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Year: 1859

Be SATIsFIED.-A French paper relates the
case of young lady in Lyons, who was predsposed
to corpulency. Some of her friends very foolishly
ridiculed her stout figure. Soon afterwards her
health began to decline, and finally she died rather
suddenly. AS there apparent cause for
the death, post mortem examination was had,
and it was found that she had been taking acids
too freely to stop the growing fatness.
Year: 1859

KENTUcKY-Gov. Magofin, dem, in his Inaugu-
raj Address, declares that in the recent election for
Governor the people of Kentucky have spoken out
decisively in favor of nom-interterence Iy.Con-
gress aoith the question Of slavery IN the States
and Territories" He said, further:


"Other slave States away off in the South may
take ultra grounds and talk lightly of the breaking
up of this glorious Republic Politicians and
presses there may advocate the opening Of the AZ
rcan slave trade, and upon preexts, great or small,
may appea! to prejudices or to reason, in order to
prepare the mind for Southern Republic, but we
are differently situated. We have different posi-
ton in the sisterhood of States. Kentucky call
ing not in question the motives or the morality of
other sections, is firmly united in resistance to the
re-opening of the slave trade. She is stubbornly
opposed to the introduction of any such tests of
political orthodoxy and she will give no cou9ten-
ance whatever at this time, come from what quar-
ter it may, to any movement that looks to a dis
solution OF the Union. With seven hundred miles
of her territory bordering free States, must
think more calmly and act with more discretion;
for in the event of separation of the these States
then indeed would her towering mountains and
peaceful valleys, glowing in all their verdure
and beauty, be the scene of conflicts horrible to
contemplate Then indeed would she be re- baptised
In DlOOU anu IRE Win the SlGnlHcant LCle fSC won
by our heroic fathers of the dark and bloody
ground God grant it may never be realized
God grant the day may never come when this glo-
rous ssterhood of States, so free, so prosper
Gus, and so happy; now resting upon each others
confidence and still strengthened by the dearest
ties of friendship, cemented by the blood of the
Revolution consecrated by all the associations of
the past, and hallowed by all the sacred memories
that could bind people together, will be broken
in Fragments"
Year: 1859

DIED ON TIE EVE OF BEING MARRIED-The
papers record the death of young man of Phila-
delphia in the morning of the day on which he was
to be married. The arrangements were all made,
the bride ready, when the anticipated joy Of
the household was turned into mourning by the
announcement of the death of the expected bride
groom. Surely in the midst of life are in death.
Year: 1859

The continued increase, agriculturally

 of this section of the White river valley and the country adjacent. has added heavily, during the past commercial year

 to the trade and business of Des Arc, With population of between twelve and fourteen hundred, the estimates below will show that our people have contributed their full share in the way of business. About one half of the cotton from this sec- ton, last season, was shipped to New Orleans and the other half to Memphis. But little of the trade of Arkansas river has been enjoyed by our merchants during the past season--,hat stream having af- forded frequen, navigation for steamers which has enabled merchants and others to receive most of their freights. With a semi-weekly line of mail steamers from Jacksonport to Napoleon-a tri-weekly line from Memphis to West Point, on Little Red river via. Augusta, and not less than three boats in the New Orleans trade, White river presents an opportunity to the farmer and merchant, at all seasons of the year to go to and return from mar ket. It is the only stream in the State that furnishes constant navigation through
Year: 1859

all hope was soon destroyed by the discove-
ry Of mingled hemorrhage and purging.
The first thing, on discovering the nature
of the wound, was, to dispatch courier to
Dickinson's wife with the intelligence that
he was dangerously wounded. He was
then conveyed back to his lodgings. Here
he was placed in. room, and on two feath-
er-beds, underlaid by two mattresses. He
writhed in unremitting torture until he was
too far gone to exhibit his sufferings, and
gave vent all the while to his agony in the
most awful blasphemy. So profuse was the
flow from his wound, that it passed through
all his bedding, and required tito be cleansed
up every few hours.


