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Year: 1859

EDITOR DEMOCRAT of all the men whom
the world should heartily despise and scorn
as they would pestilence is the traitor to
cause when victory is about to perch upon its
banner


In the election through which we have
just passed let the eye and memory rest for a
few moments upon few individuals claiming
to be Douglas Democrats, and behold the
for bitterness offecling because they could not
have everything their own way in the party
Do you not see them working with all their
might against party whose welfare they
pretended to have so much at heart Whose
loud mouthed professions and parrot preach
ing impudcnce previous to the nominating
convention, now convinces every body who
knows them, that their hearts are as hollow
as Millions Mammon. Such men should
have Tom Moores curse to the Traitor, in
/ Lallah Rookh NJ on them:
| Oh for a tongue to curse the slave,
/ Whose treason, like deadly blight.
Comes DER the councils of the brave


And blasts them in their hour ofmight
| May lfe's unbessed cup for him


BE drugged with treachery to the brim;
With hopes that but allure to fly,
/ With iovs that vanish while he sips,


Like Dead Sea fruits that tempt the eye
But turn to ashes on his lips


HIS country's curse, his chdrens shame


Outcast Of virtue, peace and fame,


May he at last with lips of flame,
On the parched desert thirstng die,


Whilst lakes that shone in mockery nigh,


Are fading off untouched, untasted,


Like the once glorious hopes he basted


And when from earth his spirit flies,


Just prophet let the damn'd one dwell


Full in the sight of Paradise


Beholding Hedren and tasting HelE
b. I. N
Year: 1859

The SEwARAGE OF LoNDoN.-The system OF
sewerage recently undertaken in London, is on
scale Of great nagniticence. 1t consists of three
gigantic main tunnels, at different levels, which
intercept the existing sewers at right angles,
thus receiving all their contents formerly empt.
led into the river, and conveying them parallel
with the banks of the river about eight miles to
Barking, where an immense reservoir is to be
prepared to receive them. This reservoir is to
be mile and half long, by about 100 feet
wide, and 81 feet deep, capable of containing no
less than 100000 cubic feet, or double the av-
erage of eight hours accumulation of sewage
The object of the narrowness of the reservoir
compared with its length is to admit of its be-
ing bricked over with arches, and covered with
earth, so as to prevent the escape of foul gase'.
During the time the sewage is in this reservoir,
it is to be deoderized, and experiments are now
going on to ascertain the best method of doing
this At high tide the contents of the reser
vor will be enptied into the river by immense
outfaIl pipes extending to the middle and bottom
of its bed, sixty feet below the surface. 1t is
believed that with these precautions, the sewage,
after deodorization, being poured into so vast a
body of water, at so great depth, will cease to
be any longer an agent of mischief


These works are now going on with great
rapidity and in the most thorough and profuse
manner, and it will take about five years to com
plete them. The works on the southern side of
the city, of which we have seen no particulars,
are said to be yet more extraordinary for the
difficulties to be overcome and the engineering z
genius applied to them. The expen nse of this
splendid public work will be about 1000, 900.
Year: 1859

The Scientific American thinks that the dis
cussion of this question has been brought to {
point at which it may be truly said, "argumen
is exhausted, and further discussion worse thar
useless, and gives the following as the sum
the whole matter


The Scriptures and the science OF geology
teach Us that this earth was at one period IN
state or condition without living thing upor
it-no plant, no flower, no insect, bird, beast, Oh
man. Both teach that the successive acts o
creation described in the first book OF Genesis
are in exact accordance with the revelation o
the book of nature. There is no difference OF O.
pinion between the teaching of Revelation and
science or-these points.


One class believe, that the days mentioned ir
the first chapter of GENESIS mean epochs OF time
and may be so interpreted, and thus accord with
the teachings of geology the other class believe
that the days referred to cannot be so interpret
ed that they mean solar days; and thus they
assert that this science, as generally taught, Il
contradictory to Revelation. Thus the main
question stands, but not involving, we conceive
the least contradiction between science and Rev
elation, for the question of controversy is one
only relating to time.


