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Year: 1859

Yes, pass it along, whether you be-
lieve it or not-that one sided whisper
against the character of virtuous fe
male. You say you don't believe it, but
you will use your influence to bear up
the false report, and pass it on the cur
rent Strange creatures are mankind
How many hearts have been bled by a
whisper; how many benevolent deeds
have been chilled by the shrug Of a
shoulder how many individuals have
been Stunned by gentle, mysterious
hint ; how many early graves have been
dug by false report? Yet you will
pass the SANDER along; you will keep it
above hot water by the wag of your
tongue, when you might sink it forever.
Destroy the passion for telling tale, We
pray you. Lisp not a word that may in
iure the character of another. If the
female has erred, forgive her, and forget
the past. She has wounds enough with
out the fangs of slanderous tongues
Be determined to repeat no story that is
repeated to the injury of another. and as
far as you are concerned the slander will
die. But tell it once and it may go on
the wings of the wind-increasing with
each breath, till it has circulated through
the State, and brought to the grave one
who might have lived and been bles-
sing to the world.
Year: 1859

l, was Goethe that said this beautiful
thing:


"The longer ] live. the more certain
l am that the great difference between
men. the great and Insignificant. is ener-
gy-inyincible determination-an honest
purpose once fixed, and then victory
That quality will do anything that can
be done in the world, and no clrcum'
stance, no opportunity will make two
legged creature man without IT,"
Year: 1859

Census Of the State Of Iowa for 1859.


From the Office Of the Secretary of
State we have been kindly furnished with
the following totals Of the census of this
State. 1t will be perceived that in the
Journal of last week we gave an errone-
Gus estimate of the population of the
Year: 1859

4 SET OF TEETH-I have had all my
teeth pulled out, for to tell the truth, |
, think they have been a curse to me nj.
ways rather than a blessing. Now. in
their place have had false ones put in,
and must tell You my experience with
my new masticators. I felt, when the
set was first put in, as though had
couple of wheel-barrows full of paving
stones laying around loose in my mouth,
and it seemed as if they were going to
be spilled out at every notion The
first day waited till every one had done
their dinner, not daring to make an ex-
hIbltlon Of my teeth and run the risk of
their dropping On the table. Well,
chewed a little and stepped, chewed
again aud stopped, aud finally went to


my room and laid the darned things on


the back part of an upper shelf, think


ing they were no so. The next day


tried them again, but with little better
success, and after this | would carry
them in my pocket, occasionally trying
the things On, and every time expert
encing some new emotion. Que day
they would feel as much like a great
horse shoe, with nails in, as anything
else; and again I could be certain that
| lad a great circular wheel slowed
under my lips. Some of my experience
was very comicaI They served me SO
many times, and I was rather getting
tired of my bargain; but by persever-
ance have become used to their ways,


and now they cannot get away from me,


as know just how to manage them,


and how to bite on them, and bless from


the bottom Of my heart the inventor of
false teeth. Exchange,
Year: 1859

4 CRAB IN BAD FIx.-The Mobile Tri.
bune tells the following:


Yesterday man was fishing for crabs
at one of the wharves, and pulled up a
common half pint bottle. On exanina.
ton it was found that there was q small
crab in the bottle, which could not get
out The crab had evidently got into
the bottle, and finding a good safe har
Dor, stayed there, but, in the meantime,
had grown too large to admit his exit
from the bottle. The bottle, crab and
all, can be seen at this Office. The crab
is still alive and kicking, and is now be.
ing fed On Jenkins's best oysters
Year: 1859

than Rope.


ANY one considering the advantages of Iro;
over Rope as material for binding cotton bales
will be surprised that It has not been adopted
long ss1ee- In its security against fire there i
an overwhelming reason forts adoption


The presses iu the Seaport Cities have beer
the maia canse of its not being generally adops
ed; but now that objection is removed eener
ally aad the Orleans Press. the largest in n O.
give 1t the preference over rope. The Fsssmann
Iron Hoop and Tie is the improvement of one
OF the proprietors. and is adopted from the fact
that it IS found after long experiment. to com
bine the greatest merits in simplicity and facility
Of application of any one yet made 1t is 50
prepared as to require no change for recon-
pressing. Thus obEiating the only remaining
difficulty at the sea board cities


The hoops are sent of any length from eight
TO ten feet. and q full guarantee given that
neither the Ties nor Hoops shall break And
further. that all cotton bound In them shall he
received on the same terms at the Orleans Press
as rope bound cotton. The weight per bale is
about the same as rope, not one pound more or
less.


