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Year: 1860

Statistics show that while on the rail
ways in this country one passenger out
Of every one hundred thousand is in
iured, in England the proportion
is one to two hundred and fifty thous-
and, and in Germany only one to one
million and a quarter,
Year: 1860

BUSINESS MEN PAUSE AND THINK.
Your ALL IS AT STAKE The election
of Lincoln is honestly dreaded by the
South as an evil so insufferable as to cause
| it to look at the dark portals of secession as
a refuge, just as man oppressed by grief
and despair contemplates the grave-while
no man at the North has any fears in re-
gard to any interest or any right, should
Lincoln be defeated.


But if Black Republicanism, by its az.
gressions, forces secession on the South, ii
is all mistake to suppose that the South
will be the only sufferer. Indeed, the
North will be the great sufferer. How,
we will now proceed briefly to show.


The North can furnish the South moth.
ing which she cannot get elsewhere on bet.
ter terms. A separation will cut off the
entire Southern demand for all Northern
articles, aud the North can nowhere else
find customers to be substituted for the
South. The South will still have custo'
mers for all that it has to sell, and the
North, which cannot possibly do without
Southern cotton, rice, tobacco, tar, turpen
tine, lumber, &c., would have to purchase
them at advanced rates.


Now the North pays its European debts
with Southern produce sent to Europe
with the proceeds of which the South pur
chases from the North and gives he4 Dill
on Europe. In case of secession, and o
Year: 1860

A GOOD REASON FOR LAUGHTER-A
spendthrift was once laying awake in bed,
when he saw man enter his room eau.
tiously, and attempt to pick the lock of his
writing-desk. The rogue was not . little
disconnected at hearing a loud laugh from
the occupant Of the apartment, whom he
supposed asleep. why do you laugh p
asked the theft. 4 am laughing, my good
fellow, said the spendthrift, to think what
pains you are taking, and what risk you run,
10 hope Of finding money by night in
desk where the lawful owner can never
find any by day?' The thief vanished at
once. .---
Year: 1860




GOOD ADvIoE.-Those who wish. to do
good, but hesitate to do it, would do well to
read the following. The reason may be
suggested to them by the perusal:
Do not delude yourself with the idea that
you can please everybody. Who ever knew
anybody that was worth anything that had
nobody to find fault with him You would'
have to do evil in many cases to please the
evil fatter some to crafty their pride; in
dulge the selfish, submit to the tyrannical,
be tool for the ambitious, and be careful
not to have anything as good as those who
desire to have everything superior to their
neighbors. Ifyou are public man, should
you be diligent, you must expect to have
many secretly dislike you and talk against
you, for your success; and if you accomp-
lish little, though many show themselves
friendly, it often leaks out that some who
appear pleasant to you, can do thus because
they do not fear your rivalry-they may
smile upon you outwardly, and yet enter
tain contempt for your ineficiency. Az
ways do that which is right, be diligeut, do
the most you can, pay no regard tofsqlt;s
finders, and you will find as many friends as
any sensible man may need desire.
Year: 1860

Oh why do We meet if early to partf


Oh! where is the bliss untinged with alloy!
How cruel is fate, to tear from the heart


The presence beloved, that thrilled it with JOY
Oh why do we love, if only to lose


The idol the soul 80 fondy enshrines,
While, day after day, each moment reneWs


The links of the chain affection entWines!
Oh why do we smile, if so soon to sigh
For pleasures once gone we no more can know
Oh why should we live far better to die, g.,


When thoughts of the past o'erwhelm US WIN


woe.


Oh why do we linger 80 long on the way


That leads to rest, but found in the grave
While friend after friend is passing away
Each moment of time, like wave after wave
Ave, thus is the world yet why should we care
At grief let US smile-'t is folly to sigh.
Why pine for the past for the future why ieaf


To- day let us laugh-to' morrow we Ole.
Tho such be life's joys-all feeting and vain,


Tho baneful the flowers that bloom on the
way,
Let's gather, and wear them, in spite OF the pail
They leave in the breast when faded away.


The RETREAT, R1cHLAND, 8. c.


