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Year: 1859

ADVICE TO YoUNG MEN-Socrates did
not urge friends to enter early upon public
employments, but first to take pains for at
tainment Of the knowledge necessary for
their success in them.


Are you stepping on the threshold Of
life ? Secure a good moral character. With.
out virtue you cannot be respected; with
out integrity you can never rise to distinc.
ton and honor.


Be careful lest too warm desire Of dis.
tinction should deceive you into pursuits
that may cover you with shame by setting
your incapacities and slender abilities in
full light.


People who have the rashness to 90 into
stations without proper authority and the
requisite preparation for the service, not on
ly involve others in loss, but subject them
selves to ridicule.


The tricky, deceitful, and dishonest are
rarely prosperous for when confidence is
Withdrawn, poverty is likely to follow.


The shortest and surest way to live with
honor in the world, is to be in reality what
we appear 10 be.


When once a concealment or deceit has
| been practiced in matters where all should
be fair and open as the day, confidence can
| never be restored, any more than you can
restore the white bloom to the grape or
plum that you have once pressed in your
hand.


Error is the cause of many miseries, the
corrupt principle that has produced evil in
the world his this which begets and cher.
ishes in our souls all the evils that aff1icts u.s.
and we can never expect to gain true and
solid happiness but by serious endeavor
to avoid IL! Falsehood is not only one ol
tha most humiliating vices, but sooner or
later it is most certain to lead to most seri.
ous Grimes.


Industry, we'll directed, will give man
competency in few years. The greatest
industry nisapplied is useless.
Year: 1859




DOES THE Moon AFFECT THE WEATHER.
1t has always been a favori,e prejudice
that the weather is Influenced in some man
ner by the moon. The moon can te sup
posed 10 act on the earth only in one Of
three ways, namely: by the light which it
reflects, by its attrad,ion, or by an emana-
tion Of some unknown kind. Now, the light
Of the moon does not amonnt to tho ono
hundred thonsandth part Of that of the sun,
and the heat it exeites is so small as to be
altogether inappreciaLle by the most deli
cate instruments, or the best devised exper-
imcnt. No effect can be attributed, there
fore to the moons light. With regard to
the attraction to the moon, we see lis inf1u-
ence on the atmosphere but there is taken
into account. the small specific gravity of
atmospheric air in comparison with water.
and the consequent slnaluess of tho mass
OF matter TO be accumulated upon, it is
readily perceived that this influence must
also be extremely feeble. As to the re.
naming suppositons, that the moon NAV
act on the atmosphere by some obscure em-
anation, it is sufficient proof to the contrary,
that no meteorological observations that
have yet been made afford the slightest
traces Of any such connection between the
earth and its satellite.
Year: 1859

Ir IS BEST TO GET MARRIED-Mr. Farr, a
statistician connected with the Registrar Gen
erals Office in London has recently read IA
paper, which was afterwards printed in the
Daily News, on the "lniluencc Of Marriage on
the morality the French People" He says:


a remarkable series of observations, extend
inc over the whole Of France enables us to
determination the first time the effect Of conju.
gal condition on the life of large population
The result confirms the common opinion Of the
evil consequences Of marriage in many eases
under the age Of twenty, before the growth Of
the individual man or woman is complcted"
The married from twenty to sixty have a low,
er death rate than the unmarried Among
the widowed higher mortality prevails than
among the married,


Dr. Farr sums np-Ths is the general re
suit Marriage is healthy state The single
individual is more likely to be wrecked on his
voyage than the lives joined together in mat.
rmony, 10 the question: :" Is any part Of
Year: 1859

THE OPERA AT ARMoRY HALL.-The operatic en-
tertainment at Armory Hall on Saturday evening was
very brilliant event in the seasons catalogue of
musical occurrences. The hall was crowded beyond
its comfortable capacty-the uncomfortable portion
of the auditory being those who, determined to hear
Piccoomini at any cost took tickets emitting them
to the privilege of standing up, all the sitting down
chances being orestalled yet did not these ISLANDERS
find consolation in their uprghness for the discom-
fort it caused them? Yea saith the meralist for
lame legs and light conscience are to be preferred
before sound limbs and the heavy soul Of the wicked.


