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Year: 1859

Portable quarters suffice. For the son of a
rich man, though bound over two hours be-
fore to keep the peace, who returns to his
victim and shoots him dead at his feet
clear acquittal is all that Chicago forms de-
mand. The junketing in which few of
the jury men in this case participated at the
house of a grateful father, testifies that faith
ers joy, and the publics surprise.


An old man, to whom further increase of
family was unwelcome, takes new born
child in one hand and his spade in the
other, goes to the garden and deliberately
cuts the child in two, that it might be no
charge upon his purse. He is proved, though
we know not how, to be insane and is suf-
fered to go at large. notorious rowdy
offers counterfeit money in saloon, and in
the dispute which followed the attempt of
the bar-keeper to keep possession of the
note, draws knife and stabs him to the
bealt. Known to be a scoundrel of the
most desperate stamp, who had before tasted
blood. he was sent to prison, we know not
how long.


Jumhertz, whose villainy is of deeper
dye than that of the others, because born of
lust, avarice, and cunning, may put his mis-
tress to death by poison, then, after the
method of DIR. Webster, which this misera-
Die man discovered anew, cut up her life
less body, carry off to a place OF safe and
secret burial the intestines which would,
under the chemists hand, have told the
story of his guilt, pack the remains in a
cask, ship them to a distant city, and then
return, with a conscience untouched and
forehead OF more than brass, to his accus-
toned haunts, to make love again--who in
the course of two trials and long impris
Onment has displayed the hardihood and in
sensibility of a beast-this man, to whom a
host of facts, accumulated by patient and
searching investigation, point with unerring
certainty as a monster of guilt is, after two
days of wranging in the jury-room, and
the adverse opinion of seven men who held
his fate in their hands, acquitted, and the
law and public justice are cheated of their
dues.-PreSs and Tribune, 18Th.
Year: 1859

quiet of home, we promise that this Journal
shall be equal to any. We do not mean to
fill it with the trash of tie cheap Eastern
weel1lies, but our readers shall have all the
intructive and entertaining literary matter
that they may require for their mental
health and enjoyment.


But the speciality of our paper will be the
Neacs. In order to secure the latest and most
reliable intelligence, no pains or necessary
expense viii be spared. We are determined
that when this paper is looked to for the lat
est foreign and domestic news, there shall be
no disappointment As means to this end,
correspondence will be encouraged.


The EodnsgiHe Journal is one of the old
institutions" Of "The Pocket" 1t has
grown with the growth and strengthened
with the strength of this portion of our
commonwealth, and can lay just claims to
the consideration and support OF those adja-
cent portions of Illinois and Kentucky with
which the interests of Evansville are iden-
titled We, therefore, do not hesitate to So
licit patronage from those quarters.


Our ambition is to produce paper en-
tirely worthy the growth and Importance of
the country tributary to this fourishing
city. We confidently expect to receive the
good wishes Of the people for whom we labor
in the shape of subscriptions, advertisements
and job work for this Office This material
aid we do not ask as a gratuity, but expect
to give full value for all we receive.


We have decided on the cash pref payment
system, as the only correct one, and have
reduced the prices Of our subscription as low
as they can be made with safety. Our
terms are invariably cash in adcance. In
return, we promise the full worth of the
subscription price.
Year: 1859

TWVE.N" K.E.4BS .4GO, THE WHOLE
N Clothing trade of the West comparatively
of small amount, aud confined almost eXclu-
sively to a retail business in the larger towns and
cities alone. Now this line OF Goods has become
an almost Indispensable part of the stock of every
general Dry Goods store from the crowded city to
the cross-road stand. Like all changes in trade,
however, this one has not been produced except for
the best of reasons. Among these are the great
saving of material by cutting large quantity of
garments together-the superior work and speed of
sewing machines in manufacturing-the great saw
ing of time in waiting for your 'turn" at the Tai
lor's-the uncertainty of then getting salts
factory ''t," and above all the saving of at least
One-hG(f the cost of the garment in the price For
o number of years this has only been part of our
general Dry Goods business, but have made
arrangements to devote whole house exclu-
Furnishing Goods will be necessary and desirable
in that trade. Belle wing that the true interest of
the trade will be to sustain in this enterprise,
would espectfully announce that we now have
on hand of the largest and most desirable
stocks of WELL MADE CLOTHING that was
ever offered to the trade of the West.


