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Year: 1860

svT The West Union Pioneer talks" to
the Dubuque Times about right. The loss
of .Jive bags on load is remarkable! We
are informed by one of our grain men that
a very stold specimen of humanity had his
fifteen bags Of wheat weighed, and the grain
was re-sacked in fourteen bags-the 1eight
was all right, and the teamster had all the
bags he brought, but he couldn't sec how
in the devil my wheat only held ou: fourteen
bags after it is weighed!' This was little
surprising to "a man up tree" but the
curiosity has probably got through his wool
by this time.


THE McGREGoR GRAIN TRADE.-The Du-
buque Times, in answer to denial in toto
of the truth of its charges against the Nc
Gregor Grain Dealers, does not attempt to
show who was arrested, or that any person
was, but states that it "can give the name
Of a hotel keeper, living in a village of Fay
cite county, who AYERS that he took three
loads Of grain to McGregor, and that in some
unaccountable manner, it fell short .fpe
bags" For the benefit of the farmers of
this county, we insist that the Times will
give the name of that citizen of this county ;
and We ask that citizen. if such one there
be in this county, to send us the particulars
and facts in the case for publication. The
charges brought by the Times are too grave
and OF too serious nature to be allowed to
let 60 in the manner it attempts; it could
name persons just rs quick and as easy as
to inform the public that it could name them,
and if it can, why does it not do it?-Pio-
neer
Year: 1860

INTERPRETATION OF DREAMs.--To d
of a large stone around your neck, is =
Of what you may expect if you get


travagant wife. To see apples in a


betokens wedding, because whei
find apples you may expect to find
To dream that you are lame, is a


that you will get into a hobble. WI
young lady dreams Of a coffin, it betS
that she should instantly discontin1
use of tight stays, and go warm
thickly shod in wet weather. To dl
a fire, is sign that, if you are wis
you will be sure to see that the lights
house are out before you 60 to b
dream that your nose is red at Il
an intimation that you had better
brandy and water. To dream Of
barefooted, denotes journey that yo1
make bootless. TO dream Of eggs,
that you will discover mares nest.
a fashionable lady dreams of a filbeI
a sign that her thoughts arc runnin !.
the Kernel. If you dream Of clothso1
a warning not to go to law, for, by tt
of contraries, you will be sure Of
suit. To dream that you are eating
tain to come true at breakfast. I'd
of having great number Of scrvd
madness. 1t is very lucky to dream
you pay for thing twice over, since
wards you will probably take care to
all your bills receipted.
Year: 1860

SLIPPERY SUIcIDE.-A loye-sick young
lady of Davenport, attempted her life few
days ago by swallowing a pound of elm
bark She had probably heard of the hem.
lock bark that Socrates took and desired to
die in similar way. Fortunately, or un-
fortunately, her purpose was anticipated,
and the administration of small drug
store restored the lady to healthy stomach
and an easier mind.
Year: 1860

LANsINe.-The Mirror, we regret to say,
is disposed to avail itself of the grain-rob-
ing nonsense got up by the Dubuque Times
imagidary man, (frst he was from Chicago
and now he halls from McGregor) but
CHAT is young and indiscreet, and we do not
hold the enterprising town of Lansing ac-
countable for the errors ofthe Mirror. We
know Lansing to be good market, her
merchants are as honest as ours are and
perhaps better looking, and to give our
western readers an opportunity to learn
that our up-river neigbor is getting ready
for fall trade, we copy the notice below from
the Mirror. McGREGOR fears no rival
this side of New York:


LIVELY TIMEs--The improvements going
on about town--ncw buildings receiving
the finishing touches, and others just COM
menced-presentq quite lively appearance.
The store Of J. H. Pape is about complete,
and will be opened next week, the goods
having already arrived. Gabbett's store is
also nearly completed, and he will probably
be dealing out goods in time for the fall
trade. The new barn for the Mississippi
House is also nearly completed; it is a very
fine building for the purpcse-Bensch's
new building is also nearly completed; what
it will be used for we are not informed
Workmen are engaged in digging the Gel
lar for Hon. G. w. Gray's new stone build.
ing on Main street. The earth is used to
improve the levee at the foot of Main street.
The stone work for the new warehouse on
the levec in front of our office is progress
ing rapidly. All but "a feet of the now
vacant space will soon be occupied by good
substantial grain warehouses; each one OF
which has been, or will be rented to honest
grain buyers Adams & Morgan have wild
ened the platform in front of their ware,
house, so as to admit of wagons being driv-
en- close to the door, whence grain will be
emptied into car, wheeled on to scales
fixed in the floor, weighed, and run into a
receiver in the basement This will greatly
facilitate the handling of grain by this firm
A lively trade is anticipated this fall, and
every possible preparation is being made
to accommodate it.
Year: 1860

