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Year: 1860

at such crisis as the present we
do not think that sn aspirant who is
ready to sacrifice to his personal ambi-
ton the ascendency OF his party can
lie too severly condemned or too little
respected by those who sin. srely
regard the ascendency Of that party in
the administration of the Federal
G0vernmct as essential to the integrity
of the Union. the stability of Law and
Order. aud preservation Of the Cons,i-
tuition. il Is not our purpose. how
ever, now TO add to the feeling of
self modification which the candidate
OF the trumpeters must experience. or
to the chsgrin Of his allies at his
downfall.


Tie events at Charleston have
demonstrated the absolute impracfi-
coJil'ty ofto;sting opy candidate upon
the democracy TO whom the DEMOCRATIC
STATES are on osed. and have shown
that those States possess sufficient
authority yet in the United States to
a. sert am maintain the great principles
of the equal rights Of all the States
under the Constitution. despite of all
the means and appliances that can be
brought to bear against them. whether
from without or within their borders.
The experiment has been tried and, as
we stated in brief paragraph this
morning failed fatally. 1t may fairly
be presumed that at Baltimore it can
not be repeated with the same advan-
tages and chances of success under
which it so signally miscarried at
Charleston. The aspirant who caused
all the difficulty there has been fairly
beaten, and the necessity of proving
the opposition of the Democratic party
at large 10 such a choice will not
again occur.


The result at Charleston reads an
impressive lesson to personal ambition
and illustrates til. inevitable tendency
of that passion to bring to political
ruin the man whom it madly drives to
increase his own distinction and power
at the expense of his party and his
country. Had Mr.. DOUGLAS known
where to stop in this self seeking
career-would he even now raise the
dictates of patriotism and party fdeli-
ty-he might roll back the tide Of dis
trust aud displeasure which threaten
him as an architect of disturbance and
injury to the Democratic cause. But
the demon that possesses him seems
to urge him on TO his fate.


Let the overwecning and selfish
political advcnturcrs OF the day take
note of the diScrelit which the people
will assuredly visit on all enterprises
of the like kind rs that whose failure
at Charleston will, we trust, he forever
memorable in the annals of party.
The 'trunpeters' have not only been
striving Tor n long time to invest their
hero with almost supernatural qualities
of statesmanship. but to trick him on,
also with the mock attributes Of popu.
larity. But it turned out that their
idol was, alter NIL. not the choi,e Of n
single one of the seventeen Democ, otto


States whose votes are certain to be
east in November against the com.
; bined forces of the enemies of Democ-
racy. This impression can not he
ei'aced; and will. we doubt not, effect.
ually check the presumption that
would dictate the repetition at Balti.
more of'he attempt made at Charles
ton - Washington Constitution.
Year: 1860




a MoTHER's LovE.-Ciiildrcn. look
in those eyes. listen to that dear voice.
notice the feeling Of even a single
touch that is bestowed upon you by
that gentle hand! Make much of it
while you yet have that most precious
of all good gifts--a loving mother.
Read the un!athomable love of those
eyes; the kind anxiety of that tone and
look. however slight your pain. In
after life you may have friends, fond,
dear. kind friends. but never will
you have again the inexpressible love
and gentlcness lavished upon you
which none but mothers bestows
Often do | sigh in my struggles with
the hard uncaring world. for the
sweet deep security felt when Of an
evening. Nesting to her bosom. lis
tened to some quiet tale suitable to
my age. read in her tender and untir.
ing voice. Never can ! forget her sweet
glanccs cast upon me when ! appeared
to sleep; never her kiss of peace at
night! Year. have passed away since
we laid her beside my father in the
old churchyald: yet still her voice
whispers from the grave. and her eye
watches over me as visit spots long
since hallowed to the memory of my
mother. cr.-Mocouioy.
Year: 1860

Punch gives the following descrip-
tion Of what a printer must be:


How nice is this being printeri-
4 public servant. and withal a serv-
ant of the devil. A good natured fel.
low-must always smile-bow to ev-
cry 5ody-must be killing polite on
all occasions, especially to the ladies
must always be dear duck of u
man, always witty and always digni-
fed; he must never do any thing that
vii not accord with the strictest pro-
priety of the mos, precise old maid.
and must always be correct in every
thing he does: he is always expected
TO know the latest news, is styled
''muggins" if he is not always posted; /;
must please every body. and is sup
posed never to need the one thing
needful: must work for nothing and
hoard himself: must trust every body
and be thought great bore If he pre-
sents his bill; must be a ladder for all
political aspirants to step into Office,
who soon become independent. don't
owe him any thing, consider the prin'
ter at best sorry dog who can not
expect any better treatment than
kicks and cuffs; and finally. summing
it up. he is expected to be man
without a model and without a shadow
Year: 1860

