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Year: 1860

i A DEMOCRATIC PRorEsr.-The Democratic mem
bers Of the Iowa House of Representatives have
tered their protest against resolution offered in
that body to print 1900 copies of Gov. Kirkwoods
inaugural message. The message was farrago of
black Republicanism, and the protest is made be-
cause the Democratic members believe that the Gov
ernor has departed from his plain constitutional du
ty, which requires that he should deal with matters
concerning the State; and that he commits an in
trusion upon the Legislature by forcing his views
OF other questions upon them. They insist that he
has no business to make the State pay for crculat
ing partisan speech. They protest secondly, be-
cause they look upon the message as an attempt to
palliate or excuse the treason of John Brown; and
~hey 60 on to specify several other points of dssat
isfacton-all arising however, ont of the Governors
admiration for John Brownisn and malice towards
the supporters Of the Constitution The message is
one of a kind which deserved a rebuke like this 1t
is certainly an abuse of the peoples money, when
it is used to circulate documents of such kind


We call the attention of our neighbor of the Reg
aster to the foregoing facts. lie says there is no
national Democratic party; and yet in far away
Iowa, among the head springs of the Mississippi,
Democrats protest in body, they do here against
the Infamous conduct of the black Republicans
Year: 1860

~ Our neghbor of the Register has been here
tofore violently opposed to ad valorem taxation.
But, the opposition Convention having endorsed it
as in duty bound he will now Jump Jim Crow"
and 90 for it This is a great world
Year: 1860

But, says the Standard, we will support the nom-
lnee OF the Charleston convention against the can
didate of the black Republican party, sohoerer he
may BE- III


May not the Standard have an opportunity to do
better than that There is a great Union Constitu-
tion, and taD enforcing party springng into exis-
tence. VIII! the Standard support squatter SOW.
eregnv candidate in preference to the candidate of
that party ?-Salisbury Watchman.


We have heard much Of, but have never yet seen
any Union, Constitution, and law enforcing party
equal to the natioual Democratic party. Such par
ties, organized by our Opposition friends, spring up
like Jonahs gourd and wither ip night. In 1s4s
We had the noparty Taylor Union party, led by the
same John j. Crittenden who is about to save the
Union again in this year Of grace 1860; in 1852
we had the Scott-Seward no-party, Union party,
Scott until after the election; IN 1856 we had the
conservative" Fillmore, who now so deeply regrets
that he had to approve and enforce the fugitive
slave law, and who received but handful Of votes
in the non-slaveholdng States and now we suppose
we are to have new edition Of these tremendous
efforts to save the Union first the Constitution
next, and then to enforce the laws so far as the
black Republicans will permit it to be done.


We have no idea of going with our contemporary
of the Wetchman, nor do we expect him to go with
US. Like Ephraim "he is joined to his idols his
great idol being opposition to Democracy. We in
tend to support the nominee of the Charleston Con-
vention, whoever he may be- We believe that six
hundred Democrats assembled at Charleston from
every part of the Republic, will be better able than
we will be, or than any other Democrat willbe, to
say who is the proper and the best man to be sup
ported against the black Republicans. Even a
"squatter sovereignty" candidate would be as sound
on the question of slavery in the territories as Mr..
Fillmore is, who was supported by the Watchman
in ls56,-as sound, if not sounder for Mr. Fillmore
earnestly opposed the abrogation of the Missouri
restriction by which Southern SHAREHOLDERS were let
in to all the territories, and Mr.. Fillmore was and is
in favor of the Wilmot proviso.


