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Year: 1859

POLICE CoURT.-Truly this is a moral town,
and We must agree with contemporary in saying
that morals has riz. During the whole Of Sstur-
day and Sunday but one arrest was made, and that
for drunkenness. However, as storm generally
succeeds the calm, we may expect to see two or
three score brought up before the Police Court
in day two. =
Year: 1859

CUTTING ScRAPE.-On Tuesday night several
men, under the excitement of liquor, commenced
cutting each other. One of them was cut across
the bowels, in the head, and in the hand. He
not learn his name. Stephen Lean was charged
with having made the cuts, and arrested, but
bailed out the following morning to appear at
the next term Of the Court of Sessions. Whether
any other arrests took place we have not learn
cd
Year: 1859

TnE YorSG LADIES SEMINARY At LAKE Fo-
nEsr.-We are glad to notice that Chicago is be-
coming the seat and centre Of educational en-
tcrprises of such number and character Us bid
fair not only to remove all necessity from our
own citizens Of sending their youth to dis
tance to acquire an education, but also to indi-
cate the near approach Of time when through
out the Northwest 20 schools will tuke the pre-
ference Of those which in this vicinity enjoy
the healthtul influences Of our noble Lake, and
from the names and position Of their managers
proffcr culture not elsewhere exceeded in any
respect. The Young Ladies Seminary soon to
70 into operation at Like Forest under the care
aud management Of Rev. Dr.. Dickinson and bis
accomplished daughters, is of this class, and
offers rare Inducements to parents who would
seek, within an hours ride Of their homes, u
school for their daughters where all tue best iu-
auences Of . Christian family will be united
with iudicious and refined culture and training
Lake Forest is just the place one would corct
for a student life, and the Family School refer
red to, now soon to open will prove all that is
claimed for it.
Year: 1859

Loyo PILGRIMAGE OF Two LITTLE Irish
S1srrrs-Trayelers and eitizeus who chanced TO
b. ut tic Michigan Southern n. r. depot on
Monday evening were much interested by the
affecting incident made known concerning two
little sisters, bright young girls Of the respect
i've ages Of nine and twelve years, who Ind
come out from their former home in ireland,
over sea and across the wide country from New
York to Join their father at Hannibal, Missouri.


dis name is Welsh, hc had left them and their
mother in the old country, to gain for them
new home here. lie had sent out for his family


to ioin hin. At the ere Of their departure the
mother sickcned aud died, and the two little


maids set sorrowfully out alone to encounter the
re,ils ard disconlforts Of an emigrant journey
half round the world Added to their possess
inc more than ordinary share Of sagacity,
their yery he1plessness stood them in good
stead, and strangers must have everywhere
blessed and wished prosperous transit to the
brave little Alice and Mary, who we hope hare
| q father worthy Of them and the journey they
hare taken to join him.
Year: 1859

The subjoined communication. from the pen of
an intelligent and esteemed citizen of the State
of Mississippi, forcibly calls the public attention
to proposition whose significance and moment,
as we'll political as economical, will be readily ap.
pretended by ell practical and rejecting minds.
We alude to the construction of o ship canal
across the northern neck Of the peninsula Of Flor
ida, with the view at once Of greatly expediting
the time of passage and promoting the safety OF
the vast and increasing commerce carried on be-
tween the Atlantic and Gulf States of the Confed-
eracy. That commerce, We noed not remind the
reader, in being at present compelled to double the
Florida Capes, is subjected to the wo-fold dangers
Of a navigation rendered difficult and hazardous,


not only by the hidden distractions and reefs


which waylay the seafarer in that quarter but also
by the drift of that mysterious Gulf Stream which
often proves as battling to the power and skill OF


the seaman as it long has been to the man OF eel
ence in his efforts to trace its secret origin and
cause. A ship canal at the point designated would
at once and forever obviste all the perils which


now beset the passage Of our commerce in thread
ing its intricate way from the waters of the Allan
tic to those of the Gulf Of Mexico. It's advantages
in this respect are too apparent to need more than
suggestion, while in point of their magnitude it


is hardly too much to cay that they would be meal
calabe save on an accurate estimate of the amount
and value Of the ooasting trade to be benefited by
it. The annual loss Of life and property on the
coast of Florida is now SO great that the FLORIDA
wreckers' find in the maritime disasters Of that
vicinsge an unfailing source of employment in
the prosecution of their sad profession, which, II
not without its peculiar dangers,is also not without
Year: 1859

