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Year: 1859

! "They that take the sword shall perish by
the sword"


Yorhave taken the sword but not in the
spirit Of wrong and rayage. You have taken
the sword for your homes, for your wives,
for your little ones. You have taken the
sword for truth, for justice and right, and to
you the promise is, BE of good cheer, for
your foes have taken the sword in defiance OF
all that man holds dear, in blasphemy OF
God-they shall perish By the spora.


And now, brethren and soldiers, bid you
all farewell Many Of us may fall in the
fight Of to-morrow-God rest the souls Of
the hllen-many Of us may live TO toll the
story Of the fight of tomorrow, and in the
memory of all will ever rest and lnger the
quiet scene Of this autumnal night


Solemn twilight advances over the valley +;
the woods on the opposite heights fling their
long shadows over the green Of the meadow.
around us are the tents Of the continental
host, the suppressed hustle Of the camp, the
hurried tramp Of the soldiers TO and fro
among the tents, the stiffness and silence that
marks the eve of battle.


When we meet again may the long shadows
Of twilight be flung over peaceful land.


God in heaven grant it


Let us pray.


PRAYER OF THE REVOLUTION.


Great Father, we bow before thee. We
invoke thy blessing, we dcprecate thy wrath !;
we return thee thanks for the past, we ask
thy aid for the future For we are in time
Of trouble, oh, Lord and sore beset by foes g,
morciless and Implying the sword CLEANS
over our land, and the dust Of the soil is
dampened with the blood of our ncighbors
and friends.


Oh God Of mercy, we pray thy blessing
on the American arms. Make the man Of
our hearts strong in thy wisdom bless, we
bescech, with renewed life and strength, our
hope and Thy instrument, oven GEORGE
WAsHINGToN-shower thy eounsels on the
honorable, the Continental Congress visit
the tents Of our host, comfort the soldier in
his wounds and Affections, nerve him for the
fight, prepare him for the hour Of death.


And in the hour Of defeat, oh Gcd of
hosts, do thou be our stay, and in the hour
Of triumph be thou our guide.


Teach us to be morciful. Though the
memory Of CALLING wrongs be at our hearts.
knocking for admttancc. that they may fill
us with desires Of revenge, yet let us, o
Lord, spare the vanquished, though they
never spared Us in their hour Of butchery and
bloodshed. And in the hour of death, do
thou guide us into the abode prepared for the
blcst so shall we return thanks unto Thee,
through Christ, our Redeemer. GOD PROS
PER THE CAUsFi Amen.
Year: 1859




The Eye OF THE NEEnLE A recent
traveller to the Holy Land informs US that
there is at the side of the principal gate at
Jerusalem amall one, which upon occasions
Of great urgency, was opened for the admis-
sion Of persons after the great gates of the
city were all closed for tho night. This gate
from its small size, was called the Eye Of
the Needle and to get camel through it at
all was no small task--lor loaded camel to
pass was an utter impossibility. With the
above fact before the mind, one can see that
the words Of our Saviour, when speaking of
the straight gate and the rich man" were
more literal than many suppose And we
SEQ how as the rich man passes into the mar
row way, the sides and the low top of the
straight gate serape every thing from him in
which he had before trusted. No one can
take anything but himselfthrough. Far easier
is it TO strip camel Of its burden than to
diycst a rich man Of his trust in riches.


t,V- An old, unloyed Deacon in his last
hours was visited by neighbor, who said I.
well, Deacon, hope you feel resigned in
going"


"Y-e-es,' said tho Deacon, "I-I think l.
I'm resigned"


"Well, | thought il might be consolation
70 you to know that all the neighbors are re-
signed also"
Year: 1859

so DEAR. SHALL WE EVER DE DONE Ly-
ING An honest old gentleman, in telling
US his troubles, gave great prominence to the
necessity he was frequently under of disap-
pointing his customers, whose work could not
be finished as soon as he promised. After
explaining the difficulty, he looked up with
great earnestness, and exclaimed. 30 dear,
shall we ever be done with this lyingi" We
have often wondered ourselves whether such
contamination would ever take place.
"Nour boots shall be done on Saturday next
without fail" Nevertheless you have to 90
to church with gaping shoes for want of them.
"Nour coat shall be sent home by nine o clock
on Saturday night = and you get it in fact
the Wednesday after. "Will you lend me
your wheelbarrow | will return it tonight"
You wait next week and then send for it,
My carpenter soomnly agreed to finish my
house aginst November, but it was July be-
fore | could get the key Ny wood was to
be split on Saturday afternoon-enough for
the Sabbath so it was-but had to do it.


