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Year: 1860

A DOUBLE EDGED PRAYER.--A little
boy had one day done wrong, and was sent,
after parental correction, to ask in secret
the forgiveness of his Heavenly Father.
His offence had been passion. Anxious to
hear what he had to say, his mother follow


ed to the door of his room. In lisping ac-
cents she heard him ask to be made better,
never to be angry again, and then. with
childlike simplicity, headed sLord make
mas temper better too .&a iscg ~
Year: 1860

ring this delicate situation, ladies will experience
great relief by using this mild cathartic medicine for
correcting those indispositions and nauseatng sick
ness TO which they are subject at this period They
give gentle sumulus to the circulation, and purify
ana eXpe all those humors which irritate the stomach
and bowels They are mild that the most delicate
constitution may take them with perfect safety For
assisting females at The dawn OF womanhood or at the
turn OF iIe, they are equally adapted. Sold by all
pIusgsts at Zoc., We. and 81 per box. nO2Q-1w
Year: 1860

If the old maxim is true, that the idle head
is the works shop of the Devil, there are locali-
ties in all our villages and cities where large
amount of manufacturing is daily going on.
Year: 1860

The EXECUTION OF GENERAL Morale
Meets Death Like a Hero.-The New York
Times correspondent, writing from Panama
on the 9th inst, says:


Mora bore his fate manfully. The file of
men drawn up for his execution stood with
their muskets not ten feet from him, and yet
the five balls in his body did not xiv him.
"Give me another shot, gentlemen" he said,
land finish me-" sHe refused to be blind
folded, but stood calmly facing his execution
ers. His body, as well as that of Canas, was
thrown into a hole in the sand, both with
the clothes on in which they were murdered.
Oanas was striking fire with his steel and
flint to light his cigarito at the moment he
felt the lead at his heart. He was shot at the
foot of the monument erected to his honor
for his many services to Costa Rica, in the
Plaza at Punta Arenas. ~. ...-


Itappears that Mora had been cruelty de-
ceived Tor betrayed) in his expectations of
risings in other parts of the Republic. So
far as can learn, not movement was made
in his favor except at Punta Arenas.
Year: 1860

htmlulbCeuCC VI ABuEGw JuChbOn- HIS


Reconciliation with General Scott.


Parton's Life of jackson, in the third
volume, just published, records the follow
ing: .t


In the course of the winter he was recon-
ciled to several gentlemen whom he had been
long wont to reckon in the catalogue of his
foes. General Winfield Scott was in WASH
ington at the beginning Of the session; and
desirous to know what he had to expect in
case he should meet General jackson, sd-
dressed to him the following note: "Sir, one
portion of the American community has
long attributed to you the most distinguished
magnanimity, and the other portion the
greatest desperation in your resentments-
am | to conclude that both are equally in
error2 / allude to circumstances which have
transpired between us, and which need not
here be recapitulated, and to the fact that
have now been six days in your immediate
vicinity without having attracted your no.
tice. As this is the first time in my life that
have been within a hundred miles of you,
and as it is barely possible that you may be
ignorant of my presence, beg leave to state
that l shall not leave the District before the
morning of the l4th Instant


To this General Jackson returned the fol-
lowing answer "Sir, your letter of to-day
has been received. Whether the world are
correct or in error, as regards my magma
nimity, is for the world to decide. am sat
isfed of one fact, that when you shall know
me better, you will not be disposed to harbor
the opinion, that any thing like desperation
in resentment attaches to me. Your letter
is ambiguous; but concluding from occur
| rences heretofore, that it was written will
friendly views, take the liberty of saying
to you, that whenever you shall feel dispose'
to meet me on friendly terms, that disposi
corresponding feeling on my part"


The two generals met soon afterward, ex.
changed friendly salutations, and remained
on terms of civility for several years.
Year: 1860

LiGHT INDEPENDENT OF HEAT.-It is a
popular error to suppose that light can not
exist apart from heat, At the Paris Academic
des Sciences, M. Jansen recently gave an
account OF series Of experiments, which
the eye are all absorbed before they reach
the retina; two-thirds being taken up by the
cornea and the rest by the aqueous h1mor
Year: 1860




a Democratic Duke and Noble Sovereign


The Court Ne,os has the following personal
sketch of the late Grand Duke of Mecklen-
burg-Strelitz, the oldest of all the crowned
heads of Europe, having been born in l779: (:


