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Year: 1860

Eighteen Years LmpriSonment.-The
coviction of Charles Hudsons, Va, for
manslaughter, and his sentence to
eighteen years Imprisonment for the
killing of his slave, is an exhibition of
the protection afforded by the laws of
the Southern States to the slave, and
the full enforcement of the penalty by
Southern population. The following
very affecting incident occurred on his
entrance to the penitentiary ut Rich
mond:


Upon his arrival at the main gate,
he trembled like an aspen leaf, and ex-
claimed, "Great God sustain and help
me in this trying hour 20 AS he passed
through the gate, he looked back and
calculated, "Farewell vain world ="
ooh that was blessed with forget
fulness - "Lord be merciful to me Il
great sinner! GA son left to himself
bringing his mother to shame ~ He
said his retrospection carried him back
to the days Of his boyhood, when Bun
yan's Pilgrims Progress was his con
slant companion; and when he arrived
at the prison house and saw the grim
sentinels with their huge muskcts and
side arms, he could not suppress a
thought of giant despair.
Year: 1860

Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man. the things which
Ged hath prepared for them that love Him.
1 Cor: 20.


Though lovely is our lower world,
And clad with beauteous grace,
IL hath no likeness to that home
Our future dwelling-placo.
Earth's flowers, its streams, its singing bird:
Are not like those above,
For there no saddening changes como
To turn the tide Of love.
The cup Of pleasure here we drain,
To taste its dregs at last;
We turn to see the cheerful sun,


But meet the wintry blast.
But pleasure there hath no alloy,


Its sun no setting ray;
1t needs not fading earthly light


To gild its fadcless day.
o, when we reach the riverside,


And catch CLEAN of heaven,
No earthly scene will memory cast
Across the lovely vision.
Press onward then through earthly life.
Its storms and changes dare;
Thy goal, thy future home is heaven,
world without compare.
Year: 1860

TIE GREEN BAY TRADE.-We under
stand that the Central Railroad Compa-
ny intend running two of their propellers,
the Rocket and the Comet, in regular
line between this port and Green Bay,
next season. The Rocket was fitted last
year for the passenger business, and tho
Comet is now having cabin built upon
her upper deck, and undergoing the nee
essary alterations TO make her commo-
dious and pleasant passenger boat.


Buffalo Express, Feb. 4.
Year: 1860

1t was dark night, but the first gleam
of morning shone over the form of Wash
ington, as he stood beside the Hessian
leader, Ralle, who lay in yonder room,
wrestling with death-yes, Washington
stood there, and placed the cup of water
TO his fevcrish lips, and spoke a prayer
for his passing soul.


1t was dark night, but the CLEAN Of
morning shone over yon cliff darkening
above tho wintry river, over the frozen
snow, where father, a wife, and band
of children, clustered around the cold
form of dead soldier.


He was clad in rags, but there was a
grim smile on bis white lips-his frozen
hand still clenchcd with an iron grasp the
broken rife.


His face, so cold, so pale, was wet with
his sisters tears but his soul had gone to
Wonder heaven, there to join tho Martyrs
of Trenton and Of Bunker Hill.
Year: 1860

dropped single grain of Musk
A moment in my roomj
When years rohed by the chamber still
Retained the same perfume;
So every deed approved of God,


Where e'er its lot be cast,
Leaves some good influence behind
That shall forever last.
Year: 1860

HADITUAL DRUNKENNEss.-It is at
last decided what constitutes habitual
drunkenness. Judge Balcom, in the
Tompkns county court of Oyer and Ter
miner, New York, on an indictment for
selling liquor TO person equity of ha-
biual drunkenness" told the jury that a
man who gets drunk once month for a
year or more should be deemed guilty Of
habitual drunkenness.
Year: 1860

PIXIES PEAK.--Late advices from
Pixies Peak state that il is the prevailing
opinion that the mines will produce from
one to two millions of dollars per month,
after the opening Of spring. The yield
of last season yas about two millions Of
dollars.
Year: 1860

DENTAL NOTICE-Dr. H. N. ssss<ssss=-s CASE. office next door to Gov. Conway's UIrv residence, where he is prepared to operate in every branch of his profession Artificial teeth with artificial gums. from one to full set inserted so as to look narfectv natural All full sets inserted on the suction, or atmospheric pressure principle, feel nerfecly natural and easy ill the mouth and answers alI the ieritimate uses of natural teeth.

