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Year: 1859

A KIDNAPPING CAsE-Some little excitement
was created at San Francisco. on Thursday. by
kidnapping affair. It seems that DIR. Nc
Cormick and bis wife, bad brought TO this State
three slaves, who have resided with them for
some time in the interior. The Doctor and bis
wife were about to leave for the East on the
Sonora, aud gave the slaves their choice, to re
turn to Maryland, or remain here. Two of
them concluded to remain, and the other, boy
named Mathews, sgnifed his desire to return
with his master The Doctor had sent his bag
gage to the steamer, and carriage was drawn
up in front of his lodgings to convey himself
and wife to the steamer. Mathews was assist
ing in the preparations for leaving, and as be
stepped on the sidewalk, he was surrounded by
about dozen negroes, who seized and spirited
him away. The Doctor concluded to remain
at San Francisco until the sailing of another
steamer, in order to recover the boy, and pro-
cured warrant for his arrest. He was arrest
ed the next day in the street. and stated that
he had passed the night at house in the sand
hills, and had been let out at bis own request.
He was taken to the county Jail, where be had
an interview with DR.. Mccormick. He express
ed himself as willing to go with his master if
he remained in this State, but was not willing
to be taken to slave State. He was taken
before the District Court and discharged from
custody.
Year: 1859

THE SHOOTING AFFAIR AT OMEGA.-On our
first page, will be found a letter from our cor
respondent at Omega, giving the particulars Of
the late shooting affair at that place. The let
ter was intended for our last issue, but did not
come to hand in time.
Year: 1859

CRIMINAL CAsEs.-The oases Of the People on wrts
Of error are get down for argument in the Supreme
Court General Term TO day. They consist Of the
Sheppard arson CASE the assault and battery of
School Commissioner Barry; Mortimer Secor, selling
lottery policies and Francis Ddieu indicted for arson.
Year: 1859

~ Dan Rice, the celebrated clio IN and
show uan announces that the present week Is
the last Of his professional ear eer he being
about - retire from the arduous profession IN
which he has attained much celebrity and
accumulated : handsome competency.
Year: 1859

- Byron's helmet, which was made to be worn in the Greek war of independence. is now the ornament of parlor in Boston. It Is said tc be too small for ordinary heads.

 - Persons who are always cheerful and good-humored, are very useful in the world. They maintain peace and happiness, and spread a thankful temper among all who live around them.

 -The difference between clock and a woman has been thus defined: s' A clock serves to point out the hours, and woman to make us forget them."

 The basis OF all eloquenee is truth. It is intellectual gold, which is as durable as it is splendid and valuable.

 - Solitude is necessary in the moments when grief is strongest, and when the thoughts are most troubled.

 When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every dark cloud with gorgeous hues.
Year: 1859

Territory assemble to form State Constitu,
ton, they, and they alone, have the right to
abolish or TO protect property in slaves, or cat,
tie, or rhorses. or in any other form. And this
principle of popular sovereignty never can be
fairly and fully maintained, if we are to allow
its exercise to be preceded and superseded by
the anarchy Of squatter sovereignty, snatchlns
power regardless of the equal rights of the
States, the letter and spirit of the Constitution,
and every principle Of the "law of liberty"
Year: 1859

Bar The police of New York are stopping
street begging, The consequences is that the
cheap boarding houses suffer for their usual
supplies of cold yictuals. One little girl, nine
years old, told the officer that she had, for sew
eral years, collected enough with her basket to
supply table for 6 grown persons, besides the
children of the family.
Year: 1859

naThere is perhaps no pain so acute, no
sentiment SO humiliating to,,the hearts of woman,
as the CONSEQUENCES of awakening distrust
where she most deserves to have inspired
confidence
Year: 1859

A correspondent, writing from Jacksonville, Ala, !,
saysThe slavery question has been and Is being agi-
taed to that degree until will not be borne much longer
by the Southern people. The thing is about come
TO crisis The people Of the whole South dis
cussing the matter at home and will from this time forth


instruct representatives to Congress to disunon
The people now, with full voice, ready aud ripe


for disunon and in that event the South will have
to lose and the North will lose ALL The South live
need OF the North only matter Of friendship, and
the North has long past forfeited that claim interfering
with the rights OF our property under the guise Of hu
manity. When this Union is dissolved the South will
withdraw all capital from the North of which South
has plenty and if necessary will keep up standing


mics all along the dividing lines between free aud
slave States. think interest and ought
teach leading abotonists to hold their tongues We
OF the South do not disturb the property Of the North
spend our money made South freely among people of
the North, and still they abuse
Year: 1859

