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Year: 1860

A CERTAIN REMEDY FOE FRECRLEs
take nutmeg crater ard rob the
skin-rub it off nice and clean; then
take hot iron-hOt as blazes-and
make the SUI face perfectly smooth rub
thoroughly with vitriol three times a
day, or as often AZ Won feel like it. At
night cover your head up with onions.
The next skin will be white, and have
nary freckle.
Year: 1860

The election is over in State and County,
and we have to inform our readers that the
Breckenridge Democracy is defeated. Wbeth
or the Little Giant or Old Abe will receive the
electoral vote of the State is yet undecided,
but one or the other is the winner. The re-
turns from the different counties, published
elsewhere, give the figures as far as received.
Breckinridge, though reported considerably
behind, will bring up handsomely upon
more complete returns, but not enough to
secure success. Both the Republicans anA
Douglas men claim the State, but at the
present writing the chances seem the most
favorable to Lincoln.


In the county Douglas leads the van
Breckenridge being third in the race. Our
whole county ticket is defeated. The Rs-
publicans upon some of the officers, run the
Douglasitcs very close, aud have elected Har-
ri'nan TO the Assembly over Ball by 35 votes
On the Senatorship Thomas leads Higgins
but few votes For the Sherifaltry the
contest has been between Bullock and Boggs
The former is ahead over one hundred votes,
and is elected.


It is useless to speculate upon the defeat
Of our ticket. We hoped for and expected
different result, but have been dsappoint.
ed. Our ticket was good one-in our es
timation the best in the feld-and the can
didates active canvassers.


The creed Of the party we know is correct,
and our doctrines, we believe, those alone
that will preserve the Union of the States.
But for the moment the peculiar dogmas Of
Mr.. Douglas seem to have dazzed the minds
Of large portion of the people, and they
wandered after false theories. Defeat is
never pleasant and particularly so to men
who contend for the right but our present
reverse is no reason for encouragement


The principles Of the Democratic party
are as good in defeat as in victory and in
the end will prevail. The Douglas triumph
will be but temporary, the reaction will soon
come, and Democrats have but to adhere TO
their standard to raise it i'll triumph in the
coming year. We say then to the gallant
party who have made the good fight, to
stand firm in their faith, and another year
victory will crown their efforts.
Year: 1860

PEAcEABLE.-The election passel off in
Placer, so far as we are informed, without a
single fight. No body engaged in the
"manly art of self defence" by punching the
head of any free and enlightened sover-
eign"
Year: 1860

THE SICK HEADAcHE.-It is stated that
two tea.spoonfus of finely powdered char
in less than fifteen minutes give relief to the
sick headache, when caused as in most cases,
i, is, by super abundance of acid on the
stomach.
Year: 1860

Too MANY BALLoTs.-We understand
that upon counting the votes at the Horse
Shoe Bar Precinct, in Township No. 6, there
were thirteen more votes found in the ballot
box than there were names upon the poll
list. The tickets were counted over twice,
and each time with the same result. This
will undoubtedly lead to contest of the
precinct, as upon it hangs the fate of at
least half dozen of county and town.
ship candidates.
Year: 1860

THE SOUTHERN BANKs.-The condition OF
the banks OF the South having attracted some
attention, we present the following statement
of their capital circulation and specie, as they
were in January last. 1t will be- observed that
the proportion of specie is large, being nearly
half the amount of notes in circulation. AT
this season the Southern Banks are always
taxed to their utmost capacity, 10 make the
necessary advances on the cottons shipped to
the North and TO Europe. 1t is customary, at
this time Of the year, for the banks in the
cotton growing States TO withdraw from or
binary customers The usual facilities gran ed
10 them, In order to purchase cotton bills Of
exchange. While current payments at the
North remain unliquidated, the proceeds of
the cotton bills are applied To payment OF
those maturing liabilities, and this season is
ALWAYS the one at which Southern payments
are made The refusal TO discount paper by
any OF the banks in the South mnst, there
fore not be taken as evidence of weakness,
but the simple result OF the fact above stated.
The preseut condition OF the exchanges indi-
Gates that the South has paid of her accrued


Indebtedness, and following the laws OF trade,
we must soon expect 10 ship specie to South
ern vorts In moderate amounts. The acces-
sion of a few millions will soon enable the
| banks to expand and resume their loans on
local papar
Year: 1860

