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Year: 1860

The Enquirer makes an allusion in refer
ence to the place selected by the jackson Ar
tillcry Company on Saturday morning last,
to fire salute in honor of the nomination
of Lincoln and Hamlin, that affords our
citizens fair idea of the kind of decency
that is to characterize that paper during the
campaign. So eager is it to display its
bIackguardism, that it fails to exercise or
dinary discretion, aud abuses an Artillery
Company-a large majority of whom, we
doubt not, have always been Democrats
because, having been employed to fire It
salute, they happened to select a square on
which !, negro reside. The assertion that
these men are in favor OF negro equality
and the mingling of the races will not
tend to largely increase their admiration
for n party winch they are already begin
ing to suspect Of n gross betrayal OF their
dearest rights.
Year: 1860

STRAWBERRY SUPPER ALI who wish to
ENJOY nice social entertainment, will bear
IN mind the Strawberry Supper, to he given
by the ladics of Mr. McCartr's Church ut
Crescent City Hall this evening. Go 10y all
means
Year: 1860

OLD WHIGs, read the communication
headed, Who are for Sale?' That is
only the first faint rumbling of the Whg
thunder storm that will sweep Southern In
diana this summer and fall. The members
Of that party are too patriotic and sensible
TO join in movement that can only result
IN giving 4 renewal of the lease OF power to
that party which hunted Henry Clay to his
grave with its foul ISLANDERS. Ii we mistake
not the signs of the times, precious little
aid and comfort will LecoDptonism get
from the Wings in 1860 The day for third
parties and underhanded aid to bogus
Democracy has passed
Year: 1860

has gone there, and that it has already
become so influential as to secure very
atrocous slave code, without any assistance
from public sentiment. II nothing effective is
done to drive it from that region, it will ere
munities. 1t will grow. 1t will become an
all-controllng power. The institution will be
quite as much at home there as in Virginia or
Tennessee. Mir. Thayer will of course defend
his vote on the question of slavery in New
Mexico the best he can, but nothing can
Justify it,
Year: 1860

Rum Dip IT.-We learn that in a boot shop
not far from Main street, Friday afternoon,
two men got into drunken quarrel, and one
drew revolver and attempted to shoot his com.
panion, but was prevented and put out of the
room. In going down the stairs he accident
ally discharged the pistol, lodging three balls
in his own hand. The wound was dressed
and the wounded man conveyed to his home
in Uxbridge. Milford Journal
Year: 1860

Mrs. Wyllys asks that question, and
then elaborately answers it herself, thus:


Are women naturally polite, did you
ask, dear, good-natured Public9


Did you ever know woman to make
room in an omnibus, five on side, when
Number Six was entering, founced and vel
veted, until orded by the driver9


Did you ever know little pair of gait.
er boots to turn one inch either to the
right or left when they could have saved
you from streaming gutter by the opera
tion2 Patent feathers don't behave So
not they!


Did you ever hear a woman say, 81 am
sorry to have given so much trouble" when
the dry goods clerks had turned things top
sy turvy, without finding the shade or col
or that never existed?


Did you ever know a woman who did
not know it was courageous" for another
woman to travel with baby, or who
didn't regard it as ..'cruel and barbarous,"
if any one objected to the crying of her
baby9


Did you ever know two women to talk
of third without ridiculing her, even if
she was her "dear particular friend?"


Did you ever praise one young lady in
the presence of another, without being
confidentialy told of some enormous faults
or deformity in the former which you had
not dreamed of?


Did you ever know pretty woman to
make an expression without half dozen
other pretty women running the effects of
it the instant she left the room9


Did you ever know n woman to apollo
gize for having knocked another woman's
bonnet into "pi," CHATS printerism, but
expressive, Notwithstanding with the cor
ner of her parasol?


Did you ever hear of woman who had
an idea that she was making trouble by
her little airs and grace2


We don't believe you ever did, reader.
They are race of unaccountables, these
women, just as sweet and piquant as June
roses, sometimes, and then again, bristling
like so many venomous thorn bushes.


