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Year: 1859

JACKSON RA1LRoAD-The damage done this road
by the crevasse of last spring having been repaired
new schedule of change of time and other arrange
ments is published by the Company. We direct the
attention of our readers to that advertisement.
Year: 1859

MoRAL.-The local of the Crescent has been in
vted to witness the launch Of towboat He calls it
kissing the bosom of the Mississippi" That local
should be taught lesson in modesty. We shudder
at such depravty [Baton Rouge Sugar Planter


He has been taken out and talked to-" Nothing
of the sort shall occur again.
Year: 1859

The Texan Of the Sd says that their farmers were
having fine time for gathering their cotton, and the
impression prevailed that the crop saved will equal,
probably, that Of last year. The yield will not be so
heavy per acre, but if the favorable weather con.
tnues, there will be much less lost by falling out
Year: 1859

OBJECTIONABLE LIrERATuRE.-The people Of New
Jersey evidently do not swear by Bonner and the
LEDGER though an "nstilutiop Of that part Of the
country. Wonder how Bonner likes the classification
of his Ledger the leaders and stewards of the NJ E.
Church at Lambertville, N. j., having resolved
that the circulation and reading of the New York
Ledger and Police Gazette is violation of the spirit
and intent of that portion of the general rules Of that
Church-frst the injunction to do no harm second,
doing what we know is not for the glory of God !;
thirdly, the reading those books which do not tend
to the knowledge and love of Cod"
Year: 1859

Ros1N OLA company has been formed in Pen.
sacoa, who are building in that city large factory,
for the purpose of manufacturing rosin oil on large
scale. The Observer says:


The benefits to be derived from this enterprise
are too apparent to need eulogy from u.s. but we can
not refrain from expressing pleasure at seeing
manufacturing interest thus developing itself among
u.s. one too, which will aid largely in brngfng ganto
notice and market the valuable pine lands lying along
our line of railroad.n


Two extensive factories of the same kind have been
for some time in successful operation in New Orleans
and Mobile The use of rosin OIL as lubricator of
all kinds of machinery, is becoming very general,
most Of the railroads having adopted it as better
suited for that purpose than any other material Its
manufacture is said to be very profitable, and with
our convenient to the pine forests we can see
no facilities Or advantages for the business possessed
by New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola, that are not
equally enjoyed by Savannah. Why not have Rosin
Oil factory in Savannah? Who will make the m 3ve.
ment RI Savannah News 18th inst,
Year: 1859

THE TEA PLANT.-The agricultural department of


the Patent Office will have one hundred thousand


vigorous tea plants ready for gratuitous distribution
within three or four months. 1t is expected that


American grown tea will enter the market within
fua vaoru
Year: 1859

THE AMERICAN COLLEGE AT RoME.-Under the
direction Of the Propaganda works going with
great activity in the Convent Of the Umta in Rome,
to prepare it for college. The great building situate
at the foot of the Qurina toward the Corso has been
bought for $4s 900, and is destined college for
North American and ecclesiastical students. The
Bishops OF the United States, who about fifty in
number have recently sent thirty thousand dollars to
the Pope for the necessary works and before the
end Of this year the place will be arranged and will
be able to receive one hundred students.
Year: 1859




BY HAZEL GREEN, ESQ.
Oh where the friends Of the pig in the fence!
"Wherei" echo replies He has none!
There were numbers around him few moments
since,


But now he is fast, they are gone,
Gone! Only their friendship is gone; they are here.
Cavortng and charging" immense,
And joining the throng in affecting the rear
Of the pig that IS fast in the fence.
They seek not the cause that placed him between
The rails. Oh no! Why should they care,
Since with bristcs erect they rush TO the scene
To punish him while he is there!
To raise the cry loudly, all. far and near,
May know his condition, aud hence
Come running TO join them in biting the rear
Of the pig that is fast in the fence.
They would not release him, s,houghit il might cost
Not step more than taken before,
But. on the contrary, they'd do their utmost
To perp.ex aud involve him the more;
To press him more closely, mayhap, through the


