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Year: 1860

The London Tunes says:


Captain Kel and Mr.. Varler, who went
out for the purpose of endeavoring to raise the
American end of the Atlantic Cable, report
that "although they have on many occasions
been able to raise the blight, and so get on
board at different times pieces of cable, in
all amounting to about seven miles, they
have invariably found it broken again few
miles otf. Attempts were made at several
points, but all were unsuccessful, he rope
in almost every instance giving way. 1t was
therefore, found necessary to ABANDON it.
Speaking of the state of the rope between
Tickle Point and Copper Islands, Captain
Kel and Mr. Varley say:"A Although mud
is shown on the charts there are unqueston-
ably rocks also, as was too plainly indicated
by the state of the cable rock weed and sea
anilnaicuas adhering to and surrounding it
in many places, showing clearly that it had
been suspended clear Of the bottom The
cable was invariably hauled in by hand to
avoid unnecessary strain. The recovered
cable varied very much, and what is most
important is, that even those portions which
came out Of the black mud were So perished
in numerous patches that the outer covering
parted on board during the process Of haul
inc in, and bu, for the dexter,ty and cour.
age of the men in sezing hold of it beyond
the break, where the iron wires stuck out
like lunches of highly shmlrened needle
points, ,7e should not have known So much
of its condition. In q word, it was cvi
dentlv some tine embedded in mud, some
times on small stones, Sometimes half en-
beddcd, and sometimes wholly exposed over
rocks, and was apparent from HE condition
Of the outer covering. The iron wire in
many places often appeared sound; but, on
minute inspection, were found eaten away
and rotten; the sewing was also decayed.
In some places the iron wires were coated
with metallic wires and much eaten, they
having most probably rested on copper ore
for there are veins of it in Trinity Bay The
guta percha and copper wires are, however
in as good condition as when laid down"
Those portions of the cable recovered at
Break Heart Point, that were wound with
tarred yarn, were sound, the tar and hemp
having preserved the iron wires bright and
free from rust
Year: 1860

The July number of Brownson's Quarter
ly Reriew, the organ of the Catholic Church
in this country. contains an article upon the
subject Of "Politics at home,' from which
we extract the following very lucid and un
answerabe exposition of the faI'acy and
radical tenden, les of the doctrine Of squat
ter Sovereignty" or what may be more Ger
rectly styled Douglasism:


We hold that we Of the North, have a
right to be political Aboitionists, for in our
States slavery does not exist, and the FEEDER
al Government has no power over it in any
of the States. We have no right to get
up political party in non slave holding
State FOR the abolition Of slavery, for there
is in such State no subject on which such a
party can act, and to act on it politically in
another State is not permitted, for it is in
violation of the principles tina. all the States
of the Union stand on an eqna footing. We
have no right to ge, up Federal party, or a
party to force the Federal Government to
abolish it in the slave States for the States,
in forming the Union, reserved the question
of slavery to themselves in their separate
and independent capacity, All political Alb
olitionism is contrary, therefore, either to
the Federal Constitution or to the mutual
equality of the independence Of States. The
abolition Of slavery is legitimate question
for political parties within slave holding
States. Whatever, then, may or may not be
our views Of slavery, we who belong to non
slave holding States, have no right to make
it a political question, or the basis ofa po-
h,icsl party, either Slae or Federal. We


may say slavery is an evil. a sin, but that is a
moral question, and under our system Of
government not to be reached by political
action. So we may say Presbyterianism or
Mehodism is an evil sin. and one that
will ultimately bring down the judgment Of
God upon the people that sustain Il, but We
Year: 1860

To prevent the constantly recurring cases
Of poisoning by mistake, it has been sugges.
ted that arsenic and other poison, be put up
by druggists in rcd paper and marked with
the skull and cross bones, as is done in some
parts Of Europe, and that in 6uid poison the
same symbol should be put on the bottle.
Tbis the most iliterats could understand
Especially t'as skull and cross bones
Year: 1860

Eg- The Republican State Central Com
mitee, in printed circular to their brethren
say the COMMITTEE fee! authorized. from
the reports received from various portions of
the State, to announce that by a united res
olute and determined effort on tie part of
the Republicans the vote of California in
the national electoral college may he given
TO LINCOLN and HAML1N."


