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Year: 1859

nY CHARLES NAcEAY. Who lags from dread of daily work, And hiS appointed task would Thirk, Commits folly and crimei

 A soulleSs slave

 pnltry knsve- 4 clog upon the wheels of time. With work to do and store of health, The mans unworthy 10 be free,

 Who will not give,

 That hs may live, HiI daily toii for daily fee. Nol let us work We only ask Reward proportionsd to our task: We have no quarrel with the great

 No feud with rank

 With mill or bank No envy of lords estate live can earn sufficient store To satisfy our daily need,

 And can retain,

 For ago and pain, A fraction, we are rich indeed No dread of toil have Ue or ours, We know our worth and weigh our powers; 1; The more we work tho more we win

 Success to trade

 Success to spade And to the corn that's coming in And joy to him, who, OCT his task, Remembers toll in naturo's plan;

 Who, working thinks,

 And never sinks His independence as MAN Who only asks for humblest wealth, Enough for competence and health; And leisure when his work is done

 To read his book

 By chimney nook, Or stroll at setting of the sun Who tolls as every man should toll, For fair reward, erect or free.

 These are the mem

 The best of mon These are the men we mean to be.
Year: 1859

A FEW DAYS AGO, TWO AMBROTYPEs were
IN found In the Railroad Camp, Sutter county. One
is that Of young man. and the other that Of a mid
die aged woman The owner can have them by pay
iug FOR hlsadverisement oc37.N
Year: 1859

Every plantation that is scarce of water can have the deficiency supplied by proper " constructed cisterns. and always have an abundance for stock and all other pur- poses. It is generally conceded that pure clStern water is more healthy and better adapted to the wants of man generally, than spring or well water, strongly sautur ated with limestone. 1 now give my method of building cisterns, and with which have uniformly been very successful.

 To build them where you have clay or gravel foundation, 1t is necessary to com mence your excavation circular, digging down about three feet perpendicular, then making an offset of eight inches around, on which to rest the arch, which must be constructed of brick, and made eight inches thck. After having determined the depth you wish it, proceed to dig about half the depth perpendicular, the balance finish up In the shape of the larger end of an egg; next proceed to turn the arch, leaving an opening in the centre about eighteen inches Tn diameter, then carefully clean the loose earth that may have fallen in 1t, and you are now ready for cementing

 Let the sand for the first coat be coarse, cleanely washed and gravelly; for the second coat, the same will do if run through a fine corn-meal seive. To prepare the cement, take two parts of sand to one part of first quality hydraulic cement, namely, Louisville, Pozondale or Roman; either will do. Be careful not to mix more at time than the plasterer can use without having to add water second time After you have first coated 1t let it stand about one week to set; after which apply the second coat If the cement is of good quality, your cisten will do to use in about two weeks after.

 Should it be necessary to blow your cistern out of rock, you must make a lining of brick or stone, being very careful to fill up all the backing with solid wall; as you value a good cistern, do not trust to pudding or ramming behind with dirt.

 l give you the following tables of sizes and capacity of csterns in barrels, each barrel containing thirty-one gallons:
Year: 1859

It will be seen from the above, that about three-fourths of the residue consists of car bonate lime (common limestone and silica (Hlnt) substances of feeble action, so far as we know, on the animal economy

 This being the first demonstration made of the mineral constituents of these Waters, 1t will be viewed with interest by medical
Year: 1859



 MR. EDITOR: Whatwe are mostly inter- ested in at present is, who is to be our next Governor and Representative in Congress. Gov. Conway has given more satisfaction to the people than any of his predecessors, and all men of all parties here regret that the time will soon roll up for him to retire, and who Is to be his successor, and who will carry out the policy of his administra ton, IS with us here matter of great mo- ment, and by the by, should be with every honest democrat who has the good of his State at heart. 1 know of no man who ' will be more acceptable to the unterriied of Ouachita and the surrounding counties than that good and great man, Judge Gould of Bradley county l say this with no dis paragement whatever to the names of those who have already been spoken of. Judge Gould will carry out more fully the policy of the present incumbent than any man in the State, from the simple fact that he has had more to do with our State affairs than any of the names that have already been mentioned, and then above every other consideration on earth, he is, and has ever been an Honest democrdt, Ives even above suspicion, and 1 will venture the assertion that he was never known in life to repudiate the nominee of a convention. and this is with me and should be with all orthodox democrats a desideratum.

