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Year: 1859

A number of citizens in Perrysburg and Wood
county are turning their eyes towards Pixies
Peak, and while several have determined to try
their fortunes in the mines, many are still want
ing more Information before they decide TO 20.
We confess that we have little faith in the
stories about gold along Cherry creek aud at
Pixies Peak, but at the same time do not feel
competent to give advice to any one ON the gold
question. The following article from the MI.
Vernon Republican is about as near correct,
in our estimation, as anything we have yet seen;


Daring the winter we have had large amount
of information in regard 10 the gold diggngs
in the regions of Pixies Peak. The accounts
from that meek of woods ure, however, a
good deal conflicting. BY some accounts a
digger can realize from S3 TO Sl0 pet day; while
Others assert, that from IS to $50 per day can
be realized. Others tell us that tho whole story
OF any considerable amount OF gold to be found
in the new Eldotedo is a humbug-that the
large stories in regard to the shining dust in
that region, and which have given so many the
yellow fever are gotten up by speculators,
III fancy towns which have been laid out in the
region of the diggings


With the evidence now before us we IRE
somewhat at loss whether 10 return a verdict
of guilty or not guilty in regard to Pixies Peak.
However, according to law, the accused in Grim
nal cases, is entitled to the benefit of any rea-
sonnble doubt that exists as to guilt; and, there.
fore, we shall say Pixies Peak is not guilty.
That is not guilty OF near as much GOLD as le-
ported by Others.


Upon the whole, we don't feel very capable of
advising our friends in regard to marching to
Pixies Peak, yet we shalt volunteer word OF
the subject II you have pretty comfortable
home where you are, ind are making respecta,
bic livelihood, better wait for farther inteli
gence from the gold regions. Don't be in any
haste about starting and If YOU don't go at all
perhaps you will be the gamer But il you are
out OF employment where you are, and can't
get any, have no means of support visible or
invisible, we advise you TO push for the Peak us
fast rs Won can
Year: 1859

Seventy years ago the Democrats drew a
line around the States, aud said TO the Slave
Trader, Thus far YOU may go, but no farther y


This was the JefTtrsonian Proviso. Thirty
years ago they rubbed ont part of the line aud
said to him, "You may go into lands south but
not into lands north" This was the Missouri
Compromise. Five years ago. they rubbed out
the rest of the line and said to him, ave will
leave it TO the Settlers tn decide whether you
shall come in or not This was the Nebraska
bill. Now they turn humbly 10 him, hat in
hand. and say. "Go where Won please; the land
is all yours; the National Flag shall protect you
and the National Troops shoot down whoever
resisls you This is tie Dread Scott D.cision
Year: 1859




March is already here,-a few weeks
moro, and Spring work of all kinds will
be pressing upon the housewife, and that
too when the enervating influence of
warm weather is first felt and she is
least inclined, and least able, to work
with rapidity and energy. The present
is perhaps as near a leisure time as the
thrifty housewife knows, and much can
now be done to relieve the pressure at
Spring time. You can at least lay most
of your plans, and that will be no small
aid. Much of the work too can as we'll
be done now, and thus by driving your
work, you will avoid being driven by
it.


Ascertain how much and what Spring
clothing each member of the family will
want; and to do this, the last summers
wardrobe, that is now laid by, must be
examined, to see what changes and ad-
ditiOns are necessary. It is very poor
economy to wear winter clothing half
the summer, and summer clothing half
the winter, because we have forgotten or
neglected to provide new, especially
when it is as easy to keep up with the
seasons as to be behind them, if only
once ready for Spring in season, and
determined thencefOrward to exercise a
little more fOrethought.


In getting articles that are dependent
upon fashion, it may be desirable to
leave the purchase (though not the
planning till the arrival of thew
goods, but the number Of such articles
is really small Mems and boys cloth
ing certainly are not dependent upon
chance fashion, nor is that Of Young
children, or the Underclothing Of wo-
men, and we hope the list of such arti-
cles will be capable Of being still further
curtailed.


See what tablo and bed linen are re-
quired, how many yards of muslin are
wanted, and what quality; make out
your lists, and buy as soon as you can
after this is done. The more you buv
at one time, the cheaper the goods will
be likely to be, and much time will be
saved that would otherwise be wasted in
frequent running to the store to get lit
tie things that we're previously forgot
ten; aud the sooner you have them, the
sooner they will be likely to be made
up. Some clothing too must be altered
over for younger ones, all this must be
considered and planned, article by arti-
ole, before purchases can wisely be
made.


