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Year: 1860

The IRON TRADE AT MARoUETTE.-The
amount of ore brought from the Noun
tains this season, up to the 18th ult.
was eighty thousand tones, two thousand
of which were taken by Mr. Gay for his
furnace, and seventy-eight thousand de-
livered upon our docks for Shipment
Five thousand tons Of pig iron have also
been brought down, and delivered for
shipment. And then there are the ship
ments of pig iron made by Mr.. Gay, the
exact amount of which we do not know.
The cars, which have been interrupted
by the snow, are again in motion we per.
ceive, and there may yet be quite little
business done on the road, before winter
sets in.--Lake Superior Journal.
Year: 1860

FREsH AIR.--tIive your children plenty
of fresh air. Let them snuff it until il
sends the rosy current of life dancing
joyfully to their temples. Air is so cheap
and so good, and so necessary with all
that every child should have free access
to it. Horace Mann beautifully says
"To put your children on short allow.
ance Of fresh air, is as foolish as it would
have been for Noah; during the deluge,
to have put his family on short allow
ance of water. Since God has poured out
an atmosphere of fifty miles deep, it is
enough to make miser weep to see our
children stinted in breath.
Year: 1860

El The Providence Post considers
the Republican convention, at Providence
evidence of the complete triumph Of
Abolitionism over the Conservatives in
the Opposition party in Rhode Island
Year: 1860

E Bayard Taylor says that, when he
first visited Humboldt, he showed him a


chameleon and after pointing out his
singular eye, said, "One pecularity OF
this creature is his power of looking two
ways at the same time. He can lift one
eye to heaven, while the other remains
fixed to the earth. There are many
clergymcn who have the same faculty.
Year: 1860

Connected with the Courier Office is New and Ex-
tcnsive Jon B.PRINrISG ESTABLISHMENT, wherein Plain
and Ornamental Printing Of every description will
be done in the latest and most fashionable style.


Patronage is solicited GEO. 4. LEWIS.
Year: 1860

OWNERS WANTED.-A quantity of ladies'
under garments are at the Police Court await
ing ownership. They were taken from a
thief, and are supposed to have been stolen
from clOthes-line.
Year: 1860

BG-lt IS quite "a common observation that
consumption is the chief curse Of this climate prey
Ing upon old an young, and scattering widely its
Hhais q destruction. But al Who have ever truyei-
"a through The West and South, or Indeed through
any portion Of the interior Of the country must haye
Noticed that there Is a disease far more prevalent
among Americans than consumption Day after day
they are alternately shaking as with nervous fit,
or rendered delirious with fever Most OF them find
an early grave, No one who has ever seen or expe-
rieneed this disease, can fail to perceive that we al
lude 10 what is called Fever aud Ague. The discoy
eFVr Of a remedy for this evil must and should be
considered public beneiaotor and Dr. J. Rostett-
sr'a Bitters is the remedy. We know from personal
trial.


For sale by Druggists and dealers generally every
where and by HosTETTER SMITH, Sole Proprie-
torai s. Water and IS Front streets. Pittsburgh.
Year: 1860

The Perry Monument Committee respect
fully invite the clergy Of the city, and the
clergy from abroad who may visit the city
on the 18th of September, to assist in giving
Character to the day, BY joining inths pro-
cession and taking seats on the platform dit
ring the exercises. 57a 5e


Aug. 30. By order Of Committee.
Year: 1860

Much Of the suffering which is endured
by the people of God, grows out of their
ignorance of each others trials. Those
that fear the Lord too seldom speak ono
to another. Every heart knoweth its own
bitterness, but another's it does not know
The tempted believer, as he struggles a.
gainst the motions of sin in the flesh, is
sometimes almost ready to cast off all hope
for he cannot see how his sense of deflc-
ment can consist with that holiness with.
out which no man can see the Lord. He
not only regards himself as less than the
least Of saints, but doubts whether he be a
saint at all, And yet this is the expert
ence Of every child of God, without sin
gle exception, at some period, of his pill
grimage. The hoiest and the very beat
of men have sometimes been brought to the
very bars of the pit. A David, Luther,
Bunyan, an Erskine and Toplady-
these have all known what it was to cry,
GLOW long wilt thou forget me, o Lord ,
Forever How long wilt thou hide thy
face from mel How long shall 1 take
counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my
heart daily? How long shall mine enemy
be exalted over mo? Consider and hear
me, 0 Lord my God tighten mine eyes,
lest sleep the sleep of death"


