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Year: 1860

The NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIONS c. Well
ing, Esq, for a number of years connected with
the paper, is hereafter to be associated with Col.
Seaton in the editorial conduct of the National In
teUigencer. In making the announcement the prin-
ciples and aims which sha govern its future
agement are stated to be as follows


"That in politics the paper would continue to be
Constitutional and Conservatives to hold the true
objects of just administration of this Government
to be, to cherish peace and friendly intercourse
with all foreign nations having correspondent dis
positions; to scrupulously avoid all interference
with the domestic internal affairs of other ma
tions;to maintain sincere neutrality towards beig-
erent Powers; to prefer in all cases amicable dis
cussion and reasonable accommodation of differ
ences to decision of them by appeals to arms; to
hold the Union of the States the basis of their
peace and happiness; to support the Constitution,
which is the cement of the Union, as well in its


limitations as in its authorities TO respect the rights
and authorities reserved to the States and to the
people as equally incorporated with, and essential
to the success of the general system; to avoid the
slightest interference with the rights of conscience
or the functions of religion, so wisely exempted
from civil jurisdictions to preserve, in their full en-
ergy, the other salutary provisions in behalf OF
private and personal rights and of the freedom of
the press; to provide and maintain an adequate
regular military force, and respectable and eff
clent navy; to promote. by authorized means, i'm
provements friendly to agriculture, to manufac-
lures, and to external and internal commerce; and
to favor, in like manner, the advancement of sci
and the diffusion of information as the best ali
ment to true liberty"
Year: 1860

The Fire Department of New York propose to
have grand torch-light procession in honor of the
visit of the Prince of Wales to that city.


An effigy of John Brown was suspended by the
neck on Friday night last from Lincoln banner
which is stretched across Main street. in Wheeling,
Year: 1860

The New Orleans papers state that the late acts
OF incendiarism in Texas, and the evidence which
created an excitement in that State which it is not
possible for those at distance fully to estimate
stranger cannot travel without annoying survei-
lance, and after being arrested and closely ex
amined by the authorities
Year: 1860

IHE DRoUTH IN KANsAs.-Kansas correspondents
give gloomy account of the condition of affairs in
that Territory, resulting from the long continued
drouth Up to the goth of August, the inhabitants
had been endeavoring, by renewing the seed to in
sure some semblance of crops but they had been
unsuccessful, everything being dried up and killed
as often as the trial was made. The season is now


too far advanced for them to hope for success even
should their be rain and great amount of suffering
Is expected to result There some small dis
tricts, however, where the drouth has not been so
severe, where scanty crops may be obtained, and
these, together with the old left over from last
year, it is hoped will be sufficient to keep the in
habitants from absolute starvation.
Year: 1860

Ex-POstmaster Fowler must have ad a speedy


recovery from that attack of yellow fever if the
correspondent of the Charleston Courier speaks
truly. He says that letter has been received from
Mr.. Fowler by an intimate friend in New York. in


which he speaks gratefully of the friends who have
endeavored to lift the load which oppresses him.
| He is satisfied that if the world knew the whole


story of his transgressions it would not Judge him
| so harshly.
Year: 1860

SINCE THE BURGLARIEs in some of the houses on
the Fifth Avenue, New York, strict watch has
| been kept for similar attempts. One night last


week the owner of ive-story reestone front house


walked quietly into his front door, and ascending to
his chamber, went to bed. He was seen and the po-
lice arrested him as soon as he was snugly between


the sheets. He had to call in the neghbors to iden


tify him and to verify his statement that he was the
head of a respectable family summering at New


port. He was believed to be a notorious burglar


and one officer was confident his portrait in the
! Rogues' Gallery.
Year: 1860

AN EDIToR's HARDEST WoRK-Every one who has had any experience in the news paper business will heartily corcur in the views presented by Virginia paper, in the following article:

 " Many people estimate the ability of a newspaper and the industry and talent of the editor, by the quantity of editorial matter it contains. It is comparatively an easy task for frothy writer to pour out daily columns of words. His ideas may flow in one ever lasting flood, and yet his paper be meagre and poor concern. But what is the labor and toll of such man, to that imposed on the ju- dcous, informed editor, who exercises his vo- cation with an hourly consciousness of its re- sponsbilities and duties to devote himself to the conduct of his paper, with the same care and assiduity that a sensible lawyer bestows upon suit, or humane physician to a patient, without regard for show or display. Indeed it is but a small portion of the work The industry Is not even shown there. The care, the time employed in selecting is far the most important.
Year: 1860

Mrs Wyllys asks that question, and then elaborately answers it herself thus:

 Are women naturally polite, did you ask, dear, good natured public?