Distorted View OF the Prince-or- Wales


Ball at Cincinnati Through a british


LOrguette .H.frr


The correspondent of the London Times
writes thus of the Prince-oE Wales Ball given
at our 0pera-house:


In the evening His Royal Highness and
party returned to the city, and passed from
grave to gay" by attending a ball in the
evening.


This fete was given in the Opera-house at
Cincinnati-a building which for hight,
space and richness of decoration, would do
honor to any of our large cities. In this,
however. regret to say have told all that
can be said in praise. There was huge
bowling mob outside the theater, while in
side there was scarcely any body. The
building accommodates an audience of some
$500 people. There were not more than
400 at the ball, including the royal suite,
officials, committee men, and every body.
and of this number nearly 100 men in the
boxes looking down into the psrterre, where
the ball took place. As, however, this 100
or so thus placed wore their hats, and were
in every variety of lounging costume, lust as
they had dropped in, perhaps from neighbor-
ing bar-rooms their presence from the salon
de danSe was, on the whole, taken rather in
good part than otherwise. Even of those
who stood up in the sets many were in
morning dress, and of the whole number
actually present, not more than 100 were in
a costume which would admit them to the
amphitheater stalls at Covent Garden. After
the brilliant and well-managed fetes of
Canada, this, the first of American balls, was
rather more than failure. The Republican,
ism which can only show itself in disre
gard of the rules by which gentlemen are
supposed to be bound on these occasions. is
not of an imposing kind; and if Americans
only knew it they would see that the prin-
ciple is to the full as strongly asserted by
the decent garbs as it is by thrusting them
selves into ballroom in attire which. if
worn at their own soirees, they would take
as an affront to themselves. Beyond these
Western drawbacks, however, and the unac-
countable absence of the elite of Cincinnati,
the fete passed off very well, for at a bali
His Lordship is invincible.
Year: 1860

Most cellars are built without adequate
provision being made for keeping moisture
from passing through the walls from the
outside, and up through the earthen floors
inside during rainy weather. The cellar of
a house should be dry, so as to render it COM
Portable and healthy, as moisture in the lower
part of a dwelling generally makes the up
per stories damp and chilly, and causes mil
dew in clothes, books, and all household
articles made of cloth and leather. Cellars
can be easily built so as to have dry walls,
and hard dry floors; and the latter are in-
valuable to prevent rats from burrowing, as
well as dampness from coming up from the
soil beneath. To render the cellar walls dry,
they should be coated on the outside with
hydraulic cement, mixed with sand Houses
in our cities have their cellar walls thus
treated in many instances, but their floors
are neglected. To make cement floor, the
surface should first be rammed down and
leveled; then by hydraulic cement, mixed
with sand, of about the consistency of thick
mortar, should be laid on to about one inch
in thickness, and its surface leveled with a
scraper made Of thick plank. In laying
down such a floor, sections of about eight
feet square should be marked off, anu finished
one after another. A coat of clean sand or
gravel, one inch thick, should be laid on the
top of the cement and LITER it has stood
about half an hour, the whole should be
| rammed down smooth with FOUNDER, when
| the work is complete, after the surplus sand
has been swept of. In few days, such a
floor becomes hard as a stone, and quite i'm
| pervious 10 water. ..-r. .- .-.
Year: 1860

PhCtty ahu 5urFOuuulngss
I The Paris correspondent of the New York
Times, in late letter, has the following in
regard to the tomb of General Lafayette:


Nothing could be more cherries or coldly
aristocratic than this little hidden, out.ok
the-way cemetery. From the street the
place has the genuine shut-up, exclusive look
of all monastic establishments in France.
One must knock loudly at big, heavy door,
which only opens after long interval. An
uncleaR Cerberus receives you politely
enough at the door of his lodge aud after
hearing your request to see the tomb of
Lafayette, ventures blandly to surmise that
you are Americans and volunteers to inform
you that no strangers but Americans ever
pay them a visit. On the right and left of
you are the collection of detached and
mysterious looking buildings which con-
stituted the ancient monastic establishment,
the windows of the old cloisters still boarded
up in such way as to admit light, but not
the. gaze of curious eyes, from within or
without.