Moses, who certainly was ignorant OF geolo-
gy, has described the successive acts OF creation
in that specific order which accords with the
science of geology. 1t is reasonable to suppose
that an ignorant man, in describing the order Of
nature, as unfolded by the successive iats OF the
great Jehovah, would have presented only
confused and contradictory effusion; but, instead
of the first chapter of history being of this char
acter. it vibrates 10 union with the discoveries
of the most modern science, thus proving that
the pen of its author was directed by the Author
of creation. The question of the harmony Of
Revelation and SCIENCE as it relates to the "or,
der of creation,' stands upon grand and i'm
pregnable basis.
Year: 1859

nv mr. HOLLAND, AUTHOR OF THE "TITcoMB LHrTER


IKnes'ing and rocking the craass
What is the little one thinking about!
Very wonderful Thing, no doubt,


Unwritten history


Unfathomable mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and DRINKS
And chuckles and crows, and mods and wlnKs,
AS if his head was as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx
Warped by collie and wet by tears,
Punctured by pins and tortured by iears'
Our little nephew will lose two years


And he'll never know


Where the summers go
He need not laugh, for he'll find it so


Who can tell what baby thinks?
Who can follow the gossamer links
By which the manikip feels his way
Out from the shore of the great unknown,
Blind, and wailing, and alone,
Into the light of day?-
Out from the shore Of the unknown sea,
Tossing in pitiful agony
OF the unknown sea that reels and rolls,
Specked with the barques of little souls
Baroues that were launched on the other side,
And slipped from Heaven on an ebbng tide.
What does he think of his mothers eyes
What does he think of his mothers hair?
What of the cradle roof that flies
Forward and backward through the air!
What does he think of his mothers breast;
Bare and beautiful, smooth and white,
Seeking it ever with fresh delight
Cup of his life and couch of his rest?
What does he think when her quick embrace
Presses his hand and buries his face
Deep where the heart-throbs sink and swell
With tenderness she can never tell,
Though she murmur the words
Of all the birds
Words she has learned to murmur well!


Now he thinks he'll go to sleep


can see the shadow creep


Over his eyes, in soft eclipse,


Over his brow, and over his lips,


Out to his little fingers tips


Softly sinking, down he goes


Down he goes Down he goes
Risiag and carefully retreattng to her seat.


See He is bushed in sweet repose
Year: 1859

SATAN's MARKS IN THE SwINE-A few days
since, on going into my back yard where fresh
ly killed pig had just been hung up, man who
knew was curious in such matters, said, There,
now, there's the mark as Satan made in the
herd of swine before they ran down the cliff in
to the sea" pointing to five dark marks on the
skin of the inside of each toreleg On my ques-
tionng him, he assured me he had never seen a
pig without them q have since looked at five
and they had the same y and he said the tradi-
tion was that all swine had them ever since the
casting out of the devils which destroyed the
herd in the. sea. My queries are, does this mark
always exist? How do anstomists account for
it2-Notes and Queries.
Year: 1859

CURE FOR NEURALGIA-As this disease is be-
coming more prevalent than formerly, and as
doctors have discovered no method or medicine
that will permanently cure it, we simply state
that tor some time past member of our family
has suffered most intensely from it, and coulc
find no relief from auy remedy applied, until We
saw an article that recommended the application
of horseradish to the face for toothache. Al
neuralgia aud the toothache are both nervous
diseases, we thought the remedy for the one
would be likely to give relief to tue other; Sc
we made the application of horseradish, bruised
applied to the side of the body where the dis
ease was seated; it gave almost instant relief tt
the severe attack of neuralgia. Since then, WI
have applied it several times, and with the same
gratifying result. The remedy is simple, cheap
and may be within the reach OF every one.-Oe
trOI ado. r
Year: 1859

Editing newspaper is good deal like ma
king fire. Everybody supposes he can do it q
little better than anybody else. We have seen
people doubt their fitness for apple peddling,
ox-driving and counting lath but in all our ex-
perience we never yet met with that individual
who did not think be could double the circula-
tion of any paper in two months.
Year: 1859

john said a father to his son one day, when
he caught him shaving the down Oft his upper
lip, don't throw your shaving water out where
there are any bsrefooted boys, for they might
get their feet pricked.'
Year: 1859

A week filed up with sefshness, and the
Sabbath staffed full of religious exercises, will
make good Pharisee, but poor Christian
There are many persons who think Sunday is q
sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the
week
Year: 1859

