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Year: 1861

The proprietors of the Little Rock Ga
zehe. as will be seen by their prospectus in
another column. propose to issue Daily
In that City. as soon as sufficient encour-
agement is given them. 1t seems to us
that Arkansas. should. could, and would
support at least one Daily paper in the
State-and that at the Capitol. We hope
the friends of the Gazette, in this section of
the State will not be backward in its sup
port.
Year: 1861

CoSvESIExr AxrIDorE FOR iPoIsoS.-
Halls Journal of Health says if a person
swallows poison deliberately. or by chance
instead Of breaking out into multitudinous
and incoherent exclamations. dispatch some
one for the doctor meanwhile run to the
kitchen. get half glass of water or any
thing handy, put into it . teaspoonfal of
salt, and rs much ground mustard, stir it in
an instant. catch a firm hold of the PERSONS
nose. the mouth will soon fly open-then
down with the mixture, and in a second or
two up will come the poison.
Year: 1861

The Scientific American remarks that
many lives have been lost from the lazi-
ness or ignorance af paper hangers, who
have laid one paper over another, in
stead of tearing off the old before hang
ing the new. There was very hand
some house near one Of our best provin-
cial towns, which could never keep its
tenants. AT last it stood empty, and be-
came worthless, because infectious fever
seized upon every family that lived in it.
A ready witted observer promised the
owner to find out the cause. He traced
the mischief to one room, and presently
conjectured what was the matter there.
He let slip of glass into the wall, and
found it, next day, dimmed with fetid,
condensed vapor. He tore down strip
of paper, and found abundant cause for
any amount Of fever. For generations
the house had been papered afresh, with
out the removal of anything underneath.
And there was the putrid size, and fer
menting papers, inches deep. A thor
ough cleaning put an end to the fever,
and restored the value of the house.
Year: 1861

The two following "love letters" were
read in Court during recent trial in
England


You stated in your last that you
would not write again. But l think
Probebly you have haltered your mind
By this time aud know you would if l
wass By the side of you or in Palmer
speaking in Thy harms. think see
you now. Oh was it but reall Could l
awake sum night and find you by my
side my hart would break with Joy. |
wish / could make artifchell Maria to
hanswer the same Purpus as you"


My ever dearest girl received
your Letter and Think not But my
thoughts are alwis with thee for believe
me have Long and Bitley Leemented
that Parting day. Oh what would l
give to clasp thee in my harms. But oh |!
no Cannot am amonge These wild and
solotory mountains Not one living being
is theer to Be seen ware now sit except
large Sea Gull wich with its wild and
Pearcing cry made me lift my eyes and
Pawse. Oh how l wished / was bird
that l might fly to thee. | hoften steal
away to this Mountin to think on thee
to hear the water roar Beneath and the
wind whistle through this wild and Sola-
try Glenn. To see the buty of natur
round me oh then l miss Thy Charming
Smile. Again | think of thee. start
from my seat and wisper prayer and
ask Why they Part me from thee. Oh
non can tell How miserable Pass my
dayes."
Year: 1861

A CRIrERroS.-The truest criterion Of
a mans character and conduct is inyari-
able to be found in the opinion of his
own family circle. who having daily and
hourly opportunities of forming a judg-
ment of him. will not fail in doing SO.
Ii is far higher testimony in his favor
for him to secure the esteem and love Of
few individuals, within the privacy of
his own home, than the good opinion Of
hundreds in his immediate neighbor-
hood, or that Of ten times the number re-
siding at distance. In fact next to
close ard impartial self-scrutiny no ques.
ton comes so near the truth rs for man
to ask himself" What is thought of me
by the familiar circle Of my own fire.
side ?" Would that all remembered
this.
Year: 1861

