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Year: 1860

My DEAR SIR:-l have Just peruSed YOUR
note to my brother and drop you a word In
return. | fully agree with you in the claims
of the Southern people to a clean record Of
our statute books ofther unfriendly and null
LITIGATION acts as also to their equal rights OF
the Territory for their common use and benefit,
though the evidence is not clear to nay mind
that the early founders of elr Government (or
that majority of our leading men both North
and South since it's f0undation) have been for
the extension Of slavery over the new Ierrito-
~ still | think the decision of the Supreme
Court carries it there, and if so the question
stands settled and your ri ghts are fully defined
That all obnoxious laws should be at once re-
pealed and that you should have your Just
rights in our common Territory is just what
all democrats are advocating and fighting for
here and we are almost as numerous as the
Republicans With the efforts of the South
rye are bound to win and it is only matter of
short time. Our Union is worth the battle
when we know the minority cannot long rule
Besides not more than one Mt1I of the Repub-
iican party at most are abolitionists but are
men true to justice and principle, and when
they come to learn exactly how matters stand
as they soon must and will under present cir
cumstance, they will throw off the deceptions
of their arch-leaders and come to the polls and
say, 81 have been most damnably gulled in the
past and if ifabolition is the real object of this
party, as now really and truly see it is, [ am
no longer with them-I detest and abomnate
not only abolitonism but the deceits and hy-
pocrisy Of their leaders and will have nothing
more 10 do with them" Such will be the ac-
tons Of more than threefourths Of that party
when they shall come to learn the truth
Fight in the Unien--hgit manftllly up to the
mark and with justice on our side we will win.
We have the strength, the vantage ground and
we can maintain it, Ghe prize is worth the
sacrifice and let " Troy" be besieged in the
Union, When this arrangement of our co4n-
try shall reach, practically, the homes and
pockets Of our working classes as they must
in the due course of events, [ shall then look
for that great change iss the political horizon
which these circumstances alone can produce
Touch the pockets Of the people and you touch
a tender chord, and one which will arouse them
to thought, study and activity. They have
been taught that they had only to cast their
vote to vote themselves farms and not one in
ten perhaps know that there We're two parties
to the instrument Under s5ch circumstances,
practically, the election has been made, But
let us not give up the ship in mon4entary
storm, or when drifted by adverse winds, but
Jet us hold on, nothing doubling and sooner or
later she will right again, and this as sure as
the sun in Heaven


am yours truly,
Year: 1860

PROPER CHANGE.-The Governor of South
Carolina in his message at the opening of the
present session of the Legislature OF that State ad
vised a prohibition of the practice long followed
by many of the slave States, OF letting negroes
hire their own time. He says that slaye mechan-
les thus often hire white men to work for them
and under their orders, which he thinks ought
not to be done; it ought to be distinctly under
stood, he says" that the white is the governing
race, without exception, and without regard


to the disparity of intliect. merit requirements -
We did not know before that white men were
hired by slave mechanics in South Carolina; but
Gov. Gist is right in condemning the practice.
Negroes should not hire their own time in any
Southern community.


HANDSOME PREsENT.-Mr. Clare Pittman, oi
South River, will please accept our thanks for


lot of the finest sweet potatoes re have seen


for a long time. We trust that you may be
permitted to live long in the land, Mr. P, &c.
Year: 1860

The following letter is from an officer of the
Navy who has just resigned his commission
a New Yorker, and addressed to distinguished
gentleman Of this town who has kindly permit
ted US to use it:


New YORK CITY, Nov. %, 1860.
Year: 1860

The Boston Post says that, in the great
rush of people that came down to the dock
to welcome the Prince of Wales at his
landing in Detroit, one man got wedged
against a fixed table so closely that to save
his ribs be crawled under and attempted to
come up on the other side. But he unfor-
tunately became entangled under an out
spread petticoat, and was only liberated from
his cage after the woman had tainted, and he
himself had been soundly kicked by the in
furiated husbvnd.
Year: 1860

The Emperor of China is represented to be
state of drunken, helples imbecility.
The Chief Censor, an officer whose duty it is
to rebuke the faults of the highest Chinese
officials, protested some months ago against
the conduct of the Emperor, against the
drunkenness and dissipation, his attachment to
actors, and love of low society. This reproof
to majesty was published in the Pekin
Gazette, and circulated throughout the length
and breadth of the empire.
Year: 1860

