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Year: 1859

PArCHING THE CONSTITUTIONAL Joint
committee has been appointed in the Legis
lature to take into consideration that portion
of the Constitution relating to the judicial
system, and report by bill or otherwise such
amendments as may be deemed necessary
This is another move looking to the patching
up of The Constitution, that is annually made
in the Legislature. Judging from the Con-
stitutiona amendments offered from year to
year, the machinery Of State is sadly defec
tive and such really is the case. For more
iI-contrived, and expensive judicial SYSTEM
probably does not exist in any other Stse
in the Union. Aside from this it is well
enough but that fault alone, has done as
much, if not more than all else to build up
large Indebtedness upon the several coun-
ties of the State The evil should be re-
medied-the remedy can be found by call
ing Constitutional Convention; and we be
lieve, not effectively in other way. We
are opposed to this tnkering of the Consti-
tution-it is a slow, and unsatisfactory mode
of remedying the imperfections Of the organ
ic law. If we want Constitution coming
up to the requirements of the people of this
State, we must have a new one-and the
sooner the better. The people would have
voted by large majority, for calling Con-
stitution in 1857, had there been sufficient
independence in political parties to have as
sumed the advocacy of the measure.


At that time we advocated Convention
we do so now; and will so continue uatil it
is carried. We are opposed to the patch
work business; for that only delays a Conven-
ton.
Year: 1859

w have the largest stock of extra fine Gus


w tom made goods of any house in the State
Everything in the furnishing line for gentlemen
ana as we manufacture our own goods, and I'M
port direct from our house 4l6 Broadway, New
iork, we are able and willing to sell cheaper
than any other house no matter who they are
Remember that we sell for cash, and cash oniy
ana one price. $4,000 worth of goods, whole
sale or retail


December 25th lS5S-3m
Year: 1859

A word ortwo about poor Xantippe, whose
name has become convertible term for
shrew and scold. Perhaps there is nothing
but justice in the common estimate of her
character. But had she no cause to be an
cry with her husband Socrates was an
astonishing man, but astonishing men gener-
ally make indifferent husbands, and your
great retormer IS too often small creature
at home. Socrates had mission" and he
went about Athens questioning and cross.
questioning people, until he made nuisance
OF himself and enemies of all men, save n
few philosophic bores-and finally he was
got rid OF through means of dose of hem
lock, which he had brewed for himself This
was very reprehensive proceeding on the
part of the Athenians, but it was not quite so
unproyoked as is generally supposed. Now.
II man cannot reform the world, and take
care of his own household. Instead of mind
ing his own business, which was that of n
stutuary, or stone-cutter, he must needs take
to remodelling blockheads-a most danger.
Gus pursuit, as it bears Immediately upon the
feelings of the great majority of men. Then
it is not remunerative. Socrates got low in
the world. He was poor indeed He had
not shirt to his back, and it is matter of
record that he went barefooted in the dead
of winter. 1t is not at all probable that his
family Jared better than himself Philosophers
do not treat Others better than they treat
themselves. They think their duty to socie.
ty requires them to look very sharp after a
liberal supply of butter for their own bread,
which bread is always of the very best flour,
and capital made--at other mems expense.


Mrs. Socrates probably bore with this state
of things as long as she could bear with it;
but when the house rent long remained un-
paid, when the butcher and baker were sent
empty away, when her crinoline collapsed
for the want of sustenance, when the gus
was turned off and the Cochituate was cut
of, and when there was not q stick of wood
or hod full of coal left--then she broke out,
as 1t was her duty to do, and literally gave
her husband piece of her mind, renewing
the gift frequently; and as Socrates happen.
ed to have the speaking and writing portion
OF the Athenian community on his side, they
gave her bad character, which has endured,
like that which Thucydides gave to Cleon.
There is indeed, nothing like bad charac-
ter for pernanence 1t wears" long and
washes well. That Xantippe was only, at
the worst, asserting the real rights of
woman" is plain on the face of things, and
we have the evidence ofSocrates' own words,
as reported by his friend and disciple, Keno
phon, that she was q woman of excellent
qualities on many points; and Socrates was
a truthful man in words, and would not have
praised her if she had not deserved his praise.
Her name and memory should be vindicated
by some competent scholar.-Sprinqfeld Re
publican
Year: 1859

