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Year: 1860

TRIBUTE TO CALIFORNIA WoMEN.-Truer
women than those of California cannot be
ioand in the wide, wide world. They have
come across the vase of waters, traversed
the dreary plains, to comfort fathers broth
ers, and husbands in q off and All
honor to them, whether they dwell in city or
in mountain homes-whether they stand by
the cottage door, to welcome the miner after
his days toll, or brighten the hearth of those
who are immersed in the day-bo and
ledger. All honor to them in the rugged
path of duty which they follow, leaving
olden homes and kindred to comfort and
minister to man. They have made the will
derness to blossom like the rose, and have
transformed California from a great gather
ing OF mining camps to a proud and happy
State, blessed with pleasant homes and GOV


erned by protecting laws.-Home Journal
Year: 1860

SURVEY OF Round YALLEy-Orders from
Washington have been received instructing
the Surveyor General to have Round Valley
in Mendocino county surveyed for an Indian
Reservation. Round Valley is the richest
tract in the basin of Eel river 1t contains
$4,000 acres eff good soil, and the climate
is mild, regular and moist; plenty OF timber
and water, and the land is covered with rich
grass. The valley is about ten miles long
by six miles wide, and it is almost enclosed
By the North fork of Eel river, which makes
the bend that encloses the valley. The cen
tire Of the valley is prairie land, along the
banks OF which there is great growth Of
black oak timber, valuable for fence rails
and building purposes.
Year: 1860

The California Steam Navigation Company
has paid, since its organization in 1856, one
hundred and two per cent. in dividends upon
dts capital stock of S2,500,000 A pretty
profitable monopoly. No wonder the com
pany has to complain of a continued pres
sure" of competition, and declare it will buy
off no more competitors. The trustees were
recently authorized to take steps for the dis
solution Of the company, awheneyer in their
judgment they may deem it expedient."


The Republicans throughout the State
celebrated the election of Pennington by
firing guns.


Twenty journals in all have opposed the
passage Of a Sunday law, while only half a
dozen, beside the religious press, have
spoken in favor of one.


The average number of clear days per an
mum in California is about 200 of rainy
days about sixty; remainder cloudy and
Soggy.
Year: 1860

DR.. LIvINGsToNE.-The small steamer he
took out with him for the exploration Of the
Zambesi was found unGt for the navigation
of that stream, and that he had ordered
another to be constructed at his own ex
pense, and to be paid for by e20O0 he had
saved for his children. This sacrifice the
authorities at home will not hear Of bu.
have undertaken, at the public expense, to
send him out such vessel as will answer
the purpose he has in view, and to afford
him such aid, besides, as may be wanted to
insure success.
Year: 1860

steam wagon is being constructed in
San Francisco for the conveyance of lumber
from the mouth of Russian river to the ship
ping port of Bodega. If the wagon will bear
thirty tons and haul ten tons up grade of
one foot in seven, $4,000 win be paid to
the manufacturer; failing to make the wag-
on thus capable, the builder will pay all
damages thereby accruing.
Year: 1860

Il certain kind of fly is so abundant on
Mono lake that the skins of the larvae and
dead flies fornled.a beach on the south shore
of the lake, rod IA width by foot or two
in depth, filling the air with perfume by
no means egant.-Nerada Journal
Year: 1860

Since the introduction of my Schiedam Aromatic
9chnapps into the United States. number OF Liquor
Mixers in New York, Boston. Philadelphia and San
Francisco have been engaged in putting up mixed and
poisonous Gin in and jugs to be palmed off upon
the unwery for my genuine Schnapps. At first, they
boldly countereited my name, but soon stopped that
by causing several of them to be arrested They now
conne themselves to closely Initiating the appearance
and shape of my bottles and the peculiar wrapper
which have always used. viz; YELLOW PAPER.
printed with RED and BLUE INK, PASTEBOARD
PRINTED GAPS.
Year: 1860

MERCY TO DUMB BRUTEs.-Dr. E. H
Chaplin, in the following passage in his
discourse, entitled the "Blessing of the
Merciful," teaches needed lesson:


"Mercy, moreover, is something that
goes forth, not merely to humanity, but
also to the poor animal which tolls for us.
Men have transformed into a universal
maxim the saying that the merciful man
is merciful to his BEAST So he is. He
is merciful to the poor, dumb creature
that can not complain. How much un-
mercifulness is there, even in your sports,
in that which you call nero pleasure; in
the delight in exercising TO the utmost
tension tho speed of your horsel The
cruelty may be unconscious on your part,
but how much cruelty is there!