We never saw more pretty women within four walls
than Saturday night graced Armory Hail. and we
never and heard better operatic performing than
that on its impromptu stage. The little prima donna
was overowing with music and comic spirit and the
opera of Don Pasquale was ratified off in the mer-
rest possibestye from beginning to end-the acting
as good as the singing, and both most excellent.
Those who saw Mile Piccoomini in Norma will have
sunshiny remembrance Of her laughter beaming
face and aughter-ringing song. Norma was contin-
ually applauded, and the Ernesto lMaiatesta and


Don Pasquale of Signors Domenico, Florenza and


Maggiorott were very artistic and effective perform.
ances. We are qvite certain that this entertainment
will be remembered with exceeding pleasure by those
present, and that another informal little opera by
Mile Piccolomini & Co., would call together an
equally large auditory But it ia her benefit at the
Orleans tonight, and never better chance to hear
Year: 1859

A New PHASE OF THE SIcKLEs TRAGEDY.-The
Washington Star says that the late Mr.. Key was no.
toriously disinclined to intrigue with women, and
that there are hundreds in the District of Columbia
who knowing him intimately from his childhood
growing up with hn-are ready to testify that his
disncnation to that vice was SO notorious as to be
proverbial. The same paper asserts that it is very
generally believed by the friends of the late Philip
Barton Key in that city that there does not exist
title OF legal evidence of the truth of the charge
that he had criminal intercourse with Mrs. Sickles
the confession OF the fact obtained from her. by some
means as yet hidden from the public, not being such
testimony as can be received by court of justice
The Washington correspondents of the New York
papers speak of to the effect that Mr. Sckles
had other grounds of hostility towards Mr. Key than
his intimacy with Mrs. S., and that the confession of
the latter was extorted from her by threats of per.
sonal violence, which sounds absurd enough in the
face of so much positive evidence to the contrary
Year: 1859

THOSE CUrs AND SAuCERs have arrived at last
and Jndson is rushing his business of giving away
elegant porcelain ware at 81 Camp street. Mauy
splendid lots have lately been drawn and there are
many more yet hand for the fortunate to walk off
with. Saturday was an unfortunate day for Judson,
for at on early hour we happened in as we passed
along, just as lady was drawing an envelope. She
opened tit was numbered for magnificent tea
set of forty-four pieces Judson said cheerfuly-
That's the fourth set drawn this morning-rve lost
hundred or so dollars today-never mind-all in
the way of business-calculate on that-brought the
goods here to give aWayi
Year: 1859

MErA1RIE JOCKEY CLUB RAcEs-Sprins Meeting
The Spring Meeting over the Metairie course will
commence on Friday, lst of April, and end on Mon
day, the llth. The list of stakes to be run, with
nominations made therefor is published in this morn
ing's paper and it will be seen that this meeting is


likely to be ola very spirited and interesting character.
Some of the best stock in the country is expected to
show itself on the track
Year: 1859

THE LATE JOSEPH Ross.-We elsewhere publish a
copy of the preamble and resolutions adopted at a
recent meeting of the Washington Artillery They
are expressive of the high regard and respect enter
taned by the corps for their late amented brother in
arms, Mr.. Joseph Ross with the melancholy crcum.
stances of whose death the public were made familiar
at the time of the occurrence of that event. This
action of the Artillery is most worthy and deserved
testimonial to the memory of gallant member.
Year: 1859

It will be seen By the proclamation OF the
C,overnor in another column, that large num-
ber of notes of this Bank has been issued With
ont sufficiency Of gold and silver coin being
nrovided to redeem the same, and that SAID
hank has failed to redeem IN coin some OF SAID
notes when presented for payment. The Cow
ernor, therefore, in conformity with the law,
prohibits the bills or notes Of the Bank from
being received in payment Of any money duo
to the State
Year: 1859

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"ITH THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE


w New YearI wish 70 return my hearty thsnks
for the liberal support and sneomagementthat has
been extended to me in my business for the past
two years. This Office WAS opened here about two
years ago, not with the expectation of realizing
fertune, but with the hope Of contributing some
thing towards the settlement and improvement Of
this beautiful valley, by means of direct personal
effort, and by furnishing information to those at
the East who were sesking homes and occupation
at the West I have endeaSored 70 keep steadily
in view the Future Of this teira and country. and
by means of considerable labor and expense. re-
gardless of present profit, my business is now es-
tablished upon firm and reliable basis: and
can offer to all who entrust their business to my
care an intimate knowledge of the country its in
habitants and their circumstances, derived from
extensive travel. and constant intercourse with
Settlers upon and since their arrival claim to
be thoroughly conversant with the wants and ca.
pabiliies Of this country. and shall never advise
correspondents or semigrants aught they cannot
realize. My facilities for the transaction of bust


ness are uuequailed by any Office in the Neosho
Valley. shall attend all the
Year: 1859