To show the opinion Ship Masters have of it.
We give the following, among numerous COM
TnendatioRs we have:


The undersigned masters Of vessels having
had cotton compressed with Fassmann new Iron
Hoops and Ties, hereby recommend the same.
The bales being well compressed, and the but
tons Or hoops never breaking when thrown
foTn In the ships hold. or when slowed
Year: 1859

The GREAT TRANSATLANTIC BA1Loes.-
Although from time to time some items
of description have been furnished con-
cerning the monster air-ship which has


been constructed at New York by Mr..
I. s. c. Lowe, it may be interesting to
the reader to see a more connected ac-
count Of the machine and the prepara-
tions for the voyage. The following
particulars are taken mainly from let
ter to the Boston Herald:


The fabric of the balloon is oiled twill.
ed muslin. The pattern was cut from
six thousand yards of this material, and
was sewed together in eleven sections;


the work was done bv seventeen sewing


machines, making three rows of stitches


to each seam. When spread out upon


the ground to receive its coat of varnish


it covered two acres The netting is


made of chord of three strands. each


strand containing twenty threads, and


weighing in all one thousand pounds


The basket, suspended from the con-


tracing hoop to which the net is attach


ed, is six feet in diameter; it is made of


strongly woven wicker-work, about two


inches thick: the sides are about four


feet high, and are continued up with


stout canvass, making circular room


or cabin, in the sides of which are win


dows. This cabin is heated by newly


invented stove. lime being used instead


of fire. 4 trap door, in the center Of the


basket, when opened discIoses a rope


ladder leading to one of Francis metal


lie life-boats, forty-fye feet in length,


made expressly for this ship 1t con-


tains caloric engine, attached to pro-


peller. At one end of this boat is fan
CT fly wheel, of sufficient dimensions to
drive the whole ship up Or down without
the loss Of gas or ballast, though the
latter will be taken as precausion. A
long and very broad oar or rudder at
the other end Of the boat will assist in
shaping the ships course. This boat
will have a crew of six. 1t will also
contain water and provisions for six
months, also rubber life boat, life-pre
servers, rockets, ETC., for signals, one
barrel of lime, and everything necessary
for use and comfort When rugged and
fitted. the ship will be three hundred and
fifty feet high, and will have the power
to take up twenty-five tons. Mr.. Lowe
has instruments of his OWE invention for
ascertaining his rate of speed, the d.
rection Of the wind below, etc. II is
expected that the voyage viii commence
in about ten days The gas is furnished
BY The Manhattan Gas Company through
a gigantic metre capable of registering
half million cubic feet OF gas per day.
It is supposed that eight persons will
start in the City of New York" While
he imitation is going on visitors will be
admitted to the enclosure on payment of
. fee.
Year: 1859

The place at the table no longer isfilrd,7


The chair is now vacant and lone
Il stands by our side sosolemn and still,-A
OH where is its occupant gomez |
Ali chide not the tears that daily are shed,


Ye know not the grief we have felt
The loved one has gone to rest with the dsa'
And by the sad grave we have knelt.
When we have gathered around the hearth st'
We feel we've lost lov'd one there
And silently weep for the dear one gone
AS we gaze on the vacant chair.


And when the bright stars in heaven appear,
With earnest look we gaze high,
And almost expect to see her up there,


An angel, thro' the azure sky


And when in Summer, carly flowers bloom,
We sadly miss her from our SIDE;
Yet trace her far beyond the lorely tomb
To her bright home, our lovdthat died.
Year: 1859

