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Year: 1859

MlLANcuoLY.-It is stated. says the Bee
th"t an effort is being made to reorganze the
W 'ls party in this city We have great
confidence in Sacramento but not sufficient
to believe that it can resusei,atc so great
fossil as the Whig party.
Year: 1859

LOUIS NALETTA.-It seems rs though we
would never get rid of this calf-stealing Va
letta case. First we stated that Valetta was
discharged, the proof not being sufficient to
sustain the charge of the felonious taking of
the blatant quadruped. By request, we then
stated that the charge was without the least
foundation. Now we are requested to state
that we meant no ref ection on the prosecu.
tor: which is all true enough. The prose
cutor found the calf in Valetta's possession
the calf had been stolen-so he prosecuted
Valetta-it appeared on trial that Valetta
bought the calf from another man and paid
him the money. The charge was, therefore,
without foundation, although the prosecution
was not necessarily malicious SO We were
right from first to last, and nobolY is in
jured. If anybody else, however, wishes
anything said in relation to the calf in ques-
tion, we are ready to give him the benefit of
our columns We are sound on the "weal
Year: 1859

pledge or orally making a pledge TO alb
STAN from all intoxicating drinks an in
iringement upon the law, either Of God
or mans Is il better to let the drunkard
continue to wallow in crime and filth and
misery, curse to himself, TO his family
and his country, than to recommend him
to make a pledge to abstain, thoupb il
should be the means of his recovery 10
the long lost path of virtue and happiness
If it be the drunkard's duty to abstain,
what harm can there be in his assisting
his resolution by publicly recording his
determination to do so9 The signing os
our name is daily transaction among
all classes of society. Men under the in
fluenco of the highest principles of integ-
rity, honor and christian morality, daily
sign their names in various transactions,
and it is never complained against, as eli
ther degradation of character, or an uu-
necessary mechanical method of keeping
men honest and faithful to their word.
Where then, Harry, is the force of your
objections Echo answers, where. But
we deny that the term mechanical is a
fit characteristic of our system, or our
pledge? Does it exclude or restrain the
exercise of moral principle either in the
drunkard who signs for his own sake, or
in the sober man who signs for tho sake
of his degraded, ruined brother? Does it
affect to make men sober and virtuous
necessarily and inyoluntarily as steam
engine propels vessel through the deep!
Let your own good sense determine. In
connection with the pledge of temperance
and our obligation as Good Templars,
there is as free scope for the exercise Of
every principle of virtue and religion as
there is without it. Indeed, there is
direct appeal TO those principles, and while
we are faithful to our obligations they
are called continually into action. Tho
reformed Grunkard in taking the obliga-
ton TO abstain acts on the principle of
self-denial, and in keeping it inviolate he
acts on the principles Of honor, integrity
and conscientious regard to the truth.
The sober man and the christian, in sign
ing the pledge, acts on the principle of
brotherly love, and the high and honora-
bic notions which true patriotism, philan-
thropy and christianity inspire. So much,
Harry, for our mechanical means. Oh,
that these principles were in universal op-
Grafton. Deceit and wrong, cruelty, op-
preston and intemperance would be ban
ished from our earth, and tho world be-
como a paradise, garden of the Lord.
ITO be Contnued)
Year: 1859

There is no book so instructive as the
newspaper; no knowledge so necessary TO
be acquired as that which may be CLEAN
EN- from its columns. 1t is not only the
vehicle of the cheapest but the most in
nocent and least cloying scource of pleasure
and happiness. A newspaper in fami-
ly, is sure every week to be the means of
interesting, informing or pleasing almost
every member of the family, especially
where they live in the country, and see
and hear but little that is new. In the
course Of year, a well conducted: paper
conveys information on almost every SUBJ
ject, or at least excites curiosity and in
quiry on all subjects. To know what is
nearest to us in time and space, is most
necessary, most pleasing and most in
structive; and this kind of knowledge can
only be obtained from newspapers. We
would venture TO affirm that there never
was, and will be, in a country situation,
an ignorant family who take newspaper,
as it is impossible that family should
not become in time well informed, pro-
vided they live sufficiently secluded to be
thrown upon the paper as source of
amusement. The dullest child who hates
book will, in rainy weather steal up TO
q newspaper, read marriage notice and
an advertisement or two, and put il down.
The next time probably he will get bold
er and get through "horrible murder"
Soon he will read short tales of fiction;
then Just before election tune, be begins
to peep into politics, and even to read po-
litical speeches. Last Of all he attacks
foreign news. BY this time his curiosity
on most subjects is excited, and overcome
his aversion and'fear of books, and he is
lured on TO become reading and well
informed man. 1t is strange that any
family, as measure of economy, should
be without a newspaper. Children see the
world cheaply at home, in newspaper,
without the danger of bad association or
the expense Of travel.


