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Year: 1859

ago, and named in honor of that indefatigable and


neorruptlbe official, the States Attorney of whose
unoounded popularity among all classes of the com
munlty we are thus furnished with additiona and
gratifying evidence. In return for the compliment
Mr. w hitney,w are informed both condescended TO
ne present at the christening and TO parake of the
ntte entertainment served up on the occasion by
Mr.; Edwards and the hospitabe Tigers The sails
ana coiors OF the new boat the latter we need hard
y say, being of the right stripe) were also
Madam Rumor says present to the Club from the
States Attorney


AS the yacht Chesapeake was returning
from the boat race, when near Fort Car
foii She ran over the boat belonging to the Fort
which was returning from the city with four
persons aboard. The boat was upset. and consid
eraoie exeron was required before the party in her
could be rescued.


In returning from the boat race an acci-
dent also beiel the sa-boat of John Watts
near the Light street drawbridge, which came near
resulting In serious consequences. AS she was
passing under the bridge her sail was caupht by
an iron hook and badly torn. In order to free the
Doat ana prevent any serious damage to themselves
the persons in her were compelled to capsize her
and swim to shore.


As the yacht Joe Miller reached the
wharf returning from the race, a young
man ma named Samuel Kelly was seriously injured by
the premature discharge of a swivel which he was
engaged IN loading. His face, eyes, and both his
arms were badly burnt, and he fell to the oround
apparently dead. He was taken to his home at
Mrs. Burns, on Thames street. where Dr. Dashiells
rendered medical attention. Last evening he was
DESTROYED :! 10 "
Year: 1859

AFFECTING INTERVIEW IN THE JAIL.-A
SCENE OF SORROW REpENTANcE AND Re-
MORSE BETWEEN, A FATHER AND HIS DAUdH-
TERs.-A day or two since Stephen j. he
Groarty, esq, counsel for John Kain, now in
prison awaiting new trial for killing Singleton
the seducer of one of his daughters, succeeded
in effecting a reconciliation between the father
and his two girls, also In Jail charged with lar
ceny-to whom their parent had not spoke
| since the domestic tragedy, more than two
years ago.


By the kindness of the jailor the daughters
were allowed to visit their father in his cell
when most affecting interview took place, the
girls falling on his neck and weeping like
children, while from the eyes of the stern
strong man who had slain the vile destroyer OF
his child's homer, and had known her to fall
step by step to degradation and despair, the
create tear ran like rain-the agony of heart
wrung by affliction and agonized by terrible
suffering to woman's tenderness.


For some minutes no of that trio spoke.
Sobs choked their utterance, and the memory
of the fearful past awed them into silence
Their sorrow melted them to sympathy, and
love and grief, remorse and repentance filed
their hearts to bursting.


At last one of the girls, the -dishonored and
avenged, fell at her fathers feet, and said, with
still streaming eyes:


80, father, dearest father, can you forgive
me?'


eyes, yes, my child, with all my heart" was
the solemn and impressive answer, 'sas l hope
to be forgivenr' 20 %


Then both his daughters knelt and received
his blessing, and a moment after he was by.
their side offering up prayer for strength to
resist temptation and avoid evil in the future.
The father embraced them tenderly again and
again, and assured them of his entire forgive
ness, while they promised amendment and
reform, aud resolved to seek comfort and sup
port in the faith their parent recently had
sought. aae. - eil
The scene as witnessed was extremely pathet-
ic, and such as our plain pencil cannot paint
Several who witnessed the reconciliation were,
in spite of themselves, melted to tears, and left
the cell with a better opinion of that human
nature which, however it may err, is always
held by golden though invisible thread to its
native heaven Cincinnati Enquirer Il
Year: 1859

CoTEMPoRARY OPINIoN.-The Coloma Times
says: The only persons who are benefited by
allowing the Chinese to overrun our mines are
the ship owners, who circulate fabulous stories of
California among them, for the purpose of indu
price of their passage. The time is now coming
when the ground which the Chinese have worked
out could be worked by Americans with profit to
themselves and benefit to the State; and as this
fact forcibly impresses itself upon the miners,
they begin to realize that their presence is Sc
rious drawback to the places in which they have
located"
Year: 1859

