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Year: 1860

CScIE CnARLEY.-This large hearted pat
riot and good citizen came to town few days
since to make the acquaintance of some Of our
Legislators elect in the hope of procuring their
aid to give him the post of Door Keeper in the
Assembly. Uncle Charley Roberts is known
throughout the county as sterling man, every
inch of him. and they are many. Everybody
likes him. and being poor and in bad health,
his friends deem it better to be door keeper
in the house Of wickcdness than dwell in the
tents of the mines during tn, ntcr. Uncle
Charley has our best wishes for his success
Year: 1860

DowN WITH THE CoTTOywoODs-Th Sac
ramepto Bee says: When the rain comes.
we look for great havoc among the cotton
wood trees that line the streets of this city.
Year by year our neopfe are becoming
heartily tired Of them, and sooner or later
it is the intention of nearly if not quite all
property owners to - hew them down and
cast them into the fire" And not one of
this variety will be planted hereafter, nor
has one been for years.
Year: 1860

nees of the Constitutional Union party the Convention
adjourned sine die.


Another correspondent says:


Our Convention was good one, aud there were men
in il who have not attended Convention for years.
All seemed resolved take hold Of this work in earnest
We are determined to organize Bel and Everett Club
in this State
Year: 1860

We are all on our journey. The worlo
through which we are passing is in some
respects like turnpike-all along which
Vice and Folly have erected toll.gates fol-
the accommodation of those who choose
to call ss they go-and there are very few
of all the host of travellers, VINO do not
occasionally stop little at some one OF
another of them-and consequently pay
more or less to the toll gatherers. Pay
more or less say, because there is great
variety as well in the amount, as in the
kind of toll eXaCted at these different stop
ping places.


Pride and Fashion take heavy tolls OF
the purse-mlny a man has become a beg
gar by paying at their gates the ordi,
nary rates they charges are heavy, and
the road that way is none of the best.


Pleasure offers very smooth, delight
full road in the outset; she tempts the
traveller with many fair promises, and
wins thousands, but she takes without
mercy like an artful robber, she allures
until she gets her victim in her power,
and then strips him of health and money,
and turns him off a miserable object, into
the worst and most rugged road of life.


lntemperance plays the part of a sturc
dy william. He's the very worst toll. gathe
erer on the road for he not only gets
from his customers their money and their
heal th, but he Iobs them of their very
brains. The men you meet on the road,
and ruined in frame and fortune. are his
visitors. And so might go on enumer.
ating many others who gather toll OF the
unwary. Accidents sometimes happen,
it is true, along the road, but those who
do not get through at least tolerably well,
you may be sure have been stopping by
the way at some of these places. The
plain common sense men, who travel
straight forward, get through the journey
without much difficulty.


This being the state of things, it be-
comes every one, in the outset, if he in
tends to make comfortable journey, to
take care what kind of company he keeps
in with. We are all apt to do great
deal as companies do-stop where they
stop, and pay toll where they pay. Their
the chances are one to ten, but our choice
in this particular decides our fate.


Having paid due respect to a choice of
companions, the next important thing is
closely TO observe how Others manage to
mark the good or evil that is produced by
every course of life. see how those do who
do manage well; by those means you
learn.


be careful Of your habits these make
the man. And they require long and
careful culture. Good habits l speak Of
bad enes are most easily acquired they
are spontaneous weeds, that flourish rap.
IDLY and fankly, without care or culture.
Year: 1860

ReFA quaker who was examined before
a court, offended the presiding Judge by
his familiar thee and thou and friend.
At last he attempted to rebuke him by
sternly asking, Mr.. Thomas, do you know
who we are and what we sit here for9 q
do said the Quaker: three of you for a.
bout two dollars day each, and the one
in the centre for two thousand dollars Q
year, for which payment thy duty ought
TO be well done y
Year: 1860

We have prepared the following correct
statement of the electoral votes given the
various candidates for President and Vice
President of the United States, since the
adoption of the Constitution. 1t should
be observed that at the first four elections.
the colleges OF electors were required to
vote for two persons, the highest of whom
should be President, and the next highest
Vice President of the United States. In
consequence of the equal vote between
Jefferson and Burr, in 1900, The Consti-
sutton was amended SO as to require the
President and Vice President to be voted
for separately, as at present.
Year: 1860

Special 10 The New Orleans CreSeent.l


WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1860.


