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Year: 1860

My child (the good old man did say)
My child come near to me-;
Come. tell thy father what this day
Has pleasant been to thee.
Father (the buxom bov replied)


When school was done and DER,
With a merry shout and joyous stride
We ran for the frozen shore.
Down on the knee We in trice


Buckled the binding strap.
And away we went OIL the glary ice
With whoop. halloO and clap.
And curious figures We did cut


As ever were cut oy skate;
The circle now. then heel to heel,
And now the figure eight.
And away we went, nor felt fall,


there 5 hole, take care take care!
Look out look out there comes the ball !.
.! what bound was there
And thus we warmed the cold away
Our cheeks were r sy red;
But there was one whose feet did stay
Nor on the ice did tread.
Why stand you there upon the snow,
You tiniiG one. and cold:
Come, venture here. and we will show
And learn you to be bold.
Away we went upon the race,


With scarce a look behind,
But still the boy in the same place
TO stand was yet inclined.
could not brook to see him so,


And to him went and said,
''TO the same school we both do go,
10 sports the same are led"
And then it was upon his cheek


saw the frozen tear;
He did not try-why should he speak
When nature spoke SO clear.
The tear its story did relate
In language strong and sure;
No sled had he, nor yet skate


To buy he was too poor.
My Hollanders of FURNISHED steel


Now On his feet appear;
o. It's pleasant thing to feel


I've thawed that frozen tear.
Well done my boy. thus ever live,


Such actions never grieve;
Know thou it is more sweet to give


Than ever to receive.
And when thy cheek, my child, tonight
Doth thy soft pillows press.
Sink thou to sleep in pure delight,


For God thy deed will bless.
Year: 1860

are indispensable to the building up OF commerce and n
great oses-that we have spirit OF adventure and por
severance guided by Community OF interest, llbersty
intelligence and skil. With these we may venture
and achieve, and when dare We will triumph
Let Us unfurl the flag Of the Virginia Dare" as
inia, and let US never faller or turn baox from
our determination 10 build up . grea. city AMI xrea,
commerce In Vrginia-a determination lAudaole a. any
time, but which not 10 sustain under the clrcums,
Of the days In which live, would prove unworthy
SONS OF . glorious mother.
Year: 1860

From The Philadelphia Bulletin NsssA


The suthor Of Sylvan Hollis Daughter has many admirers
and their numb viii be greatly increased the and sdm
bic novel now before Hos Lee h of course assumed
name designed confuse the world the gender Of the author
jus. Cuner Bell chosen by Charlotte Bronte. We have
little doubt that Holme Lee woman and we consider her
story Against Wind and Tide the cap of the


We can safely sssert that for power In describing
character insight into the workings Of the heart and know
edge Of the world there has been book equal this ubhed
fines Adam Bed The plot Of the story Ia Irregular and per
hsps nsstc but the less absorbing story fa Of
psthos power and truth TO naturer
Year: 1860

Our readers win be pleased with this novel above the
usual standard Of works Of fiction that
hdeny TecommeDd the author other popular
Stories which have gained strong hold upon those who have
read hem and according competent judges this win be found
70 be even more interesting, and superior to them ell


confess that English novel Adam Bede has absorbed


me In the reading and when add that in many respects this
book striking reminder Of John HALIFAX" feel that the
comparison s equally complimentary and JUST
Year: 1860

A MOST COMPLICATED TRANSACTION IN
New ORLEANs-A STEALING -CANING-CHAL-
LEHGING AFFAIR.-They have q queer way
Of doing things in New Orleans. A grocer,
through the aid of neighboring variety
dealer, detected a clerk pifering articles
from the grocery store. The grocer told the
clerk to leave quietly, as he did not wish to
expose him. The clerk sued for back wages,
and the grocer offered half the sum claimed,
which was refused, and the grocer proved
the thefts, and the clerk had to pay the
costs Clerk then challenged grocer to
duel with broadswords, but grocer declined
to fight with thief. The nephew of the
clerk, who bore the challenge then chal-
lenged grocer who accepted his offer. Mean
while said nephew met and savagely caned
the variety man, who had testified to his
uncles dishonesty. The duel was to have
come off on certain day, and about 100
persons had assembled at the place ap-
pointed to see the fght-but it seems the
duelists did not come to time,n having
either been stopped by the police or gone to
another field =
Year: 1860

