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Year: 1859

BeA. A large number of the merchants
of indianapolis have agreed that they will
not take the "old or "Spanish quarter
of dollar hereafter for more than twenty
cents. They cannot use them at greater
rate than that, and of course they cannot
afford to take them. They say they have
adopted the rule simply to save themselves
from loss
Year: 1859

JUsrIcE.-The Shasta Courier, an Admins
tration paper sheet, thus speaks OF the nom
inees of the Douglas Democratic State Con
ventiOn;


This is certainly very able and strong
ticket There is not weak man, so far as
qualifications for the respective positions are
concerned, on the ticket Were they the
nominees Of the regular Democratic Conven-
ton. we would feel like growing over the
ticket As it is, while acknowledging its
ability and strength we have but to say that
it becomes the Convention which will Assem-.
bic on Wednesday next to nomin te a ticket
equally able and pure. and their success will
be beyond all peradventure.


OF the candidate taken from this county
for the exalted position of Supreme Judge.
Royal l. Nprague, we have not word to
say that Is not eulogistic of him as a man.
and commendatory of his qualifications for
the office. We believe him honest and cana
ble and while in an organic tion which cam
pels us to oppose his election will never A.,
so by detracting in the slightest particular
from his exalted worth
Year: 1859

JusT IN TME.-Yesterday evening, when
the heat was extreme. the last chunk of ice
in the establishment gone, the water almost
hot enough to boil an egg, and every man in
the Office painting for breath, and expecting
every minute to he his last-jjust at this dire
and critical moment, huge fragment Of one
of the northern glaciers was rolled up stair:
and deposited in the steaming water In a
trice. it was colder than mountain spring
and revivification was in every drop that
rolled down our parched throAt'. For this
blessing we were indebted to Mr.. Martin, the
gentleInanly and efficient Agent of the SitkO
Ice Company, and may his shadow never b'
less
Year: 1859

The Express admits INTO its columns an ar
ticle severely denunciatory ofCol Whitesides.
This, too, after solemnly declaring, some time
ago that no personal denunciation of eandi-
dates before the Lecompton State Convention
should be allowed in that paper He is &C
cused of resorting to 20 miserable trick" to
obtain the endorsement which he received.
the other day, at the hands Of the LecOmpton
County Convention. He is also virtually &C
eusrd Of direct Justification in order to de-
ceive those who might have defeated his
efforts had he not told them that he was max
ing no efforts of the kind attributed to him.


Now. why so much bitterness against Col
Whitesides? Has not the Colonel rs good a
right to be candidate for Congress from Yuba
county rs Lloyd Magruder to be candidate
for State Printer? Upon what meat hath
this Cesar fed that he is grown 50 arrogant
as to suppose that no other man but himself
has right to be conspicuous in the ranks Of
his party in this county? Has not Colonel
Whitesides served Lecomptonism as long and
as faithfully as he? Has he not also served
it as ably? Why then should he be expected
to give way and abandon all his aspirations
for honor and distinction. simply that Lloyd
Magrudcr may proceed, uninterruptedly and
in the most approved manner, to feather his
nest


This abuse Of Whitesides will have any
thing but a good effect for Magruder in the
Lecompton State Convention. The Colonel
is favorably known to the Lecompton party
all over the State. Personally, he is well
liked by both political parties for his many
amable qualities as IA gentleman. He also
won numerous friends while Speaker of the
lower House of the California Legislature
aud they will remember him for his justice,
suayty and impartiality in the discharge of
his duties, in that capacity. His name, too.
has been long time before the country as
that of candidate for Congress from the
Northern District of California; his chances
have been pronounced good and it can hard
ly be expected that he would surrender every
vantage ground that he has gained in the
past and every prospect that he has for the
future, simply that Lloyd Magruder may fat
ten upon the proceeds of "a lucrative ) tate
office.


