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Year: 1860

HALF-FARE.-It will be recollected that
Mr.. Ingle, President of the Evansville and
Charlottesville Railroad, announced, prior
to the holding of the Democratic State Con
vention, that persons attending the political
conventions at Indianapolis would be carried
for half fare, and that the delegates to the
above convention were so taken.


In accordance with this liberal arrange
ment of the railroad managers, persons go
ing to the Opposition State Convention of
the 22d will pay full fare going and return
free, AT this rate, there ought to be large
attendance from the Pocket-more especially
as it is TO be a Mass Meeting, in which any
body who opposes the Administration may
| take part.


For the information of those not posted,
we win say, that passengers on the E. & G.
r. r. who leave here on the tram starting
at twenty FIVE minutes after ten in the fore
noon, arrive at Indianapolis at twenty min
utes after eight the same evening.
| Now let us have big crowd from this
and adjoining counties.
Year: 1860

of the most disgraceful proceedings on Sun
day afternoon last. Some parties having
become disorderly through the influence of
liquor, large crowd collected, composed
of men and boys, to witness the SPORT
The crowd did all they possibly coald to
instigate a fight, and we believe their efforts
were finally crowned with success. One of
the poor inebriates was hurt considerably
by a blow from brick thrown by his an
tagonist. We understand some of the par
ties were arrested and placed in the Lock
up. We trust, for the credit of our city,
that II may be long time before similar
event takes place.
Year: 1860

Our readers have noticed that we are
publishing the Telegraphic Reports as usual.
In fact, we omitted to do so only a couple OF
incoming of the new proprietors of the En-
quirer, 20 continue taking them. We expect
to publish them hereafter without any
interruption, except that which bad weather
or the breaking of the line may occasion,


VIII those of our exchanges which have
noticed the recent discontinuance, please
say that the matter is all right again 1?
Year: 1860

NOTHING adds much to the appearance of a
In Procession of Sunday School Chidve as a Flag
inthe hand OF every little boy and GirI. LUCK is
now prepared to furnish them in any quantity q
College street up stairs Shields Auction Ro


mayl-t
Year: 1860

Our article Of last week on this topic
will show how far we concur or disagree
with the extracts below. The subject is
of special interest at this dry hot season
to every planter gardener &c, and We
give both sides.


An old topic, surely, but one Of the
greatest practical importance. An old
topic, but one about which men are not
agreed IN opinion. There is theory and
practice on both sides. Some farmers
hold that stirring the earth in dry wealth
er, INJURIES the roots Of plants, and expo
ses the soil to the sun and the d,y air so
much, as 10 do more harm than good
Bnt the other side Of the question, has,
also, its good arguments. We will hint
at one or Two:


Frequebt stirring Of the soil in droulh
renders 1t more porous, aud SO fits il ab.
sorb moisture from the atmosphere, and
to draw il up from the wet subsoi. By
being frequently broken up it becomes.
like sponge. Any one can easily sat-
isty himself of this. Go into your gar
den and loosen up the soil over a space
of n few feet square, and then see il, for
'eral mornings after, that patch is not
moist, while the surrounding surface is
dry I! A neighbour of ours had a potato
patch last summer, which being IN a
warm and sandy soil became badly
parcbed in July. The stalks dropped.
and total loss of the crop WAS threat.
ened. Here was fair subject for des.
perate experiment Accordingly on one
Of the hottest and d'yest days Of the
month, he gave them thorough plow
ing, passing the plow four times through
each iurrow, first plowing two furrows
from the hills, and then returning the
ground back by two other furrows. No
ram fell for ten days after. In three days,
the vines stood erect and began to take
on dark green color and TO grow again.
The sol! was moislened by the dews of
every night the crop was saved. and it
proved quite an abundant one.


