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Year: 1860

TrOllope in his new work on Jamaica says Of
the emancipated negro:


'lle lies under the mango tree, and cats the
lucous fruit in the sun; he sends his black urchin
up for bread fruit and behold ! the family table
is spread lie pierces a cocoanut, and 10 there


is his beverage. lie lies upon the grass, surround
ed by oranges, bananas and pine apples


Is it strange that he should be inactive and Ia
zy ? Is it surprising that arguments about the
blessednese of labor, of providence, Of thrift,
should fall dead upon his ears ? How many of
us would work, if we were not obliged to? How
many of our fashionable id!ers are there whose
lives really amount TO nothing more or better than
the drowsy incidence of these tropical negrOes2
How much better is it to lOll about Newport and
Saratoga IN the summer, and the saloons of New
York iu the winter, doing nothing but vegetate
than it is to roll around under the m ango trees,
and eat cOcoanuts and bread fruit all the day long?
We think that Trollope's statements need some
modification but granting than to be true, there
is large class of Americans who cannot with
much justice criticize the dolce far niente life of the
negro of Jamaica. OF how many men even here
in this bustling land might it truly be said that
they exist, buI Go not live Proridence Journal
Year: 1860

As we supposed would be the case, E. Daniels
was yesterday arrested 6y the United States au'
thorites for aiding in the rescue of Booth, and
locked up in the U. S. Bastle. Whilo we write,
this morning, the prelimiuares for his examina-
ton are being made. We presume his counsel
will wave an examination and produce Ony amount
of bail which the Court may demand, and that for
the present Mr.. Daniels will soon be free again
That he will be convicted provided the trial comes
off before election, can scarcely be doubted, and
III en- be will be set free, either by our Supreme
Court or by the people. We hope the people will
make up their minds fully to this. This internal
despotisrn carried on under pretence of law and
ORDER and paid for out fthe United States Treas
ury ought to come TO an end before great
while.


No man ought to be permitted, op the broad
prairies and under the heavens Of Wisconsin, to
suffer pains and penalties for the practice Of plain
Christian virtues. Such despotism is subversive
of all law and all order and the longer it contin-
uos of course the more danger there is of the des
truction OF all our valuable institutions AS we
view it, however, unless the Supreme Court rever.
ses its position, if the charge against Mr.. Daniels
is the forcible rescue of prisoner, he mus. be
set free by the Court for in the eye Of the court
Mr. Booth could not have been legal prisoner.
Year: 1860

A Reasonable REQUEST The following
request is said to have been made at church:
"A man going to sea, his wife desires the
prayers of this congregation for his safety"


BY an unhappy transposition of the COM
ma, and the mispelling of one word, the note
was read thus: "A man, going to see his
wife, desires the prayers Of this congrega-
ton for his safety"
Year: 1860

4 S ALL DO ACKNOWLEDGE that the Tub
~ or Jersey Churn is the best Churn that Is 10
use, but as the price has been too high, would
state that have made arrangements with the FAC
tory, AID will now sell them ~ per cent less than
they have been sold in this market. Cali on


L. HERRING,
Broom and Wooden ware House, Royal street.
Year: 1860

as adopted will only have Douglas and Pugh
of the Democratic majority in the Senate a.
gainst them.


Ii the platform of the Democratic Sena-
tors becomes the platform at Charleston
what will Mr.. Douglas do? That is now the
interesting question. Some predict that he
will bolt and run as an Independent candi-
date. This supposition receives some sup
port from the recent tone of his home organ,
the Chicago Times. 1t declared before the
resolutions were perfected in the Senate eau
Gus that no one nominated on the Senate
platform could win the presidency, and fur
thermore that no man could be elected presi-
dent who does not adhere to the doctrine of
popular sovereignty. The whole spirit OF
the article indicates determination of Doug
lass friends to bolt if they are defeated in
the convention This threat is desperate
resort but it may save him. The Democrat.
ic party can better afford to be humblsd by
Douglas than to abandon its las, .hance 70,
success. The intestine war in the Demo
cratic ranks has now opened in gnod earnes,
and will be kept up 5riskly till the fnal
great set-to in the Charleston convention
The fight will be warm and interesting
Springfield Republican,
Year: 1860

Let it never come near you. Live so that
good angels may protect you from this evil
the winter of the heart.