There's one thing we never ceased to be
inwarly thankful for-tbat we're not man
and consequently not obliged 10 marry one
of 'em. Why she would drive us crazy
in week, with her whims and fancies, and
her petty ways. We would make the
most henpecked husband in the world, un-
less, indeed, we. had the nerve to run
away from her or shut her up in a closet
for week, until she promised to be-
have better. When a woman chooses she
can be the nearest thing to an angel of
any thing in the world, and what pity it
is she doesn't always choose.-LJs Illus
trated
Year: 1860

BEAUTY, LOVE AND DUTY.-"Burleigh u
the New York correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal, gets off the following charm
ing little romance:


ga short time since one Of the many
agents that are abroad selecting musical
talent for America, sent on to the care of
this house French girl, who was engaged
10 teach for one year in a southern institu-
tion on a salary of 5000 per year. On
her way to New York she saw German
merchant of this city, who was smitten
with her, for she was young lady of daz-
zling beauty. He followed her to New
York, and make a formal proposal for her
hand. The gentleman was well known to
the head of the house of Adams & Co.,
as gentleman of wealth and standing
But the young teacher declined the propo-
sal, at least till her contract for teaching
should expire, and the consent of her pa
rents obtained. But the gentleman was
not to be put off. The lady had great con-
idenee in the integrity of the company,
and relied on what the house of Adams &
Co. said of the honor and position of the
supplicant. She relented and yielded, and
cards are now out for the wedding at one
of our most fashionable hotels, and this
young adventurer, with nothing but her
talents and beauty, will soon be at the head
of an establishment, with husband worth
S3OO,00O."
Year: 1860

AN EXCELLENT CAKE.-Take one cup Of
butter and three Of sugar, well rubbed to.
gether, then take five eggs which have
been beaten very light, and stir them BY
successive portions into the above mixture,
adding also four cups of flour and cup Of
sweet milk. Add nutmeg and wine glass
of rose-water, and also add teaspoonful
of solution of soda. Baking about fif-
teen minutes in moderately hot oven will
be sufficient.
Year: 1860

EgIn England every child is required
by law, to be able to read and write before
it is permitted to enter the coal and iron
mines. Efforts are being made by the
friends of education to extend the provis-
ions of this salutary law into all other
branches of labor. .. ...
Year: 1860

VALUABLE REOPEN. Spiquel, a French
chemist, gives the following recipe for silver
lhs spoons ana Iorks OF German silver when
somewhat the worse for wear: Dissolve TWO
grammes Of nitrate Of silver in forty grammes
OF distilled water; and six grammes of pure
cyanide OF potassium, which will immediate
~ cause preclpitate OF cyanide of silver
looking like snow; but on stirring with a
glass tube The liquid will immediately become
llmpid again. Dip linen rag into this liq uid
ana rub the articles to be silyered over with
II It's surface will immediately be covered
with film OF silver. RInce in clean wafer
and then wipe with a dry towel.
Year: 1860

PALE FACE AHEAD-At a foot race at the
EaS' Washington County (Me) Agricultural
Cattle Show aud Fair, some Indians entered
ana won the prize for one quarter OF q mile
race but when the second contest came of a
young gent OF Calais, sitting in a chase with
young lady, thought the Indians did not run
very fast and said he could beat them: suitlng
The action 10 the word, he OF coat and hat and
started of aud came out ahead much TO the
amusement OF the crowd and astonishmelt Of
the Indians.
Year: 1860

THE UBIQUlTY OF PATENTs.-The Scientific
American, in noticing new patent bier for
lowering collins into graves, INDUCES in the
following strain in reference 10 patents:


The life of this age, most assuredly. moves
on patent inventions. The infant is wrapped
In linen which has been woven on patent
loom, from yarn spun upOn q patent frame
and be draws his first drop of nourishment
from his mothers breast through a patent min
pie shield. The girl fondles patent doll. the
boy Whiris patent top or plays with a ball
which is made under one of the most valuable
patents of the age. In later life we put on a
shirt, which, with the rest of our clothes, is
sewed on patent machine, with q patent
thread, by patent needle, which comes en-
Feloped IN q patent wrapper, and our very
boots are made of patent leather. We rise in
the morning from patent elliptic spring bed
undo the patent fastening of our windows.
roll up our patent curtains open the patent
locks OF our doors, which We're constructed by
patent machinery, and so down To our coffee,
which Is made in patent pot We write with
pateGt pens, which we dip into pateut ink In
patent stand. Thus, surrounded by patents
we pass our life, which is filled with gorgeous
dreams of making splendid fortune by some
patent Invention of our own, till at last we
are placed in patent burial case, and lower
ed from patent bierinto our final place of
rest.
Year: 1860

a CLEVER THEA lady was praying In q
church AZ Beviile, France, when she suddenly
ieit (which al her dress, but on looking
round the only person near was a female will
her hands ciasled across her breast in an at
fitnce OF devotion. Presently, finding that
some of her jAwelry had been stoIeu she gave
the Alarm when il was found that the devout
lady was the thief and that the crossed arms
we're merely waxwork
Year: 1860

