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Year: 1860

HoRsE SENsE.-It is said that the steam
carriages for highways now coming into
use will not generally frighten horses, il
there is horse in front of them, appearing
to draw them, while, in fact, the propulsion
is all done by steam. Smoke and steam,
and the noise of the blast, may ffighten couu-
try horses that are not used to the commo'
ton OF city streets, but these features should
not be allowed in the streets. The mere
fact Of self propulsion is above the spprecia'
ton of horse, and all that is required is t.
deceive him BY show Of animal power
Year: 1860

Come HoME-The following incident is
related in connection with the disaster at
Lawrence!
( A touching incident is related of COM
pany Of girls, who were safe and compara-
lively uninjured, until the fire broke out.
They would soon have been rescued if the
deyouring flames bad not shut out every
hope from the prison in which they were
immured, but when the fire began to roar
around them, they, as if by inspiration
Joined in singing the hymn


ea ''We are going home to glory"


sa Their voices rose clear and musical above
the cracking Of the flames, bat they were
soon silenced to be heard no more until they
had passed the narrow sea that divided then
from the heaven Of their faith.
Year: 1860

BURNED IN HIS CdrlimrMe, H., June
1.-THE Jail at this place was set on fire at 9
o'clock this morning by negro who was confined
in it on a charge of horse stealing, and burned
down. The negro could not be rescued after the
alarm was given, and perished in his CELL The


loss is about s25OO which there is no insurance.
Year: 1860

By all means make yourself at home, if you only
stay a week at your friends relatives or brothers
house: but if you stay three months in another
mans house, still make yourself shade less at
home than the master of it.
Year: 1860

"You sot,n exclaimed poor woman to her hus-
band, you are always at the tavern getting drunk
with hot punch, while am at home WIN notmng
to drink but cold water


"Cold, you silly jade why don't you warm it9'
Year: 1860

A DoeroR's OPINION OF MEDIcINE.-Dr o. ".
Holmes delivered an address before the Massachu-
setts Medical Society, recently, in which he de.
clared, in plain language, that mankind had been
drugged to death that whatever would lnJure
well man would injure sick one; and that the
world would be better off if the contents of every
apothecary shop were emptied into the sea, though
the consequences to the fishes would be lamenta-
BILE. A long discussion was held on the propriety
of publishing the address, though it was finally
voted by the small majority of nine to give it to
the public but with notification on the first page
that the society were not responsible for the sent


ments it contained. al =-.=~
Year: 1860

UNPARALLELED MEANNEss. gentle-
men recently from Gilroy, we learn that as
the Overland coach which left here on Fri
day night last, was endeavorng to get round
a mud hole in the road near the eighteen mile
house, one Of the wheels struck against a
stump and caused the vehicle to upset and
dump the passengers in the mud The
tongue of the coach was broken, and tie dri-
yer was obliged tc retrace his steps to this
place in order to get the injury repaired. In
the mean time, the passengers, seven men and
one lady, went to the house for the purpose
Of obtaining rest and shelter from the cold
night air, but the hoggsh occupants refused
to admit them, and the party were compelled
to build a emp fire by the road side and re-
main out of doors in their wet clothes for six
hours This is about the worst instance of
meanness on record San Jose Reporter
Year: 1860

A MAN calling himself wandering clock
maker from Connecticut applied at a station
house in Philadelphia lately for lodgings. He
had with him a small wagon fitted up for the
reception Of his box of tools and the accom-
mediation OF his son, sprighty little shaver
three years of age, He says his wife deser-
ted him two years ago, when he began his
wandering life, and that he has travelled
$500 miles since that time.
Year: 1860

AN eastern correspondent of an exchange,
says:


Almost everybody has reason to believe
that members do carry fire arms into the
House with them, and that this has long been
the practice Foote, it will be recollected,
drew a pistol on Benton. when the latter
came at him in the Senate with menace Of
personal violence. | doubt not that some
were brought into the House during the hot
tueds in old Hickorys time, when Bale Pey-
ton and Henry a. Wise waged their fierce
warfare against the Administration. But 1
question whether at any time the practice of
wearing arms in Congress- was so general as
it is now. Several Black Republican prints
have advised their men to go prepared for an
/ encounter. More serious consequences would
attend one now than ever before.
Year: 1860

