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Year: 1859

A 'Cold' is not necessarily the result of
low or high temperature. A person may go
from hot bath directly into cold one, or
into snow even, and not take cold. He may
remain out in the coolest atmosphere until


chilled through, and still not take cold. On
the contrary, hema take cold by pouring
couple of tabespoonfuls of water upon some
parts of his dress, or by standing in door, or
before stove, or sitting near window or
other opening, where one part of the body is
colder than another part The feet are the
great sources Of colds, on account of the tenn
perature they are subjected to keep these al
ways dry and warm, and AVOID draughts Of
air, hot or cold, wet spots on the garments,
and other direct causes o. unequal temper
ature, and keep the system braced up by
plenty of sleep, and eschewing of debli-
tating foods and drinks, and YOU will be proof
against cold and its results.-4merican
Aqric,lturist
Year: 1859

ADVERTISING AND MATRIMoNY.-A year or
two ago young merchant of New York paid
attention to a Philadelphia belle Of admitted
beauty, and at last offered his heart and hand.
The suitor bore an excellent character, but
he was not sufficiently known to the Phila-
delphia father, who however, took occasion
to look carefully over the business columns of
the n Y. journals for several weeks, and the
result was that his consent was promptly
given, thus runs the story. He had read the
advertisements of the merchant, and was so
satisfied with their tone, spirit and tact, that
full confidence was at once established, and
the marriage speedily took place.
Year: 1859

The PRospEcr.-The way to victory in
1860 appears to be clear for the Republican
party and their MISREPRESENTATION policy
The Free States have almos. unanimously
pronounced their verdict in favor of the Re-
publican cause, within the present year, and
there is every reason to believe that this sem
timent will become stronger, rather than
weaker, before the Presidential contest of
next year. We have nothing to fear but in
discretion and personal jea.ousies in our own
ranks.
Year: 1859

Beware of worthless trash in the shape of
money, on the Hartford Exchange Bank of
Indiana" These bills are attempted to be
circulated among the farmers of this State
The Bank and its bills are base swindle,
and people would do well TO be on their guard
against receiving the trash. The bills are in
imitation Of the Hartford Bank of Connect.
cut; thus the good character Of that institu-
ton is made use of in this way to swindle
the people. Eye.
Year: 1859

Fun AT HoNE-Don't be afraid of little
fun at home good people? Don't shut up
your houses lest the sun should fade your car
pets and your hearts, lest hearty laugh
should shake down some of the mustv old
cobwebs there! Ifyou want to ruin your
sons, let them think that all mirth and enjoy
ment must be left on the threshold without,
when they come home at night When
once home is regarded as only place to
eat, drink and sleep in, the work is begun
that ends in gambling houses and reckless
degradation. Young people must have fun
and relaxation some where ifthey don't find it
at their own hearth-stones, it will be sought
in other, and perhaps less profitable places
Therefore let the fire burn brightly at night
and make the home nest delightful with all
those little arts that parents so perfectly un-
delstand. Don't repress the buoyant spirits
of your children half an hour of merriment
around the lamp and freight of home blots
out the remembrance ofmany care and an
noyance during the day, and the best safe
guard they can take with them into the
world is the unseen influence ofa bright lit
tie domestic sanctum.


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Year: 1859

A wife looks prettier, if she did but know
it, in neat morning dress Of calico than in
incongruous piles Of finery. and which she
dignifies with the title of full Dress" Many
an unmarried female first wins the heart of
her future husband in some simple, anpre-
tending attire, If consulted about, which she
would pronounce too cheap except for ordi-
nary wear, but which by its accidental suit
ability to her figure, face and carriage, idea
Lies her youth wonderfully. If the sex
would study taste in dress more, and care less
for costliness, they would have no reason to
regret it. A foolish, silly man is not worth
marrying, and sensible man will surely
judge advantageously in exact ratio to the
plainness and simplicity of your dress.
Year: 1859