OH OH
Year: 1860

WHAT WILL S. CAROLINA DO ?


She will-she must secede. We owe it
to ourselves. A decent self-respect de-
mands, that we separate from our enemies,
who affect a dread of being contaminated
by our presence. We owe it to the past.
By submitting to the degradation of being
ruled by party who have avowed the most
uncompromising hostility to US, we would
prove ourselves to be the degenerate off.
spring of noble ancestry and the glori-
GUS memories of Kings Mountain and
Cowpens and Brattonsville, would only
serve to cast deeper shade upon our hu-
initiation. We owe it to our children
Shall we cowardly shrink from response
bility, which must be met-and which may,
nay, aoiN, involve them in terrible ruin ?
We owe it even to our slaves. What kind,
honest observer has not marked, with pain
full regret, the necessity which has been
laid upon us by the incendiary designs and
diabolic acts of the Abolitionists, to adopt
a more rigid police over our negroes p
Their privileges have necessarily been
greatly curtailed. Devoted Christian men
have been obliged to suspend, in part at
least, their efforts in their behalf; and thus
deny themselves the privilege and happi-
ness of the free and unrestricted religious
instruction of our colored people. Besides
if things remain as they are, many of them
in their ignorance may become the dupes
of wicked men and pay the penalty of their
crimes at the ropes end. Without the fear
of contradiction, We affirm that the worst
enemy the negro has on the face of the
earth, is the Black Republican. And
should we not then, as their guardians,
take care of their bodies and souls


Why do any hesitate to cut the chain
which binds US to those, who, the most
charitable must admit, are fatally bent on
our utter destruction? Is it from the ap-
prehension that the value of our slave prop
erty would depreeiate? 1t can be demon
strated, that the dissolution of the Union
is the only thing which can sustain the
price of our negroes; or, in fact, make
them worth having. For this alone can
give security to the institution. Tell US,
what will our negroes be worth, even four
years hence, if this reckless, faDatical party
90 on, as they have done for the last four
years, increasing in hostility, power, inso'
lence and daring attempts upon our rig hts
our personal and domestic security =
Shall we stop to prove their intense hatred
and overwhelming power? We have all
seen and too keenly felt their insults and
their gross outrages, to doubt their bitter
animosity. Contemplate for moment the
exhibition of their mighty power in over


riding, in the late election, all the conser-
yative influences which were brought to
bear against them: the immense wealth Of
Philadelphia and New York, the great NOR.
al power of the Episcopalian and Old
School Presbyterian Churches, and also
the weight of an Administration which, te
say the least, has been just towards u.s.
But some may be disposed to think, thai
Year: 1860

aud to good works. We think then, VIC see
Gods hand for good, moving amidst our
political disturbances. Let US, distrusting
our own wisdom and strength, and careful
ly avoiding every thing in thought, word
or deed, which would be displeasing to our
covenaut-keeping God, trust in Him, with
all our heart, who is the sword and shield.
Let our decision and irmness be tempered
with prudence and moderation; and all
our works be done in faith and charity,
then, we may confidently expect, that our
God will grant US safe deliverauce.


A PRESBYTERIAN
Year: 1860

BANKS AND TRADE IN THE SoUTH-THE
TRUE QUESTION AT IssUE.-The unani-
nous act of the South Carolina Legislature
authorizing the banks of that State to sus-
pend specie payments, and the continuous
flow of specie to the South which has al
ready set in, in obedience to the imperlous
demand for cotton, are indications of state
of affairs we'll calculated to alarm close OBJ
servers, at the dangers which menace our
circulation and currency.


