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Year: 1859

The investigations which have been and are being


made into the secret history Of the recent terrible
and remarkable outbreak will, we hope and be-


ieve, be productive Of good influence upon the
popular mind ia both sections of the Union. Ii
has two lessons. which it seems to US that it may


very appropriately teach. The first of these is
the lesson which it will convey to the North, teach


ing them to look even with more than their wide
spread aversion upon the principles and teachings
Of those visionary fanatics among them who, like
Garrison & Co. claim that the cons titution of cur
country is covenant with hell" and that the
duty of slaves is to rise in the night time and free
themselves from tbraliom by cutting the throats
of their masters and helping themselves to the
property accumulated by their unrequtted toll


1t will. we say. teach the northern people. when
these fanatical abolionsts go about through their
cities and towns, holding their periodical satuI.
MALTA, to look upon their principles in the proper
light, and will inspire in their minds more OF
d., ep seated hostility to their wicked and disor-
ganzing rawlings. In this way the results Of these
Investigations will affect the Northern mind for
good.


On the South it ought likewise 10 make a deep
impression. Here. in this ilarper's Ferry riot,
we have an illustration which both precept and
example have before told us. is altogether possi-
BILE contingency in country in whose midst there
exists large and degraded class of humanity
We cannot take fire in our bosoms and not be
burned. the Scripture and our own experience
hane taught us. Neither we have In our midst
fouf millions Of serfs, whose color. whose intellect
whose habits. whose everything is different from
the ruling element without liabilities to the same
dangers that have always attended society in eve
~ country where such large servile element has
existed. San Domingo has taught this lesson to
the world. Southampton has taught II to the peol
pie Of this country and this State. Scarcely more
insecure are those people who work by day and
sleep by night underneath the crate.s Of vesuvius
and Btna. and who are liable to an irluption at
any moment of burning lava. than many commu.
mites of our southern States where the slaves
number two or three 20 one Of the whites. These
slaves, by their constant and rapid illegi;imate
intermingling with the whites, as well as by the
very condition Of contact between superior aud
inferior races, are becoming in each generation
more intelligent and consequently more the Oh
ject of dread. They are sloughing of gradually
that torpor and obtuseness Of mind seemingly nat.
ural 10 them, even faster than they are shedding
their original dark hue Slowly, bot certainis
they are acquiring more Of the characteristics Of
NE white races and losing those of the African
Look at the frightened compls1iop Of ,hs race in
an our rsoushssa eitisssnd towns. Iu ohsrlestop.
Year: 1859

we have no further time, to-day. for comment
on this transaction. We regret the movement, ss
well because it has been sad disastrous failure,
as for other reasons. We reproach rot its author.
Leave the unsuccessful patriot alone with his
wounds
Year: 1859

I.


Dying my noble steed
All my brave bonnie steed!
You have borne me on through danger and
death
Yoa have brsathed with me the battles hot
breath;


Where the guns poured their hre
There rang your neigh higher
Where the deadly steel clsshed
Your dsuntlsss eye flashed!


All! my noble stesd
When on the desert waste
By the black simeon chased
Unheeding the rein In my guiding hand
Your iron hoofs few DER the burning sand
Oh, yosr instinct knew
Where the water cress grew
While E-mad with thirst
Your stubbornness cursed


Ah!-my faithful steed!
Once when my death was nigh
laid meath the winter sky
| had strsyed away from the hunting band
could see but you in the stretch Of land
Ny eye lost its sight,
sank In Deaths night;
And your mournful neigh
Died with the day


Ah!-my gentle steed!
You knelt by my chilled form
Ifelt your breath come warm,
You vsilsd my face with your flowing name
You caressed my hands to returning pain -
And your rough lips kissed
From my eyes their mist
You called in my ear
With your neigh so dssr,-


All my loving steed
Dying my noble steed--
My brave--my faithful steed
And cannot save you as you saved me
] must stroke you vainly and weep to see
Your eye grow dull In the mist Of death
And shorter and fainter your painting breathe
| must hear your neighing sink to . groan,
And then TO q gssping, and an alone