 Did you ever know woman to make room in an omnibus, five on side, when number six was entering, founced and yelyeted, until ordered by the driver?

 Did you ever know a little pair of gaiter boots to turn one inch either to the right or left when they could have saved you from streaming gutter by the operation! Patent leather don't behave so-not they

 Did you ever know woman to say, Il am sorry to have given you so much trouble" when the dry-good clerks have turned things topsy turvy, without finding the shade or color that never existed?

 Did you ever know a woman who did not know it was outrageous" for another woman to travel with baby, or didn't regard 1t as "cruel and barbarous," if any one objected to the crying of her baby?

 Did you ever know two women to talk Of third without ridiculing her, even if she was her "d dear particular friend!' Did you ever praise one young lady in the presence of another, without being confidently told of some enormous fault or deformity in the other that you hadn't dreamed of?

 Did you ever know pretty woman to make an impression without half a dozen other pretty women running the effect of 1t the instant she left the room?

 Did you ever know a woman to apologize for having knocked another woman's bonnet into "pi," Chats printerlsm, but expressive notwithstanding with the corner of her par asol?

 Did you ever hear of a woman who had an idea she was making trouble by her little airs and graces?

 We don't believe you ever did, reader. They are race of unaccountables these wo- men, just as sweet and piquant as June roses sometimes, and then again like so many ven omous thorn bushes

 There's one thing we never ceased to be ln- wardly thankful tor-that we are not man, and consequently not obliged to marry one of 'em. Why she would drive one crazy in week, with her whims and fancies. her eXac- tons and pretty ways. We would make the most henpccked husbands in the world, unless, indeed we had the nerve to run away, or shut her up in a closet for d week, until she prom i,ed to behave better When woman choses she can be the nearest thing to an angel of anything in the world, and what pity it is she doesn't always chose Life Illustrated.
Year: 1860

There is loud complaint raised against the British for capturing and surendering up General Walker to the authorities of Hon duras, whenitwas known in advance he would be shot. Many are calling upon our govern ment to interfere and revenge his death. This Cur. government cannot do. Gen. Wal ker became a citizen of Nicaragua five years ago, and in thus expatriating himself, he tied the hands Of the government of the United States so far as anything our country can do Nicaragua is the only power on earth which could legally proceed in the matter, and as that government long since rejected Walker it is useless to hope that hand will be raised to ayenge his death.
Year: 1860

A BAD HABIr.-The practice of wearing tight finger rings is excessively dangerous But short time since we read an account of a man having died of lockjaw, produced by wearing a tight finger ring. An exchange notices woman in Newark who wore a large flint ring so tight, it became impossible to re- move 1t. An examination showed the finger to be quite dead below the ring, and that de- composition had commenced The ring was a quarter of an inch wide by an eigth in thickness. She went to physician to have it removed but without avail, and the phys- sian was compelled to resort to amputation as the only means of preventing fatal result The finger was accordingly taken off at the base. 1t is believed the woman wore the ring through superstitious motives, as she manifested more uneasiness at parting with the ring than with the finger
Year: 1860