,ELEcTRIoAL PHENOMENA. :, During the
ing, those in the operating OF the Amer
ican Telegraph Office in that city, saw
bright fash Of electricity pass through the
lightning arrester on one of the wires to the
earth. Upon removing the paper between
the metallic plates of the arrester, a perfect
impression Of child's leg and foot burned
throuoh II
Year: 1860

SNGULAR.-ComiDg back to our office after
a bris! absaoce Saturday, we found a most
singular object lying upon our table. twas
oval in shape, measuring two inches and a
half IN It's shortest diameter, and three inches
and fve-eighths in its longest; composed ex-
ternally Of a calcareous substance of dirty
white color, smooth, with the exception of
few wrinklts at one end; and very much
resembling, in fact, huge egg. A very
curious fact about it is, that on it may be
distinctly traced, in faint black lines, the
following words " See what comes of being
sound on the goose.


How it came on our table, we cannot say.
The window was partially open, but hardly
enough to have admitted bird large enough
to have laid such an egg, if egg it is, and we
have not yet learned that any one has seen
either a roc or a phoenix about town. The
object may be seen at our Office AMI if Dew
ey, or any man who is familiar with such
4" fruit" can explain the phenomenon. We
trust he will.
Year: 1860

The Blltimore Convention, No. l, has
made quick work with its business, in which
it showed moro good sense than the Charles
ton Convention did. That spent eight days
in trying to make Platforms, and got no
Candidates ut all. The Baltimore Convention
determines to have no platform at all-prac-
ticaly speaking. Its candidates may be
represented as the Goddess Of Fortune was
blind folded and standing on a smooth round
stone,-indicating, plainly enough, that
She did not know herself what she
was going to DO, and that nobody could
tell which way her hvors were to fall. The
Constitution and the Laws for Platform
They might as well have taken Webster :
spelling book to indicate what policy they
had in view. As for their candidates-there
is quite a difference between them. Bll has
some positive elements in him; Everett has
nore at all, unless political timidty and car
pet rhetoric are to be ,reckoned such. The
ticket can only draw those voters who other
wise would not yote,at al, or Who'll they did,
would, while bewailin5 the evils o.. slavery,
be sure to vote so as to help the side Of those
who work directly for it as hard as they
can.
Year: 1860

pale countenance and nervous derangcment. analyses of the blood show a deficiency of the red globules. Buddy complexion and rosy tint of the skin, IS always indicative of health while a pale, wax like skin and countenance, which evinces deficiency of the red globules, accom- panies diseased organism. Preparations of Iron have been given for the purpose of supplying the red globules, but we contend that Iron alone. Sulphur alone, or Phosphorus alone, will not meet the deficiency in every case, but that judi cious combination of aH these elements is neces- sary to restore the blood to it's normal standard

 This point, never before attained has been reach- ed in the Blood Food and its discovery ranks as one of the most scientific and important of the age. Its effects in
Year: 1860

Very USCERrAIS.--It is related Of
Hon. d. S. Dickinson, that he was asked
by client in an important case which had
just closed and the jury gone out to agree
on the verdict, what he thought would be
the result, he replied: " If there is any


thineupon earth that God doesn't know,
it is what a Jury will do when out"
Year: 1860

VERMIN on CATTLE OR FowLs.-To Ii
vermin on cattle or fowls, take commca
lamp Oil, and rub it in well back OF tas
ears all down the back; do this once
week, and no vermin will trouble you. To-
is safe. Tobacco will kill lice, but shoa
be used cautiously. Rub lamp oil on tr
back of the head, and under the wing,
and over the posteriors Of any fowl on,e a
month and it will clear out all lice
Year: 1860

one who has passed through years of afro
cious experience, unites her Witness to
the beauty and youth of another ew to
the trade, and the two as mother and
daughter, or more frequently aunt and
niece, easily locate themselves In any
boarding house they choose.


