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Year: 1860

l am what the old women call ar
"Odd FISH" I do nothing whatever
without a motivc--never. I attempt
nothing, unless I think there is a prob
ability of my succeeding. 1 ask M
favors when I think they are not de
served; and finally don't wait upor
the girls, when think my attention.
would be disagreeable. l am a mat
ter-of.fact mani am. I do every
thing seriously. I once offered to at
tend a young lady home I did it Sc
riously; that is l meant to wait or
her home, if she wanted me or not.
bade her good night, and she sale
not word. l met her next morning
and said not a word. 1 met hel
again and she gave me two hours talk
1t struck me as curious. She feared
l was offended, she said, and could no
for the life of her, conceive why. Sh,
begged me to explain, but would no
give me chance to do so. She sale
she hoped wouldn't be offended, ask
ed me to call, and it has ever since beer
a mystery to me whether she wanted
me or not. gsa.5. iesaa H


Once I saw a lady at her window,
thought would call. l did. in.
quired for the lady, and was told she
was not at home. 1 expect she was;
l went away thinking so. I rather
think so still. I met her again--she
was offended--said I had not been
neighborly. She reproached me for
my negligence; said she thought
had been unkind. And I've ever
since wondered whether she thought
so or not.


A lady once said to me that she
should like to be married if she could
Year: 1860

ing his legal rights; he proclaimed himself the peer Of any delegate upon the floor, denounced the origi nators of the movement as contemptble towards ana slanderers, and showed the ungenerous spirit which must have actuated the majority in passing upon his political rights in his absence, without even apprzing him that his immunitics as citizen were questioned. Several of the committee inter- rupted the speaker and assured him that it was an oversight on theiart that in the press of business they had forgotten to summon him before them, etc, etc.-though singularly enough they did moi forget m the press of business, to call up the wit nesses and make up their verdict After the dele gate had finished speaking, the chairman of the committee together with his associates, begged that the resolution should be withdrawn from the con vention and referred to them again; which after some opposition was agreed to-"
Year: 1860



 It appears from the above that Judge Fletcher received the next largest vote upon the first ballot, which was, as matter of course, test of the strength of the candi- dates whose names were submitted to that convention His votes were only three Mousand and ninety-eigM. The vote of Mir. Johnson after emitting the counties of Ben ton and Van Buren, foots up nine Mousand three Hundred and ninety, which leaves him plurality majority over the next man to him of sir Mousandtwo hundred and ninety- two. With these facts and figures before us, it is matter most inexplicable why the blood hounds of the opposition party should dog upon the trail ot Col. Johnson, and shriek from every standpoint where they can raise voice, the contemptible
Year: 1860

THE Fall Session of this Institution

 l will open on the first Monday of September next.

 La Grange Female College is located in the healthy ana pleasant town of LA GRANGE, TENN, forty y-nine miles east of Memphis the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, three miles west of Grand Junction and is accessible by Railroad from all the surrounding States.
Year: 1860

After the removal of the young swarm
to the stand, the hive should be elevated
upon the pins at the corners at once, and
if the swarm is a large one, and the wea-
ther very warm at the time, the bees will
be likely to lay outside of the hive, in
which case it should be. raised, by small
blocks at the corners an inch or more.
This will admit such a current of air that
the bees will soon enter the hive, and if
the season is a favorable one, will fill it
with combs in fifteen days.


The boxes for storing surplus honey
may be put on Immediately after remov-
ing to the stand, or may be left off until
the bees are seen to cluster down to the
bottom board, as they will not In anv case
enter them to work till the space below
is occupied and the objection that some
persons raise against my method of fur
nishing extra store room upon the top of
the bive, is without foundation, as in no
case have | known swarm of bees TO
commence storing honey in box or sup
er, until the main hive was filled with
combs and honey TO within two or three
inches of the bottom.


No surplus honey need be expected
from any but old stocks and first swarms,
as all after swarms will have as much
space as they can occupy the first season
In the main section.


