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Year: 1859

the expression of that Power. The source
must be kept untrammeled and free to ex-
press itself by will of the majority legally
and constitutionally given; and our confede.
ration will stand the rack of ages, and the
changes of Time. And ifthis expression can
not thus be fairly and freely given at the
ballot box of popular sovereignty, it leads to
illegal resistance of odious laws and decisions
which all good citizens must deprecatc-
And this is another grand reason why Repub.
licans should support popular sovereignty,
uEon principle. All odious and unjust laws
will fly before the breath of popular senti-
ment as chaff before the whrlwiud, and poli-
ticians will learn to forbear the exercise of
tyranny and wrong for fear of the tempest
that shall whirl them to their political graves.
1t is grave mistake for the South to at.
tempt in any manner TO cross the natural
slave line, and especially to press into its ser.
wee an arm OF the government, that should
be kept clean and pure for the veneration of
the people. but the South has nothing to
fear for her Just rights for her pretensions,
the fate of all pretenders They will be
tried by the inexorable tribunal of Popular
Opinion, and if found wanting in justice and
merit, will be whemed under the waves Of
1 ID8IGSolOu. VI HIeHuSt nave you ever
thought how beautifully popular sovereignty
will work? Under its rule. State boundaries
are sacred One State or Territory may bv
majority have slavery, another may not :;
there is no interference. The great masses of
the North, nine tenth, do not wish to inter
fere, and all would be peace and safety for
the Union. Although this might not entirely
deprive the extremists on both sides from
employment The Aboltiousts could work
at Emarcpation and Colonization. and the
"fre eaters" could divert themselves with
their agreeable pastime. the duelo: or with
Senator Toombs they might sit in their We
randahs, and 10y an airy and harmless stretch
of Imagination "call the roll of their conStitu-
entS'-three votes for five slaves in the Con-
gressional representative,-"o Bunker Hill"
For under Popular Sovereignty, which in
sures State Rights, the boundaries of Massn
chusetts, or of Georgia, are alike safe and
sacred to the laws Of the municipal majority.


No fundamental error can long continue
as the basis of laws, rules and political action
in this government, because in its necessary
ramiFcatons, through the various branchc-
it will present itself often in hideous and un
endurable deformity and the people will h
Obliged to retrace their steps, and correct the
first departure. 1t WAS so with the Compru
uises of 1920 and $50, and it will tie so will
the fundam ntal error against Natural law
of the Dred Scott Decision


Yours, for the Truth, to the


BED Rock.
Year: 1859

GRAIN IN TEHAMA CoUNTY-The Tehama
Gazette has every reason to suppose that the
yield of grain this season will at least be
equal. if not superior to that of former sea-
sons. One field of Sonora wheat, not three
miles from the town of Tehama, will, it is
said, yield on an average, seventy bushels to
the acre
Year: 1859

II ts probable that q meeting of the Con
ira Costa Agricultural Society will be held
some time during this month, TO reconsider
the vote whereby it was decided TO hold the
first exhibition of the society at Lafayette.
Year: 1859

In sketch Of the late Lord Charles WelIesly,
q recently deceased son Of the Duke Of yelling
ton, F0rneys Pres publishes the following not
generally well known incident in the life Of the
Great Duke"


Whoever should exhibit the Iron Duke Is the
hero Of . romantic love story, in which sentiment
is blended with chivalry, would probably be
laughed at Yet there really Is such an incident,
true in all particulars, and imbued with the deli.
caey and refinement Of impassionate affection.
At the risk Of having this little love passage rid
iculed, we shall take leave to relate It


At the age Of twenty-eight Arthur Wellesley
Tor Wesley, as he wrote il at the time, according
to an autograph In our little collectiOn) went to
India with the rank Of full colonel. obtained sim
ply by the influence Of his aristocratical birth
and connections, and BY money, in the tenth
year Of his military service. At that time he
was engaged to Catherine PackenhAm, daughter
Of the Earl Of Longford, and sister Of Gen Sir
Edward Packenham, who was killed at the battle
Of New Orleans This lady, young and beauti-
ful, was devOtedly attached to Col Wellesley,
and her affection was fully reciprocated Called
to India, where his eldest brother was Governor
General to take leading part in the war with
Tppoo-Saib, this fortunate soldier had TO leave
his lady love behind.