A man was recently fined for cheating
himself. He was charged with using steel
yard that was incorrect. 1t turned out that
the inaccuracy of the steelyard defrauded
the man himself.
Year: 1859

To find the diameter OF circle, measure
from the centre parting of your wife's hair to
the extreme edge Of the circumference OF her
dress. Double that, and you will have the
diameter to a nicely.
Year: 1859

Two centuries ago not one in one hundred
wore stockings Fifty years ago not boy in
a thousand was allowed to run at large at
night. Fifty years ago not one girl in a
thousand made waiting -lnaid of her mother.
Wonderful improvements in this wonderful
Year: 1859

The Wattertown Flag contains an account
of the death, on last Tuesday week, of lit
tie girl aged eight years, daughter of Mr..
Traverse Goug. In the absence of all older
than herself, her clothing took fire. She
first tried to suppress the flames herself; she
then asked her little sister of four years to
throw water on her; put the little one ran,
instead, to call the neighbors When they
came they found her lying out in the yard,
and in reply to the question, what she was
doing there she said she thought if she stay
ed in the house, that the house would catch
fire and burn the baby up, too. She retain
ed her faculties to the last, conversed freely,
and bore her sufferings with degree of for
titude remarkable for one of her age.-(Ex


You brass-knuckled rowdy, border ruffian
with belt stuck round with pistols and bowie
knives, soldier with shining saber and large
talk about bravery and glory,--how does all
your vaunted courage pale before the meek
resolution Of this little child! Quietly to lie
down in the flames to screen another from
the distant possibility of harm! How many
Of you have the courage to do that?
Year: 1859

THE MrssIXG GIRL-As so much publicity
has already been given to the disappearance
of Miss Hattie May, we shall be excused for
alluding to circumstances connected with the
affair 1t seems that an anonymous letter
was lately received in this city by one of her
friends informing him that she was alive and
stopping at a hotel in the town of San Lean.
dro. A negro was the bearer of the letter.
and he was intimidated into telling who gave
it to him. Who did give him the letter we
have not been informed 1t seems to be set
tied, therefore, that the girl is not dead, and
this must be one great source of relief to her
friends Doubtless She will soon be found,
and restored to her home


1t is somewhat singular that she should
have left home-her mothers residence, in
Sutter countY-by herself, in the manner
that she did, and against her mothers re-
monstrance, who urged her to postpone her
trip, until she could have company She told
her mother that she was going to San Jo-e
to teach music, but instead of going to San
Jose she stops at Benicia, and, after a report
of her death in the papers, turns up at San
Leandro. 1t is reported that she remarked
to a neighbor, just before she left home, that
she was going in order to see if any one cared
for her, and that she would report herself
dead for the purpose of more Thoroughly test
ing it A rather strange remark, truly, and
especially so when taken in connection with
the fact that there did actually appear an ae-
count of her death in the papers.


Further developments will be had in a few
days. We are already in possession of facts
which We do not now feel at liberty to dis
close.
Year: 1859

left bank of the river, just above the
bridge, and are making SIS day to
the share. They lately found single
lump worth SIG, which is very large for
that vicinity. The claims they own
were abandoned as worthless for two
years before Bart & Co. have good
claims adjoining these. They also own
the Clear Greek Ditch which supplies
water to miners on this side of the Mid
die Yuba. Their reservoir broke at the
time of the last severe storm, occasion
ing loss of some $500 or 5000. The
diggings on the opposite bank of the
river are supplied with water at the re-
markably low price Of eight cents an
inch from the Moonshine Ditch, owned
by Geo. Derrickson & Co.
Year: 1859

ELECTRICITY AS A MOTOR.-A
number of years ago, when Ewbanks
was Commissioner of Patents, he urged
in one of his very able reports the offer
ing of premiums for several desirable
inventions and discoveries not then made ;
and amongst the rest, we remember, he
thought premium should be offered for
the successful application of electricity
as motive power. The suggestion was
considered by many at the time as a lit
tie wild, and met no attention. The
idea of electrical engines was deferred
to the uncertain future, with that of
aerial navigation.


