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Year: 1859

The comparative failure of the effort on the
part of the British Cotton Supply Association,
says the Chicago Press and Tribune, to turn
India into a great cotton plantation, and thus
at the same time relieve England from her
dangerous dependence on the United States
and strike fatal blow at human slavery, has
tnrned the attention of the government and
the various industrial societies of Manchester
to other parts of the world. Nothing prom
ised better than the Indian scheme until the
experiment was tried. Labor at penny
day, land at purely nominal value, soil
upon which cotton was produced in the days
of Herodotus, and long navigable rivers af-
fording cheap transportation-all these things
pointed to an astounding success in the pro-
duction of the great staple. But the stand
ard seed sent from this country to the Gan
ges plantation dwindled into the sherwood
variety of the native cotton, and the costly
experiment was abandoned. In some parts
of India the long staple is successfully cult
waited by irrigation, and is afforded at three or
four pence per pound, but the "middle sta
ple," which constitutes the bulk of the cotton
consumed at Manchester, is produced alone
in the United States. Of the last years crop
England took from us 100000 bales and
yet had scarcely enough. Her mauufactur-
ers are now exploring the world for cotton
growing soil and climate, and if such soil and
climate exist under the sun outside the Uni
ted States of America they are bound to find
them. sr


Among the later evidence adduced on the
subject is the fact that the "middle staple"
is grown in limited quantities on the eastern
coast of Africa. Livingstone says that An
COLA, if it had been in the hands of English
men, would have produced, its size consider
ed, more cotton and sugar than all our slave
States Field laber there is but two pence a
day, but if paid for in calico, the usual cur
rency, it would cost but penny. This cot.
ton is in every respect fully equal to Ameri-
can, and has been grown by the natives from
time immemOrial.


Moreover the advocates of India pretend to
have discovered that the cotton fields of Be-
rar "a province of the Deccan) can alone pro
duce three or four times the quantity o.
cotton necessary for the consumption Of the
world, If there acsre means Of conueyance;'
and that the dominions of the Nizam of lily.
derabad produce cotton equal to the finest ir
America. Hence the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce have petitioned Government tt
encourage certain proposals for the navigation
of the Indian rivers. Hence costly expedi
ton is pushing up the African rivers to make
the acquaintance of the natives who produc.
the "middle staple" to establish commercial
relations with them, and to introduce among
them the implements of civilized labor. These
efforts are fraught with results which may
revolutionize the commerce of half the world
and utterly destroy the bcasted supremacy
of slavery as the great industrial machine o


the United States.
Year: 1859

II


Foreign correspondence.


1t is well known, says the Brooklyn Eagle,
that majority Of the New York papers pub
lish manufactured European correspond
ence made up in their own offices. The Her.
aid publishes column Of matter purporting
to be Paris letter, which it is an insult to
the public to attempt to impose upon its rea-
ders. 1t is made up from scraps from Eng
lish papers, pasted together in the most
clumsy manner The account of the manner
in which the Emperor and Empress of the
French spend their time at Saveur, which we
copied Saturday from the correspondence Of
an English paper, received by the steamer
Persia, is given in this letter of the Herald,
verbatim, as the original production of a Par
is correspondent; the experiment of watering
the streets by hydrochloric acid, appears
in the same connection and in the same words;
an extract is stolen from an article in the
Journal des Debets on the commerce of Italy,
a translation of which is extracted from the
European Times. In fact, the whole letter is
transparent tissue of stolen material which
the thief did not take the trouble to alter or
disguise.
Year: 1859

The Vienna Gazetteof September Oath says
it was expected that the harvest would be
good, but the yield is so bad that the price of
wheat has risen considerably. In as far as
the wheat is concerned the foregoing remark
applies to the countries lying on the Lower
Danube as well as to Austria. In the Banat,
the sorcalled "granary of Austria, y not much
above third of the usual quantity of wheat
is grown.
Year: 1859

