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Year: 1859

which they will sell at greatly reduced prices They
have made arrangements by which they will be ena-
bed to provide the reading public with all the stand
ard books Of the day at very reasonable advance on
New York prices.


The books are bought in New York by one Of the
hrm residing there, and any rare books that we may
not have in store, we will order for our patrons


We have on hand an assortment Of School Books.
Teachers will lind il to their advantage to purchase Of
US We invite all who want anything in our line Of
business to give US a call.


Olympia, Nov. 1, 1853. soft
Year: 1859

There was not much talk going on yesterday.
Carondele street and envrons were quiet very quiet
Not SO than usual when only forty to fifty thou
sand bales Of cotton are on the market for sale.
Parties were waiting the Niagara's advces Of the
23d, which were received in part after o'clock and
the balance at later hour The details will appear
under the usual head. The sales of cotton for the
week. which only includes four days and part of satur
day. the 18TH note the sales of 900 bales of cotton
Mddling Orleans closing at I'D The political intel


gence is not favorable. These accounts cannot have
any important bearing on our market. We have NO
heavy stocks of produce on hand, excepting pork,
and the talk is that pork will not be much affected
by gunpowder in Europe


There was the usual talk about cotton, and
although the question of cotton is losing the interest
which has attended it for months past, nevertheless
it will be of interest to many parties to know the
quantity received from the several inland towns at
the latest dates We, therefore, give the following
figures, embracing the receipts and stocks and the
quantity to be received to make up the amount Of
$500, 900 bales:


Comparative Receipts of Cotton at Light 5th of May
Year: 1859

SUMMER CLOTHING, SHIRTS AND UNDER G GARMENTS.


essfs leighton Barbot have in magnificent of
their hrst prem u shirts for sale corner of Canal and
81 Charles Streets New Orleans and 5l2 Broadway


This style of nen is becoming very popular and deseryedy
So LOT me cut causes the garment to fit beautifully without
usual tendency to hitch up" which has annoyed t best
men, the bosom laying smoothly without lily being
ruined and thus causing the rulug temper
This admissible style of shirt is every airy
e UT durable iasrc for summer with bosos of
elegant description and the of and money who looks
over the assortment will apt find that one is graed and


the other expended bafoe he leaves the
have in great stock excellent fashionable


ing OF He and stylish material and of thorough and
artistic make; and find all that be desires for
summer wear lie at their We refer advertisement
Year: 1859

CONTINUATION OF THE VoLKsFEsr.-The announce.
ment is made by advertisement that the German
May Festival, interrupted by the storm of Sunday
night last, will be continued on Sunday next, when,
the weather permitting, the grand procession will
form on Canal street, and go forth to the scene Of
merrymaking at the Creole Course, salute of
twenty-one guns being the signal for moving.
Year: 1859

RAILROAD FROM SACRAMENTO TO
NEvADA.-We have before us circular
signed by the most prominent and nfu-
entail citizens of-Placer county, setting
forth in convincing shape the advan-
tages to that county and Nevada, and
the worth Of the investment that would
be certain by the construction Of rail-
road from Folsom to Auburn and ulti-
mately to Nevada.


The circular produces the stubborn
fact for anti-railroad men, if there be
be any, to combat, that the amount of
freight brought into and passing through
Placer county,is is annually about $1,000
tons. at $3.50 per ton, and 100 passen-
gers each way daily at $3.50 each,
with the addition of down freights. it is
demonstrated that the railroad to Au-
burn will be a paying institution. 1t is
proposed to form company with cap
itNi otOek VI @COU,0UV, 10 Ue lSSue1 i'll
shares of 500 each. for the purpose OF
constructing the rad. A subscription
list has been put in circulation and the
people of Placer are going at the work
in good earnest. The citizens of Neva-
da county are invited to cooperate with
their brethren in Placer.


1t must be obvious to every man in
Nevada city that the interest Of this
place lies IN the construction of a rail-
road coming from the direction of Au-
burn. A depot at or near this place
would be sure to command for ourselves
again the trade of the entire ridge
which is now given to Marysvilie. A
part of Sierra county would also depend
once more upon this city for supplies.


