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Year: 1860

THE ExCKLsIoR SOCIETY FESTIVAL
This evening the Excelsior Society Of Scott
county hold their second annual festival a.
the Burts House. Preparations have been
made for having a good time, and we believe
there Is possibility Of any disappointment.
The full Union Band, Milo White, PRONG p.sr, ,
will be on hand and lead their aid in making
the occasion pleasant and interesting New
Yorkers, remember this evening.
Year: 1860

pie. It was designed that it never more
should enter into national politics, or
come before Congress as subject for
heated and protracted discussion. All
was repose and harmony.


Who was the man that dare raise his
hand to arrest the reign Of this Com.
promise? Who was the man that pos
sessed a heart vile and treacherous
enough to raise his arm to tear down
that barrier, erected by the fathers OF
those days, in sacred agreement, on the
parallel Of go 80? They, in their wis
dom, had consscrated all that vast terri
tory lying North Of said line forecer to
Freedom. Who was the arch traitor
that dare attempt to destroy this super
structure Of Freedom in America? 1t
was none other than Stephen Arnold
Douglas.


Yes he it was that destroyed the long
houored Compromise between the North
and the South. lie it was that thrust
before the country this "eternal niggar
question:" which has been SO excitingly
agitated for more than six long, weary
years. Yes. he is the man and not the
Republican party; for it was not until
tbo No n,o - oomopt of THE rash vile and
treacherous act Of Stephen A. Douglas
that the intelligent Freemen Of the
North became indignant and raise up,
renouncing all other difference of opin-
ion, and formed themselves into the Re
publican party with the avowed purpose
of boldly and openly battling against the
spread Of the etsrnally blighting curse
Of human Slavery.


Carlton Township, Sept, 1860.
Year: 1860

A good housewife is one of the first bless
ings in the economy of life. Men put a great
value upon the housewife qualifications of their
partners after marriage, however little they
may weigh with them 6efore; and there is
nothing which tends more to mar the felicities
of married life, than reckfessness or waFrt OF
knowledge in the new housekceper, or the du-
ties which belong to her station. We admire
beauty and order, and system, in everything
and we admire good fare. If these ares found
in their dwellings, and are seasoned with good
nature and good sense, mep will seek their
chief cnjoyments at home-they will love their
homes and their partners and strive to recip-
rocate the kind offices Of duty and Affection
Mothers that study the welfare Of their daugll-
tiers, will not fail to instruct thcn in the quail
fcations of married life aal daughters that
appreciate the value of these qualifications,
will not fail to acquire them.-Sefscted.
Year: 1860

Little men, little dogs and little things gen
orally are the most noisy. This is the case
with South Carolina. Now the citizens of
that State are as good as tbe generality of
people; have equal rights with the others un-
der the Constitution, and all that sort of thing,
as far as they go; but they do not go far
enough, it strikes u.s. to justify them in threat
ening to break up this great confederation of
States with "a population of thirty millions of
people. The white population of South Car,
olina is but little, if any, greater than that of
this county. So far as numbers is concerned,
therefore, we are in this corner of Ohio, just
as powerful as the State of South Carolina,
and we have as much right to bark and threat
en- as the people of the Palmetto State but
we are more modest than they, and this saves
us from being laughed at. If the citizens
the fire-eaters at least, Of South Carolina,
could learn to be modest, their influence in
the Union would be much greater than it is,
for then they would cease to talk about
g shaking the confederacy to its centre"


The white population of the States claimed
by the Disunonists, according to the census of
1850 was as follows:
Year: 1860

may cost them Inconvenience, suffering, tears
and death.


Pay your servants before you sleep. Don't
delay that Christian duty an hour. To such
especially be ever prompt, just and liberal.


Pay your taxes-yes, your tqges ! although
the impression extensively prevails that pro
crastination in that direction is not quite as
bad as theft OF robbery.
/ Pay your subscriptions your long post
poned, renewed, and again postponed. benevo-
lent and charitable written and verbal prom
ises-your subscription to benevolent objects.
Delay now in such matters will be scandalons.


Pay your store and grocery bill. Yes, sir,
pay up, and never again run into debt for
what you eat drink or wear. Financeering
| for time in that direction is evidence of a want
of brains and if continued, your friends should
demand the services of a coroner to see if you
are not dead to all wisdom.


