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Year: 1861

A young lady of California recently broke
her neck while resisting the attempt of a
young man to kiss her. This furnishes a
fearful warning to young ladies. We know
from personal experience lin days gone by,
alasl)-it is the Saratoga Republican that
speaBs-how prone young girls are to peril
their precious necks by twisting away from
else, or sit still and hold-your. head. steady
activepess, perfect happiness would have
been shed abroad, and the ambient air made
luxuriant with glory. Dear girls, hold your
head steady, and don't break your darling
neeksl t-'
Year: 1861

The Nevada Transcript contains commu-
nication suggest & the names ol Hon Joseph
c. McKib6en (D>mocra) and Hon. Alex
Campbell (iepubican) az sound and reliable
Union men, who woulI f,hfulIy represent
California in Congress. We know Mr. Me-
kibhen well, and can truly say that he Is an
ahle, patriotic and honorable man. lie holds
the cause of the country dearer than the
cause of any party. and regards the ConStl-
tulirn of the United States as more worthy
of efforts to preserve it, than are all the po-
litical plai forms ever written This we as
sert upon positive knowledge OF lis views.
Mr.. Campbell we have 70 acquaintance with,
but we know that he is an enemy to all trail
tors against the Government lie Is MEM
Der of the party which carried the presidential
election upon the Chicago platform. No man
be elected to Congress from this state upon
that or any other political platform of the
past. We do not know Mr. CampbelPs opin-
ions upon this sui Iject of party platforms 1t
Is very certain that nothing can be accom-
plished without organization. Regulating
deiunct party issues is one Thing. and repu-
dating party organizations is quite another.
We are II humble member of a large and
powerful party organization, which we be-
lieve to he entirely sound on the Union qnes-
ton. Believing our party to be in better
position than any other, by reason of the
| mi 10 -. fall tn Land
off in rallying Union men around a Union
standard, we expect to labor with that party
and with all those who respond to the call of
its Committee.


If L Dion men cannot all become one grand
Union party, because of the lack Of enough
secessionists to make a respectable orposi-
ton, why each man must act with that Union
organization which seems likely to most
completely annihilate the Davis sympath-
zers and at the same time to achieve tri-
umph for liberal ideas. We are ready to
support any candidates, known to be above
reproach on the one great issue, who may
bs agreed upon to be supported 10y the great
body of Union men with whom we are act
ing in concert. Joseph C. McKibbn is a
member of the Union party to which we be-
long, and we have no hesitation in saying
that no worthier or more honest man can be
named in the State, or one in when the peo
pie would more willingly repose confidence
as their representative in Congress.


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The LAST WORD OF CoUNsEL.-The two
Democratic State Central Committees meet in
this city to day. and we beg them to bear in
mind the prominent fact that the masses in
both wings are most anxiously expecting
them to tender each other the olive branch
TO pass resolutions of mutual invitation to
join together and take common action for the
common good, and to utterly ignore all past
diferences.-S + Herald


The foregoing was the last word of coun-
sci given by the innocent man who runs the
Herald, and who does not know that there
is any hubbub in the East. The Democratic
Committee went right on about its business
as though the Custom House organ had not
said a word
Year: 1861

THE BREcKINRIDGE ADDRESS This docu-
ment has been so severely denounced by the
Union men of all parties in the State, that it
is more than possible the Committee will re-
tract it during its present session. If this
should be done with a view to securing some
of the spoils, we suppose the Express will say
that such action was advisable. If that Jour.
nal should decide upon endorsing retrac-
tion of the odious document alluded to. it
will be compelled to swallow the following
language which appeared in un editorial Of
its issne of April sth:


"The Address issued by the Committee,
ably discusses the present crisis, and points
out with clearness and breyity the manner in
which it should be met 1t commends itself
to the good sense of every patriot. and should
be carefully read by all. 1t s complete
refutation of the false and slanderous charge
of disunion, which INSCRIPTIONS sheets have
endeNvored to fasten upon US, and demon
strates beyond cavil that the course recon-
mended by the Democracy is the only one
that can save the Union. The question is
'peace or war" and the Democracy declare
for peace"
Year: 1861

