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Year: 1859

The Urbana -E-se Prose-, started a little over
one year ago as a neutral sheet has dropped
its neutral garb, and it comes to us with the
Democratic State Ticket flying at its head, In
giving the reasons for the change, the Editors
say:


Our PosITIoN.-Whep we commenced the
publication of the Free Press, it was our aim
to establish a journal that would have no con-
nection with any of the political organizations
of the day, and thus far we have followed up
that policy, and had but little to do with them
or those connected with them. But when we
see false sentiments advocated, able and expe-
rienced men prescribed for rendering an hon
est judicial decision, and resistance to laws
preached and practiced, (as has been the course
of the Republican party,) thus jeopardizing
the peace and safety of society, we feel called
upon to lay aside our neutrality, and to oppose
and denounce such ruinous sentiments and
practices, and to use every honorable means in
our power to defeat those who seek to carry
them out. It is our purpose hereafter to adya,
cate those measures that We believe to be right
and are best calculated to the peace safety
and well being of the whole country-to up
hold, defend and abide by the Constitution and
laws of our country, no matter into what party
such a course may lead us.


The Democracy are now occupying the only
true and commendable position with regard to
observance of law, promotion of the interests
of our country and the general welfare of the
people, and so long as they continue in this
way we will cheerfully cooperate with them.


Knowing the editors we do, we gladly
hail the Free Press as an accession to the cause
of the country against the factionists who,
while ruling, would ruin tn Natiopaz Dem,
Year: 1859

when you have got rid of the man
you have got rid also of your ideas
and sit down TO your paper very much
like whipped schoolboy does, who
has composition to write and moth
ing in his head to write it with.


There is kind of day moth. an
epistolary moth of the same kind
who writes you letter of business or
request. and begins it with excuses
and long-drawn apologies. or well
rounded complimentary reasons
You have to get into the letter. very
much as boy gets into blackberry
patch. And the single solitary berry
hangs in the middle of quickest
hedge. and il not ripe when you get
it, but soursahd red A man should
deliver letter as sportsman does
his shot. Let him glance at his GRAND
like rising woodcock-pull the trig-
ger instantly. and bring him down
without more ado.


There, we have expressed our mind,
and feel better After all. is it not
wonderful that men do as well as they
do. Consider how many men ven
daily meet, the most of them with
pleasure, and few of them with real
annoyance. Common sense, Mt least
in its lower forms. is more common
than we are apt to think. And. OH
the whole, you need not do any thing
about these moths. Perhaps half our
impatience in such things is conceit.
Are we too good to bear our part of
lifc's vexations? Why should not
we be annoyed as well as other people?
How can man be gracious, conde-
scending, unless there is some occasion
which requires such virtues?


Now that we think about it. is
there not something said about pa
tience in Holy Writ? Let me see.-
I'll search. Ah-here it is, in l Thcs-
salonians. V, II: Now we exhort
you brethren, warn them that are un-
ruly, comfort the feeble-minded, sup
port the weak, be patient toward all
men" On the whole, Mr. Bonner, if
You have any impertinent, disagreea-
ble, paticnce-trying people, send them
to me.
Year: 1859




We have heretofore spoken of
Governor WilarPs hack driving on
the late election day. but one incident
in connection with it we believe has
not been given tothe public. Driving
along one of the back streets he over
took party of Irishmen and accosted
them. inquiring if they were going to
to the polls. They replied that they
were. when his Excellency informed
them that they had better hurry up or
they would arrive too late and so lose
their votes.


Taking his words for an invitation
to ride the party accosted stepped up
to the carriage, which had no one in
side of it but the Governor, and one
man had his foot on the step and his
head inside the vehicle. when the GU
bernatorial driver suddenly whipped
up the horses, started the carriage, and
threw one of the men he had advised
to hurry to the polls OH the ground.


