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Year: 1859

PUBLIC MEETING TO SUSTAIN THE UNION AND THE
CoNsrrUroN.-The conservative portion of the citi-
Zens OF this country, says the Philadelphia Ledgcr
are arising everywhere in our large cities and
towns, to give expression Of their views against
the invasion of the rights Of individual States,
against the fanaticsm which would promote ser
vile inSurrecton and produce civil war. and in IA
vor of the preservation of the Union and the Con
stitution. call has been made in Boston for such
a meeting, which the Hon. Edward Everett and
other distinguished Of Massachusetts, have
signed. In New York also preliminary meetings
have been held to the same end, and in Phiiadel-
phia arrangements making for similar meet
ing. There is no doubt that such a meeting will
have a good effect in quieting the minds Of our
Southern brethren and re-assuring them that all
the people of the North are not John Browns
ready to carry fire and sword among them for the
sake of a sentiment regarding institutions which do
not concern them, and with which they have no
ripht to meddle
Year: 1859

E- The subscription books of the
Davenport and Cedar Valley Railroad close
to-day. How much private subscription
this Company has been enabled to receive
We are unable to say but be it what it
may, we are informed by one of the corPo-
rators that the balance of the stock will be
taken up by the Company.
Year: 1859

~ The Lawyers have been taking
a holiday for the past two days They will
probably appear in court this morning much
improved in spirits. They have large
amount of labor on their hands.
Year: 1859

The GOOD TINE CoMlSG--The ladies
are completing their Arrangements as fast as
possible or good time coming We are
assured it is to lie brilliant affair, eclipsiDg
everything Of the kind ever before attempt
ell in this city. To know that several hun
dred ladies are engaged in perfeciing and
carrying out the plans is the best evidence
of the triumphant success that is to crown
their labors
Year: 1859

For Pixies PEAK.-Messrs. Smith Il
Remington are buil;ing a wagon intended
comfortable, and is capable Of carrying a
large quantity of goods. They will send
out an assortment Of House Furnishing and
other goods, which will undoubtedly prove
Levary profitable speculation, as such ar


y bring good prices in that vicinity


y to the enterprise.
Year: 1859

The MOUSE AND THE LIoN-In the Assembly
Duncombe contest a ludicrous spectacle was OBJ
served-a mouse contending with lion, or what
is the same thing. H. Hardy pleading against
Tod Robinson; the first noisy little lawyer
whose chief distinction is in the judicious intro
duction Of his name in newspapers; the other a
powerful master Of law and argument, and who
never pleads except on important occasions. 1t
is sometimes advantageous for pigInies to fight
with giants when the latter do not deem extirpa-
tiOn necessary.
Year: 1859

IMPROVED FAcLrrIEs-RIvER "JoURNALs"-
We are glad to inform citizens resident on the
river, that the JOURNAL will be delivered on Sat-
mday, down as far as Taylor's Flat. Loop q
ShaGers new arrangement enables us to send
them every Saturday morning without fail
Heretofore the great drawback has been that we
had to depend on chance passengers to deliver
the paper 10 downriver subscribers who some
times failed to receive it until week old


We trust now that with certainty of receiving
the paper on day of publication, residents on the
river will speedily profit by the improved facili-
ties There is seldom an important occurrence
in any part of the State that is not noted in the
the JOURNAL
Year: 1859

We have been made angry by reading arSu-
ments favoring repeal of the Homestead Law.
Most abomnable and damnable of all objections
is that which would annul the statute because
dishonest persons take advantage ofts provisions.
Is.ihere any human conservative law not in like
degree exceptionable Is it possible to so con
struct q statute that the cunning of hired knaves
may not raise flaw behind which villain may
lie concealed


The present act does not provide too much Sc
curty for the poor; its provisions are not com
prehensive enough; they do not embrace every
class rightfully demanding protection. Enact
ments authorizing distress for debt are but the
relics of barbarous ages; the time will come, in
the progress of enlightenment, when they will
be remembered as gone-out barbarisms. Though
not prepared for practical Illustration of this
declared principle now, it may be, nevertheless
asserted that the credit system is false and
mischievous one, and one security after another
should be withdrawn until credit shall be given
only on the basis Of established honor, or as an
act Of neighborsbp. Better that the poor man
be denied superhuities, or even some of the nee
essaros of life, than that bis house be taken in
pledge, and his family left to the hostility of the
winds and the colder charity of the people who
unhouse them. The man who will sell a neigh
Dor goods, solely because bis house and home
are given in pledge, is a knave whom to slay
were scarcely murder. But there are humans,
thus base; then why not protect the poor and
unfortunate from their rapacity? It's principle,
taught by all nature, that men and women should
have homes sacred from foreign desecraton
"Foxes have boles birds of the air have nests"
little creatures Of the earth have burrows where
they resist aggression; the eagle, stimulated by
parental love, will tear the hand thrust into her
nest; and, even the feeble ant will attack, with
all her might, the straw by which the economy of
her abode is destroyed.


