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Year: 1859

We learn from the Tribune that a meeting
of the citizens of Santa Clara county will
be held at San Jose on the 7th inst. The
subject for consideration will be the law
passed at the late session of the Legislature,
authorizing the counties of this State to sub
scribe for stock in railroad companies.
Year: 1859

Also, have few Of these celebrated Machines.
They just what every Farmer wants. The com-
pact arrangement Of different parts Of this machine
the great simplicity OF It's construction, the strength
and durability Of its workmanship, the small amount
OF power II takes TO it, together with its effective
operation in threshng ana cleaning at least as much
grain Of any Kind as any other four six horse ma
chine in use, combine 10 justify us In believing
that It cannot fail Il becomes known, TO be the most
useful and popular machine in the country. The CYL
inders Of the above mtchincs are from eighteen 70
twenty four inches In length Each OF the Ohio Ma
chimes have Trucks, Horse Power, Levers, and the
usual amount Of extras.


We can safely recommend our presenlot Of Ihresh-
ing Machines being ,h best that have ever been inn
ported, as they were all made to order Give us a
call before buying
Year: 1859

We have been friends together,


In sunshine and in shade,
Since first beneath the chestnut tree


In infancy We played;
But GOODNESS dwells within thy heart,
= A cloud is on thy brow
We have been friends together,


Shall light word part US now?
We have been friends together,


We have laughed at little jests,
For the fount of hope was gushing
Warm and joyous in our breasts;
But laughter has now fled thy lips,


And sullen glooms thy brow
We have been friends together,


Shall light word part us now?
We have been sad together,


We have wept with bitter tears
Ger the grass grown graves where slumber'd
The hopes of early years.
Those voices which are silent


Would bid thee clear thy brow
We have been sad together,


D, what shall part us now?
Year: 1859

The land of the sugar cane is the soil which
yields the acid fruits; love, true love to God al
ways makes man bold and uncomprom sing.


Fanny Fern says she "once had narrow escape
from being minister's wife, If she had more
narrow escape than the minister, We are much
mistaken.
Year: 1859

THE MErHoD1srs AHEAD.-The spire has
been completed ON the beautiful new Methodist
Church, corner of Fourth Avenue and Twenty
Second Street, New York. On last Saturday
evening the climax to the structure capped.
1t is the highest spire in New York The finishing
stone is described as a solid block of marble,
to sharp point On each side are rudely cut the
initials Of several of the prominent men connected
with the Church. The church and spire now
completed, form one Of the finest specimens of
ecclesiastical architecture in the city
Year: 1859

IMPROVEMENT OF TlME.-One of the hours
wasted each day on tribes Incidence, saved, and
daily devoted to improvement, is enough to make
an ignorant man wise in ten years--to provide the
luxury of intelligence for mind torpid from lack
of thought-to brighten up and strengthen facui-
tics perishing with rustic make life faithful
field and, and death q harvest of glorious deeds
Year: 1859

ParrOtt Il Newborn, Proprletors.
THNHIS Magnificent Hotel has been enlarged to
Ill ly double its original size, addition Of eighty
eight feet having been added on Railroad street thus
presenting an imposing front Immediately in view of
the Atlantic Ocean.


The reranda of this Hotel (Which is three stories
high) fronts towards the Ocean two hundred and
eighteen feet affording


DeIighffHE Promenade.
From this standpoint the beholder the Ocean
in the south Bogue Sound in the south west, the Har
Dor with all its shipping, Fort Macon and three Light
Houses in the southeast, affordng a range of


OCEAN SCENERY
that is scarcely elsewhere to be met with ,


The superinendence of this Hotel will be in the
hands of Mr. II. ERAMBERT, formerly of the Fay
etteville Hocl) whose taste and skill so emInentiy
qualities him for making all the guests feel as II they
were at home
The best servants the country could afford have
been secured .
Those who stop with us will never be at loss for
RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT.


Our steamboat will make regular trips to Beaufort,
the Inlet the Fort, and often on Extra Excursions
while our BAND OF Music will be "dseoursing
sweet sounds to the of those who shall favor US
with their Company.


