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Year: 1859

The LATE ELECTION AS VIEWED ABRoAD.-The
Philadelphia Inquirer INDUCES in some pertinent
remarks upon late election and does not acquit
its city of crimes and outrages similar to those
committed here. 1t says:


From Baltimore we learn that two men were
shot dead in that city the night of the election


This stern fact, in addition to the general account


given of the action of of the politicians at the


election, shows that the character recently claimed
for that city cannot be maintained 1t is folly to
say, where naturazed citizens aye afraid to 90 to


the polls that city is well governed-t is absurd
| to say that a city is peaceful and well ordered
where men are shot down remorselesslv by those
who are cOnnectad with the political arena. Our


own city on the night of the election, a scene
of several disorders and of crimes against life
! These acts make us share in the infamy that at
| taches to Baltimore. If men to be stabbed and
( murdered because they give expression to the ut


terance of opinions, it is time to revise our laws


and assign terrible penalties for those who infringe
| the first law of the land-liberty.
Year: 1859

KICHMOND, Oct. I5.-The Committee to whom
was referred the subject of Churches in foreign
countries, not within the jurisdiction of any foreign
missionary Bishops, reported canon to place such
under the direction of the General Convention Of
the United States, and subject to the Episcopal
government, and jurisdiction of the presiding
Bishop, Referred to the Committee on Canons.


The proposed amendment to article sixth of the
Constitution, to establish Court of Appeals was
rejected by large majority.


The House of Bishops passed resolution to ap-
point joint committee to devise plan for the
creation of fund to aid feeble parishes and con-
gregations at missionary stations.


The House of Deputies took up the report of the
Missionary Committee, to appoint at this session
two missionary bishops, one for the Northwest
and for the Southwestern portion of the United
States, which adopted and thereupon the
whole congregation Immediately sung the "GloriG
in Eccelsis," and after prayer, adjourned This
event considered the most solemn hour of the
Convention.
Year: 1859

I" If you marry" said Roman consul to his son,
+" let it be woman who has Judgment and industry
enough to cook a meal for yon-enough to dress
neatly-pride enough to wash before breskfast-and
sense enough to hold her tcngne.n
Year: 1859

DREADFUL RESULTS FROM HYDRoPHoB1A.-A let
ter from Portsmouth Ohio, to the Louisville Journal
makes mention Of an extraordinary circumstance 1t
says:


A short time ago young lady was bitten by q
dog. Hydrophobia manifested itself on her, and
while confined by the disease she bit her sister, who
was waiting her. The sister soon attacked by
the same disease and bit the mother. All three were
alive at last accounts but were all raving mad, and
there was no prospect Of their recovery.
Year: 1859

FROST ON FRUIT BLossoMs.-Al-
though the blossoming of the earlier
kinds of fruit will be somewhat later
than usual this year, there is still some
danger, especially in the mountain re-
gions, that frosts will come and nip our
hopes of fruit in the bloom. A word of
caution and advice from the California
Farmer may be the means of prevent
ing many disappointment of this kind
amongst those in this vicinity who have
small lots of peach trees, and we there
fore give it.


The Farmer says: at should be
borne in mind that it is not the frost
alone that does the injury, but the action
of the SUN upon the blossoms and leaf,
while the frost is upon them and in them.
Trees already exposed can be easily saved
from danger, or from loss of fruit, by
showering with fresh water as the sun
rises, and continuing the showering
process until all the frost is extracted.
This will save your fruit"
Year: 1859

A New PRoJECT.-Assemblyman
Street, in the course of his remarks on
the resolution relative to a Pacific rail
road convention, to be composed of
delegates from Oregon, California, Wash
ington, Arizona and Utah, expressed
himself as radically opposed to all pro-
jects by which the credit of the State
is proposed to be given to aid in the
construction of road from the city of
San Francisco to the eastern border.
He believes, as we learn from the Union,
that the only practicable project by
which communication can be had be-
tween California and the States by rail
road, will be by a road constructed from
Washington Territory through Oregon
and through this State, connecting with
the line now being carried from Texas
to our borders. A road thus located, he
says, would pass through all the central
parts of this coast, where all the cities
are growing up, where the population
and wealth are centering, and where the
business done would be sufficient to
make the work a profitable investment
and a general benefit.
Year: 1859

