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Year: 1860

North, is the great cause, and we
think they will by and by become
aware that we are worth looking af-
ter


Dubuque and Chicago have come to
the conclusion, also, that we are worth
looking after, and they have gone to
work In the right way to do it that
is by extending their railroad commu-
nlcations so as to secure the trade of
the best part Of the counties of this
northern section of Iowa We late
" had a conversation with an en-
ployee OF. the Milwaukee and Missis-
sippi Railroad. He said abe could
see plainly that the Milwaukee & Mis-
sppi Railroad company, and the bust
ness men Of Milwaukee, had got to
take hold and build railroad west
from McGrcgor, or they would lose
the trade that they are at present re-
ceiving that the immense amount of
produce, pork and beef, must not be
lost to that road, or they could not
live that it would not do to let the
men OF Dubuque and Chicago encircle
them with a railroad that would take
all this trade from them" We agreed
with him exactly. If the Grand
Trunk, the Detroit & Grand Haven.
and the Milwaukee and Mississippi
companies wish to retain the
trade of this country, it is time they
were doing something towards build
ing feeder on this side of the "fa-
ther of waters"
Year: 1860

Modern Union saving has come to
mean but another name for Democra,
cy. The telegraph reports "conserva-
tive resolutions and democratic prin-
ciplcs" as the results in the more re-
cent of them. That these meetings
are encouraged by the northern Dcmoc-
racy for the purpose of making capi-
tai against the Republicans is very
natural. 1t is their object to make
the South believe that they 1--we the
Union and all the rest of the northern
people arc disunionists. The senti-
mcnts announced at the Union meeting
in New York by Charles O'Conor show
that it is love for slavery rather than
love of the Union that animates some
at least Of the pretended Union savers.
These meetings are the most trans
parent humbug of the day The clear
headed southern men, and indeed the
most boistcrous and hot-blooded Of
them are not to be taken in by them
They denouncc the whole thing and
the actors therein. They see that the
performers are actuated by interest
and not patriotism. Some would
save the Union to save their southern
trade, others would preserve it to Sc
cure the ascendancy of their party
and the loaves and fishes of official
patronage. Neither Of them are an in
dcx of northern sentiment and neither
of them will affect public sentiment "a
feathers weight with the South.
Year: 1860

est pair Of stairs she ever saw, until
they came to little room where bed
had been made upon the floor for her.
Her aunt kissed her good night, told
her not to be afraid, for Rob slept in
the next room, and then left her.
Trudie shuddered from head to foot
when the door closed behind her. The
wind blew SO through the loose win
! dow that her candle went out. She
sank down on the bed, and hiding her
face, moancd only, " l want you, moth
er! l want you, mother" till the
violence of her sorrow drowned her
voice. Then she lay there like one
dead were it we'll if she had been ?


Presently she arose and unrobed
herself and crept into the bed, she
had said her mother-taught prayers in
silence. But she could not sleep !;
turning her face towards the window
she saw the stars twinkling. The
sight Of them were better than such
gloom, and more than that, tender
hearted old grandma had told her she
must not cry for her mother, for she
had gone to the Heaven that was in
the stars.


1t was late that night when Trudie,
benumbcd with cold, went back to her
bed. 1t was much later still, but she
was wide awake and trembling, when
she heard an unsteady step upon the
stairs, which she thought must be
Robs. He entered the chamber ad-
joining hers, but his nearness did not
break her loneliness.


Now Trudie, child that she was,
was no dreamer or coward. She had
seen over twelve summers, but was
far older than her years, and she did
not go to sleep that night, in that
whirling black chaos, without some
very practical thoughts as to what
she should do. She loved her Aunt
Sarah ; she was an affectionate, ten
der.heartcd woman, but Trudic saw
that she was widely different from her
mother, and that difference, she con.
cluded, was what made everything So
dreadfully unpleasant. My home
has got to be here" thought Trudie,
:" for long time at least, and won
der if do just as mother would,-
and oh, how patient | will have to be
with Uncle Jake and Rob,-if can't
make things go better. have read
lots of stories in our Sunday School
Library, of little girls, younger than
me, that did a great deal of good, but
never thought | should have the
chance Of trying to be like them"
And then the little head planned and
planned she wept and smiled, was
full of hope, then ready to give way
at some remembered obstacle, until
slumber kissed her eyelids when she
knew it not, and in her dreams the old
grey house was full of love and peace
Uncle Jake good natured, Rob broth
er to her, and Aunt Sarah the neatest
little body in the world.