My dying steed-


Ny dead--desd stsed
Year: 1859

1t is very much to the credit of State
so young as this, that it can exhibit
such high proofs of intellectual advance
ment as are afforded by the majority Of
its newspapers and periodicals. The
newspaper press especially, as a whole
will compare favorably with that of any
other State in the Union; while it is
far superior to that of many States,
which have been longer settled and
possess more stable, homogeneous pop
ulation. What single State east of the
Alleghaneys can boast of such dis
penser of public intelligence as the ex-
act Union of Sacramento, or the digni-
fed and reliable Herald of San Francisco,
not to mention number more of clever
dailies in these and other cities !? Where
is there Western rival of that elegantly
printed and original agricultural period
ical, the Culturist-of those refined
family papers, the Hesperian and Home
Journal, or of the many well conducted
and geographically beautiful village
papers which are published every week
in the mountains and valleys of Califor-
mia? Some of the last, though printed
in remote and otherwise obscure places,
are distinguished by a degree of literary
ability and freedom from newspaper
conventionalism, which would give them
high reputation anywhere; and nearly
all are "racy of the soil'-devoted to
the development of the varied resources
of the State at large, as well as to the
promotion of local interests.


Californians can do nothing that will
90 further towards removing eastern
prejudice against this State, than to
send home regularly some of our news
papers and magazines. These are such
reliable indications of social progress and
mental culture, and proclaim so eloquent
ly the advantages Of our adopted land,
that they could not be disregarded nor
fail to inspire a just estimate Of the
country whence they emanate.
Year: 1859

NOVEL SLUIcING.-The miners plan
of rushing off dirt by means of stream
of water, has been employed for the ac
complishment of several other objects
in this State than the original one. A
portion of the grading Of the Sacramen-
to Valley Railroad was thus effected,
the earth removed in this instance being
auriferous and yielding gold sufficient
to pay the contractor a handsome profit
above the cost of labor. The citizens
of Forest City cleared their main street
of snow last winter, by the same econom-
ical means, everybody turning out with
shovels and making sport of the work
of cutting through the drifts way for
the flowing water. But the latest ap-
plication of sluicing is to the cleaning
of muddy streets. The Placervillains
lately hit upon this happy substitute for
hoes, shovels, brooms, carts and long
bills against the city.
Year: 1859




Maurice LesteFwas neag the staTboard gang
way whtn the ship struck, having started aft to
look to the helm The shock threw him upon
his back. and he tried TO get up; but ere he
could regain his feet the food OF mad waters
came Hurging over the bark, and he was thrown
-he knew not where. Ho only knew that the
flood came-that it caught him in its giant
grasp-that it hurled him as the gale hurls a
feather-that his head was hurt-that his body
was tossed and bruised--and then the lamp Of
bis consciousness went out When he came
to himself it was daylight, and the rays Of the
sun were beaming above him. At first he did
not attempttO move. any further than simply
to assure himself that he was really alive and
sensible; but sought to recall the events of the
past, which he did, very clearly, up TO the time
when his ship struck upon the rocks, ,--he could
60 no farther. After this be raised himself
upon his elbow, and tried to gaze about him. -
He found himself upon a bed of sand, between
two immense rocks lie had been landed there
in that deep nook, and the tide had gone out
and left him. In little while he rose to his
feet, and managed TO crawl up, by the aid Of
stranded spar, over low part Of one Of the
rocks,


After seeing oil that was 10 be Observed from
this point, be moved on towards where he
thought he should sooneet fad an open beach,
for he felt faint and sick, and he wished 10 fnd
help as soon a. possible. After toing over
slippery, slimy rocks, and cruel, tearing crags,
until his clothing was all torn, and his desh
bruised and laoerated, be finally reached an open
Year: 1859

II Father Gavazzi attempted to lecture in Gal
way, but his appearance caused riot He was
driven into the police barrack, chased from the
town, and his life only saved by the judcious ar
rangements Of the police, who prevented the mob
from following In direct line Of his retreat, and
who had cut off with force Of fifty men with
fixed bayonets, the advance of the Claddagh fish
ermen.
Year: 1859

R9A charitable C!D individual in the neigh
borhood of Williamantic, Conn, proposes to
raise subscription for a poor hard working
man, who recently lost a valuable cow Every
one applauded the object and its originator
money was raised-poor man expected to be
happy, when-his benevolent friend produced
an old bill against him to Just the amount
raised-and retained the cash.
Year: 1859

IFAntioch College, in Ohio, was sold at pub
lie auction In Cincinnati last week, for SO 600
The purchaser was an agent of Mr.. Francis A
Palmer of New York After the sale. however
the College was transferred to its former owners
free from debt, and will be Immediately re-organ
lied
Year: 1859

1. Because you will be likely to treat
quite lightly two very good friends of yours,
Reason and Conscience, which will not
have chance to speak.