QUEEN VERONA heartily recognizes
the genial compliment our people
have paid her through the person Of
her son, and has hastened to make
known her qualification significantly
inviting our Minister to pay her
with his family, an informal and
friendly visit at Windsor.
Year: 1860

"IIE WAS A CLEVER FELLow."-This
was the remark we heard on the strests
the other day, as two friends were pass.
ing, and the funeral cQrtege Of one they
had known'moved slowly toward ftke 'Faest-
ing place Of the dead In Ave EAnutcs'
more the same two friends werejDking
over a political argument, and, the dead
was forgotten. This is the way of the
world. We flourish for a while. Men
take us by the hand, and are anxious
about the health Of our bodies, and laugh,
at our jokes, and We really think like the
fly on the wheel, that we have something
to do with the turning Of the earth.
Some day we die and arc buried. The
sun does not stop for our funeral; every
thing goes on as usual we arc not missed
in the streets men laugh at new jokes
one or two hearts feel the wounds Of
afFlictiOn, ono or two memories still hold,
our names and forms; but the crowd
moves in its daily circle and in three
days the great wave Of time sweeps over
our steps, aud washes out the last vcstige
Of our lives.
Year: 1860

RIcn.-Among the many rich items
disclosed b. these election times the fol-
lowing is the richest. A meeting Of the
committee appointed to receive the Prince
Of Wales in New York was called to re-
lcct one Of their number to present him
an address. There were one hundred and
four gentlemen present and voting, and
on counting the votes there was OnV COt6
cast .tor each one Present. Every one had
voted for himself After balloting three
times more with precisely similar result
they adjourned in disgust.
Year: 1860

sidered out of danger. OF the Duck
Mill the prospect is not so good. Every
thing that can be doue is being done. The
fire companies are present from all the
neighboring towns. Between forty and
fifty physicians are in attendance at the
City Hall and other places, wherever the
injured need their services.


The ruins having burned up, it will be
many days before a true knowledge Of the
killed and wounded can be arrived at
The fire, which finally sacrificed the hu.
man beings, caught without doubt from a
lantern of burning fluid, which was acci-
dentally dropped.


One fireman dropped dead in the street.
The streets are filed with mass of human
beings, every one eager to do and see and
hear. Friends, who before the FIRE were
alternating between hope and fear, are
now settling down into hopeless despair,
Year: 1860

ABSENCE OF FEAR AND CoURAGE.-Every
passion becomes weak in proportion as it is
familiar with its object. Evil must be con-
sjdered as the object Of feari but the passion
is excited only when the evil becomes proba-
bic; or, in other :words, when we are 10
danger. AS the same evil may become proba-
BILE many ways, there are several species OF
danperEthat danger to which men are con-
finnally exposed soon becomes familiar, and
fear is no longer excited. This, however,
must not be considered as an example OF
courage; for equal danger of any other kind
will still produce the same degree OF fear In
the same mind, i.F - $40 Ls .... ~"
Year: 1860

HEA- FRoW THE STARS 1t is c startling
fact, that if the earth were dependent alone
upon the San for heat, it would not keep ex-
is,ence in animal and vegetable life upon its
surface. Il results from the researches or
Poaijiet hat the stars furnish heat enough in
the course Of q year to melt q crust of ice
seventy feet thick-almost IS much as is sup
piled by the sun. This may appear strange
when We consider how iumeasureably small
mast be the amount of heat received from any
Of those distant hodies But the surprise
vanisheS when We remember that the whole
armament is thickly gemued with stars
Year: 1860

INTERESTING TO WIyEs.-AS a general rule
it is most economical to buy the best articles.
The price is, of course, always a little higher !;
but good articles spend best 1t is sacrifice
of money to buy poor cheese lard, etc., to say
nothing Of the injurious effect upon health


Of the West India sugar and moasses the
Santa Crutz and Porto Rico are considered the
best. The Havana is seldom clean. White
sugar from Brazil is sometimes very good.


Refined sugar usually contains most Of the
saccharine substance there is probably more
economy in using loaf, crushed and granulat-
ed sugars than we should first suppose


Butter made in September and October
is the best for winter use. Lard should 10
hard and white and that which is taken from
O hog Hot over q year old is best.


