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Year: 1860

Two prisoners confined in the county iail
-"Red," and his companion in the attempt
TO steal the treasure box from the Big Oak
Flat stage, in the month of April last0were
discovered last week cutting the flooring of
their cell in order to dig their way out of
the cell. The instruments they used were
common spoons. Sonora 4 qe.
Year: 1860

ExcURsroN.-A party of ten or twelve men
left Nevada on Tuesday morning for Lake
Bgler. The Democrat says they go to catch
sOme of those large trout that inhabit the
lake, to prospect for gold and silver, and see
the country.
Year: 1860

The New York Times has proper authority
it says for denying the statement now current
that his Honor Mayor Wood is soon TO be
married to MssCrean,t the sister of Mrs. James
Gordon Bennett
Year: 1860

New YoRK The New York Express
4 (American) says


Nothing can be more certain than that the
rank and file of the Democracy from Montauk
to Buffalo are all for Douglas, and hence to
persist in running Breckinridge and Lane,
dead in the face of that certainty, has very
much the appearance of determination on
the part of the secessionists to do their best
to give the state to Lincoln.
Year: 1860

II is owing to the sympathetic commu-
nication of vibrations, that persons with
clear and powerful voices have been able to
break large glass tumbler by singing close
to its fundamental note. We have heard of
case where person broke no fewer than
twelve glasses. in rapid succession.


The sympathy of vibrations, or the ten
dency of one vibrating body to throw anoth-
er into the very same state of vibration,
shows itself remarkably in the case of two
clocks fixed on the same shelf or wall. It
was known near century ago that two
clocks set agoing on the same shelf will af-
feet each other. The pendulum of one will
stop that of the other and the pendulum of
the one stopped, after certain time,
will resume its vibrations, and in its turn,
stop the other pendulum.


These effects are clearly produced by the
small vibrations communicated from the one
pendulum to the other, through the shelf or
rail, or plank on which they both rest. 1t
has also been found that two conflicting
sounds produce silence, as two converging
rays of light produce darkness.
Year: 1860

The Xenia (Ohio) Noes is publishing a
series of "reminiscences by an engineer. In
No "A of his series the writer gives the
following startling incident:


was running night express train of
ten cars--eight passenger and two baggage
cars, and all were well loaded. l was be-
hind time and was anxious to make a cer-
tain point therefore was using every ex-
eriion. and putting the engine to the utmost
speed OF Which it was capable. i was on
a section of the road usually considered the
best running ground on the line, and was
endeavoring TO make the most of it, when
conviction struck me that must stop. A
something seemed tot tell me that to 90
ahead was dangerous, and that / must stop
If L would save my life. | looked at my
train, and II was all right. / strained my
eyes and peered into the darkness, and
could see go signal of.danger, and there 1
could see five miles in the daytime. lis.
tened to the working of..my engine, tried the
water, looked at the scales, and all was right.
tried to laugh myself out of what then
considered to be childish fear but like a
Bapquo's ghost, it would not down on nv
bidding, but grew stronger in its hold upon
me. | thought of the ridicule would have
heaped upon me if Il did stop but it was
all Of no avail.


The conviction that | must. stop grew
stronger and stronger, and resolved to STOP
| shut eff and blew the whistle for down
brakes accordingly. | came to dead hals
got of and went ahead a little way, with
out saying word to any body what was
the matter. l had my lamp in my hand,
and | bad gone only about sixty feet when
saw what convinced me that premonitions
are sometimes possible. dropped my Ian
tern from my nerveless grasp and sank on
the track utterly unable to stand for there
was switch, the thought of which had new
er entered my mind, as it had never been
used since l had been on the road, and
was known to be spiked, but which was now
open to lead me off the track. This switch
led into a stone quarry, from which stone for
bridge purposes had been Quarried, and the
switch was left there but was always kept
locked and the switch rail spiked. Yet here
1t was wide open, and, had not obeyed my
premonltion my warning-ca it what you
nay-l should have run into it, and at the
end of the track, only about ten rods long,
my heavy engine and train, moving at the
rate Of forty-6se miles and hour, would have
come in collision with solid wall of rock
eighteen feet high. The consequences had
done SO, can neither be imagined nor des-
cribed but they could, by no possibility,
have been otherwise than fatally horrid.-
This is my experience in getting warnings
from a source that know not and cannot
divine"
Year: 1860

III assorted marriages are, in great mum
Der of instances, the result If parental re-
missness, in not beginning early enough to
instil into the mind Of the child such an aver
sion to certain traits of character, and such
a high estimate of certain moral qualities, as
true wisdom would dictate in the premises.


