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Year: 1859

From tie Nao Orleans Delta, JaJ,. lj.


A painful case, and rather curious one,
has been decided in one Of our District
Courts. IL was o contest between parents
for the possession of natural child. An
unmarried woman sued out q writ of ha-
beas corpus, to recover possession OF her
child, ahttle boy two years and half old, ,
which she said was illegally detained
from her by a certain citizen and his wife


On trial, it appeared that this citizen
was the father Of the child, which had
been handed over TO him by the mother
when it was trouble aud a disgrace to
her. lie had accepted it, and WAS doing
for it all that father could do for n law
full child; besides which, he loved it and
petted it fondly. This genteman's wife,
with magnanimy quite rare in uch cases
knowing as she did all about the child, J
had adopted it also, and loved it as if it
were her own. On trial the father was no.
able 70 Grove that the mother had given
! the child to him for good and all


On Monday the Judge decided the case,
which was that the child must be deliver
ed over to its mother. With the order OF
Court, and accompanied By the mother, a
/ Deputy Sheriff went to the residence OF
the father to get the child and pass it over
to its mother. lie describes the scene
created by his visit, as the most touching
and distressing thing he ever saw. The
adopted mother turning pale os death, tri-
ed to put him off upon different preteXts,
and to delay the separation as long as pos.
sible. Taking the child up stairs to wash
him and dress him, she locked him up
and told the deputy he could not have il
. till the husband came home.


When the husband arrived the deputy
politely explained lis business, and wa,
politely treated. The gentleman went uI
stairs, and after while came down Will
the wife and child.


The little fellow was nicely dressed and
his adopted mother brought down witt
him a whole armful of the daintiest little
clothes, ruliles &c, besides a number Of
toys which had been purchased for III,
pet at Christmas. All these she laid on
the floor at his feet, without saying a worC
too proud to display either affection OF
grief before the hated mother Of her pet
yet showing symptoms of the most intense
suppressed agony. The father acted a
became man under such circumstances


allowing the child to 20 quietly and with
out fuss. The mother took the little on,
in her arms, the deputy gathered up tn,
clothing and toys, and they left. Tn,
door closed quietly behind them, and the
more than real mother was forever berea
we'd of the dearest object Of her affections
Year: 1859

A New FASHIONED BRICK.--In the town of Dan
oury, Conn, new kind of brick is now manufac
tured. The bricks are three or four times the size
OF the or binary brick and are made of sted gravel
ana lime mixed to certain consistency, and then
pressed by simple but powerful machine, and laid


IN the sun to cure. They have an opening or NOR
uce through them from top to bottom, say five


inches long and one and quarter inches wide, so
that when laid the air can circulate through the
whole wall. The few houses already made OF these
patented bricks are handsome and seemingly very
/ substantial
Year: 1859

PARKER's MODE OF PRAYING.-That a man
should pray SO like a saint and preach so
like a hereto and a destructive is one of the
marvels of his orthodox hearers. Yet Mr..
Parkers opinions do not permit him to use
that importunate supplication in which most
Christians place the utility and power OF
prayer. His prayers are rather the express
sion of trust in God, love for his character,
admiration for his works and acquiescence
in his will, than petitions for particular
blessings. He appears to take the Lord s
prayer as his model. He approaches God
not to move Him to bestow, but to take joy
fully what He is already bestowing, and to
utter his confident faith that infinite wis
dom and goodness will still guide the divine
hand in the bestowment of all necessary
good. Hence he never argues the case with
his Creator, or plies Him with motives, as
if He did not already know, and were not
already determined to do for all his creatures
all that infinite love can prompt. Yet lack
ing so many of the elements which give i'm
pressiveness to most pulpit prayers, there
are few prayers uttered anywhere that have
so wonderful power to subdue and elevate
men as those made by Mr.. Parker.-Spring-
fl Id Republican,
Year: 1859


that being the prominent Industrial feature of the
county, of the State large but believing that the
stability and genuine prosperity of mountain
mites depend upon the successful development ofoter
pursuits, which less dangerous and uncertain for
labor without capital than gold hunting is Known tc
be- have sought TO exhibit tle aaptabllity Of the
mountains to the Important interests of farming, gar
denng, fruit growing, and a;aay kindred avocations.
We have tried to make the HYDRAULIC PRESS always
representative of what is best in California, and to
correct of those unjust preidices against her
people which obtain abroad In Short it has been
constant endeavor to make the paper useful, decent
and respectable.


