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Year: 1859

Two persons abreast meeting one person on u
narrow walk should not sweep him off into the
mud, but one should fall back a step and pass
in single file.


"a. Mind your own business, and let your
friend have time, without annoyance, to attend
to his
Year: 1859

CooLINe.-It is seldom we feel sufficiently
amiable to say pleasant thing of anybody
this hot weather, but when a man travels
three squares through the broiling mid day
sun with both arms full of big bottles filled
with iee-cold and deliciously favored Dash
away Beer'-which was Immediately dashed
away-and deposits the same upon our table,
our better nature prevails and we are in
clined to say it is a clever trick, and that
Frank Qualey perpetrated it.
Year: 1859

IMPROVEMENT We understand that our
friend Fuller will shortly erect row Of
brick buildings on his lot adjoining the Sen
ate House, at present occupied by wooden
houses. lie will also tear down his present
frame stable and build large fine brick one
in its place.
Year: 1859

The Democracy hold their primary elec-
tions this evening. for the nomination of dele
gates to the regular Democratic County Con-
vcution, which assemblies at the Oregon
House on the 10Th. 1t is to be hoped that
the polls will be well attended, in order that
there may be fair and full expression Of the
will Of the Democracy.
Year: 1859

FouRTu OF JULY-It will be seen, by a no
tiee in another column, that q committee Of
arrangements, consisting Of number Of our
leading citizens, has been appointed to make
due preparations for the celebration of the
Anniversary ofAmeriean Liberty. 1t will be
seen also that the orator and reader and
chaplain of the day have been selected for
the occasion and their attendance secured
This celebration viii take place on the bank
Of the Feather river, near the residence Of
Judge Bliss, where magnificent barbecue
will be given.
Year: 1859

WuEw The Express seems TO think that
there is likely to be fusion of the abolition
lists of the North with the FIre-eaters of the
South against the Lecompton party. A hell
niferous idea, truly
Year: 1859

PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL. D. Judah, En-
gineer of the Sacramento Valley Railroad
and agent for the Pacific Railroad Executive
Committee of this State at Washington, has
prepared railway bill which conforms to
the views expressed by said convention:


This bill provides that the National Gov
ernment shall become responsible for the
payment of the interest at five per cent per
annum, for thirty years, Upon the amount
of SIS 600 600, if a single track, and on the
sum Of Sl25 ,0G0 900 if double track be
laid; and that the road shall be completed
within ten years. The company shall choose
its own route, and shall have the right OF
way to 400 feet wide, together with the
privilege Of taking earth, stone, timber, ETC.,
for the use of the road wherever they may
be found on the public domain. Alternate
sections of the public land for the distance
of twenty miles on each side of the road are
to be set apart for the purpose of paying the
interest on the bonds as it may become due;
but these lands are not to be given to the
company, nor is it to have the least control
over them. They are to be sold by the Gov
ernment as other public lands, but the pro-
ceeds are to be devoted to this special pur-
pose. The bill asks that alternate sections
of the public lands for ten miles on each
side of the road shall be granted in fee to
the company so soon rs each twenty miles
shall be completed.
Year: 1859

The HERoic IN COMMON LIFE-Mrs. Sarah
Jane Lippencott Grace Greenwood lectnred
at Boston lately on the Heroic in Common
Life. An exchange says:


She showed that it often requires more
real bravery to acduit ones self well in ev-
eryday life than upon the field of battle that
the early emigrants to California and Kan
sas were true heroes; that it is more HEROIC
to run with the machine than to maneuvre
a corps of flying artillery. The man who
foregoes the joys of welded life to cheer and
sustain an invalid sister is hero, like
Charles Lamb the lecturer had known two
SUCH The woman who undergoes the same
privation, to cherish and support her aged
parents, is true heroine; she had known
many such.
Year: 1859

IGNORANCE THE TRUE DEvIL.-While some
of the eastern papers are discussing the
question Of Henry Ward Beeclers orthodoxy,
be has settled it himself by preaching SER
mon on the Devil. He evidently believes in
the existence of an evil spirit, but does not
declare whether it is personality or only
an abstract principle. He admits that the
existence of an evil being caffcd the Devil
or Satan. is much less believed than for
merlyi but for himself he can see no reason
for doubling. Probably no man doubts the
existence of relative evil; but the conviction
is spreading and deepening that it does not
emanate from spirit or principle which is
evil per Sc, so much as from mans ignorance,
which converts into instruments of i'll what
was intended solely for good.
Year: 1859