The verdict in the murder trial just closed ut
Washington will disappoint some persons who pro
fcssed to look for disagreement of the jury, but
the general anticipation was that no conviction
could be obtained The nature of the offence was
perfectly well understood--a cool and deliberate
homicide in view Of certain provocation-and the
law OF the case was as clear as noon day, 80 much
so that skilfu counsel rather sought to evade than
to question it ; but behind both the fact and the
law stood a popular feeling, which we will not at.
tempt to characterize, and which it was supposed
would supcrsede the more rigorous demands Of the
law. Mr.. Sickles was acquitted neither by the in
genuity of his advocates, nor the remarkable lax
ity of the prosecuting officers, but by sentiment
which took the law in its own hands and declared
the assassination Of on adulterer justiGable.


We are left ir no doubt upon this point, inasmuch
as the jury, after the adjournment repaired to
of the hotels, to mingle their congratulations with
those of the defending counsel and of the mob, and
to declare in the most explicit terms the grounds
of their decision. One of them desired Brady to
proclaim it in New York that "the citzons Of
Washington arc not behind those of any other part
of the country in devotion to the family altar
Another Of them, who is described, we should say
Justly as the "wag au1 mimic" of the tribunal,
said that che would not for himself have been suit
isfied with Derringer or revolver but would have
brought howitzer to bear on the seducer" A
third. who had beguiled the weary hours in which
the jury were together by performances upon the
violin, heightend the general joy with which their
peculiar discharge Of their legal function was hail
ed, by additional strains from that dulcet instru.
ment. fourth more devouty inclined. thanked
God that his life hadibeeu spared to participate in
SO great and brillisnt verdict. In fact, Wash
iDgton correspondent of one Of the morning papers.
writes: II had the pleasure Of meeting ten of the
gentlemen who composed the jury, and / am
specially instructed by them to state. and they
wish it distinctly understood. that they gave their
verdict on the principle that in the absence Of any
adequate punishment by law for adultery, the man
who violates the honor and desolates the home of
his neighbor docs so q. the peril Of bis lfe and If


he falls by the outraged husbands hands he de


serves his doom. This principle, they Informed
me, they agreed upon unanimously six days since.
They have made it from this hour a principle of
American law" They did not pretend to be guild


ed by any principles Of law, but they took it on
themselves 10 establish new principle, which they
Year: 1859

Twas but a word-a careless word,
In pride and passion spoken;
But with that word the charm that boun,
Two loving hearts was broken.
The hasty wrath has passed away,
But bitter words remain:
In vain she looks with tender glance
He will not WOO again.
No other love may light HER path;
No other move his heart;
Yet changing seasons come and go,
And find them still apart;
Her once bright check is paler now;
His bears y trace Of pain;
Their days are weary, sad-and yet
He will not WOO again.
They met as strangers, calm and cold,
AS calmly, coldly, part;
Aud none may guess that tranquil mien
Conceals 4 wounded heart.
To him the world hath lost its light:
For her all joys are vain;
Nor hope, nor memory bring relief
lie will not WOO again.
Alas! that love, long tried aud warm,
Should wither in an hour;
Alas! that pride DER human hearts
Should wicld such fearful power
Oh. weep thou not for those who die
For them all tears are vain;
Bnt weep DER living hearts grown cold
Who ne'er can love again.
Year: 1859




Nov. l.-Wm. H. O,cen u.s. Edgar M Nason.-Moton
granted payment Of taxable costs; be adjusted by
the clerk on notice, &c.


Caroline r. Wedauood ns Joshua n. Cbudnder.-Moton
granted. Costs 70 abde the event.


The People ts. Charles RickdydsonThe afdavits made
before the Police Justice show that the prisoner proposed
to Little 70 retain the money which he sent with 10 the
bank, and knowing the money TO be tho property Of
Winslow, Ianer o. he took the money and concealed
It. II s not by any means clear that this evidence the
prisoner could be convicted Of grand larceny The money
was the property Of the firm although the possession Of
their servant and taken from him without his consent II
would clearly have been larceny The assent Of the
servant would not alter the nature Of the offence If
70 nothing than embezzement the evidence
is ample to sustain the charge Of receiving the property Of
another knowing to have been cmbszzed and the only
ground on which the discharge Of the prisoner sought
that the clerk under eighteen years Of age when the
crime committed II this be true, that crime could
not be charged upon Io and the prisoner would be
liable The District Attorney offers prove that title Is
mistaken about his age. the prisoner should be dis
charged on this writ the District Attorney could apply for
new commitment, additional proof and IL would not
be credable administration Of justice to discharge
prisoner from custody such technical obecton when
the District Attorney offers supply the defect in the ev
dence, and to establish the guilt OF the prisoner The
evidence may be received and producing proof that
the correct age Of Little Is eighteen years the prison
must be remandcd.


