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Year: 1860

The following are the terms Of an arrange
ment which has be,n adopted by the friends
Of Breckenridge and such of the supporters
OF Douglas as prefer Breckinridge to Lincoln
or Bell. 1t is believed that the union thus
consummated will secure the vote of Penn
sylvania to Breckenridge -


Resolued, That the Democratic electoral
ticket be headed with the name Of Douglas or
Breckenridge as an eleetor at large, and in the
event OF the success OF the said ticket, il the
greater number shall have been cast for Mr..
Douglas, then the vote Of the Electoral Col-
lege Of the State shall be cast for Douglas and
johnson; but if for Breckenridge and Lane,
then for Breckinridge and Lane. IT,
the vote of Pennsylvania cannot elect the
candidate for whom majority OF the votes
are cast and can elect any man running for
President claiming to be Democrat then
the vote Of the Electoral College shall be
cast for the candidate II it will not elect
either Of the Democrats for whom il Is cast, or
any of the Democrats who are voted for in
the States, then the vote shall be cast TOR the
candidate who has majority Of the State ;
and the chairman of this COMMITTEES be, re-
quested to obtain from the electors their sew
eral and distinct pledges of acquiesccnce in
the foregoing resolution, and report the re-
suit of his action at a future meeting OF the
Convention.
Year: 1860

Gov. GIsT. OF SoUTH CARoLIgA.-The
Fairfield Herald, in speaking Of Gov. Gist's
remarks at thel close of the review in that
district, says:


In concluding his remarks, the Governor
dwelt at some length upon the political aspect
of the country. He regarded the election of
Lincoln as more than probable, in which event
he counselled separate State action at any and
every hazard, as the last alternative for our
salvation; and felt satisfied that the brigade
which he had the pleasure to review would
nobly respond to their country's call, should
her institutions be so assailed. He closed
amid great applause.
Year: 1860

Imprimis, never go to bed with your
feet sticking out Of the window, particu-
larly when it is raining or freezing.


More than three pigs feet and half a
mince pie eaten at midnight, will not
cause the consumer to dream of hours,
paradises, accommodating bankers, and
other good things. AT least, they are
not apt TO do so.


Never stand in rain barrel all night
1t checks perspiration, aud spoils rain
water for washing purposes.


Never spank your children with a
handsaw, OF box their ears with the sharp
edge Of hatchet. 1t is apt to effect
their brains.


Never stand in the hall with the door
open, with nothing but your misc or she
mise on, talking to u friend, more than
half an hour at time.


To enlarge the muscles of the arms
and legs, climb up and down the chin.
ney, especially if the house is four or
five story one, three or four times before
breakfast, and gives voracious appetite.


Ear ache in children is common and
vexatious complaint. To cure it at once,
bore a hole in the tympanum with gim-
let, and pour in oil and things. If the
child keeps on crying bore it all the way
through to the other ear.


Corns may be easily cured. The most
torturing corn can be at once extracted
as follows: Take a sharp knife, find the
Joint of the toe whereon the corn resides,
insert the knife in the articulation, pry of
the toe and throw it away; it will never
return again, unless your dog brings it
back to you in his mouth. Patent ap.
piled for.)


The habit of drinking can be cured by
giving the drinker all the liquor he wants
to drink all the time. We know of two
in our experience, who were cured in
three weeks. One jumped out of four
story window, and ran curbstone into
his head; the other didn't get up one
morning, aud bad his universal curbstone
growing out Of his head in the grave
yard.


The best way to take pills of Brand.
reths description, if you have twenty or
twenty five TO take, is not to make them
into hash and eat them, but load shot
gun with them, put the muzzle against
your stomach, and pull the trigger with
your toe. 1t saves great deal Of dis.
gust to the gullet, and a bad taste to the
mouth.


Never go to sleep standing on your
head. The brain might take notion to
run down, and what would you do, on
waking, to find all your brains in your
heels?