ACTION FOR ISLANDER ON LAWYER


Nov. 12.-James II. Sheehdn Vim. Cury.-Ths was
action for words spoken Of and derogatory to the pro-
fesson and standing Of the plaintiff attorney and
counsellor at law The damages laid at SO 900. 1t
appears that the defendant had domestic difficulty with
his wife, and the lady retained the plaintiff to for
divorce An order from the Court obtained for the
defendant to pay the wife her separate maintenance and
to carry the suit The husband gave Mr. Sheehan
checks bank which the latter could not get cashed
Subsequently the husband and the lawyer met, and the
slanderous words spoken, such as !" You
swndler; you obtained two checks false pretences;
you miserable pettfogger; will have you locked
up for you disgrace TO your profession The plain
tiff also alleges that the defendant spoke TO divers other
persons behind his back, such conempuous and SLAM
derous terms ssHe is no lawyer he knows nothing
aboutla he forced my wife TO against her will
In extenuaon the counsel for the defendant offered TO
prove by the plaintiff that the lady changed her mind
about the divorce and that all the trouble from the
plaintiff in this refusing to make out her bill and
have amcable settlement Verdict for plaintiff $500


In tho case Of Andrew Stevens VS.. the Consolidated
Stage Company, the jury rendered verdict tor plaintiff
for $3.50 or injury done by their negligence
Year: 1859

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On the night Of the 4th instant, slave belonging
to Washington Waller, Esq shot dead by patrol OF
white men in Danes Quarter district, Somerset county,
Md The Union says the circumstances substantially
as follows


On Thursday night needless alarm Of nsurrection and
murder given at Westinghouse in the neghborhood
the alarm was given; the prayers were forgotten, and
the utmost confusion and excitement prevailed; the
benches were broken up for clubs and with these and
such weapons as the could obtain at the
time they secured the neighborhood but finding nothing
under great excitement The following night patrol
organized and with guns clubs and other weapons they
under great excitement TO search the huts Of
the free negroes in the neighborhood at Of these
huts the unfortunate negro was found He attempt
ing TO escape when fred upon by the excited crowd who
mistnok him for insurgent The shot pierced his back
taking effect In his lungs and bowels and producing in
slant DEATH This has ALL have doubt grown out
Of the excitement produced by the Harpers Ferry af


We copy the following from the Fredcsick County
Union


suspicious looking boxes arrived at the Point Of
Rocks, this county, Saturday last, which, being
opened, found TO contain lot Of caps powder and
ball cartridges They directed TO lady who not
known In that vicinity and who has yet made her ap
pearance to claim them.


Military companies are organizing at Urbana, New Mar
ket Liberty Mechanicstown and in several other villages
OF Frederick county The martial spirit is up and our
people are their own best defenders.


white man was arrested in Carroll county, Nd, last
week. who had with him wagon and provisions, and
was accompanied by coored man and woman, sup
posed to be en- route for free State They are now In jail
at Westminster. Mr.. George T. wampler, Of Wcstmns-
ter writes TO Mayor Berret, Of Washington city, the
following effect


The woman is supposed TO be slave OF Clark Nis of
washington and the man. sho is her husband is owned
IN Prince Georges county but hired in Washington
The white man is said to have resided in Washington Tor
the last two years probable he will be sent TO Vr
ginias to answer the charge Of attempting TO run of
Colonel Lees slaves. The negro woman says she was
brought from the college IN your city The negro man
has not revealed where he came from, but the
white man says he from Washington and the wnole
conveyance well prepared to aid negroes Inc white
mnn ia fully identified as the who was with Coonel
Lees black last spring and who taken from here IN
July last by Of the city officers
Year: 1859