1t certainly is rot an impossible thing to
impress the youthful mind with an uncon-
querable repugnance against character the
most striking trait of which is coLtemp.i
bic trickery, an abhorlent profanity, little'
soued meanness, or degrading animalism.
just as well may the young heart be fortified
against loving the miser, the spendthrift and
the gamester r-againstthos whose prominent
exhibitions demonstrate an Feasibility, in all
absorbing selfshness or stony -heartedness /;
OF con ntempt of honest labor, of religion, or
of pecuniary obligation. While our children
may be early taught an aversion to such
traits of character their admiration may be
cultivated for all that is manly and honora
bic and self sacrificing for all that is true
and pure and generous for all who are in
dustrious oiligent aud economical.


Il is unwise to hope for domestic happi-
ness in the possession of single favorable
trait of character it is better to look for a
combination, and they are to be most con-
graduated who can discern and WOO and win
the possessor of the largest number of good
points. First Of ALL the man whom you love,
the woman whom you adore. should possess
high sense of right and wrong :
next, bodily health !; and, thirdly, moral
bravery. courage to be industrious, eco
nomical and self-dsnylng. With these three
traits, principle, health, and soul that can
do and dare all that one ought to, domestic
felicity viii abide. None ought to marry,
who cannot command the means Of enabling
them to live in copfors according to their
station in life, without grinding economies.
1t is useless to talk about love in a cottage.
The little rascal always runs away when
there is no bread and butter on the table,
There is more love in full -four barrel than
in all the roses and posies and woodbinel
that ever grew.


No mechanic should marry until he is mas
ter of his trade; nor professional man un'
til his income is adequa te to the style Of lif'
which he determines upon; nor the mer-
chant until his clear annual gains are equa
to his domestic expenditures, unless indeed
there are, in either case, independent ant
unconditional sources of income Hat
Journal Of Health
Year: 1860

Vi ldA UH uUSs'


Sec. |. BE il ordained bV The Council of
the Incorporated Village of Macarthur, That
it shall be the duty Of .he Marshal of said
village 10 forthwith make out list Of all
persons owning or harboring eny dog or
bitch, and from time to time, during he year
to add 70 said list all persons not on the same,
who may at any time during the year, be
found owning or harbOring any dog or bitch;
and any person who shall allow any dog or
bitch habitually to remain and be lodged or
fed within his or her house, store or inclosure
shall be considered as harboring the same
within the meaning Of this ordinance; and
the Marshal shall respectively assess from
each and every owner and harbOrer so listed,
an annual tax of one dollar for each and
every dog, and five dollars for each and ev-
cry bitch, so owned and harbored by hin, ,and
it shall be the duty of the Marshal to make
out duplicate OF said list and deposit one
Of the same with the Village Recorder.


Section g That it shall be the duty Of said
Marshal to demand and collect said tax with
in thirty days after the taking effect of this
ordinance, in the manner hereinafter de-
scrioed ard pay the same over 10 the Treas
urer; and, if any person who shall be charg-
ed with any such tax, shall neglect or refuse
to pay the same, it shall be the duty Of said
Marshal to seize. distrain and make sale oI
the property Of the person so refusing in the
same manner, with the same powers and rP.
strictions and under the same regulations
and according 10 the provisions and requisi'
tions of the law for the collection Of taxes
for State ard County purposes, And, in case
the Marshal shall not be able TO find suti-
cient property whereupon TO levy and make
distress for the noG-payment OF tax assessed
on any dog or bitch as aforesaid, then the
dog or bitch on which such tax shall have
been assessed shall become forfeited, and
shall be considered public nuisance, and il
shall be lawful for any person to kill or de-
stroy the same. And il shall be the duty o.
the Marshal forthwith TO cause such dog OF
bitch TO be killed or destroyed; and il any
person shall hinder or resist the Marshal in
the execution of any of the duties imposed
upon him by this ordinance, he or she shal
upon conviction thereof before the Mayor
foifei; and pay fine Of not less than five mol
more than one hundred dollars, with cost OF
suit.


