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Year: 1860

CoN6REss.-The late overland dis.
patch is short but important. A ray
of sunlight bursts in at last, through
the stormy clouds which lately have
hung around the Federal Capital
Sherman, true to his promises, when
he found another could command
more votes than himself, promptly
withdrew his name for the speaker
ship, and Pennington, of New Jer-
sey, a moderate Republican and an
old line Wing, was nominated in his
stead. On the last ballot Penning-
ton wanted but one vote of an elec-
ton. He will undoubtedly be elect
ed, and is probably presiding over the
deliberations of .he House at this
moment. 1t was high time the popu-
lar body of Congress organized and
proceeded to do the work for the
country for which its members were
sent to Washington. These squabbles
are disgraceful. We hope there will
be no more of them.
Year: 1860

DIsPERsED-A body of men COL
lected from California and Oregon,
and called a Railroad Convention
when assembled, has dispersed. What
they did in five days session at San
Francisco is sufficiently well known
to preclude tire necessity of our say
ing anything about it. Take nothing
from nothing, and nothing remains.
Year: 1860

CAUTION TO MEN WITH THE SILVER
FEvER.-The Bulletin, Sac. Union,
Sac. Standard, and other papers are
giving good advice to those in otr
midst feverish for Silverlasd. The
advice is needed all over the State.
Few reflect that in no country can
all be fortunate. Rich as the widest
imagination may conceive the Washoe
region to be, it will be found to farn-
ish only disappointment to nine out
of ten who go there with the expec-
tation of making a pile. This wild
rush. which certain indications give
proof will shortly ensue is bound to
be injurious; first, to large majority
who go, and second, to those who re-
main behind. Those who go will
generally come back strapped to live
off their old friends. while the money
carried out of the country by the
former will injure business to such an
extent that the latter can scarcely af-
ford the expense


IT is said the President has ordered
fifteen thousand muskets from the
Springfield, 1ass.. armory, to Charles
ton, S. c., Augusta, Ga, Baton
Rouge, La; and nine thousand rifles
from other Northern armories for
Southern use. The President is prob
ably in league with the seccssionists
who declare if any body but disun-
ionist is elected President they will
have their own way if they have to
slay fifteen milliors of Yankees.
Yankees are excellent to fertilize
the soil and render it productive
They have made the sterile country
of New England TEEN with all that
makes nation great and powerful
One million of Yankees, alive or dead,
would do more to make valuable tn e
worn out niger plantations of the
South than the whole chivalry popu-
lation, niggers and all.
Year: 1860

AN Indiana paper says biddy who
ran OF to St. Louis with another man,
mas written her husband a letter in
which she expresses wish to Gre
turn TO her beloved Heneriet"


May she roost in peace.
Year: 1860

No COMPROMISE WITH BoLTEEs-We call
especial attention to the proclamation of the
Democratic National Executive Committee
in another column, which we copy from the
Union. 1t will be seen that the Committee
deny and scOrn any compromise with the
Boilers, whether by running joint electoral
ticket or by any other method If the Bolt
ers choose to vote for the regular nominees of
the party, they can do so if not let them
vote their own ticket. 1t cannot be expected
'hat the Democratic party will go hunting
around after seceders. 1t is expected that
every man worthy the name of Democrat
will sustain the action of the National organi.
zaton. As for those who leave the party, it
makes but little difference whether they Join
the Black Republicans of the North or the
Disunionists of the South. They are equally
unworthy the sympathy of the Democracy,
and the Democracy want nothing at all TO
do with them.
Year: 1860

CRAWLING BAcK.-A few time-servers left the
Democratic party when the news reached Cali
fornia that the Baltimore Convention had bursted
up, and two nominations had been made. They
declared for Douglas, probably thinking that
would be the popular side. They now begin to
find that the Democracy will remain steadfast by
their colors, and they will be crawling back be-
fore long. They did not look before they leaped
butjumped in the dark.-Erpress.


Cannon! This statement is all based
upon the authority of the Black Republican
Elector, Weeks. who came up here and made
speech, the other night. He stated that
those men who had expressed themselves at
the meeting at Sacramento as being in favor
OF Douglas, were backing down and prepar-
ing to go over to Breckenridge. At any
rate, he so reported.