Thus he progressed until nine in the eve
ming. The bed stood in the middle OF The
floor, and a brilliant light illuminated the
room, when the clock struck nine. just
then he asked, complainingly, why they had
blown out the candle and left him in the
dark. The surgeon shook his head, for he
knew the infallible omen. He had gone
completely blind. The last spark of light
went out TO him on earth. Again he COM
menced cursing, and within five minutes
from the time of his blindness, his spirit
fled from that suffering body. Dickinson
was a man of great wealth, and was the
husband Of blooming wife of twenty-five.
Year: 1859

A woman is either worth a great deal or
nothing. If good for nothing, she is not
worth getting jealous for; if she be true
woman, she will not give no cause for jeal-
ousy. A man is a brute to be jealous of a
good woman--a fool to be jealous Of a
worthless one but is double fool to cut
his throat for either Of them.
Year: 1859

CHARLES KINGSLEY.
Three fishers went sailing out into the West
Out into the West, the went down;
Each thought of the that loved him the best,
And the children stood watching them the town
For men must work and women must weep,
And there's little to earn and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning,
Three wives sat up in the light house tower,
And they trimmed the lamps the sun went down,
And lookd at the squa and they lookd at the shower
And the nght-rack rolling up raggei aud brown;
But must work and women must weep.
Tho storms be sudden aud waters deep,


And the harbo. bar be moaning.
Three corpses lay out the shining sands,
In the morning gleam as the tide went down
And the watching and wrnging their hands
For those who will ever back to the town
For must work and women must weep,
And the sooner its Ger the sooner to sleep,
And goodbye to the bar and its moaning.


From Punch
Three merchants went riding out into the West,
On the Top of the bus as the went down
Each thought Of his wife and how richly she drest,
And the gIowng circumforence of her new gown
For wives must dress and husbands must pay,
And there's plenty to get and little to say
While the milliner's bill is running
Three wives sat up in Jane Clark's for hours,
And they told her to put every article down
They ordered the silks and they ordered the flowers
And the bill il kept rolling up, gown upon gown;
For wives must dress and husbands viii pay,
Though perhaps they viii be in a terrible way
When they dunned for the bill that is running
Three bankTupts were figuring in the gazette,
On Tuesday night when the went dasrn,
And the weeping and quite in pet,
Far the areszIs shsy ssiil chow to the town
For wives will dress, though husbands can't pay,
And bankrupcys surely the pleasantest way
To get nd Of the bill and the dunning.
Year: 1859

acknowledging her husband or dcserting him
no matter how far he had fallen.


Love, that unconquerable passion, true to its
instincts, never forsakes the virtuous and gene
rous heart, but clings and ever clings to the OBJ
ject of its affection. When Helen arrived close
enough to the crowd to discern objects dis
tinctly, she saw that one or two of the city of
ficers were treating her husband rather rudely


She no longer walked, but ran as fast as she
could TO the group. Hold" cried the frantic
woman "what has this man done that he
must be rudely dragged about in this manner?


The men desisted One of the officers re-
piled that he had committed no crime, but that
he was under the influence of liquor, and it
would not do to let him remain there laugh
ing stock for the boys-that their Office was
one of mercy rather than anything else. She
inquired what they were going to do with him.
They replied that, for the want of better
place, they were going to confne him in the
City Hall cells.


This was a stroke rather too hard to be borne;
but the woman rallied under the blow; she
was too much excited to feel the degradation
that surrounded her. Helen proposed that the
officers would take him to her dwelling instead
of place of confinement To this they readily
consented and, with one on each side, they
proceeded to carry, or rather drag him to a
place of privacy. The boys were deferred
from following the party By threats from the
officers.


They were not long in having Frank safely
lodged in his own house, when the humane of
ficer RETIRED leaving Frank and his wife to
themselves. But what change had come over
that happy household in the brief period of but
little over a month One of the most happy
of men and his aflectionate wife were living in
possession of every comfort that human indus
try could procure, or moderate wants could
desire. Then the politician had not entered
that happy household. How altered now =
The lovely woman, gay with happiness, and n
bright prospect before her, of but month ago,
is the poor heart-broken wife of a drunkard


