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Year: 1860

AS weary traveller was wending his way
through the mud in far west region of the
country, be discovered young girl seated in
the front door of small log house. He rode
up and asked her for drink of water. He
drank 1T, aud she being the first female he had
seen for several days. offered her dime for q
kiss. The girl accepted the offer, and receiv-
ed both the kiss and the dime. The traveller
was about to resume his journey, but the girl,
never before having seen dime, asked


sWhas am / to do with the dimel'


You may use it in any way you wish,' he
replied


III that's the oase,' said she, 'I'll give you
back the dime, and take another kiss
Year: 1860

NEGRO SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.-In New
York there was proposition to amend the
Constitution SO us to give negroes the right TO
vote. This proposition was voted upon NJ the
election on Tuesday, and was defeated By a
large majority.
Year: 1860

WANT IN ALABAMA.-The Mobile Register, of
December 13, publishes the following extract from
letter written by subscriber in Choctaw county:


dYou Eobilians have but a faint idea Of the
misery that will be likely TO exist In the country
the coming year. ! can assure you from my own
observation, that In less than two months from
this time eight families out Of ten Will actually
be out Of corn, and a great part Of them will not
have money TO buy Il with. And a. your mef-
chants will not Ill orders unless the cash accom-
panies such orders, where IL It TO come from,i
Year: 1860

THE RECENT PRIZE FIoHr-The Hon. and
Rev. Baptist Noel of London has published
"a Letter to the noblemen and gentlemen
who attended the prize fight between Henan
and Sayers" lie says;


To so fifty miles and pay e3 in order to
witness the intense suffering of Others, while
sitting ones self at ease on comfortable
chair, enveloped in warm wrapper, and
then, after lolling in an easy carriage, to
laugh over good dinner at the end, seems
to me a process adapted to form an eifemi-
nate ruifian who takes pleasure in the sight
of suffering; and an effeminate ruflian, be-
cause the indulgence of the appetite for hor-
rors is in these circumstances accompanied
with no danger and no hardship. When a
delight in the pain of others is obtained in
the midst of perils, as in the strife of brig
ands, ruf1ian becomes at least old and
hardy; but when it is combined with luxuri-
Gus ease, it may leave men no less efieminate
than cruel


Pugiism, like pistol practice, makes strong
and practiced men builes in common life
ready TO insult Others because they know
that men without muscle and with no prac
tice cannot fight with them At the same
time, il tends to make others quarrelsome
for if fighting comes to considered the best
way of settling dispute, a man who has any
strength will always be disposed to fight tor
any trihe, and our cities, towns, aud villages
will be filled with fighters Your support OF
these fights will set your own villagers all
fighting.


suppose, however, that much as you ad-
vocate this way of iuvigorating the poor, you
do not propose to adopt it yourselves. You
would, indeed draw some monster trains to
your ring, were you to announce that the
Earl of A and the Duke Of B. would
on such day, for the improv ement of their
country, strip and fight and an assembly
still more arristocratic, would probably
crowd round the ropes to see which should
first blind or disable the other. But that not
being intended, vulgar blood alone is to flow,
The earl does not mean to be smashed him
self because he smiles az seeing Heenan
smashed; and the duke does not mean to have
his right arm broken or turned into blue
Jelly because lie comes to see the arm OF
Sayeis so treated. Is not this to make poor
men your sport, while you do not mean TO
he made their sport in turn? But il it is be
meath gentlemen to settle their disputes 10y
the fist, it is equally beneath working men,
and | believe working men are beco "ing too
well educated. in general, to make their
bruises and their blood a spectacle for your
amusement.


You say that you wish to make the people
manly. How can they be more manly when
they work all day in ilI-vontilated work
shops. till exhausted, and then poison them
selves with drink? Ifyou wish them to be
manly, improve the ventilation of their work
shops and cottages; raise their wages by en-
couraging emigration; teach them selfrespect
by good education; then with good food,
temperance. and a sense of duty, you may
make them the bravest end manifest nation
in the world
Year: 1860

