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Year: 1860

A HEART COMFORTER.-Is there more ex-
qusite pleasure in this world of ours than is found
in giving comfort to the sad For this is world
of sorrow-a vale Of tears. And he who go
to the wounded heart with words of consolation,
has power and mission that angels might en-
Wy. There is pleasure more exquisite in this
world of ours. than is found in the that
every sheet that goes from our hands may carry
words of peace to the troubled, joy to the mourn
er, and hope to the dispairing.


We meet with gem of holy verse, happy
thought of some warm hearted author, a stri
king incident in the experience of another. a
simple anecdotc that has a blessing in it we
seize it and set it here and think of it on its
rounds of mercy; lighting upon this cottage.
warming this breast. making smile of gladness
this cheek, and drying up tears in these eyes :;
and so going onward over the whole land upon
this errand of blessing.


There is great power in words-in words ftly
spoken It is great gift to be able to speak with
such power as to be minister of good to the poor,
and the weary, and the suffering. It is a joy to
the proud men to be able to lead, and rule and
overcome, but there is no joy in the world great
er than to know that we doing gOod to these
who are in need of good To be a heart comfort
er in world of wounded hearts, is a privilege
to reconcile man to thousand ills. and make
him willing to be anything for the sake of Him
who wept at the grave of a friend and restored
him to a loving sister.
Year: 1860

The Ladies' Of Alabama have the true mettle
in them The ladies of Demopols in that State
are circulating the following resolutions. which
have already boon numcrously signed:


Whereas the Northern section of the Union is
nIac;nr itself in antagonism to the institutions.
RIGHTS and equality of the South in this Conteder-
acv and its politicians, teachers and divines have
iiGhted the fire of fanatcsm. which, if unI essted,
will Law waste our land and desolate our fire.
sides.


And Whereas it is becoming in us to withhold
our aid and support from our avowed enemies,
will endcavur as our sacred duty to encourage
the development of the industrial resources OF our
State aud the South therefore be it.


Res0lrcd. That we but emulate the patratlsm OF
our mothers of the Revolution, when we declare
that we are ready to practice any self de-
nia to assist our fathers our husbands our broth
ers and our sons in maintaining their rights to
liberty and independence.


ResOIrcd That for this purpose, and to contribute
our humble mite to the advancement of Southern
commerce, Southern manufactures and Southern
industry we hereby pledge ourselves to purchase
no article of Northern manufacture: books
from Northern publishing houses. and no goods
bought in Northern markets, from and after the
Ist day of March 1860, even should we have to
resort to the primitive " homespun, or the fabrics
of our own handiwork


RcsOIred That we will not hereafter support
Northern preacher, employ a Northern teacher.
or travel in Northern cline in pursuit of health
or pleasure


Resolved further, That the foregoing resolutions
shall be binding upon us lntll the questions now
affecting our political existence and our lives be
until the South shall take her stand among the
nations of the world, and the people OF the North
as she holds the rest of mankind, " enemies in
War, in peace friends"
Year: 1860




Gone in her childish purity,


Cut from her goldng day;
Fading away in the light sweet,
Where the silver stars and the sunbeams meet,
Paving path for her silent feet


Over the silent way.


Over her bosom tenderly


The pearl white hands prest
The ashes lie on her cheeks so thin
Where the softest olush of the rose hath been,
Shutting the blue of her eve within


The pure lids closed in rest


Over the sweet brow lovingly


Twineth her sunny hair;
She fragile that love sent down
From his heavenly gems that soft bright crown,
To shade lier brow with its waves so brown,
Light as the dimpling air


Gone to sleep with the tender smile
FrOZe on her silent lips
Fy the farewell kiss cr licT Gewy' Breath,
Cold in the clasp of the angel Death
Like the last fair bud of fading WREATH
Whose bloom the white frost nip-


Robin-hushed in your downy bed.


Over the swinging hough-
Do you miss her voice from your glad duet,
- When the dew in the heart of the rose is set,
Till its velvet lps with the essence wet
In orient crimson glow !


Rosebud-under your shady leaf


HID from the sunny day
Do you miss the glance of the eye bright,
Whose blue Heaven in Your tmd sight ?
1t is beamng now in the world of light,
Over the starry way.