ExrRAoRDINARY MAIL FACILITIEs-Itis is un.
derstood that the present eminently National
Administration is now making immense ex-
ertions to confer new flvors upon our "young
and growing State" by the establishment of
still greater mail facilities between us and
our Eastern friends Recent advices inform
us that the Postmaster General will soon be
authorized to enter into contracts for carry


ing quarterly mail between New York and
San Francisco, via Cape Horn, and a semi


yearly mail between the same points, via the
Cape of Good Hope and Shanghae. AS our
distinguished Chief Magistrate cannot Of
course be expected to 60 behind the record to
ascertain the existence of the Tehuantepec
route, and as Senator Gwin is understood to
be of the opinion that the longest way around
is the shortest way home, we doubt not that
all true Californians will be delighted at the
contemplated arrangement Vive Jacobusl
Year: 1859

WHOSE FAULT Is IT ?-IIappening to be
upon the wharf yesterday, at the hour for
the Sacramento boat, our attention was at
tracted by lot of small boys, five in number,
the eldest of which could not have been more
than twelve years of age, who were making
attempts from time to time, to steal upon the
steamer unobseryed, but the watchful officer
at the gang plank discovered and repelled
them. At each rebuff, they sneaked back
among the crowd. When the boat departed
and the crowd dispersed, the boys were taken
in charge by policeman and escorted off.
Upon inquiring, we learned the following
sad particulars concerning them They were
outcasts from society-three were orphans,
and two were children neglected by their
parents. They had been turned adrft upon
the world to float downward in the current
Of niquity; no word of comfort or kindness
had ever fallen upon their eaBs to penetrate
and soften their rapidly hardening hearts
They roamed about from place to place steal
ing petty articles to exchange for bread, and
sleeping at night wherever they might
chance to find q shelter. They had been
arrested and confined in the Station House
on charges of yagrancy and theft, time after
time, until at last it grew to be no punish
ment to them, but subject of Jest. Then
they were ordered to leave the city Driven
out from their old haunts, and helpless, hope.


less, penniess, they went to Sacramento
After clrrying on their old game for a short
time, they were discovered and ordered to


leave that city also So they returned to
this city, and were again arrested ester
day, they attempted to escape on the steamer,
but failing in that they were again conveyed
to the cells of the station House, Who is to
blame for the abandoned and sinful condition
and career of these children? And is there
no one whose duty it is to endeavor to re.
claim thenl before they are utterly lost p
S. T. Alta, 7hursdaB
Year: 1859

Tho work on the new Capitol is going on
very rapidly, Since the first Of January,
nearly the whole Of the building has been
lathcd and plasterel. The iron stairs leading
from the first door have been put in and are
very fine specimen of iron work. The
pattern is exceedingly elegant, and the set
ting is done in most thorough and work
manlike manner. The house is warmed by
several large stoves, and "a summer tcmpera-
turc is kept all the time. A watchman daily
aud nightly goes his rounds to guard against
the possibility Of fire. The new hall begins
to assume shape and beauty. We doubt if
there can be found another room of more
architectural grace and proportion in the
country, and when it is completed and fur
nishcd it will be worthy of the State--cer-
tainly much better than any Brick Church
or Town House, tor legislative purposes. The
Senate chamber contains nearly six hundred
square feet more than the old one, and prom
ises to be a complete gem. The ornamental
work, the ceiling and the pillars are all
simple and chaste, and yet singularly grace
tul and appropriate. The executive apart
ments are more spacious and more elaborate
than those in the old House. The style Of
finish is modest. but in the best OF taste The
hall below is to be tesselatcd with marble. Ii
is the intention of the Superintendent to fin
ish the building earl before the next session
of the Legislature, and to have it provided, in
every part with furniture such as will become
the style of the architecture itself. As we
looked over the building, and saw room after
room beginning to put on the beauties of its
costume-mouldings cornices and reLeros
starting into life under the hands of the
workmen, grateful and proud sentiment
crept over us, warming our heart with a
quiet delight, that we were permitted to in
vest little of our hard earnings in so sur
passingly beautiful a building. "DuIee ct
decorum est pro patrid mon"
Year: 1859

To THE BoYs.-lf YOU indulge in the de-
lightul exercise of skating, remember three
things


|. Don indulge in any foolish ambition to
be more daring than your playmates. Ii the
ice be weak at any spot, keep away from 1t.
To venture unnecessarily INTO danger is not
courage, but recklessncss, Better destroy
your skates than allow them u become your
temptation into rashncss.