Sensible Visw-Nancy Davis, a Luuenbure
free negro, made her bow to the Mayor yes ter
day. to answer for being In the city with i'm
proper papers. When told that she must re.
turn to Lunenburg or go North, she declined
TO do either. declaring that she had rather be
sold into slavery than take the chances of
starving IN freedom. She was ordered To leave
the city forthwith.
Year: 1860

R0bbing a NeightOr.-Mary Shay, a white
woman, was arraigned before the Mayor yes-
terday morning, TO answer the charge Of steal
lug s25 in money from Mary Reynolds. The
evidence was sufficiently conclusive of guilt
70 warrant the Mayor Ia sending the party on
for further hearing before the Hastings
Court, which he did.
Year: 1860

Excitement Abating.-Since the day OF the
PRESIDENTIAL election up TO Wednesday night.
great anxiety was manifest ted in the city to
learn for whom Virginia had voted, bat now
that the vote Is so close as to require the ON. .
ciai returns to decide, the anxiety seems TO
nave su6sided, and ali parties appear TO bs
willing TO await the final count
Year: 1860

Pleasant Rssort.-One Of the most agreeable
places at which u spend an evening, that we
KNOW OF, Is the Far room AT The Mechautcss
Institute, where the ladies are making efforts
TO raise means to build q chapel. They have
a large amount Of pretty articles on hand a I'D
are furnishing their visitors with most Tempt
ing refreshments.
Year: 1860

Stcaiioicing PiH.-Dr. Lewis was called on
yesterday morning ~ remove from the th ruar
OF negro child n large brass pin, which had
become Completely emoedded in the nesh lie
performed the operation with great ease, aud
relieved the little creature of pain
Year: 1860

WHAT We ARE MADE OF.-The following
is from on article by Oliver W. Holmes /:


"If the reader of this paper live another
year, his selfconscious principle will have
migrated from his present tenement to an
other, the raw materials even Of which are
not yet put together. A portion of that
bSdy Of which is to be, will ripen in the
corn Of his next harvest. Another portion
Of his future person be will purchase, or
others will purchase for him headed up in
the form Of certain barrels Of potatoes. A
third fraction is yet to be gathered in the
Southern rlce-feld. The limbs with which
be is then to walk will be clad with flesh
borrowed from the tenants Of many stalls
and pastures, now unconscious Of their
doom. The very organs Of speech with
which be is to talk so wisely, plead so elo-
quently, or speak effectively, must first
serve bis humble brethren to bleat, to bel
low, and for all the varied utterance Of
brstled or feathered barnyard life. His
bones themselves are, to great extent, in
posse and not esss. A bag Of phosphate of
lime, which he has ordered from Professor
Mapes. for his grounds, contains a large
part Of what is to be his skeleton. And
more than all this, and by far the greater
part Of bis body is nothing at all but water,
the main substance Of his scattered mem
bers is 10 be looked for in the reservoir, in
the running streams at the bottom of the
well, in the clouds that float over his head,
or diHused among them ALL"
Year: 1860

FIRE-PRooF WoMEN.-The number Of Sc
rious accidents to women from FIRE tenders
renders it necessary that either they or
their gOssamere clothing should be rendered
6re-prOof One ounce of phosphate of am
monia to quart Of water is said to insure
dresses, and company is about organizing
for the insurance of the women against
everything but an old fame, which no lady
is supposed to wish to put out
Year: 1860

BRITISH AND AMERICAN SHlPPING.-A select commit
tee of the British house of commons merchant ship
ping have made report on the subject entrusted to
their care and have discussed among other questions
referred to them reciprocity and beligerent rights at
sea- We quote the portion OF the report especially
touching upon American interests;


As regards the government of the United States your
committee feel deeply disappointed that they have not
taken a liberal course in regard to their coastng
trade The expectations entertained that the United
States government would yield the point contended
for provided ceded our c0asting trade to American
vessels have resulted in disappointment So strong is
this feeling that it has been pressed upon the attention
Of your committee from various quarters, that IN,
Americans ddno possess any colonies and consequently
gave no equivalent in return for the cession of our
colonial trade them, and that, the trade from the
eastern coast Of the United States to California, either
by the way OF Panama round Cape Horn, has .
analogy to that which Is deemed eossting trade We
ought to have hesitation in excluding the ships ct
the United States from colonial carrying trade, with


view to bring their shipowners to just Of what
is due to our friendly reclamations.