Nor UNExPECTED-One of the Bay papers has
pourning all around its hat in sorrow for death
the Pacific railroad. The concern has been
pt off for other presidential timber. We have


Pen saying all along that this great enterprise
[as not serious intention. The thing did not
De, for it never was alive.
Year: 1859

HoRRIBLENEss OF "BIG SANDY."-Gen. Allen,
in his " Early Days Of the Buckeyes" describes
the Big Sandy country, in Ohio:


"There were certain months in the year when
the fever and ague set the whole community to
shaking; and, as though that was not enough
these were the identical months in which the
mosquitoes were poured upon the inhabitants in
swarms that fairly darkened the air at MONDAY,
and who preyed upon their victims with the most
venomous and vampire-like ferocty. 1t was
currently reported and generally believed that,
during the height of the mosquito season, the
Sandyites were compelled to sleep under water
to protect themselves from the blood thirsty pests
the luxury of mosquito bars not having been
yet introduced into that rather remote locality.
There was a broad, shallow pond near the center
of the Sandy district, covering about ten acres,
and about two feet deep in the middle, to which
all the inhabitants repaired at nightfal, each
provided with billet of wood, to serve as a
pillow. After being divested of every stitch of
raiment, each Sandyite, taking his billet of wood,
waded into the pond, till he or she found suita-
BILE depth of water; and then, adjusting the
wooden pillow, lay down, face upward, leaving
nothing exposed except the lips and nostris,
which had been previously washed with spirits of
turpentine-the odor of which is highly dstaste-
full to a mosquto During the daylight hours,
the inhabitants were measurably protected from
their foes by fever and ague They were either
shaking so awfully that mosquito could not
hold on to the skin long enough to insert his
proboscis, or they were burning with such hot
fever that no insect could come within an inch of
them without being scorched to death"
Year: 1859

The NEW CENT-We have been shown by E.
B. Hale, Banker, specimens of the new cent just
issued from the mint. In size and weight it is sim
liar to the old Helo cent? On one side is the stamp
zone cent? as in that, surrounded with a wreath
On the reverse is the head of an aboriginal fe-
male" with a crown of feathers, on the band of
which is the word Liberty" This head is encir
cled with the words United States of America
The New York Times is indignant at an Indian
head being given as symbol four nation, and sug
gests, to carry out the idea, that" black wench"
ornament our gold coins, butwe consider this new
design great improvement on the crow which
"set of the other
Year: 1859

BDuring our visit to Lowell we were shown
through the Laboratory of our celebrated coun-
tryman, DR.. J. c. Aver. Scarcely could we
have believed what is seen there without proof
beyond disputing.


They consume a barrel of solid Pills, about
$4,000 doses and barrels of Cherry Pectoral,
10000 doses per diem. To what an inconceiv-
able amount of human suffering does this point
10000 doses aday!! Fifty millions of doses
per year !! What acres and thousands of acres
of sick beds does this spread before the imagina-
ton And what sympathies and woe! True,
not all of this is taken by the very SICK but alas
much of it is. The Cherry Drop and this sugar
ed Pill are to be the companion of pain and an
guish and sinking sorrow-the inheritance our
mother Eve bequeathed to the whole family of
man. Here the infant darling hasIbeen touched
too early by the blight that withers half our
race. Its little lungs are affected and only
watching and waiting shall tell which way its
breath shall turn. This red drop on its table is
the talisman on which its life shall hang. There
the blossom of the world Just bursting into wo-
manhood is stricken also. Affections most as
siduous care skills not, she is still fading away
The wan messenger comes nearer and nearer
every week. This little medieiment shall go
there, their last, perhaps their only hope. The
strong man has planted in his vitals, this same
disease. This red drop by his side IS helping
him wrestle with the memorable enemy; the wife
of his bosom and the cherubs of his heart are
waiting in sick sorrow and fear lest the rod on
which they lean in this world, be broken.


o Doctor! Spare no skill, nor cost, nor toll
to give the perishing sick the best that human
art can give.-GalvestOn, T'eras, Nel1S.
Year: 1859

