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Year: 1859

It seems to be the aim Of the enemies OF
Douglas to hamperthe action Of theCharleston
Convention as much as possible. Fearful that
the untrammeled Judgement of that body may
prove to be in favor Of the Illinois statesman,
they seek to interrupt the harmony of its
proceedings by boiling almost every conven-
tion, for the nomination Of delegates, which
seems to favor Douglas, Where there is any
doubt as to the complexion of the delegation,
as in the New York Syracuse Convention,
they rest satisfied and take the risk but they
first violate the usages Of the party by re-
fusing to abide by or forestalling the action
of the District Conventions, fearing that these
Conventions would be so unequivoeally in
favor Of Douglas as to settle the character of
the delegation beyond question.


| In the Congressional Uonv ventions so far held
in Massachusetts, the Anti Douglas men have
shamlessly bolted,a and propose to send boiling
delegates to the Charleston Convention. The
programme Of the Buchanan or AntiDoug.
las men, in Illinois, is to do the same thing
there, and delegation of Buchanan boilers
from the regular organization will be sent
from that State to the National Convention.
| The same programme, it is feared, will be
followed out in every State where there is q
division Of sentiment in the Democratic par
ty. The cry of the Buchanan side Of the
house is eternally against boiling. and yet
these BUCCANEERS are the most reckless. bra
zen. imprudent and incorrigible boilers in the
world They made their great fight in thi


State. on the ground that it would not do t,


bolt the regular organization. At the sam,


timethey We're boiling in Ill, and whereve


else they had a minority. If it is wrong TO


Douglas men to bolt. and they seldom do it


why in the name Of God is it not equal J
reprehensiJle for Anti-Douglas men to bolt
Boiling is boiling, no matter who does it.


Now, what will be the result of these
double delegations at the Charleston Conven
ton? The majority of the regular delegate,
from the Northern States will be Douglas
men, Will they be excluded from the Con-


venIion or not? Will the boilers be received
in their place? A woful day will it be for
the Democracy should such be the case, and
God forbid that such a fearful catastrophe


for the Democratic party should take place
Year: 1859

NEw Town OF LIScoLN.-The Nevads
Journal speaking Of the survey of town on
Auburn ravine, says:


1t is nice scheme to kill Auburn and pro
cure division OF Placer county; one county
seat TO be located at Lincoln and the other
God knows where, in the upper part of the
county
Year: 1859

A SAD ACCIDENT.-On Monday evening of
last week. daughter of Henry Williams, OF
MurderkIl Neck, was dreadtulIv burned by an
accident from a fluid lamp She had retired to
bed with another young lady, her cousin from
Philadelphia, who was visiting her, and left the
lamp burning. After a short time she raised
herself up in bed, reached the lamp, uuscrewed
the top aAd attempted TO peur out some fluid
while the lamp was still lghted-for the pur-
pose of applying it to place where she had
been bitten by mosquito. Her friend seeing
what she was about, and knowing the danger OF
an accident which would fire the bed, struck
the lamp from her hand aud sent 1t rolling on
the floor al some distance. Both then Jumped
up to extinguish the burning fluid, aud IN their
efforts to do so, Miss Williams clothes caught,
and she was dreadfulIy burned on the breast
and face. At last accounts, it was considered
doubtful whether she would recover. The
young lady was about l6 years old.-Penin
Suiar NewS.
Year: 1859

centrated thought in their business.
yet it is difficult tor us to see the ne
cessity Of detailing the advantages to
grow out of the exercise of all our pow
ers to promote honorable enterprise.


The bailiffs employed by the Roman
agrlculturists TO oversee the farm and
its cultivation were not altogether
uneducated men. and yet il was a sub
ject frequently discussed by Roman
writers. whether it were not better that
baililf should be illiterste. than that
he should possess the little knowledge
which is "a dangerous thing There
was danger that be might employ his
knowledge TO make false entries in his
books or records. and thus deceive and
defraud his employer. The heart needs
employment. Its modifying influence
is essential. 1t is the balance W heel
of the mind. 1t has too little to DO in
our intercourse with our fellows. We
are the greatest sufferers by it. We
know too little the reward which is
immediate upon It's exercise. Our ma
terisl notions leave out the idea of
high moral obligation. We forget it
is dishonorable to refuse to fulfill
verbal contract as q written one--that
the obligation in the one case is just
as imperative and binding as in the
other. We need to employ the heart.
and the result will be better employ
ment OF both hands and head.
Year: 1859

