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Year: 1859

MRs. HYLAND-This unfortunate woman
was brought into the Recorders Court, yes
terdav. with her little child in her arms and
presenting a very pitiful appearance, to an
swer to a charge of keeping house of ILL
fame. The accusation was founded upon the
single circumstance that highly "respecta-
bic" individual was found in her house, in a
situation quite derogatory to his moral char
meter. a jury had been summoned to try
the case and was present. The case being
called up, the Recorder remarked that the
circumstances surrounding this affair were Of
u peculiar nature; that he believed, from
conversations had with the woman, that she
was in a mental condition which rendered
her irresponsible for her conduct; that she
was very poor; had been abused by her hus-
band and had suffered severe mental torture
and that he would take the responsibility
of dismissing the case. in order to have the
woman taken to the County Hospital and
provided for as pauper.


This decision gave evident satisfaction to
oil present. and was really generous and
praiseworthy proceeding
Year: 1859

BRIGHr PRosPECTs.-Since the discovery of
gold i'll this portion of the Sierra Neyadas,
never have the prospects been more fatter-
ing. We have had more snow this winter
than has been our portion for years, and by
the quantity Of snow falling at this season
we form our estimate of the amount of water
which we will have for mining in the spring.
Taking it as an almost certain rule that the
greater amount of snow and rain we receive
in winter, the more ample the supply of wa
ter in the spring. we may truly look forward
to the approaching mining season with
bright hopes. More extensive preparations
are being made for mining in this place, st.
Louis, Pine Grove, Gibsonville, Howland's
Flat, Warren Hill, Port Wine, Secret Dig.
gings, and all the mining towns in the por-
ton of the county; than have ever been
known. All the tunnels that have been run
this season have prospected well. In many
cases, where branch tunnel and drifts have
been run, the miners have found pay dirt
where they had no expectation of finding it.
All the preparations for mining will be com.
pleted in couple of weeks, and the boys will
then havean opportunity to rest a short time
previous to engaging in their spring work


Mountain Messenger.
Year: 1859

TRUE AS PREAcHIYG.-The Philadelphia
Evening Argus says: "No man can borrow
himself out Of debt. Ifyou wish for relief
you must work it You must make more
and spend less than you did while you were
running in debt You must wear homespun
instead of broadoloth, drink water instead Cf
champagne, and rise at four instead of seven.
Industry, frugality, economy-these are the
hand maids of wealth, and the sure sources
of relief A dollar earned is worth ten bor-
rowed, and dollar saved is better than
forty times its amount in useless gew-gaws.
Try our scheme, and see if it is not worth a
thousand banks and valuation laws"
Year: 1859

FIREMEN's BALL.-We have already given
an account of this most agreeable and salts
factory entertainment We are happy to
state that the sum realized from it for the
benefit Of the Firemens Cemetery Fund is
likely to prove quite considerable. 1t will
probably amount to $500, over and above all
exDenses
Year: 1859

g8T- The rush of people to Houston
HASTINGS co. still continues, and every one goes
there to purchase they selling OFF their large
ing cost; and some Of their goods at almost any
price for cash.
Year: 1859

sB Jim Bell, thief from below. was
caught, on Wednesday, with a jar of candy
under his arm which he had stolen from the
Nicaragua Saloon, and marched off to the
Station House He will probably fetch up
in the Chain Gang.
Year: 1859

Speaking of the recent Southern Con- vention at Vicksburg the .New Orleans Picayune says:

 The proposition to reopen the slave trade, though it may receive the endorse ment of convention of irresponsible delegates-chosen without popular inter- vention and clothed with no shadow of authority will not be endorsed by the people of the South. The question in wolves too grave consequences to be hastily favored, even if it were not opposed to the law of the land, and absolutely revolution ary in its character. Perhaps no body of respectable gentlemen ever assembled for serious deliberation on any subject, in re- gard to whose action the people were so utterly indifferent, as they are to the Vicksburg convention. Whatever was once expected of such assemblies when they were first convoked, the public long since ceased to hope for any good or to fear any evil from their action.

