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Year: 1860

THE CHATTAHooCHEE DRIED UP.-lhe
Columbus (Ga) Times says the Chattahoo.
chee is dried up to the depth and width OF
an ordinary creek:


AS far up as the eye can reach there is
nothing but barren ledges of rocks, some OF
which have probably not been seen before in
the memory of the presant generation The
melody of the rushing torrents, that usually
play in such romantic grandeur along this
part of our beautiful river, is hushed; and
the cadence of its wild music no longer lull'
us to repose at nightfall. 1t is we'll worth
visit to behold the wonderful change that ha'
come over the spirit of our rivers dreams il
the last few months. One so disposed cat
walk along the bed of the river for miles
The spectacle is sad one, and reminds u
that our section is not the only part of coun
Itry that has suffered from the effects of tn
great drouth of 1860.
Year: 1860

0ARTEMUs WARD ON THE ECLIPSE
uArtemus Ward" has seen the Eclipse,
and from very amusing article explanato'
ry of the causes which producedit, we make
the following extract:


The eclipse is formed by "a total darkness
of the sun. Thus, when the sun is becloud
ed the weather is not SO light as it is When
the sun is uncovered. In the winter the
sun does not shine so fercely as it does II
the summer and hence the weather is not
so warm in December as it is in July. L
the reader will, by way of experiment, take
the trouble to crawl between two teathel
beds, with his face downward, he will per
ceive that he cannot see so we'll as he coult
before he thus obstructed his vison' 1t j
true that Calico fancied that the work
turned round, but as other persons have fan
cied the same thing in regard to houses
tables aud trees, but little credence can b
placed in the statement of cold Gal, IA
the boys used to familiarly call him. espc
cially If the liquor was as bad in his day as
is in this.
Year: 1860

MOTHER Young man thy mother is
thy best friend. The world may forget
you thy mother never-the world may
wilfully do you many wrongs-thy mother
uever-the world may purseoute you while
living, and when dead plant the ivy and
nightssbade of slander upon your grassless
grave--but thy mother will love and cherish
You while living, and if she survives you,
will weep for you when dead, such tears as
none but mother knows how to weep.
| Love thy mother
Year: 1860

A negro in Cincinnati, armed with
bowie knife, tried to get possession Of his
own children, who have been supported by a
kind negress for some years past. He said
that since the death of their mother they
had been of no particular value to him, and
he was determined to sell them into slavery
and realize handsome thing out of them.
The negress beat him off with skillet until
the uoIiee arrived.
Year: 1860

THE ENVELOPE STAMpED.-The orders OF
Postmasters on the Department for the new
stamped envelope have accumulated SO fast
as to require an increase Of machinery on
the part of the contractor, G. f. Nesbitt, Of
this city, to an extent not originally con
tempated. They will be filed, however, ac'
cordiug to the priority of the date of aapPlica'
ton till the supply from the manufacturer
shall equal the demand
Year: 1860

Willis describes lady whom he saw in
an omnibus as Excessively pretty and the
dimples OF the corners of her mouth were so
deep and so turned in, like inverted commas,
that her Ibis looked like a quotation"
Year: 1860

The New York Herald says that arrange
meutu are on the tapis with the directors Of
the Great Eastern to take her to Norfolk,
Va. previous to her return to England, and
there load her with thirty thousand bales O
cotton for the British market.
Year: 1860

Col. Cipriani is now stopping at the Gil
more House, Baltimore. The Baltimore
American is informed that the original state
ment, that the Colonel is charged with ma
king arrangements for the visit of Prince
Napoleon is correct, and that the Prince will
arrive here in his yacht before the close of
the summer.
Year: 1860

The Sacramento Bee picks up our remark
that Sacramento threw her vote against
Convention on the ground of self interest,
and animadverts upon it. The Bee says,
the people of Sacramento have sufficient
intelligence to know the Legislature can
better make the needed reform in the state
Constitution than a Convention.


