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Year: 1859

IT has been suggested to US, that as our good
natnred neighbor next door was instrumental, a
few days ago, in bringing out the editor of the
Times to his present prominent and probable
position before the people as candidate for the
House of Delegates, that we ought, likewise, to
put the editor of the Argus on the track 1t is
believed, that in the absence of a circus, or any
thing else of that sort, that the next best thing
would be, what the jockeys call, scrub race,
between these two champions of the Oppo.
and Imposition.


All in favor of this nomination, say aye.
Year: 1859

No one can fail to see that the business affairs
of this city are beginning to look up. Quite 4
number Of new stores are being fitted up aud
we are advised of new contracts for many more
important improvements Tho building season
is about to commence with NEST favorable pros
poets. Mechanics of all kinds-carpeuters,
bricklayors, masons, painters and others will
thus find ready employment at fair wages, and
from week to week large sums of money will
leave the pocket of the capitalist and 90 into
the hands of wOrkmen, and thus by general
circulation find its way to all classes of small
dealers. Fresh life and vitality win thus be
diffuscd throughout all classes of persons enga-
ged in trade, commerce, manufactures and labor
of whatever description.
Year: 1859

CONVICTION OF FIsHER.-John b. Fisls-'
err who was indicted for shooting the Rev
Mr. Green last summer at Mount Albon,
Miss, was found guilty by the jury on Sat
urday night The penalty is ten years inn
prisonment in.the pcnitentiary. His coun-
sci intend moving for new trial Much
interest was excited during his trial and
personal feeling ran high but the jury we're
o I only about fifteen minutes Tieksburs
Whig,
Year: 1859

The process OF manufacturing white lead is as
follows The pig lead is melted and convert
ed into sheets by very simple process Each
workman is supplied with a flat piece of board
OF about three feet in length and five inches in
width, which has raised edges, to prevent the
metal, L. melted state, from passing off at the
sides 5, ndng by the side of the furnace with
this board, held by the handle in one hand, and
with ladle in the other, the metal is po,red
ever 1t. Behind, held at considerable inclina-
tlon 1t passes rapidly off into the kettle except
what adheres TO the bottom, which forms the
sheet This Is not thicker than The fifteth part
OF an inch Being instantly cooled. it is turned
over the edge of board raised 10 a level with
the hand. when the mould is returned at once
to the edge of the kettle, and the ladle which
the workman still hollis, is again filled Thus
the operation goes on from morning till night


his Is the first process in the manufacture of
white lead The sheets are next rolled losely
together In sufficient number to fill a pot SIX
inches IN diameter. Before being placed in the
pot pint of strong vinegar Is put into it, which
the metal is not permitted to touch The pots
are then stacked In the following manner


First layer of manure Is laid, then a row of
pots on the top of the pots boards are laid on
which there Is a covering of manure then the
pots again and so TO the roof about twenty
feet In height A stack usually comprises from
twenty to thirty tons of the sheet lead besides
the weight of the pots vinegar boards &c


Alter being ciosei up. stack Is left unds-
turbed for about two weeks. during which pc
RED somewhat complicated chemical process
goes on the manure throws OF heat, which raises
the general temperature to so degrees Faren-
heis, and the vinegar slowly evaporats. The ac-
i'd vapor acting upon the lead, it first becomes
an oxide; then au acetate, by combining with
the acetic acid vapor; and tins is transformed to
a carbonate by carbonic acid arising from the
manure Very little of the lead remains when
the stacks are taken down. The contents of the
pots are now founa to be dry blush mass,
which crumbles at the touch. This is white
lead in its rough state. Before it leaves the
hands OF the manufacturer it goes through n va
riety of processes First 1T is passed through
one or more sieves, to separate from it what lit
tie of the lead remains. 1t next undergoes a
number of washngs in troughs, to free il from
impurities after which it is put into a kiln aud
dried. After this 1t Is conveyed to a mill and
ground, into which, at the same time, linseed
oil Is lead by means of pipes. ont of the mill the
white lead comes forth In its pure state, not
white at first, however. though 1t soon becomes
SO after exposure 10 the atmosphere. II is then
put into kegs and barrels and is ready for home
consumption or transportation. The smalles,
kegs hold twelve and half pounds the lar
gest barrels fifteen hundred pounds.
Year: 1859