If the Homestead Law be revised, let it be
more comprehensive; build stronger wall round
the abodes of the poor against the spoliatng
creditor. Let them have some place of refuge,
where an infant standing by the sacred land
mark, and holding in his feeble hand tee invioa-
BILE charter of his home, may say authoritativcly,
to the baiiG, " thus far, only y
Year: 1859

DESPERATE FIGnr.-Two gamblers Peel and
Rucker, from st. Louis, had quarrel at Cedar
Valley, Utah, about playing false card they
went out to fight and both fell at the first fire ;
they continued to shoot, nearly every shot taxi
ing effect, until Peel, wounded in six places rose
upon his elbow and taking rest against his arm,
shot Rucker through the heart.
Year: 1859

+. " BLAKE & Co. have discontinued the Ex-
press and Banking business. Citizens will regret
to learn the cessation Of this excellent and relia-
of the dissolution, for they have been extremely
kind to us. They have ever been prompt and
energetic, and have maintained unquestioned
credit in the business community.
Year: 1859

Tmy1L.--The Senate has passed a resolution
requesting Mr.. Broderck to resign his seat in the
United States Senate. Such conduct is very
contemplate. Do Senators so magnify their own
importance as to be induced to believe that if
they were to go to Washington in a body with
such request, Broderick would dignity their
petition with more than a sneer? His h0nors
were too dearly and laboriously bought to be
resigned on such slight request People will
implOre Senators to attend to their proper busi-
ness, without waste of time--not their own--in
idle discussions of mere partisan differences.
Year: 1859

G'wN on THE PACIFIC RAmRoAD-Our vene-
rable Senator and steamship agent has again
drawn the Pacific Railroad bill from the tail of
his coat, and made speech; the speech is very
good, but it is too much like graveyard gas esca-
ping from the throat Of corpse; it amounts to
nothing but words-it is a bubble only, exploding
on the slough of hypocracy. We know this ven
cradle declaimer; We are kept in mind of his
Lime Point enormity; we are convinced Of his
completely in the Pacific Mail conspiracy to steal
from and defraud honest labor-we know that he
secured the charter for the pirates, and that he
was paid for the service. We are, also, aware
that he has newspapers in his service, whose duty
it is to cry Great and Glorious" whenever the
old man " opes his MOUTH newspapers edited
and published by persons whom Gwin suspcnds
over gulf Of starvation--or work-by single
hair; they must sing, or be led from the winding
stairs of the Custom House by the facial promon-
tory, or take down the spread eagle Of "By
Authority" printing. They, Of course, must
discover unexampled oratory, patriotism, and,
even, divinity, in the periodical railroad speech
VI WHO al VI NhS l'ONA' VI h4"s 'HlNi
is multiplicity of words, When acts contradict
each syllable? Speeches are easily written, OF
procured. Judas, for aught we know, may have
made magnificent grafton on Friendship and
Fidelity while his victim writhed on the cross.
In every instance when the Pacific Railroad bill
might have been advanced, Gwin, the reputed
father, has been absent: like the begetter Of an
illegtimate child, the father hid himself at the
commencement of labor-pans.


We tell the people that this Pacific Railroad
talk is humbug; it is mere clatter, to draw
popular attention from shameless robbery on the
ocean, in which this garrulous old man is party.
With a bankrupt Treasury t0ho will build the
railroad DO you expect to live until the Pacific
Railroad is finished are you simple enough to
hope for escape from death till it is commenced
through the agency of Senator Gwin? If so,
we deplore the remoteness Of lunatic hospitals.
Year: 1859

or A friend Of ours relates little incident
which occurred on the cars when coming ovei
from Xenia the other day. The Deacon asked
man for his fare, and the fellow pretended
not to understand him. The demand was re
peated with the condition that IL ii did mo-
come he would have to leave the train. HestilI
did not understand the Deacon, when the latte,
pulled the rope and the train stopped. Now
said the Deacon, you must leave the trainl'-
The fellow did not move. Taking the man by
the collar Of bis coat, he raised him from his
seat, when the chap at once proposed to psy the
fare. which he did The rope was pulled again,
the train passed on, and--Orr friend. who had
been on a bOotless collecting tour, actually en-.
deavored to engage the Deacon to undertake the
collecting for his frml
Year: 1859