You heap up million tons of hewn
rocks on square mile or two Of earth
which was green once. The trees look
down from the hill sides and ask each
other, as they stand on tip.toe-" What
are these people about ?" And the small
herbs at their feet look up and whisper
back" we will 60 and see" So the
small herbs pack themselves up In the
least possible bundles, and wait until the
wind steals to them at night and whis-
pers-" Come with me-" Then they 60
softly with it into the great city-one to
a cleft in the pavement, one to spout on
the roof, one to seam in the marble
over rich gentleman's bones, and one
to the grave without stone where moth
ing but man is buried, and there they
grow, looking down on the generations
Of men from mouldy roofs, looking up
from between the less-trodden pavements,
looking out through iron cemetery rail
ings. Listen to them, when there is on
ly slight breath of air stirring, and you
will hear them saying to each other
"Wait while p' By-and- by the flow
of life in the street ebbs, and the old
leafy inhabitants-the small tribes al
ways in front-saunter in. one by one.
very calless, seemingly, but very tenac-
ious. until they swarm so that the great
stones gape from each other with the
crowding Of their roots, and the feldspar
begins to be picked out Of the granite to


find them root AT last the trees take up
their solemn lire of march, and never
rest until they have encamped in the
market place. Wait long enough and
you will find an old doting oak hugging
a huge worn block in its yellow under
grown arms that was the corner stone
of the State House. Oh, so patient she
is, this imperturbable Nature 20. w.
HOLMES.
Year: 1861

A Knitting loom has lately been in
vented by ]. B. Aiken Of Franklin, n.
II. 1t has been invented but year or
two. yet there are now made on the loom
more than two million Of dollars worth
Of goods annually in this country; and
the introduction of the loom into Europe
is meeting with marked success. A fam
lily knitting machine has recently been
invented. 1t is not larger than sew.
ing machine, simple as case knife, not
liable to get out Of order, can be opera
ted by child, will knit homespun yarn.
and weaves handsome stocking. Its
ordinary movement is at the speed Of
FIVE thousand stitches in a minute. 1t
can be driven at the interesting velocity
of sixty thousand stitches minute, and
make perfect work.
Year: 1861

THE NEVADA DIREcToRY.-The journal,
of yesterday, calls attention to some omissions
and imperfections in the recently published Ne
vada Directory, which must materially impair
its value. Thus, for instance, nothing is said
of the Nevada Democrat having been regularly
published for the past seven and a half years in
the town. This omission hasn't caused us any
loss of sleep, and probably we never should
have known it, had not the Journal called at
tention to the fact. We must, however, take
back what we said in our issue of last Tuesday
that the statistics were carefully compiled.
But the Journal having stated that many of the
names were badly spelled, we turned with a
nervous hand, to the list of town officers, and
were Mortified to find that the final "E" was
omitted in our own proper cognomen. This
discovery completely unnerved US; the shock
was so sudden that the book dropped from our
hand, and of course we decided the Directory
worthless. We are now partially recovered
from the stunning effects of the shock to the
nervous system, and are endeavoring to bear
the misfortune with Christian resignation.


INDECENT SICK FUND.-A bill authorizing
the Board of Supervisors to levy an additional
tax of ten cents on the hundred dollars, for the
benefit of the INDECENT sick fund of this county,
passed the Assembly the first Of last week, and
the Senate on Thursday last. The bill, howev-
er, will not be signed by the Governor until
Monday next, and as the taxes had to be levied
prior to the first Monday in March, the Board
of Supervisors could not take advantage of the
act this year. 1t was the intention of the Board
to levy only five cents additional this year; but
as the bill did not become law in time, it will
probably be necessary to put on the whole ten
cents additional next year. With the present
arrangement for taking care of the INDECENT
sick, the debt of the fund will remain at about
the present figure for the next year. Had an
additional five cents been levied it would have
been reduced some 81 200 or 81 800.


COUNTY TAxEs.-The Board of Supervisors
met yesterday for the purpose of levying the
taxes for the current year, but had to adjourn
over until to-day, in order to ascertain whether
the bill in relation to the INDECENT sick fund had
been signed by the Governor. An order was
entered on the minutes of the Board this after
noon, fixing the taxes as follows on every hun
dred dollars valuation:
Year: 1861

1t Is much regretted that while in the
enjoyment of health so little attention is paid by
many, to the preservation of so inestimabe bless
ing. Luxurious living habits Of indolence exposure
to sudden changes of temperature and neglect Of the
premontory symptoms of disease are tue precur-
sors of many fatal maladies. Taken upon the first
indication Oft attack, ifanyhing win relieve the
sufferer purify the blood restore vigorous circula-
ton, and thoroughly renoyate system it is Sands
Sarsaparilla.
Year: 1861