We respectfully solicit call from all our old
friends and the trade generally. We charge moth
ing for shoscing goods, and mot much if you buy
them. We are prepared to sell to all prompt-time
buyers as low. any house in the trade. liberal
discount also made ON all cash sales.


VIM. L. FRENCH & CO.,


sep3 No. 20 Main street.
j, IVINSON late Master Mechanic L. & c.
Year: 1859

It's an immense luxury to feed a girl one 5 love with. It seems like keeping house Michelet, in his new book on Love- says,

 A very profound communion is this of the table, especially where there are but two in the family. Man nourishes woman and daily brings the food to his lone love. She prepares and cooks it. Part of herself goes with it., and with each morsel is mingled the perfume of her beloved hand. As face to face they sit, who shall say that their natures are not more blended by this calm and gentle communion ? Of this law of the stomach which We consider low and base, nature has made one of the gen tlest bonds, a high poesy of the heart, wherein union becomes unity"
Year: 1859

We copy the following notice of Worcester Die tionary from the North American Review and there is no better authority:

 "We have examined sufficient portion of it to feel that 1t will meet the public expectation The elymological department gives not only the nuthor's mature opinion in each ease, but on con- trovertcd points the alternative opinions The definitions are full, precise and discriminating as the capacity of our language will suffer them to be, and, wherever practicable, arc copiously and per tincutly illustrated by quotations from standard authors Tho number of technical words dednod is so large and various that the work will serve all the ordinary purposes of dictionary for each sepa raj science and art-expert' having been, we are informed, largely employed in this part of the en- terprise. Wood cuts are introduced wherever the verbal definition would be inadequate. The various valuable matter contained in the Introduction and Appendix, will supply the place of several separate manuals. In fine, the work must take its unchal lenSod placed far in advance of any previous at tempt in this direction, and as necessarily the standard dictionary of the English language, un- til its acccssons and changes at some very distant day shall demand that the same labor be renewed"
Year: 1859

THE Petaluma Daslaways have established
reading room, the object Of which, according to
their circular is to furnish an inviting, moral,
and instructive place of resort not only for its
own members bat for the community at large,
young or old, citizen or stranger, and thus, if
possible, remove the temptation or necessity, as
the case may be, oil such as are deprived of the
healthy and salutary influence of the home circle
from seeking the bar-room or the tippling-shop
in quest Of companonship and recreation. The
movement is one well worthy of commendaton
and in aid of ii newspaper men throughout the
State are asked to furnish, gratis, copies of their
respective journals Certainly no California ed
itor will refuse to aid the good work by 80 lri-
fling donation.
Year: 1859

ExcusABLE OFFENcE.It was a laughable re-
Joinder the lrishman made when the bull tossed
him over the fence. Pat recovered from the fall.
aad saw the bull on the opposite side Of the fence
paving and tearing up the ground "a peculiar
custom of the animaD whereupon Pat, smiling
said


IF it was not for your bowling and scraping,
and your humble apologies, you brute, faix [
should think that you had thrown me over this
fence Oh purpose ~ gr.-
Year: 1859

LADY DRuNKARps. The Indies of Boston are
setting q bad example for their husbands aud
sons by their tipplmg propensties, judging from
the statements of letter writer Of that city. In
the higher circles hundreds of well known ladies
have become lamentably addicted to the use OF
intoxicating liqnors-most Of them being wives
of rich men, and surrounded with everything cx-
cept woman's good example, to make home
happy Recently the wife of q rich and we'll
known citizen was sent to the lunatic asylum in
hope that when reason returned she would over
come the appetite which had 50 degraded her.
Year: 1859

Nothing is easier In thc first place, dress
with care. Wear flannel next the skin.
both in order that the pcrspiration may be
absorbed and put in fair way of tranquil
evaporation, and likewise in order to be
presentable into society, which you will not
be if your shirt looks if it had lust been
''wrung out" Wear light clothing, linen
or alpaca. Or some one Of the many gossamer
stuffs which are made for summer wear
Be careful about the back of the neck
According to our present fashions. a man
must wear about twenty folds of various
kinds of stuffs on the back of his neck, in
the shape of coat, vest, and shirt collars.
and cravats. Curtail these as far as posi-
bic. In all tropical countries, men wear
the neck bare or protected by single lin
en- covering The back of the neck. in
military sense. is the key to the body: bet
Year: 1859