5unehts In favor of what IL called the mid


die route. which passes some twenty miles cast Of


Jackson and connects with the Central Railroad in


Canton. The considerations we offered seem to


have had their proper weight with the stockholders


mot that they received them from u.s. but resulting


from spontaneous suggestions to every rejecting


mnd) and but little doubt exist If no improper in


dlences are brought to bear upon the directors, or
those to whom the location of the route will be
ferred but that Canton will be the Northern ter
minus of this important Railroad. The Central
Riroad would then no longer be considered a
feeder to the New Orleans & Great Northern Road,
but in connection with the Snp Island Railroad
would constitute a continuous trunk line uniting
the Mississippi at Cairo and Memphis and vicks-
burg. with the Gulf of Mexico at point within the
limits of State, favored By nature with probably
the deepest and safest harbors, with one or two OK
ceptons Soath of Norfolk, virginia. At Canton
the unfinished part of the n o. .& G. n. Rlilr )ad
will act as branch of the Central and Ship Island
r )ads, which shold he consolidated, and would
probably divert considerable portion of its car
goes from New Orleans to the city which will
eventually spring up upon the Sea-shore, near Ship
Island. Should Canton he made the terminus, IL
would become one of the best distributing points in
the State and would doubtless awake from the Rip
Van Wrinkle slumbcrs in which she has been so long


ndulging. While on this SUI jcct, we would remark
that the condition of Canton at this time is an
anomaly. Within the last two years the Railroad
has connected this place with Vcksburg and New
Orleans, and the Central Road commencing here has
penetrated wealthy section, drawing considerable
business which formerly was transacted at Yazoo
City. Yet with the vast increase of trade which
has resulted, and which is surely destined to fow
from these causes, but little addition has been made
t. the population OF the place, and still less to the
number of buildings. Real estate has not recovered
from the disastrous shock caused by the visitation
of the Yellow Fever in 1855, and we doubt whether
A town can be named in the South, possessing so
many social educational, religious and commercial
a Iva ltagcs where real estate is so cheap, and so
difficult to dispose of.


We l,ok for "go1d time coming" when Can
ton will enter upon a career Of uninterrupted
Year: 1859

DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO A LIoN.-The Cleve-
land Pdmdealer tells of fearful accident in Van
Amburgh's menagerie. Some of the new keep
ers commenced to torment the lion. Wishing to
hear him roar, the brutes spat tobacco juice in
his eyes. This thoroughly maddened him, and
his frenzy was terrific. The lion made tre-
mendous dash at the cage bars-they gave way
he cleared the cage with bound, and sprang
for the affrighted wretch the pole. In the
blindness of his rage, the lion missed the man,
striking his head against the pole and splitting
himself from head to fail 1t was done rs evenly
as though he had been sawed through by an ex-
perienced mechanic The uproar brought Mr.
Van Amburgh to the spot. The emergency re-
quired promptness. SThis was no time for re-
Election or argument Selling the ceaved parts
of the lion, the great tanner clapped them in
stantly together. They stuck, and the lion was
soon restored to consciousness. But imagine
Vans agony when he saw that he had put the
lion together the wrong way that two of the
animals legs were up, and the other two down
But the lion got well and seems to enjoy himself
better than ever. When he gets tired of walk
ing on two legs he hops over on the other two.
He is said to be curious looking lion
Year: 1859

A FRESH WATER SAILoR.-You may not know
it, but it is fact that political influence very
often gets officers in our revenue navy who nev-
er scarcely had glimpse of salt water before
they shipped with lieutenant's epaulette.


One of these cases." the son of well-to-do
planter in the interior of Georgia, went down to
the cutter at Savannah, went to sea in her on a
three or four days cruise, and then, on her re-
turn to port. got leave to go home for couple
of weeks after more "rocks," or something of
the kind


When he got there he was the biggest frog in
the pond by odds. The Z" tales of the sea, and
the dangers of those "who go down in great
ships" which he told, were Munchausenish to an
intensity.