Our BAR will furnish choice liquors of all kinds;
our BILLIARD ROOM is in good order, and our BOW
ING ALLEY will be constantly open for the enter
ainment of those who have teste for these heah1hi
exercises. and READING ROOM will contain hles
of the best newspapers, magazines, and periodicals
published.


The sick will find our BATHING HOUSES matter
of great comfort and help to better health.


We feel assured that in every respect we can give
entire satisfacton SHALL at least spare no pains 10
do whole duty that all our guests may receive "
possible attention
TAKE NoTIcE.-As the train arrives after dark eaeh
evening persons going Beaufort will do we'll to stop
over night in Carolina City as they can be conveyed
wherever they wish go the next day. in steameoaf
or sail boats and thus be saved the trouble OF ds-
agreeable night trip across the water


Carolina City, May II, 1859. I'm
Year: 1859

In the first place, make up your mind to ac-
complish whatever you undertake; decide upon
some particular employment and persevere in it.
All difficulties are overcome by diligence and as
siduity Be not afraid to work with your own
hands, and diligently, too. Attend to your own
business, and never trust it to another. Treat
every one with respect and oiyility.
Year: 1859

LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Professor Gambs, a learned German, formerly con-
nected with an institution Of learning in the Duehy OF
Nassau. and compelled to leave his country on account
of the part taken by him in politics. Is about to give
oonrse Of lectures, in the German language, at the
Cooper Institute, on UnveHal History. The hr't OF
these will be delivered after the first OF January
Those who are engaged in the study OF the German
language will find this good opportunity OF eduea'-
ing the ear to s sounds by listening to an experienced
lecturer.
Year: 1859

GAS MosoPoLY.-Grest efforts have been made for


long time past to lessen the price of gas to the con-
SINNERS. To effect this desirable object several years
AGO the Legislature chartered the Metropolitan Gas
Light Company. This Company immediately organ,
ized, and presented petition to the Common Council
for permission to lay their pipes in the streets and ave-
nues of The city. This was violently opposed by the
old monopoles but finally, about year since, the
Common Council passed resolution granting such
permission. Then the old companies commenced legal
proceedings to stop the progress of the new Company
alleging that the act unconstitutional This action
being decided adversely the old companies they are
now seeking to induce the Common Council to Tese,nd
their resolution granting suoh permission We under
stand that the Metropolitan Company have made large
purchases Of real estate entered into contract nyoy


Inc the outlay of over 81, 100000 for building their
works and laying pipes &C., and that Il Is their nten
ton TO have their works completed and ready for ope
ration early next Spring, thus furnishing addtenal
competition in the gas business Under these cream
stances we are sure that the Common Council will not
do so great wrong to the consumers Of gas as to re-
neal such resolution. The people demand every iae-
- Commercial AdVeTtiser
Year: 1859

NEw HUMOROUS AND SATIRIcAL PArER.-Notwitl-
standing the frequent failures Of comic papers in this


city, enterprsng gentlemen believing that there
is yet something to be accomplished in this direction


have established new humorous and satirical puoca-
ton, with determination to fully test the possibility
OF its permanent They rest their expectations
upon the fact that they have secured the interests of
large number of the best known and most popular
wrters and the illustrators that could be collected
together, and that their abundant capital will enable
them to command whatever literary artistic service
,bey are likely to need The new paper is to be called
Vanity Fatr The first number will be issued on
Wednesday, and it viii be continued weekly thereafter
Year: 1859

H0r Two novelties of the genus homo are
mentioned as belonging to the New York
University Medical College. They have
arrived at the years Of discretion, yet have
never tasted ardent spirits. One is Ken
tuckian and the other New Yorker.
Year: 1859

D@ A person may discipline the mus
cles of the face, and lie may control the
voice; but there is something in the eye
beyond the will, and we frequently find
it giving the tongue the lie direct.
Year: 1859

Take In the idle tale you hear


And hand It round and round,
There's many ons whose thirsty ear
viii drink the pleasant sound;
And tell II with an added part


To each one that receives him;
But always with an honest staff,


That proves how much 1t grievss him. !,
Look wise for once and boldly VOW
You'll raise warning hand;
Perchance there is some fair young brow
just waiting fof your brand.
Make haste to bring your foul complaint
Against life's faint beginners,
Prove to the world you are saint