But, though your committee are not prepared tq re-
commend the adoption Of this course, they are Of
opinion that the unremtng attention Of her majeStys
government should be directed to this important qies
ton, with view to remove, if possible the last ami
only obstruction to free and UNRESTRICTED com
mercal and maritime intercourse between the United
States and this country,


The report then proceeds to speak of the course
which, according to its views the government ought to
pursue obtain reciprocity fFUH tiIOsU StteS WHICH
withhold it,
Year: 1860

For power and wealth and honor blrst
The Country Of their birth,
Who proudly reared her starry crest


Among the Queens Of Earth ;
And warmly rose their patriot prayer


That long her sacred Ark,
Immaculate, and angel-sleer'd,


Might ride the bllIows dark:
Year: 1860

TO excess. And here is one OF The most
shockins f.stnres Of continental morals
the HIGHEST cIa-s in the State is openly
d.-solure. What can you expect from
those who live only in the smile OF their
lavor-wbose great ambition is 10 follow
in their sleps
Year: 1860

The following notice is posted at
railway station "1'raveers should be
careful TO deliver their baggage TO proper
persons, as a gentleman, y few days since
entrusted his wife TO a stranger, and has
not heard ol her since"
Year: 1860

And each to each sacred vow


Made mid the parting pain,
When fifty years away bad sped


TO seek that spot again;
Those ths, the shaft of Death mightsPare
Beneath yon oak trees shade,
Should meet beside the diamond spring
Such solemn tryste they made.
Year: 1860

1t is related of the Great Augustine, who
lived to within few days of the period when
his church at Hippo Regins-that while writing
his discourse on and in defence of the Trinity,
he wandered to the lee shore, and meditating
saw youth bring pitcher of water from the
sea, and pour it into a hole he had made in the
sand. He asked the object.-"To empty into
this hollow all the waters of the great sea-
impossible" said Augustine. The youth re-
piled, Not more impossible than for thee, o,
Augustine, TO explain the mystery on which
thou art meditating."


The form triune of matter was not understood
in those days 1t is quite as deep mystery
that matter should be possessed of three forms,
as it is that spirit should be constituted of the
Trinity
Year: 1860

ZSMr. Ward, proprietor of bowling
alley in this city. was stunned somewhat
this morning, by the unexpected appear
ance Of we'll dressed and rather hand
some woman, claiming to be his wife,
She had IN her arms a snub-nosed certif-
cate Of marriage, about two years of age,
air-haired. blue eyed. and very like its pa.
MIR. Ward is brave n an and courageously
faced the music. He acknowledged that,
leaving wife No. in Ohio, few years
ago, he became acquainted witL the young
lady who has shared his bed and board
since he has been in Lafayette, and loving
not wisely but too well, they were married
and settled down to keep house, as a cer-
tain individual kept hotel The two
wives met face to face, for the first time
this morning. The youngest of the two,
and the last married, sweet faced girl
not more than seventeen years of age, po.
litely handed the unexpected stranger a
chair. and they sat down together to talk
the matter over. Mr.. Ward was called
out suddenly and left them to compromise
as best they could. Like sensible women
they concluded that, as a husband, the
fellow was hardly worth quarreling about
and each announced willingness to re-
sign in favor of the other.


The police got wind Of tho affair this
forenoon, and Sheriff Goldman waited up.
on the ladies with an invitation to appear
before the grand jury. In the meantime
Mr.. Ward had concluded that change o
climate would be beneficial to his health
and took the first train out Of town His
services will be needed in the construc
tion Of the rev prison, and we presume
he will be sent for Lafayette Courier
Year: 1860

Two persons we're once di,putliug
so loudly on the subject of religion. that
they awoke big dog which had been sleer
ing on the heath before them, and he
forthwith barked most furiouslv. An
old divine present. who had been quitely
slipping his tea while the dispu,ants were
talking gave tie dog kick. and ex-
claimed. Hold your tongue, you silly
brute. you know no more about it than
they do"
Year: 1860

@Some negro thieves lately boxed up
a slave in Nashville, and consigned him
by Adams express TO Cincinnati. The
negro. however, expressed his Willingness
to return, and was Immediately taken
back. The Cincinnati Commercial adds
that the negro says the kind hearted in
dividual who concocted the programme for
his journey charged and received from him
seventy dollars in cash and double cased
silver watch. The unfortunate darkcy is
anspariDg in his denuDciation of the poor
white trash who go TO the South to get
money from the darkies under pretence of
getting them out of slavery
Year: 1860

~ An old lady who was apt to be
troubled in her dreams. and who was rath-
er supers;i,ious. informed her minister
that.she had dreamed che had seen her
grandmother. who had been dead for ten
years. The minister asked her what she
had been eating?