4 GOLDEN GurTER.-A curious religious
ceremony has lately taken place at Constan-
tinople, being the reception by the Sultan
of the golden glitter of the temple of Mecca,
wherein had been gathered the RAIN water
which falls on the roof, and which thus be-
comes holy water to the Mahommedans.-
This massive relic, which is replaced only
at great intervals, was received with much
pomp, and deposited in the treasury of the
old palace, where are several others, such
as the arms and standard of the Prophet,
and objects of a like nature.
Year: 1859

FOLLY OF PR1DE.-Take some quiet, sober
moment of life, and add together the two
ideas of pride and man. Behold him, crea-
tire Of !. span, stalking through infinite
space ID all the grandeur of littleness.-7
Perched on speck of the Universe, every
wind Of Heaven strikes into his blood the
coidhes5 of death his soul floats from his
Body like melody from the string; day and
night, like dust on the wheel, he is rolled
along the heavens, through a labyrinth of
worlds, and all the creations of God are
flaming above and beneath.


Is this creature to make for himself
crown of glory, to deny his own flesh, to
mock his fellow, sprung from that dust to
which both will return? Does the proud
man not err? Does he not suffer? Does he
not die? When he reasons, is he not often
Stopped by difficulties ? When he, acts, is
be never tempted by pleasure? When be
lives, is he free from pain When he dies,
can he escape the common grave? Pride is
not the heritage of man; humility should
dwell with frailty AMI atone for ignorance,
error and erfections.-Sydney Smith.
Year: 1859

Cen Scottis abused by the press of Wash
ington Territory for his course in the San
Juan island dispute, which is pronounced
base desertion of our right and an almost
treacherons concession to the importunate
demands Of the English. To prove the wis
dom of the venerable chieftain's course it is
only necessary now that he should be abused
by the British.
Year: 1859

The Democracy of Placer county meet in
convention at the several townships to-day,
to manifest their wishes in the choice of
United States Senator, with view to infu-
encing the action Of the Legislature. If this
novel action were initiated by people
throughout the State, much indecisioh and
wire-pulling, to say nothing of the public
money might be saved
Year: 1859

A WEAK CHAMPIoN-Joseph Champion
nnavailingly seeks in the New York courts
divorce from his wife, alleging that she beat
him with club of wood, on the head; took
his money from his pockets in clandestine
manner, and refused to return it; came to
Misplace of business and insulted him, shook
her fist in his face and carried off his private
papers. Poor Joseph
Year: 1859

BoNNER-An eastern exchange speaks Of
the great Ledger man, who hired Everett
and threatened TO print Greeleys youthful
anguish" as tfe remarkably romantic editor
of the nineteenth Century who pays for ev


cry line which he prints He is that won
derfnl man who does NOT say, when he pays
the tired worker, ''you must take a little less
Year: 1859

The rumors from Pixies Peak have at last
assumed form and reliability. The gold
mines there, both quartz and placer, are
undoubtedly extensive and valuable. Tie
pioneer canal has been commenced.
Year: 1859

IG- A man writing from Pixies Peak
says:


am going to leave these diggings for
q better one. 1t is too much trouble to
tug and pry up the great big chunks of
gold that weigh half ton or so, and are
SO thick you cannot get them out without
danger OF breaking your legs, and l am
going up to q ravine, where all have to
do is to go to the top of a high mountain
and roll it down into the river.


The country here is fine, but the winds
are awful My boys got SO light with
eating roots, that can only keep them
by me, or together, by piling Jumps OF
gold about as big as mallets on their shirt
tails as the little innocents sit down on the
grass to play. Every thingis grown here.
/ can raise ninety bushels of wheat to the
acre. Oranges, lemons and all such
colored fruits, grow wild here, while
meleons, pears, apples, peaches andapple
dumplings, are SO plenty that they find
no market.