Mr. EdRor-Whatfs the use of trying to save
man IN drttce1o morris, with Mrs. Winsow's Sooth-
ing Syrup? Where's the sense of treating what the
doctors would call ga case Of compound commnu-
ted fraeture,,' with Spalding's Prepared Glue?
Such questions as these, put to-day to the Crisis
Committee, would provoke as much derisive laugh
ter as Wigfall's speech did in the Senate. They
think disunion is thing to be dealt with after the
fashion Of those excellent grannies who never dis
pair of life SO long as little "yerb tea can be
got out of the kitchen kettle, Like Vanity Fair y
the comic New York paper they picture the state
of the country as that of a young and robust man
whose arm is broken and nothing more the matter
with him.


But, the wise physician is well aware that the
disease is organic and that its seat is in the ytals.
No man contends that the fault is in the written
Constitution or in defective legislation; yet the
| Crisis Committee propose to remedy the evil by
| legislation; and because they voted, pretty unani-
mously, for Rusts resolution, the Union are in
| high feather to-day. Stocks are rising in New
| York, and all is going to be well again. Two Diff
ferent and innately hostile systems of civilization
remain, and must remain, wholly unchanged and
antagonstic as ever long after the courtplaster
bandages, now being applied have been scattered
| to the wind. The incurable rot of agrariansm,
| which permeates Northern society from center to
| periphery remains and must remain long after the
resolutions of Northern Union meetings and Crisis
Committee pacicators have established their utter
| nefficacy to meet the requirements Of the case.
| l find it simply impossible to get men Of Union
| procyities to probe the national trouble to its
core, and meet the fact of inevitable revolution
face to face They agree willingly that revolutions
never 20 backwards; but lifting their heads in
horror and dismay, with Lieut. Maury, they shrink
from contemplating the tbloody abyss of dis
union.n They blame this or that section, and
above all they blame the politicians. "Get rid OF
the politicians they cry :" and let the people rise
in their majesty, and all will be wel.n Far very
far, from it, Neither the people nor the politicians
are to blame. The fault is IN The form Of society
Politicians are but the weathercocks of public
opinion and public opinion is controlled absolutely
by social structure and by uisibte facts Think
ers-men who can abstract their minds from the in
fiuenee of outward surroundngs-may hold opin
ions totally ct variance with the teachings of the
society in which they live, but the opinions of the
mass of mankind are commanded, shaped irresist
IDLY formed, guided and perpetuated, by the thing
they with the eye by the evidence of the bodily
senses.


Whether free society can emaneipate its opinion
from the law by which it is controlled, will yer!
soon be seen, The question of protection t,
slavery in the Territories, which will be and ougl
to be the sine qua with the men of the South
is the great test. AS the denial Of the right o
Year: 1860

A TALL WoaAs.-The Boston Courier chronicles
the arrival in that city, from New York, Of q
woman eight feet high and large in proportion.
She is estimated 10 weigh upwards Of five hundred
nonnds
Year: 1860

The Paris journal La Presse, contains an
ar lc!e on the political troubles in the United
States, which all who are committed to dis.
union would do well to read and consider. The
article contains many truths, and evinces u
perception of the danger and ruin into which
the Secessionists are hurryng the country,
that they themselves have utterly failed to re-
alze.


But this is not the most important point evs-
ked by the French writer. He distinctly,
clearly, and unmstakeably shows that France
Will enter into no alliance with a new Repub-
lie in the South, and that the spirit of her
Government ard people is opposed to any Con-
edcracy based on the institution of Slavery
The French writer insists hat the Government
Of the Emperor should not, even by silence, al.
low the Southern Sta. es to deceive themselves
in the matter, and he djssipotcs every hope, if
such ever existed ~ the minds of reasonable
men, that the schemes Of Secessonsts will
receive no aid or countenance from France
The arguments that dictate such course are
not limited to the perfectly notorious hostility
OF The French people to the institution of Slav-
cry. La PreSSe maintains that the Navy of
America and the Union of her States are ne.
cessary to France as a means of preventing
Great Britain from seizing the Empire of the
Seas; and that, in the event of disruption of
our COnfederacy, the interests of the French
people, as well as their instincts, would lead
them 10 side with the Northern Republic.