He had bowed down to drunkenness,
An abject worshiper;
The pulse of msnhood's pride had gone,
Too faint and cold to stir;
And he had given his spirit up


Unto the humblest thrall;
and bowing TO the poison cup,


He gloried in his fall.
There came change--the cloud rolled OF
And light fell on his brain
And like the passing of dream


That cometh not again,
The shadow of his spirit fed;


He saw the gulf before
He shuddered at the waste behind


And was a man once more.
He shook the scrpent's fold away


That gathered round his heart.
And shakes the swaying forest oak


Its poison vine apart;
He stood erect-returning pride


Grew terrible within.
And conscience sat in judgment on


His most familiar sin.
The light Of intellect again


Along his pathway shone;
And reason like monarch stood


Upon its golden throne;
The honored and the wise once more


Within his presence came
And fingered on on lovely lips


His once forbidden name
There m he glory in the might


That treadeth nations down.
wreaths for the crimson conqueror-


Pride for the single crown:
But nobler in that triumph hour


The disenthralled shall find.
When evil passion boweth down


Unto the god.likc mind.
Year: 1860

ExoNERArED.-A statement has been pub
iished, to the effect that a hotel keeper at
Gold Hill, Washoe, drove a sick man named
Houston from his house, and suffered him to
die in the street The case has been investi-
gated by committee, and they have passed
a resolution exonerating the landlord whose
name is Dorst. They report that the de-
ceased was kindly treated Ly the landlord
that he was sick with Inflammation Of the
lungs; that he got up in the night and dranl,
a great quantity of liquor, which caused a
relapse, and that on the morning of his death
he arose from his bed put on his boots and
was about to betake himself to his cabin. as
he could not control his ungoyernaLle desire
for liquor that the landlord assisted him &c
walk down the hill, but before he arrived h,
was seized with conyulsions which ended il
death.
Year: 1860

Coal ScUrrLE BoNNErs REruDnrED.-The
Springfield (Mass) Republican learns that
the milliners have given up the effort to cir
culate the coal scutte bonnets, and that the
manufacturers of New York and Connecticut
have entirely discontinued their manufacture
and are at work on a different style, which
will soon be out The coal scuttle style pro.
duced so much ridicule and disgust that there
has been very little sale for them, and the
milliners find they must get up something
different or sell no spring bonnets at all.
We think the women could have stood the
ridicule, and would have swallowed their
own disgust at the shapeless thing, but the
Idea that they make the wearer look at least
dozen years older settled the question. A
successful rebellion against a Paris fashion
duly promulgated, is one of the events of the
age. Nobody can doubt now that the world
moves
Year: 1860

MARYsyiLLE PARK.-We publish in another
column the resolutions of the Marysville
Park Association, adopted at their last meet
ing. The coming races will be the finest
seen in the state this season, the ground being
good and the weather right for drawing per-
sons from abroad.


In this connection we should state that the
4th of July will be celebrated at the Park in
very handsome style. An oration and and a
barbecue, together with a bran dance will
make up the entertainment Of the day, and
the evening will conclude with ball. Mr.
O'Hanlon is the man to get up thing of this
kind in the most approved style.
Year: 1860

Our MISUNDERSTANDING the late
ness Of the season our market is already full
Of all sorts of delicious summer vegetables
Every morning may the beauty and fashion
of Marysyille be seen promenading up anC
down our cool clean market, buzzng arount
the vegetable stalls, like so many bees in a
clover patch, picking and culing with dainty
white hands the crisp and juicy delicacies,
with which to pamper the lazy drones, their
husbands, in the domestic hive of home If
there is anything that woman does under
stand, it is how to market
Year: 1860

RUNAWAY BueGtEs.-The following article
was written for yesterdays issue, but crowd
ed out. We are determined, however, not
TO miss our chance at an attack upon the
Appeal, and we here insert che overlooked
article