HUNG FOR THE NINETEENTH TIME-A western Missouri cotemporary tells the follow ing: " On Tuesday last, news came to this town that man was seen hanging between Independence and MaXweIl's Landing. The coroner was promptly notified of the fact, and he, Tn the discharge of his duty, as promptly repaired to the scene; but to his surprise found the man alive, kicking and walking about as other people do, with no rope around his neck-where the rope ought to be. He (the coroner) made some inquiries about the victim and the old woman-that is Mrs. Eli colt, the wife of the hung man-replied he was cut down, but not dead; and further re- marked that it was about the nineteenth time he had attempted to hang himself and hadn' | yet succeeded, but she'd be teetotally damed if he mightnt hang the next time until he was dead that she never would cut the cord again to let him breath easy We understand that Ellcott is in the habit of hanging him. self every time he has family jar, and al- though he has made so many attempts has never yet got without sight of the house where his wife would never fail to let him down before his wind shortened
Year: 1860

MEcHANICs-The fashion of tue aristoc- racy so-called, putting on airs and turning up their noses at the idea of associating with mechanics, is fast passing out of date. Me chanics are beginning to be valued at what they are worth, as all men should be, and if they do not get a position in other respects, the fact that they are mechanics cannot with hold 1t from them. If they do not conduct themselves in manner to be worthy of it, they have no right to expect 1t. The learned professions are So crowded that it takes man of more than ordinary talent to acquire any thing more than a competency. Men are beginning to train their sons, and very prop erly, for other things besides law and medi- cine. And we find young men who have received the advantages of liberal education turning their attention to mech unism. as more likely to secure their independence That man shall work, is a decree from heaven, and that a man who works for a living is not enti- tied to as much respect as the man who gets a living without working for it, is an idea which, if it ever existed, is fast vanishing from the minds of men.
Year: 1860

Thousands of men" says Chalmers, "breathe, move and live, pass off the stage of life, and are heard of no more. Why. They do not a particle of good in the world, and none were blessed by them as the means of their redemption; not line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled; and so they perished Their light went out in dark ness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die? Do good, and leave behind you monument of virtue.

 Live for something. Ye noble Southern youth. sons of the men who fought for ana freed the western world from the yoke ye who have time, leisure, opportunity ana means, Resolve to live for something.

 What if you have property to keep you from Gods vineyard? Does he require noun ing at your hands? Are you not responsible to him for that property, for that tune, TOT that opportunity, for that mind? Live Tor something. Strive to live so that your name will be engraven on the tablets of time, as with the graver of an angel, with the names of the good and great who have lived and who will live for God and their country.

 The opportunity for good is round and about us on all sides even in workshops there is influence of example, such as faithtulness, sobriety, virtuous acts; the poor od-carrer can "i live for somethng," while the boasted millionaire passes away soon to be forgot ten.

 Death has taken hence within year men and women, whose names will be long remem- bered; whose lives are worthy of the imlta- tion of the youth of our land. Who can thlnk of man gone hence who did : live for some thing?" and not desire to live like hlm-not stain on his name, and nothing said ot him but in the fond language of friends and kinds men. Young man, young woman, live for s0mathinr
Year: 1860

AMERICAN WoMEN.-An exchange says in late issue, what every one must feel to be true '' \ omen have the love and admiration of men in every country, and in no country are they so worshipped and so indulged as they are in America. Wcshall not allow any one to surpass us in true and sincere respect for the sex; bnt candor compels us to say that our American women are becoming spoiled Oyer-indulgence Is making them presumptous The qualification of all their whims even when they consist in rude push ing into promiscuous assemblies, and IndecO- rous crowlingabout foreign visitors has made them forget that such conduct is improper, indelicate and unfeminine. The best society has done all this, and Is encouraged to go on. Of course, the several grades of society be- low the best, such as the second best, the third best. and so down to the worst, feel jus tifed in following so distinguished model and if the thing is suffered to go on, We have a fine prospect of having the most immodest and impolite female population of any coun- try in the world.

 The custom of showing extraordinary cour- tesy to women, in travelling and in public places is commendable; and our people have often taken pride in it as national trait. But it has been carried too far. Many women de mand as a right ciyilities whose chief merit consists in the gracious made of offering them and in the gracious mode of acknowledging them. When woman gets into a crowded city railway car, and a gentleman rises to offer her a seat she generally takes it as a matter of course, without a whisper or sign of thanks Sometimes indeed she rudcIy pushes her way to a seat, and demands that room be made for her by men who have paid theirfare, and have, by all ordinary rules of travelling, and by common sense, an exclusive right to their places while they choose to occupy them.

