.
Another thing you will agree,


Crhe truth may be as well confessed,)
That Goldfish Aristocracy' t'
IL but a Scdly thing at best
And though the fishes larre and strong
May seek the little ones 10 drown,
Yet fishes all both great and small,


Are going up and coming down
Our lives are full of chance and change,
And chance, you know, IL never sure;
And 'twere a doctrine new and strange
That places high are most secure
And though the tickle god may smile,
And yield the sceptre and the crown
'Ts only for little while;


Then b goes up and A comes down.
THIS world for you and me, my friend,
Hath something more than pounds and pence
Then let me humbly recommend


a little use of common sense.
Thus lay all pride of place aside,


And have care on whom you frown
For fear you'll see him going up,
When you are only coming down.
Year: 1859

Young men don't rely upon friends
Don't rely upon the name OF your ances-
tors. Thousands have spent the prime
Of life in the vain hope of those whom
they called friends; and thousands have
shaved because they had a rich father
Rely upon the good name which is made
by your own cxcrtions; and know thai
better than the best friend you can hav,
is unqucstionablc determination uniteC
with decision Of character.
Year: 1859

RoMANoE-READrNo IN THE UNITED STATES
The people of the United States show
a strong prediction for light and 6c-
titious literature. Of two thousand old
and new volumes issued in this country
in recent year, about onc.half were
works of fiction or imagination. In
France only about one-ninth are works ol
the same class, and in England works
of fancy constitute but one seventh OF
the whole number published.
Year: 1859

utter hopelessness of this notion. Throughout his
speech be takes the tone aid develop, the ideas Of
Caleb Gushing. John Van Buren, and other North
ern lesdt rs Of the Democracy. He takes his stand
as far or further than they do from the Republican
platform and the Republican party The leadiug
men of the South Am- ricsn faction must o. course
stand with him. And while they hold such an at
ttude it is idle and absurd for the Republican party
10 waste its strength and distract its counses IN
the hope of securing tie aid Of the South Ameri-
cans.
Year: 1859

The PRESIDENT IN 1900.-The boy is
now living who will be President of the
United States in 1900 He is about ten
or twelve years of age. His parents are
in humble circumstances, but Of sterling
traits of character, and their son is not one
of those dirty, noisy boys that spend their
days, evening aid Sabbaths in idleness and
rowdyism. On the contrary, he is OF a
serious cast, is very studious, and withaI
is we'll behaved. Teachers, weig gh well
your responsibility The future President
may be in that grammer class that you
think scarcely worthy of a respectful at
tention. What boy Of all our readers
will lay claim to this distinction kecol
lect, the future President is not. found
amongst the Sabbath breakers, the every
day oilers, the evening rowdies the bias
phemous, the vulgar, or one of those thai
love and make a lie. lie is not one Of
those who pride themselves as being Young
America, and despise the authority of q
father, or break away from the gentle re'
straint of good mother.
Year: 1859

IRON ToEs.-A man who can endure to,
have his corns mashed without grumbling
is undoubtedly possessed OF q heavenly
disposition. One of those true Christians
bc'ng once at a political meeting, he said
in pleasant manner to a big burly fellow
who was standing upon his toe ,iest as


"My dear sir, are you not miller?"


No, sir, why do you ask ?"


"Why sir, the fact is, l thought you
we're miller, and very honest one, too.
because you have been grinding my coru
this half hour without taking TOLL ~
Year: 1859

HAPpIyEss.-Eow let me tell you secret
a secret worth hearing. This looking forward
for enjoyment don't pay. From what know Of
it. would as soon chase butterflies for living,
or bottle up nnoonshine for cloudy nights. The
only true way to happiness is take the drops Of
happiness as Cod gives them to US every day
Of our lives The boy must learn to be happy
when be is plodding over his lesson; the appren-
tce when be is learning his trade; the merchant
while he is making his fortune. Il be fails tc
learn this art, he will be sure to miss his en-
ioTment. she's he gains that he sighe foT
Year: 1859