Hearts-where the darling's head hath lain,
Held by Loves shining ray
DO you know that the touch of her gentle hand
Doth brighten the harp in the unknown land
Oh, she waits for us with the angel band
Over the starry way.
Year: 1860

lie PACIFIC RAILROAD AND MIR. CALHOUN


At the first Southern Commercial Convention


held in Memphis, nearly twenty years ago, if we


remember rightly, MIR. Calhoun, who presi-
| dent Of the body, said in the course of his speech
| on taking the chair that in twenty years they


would be talking about building railroad from


the Mississippi to the Pacific they were then


talking about building one from the Atlantic to


the Mississippi The idea was looked upon AS
| little more than chimera Texas was not then


annexed, and rhe project of a railroad from Mem
phis to the Atlantic had not received the form of


a real solid enterprise. 1t was regarded AS a mat


ter pertaining to the distant future and its accom-
plishmcnt rather wished for than expected But
the sequel has shown how far that great man.
which he lived-how far he was behind in the
conception of events that even then crowding
in upon the threshold of to morrow.


Half the time to which he referred had not ex-


pired before different routes for railroad to the


Pacific had been explored and partially surveyed.
The &" talk about building railroad from the
Mississippi to the Atlantic. had been converted
into substantial idea that is realized. and
the conception of road the Pacific, then Just
beginning to be discussed, has never been alowd
to 81 lumber since 1t has been talked about and
pressed, until the probability of its completion is


greater at present than was that of the construc-
ton of a railway from the Mississippi to the At


lantic ut the time Mr.. Calhoun spoke.


Like all gigantic undertakings that have ever
engaged the minds of men. it has met with oppo
siIon has had TO encounter the doubts of the wise
and the sneers of the foolish. But it is now in
the safe way of accomplishment.
Year: 1860

sewerage of cities and towns by those who stay
behind. for enriching the quality of their impov-
erished fields. If mistake not Louis Napoleon
has already commenced the work of fertilizing the
country surrounding Paris with the sewerage of
that capital, instead of allowing it TO run to
In the seive. If some fertilizer be not dis
covered within twenty five years other cities will
have to follow the example of Paris and return to
the soil equivalent for the FOOD which they de-
rive from it.
Year: 1860

We have the qualification Of announcing
thls morning that the National Executive Com
nittee have changed the day for holding the
Republican National Convention to MAY 16.
being nearly month earlier than the time
previously fixed upon June 13). 4 dispatch
from Gov Morgan Of New York, Chairman Of
the National Committee, will I've found under
the telegraph head We know that this de-
termination Of the Committee will be received
with high satisfaction by the Republicans
throughout the country.
Year: 1860

Hitherto the American people have been
content with the simple division of the
States into slave and free. Although we
have through our columns more than once
proclaimed the fact that the free Northern
States were fast becoming slave, with this
difference, that the slaves were white and
the slavery voluntary, and hence the more
degrading, little did we suppose that the
same fact would be so soon announced
from the American Senate. Senator Ma
son, of Virginia, an undoubted leader among
American statesmen from the Southern
side, rose in his seat in the Senate the 9TH
er day and deliberately-and we think
not inappropriately-applied to the free
States the appelation, "tEe sergi1e States
"If," said he, "the Southern States are to
be known by the name of slave States,
and we of the South, since we own our la
borers, do not object to it, know of no
reason why the North should object to the
appelation 'SerUale States to their section,
since they have servile white class there,
which | and gentlemen present well know.


Senator Mason significantly and boldly
pointed his finger at this class of white men
in the North-and we regret to say that it
seems to be increasing-who do all the
dirty work and wallow in the lowest filth
at the bidding of these same Southern Sen
ators. We think, however, the taunt is
ungrateful. But no matter; the superior
has no right to be grateful to the inferior,
and Senator Mason and his coadjutors had
nothing to lose by this bold announce
ment. These plant tools will pull on in
the harness of their degradation just the
same


