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Year: 1859

MARYLAND is on the alert for invaders as well
as Virginia. The Governor has ordered the
Sheriff of Washington county to appoint a
sufficient number of deputies residing along
or near the boundary line between that State
and Pennsylvania, and others also along the
Potomac river, who may be empowered toact
with the authority of law in the case of an as
sembly of unlawful character, or men whose
character and purpose are not known, and SO
arrest and detain them. In pursuance Of this
order the Sheriff has summoned 500 men in
various parts of the county to act as his spe-
cial deputies. Slightly expressive, we should
think Suppose the Union was dissolved?
Year: 1859

CIrY TRACT SocIETY.-The regular quar-
terly meeting of this Society was held on Mon
day evening, Nov. l4th, at the Market street
Methodist Church.


The reports presented by the members of
the Executive Committee showed that the
work of tract distribution is still being carried
forward in our city. Though necessarily la
boring under much discouragement from the
unsettled state of the community, and from
want of that full sympathy and cooperation
of the Christian public due to work such as
that in which they are engaged, the Society,
so far as represented at the meeting, stood
to their first full faith in the Importance OF the
labor to which they have devoted themselves,
and expressed their determination to carry it
forward in future with increased zeal and eff
cheney.


After somewhat prolonged discussion in
regard to the relations and interests of the
Society, the meeting was closed with prayer
and the benediction by the President.
Year: 1859

Result Of Homestead Laws i'm the West.


In Michigan, the result Of the liberal enact
ment of its Legislature in regard to the wild
lands belonging to the State, is seen in the
progress made in settling up the back dis
tricts. Many persons are availing themselves
of the opportunity now offered for procuring
homes at very little cost. Those lands,
heretofore considered worthless, are now be-
ing taken up in small quantities by actual set
tiers, and the result will be that new counties
will soon be settled by hardy, thoroughgo-
ing people, who have hewn out homes for
themselves in the wilderness. O, that Min
nesota had homestead law!
Year: 1859

THE FIRST Snow STORM " RECoaDED."-
This morning the feathering fakes made their
first appearance, and finding the ground dry,
soon whitened the ground, and after falling
lightly for three or four hours, left enough Of
the element in view to convince one that the
first snow of the season had actually come.
The weather is warm, however, and doubt
less ere another twenty-four hours, will prob
ably disappear. The wind has been blowing
steadily from the South for two days, and
probably there have been heavy storms be-
low, of which we had the thin edge.
Year: 1859

* One lesson the south should learn
from the lamentable affair at Harper's Ferry,
is that the permanence of the Union is essen
tial to its own safety. The soldiers of the
general government captured Brown and his
men, and to the general government the south
ern States will always look for protection
whenever the flames ofinsurrection are lighted.
1t is for the highest interest and safety Of the
south to be true to the constitution and the
Union, and if it had the vigor and manliness
of the early days of the republic, it would
throw offsthe political adventures who trade
in its weakness and its fears, and who would
impose upon it the monstrous falsehood that
the free states seek its destruction. If there
is any party hostile to the South it is that
which aggrayates the evils Of southern society
in order that it may be accepted in its patron
and protector. And that party is the par
ty that wears the name of democracy while it
rejects its rinciple.-Sprinatisd Republican.
Year: 1859

A student of the University of Virginia,
writing from that institution, states that the
marble slab that formerly marked the resting
place of Jefferson has entirely disappeared
The visitors to his tomb by chipping off frag-
ments, to be carried away as mementoes, have
completely demolished it, and an uncouth
granite pedestal, greatly disfgured, is all that
remains to mark the grave of tho author of
the Declaration of Independence
Year: 1859

Great excitement was created at Dubuque,
Tuesday, by the elopement of a young lady
with clerk, and their marriage at Galena.
The fair and tickle bride was to have been
married Wednesday, to another individual
who is left disconsOate.
Year: 1859

H In New Jersey the other day, a
young couple, while courting by the fire tell
asleep. While asleep the young lady's dress
took fire. AS soon as they awoke the young
man made every exertion to extinguish the
fire, but without success. The young girl
rushed out of the door enveloped in sheet
of fame, which continued to burn until her
clothing was all consumed. She lived only
few hours afterwards. The young man will
probably be crippled in the hands for life.
Year: 1859

THE California steamer which arrived in
New York two weeks ago brought an unusu-
ally precious freight, for among its many pas
sengers there were eighty nine babies, seven
ty-nine of whom were born in the Golden
State
Year: 1859

gar The Michigan State Normal School,
recently destroyed by fire at Ypsilanti, is to
be rebuilt at once Contracts have already
been made 1t is to be finished by the latter
part of next July.
Year: 1859

Tue WEATHER, RIVER, &c.-The cold
weather of the last few days still continues,
so that as a matter of course the river is near
ly full of floating ice to-day. We learn that
the ice is gorged at Hastings, so that no more
boats may be expected up this season.


