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Year: 1860

CURE FOR CArUsn.-Take quantity OF
red oak bark, burn it to ashes; to this
add water; boil to the consistency of mo-
Iasses. Apply it freely to the part affect
ed leave it on for an hour, afterwards
cover the plaster with tar; remove it in a
few days, and if protuberances appear in
the wound, apply the plaster and tar alter
nalely, until they all disappear, after which
apply any healing salve.
Year: 1860

CURE FOR LooKJAw.-When any one
runs nail or sharp iron into any part of
the body, take a common smoke pipe,
light it well after filling with tobacco /;
then place cloth or silk handkerchief
over the bowl. blow the smoke through
the stem into the wound. Two or three
pipesful will be sufficient to set the wound
discharging. Sure cure.
Year: 1860

VIcE.--He who gives himself to vice must
inevitably suffer. If the human law does
not convict and punish him, the moral law,
which will have obedience, will follow him
to his doom. Every crime is committed for
a purpose-adn Just so sure as God gov
erns the universe, so surely does crime, al
though concealed, destroy the happiness of
the future No matter how deeply laid have
been the plans of the criminal, or how des-
perately executed, detection pursues him


like a bloodhound, AMI tracks him to his
fate.
Year: 1860

So heard a great strapping young man
excaim the other day. did want to tell
him piece of my mind so bad But I'll
just write it to him. You want capital, do
you And suppose you had what you call
capital, what would you do with it ? You
want capital ! Haven't you got hands and
teet, and body and muscle, and bone, and
brains; and don't yer call them capital p
What more capital did Cod give to any body9
Oh bat they are not money, say you. But
they are more than money. If you will use
them they will make money, and nobody can
take them from you Don't you know how
TO use them re you don't it is high time
you were learning Take hold of the first
plow, or hoe or jack plane or broad-axe tia t
You can find, AMI go to work. Your capital
will soon yield YOU large interest. Aye,
there's the rub you don't want to work,
you want money or credit that you may
play the gentlemen or speculate, and end by
playing the vagabond or you wart plan
tation and negroes, that you may hire an
| overSeer to attend to them, while you run
about over the country and disipate, or get
in debt; or want to marry some rich girl
who may he foolish enough to take you for
your fine clothes and good looks, that she
may support you. aes 5.f


Shame upon you, young man /! Go to
work with the capital you have, and you'll
soon make interest enough upon it, and with
it to give you as much money as you want,
and make you feellike man. If you can't
make money upon what capital you have,
you couldn't make it if you had million Of
dollars in money. If you don't know how
to use bone and muscle and brains, you
would not know how to use gold. If you
let the capital you have lie idle and waste and
rust out, it would be the same thing with
you if you had gold you would only know
how to waste.


Then don't stand, about like great help
less child, waiting for somebody to come in
and feed you, but 90 to work. Take the
first work you can find, no matter what it
is, so that you be sure you do it like Billy
Gray did his drumming-well. Yes, what
ever you undertake, do it well l.; always do


it best. If you manage the capital you
already have, you will soon hove - ! --
more to manage but if you can't


manage the capital God has given yoe e


will never have any other to manageA


you hear, young man.
Year: 1860

THE FIRST BABY-A writer in a Sand
which Island paper thinks Eve, must have
been little perplexed, when having seen
only the full grown man, Adam, she was
called upon to administer to the infant
Cain. Doubtless she was little aston
ished at the antics of the little stranger
and at times found soma embarrassment in
in managing him. She had no old nurse
to consult, or convenient Aunt Dorothy to
cal in. Yet the little Cain didn't suffer on
that account, as is eyiden: from the fact that
he grew up lusty youth. Every baby is
a perpetual surprise to its mother; what an
astonishment therefore must the first baby
have been to the first mother
Year: 1860

A garden is a beautiful book, written by
the finger of God; every flower and every
leaf is letter. You have only to learn
them and he is poor duce that can not il
he will do that--to learn them, and ioin
them and then go reading, and reading, and
you will find yourself carried from the eartl
to the skies by the beautiful story you are
going through. You do not know wha
beautiful thoughts-for they are nothing
short-grow out Of the ground, and seem t.
talk to man /; and then there are some
aowers--they always seem to be like oyer
dutiful children--tend them ever so little
and they come up and flourish, and show
as may say, their bright and happy faces
toyou.
Year: 1860

When the news of the nomination was re-
ceived in Springfield, Mr.. LINCOLN was in
the State Journal Office. A boy came head
long into the room where was sitting, with
sealed dispatch, which he placed in his hand.
Mr.. LINCOLN opened it and a sudden pallor
came over his features. He gazed upon it
intently nearly three minutes. Then his
customary smile returned and he rose say
ing swell my boys, there is little woman
down at our house who is interested in this
business - and he walkad away without
any further appearance of agitation, to in
form Mrs. LINCOLN Of the joyful news.
Year: 1860