The party was disappointed in not
taking their expected ride with the
Governor, and the one to whom the
greatest insult had been offered yelled
out:


Dom yol and your ould carriage
Sure dacent mon wouldn't he found
riding with the likes of We. You're
nothing but drunken sort of Gov
ernor, anyhow"


Another of the party exclaimed in a
loGd tone:


Dom the Dimocriatic party to HI
Well vote as we plaze, if you are the
Governor


Several other exclamations were
made not very complimentary to Gov.
Willard or very appropriate to be put
in type. The entire party of some six
or seven men voted the Republican
ticket. They thought they had as good
claims to ride in the same carriage
wita the man they once supported for
Governor as men who were no better,
if as good. as they were. Altogether,
taking the whole day through, the
Governors hack driving did but little
toward getting his friend, Gen. Drake,
the votes he expected to receive
/ Ind's. Daily Jour.
Year: 1859

"A writer in the New York Even
ing Post thinks there should be legis.
lative interposition against the use OF
Burning fluids. He states that laws
controlling thc'storagc of gunpowier
have long been patiently borne by the
community. due regard for human
lfes rendering them imperative. He
calls attention to the fact that the Fire
Marshal's Report attributes the origin
of many of the frequent fires in that
city to the explosion or upsetting of a
can of burning fluid or camphcnc.
Year: 1859

ED. JoURNAL,-A calamity occurred
in this place on Sunday evening last,
which came very near resulting in the
destruction of an entire family consist
ing of husband, wife and two children.
The cause was carelessness in the hus-
band, George Stuber, attempting to
fill fluid lamp while burning. The
fluid caught fire, aud in the alarm, was
spilled on the garments of the wife,
who was sitting close by at the time
with babe year old on her arm
In an instant the mother and child
were wrapped in flames and rushed
out OF the house before the fire was put
out. The clothes oil both mother and
child were nearly consumed, and the
upper part OF the child's body was lit
orally flayed. 1t fingered in this hor-
rible condition five hours; the mother
is vet alive. though her condition is
very critical and recovery very doubt
full. a little girl three years old is
severely burned in her face and arms,
though not considered dangerous
The husband and father in his efforts to
extinguish the flames, which destroy
ed his babe, was dreadfully burned in
his face; his hands and arms were also
hurt till the integument dropped off,
The probability is he will recover.


The cries and groans OF the suffer
ers. who but moment before were so
happy. are beyond description.


80 =, OBSERVER.
Year: 1859

Oh, let youth cherish tho happiest
of earthly beons while yet 1t is at its
command: for there cemeth the day to
all. when neither the voice of the lutte
nor the birds shall bring back the
sweet slumbers that fell on their young
eyes. as unbidden as the dews.-fB Bull
wer Lytton.
Year: 1859

the African coast, he is always stolen property
Innumerable transfers cannot destroy the right OF
it's owner--the negro himself, nor successive gen.
erations. If we declare the fair purchase, by an
American citizen, of a slave on the African coast,
and his transfer to Mississippi, piracy we can oil
declare the transfer of slave from Virginia to
Mississippi on the high seas, piracy. There is
another, just as inevitable. The State sovereignty
of Virginia will cover its legal property anywhere
on the high seas. The National Government can
not prohibit its commerce. But if Congress can
declare it's State slave trade piracy, whenever
it is carried on the high seas,-as cannot be denied
if the power now exercised over the subject is con-
sttutiona, ,-whore does this power of Congress
end Certainly not outside of the territories and
it would be an interesting problem for Virginia
statesmen to define at just what point Congression
al sovereignty ceases, over traffic which is piracy
up to its very shores; and which State sovereignty
cannot protect on its own vessels, outside its own
harbors. Is it strange then, that Southern states
men should be anxious to work in some entering
wedge to overthrow legislation, on our national
statute book, so dangerous in its logical deductions
to their slave property, as our laws on the slave
trade? If this Amistad claim is recognized by
Government, it at once completely nulli6es our
laws making the slave trade piracy and would be
stride in the progress of slavery in national
legislation, well worthy the ambition of q Southern
statesman
Year: 1859

