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Year: 1860

her sister in Canada, and as there were parts we
could not make out had put II in my pocket,
intending to get our tirhe-keeper to read it for
me. 1t had q scrap Of uncovered paper at the
bottom and BY another good providence, hap
pened to have bit Of red lead pencil In my
pocket Iwrote on the paper, Get Us down
Colly's gone mad !" this shut in my tobacco
box, and was fortunate enough to drop just at
the feet Of . couple Of men who were standing
by the engine-house door. n


Directly all was hustle to rescue US They
got the kite up again, and I watched il mounting
slowly-slowly; and when the slack twine fell
between Colly and myself took It in my hand
and could have kissed Il. Poor Colly, with bis
teeth cLattering. still iancied was spirit and
did all could to favor that impression until they
got another cradle up TO Us. Then having got
him in, scrambled in myself and clutching him
fast, shouted for them follower; and SO we were
got down, he wrestling and fighting with me al
the way. 4


He was ia q madhouse for some months, and
then went toscayengering, for be never could ace
any hight again; and have never had the same
clear head since that adventure.
Year: 1860

The nomination of Breckenridge and Lane is evi-
IDENTIFY finding response in the hearts of the people
beyond even the ardent expressions of approval
whcrewith it is hailed by the national democratic
press throughout the country Nothing can be said
against either by any American who regards the
character and good fame of our public men part
of the treasure Of the nation, be lightly dis
paraged or tarnished by partisan folly reckless
The journalists who deal in nothing but
plaudits for their friends and execratons for their
foes.
Year: 1860

There is no society in the world more
profitable. because more refining, and pro-
motive of yirtue than that of refined aud
sensible women. The beauty Of woman
is made to win, her gentle voice to invite,
desire of her favor TO persuade mems stern
er souls from strife TO peace, We honor
the chiyalrouS Difference paid 10 woman.
1t evinces not only respect for virture, and
desire for pure affection, but that our wo-
men are worthy of such respect. But wo'
wen were not made merely TO win men to
their society, TO be companions, they
should be fitted TO be friends; to role
hearts that should secure the approbaion
Of minds Aud man dishouorS when he
seeks their society for idle pasliime, and
not for the improvement Of his mind and
elevation of his heart.
Year: 1860

We invite the attention of some of our
brethren of the press, who concede to the. New
York Herald great facility for information
and remarkable astuteness, to the following
remarks of that journal. 1t is humiliating
that few of our Southern confreres can be
instructed as to their rights and duties by
Northern editors:


The unmistakable indication of what the
Massachusetts, school" mean to do, which is
given in their nomination of the radical aboli-
zionist Andrew for Governor, win 60 with
new portent through every county, town and
hamlet in the South. Ten years Of contem-
plation there Of the necessity of resistance has
produced remarkable change Of the views in
which secession and disunion are held in the
minds of all men, and what was esteemed as
political heresy in 1850 is orthodox and ac-
cepted in 1869. The election of Lincoln on
the abolition platform must carry the South
into armed resistance, in selfdefence of its
rights, its existing social organization, which
none but itself has the right to characterize as
good or bad, and the interests Of its citizens
When such state of civil war comes, it is not
alone Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Ken
lucky that will be border States. Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey too will stand in that
category, and thu most important portion of
the State Of New York, and they, too, may be
called upon to answer the important ques-
tions that apply to border States.


What will be their reply when sectional
President undertakes to march abolition forces
through them to invade Virginia, for the re-
preston of resistance to policy that must
destroy her? 1t is ON their borders that the
ties of brotherhood will be sundered and the
anger of war rage. Governor Letcher's recent
assertion that though he is no disunionist, no
sectional President should march federal
troops across Virginia while he was its Gov
ernor, to attack Southern sister State in
arms, is fair expression of the sentiments of
moderate Southern men.
Year: 1860

-


We know that there are objections to pub
fishing articles like those we quote below; but
at the same time it is most important that the
people Of the slave States should see clearly
the perils that environ them-perils which
will be immeasurabiy increased by the cleo
ton of Black Republican President To
show the temper of our Northern brethren,
we give the following extract from an article
by prominent and influential Black Repub-
lican


Fafchmnn, aghat of the NTqlt!-" All the
States must be free" whether the people there
of desire it or not, is the standing text Of the
Democrat at Chicago, edited by the Republi-
can Mayor of that city, and leading spokes-
man for Lincoln in Illinois. In late article
or the Texas insurrection, Wentworth thus
discourses:


The only thing that prevents general in
surrectiOn at this moment among the slaves in
the border States, is the belief that in such an
event the whole power of the Federal Govern
ment would be brought to bear against them,
and crush them to pieces.