ENGAGING MANNERs There are a
thousand pretty, engaging little ways
which person may put on without rum
ming the risk of being deemed either atfec.
ted or foppish The sweet smile, the quiet,
cordial boz, the earnest movement in ad-
dressing a friend, or more especially a
stranger, whom one may recommend 10
our good regards, the graceful attention,
which is so captivating when united with
self possession on---these will insure us the
good regards Of even cburl. Above al
there is = certain soflness Of the manner
which should be cultivated which adds
charm that entirely eompensates for
lack OF beauty.
Year: 1860

Is THERE MORE FRAUD-AND IS Col. JOHNSON RESPONSIBLE FOR IT?-Ihe ears of Arkansas have been filled with piteous howls of fraud and corruption ever since the nomination of Col Johnson: The charges are the following

 That the vote of Van Buren county was cast on forged papers.

 That the vote of Benton county was inn properly cast.

 That the vote of Green county was inn properly cast.

 That the vote of Lawrence county was improperly cast-and that T. c. Peek frauluently cast the vote of Fulton county.

 All of which objections may be reduced to single one, viz. Gel. Johnson scas nominated for Governor and it is urged that his nomination should be discarded by democrats on this account.

 We have shown the disgusting hypocrisy of these vain croakers, and the sophistry of their arguments: but while fraud and for gerry is their battle cry, what has the Old Line Democrat to say of the vote of Craw- ford county? Col. Burrow was the only representative from that county in the State convention, and we are credibly informed that he was not appointed by the county con- vention, either c delegate or prory-then what authority had he for casting the vote of that county? Can the Old Line Demo- crat tell us?
Year: 1860

We ask every honest and disinterested man in the State to calmly reflect why all this Reorganization and opposition to the policy of the democratic party, and the re- gular nominee exists. The reason seems very plain to those familiar with the sub- feet of winding up the banks. and making them pay their own liabilities out of their assets, and the mortgaged lands. Those who oppose this policy of the democratic
Year: 1860

RECTOR ON THE OLD LINE DEMocRAT.- We deeply sympathise with our neighbor; Judge Rector quotes the vote of MT. Peek as an evidence of the fraud of the State con vention. At Batesville the Judge went so far as to repudiate the Old Line Democrat, and branded its exposition of his policy as an injurious misrepresentation. Can't our neighbor give another interpretation of the financial mystery? Let this third opin- ion of the Judges also be incorporated n- to the Arkansas reports-we will soon have q volume.
Year: 1860

MILITARY BALL.-The military of Little Rock gave us an evidence of their gallant spirit in the way of ball, on the evening of the fifth. This was the grand finale to the patriotic demonstrations of the glorious anniversary of American liberty. The ball was decidedly an elegant affair, and was as pleasant as " fair women and brave men i" could render such an occasion. The banner, the work of seven pair of fair hands, foated over the gay assemblage, like the milky baldrick of the skies. '" Long may,sit wave! It was late in the night, ere the music ceased and the gay dance ended
Year: 1860

county or two were cast for them against the wishes of the people. by what species of logic can they justify the repudiation of State policy adopted unanimously by properly constituted authorities? Wehave convicted the Old Liners of fraud and for gery, of Reorganization and corruption, of repudiating the State policy as we'll as the nominees, of reckless disregard of truthfulness and political honesty, and the virtuous indignation of the outraged peo- pie will bring in the verdict of "guilty" in the first degree, when the ides of Au- gust shall have rolled around.
Year: 1860

Now to be plain, we are tired of these old family collars which we have worn for more than twenty years. With them we have done good pull I;ng. vet never rag has been furnished us to keep the hard old things from galling our necks.-Od Line Democrat"

 Rector's high stand up collar is just the thing for these acknowledged collar men; hut we fear the hot month of August will take the starch out of 1t.
Year: 1860

The Old Line Democrat comes out this week, covered with smiles, and gives courly rebuke to the last True Democrat for being "filled with course personalities, vulga bill lingsgate, and scurrilous svituperation" We certainly regret that we should deserve the censure of our neighbor who is so noto- riously digni6ed and argumentative in his style, @ but our long residence in Ar kansas has fastened her peculiar vernacular in many respects upon us and crowds out the politer literature of the more northern States; for example, when we have proved conclusively that large majority of the democracy of the northern district refused to repudiate the State convention, and shown "6y .facts and Jfgures," that re- spectable majority expressly ratified it. we feel justified in pronouncing as .false any statement to the contrary; when we see man endeavoring to deceive the people by making what he must know to be false statements, we think it our duty to hold him up to the country in his true colors. The words used for this purpose may sound harsh to sensitive northern ears, but they fully express our meaning and must go for what they are worth.