fear


That he might betake him from thence
And punish them sorely for biting the rear
Of the pig that was fast in the fence.
Bat swine are not all of the creatures that be
That find themselves sticking between
The rails Of the fence: and who strive TO get free,
While the world is still showing them in;
Who lind tha, the favor they meet with depends
Not on WORTH but on dollars and cents,
And that there are none who will prove themselves


friends


To the pig that is fast in the fence!
Year: 1859

STATE OF MICHIGAN-COunty of Cass.-ss.
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office in
Cassapolis, on Monday, the twenty y-ffth day of
April, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-nine. Present-Clifford Shanahan, Judge
of Probate. In the matter of the estate of
Conrad Fry, deceased. On reading and filing the
petition duly verified, of Thomas Peck, sur, pray
ing for letters of Administration on the estate of
said deceased


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
twenty first day of May next, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said
petition and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested in said estate, are
required to appear at session of said court then to
be holden at the Probate Office in Cassapois, and
show cause if any there be, Why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.


And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
of the pendency Of said petition and the hearing
thereof, by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
three successive weeks previous to said day Of
hearing. G. SHANAHAN
A true copy. Judge of Probate.
April 25th, 1889. ap2S-1w3
Year: 1859

Mrs. Elizabeth Lowry. of Greenville town
ship, Somerset county. Pa. died recently.
after an illness Of several years. She had
for months past complained Of a gnawing IN
the stomach. and she had great difficulty in
swallowing. She ate nothing at all for SIX
weeks previous to her death, and little milk
occasionally was the only nourishment she
could take. Nothing in the shape of food
would remain in the stomach. and the physi-
clans were completely bafiled as TO the cause
of her disease and death. A post mortsnl
examination developed the fact that the sto-
mach was completely filled with a hard. car
tilaginous tulnor, fed by very large blood
vessel, and weighing between four and five
pounds. The cause of death was no longer
II mystery. There being not enough Of the
stomach left to hold table spoonful of food,
the poor woman had literally starved TO
death The difficulty in swallowing was
caused by contraction of the gullet. in con
sequence of the induration of the lower part,
in connection with the stomach. A piece OF
the tumor was kept for microscopal examl-
nation, and for the interests of science.
Year: 1859

'Tis the last hog of Autumn,
Left squealing alone
All his grunting companions
Are butchered and gone;
No pig of his kindred,


No porker is nigh,
To help empty the swill-trough,
Or share in his sty.
III not leave thee, thou lone one,
To starve in the pen;
Since thy mates are all pork now,
Die shalt thou with them.
Then thus do / offer


The knife to thy throat,
And thou shalt be picked,
Like every dead shoat.
And may l be present,


When thou art the treat;
For ham, sOuse or sausages,


Who would not eat2
When people are hungry,


And beef can be had.
For calming the appetite


Pork Is not bad
Year: 1859

The richness of the soil in some sections of
the interior of California, is strikingly shown
by the fact that, an old axe which was recent
ly recovered from the ground after several
years of burial, was found to be coated with
gold dust-which some of our men of science
deem conclusive confirmation of the theory


that gold is continually forming in all the re-
gions where it is known to be product. Bet
ter bury the old axe again, and in few years
it win come out perfect lump of gold. :
Year: 1859

WHY should society visit with such severity
tbe departure of woman from the paths OF in
nocence. and refuse her all. chance for refor-
nation The most lovely typo OF purity we
ever saw. water lily, grew from stagnant,
muddy pool of green slimy water.
Year: 1859

MARYsvILLE, Oct. 1st, 1859.