My money was to be paid the next week,
and then, next week and then NEXT week
and then as soon as he could get it he did
get it and spent it and then it should be
paid when he got it again--he got it again,
and paid another man because he treated him
more savagely than would The strength
laid out in running for this money if it had
been economically applied to labor, would
nearly have earned the whole debt. The
fellow never paid me at last; but Death came
along and he paid him promptly. o dear
shall we ever get done with this lyngi 1t is
one Of the few domestic manufactures which
need no protection, and fourishes without
exception either to the producer or the
pursuer.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1859

The San Francisco Times lays out the Re-
publican programme for 1860 in this wise /:
1t says that if the Charleston Convention
ncminates a man easy to beat, such as jeff.
Davis, John Slidell, or Douglas, why, then,
the Republicans will put forward VIM. II.
Seward for the Presidency. But if the Con
vention nominates some man hard to beat
a man. for instance, who is uncotnmitted on
any Of the great questions of the day, then
the Republicans will nominate some man
less obnoxious to Southern men than Seward.


We are amused at the idea of the Times in


regard to Douglas. Does that paper really
imagine that STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, of Illinois,
could be beaten so easily2 We used to give
the Times some credit for political sagacity,
but it seems to have lost all reason. If STE
ruEx A. DOUGLAS cannot carry the Northern
Democracy with him, in the coming Presi-
Dental campaign, who in the name Of God
can? lie stands upon the neutral ground
between the two "irrepressib.e conflict par
ties upon which the great conservative
strength of the country must and will stand.
Those who desire to see peace on the dan
gerous question Of slavery, and the Union
preserved from the shock of contending
hosts the one for and the other against sla-
very, and to avoid the fearful crash Of such
an absolute and direct issue will rally to the
standard of DOUGLAS. Few Northern Dem
ocrats will engage in an open crusade TOR
slavery as against freedom in the Territories,
and no Southern Democrat ought. If the
war must absolutely be either for slavery or
against it, why Northern men generally will
take the side for freedom. But if popular
sovereignty be the issue, and the question be
whether majorities shall rule in the Terrific
ries, it is quite different matter and North
ern Democrats will have no hestancy in
standing by the Democratic ticket. DouGLAs,
as the nominee Of the Charleston Conven-
ton, and standing on this broad and equal
doctrine, would beat Seward so badly that
he would think a mountains weight had
fallen upon his head
Year: 1859

MELANCHOLY FArALHY.-We publish IN
our record Of mortality the death of the
fifth child Of Mrs. Kuster, who resides on
Dry Creek. near Johnson's Ranch. Five OF
her children have died within twenty days.
Their disease was putrid sore throat seldom
have we beard of so extraordinary and af
fieting bereavement There are six NOR,
children sick in the same family.
Year: 1859




Iva work entitled Three years in Cana
da," written by McTaggart, it is stated that
in 1925, or 1896, both silver and gold silver
were discovered in the Rocky Mountains In
the year 1926, says the Toronto Leader. Nc
Taggart met at La Prairie a respectable
young man, who had just returned from a
distant excursion in the fur trade, from whom
he received an account of his journey, and
embodied it in the shape Of a letter for the
information ola friend. In that letter we
read as follows:


after considerable travel and fatigue we
came upon the Rocky Mountains, alias the
backbone of America and here as you may
expect, all my meteorological science was
brought into full request. My bag is full o.
the rarest specimens, and what will astonish
the sons OF Mammon, have both gold and
silver ores. In fact, l consider these noun
tains to be much more valuable than the In
dies"


The letter does not state in what part OF
the Rocky Mountains these specimens were
found. The Toronto Leader remarks. how
ever that as the fur trade came by way of
Lake Winnepeg, there can be no doubt that
1t was in the British territory. The great
fork OF Fraser river, on which the gold is
now being collected, trayersed the Rocky
Mountains, in the centre of which is Moose
Lake
Year: 1859

Written upon the hurricane deck Of the steam.
ship Alonzo Guilds. after dwelling In thought up
on past scenes and associations with the one 10
whom I now dedicate this. May the thoughts
I have here penned true from the heart, be In
unison with her thoughts.
Year: 1859

CoHUeN, -IfN., ANON' ICtu ICOC. MR. EDITOR: Some time ago you pub lished communication from this place, which contained a statement to the effect, that 1 had made an attack with riding whip upon the Judge of this judicial district, because of an official order; and that at the request of a meeting of the bar" of Qua chita county my name had been stricken from the roll of attorneys.