"And while would have no morbid
sentiment in this NATTER still let us be-
ware, even here, how we wantonly abuse
or sacrifice animal life in any respect
Life is sacred everywhere. 1t is mystic
ry, whether throbbing in the insect, boat
ing in tho pulse of the sparrow, or even
crawling in that uncouth shape at your
feet. dare not wantonly take such n
life which / can not give, and / can not
give anything of that kind to the creature
that is to-day living in the spring sun
shine and rejoicing in its beams. 1t is
wrong. If my safety is not compromised,
and if my need does not demand il, l
have no right to take away even the
coarsest animals life; and / say that the
pleasure which comes from that kind of
cruelty is tho lowest and basest of pleas
IRE which comes from that kind of cruel
iy is tho lowest and basest Of pleasures;
it is fiendish pleasure"
Year: 1860

RULES FOR THE JOURNEY OF LIFE
Tho following rules, from the papers Of
DR.. West, were thrown together as gene
ral way-warks on his journey of life:


Never ridicule sacred things; or what
others esteem as such; however absurd
they appear to be.


Mover show levity when people are pro-
fessedly engaged in worship.


Never 10 resent n supposed injury till ]
know the views and motives of the au-
thor of it.


Never on any occasion to retaliate.


Always take the part of an absent per-
son who is censured in company, so far
as truth and propriety will allow.


Never to think worse Of another on ac-
count of his differing with you in political
and religious opinions.


Not to dispute with woman, nor an
enthusiast.


Not to affect to be witty, or to jest, so
as to wound the feelings of another.


To say as little rs possible of myself
and those who are near me.


To aim at cheerfulness without levity.


Not to intrude your advice unasked.


Never to court the favor Of the rich by
flattering either vanity or vice.


To speak with calmness and delibera-
ton in all assertions; especially in circum-
stances which tend to irritate.
Year: 1860

NEEDLE WoRK.-From Hawthorne's
last work, "The Marble Faun," we take
the following paragraph concerning needle
work:


"Thcrc is something extremely pleas
ant, and even touching-at least of very
sweet, soft and winning effect-in this
popularity of needle work, distinguishing
men from women. Our own sex is inca
pablo of any such by-play aside from the
main business of life; but women-be
they of what earthly rank they may,
however gifted with the intellect or geni-
us, or endowed with awful beauty-have
always some little handiwork ready to
fill up the tiny gap of every vacant mo-
ment. A needle is familiar to the fin
gers of them all. A queen, no doubt,
plies it on occasions; the woman-poet can
use it as adroitly as her pen; the wo-
mans eye that has discovered new star,
turns from its glory to send the polished
little instrument cleaning along the hem
of her handkerchief or TO darn casual
fray in her dress.


"And they have tho advantage of us in
this respect. The slender thread of silk
or cotton keeps them united with tho
small, familiar, gentle interests of life, the
continually operating influences of which
do so much for the health Of the charac-
ter, and carry of what would otherwise
be dangerous accumulation of morbid
sensibility. A vast deal of human SYM
pathy runs along this electric line, stretch
ing from the throne to the wicker chair Of
the humblest seamstress, and keeping
high and low species of communion
with their kindred beings. Methinks it
is token of healthy and gentle charac-
teristics when women of accomplishments
and high thoughts love to sew, especially
as they are never more at homo with their
own hearts than when SO occupied"
Year: 1860

The Republican party is not a perma-
nent organization. 1t is founded upon a
single idea, and so soon as the issue that
it makes upon the solitary question of
Kanzas issettled it will dissolye-yanish,
and it will be "numbered among the
things that were." II is compelled to
siezc upon every temporary issue sprung
up in this country, to save itself, but it
is rapidly approaching its dissolution--it
is moving slowly and surely towards that
grave which contains the remains of the
score of parties of which it is lineal de-
scendant. While the opposition Of the
democracy have been notorious for the
desertion Of their principles, and for the
facility by which they change their names
the old democratic party has stood like
an adamantine rock by IFS principles, and
clung to its glorious name, and has been
the party to which the people of this
country has turned to for protection in ey-
cry hour Of peril in every hour of dan
ger.


