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Year: 1859

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In view Of the uncertainty attending the operations of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company the Associated Press
have adopted effective organize efficient
and permanent news establishment at Cape Race N f.
and there good 70 expect that from and after the
lst Of May very large majority Of all the European
steamers will bo boarded by the news collectors Of the
Associated Press off that point The and officers
rangements Of the association will be upon liberal
scale that hardly fail TO obtain the from Eu
rope in from five to days. and very regularly after
next May. The public therefore, will regard the
arrival OF steamers at Halifax and Portland In the same
light as they now look upon an arrival Of Cunard
steamer ut Boston.
Year: 1859

4~ The Lafayette Courier reports sim
gular case Of somnambulism which occur
red in that city on Wednesday night last,
the subject icing a respectable married lady
She was observed by countryman on his
way to market, between twelve and one
o'clock i'll the morning, pacing to and fro
in front of Lahrs Hotel, and from her sim
gular attire ant strange movements, he came
to the conclusion that she was walking in
her sleep. The countryman, with view
OF protecting her from harm, followed her
10 her home. She entered by the front door
OF her residence. and was heard carefully to
lock the door. The name of the lady, for
obvious reasons, is withheld. $50
Year: 1859

A SENSIBLE WIFE-Mrs. Smith Why
do allow my husband to smoke in the
house, Bless me. Mrs. Brown, would not
stop him for the world Do you know that
when he is angry with mc-when We have
been having word or two together. as |
suppose the best Of husbands and wives oc.
casionaly have--he rushes to his cigar, and
leaves me for good hour to myself 1t
seems to relieve him, and saves me an infini.
ty Of blowing up. After be has smoked it,
can assure you the poor creature is quite
mild and sometimes he will come up, and
actually beg my pardon. The fuming that
should have got is bestowed elsewhere.
| look upon q cigar as the best friend wo-
man has, and I'm positive, too, that its the
saving Of an immensity of swearing. After
all volley Of smoke isn't hall so offensive
as volley Of oaths Good gracious me,
only to think what beasts some men would
be without their filthy tobacco! There
would be no going near them. | declare
When oil is said and done, my dear, smoke
take my word for it, is q very fine thing
|, cures many bad temper. and preserves
many sweet one :"
Year: 1859

WHAT Thar" WAS FoR.-Among my
little friends there is Eve year old boy who
is very phiosophically inclined. He israre-
ly satisfied with the TACT that thing I
but be wants to know all the why's and
wherefores of its existence. The other day
Joe was watching with eager interest the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the body corporate Of a
defunct pig. lie interrupted the operator
with many questions as to the precise object
and bearing OF the different members, as he
saw them separated one from another. ri
nally. the corpse was in the condition Of ma.
ny Of our live politicians-it had lost its
back bone. Little Joe regarded this dis
jected member with close attention for tew
minutes, and then exclaimed, with an air o
triumph:


Il know what that's for !"


What" asked the dissector Of the hog


Why" said the boy, that is to hitch
the tail TO r
Year: 1859

If you want to know your falts, ask your
enemies what they are, and you will be told.
If there is broken place in your coat of
mail, they will discover it and thrust in a
spear there. They will pierce you between
the joints of your harness.


The above, or something like it, was i'm
pressively uttered in our hearing, and it set
us upon rejecting upon what our enemies
had said. Perhaps some people think that
one must needs be wicked to hare enemies.
No, no-there is not man nor woman on
earth (unless they are sappiy good, per-
sons of no force or character) who has not
at least one enemy. It is no credit to man
to have it truly said of him, "He has not
an enemy in the world"


That saying would do very we'll to mark
upon the gravestone of babe or an idiot
but We were recalling some of the sayings OF
our enemies.


We we're created with network Of nerves
outside as well as one inside, and could al
ways feel quickly when any one hated or
meant to harm u.s. Our mother early taught
us that revenge was wicked, and what our
mother taught was never forgotten or dis.
regarded, or else, it is to be feared, we should
have become revengeful mortal, for there
always was a strong, 6rece tiger chained
within us, and the impulse to resent afronts
was invariably hot and impetuous. The
clear and efectual aoay was always instantly
opened up before our mental vision, and a
time of it we sometimes had to hold our
selves back and down, and To be quiet learn
ers from the spite and malice of our enemies.