Never shave your whiskers with a
hatchet The best method of trimming
is to pass red hot iron gently over them.
The operation smooths them regularly,
giving the end of each hair smooth,
crispy appearance.
Year: 1860

OLIVER w. HOLMES, physician, phil
ospher, and poet,) in a lecture upon ply
sicians, gives the following account of
some mistakes which have been made in
medicine:


"Sooner or later every body is tripped
up in forming a diagnosis. / saw Vel
pcau tie one of the carotid arteries for
supposed anucrism, which was only lit
tie harmless tumor, and kill his patient.
Mr.. Dease, of Dublin, was more fortunate


in case he boldly declared an abscess
while others thought it an anuerism.-
He thrust q lancet into it and proved
himself in the right. Soon after he made
a similar diagnosis. He thrust in his
lancet as before and out gushed the pa.
tents blood and his life with it, The
next morning Mr.. Dcase was found dead
and 6oationg in his blood. lie had de.
vided the femoral artery. ] have DOOM
ed people, aud seen others doom them,
over and over again, on the strength Of
physical signs, and they have lived in the
most contumacious and scientifically itn-
justifiable manner as long as they lived,
and some are living still. see two men
in the street very often, who were both
as good as dead in the opinion of all who
saw them in their extremity. People
will insist on living some times though
manifestly moribund. In DIR. Elders
Life of Kane you will find a story of this
sort told by DR.. Kane himself The cap
tain of ship was dying of scurvy, but
the crew mutinicd, and they gave up
dying for the present TO take care of them.


An old lady in this city, near her end,
got little vexed about proposed change
in her will; made up her iniud not to die
Just then: ordered a coach; was driven
twenty miles to the house of a relative,
and lived for four years longer Cotton
Mathcr tells some good stories which he
picked up in his experience, or out of his
books, showing the unstable equilibrium
of prognoss. Simon Stone was shot in
nine places, and as he lay for dead, the
Indians made two hacks with hatchet
to cat his head off He got well, howev-
err, and was lusty fellow in Cotton
Mather's time. Jabez Musgrave was
shot with bullet that went in his car
and came ont his eye OH the other side.
A couple of bullets went through his
body also. Jabez got well, however, and
lived many years. Per contra, Col. Ros-
sitter, cracking a plum stone with his
tooth and lost his life. We have seen
physicians dying, like Spigelus, from
scratch; and man who had q crowbar
shot through his head is alive and well.
These extreme cases are warnings But
you can never be too cautious in your
prognosis, in the view of great uncer-
tainty of the course of any disease not
long watched and the many unexpected
turn it may take"
Year: 1860

How TO GRow PEACHES EVERY YEAR.
The following by correspondent OF
the Ohio Calticator, is worth trial by
all peach growers: "Procure your trees
grated upon the wild plum stock The
tree partakcs of the nature of the plum,
being hardy, and will never winter-kill,
and putting out late in the spring, will
never be injured by the frost, and it is a
certain preventive against the workings
of the peach grub, while the natural life
time Of the tree is beyond that Of our
own so you may depend upon peaches
every year, and for long period of time
without the destructive and discouraging
influences attending the growth of tho
common peach. They can be obtained
for from fifty to seventy-five cents per
tree, and you had better pay five times
that amount than not to obtain them, and
be certain Of peaches every year. Try
il, and our word for it, you will be salts
fed with the result
Year: 1860

HuRRYING. - The present generation
may be termed the hurrying age. We
hurry in everything. We eat in hurry,
and scarcely take quarter of the time
required by the animal system. We di-
gest imperiectly and horribly; we hurry
in all our business operations, and if sue
cessful, we arc only so through q horrid
blunder; for it has not been the effect of
thought. We get sick in hurry; we
take medicine in hurry. The doctor
is in hurry. The doctor is in hurry
to kill or cure, and from his jolly face
among his friends, he seems to care lit
tie whether he kills or cures. We die
in hurry, and our friends hurry us to
the cemetery before we are fairly cold.
1t is some distance to the cemetery, and
hacking for funerals is done by the Job;
we are hurried into our graves. The
only philosophical man is the grave-dig
ger. He stops to eat his dinner in the
open grave, and the crumbs of his bread
rattle upon the lids of our cotfins. Our
friends hurry from the cemetery, and the
driver races the horses at two forty
gate, to enliven the mourners and get
rid of them as soon as possible. We are
left in our quiet home, while our friends
hurry on for dear life, to see which can
outstrip the other in the race. Our hur-
rying is done, but the world still hurries
on, and will, till better time and better
state of feeling finls the world more ready
to reverence the severed feelings of the
heart. Grape is bagatelle no one
thinks of asking why we wear it. Truly
this is hurrying age.
Year: 1860