You might as well attempt TO destroy
the organization of tho christian church
es as to attempt to break up the demo-
cratic party which has maintained its or
ganization since the formation of our
government, and the records of whose
wise policy can be found on every page
of our country's history. Look at tho
opposition and note the difference
1t would take book Of many pages to
tell what principles the opposition to the
democracy have advocated, the platforms
they have advocated, the disguiscs they
have worn. But we only propose TO give
the names they have worn from the Fed
eralism of 1872, down to the double Ca
ced black-republican party ofls5s, which
processes one thing and practices another.
Year: 1860

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.-We learn from
parties interested in the enterprise, that
some fifty miles of the Atlantic cable
have been taken up, TO point extending
seaward fifty miles from tho shores OF
Trinity Bay. Fractures wero found in
the cable just where they had been indi-
cated by the instruments on shore. Tho
intentions arc to underrun similar length
Of the wire on tho European side and it
is thought by the sanguinc promoters of
ocean telegraphing, that the Atlantic ca
bic will then be made TO work.


Boston Tran.
Year: 1860

This singular disease, which has thus
far seemed 10 batfle the skill OF our best
physicians, has become so prevalent and
has been so generally fatal, that any sug-
gestion in regard 10 its cure viii hardly
prove uninteresting Its causes are not
known, and therefore all treatment has
heretofore been merely experimental but
its pathognomonic symptoms are so diver
sihed and dIs>imilar, that in many in
stances the throat OF the patient closes
and he dies before his disease las been
discovered


The diaguostic by which it j. known
from other complaints OF the throat, is the
formation OF "a membrane which increases
gradually until the patient Is literally
strangled to death. 1t Is sometimes ac-
companied by liberation, and extreme
prostration of the entire system, and at
Others by neither of these symptoms. yet
i'll either case it is equally fatal. To arrest
the formation of this membrane would
therefore seem equivalent TO curing the
disease, and this may be done in the fol-
lowing manner:


In the early stages of the complaint,
which Is always accompanied by a sore
ness and swelling of the throat let the pa
tient use simple solution of salt and wa
lei' ~ d Sti-i'i every !Iiteen minutes AT
the same time moisten piece of flannel
with solution of the same kind made
warm as the patient can bear it, and bind
it around his throat. renewing it as often
as the gargle is administered, and in the
meanwhile sprinkiing fine salt between
the flannel aud the neck Use inwardly
some tonic or stimulant, either separately
or, if the prostration be great use both to-
ge,her The treatment. as may be seen. is
extremely simple. and if used in the earl-
er stages of the disease, will effect a COM
plete cure.-Cb,. Daiy Press, Sept -.
Year: 1860

Here IS family picture from Frazer,
which we shrewdly suspect might be
matched, ntatdtis mutandis, in many a house
on this side Of the Atlantic:


You sit down, my dear friend, in your
snug library, beside the evening fire The
blast without is hardly heard through the
drawn curtains Your wife is there, and
your two grown up daughters. You feel
thankful that after the hustle of the day
you have this quiet retreat, where you
may rest, and rctit yourself for another
day with its hustle. But the conversation
goes on Nothing is talked Of but the
fai!ings of your servants, and the idleness
and impudence of your boys; unless, in
deed, it be the supercilious bow with which
Mrs. Snooks that afternoon passed your
wife, and the fact that the pieasantest din
ner party at which you assisted the eve
ming before at Mrs Smiths has been as
certained to have been one of a second
chop character, his more honored guests
having diLed on the previous day. Every
petty disagreeable in your lot, in short, is
brought out, turned ingeniously in every
possible light, aggravated to the highest
degree The natural and necessary results
follow. An hour or less of this discipline
brings all parties to sulky and snappish
frame Of mind. Aud instead of the cheer
ful and thankfal mood in which you were
disposed to be- when you sat down, you
fnd that your whole moral natureis Jared
and out of gear. And your wife, your
daughter and yourself pass into moody,
sullen silence over your books-books
which you are not likely this evening
much to appreciate and enjoy. Now, !
put it to every sensible reader, whether
there be not a great deal too much of this
kind Of thing?
Year: 1860




The following comes to us through such
highly respectable hands that we dare not
discuss the momentous question of the
genuineness of the signature


MIR. WARD take few moments be-
fore my departure from the States, to let
you know something of my experience
since l saw you in Canada; more especial
ly because you are the only one who has
understood my feelings since | have been
IN the country.


