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Year: 1859

In the Mobile Register, of September 9th,
appears letter written by the editor, Hon.
John Forsyth, late Minister to Mexico. He
says:


If the Charleston Convention nominates
candidate and puts him in the field upon the
platform of Congressional Intervention and
the slave code, our people may as we'll put
their houses in order for Black Republican
administration. 1t is certain. This or
split in that Convention is the only living
hope OF the Niger. worshipers.


Shall we rush into the trap that stands
gaping to destroy US? Moan eternal no to
the mad and suicidal proposition. The peo
pie of the South will say "no" to it, and the
politicians will have to back TO their will
Virginia will send no such preposterous
councils to Charleston. North Carolina and
Georgia are ready at this day to repudiate
them. Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and
Missouri will not throw away a substance to
grasp at shadow; and as for Alabama,
believe that if the people were sounded now,
an overwhelming majority would respond in
favor OF non-intervention and fidelity to tie
bargain solemnly made at Cincinnati in 1856.
Why, the sovereignty of Congress over the
subject of slavery in the Territories has al
ways been an abolition doctrine. 1t was the
informing and vital principle of the Wilmot
Proviso Am to be told that the people Of
Alabama find virtue in that doctrine now
which they have fought and put down in
other times2 The South cannot abandon the
non-intervention principle 1t is the princi-
pie of safety and Of right to which it is bound
by its plighted faith, and by every strong
link and tie of interest and honor.


The New Orleans Crescent quotes the
above and says:


Mr.. Forsyth is evidently a Douglas man.
and has substantially come TO the conclusion
the Crescent arrived at many months ago,
that the great Illinoisan was the only person
who stood chance to defeat Seward in 1860.
This impression or conclusion, so far as we
nave been able to judge, appears to be gain
ing ground generally throughout the South;
and we should not be surprised if those who
are now most busily engaged in denouncing
Douglas lind it convenient to tack ship and
come into his support. We are not Douglas
men and never have been but when the al.
ternative of Douglas or Seward is presented
TO u.s. as we believe it will be next year we
thlnk we shall have as little trouble in COM
ing to proper determination as will vast
majority of the Southern people.
Year: 1859

The action of the people of Sacramento IN
re nominating DR.. Duncombe for the Assem-
bly, meets with the hearty appreciation OF the
Douglas Democracy of this county. If the
Legislature again chooses to refuse him his
seat, contrary to all former usage in the
United States, because he happened, twenty
or thirty years ago, to swear allegiance to
England, let them take the responsibility
The Douglas Democracy do not consider it a
crime for man to swear allegiance to Eng
land, if he goes TO reside in that country,
or any province belonging to it. They
don't see why a man should be pro
scrbed for swearing allegiance to the Eng
lish Government, when he is not prescribed
for swearing allegiance to other governments
They don't believe in Know Nothingism at
all, in any shape or form, but when it comes
to carrying Know Nothingism to such an
extent as this, that man cannot hold office
under the American Government because he
has once been a subject Of England, it is still
worse; it is a kind of Know Nothingism
that they will never stand.
Year: 1859

MYSTERIOUS DisAPPEARANcE-A day or two
ago. lady living in one of the cottages in
the northeastern part of the city. went down
town and purchased a very beautiful dress
pattern, of moire antique, for which she paid
$40. The piece was of a rather dark color.
and golden striped Laying it down, she
went out, for about fifteen minutes. TO n
neighbors, (eaving woman, an acquaint.
anee, in charge of the house) and on re-
turning found that the dress pattern was
missing. The circumstance was somewhat
queer. The following is fuller description
Of the dress lost. which has been handed us
with view to discovering the thief should
he or she attempt to dispose of it: Dark blue
moire antique striped. one stripe about four
inches wide, plain dark blue the other stripe
the same width, interviewer with gold col
Ored circular figures, the circles about three
and half inches in diameter; and in all
about six stripes in the width Of the silk
three plain and three figured We are an.
thorized to say that liberal reward viii he
paid for the recovery of the dress pattern or
for information lodged with the Polcsl
which will lead to its recovery
Year: 1859