The Golden Era came up yesterday as far
as Hastings The Key City turned back
from Reeds Landing. The Antelope mas ols-
continued her trips from the Minnesota river


Navigation, therefore, for all practical pur-
poses, may be considered as closed.


A mail came up on the Golden Era yester-
dav. and was distributed this morning. To
morrow the first land mail from La Crosse
will arrive by Burbank's stages, so that no in
terregnum in the prompt delivery of the mail
will take place.
Year: 1859

The weather was really cold this morning,
and ice formed on standing water quite stiff.
Some thin mushy cakes of ice were visible
on the river, but it is probable that boats will
be able to run for several days yet-at least
to the middle of next week.
Year: 1859

WEAKNESS AND DEBILITY.-All who suffer from
weakness or debility, where there is want of en-
ergy, should at once have recourse to Judson's s
Mountain Herb Pills. They Immediately purify
the blood and act upon the handspring of life, CIV
ing strength and vigor to the system. Young per-
sons entering into womanhood, with derange-
ment of the functions, and to mothers at the turn
of life these Pills will be most eticacous in cor
recting the tide of life that may be on the turn
Young and elderly men suffer in a similar manner
at the same periods, when there is always danger.
They should therefore undergo course of this
purifying medicine, which ensures lasting health.
This great Household Medicine ranks among the
leading necessares of life, as it is well known to
the world that 1t cures complaints other remedies
cannot reach; this fact is as well established as
that the Sun lights the world. Judson' Mountain
Herb Pills are sold by all Dealers in Medicine.
Year: 1859

the port ot New York which annually
visit the coast of Africa for slaves, Is
greater than the number of miSsiona-
ries upon that coast furnished by all
the missionary societies OF Christcn-
dom. They testify that they have
seen in the Gaboon men from New
York and Baltimore who openly avow-
eel that slave trading was their bust
ness. They testify that the natives
stand in suspicion and fear of Ameri-
cans as slave traders. They testify
also, that the negroes procured for the
so-called apprenticeship system of the
French colonies, arc bought of native
slave traders just rs slaves are bought
for Cuba. and that the slave trade with
all its cnormitics has been revived and
rcinvigoratcd under the impulses re-
ceived from the French Government
and American commerce.


How shall we meet this alarming
and humiliating state OF facts? How
shall we deliver our country from the
shame and guilt of this wholesale pi-
racy? Our greatest danger lies in the
apathy of the public mind, and its in
crcdulity with respect to this medita
ted wickedncSs. The conscience of the
nation must be stirred by the press
and the pulpit, by conventions and adj
dresses, by whatever can rouse men to
a sense of danger and of guilt. The
Lafayctte-place orators told us year
ago, that "the South will not read
tracts on slavery and the North does
not need them" But the North does
need them. This very city of New
York is a growing center of the Afri-
can slave trade. Men whose wealth
is coined from the tears and groans
and blood of that traffic, here move in
good society and worship in Christian
congregations. This lcprosy is upon
our commerce and our politics, and it
will soon break out openly upon the
walls of the Capitol at Washington.


The foreign slave trade can never be
hindcrcd by opposition to that alone
While the domestic slave trade is al
lowed, why not the foreign also?
While slavery is sanctioned, why for
bid the slave trade? The ax must be
laid at the root of the tree. Never
until the system of slavery is over
thrown, never till the holding men as
chattels is branded with inlamy, will
the stealing of men from Africa be
hindercd or even litly condemned.
Year: 1859

An adopted son Of Mr.. Gibbs, fore
man in the Niagara Falls Paper-Mill,
was taken over the cataract on Satur-
day afternoon last. The victim was
a promising little boy about eleven
years of age, and general 'avorite
with all who knew him.


