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Year: 1859

FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY.-An af-
fray occurred at Columbia Hill on Sun.
day evening last which terminated in
the death Of one of the parties. one John
West. From the evidence elected on
the examination before Justice E. W.
Smith, of this place, on Tuesday, we
gather the following history Of the oc-
currence


John West attempted some time since
to jump mining claim belonging to
Sidney Richardson, about which diff
Guilty arose. West met Sidney Rich
ardson on the street and asked him what
he would take for his cabin on the claims.
Richardson replied that he did not wish
to sell the cabin unless he sold the claims
also. Richardson then left West and
went to his cabin. The latter then in
vited some bystanders to drink, prop
osition which was accepted and they
went in to bar and drank. When
he came out of the saloon he said that
he was going down to clean out the Rich
ardson boys, and went soon after. He
entered the cabin, somewhat intoxicated
and in the course Of a conversation used
abusive language towards Thomas Rich
ardson. He was told to cease such talk
or leave the cabin. Neither of which
orders being obeyed he was put out and
the door bolted. West soon made his
appearance at the front door with an
axe and commenced cutting the door
open. Sidney Richardson opened the
window and called upon some persons
outside, if they were the friends of West
to take him away before he got used up.
As soon as he heard the window open he
rushed towards it with his ak raised. as
if he intended to throw it into the cabin.
He began again striking at the door with
the AK. Thomas Richardson opened a
window with pistol in his hand, West
hearing the window shove came with The
axe up towards Richardson when the lat
ter shot hiu in the left breast The
wounded man staggered few steps,
calculated 20" and fell dead.


A coroner's jury the next day render
ed verdict that John West came to his
death by pistol shot fired by Thomas
A. Richardson in self-defence.


Richardson came to this city the same
night of the affray and gave himself up
to the custody of the Sheriff. The case
was Investigated before Justice Smith,
on Tuesday evening and Richardson &C.
quilted.


Richardson has the appearance and
bearing of a gentleman of mild and am
liable character, and little qualified to
take the life of another without good
cause. On the examination he refused
to have counsel expressing his willing
ness to rely solely upon the unbiased
judgement of the Court.
Year: 1859

BRANCH STATE PRIsoN.-The bill to
authorize the construction of branch
State Prison has passed the Senate, and
will probably pass the House. A nice
berth will thus be created for another
ugly man to serve gratuitously and re-
ly npon the Legislature for snug lit
tie relief bill. More watch dogs to the
Treasury will be necessary. The duty
will be more than one can perform.
Year: 1859

PROPERTY TAx.-In examining the
Auditors Books of this county few
days since, we were struck with several
remarkable facts in regard to the col
lection of property tax in the different
townships. The following table e1hib-
its the amount of property tax assessed
in each township, the amount returned
delinquent, and the per cent Of the de-
linqueney TO the whole amount
Year: 1859

~ Some scandal hunting old ladies
in quiet eighborhood in New York
city made the discovery that late every
mig ght man came whlstling down the
street to respectable boarding house,
where door was opened by young
lady, and he was admitted into the
house after giving her a salute that
shocked their (the old ladies) ideas of
propriety. They called upon the land
lady, informed her of what they had
seen, and of the "talk" it was creating
in the neighborhood. They were in.
formed that the man was printer who
worked on morning paper. and his wife,
dear soul, sits up to let him in, when.
ever he whistles to inform her of his
presence.-Boston Post.
Year: 1859

II don't care what the man processes
how does he live I There is a VOL
ume in the question. Profession is moth
ing. Men should be measured by their
actions. Deeds are more eloquent than
words. Il feel five dollars for the man;
how much do the rest feel was the
practically expressed sympathy of the
kind hearted Frenchman, when q neigh.
Dor was in trouble. That's the test
How much we feel when we talk p
Words cost nothing, and furnish the warp
and woof of some most glorious; friend
ship! Such friendships are like some
mems libraries, beautiful in gilt, and to
be admired, but not for use,
Year: 1859

Two card-playing friends, while pass
ing through pine forest, one asked the
other this audacious conundrum-"Why
cannot the proprietor of this forest fell
his own timber p because no one is
allowed to cut when it is his own DEAL"
Year: 1859

ANOTHER SHOOTING ScRAPE. - A
short time after tho before mentioned
shooting took place, the affair was dis
cussed by Joseph Brookshaw and John
W. Childers publicly. Both parties
grew angry and soon the latter struck
the former. Brook shaw drew a pistol
and shot his opponent in the left side,
The ball struck rib and glancing round
came out in the back. The wound is
not considered dangerous. Brookshaw
has been examined and bound over.
Year: 1859

