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Year: 1860

PRoDUcE BY THE CoRD.--It 10 useless
longer to reckon the amount Of produce daily
received, shipped and stacked at our lsves by
the bush<l! That kind Of computation has
played out We might with - much eoosist-
eocy reckon by the pound or peck. The ooly
sensible way Of getting at the aggregate
amount piled up on our levee is to take it by
the cord! By this meth cd even the labor Of
computation would be arduous. and the result
astounding.
Year: 1860

IMMIGRATIoN.-We noticed several
Immigrant wagons passing through our streets
for the interior yesterday. Every instance OF
this kind adds oil to the lamp Of hope. We
are happy to welcome people to Iowa.
Year: 1860

Which is free from all unpleasant odor, and is Of
> very light color, at S1,25 per Gallon. We
would invite all that are in want Of . safe light,
and the best and cheapest light in the world, to
call and satisfy themselves that
Year: 1860

~ The persons engaged in removing
tho Old Court House seemed to come to the
conclusion yesterday that it was necessary
to make little better speed, and employed
an additional number Of teams to assist in
taking away the rubbish.
Year: 1860

STEAMBOAT EXCURSION ON THE TESTH.-The
Cleveland Grays have chartered the steamer
Ocean for lake excursion on the 10th. She
will leave her dock soon after the Inaugural
ton ceremonies are ended, and take such a
position as will enable those on board to OBJ
tain the best possible view of the mock bat
tie, which, in fact, will be one of the grand
est sights ever witnessed by our people. AZ
ter the battle, the Ocean will strike out into
the lake, when dancing will be the order,
good music being provided for that purpose.
The passengers will be landed in time to take
the evening trains. The excursion is in
charge of some of the most genuemanIy
members of the Grays, and we are confident
will be a success.
Year: 1860

TIE MoNUMENT.-Messrs. Jones & Sons
yesterday morning, by the aid of a tackle
rigged on timbers reared for the purpose,
hoisted into their place on the foundation for
the Perry Statue, the two large blocks of
granite which have been lying in the Park
for several days past. They jointly weigh
some nine tons. The work was delayed in
the afternoon, for the reason that the vehicle
used heretofore was not strong enough to
bring from the harbor the other blocks, which
are still heavier. Four of these blocks are
yet to be added, increasing the height IO1S
feet. The base will soon be completed, and
tho statue, which is now receiving the finish
ing touches, will be put in its place on Thurs
day of next week.
Year: 1860

The LUMBER TRADE.-The Detroit Tribune
Of Tuesday evening says: "There is at
present strong inclination on the part of
lumber merchants to change the destination
of their lumber from the East to the West.
Freights on lumber from this section to Buff
falo, Oswego and other points below, have
taken such sudden rise Of late that no prof
its can be realized on the lum Der sent in that
direction. This, together with the recent
improvement in the lumber market at Chi
cago, will be the means Of sending large
quantities West between this and the close
Of navigation"


The Chicago Press and Tribune the 9th
has the following: ''The schooner st. Al
bans cleared yesterday from this port for
Boston, with 2OO, 900 feet of walnut lumber.
She was chartered last May, at s12 per NJ,
which is much lower than she could have
been engaged for at present. This is, we
believe, the first cargo Of lumber ever ship
ped from this port around to Boston. This
pioneer, however, will probably be followed
this fall by one or two other vessels"
Year: 1860

A PRorEsr AGAeTsr EARLY RIsNG-Dr
Hall. in the Feb aiary ftmber of his Journal
of Health, SAYS:


One of the very wo. st eo6nemies of time
is that filched from ne, 'essary sleep. The
wholesale but blind comm sndatioh of early
sing is as mischieyous in p. 'actlce as 1t is
errant in theory. Early rising IS cT1fne
against the noblest part of our physical ma
ture unless it is preceded by an e1rly re-
firing. Multitudes of business men in large
cities count it a saving oftime if they eau
make journey of hundred or two miles
at night by steam boat or railway. 1t is a
ruinous mistake. 1t never fails to be fol-
lowed by a want of general wellfeeling for
several days after, if, indeed, the man does
not return home actually sick, or so near it
that he is unfit for full attention to his
business for week after wards When a
man leaves home on business, it is always
important that he should have his wits
about him; that the mind should be fresh
and vigorous, the spirits lively, buoyant,
and cheerful. No man can soy that it is
thus with him after night on a railroad or
on the shelf of a steamboat


The first great recipe for sound, connected
and refreshing sleep is physical exercise.
Toll is the price of sleep.