! We regret to see the Richmond Wing
"a journal which so often stands up il
defence of what is right and just between
the two sections Of country, and between
man and man, Recommending spirit o
retaliation towards the North, in answer
to the weak threats and fierce assaults o
the New York Courier and other Northern
journals against the South. The best WAY
to answer such missives, it seems to u.s. i.
to rise superior to them. 1t is not thu
man who talks most. or threatens most, ol
abuses his neighbor the most, who is tt
be feared. Such recrimination on either
side Only engenders the worst spirit, ant
these are not the times for cool heads tc
indulge in them. The North is not re-
sponsible for the Harper's Ferry outbreak
and expressions of sympathy for thai
reasonable outbreak and those engaged
in it as the chief actors are confined rather
to certain leading politicians and fanatical
literators, who in no way express the SEN
timents of the mass of the people of the
North. Blinded by the glare of false
lights, and following the lead of few
irrepresible conflict men, of large personal
influence and extended political experience,
thousands have seemingly been persuaded
to sympathize with man, whose crimes
against the safety of society and against
law and good government stand without a
parallel in the history Of the nation. II
is one of these excesses of human nature,
and no doubt one of its infrmities, to
sympathise with great offenders, when
about to receive the just penalty of their
crimes. In the case of Brown, the body
of men, innocent and guilty, whom he
was the instrument of sending out of the
world all unprepared for their fate awakens
little or no personal or public sympathy
while thousands here are lamenting the
fate which awaits the chief offender who
led them on; and in the case of Emmer-
son, one of the most intellectual and trans
cendenta men of the North, madness
folly and impiety goes so far as to compare
Brown on the gallows to Christ on the
cross


If the Richmond Wing, or anybody
else, supposes that there are many such
men at the North, outside of the lunatic
asylum, it greatly mistakes both the men
and the opinions of this part of our little
American world. Bold, bad, fanatical,
irrepressible conflict men there are among
us,-men who rejoice inwardly and often
outwardly at every excess, every sign OF
disunion, every bitter word and act at the
South,-butthey are not confined to the
North, and wherever they are, they deserve
the gallows more than the respect OF
sympathy of the really human ortion Of
society. We protest against holding the
conservative men of thecountry response
Bile for the Giddingses the Smiths, tn,
Emmersons, or even tha Stewards of tn,
North. As we said thcAother day, ther,
are three.quarters of million Of voter,
in the free States, disgusted alike will
both the Republican and Democrat,
parties, who have staid at home at tn,
recent State elections. These voters will
be heard from in 1860, and so heard from
we trust and believe, as to give practica
evidence that no sectional man or no sec
tional party can receive at the hands o
the People an election for the first Offc
in the government.
Year: 1859

That the law as it now stands was a H.
cense to slaves to commit felonies, knowing
their masters will run them off to another
State. They know further, that they will
uot be pursued as if they were white. He
believed that majority Of slaves who com
mitted capita! offense were run off and the
owner in many instances had the sympa-
thy of the community in this practice of
screening their negroes from public justice
lie did not offer the bill SO much from
sympathy for the owner aud renumera,
ton to him, as u measure to insure pub
lie justice.


lie thought it just that the owner should
lose something, and was therefore willing
that he should receive only two thirds OF
the value of such slaves, This was q bill
for counties to pay for slaves executed in
their respective counties, and he hoped
that representatives of counties having few
slave would not vote against il as the fewer
slaves they have the smaller prospect OF
their ever having to pay for one. 1t was
certainly bad morals for our citizens to be
permitted to run their felon slave to other
States and then sell them for negroes OF
good character.
Year: 1859

AND OLD RELfGIoN-The Zend Avesta the
Bible of the Parsees, is said to contain intrinsic
evidence ofits being composed more than $500
years ago. The Parsees adore one God only
eternal and almighty they reverence the heav-
enly bodies and fire, as visible images of the in
visible Deity, but emphatically repudiate then
worship. They acknowledge in Ormuzd the
Principle of all Righteousness in Ahriman the
author of all evil They believe that the most
acceptable sacrifices to God are good actions
that the best court of equity is pure consci-
ence; that truth is the basis of all excellence
They believe in the efficacy of prayer, in the doc
trine of the resurrection and Judgment, in the
existence of a heaven and hell. Their whole
religion thus affords close parallel to that Of
the Christians.
Year: 1859