ROAD FROM CRESCENT CRY TO YREKA-
The Crescent City Herald has the following:
But year or so since, we were compelled
to visit the interior valleys, to straddle a
mule .jackass, or some such animal at pres
ent We can jump into buggy, carriage or
coach and ride to Yreka. Our citizens not
content with spending $4,000 for good
wagon road to the interior valleys the last
season, have already expended large sums
the present year to perfect the work, and
now boast one of the best mountain roads in
the State
Year: 1859

The line of the Pacific and Atlantic Tele.
graph Company was completed to day to this
point and will be pushed forward immediate
ly to Monterey, and from there to Los An
geles. The line works finely. Much enthu-
siasm was manifested by the people of this
place upon the opening of the Telegraph
Office
Year: 1859

"Opinions seem to differ as to whether
these wells could supply the engines with as
much water as they could draft from a els
tern, but all agree that they furnish a good
supply and that their construction is good
investment for the CITY,"
Year: 1859

We know of nothing more reprehensible,
nothing more dangerous and iniudicious,
than the practice of frightening children in
the nursery, at the family freside, and in
the social circle, by retailing TO them ghost
stories, goblin tales and witchcrait fctionS.
They receive painful impression from which
their nervous system does not recover for
years, perhaps not during their whole lives


Children and young persons have generally
great curiosity in relation to these tales of
The imagination, especially when they are
attended by some gossipping nurse, whose
head, being empty of good sense, has been
filled brim full of ghost legends and black
letter recollections. If there is worse con-
diiiop upon earth than that into which mon
slrous superstition plunges an imaginative
child, we have no conception of It's curdling
horrors. Never 10 lay the head upon the
pillow, from the time it is two or three wears
OF age, until seven, eight or ten, without
feeling the most perfect assurance in its
own prophecy, and seeing some hideous
spectre before morning This is the purga.
tory OF early, innocent, and otherwise happy
childhood. These midnight horrors haunt
the imagination eyes TO old age. They may
lose somewhat of their painful vividness,
their appalling stinctness-something of
their curdling horrors, SO potent in its mys-
tery, and so terrific even in its irnpossibility
but these terrors hnger in the imagination
still, ready 10 be called up in every suspic.
ions spot, awakened in every solitude, in
spite OF all the judgment can do or the per-
son can urge. For moment, at certain
times, even TO old age, the heart will throb
with painful distnctness, the hair will be.
come perpendicular, and a dsagreeable
shudder will make the blood cold in his
veins, even when manhood has reached lis
prime. To be sure, the judgment soon dis.
pels these unfounded fears, but they will


haunt the victim at times, to his dying day.
These are some of the painful deleterious
effects of frightening children in the early
season OF their growth. How important it
is that parents should guard them against
these early groundess terrors, exciting the
early imagination, and claiming the tremb.
ling victim TO the indescribable agony of
this nervous bondage for all its future life.
Year: 1859

A Methodist preacher well known for his
uncom promising hostility to all intoxicating
drinks, had made an appointment to preach
in neighborhood notorious for its iitem-
perance. 1t was generally understood that
his remarks were chiefly to be directed
against the beselting sin of the district in
which he was TO preach, and several noted
bullles had given out that they intended to
whip him if he touched on what they meant
should be forbidden ground. The day ap-
pointed for preaching arrived, and the
preacher appeared on the stand. A large
number OF his friends from adjacent dis
tricts, hearing of threats against him, had
come 10 the meeting in order, il necessary.
to project him from violence. but the preach
er had no intentions that any of his friends
should fight on his account; he was able
to do his own fighting. Accordingly, on
mounting the stand, he had thrown off his
coat and vest. and rolled up his shirt sleeves,
displaying the arm aid chest of Hercules.
He said he had heard there were several
men present. who had threatened 10 whip
him that he had many friends present who
were able ard willing to project him. He
said he did not like fighting, but if there
must be fighting on his account, he would
rather do it himself than have his friends
fight for him, and as he did not wish the
services interrupted. he would prefer that it
should take place before the meeting was
opened. "And therefore," said he, IF
there is any man here who thinks he can
whip me and intends TO try it, il he will
have the goodness 10 step forward will
flax him out with as much ease as now
lit brother Smith," saying while he seized
a preacher who stood by his side and who
was small sized man, by the waistband
oil the breeches, and lifted him from the
ground, held him out arms length with ons
hand. The exhibition of physical strength
prevented any demonstration or the part
oi his enemies, and the meeting proceeded
without interruption.
Year: 1859

