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Year: 1860

BEE HIVES IN SACRAMENTe-T
give an idea of the magnitude of the
beehive business in and about Sacra-
mento, we mention the fact that at one
blishment here, near $4,000 feet
of lumber has been planed for this
purpose within the last three months
Each hive requires about twenty-five
feet, making forty hives to the thou
sand feet of lumber, giving total of
1000 hives. Nor will this near cover
the whole number, as many are max
ing hives who do their own planning,
and it is considered that it would not
be cut of the way to put down the
monthly product of this article in this
vicinity at 1000 hives.-Sac. Bee.
Year: 1860

OOafC OONN EN
The joint committee appointed some
weeks since for the purpose of exam
lining ard reporting in relation to the
vote cast at the last general election
for and against The calling of Con-
vention to revise the Constitution,
made their report on Saturday last,
The committee has arrived at the
conclusion that a majority of all the
votes cast for members of the Legis-
lature were given also for the Con-
vention. One thousand votes for the
Convention in Yuba were thrown out,
1900 in Sierra, and numbers in other
counties.


The committee accompanied their
report with bill making provisions
for calling a Constitutional Conven-
ton to assemble at the State Capital
on the first Tuesday of August, and
the election of delegates TO come off
on the first Wednesday of June. Fifty
thousand dollars are appropriated to
pay the expenses of the Convention
and the salaries of delegates fixed at
$3.50 each, mileage computed at three
dollars for every twenty miles travel
by the usual travelled route.


We believe the propositions and
conclusions of the committee to be
just and right. There can scarcely
be doubt that majority of the peo-
pie of this State desire a change in
the Constitution. and but for a slavish
fear or two, the voice Of the people
would be almost unanimous for a Con-
vention Some Republicans. confess
ing the evils of the present Constitu-
ton great, are yet unwilling to see
the slavery question opened again by
the discussion of new Constitution.
A few of other creeds see grinning
horrors in a paper money phantom
which haunts them day and night
whenever the proposition of a new
Constitution is broached. Both the
slavery and the bank questions need
not come up in Constitutional Con-
vention, and if they do,- we apprehend
they will be disposed of satisfactorily
to the majority.
Year: 1860

A CHANCE For A SIRIKE.-The
death Of Senator Broderick not hav-
ing yet been officially announced in
the Senate, a splendid opportunity
will be offered for Senator Latham TO
make. on taking his seat in the Senate,
q ten-strike for himself. As the young
Senator from California is a polite
man, and "some" on delivering an
eulogium, and as he can pay proper
respect to the memory of deceased
predecessor without any danger of
affecting his standing with his own
party, we may expect him to take an
early occasion on arriving at the ma
tional capital to formally announce
the event which opened an early pas
sage 20 himself into the Senate, and
10 pay fitting tribute to the charac-
Ter of the deceased. Such an act
from Senator Latham would endear
him much 10 thousands of Anti-Le-
compton Democrats throughout the
land.
Year: 1860

Go ON WITH IT.--The Senate at
latest dates was engaged in probing
the Harper's Ferry affair to the bot
tom. Senator Mason is chairman of
the committee Of investigation. Josh.
ua r. Giddings and other prominent
anti-slavery advocates have been
called TO testify before tie committee.


1t is to be hoped II there was any
reasonable design secretly concocted
by the people of the North against
the constitutional rights of the South,
they will be brought to light. While
the committee are about it we trust a
sense of justice will prompt them 20
turn their attention to the reasonable
design of Henry A. Wiso of 1885,
Judge Bailey formerly of Georgia.
recently stated i'll meeting at Knox
vile, Tenn. that Gov. Wise addressed
letters to all the Governors of South
ern States, and that the one to the
Florida executive he had seen, in
which Wise said he had an army in
readiness to prevent Fremont from
taking his seat if elected. and asking
the cooperation of those he addressed.
We hope the committee with Senator
Mason at the head, will make one
work of it and probe all reasonable
designs against any portion Of our
common country to the very bottom.
Let Wise be called to the stand,
Judge Bailey and tire Governor of
Florida.
Year: 1860

FoRNEY.---Reading the Press one cannot but
be impressed with the idea that Forney has lit
tie intention of supporting the nominee of the
Charleston Convention. The tone of late arti-
Gle in that paper renders it probable that even
Douglas is not sure of the support of the Press
in the coming canvass should he be so fortunate
as to receive the Charleston nomination for the
Presidency. Forney is quite likely to support
the Chicago nominee if we are to judge by the
late articles supposed to be from his pen.
Year: 1860