The English and French Press have both
spoken on the dsunion question and in way
that can leave 10 doubt of their sincerity. 1t
Is not less certain that they represent the sem
tlment of the two peoples and the course that
their Governments will be bound to pursue
Neither France nor England will recognize
the independence of any section of the Amer-
can Union until that Independence is admitted
and recognized by the Union itself; and if SO
strange an event should ever happen as the CO.
existence of two North American Confeder-
acles, the Southern Republic may rest assured
that it will receive no comfort or sympathy
from the leading Powers OF Europe.
Year: 1860

DIvIDEND The Kent County Mutual Insu-
rance Company, as will be seen by notice
in another column, have declared dividend
Of 10 per cent. Good for the Kent Mutual
This company have met with losses Of about
5000 the present years which have all been
promptly paid. and yet are able TO declare this
handsome dividend. ''N '.7g
Year: 1860

ITwill be seen by reference to the prospec-
tus Of the New York Ledger, which will be
found 10 another column, that the proprietor of
that popular weekly has secured an array of
distinguished contributors for his paper for the
New Year such as has never been equaled by
any publication in the world. The Ledger is
always characterized BY high moral tone.
aad has a sircalationalarger than that of any
ssher ten literary journals in the eOuairy.i5
Year: 1860

INFLUX OF SPFcIE.-During the past fort
night over six millions of specie have been i'm
ported into the Atlantic States from Europe
and California. This large influx ought to re-
lleve the monetary pressure prevailing here,
ant 1t IS to be hoped that it will. Our banks
must now be in a condition to redeem their is-
sues; and, for the sake of the people who are
suffering much, they ought to resume specie
payments as soon as possible. Nothing but the
most imperative necessity can justify those
who control our finances in Withholding relief
from the commercial and anufacturing cir
cles Unless business soon improves great
distress must prevail, and thousands of honest,
IaborIng poor will suffer tron want. Those
who have the means of relief should act
promptly to avert such a calamity.
Year: 1860

The most common error of men and
women is that Of looking for happiness
somewhere outside of useful work. 1t
has never yet been found when thus
sought, and never will be while the
world stands and the sooner this truth
is learned, the better for every one. If
you doubt the proposition, glance
around among your friends and acquain-
tances, and select those who appear to
have the most enjoyment in life, Are
they the idlers and pleasure seekers, or
the earnest workers? We know what
your answer will be,


Of all'the miserable human beings il
has been our fortune, or misfortune, TO
know, they were the most wrotched who
had retired from their useful employ
ments in order to enjoy themselves
Why, the slave at his enforced labor, OF
the hungry toiler for bread, were su.
promely happy in comparison,


Earnestly would we press upon young
minds the truth we have stated, Ii
lies at the foundation of all well-doinp
and well-being 1t gives tranquility
and pleasure to tho youth just stepping
across the threshold of rational life, al
well as to the man whose years are be
ginning to rest upon his STOPPING shoul
ders. BE ever engaged in useful work
iGyou would be happy This is the
great secret.
Year: 1860

u9 NS"o pdp5Ls


Some writer truthfully remarks that
Sin no other way can so much, so va
riod so useful information be impaired,
and under circumstances so favorable
for educating the child's mind, as
through a judicious, well-conducted
newspaper"


To live in a village was once to be shut
up and uninstructed. But now man
may be a hermit and yet a cosmopolite.
He may live in forest, walking miles
to a post-ofico, having mails but once n
week, and yet he shall be found as ia
miliar with tho living world as the bus.
lest actor in it. For the newspaper is a
.spy-glass by which he brings near the
most distant things-a microscope by
which he leisurely examines the most
minute objects-an ear-trumpet by
which he collects and brings within his
hearing all that is said and done all over
the carth--a museum full Of living pic
lures of real life, drawn not on canvass,
but with printers ink on paper