The Washington correspondent of
Col. Forney's Press, Democratic pa
per, in q letter in the last number of
that paper. says:


have repeatedly called your at
tention to the purpose OF certain of the
leading Southern politicians OH the
subject of reviving the inhuman traffic
in slaves. The ground they now
take is stated in an article copied
into the organ of Jefferson Davis, the
Mississippian, from an Arkansas pa.
per few days ago. 1t is as follows:


Slaves, then, being recognized as
property. and the right to buy and
sell them being Incidental to the right
to own and use them, i. becomes very
questionable. indeed, whether or not
Congress has. in truth. the constitu-
tutional right to prohibit their impor-
tstion at all. At all events, whether
it has discretionary power under the
Constitution to prohibit or not, it
certainly has not the constitutional
right to declare as piracy trade which
for twenty years. was sanctioned and
protected by positive provision Of
the Constitution, and all laws declar-
ing it such should be wiped off the
statute books as unjust to the Trainers
of the Constitution, and highly der6g-
atory to the people of the slaveholding
States.


We shall advocate, then. as a mea-
sure of right and justice to the South,
that all those laws that affix the stigs
ma of piracy upon the traffic in that
kind Of property which constitutes the
great bulk of her personal wealth,
should be repealed. We want to see
the odium and scandal which these un-
Justly discriminating laws reflect up
on the institutions Of the South
removed; we want to see our prop
erty placed upon an equally hon
orable and respectable footing (at least
so far as the action Of Congress is con-
cerned as the property OF the North,
or any other section of the Union.-
We want to see the trade in negroes
regulated like the trade in other species
of northumberland by the sickly SEN
timentsliIies Of pharisaical Abolition
ism, but by wise and prudent consid.
erations of sound policy and expedi-
ency. This is asking no more than a
just and reasonable right. and the
South will never rest contented until
it is granted. We ask nothing but
what is right. and will not submit to
ANYTHING wrong.
Year: 1859

age their fear-stricken hearts. the IA
ther and mother were left for the night
with their sick child. Neither slept
for there was no abatement Of fever
and the little sufferer, cried or moaned
or threw herself resilessly about
through ell the weary hours. until day.
dawn. When the doctor next came,
he made no attempt at concealment
All the signs were clear. 1t was Q
case of scarletina. and by no means q
light one.


Unhappy mother All her soul was
filed with terror. Naturally of a ten.
der anu loving nature. her heart had
become bound up in her children, and
the thought OF losing this one. her
first-born, pierced her with the sharp.
est anguish.


Alasl if this had been all But new.
er. FOR a moment, could she thrust
aside the memory of her unkindness
and neglect-of the sharp. angry re-
pulsion with which she had driven her
child away. when. suffering from the
encroschments OF disease. and in q
state of consequent irritation of inind
and body, she Lad sought her care and
attention. How many times, during
the next five or six days of anguish
and suspense. did she steal away TO
some secluded place. and, bending
teariully in prayer. ask that her child
might not be taken from her.
oh! spare her, Heavenly Father
spare her this time! Do not take my
child and leave my heart borne down
with double weight of sorrow and
self-reproval'


This was the burden of her oft-re-
peated prayer. The richly embroider-
ed garment. in which her mind had
become so much interested as to cause
her to forget, for the time. the real
wants OF her children. was hidden
away Tne sight of it rebuked her as
with stern words.


Rapidly the disease ran its course.
and little Anna was brought to the
brink of the river of death. her white
feet barred to go down into the darkly
flowing waters. And still. from the mo-
ther's heart, went up the almost wild.
ly-uttered PRAYER. 'Oh. spare me my
child! Spare me my child!'


AT last the long suspense was over,
the struggle with disease ended. and
the unconscious one lay white and still
before the hushcd weepers; not still in
death. but in the calm of exhausted ma
ture, for lite yet fingered about the
heart, and crcpt along the veins in fee-
bic currents.


The crisis is past; there is hope


1t was the physician who spoke.
bending, as he did SO. to the mother s
ear. She did not start, nor answer,
but stood motionless for an instant,
and then fell forward upon the bed.
lost for time to all that was passing
around her.