Sec. 3. That if any person ewniug or har
Year: 1860

P, S.-Snce writing the above we have
received a note from Col Lewis, declaring
himself unqualifedly for stephen A. Doug
las. for the Presidency, first, last and all the
Time We had too much confidence in our
friends consistency to believe him capable
of performing such a summersault. His
voice has often been heard leading the De-
mocracy of Tehama county to battle and
victory. and he will not be silent during the
present canvass. lie has many warm
friend in the ranks OF the true Democracy,
who will not only rally to the polls in No
vember next and cast their votes as he does,
but will sustain him, and endorse his course
on the above resolution.
Year: 1860

HARRIS AND TuDEN-We had the pleasure
while in Butte county day or two since, of
taking these two able politicians and true
Democrats by the hand. Gen. Pat Harris is
a true and loyal son of that proud old State
-Kentucky- has a host ofwarm friends,
who will signify their appreciation of his
worth and sterling integrity by giving him a
rousing majority for seat in the next As
sembly Of California. DR.. Tilden, although
not so extensively known and appreciated as
he should be, is "whole team" within him
self A better man cannot be found in any
county.-Red BLuf Beacon.
Year: 1860

drunken soldier and another man, in
Hoopa Valley, got into a difficulty with an
Indian up there about a squaw, whereupon
they killed the Indian and secreted him BY
some means the other Indians found his body
and then arrested the man who was with the
soldier, and cooped him in one of their huts.
firmly bound. 1t is supposed they would
have taken him off and executed him, after
burying the dead Indian, if he had not been
discovered by some of the settlers in the
Valley ey.-Htn6old Times.
Year: 1860

MARRIED MEN's INDIGNATION NETTING
Those married men in the city Of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, whose wives have "gone East aud in
sist on leaving home every summer held a
meeting the other evening to see what it was
best to do under the melancholy circumstan-
ces. The Gazette says there was a large at
tendance. n. $ Lund was elected chairman
OF the meeting The meeting united in sing
ing Come yG Disconsolate" Burns's Got
tager's Saturday Night was then read, and
the committee on resolutions then reported
the following:


Hesolrcd That the habit of the married
women OF this city. leaving their homes and
families for long visits TO relatives and friends
Is becoming SO serious an evil thatit demands
the speedy adoption Of some effective cure.


Rcsohed That while we entertain the
highest respect and proper degree of affec-
ton for our eastern cousin and relative bv
the wite's side, we nevertheless hayea deep
er reverence for that portion Of the martial
vow at the family altar, and for that scriptu1.
al duty which requires a woman to forsake
all others and cleave unto her husband alone.


Resolgcd, That our thanks are not due, and
are not rendered to the "gentlemuuly and
ailabe' railroad conductors who supcriutcu-
ded the safety Of our wives and children in
their fight from homes prepared and sus-
tained at heavy expense by ourselves; and
that we reprobate the invention Of railroads
as destructive to domestic employment and
personal comfort


Resolped, That we heartily endorse the
suggestion of a permanent organization for
mutual aid and protection, and that we re-
commend to the married men Of our city to
give it their countenance and support.


Resolred, That entertaining due regard
for the social relations of "our circle" the
members of this association take upon them
selves to keep up the calls of the absent
ones during their absence from home


Adopted unanimously, but amid much
signing.


The meeting closed by Colonel Ezra Miller
singing Days of Absence" in very pathetic
manner
Year: 1860

novel feat is mentioned by the Crescent
City Herald man undertook for a wager
of twenty five dollars to pick up one hundred
blocks placed one yard apart, and place them
in basket at the starting point, one at a
time, in eighty minutes He accom- plished
the feat with case, in less than fifty minutes
Year: 1860

THE NEVADA DEMocRAT.-We find the fol-
lowing announcement in the Nevada Demo-
crat of Wednesday:


The present number completes the seventh
volume of the Nevada Democrat, and this
will be our last issue as a weekly paper. In
entering upon the eighth volume, we have
determined to publish tr.weekly, the first
number of which will be issued on Tuesday
evening ofneXt week, and thereafter it viii
be published regularly every Tuesday, Thurs
day, and Saturday evening The size Of the
paper will be somewhat reduced, but each
number will contain rather more than halt
the reading matter we have ordinarily given
in the weekly, while the subscription price
will be but slightly increased,
Year: 1860