We are reminded of this by news
paper paragraph, which may, or may
not, be truthful. However, here it is


The London Chronicle announces
that the secret of COMPRISING and gov
erning electricity is at length discovered,
and that power may, therefore, now be
considered as the sole motor hencefor-
ward to be used. A small mortar was
fired by the inventor at the rate of one
hundred shots per minute-without
flashing, smoke or noise The same
power can, it seems, be adapted to every
system of mechanical invention, and is
destined to supercede steam, requiring
neither machinist nor combustion.
Year: 1859

Nor so BAD AFTER ALIVE ad-
wise all those who are fond of inveighing
against California society as being pre-
eminently bad, to read the lengthy
commentaries of the eastern press on
the notorious Sickles affair, and ponder
upon the developments of social corrup-
tion therein made with every show of
truth. The construction put by the San
Francisco press upon passage IN DIR.
Coles famous report, hardly carried with
it worse imputation upon the virtue of
our women, than is plainly cast upon
the women of Washington and New
York by some of the most influential
and respectable papers in those cities,
The N Y. Courier even went SO far,
according to correspondent of the S.
F. Times, as to publish series Of ar
ticles going to show that it is notorious
that large proportion of the wives of
downtown merchants amuse their leisure
hours in the absence of their husbands
by violating their marital obligations !:
Other journals charge alike extensivein-
fidelity upon the other sex, which is prob
ably true enough. If such statements
and charges were published in Califor
mir, the State would soon be too hot for
the parties promulgating them. If dis
covered they would deserve and meet
universal execration, if popular fury did
not deal out to them corporeal vengeance.
Yet these things are said east, and no
one attempts to deny or refute them. No
intelligent person will, Of course, credit
all of this character that is uttered In
times of excitement 1t is not likely
that society in either New York or
Washington is near SO bad as it is now
represented. Still there is wickedness
enough there to make us turn with
complacency to onr own lovely, much
maligned State, and to make us feel
that it is good for us to be here.
Year: 1859

LEGISLATIVE "A great deal of bus
mess has been transacted by both houses,
but not much of solid advantage to the
State. The day of adjournment is so
near that many important matters are
bound to be sighted or overlooked.
What has become of the bill to create
the Office of State Geologist? Of As
semblyman Caldwell's Fee bill? The
Sunday law bill which was introduced
into the Senate after the defeat Of the
one in the Assembly was indefinitely
postponed; which ends that. We are
sorry to record the defeat of the bill
consolidating the proceeds of the sale
of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections
of the school lands, which, if it had be-
come law, would have secured to all the
school children in the State an equal
share of the fund thus realized. The
Senate Bill, providing revenue for the
support of the State Government, was
passed; also bill authorizing counties to
become stockholders in railroad eompan-
les; one enabling the State to receive
the benefit of swamp and overfowed
lands within her limits, and Assembly
bill to provide for the better encourage
ment of the vine and olive. The Bulk
head was made the special order fol-
yesterday.
Year: 1859

Pixies PEAK.-A correspondent Of
the Nevada Democrat, writing from
Omega, says:


"Quite number of miners in this
section are selling out their claims cheap,
and intend to leave for Pixies Peak in
the Spring. Should the mines of that
country not come up to their expecta-
tions they design going home to the
States. They intend to prospect the
entire country, from the head of the
Humboldt, where it looks favorable,
with the hope of finding new El Dor
ado. Those who have passed over the
country are satisfied that it abounds in
mineral wealth"
Year: 1859

THE SHASTA VOLCANO is still con-
sidered delusion by the Republican,
which advises gentlemen not to visit
that part of the State in search of it
until the latter part Of the summer
the early part of fall-the season
during which the Diggers light their
fires for the purpose of corraling grass
hoppers. They will then be amazed at the
great number of active volcanos in the
secluded portions of Shasta county"


