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Year: 1860

A good lady, who had two children sick
with the measles, wrote to friend for the
best remedy. The friend had just received
a note from another lady inqu iring the
way to make pickles. In the confusion
the lady who inquired about the pickles
received the remedy for the measles, and
the anxious mother of the sick children
read with horror the following:-tScald
them three or four times in very hot vine
gar, and sprinkle them with salt, and in Il
few days they will be cured"
Year: 1860

EWe notice that VIM. L. Toole, Of this
county, is member Of the Executive Com
mittee of the National Union party. The
leaders ofthat party were fortunate in securing
him, for he is the head, tail and middle of the
party in Iowa. We hope the Baltimore
Convention will place Billy on their ticket for
Vice President. He is very popular with his
party in this State, and is deserving OF some
favor.-W Wapello Republican.
Year: 1860

The New York HERALD's OPINION ABOUT
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIoN-The New York
Herald concludes long article on the Oppo-
sition party and its candidates as follows:


"The result of this election will he to break
up either the Republican or the Democratic,
and to make the new party the opposition
during the next Presidency. Thus, if the
Democrats should be beaten, they will be
extlnguished as party, and will have to fall
into the ranks Of the Union opposition; or,
should the Republican party be overthrown,
that will be the last of them, and the scattered
fragments will be absorbed by the Union
party, which would thus in due time present
formidable opposition to the triumphant
Democracy.
Year: 1860

wMr. Douglas, in the Senate, answered
the whole of Mr.. Stewards pressing upon the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, in single
pithy sentence. What, said he, led to the
repeal of that act, but that the majority in the
Northern States refused to carry it out in
good faith? 81, sir, stood ready to extend it
to the Pacific Ocean, to abide by it forever,
and the entire South, without one exception
in this body, was willing to abide by it. But
the free soil element of the Northern States
was so strong as to defeat that measure, and
thus opened the slavery question anew.
These men who now complain of the abroga-
ton of that act were the very men who
denounced it."-Enquirer.


YetSenator Douglas holds that the Supreme
Court has decided the Missouri Compromise
to have been unconstitutional. The inference
is plain that he and his party were in favor of
abiding by an unconstitutional law "forever"
By his own mouth he is condemned.
Year: 1860

We have always thought it n shame that
the Democratic and abolition parties of
Massachusetts amalgamatcd and sent
Charles Sumner to the United States Sen.
ate, but that's no reason why we should
not denounce the brutality of Senator
Chesnut'S remarks in reply to his late
speech We do not think that any gentle
man, though we have hitherto thought Mr..
Chesnut one could have been guilty of
such remarks. If the South Carolina Sen
ator was anxious to dcnommce and grossly
insult some abolition member of Congress
for an snti-slavery speech, he certainly
knew good many of them who had
made far coarser, bittercr and more teroci-
Gus ones than that of the Massachusetts,
Senator. Mr.. Chesnut spoke of Mr.. Sum
ner as a coward, and we have no sort of
doubt but that ne was perfectly sincere in
his opinion. He meant to be discreet in
the:selection of his object OF nttack. lie
didn't like the thought of being Il cracked
Chesnut.-LoUiSvHlc Journal.
Year: 1860

WINTER is coming on; old Boreas vii
soon rule the North temperate Zone, and as
we are within his jurisdiction, it is neres-
sary that We prepare to shield ourselves
against his rude breath The best way that
we can suggest is, just 90 to S. RosENwALD
& Cos Clothing Store, No. ~ Main street,
between Second and Third, and tell them
what you need in the way of bodily cover
ing. They will furnish you on good terms
and in good style.
Year: 1860

Look OUT, now. just on the eve of cleo
ton, for cock and bull stories about South
ern secession and all that sort Of stuff. That
is the game now, and as those who play it
get more and more desperate, they Will not
scruple to promulgate the greatest lies to
subserve their end, the defeat of the choice
of the people. But the people have heard
this cry of 70 wolf" too many times to be
induced to lay aside their manhood and vote
against their honest convictions.
Year: 1860

Mr.. GILES, of the New York Store has
just returned from the East, where he has
laid in a second supply of Fall and Winter
Goods He thinks they now have the
cheapest goods ever offered for sale in this
market. Their assortment Of Ladies' cloaks
and dress silks are hard to be excelled. The
Ladies are particularly invited to call and
examine for themselves.
Year: 1860