.oneinally published in the OouRAsT, IN 1852
Year: 1860

SLIPPERY PEopLE.-There is class Of
people who resemble eels in their manner Of:
going through life. They are your smooth
people who slip through the hand,whenF
you attempt to catch them, and; leave you
wondering how they could have escaped.
The hand of morals, law, or right failsstoa
hold them, aud yet they seem to recognize
them all. A bargain with such men al
ways results in their gain; there is some
loop left for them to hang an advantage on;
something that will rebound to their partic.
ular glori6cation and profit. They are
splendid managers of benevolent institu-
tions, occupy nigh places in the moral
world-for such are not those men who
get caught; and if they get caught, they
manage to slip through; are great on mort.
cages, lend money on the right sort Of Sc
curity, and never lose, and whichever way
they fall they alight all right. They are
politicians, and always manage to be on the
winning side. In life they are unexception-
able, with characters excellent. But they
are slippery, nevertheless, and even while
praising them, as men may, in their short.
sightedness, and they wriggle through to
the end, the veil will be lifted, and the
time that tries all do justice to them.
Year: 1860

WHAT WE LEARNED BY THE LATE E..
cL1psE.-The solar eclipse of July II,
1860, was more thoroughly observed than
any other that ever occurred. In addition
to the great number of trained observers
who were scattered along the line of its
path, from the State of Oregon to Egypt,
the new art Of astronomical photography
lent its powerful aid towards obtaining
complete history of the phenomena. In
former total eclipses, when the sun was
completely hidden by the moon, while still
brighter objects, appearing like protuber-
ances, were seen extending into the corona,
there had been much discussion among as.
tronomers in regard to these appearances,
some believing that they were produced by
the action of the earth's atmosphere on the
suns light, others attributing them to the
moon, and others still to the sun. Hopes
had been for some time entertained that
the eclipse of this year would afford obSer-
vations which would settle these questions.
These hopes have not been disappointed.
The corona is luminous atmosphere Of the
sun, brighter than the face of the MOON
gradually becoming fainter as the distance
from the sun increases, till it fades away
in the sky without any defined limit, but
visible at least five hundred thousand
leagues from the body of the sun. The red
protuberances are luminous floating clouds,
floating in the shining atmosphere, all of
them pretty near the surface Of the sun
It is curious fact that some of these clouds
impressed their image on the photographs
paper, though they could not be seen
through with powerful telescopes. This
fact is explained on the supposition that
they may have emitted deep violet light,
mostly composed of chemical rays.
Year: 1860

The favorable features of the market previously noted
still continue with steady but moderate upward ten
dency in most of the leading stocks. Buyers
have about to the belief that the lowest points
the season have been nearly if not quite reached and
this idea gains strength renewed confidence will spread
through the market Mining shares not very ac-
tive, but firm all round, and sales moderate buyers
were in cNcesS of sellers in most cases
Year: 1860

TRAGIC OCCURRENCES IN VTRGINIA.-On the Nth
instant an old man named wager, living in the
Blue Ridge near Mauck's Tavern, in Page county,
hung himself whilst laboring under excitement
caused by the arrest of his son for horse theft and
that of another son who attempted to release his
brother from Jail. This announcement to daugh-
ter so prostrated her. that in short time death re
lieved her of sorrow and trouble. Thus, has the
transgression of one brought two of the family to
their graves two to ignominious lives, and the re-
mainder to crushing sorrows.
Year: 1860

OLD IRoNsGDEs-The frigate Constitution ar
rived here last Sunday morning, and was towed to
her moorings on Tuesday by the steamtug Mer-
demned as unseaworthy she has come here perhaps
to spend the declining years of her long and glori-
GUS career. Her name is linked inseparably with
some OF the most heroic deeds that grace the an
mails of our youthful and prosperous republic
When we look upon the noble old ship, it requires
no flight of fancy to picture to ourselves that go
rieus scene when in stern and ominous silence she
bore down upon the Gueirriere, then sending to
Heaven the shouts of freemen, she Redeemed the
ocean with the blood of her country's foes. We
look upon her with pride, and point her out to
children, telling them to learn from the record of
that gallant old vessel the history Of some of the
most heroic deeds of our sires.--Annapols Gazette,
Au1 25
Year: 1860

Minot's Ledge Lighthouse is now completed and
the lantern was lighted Tuesday evening for the first
time, having previously been covered on the sea-
ward side, to prevent its being seen by inward
bound vessels. The light is very powerful one,
and can be seen a long distance
Year: 1860

One of our wealthy citizens, who is interested in
several important patents, offered, during the late
visit of the Great Eastern to this port to replace
the boilers of that steamer with others of his own
manufacture, which should save nearly so per cent.
of the fuel now used The protector was to per-
form the work at his expense, and only receive
have demonstrated the asserted economy of the new
improyements.-N Y, Tribune.
Year: 1860

One autumn night, when the wind was high,


And the rain fell in heavy splashes,
A little boy sat by the kitchen fire.