If paper conscientiously conducted the above
plan is thought worthy ofsupport ask for and hope
to receive it,


The Subscription Price
is s. per annum, 50 for six months payable inyar
ably in advance.


Connected with the Newspaper Establishment is a
full stock of assorted material for every kiHd of


JOB PRINTING,
which will execute well and reasonably as it
can be afforded in any interior office.
Subscriptions, Advertisements or Orders be for
wartled by Mail Express, addressed as above, to


AVERY l. WATERS,
Year: 1859

eY- We said, the other day, that the Ex-
press was a queer concern. Such is the fact
and it grows queerer and queerer every day
Before the last election. it pretended to think
Douglas was a mighty fine man. after the
election it read him out of the Democratic par
ty. Afterwards it played all around the Doug
las platform, like bob-tailed bull in fly time.
No,c. on the eve of another election, it be-
rims TO take another tack again, limbers its
self for fourth or fifth doublesummerset,
and makes IL in style that would do honor
TO D'Evani, or any other of the most renown-
ed India Rubber acrobats.


A short time ago Douglas. according to its
story, had forever Abandoned the Democratic
party because of his avowals in the Freeport
speech Now, with the same principles that
he entertained then he having taken back
nothing. the Express claims him as an "Ad-
ministration Democrat" We shall hear next
that Douglas has turned boot black for the
White House


Now, to test the question rs to what the
Express really does think about Douglas, and
to see what the Express thinks an Admins
tration Democrat is, we shall put question
or two to that organ of the Bogustes to
which we shall expecta an answer or taeit ad.
mission that it is afraid to reply We lay it
down as sound Democratic doetrne-the doc
trine of the Democratic party of 1854, and
lS56-the doctrine upon which James Bu
chanan was elevated to the Presidency that
Congress should not intervene on the subject
Of slavery in the Territories, but that the
question should be left entirely in the hands
of the people This doctrine of absolute non
Intervention is the doctrine proclaimed by
Douglas in his Freeport speech in Illinois, in
his speech at New Orleans, and in his speech
at Memphis Now, we wish to ask the EX-
press if it believes in the doctrine Of the Lee
compton party, as shadowed forth in the
Presidents last Message, and openly pro
claimed by Senator Davis and other Lecomp
ton leaders, towit: that Congress should
forthwith enact STARE code for the protection
of slavery in the Territories We imagine
that the Douglas doctrine of non intervention
and the Lecompton doctrine of enacting
slave code for the Territories by Congress.
are slightly different, and that a man who
believes in absolute non-intervention on the
subject can't be much of an Administration
Democrat" as the thing goes now. We want
the Express to come out now and say that it
agrees with Douglas on this point or forever
after hold its peace


Neither is this a point of minor Importance,
by any manner of means 1t is to be the
great issue before the country-it is the
great issue now-the friends of nationality
will rally around the Douglas doctrine-sec-
tionalism .wil~cling to the Administration
doctrine of Intervention to the extent of en-
acting slave code for the Territories and
thus taking the power from the hands of the
people, which was lodged with them by the
Kansas n ebraska Bill. We desire these Le-
compton howlers about Douglas being with
the Administration to come out and say that
they are in favor of Douglas doctrine of non
Intervention, and that the Administration is
in favor of it, or cease their senseless clamor.
Year: 1859

LITTLE AIGLE.-We would like to know
how j. ]. Frazier, Esq, who was abolished by
the Legislature when they abolished the
office of Doorkeeper of the Assembly, can
leave his Federal Office in the Mint at San
Francisco long enough to come up here to
Marysville and sit on the Bogus Lecompton
City Committee. Does his salary continue dur.
ing his absence, the same as that of the bigger
bugs of the Federal tribe, when hey travel
around TO fix up election matters and dictate
to the peopler Is Lecompton timber 50 scarce
that it must be sent for all the way down to
San Francisco? We pause for a reply.
Year: 1859

~ The rush of people TO Houston
HASTINGS co. still continues. and every one goes
there to purchase, they are selling of their large
stock of Custom-made Goods at New York import
ing cost; and some Of their goods at almost any
price for cash.
Year: 1859