Generation after generation, says fine
writer, have felt as We feel, and their
lives were as active as our own. They
passed away like vapor, while Nature
wore the same aspect Of beauty as when
her creator commanded her to be. The
heavens shall be as bright over our graves
as they are now around our paths. The
world will have the attractions for our off
springs yet unborn that she had once for
ourselves, and that she now has for our
children. Yet little while and all this
will have happened. The throbbing heart
will be stilled, and we shall be at rest
Our funeral will wind its way, and the
prayers will be said, and our friends will
all return, and we shall be left behind in
silence and darkness for the worm. And
It may be for a short time we shall be
spoken of, but the things of life will
creep in, and our names will soon be for
gotten. Days will continue to move on,
and laughter and song will be heard in
the room in which we died and the eye
that mourned for US will be dried; and
glisten again with joy; and even our
children will cease to think Of US, and
will not remember to lisp our names.-
Then shall we have become, in the touch
ing language of the Psalmist, forgotten
and clean gone out of mind"
Year: 1859

We pity the man or the woman who
having been stunned by great misfor-
tune staggers forth into the world unaided
by any friendly arm, striving courageous
ly to bear up without the sympathy which
no human being can long exist and dis
pense with, and yet cut off from seeking
it, or even accepting it, should it come in
their way, because explanation or confess
sion would involve a sacrlligious invasion
of the hearts history. They only who
have waded through deep waters of trou-
BILE, alone know from the deprivation of
it the might of human sympathy to roll
off the surging pillows. But pent up
tears, suppressed groans, fettered ton
que, throbbing heart with ever an iron
hand upon it, God pity such, for He alone
knows what they suffer. And so, if we
hear a petulant word-or look upon an
unsmiling face, or meet no grand response
to our wayside mirth-let us not condemn
nor measure grudgingly our kindness even
to such. Every heart knoweth its own
bitterness, and we may all unconsciously,
in our thoughtlessness, have ridden rough
shod over some PROSTATE sufferer.
Year: 1859

An ardent young man IN this city, says
the Springfield Republican, who fell in
love some time since with the portrait of
a woman on bank bill, wrote to the CASH
ier of the bank to know whether it was a
fanciful picture, or "the representation of
a breathing woman" IF the latter, he
was resolved to have her or die in the at
tempt. The cashier replied TO him after
few days delay, which be hoped had
not "tended unduly to aggravate the
ferceness of his disorder" thus;


II am unable to give you the abundant
consolation of letter of introduction to
the original of the portrait, if it had an
original, which am not disposed to ques-
ton. My knowledge of her is quite scan
ty and unsatisfactory. The story told by
our engravers is, that she was a teacher
in the - school house in New York at
the time of that cruel disaster a few years
ago, when, upon false alarm Of fire, the
children rushed down the stairway, which
gave way, causing the death of a large
number of the 'innocents.' Our heroine
is said to have saved all her pupils by that
presence of mind that shines in her face,
and to have then leaped from third-story
window. Whether in so doing she broke
both her legs, irreparably damaged her
lovely nose, and forever dimmed one Ius-
trous eye, l am not told. My own belief
is that she came out unscathed and un-
harmed, and at once proceeded TO Bradys
who photographed her, and thus gave her
unparalleled lineaments to Immortality OF
bank note. / am further inclined TO the
notion that shortly thereafter she married
to the man Of her CHOICE (she never
would do anything else, and is now the
happy mother of four small children and
one at the breast. Of course you II take
no stock in this theory of mine, and if you
are bent on further investigation, l can
only refer you to our engravers, who can
possibly put you on the track, Go in and
win, and be sure in such happy consum-
nation to ask me to be there If it calls
me to Kamschatka l shall surely obey
indeed, were not sufficiently blessed in
the woman line, you would have received
no reply at all to your inquiries. ''-&c.