Let the tempted believer learn that his
experience of the bitterness Of sin, and Of
the deceitfullness and wickedness of his
heart, is precisely that Of all Gods host.
They are all fighting against the world,
the flesh and the devil, and not one of
them finds it an easy warfare. Not one
of them but must water his couch with
tears-not one but must sometimes exclain
go wretched man that am, who shal
deliver me from the body of this death p
But they may all add, with the apostle
II thank God, through Jesus Christ on
Lord
Year: 1860




that this newspaper attempted in
solid column of metal, TO run over


the last twenty years and string


together some Of The incidents there
of, relative to our old friend Doctor


Plough, 60 show him 10 others in


the light which he appears to us as


the "Hero of Fairs" entitled to q


place by the side of Mr.. Thomas
Catlylc's best. Scarcely was the


article out-scarcely had we elevat-
ed our friend to the place, we think
him entitled, ere several men in
masks commenced throwing stones
at him, to our serious chargin and
modification. Somebody signing
himself zone who has a memory of
the Past" made pass at the Doc
tor through newspaper in Main
street, and another gentleman over
the signature of Southern Progress"
essayed to pluck the laurels from
him before he he was fairly in pos.
session. We expected this; because
of an inward knowledge zee have of
the inherent jealousy of the human
heart, Of which no man, and certain.
~ no roman Is free. Southern
Progress prefaoed bis remarks
(very properly by disclaiming any
malice towards our friend the Doc.
tor: and then went on to say that
he ha 4 no doubt that the Fairs of
which he was the leading spirit,
twenty years ago, were great Fairs
with large exhibition of animals
and things but he could see no
reason why Doctor Plough should


wish to institute invidious compaf-
isons, and at this late day, desire
to build mp the reputation of the
dead--mere ghosts and shadows.
on the shoulders of living things.
In answer TO this, we may say sim
ply such was not opr purpose, and
the letter of our language will bear
no such inference. We merely wish.
ed to reprint, several pages of by
gone history, which the worms have
been at work on we wanted TO
show, what our friend the Doctor
had done years ago-not by talk
ing of what he would and could do
if he wanted, but what he did with
his coat off and sleeves rolled up.
VIII one who has memory of the
past, please sharpen 1t, whilst we
turn the grind.stone and with
good edge on his weapon start out
with us in pursuit of the naked
truthH If he willard will leave
bis bias of mind behind him, he will
discover these very patent and un.
facts. Doctor Plough first
conceived the idea of Fair in al.
he got up the Fair Of AZ, he direct
cd the Fair of '43 and done more
than any other twenty men for the
Fair of AS. The Doctor spent not
only his money but his time for
them. Whenever the company got
into tight place land where is the !
company that may not Doctor
Plough was called on to get il ont. !
On one occasion, when the late J |
dueston published the Gazette
The last report then going through |
he press had to stop on account of
strike of workmen. DIR. Plough
vas appealed TO and but for the
lid of several dollars of his own
'urse, the entire thing had died
light there, half finished. These
ire facts. We have a faint recol.
ection Of the past and all the old
'apers needful to establish the truth
It history.


Attacked by Southern Progress
Year: 1860




To HE Ediior Of The Wing:


presume on the well known liberality aud indulgence
of your paper, to trouble you with few lines sub
ect that has caused both surprise and annoyance
arrived in this city with my brother yesterday, and
hearing that the Democratic Convention in session.
started this evening for the african Church" fully
pectng meet with that courtesy which is so proyeTbal
in Vrgnians On applying for admission at the door,
asked by the official placed there if we we're del
ega;es replying in the negative the door was
slammed in face with sury $50 up in the gallery
Much surprised the conduct wended way hth-
er but found them aud all crammed to suiocation.
Being unwilling TO lose the amusement expected We
continued our researches and although there large
number of vacant benches in the north wing of the
Church. (which could plainly see through the win
dow unable to gain admission, barricades being
placed at all the entrances.