 Teeth, if taken in time, can be plugged so as to preserve them for life.

 In reply to frequent inquiries-I would say, that

 am now prepared to travel to any part of the state, and will go prepared to do everything in the line ot my profession in the neatest possible manner. Per sons wishing my services will please drop me line to that effect as shall not have time to go except where have calls, and will only charge the regular Memphis and eastern prices, same as l charge in my office Il N. CASE, Dentist.

 Little Rock, Ark. Feb 23 '59-ly
Year: 1860

NOME quick and supply yourselves with N Oats for Seed or for feed, out of lot of 300 bushels received and for sale consignment cheap for the cash in hand, by

 March 10 BRJGMAN & CO
Year: 1860

have been Informed, too, that 1t / very
fashionable in Virginia, for these Seces-
sionists 10 charge that ! went home to IL
liuois. and in a speech at Chicago, boa>ted
that | had so drawn the bill as to make it
an Abolition measure. | hope that it is
not true that any man claiming to be il
gentleman has ever made that statement.


Applause | challenge the world


TCheers. ! defy any man on earth to show
that ! ever gave different construction to
that bill in the North, from wha. have
always given in the South. Immense
applause. I have always said, and now
repeat that the Nebraska bill was not an
Abolition measure, nor was it pro slavery
measure have always said, and now
repeat, that the Nebraska bill did not
give the North any advantage over the
South, mol the South over the North.
Year: 1860

GREArNEss.-All greatness consists in
this-in being alive to what is going on
around one; in living actually; in giving
voice to the thought Of humanity; in say
ing to ones fellows what they want to hear
or need to hear at that moment; in being
the concretion, the result Of the present
world. In no other way can one affect the
world than in responding thus to its needs,
in embodying thus its ideas. You will see,
in looking to history, that all great men
have been piece of their time; take them
out and set them elsewhere, and they will
not Ct so well; they were made for their
day aud generation. The literature which
has left any mark, which has been worthy
of the name, has always mirrored what was
doing around it, not necessarily daguerreo-
typing the mere outside, but at least reaec.
ting the lnside-the thoughts, if not the
actions Of men-their feelings and senti-
ments, even if it treated of apparently far
of themes.
Year: 1860

Itis now reported that Breckinndge ran
upon the ticket which he did, with the un-
derstanding that 10 case he was defeated and
Lincoln elected, he (Breckinridge) should
be President Of a Southern Republic.


1t seems hardly possible that a man could
be so wholly lost to all patriotism as to ac-
cept nomination upon such a ground. We
have all along believed that, while Mr..
Breckenridge himself had some lingering re.
gard for the Union of the States, he was yet
in bad company andinnuonced by men whose
ultimate purposes were nothing more nor less
than breaking up of this Confederacy. We
are reluctant to believe that Mr. Breckin
ridge has so soon graduated through all the
degrees Of traitor as to have accepted his
nomination for the Presidency, upon the un
derstanding that in case he was not elected,
he was TO lend himself to a dissolution of
the Union. We cannot believe that he has
all his life so played the hypocrte, or that
having been hitherto sincere, he has SO soon
revolutionized his whole character, and be-
come an enemy of his country


We sincerely hope that the report We have
heard is untrue, and that Mr.. Breckinridge
will ere long distinctly come forth from that
most dangerous band of conspirators against
the Government with whom he has been Gsso-
ciated
Year: 1860

SPORT AHEAD AT THE SHOOTING GALLERY
See the advertisement thus headed in another
column. AS Thanksgiving is now approach
ing, this is fine opportunity for getting tur-
keys cheap especially by those who are good
shots AT any rate the sport of trying for
hem will be excellent.
Year: 1860

StuGnfNG.-The Mountain Messenger say.
that the late fall of snow placed the road.
between La Porte and Gibsonyile in good
sleighing condition. 1t is thought that a
good sleigh road can be kept open all winter
between those places
Year: 1860