The Troy Wing says Ned Buntline was mar
ned in that city, on Saturday last, to bloom
ing Dutch maiden, who was tending bar in q
lager beer saloon. Ned fell in love at first sight
and made an offer of his hand and heart The
Teuton accepted him. Ned went through the
marriage ceremony himself and Immediately
started off with his bride.
Year: 1859

smelt gas Some one from upstairs said he
smelt gas. Much against his will, the clerk
proceeded to find where the leak was. 1t
seemed stronger in the neighborhood of the
room occupied by the bride and groom. The
clerk concluded to knock at the door Of the
room
Year: 1859

TIN CIRCUS AT THE AMFHITHEATER.-Th circus
was opened last night, and before the performance
commenced every seat was full-the best criticism
or notice that the worthy managers and propri-
etors could DESIRE
Year: 1859

Il In the lives of the saddest of.us, there are
bright days like this, when we feel as if we
could take this great world IN our arms
Then come the gloomy hours when the fire
will neither burn in our hearts or on the
hearths, and all without or within is dismal,
cold and dark. We believe every hearth
has its secret sorrows which the world
knows not, and oftentimes we call man
cold, when he is only sad.-LongslioU.
Year: 1859

GREELEY's BUFFALO CALcULATIoNs.-In one
of Greeley's latest letters, written during his
journey across the plains, he makes the follow
ing apparently extravagant estimate Of the
number of buffalo seen:


What strikes the stranger with the most
amazement is their immense numbers. l know
a million is great many, but ! am confident
we saw that number yesterday. Certainly all
we saw could not have stood 0n ten square miles
of ground. Often, the country for miles on
either hand seemed quite black with them. The
soil is rich, and well matted with their favOrite
grass. Yet it is all Except very little on the
creek bottoms, near the timber) eaten down
like an overtaxed sheep-pasture in dry August.
Consider that we have traversed more than one
hundred miles in width since we first struck
them. and that for the most of this distance the
buffalo have been constantly in sight, and COL
tinue for some twenty-five miles further on-be-
ing the breadth of their present range. which
has length of perhaps thousand miles, and
you have some approach to all idea of their
countless millions. doubt whether the domes
ticated horned cattle of the United States equal
the numbers while they must fall considerably
short in weight of those wild ones.
Year: 1859

observation-disclosures the capital of So
nora, contains 10000 inhabitants. The city
itself consists of brick and adobe houses of the
usual Mexican style, but generally plastered
and painted. few are two stories high, with
fat roofs aud commonly simple exterior. They
present no striking picture when seen from one
Of the nearest hills, but the many beautiful
shade trees in their courtyards and little gar
dens, give quite a refreshing appearance to
that otherwise desolate, thirsty country. Some
Of the houses in the center of the town are
built in better taste than usual and quite a
number are elegantly fitted up inside. AL
though possessing some private houses of great
comfort and good style, we cannot say as much
for those generally termed public buildings.
The most conspicuous of these is the old mint,
where money was never coined, and which is
now used for soldiers quarters. 1t looks drea-
ry aud dimmed. grey with age and weather.
It is in perfect harmony with the decay of the
Republic. 80
Year: 1859

NEURALGIA TooTHAoHE.-This complaint. just
now so prevalent, may frequently be removed
by poultice of laurel leaves. A more simple
remedy, one within the reach of most persons,
is to apply poultice of bruised horse-radish to
the part affected. 1t will not cure the disease,
which requires proper medical treatment, but
il will remove the pain and give ease to the
sufferer, whose sleepless nights might otherwise
increase the disorder.
Year: 1859

northwsrd. As the result, Kansas is free, and she
is likely to offer tco young free states for the ac.
ceptnnce Of the South.


Again southern leaders have insisted upon the
southern route for the Pacific Railroad, md have
resisted all action until their own fnvorte proec
can be secured. But the same fatality attends
even this scheme Of the South 1t begins to appear
as il the opening of this railway would only prove
the means of introducing more easily, and quickly,
the men and institutions Of the North and SO in
sure Gordon cf fres states along the whole South
western border. Nor is this fear II groundless one.
AS in every previous step Of her policy, the South
is shared in her own devices


Another instance is afforded by the manner in
which the South has cherished and deieude! the
domestic slave trade. She has nourished 1t into a
most important branch Of commerce; but how lit.
tlo did she fCresee that in doing. she build.
ing up two conflicting interests that would in the
end divide her eounsels.


just when the high price of slaves presses up
on the extreme South, to render the rcopening
of the slave trade desirable the northern producers
of slaves are ready to unite with the free North
and declare that it shall not be Gone.