STATE GEoLoGIsT-The Senate has passed an
thousand dollars year is the proposed salary.
The best feature of the bill is that requiring the
appointee to have certificate of qualification
from the Smithsonian Institute.


made by scientific men Of not less than three in
number-fve would be better--who should be
commissioned, not only to report upon geological
formations, but on every branch Of natural his
tory. Such a commission established by the
State, and the researches of the same published
illustrated, would be credit and rebound to her
ultimate benefit.
Year: 1860

TEETH TEETH DR.. Leyason comes
'cal Dentist of long established reputation for
professional skill. His specimens of work will
compare with those Of any other dentist what
ever n natural appearance, fitness and beauty
of finish, while in all surgical dentistry his
mode of operating commends itself Ser its free
dom from pain and security against accident.


Office over A, Block & Co.
Year: 1860

Free NEGRoEs-WHAT TO DO
WrH THEM.-In view Of the action,
apparently in concert, of most of the
southern States, to expel free me-
groes from their border land the want
Of fraternity between the black and
white races at the North where the
fugitives must fee from the intolerant
laws against them in the South. the
question-What is TO be done with
free negroes-becomes every day a
pressing and important one. The ne
grOes must have place of refuge Or
be sold again into bondage. i does
not become the North, advocating as
she does the inalierable rights of all
men,, to close her doors against the
freed slave as some States have done,
and allow him to be reduced again to
servitude for want of place of ref
uge. But there is strong prejudice
in the whites against the black race,
which can only be effaced by many
decades of years, if ever. AT present,
at least, the two races cannot exist
with eqral rights on the same soil,
and never till all aversion to color
shall be wiped away. Some persons
of much. philanthropy may have ar
rived at that point where they can
afford to recognize all types of man.
kind as brothers, but the masses are
not thus developed. AS this strong
existing antipathy to the African can
not be obliterated for years to come,
and in the mean time the existence
of a recognized inferior race in large
numbers in the midst of the whites is
unpleasant, if not dangerous, it be-
comes the statesman ts provide a
remedy for the threatened evil, which
shall at once be just to the whites and
the freed blacks.


The proposition of Senator Doolit-
tie, of Wisconsin, which seems to be
Endorsed by the Governors of Ohio.
Wisconsin and Iowa. that portion
of territory be purchased by the gov
ernment in Central OF South America
to which the free blacks shall be re-
novel, strikes us as project dictated
alike by patriotism and philanthropy.
There is nothing in the proposition to
which either the North or the South
cow object. To the South it opens
up an opportunity to escape the odium
of the civilized world by giving her
unfortunate children home of their
own instead of enslavement. To the
North the disagreeable contact of in
harmonious races is prevented, and
her viewsof human rights carried out
more in consonance with the feelings
and greatest good of both races.


Senator Doolittle has presented PEI
titions numerously signed praying for
the provision of a territory to be ex-
pressly set apart for the colonization
Of free blacks on the sholes Of theGulf
of Mexico, somewhere south of the
United States. AS the Honorab BILE
Senator has said, we believe the solu-
lion of the negro question in our Re-
public lies in this project.
Year: 1860

WAsHoE---Like geese about the time they be-
gin their migratory flights, certain uueasiness
is seen in hundreds of people hereabouts. The
silver fever is raging here in all other parts of
the State Every third man you meet is bound
for Washoe as soon as the mountains are in good
condition to pass. Late sales of claims in the
silver mines by old citizens of this place, who
left here not many months ago with but little in
the way of this worlds goods to brag of, and
have returned with several tens of thousands,
have rather increased than lessened the fever
which was carrying off snough before. Where
this excitement will end we cannot exactly tell,
but Gold Bluff, Kern and Frazer Rivers give US
the basis for prediction. Nine men out of ten
are to be disappointed, we guess. If no larger
proportion we shall be mistaken.
Year: 1860

GRAY HAIR.-An English writer asserts that
premature gray hair is caused by lime in water,
and advises the avoidance of hard water, if the
original color of the hair is desired to be pre-
served.