GooD REAsoSs FOR COOP THISG.-An earn
est attempt is being made in Massachusetts to
create an extensive Museum of science and Art.
similar to some In Europe, which shall be open
to the public. George Summer writing III
commendation of the plan, says:


Museum like this would, / belive, aid
most powerfully in creating greater interest in
the Mother Art Agriculture ] would tend to
retain on their paternal acres those crowds OF
young men who now flock to great cities.
thete to drag out n trivial cxisten e would
aid in taking away the false mantle of res
pectabiity" III which the unproduciye drones OF
society wrap themselves would aid In de-
stroying that last remnant of feudai barbArist H.
contempt for iabor and would tend to give to
intelligent labor Its true position OF highest
honor"
Year: 1859

MALE AND FEMALE DRUNKARps.-The
n. Y. State Asylum for Drunkards is
becoming point of intense anxiety and
interest. lis researches bring out to view
that large number of eminent names
are being erased from the lis, of the living
where the true cause of death is never sus-
pected by the community at large (the
interposition of surviving friends saving
their memories from indelible Disgrace
died of " delirium tremeus" being the
fearful secret. AT least two of the sub
scrlbers for the contemplated asylum
men who stood high in the profession of
law and Northumberland already victims
TO this insidious destroyer. 1t has been
asserted that men are not to be found who
would voluntarily commit themselves to an
institution for inebriates; but this is refu-
Ted by the fact that almost before tho
foundation stone was laid there had been
$500 applicants for admission, of whom.
according to DIR. Turner, Corresponding
Secretary of the New York State Inebri-
ate Asylum, " more than four hundred
are women in the higher walks of life,
educate d and accomplished" There ap-
pears to be no room for reasonable doubt
on this point.
Year: 1859

ALARyISG.-The Springfield Repa6!ican says
that even in Massachusetts, where the laws are
supposed to be as clear and consistent as in any
State. IN the attempt to enlarge the legal do
MAN of woman, the statutes are so fixed that a
wife is under no legal obligation to get break
fast, sew buttons. or nurse the baby even
unless her husband pays her for It,
Year: 1859

sR a young girl. l9 years old, was arrested
at Detroit, last week, dressed in male attire who
had run away from her home in Canada with
the intention Of making her way t. Pixies Peak.
She had taken money from her father desk for
this purpose. She was entirely ignorant of the
route. and supposed Pixies Peak was a short
distance from Chicago. She was returned to her
parents.
Year: 1859

sS- If ali the water IN the Atlantic We're
steamed away, there would remain enough salt
deposited from It TO cover an extent OF seven
millions of square miles. one entire mile deep.
Year: 1859

The LAST FEHISISE FoLLY-A Paris letter
writer gives the following description of an
absurd article Of dress, which has lust been
revived by the ladies Of that city:


81 am half inclined to say that the greatest
OF all events just now is the invention Of a new
dress But such a dress If husbands and
fathers were ili-adyised enough to raise an out
cry about eriIOline, what will they do now ,
The dress L speak Of is one to make which
about eight-and-twenty or thirty yards Of stuff
are required, and the yestment is though to
look best when made Of velvet Now Just fancy
u dress Of thirty yards composed of velvet at
- ayart. The garment itself is little else tha n
Hnat used, under Louis XIV and XIV, TO be
called grand habit Ii is a visiting dress,
and scuriOus rs to its form and sit. Skirt and
body hang together, are held to each other by
The back IN very singular manner The back
oil the body spreading out into kind Of long,
large cape, as tails upon the skirt The BODY v
IS rather loose, like what is called caraco.
and does not fit TO the waist The dress but
tons AL down in the front; the width of the
dress at the bottom is Of eight yards. and upou
every seam are sOwn ornaments in passemen-
terie, called brandebouras' Such a dress
may easily be bought to cost 81 600, and can.
not cost less than $50"
Year: 1859

To you who have travelled in company with
the Spy through so many dangers and priva-
tions, am constrained to return my heart
felt thanks for your patience and patriotism,
in following man of small pretensions to the
consumation of his destiny.


