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Year: 1859

At a late hour last night, as we went tc
press, the votes in the different wards were
not more than half counted At that time
the vote seemed close, and it is doubtful how
the city has gone. Wehave received return.
from two or three country precincts giving q
small majority for the Douglas ticket
Year: 1859

In San Francisco on Monday, an inquest
was held on the body of Michael Matten,
who died on the Sd inst The examination
showed that deceased had met his death from
a fracture of the base of the skull, caused by
a blow received in row which took place
on the fourth of May last, near the corner of
Sacramento and Drumm streets.
Year: 1859

GRAIN IN OREGoN.-We clip the following
from the Red Bluff Beacon


Many people think we have injured the
farmers prospects in this section 10y saying
that crops were very light in upper Califor-
MIA and Southern Oregon, thereby causing
many of them to hold on to their grain for
better prices, and finally they will have to
sell at present rates or lower still. The
wholesale price of wheat in Jacksonville,
Oregon, is 8 cents to 81 barley from p to
8. Now does it look propable that section
will be able to supply the Trinity County
trade, as heretofore p? We think not.
Year: 1859

CHEAP TRAyELuNe.-In the city of n ew
York. the Third Avenue Railroad company
have completed the track to Harlem, and are
now running cars day and night from the
end of the City Hall Park, distance OF
nearly eight miles. for fare of six cents
making the time in one hour and sixteen
minutes
Year: 1859

ANOTHER LONG LErTER.-The Washington
correspondent of the New York Herald says
that Governor Wise is about tomake himself
famous again. He says;


can inform you with confidence that Gov
Wise is about to publish a letter, twenty or
thirty columns, about this business (the for
mer Albany letter. in which he will give a
history of the Albany Regency for the last
thirty years that he has known them. He
will expose all their schemes of treachery
and backslidings and show the South what
kind of meD they are who are attempting to
control the State of New y ork, and to adjust
its delegation to the Charleston Convention
to suit their own aims.
Year: 1859

JAMES SHERwooD.-T friends Of this man
are expected to meet this morning at o'clock
at the Saloon of the Senate House House, for
the purpose of organizing another party to
hunt for him in the thickets on Feather river,
where he is supposed to be lost.
Year: 1859

Life is but deaths vestbule; ; and our
on earth is but journey TO the
grave. The pulse that preserves our being
beats our death march. and the blood which
crculates our life IS floating it onward to
tho deops of death. To-day we see our
friend in health, tomorrow we hear of their
decease. We clasped the hands of the strong
man but yesterday, and to-day we close his
eyes in death. We rode in the chariot Of
comfort but a few hours ago, and in few
moro hours the black chariot must convey
US to the home OF all living. Oh, how close
iy allied is death in life y! The lamb that
sporteth in the field must soon feel the
knife. The OK chat loweth in the pasture
is fattening for the slaughter. Trees do
grow that they may be fel!ed. Yea, and
creator things than these feel death. EN-
pires rise and flourish they flourish to de-
cay, they rise to fall. How often do We
take up the volume of history, and read OF
the rise and fail of empires, We hear Of the
coronation and death of Kings. Death is
the black servant who rides behind the
chariot of life. See life ! and death is close
behind. Death reacheth far throughout
this world, and hath stamped all terrestrial
things with the broad arrow of the grave.
Stars die may hap: it is said that confia-
grations have been secp far off in tho distant
ct hor, and astronomers have marked the
funerals of worlds-the decay ofthose nigh
ty orbs that we had imagined set forever 10
sockets of silver to glisten as the lamps OF
eternity. But blessed be God, there is ons
place where death lie not life's brother
where life reigns alone, ito live is not the
first syllable which is to be followed by the
next, to die There is u land whore death
knelis arc never tolled, where winding sheets
are never woven, where graves are never


dug. Blest land beyond the skies 10


reach it we must die.-Spurgeon.
Year: 1859

BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcr.-The following
waif, afloat on the " sea Of reading" we
clip from an exchange:


"Men seldom think of the great event
Of death, until the shadows fall across
their own path, hiding forever from their
eyes the traces of loved ones whose living
smile was the sunlight of their existence.
Death is the great antagonist Of life, and
the cold thought Of the tomb is the skele-
ton Of all feasts. We do not want to go
through the dark valley, although its pas
sage may lead to paradise and. with
Charles Lamb, we do not want 10 lie
down in the muddy grave, even with
kings and princes for our bed-fellows.-
But the fiat OF nature is inexorable. There
is no appeal or relief from the great law
which dooms us TO dust. We flourish
and we fade as the leaves OF the forest,
and the flower that blooms and withers in
a day has not Trailer hold upon life than
the mightiest monarch that ever shook the
earth with his footsteps. Generations ol
men appear and vanish as the grass, and
the countless multitude that throng the
world to-day, will tomorrow disappear
as the footsteps on The Shore" q.
Year: 1859

While gancing over the columns of newspN-
per, the other day, my eyes fell upon Ibis single
sentence, "Shrouds have no pockets" And, truly,
thought I,no remark is more replete with meaning
or speaks in stronger or moro significant appeals
to man.


Yea, what q volume OF meaning is couched in
these simple words, and what lessons of para
mount interest and momentous importance may
man gather from contemplation of the truth
they contain! What a vast amount of suffering
in the present life, and eternal misery in the ft
to come, would man be saved from, if the truth u
these words were kept in mind, and actuated mar
in oil the varied pursuits Of life! How many toi
and labor for the mammon Of this world only
and in their eagerness grasp at land and sea
heuping together ea:th's sordid treasures, but il
death, have to leave their boarded millions be
hind, and in rcmorse, reproach themselves fol
their lives Of folly.
Year: 1859

TO MY FRIENDS AND TIE PUBLIC GENERALLY
I'llE year 1853 has closed. never to return again
l. and so have my Books, for the purpose OF not
opening any more accounts


J. therefore, request all those indebted to me- to
come forward, and settle their accounts with Rail
Road speed, as stand in need of money to meet my
own liabilities.


Hereafter, shall sell for CASH only, which will
enable me to sell you goods at New Orleans prices.
and which will save you the trouble of paying a long
bill at the end of the year therefore hope that you
will not ask me to credit you with any thing, as
shall positively be compelled TO refuse you.


ian |, 1859 MARTIN COLEMAN
Year: 1859

CULTIVATE Coon TEMPER "A bad temper
as curse to the possessor---ts influence is
most deadly wherever it is found 1t is al
lied to Anartyrdom to be obliged to live with
one Of complaining ten-per. To hear one
eternal round OF eompaipt or murmuring-to
have every pleasant Thought scared away by
their evil spirit, is a sore trial It is like the
sting of the scorpion--a perpetual nette, de.
stroylng ones peace aud rendering life bur-
.den The purest and sweetest atmosphere is
contaminated into deadly miasma wherever
this evil genius prevails. One string out of
tune will destroy the music of an instrument
otherwise perfect, so if all the members of a
church, neighborhood and family do not cnlti.
vate kind and affectionate temper, there will
be discord and every evil work.
Year: 1859

JUST RECEIVED, at the "Clinton Drug Store"
n supply of the above seed. raised and put up by
the Society of Shakers, Pleasant HILL Mercer County,
Kentucky, IN the year 1858.


These seeds are superior to any other kind sold in
this section. They are The only Seed raised and pmup in
the South. The Proprietors take back all their old
seed at the close of each season, and supply their
Agents with fresh seed. BY this means you can al
ways get fresh seed iyou buy from the regularly APP
pointed Agent.