\ PARABLE ny SPURGE0S A certain tv-
rant sent for one of l,i> suhiec's. and said
to him - What is Your emplOymcnt? He
said am ii b,cksmth' Go home.
said he "and make me ii chain Of such a
length. He went home; it occupied him
several months and he had no wages all
the time he was maxim" the chain. only
the trouble and pain of making it, Then
he brought ], Ia the monarch and he said.
$50 and make il twice as long. He gave
him nothing to do it with, but sent him
away Again he worked on, and made it
twice as lon. He brought il up a again. and
the monarch said. Go and maker longer
still Each time l,c brought it. there WAS
nothing but the command To make II Ion
ger still. And when he brought il up at
last, the monarch said, Take ii, bind him
hand and foot with it. and east him into a
furnace of fire There We're his wages for
making the chain. Here is IA meditation
for you tonight. We servants of the devil
y our master the devil Is telling you to
make chain. Some OF you have been
fifty years welding the chain; and he says
= Go and make it longer still" Next Sur
day morning YOU will open that shop of
yours and put another link on;s next sun


day you will he drunk. and put another
link on; next Monday You will do dis
honest action; and so you will keep on
making fresh links to this chain; and
when YOU have lived twenty more years,
the devil will say, :. More links on still -
And then, at last. it will be, Take him
and bind him hand and foot, and cast him
into furnace of fire For the wages of
sin is death" There is subject for your
meditation l do not think it will be
sweet. but if God makes it profitable, it will
do you good. You must have strong med
icines sometimes, when the disease is bad.
God apply it to your hearts.
Year: 1859

To SAVE SWEET PorAroEs-We find the
following plan highly recommended: " Al
ways dig before frost, aud when the ground
IS very dry; have your beds ready by
raising them about ten inches above the
ground then r,it on dry straw about one
foot deep: then put on the potatoes. about
TWENTY-FIVE bushels in n bank; next put
straw one foot deep on them then dirt at
least one foot thick. we'll packed. Shelter
them with good shelter to keep them
dry Leave no air hole. but rather try to
exclude the air entirely Potatoes thus
put up are not affected by the changes of
the weather, which generally rot the pota-
toe If dug when the ground is wet, they
are almost certain to rot
Year: 1859

JosrpH was a bad boy Hehad succeed
ed in binding his mother for some time as
TO his imbibing propensities One night
Joseph came in before the old lady retir-
ed He sat down, began conversation
about the goodness of crops and other
matters He got along very well, until he
spied what he supposed to be a cigar on
the mantle piece :, atching it up, and
placing one end of il in his mouth he be-
gan very gracefully to light it at the cam
die He drew and pulled unit, he was get
ting red in the face The old ladys eyes
were open, and she addressed him: "If
thee. takes that ten npenny nail for segar,
it is time thee went TO bed
Year: 1859

How TO SroP BLoop-Take the fine.t
dust OF tea or the scrapings of the insid.


Of tanned leather and bind it close upon
the wound and blood will soon cease to
flow These articles are at all times ac-
cess;ble, and easy to be obtained. After
the blood has ceased to flow. laudanum
may be advantageously applied to the
wound Due regard to these instructions
will save agitation of mind. and running
for the surgeon, who would probably make
Year: 1859

TIE presence Of cotton in flannel may be
detected by boiling a fragment or sample
os it in !. solution of potash. The flannel
will be converted int. soap, whereas the
cnttnn will be but little altered. and may
Year: 1859

The canvass in Tirsinia, just concluded, and
that in Kentucky now goiug on, have cffcctu-
ally squelched The late excitement in the Re-
publican party, in favor Of an union with the
Opposition Of the South; and, hcnceforth, all
attempts in ulat direction must be abandoned
rs unnecessary and absurd 1t is demon.
strated that Republican men aud Republican
measures hare, ut least for the present, moth
ing 10 hope for south Of Mason and Di1on's
line: and that a victory, if won at all, must
lie the result Of labor among Tue people Of the
North. The contests Of which wo speak have
had this good effect: they have taught the
Republicans TIC necessity Of sclcrcliance and
Of earnest effort If it bo needed aud put in
practice, the party to-day is stronger in tic
sixteen Free States t]lan il it had a struggling
and uncertain minority in half a dozen Of the
Slave States, at its heels! This is q fact which
tho unbaked Republicans, who hare been lay
ing traps to catch Know Nothing here and
an Old Limo Wing there, have obstinately
overlooked
Year: 1859