H Sell off what stuff you have, and come
out here You can get rich in little
while, and 60 back in such a style that il
will astonish the natives.
Year: 1859

IN A QuANDARY.-A woman applied to Sac
ramento Justice Of the Peace to know bow to
procure her child, which its father, who was not
her husband, had stolen away. The matter is
mixed, very mixed.
Year: 1859

Among the mysteries of life il the difference
in the punishment which society awards to
male and female sinners. A notable illustra-
ton of this was exhibited in the finale of the
tragic scene at Washington. The man who
sacrificed a wretched woman at the shrine Of
sensuality, is followed to his grave by grand
procession, and his magnificent coffin decorated
with garlands. In the cold hand of the adul-
terer are placed flowers, emblematic of inno-
cence and purity. The female partner of his
crime is universally deserted and despised,
and, if she should die to- morrow, would proba-
bly, go to her grave unattended, save by her
immediate relatives, and unmourned by any
one. Whilst the weak and erring creature is
thus excluded from the pale of human charity,
the sympathies of an excellent and sensible
world are lavished on the husband, who, with
a full knowledge of the character of the adul


terer and with repeated warnings of his crimi-
nal designs, left his young and giddy wife to
his mercy. permitted him to be escort to the
theatre and other public places, and, as if
by design, threw temptation and opportunity
in her way. This man, who is accused by the
press of his own city of being himself a vet
eran rOHe, and of having himself been often
guilty of the very crime for which he killed
Philip Barton Key, is lionized and visited in
his prison, and overwhelmed with demonstra-
tions Of respect, from the President to the tide


waiter, whilst his wife is made the scape-g goat,
and upon her solitary head break the thunders
of that society which strews its flowers over the
grave Of Key, and bedews with sympathetic
tears the unclean and bloody hand of Sickles.


Ii may be that Mrs Sickles is not deserving
much pity or forbearance; but, at the worst,
she cannot be more debased than the two Grim
inals who have received such tokens of special
honor. Why should one of the guilty parties
be caressed and treated with respect, and the
other despised and eIccrated? Yet, even in
eases of acknowledged seductiOns Of female in
nOcence where the pure affections of some con-
fding and generous maiden are artfully con-
verted into instruments of her destruction, the
immeasurable villain who works her ruin is
taken by the hand by gallant men and even
by modest women, whilst the victim who loved
him with love that was bOundless in its depth
and self-sacriice. and whom he has cast off As
carelessly, and more contemptuOusly than he
would withered flower, is communicated
from society, avoided "a a moral lepeT, thrown
down n bOttomless abyss Of scOrn and shame,
where never again shall the sunshine of hope
visit her eyes, or a soothing voice of compassion
console her sorrows. This is one of the mystic
ries of life; one Of those amazing wrongs and
inequalities which can neither be justified nor
explained Dispatch.
Year: 1859

The present session Of the Missouri State
Legislature has been remarkable for the witty
speeches OF ITS members. On Monday evening
again, Mr.. White, Of the House, delivered him.
elf as follows, in reference to the project of
farming new county:


predicate my objections TO this new county
on different grounds, one of the main and most
important Of which is that. am confident. il
would not be entitled to = representative in the
next fifty years Mr.. Speaker, did you ever
visit the territory sought to be created into the
county of Carter Did you ever have an Op-
poriunity Of behOlding it's multifariOus beauties
and of examining its boundless resources
Well, SIR, 1 have / have been all over it, and
all around it, and l do say here openly. and
dehantly, that there is not level ground enough
within its entire limits to build pig-pen on.
(Laughter.) The soil is so poor il would not
grow penny royal" Sir, you might NOV tie
county with a razor and rake it with n fine
comb and you wouldn't get enough fodder to
keep sick grasshoPper through the winter.
(Rcnewed laughtcr.)