The Niagara Falls papcr-Mill is
situated on Bath Island, between Goat
Island and the main land, and the ma
chinery is driven 10y water power.


On Saturday afternoon number OF
men were engaged clearing away the
Ice which obstructcd :hc flow of water
in the race, and Mr. Gibbs's boy was
playing about the vicinity. In one
place the race is spanncd by narrow
foot-bridgc of plank, destitute Of a
railing or other protection on either
side; AMI somehow in crossing this hc
lost his balance and fell into the water.
The current was very strong, and in
an instant the child was carried out
through the bulkhead at the tail end
of the race and prccipitated some ten
feet into the foamng flood short dis
tancc above the bridge connecting the
two islands. The rapids were full of
floating blocks of Ice, and mingled
with these, the poor little fellow was
carried down the stream. Help could
not be afforded, and the horriicd spec
tators watched him till he was lost TO
sight. lie was observed to raise his
hand once, as if to remove something
from his face, and that was all Tho
distance from the race TO the falls can
not be much over fifty rods, and the
fatal leap was not long delaycd.-Ro-
chester Democrat, lSt.
Year: 1859

ES- Wisdom allows nothing to be
good, that will not bc so forever; no
man to be happy. but that needs no
other happiness than what is within
himself; no man TO be great or pow
cr!ul, that is not master of himself
Seneca.
Year: 1859

ES- That was beautiful ilea cx-
pressed by Christian lady ON her
dea:h-bcd In reply to her brother
who was taking leave Of her to return
TO his distant residence, that he should
probably never again meet her In the
land OF the living.-she answered.
brother, / trust we shall meet in the
land Of the living We are now in
the land Of the dying"
Year: 1859

Fs- Tasso replied to a proposition
that he should take vengeance on a
man who had injured him. Il 10 not
wish to deprive him either of his goods,
his honor. or his life. l only wish to
deprive him of his ill-will."
Year: 1859

E6- The everlasting hills will crum-
ble to dast. but the influence of a good
man will never die. The earth will
grow old and perish. but virtue in the
heart viii he ever green AMI flourish
throughout eternity. The moon and
the stars will grow dim. AMI the sun
roll from The heavens, but true religion
and nrdeiiled will grow brighter. and
not cease while God himself shall live.
Year: 1859

PICTURE OF LIFE In youth we
seem climbing up hill on whose top
eternal sunshine appears to rest. How
eagerly we pant to gain its summit
But when we have gained it, how diff
ferent is the prospect, on the other
sidel We sigh as we contemplate the
waste before us, and look back with a
wistful eye upon the howery path we
have passed, but may never more re-
trace. Life is like a portentious cloud
fraught with thunder, storm and rain,
but religion, like those streaming rays
of sunshine, will clothe it with light
as with a garment, and fringe is
shadowy skirts as with gold.
Year: 1859

Ec- n little girl, hearing it sail
that she was born on the queens birth
day, took no notice of it at the time,
but a day or two after asked her father
if she and the queen were twins.
Year: 1859

CHAPTER VT.

 An Act in addition to ''An Act for the Regulation

 of Civil Actions

 Be enacted 6y e Senate and House of Representations in General Assembly eonnened:

 SEC. l. Whenever any justice of the peace shall be disqualified unable, from any whatever, to proceed to the trial of any civil action pending before him, the parties to said action may, by writ ten agreement, endorsed upon the writ, and signed by said parties or their attorneys, designate any other justice of the peace,. resident in the town where either of said parties reside who may proceed to tiia render judgment and issue execution in said cause and said judgment and execution shall have the same effect in law as if they had been rendered and issued by the justice of the peace designated in said writ.

 SEC. ?. A justice of the peace, before whom any civil action is pending, may, by written agreement of the parties thereto endorsed upon the writ and signed by said parties their attorneys proceed to trial, render judgment, and issue execution in said cause at any time after the return of said writ and previous to the time designated in said writ as the day of trial, may be agreed upon by said parties And such judgment and execution shall have the same effect in law, if the trial of said had been had on the day designated in said writ.

