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Year: 1860

FALL OF A RAILROAD DEpoT.-About
one-third of the roof and walls of the
Union Railroad depot at its northern end
fell at 8 o'clock this morning, burying the
Offices of the Central and Saratoga Rail-
road. The cause of the accident was the
contraction of the iron chords of the arch
from the intensely cold weather, which
made the east wall give way. Nobody
was hurt. Two-thirds of the building
was uninjured, and trains run to-day as
usual. The loss will amount 10 about
$4,000.
Year: 1860

HoME.-The pain which is when we
are first transplanted from, our native soil,
when the living branch is cut from the
parent tree, is one of the most poignant
which we have 10 endure through life
These after griels which would more deep
ly wound, which leave behind them scars
never to be effaced, which bruise the spir-
it and sometimes break the heart; but
never do we feel so kecnly the want Of
love, the necessity of being loved and the
utter sense of desertion, as when we first
leave the heaven of home, and nre rs il
were, pushed off upon the stream of life.
Year: 1860

KEEP STocK WARM.--Farmers do not
pay sufficient attention 10 the warmth of
their stock, but suffer them to roam about
in the open air, exposed to the inclement
weather. The more an animal moves
about, the quicker it will breathe, and the
more starch, gum, sugar fat and othor
respiratory elements it must have in its
food; and if an additional quantity of
these substances is not given to supply
the increased demand, the fat and other
parts of the body will become thinner;
also rs before observed, every motion of
the body produces corresponding des-
truction Of tho muscles which produce
that motion. 1t is therefore quite eyi-
dent that the moro of the heat producing
and flesh forming principle it must re-
ceive in its food. Hence, we see the pro-
priety Of keeping our cattle in sheds and
yards, and not suffering Chose particular
ly which we intend TO fatten) 10 rove
about consuming more food, and wasting
away more rapidly the various TISSUES Of
the body already formed, and making it
more expensive aud difficult to fatten
them.
Year: 1860

COMMENCING Work. The Butte Record of
Saturday says; "The Surveyor of the Cal
fornia Northern Railroad informs us that he
will commence to make a fixed location of
the road from Orovile to the Prairie House,
on Monday, and prepare this division for the
contractors, who will break ground as soon
as this part of the work can be got ready for
them
Year: 1860

The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris has ad-
dressed circular to the clergy, directing
them to continue the prayers for the Holy
Father till the Festival Of the Assumption
He engages the faithful to associate more
closely than ever in the sentiments and de-
sires Of the Head of the church.
Year: 1860

COFFEE AS A MENTAL SriMuLAxr.-Schiller.
during his hours of composition, kept at his
side bottle of champagne or Rhenish wine,
or a cup of strong coffee. Horace Walpole
wrote usually from 10 to o'clock at night,
always having strong coffee ty him. Sir
William Jones drank a great deal Of coffee
to support him in his nocturnal studes Baron
de Grin states that Voltare, few days prior
to his death, with his characteristic activity
and enthusiasm, attended the rehearsal of the
Academy, and insisted on the production of
of new and important edition Of their die.
tionary. To this project many objections
were started, which he resolved to obviate
in on elaborate discourse. To strengthen
himself for the task, he swallowed a pro-
digious quantity Of strong coffee, and then
continued to work for upwards of twelve
hours without intermsson. This effort
brought on an inflammation Of the bladder
For the purpose of relieving the pain, he
swallowed, with his usual impatence, q large
quantity Of laudanum. The consequence
was that he fell into h lethargy from which
he never entirely recovered
Year: 1860

GREAT INDUCEMENTs-The San Mateo Gazette
has good hit at campaign papers, concluding
thus


We intend to publish paper every Saturday
morning during the campaign, and we will fur
nish it from now till after the election at $3.50
per copy, or in clubs of one hundred or more at
$500 per copy and an extra copy TO the man
who gets up the club. To each individual who
will send us club of one thousand at $500
each, we will give a town lot in Redwood City.
and use our utmost endeavors to keep him out of
the State Legislature, the city prison, and all
similarly disgraceful places.
Year: 1860

New PApER.-We have received prospectus
of the Semiweekly independently a new paper
to be printed at Red Bluff, the first number of
which will appear on the nth of August Chal-
mers n Bishop are the projectors. In their an
nouncement they say


"We became convinced, long ago, that the
masses required and even demanded something
besides a mere partizan political journal, colored
to suit the changing hues of party organization.
Man has been endowed with an intellectually
that requires food-aud that food must consist in
something besides what can be extracted from
the muddy pool of politics."