 The Vicksburg True Southron, after quoting the above, replies;

 Very well for the Picayune. It has a right to its opinions, and with manly expression of those opinions, no man has right to quarrel But a convention of nine Southern States has deliberately spoken in favor of repeal of all laws, State and Federal, prohibiting the slave trade. It may be as the Picayune says, that the people will not endorse this action, but the proposition has gone forth with the deliberate sanction of the representatives of those States, and the small politicians and hoary conservatives of the day can no longer evade the issue.

 The time for fippant invective, and ribald denunciaton has gone by. The question is now before the people, A large number of gentlemen of character men as deeply interested in the South and her prosperity as any others--have put the ball in motion, and they will not shrink from the issue or its consequences. Those who will not join them, have, of course, perfect right to refuse, but we warn them in time, that those who do not get onethe train had better keep of the track! When the locomotive gets under way, they may possibly get run over.
Year: 1859

1sS- A law was passed at the recent session of the Maine Legislature, which provides that an altorney-al-law who neg lects or refuses to pay monies belonging to his client for ten days after demand, shall be deemed guilty of breach of duty as an attorney-that such attorney shall be held to answer before the Supreme Court, and if guilty, the court shall strike his name from the roll of attorneys in said cOnrt
Year: 1859

EAsTER.-Easter, we all know, is a movable feast.
varying as to the date of its return sometimes Is
days, sometimes a month and even for longer ne
riod The exact day of the Crucifxion has never
been known. but there exists tradition that tie
Resurrection of the Savior took place very short
time after the spring equinox, and was immediate
" preceded by full-moon. In the year 1926, when
the council of Nicene assembled for the purpose of
establishing many matters of church discipline the
epoch of the celebration of Easter was then regu-
lated in the order in which it now revolves. II is
necessary to the regularity of the Ecclesiastical
year that the date Of the celebration of the Pascha
solemnity should be decided as all the minor etes
proceed from it, the Christian tradition, being the
Ascension, was 40 days after the Resurrection and
Pentecost 90 days. In the fourth century there
was no method known of precisely calculating the
movements of the Heavenly bodies, besides which
difficulty, the date of the tradition was too vague
to form the foundation of the solution of the prob
lem. In the impossibiitv of arriving at an exact
calculation, and to cOnciliate the tradition which
the epoch indicated by the Astronomical phenomo-
ma, 1t was decided that ''Every year the Paschal
tete should be celebrated on the Sunday which fol-
lows the day of the first full moon falling after the
10th of March," 1t thus results as a consequence
OF this regulation, that the full moon can never be
before the 2lst Of March, or Easter before the 22nd
1t is very occurrence that Easter is solemn
lied as late as this year 49, but as there was new
moon on the 18th of March, Easter could only fall
on Sunday after the moon which followed that of
the 18th of the month.
Year: 1859

1t has been stated in several Northern papers that
the financial agent of the office of the Clerk of the
House OF Representatives had been proved a de-
fauiter. The Washington Star says: The publica-
tlon OF such rumors caused him to leave his sick
bed Immediately seeing them, and to hasten
back lie arrived here yesterday, and in hour
after bis arrival it made apparent only that
he is not defaulter to the amount of single cent,
but that the responsible business entrusted to him
was never so carefully and satisfactorily managed
as since he took charge of it. His accounts
found to have been brought up to the day when he
recently left Washington for his home in Pennsyl
vania, and every dollar due those having just de-
mands on the Clerks office paid to them that could
lawfully be paid without previous action of Con-
Year: 1859

Prosper Ferrand, cotton spinner in France,
has been sentenced to death for killing his wife and
her paramour, who he found sleeping together. by
stabbing both with a knife. 1t was shown on the
trial that Ferrand had been too often before cogni-
zant OF his wiies infdelity, to make this occasion
one for murder This case shows that, according
to the criminal law of France, the antecedents of
the husband who kills the seducer of his wife have
much weight in determining the character of his
offence, and the measure of his penalty
Year: 1859

At highly interesting meeting of the French
Academy of Sciences, the discovery of new
"bronze of aluminium" has been announced This
and does not break like ordinary bronzes 1t is adj
mirable for works of art, as also for gunbarr els
The inventor even demands permission to be al
lowed to cast cannon of the new bronze at his
own expense, and submit it to all the usual exper-
ments. Marshal Valiant attended the meeting ard
seemed to pay great attention to all that was said
as to the military of the new metal
Year: 1859

