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Year: 1859

My brother, loved brother, hail with delight,
This beautiful sunshny morn,
1t seems as though nature, all lovely and


bright,


Has come forth thy birthday to adorn.
have prayed that its sunshine, its music and


flowers


An emblemi-a shadow may be,
OF the beauty and joy, the bright happy


hours,


That is stored in the future for thee.
My brother, the past its own sorrows hath


known,


And thy young heart, hath often been sad,
Make all thy days happy and glad.
Begin it pray, with the bold, high resolve,
To honor and glorify God,
Anda blessingshal come from the realm above,
And light up the path yet iuutrod.
Give tlysclf brother, thyself give to him,
Who hath loved thee, and kept thee till


now,
Ere thy step groweth weak and thy eve be


made dim,


And care has furrowed thy brow.
Don'tyou sometimes think my darling brother,
With feelings SO holy and sweet,
How blessed we shall be, when our angel


mother


You and l shall meet.
When tho jewels are gathered, brother dear,
She will look for us with care,
Then let us live in Jehovah's fear,
Least she look in vain for us there.
In all the changing scenes of life,
Give glory and honor ro God,
And he will bring you out of its every strife,
And wash thee all pure in his blood.
And in all the journey of life dear one,
One heart shall beat for thee,
And next to the love of Gods dear Son,
Thy sisters love shall be.
Year: 1859

him. The house was closed all day to induce
the neighbors to believe that they were not at
home every effort was made that could pos
siby be to keep the whole matter secret.
Can politics be an honorable business when
every effort is made by respectable men to
evade being detected in having any connection
with it.


mn
Year: 1859

give hear many folks talking ebOut
hard times, but we must confess that we
do not see any good aud sufficient reason
for such complaint. As for ourselves, we
get along very we'll so long as we do not
have to pay out any money. We have
quit paying our debts. at least until we
get something to pay them with; AM if we
can obtain the required amount of provis-
ions to preserve the unity supposed to ex-
ist between the soul and body. without
paying for it, it is all tha. is required for
the present emergency. To be plain about
the matter--aEd it is no trivial one--our
prospects were never better.
Year: 1859

Mattingly. in his paper of the 6;h, as
usual, instead of attempting to reply to our
article about the Delinquent List, runs Oh
after some mares nest, and talks about the
author of our editorials That article was
written by d. Mcdonald aud no one else.
Mattingly says if the author don't mind
his own business he will find himself in
trouble, DC. Now the author of that ar
ticle attends strictly to his own business,
and il Mattinsly will say 10 his face what
he puts in his paper he will be happy TO
make feeling response by way of remin :
der that he can attend to his own business
and help him to some besides.


We intend 10 try to keep register OF
the deliberate lies he publishes, if we can
hire clerks enough to write them. and if at
the end of the year they will not equal four
ffths of his editorial matter, we will try
and present him with skunk's hide to
make him cap, so ne can have with him
his tavorite perfume always and not be SO
cross because he is deprived of it. Poor
old Mattingly! "a skunk by any other
name would smell as sweetv'
Year: 1859

for bushes, to take the place of amuse-
ment, and tle little girl to be set down on
stool, shamed ont of kissing he doll, and
for the boys rocking horse to be turned
out to pasture on the porch, and himself
shut in some dark closet, if he sought the
poor comfort of whmper


| wish l could hope my experience was
extraordinary | wish l could see cause to
believe there are not thousands of women
in this very city dying daily, because no
smile meets their smiling, and no appre.
citation their efforts to please.


Women have faults enough Of their own
to answer for, and that they should be
made scapegoats to bear the sins Of their
husbands. and that with smiling. is an i'm
position against which |, for one, protest.
Their ambition IS humble enough, surely
praying only for the privilege of loving
and serving, and asking no other compen-
sation than recognition of that love and
service: but when even that IS denied to
them, as it frequently is, l wonder, they
are half as good as they are.


Men and brethren, think Of these things
and if You would come to pleasant homes,
come pleasantly into them.


1T is a little thing to speak a word of
common kindness. yet every one is like a
seed sown by the way side, springing up
and bearing fruit--some twenty, some tif-
ty and some an hundred fold
Year: 1859

SLIPS OF THE PEN-Af After all, il is with
men as with dinners. the plain and simple
ones are those we have recourse to the Of
tenest and of which we tire the least


Creditors and poor relations never call
at the right moment.