Pay your minister, in this matter you have
had too little either of conscience or honesty.
He, good man, may live by faith, but not on
faith. A barrel of -four, a sirloin steak, a new
garment, or an American eagle, may be q
stranger to his family but speedy introduc-
ton of such tangible evidences Of life, health,
and prosperity would, doubtless prove "glor-
| ious vision"


Pay your physician-f faithful man, who has
patiently watched by your bedside or by the
dear departed, never delaying night or day, to
obey the anxious summons. Forget not this
Christian duty.


Pay your lawyers what do you owe him
We'll then pay up speedily for who ever
beard of peace with such a debt hanging over
him. 1t is impossible. For pity sake pay
him.


Pay your debt to the community, for which
no verbal or written promise ever has been
gfven Public improvements have been made.
Your town or village has been beautifed, and
you have been benefited. For this you are in
debt. Now quiet your conscience in that
quarter.


Pay off that old mortgage, which has so
long been burden to you and yours. Stop
short, economic, wear out your old clothes,
deny yourself luxuries, shoulder the load. and
send daylight once more through your dwell
ing.


Pay your newspaper debts. Reader if you
owe a single dime to this Journal, we have
preached in vain and spent our strength for
nought, unless you act Immediately. You will
indeed prove stony ground hearer, if you do
not sit down quickly and write-"here's your
money !"


Finally what we say to one, we say to all
Pay up! Thus endeth this lesson.-N. Y. In
dependent.
Year: 1860

To MAKE CoRN OYsrERs-7 Take three dog
en- ears of Indian corn, six eggs, lard and but
ter in equal proportions for frying. The corn
must be young anil soft Crate il from the
cob as fine as possible, aud dredge it with
wheat -four Beat very light the six eggs,
and mix them gradually with the corn. Then
let the whole be Incorporated by hard beating;
add a spnonfn Of salt. Have ready in frying
pan u sufficient quantity of lard and fresh but
ter mixed together. ST it over the fire tin u
is boiled hot and then put in portions Of the
corn MIXTURE so as to form oval cakes. Fry
thcNp brown, and send them to the table hot.
In taste they will be found to have a Singular
resemblance to fried oysters, and universally
liked if properly done, They mako nice side
dishes at dinner, and are very good ut break
hst.-FarIner and liootaaie.
Year: 1860

|


Emancipation Movement in Virginia.
In answer to Mr.. Wise's disunion PROPOSE
tions Wheeling paper says that if Eastern
| Virginia goes out of the Union, Western Vir-
| gina will not, but will remain in the Union
las free State. There are indications that
| the conflict, long preparing, between the East
ern and Western sections of irginia on the
slavery question, will develop itself rapidly and
powerfully after the Presidential election
There is in Western Virginia deeply seated
| jealously and dfstrust of the Eastern section.
The east is the slaveholding and slave breed
| ing section; the west is comparatively free
The east monopolizes most of the State and
Federal offices, and its leading politicians are
of the rabid, fre-eating stripe, who keep up a
constant ferment on the slavery question
The east has managed to control the State
policy and TO establish an unfair system of tax
| atfe4l which throws the burdens of the Gov
ernment unfairly upon the west. The western
people are tired of this state of things and do
| not hesitate to avow their purpose to compel
reform. And since the shareholders of the
| east will not listen to the just demands Of the
western people the latter have determined up
on a vigorous emancipation movement. If an
extra session of the Virginia Legislature
should be called at the instance of Wise and
the fire-eating Democrats, the question will be
precipitated, and the -Alleghanians will
set themselves decidedly against all such trea-
sonable folly.