THE CATTLE DISEASE IN CANADA. -
We regret to learn that disease, sup
posed to be plcuro-pneumonia, has bro
ken out in the township of Huntingdon,
Canada East, and that several cattle have
already died Of it. Huntingdon is one of
the townships upon the south side of the
st. Lawrence, bordering on the State OF
New York, and is celebrated for its dairy
produce. The spread of the disease
through that and the other townships
would be calamity disastrous to the
farmers, and seriously detrimental to the
whole country.
Year: 1860

BENEFIT.-The lady managers of the Deaf,
Dumb, and Blind Institution, propose giving
a series of entertainments at Platt's Hall,
which will commence on the llth of Decem-
Der. The ladies have lately purchased a lot,
on which building is now being erected, re
curing the greater part of the money they
had in the treasury. The support of these
children, and the necessity of furnishing the
building, which. they expect, will be COM
pleted in December, urge them to make this
appeal to the generous public of San Fran
cisco. Several pupils have been admitted
into the institution since their last festival
chiefly from the poor and needy, and as their
sympathies are not confined to any creed or
country, they extend welcome to all, hoping
their efforts, in behalf of these helpless chill
dren, may be crowned with a success worthy
Of the cause-AHd
Year: 1860

MANLY SPoRT.-A party of men Heaven
save the mark were amusing themselves
this morning. with saving off the teeth of
horse, with view to renewing his age"
for the purpose of swindling some purchaser.
The pretty party were hard at it as we pass.
ed down Market and Davis streets-the poor
animal being closely tied down and thus
forced to submit to this outrage.-S. r. BuE-
Ietil.
Year: 1860

ARRIVAL OF THE STATE GEoLoaIsr Among
the noteworthy arrivals in this city is Prof.
Whitney, the lately appointed State G colo
gist, who came up yesterday on the Golden
Age, in company with Prof Brewer, who is
10 assist him in the survey upon which he is
about to enter The action of Government
in this case fills very important office, and
we shall expect shortly to hear Of striking
and interesting developments in the geology
Of California-S f. Mirror.
Year: 1860

WAITING FOR THE MIssIssTPPI TO Run By
A family of emigrants, westward bound, and
hailing from Scott county, in this State, have
been "camped out" in what is known as the
bottom" in the lower part of the city, for
several days A day or two ago one of the
family approached a lady living near by
and very innOcently inquired how long it
would be before the river run by, so that
they could dive their teams over The lady,
of course, replied that while leaves were in
the forest, or foam on the ocean, there was
probability of the Mississippi still vending
its wny towards the Gulf, which surprised
the family much, and they concluded it would
be best to pack up and pay their way over
the ferry boat. AT Big Black they said they
waited two days for that stream to run dry,
but at the end of that time they found it
contained rs much water as ever, and con-
cluded to cross on the ferry, thinking the
roads would he in bad condition to travel
if they remained there much longer Vicks-
burg JPhiq.
Year: 1860

DENTISTRY


AT 2II SUPERIOR ST.
IF YOUR TEETH ARE GOOD,
4 read the following lines II your teeth bad read
hem with great care. If you have teeth at all D
fact that Isl daily exhibited in the streets, in tbs social
circle and in the parOr by the huHbos peasant and the
poudest is that hundreds Of persons lose good
Of teeth for the Of the timely aid Of good and
kilfu dentist poor and inferior operation is in many
thannone all If your teeth good, have
hem examined By good dentist AID keep them in order.
II poor time should be lost but have them repaired the
the better and escape that Wch Burns says is the
ne OF all diseases All irregularities Of the teeth should
De attended 70 IN childhood and youth.