TIE CONCERT LAST EVENING We witness
ell last evening the performance Of the Uper-
stta of the Twin Sisters, 10y the young la
eies of the high school of this city, under the
direction of Messrs. Hamilton and Long, aud
can truly say, it was by far the finest per-
formtnce of the kind ever given in this city.
We had expected to see IL pretty display and
a good performance, but were not prepared
to witness II performance hy young ladies,
wholly unnccusiomed to singing in public
which would So fully do honor TO experirn-
ced singers and performers. Aside from the
performances, the decorations Of the young
ladies and the stage.are alone worth the price
of admission, and We are happy to learn that
the Operetta is to lie repeated Tonight
Those who have lot seen il, should go to
night and sse a performance which is perfect
iu its kind
Year: 1861

TIE MARYsvILLE PEACE ORGAN The Ex-
press of March 10th. under the head of The
Last Hope Destroyed" used the following
language:


I've. in connection with the conservative
and Union men Of oil sections of the country,
have never disguised our fears of disastrous
and bloody termination of our present Ma
tiondl troubles. We have had but little hope
OF compromise The differences between the
Southern people and the dominant rartv in
the free States, have become TOO deep-seated
and widespread to admit of peaceable ad-
iustment."
Year: 1861

EIctted.-We never saw more of that dets-
mination which means do or die than was ex b.
pressed In the faces of the people Yesterday
Hundreds assembled in the rotunda and
thronged the avenues leading to the Capitol:
most of whom, like Mica awber were evidently Y
waiting for some thing TO turn up. In defauit
OF definite action by the Convention, the al -
Journment of that body till 10 day was a
timely relief TO the people as they wer. as.
sured by II that the action hereafter had by
that body would mean somethin
Year: 1861

ottH Rtstng The river during yesterday
gave no indication of a desire to fall IN ,hs
contrary, the water persistently rose as high
as ever, and was in that fix at last accounts
Ihe people in the lower part Of the city are
much incommoded thereby
Year: 1861

From the Fort Smith Times.l


We have been favored with the following
letter, which we take pleasure in laying before
our readers. Il is gratifying to see the whole
South united in sentiment regardless Of race.
The Cherokees are d wari!ke people; and
Kansas J4yhawlers and AboIitjonist5 will be
made to feel their vengeance for aggress on,
which they have been committing for series
of years under the protection Of the Federal
Government:
Year: 1861

The leaftongues of the forest and the hower-ps of


the sod,
The happy birds that hymn their raptures in the ear


of God,
The summer wind that bringeth music over land and


sea,
Have each voice that singeth this sweet song


to me:


This world is full of beauty as other worlds above
And if we did our duty, it might be full of ove.'
Year: 1861

ANOTHER MINING ACCIDENTAL man named
Flint was killed on last Monday, says the
Mountain Messenger, in the claims of Wag
ner, Iackett d. Co., at Gardners Point
brother of Wagner and Flint we're down in
the deep cut, and the ground commenced
caving FROM above. Wagner barely saved
himself, but the torrent OF water ana earth
swept unfortunate Flint down through the
cut and over the steep and rocky prccpiee
toward Slate creek. 1t was not until after
a search of some hours that the body was
discovered about half mile below, lodged
in some brush. 1t was mangled in most
shocking manner, every particle Of clothing
being torn Off in its lrightful descent among
the crags There was not a whole bone
in the body, and it had cut in the left side
out Of which half the heart protruded. He
was about fifty years Of age, and from Mas
sachusetts, where he leaves family.
Year: 1861

49, At tho earnest request Of many voters who did
H@ not support him ut the last election the name Of
SAMUEL STRONG IL presented q candidate 10 oil the
cancy tho Board Vi Common Council in the afth ward


June Is
Year: 1861

AN ACT to provide for the payment of money


to the Agricultural Societies of certain coun'


ties FOR the year 1860.


The people Of the State Of Wisconsin, represe''-
ted IN Senate and a ssenebly, do enoct as toHows


SEC L. All county Agricultural Societies
which have not, for the year A. d. 1880, com
piled with the statute in such case made and
provided as to the time of making their annu-
al report so as to cntitlc them to the annual
appropriation from the state treasury, may
make such report at any time prior to the first
day of May, 1861, and by such report showing
all the facts required by statute, except as
herein provided, the secretary of state shall
audit such appropriation and draw his warrant
on the state treasury the same as if the report
of such societies had been made within the
time now prescribed by law for making such
reports


Sac. 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.


