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Year: 1859

A FOURTH OF July PER oRATIoN.-Pal-
sled be the arm, then, and blisterod the
tongue, and bumped the back, and broken
the legs, and evisccrated the stomach of ev-
cry person who dares even to dream fharm
to the Union May the heaviest curse OF
time fall upon his scoundrelly soul May
his own grandmother disown him forever
And may the sufrages of his fellow citizens
pursue him like avenging furles, till he Is
driven howling into Congress.
Year: 1859

SERIOUS AccIDENr.-0n last Monday evening"
while NJ. NJ. Smith, ESQ was in The act Of riding
into tbe country. the horse which lie was riding
took fright opposite Charley Weills stable and
threw him off In the fall his head struck a
r1ck or briokbat and cut cash in it some inch
OF more long and perhaps half as deep severing g
a small artery, from which he bled pint or
more before it could be stopped by the physical
in attendance upon him. His injury is serious
but we trust not dangerous one


0"' fBrandoB Herald.
Year: 1859

STEwED TURKEY.-Invite weak headed young
man to your home to dine, and give him sherry
wine btters as an appetizer, and afterwards lit
tie brandy and water, just to tone his stomach
with soup served Sautere, and follow up the cour'
ses with MADEIRA, Port and Champagne In the
evening take him to the club to play whist, and
let him drink whisky punch. Put him to bed ii
a warm room, and in the morning he will be fine
specimen of stewed turkey.
Year: 1859

EY- The riyer had an extensive
frolic on Sunday afternoon. The ice which
had been gorging for several days, was
started afresh by the immense pressure Of
the water, and with noise resembling that
of a small earthquake commenced moving
forward, carrying everything in its way,
and piling up in huge masses in every di'
rection. The river above the foot of Brady
street raised several feet, filing cellars, car,
rying away and crowding up the small craft
which was "tied up" along the bank, and
playing the mischief generally. The old
ferry dock was not visible to the eye yes
terday morning. though the ice had become
quite permanent, and will doubtless remain
so for while. Should the ice remain in
its present very rough condition, it will re-
quire considerable labor and trouble to
make road across it that will be suitable
for travel. There was some crossing by
footmen yesterday. but the labor of per-
forming the trip is by no means pleasant.
Year: 1859

MEssRs. EDITORS 1t would seem
that some prominent Democratic, who have
heretofore taken an active part in disorgan-
izing and weakening the power Of the good
old Democratic party, are showing laudi-
BILE disposition now to harmonize and
strengthen the mhole Democracy.


Democrats have the undoubted right to
entertain and express their opinions fully
and freely on any and all questions undsr
debate between our distinguished old
statesmen. and until the question is finally
decided, it should not be, and cannot be an
objectionable political crime to think,
speak, write, and publish honest expressions
of opinion pro and com. But when q case
occurs where our leading old statesmen. who
originated the discussion, have concluded
and decided to abandon the discussion
and when it is clear and obvious to every
man of ordinary intelligence, that further
discussion is not only useless but seriously
detrimental to the National veal, no honest
patriot of any party will encourage malic-
ious quarrels.


There are many intelligent sound Demo
Gratis who have the impre scion well ground
ed that both parties in the late unfortunate
controversy between distinguished Demo.
Gratis, have acted injudiciously and indis
creetly, and many are as honestly convinc
ed that one side is clearly right aud the
other wrong. Thee are, however, very
few who are not decidedly Of the opinion
that it is now the duty Of every good Dem
ocratic writer. speaker and publisher, t.
encourage By every honorable means. har
mony and unity Of action. That may maxi
Ne seed cid Democratic party IN loso, an,
tAseaass. sassaaassasaA Z
Year: 1859

Col. Harms sLECTURE.-Col. Heath
read his celebrated poem The Last Day."
to large and intelligent audience in Rock
Island last evening. and will appear before
our citizens this evening at LIE Claire Hall.
We hope our citizens will not fail to avail
themselves Of this opportunity to hear this
truly meritorious production.
Year: 1859

LEAvxNwoRrn. Jan. 2o.-Montgomery has
voluntarily given himself up TO the author
tiles to await his trial on a charge Of being
connected in the late troubles on the south
ern border. Brown is reported to have left
the Territory. and no further trouble is ap-
pretended. There is no excitement here.
Year: 1859