All persons cesirous Of ne dental operations are tnVt
cd % call my Whero particular attention
othe preservation OF the natural teeth where the


IL. -
Year: 1860

Somebody, well and truly says that our
children are to fil our places in society-in
church and state, and the manner in which
they will fill them depends upon the man
ner in which we educate them. If we
train them up in the Sabbath School, for
God and his Church, they will amply re-
pay us for all our care; but if they are
trained up for the world--in the streets
in the gambling and tippling saloon--in
Sabbath breaking, profanity, licentiousness
aud intemperance-in idleness-in sin,
they will dishonor our names, and repay us
by and by with vengeance


How fearful our responsibility When
we consider that our son may make talen-
ted, useful and happy man, respected and
beloved by all around him or he may make
consummate villain, detested by the
world as nuisance and curse, and that
our daughter has corresponding alterna-
tive before ber--that in the history of both
in all probability, there is a crisis, or turn
ing point, when it is uncertain which way
they will preponderate-and that we neces-
sarily play an important part in tipping
the scale, we can but feel that this is mat
ter not to be trifed with, and that every
means possible should be resorted to in or
der to secure the right drift, and save those
so dear TO us. As we would have them
honorably act their part upon the stage Of
life, so let us seduously aim TO qualify them
for it.
Year: 1860

A rich miser in Auburn, New York, has
made arrangements to be buried in owasco
lake, beautiful sheet Of water near that
town. He has stone coffin made which
takes twelve yoke Of oxen TO draw it. He
gives man q good farm for burying him,
He is to take him 70 the middle Of the lake
and sink him.
Year: 1860

MR.. EDIToR:-Knowing that the inter
ests of the Redeemer's Kingdom every
where are dear to the heart of every Chris
tan, venture to obtrude on your notice
some Of our affairs The cause of RELIGION
does not flourish here as we wish it did.
We do not grow in grace; we do not in
crease in numbers, and our zeal is in some
measure cold. There is, however. some
effort, and IN our stated periods of wor-
ship we often receive blessings from God
and help from the spirit, "inditing our pc
titions for us and kindling anew the fame
of love in our hearts. Some of our yonng
people, too, have united themselves in an
association for their religious and social
benefit. They held fair and exhibition
last week, which was every way creditable
and successful. The movement is not.
however, as general as is desired, many
denying themselves the benefits which
would accrue from union with the asso-
citation.


L see from your number for Jan. IA
that j. B. Baker, whom we advertised
some time since has again shown himself in
Trenton. He was discharged some time
last August from our State Prison in Weth-
ersfeld. conversed recently with one of
the officers of that institution in reference
Year: 1860

LOST Both PRIzEs-ExPLolr OF A CoUxry


TREASURER WITH MONEY AND WoxAx.-We
are informed that an official of Highland county
arrived in this city, ria. the Marietta Railroad


wednesday, with another mans wife and $500
belonging to the county. 1t was the intention Of
the couple TO proceed further westward, but not
calculating the facility with which scandal trav.
els their arrangements were fully known to 9th.
ers, and, when they stepped from the cars at the
depot, they We're surprised on being confronted
by the husband of the wife and one Of the sure.
ties OF the officer, who kept over them strict
surveillance until they were relieved by the TO.
Ice. A parley was held, and q compromise
agreed upon to this effect: The parties to re-
return TO Highland county, there to settle all
Observation-Disclosures Brocsington going along
10 prevent any new misunderstanding from
being raised on the return trip. The official was
very indignant at first at being interfered with in
such an unlocked for way, and even went SO far
as 10 draw revolver upon the man he had in.
Jured- The affair may be arranged, but, as il 10
one of love chiefly ii can never be settled Gin.
ctnrati GG.ette.
Year: 1860

Enormous GRAIN REcEIPTs.-We wish eur
readers would bestow glance upon the tables
showing the enormous receipts of grain at this
port yesterday, for which there has been no
parallel in our own history, in the history OF
the world. Eight hundred and tovty-~ins thou.
sand b~shels Of rheat were poured in upon US
during the twenty four hours ending last night,
and Of other grain almost sufficient to make the
receipts one million Of bushels during single
dsy.--Bufaio Erpress.
Year: 1860