Approved March IS, 1861.
Year: 1861

handy and Jolly at it, that 1t seems about the sort OF
soldering suited to them at any rate it Is ust the kind
most needed here now. The guns are stored in the
ordnance yard outside Of the fortress and consequent
ly have to be transported O. considerable distance:
There is a company Of Cambridge Firemon in one Of
the regiments, and when they get lO-inch Coumbad,
weighing Is, 600 pounds sluDg up under two huge
wheels they can't resist the disposition to rum ii is 20
much like "running with the machine y And you
should see them go and, besides, they are permitted
10 shout which they do, as only iremen can; and the
WAY they do snake along" the heavy Monsters is
unceasing wonder TO the regulars.


In mounting the great guns and IN planting the
wde-mouhed ortars there is certain kind Of inter-
eat that nvi2ortes the at the work. Though the
monsters passive enough in their yet the men
are well aware that they can speak, and IN language
that the Rebels will not misunderstand


Let Massachusetts, gee that her men are well pro-
yided with clothing. The heavy work they do is hard
ON clothing and the men came away IN great haste
most of item require new uniforms. do not think
the men will object to my conveying strong hint on
this point.


The " Big Gun" stands where 1t always has stood
outside of the walls the water in front of the
Water Battery. 1t was planted there for practice,
and in the present can be served ell there AZ
it could be were it inside Of the fortress.
The vigilance Of the officers OF the Fortress Is es-
peciay worthy of remark. allude to those Of tAs
regular army. The officers Of the volunteers canpos OF
course do much more than drill their men. Iney
should and probably most Of them do study the eooxs


that viii fit them for The performance OF their cnfs'
Neatly every one Of the regular ocers have seen ser
VICE Without al exception they arc sohd men, ano
many of them elegant gentleman as wen as Dra'e ano
I accomplished soldiers.


A certain number Of mor are drilled at the large
guns every day in artillery practice, and under the
tuition wifi n is enforced the garrison VIII scon DO III
condition 10 make th, best Of the abundant mean
OF defense which psy have
Year: 1861

If two persons are to occupy bedroom
during a night let them step upon weigh
ing scales as they retire, and then again
ia the morning, and they will find their
actual weight is at least pound less in
the morning. Frequently there will
be loss of two or more pounds. and the
average loss throughout the year will be
more than one Lound, That is, during
the night there is loss of podnd Of
matter gone from their bodies, partly from
the lungs and partly through the pores of
the skin The escaped material is car
bonic acid, and decayed animul matter,
or posoinohs exhalations. This is diffus-
ed through the air in part, and in part
absorbed by the bed clothes. If a single
ounce of wood or cotton be burned in a
room, it will so completely saturate the
air with smoke that one can hardly
breathe, though there can only be one
ounce of foreign matter in the air If an
ounce of cotton be burned every hour of
the night, the air will be continually sat-
urated with smoke unless there be an
open window for II to escape. Now the
sixteen ounces of smoke, thus formed, is
far less poisonous than the sixteen ounces
of exhalations from the lungs and bodies
of the two persons who have lost pound
in weight during the eight hours of
sleeping, for while the dry smoke is
mainly taken into the lungs, the damp
odors from the body are absorbed both
into the lungs and into the pores of the
whole body


Need more be said to show the impor
taace Of hafing bedrooms well ventilated
and of thoroughly airing the sheets, eov'
erlids and mattresses, in the morning be.
fore putting up in the form Of neatly
made bed /? Perhaps the worst of all
| Bedroom evils is the feather bed-but ac
cording to the notion # some, il it is old
and dirty it is so mach the bctter-lf it
was slept on bv u great grandmother; and
| has absorbed the exhaiatlons of the body,
the disease and decomposition Of three
genera ions, 1t is capital bed A grand
mistake Being an lhsu!atiUn against he
| flee circulation of the electric forces of
the 5, stem, and being body of constant
" dccaying animal matter, feather bed
is the worst of all couches to sleep upon.
a person of good health and vigorous
constitution will never rise from ore
Hithuut feeling weakness which takes
hours to retover from. The moisture
and vitality of the system has been ab-
sorbed without being replaced by an
equal amount of life capital; and particu-
larly when the room is poorly ventilated
will tbs destructive ard weakenInS inHu-
ehces Of the feather bed be felt Our
advice is, to discontinue their use entirely.
Year: 1861

"My mother taught me to pray when
[ was Il little boy. | had often to 90 to
the town a mile and a half from my
home. after dark. for the days are short
in Scotland, and used to be fraid -
So my mother told me that when | was
afraid, must pray to God, and used
to do so.


