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Year: 1860

Fun AT HorE.-Don't be afraid of little fun
at home, good people! Don't shut up your houses
lest the sun shOnld fade your carpets; and your
hearts, lest hearty laugh should shake down the
musty old eobwebs there! Ii you want to ruin
your sons let them think that all mirth and social
enjoyment must be left the threshold without,
when they come home at night. When once .
home is regarded as only place to eat drink. and
sleep in, the work is begun that ends in gambling
houses and reckless degradation. Young people
must have fun and relaxation somewhere il they
do not find it at their own hearth stone, it will be
caught in other, and perhaps in less profitable pla
ces Therefore, let the IRE burn brighter at night
and make the bome-nest delightful with all those
little arts that parents perfectly understand
Don't repress the buoyant spirit Of your Children;
halEan-hour OF merriment round the lamp and fire.
light Of home blots out the remembrance Of maBys
care and annoyanees during the day, and the best
safeguard they can take with them into the world
is the unseen influence of bright little sanctum.
Life Illustrated. go %
Year: 1860

nay A disastrous fire occurred in
Long Acre, London, caused by
spontaneous combustion of lamp
black. II is said that but a few
drops Of linseed oil in q cask Of
lamp black will cause combustion.
If this is so, It is fact important
TO be known, that II may be guar
ded against. Merchants and others
who ship tarpaulins prepared with
oil and lamp black should be GER
tain that they are thoroughly dried
and seasoned before packing.
Year: 1860

A writer in the Napa Reporter, says


IAN article appeared in your columns
last Spring, discussing the chemical ration
ale of the use of vitriol for the prevention of
smut, which led me to try some experiments.


The article suggested lst, that the appli-
cation Of vitrio to the soil, in suitable guam
titles, would as etfectualy prevent smut,
as saturation of the seed in solution Of
that substance.


Cd. That the vitality of the seed would
thus be less liable to injury than under the
ordinary treatment.


Sd. That by applying vitriol directly to
the soil, greater crops might be produced.
thus applied, might probably continue for
some years without renewal.


To test the truth of these merely theoret-
ica suggestions, made the following expe-
riment, which, l think fully sustains the
three first of them.


In sowing piece of wheat there was
lack of seed prepared by saturation in vitri-
oil, and a small strip was in consequence,
sown with unsatura.ed seed. About the
first of March, a part of the ground thus
sown, was sprinkled with finely powdered
viriol.


The result of the experiment is AS follows:


Upon the ground sown with seed which
had passed the ordeal of saturation, the pro-
duet is one.tenth to one-eighth smut. Up
on the ground where the vitriol was APP
piled directly--a strip about by 25 feet
only or heads of smut are to be seen.
and the portions of smut are smal-only
from "a of an inch to 2 l-2 inches long.
From this result, think it fairly demon
strated that the application of vitriol can
most profitabIy be made directly to the soil.
1t is most likely that if it had been applied
before the termination of the seed there
would have been no smut at all; whereas,
the grain was lS inches high when the ap-
pication was made, and had attained a
large proportion of its appointed size, upon
soil lacking Theoretically one of the in
gradients necessary to make it perfect wheat.
Evidently, in order to produce its full effect,
the vitriol should have been applied before
the termination of the seed


If any Of our farmers or observing people
desire to see for themselves whether | am
correct in my conclusions or not, they can
have the pleasure Of gratifying their visual
organs, by visiting the ranch of Coroner
Schultze, at a point some 800 yards south
of the house and near Napa river--as the
parcel on which made my experiment will
be left for a while for inspection.
Year: 1860

Jul NUUlluCCo'


With this issue we hoist the names of
Breckenridge and Lane as the standard
bearers of the Democratic party in this great
contest, and have no fear that the State
which threw her vote for the first one, four
years ago, will re.endorse him 10y a trium-
phant majority. Breckenridge is emf hat
ically a representative man. No statesman
of his age stands before the country with q
more consistent record or a more brilliant
reputation. lie has been as gallant on the
field as he is wise, eloquent and command
ing in the councils of the nation.