The necessity of having very strong
swarms cannot be too deeply impressed
upon the bee-keeper's mind. With this
end in view, be should be governed by
certain rules, varying them according to
circumstances. The following is the
course / would recommend in uniting the
weak swarms. have remarked that as
a general rule, all third swarms should
be returned to the parent hive; there
may be an exception to this rule in cases
of early swarming, when the third swarm
issues by the 25th of June. Then they
may be hived, uniting with a second or
third swarm from another hive, issuing
at about the same time, or at the longest
within four or FIVE days. If longer time
elapse, they would not be likely to unite
tremendously. When issuing thus early
in the season, the old stock would not be
likely to suffer from over-swarming, but
would have ample time to recruit their
numbers, and by September, if prosper
Year: 1860

"John Underwood, Esq. of Aurelia.
New York, secured his entire hay crop
this Summer, by consulting the baroml :
ter. The morning on which he CONNER
ced cutting his hay, looked cloudy and felt
like rain, still the barometer pointed un-
erringly to dry weather, and upon the
strength of that he sent in his moving
machine. The hay was cut and cured,
and secured, before any rain made its
appearance. Who doubts that the in
strument paid for itself by that item of
information i? The time is coming when
the farmer will as soon think of return
fng to his scythe, as to be without the
infallible weather prophet; the barome-
ter-.4uburn .AdUertiser.


Since we have commenced making OBJ.
servations upon the aneroid barometer,
we have been impressed more strongly
than ever before, with the great utility
and importance of this instrument to far
mers. During the dry weather, preva
lent here allthrough June and July, the
barometer index remained almost stead
lily at point above 80 inches, though
every slight shower that fell, was indica-
Gated by rapid declension of the index
hand, from two to ten hours in advance.
The other day we remained at home
writing until after dinner, and then went
down TO our city office. The sky being
clear, with no indication of rain, we went
thinly clad from head to foot. On reach
ing the Office, clouds had begun to gath
er, and the barometer had fallen nearly
half an inch, which ourassociate informed
US, had occurred within an hour. We
obeyed its injunction, and started at once
for home, and had scarcely arrived there
before heavy fall. of rain commenced,
accompanied with thunder and strong
wind. The barometer in that case GER
tainly saved US a disagreeable wetting
and perhaps a cold. This is only one of
several similar instances Of the positive
Indications of rain, which lave been CIV
en- by our barometer during Rfew weeks
past.


The contrary indicators have been
scarcely less marked. For several times
there has been every sign of rain in the
heavens, hut the barometer was unmoved,
and in no such case a rain fallen. Here
is one example. We had planned to
take our family to see the Great Eastern
early on tie morning of July 25. On
rising in the morning, the sky indicated
a rainy day. and we were in doubt wheth-
er to defer The visit or not. A glance
at the barometer showed no change in
the index for twenty-four hours, and we
determined to follow its Indication. The
result was, we had fine day, and amin
structive and pleasant visit to the "Big
Ship" AS it turned out, we could not
have gone on any subsequent day of her
stay, and but for our barometer, would
have lost The opportunity of inspecting
her.


We particui.ar!ze the alov, instances
to illustrate the practical utility of the
barometer. The truth is, science is con-
stantly contributing in thousand ways
not only to comfort and convenience, but
is also aiding in more successfully per-
forming the various operations of active
life.
Year: 1860

The aurora borealis affected the tele-
graph wires a few wees ago to such a
degree that messages were sent between
ROston and New York independently of
the galvanic battery. The wires run
ming eastward of Boston and westward
of New York were not affected much.
Eastward of St. John the wires were so
much under the magnetic influence that
it was impossible to work them.
Year: 1860

THRER has long existed public demand Tor an
effective purgatiye pin which could be relied a.
and perfectly safe in its operation. This has
1een prepared to meet that demand, and an extern
siye trial Of It's virtues has conclusvelv shown vita
what success it accomplshes the purpose designed.


