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Year: 1860

Mrs. George Washington Wyllys, l,
Life Illustrated, offers the following
geod hints to young ladies'
Don't sit down at your crochet worl
or embroidery unless you have first
mended that hole in your stocking. NJ
use crowding it under the heel of you,
shoe-rags, like murder, will out; and
they speak with terrible loud voices


M IN convenient seasons, sometimes.


Don't undertake to write skim milk
poetry when YOU feel a little disposed
toward enthusiasm. Go and do kind
action or speak an enc curaging word to
somebody, if the feeling must have
vent. Depend uponit you'll be Setter
satisfied afterward.


Don't pretend to be angry because
gentleman have the audaclty to look
at you when you promenade
the street in your best bonnet. What
do you go there for, if not to be SEEM,
The more you affect indignation the
more the offending wretchcs won't be-
lieve it.


Don't pay thirty or forty dollars for
The aforesaid bonuet, and then complain
that pa is in such narrow circumstan
i've cents in charity. Don't cat blue
and yellow candies the whole time, like
a mouse nibbling at pineapple cheese
and then lament because you have no
appetite for dinner.


Don't keep a gentleman waiting half an
hour, when he calls, while yoA put on
your lace and ribbons, and arrange
curls; he isn't fool, whatever you
think on the subject, and will probably
form his own ideas upon your original
appearance.


Don't run and hide, like a frighten-
cd rabbit when gentleman puts his
head into the room where you are dust
ing. IF there is anything to be ash
AIMED of in the business, why do you
do it!


Don't proclaim to the world that you
can't exist without six Paris bonnets
in year, and that life would be burden
without an opera box and diamonds
and then wonder that the young men
;fsheer off,


And above all, when some one does
dent say no, when you mean yes! He
may take you at your word.
If you follow all these precepts 20,
may one day succeed in getting married
and that you know, is the summit of al
earthly ambition.
Year: 1860

A man passing through a gateway
in the dark, hit his nose against post
7 wish that post was in hell, said he.
Better wish it somewhere else said
bystander' you might run against IL
again
Year: 1860

The danger that most neafly be-
sets America, is that those insti-
tutions which the fathers of the
present generation of american.
believed to be perfect. and praised
their belief, the children of the
present generation of americans
should learn to dislike and despise
that the principle of authority and
the veneration for law should re-
main strong enough to rein in the
headlong course of democratic
passion.
Year: 1860

A NCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MA


n SONS meet in regular communication
at their Hall in New Orgon, on, the first
Tuesday evening on or before the full of the
moon. Travelling Brethren in good Standing
with the Fraternity ore cordially invited to
attend
Year: 1860

"God bless the man who first invented sleep !"


So Sancho Panza said, and so say
And bless him also, that be didn't keep


His great discovery to himself, or try
To make it-as the lucky fellow might
A close monopoly by patent right y 5ud
Yes-bless the man who first invented sleep,


Il really cant avoid the iteration J
But blast the man with curses loud and deep,


What'er the rascals name, or age or station
Who first invented aud went round advising
That artificial cut of-Early Rising
Rise with the lark and with the lark to bed"


Observes some solemn sentimental owl,
Maxlms like these are very cheaply said


But ere you make yourself fool or fowl,
Pry, just inqaire about the rise-and fall.
And whether. larks have any bed at all
The time for honest folks to be abed,'


Is in the morning, il reason right
And he who cannot keep his precious head


Upon his pillow till It's fairly light,
And so enjoy bis forty morning winks r. .
Is up to knavery or else-he drinks !
Thompson, who sung about the Seasons said


1t was glorious thing to rise in season,
But then he said it-lying--iu bis bed


At 10 o'clock, A. M-the very reason
He wrote so charmingly, The simple fact is,
His preaching wasn't sanctioned by his practice
Tis, doubtless, we'll to be sometimes awake


Awake to duty, and awake to truth =
But when, alas u nice review we take


OF our best deeds aud days we find, in sooth
The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep
Are those we passed in childhood, or-asleep
'ris beautiful to leave the world awhile


For the soft visions of the gentle night
And free at last from mortal care or guile,


To live, as only in the angels sight
In sleeps sweet realm so costly shut in,
Where, at the worst, We only dream of sin
So, let us sleep, and give the Maker praise


l like the lad who, when his father thought
To cliphis morning nap by hackueyed phrase