Ailer an absence Of eight years, during which
he won rank and renoWn, he returned 10 Eng
land, where he was met by letter from Miss
Packenham, informing him that the smallpox
had assailed and injured the beauty which he had
so much admired, when life was younger and
gayer with both Of them, and with tenderness
assuring him that she had resolved to relieve him
Of his engagement With the true feeling Of an
honorable man, he assured her that her beauty
had not been the only indGcement to WOO and
win her. Accordingly, the marriage took place
in 1906, within six months Of his return from
India The only fruits Of this union were two
sons, one born in 1907, and the other in 1908


In the spring Of the latter year Wellesley had
TO leave his wife to take part in the Peninsular
War. He returned for short time after the
signing Of The Convention at Cintra, but from
1909 to 1914, during which he rose step by step
to the highest honors Of the English peerage, he
was detained on the Peninsula. The strong tic
Of married love was weakened BY this prolonged
absence, and the Duchess Of Wellington, from
the Waterloo victory Of 1915 to her death, in
1881. was not happy wife. To the last she de-
plored that sense Of honor had made the Duke
marry her, against her own better judgment,
when her beauty had become thing Of memory
alone.
Year: 1859

A verdant youLg man entered fancy store
in city lately, while the lady proprietor was
arranging lot Of perfumery. She inquired Of
him u he would not like to have some musk
bags to put in his drawers. Aiter an examina.
ton Of the article, he told tho young lady that
he did not wear drawers, and wanted to know IL
Il wouldn't do to wear them In his pantaloons.
Year: 1859

time do believe that the ruling desire of his e that
for which he longs above all earthly things, is the nom
nation for and election the Presidency OF the Onl
States. This much his course has shewn. 10 use
vulgar but expressive cooqualism, it " sticks out


in every movement of his recent life, and in none more
plainly, perhaps than in his last exhibition OF bis views
and proclivities through the columns OF Magazine
which is more than suspected of Republican leanhg'
and which in years not long gone evinced those eanngS
so plainly and Enthusiastically as to call forth rebuHeS
from the conservative portion of the community IN both
sections of the Union.


The evident and undsguisable desire OF Mr. Douglas
to attain the Presidency bound to defeat itself and
render bis nomination impossible. This last move mas
perhaps been his most imprudent as draws an I'M
passibe line of demarkaton between the writer ana
many strong democrats at the South, who mindful OF
past services and confdng in present feelings OF TREND
ship, were willing to overlook in Mr. Douglas case
everything that could be overlooked but who cannot
overlook this last assumption OF position so lrreconc
able with their views of sound political doctrine =
Year: 1859

The Newbern Progress of the 3lst ult., says
that company has been formed and organized for the
purpose of establishing line OF steamboats, between
that place and Norfolk via the Chesapeake and Alber
marie Canal to connect at Norfolk with the regular
New York steamers twice week 1t is intended to
pit on steamers about the middle of October. The
Progress says the supposed running time between New
bern and Norfolk will be only 30 hours, and from
60 to 20 hours to New York.


We might mention in this connection tn fact, that
during the past Spring and Summer the project of
tablishing line of Propeller Steamships between the
port of Wilmington and New York, was agitated by
the business men and abroad nteres centerng here,
and proposition would have been submitted to the
Stockholders of the Wilmington and Weldon Rail Road
Company at their called meeting in May last for in
structons to the Directors to furnish fifty thousand dol
lars on behalf of the Company to the stock necessary
for the purchase and equipment of two prOpelers-hat
being about onehalf of the estimated cost of the line
Such proposition was not then introduced simply from


the fact that it could then be entertained under the
call in pursuance of which the meeting assembled that
only specifying the nsideration OF the Tarboro branch
as the object for calling the Stockholders together. 1t
will however be in order at the next annual meeting in
November, when no doubt move will be made and
Judging by the tone of the Stockholders in May last
such movement will be successful


Very little doubt is entertained but that action on
the part of the Railroad will the establishment OF
the line other parties here and in New York were
understood to be ready to place the boats on in that
event. We think the policy of establishing the line a
good one and essential 70 the development Of trade
At any rate must do something of the kind unless
are willing to fall behind neghbors and be content
to occupy subordinate position as commercial town


1t proper to add that in the opinion Of the best
legal authority, it is perfectly competent for the Will
mington and Weldon Railroad under its charter, to es
tabish or take part in establishing this line and
that such the opinion of the worthy gentleman who
held the proxy of the State at the last meeting and who
has held it for q number of years past.