Printers New Letter.


- A habit of letting moments slip
through o,,r finoprs Is n had one What
Year: 1859

"A young man, who was desirous Of
marrying daughter of a well known
Boston Merchant, after many attempts to
broach the subject to the old gentleman,
in very suffering manner said: "Mr.
O. are you willing to le-le-let me have
your daughter James" "Of course am
gruffly and quickly replied the old man
"and / wish you could get some other
likely fellows to marry the rest of them.
Year: 1859

LE Notwithstanding the assertion
of contemporary, we deny that the
so-called Harlan speech was delivered
at Des Moines, within the present year.
The manner in which the editor of the
Gazette attempts to sneak out of the
corner into which he led himself by
his own misst atemcnts and blundering,
is indeed refreshing not to say charac-
teristic. His first statement that the
speech was delivered at Des Moines on
the occasion Of the Republican State
Convention, is false; his subsequent
affirmation that he never said so is not
true, as has been sufficiently proven,
aud his third statement. made to con-
vey the idea that his first statement
was correct and in unison with the
second, only shows how natural it
is for that creature to speak falsehoods
where the truth would suit his purpose
much better.


In conclusion we would add that the
speech that Harlan is tranking over
the State IS his great Des Moires
State Republican Convention speech
was never delivered there and we chal.
lenge the entire Republican press Of
the State to prove that it was.
Year: 1859

H The retirement of the Roths-
childs from the financial world has its
sigui6cancy. This potent family has
means of information not to be attained
by any other party-not even by the
very governments; and being gifted
with degree Of shrewdness surpassed
by none, it is presumable that there is
some tempest ahead which appears to
them more terrible than even 1893 or
l848.
Year: 1859

y Bay The particulars of the following do
mestic tragedy have been given before in
the Enquirer, but not as here related by a
correspondent of the Cleveland Herald:


A MAN AFTER GoD's OWN HEART.-Dr.
Taney, a relative of Chief Justice fancy,
recently eloped with tho wife of a Baptist
deacon, from the village where they both
reside, in Knox county, Ohio. They were
respectable people, and worthy members Of
society-both held high positions in the
same church. She left three little children
one sweet babe Of ten months old he left
four or FIVE. The day before they eloped,
he took his wife, gentle blue-eyed, beau
tiiul woman, and her babe a visit to his
brothers, and told her no, to come back un-
Ill the next evening, that he would take
good care of the other children in her alb
sence. When she came home he had been
gone over fourteen hours and the lonely lit
tie ones were all crying. When the dread
ful intelligence came she fell TO the floor,
and lay moaning and weeping in the inten-
sest agony, refusing TO be comforted. 1t
was day and night before word of con-
ISOLATION 10 which she would listen fell into
that stricken heart. Poor, poor, Carrie, and


this is the love of woman I


The bereft husband compare him, reader,
with that roHe, Sickles, who idolized his
wife, followed and overlook them at Monroe
vile, Huron county, where he found the
erring woman prostrated with illness. The
spirit of the humble christian prcdominated
in his heart. Without a word OF cruel up
braiding he staid and nursed her back 10 life,
then he talked with the doctor anu her, and
reasoned with them, and promised to forgive
ALL and smooth the matter over, and hide
the facts from the world. But with sor-
row too deep for utterance, did he learn that
her heart was no longer his, that she loved
another better than her own sweet babe and
kind husband. lie took her hand in his,
and forgave her all-certifed in writing
that he gave her up on condition that she
would marrythe object of her choice as soon
as possible, and he would never molest them
He gave her Sl66, and good advice, wished
the blessing of God TO rest upon her, and
then, bowling under his burden of grief, he
returned to his poor motherless babes and his
desolate hearth.