By making others sinners.
Oh! slanderer with the listening ear
And ever ready tongue,
There is curse In every tear


You wiring from old of young;
Thou dark intruder in ths abode


Most sacred to another,
The drawer murderer on the road,
Would blush to call thee brother.
Year: 1859

GESTLEMES.-This Office has number Of
excellent friends who will become unwel.
come here after while We wan. to be rc.
~ sociable and obliging, but people who
want to read our exchanges, to tell US long
yarns about their FIRST wife's sisters aunt
or some such equally interesting matter,
will please to remember that our business
duties will not admit of waste of time
such as these prolix narratives require
Our boys and compositors cannot work
with SO much company to annoy them, and
we shall have to stop this habit of loafing
and gassing in the Office by telling the
thoughtless ones to go out Of tho office, pro-
vided this hint don't take effect.
Year: 1859

OsHxosH.-This town is said TO have
been burnt in consequence Of the arrest and
trial, though final discharge, of 12 nadams
Of free love tendencies. The arrest occur.
red last summer and they held a sort of
convention at which it was determined to
burn the city,


Such cattle as these should be watched
and shipped before they get strong enough
to fire whole city. Pimps and gamblers
should also be ordered to leave as soon as
their business becomes known to the author
ities
Year: 1859




TRorr.-A writer on Trout says that
the female is brighter colorcd than tho male.
This is not our belief He says that trout
are the only fish that have voice, "a ,nur.
muring sound coming from them when you
press them.


Had the writer fisled with us in the tri-
butsrics Of the Kankakee and the lakes
Of Indiana and Michigan, he would have
learned that Dog-fsh not only have voice,
but that they will actually bark after being
thrown out on the bank. We have known
fishermen who stated that Michigan dog
fish when landed by tho sportsman would
-stakr after srgirr and howl at him for
several reds, bat not being certain of the
truth Of this statement, we decline to in
dorse it!
Year: 1859

And this Is all The long procession's pride,


The plumed hearse, the hatchment, and the pail
One tear of sorrow doth outweigh them all


One drop o'er0owng from affections tide,


such had been here. The last Of q long line
In the dim chamber of the tomb was laid;
The seeming OF regret had been Displayed.
Coldly-most coldy Ger his burial plac.
The mourners passed and smiled butone was there
Her pale face in her mantle almost hid,
And her heart swelling with voicsless care


She dropped flower upon his coffin lid,
Thus, the true sorrow DER that stately dead
Was that young orphans, whom his bounty fed.
Year: 1859

Wherever we look in our pleasant
and beautiful village, we behold IN activity
which cannot be seen in every place of its
size, Buildings are going up all around US
and it seems IS If our citizens were inspired
with new life and vigor Two more build
ings have been commenced within the last
few days, and We hear Of others that are to
be erected in a short time. Good, we say
- -GorpariNo Journal.
Year: 1859

w-Mr. - and his wife were sitting.
q few DAYS since, quite close to each other
in their home; the husband feeling some


what lover-like, although for years mar
ried man, put his arm around his wife and
saluted her affectionately The wife pushed
him away, saying, "You should not do such
things when the door is open and people
are passing. They will think we are not
married if they see us kissing each other"
Year: 1859

Bay- One half of an apple orchard of so acres,
recently sold in Oregon for $4,000. In this
State apple orchards three or four years old,
have sold for about IS per tree. From this
persons may form some idea of the profits likely
to attend this sort of enterprise.
Year: 1859

ABsg- That portion of Major Readings grant
which is mineral land, embraces not less than
5000 acres. By the decision of the Supreme
Court no man, without TIKI consent of the pro-
or other purposes. The boundary line leaves
the Sacramento river near the mouth of Salt
Creek, follows up the same to a certain point,
thence crosses the main road near the Four
Mile House, including that property within the
grant. The auriferous portion of the grant is
known to be richly auriferous. Indeed within
= few weeks exceedingly good diggings have
been discovered On this grant. The miners now
working these lands are referred to the aSver-
tisement of the proprietor
Year: 1859

Bar The Red Bluff Beacon will be delighted
to ind that the Black Republican San Francisco
Times has copied the scurrillous portion of
very nasty article recently published in that
paper at the expense of Gen. Denver
Year: 1859

superior, but, we have already stated, the crop,
as regards the quantity, will be light in this State
and Indiana, and will be hardly an average


In Kentucky there is no doubt that the crop is a
heavy one, and the same may be said of all places
west of Indiana. The barley CROP already harvest
ed, turns out very light and the grain poor.