Let the Waterman look to it. while opposing the
only national party in the country, that it does not
aid and strengthen the black Republican party
When an injury is inflicted it makes difference
so fur as the suffering resulting from it is concerned
whether it was inflicted Intentionally or from
blindness, careessness, prejudice, or passion. Let
the Waterman think of that. ~
Year: 1860

The Union according TO the Constitution. \
We yield to no one in devotion to the Union
according to the Constitution. But we cannot go
with those in this State and elsewhere, who would
subordinate the Constitution to the Unon-who
would hug the empty and destructive forms to their
bosoms after the spirit has departed. The best
Union men in the country those ,oho insist most
earnestly and most constantly strict observance
of all the provisions and requirements of the Con-
>stitution We must guard every approach to the
citadel. If we surrender one gate and the enemy
enters, every portion of our tower of defence
will in the end be wrested from u.s. That member
of partnership who consents to one deliberate in
faction by other members of the partnership of the
articles of agreement only paves the way for sue
cession of nfractons which will sweep away, the
cupdity the passions of his partners may deter
mine, every interest which he may have in the con-
Germ. As the New Orleans Bee well says


"There is certain class of individuals who pro-
claim themselves lovers of the Union, but are inst
gated by very different motives and Intentions
They are perpetually shrieking imprecations upon
all who venture to breathe hint Of the possibility
of dissolution of the Union, and announcing their
nvincble determination, under all conceivable cir
cumstances, to resist the disnemberment of the con-
federacy. Conspicuous among these bold and blat-
ant vaporers the Black Republicans. They claim
to be par ercellence Union men. They are always
ready to declare their attachment to the Unon and
to denounce the South for what they term its trea
sonable assaults. The animating principle Of the
Black Republicans is readily discovered They would
have the Union last just so long as they can with
impunity harass and oppress the South; just so
long Southern agricultural industry ministers to
Northern rapacity; just so long as the Southern
sheep quietly suffers its wool to be plucked by the
Northern shearers This is the gst and marrow of
black Republican love of the Union. Why should
they not wish this state of things to endure forever


1t is all to their advantage. They steal our slaves
and encourage insurrection and rapine on the one
hand, while on the other they wax wealthy by the
manufacture Of Southern cotton, and by supplying
the South with ten thousand products Of the North
Of course, they are good Union men,
Year: 1860

TURN VERIEN FEsTIvAL.-The Stockton
Republican says that the Turn Veriens are
making great preparations for their Festival,
which takes place this week, and are going to
heavy expense. They are bringing trees
from great distance to ornamentthe Pavilion.
Among them are pine, spruce and CEDAR One
Of the spruce trees is nearly twenty feet in
hight. They will also ornament the hall in
other ways, and the decorations already in it
will remain. A stage capable of accommoda-
ting two hundred musicians is being erected at
the northern end of the building, and the gym
nastic apparatus of the Society will also be
erected in the large hall. The steamers with
the San Francisco and Sacramento delegations
will arrive at the levee about sunset on Sunday.
Year: 1860

STRANGE.-The Red Bluff Beacon, speaking
of the Tuscan Springs in that county, notices
the continual formation of coral in the little
rivulet formed by these springs. The bed of
this small stream is paved with decomposed
coral, and in this stream the little insects arc
continually forming new coral. By placing a
insects are, and letting it remain for space
of time, it will be completely coated with
coral formation.
Year: 1860

BROKE HIS NEcK.-Col Miller, whlepack-
ing provisions to Liberty Hill the first Of the
week, says the Dutch Flat Enquirer, sustained
quite loss in his pack mule missing his foot
hold on the trail, precipitating himself to the
bottom of the hill, about two hundred feet, in
doing which he broke his neck, and split the
grub around rather promiscuousy.
Year: 1860

" No dentist should possess jealous wife.
"Your business has drove me crazy" ungramat-
icaily wrote to her husband the Mrs I.atson who
committed suicide in New York the other day
But il wasn't the business; Ii was the construction
which her jealous nature put upon the nature of
Its detail
Year: 1860

ANOTHER CASE OF BETRAYAL.-A case of be-


trayal in GootOn, TOmpkins county, N. Y,


which has just come to light, is the subject of a
great deal OF anxiety among the friends of the
parties, and Indignation in the community.
The facts OF the case are, as near as we can
gather them, as follows: Something more than
year ago, merchant Of that town, whose
previous intrigues with the fair sex had rem
dered him obnoxious to large portion of the
community, made public profession of freligion
and joined the Methodist Church and succeeded
in making people believe that he meant to lead
a better life. His victim, the wife of a respec-
table and industrious machinist, belonged to
the same church, and report SAYS that they
were thrown much together at prayer meetings
so much so that it became the subject of gene


raj remark, and finally came to the ears Of her
husband His suspicious were excited, but he
did not believe his wife unfaithful to him. until
w edneSday evening on coming home he found


the house deserted, and on inStituting search


found the merchant and his wife together at or


near barn standing in field some distance


from the house. The outraged husband knock ed


the merchant down and jumped on to his face


with both feet, breaking the bridge of his nose


and cutting his face in shocking manner.