Well, we have the authority of well
known politician and reliable gentleman Just
from Sacramento for declaring that there is
no truth in the statement whatever Every
man who declared himself at that meeting,
isas firmly for Douglas as it is possible for any
man to be, and exhibits no inclination what.
ever to recede from the position. They all
believe that they ure right, and are defiant
in their attitude.


Let the Express go on. if it feels like it,
and quote Republican authority to the end
of the chapter. Democrats don't place much
reliance on that kind of authority


N. B.-Be it understood that the Express
calls siding with Douglas leariHg the Demo-
cratic party. Oh, what cheek
Year: 1860

necessary, the Inspector of the District


shall trace said levee and make out a


plan of it, specifying the length of the


levce, its height, and the number Of feet


OF base. and then transmit to the Police


Jury copy of said plan; the Inspector


shall be personally responsible for the


acts done by him in his capacity, and


shall furnish bond, with good security,


to be approved by the Police Jury, in
faithful performance of his duties.


Each of the Inspectors shall keep a


book, in which he shall record all the


orders given by him in his capacity to
the inhabitants of his District for re-
pairs to their roads, lcvees bitches or
bridges, and refer to the Parish Attor-
ney all the delinquents by whom fine
may have been incurred; and it shall be
his duty to lay said book before the
Police Jury at each regular meeting:


In case of emergency or absence, the
inspectors may appoint one or more
deputies, but they shall be under the d.
rcction and control of the Inspectors,
and their appointment shall be made
only Tor one month at time. and no
longer.


AN ARrEs1AN WE'LL IN NArcuEz.
are happy to learn that some public
spirited gentlemen in Natchez who scorn
the usual Southern practice of making a
great buster and doing nothing, have it
in serious contemplation to attempt the
boring of an Artesian well, which shall,
at least, penetrate as far down as the
strata which throws up the Wildwood
Spring in Franklin county, distant from
Natchez only little more than twenty
miles on an air line. The water in this
Franklin county natural Artcsan foun-
tam is known to be as perfectly pure as
the thermal waters, or the distilled
water OF the drug stores The upward
or ascensive force of this spring through
ITS large but very winding and tortuous
tunnel is such as to throw out the body
of any one who plunges into it; and if
It were confined to straight pipe of
.hree Or four inches in diameter it would
doubtless spout forty or fifty feet above
Inc surface of the earth.


We know that such glorious and pure
water underlies the strata in our vicin-
ty. Why then should not Natchez bore
Town to it, and thus obtain an illimita-
Die supply of Gods own pure element?
t would be worth millions to fair
>atchez to have such an ever living
ever leaping up, in beautiful
ealthtnlness, from the throbbing heart
i the maternal earth! [Concordia In
elligencer.
Year: 1860

IMPORTANT TO DRUGGIsTs. follow
ing section of the new Penal Code, passed by
the Legislature last winter, is of great import
ance to those who deal in drugs of any kind
which are used as poisons


"No apcthecary, druggist, or other person.
shall sell or dispose of by retail any morphia,
stryehnia, arsenic, prussic acid or corrosive
sublImate, except upon the prescription of a
physician, or on the personal application of
some respectable inbabitant, of tull age, of the
town or place in which such sale shall be made.
10 all cases of such sale, the word poison sha Il
oe carefully and legibly marked or placed up-
on the label, package, bottle or other vessel OF
thing in which poison is contained: and when
sold or disposed of otherwise than under the
prescription of physician, the apoiheoary,
druggist or other person selling or disposing Of
the same, shall put in register, kept for that
purpose, the name and residence of the person
to whom such sale was made, the quantity sold.
aud the date of such sale. Any person Of
Tending herein shall be guilty Of a misdemean.
or, and, on conviction, be sentenced to paw a
fine oot exceeding fifty dolars.''
Year: 1860

place where poor tired mortals can find
that rest that is sought for ip vain here
below. And vet how few are seeking
to obtain'tharhaven Of happiness, where
"b1sa "The weary are at rest," H.f ''.-s,
where innocent childhood shall no long
er tire. while engaged in something
more than harmless sports; where bud
ding youth shall acquire knowledge
that will last when the sun shall cease
to lie observant of the hour. There,
too, in that land Of rest, the watchmah
upon the walls Of Zion shall zee the
fruits OF his labor, where he was almost
ready To faint by the wayside.
Yes. there is a place Of rest. but II is
beyond the confines Of this world: il is
that bourne from whence no traveller
has ever yet returned. whose portal is
the tomb, through which all must pas,
to reach the haven of eternal rest.