We have been looking for a coroner's
case of the dead body of an interesting
young man-''found drowned ;" but be-
ing disappointed thus far, have concluded
that our hero proposes to find consolation
by joining in the sack race, or the strife
for the CREASED pig on Hempden Park
next Monday.
Year: 1859

One day, a sturdy peasant was at work
in the fields amidst a severe storm and
rain, and went home in the evening thor
oughly tired out, and drenched to the
skin. He was met at the housedoor by
his loving wife, who had been at home all
day. ..-.


"DTy dear" said she, cit has been rain
ing so hard that could not fetch water,
so Ihave not been able to make you any
dinner. As you are already wet through,
1 shall be obliged to you to fetch me a
couple of buckets of water; you cannot
get any wetter." .r


The argument was striking, he there
fore took the buckets and fetched some
water from the well, which was at a con-
siderable distance. reaching his house
be found his wife comfortably seated by
the fire; then lifting one bucket after the
other, he poured both over his kind and
Considerate partner.


"Now, wife," said he, ''you are quite
as wet as am, so you may as well fetch
water for yourself; you can't get any
Wetter." rrB s.
Year: 1859

The Weaverville (Cal.) Journal gives
the following account Of an affair which,
however it may move the laughter Of our
reader, we fancy to have made some of
the parties concerned "laugh on the
wrong side of their mouths:"


"Some time ago there was a dancing
party given 'up north > most of the ladies
present had little babies, whose noisy per-
versity required TOO much attention to
permit the mothers to enjoy the dance. A
number Of gallant young men volunteered
to watch the young ones while the parents
INDUCED in a breakdown No sooner
had they left the babies in charge of the
mischievous devils, than they stripped the
infants, changed their clothes, giving to
one the apparel of another. The dance
over, it was time to 90 home, and the
mothers hurriedly each took a baby, in
the dress of her own, and started, some
to their homes, ten or fifteen miles off,
and were far on their way before day
light. But the day following there was a
Year: 1859

The larger animals are never supported
laterally; their limbs are always in po-
sition nearly vertical; as we descend in
the scale of size the lateral support be-
comes more frequent, till we find the
whole tribes Of insects resting on limbs
almost horizontally. The slightest con-
sideration will convince any one that la
teral or horizontal limbs would be quite
inadequate to support the weight of the
larger animals. Conceive a spider to in
crease till his body weighed as much as
that of a man, and then fancy one of us
exhibiting feats of dexterity with such
locomotive instruments as the spider
would then possess! :!


How interesting it is to compare the
different animals, and to trace the gradu-
al change of form which accompanies
each increase of size In the smaller
animals, the strength is, as it were, re-
dundant, and there is room for the display
of the most elaborate ornament. How
complex or how beautiful are the myriads
of insects which float in the air, or which
cluster on the foliage! Gradually the
larger Of these become more simple IN
their structure, their ornaments less pro-
fuse. The structure of the birds is simpler
and more uniform, that of the quadruped
still more so. As we approach the larger
quadrupedS, ornament and then elegance
disappear. This is the law in the works
of nature, and this ought to be the law
among the works Of art.


Among one class of animals, indeed, 1t
may be said that this law is reversed
We have by no means a general classIfl-
cation of the fishes; but among those
with which we are acquainted, we do not
perceive such a prodigious change of form.
Here, however, the animal has not to
support its own weight; and whatever IN
crease may take place in the size OF the
animal, like increase take place IN the
Ibuoyancy of the fluid IN which It swlms.
Many of the smaller aquatic animals ex-
hibit the utmost simplicity of structure
but we know too little of the nature of
their functions to draw any useful conclu
sions from this fact.
Year: 1859

by charging the jury that II they had reasonable doubt
OF the Innocence Of the prisoner their duty to give
MIN the benefit OF it. and charged them sworn admin


rators Of the law, that they be Influenced by outside
considerations.
THE CASE GIVES TO THE JURY


Inc case was then given TO the jury, at o'clock au
tney retired to their room. During their absence the
surmses were various to what would be the result of
Their verdict Some argued that the prisoner would he
lonno gIhty and recommended TO mercy, whilst Others
argued that "A the charge Of had been
ed the jury would recommend him to mercy as the
governor could commute the sentence to
LOT number OF years without the RECOMMENDATION
AT O'Clock h was announced that the Jury had agreed
on tneir verdict and they brought and
The most breathless silence pre- vailed and the clerk
10 call the jury all answering their names
Inc Cerk then said Gentlemen Of the jury look upon
tue prisoner Is he guilty Of the offences with which he
stands charged, or is he not? What say you" The
foreman replied guilty The verdict then read


We, the jury, find the prisoner, John E. Cook no,
guilty ot treason charged in the first count but guilty
Oh murder and consprDg with slaves rebel as charg-
ed in the second and third counts.


