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Year: 1859

Children become the occasion of many re-
grets and complaints. Even where affec ton
out wines their little hearts. how often the pa
rents mourn that God has called them to expe-
rience SO many perplexities and trials! The
best construction that some parents appear to
put upon the gift of children is, that they are
:. troublesome comforts" They enjoy them at
least at times and yet sometimes they are fully
convinced that they should have been happier
if they had been chidess. They are heard to
speak Of them as hindrances to freedom, conf
ming parents at home when they otherwise
might be abroad. A source Of constant anx-
iety aud care,' they say, -'s which the childless
do not have" How they envy those who have
no little prattlers to Gil their dwellings with
music, Music, did say? 1t is not music to
those who pronounce this Juvenile laugh
ter, " noise enough to make one crazy,""a per-
feet bedlam." 1t is music to those who rejoice
that God has given them these living blessings
As they come along one after another, the re-
ceivers hail them as so many yeritable God
sends. To this class, they are comforts, with
out the adjective /" troublesome"


Now children ere educators. While pa
rents train them, they in return teach their pa
rents. A man is more of man for becoming
father. Chords are struck i'll his soul there
by which never could be made TO vibrate by
IL, another cause. A class Of sympathies are
awakened in his heart by this new relation,
which all other relations in the world could not
stir. A woman is more of woman for be
coming mother. The tenderest and liveliest
part of her nature comes to light through the
maternal qualities. She has something new to
live for. She is less vain and selfish. Who
has not seen the gay and thoughtless belle
casting aside her vain show and pleasure low
ing gadding propensties, after she has become
q wife and mother? The baby has sifted her
very being, so that she cares less for trifes now
that she has dear responsibility to clasp to
her bosom. It does wife good socially and
morally, to have a cradle to rock. 1t does her
husband good too.


Communities are composed of families !;
hence chidess married couples can scarcely be
said to belong to the community. They are
not families. They have not so many induce
ments to be interested in the public zeal. We
apprehend that fathers and not old bachelors
are the men who generally discuss the system
of common school education, and go to town
meetings to vote for those measures which are
for the general welfare of society. The strong
est argument that man can have brought to
move him to every good, social, literary and
"A moral enterprise is a group of ten or fifteen
children. If this viii not move him, he is a
hopeless case.-Happy Home. .
Year: 1859

The Comparative esteem of the southern ar
istocracy for poor white people and negroes is
illustrated by the remark of n Louisiana pa
per in recording the death by lightning Of
(" two likely negro men,"


the electric fluid of the clouds seems 70 6s
no respectors of persons. 1t would as soon
kill a negro worth fifteen hundred or two thou
sand dollars as poor white man not worth
the powder and lead that it would take 70
blow his brains out"
Year: 1859

Steps are being taken by the farmers of
Preble county for the foundation of a stock
company for the improvement of domestic ami
mails. A meeting for that purpose is to be
held at Eaton on the 18th inst
Year: 1859

To KEEP MILK FOR UsE.-I have frequently
found people who did not know how to prepare
milk for family use never argue the question
with man or woman, if they do not know that
milk can be kept with all the cream on it, as it
is when first drawn from the COWS; but I will
tell you how it is done. You all know that il
you can prevent the cream from rising, the milk
will be more palatable with the particles OF
cream mixed through 1t than skim milk or than
milk from the cow with the fresh taste and odor.


To prepare milk in this way, take 1T while
warm from the cow, set it in cool place and
stir it continually until all the animal heat is out,
and no cream will rise after that operation. Try
it, and see how much it will be improved for
family use
Year: 1859

I'm tet6 a tete conversation with Mrs. Hall
on the subject of some young ladies who had
been suddenly bereft of fortune, Lady Morgan
said, with an emphatic wave OF her dear old
green fan, They do every thing that is fashion
-impeJsctEy their singing, and drawing,
and dancing, and languages, amount to nothing.
They were educated to marry, and had there
been time they might have gone off with-and
hereafter trom-h husbands. They cannot earn
their own salt-they do not even know how 10
dress themselves. l desire to give every girl,
no matter what her rank, a trade-a profession,
if the word pleases you better; cultivate what is
necessary in the position she is born to; cnlti
vate all things in moderation, but ono thing to
perfection, no matter what it is, for which she
has taent-drawing, music, embroidery, house
keeping even-give her staff to lay hold of
let her feel this will carry her through life with
out dependence. / was independent at four
teen, and never went in debt
Year: 1859