2. Because you will have to travel over
the same ground in company with one So
Der Second Thought, who will be more like
ly to have with him whip of scorpions
than buGe.. of flowers


3. Because the words of actions involved
in it are more likely than otherwise to be
misunderstood, and therefore to be severely
judged.


4. Because this is one wayto please and
give great advantage to great enemy of
yours, one powerful enough to be called
the " Prince of the World" and who has
caught more people than can be counted in
this very trap.


5. Because, in so doing, you are likely
to be fellow-traveller in such company as
follows: He that is hasty with his feet
sinneth" "He that is hasty of spirit e1halt-
eth folly" The thoughts of every one
that is hasty tend only to want" Seest
thou man hasty in words, there is more
hope of fool than of him."


6. Because such fire may be kindled
that it cannot be put out, even by all the
water a whole engine can throw.
Year: 1859

horns of the bull I rode nearer to the
pitiable object as he stood bleeding and
trembling before me, and said to him,
Now is your time, old fellow, and you
had better be off, Though blind and near
ly destroyed, there seemed evidently to be
a recognition of a. friend in me, as he
Strengthened up, and, trembling with ex-
element, dashed off at full speed upon the
prairie, in straight line. We turned
our horses and resumed our march, and
when we had advanced mile or more we
looked back, and on our left, when we saw
again the ill-fated animal surrounded by
his tormentors, to whose Unsuitable voracity
he unquestionably soon fell a victim
Year: 1859




A NOTORIOUS couNTERFE1HR SENT 10 TIN STATE


PRISON.


Nov. u-A the opening OF the Court TO- day John
Sooks apparently very intelligent msn and said 10 be
we'll Known character, was placed trial charged with
forgery In the second degree in having In his possession
two counterfeit dollar bills the Nassau Bank Of
Brooklyn, with felonous intent 10 utter them. He
jointly indicted with VIM. Fisher, who disposed OF
last month and now doing some service 70 the State at
Sing Sing The principal witness for the prosecution
ing account Of the dongs Of the prisoners the morning
Of the 26h Of August He watched them go from Broad
way to Maiden lane saw them confer together In entry
ways and arrested Shocks. After arrestng Sno0ks the
Maiden lane and offered worthless teo dollar
bill In exchange for some articles. The officer
promptly arrested him, and took both OF them
to the station house. 1t observed tha.
Snooks threw something from his pocket while he
detained In the store during officer Ftzmaurice's tenn
porary absence which, being examined found TO
be the bills charged In the indictment.


Tho defence offered testimony to show that paid
debt to Snooks in the worthless money but the story
and the circumstances connected with irnproba
the lucid charge Of the Judge, promptly rendered YER
dict of guilty


Counsel for the defence moved postponemcnt OF thu
sentence which was denied whereupon the prisoner was
asked why judgment should not bc pronounced against
him. He m ado quite long speech to the Court and il
seesed considerable natural talent which IL had been
employed In an honorable calling would have made him
. respectable member OF society


The Judge observed In passing sentence that Shocks
had served term IN tho State prison but learning that
he had pursued an honest calling since his release the
Judge, instead Of sending him 70 the prison for
years sentenced him TO imprisonment In that institution
for hvc years and six months.
Year: 1859




FACTS AND SPECULATION UPON THE NAYORALrY.


Now that the battle OF the State and county election has
been fought and the dead buried and the wounded
cared for, the belgerens actively preparing for
Soerino battle the Mayoralty issue. Various specua
rife to whom be the nominees and who
will be the victor.


Esxt Monday night the Mozart Hall branch Of the oca
democracy viii hold their Aayoralhy Convention; bu
this creates excitement from the fact that Is we'll
derstood that Fernando Wood will be the nominee


The Tammany branch Of the democracy are keeping
very quiet, and TO the outside world appear in state
torpdiy but this only apparent Some sangune poll
ticians imagine that Tammany Hall will adopt similar
course as that the Mozart county nominations by
endorsing its nominees But this Is purely speculative
the initiated who in the secret Of the coal hoe
of Tamm profess to know that different policy
has been agreed upon and that they will have inde
pendent candidate for the Nayoralty From present
dcaionB the battle threatens to be warm and-wordy.