1t is easy TO make physical PiH, but not easy to
make the best Of an piEs-one which should have
none Of the objections, but all the advantages, OF
every other This has been attempted here, and
with what success We would respectfully submit 70
the public decision 1t has been unfortunate fcr
the patient hitherto that almost every purgativs
medicine is acrimonious and irritating 70 the bow
els. This is not. Many Of them produce so much
gripping pain and revulsun in the system as 70 more
than cOunterbalauce the good to be derived froH
them. These pulls produce no irritation or pain,
unless it arise from a previously existing obstruc-
ton or dcTangeuCnt in the bowels. Being purely
vegetable TO larm can arise from their use in any
quantity but it is better that any medicine should
be taken judiciously. Minute directions for their
use in the several diseases to which they are ap-
plicable given on the box. Among the COM
plants which have been speedily cured by them, we
may mention Liver Complaint, in its various forms
of JauudlCe, Indigestion, LanguOr and Loss OF Ap-
petite IiStlessness Irritabiity, Bilious Headache,
Bilious Fever, Fever and AgUc, Pain in the Side
and Loins for, N TRUTH all these are but the
sequence Of diseased action IN the liver. As an
aperent they afford prompt and sure relief in Cos
tvcness, Piles, Collie, Dysentery, Humors, Scrofula
and Scurvy, Colds with soreness Of the body Ulcers
and impurity of the blood, Irregularities; in Short
any and every case where purgatve is required.


They have also produced some singularly sue
eessful cures in rheumatism, GOut DrOpsy, Gravel,
Erysipelas, Palpitation Of the Heart Pains in the
Back, Stomach, and Side. They should be freely
taken in the spring Of the year, to purify the blood
and prepare the system FOR the change Of seasons.
An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and
bowels into healthy action and restores the appe-
tte and vgor. They purify the blood, and, By their
stimulant action on the circulatory system, reno
vate the strength Of the body, and restore the
wasted or diseased energies of the whole organism.
Hence an occasional dose Is advantageous, even
though no serious arrangement exists; but un
necessary dosing should never be carried too tar,
as every purgative medicine reduces the strength,
when taken to excess. The thousand cases in which
physic is required cannot be enumerated here but
they suggest themselves TO the reason Of every
body; and it is confidently believed this pill VIII
answer better purpose than any thing which has
hitherto been available to mankind When their
virtues are once known, the public viii no longer
doubt what remedy to employ when in need Of q
eathartc medicine! Beng sugar-wrapped, they are
pleasant to take, and being purely vegetable, no
harm can arise from their use in any quantity.


For minute directions, see wrapper Oh the Box
Year: 1860

G4y On Friday last. as we learn from
the Buffalo Courier. the lower branch of
the New York legislature passed bill
giving the right Of suffrage to negroes
The affirmative votes wcle al Repubii-
cans. All the Democrats voted in the
negative. The Republicans are welcome
to all the capital they can make out of the
proposed extension of suffrage TO negroes.
The Courier asserts that since they pro-
pose TO go down to political equality
with the blacks, they ought TO exalt them
to position of social equality; they ought
to invite them to dinner and 10 parties. Sit
with them in church. walk with them in
the street, and give their daughters in
marriage TO them. Will our Republican
friends please act up to their political p,o-
fessions
Year: 1860

A CHEERFUL ExETRIoR Many, from
the fear of being suspected of an afiectation
of youthfulness, run into the other extreme,
and endeavor to suppress native buoy
ancy of spirit, and keep down the spright-
illness of sportive nature, which with
some persons, remains to an extreme age.
For this reason they dare not manifest the
pleasure they really feel in the sports and
amusements of earlier years. We need
not voluntarily put away the freshness and
ioyousness of our hearts, and vissages and
manners The period of their aridness
will come soon enough, without being an
tcipated A good life. which will COM
prehend life of strict justice to ourselves
and Others, not only in great matters, but
in the most trivial details, upon which often
hang great results, will preserve them iu
almost perennial youthfulness.
Year: 1860

re- A very dangerous fraud was dis
covered in New York = few days ago. A
gold eagle which has been split, a portion
Of gold distracted, and the vacancy filled
with white base metal. 1t is now stated
that the white metal is known to the Chi
nese, and the workmanship on tie genuine,
to render of them less value, is done by
them, and # the United States officers will
trace back, or examine future coins, they
will find them emanaed from the Chinese
quarters of San Francisco, California,
where many counterfeit gold coins are in
circulation, I'll Of which are well executed,
and taken in the California Branch Mint
This metal. like the gong metal, is still n
secret with the Chinese.
Year: 1860