As a measure of policy we favor the
Auburn road, and would recommend the
consideration of the subject to our read
ers. A subscription Est, and the circular
can be seen at this Office. The latter
we shall lake occasion to publish next
week.
Year: 1859

j. w. LOcxWO0D.-Adverting lest
week toa prevalent disposition among
aspiring men to immediate themselves on
the altar Of their country we casually
mentioned the name of the gentleman
whose name heads this article. Speak
ing Of him in connection with others
who are perfectly willing to sacrifice
themselves for the public we are advised
is not quite enough. Others may wish
ardently to serve their country. and
doubtless, at heart, are nearly quite as
patriotic as Mr. Lockwood. But it is not
always the best way to estimate the will
equal to the deed Good intentions
are good enough IN their way. though
some ono has said and mary re-
peated it, that a certain nameless
place IL full of them. We do not
wish to disparage the patriotic i'm
pulses of the many candidates for Office
in this county. We only wish to suggest
that deeds are better tickets of merit than
impulses never executed. With deeds
as criterion for the bestowal Of offices
we can hardly see how the claims Of Mr..
Lockwood can he overlooked. He has
served the people without remote hope
Of reward in dangerous places where
GOODNESS and heroism are requisite
Our readers will remember that Mr.. j.
w. Lockwood volunteered to assist the
Sheriffs posse in an attempt to arrest
notorious gang Of murderers and robbers
below Glass Valley last winter Under
cover of night the arresting party, four
in number, made descent upon the den
of the williams who outnumbered them
two to one. A fight ensued in which
one of the murdsrers, Ed. Eugene Whit
ney, was killed, and another, Riley,
wounded secured and is now lodged in
Jail in this place. In the melee Mr.
Lockwood was severely wounded in the
right arm, hich has disabled him for
labor probably for life. He has never
presumed to ask an Office at the hands
of the people before.but has preferred to
gain an honest living by working at his
trade. Possessing good judgment.
and being an honest man. his friends and
himself have thought it would not be
out of character for him to try for the Of
fee Of county assessor.


We hope really in view Of the case
that the nomination will be bestowed
upon him by some party we care little
by which, provided there is good show
for an election. To the people, the
people not bound down by the dictation
of party leaders, we commend Mr. Lock-
wood.
Year: 1859

JUDICIAL CHANGE.-Ths new County
Judge, D. Belden, began to warm the
seat occupied eight years by Judge Gas
well, on Friday last. A lot of the boys
vent up to the hall ofjustice to witness
the ceremonies Of installation, and hear
the farewell words of the retiring Judge.
At the appointed hour the incoming
judge walked up to the seat alone. with
out pomp or ceremony, took off his
beaver, and ordered the clerk to call the
jury roll, as if the change in the Judges
was of no Importance whatever. and
perhaps it isn't. Such is the silent
working Of our institutions-some-
times.
Year: 1859

y CoNsTiTUTp0NAE COVE NTfoN. -
Governor Weller, on his recent visit to
Nevada, declared his determination to
make the constitutional convention
question a prominent topic of the can
vass about to open. Judging from Ger.
tain signs we see floating on the politi-
cal horizon It would seem that Cover.
nor Weller will have no fair opportuni-
ty to canvass the State on the aforesaid
question unless he does it for conque.
ror of himself. Whether he does or not
is immaterial. But the fact that an Of
fee holder and seeker favors the call
ing of convention to revise the con-
stitution may be set down as something
strange. and a decided advance upon
the times when the same question was
submitted before. On that occasion
every holder of an Office and every as
pirant for one from San Diego to Ore
gon did his best to defeat the measure.
Gov. Weller, we think, will prove an
exception to the rule this year. That
aspiring class whose creed is that offices
were created for them alone, will move
heaven and earth to defeat any meas
ure which has for its object retrench.
ment in expenditure and lessening OF Of
fees. We cannot blame them. Poll
tics is their trade, and by their trade
comes the wherewith to keep soul and
body together. But the people in gen
eral must take equally good care o
their own interests, even if by rigie
course they bring the certain class il
question down to starvation allowance
and compel them to exc out an exist
ence with the reward of little honest
toll.