Have politicians no sins to answerl The voice
of many bleeding heart can answer. The
voices dragged, starving children are eloquent
upon the subject. Roll in luxury; aspire to
the highest offices in the gift of the nation /;
look with contempt upon the means which
have elevated you look at the tracks of your
footprints upon the ladder, and see if they are
not marked with blood


ITO RE CONTINUED
Year: 1859

Not long SINCE q lady died in tho northern
part of this State, whose years numbered al
most a century. There is a volume of history
lost. What stories she could tell of the brave
old days, few knew, for she lived in
great retirement, and of late the dimness OF
age had begun to settle as well on her mind as
on her eyes. What springs laden with flowers
had been hers; what sunny and beautiful sum-
mers, what autumns with their golden fruits
She knew the men of the revolution; she was
a near relative of Jane McCrea, and saw her
Just before her murder; she was relic of for
gotten years For some years past her time
had been occupied occasionally in making ev-
cry preparation for her funeral The most
minute arrangements were completed, and no
thing left for her friends but to close her wea-
ried eyes and bear her to sleep with her kin
dred. more sublime occupation than that
preparation, can hardly be imagined. A NOR
tai who had passed the age allotted to her fell
lows by more than twenty years, loaded down
with the weight of recolectons, heavy, whe-
ther they be pleasant or bitter; who had laid,
one by one, every companion Of glorious girl
hood to rest under the sod; in whose ears
was sounding distantly the roar of the cannon
of aSeventy- Six and yet more distantly the
gurglng of brooks, and songs of birds that
along with other phantasies, came often the
vision of a maiden, fair and well beloved, muir
dercd bya race of men long extinct and al
most forgotten; such person, who had sur
viyed the overthrow of nations and changes of
dynastes and crumbling of thrones--who had
seen Europe rocked by earthquakes and dazzled
by the meteor-like transit of Napoleon across
her sky-who had seen France thrice revolu-
tionized, Spain countless times-who was old
when the star of destiny went down on Water
loo, and yet lived to see the child of destiny
carried to France in all the pomp which can
invest death itself with grandeur-who had
lived and loved, and out-ived almost all she
loved-calmly make ready the robes in which
her way-born body should repose until its
youth and yigor return to it again.


They did not know that she was dying. She
was insensible exceptto the approach ofa child,
whom she called by name and then closed her
eyes During the brief interval which sue
ceeded that single expression of intelligence,
and preceded the separation of soul and body,
vision made up of the scenes she was leaving
and the memories connected with them, must
have swept before her. A century of compan-
ionship had endeared many of the things of
earth to her, and its joys and griefs had been
impressed with some degree of permanency on
her mind. The floating phantoms of the more
recent past, must have mingled strongly with
the distinct recollections of early years; and
forms of men, and assemblies of the old dead,
and all the circumstance and glory of the age
of war and arms, passed triumphantly before
her as the deep sleep came down on her heavy
eyelids.


Death is victorious over all. When youth is
crushed by his iron tread, we shrink and are
sad when manhood is broken down, we
tremble but when old age after long contest
yields at last, then men may smile.
Year: 1859




THE THOUGHTS or GREAT MAN.


II is evening in the office of the would-bc
senator. Seated before table obtaining books
and papers and writing material, the great
man was resting his head upon his hands,
while his elbows rested upon the table. Ever
and anon he would RIM his hands through his
hair as il anxious to catch a new idea, fe-
yerish excitement seemed to have possession
ofhis mind, and as bright or perplexing idea
crossed his Imagination hewould mutter to him
self, violently throwing his hands about and
artculating disjointed ordinations. For q
moment he would look distracted at the news
paper, and then, without paying any attention
to its contents would toss it aside. At length
he resolved himself into deep revery. He
proceeded to talk to himself;


THE lneal descendant of all the Blather-
sixties A race that ALWAYS possessed a large
share of talcnts-pcrchancc to be the great
ruler of the land. Can not in measure, do
something TO perpctuate that great name and
hand it down topostcrity, andno only increase
it in magnitude but a President may mark the
political epoch Of our history. This is my aim;
this is the height of my ambition, and | will
never sleep soundly or rest at nights until my
name is craven among the Presidents Of the
land. Ambition, ambition and vanity, when
will you cease to drive me on madly, without
rest, to my distant goal Pcrplexing idea.
Year: 1859

election, it would notrequire long to keep them
together.


