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Year: 1859

MURDER TRTAL.-On Friday, in the case of
Green C. Palmer on trial at Stockton for the
murder of Benson, the jury came into Court
and stated they found it impossible to agree.
They were discharged
Year: 1859

RECENT advices received from the Kansas
gold mines, state that new and rich discuve-
ries have been made some distance south of
the present diggings. Building was being
vigorously prosecuted in Denver city.
Year: 1859

The people, or. more properly, perhaps,
the politicians of New York are inclined to
revive the agitation of project for uniting
and consolidating New York and Brooklyn
into one grand Metropolis.
Year: 1859

II CORRESPONDENT OF UIIe DUIIeIn WrlLIng
from Salt Lake. says:


Judge Cradlebaugh is about going to Car
son Valley, to remain. He tells me that he
could take several wagon loads of the extra
wives of the Mormons, of the youngest class.
who have asked him to take them off, and it
would delight his kind heart to do so. lie
would give them the transportation himself,
but he does not know what to do with them.
How completely this illustrates the difficult
ty of getting away from this Cesspool City
Year: 1859

R83 A lady entered Broadway stage dal
or two since, and took seat beside an elegant
ly dressed man, upon whose third finger was
large brilliant of great cost. She was judgl
of diamonds, and sat admiring it for some min
utes. On alighting from the bus at Tiffany s
whittier she was bound she found that he
pocket-book had been stolen while she sat il
the stage. Upon describing the elegant gen.
tleman, he was at once set down as the opera
tor, but the bus had gone on, and among hun.
dred in the street, the lady could not have pick
ed it out moment after she left it. In despair
she mourned the loss of her cash, about $50
and abstractedly feeling in her empty pocket
her finger caught a ring which did not belong
to her. Drawing it out, it proved to be the
identical one she had seen and admired, which
had slipped from the finger of the rascal wher
he lad his hand in her pocket. Tiffany told th'
lady it could not have cost less than $500.
Year: 1859

INDIANS EXAMINING THE g SWIFT WAGoNn-A
correspondent who has recently crossed from
the Pacific on the overland route, says: The
Indians of the Cherokee nation are very anxious
to have the route through their territory. They
call the mail coach the swift wagon A dep
utation from the heads of the nation have wait
ed upon the Great Chief Butter6eld of the
swift wagon, as they call him, and asked him
to run the wagons through their country. They
are rich and great slave holders, owning more
niggers then their neighbors in Arkansas. Their
country is beautiful one. They are jealous of
the whites, fearing-it is probable-that they
will be driven from their homes. The Canaan
ches and interior Indians, look upon the swift
wagon with great curiosity and wonder. They
have shown no malice or ill will as yet. Some
six hundred of them lately stopped the mail
coach and surrounded it. They wished to see
the swift wagon and what WAS in it, They
detained it five or six hours, until each had in
spected it-looked under the seats-turned over
the mail bags-felt of them-looked at the
wheels, poles, harness and trappings, to their
satisfaction, with many an interjection Ugh p
ugh 7 They then told the conductor to go on
with the swift wagon here many an ugh =
was grunted with satisfaction but, ugh no
raitroad-no railroadr and all grunted hearty


ugh! of appreciation and comment"
Year: 1859

RoBBING BRIDE OF HER BED.-The st. Louis
Democrat is responsible for the following:


"At Layers boarding house in St. Louis, an
unusually merry wedding came off on Tuesday
night, and the dance was prolonged till past one
in the morning. The bride and groom then re-
paired to their apartment, but-horribie visu =
the bed and bedding had been sacrilegiously
stolen from the nuptial bedstead Some vim
dictive wretch had gained felonious ingress at
the rear, and effected robbery unparalleled in
the history of matrimony. It is coniectured that
so fell vengeance could only have been devised
and executed by some disappointed lover of the
bride.