Sir. they plant corn with crow-bars and hold
their sheep by the hind legs while they nibbie
the grass in the cracks of the cliffs Increased
laughter) Sir. the ferae naturae of that sec
tion principally ticks and must in JUS
tice say. that variety of insects attain splendid
size in this new county of Carter. the smallest
that ever fell under my observation being at
least rs big as saddle-bag locks daughter }
As To internal improvements in that section,
this House can form some idea when / assure it
that the only thing resembling a road that L
ever saw there was when one of the barefooted
natives dragged wild boy seven miles through
the snow. daughter and cheers.) With such
a country as this Mr.. Speaker. they propose
t0 make new county, and the reason given
for so doing Is. that the convenience of the in
habitants will be promoted thereby, Sir. if it
were possible TO hold their courts under shade
of post-Oak and blackjack saplings to keen a
Clerk office and the records of the county in
the recesses OF hollow sycamore, and to make
= Jail out Of some Of the dark and Shiny caves
beneath the craggy hills of that rough country;
II II were possible to establish the machine
" for doing county business out of such mate
rails we might entertain the project as feasible
and plausible But, alas, even such advantages
a. these are denied by nature TO this country
I'ireat laughter. 1t is true there would be no
difficulty about the eaverns for JAIL but the
necessary post-oak and black jack saplings, to
supply with their foliage a canopy for the au-
gust tribunals Of justice could not be found
They are not in the county. And as for a syc-
amore tree suitable for a depository of the ar
chlves of the county, it would be sought in
vain The winds even refuse to blow syca-
more pods in that direction. [Cheers and
laughter And the idea of the people ever
being able To- build hOuSes in which to trans
act business, il deeply, darkly, prodigiously.
AMI PrePostorously absurd.
Year: 1859

We publish, says an exchange, under this
head most amusing story of Judge D, of
Illinois, in which that gentleman, having ac-
cepted the hospitality of large family, Occu-
pying a single room, was obliged to undress
and hop into bed = in the presence of young
lady.


The Judge himself is - a small man. physi-
cally speaking and the idea of going to bed
before the young lady-a modest sensible girl,
who from habit thought nothing of the circum-
stance-turned his head topsy -turvy. The idea
of pulling off his boots before her was death,
and as for dofing his other fxins, he said he
would sooner have taken off his legs with a saw.
At length the awful crisis approached. The
Judge had partially undressed, entrenched be-
hind chair. which offered no more protection
from the enemy" than the rounds of a lad
der. Then he had dead open space of ten
feet between the bed and chair-a sort Of bridge
Of Lodi passage, as he describes (which he
was forced to make, exposed to cruel, raking
fire, fore and aft The Judge proceeds


Body, limbs, and head, setting up bust
ness on one hundred and seven and a hall
pounds of flesh, blood, and bones. all told can
not individually or collectively set up any os-
tcntatiOus pretensions. L believe the young
lady must have been settling in her mind some
philosophical point on that head Perhaps her
sense of justice wished to assure itself Of n per
fectly fair distribution of the respective por-
tions. Perhaps she did not feel easy till she
knew that kind Providence had not not added
to general poverty individual wrong Certain
it was she seemed rather pleased with her spec
ulation for when arose from stopping pos
ture finally, wholly disincumbered of cloth,
noticed misehievous shadows playing about the
corners of her mouth. 1t was the moment
had determined to direct her eye to some as
tonishing circumstance out of the window. Bu
the young lady spoke at the critical moment


a. Mr.. D she observed, you have
mighty small chance of legs there"


Men seldom have any notion Of their owr
powers. / never made any pretension to skill
in ground and lofty tumbling;' but it is strictly
true that cleared at one bound the open space
planting myself in the center Of the bed and
was buried beneath tho blankets in twink
ling
Year: 1859

We are under obligations to our correspon- dent at Apache Pass, for another communica- ton in reference to the Ap&ches., It is dis grace to our Government to O.. the poor peo- pie of Sonora to be thus robbed ant murder ed by Indians who find refuge in o;l country

 We appeal to the press throughout the Onion to take proper notice of this matter 4dsa 3.a .r APACHE PASS, May %, 1859

 MR. EDIToR: Our Indians have returned from their late Sonora Expedition, bat they ar5 going back again in a few days When they left Fronteras at the time they took the little boys prisoners, they took the trail that led to the town of Oposura, and they came in sight of three Mexicans on the road travelling to Arispe, one was riding horse and the others jackasses; these men they killed and robbed Of everything They then went on, with the in tention of attacking the town of Oposura, but when they came near the village they heard some men chopping wood, but the grass was so high and thick they could not be seen. 1Ae Indians then tried to creep close to the men ill order to shoot them with arrows and not alarm the town; but it seems the Mexicans were watching them and firing a volley they shot Ca-chess favorite warrior, the ball pass ing clear through his body. Caches, thinking he had fallen into an ambush, picked up the wounded warrior and gave the signal to retreat, giving up the attack on the town. Francisco, chief of the Coyotero band then took his hun dred warriors and went on, while the others turned back, with the wounded warrior On the second nights travel he was in such pain they could carry him no further, and had to camp. The warrior said he could go no fur ther and he did not want the Mexicans to get him alive; therefore, if they would give him a knife he would kill himself Caches gave him knife and after half an hours talk, the wound ed man bade them all farewell and struck the knife to his heart He was carried to the top of a mountain and buried, with his bow, lance, and all his property The death of this warrior has spoiled the great feast which the Indians intended having on their return, for Ca-ches says he will not have any until his men kill 20 Mexicans to avenge the death of their warrior. They killed two more Mexieans 3n their way home and brought in lot of stock.