Once let this fear be remoyed-once let it
be known by the slaves that in the contest for
freedom they would only have to fight their
| masters, and nothing could prevent an instant
revolution.


Much would depend upon the manner in
which the whites at the South treated this in
surrection, when it did occur If they should
see that resistance was vain, and that their
only hope of safety to themselves would be to
| yield to the negroes their liberty, much of
carnage which would otherwise follow would
be avoided. But if, on the other hand, they
| should attempt, as no doubt they would, to
| put down the rebellion by fire and sword,
there would ensue such tragedy as the world
| has not witnessed for centuries.
Fancy four millions of blacks, with tropical
| blood, intermixed with the more nervous
blood of their masters, boiling in their veins,
with the memories Of lifetime of oppression,
and the hope of lifetime of freedom, urging
them on; maddened by the desire for the graft
fication of long -smothered revenge, and with
| the full consciousness that they must triumph
or meet fate worse than death-fancy these
men, animated by this spirit, engaged in life
or death struggle with the whites Of the South,
and you have picture Of what must occur in
every Southern State, if they resolve to de-
stroy the old safeguard which they now have,
the Union of the States.


1t is undeniable that at the moment of dis
solution there are men in the North who would
find secret entrance to the Southern States
and there aid the slaves in the work of organ.
izing and preparing for insurrection.
Remember, reader, that the foregoing are
the words of leader of that party which Mr.
Douglas, at Norfolk, pledged himself to aic
Fagainst the Sout,! They are the words of {
prominent leader Of that party, resistance tt
which Mr. Douglas said at Baltimore ought tt


be punished by hanging, AS VIRGINIA HUNG


john Brown ~
Year: 1860

Iniispensableand unlocked for engagements
prevented Us from meeting our friends at
Hazlehurst on Saturday last, according to an
appointment which they had courteously
made. But We alone were the loser. We
learn from . friend who was in attendance
that the Democratic cause was eloquently and
triumphantly sustained by Gen. Wharton,
who had the good fortune to meet in debate
Gen. Lake, one OF the ablest and most re-
nowned champions of the Opposition party
Our informant assured US that the triumph ol
Gen. Wharton was complete and overwhelm-
Year: 1860

Sir, what humiliating spectacle does the
Republic now present to the gaze of man
kind Ispeak not Of the millions Of be-
ines sunk from the lofty level Of a common
humanity down TO the abject submission of
unreasoning beasts of burden, nor of the
laws that shrivel the mind and debase the
soul of the bondman but speak Of the
deeds Of lawlessness and inhumanity against
free American citizens-deeds which shock
Year: 1860

We did not happen to see the arrival eith-
err of Senator Gwin or Ex-Governor Weller,
in this city, but we are informed that the
reception with which they met was very
different, one from the other Gwin, we are
told, Immediately met friends heartily glad
to see him, while Weller perambulated
around some time with scarcely q recogni-
tion from any source. If this be so, what
does it indicate? A year ago it was very,
very different. Then Weller was the be-
loved, the chosen one, the chief among ten
thousand and altogether lovely.


