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Year: 1860

Dim and mysterious is the early history of man on this continent. It Is enyeioped in thick darkness, never. It may be pre- sumel, to be penetrated by human re- search; and yet the ruins oi ancient cities are frequently discovered that tell

 of race that has long sipce passed awav-probaby exterminated by the an ceslors of the present Indian, who are also fast departing from the human family fairly dying out before the evsr.advanclng influence of the pale face. Bat these monumental cities indicate great pnpua- tions, and prove the existence ol mighty men of old. A new stimulus IS likely to be given to American archaeology, by a discovery recently made some ninety miles northeast of Fort Stanton, q long account of which has just appeared m the Fort Smith (Ark, Times, We condense. The plain upon which lie the massive relics of gorgeous temples and magnifi- cent halls slopes gradually eastward the river Pecos. and isvery fertile, crossed by gurgIing stream of the purest water that not only sustains rich vegetation, but perhaps furnished with this necessary element the thousands who once inhabited this present wilderness. The city was probably built by n war like race, as t is quadrangular and arranged with skill to afford the highest protection against an exterior foe, many of the buildings on the outer liee being pierced with lcophoies, as though calculated for the use of weapons Several of the buildings are of vast size, and built of massive blocks of a dark granite rock, which could only have been wrought to their present condition by vast amount of labor. There are the ruins of three noble edifices, each pre- senting a front of three hundred feet, made of ponderous blocks of stone, and the dlapidated walls are even now thirty five feet high There are no partitions in the area of the middle Supposed temple, so that the room must have been vast and there are also carvings in bas relief and fresco work. Appearances justify ihe conclusion that these ruins could once boast of halls as gorgeously decorated by the artists hand as those of Thebes and Palmyra. The buildings are all loop hoIed in each side, much resembling that found in the old feudal castles of Europe designed for the use of archers. The blocks of which these edifices are com- posed are cenented together by species of mortar of bi,uminous character, which has such tenacity that vast masses of wall have fallen down without the blocks being detached by the shock. We hope, ere long, to be favored with full and descriptive particulars, as it is prob able that visits and examinations will be made among such intereslingsrelics of the unknown past by some of the United States officers attached to the nearest fort.
Year: 1860

ACKNOWLEDGED THE CoaN.--A neigh bor missed corn from his garner. and his suspicion rested upon reckless fellow whom everybody called Sam The corn was kept in chamber over the kl'ch- en, adjoining the woodhouse, toward which the chamber was left open and accessible by ladder. The victim of this midnight "lheHery," as another neigh bor calls it, determined to satisfy himself concerning the identity of the thief, made a temporary bed upon the kitchen floor and lay down to watch. About the hour when church-yards yawn," he was aroused from partial slumber by the rat ting of the ears of corn overhead, when he suddenly called out al the top of hls voice:

 Sam"

 "Hellom responded the thief, taken entirely of his guard by this sudden call.

 Don't lake more than bushel!'

 "Then l shall have to pour it out, fol I've got two in the bag already"
Year: 1860

There is a grocer in Pennsylvania, who is said to be so mean that he was seen to catch fly off his counter, hold him up by his hind legs, and look into the cracks of his feet to see if he hadn't been stealing some of his sugar.
Year: 1860

The following is the Platform adopted by the
National Democratic Convention at Charleston


Resoiued, That we, the Democracy Of the
Union in Convention assembled, hereby declare
our affirmation of the resolutions unanimouslv
adopted and declared as a platform of nrinc;.
Piles by the Democratic Convention at Cincin-
natl in the year 1856, believing that Democratic
principles are unchangeable in their nature
when applied to the same su: ject matter, and
we recommend as our only further resolutions
the following


That inasmuch as differences of opinion exist
in the Democratic party as to the nature and
extent of the powers offs Territorial Legislature,
and as to the powers and duties of Congress.
under the Constitution of the United States,
over the institution of slavery within the Terri
tories:


Resolped, That the Democratic party will
abide by the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States over the institution of slavery
within the Territories.


Resolued, That it is the duty of the United
States to afford ample and complete protection
to all its citizens at home or abroad, and wheth-
er native or foreign born.