How SLuIcE RoBsER WAS snor.-A few
days since in the vicinity of jamestown,
Tuolumne county, VIM. pickersgill invented
a trap for a sluice robber, which proved sue
eessfdl. His aume, says letter to the Alta
was in deep cut. with banks seven or eight
feet high; on one side he placed shot CUR
heavily loaded with buck shot pointing
across the llume; from the trigger he stretch
ed line across the fume to the other bank,
in such manner that any one passing would
pull the string, and inevitably commit sui
eide. Patiently Mr.. P. watched the result Of
his experiment, and on the moruing of the
10th was rewarded by the sight of his game
The man killed was n Mexican. There was
no doubt of his crime he had dark lantern
in his hand, and in his pocket ball of clay,
very rich with quicksilver gold. The shot
took effect in his thigh, making an awful
wound, from which he bled to death.
Year: 1860

REMARKABLE CASE OF SUICIDE eastern
paper says that in New Orleans recently a
fre2chman named NoiGean, got a ladder
aHH' climbing to the top of cistern, dived
INTO 1t headforemost and drowned himself
II appeared that he had greatly desired to go
TO German ball, but as all the members Of
'ne i'mily IN which he was employed were
going it was necessary for him to stay and
when he found himself alone in the house HE
disappointment and anger overcame him and
he determined to dpoil the drinking water oe
the family at the expense of his life Thjs
act, considering that he was a man of at laost
forty years of age. must be set down as n
most extraordinary one
Year: 1860

HANDsoME-The Howards of San Fran
cisco, who SO handsomely entertained the
Wnrrens Of this city at the Hotel Information
al, had the bill of fare at their banque;
printed upon slips OF the finest satin and in
the ne-test style of the typographical art.
We were handed one of them yesterday and
speak by the card.
Year: 1860

THE news from the Frazer river and Ques
nellie Mines is not very encouraging Men
who had been humbugged at Similkamen
rushed by way of the Frazer country; but
found no diggngs sufficiently rich to induce
them 10 stay.
Year: 1860

The DAILY publishes a very large quantity of
matter, and the TRIWEEKLY is made up of two
Daily issues; and the WEEKLY is one Of the largest
handsomest and cheapest sheets printed in the
Union
Year: 1860

To any and all Postmasters and friends sending
us the Cash for five new subscribers to the Weekly,
or two to the Tri-Weeky we will send one copy of
the Weekly gratis for one year.


Positively no subscription will be received for the
Weekly or Tri-Weekly UNION AND AMERICAN, unless
accompanied with the Cash.
Year: 1860

In his speech at Vicksburg, the other day,
Senator Davis is reported 10 have given NJ
terance TO the following glorious sentiment ::


"If Mississippi, in her sorereign capacity,
decides to submit to the rule Of an arrogant
and sectional North, then l will sit me down
as one upon whose brow the brand Of iEfamy
and degradation had been written, and bear
my portion of the bitter trial. Bat ii, on the
other hand, Mississippi decides to resist the
hands that would tarnish the bright star
which represents her on the National Flag,
then will come at your bidding, whether
by day or by night, and pluck that star from
the galaxy, and place it upon banner of its
own. l will plant it upon the crest of bat
tie, and gathering around me the nucleus of
Mississippi's best and bravest, will welcome
the invader 20 the harvest Of death and flu
ture generations will point to a small hillock
upon our border, which will tell the recep-
ton with when .hc invader met upon our
soili@
Year: 1860

principles should prevail upon this subject of
constitutional right, whatever may be mems
views with regard to the question of ex-
pediency. 1t is difficult to do justice to such
a subject within the limits of newspaper
article, but we trust at least to have made
ourselves understood. We do not desire, at
this time, to offer any opinion upon the great
question to be decided by the people of Ala
bama--although reserving the privilege of
doing so whenever we may think proper
but merely desire to vindicate their full right
to decide it for hemselves.-MoJile Tribune.
Year: 1860

Fashion kills more women than toll
or sorrow. Obedience to fashion is n
greater transgression of The laws of wo-
mems nature, n greater injury to her
physical and mental constitution, than
the hardships of poverty and neglect,
The slave woman at her task will live
and grow old, and see two or three gen.
erations ofher mstresscs fade and pass
away. The washer women, with scarce
a ray of hope to cheer her tolls, will live
to see her fashionable sisters all die
around her. The kitchen maid is hearty
and strongwhcn her lady has to be nur-
sed like sick baby.