PEACH TREEs.-Notwithstand the thought
lessness of those who look upon the idea of
cutting do%npeach trees for fire wood, we still
urge the matter as one of moment, and worthy
of careful consideration. Peach trees can be
purchased low, in dormant bud and a hundred
or thousand acres could be planted at small
comparative cost. In two years they will pro-
duce large crop at two cents a pound they
can be made profitable, and by drying, slcing
and put up in boxes, compete with Chile in the
dried fruit business. Why should we import
hundreds of tons of dried peaches, when we can
raise them better and cheaper than any other
part of the world? After the second year, as
food for swine turned loose into orchard, they
would yield double profit. Why should We
import common pork, when we can raise the
sweet and delicious pork fed on luscious peach
es +? And then, after FIVE, six eight years of
liberal profit in this way, another profit will be
derived from "peach tree fire wood."-Califor-
MIA Farmer
Year: 1859

WORKING UP SAwDUsT.-The ingenuity OF
Partisan eabinet-makers, ia the Faubourg St.
Antoine, has found a use for common sawdust
which raises the value of that commodity far
above the worth of solid timber. By a new pro-
cess, combining the hydraulic press and the
application of intense heat, these wooden parti-
cles are made to reform themselves into solid
mass, capable of being moulded into any shape,
and presenting a brilliant surface, a durability
and beauty of appearance not found in ebony,
rosewood or mahogany
Year: 1859

NARROW EscAPE.-On Thursday last, a man,
taking fancy for chicken dinner, gave chase
after fowl which took refuge under small
frame building, used butcher shop, and
which was raised props in such a way as
barely to admit the body of a man, in crawl
ing attitude The young man crawled under,
and had seized the hapless rooster, which COM
menced squalling, when the butcher, hearing
the noise, and thinking it was occasioned by a
hungry, thieving cur, about helping himself to
poultry dinner, took down large knife, full two
feet long, exceedingly sharp-pointed, and going
to a crack in the floor, where he saw moving
what he supposed was the dogs body, he in
serted the point of the knife, and was Just in the
act of striking the fatal blow, when the lucky
wight spoke, and saved his life. We do not
remember ever having heard of more wonder
full escape from death than this. The weapon
was long enough to have gone through an OBJ
ject twice the bulk of the body at which it was
directed and was welded by powerful arm.-
San 4ndreas IndependeR
Year: 1859

BsGs@ Too many persons grow to use their re-
ligion as diver doth his bel-to venture down
into the depths of worldliness with safety, and
grope for pearls with just so much of Heavens
air as will keep him from suffocating, and no
more; and some, alas as at times is the case
with divers, are suTocated with the experiment.
Year: 1859

1gA- If you love others, they they will love
you. If you speak kindly to them, they will
speak kindly to you. Love is repaid with love.
and hatred with hatred. Would you hear a
sweet and pleasant echo, speak sweetly and
pleasantly yourself
Year: 1859

BSge \ negro driver of a coach in Texas
stopped to get some water for the young ladies
In the carriage and on being asked what he
stopped for, replied &c am watering my flow-
ers" A more delicate compliment could not
have been paid
Year: 1859

A correspondent of the n Y. Tribune. writing
from Marshheld, in describing a visit to the
webster mansion, thus alludes to the dining
room;


was shown into the dining room.
winch opens from the mosaic room on the
north. 1t Is about 40 feet long by l6 broad
AT the lower end of it is painting of Webster


by Harding, aud on the right wall is another of
him at Marshfeld, by Ames. Over the mantle
piece at the upper end of the room is a portrait
of an Italian girl reading letter. in a Golden
colored dress with rich black hair hanging over
her well-formed shoulders. 1t was done from
lie by Alexander. The tone is mellow and har-
monious, and the effect of the picture very
pleasing Two sideboards filed with silver and
glass are on each side of the long sides of the
room, and on the table stands the Union
puhcnDo"l 1t IS the largest glass vessel that
mas oeen made In this country, and will weigh


should think, about fifty pounds. 1t took sew
eral men SIX months to make the mould in which
II was formed. A magnificent screen of carved
mahogany stands at the lower end of the room.
before door which the servants enter On one
END OF the sideboards is a broken tumbler curl
ously mended by Chinaman. | was told that
ne came into the room one day when Fletcher
Webster was at dinner in China, and begged for
broken glass to mend. Mr.. Webster took up
his tumbler and threw it upon the marble floor,
and told the man to pick up the pieces and put
them together. The Chinaman mended it on the
spot by means of bits of tin which he riyeted in
to the substance of the glass; and so nicely was
1t done that 1t was entirely water-tight, though
some Of the pieces are not half an inch square.
The price of this j1b was only few cents"
Year: 1859