Other kinds of hard drink make the hair pull
dreadfully. What's follow going to DO IN
limestone country? Nothing to. drink
Year: 1860

SnERxAS, not quite Speaker of the present
House of Representatives, in speech at the
serenade to Pennington, among other things said
the dissolution Of the Union so much deprecated
by the Democrats was dissolution Of their
union with the federal reasury.
Year: 1860

Es- The resolutions of our late Democratic
County Convention were nearly word for word
those passed by the State Democratic Convention
Of Fennessee- The Committee, therefore, on
Resolutions besides having an easy job have the
proof Of their soundness on the goose in the or
igin Of the Resolutions.
Year: 1860

In the Maryland Legislature, the
resolutions of the South Carolina Leg
islature, proposing disunion, were
read. The leading men Of both par
ties denounced them as proposition OF
national treason. There was strong
vote to lay them on the table without
reading them. and they would have
been SO disposed; of but for the plea Of
respect due to a sovereign State.
Year: 1860

De GRoor's MAP.-We would call attention
to the fact that De Groot's map which is being
circulated rather extensively at present, places
Nevada ten miles farther north than her actual
position. Nevada is located in latitude 80 deg.
IA m. 1t will be seen at once, by reference to
De Groot's map, that the line Of road from this
city to the Washoe diggings should be marked
ten miles south of its present location on that
map, and thus the advantage of the Nevada over
the Placerville route in point of distance is man
ifest, saying nothing of the lesser altitude to be
overcome on the former route. This error should
be remembered by those consulting De Groots
map.
Year: 1860

To John H Thomas, Esq


SIR: l received your letter of the 1st inst have
not exercised the duties of the Mayoraty days
consecutivey since retirement in October last until
this week. being in state to encounter any exciting
labor had never seen the carda copy of which you
have done me the favor to send mccullough had been
informed that the referred had not been disposed
Of regretted extremely the occurrence and felt author
zed from the statement in your letter, to order the
prompt suspension of those whom took to be in
fault. am sorry that was prevented from going into
full investigation at the time with view to further
ton. would be glad to have the of the witnesses
in order that, in the event of my continuing control
this force, may ask their attendance the feel
able to undertake the labor of investigation should
have made this application, justice to you nnd
myself without waiting to be reminded had it not been
for the facts above stated.


With great respect your ob't serv't,
Year: 1860

into the rest prepared, from the foundation of
the world, for and gentle spirits like thine


Farewell, happy in thy life, happy in thy death,
happier in the reward to which that death was
the assured passage; fortunate in attracting the
admiration of the world to thy beautiful writ
ings; still more fortunate in having written moth
ing which did not tend to promote the reign of
magnamimous forbeargnce and generous sympa-
thies among thy fellowmen. The brightness of
that enduring fame which thou hast won earth
is but a shadowy symbol of that glory to which
thou hast been admitted in the world beyond the
grave. Thy errand upon earth was an errand of
peace. and goodwill to men, and thou art now
in a region where hatred and strife never enter,
ana where the harmonious activity of those who
inhabit it, acknowledges no imnulse less noble mr.
Year: 1860

1t is said that after the New York Seventh Regi-
ment move into their new armory, they will have
two files of men in uniform on guard all day. The
duty will be voluntary, and each man in the Regi
ment will take his turn
Year: 1860

Jesus This name is above every name
that has appeared on the records of time
No person has attracted 1.-THE of the at
tention that has been and still is given to
him. There is no name, among the living
or dead, which to-day awakens such an in
terest among men-no name which has
such power over even scoffers and deniers
of Christianity There are some, indeed,
among enlightened men, who ignore, as
much as possible, the fact Of his existence
who, perhaps, are content with the opin-
ion that Chri ,tianity is a baseless super
stition, or an Improbable mystery. But
it still remains true that the civilized world
to-day feels a deeper, more vital and abid-
ing interest in the person Of Christ, than
in any other name which has frightened
the page of history. And it is in vain that
his enemies seek to pull down that name
from its peerless eminence. 1t will not be
forgotten while time shall last. New cal
umnies may be invented to blacken its
new hypothesis to discredit, new revela-
tions to obscure, and new expositions to de-
grade it new names may be introduced to
supplant it, new religions to overcome it,
new doctrines to divert attention from it !:
but none of these things will be able to
move it from its historic or prophetic pre-
eminence. In spite of them, it will rise
higher and higher, and shine brighter and
brighter, attracting more and more the af-
fections of men, till it is acknowledged of
all nations to be the light and life of the
world.