The report was adopted by vote of % to
g. Thus DR. Cole is exonerated from the
charge of having slandcred the females of
California How is he exonerated ? By the
supposition that he is such an ignoramus that
he does not know how to use the English
language sufficiently well to express his ideas
He expresses his views in language which
conveys an insult to two-thirds of the res
pectable females of California and yet he is
such simpleton that he does not know it /!
We wish him joy of his acquittal
Year: 1859

The CHORAL HARMONIC SocIETY.-WO at
tended a rehearsal of the Choral Harmonic
Society, last evening, and were much pleased
with the progress which they appear to be
making We have no hesitation in sayrg
that all who attend their concert next Tues
day evening, will be much pleased with their
performances as an amateur society. They
have had many difficulties to contend with
and we hope that the citizens of Marysvine
will appreciate THAR efforts suificienty.to fiji
the house from pit to dome, on Tuesday even
ing There is no doubt shat the musical tai
ent in this society is equal to any that can be
found in any amateur association in the State
Year: 1859

CB- The suppositon is that the negro,
Thompson, who jumped overheard from the
steamer New World, in order to escape from
the Sheriff of Placer county. who had him
under arrest, las reported in our telegraphic
dispatch yesterdny) sunk to the bottom, as
nothing has been seen Of him since, and there
is no sign on the bank of where he got out.
lie was loaded with chains at the time
weighing about fifteen pounds
Year: 1859

Return OF THE GREAT REpuBLrc-Along
with the occasional squalls of heavy rain
which prevailed Wednesday, morning, says
the Alta, stiff wind blew in from the ocean.
which raised quite an army of white caps in
the bay. The steamtug Goliah, about IL
o'clock, was employed towing the big clipper
Great Repablic out of the harbor, and had
succeeded in getting some distance below
the Preside, when the full force of the gale
was experienced. 1t takes more than one
tug TO control the motions of the Great Re
public, at least it did the last time she was
here and the Goliah could not make much
headway towards the narrow pass at the
Gate On this account she veered around.
the jib ofthe Republic was set, which brought
her into the steamers wake speedily and
both returned to the anchorage off the Pre-.


sidio.
Year: 1859

eB Some midnight incendiary set fire to
pile of mazanita wood in the backward Of
one of the residents in the Bell Row of Cot
tages, yesterday morning, at about o'clock,
and the whole row narrowly escaped destruc.
tion. The flames had consumed about one
half the pile Of wood and had caught in the
roof Of one of the kitchens, before it was dis
covered. A moment longer and the confa-
grafton would have been beyond any power
to control it. The alarm was raised first by
an elderly lady sleeping in a room overlook
ing the line of kitchen roofs and, after the a.
larm was given, 1t needed but little to arouse
the adjacent sleepers. Parties came from the
neighboring houses, and gentlemen living in
the row assisted, and there being plenty of
water in the pumps near by, the fire was put
out after much difficulty, without calling for
the engines.


There can be no doubt that it was the work
OF an ineendiary, for no ashes had been
thrown into the back yard or fire of any kind
used in or around it, and, even if there had
been, the extreme lateness of the hour (thre,
o'clock in the morning) would argue a high
degree of imprObability that it could hav,
been caused by any such careessness


The scOundrel will be looked out for here
after. and dose Of cold lead applied to hi
benefit should he be found sneaking arounC
the premises
Year: 1859

TELEGRAPH TO NEvADA-We mentioned a
few days ago, that an enterprise was on foot
in this city for establishing telegraph line
from this place to Nevada, ria Long Bar or
Parks Bar. Timbuctoo. Rough and Ready
and Grass Valley. The gentlemen taking
the initiative in the concern are J. b. Bond
and George Senf who are experienced opera.
tors, and know how to carry on the business
The CAPITAL stock is Ss000 a sum not very
difficult to raise. One half of it will prob
ably be subscribed in this city. it being man
ifestly to the interest of business men to have
the line established. Heretofore and at pre-
sent, communication between this place and
Nevada has been by Sacramento, which is
like going to the States arognd Cape Horn,
and numerous have been the annoyances,
hindrances and delays to business men on nc.
count of it. Besides, the tariff has been un-
reasonably high, and the construction Of
direct line to the point desired will of course
make the price Of telegraphing very consider
ably cheaper. Business can then be ;ransac.
ted with double or treble the promptness and
dispatch that it could before, and the advan
tages in every respect both to this place and
Nevada cannot be estimated.