Z. WALKER. Commercial Row,
jan Sole Agent for the Parish of Fast Feliciana
Year: 1859

A WHITE man named Reter Loud recently
arrived in Sacramento from Mokelumne Hill,
in pursuit of colored woman with whom he
had been living. She would not return with
him, and said he had been supported at her
expense, and she wanted to get rid of him.
Year: 1859

AN attempt at ineendiarism was made in
Sacramento at an early hour on Thursday
morning by setting fire to vacant shanty
on street. The fire was extinguished, with
out creating an alarm.
Year: 1859

PARDoNED.-We learn from the Union that
the Governor has pardoned Lewis Straulits,
convicted in Sacramento county of the crime
of assault with intent to murder. He was
sentenced to imprisonment in the State Pris-
on for the term of five years. The pardon
is granted upon the condition that he leave
the State and never return
Year: 1859

GROWTH OF OPIUM IN CHINA-There seems
to be no ground for doubling any longer that
the cultivation of the poppy is rapidly extend
ing In China. A correspondent of the North
China Herald states that opium is becoming
the winter crop of several provinces, especially
OF Lunan, Honan, and Che -keang and that the
growers are yearly bringing it to greater per-
feetion. This year it can be used without a
mixture of Bengal or Mslwa, and the native
drug already, we are told. supersedes Turkey
and the inferior classes of Malwa 1t is grown
IN fine light soil, on a slope, where the mois-
ture can easily drain off. In cuttiyating the
Chinese look more to quantity than to quality,
and therefore force the poppy till the heads are
truly enormous. In April the juice is ready
for gathering. On the head, four delicate cuts
upwards are made, leaving the wound covered
by the overhsnging skim as protection against
the dews and heat. Early in the morning each
wound is scraped by piece of blunt bamboo,
the juice being deposited in a hollow bamboo
at the gatherer's side; u process repeated
every morning till the flow ceases The juice
has very acrid taste. and at present is chiefly
used for mixing with the dearer Patna and
Malwo. field of poppiss standing on the
hillside, seven feet high, and Haunting its gau-
dy blossoms in contrast with the rich green of
the leaves and stalks, is,we may well believe.
beautiful sight. Pity ia it, that death turks i'm
every flower, and that the misdirected art of
man contrives to develop its presence. Whether
the home growth of the poppy will exercise an
apprecinble influence upon the demand for the
Indian drug will depend upon the quality of
the Chinese product. The opium trade il of
far E,ore moment to India than most persons
imagine, and it is with unfcigned satisfaction
that We recognize, in the rapid growth of our
general export trade, the promise of our future
independence of the opium duty for meeting
our expenditure Times
Year: 1859

THAT OYSTER BED.-A Stamford correspond
ent of the Hartford Times writes as follows in
reference to the newly discovered oyster bed:


'Some OF our Oystermen have discovered a
new bed Of oysters of EatOns Neck which con-
tains about three hundred acres of large fine
oysters, and there are, you know, no better
oysters in the world than ours. / could see
from the Cove, this afternoon, about one hum
dred and fifty oyster slOOps at work on the
ground. Each slOOp will get from sixty to one
hundred bushels a day 1t creates a great
oyster excitement The oysters are not fat
and good now; they put them in beds in the
harbOrs, where they will be tip top in few
weeks, when / will send you taste. This
Long Island Sound is a great institution. 1t
is said that this oyster bed is worth million
Of dollars"


A correspondent of the Tribune gives the
following:


a few days since, the captain of a small
vessel, while dredging for a lost anchor of
EatOn's Neck Lighthouse, about midway be.
tween the Connecticut and Long Island shores
accidentally discovered a bed Of very large
oysters, which is estimated to be mile and a
half square, and to contain million bushels OF
oysters. Thelucky discoverer of this unwrought
mine of aquatic wealth received from some
oystermen of City Island the handsome sum of
$500 for the disclosure of his secret The first
days dredging is said to have much more than
paid tor the information
Year: 1859

HORRIBLE CRIME.-Last Saturday, we learn
from the Wabash Qud) Iuteiligencer, a man
named William Joy, was convicted of burning his
o'oa ci''td to death, and sentenced to eightees
years confinement In the psnitentiary. The
principal witness against him was his little
daughter Nancy, whose story to the jury is thus
given by the Inteiligencer:


Her little brother John, a child about f,ur
months old, was quite unwell, and had been so for
some days, and was consequently fretful, and had
cried considerably during the nj sht aud disturbed
her father. Early in the morning her father
called TO her and told her TO get up and make fire
she did so-nade the fire principally of brush
because there waa other wood prepared Alter
the nfe began 10 burn, the child continuing to
cry aud fret her father became enraQed and
snatched tho child from it's mothers arms. tore
every particle of clothing off it, and then took
Thy one arm and one leg, aud held it over the
IRE until 1t was burned in several places to bs.
ter. lie then struck the little sufferer two blows
with bis hand, leaving upon its body the marks of
his fingers, and then threw it into the cradle or
bed. bis wife aud daughter struggled to get the
child away from him, but were unable to do So
and when Mrs. Joy found he was going to burn the
child TO death she out of the house to preynet
seeing the sight and to get ont of bearing of the
child's screams. Joy took down his gun and point.
ing it at her compelled her to come in. He then
left the house and did not return, as We under.
srand, for a day or tive. Four days after this ter
rible scene the little suffering child died and was
buried None but Joy and his wife and two young
daughters knew anything about the cause of its
death. The neighboriDg women, wbo came in aud
assisted TO lay cut the child, found it 80 mortified
and decayed that they could not wash it, or even
take of the clothing upon it. Joy told his wife
and daughters that if they ever said word about
it he would kill them, aud they believed hin, and
SO kept the horrible secret.
Year: 1859

We call attention to the advertisements o.
Maj. JONES, Chief Engineer of the Roanoke Valley
Rail Road for contracts for the grading and mason.
ry of the road. We gratified at the promptness
with which the work is to be begun. We look upon
it as an earnest of its early completion.


We have letter from Clarksville, which repre-
sents the feeling there in behalf of the road as
buoyant. Its friends are at work with unabated
ardour They hope for large accessions to the SUBJ
scription list Our correspondent is sanguine that
100000 will be raised by private subscription, be-
fore the next Legislature meets. Events seem to
be taking the right shape after all; 80 that Rich
mond will have some chance of getting into North
Carolina.
Year: 1859

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CoNyENTIeH.-The republi
cans of wheeling, Va, have addressed memorial
to the republican national committee, urging the
selection of wheeling as the place for holding the
national convention that is to nominate the next
President. The New York Tribune hopes their re.
quest will be needed
Year: 1859

ANOTHER WIFE MURDER.-Detroit was the scene
of another foul murder on Monday week Edward
ii. Benedict, an American mechanic, stabbed his
wife in fit of drunken passion. They lived
on Michigan avenue. Mrs Benedict was observed
by neighbors to rush out of the house and fall to
the ground. Her husband was seen to fly towards
the woods. The Wife was carried into the house
and shortly died from her wounds. 1he husband
was pursued and captured. Upon being taken
into custody he acknowledged the deed, and fell
mercy from heaven. He was arrested while pre.
pariDg to hang himself by q chain from tree 1t
appears that he had been drinking to excess for
several days previous
Year: 1859

Il ".


bill before the New York Legislature, having q
as Its object the protection of tho property of
married women, provides that any married woman
may invest or use her property aud earnings, or
any portion thereof in any trade or business, and
that such investment, with the profits and the
labor bestowed thereon by her or her agents or
servants, shall not be subject to the disposal of
her husband, nor be liable for his debts, but may
be used by her and continue her sole and separate
property; and all contracts executed by her in
any trade or business in which she may engage
shal be in all respects valid as If she were sin.
gle. There are said to be hundreds of hard work
ing wives in New York, more especially in the
large cities, whose unceasing efforts to support
themselves in respectability, and to decenty pro-
vide for their children, are perpetually thwarted
BY lazy, prof1igate and drunken husbands, who, in
many cases seize by force upon the hardearned pitt
tance of the wife, and squsDder it in the first grog
shops that they can reach Surely it is time that this
wsnton abuse should cease at least 30 far as it is
countenanced by law. The old statutes of New
York and other States and the present practice
put the wife's property and earnings pretty much
at the mercy of her husband and his creditors.
Year: 1859

GTATE OF MICHIGAN-Coun of Cass.-ss.
y At a session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapols, Monday, the twenty fifth day of
April, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and fifty nine. Present-Clitford Shanahan, Judge
of Probate. In the matter of the estate of
Conrad Fry, deceased. On reading and filing the
petition duly verified of Thomas Peck, sur, pray
ing for letters of Administration on the estate of
said deceased.