OF Vagrant worm by early songster caught,
Cried "seryed him right Its not at all Surprising
The worm was punished, sir, for early rising p.
Year: 1860

At Dover Hill on Tuesday, Turpie said
that the act of the Legislature of Virginia
ceding the Northwest Territory to the
Congress of the confederation, required
Congress to prohibit slavery therein as one
Of the conditions of the grant. Judge
Morton in reply. denied the statement and
referred to the Virginia act in the 1st vol.
of Revised Statues to show there was no
such condition in it. In the debate at this
place on Thursday. Turpie made the state
ment that Virginia attached such condi-
tion to the cession, but that it was con-
tanned in the deed made by the Commits


sioner conveying the territory. and not in
the act Of cession. Morton, in reply. and
greatly to Turpie's astonishment. suddenly
produced copy of the deed from the Ii
brary Of Judge Ellis, and read it to the
crowd, showing that there was no such
condition in it. Turpie's modification was
of any party who did not feel for bim.-
He stood absolutely convicted of a mean
falsehood. which he had invented to break
the force OF an argument he could not an
swer. The perspiration stood upon his
brow and if he felt as mean as he looked his
agony must have been intense. The sud.
den production or a document. which he
supposed could not be found nearer than
the State Library. at Indianapolis, furnish
ing overwhelming evidence Of his false.
hood. from which there was no escape


covered him and his friends with shame
Let all such base metal be tried by the fire
of Truth and it will be consumed; or let il
be nailed to the counter to deter all would.
he bogus political coiners.- Vmeexnes Ga
zetke. .laei sf
Year: 1860

Grandmother, hate to 60 away from
you; you like me, and nobody else does.
Last night George Rudin and I had quar-.
rel; I struck him, and be struck me. No.
body likes me- Peter Jones said this as he
was sitting on his trunk ready to start home.
He only paid you in your own coin, said
grandmother people generally do-a blow
for blow, cross words for cross words,
hate for hate Il don't know but it is SO,
said Peter, looking very sorry, 'but it is
poor sort of COIN


'How different it would be if your pook.
cts were filled with the right sort of coin,
said grandmother. what kind?' asked
Peter. The coin of Kindness said grand
mother. If the great pockets of your heart
were full of that sort of coin, the more you
pay away, the more you'd get back, for you
are generally paid in your own coin, you
know then how happy you would be-


The coin of Kindness repeated Peter,
slowly shat is good coin; isn't it? l
wish my pockets were full oft, grandmoth-
er. If I'D be kind to the boys, they'd be
kind to me- Just so,' said grandmother.
Peters own mother died. After that
he was sent to grandmother's for he had a
quarrelsome, fretful temper, and his aunt
could not manage him with the other chill.
dren. His grandmother dealt kindly and
patiently, with him, and helped him to
improve himself Peter now: had new
mother, and his father had sent for him to
come home. Peter did not want to go.
He felt sure he should not like his new
mother and that she would not like him.
That depends upon yourself, Peter; said
grandmother ; 'carry love and kindness in
your pocket, and you'll find no difficulty.
The idea struck the boy favorably. He
wished he could, he said. .... ....


'And the best of it is, said grandmother,
if you once begin paying it out, your pock.
cts will never be empty, for you'll bo paid
in your own coin. But be kind, and you'll
be treated kindly love, and you'll be loved.
Il wish I could, said Peter. ~ r. -


All the way home he more or less thought
of it. I do not know about his welcome
home or what his father and new mother
said to him. The next morning he arose
early, as he was wont to do at graudmoth.
er's, and come down stairs, where everything
being new, he felt very strange and lonely.
Il know l shan't be contented here, he said
to himself, Il know I shan't. I'm afraid
there's not bit of love in my pocket


However, in little while his new moth.
er came down, when Peter went up to hel
and said, Mother, what can I do to help
you ?'-'My dear boy she said, kissing
him on the forehead, show thoughtful you
are. I thank you for your kind offer; and
what can do to help you for l am afraid
you will be lonely here at first, coming from
your dear, good grandmother.