G3"The Gazette moots the question would
itnot be good idea to raise, by subscription, g
sum of money to pay the Phoenix Band for
playing three or four evenings each week from
the steps of the Court House ?" Certainly q
capital idea. We vote "aye." and hope those
who are peculiarly gifted with the knack o.
moving in such matters will at once initiate
the enterprise. Get out the papers and circu
late them.
Year: 1859

D-The local OF the Gazette eorrsets our item
about the runaway, yesterday. As it is a mat
ter Of importance. and the weather about the
'4th will probably hinge upon the facts, we
will announce that "ths mule started from the
opposite side of the streetr' Then we were
not mistaken about the mule StaTtiag and we
were not SO egregiOusly out Of the way nfte'
all, Good The mule started the 4th eau
90 ON I
Year: 1859

TIE srORM.-We were visited by severe
storm Of wind and rain about half past
o clock, to-day. 1t came from the north
west and for short time the wind threat
ened to tear away every thing not immOva>
BILE. The trees in the Public Square, and
in every direction throughout the city we're
considerably damaged, and several awnings
were shattered The damage, however, was
not extensive. 1t is feared that the storm
he's done injury TO tho grain and crops in
this neighborhoOd The storm had the eject
of clearing and cooling the asmOsphere-
For this many thousand suffering humans
are grateful.
Year: 1859

G- Two hundred baskets of strawberries
were taken from the West to New York the
other day. We Of this valley, early in the sea,
son, furnished hundreds of drawers Of straw.
berries to the West; why could we not have e
returnf Why could not some Of the eoierpris'
ing dealers here secure some Of the berries Ia
ken from the West to the EaslH That would
have not only regulated the exchange" but
would have been vastly pleasant to us who are
as fond Of strawberries as any other people.
Year: 1859

RESTORATION OF BISHoP Observation-Disclosures OF
THE DIoCEsE.-We are inclined to believe, that no
movement will be made to recommend the restora-
ton of Bishop Onderdonk to his Episcopal func-
tons until after the Convention has acted upon
the question of a Division of the Diocese
The Diocese of New York should be divi-
ded into three, each of which would be quite
as large, or larger than is desirable or cxpedient


First, the City Of New York should constitute
one Diocese.


Second, Long Island and Staten Island, and the
county of Wcstchester, should constitute another
Diocese; and


Third all north and west of Westchcster county
should form another Diocese.


This we think, the most feasible mode of divi-
sion but the probability is that the Convention
will not at present. consent to more than two Dio-
ceses. so, New York and Long Island and Staten
Island will constitute the Southern Division, and
all north of New York Island, the Northern Divi-
sion. This would be good arrangement for the
present. We should have then, the Dioceses of
"New ork, }" "Northem New Ork' and ''West-
ern New York." and within ten years, it would be
found convenient to constitute another Diocese
consisting of Long Island apd Staten Island. Brook
yn itself, will by that time, afford sufficient work
for Bishop.


OF fcourse, a Diocesan Convention, cannot restore
a Bishop suspended by the House of Bishops, any
more than the Diocese of New Jersey, could elect
Bishop OGderdonk to be their Bishop, while under
suspension from his Episcopal functions by the
Court of Bishops. All the Diocesan Convention
can do, is to recommend the restoration of Bishop
Onderdonk. This would be in the nature of an
election; and of course, no person not constituting
part of the diocese to which restoration is asked
could, with propriety, take part in any such act of
restoration or election. Therefore, after division
of the Diocese, the Representatives in Convention
composing what would be the constituency Bishop
Onderdonk will be at liberty to ask the restoration
Of the Bishop; and failing to carry that measure,
would proceed to an election.-N. Y. Cour. d Eng.
Sent, 90
Year: 1859

BoYs.-One boy in shop is as good as
man. Two boys however, are worse
than the Old Scratch. Ii there be but one
boy in a room, he is as quiet and se,latc as
Quaker Introduce another, and ground
and lofty tumblinS will be the order from
sunrise to dark
Year: 1859