The following letter was found among the private pa.
pers OF Capt Brown his house which we entered on
Tuesday evening with the Marines IL is one of bis
sons, the sole remaining of six who now wan.
dering through the West, but his Whereabouts un.
known TO the father, as he himself assured us
Year: 1859

MASEERs,-Youug folks should be
mannerly. But how to be, is the ques.
lion. Many good boy ana girl feslthat
they cannot behave themselves ia the pro.
seuce of company. They are awkward.
clownish, rough they feel timid. BASH
ful and self disIrustIul the moment they
are addressed by a stranger or appear in
company. There is but one way to get
over this feeling and acquire graceful aud
easy manners that is to do the beet they
can all the time. at home as vel! as abroad.
Good manners are not learned 90 much
as acquired by habit. They grow upoa
US by use. We must be courteous. sgree.
able. civil. kind. gentlemanly. and NO"
manly at home, and then it will soon be.
come kind Of second nature TO bs 70
everywhere. A coarse. rough manner at
home begets habit OF roughness which
We eannoi lay of if We Try when We go
among strangers. The most agreeable
people with whom We were ever thrown
iu company. are those that are perfectly
agreeable at home. Home is the SCHOOL
for all the best things.
Year: 1859

LOST TINE IRREPARABLE.-It 10 the
same with every moment of our life as
with that Of our death we can die but
once and hence we conclude that il is
necessary to die well. because there is nc
way OF returning to repair. by a second
death. the calamity Of the first. So also,
we live no one moment but once We
cannot. therefore retrace our steps. and
repair, by commencing anew the same
path, the errors OF the first setting oul. -
Every moment OF our lie which we lose
becomes a point fixed for eternity the
last moment will never change: it will be
eternally the same, and be recalled to us
Just as We pass il forever marked with
The same inGelible character. What, then,
is the blindness of those who make il the
business OF their whole life TO destroy
time which can never return, and which in
course so rapid, is Fastening into tho
abyss Of eternity.
Year: 1859

HunrLIrY ONE SIGN OF GREArEEss.-l
believe the 6rst test OF a truly great man
is his humility. do not mean by hu
milily. doubt ofhis own power. or hesita-
tion in speaking his own opinion, but a
right understanding of the RELATIONS be-
tween what he can say and do. and the
rest Of the worlds sayings and doings.-
All great men not only know their own
business. but know usually that they know
it and are not only right in their main
opinions, but they usually know that they
are right in them only they do not think
much Of themselves on that account
They have a curions under-seuse OF po W.
erIessness. feeling that,the greatness is not
in them. but through them that they
could not do or be anything else than God
made them and they see something d-
vine and God made in every other man
they meet. and are endlessIy, foolishiy,
incredibly mrrcifu!. The slightest mani
festalion OF jealousy or self.compIacency
is enough to mark second-rate chsrac.
ter in intslleet.-Ruski1.
Year: 1859

ed to health, and was lately married to a
young man who had been three years alb
sent, and returned true to bis troth. But
for the five dollars which had been so in
strumental in her recovery, he might have
returned to be told that she, whose memory
had been so long the polar star of his
heart had perished.


So much good did the five dollar piece
do which Peter Chancery, ESQ.,, SO reluc-
tantly paid to Mr.. Lasts apprentice boy,
though little credit is due TO this legal gen
tleman for the results that followed. 1t is
thus Providence often makes bad men in
struments of good to others. Let this lit
tie story lead those who think ''small
bill' can stand because it is small bill,
remember how much good five dollar
bill has done in one single day, and that
in paying one bill they may be paying a
series of twenty bills, and disposing good
to hundreds around them.
Year: 1859

A TR1UNE MAN.-The "Autocrat's"
idea of a triple being, in every individual,
is being practically carried out by an in
cenious Irishman, at Rochester. N. Y,
(where the "rappers" came from).