Let no chilling influences freeze up the
fountain of sympathy and happiness from its
vithered hopes, like snow on faded flowers
no rude blasts Of dsconten. moan and
shrek all through the dcsolate and dreary
chambers.


Your life path may lead YOU amid trials,
which seem entirely to impede your progress
and shu, out the very light of heaven from
your gaze.


Penury may take the place Of ease and
plenty, your luxurious homes may be inter
changed for single lowly room-the soft
couch for the straw pallet the rich viands
for the coarse food of the poor. Summer
friends may forsake YOU. and the unpityins
world pas. YOU with scarcely word Of CON-
passion.


You may be forced to toll YEARLY. steadily
on to earn livelihood, YOU may encounter
fraud and base avarice which would eNtor,
the last fa,;hing. till you turn III disgust
from your fellow beings.
Death may sever the dear ties that bind
YOU to the earth and leave You in fearful
darkness.


The noble, manly boy. the sole hope Of
YOUR declining years. may be taken from OF
while YOUR spirit ciilss TO him with wlll
tenacity which even the shadow of the tomt
canno. subdue.


But amid all these sorrows do not come Il
the conclusion that nobody was ever SO aiiiic
, ted as YOU are, and abandon every sweet an
,icipation of better DAYS in the unknown fu
ture.


/ DO not lose Your faith in human excellence
because Your confidence has been betrayed
nor believe that friendship is an Illusion, ant
love a phantom which gides away from YOU
grasp.


DO not think YOU are fa;ed to be miseraoi
because YOU are disappointed in Your expec
ta.ions and baitied in Your pursuits. DO no
declare that God has torsaken YOU whe
YOUR way is hedsed with thorns or repln
siniully when He calls your dear ones to til
land beyond the grave.


Keep holy trust in heaven through ever
trial, bear adversity with for,itude. and loo


upward in hours OF temptation and suffering
When Your locks are white. your eyes dix


and Your limbs are weary. when Your step
falter on the verge Of deaths gloomy vale


YOU will retain the freshness and buoyancv ,
spirit which viii shield .ou IRON the winte
of the heart.
Year: 1860

eud-a fear none the more endurable be-
cause continually aggravated by new chime
ras to which the great leading event lent an
air of probability surely all these constitu-
ted sum of public misery which ought to
have satisfied the most morbid appetite for
social horrors. But, as in the case of the
gunpowder plot, and the Salem witchcraft,
and the New York colonial negro plo:, so
now the original actors were swiftly follow
ed by another and kindred class, who sought
to prolong and widen the public distress by
attempting to direct the indignation which ii
had excited against parties guiltless equally
of completely and of sympathy with the OF:
tenders. Posterity will decide in all the re-
cent cases where political responsibility fol
public disasters must fall ; and posteri,y will
give little heed to our instructions. 1t was
not until the gloomy reign of Domi,ian had
ended, and liberty and virtue had found as
sured refuge under the sway Of the milde'
Nerva, that the historian arose whose nara
tive Of that period of tyranny and terror has
been accepted by mankind.
Year: 1860

The following sagacious predictions are
made for the year 1860:


Through the whole course of the coming
year, when the moon wanes the night will
grow dark.


On several occasions during the year, the
sun will rise before certain people discover i.
and set before they have finished their day.
work.
1t is quite certain that when there is no
business doing many will be heard to COM
plain Of hard times, but it is equally certain
Year: 1860

An Ex :uisite Lyric.


By MASSEY.
All in our marriage garden
Grew. smiling up to God,
A BONNER flower than ever
Suck'd the green warmth Of the sod.
o, beautiful unfathomably


Its little life unfurled;
Life's crown Of sweetness was our wee
White Rose of all the world.
From out gracious bosom
Our bud of beauty grew;
1t fed on smiles for sunshine,
And tears for daint;er dew.
Aye, nesting warm and tenderly,
Our leaves of love were curl'd
So close and close about our wee
White Rose OF all the world.
Two flowers Of glorious crimson
Grew with our Rose Of light;
Still kept the sweet heaven-g gifted slip
Her whiteness sanity white.
L the wind of life they danced with glce.
And reddn' d as they whirl'd;
White. white and wondrous grew our wee
White Rose of all the world.
With mystical faint fragrance
Our house Of life she fll'd-
Reveal'd each hour some fairy tow'r
Where winged hopes might build.
We saw-shough none like US might see
Such precious promise pearld
Upon the petals Of our wee


White Rose Of all the world.
But evcrmore the halo


OF angel light increased,
Like the mystery Of moonlight


That folds some fairy feast.
Snow-white, snow-soft, snow-silently,
Our darling bud uncurled.
And drop'ti' the grave-God's lap-our wee
White Rose Of all the world.
Our Rose is but in blossom


Our life was but in spring:
When down the solemn midnight
We heard the spirits sing;
"Another bud Of infancy.