Books will be open for subscription to this
enterprise in short time.
Year: 1859

The NIGHr WORKERS. Yer often as our
non-laboring citizens turn in their eomforta.
ble beds at night they hear the dull sound
and feel the vibration of a subterranean ex.
plosion. 1t is the tunneer at his work,
piercing the hard granite with drin and
blast. The rock drips with humidity. and
the yellow flame Of his candle can scarcely
subsist in the close and noissome atmosphere
Grim, and wet. and pale, the tunneler works
away through the gloom, night after night
for months, and even years Sometimes his
task is brought to a sudden conclusion by a
premature explosion, and he is a maimed
creature for life, unless the kinder fate of in.
slant death befalls hims. If not manned or
killed his severe toll may result in disap
pontment or if fortunate, success NAV be
robbed of its pleasures by the physical ills of
a broken constitution. Think Of all this, We
comfortable one when you turn in your
drowsy beds and hear the tunncler's thunder
think of this. and while thanking heaven for
your exemption from such painful labor, wish
lor success to the Industrious night worker
VINO Is boreing the foundations of the earth
oeneath you.-Hydrdulic Press.
Year: 1859

STEALING THE JusrIcE's BREEonEs. On
Thursday last while the Chinamen were on
trial for assaulting road officer Pierce an
other Celestial, supposed to be friend of
those on trial and had desire to make up
their fine, took pair of pants belonging to
the Justice-which he quietly slowed under
his coat and cooly started down town. Off
Ger Clark, noticing something peculiar about
him, gave him a closer examination, finding
the hrerches. lie was tried yesterday and
fined fifty dollars in default Of which he was
sent to Jail to work it out The probabilities
are that he will confne his theving opera
tions in future to other places than the court
room. - Coionia Tines
Year: 1859

MAvoR's MEssAeEs-We publish in ano-
ther place the closing message of Mayor
Decker and the Inaugural of Mayor Singer.
Both are able documents and gave very gen.
eral satisfaction. The hour is too late for
further comment upon their contents.
Year: 1859

We nerceive that the retiring Mayor, Mr..


Decker ia favorablv impressed, and so ex-


presses himself in his closing message with


the policy of the institution known as the


cbaip gang. We are very happy to agree


with him in this particular as we have here


tofore on many other questions. The only


objection entitled to any consideration, that


has ever been raised to a chair gang is the
injustice of exposing 10 the public gaze per
sons who are not hardened in crime and who
might resolve to retrieve their characters
were they not publicly exhibited on the
streets and thus eveTlastingly disgraced by
being seen on an equality with the lowest of
the low and the vilest of the vile. This OBJ
lection has no weight in reference to the in
stitution here, for none are put into the chain
gang in this city but those who are lost to all
sense of shame and who shrink from moth
ing but hard work. This class of beings
common thieves, low vagrants, miserable
lazy beggars and the like-would ask no
higher blessing than to be lodged in Jail for
any number of days, provided they were
well fed, as they always are and kept com
fortably warm. But they have an indescriba


ble horror of work-it is revolving to every
sentiment Of their bosoms-their moral and
physical nature rebels against it, and they


will leave town free from their petty depre


dations or the nuisance of their presence


sooner for fear of being put into the chain


gang than for the likelihood of any other


penalty known to the laws for the species of
crime of which they are usually guilty. Va
grancv, habitual low drunkenness, petty
thievery, dc, have been far less common in
this city since the establishment of the chain
gang than before, and the only benefit C) to
be derived from atolishing the institution
would be the filling the station house or
county Jail with lazy feeders upon the public
bounty As the case stands now, offenders
against the laws, instead Of being fed at the
public expense, are made to more than earn
their board and lodging by cleaning the
streets, removing distractions from the side
walks, constructing sewers, and building all
sorts of necessary Improvements in the city


As for the moral effect of their presence
upon the streets. they can hardly be said to
afford very corrupting influence upon any
class Of the community, for nobody would
like very well to be placed in their situation
or be induced to commit crime for the sake
of getting into such company. As to the
shocking" part of the business to delicate
and sensitive natures, that is a very small af,
fair inasmueh as the most of their work is
done in parts of the city outside of very re-
fined neighborhoods, and when they do ap-
pear in much frequented thoroughfares they
are divested of their chains or any other
badge of infamy altogether, except in the
cases of exceedingly refractory members.