He has an idea that he has two men in
his head and body, who arc constantly
working at cross purposes with him. He
says they entered his head one night when
he slept in a hay stack, stealing into the
oriice of the ear in the form of hay seed.
They indulge in levity and do a great
many things he does not approve Of, among
other things obliging him to do the work
of three men, while they eat all the food
given them, including his share. He ex-
presses desire to engage in some avoea-
tion that will afford him livelihood, but
declares that it is Of no use for him to try
TO support this triune existence. He is
confident of his own sanity, and thinks it
strange that any one should doubt or ques-
ton the correctness of his statement.
Year: 1859

A correspondent at Rutland, Vt.,gives the
following account of a visit to the frozen
well at Brandon:


"a visit to the frozen well at Brandon,
seventeen miles distant, and the tertiary
deposit of brown coal in which fossil fruit
is found, will reward one for the trouble
Iron ore Of excellent quality, a remarkable
white and pure pipe clay, and bed of
maganese, make, together with the brown
coal, a combination of deposits curious and
valuable. The frozen well is dug on the
easterly side, near the foot of high, gravel
ly knoll, probably glacial moraine,
through which the road has been cut, show
ing beds of clay three or four feet in thick
ness intersperscd among the gravel. The
well was dug in November last, through
twenty-five feet of gravel and fifteen feet
of frozen earth, when water was found
The well was then stoned up, and has been
frozen ever since. Last winter it was ne
cessary to descend and cut with hatchet a
passage for the bucket to the water beneath
the ice.


"By the aid ola mirror, the sunlight can
be thrown into the well, and about three
feet from the bottom, rim of ice, at least
six or eight inches thick, can be seen pro-
jecting from the sides, leaving barely room
for the bucket to pass through. The stones
for six or eight feet are encrusted with frost
and ice. Occasionally current of air can
can be felt, cold as snow bank, which may
come from below, or may be the outer air
suddenly cooled. The water is excellent
remarkably pure, and of course icy cold.
This well is 'puzzler" to the savans, some
of whom, at Burlington, have appropriated
$500 to investigate the phenomenon, and
propose to sink one or more wells in the
vicinity, TO see if the same result follows.
Whether this ice is formed by chemical
combinations in the earth, whether it is
caused by currents of air passing over wa
ter producing rapid evaporation and conse-
quent refrigeration, or whether an iceberg
stranded there long years ago, and was
covered subsequently by accumulations Of
clay and gravel, being thus preserved from
melting away-who knows?'
Year: 1859

DEATH OF THE ORIGINAL MADGE
WILDFIRE.-On Sunday, August 2sth, in
telligence was brought to Galashiels, that
an old woman of weak mind, well known
to the people of Galashiels and Melrose by
various cognomens-as Black Bess, Bet
Gramsley, and Daft Bess-was lying in a
dying condition on the road near Ell
wand Bridge. The county police, with
medical assistance, went to remove the
suffering woman, who had laid there all
night, but she yielded up her breath just
as the doctor approached. The body was
conveyed to the sick house here, and after
wards inferred in the Strangers Plot, at
Ladhope burying ground. Fifty years
ago, Elizabeth Graham was the rustic
beauty, belle and toast of Melrose and its
neighborhood, respectfully brought up with
health mantling on her cheek, and guile
less innocence in her heart. Returning
home one evening, she was set upon in the
gloomy solitude of the Boyle Burn, and
there ruined. She returned home, or
rather she Immediately forsook the ordina-
ry haunts of man, having become raving
maniac, and henceforth she dwelt apart,
living alone among, but not a responsible
portion Of, humanity. The outward form
of what had once been gay and happy
girl, took up its dwelling place in rude
cave in the old Quarry Hill of Melrose.-
Here she slept at night in summer and
winter, wrapped up in blanket, save when
for some wild and woeful weeks after the
birth of her dead child, when she followed
it to the churchyard would not be driven
away, but slept among the tombstones to
watch its grave. 1t was from this unfor-
tunate waif that Sir Walter Scott drew the
character of Madge Wildfre, in the "Heart
of Mid Lothian" The particulars of the
sad case were quite well known to him, re-
siding in the neighborhood; and the read
er will observe that there is a striking COIN
cidence between the real facts as we have
detailed them, and the incidents in the
novel as depicted by the pen of the author
of Wa,erly.
Year: 1859

HENRY WARD BEEcHER's AaRIcUL-
rURAL CREED.-We believe in small farms
and thorough cultivation.


We believe that soil loves to eat as well
as its owner, and ought therefore to be ma
nured.


We believe in large crops which leave
the land better than they found it-mak-
ing both farmer and farm rich at once.