Once settled down in new place the
Fast Wonan's method is simple. It is
true that she alternates, through life, be
tween stages of magni6cance and squalor
Rarely saving her extortionate gains, she
is frequently unable to pay her board, or
buy her clothing, when fairly shaken off
by an outraged victim. But suppose her
in funds, and just arrived on new ground.
She has her qualities to begin with. She
is woman of passion, is handsome, dresses
with the usual good or bad taste of mon
eyed American females, sings little, plays
little, dances q great deal. Is quiet and
behaves herself But, Mesdames boarding
house keepers, you can always tel! her by
one sign. Before she has been with YOU a
week, she will be acquainted with every
man in the house who is open to attack,
be lie lawyer, broker, merchant, or mer-
chants clerk-and will know very few, If
any of your lady inmates. The latter,
with their finer female instincts, will find
her out, at any rate to :heir own satisfac-
ton. By-and by, though perhaps very
quiet and companionless at first. she will
have many gentleman visitors. Perhaps
you will then recoliect that when she ap
piled for board, she referred you only to
gentlemen-and highly respectable gentle
men they were, too-for information as to
her means and character. Now, if all
these things are in combination, you may
be wronging an innocent female in doing
what we say you have right to do--that
is, in strongly suspecting your fascinating
and unprotected lady boarder to be Fast
Woman, and in keeping very close watch
upon her movements-in expecting, soon
er or later, to hear Of her fastening herself
upon some fellow with more money than
brains---to hear Of her living in great splen-
dor at some hotel--to bear of her name
vilely exposed in connection with some
case Of fraud aud dissi pation--to hear,
sooner or later, of an evil ending, and an
uncared-tor grave.


Much remains to say but here we must
Quit the subject. If the Fast Woman
lives through all her reckless dissipatio n,
through all the sloughs she is ever in from
the veDgence or desperation Of her victims
to a period past the bloom OF youth, when
she can of herself ruin men no longer, she
may still gain vile subsistence by linking
her fortunes, as has been said above, to
those of some younger adventures. Or
she may degenerate to tire keepership Of
some houses supported by the lusts of
men. But, in the one case and in the
other, it is fearful retribution that the
Fast Woman incurs for the brief triumphs
of prohigate youth,-Ne0 York Til
bune.
Year: 1860

Last year, Col Baker, the Black Republican
candidate for Congress, avowed himself in favor
of permitting the people of Territory to say
whether or no they would have slavery. He
was emphatically popular sovereignty" man
opposed to Intervention by Congress on the
question of slavery in the Territories. And the
Republicans of California voted for him and
thus endorsed his views. Now they are called
upon to vote for Abe Lincoln for President. who
in his New York Cooper Institute" speech, now
before US, maintains that slavery cannot existin
the Territories that Southern men cannot stake
slaves into the Territories and hold them there
as property" that Congress, and not the people
of a Territory, have the exclusive power of de-
claring whether slavery may exist in a Territory
or not, or whether Territory, with a slave
Constitution, shall be admitted into the Union as
State.


Last year the Black Republican candidate for
Congress took the ground that, if the people of
aTerritory asked admission into the Union as a
State with slave Constitution, Congress was
bound to admit them. Then the California Re-
puolicans agreed with the candidate for Con-
gress. Now their candidate for President de-
careS that it is the duty and purpose of the
Republican party to prevent any further spread
ofthe institution of slavery-to prevent the ad-
mission of any more slave States into the Union,
whether the people of such proposed States
wish slavery or not. Will the California Re-
pue1icans wheel about, spew up their principles
OF last year, and endorse those of Lincoln If
they are honest men, they will not. The lead
ers of the Republican party in the East have an
nounced the purpose of prohibiting, by act of
Congress, the existence of slavery in the Terri
tories. Only few weeks since the Republican
Congressman repealed the slavery clauses of the
acts of the New Mexican Legislature. Last year
Col. Baker and the Republicans of this State
declared themselves opposed to such action Do
they approve it this year?
Year: 1860

CAN'T SAY.-We are not prepared to say whe-
ther tie Republicans of this place are much
pleased with the nomination of Lincoln or not
think not-their number is too few to enable
them to give an expression of opinion.
Year: 1860

MORE JoURNALIsM-An evening penny
paper, under the control Of an association Of
men, political adherents of the incoming Ad.
ministration, made its appearance yesterday.
From the known character Of all engaged in
the enterprise, we infer that they purpose being
the supporter of the sectional Irresponsible
r. conflict party."-Stdtes and Union.


