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Year: 1860

/N- The penitentiary is now under the most rigid and complete discipline, and everything moves along with the regularity and certainty of clock work. It is most emphatically a pemitentiory. The present manager, Mr. A. J. Ward ,sdeserves great credit for the admirable system he has so thoroughly inaugurated. While we would say no unkind word of former manage ments, we must say that we think its pre- sent management is equal if not superiorto that of any institution of the kind in the United States. We were pleased to notice that they are now manufacturing superior article of cooperware, and other articles which do not come in competition with our own mechanics.
Year: 1860

The reader no doubt remembers that
in the last chapter, Mary had informed
her big brother of the evil doings of
the junior partner when ye big brother
heard of these things, he waxed wroth,
and swore dire vengeance against ye
junior partner.
Year: 1860

~ Irving used to tell a story illus.
tratiye ofthe Yankee talent at amaking
things pay" A man who sent tufkies
to market also swept chimneys for a
living, tying cord around the neck Of
the bird SO as not to choke it too sud
denly and then drawing Il up and
down the chimney, SO that the iiutter
of the expiring struggle might do ths
sweeping. The papers tell Us also,
that there is a grocer in Pennsylyania
who is SO mean that he was seen to
catch fly off his counter, hold him up
by his hind legs, and look into the
cracks of his feet TO see if he hadn't
been stealing some Of bis sugar.
Year: 1860

In the second chapter we mentioned
/" the girl over the way" Mary Swett
was sweet was sweet pretty girl
sweet smile ever wreathing her face.
What is one mans meat is anothers
poison. Now James thought Mary was
saoeet, but she turned out to be his soar,
as win be seen by perusiug the next
chapter.
Year: 1860

The Vicksburg Whig is pouring a
terrible fire of canister and grape into
the hulk of disunion. Take the follow
ing as specimen:


Whenever the fire-eaters precipitate
crisis; whenever they dare to throw
down the mask and reveal their horrid
designs, then the uncorruptible and
pure-minded patriots of Mississippi,
and indeed, euery State not even ex-
cepting South Carolina, viii arise in
the terrible majesty of their power;
they will break the fetters of mere
partyism, as Hercules would sever the
attenuated web of a spider, and anihi-
late the unholy conspiracy by the thun-
der tones of their voice, as they stand
in long and glittering lines beneath
the stars and stripes, proclaiming in
the noble words of the Father of his
country" that the "UNIoN is the Pri-
mary object Of patriotic desire"


We admire candor in all things for
then there is no misunderstanding or
mistaking the position of those who
indulge in that seldom used commodi-
ty. Now, if we are, by that rule per-
mitted to judge ofthe Wings positions
it is in favor of the Union, come what
may. While we have ever been, and
are now a strong advocate of the Union
there is one, perhaps trihing obstacle
that will materially interfere with that
devotion to this confederacy of States
and that is, the rights of the South
If We cannot secure unmolested all
rights and privileges we now and have
ever claimed under our common Con
stitution, the Union in itself isa farce,
and we, worse than fools to recognize
any such bond of brotherhood with
the Northern States. There are toe
many Union men just now at tht
North, to induce US to believe tina
they are honest in their Union senti
ments. No doubt they are ardently
devoted to the Union, but they wisl
to force US into their views and meas
ures while shrieking Union" Wher
these men come out openly and de-
clare their determination to let ~
alone upon the subject of slavery. ant
show by their votes that they viii
put no one in in power who will use
that power to injure and annoy us
then, can We look upon their Union


sentiments with favor and join witt
them in endeavoring to uphold AM
maintain them. Our cotemporary
the Wing, sees but one side Of th'
| picture.-Sugar Pianser.
Year: 1860

The next cay the sweetner met
ye junior partner, and put his boot be-
hind him several times with such
force as to take james off from his feet,
he also blackens his two eyes, caused
his nose to bleed, and removed piece
of hide from his cheek the size of one
half dollar.
Year: 1860

reader that there was "girl over the
way" This girl over the way. This
girl had big brother-a great big
brother. Bill was his name. Bill
something else. Bill Sweet. He wasn't
very sweet fellow to get hold of, for
they say he's sweetened more than
one fellow, and done it sweetly too.
Year: 1860

