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Year: 1860

'" N'D i"e N' No'


rier and Enquirer points oKt the
contrast between the panic that il
now rife among the business me1
and the panic Of 1857:


In 1857 we had completed a pc
riod Of commercial growth of an
inflated character. Railroads had
been built and banks started on
credit. Expenditures had been made
which in any other state of the pub
lie mind than an intensely specula-
tive one, would have been impossi-
bic. Credit had been strained to
its utmost tension. Projects the
most wild and unreasonable met
with monetary aid and encourage
ment. A page Of history was re-
enacted, and the inevitable result,
"a collapse, attended the violation
of all economical rules.


Now, however, all this is differ
ent. We have been eminently con-
seryative in matters of trade and
finance. The circulation is not un.
duly inflated; trade has been con-
Quoted on principles of conserva-
tive regard for the laws of demand
and supply. The country has been
blessed with a year of great fruit
fulness, and our exports bear a
more favorable comparison with our
imports than for long time previ-
GUS. Our banks are in a healthy
condition; up to the present sense
less panic, money was easy, and
would continue so if it were not for
the want of credit produced by po-
litical discussions. This is, there
fore, no cause for the present de-
preston. No other cause than the
fears of the community, which, as a
cause, may be sufficient to produce
a great deal of suffering, but in
which there is no sign of reason
II the worst that is threatened
should come to pass, there is moth
ing in the calamity Of the secession
Of one State, to warrant such
wanton depreciation of property.
We still have our crops and our
trade; nationality cannot influence
these, as history proves. Our bu.
siness is worth more to England
than it ever would have been had
we continued our colonial relations
with her; and if South Carolina
should become an independent re-
public to-morrow-a supposition in
itself ridiculous-we would not
lose her business, any more than
England lost the trade of America
after the revolution. Men who are
desirous Of getting rid of their
property at any price, will sell if
they can, in spite of the dictates of
sense and reason; but the day is
not very far remote, when they
will look upon their conduct with
regret, and wonder how they could
have been deluded into enriching
some greedy speculator, the har-
vest of which class is in panics
like the present.
Year: 1860

CENSUS or NEvADA.-An arrangement mas
been made for taking the census of the popu-
1ation Of Nevada and vicinity, and at the same
time to procure reliable statistics in regard to
'the amount Of freight annually brought from
below 10 this neighborhood. The statistics will
be embodied in the forthcoming report of Mr..
Elliott, on the railroad survey, with the view OF
showing the amount Of business that would be
done on the road, and to convince capitalists
that the profits would pay handsome per cent
age on the cost of its construction. The statis-
ties Of Nevada will afford a basis upon which to
make an approximate estimate of the business
OF the county. The census will be taken by
Mr.. Geo. /. Lammon, an attache Of the Demo-
erAt Office. who will commence to-day, and we
trust that business men will furnish such infor-
NATION as may be required.


Since the above was in type, we learn that
arrangements have been made for taking the
census and collecting statistics in regard to the
buaiaess Of Grass Valley. 1t will be taken by
Mr.. Will N. Rabbits, who will commence the
work Immediately.
Year: 1860

Masonic AND ODD FELLOWS BLLL-The Ma
sons and Odd Fellows Of Grass Valley give
ball this evening, at their hall in that place
the proceeds to be appropriated towards liqui-
dating tho cost incurred in the erection of the
building. The Hall which has been erected by
she two Orders Of Grass Valley is one of the
most elegant of the kind in The State. The
main hall is fifty-six feet in length, twenty-sx
In width, and the total cost of the structure is
about $4,000. Arrangements have been made
to accommodate large number of guests, and
We are assured that the entertainment will be
the most elegant ever given in the mountains.
Year: 1860

Religion is the cement of all virtue,
and virtue the moral cement of all So.
ciety. A society composed of none but
the irreligious could not exist. It is re-
lated that three German robbers, having
acquired by various robberies what
amounted to a very valuable booty,
agreed to divide the spoils and retire
from so dangerous vocation. When
the day which they had appointed for
the purpose arrived, one Of them was
despatched to a neighboring town to
purchase provisions for their last ca
rousal. The other two secretly agreed
to murder him on his return, that they
might come in for one-haf of the plum,
der, instead of third. They did So
But the murdered man was closer cal
culator than even his assassins, for he
had previously poisoned portion of the
provisions, that he might appropriate to-
himself the uhole of the spoil. This
precious trlumvirate were found dead
together-a signal instance that nothing
is so blind and suicidal as the se.asa'
; ness Of vice.
Year: 1860

