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Year: 1859

HoLD on, BoYs.-HoId on to your
tongue when you are just ready TO swear,
Iie' or speak harshly, or say any improp.
CT word.


Hold on to your hand when YOU are
about to strike. pinch, scratch, steal, or
do any improper act.


Hold on 70 your foot when you are On
the point Of kicking, running away from
study, or pursuing The path Of error,
shame, or crime.


Hold on to your temper when you are
angry excited or imposed upon, or 9th.
ers are angry about on.


Hold on to your heart when evil asso,
ciates seek your company, and invite YOU
to Join IN their games, mirth, and revel.
~.


Hold or TO your good name at all times
for 1t is more valuable to you than gold
nigh places, or fashionable attire.


Hold on to the truth, for It will servo
well, and do you good throughout e,crn-
ity.


Hold on to your vrtue--it is above all
price to you, in all times and places.


Hold on to your good character, for it
is, and ever will be, your best wealth.
Year: 1859

REMARKABLE CIRcUMsTANcE.-One OF
our Physicians was called yesterday to
see case OF suspended animation in a
child, about a year old and by arriving
early, was enabled to restore it, although
to all appearance the child was dead, be.
ing black in the face and without any
percePtible pulse the result Of suffoca.
tion.


The mother had lett the babe for hal!
an hour asleep in its cradle, and on her
return found hen, WHICH had been driven
from its nest, sitting on the face Of the
child, and on removing the hen, discov
cred to her horror and great distress that
her babe was apparently dead.-Aleran
dria Va.) Gazette.
Year: 1859

LIFE WITHOUT Would you
wish to live without trial 7 Then, you
would wish TO die but half man. With.
out trial you cannot guess at your own
strength. Men do not learn to swim on
a table that must 60 into deep water,
and buffet the surges. II you wish to un.
derstand the true character OF your boys
ii you would know their whole strength
-oi what they are capable--tbrow them
overheard +! Over with them land II
they are worth saving, they will swim n
shore Of themselves.
Year: 1859

I'm afraid said lady to her husband
that I'm going 10 have stick neck
Not at all improbable, my dear re,
Piled the spouse I've seen strong sym-
toms Of it ever since We were first mar
RED
Year: 1859

has, for the past year, kept the citizens Of
johnson county in . ferment. and put
them TO an expense which they viii not be
over anxious to pay.


The feeling Of satisfaction Q. the verdict
OF the jury was strongly manifested, and
the Court was forced to restrain the out
bursts Of applause.


We are particularly pleased at the re-
suit on account of William Penn Clark, who
greatly sympathized with Capt. Irish, and
declared "that no man in the Stat. could
be more grati6ed at q verdict of aequital
than himself" We desire to congratulate
him upon the result, and trust his enjoy
ment is as fat and complete as he had an
ticipated
Year: 1859

ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT THE BRIDGE.
Last evening about 6 l,2 o'clock the
steamer Elvira came down to the bridge
with six barges in tow, which she tried to
let down between the first two piers on
this side. Five came through in safety,
but the sixth struck one of the piers and
was cut in two and sunk, one half floating
down on each side of the pier. There were
three men on the barge at the time she
struck, who stuck to the wreck until the
Ferry boat came up and rescued them from
their perilous situation. The last barge
was let down abreast with an empty one,
and the latter got through in safety.
Year: 1859

WILcATs.-If anything, Minnesota
currency is on the decrease. but on Satur-
day We noticed quite an amount of the
Florence "cat" about. The tendency of ex-
change is upward, even upon the best cur
rency we can get-that Of Illinois and Wis
eonsin, and if this is again to be driven out
and Minnesota and Florence substituted,
the scenes Of last year will again be re-en-
acted


We know it is difficult for business men
to refuse the trash when it is taken by q
neighbor, but it is the only way Of every
one having the future welfare of this city
at heart, to discounter ance it, 40 far as they
can, and not permit it to gain a foothold.-
Next to good crop, it is important that
we have good currency to purchase it
with, when it comes in, and if the coming
harvest finds us dickering in shinplasters
We shall suffer beyond conception. 1t il
the duty of every business man in this coun
ty to lend his influence in driving out this
currency, and if they have any hope fol
the future growth of this city. they will
do it.


| We understand that the State Board ol
the State Bank at its recent Session, passed
strong resolutions against all the Minuesots
| Wildcats.
Year: 1859