Are dreamings always in vain ?
What will come of this ?
Year: 1860

When Trudie Granger's widowed
mother died, and left not farthing
for her poor child, her friends, who
thought it sad pity to make one SO
young and blooming pauper at the
Aims House, wrote to an aunt OF the
Year: 1860

next day 1t was so late when she
fell asleep the night before that she
did not waken early in the morning
as was her wont, and she knew it
must be nearly eight o'clock when she
stole timidly down stairs, reproaching
herself for not being up in time to
help get the breakfast. But she found
no one in the house stirring, except
herself; she did not expect to be the
first one up at that hour. May be
Aunt is sick" she thought. "If |
knew where she slept | would go and
see"


She sat down as if wondering what
to do; then her face grew very bright,
and jumping up suddenly with the
impulse her thought gave her, she
went to work to make the fire, and oh,
how very still she was about it. And
when it was cracking, and swapping,
and promising the best it could, she
took the broom-if she had had time
and could have found a scrubbing
brush, she would have chosen that
| aud around that room she went like
the busy little fairy she was, setting
things in an order they had never
known before. Then she washed the
dishes her Aunt had left the night be-
fore, and drawing out the table as
gently as she could, set it even pretti-
y with the old crockery for the morn
ing's meal. Then she took the plate
of hard dry bread, and meditated over
it moment and came to the coGclu-
sion that they would all like it better
toasted, and she was toasting it be-
fore the fire, when in came Uncle Jake.


He did look surprised, he even
half smiled, 50 that Trudie ventured
on good morning, sir" which was
answered by " Umph :" and This
looks little like it. But bless me,
child, are you toasting that bread :?
I'd as lief eat leather


Trudie was really frightened. and
she trembled SO she could hardly an
swer.


q am toasting a little because |
thought it was too hard and sour for
you"


"So'it is, so it is-I'd as lief eat it
one way as the other" and, therenpon,
he sat down in the chimney corner,
muttering to himself something that
Trudie could not hear plain enough to
understand. She could not work so
fast as before, nor as well. She let
one piece of bread burn, and was very
thankful that it passed unobserved by
Uncle Jake.


Just then Rob came in oh, how
the child wished it had been her aunt
He was pale and haggard, and his
matted hair and untidy clothes di,
not improve his appearance. Trudi,
did not dare to even look up at him.


Well, little what's your name,
said he, taking piece of toast off the
plate with evident pleasure, you ar'
going to be good for something,
guess. If you do as well as this eve
ry morning, l shall have some hope Of
getting to my work in time. Where
Muz?'


"Who ?" asked Trudie.
/. "Why, Muz," said Rob, laughing
and helping himself to another piece
Year: 1860

There was once child, and he stroll
ed about good deal and thought Of a
number of things. He had sister,
who was a child too, and his constant
companion. These two used to wan
der all day long. They wondered at
the beuty of the flowers; they wonder
ed at the height and bluness of the sky;
they wondered at the depth of the wa
ter; they wondered at the goodness
and power Of God, who made the love-
ly world.


They used to say to one another
sometimes, "Supposing all the children
on earth were to die, would the flow
ers and the water and the sky be sor-
ry?" They believed they would be sor-
ry. For, said they, the buds are the
children of the flowers, and the little
streams that gambol down the hillsides,
are the children of the waters: and
the smallest bright specks playing at
hide and seek all night, must surely be
the children Of the stars; and they
would all be grieved to see the play
mates, the children of men, no more.


There was one clear shining star that
used to come out in the sky before the
rest, near the church spire, above the
graves. 1t was larger and more beau
tiful, they thought, than all the others,
and every night they watched for it,
standing hand in hand at,the window
Whoever saw it first cried out, Il see
the star!' And often they cried out
both together, knowing SO well when
it would rise, and where. SO they
grew to be such friends with it that be-
fore laying down in their beds they al
ways looked out once again to bid it
good night; and when they were turn
ing round to sleep, they would say 'God
bless the starn'


But while she was very young, oh
very, very young, the sister dropped,
and came to be so weak that she could
no longer stand in the window at night;
and then the child looked sadly out by
himself, and when he saw the star, turn
ed round and said to the patient, pale
face on the bed: II see the star!'' and
then smile would come upon the face,
and little weak voice used to say
"God bless my brother and the star !"


