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Year: 1860

The election being over and the result being
such as all good men must deplore, and the
country in state Of great excitement, we can
not find it in our heart to say anything unkind
of any one, nor do we mean to do SO and hence
this matter would not be noticed by Us at this
time but for our own justification.


About Is days before the election we receiv-
ed an order for some Douglas and johnson
tickets, and as no copy accompanied the order
we supposed that it was left to US to prepare a
form. Not recollecting the form of tickets for
Electors for President, used heretofore, we ap-
piled to several gentleman who thought
ought to be familiar with the proper form, for
one ; and among others we consulted three le-
gal gentlemen, two OF whom told lis that SO the
names Of the Electors were placed On the ticket
it would be valid whether the names Of the
they might be used or omitted as might be
thought proper. A third, however, and a gen
tIenan of emilence, told us that he thought
the names of the Presidential candidates would
invalidate the ticket, and we were advised to
leave them off Recollect this was before we
had seen a single ticket issued in the State, and
hence we had no form to go by. So after de-
iberating On the matter we printed a few thou
sand tickets of the following form;


National Democratic Ticket
For Electors for President and Fice Presi-


dent Of the United States--


FAR,ifHs STATE AT LARGE:


r. P. DICK, OF GU1LFoKD,


ID. K. MtRAE, OF C:ArES.
Year: 1860




.t BsqnimRux Dogs. H


The following extract from DR.. Hayes's
"Arctic Boat Journey" will be read with in
terest at the present time, when the writer's
proposed Polar Expedition is one Of the topics
of the day: | &c.,. .....,. .


"The dogs we're fastened by their long
traces, each team being tied to a separate
stake. They were bowling piteously. Hav-
ing been exposed to all the fury OF the storm,
with no ability to run about they had grown
cold; and, as their masters told us, having had
nothing to eat during thirty-six hours, they
must have been sayagely hungry. One of
them had already eaten his trace; but we
came out, fortunately, at the proper moment
to prevent an attack upon the sledges.


HLeaving the hunters to look after their
teams, returned to the hut. The binding
snow which battered my face made me insen-
sible TO everything except the idea of getting
out of it; and thinking of no danger, was
in the act Of STOPPING to enter the doorway,
when a sudden noise behind me caused me to
look around, and there, close at my heels,
was the whole pack of thirteen hungry dogs,
snarlng, swapping, and showing their sharp
teeth like drove of ravenous wolves. 1t
was fortunate that had not got down upon
my knees, or they would have been upon my
back.


In fact so impetu0us was their attack, tnat
one of them had already sprung when faced
round. | caught him on my arm and kicked
him down the hill. The others were for a
moment intimidated by the suddenness Of my
movement, and at seeing the summary man
ner in which their leader had been dealt
with; and they were in the act of sneaking
away, when they perceived that was pow
| erless to do them any harm, having nothing
in my hand. Again they assumed the offen-
sive; they were all around me; an instant
more and should be torn to pieces. | had
faced death in several shapes before, but never
had felt as then; my blood fairly curdled in
my veins. Death down the red throats of a
pack of wolfsh dogs had something about it
| peculiarly unpleasant. Conscious OF my
weakness, they were preparing for spring;
had not time even to holloo for help to run
would be the readiest means Of bringing the
wretches upon me. My eye swept round the
groupand caught something lying half buried
| in the snow, about ten feet distant. Quick
as flash l sprang, as l never sprang before
| or since, over the back of huge fellow who
stood before and the next instant | was
whirling about me the lash of a long whip,
cutting to right and left. The dogs retreated
before my blows and the fury of my onset,
and then sullenly skulked behind the rocks
The whip had clearly saved my life; there
was nothing else within my reach; and il
had been dropped there quite accidentally
by Kalutunah as he went down to the
sledges. .. ...f ,...-...-
Year: 1860