OF General Lane, our candidate for Vice
President, what shall we say? Who does
not recollect him in 1S47, as tho private
soldier, then as the General Officer, and
again as the Marion of the Mexican War,
winning laurels for himself and fame for his
country, which shall be as enduring as her
own mpershable history. He has not only
won a name on the battle fields of Mexico,
but he is known throughout the country as
an able, sound, and thoroughly national
man. We know that the true hearts OF the
Democratic masses of this coast, from San
Diego to Washington Territory, will give
| Il glorious I0SpOnS0 W ulS HOillHdIloH.


We are proud Of the ticket; not for the
men but for the principles which they rep
resent 1t is to the platform we proudly
point, as being truly and faithfully national
There is not line that needs to be ex
planned. The tricks and cheats of construc-
ton and sectional Interpretation are not
needed for this declaration Of principles,
which has been adopted by the Seventeen
Democratic States of the Union. We hail
it as the larbinger of the good time coming
AS the dawn of sentiment which shall
work its way through the masses Of tie poo
pie, until the nation shall be redeemed from
the monstrous dogma of squatter sovereign
ty, and from the dangerous hereses of black
republican patriots.


Upon this platform we call upon the De-
mocracy of California to rally, and sustain
the men who endorse the doctrine of equal
rights and exact justice to American citizens,
no matter from what section of our great
Confederacy they may come.


Stockton Republican.
Year: 1860

The San Jose Reporter, paper which
has but recently buckled on the Democratic
armor, is much troubled at the division in
the party, and earnestly beseeches the Cen
tral Committee to endeavor to heal the
breach We appreciate the patriotic feel
ings of the editor of that paper, but we are
satisfied that nothing the Committee
could do would have the effect desired by
the Reporter. The issue is great and liv-
ing one, which must be met. There is no
use in trying to smother it; it cannot be
done. Had prudent councils prevailed at
Baltimore; had the friends of Mr.. Douglas
not forced him and his odious squatters SOW
ereigntv doctrines on the convention 10y the
most outrageous means ever heard of in such
body, no division would have occurred; but
that was done by preventing tair express
sion of the will Of the convention, partly 10y
an unfair and unjust rule, and partly by ex
cluding regularly elected delegates and 10y
admitting bogus ones. These acts of tyran-
ny and injustice bursted the convention as
under A portion of that body nominated
Mr.. Douglas, and placed him upon squat
ter sovereignty platform. Another portion
nominated Mr.. Breckenridge and adopted
platform recognizing the equality of the
States, and the rights Of the citizens of all
the States to an equal participation in the
Territories, claiming protection for all. The
issues is therefore made up, and it behooves
us to take our position under one banner or
the other. For our part we have no hesita-
ton in declaring that we enlist under the ban
ner of breckenridge and Lane, because we en-
dorse the principles laid down in the plat
form upon which they stand, and repuliate
the Douglas platform. We adhere to the
old Democratic doctrine of "principes, not
men," We would prefer to be defeated in
the advocacy Of Just principles than to be
successful upon principles which are obnox-
ious to us. But we entertain no fears of
defeat. We have an abiding confidence in
the people, and we doubt not that they will
stand by the rights in this contest.


The issue is made up; let us meet it fear
lessly and boldly; let us 90 before the peo'
pie relying upon the justice of our cause,
and we need not fear defeat. We trust that
tie State Central Committee WIN take
bold and independent stand for the right,
and if they cant agree, let them "agree to
disagree" There is no use in staving Oft
the matter temporarily for it must come,
and the sooner the better.
Year: 1860

In Cleveland, Ohio, the Republican lead
ers boldly carry out the principles they pro
fess. Being in the majority, they are IN
different about making converts, and are
therefore less reserved in avowng their rea
sentiments. They allow negro children to
sit side by side with white children in their
schools and associate with them at theiI
homes and in public places. Upon object
ion being made to this condition of things
one of the members of the Board Of Educa
tion-all Repvblicans-said:


Il would rather my little girl should sit
beside colored girl, and associate with
her, than by trzzld headed Irish or Dutch
girl


Joshua II. Gddings, one of the patrl-
archs of Abolitionism, and also an ac-
knowledged leader of Republicanism, in a
late State Convention of his party, declared,
that


The negro is Heavenly institution, and
it is God like in man to elevate him to an
equality with the whites


Giddings was one of the leading spirits in
the Chicago Convention, and possesses the
confidence of his party to an unlimited extent.
His sentiments are we'll known and where
the Republicans are strong they endorse
them but where they are weak they think
it prudent to repudiate them. To show
that they approve his sentiments, we have
tie most convincing evidence: The resou-
tions were passed at Republican meeting
in Stark County, Ohio. Here they are


'Resolped That it is not only the duty,
but the interest of the Republican party in
this State, to do all in its power to extend to
colored citizens the elective franchise and
sc do most earnestly call upon that party to
make the subject part Of the State policy.


