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Year: 1859


h UssuccEssFuL IN rHIs L.FE.-I confess that
increase 10 gears bring with them increasing
respect for those who do not succeed in life,
as those words are commonly used. Heaven
is said to be aplace for those who have not
succeeded upon earth aud it is sincerely true
that celestial graces do not best thrive and
bloom in the hot blaze OF worldly prosperity.
I'll success sometimes arises from supsrabuud.
aace of qualities 10 themselves good. from a
conscience too sensitive, taste too fastidious.
a self-forgetfalness too romantic. q modesty
too retiring. win not 60 so far as to say,
with living poet, that the world knows moth.
ing Of its greatest men, but there are forms
Of greatness, orsat least sexcellence.s that die
and make no sign there are martyrs that miss
The palm, but not the stake there are heroes
without the laurel, and COZ querofs without the
triumph
Year: 1859

THE DUNKIRK TRAGEDY.-Horrible Seeae.-
The telegraph announced, a day or two since,
the occurrence of the dreadful tragedy at Dun


kirk. The Journal of that village gives the
following particulars:


s'One of the most dreadful tragedies took
place in this village, on Friday night or ssatur-
day morning last, that ever occurred in this
county. For sometime past it has been known
10 the friends of the family that Martin South
er and wife did not lead q peaceable life
Souther kept German clearinghouse on
Buffalo street, between Front and Second
treets On the morning stated, his house was
observed to be closed as late Us half-past lU
O'Clock; this created suspicion that all was not
right, and on forcing the front door, and pass
ing into an upper bedroom, a dreadful sight
met the eye. Catherine, the wife, aged about
30, was an undressed corpse on the bed her head
in its position on the pillow, her threat cut
nearly ffom ear TO ear. On another bed in the
same room was the iifeless body of Catherine,
aged about five years, their only child. The
throat of the child was badly haggled, and
showed several cnts. while that of the other
had only one. BY the side of the bed where
the child lay, and near its foot. was the body Of
Martin Souther, the murderer and suicide, in
a Matchmaking position, with his own throat
cut.


"The three lifeless bodies, with the immense
Quantity of blood on the bedding and floor, in
which they weltered to the last moments of
life, presented a scene we'll calculated TO make
the mother and child, it is more than probable
that they died with hardly a struggle The
father must have walked the room after cut
ting his own throat, as the blood on the floor
showed /; and he MUST also have thrown the
razor with which the deed was done oh the
bed Of his wife, as II was found near her side.


vt is not known nj what hour of the night
the deed was committed, but sometime, proba-
bly,, after l2 O'Clock. The only cause which we
have heard assigned for the deed is that al
ready alluded to-an unhappy life between
man and wife, s
Year: 1859

The Mayor will commence on Monday to hold
his morning courts, at the City hail, at o.
clock, and continue them at that hour during
the summer months. This change will enable
those who have business at this court, to at
tend to IL in the cool of the morning, and Will


give the police officers extra hour to see
that the ordinances OF the city are carried out.
Year: 1859

Clay Sta.ns.-The committee to select suita.
BILE grounds for the Clay Statue, are to meet a,
Goddins Hall this afternoon at O'Clock Ia
decide upon the place. They have examined
the Eastern Square with care, and we do not
think more suitable site can be found in the
city Of Richmond for the purposes for which
if is needed,
Year: 1859

A Thief by the name Of Bob Green, was con-
victed before the Mayor yesterday OF stealing q
bag of clothes from Missouri, slave, and or


dered thirty -nine lashes. Bob Is one OF the
worst free negroes in the city, and should be
seyerIy punished every time he is caught in
possession of stolen goods.
Year: 1859

A NARROW EscApE-Yestert.ay morning


as the train ON the Oswego road was a few
miles south Of Fulton, the engineer discovered
an object on the track as he was going around
curve, but too late to stop the train. The
cars passed by, and the engineer saw the object
was a man, who rolled down the embankment
as though he was dead. The train was stop
ped, and the man jumping up, said: "Yox had
better keep yoHr d--d cars OF from me- brief
examination showed that the man was intoxi-
Gated, and that his hat had been severed in two
by the wheels Of the train, but, miraculously,
no injury whatever had been done to the
sleeping inebriaie.-Syraense Daily STANDARD.
Year: 1859