Back from the river of death, down
into the waters of which Annals feet
were about passing. came the beloved
child to her mothers eager arms; and
AS she lay. in slow convalescence, day
after day. upon her bosom, the prom
ises of wiser consideration of her in
the future were over and over again
renewed. And these promises were
kept. If. at any time. she was tempt
ed to forget them, memory had only
to take her back to those days and
nights of terrible fear and suspense to
give them all the power oil fresh res
olution.
Year: 1859

The Artesian Well has reached the
depth OF 2.328 feet. and the indica-
tions are favorable for again striking
a sandstone stratum. but this advanta-
geous feature can not be pushed TO
realization of every body's wish, for
the appropriation is exhausted. and
the work will stop Saturday night.
until the meeting Of the Legislature.
when more funds can be provided
This is unfortunate. for a Stoppage Of
work is dangerous to the ultimate sue
cess of the undertaking. making the
well liable to fill up. or other casual
ties may occur.


This well is now the deepest in the
United States. and. with bur one ex-
ception. the deepest in the werld. The
following are the depths of the four
principal holes in the groand: Well st
Year: 1859

MR. EDITOR: Our circuit court is now in session. w. c. Bevens is our circuit judge, and 1 think him man possessing no in ferior qualifications to any man of his rank Tn the State. He deals with the perpetra- tors of crime justly, giving to all mankind that degree of justice due them. think that the good people of this judicial circuit would do well to remember him in future days, and retain him in the position he now occupies

 w. K. Patterson is our prosecuting at torney, and ably defends the interest of the otate, and faithfully prosecntes the perpe- trators of crime to the extent of the law The members of the bar here are men of talent and enterprise Times here are in iiounshing condition; crops are good, health IS good and we are strictly democratic.

 Yours truly,

 MOUNTAIN.
Year: 1859

Et The autumn leaves are strewn over the sod, which covers the beloved form of our friend, Mrs. HARRIET c. G1BRs. with this sad and solemn requiem, we write thls tribute to the memory of the holy dead.

 In the dalntiest nosegay, there is ever one flower pre-eminent for grace and beau ty In this group of lovely children, Har- ret, most fragile and most fair, was by each most highly prized.

 The parents cherished her with unceasinr care; the sisters entwined about. and guard cd her with the most devoted love: the brother stood between her and every desire ready to anticipate and to indulge, and when but little more than one brief year gone, she was taken from the family hearth stone to husband $ home, it was still to be the center of another hearts affection to be the one pearl of great price in that husbands treasures

 In Harriet, extreme delcacv of person was united to the finest stamp of intellect and the utmost refinement of character Her taste was faultless, mentally and moral | ly; her mlnd, the storehouse of the most precious gems ot poetry and refined thought; her fancy, rhaste but opalhued, the trusty mirror of the most beautiful in nature; her heart, guileless and affectionate and the censer from which arose undving incense to her Makers throne Her thoughts, her affections with her prayers, were laid, rich | tribute on the altar of her Lord. S Dear Haddie, rare in excelencies of mind and heart, gifted and highly cultured, your crowning graces were those of the humble trusting Christian. These will ever be at tuned in the memory of the bereaved ones left behind, as most soothing melody; as the fragrance of crushed and faded flowers. they will be perfume, delicate, never-dy- ing, waited through our hearts and thence to Heaven. F IT C
Year: 1859

GS- The spots on the sun are unusually numerous and large this year. At the pre- sent time there are eleven groups of spots visible, two of which have just made their appearance on the western edge. A very large spot has been recently observed nearly in the centre, embracing central black spot and a still larger penumbral region. It IS said to be undergoing daily, remark able changes.
Year: 1859

saS This paper has been selected for publishing the estray notices for 1859 one dollar for each estray notice advertised. The fee must all ways be sent with the notice. All money sent by mail is at our risk
Year: 1859