But, whether this reported cold reception
of Weller be correct or not, it is quite Ger
tain that his star paling before that of DR..
Gwin in this county. Ever since the Breck-
inridge County Convention refused to endorse
him and elected the resolution laudatory Of
him as a candidate for the United States Sen
ate, his light has been burning DINNER and
DINNER. One of his best friends of old,
Col Hatch, said in public speech that if
Weller had uttered the remarks reported of
him on certain occasion during the present
campaign, he (Hatch) was free to say he
could no longer support him. If Weller has
ever denied the correctness of the report of
those remarks, We have not yet seen the de-
nial The excuse of Col Hatch for dropping
his allegiance to Weller was rather far
fetched, but then it is better to have some
excuse than none at all. 1t is quite evident
to our mind that there are many more of the
Breckinridgers in this comfy Of the same
mind with Col. Hatch. They have dropped
their former idol, and We believe it yet re-
mains for them to deny that they are opposed
to the election Of Gwin.


1t may safely be asserted that the Bl eek
inridge leaders in this fight in Yuba county
have no hostile feelings to Gwin. Formerly
he was asked not to speak in this county, as
it would have bad effect upon his party
and damage the cause. Now, how different
They shout, almost, at the very mention Of
his name. Formerly, they had no defense
to make for him against the charges every
where hurled at his official and personal
character. Now, they point, with ludicrous
eomplacency, to the sophistical speeches
with which he has undertaken to vindicate
himself and say, "behold, how he has cleared
up his record, and he is good enough man
for us, Lime Point and everything else to the
contrary Notwithstanding
Year: 1860

Letters received by the last steamer, bring
news of the death, at his birth place in VIM
chester, Virginia, of the Honorable Robert
B. Sherrard, of Suttor county.


1t would be a wrong to the living and the
dead TO pass this subject with simple notice
of death. Judge Sherrard was man of
mark. More than ten years ago, while yet a
youth, never robust, and, at the moment, suf
fering under the dispriting influence of that
fell consumption which has at last been his
conqueror he undertook the journey over the
plains to California. In that journey he had
but one companion They accomplished it
successfully, but the effects of the labor, hard.
ship and exposure proved nearly fatal to the
frail youth. For while under tree and
afterwards in a rude miners cabin he lin
gered between life and death for months
Kindly attended, he revived to life of action
and benevolence. The labors of mining were
unsuited to his weak frame, and he abandon
ed them as soon as he could Returning TO
the practice of the law, to which he had been
educated, he settled in Sutter county. The
citizens of that county manifested their re-
gard for him by electing him to the State
Legislature, and also to the Judgeship of the
County Court, which Office he held till his
death.


During the last winter, and while the Leg
islature of the State was still in session, it
would seem that the premonition of death
came strongly on him. lie asked and OBJ
tanned four months leave of absence from
the State. The Legislature which granted
the leave, little thought, but Robert B. Sher.
rard well knew that the leave he took of his
friends and the State he had helped to make
was final. He went home to die. Nursed
once more by her who had given him birth
and his first nurture, attended by him who
remembered two other manly sons stricken
down in the pride of their manhood and a
daughter taken to Heaven as too good for
earth with fond sisters around hoping
against hope, in the bosom of hi4 family he
died.


Cherished be such memories
Year: 1860

1t will be recollected, probably, by every
man in the audience which listened to DR..
Gwin, on Saturday evening, that he distinct
ly stated that he was free to acknowledge
that all the Representatives from California,
ever since its organization as a State, wheth-
in the Senate or the Lower House. had al
wavs done their utmost in behalf of the Pa
cifc Railroad, and could not truthfully be
charged with dereliction of duty on that
point. 1t was rather singular, after such a
sweeping statement as this that he should
charge Gen. McDougall with having killed
the Railroad measure in 1854, by voting to
take up the Kansas Negraska Bill. After
having acquitted ercry Representative from
California of anything but the most friendly
feeling towards the Railroad, it was too late
for him, after that, to intimate that Gen.
McDougall had voted in opposition to the
interests of that great measure.