And SO the time came all too soon !.
when the child looked out alone, and
when there was no face upon the bed !;
and when there was alittle grave among
the graves, not there before: and when
the star made long rays down toward
him, as he saw it through his tears.


Now, these rays were SO bright, and
thew seemed 10 make such 2 shininu
way from earth to heaven, that when
the child went to his solitary bed, he
dreamed about the star; and dreamed
that lying where he was, he saw a train
of people taken up that sparkling road
by angels. And the star opening,
showed him a world Of light, where ma
ny more such angels waited to receive
them.


All these angels, who were waiting,
turned their beaming eyes upon the
people who were carried up into the
star; and some came out from the row
in which they stood, and fell upon the
peoples necks and kissed them tender
ly, and went away with them down av-
enues OF light, and were so happy in
their company, that lying in his bed he
wept for joy.


But, there were many angels who
did not go with them, and among them
one he knew. The patient face tha,
once had lain upon the bed was glori
fed and radiant, but his heart found ou
his sister among all the host.
Year: 1860

sUThe London correspondent of
the Manchester Advertiser says that
the 'sPullinger" frauds were discovered
through wager made between two
clerks, one Of the Bank of England and
the other of the Union Bank, as to the
amount of the latter's balance at the
former bank. The wager was only
half crown; but in the investigation
to decide the bet, they discovered the
gigantic frauds which have resulted in
the well-merited punishment of the Of
fender.
Year: 1860

Ills sisters angel fingered near th'
entrance Of the star, and said to tn,
leader of those who had brought th,
people thither-


els my brother come %


And he said "No."


She was turning hopefully away
when the child stretched out his arms
and said: go, sister, I am here take
me'' and then she turned her beamine
eyes upon him, and it was night; ano
the star was shining into his room, ma
king long rays down toward him as he
saw it through his tears.


From that time forth, the child look.
ed upon the star as the home he was to
go to when his time should come, and
he thought he did not belong to earth
alone, but to the star, too, because OF
his sisters angel gone before.


There was baby born to be broth.
er to the child and while he was so
little that he never yet had spoken a
word, he stretched his tiny form out on
the bed and died.
Again the child dreamed of the open
ing star, and Of the company of angels,
and Of the train of people, and of the
rows of angels with their beaming eyes
all turned upon the peoples faces.


Said his sisters angel to the leader


els my brother come %
And he said, "Not that one but an
other"


AS the child beheld his brothers an
gel in her arms, he cried, ''Oh, sister,
| am here take men' And she turn
cd and smiled upon him, and the star
was shining.


lie grew to be young man and was
busy at his book when an old servant
came to him and said:


"Thy mother is no more. / bring
her blessings on her darling son.


Again at night he saw the star, and
also that former company. Said his
sisters angel to the leader:


''Is my brother come?''


Aud he said "Thy mother!'


A mighty cry Of JOY went forth thro'
all the stars, because the mother was
reunited to her two children. And he
stretched out lis arms and cried, "Oh,
mother, sister and brother, [ am here !!
take mer' And they answered "Not
yet" and the star was shining.


He grew to be a man, whose hair
was turning grey, and he was sitting
in his chair by the firesidc, heavy with
grief, and with bis face bedewed with
tears, when the star opened once again.


Said his sisters angel to the leader:
els my brother come"


And he said, "Nay, but his maiden
daaghter."


And the man who had been the child
saw his daughter, newly lost to him, a
and he said, s'My daughters head is
on my sisters bosom, and her arm is
round my mothers neck, and at her
feet is the baby Of old time, and I can
bear the parting from her, God be
praised -


And the star was shining.