The strength of the free-fabor cause in west
fern Virginia is TO be much increased by col
ony of forty or fifty thousand Frenchmen who
are to settle in the Kanawha coal region, in
the course of the year. The company by
whom they are to be introduced have lately
purchased the James river and Kanawha ca
nal, aud some millions Of acres in Kanawha
| and Boone counties, embracing The richest
! coal lands in the State, and with their abun
dapt capital and extensive operations they
will give new impulse to the developments
of that part of the State,


This will greatly help the emancipation
party. 1t is for the interest of both sections
of Virginia to be rid of slavery. The Old
Dominion would grow in population and
wealth with magical rapidity If the incubus of
slavery were thrown off and free emigrants in
vited in. The people in the western part of
the State understand this, and they know too
that they bear heavy and unequal burdens of
taxation on account of the slave system, in


which they have no interest. They will move
against it with a will when they do move, and
an organization has already been commenced


for the purpose, which will become more bold
and active after the general government has


passed into Republican hands and the peliti-


Clans of the Eastern section are shorn of the


power and plunder given them by Democratic
administrations We look to see gallant


struggle with slavery in Virginia, and it will


not be surprising if it shall free itself quite as


soon rs Missouri from slavery and slavery pol
iticans.-[Spring Republican,.


The wheat crop in Logan couaty, KY, and


the adjoining sections of tbe State, is said tc
Year: 1860

Were TO make trial of any persons quail
fications for union of so much delicacy, there
is no part of his conduct would sooner single
out, than to observe him in his resentments.-
And this not upon the maxim frequently ad-
vanced "that the best friends make the bitter
est enemies - but on the contrary, because
am persuaded that he who is capable of being
a bitter enemy, can never possess the necessary
virtues which constitute a true friend.-Fus-
osborne.
Year: 1860

Thus it is seen that the black population of
those States is almost equal to the white
This property would not be safe out of the
Union-not so safe, certainly, as # is in it
This is why ultra Abolitiouists at the North
desire to break up the Union, and in their
madness there is a great deal of method, while
in that of the fire-eaters as it is exhibited in
print, there is none at all. The madness OF
the latter is of that kind which the gods ere
ate among those whose destruction they de-
sire --- -
Year: 1860

Ohio at that time had 1,955,050, and she
has now 100000 more white population than
the five cotton States which the fire-eaters
claim as foremost in sympathy with the
Dsunionists. Now let us see how the black
and mulatto population of the five Cotton
States named compared with the white:
Year: 1860

No MAN CAN SERVE TWO MAsrERs.-
when you see a dog following two men.
says Rev, Ralph Erskne, in one of his SER
mons, you know not to which of them he
belongs while they walk together but let
them come to parting road, and one go one
way, and the other another way, then you
Will know which is the dogs master. So, at
times will you and the world 60 hand in
hand, While a man may have the world and
religious profession too, we cannot tell
which IS the mans master, God or the world;
but stay till the man comes to parting road;
God calls him this way, and the world calls
him that way. Well, if God be his master,
he follows religion, and lets the world 90 ;
but if the world be his master, then he fol-
lows the world and the lusts thereof, and let's
God, and conscience, and religion go.'
Year: 1860

ADMISSION OF KANsAs.-Aocordibs to
. Washington despatch to the New York
Herald, the present week has been fixed
upon for the admission Of Kansas. We
think our admission extremely doubtful :
yet the Democracy may consent to it. in
order to secure the appointment Of .
District Judge before Lincoln comes into
power. A bill will also be introduced
for the organisation Of the Pixies Peak
Territory. We wish, whil4 they are at
it. that they could manage to hitch Sou
thern NsbYssks on to the State Of Kansas.
Year: 1860

Rfs~ Thus far the proceedings in relation to
the calling of the Opposition State Conven-
ton, have been satisfactory. Beyond the
persistency of some hot-headed Republican
papers in calling it Republican State
Convention" and insisting on monopoly of
candidates, we conservatives find little to
complain of. We know that those ultra
papers do not represent the general senti-
ment of the Republican party. 1t is true
that that party has the organization, but
the ultra portion of it does not control it,
and the conservatives of different parties
will have just as much right in the Conven-
ton as those noisy fanatics, and great deal
more weight. The great mass of the OPP
position are impressed with the necessity OF
giving Southern Indiana fair show in the
ticket and platform.