A popping corn in the ashes.
And his sister, curly haired child of three,
Sat looking on, just close to his knee.
The blast went bowling round the house,


AS if to get in twas trying;
1t ratified the latch of the outer door,


Then it seemed baby crying;
Now and then drop down the chimney came.
And sp'uttered aid Kissed in the bright red


flame.
Pop Popl and the kernels, one by one,


Came out of the embers flying;
The boy held a long pine stick in his hand,


And kept it husily plying:
He stirred the corn, and it snapped the more,
And faster jumped to the clean-swept floor.
Part of the kernels hoped out one way,


And part hoped out the other,
Some flew plump into the sisters lap,


Some under the stool of the br other;
The little girl gathered them into heap,
And called them ga ''dock of milk white Sheep
all at once the boy sat still as mouse,


And into the fire kept gazing;
He quite forgot be was popping corn,
For he looked where his wood was blazing;
Ke locked and he fancied that he could see,
A house and barn. bird and tree
Still steadily gazed the boy at these,
And pussy's back kept stroking,
Till his sister cried out, why, George,
Only see how The corn IS a smosi ingl
And snre enough. when the boy looked back,
The corn in the ashes was burnt quite black.
Never mind, said he, we shall have enough,


So now let's sit back and eat it;
II carry the stool, and you the corn


It's good-nobody can beat it,
She took up the csrn in her pinafore,
And they ate it all, nor wished for more"
Year: 1860

DO YOU WANT EGGS IN WINTER!


Then give the manufacturers materi-
ais to make them with and q comfortable
place to work in. Let the egg-lc say
what they will, we speak what we know.
when we assert that it is perfectly feasible
to keep hens laying all winter. Give
them animal food to supply the place OF
the insects they catch in summer. and
then let them have warm place to run
into, with plenty Of unfrozen water, not
snow. and frequent taste of green food
such as cabbage leaves, potatoes. ETC.,
and remember 10 supply some gravel for
their grinding mill, and lime to make
shells out of, and we will warrant the
animals to repay all the care and food,
in nice plump eggs-no matter what
the particular breed may be. Try it.


A hen without some kind of meat, and
gravel. and lime, compelled TO eat snow
Tor water or go without, can not make
eggs. II she has to keep constan tly
changing from one foot to the other to
keep both from freezing, she can't stop to
think about getting up eggs. If all she
eats and can digest, must be expended in
keeping up the heat Of her body, she has
nothing left to turn into eggs. If her
body is all sbrunk mp with cold, she
hasn't room inside for an egg of respec-
table size, and though her instincts may
sometimes produce thin shelled "pul
let's egg" atthe expense of the lime in
her bones, her pride revolts against such
dwarfed production, and she seldom
furnishes beyond two or three.


Give Madam hen the odd bits of frest
meat, and other fxings named above, no


forgetting the water, and make her quar-


ters SO free FROM cold air-holes that sh


is comfortable and she can't help givin.


attention to her natural occupation Q


manufacturing eggs. much to her owl


satisfaction, and to the profit of he


owner.-American Agriculturalist.
Year: 1860

~In the reign of Henry the First,
about the year il30. sheep could be
bought in England for fourpence, and
wheat enough for feeding one hundred
men. whole day. cost but single shil-
ling. But it was harder to get the sbil-
ling than i. is now.
Year: 1860

parNo man can tell whether be is
rich or poor by turning to his ledger
1t is the heart that makes the man rich
He is rich or poor according to what he
is, not according to what he has.
Year: 1860

FAT TuRKIEs.-Muggins says, Jobs
turkey was fat compared with an OLD
go5bler he shot last week on the North
Fork-it was SO light it lodged in the
air, and he bad to get a pole to knock it
down. .-.- .-
Year: 1860

To have hard butter in summer, without
ice, the plan recommended by that excellent
and useful paper the Scientific american, is
good one, put trivit or any open fiat
thing with legs, in saucer; put on thi.
trivit the plate of butter; FIJI the saucer with
water; turn common hower-pot upside
down over the butter, so that its edges shall
be within the saucer and under the water.
Plug the hole of the flower-pot with cork
then dreneh the Aower-pot with water, sci
it in cool place until morning, or if done
at breakfast, the butter will be hard by sup
per time. How many boarding school
girls, who have been learning philosophy,
syntax and prosody, can write an explana-
ton of this within month
Year: 1860