The Sisters Of the establishment are gliding
about, dressed in pure white from head to
foot, and throw but one furtve glance on
the strangers, and then disappear behind
shaded walls, or through unloOked-for trap
doors. Gon pass the chapel which stands
before you at the back of the court, and
enter the large and well cultivated garden.
mere you agaln meet the Wnlte sisters fitting
about under the long avenues of shade trees,
but here too they suddenly disappear from
sight, you have not time to see how. You
enter the cemetery by an opening in
the wall at the back of the garden. In the
corner where you enter stands the little
chapel of the cemetery, to which your guide
takes off his hat and crosses himself


The tombs, in order to distinguish them
from those of the bourgeoise in other ceme-
teries, are afiectedly simple Only three
have any pretensions to architecture-those
of the Duke de Montmorency, the Duke de
Larocheiocauld, and the Count de Kergolay.
The body of Lafayette, which lies in the
further corner of the little inclosure, is
covered like most of the others, with
simple slab, on which is inscribed the or
binary brief detail At his side there is
another slab, on the grave of Madame de
lafayette, a daughter of the Duke de
Noailles. Near these are other members Of
the Lafayette family--a Lasteyrie and
| Beaumont similarly buried. The cemetery,
| which does not contain more than the
| quarter of an acre of space, is surrounded
| by high stone wall, and there is not a
shrub, scarcely blade of grass, to give
relief to the chilling desolation of the place.
OF those cheerful crowns of immOrteLles
which decorate the graves of other ceme-
teries in such a profusion, there is not here
a single one. ~ ti..
Year: 1860

The LudicrOus-Supernatura on the Stage.


The Diabler1e of "Der Freischutzo Cap


italy Comic. .. .--


The musical critic of the New York Tri-
bune, in a notice of Der Freischutz as per-
formed at the Academy of Music, has the
following:


The incantation-scene was as ludicrous a.
usual. The German sense of the sublime, if
we may judge from the form of its express
sion, is neither refined nor subtle. The fear
producing power of simple mystery the Ger
mans do not recognize, at least in their the
atrieal representations. Every element of
an awful scene must be palpably dramatized:
The goblin introduced must be substantial
goblin, and he must well earn his money.


The lazy ghost who should undertake TO
curdle The popular blood by standing in
dreadful silence, grimly pointing over his
shoulder, would be discharged from the
company at once. If he wishes salary and
applause, he must go jerking about the stage,
as neither men nor devils ever ought to
walk; he must clatter his jaws, grin like an
'unhandsOme corse," wag his head; if he can
spit blue fire and sparks his pay will be
doubled, and he shall have the satisfaction of
frightening many women into fits, besides
being printed in large letters as the princi-
pal devil of the theater. r.


The diablerie of Der FTeiSchutz furnishes
one of the most comic scenes upon our stage.
The benighted traveller who should stray
into glen haunted by such a select party as
last evening occupied the Academy boards,
| would wake the echoes with laughter; as for
awe under such circumstances, he would
clap the first loW-cOmedy specter on the
shoulder, saluting him with boisterous in
quiries after his health. However, if all
this stuff makes the German heart quake
we need not complain of it; that nationality
is in the majority just now at the opera.
Year: 1860

The INDIAN FIGHT AT PYRAMID LAKE.-A
correspondent of the San Francisco Herald,
writing from Genoa, May sth, says:


The man who most distinguished himself
in this battle, was unfortunately not of our
race Minnemocker with his little band OF
six hundred Pah Utes, decoyed his enemies
nearly hundred miles into his own terri
tories To his own position and a better was
never chosen, he drew up half his men in ad
miraOle form, resorving the other half to re
leve the first in the fight and during the
whole engagement he gave his orders as
coolly as he would eat his breakfast, and all
his commands were instantly obeyed. He
did not enter the battle himself but stood
upon an emnencea a little way off. His com
mands were given by elevating, depressing
and waving what some say was battle ak,
some say spear His aids were watching
for those signals and in words communicated
the orders to the warriors. AS is usual with
savages, they came to battle with yell.


