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Year: 1860

PRoPosED NEw CouNTY.-It is stated that
an application will be made at'the ensuing
session of the Legislature, for the organiza.
tloH Of new county out Of the country
known as the Mono and Esmeralda District.
During the past summer and fall some six
or eight hundred persons were living in
that country. two or three hundred of whom
intended to remain there during the winter.
The region is now embraced within the lin
its Of Calayeras county, MOnoville being
about ten miles west of the State line. ac.
cordlng TO ihe survey ofithssSuryeyOr Gen.
raj.
Year: 1860

A preacher took passage on one Of he
Lake Erie steamers on Sunday lstely,
and before he had been long on board ks
applied TO the captain for leave to bold Q
religious meeting. The captain replied,
NO, for any minister who world travel =
Sunday is not St TO preach on board Of my
boat.
Year: 1860

The young lady about whom the love troubles
Of the young Prince of Wales have begun, and
which W have led, according to runor, 10 his vis
# t 70 the North American colonies, is the Lady
Caroline Vicrs, daughter Of the Earl Of Jsr-
sew, and grand daughter of the late Sir Robert
Peel Of whom the Countess Of Jersey was the
eldest daughter She is very young-not over
seventeen the Prince is not nineteen until
Novomhnr next.
Year: 1860

HoLD oN!--HOld on oyour tongue when you
are just ready to swear, lie, or speak harshly or
use any improper word


Hold on to your hand when you are about
ready to strike, pinch, scratch, or do any impro-
per act


Hold on to your foot when you are on the
point OF kicking, running away from study, or
pursuing the path Of error, shame, or crime.


Hold on to your temper when you are angry,
excited, or imposed upon, or others are angry
apOut you. - -'l' a.t1 9.-s


Hold on to your heart when evil associates
seek your company, and invite you to Join in
their games, nirth, and reveIry


Hold on to your good name 1t all times, for
it is more valuable to you than gold, high pla..
ces or fashionable attire. -
Hold on to the truth, for it will serve well, aud
do you good throughput eternity.


Hold on to your virtue-it is abeYe all price
to you, in all times and places


Hold on to your good character, for it IS, and
ever will be, your best wealth.
Year: 1860

young gentleman being asked to write some lines
in young lady's album PerpetHte1 the following;
.Somcthng Original you ask mo to write,


l hardly know where to begin;


fear there is nothing original in me
Except original sin ~ Z;
Year: 1860

Take FIVE from FIVE, and how mary re-
mains 2-said srhnolInaster to a little girl
Five, was the answer. How do you make
that out {? The little girl said Here are five
fingers on my right hand. and here are five
fingers on the other. Now, If take the five
fingers on my left hand away from the five
on my right, wont five remain 2 The teach
er was 'stunped,' and was obliged to knock
under
Year: 1860

other articles. Keep tea in a close ches. or
canister.


Oranges and lemons keep bes. wrapped
close in soft paper, and laid In drawer OF
linen.


The cracked cocoa is best but that whicl
is put up in pound papers is often very good


Soft soap should be kept in dry place ii
the cellar, and not be used until three months
old.


To thaw frozen potatoes, put them in hot
water.


To thnv frozen spples, put them in cold
water. Neither will keep after being frozen.
-Rousekceper's Friend.
Year: 1860




The Union men Of Delaware met at Dover, in that
State. ~" '-| -"ant and passed the following


st That We do most heartny endorse aud approve
the nominations for President aud Vice President made
a. Baltimore by the convention Of Union men that as
sembled on the 9 day Of May last and recognize the
platform adopted by 1.-THE Constitution, the Union
and the Enforcement OF the Laws AS sufficient for all
patriots no matter what their political attachments may
have heretofore been That in the purer days Of our
glorious republic fidelity to such a sentiment the
best OF love of country and should now endeayor to
initiate the virtues Of our ancestors.