AS final result, just when the leaders of the
extreme South were exultng over their supposed
victories, they are beginning to awake to the con,
sciousuess that they have lost all, and have been
singing triun!p phs while their march to political
ruin-and worse than ALL at the very time when
the whole strength of the South is needed to sustain
the fire eating wing the Northern border States
are coming into sympathy with the free North,
and arc inviting the skill and capital Of the free
lahorer, and far and wide the significant question
is spreading is not free labor profitable than
that of the slave? Such Of the foreshad
owings Of doom for the slave power as political
despOtism


Every blow aimed at free labor has smitten back
fatally upon the smiter. Under the guidance of a
higher power it has been working out its own ruin
while consumae skill, and ar.sighted politicians
both North and South. are beginning to adus,
themselves to the changed aspects CT the future
they see already that the slave power is virtually
dethr0ned, and that the Government must soon be
administered upon q national basis.
Year: 1859

mo. 21s.1 AN ACT


To amend an act entitled San act TO estab-
lish code Of civil procedure"


Sec. l. Be 1t enacted by the General
assembly of the State of Ohio, That sec
ton 436 of the act entitled an act to estab-
lish code Of civil procedure, be and the
same is hereby amended so as to read as
follows: Sec. 436. Lands and tenements
taken in execution shall not be sold until
the officer cause public notice Of the time
and place Of sale, to be given for at least
thirty days before the day of sale, by adver,
tisement in some newspaper printed and Of
general circulation in the county; or in case
no newspaper be printed in the county, in
some newspaper Of general circulation there
in, and by putting up an advertisement up
on the court house door, and in FIVE other
public places in the county, two Of which
shall be in the township where such lands
and teuements lie. Where such advertise
ment is made in newspaper published
weekly, it shall be sufficient to insert the
same in FIVE consecutive numbers thereof
but wherever there shall be published both
daily and weekly edition of the newspa.
per selected for such advertisement, and the
circulation of the daily in the county shall
exceed that of the weekly, it shall be suffi
cient for the officer to publish the said ad.
vertisement in the daily once a week, fol
five consecutive weeks, before the day oi
sale, each insertion to be on the samo day
of the week: provided that the expense o.
such publication in daily newspaper shall
not exceed the cost of publication in a week
ly newspaper. All sales made without such
advertisement shall be set aside, on motion
by the court to which the execution is re
turnable.


Sec. 2. That tho original section 436 o
tho act entitled "an act to establish a code
of civil procedure" be and the same is here
by repealed, and this act shall take effec
and be in force from and after its passage


WILLIAM B. WOODS,
Speaker of House of Representatives


MARTIN WELKER.


President Of the Senate
Iok0
Year: 1859

receive the same compensation rs the trus.
tees Of tho state lunatic asylums, and shall
be subject to the same regulations and re-
strictious as arc provided for the govern
mcnt Of the state lunaiic asylums, so Gar as
the same may be applicable; said trustees
shall have no power to make any changes
in the general plan Of said asylum, but the
county commissioners shall complete the
same in accordance with the present plan
and specifications without material altera-
ton.


Sec. 2. Section two Of the act to which
this is amendatory be and the same is here
by repealed. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.