ResolUed, That one of the necessities o: the
age, in a military. commercial and postal point
of view, is speedy communication between the
Atlantic and Pacific States and the Democratic
party pledge such constitutional enactment as
will insure the construction of railroad to the
Pacific coast at the earliest practicable period


Resoired That the Democratic party are in
favor Of the acquisition of the Islsnd of Cuba
on such terms shall be honorable to ourselves
and just to Spain.


Resolred That the enactments of State Legis-
latures to defeat the faithful execution of the
Fugitive Slave Law are hostile in character
subrersivc of the constitution and revolutionary
in their effect.


At Baltimore the Convention adopted this
additional resolution, making it also part o
the regular Platform:


ResoIged, That it is in accordance with th.
Cincinnati platform, that during the existenc,
of Territorial Governments, the measures of re
striction, whatever the may be, imposed by thu
Federal Constitution on the power of the Terri
tora Legislature, over the subject of the do
mestic relations, as the same has been, or shall
hereafter be, finally determined by the Supre =
Court of the United States, should be respected
by all good citizens, and enforced with prompt
ness and fidelity BY every branch of the Gen
eral Government.
Year: 1860

THE SEcEDERs IN GEoRGIA-The St. Louis
Republican says the cause of the seceders is
willing in Georgia. As evidence of this it quotes
the following paragraph from the Augusta (Ga. J
Chronicle and Sentinel:


Consequently the Democratic people are fast
abandoning the seceders' ticket, the residuary
egatee Of all corruption and abominations o:
the present outrageous Administration-the
supple tools of the camp followers and plunder-
ers. In this (Richmond) county, it is said by
those who ought to he posted, that there are
only thirty-two Breckenridge men out of vot-
ing population of near two thousand Gentle
men from Columbia inform us that there are
seven out of eight hundred in that county,
From Lincoln we hear of none In Wilkes
there are goodly number, but they are very
anxious to compromise. The Franklin Demo-
cracy, we learn, are almost unanimous for Doug
las and johnson, and the same news comes also
from Hall and Habersham. The seceders bid
iair IN Georgia, according to present appear
ances, to die out before the first frost


The latest news from Georgia is to the effect
that the Democracy and the Bell and Everett
party of that State have united upon one elect
oral ticket, to be equally of Democrats and Bell
men-fve ard Eve each. In 1851 all parties in
that State united against the seceders, then as
now led on by the avowed disunionist, Yancv,
and beat them twenty thousand votes. The
friends of the Union in other Southern States
will be very apt to follow this example If so
breckenridge will not get single ELECTORAL
vote at the hands of the people. 1t is indisput-
able that Breckenridge is the candidate sup





the South. Hence all friends of the Union in
the South, fthey would preserve it, ought to
combine their strength on one electoral ticket.
Year: 1860

THE FAMOUS Two-THIED RuLE.-This famou:
rule was adopted for the first time in 1892. We
publish it now SO that the people may see for
themselves that it does not, as the Breckenridge
ers are in the habit of asserting, require num-
Der of votes equal to two-thirds of the entire
electoral college to accomplish nomination
The reader will see that it simply requires "two-
thirds of the whole number of votes in Conren-
tion" to effect n nomination. Hence Gen. Cass,
who had two-thrds of the votes in Convention
was declared nominated in ls4e, although he
received 10 votes less than two-thirds of the
entire ELECTORAL college.


Resolced.-That each State be entitled, in the
nomination to be made of II candidate for the
Vice Presidency, to number of votes equal to
the number that they will be entitled to in the
Electoral College under the new apportionment
in voting for President and Vice President and
that two-thirds of the whole number of votes in
the Convention shall be necessary to constitute a
choice.
Year: 1860

tor al other purposes not mentioned herein. the
Company are prepared to furnish water by contract
ut the lowest rates.