Again the stirring Of the soil in
drouth renders the earth poorer con,
ductor Of heat than il would he If il re.
NAMED unbroken and hard. Every one
Knows that stone or any metallic sub.
stance lying in the sun, becomes hotter
than bunch OF cotton, because it is a
better conductor Of heat. So, when the
surface OF the earth becomes baked and
bard, 1t absorbs heat much more thBn
when it is broken and puIye-ized. In o
well TILED garden, the ground, two or
three inches below the surface, is quite
cool at midday. II is partly on the same
principle, that few inches of mulcbing
material will keep the ground cool and
moist all Summer long. Hence, il is easy
10 see that stirring the soil in drou,h will
keep the roots OF plants cool aud moist,
and so promote the growth,


But let the theory be as IL may the
fact remains, that through iilIage 10 the
best possible security against droutb.--
ES.
Year: 1860

PURITY OF CHARACTER.-Over the
beauty Of the plum and apricot there
grows bloom and beauty more exquisite
than the fruit itself; a soit, delicate flush
that overspreads its blushing cheek Now
1t you strike your hand over that, it is
gone forever, for it never grows but once.
The flower that iangs in the morning,
lmpeaiIed with dew, arrsyed as no queen.
ly woman over was arrayed 10 Jewels,
once shake it till their heads roll off. and
You may sprinkle water over it as Won
please, yet it can never be made again
what it was when the dew fell silently
upon it from Heaven! On a frosty morn
ing you may see the panes Of glass GOV
cred with landscape, mountains, lakes,
and trees, blending in beautiful, fantas.
TIC picture. Now lay your hand upon the
glass, and 10y the scratch OF your finger
or by the warmth Of your palm, all the
delicate tracery will oe obiiterated. So
there is in youth beauty and purity Of
character, which when once touched and
defiIed can never be restored, fringe
more delicate than frost work, and which.
when torn and broken, will never be re
embroidered. A man who has spotted
and so'led his garments i'll 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 a
young man leaves his fathers house with
the blessing OF his mothers tears vet upon
his forehead, il he once losses that purity
o. character, it is a loss that he can never
make whole again. Such is the conse.
qucnce Of crime. It's effects cannot be Grad.
icsted, it can only be forgiven.
Year: 1860

FACTS If you invest your money 10 a
fine house and do not cultivate your
mind and taste so as to adorn il with in-
tslhgence and refinement, it is as il you
were to wear broad.cloth and silk hat
to mill.


II you invest your money in fioe
clothes and do not wear them with dig.
nifty and ease, it is as II a pIowman we're
to sit at jewellers table 70 make aud
adjust hair springs.


" Won invest your money in strong
drink, Il is the same as tuning hungry
hogs into growing corn fieId-yuip will
follow in both cases.
Year: 1860

The foundatiou Of domestic happiness
is faith in the virtue Of woman the foun
dation Of all political happiness is conf
dence in the integrity of man aud the
foundation Of all happiness, temporal aud
eternal, is reliance on the goodness Of
God.
Year: 1860

A CUSARD RECKONiSG.-ln . voyage to
America. some nine years since, on the sew
enth or eight day out from Liverpool, Cap
tain L-came to dinner at eight bells as
usual, talked little to the persons right
and left of him, and helped the soup with his
accustomed politeness. Then he went on
deck and was back in minute, and opera
ted on the fish, looking rather grave the
while. Then he went on deck again; and
this time was absent. it may be, three or
five minutes, during which the fish di.ap-
peared, and the entrees arrived. and the
roast beef Say ten minutes passed. can't
tell after nine years. Then L--came
down with happy countenance, this time
and began carving the sirlon. Eve have
seen the light" be said; Madame, may l
help you to little gravy or little horse.
radish" or what not? forget the name of
the light, nor does it matter. Itwas point Of
newfoundland for which he was on the look
out, and so well did the Canada know where
she was that between soup and beef the cap
tain had sighted the headlsnd by which his
course was lying. And SO through storm
and darkness, through fog and midnight, the
ship had pursued her steady way over the
pdluiess ocedn anu ToaTiuS stas DO ouTcIy
that the officers who sailed her knew her
place within minute or two, and guided
US with a wonderful providence safe on our
way.