Now sir although belong to the Opposition party, am
ofmy inability to conduct myself asa gentleman
even in a Democratic meeting and | think they did not
show good polteness in refusing admit sran-
gers when there really was accommodation for them
Trusting that Convention on the 22d inst for which
| shall waltz will give them a lesson,


have the honor TO be


Yours very truly,


"STRANGERr
Year: 1860

The GREAT CATHEDRAL AT NEW YORK
Archbishop Hughes has ordered the suspen- =
SION OF work upon the new Catholic cathe-
dral at New York. The walls of the building
are now some ten or eleven feet, on an aver
age, over the surface, and give an earnest of
what the structure will be when finished but
there is such lack of funds for proceeding
with the work, that the Archbishop will not
allow 1t to go on, for fear the workmen will
be defrauded Of the fruits of honest labor
Year: 1860

NEW MATERIAL FOR SHOE NAILs.-Zinc
nails are now extensively employed in the
manufacture of boots and shoes, in place OF
wood or iron II is said these nails are also
substituted for sewing In ladies' slippers. An
iron last is employed, and the nails, on being
driven in, strike the last, and become headed
or riyeled on the inside, thus forming a very
secure aslenng.
Year: 1860

Extending the Road.-It has been suggested
that after the passenger railway line along
Main street is completed, that branch of the
Fredericksburg Road be extended along Broad
street to Church Hill, so as to give the resi-.
dents In that vicinity convenient method of
visiting Sbockoe Hill at all times The Ooun-
Gil, in all probability, will charter a company
to make the improvement when applied to,
but such line, unless connec ted with others


will not be very profitable for years to come.
Year: 1860

SHAKESPEARE AND THE PR1NoE-The Bos-
ton Courier is responsible for the following
not unapt application:


THE parsonage and years of the Prince of
Wales nre pretty we'll defined by MIR. William
Shakespeare. The Prince is ssnot yet old
enough tor man, nor young enough for a
boy as a squash is before I is peascod, or a
codling when t is almost an apple t is with
MIN e'en standing water, between boy and
man. He is very we'll favored, and he speaks
very shraWlshly one would think his mo-
theirs milk Were scarce out of him.,
Year: 1860

Large Famiiy.-There are now about eighty
persons confined in the city Jail for various
offences-all feeding at the public expense,
and most OF them living in idlsness. If the
petty offenders were put 10 picking oakum,
they might spend their time more profitably
and would be better off.
Year: 1860

Gong Cp.-Despite the oppressive weather,
the Workmen are Fastening up the walls Of
the city aims house, and will probably get a
portion of it completed in time for the Super
intendent to occupy it next winter. The
building is mammoth one and when com
pleted, will be very convenient in all its ar.
raugemeuts
Year: 1860

Visiting DTHitary.-A member of Company
writes as word that his corpsjs having
delightful time of it in the mountains OF VIr.
gina, and that all his brethren in arms are
enjoying the cooling breezes and delightful
waters Of that sec ton, while they are hourly
improving in the duties of the soldier
Year: 1860

NAvAL-Ocders have been received at the
Gosport Navy Yard to fit out the steam. frigats
Pensacola Tor yea with all possible dispatch
She is destined for the Gulf and will be the
flag ship Of the squadron on that station.
Year: 1860

The Street Raiiicay is steadily gaining in
popularity, and will now be built beyond q
shadow OF doubt. All classes begin TO find
that 1t is 10 he profiIaole and advan tageuus,
and they are showing their interest by pur-
chasing the stock.
Year: 1860

Fnsd.-N. F. Bowe was fined 40 bv the
Mayor for tying his horse and allowing him
TO get upon the sidewalk. That our readers
may see the ordinance on this subject, we ap-
pend the following section:


mo person shall tie or otherwise fasten horse
or mule upon any part of a sidewalk or to any
post, railing, or other fixture sunk into or at
tached to. or over any part of a sidewalk, wheth-
violating this section shall be fined not less than
81 Nor more than $40


Mr.. Bowe called attention to the fact, that
at mat very moment horse was tied to q
rack IN front of the City Hall. and that in his
case he was in few yards of his animal when
she stepped upon the walkway
Year: 1860