~ The Philadelphia Press says the Anti
Lecompton Democracy of New Jersey appear
to fully satisfied with the platform Of the late
Democratic State Convention, and will sup
port Gen. Wright, the Democratic nominee
for Governor So the fight in New Jersey
will be between Republicans, pure and sim
pie, and united Democracy.
Year: 1859

has won for itself such renown for tho cure of every variety of Throat and Lung Complaint, that it is entirely unnecessary for us to recount the evidence of its virtues, wherever it has been employed As it has long been in constant use throughout this section, we need not do moro than assure the people its quality is kept up to the best it ever has been, and that it may be re- lied to do for their relief all it has ever been found to CO
Year: 1859

A RED RIVER INDIAN GIRL.-An officer of the U S Mounted RiAemen. writing from the camp on the head waters of Red River, in New Mexico, thus describes a specimen of In dian beauty which came into camp:

 l. was here that I saw the noblest looking Indian girl that my eyes ever beheld. Her dress consisted of piece of brown cotton cloth, wrapped around her Joins and hanging to the knee On her head she wore her ma tive war plume She was tall, straight as an arrow and had free, wild Indian look, that was quite taking. Some of her tribe were giv- en to another sort of "taking," which required all our watchfulnesS to prevent She appeared to be eighteen years of age, and was the wife of young chief about twenty years old, It was interesting to see with what respect she waited on him. Her example would be edity- ing to wives of more civilized life. But it was amusing to see with what lordly indifference the young savage regarded her attentions trust have too much of the native galantry of my own Erin to see anything to commend in this example of coolness towards such de voted and sweet specimen of Indian beauty.
Year: 1859

CHARAcTER-The difference of character is never more clearly aeen than in times when men are surrounded by difficulties and misfor- tunes There are some, who, when disappoint- ed by the failure of an undertaking from which they had expected great things make up their minds at once to exert themselves no longer against what they call fate, as thereby they could avenge themselves upon fate; others grow desponding and hopeless; but third class of men will rouse themselves just at such times, and say to themselves, "The more diff cult it is to attain my end the more honorable it will be; and this is maxim which every one should impress upon himself as law Some of those who are guided by it, prosecute their plans with obstinacy, and perish others who are more practicable men, if they have failed in one way, will try another.
Year: 1859

It would be better if young ladies would en- courage young men more on account of their good characters than their good clothes. A good reputation is better capital than fine coat in almost any kind of business except wooing fashionable lady. a s.s.
Year: 1859

The following table of the number of pounds of various articles to bushel, according to the United States standard, will be useful in this country, where everything is sold by weight
Year: 1859

Only picture-and is that allp-

 Only picture upon the wall?

 The smile SO beaming, the cheek so bright, The eye so dancing with sunny light,

 I almost fancy my baby boy

 Is springing to me in his pride and joy;

 But tis only picture upon the wall-

 A silent picture-and that is all

 Only lock of silken hair

 Living alone in it's casket there!

 Where is the head that, in sportive glee, Was wont to toss it so careless and free? The baby head that upon my breast

 So lovingly nestled each night to rest? Only lock of it's silken hair 1fl Is lying alone in its casket there

 Only shoe that is soiled and torn! But where is the foot that that shoe has worn The darling foot, so dimpled and small, That made music merry in chamber and hall Oh, to catch of that little step one sound, How wildly now would my pulses bound! But there is only shoe thatis soiled and torn The foot comes no more that that shoe has worn Only these relics-and nothing more? Can naught to our arms the lost restore Must we hopeless yearn, as the years go by. For the bounding Step and the beaming eye? And of all that beauty, and life and grace, So fondly cherished, retain no trace Save these silent relics? Oh, nevermore Will the grave to our arms the lost restore Oh, woe for love, when from all its store It points to there tokens, and nothing more! When the vacant hall and silent stair But echo the groans of its wild despair , And from all the voices in the earth and sky Comes back no words to it's waiing cry, Save the mournful echo; "Oh, nevermore Will the grave to our arms the lost restore!' Oh, joy for love, when it yearns no more For that which the grave cannot restore! When it upward stretches it's dropping wings, And in darkness and sorrow still sweetly sings Of the brightness and bliss of that better home Where the lost are found and no partings come, Oh, joy for love, when it's priceless store There safe is garnered forevermore
Year: 1859