By the help that is offered to all, however,
we did it.; and although we by no means be.
lieved that all the hard things said Of and
to us were true, yet so sensitive were we
Year: 1859

Faculty are all liberal.minded men; and in
the. spirit of that beautiful charity which
s'seeketh not her own," they strive only for
the elevation and improvement of the Be'
male mind; the only distinctions being those
with regard to meritand good conduct. May
the Institution at its opening in the middle
of August next, meet with that patronage
it has so we'll merited MOUNT HOPE.
Year: 1859

ToBAcco.-From rare book, printed in


1858, called Sylvia sylvarum, or Natural


History by Francis Bacon, (Lords Veru-


lam,) we copy the following extract:


Tobacco is thing of great price, if it be
in request; for an acre of it will be worth
Gas afirmed) two hundred pounds by the
year, towards charge. The charge of making
the ground by and otherwise is great, but
nothing to the profit. But the English to.
bacco hath small credit, as being too dull
and earthly; nay, the VirgiDian tobacco,
though that be in hotter climate, can get
us credit for the same cause; so that trial
to make tobacco more aromatieal and better
concocted here in England were thing of
great profit Some have gone about to do
it by drenching the English tobacco in a de-
coction or infusion of Indian tobacco; but
those are but sophistifcations and toys, for
nothing that is once perfect and hath run
his race can receive much amendment You
must ever resort to the beginnings of things
for melioration. The way to maturation of
tobacco must, as in other plants, be from the
heat either of the earth or of the same. We
see some leading of this in musk.melons,
which are sowed upon hot bed, manured
below, upon bank turned to the south sun,
to give heat by reflection, laid upon tiles,
which increaseth the heat, and covered with
straw to keep them from the cold. They're
move them also, which addeths some life, and
by these helps they become as good in Eng
land as in Italy or Province. These and
the like means may be tried in tobacco
Enquire also of the sleeping Of the roots in
some such liquor as may give them vigor
to put forth strong
Year: 1859

wT The Journal casts dirty and shameful
fling at the new hydraut on the corner Of Tue
public square, On the ground that the drinking
cups are block tin. The paragrapher would nn-
doubtedly prefer lager beer mugs.
Year: 1859

- We were glad to learn yesterday that
should no unfayorable change intervene, the
little son Of Newton Chaplin recently run over
by a State street horse CIT, will recover, aud
that without The loss of his injured limbs.
Year: 1859

BA poor inebriatc-James Smith-was
picked up drunk on the Court House Square,
yesterday, in m almost hte1ess condition lit
tie more exposure to the solar action would
have settled his earthly afIairs forever
Year: 1859

a certain lady spinster, who had long
since passed her teens and arrived at a
certain age, became very desirous of oh.
tanning husband. All her little arts of
ogling. smiling and looking beautiful at
the beaux, had ever and anon ended in
appointment and failed to procure the
much desired matrimonial connexion.
At length, as dernier resort she resolv-
ed to pray for husband. Not wishing
to be heard in the pious performance, she
retired to the dense thicket of neigh
boring forest. where long and loud and
earnestly she uttered her pious petitions
for husband.


An Owl, who previously had sought
the same solitary forest to while away
the sunny hours, happened to sit perch
ed directly over her head. The Owl be-
ing at length disquieted BY her long low
and fervent prayer, raised himself upon
his perch and uttered his customary
screech WHO -hoo-hoo.o


Our heroine, supposing her prayer an
swered from above and thinking the in.
terrogation was who the happy man
should be, with eyes swimming with
pleasure and bosom swelling with de-
light,very modestly and submissively re-
piled


"Any body, good Lord


FAcETUs.


Ellsworth, Feb. II, 1858.
Year: 1859

Hope once told a flattering tale,n


Of bobbing with minnow's to catch whale
| baited my hook so new and bright,
And fished to the left and fshed 10 the rieh''
But never a whale came there to bite
Year: 1859

ball, and openly put the latter into the pistol.
BY pressing the wad tightly down, the wax
broke into small pieces, and could not touch me
at the distance | stood. At the moment the
pistol was fred, opened my mouth to display
the lead bullet held between my teeth, while
the other pistol contained the bullet filled with
blood. which, bursting against the wall, left its
imprint, though the wax bad flown to atoms"
Year: 1859

AFFECTING INCIDENr.-An English missionary
now in Sumatra, f. l., recently wrote that he had
Just had the melancholy satisfaction of examining
the oven in which his predecessor was cooked.
Year: 1859

SANDFORD'S ARCTIC IMPROVED.


We would invite notice the advertisement in
column ofthe NEW IMPROVED ARCTIC REFEIGERA-
TOR article wCry the particular attention of house
Keepers being handsomely finished, forming attractive
piece of furniture for dining room 1t is provided with
water and noveable shelves enabling compartments
to l greatly varied
articles, space for large free o bad OdOrS,
BE- kept dry dRd csaIy, lOH last many yrars, and
GUARANTEED To RETAIN ICE a GREATER LENGTH
OF TIME THAN ANY OTHER ARTICLE FOR THE PUR-
POSE NOW MADE


Each compartment is provided with distinct lock and
key that he kept private whilst the
is open to common use.


