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Year: 1859

i. W. Rust, engineer on the @. & I.
Railroad, met with q little incident last
night while bringing the Express down
from Toledo with his 'fast sailing" loco
motive, Defiance. He was something
ever an hour behind time and Of course
not disposed to stop for trifvs. When a
little this side Of Oberlin the head light
revealed lad on the track, swinging a
straw hat in one hand and handker-
chief in the other, in the most violent and
excited manner. Rust whistled down
the brakes and the boy continued wav,
ing his handkerchief and hat so earn
estly the locomotive nearly run him down
before ho got out Of the way. After the
train had stopped, the engineer backed up
to where the boy had stood, and got Of
to enquire how far ahead the break in the
road might be, for his head was full ol
eulverts washed away and bridges down,
but nothing could be seen Of the lad. Al
length he cspied an old woman standing
in the door Of a shanty, and he enquired
who it WAS that "hagged the train?" The
old woman smiled conciliatingly, and re-
piled: .sr


"Shure and / think it was my Dennis,
Sur. 1t was only bit Of his fun, and be
didn't name to do any HARM at all, Sur
He was indulging himself in little limo.
cent foolin' wild ye Sur"


Rust handed her quarter with re-
quest that she give the harmless Dennis
fogging to the extent Of about twent:-
five cents worth. and stopping into the
Defiance" put on the steam to make W
the time lost by Dennis "innocent fool
in'."-Geu. Dem. ..-..
Year: 1859

R The editor Of the Brandon Miss. }
Republican notifies the public that here.
after no gentleman need expect to receive
his paper "moIe than twenty Eve years
without paying for it," He winds up
with the following philosophical announce
ment: "Those who may wish to renew
their notes, can do SO by writing them on
buskskin--as paper though not used will
mould, and the ink on It will fade"
Year: 1859

As the farmers Of Ohio and elsewhere,
have sustained great loss by reason of
their potatoes being affected with the rot,
after losing my whole crop for several
years, l fell on the following plan, and
therefore saved them. On the 2Sth Of
September, l849, I discovered that my
potatoes were commenced to rot, ! there
fore dug them, threw them on the ground
and let the sun dry them, throwing away
all that were affected. I then spread
them six inches thick in my blacksmith
shop, and pounded half a bushal charcoal
fine and spread it evenly over them, let
them lay till fear Of frost injuring them,
when ! buried them, covering them we'll
They saved as well as any potatoes I ever
had. The next year they commenced to
rot as before. I dug them and placed them
in the shop, but put no pulverized char.
coal on them, they ceased rotting as be-
fore and saved well. My potatoes have
rotted more or less every year since, but
by digging them and spreading them on
some dry floor where the sun cannot shine
on them, those that are partially rotted,
will dry up and rot no more. Last fall at
least one fourth were rotten before l dis
covered it, yet saved the balance, good
and sound as any every had. Farmers,
if you find your potatoes commencing to
rot, try the above experiments.


JOHN YOUNG.


Richland County, 1859. a
Year: 1859

Malta" have designs upon the Island Of
Cuba. Let it not be supposed that we
are coadjutors, but in all confidence we
will say that we hope at some future day
to suyugate the Isle of Man.
Year: 1859

We believe in Buchanan and Douglas
democracy, and that it is as old ns Noab,s
Ark. so ifuoa Cr1p aaI ltI .uo ia


We believe in hard money generally,
with an occasional issue of trcasurv rags.,
which ought not, under any ordinary
conditions of Government to exceed more
than forty millions per year. - y


Wesbelieve to the victor belong tho
spoils" and if there be more victors than
spoils, spoils should be made to order.


We believe IN a national party if it in
cludes the North, and leaves out the
South.


We believe in the great principle of vo-
ting often and. early, for if one be good
then two are Ley IS s.ass.,.


We believe in he S,s sie@stiiISble st mai rights Of
democrats, when on the stump, to change
their principles with the degrees of lati-
tude and longitude. s -..f


We believe the history of all political
parties establish the fact that there is no
cohesiveness equal to the ''cohesiveness of
public plunder."


We believe that there are no principles
so dear, to the thousand of office seekers
that crowd the democratic Israel, as the
give loaves and two fishes"


We believe that Kansas needs another
Governor, or else she will soon commence
bleeding and no physician will be found
to staunch her blood.