Found OUr.-Early one morning, the scholars
OF one of our district schools were agreeably sur
prised to find written upon the outside door,
mo Schule," and the most OF them made prep
arations to enjoy the holiday-not dreaming but
that it was genuine order. 1t appeared, how
ever, that lover Of mischief more than bis
books, had written in large letters the joyful
news. "No Schulz" was the notice posted up ;
the idea was understood, but the spelling was
bad. The afternoon brought all together, and
in the stern visage of the schoolnaster enough
was seen to convince Us that all was not right
he had been outwitted, and now came the tug
of war.


He soon ordered the boys to appear before his
presence, and, one by one criticised our spelling
as far as the word school was concerned. They
stood the test until the hero, with his comic
phiz, made his appearance, who with confidence
distinctly said


sS.c.h. u.lei"


The master took him by the collar, and with q
joyful expression at the success of the plan to
find him out, laid on the birch right merrily.
Year: 1859

There is place in New Hampshire where
they never have old maids. When girl reach
es the age of twenty-nine, and is still on the
ladder of expectation, the young fellows club to-
gether and draw lots for her. Those who es.
cape pay bonus to the one who gets her.
Year: 1859

SEWING. MACHINE AND PIANo.-We are very
much pleased at the practical good sense of the
principal of one of our most fashionable board
ing schools for young ladies-instructio on the
sewing machine being one of the branches reg.
ularly taught, like the piano. 1t is most ration
aGom why sDeaS ns Soupa dv %s0 o.
likely to become wife should have it in her
lpower to teach the use of the sewing.machine
to her servant or seamstress, even if she should
not find it useful Gas she may or may not do) to
employ her own hands upon it for the use of her
family. To young wife, in q rural neighbor-
hood, particularly, where q skillful seamstress
cannot always be had, the sewing. machine which
is equal to nine women,,, is q most essential
piece OF family furniture, and the knowledge of
the use of it is most valuable part even of q
fashionable education Let Us add, as corrobo-
rative of the above, an extract from the lately
published biography of Lady Morgan: s'76 u
Year: 1859

This is an unfortunate man. That person
so enslaved by degrading habits should be in
trusted with the delicate and responsible office
he holds, speaks i'll for the Judgment of the cit.
zens of CharlestowD. He is the regular prosecu-
ting attorney for the district He has legally
the right to conduct all cases which come before
the Court in which the invaders have recently
been tried. He has to be sure been induced to
waive portion of his right, tor the past few
weeks, to Mr.. Hunter, but his uncomfortable
wits have often, during that period, got the bet
Year: 1859

A distinguished member of the Bar IL
New York, happened some time since to h..
dining with 2. Barton Key Esq, who has
just ended his career at Washington. Amer
dinner the conversation turned upon the
eonsianey Of women, and Mr.. Key expressed
aud defended with great warmth the opin-
ion that women were naturally inconstant.
and could always be Induced TO transfer
their affections to the last man who would
address them witt The requisite batteries
and appliances. IIr parted from bis friend
by pleasantly hoping that he might never
practically realize the nnsoundness of his
own opinions and by saying that he would
send to him little poem he has translated
from the Spanish. which embodied his own
sentiments on the subject


The next day he sent him The following
On eve of beauty. when the sun


Was on the stream Of Guajalquiver.
To gold converting, one hy one.


The ripples Of that mighty river


Beside me on the banA was seated


A Seville girl with auburn hair,
And eyes that might the world have cheated.


A bright. wild, wicked, diamond pair.
She stopped and wrote upon the sand


just as the loving sun was going,
With such a small. white shining hand,
You would have sworn twas silver flowing
Her words were three, and not one more


What could Diaus's motto be


The syren wrote upon The shore


death not IncUnstancy.n


And then she turned her languid eyes.