LET us send up good delegations, and con-
tend for our rights. If we do, we shall OBJ.
tain them. zl8
Year: 1860

Ezy- We direct attention to the commu-
nication signed "a Citizen" It contains
matter for profitable reflection. We have
miserable streets, as general thing-no
mistake about that. The opinions Of
strangers are affected favorably or unfavor-
ably by the good or bad condition of the
thoroughfares of city. Let US "mend our
ways" The coming season there ought to
be q great deal of street improvement
There Is no reason, with such favorable
chance for drainage as we have, why our
streets should not be dry and clean, if the
effort is only put forth.
Year: 1860

THE UNIoN.-The following is good one,
said to have been produced during the re-
cent excursion, under the immediate inspi-
ration of drink composed of equal portions
of Monongahela and Bourbon: a+f


The union of rye, and the union of corn,


Their union with lake ice and river t.ts


The union of sugar in one spacious horn,
M And their unfagging union forever.
Year: 1860




EDIToRs JoURNAL:-The fact has become
notorious, that Evansville has outsEipped
her sister cities on the lower Ohio,e and is
now far in advance of any other city in the
State as a commercial point. With her
Green river and Wabash trade her canal
aud railroad advantages, she must and will
keep far in advance of any and all conrJet-
itors. But while nature and art have thus
surrounded us with such advantages, it is
astonishing that those who iivdNhpon her
bounty, and whose property is greatly en-
HANGED in value by this increased amount of
business which she does, should slumber
upon one of the most vital and important
matters connected with her growth, and
upon which, to a considerable extent, the
Increase of her business depends.


We boast our Railroads and Canals, aud
may | ask for what purpose they were
built2 To facilitate travelsan the trans
portation of goods. These are now the
great Streets of our State. The State which
has advanced the least in this particular is
looked upon as " old fogy, or far behind in
this age of improvement; and the city which
neRlecIS 10 Improve HeT CnOTOuBuIdTeS
[streets) may be cIassed in the same cate
CORY. In this respect Evansville occupies
an unenviable position. While many cities
of our State, with less advantages, and a
smaller population than Evansville, have
miles of improved streets, she is compara-
lively without any. Hs ae@


At time like this, when the mud is so
deep that it is almost Impossible for country
people to enter or leave the city, would it
not be well to set about the work of getting
up petitions to present to the City Council.
There are many reasons why this should be
done, some of which we will name: By
| taking immediate steps in the matter, the
work can be commenced in time to secure
the completion of some of the principal
streets of the city. Again, a contract can
be made on better terms for the city, by let
ting the contract out early, that the con-
tractor or contractors may have the advan-
tage of the Spring rise to bring their
material to the city. Still another, and the
most important consideration-the sooner q
movement is made in this matter, the sooner
Evansville can boast OF improved streets.


A. CITIZEN.
Year: 1860

The great battle has been fought and lost by
the allied forces In New York. The Presidential
result may be summed up In three words Lin
coin is elected. In more exact form, accord.
Ing to the returns before us the several States
have cast their suffrages for President and Vice
President as follows
Year: 1860

operation of the law will be such as to secure


the gradual emancipation of the Chinese


from our midst. The law of 1855 was ac-


complishing all that man could wish for


The Chinese in all parts of the State were


leaving, or making ready to do so. They


saw that the people, through their Represe6.
tatives, were devising some plan for their


expulsion. And, sir, am happy to saw that


The Legislature of 1855 did enact law that


would have accomplished the object so Ionr
sought for, had it have been left on our staf7
ute book. But, Mr.. Speaker, at that tin,
the Chinese did all their trading with Amer
lean storekeepers, and as these miserable be-
ings commenced leaving the different loeali-
ties, the merchants, as a matter of course


began to lose trade, SO they set their heads
to work to repeal the law. And, Mr. Sneak.
er, they did it admirably for the Lecislatue
OF 1896, Know Nothing at that, repealed the


law of 1855, and enacted in It's stead the nre


sent law of 81 per month, and a capitation
tax OF one hundred dollars per head upon all
Chinese or Mongolians. The fate of that law
is known to you all. Our Supreme Court
declared it unconstitutional. The result was
That those hcathenish beings were aralD al
lowed to dig up and carry away millions of
dollars annually, by paying the pitiful sum
OF four dollars per MONTH and not one in ten
OF them ever pays that. Mr. Speaker, the
law which is now under consideration is sim
liar to the one of 1855, only more stringent
IN Its provisions it makes the monthly tax
higher, aud it provides for the collection of
the same by making them work it out on the
public roads. The latter clause, Mr.. Speaker.
of the bill, if strictly carried out, NAV entail
upon the mining counties small expense for
a while but, sir, it will be but a short time.
for when the Chinese, see that we are deter
mined TO drive them from our State NV
word for it, you will soon see them leaving
for their native land. Mr.. Speaker, cannot
but think that the bill is good one think
that If we pas it that in less than twelve
months the number of Chinese in our State
will be reduced at least one half 1t is n
measure, Mr.. Speaker, which the best inter-
ests of our State demand it is a measure
which every labOring man demands; it is a
measure which, if we pass it, it will secure
for us the thanks and kind wishes of the pres.
ent and all succeeding generations, and as
the representatives of the people and know
ing their wants, we should pass this bill.
Year: 1860