The would-be Senator put his hand in his
pocket and handed Frank roll of notes. The
young man took the necdful, and placed it in
his pocket. The conversation was loud and
animated, but it was soon cut short by the en-
tering Of two or three of the great mans friends.
Frank was no longera person of interest to the
woud-be Senator. lie would answer well en-
ough to do the dirty work but when gentle
men came upon the stage, he was not man of
consequence. Frank sat and listened to the
different topics discussed until he was tired;
and then taking up his hat, without single
good night, left the house, alone.
Year: 1859

H 2
= How sweet the rest that labor yields
The humble and the poor,i
Where sits the patriarch OF the helds
Before the cottage door!
The lark is singing in the sky, -..,..
The swallows on the caves,
And love is beaming from each eye, a
Beneath the summer sky!
The air amid its fragrant bowers
Supplies unpurchased health, H 2
And heartsa are bounding mid the flowers.
More dear to him than wealth.
Peace, like the blessed sunlight, plays
Around his humble cot,
And happy nights and cheerful days


Divide his lowly lot. ~
And when the village sabbath bell


Rings out upon the gale,
The father bows his head to tell .l.
The music of its tale
A fresher verdure seems to fill


The fair and dewy sod,
And every infant tongue is still


To hear the word of God
o, happy hearts! to Him who stills
The ravens when they cry,
And makes the lily meath the hills
SO glorious to the eye
The trusting patriarch prays to bless
His labors with increase;
Such ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all such "paths are peace
Year: 1859

The Professor at the Breakfast Table closes MS
o oltribution TO the November number OF the At
mite Monthly with the following:


O Lord Divine, that stopped 10 share
Our sharpest plng, our bItterest tear,
On thee we cast each earth born care,


We smile At pain while Thou art near . .
Though long the weary way we tread,


And sorrow crown each lingering year,
No path we Shun. no darkness dread,


Our hearts still whispering Thou art near
When dropping pleasure turns to gr'ef
And trembling faith is changed t9 lear,
The murmuring wind, the quircring leaf,


Shall softly tell us, Thou art near!
On Thee we fling our burdening woe,


o Love divine. forever dear,


Content to suffer- while We know,


Living and dying, Thou art near!
Year: 1859

The philosophers will never ugree in the
definition of beauty, though every one knows
what it is. Burke was beautifully sublime
on the "sublme and beautiful;" but the
world is little tho wiser for his specula
Whether beauty really exists in the objects
which is called beautiful, or whether the
beauty is "alI in your eye," as the phrase is
that is to say. exists only in the mind OF
the observer-has never been definitely Sc t.


tied, and perhaps never will be. 1t is not
impossible that the whole truth in the mat.
ter comprehended in both lheories-the
beauty is partly in the object, and partly in
the mind that gives it recognition. This
much is true, at least, that while two per-
sons shall both agree that particular thing
has beauty, one of them shall see much
more than the other, according as his taste
or Imagination shall be better. OF beauty
in person, some writer has said :-"There is
none 10 be found after fortnight's intimate
acquaintance, except beauty of expression
merely, and even that depends on associa-
tion." The dogma is sometimes too strong
to be wholly true, and yet the truth doubt.
less lies within it. Fortunate is he who has
q ready discernment Of beauty in nature and
art-in the world Of external objects and the
world of internal reflections.
Year: 1859