The hard world, that pats Sickles on the
back approyingly, will sneer, and call the
deacon a fool, and his bleeding heart will go
down to the grave unappreciated. God and
the blessed angels will draw near and CON-
fort him.
Year: 1859

gea, There was much excitement at Bow
ling Green. Clay county, Il few days ago, in
consequence Of the arrest of a wealthy man
named Luther, on a charge OF counterfeit
ing. He gave 1000 bail for his appear
ance at the next term of the Circuit Court.
Year: 1859

Multitudes in this bustling world are deeply
impressed with the idea that the signs Of the
times indicate the commencement of a new era
in the moral and political system-that q day
star of a more prosperous condition is about to
dawn upon our race. Through the long lapse
of ages, from the days Of Solon to the present
time, it is very melancholy thought that
among the host Of rulers to whose hands have
been committed the destinies of empires, few
have sought, and still fewer have known the
way, to rule for the happiness of mankind
Problems have been solved by legislators; but
that of human happiness, justice, aud equality,
has been left till the last They have had a
seeming interest 10 pervertng the truth, and in
pereuading men that their selfish views of per-
sonal aggrandizment would rebound to the
glory and greatness of the whole nation. They
have fattened upon human credulity-have ac-
cumulated unwieldly fortunes by imposition
and fraud the honest aud unsuspecting "com
mou people" have borne with unshrinknR
6rmness the weight of monstrous incubus Of


monopoly and corruption, enormously suppos
ing it indispensable to the common prosperity
of the country. A change is coming over the
spirit of our day dreams. The &C common peo-
pie" are beginning to learn that all that ID
gained by the monOpolist, is lost twice over by
somebody else logicians are finding out the
fact that four and two make six in Louisiana as
well as in Observation-Disclosures the privilege oil
putting ten thousand dollars into the pockets
ofa combination of wealthy individuals, the
right Of which is guaranteed Ly charter, tC
the exclusion of their less fortunate neighbors
is -plunder-legalized robbery.


1t will be obvious to all who reflect one mo-
ment on the subject, that it will be the interest
of those who enjoy monopoly, either partia
or complete, to endeavor to excite the preju
ces of the community against the honest hearts
and bold hands who may be struggling in the
great work of reform they will be termed
agrarans. jacobins, inhdes. Jack Cades, ant
divers other epithets forged for the occasion


this is to be expected this has been the lot o
all reformers; from the mild Socrates. eve
down to our own times, every one who has op
posed and exposed the corruptions of purse
proud oppressors have been assaied by the en-
venomed tongue Of SANDER, contumely, and re
proach. Why then should reformers Of th


present age expect to escape? Let those who
vegetate upon orphans tears. and get corpulen
upon the ruin Of widows homes. vent the


fume and spite-the good work will go on--th,
ball is rolling, and be that would check its We
locity, let him beware lest it should grind hin
to powder-BoaOn Investigator.
Year: 1859

PuRsUIT OF A HUSBAND UNDER DTFTcULrIEs.-
The ST. Louis correspondent of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin in his letter OF Dec. 23d says:


Among the passengers by the twenty-Arst
overland mail who reached st. Louis last even
ing, was Mrs. Hall or Hale, an English lady.
Her husband left England several years since,
and came TO the New WOrld-she knew not
whittier. Being desirous of rejoining him, she
took ship at Liverpool for one of our Eastern
ports, and came over. Learning that he was
probably in Australia, she went thither on a
long aud perilous passage, arriving there only
to learn that no such person was dweller at
that end of the earth With hope stll in her
heart, she sailed from Melbourne to San Fran
cisco. Failing there TO hear of her truant
spouse, she despaired OF success and reluctant
y decided to abandon him for lost, aud return
by way of the overland route and the west to
ber former home in England. On alighting
from the cars in this city, last evening. almost
the first person she encountered was her long
absent lord. Your readers may imagine the
joy of the poor woman at meeting the object Of
her long and wearsome search over far off
lands and oceans, and amid countless hardships
and dangers at place where she had never
expected it, and when hope itself had ceased to
guide her pathway.
Year: 1859