 Approved, June 1st 1859.
Year: 1859

An Act in addition to "An Act for the Regulation

 of Civil Actions'

 Be enacted by tie Senate and House o Representations in General Assembly convened: That whenever the claimants of any debt, goods effects, in contro- versy in any action of scre cas shall reside out of this state, the notice required by the two hundred and thirty fourth section of the act to which this is an addition to such claimant, to appear and defend, shall be given in such time and manner the court before which such action may be pending shall di- rect, and such court is hereby authorized and em- powered to make any and all heedful orders in rela tion thereto.

 Approved, June 9th, 1S59
Year: 1859

CHATTER ]. An Act in addition to and in alteration of an Act entitled !" An Act in alteration of an Act relating to Courts" Be enacd by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly concened: SECTION 1. That jury may be summoned to at tend Se May term of the superior court for New Haven county, in each and every year, at the dis cretion of the judge allotted to hold the same for the trial of criminal only anything in the act to which this is in addition to the contrary notwith standing.

 SEC 2 This act shall take effect from the day of its passage.

 Approved, May 11th. 1859.
Year: 1859

surpasses them while young, in its fine


form, clean, smooth stem, broad green


and glossy foliage, and in its light yellow


flowers; all combining to give it an air
Of lovely simplicity and sprightlincss,
scarcely equalled by any other of our de,
ciduous trees. Nor are its opening burs
In autumn an unattractiye feature.


AS timber tree, its reproductive quail
ity constitutes its most remarkable char
acteristic. Wncn a chestnut grove is
cut off during winter, numerous young
shoots spring up from the stumps, and
these form trees suitable for fencing and
farming timber in the shortest time in
which trees can attain to those sizes, and
will continue to produce crop of timber
as often as well cut off


For its fruit the chestnut is unques-
tionably at the head Of all the nut-bear-
ing species. The prices at which the
nuts have hitherto been sold in this mar
ket, (SS to sl2 per bushel, is sufficient
evidence Of the high estimation in which
they are held as luxury. We are in
formed that the price has advanced in
the New England States, from two to
four dollars per bushel as an average
since railroads have afforded facilities
for sending them to those parts of the
country where they are not produced
aud it is not unlikely that similar causes
will continue to increase the demand for
several years to come.
Year: 1859

EXTRAORDINARY SoNNAMBuLIsM--AN ANNA
IN ACTUAL LIFE.-The English papers re-
cord a remarkable case Of somnambulism. A
young girl, thirteen years of age, pupil at
boarding school, arose in her sleep and
slipped on a pair of shoes and dress over
her night dress, and without any other cloth
ing left the house, and started for homo, some
eight miles distant When found, she had
walked distance of seven miles and was
still perfectly unconscious. Before leaving
the house the child first attempted to get ou,
at the front door, the chain and bolt of which
were found unfastened; but the door was
doubled locked, and the lock goes so stify
that her hands could not turn the key. She
then appears to have gone to the back of the
house and made her exit in that way through
garden. She afterward suffered little from
weakness, but experienced no other i'll effects
from her singular moonlight walk in the
frosty air.
Year: 1859

The CharlestOwn Prisoners Once


MOre--Old Brown still Calm and In


different TO Death. -,


The Charlestown correspondent of the Bal
timore American thus writes in late letter:


The prisoners were visited by Governor Wise
and st e In the afternoon, and the interview
was long and interesting, as we'll as full and
frank on both sides. Brown was still as de-
termined as ever, justifyipg his course, and re-
gretting, as he says. the error he committed
by not letting the train pass unmolested. Cook
said he only intended to assist in the escape
of runaway slaves, and thought the punish
ment allotted by the jury too severe for the
crime. Governor Wise left them, with an in
junction that they prepare for their doom, as
under no circumstances whatever would the
arm Of the Executive be interposed in their
behalf, which assurance did not seem to affect
them in the least. Governor Wise has assured
many Of our citizens that he would not inter-
fere with the sentence of the Court, and, as an
evidence Of the utter hopelessness of Execu-
tive clemency, he says that the only man who
stood the least chance Of mercy was Edwin
C0ppic, and that he stood no chance at all