The States and Union might have been more
courteous in language, less faulty in grammar,
more luminous in general purport, and warmer
in its welcome toward us in our advent upon
the field of journalism. Of that, however, we
have no right to complain. But we do protest
against all speculaticns in regard to our edto.
rial course. That course was distinctly an.
nounced in the number of our paper which gave
to the collaboration Of the States and Union
an idea from which to "infer" a conclusion
to his paragraph. We commend our prospec-
tus to his attention. As far as we are con-
cerned " irresponsible conflicts" shall be left
to the care of our local contemporary and kin.
dred journals. When conviction of duty en-.
lists our support in any Conflict" our neigh
Dor may rest assured that its humorous de-
scription, Irresponsible" will be very far
from an index to its character.
Year: 1860

so manifestly inadequate, as q justification or
even an excuse for that movement, that every
rejecting mind must be satisfied that their real


motives are kept in the background The most
prominent of these real motives is, unquestion.
ably, an avaricious passion for cheap negroes.
Year: 1860

Mr.. McGowan, a member of the House of
Representatives Of South Carolina, and rec.
ognised leader in the State, said in the course
Of debate in the House on the 9th instant:


ave have long been satisfied as to the
causes of dissolution. We avail ourselves Of
the election of Lincoln, but it is not with us
the only cause Of complaint. We have re-
mained in the Union for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the cooperation of our Southern sis
ters-to arrange the time when and the man
ner how, and for nothing else"
Year: 1860

CRUELrY TO AElSALs.-The Marysville
Democrat tells a good story of fair widow
who was prosecuted by the everyday atten-
tions of distasteful suitor. The poor bach
elor followed her into the kitchen where she
was washing one day:


sShe gave him chair and chatted away
quite merrily; however, at the same time,
seemingly very much engaged with the work
before her. Presently she took up large
sized wash-basin, and filed it full oil hot
suds from tha boiler on the stove, and STEP
ping to table, took up boquet that was
lying thereon, and in the most innocent
manner conceivable asked the gentleman If
he could tell the botanical name of one of
the flowers contained therein. OF course he
rose from his chair and stepped forward to
examine it. The malicious woman adroitly
set down the basin in the vacated seat Then
she riveted his gaze with one of her sweetest
smiles, and presented TO him the boquet,
and begged he would keep it for her sake
and bade him resume his seat. He obeyed
Ih1t widow has not had caller in her kit
chen sirce"
Year: 1860

humor. Never scold or give lectures or in
any way wound a child's feelings, as It goes
to bed. Let all banish business and every
worldly care at bed time, and let sleep como
TO a mind at peace with God and all the world.


Halls Journal of Health.
Year: 1860

The characteristic qualities of woman-when
true to the type of her being--her delicacy,
modesty, reserve, and chastity in thought and
feeling, word and action-her sweetness, gen.
tleness, patience, sympathy, tenderness, depen-
dence, devotion her sensibility to beauty and
grace, order, fitness, and propriety in speech,
dress, behavior, everything; her intellectual
faculties-more receptive than productive
thought resting more on feeling than feeling on
thought-making her more susceptible of cul-,
ture and refinement than apt for grasping the
abstruse and rugged in science and practical
life; all these are charms for men, through
which men gets unsPeakable good to his own
nature; while mans harder texture in body
and mind-his strength, courage, self-reliance,
his grasp, force, and productive power in the
world of thought and action, draw woman to
him. Thus each finds in the other what each
one needs. The womanly woman feels herself
strong and brave when she leans on man, and
mans manly courage grows stouter, and at the
same time the rugged hardness of his nature is
softened by tender reverence, as with one arm
he supports and with the other protects the gen.
tie one clinging to his side. In everything, in
short, in which they are made different, it is
that each may find their proper counterpart in
the other They are made different in order
that they may become one. Out of this very
difference springs the closest and richest union
the union of mutual love whereof marriage
is the outward representation. Only in this
true married union, and in the home of love
that builds itself up out OF it, can the perfection
of the individual life, dignity, and worth of
each be found and realized.-Dr. Oldham.
Year: 1860

~ A Brown Tissue Veil was lost last
evening on Prospect street, between Brown
ell and Granger streets, South side, or on
Granger street. The finder will confer ia
vOr by leaving it at the Leader Counting
Room or at 81 Granger street.
Year: 1860

Discovery OF SILVER LEAp.-Moonev.
of the Folsom Express, is credibly informed
by respectable gentleman of that city that
rich vein of silver, in quartz, has been dis
covered at point near Pilot Hill, a few miles
from the new Cave. The place is already
tlled with prospectors, who have marked


out and taken up the ground for five miles.
Year: 1860

= Hsy making was going on in The Court
H'nse Square yesterday. The grass had been
cut several days, and had, by its perfume, re.
minded every passer-by, who bad ever been in
q hay de d, Of the days OF his childbood
Year: 1860