The time from New York to Wilmington could not
be sixty hours and would probably be nearer fifty
Year: 1859

ACCIDENT TO ROUTE AGENr.-We regret to learn
that S. NJ Chestnut, Esq. Mail Agent between this
place and Richmond met with serious accident on the
morning of the lst inst The Petersburg Express cor
correspondent says: AS the train from Petersburg
was nearing the bridge the Roanoke, Mr. c. leaned
from the Mail car to watch the progress OF the Ports
mouth train, which coming up in the rear His
head being out too far came in contact with the iron
gate at the bridge, and he received powerful blow
Drs. Gee and Elliott, washed the wound, which bled
very profusey and rendered necessary surgical aid
Fortunately the skull not broken and it is expected
he will be well again in few days"
Year: 1859

The Wilmington Papers d TN" Washington Dispatch.


We join with our neghbors Of the Herald in endors
ing all that the Dispatch has said in reference to the
cordial and friendly relations existing between the con-
ductorS of the press in this town. If owing to physical
inability and the necessity it entails upon us of taxing
the time of friends to put thoughts upon paper
more brief than neghbors we can assure them
that less sincere We do trust that while all
will exert themselves to the utmost for the success of
their prnc PIES certainly shall 60, the era of per-
sona animosites and personal collisions on account of
differences in political opinion, is at end in Whining
ton, at least that the period Of its return if it ever
does return, may be far distant We are all sailing in
the boat all that we have and all that the Editors
of the Herald have, is embarked here and we have
common interest therefore, in the prosperity of the town.
and of the State that there many things for which
work jointly If they fairly defeat our party
why far good for them but between ourselves we
don't think they can. We think they would uninten-
tionaly be nurng themselves and their neighbors by
their success and out of good feeling for them and
others, we shall labor to prevent such disastrous con-
summation.
Year: 1859

WASHINGTON, Sept. lst.-General Lane in a private
letter says in relation to the Presidency that he is con-
tent to place himself in the hands of bis friends and
will take no step to bring himself before the people
candidate.


Judge Douglas intends leaving Washington on Mon
day next, and proceeding via Ptsburg to attend the
United States fair at Chicago on the 18th inst 1t is
now probable be will be able, while his way to com
ply with the request of the Democratic State Centra
Committee of Ohio to that State so far as tC
deliver several speeches.
Year: 1859

The Post Offices for these and neighboring places are
only supplied with mails twice week, hence any oms
sion of the mail to arrive either of the days due is
more seriously tet inconvenience and loss Twice
during the present month has the mail failed regular
days to be put off at Marlboro depot for the post off
ces on this route What is the cause? The contractor
there each time ready to receive the mail he uni
formy is in mail time, and yet mail was thrown of
to him. The citizens in these various localities be-
coming tired of these omissions and Irregularities unless
they were accompanied with some good explanation for
the They not disposed to complain for every
little rregularity occurring only occasionally but when
our merchants, business men, and the reading commun
ty are often disappointed and injured by these mai
failures it creates determination investigation
the cause. MANY CITIZENS.


Ellington, August 3Oth, 1859.
Year: 1859

"TO FAvORITE BRoOK," in this issue, is
piece of poetry of much more than ordinary
merit, particularly for a student. The young
author has but to persevere TO become an early
favOrite with Calliope.
Year: 1859

We saw in the city on Saturday NOR
ming last, Mr. Machmoore, a young far
mer of Butler Co., who is the victim of q
sudden and remarkable loss of speech
1t seems that about a week ago, while in
the full enjoyment of health. with 20 all
ment whatever. be suddenly lost all pow
er of speech. He could not utter a word.
He has not suffered in the least With a
disease of the throat, nor was he at the
time, nor is lie since troubled with any
sickness whatever Indeed, with this
single affliction, he is enjoiug perfect
health. The last day OF two he has been
able occasionally to utter slight whisper
which may be understood. Tie is iD hopes
that this is the forerUHner Of the restor-


alton of his voice. 1t is q most singular
case throughoat.-Cjacja Dsjhy Times.
Year: 1859