The love that is fed with presents al
ways requires feeding.


Promises go further than performances.
on the principle that Hope has as many
lives as cat, willie gratitude no sooner
crossed our path than it is crushed will
as little pity as black beetle.


Every woman has some cosmetic ia her
cupboard.


Tmidity IN man is admired by women
a great deal more than il is liked.


Scandal is visitor who never calls
without bringing her work


Abuse Of woman, like the abuse Of wine
only falls upon the head Of him who ipdul-
ges in it.


If it is difficult to see any fault in
child or a book o: pudding or any one
We love. how is it possible that we should
see any in ourselves.
Year: 1859

far along as to measure off ten yards of
tape with one of these girls, and cut it off
short at each end, he may stand chance
to pass pleasant evening, but let him not
flatter himself that all trials of the even
ing are over. There comes at last the
breaking up. The dear girls don their
hoods, and put on their shawls and look so
saucy, and mischievous, and unimpressible
as ifthey did not wish any one to 90 home
with them. Then comes the pinch, and
the boy that has the most pluck makes up
to the prettiest girl his heart in his throat,
and his tongue clinging to the roof of his
mouth, and crooking his elbow stammers
out the words, Shall l see you home!'
She touches her fingers to his arm, and
they walk home about foot apart, feeling
as awkward as couple of goslings. As
soon as she is safe inside her own doors,
he struts home, and he thinks he has re-
ally been and gone and done it. Sleep
comes to him at last, with dreams of erin
oline and calico, and he awakens in the
morning and finds the doors Of life open
to him, and the pigs squealing for break
fast.


CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS.


We have passed over churning and learn
ing the catechism because we are fearful
of making our article too long, although
we might have talked of butter that would
not be persuaded to come, and perplexities
of Il literary turn of mind and head that
measured seven and quarter. when asked
what the chief end of man was. Boyhood
is green passage in mans experience in
more senses than one. 1t is pleasant
thing to think over and laugh about now,
though it was serious enough then. Many
of our present trials are as ridiculous as
those which now touch the risables in he
recollections, and when we get to the other
world and look back upon this and upon
the infancy of the soul through which we
passed here, we have no doubt that we
shall grin over the trials which we exp.ri-
enced when We lost our fortunes, when our
mills were swept away or burned, and
when we didn't get elected to The Legisla-
ture. Men are but boys of larger growth.
Year: 1859

Last Friday night man whose name was
Tymans, for some cause which does not appear,
was picked up on the corner Of Pike and Front
streets, and carried home in an express wagon.
lie fingered there for some hours, when he
died, and was buried by the Overseers of the
Poor; but from some circumstances connected
with the affair, Judge Bellamy Storer thought
it best to have the body exhumed, and an in
quest held by the Coroner. From the testi-
mOny elected before the jury summoned upon
the occasion, we learn the following in regard
to his history and his death:


lie was a native of Austria and quite learned;
was married about three years ago in New
York, and subsequently went to England; re-
turned to this country, and was ordained min
lister in the Episcopal Church in 1856; came to
this city about six months ago, and went to re-
side on Main street, between Fifth and Sixth.
His wife, who is twenty-five years younger
than he, cxpostulatod with him one day last
week, because he split some water upon the
stove while he was washing himself. After
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have stated, and in a dying condition carried
to his home; but his wife refused to admit him
giving as reason for SO doing that he had
threatened to shoot her. The officers, how.
ever, succeeded in inducing her TO open thu
door, when he was taken in, and doctor sen
for, but he died in q short time afterward. Tht
wife went to a man named Cohn, and requested
him to have her husband buried by the city
stating that she was too poor to inter him her
self. She then went to get some money upol
q couple of orders which amounted in the az
gregate to $65, which Judge Storer had in hi
possession. He inquired into the cause of he
husbands death, but received no satisfactor
answer, when, from some things he had bee


told by the deceased, he suspected he had bee
poisoned.


