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Year: 1860

How many there are among our pio-
nccr settlers who will declare that it
( is not the new house that pleascs them
most that affords them the greater
enjoyment but that of the two-the
old log house, with its messy roof and
chinked walls. standing now empty
amid the clustering cherry trees, and
the later dwelling standing out bold
ly and very grand in paint and preten-
sions-hc loves the old nest best
Something human attaches to the log
cabin that does not belong to the
new castle. We like to fancy when
willing hands rolled up its walls
when the bit of dimity, that once adorn-
ed the light and was the delight Of the
house, curtaincd the one little window
so neatly; the little window that.
frightened by the evening fire, shonc
like 4 glad face


How We love to sit in the evening
and hear the new settlers tell what
they will do in the golden by-and.by
talking chcerily of the better days,
while the father smooths an ayc-hclvc
with which he means to do battle in
the timber, and the mother busily plies
her needle. The trundle- bcd--the big
beds brood of onc-has vcnturcd part
way ont from its daily hiding, and
little breathing bundle upon it is as
near heaven as children ever get be-
fore they die.


The boys are busy making fig
urc four in the corner the clock
with its tall case ticks off that "dav
Of small things :" the cricket claps
its glossy hands in the warm crcvice
of the hearth for joy an old fashion
tin lanthorn, made to pepper the dark
ness with candlc-light, and pewter
plattcrs and white plates carecncd up.
on shelf, brighten up now and then
like SD many eyes in astonishmcnt 3;
and the song of the tea-kettlc fills |
the silence like a speech" Here envy
has not ranked, possession has not
cloycd, and pride has not embittercd.
Ah it is the nuts, and cabins, and
gray old houses that have been lived
in for many years, and wherein chill
drcn were born and rise up to call
US blessed" that have such stories to
tell as prove, more conclusivcly than
the learned talk of naturalists, that
Eve was the mother of us all.
Year: 1860

The Force Bill" Of 1928 having expired
by limitation the question arises, what car
Mr. Buchanan do, if South Carolina secedes
The Washington correspondent Of the Phia
delphia press (Rep.) writes:


at is now contendcd By some of the ablest ju
rists in this city that Mr.. Buchanan cannot en-
force the laws of the United States in South
Carolina unless there is an act Of Congress
passed similar to that OF the force bill; and those
who know the complexion of the present Con-
gress need not be informed Of the trouble and
lmpossibity Of passing any bill contering any
such authority upon the Executive. Ii the
President were to convene an extra session,
and to ask for authority, it would not be given
to HIM, and if given by the majority, there
would be another secession from the halls of the
National Legislature, precisely as there was at
Charleston and at Baltimore"


The Washington Star" argues that the law
does no; authorize the government at Wash.
ngton to take any official cognizance Of any,
thing whatever the Southern States may do in
the way Of preparation to he ready for scccs'
sion from the Union in body on the fourth OF
nchI fTcSlhcIIl l'uSIbdIhI Sn'' Ohis
lawfully act in case Of the infraction Of some
law by some parties or State in the South. lie
cannot lawfully move finger to prevent the
calling OF secession conventions in the South
ern States; nor, again, to prevent the election
Of an overwhelming majority of seccssonists
to those conventions Nor can he in any way
interfere with the people Of the cotton States
in their subsequen, act Gratifying at the polls
whatever those conventions may determine on
against the continuance of the confederacy.-
Thus, it is surely competent for the cotton
States to be fully prepared to set up govern
mcnt of their own, wholly independent OF
and disconnected with the government Of the
United States, on the fourth of March next,
without having so violated a federal law in the
meanwhile. as that President Buchanan can
lawfully take any official cognzance of their
acts whatever
Year: 1860

What is the difference between a candle in
the Mammoth Cave and dance in public
house?f


s. GnY't up.r
Vel you see, as how, the one IL q taper in a
cavern, and tue other is q caperin q tavern"
Year: 1860