About midnight after all had retired to rest,
his father and his family were aroused from
their slumbers by hearing buckets of water
dashed against the side of the house in the part
where the young lieutenants apartment was
situated, and every now and then they would
hear him roar out to negro servant:


g. More tempestuous, Pompey More tempes-
tuous, you black impl'


They thought him insane, and hurried to ask
him what was the matter.


I'm so accustomed to the delightful dash of
the waves against the sides of the vessel" said
he, t. that find it impossible to sleep without
something as near like it as | can get in this
benighted region.


There was probably some snickering" about
that time.
Year: 1859

How sweet to the taste is the Irish potato
As memory awakens thought OF the plant,
Its dark verdant vine-top and beautiful blossom
In pleasant transition my memory haunt.
Ayei thought of the root in profuslon once
growing,
On the broad sunny hill-slope adjoining the
MILL
At the homestead. how many we raised there's
no knowing,
For some were bat small ones and fep in hill.
The mealy potato, the Irish potato,
The thin-skinned potato that grew on the


hill.
That delectable plant would praise while I'm
able,


For often at noon when returned from the
field
| found it superior to all on the table
The best favored edible that nature could
yield.
With what eager appetite. sharpened by labor,
| piled knife and fork with n hearty good
will;
Alas there are none of the old-fashioned flavor,
None like he - real Smons' that grew the
hill.


The mealy.potato the Irish potato,
The thin-skinned potato that grew on the


hill
How prime from the full-heaPen dish to receive
As poised on my fork it ascends to my mouth
No appeal to the palate could tempt me to leave
it,


Though affected by " rot or long summers
drouth.
And now far removed from that loved situation
Where used to partake of the root to my fill
Fancy would fain revert to my fathers planta-
tion,


And sigh for the kidneys" that grew on the
hill:


The mealv potato, the Irish potato.
The thin-skinned potato that grew on the


hill.
Year: 1859

In Dickens All the Year Round" we find
said to be more closely allied to the human form
than any of the brute creation:


The gorilla is of the average height of man,
five feet six uches, and with deep ead-colored
skin, much wrinkled, prominent jaw with the
canine teeth lin the nales) of huge size, reced-
ing chin and we have an exaggeration OF the
lowest and most forbidding type of human phys
iognomy. The neck is short the head pokes
forward. The relative proportions of the body
and limbs nearer those of man, yet they are
of more unganly aspect than in any other of
5lse brute kind. Long Shapeless arms, thick and
muscular, wi scarce any dmnution of size
deserving the name of wrist. flor at the smallest
they are fourteen inches round, while strong
mans wrist is not above eight wide thick
hand, the palm long, and the fingers short
swollen and gouty-ooking; capacious chest;
broad shoulders legs also thick and snapeless,
destitute of calf and very muscular, yet short :;
a ts,ndle-like foot, with a thumb in it of huge
dimensions and potentious power of grasp. No
wonder the lion skulks before this monster, and
even the elephant is baffled by his malicious
cunning activity and strength. The teeth ndi-
cate vegetable diet, but the rep1st is sometimes
varied with eggs, or a brood of young bir Is
The chief reason of his enmity to the elephant
appears TO be, not that 1T ever Intentionally in
ilres him. but merely that it shares his taste for
certain, favorte fruits. And when, from his
watch tower in the upper branches of tree, he
perceives the elephant helping himself to these
delicacies he steals along the bough, and strik-
ing its sensitive proboscis violent blow with
the club with which he is almost always armed
drives off the startled giant, trumpeting shrily
with rage and pain. Towards the negroes, the
gorilla seems to cherish an implacable hatred
he attacks them quite unprovoked. If party
of blacks approach unconsciousy within range
of tree haunted by one of these wood ddemons
swinging rapidly down to the lower branches,
he clutches with his thumbed foot at the nearest
of them his green eyes fash with rage, his hair
stands on end, and the skin above the eyes,
drawn rapidly up and down, gives him a 6endsh
scowl. Sometimes during their excursions in
quest of ivory, in those gloomy forests, the ma
tives will first discover the proximity of goril-
la by the sudden mysterious disappearance oi
their companions The brute, angling for him
with his horrible foot, dropped from tree
while his strong arms grasp it firmly, stretches
down his huge hind hand, seizes the haplesS
wretch by the throat, draws him up into the
boughs and, as his struggles have
ceased drops him down, a strangled corpse. A
tree is the gorllas sleeping place by night, his
pleasant abode by day, and his castle of defence
From that coigne of advantage he waits his foe
should the latter be hardy, or foohardy enough
20 pursue No full-grown gorilla has ever beer
taken alive. A bold negro the leader of an ele
Fhant hunting expedition, was offered hundred
dollars for live gorilla. If you gave me thu
weight of yonder hill In gold, would not do it,
he said
Year: 1859