 Our good humored neighbor still insists I1 xl h,c dated by the democracy of the State, and we as tenaciously contend that it has done no such thing, but that on the contrary it has been fully and expressly indorsed. Our neighbor backs his assertion by his unsupported declaration; we on the other hand produce the facts and figures and defy their refutation.

 Our cotemporary charges us with at- tempting to defeat the election of Hind man, and of " stabbing him under the fifth, " all our protestations and the total absence of proof, to the contrary notwithstanding; we are also accused of being bilious, etc., etc.

 We have laid down this proposition, viz that the democracy of the State has expressly ratified the action of the State convention-we have endeavored to prove it by facts and figures; the Old Line Demo- crat without controverting our position, still sticks to it's own, which is just the opo- site-now both positions cannot be cor rect, and we are willing for the people to decide between us. In conclusion we will respectfully challenge the Old Line Demo- crat to deny the following: That TWELVE votes in the Dover convention acting inde pendently for the counties they represented voted to ratify the State convention-that four other counties casting SEVEN votes, by positive resolution ratified the action of the State convention; that 12 and make l9; that 19 is majority of all the votes cast upon this subject; that seven other votes, of five other counties expressly stated in the Dover convention that they did not wish to be understood as voting to repu- diate the State convention-that the l9 votes ratifying, and the seven other votes which refused to repudiate make 26, two thirds of the entire vote of the district, which has positively refused to repudiate the action of the State convention. If our neighbor can successfully deny these prop ositions we will acknowledge ourselves defeated, but until then we must claim the advantage of the argument.
Year: 1860

How THE LION Woos HIS BRIDE.-I.et Us
first sketch the story of the lions life-begin-
uiDg with bis marriage, which takes place to-
wards the end Of January. He has first to
seek bis wife, but as the males are more abHnd-
ant than the females, who are often cut off in
infancy, it is not rare to find a young lady
pestered by the addresses of three or four gal
lants who quarrel with the acerbity of jealous
lovers. If one Of them does not succeed in
disabling or driving away the other madam,
impatient and dissatisfied, leads them into the
presence Of an old lion, whose roars she has
appreciated ut a distance. The lovers fly at
him with the temerity of youth and exaspera-
ton The old fellow receives them with calm
assurance breaks the neck OF the first with
his terrible Jaws, smashes the leg of the Sec
ond, and tears out the eye Of the third No
sooner is the day Won aud the field clear, than
the lion tosses his name in the air as be roars,
and then crouches by the side Of the lady,
who, as a reward for his courage, cks his
wounds caressingly.


When two adult lions are the rivals, the eu-
counter is more serious. An Arab, perched
in q tree one night, saw liOness followed by
a tawny hon With fnll grown name she lay
down at the foot Of the tree, the lion stopped
on his path ard Eeened to listen The Arab
then heard the distant growing of lion,
which was instantly replied to by the lioness
ander the tree This made her husband roar
furiously. The distant lion was heard approach
ing, and as he came nearer the Iioness roared
louder, which seemed to agitate her husband,
fGr he marched toward her as if to force her
/ to be silent and then Sprang back to bis old
post, roaring defiance at bis distaut rival This
continued for about an hour, when black lion
made his appearance on the plain. The lioness
arose as if to 90 towards him but her hus-
band, guessing her intention, bounded toward
bis rival. The two croached and sprang upon
each other, rolling on the grass in the embrace
Of death Their bones cracked, their flesh was
torn, the cries Of rage and agony rent the air,
aud all this time the lioness crouehed and wag-
ged her tail slowly in sign Of satisfaction.-
When the combat ended, and both warriors
were stretched On the plain, she arose, smelE
them, satisfied herself that they were dead,
and trotted off quite regardless Of the uncom-
plimentary epitaph.


This, Gerard tells Us is an example Of the
conjugal fidelity of miaday; whereas the lion
never quits his wife unless forced, and is quite
pattern Of conjugaI attentions Westmins-
ter Reriep
Year: 1860

~TLe las numbsr OF the EEizayJo1Ezy has
q good auecdote Of a man who rarely failed TO
90 to bed intoxicated and disturb bis wife dur
ing the whole night Upon his being charged
bv friend that he never went TO bed sober,
he indignantly denied the charge. aud gave the
incident Of one particular night IN proof:
Pretty soon after got into bed, ny wife
said. WHY, husband what Is the matter with
you Yoa act Strangely


There's nothing the mstter with me- said
I " Nothing at all


al an slre there is,S said she, you don't
act natural at all. Shan't get Up and get
something for you r


And up she got, lighted candle, and came
to the bedside to look al NE, shading the light
With her hand


al knew there was something strange about
you" said she, why yOu are so5y 7


Now this is fact, and my wife viii swear
to it, so don't you SANDER NE any Elore by say
ing that haven't been 70 bed sober IN ST
months, cause 1 have
Year: 1860