House cleaning too should be pro-
vided for beforehand. You must de-
eide what changes are desirable, and
what can be afforded; how much paint
ing is to be done, and how much white
washing; what carpets must be cut over
for smaller rooms, and replaced by new
ones, and what need simply 10 be turn.
ed; where new curtains are needed, and
what kind, and what new furniture is TO
be added, if any; aud perhaps home
made articles will be decided on, and
these must be made. Kitchen convent
onoes must be looked after at least as
much as for the parlor


Borethought is invaluable in all these
things, and if irksome to any one, there
is the more need thatit bo cultivated. -
so while your hands are busy with the
knitting or sewing, you can think and
talk all this over, till the arrangements
in all departments are satisfactory
]. O. b. 10, Cult
Year: 1859

The Sheriff of Belmont county arrived
in tho city yesterday, bringing with him
FIVE prisoners for confinement in the Peni-
tentiary. These, added to the former mum
bor confined, makes so3, and there being
only 700 coils, the balance have to be guard.
cd and and provided for as best they can,
till the proposed enlargement is accomplish
ed. The health of the inmates is good, al
most without parallel, there not being a
single case of sickness in the prison, which
is more, perhaps, than can be said of any
other proportionato population in the State
The chapel, owing to the want of room, has
to be used for place of confinement, and
we are desired by the Warden to say that
on account of tho crowded state of the in,
stitution he feels it to be his duty to cx
clude visitors from Sabbath service.-O O. S
Journal.
Year: 1859

The Charleston Mercury, alluding to the
discharge Of the persons arrested and tried
for slave trading on board of the brig Echo,
remarks upon the action Of the jury:


at is most probable they have been sat
is6ed with thinking that it would not only
be inconsistent, but cruel and hypocritical
for them, as members of community
where slaves are bought and sold every day,
and are as much and as frequently articles
Of commerce as the sugar and molasses
which they produce, to pass condemnation
and verdict of guilty Of death upon men
whose only crime was that they we're going
to far country to bring in more supplies
Of these articles Of tradc-these commodi.
ties; and in this case not even to trespass
upon our soil, but to carry them to foreign
land, to Cuba, and merely to throw them
into the market of nations.


at is most probable that this was the
inducing ground Of tho verdict; and If so
every other case will echo to this. Further
prosecution is idle, expensive and vain"
Year: 1859

county auditor, as in this section provided


Sec. 80. Each township assessor shall
take and subscribe an oath which shall be
administered by the auditor or a magistrate
and certified TO by the officer administering
tho same, and attached TO the return which
he is required to make TO the county audi
tor. i'm the fnllowinr form;
Year: 1859

1t is conceded by the intelligent members of
the Opposition, that Judge Ranney is decidedly
more able man than Mr.. Dennson, and that
as Governor he will reflect more credit upon the
State than would Mr.. D., but they cannot sup
port him because he is--a Democrat. They
also, admit that there is nothing particularly in
issue between the parties but the slavery ques-
tion, and that the position of the Republican
party is not exactly to their liking; but they can
not think ofVoting for RanneY because-he is a
Democrat.


Such is the nature of prejudice, that men,
rather than vote with the Democratic party, will
vote for candidates confessedly inferior and who
are committed to a line of policy which they
condemn. They started out in political life
cherishing the opinion that the Democratic par
ty was the embittered enemy ofeyerything that
looked to the advancement of the prosperity of
the country and they seem determined not to
be convinced to the contrary. They are of that
description of men who have eyes and yet see
not-who have ears and yet hear not. They
are blind and deaf alike to the multiplied and
multiplying evidences that are presented on ev-
cry hand, proving conclusively that the Demo
cratic party has been animated by patriotic i'm
pulses and desire to conserve the Constitution
and exhalt the natl on above all others upon the
face Of the earth. Even were the Democratic
party to work political miracles, they would
denounce it as unworthy their support and COM
nit themselves to the most fool-hardy nconsis-
tency-Lebanop Citizen.
Year: 1859