Observe the consummate generalship of
this old Chief; he displays hundred horse
men In the center, who provoke a charge and
retreat only to expose his enemies to the
deadly cross-hre of his hidden infantry
Notice his reserve, with weapons in hand,
ready to sustain any weak point. They say
the old fellow was dressed in splendid Style,
with white cap and plume, red and white
sash flung over his houlders, etc. lie is ap
parently over seventy years old. had the
pleasure of an introduction to him last Sum
mer, 10y Major Dodge, the Indian Agent. He
is over six feet high, with gray hair, and
withal the "mildest hammered man that ever
cut throat" He invited me down to Pyra-
mid Lake, TO pay him visit, but | think
shall not go just now.
Year: 1860




PLEASING EvERYBoDY.-Don mol delude
yourself with the idea that you can please
every body. Who ever saw any body that
was worth anything that had nobody to
find fault with him You would have
to do evil in many cases to please the evil;
some, to crafty their pride /; indulge the
selfish submit to the tyranlcal be a
tool for the ambitious, and be careful not
TO have anything rs good as those who
desire to have everything superior to their
neighbor. II you are public mau, should
you be dlligent, YOU must expect to have
many secretly dislike you and ak sgainst
you, fer your success (; and If you accom-
plisb little, tho many show themselves
friendly, it often leaks out that some who
appear pleasant to you do thus beeauss
they do not fear your rivalry they may
smile upon you outwardly and yet 10.
wardly entertain contempt Tor your inef.
hciency. Always do that which is right,
be dilight, do the most you can, paying
no regard to faullfnders, and you will
hod as many friends 90 any sensible man
may desire,
Year: 1860

lwo things should be especially kept if
PcOSss'oIe-your word and your temper
Inc former when dealing with a printer
the letter when disputlng with a wo.
man. This may be difficult, but may be
done by getting couple OF chapters Of
Job by heart.
Year: 1860

he or she is attached for life to An uncon,
genial yoke fellow, and that there is no
way of escape, has lost life there is no ef.
fort TOO costly to make which can restore
to its setting upon the bosoms, the missing
pearI.-Iimothy Titcom6.
Year: 1860

Tar UNITED STATES EXPRESS CoAPASY.-TIe
United States Express Company arc to take
possession Of the large, frst.class store No. $50
Lake street, tue next door but one to the corner
Of Clark, running back and forming one with
tie store few doors from the corner Of Lake
Oh Clark street, giving them front on both
streets. This wil1 give them admirable facilities
for taeir extensive and Increasing business.
Year: 1860

THE GREAT EASTERN A. Dudley Mason
late of the State Department, is in England,
and has counselled the Directors of the Great
Eastern Company to put her in the regular
trade between England and Chesapeak Bay,
and the prospect is good that his recommen-
datons will be adopted. The Baltimore and
Norfolk merchants will bestir themselves to
keep her well filled with freight, in case she
enters trade She is to leave for the United
States early in October
Year: 1860

Hook FAHM-We understand that the
Hook Farm Gardens will be visited by
great many people to-day, it being the last
day that they will be kept open as a place of
resort this Fall. Mr. Leviuson will be pre-
pared to entertain his friends in rood stvle
Year: 1860

ACADEMIA blacksmith Of this city by
the name of F. Saunders, while shooting at a
mark on the plains nearthc Cemetery, yes
terday. with six shooter rifle came near
loosing his hand. The six loads exploded at
the same time, and one Of the balls from the
cylinder entered his hand at the wrist and
came out between the first and second joint
of the fore'fnger without breaking any
bones,
Year: 1860

The meeting has just adjourned with three
rousing cheers for Douglas and Johnson, and
We close abruptly, in order to mount into a
special conveyance for Nevada, where it is
necessary for us to be. in order to start to San
Juan tomorrow. Yours truly. r
Year: 1860

"Just about the last inheritance which
parent should wish his child, whoth.
er male or female, is personal beauty
1t is about the poorest kind of capital to
stand in the world with Who ever
saw a beauty worth the first red cent p
We mean what the world calls beauty,
for there is a kind of beauty more than
skin deep, which the world does not rec
ognize. tits not of that which we speak.
But the girl whom all the fops and fools
go in ecstasies over and about-we
should as soon a child Of ours should be
not quite so beautiful And then
your handsome young man, over aud
about whom all the foolish school girls
are in ecstasies, what chance has he Of
ever being anybody A sad destroyer
of ambition is beauty From being fit
ted for the shallow pates Of the other
sex, who can appreciate nothing else,
they become content with low standard
Of attainment, and are happy only when
dancing attendance upon those who are
pleased with their insipidity."
Year: 1860

It is a beautiful saying Of somebody
that Gratitude is the music Of the
heart, when its chords are swept by the
gentle breeze Of kindness"


All noble ornaments the expression
of mans delight in Gods work


Never purchase friends by gifts, for
if you cease to give, they will cease to
love.