 Well, who is to follow Col. Rust in Con- gross, God only knows. 1 wonder if the democracy of this district had not better dispatch some one on to Washington City and consult Hindman I think this would -Ae the better plan, for then it would not be considered by the Hindman tribe after the convention to be Johnson trick. Well, well, poor Hindman has gone the way of all transgressors. But thank God, in our district we have no man of any notoriety who may be considered disorganizer. It Is true by adds we have more men aspiring to Congress from this district than any Congressional district in the United States, but 1 have the consolation of knowing one fact, after the nomination is made all the parties adhere to it in every sense of the word.

 Well suppose give you some of the names that are spoken of for Congress here, Dr. Mitchell Judge Quillin, Col Royston, Col Can't, Judge Sorrels, Judge Comp ton, Charley Jordan, Col F'lounoy. No one from Camden Something is wrong as sure as we live. What is to happen?- This portion of the district has had the two last Congressmen and we are now disposed to be more than liberal, and intend helping the northern portion. We are for the old war horse of Desha, Col Flournoy, first and last but would compromise on Mitchell, Either of those gentlemen would make us

 II

 worn themselves out battling for the de- mocracy.

 With such men as Gould for Governor, Flournoy or Mitchell and some one in the first district to beat Hindman with, we shall be able to give larger majority over the opposition and disorganizers than our State has ever given. am yours,

 TWO BAYOU.
Year: 1859

EXPLOSION OF TIE PRINcEss.-The Grand
Jury of the Eastern District of Louisiana have
arrived at the conclusion that no ground exists
for the prosecution of any person connected
with the Princess, with a probability of con-
viction, under the law governing the case-the
second engineer and his assistant then having
charge of the machinery, having themselves
fallen victims to the explosion, and no living
witness being found who could be supposed to
be cognizant of any of the immediate attend
ant circumstances.
Year: 1859




How TO LIFT THEM.-We don't know
much about ladies' dresses and of
course it would not be expected that
we should dictate to them about how
to manage those dresses. BUTT is a
TACT that many of them don't know
'he proper manner in which to man.
age their dresses in going up stairs or
dop n. We've had EN- swinging to
our arm sometimes on such occasions
and wc didn't fail to observe. And
rather than advise them ourself, we
will just quote what one of their own
sex says, concerning hoops and hold.
ing up dresses:


"The hoops should be near together,
say two or three inches apart, and
come to within as many inches of the
feet or bottom of the dress. A word
about the management OF the dress.
In the first place, in going up stairs
you need only lift tho front of your
dress, and in descending, the back OF
your skirts. The front part Of your
dress can by no effort be soiled in de-
scending, nor the back part by ascend
ing pair of stairs. Do therefore
have reform in this, in my mind.
immodcst habit you have needlessly
gotten into, of dragging your dress
behind going down stairs, and lifing Il
up in front instead.
Year: 1859

Printers are thought to be great
duns-simply because they speak of
these matters in print. The printer
in dunnins one nun through his pa
per, makes it public to all of his read
ers--whilst other persons dun one
man, in person, at time. The rea-
son is obvious-after it is explained.
The printer is no greater dun than
other men, but his calls meet the eye
not the ear, of more persons at the
same time.
Year: 1859