TEACHER.
Year: 1860


From the Southern Field and FT,eside.l
THE BATTLE OF LIFE.


The battle of life
With its whirl and it's strife,
lis thorns and its roses so rare;
The field of the slain
Aud the sunshine and rain,
Obi who shall its secrets declare
'Tis myst'ry rare-
With its gloom and its glare,
A race from it's morn to its eve;
The living aud dead
And the hopes that arc fed,
Unravel the web which we weave.
The glory Of youth
With a semblance Of truth,
Soon dies like wave of the sea;
'Tis riches and gold
In the hearts Of the old,
The parasite sapping the tree.
TIL battle OF life
For the widow and wife,
Has many token Of ILL.,;


And hopes of a day
Like the meteor's play,
Flash out, and forever are still;
The wine on tho lip
Yea. the sweetest we sip,
Will leave, like the serpent, sting;
For the joys and bliss
Of a world such as this,
Depart like bird on the wingi


Clio.
Year: 1860

BREcKINRTDGE's REooRD-The Louisville
journal cites the following against Breckn-
ridge consistency


In lS49, when delegates were to be cleo
ted to the state Convention to make a new
constitution for Kentucky, the question OF
negro emancipation was the chief topic of
discussion, and Mr. Brockimidge as we are
informed, cast his vote for an emancipation
canJidate. A little before that time. the
question of the Presidency being before the
country, he was the leading spirit of meet
lng which strongly recommended Hot tie
Democratic party as well as the Whg party
should be utterly ignored and put down hy
the American people. In 1855 he put forth
the public declaration that considerations
OF birth and sect ought to have their weight
at the h"lIot-boXes. In 1856 lie expoundcd
ana enforced the docrine of squatter sover-
eilnty as zealously as any disciple of Mr..
Douglas has ever done. Aud now, in 1860
uniting with other faclious spirits in rebel
lion against the will and the usages of the
Democratic party, he has accepted a section
al nomination for the Presidency and com
mitted himself to the guidance of set of
traitors, who for years past have cared moth
ing for the Democratic party except SO far as
they thought they could use it to effect the
dissolution of the Union"
Year: 1860

valley Of Charles River; ON the north, the val
ley Of the Mystic, with its villages; and on the
east, Chelsea, East Boston, Lynn, Salem, and
the broad Atlantic closing the horizon. The
general impression from this place is that the
surrounding country is almost a perfect gar
den, every romantic place being occupied by
ths wealth Of Boston-the city itself contain
ing the poor. No poor man can find a foot
hold beyond the city limits the price of land
being entirely beyond the reach even of the
middle classes. Whatever else may be said Of
Boston, from my observation, there is no city
in the United States that can furnish anything
like these suburban palaces and residences.


From this place, via horse railroad, we Wis
tied
Passing the Navy Yard at the lower end of
Charleston on our way. Chelsea is connected
with Charlestown by very long bridge, and
with Boston by a steam ferry that runs every
five minutes BY day, and every ten minutes by
night. This place in growth, has even out
stripped many of our fast growing Western
cities. Ten years since it had but two or three
thousand inhabitants, now it contains from ten
to fifteen thousand. We here had one of the
finest views of Boston and its shipping. There
is nothing more worthy of note in this village
than in others adjoining, except the view be-
fore mentioned, and this is we'll worthy the
attention Of the tourist. This is the place Sc
lected by several artists from which to get
view OF Boston and its surrounding scenery


v. LAUREyrz
Year: 1860

military AND THE IMAGINATION The New
York Times, noticing the announcement that the
Burgesses Corps, Of Albany, N Y, design at
tending Lincoln's Inauguration, deprecates any
such purposes upon the part Of military organiza-
lions tsays:


mo plan could be devised better calculated to
lead to collision and strife. than the gathering of
such companies from different sections of the
country. There is an implied menace in the
announcement of their intention to go, which ID
wholly needless and mischievous II il the duty
OF every Northern man to allay, rather than In.
crease the existing excitement, and we trust that
upon reflection, the Burgesses Corps Of Albany
will See the propriety of doing nothing that shall
augment the hostility which Is likely to greet the
Incoming Administration
Year: 1860