If. Use skates that are as short as You can
comfortably wear. Most boys buy skates al
together too long; the consequence is, that
every sweep forward requires more cxertion
than would be otherwise necessary, for to lift
the body upona point three inches from the
toe is much harder than at one inch. The
longer the skate iron forward, the more too
the locsening of the heel cork and the fatigue
to the ankles With skates of the proper
length, the strain Of moving on will come
nearly under the ball of the foot, where it
comes in walking.


Ill, Take of your skates every half hour
to give the blood Il chance.to circulate other
wise, by the compression of the tackle, the
GOODNESS of your feet will rob your exercise OF
halfyour pleasure, Besides, 1t Ism { at all
necessary to have so many straps to bind the
feet as some do.


Forester gives these hints, which we
endorse-and if you will only follow them,
then mount your irons and "go it,"
Year: 1859

Hfs- The Governors Message is plain, business document, which will commend itself to every reader. His views questions of State policy will

 be very generally approved. The financial exhibit for the past year is highly favorable more so prob

 ably than can be very certainly anticipated for the year to come, if the recommendation of the repeal of the extra bank tax shall be favoraby received by the Legislature. The amount of this extra and unjust tax the past year s21 ,000 If, however, the Legislature carry out their schemes of economy as they now promise, there will be no difficulty in saving enough to make up for this loss. The m'li- tary expenses of the State are double what they should be- and the judicial might be somewhat re- duced
Year: 1859

dg Mir WILLIAM G PECK of Ltchfefd, has been appointcd Professor cf Mathematics in Columbia (oIleoe in place of Professor Davies who is made Prof. of the higher Mathematics. Prof Peck for several years after graduating at West oint an Instructor in that Institution He was with Col Fremont in of his trips to the Rocky Mountains and for the last two years has been As sistant in the Department in Columbia College, of which he is now made the head. His numerous friends here will be gratifed with his progressive career in the science to which he has devoted his life.
Year: 1859

fS9 We are requested to call the attention of owners of cattle to the advertisement in another column. giving warning that the restraining laws will be enforced after the 18th inst If there more pains taken to keep COWS shut mp in the night season, there would be less fault found with their grazing in the streets in the day time.
Year: 1859

FIRE IN WARREN On Wednesday morning of last week. about daylight, new dweliing-honse, situated few rods west of the Church in Warren, was discovered to be fire, and 20 far advanced as to render it impossible to it from destruction It was inc property of our excellent friend. Mir. Frederick Colman. just bnilt and unoccupied. The fire was no doubt the work of an incen'iary as no fire had ever been used in inc house One or more persons are suspected. accouat of threats that had Teen previously made; and it is to be hoped the perpetrators will be brought to justice.
Year: 1859

III Father Finatti, Catholic clergyman of
Brookline, Mass finding that his entreaties to his
parishoners to stop the selling Of liquors to be of
no avail, has caused three Of them to be prosec u


anincd before Justice Of the Peace w ho passed
tne usual sentence Of nne with twenty days In the
house OF Correction, from which they appealed to
tue superior Court. Father Finatti was in Court
and stated that for three years he had used every
means TO induce the Irish to refrain from selling
Year: 1859

IL The frozen well ut Brandon. Vermont, has
attracted crowds Of savans to that place this
son. Scientific persons in that vicinity ascribe
the phenomena to an iceberg, and that originally.
or at some remote period in the long past, that
part Of America was the head Of the sea. This
hypothesis is sustained by the fact that several
mont and White River Junction. the terminus of
the Sullivan Railroad, the bones of an arctic whale
were found on one Of the highest points Of land
All the land near the well is frozen at depth of
a few feet below the nrfice. An interesting SCI
entihc report on the subject is understood to be
forthcoming.
Year: 1859