Indeed? The people of Sacramento have
arrived at a wonderful pitch of perfection.
To their clear vision a reform in the gov
ernment may be the easiest and simplest
work imaginable. Any body can hx the
thing up comfortably, in their opinion
But the people of Nevada are far behind
the lighthouse. They have the most har-
RAISING doubts about the capacity OF our
Legislature They entertain the old togy
idea that Constitutions are the work OF
statesmen, that the paramount law OF the
State requires delicate and skillfui hands
to put its machinery in the most perfect
order. They, somehow, are little dubious
as to the safety of allowing a set OF indi-
yiduals who generally owe their positions
to base fealty to party, to tampcr with the
supreme law of the State. Our citizens,
unlike those of Sacramento, say the nest
of legislators that annually assemble at the
capital, and whose comprehension OF a
Constitution they are sworn to support is
so vague that they vote for bills in the teeth
of the higher instrument, are unfit to repair
it. They entertain the singular idea that
men who have not the brain to understand
a Constitution are incapable of making or
even patching one. 1t is whim Of ours,
which we cannot help and we trust onr Sac
ramento cotemporary, living in a hi CHER or
der of society will look upon it compassion-
atey. If we, away back here in the noun
tains, do happen to think that Legislature
which eensured Congress for eiecting its
own presiding officer without consulting the
choice of the lawmakers of California; II
we do chance to fear that a set of men who
vote for souatter bills, in violation of treaty
stipulations and the rights OF property as
acknowledged by the whole civilized world;
if we are so deucedly stupid as to entertain
doubts that the body of oath-bound men
with plain guide before them which
plunged the State four millions in debt in
violation of the Constitution; if we are
such unmitigated fools as to believe Leg
islature which would have the presumption
to disgrace United States Senator for re-
sisting foul wrong, a Legislature that
would attempt to override the people by
an odious Bulkhead measure, and worse
than all, establish Il censorship of the Press
that palladium of liberty; if we do happen
to think that the creatures who cannot un-
derstand Constitution, or are so deficient
in morals as to violate it wilfully, are moi
fit to take the part of statesmen and make
the fundamental law of the land, why, we
do hope our Sacramento cotemporary will
look with charity upon this benighted COM
munity.


A Legislature reform the Constitution !
Send watch to a blacksmith for repairs
bung hole to a cooper to make a barrel to
fit
Year: 1860

AGRIoULrU RAJ LANDS OF CALIF0RSIA.-It is
singuiarity with regard to California and
something entirely new. we believe in the ag-
riculturial experience Of mankind, that the very
spots upon examination of which the former re-
ports of her unfriutfalness were predieated have
turned out to be the most productive. There is
no place in the world where fruit grows in great
er luxuriance than at Martinez, and yet the
bulk of it is grown on adobe soil, without irri-
CATION, on hilisidos exposed to the cold winds
and fogs of the coast. The annual report OF
tie State Surveyor shows that the very locations
which were once thought worthless, are now the
most sought after by the grape grower, the sheep
aiser and the lurnberman.
Year: 1860

to contribute their mite to raise cairn of
commemoration to their national Patriot


William Wallace, one of the immortal
heroes of the earth, who struck for Liberty
and human rights, has been mouldering in
mother dust five and half centuries with
out monument fit to commemorate his
heroic deeds. 1t is praiseworthy enter
prise on the part of his eountrymen to pay
respect to his immortal memory in a ma
tional monument. May it stand upon the
bones of patriots slam and tower and point
to their sempiternal home.
Year: 1860

The following is the declaration of causes
which justify the secession of South Carolina
from the Federal Union, as reported by the
Committee to prepare an address to the people
of the Southern States:


"Ihe State Of South Carolina having deter
mined to resume a separate and equal rank
among nations, deems it due to herself and the
remaining United States of America and the
nations Of the world that she should declare the
causes which led to the act. In 1865 that por-
ton of the British empire, embracing Great
Britain, undertook to make law for the govern
ment of the American Colonies A struggle
for the right of self-government ensued which
resulted ON the 4th OF July, l776, in declara-
ton by the Colonies, that they are, and of right
ought to be free and independent States, and
that as free and Independent States they have
full power to levy war, conclude peace contract
alliances, establish commerce, and to do such
things as independent States have the right to
do. They further soemnly declared that when
ever any form OF government becomes destruc-
tive of these ends, it is the established right of
the people to alter and abolish it, and institute
a new government. Deeming that the govern
ment OF Great Britain had become destructive
OF these ends, they declared the Colonies free
and absolyed from allegiance to the British
crown, and the political connection between
them and Great Britain was totally dissolved


The Committee say the right of State to
govern itself, and the right of the people to
abolish government when it becomes destruc-
Year: 1860