At his accession to the throne, serfdom
was still an institution of the country, but
he at once abolished it, and by establishing
schools throughout the length and breadth
of the little prineipality, soon raised it from
one Of the most neglected to one of the most
fourishing provinces of Northern Germany.
In other respects, too, Grand Duke George
had considerable merits of his own. While all
the rest of the German sovereigns, without
single exception, sought their pride in being
leaders of troops rather than civil governors
and testified this feeling by never appearing
in public otherwise than in military uniform,
Prince George steadfastly clung to his plain
black coat and his civil duties, and employed
his army in road-maksng and drain-cutting.
Of course, the good Grand Duke was vastly
laughed at on account of these doings by
the princely martinets of the neighboring
countries; but he appeared to take little no.
tice of their sneers, and never went visiting
them nor sent out invitatations.


In his rather threadbare little suit of black
be was seen trotting, day after day, for more
than half century, the streets of his capital,
now stepping into the shop of baker and
examining the size and quality of the loaves,
and then again looking into the crowded
school-house, to see if the teachers were
doing their duty, and his little subjects get
ting on with their reading, writing, and
arithmetic. The Duchy Of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz is but a very small country, having
only about $4,000 Inhabitants; but yet it is
something to say in favor of the late Grand
Duke that he found his country in utter des-
olation, in ignorance and serfdom, and left il
a flourishing little State, within whose con-
fines not single beggar is to be found, and
where every man, woman, and child, can
read and write, and has something to eat.
Year: 1860

PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMAN FIGURE-The
proportions Of the human figure are strictly
mathematical. The whole figure is six times
the length Of the foot Whether the form be
slender or plump, this rule holds good ANY
deviation from it is q departure from the high
est beauty of proportion. The Greeks make all
their statues according to this rule The face
from the highest point Of the forehead, where
the hair begins, to the end Of the chin, is oneR
tenth Of the whole stature. The hand, from the
wrist to the end of the middle finger is the same


The chest is fourth, and from the nipple to
the top Of the head is the same. From the ton
of the chest to the highest point of the top of
the forehead is a seventh. If the length Of the
face, from the roots Of the hair to the chin, be
divided into three equal parts, the FIRST division
determines the point where the eyebrows meet,


and the second the place of the nostrils,, The
navel is the central point Of the human body,
and if a man should lie on his back with his
arms extended, the periphery of the circle
which might be described around him, with
the navel for its center, would touch the ex-
tremities Of his hands and feet The hight
from the feet to the top of the head is the same
as the distance from the extremity of the other
when the arms are extended These are gem
eral measures Of the species, . 80, II
Year: 1860

PARcELLING OF LAND IN FRANCE.-The in
convenience of parcelled morsels of landed


property strike the eye at once They are
most visible in the fertile regions, where the
possibility Of obtaining living by spade labor
has availed itself most largely of the law of
equal partition. The soil of the entire country
is said to be departed into 126, ,OO0, 900 par.
GELS Calculating the population at thirty.
six millions, there are three parcels and half
to each person, What Is this but another
phase Of what may still be seen in ireland,
where, in the difficulty Of apportioning small
farm equally On the death of the holder, his
children have endeavored to satisfy equity by
allotting each other several pieces Of various
quality; 80 that no ones lot is all together but
scattered up and down and here and there.
The French now seek some remedy at the
hands of their Legislature against this indef
mite process of morselling, and in the hope of
seeing how their neighbors, similarly afflicted,
may contrive-not, indeed, to turn the patched
coat of their country into a new garment vet
TO effect some consolidation of the patches
they look eagerly for an initiative to the
neighboring States of the German Rhine, which
are suffering from the same evil and are seek
ing to ohealit.-DR6isn University Magastne.
Year: 1860

FRoM ARIzoNA-The Los Angeles Star of
7th January, says:


From gentleman who arrived Yesterday
morning hy the Overland Mail stage, We
have Intelligence from Arizona. The Apa
ches have been committing depredatcns on
the stock of the Overland Mail company. .
who have fitted out an expedition to chastise
them. About forty men have already gone
off. and the number is to be increased to one
hundred.