"Lives there man with soul so dead


Who never to himself hath said,"


The scamp who stole that bridal bed


Deserves to live and die unwed,


With maidens old TO punch his head.
Year: 1859

LAUGA BOYS, LAUGH.-Dr Griffiths, when
President of Andover Theological Seminary,
convened the students in his room one evening,
and told them that he bad observed that they
were all growing thin and dyspeptic from a
neglect of the duty of laughter, and be insisted
upon it that they should ge through company
drill in it, then and there. The doctor was an
immense man, with great amplitude of chest,
and most ministerial manner. Here" be said
to the first, "you must practice; now hear me )
and bursting into a sonorous laugh, he fairly
obliged his pupils one by one, to join, till all
were convused. THAT will do for once" said
the doctor; :" and now mind you keep it up"
Year: 1859

R6 A beautiful truth is contained in thes
lines


There's not hearth, however rude,
But hath some little flower
To brighten up its solitude,


And scent the evening hour;
There's not heart, however cast
By grief and sorrow down,
But hath some memory of the past
To love, and call his own
Year: 1859

I CAROLINE MEHL, Of the city Of Narysvils,
i county OF Nuba AMI State of California, wife 4
Charles Mehl do hereby declare and make known that
II is my intention to carry on aud transact Busnes
for the future, in my name, as Sole Trader in the
county Of Nuha and elsewhere in said State that NV
said Business will be the Manufacture and sale of
Bread and Crackers, in all the branches of said Busi-
ness. also hereby further declare and say that
wl from the date hereof, be individually RESPONSE
Die in my own ma ne for any debts contracted by
account Of said business and that neither the sur
plus Of capital over five thousand dollars, mr. any
part OF the capital invested in said business has
from any fuads or property belonging to my husband


CAROLINE NEIL.
Year: 1859

FLEAs.-When flea is made to ap
pear, under microscope, as large as
an elephant, we can see all the wonder
full parts of its formation, and are aston
ished to find that it has coat of armor
much mere complete than ever a war
rior wore, and composed of strong pol
ished plates fitting over each other:
each plate colored like tortoise she'll :;
and where they meet, hundreds of strong
quills project, like those on the back of
the porcupine or hedgehog There is
the arched neck. the bright eyes, and
transparent ears; piercers to puncture
the skim a sucker to draw away the
blood; six long jointed legs, four of
which are folded on the breast, ready
at ary moment to be thrown out with
immense force for that Jump which both
ers one when we wisl to catch him :;
and at the end of each = hooked claws.
to enable him to cling tight to whatever
he lights upon. A flea can leap hun
dred times his own length, which is the
same as if a man could to heighth of
600 feet and be can draw a load 200
times his own weight, which is the same
as if mar could carry 20, 200 or 10000
pounds.
Year: 1859

The PROPOSED ATTACHMENT LAW
The press is greatly exercised with the
return to the old attachment law, pro-
posed by Senator Merritt. As hereto-
fore the newspapers generally favor the
present law over the old one. Two
years ago when the public sentiment
was at its height against the old law,
two clever lawyers were editors of this
paper. They alone welded the pen in
favor of the old law, among all their
brother scribblers. The wisdom oftheir
course we do not at this moment doubt
Public sentiment may in other portions
of the State be adverse to a return to
the OLD law, but we claim to know the
opinion of business men of Neveda, and
to speak it when we say they would re-
.jolce to see the old law reenacted. We
believe this sentiment to be almost uni
yersal among mercantile men. Nothing
can be collected under the present law
unless by chance.


Because rascalty was perpetrate ed
under the old law, i is no reason why it
should be condcmued Ali Iaus and
all human acts are liable to abuse
That law is best which protects men in
their business, and secures to each his
proper rights, which compeis justice if
honesty is not intended We conceive
that the present attachment law offers
more loop holes for the escape Of the
dishonest than the former, and if we are
to have laws for the collection of debt,
let us have them effectlye-not mere
cob-webs, catching the less harmless
of insects but allowing the larger ones
to break through and away.
Year: 1859

OUR BEST PARLoRs.-Don't keen a
solemn parlor, into which you go but
once month. with the parson or sewing
society. Hang around your walls pic
lures which shall tell stories of mercy.
hope, courage, faith, and charity. Make
your living room the largest and most
cheerful in the house. Let the place
be such that when your boy has gone
to distant lands, or even when, perhaps,
he clings to single plank in The lonely
waters of the wide ocean, the thought
of the still homestead shall come across
the desolation, bringing always light,
hope and love. Have no dungeon about
your house-no room you never open
no blinds that are always shut.