THIS AFTERNOON ANB EvENING.-At three o.
clock this afternoon the Concert of Father Kemps
Old Folks will commence at the MelOdeon. We are
happy to know that the public schools of the city
will be discontinued at quarter before three by
direction of the Superintendent that all the pupils
may enjoy the concert, admission to which will be
fixed at ten cents. The old style dresses must
afford an untold amount of fun for the ''boys and
girls otto day." and beside affording them amuse-
ment, it will give them more ''reazing sense" Of
the costumes one hundred years ago than they
could obtain in any other way This evening will
be the final concert and splendid bill is put forth
Secure and improve this opportunity of seeing and
hearing this inimitable Troupe. From this place
they 60 to Columbus, Cincinnati, st. Louis, &c
Let them have hearty expression of the regard of
the Cleveland people tonight
Year: 1859

RAGGED SCHOOL CoEcERT.-The Concert for
the benefit of the Ragged School on Friday next,
will be a fine affair. The principal musical talent
of our city win assist the programme and large
and varied list of attractions is offered. Don't fail
to go and contribute your quarter for anoble cause
while you give yourself much pleasure in listening
to the superior music.
Year: 1859




ALMOST JAIL DELIvERY.-On Saturday night
last well concerted plan by which Cuyahoga
County Jail should be relieved of q gang of crmi-
nails, was frustrated through the prUmpuUuuv vf
Sheriff Wightman. As he was sitting in the Office
of the Jail after the hours of closing the cells for
the night man whose name we are not at liber-
ty to USE but who has frequently visited the Jail of
late, and who was at one time confined in it him
self, entered and endeavored TO pass in to see some
of the prisoners. He was told that it was past the
hour for admitting visitors but insisted on being
admitted. He was so eager to enter, and so inde-
pendent in his tone, that Mr.. Wightman's suspi-
cions were aroused that all was not right as it
should be- The man said that if he could not go
in, he would go home. Mr.. Wightman offered to
accompany him to the door, and when he was
safely between the two iron doors, quietly told the
visitor that he could not go until he was searched,
with loaded revolver, a bottle of sweet oil, q
skeleton key which would unlock every cell door,
iron saw frame, and four small steel saws were
found in his boots, thrust down his back, &c. Un-
der this new phase of affairs Mr.. Wightman con-
cluded to admit his visitor, but in different char
acter from the one he desired. He was soon occu-
pying one of the snug and cozy rooms inside the
grating where he will be kept safe until disposed
of. The saws were capable OF cutting through iron
bars as readily as through bone, and, had it not
been for the alertness of the Sheriff, there would
have been no doubta general Jail delivery on Sat
urday or Sunday night. The tools were manufac-
tured by a mechanic of this city, and probably
through the agency of woman, the wife of one
of the prisoners. The matter has been kept secret
for several days for polite reasons. The plan was
well laid for Liberty or DEATH" but it will take a
cunning plan indeed to draw m wool over the
eyes of the Sheriff and his subsS dinates. Some
startling developments might be made in connec'
ton with this affair, but 'their time is not yet"
Year: 1859

~ WAsHINGroN, May 26.-The Secretary of the
treasury has prepared circular addressed to the
collectors of the customs, saying: ''The immunity
OF our merchant vessels at sea from seizure search
detention or VISIT in time of peace by the vessels
OF war OF any foreign nation, being now admitted
by all the maritime powers of the world it is very
desirable that the flag of the United States, the
proper indication of the nationality of our vessels
should always be promptly displayed in the pre-
sence of ship of war"


- Inc Secretary of the Treasury is directed by the
PRESIDENT to instruct the Collectors of the Customs
TO request the Captains in the merchants service at
their respective ports always to display their c.
lors as promptly as possible whenever they meet
upon the ocean an armed cruiser of any nation


Ihe Postmaster General on the 18th ult asked
the opinion the Attorney General, as to his power
to reduce the great overland mail from a semi
weekly to weekly service, thus designing to save
$500 900 annually. The Attorney General has Just
replied that the Postmaster General cannot under
the law reduce the present rate of service.