Since the noble Cunard Company has run
its ships, but Cne accident and that through
the error of the pilot, has happened on the
line. BY this little incident (hourly of
course repeated. and trivial to all seagoing
people) own | was immensely moved. and
never can think of it but with heart full Of
thanks and awe We trust our lives to these
seamen, and how noby they fulf! the trust
They are, under heaven. as Providence for
US. While We sleep, their untiring watch
tulness keeps guard over US. All night
through, that bell sounds at his season, and
tells how our sentinels defend Us. 1t rang
when the Amazon was on fire, and chimed
its heroic signal of duty and courage and
honor. Think of the dangers these seamen
undergo for us, the hourly peril and watch,
the familiar storm. the dreadful iceberg, the
long winter nights when the decks are as
glass and the sailor has to climb through ici-
cles to bend the stiff sail on the yard. Think
of their courage and their kindnesses in cold
in tempest in hunger, in wreck l-CornhiN
Mag0zine.
Year: 1860

times that the Democratic party was favorable
to protective tariff, and that the protection
of American Industry could be as safely en-
trusted to their hands as to those of the Re-
publicans. Sometimes they would try to con-
vince their hearers that the Homestead Bill
was hnmbug; but generally they devoted
their efforts to abusing and misrepresentng
the Republican party, and not unfrequently
calling its adherents all manner of hard names.
Now they would assert that the Republican
party wanted TO set all the negroes free in the
Slave States, and let them come over into
Pennsylvania. Then the sentiments of some
individual would be falsely represented as the
doctrines of the Republican party. 1t would
however, be an almost endless task to enumc-
rate all the means resorted to in the late po.it-
ical canvass by Democratic speakers, big and
little, to misreprescnt the real political issues
before the people.


They have failed in their purpose and
will still more signally continue to fail.
No party ever stood more firmly and Sc
cure on its principles and measures than the
Republican. AS their measures and princi-
pies have become known and understood, the
party has gained strength till now almost every
State in which men enjoy the liberty of free
speech and free press, has become over
whelmingly Republican. And so it will be.
The more the issues of the day are understood
the stronger will be the Republican Party. Its
mission is onward, and its next work is to
make Abraham Lincoln President
Year: 1860

turns as long as they could. The returns from
Burnside and Guelich made them look very
sober. Chest astonished them Decatur made
them fairly sick but the news from Huston
seemed to them perfectly stunning-so much
SO, in fact, that many of them at once retired
and for 4 considerable time were not visible
in any public place.


1t will be seen that although our opponents
have had working majority in this county
and have this year used every means both foul
and fair to increase their majority, still they
have utterly failed. Our gain on the State
ticket has been 40 votes more than theirs and
our candidate for Congress, Gen. Patton, has
actually carried the county by 64 majority.


All thanks to the gallant Republicans of
Clearfield county. Work on, and as you have
done your full share in the election of Andrew
G. Curtin, as Governor and of Gen. Patton to
Congrers, you will share still more in the hon
or of placing Abraham Lincoln in the Pres-
Dental chair.
Year: 1860

NorEwoRTHY.-''The Democracy of Clear
field have achieved another splendid victory !;
the County Ticket is triumphantly elected"
was the remark of our neighbor, in his issue
of Wednesday after the election. By refer
ring TO the official returns it will be seen that
the Democracy did elect a County Commits
sioner and County Auditor.
Year: 1860

W


HOUSE OF DELEGATES, on THE SPEAKERS AP-


POINTMENTS.


Mr. WATSON, of Accomac, said in substance, that he
thought the principle wrong which the Speaker had
announced more than once governing him in appoint
ng committecs-whch was that he generally selected
members TO serve on 4 committee who spoke TO the
question 10 be submitted the committee when appoint
ed and that the injustice done frequently to some
lions OF the State in the formation of committees OF this
House grew Of the observance Of that rule that in
relation 10 the committee appointed the part of this


House 10 consider the South Carolina mission and report
thereon he Mr. w had noticed the fact that there
no member placed that committee east Of Richmond
but supposed was in consequence Of the rule which had
governed the Speaker nadvetance on his part and
although he CNr W considered it doing injustice TO the
East not to place her equality at least with the
West he should mpute no blame by charging design on
the part Of the Speaker in selecting the committee.