As between Colonel Whitosides and Judge
Magruder we have no particular choice. Nei
ther Of them have any sympathies in common
with US, in a political point of view, and it is
immaterial to us which one succeeds before
the Convention. but we cannot refrain from
condemning injustice, wherever we see it,
Colonel Whitesides no doubt labored for the
endorsement which he received, but all who
know him personally will believe that he la.
bored honestly and in manner not unbe-
coming high-minded gentleman.
Year: 1859




UrsRr-A dangerous upset took place, yes


terday afternoon. At about o'clock, on the


Feather River Bridge, at Yuba City One of


he California Company's stages was coming
in loaded with p ssengers and baggage. ten
persons being inside and five on top, when
one of the wheels ran on a dividing beam in
t sc bridge, hosting the stage on one side six
feet high and upsetting it in II trice. The
passengers clung to the stage or several of
them would have been thrown from the
bridge into the river below. Strange to say. |
not soul was injured in the least. The
stage was damaged to the extent only of n |
broken pole. The passengers and baggage |
were conveyed into town by another vehicle.
The cause of the accident was this The |
right passage of the bridge was under repair,
and the extreme end of it was ohstructed, So
as to give evidence that it was not to be
driven over. The driver did not see the OBJ |
struction, on account of it, distance at the |
other end of the bridge. and started through /
the passage as usual. Directly, however, he |
he saw his mistake, vnd wheeled his horses |
suddenly, in order to turn into the left pas
sage. One of the wheel horses did not obey
the rein, and he gave the animal a cut with
his whip. This startled the lead horses
which sprang forward with such rapidity us
to run the wheels of the right side of the
coach high up on the dividing beam above
alluded to- and an upset was the inevitable
consequence. No blame can be attached to
the driver
Year: 1859

THE SPIRIT LAND-Andrew Jackson Da-
vis-who says he has been in the habit of
talking with spirits for thirteen years-lately
gave this account of the Spirit Land, which
he says he has seen:


He did not call the Spirit-land State,
but geographical locality-a place for the
mind. Heaven he called State. He held
that man is progressive in earth-life and the
life hereafter, and that mnn is the climax of
the first sphere or plane, and from this he
passes into the second or Spiritual sphere,
and, finally, from the second to the third
plane, and so on to the sixth sphere or plane,
where the refined particles and essences from
all the earths finally culminate. He main
tained that the Spirit-land was as substan-
tial to Spirits as our earth is to US, but that
it was composed of the refined particles of
all the earths. He said there were numerous
earths, but one Spirit-land or second plane !;
that the Spirit land sustained similar re-
latlon to all earths that the brain of man
does to the different organs of the body, and
that the earths were permeated with spiritual
aura similarly to the shafts of the suns light,
and that all earths were there represented
as every organ of the body is in the BRAIN
He said the milky way was composed of
clusters of suns and planets, and that the
Spirit-land was in the milky way, or rather
between it and another belt of suns and
planets. The sixth sphere, plane or degree
is the last of the series of the present order
of development. In the course of time the
earths will gradually cease to germinate,
and the last generations will pass from them
without experiencing what we call death,
and when the earths shall have exhausted
their vitality, they will themselves die, and
their vitalities will culminate in the sixth
circle or degree, and then new creation or
series of reinements will begin and so on
ad inflatam,
Year: 1859

1t is characteristic of our present public
fife, that almost every conceivable question
is drawn within the sphere of politics
when there, it is incontinenty seized upon
by political parties, and once within the
grasp of parties it is declared improper to
be treated anywhere except in the arena OF
political strife. If it be treated elsewhere
in whatever spirit, it is taken for granted
that the inquiry has been instituted for grov-
cling party purposes. Fair and frank dis
eussion has thus become emasculated. and
the people submit to dictation. There is a
wide class of topics of high Importance
which cannot be taken in hand by the most
upright thinker without its being suspected
that he is in the service of one party or Sec
tion of the country and hostile to the other
PROT. Lie6er
Year: 1859

TROUBLES OF THE NAPA FAIMERs.-Last
year wheat was on the decline. Farmers
were somewhat in debt, and they stored theil
grain, drew money on it, and paid high
interest. They were somewhat behind with
their merchants, and to them they have also
had to pay high interest or do worse. This
year they have worked hard and lived hard
and have made a heavy crop, thinking to
square up, and now wheat is worth nothing
Their expenses have been just as high a;
during any previous year, for no one ha;
mercy on the farmer. The consequence is
that many of them are deeply in debt, and
as they cannot sell their grain at living rates
they naturally wish to hold on to it-thnk-
ing that it would be better by and by.-Re-
porter.
Year: 1859