Algeria is now connected with
France by the electric cable laid
down between that colony. the
Balearic Isles and Spain. The lay
ing of the electric cable between
Marseilles and Algeria is to be
completed towards the close of the
present year.
Year: 1860

TIE BATH STREET, lCAsE.-Judge Mclean
yesterday afternoon delivered decision in
the celebrated Bath street case. which in
wolves the title Of the Railroad Companies to
all the ground they occupy upon Bath and
Front streets, the amount in question
amounting to about half million dollars
By this decision the bill was dismissed,
which is in favor of the Railroads. The
suit was brought some six years ago by the
heirs Of the Connecticut Land Company, in
an adjoining district. The suit was trans
ferred to this district by act Of Congress-
Judge Mclean is unwilling to have the de-
Year: 1860

neAp The Charleston Mercury gives the his
tory of that paper for thfrty-ive years-during
which time it refers to the fate of its editors in
this fashion ' The first ruined the second
barely earned narrow subsistence the third
injured, but sold out in time the fourth died a
ruined man, and the fifth is ourselves, of whom
we shall say nnthinru
Year: 1860

IN COMPLIANCE with Section Is of an Act
i entitled IAN Act to provide Revenue for the
support of the Government of this State" ap-
proved April 29th, 1857, l hereby give notice
that the Sale of all Real Eestate and Improve
ments and Personal Property assessed in this
County on which the taxes remain unpaid will
Year: 1860

WAITISG.-At Buckeye and Churntown there
are between two and three hundred men, nearly
all of whom are waiting for water to work their
claims. These two mining localities are cele-
brated for their rich diggings, but car only be
worked in the rainy season.
Year: 1860

Why, look for moment into the history of
the country. What but the Democratic party
has directed the policy of the country for the
last sixty years? The old national Wing party
had an existence of twenty years, twice
succeeding to power, and once having a large
majority of both branches of Congress still, as
party shaping the policy of the country, it has
scarcely touched the page of history. True,
Clay and Webster both rendered eminent service
to the country not, however, as mere Wing
politicians, but as great statesmen, rising above
the distinction of party politics


There is no cause for secession, and we be-
lieve the thinking men of the South will so de-
eide.


The great battle with the sectional party is to
be fought in the free States. Through division,
the Democracy of the North, in the recent cleo
tion, have been oyerpowered but not conquered
Reunited, they will again rally and march on
to victory-placing the free States, no longer
antagonistic to the South, but on the everlasting
basis of the Constitution In his late Boston
speech, Seward said that the last Democrat was
already born. He thought so in 1910, but in
two short years a /" change came DER the spirit
of his dream" He would have approached
nearer the truth had he said that in 1864 there
would be no Republican party.


Secession is revolution, and revolution is the
breaking up of the best and freest government
on earth. Like all else wrought out by human
hands, it has faults; but how Insignificant are
these faults when weighed in the scale against
the inestimable blessings which render pros
porous and happy more than thirty millions of
people. Let us not be carried away by seeming
trivial evils, but cling to the Union with undying
attachment
Year: 1860

Than f1y to others we Know not Of"


Though the day is dark and dreary, let us
not despair. Our Government has been in ex-
istence scarcely more than seventy years, and
passed in triumph through mary exciting strug
giles. 1t will survive the present. The tempest
of folly and madness may beat against it. The
temple of liberty itself may tetter to its base
before the fury of the storm, but the holy atfec-
tions Of the American people will rescue it from
final overthrow, and demonstrate afresh the
capacity of man for self-government.
Year: 1860

WAsHINGToN. July 18-Mr Capen is here,
seeking authority from the president for the
removal Of the Boston post office to Summer
street Postmaster-General Holt says he had
no right to issue the recent notice of such
change without first asking the consent of the
department The Washington Herald CORE
spondent says that the cabinet have decided
to order its removal to Summer street.
Year: 1860