TX Marrel
Year: 1859

fg'A neighbor of Col Baker, the warrior states man of Windham, tells the following story

 Ths Colonels old grindstone which had long done good service the farm having become pretty well worn down, he bought and brought home nice new one A poor neighbor- conceiving that the venerable Colonel could have no for them both but could get along very we'll with one--asked him to give him the old one. The proposal however, was not eagerly embraced, but was on the contrary positively negatived. An effort to buy the stone also failed, owing to disagreement between them regarding price and the man having asked for q stone and been given a decidedly cold shoulder, went away exceeding sorrowful.

 A day or two after the Colonel's nomination for Congress, he fell in with his neighbor, and after shaking hands and politely enquiring after each member of the independent electors family, he took occasion to say in the most friendly manner:

 .'By-the by, you was speaking to me the other day about all old grindstone of mine. don't know shall want it for anything, and if it will do you any good you can take it along with you any time when you are going by- It lies out there by the woodpile''

 The Col paused to receive the warm thanks which he felt his noble conduct deserved, but triie set back by the following blunt response:

 Better Keep t yoursep, Colonel youue got mort aarss @ grind han Ihaue. s
Year: 1859

est wishes and fondcst hopes for his
country's good. In his later DAYS


some distinguished foreigners came
to visit him at Quincy. He met them
by arrangement at special hour, and
sat in a great chair in front Of tho
house under the shade of a tree. at
the beginning of the fight" asked ono
OF these men, "did you think you
should succeed? ~ Yes said the old
man." | knew the country would 60
through, but expected nothing but
ruin and death for my family and my.
self 1t was very true and charac:
teristic of the man.


The hatred against him has not vet
died away from old Federal families
and old Democratic Detraction is
still busy at its work. But after all
just deductions are made from his
conduct, it must be confessed that no
man had so high, so deep an influence
IN the great constructive work of
founding the best institutions in Amer
ica, and the Judgment of posterity on
him will be-A brave man, deed
thoughted, conscientious, patriotic, and
possessed of an integrity which never
shook, but stood as firm as the granite
Of Quincy Hills.


While American institutions contin.
ne, the people will honor brave, hon.
est old John Adams. who never failed
his country in her hour of need, and
who in his life of more than four score
and ten years, though both passionate
and ambitious, corrupted no woman
and no man.
Year: 1859

She flung her white arms around him an
acclaimed Thou art all that this poor hear
an cling to. -


could have stemmed misfortunc's tide
And borne the rich ones sncer,
Have braycd the naughty glance of pride
Nor shed single tear.
j could have smiled on every blow


From lifc's full quiver thrown.
While might gaze on thee, and know
| should not be g alone"
oould-I think could have brooked,
f en- for time, that thou
Upon my fading face hadst looked


With less of love than now
For then | should at least have felt
The sweet hope still my own,
To win the back, and while dwelt
On earth, not been alone"
But thus to see, from day to day.


Thy frightening eye and cheek,
And watch thy life sands waste away,
Cnnumbered, slowly, meek
To meet thy smiles of tenderness,
And catch the feeble tone
of kindness ever breathed to bless,
And feel, I'll be alone -
To mark thy strength each hour decay,
And yet thy hopes grow stronger.
As, filled with heavenward trust they say
Earth may not claim thee longer :"
Nay, dearest tbs too much-this heart
Must break, when thou art gone;
1t must not be we may not part;
could not live " alone "
Year: 1859

AS THE Champion No. was clearing the
wharf, yesterday morning, with pleasant
party on board, couple of lads, aged respec-
lively ten and fifteen years, attempted to at
tach skiff TO her stern, but by some means
they were thrown into the water, and would
have drowned had it not been for the assist
ance of several gentlemen who were on a float
near by at the time of the accident, and jumped
in just in time to rescue them from a watery
grave. .,I...
Year: 1859

UNUSUAL VIsIToRs-On Monday remnant
of the once powerful Cherokee tribe of Indi
ans visited our town, to sell their notions and
make some purchases Although they could
speak but little English, they excited good
deal of interest. Their tribe once possessed
this whole region of country, and it was ma
tural for us to desire to look upon the descen
dants of those who once trod the war path
and sounded the war-whoop upon our hills.
The Cherokees are rather handsome people,
and unlike most of the Indians we have seen,
have frank, open countenance A few more
years will land them in the happy hunting
grounds


The above appears in the Pendleton Is. c.
Messenger, whereupon the Fayetteville Ar
kansian, published on the borders of the
Cherokee Nation, as follows:


We will inform the Pendleton Messenger
that the CherokEes are not just ready as yet,
for the hunting ground" There are 10000
of them alive and kicking close to us, among
whom one of the editors of this paper ranks.
AS evidence that they are yet great people
we will state, for the especial information of
the Messenger, that the Cherokces own finer
land than is to be found in all South Carroll.
ma; that there are men among them worth a
half million of dollars, and that two only OF
their school houses cost $4,000.


