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Year: 1860

SACRAMENTO, March 9Th


EDrroR DEMOCRAT The bill to provide for
erecting a State Reform School at Marysvil!e
was to day defeated in che Senate mo-
tion to reconsider will be made, but fear it
will do no good The bill was supported
with great energy and telling eloquence by
Senator Wheeler, Notwithstanding the fact
that he had just recovered from a severe i'll
ness, and was unequal to strong physical
effort could not do justice to the gentle
mans speech in a synopsis, and refer your
readers to the Photographic report otto days
proceedings which will appear in the Sacra-
mento papers


The Capitol question has, think, finally
received a quietus. There will be no resur.
rection of it this winter probably. 1t was
broached in jest in the first place, and having
been the means Of providing for pleasant
trip to San Francisco, by several gentlemen,
and of making the Sacramento delegation as
gentle as sucking doves upon all measures
intended for the benefit in other regards, Of
other localities, the thing has been allowed to
/ blow over, and the committee say, the capital
should remain at Sacramento Just the day
before the report was made, our Board of
Supervisors, probably sharing in the general
impression that San Francisco was to be
recommended, very generously resolved not
to accept $4,000 year any longer from the
State of California for rent of the capitol
building Lucky State. Sagacious Super
visors.


The amendments to your City Charter will
likely reach you as soon as this letter. The
changes are rather radical, and will, it is TO
be presumed, deter many from entering the
chase for spoils, when the prizes are so small.


The Bulkhead critter is at present quiet.
He is not in haste, but will wait until he is
sure of success before he will show himself at
full length. Yesterday a resolution to send
the Committee down to the Bay, for the pur-
pose of taking testimony as to the necessity
ofa Bulkhead was urged by the enemies ol
the bill, but it was lost by a vote of IA ayes
to 10 noes This moy perhaps be regarded
as q test vote.


have heard no discussion upon the sub
ject Of Constitutional Convention for sever
al days. The fact is our legislators delight
not in the consideration of serious matters
rather prefer light spurring upon personal OF
local measures, with here and there sprink-
ling of humor, from Watson, in the Senate
or of grotesque absurdity from Fairchild in
the House. D.
Year: 1860

EDITOR NATIONAL DEMOCRAT A letter in
the appeal" of yestesday, has something to
say on the "sombre" color of the spire of the
Presbyterian new Church, corner of D and
5th streets The writer gets into a hystera
ofindgnation on the neglect of the native
architects of Marysville; mentioning the
names of gentlemen at work upon the ediice
in question as proper persons etc, and de-
nouncing the architect of this fine new church
as being utterly contemplate and unworthy
the notice of native born Americans, because
as he asserts, said architect happens to be a
foreigner. do not know, sir. whether the
Appeal sails under the red flag or moor
whether in its youth it advocates Know
Nothing principles-but it seems to me in
bad taste to attack person who has conduc-
ted himself well and by all accounts has done
his duty as a citizen and man amongst US, and
produced at least two of the finest edifces in
the State of California and in Marysville,
which are ornaments to our city and not ex-
celled in beauty of design and skillfulness of
work in the State.


With regard to the dingy hue of the paint
ing of the exterior of the Church, the archi
tect has responded to an enquiry on the sub.
ject that he is not responsible and declines at
present to answer further at the same time
sarcastically informing the writer that should
any fool wish for information, he can't get
any; but, civil question put by man of
sense will be promptly answered on this or
any other subject connected with the busi-
ness. VINDEx.
Year: 1860

To illustrate the facilities of travel which
mark the age, an Englishman said that during
the present year he had eaten a sa andwich on
the top of the great pyramid in Egypt drank
the health Of Queen Victoria on the verge
of the crater of Vesuvius, and been rather
sharply scolded 10y his wife on the summit of
Mount Blanc
Year: 1860

SoREE.-A pleasant soiree will be given,
tomorrow evening, by the Marysville ANA
teur Musical Association, at the Water Works
Hail. This Association is an honor to Marys
Vile, and we hope it will long flourish in our
midst
Year: 1860