MATTERS AT CARSON VALLEY.-A CORES
pondent of the Union writing from Carson
Valley, says:


Emigrants continue TO arrive in vast mum
bers, making business lively in this place
The news from every quarter of our mines is
of the most encouraging nature. Judge
Cradlebeaugh is daity expected, and it is
extremely desirable that he should afford us
that legal protection for which we have so
long devoutly prayed. and for the want of
which this people has suffered the effects of
much local contention lie will be received
here as a temporal redeemer.
Year: 1859

THERE is considerable talk in Sacramento
a, out getting upa citizens meeting, for the
purpose of recommending a union of the
Opposition on the Congressional and State
tickets and particularly upon hat for the
county.
Year: 1859

At Waialua, the natives have begun to cat
their horses, partly because they have moth
ing else that they can do with them. and no
other place of their own but their stomachs
in which to put them, and partly to avoid
paying the tax Of one dollar per head.
Year: 1859

A SAcAcIoUs HoRsE.-A horseman came
dashing down the steep hill on California
street. toward Kearney, yesterday afternoon,
when the horse stumbled and fell pitching
the clumsy rider over his head horse and man
rolled down the hill together; presently they
regained their feet, when the horse, with a
look ofsuprene contempt for his rider, wheel
ed round and kicked the man down, and
then stood as if ready to burst out in "horse
laugh" of eXultation over him Fortunately,
the man was not seriously hurt, and gather
ing himself up he remounted his 'Bucephalus
and rode off, looking rather crest-falen.-S.
T. Altd.
Year: 1859

PRIMARY ELEorIoN.-The Democratic prima
ry election, for delegates to the County Con-
vention, will be held in this county next Satur-
day, and we trust that the Democratic voters
of the county will generally turn out and see
that the proper men are sent to represent them.
The approaching election is an important one,
much interest is beginning to be taken in the
result. and it is desirable that the sentiments
of the Democracy should be fairly reflected by
the County Convention. The manner Of elect
ing the delegates, and the time and place for
holding the primary meetings, will generally be
left to the Democratic voters of the respective
precincts, as has heretofore been done. In the
large precincts, it is understood that the men,
bers of the Central Committee for their respec-
tive townships, will give notice of the time for
holding the meetings, and make other neces-
sary arrangements to insure fair expression
Of opinion.
Year: 1859

In late number of the Philadelphia Press
we find a communication said to have been
written by the scholar and poet, John G. SAKE.
He says:


Do you suppose that you, admirer and cham
pion as you are of the "Little Giant OF the
West" are fully cognizant Of his immense
popularity with the democracy Of the north
western and Atlantic States? For the last six
months have been travelling among the people
of these sections, and can assure you there is
a depth of enthusiasm ip the heart of the demo-
cratic masses, which needs only fitting occa-
sion to burst forth in such a storm as shall
astonish the wire pulers at Washington and
elsewhere, who, in their plotting and counter
plotting forget that the people "still live" and
may be heard one of these days, to the utter
dismay of the cabals. In Illinois, in Indiana,
in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Ohio, in New
York, and New Jersey, and in each of the New
England States, conversing freely with demo-
Gratis. in the cars, by their firesides, in their
warehouses and workshops-in all places where
men utter their benedictions and maledictions,
without reserve, have heard but one voice
touching "the hour and the man." a voice
which proclaims Stephen A. Douglas the cham
pion of the people and the peoples sovereignty;
the hope, and the sole hope, of the democratic
party of the Union. For time, the spirit Of
which / speak was simply profound admira-
tion of the man; admiration for his extraordi-
nary abilities as q legislator and above all
admiration of the jacksonville pluck and Prov
ess which carried him triumphantly through
the great struggle of which the battle ground
was Illinois, while the issue, manifold and in
expressibly important, were the concern of all
true patriots in every State of the Union. But
recently another feeling has blended with the
popular enthusiasm-a conviction, which daily
increases, that only be can safely bear the
democratic standard in the next Presidential
campaign. The power which sought to crush
the foremost man in the ranks of the democracy
signally failed of success; but more ignobly
still. risking everything in this infamous cru
sade, it has distracted and well nigh destroyed
the democratic party. 1t is in this great emer
gency that the people, hopeless of aid from an
administration which cannot so much as say e
ITSELF would fain save party on which rests
the hope of the Union. What other man is
equal to the work of gathering again the scat
tered hosts of the national democratic party ?
This is the question on the lips of nine demo-
Gratis in ten in all the States have named. l
hear but one man mentioned as sufficient for
this great emergency. Am Caesar dm nullus-
Douglas or q black republican for the next
President Of the United States. Politicians
may scheme as they will, but the alternative
is inevitable. | know that the would be War
wicks, larger and less, are not without potency
to make or mar a plot; but let them take heed
to their ways. Not many months hence they
will witness storm of enthusiasm for the man
of the people, especially among the democrats
of the western and eastern States, which will
drive them and their schemes as chaff before
the wind.
Year: 1859