The prominent topic of discussion at
San Francisco is the Parsons Bulkhead
project. Those interested in the passage
of bill now before the legislature, pro-
viding for the construction of sea wall
around the city front, contend that the
water at the foot of the wharves has
been steadily shoaling for several years,
and that such wall is needed to keep
back the advancing sands which they
say flow down from the mining regions.
But the true cause of the shoaling ap
pears from the best evidence yet elected
on the subject to be the filling in from
the land back of the bay itself. For
years the debris and sweepings of the
city, and the earth obtained by cutting
down hills has been carted to the waters
edge and there deposited The Herald
says that for the past two years and a
half no filing in of the harbor has been
done, and consequently there has been
nothing to push the mud out from the
wharves; and hence, with the cessation
of the shoaling cause the shoaling itself
has ceased. The water has deepened as
much as ten feet in places where before
it was shoal, and vessels of great draught
can now haul in at wharves formerly in
accessible to them. Another cause of
the shoaling was the great number of
old hulks which once lined the city front,
creating strong and constant eddy
which interfered with the regular run of
the tides, and caused the formation of
mud banks. These have been removed,
and the mud banks have been washed
away. The Herald contends that the
waters Of the bay need only to be let
alone to restore the harbor to its original
excellence and to keep it always in good
condition


Meanwhile the dispute RACES. The
bay papers are divided on the question,
and are mutually maligning one another's
motives. The Herald of the 4th inst.
contained a satirical poem on the subject,
nearly column and half long, which
begins thus:


The seal The sea!


The fresl the salt. the registering
Comes rushing along through the Golden Gate
Like fellow whose spirits out rather late;
With an impudent swell, he makes shockingly free
With the modesty coy of our fair city;


He hugs the feet


OF every street;
So shamelessly far his impertinence reaches
lie every day comes and embraces the beaches!


Such freedoms to stay,
And lest he should kiss the young city away,
And make the sweet virgin bit of the bay
One LEVI, parson-a wide-awake man,
Propounds an astute and original plan
Nothing less than to take all her frontage in bulk,
(Which will keep her cribbed n something like an old


hulk,)


From ocean s emotion. from his swell and his shock,
Lay her up high and dry-hedge her in with "wharf


stock


And rs his pet, she


Is greatly in debt, he
Will bear the expenses. of all these defences,


Upon the condition


She gives him permission,
Her ships and her income, together to dock.
Year: 1859

AID TO THE PACIFIC RAILROAD
The fate of this great project in Congress
has stimulated to the devising of means
whereby California can help herself in
the matter. Several plans have been
proposed, and even disunion limited at
but the most feasible one we have seen
is as follows: To enable the "California
Great Trunk of the Pacific and Atlantic
Railroad Company to build and equip
railway from the city Of San Francis
co to the eastern boundary of the State,
Senator Merritt, of Mariposa, has intro
duced bill which embodies the princi-
pie of Col. Fitch's plan for Congression-
al aid to the Pacific Railroad that is, it
proposes to pledge the faith of the State
for the payment, for twenty years, of
five per cent. per annum on twenty mil
lions Of dollars of bonds of the above
company The road to be built in Sec
tions of ten miles each, the first section
to be completed in twelve months, and
the payment of the interest to correspond
with the completion of each section.
If the act passes it must first be submit


ted to the people and receive their ap-
proval before it can become law. We
can see no very serious objection to this
plan, and do not know why California
should not help herself in some way.
Year: 1859

THE SUNDAY LAW KILLED.-It is
already known to our readers that the
Bill to enforce the observance of the
Sabbath was killed in the Assembly by
. vote of 26 yeas to 25 nays, on motion
to indefinitely postpone reconsideration.
Vhis result was not unexpected. 1t is
plain, after witnessing the working of
the law passed last winter, that Sabbath
enactments are not wanted by the mas
ses, however desirable they may be to a
more religious minority The alacrity
with which the old law was disregarded
by nearly everybody, when it was de-
clared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court, sufficiently proved that it was far
in advance of public sentiment, for had
the masses desired it they would have OBJ
served Unconstitutional or not The
mining classes aoish to observe one day
in seven as period of rest from labor,
and they do observe the Sabbath, and
always did. 1t would doubtless be bet
ter for every other class of our population
to follow their example, and in time
they will, without the passage of COM
pulsory enactments.
Year: 1859

Young's Road Bill.