FARMING FOR YOUNG MEN.--lf young
man wants to engage in business that will
insure him in middle lie the greatest
amount Of leisure time, there is nothing
moro sure than farming. Ii he has an in
depe ndent turn of mind, let him be a farm
er. IL he wants tc engage in healthy oc.
cupation, let him ill the land. In short.
if he would be independent, let him get a
spot of ground. Keep within his means
to shun the lawyers; be honest. to have a
clear conscience; improve the soil so as 10
leave the world better than he found it
and then if he cannot live happily and die
contented. there is no hope for him
Year: 1860

COMING HOME FoKCIBLY.--It is an infa-
nous fact that the Legislature passed an act,
and it was signed by the Governor, for the
compulsory inspection of salt meats in San
Francisco. The law has gone into full effect
and the consequences begin to be seen.
Every barrel of pork that comes to the
mines in accordance with the resolution
passed by the Chamber of Commerce Of San
Francisco, has marked upon its head the
price of inspection which is added to the
value of the barrel of pork, and has to be
paid by the consumer The San Francisco
merchant formerly warranted the pork sold
to interior merchants to be sound, and if
found not to be so, the loss fell upon the
dealer in San Francisco. Under the present
law the miners take their own risk after the
pork is inspected and pay for having the
risk. Formerly if the pork was not good it
was thrown back upon the country merchant
who in turn shifted the loss upon the whole
sale dealer below The people are thus
made in the end to pay for the folly of their
representatives in the Legislature.


We predict the repeal of the law next
winter. The object of it was not to secure
the people against imposition in the sale Of
damaged meats for they incurred no risk be-
fore, but to provide place for some hungry
cormorant, who prefers an office to honest
employment Neuada journal
Year: 1860

CAMEL ExpnEss-The Hydraulic Press
has the following interesting item Of news:
Capt. Ager, of DowneviIle, and Langton &
Co., was in town this week, and told us the
camels ordered by him from Siberia, to be
used instead of mules for the mountain ex-
press and freight business will arrive by the
coming summer and be Immediately put up
on the road to Utah. There will be twenty
or thirty of them, of a kind adapted and
used to elevated snowy regions, and capa-
bic Of carrying five hundred pounds burden
day after day This is a splendid and or
iginal enterprise, and we hope it may prove
as successful as its energetic protector be-
lieves it will
Year: 1860

If those persons who have taken up
claims for agricultural purposes will at once
fence the same, in a year from this time, the
increase of pasture will pay for the labor and
expense of improvement.
Year: 1860




Massachusetts, then unknown and in OBJ.
scurty, began to make nails by cutting
slices out of old hoops, and gripping these
pieces by common vice, headed them with
several strokes of the hammer. BY pro-
gressive improvements, Sitting mills were.
built and the shears and heading tools were
perfected; but still much labor and expense
were requisite in making nails The first
machine ever made for cutting nails, it is
said was invented by a shopmate of f. !.
Whitney, called Be'Jamin Cochran. This
inventor died at Batavia N. Y, in ls46, in a
ripe old age. His machine cut out tie nails
without head. Previous to the date of his
invention, (179O) nails had been punched
ont of plates by hand in Connecticut; these
also had no head In 1910, the ingenious
Jacob Perkin and Johnathan Ellis, of Mass
achusctts, erected the first machinery for
cutting and heading nails at one operation.
In 1892, cut nails were first made in Eng.
land by machinery, two rollers with dies be.
ing employed for the purpose. One half the
impress was made in each roller when they
came in contact the blanks were fed in at
the top, and finished nails dropped out be.
low as the steam rollers revolved.


FEEDING HoRsEs.-The practice Of reguA
lating the food of horses by the amount Of
work they are required to perform, is a good
one if properly followed. For example, n
horse when lying Comparatively idle. as in
winter, should have less solid food than
amid the hard work Of spring and summer.
Again, if a horse is about to be put to
work of extra labor, it is we'll to fortify him
for it by little extra feeding beforehand
But the mistake we refer to is the practice
Of over feeding him an hour OF so before
putting him to work. If an extra service is
required of a horse, on any particular day,
and an extra feed is to be given him, let him
have it the evening before hand, rather than
in the morning an hour or two before being
put to work. Why so? Because if he is put
to work SO soon after eating, his food does
not become digested, and he is obliged to
carry about with him mass of indigested
fodder, which is rather burden than help
to him. If he is well fed the evening BEFORE,
the food is similated-changed to flesh
and bood-and sends health and vigor
through all the system. AS a general rule,
working horse should be fed regularly,
both as to the time and the amount.
Year: 1860