'Resolped That should the Republicans
give the coored people of Ohio, the e ectlve
franchise, 1t would thereby secure to itself
permanent and unchanging majority in the
State, which would always insure to it the
ascendancy'


Here is practical Republicanism for you.
The resolutions are positive, pointed, unmls-
taxable. In Ohio the Republicans are Meth
er ashamed nor afraid to declare their doc
trnes and opinions, knowing full we'll that
the Republicans everywhere feel as they do,
but deem it prudent for a while to conceal
or deny their real sentiments, in order to
deceive the unsuspecting. Let them once
attain power, and they will throw off the
mask and appear in their true colors-te as
bold and ultra as their Ohio confederates
Year: 1860

OPENING OF CHOICE GOODS.
ATTENTION, LADIES!
You attention call to well seecte stock of
FASHIONABLE, DESIRABLE AND SEiSONABLE


G O O D S.


Store is well stocked with goods.


To our stock of
EMBROIOERlES AND SPLENDID LACE GOODS,
Year: 1860

Esat gives great pleasure to state that sf
ter trial Of Of the "Vespr Gas Lamps, in study for
past after observing closely for the length OF
time, experiment lighting "Unon Tent with these
lamps have entire confidence in their efficiency 1t to
they or all the advantages Of The best lights to thos
who live out Of The cities and large towns.


The process Of preparing and Lighting the lamp is 50 readily
learned the fixtures simple and little liable to out
OF orsr Of the Eight comparatively little, and the
whole free from all danger, that need only mere acquain
the part Of the public with the Yeper Gas Lamp 70
bring them into general use throughout the country


Yours truly, STUART ROBINSON.
Year: 1860

Ed. Grescent-While each one is proposing his
remedy for the times, which seem to be somewhat
"out of joint" allow me to suggest that the Legls'
latures of the cotton States meet and suspend all
judicial process for one, two or three months.


This would enable planters and factors to hold
on 10 the cotton and sugar crops until specie eonle
be RENTED from Europe and the North, to pur
chase them with-to dispense with exchange ant
secure better market, while no department
our home business would suffer materially from
such measure.


There may be some better plan, but the write
has heard OF none tsat will meet the present emei
gency SO promptly and effectively as the above,
least sach is the opinion of


| Your obejent servant
CONSERVATIVE.
Year: 1860

salt, and says he has got rid Of cargo. Then
comes along coffee operator, and in reply to
what is going on says that the accounts of short
export from Rio are bound to be confirmed, and so
the great trade Of this emporium opened yesterday
True, there very little done in cotton, but the
King is well seated on the throne, and only awaits
the course of events


1t will be observed that the receipts of the staple
since Saturday morning have been large, giving
Carondeet street and environs very strong basis
to move ON when the time comes.


The receipts since Saturday morning up to last
Year: 1860

GRATING AND TRIMMING FRUIT TREEs.-
Grating and pruning are among the most
important labors OF the horticulturist. As
the season is at hand when grating should
be done, some hints on their right perform
ancs will not be amiss. Scions for grating
should be cut the last of February or the first
Of March. which is the best season to insure
their. living and doing well: but it is not yet
too late for pears and apples: they should
then he housed in cellar until the time for
inserting them arrives, which. with US,
might be in the course Of April and May,
ttLey should be put only ine' hei.lthy,vigorous
branches, such us you would not care to re-
move from the trees. and thus you will have
an artificial tree that will be ready for bear
ing in about three years.