The Union publishes the bill concern
ing roads and highways in Nevada coun-
ty, which was Introduced into the As
sembly by Mr.. Young sometime ago,
and has since become law. 1t en-
tirely changes the present system of
collecting and disbursing the funds
raised for road purposes; makes each
township single road district, with a
resident collector; fixes the road tax at
a sum not to exceed two dollars and a
half for every able bodied man, between
the ages of twenty-one and fifty years
authorises the Board of Supervisors to
levy property tax for road purposes
not exceeding five cents on each one
hundred dollars; requires the prop
erty road tax to be collected by the
Sheriff, and to be paid to the Treasurer,
and that the township, or district col
lectors shall also settle with that office
quarterl y; makes it the duty of the
Auditor to issue signed road tax receipts,
as needed, which must be accounted for
regularly to him, as licenses are now
provides that no money can be drawn
for road purposes except upon an order
from the Board of Supervisors, and out
Of the township fund specified in such
order; prescribes the mode by which
work shall be done on county roads and
bridges, namely: in accordance with
petition of citizens, and by contract,
after advertising for lowest proposals,
except in cases where only slight repairs,
whose cost will not exceed one hundred
dollars, are needed, when upon petition
of not less than ten property holders
any one of the Supervisors may appoint
an overseer to conduct such repairs and
be allowed not to exceed FIVE dollars per
day for his services.


Such are the principal features as
briefly as we can state them. The law
requires the Board of Supervisors to
appoint the township collectors before
the first Monday in March; as that
time had passed before the Board knew
of the approval of the act, it is thought
no collectors can be appointed before
next year, and the old law being repealed,
no road tax can be collected from the
people and the roads must remain as they
are. Rather bad state of affairs, CON
sidering the execrable condition of the
public highways after winter of un
usual severity. Perhaps the supervisors
may feel warranted in making immediate
appointments under the statute which
provides for the filling of vacancies,
though the Office of township collector
as defined by the new law is SO different
from that of supervisor according to the
old one, that a vacancy, in the strict
sense of the term, can hardly be said to
exist at ALL To obviate this difficulty
an enabling act should at once be passed,
authorising the supervisors to 60 on and
appoint Immediately.


1t is to be feared that Mr.. Young's
bill will not prove superior to the old
system, except so far as it imposes greater
checks upon officers and prevents loose
expenditure Of the public money. In
it's practical working it strikes us that it
will be rather cumbersome, and not con-
ducive to that promptness of action
which the exigencies of our roads require
for their repair, and which the public
convenience demands.
Year: 1859

Lord Chatham rebuked dishonest Chan
cellor of the Exchequer by finishing a quo
tation the latter had commenced. The de-
bate turned upon some grant of money for
the encouragement Of art, which was op-
opposed by the Chancellor Of Exehequer,
who finished his speech against Lord Chat
ham s motion by saying, ''why was not this
ointment sold and the money given to the
poor ?" Chatham ross and said, "Why did
not the noble lord complete the quotation,
the application being so striking? As he
has shrunk from it, will finish the verse for
him-''This Judas said, not that he cared
FOR the poor, but because he 'c0s thief, and
carried The bag.
Year: 1859

Mother cried little girl, rushing
into the room where lady sat reading
mother John struck me in the face
with all his might Oh dear oh dear
it hurts me so y


And the child pressed her hand against
her cheek, and threw her head back
ward and forward, as if she was in great
pain.


The lady's face reddened instantly.
and the book fell from her hand to the
floor. There WAS anger in her heart
against John, and in the blindness of her
sudden indignation, she resolved to pun
ish him with a severe chastisemcnt.-
But ere she reached the apartment. in
which her child had been playing, she
paused suddenly and stood still. A
timely thought glancng through Ter
mind, had arrested her steps.


This will not do. l must control
myself, she said, speaking half aloud
Then after a resolute strife with her an
cry feelings, the mother went back to
the room where she had left the weeping
child, and setting down in her old place,
SAID, with as calm and steady voice as
she could assume


Agnes, let me see your check


oh dear how it hurts y sobbed Ag-
mes, as she came to her mothers side.
her hand still pressed to her face.