A ToucH OF SATIRE.-The Rome Sentinel relates thata three-year old girl accompanied her father upon visit to her grand parent in the country, where bless ing is invoked by the white haired patriarch before each meal. The custom was one with which our little friend had not been made familiar at home, and of course on the first occasion was silent with interest and curious walchfulness. But when the family gathered around the board the sec ond time after the commencement ot her visit she was prepared for the preliminary religious ceremony. and observing that her father did no. seem duly conscious of the approaching solemnlty, she called him to order by saying with stern gravity, "Be still papa-grand-papa's going 10 talk 10 his plate, pretty soon
Year: 1859

When you see a man sitting on a corner, on moonlight night, trying to con vince his own shadow that it is improper to follow gentleman, we usually set him down as sign for whisky shop.
Year: 1859

Let none be deceived, while recom- mend so earnestly the principles ofmoral- ity and virtue, and rejoice in the good to be accomplished by Masonry. must in candor say to the fraternity that 'tis Chris ,ianity alone that can disperse the gloom of death, and shed halo of glory around the tomb. Morality and the principles of masonry may shed their benign influence upon us through life and down to the gates of death; but then stronger power is needed. Religion can span Cold Jordans $ stream, ride its stormy pillows in triumph, and conduct us safely to the port of eter nal rest, where the wicked cease to trouble and the weary soul finds sweet re- pose. Let me exhort you, my brethren, not only to be moral men, and Masons good and true, but to be Christians in ex- perience and Christians in practice, ser wants of Christ and Children of God. Let the solemn impression made on your mind when you first bowed at the masonic altar to invoke the blessing of Deity upon the step you were about to take, continue to grow and strengthen and bring forth fruit to the honor and glory of God. Then shall you be permitted to "eat of the hid- den Mama, and White stone shall be given you, and in the stone new name, which no man knoweth, save him that re- ceiveth i"

 It is stated as singular fact, and most creditable to the Order, that most of the signers of the Declaration ofindependence were masons; only one Major-General in the Revolutionary army is known not to have been member of the Order, and that man was Benedict Arnold, the traitor

 The essence of secrecy in the Order consists essentially in "doing good and saving nothing about it,"
Year: 1859



 OUR CREED.-We believe in small farms and thorough cultivation.

 We believe that the soil loves to eat as we'll as its owner, and ought to be ma nured.

 We believe ingoing to the bottom of things and therefore in deep blowing and enough of it. All the better with sub soil plow.

 We believe that every farm should own a good farmer.

 We believe that the best fertilizer of any soil is a spirit of industry, enterprise and lntelligence-without this lime and gyp. sum, bones and green manure, mari and guano, will be of little use.

 We believe in good fences, good barns, good farm houses, good stock orchards, and children enough to gather the fruit.

 We believe in clean kitchen, neat wife in it, spinning piano, a clean dairy, and clean conscience.

 We firmly disbelieve in farmers that will not improve; in farms that grow poor every year; in starvling cattle; in farmers boys turning into clerks and merchants in farmers daughters unwilling to work. and in all farmers ashamed of their voca. ton, or who drink whisky until honest men are ashamed of them.
Year: 1859

OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT.-About 10 O'Clock on Sat
urday night gentleman named Henry Kiehl, a
German, 93 Conway street. employed at the Me-
chanical Bakery, without any provocatiOn
assaulted ard shot in the right shoulder by one of
party of three men, standing on the northwest
corner Of Howard and Pratt streets 1t seems that
the wounded man, together with two companions
named George Kline and John Presley, were on
their way from Turner Hall on Pratt street to the
bakery. where they all employed and were
met by three men, who, without word spoken on
either side, ran up behind them and each seized his
man and commenced beating him. The two COM
panions of Kiehl were thrown down, but were
not much hurt. The man who seized upon
kiehl succeeded on in tearing his shirt partly from
his back, and the latter having released himself
from his grasp was about making off when another
OF the party struck him violent blow in the face
with his fist, while the third of the assailants drew
pistol and fired it at im the ball taking effect in
kiehls right shoulder, and passing across his back
lodged, it is supposed under the shoulder-blad in
the left side of his back. The whole affair was
transacted so quickly that neither of the men as
saulted could identify or give any other informa-
tion concerning their assailants than that one was
man apparently about forty years of age while
the others were both young men. No cause is as
signed for the assault. kiehl asserts that to mis-
knowledge he never spoke to the men be-
fore, and that when he and his friends were as
saulted the party were on the corner, apparently
waiting for them to come up. Kiehl was conduct
ed to the station house and medical aid called in
put up to a late hour yesterday afternoon the
bullet had not been extracted.