We do not care how low the poor wretch
es bow their necks to their voluntary bur-
dens, nor how sharp such men as Senator
Mason crack the political whip over their
heads. What we object to is that they
shall ever obtain sufficient numerical
strength, or thfs State at least ever become
so morally enfeebled, as 10 be dragged
down to complete servility to the oppres-
sive and insolent South That is all
Meanwhile, let Senator Mason end his CO.
adjutors go on with their work of mapping
out the servile States, and let the work be
fairly done, that the world may know them
and become more thoroughly acquainted
with the political geography of our Republic.
Year: 1860

reference to them (the negroes.l Gentle
men of high standing and position in Can
ada, we opine, are in no haste to stultify
themselves and do an injury to an unofend-
ing but loyal and struggling class Of their
citizens for the frowns or favors of the
whole satanic press of this Union. Let
them croak on. 1t will avail them but lit
tie in the direction of Canada.
Year: 1860

We are not disposed to make merry
over either the trials and troubles, or the
weaknesses or even the ultimate fate of
cur slave-holding, man-oppressing, and al
most already Godforsaken Republic. We
would, were it in our power, rather help
her out of her difficulties, though knowing
full well that all of them center in and
grow out of her deep, continued injury and
wrong to us. Not a difficulty existing in
the bosom of this nation to-day, but has its
direct root in the injustice to the black
man; and not single one of these Difficult
ties can ever be thoroughly overcome by
any process that man can devise, until full
justice is done to the injured black man
the same justice and equity that is dealt out
to every other man in the Republic, be he
who he may.


This equity and this justice is the basis
of the Republic, to depart from which is
to wholly undermine it, and let it down to
worse than chaos Let the nation remem-
Der this. Let it look well to it. If there
be government now existing on earth
that is proving to the world its incapacity
for selfgovernment or for anything else
but great iniquity and failure, it is this,
our vain boasted Republic Turn whatso-
ever way you will, and you find but the
signs of failure and the seeds of disorgani-
zation and dissolution. In the councils OF
the State or the nation; in the judicial halls
or the sacred sanctuary; i'll the counting
room or at the workbench, the signs of dis
organization and dissolution, and final fail
ure, stare you in the face. On the factors
loom and in the merchants ledger is being
more and more palpably written the SEN
tence, The Republics failure And all
this has come to pass because of the iniquity
Of slavery and the increasing barbarity Of
the American people, consequent from
slavery.


Let the nation dispose itself to wade
deeper and deeper into this sink Of oppres
sion and wrong; let it bind tighter and
tighter its chains of wrong upon the black
man; let it rule him out OF all his rights
and title to citizenship, to manhood; let il
drag him down to condition below that
of the brute if it dare or can, and when il
it shall have succeeded, our word for it
the nation itself must 90 down with him
There is no power in heaven or among
men that can save it. That day, wher
the black man, tortured and ground down
is thus sunken, no matter when, then i:
the requiem of this Republic sung. Pusf
on gentlemen, oppressOrs, disorganizers
demagogues and cheats; as you do so, re
member that every step you force the
black man down, you and all that is deal
to you, must go down with him. You can
not destroy him and preserve yourselves
Impossible
Year: 1860

E. L. Bradley & Co., have completed the
Placer County Canal, and its waters are now
offered to the public at reduced price, and
further reduction may be anticipated as
soon as the proprietors are fairly compensa-
ted for their heavy outlay. They deserve
the highest praise for their energy and per-
severance, and hope they may be richly re-
warded AS Dutch Flat and vicinity has
large extent of valuable hydraulic grounds,
presume they will have market for all the
water they can furnish.


The stage is ready to start, so adieu for
the present.
Year: 1860

Mr.. Lathams resignation, as Governor of
California, taking place on Saturday l4th
inst, at o'clock =. M. both Houses of the
Legislature met in Joint Convention a: that
hour for the purpose of installing Lieut.. Gov.
Downey, as Governor.


The oath of office was administered BY
Chief Justice Field.