Thus the child came to be an old
man, and his once smooth face was
wrinkled, and his steps were slow and
feeble, and his back was bent. And
one night as he lay upon his bed, his
children standing around him, he cried
as he had cried so long ago:


Il see the start"


They whispered one to another, "He
is dying"


And he said, II am. My age is fall
ing from me like a garment and move
toward the star as child. And O.,
my Father, now thank thee that it
has SO often opened to receive those
dear ones which await me -


Aud the star was shining; and it
shines upon his grave.
Year: 1860

pale countenance and nervous Arrangement, analyses of the blood show deficiency of the red globules Buddy complexion and rosy tint of the skin, IS always indicative of health while a pale, wax like skin and countenance, which evinces deficiency of the red globules,-accom- panies diseased organism. Preparations of Iron have been given for the purpose of supplying the red globules but we contend that Iron alone, Sulphur alone, or Phosphorus alone, will not meet the deficiency in every case, but that judi cious combination of aU these elements is neces- sary to restore the blood to its normal standard. This point, never before attained has been reach ed in the Blood Food and its discovery ranks as one of the most scientific and important of the age. Its effects in
Year: 1860

ELIZABETH LANGLEY OFFERS FOR SALE
HL half Of The lot which she resides The ground is
handsomely situated for small family residence and has
the advantage of two Streets Hargett the soni and
Person the east Any wishing to purchase be
Informed Of the terms by calling at the Standard office


February Is, 1850. l4-tf
Year: 1860

LOUISVILLE, Dec. Sin response to the
recent application for the suspension Of
specie payment, the Kentucky Banks have
determined that such measure would af-
ford no commercial relief and consequently
they will continue to pay specie as usual.
Year: 1860

WASHINGTON, March 10, M-The Senate
and House have each passed n bill to protect
female passengers. 1t only remains for
either branch of Congress to concur in the
action of the other, matter more of form
than substance, as the two bills are similar
in their provisions. Such an arrangement
will probably be consummated during the
present week.


Accounts from Chill represent a some
what improved condition of affairs so far as
our country is concerned. 1t appears further
that both the Government and revolution
izers had been collecting certain bands of
American citizens, but by the prompt inter
vention of Senator Bigler, the Government
was made responsible.


Negotiations with Nicaragua for another
treaty will be assumed. The rejection of
the one on Friday was a surprise to our
government, which had no doubt of its rati-
fication by the Senate.


The impression seems to be that Congress
will remain in session until about the first
of July.
Year: 1860

A MARROW EscAPE.-Last evening, as u
gentleman and lady were riding out for
pleasure-while near the intersection ofOak
and First streets-the horse that the lady
was on made sudden spring and threw her
of, Her foot caught in the stirrup, and the
horse was in the act of starting off on run,
when the lady's companion caught the ami
nal just in time to prevent a terrible acci-
dent. 4 IS it was, the lady narrowly escaped
being trampled by the horses hoofs.
Year: 1860

WHEAT PRoSPECT.-AlI accounts agree
that the wheat in this county is badly win
ter-killed. We are informed that many of
our farmers are preparing TO plow the fields
where wheat has been sown, and put them
in with other grain. The indications are,
that not over one-third of an average crop
will be raised in the county this year YIN.
IIuzeIks
Year: 1860

Our city Is at present without temper
ance organization. A few years ago there
were the Sons of Temperance, Temple of
Honor, and Daughters of Temperance, all in
full blast They are all disbanded.- YIN.
Gdz
Year: 1860

ENoRMERLY PROPRIETOR of the Water Cure
a and Motoipathic Establishment in Sacramento
has located his Institution in San Francisco on stock
ton street. corner OF Pacific, to be known as
Year: 1860

STRANGE CusToM AMONG THE CHINooKs.-
friend of ours, lately from Fraser river, visit
to this State, tells some queer things about the
Chinooks in that region. He runs sailing craft
on Seaton Lake, and has his domicil on shore. The
Chinooks are around him all the time, and steal
every thing they can get their hands on. They are
in about the same scale Of humanity with the Dig
gers Of California, and wholly different from the
manly and warlike tribes on the head waters of
Fraser river Amongthe queer things he tells about
them is the custom they have of burying their sick
people alive. As soon as their medicine man or
conjuror informs them that sick man, woman or
child cannot recover, they Immediately dig hole
in some convenient spot and give him or her the
benefit of burial 1t is of no use for the patient
to remonstrate, beg or mplore, wall or howl--sn he
goes or She the may be, and that is the last
Of it! On one occasion, which happened not great
while ago, dried up old man was pronounced past
recovery by the conjuror and accordingly taken
out and buried In short time after, he appeared
at the camp Of his family in as good trim as when
he was put under ground. He had scratched OUT
Whether .he excitement Of the burial produced a
change in his constitution for the better, whether
he was not so badly off in the first place as he
supposed to be- friend knows not, but certain it
is, the old man got well, and at last accounts was
sound a dollar. How many more poor devils
would scratch out, il they could, remains matter
of grave conjecture. Ma'ysviAe Democrat,
Year: 1860