Mr. W. said further that he wished to assure the COM
mittee that he willing trust not only he Chairman
the gentleman from WashingtOn) but tie whole com
mittce TO act upon the question before them, and he
begged leave TO say to the gentleman from kanawha
who was member of the committee, and the most west
ern member that he (Mr W the most eastern mem
ber of this House, would nov, and he hoped always
would be able to heartily greet him upon this question,
or any other in which the State is interested
Year: 1860

monthly our heart strings are stretched
across aud fastened beyond the river Of
death. We have gone down to it's shores
SO many times to see our beloved COM
pauions off, that we are become familiar
with the feeling of its mist, and it chills
ana terrlhes us no more. We love TO
stand close to the sluggish current. and
to be half hidden by the unmoving mist
lor then, as the last clasp OF some dear
hand is upon our arm, we can almost see
and hear what it is that sustains and of.
ten hIls with rapture the departing spirit.


And as one, standing to watch the de-
parting ship that bears away TO distant
portion of this world the friends that he
yearns TO follow, whose loss he can hard
ly bear, desirs soon TO embark Cor the
same port, so we, as We lose sight Of the
companions pleasant as morning, and Of
the friends dearer than our life, long for
tue time when we may depart for that
happy country,


Where our best friends, our kindred dwell,


Where God our Saviour reigns"
Year: 1860

PREsERvINa DAHLIA RooTs.-Take
up the roots on dry day, after the tops
have been killed by frost, Let them rel
main exposed TO the sun and air ill quite
dry. All the soil should be shaken off
them. When quite dry, put them on
sheH in the cellar, or in box or barrel
Of dry sand. The name OF The variety
should he written on wooden label, and
attached to the root with wire.
Year: 1860

DRowNED. Last evening. at about seven
o'clock, the son of Mr.. Wech the carpenter,
a lad of II or 10 years Of age, was drowned
in the Slough, just behind the Vinegar Fac
tory. at the head of Third street. He was
seen to get into boat or scow on the bank,
as was his custom nearly every day, and row
out into the slough short time after
Mr. Philips, living near the spot heard him
shout or scream, ard went to see what was
the matter He discovered the boys cap
floating on the water, and that no one was in
the boat. A search was made at once and
and the body found, but life was extinct
The i'll fated boy drowned within thirty feet
of the shore. lie either could not swim or
was benumbed in the water. 1t is supposed
that he was pushing the boat away from a
log in the slough, when he slipped and fell
in
Year: 1860

CAMPToNvILLE, June llth.


EDIroR DENooRAr :-Y esterday being a
fine day after so long rain, l thought
would 20 over and visit the Plum Valley
country, see what could see of the newly
discovered quartz lead and have good time
generally. One Of our citizens who has been
so fortunate as to secure a share upon the
lead for himself being my companion for the
trip. Having procured horses. we had Il
pleasant ride of about seven miles over there
stopping and taking dinner at the Bope
House, which is at present under the able
management Of Mr. Bundy, whom we found to
be an affable gentleman, and an excellent
caterer one who administers to the require
ments of the inner man in much more salts
factory manner than is usually found in road
side hotels in the mountain parts of Caliior-
MIA In fact his establishment, in the appear
ance of thrift and business resembles the En-.
pire Ranch of Mooney d Moody, more than
any other that know of.


After dining we went upon the lead, cha
peroned by a very courteous gentleman, one
of the original discoverers We found the
lead to range in with from one to three feet,
well defined and having a strong dip to-
wards the east But instead of quartz, l
would pronounce it a lode of porrhyry; it is
quite soft, and will be easily crushed; it is
very pretty salmon color mottled with gray.
Our chaperon slightly pounded few hands
full of the dirt, to convince me Il had been
somewhat sleptcaD of the fact of its con-
tanning the desired metal, and true enough,
there il was in the bottom of the pan, to the
amount of about two dollars, yielding as
much as thirty or forty cents to the pound.
The gold is coated with the black oxide of
iron, which easily comes off, and leaves the
gold bright enough to amalgamate readily.
Their lode will be easily drained, and as easi
ly worked. They will put up arastras this
week, to be run by water power, and will
soon know whether their prospective fortune
is to be realized or not. They certainly have
my warmest wishes.