Capt. Buchanan has been ordered to the COM
mand of the Washington NAVY Yard
Year: 1859

more for us than We had any right to expect and
the good people Of Montgomery did the best they
could do to entertain US; nevertheless the Con.
ventions in both places were magnificent failures
ard did nobody any good. Tho last Convention
At Montgomery, though well attended, was fruit
less of any good TO anybody, or any interest in the
South. On the contrary it did great harm, by de,
velopinG an issue calculated to divide the people
of the South, and, consequently to weaken
them in the Confeieracy. We sincerely hone
Georgia may not be represented in Vicksburg. IF
the Southern States really desire to assemble in
Convention. and coufer together on tho political
questions which affect their welfare we have no
objection. We should, Mt least, know what to ex.
pect from its action, and be prepare to send del
egates Of the right stamp to represent cur State.
But to call together the iile lawyers and jack
daw politicians Of the land, and call it n Com.
mercial Convention is the essence Of humbug.


There is another idea about these so.called Com.
mercial Conventions. They have met heretofore
under the most favorable auspices and have not
only done nothing to advance the Commercial
interest Of the Southern States; but have by their
lruitless sessions brought on us the contempt and
SCOTS of our Northern enemies. 1t is time that
this farce was played QUIT il time for Southern
men who respect themselves and iheir State to
cease the pursuit of personal and political hobbies
at the expense of the reputation and quiet of the
Commonwealth. -. NHledgcrUe {Ga.l Federal
Union.
Year: 1859

in thy heart, but las in love and out Of love, and


tfuest charity thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy
neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him. Thy very


charity towards thy SHINING neigbbor should lcaC
!, thee to re5uke him.


And so far from its rending the Church to with


hold fellowship from those portions or individual


of 1t that practice and tolerate slavery, it is th
very way to unite and save it. BY the sin of sla
very tolerated, iourished, and defended By th
) Church, unrebuked by its Missionary Boards, lcf


in peace by its Tract Societies, our Christianit,
} itself has come into contempt, and American Prot


estantism las the aifectonate remonstrance of thu
French Christians to the Churches of America or


the subject of Slavery truly declares) has become


a scandal


Now, to remove that scandal, we must protest


against sin. And how can we do it so effectively


how indeed at all except by withholding fellow.
ship from those who are practising it2 Hitherto
the Church of God in America is far from having
fulfilled its mission in the matter of slavery 1t
has had work to do in the overthrow of that
dreadful iniquity which il has shamefully
ignored and neglected, How keen the unmeant
satire of the venerable lIumbolt in view of the
relation of Christian propretors in America to
slavery, when he says: I'm our days it is philoso
pliers, and not devotees, who raise the question
Is it right to hold slaves? But the broader range
which philosophy has always had makes me be-
lieve it would have been better for suffering hui
manity, if Mis sort Of shepticism had been pre-
scrred among tile Jetierers"


Now can doubt that if the churches will
not hear and heed the cry of the oppressed God
will raise up other agencies for their deliverance
the process Of deliyerance, crimson the land with
blood, through the acts of pro slavery politicians
and Presidents and the DEGREES of our Judiciary
consummated successivey with guilty silence on
the part of the Church, upon the plea that while
slavery is sin, it is also political institution
and the most we can therefore do as a Church or
a Tract Society is to generaize very piousy
about the moral duties of masters growing out off
its existence


In this guilty silence Of his churches and min.
listers, God may employ the so called nfdelity Of
Parker, or the alleged violence of Garrison, and
Inc fury of reformers out of the Church. stigma
tzGd as fanatical, to do that which his own peo.
pie refuse to perform. And ho may crush some of
the dearest present organizations and instrument.
taties of the Church under the weight of their
sins of omission. and their refusing to remember
them that are in bonds as bound with them. ANY
way, God the Almighty will destroy slavery,and
if we, his ministers and people, will not WELD
tho battle Of his word against it, we had better
stand from under.
Year: 1859

There is 4 class of men-fortunately neither
numerous nor nlucntial-who make it a business
to travel up and down the land, talking and
preaching impraccable things about tho extermi.
nation Of slavery and pitching into everybody
that dares to dissent from their opiuion. They are


the natural allies Of the great boo,hoo party, and
as such, and as counter irritants upon Parson
Brownlow, Kett, Toombs, and other fire eaters
they may perhaps be set down a part of the
community that could not well be dispensed with.
These men are represented by Garrison, Phillips,
Bureigh and their Observation-Disclosures Of the
Constitution, maligners of the Church, and BIAS
phemers of God all Of them; and hitherto they
have been allowed an undisputed monopoly of the
so.called opposition to slavery"


