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Year: 1859

The temporary removal of the organ of st. Paul's
Cathedral, London, has given the Dean and Chap
ter opportunity for the enlargement of the space
Tor services 1t has been decided not to allow the
organ to be erected the entrance to the choir
TO take away the present SCREEN and to remove the
monuments of Lord Nelson and Lord Collingwood
to some other part of the Cathedral. Tho organ
Will be retained in the case which was design
ed by Sir Christopher Wren, and will be removed
to the gallery under the centre arch on the north
side. The rails of the Whispering Gallery, and
the heavy cornice under it, have been recently
gilded, giving splendor to the magnificent dome
which is very striking.
Year: 1859

The Berlin correspondent of the New York Her.
od says that the Schiller festival in the Prussian
capital was failure. The petty vexations of the
police, the evident reluctance and ill-grace with
which the government had consented to ANYTHING
approaching popular demonstration, and the per
idious insinuations Of the Kreuz Zeitng party had
that they felt far inclined to give opent vent
to their indignation than participate in festive dis
plays. The Only part of the proceedings that
was calculated to excite the interest of the pub
lie at large, was the laying the foundation stone to
monument of Schiller, and even this bore much
more of an official than popular character.
Year: 1859

The value of the censorship Of the press,


mon in Europe, is illustrated by letter from st.


Petersburg, which says: "There is a good story


going the rounds of the city of one of these official


critics, who struck out of manual of chemistry
by the way, the first book of the kind printed in


Russia-t6e name of prussc acid, alleging as his
reason for so doing that it insult to the


Emperor for so deadly and virulent poison to
bear the name of the country governed by the un-
Gle Of his Majesty"
Year: 1859

POLITENESs IN HAYTL-Hayti has been aptlv
called the curly headed France of the West; and
with respect to manners the definition is as just as
it is witty. Poteness pervades every class OF So
cetv in Hovti. If is as prominent in the cabins OF
the mornes as in the parors of the cities. Enter a
retail store to purchase orange or bunch OF
flo bananas and if you do not first salute the mar
c5apde, she will regard you deficient In good
manners. So, ALSO when you leave; if you do as
they do in Hayti you must bid her, good day
Breechess boys call their comrades Monsieur.
ration II is rude to ask any question in the
street or on the road until you touch your hat and
say r,Bon Jour Monsieur" Ladies kiss when they
meet and sometimes do the men-with men!
Year: 1859

RUNAwAY.-A team attached to q
lumber wagon went kiting up Brady street
yesterday afternoon, scattering every thing
that came in Its way. They we're captured
without serious damage to anything but
the wind of the horses.
Year: 1859

THE Cry MARKEr.-It appears that
there 10 too much good sense in the council
to admit of passing the ordinance which was
drafted some time since. and which some
thought proper to put into execution. The
resolution Of Alderman Morley. passed at
the last meeting, is q step in the right di.
rection. The proprietors of the City Mar.
ket houses do not intend to be hard on the
city, though it must be confessed they have
the power to take advantage if they choose
so to do. But this is not the case They
only want their just due, and the city must
toe the mark. There is no alternative. The
city cannot force butchers to 60 to these
houses. neither can it get rid of settle
ment We are sometimes astonished that
there is desire on the part of any one to
try to creep out Of this bad spot, BY op-
pressing the butchers. 1t is . game that
will not win, however. That cock never
did and never will fight.


We hope within short time the matter
will be brought to close Let it be known
just how much the Market House proprie
tors want for their expense and trouble, and
let that be paid over and no grumbling. The
sooner this bad scrape is cleared up the
better for all concerned.
Year: 1859

T The Street Commissioner has
been doing good thing in fixing up the
street and side walk in front Of the College
grounds. The College folks. out Of spite,
would not clean off the side walk. but the
lob 10 done, and no thanks to them,
Year: 1859

E The Horticultural Society are
making extensive preparations to have
their first exhibition as creditable as posi-
BILE. The gentlemen who have the matter
in charge, are every way competent to con.
duct the affairs Of the Society, in most
excellent manner.
Year: 1859

10 Some jovial thieves entered house
in the LIST ward last night, We are told and
stole a quantity Of bread, meat and other
eatables. They then stole some wood, and
going out into the street 10 the immediate
vicinity Of the house, they cooked and ate
their meat, &c. Some of the people in the
lst ward must sleep amaIing soundl
Year: 1859