The difficulty which has existed between
the ditch company and the miners on this
hill has been adjusted, but tits so late in the
season that the miners will not attempt to
run this summer, but will have every thing
in readiness by next fall. This has been the
best mining season ever known for hill min
ing, yet nothing has been done here The
water has kept up more than a month be-
yond the usual time, and still Oregon Creek
contains more water than all the bitches caa
carry CLOVIS ditch to Galena and Youngs,
will run full of water all summer, they hav.
ing contract with the Sierra Nevada Lake
Water ComP~~y .. tsvs- l.. enough - Fv,v7t
City to keep their ditch trimming all sum
mer. e.
Year: 1860

ACCIDENT AT THE CIRcUs.-As the acrobatic
feats on the duplicate ladders were being
performed last night, about clock, at the
Metropolitan Circus, the center pole broke
square off just above the splice, and let the
entire canvas down over the heads of the
audience No one was hurt, but the per-
formance was necessarily suspended for the
evening. The pole was new one and very
strong, and but for the high wind which was
blowing at the time the accident would not
have occurred. The troupe perform in Oro-
willie tonight.
Year: 1860

The steam wagon imported from England,
was tried in San Francisco, the other day,
and excited no little astonishment and admi-
ration. After getting its cargo of coal, wood
and water on board, and having attached to
it tender containing about twenty five
pounds, it ran through several of the streets
with great ease.
Year: 1860

ton Of the edict of Nantes drove thousands
or the silk weavers and gold workers
Of France into Germany and England, and
enabled the latter, if not to compete successful
ly with, at all events to render themselves to a
Certain extent Independent of, the taste and
skill Of the French. Hundreds of similar in
stances might be adduced, in which political
and religious prosecutions have benefited the
trade Of other nations at the expense of those
which sanctioned such abuses Of power.


The republicans are not permitted to remain
long insensible to the full consequences Of
their victory. The desertion of our best manu-
facturers and workmen is formidable item to
have to add to the catalogue Of injuries which
they have inflicted upon the North. II, In the
ruin to their own interests which the loss OF
our staple manufactures must entail, they can
End grounds for selffelicitation, we must con-
cede them the merit of being the most self-sa-
crificing and disinterested Of political parties
Year: 1860

am of the many Who after the death of the late
Senator Broderick believed myself, from information
given me in this city, Of the righfu heirs to his
property. To gain proof of the relationship, at great
expense and loss of time, went to Ireland After fruit
less search for the necessary proof returned to this
city, determined to interfere no further would not
do so had not within the past two weeks read
from the HERALD communication from parties concerned
supposed to be concerned, in the late Mr. Broderck
property and, not having noticed any appeal to the
public through the press from a family OF the
name OF Broderick, in justice 10 this family must
publicly say that while in Ireland learned sufficient TO
convince that in the event Of the Supreme Court of
San Francisco rendering its decision adverse to Mr..
Wilkes this family will find no trouble in subsantiang
their claim TO what consider them Justly entitled


ROBERT AHEARy
Year: 1860

z TRANSMISSION or THE MasAGE TEISGRApH-The Pre-
sdents Message was yesterday forwarded entire from
Philadelphia TO this city, by telegraph in six hours-an
unparalleled feat OF telegraphng We believe IL viii be
found that transmitted with less remarkable ac-
curacy than speed We are nformcdVthat boy who is


teegraphc operator at Pittsburg the first column
Of the matter in dfty five minutes and the second
column IN to y eight minutes Five columns and hal


Of matter received in the Office In ,his city without
breaking the circuit and II written In manifold from
the sound OF the instrument These facts that will


give large portion Of the public enlarged idea OF the
capacity Of the telegraph Commercial Dec s.