Burns, who was tried in Cincinnati
for the murder of Burke, was convic-
ted Of murder in the first degree.
This is the first capital conviction in
that city for long time, notwithstan-
ding the frequent murders committed
there.
Year: 1859

0Jlt must have been cold in Port
land, Me-, lately. A lady one morn
ing found thetail feathers of her bird
firmly frozen into his water DISH
The lady clapped bird and dish into
the stove, where a ''fre in the rear"
soon thawed him out.
Year: 1859

In Coop HEAITH.-W We learn from
the Nevada National that George A.
Young still has his health. The Ma
tional, keeping the announcement as a
standing advertisement from week to
week, we suppose it to be of great i'm
portance to the world, or as regarded by
the National a good thing" and note
it accordingly.
Year: 1859

Horace GREELEY recently addressed Re.
publican meeting at Wyandotte, Kansas, on
which occasion he is reported to have said
that the conflict between slave labor and free
labor would go on until it penetrated the
heart of the cotton States. The Missouri Re
publican in notice of his speech, says:


HE told the people there assembled what
he had done, and what he intended to do, for
Kansas. and all other States and Territories
since he came prominently before the public
He gave the meeting (what was not relished
by the delegates at least) the true Republican
doctrine, which is, that the negro is entitled
to the same status as the white man. The
main portion of his remarks were for the
negro"
Year: 1859

The Drowned MAN.-The dead body found
in the slough near the Coroner's residence,
has at last been disposed of. The Coroner
and his grave digger went down yesterday
morning to the spot where he lay, dug a
grave in the slough about five feet deep, aud
shoveled him in. He was so much decom-
posed that it was impossible to handle him,
and utterly so to recognize him, had any ybody
in town known him The smell of the body
was so offensive that the Coroner and his
attendant repeatedly sickened and retired
from the ground, in disposing of him. No
inquest was held on his remains.
Year: 1859

CoMFoRTABLE-E P. Duplex, proprietor of
the Metropolitan Barber Shop on D street,
has had constructed a row Of fans, one above
each of his chairs, which are worked by
steam. They are connected by long rope
with steam engine in distant part of the
building, and, being in constant motion, keep
up a circulation of the air which is truly de-
ieious.
Year: 1859

SIERRA TURNPlKE.-A survey for branch
of the Sierra Turnpike from Woodruffs Di-
vide to Forest City, was completed last week.
The work on the main trunk will be carried
on as rapidly as possible
Year: 1859

1IMBUCToo, June 25th, 1859.


EDITOR NATIONAL DEMOCRAT w observe
in the Express OF this morning an article en-
titled Harmony, that we consider well wor-
thy our consideration, not only for its smooth
and slippery style, but for its high apprecia-
tion of the Democracy of our section of the
country. The editor of that peculiar institu
ton. known as the Daily Express, comes out
of the shade and has done as much as to inform
us of Timbuctoo, and vicinity, that unless we
go the blind of political clique, we are no
Democrats, and that we are doing the same
as to heap Goals of fire upon our own heads.
We expected as much from that quarter, in
asmuch as it seems that the peculiar satellites
of that institution have hitherto been in the
habit of looking at the necks of certain
portion of the party, as if to enquire, "whose
dog are YOU" seeking to know them by the
brand on their collar.


Now, sir, we wish tossay this, that Demo
Gratis of Timbuetoo and vicinity, who met at
Timbuctoo, are all men who long have been
hHONh III bll9 SOuhO1 10 DSthOSi"tsJ AS'NA
having knelt at the shrine of Know Moth
ingism or any other party-that they were
the very bone and sinew of the Democratic
party and we are decidedly of the opinion
that the harmonious advice Of the Express is
in bad taste, as well as its seeming doubt of
our Democracy. The Express seems to think
that we should be willing so support the
Long Bar nominations as expressive of the
wishes of the majority of that convention
To a certain extent we are of that opinion
precisely, and we have endorsed the same,
and no other precinct in the county will
more cheerfully work for the success of those
who were properly nominated. But to at
tempt to gull the people into the support of
men who never were nominated, and never
chosen by a fair expression of the popular
sentiment of the Democratic party, is great
er stretch of conscience than the moral at
mospherc of this community will stand.