The institution has worked well has saved |
money for the city; has driven out numer-
ours loafers and "bummers" and the floating |
scum of society: and it is to be hoped that
the unfounded objections which have been
raised against its perpetuation will not be
regarded with any degree of favor
Year: 1859

How TIE EARTH WAS CLoTHED.-The sub
joined extract is from lecture delivered be-
fore the Secret Diggings Lyceum, elsewhere
referred to- by S. f. Walker:


All the farer and more beautiful portions
of the earth have been developed from and
upon the rude granite and slate which forms
the bedrock. Thus it is that while these
mountains yet remain rude and unfinished,
their towering heads yet bald, their huge
gray sides yet unadorned; at their base
and formed from them-are valleys unsur-
passed in beauty and fertility.


1t is supposed that the earth was once
all mass of rugged rock, like that seen in
the moon, covered by an ocean and surroun-
ded by a dense, poisonous atmosphere: and
that these latter acting upon the rock and
uniting some of their constituents with it,
produced soil in the valleys, and in the ocean
a sediment, which becoming hard, and after
wards thrown up by convulsive action, is
what we now see in the forms of limestone,
sandstone and all the various secondary
rocks. Forests overthrown and buried have
become beds of coal; coral islands have been
changed to beds Of chalk and river beds and
shores Of lakes to gravel hills. And over
nearly all the earth, at last a soil is formed,
and vegetation has sprung up; and thus by
slow degrees and admirable processes the once
rude earth is fashioned into shapes of beau
ty, fit for mans abode.
Year: 1859

How we misjudge of values; if some in
spired Diogenes should light his lamp and
seek the richest man in Boston, he might
find him possessed of great estate; he
might find him with very little one, so
small that the assessors never found it out.
nor levied property-tax upon him. How
we mis-rate thingsl The material, wealth,
is outward, and the spiritual is inward
Happy the man who has the spiritual bless
ed, also, if he have likewise the material
wherewith to lengthen his arm, and spread
good thereby!
Year: 1859

FRENCH FREEDoM-Crime is increasing so
rapidly throughout France, that the govern
ment has forbidden the newspapers publish
ing the docket of the criminal courts, on the
ground that the publication needlessly alarms
public opinion as to the true state of the
country. Another decree of the week for
bids school mistresses making addresses to
their school girls, and provides that no school
master shall make speech to his boys un-
less it is read and approved by the police.
Year: 1859

says:


"a inger-nail is renewed in one hundred
and thlrty-two days in winter, but requires
only one hundred and sixteen in warm wea-
ther. And as light hastens vegetation, so it
is known that the hair grows faster in the
day time than in the night; and the beauti-
ful principle holds good as to our moral be.
ing. We all expand and grow into the like
ness of our great Father in proportion as
charity keeps up the warm summer time in
our hearts-whilc the sunlight of life that
is pure and true, dispels the clouds and dark
ness of wrong doing, and creates an atmos-
phere fit for the breath of angels.
Year: 1859

THE BEST STOCK OF FURS IN THE CITY.
have just received from New York. and offer for sale
very select stock Of


+ U r s,
which viii sell CHEAPER than any other establishment
in the city. -
Ladies please call and examine them before looking else
where.


No 90 BALTIMORE STREET,


NEARLY OPPOSITE HOLIDAY STREET


A. KNIGHT, AGENT,
Ralt
Year: 1859

Here is an old epigram that is very good
considering the poverty CT the subject.
Your boots my friend unlike to mne
with polished lustre brightly shines
Had yoa bestowed such studious pains
To gloss the dullness of your brains,


1t would not then by ali be said


How much his feet eclipsed his head
Year: 1859

FINE OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTMENT is afforded
by the system Mr. James P. Judson, 81 Camp street,
pursues, for getting rid of his elegant wares It is
worth anybodys while to visit his store merely for
the purpose of looking at the beautiful display of por.
celain and Bohemian glassware, but it is better
worth ones while to purchase to the amount of So So
and thereby run the risk of drawing to the number of
the article gorgeous dinner sett one of the many
patterns exhibited, to the value of hundred dollars,
or even something worth only fifty dollars, for either
result would make the investment splendid oper-
ation.N
Year: 1859