TIE TELESCOPE AND MICRosCopE.-While the
telescope enables us to see a system in every
star. the microscope unfolds to us u world in
every atom. The one instructs us that this
mighty globe, with the whole burthen of its
people and its countries is but grain of sand
in the vast field Of immensity-thc other, that
every atom may harbor the tribes and families
of busy population. The one shows us the
insigniiicance of the world we inhabit--the
other redeems it from all its insignilicanee for
it tells us that in the leaves of every forest in
the flowers of every garden, in the waters of
every riyulet, there are worlds teeming with
life, and numberless as are the stars of the FIR
mament. The one suggests to us that above
and beyond fall that is visible to man, there
may be regions of creation which sweeps I'M
measurably along, and carry the impress of the
Almighty's hand to the remotest scenes of the
universe-the other, that within and Hbeneath
| all that minuteness which the aided eye of man
| is able to explore, there may be world of in
visible beings and that, could we draw aside
the mysterious veil which shrouds it from our
wonders as astronomy can unfold--a universe
within the compass of point, so small, as to
elude all the powers Of the microscope, but
where the Almighty Ruler of all things finds
room for the exercise of his attributes, where
he can raise another mechanism of worlds, and
fill and animate them all with evidences of his
glory.-Dr. Chalmers.
Year: 1860

PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMAN FIGURE.-The
proportions of the human figure are strictly
mathematical. The whole figure is six times
the length of the foot Whether the form be
slender or plump, this rule holds good Any
deviation from ii is departure from the high
est beauty ofproportion The Greeks made all
their statues according to this rule. The face
from the highest point of tho forehead where
the hair begins to the end of the chin is one
tenth the whole length of the stature. The
hand from the wrist to the middle finger, is the
same. The chest is fourth, and from the
nipples to the top of the head Is the same.--
From the top Of the chest to the highest point
of the forehead is a seventh. If the length of
the face, from the roots of the hair to the chin,
be divided into three equal parts, the first di-
vision determines where the eyebrows meet,
and the second the place of the nostrls. The
naval is the centre point of the human body,
and if a man should lie on his back with his
arms extended the periphery of the circle might
be described around him, with the naval for its
centre, wouldtouch the extremities OF his hands
and feet. The height from the feet to the top
of the head is the same as the distance from
the extremities Of the other when the arms are
extended. These are the general measures OF
! the species.
Year: 1860

AS we cultivate taste, or our susceptibility
to beauty, by meditating upon the mos. finished
specimens OF art, or the most lovely scenery in
nature, so conscience, or our moral suscepti-
bility, is improved by meditating upon any
thing eminent for moral goodness. II is hence
that example produces SO powerful q moral
effect; and hence that one single act Of heroic
virtue as that of Howard or of illustrious self
denial, gives a new impulse to the moral char
actcr of an age Men cannot reflect upon
such actions without the productions of
change in their moral susceptibility. On the
contrary, the discriminating power of con.
science may be injured by frequent meditation
upon vicious character and action. By fire.
quently contemplating vice, our passions be-
come excited and our moral disgust dimin-
ishes. Thus, also, by becoming familiar with
wicked men, we learn to associate whatever
they may possess of intellectual or social in
terest with their moral character; and hence
our adherence of vice is lessened. Thus men
who are accustomed to view, habitually, any
vicious custom, cease to have their moral feel
ings excited by beholding it, All this is mani
fest from the facts made known in the progress
Of every moral reformation. of SO delicate
texture has God made our moral nature and so
easily is it either improved or impaired, Pope
says truly,


Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,


As to be dreaded, needs hut to be seen;


But seen too oft, familiar with her face,


We first endure, then pity, then embrace,
1t is almost unnecessary to remark, that this
fact will enable us to estimate the value of
r,uch of our reading and of much of our So
esety. Whatever fills the memory with scenes
Of vice, or stimulates the imagination to con-
ceutiens Of mpurity, vulgarity, profanity, or
thouglflessness, must, by the whole of this
effect, reader us vicious AS man of ofliterary
sensibiIity will avoid badly-written book,
for fear of .ifguring his taste, BY how much
I more should We dread the communion with
| anything wrong, lest it should contaminate
our imagination, and ,aNs iBurc our moral
1ense
Year: 1860

HoLD it greater injury to be over-valued
than nnder, For when they both shall come
to the touch the one shall rise with praise,
while the other shall decline with shame. The
first hath more uncertain honor, but less safety;
the latter is humbly secure and what is want
ing in renown is made up in a better blessing,
quiet. There is no detracton worse than to
over-praise.a man, for, whilst his worth comes
short of what report doth speak him, his own
actions are ever giving the lie to his honor
Feltham's Resolves
Year: 1860

B9~ home without girl in it is only half
blessed it is an orchard without blossoms,
bower without bird, and a bird without song.
A house full Of sons is like Lebanon with its
cedars; but the daughters are like the roses in
Sharon,