The throne of Jesus is in the heavenly
palaces, far above all principalitics and pow
ers Kings are his vassals; angels his min
listers His dominion is an everlasting one;
justice aud judgment are the habitation of
his throne; righteousness is his sceptre !;
love is the law, and peace-even abundance
of peace, so long as the moon endureth'-
the fruit of his reign And it is the declar-
ed purpose of Him whose truth cannot be
impreached, and whose power cannot be sue
cessfully opposed, that in the dispensation
of the fullness Of time, he might gather
together in one, all things in Christ, both
which are in heaven and on earth, even in
him
Year: 1860

Though many and bright are the stars that anpesr.
Ia that Flag by our country unflrled:
And the stripes that swelling in majesty there,
- Like q RAINBOW adorning the world;
Ihelr llghts are unsullied as those in the sby
~ a deed that our Fathers have done;
ana they're leagued in as true and as holy tie
IN their motto of MANY in One"
From the hour when those patriots fearlesslv fung
That banner of starlight abroad
Ever true to themselves, to that motto they clung
by the bayonet traced at the midnight of war,
~ On the fields where our glory was Won;
Oh perish the heart or the hand that would mar
Our motto of MANY in One"
Mid the smoke of the contest--the cannon's deep
How oft it hath gathered renowni
Whlle those stars reflected in rivers of gore
When the cross and the lion went down;
And though few were the lights in the gloom of that
Yet the hearts that were striking below,
Had Cod for their blwark and truth for their power,
And they'stopped not to number the foe.
From where our green mountain tops blend with the


sky,


And the giant St. Lawrence is rolled,
To the waves where the balmy Hesperides lie,
Like the dream of some prophet of oId
They conquerd-and dying, bequeathed to our care
Not this boundless dominion alone
But that Banner, whose loveliness hallows the air.
And their motto of Many IN One"
We are MANY in One" while there gitters a star,
In the blue of the heavens above;
And tyrants shall quail mid their dungeons afar,
When they gaze on that metto of love.
1t shall geam DER the mid the bolts of the storm,
Over tempest, and battle, and wreck;
And fame where our guns with their thunder grow


warm,


Meath the blood on the slippery deck.
The oppressed of the earth to that standard shall fly,
Wherever its folds shall be spread;
And the exile shall feel It's his own native sky,


When its stars shall float DER his head.
And those stars shall increase till the funess Of time,
Its millions of cycles has run
Till the world shall have welcomed its mission sublime,
And the nations of earth shall be one.
Though the old AIeghany NAV tower to heaven
And the Father of Waters divide,
The links of destiny cannot be riven,


While the truth of these words shall abide.
Then ohl let them glow on each helmet and brand,
Though our blood like our rivers shall run;
Divide as we may in own native land


To the rest of the world We
Then up with flag, let it stream on the air,
Though our fathers cold in their graves;
They had hands that could strike they had souls that


could dare,


And their sons were not born to be slaves.
Up up with that banner, where'er it may CALI
Our millions shall rally around;
nation of freemen that moment shall fall,
When its stars shall be trald on the ground.
Year: 1860

shillelagh the man had under his arm, ''let me
undeceive you. l don't want anything Of you,
and am very glad you have got your money
back. But suppose you'd stand by me, now,
II l wanted boy to help me in any little skir-
mishs"


They were standing by window in the top
story of the Bank, commanding courtyard,
where sentry was on duty. To our friends
amazemcnt the man dashed out Of the room
without speaking one word, suddenly appeared
in the court yard, performed war dance round
this astonished solder-who was a modest
young recruit-made the shillelagh flutter like q
a wooden butterfly round his musket round
his bayonet round his head, round his body,
round his arms, inside and outside his legs, ad-
vanced and retired, ratified it all round him like a
flrework, looked up at the window, cried out with
high leap in the air, "Who-rool Thry me-"
-vanished-and never was beheld at the Bank
again from that time forth.
Year: 1860