1t is stated that the latest fashion an
nounced from Europe, is that of going
to church in very plain dress. Some of
the ladies Of the first circle go up to
worship in plain calico. 1t is thus
sought to encourage the attendance of
the poor, who have hitherto withheld
their presence for lack of Sunday clothes.
A sensible, not to say Christian idea,
and will be more powerfully conducive
to the promotion of religion among the
masses than any other outside movement
we can conceive of, not to speak of the
influence it will have npon the upper
classes themselves; in removing from
their immediate eye the surroundings of
vanity which abominate our fashionable
churches, and preparing them to receive
with meekness the ingrafted word which
is able to save their souls. Over the
portals of every Christian sanctuary it
should be written: ''The rich and the
poor must meet together; the Lord is
the maker of them all
Year: 1860

Great principles are immortal. Ema-
mating from the Divine mind, their ex-
istence is eternal. You may entomb
them under the superstition of ages; you
may burn them, but they will rise again.
Their supremacy must be recognized
Their empire must be eternal. Our fa-
theirs felt this. In the prison and at the
stake, it absorbed them. With the spirit
of Christian martyrdom they threw their
great principles into the public mind
Society was startled at their boldness and
novelty The intelligence and piety OF
the age for the season repudiated them
as destructive to all order and morality
Still they worked.
Year: 1860

The Republican organs, by common
consent, designate their candidate for the
Presidency as "Honest Old Abe. we
are by no means disposed to deny his
right to the designation. We know
him personally, and have observed his
public course, and however strongly we
may condemn some of the doctrines tc
which he is committed, we have at nc
time seen reasons to doubt his honesty
We believe that he has the good of his
country at heart.


This much we take pleasure in saying
in his behalf.
Year: 1860

ATTORNEY AND CUUNSELLOh AT LAW,
Determined devote hereafter the whole Of his time to his
pressou can always be found at his Office in the Brick
Row on Fayetteville Street-uness absent on the Circuit
March l, 1899. 24-iY.
Year: 1860

WASHINGTON, Dec. s, 1860.
NiR: lhe Queen, my august sovereign, has conf
manded that the earliest opportunity after the re
turn OF the Prince of Wales to England be taken
to convey to the President of the United States the
expression OF her Masstys thanks for the cordial
reception given TO his Royal Highness during his
IHie VISIT to this country, by the President him
sell, and by all classes Of the citizens.


one OF the main objects which her Majesty had
III view IN sanctionng the visit of his ROYAL High
ness vas TO prove to the President and citizens of
tne ohltad States the sincerity of those sentiments
OF esteem and regard which her Majesty and all
classes OF her subjects entertain for the kindred
race which occupies SO distinguished a nosition in
the community Of nations. Her Majesty has seen
with the greatest satisfaction that her feelings and
those of her people in this respect have been met
with the warmest sympathy in the great American
Union; and her Majesty trusts that the feelings Of
confidence and affection of which late events have
proved beyond all question the existence, will long
continue to prevail between the two countries to
their mutual advantage, and to the general inter
ests OF civilization and humanity.


L am commanded to state to the President that
the Queen would be gratifed by his making known
generally to the citizens of the United States her
grateful sense of the kindness with which thev re-
celved her son, who has returned to England deep
ly Impressed with all ne saw during his progress
through the States, but more especially so with
the friendly and cordial good will manifested to-
wards him on every occasion by all classes of the
community.


have the honor to be- with the highest consid-
Grafton, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,


Lyons.
Hon. LEWIS CAss.
Year: 1860

REV. W. IL. CHAMBEELAIN's LECTURE.-The fol-
lowing, which we cut from the Family Journal, ex-
presses in just terms the admiration universally
felt by those who heard the recent lecture of the
Rev. W. II. Chamberlain, at the Hall of the Mary
land Institute:


"Of course, whilst we condemn this trade of


ecturing with all its tricks and appliances we are
not so unjust as to fail to recognize merit where it
really exists, or to deny that occasionally even in
these degenerate days one is favored with dis
course full Of freshness, strength and originality
and which truly subserves a great purpose in the
economy OF public instruction. 1t was our good
fortune to hear discourse of this character at the
Maryland Institute, few evenings since, on the
subject OF "The Common and the Uncommon" and
we never before so fully realized the efficacy of this
kind of desultory instruction, or the power of a
lecturer by originality, newness and beauty of
thought to charm and improve the minds and
hearts of his hearers This lecture was in our
Judgment, everything such discourse should be;
1t abounded in new thoughts, and in quaint and
useful deductions drawn from old ones: it touched
by its unique grace and spirit the springs of idea
serving as stimulus to mental activity as well as
attording food for after-relection. And when
public lecture does not serve this purpose it not
only fails OF its end, but proves great public bore
and the sooner those having charge of our public
institutions, and to whom is entrusted the duty of
procuring lecturers, realize this fact, the be tier
Should they neglect to perceive it, they will find
that the whole system will not only prove a failure
but fall into entire disuse."
Year: 1860

STAND FROM UNDER.-The friends of Seward in
New York, powerful majority of the Abolition
party, are already maniesting symptoms of a
grand bolt. The Tribune, anti Seward organ,
thus snesrinsly announces the fact and threatens
It's authors:


we hear that some prominent members of the
Albany lobby, who have hitherto professed to be
Republicans, express their determination to bolt
the Chicago nominations This is good news.
If few members of the Legislature of the same
stripe would join them, it would be a great bless
ing to the party and a great help to the ticket"


Here is pretty muss to begin the campaign
with. The Republican party carries in its own bo-
som the seeds of dissolution. Its members return
from the grand pow-wow in the Wigwam at Chi
cago to commence a free fight among themselves
at home. The rotten hulk of Abolitionism ex-
hibis signs of going TO pieces before the first gun
of the campaign has been ired.-Dempcrohc
Citizen
Year: 1860

A DRUNKARD's HoME.-Of all the woe
and wretchedness which awaken our com
passion of al! the scenes Of misery which
call 50 loudly for sympathy; there is none
so harrous up the feelings as the drunk
ards home Look at him who began life
with the love OF friends, the admiration Of
society, The prospect OF extensive useful
ness, look at hlm In other years, when he
has learned to love tie draught, which,
We shudder while we say it, reduce him
to the level OF the brute. Where now is
this usefulness Where the admiration.
the love that once was his -? Love Love I,
None but the love of wife OF child can
cling 10 him in his degradaiion Look at
tie woman, who, when she repeated for
better or Tor worse would have shrunk
with terror, had the f:.intest shadow of the
worse fallen upon her young heart. Is
that she, who, on her bridal day, was
adorned with such neatness and taste :?
All. me what sad change And the
children, for whom he thanked God at
their birth the little ones Of whom he
felt SO proud, whom lie had dandled upon
his knee, and taught to lisp the endearing
name OF father: sec them trembling before
him. endeayoring TO escape his violence.
Look at TIE empty basket and full bottle /;
the natural wants of the body denied to
satisfy the cravings Of Il deprayed appe>
tite


Oh God have pity upon the drunkard's
home
Year: 1860

SELF RELIANCE. Don't rely upon your
friends. Don't rely upon the name of your
ancestors. Thousands have spent the
prime Of lie in vain hope OF help from
those whom they call friends; and thou
sands have starved because they had rich
fathers Rely upon the good name which
Is made by your own exertlons; and know
that, better than the best friend yon can
have. is unquestionable determination uni
ted with decision Of character.
Year: 1860

The WHEAT CRoP. The wheat crop in
this part of the country will be lighter on
the ground than usual, but the prospect
now is that the grain will be good. The
wheat harvest will commence the first OF
next week. The corn crop looks fine,
and promises TO he a fine crop.--PGof Ia
Year: 1860

RSy~ We anderstand portion OF the
salocn-keopers in this city have held a
meeting and resolved to take out license.
They levy tax on each member OF the
association TO pay the expenses of defend
ing the suits that will be brought against
them. We are informed that similar
club had been formed in Lafayette. Ter
re Haufe Journal.
Year: 1860