Now the fact of the case is, that there was
never a man in the Congress of the United
States more thoroughly devoted to the great
measure of the Pacific Railroad than Gen.
McDougall. He had set his heart upon the
passage of the measure, at the time of his first
aspirations to the seat which he subsequent
ly filed, and during his entire term of Office
he labored more than any other man within
the limits of the Union, to carry into practi-
cal effect this great enterprise of the age.
His votes on the Railroad question were al
ways dictated by sincere desire to forward
its interests, and this he can show by the
records, and the explanations of his votes at
the various periods upon which the question
came up 1t was his first, and most ardent
wish and hope, that he might succeed in
passing a Pacific Railroad Bill 1t has
often been stated that he met with no true
and hearty support from DR. Gwin, in the
other House, but on the contrary opposition
either open or covert, and we presume the
statement can be proved, if DR.. Gwin insst
upon the testimony


But, what we set ont to show was thC
glaring inconsistency of charging upon Me
Dougall motive hostile to the Pacific Rail
road, after having distinctly declared that
in his (uwin's) opinion no man who had evel
represented California in the National Leg
islature could be truthfully charged will
any derelietion of duty on this subject.
Year: 1860




We understood DIR. Gwin, the other night,
to say that only certain leaders of the late
Administration party in this State, had "gone
over" as he termed it, to the Douglas and
johnson standard, but that the masses would
not follow. AS to what the masses will do,
we opine that DR.. Gwin can prophecy no
better with regard to that than any body
else.


But since only certain leaders of the Ad-
ministration party are supporting Douglas
and Johnson, let us see who they are; and
we can best tell who they are by finding
who they are not We discover that thereis
not solitary office-holder in the whole
State, (holding any office that is worth any
thing so far as we know or SO far as any
body else knows that We have conversed
with, that does not support the Breckenridge
and Lane ticket Who are the principal
speakers on that side? Why, Federal Office
holders, or men dependent in some way or
other upon the good will of the present Ad-
ministration. Does this fact signify nothing
Are the people blind to the circumstance =?
Not "a bit Of it. They see and estimate these
men at their true value.


Remarkable coincidence, that all the office
holders should agree eractly, while men of q
different class are divided in their opinions !!
Is such and such a man for Breckenridge and
Lane, asks an inquirer. "Of course" is the
Il l. a.. y
ment."


Now, why is it that these office holders are
SO uniformly for Breckenridge and Lane ?
Because, the very moment that they say they
are for Douglas, off come their heads, and $50
much for Buckingham" Many Of them are
placed in a peculiar position. They have
families to support and no other dependence
but their Office. Many are used to good liv
| ing and don't like to do without it. Many
are actuated by feelings of gratitude to him
to whom they are indebted for their Office,
and, in numerous cases, it is natural, consid-
ering the frnilty of poor human nature, that
they should stand up faithfully to the man
whom they regard as their benefactor and
their rightful dictator. But, at the same
time, it is perfectly natural, on the other
hand, for tho people at large to regard this
devotion in its true light, and to pay but lit
tie heed to class of men who, if they arc
sincere in their espousal Of the cause to which
they are devoted, are at least open to the
very strong suspicion of not being by any
means very exceedingly disinterested in The
positions which they take. The coincidence
of all the office holders being one acay almost
without an exception, cannot but strike the
public mind, and men wiH think.
Year: 1860

NEWSPAPER MAN RoBBED-Mr. Foley, trav-
cling agent for the Catholic Monitor, at San
Francisco, was met on the road between
Goodyears Bar and Forest City, few days
ago, by two Mexicans, and robbed of $50.
the amount of cash which he happend to have
on hand. He had often on his route had a
much larger amount of money, but the rob
bers happened to meet him shortly after he
had transmitted the bulk of his money to the
paper. We hope those robbers will meet
with their reward if not in this world at
least in the next. To rob anybody is bad
enough, but to rob a benefactor of the hu-
man race, (for such is the character Of news
paper mani is to do deed that calls for the
most especial and seleetest vengeance of
Heaven
Year: 1860

DrING.-A dispatch was received in this
city, yesterday, that Father Slattery, who
has been for some time i'll at Sacramento, was
dying. Our sorrow at such an announce
ment is deep The death of such q man is
universal loss. Few men were his equal in
point of talent, and none surpassed him in
purity of character. We shall mourn him
long and truly
Year: 1860

Nor WORD OF TRum IN Ir.-Isaac J. Ste
vens the Government defaulter, reported
that the Douglas electors in several of the
Southern States had withdrawn. The Pony
Express has since come in, and not word
does it say in regard to any such event of
course there was not word of truth in it.
Year: 1860