Ascending the Speakers platform Govern
or Downey said:


Gentlemen Of the Senate and assembly:


In entering upon the discharge of the re
sponsible duties of the office of Chief Magis
lrate of the State, which have devolved upon
me, under the provisions of the Constitution
n consequence of the resignation of the Gov
ernor, | am painfully conscious Of the want
of that experience which is so necessary to a
proper administration of the affairs of the
Executive department of the Government.
should, indeed, hesitate to take upon my
self the discharge of those duties did | not
rely with confidence upon your appreciation
of the difficulties of my position and your
indulgent judgment of my acts can only
give to you, gentlemen, and through you to
the people Of the State, the assurance that
the affairs of the Government shall be adj
ministered with rigid and just economy,
and to the best Of my abilities, with a due
regard for the varied interests of the State
The general policy propose to pursue is
plainly and admirably indicated in the In
augural Adress Of Gov Latham, and hope
that I shall be able so to 1ischarre the trusts
which have this day assumed as to merit
and receive your appreciation and that Of
our common const tuency. Applause.
Year: 1860

CLOSE CREDITOR.-A man in Cleveland,
OHIO, applied to a Justice recently for All ex-
ecution to levy upon the wooden leg of a man
who owed him four dollars No constable
could be found TO serve the execution.
Year: 1860

IT is stated bya correspondent that cauteriza-
ton by hot tallow IS an immediate cure for in
growing nails. lie says;


'The patient on whom first tried this was
young lady who had been unable to put on a shoe
for several months and decidedly the worst case
| have ever seen. The disease had been of long
standing. The edge of the nail was deeply un-
dermned; the granulations formed high ridge,
covered with skin, and pus constantly oozed from
the root Of the nail the whole toe was swollen
and extremely tender and painful My mode Of
proceeding was this: put very small piece of
tallow in a spoon and heated it over lamp un-
til it became very hot, and dropped two or three
drops between the nail and granulations The
effect was almost magical. Pain and tenderness
were at once relieved, and in few days the
granulations were all gone the diseased parts
dry and destitute of feeling, and the edge Of the
nail exposed so as to admit of being pared away
without any Inconvenience. The cure was COM
plete, and the trouble never returned. ! have
tried this plan repeatedly since, with the most
satisfactory results The operation causes but
little if any pain if the tallow is properly heated
4 repetition might in some cases be necessary,
although never have met with case that did
not yield to one application. Admitting the theo
nv of DIR. Lorinrer TO be correct, the modus ape
randi is very plainly to be seen. The liquid
cautery nsinuates itself in every interstice under
the nail, accomplishing in one minute, without
pain, all that can be effected by the painful ap-
plieation of nitrate of silver for several weeks"
-UelieqE and .Surqical Journal
Year: 1860


The sunlight is beautiful, mother,


And sweetly the flowers bloom to-day,
And birds in the branches of hawthorn


Are caroling ever so gay;
And down by the rocks in the meadow
The rill ripplos by with song;
And, mother, ], too, have been singing


The merriest all the day long.
Last night was weeping, dear mother,
Last night was weeping alone;
The world was so dark and dreary,


My heart it grew heavy as stone!
thought of the lonely and loyeless-
All lonely and loveless was |
can scarce tell why it was, mother,


But, oh was wishing to die!
Last night was weeping, dear mother,
But Willie came down by the gate,
And whispered Come out in the moonlight,
I've something to say to you Kate.
Oh mother, TO him am dearer


Than all the wide world beside,
lie told me so out in the moonlight


lie called me his darling, his bride!
So now, Twill gather Inc roses


To twine ia my long braided hair;
And Willie will come in the evening


And will smile when he sees me so fair;
And out in the moonlight we'll wander,
And down by the old hawthorn tree,
Oh mother, wonder if any


Were ever so happy as We?
Year: 1860

perhaps, but what was that running along the
hedge-on the top of the side of the Dill
gence, and yet little in advance, so as to
turn back and look at it and mel That woke
Inc soon enough and most thoroughly. What
business had Mary Ross, my little ward--who
had lately been left widow with two chill
dren, and whom | had hidden goodbye to
only few days before-what business say,
had she to be running atop of roadside
hedge between Calais and Paris at midnight,
always keeping her head turned round, and
her eyes fixed on men! There was not the
least doubt of its being Mary, although had
never seen her with look of pain and entreaty
on her face before. am thankful TO think
that she never had to ask anything, either
for herself or Others, twice from me. She
never looked before her, but glided swiftly
along the hedge and when gap or gate
intervened, seemed to leap it without any
spring or unusual exertion. When her eyes
were not on mine, they were fixed on one or
other Of the fore wheels of the the Diligence; !;
and, presently leaned over to see what was
attracting her in the left hand one. Georgey
was thcre-Georgey Ross, her eldest son, re-
volying upon its rim, disappearing and COM
ing up again as though he were bound to it,
with his white face upward toward me and
her, but with shut eyes. His brother Charles
on the other wheel, knew, although, of course
| could not see him; and presently, upon the
great empty front scat, there lay stretched on
either side Of me those same two boys in