The Appeal, speaking, yesterday, of an
other runaway horse and buggy, says: "We
can see no use of these frequent runawoys,
except to our local items column" The Ap-
peal does not "speak by the card" If the
editor of the Appeal should once fall vic
tim to this runaway epidemic with which
Marysyille horses are at present afflicted, he
might have cause to change his mind. If
such a thing should happen, and he should
escape, for instance, with only broken arm,
does he suppose there would be no pleasure
in knowing that JoM his arms were not bro
ken? And if they acre both broken, does he
not know that it would be an unspeakable
satisfaction that his legs were safe? And if
all his limbs were broken would not his JOY
increase ten fold with the certain assurance
that his neck had not suffered like eaam-
ity? No use to anybody but an editor?
Why, a man never knows how to be thankful
and happy till he is tumbcd out of buggy.


But, of all things, suppose woman to
meet with a slight accident of this kind /;
after she is picked up and her wounds have
been dressed, and dozen sisterly hands
have arranged her pillows and made her
comfortable, docs anybody imagine that she
does not experience joy beyond all that
the minstrel has told p Can the editor Of the
Appeal say, with his hand upon his heart,
that if he were in like situation it would
be no pleasure to him to hear dozen tender
voices, all at once, in tones as sweet as pity
ing angels, murmur "Poor child-it is too
bad ~ And is it no pleasure to watch the
snowy napkins come fluttering in at the door,
like the white wings of good fairies, hiding
from vulgar gaze deiicacies that would have
increased the torments of poor Tuantalus,
had they been placed just beyond his grasp?
What, is it no pleasure to woman to have
a half dozen great ugly doctors coming in
with their good natured jokes telling her
that the only serious injury she has received
is the temporary loss of her beauty, which,
they give her to understand, they think is
equal to that of the sea-foam born Aphro-
dite? And would not Chlnn, of the United
States Saloon, that worthy son of "Merrie
old England" send her bottle yea a half a
dozen bottles Of the very best wine in all the
world? OF course he would-and of course
she would not be perverse and so ungrateful
as to say that the accident to which she was
indebted for SO much of the poetry of life
was of no use to anybody but editors.
Year: 1860

Too HoRRIBLE- understand that on
Thursday evening large dog was found on
the basement by the St. Nicholas Hotel ut
tering groans most piteous to hear and up


parently in a dying condition. His bones
were crushed as if from a severe fall. Some
one ended his suferings by knocking him in
the head. We were told that two men stand
ing near the hotel at the time, said they saw
two females bring the dog on the balcony and
throw him over This is too horrible for be-
lief and we hope for humanity's sake that
there is some mistake about it. Whoever did
that deed, male or female, should roast in
hell-aye, that's the word-a million years
Year: 1860

A correspondent inquiries whether it is
advantageous to change seed corn. Before
the question can be answered it is neees-
sary to know the object. What qualities
it is wished to obtain that the corn now
cultivated does not possess? We would
regard the same rule in regard to change
OF seed that Bakewell did in regare to eros
sing his animals. "Show me-" said he.
"better stock than my own, and | will
cross with it." So we would advise our
correspondent to change his seed corn
when he can find kind that is better for
his purpose than he now has. The idea
of changing seed for the sake Of changing


has no reason in it. But it is said varieties
degenerate when confined to the same soil.
No doubt they do, if the soil degenegates.
or il proper judgment is not used in selcc-
ting the seed. But we cannot see why a


variety Of corn that is best for particular
locality to-day, may not always be ust
as good if due attention is given 70 all the
conditions required to perfect 1T. We
have repeatedly known varieties OF corn
improved both as TO earlineSs and pro-
ductiveness, when grown on the same
farm for many years.-Boston Cahiratoy.
Year: 1860

