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Year: 1860

We are informed by private letter, that
a Call is in circulation in Gibson county,
and being numerously signed, requesting
Judge DEBRULER to allow the use of his
name for the Congressional race in this Dis
trict, in opposition to Judge Law.


A similar Call is also in circulation here
obtaining signatures rapidly. A host of
the best names in the County will be at
tached to it.


We expect to hear of such requests to
Judge DeBruler, to become candidate, be-
ing sent him from every County in the Dis
trict.


The people seem desirous of having some
consistent and reliable man 10 cast their
votes for-some one who can be depended on
as an opponent of the proscriptive, corrupt,
and SlAvery-exteuding dynasty which now
controls the General Government. Judge
DeBruler, they think, is that man, and
hence there seems to be general uprising
in his favor. Although he is not seeking
| the Office, we do not think he can disregard
such appeals as will go up to him from most,
if not all, the counties of the District. We
confidently expect that he will allow the
use OF his name; and we know that if he
does, the Administration candidate will be
driven to the wall by his able antagonist
Judge Law would rather bave any other op-
ponent than L. Q. DeBruler.
Year: 1860

TRAVELLERS REGIsrER.-We have made
some additions to our register of public con-
veyances by adding on the Green river,
Newburg, and Henderson routes. We wish
to satisfy people at distance that when they
want to reach any of the places with which
we are in regular communication, they will
escape disappointment by coming through
E0GnsU.Ie. 1t is the interest of all to induce
travel to pass over the routes leading through
our city. -rr-e


The Green river boats are not now very
regular in their trips, but when the mail
line starts, there will be no complaint in
this respect.


If all the boats go into the Louisville
trade that are talked Of and another boat is
put in with the Dunbar to Paducah, we
shall have regular boats almost daily, both
up and down the river, besides the transient
boats. This will increase travel through
here greatly.
Year: 1860

CHANGE OF NANE.-Some one proposes
to "Grass Widowers' Retreat" Landlord
Byers had boarding with him last week
some half dozen poor unfortunate married
men whose wives had left them to buffet
alone with the troubles of life. Their friends
say they are the most lugubrious set of fell
lows in Christeudom, but we think them
the opposite. They are jolly, good-natured,
well-fed, and companiOnable. They seem
in high spirits-whether at their temporary
release from the bonds of matrimony, or in
anticipation of the good time coming"
we cannot say.


One of them turned deserter on Saturday,
and left town on the morning train to re-
capture his truant bird. Another set the
example several days before. The remnant
of the " unfortunates " VOW that they will
hold out faithful, but we already suspect
| one of design to turn traitor to the COM
mon cause. In fact, none of them can be
depended on in their adherence to single
blessedness, and before the summer is over,
they all will relapse into their former con-
dition as confirmed BeneGicts


1t is hoped that all young men will take
warning by this sad example, and be re-
minded by it, that if they once allow them
selves to become entrapped in the silken
meshes of matrimony, they are iuextricably
and hopelessly done for.' -
I Bachelors bachelors beware Of the day


When the women shall meet you in bridal array.
Year: 1860

PHILADELPHIA, June 9th.-The city is
astir with the preparations for the reception
of the japanese, which is to be magnificent
affair. All the public and many private
buildings on the route through which the
procession is to pass are gaily festooned with
the flags of Niphon and America. The streets
present gay appearance.
Year: 1860

p@- The " Hog Shdte" arrangement is
to be tried at Baltimore. The President of
the Convention will have it in his power to
admit outsiders or not. The Douglas 90 out
side pressure will therefore stand a good
chance to be cleft out in the cold"
Year: 1860

LIFE BEFORE HIM.


A NEW AMERICAN NOVEL.


One vol limo, 400 psges neat cloth. Price 81
story full Of animation and spirt fresh and sparkling in
style treatment Its faithful denesons OF the struggles Of
youth poverty and low fonre will awaken the interest and
secure the sympathy ofevery reader.