know that Providence can and has deprived
men of millions in a day. Their first wish is
to know what his ideas of happiness are. They
know that necessity has reserved many of the
maternal cares to herself, and that some are
better qualified to sbey the old dame than
others Nor do they stand the least in fear if
the old dame should take them in charge
They know she is the mother of invention and
many virtues-that she is the true source of
nobility, and that happiness springs from her
alone-they are not found all over the city
taking an interest in everybody's business but
their own, for they always have their minds
employed. When their husbands return home
from business, they do not open their battery
and pour forth tremendous volley of tongue
about the pet poodle. If he is in a melancholy
mood, she will lead him in poetic strains
through the classic grounds Of Greece, Egypt,
Italy, and lead him to pinnacle of the Alpine
mountains, whore, perchance, Napoleon army
is passing. She disoriminstes between the
commanders Of divisions, brigades, regiments,
battalions, and gives a full history of their
long-suferings, and in an affectionate tone of
voice tells him how thankful she is that he has
not to undergo SO many hardships. Then if he
does not seem to be in better and more pleas
ing mood, she takes her seat at the piano
to discourse some delicious strains of music
until she has erased every frown from her legal
lords brow and banished his sighs with smiles.
lnese sweet and patient daughters of nobility
wise men wish to obtain for companions in life;
not those crinolined firts and empty Drained
plpers that live on discussing others misfor-
times They are like serpents with a pretty
like dainties, but prove to be rank
poison when you are caught in their nets The
lady that has not courage enough to stem the
storm of life is too great a coward to know
what true happiness is, and ought to be con-
demned to play with poodle dogs through
life. Most respectfully,


LUCIOUS PUCIoUs.


WASHINGTON, June I6 IS60
Year: 1860

INDIANS on TIE HESyEss PAss.-We learn
from reliable authority that Indians were seen
| within six miles of Jackson's ranch on Tues
day. They were probably scouts. The keeper.
of stations on the Hsnness route are leaving
and driving their stock in this direction
There is consequently no feed for animals on
the route. Olin's passenger train is ready to be
put on the road. The want Of stations will de-
lay the train for some days.


We are informed by men familiar with the
mountains that the Indians have stone towers a
few feet high, on the tops of the high ridges, on
which fires are built by night to communicate
intelligence from one point to another. This
kind of telegraph has been in use among them
many years.
Year: 1860




SMITH says the military spirits who were so
extremely eager to get of for the wars in twenty
minutes the other night exerted themselves so
violently to tear themselves away that they be-
came thoroughly exhausted at the expiration of
the time and were wholly unable to proceed
Thus he accounts for the principal painters for
glory being found hOre on the following day and
ever since.


JONES explanation is more uncomplimentary.
He "narates" that one of the sojers in speech
at the Court House was urgent to enrol as many
as fifteen, rs that number would make very
respectable corpse' (corps) Jones says the Judges
who had enlisted became suspicious that the
commander might design to make csdavsrs of
them, and they deserted.


BRowS says he was right peart to disembowel
tribe or two of Indians, and string their saus-
age CUTS on the sage bushes of Western Utah,
at first, but when he came t, saddling up, on
more mature reelection he determined he had
rather be called a coward than corpse, and staid
at home.


JOHNSON says he hated to dismount after he
bad gone far, for fear of being laughed at; but
on reflection he had rather face smiling Amer
leans than frowning savages.
JENKINS surmises that one Of the Judges in
the last warlike expedition has gone down below
to find gun that will either load itself or shoot
cartridges either end foremost.


Another Judge is reported to take the lower
crossing going home and is attempting to
prove an alibi for the month of May, on and
after the 18th.


JACKSON extols the Grass Valley brigade to
the skies. He informs US confdentially that
they have brought military tactics to such per-
fection that their svolutions are invisible to the
naked eye.


BusKuH, one Of the second regiment volun-
teers, swaggers about with big revolver on, and
swsars he sis not afraid of all the Indians this
side Of Ill nor does he ever mean to be-
ScooKUM thinks the first volunteer in the sec
ond regiment, in consequence of the scarcity of
horses, has gone down to a COW county after a
is a coo-,car dye see.


DooLITTLE sets it down as remarkable that a
night or two since there was a crowd Offering a
kingdom for horse, to go to war on, and since
drove has arrived in town there is no inquiry
for the animal at the ordinary prices.
PEABODY alleges that the Almighty intsrfered
to save his scalp when about to depart with the
second regiment to the war. He was e1traordi-
narily hot for fight till the hour of departure
arrived, when heavy drowsiness came over him.
Exhausted nature called for couch and he re-
luctant.y submitted to the behest of Providence.