PREACHING IN THEATRES FAILURE-The New
York correspondent of the Boston Journal writes
in his last letter:


The trial of Sunday preaching in theatres has
been fully tested in New York / think it will not
be repeated another year. As general thing the
pastors of the city do not approve of it. And the
wisdom OF hiring theatre at the cost of from SOO
churches, thinning those churches that are kent
open, and shutting up many that would be open
but for this, is not apparent The great crowds
that attend come not from the masses that do not
attend anywhere, but from the mass who are among
the elite of our churches On last Sunday the
Academy of Music held large audience. but it was
not crowded as of old. The National Theatre ia
closed as house for preaching. Niblo's saloon
Wiil be closed with the last Sabbath in April, and
those VINO nave led In the experiment are satisfied
that churches the place to hold services on the
Sabbath VA 'i0
Year: 1859

A MORMON REFoRM.-We see it stated in the Gin
cinnat Commercial that about FIVE hundred Latter
Day Saints, from five of the Western States held a
conference lately in Illinois, and decided upon send
ing out elders to show the MormOns in Utah how
they have fallen away from the pure faith first de-
ivered to their church. They are to start month
ly periodical called the True Latter Day Saints
and Anti-Polygamists' Organ. They do not be-
lieve in permitting man to be ''sealed" to more
than one wife at time.
Year: 1859

The New York Post says that Mrs. Omar Pacha
has decided to take up Der permanent residence in
this country, where she hopes to gain eminence in
the musical profession, especially as a composer
In Paris the lady has published several pieces that
were successful, and it is well known that much of
the military music of the Turkish army is from her
pen, The lady is a pupil of Joseph Donizetti, "a
brother of the great composer who attached
to the Sultan's court.
Year: 1859

An EEcoCRAGtNG WORD FoR OtD MNps-
\ writer in Tat's .NosasiHs says -" Mar
raee Is not often the golden reality youug
women seem to think it neither does it so
materially alter the character as they would
fancy. The cross old maid" if she had
changed her state, would have been simply
the cross old wife. " The boy is father o
the man : aud the young woman may fairly
be called the prototype of the old one. II a
woman be cheerful member of her own
household. smoothing every difficulty ir her
path; and culling happiness as the bee draws
honey, even from poison-aowers then she
will grow into that most estimable of all
good beings-a cheerful benevolent. bepeG-
Year: 1859

spirit or the stamina for his work. But
o who goes straight forward, confident il
his own motives, true to his own convictions
and calmly trustful Of the ultimate issue oil
his efforts and his life. is of the true metal
and one may be sure that there is something
good in him. .


He laughs best who laughs last. The
wheels of progress do not stop. The world
advances toward and into better life. and
will advance until, leaving the hard, clum.
sy and jarring pavement Of the mart oI
sellisbness behind, it will strike off Joyous
ly into the broad avenue of the millennium
No man can be true worker for human
good who does not believe that the cob.
ble-stone pavement has an end, and that
there is an avenue ahead where it will be
his turn to enjoy himself. lie believes
that the time will come when what he is
doing and has done, will be accepted at its
true value. He may be laughed at now :
he may be scoffed at and scorned his mo-
tives may be maligned be may be ham.
mered by opposition and barked at by pop
ular clamor but he knows. that sometime
in the future it will be his turn to laugh,
and he is confident that he will laugh last
and laugh best. lie knows that God will
prove to be good paymaster, and he be.
lieves that the world will, in the long run,
be just


If any man PROFOUND ideas in advance
Of the world, the world in its progress will
come up to them, as certainly as the world
continues to exist, and then, if not before,
it will remember. Those who cherish truth
and stand by the right must be at warfare
with those who hold to falSehood and to
sin. There is no conscription in this war
1t is voluntary service on both sides, aud
neither is in want of towards There is
a contemptibly quiet path for all those who
are afraid of the blows and clamors of op.
posing forces. There is no honorable fight.
ing for any man who is not ready to forget
that he has head to be battered and q
name to be bespattered Truth wants no
champion who is not as ready to be struck,
as to strike, for her. The eye that can see
the triumph Of that which is good in the
world from afar, the heart that can be GER
tain Of victory though now in the sulphur
Gus thickness of the fight, can afford pres
ent costumely and even present deceat.-
The bearer of such heart and eye knows
that sooner or later the time will come
when he and the band to which he belongs
shall celebrate a fnsl victory over all that
oppose them-that they shall come home
from the contest with songs and everlast-
ing Joy upon their heads" He knows that
the last shout will be bis, and that the sew
verer the conflict the heartier will that
shout be. All what peans of triumph,
what sweeps of majestic music, what wav-
ing of banners, what joyous tumut of white.
robed hosts, shall greet him who goes home
worn and weary, to take crown worthily
won in the contest with error and with
wrong May the crown be yours and
mine
Year: 1859