LICENSES, &c.-The following will show the nature
OF the Licenses the number issued and the amounts
received for the same by the Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas, during the six months ending Nav
5lst ult, also the receipts from all other sources:
Year: 1859

A very long correspondence between the agents
of the Associated Press, &c, on the one side and
Mr.. CogswelI on behalf of the Nova Scotia line on
the other is published in the New ork papers Of
speculators are the charges brought against the
Colonial line, which retorts by alleging ingoience
and dictation on the part of the Associated Press


the 7th May:


"You must have been aware all along of the mo-
tlce OF termination and could have acted according
Y. We cannot help thinking that the Associated
Press have imagined that we should have to come
to them suing for pardon and patronage. Such was
never our intention. We would lose everything
Year: 1859

ST. LOUIS, June 6.-Joseph Charess died at ~
O'Clock this morning. There was no demonstration
made last night against the perpetraor of the act,
and this morning the excitement was subsiding
Judge Clever has been pettioned to call a special
session of the Criminal Court for the speedy trial of
the prisoner.
Year: 1859

SATURDAY, June T.
CoFFEE-There seems to be but little demand for Cof
1ee and nothing whatever has been done it today
far as we have heard We publish below the usual week
ly report of Messrs White Elder Coffee brokers' and we
refer readers to it for of the condition of
the market.
Year: 1859

gsg WE OFFER THE PRESENT SEASON


'tTT a finer and larger stock Of FRUIT and Or
NAMENTAL SHADE TREES FLOWERING
and GREEN HOUSE PLANTS, than
any season heretofore, embracing the following
Year: 1859

TnEATKR-The play of Ingomar went off
last evening, with fine effect. The beautiful
and fascinating and noble character of Par
thenia was rendered most thrillingly by Mrs
Mcdonald. 1t has been some time since this
lady was on the stage, but We do not perceive
that her truly admirable powers are in the
least diminished. She brings back her old
time grace of action and beauty and distinct
ness of elocution To night she will appear
in one of her greatest characters, Lucreta
Borgia-a characterin which it is universally
conceded that she has never been surpassed
Ia this State She will no doubt have n
crowded house.
Year: 1859

FELL INA fine, fat yearling steer fell in.
to one of the wells near the road TO the Feath.
or River Bridge, on Tuesday night,-as is
supposed AT any rate he was discovered
at the bottom of the well, yesterday morning.
No doubt the fall Jared his yearlingshp con.
siderably, but no bones were broken. Still
it was considered a very hard matter to get
him out alive, and he was left there by order
Of Capt. King until an owner could be found
for him who might do with him as he pleased
Diligent search was made for an owner, bnt
none could be found, and finally, in order to
settle the matter in some form or other, Capt.
King authorized one of our City Butchers to
90 into the well, there butcher the animal
hoist the meat out in detached parts. and
sellit, depositing the proceeds at the Station
House This was the only way in which tn,
steer could have been gotten out, withou
erecting some sort of lifting apparatus on tn
edge of the hole.


Speaking of wells, we notice that there ar
various of these deep holes, entirely oper
and uncovered, in several quarters of tn,
city. Some of them are not far from private
residences, and it was not long ago that n
little boy narrowly escaped running into one
of them. They should be covered over bv
all means, and it is the City's business to do
it.
Year: 1859

NEVADA CRY ELEcTIoN-DEFEAT OF THE
LEcoMProNTEs.-The Democrat gives the fol-
lowing good account of the election which
came off at Nevada on Monday, the I'd inst


The municipal election on Monday resulted
in the success of the entire Democratic ticket
by an acreage majority of about two to one.
An opposition ticket was brought out day
or two before the election, which was voted
for by the Administration party; but the
Douglas Democrats had every thing their own
way. The whole number of votes cast was
five hundred and ninety-nine, being thirty
five more than was cast at the election last
year. The following is the result:
Year: 1859

