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Year: 1860

How Music Is MADE UP.-The following in
genious and beautifully expressed thoughts up
on the sources of music, are from the pen of
Taylor Of the Chicago Journal:


alt is a curious thought that the great trans
lators of the dialect Of heaven-the Mozarts, the
Handels, and Jubals of all time have caught
their notes from the hammer of Tubal Cain, or
murmur of running streams, or the wind singing
among the reeds, or the songs of singing birds
that should their be bird convention upon a
summers day by flowing river, near a ringing
forge, and some masterpiece that has rolled a
tone of melody through mighty ministers were
performed, its author would be pronounced a
faithful listener only this and nothing more ;
How the robin would claim its warble, and the
brown thrush recognize its own the bell.note
Robert OLincon would catch up and repeat,
and the quail whistle back its little share of the
song. The soft signing winds would echo a
tone now and then the stream through the
reeds murmur on with its own the hammers
beat out the battle like strain, and the rain on
the roof wash away whole bar of the score ,
SO, when the anthem was ended it would all be
drifted, like the down of thistle, back to ma
ture and labor again. The lark would 90 up
with carol, and the little ground sparrow fiy
away with note, aud the music be scattered
abroadn
Year: 1860

TIE INFLUENCE OF Coon WoMAN.-On this
subject Fanny Fern says i sometimes think
the influence of good woman greater than that
of a good man. There are so many avenues to
the human heart left open to her gentle APP
proach which would be instantly barred up at
the sound Of rougher footsteps. One may tell
anything to good woman. In her presence
pride sleeps or is disarmed. The old child feeling
comes back upon the world weary man, and he
knows not why he has reposed the unsought con-
fidcnce which has so lightened his heart. Why
he goes forth again ashamed that one SO feeble is
so much mightier. Why he could doubt and
despair whore she could trust and wait. Why he
could fly from the foe for whose approach shs so
courageously tarries Why he thinks of the dag
ger, or pistol, or poisoned cup, while She ac-
cepting the fierce blasts of misfortune, meekly
bows her head till the whirlwind be overpast-
believing, hoping, hn0wing that Gods bright
smile of sunshine will break through at last.


The wordweary man looks on with wonder
Teverencing yet not comprebending. He who
stands in his pride, with bis painting soul un-
covered, in the scorching Nahara of Reason, and
then complains that no dew falls, no showers
Il scend, no buds, blossoms, or fruit cheer him.
How can he who faces with folded arms and de-
fant attitude, comprehend the twining love
clasp and satisfied heart-rest which come only Of
love? Thank God, woman is not too proud to
take what she so much needs. That she does not
wait to comprehend the Infinite before she can
love. That she does not plant her foot. and re-
fuse to stir, till her guide tells her why be is
leading her by this path instead of that and
though every foot print be marked with her
heart s-blood, she does not relax her grasp or
doubt his faith.
Year: 1860

TELEGRAPH ENTERPRISE Union learns
that the California State Telegraph Company
have opened an office in the folding room at
the State House for the convenience Of mem
bers of the Legislature, State officers and 9th
ers who may have business at the Capitol
and may desire to avail themselves of the
services of the company.
Year: 1860

the avenues to the capitol, and that
even the ladies, in their eagerness TO
hear the j" winged words' as they tell
from his lips, invaded the Senate cham
Der and drove the gallant Senators
from their seats; we knew that when
he spoke all men were silent; we knew
that whea he arose his enemies trem-


bled, for they know he was covered
all over in impenetrable armor, and
that his battle axe would strike down
the greatest of his foes: we knew that


he was the king of the Senate, and
the greatest living debater; we knew
that then, as now, when the Demo.


cratic party was assailed, his shield
always was interposed to receive the


blow; but we did not know that he


would sacrifice the brightest hopes of


his life, rather than desert principle ;


that he would rather be right than


to be President! This was all shown


in the Lecompton controversy and


men love and admire him for it, and


will confde the government of the


nation to his hands, because he is in
corruptibly honest, as we'll as capable.