SO full on mine that. Devil take me
set the air on fire with sighs


And was the fool she chose to make me
st. Francis might have been deceived


With such an eye and such hand
Yet one week more and believed


Az much the woman as the sand
Year: 1859

The American Agriculturist asserts that
the great secret Of the success of nine out OF
ten Of the washing fluids, mixtur es. and ma
chimes which have been sold over the country
for many years past, it is not owing so
much to the inherent qualities of the article
them selves as to the process OF soaking
which they invariably recommend. If the
people pursuing the old system Of washing
would simply take the precaution 10 throw
all the clothes to be washed into water ten
or fifteen hours before beginning operations,
they will find half the labor of rubbing and
pounding saved in most cases.
Year: 1859

The Louisville Journal said Of the Piccol-
omini that " as u true lover OF the grape
never dilutes his wine, she never mixes any.
thing with the pure purple poetry of the
drinking song" The Boston Post evidently
does not understand the drift OF this remark
as its comment is: " Perhaps not; but we can
swear to her making uncommon quick work
OF a very large pot orporter which kind
parent held for her just after the song at
the wings"
Year: 1859

A NICE CouNTRY.-lsaac Thompson. who
was doing well but wanted to do better,
moved to certain region in the far West.
few months after he wrote


You asked me how liked this country
and the people thereof. As for the country
the land is as cheap as dirt, and good enough
but the climate is rainy, blowy and suliry.
The people die so fast here that every man
has bis third wife, and every woman is a
widow
Year: 1859

EXHAUSTION OF TALK.-How long the
lamp o: conversation holds out to burn, be :


tween two persons only. is curiously set


down in the following passage, from Count


Donfallionier's account of his imprisonment:


Fifteen years existed in dungeon
ten feet square During six years bad
companion during nine was alone /
never could distinguish the face of him who
shared my captivity in the eterna twilight
OF our cell. The first year we talked inces-
sanity together we related our past lives
our joys forever gone, over aud over agai !.
The next year we communicated to each
other our thoughts and ideas on all sulje:t
The third year we had no ideas to commui-
cate we were beginning to lose the power
Of reflection. The fourth, at the interval OF
a month or so, we would open our lips TO
ask each ether If il were possible that the
world went on as gay and bustling as when
we formed portion Of mankind. The fifth
we were silent. The sixth year he was
taken away.-I never knew where, TO execu-
tion or liberty. But was glad when he
was gone even solitude was better than the
pale, vacant face. Que day Git must have
been year or two after my companion left
me,) the dungeon door was opened. whence
proceeding knew not. the following words
uttered BY order OF his Imperial Majes-
ty, Intimate to you that your wife died q
year ago. Then the door wa, shut, aud
heard no more they had but flung this
great agony upon me and left me alone
with it."
Year: 1859

AvARIcR.-Certainly seems more like
madness than crime. The miser 10 like
the fool who would spend his life in accus
mulating lakes Of pure, cold water, and yet
suffer athrst What is money but the rep
resentaives OF things for use and enjoyment.
Then what is the hoarder of gold but crazy
fellow who thinks more of the key to
palace than all the comforts and beauty
stored in its spacious halls aud chambers
Year: 1859

An exchange says" in nine cases cat Of
ten the man who will plead usury to escape
the payment OF debt, is ten times US great a
scamp as the man who exacts unlawful in
teresi for the use Of bis money.
Year: 1859

OPPOSITION STAGING.-The California Stage
Company are running McCue's Express Sta e
to Marysville lively opposition, having put
on an extra coach for that special purpose.
Jim thinks he has as much right to the road
and to living as any monopoly in the land,
and does not intend to cease his trips. The
community ought to support him, for his
enterprise is great public accommodation,
sacilitating travel and increasing trade.
Year: 1859

TEylIE subscriber takes this method of informing the


citizens of California that he has retitted his
rooms andis prepared to take all kinds of Pictures
known to the photographic Art, unsurpassed in the
world that he has made special arrangements for per-
coming from d taut parts of the STATE and would
to all such that provided perfect satisfaction is not
gyen he will not ouly not charge for work, but will
pay them for their time and trouble in calling.


Those arrangements have been made in view of the
fact that the country is ocked with unskilful opera
tors whose work not only wanting in chemical effect
and everything that constitutes good picture, but
owing to the improper of the chemicals employed,
they rendered pershable aud worthless.