STARTLING RuMoR From CARSON Cry
JUDcE TERRY REPORTED TO BE SHOT I'VE
learn from Constable Edwards of this place
that a man vine had just come from Utah
told Mr.. Nichols of Columbia Hill, on Thurs
day, that Judge Terry, while on his way
back to California to stand trial for the kill
ing Of Broderick, stopped at Carsoa City,
and there became engaged in a game of cards
with George Lewis, formerly of Ne~aaa--
The game ended in quarrel which was ter-
minated by Lewis shooting Terry SO thaa be
died. This is the whole of the rumcr as ii
reached us. We do not give it any credence,
though it may possibly be based on fact,
and would not publish it if the telegraph were
In order to Carson City, for if it were, such
startling occurrence would have been
known here long before traveller could pos
sibly have ridden across the mountains with
tidings of it.
Year: 1860

The Nevada Journ al of yesterday laments
the apathy of IFS townspeople with reference
to the Importance of opening the Henness
Pass route across the mountains, and seems
unmindfnl of the fact that citizens of an
other portion of the county are now actually
building 4 wagon road by that Splendid
route, in direct line from Marysville. We
syhparhise with the Jotanal, and regret that
the company organized in its town to build
a r6aa TO TIE Summit from Eureka saw
proper to take no notice of proposition
n,Ade them By the Truckee Turnpike Com :
pany for cooperation In building so much
of the Heaness Pass highway as both COM
panies must travel after leaving Jackson's
ranch. That proposition was made in good
faith, was introductory to ore for an imme-
diate opening of the Pass to pack trains, and
if accepted %oAld have insured such OPEN
ing some time ago. The route will be open
without such corporation, but not so soon,
and by good wagon and stage road instead
of by a mule trail.
Year: 1860

DIED IN THE SNow.-We are panied to learn
that Mr.. Naples, of Naples Ranch, near the
Henness Pass, perished in the fierce snow
storm of the first week of April. He was
returning from Sierra Valley, with a small
sled load of -four, and had nearly reached
hsme when he became bewildered by the
storm, was overcome by cold and sat down
and died. Two men were living in his house
less than an eighth of a mile from where he
perished, aad did not know his fate until
last week, when his body was found by an
other person who had been herding cattle
for him. The scene of this tragic event is a
beautiful level valley, lying just beyond the
summit of the Sierra Nevada, and near
Truckee or Gold Lake. Mr. Naples had re-
sided there for several years, and had wife
who abode with him during the summer
season. He was known to everybody who
went to Utah last year by the Henness Pass
route.
Year: 1860

The Washoe excitement has at last spread
to the Eastern States, and is affecting even
the wary financial spectators Of New York
E-must give q fresh propulsion in the dfree-
tion of California to the annual tide Of emi-
grafton that flows from east to west. The
one chance for fortune In ten thousand
win blind everybody to the chances Of fail
ure, there as here. If there was one chance
IN a hundred OF q mans jumping into vesa-
vius and crawling out alive, we believe a
hundred Yankees could be found to take the
odds if enough gold was offered in reward
to make IL an object.
Year: 1860

The obscure grave of Roger Williams was
lately opened at Providence, Rhode Island,
and mass of black dust supposed to be his
remains taken thence for more honorable
interment. There is no monument to his
memory, except this ineffaceable record of
history-that he was the first man in a big
oted age brave enough to preach and prac-
tice perfect liberation Of all religious beliefs,
and to urge the right of free speech. He
was greater than all the Puritans.
Year: 1860

"TiE BOOKSELLER. This is the naff1e of hew
monthly to he pub ished by II. II. Bancroft Co., of San
Francisco. who thus announce its plan and object:


We propose publishing a small frst-class Literary
Periodical under the above which will have for
it's object the diffusion of literary intelligence drawing
out and cultvating literary tastes and advancing the
cause OF education The Bookseller will be the official
organ of the Department Of Instruction the State
of California. and the official medium of advertising of
the great body of Eastern Publishers: 1t will be of
interest alike to professional and literary gentlemen
and to all interested in education The books are now
open for subscriptions; TERMS. 81 so a year.
Year: 1860

DEtfbEb.-fhe suit which was cutnfaghced
last Saturday before the District Court at
Nevada to determine the ownership of some
mining ground lying on this hill between the
knickerbocker and Eureka claims, was de-
cided this week in favor of the Kniekerbocker
company.
Year: 1860