1% There's no use in saying that
worth makes a man. A poor friend
of ours says that he put on broad
cloth to accompany his family to a
show, and was surprised to know how
aGable his acquantances all were.--
The next day he entered town In his
overails, and was not known nor could
he obtain credit for mackerel.
Year: 1860




PREFAcE.-The reader must bear in
mind that the hero hereof was a young
man of !" poor but honest parents y
a very unnatural thing under such cir
cumstance. The hero was a man Of
passion as gentle as lam b--but wild
as house cat when excited by the in
fuence of ardent spirits! And like
bis ancestors, paisionately fond ofpoetry
and--office seeking. Bear in mind
reader that he was of poor but hon
est parents !" And now to begin with,
we open with
Year: 1860

Would you wish to live without q trial
Thea you would wish to die but half man,
withou, trial, you cannot guess at your
own strength. Men DO not learn to swim
on table--they must 20 into deep water
and buffet the .urgcs. II you wish to un'
der,tind their true eharacter-ii you would
know their whole strength, or Of what they
are capabls-throw them overheard! Over
with them. If they ars worth saving, they
will swim ashore OF themselves.
Year: 1860

ABOUT CoRNED BEEF.-Oorned beef, properly
salted, and cooked as it should be, is q dish fit
for the sovereign people; but to eat salt junk,
such as too often exercise the muscle of the jaws,
is penance even for maefactor. Most of the
beef put for Winter use, is spoiled by the use
of too much salt, which destroys the flavor, and
makes the meat strlngy and tough. When beet
is fresh it contains blood, which is drawn out by
the brine. If the meat is left in this mixture, it
will require a much larger quantity of salt to
preserve it, particularly through warm weather.
My plan is to make brine by using for one hun
dred pounds of beef, five pounds of salt, one
quarter ounce OF salt-petre, and a pound of brown
sugar. This is dissolved in just enough water
to cover the meat, and poured upon il. When
it has been in this brine two weeks, take out
the meat, let it drain, pour fresh brine over it,
and then it will be good, the season through.


The cook who uses corned beet, should not be
so ignorant or so indolent as to delay putting it
oyer the fire until an hour before dinner. A
good sized piece requires three or four hours
steady boiling to do it justice. Insufficient boil
ing must be made up for By extra chewing
Always have the water boiling when the meat
is dropped in; otherwise the sweetness will be
drawn out into the water. A boiling heat hard
ems the outer surface at once, and thus keeps in
the juices which give richness, and which con-
tain most of the nourishment. An excellent
way Of cooking corned beet-is, to have large
boiler with a wire or wooden rack on the bot
tom, for the meat to rest on, over the water. -
When the water boils, place the meat upon the
rack, and put on the cover Of the boiler, with a
cloth over it, to keep in the steam. The heat
.of the steam will rise above the boiling point,
and penetrate the meat, and cook it more quickly
and better than could be done by boiling in the
water.
Year: 1860

A H1NT-A contemporary says: "There is
a man up in our county who always pays for his
paper in advance. He has never had q sick day
in his life--never had any corns or tooth ache
bis potatoes never rot-the weevil never eats
his wheat-the frost never kills his corn or
beans-his babies never cry in the night, and
his wife never scolds." Reader, have you paid
the printer in advanced
Year: 1860