Rich cheese feels softer under the pressure
Of the finger That which is very strong is
neither very good nor healthy. To keep out
that is cut, tie it upon in bag that will not
admit flies, and hang it in a cool, dry place
If mould appears on it vi pc it of with a dry
cloth


Flour and meal of all kinds should be kept
in a cool, dry place.


The best rice is large, and has q clear, fresh
look. Old rice sometimes has little black in.
sects inside the kernels


The small white sago. called the pearl sago,
is the best. The large brown kind has an
earthly taste. The article and tapioca ground
rice. etc, should be kept covered


To select nutmegs, pick them with pin
II they are good, the oil will instantly spread
around the puncture.


Keep coffee By itself, as the odor affects
other articles h cen tea in q CLOSE chest or
canister.


Oranges aud lemons keep best wrapped
close in soft paper, and laid in drawer of linen.


Soft soap should be kept in dry place in
the cellar. abd not be used until three months
old


To thaw frozen potatoes, put them in hot
water


To thaw frozen npples, put them in cold
water. Neither will keep after being frozen.
-HoasshtPers FrlsaG
Year: 1860

bS Respect is always dae to persons of
peculiar merit or those who Gil elevated sta.
tions, but ciYility is due to every one in life,
whose base conduct has not forfeited it. An
easy, kind and pleasing address, without sac
rhce of dignity, u among the most valuable
requirements, and is within the reach of every
person. II is kind of current coin that
will pass universally even among savages, and
will gain you friends with those who cannot
understand our language
Year: 1860

/ bit of bread and tea we try to be grateful" !"
A simple story, but a true story, every word
of it. The widow is honest and hardwork-
ing. Many dreary, desolate nights and days
of drudgery, with the future presenting no
assurance of better days to come, had utterly
banished hope; and with tears she exclaim-
ed, ooh! am tired of being so poor!" Ye
that dwell! in ceilcd houses, and sleep away
Oh beds Of down surieit of eating, can ye
realize what that expression means? Can
you? Then go out among the poor of your
neighborhood, and you will find some one
like this poor woman of the Five Points,
whose heart is weary, and to whom you may
bring visions of better days to come, and thus
strengthen her hands for the labors incident
to honest poverty. Go yourself. The Be-
nevolent Societies are all poor and in debt.
Go yourself. Twill do you good, and con-
vince some poor child of want that there is a
loving charity that seeks to be useful to those
that need.-N Y. Tribune


Now go, reader, and see if you can't find
some poor wretched widow, who is tired of
being so poor, and carry gladness to her heart.
Year: 1860

Look on the broad and glorious face of the
sky, oh atheist When suns are in their
splendor, and innumerable worlds wheel their
ceaseless and eternal course through the re-
gions of infinite space-,iost thou not there
discover the hand of superior. Power, point
ing on, thir pathway and upholding the struc-
ture of the august universe? ? Look, when
clouds are there, piled Up in the awfuness of
their grandeur, and the lightning rides forth
in the car of destruction listen to the roll of
thunder and to the rush of the tempest as he
sweeps through the shuddering earth-seest
| thou no God there? iIearest thou not the
sound Of his voice and the roaring of his
chariot wheels? Look on the bosom Of the
ocean when not breath disturbs its deep re-
pose, and it lies stretched out like vast mir
ror rejecting the armament of heaven-seest
thou there no traces of Deity? Look when
the spirit Of the deep has arisen in its anger;
when billow wars with billow; when the
mountain waves seem to mingle with the sky,
and darkness filings its awful shroud over the
contcnding waters. leaving no cheerful ray to
guide the helpless mariner to his havcn--seest
thou there a being of infinite power and great
ness?


Look on the beautiful earth when she puts
on her rich robes OF fruits and flowers, when
the fragrance Of all that is grateful to the
sense is in her nostrils, and her voice is full
of songs and mclodious hymning-dost thou
not there discern a power Of love, and mercy,
and holiness?


