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Year: 1859

GFThe Daily Empire is really the only pa
per in this city which gives the local news
and fresh items Of interest transpiring abroad.
It does not give the news by "fts and starts, "
but keeps up the line Of information from day
to day, and from week to week. Price Of the
paper only 10 cents per week, payable to the
Carrier, or at the office.
Year: 1859

TRIAL OF REAPERs.-Tho Reaper trial we
spoke of last week, will take place on the farm
Of Daniel Keiser, Esq, in field of Barley
about half mile from the Mad River bridge,
on Wednesday the 18th inst. This will be the
most interesting trial of harvesting machines
ever held in the vicinity of Dayton, We expect
there will be from six to ten machines in the
field. The agent is sparing no pains to make
the arrangements perfect and complete. Each
machine is to be represented by its own maker
or sgent. Our farming friends would do well
to attend. as there is no better place to see a
machine ian in the field


For further particulars we refer our readers
to Mr. Woodruff, of the Dayton Agricultural
Ware House, who is the agent for the manu-
faeturers in getting up the trial.
Year: 1859

New York, Aug. 1.-THE Atlantic Tele.
graph Company have decided to make the
conductor Of the next cable consist Of six
wires twisted about six times the size of the
old one. There will be no outside covering
of wire except few hundred miles on each
end. The new cable is to be laid down,
guaranteed in all respects. and expected to
be in order for business early next summer
Cyrus w. Field occupies two columns Of
some of the N Y. evening papers, with .
full statement Of the affairs of the Compa-
ny. We understand the American public
will have an opportunity to subscribe to
the new stock which 10 guaranteed by the
British Government.
Year: 1859

PooR JOSH has arrived at the con-
clusion We thought he would. regarding the
treatment he is RECEIVING from the hands Of
those he assisted In elevating to power
Bolt 'em. josh, and We guarantee you will
soon be Q much better, if not Q wiser man.
Year: 1859

% A refreshing thunder shower
passed over our city, yesterday afternoon,
effectually laying the dust and rendering
the atmosphere delightfully."- cool. A good
heavy rain would do harm just now, and
might prove Of vast benefit
Year: 1859

EXCELLENT CoFFEE.-S. Il. Jones
4 Co.. have recently favored US with .
sample of their prepared coffes-which is
pure article-all the bitter properties Of
the kernel being extracted before it is
ground, and we, after fair and impartial
trial, pronounce it the best We ever tasted.
Those who know what good coffee is, will
never use any other kind after once
trying it
Year: 1859

~ The farmers have commenced
threshing out their grain and getting it
ready for market. Many greater por-
tion of the farmers are obliged to sell At
any figure. We hear = few of the more
independent say that they shall hold on to
their grain and see how matters look few
montha hence
Year: 1859

THOSE GUTTERs.-Jt 10 q shame that
with all the street wsrk being done, the
CUTTERS At the Intersection Of the principal
streets cannot be rendered safe and passa.
BILE. It is exceedingly dangerous to cross
these cutters with . loaded wagon, acci-
dents being Of daily occurrence. We think
the matter . very important one, and
would respectfully call the attention OF the
City Council thereto.
Year: 1859

FIGHT AT A CHARIvARI.-On Tuesday night,
on the occasion of the marriage of German
baker in Nevada, party which assembled
to supply the bridegroom and his "pard" with
music, got into muss. The Nevada Journal
says of the affair."


The bridegroom in his happiest mood led
his blsuhing partner out upon the sidewalk
and requested little more of the same sort,
which was granted heartily. Then inviting
the band inside, he remunerated them lber,
ally for their harmonious sounds with the
contents of the bar. One Teuton, of the
band, set his services too high, and demand
more, which was denied, and row ensued
in consequence. The musician struck the
bridegroom in the face with bottle. Bride
goom laid aside the amiable for minute OF
two by a few well directed blows leaving
an impression of quite lasting nature on
the countenance of the man with the bottle.
The war seems to have been waged with con.
siderable fury afterwards, in which a body
of Italians joined as allies The glass doors
of the saloon were stove in and various other
depredations committed
Year: 1859

EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGE OF SHOOTING PIGEONS.
1t seems that the State Capitol Buildings at
Sacramento are perfect rookery. The Sec
retary of State and his clerks, being fond of
sport, want the exclusive privilege of killing
the pigeons, and have applied for the same to
the Board of Supervisors of Sacramento
county and city. The Sacramento Standard
of yesterday thus notices it.:


Yesterday, the order giving the Secretary
of State and his clerks the exclusive privil-
ege of shooting firearms in the city limits,
and killing the pigeons which have taken
up their abode in the vestibule of the State
Capitol building was called up for third
reading. Mr.. Granger asked to withdraw
it and present q substitute, which was grant
en-, He said that he considered the pigeons
nuisance, and should be removed in some
way. If any other member of the Board
would suggest a better way to accomplish
their removal, he should be pleased to hear
it. If not, he would offer an amendment to
the original order; but he wished it under
stood that he did not do SO because q news
paper reporter had ridiculed or criticized
him; that would never deter him from his
duty. Supervisor Babeock thought the nu-
isance might be abated, and the pigeons
cleaned out, by washing them with a fire
engine Mr. Granger asked if the water
might not injure the ceiling of the vestibule.
Mr.. Henley thought that the shooting inside
of the yestibule would be more likely to in
jure the ceiling than by water Mr. Granger
said the nephew of the Secretary had assured
him that the pigeons could be killed with
fine mustard seed shot, which would not in
jure the ceiling. The birds were a great nu-
isance. The members of the last Legislature
had complained of them. The floor looks
like hen roost, and the capitol resembles
some old building in Panama, where the tur
key buzzards congregate. The order was
at last passed, with a proviso that the par
ties shooting the pigeons, should be held res
ponsible for any injury they may do the
building
Year: 1859

A LETTER from Los Angeles says: about
dozen camels are down from TETON after
freight. They are stalking about our streets
this morning, the attraction of crowd Of
human beings and the terror Of the donkey
tribe generally
Year: 1859

Orr suoRTLy.-After the adjournment Of
the City Council, Thursday night, Alderman
Stokes informed his brethren Of the Board
that it was the last time he would meet with
them for a considerable period, it being his
intention to start shortly for England, and he
would be pleased to have them come around
to his saloon and have a parting cup with
him. They did so, and had nice little time.
The press was included. Mr.. Stokes will
take his family with him, and be gone for
several months.
Year: 1859

AdWyCIs


The personal appearance of one of the most
powerful, and, perhaps, ablest lawyer in New
York, is thus given in an Eastern exchange:


Seeming taller than he really is, from the
sparseness and meagerness Of his wiry figure,
this gentleman dressed in tightly buttoned
from square, granite forehead; with large,
cleaning, dark eyes, apparently observing
every thing, while really absorbed in other
thoughts; fresh and pink complexion, curl
ously contrasting with a bristlipg grey beard,
keen and sarcastic mouth and chin, and the
whole topped off with vigorous growth Of
hair, still standing out manfully for it's original
color, but fast being changed under silver frost
such is the external man Of Mr.. Charles
0'Conner, beyond all question the first lawyer,
in the old English sense, of the bar Of the
State Of New York, and in the opinion Of
many, the first lawyer Of the Union. a


Mr.. O'Connor's manner and appearance are
exceedingly peculiar, as he darts past you
with all the ieverish eagerness of youth, and
the elasticity, unsubdued by time, of On ener-
getic man just entering the race Of life
Though really of an ardent nature to his
friends, his presence is perfectly freezing
to those not acquainted with him, and
when the wind blows at all keenly, he might
be regarded as six feet from the North Pole
buttoned up in professional broadcloth. There
is something, too, about his style of dress
which suggests that his clothes were huddled
on, very early in the morning, on a sudden
alarm Of fire, and that he has not found time
to arrange them since, while the protuberant
stuffing of his outside pockets with law papers,
and the close buttoning of his outside coat,
present the idea that in effort to accomplish
an economical escape from the fiery element
he had stuffed all the family silver into the
various hiding places OF his garments.
Year: 1859

Aoho aho HMNAASos


The London Times Of the 10th ult., received
by the steamer Europa, has the following az
its leading editorial


War between England and America is i'm
impossible. Such is the sure conviction Of
every rational man in America, aud of every
body of age and station in England. Per-
haps it Is also tho conviction OF the wild ban
ditt who swarm upon our frontiers, and of
their unprincipled sympathizers, who habitu-
ally write up war in the newspapers, and spout
war speeches in the towns. War is impossible,
not only by reason of the strong sympathics
which bind US together, not only by reason Of
our common origin and our closely intertwined d
interests, but also by reason Of the terrific
character which every one knows that such a
contest must assume.