A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Courier
tells how Daniel Webster offered himself TO
the woman of his choice:


"Mr Webster married the woman he
loved, and the twenty years he lived with
her brought him TO the meridian of his great
ness An anecdote is current on this sub
Iect which is not recorded in the book. Mr..
Webster was becoming intimate with Miss
Fletcher, when skein of silk getting into
a knot MIR. Webster assisted in unraveling
the snaEl-then looking up TO Miss Grace,
he said: We have united knot, don't YOU
think we could tie one q Grace was little
embarrassed, said not a word, but in the
course of few minutes she tied knot in
piece of tape and handed it TO MIR. w.
This piece of tape, the thread of his domes.
tic joys, was found after the death of MIR.
Webster, preserved as one of his most prec.
ious relics"
Year: 1859

A DOMESTIC NEcEssITY.-Every house
should have as an inmate, agood natured,
sensible, tidy, old lady. This important
fixture should always be, if possible grand
mother, or, as she next best, an aunt We,
so Indispensable to the respectability, com
tort, and convenience of well.regula,ed
household is the old lady, that if this system
OF housekeeping become general, it will be-
come quite natural TO fnd under the head
OF " wants" in the newspapers, inquiries
Tor proper old ladies to supply the lack of
dear old folks gone to the better home In
deed, old ladies discovering themselves in
demand would keep in preservation much
longer, nor begin 10 make winding sheets
and grave caps full ten years before the reap.
er came 10 gather in The shocks of corn fully
ripe. Old ladies are needed. Providence
designed such to fill a large space in the do
meslic circle; a class remarkable as not liv-
ing Tor themselves but for others-the most
beautiful specimens of disinterested love
this side Of Heaven.
Year: 1859

SENSIBLE GIRL.-As weary traveller was
vending his way through the mud out in
the far west he discovered a young maiden
standing in the door of log house. He rode
up in front of the house and asked the mai
den for drink of water; he drank it, ant
she being the first woman he had seen for
several days; kissed her and offered her
dime. The traveller was about TO resume
his journey, but the maiden having never
seen dime, asked


What am 10 do with the dime ?n


"You can use it any way you wish, he
replied "it Is yours"


.=.'That being the case" said she. stI'Il give
you back the dime and take another kiss ?'
Year: 1859

draw a line across it. It cost much paini
10 make this little implement and hope
you will find it useful.


"l feel a little diffidence in offering thi.
TO you," said he taking up mahogany boz
about the size Of dictionary, "not because
l fear you will abuse it, but rather that you
will commit the opposite error"


We asked him TO explain its prophecies


"Ths is intended to expedite. and facili.
tate collections. Place the name of any
delinquent subscriber upon this tablet and
he is at once under the influence of the
Automation Dun Touch this key and you
make him remember that he owes you. A
touch OF the second key will make him Try
10 borrow money 10 pay you. Key No.
gives him headache, No d the rheuma-
usm, &c, Sc. You can iniict upon him
whatever you please until he pays his
bill"


We complimented Santa Claus upon his
ingenuity, but declined accepting his Won
derfully cunning machine. He smiled and
threw it back into the dug-out


"Here," he continued, holding up a beau.
tifu! diamond pointed pen, "is the choicest
gift have to offer you. 1t is the pen of
Thruth. There is not the milionth part of a
grain of alloy in its pure gold. Industry
furnished the metal. Virtue and Reason
fashioned it. Imagination polished it but
its greatest value lies in the dimond with
which it is pointed. 1t is from no mine of
earth-l scarcely dare tell you who gave it
or whence it came. With this pen you can
write nothing but truth. When l see you
next year please show me what you have
written with it."