EDITOR DEMocRAr-Dear Sir The Express Of
this morning contains som etaing in reply to my
card, but as usual with everything that appears
in that sheet relative to myself it also contains
.falsehoOd, to-wit in speaking about the charge
which it has made against me, 1t says; "IheFe
is another remarkable thing about it-he never
denied it until yesterday morning, nor did his or
gan" Now sir, in an editorial in the DEMOCRAT
of the 5th of September last, 6gore the election,
occurs this language: i" As to those other unscru-
pulous charges against Mr.. De Long, that gentle
man has informed us that he is pledged to no par
tcular man in the world for U. S. Senator, and
nobody ever heard him say for whom he would
vote for that office. He has declared repeatedly
that be never would vote for any man for U. S.
Senator ,Cho ,0as not pledged to the doctrine Of
Popular Sovereignty; or who had ever sustained
the Lecompton fraud in any shape or manner"
And vet with knowledge of this denial, he, the
Express editor, not only fails either to produce
his authority or make his amende honorable; but,
after the election is past, and | am defeated 6y
The CT, culation Of this coNTEMPT1BLE LIE, and
when l am no longer before the public, that sheet
reiterates the falsehood that had denied, and
when rebuked for so doing, in this mornings
number, says that nor my party paper had de-
MED it previously, and that che is personally res
ponsible." Well, now, for what is be response
BILE? If for his author, again say that his in
formant is LIAR; if for the truth of his reply
in the Express of to-day, sly that that paper, in
saying "that neither the DEMOCRAT nor myself
had previously denied this charge" stated that
which IS FALSE, according to the record. l could
point out to the editor of that paper very many
things that it said about me during the canvass
which were untrue, and for which l am confident
no reliable informant could be produced; IN fact,
l was followed by that sheet from the commence
ment to the close of the campaign with most un-
renting and bitter personal abuse and denun-
citation, whilst in the columns of the DEMOCRAT
not one single word derogatory to the personal
character or standing of either my opponents or
any of his colleagues, ever appeared. This rule
of courtesy and honor adhered to by the Demo-
GRAFT was never in single instance departed
from by myself in my canvass of The county,
although at the time | was smarting with the
thousand wrongs imposed upon me by that pa
per.


With the close of the canvass, which ended in
my defeat by small majority in favor of Mr..
Watkins, certainly expected that then the race
of persecution (at least for the time being) which
had been run against me by the Express would
end ; and was stung into bitter reply by find
ing my name in Thursdays issue in connection
with charge which was uufounded, and which
had denied. III then wrote the card l did, not so
much (as that paper would have lt) to deny hav-
ing ever said that would vote for Republican,
as to deny what was false, no matter what that
might be.


Respectfully, &C..


O. e De LONG
Year: 1859

FrRgMEN's ELECrroN.-On to morrow night
the Fire Department hold an election for
Chief Engineer and Assistants. Various can
didates are in the field. as will lie seen by
reference to our advertising columns The
name Of C. B. Mcclellan for lst Assistant
owing to an oversight. was not handed in
until last night. and we are requested to call
attention to it in this mornings DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1859

The PRESIDENTS UTAH Policy ashing-
ton letter writers state that the forthcoming
annual Message of President Buchanan, will
contain a recommendation to Congress to
abolish the Utah Territorial Government al
together and parcel it out among the other
Territories.
Year: 1859

MORE TREAsoN-At some of the Demo
cratic ward meetings in Boston to elect dele
gates to the State Convention, the men who
are not in Office were in the majority and
passed resolutions against General Cass's
doctrines as to the effect Of naturalization, in
favor of the people of the Territories having
full control of the question of slavery, and
warning the State Convention not to pass
resolutions endorsing the Administration.
Year: 1859

SURE REMEDY FOR FELoNs.-The Buffalo
IN. ~ Advocate endorses the following as a
sure remedy for felons:


Take common soft soap, and stir it in air
Stacked lime till it is of the consistency of
GLACIERS putty. Make leather thimble and
insert the leather therein, and change the
composition once in twenty minutes, and a
cure is certain"


We know better remedy for fclOns than
this, Hang en-
Year: 1859

Many of our readers have heard of the
First Families of Virginia." but few.
we take it. know how the term originated.
An exchange explains thus:


In the early settlement of that State. it
was found impossible to colonize it unless
women were there. Accordingly ship
load was sent out, but no planter was al,
lowed to marry one of them until he had
first paid one hundred pounds of Tobbcco
for her passage. When the second Ship
load came, no one would pay more chan
seventy-fve pounds for the matrimonial
privilege, except it were very superior
article. Consequently the descendants of
all those who were sold for one hundred
pounds of tobacco were ranked rs the first
families, while those who brough: but
seventy five pounds are now ranked AS the
second families; and the reason why no
one can ever End any Of the second fami-
lies, is because you can't get Virginian
to admit that his mother only brought
seventy five pounds of tobacco.
Year: 1859