HENNEss Pass TURNPIKE.-The Truckee
Turnpike Company is prosecuting its great
enterprise as rapidly as the weather will per.
NIT. Two more contracts have been let on
the road in Sierra county, one over an entire
new grade around and over Cold Spring
Hill, and one for some three hundred rods
of grading this side of Bope's ranch. The
work already completed by Smith and Sim
mons is pronounced by all who have seen it
to be of a superior character. The new con-
tracts will be done by the goth inst, by
which time others will be under way further
along the route. The Directors intend to
have the entire road completed to Truckee
Meadows before the middle of July.
Year: 1860

ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGIsLAruRE.-The
eleventh California Legislature is a thing OF
the past. 1t adjourned finally on Monday
last, after a session of 10l days, going out
with burst Of laughter and boisterous nom
sease, like school children glad to escape
coafnemeat. On accoaat of the election Of
Gov. Latham to the o. S. Senatorship, the
succession of Lieut.. Gov. Dowrey to the
chief magisrracy in his place, the passage
of the unrighseous balkhead bill and its de-
served veto, the passage of tyrannical liz


bel law, and of bills to allow nameroas
claims rejected at previous sessions, the
body just deceased will prove a memorable
one. 1t would have been remembered in a
better manner if the many measures of real
utility to the State which were introduced
had not been defeated by indifference and
procrastination. No previous Legislature
ever had before it so many excellent schemes
for the public good. The most important Of
these, which we had thought was certain OF
success, was the bill to provide for the sale
of the school land sections and coasolida-
tioa Of the proceeds into a general fund yet
this failed to pass, aatil just at the close OF
the session, too late to become law by GU
bernatorial approval. AS compensation,
however, the same cause defeated the libel
bill. But some highly valuable laws are ap-
proved, that for instaace which changes the
mode of collecting the public revenue, re-
quiring assessing and collecting to be doae
by township districts, and thus iasxriug
more thoroughness and accuracy in the per


formance of those important trusts. Then
the Stale is again to have control of the pen
itentiary after years of misrule under sordid
contractors, and she is to have that more eff
fciept institution for the prevention of crime,
a Reform School. Provision has also been
made for a geological survey. These are al!
measures of first rate consequence to the
moral and material veal of the eatire State.
Some essential amendments to the Constitu-
ton died in the committee to which they
were referred but it was perhaps best they
should, aud that the proposition to call a
constitutional convention should not be
again submitted to the people until after the
din and smoke of the approaching presiden-
tial campaign shall have subsidized. The to-
tai number of bills passed was 38l, of which
36S have become laws by the approval Of
the Governor. An immense majority ofthese
are purely local and special. Some extend
support to noble charities, such as asylums
for orphans, for the deaf, dumb and blind,
and for the most unfortunate of women.-
Money could not be put to better uses. Taken
all in all the Eleventh Legislature has not
been the best nor the worst ever known in
the State, though if it had perfected all the
really excellent schemes acted upon it might
have been called the most useful. General
condemnation is much easier than discrim-
mating praise, and therefore it will be freely
bestowed upon our retired law makers but
the people ought to remember that if they
have not been so well served as they would
like to be, it is partly their own fault.
Year: 1860

Bayard Taylor is much impressed with the dauntless
energy exhibited by Californians in the pursuit of
god and thinks if there was an aurferous quartz vein
penetrating the Sierra Nevada they would certainly
tunnel through it. He probably borrowed the idea
from our distinguished townsman Pettfhser.
Year: 1860

Acitser OF Cherekee aged rnbre'thsA seventy years
bearing the name of Kline and formerly virginiar
died this week and Was Inferred by Masonic brethren
The old man was attended In his last sickness by his
daughter
Year: 1860

The citizens of Omega according to correspondepce
in the Nevada Democrat, have laid out road from their
town to Jacksons ranch for the purpose of nersect-
ing the route of the Truckee Turnpike.
Year: 1860

1.-The above communication comes from respectable
and intelligent gentleman who would not knowingly
be party to trickery. If he has not been imposed
upon by others, may expect to receive particular
Of genuine quicksilver discovery in Nevada county
Ed PREss1
Year: 1860

Royal troops are marching to them. No move
ments whatever have taken place in the prov
inces." The first two portions of this message
we can well believe. Whether il be true that
no movement has taken place in the provinces
is more doubtful.