ArrsMPT TO CAPTURE VIcroR EMMANUEL-
Austria true to her principles and character to the
last, never more strikingly displayed her real
colors than at the battle Of SOferino. BY the
centratfon Of an enormous mass of men on her
night, her object was to overpower the Sardi nj ans
and, relying on the rashness and bravery Of Victor
Emmanuel to effect his capture, knowing we'll the
weight which the possession of such prev would
have upon any future di diplomatic negotiations. /
now hear, from a variety Of sources that this was
(for themJ disastrous day WEst their ia army could
not effect by skin they hoped to accomplish by
superior numbers s.-Morsing Post.
Year: 1859

" The Manchester IN. H.) American has the
Iodlowing bit Of personal gossip: Seven years
ago an English boy of seventeen, stranger, en-
ne had an indifferent knowledge. He was John
bull all over, persistent, stubborn, and indus
nious-setting type by day and reading law In
passed, when he told us confdcntially that a
fortune was due his family in England from the
recent decease of an uncle. His father was poor
ana aged, and he, himself, was the only claimant
who was able to look after it. The next week he
sook passage for Liverpool 1t was two years
oefore We heard of him. Then he returned iolly
and radiant with fortune for himself and family
OF over $50 600. We were anxious for an expla
natlon OF the strange success of the almost penni
less adventufer. Pluck and Pam had done the
Wolk- he applied to then foreign secretary. and
showed that persistence and courage which won
MIN the influence and advice without which his
Efforts would have been utterly useless He is
now thrifty young lawyer in Wall street. and
would knock down any Enplishman who should
dare dlsParage the old British PREMIER
Year: 1859

A LUXURIOUS CoucH.-Beggars swarm in
China, and their king lives at Pekin. They
die by the roadside, and are forgotten. At
Pekin there is large house called "The
House Of the Hens Feathers" here the floor
of an immense hall is strewn three feet deep
with feathers and into this wallowing sea OF
down. at certain hour, all houseless vaga-
bonds who apply for shelter are turned
At beat of the tam-tam an immense tar
pauliug counterpane comes down unfurling
from the ceiling, and spreads over them all
like the wings Of fabulous roc Matching a
nest full of eggs. The next morning, at II
similar beat, it is again drawn up, and the
vagabonds disperse to show their sores and
collect their alms.-Eclectic Magazine.
Year: 1859

1t was useless now to raise n cry about. who
had water to barter for small chew of Tobnc
co. Nothing but severe illness or positive ina
bility to walk entities any private Soldier to
berth in hospital wagon. lie might fcgn
both but without effect, and it was hard in
deed, for those who were really sick to get o
ride. The men marched in double file. and
all OF our company-onccrs who were on foot
with us. stuck to tho ranks with praise worthy
spirit. They shared with us in our fatvues,
and bore mutually the privations incident to
the march. and when there was cause for
general complaint-thcy were the last to mani.
fest it. And this was cheering to the men
through many trying day.


(ro DE CoSTINuED.)
Year: 1859

Some years. ago lady died who was
knowRto have been partial to genuine


Jamaica, and orders were sent to the sex ton
to have the family vault opened to receive
the body. He did SO, but fading, it FULL be
wrote back that the lady couldaotbe buried
Year: 1859

READ1No.-Keep your view Of men and
things extensive, and, depend upon it. that
a mixed knowledge is not superficial one.
AS far as it goes, the views that it gives are
true: but he who reads deeply in one class
of writer's only, gets views which are al
most sure to be perverted, and which are
not only narrow, but false. Adjust your
proposed amount of reading to your time
and inclination-this is perfectly free to
every man-but whether that amount be
large or small, let it he varied in its kind,
and wholly varied. If l have confident
opinion, or any one point connected will,
the improvement Of the human mind, it is
lhis.-Dr, Irn0ld. "a
Year: 1859