! ter leave waist-coat. cravat. or tie, and shir


collar at home than overload it with cloth
! ing


Next, avoid mental irritation and muscu


lar exertion. if you can. Anger is as heat


ing as a blast furnace; every angry word /:


accompanied by gush of perspiratiOn.-
Nor is it necessary for the transaction ol


business that your movements should be


violent or hurried The men who do the


most work move leisurly. Haste is not
speed; nor shall you perform your work
the faster for spasmodic action of the arms
and legs. Do what you have to do steadily
and perscveringly, but move no muscles but
those whose molten is necessary.


1t is a question whether the consumption
of liquids is beneficial or injurious On the
one hand. it is certain that the introduction
of liquids into the system promotes perspi-
ration: but on the other, it seems equally
certain that those who pcrsrire the most
suffer least from the heat.


A few points may be laid down. The
man who, on a hot day. yields to the thirst
which heat creates, and drinks before noon,
will be troubled with thirst till evening;
while he who abstains from liquids till two
o'clock, will not need them at all. And it
is, in any case, fatal to drink spirituous liq-
uors 1t is known that habitual consumer
of ardent spirits viii be able to sit cOmfor
tably. in winter. in room where 4 temper
ate man would almost freeze. For the
same reason the habitual ''drinker" of az
dent spirits will suffer acutely from heat
when the abstcmious man will not feel any
inconvenience. In hot weather clarct and
water is the most intoxicating beverage
which a man should venture to tate. He
might as well spend an hour Or two in a
steamers fire room as taste brandy or whis-
Ky.


After all, the best preventive against suf-
fcring from excessive heat IS constant occu
patton of the mind. People have an idea
that heat is enervating. Yet almost all the
great exploits of which mankind boast have
been performed under scorching sun; all
the great battles have been fought in the
dog days; at no season has the human in
tellect bcen so vigorous as when the heat
was ferecst. There is nothing enervating
in heat to those who do not desire to be en-
ervated. And the best of all ways to defy
the suns power is TO devote ones mind with
renewed energy to some particular pursuit.
Ardent labor and unrcmitting attention to
one particular task, divert the mind from
the minor concern of the temperature. The
industrious man wonders, Of an evening
when he hears that the weather has been
oppressive lie has not suffered, because
the subject never occurred to him. It's the
idle and the thoughtlcss who are heard ca
ling the Oldest inhabitants to witness that
there never was such weather before
Year: 1859

AheJca ACl1Flt4 ana Development


Ahead.


In auotbcr column &c give IN interesting
article from The Washington Union upon the
growth Of wealth within the next tcn years.
Of the general correctncs Of tie conclusions
arrived ut by the writer, we do not enter
tain doubt. AL the signs in the financial
world are indicative o! tue beginning Of an
era Of development and progress Of which
the past furnishes no parallel. The deprcs-
sion from which the country is but just re-
covering is in some degree prophetic Of what
is to ccmc. Without any marked immediate
cause, reaction would be ineyitablc from the
very nature Of things But with the exist
cucc Of abundant causes to stimulate reac-
ton, the effect must bo correspondingly
greater. What then are the conditions un.
der which We are entering upon the era Of
reaction, and to what extent are they ca1culat.
Cd to infect tue rrsults


!. The country-indeed VIC may say The
whole world-has been for the last eighteen
mouths engaged in the liq1datioa Of its in
dcbtedness. Millions Of dollars Of private
debts havc been paid, while corporate and
State Indebtedness has been materially
reduced. Perhaps 10 q greater extent than
at my time within the Inst ten year., The
world.is free from old business scores. and
large masses Of its population ars prepared
to start off upon new race Of enterprise
and activity entirely out Of debt.