We caution parents, particularly, not to
allow their children to be walked up of Il
morning; let nature wake them up, she will
not do it prematurely; but have care that
they 60 to bed at an early hour; let it be
earlier and earlier, until tits found that they
wake up of themselves in full time to dress
for breakfast. Being walked up early, and
allowed to engage in difficult or any studies
late and just before retiring, has given
many beautiful and promising child brain
fever, or determined ordinary ailments to
the production Of water on the brain.
Year: 1860




THE GIRLS PRIvLEGEs-LEAp YEar.-
This interesting season of ladies' privileges
has again rolled around. During 1860 every
young lady-single we mean of course-can
ask any young gentleman they choose, to
marry them. What an institution this year
with its reverse of formalities, is to bashful
young men who have not the pluck to pop
the question? Our old hatchelor friend says
he begins to feel already that he is almost
"goner." If he is not caught thi year
certainly, he may as well chang his harp on
willow" or dry up and blow away. To
the young ladies we would say as the steam
boat pilots do, Ego slow"-dont run head
long into scrape you can never get out of;
stake your time," but above all things don't
wait too long. To all marriageable ladies
our advise is in the language of the noble
representative of the engine fraternity,
MOSE,-E1tCdde in -
Year: 1860

PEAcHEs.-E. W. Maslin, ESD. presented us
a day or two since specimens of peaches from
the Union ranch, few miles below Penn VAL
ley, which were nearly full grown. From the
same source we learn that the peach crop in that
part Of the country promises to be abundant
Nothing out of the order of nature interfering,
We judge such peaches as those we have seen
would be ready for market in three or four
weeks
Year: 1860

ATTENTION We notice the Board of Trustees
of our city have enacted an ordinance for the
collection of a road and poll tax. We believe
there is right existing somewhere that all taxes
shall be uniform in their operation. We ask the
city officers to make public how many men paid
poll, and how many road taxes in the city during
the last year. The number of persons who claim
the right to vote is not less than six hundred
How many recognize the duty of paying taxes !?
Will the city dads make the facts pullic7
Year: 1860

New ASSAY oFFIcE.-Capt Kidd is erecting
assay once in the rear of his banking house.
on Broad street. which is to be carried on by a
son Of Sherman Day, from Folsom, who is an
excellent assayer and mineralorist
Year: 1860

Fox CHAsE.-In consequence of the wet
weather and the tail of Archie McAllsters fox
getting all drabbled in dew, the animal will not
be able to run to day, as announced. The fox
chase is therefore postponed for fair weather.
Due notice will be given of the chase hereafter.
Year: 1860

T. STARR KISG.-A letter has been received
from this distinguished lecturer and divine, by
the secretary of the Nevada Library Association
expressing willingness to lecture before the
association at a convenient time. We learn that
arrangements will be made for the accommoda-
ton of the lecturer on or about the Goth inst.
When he comes get seats early.
Year: 1860

We confidently trust what we have been try
ing to prove to the people of the State for more
than three years, will soon be universally ac-
owledged-Nerada Journal.


Lord bless your eredulous soul, brother Waite
it will be thirty and three years, before you car
make the people of this State acknowledge the
truth of anything you try to prove. Hay' ut you
been trying all your days in California to prove
Democracy humbug, without successful
Democrat.


Yes, but you know sclf-evidcnt proposition:
are the hardcs, to prcvs.
Year: 1860

WATER PRoPosIrIoss.-Two propositions TO
supply the City with water for fire and other
purposes, are pending before the Board of Trus-
tees. They do not differ materially from the
report of them already made public. Our object
in adverting to the subject at this time, is not to
argue which proposition is best, but to call at
tention to what is needed in the specifications
which are to be submitted, we understand, to the
people for their approval or rejection. The first
great requisite is an abundant supply, and we
trust that care will be taken by the Board of
Trustees that the companies shall both be re-
quired, on condition of a franchise, to have a
running supply of water equal to certain num-
ber of gallons per hour. The city should not be
made dependent upon a reservoir alone. The
supply of water at the fountain head is of quite
as much Importance as at the discharging points.
That proposition is best which gives assurance
of the greatest power at the discharging points
and the greatest supply at the head, all other
conditions being equal. The propositions should
be carefully drawn, and the company to whom
the franchise is given required to give ample
bonds for the faithful construction of the W )rk
in good time. There is immediate necessity
that something be done, but let it be done we'll
The propositions WILL we learn, be speedily sub
mitted to the people, when we trust they will
vote intelligently.
Year: 1860

FROM WAsHoE.-We have seen letter
from Col. Whitman to his son, dated June
End.