GENUS AND LABoR.-Alexander Hamilton
once said to an intimate friend-"Men give me
some credit for genius. All the genius that
have lies just in this. When have subject
in hand study it profoundly. Day and night
it is before me. explore it in all its bearings.
My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the
effort which make is what the people are
pleased to call the fruit Of genius. 1t is the
fruit of labor aud thought"


Mr. Webster once replied to a gentleman
who pressed him to speak on subject of great
Importance. "The subject interests me deeply,
but have not time. There, sir" pointing to
a huge pile of letters on his table, sis pile of
unanswered letters, to which must reply be-
fore the close of the session (Which was then
three days of) Il have not time to master
the subject SO as to do it Justice" "But, Mr..
Webster, few words from you would do so
much to awaken public attention to it" Elf
there be such weight 10 my words as you repre-
sent, it is because do not allow myself to
speak on any subject till have imbued my
mind with it,


Demosthenes was once urged to speak on a
great and sudden emergency. I'll am not pre-
pared, said be. aud obstinately refused.


The law of labor is equally binding on ge-
MUS and mediocrity.
Year: 1859

WALKERS RIVER MINRs.-A correspondent OF
the 7srritoridl Enterprise, writing from Walkers
river, gives some interesting facts in regard 10
that locality. There are between forty and
seventy men on the river, but at present they
are able to do nothing in consequence of the
ground being frozen to the depth of three feet.
The correspondent adds:


There has not, thus far, been any large
strikes made; although, on almost every hill
and ravine gold has been found, and good wa
ges have been made by nearly all who have
got into their claims. The bed rock has not
yet been found. Miners now work to lava,
which is Of reddish brown, soft, light and
porous; it is generally about six feet below the
surface. The gold appears TO be evenly distrb-
uted If there are any rich deposits they are
below the lava or in the hills, which are low
and wide, aud very fiat on top; they run paral-
lei with the creeks ana are covered with sage
brush.
Year: 1859

They opposed the purchase Of Arizona in
1854.


They never admitted a State. They never
organized Territory. They were also
against their country in the time Of war.


Such are the main exploits Of the opposi-
ton to the Democracy.
Year: 1859

Not to be blest with warrior strength,


To WELD the sword and wear the glaive,
Or rise to conqueror'S fame at length,


Proclaims the good or makes the brave
To have the power to bide the scorn,


And rise above the hate and strife
Of those to wealth and title born,


Is the crown'd courage of our life.
What are the swords that prop king
The banners in his army's van
To strength Of soul, that dares to spring
And show the monarch in the mani
Kings and the mightiest men OF arms,


Strong as the heads of realms they bde,
Sport as they may with fortunes charms,
They are like leaves upon the tide.
In dim Of old sepnlchres they lie,


The feast of silence and decay,
While the true world heart beateth high
And thrones itself upon to-day
Give me the man whose hands have tossed
The cornseed to the mellow soil,
Whose feet the forest depths have crossed,
Whosesbrow is nobly crown'd with toll
Year: 1859




DEsrIrUrIoN IN CANADA WEsT.-The distress which
at present prevails in several of the townships OF
the county of Bruce is most appalling Gases Of the
most pitiable and heart-rending destitution are
every day coming to our knowledge; and the most
serious apprehensons are entertained regarding the
future. Bad as times have been, and fearfully bad
as they are, yet nevertheless it is evident that
they not at the worst and that there is crisis
rapidly rushing in upon that will stagger and
defy every effort to amehorate it, unless some i'm
mediate and decisive efforts are taken to meet the
coming storm. The horriblensss of our position is
daily revealing itself to in all its sadness In the
adjoining townships there are hundreds of families
verging on starvation; and God only knows where
the end will be, what is to become of them Many
of best and thritest farmers are destitute of the
wherewithal to carry them through till another
harvest-the crops of the past year having almost
proved total failure.


We could enumerate instances where even al
ready families are subsisting on few boiled tur-
nips, others bread and water alone and the sup
ply so small that it cannot keep body and soul
hanging together many weeks longer. Some have
consumed everything in the shape of vegetation,
and last resort, have slaughtered their oxen
which form their whole subsistence.