MEETING IN KNIGHT TowNsmr.-Thcre
will be Republican meeting in Terrys
School House, Knight Township, tonight,
Judge DeBruler will speak to those present.
1t is hoped some persons will go out from
town. The ride is short and the speech
will be q very interesting one.
Year: 1860

BsE The Indianapolis Journal announces
that its Publication will be suspended for a
couple of days, consequent upon moving
the office. On Saturday it is to make its
appearance from the new building-one of
the best in the State for printing purposes
in a new dress. We congratulate it on
these indications of prosperity.
Year: 1860

Turn oUr EVERYBODY Let the Hon,
JOHN L. MANSFIELD, Republican state elec-
tor-who speak tonight in English at Mo
zart IIall-be cheered with good audience,
He is one Of the best thinkers in our State.
and invariably entertains all who so to hear
him speak. We trust the Republicans
will see TO it that the House is well filed
Bring out your Democratic neighbors and
let them hear the truth, for the truth will
make them free
Year: 1860

ESOU OUGHT TO P.ETROsH-HZE


IL all those business Main street be
tween that hideous old Canal Bridge and Eighth
street, who are being taxed heavily pay for the
cuTbing, paving, and gas lighting Of the g Thor
ough Fare all for the accommodation Of the
g dear people and when doing so don't forget
John Frelinghuysen Glover's Lumber yard, corner
Seventh and Main nov1 -d&w
Year: 1860

mended. They have virtually agree to stand
by each other. to make their specie COM
mon fund, and to extend their discounts to
such an extent as the legitimate wants OF the
community may require. IF this arrange
ment is boldly and faithfully carried out, as
it doubtless viii be--for it seems to be in the
power of any one or more banks to enforce
it-then the panic may be regarded as at an
end"
Year: 1860

EpIroR DEMOCRAT IL live in a retired
place and am hence not posted as well
about the movements of the busy world as l
should like; but my notice has been called
to the action of the Board of Supervisors OF
this county, in regard to the removal OF the
place of voting for Long Bar township from
the Galena House to the Stanfeld Ranch.
A petition was sent 10 that body at their
late sitting to remove it from the Galena
House to the Yuba County House. The pc
tition was signed by respectful number of
the voters of the precinct, if not majority
of them. Their prayer however, was not
granted, and on the representation OF one in
dividunl (Peter Musser, bar-keeper at the
Stanfield Ranch) it was removed to that
place Now, the fact Of the matter is, the
Stanfield Ranch is not in Long Bar township
at all, but in Parks Bar township. The
Yuba County House would have been CEN
tral and convenient to the most of the voters
of the precinct, but as the Board have acted
stupidity about the matter, or designedly,
perhaps, there can be no election held, unless
it is done in the woods, as a small corner of
the Stanfeld Ranch is in Long Bar township
"a pretty place to hold an election, truly.


There is no doubt in my mind that the
election was ordered held at the above named
place TO prevent, if possible, the election of
Douglas boys for township oficers-"a weak
invention of the enemy" They are too
gritty to be fooled by this very foolish ma
neuvre,and will either go to Browns Valley
or Long Bar to vote. Yours,


OUAD
Year: 1860

FoRcISG THEIR WAY oUT.-We were pre-
sented, yesterday, with a mushroom weighing
about two pounds, which grew underneath
the brick floor of J. S. Bowman's Cigar
Store, on D street. These fungi frequently
spring up in that locality. and indicate their
presence by forcing up a brick or breaking
it in two. The bricks lie upon sandy soil,
and from this soil the mushrooms spring. The
peculiar adaptation of the ground to that
kind of growth is accounted for by the fact
that livery stable formerly stood upon that
corner.
Year: 1860

The Constitution and the Equality Of the States
These symbols of everla sting union Let these be
the ralying cries Of the People"-,John O. Breckia-
ridge.


The Breckinridgers have the above words,
as their motto, on every banner that they
fling to the breeze and at the head of nearly
every paper that they issue. "The Consti-
tuition and the equality of the States, these
are symbols of everlasting union" In the
mouths of the Yancey crowd, they are sym
bols, but the word is wrongly spelt. They
are cymJaIs, thinking cymbals' and "sound-
ing brass" Sounding brass and tinkling
cymbals."