1t showed all day June lst, at Virginia
city. Nothing remarkably new in the way
of discoveries. The town was growing
senSibly duller. Many were leaving and Indi
an troubles deferred people from coming in.
Provisions high and scarce. A vigilance
committee was about organizing to lynch
a butcher, but it was promptly nipped In
the bud.


In reference to the war the Colonel SAYS,
unless help in the way of provisions etc. is
furnished by California the volunteers must
disband and the whole fighting given up to
two hundred regulars on foot, in which
event he fears depopulation of the Terri
tory, as the signs of long and bloody war
are imminent. Unless the American troops
can meet the savages in few DAYS and
give them severe lesson in a great battle,
the worst is anticipated When leaving
Virginia City, Col Hays told his troops
that unless they were willing to live on
meat for some time, the road was open to
to Carson City and they were at liberty to
take it. Not man left.


great battle was expected to come off
on Sunday last. The Col says Nevada
and Sierra came nobly to the relief of their
brethren IN Utah; Sacramento did some
thing, but not more than enough to pay for
stolen horses. San Francisco, with mil
lions at stake had done nothing.
Year: 1860

SHOULDN'T WoSDER.-The Calaveras Chroni-
c'e tells of fellow who discovered his wife in
private conference with gentleman unknown to
him. The husband said, " Re was never so id
mad at any little thing before in his life"
Year: 1860

The OTHER SIDE.-We miss from our table
the San Francisco Times, Marysvillc Appeal and
Nevada Democrat. As we get and read regu-
larly most of the Democratic papers of the
State, it would afford us qualification to know
what is said on the other side Of the question.
Year: 1860

A KIND OF RouGu SrArEMENr.-R Barn
well Rhett, of South Carolina, recently made
speech at Charleston, of which the follow
ing is an extract:


The last contest between the North and
the South we have just witnessed in the
Presidential election. With the numerical
power in both branches of Congress, it was
only necessary, to complete their mastery.
that the Northern people should be united in
using their power. They have become uni
ted in this election, on the principle of hos
tility to African slavery in the South. On
this principle, purely sectional, they have
elected Southern renegade-spewed out of
the bosom Of Kentucky into Iliinois-and a
Northern mulatto, to be President and Vice
PRESIDENT OF the United States A naked
sectional despodsm is organized over the
South-as hating as it is hated-with all the
fury of ianaticism, and all the lust of avarice
and ambition to direct its power
Year: 1860

THE Republican members of both Houses
of Congress have already tacitly agreed to
preserve discreet silence upon the slavery
question for the present. Messrs Sumner
and Loveioy, both ultraists, acquiesee in that
policy,
Year: 1860

We see it stated that an editorial leader in
the Kentucky Statesman, Mr.. Brecknridges
organ, appealing to the conservative element
Of the South, is known to have been written
by the Vice President himself
Year: 1860

Losr LlGnr.-A friendly lantern which had
been, for some time past, hanging at the
street near the st. Nicholas corner, TO warn
the way farer against falling into hole near
by, was stolen on Wednesday night, by some
ungodly wretch, and the place is left unbea-
eoned. The lantern was placed there by the
Msrshal lie knows who the fellow was
that took ii. AID if he does not bring it back
IL will not be well foP him.
Year: 1860

EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.-The Western
Qrelandl Star alleges that the exodus still
continues: even at this late period Of the
season the exodus is scarcely a whit abated.
to be the chief destination of those leaving
the country. The stream of emigration via
Liverpool still continues to flow almost as
rapidly as in June or July"
Year: 1860

F1ng N TIE EorrH D1ys1ox-Just on the
stroke Of twelve last night an alarm Of Ere was
caused By the partial burning Of cluster Of
law wooden buildings on the corner Of Jackson
and Franklin streets. Easily extir9uished with
small 1oas.
Year: 1860