When the constitutions; convention
proposition was submitted TO the peo
lie, Nevada was one of the six counties
of the State that approved it; and she
approved it heartily and will do Sc
again. But little has been said of the
proposed measure, pro or con, thus far
We observe that Brother Avery, of tn,
Press, is fright as book" on the ques
ton, and argue therefrom that Nevad;
County will improve upon her forme
majority for convention. g..
Year: 1859

The TiCKET.-In the report of pro-
eeedings elsewhere, will be found the
nominees of the popular sovereignty
wing for county Offices. We have not
the time nor room to-day necessary to
analyze the ticket, but will endeavor to
do so at an early moment. 1t is ac-
knowledged to be best, though not ne
eessarily strongest, in the hind quarters.
Take it as whole it might have been
better and possibly worse. The Legis-
lative part of it presents fair amount of
talent and honesty Of the remainder
we care not to speak at this time. Suf-
fee it for the present to say that since
the nomination of Wednesday, we hear
most prevalent talk of an independent
peoples movement. Should the Repub-
licans. Americans and Wings deny the
assistance this year they rendered the
poprlar sovereignty party last. the tick
ct has no earthly::show ofsuccess. The
Irish vote may enable the nominee fo
Sheriff to make the rifle, but if so the
probabilities are that he will be lone
winner in the race of his party.
Year: 1859

Let 1t never come upon you. Live so
that good angels may protect you from
this terrible evil--the winter of the heart


Let no chilling influence freeze up the
foundations Of sympathy and happiness
from its depths no cold burthen settle
over its withered hopes, like snow on the
faded flowers no rude blasts of discon-
tent moan and shrek through its desc
late chambers.


Your life path may lead you amid tri-
ais, which for time seem utterly to i'm
pede your progress, and shut out the
very light of heaven from your anxious
gaze.


Penury may take the place of ease and
plenty /; your luxurious home may be ex-
changed for single low room, the soft
couch for the straw pallet the rich vi
ands for the coarse food of the poor
Summer friends may forsake you. and
the Implying world pass you with scarce
ly a word of compassion.


You may be forced to toll YEARLY,
steadily on, to earn a livelihood you
may encounter fraud and base ayarice
which would extort the last farthing, till
you we'll nigh turn in disgust from your
fellow beings. ~,


Death may sever the dear ties that
bind you to the earth and leave you in
fearful darkness. The noble, manly boy,
the sole hope of your declining years,
may be taken from you, while your spirit
clings to him with wild tenacity which
even the shadow of the tomb cannot
wholly subdue.


But amid all sorrows, do no. come to
the conclusion that nobody was ever so
deeply afflicted as you are, and abandon
every sweet anticipation of +" better days"
in the unknown future.


Do not lose you faith in human excel
lence because your confidence has been be-
trayed, nor believe that friendship is only
delusion and love bright phantom
which glides away from your grasp.


Do not think you are iated to be mis-
cradle because you are disappointed in
your expectations and baffled in your
pursuits. Do not declare that God has
forsaken you, when your way is hedged
with thorns, or repine sinfully when he
calls your dear ones to the land beyond
the grave.


Keep holy trust in Heaven through
every trial bear adversely with forttude,
and look upward in hours of temptation
and suffering. When your locks are
white, your steps falter on the verge oi
Deaths gloomy vale, still retain the
freshness and buoyancy of spirit, which
would shield you from the winter of the
heart.
Year: 1859

Whatever may be the nature of your
soil, and situation OF your farm, remem-
Der that there is no soil so good but it
may be exhausted and ruined by bad TIL
lage. and that there is none so bad that
it cannot be rendered fertile by good til
lage, even barren heath, if it can be
ploughe and swarded. sEe I'll


The true art of husbandry consists in
suffering no crop to grow upon your
land, that will SO far exhaust your soil
as to lessen the value of your succeeding
crop, whatever profit such crop may af-
ford you. .e.a ses 81, Is rsla 2


To avoid this, suffer no one crop two
years successfully, upon the same piece
of ground, excepting grass and buck
wheat, without the fertilizing aid of rich
manures, to support the strength Of the
soil, and even then, change Of crops will
generally do best, excepting onions, car
rots and hemp. nv


Every plant derives from the earth for
its growth such properties as are pecu-
liar to itself; this plant, when followed
successfully for two or more years, upon

the same ground, viii exhaust the soil OF
those properties peculiar to itself, with 5
out lessening its powers to produce some
other plants. The fact is the most strik-
ing in the article of flax, which will not
bear to be repeated oftener than once in
seven years. and is common to all crops,
with the exceptions of those noticed
above.


To avoid this evil, arrange your farms
into such divisions as will enable you to
improve all the variety of crops your
land may requi.e, in succession, as to
form routine of five, or six years ac-
cording to the nature, quality and situa-
ton of your farm.