Going at Large.-The police are making ex-
ira efforts TO bring before the Mayor all slaves
found going at large within the limits Of the
city. and our law-abiding citizens should ri We
them all the aid within their power. The
practice of permitting servants to hire them
selves, and to get citizens to stand mas ters for
them, is ruinous in its effect, and often leads
to serious consequences. The fewest number
OF slaves will engage in hard labor if they can
keep from so doing; and this many of them
do by opening dens for the reception OF stolen
goods, and for the harboring of runaways. II
the owner of a slave wishes him to be free, let
him emancipate him and send him TO a free
State. Certainly he has no right to turn his
slave loose to the injury of the community
and when he does so he ought to be fined
heavily.
Year: 1860

A rumor has gained some currency, with
in the last two days, that Mayor Wood
will be removed from office by the Govern
or for certain transactions, but the origin Of
the rumor, or what these transactions are,
no one seems to know. The Daily News,
former friend Of the Mayor, alludes to the
rumor, and says of Wood M Y. Post.


= = "The sooner he is out OF
Office the better. If he can remove the City
Chamberlain for cause why shouldn not the
Governor remove him for cause? He has
certainly given cause enough in all con-
science, and the sooner he is 'defunctus off,
cio' the better. of with his head-so
much for Wood"
Year: 1860

A private letter from London says: "Poor
Heenan has been trying thousand ways to
force Sayers into fight, or else give up
the belt. But Sayers will do neither. II
is the general opinion here that in another
fight Heenan would whip him to death in
less than halfan hour. Sayers and his friend;
know this, and they would rather face Beel


zebub in the ring than Heenan. But with
an indescribable meanness they refuse tC
surrender the belt, which they know they
have lost. Johny Bull was never more
amazed than by the result of this battle, anC
be don't know what to do about it," m
Year: 1860

There is now no reason to doubt that the
present wheat crop of Minnesota will yield
more than twice the usual average--and that
at least one million bushels OF the surplus
will be shipped to this city.


Our neighbors of Milwaukee have, for
some time past, been making strenuous ef-
forts to control the entire wheat trade of
the Northwestern States, and have been in
a measure successful but the time has now
arrived when the numerous advantages
which our city possesses, as the largest pri>
mary grain market in the world, cannot be
overlooked hence the farmers of the neigh
boring States seek this as the only market
at which they can always find sale for their
produce at remunerative prices, with the
satisfaction OF knowing that they have had
all the advantages which emanate from the
competition that exist in so large CONNER
cial city as this.


We understand that the Illinois Central,
Galena and Chicago Union, North Western
and other lines of railways, have nearly per-
fected arrangements by which all grain
shipped from points on the Mississippi riv-
er will be conveyed to their differ ent termins
in barges, and thence to this city by rail, at
low rates of freight and with prompt dis
patch.


1t now rests with our merchants to con-
summate this undertaking, by speedily max
ing such arrangements as will ensure di.
rect trade with the farmers of Minnesota,
and thus add to the many sources of wealth
and Importance of the city of Chicago
Chicago Times.
Year: 1860

spoke from the balcony Of the Massasoit
house for three quarters of an hour. being
frequently interrupted by cheers and applause
He will dine this P. NJ with large number
Of our prominent citizens, and leave at 6:25
for Albany, where the great reception
awaits him.
Year: 1860

- A Singer in the Jupiter Concert Saloon,
while returning home on Friday night at late
hour, WIS set upon By three drunken men and
severely cut and bruised about the face. The
cause of the disturbance Has 4 woman,
Year: 1860