For sale only by
Year: 1859

The Athens (Tenn.) Post lately gave
circulation to rumor that there was
shortly to be meeting of prominent
Democrats of Louisiana, Mississippi, Vir-
ginia, Alabama and South Carolina, to
take counsel upon the condition of the
party, and to discuss the expediency of
letting the Charleston Convention 20 by
default. The party in the free States has
become so thoroughly freesoilized that
they utterly despair of electing sound
Democrat in 1860, and regard union
with the Southern Opposition and the con-
servative men Of the North and West as
the only means of defeating the Black
Republicans in the Presidential contest of
the approaching year. 1t is said the
movement only awaits the termination of
the elections in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Should the Opposition carry those two
States-of which there is now but little
doubt-it will Immediately 90 forward.


In confirmation of this rumor, the Pc
tersburg Intelligehcer says that, in re-
cent conversation with Democratic edi-
tor from Mississippi he spoke surprising
ly Indifferent about the Convention
When he was asked what his party in
tended to do with the question Of ~inter-
vention' in theCharleston Convention, he
very frankly remarked, "We don't intend
to have any Charleston Convention we
(the Southern Democracy don't intend
to appoint delegates to go near the city OF
Charleston. We believe that the South
will have no chance Of obtaining anything
l;I-a .nsk.oa IN hat hn1xv ,,I g L.
South will not participate in it," Such is
the substance, if not the very words, of q
Democratic editor in the extreme South
How far they may have been induced by,
or what connection it may have had with,
the above movement, is more than he can
say. 1t is certain, however, from all we
can learn, that the extreme Southern De
mocracy cannot be brought under Domin
ion to Douglas and his odious squattel
sovereignty. They regard the party as
'disorganized by the abolitionism within
its own ranks" and justly concluding
that even Republicanism itself could MOI
be more inimical to their peculiar insti
tuition, they are determined to be no
longer pleased with rattle or tickled with
straw They intend to cut loose from
those who, vaunting themselves to be the
only national party do not hesitate to use
the possession of power to the disadyant-
age Of the South and to "e.rteasioR Of III,
fe{d of free llbor' We conclude, there
fore, that the new political movement
above referred to is not AT all Improbable
and only hope that it may result in
strengthening the great Union Conserva-
tive party of the country, who are destined
to wrcst the government from those who
have misused their power-a party whose
patriotic labors will be potential in giving
new lease of life to our glorious Union
-LouisriHe Journal
Year: 1859

From he Springfield Eass.) RcpuJtcall


/ wish to say a few words to "whom it
may concern" on the use of the swing
one of the gymnastic exercises-as pre-
ventive and cure of pulmonary disease
l mean the suspending Of the body by the
hands by means of strong rope or chain
fastened to a beam at one end and at the
other a stick three feet long, convenient
TO grasp with the hands. The rope should
be fastened to the centre of the stick,
which should hang six or eight inches
above the head. Let person grasp this
stick, with the hands two or three feet
apart, and swing very moderately at first
/ perhaps only bear the weight, if very
weak-and gradually increase, as the
muscles gain strength from the exercise,
until it may be freely used from three to
FIVE times daily. The connexion of the
arms with the body with the exception
of the clavicle, with the sternum or breast
bone) being a muscular attachment to the
ribs, the effect of this exercise is to elevate
the ribs and enlarge the chest and, as
nature allows no vacuum, the lungs ex
pand to Eli the cavity, increasing the
volume of air-the natural purifier of the
blood-and preventing congestion or the
deposit of tubernulous matter. have
prescribed the above for allcases of hemor-
rhagc of the lungs and threatened con-
sumption for thirty years, and have been
able to increase the measure of the chest
from two to four inches within few
months, and always with good results
But especially as a preventative | would
recommend this exercise Let those who
love life cultivate well formed, capacious
chest The student the merchant the
sedentary, the young of both sexes-aye
all should have swing upon. which toE
stretch themselves daily, and am morally
certain that if this were to be practiced
by the rising generation, in dress allow !
ing free and full development of the
body, thousands, yes tens of thousands |
would be saved from the ravages of that
dPproJriam medicorum consumption.


Holyoke, June 8, 1859.


LAWSON LONG, NJ. D.
Year: 1859

The Sacramento Union, of the 18th
nst., strikes out with a novel idea of
sovereignty" Its idea is that the
people ofa territory are sovereign that
sovereignty is inherent in society, and
quotes Licber in support of the position.
We extract from the Union


when the people of Territory form
constitution, organize a State. apply
for admission, and new State is ad-
mitted, the people thereof then accept
the constitution of the United States for
themselves. Previous to that time they
really occupy the position of an inde-
pendent community in which the power
of legislation is lodged with the major
ty, unrestricted by constitution


This is really strange doctrine. We
will suppose the United States should
acquire Cuba by conquest or purchase.
By virtue of the inherent rights of the
millions of Spanish and mixed breeds
of the island, they have the right to
place themselves again under the Span
ish crown. The government of the
United States and the constitution do
not go there, according to the Union's
argument, but the people, enemies
though they may be to the American
government, can exercise acts of SOW.
ereignty as they please, and stay out of
the Union forever. The United States
having no ownership of lands in the
Island have no rights there, or none
worth having.