THE New ALMADEN NINE CAsE.-Iti is expect
cd that this case will soon come up again in
the United States Court, when the question of
title as we'll as the matter OF the celebrated in
junction, will be fully argued and tried. We
learn that the parties now in possession, or who
were in possession at the time the injunction
was Issued, have procured the witnesses that
are expected to complete the chain Of evidence
of their title to the mine. Ex-senator Benja-
min, it is said, will be here TO manage the case
on behalf of the present possessors, and q severe
legal battle may be looked for. The prize at
stake is great one, and determined combat
ants are arrayed on either side, struggling for
the mastery.-S. f. Nesos.
Year: 1859

AN EXTENSIVE ENTERPRIsE.-Mr. L. G. Nc.
Keeby, of Sebastapol, cOntemplates novel and
extensive enterprise. He intends to put fiume
eighteen feet wide and six hundred feet long,
into the channel of the Middle Yuba just below
Hat6eld's Crossing, through which to sluce the
dirt now lying in the bed of the river, and all
the tailings that flow from surrounding hills
and down the stream, using the stream itself.
in full volume. for that purpose. This will be
in fact. an immense tail sluice. II is thought
all the quicksilver needed can be collected
from the tailngs, as great deal is known TO
escape from every claim. At the lower end of
the fiume strong dam will be constructed.
leaving an aperture which. as the rainy season
comes on, will be closed thus allowing the tail
iugs to bank up aud cover the flume entirely,
ensuring its protection until the next low water
period. when the dam will be tapped and the
tailings washed, The enterprise will be an ex-
pensive one, but the protector thinks it will sue
coed and prove highly remunerative. Should
il do so, we may look to see the whole course
of this and other streams completely cleaned
out.-HydraUlic Press
Year: 1859

WIRE ROPE.-Our readers may perhaps not
be aware, that for some time past there has
been in operation in San Francisco, two large
Rope Manufactories-on for the manufacture
of MANILA, and the other for wire rope. 10
referring to files Of Eastern papers, we have
repeatedly seen mention of the extraordinary
strength and durability Of wire rope over that
made from the best fbrous material, and its
general adoption by the mining companies in
Pennsylvania and elsewhere. AS the consump-
ton of rope for all mining purposes is enor-
nous, and the cost a large item in company IS
expenses, we doubt not but that this is q matter
worthy of the attention of those interested. In
order to manufacture these ropes, Messrs. A. S.
Hallidie Il Co. have erected in San Francisco
heavy machinery of late Improvement, (see
card elsewhere) sufficient to meet the require
ments of this market. The wire ropes which
they turn out, have all the pliability necessary
for working over an ordinary sized drum, such
as used 10 boisting, &C., and are but little over
one half the weight of MANILA for the same
strength, and we are assured that taking into
consideration durability, are but 25 per cent
the cost OF hemp, and the great advantage these
ropes possess over others in not being affected
by atmospheric changes, must recommend them
for all such purposes as derrick guys and ferry
ropes. We must confess We are pleased to see
the increased Importance of our mining inter
ests in the establishment of such manufac tories
as these attest
Year: 1859

SAW MILL BURNED.-The saw mill of R. p.
Culver, situated about three miles from Placer
vile, was destroyed by fire on the night of
May goth. Nothing was saved. A man who
slept in the mill narrowly escaped. The FIRE
was the work Of an incendiary.
Year: 1859

A LARGE SrocK OF CoAL.-The Pacific Mail
Steamship Company have now on their wharf.
at Benicia, about ten thousand tons of coal,
most of which is anthracite. It is said they
have enough now, here aud at Panama, to sup
ply their vessels for the next two years
Year: 1859

pushing on toward the Pacific-thc


kcokuk road is expected soon to com


mence working up the valley of the


Des Moincs river. The Dubuque &


Pacific will touch the Cedar River at
Cedar Falls next season, and is sure
soon to have branch extending up
that river to connect with St. Paul
The McGregor 4 Missouri River Road
is in progress of construction, and
sooner or later is certain to span the
State from east to west. The immense
value of all these railroads to our
State no man can estimate.