The Portage Democrat says that work has
been commenced in the State Of PennsylvAOia'
near the New York line, on the Atlantic and
@. W. Railroad, and a thousand men will be
at will be at work within twenty days; and
that as soon as spring appears. the work 10
Ohio and New York win be prosecuted with
ViRor
Year: 1860

that your country shall live. Place the
best aud purest men within your reach, at
the head of your government! Purge Your
Congress. Every corrupt, liccntious, row
dy, gambling, drinking man, should be
sent home. Then You may look for reign
of honesty and virtue. Until that be done
how can you expect the blessing of Cod p
Are drunken, corrupt legislators to minis
ter for YOU at tue altar of your country p;
If so, what results arc you to expect p
Scenes such as you have witnessed in the
passed year. have shuddered at reading
the riboldry and abuse in the House ii
Representatives. Tt would disgrace South
crn grog shop" And yet, Gentlemen,
Representatives of the free People of the
United States, have umblushingly mingled in
it


o, my country, fearful must be thy fate if
these things are to continue


But, as these lowering clouds, after blcs-
sing the earth with the rain which it so mdck
needs, will dissolve, and the sun will arise
to give heat and strength to the vegetable
and animal kingdom, so let us hope will
vanish all our political clouds, and that the
sun OF Righteousness, peace and safety, will
arise upon our distracted country.


Your friend
Year: 1860

RAPID PASSAGE The run of the clipper
ship Great Republic which arrived Mt New
York on the oath ult., from San Francisco,
was in ninety seven days. and not seventy
six as telegraphed. The passage of the
Morning Light to Boston in seventy seven
days has never been beaten.
Year: 1860

A RECENT discovery of ancient ruins is re-
ported about ninety miles northeast OF Fort
smith, Arkansas. The ruins. situated on a
plain on the river Peeos, appear to be those
of city built by a warlike race, being quad
rangular and arranged with skill to afford
protection against an exterior foe, many OF
the buildings on the outer line being pierced
with loop holes Several of them are OF vast
size, built of very large blocks of stone, ce-
mented together by "A species of mortar, ap-
parantly Of bitumous character and very
tenacious Some of the walls still standing
are thirty feet high.
Year: 1860

The friends of Mr.. G win in this city have
concluded not to give that distinguished in
dividual public dinner in honor of his SER
vices to California in killing the Daily Over
land Mail bills. r. Gazette.
Year: 1860

WELLs.-We believe, says the Union, there
are no officers in pursuit of this man. the
Governors reward being generally consider
ed as no inducement for men to run the risk
of their lives and spend their money.
Year: 1860

evening reached the louisiana State Bank iu Royal
ST, ,ee of which Mr. LypeSre the chairman of the meet


ing is President they found the balcony Of the Bank
filed with ladies' each Of whom had bell and the mu
sic they made Of the perriest One Of them called
for Mr. Mazureau, the 0tsnd Marshall Who the process
sion meantime pausing, adsanced the front of the
building and received oni the hands Of the ladies
magnificent hoquet very large and composed Of the
most beautiful flowers which they let down from tho
balcony by ribbon The incident was very pleasing
one and as may well be supposed elected the most en-
thusastic cheers of those presently o. PicdyiHs
Year: 1860

STARVATION AND CANNIBALsM.-The wreck
is announced of the ship Constant, from Sydney
for Manila, on a sunken reef The ship appears
to have broken up almost Immediately afterwards,
the crew escaping in the boats, but with scarcely
any provisions or water. For days and days,
exposed to a scorching sun, they suffered fearfuly,
and the horrors they subsequently endured were
of a character almost unheard of. They left tho
wreck in the boats on the 18th of July. From
that time till the lst of Sept they visited several
Islands in the hope of obtaining food, but failed.
They then resolved to draw lots as to which of
them should sacrifice his life for their benefit, and
after five days delibcration they killed of the
negroes and his body was quickly devoured. Some
days afterwards they resolved to murder another
negro for the same purpose. The man was asleep
at the time, but, waking up and hearing of their


intention, attempted to escape by jumping over
board. shot fired by one of the crew killed
him the spot, and his body was eaten. In this
horrible the subsisted till the 10Th of
September, when they were picked up and landed
at Sourabayu, most of them being in shocking
state,
Year: 1860

CAPITAL PUNIsHMENT.-The two principal
provisions of the New York law, recently passed
by the Legislature of that State in relation to
capital punishment, are that the criminal is in no
case to be executed until year after his convc-
ton, and that the jury have the right of deciding
in every case, whether the punishment shall be
death or Imprisonment for life.
Year: 1860

Why is a horse the most miserable of animals?
Because his thoughts are always on the rack.