This country is fast becoming noted for
its toadyisp. To enumerste the differ
ent ways in which this feeling shows IL
self is needless. TIE fact Is potent to the
eyes Of every man who walks our streets.
Good clothes and plenty Of money every
where command Difference and respect
which is denied to honest toll aud the hat
is often raised to puppies in brOadoloth,
that remains firmly seated in the presence
of Gods noblest work, au honest man.
Illustrations of the fact, that so'i baudl
and empty heads are thought preferable
to brains and industry come within our
notice every day as We pass along cur
streets
Year: 1859

HELMBOLDS EXTRACT BUCHU
Is prepared directly according to the Rules OF
P h armacy and G h mis- try ,
with he greatest accuracy and Chemical know
ledge anil care devoted in its combination
See Professor DEVICES Valuable Works on
the Practice of PLY ysic and most ofthe late Stan
dard Works of Medicine.
Year: 1859

necessity placed upon them by their pa
rents to get them from their government,
not that they are so anxious for their ulti-
mate good so much as to be relieved from
the care of them at home-hence, "away
to the Sabbath School" Parents of such
are often forgetful of their responsibility to
their children, and too regardless of the ia
tai consequences likely to result from this
neglect on their part. But this is only the
exception to the rule, and we repeat, that
if proper attention is paid to youth in the
cultivation of their moral and social quail
ties, which receive the approval, at least,
of all well thinking persons, the chances
are as thousand to one, that the man will
be law abiding and trustworthy in. all
things.


This theory, then, being true, would it
not be well for parents and pastors, teach
ers aad taught, to give more direct atten-
tiou TO this sntiecs tI.aasshap have ages. be-
fore done We have lectures on rausic
and science, philosophy and physic, all Of
wAich are right and proper, but how sci
dom is it that the moral education and
training of youth is discussedl In the lit
erary institutions every regard is paid to
the cultivation of the head, and every en-
deavor strained to see who will receive the
highest medal at commencement day :;
while the heart culture is almost, if not al
together neglected. The boy comes from
the graduating class with shining medal
hanging from his button hole, to 90 forth
into the world of temptation and deceit,
unprepared to meet and successfully resist
its allurements. Indeed, his education has
been more to fit his mind, to obtain the
rewards, than to prepare himself for the
faithful discharge of duty in the use of the
means to insure the reward He forgets
that boy gradually groaos to be the man,
and the man to be great and good-that
the really admirable is not in the tinse
and trappings, but in the mind and heart,
gradually and judiciously educated to show
forth the external that which is good in the
internal. It is we'll and truly said that


Worth makes the man,


The want of it the felIotc
Year: 1859

BY INVALID.


Bereaved mother chastened mourner
Be calm! bow low your head and study
the lessons which God, in his wisdom, is
thus teaching you. Remember that, be-
hind a smiling Providence, He hides smi-
ling face" He chastens not in vain.


And can you not find sweet solace in
calling up the memories of the dear little
ones who hav> been so ruthlessly torn from
your breast Do not many sweet recollec-
tions of the past, come through the gloom
of your mourning to mitigate and assuage
the pangs of parting. Do you not often
recall these cherished mementoes, and al
most feel that the dead are alive and again
gamboling as they were wont around your
knee? Is it not a comfort to reflect thaty you
loved your babes with mothers tenderness
and strive with all mothers eagerness to
make them good and happy? Is it not
consolng to remember that we had the
privilege of administering to their dying
wants and smoothing their dying pillows
Do you not feel grateful that God permit.
ted you to pray for them in the agonies O
the parting hour, and as you closed their
eyes to commit them into His hands; anc
oh is it not sweet, is it not comforting tt
feel an assurance that their little barque
have safely crossed the cold waters Of deatl
and landed on the peaceful shore of eter
nal bliss Should you not rather reJoic
that they are now safe from all the storm
of life; that they have no more dangerou
paths to tread, no mere temptations to hun
Yes, should you not feel glow of graft
tude that He has taken them home whils
pure and unstained, ere their young finger
had been wounded by disappointment
cruel thorns.