Look, when dreadful Winter comes forth
from the prison of the North, dealing out ruin
and terror, and covering the glorious sky with
angry frowns, and threatening all that is
beautiful in the earth retires before him, and
he rides on triumphantly. marking his foot
steps with grandeur and desolation! Secst
thou no august, no mighty hand


Look, yet once again, and behold the crea-
ture that walks upright in the midst Of crea-
ton, and is master of all that surrounds him;
mark the immortality that beams from his
countenance, and his look which penetrates
the skies. Then turn thy thoughts within,
and listen to the voice of thy own bosom
observe all its workings, its fears, its hopes,
its susceptibility of the most exquisite enjoy
ment and wretchedness-its anxious thirst for
still greater knowledge--its earnest, constant,
unobtained, and still buried in the mysterious
future And, above all, its convulsive cling
ing to life. and its unutterable dread of ceas-
ing to be. Atheist-art thou immortal and
is there not God
Year: 1860

have little room in Baxter street. Sir !;
it is good enough, perhaps. If the door were


nailed up bit, where the last tennant broke
It, Our bedstead just comes forenent the win


dow, and the cold air and rain sometimes


comes in, may be when frosty nights comes


or it Ill be unpleasant. Half the window is
boards, and the other half glass. 1fit were


tight window it might be better. A little


paper on the petition would stop up the


cracks. The landlord is fair man, but
when ask him to repair the room he says
"he forgets it." He remembers when the adj
vance is due true enough. | wish, sir, / could
get place to scrub or work, that might
earn four or six shillings a day. lean make
from twelve to eighteen shillings week sew
ing, but pay the rent and buy candle, a
bit of soap, few penny-worth OF sugar and
tea, and when the month is past, | haven't a
cent left, my daughter Mary is sickly, and the
doctor says she will have the consumption if
something is not done. What can do, sir?
l am willing to work. Oh! | am tired Of
being so poor. (The poor widow burst into
tears.) cannot make poor mouth. I nev-
er was beggar. But am tired of being SO
poor No, sir, I have no shoes, myself or the
child, and paid fifty cents to buy Mary the
shoes. have these rubber overshoes, and
they do very we'll but there is hole in the
bottom, and my feet are wet. (After hunt
awhile we found pair OF shoes, and gave
them to her, May God bless you, sir! You
are very kind to the children, and l thank
you for it. The lady gave me this dress last
Fall, and try b. be economical. live have
Year: 1860

PRETTY GIRLs.-TIow often do we hear
men blamed for loving pretty girls. Yet
nothing can he more right. The first duty Of
woman is TO be lovely, as it is the first duty
Of man to be strong. 1t is not, of course. in
tho power OF any woman to change her foa-
lures or to remodel her form. Blu. beauty
true beauty-the beauty which attracts and
wins the other sex-is not so much the result
of health as it is health itself. And health
which gives bloom othe countenance, sweet.
ness to the breath, clearness to the skin
straightness to the form, elasticity to the step
sprightliness to the demeanor, and brilliancy
to the eye-health, rosy health, without which
there is no beauty. with which no woman is
repulsive, is within the reach Of most young
women!
Year: 1860

"Won't you make my doll cradle:"
Said little girl of six:
"My cousin Tommy made me one,
But that is out of fix,
And want to have nice one
Made out of willow sticks"
No mechanics heart e'er fluttered
With more exalted throb,
Than mine did at this order;


And time can never rob
My heart Of this strange ecstacy,
On taking home the job.
That "cousin Toni know not why
never could abide;
felt strange uneasiness


TO see him by her side;
And to win her undivided smile
Unremittingly l tried.
Since then dozen tlowtry Springs.
In Times unceasng roll,
Have laid their hands on Mary brow
Their impress on her soul;
And I've another cradle made,


But It's not for her doll.
! Cannot tell you how it was


I'm sure never thought,
When but boy Of ten years old
That first rude job l wrought,
That we should need another one,
But SO it has turned out.
OF the two cradles | and she


Have oftentimcs conversed,
And she declares the last one made
Is cumsiest and worst;
Yet believe she likes it better


Than she did the first.
Year: 1860

TREAcHERY OF EVIL PASSIONS Evil
passions exert powerful influence yer
the understanding; they derngc its acton,
and having the art Of seli:oonoealment. are
likely to operate with creator fatality when
least exposed to the notice of their victim.
OF the drunkard, it is often said that he is
n poor judge Of himself. often nauinipp
h'uiSei to be sober when he is not. IL IS
very much so with all the evil passions
that prey upon fallen humanity; they be-
guile and deceive, ruin and destroy, without
any advertisement: of their presence, ex.
oept in their results. They shrink from
the blaze OF conscience, to burrow in the
heart
Year: 1860