 4Cache5 asked me if 1 knew tAe American who had ranche on the San Pedro for ha had lots of fine stock told him I thought 1t was Mr. Brevoort, who formerly kept the eut- lers store at Fort Buchanai. Ii there is an American on the San Pedro, he had better look out for his stock, this moon. J.H. T. 70.

 We are not aware Of any American having D rancho on the San Pedro Mr. Brevoorts es- tablishmcnt is at ReventOne, seven miles below Tubac. ' 5a1 t
Year: 1859

the Americans, and the few that have made no treaty are anxious for one and appear almost as much under it's influence as those that are direct parties it Alldepends now how Amer jeans treat them: if they act kindly, and in all their trading operations act honestly towards them, taking no undue advantage on account of power, all will be well, and we will have no cause to regret the treaty that exists between us. .lI9U F.ft. ..t I.r t- w,
Year: 1859

Are You tlonriShinc business man? pad


die your own canon. Don't give up the oars
to any one less interested than Yourself if
you are rowing in the broad. smooth river of
prosperity. Are You the wife of said pro
sperous business man? paddle your canoe


and don't give up the paddle to Mrs. Grun-
dy, she will paddle you right in among the


islands of extravaganza and luxurious case.
Indeed, can't tell you all the dangerous
places she will take you, and at last when
your bark is swallowed up in the quick
sands Of useless expenditure, she will poin
the finger discern at you and say, poor
thing, she is so weak she cannot paddle her
own canoe Are you a hard working me-
chanic or farmer ? paddle your own canoe.


Pay no attention to visionary channels you


may hear Of that will lead you to a
visionary country, where roast pigs run
round with carviug-knite-sticking in their
sides, begging people to eat them Don't
believe it. There is not word of truth in
it. And you, the wife of said mechanic or
farmer, oh, my friend, much depends on
padding your own canoe. Row very sted-
lily through the straits of economy, and at
length you will double the cape poverty and
pass out into the broad sea of plenty. And
you, young ladies and gentlemen, paddle
your own canoe. Choose your own consort,
but be sure you choose a safe one. Ships
have their consorts, why can't canoes?-
Little boys and girls can paddle Their own
canoes, too. And at last. when We paddle
out Of times rullin: river into the broad
ocean Of eternity that we may all be enabled
to reach that port where sorrow and signing
is no more, is the sincere wish OF your fel.
low voyagcr.- ~ Y " eiiy. . .......
Year: 1859

INSECTS must lead truly jovial life. Think
what it must be to lodge in lily. Imagine
a palace of ivory or pearl, with columns of
silver and capitals of gold, all exhaling such
a perfume as never arose from human censer.
Fancy again, the fun of tucking yourself up
for the night in the folds of rose, rocked to
sleep by the gentle sighs ofa summers air,
and nothing to do when you awake but to
wash yourself in a dew-drop and fall to and
and eat your bed-clothes.
Year: 1859

are now off to the Virginia Springs being
unwilling to trust themselves again among
the hotels Of Arkansas interior


They declare, though, that the big land
lord who hHeccd them is cap tal fellow all
sorts Of a fellpw--and knows how to keep q
hotel into the bargain
Year: 1859

To CLEAR A ROOM OF MosourroEs.-A
writer in South Carolina paper says:-"I
have tried the following and find it works
like charm. Take of gum camphor, piece
about one-third the size of an egg, and evap.
crate it by placing it in tin vessel and
holding it over lamp or candle, taking care
that it does not ignite. The smoke will soon
till the room, and expell the mosquitoes
One night, | was terribly annoyed by them
when thought and of tried the above, after
whichI never saw nor heard them that night,
and the next morning there was not one to
be found in the room, though the window
had been left open all night"