"My father died when | was very
Young. | cannot remember him at all
My mother used often to have spells of
sickness, and felt badly for her, for [
had no father 10 love, and loved my
mother very dearly. and | love her now
Once when she was sick. | prayed for
her, and | told the Lord If be would
make my mother we'll, | would never
doubt him again. And sure enough she
was well in the morning it was in the
morning / had asked him she might be
well. God has been wonderfully good to
me. If you knew how he kept me and
NV sister from evil to which we were ex.
posed, you would say we have great cause
Of thank fulness have not served hlm
as | ought, and | wish to do better in
future"


Sdch were the words of a humble man
who came to my study to talk to me-
His health is feeble, and he is so deaf
tina, was obi iged to use a pen for my
part of the conversation. while he would
speak to me in a feeble, but audible
voice His simple and fersent utteran-
ces touched my heart, and | thought
they might interest some others.
Year: 1861

The New York Herald contains the fol-
loving encouraging paragraph in its money
article of Monday week


Commerce, in the North, is already
entering upona phase heretofore unknown
in the history Of America, but far safer
for the future welfare of the country. lu-
stead of the insecure business with the
South, BY which our merchants have lost
such vast sums of money, and have been
obliged to sacrifice feelings and principles
for gain, certain and lucrative trade is
springing up. We are becoming depen.
dent upon each other, Instead OF upon
strangers. Credit is curtaiIing itself with
10 limits that exclude the po; sibility of
those periodical monetary convulslons,
that have swept over financial circles
every few years with such terrific and de
struciive violence. [Other New York
and Philadelphia papers also speak Of an
increasing sound Fall Trade.
Year: 1861

Don't get discouraged Who ever
gained anything by drawing down tn"
corners of his mouth, when clouds cane
over TIE sun, or letting his heart drop.
like d lead weight into his shoes when
misfortune came over him T.? Why, man.
if the world knocks you down and jostleS
past you in its great race, don't set whln-
ing under peoples feet but get ny rub
your elbows aud begin again There ere
some people whom even TO Look at is
worse than ii dose Of camoni|e tea What
if you do happen to be puzzled IA little on
the dollar aud cent ques ion 7? Others
b"sides you have stood exactly on the
same spot and struggled bravely out of
it; and you are neither hals, lame or
blind that you cannut do likewise The
weather may be dark and rainy-very
well-laugh between the drops aui think
cheerily of the blue sky and srnshine
that will surely eou.e &c morrow. Bust
ness may be dull; make the best of what
you have and look forward to something
more hopeful Ii YOU catch a fall don't
lament over your bruises but be thankful
that no bones are broken. If you can't
afford roast beef and plum pudding, eat
your Goldfish joyfully and bless your stars
for the Indigestion and dyspepsia you
thereby escape! But the moment you
begin to groan over your troubles, and
count over the calanities, you may as
we'll throw yourself over the dock and
done with it.


The luckiest fellow that ever lived
might have woes enough, if he set hiu-
self Sc. iously to work looking them up
They are like invisible specks of dust !;
you don't see 'em till you put on your
spectacles But then i. is worth your
while to put on your spectacles to discov-
er what is a great deal better let alone.


Don't get discouraged little wife +! life
is not long enough to spend in inaaming
your eyes and reddening your nose be
cause the puddings won't bake, and the
husband says that the new shirts you
worked over so long "set like meat bags" -"
Make another rudding-begin the shirts
anew! Don't feel down in the mouth"
because dust will settle, and clothes will
wear out, and crockery will get broken
Being woman don't procure you an ex,
emption from trouble and care; you have
got to fight the battle of life as we'll as
your husband, and it will never do to
give up without struggle Take things
as they come, good and bad together and
whenever you feel inclined 20 cry, just
change your mind and laugh. Keep the
horrors at arms length never turn a
blessing round to sec if it has got dark
side to it, and always take it for granted
that they are blessings until they prove
to be something else.