What sweet kiss was, that. 1t made
him so happy. That's paying me in more
than my own coin,' thought Peter. Then
he knew he shonld love his new mother;
and from that good hour Peters pockets be-
gan to fill with the beautiful bright coin Of
kindness, which is the best small change
in the world. Keep your pockets full of i,
and you will never bein want
Year: 1860

The I'oiksbote, the German Republican
organ here, has the name of Judge L. Q.
DEBRULER candidate for Congress flying at
its masthead. That efficient paper was
prompt to adopt him rs its champion against
Judge Law, the weather-cock candidate.


Judge DeBruler is personally popular
wherever he is known. His great abilities
command for him the respect of even his
political opponents, while amongst the Op-
position his name is a talisman Of success.
In Dubois county, where he used to live,
his acquaintance is large and his influence
great. In that strong Democratic county
he will have an immense vote


The expressions Of satisfaction at his
candidacy have been numerous. We have
heard several persons express a desire to
hear joint debate between Judges DeBruler
and Law. 1t is hoped that the latter caa
be prevailed on during the summer to make
a series of joint appointments with Judge
Deb. The friends of the independent can
didate feel anxious to hear him worry Judge
Law by his trenchant arguments, and cutting
facts. The oleasinous Judge would founder
like whale when pierced by the fatal har-
poon, under the operation of Judge DeBru.
ler's mastery expositions of Democratic
treachery and corruption.
Year: 1860

SUBMARINE LANTERN.-An interesting
trial with new submarine lantern of pc
culiar construction has recently been made
at the Portsmouth On. H. Navy Yard, and
the result ELECTED high commentator. The
lantern was first lowered down to the bot
tom of the river then separate tests were
made as to the exact distance rays of light
could be seen from the surface. Also the
distance light could be thrown so as to dis
tinguisb accurately distinct objects. An
oar, lowered to the depth of six feet from
the bottom, the lantern being sunk four feet
was so clearly seen that the grain of the
wood was distinctly visible. The rays of
the light were visible upon the surface of
the river when the lantern was sunk to the
depth of twelve feet. These experiments
were MADE in thick, muddy water, and it is
stated that, had it not been that the board
OF examiners in attendance were satisfied as
to the principles involved, the lantern would
have been kept burning for three hours
The same principles which govern at a
depth Of sixteen feet will, it is claimed,
prove equally successful at depth of ninety
or one hundred and thirty.-Boston Com
7RereiaL Bulletin.
Year: 1860




"AsToUNDING. The Douglas organ thinks
that the first meeting of the Democratic
Club, on Thursday evening, was astounding
"a ats results. So we thought when we saw
the wo-begone expression of countenance of
the Democrats present. The absence Of
seJeral very prominent Democrats who
should have been there-the back wardness
Of the Sheriff in responding to the calls on
him for a speech-the Iet-down of the gen
tleman from the Boonville Democrat office
the tbinness of the congregational
want of enthusiasm in the audience-were
all astounding circumstances.


The " court room was pretty we'll filled
and the hall and galleries were crowded,
says the Douglas organ. 1t is lucky that
our neighbors did not say that two or three
thousand people couldn't get in and had to
go home, bu: we are glad that the Enquirer
is getting conscientious. If it had said that
there were plenty of vacant seats in the
court room, that the doorway was crowded
by persons who might have found seats in
abundance inside that there was continu-
Gus row of persons along the edge of the
single gallery and very few back, and that
the platform was thinly covered, we should
have had the correct story
Year: 1860

BS@ The Cambridge astronomers say the
cometisapproaching the earth, though, owing
to the strong moonlight, its low position
and its increasing distance from the sun, it
is doubtful whether it will become very
conspicuous to the naked eve. Through the
large telescope it presents an appearance
curiously like that of the great comet of
1858, on a reduced scale. The tail branches
off in two streams from the nucleus.
Year: 1860

A jolly and enthusiastic crowd of Lin


coin men left our city night before last, for


the purpose of attending a Republican meet


ing in Center Township. About twelve


most of them members of the Glee Club
took passage in an omnibus, and several


others went out in bnggies. The omnibus


load evidently were happy, and their cheer


ing songs for Lincoln, as they journeyed
along, attracted considerable attention from


the farmers, not lew of whom took off
their hats and echoed back the cheers of the
singers.