THE AUTHOR.
Year: 1859

IL The New York Board of Aldermen hlve
protested against the proposed amendments to the
city charter by the Legislature, the scheme being
denounced as a usurpation of the Prerogative Of
the Common Council.
Year: 1859

IL The first mosquito of the season made his
appearance in New Orleans on the 23d ult. The
people are consequently in for good time In that
sunny and swampy region during the coming
summer.
Year: 1859

Every true story has a moral, if you can but
find it out. The one which the reader is sup
posei to havo just perused has even two. 1t
teaches that a man of honor will juEp out of
window rather than marry young lady against
her will; but if there afterwards appears 10 be
any chance of her changing her mind, he will
come in again through the door.
Year: 1859

\ western farmer being obliged to sell a
yoke Of oxen to pay his hired man. told him
hs could not keep him any longer


why - said the man IN stay and take
come Of your COWS in place of money


e But what shall do" said the farmer,
Nhen my cows and oxen are all gone -


"IFiy. you ran then pork for me, and
get fhcDi all back =
Year: 1859

Water, although very unstable Gle
ment, produces quite permanent effec
upon the face of our globe. 1t cuts dowr
mountains, scoops out valleys, wears away
precipices, and builds new lands along the
the river mouths. Always seeking leve
itself it is the greatest leveler of the dry
land. Most of the surface of our globe
having been elevated by subterranean VIC.
lence, has come up in very rough and
tumbled condition. The inequalities ofits
surface, when newly elevated favor the col
lection of large bodies of water, which
sending out their streams like SO many
strong arms, immediately commence the
work of smoothing the surface of the land,
smoothing its roughnes, and bringing it
into condition more favorably to the ope-
rations of man. Thus the age of any por-
ton of the earth's surface may in some
measure be determined by the character Of
the streams, and the general distribution
of water upon its surface.


In those countries like France and Eng
land whose rivers are smooth a d naviga-
bic, no lakes are found, while in those in
which they exist the rivers are full of cata-
racts, and are in great measure unnavi
gable. In the course of one or two thou
sand centuries, most of the lakes in our
States, will be drained, the cataraets oblit-
Grated and We shall lose all our water pow
er. This contingency, however is so dis
tant, that we do not suppose it will affect
the price of manufacturing stock during this
century.


Lakes and cataracts have at some period,
diversified the scenery of all regions
Where they do now exist, they have been
obliterated through the corrosive effect of
running water. But evidences of their
former existence are found in dry beds and
channels. The fact that dry channels and
waterless lakes are to be found in many
lands once fertile but now barren, has led
to the conclusion, on the part of some geol-
ogists, that there is modifying ofthe aque-
GUS yapors and consequently of water on the
face of this terrestrial world. In paper
read before the British Association, it is ar-
gued from the existence of dried up rivers
that the earth is approaching a waterless
condition, in which it will be impossible
for man 10 continue an inhabitant. This
seems to us to be hasty conclusion al
though as the earth is to be destroyed by
fire, it is but natural perhaps that it
should first undergo drying process
Still we think it quite probable that there
is as much water in the world as ever there
was. The action of wafer will ever be pro-
ducing changes on the earth's surface, but
as the old countries become dry and barren
through the wearing away of their water
beds, new regions will be elevated. and
thus the just balance OF land and water be
preserved.-Artisan.
Year: 1859

DIR. fancy, a relative of Chief Justice
Taney's recently eloped with the wife of a
neighbor, from the village where they both
resided, in Knox county, Ohio. They
were respectable people, and worthy MEM
bers of society-both held high positions
in the same church. She left three little
children, one sweet babe of ten months
old; he left four or five. The day before
they eloped he took bis wife, gentle blue
eyed, beautiful woman, and babe, on WIS.,
it to his brothers, and told her not to
come back until the next evening, that be
would take good care of the other children
in her absence. When she came home he
had been gone over fourteen hours, and the
lonely little ones were all crying. When
the dreadful intelligence came, she fell to
the floor and lay moaning and weeping in
intense agony, refusing to be comforted.-
ltwas day and night before word of
consolation to which she would listen, fell
into that stricken heart. Poor, poor Car
rie! and this the love of women!