lie is the hero of the people" the


blue eyed man Of destiny" The


paths of right and principle, which
once seemed to carry him away from


the Presidency, are found, at last, to
lead to the White House door, and to
its inner chambers. And he who was
once the cabinet makers boy will
soon himself be the maker of cabinets.
Year: 1860

HEARING WITH THE TEETH Lay a
watch upon table, glass side down
ward, then stand so far from it that
you cannot in any ordinary way hear
the ticking. Now place one end of a
small stick, say about six feet long,
upon the back OF the watch, and grip
the teeth to the other, and with the
finger close each ear to exclude all
external noise; the beat of the watch
will then be as audible as if placed
against the car. All other sounds can
be conveyed in the same manner, nc
matter how long the stick be; for in.
stance, if one end be put upon a piano
forte in sitting.room fronting a gar.
den, and the stick be thirty feet long,
extending outside the window on to
a lawn, if the instrument be ever SO
lightly played, the tune will be instant.
ly distinguished by any person apply.
ing the teeth to the opposite end OF
the stick. Again, if light bar OF
iron, or any other metal, be suspended
by thick string held between the
teeth, and then struck with any hard
substance, the sound will appear fresh
er than by hearing with the ears


Presbyterian.
Year: 1860

l conceive no picture more interest
ing than one which might be drawn
from young man leaving the home of
his childhood, the scene Of his early
associations, to try his fortune in . dis.
tant country, setting out alone for the
/" forest" A father Oh the decline, the
down-hill of life, gives his parting
blessing, invoking the best gifts Of
heaven to rest on his beloved offspring,
and to crown all his efforts with COM
rlete success; tears gush from his eyes
and words are forbid utterance. A
kind, and affectionatel mother, calling
after him, as he is departing from the
parental abode, and with all the dan
gers to which he is about to be ex-
posed rushing into and pressing upon
her mind she says" Go, my son---re-
member that there is a right and q
wrong way" Her advice is brief
Language is inadequate to the express
sion of tl1e feelings that there crowd
on the mind of virtuous child. Ev-
cry reader has case of this kind, and


many have been the subject of one in
some respects similar. Here may be
found eloquence more touching to him
to whom it is delivered, than even the
|orations of Cicero or. Demosthenes.
Year: 1860




GA little girl, not six years of age
screamed out to her little brother, who
was playing in the mud, "Bob yo,,
good for-nothng little scamp, come
right into the house this minute, or
will whip you till the skin comes off,
~Why Angelina Angelina, dear, what
do you mean ? where did you learn
such talk - exclaimed the mortified
mother who stood talking with a
friend: Angelina's childish reply was
a good commentary upon this manner
of speaking to children Why, moth
er YOU see we are playing, and he's
my little boy, and I am scolding him
Just as you did me this morning; that
is ALL"
Year: 1860




II OFFER MY ENTIRE ESTATE OF TOWN PRO-


perty and Lands in North Carolina with a view to set
tie South or Southwest The following is description
MY FORMER RESIDENCE. in the CITY of Raleigh, con-.
Ia nng OF an acre of land highly improved and
the most healthy and eligible lots in the City; gucd house
ana IN good condition, and
clubhouse.


Also two other IMPROVED LOTS, and 5 acres unm-
proved AS to dwelling house. These five acrs are in high
improvement and will yield 100 bushels Of wheat annually
Its situation suitable any that lives the City,
for valuable grape nursery dairy farm. The foregoing
property is all situated near the Central Depot.


also offer for sale SEVENTEEN LOTS in the town of
Haywood Chatham county One of these has good dwell
ling house with and uut-huuses; one other has
good store house. in good order upon the other lots are
unimproyed. some of them beautiful building lots


as1 offer for sale the following real estate, to wit -


MY PLANTATION half mile from Kittre's Springs
containing about 500 of land with new and hand.
some dwelling house upon it, with five good and
small apartnI ns used closets This land is very supe-
nor Tobacco and Wheat land and particularly ecom-
mends itself to those who in need of healthy situation
. l will also sell my NEW HOTEL six hundred yards
from the celebrated KitIres Springs with four acres at
tached and hundred and eighty of land attached
and running down within two hundred yards of these
its owner, GREEN STANTON. Upon these lands near G
these springs several beautiful building sites private
residences The Hotel has basement dining the en-


lire length ot the house AZ feet and large and couve
nient rooms, all well furnished for private and public pur
good Kitchen and of the finest reesone springs
OF wafer IN The State, very convenient.