THRILLING ApvENTUAE.-On Moud.y
last, party Of gentlemen visited the bay
for ths purpose Of seeing the Indians and
Others fish for trout. About .~o O'Clock
some TIE party observed .ingusr mo
ton Of the ice. It appeared that there
wa, strong current in the water but an
examination disclosed the fact that the ice
upon which they were standing had parted
between them and the shore, and that they
were rapidly floating into Lake Huron
They at once put their horses in motion to
find some point where they could get to
main land, bat could find no such place
In the meantime they were going very
rapidly, the wind blowing gale from the
shore. Their situation was dangerous,
both as regard. the danger ofthe breaking
up of the ice upon which they were, and
the severe cold; great excitement existed
at Bay City smongst the inhabitants gen
orally, and many plans for their relief were
talked of and canva.sed. They 1oated
some fourteen miles, when one end Of the
ice fortunately grounded on Squaw Point.
They made rush for the shore, sitter first
getting off their horses and slsighs. The
ice was was much broken, and they had 10
travel some distance over separate cakes
to reach the shore-East .Saginaac Cou.
rier E;b. 3.
Year: 1860

When the vessel has settled down in =
sandy bottom, it is preserved for many
months from breaking up; and It's posi-
ton may be much the same as i would
be when floating in calm water, if it be not
tilted over by an under current drifts
The light, of course, depends good deal
upon the depth, and upon the nature of
the bottom ; but where there is no chalk
to give milky thickness to the water,
the diver pursues work in kind of gloo-
my twilight. BY the aid of this he can
see and feel his way round the ship, but
when he ascends the deck and winds down
into the principal cabins, he finds every
thing pitch dark, and has nothing to guide
him but his hands. This is he most diff
cult and yet the mos, frequent labor lie
has to encounter, the danger being that in
a large vessel, where the cabin stairs are
deep, and the cabins are long and broad,
he may get his air tube twisted round
some unfamiliar projections, and SO
squeeze off his supply of life from above.
In positions such as this he requires all
his nerve and seif-possession, all his pow
er of feeling his way back in the exact
road that he came. lie may have got
the precious casket to which he has been
directed, in his arms: but what of that if
he die before he can find the stairs The
cold, helpless masses that hump against
his helmet, as they float along thu low
roof over his head, are the decompo5ing
| corpses of those who were huddled in tie
cabin when the ship went down


few of these may be on the floor un-
der his feet, but only when pinned down
by an overturned table or fallen chest.
Their tendency is ever upward, and the
| remorseless sea washes away tie dead ~
| fant from Its dead mothers arnis, the Gead
wife from her dead husbands embrace -
| If the wreck be in the channel, the suiail
crabs are are already beglnning to fatten
on their prey The diver di.entanQes
himself from this silent crowd, and ascends
| ths welcome stairs TO the deck. Tue
treasure he has rescued is haule up into
The attendant diving boat, and lie turns
again to renew bis work. He seldom
meets with an accident under the water :;
never, perhaps, with death, and the chief
risk he rms Is from getting some heavy
piece of ship lumber overturned on HE
long train Of air pipe Even in this case
he feels the sudden check and the want Of
ar, groPes his way back to the obstruc-
ton, removes it, Signals to his companions
to be raised, and reaches the boat ex-
hausted and alarmed, but not so much SO
as to give up his place in the trade His
earnings mos.ly J take the form Of shares
in what he recovers. If fortunate, III.
gains may be large; if unfortunate, they
may be small what man can grudge him
the highest prizes it is possible for him to
win? May Whitstsble always have the
honor OF PRODUCING such bold acd dexter
Gus men as she has hitherto done, and


may they have the wisdom to keep what
they get.-Dickens All tie Year Rouaa.
Year: 1860

WdO WINS


When Leon Howard and his comrades in peril,
went pell nell, one top of the other, into
miscellaneous heap down through the little
iron door, they pitched, as they soon ascertain
ed, into small room dark as Egypt, and which
the whole company filled, either rough and
tumble fashion living heap or arranged in
order standing solid mass.


The first movement was to strike light,
which was successfully accomplished by old
Nathan with the old fashioned flint and steel
gun powder and punk, and from this q tallow
candle, a few of which, some of the party had
still remaining, was lighted, and their new
quarters examined. They found door open
ing from the little room into which they had
first fallen, to u long hall, about ten feet wide,
and running the entire length of the building
On one side of this hall was built narrow cells
of solid stone and iron, apparently for confning
prisoners, and on the other, large store-rooms,
some of them partially filled with lumber, and
other building material, and others with pro-
VISIONS IN worthless state, and one in the eX-
treme north end, with arms and ammunition
though the powder like the provisions, had be-
come dampened and worthless, from long stor-
age.