There as some chance of pedestrian
in search of the wonderful being de-
.celved in this way. We remember
seeing the most beautiful columns and
strata of blue, volcanic looking smoke
rising from the picturesque mountains
of Shasta and Trinity counties when we
were gold-hunting there in the summer
of 1850; and it was sometime before we
could trace the cause to the Indians.
Still, Messrs. jackson and Snyder have
made such positive statements, particu-
larly the former, who claims to have seen
the crater and the hot-air column vomit-
ing stones-that it is no more than fair
to give them chance to go on an ex-
ploring expedition and report, before
finally deciding that Shasta county is
without an active volcano.
Year: 1859

The New Orleans Advo,ate has this incl
dent about the ravages of yellow fever in
that city, related to him by one Of the Metho.
dist pastors: "The preacher was called,
few days since, to attend the funeral OF q
young man. Before his sickness he was q
Stout buoyant, manly youth. He was from
the State of Maine, and had been here but
short time. He was attacked by yellow
fever, and soon died, with no mother or rel.
atiyes to watch BY his bedside, or to soothe
him with that sympathy which none but
those OF our own dear blood can feelaor
manifest. He died among strangers and
was buried by them. When the funeral
service was over, and the strange friends
who had ministered to him were about to
close the coffin, an old lady. who stood BY.
stopped them and said, Set me kiss him
for his mother = We have yet to find the
first man or woman to whose eye this simple
recital has not brought tears." 7
Year: 1859

This is q momentOus word. 1t is de
rived from the Latin and, we think, means
a conjunction brought about by love and
money-the money being the prime con-
sideration. Some are so foolish as to
wish to marry just to see how it works,
but they're green We had just sech a
wish once and it came near working our
ruination We were desperately in love,
with preachers daughter, and spent
every cent we could get in buying hair
oil and cinnamon drops. Became melan-
cholly, and when the mild lustre of a
midnight moon sweetly reposed upon the
stretching landscape we squatted upon the
mosSy bank, beside the murmuring stream
which ran back of her daddy's house, and
whispered our woes to the listening stars.
We pined upon the live oak hills and mo-
ped among the vallies, sighing psalmo-
dies of love touching enough to raise the
feathers on the back of Pity. But
wouldn't do, her ma didn't like us and
her pa preached about forty sermons
from the text, My daughter is grievous-
ly turmented by devil" We bought a
fine tucking comb and presented it to her,
telling the storekeeper to charge in to her
pa. Her pa discovered the mistake and
cast us out. We quit following that girl.
1t don't pay. We kept her picture and
lock of hair and felt like the man who
wrote:


We're down in the mouth,


We're out at the pockets,


Alas we've no pockets at all,


And all we have got


Is a braid and locket-


That's all.


We are finished
Year: 1859

Twas the intention of the Proprietor
to send out the Express printed on small
sized note paper; but the recent demand
for that kind Of stationery, caused by the
return of many young ladies who have
for some time past, been off at school,
has advanced the price of that article to
such ali extent that bis purse can't dance
up. This fact, coupled with several 9th
er drawbacks, irremedial at present, rem
ders the condition of the Proprietor en-
barrassing, and cramps very much the
winged genius of the Editor They hope,
however, BY steady industry and unyield-
ing energy to overcome the barriers that
oppose their progress. The paper will
be conducted in such manner as we
deem best calculated to suit-ourselves.
Those who wish to read it can have the
privilege of doing so by paying ten cents
per number in advance; those who have
no literary taste and cannot appreciate
what is lofty, sublime and sentimental,
had better not take it, as they might be
dissatisfied specially with the size of
the sheet. This paper has been selected
by the Literary Societies Of Okolona to
publish such Essays, Criticisms, Poems,
&C., as may emanate from the genius
that is embodied in the Prairie City.


For years our town has only reclined
in the majesty of mud" and enjoyed
her otiam in the shape of blue headed
barrels filled with double rectified spirits;
but the waters of Helicon have at length
swept in a food across ourprairies, and
budding genius, like violet "sopped in
dew" now peeps out its modest, yet visit
full face. This genius will receive our
fostering attention. We will cultivate
the beautiful and let the ugly slide.