BY CHARLES MAoKAY.
Who lags from dread of daily work,
And his appointed task would shirk,
Commits a folly and crime;


A soulless slave


A paltry knaye-
clog upon the wheels of time,
With work 10 do and store of health,
The mans unworthy to be free,


Who will not give,


That he may live,
His daily toll for daily fee.
No ! let us work We only ask
Reward proportioued to our task;
We have no quarrel with the great


No feud with rank


With mill or bank
No envy of lords estate
If we can earn sufficient store
To satisfy our daily need,


And eau retain,


For age and pain,
A fraction we are rich indeed.
No dread of toll have we or ours,
We know our worth and weigh our powers
The more we work, the more we win;


Success to trade


Success to spade
And TO the corn that's coming in
And Joy 70 him, who, Ger his task,
Remembers toll is natures plan;


Who, working, thinks


And never sinks,
His independence as MAN
Who only asks for humblest wealth,
Enough for competence and health;
And leisure when his work is done
To read his book


BY chimney nook,
Or stroll at setting of the sun;
Who tolls as every man should toll,
For fair reward erect and free.


These are the mem


The best of men,
These are the men we mean to be.
Year: 1859

Every man in the wofia who gives blows
must take blows Every man who occu-
pies the position Of positive force. bear
ing upon the thought and life of the world,


Is a hammer that, more or less, must sub
NIT itself to the fnllHllment Of the Office of
an anvil. Those whom he assails, will turn
up bis face, and undertake to straighten
their crooked nails on it. Or re-fastsn the
Year: 1859

In justice to Judge Douglas we publish to-day his
speech delivered at Wooster, Ohio, in reply to the
pamphlet generally attributed to Judge Black which
we have heretofore spread before our readers


The essay by Judge Black was certainly courteous
in language and style, and polite towards Judge
Douglas. He INDUCED in no epithets--he applied
no hard names to the distinguished Senator from
Illinois. We regret that Judge Douglas has not
adopted the same courteous and respectful course
towards Judge Black. The latter certainly had a
right to reply to the Harpers Nagazine essay of the
former, and it must be admitted by all that he did
so with equal courtesy and ability.


The Richmond Enquirer says:


"The arguments employed by Judge Black were
worthy Of more polite language, much from the
endorsement they have received from the press and
reoplc of the country from their inherent weight
To stigmatise :" "iaSehoods," pamphlet that has
received the commcndation of the press is to charge,
by implication those who have aided in the crcua-
! ton with abctting falsehood


Judge Douglas must learn, that in free country
men have the right to differ from him without rem
derng themselves liable to the charge of falSehood
He will never recommend his principles 10y the ex-
hibition of such manners; for we believe both to be
equally repugnant to the American people. A gen.
tcman ceases not to be gentleman because he is a
candidate for the Presidency and when advancement
is sought by denouncing grave political papers
emanating from high officials as falsehoods" such
Advancement will never be obtained.


Such unmerited denunciations tend to strengthen
rather than impair the force of Judge Blacks pam
phlet. All rules of proprcty would not have been
violated if argument and reason could have accom-.
pshed the overthrow of the pamphlet Denuncia
ton and epithets weapons used when argument
and reason will not He who gives precedence
the former over the latter evidences the weakness
rather than the strength of his position We, there
fore, regard the Wooster speech far more objec
tionabe than the Harper essay, for it contains thu
same principles and is in much worse taste"
Year: 1859

LETTER FROM GEN. LANE.-The Washington Con-
stitution is permitted by the gentleman to whom
it was addressed, to make the following extract of
Oregon, the 18th ult, which explains the cause Of
the closeness of the vote in the recent election and
the principles upon which the contest was fought
by the gallant Senator and his late worthy colleague,
Mr.. Smith