But aside from any play upon words, we
would ask the intelligent portion of the
Breckenridge party. if they think that the
Constitution of the United States is simply a
symbol A symbol, according to Webster, is
"the sign or representation of any moral
thing by the images or properties of natural
things. Thus the lion is the symbol of cour-
age, the lamb is the symbol Of meekness or
patience" an the Eucharist, the bread and
iCine are called symbols of the body and blood
of Christ"


1t seems to US that the Constitution is
something different from a symbol. You
might as well say that Everlasting union" is
a symbol of the Constitution as to say that
the Constitution is symbol of Everlasting
union" Neither is q symbol. They ore both,
strictly speaking, things existing in the alb
stract. They do not represent things in the
abstract, but are themselves abstract. But,
with even less propriety can you say that the
equality Of the States is a symbol of anything.
The equality of the States is wholly an alb
stract thing. The Constitution you migAt
materialize into the rrittea document, and so
overstrain language as to speak of it as a
symbol, but you could not by any possibility
speak of the equality of the States as a sym
Dol.


The fact is the language in question used
by Mr.. breckenridge is absurd, weak, flat
And, even il it had the meaning which it so
loosely aims at, it would be altogether inap-
propriate in the mouths or upon the banners
of the Yancey disuniOn party.
Year: 1860

You will find men on the street, who ac-
knowledge that without a union of the De-
moeracy upon Douglas is effected, Lincoln
will be elected If Lincoln is elected, they
say that they go for dissolution of the
Union without any overt act on his part
against the South. Yet, they further pro
ceed to declare that they are going to vote
against Douglas What is the character of
such men? Are they patriots?
Year: 1860

sovereign action adopted in n political crisis Of
vital Importance What South Carolina had
sternly refused on the demand of the General
Government was promptly granted on the scar
nest request Of the State of Virginia. And less
than ten years ago, South Carolina again for
bore to act, in consequence of the position as
sulned by the State Of Virginia. Certainly,
then the Virginia legislator who shall now re-
fuse to accede 10 the simple request Of South
Carolina, 10 be permitted to meet Virginia in
fraternal conference, at moment Of common
danger, merely 10 exchange views and harmo-
nizc suggestions to advance their common well
farc-such Virginia legislator assumes re-
spOnsbility which can only be justified by the
clcarcst reasons and weightiest considerations.


\ word more. No fact is more evident than
the fact that IL large majority Of the people Of
Virginia are desirous to maintain the Federal
Union, at the expense, if necessary, of armed
defence Of the sovereign rights of their State
IL the Union. When, then, the General AS
sembly shall accedr to the request of our sister
State, by the election Of deputies to an inter
State conference, let it be done with the express
declaration that it is done with the earnest cx-
pectation that efficient means will be devised
by which to maintain that strict observance of
constitutional right which is inscparable from
the integrity of the Union.
Year: 1860

Under this heading the Cincinnati Enquirer
speaks Of the probability Of several of the
States following the example of Arkansas in
excluding free negroes, and says:


"The result OF this will be that the poor
banishcd wrctchcs will come pouring IN upon
us by hundreds and thousands. UNFIT for
residence in new countries, and without the
industry necessary to subdue wilderness; ;
shut out BY stringent laws from the other
free Suites Of the West, and kept from those
that are further north by the coldness of the
climate, Ohio will be in a fair way to be over
run by this swarm of the destitute and im-
provident and the question, What is to be
done? will be forced upon her by circumstan-
ces of the most imperative character. Little
as the event in question may appear to some,
it is one that will be sure to beget long train
of consequences is it unlikely that, among
other effects, it will disclose the weakest point
in our Union, and exhibit dangers to the Con-
.federacy hitherto unforeseen, and against
which no adequate protection has been devised.
Enough may now be seen to indicate that the
end is not yet, and that there is more than
enough of bitterness in store for the future"
Year: 1860

The demonstration made, yesterday, i'll the
Virginia Senate, indicates some important party
move that will bear watching The effort to defeat
just and necessary measure Of State defence,
would never have been made, in the face Of the
powerful expression Of public opinion already
published, but for some political strategic
movement that should alarm every citizen Of
Virginia. \ few of the men opposed to the
Democratic party, headed by Mr.. Rives of Al
bemarlc, and Mr. Thomas Of Fairfax, without
a purity to sustain them or a people to support
them, are endeavoring to smother the voice Of
Virginia, by holding ont a false and delu-
sivc hope 10 Northern Abolitionism. These
men are impcrling the existence of the
Union, by. creating the impression that
the Senate of Virginia does not regard the
signs of the times as the least alarming, and
that that body is not willing to incur the ex-
pcnsr of properly arlning the State. Was this
strategic movement to prepare the way for
letter, upon which Mr. John NJ Bolts and the
gentlemen of that ilk have been incubating
for several weeks back? We shall see.


