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Year: 1859

To say that smoking in moderation, like
drinking wine in moderation, lends to destroy
mind and body, would be to assert what the
experience of three-fourths of the civilized
world is opposed TO. But no one who is con.
versant with disease Can doubt for a moment
that smoking 10 excess, Or immediately,
ends in destruction of mind or body. Some
of the revelations on this subject are star.
Ting. Some young men still in their teens
smoke forty or fifty cigars daily. Some
Young gentlemen of rank have assured me
that at college they have smoked from five in
tie afternoon until three or four in the NOR
uinc for weeks together. The effect of e1-
cessive smoking is to depress the circulation,
the heart becomes weak, irregular in its ac'
ton, and the pulse is scarcely to be felt.
The patient becomes frightened, and loses
resolution; once q bold rider, he cannot
mount his horse q carriage passing him
RAPIDLY in the street alarms him; his appetite
fails him; his mind fills with horrors imagin.
ary crimes aud imaginary punishments.
This state of things sometimes continues for
wears. At length the patient dies often,
yery often, suddenly. The case is explain.
Cd, The muscular structure of tho heart
Of that organ which is to distribute strength
md power to every part Of the system is in,
perfect in its action the left side Is thin, and
In some case in which sudden death has oc.
CURED, there is little more than strip Of
muscular fibre left on that side. Excessive
smoking is new vice. How many young
men at school and college used to smoke fifty
wears ago2 Some halfa-dozen. How many
do now2 The answer is legion. Boys OF
twelve years old are seen early in the NOR
ming walking the streets with cigars in thelr
mouths. Youths have consulted me who
have Just. come from the new schools, now
called colleges, confessing that they nave
been in the habit Of smoking constantly,
and these are lads just hoping to begin the
business of life.-Letter By DR.. Seymoar 'tpon
g Private Munatic Asylunsu
Year: 1859

A long time ago, a young collegian, itin-
Grating in the State Of Maine, fell in COM
pany, and also in love, with a very pretty
girl, the daughter of an old curmudgeon,
whose brains were made of sawdust, hogs
lard, and molasses, but who, on account of
the spaciousness of his farm, had been for
years at the head of the school committee
in the district. The collegIan's attachment
10 Sally (fort that was the name of the daugh-
teT was so overpowerng that all the logic
and philosophy he had learned in the
schools was, compared 10 the force of his
passion, as chaf in hurricane. But not
having the werewithal to winter in Maine
without resort to employment, he inlima-
ted to Sally that he would like TO keep the
school in that district. The kind-hearted
girl informed him that her father was com
mttee-man and she also informed him
what questions he would put 10 him, and
how he must answer them if he expected
to gain the good graces of her parental re-
lative. Accordingly, one Sunday evening,
the young man of classic lore informed the
old ignoramus that he would like TO take
their school for the winter, and board in
his family, whereupon the old fellow as
sumed an air of much importance, and
looking at the applicant with his usual dig
nifty while examining candidates for keep.
ing school, put the same questions that Sal.
ly had informed her admirer would be ask
ed.


'Do you believe in the final salvation of
all the world 2


Most certainly, answered the young col
legau, 'it is the only belief that the scrip
lures justify


DO you believe that God ever made an
other man equal 10 Thomas Jefferson q


Certainly not-and have been of this
opinion ever since | read his Notes on Vir-
ginia q


Can yon spell Massachusetts


Il ought 10 know how, sir, for it is my
native Stale.p


well, spell it,


The young man spelled the word very
distinctly, when the father turned TO the
daughter and said:


'Did he spell it right, Sallyp


'Yes, sir, answered the afectionate girl :
when her father, turning again to the can
didate, trumphantly exclaimed:


you may begin school Tomorrow
How the young pedagogue and Sally
managed affairs through the wrnter is an.
other part of the story
Year: 1859

THE LAST Hoop SroRY.-A Newcastle
lEnglish) paper states tina, at a fashionable
conversation recently held at the Music
Hall in that city, mischievous wag, short
ly after the opening of the entertainment,
put into circulation a story to the effect
that an experienced electrician had mana.
ged TO conceal powerful magnet in each
OF the six beautiful chandeliers by means
of which the hall is lighted, and that the
effect of this arrangement would be such
that any lady with steel spring skirts pass.
ing them, would have the said skirts in-
stantly inverted by the powerful attraction.
There was great many ladies present, and
the CONSERVATION created by this mischiev-
GUS story can more readily be imagined
than expressed. There was of course, for
a time, considerable shyness in approach
ing the chandeliers, and some of the fair
ones became so alarmed they Immediately
scooted. The fellow ought 10 have been
ducked in the Tyne.
Year: 1859