The Board of Directors shall have power in all cases
ascerta" by metre, the quantity Of water used
And it shall be optional with them TO charge in accord
with the indication of the metre inst al of the
spec hc rates above given.
Year: 1860

SEEDS AND Townsville who goes
through land and scatters roses may be
tracked the next day by their withered pet.
ais that strew the ground; but he who
goes through it and scatters rose seeds, q
hundred years after leaves behind him a
land full of fragrance and beauty for his
monument. and as q heritage for his sons
and daughters.
Year: 1860

The following story of the coal oil excite
ment in Allegheny County, Penn, is as like
to nature as if true, as it probably is for this
matter:


"In neighborhood on the creek lived and
labored a son of Vulcan, who, with his limit
ed means, had barely enough to secure a
small piece of land, and to obtain scanty liv-
ing for his rising family. The ideas Of his
children had been taught to shoot but little
in any direction towards knowledge or re-
inement, and he little expected to be ANY,
thing more than the village blacksmith. But
when the oil fever broke out, learning of the
success of his neighbours in finding oil. he
thought that he might while away his spare
hours in drilling a hole upon his own home
stead lot; and, having tools convenient, he
went to work and after few weeks of pa
tient industry, was successful in obtaining 2
good show of oil. 1t was soon noised about
the village, and the blacksmith was someJody
at once. He had daughter, also, who had
blossomed into maidenhood almost unnotice d
and unknown, but now became more an OBJ
ject of interest to the few young men in that
small community. 1t became question how
to break the ice of former indifference. and
to secure favorable acquaintance with the
heiress of the oil well. For while the nat,
ural timidity of the boys kept them aloof
but at last, one of the boldest and mos fa
vored among them determined to try hi.
luck, and on Sunday evening, attired in hi:
best, resolutely marched forward and Offered
to escort the damsel home. Imagine hi.
chagrin when she, turning upon him lool
of lofty disdain that would have done honor
to Broadway belle, replied in language more
severe than chaste,-'Nonsense you cam
come that ! Dad has struck Ier"
Year: 1860

fathers who we're with them. In the hour
of trial her weakness becomes strength, her
sensibility is swallowed up in faith. There
were men of renown in the Lady Elgin, men
whose names are known through the wide
world, but none of them ever did braver or
more heroic deed than was achieved by those
noble women who sat in silence awaiting
their death.-Proridence Journal.
Year: 1860

ADULrENATGD GoLD CoIN The adultera-
tion of gold coin is Icing carried to an alarm
ing extent, and the New York banks are
startled to find a considerable quantity ofthe
coins in their own vaults. Tie ten dollar
pieces are now chiefly acted upon. About
50 so OF value is taken out Of the center by
splitting, and the size and weight ofth ori =
siual is then made up with platina, which
icing of greater specific gravity than gold,
defes detection hy the OLD method Of the
scales and nitric acid Indeed there is not
known ready means of detecting these
coins. They come in daily to bank some-
times fifty or sixty dollars in package of
S5.UOO.
Year: 1860

PRosPEcr OF AN ADJouRNMENr.-A letter to
the Missouri Republican, dated at Washing.
ton June g, says: at is now quite certain
That Congress will rot adjourn on the 18th
OF June as contemplated by the joint rosolu
tion of the House, and yet hopes are enter
tanned that by the first of July the Grand
National Sanhedlim will vnmose. The truth
OF the matter is, members of both bodies are
little afraid of the responsibility involved
in an adjournment before the Legitimate bus
iness of the country is disposed Of when
they are drawing from the public treasury
large annual salaries"
Year: 1860

RErAIRs.--Work have been busly
engaged for several days past, in repairing the
streets in the First Ward, under the super
vision Of the Superintendent of Police. The
work when completed will add much to the
convenience OF vehicles and cquestrians.
Year: 1860




Dear Progress Last week was Orange
County Court but nothing of rnnch interest
took place during the week. 1t rained nearly
all the week. There was some complaint OF
the scarcity Of the one. thing needful and some
little talk about secession. There will be a
melting called here soon irrespective of party,
at which the sovereigns will speak out their
feelings on this subject, about which you shall
be info med at the proper time.