Tranquil pleasures last the longest We are
not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys,


A certain Irish attorney says "No printer
should ever publish death unless apprised of the
fact by the party deceased"


In Indiana couple can get Judge to break
the matrimonial ties and turn right round and get
Justice of peace to repair them.
Year: 1860

RAREY IMPROVED UpoN.-A gentleman hav-
ing refractory horse to handle, Bollingbrook
st e., yesterday morning, dismounted after various
attempts to make him behave, and giving him for a
moment to the charge ola servant, stepped into an
apothecary establishment, and procured vial Of
chloroform. This he applied to the nostrils of the
sleepy to kick up and just docile enough to move
along gently He mounted and logged along
homeward without further difficulty
Year: 1860

THE Mormon FEUD-Speculatng upon the
recent movement in Illinois, under the leadership
of Joe Smith, jr., the St. Louis Republican says:
awe are assured that it is seconded not only by
the Mornlons in Illinois, but in this State, and if
only asserted with spirit the Salt Lake hierarchy
Can be crushed out, and the pretentious individual
! 'sprophet, seer, and revelator" who now so COM
fortably sits enthroned there. and his lecherous
advisers, can be made to take the city creek CANON
and hide in the mountains that surround the So
called Zion. We feel assured that the mass of
the people gravitate to the regular succession,
which is to be found in the person of Smith
They swarm to him as the representative of re-
ligious principle, and would not hesitate to throw
off their shackles whenever the opportunity is
afforded. We repeat then, that this movement,
if properly directed, discardine it does the OBJ
noxious and disgusting features and practices of the
Salt Lake tribe, will be more powerful for good
and for reform than all the enactments of the Ma
tional Legislature which, after all, if precedent
is worth any thing would prove only so much
waste paper: unless crammed down tratorous
throats with the bayonet; thing certainly not
likely to occur until very great change comes
over public men"
Year: 1860

husband:


| saw model husband in dream,


Where things not exactly as they seem;
A moral man, to skeptcs be it known;
The wife he loved and cherished was-his own;
And for the test saw the husband wait
With horse and chaise five minutes at the gate
While Jane put on her things; nor spoke one sour
Or bitter word though waiting half an hour
For dinner; and like patience on throne,
He didn't swear to find button gone.
Year: 1860

TIE BENTcIA Boy EAGER To FIGuT AGA1y.--
We have it from pretty good authority, says
the New York Clipper, that John Q. Heenan,
the gallant SOP of Benicia would have no
objection whatever to passage at arms
with the conqueror of Paddock, in the late
fight for the championship of England, and
now universally known as the "5taleybridge
Infant," providing he could be assured of an
even show on Britain's shores. He would
prefer however, to have the battle take
place in America, and give Hurst 81 900 to
come here if the stakes were placed as high
as $4,000 a side. This offer must strike the
reader as being at once liberal and indicative
of great determination and reliance on his
own powers, and as eminenuy characteristic
of the man.
Year: 1860

LETTERS GONE EAsr.-The number of let
ters sent East by the steamer Sonora. ="
which sailed yesterday for Panama, was thir-
teen thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven,
and the number sent overland by the mail
stage which left at u o'clock, was six thous-
and seven hundred and seventy.seven, or
nearly one-half as many AS the stage
leaves twice week and the steamer sails on
y three times a month, it follows from above
data that the stage carries twelve thousand
two hundred and fifty letters more each
month than the steamer, or one hundred and
forty-seven thousand year more than go by
our steamer mails without counting those
sent by eXpress.-S +. Herald, Saturday.
Year: 1860

The following letter, which we find in the
, democrat, was written to the Jackson lama
dor) Breckenridge Club


SAN FRANCIsco, CAL, Oct. 10th, 1860.