B@sA We are strong advocate of every man
marrying but ourseyes-PLGcsr Herald


We presume the misses of Placer admire the
Judgment of the editor, and perfectly coincide
Placer Press.
Year: 1859

SOMETHING NEw.-There probably will come
time when originality will give out, and moth
ing new will be invented. Fur garters are the
latest agony-we say garters" right out after
long mental conflict as to its propriety.
Year: 1859

AN EDrToRIAL LETTER-When receive q
letter from my friend the editor, am able,
10y an intense application of attention for a
few minutes, to make out its general drift
and meaning. The difficulty in the way of
grasping the entire sense does not arise from
any obscurity of style, but wholly from the
remarkable nature ofpenmanship And after
gaining the general bearing of the document,
l am well aware that there are many recesses
and hooks Of meaning which viii not be
reached but after repeated perusals What
appeared at first flourish Of the pen. NAV
gradually assume the form of an important
clause of sentence, materially modifying its
force. What appears at present to be Blot.
may turn out TO be anything whatever; what
at present looks like No, may prove to have
stood for Yes.


| think sympathetieally Of the worthy
father of DR.. Chalmers When he received
his weekly or fortnightly letter from his dis.
tngnished son, he carefully locked it up By
the time little store had accumulated, his
son came up to pay him visit; and then he
broke all the seals, and got the writer of
the letters to read them
Year: 1859

was but another subtle and efeclual mode of
accomplishing the rescue and bis urging tho
constable 10 serve the State warrant against
Jennings aud his assistants for kidnapping the
negro, after being informed Of his lawful cap-
ture, is claimed as conclusive of the defendants
cOmpclty in the rescue


In free State like Ohio, every human being
IN II, whether white or black, is presumed to be
free until different status is shown And hence
when one is restrained of his freedom by anotb.
er, resort in good faith to the ordinary forms
Of proceeding under the State laws, TO enquire
into the cause of such restraint or imprison-
ment, implies no wrong.


but when fugitive from labor is captured
and held in any of the modes and under the au-
thorily designated 10y The act of Congress of
1850, any interference by the State authorities
has no justification, nor can those be justif d
who invoke their interference, loheh hey knOlo
the taeitiUe IS thus held.


II Jennings seized and held the fugitive by
virtue of good aud sufficient power of attor-
nev executed for that purpose and was lawful
ly assisted by Lowe the justice of the peace
at Wellington, WIN issued a State warrant
against them for kidnapping such fugitive, WAS
acting IN matter over which he had no iuR 4.
dlctiOn. Aud il the defendant was inforuitil
and had knowledge of this condition Of thina8
and afterwards urged the execution of the war
rant for the purpose thereby, of liberatng the
fugitive, his conduct in this particular implica.
ted him as much in the common design of the
mob as if he had given his aid to the rescue by
physical force.


What the defendant said and what he did, in
relation to the rescue, has been detailed in the
testimony Of various witnesses, and this testi
mony has been so minutely brought to your at
tention By the counsel on both sides, as To re-
quire no further recapituIation.


have throughout regarded it as an acknoWl.
edged fact, (aud 80 conceded by the defendants
couucil) that an unlawful rescue of the negroes
was made.


For in legal contemplation, It matters not
whether he was released from capture by the
mob, or whether that release was effected by
threats and demonstrations OF violence It
would be an unlawful rescue as much in the
one case as in the Gather


With these rules of law for your government,
gentlemen, the case is now committed to your
hands Treat it as you would any other case
ingOlving the question of the guilt or innocence
Of = aan charged with a criminal violation of
the Law. All matters of fact in this controver-
sy aLe eXclpsigely for your consideration and if
irom Ca4etai and impartial review of the
proofs. you oOhe to the conclusion, beyond a
reasonable doubt, that the defendant is guilty
Of the offence charged, you will say so by your
verdict. But if the proof fails to produce that
conviction upon your minds you will return a
verdict of acquittal
Year: 1859

RAILROAD THROUGH GRAsD STREEr.-Some OF
the property owners on Grand street. Eastern District ss
tng the subject Of railroad Grand street TO run from toe
Feny through Gandreet and the Metropolitan avenue to
Newton L. l. An application will be made to the present
LEGISLATURE for q charter