1t is difficult to say what plan of operation would
be the best to follow out; but if are unsuccessful
in securing private governmental aid at home,
the writer of these lines knows right well that if an
appeal were made to his counrymen (Scotland)
they would not fail to extend the requisite relief to
save hundreds of their unfortunate Highland coun-
trymen from famishing in the wilds of Canada.


Bruce county is in the northwestern part of the
province Of Canada West and borders on the east
shore of Lake Huron. 1t has population of up
ward of 5000.
Year: 1859

CONFIRMED HABrrs-Evcfy one knows
the story Of tho talow chandler, who hav-
ing amasscd a fortune, disposed Of his
business aud taken house in the country
not far from the city, that he might enjoy
himsclf--alter few months trial Of the
holiday life, requested permission Of his
successor to come into town and assist him
on melting days, We have heard Of one
who kept retail spirit shop, and having
in like manner retired from trade, used 10
enjoy himself by hi wing one punchecn fill
en- waiter, and measuring it off by pints
into another. We have heard, also, Of a
butcher in small county town, some little
time after he bad left off business, informed
his old customers that he meant to kill a


lamb, once week, just for his amusement.
Year: 1859

The LION AND THE Cock Once
upon time there was bad fight between a
cock and a lion, and the cock few into the
lions face and peeked his eyes 40 that he could
hardly see, and scratched his nose 50 that il
bled badly, while the cock was so spry that the
lion could not catch him nor do him much
harm. But the other beasts were afraid that
if the cock should beat the lion he might next
fight them, and SO some Of them helped him;
and at last they beat the cock and broke his
spurs, and pulled out his fine tail feathers, and
bit of bis comb, until he was sad bird 10 see.


CHAPrER IL Some time afterward the
cocks spurs and tail feathers grew out again,
and his comb grew up as fine as ever, so that
If any of the beasts grOwled at him he few at
them and taught them to let him alone. One
day one of he beasts that had b 'lped the lion
to beat him got saucy, and the cock gave him
n good drubbing and drove him back into his
den, and got his dinner from him and ate il
himself; but the lion never once came near to
help the beast that had helped him. Then the
cock turned around to 90 back to his roOst, and
as he stretched himself up and held up his head
TO crow, be saw the lion, whose lair was lust
beyond the cocks roost, and the lion was shsk-
ing and trembling, and everybody saw that he
was In mortal terror, for fear that the cock
was just then coming to fight him again, when
the other beasts might not care to come and
help him As they did before But the cock,
sitter laughing from ear to ear took pity on
him and did not crow, but went quitely home
about his business. =


Now all you little boys, don't You think that
Waterloo is avenged!-Boston Post.
Year: 1859

We shall have aha indulgence certainly Of
that share Of our readers who have "mored''
this spring, if we attribute all dslays that may
be experienced in the several departments Of
the PREss AND TRIBUNE to tue confusion incident
to the removal Of our entire establishment to
our new quartcrs-No. 81 Clark ttreet-wiere
~ hope to bring order out of confusion in
few days, and secure better facilities than ever
befors for serving cur friends We must ask the
indulgence Of some of our advertisers, for the
same reason, in that their favors arc laid ovcr
until to morrow. \ few days will serve to put
ns in 4 condition more to our mind and wish.
Year: 1859

The Troy Wing says there is q girl rcsid-
ing with her parents in the lower part of the
city who is twelve years and four months
of age, and is mother of child about
month old. It's father is only in his sixteenth
,.oor
Year: 1859

BOUND OvER.--James Dennis was brought
before Squire Tucker of Camden. on Monday
week, on several charges of selling articles in
violation of the rules of The Camp Meeting. at
his store adjoining the Union Camp Ground
He was bound over in the sum of $1,000 in each
case to answer at the October court
Year: 1859

The ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.-By the late ar
rival from England we learn that the Atlantic
Telegraph Company have decided to make the
conductor of their next cable of six copper
wires, twisted about six times the size of the old
cable. There is TO be no outside covering of
iron wire, except for few hundred miles of
the .nds The cable is to be made and laid
down. guaranteed in all respects, and it is ex-
pecIed to have it in order for business early
next summer.