In an interesting pamphlet recently IS
sued by the Board OF Trustees, containing a
full account of all that has been done in
regard to the Inebriate Asylum, we find the
following sensible remarks, by DR.. J. E.
Turner, urging tue propriety Of an appro-
priation for the Asylum:


ut matters not how this disease may
have been INSTRUMENTATION by stimuants
prescribed for sickness, or by the encourage
ment Of parents; by the influence of social
friends, or gay associates; whether under
extenuating circumstances, or in full view
OF the terrible penalty which this malady
Intlicts on its victim,-the State is equally
bound to protect society against such out.
RACES. Tho innocent and the virtuous should
not be exposed to the insane man, let the
cause Of his insanity bo what it may. lie
should be taken to an asylum, to be con-
trolled and treated according to his disease
All the laws anG penalties which a State
can enact against crime committed by the
iuebriate will never prevent him, while at
large, from committing murder, arson and
theft, or from taking his own life. The ex-
perencc we have had upon this subject du-
ring the past year alone, is enough to con-
vince every enlightened mind that such a
policy endangers the life Of every citizen,
and places in the hands Of the insane man
the flaming torch of the incendiary. The
true policy Of government is to prevent
crime rather than to punish it. Why, then,
should our State allow its citizens to 90 at
large when they have lost sclfcontrol, and
when experience shows that it is not com.
patible with private and public safety for
them to remain at liberty? Does the State
bring to life the murdered family, by simply
going through the accustomed forms of
judicial procedure, in order to punish the
man for what he can scarcely be held res
ponsible, or place him as criminal at the
bar, when his testimony would not be re-
ceived in the witness box, or find out too
late that he really is a maniac, and send
him at last to an asylum as criminal
The only true and enlightened policy, then,
which experience points out and judgment
dictates, is for the State to provide an asy.
lum for this class Of our insane. Every en-.
lightcned citizen of our country will ap.
prove Of such policy, and long will be re,
mcmbcrcd the administration which has
through its wisdom provided an asylum
where the inebriate can be controlled and
treated; and in which his nalady can be
cured, "a malady which is disease in in.
dividuals. curse to families plague tc
communities, and a destruction 10 races"
Year: 1859

We hare frequently told our readers that the
loud profession of Popular Sovereignty made by
the Democracy was all sham, for the purpose Of
of the leaders of that party in Illinois to force one
of the most injurious apportionmcnt bills ever
framed, upon that State, contrary to the known
will Of majority of the voters thereof, adds an
other fact to the long list already adduced to prove
the truth ofour charge, beyond controversy, ,inthe
mind of every candid and patriotic Individual
This bill absolutely puts $4,000 Democrats upon a
representative equality with $1,000 Republicans,
that is, it allows to Democratic counties and dis
tricts a representation in that proportion larger
than is allowed to Republican districts of the
population. When party resorts to injustice and
tyranny in order to perpetuatc its power the fact
must he apparent to every one that it places no
reliance whatever upon its principles. Such is
modern Democracy. The Ubiquitous bill having
passed the Legislature, in order to prevent the
Democrats from passing it over the Governors
veto the Republican members bolted and went
home, a few days before the expiration Of the
sion, thus breaking quorum and most effectually
defeating the bill. When the Lccomptonites, al
though prof sng to despise the concocters of that
corrupt and infamous measure, but burning to per-
petrate similar one in all respects, themselves,
found they had been foed, their wrath became
great, and curses loud and long were beched FORTH
We fully and heartily justify the pursued by
the Republicans. No party worthy Of being free
would permit such an unjust and iniquitous scheme
to be consummsted. If they had the means in their
hands of preventing it. Had they allowed it to
pass it would have been tantamount to yielding up
one of the most sacred principles of Republic,
and deprivins themselves of the means of correct
ing the wrong. None but aristocrats and tyrsnts
would concoct such an unjust BILL


Governor Bisscl, as every ono anticipated, vetoed
the BILL He sent it back with his objections. on
the DID Feby., to the House, where it originated.
when scene of noise, confusion. and rtiifanism
cnsued which cannot be described in the brief space
We have to Appropriate to the subject. The Gov
ernor's message Is a cool, cutting and sarcastic
document, and highly creditable to him as a states
man and patriot.