From all sides we learn that the effect of the
expedition in Southern Italy has been most re-
markable Calabria is in ferment, and the Pa
trie says that an insurreclion in Calabria and
another in the Abruzzi are spoken of as having
commenced. Into the probabilities of such u
movement we cannot enter. IL however, these
Provinces do attempt to shake off the royal
yoke, the assistance to the Sicians will be great
indeed. But the most important question is
the behavior of the Neapolitan troops. The
cause of the King depends on their fidelity;
yet they are Italians, and we know what Italian
soldiers did in Florence and Modena 1t may
well be that the army is not unwilling to frater-
nize with the most eminent Italian soldier of
the age, one who has recently borne a great
part in delivering his country from foreign
yoke, and who is even now in the service of the
most patriotic of Italian Kings. We publish
GaribaldTs address to the Neapolitan army.
That army is discontented with its success
against the insurgents-how far its sympathies
are with them musebe left for time to show
That the war will be conducted with the utmost
severity by the government, the bombardment
of Marsala sufficiently proves. 1t may be that
such proceedings will disgust the troops even OF
a King of Naples. Should such be the case
the success of the expedition will be secured
Should, however, the troops remain firm, Carl
baldi must make up his mind to all the chances
of long and desperate struggle, complicated
perhaps, eventually by foreign Intervention.
Year: 1860

The Japanese ambassadors and their suite
have appeared to enjoy themselves exceedingly
on their voyage to this country and in Califor-
mia. On board the Powhatan and Roanoke
they amused themselves most of the time by
sitting down in parties, of six or eight, eating
ing'a good time generally. They spend much
Of their time in reading, writing, drawing and
Year: 1860

A RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIc.-A direct
railroad communication between the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts, will soon become the grand
desideratum of the country. Each year, as
population accumulates on either coast, the ne
cessity of rapid communication becomes more
apparent; not so much for the transmission of
merchandise, as to facilitate personal and. epis-
tolary intercourse. The lack of these is already
detrimental to the interests of commerce, and
should the United States become involved in
war with one of the powerful maritime nations
of Europe, cutting off intercourse by way of
the lsthmus of Panama, and exposing the Paci-
ic coast to invasion, the country would feel that
it lacked an essential means of elf-preserva-
ton, speaking either in commercial or militia
ry sense. This is the exigency which we need
to contemplate most seriously. The gold fields
of California would invite an early struggle for
their possession, and the ambitious monarchs
of Europe, in case of open hostility, would not
fail to evince their partiality for the vast,
BILE, well-watered and heavily -timbered slopes
of the Pacific coast.


But for the preservation and protection of
these we have made no adequate provision.-
The dear-bought experience of the Utah cam
paign, in which a comparatively small number
of men were engaged shows how formidable
are the difficulties to be overcome in transport
ing the materials of war such an immense dis
tance over the Western Plains, and how enor-
nous is the tax upon the government treasury
in conducting military operations at such dis
tance, in the absence of inland navigation or
other facilities for prompt communication. On
the other hand, we have but to revert to the ex-
traordinary celerity with which Napoleon III.
effected the transfer of his army from France to
Piedmont, and the great strategetical advan-
tages he thereby obtained, in order to see how
essential to complete system of national de-
fence is the maintenance of works designed to
expedite military movements.-N. y Journal
of Commerce.
Year: 1860

The MORMON PROBLEM. - Judge Cradle
baugh, who is on his way home from Utah,
by way of California, has a plan for getting
the upper hand of the Mormons, which he will
lay before the Administration. He will urge
the extension Of the pre-emption laws over the
Territory, so as to secure large Gentle
emigration at once, sufficient in a year to out.
vote the Mormons. A Gentle Legislature
would take from Young the power of marriage
and divorce, and secure the supremacy Of law.
The Gentle population in the Territory is
already large, and five or six thousand more
voters would be sufficient to carry Judge
Cradlebaugh's plan into effect. 1t is believed
that the Mormons will retire into Mexico, OF
to some island in the Pacific Ocean, as soon
as their supremacy in Utah is broken. They
are now engaged in movement of Importance,
the object of which they keep to themselves.
By orders from Young, all the Mormon settle.
ments are organizing military companies,
which are supplied with arms and ammuni,
tions from Salt Lake City. 1t is not believed
that they intend to renew the war with the
United States, but the more general supposi-
ton is that they foresee tha: they must
eventually leave Utah, and are preparing to
take possession of some part Of Northern
Mexico. The annual message of Governor
Cumming to the Mormon Legislature treats
the Mormon outrages in very mild and
gingerly manner, to the great disgust Of the
GentileS
Year: 1860