1t is q sad truth that fashion
pampered women are almost worth
less for all tho great ends of human life.
They have but little force of character,
they have still less power of moral will,
and quite as little physical energy


They live for no great purpose in
life; they accomplish no worthy ends.
They are only doll forms in the hands
of milliners and servants, to be dressed
and fed to order. They DIRE nobody,
they feed nobody; theyinstruct nobody;
they bless nobody, and save nobody.
They write no books; they set no rich
examples Of virtue and womanly life
If they rear children, servants and nur-
ses do all, save to conceive and give
them birth. And when reared what
are they? What do they ever amount
to, but weaker scions Of the old stock?
Who ever heard of Il fashionable wo-
mans child exhibiting any virtue or
power of mind for which it became en-
inent? Read the Biographies of our
great and good men and women. Not
one Of them had q fashionable mother.
They nearly all sprung from strong
minded women who had as little to
do with fashion as with the changing
clouds.
Year: 1860

Tie Richmond FIRE Association had a .wash
Ing'' on Saturday afternoon last, after W which
they repaired to Hunts ''Our House. and par-
took OF u collation., provided for the occasion.
Iae ASSOCIATION own an engine or two, and
keep up their organization with az much
rigidity as when they bad control Of the ire
apparatus Of the city. OF course they had a
pheasant time" at the festive board
Year: 1860

Importance, large body of white men,
among whom are numbers of industrious
German immigrants, are showing how
much can be done by free labor. All the
conditions requisite for the trial of the
experiment of emancipation were coming
into existence, and Virginic and Mary
land might by this time have severed
themselves from the sisterhood of slave
States, had Il not been for the .tead betDeen
North and South fomented By the abolitionists.
These people have thrown the old civil
lized slave States back under the domin-
ion of the coarse planters of the extreme
South; they have made the division be-
tween the two sections So complete that,
as a member of Congress observed, even
the disruption of the Union would hardly
make much social difference, and all with
out the smallest gain to the negro, but,
on the contrary, to his irreparable loss
Formerly the negroes in the northern
slave States were not debarred from in
struction. If a master or good-natured
mistress chose, the slaves in a family
might be taught to read and write, and
often they were very fair proficients.


But it is not only that the stringency
of the slave-owner's rule has been increas-
ed; the change of opinions in the free
States, is melancholy sign. The re-
marks of Mr.. O'Connor, which we have
quoted, are but fair sample of what
Americans have learnet to think and say.
The change is to be almost entirely at
tributed TO the hatred of abolitionsts, for,
however determined not to meddle with
slavery as long as it produces cotton and
rice, the northerncrs would have indulg-
cd the little hypocrisy of deploring it,
and making sentimental speeches about
the sad burden with which their fore
fathers, the British, had saddled them
1t is only political animosity which has
led to the adoption of slavery as creed
by the mass of Americans, and yet there
can be no doubt that the adoption has
really been made. Nor is it mere bar
rem belief; the "Dred Scott" case shows
that it has found its way to the judicial
bench, and it has been carried out in the
Judgment which made so great sensa-
ton in Europe, and also in the great po-
ltical measure which allows any new
Territory to adopt slavery if it chooses.
We cannot congratulate the abolition
lists on the success of their exertions,
which have plunged the race they favor
into deeper darkness, and have made the
subection of man to man the belief of
Christianpcop
Year: 1860

e "A western eaitor has received
sixteen effers of marriage since leap year
set in, but he hasn't accepted one ofthem
the answer to this invariable question
chow much property have you in your
own right?" not being satisfactory in
either case.
Year: 1860

.


The people of Placer county approach the
polls on the 27th inst. to vote upon a prop
osition for the cesnty to subscribe for
stock in proposed railroad from Folsom
to Nevada. We learn there is feeling in
some parts Of the county against the prop
osition. 1t seems to US clear that the peo-
PIE of Placer would stand in their own light
not to lend the assistance required to build
the proposed railroad. We presume it use
less to present statistics to prove the entire
safety of subscribing for stock in the rail-
road, or the value Of the work to the county
when completed. The people of Upper Pla-
Ger are we'll enough satisfied on these points
already. They must be aware that rail-
road along the line surveyed by Mr.. Elliott
could not fail to develop and enrich their
section beyond computation. The idea, or
fear, seems TO prevail that the road may
only come as far as Auburn and terminate
there, without going on to this city ,and there
is an impression that railroad reaching only
to Auburn would not rebound to the benefit
of the county at large, to say nothing of To-
cal jealousies sSid to exist. The people Of
Upper Placer are probably not aware of the
real state Of public sentiment in this county
relative to the road. We can assure them
that no effort will be spared to continue the
road from Auburn to this city. We have
no doubt but that Nevada county will in
good time throw its might and wealth into
the scale to secure the construction of the
road. The prize is too great to be lost
The railroad must come here from the me-
cessities of the people. 1t must go on and
cross the mountains because of the favora-
BILE nature of the route. We trust the peo-
pie of Placer will be impressed with the
Importance of the step they are about to
take, and assume the responsibilities of in
teligent pioneers in great enterprize.
Year: 1860