All the store-rooms were constructed of wood
and bore evidence of haste or poor workman.
ship. The floor above was supported by mas
sive square beams, propped once in ten feet by
timbers of the same size, and general appearance
on which rested heavy plank floor, hewn out O.
small trees and left six inches thick, much like
the modern railroad ties, except that the side
were straightened to make them match AL
was in very good state of preservation, excep
in one instance, where o leak in the floor above
had rotted beam till it was very much weak
'ened, though it still kept its place, being par
italy supported by a pile Of lumber stuck u
under its centre.


What horrid place - exclaimed one o
the party, " we have trapped ourselves tbi
time, Sure''
Year: 1860

Again. in the hunting field, noble. high couraged horse, rusher at any des- eruption of fence, the very sight of which seems to inflame his srdor. in the most gallant style charges brook. which, when be is in the air he sees is too broad to be cleared; on his chest striking against the bank and while his rider. delighted at feeling he is no, bit hurt, is luxurlously rolling over and over on the green grass, like rabbit that a, full speed has been .ho, dead, this gallant s,eed makes two, three or four desperate efforts to get to him, and yet simply because the mud at the bottom of the brook catches hold on his hind feet and the sticky perpendica- lar clay bank grasps his fore ones, his courage suddenly fails hlm. and as noth. ing will then induce him 10 make another effort. il becomes necessary 10 send, often several miles, for cart horses 10 drag the high bred animal out by his neck. But although this strange mixture of courage and cowardice appears to us at first to be inexplicable. ye, on reflection we must perceive that it is in strict accordance with the benrficent decree that .s man should have dominion over every beast of the field" .6 i
Year: 1860

WHAT JuDeE SAID -ln giving a charge to jury, a judge of considerable experience recently said

 :. If the young men who are to be the future men of ourcountry were brought up with more decided home rule, (vhen sompuson was necessary) 10 devote themselves to the acquisition oi skull III some useful and respectable vocation, there would be less occupation for courts and juries. The engagements and habu of be boy will cling 10 the man, and upon his education and training under the do- mestc roof will derend his standing and character. and his usefulness. or the re- verse in life"
Year: 1860

The clock in the tower Of the CaLhedra,
of Strausburg is not only monster IN
size, but is the most wonderful piece of
mechanism in tho world. 1t is one huns
drcd feet high, thirty feet wide, and if-
teen deep. About twenty feet from the
bottom is the dial on each side OF which
is cherub, holding % small malct in his
hand, while over the dial is a small bell;
the chcrub on the left strikes the first
quarter and that on the right the second
quarter. Fifty feot above the dial is a co,
lOssal of Time, with bell in his lef. hand
and a scythe in his right. A figure of q
young man i'll front strikes the third quar-
ter on the bell in Times left hand, and
then turns and glides witha slow step a.
round behind Time, when out comes an
old man with mallet and places himself
iu front OF the great reaper. As the hour
Of twelve comes he old man deliberately
strikes, with much power, twelve times
on The bell. lie then glides slowly be,
hind Time, and the young man again
comes out and takes his position, ready TO
do his duty when called upon by the ma
ChlnCry. AS soon as tho old man has
struck twelve another set OF machinery is
set in motion some twelve feet higher,
where there is n high cross with the image
of Christ upon it, The instant twelve is
struck figure of one cf the Apostles
walks out from behind, comes in front,


turns facing he cross, bows, and walks


on al ound to his place. This is repeated
until the twelve Apostles, large as life,
wal k out, bow, and pass on. As the last
appears, an enormous game cock, perch
ed on the pinnacle OF the clock, slowly
flaps his wings, stretches forth his neck
and crows three times, so loud as to be
heard outside OF the church 10 some dis
tanco and with lfelike unnaturalness.-
Then all is still as death.
Year: 1860

The unmarried woman, says an eX-
change, who can read this without indig~
nation, ought TO be married:


Let every wife be persuaded that there
ar, two ways OF governing a family. The
first is by the expression OF hat will which
belongs to force the second to the power
of mildness, to which every strength will
yield. One is the power of the husband;
q wife should never employ any other
means than those of gentleness. When a
woman accuStoms herself to say 81 will,
she deserves to lose hel empire.


Avoid contradic:ing your husband. When
we smell rose it's to imbuo the sweets
of odor; we look for everything amiable
in woman. Whoever is often contradic,
ted feels insensibly an aversion for the
person who contradicts, which gains
strength by time, and whatever be her
good qualities, is not easily destroyed.