A CURIOUS Recently at tho
Liverpool Assizes, one of tho barristers
engaged in case which involved som
peculiar interest in female evidence, made
the following observations -


The evidence OF woman is, in some respects,
superior to that of man. The power OF
Judging of minute details is better, and
where there are more than two facts, and
something is wanting, they supply the de-
6ciency. Wherever there is room for their
imagination, which is more powerful and
active than that Of men, they Immediately
bridge the thing over and supply the gap.
Year: 1860

~ An Alabama Senator in recent
debate on bill to prevent the adulteration
of LIQUORS. said Mr.. President = This is
the most important measure that has been
before this body at this session. Spirituous
liquors, sir, is beverage in which we oil
iudulge more or less. tits well known, sir,
that there are persons so lost to every sense
Of humanity, Is to put strychnine and
other poisonous substances in this popular
beverage. Sir, in my opinion, the villain
who perpetrates SO great an outrage ought
to suffer death.
Year: 1860

A meeting of young men from different
parts of the State was held at Desmoines,
Jan. 18th, at which the preliminary steps
were taken for separate organization of the
Young Republicans of Iowa, with auxiliary
associations IN every county. A committee
of five was appointed to issue an address to
the young men. 1t is proposed to hold a
State Convention of young men at the Capital,
some time during the Summer, to perfect a
thorough organization for the Presidential
campaign. 5siy ,t.aasa sa-i.aa al g.. nI


1t is an encouraging omen to see those who
are just entering upon the duties of citizenship
taking hold in this manner. There are at
least 5000 young men in this State who will
vote for the first time for President next Fall,
and it is highly important that they should be
enlisted on the right side. In no other way
can this be better done than by associations
of this kind, by which Republican principles
may be discussed and disseminated. We
hope the undertaking will receive the cordial
approval and cooperation of all Republicans
'AA sAAS SSssS' .r
Year: 1860

ES We learn, from the Dep1ty U. S
marshall Tor the taking Of the Census for
Crawford County. that the ponrIa,;on oe
the county mas doubled since 1850, as has
also the city OF Van Barren. The property
real and personal in the city of Van Bnre,
Is about one and quarter millions
Year: 1860

from which mankind snffer over a large part of
the globe, is the consequence of diseased action
in the systern, induced by the poisonous miasrn Of
vegetable decay. This exhalafion is evolved by
the action of solar heat wet sod, and rises with
the watery vapor from ii. While the sun Is below
the horizon this vapor hngers near the earths sur
face, and the virus is taken with II through the
lungs into the blood There Ii acts a. an irritating
poison the internal siscera and excretng organs
OF the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
secrete not only this virus, but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
IN the circulation, and produce violent constitu-
tional disorder. The spleen. the kidneys. and the
stomach sympathize with the liver, and become
disurdered also. Finally, the instinct OF our or
ganisn, as If in an attempt to expel the noxious
infusion, concentrates the whole blood Of the body
In the internal exeretores to frce them to east ii
out The blood leaves the surface. aud rushes to
the central organs with congestive violence. This
is the Chill. But In this effort IL fails. Then the
FEVER follows in which the blood leaves the CEN
trai orraus and rushas 70 The surface, as If in
another effort to expel the irritating poison through
that other great exeretory -- the skin. In this
also il fails, and the system abandons the attempt
exhausted, and waits for the recovery of strength
10 repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
the fits parnxysrns of FEVER AND AGuE.
Such constitutional disorder viii of course under
mine the health ii ii is not removed


We have labored TO find, and have found, sn
Year: 1860

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Year: 1860

BY the Committee al e Fair of the American Institute in
New York. at the National Fair held at Chicago and at
all the principal State Fairs held the past season. proving
beyond doubt that the