A BEAeTIrrL THouGHT-Among some of
tire South Sea Islanders the compound
word for hope is beautifully expressive
1t is manao!ana, or the S,cimn,ing thouyht-
faith floating and keeping its head aloft
above water, when all the waves and bill
lows are going over-a strikingly beautiful
definition Of Hope, worthy to he set down
along with the answer which deaf and
dumb person wrote with his pencil, in re-
ply to the question What was his idea of
sorgiveness?' 1t is the odor which How
era yield when trampled on"
Year: 1860

TREES IN BLoaM.-We noticed on Satur-
day, az an effect Of the delightful weather
we have been ENJOYING for the last week, we
suppose, in the yard Of one Of our friends, a
peach tree in as ull bloom as it ever Was ia
the spring of the year.
Year: 1860

b~What think the citizens of Thurston
county. and especially of Olympia, of such


a man as Elwood Evans, an attorney-at-
law in this place, who, whilst protesting to


bo warmly identified with them in the grow


ing prosperity Of this city, Of which he is


one Of the fathers, is, in reality, rendering


che. autilocaiiouists al the legal assistance


in his power to frustrate the commencement
Of the Capitol bHilding7 How does this
eomport with his pretended hercuIean ef-
forts to defeat the removal last winter p
Who made more ado than he, because the
delegation from this county would not con-
sent to soap of ourself for board of cap
itol commissioners, which 1t was promised
should be favorable to this place If that
promise" was no more sinoSrs than has
been Evans friendship to Olympia, as is
proved by his connection with this injunc-
tion matter, we hardly think those who
voted for the delegation Of that year have
much to store up against them. If be be-
came associated with the antilocatiouists
only in consideration of fee, be should have
declined it, We authorized the delegates
from this county to withdraw our name,
last winter, at any time our being a candi-
date for public printer should seem to them
to be on obstacle in the way Of favorable
legislation, or even PeremPtOrily, If they
thought ct. Our offer, which was made in
all sincerity, had it been actedRpon, would
have been greater personal sacrifice than
if Evans had declined to have accepted
either fee or retainer. That we did make
the above offer, we can prove, we believe,
to the satisfaction Of any one; but as il
was never deemed necessary or made pub.
lie, and has been stored up against us by
many Of our enemies, who claim that our
determination to remain in the arena for re
7 election, jeopardized the permanency of the
Capital here, and thus create prejudice
against Us amongst our own citizens, we
now ask Of such to visit attorney Evans
with at least equal censure-certainly more
merited by himself than The present public
printer. y
Year: 1860

There is no class Of her citizens Of which


America has better reason to be proud than
of the officers of her army. Educated, for
the most part, in the delightful and roman
tic solitude of West Point, shut out from
the busy world around them by gigantic
chain of mountains on the one side, and the
circling course Of the Hudson on the other,
and subjected to a discipline which teaches
them to command themselves and others,
the oficers-of the American army joip to
full share of the national intelligence an
amount Of modesty and gentleness which,
we may be permitted to say, is not quite SO
universal among their fellow cOuntrymen as
some other more brilliant qualities. In the
Year: 1860

The GREAT EAsrERS.-Tbe Directors Of
the Great Eastern have made application to
the New York Board Of Pilot Commissioners
in relation to tho possibility Of their vessel
reaching that port. The Board Of Pilot Com
missouers replied by the steamer Of last
Wednesday, that they would send a pilot to
England, il desired, to come out with them,
and that they could bring her into New York
bsrbor il sho did not draw over 26 feet Of
water.
Year: 1860

light and blesslng. It was Remarkable, The
power she possessed over all hearts. Not in
demonstration, or intrusion Of herself in any
way, but in the loving sphere that went out
from her unconsciously, like the subduing
fragrance Of beautiful flower. 1t was good
for them that her mother died. Out of sor.
row and bereavement there had come a grea,
blessing-a blessing to the orphan, as well as
a blessing to the friends who had male a
place for her among their children. Arthu,'s
Homo Magazine.
Year: 1860