The meeting was held at the School
house near Squire McCutcheon's, where the
crowd arrived about Z J o'clock. By eight
o'clock the School-house was completely
filled by the yeomanry of the neighborhood.
Indeed, considering that it was in the mid
die of the grass season, and that the farmers
were busy securing their crop Of hay, we
were quite taken by surprise at witness
ing so large turn out. It was an unrlis-
taxable Indication that the farmers are
awaking to the necessity of purging the
National, State and County governments of
the leeches who are depicting the tax-pay-
ers.


The exercises were commenced bt a stir
ring song 10y the Glee Club, which was re-
ceived by the audience with every demon
stration Of applause. Blythe Hynes, Esq.
then delivered one of his compact, logical
and impressive addresses, which was listen
cd to with marked attention throughout
He exposed the gross corruptions row preva-
lent in the Government so that they could .
be seen and understood by all who listened. /


The Club then sung another of their
songs, after which james G. Jones, Esq, /
made a short speech, in which he rdiculed /
some of the foolish charges made by the
Democrats against the Republicans, and
gave a short exposition of the doctrines
which the latter party entertained.


Judge Conrad Baker was then introduced
and made a rousing speech, which met with
a hearty response from the crowd. The
Judge showed up the sophistries and politi-
cal tergiyersations of the Little Giant with
severity, and the cheers of the
audience seemed to intimate to him "to hit
the little fellow again, for he had no
friends or at least but very few among
those who were present.


After the conclusion of Judge Bakers ad-
dress, steps were Immediately taken for the
formation of a Lincoln Club, and the ma
ority of those present stepped up and signed
the Club-lst.


The meeting did not adjourn until II
) clock, and those who went from the city
lid not arrive at home until near one
o'clock. The fires are brightly burning in
old Center, and she will give a good account
Of herself in October and November next.
Year: 1860

THE Aeronaut La Mountain, in his re-
cent excursion from Troy, was accompanied
by a young lady named Moss We will
venture to say that no moss was ever before
discovered cIinging to mountain so high
up.-GN. 7. Times.
Year: 1860

esS@ Senator Bright frankly admits that
Lincoln will carry Indiana by very large
majority, and does notanticipate any change
of the Democratic programme by which
that result can be effected
Year: 1860




jeered at his folly, while others, more kind
pitied him as poor maniac. But still
through the long weary years, he worked, az
unwayering in purpose, and as strong in the
faith that he was on the right track, as a
6-st, Such instances of perseverance and
untfring energy, have seldom been known in
the history of the world as were exhibited
| in this man.


Sickness at last overlook him. Over
work, lily prepared food, and privation had
at last undermined his strength and obliged
Thin to succumb. Stretched upon the floor
in his miserable hovel, he at last gave way
to despair, and groaned in agony in viewing
the painful retrospect, and being forced by
such circumstance to give up his PROJECT.
Oh, that he could have life enough, he pray
ed, to prove to the world, his theory to be
true, to redeem his character for sagacitv-
1t was hard to go down to death with the
stigma of lunacy placed against his name
He wanted to show his fellows that his eff.
forts were the result of lifelong study. -
But it was useless to think of it now.
Remembering his old VOW to succeed or
die in the shaft, be took candle in his fee.
BILE hands, and crawled to his " diggingg,n y
he mustered strength enough to slide down
the rope, determined to breathe out his exist
ence where he spent his life. On his hands
and knees he traversed the drift down to the
farthest corner, deeming it the ittest burial
for such as he. He reached the spot where
last he left his work. sick and exhausted,
and sticking his candle into bunch of clay,
lay down faint with exertion For long time
he lay in one position dreamingly gazing at
the rocky walls of the mine, and waiting for
the dissolution which he expected would
take place.


AS he thus reclined, his attention was at
tracted to cleaning lump Of ore.in a crew
ice before him. From an instinct of long
habit, he took up his pick and undertook to
loosen it. 1t did not yield. He became in
interested in dislodging it, and worked away
the earth from around it and pried it out
with small bar. All at once the lump dis
appeared and rev veaed hole. He heard it
rink bling and rafting down many feet be-
low, and knew Immediately that he had struck
q "cave."