CURE FOR Lock -JAw-The New
York Observer says: A young lady run a
rusty nail into her foot recently. The
injury produced lock jaw Of such a ma,
lignant character that her physicians
pronounced her recovery hopeless. An
old nurse then took her in hand, and ap-
piled pounded beet roots TO her foot, re-
moving them as often as they became dry.
The result was most complete and as
tonishing cure. Such simple remedy
should be borne in mind.
Year: 1860

nag An old criminal was once asked
what was the first step that led to his ru
in, when he answered


''The first step was cheating printer
out of two years subscription. When l
had done that, the devil took sucn a
grippe on me that I could not shake him
off," Delinqueuts reflect, ere it is too
late. ~-3
Year: 1860

One of the calamities predicted by the
New York, Herald, in the event OF Lincoln
election, is that ''the dissolution OF the
Union abcllshes the patent laws" A strran-
ger who attended church in very cold
country was astOnished to hear the preacher
describe hell as region of ice and snow, and
oil the most intolerable cold After the SER
mon he demonstrated with the minister upon
Such pervefsion Of the threatenings of
scripture and said that he had always heard
the place of torment called a lake of fire and
brimstone, That sort of preaching will do
very well for a warm climate, . said the mi
mister, " but if | should tell nv people that
there was comfortable fire in the lower
regions, half of them would want 70 90 there
to warm themselves. " We think that with
a great many men the prediction of the
Herald would be deemed rasher desirable.-
ProrideRce Journal
Year: 1860

She said the homestead is sure to come yet.
o, If that bill had only become law =
Defective as the Senate bill was, still It's
postponement of the infamous land sales
would have been an incalculable benefit
Year: 1860

The QUESTION SETTLED.-Judge Nelson,
at the late Session of the United States
Court at Cooperstown, decided that the
method Of feeding the cloth in sewing ma
chine was the invention of A. B, " llson-
and consequently, all other machines in
fringe the Wheeler q Wilson patent. Thus
the legal question of right is set at rest but
the public had long previously settled the
fact, that no machine in use SO fully met all
the wants of the people as the Wheeler and
Wilson. We also see, that at the fair OF
the Mechanics Institute at Chicago, which
closed on the Sth inst, the highest premium
was, as usual, unanimously awarded to that
machine.-Proridence Journal.
Year: 1860

EXPRESS SALooN.-We refer the reader to the
advertisement of the " Original Bit House." of
Messrs. Shed L Short They advertise vast
variety fliquors of the very best brands. We
have no doubt that the superior tonic called
the " Eye Opener" is death on chilis
Year: 1860

EeG SMAsH.-Y yesterday morning, as a la
dy with expansive skirts was sailing past
Walbridge's upon Ontario street, her hoops
caught in a basket that stood at the door
piled high with nice fresh eggs, and as she
paid no attention to the collision, the basket
was capsized and almost every egg broken
Seeing then what she had done, the la
dy-we mean the female-probably thought
she had "shelled out" enough already, and
hastened away. Her desire for ga dozen on
the half shell' was well enough, but she
shouldn have taken them at eggs-octly
such a smashing pace.
Year: 1860

LAKE SUPERIoR.-The screw steamer Mar
quette will leave the dock of Begges & Sim
clair this evening for Lake Superior.


The side wheel steamer Illinois is expect
ed in port this morning from Lake Superior.


The Iron City left last evening for upper
lake norts.
Year: 1860

The London Review contends that poetry
is not one of the progressive arts and gives
a sketch of the processes through which it is
continually revolving;


Poetry is not one Of the progressive arts.
In the course of single generation, and that
one of the earliest in a nations history, it
will often attain to power and excellence
which no future efforts may surpass and the
accumulation of one age is so far from prov
ing an assistance and benefit to the next,
that it rather enfeebleS its successor, induc-
ing it to place o false reliance upon resources
not at its command, and acting as a stimu-
liant to extravaganza of effort only to pro-
duce poverty and perishabeness Of result.