WE'LL SAID.-If we spend the time, the
nervous energy and mental fire, in doing
the duties of mental life, which we often
spend in dreading them, we and the world
would he stronger and better. All the &C.
we're tasks of lifo grow more and more for.
mdable as we look at them from distance.
while we grow weaker all the while, and
less disposed to gfapple with them. We
should enquire, with an honest, brave heart,
what are our duties here and now: and
with what of mental energy we can sum-
mon at the moment, we should go forward
to perform them. In the very act of at
tempting to do them, we shall gain strength
to do them. Not before, but at time, the
needed strength will come. Not while we
dread. but while we do the work of life, the
Master helps us.
Year: 1860

It was stated at Columbus by those who are
prominent in the Breckenridge movement in
this State, that within thirty days all Office
holders in the State. who favor the election of
Douglas would be removed. The men who
wish to inaugurate this crusade have no po-
litical sagacity and are not nor ever have been
the sincere friends of President Buchanan
Suppose all the ofice-holders in the State
should favor the election of Breckinridge,
what would be the result2 Lincoln would
carry the State by a lage majority. This re-
mark will apply, with equal pertinency, to all
the other free states. Is this the way to pro-
mote the election of Breckinridge? Breck-
inridge has comparatively no strength in the
free States,-not enough to carry single
State, not even Oregon. For the sake of ar
gument, grant that he carries the entire South
and Oregon and he falls short of an election
before the people. This is factso plain that
no one can mistake it. Therefore, men in the
free States who professedly desire his election
can only contribute to that end by voting fol
Douglas, so as to enable him to carry enough
free States to throw it into the House, where
Breckenridge may stand chance of an cleo
ton. If the design, however, is to kill of
both Douglas and Breckenridge at the same
time, nothing will prove so effectual as the
getting up of Breckinridge Tickets in the
Free States. Down this way we do not think
that either the interests of President Buchan
an or Mr.. Breckenridge will be promoted by
the removal of ofice-holders who conceive il
their duty to support Mr.. Douglas Chilicoth.
Adrerttser.
Year: 1860

REPUBLICANS ON THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION.
When Gholson, Brinkerhoff and the other
Republican Judges of the Supreme Court of
Ohio, decided that Mulatto is s.White
citizen of the United States" Republican poll
ticians undertook to excuse the decision, by
saying that the working of the Constitution
was of such character that they could not
possibly have decided otherwise Democrats
held, and now hold, that the decision was an
outrageous one-was an outrage alike upon
the Constitution and common sense. Prompt
ly after the decision had been made and these
excuses urged by Republicans, Mr.. Parr, a
Democrat of Licking county, introduced into
the House of representatives a Joint Resolu-
tion providing for such an amendment of the
Constitution as would preclude all persons
from voting who have visible admixture of
African blood. The Republicans, having
decided majority, defeated the proposition
At the late Republican State Convention, not
the slightest allusion was made to that decis-
ion in their platform; but Brinkerhof, who
united in making the decision, was renomina-
ted for Supreme Judge. Is their further evil
dence needed to convict the Republican leaders
with being in favor of mulatto suffrage?
Year: 1860

NOTHING adds so much to the appearance CT a
In Procession of Sunday School Cmldven asa Flag
iuthe hand of every little boy and girr. LUCK is
prepared to furnish them IN any quantity at q
College street, up stairs over Shields Auction Ro m


mayl-t
Year: 1860

I WILL rent or lease my place near the Murfrees
bore' Pike two miles from the city for the present
year, or with tbs privilege OF Ave years. There ID
convenient Brick Dwelling with Kitchen and good
stablss, and spIsndid we'll Of excellent water.
There twelve Of superior land suitable fer
raising al hnda Of marketing,
Year: 1860