With holy dews impearl'
And with their hands they bore our wee
White Rose Of all the world.
You scarce could think so small thing
Could leave loss so large;
Her little light such shadow fling
From dawn to sunsets marge.
In other springs our life may be


In hammered bloom unfurlod;
But never, never match our wee


White Rose Of all the world.
Year: 1860

To MAKE PURE WINE OF APPLEs.-Take
pure cider. made from sound ripe apples, as
it runs from the press, put sixty pounds of
common brown sugar into fifteen gallons of
the cider, and let it dissolve, then put the
mixture into clean barrel and fill the barre
up to within two gallons Of being full with
clean eider-put the cask in some COO
place, leaving the bung out three or fou'
weeks.
Year: 1860

KEEPING MILK SwEET--A correspondent
of the Homestead found that in sending milk
to marken, though it left the dairy perfectly
sweet it was often curdlcd on delivery to GUS
toners. To remedy this, the cans were COW
cred with cotton cloth soaked in salt water.
By this method the curdling of the milk was
removed.
Year: 1860

How TO FEED FowLs.-When mychickens
are quite young give them Indian meal five
times day, and when old enough to lay, a.
bout tablespoonful of cayenne pepper with
their meal once week, for twelve hens
This, with plenty Of lime and gravel, enables
them to give twenty dollars year for their
products.
Year: 1860

SAID:


Gentlemen Of the COnuentiOn:-It has been part OF
my business in any period Of my life to make speeches
ana you ainly will not expect from tonight
You VIII please accept my most grateful acknowledg
ment for the position in which you have placed me to-
night All can say is that it shall be my pride and aim
shonld be eiected-tha is not the expression to
when am elected for expect to be- administer the
city government with strictest economy-not however,
by adopting penny wise and pound foolish policy y
but by careful and judcous system can say no more
than have. might talk to you for hour, but it
would all amount to what have said will close with
the assurance that will do all in my power to secure
place in the City Hall after the tenth of November
(CheersD


There were loud cries for "Ryan," in response to
which that gentleman took the rostrum and made
speech, In which he congratulated the Convention
on having straght-out American for a nominee
and and prophesied his election. He also said that
Mayor Swami would retire from the Mayoralty
crowned with more laures than any man who ever
hHed the position. He urged the friends of the
nominee to go to work to manufacture public opin-
ION, and closed by telling ne,o story about Bobby
ana the sheep. The Convention then adjourned.
Year: 1860

The STORM IN New ORLEANs.-The New Orleans
papers of Sunday have but little in reference to


the great storm of Saturday last the extent of the
damage there not being known. The Delta says :
The terrible equinoxia gale felt here yesterday
had dreadful effects upon the town of Milneburg,
Lake POntchartrain. The waves broke up the
wharves and destroyed great many small crafts.
One schooner was badly STAYED by running against
the wharf. The streets were flooded and the rail-
road track covered with water for some distance
ishngboat, with young lad aboard, was cap
sized at some two hundred yards distance from
shore. Four men jumped into boat and went to
the rescue of the lad One of them, a Frenchman,
named Henry LeBrenton, jumped overheard and,
catching hold of the lad had him safely transferred
to the boat; but huge wave swept off the frail
craft, and he could not get on board. He held on
to the keel of the capsized boat and cried out to
the men to take the lad ashore and come back for
him. They obeyed, but return was impossible, and
their boat and three others that attempted to go
the rescue We're alternately swamped The poor
fellow held on to the keel for two hours and was
finally washed away perfectly exhausted. His genl
erosity cost him his life.
Year: 1860