SHrN AFEECTATIoN-The is nothing more
beautiful in the young than simplicity Of char.
acter. It is honest, frank and attractive How
different is affgctation The simple minded
are always natural They are at the same
time original Tbe affected are never natural
And as for originality, if they ever had it,
they have crushed it out, aud hurried it from
sight utterly. Be yoarself then, young friend!
To attempt 70 be anybody else is worse than
folly II IS an impossibility to attain it. 1t
is contemplate to try. But suppose YOU couLd
succeed in initiating the greatest man that ever
figured in history, would that make you any
the greater? By no means. You would al
ways suffer in comparison With the initiated
one, and be thought Of only as a shadow Of a
zabStauca-the echo Of a real sound-the
counterfeit Of pure coin DR.. johnson apt
" considered the Lcartless imitator for such
is he Who agccts the character Of another to
the Empress Of Russia, when she had Gons
the freakish thing Of erecting palace OF ice.
II was splendid and conspicuous while it last
ed bit the san so5n melted it, and caused is
attractions TO dissolve into common water,
while the humblest stone cottage stood firm
and uaharmed Let the fabric, though ever
50 humble be at least real Avoid affecting
the character Of another, however great
Build your own. Be what God intended you
10 be-yoaTseH, and not somebody else. Shuu
afectatou.
Year: 1860

First, That II Is easy TO combine the cap
ital States in defense of even external inter
ests, while il is hard to unite tho labor States
in common policy.


Second, That the labor States have q
natural loyalty to the Union, while the cap,
ital States have natural facility for alarm
ing that loyalty by threatening disunion.


Third, That the capital States do not
practically distinguish between Legitimate
and constitutional resistance to the extension
of slavery in the common Territories Of the
Union, and unconstitutional aggression
against slavery established by local laws in
the capital States.
Year: 1860

DEMOCRATIC MEETING AT CoLusA.-The
communication, in another place, giving an
account oft Democratic meeting at Colusa
on saturday night, is from an old and well
known Administration Democrat at that
place and is fully reliable The Express, in
It's account of the meeting, states that no
cheers were proposed for the Dougas and
johnson ticket We are authorized to saw
such cheers were proposed, and moreover
heartily responded to.
Year: 1860

DOUGLAS IN THE MOUNTAINS this
caption, the Central Californian published at
Placerviiie, says; AT this particular time
there is no question of more interest to voters
generally, than what course the Democracy
are taking in this canvass. And, although
we have no prophets or sons of prophets
among MS, various and numerous are the pre-
dictons as to the failure.


We shall use only facts In this city seven
out of eight of those who have declared
themselves thus far are for the regular uoni
| nees, Douglas and Johnson But of thos,
| Democrats who voted what is known as the
regular ticket of last year-the Administra-
tion ticket SO called -three-fourths of them so
far as they have declared are for the same
candidates Any amount of reckless asser-
tions may be heard daily upon our etreets
from few noisy supporters of Breckinrdge,
but The masses of the democracy are true to
their party, so far as any declaration has been
made.


And the people generally have declared
hereabouts in some way or other.


But, as the question is often asked, some
pains have been taken to ascertain how it is
IN other parts Of this county. and the news
We have is that the Democracy are going ms Il
party for their regular standard bearer This
we hear from Others who have been through
the county and believe it true. What is said
of this city is from personal intercourse with
the party.


The idea is industrously circulated that the
Democracy which supported the Curry ticket
last year only have declared as party for
the nominees 1t is far from true. On the
contrary, the great majority of the regular
party supper the ticket for the same reason
that they supported the Latham ticket in the
last eanvass-they stand 10y the organiza
ton.
Year: 1860

It is better to 90 to sleep on the right
side. fer then the stomachc is very much


in the position Of a bottle turned upside
down. and the contents aided in passing
out by gravitation


If one goes to sleep on TIC left side,
the operation Of cmptying the stomache
of its contents is more like drawing water
from Il well. Altar going to sleep let TIC
body take its own position. If you sleep
ON your back, especially soon after II
heavy meal, the weight of the digestive
organs and that of the food, resting on the
great vein of the body, near the back bone,
it, and arrests the flow of blood
more or less.


If the arrest is partial, the sleep is dis
tnrbed, and there arc unpleasant dreams.
If the meal has been recent or hearty the
arrest is more decided, and the various
sensations, such as falling over preci-
piec, or the pursuit Of Il wild beast, other
DANGER aud the dcspcrat effort
to get rid oi' it. arouses us that sends
IN tf@ staqnation blood, and we awake in
Il frighf, or trembling. or perspiration, or
feelings Of exhaustion, according to the
degree Of ,tagnation and the length or
strength Of the effort Made 70 escape the
dancer Eating a large or what is called
a hearty neal" before going to bed,
should alWay, be avoided; it Is frequent
cause of nightmare, and sometimes the
cause OF sudden death.