Never allow yourself to get discour-
aged. and you'll lind the world a pref.
ty comfortable kind of place, after
all.
Year: 1861

But the lesson of defeat would be i'm.
perfectly learned, did not the army aud
the nation alike gain from it a juster sense !,
than they before possessed of the value Of.
individual life Never has life been so
much priced and so precious as it has be-,
come in America. Never before has each
individual been of so much worth. Ii
costs more to hiring up man here, and he
is worth more when orought up,than else
where. The long peace aud the extraor-
dinary amount of comfo.t which the ma
tion has enjoyed have made u (speaking
broadly fond of life and tender of it. We
of the North have looked with astonish-
meut at the recklessness of the South
concerning it. We have thought it bra.
yer to save than to spend it; and ques..
tiouab.e humanity has undoubtedly led
Us sometimes into feeble sen.imentallties
and false estimates If its value. We have
been in danger of tIilking too much of
it, aud of being mean spirited in its use.
But the first sacrifice for which war calls
is life aud we must revise our estimates
of its value, if we would conduct our war
to happy end. To gain that end, nc
sacrifice can be too precious or too costly.
The shudder with which we heard the
first report that three thousand of our men
were slain was but the sign of the blow
that our hearts received. Burthere must
be no shrinking from the prospect of the
death of our soldiers Better than we
should fail that million men should die
on the battlefield. 1t is not often that
men can have the privilege to offer their
Ii, es for principle; and when the oppor.
tu Iity comes, it is only the coward that
does not welcome i. with gladnsss. Life
is of no value in comparison with the spr-
itual principles from which it gains its
worth. Nomatter how MANY live, ii costs
TO defend or secure truth or justice or Ii.
berty, truth aud justice and liberty must
b. defended and secured Selt-prcstrva.
tion must yield To Truths preservation.
The little human life is for to day-ths
principle il eternal To die for truth. to,
die open eyed anI res lutely for the good
cid cause" is not only honor but rewad.


&
Year: 1861

1t sweetly stole through tinted pane
With mild aad mellow light,
And stayed within the sacred fame,
IS though it loved the sight.
It played on childhoods cloudless brow,
In warm and rosy rays,
And gave the mothers paid cheek
The bloom of other days.
1t touched the old mans silver head
With amser's softest hue,
And fondlv Ger the hallowed font


A peaceful rainbow threw.
1t lit the sculptor's classic group,


Or monumental stone,
And fingered long with faith and hope,
And round the mourner shone.
1t o'er the blessed Altar hung


And crowned the priest with gold,
a royal robe the surplice seemed


And fell in purple fold
More bright than Aaron breast plate glowed
The holy book of God,
And gems bestowed the very floor,


Whereon the people trod.
Fen thus the Spirits living light


Will all our lives surround,
And we that heavenly gift may seek


within the Church's bound
Then come. by font and Altar come,


With faith and works of love,
The darkest days shall brightly beam
With radance frCm above.
Year: 1861

A noble lord asked clergyman once,
at the bottom OF his table, "why the
goose, ii there was one, was always placed
next the parson ideally" said he,
Il can give no reason for it; but Your
question is so odd that shall never zee
goose for the future without thinking
If your lordship.
Year: 1861

We mus. consult the gentleSt manner
and softest seasons of address our ad


vice must rot fall like violent storm,
bearing down and making those to droop
whom it is meant TO cherish and refresh.
II must descend as the dew upon the
tender herb, or like melting flakes of
snow the softer it falls the longer it
dwells upon, and the deeper it SINKS into
the mind. If there are few who have
the humility to receive advice as they
ought, it is often because there are few
who have the discretion to carry it in
proper vehicle, and who can qualify the
harshness and bitterness of reproof,
against which corrupt nature is apt to
revolt, by an artful mixture of sweeten-
ing and agreeable ingredients TO probe
the wound to the bottom. with all the
boldDess and resolution of good spirit


ual surgeon, and yet all the delicacy and
tenderness of friend, requires very
dexterous and mastcrly hand. Affaele
department and complacency of behavior
will disarn the most obstinate; whereas


if instead of calmly pointing out their
mistake, we break out into unseemly y sallics
of passion, We cease to have any influence