The public buildings and grounds in and about
Washington are undergoing considerable renova-
tion and Improvement, thorough and complete
as limited expenditure of means will admit of, in
order that they may present creditable appear
ance when Lord Renirew and suite visit that city.
The Presidents mansion, especially, is receiving
the attention of the commissioner in this respect
Year: 1860

commission appointed not long since in
the efficiency of the national defences. and more
particularly to decide upon the relative merits of
floating and fixed batteries. Their report has been
published, and from it we learn that they recon-
mend the use of floating batteries preferable to
stationary Notifications
Year: 1860

The following are selected from voluminous
accumulation of testimonials Of the Press of the
United States and from eminent Professors of
our institutions where the practice of medicine is
tau chit
Year: 1860

QUESTION FOR LAwYERs.-The Savannah Re
publican of the l4th says, nice question in law is
about to grow out of the finding of thirty thou
sand dollars of the money stolen from the Marine
Bank Agency at Columbus. 1t seems that a ne
gro, in crossing a small ditch, over which panks
were laid, saw the end of newspaper projecting
from under them. His curiosity was excited, and
pulling the paper out, he discovered more money
than his mind ever conceived the world contained
Honest Sambo brought the matter to light and
now the reward is claimed by both his hirer and
owner, and the bank will pay neither until the
question of right is decided. Who shall have it ?
We say, SambO. The law will doubtless say some
body else, most probably the person who hires him
and paws his owner for his services
Year: 1860

The PERUVIAN GIASTs-MoRE EyIDENCE.-We
noticed short time since the finding Of the remains
of human head, of an enormous size, in lot OF
Peruvian guano at Petersburg, Va. The Norfolk
Day Book, of Tuesday, says that in a lot of that
fertilizer received at that port has been found the
vertebra of human being, about twice the usual
size of that portion of the human frame to be found
in those now living, which shows that race of
men of extraordinary size once inhabited that part
bones of extraordinary size have been found and
in all cases pronounced human. The presumption
is that the wOrkmen have struck a burial ground
of some race OF giants, and are exhuming them for
the benefit of agriculture.
Year: 1860

Cured at the town of dundee, near Chicago, on
Wednesday last farmer, named Bullard sent
one of his laborers down into well on his premises
to examine its condition. He lowered the man
down IN bucket, and the latter found stone loose
in the siding. He informed Mr.. Bullard and asked
him it he should take it out. Mr.. Buard replied
that he had better not but the man misunder-
standing him, wrenched it out from its place.
causing the whole mass of brick and stone, with
which the well was surrounded to cave in As
sistance was seLt for, and large number of men


commenced instantly to remove the rubbish, but


the unfortunate man was dead before they could
| get him out.
Year: 1860

Referring to the recent violation of the un-
constitutional laws which forbid the African
slave trade, and the hypocritical laments of
Northern negrophilist, the Delta aptly says


There can be no doubt that almost the en-
tire profits of the slave trade are poeketed by
the people who are fieRcest in denunciation Of
its wickedness. They use the power of the
Federal Government to cut off the South
from supply of labor, and to delegalzc the
trade, in order that their profits may be aug
mented by the absence of competition and OF
wholesome restraints; while they invoke the
necessary horrors Of contrabaad and illicit
traffic as testimony Of its supposed inherent
immortality. In the meanwhile they pocket
millions every year, and laugh at the fanatic
ism of the North and the complacent ami
ability Of the South.
Year: 1860

SENATOR HUNTER ON WHITE LABOR IN
THE SoUTH.-Here is word just spoken by
Senator Hunter in the Senate: Nor is it true
that the institution of slavery makes manual
labor on the part of the whites despicable in
the slaveholding States. There is no country
on earth in which honest labor, as believe, is
more respected; and Of this l am certain. that
every white labcrer in the slaveholding States
is more nearly on an equality with every
other man in the community than every
white laborer in the North is on terms Of
equality with every other man in the North y
Year: 1860

GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILRoAD.-Our
readers are referred to the able Address by
Gen. McLaurin, President of the Gulf and
Ship Island Railroad Company, in behalf of
this great enternrize
Year: 1860

We wish to repeat, however, that the general
fareup" is mere tempest in teapot, and
that what is represented to be a terrific storm,
shaking our great institution to its very
foundations, is breeze which would scarcely
wait feather. Ifanybody is excited about
the occurrences at the University outside Of
the corporation limits of the town of Oxford,
we do not know the fact.
Year: 1860