Now, you know ! am but a boy-a fact
which these committee men, as they are
called, seem to forget, or else it is that
they are honoring themselves instead of
me. in all their parades and shows.


Now, | was saying that am but a boy,
and having read of Republics in my hsto-
ry books, and having seen most of the
Monarchies of Europe, was very anxious
to see real Republic.


Now, Mr.. Ward, | find my ideas con-
fused upon this matter Newcastle says
he is amazed Everything is so different
from what we expected to find it. We
thought to find an old Roman Republic,
but you are nothing Of the kind. All you
need is a King, and you would become re-
ally loyal subjects


Iii no city of Old Eneland could 4 have
had a. loyal reception 40 in the great
city New York There. when L APP
peared, the populace shouted. They ne
yer tired Of waiting until appeared, and
the committee of reception We're after me
all the time-scarcely ever out of sight
Even the Ministers of the Church showed
me the greatest attention, and gave me a
prayer book with their names written in it.


Newcastle says that most of YOU are pre-
pared for a change, 50 some OF the citizens
told him, especially in the event Of a GER
tain man being elected - the President
They said they would rather have the
Queen 10 rule over them than he. Be
sides, he said that he saw enough to show
him that titles and honors were as dear to
Republicans Ia New Yori, a. to the people
Of the Old World, and that they enjoyed
greatly the reflected honor which our visit
occasion ed to some of them Indeed, |
should have knighted one member Of the
committee but that Newcastle would not
let me. However, As may be your King
one day, shall then carry ont my design,
and knight all the committee.


Ii was in view of something turning up.
that the Queen and the Governor were
anxious that ! should comply with the
wish of her good friend the President. for
We had concluded by what the papers said
that something would turn up after next
November To he sure my family are a
little expensive, but then where is the ma
ton better able to bear the expense than
this?


You all say you need good government
and that you have ii not, and a good 60
vern,nent Is worth money-so the cid gen
tleman says.


In conclusion, Ur. Ward. NAV beg the
favor Of you 10 thank for Ele all the loyal
people Of the United States. 30 called for
the pleasure ] have had during ,ny visit
the chief of which was the shooting ! had
in the State Of Illinois. Say to them. from
the Queen and myself. that in case they
sh ouId find that they need Us, we shall be
pleased 10 receive them again, and incor-
porate them into the United Kingdom. and
that bygoues shall he bygones'


ALBERT EDWARD, London.


ARTEHUs WARD. Esquire.
Year: 1860

BiTE OF A RArTLEsxAKE CURED IN TWO
HoURs.-The Petersburg (Va) Express
publishes the following from reliable
correspondent:


A carpenter. while engaged few days
ago in pulling down an old house, and in
removing some rotten timbers near the
ground, was bitten 10y rattlesnake. In
a few minutes his finger swelled to twice
It's natural size, and red streak commen-
ced running up his hand and wrist
deadly languor came upon him, and his
vision grew dim. clearly indicating that
the subtle poison that was ooUrsing through
his veins was rapidly approachin" the cita-
del OF life But remedy was tried, mere
ly hy way of an experiment. which, to the
surprise eff all present, acted like a charm,
the component parts OF which were onion,
tobacco salt, of equal parts, made into a
poultice and applied to the wound, and at
the same time cord was bound tightly
around the wrist In two hours after
ward he was so far recovered as to be able
to resume his work ] knew an old ne
gro who cured boy who had been bitten
10y a mad dog, 10y the same application
Year: 1860

A Party T-Professor Ro-
gers has solved the problem Of seeing
through a mill-tone. In paper read be-
fore the Scientific Association at Newport
he says:


Take a sheet Of foolscap or letter paper,
roll II up 80 that the opening at one end
shall be large enough to take N the full
size of the eye, and at the other end. let
the opening be not half so large. Take it
in the right hand. holding ii between the
thumb and the forefnGer, place the large
end to the right eye, and look through,
with both eyes open TO the light Gu
will see hole through your hand


IF you take it in your left hand and
hold it to your left eye, it will be the
same You will in both cases be astonished
to see that you have a hole in Your hand.
The Illusion is most complete.