We wish them success, but have doubts about
two papers being able to make living there,
especially with one a semi weekly.
Year: 1860

TIE Petaluma Journai thinks the trial of
Terry at San Rafael was an elegant humbug
People, generally, who have any respect for the
law, and wish to see it properly carried out
think SO too.
Year: 1860

South CAROLINA EMBAssADoR IN VIRGIN
A.-Mr. Memminger was escorted to the cap
itol by the military. The National and Vir-
ginia flags waved over the building. He
spoke four hours to an immense crowd. He
described the steady inroads of the North
upon the rights of the South, and the rise
and progress of abolitionism. He drew a
dreary picture Of their present relations with
the North, and showed that the guarantees
of the Constitution were powerless to protect
the South. The South must make demand
for new guarantees if the Union is to be pre-
served; or else make concession after conces-
sion until they lose all influence and right of
confederacy. He urged a convention of the
Southern States to consider their relations
with the North. Mr.. N. was listened to with
intense interest throughout his long dis
course
Year: 1860

There is much Misrepresentation prev


alent respecting the true position of the


popular sovereignty democracy of tn,


Union and of the platform upon whicl


Judge Douglas stands as the regular


Democratic candidate As we under.


stand it, the faith of the party and plat


form is that, Congress has no constitu


tional power to prohibit or to protect


slavery in the Territories, as it has none


in the States; but whether it has or has


not the power, is purely a judicial ques-


tion to be determined and settled by the


courts when the question comes before


them in proper shape. 1t is further de-


MED by the national democracy, inclu-
ding many eminent lawyers and pure
judges, that the supreme court has decid-
ed as the republicans and sectionalists
allege; but that if it has been SO decided
it is the duty of every good citizen to
acquiesce in the dicision, until it is re-
versed or superseded in legal and con-
stitutional manner.


There is nothing ambiguous or double
faced in this position. 1t is plain COM
nonsense view of the matter. Mr. Doug
las claims that the great doctrine of pop
ular sovereignty is SUSTAINED by natural
law and the federal constitution.


Popular sovereignty is not new or
original doctrine, but it is as old as the
idea Of a free and Independent or self gov
ernment. 1t was the doctrine of the
Revolution and the founders of the re-
public and the trainers of the Constitution.
1t is the principal of the Cass Nicholson
letter, and was embraced as a cardinal
doctrine of the democratic party in ISIS
1t becomes a leading principal in the
compromise measure of 1850, reported
and carried through by Mr.. Clay and
twelve other pure and distinguished
statesmen of the country and time. 1t
was endorsed by both, the democratic and
whig parties of 1852, and became solid
plank in both platforms, and was clearly
sustained by the campaign of that mem
orable year In 1874, the doctrine was
brought into practical use and application,
by being incorporated into the Kansas
and Nebraska bill, and to the efforts of
iouSlao, ihOIc tIlal any OL'lcl hldH, are
the people indebted for the sustainance
and vindication of the principal. In his
support of the principle he has been con-
sistent, and he certainly has teen indus
trious. The doctrine was still more un-
equivocally endorsed and unanimously
adopted by the whole democratic party,
North and South, through their united
delegates in the Cincinnati convention and
platform Of 1856. The candidates of that
year accepted the doctrine and made it
their own. Their supporters advocated
popular sovereignty upon every stump in
the land, The people sustained the prin-
ciple and elected the candidates of 1886.
The same principle is now before the peo
pie, in 1860, and we will not permit a
doubt in our mind of the honesty and
the people, in again sustain
ing the principle. Let every democrat
do his duty and all will be well. Non
intervention instead of congressional in.
reference, is the only sound policy and
safe solution Of the slavery question:
Nahoning Sentinel.
Year: 1860