CORPORATION CASH.


The case Of McSfedon II Baker The Board of Supsr-
ttors is set down for this morning at hapas IL O'Clock
Year: 1859

NEW Jk4<kI, NoV. y, AoOSs


We are happy TO md in the columns Of your most
valuable paper Of the Sd inst that some individual In
your community has assumed TO denounce through the
press the rreverend and unclcrca and
saton Of the officiating clergyman Of the Plymouth church
in the pulpit, and especially on the Sabbath day. His
church, dedicated to tho lord Of Hosts has be-
come resort for the young people Of your cities to
gather to be amused and entertained by the udcrou and
eccentric speeches Of this remarkable ultra rantng
orator We have read his last abolition effort, and
would desire the prayers Of the clergy deacons and all
good Christians, In his behalf believing he has become
thoroughly mad the Harpers Ferry insurrection mat


ter that he may be restored to and the sacred
Office Of preaching Christ crucied TO the poor and
needy, love and charity TO his Christian followers His
mental popgun received terrible injury consequent upon
the failure Of the late nsurrecton, and finally exploded
under the effects and efforts OF euiogizng the principal
actor in the scene whom he holds the contemplation
Of the plastic minds Of youth character worthy
Of emulation and all imitation; and with the example Of
an nsurrectonst, traitor and murderer, stima-
lates his hearers 70 accordingly set at defiance
the laws Of a counry's government not consistent
with their views and feelings We would most respect
fully ask clergy II to be taught from the ga
cred desk the slavery Of sin and the Of escape
the slavery Of our fat Southern negroes and their
cpatonp Which Of these subjects will most avail the
souY To Henry Ward Beecher we would say for his
want Of Chrisian charity towards his neghbors, who
he thinks trespass upon his superior Judgment and
opinions, W ye forgive not their respasses neither
will your Father forgive yours"
Year: 1859

in his business. but serionsly. gentlemen. is
1t not better to spare = small amount from
your business for the sake OF putting your
business in q more fouri-hing condition.
than to Withdraw it at the peril Of tke bu-
siness you already havel If there ever
was a-time in the history Of our city where
in an extra ordinary effort was demanded. it
is now. Why tina this is 50 can be patent to
any citizen-we eed not explain it.
Year: 1859

NEW WHEAT.-Yesterday at the
store of c. N. Shipman, We were shown a
sample Of the new crop Of wheat-not ripe
but in the stalk. It was richly headed out A
portion of the stalks were from old wheat


and and likewise some from new wheat
Between the former and the latter there is
marked difference Both the stalk and
the head coming from the old wheat is
larger and better developed than that from
the latter. The old wheat produces long
er and better filled heads than the new. II
we may take the samples We saw as spe-
cimen of the forthcoming crop, We should
say that the land sowed with cid seed will
produce at least one third more wheat to
the acre than that sowed with new seed.-
We were also shown . sample Of the new
crop Of oats The heads are very large and
wei filled. and promise to yield heavily.


CEDAR VALLEY r. Ran immense
effort is being made by the friends of this
road to raise the necessary funds to enable
the Company to commence the work at an
early day. We sincerely trust they may
be successful. We think it is tie duty OF
every man who is interested in the welfare
Of this city, to subscribe to this according
to their means. Every citizen that has got
any property at oil, in this city, can afford
NAY they Are 10 duty bound 70 contribute
somsthing towards starting this road. True.
u Il Ne times ass hasdj tsss \ b that a.
! - ssus - V6A4l y - au ~ soplsal
Year: 1859

BRING 1T BACK.-The chap that
accidentally took fine bamboo fishing rod
from the front Of Frank Woods etore, on
Brady street, last evening, is requested to
return it Immediately or it will be sent for,
as the person is known.
Year: 1859

SnurE, shot up yesterday, from
the Peak, and was around town, looking as
smiling as basket of chips on cold morn
ing. We presume he has his pockets full
Of rocks, but for further information would
refer his friends to the "man around town"
Year: 1859