Occupy yourself only with household
affairs wait till your husband confdes to
you those OF higher Importance, and do
not read lectures to him. Let your prea-
ching be a good example, and practice vir-
tue yourself to make him love it.


Command his attention by being al
ways kind to him never exact anything,
and you will attain much appear always
tiattered by the little he does for you,
which will excite him to do more.


All men are vain never wound his
vanity, not even in the most trihing in
stances, A wife may have more sense
than her husband, but she should never
seem TO know it.


Wheu man gives wrong counsel, new
er feel that he has done so, but lead him
10y degrees to what is rational, with mild
ness and gentleness when he is convin-
ced, leave him to the merit of having
found out what is just and reasonable.


When husband is out of temper, be-
have obligngly to him if he is abusive,
never retort, and never prevail over him
to humble him.


Choose well your friends, have but few
and be careful of following their advice in
all matters.


Cherish neatness without luxury. and
pleasure without excess dress with taste,
Particularly with modesty; vary in the
iashion OF your dress, especially as regards
coiors' IL gives change to the ideas,
anu recalls pleasing recollections. Such
tnlnSs may appear triHiug, but they have
more Importance than is imagined.


NS'Si "' '"ii 10 pry INTO your hus-
bands concerns, but obtain his confidence.
Always preserve economy, avoid being
out OF temper, and be careful never to
scold; by this means he will find his
house pleasanter than any other.


Seem always to obtain information
from him, especially before company
Enough you may pass yourself for a sim.
pleton.


Never forget that wife owes all her
Importance to that of her husband. -
Leave him entirely master Of his own ao
tions, to go or come whenever he thinks
ft.


A wife ought to make her company ami
4 able to her husband, that he will not be
able to exist without it, then he will not
y pc able to exist without it, then he viii
xot seek for pleasure abroad if she doe.
NAot partake of it with him.
Year: 1860

AN ELErHANT SWIMMING THE OHIo.-Ful-
ly five thousand people gathered on the
bank of the river yesterday morning, to
witness the feat of The Elephant Lalla
Rookh swimming from the Kentucky to
the Ohio shore. On the first attempt sew
eral skiff5 laden with people accompanied
the elephant but when a hundred and
fifty feet from the shore, Miss Lalla ovin.
ced an ugly disposition, and chased them
all out Of the water. Unattended save 10y
her keeper, another trial was made, when
she performed her task like lady, start
ing from the mouth of Licking, and land
ing at the foot of Race street AS she
walked out of the water the crowd greet.
ed her with several prolonged cheers, for
which she seemed to be much obliged. -
Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1860

IN en age r niarka'sle for wars. and r7lTlors oi


j wars, of intrigue and blood shed for gooi rcas-
oIling and bad conduct for sound rules aIaI corruj
hearts when those WHO would persuade US that
they quite Of heaven, appear TO be in no
greater hurry to go there than others but pu; on
the livery Of the best masters only to serve the
worst !; in age when ulo,iestv herself is more
ashamed Of detection than Of delinquency when
Independent Of principles which 70 depend and
free thinking not in thinking freely but in being
free from thinking; in an age when patriots will
hold anything hut their tongueS-keep anything
but their wor,is-lose nothing particularly except
their characters TO improve such age must be
difficult-to instruct such age must be danger
Gus, In age like this call the attention Of
he public to-
Year: 1860

An exchange asks if I" anybody can tell why,
when Eve was manufactured from one OF Adam 9
ribs, hired girl wasn't made at the same time
to wait on her!" The Life Illustrated answers
this question as follows


We can, easy Because Adam never came
whining to Eve with ragged stocking to be
darned, collar string to be sewed on, or a
glove to be mended right away, quick, now -
Because he never read the newspaper until the
sun got down behind the palm trees, and then
stretched himself yawning out, " Amt supper
most ready, my dear y. Not he. He made
the fire and hung over the tea-kettle himself,
we'll venture, and pulled the radishes, and
peeled the bananas, and did everything else that
he'd ought to He milked the COWS, and fed
the chickens, and looked after the pigs himself
He never brought home half dozen friends to
dinner when Eve hadn't any fresh pomegrantes,
and the mango stason was over He rever
stayed out till eleven clock to {" ward meet
ing, hurrahing for the out and out candidate,
and then scolded because poor dear Eve was
sitting up and crying inside the gates. To be
sure he acted rather cowardly about apple-gath-
erlng time, but then that don't depreciate his
general helpfulness about the garden He new
er played billiards. nor drove fast horses, nor
choked Eve with cigar smoke He never loafed
around corner groceries while Eve was rocking
little Gains cradle at home In short, he did
not think she was specially created for the pur-
pose of waiting on him, and wasn't under the
impression that it disgraced man to tighten
his wife's cares a little. That's the reason that
Eve did not need hired girl, and we wish it
was the reason that none of her fair descend
ants did
Year: 1860