1--WE have just now received the official vote cast
at late election for Congress- Stout the romis
nee of the Democratic party, is electeda hard fight
and close vote For four weeks was in the sad
die or the stump; averaged from forty to fifty
miles day travel and made from to two speech
ses daily My late colleague, Mr., Smith, made the
round with me. Our triumph is the more glorious,
as the battle was fought strictly upon Democratic
principles. We took high national ground; stood
upon the Constitution and the rights of the States
under it. and their equality in the Territories; de-
Tended the policy of our present administration, as
also the decision of the Supreme Court in the bred
Scott case. Our triumph glorious, because it
was victory over the united Republican party,
aided and assisted by the traitor Bush, Of the States
man, This man, who owes so much to the Democ-
racy, turned the whole power of his corrupt sheet
against the nominee of the party. As an evidence
of his treason and efficiency traitor, Marion
county, in which his paper is published heretofore
Democratic by from 400 to 5o0O Attic late election
cast 766 majority for Logan the nominee of the Re
publican party and. evidence of his cowardice
after laborng constantly for Logan and persuadiDg
Democrats to vote for him, and although his co-edt
or and all in their employ voted for Logan; Bush
turned round and voted for Stout that he might still
claim to be Democrat, and be the better able here
after to destroy the party or to do it harm Thank
God, and the true, pure and unterrifed Democracy
we have triumphed over all opposition; the honor
Of Oregon has been maintained and the administers
ton of President James Buchanan fully endorsed |;
and what is Of vast Importance should the election
of President in 1860 go into the House, the Union
so far as Oregon is concerned, will be safe, There
fore, all hail to the true and pure Democracy of
Oregon" ~" a'S' !'.'''
Year: 1859

The Democratic Pioneer, one of the most sterling
Of political cotemporaries has, regret to ear
been discontinued for want of patronage Located
in that hotbed of Oppositionsn Elizabeth City, it
has borne aloft, through many arduous campaign,
the flag of our party Right good service has it
done in time past and chronicle its decease with
emotions of unfeigned sorrow. We trust it is only
a temporary disco,tinuance; for its able services
are much required in that politically benghted
region. We cannot see for the life Of us, though,
why is that one Democratic sheet cannot be sup
ported in that section of the State. The party
ought to keep it up and, it seems to us, would do
Wilson Ledger. ''''
Year: 1859

DANIEL s. Dickinson, OF New YoRK-A New
York correspondent of the Delta writes, that. the
New York delegation in the Charleston Convention
will give united support to Daniel s. Dickinson for
the Presidency. In that event he will he formid
able aspirant. No Northern man will Le more ac-
ceptabe to the South than the patriot who declared
in the United States Senate that he would draw his
sword and shed his blood if necessary in defence of
her rights Mississiprian
Year: 1859

SALE OF LOTS AT MoREHEAD.-We invite atten-
ton to the advertised Annual Sale of Lots at More
head City, -E


The growing Importance of this Harbor, the
gradual, but steady growth Of Morehead, and the
absolute certainty that the future business of the
place will vastly increase, offer inducements to pur-
cllascrs rarely met. The previous sales have been
large and prices good. Purchasers have looked
forward to the advance of property, and many bought
with an eye to speculation and without any design
to improve. Those who would have built were de-
tered by the high prices at which lots sold and
fear that business would not justify investment
Such parties tEeir way more clearly
spirit of Improvement since the last sales has been
manilested-new and substantial buildings have been
erccted-regular lines of packets have been cstab-
lshed with New York and with Baltimorc-the
nucleus of a thriving and growing population is
seen,-and every thing betokcns healthy, if not
rapid expansion These things being so, the friends
of Morehead may confidently anticipate that the
sales in November will be greater and prices better
than have been realized at either of those previously
Eeld-large though they were at the time consider
ed. We shall advert to this subject again.-Beau-
fort Journal .. -
Year: 1859

A gentleman who has been spending a
few days in the foot hills about Camp Far
west, inform us that he saw the proceeds
of one days washing of four men. which a.
mounted to over SlOO. The gold is coarse,
aud found near the surface.