Nothing Of d very stirring character turned up
yesterday on the flags of Carondelet street. There
were operations in cotton, and 80 there will be
every business day in the year from the LIST OF Sep
tember to the 31st of August so long as there are
hundred bales for sale. There has been good
deal Of talk about the extent Of the crop, good
deal Of bantering on four millions end half bales;
considerable backing and filling, resulting in some
wagers of $1,000 each on A. There is good deal
said about Al. We never thought that the figures
Al would be of so much Importance when we went
to school. 1t is almost impossible to walk on
Carondelet street without being saluted with A.
At concert the other evening the music was AZ,
and at the next gathering in the grand opera house
on rues Bourbon and Toulouse, we expect it will
be a in fact it is A here and Al there. We hope
the planters will take into consideration our talk
and send bales enough forthwith to settle this
question of Al. Gonfound this AZ, we have heard
enough OF it, with the ten thousand dollars offered
on, but not yet covered. In the meantime, we
propose to add to our talk, and see how close we
can approximate to the Kings pretensions Of
$500 900 bales. 6s.Jele
Year: 1860

An English wag, in defining an Alderman, said
good things were perpetually flowing although
none came out; A tooth is the only wise thing In
his head, and he has nothing particularly GOOD
about him but his Digestion eeee
Year: 1860

AFTER SECESSION The position is thus
noted by the New York Herald:


From all the sources of intelligence to
which we have access, and from every symp-
ton and aign of the times, it appears high
ly probable that considerable number of
the Southern States will withdraw from the
Union between the period of Mr.. Lincolu's
election and that assigned for his inaugura-
tion. If only two withdraw they will be
followed by others, and at last by all, if any
attempt should be made to coerce them by
armed force. In that contingency the Cap
itol, with all the public records, archives
and State papers 10 the departments, would
fall to the lot of the Southern Confederacy ;
for the District of Columbia would then be
within its territory, and the Northern
States would be shut out from Washington.
Thus the prestige of the National Capitol,
as we'll as the national wealth, would be
with the South, and Northern Congress
would be only Rump Parliament. The
English and French governments would at
once recognize its friendship, for the sake
of its cotton and market for their manufac.
lures, for FIVE millions of British population
are depending on Southern cotton for EN-,
ployment.
Year: 1860

The CosT OF COERCION N. York
Herald, in the subjoined paragraph, shows
the absurdity of any attempt to coerce the
Southern States, should one or more of them
withdraw from the Confederacy.


If the North should resort to the Quixot-
ic enterprise of compelling the fifteen South.
ern States to unite with them again, it
would require an army of 1OO,O0 men to
make any impression on the South. Where
would the North get the money? 1t could
not raise it, while the South could borrow
to any extent on the security Of its staples.
1t was on the pledge of Southern tobacco
and rice that our government mads ITS first
loan in Europe from a French banker
Cotton was then of small account; but now
that cotton is king, and cotton is specie,
how is the value of Southern securities In
creased. The black legions along, armed
and headed by their masters, without the
white population striking blow, would be
more than match for any Northern Puri'
tauical hordes who would venture to cross
Mason and Dixon's line. If they would
ever reach it with the fire Of the Northern
conservative population in their rear, it is
safe to affirm that they would never return,
but would find hospitable and bloody graves
in the sunny South. Such would be the
inevitable fate of the expedition of the mod
ern Roundheads against the cavaliers.


The vaunt of Northern coercion, there
Year: 1860

Many of our subscribers, heads of fami-
lies with children, say their experience has
been that good family paper for children
is equal to FIVE months schooling. If they
are going to school and learning to read,
they 20 over lessons as task, learning no
facts from the book, and improving but lit
tie in reading; but so soon as it is announc.
ed that the paper has come from the Office,
there is scufle to see who should read it
first. In turn they all read it, and thus
they read it understandingly, and the in.
formation they gain is useful and practical
the events fthe day-the conditions and
positions of living men, and the political
history ftbe country. Every child should
have placed in his hands some good family
paper. There is no family investment that
pays so well, that returns to the family SO
much good for the small outlay.