"If you will come here we will show you, any
day, our coIored fellow citizens riding in the
cars on the same seat with the aristocrats Of
Beacon street and Chester square, and neither
the negro nor the white man appears in the
least disturbed or harmed by the proximity
And as for political franchises we will just in
form our friend that, in Massachusetts, black
mans vote is just as good and counts as much
as Mr.. Winthrop's or Edward Everetts, and
there are now no political disabilities imposed
upon any man on account of the color Of his
skin. All this may be very shocking to our
Cincinnati friend, but we have pleasure in in
forming him that Plymouth Rock and Bunker
ill still appear to stand firmly, and this good
old Commonwealth has, as yet, received no det-
riment for according this measure ofjustice and
| equality"


The above paragraph is from the Boston Atlas
and Bee and is extracted from an article ad-
dressed by the editor Col. Schouler to the
Cincinnati Enquirer. RepubHcanism in old
Massachusetts is quite up to Mr., Giddings'
standard. 1t places the negro on an equality
with the white man, and by the aid of the votes
of the former proscribes foreign born citizens,
by imposing upon them an odious test. While
Schouler thus rejoices in the elevation of the
negro, he was among the strongest advocates
for the Massachusetts two years amendment
which received the support of the negroes,


If the laborng white people of Ohio do not
take warning and unite to put down the fanati-
cism of Republicanism, they may live to see the
day when the negroes of Ohio will unite with
the Chases, Dennisons, Giddings and the Ober,
lin school generally, to vote them down at the
ballot box "To this complexion it must come
at last" There is no middle ground. The Re
publicans must be put down, or they will put
down and keep down the free white laboling
men, by the aid Of negro Statesman.
Year: 1859

The following rather rare and interesting i
tenn is from the New Bedford "'rimes:"


We have reliable authority for stating that a
white woman was sold in this city the other
day to negro, for the sum Of fifty dollars. She
remained in his service for day and night,
and then returned by underground railroad to
her master, who sold her again shortly after to
another negro for thirty dollars, cash down.
The selling Of white woman to negroes is not
occasional but it is almost an every day occur
rence after some little inquiry. As that We
teran but defunct crier, Tom Williams used to
say, so may with faithulness be said now
"Git along in you is jest as good as U.S.
There is no such slave degradation in the whole
South as will compare with dongs on some OF
our own streets--reckoning up from the street
that runs parallel on the east 10 No. l.
Year: 1859

THIEF ARREsrED.-A man calling HIM
self MsTiere. was committed to jail last
Saturday for stealing. He had stolen from
several houses on Lees Creek. and when ar
rested. various articles that had been stolen
were found upon him. He stated that he
had partner in the stealing business and
that they were tc r.eet at Fayetteville and
make division Of their stolen plunder.
Parties are in pursuit Of his accomplicc.
Year: 1859

TaE FoRT SMITH TNEs.-We will pay
our respects to the Times next week En-
Fragments prevent US from giving it due at
teton until then. VIII the Times send Us
another copy Of their last number and OBJ
Year: 1859

LEANDER OUTDoNE By A Doc A cor
respondent Of the Louisville Courier re-
cords remarkable feat of courageous
dog. He commenced swimming behind 4
party Of boatmen down the Ohio, following
alternately by swimming and walking on
land for distance Of fifty miles. Some
times he would swim FIVE or ten miles at a
stretch. when he would diversity his labors
By walking till he would recover from the
fatigue of swimming In this way he fol-
lowed the boat about fifty miles, crossing
swamps, thickets, streams and bluffs, and
when swimming he would frequently over.
take il on fair race, and at all times would
cause the party to ply their cars with swift
ness in order TO escape.
Year: 1859