Fourthly, the crops of this year are
likely to relieve the State entirely from
the incubus of individual indebted
ness. Iowa can produce more to the
acre than can any State of the Union,
and we hesitate not to say that twice
as much land is under cultivation this
year as was ever sown and planted
before.


In the next place, there arc thous-
ands and thousands of acres of first
rate lands which may now be had at
very low figures by those who will
settle on them. Owned by men who
have more than they can cultivate,
and who are tired to death of land
speculation, they can be had for less
than their real value. Moreover, town
property is low everywhere. We
need mechanics, and will need them
more than ever, next year not SO
much to build up towns, rs to 6uiid mp
the c0untry 1t is astonishing how
many farmers purpose building the
coming year.


These considerations, we think, are
sufficient to show that our State is
now the place to come to. If gen
orally known, in the older, tax-riddcn
States, they would doubtless bring
within our borders thousands who
would here find peace, plenty and
The increase of our popu-
lation, last year, was about thirty
per cent. We believe it will be, and
ought to be, twice that the coming
year.
Year: 1859

Not long ago-no matter how long
not far from hcrc-no matter how far
an individual who felt as if it would
do him good to join the Good Templars,
very wisely concluded to do so. He
determined not to let his wife know
anything about it, until after he had
been admitted to the order, and so he
quietly applied for admission, was
elected, and the night fixed for his
initiation. So far, SO good. But his
wife "smclt mice" And when did
a woman's wit fail her? Is not the
answer written in all our history, from
the day our Mother Eve fell in Para
disc up to now?


But he kept mum and she kept
mumer-he happy in blissful igno-
rance of his wife's knowledge, and she
laughing in her sleeves to think how
easy men are cheated. The night
came at last and so our hero present
ed himself at the antc-room, and was
admitted. His astonshmeat can bet.
ter be imagined than described when
the first voice to welcome him, pas Hat
Of his o,cn dear ard thrice happy rife
Of course he was very much aston
ished and blushed considerably, as al
most any body would do under simi
lar circumstances, but the friendly
greeting of kind companions reas
surcd him, and he is now within the
pale Of safety where there is no de
sire to look upon the wine when i
giveth its color in the cup to sting
like an adder.
Year: 1859

At late meeting of the Scottish
Mcsmeric Association, the audience
were informed, that :" If man wishes
to avoid slccpless nights, he must lie
with his head due North" But if a
citizen Of the extreme South were
every night TO point his head to the
North, wouldn't he be in danger of be-
ing mobbcd as an aJoiitio,lit
Year: 1859

A WHoLE FAMILY NEARLY DESTROYED From
the San Juan Press, we learn that the family of
Mr.. Stephenson, consisting of himself, wife, and
two children. came near losing their lives by
charcoal fumes, on Saturday week, at that
place. The Press says:


A large pot or furnace of charcoal was burn
ing in the room which was tightly closed, the
weather being very cold. Mrs Stephenson
who was ironing, complained that she felt faint,
aud Immediately thereafter fell upon the floor
insensible. Her husband suspected what was
the matter, but before he could do anything for
her relief he also fell to the Hoor, and the chill
dren likewise, All lay for sometime insensible
how long they know not. There must have
have been slight current OF air close to the
floor, coming either through cracks or through
the doorway, else the family never would have
revived as they did, to tell their own story.
Even after being restored to sensibility they
were weak aud unwell for long time, and
blood gushed from the nostrIs Of one of the
children.
Year: 1859

s'You can't even tell me who made the mon
key for all you pretend TO know so much,"
said an impertinent fop to clergyman, who
had reproached him for profanity.


ssYes can" said the clergyman.