We have only space at this time to warn
men of all parties, Virginia Senator's, true and
faithful to the people they represent not
to be caught IN The trap prepared for them
by politicians opposing the Armory bill. We
shall endeavor to collect the expression of the
voice and will of the Virginia people upon this
important measure


Over ONE HUNDRED public meetings Of the
State have ordered the Legislature to arm the
militia and to encourage State manufactures.
This armory bill provides for both. 1t will arm
the militia, and it will encourage branch Of
manufacture that will tend to the development
of the vast mineral wealth Of Virginia. No oparty
spirit influenced the people Of Virginia in the
hundred public meetings that have been held;
and this party mors, this rather Jactious more
will be received by the people Of Virginia with
the condemnation il merits
Year: 1860

Nebraska, Gov. Black of that territory
tells u.s., can not be a free State. Recently
the legislature passed an act to prohibit sla-
very, which this Black Democrat, vetoed,
giving the following reasons;-ist, that the
cession to the United States of louisiana
which was then slave Territory, carried
with it the right of all who might settle in
any part thereof, to bring their slaves with
them, if they saw fit; and I'd, That while the
people at the proper time may determine
the character of their domestic institutions,
the Territorial Legislature has no such
power, and that it is only when State Con-
stitution is formed and the State is admitted
to the Union, that popular sovereignty be-
comes inherent. While the Territory re-.
mains the common property of all the States,
the citizens of each have rights which can
not be abridged by the local Legislature


He admits that the organic act permits the
people to msnage their own affairs in their
own way; but then comes the question, he
says-who are the people? He denies that
misrepresentation are the people, or have
any right to act in the matter In other
words, the people may be unanimous in
their opinion, and send their representatives
to embody that opinion in legislation, but
since the representatives are not in fact the
people, they have no power for such action.
Verify this Gov. Black combines all the
greatness and wisdom ofS6lomon and Solon,
he rises above Moses as a law giver and is
indeed Daniel come to Judgment.
Year: 1860

STRANGE CUsToM.-A most extraordinary
custom prevails among the Vizrees, power
full tribe occupying an extensive district in
Cuba, among the mountains between Persia


nd India. 1t is, in fact, a female preroga-
tive that has no parallel among any other
people upon the earth, and just reverses-
what we are in the habit of considering the
natural order of things-the women choose
their husbands and not the husbands their
wives If woman be pleased with a man,
she sendsthe drummer of the camp to pin a
handkerchief to his cap,with the pin she has
used to fasten her hair. The drummer watch
es his opportunity, and does this in public,
naming the woman, and the man is Obliged
to marry her, if he can pay her price to her
father
Year: 1860

REPORTED Rich DIscovERY.-A very rich
quartz lead is reported discovered on Clark's
Ranch, about three miles below Grass Valley
We regret to say the greater part of the metal
found in the rock is gold.
Year: 1860

Low DowS.-It is reported of chap who
went over to Washoe to make fortune or lose
leg, that after having secured the requisite
amount of ground, he returned to place not
thousand miles from here and interested men of
means to such an extent that they became pur
chasers of his claims, paying part down, and the
remainder to be forthcoming whenever it was
found that the taken from the ground should
be demonstrated to assay as well as that from
the Comstock lead. Accordingly an agent was
sent over to pick up few specimens to deter
mine the fate of the last installment, Agent
found lot of the ore, brought it over, had it
assayed. The cash was gladly paid and the baf
gain was complete. No chance for slip up "
now being entertained, one of the purchasers
smilingly informed the vendor that the ore from
the lead paid just as well as that from the Com
stock. Well said the sharper, it ought to.
got it from there" We tell the story as we
got it.
Year: 1860