The merchant begged for his life, but the hus-


band continued to stamp him until life was ex-
tinct, when he took his faithless wife home and
informed one of his neighbors of the circum.
stances and that he supposed he had killed the
merchant and he had better see to it, The
| next morning some of the neighbors went to
the spot indicated, and found that the man had
| not been killed, but had come to and crawled


home, as they easily found by his blood along


his route home. The machnist's s wife says that
she and the merchant have met clandestinely


for the last six or eight months. She has been


sent to her friends. The affair has made the


husband insane, and be has since made two


attempts to go to the house Of the merchant


with the avowed intention Of taking his life,


but has been restrained by his friends. The
and secreted in Homer or Cortland, to keep


him from the vengeance of the man whose do


mestic happiness he has 1uined.-Au6urn Ad-


Usrtiser
Year: 1860

rYThe Cambridge Eng Independent says
thst some short time back n gentleman was
united to lovely and accomplished lady, at a
village near Cambridge. All passed off pleas
antly enough the bride and bridegroom were
on their Wedding tour, when, mtrGbiLe dtctu i!
IL was discovered that the marriage had been
an illegal one, and the clergyman probably
liable 70 severe penalties for performing the
ceremony. The bridegroom had never thought
of providing license; the clergyman never
thought to inquire for it. So here were two
persons married without either banns or IL
cense, and entirely contrary to the statute in
that case made and provided. Here was a
dilemma. What was to be done? At the end
Of three days special messenger was sent
after the hsppy couple. Their wedding tour
was arrested, and back they were brought.
when the ceremony was again performed in
the presence Of the important little document,
the absence Of which had been productive Of
% much mischief, and the travellers resumed
their tour, their sudden and unexpected re-
turn being known to very few persons.
Year: 1860

weeks time everything was reduced to order,
and the schoolcommittee were delighted. The
master, however, had received proposition so
much more agreeable and advantageous, that he
informed the aommittee he should leave at the
end Of his month, having in his eye sensible
and energetic young college graduate, who
would be willing, and fully competent to take
his place.
Year: 1860

A lady correspondent, who processes to be
Mortified at the indelicacy of our paper, threat
ems for the future to set her foot on every copy
she Sees She had better not. Our paper has
is in it.
Year: 1860

GROUND PEA LAND FOR SALE.
HE SUBSCRIBER being desrous to change his business
L offers for sale a valuable TRACT OF LAND containing
from nine thousand of which from three to
four thousand we'll adapted the raising of Ground
Peas There are also the four hundred
of swamp land of which about eighty cleared highly
productive.


The improvements are the best character For TERMS
which will be made very accommodating, apply to


D. w. JORDAN,


Little River, S. G.
July 8th 1859 45-f
Year: 1860

DEATH OF FATHER SLATTERY.-This esti-
mable gentleman and much beloved priest,
who had charge of a Catholic flock at Marys-
vile, died at Sacramento few days ago, of
typhoid pneumonia. He was native of
Ireland, and in the 2eth year of his age
His remains were yesterday to have been
shipped to Marysville, and deposited under
the tower of the Church of that place, in
which he oficiated as a minister.
Year: 1860

THE FIGHTING ELEMENTAL number of la
borers who had been engaged on the Truckee
Turnpike, were paid off during the present week
by the Secretary of the Company, and some of
them deemed the occasion proper to get on a
spree. After drenching their guzzles inordinate-
ly, they became quarrelsome, and had several
spirited encounters from the shoulder. Blacked
eyes and bloody noses were common for several
days, which will probably serve to teach them
lesson of sobriety, after recovering their wits
and finding that whisky has run away with their
money.
Year: 1860