long white dresses, whch-since they were
dead, poor things, as it subsequently turned
out, might have been shrouds. | had scarce
ly time to put my bards ont, right and left
and through each Of these forms, TO feel the
bare cushion of the seat, when the driver,
with burst Of sacres, woke and lashed the
horses, calling them pigs and demons. Then
the children aud their dear mother vanished
from my sight forever Being of phlegmatic
or, as prefer to call it, of philosophical dis
position; ] simply entered in my notebook,
"Curious illusion produced December IA,
1892 caused by hunger and fatigue


Nevertheless, as sat at breakfast in Paris
on the morning of the nineteenth, ! received
word by post that Mary Ross aud her two
children were all dead with typhus fever
Mary, the letter said, kept asking for you,
William, as though you could have saved her
little ones, and even after they were out of
the reach of earthly aid" She herself did
not survive them more than few hours
They all died on the fourteenth.
Year: 1860

You may throw down your lutte, Lady Alice,


Your singing is nothing to me; g.-
would rather list to old Christine


In the fsherman's hut by the sea.
l will sit on her threshold and listen


To the songs Of the toothless old crone-
To the ballads she shrieks with her spinning


For her Robin, blind as stone.
And I'll wish, my fair Lady Alice,


That mine was the hut by the sea
That was gny-headed old Robin,


And Christine was singing for me
Better be blind, poor old Robin,


With the crust of beggar to eat,
Than be chilled by the eyes which you worship
And scorned by the lips you hold sweet.
Yes, better sit there in the darkness,


If dark it can be where the light
Of true womans love is unceasing


Through the dreariest day and nights
Than to own the domain and the earldom,


Which never could purchase for me
The love, and the Ei,h and the blessing,


Old Christine giyeth to thee.
Adieu my fair Lady Alice,


! shall not be missed when you sing,
For every sweet note that you warble,


\ host Of true lovers win bring.
And they viii repeat the old story


My foolish lips made me betray,
And you will repeat the old loye-songs


You carolled so lightly day.
But one of these days, Lady Alice,


When your voice is shaky and weak,
You may wish for dotng old Robin,


To call il still blessed and sweet
Year: 1860

4 FEW days since we gave extracts from
the New York Tribune, in which Mr.. Gree
lev endeavored to show the Douglas men of
the North how their faction could easily be
made the nuclcos of a strong and vigorous
Southern Black Republican party. In the
New York Times which sheet has been hith-
erto warm friend of Judge Douglas, we find
an article of similar import The Times is
an Abolition journal, bat more moderate in
its expressions than the Tribune. We ex-
tract paragraph from the editorial referred
to:


"The heat of the battle, il is easy to sec,
is TO be the Southern. States. The question
of protecting slavery by an act of Congress
Of using the power Of the Federal Govern
ment for its existension-is to be contested
and decided on Southern ground For the
first time in our political history, the slave
holding States will be divided. Hitherto the
contest has been mainly sectional-the North
has taken one side and the South the other.
Now, the South finds the irresponsible CON
flict' in the bosom of its own society,"
Douglas will actually represent in the South
that hostility to slavery extension which Is
already the unanimous sentiment OF the
North. He will contest upon slave soil the
power of the Federal Government to extend
slavery: and while his position on, his question
is, in our Judgment, unsound and untenable, it
is probably the only ground upon which any
contest Whatever could be maintained in the
Southern States"


Can the people of the South be blind to
these evidences of danger in our midst
Lincoln advocates Abolitionism, and a Lin
coin man in Alabama would be tarred and
perhaps hung. Douglas advocates freesoil-
ism-takes the only ground upon which any
contest whatever could be maintained in the
slave Statcs'-and yet there are men in the
South who openly preach Douglasism. How
long will it be before there is a Lincoln tick
ct in the South l-Moatgomeyy Advertiser.