 The most unpleasant sight that can be pre- sentcd to the eyes of man who would like to yenerate the whole sex to which his mother, his wife and his daughters belong, is a mob of well-dressed women, all infamed beyond all sense of propricty, by an inordinate curiosity. Such sights were witnessed during the visits of the Japanese and the Prince of Wales; not to any extent in Philadelphia, but to great and shameful extent in other cities If such conduct goes unrebuked, 1t will be thought proper, and it is time that our women be told, that the discreet of their own sex and all of the other, regard it as disgraceful in the highest degree.
Year: 1860

Daybreak never was described with greater beauty than by Miss Prescott in her new At lantic Monthly story. She describes three persons sailing on a lake, waiting for the dawn:

 Ever and anon they passed under the lee of some island, and the heavy air grew full of idle night sweetness the waning moon, with all its sad and alien power, hung low-dun malign and distant, a coppery blotch on the rich darkness of heaven. They foated slowly still now and then she dipped a hand into the cool current now and then he drew in his oars, and bending forward dipped his hand with hers. The stars retreated in palid veil that dimmed their beams, faint lights streamed up the sky-the dark yet clear and delicious They paused motionless in the shelter of a deep rock; over them a wild vine hung and swayed its long wreaths in the water, sweet brar starred with fragrant sleeping buds climbed and twisted, and tufts of rbbon-grass fell forward and streamed in the indolent rip pie beneath them the lake, lucid as some dark christal sheeted with olive transparence, button of yellow sand here a brean poised on slowly waving fins, as if dreaming of motion or perch flashed its red fin from one hollow to another

 The shadow lifted degree, the eye pene- trated to further regions; bird piped warily, then freely, a second and a third answered, a fourth took up the late bluejay and thrush catbird and bobolink; wings began to dart about them, the world to rustic overhead near and far the dark prime grew instinct with sound. the shores and heavens blew out gales of melody, the air broke up in music. He lifted his oars silently; she caught the sweet brier, and lightly shaking it, rain of dew drops dashed with deepest perfume sprinked them; they moved on. 4 thin mist breathed from the lake, streamed round the boat, and lay like white coverlet upon the water; a light wind sprangup and blew it in long rags and ribbons, lifted and torn, and streaming out of sight. All the air was pearly, the sky was opailne, the water now crisply emblazoned with a dark and splendid jewelry-the paved work ofa sapphire;a rosy fleece sailed across their heads some furnace glowed in the cast behind the trees; long beams fell resplend- ently through and lay beside vast shadows :; the giant first stood back and intense against a red and risen sun they trailed with one oar through pad of buds all unawares of change stole from the overlapping thicke;s through a high-waled pass. where, on the open lake, the broad silent, yellow light crcp from bloom to bloom and woke them witha touch.
Year: 1860

TIE French peasantry are proverbially smaller than the English and late statistics have shown that they are also shorter lived But the climate of France is as salubrious as that of England the associations of the two people are substantially the same, and the French, if anything, are happier, and ought, therefore, to have a greater longevity than there neghbors. We must took to the diet of the French for an explanation, and when we so look the solution presents itself at once The staple of Frenchmans food is bread It is, indeed, the best bread in the world but bread alone is not a thoroughly nutritious healthy diet
Year: 1860

LIVE WITHIN YOUR INcoME-if a man wishes to live happily and contentedly, he should make a determination, under every circumstance, to live within his income. 1t Is not a difficult matter to do when once a strong will is exercised. Half the wretchcd- ness and misery we meet with in this world is occasloned by neglecting this golden rule of life. How many anxious days ald weary nights have been passed; how many house holds have been broken up; how many kind hearts have been changed; how many aflec- tionate dispositions have been soured by men living beyond their means. It is an old adage that |" when want comes in at the door. love flies out at hewindOw. and we are sorry to say that 1t Is only. in vast majority of cases. too true. TEuman nature is not proof against the sharp stiugs of ill-fortme. Too often changes the afectionate wife into the household yiraeo, and the husband into the drunken sot Economy can always be prac- ticed without meanness, and a man who lives within his income is making for himself q bed of down for his declining years, and set ting an example for his children which will secure their happiness and prosperity when he is dead and gone
Year: 1860