EDIroR DEMOCRAT: The Lecompton organ
has at last owned up the truth, and given us
the reasons why the servile supporters of the
Federal Administration are laboring so hard
TO carry the city election this spring. First,
(of course) they desire to carry the city for
the sake of the city" Chat is for the sake of
carrying it, "and secondarily for the sake OF
the strength it will give us (them) in the city
and county at the merit election" Verify, an
honest onfession They are after the pub
lie p1,ender "At the next election" all the
county offices are to be filed The Marys-
vile Lecompton Clique (for they have but
few strikers in the mountains) have already,
So far as conflicting interests would permit,
divided the fat places around among them
selves. Candidates for County Judge, Dis
trict Attorney, Clerk, Recorder, Treasurer,
Tax Collector and Sheriff, reside here in Ma
rysville, and may be seen at all times of the
day ard night laboring to keep few of the
rank and file sound on Lecomp, for their own
dear sakes They are fighting bitterly, for
it is the last glimmering hope for them.
They froth and fume if their silly and ground.
less blowing is answered, and really feel
insuted that any but themselves should either
have an opinion, or express it, Poor fellows
staggering under the fearful load of the foul
carcase of Leconpton, they cry aloud to us
for peace. They are anxious to escape Oh
servation. Upon the arrival Of an Eastern
mail, some fasehood is coined for them, by
their leaders, and then the toadies, revivifed,
crawl from their Shiny retreats and spatter
mud upon Democrats f,r a day or two, after
which they retire and howl because their
baseness is exposed. Their rage is the rage
of the dscomtited Their agony is that of
their policical death struggle. Let us pity
them.


Meanwhile all is fair and smooth for the
true Democracy of the People. The free
business men and working men, who seek no
offices, and who have desire to see the mu-
nicipal government go on prOsperously, as it
has during the past year, are consulting at
their stores and workshops, as to who shall
be selected for the city Offices this spring.
They will select men who have MarysvHle |
at heart. The good citizens of Ma
rysville cannot entirely settle Kansas affairs |
this spring. They will Incidentally exhibit |
their adherence for the "tyrannical and out
acts of that interesting and intellec
,ual body of persons known as the Califor-
MA Legislature, and also their abiding faith
n the ability of the People of America for
President Buchanan to the
Notwithstanding. In short, the
ieket will be composed of men who have
well defined political opinions, and who are
Ilso fit for the duties which the voters will
all upon them to discharge All who desire
o endorse President Buchanans Kansas pol
cy, should vote the ticket which the Lecomp.
on county aspirants are getting up.


ANTI-FEDERALIsT.
Year: 1859

Popular Sovereignty has again triumphed
The Douglas Democracy of Sacramento coun
ty have arisen in their strength and admin
istered n withering rebuke to the leagued
conspirators against the rights of the people
The Lecomptonites, dismuyed and appalled,
have skunk, like hunted wolves, to their
holes, and gnash their teeth in mingled wrath
and despair, as they hear the glad shouts
of their triumphant foes from without
Truly, they have learned that there is a G cd
in Israel


We understand that the Buchananites
made tremendous exertions for the victory.
We are informed that Federal office holders
from San Francisco were on the ground lal-
lying the Lecompton forces, and that every
thing was done that could be done to win
the glory of success to that dishonored flag
of Buchananism which has lately trailed
through the dust Of so many defeats. This
is but the beginning of the end. As Saera-
mento has gone, so will go Marysvile and the
balance of the State. The people have
aroused from their lethargy, girded up their
loins for the assertion of their rights assumed
the full strength Of their manhood, and they
will teach a recreant and decetful Admins.
tration the same lesson that it was taught in
Illinois and wherever else it has met the
lion Of the Douglas Democracy in fair field
and an open fight


The election of Duncombe is not only
triumph for Popular Sovereignty, but it is
triumph Of the principle of Democracy over
that worse than Know Nothing doctrine
which teaches that residence of twenty or
thirty years in the American Union will not
suffice to restore man 20 his citizenship, if
he chances to have ever owed allegiance to a
foreign, and especially to the English, crown.


1t is to be hoped that the Lecompton time
servers will now learn to pay little more
respect to the native sense Of right " hich
reigns in the bosoms of the people Expert
ence is dear school, but Lecomptonites will
never learn how to estimate the honest and
Independent character Of the masses, until
they have been put through the mill of popu-
lar Indignation and ground into POWDER
They hoot Mt Popular Sovereignty as a hum
bug but if they don't find it sore humbug
for them, before they get through with it, we
have failed to read the plain omens of the
future.
Year: 1859