SLAsHING SLoCUM
Year: 1859

While writing the above, the Editor
was attacked with Bilious Collie and as the
Proprietor is gone fishing, we are sole
conductor of the Erpress. We expect
to make considerable Improvement in the
paper, and will strike off thousand eS-
ira numbers for free distribution, in order
to scatter abroad the story of our great
ness. Across the wide fields of Litera-
ture, away we will streak upon our Pc
easus. The tide of popular approval
will lave the feet of our airy horse. and
we will ascend like feather up stove
nine. to commune with brother spirits
In an atmosphere Of fame and glory. The
Year: 1859

When the Society shall desire to invest
anyone with membership, whether act
ing, or corresponding and honorary, his
name shall be proposed by some member,
and if no objections be offered, the
balloting shall proceed in all cases, how.
ever, q unanimous vote of all present
shall be necessary to his election It is
understood, also, that all memberships
are to be voluntarily conferred by the So
ciety, without application from the indi-
vidual
Year: 1859

The Librarian shall have sole and en-
tire charge of the Library and of the Ar
chives of the Society. 1t shall be his
duty to make out and preserve, in we'll
bound volume, correct catalogue of all
books belonging to the same, and faith
fully to discharge all such other duties as
may hereafter be required of him.


A 4uu
Year: 1859

Duties Of Corresponding Secretary.


1t shall be the duty of the Correspond
ing Secretary to inform, by letter, all
persons of their election to membership
in the association, to keep an accurate
list of their names, and to perform,
promptly and faithfully, all duties per-
tanning to the corresponding business of
the Society.
Year: 1859

Duties Of tie Recording Secretary.


The Recording Secretary shall keep,
in well bound book, a just and accurate
record of all the proceedings of the asso-
citation, call the roll at the opening Of
each meeting-noting and dreporting to the
President all absentees-register the fines
imposed, and discharge all duties neces-
sary to the having and preserving Of a
correct and faithful history of the trans
actions Of the Society. / shall also be
his duty to collect all fines and dues, pay
the amount over to the Treasurer, and
report the same at the expiration of his
term Of Office.
Year: 1859

It shall be the duty Of the Treasurer
to receive all funds or moneys from the
hands of the Secretary and other officers,
to keep a just and true accounto of the
same, to disburse them in accordance
with the pleasure of the Society, and to
report, at the close of his term Of office,
his receipts, his disbursements, together
with the amount on hand then in the
Treasury.
Year: 1859

A committe of three shall be appoint
ed, at each meeting, whose duty it shall
be to report, at the next, succeeding reg
ular meeting, at least three proper and
legitimate questions for debate. From
among these, after they have been con-
secutively read by the Secretary, one
shall be chosen, by majority of the mem
bers present, which shall be the question
for discussion at the next regular meet
ing of the Society.
Year: 1859

Constitution not to be altered or amended.


This Constitution shall not be altered
or amended except by vote of two
thirds Of the members present; and no
proposition to alter or amend shall, in any
case, be acted upon, until it shall have
been under consideration for, at least.
one month
Year: 1859

In order to the discussion of the cues
tion, two Leaders shall be appointed by
the President, who shall each choose two
other debaters, one leader to have choice
of sides, the other first choice of speak
ers. 1t shall not be the privilege of any
member to speak more than twice on the
question under discussion, nor shall any
one be allowed to speak on the question
for debate until the regular debaters shall
have concluded their argument. The
decision, on the merits Of the debate, shall,
in all cases, rest with majority Of the
members present.
Year: 1859

A Lecturer shall be chosen monthly
whose duty it shall be to deliver an orig
inal address in presence of the associa-
tion-the subject to be selected by him.
self. He shall be chosen by ballot, one
month previous to the occasion of its de-
livery the vote of majority only of the
body shall be necessary to bis election.
If such be his desire, be shall be exempt,
also from the duty Of participating in the
regular debate.