IptENEss.---Said the distinguished Chat
ham to lis son: al would have inscribed
upon the curtains of your bed, and the
walls of your chamber--if you do not rise
early you can never progress in anything.
If you do not set apart yonr hours of
reading, if you suffer yourself or any one
else 70 break in upon them, your days
will slip through your hands improbable
and frivolous, and really unenjoyed by
Yourself" '
Year: 1860

ES-There is nothing which creates
thirst more than labor in the sun, and
such b.ing the case, it is the du of the
farmer to have a cool and refreshing drink
supplied to his hands in tie field. a
drink made in the proportion Of FIVE gal.
Ions Of water, halt gallon of moIlasses,
and one quarter Of a pound Of ginger. well
stirred together, will b, found very in
vigorsting, refreshing and safe.
Year: 1860

@-A just mar fs always simple. He
is man of direct aims and purpe ges -
There is no complexity in his motives
and hence there is no jarring or discord-
ancy in his character. lie wishes to do
right, and in most cases be does it. He
may err, but it is by mistake of judgment
and not by perversity Of intention. The
moment his judgment is enlightened his
action is corrected. Setting dimsei al
ways clear and worthy end, he will ne v.
er pursue by any concealed or unwor.
thy means. We may carry our remarks,
for illustration, both into private and pub.
lie life. Observe such a man In his
home. There is charm about him which
no artificial grace has sver had the po ower
to bestow; there is swee.ness--I had al
most said music-in his manners which
no sentimental refinement has ever given.


His speech ever fresh from putty aud
reclltuds OF thought, controls all that are
within its hearing with an unfet and vet
resistIess sway. Faithful to every domcs
tic, as t. his religion and his God, he
would no more prove recreant to any 10y
ality of fhome than he would to blasphome
the Maker in whom lie believes, or than
he should forswear the Heaven in which
he hopes. Fidelity and truth to those
bound by love & nature to his heart are tc
HIM most sacred principles; they are il
the last recesscs of his moral being; the,
are imbedded in the life; and to violate
them would seem to him as a spiritual ex-
termination, the suicide Of his soul.


Nor is such man unrewarded, for the
goodness that Qcso largely gives is large
ly paid back to him again; and, though
the current Of his lifeis transparent, it is
not shallow. On the contrary, it is deep
and strong. The river that fills its chan.
mel glides smoothly along in the power oil
its course-it is the stream which scarce
ny covers the raggedness Of its bed, that i:
urbulent and noisy. With all this gen.
tleness there is exceeding force; with all
this meekness there is imperative COM
mand; but the force is the force of wisdom
and the command is the command of love
And yet the authority that rules SO effect.
nally never gathers an angry or an irrita.
BILE cloud over the brow Of the ruler; and
this sway. which admits of no resistance
does not repress one houestimpulsa of ma
ture, one moment Of the souls high free
dom, one bound Of JOY from the hearts
unbidden gladuess, in the spirits Of the
governed.
Year: 1860

A CASE For MEDrcAL AID.-Old Lady.
Oh! Doctor, I've brought YOU an old hen,
and please could you give her something
to make her lay Shanghai eggs-as many
as possible at time-it would be a great
accommodation to us?
Year: 1860

RS- Here as good moral under the
guise of fable:


"a young man once picked up soy.
ereign in the road. Ever afterwards, as
he walked along, he kept his eyes fixed
steadily on the ground, in hopes of find
ing another. And in the course of long
life, lie did pick up, at different times, a
goodly number of coins, gold and silver.
But all these years, while he was looking
for them, he saw not that the heavens
were bright above him, and harure beau.
hful around. He never once allowed his
eyes to look up from the mud ani filth in
which he sought the treasure; and when
he died, rich old man. he only knaw
this earth of ours as dirty lead in which
to pick up money as You walk along"
Year: 1860

PECULIAR MANNER OF FISHING IN JAPAN.
In walking along the banks, says correspon-
dent, we came upon man fishing In a most
peculiar way. He was perehed on low
bridge leading over srream that Joined the
canal. At first l thought he had hooked an
enormous fish, but on closer inspection found
it was merely live decoy. It's dorsal fin
side from these it was tethered TO what
tist took TO be his rod. The poor fish sported
about i'll the water. apparently doing its best
to attract the atten ton of its fiuny fellows
The man held a small arrow pointed trident.
with which he deXterously struck any large
fish that came wondering at the antics of the
teIhered decoy.