Mono CoUNTY.-We understand an effort
will be made during the ensuing session of
the Legislature, to form new county of the
country east of the Sierra, and embracing
the Mono Lake and Walkers river region
AT present, the three counties of Calaveras,
Tuonmne and Fresno embrace this section
and the three join on the island in Mono
Lake. BY another year, large portion will
occupy the numerous diggings situated to
the east of the mountains, and it would be
but an act of justice to form it into sepa-
rate county or detach it from the State, to
be joined to the new Territory to be formed
of Western Utah.-Obsercer
Year: 1859

LOCAL POPULAR ERRoRs.-It is an error to
suppose that California is becoming poor be-
cause her surface mines no longer pay an
ounce Gay to the hand. On the contrary,
the richest nations in the world are those
who labor the hardest for their property !;
whilst the poorest are those who make
money without an effort and waste it with
out thought.


1t is popular error to suppose that our
country will be worthless when the mines
are worked out (if haply that time ever
comes). The gold which we labor to pro
duce does not stay at home to enrich us,
but dlffuses itself all over the world leaving
little to the producer but the transitory sat-
lsfactlon OF counting out his pieces. We
shall never grow rich until other pursuits
receive patronage and encouragement, so
that the money we spend for necessares and
luxuries may be told out to our home man.
ufacturers and workers.


1t is great mistake to argue that this
country is only fit for fortune hunters and
spectators to tarry in: and that every man
who is not averaging more than dollar a
day should return to the Atlantic States. If
we make as much money per month as we
could in the Atlantic States, we have still
one advantage which they have not there,
viz: the best climate in the world.


1t is not true that our soil is worthless
(as most western people will have it,) simply
because 1t refuses to grow Indian corn. 1t
will produce most excellent grapes, and one
acre of vineyard is more valuable than
twenty acres of corn.


1t is false notion (still too prevalent in
the mines), that gambling is profitable and
that whiskey and strychnine liquids are
healthy, merely because the climate is dry
in the summer and acet in the winter.


There is an old proverb that IA rolling
stone gathers no moss :" and sadly as 1t has
been treated by Californians, it is neverthe-
less sound philosophy now and forever
San Andreas Indepeadent.
Year: 1859

ga Chinaman who could hardly speak a
word of English, got after reverend gen.
tleman of this place the other day for Ii
cense to sell whiskey, &c, ,on the Chowchila,
mistaking him for the proper officer for such
business. 1t was rather laughable to see
one dispenser of spiritual influences trying
to obtain the endorsement of another who
belonged to different church.
Year: 1859

HINT FOR LADIEs.-Never marry man
until you have seen him eat. Let the can
didate for your hand pass through the or
deal of eating soft boiled eggs. IF he can
do it and leave the table-spread, the napkin,
and bis shirt unspo.ted-take him.
Year: 1859

Since the Oregon fruit has come directly
into competition with the California grown
apples, that fruit has fallen to three or four
dollars per barrel for ordinary, and five to
six dollars per barrel of the very best. We
opine few who read the high prices of twen-
ty fve to forty dollars per barrel Of the last
season, would have dreamed thai so soon
this fruit would have been abundant in the
markets at such low rates.-Napa Reporter
Year: 1859

RELIGIOUS IMPORTANCE OF COOP COOKING.
DIR. Gibbons, who teaches science, philos-
ophy and humanity in the same humorous,
original way for which "Autocrat" Holmes
is famous, made the following remarks, not
long ago. in the course of lecture before
the Alameda agriculturists


! hope my hearers will not consider me
irreverent; it is not my design to preach a
sermon, and yet would like to do something
near it. There are thousand little ills in
life, not sufficiently appreciated by religious
teachers-a thousand ant-hills in the path
more dangerous than mountains to the feet
of the Christian pilgrim. Shall man i'm
bibe and digest with profit the Sabbath min
istrations of the pulpit, whilst he knows that
the gophers are gnawing at the root Of his
fruit trees, and devouring the children's
food? ] have suspicion that the number
of Christians in Alameda county would be
doubled if the gophers were annihilated.-
Shall a man enter the kingdom of Heaven
with his stomach full of sour bread? What
reasonable hope of salvation is there for one
who, every night Of his life, is forced to feed
an army of fleas? At the risk of condem-
nation as a hereto | would urge the priest
to preach agriculture as means of grace,
and the arts of domestic economy, as essen
tial to religious education.