The bereft husband, compare him, read
Oi, Win bAtl TVuc, OiChicS,l WHO iuOiiLeu
bis wife, followed and overlook them at
Monroeyille, Huron county, where he found
the erring woman prostrated with illness.
The spirit of the humble christian predom-
mated in his heart. Without a word of
cruel upbraiding, he stated and nursed her
back to life, then he talked with the Doc
tor and her, and reasoned with them, and
promised TO forgive al, and smooth the
matter over, and hide the facts from the
world. But with sorrow too deep for ut
terance, did he learn that her heart was no
longer his-tbat she loved another better
than her own sweet babe and her kind hus-
band. He took her hand in his and for
gave her all-certifed in writing that he
gave her up on condition that she would
marry the object of her choice as soon as
possible, and he would never molest them.
He gave her $3.50, and good advice,
wished the blessings of God 10 rest upon
her, and then, bowing under the burden of
his grief, he rturned to his poor motherless
babes, and his desolate hearth Cleveland
Herald.
Year: 1859

SMOKING CASE OF BURIAL BEFORE
DEATH.-The New Orleans Crescent tells
a shocking story about sexton in that
city named Merritt. The Crescent says:


He sent his men, few days ago, to bu-
ry poor man in grave at the back end
of certain cemetery: After short time,
the men came back to him, excited, saying
that they could not bury that man-that
he was sitting up in his coffin, and swear
ing he was not dead. Merritt, in high in
dignaticn, seized spade and went back to
the grave himself, where, sure enough, he
found his customer sitting up and looking
quietly around him. But, determined on
his wages at all hazards, the sick man was
buried anyhow. He struggled and resisted
as well as he could, but afew bats from the
spade soon settled him.
Year: 1859

She stood beside the washtub, with her
red hands in the suds; and at her slipshod
feet there laid pile of dirty duds; her hus-
band stood beside her-the crossest man
alive-the last was twenty-nine years old,
the first was twenty five.


The heavy wash was over, and the clothes
hung out to dry; and Tom had stuck his fin
ger in the dirty baby's eve. Tom bad been
spanked, and supper made on crust Of
bread, and then the bride and bridegroom
went grumblng off to bed.
Year: 1859

of her sex; but never ventures outside
the barrier except in her masculine gear.


There are many anecdotes in ciroula-
ton about the little painter. One day,
when she returned from the country, she
found messenger awaiting to announce
to her the sudden illness of one of her
young friends. Rosa did not wait to
change her male attire, but fastened to
the bedside of the young lady. In few
minutes after her arrival, the doctor, who
had been sent for, entered, and seeing a
young man Gas he supposed, from the cos
tume,) seated on the side of the bed, with
his arm around the neck of the sick girl,
thought he was an intruder, and retreated
with all possible speed. .'0hl run after
him, he thinks you are my lover, and has
gone and left me to die !'' cried the sick
girl Rosa few down stairs, and soon re-
turned with the modest doctor, who said
he did not wish to intrude.


On another occasion, Mademoisells had
tickets sent her for the theater. She had
an important picture in hand, and contin-
ued at the easel until the carriage was an
nounced. "Yes," said Rosa, '.je suis
pretc % and away she went to the theater
con,me Ia. A fine gentleman in the next
box to hers looked at her with surprise,
turned up his nose, affected great disgust,
and went into the vestibule to seek the
manager. Having found him, he went off
in rage.