1t was rumored that the company intend
ed to bring a steam wagon to the Arizona
copper mine, for the purpose Of hauling ore
TO Fort Yuma, for shipment from that point.
1t is supposed to have arrived by this time at
San Francisco. and is to be tried between
here and San Pedro.


Mining still continues on the Gila, and
some very rich spots have been discovered.
but the average yield does not amount to
more than three or four dollars per day to
the man. The want of water is the great
! drawback to the successful working of thes,
placers


A rumor prevailed at Fort Yuma that Gin
nabar had been discovered near the junction
of the Mohave and Colorado rivers.


The brig Franklin Adams was at the
mouth of the Colorado. laden with Fl eight
for the merchants and the mail company.
Year: 1860

ing the ladies of the Episcopal Church of this
city, will givea social party and supper at
the Water Works Hall. for the benefit of their
Church. 1t will not be in the nature Of .
fair, and no articles will be presented for sale
A fine supper will be given and the time
mostly occupied in dancing The arrange
ments are in the hands of some of our fairest
and most popular ladies. and no doubt every
thing will be superb.
Year: 1860

In these days Of degenerate patriotism It Is pleasant
to see 50 mary friends Of the Union in this city, You
can scarcely find any one in Marysvlle in favor of
the dissolution of the Union. Harry and Little John
being both true patriots hereby extend an invitation
10 AL Unon.ioving citizens to meet regularly at their
plac. Of holding forth and there consider matters of
internal interest. UNloN SALoON'


i11u So street.
Year: 1860

They are about to dedicate colossal stat
ne of Franklin for the new Franklin Market.
in Philadelphia. 1t is from the chisel of Mr.
]. A. Bailey, and is hewn from an immense
slab of Liver rock, or grayish drab color,
from the coast of the Bay of Fundy.
Year: 1860

1t is matter that must surprise any enc that
any man occupying the position of an editor OF
paper, should so far forget the respect due the
position, to deliberately pervert the truth for
the purpose of saying something OF a cotempo-
rary that may by fools be deemed cutting. We
advise the Beacon editor to read the Decalogue
and to study the teachings OF Christ and his
Apostles and he will then be convinced that
deliberate Misrepresentation of contemporary is
beneath the dignity of a gentleman, and will
perhaps be induced hereafter TO speak the truth
of the Courier or omit mention of it wholly.


In his last weeks paper, in alludng to the
fact that his friend, or as he very properly calls
him, his /" brother Hinckley" had become
Black Republican, he alludes to the fact that
said " brother (he might have said further,
with the cooperation of the BeacOn) had for
merly tried to read the Courier out of the party
because it would not damn Douglas, and in
connection herewith says, q the Shasta Courier
wandered off for while in dark and forbidden
paths, and made war upon the Administration.
Now every reader of the Courier knows we
never did make war upon the Administration,
it is unnecessary for US to pronounce the Bea-
cons allegation an untruth-uttered deliberate
ly and knowingly.
Year: 1860

We saw with regret that an amendment to the
s07th Article Of the Civil Practice Act, as pro-
posed By ". Welty of Sacramento had been
defeated in the Assembly, on motion to en-
gros. the bill. That section as it now stands
reads: On the trial of any action in Court
of Record, either party may require the Clerk to
take down the testimony in writing"


The amendment proposed, left it to the Judge
in his discretion. to send it before Commits
sioner, to take the testimony and report the
same to the Court, and lett the question of the
costs, should continuance be the consequence,
to be taxed to the party causing the delay.