This method will make poor good and
good better. Try and see.
Year: 1859

RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JAPAN.-Every house
in Japan seemed to be overrun with chill
dren, in some of which | counted ten or
a dozen, and all of about the same size =
The birds in nest, the chickens in a
coop, the frogs in a pond, are not more
compact and crowded than these human
bee-hivcs seems to be, and | may add,
or more happy. The average number
of the inmates Of each house in Japan is
estimated at between thirty and forty =
1t is a fruitful country in more senses
than one, and can support so dense a
population only by the simple style of
their living. They eat but little meat
except fish, which abound in these wat
ers, both in the bays and in the sea, and
are easily procured, as well as fine. A
gentleman told me that he believed,
from his most careful observation, not
above one in .Gtty of the people ever eat
any other animal food. -


There are few sheep; COW is rarely
seen goats, which might have a fine
range and the best pasturage in the
mountain tops, now unoccupied and un-
cultivated, are almost unknown hogs
are seen only in the cities, and these are
raised mainly to sell to ships; while
wild game is seldom hunted or taken
Poultry and ducks are abundant, and
eggs also, which, however, are not OBJ
tained at cheap rate. Fish and rice
are the main articles Of food, with the
garden vegetables | have mentioned,
though bread is not unknown, small
quantity of wheat, millet and buckwheat
being produced in some localities, but
which are not liked as we'll as rice. An
OK or horse would require land enough
for its living to support the population Of
a little yillage.-Leher Journal of Com
n,erce.
Year: 1859

Hon. M. II. Nichols, the only Repub-
lican member of the House Of Represent
atiyes who voted against the Homestead
bill, cast his vote with the enemies of
the act, in order that he might move a
reconsideration in case it should be lost.
1t was not pleasant Office to perform,
for the explanation of his vote cannot OF
course 60 whereves the division list will
be published but it is creditable to the
Republican party that it did not furnish
a single enemy to the bill in the House


Will Western men keep this fact in mind ?
Year: 1859

Nor TINE ENoUGH.-We complain that
we have no time. An Indian Chief of
the Six Nations once said wiser thing
than any philosopher. A white man re-
marked in his hearing that he had not
time enough. Well, replied Red Jack
ct, " suppose you have all there is p
He is the wisest and best man who can
crowd the most good actions into Now.
-Emerson
Year: 1859

THE BRIDGE Across THE MISSISSIPPI.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
have commenced getting out stone TO
build the bridge across the Mississippi at
this place. This is good news. Ii is
not definitely settled at what point the
bridge will be built, but the probability
is that it will touch the Dubuque side of
the river at the foot of Seventh street.
Dubuque Times
Year: 1859

No OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES musical teach
err once wrote that the art of playing
the violin required the incest perception
and the most delicate sensibility of any
art in the known world" Some country
editor, in commenting on this, says =
" The art Of publishing a newspaper and
making it pay, beats the art of ildling
higher than a kite"
Year: 1859

The accident which deprived Prescott
Of the use of one eye. says the State Reg
ister, and subsequently, SO impaired the
power of vision in the other, WAS occa-
stoned by blow from crust of bread
thrown across the room by fellow stu
dent in Commons Hall, near the close Of
his college career. This seeming calam-
ity changed the whole current of his
life, which he intended to devote to legal
pursuits, and finally led him into that
brilliant career as historian in which he
has achieved world-renowned honor for
himself and his country.
Year: 1859

BEAUTIFULLY SAID.-We make the fol-
lowing beautiful extract on the Home
stead Exemption Law, from letter writ
ten by distinguished Judge of Tennes
see


' Secure to each family, whose labor
may acquire it, little spot of fresh earth
that it may call its own-that viii be an
asylum in times ofadversity, from which
the mother and the children, old age and
infancy, can still draw sustenance and
protection, though misfortune may rob
them Of all else, and they feel they are
still free-still entitled to walk the green
earth, and breathe the free air of heaven,
in defiance of the potency and power of
accumulating wealth and domineering of
the pretending and ambitious. The sa-
credness of that consecrated spot will
make them warriors in time of external
strife. Those shocks of corn,' said
Xenophon, inspire those who raised
them to defend them. The largest of
them in the field is prize exhibited in
the middle Of State to crown the con-
queror.' Secure home to every family
whose labor may obtain one, against the
weakness, vices, or misfortunes of fathers,
and you rivel the affection of the child,
in years of manhood, by stronger bond
than any consideration that could exist.
He viii remember where he gambolled
in early youth, the stream upon whose
flowery banks he felt mothers love,
and the green spot within that little hom
stead, where sleep the loved and the lost" 1"
Year: 1859