"Who is this woman in the box next to
mine, in an old calico dress, covered with
paint and oil g? The odor is terrible
Turn her out! If you do not, l will nev-
er enter your theater again. 1t is an in
suit to respectable people to admit such a
looking creature into the dress circle" q
The manager went to the box, and IN
a moment discovered who the offensive
person was. Returning to the fine white
gloved gentleman, he informed him that
the lady was no less than Mademoiselle
Rosa Bonheur, the great painter.


"Rosa Bonheur :" he gasped who'd
have thought it? make my apology to
her. dare not enter her presence again. +"
Home Journal Ar y...
Year: 1859

or Some people in the world appear
to find their highest pleasure in being q
sort of social hyenss, gathering together
and digging up the regulations Of frail
fallen men and women. to feast with gree
.diness and delight, whining and bowling
over the lesthsoms repast the while, as if
they felt sincerely sorry to have found
corruption, when they sought for it alone.
Have we not all sins enough to. make US
patient, if we cannot be charitable toward
other sinners 2-P Pits. DispatA .
Year: 1859

The local editor of the McKesp Citizen
throws out the following challenge to III.
Blondon:


"a single telegraph wire shall be ex-
tended from the American to the Canada
shore. without single guy, directly over
the cataract at Niagara Falls. The local
Of this paper, wearing pair Of cowhide
boots, and dressed in the costume OF
female Dutch cook, will proceed to the
middle of the wire, with common clay
pipe as a balancing pole, driving before
him hog and a COW, and carrying on his
back a cooking stove, coop Of chickens,
a bed and bedding, keg Of lager beer, a
barber's chair. and various cooking uten-
sis. He will then unload himself and
Immediately 60 to bed. After snooze
Of fifteen minutes he will rise, dress HIM
self, take glass of beer, milk the cow,
kill the hog and dress it, cook fresh pork
for breakfast after which he will eat
VOLTS meal. he will then throw one
hundred and thirty summersaults, suck
ing an egg while in the air at each evolu-
ton, alighting the last time on the tip OF
the cows horn, and while in this position
will take the chicken coop, and after hav-
ing taken the chickens out one at a time
and wrung their necks consecutively, will
balance the coop on the tip end of his
nose, balance the cooking stove on his
right hand thumb, balance the bedstesd
on his left thumb, at the same time fn-
ishing the beer and making Dutch
speech TO the admiring crowds on either
shore. After which-after the manner Of
Levi North's celebrated one-h horse act
the local will perform the one-cow act.
The foreman of this paper will ti.'n come
out on the wire, blindfolded aud shackied,
walking on his hands. Then there VIII
be a representation Of Heenan and Nor
rissey's prize fight, in which the local
and foreman will exchange sundry knocks
and kicks and black eyes. The last scene
will be both parties standing on their
heads, and will, in this predicament, play
a rub of twenty-one games OF old sledge
for the treat Of all hands. The whole to
conclude with representation OF some oil
the loving scenes in Romeo snd Juliet"
Year: 1859

Sir Your note of this date has just been
placed in my hands. admit, without hesita-
ton, your right and duty to do justice TO the
reputation of your son. At the same time


MAINTAIN my right, 10 the esdischarge of my duty
as Senator, to comment freely and fully on the
character of executive appointments, especially
In my own State. l deny, however, that my
general remarks in relation to the list of lli-
nois aPpointces, confirmed by the Senate during


my absence, could be fairly interpreted to eln-
brace your son. When You seemed SO to con-
strue them, promptly replied that what had
said of the Illinois appointments were true as
general rule, but that there were exceptions,
among whom | recognized some of my own
friends. Abiding particularly to your sou,
added that | had nothing to say in regard 10 the
merits of bis appointment, choosing to leave
that question where placed it by my remarks
to the Senate during the last session, in your
presence, at the time of bis confirmation. You
now admit that you understood this explanation
to exempt your son from the application of my
Year: 1859

A servant asked her mistress, whether she
could obige her by going out on particular
afternoon, as she was going to have party Of
friends, and wanted the loan of the draS wing
room.