As regards the falling off in weight we find there
is great irreguarty In Illinois it is reported from
q to 30 per cent in Indiana from AZ to II per cents
in Ohio from to IL per cent; in Iowa from to l9
per cent; in Kentucky and Tennessee the estimates
are an increase Of to per cent At Milwaukee the
decrease IS but u per cent. We have classified the
returns and calculated the increase and the decrease
though not as closely as we shall do when making
our final statement We find the deficiency in weight
equal to l2l 200 hogs which, being deducted from
the increase given above, is as follows:


@ Increase .. above
Net increase. ase........................,.,6 $3.50


The talk is, and in which we join that there will
be no lack of meat this season, and the customers
OF our trade residing in Alabama, Florida, South
Georgia and Texas, with our great trade up Red
river, can depend on good supply. Our Cuban
neighbors can also rely good supply of lard. The
further talk is, that there will be very limited de-
mand for breadsufs and provisions for Europe which
will restrain the baneful system of monopoly and
speculation. The farmers of the West will discern
that the system Of holding part or the whole Of
one years crop from one season to another will never
pay. case in point comes up in our memory, and
which occurred in this city within the past two years.
An individual in good commercial credit thought
| there was splendid chance for speculation went
into market and purchased corn, hay and oats to a
large amount. One particular item was corn-say
twenty-five Thousand sacks-which he kept long
enough for the expenses and damage to amount to
$l2 900, and then had to sell it for onehalf of the
original cost This, it is supposed would be called


legitimate business in some parts of the world but
the result exposes the folly of investing in pershable
commodities of trade. Our great staple cotton wonld
make better show for speculative "geniuses.n p
though it would require rather more caliber in the
way of capital and credit. And while talking of cot
ton, our impression (hat is, our own private talk)
leads us to say that our cotemporary of the Price
Current will this morning show large increase in
receipts, going far to strengthen the position we as
sumed in October last Our idea that this increase
will not be far from eight hundred and forty thou
sand bales. But we beg buyers not to be sanguine
We see no prospect of any material decline in the
value of clean cotton of course surats leaves, dirt
and sand will go down somewhere.


There is considerable talk ofthe mail failures The
mail via Mobile due yesterday failed from beyond
Augusta. That due by the Jackson Railroad failed
at the Grand Junction. Great place, this Grand
Junction. 1t is grand, indeed, in interfering with
mail movements.


As regards foreign advces, it is doubtful whether
we shall have any direct from England until the ar.
rival of the Niagara at Halifax, the steamer of the
1st inst. All the American lines-excepting the Full
ton and Arago the Havre steamers,-appear to be
knocked into something of a tri.cornered hat
Year: 1859

MANuRINC CoRN ~ TuE IiLL. a cor.
respondent Of the Country Gentleman says
that the success OF such manuring in the
hill depend, upon the character OF the soil.
In some soils one mode would be preferable,
in other soil. the other. while in some slils
We might apply part Of the manure in the
hill, aud the remainder broadcast. For ex.
ample, few miles east Of u, there are few
towns situated upon a high ridge Of land ;
the soil Is very cold and wet, which makes
the season late before they can work it;
they apply all their manure in the hill
whereas, IL they plowed under or har-
rowed it in. they would get little or no corn.
My rule has been, upon OuI hill'land, where
the soil is little heavier, to plow in a part,
aud put portion in the Till while upon
our warm plain land, our different kinds Of
manure are drawn out and worked over two
or three times before it is plowcd IN this
way it becomes light aud warm after the
ground is plowed, the manure is carted out
upon the iurrow and harrjwed in.
Year: 1859

in tie earth by the plow, and II ever they
reach The surface, they cannot do so in time
to damage the wheat. In the hOeing and
cultivating Of corn or root crops they are
often torn up and permanently exposed to
the action Of tho weather, which in such
cases. Is fatal to them Ia my opinion 1t u,
much better husbandry to 'e'd down with
grasses on oats or barley, as by this means
the fly will be destroyed. an j suitable bed
procured Tor the seeds, by the careful prep
ara,ion for spring crop.