We would suggest to our folks that if
they want /" live paner, subscribe for the
davenport STATE DEMOCRAT. - De Wit
Journal


Thank you, We would also suggest to
the citizens Of De Witt. the prop ety of
giving to the Journal . cordial support It
is a sound exponent of Democratic doe
times
Year: 1859

DoRG WANTED.-Both Add-le San
ders and Han. Johns have dogs, and we are
10 no wise inclined to be out Of fashion in
this respect. 1t is so dignified, and must he
so pleasant, to stand on the corners and
whistle tor ones own dog! Who is there in
this city that has not noticed the satisfied
countenance of our "new Dutchman" when
followed by his canine body guard. To be
sure he is not q large animal, but he is
"game." and would prove formidable ad-
versary. Hans is SAFE OF our next-door-
neighbor we cannot say as much. Although
a larger dog. he is a scrub" and coulc
not be depended on in case of emergency
What we wish to procure is q thoroughbred,
and for such an animal We will pay round
SUN. Trot out your canine.





JUST ARRIvED.-We noticed at the
foot of Brady street, yesterday afternoon.
an apparently new establishment in the
shape of travelling menagerie, built upon
flat boat Painted on the sides as large as
life, is huge buffalo, an moderate sized
specimen of elk. The buffalo. according to
a hand-bill stuck up at the entrance, was
caught by an Indian Chief. who rejoices in
an outlandishly heather name. as long as
the moral law. The elk did not make their
debut into civilized society so distinguishes
bly,, but were caught by somebody, in the
interior of Iowa.


We have not, seen the fixin' advertised,
and it may be that the proprietor does not
wish his craft to become the focus for the
wondering gaze Of the vulgar multitude.
II not, We will say nothing about it, but if
he wants every body to know what he has
on hand to show, we would tender him q
email grain of advice, viz-advertise in the
DAILY Iowa STATE DEMocsAr.
Year: 1859

INSANE ASYLUM AT MARYsvILLE-The Ma


HondL Democrat calls the attention of the
Yuba county legislative delegation to the
great necessity Of establishing State Luna
tic Asylum at Mary for the aceommo.
dation of the northern section of Californir.
1t has become necessary to enlarge the Stock.
ton Asylum in order to accommodate the in
creased number of lunatics, and the Demo-
crat argues that as this enlargement will cost
the State as much as it would to build a new
Asylum at Marysville, it is better to estab-
ish the latter, thereby saving to the north.
ern counties great expense and trouble The
suggestion of the Democrat is a good one,
and its reasons forcble. California is the
largest State but one in the Union, and com
munication from the extreme points to the
centre somewhat difficult and slow; for this
reason it is more necessary than in other
States that such an institution as an Insane
Asylum should be earfully located with a
view to ready accessibility, and even to Asy-
lums built at different points, if that will bet
ter accomplish the desired convenience. Tn


fortunately, either section of California is
likely to furnish lunatcs enough to fill q
large building, but probably the extensive
mining region of the north will furnish the
greatest number Marysvills being nearer
and more accessible to this region than Stock.
ton, should be selected as the site Of new
! Asylum, and it is to be hoped that the Yuba
delegation will bring the subject before the
Legislature. San Juan Press, Saturday.
Year: 1859

The Homestead Law is, in our opinion,
one of the wiscst enactments that ever
adorned the history of legislation 1t pro-
tects the family of the hard working honest,
industrious citizen from want and misery,
those curses which will frequently overtake
the very best of men and the very best of
families, in spite of all their honesty and all
their industry. 1t gives the happiness of the
domestic hearth security that hens it
around with a wall of adamant. However
unfortunate the father of the family may be,
however ruinously overtaken by those mis-
fortunes which paralyse the bravest and the
best, his wife and his children have home
and can live in quietude and in comfort
Take away from them that protection and
they are turned out naked and friendless into
the world.


We perceive that some of our overly wise
cotemporares are advocating the repeal of
this law We protest against i. There is
not another enactment upon the Statute Book
equal to it in the benefcence AMI wisdom of
lNS IEONlSlOIS ~ lltSh anu ANlVllN'Ni NAiNp''a
ages the marriage relation, the hoppiest and
best relation of civilized society and the most
necessary for the common good of the human
race 1t encourages industry and persever-
ance in all the working grades of life, be
cause it ensures to every man a sure compe-
tence for the support of his family, and thus
induces men to enter into the married state
who would not otherwise ventureit, until they
were already provided with an ample fortune.
Under the protection of this Homestead Law,
the young husband and wife can mutually
aid each other in building up for themselves
and their children comfortable and happy
home, secure from all the storms and buffet
ings of fate.