PAINFUL PARRICIDE IN FRANoE.-A DdIoh-
ter Murders her Father and Throws Herself
into WeH.-A dreadful murder was com
mitted lately, at Senilly, near Dion, by a
young woman, named Lucie Migniot on the
person of her father. 1t appears from the
confession of the murderess, who is barely
twenty years of age, that she and her father
had quarreled on the previous night, re-
specting her projected marriage with man
whom her father altogether disapproved.
1rritated by this opposition to her wishes


she came to the desperate resolution of MUIR
dering her father, and accordingly, having
waited till he was in bed and fast asleep,
she took chopper, and struck him repeat
edly on the head; then suddenly relenting
she drew her victim out of bed to the top of
the stairs, near an open window, but finding
no signs of life, she removed the body back
again to the bed, and screamed for help.
When the neighbors came she acknowledged
her guilt and was taken into custody. On
the following day she contrived to elude the
vigilance of the gendarme who had her in
charge, and threw herself into a well. She
was, however, got out almost unhurt, and
afterward lodged in the prison of Semur.
Year: 1860

A BRIEF CHAPTER ON HATS AND CRAvATs
The New York correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury furnishes the following par
agraph concerning hats and cravats:


A word about mems fashions. The ten
dency, of late years, you know, has been
toward the Outre English style. The Princes
visit has done something to encourage this
imitation of the Anglican modes, even to the
extent of copying the abominable hats which
every body in the Royal party wore, from
the Prince downward. Such a collection of
shocking bad hats was never seen, except on
scarecrows in a cornfeld. They all had
wide brims, or else turned up awkwardly at
the edges, and had dull luster, as if they
had been extensively rained upon. The
Dukes hat was eminently seedy, and no
New Yorker with the slightest regard for
his reputation would have been hired to
wear it down Broadway. The Earl of st.
Germans sported a still shabbier tile, of the
bell-top pattern. Lord Lyons castor had a
decided appearance of having been sat on
several times and then punched out into a
rude resemblance of its original shape, which
was very bad one. The younger members
of the party exhibited slightly advanced
taste in respect to their hats, but there was
not one among the whole collection which
an American halter would have dared to
send out of his store as a specimen of his
own manufacture.


The correspondent of the Mercury is
man of taste; he holds our opinion ofthe ap-
parel and head-coverings of the Prince and
his suite.
Year: 1860

AN ExTRAoRDINARY PAIR OF PANTALooNs.
Courier des Etats UIuis, in an article ON the
ball to the Prince of Wales, that of that
famous festival "the pantaloons of the ven
cradle Peter Cooper were the most curious
ornament. These ambitious pantaloons"
adds the careful chronicler, "eame up on the
breast to the neighborhood of the cravat
and at each bow made by the obsequious
millionaire the top button bloomed out in
the opening Of the vest like a third eye
opened wide in order the better to admire
His Highness.'
Year: 1860

DEATH AND FoRGETFULNEss.-So lately
dead so soon forgotten. 'Tis the way ofthe
world. We flourish for while. Men take
us by the hand, and are anxious about the
health of our bodies, and laugh at our Jokes,
and we really think, like thehy on the
wheel, that we have something to do with
the turning of it. Some day we die and are
buried. The sun does not stop for our fune-
raj every thing goes on as usual; we are
not missed in the stree Is men laugh at new
jokes; one or two hearts feel the wound OF
affliction, one or two memories still hold our
names and forms but the crowd moves in
its daily circle; and in three days the great
waves sweep over our steps and wash out
the last vestige of our earthly footprints.
Year: 1860