Autumn and Spring have each their
peculiar advantages for setting out fruit
trees. The advantages Of Autumn trans
planting are--the soil becomes we'll set
tied around the roots, and the trees are
prepared to make an early start in the
spring. The disadvantages are that trees
are always made more tender by removal
for the endurance of the first winter; and
the soil hardens on the top in crust, and
the trees will not then grow as well as
when the soil has been lately stirred on
setting ont, as in the spring. Hence ten
der trees in a severe climate should not be
transplanted in the fall. unless they can
be protected by shelter from the winds
or by screen OF evergreens. and unless
the ground is dry and we'll drained, nstu-
rally or artifioially, SO as to avoid the in
furious results Of freezing about the roots.
Hence, also, the numerous class Of culti-
vators who never cultivate their young
trees at all should always set out in the
spring for in doing SO the trees will be
more apt to have mellow soil about them
during the early part Of the season, than
if the soil had become hardened by set
tling all winter. Unless the locality ex-
pose them too much to the cold, wintry
winds, and to late fall rains, which cannot
drain off, we prefer setting SO hardy tree
as an apple in autumn intending Of course
to keep the soil mellow by cultivation the
following summer. For more depends
on good after culture than on any time
or mode Of setting out. Ten times as ma
ny trees die ofsubsequent neglect, as from
any want of care and skill in transplant
ing. AS the best crops to plant among
your trees we should prefer to leave the
earth entirely bare, and keep always mel
low, for distance from each tree as far
on each side as the hight of the tree; but
those who cannot be persuaded to do this
should plant only low, hoed crops, such
as potatoes, beets, turnips, de-, and avoid
everything that is sown, whether grain or
grass Country Gentleman.
Year: 1860

A ROLAND FOR AN OLVER.-A wag OF
a fellow, by the name of Thornton, one
day got up during service and walked out
of church, making rather a prominent
display of a gold headed cane. The
preacher well known eccentric character,
with wooden leg-the result of his love
for fox hunting-immediately pounced
upon him in this wise. Pull that cane
from under your arm, my young friend
and throw it away. There is no golden
headed canes in heaven !" Whereupon
Thornton turning round, replied. "Pul
that stick of wood out of your pants, my
old friend and throw it away there are
no wooden legs in heaven !'
Year: 1860

A PRUDENT DAUGHTER.-One of our
citizens who has taken some pride for
several years in cultivating full crop of
hair on his face, was called away from
home on business some time SINCE
While absent an inexperienced barber
spoiled his whiskers in trimming them,
which so chsgrined him that he directed
the barber to make clean job of it by
shaving whi5kers and moustache both off
The barber obeyed, and our friends face
was as smooth and delicate as when he
was in his teens. He returned home in
the night. Next morning his little girl
did not recognize him on waking up
Looking over her mother, and seeing, as
she opposed. stranger in the bed, she
remarked in her childish simplicity, "Mis-
ter, get ont of here I'll tell pa ON you
when she comes homo. p ConnersUiH,
n.y. Times.
Year: 1860

*Mr Douglas received his highrst mum
Der of votes on this ballot, and fell off
gradually to the last


In this Convention the rules of the
former Were adopted unanimously, no
specific vote on any one being taken.
Mr.. Pierce was declared unanimously
nominated on the 49th ballot.


CONVENTION OF 1886.


In this the rules of the former Con
ventions were adopted without vote on
any particular one.


The following are the ballots of this
Convention from first to last
Year: 1860

Let us all help one another,


And heart of kindness show,
As down times flowing river


In the boat of life we row.
For, though rough may be the weather,
And the sky be overcast,
If we only pull together,


We can brave the storm at last.
Let us all help one another,
Iu misfortune's wintry day,
And be kinder still as ever,


Earth's best gifts are snatched away.
When bright fortune gilds the morrow,
Hollow hearts will fawn and cling;
But when comes the night and sorrow,
Only true hearts comfort bring.
Let us all help one another,


And do good whcre'er we CAN
Who witholds the hand of kindness
Scarce deserves the name of man;
For the one great law Of nature,


Which was meant mankind to bless,
Bids us help fellow creature.


When We find him in distress,
Year: 1860

NUMpER ONE-One hour lost in the
morning, by lying in bed, will put back
all the business of the day.


One hour gained by rising early. is
worth one month in the year.


One unruly animal will teach all Others
in company bad tricks; and the Bible
says, zone sinner destroyeth much good" "


One drunkard will keep family poor
and make them miserable.


One wife who is always telling how
finely her neighbor dresses, and how little
she can get, will look pleasantcr if she
talks about something else.


One husband that is penurious or lazy,
and deprives his family of comforts, such
as their neighbors enjoy, is not the sort
of a husband he ought to be.