We have had some samples of wheat sent US,
during the week, but two from farmers in Henry
county, Indiana, exceed all others. The heads
were four to five and half inches long, and aver
aged four and half, and the average number OF
grains in each head was one hundred and two. OF
course, we presume, these samples were selected,
but, then the fact that such could be found any
where, is highly suggestive. We also have sam
pie of white wheat from farm near Milford, of a
quality fully up to anything we have ever seen.-
The grains are very large and even. . s5.. .-


Generally speaking, the samples we have had
from Kentucky are excellent, and many of them
would weigh sxty-fve pounds to the bushel.


The weather, since Saturday, has been hot and
dry, and the corn, under such scorching sun,
needs rain, but this high temperature is just what
is needed to heat up the earth, so that when rain
comes, the growth will be rapid and vigorous New
wheat is now coming in rapidly-20,000 bushels
having arrived the last four days, chiefly from
Kentucky, and with the coming week, we NAV ex-
pect large supplies, as this weather is peculiarly
favorable for preparing it for market. At ST per
bushel, the farmers will sell freely but there can be
no doubt that they will be unwilling, at present to
accept a much lower rate.-Cincinnati Price Cur.
Year: 1859

The alarm of fire sounded yesterday afternoon a
Ga O'Clock was caused by misunderstanding be
tween one of the Fire Commissioners at box No. 2
corner Calvert and Lombard streets and the opera
tors at the Marshal's Office.
Year: 1859

Decrease in June, 1889. 5e.............,. $50 72l II


The decrease was wholly in freight.


The Boston Post in its weekly review of Finance and
Trade, says


Money is ruling somewhat higher than 1t did week
ago. We quote cent current outside rate for
prime paper In the banks it is per cent discounts
are less readily obtained than they have been The bank
loans are hgh and the bank specie has considerably
diminished before the untoward condition of exchange
with New York During the early part of last week the
bank specie received accessons from the Californian
arrival but toward the close tie stock again declined
and stood at only s5,l44,s 500 Saturday ming. In
the meantime, New ork funds ever and
in as active demand. This condition of things has pro-
duced uneasiness in the banks and among close
observers of the market 1t is very evident nothing
but the Summer dullness from uncomforaby
tight condition of money. The smallest increase of bus-
activity in the Autumn is certain to be attended by
higher rates and this activity it
Besides home business demand for money also
this market do its share in moving crops in
paying for the imports, and in suppl wing any demand
for gold Sterling Exchange in Boston has recently
quiet but very firm 1t is stiff l0k for best drawn
bills and at l04 for best bankers bills drawn in sums
suit. These figures it should be remembered current
after very extraordinary shipments of specie. As the
importaons continue to be very heavy and the
very light, the specie shipments They will
be increased by whatever demand may happen pre-
vail through the summer
Year: 1859

BADLY BEATEN.-In a conversation which took
place in Kempsville on Sunday about the escape of
Land, Willoughby Williams, the "true and trusty''
custodian of that individual gave the lie to re-
mark made by one of the persons present, who
pitched into him, and he so badly beaten as to
require surgical treatment. We would advise Mr..
Williams to be more guarded. If he expects to
bully all who disbeeve his statement he will have
his hands full for the balance of his life
Year: 1859

Coop ADVICE The Missouri Republican
says: t"Farmers, at least those who have
money to pay, had better agree to sell at
fair rates than to keep their crops on hand
in hopes of getting better prices. II they
can do well by an carly sale, that will be
found to be a much more advisable plan
than to hold on in hopes Of doing better
Buyers and sellers = merchants and thsi'
debtors come together - soon %
possible and agree to live and let live,
and ID this way the financial condition Of
the country will be greatly improved" In
our Judgment in the end this will be found
to be good counsel.
Year: 1859