TO void the npositions practiced, the citizens of
this and the adjoining counties, and travellers. are
most respectfully invited to call upon him at his
i'll Grass Valley, where he will be found ready, at all
times, and in all kinds of weather. to take pictures in
the best style by all the various processes now known
some of which foows
Year: 1859

OFFICER FISHER, of the Fourth Ward, was
before Esquire John McFall, yesterday morn
ing, for threatening personal violence to j. C..
Cunningham, and provoking that individual to
commit breach of the peace. To avoid an
examination he gave bail in 500 to keep the
peace, and had the cause carried before the
Court of Common Pleas. ... .
Year: 1859

communicated.
EDITOR OF THE Press "A great majority of
the people OF the Fifteenth Ward are in favor
OF Street Railroads, and of opening Cutter street
from Eighth to Richmond, and LYNN from
Eighth to Court. Will you please publish this,
or call the attention Of Messrs. Marsh and Ross,
Councilmen from this Ward, to the fact p.


WEST FND
Year: 1859

Come in beautiful dreams, love,


Oh come to me oft,
When the light wing Of sleep


On my bosom lies soft;
Oh come when the sea,


In the moons gentle light,
Beats low on the ear


Like the pulse of the night
When the sky and the wave


Wear their loveliest blue
When the dew's on the flower


And the stars On the dew.
Come in beautiful dreams, love,
Oh come and We'll stray
Where the whole year il crowned
With the blossoms of Nay
Where each sound is sweet


As the echo Of dove,
And the gales are a. soft


AS the breathing of love;
Where the beams kiss the waves,
And the waves kiss the beach,
And our warm lips may catch


The sweet Lessons they teach.
Come in beautiful dreams, love,


Oh! come and wen fly
Like two winged spirits


Of love through the sky;
With hand clasped in hand,


On our dream-wings we'll 60
Where the starlight and moonlight
Are blending their glow;
Aad on bright 10 DIS we'll linger
OF purple and gold,
Till love-angels envv


The bliss they behold.
Year: 1859

THE BRIGHT SIDE.-Nothing was
ever gained by looking on the dark
side. There is scarcely an evil in life
that we cannot increase by meditation
npon it; oftentimes a scratch will thus
become a serious wound, and a slight
illness even be made to end in death,
by the brooding apprehension of the
sick; while on the other hand, a mind
accustomed to look upon the bright
side of all things, will repel the mildew
and dampness of care by its genial
sunshine. A cheerful heart paints the
world as it sees it, like a sunny land
scape; the morbid mind dspicta it liks
q sterile wilderness,
Year: 1859

"Wal, I reckon I've got twenty-five
thousand right here in chunk; about
eight thousand in the south part Of the
county, and somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of-n


But the young gentleman never knew
the entire amount of his purchase, for
he made double speed out of hearing
before the enumeration was completed.
He returned to his hotel, wiser and
more modest man. 1t soon occurred
to him that he had been sent on a fools
GRAND, to take some airy notions out of
his head-so, on the whole, his little
experience was beneficial to him.
Year: 1859

Immediately after reading the speech
her Majesty rose and bowed and re-
tired, the House standing as when she
entered. In another minute the whole
Of the brilliant assembly were hurrying
to leave the building, and ere the Park
guns were done firing the Queens
speech was selling in the streets; for
the ceremony was over, and the session
of 1859 fairly begun.
Year: 1859

form of Field Marshal, and took his
seat on the left of the throne, where
he was almost hidden by the Earl of
Derby. The seat for the Prince of
Wales, on the right, remained vacant.
The Duke Of Norfolk, as Earl Marshal,
with the Lord Chancellor carrying the
Great Seal, stood on the right of her
Majesty. Immediately after ascending
the throne and adjusting her footstool,
her Majesty commanded the House to
be seated, while the Deputy Usher OF
the Black Rod was despatched to sum-
mon the attendance of the Commons.
During the interval that elapsed her
Majesty conversed with the Prince
Consort, the Earl Of Derby and the
Marquis of Worcester, till the silence
was broken by confused rush of feet,
and headed by the Speaker and Mr..
D'!sraeli, the ''faithful Commons" with
noisy and tumultuous eagerness, assem-
bled at the bar of the House.