The republicans also working very quietly but
they have already long ss Of aspirans for the chief
maastracy of the city, many OF whom are OF the small
fry order and would not, If nominated stand ga ghost
Of chance" for election. The radical tpubs have been
casting their nett for several weeks trying to lind fish
Of the right stripe for the honor but yet
full Comptroller Haws' friends, learning that he was
willing and anxious TO resign his present position have
proposed to tho pure black pubs his Mayoral
growl and denial Of Mr. Haws' claIns on tho ground
Of his not being more Of party man since his instaa
ton into the Comprollership Is quite probable that
there will be three candidates In the field and be
presumed that Of these the less Objectionable will meet
the ratification Of the taxpayers.
Year: 1859

From the Lawrence (Kan.) Herald Of Freedom Noy 81


While we presume il not tho intention Of the rcpubn
ess to defend old John Brown, vndicate his
duct at Hapers Ferry yet regret 10 know that they
have done so in the past In regard ~ crimes infinitely
more danrable than the Harper's Ferry tragedy and
now they have the wcKednees TO say that his mission
Kansas peaceful one," and that I" II was the vio
lcnce committed upon his family and home which made
him the demon he is.''


IN article of last week we stated that old Brown
came 70 Kansas late in the summer the fall 1856
that he came armed and IN peculiar manner that those
ms furnished him in the State Of New York. and
that their supply made the condition Of his coming
during the Wakarusa war; in December Of that year and
and that nowhere in his whole Kansas history 90 We
find particle Of evidence that he desired 10 cultivate the
principles Of peace


II is urged that he came here peace man. Do peace
men emgrate TO country, carrying with them only
scr Do peace men call from their dwellings midnight
their fellow citizens, and cut them to piects with broad
swords?
Year: 1859

a CARD.-It is a well known fact among medi-
cal men, that there has long been wanted good and
reliable preparation of SARSAPARILLA, as nearly
all that are manufactured in the East CONTAIN SPIRITS,
and some of them even MERCURY, although processing
not do soconsequenty, for all cutaneous diseases,
etc. they are injurious instead of beneficial. Now in
the preparation we offer to the public we are willing
10 show the receipt to any one-no matter who-DOC-
TOR OR NO DocrOR-as every man has right to know
what he is taking:
Year: 1859

then the melon, marked in grooves by ma
ture for the knife, filled with yellow, nee
tareous fluid. But forget the wine; that
took at least half an hour getting; because
the landlord kept no wine himself; and
had quarreled or run in debt with every
other landlord for a mile round. But he at
last came back, his path marked with pres
piration, gripping the bottle with his hot,
streaming hand. l bowed, drew out the
stopple of mashed vine leaves, and poured
him and myself out glass. He drank it,
and, smacking his lips, with wink at his
wife. as much as to say, CHOW shall stick
it on when it comes to the bill?" proceeded
to mop himself all over with a dirty table,
cloth, lying ready for the lavendera or
washerwoman. l found the wine fiery,
sweet luscious Malaga wine, not unlike
branded raisin. As Invent up the creaking
loft-stairs, for two hours siesta-for
had to ride on horseback from there over
the mountains-I saw the landlord get
down the ink-horn and begin my bill. He
had Just sanded it when | came down to
proceed on my journey. l won't say much
about it but it was the most imaginative
bill l ever perused.-Dickeas Household


Words.
Year: 1859

The New York Herald gives an account
of the new fashion recently ;ut- p'-t'%ofo
New York of holding divine ''


day, in all the theatres of The


Herald says:


The inspiration of religious fervor has Is,.lll-
upon the lyric and dramatic stage; and
where the divine compositions of Meyer
beer and Verdi and Rossini delighted
the upper crust of our population during the
week, or the love-and-murder efforts of the
sensation dramatist "split the ears of the
groundlingsP in minor theatre, songs of
praise and words of holiness are echoed every
Sunday evening. The upper stratum of re-
hgiouS life eXudes its super-abGndant feelings
of piety with respectable and decorous bear
ing in the fashionable and elegant Academy
of Music, while the lower stratum does the
same with cheers, cat-calls and stamping of
feet in the National theatre On Chatham st.
The crowd which flocks to both houses is
immense. At the Academy hundreds are
turned away for want of room, every Sun
day evening the doors are locked when the
house is full, and all who arrive too late are
compelled either to adopt the out-of-door
practice of going to church, or to reserve
fervor for another Sabbath difficult thing
to do in this impulsive city. At the Chat
ham street theatre the attendance is so large
that the doorkeepers are obliged to select the
audience, admitting the well clad and ex-
cluding humble piety in seedy garments;
posse of police is required to keep order at
the doors; and the audience express their
impatience at the non-arrival of the preacher,
in the usual theatrical fashion, by stamping
and whistling, hail his appearance by
storm of clapping, and compliment the sali
ent points of his discourse with loud ap-
plause.