WILLIAM B. WOODS,


Speaker Of House Of Representatives


MARTIN WELKER,
President Of the Senate
Al z Torn
Year: 1859

THE GRAND JURY SYsTEM.-The grand jury of Santa Clara county, in their report to the court of sessions, at the June term says:

 1.-The question of the utility of the grand lury' Tn our system of jurisprudence, has been discussed by statesmen and iurists both Tn England and America for long time past. The attention of the people of this Stateewas called to it's uselessness by the present chief magistrate of this State in his last annual message, and from our own observation and experience of it's cumber- some, uncertain and expensive workings, and its inefficiency as a means of protect ing the innocent and punishing the guilty, we believe 1t not only useless and an evil but nuisance, and most respectfully and earnestly ask your honorable court to use your influence to have the constitution of this State, with regard to grand iuries, so altered as to have law passed, abolishing the grand jury system entirely, and as soon as possible, and let some other more sim pie, certain, speedy and direct system be adopted"
Year: 1859

'' Several weeks since we announced that the ad- vocates for the per diem pay were diminishing every day. and ere long there would be none found so low as to sustain this on the State Treasury This has proven true. And now we make this predic

 ton, that the course of Col. Hindman will render him as unpopular as the per diem question has be-

 come. Six months ago in Monroe county he had a respectable number of friends though by no means half of the democratic party with him. On Monday morning last gentleman from that county called at our once and incidentally in conversation gave it as his honest opinion that if Col. Hndman were candidate he did not believe he could get hiiy votes Tn the county. The same morning two other gentlemen from the same county offered to % treat that there cannot be found te. men in that county for Col. Hindman. From this, it appear, tha' hlS friends are growing few few CT and so very

 ie,aarkably few that they scarce be found at
Year: 1859

In the May number of your excellent
Cultvator, | requested your subscribers to
try the experiment of raising potatoes un-
der straw, promising that | would d. s. and
give the result. On the 9Th of Jane, | pat
about half bushel of very small potatoes
in corner of the field, on the sod, and COW
cred them with about or 0 inches of
straw. A few days after we had rain and
the potatoes grew astonishingly, so that this
fall collected about bushel of large and
sound potatoes. | was obliged to take them
up early, on the 5th Of September, as the
field was cleared of grain and stock turned
into it. -Four persons of this county have
tried the same experiment, and succeed be
yond the most sanguine expectations. This
is certainly cheap way of raising potatoes,
and pieces Of land, which, from stones or
stumps, would be lost, are thus turned to
profit. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1859

There are many men who have never gam
bled, and many woman who have never fir
ted. There are many dogs, too: that have
never killed their own mutton yet very few
that have once begun, have ever stopped.
Year: 1859

"WHEN THE SEA SHALL GIvEUP IT'S DEAD"
Prof. Maury, in his lecture on the Atlantic
Gable, announces the interesting fact that
animal matter at the bottom Of the sea,
owing to the superintendent pressure, the
exclusion of light and heat and the saline
properties of the water, could not decom-
E pose, but must remain precisely in the state
in which it is deposited for ages and ages.
So that Pharaoh and his host, when the last
trump shall sound and the sea shall give up
its dead, will come forth fresh in feature,
and perfect in form as when in pursuit of the
Children of Israel they were engulphed by
the waves of the red sea. This conclusion
is reached by numerous ingenious expert
ments, one of which was the sinking of a
cannon ball through an apparatus for grap-
ping sediment from the bottom, in which
sediment were founl remains of animal life,
fresh as when extinct, such as CLANS and
other smaller specimens of shell fish.


Troy IimeS
Year: 1859

How THE PROFESSOR GOT OUT OF THE
WELL.-A few years ago, Prof. -, of Bow
doin College, was overseer Of the building
of the High School house, in Brunswick.
In the cellar of the same was we'll acalled
with brick, whose sides were consequently
smooth. One day, being left alone in the
building, lie went down cellar, and in bis
haste unconsciously attempted to walk over
the well, and as unconsciously fell into it.
Here was predcament for any one posses
sing no more immortality than College Pro-
fessor; standing in five feet of water-at the
bottom of deep cellar, with no soul in hear
ing distance. After shouting himself hoarse
he bethought himself of a piece of chalk
a remnant of the last recitation, which he
applied to the walls to solve his situation
The statement of the question was-let a
equal how shall get out; q equal depth OF
water; equal distance to the water; and by
means of his knowledge of Algebra he ac-
tually acorked himself ont, wonderfully show
ing the power of mathematics.
Year: 1859

He that accustoms himself to buy super
huiies, may ere long be obliged to sell his
necessares.