A war between England and America would
be almost q civil war-the most bitter, the
most relentless, and the most cruel of all wars.
1t could be produced only by evaporation on
both sides, arisen to the pitch of national
madness. AS it went on it would certainly be
marked by an Intensity of passion which
would, as has happened in all civil wars,
carry tbe combatants beyond the influence OF
the ordinary courtesies and mOderations of a
mere national contests. Notwithstanding any
stipulations that may have been made in calm
moments, tho commerce Of both countries
would be the prey of rovsrs and pirates upon
every sea; England's strength and England S
treasury would be wasted in distant exped-
tions to destroy these glorious and peaceful
achievements Of her own children, which are
now her pride; our factories would be closed,
and the million and half of mouths depen-
dent upon them would be without bread; put
ting forth in our anger all our strength, we
should be defenseless among our European
neighbors, and we should fall, at least for that
time, from our place as equal among the great.
est Of the great powers OF the world.


On the other side Of the Atlantic the spec
tacc would be one Of al least equal horror
the fair cities of the Atlantic in flames, their
commerce gone, and their somewhat inflated
system of commercial credit rent; the swift
strides Of that genius Of improvement, which
wanders so restie'sly up and down, arrested;
population destroyed; ruthless war between
slaves and masters raging through half tho
land; bloodshed on tho seas and bloodshed on
tho land, and nothing growing but fierce and
unnatural hatreds. Europe and Asia would
look on with surprise and exultation, watching
the paroxysms of frenzy among that terrible
Apglo.Saxon race which had seemed 10 mo
nopolize the Almigbty's permission to 60
forth and people the earth; wondering to sec
that vast family, whose expansion they had
envied, whose industrial energy they had
found it vain to emulate, whose free thoughts,
waited over the world, were ever sowing
themselves in uncongenial soils, now engaged
in the mad enterprise of destroying their COM
mon property and shedding their own blood.
Year: 1859

PLANTING VINEYAR Ds-Do not grow your
cuttings where they are to stand, but on a
low, moist piece of ground the first season
and transplant to the dry site early in the
winter: prune the roots within three to six
inches of the old stalk, and cut the top down
to within one or two buds Of the old wood,
or even entirely off, so that the vine is en-
tirely covered in planting, which will pro-
duce a vigorous root from the surface, not
so liable to sucker as from the shoulder or
bulb, formed when the top shoot started from
the cutting, which is full of eyes. Make
your cuttings short if you want to produce
long lived healthy nes.-Culturist.
Year: 1859

BIr The past week has been the warmest
of the season. The thermometer at McGuire's
drug store has ranged at noon from 900 to
go in breezy situation. On Thursday, at
Freeman's Crossing, the thermometer indica-
ted a temperature in the shade of l0S0.
This unusual heat is attributable to reflection
from sand banks and the sides of the noun
tains. On San Juan Hill delightful breeze
blows nearly every day, and the oaks seldom
lose the music of their own rustling leaves
Year: 1859

AUsTRALIA.-New and very rich diggings
have been struck at place called Back Creek.
tested is said to be one and half ounces to
the load, while instances are known of an
ounce to the bucketful, and of as much as
one hundred and thirty ounces to the load
The gold is mostly in Jumps. Fifteen thous-
and people had rushed to the diggings in a
very short time.
Year: 1859

JUsTICE.-A writer in the n Y Tribune de-
nies that DR.. Lardner, recently deceased, ever
made the assertion attributed to him, that
no steam vessel would ever successfully cross
the Atlantic ocean, He only said, that no
steam vessel that he had seen could possibly
carry enough fuel to accomplish the passage
from Europe to America.
Year: 1859

Lopez has forwarded the first indemnity
payment toour Government and letter of apology for
the attack on the Water Witch. The treaty with Par
aguay holds for ten years, but may be continued at
discretion
Year: 1859

The Register learns that Col. Wilson has
perfected arrangements in New York for the
of the railroad from Folsom to the Yuba river. The
further extension of the read, from the point to which
it is graded will be put under contract and
the work will be carried to completion with all possible
expedition.
Year: 1859

SAMELsoS's Soda fount is the most popular
object in town. Thirsty people crowd around
it like old bachelors around newly arrived
damsel, or like Office seekers at conventions |;
with this important and agreeable difference
that all obtain what they seek.
Year: 1859