We were so eager TO grasp the precious
gift that we iell into the sea of egg g-nogg,
and awoke with our houndering and strang-
ling in the milky flood. The fine visions
of our dream had vanished and with them
the venerable Nicholas and his gifts.
Year: 1859

The wisdom and skill of an Almighty
hand are visible in every part OF creation,
yet no where are they more SO Than in the
delicate and perfect form he has given TO
Won an. II is not in the mind of man TO
conceive of an object that presents 10 the
eye or 10 the mind, so perfect model of
what we esteem beautiful, or so many deli
cate and aflectioHate sensibilities as are
united in lovely and charming Woman.-
That lively sympathy which feels for every
wo-that kindly strong affection, which
time nor circumstances can change-that
benevolent heart, ever ready 10 bestow its
charities upon suffering humani,y-that
spirit OF perseverance under hardships and
affections, which nothing can break down
are peculiarly the attributes of woman -
But she may possess all these, together with
well educated and well cultivated mind ;
an extensive acquaintance with books and
with the world, possess all the power at
tached TO what are generally denominaled
the arts of pleasing-and yet, if destitute OF
Religion, she is like beautiful painting
exhibited in bad light, or an elegant watch
without regulator When we have seen,
at the mention OF a religious subject, the
blood rising and Indignantly to the face ol
beautiful woman, and her full dark eye kin.
ding iEto angry disdain-the blood has
chilled al our heart, and deep feeling o.
desolatlon came over US, as we mentally
exclaimed:


Beauty that wells an Atheists heart


Is seen, but is not felt


'Tis like the moonbeam on the snow,


That gilds, but does not melt.
Year: 1859

Row IN A jury Room.--A row occurred in
a Jury room at Pittsburg, Pa, on Friday last.
They stood eleven against one on knotty
case, when the one becoming insolent, and
giving the lie to an old man, he was put
through in good style. Three broken chairs
were found in the jury room, and there were
other evidences of general muss.
Year: 1859

MORMON IDEA OF HgAvEN.-Eider Middle
mas. a leading Mormon Elder, recently de-
fined in a sermon from the Tabernacle the
Mormon idea of heaven. They believe it 10
be material world, governed by the same
natural laws and astronomical principles as
the earth is only so much larger than cur lit
tie star that il takes 36s,o00 times longer to
turn on its orbit than il does. The Elder also
believes that they have telegraphs and editors
in heaven. This last statement would seem
to cast doubt ON the entire theory, as it is very
unlikely that an editor ever goes anywhere
where there is not sorrow and tribulation.
Year: 1859

VALUABLE DIsoovERY.-A new saline de-
post has been discovered ut Central City, Fta-
rion county, Southern Illinois. A shaft was
being sunk to the depth of one hundred and
seventy feet, when, not finding coal in worka-
hundred feet further which penetrated the
salt bearing strata, the salt water rising to
the top of the boring and flowing out at the
rate of from eight hundred to one thousand
gallons per hour.
Year: 1859

LYNCH LAVA man named Vaughan was
lynched recently at Mound City, Ill. He was
confined in Jail at that place on the charge of
murder, but such was his desperate character
out of the way the better. So, on the night Of the
9th insiaat, two hundred persons proceeded to
the Jail, and with a log for a battering ram,
burst open its doors. During this proceeding,
the cries of the prisoner are described as hav-
ing been heart-rending He had but few
minutes mercy, which be employed in begging
for his life. but his appeals fell on deaf ears
He was taken out and hung on a tree.
Year: 1859

The Exhibition. to open on Wednesday night,
at Mechanics Institute Hall, cannot fail TO
prove highly attractive, as the collection al
ready made is of an unusually interesting
character This evening the Hall will Close,
so as to allow time to arrange and classify the
articles, and it is therefore hoped that all who
goods and machinery into the hall soon to-
day as possible. Many of our large manufac-
turing establishments have yet contributed
nothing to this general collection of Virginia,
but it is not yet too late to make a display, and
to show their interest in cause which should
be dear to every lover of Richmond. Balti-
more. Philadelphia apd New York are repre-
sentei. Are our cabinet makers, marble-work-
ers hatters. and stone cutters afraid to show
their heads or do they prefer TO yield the
palm without struggle We shall see.