AS general rule, poetry may be said to be
passing through three processes which ever
lastinglY repeat themselves. First is the
rough period, when intellect and fancy are
sufficiently awakened to strive vainly with
the obstacles ofundeveloped language. Then
the era of triumphant genius, which makes
all the material around it flexible 10 its will,
and of its own Instinct lights upon the COM
binations and the laws which insure lasting
success. Then follows the age of merely
initiative effort, when men strive rather to
be something like that which their predeces-
sors had been than to rival them in new
fields. Soon people find out the way of pro-
duciug something which looks so like the
originals bequeathed TO them, as to pass cur
rent for a material combining equal excel
lence with the advantage of greater ease and
cheapness of manufacture.


This goes on until the initiative invention
has been carried to utter exhaustion, until
production becomes so easy that every one
can produce; and then the natural effect
takes place. The reaction acts in with O
sudden stopping and stagnatiOn; and at last
new sources break away into fresh path Of
their own, and new era of genius begins
to be initiated, and to pass away, as before.
Year: 1860


..a Eject Of Music There. ..
A correspondent of Dwighfs Journal Of
Music says; ..I =.


''were you ever in the Mammoth Cave?
It is, with all its wonders, the most God
forsaken, dreary, gloomy spot, mortal ever
entered. Yet there is some strange mystic
power in the place to trsnsfgure the weak
est, most wretched music into harmony fit
for the celestial spheres. .1


You know, in the first picture of Coles
Vogdge Of life, the gloomy river of the past
from which floats out into life and light the
little boat of the baby voyager. The stream
issues from dark, rocky cavern, mysterious
and unknown. Such q stream is this on
which we are embarked. Silent and gloomy,
dark and mysterious, it serves as type ofthe
past and the future-of the past mystery
whence all life evolves, Of the inscrutable
future whittier all life tends.


The feeling of security is not very great.
The boats sink down almost to tho waters
edge, and the perpendicular slippery rock on
either side offers no ledge on which a ship
wrecked voyager might find q temporary
footing. Above, sometimes so low that you
must crouch, 70 avoid it, and again so high
as to be scarcely visible, rises the rock-roof,
whilethe water in which you glide is thirty
feet ia depth, and as cold as the brow of q
corpse. There is no sound but the rippling
made by the boat; not a cricket along the
shoreless stream, not fish to plunge up and
flash a moment in the air before returning to
its watery home-no symptom Of life-no
sound, no motion, save that made by our
selves.


"Hark there is sound Far off a
delicate shade of music, so faint as to seem
| the ghost of some wandering echo. But by
degrees it increases. 1t becomes clearly
defined. Rich harmony, trembling with
strange sensuous wildness, fiuttering around
the rocky projections, swelling in waves of
harmony to the arched roof above. Now it
appears to come one direction, now from an
other. Anon ahigher note or strain is heard,
like some clear voice rising above a mighty
chorus. Never did syren sing more magic
songs to listening traveler-never did the
mysterious maiden Of Burleiburg chant more
etitrancing melody to the unwary boatman
who floats along the mOonlit Rhine.
Suddenly turn of the boat brings you
opposite a break in the perpendicular rocky
| shore, and, perched upon o mass of broken
rock you see party Of four negroes playing
upon violins and cornet. Those are the
| syrens, these the Lurlines of Echo river
| Out on the earth's surface their music would
be merely quaint and odd, but here, in the
Mammoth Cave, it is weird and unearthly.


Floating away, out ofsigbt of the above
minstrels-who are, in fact, the barber, boot
black, or waiter from the hotel at the moutl
of the cave-their music resumes its super
| natural tones and effect, and so, until W.
land at the opposite shore of the dark river
it haunts the ear with its peculiar harmony
while ever after it forms the most vivit
"reminiscences Of visit to the Mammotl
Cave.n
Year: 1860

a correspondent Vi the NEW 1Ofk 1tHleS
says:


New York is equally if not a more ex-
pensive place to live in than San Francisco;
rent for the same kind of house is greater
than in New York. Servant hire is cheaper,
to be sure, but then marketing here is quite
as reasonable. There a lady housekeeper
has the satisfaction of seeing her Bridget
wearing better clothes than she herself pos
sesses, which is Of itself great satisfaction
70 any lady, for she knows where she can
borrow in case of need. There's no use in
talking, women, be they high or bethey low,
run as naturally to clothes as a Newfound-
land dog takes to water, and in this place
the sole aim and object of their lives appears
to be to out dress each other 1t does me
good as sit up at my window on the corner
commanding view of our ''vanity fair" to
see them sailing along, feeling so good when
they think they have something new no one
has.