WHY DO CHILDREN DIE ?-The reason why children die, says Halls Journal of Health, Is because they are not taken care or. From the day of birth, they are stuff ed with food, choked with physic; sloshed with water, sufocated in hot rooms, steamed in bed clothes. So much for in door. When permitted to breathe a breath of pure air once week irl summer, and once or twice during the cold months, only the nose is permitted to peer into daylight. A little later they are sent out with no clothes at all on the parts of the body which most need protection. Bare legs, bare arms, bare necks, girted mid dles, with an inverted umbrella to collect the air, and chill the other parts of the body. A stout, strong man goes out in a cold day with gloves and overcoat, woolen stockings and thick double soled boots, with cork between and rubbers over. The same day, child of three years old, an infant in flesh and blood and bone and constitution, goes out with sole as thin as paper, cotton socks, legs uncovered to the knees, neck bare; an exposure which would disable the nurse, kill the mother outright, and make the father an invalid for weeks. And why? To hardon them to mode of dress which they never ex- pected to practice. To accustom them to exposure which dozen years later would

 be considered downrig foolery. Torear children thus for the slaughter pen and

 then lay it to the Lord, is too bad. We

 don't think the Almighty had any hand

 mt m II. A ana .i to draw comfort from the per

 sumption that He has any agency in the

 death of the child, is presumption and proclamation. '-N
Year: 1860

A THOUGHT FOR You've MEN.-No wreck is so shocking to behold as that of dissolute young man. On the person of the debauchee or inebriate, infamy is written. How nature hangs labels over him to testify her disgust at his examplei How she loosens all his joints, sends tremor along his muscles, and bends for ward his framei The wretch whose life long pleasure it has been to debase him self and to debauch others whose heart has been steeped in sin so that it is black all over, is an offence to the heart of the unblemished.
Year: 1860

I HAVE for sale superior set of running | gear, sufficient for running two Gin Stands and Grist Mill. They arc as good as new and will be sold very low. Also a good Portable Engine and Boiler about l4-horse power, near ly new in which great bargain can be ob- tained Apply to RIcH'D HIae1Ns, jr., of Old Town Ridge. noy28
Year: 1860

pcrtant, though formal examination, TOOK tns
train on the Eth inst for this place. The cars
are differently constructed from ours. beng
made to accommodate only eight persons and
somewhat in the form of our old. Stage
Coaches.


The scenery along the route IS lovely ana
delightful. The agricultural condition OF me
country is what would call superb ana ike
that of the Isle Of Wight. it creates the inn
preston upon the traveIero ofone vast garden.
In fact. the pieces Of land are nothing else
than gardens, as the divisions and subdivisions
are too numerous to bestow upon them the
appellation of farms in the sense in which we
use that word The capacities ofthe soil arc
marvellous, and its recuperate qualities mex
haustable; for unlike with us, the careful
manner in which they cultivate every inch OF
ground makes its disuse for one year in every
four or five unnecessary. The road runs
along the banks of the Siene most Of the dis
lance, and every visible sign is proof that this
country is peculiarly entitled to the name Of
"Ld belle France.''


Since my arrival in Paris have been 50
much indispOSed that for two weeks l have
been confined to my room, and unable to
write either to friends or the press, with the
restoration of health 1 trust each week
to furnish you with summary Of European
news, together with an account Of the man
ners customs, orders and casts of society, and
view of the political and social condition Of
the lower classes.


In my next viii attempt an article on the
fabulous success Of the daring enterprise Of
Garibaldi, which has resulted in the over
throw of the Neapolital Government in the
island of Sicily, and the liberation of its OPP
pressed and down -trOdden population from
the yoke of the most accursed and heilish dy-
nasty that has eysE reigned in an age Of ciyiIi-
vation. B. W. S.
Year: 1860

! NATrosAL FrxANes.-The redemption Of
the treasury notes has necessitated the loan Of
five or six millions of dollars at an early day.
The balance in the treasury subject TO draft
at the close eflast week was five millions SIX
hundred thousand dollars At this season
Of the year the expenditures are very largely
in excess of receipts, and no more treasury
notes can Be re-issued
Year: 1860