G. ID. Harmon thus asks and answers
this important question, in late number
OF the Cotton Planter:


If the Disposer of human events should
permit this world to stand a thousand
years longer, the time will surely come
when every man who tills the earth will
be compelled to be a good farmer or starye
to death. This is a strong expression,
but as true as it is strong. Old fogyism
may continue to deuounce those who la.
Dor TO improve the agriculture of the
South but the time will come when their
posterty will see their folly, and be forced
TO improve the soil which their ancestors
bu,chered. The day has already come
with England, Frence, Germany and Ire
land, where agriculturists ale compelled
from true necessity, to study their proies.
sion, and improve their systems of farm
ing economy, to an extent limited only
10y their power TO do SO. II they were to
pursue the course that the planters Ct the
South are now pursuing, in less than
twenty years they would either starve to
death or be forced 20 leave their own.
their native land


But the question arises, what is a good
tarmerP There is much diversity Of opin.
ION on this question. Sometimes the men
who run over the most land, per hand,
and drag out Of the soil the most money,
regardless OF the wear and tear Of land, =,
and team and force, are called good far.
mers, yea, the best farmers But is that
iruei | admit it no.. To do SO would
be equivalent TO admitting that the doctor
who made the most meney, regardless of
the lives he destroyed, was the best doc.
tor. The one would be about as true as
the othcr-both are utterly false.


A good farmer, according to the best
and most intelligent agriculturists of the
South, is the man who Improves his land
and the appearance Of his place improves
his stock aud takes care Of his force. And
| think this Giinition Of the term is cor
rect.


No man, however intelligent on other
phJects-no matter how much money be
may be making for the time being, should
be considered a good farmer in the
stric,est sense Of that term, who grossly
neg Iects the improvement Of his soil, and
force, and stock. No man who cultivates
the hills, and permits his fields to wash
into yawning gulies, and turns them on,
for his children to reclaim, at the cos, o
much labor and expense. or leave thei
old homes, o. starvs, is, to any extent
whatever, a good farmer. A man who
denounces agricultural improvement, and
agricultural journals, totes corn in one END
of his sack, and rock in the other end
TO balance it, because his daddy done i;
cannot possibly be good farmer.
Year: 1859

AGREEING WITH lIER.-A clergyman.
who VAS bit Of humorist, once took tea
with lady OF his parish, who prided her
self much upon her nice bread, and was
also addicted to the common trick of de.
preciating her viands to her guests.


AS she passed the nice warm biscui, to
the reverend gentleman, she said -


They are not very good; am almost
ashamed to offer them


The minister took one. looking at it
rather obviously, and replied -


They are not so good as the, might
be


The plate was Instant, Withdrawn, and
with heightened color the lady exclaim.
ed -


They are good enough for you =


Nothing further was said about the dis.
cult.
Year: 1859

The USE OF LARGE WoRps.-Bip
words pass for sense with some people,
and sometimes may be very successful
employed when nothing else will answer.
AS when man in great alarm ran to his
minister to tell him he could see spots on
The sun, and thought the world mus. be
coming to an end.


%, don't be afraid said the clerical
gentleman, its nothing but pkantasma-
goria.'


is that ali e asked tie frightened :ssn,
and went away quite relieved.
Year: 1859

A Miss'ssppian was dragging to a
ankee Of the fertility OF the soil of his
region. To give practical illustration
OF his subject he said he wen, to the
woods to cut an oak tree. After he had
chopped for about week or ter DAYS. he
thought he would take walk round the
tree to see how much more he had to cut
when he got to the other side. he saw
another man chopping on the same oak.


4 say says our friend, how long have
you been cnttingF


Just three weeks says the stranger.


The tree Was so big tha. they did not
hea, the sound Of each others ayes
Year: 1859

Tom, why did you not marry Lucy I
Oh, she bad sort of hesitation in her
speech, and | left her. a hesitation in
her speech never heard of that before
are you not mistaken T.