The Lapland weather yesterday was bar to the
usual congregations on Carondelet street. OF
course, nothing of stirring character turned up.
On the great levee there was very heavy press of
business. We could have walked on rows and
piles of cotton bales for three-quarters of a mile
and with the receipts of Western produce, it can
well be conceived there was very little space on
this great pandemonium of trade. The most i'm
portant talk was Of the resolutions of buyers of
cotton, which went into effect yesterday The
sales of the staple amount to only 900 bales for
the two days. There was some talk that one or
TWO buyers had violated the compact or agree
ment. ltappears, however, that they never enter
ed INTO It, and did not sign the agreement. 1t was
talked of that the buyers who have entered into
the agreement represent the very great interest or
equivalent to fifteen hundred thousand bales OF cot
ton, say and half millions. Independent of
the settlement of differences at stake between buy
ers and sellers, Or Bears and Bulls, dull market
might be expected to follow the depressing ac-
counts by the North American, though the Man
chester advices were deemed as very favorable.
The talk was, that the receipts of cotton at all the
ports would this morning exceed nineteen hun
dred and fifty thousand bales. As our Texas and
Virginia adyices were not received yesterday we
have no later figures from that section At the
same time, through private sources, we learn that
receipts at the ports in North Carolina and Virginia
are not received.


The mails failed yesterday by both routes. If
the Florida route goes into effect it is hoped We
may by the three routes receive at least mails
three times per week or every other day.


The next steamer from Europe will probably be
the Asia from Liverpool of the 10th, to arrive at
New York. AS the weather was becoming very
cold the streets and change were cleared at an
early hour yesterday.
Year: 1859

New ORLEANS GAS LIGHT DISQUALIFICATION
is made through our columns that the Board of
Directors of the New Orleans Gas Light Company
yesterday declared semannual dividend of six
per cent, payable and after the second day of
january, 1860.
Year: 1859

Those who are ncreduous regard to the superiority of Iron
over Rope fastening for Cotton in of fire. are requested
to examine passed through the fire on the levee Oct
80 and lay FORTY HOURS in the moulerng remains of 70
bales of Rope Cotton nearly all OF which consumed
There were only two Iron both of them saved with u
loss of LESS THAN TEN PER CENT.


The hale is to be seen at No. % COMMERCIAL PLACE,
where orders will promptly filed for number Of the


F. BELCHER,
Year: 1859

AS the above amusement to be the order of the
day among the SEWING MACHINE AGENTS we suppose


is necessary o sa, word in the shape
g Card in response advertisement which appears in
the papers headed FACTS ASSERTION That adver-
semcnt we presume have written by Wheeler Will
agent this city. although is written with We, like
a king editor.


The charges with endea avorEg convey wrong


impression public by having previously advertised


Finkle Lyon Sewing Machine received the highest pre-
the Fair of the American Institute, New York,
advertise that what he is pleased
term the official report, has


We gave authority for the made by refer
ring SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. of November 49, which pub
shed medals awarded the machinery depart
me which list communicated that paper by w b
ard Secretary, In that list the Fnklc Lyon Sewing
head If made mistake it honest
part any easily ascertain by referring
the above mentioned paper, now in our Office.


1t will by the official report published by the
Wheeler agent that said report is terribly
against Fnke Lyon Sewing Machine, folks would
have us believe will that Finkle Lyon received
TWO SILVER MEDALS FOR ONE MACIIINE-one being
on its merits family machine aud the other heavy
nenera
Year: 1859

T. STATE REGIsrRAR.-W have not had time
until now to read the report of Edwin R.
Campbell, Esq, State Registrar, to the Gov
ernor. We find it a clear and well written
document. 1t appears mainly, from the re-
port, that the Office has failed, in a great de
gree, of its intention, ana that the great
majority Of the marriages, deaths and divor-
ces designed to be recorded in it, have not
been reported, by the parties required 10y law
to make such report The necessity for tie
maintenance of this Office is apparent, and
the only poirt to be considered is the means
of compelling the observance of the law. A
severe penalty should be attached to its non
Observance 10y those who may be required to
see that notices of deaths, divorces, births and
marriages are recorded. If the intelligent
citizens of the State have not enough regard
for just and useful law like this to obey it
of their own free will let them be made to
do it by some stringent enactment The ob-
ject Of the Office is to protect the legitimacy
of children, to secure clear record in cases
of inheritance, to furnish a statistical history
for the benefit of legislators, and to add
much useful knowledge to the general store
of information regarding the character of our
State. We trust the present legislature will
make such amendments to the present Regis
tration Law as will ensure its observance.
Year: 1859