One good newspaper is one good thing
ig family, and


One who don't take his county paper
and pay for it. digEegaFas his best
interests
Year: 1860

ID. regarded with favor and confidence by large
body regular medical profession in every State In
Union preparation unsurpassed by any, and daily
cribed by The eminent physicians throughout the United
States,


During the long period OF its continued popularity spurious
and counterfeit limitations have from time TO time made their
Never has been necessary on the part the
exercise dcious caution in purchasing the genuine
article time These limitations often SO close in their
external resemblance b. Fahneoek Nermtuge as 10
be well put upon unsspecing purchaser
sEticle which he neither wished nor intended TO buy


Ii enough bny of accredited agent but
chaser must vigilance avoid being imposed npo, and
exAtne every bottle himself that he is buying
Tie genuine D. a. Fahnegtock's Yeunfuge. aus lm6W
Year: 1860

A Substantial English Testimonial for


Cobden-e2O0,O 900 Subscribed In Three


Weeks.


From the first moment IL was riimored that
there was likely TO be commercial treaty
between England and France, and that Mr..
Golden had been mixed up in the affair, his
old friends and colleagues in the Anti-Corn
Law League made up their minds that he
ought not to go unrewarded by those who
would most benefit by it. The first promoter
of the movement is gentleman in Lam
cashire, who thought that the best way to
show his gratitude was to present Mr. Cob
den with large sum Of money. He COM
municated with others upon the subject, and
headed the list of subscriptions with the mu-
nifcent sum Of $4,000. The suggestion was
no sooner thrown out than 1t was eagerly
caught at, and in the space of three weeks
more than E40,00 has been subscribed, the
highest donation being $4,000, and the low
est f500. Such subscription, composed of
such large individual contributions, is with
out parallel in history, except in the instance
of Mr.. Pitt, and affords the most conclusive
evidence of the value that is set upon the
treaty by the manufacturing and trading
bodies. 1t is stated TO be the intention OF
several persons to set ON foot another sort of
testimonial, to which those who may have
the same desire, but not the same means as
they who have already given, may subscribe;
and from the enthusiasm with which the
proposition has been received there can be
but little doubt of the result.
Year: 1860

A STAGE COACH WITH THE MAILS AND BAG
GAGE ENTIRELY DESTROYED BY FIRE.-A few
days since the coach carrying the mail from
Lock Haven to Tyrone, Penn, took fire and
was entirely consumed, together with the
mails and the baggage belonging to the pas
sengers; the accident occurring through the
negligence of one of the passengers in throw
ing a lighted match into the straw in the
bottom of the coach. In an instant every
with difficulty that the passengers escaped
from the stage unhurt; while to make the
matter worse, the horses took fright and ran.
Before they could be stopped the coach was
SO much burnt that neither mails nor baggage
could be saved. 1t was fortunate that no
ladies were on board, as they could not have
been rescued-the flames spread so rapidly.
Year: 1860

MANNERs.-The beginning of good manners
is selfrespect Necessity is the law of all
who are not selfpossessed. Those who are
not self-possessed obtrude and pain us. Some
men appear to feel that they belong to a pa
riah caste. They bend and apologize, and
walk through life with timid step, as we
sometimes dream that we are in well-dressed
company without any coat. They act as if
they suffered from some mortifying circum-
stances; but the hero or gentleman should be
always at home where he is, and look COM
Portable in every situation.-R. W. Emerson.
Year: 1860

Railway Conductor Discovers his Wife,s


Favcrite Lover In n Respectable "


Boarder,


A young married man, conductor on the
Third-avenue Railroad in New York, adver-
tised short time since, to admit boarder.
A gentleman applied for the advertised lodg-
ings, with the degree Of M. d. appended to
his name, surrounding him with q halo of
respectability, which made him doubly ac-
ceptable to both husband and wife. The
doctor Is gay and good looking man, has
been married, but for some reason does not
live with his spouse. Well, the day on which
the conductor took the doctor to board proved
the very worst of his life, for the latter had
not been long an mite of the formers peaceful
home before he commenced those arts Of fac
ination, in the use Of which medical men can
be so dangerous, upon the partner of his
landlords bosom. g-1 6-t ra.f


Opportunity is all the devil wants, and op-
portunity the guilty couple had. All night
long the conductor was away on the avenue
cars through the long evenings the man of
medicine was at home with his yielding
hostess. Ere long the conductors suspicious
became aroused and he began to watch the
pair. A few evenings ago, pretending to
have left for his nightly duty, he suddenly
returned, and, softly opening his bedroom
door, discovered his wife and the doctor in
Jfdgrante deIicto. He thrashed the doctor
Handsomely, and his wife also, and then left
her forever.