" Let no false delicacy prevent the invalid from
seeking medical reiefthe card Of L. Czapksy to bo
found in another column indicates where TO obtain re
liable and competent physician 1t is seldom that we are
called upon TO bear testimony favor tn skill Of any
physician but of duty well Justice deIna pds
that we should not pass DR. Czapkay by without some
thing more than mere mention. Unlike the greater
portion of those who thrust themselves and t!eir no


rums before the public, whose practices are empirca
DIR. Czapkay is gentleman of rare medical and sc
entifc attainmens, having held the position of chi
surgeon Of the liherating army during tie late Hum
garian Revolution and is possessed of all the requisite
experience and skill for the successful practice of his
profession 1t to the and advice Of such phys
iclan we would commend all suffering from the effects
of sexuafo or private disease telling assured that lin all
such complaints whether arising infection indis
creon sefabuse. or loss of virty he can guarantee
from his extensive practice speedy and permanent
cure To those suffering from the effects OF physical
and mental debility, would say, let common sense


take the lace of false modesty and seek such advice as
VIII save you from untcy grave and lead YOU back
again to pristine health consult Dr. Czapkav whom W.
cheerfuy endorse skll:ul and tried physician capa
BE Of coping with and successfully eradicatng those
scfncted miscres, the evils Of empirical practices
and all diseases of a seminal nature Dr. Czapkay's
rooms Sacramento street. opposite Pacific Ns
Steamship office San Francisco.


my7-tf
Year: 1859

you from consulting Dr. CHAS TOZER, ofSacramer.o
who has attended and cured many within the lssr
Four years and all you who have to pay
can find in him friend who will make charges for
examinations advice. We would eeoInmend all who
in trouble to call on him and also hook his
treatise yenerea in another part of this paper The
Doctors office is Sixth Street. between J. and X


Sacramento Nov ply
Year: 1859

FREAKs OF THE Volcano, "A curious phe.
nomena was observed during the recent vol,
oanio eruption of the Sandwich Islands A
correspondent of California paper says


Once, while standing on a rock with sew
eral others, perhaps several hundred feet
from tho stream, loud, ringing noise was
heard, as if the rock had been struck by an
immense slodgeihammer We started, not
knowing but Pelo was under and after us,
but soon found our alarm groundless-
thought the noise was probably caused by
the liquid lava running under the ground
and suddenly filling up cave beneath US.
A little after a singular scene presented it,
self-the appearance Of a man sitting on a
rock and riding along on the top of the fiery
lava stream. So deceptive was this illusion
that several Of the party, when it was first
observed, looked around to see if one of their
number had not by accident got on the
stream. The lifelike image moved slowly
along. till suddenly his head tumbled of, and
the whole image soon disappeared.
Year: 1859

G7 The Journal Of this morning says, "the
444 Campbells, Of New York City, give their
farewell Concert at Huston Hall, this evening"
There is not quite that number in the Troupe,
but in point Of excellence they fully equal 444
of any other Campbell Troupe extant. This
evening they present us with a melange of
new songs, choruses, puns, witticisms. and ex
tras; and Hernandez will astonish even those
who suppose they have seen the acme of his
abilities in the agile way. The whole troupe
are in condition to lay themselves out at full
length this evening. Go one and all go al
together. This will be the last opportunity we
will have for one year Of seeing genuine rep


resentation of negro eccentricity and minstrel.
sy, with French scallops. Don't neglect it.
Year: 1859

ANCIENT AND MODERN BANoUETs Hon. Charles
Hale, Speaker of the Massachusetts Legisla>
ture, in speech at a dinner given by the
National Typographical Union. in Boston,
said "Note the difference between ancient and
modern times-eighteen bundled years ago
we have the authority of Scripture for the state
ment-there was banquet, and one Zaccheus
could not get IN, we are particularly told, on
account Of the press! Now, here is banquet
of four or Eve hundred people, and there is not
a single one of the guests who has not got in
particularly and only on account of the press.
So the world moves"
Year: 1859

G-rWe learn that little four-year old accom-
panied his father on fishing excursion to the
river yesterday, and after their arrival he busted
himself for a long while in playing in the grav
ell along the beach, and in finding odd looking
pebbles, shells, DC. Becoming tired of this, as
children will with one kind of pastime, he pros
pected about for something else upon which to
expend his time. Not far from the water was a
sand bank which to him looked inviting and
having seen larger boys engaged in sliding down
just such places, it occurred to him that he
might do the same. So much for the "force of
example," Seating himself at the top of the
bank, by q little extra pushing with his hands
he succeeded in making the descent in man,
ner highly satisfactory; and being delighted
with SO good thing" he repeated the feat
until his pretty white pants were badly soiled.
His father, who had been too busily employed
in taking sun Ash to give much attention to his
boy, discovering the peculiar sport in which he
was employed, called to him to desist The
little fellow obeyed, and the gentleman proceed.
ed with his angling. A short time afterwards
1t occurred to the parent that he would see what
the boy was at and looking towards the sand.
bank, he saw the "lour-year old" sitting down
on the sand and pulling himself slowly up the
bank with his hands


"What are you doing there, my boy 2" the
father inquired while he could not but smile al
the strange figure he cut-and the smile soften
ed the reproof implied by the question.