And this necessity for good family pa.
per is not limited to children just learning
to read. The boy that gees to college, the
girl that goes to boarding school should
each and every one be supplied with good
newspaper. Parents and teachers pay too
little attention to this subject; it is of more
importance than they are wont to think of;
to the mind that is kept posted in the cur
rent events of the day, political and literary,
there is freshness, clearDess of percep.
ton, strength to comprehend, not posi-
BILE by other minds. This difference has of:
tee been noticed by professors and teachers
in our schools. An experienced teacher
once said he could name in few minutes
every member of class that had been in
the habit of reading a newspaper from the
quickness of apprehension, and the intelli'
gence of their replies to questons.-Er'
chdu0e DuDer,
Year: 1860

A LADY's PORTRAIT OF GARIBALDI -
An English lady writes as follows from
Naples: 81 have seen to-day the face of
Garibaldi, and now all the devotion of his
friends is made as clear as day to me-
You have only to look into bis face, and
you feel that there is, perhaps, the one
man in the world in whose service you
would take your heart in your hand and
follow him blindfold to death. never al
together understood that feeling until his
presence made it clear to me. 1t is the
individual man and his personal influence
that are SO strong; but then it is the man
exalted and sanctifed, as it were, by his
own single minded devotion to and faith 10
a holy cause and it is that which you see
in his face, as though written in letters of
light, and which carries on your thoughts
from him as the man to him as the type
and representative of his cause. One could
love the cause without seeing him, but in
seeing him one seems to be suddenly gif-
ted with the power of seeing it as he sees
it, and you love it better for his sake, and
you wholly honor and admire him for its
sake. 1 have often asked our marine off.
GERS who have seen him to describe him to
me- They got on swimmiuely about his
shoulders, and chest, and head, and beard |;
and then they desire with all their might
to describe his expression-but there they
stop and gasp. Neither can 1 describe it
to you. 1 can only say that it explains
that devotion to the death, and, what is
more, that faith in doing what the prudent
world at large considers an impossibility,
for his sake; it makes that feeling appear
to you the simplest and most natural thing
in the world. His wonderful simplicity
and forgetfuness of self win the love of
all; it is not the grand ironwilled hero
who determines of his own strength to
carry his undertaking through. do not
wonder at the conviction which prevails Of
bis having been raised up by Providence !;
he seems to feel that this is the work given
him to do, and that he could not leave it
undone, but that it is no more credit to
him than it is to joiner to make stool,
whose mission it is to make stools. 1t is a
face in which the whole character is writ
ten-simple, grand and loving"
Year: 1860

TO THE VOTERS OF WAKE COUNTY.


FELLow-CIrIzENs: The time is near when you will
be called on to select candidates to represent you in
the next General Assembly of North Carolina.
Through your kind partiality two years ago, was
elected to your House Of Commons and while for
this manifestation of your confidence must ever
feel grateful, it becomes my duty to inform you,
that circumstances beyond my control-privatc in
terests that demand my whole attenton-forbid
that should again become candidate. However
dear to me the joys of private life, it is with regret
that part with you. This regret is softencd, how
ever, by the reflection that you have many in your
ranks who are willing to throw themselves in the
breach, more able to do honor to our glorious old
flag than can ever hope to be. That have fal-
len short of your expectations, am aware but If
by any vote of mine the interests Of my constituents
have been sacrificed or any principle endorsed that
did not unequivocally cnunciate to them before my
election, have yet to learn it


Permit me to express the hope that in the COM
ing contest local questions may divide us, no To-
cal issues be made tests Of Democracy-but that in
the thickest of the fight we may be animated by the
words of our gallant leader differ We often do, but
divide never" Remember that all that is dear to us
now is to "open ranks" when our enemies are
about to charge The Union depends upon the sue
cess of the Democratic party-that Union may be
dissolved, the "stars and stripes" 60 down; but it
can only be when the Democratic party is defeated
and its flag trailing in the dust / only ask as an
humble private to help uphold that flag. Again,
permit me to thank you for the honor heretofore
conferred upon me and to express the regret feel
in parting with so kind, SO indulgent constitu en-
cy. Your obedient servant,


&, -.f ..-...-.. 9, i .s-ss5 G. III. FARIBAULT.
Year: 1860

A voice from the, Graves 49,.
ADDRESS TO THE CHEsvERs, TIE cHAPINs, THE BEECH
&. ERs AND Tue BELLowsEs, OF NEW YORK. IS