TEETH! TEETH !! DR.. Lcvason comes
to Us recommended rs a surgical and mechan-
ical Dentist of long established reputation for
professional skill. His specimens of work will
compare with those of any other dentist what
ever in natural appearance, fitness and beauty
Of finish, while in all surgical dentistry his
mode of operating commends itself for its free
dom from pain and security against accident.


Office over A. Block t Co.
Year: 1860

~The Democrat has again gone to the
trouble Of publishing half column OF fig
ures and comments to show that Douglas is
the representative man of the Democratic
party. 1t is an old addage that figures
wo lie, brt if the Te orn will but lco'
about it will see under its own nose doz-
ems of men who detest Douglas and his
principles, but who favor his nomination.
Why :? simply because in the present state
of the party.they think he could get some
votes that any other Democrat could not
They do not favor him, therefore, for being
a representative of his party, but because
they think he may be representative of a
nondescript class, neither fish nor fowl.
who might vote for him but no other DEM
ocrat. They 60 for him because they deem
him the representative of the auxilliaries
hoped to be gained to win success to the
party. Is it violent presumption to sup
pose there may have been hundreds OF
Democratic delegates at Charlie ton feeling in
like manner towards Mr.. Douglas and vot-
ing for him for policy sake alone, and not
because of his doctrines being in accord
ance with theirs
Year: 1860




it may have undergone. it still exists in some
form and place. If it has gone mp to the clouds
in mist or vapor it will come down again in rain
or dew, to beautfy the flowers and water the
earth. to make it fruitful. So with man. nothing
Of him is lost. lie dies. men shroud his remains
for the grave and lay them there to sleep. hut.
that dust shall rise again. Sown in weakness
and corruption it shall he raised in strength and
immortality, and death shall be s,cdHored up in
life.


Ir man bimself we find an additional and to
our own mind. an unanswerable argument for
our Immortality. Man hopes for, and aspires
after, immor atty. There is an inward and ir-
repressible yearnng of the spirit for eternal ex-
istance. His mental. moral and spiritual nature
all indicate that he is fitted for something higher
and better than the things which surround him
here. That ever aching void within, which
neither riches, nor honor, nor power nor friend
ship can fill. tells us that God has in store for
man something more than this world. These
| ir timations become almost positive proof when
we remember that these longings for immortal
| ity are not results of mans transgresson but
parts OF his original nature. soul so capable
| of progress, and so anxious for Immortality,
could never have been made for time alone. An
able writer very forcibly says: There is nc
end to its (the soul's) desires after knowledge
and no exhausting its power in the acquisition
| Up to the very moment of death, it is found to
be still as capable as ever. Of augmenting its in
tellectual stores, and of pursuing those ardent
and constantly increasing desires after both
mental and moral perfection, which hitherto bad
actuated it through all its course. Death might
with some show of reason, be deemed the enc
Of those capabilities, if they were as perfect il
their development and aims as they could be
But, who can seriously believe that such faeul
ties, such transcendant capacities found too il
unimpaired and perfect existance at the las
moment of connection with this earthly life
should be called into exercise for no purpose tha
might not be equally answered BY the grovellinl
instincts of the brute; that being thus richl,
endowed, and capable of a continued progres
and Improvement, and Of passing on withou
limit or end, from one degree Of perfection Il
an ,+hsY, should, st the vs.y eonmsncsmeEt o
Year: 1860

Under the moon, as the twilight breeze
Ripples the water in pulses of light,
We stand on the bridge by the sycamore trees,
And list to the voices that come thro' the night
Under the elm row, misty and dank,
Loves sweet laughter rings from the bank
Sprinked with many dim red lamp,
Stretched away through the distance damp
Hark mid the foliage blossomed with June,
Tinkles a serenade under the moon.