Life has long years many pleasures it
has 10 give in return for many which are ta-
ken away and while our ears can receive
the sounds of revelry, and our eyes are sem
sible OF pleasant sights, and our bodies are
conscious of strength we deem we live !;
but there is an hour in the lives of all when
the heart dies an hour unheeded, but after
which we have no real life, whether it per-
ish in the agony of some conquering pas
sion, or die YEARLY of sorrow; an hour
which they may strive TO trace, who say,
Say, remember, thought and felt different.
ly then-I was a mere boy-I shall never
feel the same again." an hour when the cord
is broken and the chain snapped on which
depended the harmony of existence.


Shout, little children! shout and clap your
hands with sudden JOY send out The sound
of ringing laughter over the face of the
green-bosomed earth ! From you the an
gel nature hath not yet departed, in your
hearts linger still the emana,ionssfr from the
Creator: perfect love and perfect Joy
Shout, say and rejoice ! for the dark days
are coming upon ye, when ye shall see no
light, and the hours of mirth will be strange
TO you, and the time when your voices shall
grow so sad that they shall minge with the
waiing of the wind-, and not be distinguish.
able from them, because of the exceeding
sorrow of their tones
Year: 1859

The Steuben Courier says that school
commissioner there recently required a
class of young gentlemen to pledge them
selves not to attend evening parties, nor go
home with girls after dark = before he
would grant them the required certificates
as teahers. We consider this rather a sem
sibe condiion-but have very little doubt
if this would be made a consideration in
Columbia county, that there would be a
great many pledges broken. We think the
young men here would go in for having the
order reversed. After dark is the very time
when they believe young ladies to stand
most in need of their protection.
Year: 1859

Breathes there man with soul so dead,
who never 10 himself hath said, will a
family paper take, both for my own and
chiidren's sake If fsuch there be, let him
repent, and have the paper to him sent; and
ii he'd pass happy winter, he in advance
should pay the printer
Year: 1859

The great bar 10 unhappiness is the bar
of the grog' shop. He who frequents it will
very likely soon find himself before the bar
OF justice. Let us all, then, place bar
against all evils arising from intemperance
1.-The rock on which many young men
have been shipwrecked.
Year: 1859

Two centuries ago not one person in one
hundred wore stockings Fifty years ago
not one boy in 1000 was allowed TO run
at large nights. Fifty years ago not one
girl in 1000 made walling-woman of her
mother
Year: 1859

DEAN SWIFT, hearing of carpenter fall
ins through the scafoding of house which
he was engaged in repairing, dryly remark.
ed hat he liked TO see mechanic go through
his work promptly.
Year: 1859

UNITED STATES CouRT.-The Court adjourned
yesterday morning as soon as met. the District At
torney being absent The Court will meet this NOR
ming AT o'clock, but as we understand Judge Bliss
has received dispatch from Judge Belden, asking
TO have the trial Of LaDgston postponed until Mon


day, the Court will probably adjourn to Monday
The decision upon the writ Of Habeas Corpus will
be given at Columbus this morning at 10 o'clock.
Year: 1859

route. deny Il. The men who made these reports
shirked their duty, and they did 80 simply because
they were working for q Company which could not
proceed Immediately to the spot and contradict the
statement. Better overseers have made better re-
ports, and have also made roads. They found hard
working Indians, and 10 large numbers too.