In the United States Senate, in February, 1889,
Henry Clay, concluded speech on the slavery
question in the following swords of wisdom =
lThey have been frequently published but they will
bear republication and attentive persual thousand
times.1 - & - --


If one dark spot exists on our political horizon,
is it not obscured by the bright and effulgent and
cheering light that beams around US? Was ever
people before so blessed as we are, if true to
selves? Did ever any nation contain within its
bosom SO many elements of prosperity, Of greatness
and Of glory ? Our own real danger lies ahead,
conspicuous, elevated and visible. 1t was clearly
discerned at the commencement and distinctly seen
throughout our whole career. Shall we wantoniy
run upon It and destroy all the glorious anticipa
tons of the high destiny that awaits us beseech
the abotionists, themselves solemnly, to pause in
their mad and fatal course. Amid the infinite var
iety of objects of humanity and benevolence which
invite employment Of their energies let them select
some one more harmless, that does not threaten to
deluge our country in blood


~ call upon that small portion of the clergy
which has lent itself to these wild and ruinous
schemes not to forget the holy nature Of the divine
mission of the founder of our religion, and to profit
by his peaceful example. cntreat that portion
Of my countrywomen who have given their coun-
tenance to abolition to remember that they are ever
most loved and honorcd when moving in their own
appropriate and delightful sphere and to reflect that
the ink which they shed in subscribing with their
fair hands abolition petitions, may prove but the
prelude to the shedding of the blood Of their breth
I adJure all the inhabitants of the free States
to rebukc and dscountenance, by their opinion and
their example, measures which must inevitably lead
to the most calamitous consequences And let US
all, as countrymen, as friends, and as brothers,
cherish in uniadng memory the motto which bore
ancestors triumphahtly through all the trials Of
the Revolution, as, if adhered to- it will conduct
their posterity through all that may in the dspen.
sations ofProvidence, Se reserved for them"
Year: 1860

G. H. kRInAULr, Eso.-lt will be seen by the
Card of this gentleman in the Standard to-day that
he declines to be candidate for reelection to the
House of Commons from this County. We regret
that Mr. Faribauts private interests will not permit
him to be again candidate. He will retire with
the confidence and respect of the party as sound
Democrat and devoted friend ofthe interests of the
people. We trust that at some future period it may
again be in his power to enter public life But
though not candidate, his best efforts will be free


y devoted heretofore to the good old Democratic
cause which We all have SO much at heart ~
Year: 1860

HOMICIDE IN CHAPEL HLI.-We learn that diff
fculty occurred on Saturday last, between student
of the name of Ford, of the Freshman class, from
Cabarrus, and Nathaniel ]. Watson son of Mr..
Jones Watson, of Chapel Hill, which resulted in
the death of the latter. Watson, we learn, was
first struck by Ford with a slungshot and then
wounded with bowie knife. He fingered until
Tuesday night when he died. Ford made his
escape.


Even .fstieu6S between young men are to be re-
GREETED and should be avoided when not forced upon
them by sense Of honor or selfrcspect If this
be So there be no excuse for the habitual carry
ing and impulsive malicious use of deadly wca-
pons. IfFord had not been armed as he was, Watson
would now in all probability have been living and
the former would have escaped the fearful act the
recollection Of which must always follow him, what
ever may be tic result to him so far as the law is
concerned. The College rule, VIC know, is against
the possessing the carrying by students of dead
ly weapons; but we can readily perceive how diff.
cult it is to enforce this rule. Perhaps further &C.
tion by the Trustees in aid of the vigilance of the
Faculty, would entirely remedy this now too com
mon evil 1--WE regret to say among the students.
Year: 1860

WINGED that Number Two had disposed himself
to sleep, retired himself TO bed, wondering very
much what all this could mean.