Cyrus w. Field, the report is, is going to
Europe again in about ten days to renew his
labors, by having manufactured during the
summer new Atlantic cable, This is to
be brought out with all the new improve
ments' and fully prepared for laying across
the Atlantic early in the summer of next
year.
Year: 1859

New York LIQuoR SELLERs.-The New
York Herald says that tho Excise Commits
sioners of that city have the names of six
thousand persons who sell liquor there with
out authority of law, and that three hundred
of them are to be Immediately placed in the
hands Of the Sheriff, with the view of insti.
tuting proper legal proceedings.
Year: 1859

wanting you to eat salt butter again 'Oh.
no. thank you, ma am, but I have heard
that master was seen last week on the top of
a homnibus, and I couldn't t after that re-
main any longer in the family Punch.
Year: 1859

At the coming Of Christ all these excellenees and
powers wore possessed, as it werc by the Devil
that is by selhshness and pride and idolatry, and
the disciple could not possess himself of them,
without. as it were, becoming tenant, with the
Devil for his landlord.
Year: 1859

REJECrED.-The communication of
Aid. Hubbell, in answer to r. r, is entirely
too dirty to appear in our columns If he
will correct it by striking out the o' lection
able, not to say characteristic portion, We
will give it place; but if he desires to see
it in its present condition, in print, he must
take it elsewhere.
Year: 1859

fence this morning. in order that it may ap-
pear before the public in an Ineligible
manner. Its previous publication in city
cotemporary was said to be too much mixed
to be read understandngly.
Year: 1859

UNION COFFEE AND SPICE Mills
Not an unimportant feature in our city is
the requisition of the Union Coffee and
Spice mills. which have lately opened at 81
Perry street by Mr.. James Van Ripper. He
imports all kinds of coffees and spices direct
from first hands, roasts, grinds and puts it
up in such style as will please those who
like a pure article. He does not intend to
enter extensively into the retail trade, but
wishes to furnish retail dealers at such fig.
ures as will enable them to sell at fair
profit, and afford the public'a choice article
at low rate. We hope he will be encour-
aged by all in this section. 1t is . new
feature entirely, and We hope it will sue
ceed.
Year: 1859

YE OLDE Folk CoNCERTE.-Those
who attended the rehearsal of the concert,
to be given by the Ancients, on Friday even
ing next, have assured US that rich old
treat is in store for ye olde and young folk
of Davenport, who love ye songes of ye wild
past.


The entertainment is to consist of varie-
ty of hymns and choruses of the worship
pers of '76-and the "Star Spangled Ban
ner" in solo and chorus-the sclo to be
sung by one of the finest female voices in
the city The performers will be dressed
in ye good olde style-and consequently
there will be room in the hall for large
audience
Year: 1859




1t would be fanatical 10 suggest that Sar-
dinia con hold her own for week against the
hosts about to be let loose upon her. The
food OF spoilers will sweep over the land.
Turin must be occupied, although probably
not held. The power Of the Piedmontese will
be shut up in the few fastnesses which Sar-
dnia contains, and the real struggle will not
begin until Austria hos struck blow which
will be heard throughout Italy. As bellig-
erent power, she is wise in her generation,
but she is not wise in her generation il she is
seeking unnecessarily to become beligerent
power. Ii she believed that there was no
hope Of permanent peace, that the French
Emperor was resolved upon war, and that
she was only kept fainting under the weight
of her arms, waiting till it should suit the
convenience of the Emperor to overwhelm
her; if she, moreover, is willing at this mo-
ment, when her promptitude has given her
choice Of ON offensive policy, to make those
reasonable retractions which the interests Of
humanity and the public opinion of Europe
require of her, then it will be difficult to say
that she is entirely wrong in having sought
to preciptate crisis in which she was bleed
ing to death. But if this is first forward
step in an aggressive and defiant policy-if
Austria seeks to enter Sardinia as the armed
apostle of absolutism and of ultramontane
priestcrait-if she has taken up her old world
mission of binding the bodies and coercing
the minds and conscences of all human born
in Italy, then the fact of her having been the
first to commence this war will b no unim.
rortant item in the great Indictment which
will be pressed against her. But whatever
Year: 1859

Next to affection, which ought to be sacred
to one congcnial spirit, comes kindness, which
ought to be shown in our dealings with all.
The unkind word uttered more for relief than
10 wound, troubles the waters ofa spirit that
was tranq uil before, and clouds, darkness, and
it may he tempests mar the beauty Of another
life. And so we cllate, wound, and wrong
each other not for design, hut simply because
we suffer our hearts to be oppressed with
doubt, disquietude, impatient longings after
things of this world which Providence sees fit
to withhold.