ORA Sage once remarked that the merit Of
aD editor consisted more 10 keeping things out
than in putting them in his paper. The Aforc'
said Sage doubtless knew Of what he spoke;
and must have been an active editor Of an in
land city daily.
Year: 1859




LTThose high.minded, liberal, business
extensionsts, who desire US to contribute our
share towards bringing them into public notice,
and advance their interests by recommendinS
them and their wares 10 our Numerous readers
and patrons, arc informed that there is such q
thing as reciprocity in trade, aud without thai
we must decline contracts Of the kind sought 10
be forced upon us. Persons who give all their
cash printing patronage 10 out Of the way shops
are respectfully requested to apply at such
places for the advancement Of their interests
before the public. Alittle experience iu that
plan Of reaching the public eye and ear will
doubtless have the effect of convincing those
who are not incOrrigibly stupid, that the inter
ests Of widely circulated journals and of the
citizens of the place in which they are located
are mutual. Men Of ordinary astuteness under
stand this, and act upon the principle
Year: 1859

NKw PRAoTIcE.- -Community- particular,
ly the active, business portion Of it--has set-
tied down upon ''new practice" Time
was when reputation, merely, was passport
to favor diploma would secure q man a
position which he had not the merit or abil-
ity to fill when, indeed, al most all positions
from tho lawimaker to the editorwere filed
by gentlemen Of reputation'--and, to use a
vulgarism, they wasn't any thing else.


Community has become prActioal--eminent-
ly 30. A man is hereafter to be taken for
his practical worth This course win obtain
in every vocation, profession and position OF
life it will extend to all business and every
ramifcation of trade and it is right
Let the test Of merit and worth be made
universal Those who can como up To the
requirements will, as they deserve, take the
lead. Drones win initiate their example
and prepare themselves to be useful, or fall
out of sight Of the ranks Of progress Com.
petition has shOrpened the wits Of the pros
gressive, and in order to attain success, they
are compelled to be 'trimmers" They can,
not carry dead weight and keep In the van


No employer can afford to keep drones in
his employ every body must work--with
mind and hands oil must labor who would
maintain position with'the workers of the
present day. The thew practice has been
instituted, and we must face the music.
Year: 1859




This was an action Of replevin, for the recovery
of a mule. commenced by Gray against Jones before
justice, and taken bv appeal to The Circuit Court.
Judgement was for The defendant, an1 a. appeal in
TO this coart By the plaintiff. There is bill
Of exceptions. and all tha. know Of the facts is
frcm the statement cOntsined in special verdict
found by the jury, which is as follows:


ave find the mule in controversy, was won frsm
the plaintiff horse race in the State Of Alabama
by J. II. Borea, and sold to the defendant. James
W. Jones, and that the mule was worth $40, q
that the suit brought within ninety days. If.
in the opinion Of the court the jus ice who tried
the had jurisdiction, then we find fer the Tl4in-
tiff and assess his damages to cent. But if,
in the opinion Of the court, the justice had jarts-
dietion, then We find FOR the defendant and assess
the value Of the mule at $1,000, and assess his
damages to ten dsllars."


Upon this verdict, the court rendered judgment
for the defend ant, in the alternative, that failure
Of the plaintiff 10 return the mule, the defendant re-
cover the Of Sll0 90, the estimated value, and
also the damages assessed for the de entiOn. The
ground Of this judgment, it is said in the argument
was the want of jurisdiction in the justice.


We think the judgment erroneous. If the justice
had no jurisdiction TO have rendered judgment in
favor CT the plaintiff for more than 6ny dollars,
aud clearly he had not then it is obvious that judg
ment for a larger amount could not have been Irn-
oered in favor Of Tie defendant. And The jurislic.
lion of the Circuit Court, the appeal being linn
ed 10 the jurisdiction CT the Juslee, 10 judgment
could be rendered by the former tribunal, that
might not have been rendered BY the latter. Ia
this view it was error to render judgment for the
value CT the mule, above fifty dollars