~A young man in stationary store
in Philadelphia was recently exposed
to some bodily danger by the wrath of
hurculean lumberman, who accused
the terrified clerk of trying to palm off
upon him a lot of steel pens as good.
when every one of them had slit in it.
Year: 1859

THAT BULKHEAD.-The necessity of
a sea wall at San Francisco, which has
been urged almost universally hitherto,
is at length quite authoritatively denied.
Prof. Bache and other scientific as we'll
as practical gentlemen, declare that the
piling in front of the city Is the cause of
the shoaling and that sea wall instead
would not remedy the difficulty.


We have hitherto understood that the
sand used in filling up water lots, was
constantly breaking through the front
wooden walls and filling up the channel.
1t looks reasonable, but. perhaps, the
savans know best.
Year: 1859

Another Accident.- A Frenchman
whose name we could not learn, had his
leg badly bruised by the fall of boulder
upon him while at work in mining
claim near Blue Tent on Wednesday.
The thigh bone was split.
Year: 1859

SLUIcE RoBBING-ARRRsT.- man
calling himself J. J. Coffin was lodged
in Jail on Tuesday night charged with
robbing the sluices of Whitaker & Go.
at Emery's crossing on Friday night of
last week, of about $500 in dust. Mr..
Whitaker in company with another
gentleman tracked the robber to the
Oregon house in Yuba county. A COM
plant being made there, warrant was
issued by Justice of the Peace and a
suspected person taken into custody.


Thirteen ounces of gold were found
in his possession corresponding with that
lost. He could give no very satisfacto-
ry account of himself and was commit
ted to the custody of the sheriff of this
county to await the action of the grand
jury on charge of grand larceny.
Year: 1859

requires a thorough acquaintance with
the present law f,r the collection of the
revenue, and with tax levying and col
lecting generally, to devise plan which
shall be efectual in causing all men te
pay their proper proportion, in consti.
tutional sense, for the support of the
government. Whether the individuals
who have given birth and training to the
bill introduced into the Senate by Sena.
tor Kirkpatrick, of Sierra, have the
requisite experience IN revenue matters,
is a question. But whether conceded
them or not, it is not to be denied that
the new bill bears the marks of intellect
of superior kind. Some of the provis-
ions of the bill, are such that we cannot
conceive how property holder, however
vicious or sharp he may be, can escape
paying what he ought for public pur-
poses and some such stringent regula-
tions seem to be imperatively necessary,
Judging from the long delinquent lists
passed over year after year, and nothing
collected by the Sheriff, and Judging also
by the faulty tax-titles which are being
constantly overset by the Courts. We
want revenue law that will not allow
real taxable citizen to escape. Ali
should be willing to pay their quota,
and failing to do SO, should be compelled
by stringent laws. The few have been
forced to bear the burthens of govern
ment long enough.


1t is true the present revenue law
works well, in comparison with its pre-
decessors, but it is not without its many
faults, which its practical workings have
disclosed. Whether the proposed new
law would be much better is questioned +;
we think it would. The provision for
districting the counties into districts is
the proper system for an old settled
country, and admits of strong arguments
in favor of its introduction here. But
men well drilled in revenue affairs do
not like it. 1t has been found that the
state and county governments are in
too many hands already, needing a
iudicious trimming to bring the offices
to reasonable number. Tho propo-
sition of Mr.. Kirkpatrick is to multiply
Offices and officers pertaining to the levy
ing and collection of the revenue to an
almost unlimited extent. "Too many
cooks spoil the broth" is an old adage,
which may be applicable to the case in
hand.


Yet. after all we see no very cogsnt
arguments against the bill of Mr.. Kirk
patrick, in the main. The argu-
mentsof the opponents Of the bill
amount to this. "The present revc
nue. law is better than some laws.
1t is tolerably good-let us leave well
enough alone"-arguments which will
do for those, like us, who would prefer
to have more practical knowledge of
the minute workings of our revenue
system before pronouncing positive
ly in favor of so great an innovation as
that contemplated in the bill of Sena-
tor Kirkpatrick.
Year: 1859