Then the body was exhumed, and an exami
nation held, which occupied the time of tn
Coroner during the whole of yesterday, an
resulted only in finding that he was in som
sort an imposter, who had connected himsel
with the Church for the sake of a livelihood
and had changed his name also for that pun
pose. There was no evidence of foul PLAY
although the heart, stomach and liver hay
, been taken to a chemist for analysis, the resu
: of which will be made known, we presum
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Year: 1859

OUTRAGE UPON AN IRIsHMAN-AN ATTEMPT
TO TAKE HIS PIG.-A singular affair occurred
a few days ago on Water street, which is in
itself droll enough to require, at least, pass
ing notice at our hands. 1t was an attempt to
take from q poor son of the Emerald Isle his
pig, and it is well known that when you have
deprived an Irshman of this part of his house,
hold you have taken his all.


Two families, named Moran and Brown, re-
side opposite each other on the above-named
street, one of whom is the possessor of pig,
which had done the duty of n scavenger in that
vicinity for long time, and which both claimed
as their own. For several weeks, indeed for
months, feud, as to its ownership, existed
between these families and their friends, and
whenever they met there was war-war with
brooms and brick, shovels and pick-handles,
broken chairs and table-egs, until at length it
gave promise of becoming as deadly as that
which existed between the parents of the gen.
tie Romeo and tender Juliet.


To close this warfare the pig was replevied
by a Constable named Woodruff, who went to
take possession of it, and found it in a pen in
the yard of Moran. They told him it was
wild, but he persisted in taking it, and after
having put rope around its leg, gave the
other end to its owner and proceeded to liberat'
it by knocking down the sty. No sooner hac
this been done, however, than 1t started dOwr
the street, throwing the poor Irishman into thu
mud, which twin sister of dust is quite plenty
in that locality, and dragged him almost
square, during which his boots and hat wer
lost, his coat split down the back, one leg o
his pantaloons torn off, and his shirt, the onl,
one he had, dragged up over his head, thu
giving him an appearance much like that of


huge specimen of the same quadruped throug


whose agency he had become in such pligh


At last, however, the rampant animal was sc
cured, and the case brought before Justice Get'
endanner, who awarded to Moran the custod
! of the pig which had almost killed him, an
created SO bitter a quarrel among those wh
J should have been friends.
Year: 1859

To ADvERTIsERs.-If the circulation of q
paper is the criterion by which its merits as a
medium of advertising ARE to be judged, we can
confidently recommend The Press. There is
no paper in the annals of newspaper enterprise
that can show such list of subscribers obtained
in so short time as The Press can show to-
day--not yet one month old-and it stands un,
rivaled by one paper only, and is fast bearing
down upon it. This item is worthy the CON
sideration of large class of business men
Our list is, swelling daily, beyond our mos
sanguine expectations.
Year: 1859




To the Committee on Mechanics Exchange,
CHAs. F. WILsTACH and others Gentlemen
The subject of Mechanics Exchange for this
city, is ono that has for a long time attracted
my attention, and 1 am induced to offer an
opinion as to the utility of such an institution
in this or any other industrial community.


1 deem it fully necessary, that for the prose-
cution of business, mechanics and artisans
should have a place of meeting, at or within
specified hours of each day, as that commercial
men should so meet. They meet to learn the
state of monetary affairs and stocks, or the con-
dition of the market in the produce and mer-
camille line, and they receive, by the telegraph
lines, daily bulletins of news, to be read at a
special hour, for their information in any of the
branches of mercantile trade. Why is it not
equally necessary for the mechanic and artisan
| that he should be informed daily of what there
may be going on in their lines, and that they
should for this purpose "meet on Change as
do the merchants, and that they, too, should
have their committees, standing and special,
| for arbitration in any matter of dispute between
contractors? The manufacturers or the build
| ers of the city, congregated thus daily and oil a
certainty, will be met by those of the owners OF
property here, and strangers who come to the
city to contract for work to go abroad,
and fair competition may thus be had under the
rules of the association. Each member of the
association, in such case, would have box IN
the Exchange Room, for the reception of either
letters or papers for him, to which he could re-
pair at any hour Of the day, and thus, if from
any cause no failed in a meeting agreed upon
he may be informed as to who or what he o.
they may be wanted for, and at what place. o.
those who desire to contract, may thus inform
him, and any letter or communication remain
ing too long in the Institute, may be made t
reach him by the Messenger" tits certainl!
determined that such an institute shall be had
and that, too, of character to honor and fore
business to the city, am with you. Nor
anon, d.. MECHANIC.
Year: 1859