The Niagara News thus sketches Blon.
din's performance on the Fourth: "Having
secured his balancing pole, and fastened the
two ends of rope some fifty feet apart to
bis main cable, the rope hanging some
twenty or thirty feet below, he descended
to the center of this slack rope, where, up
on this mere thread, he performed with as
much apparent unconcern as though in a
theatre. With straps around his ankles he
suspended himself thus hanging two or
three feet below even the slack rope. He
also stood up, as boys sometimes venture
to do in swing-this latter feat being to
all appearances really the most dangerous,
for the rope was a mere swing, and very
unsteady. He also whirled himself heels
over head, some fifteen or twenty times,
about as fast as spinner would turn her
quill wheel. People held their breath in
utter amazement at such recklessness. He
ran up hand over hand to the main cable,
where he hung by one leg, &c. He then
proceeded TO the Canada side; occupying
altogether in this insane exhibition twenty
one minutes"
Year: 1860

This terribly suggestive expression was
used the other day by one of the prisoners
now under sentence of death in our county
Jail. The occasion of its utterance was as
follows:


A party went to visit the prisoners in
Jail. One of the condemned recognized
one of the visitors as former resident OF
the same town in Ohio. His widowed
mother lives there still, and some of his sis.
ters. The visitor asked him if his mother
knew of his situation. He said she does,
and that he had received letter from her
but few days previously. Immediately
upon this allusion to his mother, his mind
seemed to wander back to the scenes of his
youth, and the home of his early affections,
and his face gave evidence of an indescriba-
bic anguish of heart, so painful and terrible
that he was pitiable to look upon. He
burst into tears and addressing the visitor
in question, who was lady, he exclaimed /:


"Oh, Mrs. -, little did think when l
saw you in Ohio that would ever come to
such a condition as this. Little did think
l would ever come to so dishonorable a
death as l am doomed to die, and break the
heart of my poor old mother, and disgrace
all my relations. Oh, my God my heart
will burst. never killed Wood, but was
drunk, and was present at his murder
Had not been drunk l would never have
been there. 1t is whskey that has ruined
me. Whiskey led me to bad company, and
it is whiskey that has brought me to the
gallows. The temptations of whiskey
shops first led me astray. Yes, Mrs. -,
the whiskey shop has been to me the road
to hell, and now, if was able, would
have printed over the door of every whis-
key shop in Dubuque and everywhere else,
in big letters that everybody could see,
these words of truth, THIS IS THE Road TO
HELL"


Here the poor fellows head sank upon
his hands and his agony seemed terrible
He doubtless felt the truth and force of
what he said, and all who saw him pitied
him. AS the word of doomed and dy-
ing man, his forcible and agonized remarks
made deep impression on all who heard
him.-DubUqle Herald.
Year: 1860

Have associated themselves in the practice Of
PLY SIC AND SUR G Err Y,
and hope by their thorough knowledge otther profession
and unremtng attention to the sick, to merit share Of
public confidence and patronage


oTF1oE.-on Pike street in Beaugrand building, near
Kessler's Hotel


Fremont, May IS, 1s0o-2otE
Year: 1860

it was agreeable to bis feelings or not
As that choice has Unexpectedly fallen on
me, I have not hesitated to accept it. In
the execution of this high trust, my object
will be to do my duty with justice and inn
partiality 10 all. I have great necessity for
your indulgence in the new position in
which I am placed, and I feel confident
that shall receive it at your hands. A
representative from the State of New Jer-
sey, and upon whose soil so many brilliant
acbievments were accomplished in the rev.
olutionary war, whose people have been dis
tinguished for their devotion to the Union
and the Constitution, pray to the Arbiter of
our destiniss that / may do no act to impair
the integrity Of either, but that by wise
and prudent counsels peace and order may
yet reign in our midst, and our free institu-
lions may be perpe,uated to our descendants.
l feel that ! have national heart, embrac-
ing all parts of our blessed Union. Again
I thank you for your kindness. I now
enter upon the duties of that arduous and
complicated station. ~