wrong? do circumstances oppose you -?
are you bcset by enemies Now is your
time Never lie there, depressed and
melancholy! Spend no more days in
idle whining. Up like lion! Make no
complaint, but if difficulty fights yol roar
your defiance. You know not what is in
you. You are at school; this is your ne
ceSsary discipline; poverty and pain are
your mas,ers-but use the powers God
has given you, and you shall be master
at last. Fear Of failure is the most fruit
fu cause of failure. Stand firm upon the
rock, and you will not fail What seems
failure at first is discipline. Accept the
lesson trust the grand result ; up and up
again; strike and strike again, and YOU
shall always gain, whatever the fortune
of to days or tomorrow's bat,lc.-Er,
Chomge.
Year: 1859

ed this p an is limited, in comparison with
the whole farming community. Besides
the advantage in heavier grain, we think
all will agree with us that it is a great
advantage in a wet harvest, allowing a
longer period to get in grain. Most of
our readers will, doubtless, remember.
that last Summer, just as the grain was
beginning to color, we had most delight
tuI and dry weather and just as the
gram was ripe, and the customary time
Tor harvest was at hand, the rains set in,
ana continued for month or more, and
the wheat was all more or less injured.
Those farmers who took advantage Of the
plan OF cutting in soft state, had their
gram housed before the wet weather, and,
OF course, could command the highest
price tor their perfect wheat Thousands
OF dollars IN the aggregate might have
been saved to the farmers OF this coun,
try, if they had taken ":ime bv the fore
lock, instead Of letting time drive them
IN their harvest. Have none of our read.
ers word of counsel for their brother far.
merS + Western 1WiculturaL.
Year: 1859

a practical farmer in this State has
sent to one cf our rural papers two SAM
pies of wheat, Of same kind, grown in
the same field, but cut at different times.
lie states that one sample was cut on the
10th of Jnly last, in green state, when
the crushed grain had the appearance of
thick dough ). the other sample. was cut
SIX days later in a, ripe stale, the cara
dropping and the grain firm and hard
Both samples remained in stack uatiI the
18th OF October. When the grain was
threshed,. 1t was found that the green cut
portion was equally dry with tie other
but, besides that, the green cut grain
weighed twenty eight ounces per busheI
more than that which was allotted to
stand till it was quite ripe, and the for.
mer has been also found to prodnco q
better sample Of flour, with one-twelftl
less bran.


II we have any doubling readers, here
is an experiment easily to be tested
Agricultural newspapers have, for a mum
Der Of years, urged farmers to cut thei
grain before it is fully ripe aud hard bur
we believe the number who have adopt
Year: 1859

A wag said of a woman who had oh.
tanned divorce from her husband be.
cause he had bald head, which he con.
eealed by wig during the period ofurg-
ing his matrimonial suit and the consum,
nation of the bargain, that she wig -gled
out Of wedOck on bald assumption.
Year: 1859

Spare moments are the gold dust of
time. Of all the portions Of life, spare
moments are the most fruitful in good or
evil. They are gaps through which temp,
tations find tho easiest access TO the soul
Year: 1859

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Year: 1859

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 of my profession in the neatest possible manner Per sons wishing my services will please drop me line to that effect 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. H. N. CASE, Dentist.

 Little Rock. Ark. Feb 3 '59-IY.
Year: 1859

DENTAL NOTICE-Dr. II. N. SGaA CASE, office next door to Gov. Conway UIlT+~r 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 perfectly natural. All full sets inserted on the suction, atmospheric pressure principle feel perfectly natural and easy in the mouth, and answers all the legitimate uses of natural teeth

 Teeth, if taken in time, can be plugged so as to preserve them for life.
Year: 1859

GG~ Having completed the opening of our l large and general stock of Drugs, Medicines, and every thing usually kept in well regulated Drug House, and having located here for the purpose of supplying the wants of the community upon the most reasonable terms, at prices which will justify Physicians and country Merchants in making their purchases of us instead of being compelled to go of for supplies.

 We have been engaged in the business for the last eight years in of the principal cities and villages and feel confident that we are, from our long experience and close attention to business, competent for the work, and by the exercise of a zeal which shall know no fail no effort shall be spared on our part to give Satisfaction. We there fore respectfully solicit a call from you, and if pleased, will be happy in selling you whatever you may want in our line.

 Very respectfully, HARRISON & CO,

 Feb 9 '59-lv Druggist and Apothecaries
Year: 1859

PRor. o. J. WooD-Dear Sir: Some time last summer we were induced to use some of your hair restorative. and its effects were so wonderful, we feel it our duty to you the afflicted, to report it.