II. With the exception Of the frontier statea
Year: 1859

WATER CoMrANY-The Marysville Water
Company is now prepared to furnish water
along on main streets. We call especial at.
tention to their advertisement in another
column. They have now a mile and half
of pipe laid, and will have the full number of
permanent tanks in by the 18th of July
They are ready, however, at this time to
furnish all the demands that may be made
for water within the limits named in their
advertisement
Year: 1859

NEARLY FIRE-The alarm of fire ycster-
day morning was occasoned by the awning
around the Express office taking fire from a
stove, which was being used for making roll
ers. Our neighbor must be careful, and not
let an accident deprive the Democracy (?) of
its valuable services during the approaching
campaign.
Year: 1859

FoURTH OF july CELEBRATION 7
O'Hanlon announces, in another column, that
he has made arrangements for the purpose of
affording the people of Marysville and vi
cinity an opportunity of celebrating the
Fourth of July next, in a most agreeable and
delightful manner after the old rural and
barbecue style. A fine arbor will be erected
on the bank of the Feather river on the out
side of town, near the residence of Judge
Bliss, where a fine dinner will be given. the
Declaration of Independence read, and an
Grafton suitable to the occasion delivered by
some distinguished orator A Committee Of
some of our best citizens will have general
supervisor over the affair.
Year: 1859

The YuBA RIVER MINING CoMpAXY.-The
work of this company is progressing very
rapidly The river will be turned, probably
as early as the lst of July. The enterprise
is beginning to excite considerable interest
in the community, and several of our citizens
have during the past week become stock
holders Our good people, who have money,
are expected to be leetie behind always,
but they will have hand in the matter as
soon as the bed of the river is being washed
and paying IS or $40 per day to the man.
Stock will be worth more then, of course
but it will have plenty of friends. The race
is now within 600 feet of completion, and
will be done in ten days. So says friend
who paid visit to the place yesterday.
Year: 1859

1t will udd more to your convenience and
comfort through life than you can imagine.
Ii saves time. saves temper, saves patience
and saves money. For while, it may be
little troublesome, but you will SOON find
it is easier TO do right than wrong; that it is
easier to act by rule than without one.


Be systematic in everything; letit extend
to the minutest trif1es, it is not beneath YOU.
Whitfield could not 60 to sleep at night, if,
after retiring, he remembered that his gloves
and riding whip were not IN their usual place,
where he could lay his hands right on them
in the dark, on any emergency; and such are
the men who leave their mark for good on
the worlds history. Il was by his system
attic habits from youth to age that Noah
Webster was able to leave to the world his
great dictionary. Method was the presiding
spirit OF his life,' writes his biographer. II


Systematic men are the only reliable men;
they are the men who comply with their
engagements. They are minute men,
The man who has nothing to do is the man
that does nothing. The man of system is
soon known to do all he engages to do; to
do it well and to do it at the time promised,
consequently he has bis hands full When
want mechanical Job done, l go 10 the
man whom | always fnd busy, and do noa
fail to find him to be the man to do that job
promptly and to the hour.


And more, teach your children to be sys-
matte. Begin with your daughters at five
years of age; give them drawer or two for
their clothing; make it point to 60 to that
drawer any hour of the day and night; and
if each article is not properly arranged give
quiet and rational admonition; if arranged
well, give affectionate praise and encour-
agement. Remember that children, as well
as grown people, will do more to retain a
name than to make one.


As soon as practicabies let your child
have a room which shall be Its own, and
treat that room as you did the drawer; thus
you will plant and cultivate habit of sys-
tematic action which will bless tha child
when young, increase the blessing when the
child becomes a parent, and extend its
Pleasurable influences to the close of life.
4 single unsystematic person in house,
her whole establishment SO arranged, from
cellar to attic, that she knows, on any emer-
gency, where to go for a required article, is
a treasure to any man, (my experience read
er!5 while one who never knows where any
thing is, and when it is by accident found is
almost sure TO fed it crunpled, soiled, or out
of order, such wife as the latter is unworthy
of The name, and is a living reproach to the
mother who bore her.--[H Halls Journal.
Year: 1859

The mother could not speak. Just tn el


Albert entered the room.


! 'Papa-papa-one kiss for little Nellie
Love little Nellie always. Love George nj


Mary, and love mama .-..-.
When Abby Leeman next looked upor


her child the spirit had fed. The little
sufferer was free from all earthly pain
One moment the mother gazed upon hei
knees and wept as though her heart would


break. Her husband knelt by her side; he
placed his arms around her neck, and with
one deep burst of passionate grief, she pill
lowed her head upon his bosom.