people; and he was kept so in spite of cir
cumstances by the irresistible bent of his
character. lie had great power i'm mas
ter'ng details as we'll az in searching for
general principles. His profession WIS
that OF the law. IN which he was method.
icai, pains-taking, and successful ut the
same time he studied law as science, and
Was we'll read in the law of nature and of
nations. Whatever he had to do, it was
his custom to prepare himself for it care
fully; and in public life, when others we're
at fault, they often found that he had al
ready hcwed out the way; so that in ouncil
men willingly & We him the lead, which he
never appeare~ to claim, and was always
able 20 undertake. But he rarely spoke
IN public; and was less fit to engage i'm the
war OF debate, than calmly to sum up its
conclusions. 1t was a beautiful trait in
his character that he was free from envy;
and had he kept silence, John Adams
would have wanted the best witness 10 his
greatness as the ahlest advocate and defend
er o! Independence. a common object
now rivcted the two statesmen together in
close bonds cannot find hat at that
period. Jefferson had any enemy; by the
a.,
stood first among her civilians Just thir-
ty-threc years ID, married, and happy il
his family aftiuent with a bright career
before hun. he was no rash innuvator by
his character or his position; if his convic-
uonS drove him to demand dependence
1t was only because he could no longer live
with honor under the British Constitution,
which he still acknowledged to be the best
that the world had thus far seen. His
enunclation of general principles was fear
less; but he was no visionary devotce of
abstract theories, which. like disenbodicd


ouis, escape from every embrace; the
nuislIng OF his country, the offspring of his
time, h. set about the work of practical
statesman. and his measures grew SD natu
rail out Of previous law and the facts Of
the past, that they struck deep root aud
have endured.
Year: 1860

A RUSSIAN PRINCESS BECOMES SISTER OF
CHARITY.-The retreat from the circles of
society where she was so admirably fitted by
person, graces, intellect, and position to take
the leading part, says Paris letter, shocked
all reasonable people when it became matter
of public knowledge that the Princess de Ma
riskin was on the eve of becoming nun Her
name tells you she was Russian Princess.
Her family was most bitterly opposed to her
taking the vail The only concession they
could obtain from her was her consent to their
plan that she should spend two years in society
in Paris. She allowed them to dress her in
the most elegant attire; she went wherever
they desired her to go; she saw life in its most
brilliant cOlOrs, and when the two years had
expired, she reminded her parents of the do
cility with which she had obeyed them, and
asked them to fulfill their promises to her
She became, and is now, Sister of Charity
Such are the inexplicable mysteries of human
nature. Give one rank, birth, fortune, all the
gifts this world can give-straight, he aspires
to a life Of austerity, no velvet has charms at
all comparable to the coarse, wooen garb of
the religious order Place another without
rank, or birth, or fortune-he will swindle, he
will sully his name, he will crimson his hand
in his brothers blood, he will affront all the
terrors of remorse to procure fortune alone.
So we are made Possession destroys the
value of every thing, even of beauty, even OF
gold, even of fame. what shadows we are
what shadows we pursue
Year: 1860

GRUNBLERs.-If you find a man disposed to
complain of the coldness of the world, be sure
you will find that he has never brought any
thing into tue world to warm it, but Is a per-
sonal lump of ice set in the midst of it. If you
find a man who complains that the world is all
base and hollow, tap him, and he will probably
sound base and hollow. And so, in the other
way, kind man will probably find kindness
all about him. The merciful man, as a general
thing, will obtain mercy. He who has Away:
had a kind excuse for others, who has looked
at the brightest side of the case he who has
rendered his pardon and his help whenever he
could, who has never brought his fellow-mar
into any strait by reason of not helping him
will find that the mercy which he has bestowed
flows back upon him in full and spontaneou:
spring. He will make a merciful world by the
mercy he himself shows 80
Year: 1860

GEYsER QUICKSILVER MlNEs-The Sono-
ma County Journal says:


We understand that renewal Of the
quicksilver excitement has sprung up in this
county within the past few days. Notwith-
standing but little has been done, one of the
companies has succeeded in striking vein
of exceeding richness, conclusively explod-
ing the opinion that the mineral would
never be found to exist in anything like a
regular lead or deposit. The discovery has
attracted to the mines several new adven-
tUrers, some of whom have commenced op-
erations by jumping claims located several
months since. A meeting of all interested
in the matter, is called to meet at Healds-
burg, on the 9th Of next month, when we
understand an effort will be made to con-
solidate the mining interests and claims for
the purpose of at once entering upon the
business of working the mines on an eXten-
sive scale.