The Coal FROM WHICH OH IS MADE-Coal3
oil is not made from ordinary bituminous
coal, which contains too much sulphur for
the purpose. 1t is extracted from camel
coal-a tough and more valuable variety,
immense seams of which are to be found in
Virginia and elsewhere. Kerosene oil is not
pure coal oil, but mixture of that with
lard oil. Paraffine is a mineral substance,
extracted from camel coal, and resembling
spermaceti in its appearance and qualities
Refined coal-oil is solvent of gutta.percha
and India-rubber.
Year: 1860

No HOPE FOR THE FRENCH GRAPE CRoP.-
The Revue Bouguignonns says; "No illusion
can be any longer entertained as to this
year, wine crop; it will be decidedly bad,
whatever the weather may be between this
time and the vintage. The continued rains
respect to quality, 1860 will remind one Of
the worst years that can be remembered
Year: 1860

A LITTLE Boy REWARDED FoR MS HU-
MAKITY The track of the Wilmington and
Atlanta Railroad was washed away by rain,
in the night, not long ago, and little boy
and stopped coming train in time to pre-
vent dreadful catastrophe. The little fell
low is to be sent to the Georgia Military
Institute, at the expense Of the State.
Year: 1860

IN Nashville or on the Fair Grounds, a Portmonnaie
i containing some four or five hundred dollars in
money and some notes-I don't know how many
The finder will be literally rewarded by leaving it at
the Patriot Office


sepflS-2t J. A PAYNE
Year: 1860

NOTHING adds so much to the appearance of a
In Procession of Sunday School Child~en asa Flag
inthe hand OF every little boy and girI. LUCK Is
prepared to furnish them in any quantity, at y
College street up stairs over Shields Auction 10 m


may1-t
Year: 1860

RECEIPT WoRTn ONE THOUSAND Dol
LARs.-We are indebted to an exchange pa
per for the following recipe, which, it is
claimed, is worth the above sum of money;
and give it publicity for the benefit of house
wives in general, and our lady readers in
particular, to wit:


Take one pound of sal soda and half a
pound of unsacked lime, put them in gal
lon of water and boil twenty minutes; let it
stand till COOL then drain off, and put it in
stone jar or Jug Soak your dirty clothes
over night, or until they are we'll wet through,
then wiring them out and put on a plenty of
soap; and to one boiler of clothes well cover
ed with water, add one teaspoonfu of wash
ing fluid Boil half an hour briskly; then
wash them thoroughly through one suds and
rinse well in water, and your clothes will
look better than the old way of washing
twice before boiling. This is an invaluable
remedy, and we want every poor tired woman
to try it,"
Year: 1860

little prominent as may be to afford sufficient
hold, be of a uniform depth from end to
end, so that all parts bear equally on the
ground, and have the bearing edge on the
same level AS line drawn between the
points of the heel cauks.


The nail holes should be punched so that
the nails may enter the wall of the hooi
on its inner edge, but never enter par, OF
the sole. AS the thickness OF the crust di-
mlnshes as we pass backwards, the nail
holes must be carefully graduated to meet
this.


No nail should be driven into the foot
further back than its broadest part. The
spring and expansion of this part will not
allow it to be confined or fettered without
harm Yet sometimes we see shoes nailed
to the very heels. In driving the ma Is, diff
terent feet require different depths of hold
None of them should be so far to the inside
OF the wall as to press on the sensitive paris,
nor so near the outer edge as to break or
split the hoof.


The article contains illustrations of well
shaped and i'll formed feet and shoes; the
English hunting or racing shoe the British
cavalry shoe, the common English shoe, and
the French shoe designed for light riding
The latter has but five nail holes, three on
one side and but two on the other The
English shoes mostly have seven. Any one
who will take lot of old horse.shoes can
find plenty Of examples of bad shoeing. We
find them very rough and uneven on the
side next to the foot; very long and narrow;
toe caulks a mere point in width; dishihg,
or with no seat for the sole; with no upward
projection at the toe; and to make up for
these deficiencies, well nailed with ten or
twelve nails.


Considering the Importance of sound feet
to horse, we hope that the improvement
begun in some sections will extend, and that
the Ignorance of the owners will no longer
induce them to estimate the excelency of
horse shoeing to depend upon the number of
nails driven, for this reminds us too strong
ly of the Hibernian orders for the size of
his boos-"Make them as large as iver ye
can for the money"