GwIN Stock RIsING.--Mark the eulogistic
terms in which all the Breckenridge organs
speak of Gwin's speeches. Mark how care
full the candidates on the Breckenridge ticket
are not to deny their lord and master. Ask
one of these latter if he will pledge himself
against Gwin! You will see that he dare
not do it. Thus can you demonstrate where
they stand.
Year: 1860

Vanity Fair, the New York comic pa
per suggests that A Vocabulary of Vitu
peration ought to be got up for the ben
eft Of members Of Congress, and says:
1t is difficult to measure the remarkable
effects. which might result from judicious
use Of The True Vocabulary" The ad
vantages of ALTERATION would appear in
their fullest force. Let us endeavor to sci
forth the manner of an excited and hot
headed member. full of wrath and =" The
True Vocabulary" How he would thun.
der out ready made rage


"Mr. Speaker, say to the gentleman
that he is an Addelepate. l say that he is
an Abjsct and Aberrant Ass I scorn him
for an Arcadian and Acephalous Animal
l stand here, sir, and proclaim him tu the
world an Acbiptrine Assassin-an Abdonl-
inus and Ambuginousc Axe-grinder-an
Adder and an Anthropophaginian.


"Sir, l impugn no man. But | call
upon the gentleman to deny my charges if
he can, land of course he can do nothing
Of tho sort, unless he is the owner of copy
Of The True Vocabulary. ."-Editorisl
note J and meet them like a man. Do We
not know him Blabber--a Blasted, Blat.
tering. clustering. Brawling Blower >
But We do not fear his Barren Bravado.
Why, sir, if he isn't Baboon. what is he
l say. Barnum's Baboo. His Beastly
and Brutal Barbarities have been heard by
all as they came in words from his Blistered
and Besotted Brain. A Buther in his
heart, and Blackguard in his person, l
denounce him as the Base Bell wether of
his party.


"Mr Speaker, l seek to injure no per-
sons feelings. The gentlemen know the
truth Of this. He knows, too, that l view
him as Caliginous Calf, Cringing Cur,
and likewise Cantankerous Cannibal. !
know him to be Caitiff all through.
say to the gentleman that he Is moreover a
Cuss and Coward"
Year: 1860

the villagers seized hold Of him. and while
in their hands he quick died, just as though
be had been drowned About an hour
after. the sailors above, hearing no more OF
their comrade, cut the cable and sailed
away. In memory of this extraordinary
event, the people OF the village made the
hinges Of the church doors out of the iron
of the anchor. and there they are still to
be seen.-at another time, merchant of
Bristol set sail with his cargo for Ireland.
Some time after this, while his family were
at supper. knife suddenly fell in through
the window on the table. When the hus.
band returned, he saw the knife, declared
it to be his own, and said that on such
day, at such an hour, while sailing in an
unknown part Of the sea, he dropped the
knife overheard, and the day and hour
were known to be exactly the time when
it fell through the window. These acci-
dents, Gervase thinks, are a clear proof of
there being sea above hanging over us. Z"
Year: 1860

Room in the middle passage


For the Slaver's bark again,
Fling out the stars and stripes to guard.
Her way across the main;
Vail on, oh restless ocean.


No longer rolling free,
The Satrap's chain is flung again
Across the sObbing sea!
Room on the broad Coast river


For the Slaver's barracoOn,
Short sighted men of other days


Ye triumphed all to soon;
Build up the gloomy walls again
And call the Spaniards back,
The blOOdhOuds Of the war ride far
Upon the victims track!
Room in our own green valleys;
For the coming tramp of men,
Fresh from the desert fastnesses
The stream flows in again;
They have lived to cross the billow
Where so many fed the shark,
They will be strong to labor long
Where the swamp lies damp and dark
Room on our wide spread borders,
For tn oppressed of every land
Whate'er their creed or calling,
Here shall they freemen stand;
But see that i'm your brothers veins
No dusky blood hath play,
Worse than the stain on the brow of Cain
Who meeteth him may slay NJ.