A TIGREss.-A young unmarried man aad woman
having commenced housekeeping together in the
town of L'orginal, O. W, the house was visited in
the night, and the man brought out by serenade.
He was instantly pinioned and set astride rail,
but, just as his journey was about to commence,
the young woman sprang into the crowd, armed
with large knife, and struck out right and left
with such effect that the assailants immediately
fed. She wounded five of them, one mortalIy.
Year: 1860

A country gentleman promised to attend meet
ing, but broke his engagement. When remon-
strated With he excused himself by saying that he
had been attending another meeting, and then
cannot be in two places ut once. am not am
phibious.s
Year: 1860

General Pimodan lost his life at the battle of
Castelfdardo in this way: Sitting on horseback
under a mulberry tree, he had scarcely issued his
first orders when he was struck by three balls one
of which broke his jaw, another struck him in the
chest, and the third hit his foot He fell at once,
and was removed to neighboring cottage where
all that was possible was done for him. He died
in the Of the night in the hands of the Pied
montese
Year: 1860

There have been no regular returns of the quan-
tty over the Jackson Railroad since Friday last,
the I'd. There are receipts reported of something
like 1000 bales, but they are not entered on the
regular manifests or freight lists at the office, we
do not take them into consideration. We shall
have good weeks receipts with fair supplies of
sugar, let who will be elected President to. day. and
if there should not be any election the cotton will
continue to come, and it will not be long before
gold or its equivalent will be in readiness to pur-
chase it. The freight market was heavy yester.
day. The European advices by the Prince Albert
and Adriatio were received at an early hour,
were commented on in brief way concluded to
be hardly worth the transmission, and so the day
closed, with some little perturbation in other re-
spects, which we may talk of in our next.
Year: 1860

Quick TRIP The Baltic is becoming
as celebrated for her quick trips on the
route between New York and Aspinwall
as she was when she formed a portion
OF the Collins line. She made the last
trip from New York to Aspinwali in SIX
days and twenty.;hree hours. She left
Aspinwail on the night of The 18th, and
arrived at New York on the morning OF
the Oath, her passengers making the
through trip from San Francisco in Is
days and 20 hours.
Year: 1860

THE DYING NEVER wEEP.-The rea.
son why the dying never weep is because
the manufactures of life have stopped
forever the human system has run down
at last every gland Of the system has
ceased its functions. In almost all dis.
ease the liver is the first mandatory
that stops work; one by one the'others
follow, and all the fountains Of life are
at length dried up. there is no secretion
anywhere. So the eye in death weeps
lpt not that all affection is dead in the
neart. >Sut because there is not tear
drop in it. any more than there is mois-
ture on the lisx DR.. Halt
Year: 1860

The Philadel phia Press, in an article on
the lottery offices of that city, gives the
following remarkable instance of their
fearfnlly deleteriuus of7octs:


In the immediate vicinity of a certain
policy dealer the son of a country clergy
man resided. This youth, the hope of an
estimable parent. was journeyman at
some branch of carriage making He
came to town with few hundred dollars
in cash, and the enticements of his neigh
Dor over the way were soon made known
to him. Straightway he became patron
of policies. AT the first venture he won
few dollars. These he doubled and
staked again, and lost. Again he staked,
and again lost, until more than half of
his funds were taken from him. Made
desperate by failure, but still confident of
success, he staked all that remained, and
was penniless. His destitution made
him insane. Surviving a long illness he
resumed his trade, but had no mind for
work. All his energies were concentrated
upon the policies, and the sad scene was
witnessed Of the errant lad sweeping the
pavement and doing menial service for
the man who had robbed him. His re-
compense forthis de5asement aVas the privi-
lege Of choosing three numbers gratuitously
in the policy list We beheld him lately,
a changed and detected being, the weekly
recipient of small sum from the policy
dealer. He occupies the position of copyist
in that worthy's Office, and his wasted
energies are crazed into the single lust of
winning. In a few months some moneys
left him by deceased relative will be re-
ccived. 1t had been more direct for the
dead man to have willed the cash at once
to the policy dealer. A few days ago, as
an evidence of returning mind, the son
of the clergyman begged some gentleman
to "back" him as policy dealer. To
such high expectations has the child Of
the Gospel herald aspired.