From this and other experiments, he
concludes that an impression made on the
retinG of either eye, cannot Of itself enable
US 10 determine on which re;ina il is re-
ceived, and that the visual perception be-
longs to the part of the optical apparatus
near or within the brain, which belongs in
common to both eyes
Year: 1860

the private papers that Judge Douglas


bad ever written to her husband. She,
&ke a true-hearted woman, who revered


the memory and honor of her husband,
Indignantly rejected the bribe. And now


my enemies dare charge on me their at
tempt to bribe widowed woman TShame
On them, and applause. Mrs Calhoun
authorized her relative to inform me of
these facts, which he did, together with
the tender on her part to surrender to me
ali the letters | ever wrote to her husband


ianswered that / had never written any
letter to the late Gen. Calh oun that | was
ashamed to have the whole world see it.
That it was possible, in the hurry and free
dom of private correspondence, that
might sometimes have expressed myself
carelessly or inelegsntly, but there was no
thing in my letters which / was afraid to
have the public know ! added that ap-
preciated the noble conduct of Mrs Cal
houn, and that she was authorized to for
ward the letters to me, if it was her will
received a letter from her in reply, in
Hhich she stated that she had carefully
Examined all her husband private papers,
and there was no letter to be found writ


tn by me to him since 1852 or 1853"
Year: 1860

The Breckenridge vote will be increased
considerably above this estimate by the
addition of those who did not vote for Ell
ther candidate for Governor.


We believe that the electoral ticket no.
minated at the llth of January Conven-
ton can be carried at the Presidential
election, if the same effort is made by the
Democracy that there was at the State
election. If the Democracy can get out
the same vote that they did then we see
no reason why they should not succeed.
Year: 1860

SHowERY.-Yesterday was day OF
variety in the way Of sunshine and showers.
Black clouds foated around in all directions,
but they were broken up that very little
rain fell in any one place. We stand greatly
in need of rain jus, at this time, as the ground
has become very dry and parched.
Year: 1860

WE understand t ut an invitation has
been extended to the Republican delegates to
the Chicago Convention to visit this city. and


they lave signifed their intention Of accepting
the invitation. Should these strangers con-
clude TO give us call. cur citizens will un-
doubtedly extend to them hearty welcome,
and show them all the ttention in their DO er.
Year: 1860

"FAIR DEALING."-All we have to
say in answer to th,s individuals com munica-
tion il, that legislature which would pass a
law similar to the one he declares to be 10
force, ought to be tarred and feathered and
rode out Of the State on rail and any teach
er who would aoop to enforce such an out.
raeeous enactment, would-well he wouldn't I
take anything out Of his reach.


In this connection we would ask how many
pupils does it require to wait upon the teach.
ers Of the stone school housef We had sup
posed that our taxpayers sent their children
to school to receive an education of different
character than that of servants. We would
advise parents to take . little more interest in
these matters. and zee that their children are
not compelled to perform menial service. such
- receiving the hats and bennets Of teachers
when they enter their castle, passing these
petty sovereigns . glass of water when they
nod for it, or running errands for them when
they require such services. See that those
persons who are hired to serve your children,
do not arrogate to themselves the pos tion you
alone should occupy.
Year: 1860

THE STATE CoNvENTIoN.-1nr reply to
the request of the Chairman Of the State Cen
trail Committee, we have to say that the De-
mocracy Of Scott county desire that the State
Convention be not held until after the meeting
of the Baltimore Convention on the 18th Of
June next. Until that Convention meets, We
are cropping in the dark, not knowing whether
or not the platform OF the party is to remain
unaltered, or be subjected to addition and ex-
planat,on. By the latter part Of June or the
first of July the Democracy OF Iowa will be in
possession of the proceedings Of our friends at
Baltimore and Richmond, and prepared to act
advisedly Our candidates will be early
enough in the field, if they begin tie canvass
in the early part Of July. For these reasons,
anon g others. the Democracy Of Scott county
p, efer that the State Convention be not held
before the 18th day Of June.