We caunot subscribe to the idea ad
vanced in late sermon at this place
that those dear ones, who have been
united to us by the closest Of all ties in
this world, SHALL in the spirit land, be
no more to us than the millions whom
we have never known in the flesh. =
From early childhood the glory of cur
faith and hope in the life to come, our
comfort in sorrow, our only consolation
in bereavement has been the soul-thrlll-
ing, full belief that friendship was eter-
nal. that love was immortal that those
kindred on earth should be kindred in
Heaven Shall not our sainted sister
be eurs still in that upper sphere' Shall
not we recognize our children by that
gushing throb of undying tenderness
which dawned at their birth, and have
become portion of our own deathless
souls ? Shall we not know them by
their golden hair, by. the voice whose
tones has not changed for US its sweet
ness Though sinless angels, still our
own little children given by the loving
Father, to make complete the richness,
the happiness of Heaven. Is not this
present life of ours a shadow Of that
which is to come? Is not Heaven a
purified and glorificd Earth which no
sin or sorrow, or death can mar? 1t
sometimes happens that we meet with
one, stranger, who, at one interview,
becomes more dear, and more known
to us than another with whom we have
been familiar lifetime. So we love
to think that in that other life, kindred
spirits will meet and greet US, whose
names were never known to us.


But that all the inhabitants Of Heav-
en-, however wise and good aud great
shall attract our spi,it-love equally
with friends Acknowledgements like
denial of our (avorite faith and hope.
Recognition of friends in Heaven.
Year: 1860

sions by force. To be sure, ono side Of
his country, for along extent bordered
that of the Sioux. aud between the two
tbes deadly hostility has long existed.
But still it required no great effort to de-
iend him selfand keep his enemy in check.
His ignorance-entailed upon him by
generations Of savage life, which ex-
cluded him almost entirely from all the
rest of the world-was SO prolold that it
was almost an ig.possiblity to impress
his mind with the idea that there could
exist any thing better than he enjoyed.
His religious notions also tended to
keep him stationary. He believed the
Great Spirit designed him always TO be
different from the white man. The
him. But the Great Spirit intended that
the Indian should never change his Gus
toms, but live and die as his fathers did
and transmit the same as legacy to his
posteriiy. The same state Of things
would exist in ihe future world Each
wedld live there by himself and pursue
his own mode Of life, and each be hap
py in the same. RI


1t is not strange therefore that the
Ojlbwa. though possessing the capacity
for improvement and culture equal to
that of almost any other race OF men,
yet should be found so low and degrad-
ed. All the influences which have been
operating upon him for generations,
have heen calculated 10 chain his mind
where it is Without the knowledge of
the customs and the arts of civilized life,
how could he rise? All he had seen or
known Of the world, till within a few
years, he had seen in his wigwam and
learned from some half fabulous story
related by his ancestors. Books he hae
never seen, and if he had they would
not have been Of any use to him. IL ht
had seen some specimens Of civilization
in those who had visited his country fo
the purposes Of traffic, they were sucl
specimens as would hardly give him al
idea Of true civilization, or recommen,
it to him as much preferable to his ewI
mode of life. If he were disposed L
copy at all, he would be likely to cop,
the vices rather than the virtues, as be
Ing the most prominent, and as reqnir
ing the least change in him.


In our efforts to teach the Indiar
children, we hardly ever had to turI
away one for want of capacity to learn
They generally exhibit capacity ,c
learn equal to that Of the white childrer
that compose our common schools
They were equally capable of learning
all kinds of business. They excel in the
imitation arts. They frequently show
skill in pennmanship, in drawing. and in
various kinds of mechanic trades.
Year: 1860

From the sketches we have drawn Of
the habits and modes Of life of the Oiib-
was, some may be disposed to think
them naturally deficient in their mental


and physical construction; and that it is
owing to this, that they have so long
continued their savage mode of lille,
when certainly better mode must have
suggested itself to them, and they might
have improved, at least, in some degree.
| had not been long among them, be-
fore became satisfied that nature had
not been deficient in the bestowment of
her gifts upon them in the formation of
body and mind. They had all the en-
dowments for becoming noble race of
men. Their bodies were well formed


of good proportions, straight, compact.
muscular, athletic, and of medium. stat
ure, indicating strong and healthy
constitution; fitted for endurance, and
being fit habitation for strong and
active mind. To this naturally strong
| body, habit had added something byway
Year: 1860

We might add more. Sufficient, how
ever, has been said to give the reader
an idea OF this wonder of Nature. To
those who have been admitted to its
mysteries, this may seem but ''a half
told tale," while to those who have not,
it may give desire to see with their
own eyes, subterranean realm Of such
magnitude and sublimity.