THE CONDITION or MoDENA.-The European news
is singularly indefinite in regard to the state of
affairs in the Duchy of Modena. Although no d-
rect account has been received of such an event,
illusions are made in the editorial columns of the
London Times to a recent revolt in that State and
the declaration of the Modenese army in favor of
Piedmont. The Florence correspondent of the
Providence journal also makes a similar statement,
bnt if this be true it is at least, very remarkable
that no really definite circumstantial account of
an insurrecton of such Importance has been made
public.


The geographical position of Modena renders its
accession to the dctatorial sway OF Sardinia an
event of considerable Importance. Modena en-
braces an area of two thousand and seventy square
miles, including population estimated in round
numbers at six hundred thousand. The country is
more mountainous than the adjoining duchy of
Parma. The climate is healthy, the plains fertile,
while the provinces of Massa and Carrara re-
nowned all over the world for their mineral
wealth. Modena is conterminOus to the Papal
States on one side, and Sardinia and Parma on the
other while to the southeast it stretches down to
the Mediterranean. The detection of this State
from the Austrian cause would enable the allied
forces to have full command of both sides of the
Po for the greater part of its length.


The present ruler of Modena is Francis V, who
enjoy the title of Duke of Modena and Massa. He
was born in 1919, and ascended to the ducal chair
in lS4G. His family, that Of the house o. Este, is
said to be the most ancient ruling family of Europe,
and though his d0miniOns comparatively insig-
nlhcant IN extent, he IS equal, as far as the mere
aristocracy of birth goes, to the most potent OF
European sovereigns. princess of the ducal
house of Modena has been recently suggested
meet spouse for the young Prince of Wales; and it
was seriously argued by solid substantial English
men that the immense antiquity of the House Of
Modena, and the prodigiously long pedigree of the
young bride, would be fully sufficient to make up
for her comparative lack of dover. The Modenese
sovereign is perfectly aware of his genealogical
supremacy, and like Sir Leicester Dedlock, he is
fully impressed with the belief that his house is
quite as old as the hills, and vastly respecta
Bile.


The sympathies of the Duke Francis V. are de-
cdedly with Austria while his people, Italians in
almost everything that constitutes Italian nation
aity, may naturally be disposed to side with their
Tuscan brethren. The next steamer will probably
bring decisive intelligence in regard to their ru
mored revolt.-N. Y. Post
Year: 1859

Mr.. Cyrus W. Field was to leave for London by
the Persia yesterday to renew his labors, in con-
nection with the Company in London, in connection
with the manufacture during the summer of a new
Atlantic cable. This is to be brought out with all
the new improvements, and fully prepared for lay
ing across the Atlantic early in the summer of next
year. Mr. Field expresses his faith in the ultimate
success OF the enterprise strongly as he did at
its first commencement
Year: 1859

Discovery OF PIKEs.-A descent was made
this morning on the premises of Alf Cox,
well known colored man of this city, by
the proper officers, to arrest fugitive slave,
supposed to be concealed there belonging to
Sanford Rising. The slave was not found,
but Il large number of pixies were discovered
in box in the cellar. Cox has been seen
in frequent consultation with man passing
under the name of Brown. Neither of them
have yet been arrested.-St. Joseph Gdzette,
NOU 26.
Year: 1859

The undersigned would respectfully announce to
his numerous subscribers his intention to credit no
pc for longer term than FOUR WEEKS for the
DAILY NATIONAL DEMOCRAT I am forced to adopt
the above course on account of the Increase in my
delinquent list. JER0MUS RAPALJE


dec6-4Wdh Carrinr
Year: 1859

SEVERAL youngmen of Maryland have been
expelled from the religious society to which
they belonged, for playing cricket against
the remonstrances of the pastor and elders"
Other young men have received warning,
and their hands are now forbid to touch the
once familiar ball.
Year: 1859

on the floor pour in potatoes, which should
be dried in the sun day or two before, and
cover them with dry tags. An opening may
be made in the Southern side. large enough
to afford access to tine potatoes. Never open
his ercpt IN good meather. Such is our
mode Of winterIng roots.


Respectfully, x. Y.Z.