But apart from these exceptions to the miserable
retrospect Of Company subordinates have the word
and engagement Of man worth $500 600, that if the
Company will give him contract he will bind him
self under heavy bonds to put upon the road 10000
hard working Indians, whose pay will not exceed one
dollar per day, and probably not fifty cents. With
this army of laborers under proper management the
road might be made, graded, and macadamized in
eight months, to point equal to any road in the
United States. feel satisfied that this can be done,
and also feel assured that IL the Company com.
mences again, and offers fair opening to other men
than this class Of spectators like Stevens Stevenson
and that class OF men without practical knowledge
and without means, they will find that their diff
culties will give way, all natural obstacles must
yield to human enterprise.
Year: 1859

U-Yesterday evening carpet was stolen
from line in the yard of Mrs, Stutsman, on
Second street 1t had been busted but 4 short
time previous, and at dusk when the family
went into the yard, the carpet was gone. The
officers were put upon the suspected trail but
We have not learned that they succeeded in arN
resting he guilty parties.
Year: 1859




The following letter was mailed sometime
last week at Dayton, and received at Tippe
canoe; and is genuine article, copied YER,
batum from the original


Mr.. G. s. would be very much pleased
If would stay up in your own part of thu
country, would thank you to stay away
from Anna s., and let some one else 20
that is nearer her equals She has treated
me mean but can just thank you for it she
has idea that you are the purtiest man
that ever was, and don't even look at any
body else. Beauty is all she wants or rather
her George but | think will put stop to
your going there there is others as good al
you are, and a id sight ritcher, that would
be pleased to zoe, but she says they will do
very well TO talk to at at picuixs and church
but she could not talk to them at heme, she
says it don't pay to lose sleep to talk any body
she don't like. think fer my part would
rather talk to some young man than littlt
dried up old Bachelor like you are, she il
to sweet for you and you had better just give
up without q fus you are so deceitful thai
you haYe got the whole family to think thai
you are every thing that need be but if some
Of the rest Of us gentlemen is not good
enough to 90 think we will have you tC
stop. if am not good enough you are not
think you are not quite ns good as | am il
do tell it myself would have house to take
her tO and that is. something you have no
or ever will / told her what thought abOu
it, but there it is, you are purity and that il
all she will say. |, w. is worth two of you
but he is not purity enough to wait on her
he will do to talk to at picknixs. thinl
you are perfect jack ass to take the only
girl that is worth cent just because yOi
are good looking say you are id rAs
cal CUES she will tell you who wrote thi
letter but ! don't care am not afraid Of he
or you either can whip you both If you ar
purity. She is my sweet Anna.
Year: 1859

" We have received new daily paper from
St. Louis, called the Evening Bulletin" 1t il
spicy readable sheet and is indepen
dent in politics The Bulletin supplies a
want in that city which had long been felt
Messrs. Peckham d Bittelin present their paper
in remarkably neat dress, and evnce knowl
edge Of what the.peopls want. or course they
will succeed as long as they come up to the
mark
Year: 1859

ENCOURAGE HOME INDUsTRY.-With Great
| pleasure we notice that this subject is now
being agtated by number Of journals
throughout the State The necessity of aid.
ing and encouraging home manufactures and
home productions, no one will question. If
we are desirous of retail ing in California
any portion of the gold taken from our mines.
we must endeavor to make home industry
profitable. Who is there in this State that
needs be told the cause of the shipment TO
the Atlantic States and Europe of millions
and millions Of California g Id? Every in
telhgent person must be aware that it is, to
an alarming extent, exported to pay for our
consumption of Eastern and European pro
ductions. We have but few manufactures
IN California, and we fear these few are not
Weli supported. 1t is extremely difficult for
the California manufacturer to successfully
contend against foreign importations. The
high money rates of labor here, when con
trasted with those of older States and coun
tries, would seem to forbid his success. Yet
this difference in the price of labor is not the
main cause of our failure to nuke product
profitable The fault lies in our neglect of
Calitornias best interests. Few of our citi-
zens when desirous of making purchases, ev-
er ask themselves if the articles required are
OF home production. They never think of
that Surely, so important a question is
worthy of consideration. And thus, as
natural consequence of our neglect in this
particular we find there are but few articles
for home consumption manufactured in
the State. This state of affairs has gone on
too long already. 1t has proved runous to
the permanent prosperity of California, and
should be checked as speedily as possible
Now, we would advise every one having an
interest in the Advancement of California to
pay more attention to this matter Let eve
ry individual, no matter how small or trihng
the amount of his purchases, endeavor to Sc
lect California products. a large number Of
the necessaries of life can be produced in this
state, such as sugar, rice, soap candles,
leather, shoes, &c, and if our people would
but study their interests, manufactures will
spring up and flourish in our midst, which
would afford lucrative employment to thou.
sands of good workmcn throughout the State
and who are now idle Besides this such a
course would tend materially to keep our
specie in circulation here, instead of sending
it off to enrich other States, thus leaving our
own impoverished and nearly bankrupt
Sonora DeWocydt
Year: 1859