From The Press Philadelphia
Townsend Co will issne in few weeks new American
Novel said by those who have the proofs TO possess
u,usl ability originality and The title Life Before
Him s indicative of pretty broad hed on which TO marshal
the characters The author for the present withheld
publishers thinning that II the public su ently pleased
the writer before the curtain after the play the surprise
will be agreeable than If announced In the bils'"
Year: 1860

COMMERCIAL BLACK LIsTs.-A Richmond
paper referring to the Atlantic black list
says


at is no part of our business to defend
our Georgia cotemporsry; but we would r.
mind Northern merchants and journalists
VINO exclaim against these black lists, that
the Commercial Agency system, establish
ed and maintained by themselves, has also
its black lists Of Southern merchants; and
very striking difference between the tw0
systems is, that one is public, and affords
the opportunity of redress to those who are
injured by it, while the other is secret, and
strikes its deadly blows in the dark"


This is we'll put. The system Of espon
age in business is mean and contemplate
one, whether practised at Atlausa or New
York. The system originated in the latter
city, in its commercial agencies. and 81
the two systems the latter Is decidedly the
worst for the reason that it is secret, AMI
every man : credit is therefore at the mercy
Of any scoundrel unscrupulous enough p iu-
vent falsehoods to injure it. Any man,
through these commercial agencies, may be
struck down in bis business without seeing
the hand that gives the blow, and, therefore,
unable to protect himself against t. The
Atlanta man is at least open 10 his warfare,
and though his purpose may be a mean,
blackmailing one. his misrepresentation
can be met and refuted by those who think
themselves injured by his publication.
Year: 1860

Roiue and Afternoon Editions will be printed imperial


rto sheet larger than that of the present NcwYO iwOcens


ies II will give the telegaphic and other News up to
the very point of going press and will completely exhibit the
lat phase OF all the Marke that either the Capitalist
Che Merchant the Mechanic the Farmer In quality Of pa
m clearness type and general aaetiveues Of appearance
4 will surpas any journal yet issued from an American
r Its price will be CENT per copy when sent by
.,sg ROIrR DOLLARS year.
Year: 1860

DR.. Hall, in the February number of his
Journal of Health, says Zone of the very


worst economies of time is that ilehing from


necessary sleep. The wholesale but blind


commendaIion of early rising is as mischiev-
ous in practice as it is arrant in theory. Early
rising is crime against the noblest part of


our physical nature, unless it is preceded by


an early retiring. Multitudes of business men


in large cities count it a saving of time if they


can make journey of a hundred or two miles


at night by steamboat or railway. 1t is ru-


inous mistake. 1t never fails to be followed


by want of general well-feeling for several


days after, if, indeed, the man does not return


home actually sick, or so near it as to be IN


fit for full attention to his business for a


week afterwards When man leaves home


on business it is always important that he
should have his wits about him that the


mind should be fresh and vigorous the spirit


lively, buoyant and cheerful. No man can say
it is thus with him after night on the rail
road or the shelf of a steamboat. The first
great recipe for sound. connected, and refresh
ing sleep is physical exercise. Toll is the
price of sleep, We canton parents particu-
larly not to allow their children to be walked
up, they will not do it prematurely but have
a care that they go to bed at an early hour
let it be earlier and earlier, until it is found
that they wake up of themselves in full time
for breakfast. Being walked up early, and al
lowed to engage in difficult Or any studies late
and just before retiring, has given many a
beautiful and promising child brain fever, or
determined ordinary ailments to the produc-
tion of water on the brain.
Year: 1860

Burleigh," the correspondent Of the Bos-
ton Journal, writing from Philadelphia, March
4, says:


In no one thing do Boston, New York.
Philadelphia and Baltimore SO much disagree
as in the appearance of the ladies as they walk
out on the daily promenade. Boston and Phil
adelphia are somewhat alike. The dresses of
the ladies are rich but not snowy. In Phila-
delphia the staid Quaker look abounds The
ladies are intellectual looking, but plain. They
all have pale, salow look, as if raised in the
shade; and as body they are far from band
some. A pretty woman on the sidewalk of
Chestnut street is a rare sight. But Balti-
more is flooded with beautiful women. 1t may
be in the climate-it may be in the style Of
dress-it may be because they-no matter
what-but the ladies of Baltimore drift along
Baltimore street in droves of beauty, while the
decided snowy and often gaudy colors worn at
tract attention and this is not in one or two
Instances, but dozens and dozens pass you
all of one style Of beauty and the eye is tlaz-
zled with the numbers. But the ladies of n
York are heterogeneous. The crowd that
floats along Broadway is immense but no
two look alike-no two dress alike. The rich,
the poor, the belle, the domestic, the native,
the foreign, the elegant, the homeIy-all min
gle and blend the picture, so that one only sees
vast mass Of moving creatures, having no
distinct form or character. In dress the New
York ladies overload themselves, and the orna-
ments seem cumbrous and not elegant If
they wear plumes, they load themselves down
like an ostrich If they wear fnrs, they pile
them up till they seem like porters carrying
home goods. If they put on jeweIry, they
wear ii as if their husbands manufactured the
article, and it was needful for them to become
a stand from which it is to be displayed The
same is seen in the dwellings, where the gau-
diness of the steamboat and the tinsel of the
circus seem to be the standard of taste adopt
ed. The New York ladies could learn lesson
that would be of great service to them, from
the ladies of Boston or Baltimore.
Year: 1860

OF all the miserable, misanthrepic, COM
plainine creatures who walk the face of the
earth land there are are great many more
than is at all agreeable to the rest of mankind)
he who has nothing to do is most to be pitied.
We would not be that man, could we walk Oh
velvet, and drink from gold, for the remainder
of our days Nothing to do but to nurse his
aches and pains-nothing odo but to pick out
all his neighbor's faults, and discover thorns
where other people see only roses. Young
man. if you would ascertain the secret of hap
piness, find something to do, and set about it
as if YOU meant it. No matter what-digging
dirt is an honorable occupation if it is honora-
bly, pursued. Nobody knows until he has tried
it what a blessing hard labor may be made-not
mere bone and muscle work, but that generous
hearty exertion which enlists mind and body
alike, and leaves its happy influence on them
both. Are you at the foot Of LIES ladder? it
will help you to reach the top are you tired
or weary, or heart-sick? it is the best medical
ment you can apply to the sore spot. Find
something to do, and do 1t with all the energy
of your nature. No one ever obtained a prizr
worth having, without working for it either by
the head or the hand. If you want to attain
the full stature of your manhood, don't sit
with folded hands, waiting for the laggard op-
portunity, but go to work and make a career
for yourself You will succeed, If you start ii
the right spirit.
Year: 1860

IF there is anything in the world that q
youag man should be more grateful for than
smother, II is the poverty which neeessitates
Bis starting in life under very great disadvan-
tsges Poverty is one Of the best tests of hu-
man quality in existence A triumph over il
is like graduating with honor from West
Point It demonstrates stuff and Stamina
1t Is n certificate of worthy labor ereditably
performed. "A young man who cannot stand
this test Is not good for anything. He can
never rise above u drudge or pauper. ~
young man who cannot feel his will harden as
the yoke of poverty presses upon him, and his
pluck rise with every difficulty poverty throws
5 ID his way, may as well retire into some cor
ner and hide himself. Poverty saves thou
sand times more men than it ruins for it
only ruins those who are not particularly worth
saving, while it saves multitudes of those whom
wealth would have ruined. Ifany young man
who reads this is SO unfortunate as TO be rich,
give hin, my pity. I pity you my rich
young friend, because you are in danger
You lack one great stimulus to effort and ex-
cellence, which your poor companion posses
ses. You will be very apt, if you have soft
spot in yonr head, to think yourself above
him, and that sort Of thing makes you mean,
and injures you. With full pockets, and full
stomach, and good linen and broad cloth on
syour back, your heart and soul plethoric, in
the race of life you will find yourself surpassed
BY all the poor boys around you, before you
know it.


No, my boy, if you are poor thank God,
md take courage, for he intends togive you
chance to make something of yourself If you
had plenty of money, ten chances to one it
would spoil you for all useful purposes. Do
you lack education Have you been cut short
IN the text book? Remember that education,
like some other things, does not consist in the
multitude of things man possesses. What
can you do? That is the question that settles
the business for you. Do you know your bu-
siness. Do you know men, and how to deal
with them? Has your mind, by any means
whatever, received that discipline which gives
TO il action, power and facility? If so, then
you arc more man, and a Thousand times bet
Ter educated than the fellow who graduates
from q college with his brains full of stuff that
he cannot apply TO the practical busim IS Of
iEe--stuff, the acquisition of which has been
in no sense disciplinary process SO far he
Is etsneerned. There are very few men in this
world less than thirty years of agetand unn,d77se
RED. who can afford 10 be rich 0ye-&s s'<tit
great benefits to be reaped from great finan-
ciai disasters is the saving of large crop Of
young men, Timothy Tdeomb.
Year: 1860