PIsroL SHoT.-Some excitement was eaus.
ed last evening at about o'clock, by the
sudden discharge of pistol in the street,
from point near the corner of the What
Cheer House, and the entrance of the ball
through a pane in one of the windows of the
saddler shop of Messrs Lawrence Il Scranton
some four feet from the floor. Mr. Scranton
and another person were in the shop at the
time, but the ball probably missed them some
three feet. judging from the appearance of
the hole in the window. What could have
been the motive of the shot it is impossible to
say, as the party who fred it disappeared so
suddenly that he was not seen at all,
Year: 1859

No MORE DELAYs.-We understand that
the California Stage Company, whose con-
tract allows them to have the mails from be-
low transported by steamers at this season,
intend for the purpose of facilitating their
transportation, to make stage connection,
on to morrow, with the steamers at Nieolaus,
so as to avoid the delays caused by the low
water between that town and this city. Thi,
is very important movement to our citizen:
and entities the California Stage Company
to the thanks of the public, inasmuch as they
are under no obligations by their contract
to do anything of the kind.
Year: 1859

Miss Vincent, trance medium, had beer
astonishing the people of Sandusliy (O.) fol
some time with her oracular demonstrations
but her glory was recently nipped in the
bud by the simultaneous production Of scvc-
raj lights by the audience, revealing her with
Il horn to her mouth in the act of delivering
Il communication. The following is from
the official statement sworn to by those who
witnessed the exposure:


"Alter sitting some time in the dark, the
horns commenced vibrating on the table, as
ccndcd tie wall, went along the ceiling, came
down and went round touching many in the
circle, after which sound as if of mighty
rushing wind came from the horn, with sun
dry hard knocks on the table, when a voice
proceeding from the horn. purporting to be
that CT person who died four thousand
years ago proceeded to instruct the person
by blowing them up and telling them that
some Of their minds were far too grovclling
to be members of any circle, and requested
them to ask for the information that lie tthe
spirit Of the horn) received from his teacher
in the sphere that he was in. An agree
mcnt had been made by three members of
the circle, that when a certain question was
asked the light should be struck while the
answer was given. The question was, Was
Jesus Christ Il legitimate or an illcgitimatc
child p The horn answered, lie was le-
gitnate CHI when the light was struck.
and there &t0od He me9ium ore,' Tie taJie.
hoidiag tie ho,n to her month and f,ushing
the sentence. Or being detected she immedi-
ately dropped the horn on the table, and
fell back in her chair"
Year: 1859

The following eloquent passage occurs in
Everett's great Grafton on Warren:


"To be cold and breathlcss-to feel and
speak not--this is not the end of existence
to the men who have breathcd their spirit
into the institutions of the country, who have
stamped their characters on the pillars Of the
age, who have poured their hearts blood
into the channels of the public prosperity
Tell me, yc who tread the sod on yon sacred
height, is Warren dead? Can you not still
see him, not pale and PROSTATE, the blood of
his gallant heart pouring out Of bis ghastly
wound. but moving rcsplendcnt over the
field of honor with the rose of heaven upon
his check and the fire of liberty in his eye ?
Tell me. yc who make your pious pilgrimage
to the shades of Vernon, is Washingto indeed,
shut up in that cold and narrow house >
That which made these men and men like
these cannot die. The hand that traced the
charter of Independence is, indeed, notion
less, the eloquent lips TINT sustained it are
hushcd; but the lofty spirits that conceived,
resolved and maintained it. and which. alone,
to such men, make it life to live, they can
not expire:


These shall resist the empire Of dccay,
When time is DER, and worlds have passed
away


Cold in the dust the pcrished heart may lie
But that which warmed it once can never
die "
Year: 1859

by BISHOP poANE.
Stand like an anvil when the strokes
of stalwart strength fall fierce and fast;
Storms but more deeply root the oaks,
Whose hrawny arms embrace the blast
Stand like an anvil" when the sparks
Fly far and wide, fiery shower;
Virtue and truth must still be marks


Where malice proves its want Of power
"Stand like an anvil" when The bar
Lies red and glowing on its breast
Duty shall be life's leading star.