Meantime the churches are afflicted with
slim attendance, and it looks as if the cler-
gy, to preserve their popularity, would have
to abandon the pulpit for the stage. Time
was when such descent would 4havc shock
ed the religious sentiment of the country;
and even now, whatever is left of the strict
old Puritans must move uneasily in their
graves at the spectacle. One consolation,
however, is those who advocate the claims
of the stage to be considered a moral in
structor have now the satisfaction of behold
ing a practical illustration of their theory.
Year: 1859

Post Master General Holt, has saved to tho
Government, by his rotronohmeIts, the neat
little sum Of a fraction over one million Of dol
lars And yet the Republicans charge cXtrav-
agance on every Department Of the present
Administration
Year: 1859

The Washington correspondent Of the Bslti'
more Sun says Senator Sumner intends TO re
sign his seat in the Senate. In case of Lie
resignation it is thought that Gov Banks will
succeed him.
Year: 1859

PAnABLE.-A pious monk, one day when he
had been unusually fervent in his devotion,
found his darkened cell suddenly illuminated
by an unearthly light, and there stood before
him vision of the Saviour, his countenance
beaming with godlikc love, his hands out
stretched with gesture of kind invitation
At that same moment rang the convent bell,
which called the monk, in the regular course
of his duty to distribute aims to the poor at
the gate. For an instant he hesitated but the
next instant found him, true to his VOW of
charity,on his way to tho gate. The poor re-
lieyed, the work of love complete, he returned
in sadness to his cell, doubling not that the
vision had taken flight. But, TO his
surprise and joy, it was still there, and with a
smile even more full than before of divine
beauty and ineflablo love; and there came
from it the Words" Hadst thou stuid, had
Odd. r, Peabody.
Year: 1859

The KEY TO THE HEART.-If had lock Of
very complicated construction, and there was
only one key that would unlock it should
feel very sure that key was made by one who
understood the construction of that lock. So
when find that, notwithstanding all the wind
ings and mysteries of iniquity in the human
heart, the Bible, and the Bible only, is adapted
to it throughout, is able to penetrate its most
secret rccesses, am constrained to believe
that the Bible was made by him who 'alone
knoweth the hearts of the children Of men,
Daniel Webster.
Year: 1859

BeH~ The wise man keepeth a quiet tongue
in his head and maketh money thereby while
the foolish man let's everybody know his bust
ness by keeping up continual tattle and loses
py the operation;
Year: 1859

Cisterns are built very ch cap


in many localities where the


earth is Of a compact character.


by digging a hole aud plaster


ing the walls Of it with cement.
1t is necessary that the cistcrn
should be SO covered az to se-
cure the cement from the action
Of frost. A cistcrn ten feet deep
and six feet wide Will hold sey-
enty barrels Of water. A good
form is to dig a hole the shape Of
an egg, with the big end down.
Such a cistorn, nine feet deep
and eight in diameter, will hold
one hundred barrels Of water
Even where it is necessary to
brick them up before pIastorine,
cistcrns are generally cheaper
than wells, and, if Of good size
and we'll made, are much super
ior, because they afford a sufii-
cicnt supply Of water from any
ordinary sized reot and Of great
ly superior quality


For family use, it is we'll to
divide the cistern into two COM
partments by a partition, with
materials in the bottom
Of one side-the water to be dis
charged from the roof into one
side, and drawn for use from
the other.


B15 MIsFoRTUEEs are like
and ytormy clouds-in
the distance they appear black,
bat when over our heads they
are scarcely gray; as when
dreams denote an agreeable fiji
turc, sowiIl it be with the often
painful dreams Of life when it is
past. All our strong feelings,
like ghosts, have their influence
for a certain period only; and if
a man were 10 say himself this
passion, this pain, this rapture,
Is sure after three days to lose
its effect on the mind, then
would he always be more com
posed and quiet