The lady gently removed the hand, and
examined her little girls cheek. There
was red mark as if a blow had been
received, but no evidence of bruse.


Agnes, said the mother, now speak
ing very calmly and gently, yet with a
6rmness that at once subducd the ex-
citement of her ch. Ids mind, 4 want
you to stop crying. and tell me all about
this trouble with john


The childs tears ceased to flow, and
she looked up into her mothers face.


Agnes, who gave the first provoca.. on
in this matter, you or John: =


'Jchn struck me in the face y replied
the child evincing a great deal of angry
feeling towards her brother.


why did he strike you:'


Agnes was silent.


who saw the trouble between you
and John 2? inquired the mother.


Why, Mary saw it She'll tell you
that John struck me in the face with all
his might


Tell Mary that wish to see her.


Agnes went for her sister. When
they returned the mother s; id


Now, Mary. tell me all about this
trouble with John and Agnes


You saw him strike me, didn't you
Nary said Agnes, with the eagerness
of resentment.


Il will question Mary said the moth
or. and while am doing so. you, Agnes,
must have nothing to say. After Mary
has finished, then you can correct her
statement if you wish to do so. Now
Mary say on


well, mother, III tell you just how
it was, said Mary. Agnes was teasing
John, and John got angry


And struck his sister, There was
tone Of severity in the mothers voice.


Il think the blow was accidental,
said Mary. John declared that it was;
and tried his best to comfort Agnes.
even promising to give her his pet kit
ten, if she would stop crying, and not
make trouble by telling you. But she
was angry, and would not listen to him


Tell me just what occurred, Mary,
and then shall know exactly how far
both were to blame


We'll, answered Mary. John and l
were playing checkers, and Agnes would
every now and then steal up behind John
and push his elbow when he was max
ing move. 1t worried him, and he
asked her over and over again not to do
Year: 1859

AT laSt OOnu pusneu tne DOard IRON
him and wouldn't play any longer. HI
was angry. Still Agnes seemed bent OF
annoying him. John got book ane
sat down near the window to read III
had not been there long before Agne.
stole up behind him. whipped the book
out of his hand, and ran away. John
sprung after her and they had a sfrug
gle for the book, in which Agnes got q
blow upon the face. was looking al
them and l think the blow was acciden.
tai. 1t seemed so at the time, and John
declares that he did not mean to strike
her. That is all, mother


Call your brother said the lady, in a
subdued voice.


John entered the room in few mo.
ments. He was pale and looked troub
led.


MY son. said the mother, speaking
without apparent excitement, yet with
a touch Of sorrow in her voice, did you
strike Agnes on purpose ?


The boys lips quivered, but no an
swer came through them. He looked
into his mothers face for moment or
two, until tears blinded him, and then
he laid his face down upon her bosom
and sobbed. With loves tender in.
stnct the mother drew her arm tightly
round her boy, and then there was si-
lence for the space of nearly a minute.


1t was an accident, am sure whis.
pcred the mother, placing her lips close
to the ear Of her boy.


Indeed it was. John answered back
with earnestness. My hand slipped as
tried to get my book away from her,
and it struck her in the face. | was so
sorry"


What less could the mother do than
kiss with ardor the fair brow of her boy,
against whom, under the influence of
anger, she had passed hasty judgment.
She almost shuddered at the thought of
the unjust punishment she had come
nigh inficting while blind from sudden
excitement.


The chief blame, l see, rests with Ag-
nes, said the lady, turning with some
severity of voice and countenance tow
ards her little girl, who now stood with
the aspect of Gu prit instead Of an ac-
cuser.


1t was for fun, mother John spoke
up quickly. She loves to tease. YOU
know, and was wrong to get angry


But teasing does not come from a
good spirit. replied the mother, and
am sorry that my little girl can find no
higher enjoyment than the pleasure of
annoying her brothers and sisters. am
satisfied with you John, but not with
Agnes; and now you may leave US alone


John and Mary went out, and left
their mother alone with Agnes. When
the little girl joined her brothers and
sisters some time afterwards, she had a
sober face like one whose spirit was not
at ease with itself. She had been gull
ty of double wrong, and had come near
drawing down upon her innocent broth
er an unjust punishment. SO clearly had
her mother brought this to her view,
that shame followed conviction, and she
was now ready to ackno owledge her fault
and promise better conduct in the fu-
ture.