We believe that Maryland is outside
the pale of healthy organization, and we
humbly pray the President to appoint
fast day that she may return to the true
faith, of the President.
Year: 1859

gs6r The Boston Post says: Pleasant


M. Mask was addressing four thousand


people at Holly Springs, Miss, last week,
when he suddenly fell from the platform
on which he stood and broke his neck
He had previously committed murder.
Year: 1859

ALARMlNG.-The Springfield Republican
says, that even in Massachusetts, where
the laws are supposed to be as clear and
consistent as in any State, in the attempt
to enlarge the legal domain of woman,
the statutes are so fixed that wifeiis
under no legal Obligation TO get breakfast,
sew on a shirt button, or nurse the baby
even, unless the husband pays her for it.
Year: 1859

OH RIP WAXING Ur.-We learn from
our North Carolina exchanges that the
gallant Wings of North Carolina are ta-
king the field and preparing for vigor-
GUS contest in that State. The Old Wing
fire is spreading and sweeping in one
grand confagration over the whole land,
consuming in its progress the foul and
corrupt party in power. May success
crown the efforts of the Old North Statel
Year: 1859

The Springfield Republican has cap
ia article on this subject. Here are some
extracts ..


His Regulations aCih The old Han
We suppose that the first severe 'Fial
boy has 20 undergo is 10 submit his VIII
10 the old man, whom he is taught TO
consider his father. TO he restrained IN
doors at night, TO be forbidden TO go IN a
swimming hve times day, or TO 6e hln-
dered from pinching The rest Of the ehh-
dren Just for fun, is an interference with
natural. unalienable rights. every way IN
iurious to the feelings. And then, when
upon some overwhelming temptation, the
boy asserts his inde2 2endence OF parental
control. and receives tanning with a
switch from a ounce bush, either upon
the back or his bare feet, il becomes real
" very serious thing. We never could
see that the smart OF an operation like
this was al all assuaged by the aticcIonsIe
assurance that il was bestowed out pure
love.


Sitting with the Girls.-The next
trial of that bov is 10 be obliged by cruel
master 10 sit with the giEls al the school.
This usually comes before the develoPe-
meni of those undeniable stlnlues " alch'
in after life, would tend 10 make the pun
ishment more endurable. TO be pointed
out as "gal boy" to belsmiled at grim
lv hy the master, who is so far delighted
with his own ineffable pleasantly as TO
give the htde boys license TO laugh aloud
and to be placed by the side ola girl who
has no handkerchief. and no knowledge OF
the use of that article, is. we submit
trial of no mean magnitude. Yet we
have been thare, and have been obliged TO
"sit up close'' with big Rachael, laughing
and blushing til we came to hate her
name. We wonder where the over
grown, ffowsy creature is now, and wha,
the condition Of her head is


The First Long Tailed Coat.-We
do not believe that any boy ever pul on
his first long tailed coat without sense of
shame. He first twists his back half OF
looking at it in The glass. and then when
he Steps out of doors il seems TO him as
ifsll creation was in broad grin. The
sun laughs in the sky the cows turn to
look al him there are faces at every win
dow /; his very shadow mocks him.
When he walks by the cottage where
Jane lives he dsres not look up for his
life. The very boards creak with con-
sclousness Of the strange spectacle. and
the old pair Of pantaloons that stop light
in the eatret window, nod with derlslou.
he is obliged to pass group of men
and boys, the nisl assumes It's most ter
rife stage (; his legs ge, all mixed up with
embarrassment, and The flap OF the dang
Year: 1859

Time IN its rapid onward fight
Bids thee prepare thyself this night
TO meet the death that is thy doom,
The death that is to come So soon.
The day of thy death draws swiftly near
Soon thou wilt be pas, and gone
Prepare thysef with trembling fear
Thou may'st no longer TO earth belong,


~ l,fo AZ swiftly past /;
Year: 1859

QUEER PROCEEDINGS on THE NEW YoRK AND


ERIE RAILROAD.-A correspondent of the New


York Tribune, who had been passenger on the


New York and Erie Railroad, gives an account Of


the attempt ofs Conductor to learn the name of a


lady passenger on board the train. That Erie road


has some regulations" which are not very pleas


ing to the mass of community. The correspondent


says:


On late occasion, riding on the train from Dun


kirk to New York, my attention was attracted


by high words between lady and the Conductor.