There's such a toss of the head, and even
their very ribbons seem to say, "How what
do you sayH Bridget, who inspects all her
mistress's clothes and tries them on in her
absence, boTrows the pattern on the sly, and
has one made just like it, and then gives
warning and leaves her place for the pleasure
of having two or three days time to sport
her new garment. There's great run here
on new style of feminine overcOats that are
so terribly ugly and unbecomlng, Bridget
won't adopt them even; they seem to be a
cross between a Zouave cloak and an over
grown paletot, giving the wearers "fast'
look. They are altogether too masculine to
be becoming. San Francisco follows New
York, and has run very much to purple. It's
all purple, from head TO foot. The earliest
birds in the fashions in this country are q
set of fast young ladies who have great
deal of correspondence by express.
Year: 1860

A FELIsE MusIoIAN-A Cat Playing tie
Gutar-The Peoria (Ill.) Union says there
is cat in that city which has become SO
much attached to the music of guitar that
she will sit for hours in a listening attitude
when it is being played, and evince signs of
displeasure when the music is brought to a
close. 1tis even limited that she can tell
when the instrument is out of tune, and if
played upon in that condition will COM
mence mewing, and will endeavor to effect
her escape. A few days since the notes
were heard proceeding from the front part Of
the house, when twas known that no mem
ber of the family was there, and curiosity at
once led them to find out the cause. Upon
opening the parlOr door, they discovered
Miss Pussey busily engaged in paving the
strings of her mistress's guitar, which was
reclining in corner of the room, and SEEM
ingly much delighted at the music emAnat-
ing therefrom. One of the household had
visited the room short time previous, when
the cat, watching her opportunity, had prob
ably obtained access to her new and favorite
study. -...rg-- ~r-f
Year: 1860

CURIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING in his
Natural History says;


Those who are familiar with cottage life
in the rural districts will often have noticed
a kingfsher suspended by the point of the
beak from the beams of the ceiling, and if
they have asked the object of the custom,
will learn that the bird always turns its
breast toward the quarter from which the
wind is blowing. Some writers in mention
ing this custom have said that the bird is so
suspended as to point with its beak toward
the wind but in every case where l have
seen this curious windvane it has been hung
by the very extremity of the, ,beak, so as to
rotate freely in every direction. The bird is
not stuffed, but various spices are placed in
lis interior, after the viscera have been re-
moved, aud the body is then dried by ex-
posure to the sun.
Year: 1860

THR EMPERoR OF AUSTRIA RoRRED.-Th
Emperor of Austria, on proceeding TO
Warsaw, stopped at Sheerniswice to break
fast and change his costume, and while His
Majesty was so engaged a small box contain
ing papers and a large sum Of money was
stolen from the imperial wagon. Some days
later a person went to the 0apuohini church
at Warsaw, and gave to monk, to whom he
confessed, the money to restore, but the
papers were taken away. it .ftpH s-a
Year: 1860

SOCRATES MoDE OF EIvTNG.-Living was
cheap enough in the olden time. Socrates is
supposed to have lived Upon an income Of
SIS; but he lived worse Than a slave. His
coat was shabby, and he wore the same gar
ment both winter and summer; he went
barefootedi his chief food was bread and
water; and as he engaged in no business to
mend his estate or income, it is not wonder
full that his wife scolded. Demosthenes, his
sister, and their mother paid for their board
$lO5 a year, and provided the house into
the bargain. f|er
Year: 1860

MAKING UP TIE RECORD. - During the
present session of Congress, the Democratic
party, as represented in that body, has put
itself on the record, legibly and indelibly, on
the following subjects:


Against tariff so framed as to afford
incidental protection to suffering American
industry.


Against homestead bill intended to secure
every poor settler sufficient part of the
public domain for home, without charge.