GENOA progresses slowly; not on account
Of its inferior geographical position, bat be-
cause the town is in the possession of the
Mormons at present. There is a heavy suit
pending against them, and the whole place
has been attached and put in the Marshars
hands, consequently no title can now be had
to lots here for building Soon after Jud ge
Cradlebaugh's return, which we expect daily,
an execution will probably issue against the
town property, when a fair opportunity will
be offered those desirous of Obtaining lots in
the hourishing town of Genoa. Carson
YeNen Cor
Year: 1860

BEEoHER on INTEREST. Rev. Henry Ward
Beeoher, in one of his recent discourses,
makes the following remarks with reference
to paying interest. Although he specially
applies his observations to farmers who bor-
row. they will fit equally well other classes ::


There is but one thing raised on farm
like it, and that is the Canadian thistle,
which swarms new plants every time you
bleed its roots, whose blossoms are prolific
and every one the father OF a million seeds.
Every leaf is an awl, every branch a spear,
and every single plant like platoon of bay
onets and field full of them is like an arm
ed host. The whole plant is torment and
vegetable curse, And yet farmer had bet
ter make his bed Of Canadian thistles than
attempt to lie at case upon interest
Year: 1860

HOME AFFEcTIoss.-The heart has
memories that can never die. The rough
rubs Of the world--the cold, unfeehng,
selfish world cannot obliterate them. No
difference how he may be tossed about
life's turbid and tempestuous stream,
these memories still live with us, and Of
tentimes steal in upon our sadder mo-
ments, producing the most pleasing emo
tions. They are memories of home
early homei Dear hallowed spot! what
magic in the sound! And as our mind
wanders far back over the misty past, how
many tender "reminiscences Of that early
home come crowding upon us. There is
the old tree under which tho light heart
cd school boy swung in many a summer
day; yonder the river in which he learn
cd 10 swim; there the home in which no
knew parents love and parents pro-
lection. Why, even the school with its
dark old walls, which in youthful days i'm
pressed him with so much. awe, associa-
ted rs they were with thoughts Of ferule
and tasks comes back TO bring healthful
remembrancos Of the far long ago.
There he learned to feel some Of his best
emotions, and there perchance, he first
met the being who, by her love and ton
derness in after life, has made home for
himself happier even than that which his
childhood knew.


Oh, these are memories which linger
around the heart, ever aud anon dispens-
ing JOY and sunshine athwat. our check
cred pathway-memories which the cares
Of The world can never obliterate. Often
in the busy wbirl of life they present
themselves, and we involuntarily sigh for
orr boyhood days, when lie seemed Of
summer dreams. But they come not;
they are ours no longer; upon the wings
of the morning they have fled from us
forever. Dear home Of our childhood,
since we left thy sacred precincts, how
many disappointments aud sorrows have
crowded upon us, and how many more
will oyertake us during our pilgrimage
through life we cannot tell, for the future
is sealed scroll, and we know not what
is folded there---whether joy or agony,
sunshine or sorrow.
Year: 1860

An officer in the English army, who was
with his regiment in India during the
whole period Of the late revolt, returned
to his home during the present month,
and, on the morning Of his arrival, the
postman brought him letter which was
mailed in May, 1859, which had been
following him two years and half, and
which had only that morning reached him
in the same place where it was mailed,
and in the presence of the person who
wrote il.
Year: 1860

LUMBER PRosPEcTs.-We are inform
ed that there are probably as many or
more logs now banked than were got out
during the whole Of last season, and still
the sleighing continues and is likely to
continue for long time to come. Our
lumbermen and staye men never felt bet
ter, and all classes look forward conf
IDENTIFY to better scale of prices next
spring, and "good times" generally.


East Saginaw Courier.