WIND WAGoNs.-A Western genius lately
constructed wind wagon to bear him to Pike s
Peak, which has realized his most sanguine ex-
pectations, carrying him through in twenty days.
Encouraged by this success, other parties in the
same town set about the construction Of the
same kind of wagons, and party of eight start
ed out on the prairies to try one which had been
finished The wind was blowing gale at the
time, and everything worked to a charm. The
occupants, gliding swiftly over the praries, were
delighting themselves with the anticipation of a
speedy and comfortable trip to the mines, when
the velocity of the veheicle created lively alarm
for their safety. The wagon sped onward be-
fore the driving wind faster and faster, until
the axletrees broke and deposited them all on
the ground, and in a somewhat damaged condi-
tion from broken heads, bruised limbs and bod
les The speed of the machine is said to have
been forty miles per hour.
Year: 1860

To ENCOURAGE THE GROWTH OF HAIR AND PRE-
VENT ITS TURNING GRAE.--A young lady friend
of mine was recommended by coifeur to use
sage water. She was obliged to discontinue its
daily use, as it made her hair too thick. Pour
boiling water on the sage leaves, and let them
remain some time in the oven or near stove {;
then strain and apply to the roots of the hair
daily If any pomade is needed, an equal mix
ture of cocoa.nut and olive oils, with little
perfume, is very Aicacious.-London Field
Year: 1860

An exchange thus describes the condition of
tho Hard Shell Baptists i.


" In many parts of the country this sect has
nearly disappeared, and in Others it is slowly
waning away And no wonder. The Hard
Shells hate missionary, tract, and temperance
societies Expulsion for joining temperance
society is a penalty of their code Their doc
trino IS, " this thing of getting lively on whis-
key don touch the spirit of man, but cloavos
only to the fesh.' They are a singular sect,
crude and incorrigible in their religious notions,
and will disappear in the progress of morality
and religion
Year: 1860

In town not a hundred miles from Boston,
bright little girl of five years was recently
standing by window, busily examining hair
which sho had just pulled from her head
" What are you doing my daughter y asked
her mother, whose curiosity was excited by
her coger gazo. Pm looking for the number.
Year: 1860

The editor of the Boston LiJerator calls upon
the ladies of the North to make use of nothing
that is produced by slave labor. He needn =
expect them not to use cotton. They will not
erpel so old a. .fricnd. from their bosoms.
Year: 1860

ease-which, like measles, he'er 'h1es a9arn'7


When the honeymoon passes away, setting
behind dull mountains, or dipping silently into
the stormy sea of life, the trying hour of mar
riare-life has come. Between the parties, there
arc no more illusions. Tic evcrish desire of
possession is gone-vanished into qualification
and all excitement has rcceedcd. Then
begins or should begin, the business of adapta-
ton. If they find that they do not love one
another as they thought they did, they should
double their assiduous attentions to one another
and be Jealous of everything which tends in
the slightest degree to separate them. Life is
too precious to 6e thrown away in secret re-
prct, or open differences. And let me say to
every one to whom the romance OF lite has f1ed
and who are discontentcd in the llghtest de-
uree with their condition and relations, being
the work of reconciliation before You are day
older.


Renew the attentions of earlier days. Draw
your hearts close together. Talk the thing all
over Acknowledge your faults to ono another
and determine that henceforth yon will be all IN
all to each other; and my word for it, you shall
find in your relation the sweetest joy earth has
for on. There is no other way for you 10 do.
If you arc happy at home you must be happy;
abroad the man or woman who has settled
down upon the conviction that he or she is
attached for life there is no effort too costly
to make which can restore to its setting upon
the bosoms, the nli<sing pearl.


I'inothy Tttcouaj.