SUNDAY LAw.-The new Sunday Law went
into operation yesterday, or rather it will
go into operation on next Sunday, as no
offense can be committed against the law
till that time. We publish the law for the
benefit of sinners:


Section 1. Any person who shall hereafter
keep open on the first day of the week, commonly
called Sunday, any store, workshop, bar, saloon,
banking house or OTHER place of business, for the
purpose of transacting business therein, except
as hereinafter especially provided, shall be guilty
ol misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
snail be punished by fine of not less than iye
nor more than fifty dollars.


Sec. 2. The provisions of this Act shall not
apply to the keeping open of hotels, boarding
houses, restaurants taverns livery stables, retail
drug stores for the legitimate business of each),
or such manufacturing establishments as are
necessarily kept in continual operation to
complish the business thereof; nor to the sale
of milk, fresh meats, fresh fish and vegetables.


Sec. 3. Prosecution for violation of this Act
may be either by complaint to Magistrate, or
by indictment by a Grand Jury, and all fines
and collections upon convictions under this Act
shall be paid into the common school fund of the
county.


Sec. f. THIS Act shall be in force from and
after the first day of August, 1851.


1t will be seen that the above law does
not prohibit farmer from breaking colts,
hoeing his potatoes, or doing any sort of
manual labor on his farm, or on the road
or elsewhere it does not prevent any but a
few business men from passing the Sabbath
in any manner they choose. In fact, when
we come to look at the law carefully, it will
be seen that it can almost wholly be avoided
by even the few it restricts.
Year: 1861

YuBA COUNTY UNION TIcKEF.-0n the 18th
of July the Union men of all parties assem-
bled in Yuba, to put forth County ticket
that should reflect their ideas of policy in
the present state of the country. The men
selected for Sheriff, District Attorney, Treas
urer, and one member of Assembly, were
heretofore Union Democrats the men for
Recorder, Tax Collector, Assessor, Surveyor
and two members of the Assembly, are Re-
publcans the nominee for County Clerk
was a Bell-Everett man. the others are
either fossil Wings or of unknown politics.
The ticket is indorsed as good one in ev-
cry respect and worthy the suffrages of the
people.


The Republicans of the county met by
delegates on Monday last and in a spirit of
lberaliiy characteristic of them, indorsed
the Union ticket already in the field. As
the Secessionists are counted strong in Yu-
ba, the Republicans, we learn, did not con-
slider it safe to suffer three Union tickets to
run against the Hard Shells, and accord
ingly the nominations of the Union Con-
vention were indorsed.


But mark the difference. The Union
Democracy, who would not seek to gain a
sordid party advantage in times like these
on pain of being considered enemies to
their country see their State Platform) met
on the same day and the result was a
straight ticket. Not man on the Union
ticket was indorsed
Year: 1861

Coon SERNoN.-We gave Brother Bausman a
sly poke the other day on tossing a copper to
determine for whom to vote when two good fel-
lows are pitted against each other. 1t furnished
nice text for the Press man and most elegantly
does he discourse. The sermon is good from top
to bottom, but the concluding lines are the most
satisfactory, which declare if Ridge is the author
of certain articles in the San Francisco Herald,
Brother 8ausman is relieved from the necessity
Of tossing a copper, and will not-hcad or tail
vote for him.
Year: 1861

CoxPExs 8TIcS.-A Norman woman writes to
a female friend: While you of the North and
South have gone to killing each other off, we of
Salt Lake are populating the country With ex-
traordinary rapidity-according to the doctrine
of the Latter Day Saints. One of our elders
recently had no less than nine children born to
him in one week.
Year: 1861