"TAKE DowN YOUR SIGy. We see that the Old Line Democrat and other pa- pers of that ilk, keep up constant noise about the nomination of Richord H .Iohn- son. tor Governor, while they have his name at the head of their paper A singular warfare. Either let them take down their slgn or quit grumbling. SmsiM Times
Year: 1860

To THE CREDIT or THE I.NpIEs.--An eastern
editor has remarked that women are the best
subscribers in the world to newspapers, maya
zines, &c, and that in eight years he has never
lost single dollar by female subscribers. IIe
says they seem to make IL conscientious duty
to pay the preachers aud prntcrs-two classes
that suffer more by bad pay and no pay than all
others put together. Whenever he has woman's
name on his book, he knows II is just as good for
the money due as a picayune is for ginger cake.
A most sweet comparison Moreover, he asserts
that ladies read the newspapers to which they
subscribe more thoroughly than men aud he
concludes by declaring that he would rather
have dozen women upon his book than one
man We concur with this wise and witty
editor, even to the last sentence and would add
fact in our own experience, We have observed
that almost the first thing q man does after mar
riage to sensible woman and settling down in
his own house, is to subscribe for the local paper
Now, either in the first blush OF his Importance
as one of the pillars of community he thinks he
must help support the chief institution in it, or
else that intelligent young wife will not have
her home remain unlluminated by the Journal
which she knows is earnestly toing for just
such as her and him. We believe the latter is
oftenest true, and so, when we receive five dol
lars for a years subscription from newly mar
ried man, we say-God bless that dear little
woman And the printers blessing is net an
idle Hydraulic Press.
Year: 1860

A HEART IN THE RIGHT Place. am welded,
Coleridge, to the fortunes of my sister and my
poor old father. Oh, my friend, think some
times could / recall the days that were past,
which among them should choose Not those
merrer days, not the pleasant days Of hope, not
those wandering with a fair haired maid, which
have so often and so feelingly regretted-but
the days, COlerdge, of mothers fOndness for
her schoOlboy. What would | give to call her
back to earth for one day, that | might, on my
knees, ask her pardon for those little asperities
of temper, which, from time to time have given
her gentle spirit pain. And the day, my friend,
trust will come when there will be time enough
for kind Offices Of love, if heavens eternal year
be ours Oh, my friend. cultivate the hia feel
ings. And let no man think himself released
from the kind charities of relationship These
are the best foundations for every species OF be-
neyolenee-Ciaries Lamb.
Year: 1860

Gs- Attention is also directed to the following
clause in the Revenue Act -" Each male inhab-
Giant of this State over twenty -one years of age
and under sixty years of age, and not by law Px-
empt from poll-tax, shall pay poll-tax for the
use of the State and County, of Three Dollars,
provided the same be paid between THE FIRST
DAY OF MARCH AND THE FIRST MON
DAY IN AUGUST but if said poll tax is not
paid prior to the first Monday in August, it shall
be Four Dollars
Year: 1860

PLAIN TALK.-Speaking of the action of the
Southern seceders from the Charleston Convcn-
tion, the editor of the Shasta Courier himself q
Virginian, lately said


Let every true Democrat thank Heaven that
the Democratic party is rid Of the most internal
pests which ever annoyed any political organiza-
ton since the world began. SO help us Heaven,
we would a thousand times rather have such men
buttng against the regular nominee than for him,
for their hostility in the South must benefit him
in the North where the Democrats have to make
the fight. Not one of the States, whose delegates
have bolted, will vote against the Baltimore
nomnee-n0t one-while the boilers will find
that they have voluntarily dug pitt and gone
into it, so deep that the hand OF political resur-
rection can never reach them. They are dead,
dead, dead, and we hope politically damned
Year: 1860

1IUMBoLpT AND TRINITY RoAD.-The Board OF
Directors of the above enterprise advertise for
proposals to build nine sections of the Humboldt
and Trinity Plank and Turnpike Road. Holders
of stock are notified that an assessment of ten
per cent. on each share is levied and payable on
or before the 30th of this month.
Year: 1860