In favor of Polygamy, by voting against
the bill for its suppression.


Against the admission of Kansas as Free
State, solely because she applies for admission
as Free State.


In favor of screening the President and his
administration from searching investigation
into the alleged ccrruptions ofthegovernment


To these we shall probably have to add the
adoption Of resolutions by the Democratic
Senate in favor of Slave Code for the Terri
tories, and in support of the dogma now fast
growing into an article Of the Democratic
creed, that the Constitution carries slavery
eyeryuhere throughout the Union. 1t is not
at all improbable, also, that the same party
will put itself Oh the recor. in favor of the
doctrine that the defeat Of the Democratic
party in the election of 1860 will be sufficient
cause for dissolution of the Union.-Pits-
bu30b Gusettt
Year: 1860

No TRADE SALE AT Boston THIS YEAR.
The demand for most goods of domestic
manufacture is so much greater than tho
supply that the manufacturers are generally
behind these orders, or in other words can
net keep up with the demand. In conse.
quence Of this state of things, the committee
of the "New England Society for the pro.
motion of Manufactures and the Mechanic
Arts" have decided to defer their trade sale
to another year.
Year: 1860

w Attorney General Black has been
blessed with keen thought--it is to pick a
flaw in the form of the oath administered by
the Covode committee. He hopes thus to
overthrow all that has been done against the
President by Walkers testimony. But the
country has got the facts.
Year: 1860

6g The Davenport Democrat Of this morn
ing has an article upon the adjournment o.
the Charleston Convention. Speaking ofthe
seceders from that convention, it extends tc
them comfort after this fashion:


"But their labors in their wretched cause,
the destruction Of the Democratic party, are
as fruitless as those of the Black Republicans,
with whom they can now go hand in hand"


1t closes with the following sage reflections:


'The adjournment to Baltimore is pru-
dent and wise step. The Democracy will then
have had time to reflect upon their difficulties
and heal up theis divisions to unite the party.
The Republicans will then have chosen some
unfortunate man to be beaten, and we will
know who it is. For no sane man at heart
doubts the election of the nominee of the
Democratic Convention"


A friend at our elbow suggests the idea
that the "great harmonious" adjourned to
Baltimore for the purpose of ratifying the
nomination of the "unfortunate" man above
alluded to
Year: 1860

WRONG ON THE FACTS. - Some few days
since, the New York Herald attempted to
show that Rev. j. S. Harden, of New Jersey,
was led to kill his wife by poison as natur-
al consequence of being an abolition political
preacher and it preached long sermon on
the enormity of the existence and practice Of
abolition preachers. 1t turns out that in fact
Harden has always been Democrat, and
before his arrest and incarceration preached
several times strongly against abolition polit-
ical preachers.
Year: 1860

Nor PARrIoULAR.-A company cf men
are engaged on farm near Erie, Pa, dig
ging principally tor oil, but do not seem very
particular about it. They intend digging
DOWN one thousand feet, or until they strike
a vein of oil, or lead, or copper, or soap.
Year: 1860

Hon. ELIJAH SELLs.-lt affords US pleasure
to endorse the following tribute to the worth
of the present Secretary of State. We copy
from the Burlington Rasckeye ofthe 9th ult:


"We have known Elijah Sells for the last
three or four years as public officer, and we
have known him to be one of the most prompt,
efficient, faithful, and in every way competent
public men, that ever held a responsible
position in our State. He has to-day more
personal popularity than any man in Iowa,
and he deserves it. No interest of the State
ever suffered in his hands, and no single
blunder or omission of his was ever exposed
Such public officer thus faithful and true to
public trust, in these days of corruption,
should not be discarded for trivial reason.
Year: 1860

The Providence Journal says that some
of the Charleston delegate. from New York
were so indiscreet as to drink water, and
became sick. This was certainly very i'm
prudent. 1t is always perilous to try new
Leverage wien away from home.
Year: 1860

GWSince the time the children of Is
rael threw each stone upon the mound
to mark monument, no such a days work
has heen done as at Charleston last Thurs
day, wien every delegate brought his in
dividual plank to construct that great tower
of Babel, a Democratic platform.
Journal