ID That John Bell Of Tennessee Is the man OF all
others whose nomination desired His purity Of per-
sona character and courage and integrity statesman
added to his acknowledged abilities aud exalted patriot
ISM demand OF the people Of Delaware their cordial aud
firm support this hour his public character and ser
vices aud passed sagacty, placing him in position
,ecoud only that of greatest men of the oden
time.


the respect aud love Of every American Citizen Like
his great colleague, PARTISAN he has ever
borne himself 50 as to show his cOunymen that the
hear Of the patriot puslted in his bosom. Honored by
all civilized nations, and entitled by their renowned sem
aes OF learning he stands in the modeSty OF his char
ccter and the faithiuness of his natonalism model
Tor the imitation of the youth Of our country With its
madens aud his is the peerless name the eulo
gs of Washington the companion Of their efforts in be-
half of Mount Vernon. Having such men as Bell and
Everett standard bearers ought any man to hes-
tate as to his duty


4th That our party is founded upon the basis in part
that the strife about African slavery in the Territories
ought to be qneed We believed such strife to be hurt
fu to that peace and harmony that ought TO prevail
throughout the whole United States OF America; aud
knowing as We all do, that fruitful Of dscord
is the sui ject OF Congressional power over slavery in
such Territories call upon all patriotic citizens TO act
with us in bringing back the country to the wise settle
ment Of that question: made by the great men OF saO-
which is nonnteryenOn by Congress TO restrict slavery
from or extend into the Territories leaving TO the peo
pie of those Territories the ultimate settlement Of that
question: when they TO form their State constitu-
lions; and the people of the slave gates in the mean
time as we'll as those of the free States, 10 the rights
that may be cured them by the Constitution of their
country We opposed to Congressional legislation
pro con.
Year: 1860

The late Reverse Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of Tie Span
i,k Mini,tsr- Distracted STATE Of The CoHNiry-7he
ConsGtutionalisis Looking uP.


Correspondence of the New Orleans Picayuue.


Vsra Cruz, Jgly 6-Aifairs in this country appear
now TO be at crisis which cannot but result TO the great
advantage Of the Constitutional party, as viii endeavor
10 show in a few words


To leave out Of consideration the family quarrel be-
tween Miramon and Zuloaga as to who is President Of
their faction it appears that the military prestige OF
the former is at an end-hs army having enominously
retired before the Cons iiuona forces under Ogazon
and taken up defensive position in Guadaajara, though
il IA even asserted that he is in full retreat upon Mexico
Upon his arriving the capitol he will find matters ma
tealy changed during his brief absence. His friends
are at their wits ends for moneythe two great bankers
upon whom he has chiefly relied Jecker and De Ia Torre
having lately exp oded. Meanwhile Pacheco, the Span
i.h minister has not been idle but with consummate
Diplomatic tact has been seeking to convince all persons
of responsibility outside Of the army and the PRIESTHOOD
what wicked running thing civil war is. Thus appeal
Jog to pockets if hearts it is understood he has
succeeded to induce great number Of Influential per-
sons to petition President JuArez to entertain proposals
for peace or at least for an armistice.


Whether Juarez will accept anything short OF an IN
conditional submission remains 10 be seen, Certainly
his experience in the treachery Of the myrmdons OF the
church should teach him caution. But the present re-
cannot be said to be the part Of either the
church or lis army but emanaDg rather from the peo-



wishes Of the peoples party, and Mexico only had
sufficient number Of such people, the unhappy country
would soon cease know the horrors Of war; and would
enter at once upon her path of prosperity and peace
Propositions nsgated by Spanish Envoy to this
country are doubtless TO be taken grGRo II may
be only another gain time and u the Liberals into
fancied security while the other party are making pre-
partitions TO capture this devoted place by coup De
main in the autumn. At least the past would justify
suspicion that such be the tactics Of the party
whose Watchword is Religion"


No doubt both parties pretty well exhausted, aud
IL would be difficult to state which side has the least
money There is vitality however in the Constitution.
al party not possessed by the hoary old despodsm oil
the Church. and liberal principles must ultimately pre-
vail OF course the failure ofthe McIaneOeampo treaty
has been serious inconvenience to this government but
II has cot on without our aid so far and will be able to
continue to Go so to the bitter end Perhaps after all
the United States will have the more cause to regret the
blind folly Of ftheenAe for such advantages as those
afforded by the treaty will offer again Il could moi
be re-negotated here to-day.