THE DIsTRlcr SchooL-The Importance of
this institution is increasing daily. On
Monday last the number of scholars in attend
ance was seventy-more than ever attended
before in this place, and more than the house
could comfortably contain or the teacher
properly care for To meet this new diff
Guilty the Trustees have established an Infant
school. by Withdrawing twenty FIVE of the
youngest children and obtaining the use Of
the church for a temporary school house
This infant school is under the charge of
Miss Melbourne, who was a teacher in the
first school ever opened here, four years
ago. But the school hoase is still too small
The number of pupils will increase con-
stantly, aud it is necessary to insGfe accom-
modations for all who may come. For this
purpose it is proposed to build an addition
to the school house, sufficiently large to
double its present capacity; aid to raise
means to defray the cost of such enlarge
ment, as well as to pay off an old debt and
purchase some maps and instruments, the
Trustees intend appealing to the liberality
of our citizens. The amount required, we
believe, is about five hundred dollars. This
community has always been munificent in its
donations for all good purposes, and will
doubtless not be less generous on the present
occasion.
Year: 1860

Not long since, man in Sauk county,
Wis, married for bis second wifo his own
step mother who singular enough was 4
sister Of his first wife. The lady is there.
fore, not only step mother and aunt TO her
husbands Children, but also their grand
mother, while the husband Is step father
to his step sisters. Her issue by this mar
riage, will be not only own cousins TO their
step brother, but unclos and aunts also.
And the lady herself being grandmother
to her children aud nephews, may be re.
garded as a mother to herself and child to
herself, aud therefore her own grand
mother.
Year: 1860

\ GREAT RAN fell in Central New York
on the 2lst, causing freshet which swept
away railroad and other bridges and did e1-
tcnsivc damage The Troy Arena says the
aggregate TAD Of water at that place for the
month 50 far is 6,5S inches. which Is mors
than the entire fall Of any month On record
Year: 1860

TnE p.N,E oFsWALEs' PkoGREss.-The
following LATE news concerning the Prince
Of Wales, reaches Us by special courier
On Saturday last after eating ''huckleberry"
Die for dinner. the Prince discovered seed
in a small Ineipient cavity, which in spite
Of the care taken with the princes morals,
has become formed in the rear Of the second
molar on the upper side Of the Princes lower
Jaw With smile tue Prince turned to
Sir Edmund Head and begged the loan of his
toothpick with which he promptly and with
his own hand, dislOdged the source Of an
noyance and elected it from his mouth. The
seed WIS picked mp by young lady. who is
to have it set in brooch, surrounded by a
circle Of diamonds. On.Sunday, the nose Of
Prince was observed to twitch slightly, and
the muscles IF his face to contract. High
admiral sir General Bruce rushed toward
him when the Prince with vigorous jerk
Of the head uttered the observation
spsscl-utsc-eoygh - After this and slight
nir per, the Prince observed that he fell BET
ter.


On Monday evening the Prince retired 20
his couch, in plain drees.
Year: 1860

This would give at this season hardly less than
sixteen hours plodding labor, relieved by one short
interval Of rest during the daylight for the hoe
gang. Il Is not improbable. was accustomed
to rlss early and ride late resting during the heat
Of the day. while in the cotton district, but al
ways found the negroes in the field when I first
looked out, and generally had to wait for the
negroes to come from the field to have my horse
fed when l stopped for the night. (SeeJ Journey in
Texas, P. SD I am told, however, and believe
that 1t Is usual in The hottest weather, to give
rest OF an hour two to all hands at noon. never
happened to it done. The legal limit of slaves
days work 10 South Carolina is Is hours.


II was told by gentleman in North Carolina
that the custom of supplying mOlasses to negroes
IN d Mississippi, was usually mentioned TO those
sold away from his part Of the country. 10 recon-
cile them to going thither.
Year: 1860

NARRow Escape are informed that ths
Mailtrain of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad


which is detained by the washing away Of the
bridges some distance above Newbern, made very
narrow escape from serious damage onday nj pht
The train had crossed a bridge against which the
swollen stream was fercely rushing, and pro


ceeded about half q mile when another was
reached which II was deemed prudent to examine
before attempting to pass While the Conductor
was engaged in the examination, the Engineer
who remained on the engine felt II sinking be-


meath him, and with remarkable presence OF
mind, commenced to back his train. Scarcely
mertlwas swept away. A moments delay and
all on board would probably have met fearful
death. The train was backed until the first brid ge
was reached, and that too was found to be gone


The escape was remarkable and all on the train
ne doubt owe their safety to the prudence Of the
officers rs.-LynehbErg Rep, -