The Express says we will elect the Repub-
licans or Broderickites. Well, suppose we
do, we had better support an open enemy
than q spy in our own camp. NJ SMITH.
Year: 1859

! We have been requested to suppress the
names in the following curious history,
which has recently transpired. or rather,
the last chapter which recently occurred
In this county a farmers son, some l2
gears ago, married eighboriDg girl
the daughter of very respectable family.
They removed Immediately to distant
place, where they had been living but
few days, when upon his return homo one
evening. the wife of week was missing.
She did not return that night, during
which he felt, of course, the utmost ark
iety, and in the morning be started in
search of her. He could only learn that
she had taken the stage alone, which led
to railroad station, some miles distant.


He followed. but at tbe depot lost al! tra.
ces of her. He wrote to her former home,
and published notices in the newspapers
but could obtain 90 clue to her where
abouts. lie grieved in Loneliness at her
supposed criminal act, and to escape the
scene where his week of unsulied happf-
ness had been followed BY so great grief,
be removed to his then sparsely settled
wilderness. He here settled upon a pro-
mixing piece of land, aud in its cultivation
and the cares of life. sought forgetfulness
of the past. He succeeded measureably
has filed Offices of trust, and grown
wealthy. After few years, bis home re-
quiring attention, he married, but his wife
lived only long enough to bear him son,
and witness the 6rst year of the little ones
existence.


A few weeks since, as the well. to- do
man of the world was sitting by bis fire.
side, there entered the house a woman
well clad, of fuller form and twelve years
older, but the picture of the long-los
bride of a week, and she was accompan-
led by girl os near dozen years.


The sober man of forty was startled,
but asked the stranger visitor to be seat
ed. Then came her long and agonizing
story. All was oblivious to her for the
first ten years of their separation. She
could tell nothing, except of one hour Of
returned reason, when the little girl be-
side her. his daughter, was brought into
the world. After that long tine. 6tfully,
aud at periods remote from each other,
came back reason and memory. She
bad wandered to distant city, in state
of mild insanity there she fell among
kind people, and was installed in an in-
sane asylum. After the birth of the
daug gbter, and ten years more spent within
its walls, thoughts of her youth, her home
aud her husband came back. She slow
ly recovered ; then visited her parents,
learned where her husband was, and few
to him BE sure be clasped her in his
arms, and they wept upon each others
necks. Again going before the altar, they
were united and she now presides with
careful dignity and ease over his house,
hold


But little is said about it in the neigh
borbood. except expressions of wonder at
Squire Dis sudden and unexpected mar
riage to one whom they supposed to be
fair widow with whom be had recently
become acquainted. - Madison Argus.
Year: 1859

In the Paris hospital treatment is
practiced that is found most successful
for frequent accident, and which can
be applied by the most inexperienced
II the ankle is spraiued, for instance, let
the operator hold the foot in his hands,
with the thumbs meeting on the swollen
part. These having been previously
creased, are pressed successively with
increasing force on the injured and pain
ful spot for about a quarter of an hour
This application being repeated several
times, will. in the course OF the day, ena-
bic patient to walk, when other means
would have failed to relieve him. Scien-
hfc american.
Year: 1859

A correspondent of the Lady's Ansera-
can Magazine gives an account of one
horse money broker in Buffalo, who had
kDack of making one hundred per cent
on bills brought to him to exchange
The way be did it is this +:


He kept an exchange Office near the
Central Basin, and had lot of counter
feits stuck up on the wall behind the coun-
ter. with "couuterfeit bills, in great black
letters over them, while on the counter
stood box of waters. A canaler would
rush into the off ee and ask for change for
bill. Old Specie would take the bill
very blandly, put on bis spectacles, and
give look at it. The moment be did
so bis whole countenance would change.
With an Indignant look he would petrify
his astonished customer; and in grim si-
lence, still keeping his eye on the canal
er, be would feel for the wafer box, stick
a couple of waters Oh the back of the bill,
turn round aud fasten it among the coun-
terfeits with au indignant jam; then, turn
ing, he would open his mouth, and asssil
the wretched culprit in the manner fol-
lowing to wit: You miserable scoun.
drel, what do you mean by offering me a
bad bill! If there's an officer in sight I'll
have you arrested!' With which address
he would make as if be would sally from
behind the counter; whereupon the canal
er would incontinently fee for his life.
and the old gentleman would sweep the
bill into his money drawer, and "rest
from his labors."