BENEFIT BALL.-The net proceeds of the Ball
on Thursday evening of last week for the benefit
of the family of NJ. Ii. Casson, are stated at
Sal, which sum has been gratefully received by
the family The company at the ball were gem
erously furnished with free music by Charley
Groves and his band. The same individuals
donated their services in like manner at the ball
for the benefit of Mrs. Whiting.
Year: 1860

STEREoscoPIc PIcTUREs.-The whole jour
sight of thirty-six stereoscopic pictures of the
Great Eastern as natural life, Tuesday.
A gentleman has them for exhibition about town
Two bits will pay for sight at all the views,
and it is well worth double the money, The
pictures taken from life, and true to nature.
Just take look into that box everybody
Year: 1860

ES- By reference to the doings of the Court
of Sessions it will be seen that the spare poaula-
ton of our county are divided in their choice of
scenes and operations. The rush seems to be for
San Quentin and Washoe.
Year: 1860

HARD UP.-A poor lone lorn' bachelor
subscriber at Omega writes us there are about
hundred and forty single men in that mining
camp, having good houses and claims. Out of
these one hundred and forty, one hundred and
twenty are thought to be on the marry if they
could only get a chance. Unfortunately for the
six score Of anxious SWANS there are but two
marriageble ladies in Omega and they en-
gagged. Our correspondent applies to us in his
uistress, and imploEes us TO tell him what he is
to do


The case of the hundred and twenty is n hard
one indeed. The only consolation can ad-
minister is, that when railroad is built to Ne
vada from Folsom so that the ladies eau come to
the mountains without passing through purga-
tory OF dust, the angelic creatures will flock to
the Standard of matrimony raised by the poor
bachelors in Omega. Go in, then, for the rail-
road and may squeeze be your reward.
Year: 1860

-
NOTICE i hereby given that much OF each Of
the following described lots, tracts parcels of
lands may be necessary for that purpose, will the
second Tuesday tthe sh day. Of May neNt and the
succeeding DAYS be sold A. public auction the
Of the County Treasurer in the city of Mineral
said County payment of taxes interest and charges
thereon unless the shall be that time
The sale 10 commence at O'clock in the forenoon of
tie cav algye named.
Year: 1860

JUDGE Coon of San Francisco Police Court
in lecture at Dashaway Hall in that city.
stated that at least two-thirds of the eases
upon which he was called to adiudieate in
his official position, resulted directly from
ntemperance. He further stated as a reason
for his ordinary sentence of "a hours confine-
ment, for persons arrested for drunkenness,
that he considered it as giving time for rea-
son to regain its control, and thus afford an
opportunity at least for reformation to COM
mence its work-that if turned loose at once
the result would be in most instances that
the parties would at once resort to the dram
bottle, with consequences still more painful
than the preceding
Year: 1860

NEW RULE OF ACTION DEsIRED.-The St.
Louis correspondent of the San Francisco
Telegram makes the following very note
worthy observations.


Some OF the Southern newspapers, chief
among whom is the Charleston Mercury. de-
clare that they must have a new rule of ac-
tion for the Democratic National Convention.
They are opposed to each State voting in the
convention according to its strength in the
electoral college. and insist that the repre-
SentatIon IN Convention must be proportion
ate to the number of National Democrats
each State sends to Congress. As it now is
Massachusetts,, a State that never casts n
Democratic vote, has as much voice in the
National Convention as Georgia. tried old
democratic State that can always be depen-
ded upon. There is much apparent business
In the demands of these Southern politicians
yet, were their demands aeceded to. what
would be the resnlt? Not single represen
tatlve would appear in the Convention from
New England, for New England has not a
democrat in either House of Congress. Three
or four each would be all that New York and
pennsylvania could send and the whole
North would only send abnut fifteen repre-
sentatlves. Now, would not the National
Democratic party soon become as much of a
sectional party as the Black Republican par
ty. believe the Republicans did make some
show OF Southern representation in the
Philadelphia Convention; at least, there were
these who took part in the proceedings who
claimed Southern residence BE that as it
may, there is every reason to believe that,
should the new rule be insisted upon, the
Democratic party would no longer exist at
the North as an organization in national poll
tics. 1t would be etfectually killed and with
1T would die the national party-the victim
of selfdestruction.