Lastly, nfe; my RIDGEWAY MILLS, in Warren cuun
ty, one and half miles from Rdgeway LIZ of land
attached to these Mills and the entire tract Of land is equal
to any IN Warren for Tobacco and Wheat of land
in new ground, cut down for the next crop of Tobacco
and about 40 bushels of Wheat seeded which expect will
yield me rin 500 TO 500 bushels; fine young Apple and
Peach Orchard, Grape Nursery &c The Mills need
recommendation, having been acknowledged ye'd the
best quality, or equal of Flour, of Mills in the State
Upon this land is mineral spring, equal by best of anav
Sis 10 kttrels Spring several Scrofa having been
cured the past season The Mills will yield an annual clear
income OF SnO per year. bv proper attention. and have
made Is or 10000 lbs of Tobacco from the farm this year
so those wishing such property will do well apply
The tract of land be added if desired Aithe pro.
perry offered IN improving and desirable sections of the
State and all that necessary for those wishing pur
chase portion of this property offered address
at kureils Depot for further particulars visit at
that place and enquire for terms, &c.


WM F. COLLINS.
December 90 1859. luS-2m
Year: 1860

WAS the first and is the only Iydropsthc stab


w lshment in California, that combines all the
varied treatments of Eastern Water Cures DIR.
BARLOW J. SMITH is the only man conducting n
Water cure on the Pacific coast who has had the adj
vantage and received the degree OF VI. u. from the
New York Hydropathic College We adopt and teach
the theory and practice Of that school Reader, if you
have been suffering from any chronic trouble, and
have been treated Tor weeks, months and years with
drug medicines, and are not satisfied with the result
and desire to consult more rational system, you may
rely upon it Dr. Smith is the best iiydropathc author-
ity IN the state. We invite you to call and have your
case examined. 1t will cost you nothing. We give
five weeks board and treatment Tor 800, if paid in
advance. Oar price is S25 per week II paid weekly.
We give a Free Lecture every Friday evening, on
subjects pertaining to health and hygenic treatment
We depend for not in Advertising hut in cur
ing our patents being liberal with and making
pleasant HON, for them, AID striving to let go
away dissatisfied.


II you are sun ring from chs and fever or from
the effects OF the same, we can cure you


Rheumatism seldom fail TO .e, besides we teach
YOU how to keep free from it.


Dyspepsia, Constipation Piles, and the early stages
of Lung diseases, easily give way and are readily
cured under proper lydroypahic treatment. Weak
and nervous females suffering from any arrangement
peculiar 80 woman are kindly treated and always
benefited at oar home and Institution.


~ Circulars sent on application, free Of postage.


oc2-my
Year: 1860

Resolved, That We deeply sympathize
with those men who have been driven,
some Of them from their native States and
others from the State of their adoption,
and are now exiled from their homes on
account of their opinions; and we hold
the Democratic party responsible for this
gross violation OF that clause of the Consti-
tution which declares that the citizens oil
each Stale Shall be entitled to all the priv
ileges and immunilies OF citizens In the sew
eral States.
Year: 1860

Public No. 81.
an act 10 atttsorizethe Establishment of pirrte


Buging Grounds.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature
Of the State of Mississippi, That it shall be
lawful for any person seized and possessed Of
real estate in fee simple, to set apart any tract
or parcel thereof, not exceeding one acre, for
the purpose ofaprivate burying ground, where
in such person after his or her death,
and all persons related to such person By con-
sanguinity or affinity may be buried, the own
er OF such tract may donate the same in fee
simple, % the State of Mississippi, and record
the deed ofconveyancei in the Office ofthe clerk
of the Probate Court of the county in which
such land shall lie, and file the original deed
of such conveyance in the Office Of the Secre-
tary of State, all at his or her expense, the
State shall never alien, convey, trespass upon
or cucumber said tract so donated, nor shall
the same be subject to taxation it shall be
lawful at all times, after the making Of such
donation, for the donor and all persons related
to such donor in manner aforesaid, to use the
same for private burying ground, and to make
any necessary improvements thereon, with
view TO enclosinng, protecting and beauhtying
the same, u such manner as they may see
proper


SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, If any 9TH
er than those above named shall after the max
ing of such donation, commit any trespass on
such private burying ground to the material
injury Thereof, OF to the improvements thereon
made, such person so offending, shall be liable
to Indictment, and on conviction, shall be fin
ed not exceeding five hundred dollars, and
imprisonment in the county Jail, not exceed
ing three months.


SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, that this act
be in force and take effect from and after its
passage.


Approved Feb g ls60
Year: 1860

We are told by the Concord Democratic On.
H. Standard, reliable and an able Democrat
ic journal, that in the late elections in that
State the Douslasites had complete control OF
the Democratic organization, and that "the en-
tire State ticket was made up of open and
avowed Douglas men, which induced many
national men to stay away from the polls and
to have no hand in electing them. The con-
sequence is that the Black Republicans carried
New Hampshire by largely increased ma,
jority. What becomes Of the availability ar
gument which is so frequently urged by
Squatter organs, in favor of the nomination Of
their chief at Charleston ?
Year: 1860

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The most unre-
mitted efforts still continue here to induce the
executive committee to change the place for
holding the Democratic Presidential Conyen-
ton.


The imperfect accommodations at Charles
ton, exorbitant prices, inaccessibility of the
place and lateness of the season are all urged
as arguments. And it is now stated that the
committee are to meet in this city the 9TH Of
April to take the subject again into consider
alton, and to come to final determination up
on it.
Year: 1860

Besides these delegates, the members of the
National Democratic Executive Committee
have seats ON the floor of the Convention, but
no votes. They are SO in number. More
over. it is customary to admit distinguished
members of the party to the floor of the house
as a courtesy. So that the Convention will
be composed Of about $50 members.


The vote of the Convention can not exceed
BOB, of which two-thirds, or the requisite
number for nomination in preceding Corven-
tiOns, is 202
Year: 1860

l. upllS W. u


an act to regulate the venae of actions AGAINST


Railroad Corporations.


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That suits
against corporations whose principal office or
place of business shall be located in this State,
shall be commenced in the county where the
principal office or place OF business may be-
Suits against railroad and telegraph companies
may also be brought in the county where the
cause of action arose. Process against cor
poration shall hereafter be executed upon the
president or other head of the corporation.
cashier, secretary or treasurer thereof; and if
no such person shall be found, it shall be suf-
ticient to post copy at the door of the prin-
cipal Office or place Of business OF the corpora
ton, or the process may be served on such
other person, or in such other manner as the
court in which the suit is instituted NAV di-
rect. In suits against railroads and telegraph
companies brought in any county other than
that in which the principal Office or place of
business may be located the process may be
sent to the county in which the principal office
or place OF business of such corporation may
he located to be executed: railroad or telegraph
companies not having their principal office or
place of business in this State may appoint an
agent or attorney in each county through
which their road or line may run, and may
file the same in the office of the clerk of the
Circuit Court of said county authorizing such
agent or attorney to receive service OF all pro-
cess against such company, and service of pro-
cess upon such agent or attorney, shall be as
effectual and valid, as if served upon such
company, or such process may be served on
the president, or other head of corporation,
cashier, secretary, or treasurer thereof iffound
in the county in which such suit shall be insti-
tuted and if there shall be no such agent or
attorney in such county, such railroad or tele-
graph company may be sued by attachment in
all cases, as well those sounding in damages
as those for the recovery Of debts, the plaintiff
making affidavit Of the amout of damages sus-
tanned by him, by reason ofthe facts complained
Of and giving bond as in other cases of attach
ment, and that all laws authorizing the service
of process on corporations in any other man
ner than herein provided, be and the same is
hereby repealed.