In a mon1enthe was wild with excitement
t5e found new strength, and worked franti-
cally to enlarge the aperture to a sufficient
size to ad1nit his body, and at last succeed
ed. ..s.- -


OA""iitig HioaSu an opening anu SEuing
down rough declivity, he found himself
in cave of large extent, the sides and floor
of which were covered with ore Over the
floor of this magnificent, room lay strewn
Jumps OF galena of many TONS weight


"At last! On, at last I'm rich!' said he.
at the same time falling senseless to the
ground, overcome by excitement and fatigue
Here he was found by his neighbors few
hours afterwards, and taken home, where he
eventually recovered his health.


Thus, after ceaseless search of seventeen
years. he was rewarded by princely fortune.
At the time the incident was related to us.
his wealth was estimated at more than a
quarter of million of dollars, and not a
1.-THE of his ffineral had been taken out
Dubuque Ue7ald.
Year: 1860

GEN. YELL.--We are in receipt of a letter from this gentleman, in which he states that he was not able to fill his ap- pointments at Brownsville and Des Arc, from the fact of his having to attend to an important lawsuit for one of his clients in the Hot Spring Court, on Monday last.
Year: 1860

The principal difficulty in raising large
and we'll bleached celery is to get the plants
early, and sufficiently stocky. This is best
accomplished by sowing them early IN the
Spring, in hot-bcd, and when an inch high
trausplanting them into warm border where
they can remain till the trenches are ready
for them. This will seem moro labor than
most people are willing To bestow. but fire.
auent transplanting is the only way to get
strong. healthy plants that will receive little
check when planted in tho trenches during
our hot June and July weather.


In making the trenches the soil should be
thrown out at least two feet deep, and twelve
inches wide at the bottom; the first 81. inch
"a beipc placed on one side, 80 that 1t can
be used by covering the manure. Good leaf
compost, or "spit manure" as the London
gardeners say, from old hot.beds' or, what Is
still better, the liquid or solid droPp,,ngs from
a manure cellar well composted with thoro
ly decomposed peat should be put AZ
the bottom Of the trench about six inches
thick, and covered with about six inches OF
rich, light, surface soil. Let the plants oe
we'll watered "a hours before transplanting,
and take them up with ball Of earth round
the roots, and they will receive little or no
check. Good suPer-phosphate OF lime, ei-
tber in solution or mixed with the soil before
transplanting, has q very beneficial elect, In
giving the celery On early start. We have
Year: 1860

Said young person to lady who sat
holding her child, snow what good will all
your education do you? You havo spent 30
much time in study, graduated with high
honors. learned music and painting, and now
only married farmer. Why do you not
teach school, or do something to benefit 9TH
ers with your talents, or If you chose to mar.
~. why not take u teacher, clergyman, or
some professional man7 But as Il Is, you
did not need 30 much learning for . rural
life."


The lady replied, "You do not look very
far into the future. Do you SEQ this boy on
INV lap? need all the study, oil tho disci.
pline, both of mind and body, that | could
get in order that may train him Alright
You sea- have the first impressions TO mako
on tho fair blank Of his pure heart, and un-
less my mind was FIRST cultivated, my own
heart first purified, how could we'll perform
the task now placed before mel And. be-
sides, do you not suppose that farmers have
hearts like other men, tastes just as pure,
because they guide the plow and till tho soil
for their support? Do you not suppose their
minds uro Just as capable Of cultivation and
expansion as other men? linvo they no love
of the beautiful in their nature. Of art7I
Cannot good paintings DO just a: much adj
mircd on the walls as Others, or docs the evo-
ming hour mover pass as pleasantly with them
when they gather around tho piano after .
DAYS labor Ia finished? All. my young
friend, you have made sad mistake In your
reckoning"


or all tho occupations givo mo that Of
farmer. 1t is the most beautiful his life 10
FREQ from care, his sleep swccter, his treasures
safer. A farmer need not be slave to any,
for he has none to please but himself. Not
no with almost any tradesman, mechanic or
professional man. They have moro to DO
with the world at largo, and have oil manner
of persons to deal with, so they have need Oh
tho patience Of Job to live. They are vol
aware that they must not freely speak their
minds at all times; that II they do they will
loso their custom for they depend upon tho
people for living. therefore they arc the
servants of all. Then what can DO desired
morc-what is moro peaceful, prosperous,
honest, hcalthful, than . farmers life7-
Exchange.