In the interior of New Caledonia, which
is east of Vancouver's Island and north of
the Columbia, among the tribes called
"Taw-waytins, who are also Babines, and
also among other tribes in their nejghbor.
hood, the custom prevails of burning the
bodies, with circumstances Of peculiar bar.
barity to the widows of the deceased. The
dead body of the husband is laid naked upon
large heap Of resinous wood; his wife is
then placed upon the body, and covered over
with skin; the pile is then lighted, and the
poor woman is compelled to remain until
she is nearly suffocated. when she is allow.
to descend os best she can through the smoke
and flames. No sooner, however, does she
reach the ground, than she is expected to
prevent the body from becoming distorted by
the action Of the fire on the muscles and
sinews; and whenever such an event takes
place, she must, with bare hands, restore the
burning corpse to its proper position; her
person being the whole time exposed to the
scorchng effects of the intense heat. Should
she fail in the due performance OF this indis.
pensable rite, from weakness or the intensi-
ty of her pain, she is held up by some one
until the body is consumed. A continual
singing and beating Of drums is kept up
throughout the ceremony, which drown her
cries. Afterwards she must collect the un-
consumed pieces Of bone and ashes, and put
them into bag made for the purpose, which
she has to carry on her back for three years;
remaining for the time a slave to her hus.
bands relations, and being neither allowed
to wash nor comb herself for the whole
time, so that she soon becomes q most dis.
gusting object. At the expiration of three
years, feast is given by her tormentors,
who invite all the friends and relations OF
her and themselves. Atthe commencement
they deposit with great ceremony the re.
mains of the burnt dead in box, which they
ufix to the top of high pole. The widow
is then stripped naked, and -smeared from
head to foot with .Aoil, over which one OF
the bystanders throws a quantity of swans
down, covering her, entire person. She is
then obliged to dance with the others. AT.
ter all this is over she is free to marry again,
if she have the inclination, and courage
enough to venture on second risk or being
roasted alive and the subsequent horrors.
Year: 1859

made white at last, and bidden to come up
higher.


We think it ought to be set down upon
a map somewhere, that the old church was
very near the house not made with hands"-
only the graveyard's breadth removed
We think it ought somewhere to be writ
ten, "The "house that they builded OF old
let it remain forever. Give to time the
silvering of the wall they have hallowed let
the wind end the songs the dead sinners
began, and the rains gently fall on its &c no.
less threshold"
Year: 1859

NO. sS. AN ACT


To provide for locating, establishing and


constructing bitches, drains and water.
courses.


Section l. Be ii enacted BY the General
Assembly of The Stale of Ohio, That the
county commissioners of any county shall
have power, at any regular session, whenev-
er, in their opinion, the same is demanded by
or will be conducive to the public health,
convenience or welfare, to cause TO be es.
tabished located and constructed, as here
matter provided, any ditch, drain or water
course witAin such county.


Sec. 2. That before the county commits
sioners of any county shall take any steps
towards locating or establishing any ditch,
drain or water course, there shall be filed
with the county auditor petition from one
or more persons owning lands adjacent to
the line of such proposed ditch, drain or
water-co course, setting forth the necessity of
the same, with description of its proposed
starting point, route and terminus, and shall,
at the same time, file bond with good and
sufficient sureties to the acceptance of the
county auditor conditioned to pay all expen.
ses incurred, in case the commissioners shall
refuse to grant the prayer of the petition,
and it shall be the duty of the county audit
or Immediately thereafter to place a correct
copy of said petition in the hands of the
county surveyor or competent engineer,
who shall thereupon, taking with him the
necessary assistance, proceed to make on
accurate survey of the route of such propos-
ed ditch, drain, or water. course, and on the
completion thereof, shall return o plat or
plat and profile of the same to said county
auditor, and shall also set forth in his return
description of the proposed route, its avail


bilty and necessity, with q description OF
each separate tract of land through which
the same is proposed TO be located, how it
will be affected thereby, and its situation
and level as compared with that of adjoining
lands, together with such other facts as he
may deem material. 1t shall be the duty OF
the county auditor, Immediately on said re-
port being filed, to cause notice in writing
to be given to the owner, or one of the own
ers of each tract of land along the route of
such proposed ditch, drain or water course,
Of the pendency and prayer of said petition,
and of the time of the session of the county |
commissioners at which the same will be |
heard, which notice shall be served at least |
ten days prior to said session, and an afida.
Wit of said service filed with the county au-
ditor; and in case any such owner is not
resident Of the county, or should any party
or parties in interest die during the penden.
cy Of said proceeding, such death shall not
work an abatement of such proceeding, but
the county commissioners on being notified
thereof, shall make such order as they may
deem proper for giving notice to the person
or persons succeeding TO the right of such
deceased party or parties, and notice of the
pendsncy and prayer of said petition and the
time of hearing the same shall be given to :
such owner or persons, by publication for