The following contains sgch wholesome ad
vice to the female portion of the community
that we are constrained to lay it before our
readers, that it may be read and pondered
over again and again


" Ladies-caged birds of beautiful plumage
but sickly looks-pale pets of the parlor, who
vegetate in an unhealthy atmosphere ike the
potato terminating in dark cellar, why dc
you not go into the open air and warm sun
shine, and add lustre to your steps, and vigor
to your frames? Take early morning execise
let loose your corset strings and run up
the hills on wager, and down again for fun
roam the fields, climb the fences, leap the ditch
es, wade the brooks and after a day of exhil-
Grating exercise and unrestrained liberty, go
home with an appetite acquired by healthy en-
joyment.


"The blooming and beautiful young lady
rose checked and bright-eyed-w can darn
a stocking, mend her own frocks, command a
regiment of pots and kettles, feed the pigs
milk the cows, and be a lady when required, is
the girl that young men are IN quest of for a
WIFE But your pining, serew-up, wasp-waisted,
doll-dressed eonsumption-morfgage music
numbering, and novel-devouriug daughters of
fashion and idleness-you are no more fit for
matrmony than pullet is to look after a
brood of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my
dear girls, you want less of fashionable re-
straint and more liberty of action More
kitchen and less parlor more leg exercise and
less sofa /; more pudding and less piano; more
frankness and less mock modesty. Loosen
your waist strings and breathe in the pure at
mosphere, and become something as good and
beautiful as nature designed
Year: 1860

Nothing but pin! 1t lay there shining or
one of the broad flagstones of Broadway-siL
robes swept over it, and hurrying feet passed
it by. Nobody paid the least attention to the
new bright pin. IF it had been a tiny GOLD
pice, or a ring, it would have been snapped up
in half minute, but nobody thought it worth
while to stay their progress for nothing but a
pin. At length, however, a weldressed man
happened to spy it-he paused and picked ii
up, brushed off the dust carefully, and fastened
it upon the lapel of his coat, and then went
his way, the richer by pin!


Now moralizers who read the book of hu-
man nature, can you foresee the future of the
man who stops in the whrl of Broadway, to
pick up pin? Can you see him adding pin
to pin, cent to cent, trifie 20 tri6e, until the
fair structure of fortune rises from the al
most invisible foundations. The secret of
prosperity which so many sigh for in vain, was
in that mans possession. He had found the
recipe for getting ahead in life. There was
nothing in the mere act of picking up pin
it was the habit of thrift and economy-the
determination TO pass nothing by that might
one day be useful. "What is wasted does no.
body any good and we respect the man who
is wise enough to be an economist in small
things as well as in great.
Year: 1860

The New York Herald in discussing the
policy of holding the "Charleston Convention
at Charleston says:


Charleston could not accommodate 5000 per
sons unless it sent them to the cabins of the
negroes. 1t is absurd in every way to hold a
national convention at Charleston. Cincinna
ii was bad enough. The charges there were
as high as ten dollars per day, and many of the
poor loafers who went to the convention held
there in 1856 found it difficult to get back
again. Indeed large class of men who go to
such conventions have to depend chiefly on
charitable contributions by the way. Now
Charleston is further away, it is more difficult
to get there, and it is harder to get back from
than Cincinnati. Besides, there is considera-
bic danger of those who never wash their
faces being mistaken for niggers and detained
as slaves Then where is the food to come
from, unless by miracle, like that which mul-
tiplied the five barley loaves and the two small
fishes so as to feast great multitude? They
might get some pork and corn dodgers, but
they would have to send to New York fol
their beef
Year: 1860