Under the moon in the village street,
Gossipping groups in the shadow meet;
Seated at dusky doorways there,


Red-lipped maidens taste of the air
Whispering now of their lovers eyes,
BlSe as the beautiful summer skies;


Whispering then Of their batteries sweet
As Autumn's fruitage dropped i the heat,
Until they cadence a trembling tune,
Soft as their pulses under the moon.
Under the moon, by the cool sea-shore,
The wind walks over its spacious floor,
Courting the snowy-bosomed sails
Daintily ripping through azure wales;
Over the crisp foam bearing along
The musing mariners midnight song,
As by the rising helm with hands
Lit in the compass lamp he stands,
Thinking of those he left at noon,
Sad on the green shore under the moon.
Under the moon. by the dusty road
Pace we on to the old abode;
The listless splendor floating falls
Over its sycamore roof and walls,
Peering into the easement nook
Piled with many brown old book;
Spirits are they whose pages beam
With thoughtless ditty aud pictured dream
Spirits. amid whose silence
Our own shall slumber, under the moon
Year: 1860

AN ILLUSTRATION Southern threat of
secession and disunion, in case their demands
of protection for slavery are not granted, re-
minds us of the threat of an Irishman who
lost his hat in well, and was let down in
bucket to receive it. The well being deep,
his courage failed him before he reached the
water. In vain did he call to those above
they lent a deaf ear to all he said, till at last,
quite in despair, beloved out, ''Be st. Pat
rick, Eye don't be after drawing me up, sure
PU cut the rome 20
Year: 1860

The WOMAN IN THE CUIsNR--The papers
are making light of the demands made by
female servant girls upon the mistresses Of
the house. 1t is, however, a serious subject.
An Irish girl complained not long since to
the head Of one of the FIRST families of Hart
ford, because the smooth floor of the kitchen
had been painted, and was destitute of q
carpet. The head Of the "6rst family" made
bold TO say that the maid of Erin was rather
particular for female who had, in the old
country never trodden other than nature S
carpet under the thatch of her fathers roof,
and ended his remarks by showing her the
position and describing the uses Of the door
leading upon the street. lQ e.f ~
Year: 1860




The result Of the election in this State
settles the question as to the regular organ
ization OF the Democratic Party in California.
and settles it in favor Of those who voted for
Douglas and johnson. Those persons who
voted for Breckenridge and Lane are outside
the pale Of the party, and can only get into
il again by voting for that ticket which may
be nominated by the Regular Democracy
Next September, there will be vote for
State officers. OF course, if the state Ccu-
trail Committee have their senses, test viii
be made, allowing Tor recommending to Coun-
ty Committees to allow only those persons
to vote in the primary elections who suppor'
ted Douglas and johnson in this canvass. If
the late Breckinridge men choose to vote
the ticket, after it shall be nominated, let
them do SO. II not, let them remain as they
are, boilers and factionists


test was made in the last State election,
excluding all those from the primary cleo
tions who had not voted with the regular or
gnnzaton The ike test is Just as good in
the instance to which we refer. We want
to see the Democracy united, but theres only
one way of doing it, and that is TO yield
nothing to disorganizers and bolters


We believe the people in the next contest
will nearly all so with the regular organiza-
ton. We are in favor Of keeping that or.
ganizaton steadtast Let the masses of the
Brecknridge party come into it, if they like
If not, let them stand aloof.


There is no Douglas party now, and no
Breckenridge party, but there Is Democrat.
ic Party, and that party is to contend for the
Presidency in 1864.
Year: 1860

Tue Governor Of Damascus was lately de-
graded at Constantinople, and the ceremony
was conducted in the following manner -
lie was taken to the great square in front of
the war Office. Some thousands of troops
were assembled in the form of a hollow
square, with many high officers, civil and
military. The Pasha was led into the center
ot this square. The imperial order was then
read, after which his official insignia were
roughly torn from him, and it was loudly
proclaimed that Ahmet, late Pasha Governor
General of Damascus, and Commander in
Chief of the army Of Arbistan, was now de.
graded, stripped of al, rank and Offices. and
reduced to the rank of common soldier. He
was then ignominiously marched off to prison
whence he was sent to Beirut to be tried for


lis life.