Others again, who are not in favor of re-
pealing the law, advocate the extension of
its benefits to unmarried men. Now, we are
not in favor of any such extension The orig
inal object of the enactment, and for which
alone there is a sufficient reason, was the
protection of the happiness and comfort of
the married life. Women and children are
innocent sufferers in cases of misfortune on
the part of the head of the family, but a
single man ought at all times, if he have
health, to be able to take care of himself
The extension of the benefit Of the Home.
stead Law to him would only be to encour,
age him in recklessness and dissipation, and
to confirm him in those habits which make a
married life distasteful to him, and whatever
discourages marriage Is injurious to society.
Look at the robberies, the murders, the Sc
ductions, the vilainies of every grade and
dye-who are the perpetrators? In nine
cases out of ten, unmarried men. 1t is not
the single life-that is to say, the unnatural
condition of human existence--that needs tc
be encouraged, but the n arried life, the nat
ural relation which ought everywhere to ex
ist


We trust our legislators will allow the
Homestead Law to remain as it is.
Year: 1859

GOOSE VENDER-An honest farmer from
the Buttes, who kills geese and brings them
into town occasionally for sale in two-horse
wagon, was exhibiting his skill as a driver
and the well-trained condition Of his horses,
yesterday, by driving them around and
around in circle, in the middle of the street,
until the poor animals were nearly ready to
drop down with fatigue Marshal Barkley
and Cvpt. Cook, happening to see him, took
him in charge, and, after desperate resis-
tance on his part, marched him off to tho
Station House, lie declared vehemently
that he was a gentleman and strongly de-
murred to being locked up, but the Marshal
told him it would teach him some sense, anC
dered him locked in. His team was taker
care of by a friend.
Year: 1859

HIGH WATERs.-We have been informed
by gentleman from Mendocino county, that
it has rained a good deal more there than
here this winter Eel River, Upper Russian
River and in fact all the streams in that sec
ton have been exceedingly high, so as to
make communication from one point to an.
other both difficult and dangerous
Rosa Demoerot
Year: 1859




AZ Clothing trade of the West was comparatively
of small amount, and confiEed almost excu.
sively to a retail business in the larger towns and
cities alone- Now this line of Goods has become
an almost indispensable part of the stock of every
general Dry Goods store from the crowded city to
the cross-road stand. Like all changes in trade
however, this has not been produced except for
the best of reasons. Among these the great
saving OF material by cutting large quantity of
garments together-the superior work aud speed of
sewing machines in mauuftcturing-the great
ing OF time in waiting for your turn" at the Tai
lOr's-the uncertainty of even then getting IA Salts
factory fit aud above all the saving of least
Oae-hdtf the cost of the garment in the price For
a number of years this has only been part of our
general Dry Goods business, but have made
arrangements to devote whole house cxclsa-
sively to it alone with such lines of Notions and
Furnishing Goods will be necessary and desirable
in that trade. Belle wing that the true interest of
the trade will be to sustain in this enterprise,
We would respectfully announce that have
on hand of the largest and most desirable
stocks of WELL MADE CLOTHING that
ever offered to the trade of the West


We respectfully solicit call from all old
friends and the trade generally. We charge moth
ing for shot1ing our goods, and not much if you bag
them. We prepared to sell to all prompt-time
buyers ia low as any house In the trade. liberal
discount also made all cash sales


WIN. E. FRENCH & CO.,


sepS No. 20 Main street.
Year: 1859

ignated. So if the interest on these Railroad
bonds, when notified that the Railroad compa.
ny, would be unable to pay the interest on them
asit had agreed to DO our authorities did not
hesitate to levy certain amount Of tax. TO IL
quidate it as it fell due, and although this tax
was unexpected, as well as heavy, we have yet
to hear single citizen object to the propriety
Of its imposition. With this record, thereof,
in our favor no man has right to assume sir
years in adpanee, that we will not be prepared
to pay any honest demand he may have on us.