Our friends Of the Baptist persuasion have
been holdin protracted meeting in Their
Church for more than too weeks which is re-
sulting in much good. The altar is crowded
with penitants from night to night Some
eight or nine hay. professed faith IN Christ,
snd on Sunday evening last We're added to the
.Caurch by baptism. The meeting is sill he-
ing continued and viii probably be kept ], p
for some ine.


We have had rain for a week but this morn.
ing we Lave snow on the ground
Year: 1860

Cream cannot rise through a great
depth of milk If, therefore, milk is
desired to retain its cream FOR time,
it should be put in deep narrow dish;
and if it be desired to free it most CON-
pletely from cream, it should be pour
ed In long fiat dish, not much excee-
ding one inch in depth. The evolu-
tion Of cream is facilitated by rise,
and retarded by depression of ter-
perature. At the usual temperature
of the dairy--forty degrees of Fab
renheit-all the cream will probably
rise in thirty-six hours but at seven
ty degrees it viii probably rise in halt
the time, and when milk is kept near
the freezing point, the cream will rise
very slowly, because it becomes soli-
fiea In wet and cold weather the
miib is less rich than in dry and warm,
aud on this sccount more cheese is OBJ
tanned in cold than in warm, though
not in thundery weather. The season
has its effects Milk in spring is sup-
posed to be the best for drinking, hence
it would be the best for calves in
summer it is best suited for cheese,
in autumn the butter keaping is bet
ter than in snmmcr-thc cows less
frequently MIXED, give richer milk
and consequently more butter.
Year: 1860




Many farmers are deferred from at
tempting to produce very early vege-
tables, BY a erroneous idea that the
making of hot-bed is complicated
and difficult operation, while It is just
as simple as making hill of corn
Every man who has garden of what.
ever size, If he viii once trv the ex-
pertinent of making hot bed. will
we venture to predict, find the task so
easy and the result so satisfactory,
that he viii never forego the luxury
afterwards. All that is necessary IS to
make pile of horse manure two feet
deep. with the top level or sloping to
the south. then set a rough frame made
of four boards nailed together at the
corners upon the bed of manure, fill the
frame with six inches of garden soil,
and cover with window of glass;
Any old window will answer the pur
pose, but st is better to have the glass
laid in the manner of shingles.


The best plants to force are toma-
toes and cabbage. which may be trans
planted from the hot-bed to the open
ground without any trouble. We
have removed tomatoes when they
were in blossom, and had them all live
IF MELONS or cucumbers are forced.
they should be planted in flower pots,
and in traasplanting them you turn
the pot over in your open hand and
give it a gentle thump, when the earth
comes outin solid lump and the roots
are not disturbed in the least. While
the plants are growing, they should be
raised a few inches to give the plants
air We have found the growing of
plants under glass, from small hot
he'd, four feet by six, up to a large gra
perry for raisiug the black Hamburg
and Frontiguac grapes, the most sat
isfactory of all horticultural operations
Having the climate both in heat and
moisture, the plants can be made to
grow with a vigor which they rarely,
if ever exhibit in the open air. A hot
bed could be made from four to six
weeks before the time of planting corn.
Scientific american.
Year: 1860

NIGHT AlE-An extraordinary fallacy is
the dread of light air. What air can we
breathe at tight but night air? The choice
i. between pure night air from without and
foul night air from within. Most people
prefer the latter. An unaccountable choice.
What will they say if it is proved 20 be
true that fully one-half of all the disease
we suffer from is occasioned by people
sleeping with their windows shvt ?. An
open window most nights in the year can
never hurt any one. This is not TO say
that light Is not necessary for recovery.
In great cities night air is often the best
and purest air to be had in the twentyfour
hours. could better understand shutting
the windows in towns, during the day,
than during the night, for the sake OF the
sick The absence of smoke, the quiet, all
tend to make night the best time for air
ing the patient One of our highest medi.
cal authorities on consumption and climate,
has told ME that the air in London is never
so good as after ton clock at night AL
ways air your room, then, from the out
side air. if possible. Windows are made
to open. doors are made to shut,-a truth
which seems extremely difficult of appre-
hensicn, Every room must be aired from
without. every passage from within. But
the fewer passages there are in q hospital
the better-Florercs Nightingale
Year: 1860