Weller head regiment of Digger Indians, and march
them against the grasshoppers, from one end of the
State the other, until his soldiers had seized and
bagged the whole of the enemy!
Year: 1859

day wOald never come. But he would
not contemplate the former; he would
do his duty at all times, and let the
future take care ofitself. The system
Of the Federal Government permitted
each State to regulate these matters
for themselves. That was the theory
ofthe Governmcnt-that Massachusetts
Ohio, Georgia, Oregon, Texas, and all
the States should do as they please. -
That was the secret of the republic
which the ancients had never discov-
cred. 1t was new doctrine brought
to light in the nineteenth century,
He trusted that every one who wished
to do justice to-day would vote down
every ameudment--the bill needed no
amendment--and, if they could not
vote for it, insist in getting naked
vote on the bill. 1t was said that the
Congress of the United States had de-
generated. Itwas for them to show
to-day that it was not true. In his
judgement, there was as much patriot
ism and intelligence in the present
House as in any of which he had been
O member.
Year: 1859

THE HEN FEVER IN ENGLAND.-By
the last steamer from England we learn
that there is now in progress at the
Crystal Palace, London, an extensive
poultry exhibition, the coops contain
ing the fowls being a mile in extent.
Year: 1859

A NOVELTY IN FAsHIoN.-Among the novel
ties recently. introduced in ladies' apparel, says
an exchange, is a new article Of suspenders::-
They bear resemblance to those worn by gentle
men, except that they are made Of delicate,
white elastic fabric, with frilled edge about one
inch wide, and are attached to the skirt BY but
tons in like manner. We doubt not this inven-
ton will be generally adopted with view to
relieve the waist of the unlimited burden which
such hsbiliments necessarily produce. Reason
and experience teach us that the old and absurd
method, while followed, impairs the health, i'm
pedes locomotiop. and tends to i'll health.
Year: 1859

The recent military spectacle brought to Par
is all the most accomplished pickpockets of Eu-
rope, and every one has some story to tell OF the
tricks of ceverness that have been displayed
Amongst others is the substitution of a pair OF
ordinary spectaces for gold ones that adorned
the nose of one of the most wealthy of tile bank
ere, who did not become acquainted with the
robbery and the change that had occurred until
bic family remarked it on his return home. An
illustrious foreign duke, who has long resided
there and astonished the admiring world with
bis diamond waistcost buttons, is said to have
been shorn of some of his jewels; and several
ladies were divested of their sbawls Immediately
after the shower of rain under pretext of clear
ing away some of the wstery element that had
been imbibed.
Year: 1859

Wishing.


BY JOHN G. SAKE.
OF all amusements of the mind,
From logic down to fishing,
There isn't one that you can find
So very cheap as "wishing"
very choice diversion too,
If we but rightly use it,
And not as we are apt to do,
Pervert it and abuse it.
Iwish-a common wish indeed
NV purse was something fatter,
That might cheer the child of need,
And not my pride to fatter;
That might make oppression reel,
As only gold can make it;
And break the tyrant's rod of steel,
As only gold can break it.
wish-that sympathy and love,
And every human passion
That has its origin above,
Would come and keep IN fashion;
That Scorn, and Jealousy, and Hate,
And every base emotion,
Were buried fifty fathoms deep
Beneath the waves Of ocean
wish-that friends were always true,
And motives always pure;
wish the good were not so few,
wish the bad were fewer;
wish that parsons ne'er forgot
To heed their pious teaching;
wish that practising was not
So different from preaching!
wish-that modest worth might be
Appraised with truth and candor;
wish that innocence were free
From treachery and slander;
wish that men their vows would mind,
That women were not rovers;
Iwish that wives were always kind,
And husbands always lovers.
Iwisb-in fne-thst joy and mirth,
And every good Ideal,
May come. erewhile, throughout the earth,
To be the glorious keal
Till God shall every creature bless
With his supremest blessing,
And hope be lost In happiness,
And wishing in possessing!
Year: 1859

If twenty.seven inches of snow give three
inches of water, how much milk will cow give
when fed on ruts baga turnipsa Multiply the
flakes of snow by the hairs Of the cows tail;
then divide the product by turnip; add a
pound of chalk and the sum will be the answer"
Year: 1859

A pleasant and cheerful wife is q rainbow set
in the sky, when her husbands mind is tossed
with storms and tempests; but dissatisfied and
fretful wife is like thunder cloud charged with
electric fluid.
Year: 1859