Let us be wiser than this wiser and juster.
Let us compel ourselves to speak pleasantly,
and so refrain from all reproduction of our
unhappy conditions of mind. Thus will come
back to us good from our simp effort to re.
press all evil in ourselves. Speak kindly to
all kindly even in rcproof. Words uttered
in lretlulness or anger rarely do any good.
They mar the spirit, Instead Of giving it
strength for right action. A ingle pleasant
word may fill heart with sunshine. Why
then not scatter pleasant words 1t is one Of
the chespest ways of doing good. Even if
you are top selfish to help others with your
money. your time, or good Offices, spare them
a few kind words, as you move on through
life, and it will be so much on the right side
when your iinal account is made mp,
Year: 1859

The Test OF Coop You've MAN.-This
test takes pretty nearly the same circle as the
above. However, instead of the street door,
look ut his watch. If the key hole where it
is wound up is bright, and without the small
est marginal note-if there be no scratches,
running in giddy maze around it, such as
betray decided marks of fumbling, you may
look upon it as shining mirror Of good
young man whose hand, when he goes to bed
is as steady as his conduct has been through
the daY.
Year: 1859

The TEST OF A Coop HUsBAND.-Look at
the key hole ofthe latch.key on the street door.
If the paint is not rubbed off two or three
inches around it, if the edges are as sharp
and clean as when the door was first painted,
you may be sure that it is truthful indication
Of q good husband, who is most regular, and
so early as scarcely ever to have occasion to
use his latch key or supposing he does, is so
accurate in his aim as to be able to hit the
key-hole the very first time of aiming at it.
How many husbands, who 60 home late,
would be able to do the same.
Year: 1859

1t seems that our DeighbOrs of The Express do
not advocate tho hanging, without judge or jury, of
such persons Us buy or commend Helpers boob, but
only mean TO say that it ought to be done 10 the
regular way" We accept and note the explana-
ton Of our cotempOrary by tho BY, it viii apPall
The ErPrss TO learn that nearly two thousand
copies Of THE book sold daily by the publisher
in this city, and that not few OF his orders come
from the South. 1t viii require a large growth of
hemp to meet this e1igency.
Year: 1859

Showing that a very large majority of Mr.
ClaIk's entire vote was east by Republicans, and
only 2,526 oft by Democrats We submit that, in
view Of this state Of facts, the demand of Mr. Clark
that Republican should pair with him, when the
only effect Of that pair must be to prooDg the ex-
isting state of disorganizatiOn and anarchy, was
unreasonable, and should not have been accedcd to-
II he must pair why not let the Republican ma
joriy of bis supporters be paired against the Demo
cratic minority
Year: 1859

The supporters Of bad cause are not necessarily
deplorable category Bot ut man have bad
cause 10 uphold and if there is any baseness in his
Dature, il pretty certain to display itself Where
fore, We read with little surprise the following ex


hibition made Of himself in the political debating
club which holds possession of the Representatives
Hall ut Washington by Extra Billy Smith, Post
master General BsTrys pet mail contractor thirty
Year: 1859

ni6ndei back to the condition in which we were
before our Supreme Court released as. 10 Other
words, We are remanded again to prison IL re-
mains to be seen whether Wisconsin will back
down from its high position, or whether she will
sustain the decision of her Supreme Court This
question is to be decided in the coming judicial
election. If Mr.. Lynde is chosen, the Court Of


Washington will be endorsed. If Judge Paine IL
elected, the Supreme Court Of the State will be
sustained aad the rights and liberties Of the peo


pie will be protected against slave catchers, Kid
nappers and their abettors-the United States Off
cials-and the sovereignty and independence OF
the State be preserved against The usurpatons OF
the Federal Government.