A man is slow to perceive his own slow
ness of perception.


He dies Ike beast who has done no
good while he lived.


The hardest kind of digestion is after
eating ones own words.
Year: 1859

with or without iron frames, have. in their NEW
SCALE AN IMPROVED ACTION, power and compass
of ton cquulling the grand. with the beauty and
durability Of the square piano The Press and
first Music Masters have Justly pronounced them
equal if not superior to any other make INeY
are guaranteed to Stand Ike action Of eue,Y cli-
Year: 1859

not larger than cambria needle, with
one end sharp, and the other beat down
to thin feather. 1t was of fine Steel
but coated with greenish yellow sub
stance, which was the most virulent and
speedy poison that the chemists art car
concoct. That needle once within the
course of the blood, and death was al.
ready at the heart. It's wound no NOR.
tai eye can detect. 1t punctured the
skin not SO palpably as the prick of a
pin. He who sent it on its fatal errand
made sure of his aim, generally striking
the neck, and the victim would fall into
insensibility ere he could comprehend
what had hurt him.


l returned to Castellane with the boy
and having left him in charge of the
Sub Prefect, l took gendarme along
with me, and went to the factory. Mon
sieur Cazaubon was surprised to see me
back so soon but he was more surprised
when l asked him to take walk with
me and when | called in the gendarme,
and bade him put the handouts upon
the agent, he was ready to sink to the
floor. We had him secured before he
had sense enough to resist, and he was
conveyed TO the office of the Sub-Prefect
without trouble. AT first he denied ev-
thing but when he found that this
would not avail him, he swore he would
kill the boy.


In due time Monsieur Louis Cazaubon
was tried and condemned to death !; and
the Prefect of Digne took possession o.
the internal machine. Before the villain
was executed he confessed his crimes
told how many years he had worked to
perfect his fatal instrument, and produce
the poison-and also owned that the boy
Henry had been driven to help hin,
through fear of his life.


So the rascal was executed. Henry
Dupin spent two years in confinement,
and was then set free, and commenced an
honest life. AS for me, | got all the
praise l deserved, and perhaps more. Al
all events, had done the country some
service, and the people were not slow to
acknowledge it.
Year: 1859

Marshal Potter, Of Lee, Maine, who
murdered his aged mother, and two
brothers, to get some money which they
had, has made the following confession


81 am guilty! 1 came home about
ten o'clock on Wednesday night my
mother was up: she told ME it was fine
time of night to come home. One of my
brothers told that had been over to Mr..
Hanscom's, and carried bottle of liquor
with me; l told him l had not been
there he told me that had; | told him
that | did not want any more stuff from
him, or something to that amount He
told me then that if l did not keep still
| should go out doors l told him !
should not 60 out. | went out into an
other part of the house, and got shingle
maui IAN instrument made of hard wood
twelve inches long and six in width and
breadth, with a handle in the end, } with
which | took the lives of them all.
went in and struck Alexander with the
shingle maui, hit him in the face and
on the head, and struck him number o
times.


then struck Oliver several times on
the head and face they never struggled
any after l struck them. Ny mother
came into the room and got hold of me
| swung round and struck her with the
maui, and she fell-she did not struggle
The candle was sitting on the wood box
by the stove, | tipped it off the box into
the box of shavings, the shavings took
fire, | did not try to put out the fire,
then left the house, and went out around
it, staid out around there till it goI
pretty well a-fre then went over to
Mr.. Hanscom's, called him up and tolc
him the house was burning up, and al
there was in it /; he got up and he and
went over, when We got there the house
was pretty much burned through.


killed Albert This nephew, a boy
about ten years old, killed them all,
think | didn't strike Albert Oh the head
| struck him on the side of the face will
the maui, he didn't struggle then, ]
heard him make noise afterwards he
was lying on the bed. but l don't know
as he was asleep. l don't know how the
shavings came into the box, they wer,
there before mother was up and sitting
by the stove when | entered my two
brothers were in bed. We had some
quarreinr before, but nothing but words