Last night, through the courtesy Of Capt.
Avis, the jailor, was allowed an interview
with old Brown. was received very kindly
by him, and in few minutes the subject Of
Slavery was introduced, upon which he spoke
with the greatest pleasure, He thinks Virgin
ians generous people, but abhors the institu-
ton Of Slavery. Says he made tho blunder
in holding the engine house instead of the
bridge. Says hc could have fortified each end
of the bridge with bis small number Of men,
and would have given our troops good deal
Of trouble before they would have surrendered.
For this great blunder he says he ought to be
hanged! / questioned him in regard to his
opinion ON the subject Of amalgamstion, when
he responded, that although he was opposed to
it, yet he would much prefer son or daugh-
ter Of HIS to marry m industrious and honest
negro than an indolent and dishonest white
man. He also says he is perfectly resigned to
his fate, and is unconscious Of having COM
mitted any orime.
Year: 1859

Suicide OF YOUNG GIRL.-Last Sunday
morning, quite young and lovely girl, named
Loyelsce, residing near Falmouth, Kentucky,
committed suicide by drowning herself in a
small creek near that place. The following are
the circumstances as related TO us by person
who seemed to be thoroughly conversant with
them:


lover, with whom she had been acquainted
during the greater part Of her life, and to
whom she was engaged to be married. some
time since left for the southern part of the
State, where he became acquainted with. and
soon after united himself to, quite a wealthy
young lady, whose parents reside near Shep-
ardsville.


He informed his olden love of his new found
charmer by letter, and she Immediately, upOn
its receipt, threw herself into the liquid arms
Of this stream, as the only consolation she
could receive upon being torn from the arms of
him to whom her young heart had given all the
wealth of its affections. - CiueiRnati En-
qHireT.
Year: 1859

D~A noise was heard in an Albany
graveyard few nights since, which, up
on investigation, proved to come from a
half open grave. A body snatcher had
undertaken to remove body, and the
dirt had fallen upon him and confined
him SO that he could not move, while he
had the dead body in his arms. His
rescuers gave him bis choice Of prose
cution or one hundred lashes with raw
hide and he chose the latter He took
the punishment like martyr, without
making any outcry whatever.
Year: 1859

At the time of the explosion on beard


the Great Eastern, a curious fact was MOTTO


ed; those who were most hurt and who


first died seemed the least injured when


they first appeared above deck, and even


were aole to walk aft without assistance.
On this point writer in the London Times
says:


A man blown up by gunpowder is q
mere figure of raw flesh which seldom
moves after the explosion Not so with
men blown up by steam, who, for few
minutes are able to walk about, apparently
unhurt though, in fact, mortally injured
beyond all hope of recovery. This was SD
with one or two, who as they emerged
from below, walked aft with that indescr,-
bable expression in their faces on u re.e,r.
bling intense astonishment; and a certain
faltering of the gait and movements like
one who walks in his sleep. Where not
begrimed by the smoke or ashes, the pc
culiar bright, soft whitcness of the face,
hands or breast. told at once that the skin.
though unbroken, had in fact, been boiled
by the steam. One man walked along
with the movement and look | have en-
deavored to describe, and seemed quite
unconcious that the flesh of his thighs
most probably by the ashes in the far
nace) was burnt in deep holes. To some
one who came to his assistance, he said
quietly: al am all right there are 9th
ers worse than me 90 look after them"
The poor man was the first to dis. He ex-
pired quietly as if falling int5 refreshing
sleep.
Year: 1859

SYMPATHY OF THE NERvEs.-When the
nerves, from long habit, have become ac-
c,lstomed to transmit their messages from
distinct parts, and are suddenly cut off
from them, they will retain along their
trunks the sympathetic or sensational ac
tons Thus, a man who has a leg ampu-
tated will feel distinctly along the course
of the trunk Of the nerve sensation from
toes which no longer exist. The mind is
also influenced by this and frequently
this peculiar direct nervous action can on
ly be allayed by that which is negative and
reflex A curious instance occurred with
in my own experience. An Old sailor sui
fercd much from this. He retained his
diseased foot too long, but at last conscn-
ted to an amputation. ! knew him with
only a wooden leg When he had his ncr
vous Mains he always called for hot water,
INTO which he put his wooden stump. IL
told of his folly in supposing that such a
nroceeding could do any good, he would
become enraged, and his parOxism of pain
would increase; but if gratiticd, he took
things easy, and the process actually aP-
reared to do him good, though all must
know there could benO real benefit. Still
here is the effect of mind over natter
Mac York Medical Press.