GENTLEMEN: Accept my thanks for your
polite note inclosing resolutions Of the Jack
son Breckenridge Club inviting me to visit
jackson and address the people on the DO.


tical topics of the day. | may as we'll say
at once that mean to take no active part
in the present political contest in California.
| am here to try and recruit my health, and
to do this at all | must abstain from public
excitement Beside, must frankly state
that | am sick and tired Of public life; and
the present condition Of the Democratic
party is not calculated to remove this feeling.
But as total silence on my part, in the midst
of party distraction might subject me to
charge Of Indifference, beg leave to assure
you and the members of the Club that so
far from being Indifferent am at this very
time deeply and seriously concerned about
the condition of the country. do not
speak of danger to cur institutions, because
| would only be laughed to scorn by the
light and frivolous, and vain and selfish, If I
did, but of general political Generalization,
which is rendering the struggles of parties
in this country almost as shamefully selfish
as the wretched struggles of degenerate fac.
tions in Mexico. In this state of affairs,
which | see no way just now to improve.
and cannot help but think critical, l have
carefully and thoughtfuly considered the
course Which duty enioins me to take, aud
here it is in few words:


LIST. will never help TO impose North
ern man on the S,uth for President, unless
| am reasonably satisfied that he is 'accepta-
bic to majority of the Southern people.


Cd. If the political contest degenerates
into a sectional struggle, which the present
arrangement as well as the prospective re.
arrangement of the political parties seem to
point to- my part will be taken with the south.
My reasons: The South is acting in self de-
fence 1t is struggling solely and simply to
preserve its own institutions, but not to dis.
turb the institutions. of the North, while the
struggle in the North is not to improve
Northern institutions, but to interfere with
the institutions of the South. The insolent
injustice and inequality of such struggle
will decide me without hesitation to act with
the South


Sd. | would personally prefer Stephen
A. Douglas to any other man in the United
States for President if he were acceptable
to majority of the Southern people, or
what is very much the same thing, was, the
accepted candidate of the United Democrat
ic party; but to my regret he is not, and
therefore | cannot support him in this. can
vass, and in this consult my views Of duty
and not my personal preference; this casts
me with John G. Breckenridge, who, if he
can do nothing more, may rally enough to
reconstruct the Democratic party. These are
my views frankly given; but as | have no
feeling on the subject urge them on no
one and would keep them to myself, but that
my character obliges me to let my friends
know how | stand. Yours sincerely,


JAMES SHIELDS.
Year: 1860

Bes- If You want very choice pair of
Kid Boots of the latest style, the incest fit
and the most durable that are made, call
at Hughes's; he has still some of the
right kind left. He is selling off his stock
Of Dry Goods at very reduced prices. He
has a very nice stock of Cassmeres, Cloths,
Tweeds, and Jeans, suitable for Fall wear,
and which it is now time to commence max
ing up. All those in want of such goods
will do well to call at Hughes's, where, if
they choose, they can have clothing cut or
made to order. He keeps in his employ
some good Tailors
Year: 1860

Beg" We desire to give the Journal no
tice, that on Monday night next, there will
be the largest crowd of such of our citizens
as he denominates g black guards out, in
procession, that he ever saw. Many of
them, no doubt, will have their checked
shirts on, and but few, if any will have
anything finer. We give him and the Re
publican party of this city, notice in time
SO that if they do not desire to have their
more refined feelings hurt, by seeing the
working men of the city aud county, acting
for themselves, they may keep housed on
that occasion. Enqaerer l Ith.


What tconsummate demagogues our neigh
bors would make-if they only had the
ability. Providence has placed in them
the low, groveling, cunning instincts ct their
leader-Douglas- has wisely Withheld
the smartness requisite to make frst-ciass
demagogues of them, else they would he
dangerous 'customers.'


If the Douglas men will have the decency
and good taste to turn out tonight without
the lying and scurrilous transParencies
which they carried on last Saturday night
week, and will keep sober and behave them
selves no person will enjoy their harmless
pastimes of marching and shouting for their
Idol more than the Lincoln men. It is en-
tirely proper and commendable for them to
muster as big a crowd as possible, carry as
many lamps as they can, display multtudes
of flags, badges, and th-telLlag and decent
transparencies, and all that. OF this there
will be no complaint. But if they desire to
retain the epithet of "Black Guards which
they have incuTHd by past misconduct, let
them again carry the disgraceful transpar-
ences of the 4th of August, and that de-
grading appelation will cling to them like
the shirt of Nessus, and they cannot tear it
off.