 The meeting of the bar, to which your correspondent referred, was held without my knowledge. in the midst, as 1 am in- formed of high and general excitement against me, and when l was necessarily confined to bed by the injuries received from the third parties in the "melee." The bar acted without any defence or explanation being made in my behalf-and l think, upon incorrect information and misappre hension of the facts. They assumed that the assault was committed on the e honora- ble judge of the court on account of his ac- tion as such judge" and that it was '' un- warrantablc, unprovoked and infamous"

 The conversation in the street upon which the difficulty ensued, was, 1t is true, relative to an order given from the bench But if l know the motive which influenced me in making the attack, 1 was actuated, not so much by the official act as by the personal department of the Judge, which 1 thought keenl y insulting. In fact, in my opinion, l struck the citizen and not Me officer, on ac- count of his conduct ds C citizen and not on accoant of his conduct as dn officer. It was not my intention to commit contempt of the court" If any was committed, it was because there axisted such an inSepara- ble connexion between the private depon- neem of the Judge in private conversation in the street, about an order from the beach, and the order itself, as rendered resent ment of the department necessarily a resent ment of the order also. l am and have been, at all times, ready and willing to purge myself of any imaginable ' contempt of the court.''

 It is perhaps due to myself to add, that at proper time, l expect to seek relief by whathever may appearto be the most effec- tual modes, from what I deem a most ille- gal, unjust and iniquitous judgment. No chance for defence was allowed me. had neither notice or knowledge of the bar meet ing, or of the proceedings of the court. was a stranger to the community, and tc every member of the bar save in the casual acquaintance of month. The judge has long been a resident of this city.

 1 deeply regret the whole affair as l would regret defficulty with any one, or any occasion. Respectfully yonrs,

 WM A. BEENE.
Year: 1859

H- One of BabolPs air whistles has been put on the New London Lighthouse It is blown by condensed air instead of by steam. An Ericsson caloric engine works the appa- ratus. Blasts are given by the whistle four times a minute in foggy weather, at an expense of fuel of one cent per hour
Year: 1859

This bogus body of pretended Democrats,
composed of the boilers from the regular
Democratic organization of this county, meets
this evening. We have it on pretty good au-
thority that it intends to pass resolutions IA
vorable to the San Francisco and Marysville
Railroad! This will be as magnificent a
farce as was ever enacted, inasmuch as there
is scarcely prominent man in the Leeomp
ton ranks who has not been particularly dis
tinguished for his opposition to this road and
his preference for the Folsom concern. Rail
road resolutions at this late day, or indiyidu-
al pledges of friendship to the San Francisco
and Marysville enterprise, from such source,
smack too strongly of demagogism to deceive
any body. The people will prefer to trust
men who have been friendly to the road
from the beginning, and not sudden converts
who jump up and hollow for the road just on
the eve of an election.
Year: 1859

The Ono INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND
DUMB.-The Institution for the instruction of
the Deaf and Dumb at Columbus, has risen
from n small beginning, to a rank among the
first of these establishments in the country
1t now stands on the same level with the
American Asylum at Hartford, and the New
York and Pennsylvania institutions and in
union with them and others, is doing noble
work in rescuing this unfortunate class from
the ignorance to which they appeared to be
haplessly doomed. The principal and his as
sociate instructors are earnest and laborious
men, and enthusiastically devoted to their
profession. And no one, we are confident,
can visit the institution at Columbus without
feeling that it is an honor to the State Its
location at the Capital has brought it year
after year, under the notice of the Legisla-
ture, and enabled the members to vote more
inteligently upon the appropriations needed
Tor its support, and to judge more accurately
OF the realized results ofthis peculiar form of
instruction, while intelligent visitors from
abroad have thus the means of seeing what
ONO is doing for her Deaf and Dumh-Cin.
Gazette
Year: 1859