"CAN'sT thou draw out Leviathan' with a
hook! or his tongue with cord which thou
lettest down! Can'st thou put hook into
his nosel or bore his jaws through with a
thoni / will not conceal
his parts, nor his power, nor his comely pro-
portion. Who can discover the face of his
garmentl Who can come within his double
skinsl Who can open the doors of his facet
His teeth are terrible round about. His
strong pieces of shields, his scales arc his
pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
One is so near to another that no air can
come between them. They are joined one
to another; they stick together that they can
not be sundered BY his neesings a light
doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids
of the morning. Out of his mouth go burn
ing lamps, and sparks Of fire leap out. Out
of his nostrils goeth smoke as out of a seeth-
ing pot OF cauldron. His breath kindleth
Goals, and fame gocth out of his mouth.
In his neck is strength and sorrow is turned
into joy before him. The flakes of his flesh
are joined together; they are firm in them
selves; they cannot be moved. His heart is
as firm as stone; yea, as hard as a piece of
the neither milestone. When he raiseth up
himself the mighty shrink back with dread.


lie maketh the deep to boil
like pot; he maketh the sea like pot of
ointment lie maketh path to shine after
him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Upon earth there is not his likc."-JoB, XII


The prophet of 1900 years before the
coming of the promised Redecmor,and whose
ken reached these present years and their
doings upon earth, has surely prefgurcd the
work of Bruneps genius with almost literal
-exactness, as will be seen by the above ex-
tract from the poem of the suffering and
righteous Uzzite, or there is no meaning in
his language. The common application of
this passage to the sperm, or right whale, or
to the Norway m9lstrom, or to the sea-ser-
pent, is so forced as always to leave the mind
unsatisfed. But if to be considered as pro-
phetic Of the Great Eastern steamship, it is
almost prosaically true. Just as the prophet
Nahum foresaw the railway locomotive and
the tclegraphic wires upon poles, and indi-
Gated their coming in after ages in unmistak-
able language, so Job clearly fOresaw and
described the creation of the monster of the
deep now lying in Annapolis Roads, and be-
fore his highly-wrought prefguration all ac-
counts of the reality pale into nothingnoss.-
Bait. Patriot
Year: 1860

Cor ANOTHER 0SE.-Matt Root, Of Painesville,
is taking the census of Lake county. The other
day he received call from an old farmer, at
whose house he had called few days before, in
one of the towns he had canvassed. The farm
er fumblcd awkwardly with his hat and didn't
seem to know how to get at his business. Matt
enquired after the health of his sixteen children
all under seventeen years of age, whose names
he remembered to have taken, spoke about the
weather, etc but the honest farmer seemed to
grow more and moro embarrassed. At length
the visitor blurtcd out: my old woman sent
me to tell you to come and take the census over
again: she's got another oner'- Clerelahd Dem-
Ocrdt.
Year: 1860

fccts into gold, paddle out into the bay.of
New York, as he did into that of Egina, and
toss the whole cargo overheard, exclaiming,
"rll drown you before you drown meF'


The case is not quite SO bad as that Rich
es, which arc undoubtedly curse-a mere
burden to press the mind, and rust to cor
rode tiff the possessor has nothing 10 do,
become means of high enjoyment, iaud no
bic activity, and memorable usefulness, when
they come into the possession of one who is
worthy to possess and wise enough TO use
them.


Something to do" is, however, the indis-
pensiblc condition either of enjoying or inn
proving opulence.
Year: 1860

IT is secret known but to few, yet Of no
small use in the conduct Of life, that when you
fall into mans conversation, the first thing you
should consider is, whether he has a greater in
clination 70 bear you, or that you should hear
him.-Steele.
Year: 1860

PRETTY WoNES.-A pretty woman is one
ofthe fnstitutions'o of the country-an angel in dry
goods ana glory. She makes sunshine, the blue
sky and happiness wherever she goes Her path
is one of delicious roses, perfumes and beauty
She is poem, written in rare curls and choice
calico, and good principles Her words float
around the ear like music birds of paradise, or
the chime of Sabbath bells Without her, society
would lose her truest attraction the church its
hrmest reliance, and young men the very best of
comforts and company. Her influence and gem
erosity restrain the vicious, strengthen the weak
raise the lowly, flannel shirt the heather, and
strengthen the faint heart Wherever YOU find
the virtuous woman, you also find preside, Jo-
quets, clean clothes, order, good living, gentle
hearts, music. light. and model institutions gene
rally. She is the flower of humanity, a very
Venus in dimity, and her Inspiration is the
breath Of Heaven.