You will have heard of the Of the capture and destruc
lion of the Indian village OF Tacoulnn by Gen kobles
formerly Minister at Washington. Il is considered e
Year: 1860

have been very small business for civilized Christian
to have been guilty Of


Gen. Uraga remains at Guadalajara, wounded and
prisoner lie treated with great hardship and allowed
only the ration of the common soldier Indeed, Mira
mon would have shot him but for the protection extend
cd him by Wo Who with spirit that is refreshing in
these days claimed him his prisoner and threatened
to pronounce if hair Of his head should be touched.
Vol and Uraga campagned together in Texas quarter
af century ago and it pleasant to see that the bru
tazng practices Of civil do not always extinguish
every spark of ancient friendship Mramon was offered
Gen La Vega and twenty-five other officers in exchange


for Uraga, but he refused whereupOn La Vega and the
others were Internationally placed at liberty and suppl
ed with money to depart! Such acts should plead
trumpet -.ogued before the world
Year: 1860

just as well have been adopted by these gentlemen
as citizens, as to be put forth under the sanction
of a religious denomination. We regret that Gov.
Moore, in his reply to the address, did not add to
his approval of its language some mild rebuke of
the appropriateness of this blending unnecessa-
rily the concerns of Church and State The Epis-
copaI Convention of New York q few weeks ago
refused to entertain resolution which would have
provoked agitation and discussion on political
topicwisely considering that religion ought to be
attended to in one place, and politics in another.
And this course received general and grateful
tribute of approval from the whole South. The
South, to be consistent, should practice herself
what she recommends to others, and what, when
performed by others, she greets with evidences of
approval and satisfaction.


Let us leave to the Beechers and the other puri-
tannical professors of poiticorelgious code Of
morality in the North the mixing up Of religion and
politics, and let us steer clear Of such things
selves. The cause of the South is a sacred cause,
in one sense Of the word, but il is something not
germane to the exercises Of religious worship.
The South has not only kept the two things sepa-
rate heretofore, but she has complained of the
North for pursuing the opposite policy. With none
but the kindest feelings for the Bapsts of Alabama
and our hearty approval Of the patriotism which
animated them, we must yet express our regret at
this inopportune and indefensibe movement.
Year: 1860

We are sorry to see that the Baptists of Alabama
in general convention, have taken cognizance Of
the present political troubles of the country and
have passed resolutions and adopted an Address
which they have transmitted to the Governor of
the State. The Baptist Convention met for no such
purpose, but for religious purposes only. And in
thus transcending the limits of their authority, and
invading the arena Of politics, they are exposing
Themselves, in our opinion, to the just eensare of
| the people of the South.


There is nothing Objectionable in the resolutions
they have passed. On the contrary, they are wor-
thy Of all praise and of universal commendation.
It is tothe place in which they were proposed and
| the circumstances under which they were adopted
that we make objection, as being inappropriate for
everything else except the transaction of that
ecclesiastical business for which the convention
had assembled.


The pulpit, in the North, kas been the nursery
of all that fanatieal anti-savergism and pharsee-
ism which teaches men to Interfere with the cen.
Germs Of ether people which in wise affect them
From the time when the celebrated three thousand
Northern preachers sent into the Senate their pro-
Sest against the passage of the Nebraska BILL down
to the present day it has. been a source Of com.
plant with here at the South that politics had
entered into the puspits of the North, and men,
women and children, were taught FROM the sacred
desk 70 hate the people and the Institutions of the
Southern States. The South has always taken the
ground ttat politics were one thing and religion
another-1lat they had no connection with each
other, and on every account the civil and eseesi-
aseal afaitE of the nation should be kept distinct
and separate This was the spirit which prompted
Mr.. Jefferson to propose his celebrated bill for
ligious freedom, aud it is the onysa ground upon
which any community Of people can stand that are
divided up into different religious geets and per-
suasfons.


Now, then, the Baptists of Alabama have com.
mitted the very offence of which we complain to
the people of The North. They have gone beyond


the record and travelled out of their jurisdiction to
express their sentiments on the political affairs of
the country. The sentiments are noble, patriotic,
and In every respect commendahIs they could
Year: 1860

that her husband never kissed her during court
ship, nor the forty matrimonial years that followed
1t, nor either of his Children We know similar
instance where man kissed his wife on a wager,
and she had him arrested for an assault.
Year: 1860

There is man in Utica so ineifably mean that he
charged a friend ffty-sx cents for acting as pal-
bearer at his wife's funeral. He did not present
his bill for his services until two days after they
had been rendered.
Year: 1860