Ex-GovERNoR CHAsJ. McDoNALD-This
distinguished gentleman, says his hopes are
higher than they have been in a long time
past. He is strongly in favor of Breckenridge
AID Lane, and will use his efforts in support
ing them. He considers them the only ticket
that can restore harmony and preserve the
Union. So think we.
Year: 1860

Delilah didn't do it, and there were no Phi
listines in the case. Samson himself was not
consulted in the matter, and there was no fool
ing with green whites, or with untried cords,
nor did he ever sleep so soundly that any maid
en- of Timnath, how skillful with the loom So
ever, could have woven his shaggy hair into the
web. Though in his mighty strength he would
indeed have scofied at all the green whites that
ever grew, and all the new cords with which
those sturdy limbs could have been bound would
indeed have become as flax in the fire, when he
chose to rise in his might and carry terror among
his foes. How many thousands of his enemies
he has killed, he cannot tell, though certain it
is his dealings with his adversaries he did not
use the jawbone of an ass, but trusted rather
to his own which served his purpose to much
better advantage. And when at last he fell into
the tolls of the enemy, it was through the
treacherous wiles of no betraying damsel; only
the carna appetite of his own unbounded stom-
ach was to blame For the Sampson of this
loaded minion column, is not the gentleman
whose sad story is told in the great primer pa
ges of the old Family Bible, but a horse of
quite another color-in fact, Bear, species,
Grizzly. And the Grizzly Bear, called Sampson,
is for strength and size quite as noted charac-
ter among his ursine kind, as was the elder
Sampson among men, being by far the largest
and strongest bear that eter was captured alive,
since bears have been product Of our noble
country


The story of his taking is as follows; Most
of the rayines about the foot of the California
Mountains are the habitat of bears of almost
every variety, and in the latter part of the year
1858 the few settlers in Tuolumne, Calaversa,
Mariposa, and San Joaquin Counties, California,
became unpleasantly aware of the presence in
their vicinity of more bears than they had I'M
mediate occasion for. The hunters, wLo set
forth on the task of persuading these unwel-
come neighbors, by the gentle arguments of
rifle ball and keen long knife to abdicate in their
favor, and to remove to some other and more
distant dominion, met with much success and
got decidedly the best of the argument with the
Grizzlies. Many of the latter succumbed to
the moral suasion of the rifle, and their skins
changed owners; others retreated and left the
Year: 1860

PoRK.-Tbe San Andreas Independent es-
Inmates that there are six or seven hundred
Cinnamon in that locality who are supplied
with pork by the butchers of that town ev-
cry morning, and that. they consume about
three thousand hogs annually. During the
past summer lots Of several hundred in a
drove have been driven thither from as far
south as Visalia, and one lot from the tule
lands of Yolo county. The bounteous acorn
crop of the present Fall will operate favor
ably upon John Chinaman's meat arrange
ments. Hundreds of swine are running at
large in the woods, as fat as they can roll,
on food obtained without trouble or ex-
pense.
Year: 1860

FNED.-At the late term of the Butte
county Court of Sessions an alien was fined
500 for willfully or ignorantly serving as
a Grand Juror. The fatal error was not
discovered till near the close Of the term.
The county was put to several hundred dol
lars expense in consequence of having 70
summon another jury.
Year: 1860

GIVING AND KEcETvIvG.-In the anatomy
OF the hand we find that the muscle by
which we shut it is much stronger than the
oneiby which we open 1t; and this holds
true as TO giving and receiving.
Year: 1860

ed to disappointment. and our only
hope in this as well as other measures
enumerated was in the triumph OF
those whom we had endea vored to de.
feat.


THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE LABoRrR.


Labor Is the poor mans capital
In Republican Government it should
be respected. 1t is honorable even in
the Monarchial Government of the
Old World. but in this country we
see a persistent effort to degrade labor.
Democratic Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress declare. and the
sentiment is echoed by the press and
sanctioned by the party, that labor is
the legitimate sphere of Slaves. That
Slavery is the natural condition of
the laborer. etc., That labor should
be owned and not hired, thus striking
a blow at the very liberties of nine
tenths Of the Democratic voters Of the
North and no voice of condemnation
or opposition is raised to protect us.
but bv those whom we have been
taught to regard as our political enc
mics.