LOVE AND Love. MAKINe.--The power
of loving and making love, l take to be
very distinct gifts, seldom found united in
,ne individual. They resemble, respect
lively, the power of thinking and the power
of talking, and one would be much sur
prised to tud that the number of people
who can make love without feeling it, is
proportionate to that of the people who can
and will talk without thinking. But do
not let us be savage, do not let us be
dissatisfied with these arrangements of
nature. Bless us all, what sort OF a world
would it be, if nobody sighed and 'whis-
pered unless he had passion at his heart,
and if nobody questioned and answered
unless he lad brain in biz bead.-Shir-
Eey Brooks.
Year: 1859

Whenever there is foot Of land to be
stayed back from beconing slave territory,
! am ready to assert the principle of the
exc lusion of Slavery We6ster.


Slavery is most bIighling curse upon
Virginia; and know OF but one way OF
getting rid of it-by Legislative authority
and 50 far as my vote shall go for that pur-
pose it shall never be wanting Washing
ton.


No earthly power will ever make me
vote to spread Slavery over territory where
it does not exist -tlay.


We should march up TO the verge #
the Constitution to destroy the traffic In
human fesh.--Frankiia.


The way, / hope, is preparing under the
auspices of heaven, for total emancipa-
tion.--Jefersom.


We would transmit to posterity nor alb
horrence of Slavery,-Patr1ck Henry.


Slavery is dark spot on the face of the
nation La Fayette.


1t is among my first wishes to BEE some
plan adopted by which Slavery in this
country may be abolished by law WASH
ingiOn.
Year: 1859

The editor of the Eureka Union relates as
follows how he once fell in love and "got tho
mitten:"


We were never, kind readers, desperate in
love" but once, that was with red--no all au-
burn haired girl with a freckled complexion, +,
and who had but few pretensions TO beauty !;
but then she had such really beautiful eyes, deep
LIQUID lbs, through which her SOUL in moments
OF tenderness, looked out with passionate
fervor, and in Joyous mirth flashed and sparkled
with the light of thousand dew drops
diamonds, we were going to say-but we never
saw thousand diamonds. Her name was
Laura--which, when breathed softly, by very
soft lover, is a very sweet name--and her clear
ringing laugh fell all around you, like shower
of silver bells Moreover she wore a dark wine
colored dress, trimmed with lilac-colorcd velvet
and black fringe, with a neat little white colla'
of fine lace, which is the prettiest OF dresses
and has the effect to make very plain girl look
absolutely charming. She never perforated hel
ears to hang thereby pendulum OF glass and
brass, and the only ornament OH the little white
hand, which needed none, was plain gold ring
sacred to the memory of a maiden PROMISE -
Well, one evening--it was moonlight, in the
summer-tme--we sat alone in the porch BY the
cottage door, holding that little white hand il
a gentle pressure, one arm had stolen around hel
waist and silent song OF JOY, " like the music
of the night" was in her soul. Our lips met ir
sweet delicious kiss, and bending softly to he
ear, we whispered tale Of passionate devotion
we proposed. In q moment she tore he
hand from ours, and with a look Of inefa blt
scorn, she said in voice trembling with sup
pressed rage--"What, marry an editor? Yongi
out p We slid.
Year: 1859

THE ApoRIeTNEs OF AUsTRALIA.-The ma


tives of Australia are peculiar race Thev


are briefly described by a writer in the New
\ YorlS Post. They are broad shouldered and


brawny armed, with chest and stomach well


developed, the latter rather too much So


The muscles Of the legs and thighs are


strangely atenuated, yet strong and wirv.


ms gives them a singular appearance Al


though black, they have the Caucasian fea-


lures, with the exception, perhaps, of the


lips OF some of the females, which are like


those of the Africans. Their hair is coarse.


thlck, strong and wavy, yet not at all kinky


though once more numerous, they number
now only about four thousand souls. They
possess fair aptitude in acquiring book
knowledge, but do not seem to care to pos
sess any. Religion they have none. The


Wesleyan Missionaries labored with them
long and earnestly, but with SO little success
that they became disheartened, and gave up
the effort. Their sense of smell is exquisite
~ delicate. BY its aid they can tell tree
containing an opossum and how long since
he ascended it. Their perceptive faculties
are very acute Their wives are cruelty
treated, being compelled to bear all the bur
dens and perform all the labor, while the
lords and masters are lounging about the
camp in inglorious ease. They have great
repugnance to labor.