"Why, pap, I'm sliding up the hill you
said mustn't slide dorm, and do want to Slide
some way |"


Something very like chuckle went up neal
the waters edge, and little "four- -yearold" hat
the freedom OF the sandsbank during the bal
ance of their stay.
Year: 1859

~ The Gymnasium is pleasant place of re.
sort just now. In the first place, the weather is
fine then the oalistheLics is not only an agree
able, but healthy exercise and in this city a
new impetus has given the science proper di
Fection through Prof ROemler, Those young
gentlemen who complain Of mot feeling we'll. I"
and who are in the habit of "grunting." should
at once apply for admission to The Gymnasium.
It will be "moyo in the right direction" and
one which they will not regret.
Year: 1859

U' The oampbells, as is their custom when
entering a city, marched from the Depot this
morning to "time and charming music" on their
way to the Phillips House. The Campbells
express themselves as being delighted to get
back here, and take one more look at our pretty
city, ere they leave it, perchance forever.
Year: 1859

SO~It is said the following prescription
is an infallible cure for the bite of rattle-
snake. 1t is worth investigating;


Four grains of iodate potash;


Two grains of corrosive sublimate;


Five drachms of bromine;


Mix together and keep the mixture in q
glass-stoppered vial, we'll secured.


Ten drops of this mixture, diluted with a
tablespoonful of brandy, constitute dose
the quantity to be repeated if necessary ac'
cording to the exigency of the case.
Year: 1859

mission of a new State may be too fast
yet | believe the Rocky Mountains ant
their immediate sicinity-say between
Fort Laramie on the north, and Taos OF
the south-wili within three years have {
white population of One Hundred Thou
sand, one-half composed of men in the
full vigor of their prime, separated BY
deserts and waste places from the presen,
States--obliged to rely on their own re.
sources in any emergency. aDd fully able
to protect and govern themselves. Why
not let them be State so soon as reason
ably may te.


Mining is pursuit akin to fishing and
Hunting, and like them, eDricbes the few
at the cost of the many. This region is
doubtless prcordained to many changes
of fortune; to-day, giddy with the intox-
ication of success; tomorrow, in the val
ley of humiliation. One day, report will
be made on the Missouri by a party of
disappointed gold-seekers th hat the Rocky
Mountain humbug" has exploded and ev-
is fleeing to the States who can
possibly get away the next report will
represent these diggiDgs as yellow with
gold. Neither will be true; yet each in
its turn viii! have a certain thin substrat-
um of fact for its justification. Each sea-
son will see its thousands turn away dis
only to give place to other
thousands, saDguine and eager as if none
had ever failed. Yet feel strong con-
viction that each succeeding months re-
will enlarge the field of mining
operations and diminish the difficulties
and impedimeDts which now stretch across
the gold-seeker's path, and that ten years
hence, We shall be just beginning fairly
to appreciate and enjoy the treasures now
buried in the Rocky Mountains.


HORACE GREELEY.
Year: 1859

She stood beside the altar, with a
wreath of orange blossoms upon her head
upon her back, the richest kind o duds
her lover stood beside her with white
kids and dickey clean--the last was
twenty one year old, the fust was seven
teen.


The parsons job was over-every one
had kissed the bride, and wished the
young folks happiness. and danced and
laughed and cried. The last kiss had been
given, and the last word had been said,
and the happy pair bad simmered down,
and sought the bridal bed.
Year: 1859

She stood beside the wash tub, with
her red hands in tho suds, and at her
slip-shod feet there laid pile of dirty
duds; her husband stood beside her-tbe
crossest man alive. The last was TWEEN
ty- nine year old, the fust was twenty
five.


The heavy wash was over. and the
clothes hung out to dry, and little Tom
had stuck his finger in the dirty baby,s
eye. Tom had been spanked, and sup
per N ade upon crust Of bread, and then
the bride and bridegroom went grum-
bling to bed.