To say that these men have all along been
advocating the only safe doctrines in relation to
slavery is to insult the wisdom Of the entire Nor.
thern people, who have repudiated them utterly as
demagogues and to say that they have not prop.
erly represented the northern sentiment is to throw
discredit upon the proceedings of meeting of
very respectable gentlemen, at Worcester, not
long since, where their example seems to have
been emulated to a very successful degree. We
can only regret that there ale Congregational cer-
rymen, or good men of any denomination, how
ever few in number they may be. who should


Cok with an evil eye upon the capital Of Garri.
son & Co.. and either attempt an outright rob.
berry Of their stock in trade or open negotiations
for partnership thereby involving, in either
event, a destruction of tho aforesaid monopoly,
which the North has come to regard with SO
much satisfaction. We say we regret it; and the
more because tie position of the Churches hither.
to on the subject of slavery has been, with rare
exceptions, honorable and dignifed, just such in
fact to give good moral tone to thai awakened
public sentiment that proposes merely to restrain
an evil that il cannot remove. We see no good
tc result from a hundred thousand of such meet
ings and associations as this cne at Worcester
that We report this morning for while good
principle is at the bottom, false structure has
been placed thereon. If there are people who
think differently, however, they can read the re-


port in another column and judge for themselves
-NorDich (Ct.) Courier "a Republican paper!
Year: 1859

Mr.. Young has introduced bill into the As
sembly, to amend the act creating the Office Of
Supreme Court Reporter, go that that officer
may hereafter have no difficulty in procuring
the records to make up his reports. 1t gives
the Reporter the privilege to take from the
Clerks Office of the Supreme Court the original
opinions at any time when the Clerk is not en-
gagged in copying them, and also the transcript
and briefs in each case, together with the pa
pers necessary to the discharge Of his duties, for
the purpose of making up bis reports. The
papers so taken are not to be removed from
Sacramento city, and the Clerk is liable on his
official bond in case he refuses to comply with
the request of the Reporter.


In view of the late unprecedented action Of
the Clerk and Judges, in refusing to deliver
she papers aud decisions to the Reporter, an
act of this kind has become necessary. The
action of the Judges and Clerk in this case,
seems to have been dictated by petty malice
towards Mr.. Lee. The latter was appointed by
the Legislature of 1858 Reporter Of the Su-
preme Court; no fault has been found with the
manner in which he has discharged the duties
of the Office, but two Of the Judges-Baldwin
and Field-being anxious to give the position
to some favorite of their own, endeavOred to
get Lee removed. But the present Legislature
refused to remove him, and the Judges, vexed
because the Legislature would not submit to
their dctation endeavor to throw obstacles in
the way, and prevent il possible the reporter
discharging his duty.


A few months ago, the people had every con-
idence in the integrity and honesty of the Su-
preme Bench, but that confidence is rapidly on
the Wane,
Year: 1859

The term of the Thirty-fifth Congress expired
by limitation, on the 4th ut. The act of last
session, authorizing the issue of Treasury notes,
was continued in force two years longer and
another issue Of twenty millions Of notes was
authorized previous to the adjournment Moth
ing was done in the way of modifying the tar
if, and no action taken to increase the revenue
The appropriation bils-with the exception OF
the Post ofice-were passed; but in nearly all
cases, the amount appropriated was much less
than the estimates of the several departments
A disposition was very generally manifested
by members of Congress to cut down the ex-
travagant expenditures, which have heretofore
been used for political and corrupt purposes.


The Post Office appropriation failed on ac-
count of point of etiquette having arisen be-
tween the two Hoases. 1t appears, however,
that tho appropriation for the California ocean
mail service was passed, by being tackled on to
an Indian appropriation bill.


Unless an extra session is called, the con-
tractors will have TO carry the mails on credit
after the 1st of July, or the mail service must
be suspended At the latest dates from Wash
ington, the President had not certainly deter
mined on what course he would pursue, but
the probability is that an effort will be made to
have the mails carried on credit from the first
of July until the meeting of the next Congress.
If an extra session is called a number of States
will be unrepresented, aud the mileage of men,
nj Of Off inr
heavy expenditure which in the present condi-
tion of the Federal Treasury cannot well be
q fforded.