- IMPORTANT TO TUB PuBL1o.-The New
York Central Railroad has given notice to
all Western Roads that on and after Sept.
ilst they will not receive any tickets that
are over Is days old, md iurther that they
will refuse all tickets that are not properly
date and signed by the agent selling them.
Year: 1859

ag"VoT A FARMER PIN the discussion at
Iowa City, Gen. Dodge expressed his willing
ness to abandon the true principles involved
in the contest, and turn in on his qualifications
as laboring man, in whatever field of toll his
opponent desired. He will have ample oppor-
tunity for trying his hand at thai after the
election, the particular field being left entirely
at his own option. We think it would be a
good idea for him to yoke up those disfgured
oxen, and hire out on the railroad.
Year: 1859

TEE UsKs OF OYrios.-John Anderson,
Esq, in making . speech before the late
Peoples Mass Convention, Of twenty five
men. said that Nevada County had sent msp
to the Legislature for the purpose Of keeping
them from starving. The people Of Nevada
county are generous people so are the
people Of Nevada township. We wish our
indignant friend had gone into history Of
q certain Justice Of the Peaceship.
Year: 1859

A VERY STRANGE AFFAIR--Among the
items of the late foreign news is the follow
ing from the Birmingham Daily Post, about
a young girl who was upon the point Of be-
ing buried before she was really dead. The
Post says:


"The girl, whose name is Amelia Kinks, is
| twelve or thirteen years of age, and resided
with her parents in Bridge street. Noneaton,
and dwindling away under some unaccounta-
Bile complaint, about three weeks ago she, as
her friends imagined, died. The corpse was
then removed to another room The body
was rigid and icy cold. 1t was washed and
laid out with the usual deathly accompani.
ments, penny pieces being placed over the
eyes, and the coffin was ordered


For more than forty-eight hours, the sup
posed corpse lag beneath the winding sheet,
when it happened that her grandfather, a
very aged man, came from Nuneaton. On
going with q female relative to see the
corpse, the old man removed one of the cop
per coins, and although the eye remained
closed he fancied he saw a movement under
the lid. The woman with him at first ridi-
euled the idea, but on looking more closely
she too observed movement The medical
attendant was then apprised Of the circum'
stance and, although he at first treated the
matter as delusion, the application of an in
strument to the region of the heart soon con-
vinced him that there was life within the ap.
parent corpse.


The body was then removed to warmer
room, and the existence of life soon became
apparent BY degrees animation was restor-
ed, loud sneeze placing the fact of her being
a living subject beyond all doubt When
speech was restored, the girl described every
thing that had taken place from the time of
her supposed death. She knew who closed
her eyes and placed the cOppers thereon -
She also heard the order given for her coffin,
and could describe the various remarks made
over her as she lay in her death.clothes.


At first on her restoration, she refused all
sustenance, and upon some aliment being
forced upon her she became frightfully excl
ted, and, though in q state of extreme debili-
ty, it required great force to hold her. Since
that period her conduct has been very
strange. She entertains a wish to destroy
her father and mother; and on one occasion,
when they were asleep in the same room with
herself, she arose from her bed in the dead
of the night went down stairs for light
and having first destroyed, by burning, some
needle. work. which she knew her mother
set great store upon, she set fire to the cur
tains. and then retired to bed, from which it
was thought impossible she could have
moved.


In fact. so mysterious was the origin of tn
fire, that her parents were quite at loss to
account for it, until the girl herself confessed
being the cause. She now lies in such a
state that she can neither be called alive nor
dead, the former state being only ascertain
ed by careful examination of her pulse
Wei it not that there is no motive for decep-
tion, and the parents being credtable people
We should imagine there was some ruse in
this very extraordinary affair, which is caus
ing considerable excitement in Nuneotou and
the neighborhood."
Year: 1859

MNING.-So far the present Winter has
been unfavorable for mining operations. In
the Buckeye diggings and in other places of
similar character, says the Shasta Republican
of Saturday, where water can only be obtain
ed in winter, miners have hardly been afford
ed an opportunity of working a fortnight.
The rains of the present week are more en-
couraging, although sufficient water has not
yet fallen to fill the bitches. The transactions
in gold dust have been very light during the
past month. The shipments are much smaller
than is usual at this season of the year.