Mr.. Phelps being the Oldest consecutive
member administered the oath to the
Speaker by request of the Clerk. The
members were then sworn in by delega-
tious.
Year: 1860

| DYINe.-There is dignity about tha
going away alone, which we call dying


that wrapping of the mantle of Immortal
ity about ps; that putting aside with


pale hand the azure curtains that are drawI


around this cradle of world, that ven


turing away from home for the first TINT


in our lives, for We are dead, there is no


thing dead to speak Of, and seeing foreign


countries not laid down on maps We know


about. There must be lovely lands some


where starward, for none ever return thai


go thither, and we very much doubt if any


would if they could. sg


The ART OF NOT QuARRELINa.-HoN


is it we never quarrel Mrs. Xantppes-
Well, I will tell you. You ses, for quar-.
rel, and especially good quarrel, it IS ne.
cessary to have two parties. One person
can't make quarrel. Now, if l am In a
quarrelsome humor and break out, my wife
remains cool and collected, and doesn't say
a word. If my wife is peevish and dis
plays more temper than is becoming In
ore of her beautiful sex, !, her husband
remain unmoved as the monument, or else
cheat myself into the belief that ! am
listening for the moment to one of Crisis
heavenly songs. Thus, while one party
is Mechanically fuming, the other is as cool
as cold potato. In all our quarrels there
is, in this way, always controlling power.
Seriously, we never quarrel, because there
is pbilosophic compact between us never
to quarrel together. We only quarrel one
at time, and it is astonishing, if you
leave quarrel alone, how very soon it dies
out! That's our secret madam, and l
should advise you and all Xantippes to fol-
low it.-Punch.


"HE HAS NOT AN ENEMY IN THE World" :"
Hasn't! Well, we are sorry for him,
for he has mighty little character who has
no enemies. He is nobody who has not
pluck enough to get an enemy. Give us
rather as our idea of manliness, one who
has many enemies, one who has candor and
fearless love for the thing be sees to be
right. The man of earnest purposes,
strong will and love of principle, for its
own sake, must have enemies. But this,
so far from being i'll, is to him good. The
strong tree is more deeply rooted and fas'
tened in the soil by the blast than the sum-
mer breeze. A man never knows how
much there if of him until he has confront
ed and braved opposition. I


1t is the grand comfort of Christian
to look often beyond all that he can pos
sess or attain here; and as to answer Others
when he is put to it concerning his hope,
so to answer himself concerning all his
present griefs and wants; '"I have poor
travellers lot here, little friendships and
many trials; but yet 1 may go cheerfully
homewards; for thither l shall come; and
there 1 have riches and honor enough-a
palace and crown awaiting me. Here no
thing but depth calling unto depth-one
calamity and trouble las waves) following
another; but / have hope of that rest
that remaineth for The people of God
l feel the infrmities of mortal state; but
my hopes of Immortality content me un-
der them. ] find strong and cruel assaults
of temptations breaking in upon me; but,
for all that 1 have assured hope of full
victory, and then of everlasting peace
Leighton.
Year: 1860

HAn exchange says the best cure for
palpitation of the heart is TO leave off hug
ging and kissing the girls. If this is the
only remedy that can be produced, We for
one say, 'let'sr palpitater So say We.
Year: 1860

The most notable political item that has
occurred lately, and one which, thought it
will attract attention somewhat, and open
eyes with astonishment, but which will yet
that it ought to, is the evidence ofMr Wen
dell, late Democratic Government Printer,
before the Investigation Committee, concer-
ming his dealing with the proprietors of sew
eral journals, but more particularly with the
proprietors of the Buffalo Commercial Ad-
vertiser, the leading Fillmore organ in New
York, during the last Presidential election.
BY that testimony it appears on oath, that
Wendell was constrained by the Democratic
authorities to contribute literally out of his
own large profits to Mr. Jewctt, of the Adver-
tisef, in payment for its active services in as
sisting to divide the Northern voters so that
the Democracy might slip in between the
Republicans and the Americans That paper
was the home organ and leading mouthpiece
of Fillmoreism in 1856. And yet here is a
positive secret coalition, by the terms of
which, for pecuniary considerations, that
journal, with its high position and eminent
talent, was to labor as it could and did labor
effectively, to make the Fillmore diversion
extensive, for the benefit of the Democracy.
Thus corruptly, with secret purpose, was the
Fillmore party engineered for the advantage
of the Democracy in 1856, so far as its chief
organ was concerned. The proof ofthe cor
ruption will assist in rendering impossible
the repetition of the like fatal folly this year.


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