Pulling THE WooL.-The Marysville Ex-
press has started the report that the Re-
publican fnanciers in Washington propose
to sell al pledge the mineral lands of Cali
fornia to raise the means to proset ute the
war against the rebels. The canard won't
win. Nobody will believe the silly story.
The country has no need of calling upon
California for dollar. The patriotism of
the cast is ready TO pour uncounted gold,
at the feet of the Administration to crush
out the damnable hcresy of secession. But
let it be known that VIXEN the necessity
shall come, the country will have no need
to sell or pledge the mineral lands of Cali
fornia. Their hardy and patriotic occu-
pants will contribute every grain of dust
they can gather from the soil to sustain the
Union, and protect the flag they love.
Year: 1861

BRECKENRIDGE COUNTY Commemorative
third party in this county will assemble in
this city tomorrow for the purpose of nomi-
mating a county ticket to be supported at
the polls in September. Among few of
the members of the party disposition is
shown to indorse a man or two on the Union
Democratic ticket, already in the field, but
it is probable that the convention will go
the whole hog and put in the field a clean
county ticket, as the impression seems to
prevail in the ranks of the third party that
success is not impossible. The party boasts
of large accessions and flattering prospects,
and acting under the inspiration of hope it
will probably do its best, or rather worst,
to defeat its opponents, Republican and
Democratic.


The members Of the party, having high
opinion of the popularity of Judge Searls,
will be likely to insist on his nomination
for District Judge, rs the most available
candidate for their use. It is understood
the Judge would much prefer not to be a
candidate, but it is thought probable that
he will feel himself compelled to yield to
the opportunities of friends. Fer the Office
of County Clerk we hear the name of no
candidate mentioned The Recordership is
sough: after by John S. Lambert, present
incumbent, and James B. Van Hagen, now
of the Sheriff office. John Dickson is the
heir apparent to the nomination for Sheriff,
and E. W. Maslin, incumbent, for District
Attorney. We hear the name of N. G. Mil
Ter spoken of for Senator Whether the
gentleman belongs to the third party is
matter of some doubt here, and we may be
doing him injustice in mentioning his name
in this connection. DR.. Davis, of Rough &
Ready, is mentioned as the probable nom-
nee for Treasurer. The other candidates
will probably be known when the conven-
tion meets tomorrow.
Year: 1861

BRIEF DIsPosAL.-HenrY Edgerton, Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress, makes very
brief disposal of the Bulkhead question in
his speech at the San Francisco ratification
meeting of his party. He says, in this
campaign he will have nothing to do with
it. It is a local, and not a political ques-
ton" We imagine the people of the State
regard the question as not local one, but
one affecting the whole State, country as
we'll as city. An enormous tax upon the
commerce of San Francisco, such as that
contemplated by the Bulkhead Bill must be
paid by the interior as well as the coast
You cannot impose burthen upon the
commerce of San Francisco hut the mining
region must bear its share of the load. The
voting population of the State will hardly
dare trust man to legslate for them at the
National Capital who has been derelict in
representing them properly at the capita! of
the State Mr.. Edgerton cannot shift re-
sponsibilities from his shoulders so easily.
He will be held to account in the canvass.
Year: 1861

CONFESS AND His REcoRD-It is worthy
of remark that thus far in the canvass Con-
ness has made no attempt to show that the
Parsons Bulkhead Bill was right or wrong
He merely asserts that he told the project
ors of it that he would vote against it un-
less they gave $4,000 year to the School
Fund. 1t appears that the log-rollers feared
the success of the scheme unless they ac-
ceded to this species of black mail, and
gave in to the demands of Conness He
pretends to say that the bill would have
passed without him and finding it so, he
tapped it to the tune of S50,00O year for
the benefit of common schools. The pro-
jectors must have felt much more dubious of
success than Conness did or they would not
have paid fifty thousand dollars year to
secure his vote and influence. The fifty
thousand for schools, to some, might appear
in the light of sugar to coat bitter pill and
make it go down the more easily.
Year: 1861

The third party in this county will prob
ably make ticket tomorrow entirely DIFF
ferent from those already nominated by the
other parties, not with much hope of elect
ing it or any part of it, but they are too old
stagers not to understand the effect on the
State ticket of having county nominations
to aid it. The object of the third party
see,,s to be to get more votes than the other
wing of tie Democracy, for the purpose of
claiming the organization next year. So
triaing are the objects of politicians when
their country is suffering the horrors of
civil war
Year: 1861

No DfscoRD IN THE FAMILY.-The Seces-
sionists have reported that the wife of the
President is in sentiment with them. The
proof to the contrary begins to make its
appearance. She is not enly with her hus-
band in carrying on the war of defense
against traitors, but she is contributing arms
to be used against them. The following
letter is worthy the wife of President of
the United States:


EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 20, 1861.