BY removing too many branches from tree
injury may be done. Careful attention
should be given to this point in looping the
branches preparatory to grating, in order
that the sap may pass into the remaining
branches and keep the tree healthy and grow
ing Fruit trees are often injured by thosc
who 60 about the country making it their
business to set gratis in April and May.
setting us many scions rs they can. and get
ting pay for those that live, thus doing great
damage to the trees.
Year: 1860

A few days more, and furs will be super
fuous, and then comes the process of put
ting them away, so that moths shall not in
wade them. Ii is stated that the best way
to insure immunity from destruction is to
pack all in trunk or box lined with brown
holland, first sprinkling them literally with
black pepper: This is better even than cam,
phor. for dealers in furs are often yictimized
by chronological pests, though their goods
be saturated with this powerful odor. BE.
fore packing away furs, they should be well
beaten, to dislodgc any larvae that, despite
the most scrupulous care, may be deposited
IN them. The sup riOrity Of pepper to cam
phor as preservatiye to furs consists in the
fact that, while larvae will incubate among
camphor, there is something in the aroma Of
pepper which destroys them in embryo.
Year: 1860

Spring Is critical period in the manage
ment Of stock. Working oxen should be FED
we'll, and kept in good condition. If they arr
expected TO enter heartily into the labors o
the opening season. So kept, they will be
In good trim for work-lively, active, and
full Of energy. Too often cattle enter upon
the Springs work utterly unfit Tor the eIer,
tion required, from the sheer carelessness Of
their owners. They have been neglected
both in feed and care, and no present atten-
tiOn can supply the lack oil proper Winter s,
after resting through :he Winter, they should
commence gradually, half a day at time,
and light work at that, for the first few days
They should have grain and roots, as well Us
hay, while busily employed upon the farm,
even after the grass has got up to be good
bite;' as they will invariably 'scour' and
weaken when first fed upon it.
Year: 1860

There was silence. gladness, and sorrow,
and but little sleep in Moss-side, between the
rising and setting Of the stars, that were now
out in thousands, clear, bright and sparkling,
over the unclouded sky. Those who had lain
down for an hour or two in bed could scarce
ly be said to have slept and when about
morning little Margaret awoke, an altered
creature, pale, languid, and unable to turn
herself on her lowly bed, but with meaning
in her eyes, memory In her mind, affection
in her heart, and coolness in oil her veins, q
happy group were watching the first faint
smile that broke over her features; and ncy-
er did one who,stood there forget that Sab
bath morning, on which she seemed to look
round upon them oil with gaze Of fair and
sweet bewilderment, like one half conscious
OF having been rescued from the power the
grave.
Year: 1860

the right depth to plant potatoes, but half
OF the earth ut time is better than the whole
ut once. New potatoes grow from thesprouts
above the seed potato, but never under 1t -
Frequent killings make small potatoes. A
potato vine will yield potatoes to its very
top IL hilled high, but the g:eater number,
the smaller the average size.'
Year: 1860

1T is ruinous TO the young to demand OF
them more than you are quite sure that they
can accomplish with moderate industry 1t
not only tends 10 make their minds super
fetal, but, what is still less thought of their
characters slippery, slip shod, and sliP-sloP'
Year: 1860

A Spicy ArFAIR.-A select party, consisting of
a man, his wife, and young male friend, recently
left Fall River, Mass, for Troy, N. Y. The hus-
band had creditors whom it was desirable to de-
eeive concerning the right of property in sending
large trunks; so they were checked in the name
of the young man. The three arrived safely at
Troy, but the wife and friend pursued their jour
ney further toward the West. Not to put too fine
point on it, they eloped leaving the husband be-
hind. They left the baggage, too, and so far, all
was well; but, trying to obtain possession of
the trunks, the man was met with the objection
that they did not belong to him. So the poisoned
chalice intended for his creditors returned to his
own lips. The deserted husband proposes to ad-


vertise that the young man mey keep the wife il
he will send power of attorney for the baggage.
Year: 1860