SEC. 2. BE it further enacted, That this act
take effect from and after its passage


Approved Feb. TO- 1860.


(Signed) j. A. P. CAMPBELL,


Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.


JAMES DRANE,


President Of the Senate.
Year: 1860

AN ACT 10 amend the third section of the
fourteenth article Of chapter -XXXTL ofthe
Revised Code, IN relation 10 satisfying mort


cages and deeds Of trust.


SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That any
mortgage or oertui gui trust or real or person.
al property, or his representatives or assigns,
or the successors Of such mortgage or eeYtui
gu trust. if he be a receiver, executor, admin
istrator, guardian, trustee, or other officer re-
ceiving payment Of the money received by
such mortgage or deed of trust, shall under
the penalties now provided by law, enter sat
isiaction on the record Of such mortgage or
deed of trust, or may release the same by
deed OF release, or may appoint an attorney to
enter such satisfaction or make such release;
and the clerk Of the said probate court, on tho
production to him by either party of the origi
nal mortgage or decd Of trust, or Of TIE cYi-
tfftTvtn IcceivCd, may
cancel the same, and shall note such cancella-
ton the record of the mortgage or dcSd Of
trust; and such entry of satisfaction release
or cancellation, whether heretofore made or
hereafter to be made, shall discharge and re-
lease the said mortgage or deed Of trust, and
shall revert the title in the mortgagor or
grantor and in all cases proof Of the payment
of the money secured by such mortgage or
deed Of trust shall have the like effect and
that this act shall take effect from its passage.


Approved Feb. IL, 1860.
Year: 1860

The lGwa Democratic platform would not
add any strength in Illinois, because the Fill
more voters, having refused to vote for it in
1856, ambiguous and equivocal as it was, set
ting nothing, quieting no agitation, would have
no inducement to vote for it in 1860. While
the Alabama platform, if adopted, robbing the
North of nothing, leaving the Territories open
alike to both North and South, protecting
alike Northern and Southern property, would
settle the question equitably and justly, and
would receive the Fillmore conservative vote,
giving the State to the Democracy by very
large majority, instead of mere plurality. If
the Democratic party in Charleston adopt a
platform embracing the following


8. 'ResoEved further, That the principles
enuncated by Chief Justice Taney, in his
opinion in the Dred Scott case, deny to the
Territorial Legislature the power to destroy
or IMPAIR by any legislation whatever, the
right ofproperty in slaves, and maintain it to
be the duty Of the Federal Government, in all
of its departments, to protect the rights of the
owner of such property in the Territories ;
and the principles so declared are hereby as
serted to be the rights of the South, and the
South should maintain them"


1t will have placed itself upon the Consti-
tuition, as adjudicatcd by the Supreme Court,
and every Old Line Wing is bound by every
consideration to support the ticket If there
be any candidate who cannot accept the plat
form of the Supreme Court and the Constitu-
ton, does he not advocate a 'higher law"
which, continuing agitation, threatens the de-
structon of the Union ?-Richmond Enquirer
Year: 1860

This time the prohibition became law,
being part Of what is now known as the
Ordinance Of 1881.


Tho question Of federal control Of slavery
in the terri ories seems not t. have been III.
rectly before the convention which framed the
Year: 1860

YOUNG BoMBA's ILLNESS FEIGNED.--A Paris
correspondent says; 1t now turns ont that
the young Bomba's illness was all a sham.
When Baron Brenier had forced him to an
interview, and convinced him that he had no
chance but a thorough understanding with
the Sovereign of North Italy, foreign aid be-
ing utterly out of the question, the Juvenile
Bourbon felt a qualm of conscience at any
alliance with an 'excommunicated power,
and feigned sickness TO allow of leave and
license from the Court of Rome, which per-
formance occupied two days. On receipt of
the 'dispensation,' this monarch of. an inde-
pendent kingdom was at liberty to transact
the business of the State, and proclaim to the
world his desire for intimate communion with
a Sovereign under full Papal ban. Such is
the farce as seen from behind the stage"