We think this amendment emnently proper
As the law now stands, the whole term of
Court may be occupied in taking the testimony
of witnesses, to the great injury OF other liti-
gants Then the costs are ntolerable. Jury
may be empannelled and sworn whose daily
attendance is at per diem expense Of thirty
six dollars, besides the other expenses of trial.
and all these expenses may be imposed upon
the party in the right. through the malice per-
haps, of an irresponsible itigant, for if costs
cannot be made out of the party against whom
judgment is rendered, if defendant, and the
costs are adjudged to the plaintiff, he has to pay
them. This defect in our practice act is more
keenly felt in the mining regions than any where
else, for dozens of witnesses are examined in
almost every mining In some other ac-
tions in the discretion Of the Judge, cases may
be sent before referee to report (such AS cases
in equity but these mining suits are actions of
lap, and this privilege is not given except by
positive enactment. We know that in one case,
tried in our county about year ago, the Court
was occupied about six weeks the Jury fee
was about thousand dollars, and all other
eases were laid over for the term, whereas if the
testimony had been taken before Commissioner
or the Clerk in vacation. the Jury would have
passed upon the case in fifteen minutes after
the reading of the depositons were ended
And at our last term of Court Jury was en-
panelled for about three weeks. trying a case
which could have been disposed of in as many
hours


All exceptions to the relevancy or materiality
Of witnesses could be saved before a Commis-
sioner, so that no right would be lost by it. We
have conversed with the members Of the bar in
this district generally, and also with the pre-
siding Judge, and we have to hear the first OBJ
lection urged to the proposed amendment of Mr.
Welty and we hope that our members will move
for a reconsideration of the vote introduce the
bill again, if it be too late to move reconsider





If members from other portions of the State, do
not wish the amendment to apply to their Judi
eial Districts, let them move to except from the
operation Of the act such districts. But the law
as we said before is desired in the 9th Judicial
District, and we hope it may be passed for US, il
Year: 1860

On our first page will be found bill, intro
dnced into the Assembly by the Committee on
Mines and Mining Interests, having for its object
the gradual expulsion of the Chinese from the
mines. The bill is substantially the same as
that introduced by our Assemblyman, Hon John
White ltprovides for Il yearly increase of the
violation OF its provisions, and gives the Collec-
tor the power to enforce the payment of the
monthly tax, either in money or labor upon the
public roads. This is provision that we have
advocated for several years If it is not retained
in the bill, it had better not become law at all.
few years ago, when the tax WAS six dollars
per month, the Chinese refused to pay it, and
the revenue from that source fell off. This fact
was then used by the Chinese advocates most
successfully in tvor of reduction oft tax to
81 per month. The reason that Sc tax was not
collected, however, was that the Collector had
no legal power to enforce it. There was no
penalty fixed for refusal to pay the tax. Give
the Collector the power to enforce the collection
OF this tax in money, or its equivelant in labor
upon the public highways, and the revenue from
this source will either be enormously increased
the number of Chinese in the State soon greatly
decreased, or the county roads shortly be found
in admirable condition. Either is a cousum-
nation devoutly to be wished.
Year: 1860

Rsn. The editor of the Shasta Courier is evil
IDENTITY sore because the Shasta County Conven-
ton saw fit to express its preference for Daniel
s. Dickinson for the Presidency. The editor
devotes his leader to the subject, but no one can
read the article without being my>ti6ed by il
ard left more in the dark than he was before be
read it.-Bedcon.


II the editor of the Beacon can not understand
that article, it is not our fault. We can alone
give ideas and state facts. If God Almighty
has not been pleased, in the plenitude of his in
finite wisdom, to endow the editor of the Beacon
with sufficient mind to understand such idea:
and facts, we are not TO blame.
Year: 1860

szF Horrible massacres have been perpetra-
ted by the whites about Humboldt Bay upon
the Eel river and Bear river Indians hy which
eighty. including squsws and children. were
murdered 1t was generally supposed that the
massacre was preconcerted and simultaneous
throughout the county. The citizens of Eureka
and around the bay were bitter in their feelings
towards those engaged in this slaughter, and
were anxious to bring them to punishment
Sac. Union.
Year: 1860

An ERRoR.-We were in error last week in
stating that J. &. Hinckley had been elected
one of the Republican delegates to the Chicago
Convention from this State. The Convention
refused to elect him because of his freshness in
the faith he only having proclaimed himself a
Republican about week previous. He was
chosen as one of the alternates
Year: 1860

Every General and Major General in Virginia
has had his cooked hat taken from his head by the
new militia law which annuls all commissions
The Governor will appoint, if the Legislature fail
to elect, officers to supply the vacancies.
Year: 1860