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
twenty first day of May next, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said
petition, and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested in said estate
required to appear at session of said court then to
be holden at the Probate Office in Cassapolis, and
show cause, if any there be, Why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted. 1a


And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
of the pendency Of said petition and the hearing
thereof, by causing copy of this order to be pub
lshed in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
three successive weeks previous to said day of
hearing. G. SHANAHAN,


true copy. Judge of Probate.


April 25th, 1859. ap2S-1w3
Year: 1859

NOTICE is hereby given that certain State
IN Swamp lands embracing One Hundred and
Tacenty Tkousdaa Acres, more or less, situated in
the towns and ranges mentioned below, will be Of
fered for sale at Public Auction at this office on
Thursday the 18th dag of Nay nert, at ten clock,
A. NJ, of that day, at the minimum price of one
dsllar and twenty-five cents per acre and on the
terms established by law.


Included in this list are those lands pre-
empted under the 9th Section of Act 81 approved
February 4th, 1858, on which no payment has been
made, and all such pre-emptions on which payment
as required by law shall not be made on or before
the Fourth dag Of Nay nert, will be forfeited, and
the lands will be offered for sale above mentioned
As this is the first time that any of the lands en-
braced in the list have been offered by the State
having been reserved from sale since 1850, they
embrace many valuable pieces in the now thickly
settled counties of Clinton, Allegan, Ottawa,
Newaygo and Others admirably adapted to farming
purposes and in close proximity to markets, and
will offer fine opportunity to persons of small
means desiring home, as by Act 81, OF 1883,
they are entitled to purchase as provided in Sec.
of said Act, which provides that "Any person
over twenty-one years of age, who shall, at the
time of purchase. either at public or private sale,
make affidavit before said Commissioner of his or
her intention to become actual and bona tide
settler upon said lands so purchased, and furnish
ing satisfactory evidence to said Commissioner
that said land is valuable mainly for agricultural
purposes, shall be allowed to purchase the same
by paying at the time of such purchase twenty five
per cent of the purchase price, and the balance of
principal, at the option of the purchaser, any time
within ten years thereafter, and paving interest
annually on said balance of principal; and said
Commissioner shall, upon the payment of said
twenty-five per cent, issue to said purchaser a
certificate agreeable to the terms OF said sale,
which certificate shall be void if said purchaser or
his assigns shall not, within one year thereafter,
settle upon and become an actual and permanent
resident thereon and cultivate and improve the
same"


This applies to those only who purchyse lands
neat settlement thereon. In case the purchaser
does not make the required affidavit of settlement
as mentioned in section s, the full amount of pur
chase money will be required to be paid at the
time of purchase.
Year: 1859

The editor of the Brooklyn Star, a
Virginian, says that instances of the
sale of their own children are by no
means uncommon at the South. He
mentions remarkable instance that
occurred in his own knowledge. A
brother and sister were brought up to-
gether till the brother went to Cam
bridge. When he returned he found
his father insolvent, and that his sister
was inventoried among the slaves and
about to be sold. He stole her away
and rode with her night and day until
he reached the underground railroad
west of the Ohio river. He gave her
dagger with the injunction not to let
it from her grasp until she was in Can
ada, and also his money, and left her
to the mercy of the humane. The pur-
suers got on her track, and it was only
by means of two fast horses, the prop
perty of member of Congress from
that State, that she was carried to the
Lake and escaped in advance of them.
She taught music in seminary in Mon
treal. until she was married to the son
of an English nobleman, and her broth
er resides with them.


About ten years ago, a wealthy Al
ALBANIA planter died leaving two daugh-
tiers whom he had educated, partly at
a seminary in Philadelphia, where they
had been accustomed to all the elegan-
cies and refinemnts of life. He left
them all his property, his brothers to be
the executors of the will. They, know
ing that the fathers marriage to the
mother was invalid, she being quad
room whom he had purchased in New
Orleans, took the property under the
law, and sold the girls as slaves. The
records of this case can now be- 6und
in the courts of that State.