We believe in going to the bottom Of
things, and therefore in deep blowing, and
enough Of it. AL the better if with a sub
soil plow.


We believe that every farm should own
a good farmer.


We believe that the best fertilizer of any
soil is spirit of industry, enterprise, and
indulgence-without this. lime and gyp-
sum, bones and green manure, mari and
guano will be of little use.


We believe in good fences, good barns,
good farm houses, geod stock, and children
enough to gather the fruit.
We believe IN q clean kitchen, neat
wife in it, spinning piano, clean cup
board, a clean dairy, and clean con-
science.


We firmly disbelieve in farmers that
will not improve, in farms that grow poor
er every year, in starveling cattle, in farm
ers' boys turning into clerks and merchants,
in farmers daughters unwilling to work,
and in all farmers ashamed of their voca-
ton, or who drink whisky until honest
people are ashamed of them.
Year: 1859

"Tere's somebody dead in there" said
one little boy to another; as L passed a
house on the bell knob of which hung a
piece of black Grape. My heart repeated
what the little boy had said-"there is
somebody dead in there"-as l walked
slowly and thoughtfully down the street.


All who passed and saw the emblem
learned the same sad story, that "some-
body was dead" But who, few cared to
ask.


A few months since, when the cold winds
were drifting the snow through the streets
piling it on the sidewalk and roof, little
stranger with face-oh, so little-and
eyes that looked wonderingly around on
the new world it had discovered made two
hearts glad. And by and by It grew so
strong that it made a journey from chair
to mammals outstretcLed arms, laughing as
hard as it could. Often as l passed the
house, a sweet baby face turned towards
me, and little eyes peeped out at me
through the half fclosed blinds, and my heart
blessed the little child. But few days
ago it sickened, and last night when the
sun went down, it died.


miss sweet face at the window to-
day, and the little carriage is empty; and
as passed the house was repeating sad
ly with the little boy "there's somebody
dead in there" The heart knoweth its
bitterness, and that young mother knows
better than anybody else that there's some
body dead in the house, as she again and
again lifts the white curtain that conceals
the repose of her first born and only child,
God help thee, young mother This af-
ternoor, while the Sabbath fingers, and
the holy hours are full of rest and stiffness,
they will carry the little one to rest, to
await the coming of its Redeemer.


They had buried their dead out of sight
and still it seems as if somebody was dead
in that house. Oh, those are sad hours at
the fireside, and only they who felt them
know how sad when it is said, "there is
somebody dead in there" How the sor-
row settles down like dark cloud above
and around u.s. The sunshine seems all
withdrawn and verify we should die did
not God send it back to us again.


By-and-by, dear reader, of your house
and of mine it will be said: "There is some
body dead in there" Perhaps that some
body will be you or me perhaps that sweet
wife that journeys by our side, or the little
one that nestles close in the corner our
heart. God help us in that hour, for all
human help will fail.


OF every earthly house will it sooner or
later be said, "There is somebody dead in
there;" but there is house not made
with hands, OF which it shall never be spo-
ken.


Down through ages sounds the glorious,
everlasting proclamation, "there shall be
no more DEATH" Ifyou and |, dear reader,
have a mansion in that house let death
come to our earthly house. If God sent it.
1t can trouble us but little while and
then at last, standing within the fold of the
Good Shepherd, "alI tears shall be wiped
from all our faces.''
Year: 1859

The NEW FRENCH WHEELBARRow.-
The new wheelbarrow, which is worked by
the men employed 10 repair the damage
occasioned by tho .tetes, in the gardnes of
the Tuileries, is attracting much attention.
The novelty of the machine consists in the
two legs of the barrow being replaced by
two wheels, smaller than the one in front,
and which are fixed Immediately under the
body of the barrow. The handles are
raised so to be on level with the bands
of the workman; and thus, upon a level
road, slight push is all that is necessary
for the transport of tie heaviest load
The three wheels being almost close to-
gether, the act of turning the barrow in
the smallest space becomes as easy as pos
sible. The workman has to lean upon one
of the handles, and the front wheel is lift
ed from the ground, leaving the barrow
FREQ to be maneuvfed like common hand
cart.