Only half mince pie


WELL said he. If you had de~oured
the other half you might probably seen
your grandfather
Year: 1860

~'I do not wish to insult you. gentle
men, but must take the liberty Of saving
that there has been good deal Of hard
lying under this roof to day


Yes, sir. and it has pretty much all
been done under the roof of your own
mouth
Year: 1860

During Colonel Bakers speech at the
American Theater, he spoke Of Garbaldfs
struggle for liberty; that oil over the world
every nerve was strainng against despot-
ism, every heart pulsed for freedom-"save
in Amerlca--the land Of the free, under the
flag whose shadow was sought by the OPP
pressed of all the earth--tbe universal dec
laraton of man is for freedom"--and the
orator retired from the audience with ges-
ticulations of shame and scorn, perfecting
the most tremendous stroke Of oratory that
we ever saw exhibited by living man. Hun
dreds sprang to their feet and shouted, and
the structure shook with the mighty inquiry
of human passion. The electrician had pen
etrated to the human soul. and III spite Of
all political prejudiccs, the common senti-
ment of liberty smote like hand of iron
on the heart. While the storm of applause
was passing, the speaker stood erect and
tall, looking, with eyes still bright with the
inspiration Of the orator, like superior in-
telligence who had launched q convulsing
bolt among the people, then the eye lost its
fire and was dim with tears, like the archer's
who has shot cruel dart among tender
flesh. A quiet citizen, pale and ghostly-
looking, apparently wasting under con-
sumption, sprang from his chair, gestcula-
ted and cried out indeeorously; but, while
with stronger frame and separated from
the speaker by different political belief we
did not restrain exclamation in common
with the vast throng; and as the man went
back to his seat, we had no reproof for the
indecorum. We pity the person, whether
from Key West or Maine, who could have
heard that tremendous sentence, and seen
the full splendors of perfected oratory,
without yielding to the mighty influences
which used to make the market-place of
Athens tumultuous and the rorum'of Rome
immortal.--[Mirror.
Year: 1860

The s. f. Herald publishes graphic
description of a trip across the continent by
mail stage, from which we clip this passage:


What saved us from monotony was the
frequent changes Of horses Every three or
four hours gave an opportunity to get out
and lounge for fifteen or twenty minutes, or
walk ahead along the road. And very fire
quently there was the interest of desperate
fight with the horses, wild, halfbroken ami.
mails in many instances. The wbeeers are
put in, the leaders bro't as near as may be
to their places the driver gels up and takes
his rens, the conductor aud station keeper
coax, or bully or beat the leaders into posi-
ton, just enough hastily to hitch the traces;
"let co. says the driver, ard away they Co.
rearing and plungng, sometimes sideways
sometimes forward; the conductor scrambles
up to bis seat, two, or three or four heads
look out of the window to see the start but
the driver is too cool hand and the pace
too rapid. very short distance sobers
down the plunging leaders and the team is
quiet, until the next station introduces new
actors, perhaps mules, and new aud more
obstinate fight.


And so station after station of the long
distance is passed 10y until we begin to be
impressed with a sort of magnifcence in
the idea of four undistinguished travellers,
each in his corner Of the coach, rolling along
with so much regularity in places where
horses are so wild and meals so dark; fnd.
ing fresh changes waiting for them, and sill
keeping on for thousands Of miles through
such deser; places without losing an hour
And as this goes on day after day, and week
after week the impression increases until we
are thoroughly awake to the greatness of
this enterprise and the magnificeuce Of the
ride.
Year: 1860

There was fellow once stepped out Of
tavern on the Mississippi, meaning to wal
mile up the shore to the next tavern. Jus
at the landing there lay big raft, one G
the regular old fashioned whalers--a raft
mile long.