HEADED OFF BY HIS WIFE-A distin- guished candidate for an office of high trust in a certain Sta!c, who is up to thing or two, v and has keen appreciation of live beauty. when about to set off on an clectioneering tour recently said to his wife, who was to ac- company him for prudential reasons:

 My dear, inasmuch as this election is complicated, and the canvass will be close am anxious to leave nothing undone that would promote my popularity, and so l have thought it would be good plan for me to kiss number of the handsomest girls in every place where l may De honored with a public reception. Don't you think that would be good idea"

 "Capital,' exclaimed the devoted wife :; and to make your election sure thing, while you are kissing the handsomest girls 1 will kiss an equal number of the handsomest young men?'

 The distinguished candidate, we believe, has not since referred to this pleasing means of popularity.
Year: 1860

An Irshman had been sick long time, and while in that state would occasional cease breathing, and life be apparently extinct for some time, when he would come to again. On one of those occasions when he had just awak- ened from his sleep, his friend Patrick, asked him.

 And how'll ye know, Jimmy, when yer dead? yer after waking up every time"

 Bring me glass of whisky, and say there's till ye, Jimmy" and if l don't rise and dhrink then bury me"
Year: 1860

DAGUERREOTYPE BY YLIGHTNING-Onthe the 10th of August last, flash of lightning struck windmill at Lappon, in France, in which there was a female, who was killed by the electric fluid, and on whose body there was left the picture of neighboring tree, with all its branches and leaves complete. This singular tatooing by the lightning was seen and attested by medical examiners and the municipal authorities of the place.
Year: 1860

GAs.-In weekly paper, which has its
existence in Philadelphia, there is story
published of a murder, in which the wrong
man was tried for its commission and acquit-
ted, through the instiumentalty of the right
man, who confessed to the attorney of thu
wrong man. The attorney relates the story
and winds up by saying: lie went to Cal
ilornia after all was over, and hear he ha
since risen to eminence in his adopted State
lie is noted for his morality and public spirit
and is looked upon as a thoroughly good
man. He was one of the celebrated Nigi-
lance Committee of 1856. and is foe TO al
gamblers and drunkards, and evil doers o
whatever name or stamp. But would not
bear his conscience about me for all the wealtl
Of CALIFORNIA; mines IS. +. Spirit.
Year: 1860

OF Schiner's boyhood, a German writer
thus speaks:


Even the mental food for which he crayed
was denied him He had to read by stealth,
with fear and difficulty lock and key,
some friendly companion keeping watch the
while-the standard works of the then classic
authors Of his country But the severer the
trammels imposed, the bolder flew his fancy
into the boundless realms of free thought
In the midst of petty miseres, he built up an
ideal world of his own With the pains and
penalties of the barrack constantly before
him, he strove to mould himself to the classic
pattern of Plutarchs antique WORTHLESS, and
became rebel against monarchic authority
Together with his fellow students, he in Sc
cret adopted as device expressive of then
aspirations, lion rampant, the motto-h
tyrahlnoS.'
Year: 1860

The undersigned would respectfully announce to
his numerous subscribers his intention TO credit
pc son for longer term than FOUR WEEKS for the
DAILY NATIONAL DEHOcRAr. l am forced to adopt
the above on account Of the increase in my
delinquent list JERoMUS RAPALJE,


dec6-4wdh Carrier
Year: 1860

In these days OF degenerate patriotism is pleasant
to see so mary friends Of the Union in this cltv You
can scarcely find any one in Marysvnle in favor of
the dissolution of the Union. Harry and Little John
being both true patriots hereby extend an invitation
to AL Unon-iovng citizens to meet regularly at their
place of holding forth and there consider matters Of
internal interest. UNION SALOON,


j11u 81 street