FREMEN's BALL.-This evening, it will be
remembered, comes off the long talked of
Fircmen's Ball, for the benefit of the Marvs.
vile Firemen's Cemetery. We went into the
Pavilion, last evening, to take look at the
preparations, and found as attractive a scene
as We have witnessed for long time past
The spacious floor was marked off with due
reference to the terpsichorean figures. and
the names of the different Engine Companies
inscribed with appropriate surroundings. The
walls were adorned with pictures descriptive
Of scenes incidental to the Fireman's exciting
life, and the flags of all nations together with
various suggestive decorations hung around
in picturesque display There were also por-
traits Of distinguished men as well as various
scenes from common life. The room will ex-
hibit very enlivening scene, even before the
dance begins, and we doubt not much live
lier one afterwards The Accomplishments of
music ct ceterd will be of very superior or.
der, and the supper one of the grandest affairs
ever gotten up on a similar occasion. We
have no doubt that the cause for which the
entertainment is given as we'll as the admira-
bic manner in which it is gotten up will call
together a large and brilliant assembly.
Year: 1859

| Saturday evening, II little after dark, the
Station House became the scene of some


what singular demonstration Officer Casad


was sitting at the stove, it being his turn in
the Station House, when suddenly the door
was thrown open, and in came two persons
with rush. One was a nedium-sized man,
well known in this city, of usually very aus
tere appearance and grave demeanor, but at
the time under consideration thrown com
pletely off his dignity He was in the hands
of a stout, heavy-buit son of the Emerald
Isle, who had him with one hand by the top
of the head and the other by the seat of his
unmentionables, In which condition he had
showed him along, as it appeared, for the dis
tance of half mile. Swinging him around
in front of the officer, the strange captor pro-
ceeded to unfold the mystery of the transac-
ton He informed the officer that the aus
tere individual before him had been guilty of
a heinous offense against the laws of the land,
and that he had brought him to receive the
justice which was due to his crime. He then
went on to say, that such high handed often
ses against the laws of the land as this austere
individual had been guilty of should not be
committed in proximity to his (the captor's)
house-that he would not suffer it The
austere individual had but little to say. He
said he would leave it to the officer to decide
what should be done with him, after both
sides of the story had been heard. The OFF,
Ger was satisfied with questioning the captor
merely and, after hearing him out, ordered
the prisoner discharged.


Itappeared that the arrest was made under
the following circumstances


The captor, suspecting something wrong in
a house near his own, in which there lived a
married woman whose husband is in Jail,
burst open the door and found the austere in
dividual, above mentioned, and the female
alluded to .fagrante delictu upon which he
Immediately seized the male offender and
marched him off to the Station House in the
manner described


The arrest and all the attendant circum-
stances are of the mot unique character, and
have caused much merrmenJ
Year: 1859

THE DEMOCRACY OF MAtNE.-At recent
meeting of the Democratic members of the
Legislature of the State of Maine, the follow.
ing resolutions were passed:


Resolced That we hold it to be sound and un-
excephonable doctrine, that if the people of a Ter.
rtory are in favor of slavery, they have a right to
make laws to establish and protect it and if they
are opposed to slavery, they have an cqnal right
to make laws to exclude it,


Res0lgei, That it is our deliberate and fixed
purpose to declare that Congress should in no
event pass any act To establish, protrct or sustain
slavery in the Territories Of the United States, OF
to exclude it theretrom, but should promptly
guaranty to the sovereign people thereof the un
disturbed right TO dispose Of it in their own way
and without interference or molestation from any
quarter subject only to the express provisions q
the Constitution.


Resolced, That we are in favor of the immedi-
ate admission Of Oregon, and also of the admis
sion Of Kansas into the Union, whenever Il Con
stitutiOu, republican in form, truly and honestly
ratified by the popular vote Of said Territory shal
be presented to Congress


How does the Express like the second reso
luton?
Year: 1859

"a The Express asks Us two very silly
questions, which it seems to think we will
have a hesitaney in answering All we have
to say to the first nterrogatory is, lock at
the nomination of Stephen A. Douglas, for
the Presidency, at the head of the DEMOCRAT,
and find your answer To the second inter-
rogatory we have to say that, whatever the
regular Democratic organization of this coun.
ty choose to do in the matter of sending del
egates to the State Convention, we shall be
prepared to acquiesce in, or bolt, and we are
not in the habit of boiling. That game we
leave to the Express and the Bogusites whom
it represents.