Well, the fellow heard the landlord sa
the raft was a mile long. and he said to him
self II will 90 forth and see this great won
der and let my eyes behold the timber
which the hand of man hath hewn." So h'
got on at the lower end, and began to am
bulae over the wood in pretty fair time
Bot just as he got started, and as he wake(
up the river it walked down, both travelling
at The same rate. When he got to the end
of the sticks, he found they were pretty neal
ashore, and in sight Of tavern; so he land
ed, and walked straight into the bar room
he'd como out of. The general sameness o
things took him little aback; but he look
ed at the landlord steady in the face, and
settled it in his own way:


"Ppbllcan," said he, ARE you gifted with
twin brother, who keeps a similar sized
tavern, with a duplicate wife, a COMFORTING
wood pile, and corresponding circus bill, a
mile from here!'


The tavern keeper was fond of fun, and
accordingly said it WAS just so.


"And publican, have you among your dry
goods for the entertainment of man and
horse, any whisky of the same size of that
of your broher's?'


And the tavern man said, that from the
rising of the sun, even unto the going down
of the same he had


They took the drinks, when the stranger
said:


"Publcan that twin brother Of yours is a
fine young mana very fine man, indeed
But do you know, I'm afraid that he suffers
good deal with the Chicago dptheraY


"And what's thai?' asked the todd stcker.


"lt's when the truth settles so firm in a
man that none of it ever comes ont. Com
mon doctors of the catnip sort, call i, lyn.'
When | left your brothers confectionery,
there was a raft at bis door which he swore
his life to was mile long. Well, publican,
| walked that raft from bill to tail, from his
door to yours. Now, know my time, an
I'm just as good for myself rs for hoss, and
better for that than any man you ever did
see. | always walk mile exactly in twenty
minutes, on good road, and I'll be busted
with an overloaded Injun gun if I've been
mere'n ten minutes coming here, steppin
over them blamed logs at that"
Year: 1860

In the Pony Express news of the Alta is
the following:


Mail account are now at hand of tie res
ignalion of certain of the Federal officers
of South Carolina.


The United States District Court assem-,
bIed, and the grand jury being questioned as
to whether it had presentmtnts to make, re-
piled as follows:


The verdict of the Northern portion OF
the confederacy, solemnly announced to the
country through the ballot box on Yesterday,
has swept away the last hope for the per-
manence, for the stability Of the federal gov
ernment of these sovereign States; and The
public mind is constrained to lift itself above
tie consideration of details in the admins
tration of law and justice up to the vast and
solemn issues which have been forced upon
us. These issues involve the existence of
the government of which this Court is the
organ and minister. In these exlraol dinary
circumstances tie grand jury respectfully
decline to proceed with their presenments.
They deem this explanation due to the Court
and to themselves


The Judge Of the Court, Hon. A. G. Nc
Graih, then rose in his seat and resigned his
office. SAYING:


In the political history of the United
States an event has happened of ominous
import to fifteen slave holding States. The
State of which we are citizens has been al
ways undersood to have deliberately fixed
its purpose whenever the event should hap
pen. Feeling an assurance of what will be
the action of the State, consider it my du-
ty, without delay, to prepare to obey its
wishes. That preparation is made by the
resignation Of the office | have held For
the last time | have, as Judge of the Uni
ted States, administered the laws of the
United States within the limits of the State
of South Carolina. While thus acting in
obedience to sense of duty, cannot be
Indifferent to the emotions it must produce
The department of Government which, |
believe, has best maintained its integrity
and preserved its purity, has been suspended.
So far as | am concerned, the Temple of
Justice, raised under the fair Constitution Of
the United States is now closed If it shall
be never again opened thank God that its
doors have been closed before its altar has
been desecrated with sacrifices to tyranny.


May not say to you that in the future
which we are about to penetrate, next to the
reliance we should place in the goodness of
that God who will guide us in the right way
should be our confidence in our State and
our obedience to its laws. We are about to
sever our relations with others, because they
have broken their covenant with us. Let us
not break tie covenant we have made with
each other. Let US not forget that what the
laws of our State require, become our dn-
ties. And that he who acts against the wish,
or without the commands of his State,
usurps the sovereign authority which we
must maintain inviolate


The address was received with profound
silence, and during it delivery many of the
spectators were in tears. James Connor,
the U. S. Attorney, then made brief ad,
dress, also resgning his office.
Year: 1860

In late letter to the Bulletin, mention is
made of the fact that the mortal remains of
Columbus, now reposiug in Havana, are
shortly to be exhumed and re-interred IN a
new cemetery which has just been LAID
out, and is soop to be opened in that
city.