The continued failure of the mails,-from
what reason we cannot divine,-to bring US
some of our particular exchanges, cuts US on
from the receipt Of telegraphic news. we we
shall investigate the matter, and endeavor TO "
stop that kind of an arrangement, ii we can
discover where the fault is.
Year: 1859

The following strange story appears in
the Union du Var:


Sir Edward Egerton, nephew of Sir Rob.
ert Peel, has just left Nice for Grasse.
This young man has been occupied for
several years in procuring the information
necessary to discover will made by one of
his uncles, leaving him fortune estimated
at thirty two millions-part of the fortune
consisting of thirty houses in London, and
an entire street in Edinburgh. This will,
after the death of the testator, could not be
found, and all attempts to discover it were
fruitless. In August last, Rev. Mr.. Him
mel, a Catholic priest at Dublin, received
in confession declaration to the following
effect:


The opulent testator, some time ago,
sailed for Italy in the Vile de Grasse, a
steamer which sunk near the lies d'Hyeres.
All his effects and papers were lost, but he
himself was saved he was, however, afflicted
with rheumatism, and, having had to stop
at Nice, died there.


Just before bis death he made his secre-
tary write to bis nephew to beg him to come
in all haste; but the secretary supposing
that he would make new will in favor of
the latter, and having a spite against him,
did not send the letter. When he made this
confession, the ex-secretary was on his death
bed, and he prayed the priest to do what he
could to repair his wrong. Sir E. Egerton
is now about to endeavor to obtain, at La
grasse and Cannes, information as to the
precise spot in which.t the vessel went down.
He hopes that the trunks of his deceased
uncle may be still intact, and that in one of
them he can find the will. A company is
being organized ir London to assist him in
getting up the vessel. He has consented to
advance 100000 in English money, and to
give 100000 francs out of his inheritance,
if the will is found at the bottom of the
ocean. In the lost vessels were large sums
in money and other articles of value belong.
ing to other persons and the question has
arisen whether the English company may
not retain all the wealth they may fish up.
Year: 1859

NOTICE is hereby given that by virtue of a
IN license granted by Clifford Shanahan, Judge
of the Probate Court, for the County of Cass, in
the State of Michigan. shall offer for sale at pub
lie auction the undivided two fifths of the south
west quarter of the north east quarter of section
thirty tour i'm township tive south of range fifteen
west, in Cass County, Michigan, on Saturday, tho
18th day of March next, between the hour Of nine
o'clock in the forenoon and the setting of the sun
Of the same day, on the premises above described,
as the property of Mary A. Mott and Ann Mott,
minor children of Gopher Mott, deceased


~ gual saa ROXY HORTON, Guardian.


January 90 1852 ian27-40w6
Year: 1859

A few years ago Father D, large,
rotund priest Of the church, was stationed for a
season in Cattaraugus county. He reformed the
pastoral charge confded to him, and finally
brought into subjection herd of wild Miesians
settled in that vicinity, who, prior to Father DIS
advent had been fighting, drinking set, of pc
culiar hard-headedness. When the Reverend
Father was called to another charge, wealthy
citizen arranged a dinner party in honor of the
good-natured priest, to which his Reverence as
sented. The jolly priest was unaccustomed to
that sort of thing, as the sequel proved. He
brought his friend Murphy with him, to the sur
prise of his host and sat down to the table with
large party: After eating heartily and OBJ
serving that the wine was about to be brought
upon the table, he leaned over to his host and
confidently whisperd-aI larn the custom of this
country is plinty Of hard dhrinkin and plinty of
hard swearin. I can't do the swearing, because
ov me profession, SO I've brought along me friend
Murphy to do it for me; but III do the drinkin.
The host smiled inwardly, and told the story af-
ter the priest and his friend had gone home as
full as ticks.
Year: 1859

I A Scotchman and an Irishman, we're asleep at
an inn together The weather being rather
warm, the Scotchman in his sleep, put his leg
out Of bed. A traveller, in passing the room
door, saw him in this situation, and having
mind for a frolic, gently fixed spur on Swa.
ney's heel, who, drawing his leg into the bed 50
disturbed his companion that he exclaimed:


"Arrah honey have care of your great toe,
for you've forgot to cut your nails, I believe


The Scotchman being sound asleep, still kept
on scratching Pat, till his patience being spent
he succeeded in rousing Sawney, who not lit
tie surprised at finding the spur on his heel,
loudly exclaimed:


"Hell dunn the dafe chiel of an 'ostler he's
ta'en my boots off last night, and left on the
spur"
Year: 1859

Two Scotch gentlemen went to Ireland to make
a tour and see the natives. One of them one
drizzly day bet the other the price Of their din
ner and a bottle of wine that the first Pat thew
met would be to much for them. A dimuni-
tive follow, with an old frieze coat, and apiece
of a hat, was trying to plough with pony
under the shelter of row of trees


pat said our friend. t5


Yes, yer honor he replied. aa Ha


If the devil were to come just now, which
one of us would he takew $500.