 Our iitJe sons head for some time had been per fectly covered with sores, and some called it scad head. The hair almost entirely came of in conse quence, when friend, seeing his suiieIings, advis ed to your restorative we did so with little hope of success but to surprise and that of all our friends, very few applications removed the disease entirely, and new and luxuriant crop of hair soon started out, and we can say that our boy has as healthy a scalp, and luxuriant crop of hair as any ether child. We can, therefore, and do hereby, recommend your restorative, as a per feet remedy for all diseases of the scalp and hair
Year: 1859

Coming from Newburgh, along the branch OF the
Erie Road that joins the main trunk at Chester, we
see on either side fine rolling country covered with
rich grass, the land generally well cleared OF stones
and the farm-houses and outbuildings indicating a
comfortable independence on the part OF the oecu'
pants. Here and there swamp land that might
be reclaimed at a moderate expense by draining,
and, rarely, bit df land very much obstructed
with boulders. But the general aspect Of the coun-
Try leads one TO the conclusion that the moving
machine is not unknown in the meadows nor the
farmers wanting in thrift.
Year: 1859

had the pleasure Of attending the review at
Camp Quitman on last Friday not having been
on the ground before, and having some offec


ton for military exhibitions, found abundant
sources Of pleasure, On looking on the mimic
battle which was enacted on the ground, and
while the soldiers were firing blank, ] could not
help rejecting that many Of them had many a
time and Oft been engaged in achievements of
another character Monterey, Cherubusco,
Contreras, Ohepultapec, and even that terrible
pedrigal had been crossed by men who were
figuring in the mimic battle Of Friday, and it
was pleasing to me to find no tyros at the helm.


The attack and defence were commanded by
Col King and Capt. Ernst, and the manner in
which the work was done, reflected credit on
the African as it did on the Mexican soldier.
But Just about the time the skirmishers were
fully extended, and Col. King was about out.
flaDking his African opponent, Uol. Tilton, in
undress uniform, arrived on the ground, and
with that presoience which belongs to the true
soldier, at once discovered that Col. King was
about taking possession Of the gallant son Of
La Belle France, and with the generous gals
lanuy which distinguishes a soldier, shouted,
"extend your Tine, or you will be outNHsnkedr'
The hint was at once acted upon and the Dol.
did not succeed 10 surrounding the defending
force, which was his evident intention before
the suggestion of Col. T. The review succeed
ed and was remarkably well managed, as was
every thing connected with the enoampment.
The staff presented pleasing appearance, and
it is valuable to any community who possess
citizens who are at all times willing to dof the
habilments Of the citizen and don those Of the
soldier. There is indeed but little danger that
any people possessing such qualifications are
likely to be troubled from without That old
piece Of advice given by Gen. jackson, that in
time Of peace it is necessary to prepare for war,
is full guarantee that in these piping times


the cultivation of those qualities which render a
people ready for defense, is decidedly saving
clause, and those gentlemen who mould and
adapt their fellow citizens to purpose like
that above indicated, aae entitled to more than
ordinary praise; even gratitude will not convey
it. The security to life and property which
this assures, should elicit the appreciation and
countenance of all citizens, and l cannot close
without rendering my tribute of praise to those
gentlemen who, with an abandon truly admira.
BILE, are willing to let their individual interests
merge into those of the public at large. did
not mean this to be an elaborate notice Of the
encampment, and had not been informed that
another gentleman intended to make a more
lengthy note of Camp Quiiman, would have
con tinued the article TO a much greater length


but positive merit needs no bolstering. Tha


the officers and men who Managed Camp Quit


man were worthy the harness they wore, al


who saw them will admit. Mac.
Year: 1859

III In late speech where Governor Chase il
stumping il for the United States Senatorship
he said: 1--WE have other questions which inter
est us in this country besides this question o
slavery, and questions to which we should by
a good deal Of attention." True enough. bu
will Governor Chase or any one else in hi
party pay attention to anything else but the
q igger question:
Year: 1859

New GooDs-FINE DISPLAY If those who
desire to see one Of the evidences Of the return
of the prosperous times, are invited to look in
at the show windows of the mammoth Dry
Goods House Of John, Van DOren d Co., corner
of Main and 2d streets, during the day or ewes
ming. We never saw a more attractive display
of fine goods here or elsewhere. We feel very
sure that after the ladies shall have once looked
at the samples in the show window they can
not resist the temptation of going inside aud
price the goods; when they price they will bug
that they can depend on. Messrs. j., " d 4
Co., have, certainly as elegant and cOmDletG
stock OF Dry Goods as was ever brought to the
West. They will sell as low for cash as any
other house in the country. We hope our lady
readers will call aud see their goods.