Blue-pilis philosophy, moral reforms!
Let them all alone, friend! you need a
good strong dose of common sense much
more! Don't lament over the things
that 60 wrong in this inexplicable old
world of ours; if you only knew it you
could spend your time much more proht-
ably in rejoicing over the things that go
right. Your face would shorten full
quarter of yard if you could Just draw a
dividing line between the matters that are
not worth while and those that are. Ii is
not worth while to trouble yourself about
the naughty things the world says of you
as long as you know they are false. 1t
is not worth while to fret yourself because
your neighbor is growing rich by dishon-
est gains, while you are starving on an
honest crust. 1t is not worth while to
wear broadcloth when you can scarcely
indulge in homespun. 1t is still less
worth while to ask the worlds advice as
to what you are to eat and how you are
to live. 1t is not worth while to look
for the root of SANDER whose topmost
buds will wither in q brief space of time.
1t is not worth while to mourn over the
absence of things you haven't got, and
don't see any possible chance of getting.
1t is not worth while to cry over spilled
milk, or to think of committing suicide
because you've made an unsuccessful trade.
1t is not worth while to cultivate the
acquaintance of people who like you in
proportion to the length ofyour purse, or
to feel disturbed when they desert you,-
1t is not worth while to live for the bene
fit of your neighbors, instead of the COM
fort of your own family. 1t is not worth
while to surrender your originality and
spirit of independence for fear of being
called, by some ninny who is cut out for
the same pattern with five hundred others,
"a little odd" 1t is not worth while to
make a great show and glitter upon the
high-rode of life, and find out, at the
eleventh hour, that You have neglected to
secure the wherewithal of love and truth
and faith to carry you safely across the
dark river-that is the most fatal mis-
take of ALL


Make little memorandum of these
things, friend, and when the world quar-
rels with you, or you quarrel with the
world, just stop minute, and think
whether it is worth your while to get an
noyed
Year: 1860

Now is the time that lawns require
moving often, say once in eight or ten
days, in order to make the grass thicken
at the base. Repeated moving, and that
often, has the same effect of close pas
turing and every one knows our old pas
ture fields have always smooth, close,
compact turf very desirable in ornament
al grass plants. Every one knows, too,
that in good soils old pastures are gener-
ally green and fresh in the heat OF summer
when timothy meadows are all dried up.
This is partially because the roots are
more shaded and the drain upon them
more equally divided, and partly because
our pasture grasses are mostly of red-top,
blue grass and white clover Ohio Far
Rler.
Year: 1860

Oh, for one hour of youthful joyl
Give me back my twentieth spring.
I'd rather laugh, bright-haired boy,
Than reign grny-haired king!
or with the wrinkled SPOTS Of age
Away with lcnrnings crown!
Fear not life's wisdom written page,
And dash its trophies down
One moment let my life-blood stream
From boyhood's fount of flame
Give me one giddy, reeling dream
OF life all love and fame!
Ny listening angel heard the prayer.
And calmly smiling said
''lf but touch thy silvered hair,
Thy hasty wish has sped"
"But is there nothing in thy track
To bid thee fondly stay.
While the swift seasons hurry back
To find the wished for day"
All, truest soul of won ankind
Without thee, what were life!
One bliss cannot leave behind
I'll take-my-p -precious--wife!
The angel took n sapphire pen,
And wrote in rainbow dew
"The man would be boy again
And be husband, tool'
And is there nothing yet unsaid
Before the change appears?
Remember all their gifts have fed
With those dissolving years"
Why. yes; for memory would recall
My fond, paternal joys.
] could not bear to leave them all
I'll my-girl-and-boys
The smiling angel dropped his pen
"Why this will never do!
The man who would be boy again,
And be father, too!'
And so laughed-the laughter woke
The household with its noise
And wrote my dream when morning broke
To please the grey haired boys!
Year: 1860

We presume the Faribanlt Repubi-
can does not seriously intend to make
us responsible for the observations and
criticisms Of our ST. Paul correspondent
When we employed that gentleman to
furnish US with Minnesota news. we did
not agree TO shoulder everything he
might see fit to write. or everything we
might unintentially or Inadvertently print
from his pen. Let every tub stand on
its own bottom. We doubt not our cor
respondent is prepared to have his
conduct measured by this maxim, as we
certainly are ours.--Ch,cago Press ana
Tribune
Year: 1860

@ Life in the Woods" is for the
present discontinued, owing to the in
disposition Of the Editor of the Literary
page This will account to her Cor
respondents for her long continued ST.
lence. We have reasos TO hope she
will resume her pen after few weeks.
Till then. will our distant readers par
don the diminished interest of her page
Year: 1860

THE Prince AT THE CINCINNATI BALL The
Cincinnati Commercial gives an amusing de
scriPtion of the Prince at the Opera House Ball
in that city: eA


The Prince danced the first quadrille with Mrs
9. " Pike. the set being formed on the stage
next the footlighs, on the east side Of the stage
The young Englishmen accompanying the Prince,
and few others, had the dance to themselves.
The calling Of figures was dispensed with, and
most Of our folks were lost without the call. Be
sides everybody wanted 10 see how the Prince
than otherwise; indeed we might say 1t was not
well patronised except by spectators.