L LihiAJlpNS ot NlAEklED w OMEN.- lie
innocent firta.ions Of married women is
one Of the denominations of modern society.
Even desire for promiscuous admiration


is wrong in xife. The love Of one and
his approval should be all tha. she ought
to desire. Let her be ever so beautiful,
it is Disgusting and appalling sight 10
see her decorating that beauty for public
gaze; to see her seeking the attention Of
senseless fops around, and rejoicing in the
admiration of other eyes than those of her
husband. Her beauty should be for him
alone, and not for the gaze of the fools
that tluttor around her. There is always
among the sedae and wise sensation of
disgust when a married lady attempts to
ensnare or entrap young men by proiuse
display of her charms, or an unlicensed
outlay OF her smiles. Such charms and
such smiles are oathesome to the indilfer
ent belolder; aud the trail Of the serpent
is over them = E.rch0nge.
Year: 1860

The following comments. on the Constitution of
the Working Mems Society, were intended by the
writer to accompany the Constitution itself, but,
owing TO the crowded state of our columns last
week, we could not give them place in our last
issue. This week we willingly give them an ir-
sertion, adding only, that the principle, or rather
the undertaking, is a laudable one, and that at a
time when there was less general political excite
ment than there now is, tie originators would be
more likely to realize their expectatons.-ED
Year: 1860

A gentleman has handed US the following
insolent letter from George p Bisseu & Co.,
bankers, Hartford, Conn, which was addressed
to the cashire of bank in Newbern. We are
for the Union, because we believe that re-
turing sense of decency and patriotism will be
the means of hurling the niger thieves from
power at the end of four years and that the
country may be saved but we do urge our
people to get as little from the North as posi-.
ble and let such systems of direct trade be
established between Southern ports and Europe
as to make our Northern enemies feel that they
are in our power, not we in theirs.


But to the letter of the Black Republican
firm of Geo. P. Bissell & Co.


"Your favor of Sd is received returning a
little collection of S101 90, stating that owing
to the scarcity of Exchange you must decline
collections We are rather surprised at
this, for we never in our experience saw the
time when we could not get sonetking for col
lections, either Exchange or Coin, or good
Bank Notes and we are very sorry If the
election of Mr.. Lincoln is going to produce q
worse panic than that of 1857 Perhaps, how
ever, the scarcity of Exchange in your region
is owing to the fact that you have stopped
sending your staple (Turpentine) North, the
demand for home illumination over the election
being equal to the supply. But we should sup
pose that the large previous demsnd at the
North for that fluid to f1ll Wide Awake torches
with would have placed you in funds sufficient
to last for time, or at least to have made a
small remittance of S1o1 80 to the city where
that organization originated"
Year: 1860

SroP IT.-We publish the letter OF "Hora
tio," our Goldsboro' correspondent IN answer
to some structures of the Rough Notes because
he asks it and because we think he is entitled
to hearing in his own defence, having no pa
per of his own ; but here the matter must stop
as far as the Progress is concerned We have
nothing but kind feelings for either of the gen
tlemen, and regret that they should rot be able
to live as brethren, as they ought However
they are both good natured and will make it up,
we doubt not.


The public being surfeited with politics we
beg our correspondents to write on any other
subject so they do not touch that.
Year: 1860

Our town was never more quiet than at pres


ent The State of the Union" produces no
excitement here; all is as quiet as mid-sum-
mer's night. Business is fiat, dull, almost
insufferably So Not even burglary has
stirred the monotony since the election, and
really unless things brighten up we are at
loss to know what will become of US. True
the town watch-or citizens guardians ruff
fed the surface little, but then even that we
fear will be Withdrawn soon. Times are hard
and money is said to be scarce, and people
look 6lueish generally. Anything for change.
Year: 1860

1t will require the official vote in Virginia to
determine how that State has gone.


The returns In North Carolina come in slow
ly. AS fast as we get them we transfer them
10 our table It is generally conceded that
Breekinridge has carried this State.
Year: 1860

Close the door lightly,


Birdie the breath,
Our little earth angel


Is talking with death +;
Gently he woos her,


She wishes TO stav,
His arms are about her,


He bears her away
Music comes floating


Down from the dome
Angels are chanting


The sweet welcome home.
Come stricken weeper


Come to the bed;
Gaze on the sleeper


Our idol is dead
Smooth out the ringlets,
Close the blue eyes
No wonder such beauty


Was claimed in the skies;
Cross the hands gently


O'er the white breast,
So like a wild spirit


Strayed from the blest
Bear her out softly,


This idol of ours,
Let her grave slumbers
Be mid the sweet flowers.
Year: 1860

if possible, that corrupt tide of legislation
which is pouring wealth into the Golfers of
the monster corporations, whose existence
is reproach to America, tho world over.