A good man is almost always cheerful
one. 1t is fit that bad men should scowl and
look blue, and be melancholy. but he who has
Gods smile of appreciation upon him should
show his radiance in his counIenance. DR.
johnson said he never knew a villain in his
life who was not on the whole, an unhappy
dog" AMI well he may be. But in an hon
est n,an-the man with good conscience
let him enjoy his sleep and his dinner and the
love Of his wife and the prattle Of his children
and show beaming face to his neighbor.-
Surely there is no worse theology than that
which teaches that he who has given such full
ness OF joy to beasts and birds delights in tht
misery of men; or that, having filed oul
heart with gladness we ought to give the
lie to bis goodness by wearing faces beclouded
with woe, and furrowed with pretended unhap
piness.
Year: 1860

What a sad mistake to suppose that man
should be gloomy because he is devout, as if
misery was acceptable to God, on its own ac-
cunt, and happiness an oftnse against his
dignity. A modern writer of much wisdom
and pith of writing, says: There is secret
belief among some men that God is displeased
with mems happiness, and 50 they slink
about creation. ashamed and afraid to enjoy
anything these are the people ofwhom Hood
snvea-
Year: 1860

the people venerate the fathers, and that
policy sanctioned by them would COM
mend itself to the approva! of the voters
now. If the Republicans want 70 adopt
that policy, they can do so 10y getting up
on the democratic platform and becoming
part and parcel Of the great Democratic
party. Until they are ready to do this,
let them cease prating about the fathers
and misrepresentimg the history Of the
country.
Year: 1860

Daring Fsat.-Two young men, in order to
show their daring, have climbed 10 the TOD OF
the timbers just raised for the Broad Street
Church steeple. Oae of them, whilst at tha,
dizzy height, stood upon his head, and per.
formed other daring feals that made the blood
OF the spectators run cold at Witnessing them
Both descended at their leisure, and with
safely To the ground.
Year: 1860

Ns,o Wheat is coming in and millers are buy
ing at the prices heretofore quoted. Many OF
our neighborhood farmers think 1t best 10 cell
as soon as the season opens, and TO deliver at
once, believing that the weight Of the grain
when first got out. and the saving of WAS te
incur in any rise in prices that is likely to &C
cUr
Year: 1860

The Great Easiern-it is said-wil probably
visit York River, as her directors have been
invited to send her around TO that beau tiful
inland sea, where she will find admirable har-
oors and an abundant depth Of water. She
can run up 10 West Point, or near there and
will then be visited by Thousands OF resident Is
Of Virginia.
Year: 1860

The Clay Statue on the Capitol Square has
been boxed up long enough for the temple over
1t TO be completed The stone work has been
finished: and if the iron castings were ready,
the payillien might be erected in a short time.
The architect is only awaiting the action Of
the contractor for the iron work, to finish the
job, and the people are getting tired OF looklng z
At the coop which contains the statue of Clay.
Certainly the appearance of the Capitol
Square is not improved by the wooden cage,
aud the sooner it can be dispensed with the
bStter
Year: 1860

A Doc SAFELY PLUNGEs OVER NIAGARA
FALLs.-The Niagara Falls Gazette says that
day or two ago dray man threw his dog in to
the rapids near Goat Island Bridge and imme-
dlately afterwards went to the foot OF the ferry
stairs and found him but little injured by the
tremendous leap. The cruel experiment was
tried to convince some incredulous persons
Year: 1860

FREDERICK DOUGLASS On JOHN BRowN.-In
letter to his paper, from Halifax, England
Frederick Douglass says


Let dear old Captain Brown (who now Is be-
yond the wrath and fury of the alarmed tyrants
who have done their worst upon him) have all
the glory of the origin, progress, and result of
that enterprise. He needed no prompting-no
urging He was himself the prompter and to
him the whole enterprise owed its existence
While | deeply sympathize with the great pur-
pose of his heart, and the main feature of his
plan, have the satisfaction of knowing that I
opposed the very measure which brought the
enterprise to premature and disastrous con-
ciusiOn-i E., the taking of Harper's Ferry.
Of course, after the failure at that point, and
the little band was killed, scattered, and i'm
prisoned, none but a fool or a knave would say
it was any mans duty to offer himself up as
sacrifice to saveholding vengeance But am
done with defending my course. Until it can
Re shown that I have in any wise deceived
disappointed falsifed, single promise to
any one of those with whom it is sought to
identify me, the man that brands me with any
form or shadow of such a charge will be guilty
of downright untruthfulness.