l have alluded to bad bread as a peril of
the soul before this intelligent audience
An argument in proof of the noxious influ-
ence of unwholesome food on mind and NOR
ais, were entirely superfuous. Every one
knows the beneficial effects of lquor-bad
liquor, of course--in converting man into
an animal, or rather devil. All unwhole-
some meats and drinks have the same effect,
in degree hence the Importance of the cul-
mary art A good cook is messenger of
Heaven. | do not mean a fancy cook who
works up seductive dishes, and tempts you
to gluttony-or an ingenious Frenchman
who can convert any raw material into any
thing you please, but a cook who prepares
wholesome food in wholesome manner.
Year: 1859

PERPETUAL SUNsH1NE.-Bayard Taylor,
who last summer made journey to the
North Cape, wrote fiom Hammerfast, Fin
mark, his impression of the continuous po-
lar daylight Of the Arctic latitude, from
which we extract the following: 81 am
tired of this unending daylight, and would
willingly exchange the pomp of the Arctic
midnight for the starlight darkness of home.
We are confused by the loss of night: we
lose the perception of time. One is never
sleepy, but simply tired, and after sleep
of eight hours by sunshine, wakes up as
tired as ever. His sleep at last is broken
and irregular; be substitutes a number Of
short maps, distributed through and finally
gets into state Of general uneasiness and
dist omfort. A Hammerfast merchant who
has made frequent voyages to Spitzbergen,
told me that in the latitude of so degrees
he never knew certainly whether it was day
or night and the cook was the only person
who could tell him.


At first the nocturnal sunshin strikes
you as being wonderfully convenient. You
lose nothing of the scenery; you can read
and write as usual, you never need be in a
hurry, because there is time enough for
everything. 1t is not necessary to do your
days work in the day time, for no night
eometh. You have, nevertheless, some
what of the stress of life thrown off your
shoulders.


There is no compulsive rest, such as dark
ness brings-no sweet isolation which is
the refreshment of sleep. You lie down
in the broad day, and the summons "arise"
attends on the re-opening of your eyes,
l never went below and saw my fellow pas
sengers all around me without a sudden
feeling that something was wrong, that
they. were drugged Or under some unnatur-
al influence, that they thus slept so fast
while the sunshine streamed in through
the port holes.


There are some advantages of this north
ern summer which have presented them
selves to me in rather a. grotesque light.
Think what an aid and shelter is removed
from crime-bow many vices which can
only flourish in the deceptive atmosphere
of night, must be checked by the sober re-
alities of daylight! No assassin can dog
the steps of his victim; no burglar can work
in sunshine; no guilty lovers can hold SOL
enm interviews by moonlight-all conceal
nent is removed, for the sun, like the eye
of God. sees everything, and the secret vi
ces of the earth must be bold, indeed if
they can boar His gaze. Morally, as well
as physically, there is safety in light and
danger in darkness-and yet give me the
darkness and danger! Let the patrolling
sun 60 off his berth for awhile, and show
little confidence in my ability to behave
properly, rather than worry me with his
sleepless vigilance.
Year: 1859

AN ACT


Supplementary 70 an act entitled an &C, to in


corporate the state Bank of Ohio and other


Banking Compaties, passed February "a,


l845.


SEcrIcS l. BE IL enacted By the General As
sena6ly Of the State of Ohio, That whenever re-
ceiver shall have been or shall hereafter be ap-
pointed pursuant to the 4lst section of the act
to which this act is amendatory, a certificate by
the clerk of the proper court of the appointment
of such receiver shall be sufficient authority to
him to take possession of the books. property,
rights, credit, and effects of every description
Of the independent banking company, IN re-
spect of which he is such receiver, and shall be
full authority to the sheriff of the county where
such banking company is located, TO give such
receiver full possession of such books, property,
rights, credits, and effects with the aid of the
county if required so to do, by such receiver.