The effect of liberaizing aud enlarg-
ling the minds Of the young, and this
weekly commerce with the world, will
be apparent to any one who will ponder
liz. Once, a liberal education could on.
ly be completed by foreign travel, The
sons of only the wealthy could indulge
lin this costly benefit. But now the
poor mans son can learn as much a
home as a hundred years ago a gentle
man could learn by jOurneying tn,
world over. For while there are somt
advantages in going into the world, it il
the poor mans privilege to have tn,
world come to see him. The newspape
lis a great collector, a great traveller,
great lecturer. 1t is the common peo
piles encyclopedia-the lyccum, th
college
Year: 1860

VENTILATION OF THE APPLE BARREL.
BY this we mean the boring Of holes
in the head slaves of the barrels, that
will allow the escaping Of the moisture
that is constantly passing of from the
newly gathered fruit. We hazard MOTH
ing in the statement that one-half the
fruit sent TO this market this season, so
far has been materially injured from
this cause. The effect Of confined vapor
upon the apple is not at once apparent.
The rruitappears uncommOnly brighton
the FIRST opening-but as the surface
dries off, the apple begins to grow dull
looking, and, if a light-skiuned apple,
in dav or two will present the appear
ance of half-baked fruit


But this steaming from confinement
not only Injuries the sale Of the fruit,
but to the great disappointment Of the
consumer, his fruit does not Eeep as he
supposed it would and as the variety of
apple he purchased led him to suppose
il would. Premature decay is sure to
follow as consequence Of this bad ven
tilation. Chicago Fruit Dealer.
Year: 1860

The seceding of portion of the South.
ern State from the Democratic Convention
at Charleston. aud their expressed determi-
nation to insist upon the incorporating into
the Democratic creed the doctrine of Con.
gressional action upon the subject of negroes
in Territories, and the failure of the Demo
cratic Convention to nominate . candidate
for the Presidency, brings the question to
and the South, what shall be done Shall
we, as Southern man, who desires tho
perpetuity of our present system of govern
ment. and who desires the peace. happiness
and continued prosperity to the people Of
this great country, cooperate with the Ma
tional democracy, and continue to adhere
to the principles of the Democratic party.
and go into convention at Baltimore? Or.
shall we side with the seceders. secure the
election of Black Republican President
then raise the standard of rebellion. effect
disunion. tumult and ruin. and . gradual
degeneracy of our race?


These arc Questions Of ,nnmentous impor-
tance to every Southern man! It is not an
imaginary question-it is the very question
every Southern man has to decide at once
because the question is upon US.


1t is very evident there are bold and reck.
less men in the South. acting with tho
Democratic party, who have been for years
laying plans and schemes to prccipitate
the cotton States into revolution" /" and it
is these very men who have seeded from the
Charleston Convention because the Democ.
racy refused to incorporate An impractica-
BILE issue into the platform of the party. 10
it possible the people-the great mass Of
American citizens-will stand idle and let
these reckless men plunge our country into
q state Of anarchy and ruin |? We think
Year: 1860

~AhoNh WAN IdE AflNG.-1L would be
difficult to find in the whole range of fiction
a more affecting incident than is contained
in the following extract from letter writ
ten by British seaman to his wife. 1t was
his first service as a soldier. he having been
sent on shore with boats crew of marines
to silence q fort and take some guns:


1--WE dispersed at q few hundred yards
distance from the beach to keep the coast
clear, while the boats crew made prizes of
the guns. The enemy had advantage of the
wood, and also knowing the country well,
and q troop of them showed in advance.
took steady aim. and fired at my man at
about sixty yards. He fell like stone. At
the same time broadside from the
went in among the trees and the enemy dis
appeared. We could scarcely tell how felt
as though l mn>t go up to him and see
whether he was dead or alive He lay quite
still. and | was more afraid Of him living
SO than when he stood facing me few min
utes before. 1t is a strange to come over
you all at once that you have killed a man
He had unbuttoned his jacket. and was
pressing his hand over the front of his
chest, where the wound was.