To CoRREsP0NDENTs.-If you send funny arti-
cles, please mark them i" funny" This will save
us much vexation Of spirit. We remember cry
ing all through communication which we after
wards found on reference to a private letter that
accompanied it, was intended to be very humor-
ous- Waierb0rO Sun.
Year: 1860

WoMEN's preference of gentleman with small
hands and delicate fingers had its origin while
the old English law was in force, allowing every
man to beat his wife whenever he pleased with a
stick not thicker than his thumb
Year: 1860

A young lady being addressed by a gen.
tcman much older than herself, observed
to him that the only objection she had to a
union with him, was the probability of his
dying before her and leaving her to the sor-
rows OF Widowhood. 10 which he made the
apt and delicately complimentDg reply,
Blessed is the man who hath virtuous
vta, for the number of his days shall be
doubled
Year: 1860

As the editors OF Southern newspaper, we
call the attention of our fellow.citizens of the
South, to the great fact, that the South Carroll
ma leaders reject all compromise in advance.
They declare, in so many words, that they will
not remain in alliance with non. slaveholdng
States. And this action and language of South
Carolina seem likely to be followed by the Gulf
States generally.


There have been vague suggestions Of com.
promise made here, but nobody be ieves, and
nobody has been authorized to say, that any
terms would be salts actory to South Carolina,
or to the partisans of South Carolina anywhere.


The Republicans have been, aud are, most
anxious to conciliate those still within the reach
of concliation. With this view, so far as the
fugitive slave law is concerned, they have been
willing to recommend to the State Legislatures
TO revise any action found to be inconsistent
with the Constitution, or with any acts Of Con-
press. With this view, also they are willin g
that the Constitution he made forever ines pable
of such amendment as would authorize the Ma.
tional Government to meddle with slavery in
the States.


What more, we ask our fellow citizens Of the
South, can fairly be demanded of the free
States ? With slavery protected in the States
where it exists, and with the rendition of fugi.
tives conceded as right, what more can we
get by going out of the Union?


AS to the Territories, shareholders have to.
day all the rights they ever had, and a good
deal more than will remain to them, if the
Union is broken up. 1t is true that the free
States will not restore the Missouri compro.
mise line, which was abrogated by the South
only six years ago, as being a stigma upon
Southern institutions. But as nobody had the
least reason to expect its restoration, so no.
body will be disappointed by the refusal to re.
store it.


AS to amendments Of the Constitution, the
propositions for which are so numerous, it is
clear that shareholders are pre- eminently inter.
ested in holding on to the Constitution Just as
it is. If the idea of changes is once admitted
the direction they may take is impossible to be
foreseen. No amendments can be carried
without the assent Of the free States, but in
process of time, they may be carried without
the assent of the slave States. The Consitu.
ton, just as it is, should he the watchword of
all rejecting Southern men.
Year: 1860

We are enabled to give the substance of
letter received here lately from lady in Mo.
bile.


The city is in the hands Of ferocious and
infurated mob, and the numerous respectable
citizens who love the Union are compelled to
silence by fear Of their lives.


The aspect Of the negroes is described as
Sulien and .ferce," and an outbreak of servle
insurrection is considered to be possible every
hour of every day and night.


There is no money; debts are not paid ruin
stares almost everybody in the face; the State
has but short supply of bread, from the fail
ure OF the corn CROP credit is annihiated and
the horrors of famine, as well as of revolution
impend over the community.


The condition of things in the Gulf States is
undoubtedly terrible. The passions Of the pop.
ulace have been so worked upon that the lead
ers have no longer the power to control them.
Indeed, it is these hitherto leaders who are now
trembling lest they shall themselves fall victims
to the fury they have incautiously kindled. They
reflect, when it is too late, that revolutions are
rarely ended by those who begin them. Many
member of Congress here, whose name goes
before the public attached to brave manifestoes,
con'esses his alarm at the prospect of being
obliged to go home and take his chances among
wild, ignorant, and excited savages, white and
black.