The second lady with whom the Prince had the
Se n
Matte Taylor, daughter Of Col Taylor Of New
port, with whom be danced and waltIed; the
fourth was Miss Hilton, daughter Of Jndge Hill
Burnet, daughter Of Robert Burnet, Esq; the
sixth, and this completes the list was Miss Helen
McGregOf, Of Mount Auburn. The Prince did
ceeding would have been attended with difficult
ties but they were selected for him by the mana.
gers When the Prince had danced his frst
quadrille on the stage. IL being presumed that be
would dance In the same place, the stage became
thrOnged; and the managers adroitly had the
Prince and his set descend the stairs leading 10
the parqBette, snd'dance there .


This time the Princes quadrille was In the par
quette, close to the footighs in full view of not
only the people in the dress circle, but of the
crowd on the stage. The ladies who danced with
him displayed much self possession and grace.
Only one Of them succeeded In having lively
chat with n. r Fl whose meek dignity was
not at all calculated to promote vivacity, thoug
his eye had a faint gliInmer of mischief His
smile Is very engaging, and he looked few
times az though he felt the reverse of uncomfort-
able He was little perplexed, however, about
what TO do with the ladies after he had danced
with them. The Prince Of Wales leaves a lady
with whom he dances at once to the care of her
friends, but Baron Renffew could not do that
He had TO restore his partners to their parents or
other escorts, and IL must be admitted he was a
little awkward about it.


This was the first ball he had attended in the
United States, and the sensation Of a lady's hand
resting on his arm was novel. The young gentle.
man was dressed richly but simply. He wore an
exquisitely fitting black dress coat a narrow
white cravat, with small tight knot and shori
bows, and dainty standing collar with slightly
rounded corners, light mot whits) vest, with
small round gold buttons, black pants, cut easy
and flowing below the knee, and white kid gloves
(No- at least single strand of fine gold chain
crossed his breast in front Of his vest, and the
bosom Of his shirt, worked In narrow plait was
fastened with small plain pearl studs. His light
hair, slightly inclined to curl is cut so ms to show
the lobes Of his ears and neatly parted before and
behind.
Year: 1860

DsrRRssINo CASE OF HYDRoPHoBrA-Am man
named Patrick O'Donnel died In Detroit last
Friday from the effects of bite of a dog received
four months ago. The Advertiser of that city SAYS:


On Thursday morning the unmistakable symp.
tons or the most terrible of diseases were apparent
and from that time till Friday evening when death
was brought to his relief, his sutferings were
frequently, a1d during the latter part OF the last
DAY continually, of the most intense kind No pen
can describe the horror with which the sight Of
them afflicted the spectators.


IL should be understood that in this disease the
sensitiveness Of the nerves is exquisite almost
beyond belief. The raising of a hand by one
several feet away occasioned a terri BILE sbudder


For Gods sake don I do that; you take nv brea tn
away" he gasped out; and such is but one of the
many incidents that were constantly occurring
when his spasms were not on There was a con-
slant twiching Of every limb eyes staring as If to
leap from their sockets, or clasping or clutc hing
Of the hands and the like. When In the spasms
he could scarcely be held. He would lump up
and bite at everything near. The sight of fluid
occasioned a most fearful exhibition Of perfect
dread, and at no moment was the unhappy man
at rest. When not in spasms he was rational and
conversed. Early in the day, yesterday, he spoke
OF death as certain, and would call his mother to
him, embrace her, and tall with her, as IL the
next moment would be his last, telling her that
no one could tell what mig ht be the consequences
Of the next spasm


His death, we understand to have been fastened
by his physicians In mercy to him, after all
Imaginable means had been taken to arrest the
disease. He often, when his sufferinqs were
severest, begged of those around him to shoot him
or kill him In any way to relieve him from misery
Year: 1860