New CoUNTERFEIT.-Da before yesterday
new counterfeit made It's appearance in this city
and the telegraph brought word thatthe bills were
first issued in New York on that day. The bills
purportto be s. on the Bank Of Mutual Redemption
Boston, but are altered from s. on the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank Of Memphis, Tenn. Apparently
the old plate Of that bank was stolen "a part Of
the new bills are from genuine plates These bills
must have been circulated throughout the country
and given out upon an agreed day. Several Of
them have been offered at Offices in town. Look
out for them aud refuse them,
Year: 1859

CLEAN Your GRAIN.-Our farmers
may be surprised when we tell them that
not one bushel Of the immense quantity Of
wheat sent from this place to Chicago. is
allowed to be graded above No. 2. The
Chicago Board Of Trade have adopted very
stringent rules regarding the grading Of
wheat, and . poorly cleaned lot of grain
stands no chance whatever Of being cold for
more than the market price of No. 2 and
No 8. This low grading Of our wheat is
caused by the outrageous way in which our
farmers clean their grain. Every bushel Of
wheat contains about two quarts Of oats
cheat, etc., which of course greatly decreas-
es the value of thu grain. 1t would be far
more profitable for our farmers to take
pains in cleaning their wheat, as by 90 do.
ing they could obtain far better prices and
at the same ii relieve themselves Of the
sloven'y names they have acquired.
Year: 1859

LoTs OF THEM.-The number OF
lawyers in attendance upon the Supreme
Court, now in session in this city, is rapidly
increasing. Nearly every section of our
State is represented. Dubuque County he's
the largest number, and a glorious set of
fellows they are. We have never met a
more gentlemanly party than is now So
iourning in our city from Dubuque. All
young in years. but old in the mysteries Of
the law We trust their tarry in our midst
will be both pleasant and profitable.
Year: 1859

ANOTHER Runaway. - A team
started from in front Of the State Bank yes
terday morning. and before they could
be checked had about used up good
portion Of the wagon to which they were
attached. The curb stone and . strong
post in front Of Jorjans grocery store,
brought them up standing
Year: 1859

BY NOTICE in our advertising col
umns, it will be seen IL al the members Of the
medical profession in Davenport and Rock
Island will hold an important meeting on
Saturday next, at . o'clock p. N.
Year: 1859

ES We are now prepared to re-
csive orders for every description Of Book
and job Printing. We do not acknowledge
any superior in the neatness, execution,
or the promptaess of the delivery Of our
work. Examine our specimens and give
US a trial
Year: 1859

Er NO less than Sirteen wagons
loaded with produce, were at one time
standing on Brady street, between Second
and Third streets, yesterday morning This
looks decidedly business like.
Year: 1859

HEN SHALL WE HAVE TIE STREETS
ILLUMINATED while you editors of the
city papers interest yourselves in the econo-
my of gas light as regards cities far distant
and in the welfare Of which we can have
but little real interest, you appear to forget
entirely that our own city is suffering So
verely from the neglect Of her men in pow
er to have the streets Illuminated


The reason for thus depriving us Of street
lamps, or the motive at the bottom of all,
we care not; it is enough for US to know
that we are in darkness, when we should
have light; that the retail merchants are
deprived almost entirely of the evening
trade, which at one time added largely to
their receipts; that our citizens are left to
grope in darkness that the strongest guard
against highwaymen and house breakers
has been removed and no steps yet taken
% replace that which in city such as ours
becomes almost n necessity


We ask you. City Fathers, to give US gas
We beg you. who have the power. to light
our street lamps; we demand it at your
hands as . duty you owe the tax payers,
and above all We believe you are commit
ting radical wrong when you deprive Us
of the chief sentinel that would guard our
property from the robber and the incendia-
ry. Wien will you grant our prayer?


r w
Year: 1859

Congress did little on Saturday. The Senate
was not in session. and the House. although refds-
ing to adjourn because the day was the anniversary
Of the Battle Of New Orleans, dill adjourn early in
the day. after trantactog itte business.
Year: 1859