EARLY PIErY.-A remarkable case Of
very "early piety" has just been found in
Brussels The police, making their rounds
at midnight, found an ordinary clothes line
hanging near door, several feet above ths
ground, and tracing its history discovered
that it came out of garret window above
They entered the house, convinced that
they were on the track of daring burglar
thoroughly searched all the premises. and
at last, on walking into the garret. were
horrlhed to find themselves confronted by n
housemaid, in very easy evening dress
who, with many tears, explained that the
mysterious clothes-loe was attached TO her
left arm, in order that young waiter In
whom she was attached, coming early in
the morning, with jerk might call her TO
prayers at the cathedral. As this explained
the clothes-line, and there was not much in
the clothes-line before them, the discom6t.
ted and blushing police beat hasty re-
treat.
Year: 1860

liz people would discern and distinguish


instead OF confusing and confounding. they
would see that the best way of putting
down the abuse of q thing, is to make t
useful. Would you lop off everybody's
hands, because they might be turned to
picking and stealing? Neither is the intel
lect to be shorn of any of its members see


ing that, though they may all be perverted
they may all minister to good. The busy
have no time to be lidgety. He who is fol.
lowing his plough, will not be breaking
windows with the mob. Little is gained BY
oVertbrowing aud sweeping away an idol,
unless you restore the idea, of which il is
the shell and sedin 2nt. Nor will you find
any plan so effective for keeping folks from
doing harm, as teaching them to emplov
their faculties in doing good. and giving
them plenty of good work to do.-[Guesses
at Truth.
Year: 1860

FOURTH OF JULY-The Committee Of Ar
rangements for the celebration in the city
will meet, we understand, this evening, at
the City Hall. at o'clock. They request
the attendance of the Committees of the Fire
men and Rifles.


We are informed that everything has been
arranged so that there will be no clashing be
tween those who have charge of the proceed
ings in the city and those who have charge
of the proceedings at the Park.
Year: 1860

MORE slLvER-A party of prospeetors
have left the town of Los Angeles to explore
region of country about two hundred miles
east of that place, where it is said very rich
silver discoveries have recently been made
The mines are near the Colorado river, a
little north of Fort Yuma.
Year: 1860

Gorp HUNTING EXPEDITION TO BHERING
Standardization has been made Of an expe.
dition which was fitting up in San Francisco,
to sail for Bhering Straits. the object being
to look for gold. The Telegram of Tuesday
says:


The vessel "a achooner) sails to day, with
ten men or board, and will proceed to about
sixty five north latitude, on the American
coast. As an item of interest, we will give
the history of events leading to this expedi-
ton. In the year 1850 u whale ship touched
on the coast, and several men landed. In a
ravine the second watch and one of the boat
steerers discovered large quantities of yellow
metal, several specimens Of which they took
on board, one Of them laughiugly remarking
to the captain that they had discovered a
gold mine. None of the parties had seen
gold in its natural state, and they were so
ignorant of metals as to pronounce the metal
brass The specimens we're kicked aboLt the
deck as refuse matter, and nothing more was
thought of the discovery until year or two
later, when she second mate happened to be
in Australia, and saw the gold from the
mines. It's close resemblance to the mineral
discovered on the northwest coast, satisfied



several attempts TO get up an expedition, but
every one laughed at him for his folly
Meantime the captqin had written home to a
brother, mentioning the discovery, and APP
pointing to meet him in California. The
captain, however, died, but the story of the
| discovery became known to some parties in
this city, who, for the last seven years, have
endeavored to find some one who could point
out the locality A month or so since they
were fortunate enough to find one Of the Off
GERS of the vessel first alluded to- who was
enabled to designate the exact locality. a
Joint stock company was then formed, yes
sci chartered, and the Jasons are now afioat
in search of their golden fleece. Only two
men in the company knew the exact spot
where the gold is said to have been diseov'
cred, and the captain of the vessel was not
made acquainted with it until the vessel had
made sail One great drawback is that the
earth in the gold country is covered with
snow most of the year. The company. how
ever. expect to be able to mine during the
month of August-say fer thirty days
which they calculate is sufficient time to fill
the schooner. BY the first of October we
shall probably learn what fortune the adven
turers have met with. 1t is stated that the
Indians in that country have frequently been
known to have gold in their possession, and
that the Russian Fur Company has obtained
from them considerable quantities of the met.
al in the way of trade.
Year: 1860

The following piece of poetry was mysterious
Is found in our copy drawer the other day. 1t
Is petrioticaily good If any one has seen it
before they can perhaps tell who wrote it. The
signature on the copy is uncertain.


Who bears the Blame