All efforts to civilize them are fruitless
Children have been adopted in their earliest
infancy by respectable families. and have
been educated and habituated in all the
usages of enlightened communities; but
about the age of seventeen they generally
prove themselves unable to resist their innate
love ofa wandering life, by deeamping with
some strolling vagabonds of their own ma
tion. They then throw off all the manners
and customs Of the whites, and in a great
measure again become the veriest savages.
The cause of their decadence, which is quite
rapid, is the practice of infanticide, which is
Increasing in spite of the efforts of the settlers
to prevent it. They seem to comprehend
their degraded condition, and say that their
"piccaninnies" are not worth raising. They
are a wandering, unsettled race, never re-
more than two or three days in one
place. They have never yet built a house
but live in huts which they form by leaning
a wide piece of bark against two sticks
They cook their game by throwing it into
the fire, without any preparation. The re-
use Is taken out and given to the docs
They have spears, which they throw with
accuracy by means of a short stick, with the
lead followed out, which they hold in their
lands. They are a race of beings very infe-
'ior to most Others, and they seem to prefer
determination to enlightenment.
Year: 1859

A WINE DRINKING NATIoN.-Hon. James
0. Pullman, now in Europe, writes from
spain to the Buffalo Advertiser an interesting
letter in regard to grape raising and wine
making. In regard to intoxication he says


A few cents everywhere buys bottle of
wine-its use is uniyersal-there is never a
meal without it.


What is the effect of this abundance and
this universal use upon the habits of the
people?


can only answer that 1 have sought the
most intelligent sources of information, and
have had but one reply and that has been
confirmed by my observation, which has not
been uninquisitive, that drunkenness is not
vice of the country, that excessive drinking
of intoxicating liquors is motifs habit; that
while there are exceptional cases, as a nation
it is one of soOriety. It's not true that there
is no drunkenness but it is rare, not habit
ual even in individuals, and is not felt as a
public evil. Nor is it true that the wines
drank in great excess will not intoxicate.-
You will think my curiosity little imperti-
nent-but have visited hospitals in Portu-
gal and Spain, and inquired of their physi.
clans if they ever had cases of delirium tire
mens-that scourge which, in our country,
opens the gateway to death to so many gifted
and noble natures-and their universal reply
has been, that it was a disease unknown to
the country.
Year: 1859

The INSTINCT OF MULE.-At the fall OF
the bridge across the Wailuku river, Hawaii,
few weeks ago, Miss Emma W. Lyman a
girl ten years of age, was saved by the mar
vellous instinct of the animal she was riding.
Says the Commercial Advertiser, she was
mounted on a mnle, and that animal, with
the quick instinct of danger for which the
mule is famed, at the first sound turned right
about and sprang back to the land, passing
the horses of several of the party, and car
rying the young lady safe off, but without
an instant to spare In confirmation of this
instinct of the mule, the persons present say
that no horse turned, and when the riders of
some tried to turn them, they found it diff
cult to move them.
Year: 1859

The following is among the intelligence
brought by the last overland mail:


The Harper's Ferry affair continues the
great topic of discourse, and from the press,
pulpit and rostrum, monopolzes general at
tention. The hot and bitter blood engender.
ed in its discussion lead TO many extravogan-
ces. In Washington, disunion is openly dis
cussed on the streets, and all over the Union
tone of sentiment is INDUCED in which is
to be regratted. In the South we have no.
thing but alarm movements, and in the North
nothing but ridicule of the South
Year: 1859

In the San Francisco Court of Sessions
David Wooster, indicted some months ago
for forgery, and in whose case q demurrer
was sustained, has been discharged on the
ground that no new indictment has been
found, although several grand juries have
been impanneled and in session, since the
first order was made in the case