We have, on several occasions, called
public attention to the disaster and ruin that
must inevitably follow the ranging of the
great material interests of the South in hos
tility to those of the North, under political
influences. We have shown the identity of
such contest with the old bank conflict Of
the time of Jackson We have proven
that similar result of ruin and bankruptcy
must follow the political ranging of mate
rial interest to-day, to that which followed
those thirty years ago. Instead of meeting
our arguments or disproving our facts, boy
ish and silly journalists of the Black Re-
publican school assume to make light of the
dangers that stare US in the face, and to con.
tenn the teachings of experience. The
trouble that is in the air, all round US, will
come too soon to be welcome to any of the
vast industrial and commercial interests that
will be the first to suffer and the last to re.
cover from the rising tempest In the mean
time, let US contemplate the position of the
States which Southern haste and Northern
folly seem determined to drive out of the
political and commercial Union with US.


1t is not excessive to estimate that the five
seeding States hold one half of the cotton
crop, or say, at least, two millions of bales,
worth in the market not less than 500, ,000,-
900. This cotton is to them as so much
gold, for the world must have it, and, if no
other means can be found to obtain it, will
send the gold for it. Massachusetts, will be
as eager in this as will be England aud
France; and this fact strengthens the South
immeasurably iu its prosecution Of the sir
repressible conflict" with Northern fanati.
cism. Let US now see what is the banking
aud financial condition of these States as
regards specie, circulation, State debt and
expenditures, for from these we may form
some idea of the extent of their own local
suffering from the arrangement of the cur
rency and course of trade:
Year: 1860

cial revolution in the North which will
sweep food of bankruptcy over it. II
matters not whether they are right OF
wrong, they think they are right, and it is
their acts, not the principles on which theil
acts are founded, that are producing the
evil The Black Republican leaders and
journals must abandon their tone of scorr
and defiance towards the South and its
rights; the Black Republican masses must
recede from their fanatical war upon South
ern interests, or they will bring disaster and
ruin into our midst that will produce revo
luton here. 1t is not the discussion of the
political question of secession, but it is q
practical question of trade, work and wages
Are they prepared to meet this in the midst
of half employed community y?-N York
Herald
Year: 1860

WHAT THE South MUST EXPECT ERoM
LINooLN.-The New York Times thus
plainly tells the South what is to be expect
ed from Mr.. Lincoln; it should certainly
satisfy every Southern man what submis.
sion will bring: ~ -, - ~. -


There can be no doubt whatever in the
mind of any man that Mr.. Lincoln regards
slavery as a moral, social and political evil,
and that it should be dealt with as such BY
the Federal Government, in every instance
where it is called upon to deal with it at all.
On this point there is no room for qaestion
and there need be no misgivings as to
his official action. The whole influence of
the Executive Department of the Govern
ment, while in his hands, will be thrown
against the extension Of slavery intothe
new Territories of the Union, and the ress
opening of the African slave trade. On
these points he will make, nc compromise
nor yield one hairs breadth to coercion
from any quarter or in any shape He does
not accede to the alledged decision Of the
Supreme Court that the Constitution places
slaves upon the footing of other property,
and protects them as such wherever its ju-
risdiction extends, nor will he be in the:
least degree, governed or controlled by IL
in his executive actions He will do all in
his power, personally and officially, by the
direct exercise of the powers of hisofice
and the indirect influence inseparable from
it, to arrest the tendency to make slavery
national and perpetual, and to place it in
precisely the same position which it held
in the early days of the, Republic, and in
the views of the founders of the Govern
ment. On this point, We take it for gran
ted, he will be firm and immovable-soas
to put it beyond the hope of any class or
any section to change his purpose. 80:
Year: 1860

SECESSION, AND TIE ADMINISTRATION
extravagant reports have become
current relative to the avowed intentions of
the Administration upon this exciting and
delicate subject; but We feel safe in saying
that they have no foundation in fact, as the
Cabinet has given the subject no formal
consideration; and We are equally as well
convinced that the Administration will take
no action concerning this matter but what
in its wisdom is deemed becoming and con-
sstent with the interest of the Union. We
hear of nothing that would even Justify the
impression that any military or naval move
Year: 1860

THE VIRGINIA PRESS We shall give
from time to time, such extracts from the
press as we may deem most interesting te
our readers, on the present state of politi
cal affairs. The Lynchburg (Va.) Repub
Aican says:


"When the cotton States do secede, We
shall advocate secession with them, and re-
sist the right of the Federal Government
to coerce them back. We believe Virginia
ought to be, and will be when the time
comes, the North of the South, and not the
South of the North. Bolts and his crew
may 90 with Lincoln, and enjoy the flesh.
pots together, but we shall go with the
South, and for the South at all hazards and
to the last extremity"


The Clarke county (Va.) Journal says


awe advance to the discharge of sol,
emn duty in hosting for ourselves the flag
of disunion. 1t is solemn duty binding
upon US, because We believe in our con.
science that it is right and necessary, and
the will of that Providence which has al,
ways guided us as people. If Providence
points clearly to anything in the future, it
does to the separation of these Northern and
Southern States from each other. We can
not live together in peace and equality, be,
cause the North are Conscientious in claim.
ing right to agitate our domestic institu-
tions, and because they are greater, and
therefore, in political sense, the master
section. We were not born to be mastered,
nor to submit to inferior position. There
is no alternative but separation from those
who seek to be our rulers, or else abject
submission to their yoke. Who can hesi.
tate what he will or ought to do?
Year: 1860

besides coal oil, for the market; as paraffin, vesper gas fluid, Benzole Etcora, who can purify the heavy or parafin oil so as to make it a good lubricating oil, and who have erected large works with sufficient capital to carry on the business on not only an extensive scale, but according to the most economical and judicious plan. And 1t appears doubtful whether any in- dividual or company can make profitable business of it at the present low price of coal oil, unless their material yields ct least ftty gallons of crude ou from the ton of 200O pounds, and who either are the owners of the property from which the coal or Ignite is obtained or who can purchase the pro perty on very reasonable terms. Never less the consumption of oil and tbe other products of coal destillation are coming every day more into use, and therefore, becoming more iii demand; and, If that demand increases more rapidly than the manufacture of it the price of coal oil and the other products must nessarlly rlse; since none will enter or, at any rate, con tinue long in businesss, unless money can be made out of 1t.

 1 should advise, therefore, no one to go headlong into this business without first thoroughly posting themselves up in regard to the probable state of the market in these articls for some years to come, and if they do not thoroughly understand the chemistry of the business, obtain the services of some trustworthy and skilltul person having ample experience in the business.

 Even now the best processes of purify ing the different products of coal distillation are not thoroughly understood; the proof of which is, Improvements are constantly being made in the different chemical pro- cesses of the oil factory as we'll as in the arrangement and construction of the ap paratus.

 I may add. too, that the success of the business depends also much on the location of the establishment; since there are various residiums of the process; such as coke, coal gas, coal tar and coal asphaltun that may be saleable in city or large town, that are lost in whole OF in part in the country where there is no demand for them.

 D. D. OWEN,

 Stote Geologist.

 LABORATORY, 18th April, 1860.
Year: 1860

Gg We have complaints from Camden and Philadelphia that our paper fails to reach there in due course of mail Our paper of 2lst April only reached Arkadel- phia on the 7th of May. This is too out rageous, and we hope the mail agent or some one else will see to this matter We hardly recollect a time when there was not complaints from that section, and it is high time something should be done.
Year: 1860

GRAND JURIEs.-We publish this week the first of a series of articles on this subject from the pen of an able jurist and intellectual man. They are worthy of perusal and study. The proper way to treat such ques- tons is to let both sides be fully and freely heard.
Year: 1860

TIE RIVER, ETc.-The river has fallen almost to low water mark. The smaller boats make trips to this place, and very small boats go up to Fort Smith and back. The weather is quite cool and we have rains more or less every week.
Year: 1860

EE The following article. copied from
the Indiana journal, contains some i'm
rortant suggestions, which it is to be hoped,
our Republican friends in this and Stark
county will lose no time in attending to:


A Word i'm Season.