TIE wheat crop of Del Norte county turns
out even smaller than was anticipated The
average yield is much less than that Of any
previous year, some farms only turning out
twenty two bushels to the acre, and few more
than twenty-eight All other crops, howev-
er turn out well.
Year: 1860

ft'O A. NM hitS or SRhGINEa.--Fsct.
which have recently 10 knowledge together with d
yertlsemenis AMI card which has hrouh
The country 10 iends and from th .e
he following extract The subscriber Wing con t oe
business or the last years Franklin street under the e u
g. WATT co. begs leave inform his friends and the custom


Of the old concern that s firm No es


hed US That regular and systematic elort has s being
made To deceive the Pub and lead them believe Tie cor
Of GEO. WATT CO In existence nd III e oDv
place 10 get watts Patent CCf Brace Pow nom man no "a


s violating the fAtent Laws anI uEG.ty depryEg Gsyss
Watt of his property by making bis Patent Pow without f az
thor or consent We desire to impression thus sought
10 be made, aud Inform you and the pebble that tie concern ~
GEORGE WATT CO. Is still In existence; that Geo Wsit he
Inventor and paienee hiss lo sold e M or Authorized
except Mr. T. W Scott Of Frederi ksburg "a make any
Patent Pows and that keep constantly on hand large os
u all sizes made under person supervision from The opy
genuine patterns OF the best materials together with
o other Agricultural Implements which warrant 10 e
buyer and are determined not TO he undeod by any one IN
market Our GEO. WATT his sincere thanks 10 his friend
and the public who have sustained him heretofore and we solicit
continuance Of their patronage


seO
Year: 1860

Such lies are not abstractions-they are
great practical mischiefs. Hundreds of
thousands of eager, heated. ignorant parti.
sans will, either blindly or for partys sake,
gulp down the abominable dose, and even
try TO fancy they like the taste Of it Hun
dreds of thousands will adopt the new creed
IN profound Inconsistencies that it differs
materially from the old one Thus the
baletul talsehood of 1850 will become the
more baleful half.tru,h Of 1861.


We commend these considerations 10
those who are intent on fastening all sorts
of addenda on the Republican Platform ut
Chicago, but especially TO those who insist
upon having Protective plank in the
Platform. Now, if there be any more de.
voted, unfinching. undoub,ing Protection
lss than We are, his superiority mus. consist
IN ability, not zeal. not ,horoughness of
conviction. We never missed an opportu-
nifty nor grudged an effort to secure the
triumph of Protection. That nine-tenths
Of the Republicans are with US, on this point.
We do not doubt but i. is sequally clear that
some Republicans are against us And
they have just rs perfect a right TO their
convictions as If they Were majority.
Nay It would be unfair aud tyranical to
make them. by a resolve, at Chicago, seem
to affirm or uphold what they really do not
believe They are not the men TO be trans
formed from Free Traders into Protection
lists by such a course they are far more
likely to be s.eeled against argument. against
conviction. We, the overwhelming major-
ity Of Republicans. can well afford to let
them alone while they let us alone We
have perfect right to act on our own con-
victions in the premises, so long as We leave
them at perfect liberty to act upon theirs
We most undoubt:ngly believe that the
triumph of the Republicans will secure
beneticent revision Of the Tariff but to at
tempt to make our few Free Trade Repub-
llcans profess faith adverse to their own
is to hazard both the triumph and its ex-
pected fruits


The conclusion of the whole matter is
this Whenever there is question Of put
tirg in or leaving out plank in Plat
form, it should be decided in favor Of leav-
ing out A iSnct imposed 10y the majority
on the minority Of party is null its i'm
position is usurpation-an act of tyranny.
How much more, then is such imposition
to be deprecated when it is minority
which imposes the dogma on majority
n. Y Tibane
Year: 1860




During the latter part of Friday last.
April 24th. rumbllngs was heard of distant
thunder were heard, giving warning that
storm was approaching this place. lie Roy)
and about six o'clock dark clouds began to
gather in the west Soon the heavens
seemed to be enveloped in a mantle Of
complete darkness with the exception of
small space in the vicinity Of the sun. and
though the sun was in full view, yet it af.
tordcd no light, and it was as dark in town
as a moonless midnight We hardly know
how to describe the appearance Of the sun
at that time, uuless it might be said to re-
semble one of its rays when peering through
the knot-holc of dark closet


Following close upon the sprinkling
came heavy splashes OF rain, terrific thun-
der claps. heavy gusts Of wind, common
hail, and then the balls of nee. As might
be expected, window panes and sashes
were smashed as quickly as if attacked by
a shower of stones. Several persons who
were out doors when the ice commenced
descending were severely injured, and all
beat hasty retreat to protected quarters.