A CHINESE Bow.-A notable curiosity, consist
ing of a cross-bow, taken from Chinaman during
the battle Of Pciho, has been brought to San Fran.
cisco. The bow-string is pulled back by the move.
ment Of simple lever and when the required strain
is obtained the spring is given by little wire pin
which pushes the string up and allows 1t to fly back
There is over the body Of the instrument
which moves back and forth, and supplies the bow
with arrows, which be discharged at the rate OF
dozen in a minute. When these arrows are poi
soned, the weapon becomes formidable one. The
bow is very stout and gives force enough to the
rows to send them through mans body at twenty
the affair is considerable, and with some Yankee
Improvement might be made an effective weapon
Year: 1860

The MosT AXoIENT.-Speaking OF old people,
says an Alabama paper, several Of the papers
Of this State have OF late been giving list Of
the most aged men 10 the country. We think
we know case that will turn them ell down.
There is an old colored woman 10 Columbia,
Alabama. who on being asked her age stated
that she did not know bow old she was, but she
cooked for the hands that dug the Chattahoohea
riyerl
Year: 1860

OF course in this procedure, Mr.. Douglas
had his party at his back. In order to test
and limit plainly, the intent of the move
men,. Senator Harlan of Iowa offered as an
amendment the following proviso:


But the fIee discussion of the morality and
expedency OF Slavery should never be intertered
with by the laws of any State, or the United
States; and the freedom Of speech and cf The
press this ID every subject of national pol
icy, should be maintained inviolate ip all the
States.


Tits amendment was rgectsd-the Re
publicans present all voting for it, and all
the democrats present voting against it =
The party thus placed itself on record in
the Senate as the opponent OF freedom OF
speech.
Year: 1860


No act OF our government ever called
out such universal odium and condemna-
ton as the ..Sedition Law which under
took to coerce opinion. and TO deny liberty
Of the press aud speech. Unpopularity and
lasting defeat rewarded It's proposers, and
history chronicles it as law unworthy Of
the age and country where 1t originated
Mr.. Douglas is the only statesman OF
modern times who has had the hardihood
to propose the revival Of this statute. He,
last winter, in the Senate. brought up a
new Sedition law scheme. closely resemb-
ling the old one. Yet. in one respect. bis
imitation was even worse than the original.
The proposers of the first law had at least
the excuse tha. they were, as they suppos-
ed. defending free government by harsh
means. Mr.. Douglas Sedition Law. while
equally harsh, had no object but to defend
and perpe,uate the institution of slavery
We place an extract from Mr.. Douglas
speech side by side with portion Of the
Justly Infamous Sediton Act. that all may
note the striking similarity between the two:
Year: 1860

The Rochester Union of the 18th inst,
has the following: "The people of the
south part of the neighboring town of Og-
den, have been somewhat excited of late
in consequence of what has occurred upon
the farm of Edward Griffin, highly res
pectable and well known citizen. He had
lost three heifers on his farm under cir
cumstances that lead to the supposition
that they were killed by snakes. The
farm of Mr., Griffin adjoins large swamp;
which has been noted for snakes, and it
was in a pasture contiguous to this swamp
that the dead cattle were found. The
only marks of violence to be seen upon
the cattle were about their necks, and
there was an appearance Of cord having
been drawn tightly about the throat as to
produce stIangulation. The last animal
that died was found before the carcass was
yet cold, but no traces of the destroyer
could be seen. The cattle were healthy
and appeared to have fed upon the grass
up to the very moment that they were
slain. 1t is hardly probable that they cod
have been thus destroyed by human hands,
and it is not improbable that the notion of
the people Of the neighborhood is correct
snakes have attacked them. Huge black
snakes, with yellow rings about their necks
are known to inhabit this swamp, and they
are the most ferocious of this class of rep
tiles that are known in this part of the
world. If this mischief was done by a
snake it does not follow that it was very
large one. Black snakes five and even six
feet in length are not unfrequently seen,
and such might easily coil about the neck
of young heifer and destroy life