Swell then who Gid make the monkey %


ssHe who made you."
Year: 1859

We often hear persons speaking Of Friends.
now we contend that they have no friends with
out they have money, and as long as they hare
that, they will have them: but as soon as that
is gone, their friends are gone, ferit is human
nature to traduce the unfortunate. There are
many who bave experienced the fact IN this
world.
Year: 1859

BEWARE MORE oFWIDo wERs THAN BACH
ELoRs s,--A table inserted in paper in the
Assurance Magazine exhibits results of a
rather startling character. In the first two
quinquonnial periods, 20-25 and 25-30, the
probability Of widower marrying in year is
nearly three times as great as shat of bache
lor. At thirty it is nearly four times as great;
from thirty to thirty-6ve it is FIVE times as
great and it increases, until at sixty the
chance of widower marrying in a year is
eleven times as great as that of bachelor. 1t
is curious to remark, from this table, how con-
frmed either class becomes in its condition in
iife--hoT little likely, after a few years, is a
bachelor to break through his settled habits
and solitary condition; and, on the other hand,
how readily in proportion does husband con-
tract second marriage who has been deprived
prenaturely of his first partner. After the
age of thirty. the probability of bachelor
in a year dilninishss in a most rapid ratio
The probability Of thirty-fve is not much
more than half that at thirty, and nearly the
same proportion exists beiEeen each quia-
quennial period afterwards.
Year: 1859

1t becomes our painful duty to record an
other case of death by drowning-that of a
young man named r. w. Woodruff, in the
Cottonwood River, at the fording, a little
over mile south of this place, on Monday
last. He, in company with his cousin, Jer-
emiah Woodruff, was returning from Leav-
enworth, to their claims, near Chelsea, on
Walnut creek, in an OK team. They passed
through town on Monday morning and ap-
preached the stream about ten or eleven
O'Clock. and found that it had risen to a
considerable hight above the usual stage of
water from the heavy rains on Saturday
night and Sunday previous. They halted
and held short consultation as to whether
they should attempt to cross. R. w. tho't
there was no danger and told his cousin to
drive into the stream, little thinking that
be was so near eternity. When they had
gone too far to turn their team around, they
found that the water was about six feet deep
instead of three, and the current very swift.
The oxen and wagon were Immediately swept
down stream, and the latter upset. The
oxen became disengaged from the wagon,
and the two young men were left to save
their lives by swimming ashore. Both
were poor swimmers, and 1t seemed impos-
sible fer them to get out of the current, it
being SO rapid. After time R. w. find
ing his strength failing hiHa, caught his
companion by the shoulder. when the latter
told him he feared tkey should both be
drowned. Thereupon he released his hold
and started for the wagon, which was some
distance off and still being carried farther
from his grasp by the swift current. Jere-
miah succeeded in reaching the shore, and
on turning around to look for his compan-
ion found. alas! that he had disappeared
de had sunk to rise no more. The sur
wing party Immediately communicated the
sad intelligence to the neighbors, and to the
citizens of this place, several of whom went
down, but found that the. stream, was so
high as to render all efforts to obtain the
body futile. Mr.. W. was single man,
about twenty-five years of age, was a good
citizen. and held in high esteem by all who
knew him. The body has not yet been re-
covered, but we learn that search will be
instituted on Monday, when it is hoped the
water viii have fallen enough to render the
attempt successful.
Year: 1859

OFFICE AT THE EMPoRIA HOUSE.


WITH THE COMMENCEMENT or THE


w New Year wish to return my hearty thanks
for the liberal support and deneouragementthat has
been extended to me in my business for the past
twoyears. This Office was opened here about two
years ago, not with the expectation Of realizing 9
fortune, but with the hope Of contributing some
thing towards the settlement and improvement Of
this beautiful valley, By means Of direct personal
effort. and by furnishing Information to those at
the East who were seeking homes and occupation
at the West. have endeayored to keep steadily
in view the Fufaze Of this tor5n and eoaatyy, and
by means of considerable labor and expense, re-
gardless Of present profit, Iny business is now es
Ftablished upon firm and reliable basis; aud
can offer to all who entrust their business to my
care. intimate knowledge of the country, its in
habitants Gad their circumstances, derived from
extensive travel. and constant intercourse with
settlers, upon and since their arrival. claim to
be thoroughly eonyersant with the wants and ca,
pabilities of this country, and shall never advise
correspondents or emigrants aught they cannot
realize. Ny facilities for the transaction Of bust


ness are uaequslied by any Office In the Necsho
Valley. shall attend all the