You rely in the Redeemer's precior
promises you believe he has taken yor
babes to slumber in his own bosom, an
in this simple act of faith you can alor
find the secret of enduring this keen b
reavement. Try it, monrning mother,
| your oft shed tears fall upon the green 81
that mantles the graves of your CHERISH
| loved ones. But in Jesus and his promis
| there is no hope for comfort to the berea
i ed mourner.


| Elm Cottage, Va.
Year: 1859

We see by the Pittsburg papers tha,
there is considerable excitement in that
region of country, respecting certain
reservoir of oil which has been recently
discovered. Companies are engaged in
digging wells to obtain the oil. When
procured in its crude state it sells at GO
cents per gallon. 1t does not cost more
to pump it up than one cent per gallon,
and 8 cents more per gallon will pay fol-
barrels and transportation to Pittsburg
New York or Philadelphia. The refined
oil is sold at much higher figure. This
oil is petroleum, bituminous substance
which is found floating on the water oil
springs. The excitement does not ap-
pear to be altogether speculative, though
possibly that may have something to do
with the published accounts. One sin
gular fact is mentioned in connection
with these oil pits. In many places in
the valley of Oil Creek the ground is
covered with pits, hundreds and thous-
sands of them, evidently dug for the
purpose OF gathering oil. and at period
so remote that trees two hundred anC
fifty years old are growing over them
The query is, by whom were these pit


dug. and for what purpose was the OF
gathered /?
Year: 1859

A Kentucky correspondent says-and
probably he is right about it-that Tom
Marshall is now made the father of all
the good hits that have been made in
that region for half century past, and
then he tells the following:


General Perkins and Tom Marshall
were canvassing the State in hotly con-
tested election. The General was roar
ing Democrat. and by way of catching
the flats. was fond of boasting that his
father was cooper by trade in an OBJ
scure part of the State. The great fail
ing of the General was his fondness fol
old whiskey, but the more he drank the
more ofa Democrat he became, and the
prouder of being a cooper. Of this fact
he had been making the most. when Mar
shall, in replying to his speech, looked
at him with great contempt, and said.


Fellow citizens, his father may have
been very good cooper don't deny
that. but do say. gentleman. he put 4
mighty poor head into tho! whisky bar.
rel ="
Year: 1859

The following incident illustrates pret.
ty forcibly the idea that some people ap.
pear to have of encouraging newspapers.
The editor and publisher of paper Of
one of our inland cities had, few years
ago, among his subscribers, quite pro-
minent individual of the place, who had
been constant reader of the paper since
the commencement of its publication,
but who had never paid penny for sub.
scription.


The collector of bills having returned
that against the delinquent to his employ.
er as one impossible to convert into cash,
the editor resolved to give the party in
question broad hint as to his remissness
the first time an opportunity should oc-
cur in public. He did not have to wait
long, for in few days he discovered his
negligent patron seated in the Office of
the principal hotel, surrounded by quite
a group of friends, and disposing of ci-
gars and other little luxuries sufficient to
have liquidated at least one years SUBJ
scription. When the laugh at the last
joke had subsided, the editor approached
the group, and after the usual salutation
to his subscriber, remarked:


" Colonel, you have had my paper now
for FIVE years, and never paid for it, al
though the bill has frequently been sent
| should like my pay for it."


PAY !" CALCULATED the Colonel. with
genuine or well-feigned astonishment,
" did you say pay ?"


Certainly" was the reply, "you
have had the paper, and want the pay
for it,


Pay said the Colonel again, "why
it can't be you expect me TO pay any
thing for that paper uhy, I only took tho


- Thing to encourage you''


The laugh from the circle Of listeners
to this dialogue came in here like the
bursting Of a bomb-shell.
Year: 1859

QUESTION FOR DEBATING SocIErY.-
A contemporary proposes the following
question for debate IF fellow what
is fellow-and his gal-are about to be
parted for time-and they propose to
change daguerrotypes, and for that pur-
pose he goes to the daguerrotype shop
and is to pay for having the "pictures
took" and he has only money enough to
pay for one picture in magnificent case
-and one picture in an ordinary case
which picture should be put in the mag
nifcent case-his own ugly mug or hern
Would it be gallant in him to put her
mug in the ugly case? Would it be jim.
erous in him to put his mug in the ugly
case which she is to keep? That's the
question before the meeting.