And conscious innocence is rest
"Stand like an anvil !" when the sound
OF ponderous hammers pains the ear
Thine but the still and stern rebound
OF the great heart that cannot fear
Stand like an anvill' noise and heat
Are born Of Garth and die with time
The soul, like God, its source and scat,
Is solemn, still, serene, sublime
Year: 1859

ANOTHER SUIT TO RECOVER LARG1 LANDED
PROPERTY IN CHlcAao.-1t is stated that Gen.
Murray Mcconnell, who recently resigned his
Office Of Fifth Auditor Of the Federal Treasury at
Washington, has done so for the purpose Of re-
turning to this State TO bring suit for the recovery
Of some dozen Of acres Of land in tho heart Of the
city Of Chicago. It is alleged that the land was
legally entered at tue Land Office, but afterwards
seld By Government to other natties.
Year: 1859

The Great Fraud On the State.


Fall particulars Of the investigation By the
Senute Finsnce Committee Of the recently dis.
covered fraud in the Office Of the Fund Com
missioner, will be found on the second page.
Year: 1859

The people of this State, in all probability, are
soon again to be the victims Of a hrartcss mo
nopoly. Vanderbilt has bought the Pacific Mail
Company, this time, with no other vie" than 10
speculate upon the labor and Industry Of our pop
ulaton. His intention doubrl S is to control
The entire California travel and as both routes
will soon be in his possession, the only recourse
for Californians will b. to grin and bear It,


The speculation Of this ocean monopoly is al
most incalculabe. The thousands which constant
" arrive and depart from our shores supply a
fund which, welded by single power, can pro
duce any desired result For ten long years the
Pacific Mail Company oppressed the working
classes Of and Incidentally retarded the progress
and prosperity OF thif State, for the glovclng and
selfish obj ct Of private gain. Pillared by the
support of an entcrprisng public, fostered by
hir, d patronage. that beartless body, vampire
| kt prey upon the vitals of this State, till sa
t,d with lis glut it casts the victim of, only TO
Year: 1859

LEGISLATIVE ECoNoNY.-Next Monday the
Legislature of this State will commence their
labors. We have no idea how much special leg
lslation will be required, but expect the passage
OF hundreds of triaing acts which will never
benefit the people an iota. A great many prop
ositions for retrencbment and reform will be
thought of, which the law makers will do well to
practice, viz by finishing their work and going
home as soon as possible. Remember that your
constituents, the dear people, bave to bear the
burden by paying SIS day for your trashy legis-
lalion. II legislators have at heart the senti-
menis which fall SO glibly from their tongues in
political canvass, they should certainly exhibit
a little Of it when they occupy the legislative
mans but "e fear that preaching economy to a
Legislature when the Slate Treasury contains
over bali million, is labor lost The money
must be expended, some way
Year: 1859

WRITE AS the New Year is lust openinp ,ve
take occasion to appeal to our friends throughout
the county to furnish us with matters Of interest
transpiring in their immediate vicinity What is
county newspaper good for it it furnishes no
local news? Little events printed in the home
pap'r find their way into hundred, Of oth,r.


some me-, thus bringing the place ard people
into notice We don't care how ungrammatically
or ougnly i may be written, if it contains sens.
and Information. We are pretty well convinc d
that good newspaper style is not as easy as it
seems, but an article to be printed should abso-
luteIy have something in it, If you wish to tell
an anecdote, have point to il if argument, il
should be conclusive. 1t has been truly said that
"noi6ing ever touched the beart OF the reader
mat did not come from the heart OF the writer y