s8-It is supposed that two men, a Mr..
Curtis and Mr.. Willis, who have disappear
ed from Granite Basin, are buried under a
bank on their mining claim. The report is,
that on Friday they were at work and told
an acquaintance that they intended going
out on the road the next day after provisions,
for which reason no alarm was felt on ac-
count of their non-appearance, until some OF
their friends learned that they had not visi-
ted the store An examination showed that
there had been a heavy cave on their claim,
pot of beans half cooked was found over
the fireplace, their mining clothes and tools
were not in their cabin, aud though not yet
found there is no doubt entertained of their
death.-PiumdS Argus.
Year: 1859

RooRBAcK-We notice by our exchanges,
received by the last Eastern mail, several
items in regard TO affairs in this territory,
which are not true Among Others, was a
silly report that our office was in danger OF
being mobbed, and that "life was in imi-
nent peril" We can assure our friends that
bad as they think the Mormons they are not
so wicked yet as that They have enough
sins to answer for before the bar of public
opinion, without being subjected to idle ru-
mors and exaggerated accounts of matters in
which there is no truth.-SaH Lake Tan.
Year: 1859

CT Quite commotion was excited in
a portion of the town, last evening, by some
individual who was either drunk or crazy,
and who amused himself by firing through
the window of an occupied house near the
Universal Restaurant, and afterwards firing
another load in the street, at the corner OF
Second and streets After having fred in
this manner, he left in hurry and was not
sppreheDded
Year: 1859

cB- A statement is current, says the N.
Y. Tribune, that there are 800 suits for di-
vorce pending in the Supreme Court in the
City District of New York, and probably
half as many more in the Superior Court and
Common Pleas. As divorce is granted in
this State for adultery only, the reader car
imagine most appalling catalogue Of dis
cordant families, of which these are only the
more aggravated cases.
Year: 1859

A New PLAY.-The Philadelphia Evening
journal says that one of the most gifted
members of the Philadelphia Bar is devoting
his attention to the preparation of n play on
Cromwell" which is to be enacted by an
eminent tragedian at one of the theaters.
Year: 1859

WoMAN's INFLUENCE OVER MAS.-The IN
slant woman tries to manage man for her
self, she has begun to ruin him. The lovely
creeper chngs in its feebleress with grace to
the stately tree but if it out grow, as if to
conceal its supporter, it speedily destroys what
it would otherwise adorn When the serpent
had persuaded Eve that she should induce her
husband to take her advice, and become as
knowing as herself, she no longer felt herself
made for him, and both for God, but rather
that he was made to admire her. When she
prevailed, they soon bickered about their right
place, no doubt, for Gods law was lost sight
of by both. One grand purpose of womans
power over mans heart, now that both are fall
len, is the maintenance of mans self-respect.--
A man who loves true hearted woman aims
to sustain 10 himself whatever such woman
can love and reverence. They mutually put each
other in mind Of what each other ought to be
to the other. To the formation of manly char
acter, the love and reverence of the virtuous
feminine character is essential One must see
in the others love the reflection of the charac-
ter desired. Hence the pertinacty of true love
and reverence often recovers a character that
would otherwise be lost forever. If once mutual
respect depart then farewell the love that can
alone rectify what is wrong then farewell the
heartrest without which life becomes delri-
um and an agony. If it be the faculty of woman
to love more tenacious!y than man, her might
surpasses his so far as she is wise in Showing.
it, In expressing love, without at the same
time indicating her faith in the inherent dignity
OF man, however obscure, she only repels him
to worse condition by exciting reckless
sense of his own worthlessness, together with
hatred of her forgiving patronage When
man hates himself what can he love? Give
him time, and he will love the soul that clngs
to him to save him
Year: 1859

A LEGAL ANECDoTE.-Elsha Williams form
erIy Of Columbia county, was somewhat noted
for his eloquence and power Of moving jury
On one occasion he made plea which pro-
duced a marked effect both upon the jury and
upon the Court. His legal opponent was a
mere pettifogger, but shrewd, and, as it so
happened on the occasion succeeded in laying
out the eminent counsellor When Mr. VII.
liamS had closed his eloquent appeal the petit
fogger rose and said