CnAs. T. BurLrR. Foreman"


Mr. voorhees, then stated that be had motion TO make
but would defer 1t until tomorrow If agreeable to the
court The Court stated that he would hear the motion
tomorrow


The verdict in accordance with the public sentiment
although strong feeling of sympathy has been enlisted
in the prisoners behalf during the last few dsys II i
now supposed that strong efforts will be made by the
influential friends of Cook have him pardoned by Gov
wise, OF ms punishment commuted to imprisonment for
a number of years.


The term Of the Circuit Court expired to night but the
Judge announced that he would omorrow to hear
the motion on behalf of the prisoner Sentence il is
supposed will be passed in the morning on the prisoners
now convicted


CASH OF STEVENS


The Attorney for the Commonwealth still demands
that the prisoner Stevens be at this court and de-
clares his intention of resgnng If it is not done The
prisoner was handed the United States Marshal
who viii refuse TO surrender him il demanded Some
people are wicked desire the prosecutor TO pu,
rid Of him II N NJ
Year: 1859

THE IDEAL WoMAN.-The true woman,
for whose ambition a husbands love and
her children's alteration are sufficient, who
applies her military instincts to the dis
cipline of her household, and whose leg
islatives exercise themselves in making
laws for her nurse, whose intellect has
field enough for communion with her
husband, and whose heart asks no other
honors than his love and alteration, a
woman who does not think it O weakness
to attend to her toilet, and who does not
disdain to be beautiful, who believes in
the virtue of glossy hair and we'll fitting
gowns, and eschews rents and travelled
edges, slipshod shoes and audacious make
ups, o woman who speaks low, and does
not speak much, who is patient and gen.
tie, and intellectual and industrious, who
loves more than she reasons, and yet doe s
not love blindly, who never scolds and
never argues. but adjusts with a smile
such a woman is the wife we have all
dreamed of once in our lives, and is the
mother we still worship in the backward
distance of the past.


CHARLES DICKENS.
Year: 1859

1t is a striking fact--the dying nerer
,ceep. The circle of sobbing, agonizeG
hearts around, produces not one tear. Is
it that he is insensible and stiff already in
the chill of dissolution !? That cannot be,
for he asks for his fathers hand. as if to
gain strength in the mortal struggle, and
leans on the breast of mother, or sister
with still conscious affection; and just be-
fore expiring, at eve after long days
converse with the Angel of Summons, he
says to his oldest brother the last andible
good night of earth-"Kiss me, kiss me !''
1t must because the dying have reac he'd
a point 100 deep for our earthly crying
and weeping. They are face to face with
higher and holier beings, with the Father
in heaven, and his angel throng, led on by
the Son himself; and what are the griefs
of our mourning, tears of dying fare.
well--be it that they are shed by the
dearest on earth--in that vision bright OF
immortal life and everlasting reunion.
Year: 1859

TINE EoR CUTTING WHEAT. Hundreds
of bushels of wheat were lost the past
season by not cutting in time. In wet
seasons like the past, spring wheat wants
watching daily. When the head of the
wheat is saturated with rain, and the
scorching sun pouring down upon it, three
down. 1t wants cutting the very day it
is out of the milk. Go into the field,
squeeze the kernels between your fingers,
and if the milk is not visible, cut it down
immediately. In good season, it is we'll
to let it stand until it is in q doughey
state, such that you can but just squeeze
the sides together. ALI wheat wants cut
ting in doughey state.
Year: 1859

How TO MAKE A PLEASANT SUMNER
DRINK.-Two gallons Of ginger beer may
be made as follows: Put two gallons of
cold water into a pot, upon the fire;
add to it two ounces of good ginger, and
two pounds of white or brown sugar.
Let all this come to boil, and continue
boiling for half an hour. Then skim the
liquor, and pour it into jar or tub, along
with one sliced lemon and half an ounce
of cream Of tartar. When nearly cold,
put in teacupful of yeast to cause the
liquor to work. The beer is now made;
and after it has worked for two days,
strain and bottle for use. Tie the corks
down firmly.