Every arrival from Mexico, and the States
of Central and South America brings intelh>
genoe of wars, and rumors Of wars. These
States claim TO be Republics, but are Repub
lies only in name. Each is ruled by some
ambitious chieftain, who is in his turn over
thrown by some successful and equally un-
scrupulous rival Thus do the waves Of dis
cord and revolution roll on increasingly. With
the majority of these States, the attempt at a
Republican form of Government has been a
miserable fnilure-a mere farce. They would
not brook the idea of monarchy. They
would tell you they believe too much in the
divine right of the people, ever to submit to
a Kingly rule. But if continued revolutions
bringing about no good result, and syste-
matte course of the plundering of the weak
by the strong are calamities and exhibit q
peoples incapaoity for selfgovernment, We
do not see why those States are any better
off than if they lived under the rule of the
crown and sespter They exhibit the great
truth that people who would live under a
Republican form of Government, must be
fitted for that government. The States of
Central America made en- attempt in 1924 to
establish confederation similar to that Of
the United States. The attempt was fail
ure, the union being broken up in 1889, since


which time each of the States has been ruled


by succession of military despots. The


wars in these States, however, do not attract
much attention from the fact that they are so
very common, and also from the fact that the
States are small and isolated as it were, and
the inhabitants composed Of mixed race
who have nothing in common with US. But
of all the Southern governments, Mexico
stands out in the boldest relief In her we
see the workings of all the governments of
the self.styled Republics Of Central and South
America-the mere farce of Republic.


THE NEXT EASTERN MA1L-The S. F. Bull
letin of Thursday says


On inquiring at the post Office to day, We
learn that no orders were received by the
steamer Just arrived as to the manner of send
ing the next mails eastward 1t will be
recollected that the Oregon mail contract
with Vanderbilt expires with this month. On
and after the lst of July. therefore. the Over
land routes will afford the only facilities for
sending mails eastward, unless q Pony Ex-
press arrives meantime with orders announc-
ing new arrangements In the present con
dition of the Overland routes it will be i'm
possible to take the newspaper mails, and the
contractors are not bound to perform any
such duty. Under these circumstances Post
master Weller has obtained promise from
Messrs Forbes d Babcock, the agents of the
steamship line, that the steamer leaving here
on the 30th will take the newspaper mails
and such letters only as are endorsed "Per
Unce Sam, June 30th." All letters not SO |
endorsed win go Overland
Year: 1860

TnE CAPrURER AFRlc4Ss.-A Washington
dispatch June Cd, says;


The question of the disposition of the cap
tured Africans viii be called up in a few
days, when an interesting debate will follow
on that subject. 1t is asserted and believed
by those who have the best means of know
ing, that where one slave vessel is detected
by the government with its cargo of Africans,
ten succeed in landing the negroes and dis
tributing them over the South leading
STAKEHOLDER said to day that the result of this
kind of traffic, if tolerated, will be to make
the slave breeding States free


The Navy Department received this morn
ing the official account of the recent capture
of slavers on the Cuban coast from the COM
mnnders of vessels now Mt Key West. After
graphically detailing the manner of running
the vessels down, and the various subterfu-
ges attempted by the slavers to escape, the
officer says: The Wild6re is new vessel,
and very handsome. The William is ten or
twelve years old, very fast and roomy She
could carry comfortably FIVE hundred negroes
back to Africa. The negroes are dying so
fast now that there will not be more than
seven or eight hundred to send back out of
all that have been captured He further
says, there are but two signs that can dis
cover or hear of by which a vessel can be
/ known without boarding her First, the
slave galley-and this may be neatly covered
but not entirely hid Second, all slavers slip
one anchor and chain as soon as they gel
their cargo, and consequently have but one
anchor oa the bow. The captured vessels
were all arranged so as to scuttle the ship il
case she should be left alone On examina


ton found two holes with plugs ready to b,


taken out.
Year: 1860

MILITARY COURT MARTIAL.-By order of
the Secretary of War, Court Martial will
meet at Fort Leavenworth on the 25th June,
or soon thereafter as practicable, for the trial
Of such prisoners as may be brought before it.
Year: 1860

fnE cattle disease has made its appearance
in New Jersey. The disease is said to be
the same as that in Massachusetts, and is
supposed to have been introduced by an ami
NAL from that State.