Sec. 2. Whenever the said receiver shall
have reason to believe that any such banking
company has issued notes of circulation in vio-
lation OF the act to which this act is an amend
ment, or that such banking company is entitled
to any rights, credits, or effects. which have
been improperly taken by any officer. employee,
or stockholder thereof, or any other person, and
which are in the hands of the taker or any 9TH
er person or persons. to whom the sums may
nave been transferred, or into whose hands the
same may have othei wise come, it shall be the
duty of such receiver to investigate fully all the
facts and circumstances touching such transac-
ton, and for the purpose he is hereby authorized
if he deem it necessary and proper to do so. to
issue subpanas for any person found within the
county, where such subpenas shall be issued,
subpGnas shall be issued. commanding them to
attend before him at time and place.
in such county. to be designated in the subpos-
ma, to testify. touching such matters as nay be
enquired Of them by the receiver. and such sub
pGna shall be served by the sheriff OF such
county and the receiver may also insert In such
subppnas. a clause requiring the production be-
fore him Of such books and papers as may be
designated therein, and he shall have the same
power to enforce obedience TO such subpGnas,
and to punish for disobedience threto and for re-
fsng to testify in such case, that justices of the
peace are clothed with in all cases of subpanas
issued by them.


Sec. 5. Such receiver may institute suit in
his own name as receiver, for all rights, credits.
and effects, belonging to such banking compa-
nv, in either the court of common pleas or supe-
nor court Of Franklin County; and upon such
suit being instituted he shall file in such court
q report of his doings. together with the testimo-
ny taken up to that time a. such receiver. and
all the testimony shall stand in all respects as
the testimony taken by master duly appoint
Year: 1859

REsuREcr1oN.-As for the resurrection
of the dead, do not conceive it so very
contrary to the analogy Of nature. when |
behold vegetables left to rot in the earth,
rise up again with new life and vigor; or
a worm to all appearance dead, change its
nature, and that, which in its first being
crawled on the earth, become new species,
and fly abroad with wings.-Berkely
Year: 1859

The SILENCE OF THE BrBLE.-There is
such fullness in that Book that oftentimes
it says much by saying nothing; and mol
only its expressions but its silences are
teaching, like the dial in which the shadow
as well as the light informs us.-Boyle.
Year: 1859

AN ACT


To fix the compensation Of County Commission
SECTION l. Be aeaacted By the General Assem-
bly, of the Stale of Ohio, That each county COM
missioner shall be allowed two dollars and if
ty cents per day, for each and every day that
he may be employed in his official duties; and
five cents per mile in going and returning from
the county seat for each regular or called ses-
sion, not exceeding in the whole eight sessions
in any one year, to be paid out of the county
Year: 1859

PRAYER.-One hour of solitude passed
in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict
with and conquest over single passion or
bosom sin, will teach Us more of thought,
will more effectually awakened the faculty,
and form the habit of reflection, than
years study in the schools without them.
-Coleridqe.
Year: 1859

Do you wish to know the reason
Why your reighbor often calls
On the dashing Widow Wilkins.
And attends her to the ballf
Why his carriage is seen stopping
At some noted clothing store,
And the widow goes shopping
Where she never went befores


If you wish it, viii you


Let me whisper to you sly
If they esteem it proper,


It is not your business why.
Do you wish to know why Peter
Has forsaken friends and home,
And left his native country.
Ina distant land to roamf
Why Polly seems 50 lonely
Since the day that Peter LEFT,
And Of all the friends, the only.
Should appear to be bereftf


II you wish 1t, win tell you


Let me whisper to you sly-
If they have arecson for it,


It is not your business why
Would you like to know the secrets
Of your neighbours house and lifef
How he lives, or how he doesn't,
And Just how he treats his wife?
How he spends his time of leisure,
Whether sorrowful or gay,
And where he goes for pleasure,
To the concert or the playf


If you wish it, / will tell you


Let me whisper TO you sly
If your neighbor is but civil,


II is not your business why.
In short instead of prying
Into other folks affairs,
If you do your own but justice
You will have NO time for theirs.
Be attentive to such matters
As concern you alone,
And whatever fortune fatters,
Let your business be your own.
One word by way Of finis-


Let me whisper to you sly
If you wish to be respected


You must cease to be o pry.