The Murfreesborc' "Citizen," the Raleigh
Register" and the Raleigh STANDARD" take
strong grounds against Disunion. Under the
caption OF ''Stand Firm" the standard" OF
Saturday, says: @
If it be true that Lincoln is elected President,
stocks of all kinds and property generally will
fall in price. A panic runs like fire in dry stub
bles. Let every business man stand firm, and
do all he can to ward off the effects of the panic
Let as little property be sacrificed as possible
Instead OF pressing our debtors, or selling prop
erty of any kind to provide the means of living
or extravaganza, let US economize and live on
less than heretofore Let us especially beware
of panic in slave property. Slauery IN the
States Is an no danger. Those persons in the
States south of Us who are anxious to open the
slave trade and import barbarians into this
country, would not object to panic which
would reduce The selling price of slaves in Ma
ryland, Virginia, aud North Carolina to three
or four hundred dollars each. The proposition
to limit slavery to the States in which it now
exists, if even adopted by Congress and approved
by the President, would amount to little. Slave
ry can no more be limited by act of Congress
than the Mississippi can be arrested in its course.
1t asstI spread to and take root in all new regions,
where the climate and soil demand it. It would,
therefore, be unwise, to rush slave property into
market at a sacrifice on account of Lincoln's
election. Let us stand firm, strengthen our de-
fences in the Union, and keep strict eye on our
slaves. Let Us see to it that they are governed
better than heretofore at home, SO that when
away frrom their homes they may give less
trouble to the police. There is no danger to be
apprehended from the slaves, if bad white men
are watched and kept away from them. Left to
themselves, they are contented and happy, and
much more loyal and respectable than the abo,
litionists are themselves. A negro slave who
knows his place, and who is faithful to his mas
ter, is gentleman when compared with such
white persons as Seward and Sumner.
Year: 1860

WILL BE WAR.-Late accounts from
China say the Emperor has declined to make
any reparation to the English and French
for the affair at the mouth of the Peiho
last year. The brother Of the Sun and Moon
may look out for squalls at an early day in
consequence.
Year: 1860

Eg~ The editor man of the Placer Courier
learns that he is to have his head punched
next time he comes to Auburn, and is natur-
ally Indignant at the intmation. We protest
against any such infraction of the rites OF
hospitality. The thing cant be did! Never
Year: 1860

A cat belonging to a widow lady in Ohio
lately sat upon half dozen of ducks
eggs and continued her attention until the
eggs were hatched, and there is now a
fine brood of six young ones half duck and
half cat, having ducks heads and cats tails
but, what is more wonderful they NEW
and quack alternatly.


It's stated that the members of late
court martial run up bill of four hundred
and fifty dollars against the governmelnt
for port wine. We suppose those men
of war thought they must make port holes
Of their moaihs.
Year: 1860

The garden is the most important aP-
pendage 10 the mansion or the cottage.
Il produces many Of the most refined luz
uries Of human sustenance. Its cult.
vation furnishes source Of health, plea-a
sure and economy, which may be enjoyed
by every industrious owner Of a few rods
Of ground, who can devote a little time
between his hours Of business or labor 10
this delightful employment. IF bis bceh-
patton and the extent Of his encEosure
will not allow hIm to indulge bis taste for
fruits and flowers, he may take much
pleasure and derive great profit from the
management Of the vegetable garden
alone. tW
Year: 1860

Because there is not the usual AMOUNT
of talk with reference to this product 10
the West, the belief has obtained that It
has proved itself another humbug-thas
the people have given It up. Bat saeh is
not the fact. Its value and profit as a
crop was never held in higher estimation
than to day, and the amount Of cash II
has saved to the farmers Of the West,
which has usually been expended for si-
gar and syrups, has gone far to reheve
them Of their financial embarrassmenis. r
Year: 1860

Had 4 nice boat ri,ie last Sunday, jim
took piece of a string with a bent pin on
the end and hung it over the stern of the.
boat, and few Of the :" fnny tribe" not
liking the state of the weather, would
catch hold and let me pull them out of
the wet Some folks would fish for them,
but l wouldn't on Sunday
Year: 1860

A young lady engaged to be married,
and getting sick of her bargains, applied
to friend to help her unite the knot
before it was too late-"Oh, certainly"
he replied, it's very easy to unite it now,
while it is only beau knot"
Year: 1860