We know not how others may view this ac-
ton Of our Baltimore bond holders, but for our
selves, we do not feel ike letting the indigniy
pass without rebuke. Our people ray their
debts with as much punctuality, even as the
GarrettS and in this respect are the peers oI
any man. They are entitled to the considera-
ton, which a long course Of honorable and
prompt dealings, sometimes under very adverse
circumstances always ought to command
However it has long been held, that the bust
ness of an usurer and the manners Of gentle
man could not be combined in one, and the
same person, and certainly in this instance no.
thing has occurred to shake the truth Of the
theory. -Steu. Union.
Year: 1859

We see by the Herald, Of the 11th that the
Messrs. Garrett, Brokers Of Baltimore who
are holding considerable amount of the bonds
Of this city and township, due in 1865, and is
sued to pay for the subscription to the capital
stock of the Steubcnville and Indiana Railroad
Company have notified our city officials, that
unless these bonds are paid at maturity the
property of our citizens will be put under the
hammer" to cancel the obligation.


We are not aware Of any incident in the
history of our city or township, which would
warrant their creditors to assume that their
debts would uot be paid at maturity. The on
ly debt of consequence ever before incurred by
our people, was that for the construction Of our
water works and the interest was always paid
punctually When the principal fell due, we
did not hesitate to sacrifice several thousand dol
y1rs. and raise means TO pay it ON the day des.
Year: 1859

The French in the late battle OF June Gath
were provided with Pocket Telegraph Batteries
and light copper wire coated with gutta pcrcha
and when in the vicinity OF the enemy feet
horsemen was dispatched from head quarters to
each important leader Of divisions unroling his
coil as he went, and thus put in instant whsr-
erng communication with all paats Of the ar
my, the Emperor could get reports at any mo-
rnent from any point along the IL miles Of bat
tie, learn the result of movement and order
accordingly as the exgencies might require -
Thus, no time was lost in sending an aid-de
camp to ask support Tor point that was out
numbered and like to give way, or to cheer on
some heroes whose position was becoming des.
perate NJ. Lair could even follow the retreat
ing Austrians on horseback and report progress
and direction. Yc Gods, what next? The
lightnings of Heaven come down and execute
our orders on horseback Plaia3ealey.
Year: 1859

In another and a most important sense, the
old-line Wings have precisely the same object
in view as the millions Of the Democracy. 1t
is in their infexible resolution to be ever obe-
dent to laws constitutionally made. Did such
a spirit animate every political leader in the
United States, we might complacently fold our
arms and remark, when danger apparently por-
tended our future, we have mo barque on the
sea-" Let but law, constitutional and enacted,
be observed in good faith by each citizen, and
there will be more to live for in America than
anywhere else upon the face Of the. globc.-E1'
chance
Year: 1859

The OLDEST INHABIrANT.--A cores
pondrnl in the London Times calculates
the aye OF the great California tree in the
Crystal Palace at Sydenham, at about six
thousand four hundred and eight years !!
1t must have been planted, according 10
that, when Adam was very small baby,
il not before. The same writer refers TO
another California tree, which must be at
least seven thousand one hundred and
twenty.eight years old. The method in
which the computation was made Is thus
the writer took two peices OF the wood OF
the tree, one of the heart and another o
the sapwood, about an inch square each,
and he counted the concentric layers
which are supposed 10 indicate the annua
growth. In the heart wood he found IorIy
five layers TO the inch, and in the sap
wood twenty one and as the tree is
| fourteen feet in diameter, ten Of heart and
four of sap, the result was easily obtain
ed. The second tree spoken OF was thirty
nine feet in diameter.
Year: 1859

o! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below
Over the housetops, over the street,
Over the heads of the people you meet


Dancing,


Flirting,


Skimming along,
Beautiful snow it can do nothing wrong
Flyng to kiss n fair lady's cheek,
'Clipping to lips in frolicsome freak;
Beautiful snow from the heaven above,
Pure as an angel, and tickle as love
70! the snow, the beautiful snow
iiIow the fakes gather and laugh as they 60
whirling about in its maddening fun,
h Iaplsys in its glec with every one.
p Chasing,


Laughing,


Hurrying by,
It lights up the face, and it sparkes the eye
And even the dogs with bark and bound,
Snap at the crystals that eddy around
The town is alive and its heart in glow
To welcome the c9n4ng of beautiful snow.
How the wild ciBwd goes swaying along,
Hailing each other with humor and song
How the gay slcdges, like meteors, flash byi
Bright for the moment then lost to the eye'