SALT FOR STocK "A correspondent of
the Boston Cultivator says: My practice
is to keep salt and wood ashes where
horses can have access TO them in the
stable. also keep salt in boxes. in my
cattle and sheep shed, during the time
they are kept up; and | make salt boxes
with roofs to them. to stand in my sheep
pastures, with an opening on one side
for the sheep to put in their beads |
mix in little tar and sulp.ur with the
salt for sheep. deening the mixture heal
thy for them. Ny conviction is, there
fore, that salt should be put where stock
may get it when nature requires. Hence
my practice.
Year: 1859

STATE PRIsoN AFFAIRs.-The man.
agement of State Prison affairs under the
celebrated regime of John B. Weller &
Co., is, at last, to receive an overhauling
ifthe appointment of late committee
ON the part of the Legislature means
any thing than more mere piece of for
mality. We had been assured that that
institution had been too softly handled
heretofore by the Legislative commit
tees visiting it at the public expense.
The statement was made OH actual
knowledge of how things were done at
San Quentin. The Bulkhead commit
tee, while sojourning, or sojering, in San
Francisco, got wind of something rotten
in and about the State Prison, and have
let the efluvia circulate until the Leg
islature was obliged to take cognizance
Of it. Thus originated the second State
Prison committee of the session.


1t is charged, Notwithstanding the
pompous array of figures that is thrust
before our eyes every time we attempt
to examine the State Prison matters, to
take our attention and distract it from
the clues to rascality, and notwithstand-
ing the glittering generalities with which
the subject has been treated, that some
thing wrong has been going on at the
State Prison. 1t is said, and an offer is
made to prove the statement, that guam
titles of bricks belonging to the State
have been sold and the proceeds gam
bled away, or spent foolishly or crimia-
nlly. Iti is said that immoral practices,
TO call them by no worse name, can be
proven upon some of those having the
prison in charge.


That State Prison is an old sore and
should be probed to the bottom in spite
ofthe screams and prayers Of sufferer rs,
and their sympathizers. The Legisla-
turc, it is to be hoped, is on the right
track.
Year: 1859

GIANT GIFT ENTERPRIZE.-Deac
Sheldon, we learn will treat the citizens
Of Grass Valley, to gift enterprizc on
Saturday next, on which occasion five
hundred dollars in jewelry, consisting of
Gold Watches. Chains, Bracelets &c.
The citizens of Grass Valley have only
to buy tickets for one dollar each, which
will admit them to theatrical enter
tainment and to chance at $500 worth
ofjewelry divided into fifty prizes. The
distribution of gifts by the Deacon here
was the fairest we have ever seen.


We can recommend the Deacon as
disposed to do the fair thing. if the
people are satisfied with the appearance
of the jewelry-and they can have an
opportunity to examine it thoroughly
they need not fear any clap-trap on the
part of the Deacon to save the prizes to
himself or friends. The ticket holders
can manage the drawing their own way.
The drawing here was conducted in
perfect order in the presence of a
crowded audience of ladies and gentle
men who evinced throughout the high
est satisfaction, especially those who
won the prizes. The others consoled
themselves with having paid no more
on the occasion than the price of tick
ct to the exhibition.


A thorough jeweller in this city tells
us that the prizes he examined could
not be sold here for much less than
they were valued at on the Deaeon's
bills.
Year: 1859

Atachmeat Lar. The Democrat
tax es back, this week what ii said last,
in reference to the restoration of the old
attachment law and thereby did very
foolish thing again. We haven't asked
single business man in the city how
he stands affected towards the attach
ment law quest ion. we can now recol-
lect of, out from the inevitable nature
of things we are willing to put up a
small wager that majority of all the
substantial merchants of this city prefer
the old attachment law to the present
one. The fact that a debt can rarely
be collected as law now stands is suf-
fcient authority for speaking for mer-
chants in this manner
Year: 1859

FREEMAN's ExPREss.-As ever ID.
Mackie is on the alert on the arrival
of stages, and does not fail to drop a
package little ahead of everybody
The new Express bids fair to win share
of the carrying trade under the manage
ment Of such an agent.
Year: 1859

THE EoUINox.-Thev venerable Equi-
nox was celebrated on the Goth and 2lst,
by one of the most thorough rains of the
season. Deer Creek sent more water
down its channel those days than we
have before seen in it during the winter,
The rain turned to snow little higher
up, and must have added foot or two
more of snow to the old deposit.