An ALARMING AsGREGATE.-The aggregate
of the appropriations-ord ordinary and extra
ordinary-made by the past Legislature. is
truly alarming for the people to look at. 1t
exceeds any sum ever before appropriated
by California Legislature. The different
sums add up nearly a million and half Of
dollars. In extravaganza the past Legisla-
ture has exceeded those which convened in
the days of State scrip when it took two
dollars to pay one when claims were pre-
sented against the State. Bat the past
based its operations upon cash in the treas
ury. Members had the gold to draw against
and they drew with liberality so reckless
that before their drafts are all honored the
treasury Will be stripped of every dollar
Indeed. we very much fear that before six
months have passed the State will again be
reduced to the old scrip system. True scrip
canuot be issued, under the present law, but
accounts can be audited, which may be
transferred from hand to hand, on the scrip
principle. The last Legislature felt the
want of a strong opposition minority. II
parties had been nearly equally divided, an
aggregate of nearly one and ii half millions
of dollars in appropriations during the ses-
sion would not have been witnessed The
opposition, such as it was, was, if possible,
more extravagant and reckless than the
heavy Democratic majority.-Sac. Union,
Mdy 4th.
Year: 1860

WORTHY OF IMITATIoN.-Sawyer, of this


pace, put up in boxes, with nice dry saw
dust, a quantity of grapes taken from the
vines in his garden. The stem where it was
cut was covered with gum, such as is used
in grating These grapes kept almost as
fresh and luscious as when first taken from
the vines. some of them vet remaining in
evidence Of the fact. From the experiment
we learn tina; this delicious fruit can be had
in perfection nearly all the year.-Catdreras
Chronicle
Year: 1860

FRENCH MOTHERS are terrible. They adore
their daughters, but they wage continual
war against them eclipsing them by the
brlliancy. the charm, and the force of their
own individuality. They are much more
graceful, often pretter even, and always
younger, much younger than their daught-
ers. So long as the daughter is under the
control of her mother. she has the mortifi-
cation of hearing the men say every night
among themselves; THE little one is not
so bad, but she does not compare with her
mother"
Year: 1860

" Now."-'' Now is the constant SYLLABLE
ticking from the clock of time Now is
the watchword of the wise. Now is the
banner of the prudent. Let US keep this
little word always in our mind and when
ever anything presents itself to US in the
shape of work. whether mental or physical.
we should do it with all our might. remem-
bering that "now is the only time for us.
1t is indeed sorry way to get through the
world by putting it off till tomorrow. saw
ing Then l will do it, MOI This will
never answer. Nosc is ours then will never
no
Year: 1860




Editors Herald: The National Democrats
Of this place are doing their duty. On the
25lh of August Club WAS organized al.el
THE Michigan Bluff National Democratic
Club aud now has seventy. four members.
Resolutions were adopted indolsing Breck
inridge and Lane, and the platform on which
they stand; and approving Of the action of
the State Central Committee presided over
by Chas. Lindiey.


The cry Of 'disunion. secession" is dsre
garle,! 10y men wh" stand hy their principles.
The great argument nsed by the Douyla
men is that the breckenridge party is sup
ported chiefly by Federal 'tfice holders =
They seem TO make unequal distinction be.
tween Federal office holder holder and a
County Office holder. They forget that the
present county office holders Of this county
Admin istration ticket, that their Offices are
as lucrative as the Federal offices, that they
a g paid in the same kind Of money, and are
using it for electioneeling purposes. to get
the same Offices again, 10y striving to break
down tie very administration they supported
when they ran before.


They raise The cry that they are for nom
Intervention. but turn round in the nexl
breath and say that Il Territorial Legislature
can intervene to keep the Southern men out
of the Territory with their slaves.


The supporters Of squatter sovereignty are
obliged to use the same arguments to sup
port their doctrine that the Republicans use
to support theirs They both assail and
denounce the Supreme Court They both
denounce the Administration Of James Bu-
chanan. They both denounre the Demo.
cratic U. S. Senators from this State They
both pretend that they are going back to the
principles Of the Government as expounded
10y its founders. They both make distinc
ton between slave property and other prop
er,y. They both admit that there is a power
to exclude slavery from Territory aud only
disagree as to where the power resides and
who shall exercise it. The National Demo
Gratis believe that tile Government was
founded upon the great principle of equality
and arc bound to vote for men who viii
carry out this principle and make no invil
ious distinctions bet cen Northern and
Southern men, and Northern and Southern
property. DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1860

RocEvulE EXTENSION We are glad 10
learn that the work on this enterpyes te
being pushed on with unusual energy and
expedition.