The ice storm lasted about fifteen min
utes, during which time the ground was
covered with ice balls from the size Of
hens egg to common sized table bowls
While the storm was raging some balls were
picked up near the doors of some houses
in town, and We learned that one weighed
ten ounces. and another one pound aud
half At the Metropolitan Hotel every
every pane of glass on the west side Of the
building was broken, and Oh the south
one ball passed through the clap-boards
There was scarcely whole pane Of glass
left in the windows on the east and west
side Of the house in Leroy. aud in some
, instances window sash were smashed. At
Mr.. Dickenson's house, the balls effected
passage directly through the roof But it
| is useless to attempt to enumerate the va
rious accidents and incidents which resul-
ted from this storm We hear Of horses,
cattle and pigs being killed, men severely
pommelled, but We are pleased to say, 10
loss of human life was occasioned at least
We have heard Of none We are confident.
however, that had person been So exposed
during the prevalence Of the storm 50 as to
have received some Of those ice balls upon
his head, his life would have been iminen.-
ly perilled.
Year: 1860

PRENTICE oS DEMoCRAcY-Few Of u
know actat we would do in q pinch. but
we rather think if We were called upon
Just at present to define the National De
mocracy We should do it BY adopting Par
son Higginson's definition Of mince pie
Very white and indigestible upon the
top, very black and indigestible at the bot
tom, with untold horrors between"
Year: 1860

CoRy Is ARKANsAs-ln the middle aud
southern portions Of Arkansas. corn is very
scarce. Many who have heretofore raised
thousand, of bushels annually for sale have
lattrrly turned their attention So exclusively
to the cultivation of cotton as to occasion the
present scarcity OF corn.
Year: 1860

young lady, Miss Stewart, of Cumberland
county, Pa, was go badly frightened few weeks
ago by meeting a will-o the wisp that she was
taken ill upon reach ng home, and in a short time
afterward died from the effects of the prostration
of her system, superinduced by the fright.


A bill has passed the lower House of the Ala
Year: 1860

PHENOMENA OF GLAss.-That glass resists
the action of most acids, science has proved;
its weight is not diminished by use or age.
1t is more capable than other substances of
receiving the highest degree of polish; if
melted several times over, and properly
cooled down in the furnace; presenting a
polish which almost rivals the diamond in
brillancy.


If it be made into phial, with the bottom
much thicker than the sides, and suddenly
cooled in the open air, instead of being
tempered in the usual manner, the result
on its susceptibility to fracture is the most
extraordinary. 1t will bear heavy blow,
or severe pressure, from any blunt instrument,
uninjured; but if any hard and angular
substance, even so small as grain of flint,
or sharp sand, be dropped into the phial the
bottom will crack all round, and fall off.
A small fragment of diamond has been
passed through the thick bottom with
apparently as little resistance as if it dropped
through the web of a spider Instances
have occurred in which one of these phials
Has USCu Sli uNh Oy maiiSt, With II lOTCe
sufficient to drive nail into some descriptions
of wood, without causing fracture, while a
small fragment of flint dropped gently into
the phial, has cracked the glass to pieces
A piece of white-hot metal being dropped
gently into cold water, and taking the form
of round lump elongated to a tail, is
terminated cracker. The round part will
bear heavy blow without fracture; but If
the least part of the tail be broken off, the
whole flies into innumerable fragments, as
fine as powder.


If this glass drop be placed in wine bottle
filled with water, and small portion of the
tail broken off, by the aid of long pair of
nippers, the conclusion by the explosion (for
it is almost similar to an exploson) is so
violent as to break the bottle and scatter
the water in every direction. All these
curious results are owing to peculiar
inequality of the glass, which ARISES from
the sudden cooling to which it is subjected.