EE- 1t will be seen by advertise
ment, that White h Co., have established
real estate agency in the Postoffice build
ing, and are now prepared to buy and sell,
trade and barter for anything in that line.
Give them a call. Their Office is next to
the State Democrat editorial room,
Year: 1859

The Daughter of aaron Burr
The Carolina Spartan supplies new
incident in the life of5Aaron Burr, re-
garding the death of his daughter.
1t processes to derive its information
from an old and distinguished citizen
of Charleston now dead a very doubt
ful story, and in a very unreliable
shape


"Burr, in his many intrigues. COM
passed TIE ruin of the wife of a cap
tain of a coaster between New York
and Charleston. To remove the cap
tain, Burr corrupted the sailors to
mutiny and destroy HIM. On the out.
ward voyage no opportunity offered,
and the execution of the plan was
deferred till the return trip. Unfor-
tuna:ely, on this very vessel Mrs. AL
ston took passage. Her fate was an
awful retribution on her abandoned
father. He never looked up after,
and doubtless from the conviction
that the sins of the father were visit
ed upon the child. Our informant
went to New York TO look up the
wife of this captain. Hearing that
Burr knew her, he sought her. he
sought an interview. The mention
of the name was the signal for silence;
nor would Burr keep a further ap-
poinsment, or impart any Information
on the topic
Year: 1859

THE RIGHT KIND OF TALK>-Ihe
Memphis Enquirer, edited by Jere
Clemens and, Solon BorIand. both
formerly United States Senators.
thus speaks of the John Brown af~
fair and the efforts of the Democratic
party to make political capital out Of
it. 1t is the right kind of talk.


If John Brown and bis whole gang,
and all the slaves he could have in
duced to join him, we're to-day loca-
ted in the heart of Memphis, they
could not disturb its peace for six
hours. In less time than that they
would be hung, and their bodies
thrown into the Mississippi, without
calling to our aid single man be-
yond the corporate limits cf the city.


The Richmond Enquirer has par
~ purpose to subserve, and 1T may
suit that purpose to try to create an
alarm in the country, but sensible men
will laagh at the idea that twenty five
desperados have it in their power to
sap the foundations of this Govern
mont. 1fthe Enquirer will convince
US of that fact we will heartily join
with it to break up the Union to-
morrow, and establish q more stable
one in its stead.


Upon the whole our decided opin-
ion is, that Democratic editors gener-
ally are doing their best to convert
a tragedy into farce The voice of
party should be silent over the graves
of the brave men who fell-in defence
of the laws, and in view of the scaf-
fold which looms up for'their murder
ers. Worse still is the affected fear
of disunion from SO insignificant a
cause 1t makes men smile who
would be grave and disturbs the sor-
row which belongs to the dead by OBJ
truding upon our vision a living pic
ture of Bombastes. Let us weep for
the departed as we ought-punish
the living as they deserve, and then
dismiss it from our minds as one of
those sad occurrences of which the
depravity of human nature has fur
nished SO many examples, and which
no human law has ever yet been able
to restrain.
Year: 1859

A beautiful thought is suggested in
the koran "Angels in the grave will
not question thee as to the amount OF
wealth thou hast left behind thee,
but what good deeds thou hast done
while in the world to entitle thee to a
seat among the blest.''
Year: 1859

AutAors.-Tom Hood, in an article
of singular humor, states that the
phrase republic of letters was hit
upon to signify that, taking the whole
lot of authors ogether, they had not
got a sovereign among them.
Year: 1859

YoLo COUNTY SEAT.-Petitions are
IN circulation in Yolo county asking
the Legislature to pass law with a
view to the permanent location of the
county seat 1t is stated that no fair
test as to location las as yet been had.
Year: 1859

A war correspondent, dating from Brescia
on the oath of June, reports fact which
has not hitherto transpired, concerning the
scientific appliances of electricity to war
purposes. 1t would appear that the remark
able precision and unity of the French evo-
lutions were accomplished by a quite novel
sort of flying aides-de-camp. From each
corps, once in a position, a horseman rode
off to the next division, unrolling on his rap
i'd course light wire, which no time was
lost in adapting to field apparatus; and the
process was repeated all along the French
line of twelve miles. Hence the movement
Of the whole army was known and regulated
like clock-work, s'from dawn to dewey eve,"
on that decisive day.
Year: 1859