But the one who profted by this scene
of trouble, was the childrcn's MOTHER
After all was harmonzed again, and she
was alone with her own thoughts. she
lifted her heart of thankfulness for self
control, and prayed that she might ever
possess her spirit in calmness. II trem-
BILE in thinking of the evil that would
have followed blind punishment Of my
noble boy!
Year: 1859

The New York Times closes an editorial
review of the present aspect of parties, as
follows


"If the Democrats are unwsc enough to
nominate Southern man, or any man stand
ing upon the new slavery
platform, Mr.. Sew ards nomination may be
considered certain, and his election highly
probable If they take Douglas, or any
man holding frankly and openly his position
on the slavery question, they may compel
the Republicans to make some other selec-
ton or to take large risks in the canvass"
Year: 1859

TThe following has the ring Of
the jack.plane in it all over: "Stroll-
ing leasurily about Uncle Sans big
ship-yard in Washington the other
day, we observed regular hard
weather sailor-looking chap from a
man Of war, in turn was watching two
men dragging seven foot crosS-cut
saw through huge live oak log
The saw was dull, the log terribly
hard, and there they went--see-saw
pull push, pull push. Jack studied
the matter over while, until he came
to the conclusion they were pulling to
see who would get the saw, and, as
one was a monstrous big chap, while
the other was a little fellow. Jack
decided to see fair play, 50 taking the
big one clip under the ear that cap
sized him end over end, he jerked the
saw out Of the log, and giving it to
the small one, sung out:


Nov run, You bcggar"
Year: 1859

hereby amended SO as to read as follows Sec.
436. Lands and tenements t'ken in execution
shall not be sold until the officer cause public
notice Of the time and place of sale, to be given
for at least thirty days before the day of SALE by
advertisement in some newspaper printed and
of general circulation in the county or in case
no newspaper be printed in the county, in some
newspaper of general circulation therein, and
by putting up an advertisement upon the court
house door, and in five other public places in the
county, two of which shall be in the township
where such lands and :tenements lie. Where
such advertisement is made ina newspaper pub
lished weekly it shall be sutfic cient to insert the
same in five consecutive numbers thereof; but
whenever there shall be published, both daily
and weekly edition of the newspaper selected
for snch advertisement, and the circulation of
the daily shall exceed that Of the wsekly, it shall
be sufficient for the officer to publish the said
advertisement in the daily once week, for
five consecutive weeks, before the day of sale,
each insertion to be on the same day ofthe week;
provided that the expense of such publication
in daily newspaper shall not exceed the cost
of publishing the same in a weekly newspaper.
All sales made without such advertisement shall
be set aside on motion, by the court to which
the execution is returnable.


Sec. q That the original section 436 of the
act entitled "an act to establish code of civil
procedure be and the same is hereby repealed,
and this act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.


WILLIAM B. WOODS


Speaker of the House of Representatives


- MARTIN WELKER,


ss-t4 President of tho Senate.


April 6, 1859.
Year: 1859

The MurfreesbOro' Telegraph says large amount
of town property belonging TO the late MsrmOn
Spence, was sold on the 10Th at prices which show
that town TO be in a prosperous condition.
Year: 1859

A singular and malignant disease has
appeared in Providence, r. l., and some
cases have proved fatal. The Provi-
dence Post says of it:


"It commences as little dark red spot,
on the face or hands, with, perhaps a
singing or pricking pain, on which spot
there soon appears a pustle or vesicle
seated on a hard inhamed base, in which
is formed slough of charcoal blackness,
where modification commences. The
cases are attracting the earnest attention
of the physicians. The only effectual
mode of treatment is said TO be, TO burn
the pimple out in its early stages, with q
hot iron or with caustic. In view of the
rather underlined nature of this disease
we would suggest that it is eminently
desirable, if any one is troubled with g
Pimple swelling of an unusual character
that physician should be at once con
suited before it is tampered with. AL
though there is no cause for genera
alarm, a disease of this malignant typ'
cannot be checked too early"


We learn by Saturday mornings pa
pers that man died on Friday afternoon
in Providence from the effects of thi.
disease.