LAM'UM made his will, decked himself in tur-
key red and determined on blood. lie mounted
horse for which not more than a quarter of a
kingdom was paid; but suddenly bethinking
himself how hard 4 road Jordan is to travel, and
of the quarrels among heirs after their uncle
Fuller is dead, he resolved to have peace at all
hazards. He still lives.
Year: 1860

HALE's IMPROVED LANP.-For q large and
brilliant light HAle's improved Kerosene burner
is superior to any. We have tested all the pa
tents IN market and find it superior where a
strong light is wanted. 1t is constructed so as
to furnish moro light from the same oil than
any other kind of Kerosene lamp.
Year: 1860

FROM CARSON CIrr.-A dispatch states that
s'entry on guard at Carson City was sho, with
out cause or provocation BY fellow an Tuesday
night The murderer WAS being tried bv Judge
Lynch on Wednesday. What his fate is wa
have not been able to learn
Year: 1860

netss was communicated by his servant to
the cook, who soon circulated it on the berths
deck among the men, who cursed him and
all of his kin.


His servant came ON board Of the hulk
where the men were lodged, the evening
when the captain was to be married. Cra-
zy Joe lthe name the boy was known by
met him at the gangway, and asked intel
ligently if the captain would be married
that evening, and where? The servant
gave him the information he desired, and
went about his business.


That night, while the captain was un-
dressing, he was seized by the threat and
dragged to the bridal bed.


Look, fair lady, on me- said Crazy
Joe, but do not scream, or | will kill you.
Look on me /; hold within my grasp
devil who delights in cruelty-a merciless
fend who has scourged the backs Of hum
dreds of brave men-a ruffian who has
robbed me of my reason hold him with
in the grasp of death at the very moment
his black soul thought itself within the
reach of bliss. Monster! look upon your
lady--think a moment Of the heaven Of
earthly JOY almost within your reach--then
think of me, poor crazy Joe and of the
hell to which send you! Die, wretch,
die |"


When the alarm was given, the stran-
gled body of the captain was found lying
along side of the bridal bed, but the maniac
who killed him was never recognized after
wards. He belonged to Cornwall, and
probably found shelter from pursuit in the
mines until the excitement passed away.


The lady stated at the time, and many
years afterwards, that the attack of the
maniac was so sudden and silent that she
knew nothing of it until the curtains were
pushed aside and she felt the pressure OF
the captains body bent over the edge OF
the bed, Joe held his victim around the
neck with the right hand and turned him
from side to side as easily as if he had been
a child, while the forefnger and thumb Of
the left hand grasped her own throat, ready
to extinguish her life if she attempted tC
raise an alarm.


His face was pale and deathlike, his
eyes stared, but were mctionless and ev-
cry word he uttered seemed to issue from
the very depths of his soul. The captains
looks were terrible beyond description
death left the impress Of ferocity upon hi.
darkened features. How the maniac en-
tered or left the room she never knew his
departure was as noiseless as his entrance
So paralyzed was she with fear, that ar
hour elapsed before she could muster eour-
age to call for help, but she thanked God,
when the captains cruel character became
generally known ashore, that she had been
rescued from bis alliance.
Year: 1860

FHE DEMOCRATIC PARTY advocates no
sectional or disunion cause. Its creed is
national and its organization exists in ev.
cry State in the Union II men who hAyO
been tinctured with sectional or disunion
sentiments unite with us, we welcome
their support for We believe in the truth
and justice of our principles, and there.
fore expect them to make converts. Men
renounce their disuniOniSm when they join
the Democratic party, for they are well
aware that It is the only party that tear
ries the Hag and keeps step to the music
Of the Union"
Year: 1860

~ Let all remember that this evening is
the closing evening Of tho Fair now holding at
West Market Hail, for the benefit Of St. Pat
rick's Church Let all who can 80 and hear
the Concert to be given by the boys Of the
congregation, under the direction Of Professor
Gfr1c.
Year: 1860

Mr.. DAMON, editor of TIE North West
arrived here on Thursday last per steamer
Anderson, from Port Townsend. He is q
representative to the Grand Lodge from
the lodge of Masons at that place. We
hope his stay here may be so agreeable a,
soon to induce him to make Olympia his
headquarters. He is in the enjoyment oI
excellent health, in fine spirits, and "goy
as pink" We bespeak for him kind
and generous reception by our citizens gen
orally.