As to their beauty, the Messenger is alto
gether right. Some of the ladies are bewitch-
lngly beautiful and always carry quiver
full of arrows.
Year: 1859

BITTEN BY RATTLEsNAKE.-A man was
recently bitten by rattlesnake in the vicin
ity of Dogtown, Butte county. The Record
says the reptile was huge one, with fangs
half an inch in length, which were fastened
into the victims hand, tearing the flesh in
frightful manner We learn that the attend
ing physician was fearful that it would re-
suit in death. We did not learn the mans
name.
Year: 1859

CARSON VALLEY.-The Territorial Enter
prise of May 2Sth, has the following:


Carson river has been much swollen for
several days past, exceeding the capacity of
its banks, filling the sloughs and flooding the
country near the river to considerable ex-
tent-almost the entire length of the valley.
The water has filled the sloughs on either
side of the bridge, rendering crossing some
what difficult, and scarcely a day passes but
we hear of some Walkers river adyenturcr
b'ing called upon to try the merits of cold
bath


Capt. Simpson and party, with our towns
man, John Reese, as guide from Salt Lake,
were about fifty miles south of Gravely Ford
when the stage passed, and will probably ar
rive here in ten days from the present date.
There are fifteen wagons in the company.
The mail party passed drove of Que thou
sand head of cattle going to California, by
way of Honey Lake.


We are authorized to say that Judge Child
will open his Court next week, for the trans
action of business.


Reports from the mines on Walkers river
still continue of the most favorable character
Year: 1859




DINING WITH THE LORD MAYOR OF LoNDoN.-At
the appointed time, before six o'clock was on the
ground In the parlor Were two venerable old
gentlemen and two young men, brothers These
with myself, were the invited guests. Very soon
the doors We're thrown open and in the Lord
Mayor, preceded by an under-sherih, followed bv
the Lord High Sheriff, the Barons in their wigs and
gowns, the Recorder and eight or ten Aldermen
The High Sheriff is also appointed BY and from the
Aldermanic corps They all wear robes similar to-
though not so gorgeous as the Mayor. The High
Sheriff, in addition, wears immense gold chain
about his neck to which is attached a rOsette sev-
eral inches in diameter, made of gold and precious
stones. One other person must not be omitted,
he was second only in Importance at the dinner
table to the Mayor, and that the Ordinary
(chaplain) of Newgate Prison.


Americans are curious to know the social habits
and manners of all the world, so | proceed with
details. The Mayor shakes hands with his guests
announces the name and residence any one who
may be unknown to the company, and in process
sion proceed to the drawing-room


The table was in the shape of a cross; the Mayor
at the head, the Chaplain at the foot, the High
Sheriff at the end Of the right wing, the Recorder
at the left. After the customary services by the
Chaplain, turtle soup was served. have never
tasted turtle soup in America that would at all
compare with this. 1t was said at the table that
the price or cost of each plate was about seventy
five cents of our money. After this came fish,
ooled ana roast meats, game, pastry, fruits and
connections There was nothing SNOWY or preten-
tious, but everything served was the best of its
kind During the dinner, which lasted three hours.
and was considered very short one, owing to a
previous illness OF the Mayor, which did not allow
him to sit the usual time, all talked in the most
kindly and familiar planner. All distinctions of
position ceased, or if such distinctions were main
tanned, it was only for the convenience and pleasure
of the company. The wines served were sherry,
claret hook and port. After the cloth was re-
moved, the Lord Mayor proposed several loyaI
toasts, one or two of which very curious, and
by immemorial custom are required to be drank at
his tahlp.
Year: 1859

ToRoNTo, G. W, March Ig.-The new tariff was
carried through the committee last night, with
few alterations, consented to by the Inspector
General, the most important of which are that
the new duty on tea and green coffee does not
come into effect until the first of January, 1860
the rate then to be l5 per cent ad valorem, and
the new duty on sugar commences on the first of
July next the rate to be 80 40 per cent, accord
ing to quality.
Year: 1859