The daguerreOtype miniature found on the person
of johnson, charged with the murder of the cap
tain and crew of the oyster soop, was identified by
Watts, as hers, and said that it was taken for and
given to him on the day that the sloop left New
York
Year: 1860

At Memphis, Tennessee, few days since, two
walk, and each waited for the other to step off,
which it was necessary to do in order to pass
Neither, however, felt disposed to yield, when an
alteration ensued, resulting in one of the gentle
men receiving dangerous wound from a knife in
the hands of. the other party.
Year: 1860

PRESENT FROM THE PorE.-an exquisitely beau
titul work of art-a cOrnelian cameo, set in gold
has just arrived, and been transmitted by Arch
bishop Hughes to the Drectress of the late Catho.
lie Fair at the Academy of Music. She had re-
quested the Pope's autograph for the celebrated
autograph book already noticed; but this is sent
by his Holiness instead, a contribution to the
charity for which the fair was held. 1t will be
disposed of for the object by subscription
sale, the shares being placed at dollar each to
get it within the reach of all who desire to possess
so rare a gift-N Y Post.
Year: 1860

Who does not, after witnessing one Of our
biennial elections. and the cOrrupting inAu-
enees they foster. feel glad in his heart that
they do not occur oftener! Any election day
leaves upon the heart of the phianthropist and
motalist an impress of sadness in regard to the
future of the rising generation, because very
many Of them are thrown into evil and perni-
eiOus associations. both prior TO and on election
day, that leaves an influence for evil often fol-
lowing them through their whole course Of
life. How many fair and promising young
men arc blighled by these evil political asso
cations, are known only 10 the great Infinite
bat their number is considerable, as evinced il
all directions. For the benefit of the morals o
The people. il were better elections occurres
every four instead OF every two years.
Year: 1860

THE warm moist weather Of last week was
very bad on the newly husked corn. and much
Of that housed. we learn, heated and injured
The weather, however. is now again fine. and
The huskers can drive ahead with their work.
Year: 1860

New MILLs.-Six new steam saw mills,
several of which arc now in process Of
construction, with an aggregate capacity
of cutting twenty five million feet of
lumber, will be built on the river between
Green Point and Bay City during the
coming fall and winter. With full
supply of logs the mills on the river next
season will be capable of cutting one
hundred and fifty million feet of lumber
Year: 1860

As to the degree of disparity advisable be-
tween the parties, no rule, of course, can be
laid down. II is very much a matter of taste.
Besides, the meanings of the term "thirty-fye'
are very different as applied to different per-
sons. have known men at TWENTY-FIVE as old
as others at forty; and have known girls at
eighteen greater old maids than / am at
thirty However, the position the "Widow,'
assumes in this part of the subject is, think,
wrong in spirit. Persons marry generally
from other considerations than those of the
mere outward advantages that may be secured
The motives which prompt, or which should
prompt, to such union are manly of spirit
ual nature. Marriage was intended as an in
tercourse OF souls, communion of hearts and
minds; and when the contract is entered into
without due regard to mutual adaptation, a
gross indignity is perpetrated against the
noblest institution of humanity.


What reason is there to expect any similarity
OF tastes and feelings whore the only concern
Of the woman was TO get man too old to see
her wrinkles? How is happiness to he look eJ
for, when its very first principles are violatedP
woman need have no fears of cloying man
when they have both in their choice been
guided by proper feelings. If she is worthy
of, and retains his esteem and friendship, there
Is little danger that she will ever be neglected
or uncared for. If, though, her life is one of
vanity, and sfectation, and hypocrisy, and
giddy thoughtlessness, she must expect to dis
gust him just in proportion as he troubles him
self to observe her.


Admirably fitted too, indeed, for the un-
selfish duties of husband is he who has spept
all his soul and the best part of his life in de.
vOtion to cuisines :" man cannot dis
pense with the refining influences of female
society, if he would remain a man 1t is the
better side of his nature which such influences
develOp-it is the part of him which bears the
at mi Df Ixytnt nd a.
dimmed, he becomes little more than a beast.


In word, then, / would say to every young
lady, eff you wish to marry suita5iv, marry
your e4U0t. ANCIENT MAIDEN.