Col. JoHS FRY-My Dear Sir: 1t gives me
much pleasure to be the medium of transmission
of these weapons, to be used in the defense of
national sovereignty upon the soil of Kentucky.
Though some years have passed since left
my native State, have never ceased to contem-
plate her progress in happiness and prosperity
with sentiments of tond and flial pride. In ev-
cry effort of industrial energy, in every enter
prise of honor and valor, my heart hiss been
with her. And l rejoice in the consciousness
that, at this time when the institutions to whose
fostering care we owe all that we have Of happi-
ness and glory are rudely assailed by ungrateful
and parricidal hands, the State Of Kentucky,
ever true and loyal, furnishes to the insuted flag
of the Union guard of her best and brat est
sons. On every field the prowcss of Kentuckians
has been manifested. In the holy cause Of ma
tional defense they must be inTincible.


Please accept, Sir, these weapons as token
of the love shah never cease TO cherish for my
mother State, of the pride with which have
always regarded the exploits Of her sons, and
of the confidence which 1 feel in the ultimate
loyalty of her people, who, while ncTer forget
ting the homage which their beloved State may
justly claim, still remember tbs higher and
grander allegiance due to our common country.


Yours, very sincerely.


MARY LINCOLN.
Year: 1861




gret that we are compelled to notice the de-
sertion of Edmund Randolph. to the camp
of the enemy. We have the highest res
pect for his talents and have had for his
character as man. That he was erratic
we knew and hardly to be trusted POLITICAL
ly unless pledged to maintain certain
course, in which case regarding him as
man of honor, we deemed him safe We
always thought his word reliable if his
politics were not, and, therefore, while re-
commencing him to the Republicans of the
Legislature last winter for q. S. Senator,
we took occasion to say that pledges, writ
ten pledges, were desirable from him that
he would sustain the administration, by
his vote and voice, in carrying on determ-
ined war against the rebels. With these
pledges obtained We regarded him as the
proper man to represent California in the
Senate Of the United States; not that his
political opinions suited US exactly, or that
his idiosyncrasies were commendable, but
that his superior abilities gave promise of
greater usefulness to the State and nation
than any other Democratic candidate likely
to be selected. We confess it, of all men
aspiring to the Senate last winter we pre-
ferred Randolph, because we knew him as
an honorable man of large abilities and re-
putcd good character,


His recent desertion of the Union cause
mortihes lis exceedingly, because it weak
ems confidence in mankind generally and
encourages misanthropic sentiment we
would be willing to suppress. Such was
the respect in which Mr.. Randolph was
held by patriots throughout the State that
many VIII now ask seriously Of themselves,
who now can be trusted?


Last winter when an aspirant for Sena-
torial honors, and while confined to his
bed from sickness he was waited on by Re
publicans to know his views. With all the
vehemence and action of which he was ca
pable in his low condition he is reported to
have raised himself and denounced the Sc
cessonists in the most witherng manner,
expressing q high and chivalric devotion to
the good cause of his country. He declar-
ed himself unequiyocally in favor of sus-
tanning the Government to the last extrem-
ity and called God to witness his sincerity.
He won the respect and confidence of the
Republicans, and would have received their
votes had he been before the Legislature for
election to the Senate. We contemplate
with horror the picture of Edmund Ran
dolph in the Senate of the United States
with such sentiments in his heart as those
uttered by him in the late Secession con-
veItion at Sacramento, and thank the fates
that another man was deemed more worthy
to wear the Senatorial robes than lie.


Thank Heaven, Randolph and his ilk can
deceive us no longer. At last he has TAX
en- step which will not be passed over in
charity rs one of the freaks of an erratfc
character, but as damning stain on his
reputation which will last with life and
longer if his name shall be rescued from
oblivion for the execration of honorable
men. Damned be he henceforth, and
doubly damned his apologists.