But il is said this was not admissible i1asmuch
the value had been fixed by the jury at large
amount, and the Court had no power change u
The case is a one, in this respect. The aPPa-
rent difficulty in which the is involved results
from the erroneous assumption that the case was
rot within the Justices jurisdiction The juris-
dicion Of the justice, it is true, was limited TO fifty
dollars. But then it sllo Hable for the Plsin~
tiff 70 ( an estimate Of value upon the mule, at
less sum than the real value, and within the juris-
dicon Of the justice and he, in fact, did do so,
the value being laid in the warrant net exceed
ing fifty dollars And by this valuation, vOuuta-
ry made, for the purpose Of the suit, the plaintiff
woald have been bound. Ifthe mule had not been
restored to his possession by the writ he could not
have recovered, on the trial, greater amount than
Year: 1859

NNTANTED.--The Principal Of q large Boarding school


w foryoung ladies' situated the town Of Columbia, de
employ lady the capacity of House keeper One of
experience be preferred Port Uher reference apply at this
ONCE Ianl9-tfi
Year: 1859

- Every body is talking about Cuba


Every body says we must have Cuba. SO say


We, let US have Cuba But how will we get
her? Spain says she won't sell her, and We
couldn't take her hy force even if we desired
to, without q tremendous sacrifice of blood
and treasure. for the reason that nearly the
best Notifications in the world are in Cuba
and the Spanish Army is one of the most
formidable standing armies ever organized
upon earth. Still if there were aggression
upon our rights by Spain, of course we would
fight her and take Cuba into the bargain in
the long run, but fighting is not the true
policy.


There is one thing, however, that we can
do, and that is, if Spain refuses to sell us the
any one else England must not have it nor
France, and they are the only powers likely
to grasp at it, beside our own Government.
Nevertheless it has been in the hands of each
of those Governments for short period at a
time. Unopposed 10y the United States, it
may fall into their hands, or the hands of one
of them, again. This the United States, in
our humble opinion, should never permit
She should launch her navies into Y c contest
and the multtudinous seas incarnardne, >
before she suffered it. 1t would be destruc-
tive of her national pride to do it. 1t would
be allowing the mouth of her greatest river
to be commanded, and "a channel to be OPEN
ed into the very heart of the country. 1t
would be allowing her marine communication
with the distant States of the Pacific to be
obstructed 10y permanent naval armament
drawing its supplies from a convenient and
never failing source 1t would be suffering
state Of things which would produce a thous.
and inconvenences, annoyances and hindran.
ces to our Government in the march of her
onward destiny. 1t is consummation by no
means to be wished, and should be prevented
at all hazards.


The putting thirty millions of dollars into
the hands of the President, to be used as so
much advance purchase money in the acqui-
sition of Cuba, would, we are inclined to be
lieve, be no very bad policy True, the pres.
ent President might not be enabled to use il, ,
but it would be very convenient sum in the
hands Of his successor, or some one of his sue
eessors. with which to clinch some advanta.
geous bargain at an opportune moment with
the Spanish government That Government
needs money, or rather the successive factions
which rule the Government need it, and there
VIII come TINE sooner or later, when, dur
ing some political revulsion or revolution the
party in power will only be too glad to make
transfer of the Island to the United States
if thirty millions be pail down in advance
sh in hand for the purchase.
Year: 1859

TELEGRAPn TO NEvADA.-Parties in this
city are setting on foot an enterprise which
has for its object an immediate telegraphic
connection between Marysville and Nevada,
via Timbuctoo, Rough and Ready and Grass
Valley. At present electric communication
between this place and Nevada must be had
all the way around by Sacramento, which
IS very inconvenient There is no doubt that
o line of this kind would pay largely.
Year: 1859

A late scientific paper, in discussing the
peculiarities of the Mississippi river and
the country upon its borders, maintains
this theory:


The width and depth of the river from
Cairo and Memphis to New Orleans is not
materially increased, vet immense addi-
tions are made to the quantity of water in
the channel by large streams from both
the eastern and western sides of the Mis-
sissippi. The question naturally arises,
what becomes of this vast added volume
of water? 1t certainly never reaches New
| Orleans, and as certainly does not evspo-
rate, and of course it is not confined to
the channel of the river. for it would rise
far above the entire region south of us. If
well is sunk anywhere in the Arkansas
bottom, water is found as soon as the wa
ter-level of the Mississippi is reached
When the Mississippi goes down the water
sinks accordingly in the well. The owner
of a saw-mill, some twenty miles from the
Mississippi, IN Arkansas, dug well to
supply the boilers of his engine during the
late flood. When the water receded his
well was dry. He dug ditch to an ada
cent lake to let the water into his we'll:
the lake was drained, and the well was
dry again; having literally drank ten acres
of water in less than a week. The infer
ence is, that the whole valley of the Mis-.
sissippi from its banks to the highlands
on either side, rests on a porous substra-
tum, which absorbs the redundant waters,
and thus prevents that degree of accumu.
lation which would long since have swep,
New Orlevns into the Gulf but for this
provision of nature
Year: 1859

Plant Tree.


Were we desirous of implanting an in
herent spirit of patriotism in the heart Of
a child. we know no easier way it could be
effected than by this means: PLANT a
tree There Is an instructive attachment
that springs up in the heart of the young
towards the spot of earth which has been
thus consecrated, which is found in no
other occupation of life, and which all the
Influences of education cannot remove
The remembrance of the dear trees as
they received the first care of our youth
tul hands, of whose delicious fruits we
have often partOOk, and under whose
delightful shades we so often gambOl-
ed in the sportive days of boyhood,
ever awaken pleasant retrospect, and
though far removed from their immediate
locality, Vet in after years the mind Of the
old man, when fortune frowns and friends
desert. or when his young sensibilities
have been blunted and scared by the
rough hand Of time, will turn with feel
| ings of delight to his boyhOod's day, when
! he roved amid the bowers of his sylvan
| home. and he will wish to be permitted to
| die under those same shades, with the
| evening zephyr tanning his pallid cheek
a erst it did in the good old days of yore.
Dreadful has ever been the onset of an
| incensed yeomanry when called from their
| embowered cottages to repel the encroach-
mentS of some proud invader. ask as a
| boon, that when in the ever eventful
round of circumstances ] may be impelled


to follow the military banner of some
| chiettain thirsting for conquest, that kind
/ fate will not allow me to be led against a
| rural nation. Even with an Alexander. a
Caesar, or a Napoleon, to lend the prestige


of his name to uphold our banner, |
| should consider defeat inevitable, for such


a people, striking for their altars and


their homes, would 90 forth knowing no


alternative but to conquer or to die
| From the vindictive rage and determined


resentment of such "a population, good
| heaven deliver me-
Year: 1859

II the Disposer of human events. should
permit this world to stand "a thousand
years longer, the time will surely come
when every man who tills the earth will
be compelled to be a good farmer or starrs
10 death. This Is a strong expression, but
as true a it is strong. Old fogyism may
continue to denounce those who labor to
improve the agriculture of the South :;
but the time will come when their poster
ity will see their stupid folly, and be forced
to improve the soil which their ancestors
butchered. The day has already come
with England, France, Germany and Ire
land, where agriculturists are compelled
from true necessity to study their profess
sion, and improve their systems of farm
ing economy, to an extent limited only by
their power to do so. If they were to
pursue the course that the planters of the
South are now pursuing, III less than twen-
ty years they would either starve to death,
or be forced to leave their own, their ma
| tive land"


But the question arises, what is good
farmer?" There is much diversity of
| opinion on this question. Sometimes the
men who run over the most land per
| hand, and drag out of the soil the most
money. regardless of the wear and tear OF
land, and team and force, are called good
| farmers-yea. the best farmers. But is
that true? ! admit it not To do SC
would be equivalent to admitting that the
doctor who made the most money, regard
less of the lives he destroyed, was the best
| doctor. The one would be about as true
As the other-both are utterly false.