Eg- The leading men in the oyster busi-'
ness in Baltimore assert that there are more
oysters in Chesapeake Bay at present than
there were twenty years ago, notwithstand-
ing millions upon millions of bushels have
been removed.
Year: 1860

ORIGIN OF THE CAR OF LIBERTy.-In former
ages, when old age was honorable, caps be-
came embems of honor.-By degrees it be-
came the badge of freedom, for none were
deemed honorable who were not free, he
had cap given to him, which he was per
mited to wear in public. The Cap of Lib
erty WAS simple in its form, the shape of a
sugar loaf, broad at the base and ending in
cone. This prefgured that freedom stands
on the broad basis of humanity, and runs up
to pyramid, the emblem Of eternity, to
show it ought to last forever. 1t was sim
pie, for liberty is in itself the most shining
ornament of man. 1t has none of the gild
ed trappngs that make the livery of despot
ism. The cap of liberty was white, emblem
attic of purity, thus showing that it should be
untanted by faction or tyranny
Year: 1860

y CURE OF RHEUMATIsM.-A writer in the
Medical Times recommends sulphur as highly
eticacious in the treatment of rheumatism.
He orders the whole of the affected limb to be
encased in flannel, thickly sprinkled with
preciritated sulphur; baudage applied over
this, and the whole covered with oil silk or
gutta perchs, which has the effect of incress-
ing the warmth and confning the vapor Of the
sulphur, and also obviating the odor.
Year: 1860

TIE vIoroRrA BRIDGE. The estimated cos,
Of the Victoria Bridge at Montreal was one
million five hundred thousand pounds sterl.
ing. But its actual cost was only one million
three hundred thousand pounds sterling, or
one million two hundred thousand dollars
less than the estimates. Another striking
fact is that the bridge was done within the
time originally estimated. The American
world can show no parallel to this.
Year: 1860

Too LATE Many of the eastern Republican
papers are of opinion that the time fixed for
holding the Chicago Convention-June l3th-is
too late that the matter ought to be reconsid
cred and the Convention called at an earlier
date, in April or May.
Year: 1860

THE basis of representation in National Con-


ontion is one delegate TO each Senator and Rep
..,to,ivc elect. Below we publish, for the in
formation Of people Interested in political mat


SIC tho number of d legates to which each Of
no tbirty.tbrce States of the Union is entitled
oo onnroaching National political gatherings
Year: 1860

NAPA QUICKSILVER MNEs.-The Napa Reporter
hears that there are some 500 men at the quick
silver mines and near four miles have been
saked off. Twenty-Five men have laid claim to
eleven hundred yards of the vein fronting Oh
Geyser Creek
Year: 1860

RcsoIped, That we look with admratI0n and
approval at the late Union demonstrations in
the North, and promise our Union loving friends
of that section our hearty cooperation in quelling
sectional STRIFE, aud restoring fraternal feeling in
the different sections Of the confrderacy. We
are for the equality of the States, the supremacy
of the Constitution, the execution of the laws


and the preservation of the Union. We ask moth


ing more than we are willing to award to others
Year: 1860

~ There are no old maids in Japan.
The institution is unknown. When a girl
reaches a certain age without being bound
in chains matrimonial, the authorities inter
est themselves in her behalf, and speedily
bring her husband, whom she is bound
to take, willing or not willing
Year: 1860

Poor BUILDING MATERIAL A writer in the
London Chemical News says that the new Houses
OF Parliament, which are built Of magnetism lime


stone. are already crumbling to decay He also
states that the rain which falls In cities il more
destructive to buildings than that which falls I'm
the country owing to the solvent properties Of the
Impurities which are washed out Of city air by
the rain.
Year: 1860

ence Of any kind threatens an institution which
is incorporated with the whole framework of
Southern society. Notification must be crushed
but it will be crushed with ease and safety, by
thus depriving it Of the power to alarm the
fears OF fifteen States at vital point. And
this, which is an urgent policy at the present
time, is duty ofpatriotsm at oil times, required
by the ordinary relations of amity between
the States, and much more by the intimate re.
lations of a Federal Union.