The right of State to peaceably secede from


the Union, is likely in existing circumstances, to
become prominent subject Of discussion. Tho
New York Tribune, we perceive tokes ground IN
the affirmative. We are disposed 10 agree with
.he Tribune. Is State deliberately makes up its
miud that it desires to leave the UnOn, il. strikes
us that the fundamental pFinoiplc on which tho
Union is formed, warrants it in the unObstructed
right to fulfil its desire in that respect. Indeed
we can have no Union on any other basis. A I'm
ion of force is no Union at all. Our Union is 4
Year: 1860

Bayard Taylor is catching 1t from ultra
Protestant sheets, because he has had the
manliness to declare that the secular rule of
the Pope of Rome is no despotism, but on
the contrary, mild and beneicent He says
the government is one Of the most cconomi-
cal in Europe, the salaries Of the highest
state officers do not exceed $4,000 year, the
whole civil list costs about $4,000, and the
system Of public schools is most admirable.
Taxes are light; free hospitals for the sick
poor are provided, and the aged and suffering
are well cared for


This, we must admit, is rather poor pic
ture of jesPotsm. The only answer to make
to such showing is to dispute the truth Of
the facts set forth. But Mr. Taylor has been
at Rome and he knows what he is talking
about, Those who dispute his word may
have been there and may not. But, we will
take Mr.. Taylor's word in preference.


There is great deal of prejudice in the
Protestant world against Romish rule and
Romish institutions in general, whether civil
or religious. We do not undertake to be
champion upon the other side, but we have
gotten bravely over taking boyish preiudi
ces or old grannifed perversions of history
as a guide for our judgments of religious
sects and denominations We respect a sin
cere man, of any church, persuasion or sect,
and We despise the petty measurement of
whole classes of people by the standard of
old, musty prejudices inherited from the
grand daddies and grand mammes of the
past. 1t is time to look at things as they ere,
and net ns we think they are or have been
taught to believe that they are Truth is
truth, no matter of whom it is spoken, and if
the government of the Papal States is not a
despotism, and Bayard Taylor says, from his
own personal observation, that it is not, in
| the name OF all common sense where is the
use of attacking him as though he were a
newly risen monster of crime and iniquity


We have actually seen men rave and al
most froth at the mouth, because they were
told that there had been Catholic martyrs to
religion as well as Protestant, and that Prot
estant governments and hierachies had heap
ed upon Catholic relgionists untold oppres-
sions, tyrannies and cruelties, because of
their peculiar faith and tenets. Ifmen can
not bear history and cannot acknowledge
truth where they find it, they would do well
to stop their ears and gouge out their eyes,
for those appurtenances are of no use to
them.
Year: 1860

Com MINES IN MENDocNo.-The Ukiah
Herald says that preparations are now being
made to work the newly discovered gold
mines, about four miles above Ukiah. About
one hundred claims have already been taken
up, but none were much worked last season,
in consequence Of the water giving out
Year: 1860

EDToR DEMocRAT:-ln speaking of the in-
now releved) your correspondent did not
set ont to give reasons "peighty' or otherwise
why the present fire limits should not be
abolished, except so far as the assertion of
well known fact, which cannot be denied,
might influence those who entertain a loose
notion that people who erect substantial
brick buildings upon the faith Of a city ordi-
nance may be rightfully deprived of the Sc
curity thus offered and accepted The Ex-
press man ought to know that one good rea-
sonis better than two or three shallow ones
which have no better foundation thana mere
notion. OF the latter character may be
classed the "weighty" reasons that people
could endure wooden cottages because they
endure lumber yards, when the fact is that
the lumber yards were used as such Jgore the
passage of the ordinance, and thus stood as
fair warning to all who desired to build. OF
the same charter is the assertion that proper
ty would enhance in value, as matter oi
course, where Improvements are made
Everybody but the Express man knows that
a wooden town is not as valuable as q brick
town, and that the contiguity of a wooden
building di0,iniShcS the value of brick one
and increases the rate of insurance about
fifty per cent.