AN AFFECTING SoENE.-During the recent
engagement Of Birch's Minstrels In Stockton


they were invited to visit the Insane Assv.
lun, and while there sang several OF their h.
vorite pieces Nothing could be more affect.
ingly interesting to Che sympathetic observer
of human nature than to note the different
effects Of the singing upon the several inmates
of that most benevolent institution some
would attempt to initiate the notes of The
singers, others assumed a solemn and even
detected air, while others again danced and
gave every evidence of extreme qualification
And while Mr.. Henry sang, in his inimtable
style, Mother, Pm Thinking of Thee" MANY
of them wept outright. giving every evidence
of the most tender appreciation of the beauti
ful sentiment of the piece. Such scenes are
seldom witnessed, and must always awaken
the better feeling of our nature, and remind
us that although the poor afflicted maniacs
may have lost the power Of coping with the
grasping and selfish of the world in the bust
ness affairs of life, they may yet retain all the
noble impulses of the heart.-Erchanos.
Year: 1859

New ROUTE FROM SAN DIEGO TO FoRr YUMA
"A correspondent of the San Diego Herald,
writes as follows:


Mr.. Rapalye, road agent of the San An
tonic and San Diego Overland Mail route.
after search of ten days, has discovered a
route in an almost direct East line to the
desert by the way of Tecate and Tacombe.
He says that to within ten miles of the Des-
ert the route does not require blow, and
that five thousand dollars will make the road
complete to the Desert This route will save
about forty miles of travel The same au-
thority states that new gold diggings have
been discovered on the ella some fifteen or
twenty miles from the old diggings and that
parties are making good wages.
Year: 1859

A LIrTLR WANDERER.-A boy about Of
6 years of age, named John Francis Sparrow
son of a miserable woman on Telegraph Hill
was sent out yesterday to procure money fol
his mother to purchase liquor. He did moi
succeed in procuring any money, and, on re-
turning home again, the wretch of a mother
drove him out of the house. and told him
not to come back again. The lad was com
PEELED to leave, and wandered about till late,
when he was taken to the station house. An
attempt will be made to place him in the
House of Refuge-San Francisco paper.
Year: 1859

AoCoRDISG to the San Juan Press, on and
after the first of January next, the Middle
Yuta Canal Company will sell water at the
reduced price Of I6 IS cents per inch, or at
the rate of six inches for one dollar. This
reduction has not been officially announced
there is no reason to. Goubt that it will be
made at the time stated.
Year: 1859

THE Washington Republic calls attention
to the fact that it is five years since the Sen
ate in secret session ratified the treaty with
Mexico, by which ten millions Of dollars were
paid for the region known as Arizona, and
that the yeas and nays upon the ratification
Of the treaty are still unknown.
Year: 1859

PUTRrD SORE TnRoAr.-A lady of Visaliu
gives the following recipe for the cure Of
putrid sore throat, which she knows to be an
invaluable remedy, having tested it often, and
always with complete success:


dissolve some borax and loaf sugar. and
swab the child's throat with the wash. After
rubbing the neck externally with turpentine
and olive oil, wrap a thick flannel around
"a
Year: 1859

MARBLE.-Itis is we'll known, says the Butte
of Marble on the Middle Fork Of Feather
river, some distance above Bidwell Bar
Why should not come Of our patriotic citi-
zens take measures to have block prepared,
appropriately engraved and forwarded as a
contribution to the Washington monument ?
Year: 1859

The New Haven Register relates that an
actor at one of the theaters was called out
four times in one evening not long ago-twice
by sheriff, once by tailor, and once by an
irresistible desire to take drink
Year: 1859

Pixies PEAK.-The Mountain City Gold
Reporter Of September 18th, says that the
mines are being energetically worked, and
that more gold at that time was being taken
out than at any other time during the sea-