Sure he'd take me, yer honor s.


But why, Pat!"


Case he'd be sure Of yer honor at any
time!"
Year: 1859

A doctor ordered one Of his patients to drink
flower Of sulphur and water: the patient ex-
pressed his disgust by significant grimaces.-


ut is only the first glass that is hard to drink"
said the doctor. sThen," rejoined the invalid,
IT will begin with the second"
Year: 1859

A Young lady up town was cured of palpita-
ton of the heart the other evening by a young
NJ. d. in the simplest and most natural way inn
Imaginable. He merely held one of her hands in
his, put his arm around her waist and whisper
ed something in her left ear.
Year: 1859




EDITOR PENNY PRESS: promised to write
to the Penny Press--I write. Left Cincinnati
some time this month, and arrived at Cleveland
on the day of starting. Nothing of interest on
the way, except the arrest at Delaware Of o
young pickpocket, for practising professionally
upon the pocket Of wayfaring otd lady. The
young man was hurried to the prison; we were
hurried to the North, and the transaction hur-
ried from our memories.


In all Of my route to the city Of Gotham,
met nowhere so much dust as In Northern
Ohio-regular Giddings' dust, literally and
technically free soil flying in all directions.
On arriving at Cleveland found dust in my
eyes, nose, mouth, behind my ears, down my
throat, and dust in my hair--would have made
one large lump Of very respectable tooth pow
ders. Took the boat at Cleveland, at nine
O'clock at night-beautiful moon light night
left the dock under shower of rockets-all in
honor of your correspondent, so I supposed,
and not learning to the contrary, am still enjoy
ing the blessed illusion. The boat, as usual,
sailed noiselessly over the bosom of the Lake.
At bedtime l retired with two strangers in our
state-room with three births, tried infinitely
hard to sleep, but at the approach of the god,
he was transformed into pickpocket with q
dagger, the handle of which was toward his
hand, and tho glistening blade toward my
visionary throat; yet after awhile did sleep,
and "dreamt that dwelt in marble halls"
which, however, was not the fact-awoke to
find the steamer approaching Buffalo. Here
my business commenced, the material part
being to look over the various exchanges from
the inland counties of the State of New York.
With much difficulty succeeded in getting an
opportunity to thank the good editors for their
kindness. A strict business habit has driven
the soul completely out of the bodies of the
newspaper men in the State Of New York.
They gruf1y point to the exchanges, resume
their pen, take no farther notice, and when
you have completed your research, it is useless
to attempt To catch their eye for the purpose Of
returning thanks. 1t is so throughout this
whole State. left their rooms always feeling
like an unwelcome visitor. grant that the
duties of an Editor are such, that often the
seeker of accommodations is an intruder, yet
can not admit that swimming in current
items will of itself rob man of his politeness.
The Penny Press has NO such conductors. The
leading points Of notice in this State, are as
follows: Blondin, at Niagara; Beecher, (not
walking tight. ropes in the North; New York
and Erie Railroad and its new Receiver; Dem.
ooratic Conventions, and the immense demand
> A. PIERRE.
Year: 1859

ATOueH DARKEY.-At Cleveland, on Mon
day, while number Of workmsn were hosting
barrel Of linseed-oil to place on boerd YES
sci, something in the tackle gave way, letting
the barrel fall fair and square on the head of a
darkey who was in the hold. All supposed he
was killed, but he escaped with a few slight
cuts and scare. His head proved too hard
for the vessel, knocking both ends out, and
so completely enveloping him that it had to
be knocked to pieces to release him. While
the wounds on his Uranium were being dressed
he remarked, "Gor mighty, guess dis ERE
darkey don't want any more lie on his har.'
So little was he damaged by the blow that the
fellow went to work again the same day.