The Cape Ann Advertiser learns that the average
catch of fish on Georges this season win far exceed
that OF any previous Most vessels get large
fares. There are probably more fish in Gloucester
now than ever before at any time.
Year: 1859

IoOK Tor some sensible man for the next pies;dene


"A sound man, | would rather he had no plat
form | do not want to run him in blinds / con
Tess to you that, in my opinion, my colleagu
(hr. Crittenden) would Of all men on the face o


he earth suit me the best. If you will give hin
tho chunce, | will risk him upon my personal con
hdence, without laying down creed Of faith fol
him 10 90 by do not want to stand man upor
a platform, or run him in blinds.


Besides these platforms are all nonsense. lie
the say to my friend the Senator from New York
IL lie should ever get to be President, want him
to recollect that this platform business is ali hum
bug and when he gets in power to kick down the
ladder 10y which he got there. The two last plat


form Presidents we have had, when they got into
the car OF State and safely seated, all around, eve
rywhere, you could see, 'do not stand on the plat
form when the cars are in notion" Laughter.
That is the way they manage it. There is always
some emergency, or something to justify depar
ture from it. Well, sir, hope shall be forgiven
have been to four or FIVE conventions myself on
account OF Mr.. Clay, chiefly, and once believe
on account of my colleague, to keep him out of q
scrape of some sort, and know good deal abou,
them. In the time was in politics, and we were
dominant, always knew long time before the
convention came on who would be Governor. Ii
used to be said that you never could know who
was Governor until the election was over but ii
was all fixed up-all done in advance. wish the
country to get on prosperously and peacefully and
g'oriously, without any slavery agitation. l want
pan Of sound heart and sound head, who will
administer the government With that view | can
say for myself as was said by the immortal Web
ster that trust that it will be one and indivisble,
now and forever and that the God who overrules
US and guides now, ss heretofore, and as | hope
for ages to come, will so shape our ends that all
will result in good
Year: 1859

In the last annual report of the Pa. A. s. So.
cie'y, we find the following concise statement of
the principles and measures of Disunion Aboli,
tionists, calculated as well for the meridian Of
Ohio, and other Western States, as for Penn.
sylyania.


"What our principles are may be thus stated


"Slavery is o sin against Cod and on outrage
upon man.


Liberty is the inalineable prerogative of every
human being.


| Unconditional emancipation Is the immediate
duty of the master and instant right of the
slave.


"The colored man is, before God. and should
be before the law,n all respects our equal brother.


"The exemplifcation of these principles in our
own conduct, and their faithful application, by
constitute our measures.
1.-The end of our enterprise Seng nothing
less than the entire abolition Of slavery, We
cannot identify ourselves or take part with any
political organization, the object of which is me.
rely to localize or limit the atrocious system on
the contrary, we feel bound to combat and resist
all such organizations as compromising the cause
of freedom and operating to retard its tripmph.


Regarding the colored man as our equal broth
er, We can have fellowship with those
Churches which allow him to be held as a slave,
or which withhold from him any of the rights to
which, as a man, he is entitled on the contrary.
looking upon those Churches as the unfruitful
works of darkness we feel bound rather to reproyo
them.


believing that slaveholding is q sin against
God and an outrage upon man. we can Mother
hold our fellow beings in bondage ourselves, nor
aid others in committing that crime. We cannot.
therefore, assent to, or be parties under, a com.
pact which, like that of the Federal Constitution,
binds Pennsylvania and the other free States to
aid the South in retaining her slaves requiring
them to deliver up the fugitive to strike down the
insurgent, and TO concede to the stakeholder an
extra proportion Of political power. On the con.
trary, We feel called upon by every motive of con.
sistency and duty to denounce that compact as an
iniqutous bargain. an unholy covenant. league
with oppressors, unworthy of respect and fit only
to be broken. Our watchword is No liberation
of slavery anywhere or for any purpose our
motto, "NoUnion with Shareholders, religious or
political"


"a faithful adherence TO these principles. fear
essly mainlaining and sealously propagatin them.
we regard as the best means of promoting the
cause, end accomplishing the ends Of this Sos
ciety.