| good farmer" according to the bes
and most intelligent agriculturists of the
South, is the man who improves his land
and the appearance of his place, improves
his stock and takes care of his force
And think this definition of the term i
correct. No man. however intelligent OF
other subjects, no matte how much mo
ney he may be making for The time being
should be considered good farmer" il
the striCtest sense of that term, who gross
w. neglects the improvement of his sol
and force and stock. No man who cult
Yates the hills and permits his fields I
wash into yawning gullies, and turns then
out for his children to reclaim at the cos
of much labor and expense, or leave thei
old home, or starve, is to any extent what
ever a good farmer No man who dC
nounces agricultural improvement, an


agricultural journals totes corn in one en-


of his sack, and a rock in the other end t


balance it. because his daddy" did i


can possibly be good farmer"
Year: 1859

An experienced English pig breeder


says: In breeding, the sow should be


larger than the male and the male the


most perfect of the two. as the sows will
generally breed to the boar; that is, the
good or bad points of the male will pre-
ponderate more in the young ones than
those Of the sow. And ! have found that
the boar by which the sow may have had
pigs before, has great deal to do with the
following litter. ! once put black sow
to white boar, and had some black and
white pigs; | then put her to a black
boar and still had some black and white
and had to wait three litters before get
ting rid of the white. once purchased a
large bred Yorkshire boar. and more than
ninety per cent. of his stock died from in


| ilammation of the lungs, or were more OF
less affected. afterwards learned thai
! the sire of the boar died from the same
| complaint. All this convinced me how
particular one should be in using a pur,
and sound male animal. ."-Geuesee Farmer
Year: 1859

CLEANING SILK.-The following is said to
be an excellent recipe for cleaning silk :
Pare three Irish potatoes into thin slices
and wash them well. Pour on them half
a pint of boiling water, and add to it an
equal quantity of alcohol. Sponge the
silk on the right side, and when half dry,
iron it on the wrong side. The most deli
cate colored silks may be cleaned by this
process, which is equally applicable to
| cloth. velvet or Grape.
Year: 1859

WINTER PEARs-Many having late Pear
trees lose their fruit by letting it hang too
long on the tree to ripen. If the seeds Of
the Pears are turning black, carefully pick
the fruit 10y hand, and lay them on dry
shelves in a cool place they will ripen
better there than on the tree, and being
under lock and key the proprietor may
stand n chance Of eating some of his own
fruit. We are now eating the finest WHIT,
Doy7m6s and SekelS we have ever met with
ripened in the house.
Year: 1859

"JoHN," said father to his son one
day when he caught him shaving the
down off his upper lip don't throw your
shaving water out where there are any
barefooted boys, for they might get their
feet pricked."
Year: 1859

Professor Hamilton, in an adress on
hygiene to the graduates of the Buffalo
Medical College, denounces broadcloth rs
an enemy to exercise and therefore to
health. He says:


"Amcrican gentlemen hive adopted as
a notional custom, broadcloth-a thin tight
fitting suit OF broadcotl. To foreigners
we seem always to be in mourning, we
travel in black, we write in black, we work
in black. The priest and lawyer, the lit.
erary man, the doctor, the mechanic, choos.
es always the Same unvarying monoto-
nous black broadcloth; style and mate.
rial which never ought to have been adopt
ed out of the drawing room or pulpit; be.
cause it is at the North no suitable pro.
lection against the cold, nor is it indeed
anv more suitable at the South. 1t is TO
thin to be warm in the winter, and too
black to be cool in the summer; but espoc
tally do we object to it because the wcarer
is always soiling it by exposure. Yodng
gentlemen will not play ball, or pitch
quoits, or wrestle and tumble or any other
similar thing, lcas. their broadcloth should
be offended. They will not 60 out into
the storm because the broadclolh will loose
its lustre if rain falls upon it, they will not
run because they have no confidence in
the strength Of tho broadcloth, they dare
not mount horse or leap fence, because
broadclotb as everybody knows, is so faith
less. So these young men, those old men
merchants, mechanics, and all learn tC
wax, talk and think soberly and carefully
they seldom venture even to laugh to th'
| full evlent Of their Sides"
Year: 1859

FEAR OF DEATn.-Death can have nc
power ind pendent Of our mental condition.
Fear is always connected with weak i'm
imagination, while it is easily overcome by
a strong one, even on mere principles ct
mental and mo,al philosophy. The fear
of death, like the Kingdom Of heaven, is
within, for while the latter is involved IN
our ardent desire to do good, the former
is regulated by the strength Of our immag
ination. The man that would live happy
in life and resigned in his death, must look
well to the desire Of his heart and to tho
proper culture of his Imagination and good
desires, are never known 10 die thousand
deaths in fearing one.