He breathed hard and the blood poured
from the wound and also from his month,
every breath he took. His face was white
as death, and his eyes looked SO big and
bright, rs he turned them and stared at me.
| shall never forget it. He was fine.
young fellow. not more than five and twen-
ty. went down on my knees beside him.
and my breast felt SO full as though my
ann hart would burst lie had a real En-
glish face, and did not look IIKe an euvu.,
What felt can never tell /; but If my
life could have saved his, believe should
have given it. | laid his head ON my knee
and he grasped hold of my hand and tried
to speak. but his voice was gone. l could
not tell word he said. and every time he
went to speak, the blood poured ont, so |
knew it would soon be over. I'm not asha-
med to say that was worse than he, for he
never shed tear, and couldn't help it
His eyes were closed when gun was fired
from the - to order aboard, and that
reused him. He pointed to the beach. where
the boat was just pushing off with the guns
which We had taken. aai where our marines
were waiting to man the second boat, and
then he pointed to the woods where the ene-
my was concealed. Poor fellow he little
thought how had shot him down. l was
wondering how could leave him to die,
and no one near him. when he had some-
thing like a CONFUSION for a moment. and
then his face rolled over, and without q sigh
he was gone. trust the Almighty has re
ceived his soul. laid his head gently down
upon the grass and left him. 1t seemed so
strange when looked at him for the last
time. somehow thought Of everything
had heard about the Turks and the Russians
and the rest of them. but all that seemed SO
far off and the dead man so near
Year: 1860

MoRMoxs ON THEIR WINDINa WAY.-On
board the steamer New World, from New
York. yesterday morning. were upward of
three hundred Mormons. who at 4 late hour
took the cars for the West, on their way to
Salt Lake City. There were few pretty
young girls in the party. but for the most
part, the women were on the wrong side
Of thirty. and in personal appearance had
nothing to boast of. The majority Of the
party were English.
Year: 1860

FIRE-At a period between II and II
O'clock, Tuesday night, a fire broke out in a
shed or shanty just back of Barnett d Sew
ards livery stable The engines were soon
out.and e2tinguished it at once, though it
was IN avery dangerous place 1t was evil
IDENTIFY the work of an incendiary. The
shanty was used for storing away hay, and
this hay was considerably saturated with
aleohal. The intention was doubtless to
burn up the stable and to have a general
eonflagration in the block.
Year: 1860

A Washington correspondent says he is
authorized to say that the President of the
United States will recommend to the favora-
ble consideration of Congress the continua-
tion of the Vanderbilt mail steamer line. as he
promised Senator Gwin to do, prior to his
departure from that city, last summer
Year: 1860

Gas CoNsUMERs.-In another column will
be seen the names of a number of business
men of this city, who believe that the rates
charged for gas are exorbitant, and who
agree, each with the other, they will use no
more from and after Saturday next, the 18th
inst, unless the price is reduced to 50 so
per thousand feet.
Year: 1860

]. c.. PELroN.--This gentleman returned
from the East by the last steamer. We had
the pleasure of meeting him, yesterday Our
readers are aware that he is informally the
Superintendent cf the State Reform School ;
that is, he was assured, as we understand, by
the members of the Board Of Trustees, before
his departure to the Atlantic States, that he
should have the appointment and that he
might consider himself already the Superin-
tendent, SO far as any future action Of the
Board might be concerned. Relying, Of
course upon this assurance, which was suft-
cient among gentlemen, he went East, at his
own expense, travelled extensively, examined
State Reform Schools in various States and
their workings, treasuring up stores of prac
teal information on the subject, go as to be
prepared fully for the business of his Office
obtained donations OF books for the State
Reform School Library, shipping upwards of
1900 veldmes at no cost to the State except
O small charge for freight, and returned to
render an account of his stewardship, though
charging nothing for bis time and money
There remains, now, nothing to be done but
to confirm him in his appointment by a legal
action of the Board, and this we doubt not
they will do, at the earliest practicable mo-
ment.
Year: 1860

s@A queer theft was perpetrated
few days ago at the quarries near West
Rutland, Vermont. A young Irish wo
man left her child. few weeks old, al
home under the charge Of a little girl
while sbe made short visit, and when
she returned found that it had been car
rled away. 1t was subsequently, discov
cred 10 the possession Of another and q
childless young wife, who stoutly stuck tc
it that it xas her own until medical proc
was given that it did not belong to her
when it was restored to its true mother
and the false one sent up for the odd
theft.