Ringing,


Swinging,


Dashing they 60
Over the crust of beautiful snow:
Snow SO pure when it falls from the sky,
To be tramplcd in mud by the crowd rushing by,
10 be trampled and tracked by the thousands OF
feet.
Till It blends with the filth in the horrible street.
Opce was pure as the snowAbut fell:
Fell. like the snow flakes from Heaven-to hell
Fell, to be trampled as filth of the street;
Fell, to be scofed, to be spit on, and beat
Pleading,


Cursing,


Dreading to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for morse Of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Mcrciful God have fallen so low?
And vet was once like the beautiful snow.
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,
With nm eve like its crystals heart like its glow
Once was loved for my innocent grace
Flattered and sought for the charm Of my face


Father,


Mother,


Sister, all,
God, and myself, have lost by my fall,
The yeryest wretch that goes shiverng by,
will take wide sweep lest wander too nigh:
For oil that is on or about me, know,
There is nothing that pure but the beautiful snow
How strange it should be that this beautiful snow
Should fall on sinner with nowhere to 60
How strange it would be, when the night comes
again,
II the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain!
Painting,


Freezing,


Dying alone
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for my moan,
To be heard in the crash of the crazy town,
Gone mad in their joy Of the SHOWS coming down.
To lie and die in my terrible woe,
With bed and shroud of the beautiful snow
Year: 1859

Bones are always accumulating in villages
and about the country residences which
might be put to better use than to cucumber
the streets, or to emit disagreeable odor
from under the fences There is nothing
like decaying bones for all sorts of fruit
trees. They are perhaps best for pear trees,
next for apples, and then for ounces; but
are good for any kind of fruit unless it is
cranberries, which seem to live and grow on
little but water. The true way would be to
make the bones into superphosphate Of lime
by grinding, and then adding halt their
weight of sulphuric acid, to be applied in
small doses every year. But as there are
not bone mills everywhere, and as the ma
king Of superphosphate is trade, which
could hardly be recommended to cultivators
to learn, the next best thing to be done is to
break them up into inch pieces, and mix
them with the sol! in which trees ale trans


planted. From half a peck to a peck for
draft trees and two or three pecks for trees
designed for standards, is enough The ac-
ton will be slow, but very lasting, continu-
ing through the life of an ordinary tree.
Bones are richly worth saving for this pur-
pose; and at the same price at which. they
can be had in most country places, they can
be bought to advantage. They render a
tree vigorous and healthy and greatly i'm


prove its fruit. 1t is not a bad plan to dig
the soil about the trees. E.rchange.
Year: 1859

This settled the question that We were in
Canada, for very well knew that no Mon
treal inspection of pork ever found its way
into the interior of New York State. We
travelled all day Friday up the unknown
creek, which kept its general course to the
south of west crossing il about noon on a
floating log, and striking, on its southern
bank, 'blazed" track, which led us up to
a deserted timber road, lying on the oppo-
site side from large numbering shanty,-
We hoped one Of the lumber roads might


take us out to a settlement but after trav-
cling up them all until they terminated in
the wilderness, VIC concluded to cross the
Year: 1859

To tho southeast, then, we started. After
travelling about mile and half we came
to the bank of a small creek, flowing down
from the westward. At this point we were
agreeably surprised to find that some hu-
man being had been there before US, for we
found several small trees cut down, the Goals
from an old fire and half barrel which had
contained pork. l eagerly examined the
stamp. thread:


'Mess Pork,
Year: 1859

ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE.-There is
nothing short of revelation that more beauti-
fully or satisfactorily proves the existence of
an Almighty mind than the fewness and SIM
plicity of the ultimate elements of animal and!
vegetable life. Thus, there are but four che
mentary principles essentially necessary, and
but six generally employed, to form every va
riety of organic life: nitrogen, carbon, oxy-
gen, and hydrogen are the bases, to which sui
phur and phosphorus may be considered sup
Elementary. With these, infinitely varied in
their atomic proportions, are built up not on
ly the whole animal kingdom, but also every
variety of the vegetable world-from wheat,
the ssstaff of life,' to the poison of the deadly
Upas tree. 1t is also worthy of remark that
these four elemental principles are those also
of which both air and water are composed, so
that air and water may be considered in truth
and fact as being the original elements of or
oanic life.-Dr. Touiuin.