No, not at all ; for when | asked her if
she would have me, she hesitated to say
yes, and-so cut her for another girl
Year: 1859

fused to recognize her, and she again started
away, bright cloud directing her course.
Ascending Mount Calamon, she abode many
years in a cave healing all the sick, so that
her fame having gone abroad, the physicians
Of the country conspired to cause the de-
bauch of the virgin whom they thought q
priestess of Diana, believing that thereafter
Thecla would no longer have power to de-
stroy their business by healing the sick, but


when the Iuffians came to her cave, Thecla
said Though am mean old woman, yet
am | a servant of Christ; young men, have
patience see and having prayed, the rock
opened and the aged saint entering the cleft
the rock closed again, so solid that no seam
was to be found, cutting eff piece of her
gown wherewith many miracles were
wrought thereafter. Thus ended her life at
the age of ninety, having testified to the
truth seventy-two years.
Year: 1859

A CARD.-It is a well known fact a.n ne .leui-
cal men, that there has long been wanted good and
reliable preparation Of SARSAPARILLA, as nearly
all that manufactured in the East SPIRITS,
and some Of them even MERCURY although protesting
net to do soconsequenty for all cutaneous diseases,
etc., they are injurious instead of beneficial Now in
the preparation offer to the public willing
tO show the receipt to any one-no matter who-Doc-
TOR OR NO DooroR-as every man has right to know
what he is taking:
Year: 1859

ofthe representatives Of the people, the board recon-
mend that application be made TO the next Legislature
First TO pay the interest due and which may hereafter
become due In Of default by the company upon the
guaranteed bonds of the company Second TO fund the
floating debt Of the company TO make provision
discharging it, Third to appropriate n sufficient 20
complete the canal TO Covingon- FOURTH to appropriate
sum sufficient TO improve the navigation of the Ranaw-
Ia river from its mouth to Loup creek shoals Pih TO
convert the debt due by the company the State and
that for which the State Is liable. into stock
Year: 1859

The Governors of the Aims House last night,
resolved to cut off the supply Of free liquors and
cigars furnished to the public institutions under
their control AS this is the third or fourth time
that they have done this in public and undone it
in private within the past two years, the regulation
is rot likely to be long observed. Being so severely
worked in the public service it is net surprising
that they should occasionally need little stimulus.
At their weekly meetings they get through SO much
business that they require good dinner at the ex-
pense of the Aims House fund.- before they are able
to get home. And when they visit the Islands on
business It's 10 more than reasonable to suppose
that the city will cheerfully give them feast Of
good things, with plenty Of rare wines to wash i!
down. Whether the city is willing or not how
ever, they take the feast and the wines, aud if
rumor does not belle them, they often go there for
no other purpose than to gorge themselves at the
expense of the public. The truth is, all that was
shameful in the excesses of the old "Tea Room"
may be found paralleed in the secret expenditures
of the Board Of Governors.
Year: 1859

It may not be to late to say to
our readers, that the white wash
ing of cattle and horse stalls, as
well as the inside of hog poems and
heneries, not only renders them
more healthy, but prevent the ami
mails and fowls from being infested
with troublesome and filthy vermin.
Country Gentleman.
Year: 1859

Conceited coxcomb asked friend
what apology he ought to make tor
not being one Of the party, the
night before, to which he had card
ofinvi: alton. "Oh my dear sir,re-
piled the wit say nothing about it
you were never missed"
Year: 1859

~ One Of our Western villa
ges passed an ordinance, forbidding
tavern keepers to sell liquor on
Sunday to any person except tray
elers. Every man who wanted a
nip was seen running around the
town next Sunday with a valise in
one hand and a carpet~bag in the
other.
Year: 1859

ORIGINAL PoEM.-In to-day's paper is poem
by Mrs. FADER. We glad at being again
able to present our readers with one of her sweet
and kindly-worded productions, and trust that
she will not remain so long silent hereafter.
Year: 1859

TT APPEARING BY THE PETITION OF
l. the saId Administrators that there is not suff-
cient personal Estate in her hands to pay the
debts outstanding against the deceased, and the
expenses OF Administration, and that it is ncces-
sary to sell the whole, or portion of the real
estate for the payment of such debts


1t is therefore ordered by the Judge of said
Court that all persons interested be and appear
before him at the Court room of said Probate
Court on
Year: 1859

There are few individuals in Arkansas who have been dubbed know nothings, but more recently have assumed the name of "the opposition,' who have been talking about the expenditures of the present ad- ministration. They have tried to persuade the people that there was some truth in the assertions of the black republicans stat ing that President Buchanan's administra tion expenses amount to one hundred mil lions annually. It must be quite humiliat ing to the opposition to draw all their light ming from the black republican papers to make thunder in Arkansas. It Is a strange source to look for truth or anything ele- vating or anything worthy of approval

 So soon as the white blacks commenced singing the song of extravagant democra tic administration, the opposition penny papers and brieaeSs lawyer politicians took up the echo, and now their notes can be heard here and there like the sickly songs of few locusts late in the fall, singing their own funeral dirge. And who are the opposition opposing and attempting to pull down? The very man who defeated J. C. Fremont, the Woolly Horse, for the Presi- dency, and he was elected by the southern States with the aid of noble and patriotic de- mocrats of three or four northern States. If Buchanan had not been elected Fremont would have been, and it appears from the acts of the opposition in the south that they would have preferred to have seen the latter elected.