Mr.. Miller the contractor, informs us that
the road bed is about finished from this
city TO Lost Creek. aud that about 4 Of a
mile ofthe heavy work beyond Lost Greek
is completed.


The managers are In noe spirits and
indulge strong hopes that they will be able
TO give our ciuzens ride by rail 10 Rock
Vile. by the time Of the Presidential cleo
tiou.


They have sn interesting card in another
column Of this paper to which We would
call especial attention.
Year: 1860

LESSON yoR rHE PRIScE The liberal pa
pers Of Canada, while entirely respectful
to the Prince. take occasion TO remind him
Of certain ideas Of their own. The Ham.
ilton Times speaking of his intended visit
TO the Unitrd States, remarked:


"A valuable lesson will the young
Prince learn from observing the prosperity
Of that people whom his ancestors drove to
rebellion. He will see how little free,
energetic people really depend upon Prin-
ces-hew easily they can be dispensed
with. and how wise il is TO dispense with
them when they misuse the prerogatives
which are entrusted to them for the peo-
ple's benefit.
Year: 1860

! Tie reporter Of the London Times wlr


visited this country with the Prince ol


Wales, welded a ready pen. The grand


prairies of the West must have inspired


him with remarkable sensations. He


thus daguerreotypes sunset:


1t took place in all its supernatural
glory-a glory which can never be de-


scribed or understood by those who have


not seen it. AS the sun neared the rich,
green horizon, it turned the whole ocean
OF meadow into sheet of gold which


seemed to blend with the great firma-


ment ofreds and pinks-pale rosy orange


hucs, and solemn, angry-Iooking crimson
clouds above, till not only the sky, but


all the land around was swathed in piles
of color, as if the heavens were reflected
from below. or as if the sinking sun shoue
through the very earth like mist, and
turned it to a rainbow. The immensity
of Stiffness which lay in the prairie then
"a stiffness as profound and vast as the
green solitude itself, while not breath
stirred over the whole horizon as the
great transmutation went slowly on,
and the colors over the land turned from
rosy to pink, from pink to orange, orange
TO rcd and crimson, darkening and dark
ening always as the colors ebbed out
like celestial tide, leaving fragments
cf scarlet clouds over the heavens, the
embers of the fire which had lit the
prairie in fame of glory.


There was such a quiet, unspeakable
richness in this grand farewell of day
such terrible redncss about tho sky at
last, that one could almost fancy some
phenomenon had occurred,
that the sun had gone forever, and left
a deep and CORY wound across the sky.
Night was a relief compared to this
dread, lurid fire in ilcaven-a FIRE which
the clouds seemed to close III upon, and
stitlc out with difficulty fire which,
like the paintings of the sunset before
the deluge, left always an ominous anger
in the heavens, even when the night
was far advanced, and the prairies |
clothed in blue mist that rose over it |
like water
Year: 1860

AM Offering for sale # the place


in Tennessee situated in Sumner county Immediately
Nashville and Gaan Turnpike road eighteen miles from the
former and eight miles from the latter place. within half mile
Of Saundersve at which place depot Nashville
and IOuisville Railroad, in an hours Of Nashville


The pla contains about thirty Eve and complete
repair, the soil is excellent Thera thrifty young orchard
beautifully he ged in tn Usage Orange The dwelling
story Brick with five large brick kitchen and frame
out houses we'll Of most excellent water, good cistesn
and spring.


Also, within mile Of Saundersve I52 Of land, fifty
cleared the balance finely tmbered and well in blue
Being determined to SOUTH will sell bargain in
the above places. JAMES FRANKLIN.
A