" Gentlemen OF the Jury and your Honors
| should despair of the triumph of my client
in this case after the eloquent appeal of the
learned counsel but for the fact that common
law is common sense No man could like bet
ter the piece which the learned gentleman has
spoke, than what like the piece He spoke
it good. pve hcercd him give it four times
afore-once at Scodack, in burglary case :;
once at kiak, on a suspicion o stealin' once
at Poughkeepsie, in a murder case and the
next time at kakiak, about the man who was
catched a counterfeiting. Well, be ailrays
spoke it good, but this time he's really beat
himself Dut what does it all amount to, gen
tlemen Of the jury? That is the question,
and you can answer it as wellas kin, aud bet
ter tew 2"


And so they did, and quickly by verdict
for the pettifoggers client.
Year: 1859

"Pure air for the lungs and bright sunlight
for the eyes" is physiological maxim which
should never be forgotten. On this subject
the Springfield Republican haSs very good
remarks. 1t says -" When the trees about
dwelling shade the ground so thoroughly
that the grass and shrubbery will not grow
aud the rooms of the house have q constant
air of dampness and gloom, and the outside
gathers moss and mold, it is time to make war
upon the trees and open q pathway for the
sunshine and warm air. If it were not for the
benefcent visits of the hot winds from SUMNER
spots occasionally, such homes would be as
noiSome and fatal as tombS. The vital statis-
ties Of cities show the sunny side of the streets
to be the most healthy notwithstanding the in
sane efforts made even by the inhabitants of
cities to exclude the little sunlight that at
tempts to reach them and we have no doubt
that the statistics Of country residences would
show the same general fact. A certain amount
OF shade is essential to comfort, but when it
reaches the point of excluding sunshine alto
gether, it becomes positive evil. When we
talk about opening windows and doors, we
know what the exclamation of tidy hOusekeep-
ers will be. Flies are q nuisance, we confess
multitudinOus, diSagreeable and dirty dust
from the streets is insuiferable, and faded car
pets are daily modification. But after all,
are not rosy checked and lively children, and
vigorous women more ornamental and more es-
sential to the comfort ofa family than the best
preserved coors in the worsted work or entire


immunity from the annoyance of flies Let
us welcome the visits of the healLhfuI air and
sunshine, aud look out for the essential condi-
tions of vigor and cheerfulness first of ALL and
if matters of mere show must be sacrificed,
why, let them slide"
Year: 1859

Wavy and bright in the summer air
Like quiet sea when the wind blows fair,
And its roughest breath has scarcely curled,
The green highway to an unknown world
Soft whispers passing from shore to shore,
Like heart content, yet desiring more


Who feels forlorn,
Wandering thus on the path through the corn?
A short space since, and the dead leaves lay
Corruption under the hedge-rows gray
Nor hum of insect, nor voice of bird
Der tie desoate field was ever HEARD
Only at eve the pallid snow
Blushed rose-red, in the red sun glow


Till one blest morn,
Shot up into life the green young corn.
Small and feeble, tender and pale,
It bent its head to the wintry gale
Hearkened the wren's soft note Of cheer,
Scarcely believing spring was near:
Saw chesnuts bud, and the champions blow,
And dases mimic the vanished snow.


Where it was born,
On either side of the path through the corn.
The corn-the corn-the beautiful coru,
Rising wonderfully, morn by morn,
First, scarce as high as a fairy's wand,
Then, just in reach of a child's wee hand,
Then growing, growing, tall, green and strorg,
With the voice of the harvest in its song,


While in fond scorn
The lark out-carols the murmuring corn.
Oh, strange, sweet path, formed day by day,
How, when and wherefore tongue cannot say;
No more than of lte's strange paths we know,
Or whether our eyes shall ever see
The wheat in the ear, or the fruit on the tree,


Yet, who is forlorn?
Heaven that watcred the burrows will riDen the CO
Year: 1859

ESE~ Col Nash once demanded the hand
ola cross-grained Alabama planters daughter
Squire my business to day is to ask for your
daughters hand" 1T is, is it? What! you
marry my gal Look here, young man. leave
my premises instanter, and if you ever set foot
here again, III make my niggers skin you.
Marry my daughter you--" Nash left He
saw the old gentleman was angry. After get
ting off to a safe place he thought he would
turn and take last fond look at the home
of his lost idol when he esped the old man
busy shoveling up his tracks from the yard
and thowing them over the fence.