A new phase is developed in the Sabbatar-
ian movements. In reply to the inquiry of
party in Princeton, the Post Office Depart
ment states that letter indorsed with the
words, ITO lie over on the Sabbath" may
be delayed until Monday, providing the Post
master at the distributing Office does not
overlook the Endorsement This statement
was called out by the application of strict
observer of the Sabbath, who sgnfed to
the Department his earnest desire for the is
sue of anew order directing the delay of let
tiers posted on Saturday.
Year: 1859

BAYARD TAYLoR.-It is stated that arrange
ments have been completed by which this
distinguished writer and traveller will visit
SaDFrancisco and deliver a series of four
lectures before the Mercantile Library Asso-
eiation- We earnestly hope that the enter
prise of the society will res4lt as profitably
as the celebrity of Mr.. Taylor IS a lecturer
authorize .hem to expect, Tile amount to
be paid for the course is 1900. The four
lectures to be delivered during the month of
September
Year: 1859

Na-A very reprehensible practice prevails
among some Of the banking houses in this city
and elsewhere. We mean tho stamping Of
the name and business Of the firm on bank
notes which pass through their hands. A mo-
monts consideration vii show the danger to
the credit Of houses indulging in tho practice,
and We wish to suggest that such bankers
may render themselves liable for coun erfeit
notes, by the imitation of their stamp by
counterfsiters. The stamp is simple stencil,
hastily marked on the note in such way that
1t would be perfectly easy to initiate it so suc-
cessfully that no witness before a jury could
tell the difference between it and the genuine.
We do not think that.a prudent banker will
imagine that the notoriety given to his name
and business in this manner, should weigh for
an instant against the risk which he Is Ger


tainly running in placing such stamp upon
bank note. Independent Of this, it is q re-
prehensible practice, because 1t defaces the
note, which should not be done. lphia
Euerino Bulletin.
Year: 1859

An old correspondent, of Quaker descent,
writes to the New York Post: N


Much gratuitous sympathy, methnks, Is Of
late manifested by the press ut the new diyis-
ion said to have lately taken place In the
Society of Friends, or Quakers. The division
created by the Hicksite, or Unitarian schism,
did not take place at all in tho New England
yearly meeting; and although there has been
some secession from the Society, there has
been no division seriously to affect the two main
bodies-Unitarian and Orthodox. The Will
borite secession was at FIRST from the New Eng
land yearly meeting-not from any disagree
ment in doctrine, but only in discipline. 1t is
these seceders-small as they are In numbers
that have again divided, and II does not at all
affect the main body Of Orthodox Friends,
from whom they, as they themselves confess,
"came out" am told by New York Quaker
who attended the Orthodox yearly meetings at
New York and Newport, that there was great
Christian love and unity in both, particularly
in the New England meeting, where the will
and conceits and wisdom Of the creature bowed
to the spirit Of that Gospel, so divinely taught
by its great Author in the beginning, before its
simplicity was obscured by the forms and cere-
monies Of mans invention.
Year: 1859

COPYING DAauSRREoTYPEs.-
may be copied by the electrotype process in
the following manner: rs


A portion of the back of the daguerreotype
is cleaned by scraping it, or by applying
single drop of nitric acid, which is tehn to be
wiped of; little chloride Of zinc is now to
be put on the clean spot, and small peice of
thin pewter solder. A thickish copper wire,
having one end fattened, is now placed 10
the hame Of o candle or lamp, and being
brought in contact with the picture, the heat
is to be continued until the solder runs. The
coated with wax, and may then be- placed in
the bath to receive the deposit Of copper.
The electrotype produced in this manner
will be found easily separable from the pic
ture, and it is slightly gilt in order to protect
il from oxidation. t.t =.
Year: 1859

@- Writing from the country this week
and trying to console the poor editors who
cannot get away to enjoy its pleasures, Henry
Ward Beecher says: "Perhaps it may be Of
some comfort to you 10 know that birds are
nearly through their song season. It is only
in maidenhood and marriage that they sing.
Like many another pretty creature upon whose
musical education great pains have been be-
slowed, birds, after they go to housekeeping,
and have children to bring up, forget to play
much, and quite forget all their accomplish
ments. The dear little sparrow--the song
sparrow--is an exception. This little homely
bird sings right through the year, in the green
leaf, yellow leaf, and scar leaf"