1t is useless to argue this question:
Clearly when the United States pur-
chase a foreign country, like Cuba, they
acquire all the rights of the former own
er to the country, among the rest abso-
lutte sovereignty-such sovereignty as
pertains to the Spanish crown-as much
of which they can relinquish to the
people of the newly acquired territory
as is consistent with the interes: of the
owner. That the United States can
acquire populous country, every acre
of which is owned byindividuals-which
leaves nothing but sovereignty to pur-
chase-paying millions for what is in
herent in the people and for what can
not be obtained, is absurd, to say the
least.
Year: 1859




We are about to receive an extraordi
nary influx Of politicians from the East
Denver, Broderick, McKibben and Gwin
are reported, about to arrive. when a
political warfare must commence in real
earnest. Warm times are likely to en-.
sue from the embittered state of the dem
ocratic factions. 1t is qnite certain from
the recent debate in the United States
Senate that no compromise will be en-
tertained by either faction. The deter
mination seems to be upon an open and
undisguised warfare between the lead
ers of the party wings. As in the last
election, the southern wing through
their organs, are striving to mask the
true issue. Already the Sacramento
Standard. we'll knowing the unpop-
ularity in this State of congressional
slave code for the Territories in opposi-
tion to the will of the people themselves,
is busy in taking no position, in disguis-
ing its real attitude, the more effectually
to bring unimportant questions into play
in the coming canvass. The same game
is apparent in the course of the S. F.
National 1t is pretty well understood
where these papers properly belong,
and where they would be arrayed were it
not for an astute policy, founded on the
opinions ofthe people they have to deal
with, which they deem it wise to consult.
The indications are that the lines will
not be tightly drawn, nor positions so
SOU arely taken in the next election here
as the late debate in the Senate would
seem to indicate and warrant. We shall
expect side questions Of no moment, and
WHICH really do not belong in the can
vass, to be forced to occupy the fore
ground in the next contest. 1t is the
policy ofthe administration wing of the
Democracy. More can he made polite
ally by an abuse of Br derrick, by turgid
appeals to the masses to stand by the
President and the party, by attempting
to cast odium upon the opposition for
the defeat in the late Congress of cer-
tain measures, than on the real issue
between the wings of the Democracy,
which is no other than the interminable
slavery question.
Year: 1859

CHIEF JUSTICE TANEy has delivered
an important opinion of the U. S. Su-
preme Court, in the case of the United
States Us. Sherman il. Booth. The
case involved the right of State courts
to release, on habeas corpus, parties in
custody under process of the United
States for offences against the laws of
the United States. This was done by
the Court below, in the instance of an
arrest at Milwaukee, Wis, under judg-
ment by the U. S. District Court for a
violation Of the Fugitive Slave law
The conduct of the court below was
held to be totally illegal and virtually
revolutionary. The Supreme Cour.
hold that the Marshal had right, and it
was his duty, to resist by force any such
interference on the part of the State
powers; and that the Fugitive Slave
act was clearly constitutional. The
opinion is understood to have been unan-
imous. 1t must put an end for the flu
ture to all the objections against the
constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave
law.
Year: 1859

Masculine and Feminine.-Punch
slandously says "The sun is called
masculine, from its supporting and sus-
tanning the moon, and finding her the
wherewithal to shine away as she does
of a night, and from his being obliged to
keep a family of stars. The moon is
feminine, because she is constantly
changing. just like a ship blown about
by every wind. The Church is femi-
nine, because she is married to the State;
and time is masculine, because he is tri-
fled with by the ladies'
Year: 1859

The PANORAMA of the Crimean War
was exhibited Friday and Saturday
nights T. y6saaatx4 at the Theatre. The
weather caused many to stay a. home,
who would otherwise have been out
Those who saw the painting say it is a
good one and worth seeing. 1t was
exhibited last night at Grass Valley,
with what success we have not learned
Year: 1859

EXTRA SESSION OF CoNGREss.-Th
St. Louis correspondent of the s. f.
National, says:


1t is now certain that an extra session
of Congress will be called. This is alb
solutely necessary. on account of the
confused condition in which Congress
left the exchequer of the nation, and
the responsibility of which belongs to
the Republicans with Grow at their
head, in the House, aided by no less a
man than Hon. Robert Toombs, in the
Senate. The session will not convene
till after the August elections, if the
interest of the Post Office Department
will admit of its postponement till then.
The whole matter will be definitely
determined in shor: time.
Year: 1859

NorcE IS HEREBY GIVEN Int the Taxes charged on the following chof shall be sufficient pay the penalty and cost charged thereon will

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