The fact of the existence of many vacant
! I, l hat
they would have been occupied if their
owners had been permitted to erect wooden,
for the "sagacious" editor viii find the same
state of things if he will step eighty feet out
side of the protected district The editor
doubts" whether property owners would
offer serious objections to the repeal of the
ordinance, and he has "no doubt" that, if
put to vote in the district, the majority in
favor of its repeal would be overwhelming
From this state of indubitable doubt, Louns
man hopes the editor will safely emerge, with
the knowledge that even editorial assertion,
with regard to matters which are purely hy-
pothetical, Proce nothing. But as everybody
can make assertions, Lounsman now makes
one, which is this: Marysville enjoys the
reputation, at home and abroad, of being the
best built town in the State, which is due
exclusively to the ordinance excluding frame
buildings from a certain district. AS the
Aldermen have. however. purged themselves
of one insane act with reference to the Fire
Department, it is hardly probable that they


will encourage a general eonhagration be-
cause their good friend of the Express desires
them to do so. LoUNsMAN.
Year: 1860

As the warm sun, of yesterday was setting
behind the Buttes, and the approaching twi>
light was mellowing the sky, there was a
gathering Of sad faces around the bier of one
whom the assemblage had known in the
bright as well as the dark days of life lie
was printer aud 10y printers was he laid in
the tomb, aided by other good friends who
had known and respected him. Brief were
the words of the venerated minister who
pronounced the last, solemn rites over the
poor heap of dust that lay before him. Then
the carriages rolled away, and the Sexton
was left, in the dim twilight, to perform his
accustomed duty.


Oscar 0. Ball was the name Of the depart
ed. He was horn in Alabama, became first
rate printer, and migrated to this country in
1851 helped to establish the Mountain Echo,
a sprightly newspaper, at Downieville, in
1852; afterwards was one of proprietors Of
the California Express, and subsequently, pub
lished the Daily Inquirer in Marysville, i'm
which business he was engaged until
he sold out his material to the office of the
Daily News, which afterwards, in conjunc-
tion with the type and material of the Marys-
willie Herald, became the DAILY NATIONAL
DEMOCRAT. He died in the 9lst year of his
age, and such is the brief history of one
whose lot, we hope, is that of the happy
ones on "the other shore"
Year: 1860

ENROLLING CLERK OF THE SENArE.--We
see, by the papers below, that George C.
Gorham is q candidate for the office of En-
rolling Clerk Of the Senate He ought to
have the position, not only for his services to
the Democratic party. but for his undoubted
ability as a man and his eminent fitness for
much higher positions.
Year: 1860

The Territorial Enterprise says that a
splendid quality of fire clay has been found
near Richmond, at the upper end of Honey
Lake Valley. 1t has withstood every test
applied to it. Parties at Galena Hill pro-
pose to use it for their furnaces.
Year: 1860

THE State Agricultural Society appears to
be in trouble. The Board of Supervisors of
Sacramento county have refused to pay a
claim Of the Society, for about six thousand
dollars, for work done on the Agricultural
Pavilion.
Year: 1860

The Gazette need not trouble itself
that we shall say anything in our paper to in.
jure the credit Of our city. We mean 10 inform
the people from time to time Of the financial
condition Of this corporation, and they can
rest assured that We shall publish nothing but
the truth. 1t is better that our citizens should
konw in what position We are placed, and We
consider it the duty Of public Journal to give
them euch information,
Year: 1860

PARKS Spring and Summer stock Of
clothing. cloths and furnishing goods has been
selected with great care for the Davenport
market, and will be sold so low that it will
be impossible for any one to undersell him and
live
Year: 1860

WE notice that betting on the result
Of the fight between Heenan and Sayers is in
creasing as the time draws near for the news
to reach this country. Young gentlemen whom
We have heretofore looked upon As "pinks of
prop,iety" are showing up" their money with
a great degree Of recklesness. The amount
that will change hands in this city when the
result becomes known, will be considerable.
Year: 1860

The SIXTH WARD ELEcTIoN.-We
trust the Democrats of the Sixth Ward will zee
that there 10 NO skullduggery practissd BY the
committee appointed to investigate the lsgsl-
ty Of the election in that Ward. Mr. Havi-
land, the chairman. is deeply interested in the
success of Conlthart. and will do everything
in his power to sssist that gentleman in retsin-
ing his seat A very suspicious circumstance.
il the fact. that the committee is composed
entirely of Republicans. and they will of course
feel interested in the success of Coulthart.-
Watch them carefully.