Her Majesty then rose, and receiving
the speech from the Lord Chancellor,
proceeded to read, though the first par
agra ph was almost inaudible from the
repeated hushings" by the members
Of the Lower House. Beyond this
slight interruption, every word was aud
ible.
Year: 1859

We take the following from the New
York Herald:


The third session Of the fifth Parlia-
meat Of Queen Flctoria's reign was
Opened on the 81 inst, with all those
asssssories of state and regal grandeur
which still make this oft recurring event
one of the most impressive and splen-
dill Of all the great ceremonials of the
rati0p
Year: 1859

THRowN-A Cbinaman, who was riding
along on the sidewalk, opposite our office, on
Monday morning, from some cause was thrown
from his horse His head came in contact with
post, breaking it of, (the post, not the head }
and the Chinaman landed in the street, upon
the only spot which had thawed sufficiently TO
let him into the mud. After occupying his re-
cumbent position for a short time. he slowly
emerged, one half Of his person, and all of that
ornamental appendage peculiar to brutes and
Chinamen-the tai-having received thick
coating of earth and water. He appeared to
be considerably injured, but was able to walk
off,
Year: 1859

SUIcIDE.-The body of a man named Allen
was found in cabin at Wolf creek, not far
from Grass Valley, on Thursday last. From
the circumstances, it appears that he commit
ted suicide by shooting himself with shot gun.
The charge entered his left breast, making q
horrible wound, and must have killed him in
stantly. The man was last seen alive on Sun
day night, and probably had been dead two or
three days when his body was discovered. Cor
oner Bazely held an inquest on the body. and
the jury returned verdict that he committed
suicide while laboring under insanity. A few
dollars in silver were found in his pockets. He
was an Englishmon by birth, and about thirty
five years of age.
Year: 1859

DISTRICT COuRT.-This Court was not in ses-
zion on Monday and Tuesday, in consequence
of the absence of Judge Scarls, who was called
to Auburn to preside In a case in which the
Judge of that District was Interested. The
case of Frank Carter, indicted for manslaugh-
ter, which was set for Monday, will probably
be taken up today. The case of the County
Treasurer, on the motion TO dismiss the charges
made by the Grand Jury, which was to have
been argued on Monday, will undoubtedly be
brought up, and the question determined some
time this week.
Year: 1859

ACCIDENT.-A lad about twelve years old, a
son of DR.. Kent of this place, was accidentally
wounded in the arm, about week ago. The
boy, in company with two others, we're out gun
ming. 1t seems they got into scuffie, when
the Kent boy dropped his gun and il went off.
The bullet took effect In his arm, cutting out q
piece of flesh near the shoulder, and the face OF
another boy was burned by the powder.
Year: 1859

Concerning the recent marriage of the cid
est son of the Baron James de RothschiId, it
is reported that on the day Of the marriage.
the Baron presented to the bride q small poe
ket book On the young lady opening it,
she found an inscription of rentes Of $4,000
francs tSlO.O0U) "That sum-" said the
Baron, SIS quite independent oft the allowance
which your husband will give YOU each year
for your toilette and private expenses. This
money will serve for your charities. fsncieS.
or any use YOU choose to make Of it.
Year: 1859

softly rubbed the horses face, and stroked
his head, neck and shoulders, until in three
minutes he was as quiet and fearless is if he
were the gentlest of horses. Proceeding
then, confidently and expedtiously, and not
in the bunging manner OF the former opera
tor, Mr.. Rarey put on the several straps,
brought the horse to his knees, drew his head
in towards the shoulder, and then pushed
against him until he was overthrown. Once
down, Cruiser made no struggles, but lay
there winking and watching for the word Of
command. Mr.. Rarey took a long whip,
and cracked it all about the horses head and
body, without producing the slightest uneasi-
ness. He stood upon his flank, on his ribs,
on his shoulder, all the while cracking the
whip, and waving his hat. He lay on the
ground beside the horse, and put his head
between, first, the animals fore feet and then
his hind ones, drawing the legs about his
neck as if they were the arms of dear
friend. Then, making the horse to rise, he
put his fist into bis opened mouth, and finish
ed the experiment by making him follow
him about the ring, without either halter
or bride.


The alarm of the audience had already given
place to admiration, and when Cruiser was
led out Of the ring by a groom" cheer after
cheer was given for the victorious horse
tanner.


Upon resuming his seat at my side, Mr..
Rarey said that if he had not been present
the most terrible consequences might have
followed the ill-success Of Mr.. Cooke; that
never in any collection of wild animals had
he seen the wolf or tiger, or hyena with
so thoroughly malicious a disposition as that
horse, and i. he had once leaped the barriers
and got amongst the crowd, lives would as
surediy have been lost, and many severe
iniulies inflicted.