We soil the splendor Of our most
beautiful actions by our vain glorious
magnifying Of them.
Year: 1860

DRUDGEs, DOLLS AND WOMEN
There are three classes of women
First, domestic Drudges, who are wholly
taken up In the material details Of
housekeeping, husband keeping, child
keeping. Their housekeeping is q
trade, and no more; after they have
done that, there is no more that they can
do Next, there are domestic Dolls,
wholly taken up with the vain show
which delights the eye and the ear
These ask nothing beyond their func.
ton as dolls, and hate all attempts tC
elevate womankind. But there are do
mestic Women, who order a house
and are not mere dolls, but Women
Some of thcse--a great many Of them
conjoin the useful of the drudge anC
the beautiful Of the doll into one Wo
manhood, and have a great deal left be
sides They are not wholly taken ul
with their function as housekeeper, wifi
and mother Theodore Parker.
Year: 1860

EXCITEMENT AT TowsoNTowN-THE PALMETTO
FLAG ON THE CoURT-HoUsE.-It seems that the folks
at Towsontown had quite lively time on Thurs
day. correspondent writes:


At daylight the stars and stripes were seen un-
furled to the breeze from the Smedley House, the
american office and several private residences,
while the Palmetto flag streaming from the
lofty dome of the Court house, hoisted by a por-
ton of those favorable to sustaining the rights of
the South, even to secession, if necessary, when
the proper time arrives


The flag was, however, clandestinely taken down
by one of the opponents of straight-out action in
repelling Northern aggressons. By twelve O'Clock
another and larger one was suspended from the
dome, the court house doors locked, and the door
and trap-door leading to the dome spiked. This
was not sufficient to resist the determined pur-
pose of hauling it down by several young men.
They having effected an entrance through one of
the cellar DOORS proceeded to the main door lead
ing to the dome, and after compelling it to weld
to the heavy pressure brought to bear, ascended
the stairway and forced open the trap. door above
and took in the flag and conveyed it away. The
owners called on Justice Longuecker for writ of
replevin, but the parties Voluntarily returned it,
and the suit was dropped. These proceedings kept
up an excitement nearly the whole day; some
were cheering and rejoicing the palmetto,
others denouncing it as reasonable, and some were
seen quietly looking on, half smiling, half frown-
ing.


The Palmetto flag hoisted is BODY white upon
which is representation of the Palmetto tree
with a monster rattle-snake wound around the
trunk, and lone star of yellow color in the upper
corner next the staff.


1t was the intention of the Southern Rights men
to run up their flag again yesterday, but evening
coming on, they finally concluded to defer it for
the present.
Year: 1860

The Harrisburg Union says that large numbers
workmen have been discharged from employment
at the agricultural machine works and railroad car
factories of that town. Most of their business
is done at the South, which has ceased to send
in orders-henoe the cutting off OF the workmep
Year: 1860

MYSTERIOUS AFFATR.-A day or two since a sin
gular discovery was made by some fishermen at the
mouth of Accokeek creek near Fredericksburp
Va, and in the immediate neighborhood of a farm
owned by Mr.. 1ngle, which promises to throw
some light upon the cause of his disappearance.
strong wind had laid the fats BARE and the fisher
men saw projecting from the mud, the upper por.
tiOn of q wooden box, some six feet in length. On
opening it, the remains of man of short stature
found enclosed, and from all the circumstances
Ingle. An inquest was held without delay, but the
remains were so far gone in decomposition that the
jury could arrive at conclusion beyond the fact
that they were those OF man. The indications
were that the person thus disposed of had been
murdered and buried at low water to some depth
in the mud and that in the course of time the box
had worked up to the surface. The remains are
supposed to be those of Mr.. VIM. Ingle, of W ASH
| ington, D. c., who has been missing for some time.
ILL.,. Il Il.
Year: 1860

The REroKr CoURrEoUs.-A certain
Judge was once obliged to double with an
Irishman in crowded hotel. when the
following conversation eusued:


"Pat, you would have remained long
time in the old country before you could
have slept with 4 Judge, would you not y


"Yes, yer honor said Pat, land
think yer honor would been a long time
in the ould country before ye'd been a
Judge, too"