Rising the next morning, he crossed the
street, and passed up stairs to his library. The
door was fastened he applied the key, open
ed it, and entered. No one was there every
thing appeared in precisely the same condition
in which he had left it the evening betore-his
pen lying upon the paper as he had dropped it
ou going out the candles ON tile table and the
mantel piece evidently not having been light
ed, the window curtains drawn aside as he
had left them in fine, there was not a single
trace of any person having been in the room
Had he been insane the night before! He
must have been. He was growing old some
thing was the matter with his eyes or brain
anyhow, he had been deceived, and twas very
foolish of him to have remained anywhere all
night" Endeavorng to satisfy his mind with
some such reflections as these he remembered
he had not yet examined his bed ROOM AL
most ashamed to make the search, now con.
WINGED it was all hallucnation OF the senses,
he crossed the narrow passage way and open
ed the door He was thunderstruck The
ceiling, lofty, massive brick arch had fallen
during the night, filling the room with rubbish
and crashing his bed to atoms De Wette, the
appari;ion, had saved the life of the great Ger
man scholar.


Iholuck, who was walking with me in the
fields near Halle when relating the anecdote
added, upon concluding 81 do not pretend to
account for the phenomenon ; no knowledge,
scientific or metaphysical, in my possession, is
adequate to explain it but | have no more
doubt it it actually, positively, literally, did
occur, than | have of the existence of the sun
i'm Himmei da.'
Year: 1860

charming influence to elevate their minds n
an eminence of more importance. Daylight
having made its appearance all eyes were
directed to the approaching celestial wonder.
Presently we found it necessary to bring our
glasses into use, we smoked them with pitch
pine' which we found much superior to the
smoke OF candle or lamp, it gave clear
transparent color, yet with that peculiar
shade necessary to delineate every portion of
the sun visible. Now appears the Oriental
luminary more beautiful than it has ever been
my pleasure to witness. | should have stated
however prior to its making its appearance
the clouds overspread the eastern horizon
and as the sun made its appearance in conf.
cal shape, in few minutes the array of ORR
entail splendor was now sublime. To CON-
template the scene at first the eastern horizon
appeared as sea of liquid fire the sun then
rising above the clouds, three fourtbs of
which appeared eclipsed, the remainder pro-
duced an effect upon the clouds and the fog
rising from the valies which is beyond the
power ofany language my pen possesses to de
SCRIBE In the beautiful colors of purest gold
and silver tint, there was certainly conyine
ing proof OF the hand of Providence in arrang
ing this panorama to give effect to the par
tial obscurity of the proganitor of light. As
this panoramic view appeared before us, we
could discover various shapes and complex





ions. just over the horizon in direct line with
the sun. We pictured range of mountains
resembling every hue, then parts of it would
assume overchanging cliffs; then we would
discover ehasm through which there ap-
peared large river In another direction we
would see boundless ocean interspersed with
Islands and vessels of all descriptions resem-
bling the fairy land in the pay of the "Chil
dren of Cyprus" Indeed l could discover a
large ship under full sail over the painless
ocean as it were, in truth, my unfurled imag-
ination pictured out our national flag unfurl-
ed to the breeze, silently saying to the habi
tants of the Oriental cline, wherever am
planted there shall peace and liberty reign
supreme. MARYsyILLIAN.
Year: 1860

pondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says:


Since the adjournment of Congress and the
retirement of delegates and outsiders from the
Seceders' Convention, Vice President Breck-
inridge has had time to reflect on the suici-
dal course he has pursued in accepting the
DiSunion nomination One of his best and
truest friends said to- day that he deeply re-
GREETED the means and appliances that had
been brought to bear upon Breckenridge in
forcing him to yield to an alternative that
ruined and utterly destroyed all his future
hopes. Breckenridge looks care.worn and
anxious; he evidently feels that he is the
leader of forlorn hope. If the human coun-
tenance is an index of the heart, he would
give up all the honors and goods he possesses
in this world to place himself where he stood
one short month ago. | say to you in all
frankness that | believe he is now urging his
friends to bring about some compromise that
will relieve him from his present and peril
Gus situation. One month will develope the
fact of open overtures made to the regular
organization for an adjustment of matters
that may probably be acceptable to the
regular nominees.


lie has had time to overlook the disasters
that he is about to bring upon Kentucky and
her glorious Democracy; he has too keen a
perception not to see defeated and dis
organized party which has but recently come
into power, after pilgrimage of a quarter of
IA century in the political wilderness. The
risk, however. does not fall upon himself and
his colleague, Powell. They have both Sc
cured long terms in the Senate. which for
five years keeps them in the political pillows.
1t is the rank and the file that are to be the
sufferers by their overt, disloyal and revolu-
tionary acts.