AS the Federal power at Washington has con-
S'ructivey remanded us to prison, and declared
the action of our State revolutionary, we should
like TO know # the Federal authorities intend to
proceed against us in tho sreaking, cowardly man.
ner in which the Supreme Court assumes jurisdic-
ton N our case. They sent down q demand. to
our Supreme Court for the papers in our case and
our Court refused them, denying their Jurisdiction
And the Supreme Court at Washington, instead of
boldly attaching our Supreme Court for contempt,
as they should have done if they had appellate
juriedicton thom, sneakingly got a transcript
the attorney buying it Of the clerk-and on this
transcript they proceeded TO try and adjudicate the
case. The great High Court of the nation afraid
to meet the responsibilities of their position, act
ing like towards, and getting possession Of the
case in an underhand manner, and lodging the is
sue raised by the Supreme Court Of Wisconsin,
like set of towards I! They dare not meet The
Court, but magnify their authority by exercis.
ing it against private citizen. We are ready to
have the case tried on again. But let it be done
openly and above.bcard And when we get an
other writ Of habeas corpus. we shall see whether
the l.. S. Marshal will resist the writ by force.
Year: 1859

That incorrigible wag, Watkins, of Siskiyou,
made the following "hefty" speech on the above
named bill, on the 10th inst, in the Assembly


g rise to point of common sense. | think
it is perfectly useless to discuss question after
it has been perfectly exhausted. Until the gen.
tleman from San Joaquin (AIr. Laspeyre) made
his speech, my ideas in regard to this gauger
bill were in one vast heterogeneous cloud of in
tellectual confusion. But, after the delivery of
that speech, the whole thing is perfectly clear to
my mind. Now, my ideas in regard to this mat
ter could not be made any clearer if angel
was to dip his finger in a sunbeam and write out
all the philosophy of this gauger bill along the
ceruleal arch of heaven. Now this bill has
been waiting here, and going the rounds for
some two or three weeks. Since it has been in
troduced into this Assembly, it has been at thf1 1
bottom of the file, and on the top of the file, and
in the middle of the file; it has been recommit-
ted, and moved in all directions, and adjourned
over, frequently and now we have got it up to
discuss its merits, on a motion to indefinitely
postpone. confess | don't know much about
the merits of this BILL or how it affects the DEM
ocratic or Republican party Well, confess, or
profess, to love my country, the whole country,
as well as the Democrats and Republicans.
stand here as an independent candidate from the
great North. l love my country but | don't
think that has any personal reference to the
Democratic or Republican party. would bleed
for my country but | wish it distinctly under
stood that l don't want to bleed more than a
quart at time (Great laughter.) In regard
to the merits of this BILL all that l know about
them may be resolved into a small question: Is
it advisable for us to have a law remain upon
the statute books that gives to some exclusive
and Democratic individual the power to run
stick into a whisky barrel, and say how much
liquor there is in it? That thing being, since
the speech of the gentleman from San Joaquin,
perfectly clear, | am ready to vote on the ques-
tion which some gentleman will presently move,
as previous to the last one that propound-
| ed
Year: 1859

RsiE1 Gen. Quitman attributed the cause of
his decline, up to the last moment Of his lift, to
poison, administered to him in the shape of ar
senIc, while a resident of the National Hotel, in
Washington. He used to assert that it mix
ed with the sugar, and snbstantiated this by the
fact that during the entire term of the malady,
which afterwards assumed the name OF the ho-
tel, no one was taken i'll who refrained from the
use of that article.
Year: 1859

Nor CARRYING Coal TO NEWCASTLE. 1T is
hardly necessary to observe that articles " De
scriptive Of Mining" are not intended to enligh-
ten people who work or live in the mines they
are meant to be Of use to subscribers eastern
fbiends. Many persons, talking and printing
extensively of the gold mines, cannot inteligibly
describe the simplest mining process, because
they have not had practical knowledge. If we
succeed in conveying to eastern people tolera-
Bile idea of gold digging, we shall have accom-
pIshed a difficult thing.
Year: 1859

ORIGINAL articles of a general character nee
essarily appear on the first page Of the Journal,
because no papers arrive by mail until Tuesday
night, and the up express now comes to Shasta
on alternate days, only. News paragraphs can
not be obtained for the outside pages which are
always completed by Tuesday evening. This
accounts for an improper proportion of editorial
on the first and news paragraphs on the second
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