 This new named old party are now at tempting to divide the people of the south, and if they should be successful 1t will re- suit in elevating to the Presidency an abo- litionist There are but two parties of any strength-the democratic and black repub- lican-and between these will be the con- test for the control of the nation. If the opposition should weaken the democratic party it renders the success of the aboli- ton herd that much more certain. But to prove that the opposition in the south are barking without any game or vel lping on the back track, we earnestly commend to their serious attention an article on the first page of this paper, giving the facts and figures in regard to the actual expenditures of President Buchanan's administration Dare you to refute it.-Helena Southron.
Year: 1859



 Eg~ Aboat a year ago, negro woman in Cincinnati killed her child, to keep it, as she said, from growing up slave, but in reality to spite her master Thereupon the abolition presses from one end of the Union to the other groaned and cried.- The fact was printed in large type and the assigned cause commented upon in the most agonizing style. Again, 1t is falsely charg ed that children are separated from thet parents in the sale of slaves. Such a thing is unheard of in the south, and in some of the States the law requires that families must be sold together. Now read this:

 "HoRRIBLE MURDER BY MoTHER.-In Orange, N. J., on the 25th ult, Mary Ann Brown, pauper, cut off the head of her son, four years of age, with a razor. The crime was discovered by her little daughter rushing from the room and crying that her brothers head was off, The woman gave as a reason for the murder, that the over seer of the poor intended separating her from the child, ,and she preferred its death. :"

 This child was to be taken from the mo- ther, but in the case of the slave in Gin cinnati the child was to go with the mother to Kentucky. And it seems that in the freesoil State of New Jersey they separate th. children from those mothers whose only crime is that of being poor. The woman was in the poor house and the child had to be taken to the orphan asylum. And this is northern philanthropy.
Year: 1859

The people of the federal city must be very ticklish set. True disciples of Demo- critus, they laugh at every thing. In read ing the report of the Sickles' trial we are astonished to see how mirth predominated among the spectators. One counsel asked the other if he had any questions to ask a witness to which negative reply was given, whereupon the reporters say that there was excessive laughter. One witness described sofa as being decent which set them all cachinating. Another stated that she was not in the habit of turning the handle of a coffee mill, whereat the spectators fairly roared. How comical!
Year: 1859

We could produce other proof if we thought it necessary. Of course, no man "with the sense he was born with" be- lieves that the democracy of the slave holding State of Virginia, would offer a candidate who was not sound on that vital question. We only dwell so long upon it, to show the tactics of the opposition.- These fellows know that they may have to support a red hot abohtionist. To pave the way, they are denouncing democracy as abolitionism, and, by 1860, will be ready to contend that their man, be he Seward or Bell, Chase or Bolts, is a sounder pro-sla- very man than the nominee of the Char leston convention.
Year: 1859

SAD CALAMIrY.-The Dallas (Texas) Her
aid of May lth, gives the following account
of a sad calamity which occurred near Fort
Worth on the West Fork of the Trinity:


A gentleman living very near West Fork,
on on returning home during the heavy rain
mat was falling. found his house was being
rapidly surrounded with the flood that was
rushing down the low lands bordering on
the stream, He had wife and seven chill.
drcn-took two of them on his shoulders and
carried them over the water to shed ON the
premises, placed them upon It. and started
back for the other children and his wife IIo
had not gone far, when cry from the she'd
drew his attention f; he looked back and dis
covered it floating off with his two children
on It, lie rushed after it, and after follow
ing it nearly half mile, succeeded in placing
MS children upon place of safety.


Night was rapidly coming on, as he return.
ed to save his wife and children. but alas he
found not even a yestigc Of his home, no sign
of wife or child.


The rise of the water is represented as be-
ing unparalleled in the history of the coun-
try for its suddenness and volume.