To hr hdfior Of Ne Uhig:


send to-day Journal Of Commerce with Fverett's
and Cushing's speeches the Boston meeting likewise
with call aud prelimnaries of a similar meeting here
II you can, suggest 10 you give these a place in
your paper have been greatly disturbed at the pre-
sent state OF feeling in the country hold the leaders
of the Republican party responsible for it. They have
but one political ISSUE and that IL slavery The leaders
OF the party, ambitious politicians, seek power and
sorry to know that they have enlisted the pop
uar sympathy here as to make their party the dominant
one OF this State and others the East aud North Of us
but, the opposers Of the Republican party-not alone
Democrats, but legion OF party people-are be.
heye true TO the Constitution and the whole country
Though this minority have been slow wake up to the
eHgencies Of the present crisis they now thoroughly
aroused and will speak in which cannot be mis-
understood, in condemnation Of the bloody fanaticsm
and disorganizing philanthropy which are undermining
tho whole framework Of society here and which seek 10
gain their ends at any cost n regard 10 the overthrow
Uf slavery


believe now, that Of this Harper's Ferry trouble
will grow good to all sections. IL il not alone the South
that is TO be the sufferer by the domination of political
parties a the North led by such Horace Greeley
who but an embryo advocate Of the Government of
pavement, no Government at all.


Yours truly
Year: 1859

TARRFD AND FEATHEEED.-A man named Clark was
arred and feahered in Ontario county n Y on the 9th
instant Three stalWart fellows painted black and 9th
erwse disguised, to the house in which Clark was
knocked at the door and opened in answer TO
the knock burst into the house. seized and bound Clark
threw him into wagon aud drove rapidly of to a swamp
about half mile from where they seized the prisoner
Here the disguised men kinded FIRE and proceeded to
warm tar which had been brought in the wagon After
abusing Clark in shameful manner they tore his clothes
from his person. poured the over him and GOV.
cred the tar with thick coating Of feathers The charge
against him was immoral conduct in marrying a female
then dcserting her aud marrying another
Year: 1859

DEEPLY SYMPATHIZING WITH SUF-
~ fering humanity and fully convinced by the fruits of


long and successful practice, that he is able to
great majority of the of almost all forms Of disease
heretofore considered ncurabe and in many instances a
all hope of relief had deserted both the patient and his
frinnds
Year: 1859

1T Is COMPOSED or
PURELY VEGETABLE EXTRACTS


And contsins no mineral poison to injure the


CONSTITUTION.


The approval Of hi, preparation ty Physicians and
Men Of Science and the great success which las
marked its furnishes proc! sufficient to convince
every candid and discerning mind of its great supe.
rorily and value, 1t is now administered in general
practice as 4 sure and


UNIFORM REMEDY
In eases Of Scrofua, Leprosy Tumors Swelling Of the
Joints. rheumatism Eryspelas Kings Evil and
every complaint symptomatic Of Impure Blood; and
all the diseases Of the Muscles and Tissues together
with general debility of the system yield to this un-
failing Purifier Of the Bood-fOrthe blood is the chan
mel through which disease nds its way to the various
organs of the body.
Year: 1859

SouTHERN OPINIONS Savannah Re
pubiican---one of the ablest of the Opposi-
ton journals of the South, says that for the
purpose o: beating the fuse Democracy in
1860 it is willing to cast its vote for sound,
patriotic stateslnan for President and Vice
President, whose past history afford guar.
anfy of reform, and especially of opposition
to all the destructive elements that are now
seeking to undermine the government and
bring the Constitution into contempt In
this noble object, it will gladly unite with
Wings, Democrats, Republicans, and men
of every name who, irrespective of past as
sociations, are willing to come forward and
rescue the country from impending danger.
1t will object to the cooperation Of no man,
so that it is sure Of electing those upon whom
the country may rely with an assurance Of
an honest, efficient and faithful administra-
ton of its affairs. u. ~ si.
Year: 1859

THE SAN JUAN BUsINEss. A eorrespon-
dent Of the Colonist writes thus from San
Juan:


Your report Of the arrival in our harbor ot
the steamer Caledonia, on Sunday and the
refusal to allow her to land her passengers
by al American inspector Of customs is,
am sorry to admit perfectly correct but the
lust indignation of the commander of said
steamer and her passengers is mild, indeed
compared with that Of the citizens of the
island. and the officers Of Camp Pickett.