THE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS.


With such nomination regularly made
no Democrat should for a moment hesi-
tate as to what his duty is Let US not be
twice deceived. Mr.. Scranton has for
feited all claim to Democratic support.
He is running now as the candidate of
party whose only hope of existence is in
perpetuating sectional strife and in main.
tanning eternal agitation. Let us redeem
the District, and prove our attachment to
the ancient faith Especially let the
young Democracy recognize in the nomi-
nation of honest Dave Randall q tribute
to those qualities, which, sooner or later,
bring their own reward. Let them sec
in it an illustration of the truth, that
industry, good character, high honor and
steady adherence to sound principles,
is better than wealth or wire pulling. Let
us all see to it, that the Twelfth Congress
sional District is not again mts-represont-
cd upon the floor of Congress.
Year: 1860

people of the United States, she will never
obtain the protection desired and the
sooner her citizens learn to realize this
truth the better for them. The FIRST great
step they should take towards the accom-
p.lishment of their object is the election of
HENRY D. FOSTER, whose whole political
life testifies his devotion to Pennsylvania
interests, and the defeat of Mr.. Curtin,
who would ride the Tariff to death to se-
cuae his personal elevation. ....
Year: 1860

At the special request of many persons,
who wish to have the following letter and
affidavit in connection, we have consented
to republish both. One reason, why we
do it, is because it was attempted to throw
a doubt upon the authors crodibility ;
and the letter with an affidavit to it will
doubtless settle the matter.
Year: 1860

the following to say about Lard: We
manufacturers are buying sparingly, and gen.
orally confine their purchases to the lower
grades, or small parcels of country. One of
our largest Candle Manufactures having been
destroyed by fire, in part, and another
wholly SO, are not in operation, and will
not be until next fall, and the others are not
manufacturing largely, so that there will
evidently be a large falling off in the guam
tity of lard used for candle making in this
city, the current commercial year. The use
of coal oil for illuminating purposes eontin-
ues, no doubt, to some extent, to check any
disposition which may exist to speculate in
lard, and there seems to be no doubt that
oil is being found in great abundance in
Western Pennsylvania, and there can be
but little doubt that the use of it for illu-
miuating purposes will continue to increase
very rapidly, as it makes the best and safest
artificial light, except coal gas, of any article
ever introduced. In connection with the
consumption of lard it is useless to deny
that this is most important consideration,
and tits not surprising that it is exerting
an influence upon the minds of those in
tereSted. e3 5- s -s-+i- -
Year: 1860

A LIrTLB AT Tins Pour water into
a vessel with narrow neck and but little
enters; pour gradually and in small quan-
titles, and the vessel IS filed" Such was
the simile employed by Quintilian to show
the folly of teaching children too much at a
time.
Year: 1860

LEAD WANTED IN WAsHoE.--Rich mines oil
lead are reported to have been found
in Western Utah. They will be needed there
for smelling the silver ore. G. Kustel, San
Francisco chemist, says on this subject, in
the Alta:


The melting of ore at the mines, or in the
neighborhood, may be fifty per cent. cheaper
than in San Francisco, but the possibility
of melting there depends on the possibility
of having sufficient lead ore, with about so
per cent. of lead. Rich silver ore from
i,70o to 1900 ounces per tonl, containing
no lead, or very little of it, like Washoe
ore, with an abundance of antimony, re-
quires three times as much lead ore, or, if
possible, five tons of lead ore TO one ton of
silver ore. IF there be not sufficient lead in
the mixture, much of the precious metal will
be found in the Stag, and great deal will
disappear with the ahtimony through the
chimney, and not to be found at ALL In Eu-
rope they use thirty tons of lead ore to the
one ton of rich silver ore. If there is no
lead ore m Washoe or neighborhood, no
smelling can be carried on, and all attempts
will result in loss of money.