RuFUs SHOEMAKER has retired from the edi
torial charge of the Grass Valley National.
His reason for retir ng is, that the office does
not pay expenses. Although the paper has
an extensive circulation, he has had to pay a
considerable amount of money out of his
pocket to keep it up. His successor is not
Year: 1859

The old Belteshazer of Lecomptonism be-


gins to quake in the knees. The hand-wri-


ting upon the wall is distinctly visible. Ye


are weighed in the balance, and found want


inc is the voice from Sacramento, and Ma
rvsville. and Stockton, and Santa Cruz, and
Nevada All the recent elections in this
State have gone for Popular Sovereignty and
the creed of the Douglas party The tide
has turned in favor of the right; the people
have awakened to the great Importance of
the principles at stake they have learned
the tricks, ehicanery and hypocrisy of the
Lecompton party; they see that the latter
are no friends of the principle of self govern
ment. but that they only labor for the spoils
of Office and to serve the masters, right or
ter and they (the intelligent masses) now
realize that the time has come when it is ne
cessary fer men of intellect and integrity to
act to shake from them their lethargy and


supineness-to assert their manhood as free


born citizens, and to guard that sacred right


of individual sovereignty at the ballot box


for the security Of which, mainly, this great


confederated government was established.
! We are pleased indeed to see this spirit


aroused. Well satisfied were we that it eX-


listed, not twithstanding the last State election


went against the right and in favor of the


wrong. We were satisfied that, so soon as


the people became fully aware of the decep-


tions which had been played upon them by


the Administration Phariesees, through the


miserable trickery Of pretending to be the


friends Of Douglns while they hated and de-
tested him, as well as by the various other
mean subterfuges employed, they would rise
in their strength and rebuke the very men
whom they formerly followed and believed
in. The deception was too gross. the impo-
siton of too huge character to last long.
1t was too apparent Now the people are
thoroughly undeceive ived-they see through
the transparent trickery of their deceivers-
they find that, under the pretence of being
great sticklers for the regular Democracy"
they are in reality apostates from the Demo
cratic creed, and seeking to establish Feder-
alism and the Capitalization of power in lieu
of the great Democratic doctrines of States
Rights and the sovereignty of the people.
Their eyes are opened. They see things in
their true light and they will act accord
ingly.


All the prognostications of the times, there
FORE are in favor ofa great and signal Veto
ry for the Douglas party in the coming State
election. As we said before, the tide has
turned, and Lecomptonism is destined to be
Year: 1859

INcoNGRUoUs CoLoRs.-We never heard of
taste for the harmony of colors being car
rled to such an extreme as it was few
nights ago, at party in this city. A lady
expressed much disgust at seeing a certain
highly accomplished gentleman dancing with
a blooming companion whom he had selected
as his partner in a waltz On being oues-
toned as to her objection, she urged with
great vehemence that the lady had on blue
dress while the gentleman was red-headed
and that such a combination of colors, in h er
opinion, was intolerable
Year: 1859

Josu.-The Chinese, yesterday, were max
ing sacrifices to their idol, Josh, and curious
it was to see them. They had no general
public demonstration, but made their offer
ings privately in their own houses. Seated
in q sort of private sanctuary-something
like an open cupboard-was Josh, small
image made of Chinaware, and presenting
anything but n formidable appearance. Near
him stood a number of diminutive tapers
ready to be lighted, and before him were
oranges and flowers. Various smaller images
painted on slips of paper, were stuck up in
close proximity to the God, and certain bra
zen emblems, bearing some kind of meaning
or other, were also arranged in the Holy of
Holes The policeman, who was with us,
was about TO lay his hand on Josh, familiar.
ly, to see how God would feel to- the touch


when a sensation of horror was visible in the
countenanees of the moon.cyed worshippers
Several women were very busy making little
paper boxes of peculiar shape, the design of
which we could not ascertain. Indeed, the
whole saeriicial presentment and concomi-
tants were entirely beyond our comprehen-
sion. No doubt a clear and reliable explain.
alton of this sacrifice would be interesting.