So far in the present campaigns it cannot
be said that the Republicans have wasted
either time or money in mere enthusiasm.
Whether they have used either sufficiently
in necessary work is doubtful. but there is
no doubt about their frrgality in the mat
ter of glory" Until within a week OF
two the e has been no meetings OF unusual
size or zeal. The State candidates have
been canvassing cnergctically, and with
good effect, we believe, but they have evoked
no monster meetings, no uproarious dis
plays Of party devotion. Speakers of all
grades have received fair and full attention,
but nothing more. We don't believe that
any Presidential campaign since 1886 has
shown so little excitement. To the lack
Of an organized and we'll defined opposition
this unusual state of feeling is attributable
The Democracy, divided and distracted


can arouse none of ths old spirit, and Re


publicans, with no provocation to effort,
are quiet and confident We are not dis
posed to quarrel with this state of things
for the tendency Of enthusiastic canvasse:
is to monster meetings and expensive dis.
plays, to the neglect Of solid and necessa


ry work. But:a reasonable degree of the
pomp and parade Of party. with the excite
ment it produces, is valuable impulse to
more quiet and important effort, and hence
we are glad to see that within few day.
the Republicans are beginning to show
that they have not been so undemostrativ,
because they were Indifferent. Now thai
the current has changed. and the feeling fol
display, and glory, and ''rousing rallies .
and all that, has begun to show itself, WI
desire TO put in caution, not against sucl
manifestations, but in favor Of what is very
much more important, the polling of every
school district, township and county in th'
State. That is the work that is to win.-
We have frequently urged this on ou
friends. but we cannot forbeas renewing ou
importantly We feel so deeply sensibl,
of its necessity that we cannot look at tht
field Of contest without seeing it standing
up foremost and almost alone as the thine
to be done. II was with view 10 the &C
complishment Of this work that we urge(
so earnestly the formation of Republican
Clubs throughout the State. We believed
that small active organization like 1
"club," where each man felt some share
of the responsibility of what was done, OF
neglected, was the surest means of securinl
the performance of work that needed bots
time, industry and care. Itwas with th'
Year: 1860

MORE HILLSIDE TENANTs.-Death, the heart
less usurer, has called two within week They
both rest in the little graveyard on the hill,
(Which, in its present condition, we regret TO say,
reflects no credit on place containing the wealth
and enterprise that Weavefviiie does.) The first
was fair young girl just passing to womanhood,
who few months ago was drinking at the fOun-
tain of happiness and hope, but whom the dread
monitor, consumption, claimed as its victim. The
other was little child, free from sin, and too
pure for earth, and the angels took her. Deaths
visits have been painfully frequent since this
gear commenced oftener than ever before in
our little mountain town. Who may be the next
called?
Year: 1860

WINDOW WRECKEB.-Some fellow maliciousy
stove the window of n China house at the lower
end of town, on Wednesday night. Difference
of opinion between himself and the fair occu-
pants on some point, the nature of was not as
ceriainable, was the occasion for the striking
demonstration. Watchman Ward was on hand,
and succeeded in persuading him that new win
dow would be necessary. lie "pungled."
Year: 1860

PIERCE, CHURCH & Co.-Nearly all the freight
arriving in this county, and great portion of
that for the adjacent ones, is shipped in care of
Pierce, Church & Co., Forwarding and Commis


sion merchants, Red Bluff. That firm have an
unrvaled reputation for promptness and fair
dealing the result of which is that they do an
immense business. They have also one of the
largest wholesale houses at the head of naviga-
ton, and sell every kind Of goods necessary for
q mining district on the most advantageous terhs
Year: 1860

ACCIDENT.-Willam MARI, of Cape Horn Bar
had his leg broken on the 18th inst, midway be-
tween the knee and ankle joints. While sitting
IN wagon the team started he falling and get
ting his leg in the wheel, it was broken before the
team could be stopped. lie was taken to the
German Hospital where he is rapidly improving
Year: 1860

CENsUs.-Next week we hope to give our read
ers some items from the census roll of Marshal
Nunnally. That gentleman has gone to the re-
mote southern portion of the county, and will
probably return sometime next week. From
what we can learn, so far, the population of the
county will fall short of six thousand.