THE cattle panic is on the increase in
Massachusetts,. Eighty-two animals have
been killed, and eight hundred are shut
up, having been with infected herds. 1t
is already surmised that it will be deemed
expedient to have no County or State Cattle
Shows this year in the State. No hay is
permitted to be conveyed from the infected
regions as it is supposed that the infection
may be carried to a great distance by arti-
cles which have been in the neighborhood
resorted to by the diseased animals. One
man testifies before the Commissioners
that he can imagine no way in which the
infection could have reached his herd ex


cept by means of the clothes he wore on
visiting herd known to be infected.
Year: 1860

OVER the line, in Canada they are quite
as ina,iisitve as their Yankee neiehbors.
Some wears since, tbs Receiver General
was travelling on steamboat with consider
able funds for Government, and for the
sake of safety and privacy he engaged the
whole of tho ladies cabin. The passen-
gers were all alive to ascertain the reason
Of this arrangement and especially to
know the business the great man could
have on hand to require so much room
and money At length one Of them, more
bold than the rest, yentured " introduce
the subject as the Receiver was walking
the deck, and approaching him, asked if
he was engaged on a government contract


Yes"


A very largo oneY


Yes"


MAY ask what it Is


"Yes" ...,a o.,


Welt pray sir, what is itg, -,


WHY. You see" said the Receiver Ge-
peral With great seriousness, "the King
Of England has made a present to the
King of Siam of his half of Lake Ontario,
and am engaged to bottle it off,


No more questions asked
Year: 1860

CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CAsEs''-The
correspondent of the New York Post gives
an incident in connection with the oil ex.
citement in Pennsylvania: An old black
smith bored in his back yard and struck
vein. He at once became man Of position.
He had daughter, who had blossomed in
to maideDhood almost unnoticed and nm.
known, but who now became an object of
interest to the few young men in that small
community. 1t at once became a question
how to break the ice of former indifference.
and to secure favorable acquaintance with
this heiress of the oil well. For a while the
natural timidity of the boys kept them aloof;
but, at last, one Of the boldest and best IA
vored among them determined to try bis
luck, and on Sunday evening, attired in his
best, Tesolutely marched forward and offer.
ed to escort the damse home. Imagine his
chagrin when che, turning on him with o
look of lofty independence that would have
done honor to Broadway belle, replied. in
language more severe than chaste: "Git
out! You can't come that Dad has struck
len
Year: 1860

PRoTRACTED IRRIGATION.-A late number
of the Culturist has theIzfollowing on this
subject: During recent extended tour
through many districts in the mountains,
we everywhere saw that great stress was
laid upon the best means to procure copious
irrigation of fruit trees. More than two
thirds of all the trees planted in the mining
sections, have been set on the ground which
has bad no subsequent cultivation. the reli-
ance upon water being made TO preserve
the tree during the heat of protracted
summer. In all such orchards. grass, weeds
or stnbble is seen growing over the entire
space between the trees, which has the effect
to harden the ground so that it is impossible
for the roots to extend themselves. The
plan of irrigation in these places is to let
stream of water flow in small trench
alongside of the trees close to the stems;
this causes bunch of thick, hairy roots to
shoot out just under the surface of the
ground. which particularly dwarf, if they
do not kill the tree, as the ground soon
dries up harder than ever, whensthese
fibrous sponge-lke roots perish. Irrigation
to be beneficial, should be copious, and the
water kept at a distance from the tree, so
that the roots may 60 longer distance in
search of food and moisture. Great injury
is also done by late irrigation, as if the
water were kept on after the first of Sep
tember, the trees are apt to grow so late
that the wood is not matured when the
frosts of winter strike them. Then again,
bearing trees. which have developed the
fruit buds for bearing the next season, are
apt to be expanded into branches, or swell
ed so that they form roseate of leaves,
thus destroying the fruit crop. Our noun
tain amateurs would be far better satisfied
with their fruit culture if they would adopt
the plan of keeping their soil in mellow,
pulverized condition, than by such exces-
sive irrigation.