On the next morning. Lydia came and
took care of the body OF little Nellie She
dressed it sweetly, combed its hair back.
and when she placed it in the coffin she
placed new and fragrant flowers all around
it. She had done all this when Abby en-
tered.


The sisters were all alone by the dead
child. The bereaved mother gazed upou
the lovely face of the little sleeper, and then
she turned to her sister. Lydia opened her
arms, and the next moment the estranged
ones were locked in each others embrace.
They could only weep and sob, and cling
more closely heart to heart.


We will not tell the thoughts which dwelt
N Abby Leeman's mind upon this occasion;
nor will we tell of the long hours she
spent on her knees in prayer while all others
Of the household slept.


Love George and Mary! Love little
Nellie always! Love mama!' Oh! how
these words rang in that mothers SOUL
And how other words came back upon her,
too--harsh, unkind words which had been
spoken to the cherub that had gone. But
she found balm in the solemn resolution
she took to herself never to be unkind
again.


And the resolution was sacredly kept.


Albert and Abby mourned for the departed
one, but they felt. too, that the gentle spirit
OF The heaven born child was dwelling still
with them, making paradise of their home,
leading them on in joy and peace.


Ere long the old man came to live with
his eldest child awhile, and from that time
he divided his months equally between them,
and he could no more feel that one home
was more pleasant than the other. Both
were alike joyous, peaceful and happy.


When he now looked upon Abby's hap
py smiling face, he knew that she had no
other face for domestic use. The beaming
genial countenance that welcomed the Wis
itor to her dwelling, was never laid aside.
It's sunshine was for her husband and chill
dren, and the cloudy brow was put away
forever.
Year: 1859

Dear Str.-Tbe embarrussments which seem
to have overtaken our State Treasury have rom
dered it prudent, in the opinion of the Com


far as in their power, for any contingency by
which the prompt payment of the January in
terest may be put in jeopardy, and to this end
Year: 1859

The sacred writer did not design to "set the
poor against the rich" when he penned that
eternal truth-FsThe love of money is the root
Of an evil" It petrifes the heart, dries up
the milk of human kindness and makes man
a stranger to his follow man. All the charities
and courtesies of life-all the delicate sympa-
thies of humanity, are locked up in the icy en-
brace of this master passion. Principle, honor,
honesty, courage, purity, all are swallowed up
and lost in the love of money. Make men as
temperate and chaste as angels-throw around
them all the conventional restraints of social
life, and mammon shall still people He'll with
victims of avarice. You will see men breaking
the ties of home and kindred, forsaking long
cherished moral and religious principles-and
turning their backs upon all which mankind
ordinarily hold near and dear, for money
You'll see them Drawing the perils of the land
and of the sea, the cold of the frigid zone, and
the heat of the torrid, for money-You'll see
them battering health, happiness, nay, life it
self, for gold. You'll see them deliberately
choosing damnation, and refusing Heaven, for
filthy lucre.


This is the demoniac spirit with which the
Democracy have to contend. The age of
chivalry, of high souled patriotism, of gener-
Gus emotion, of noble, godlike philanthropy,
has passed away. A sordid, filthy, miserly
spirit, which sticks at no means good or bad,
fair or foul, to uphold the base tyranny of mon
ey-has reared its gorgen head against the
spirit of liberty


God in his infinite mercy grant, that Ameri-
can freedom may be saved in this time of trial,
and that the hopes of humanity may not be ut
terly lost in this tremendous conflict with the
subtlest and fercest foe liberty ever had on
earth.
Year: 1859




Monday evening. came, and George Wilson
remained true to his promise. His wife put on
her bonnet and shawl, and he said he would
remain and "keep house."


"What will you do while am gone?'-
Emma asked.


'soh, I shall read and sing, and enjoy my
self generally. a


The wife went out and the husband was left
alone. He had an interesting book, and he
began to read it. He read till eight o'clock,
and then he began to yawn and look frequent
ly at the clock. The book did not interest
him as usual. Ever and anon he would come
to passage which he knew would please his
wife, and instinctively he turned as though he
would read it loud, but there was no wife to
hear it. At half past eight he rose from his
chair and began to pace the floor and whistle.
Then he went and got his flute and played
several of his fayorite airs. After this he got