with others, approached to learn the gist of the


controversy. hseemed that the lady without escort


mad taken passage at way station, and was with


out ticket When the Conductor came along she


paid her fare; he then demanded to know her
name; she declined to give it, he insisted; she re-
pied that that was public conveyance. she had
PAID her fare, and what her name was did not con-
eern MIN lie st insisted, alleging that he "must
KNOW, sne rephed with much firmness that he
should not, that she was Alone unprotected and
no one but puppy would insult strange lady in
tnat manner The Conductor, evidently gentle
man IN his feelings, was deeply embarrassed-bis
face was scarlet with bushes All ewes yera upon
him, and more than one stout gentleman STOOD
Teaoy TO pitch him of the train if he insisted in
MS improper conduct toward the lady The Con
ductor apologzed as well as he could, and al.
leged that written regulation of the manage
Inent required him to demand and take down The
names OF passengersin such cases To this asser
ton there was general expression Of unbelief-
Onei energetic. substantial old gentleman said II
was impossible that any Superintendent of rail
road could be so great an as to promulgate such
an order. Driven to the wall aud well nigh con.
founded by the general expression of indignation.
the Conductor at length to the astonishment of al
produced the actual document, which was in terms
as claimed by the Conductor This, of course, vim
dieated the Conductor at the expense of the man
sgement. Nevertheless, the lady was advised mot |
TO give her name uron compulsion-the passen. |
gers declaring that if he undertook to enforce his
demand, they would take the train out of his |
control and run it to the next station on their own
account. From necessity the poor Conductor |
was compelled to waive, for that trip, the en- |
Iorcement of the preposterous order of the manage
nent.


have puzzled my brains to discover with what |
oDect and for what purpose this strange order was
issued, but without success know that it is com
mon on ocean steamers to take the uames of pas |
;engers, so that in case Of disaster it may be |
known who is saved and who is lost. OF course, |
he New York and Erie Company do not desire to |
Keep list of passengers to enable them in case of
smash-up, to check of the killed, wounded and |
missing.
Year: 1859

AT the suggestion of medical friend we publish the
following article from Dickens Household Words:
The terrible mortality caused by bronchitis,
pneumonia, and consumption, which together Kill
ill England and Wales only-a hundred thous-
and people year (being one-fourth of the entire
mortality from more than hundred other causes
in addition to themselves should make think
little seriously of the many things, and not least
seriously of the freaks of fashion which set climate
at defiance. Why do we send children abroad in
damp and cold weather with their legs bare, sub
mtted tender as their bodies are, to risks that
even strong adults could not brave with impunity!
Custom has made this matter appear familiar and
tring, but it is not out of place to say, at the be-
ginning of another winter, that the denial to young
children of proper skirts to their clothes and warm
coverings to their legs has sown the seeds OF con-
sumption in thousands and thousands and is, OF
many dangerous things done in obedience to laws
of fashion, the one that is most thoughtless and
most cruel 1t is in the child that consumption can
most readily be planted-in the child that when
the tendency exists, it be conquered, if at ALL
1t is to be fought against by protecting the body
with sufficient clothing against chill and damp, by
securing it plenty of wholesome sleep-not sufo-
cative sleep among feathers and curtains-pl2nty
Of free abution without pre- udices on behalf of
water, icy cold, plenty of cheerful exercise short
of fatigue, plenty of meat, and bread, and whole





wanted by all children. Many child pines in
health upon diet stnted with the best intentions
But the truth is that it is not possible to over
feed Child with simple wholesome eatables. 1t
can be stimulated to excess in the demolishing of
sickly dainties; and, with stomach once fairly
depraved, may be made incompetent to say when
it has had too little or too much. But child fed
only upon wholesome things knows better than
any mamma can tell when it wants more; it can eat


great deal; has not only to maintain life, but to
add height and breadth to stature. Fortify it,
then, against variations of climate, and weather,
by meeting freely the demands of its body; give
it full animal vigour to resist unwholcsome impress
sions. Especially let the good housewife, who
has young family to feed, learn to be utterly
reckless as the extent of her milk-score. Some
body has declared a pint of milk to contain as
much nourshment half pound of meat BE
that as it may, it is the right food for little ones
to thrive upon and may much subsequent
expenditure for cod-liver oil.
Year: 1859

NEUTRALIZING PoIsoN.-A general reader
sends the following prescription to the Pittsburg
Gazette:


"a poison of any conceivable description and
degree of potency, which has been Intentionally
or accidentally swallowed, may be rendered almost
instantly harmless by simply swallowing two gills
of sweet oil. An individual with very strong
constitution should take nearly twice the quantity.
This oil will most positively neutraze every form
of vegetable animal, mineral poison with which
physicians and chemists acquainted.
Year: 1859

A TEMPERANCE SToRY-Deacon johnson is
great temperance man and sets good example of
total abstinence as far as he is seen.


Not long ago he employed carpenter to make
some alterations in his parlor, and in the corner
near the fireplace it found necessary to remove
the wainscoting, when 10! discovery was made
that astonished everybody A brace of decanters,
tumber and pitcher, were cozily reposing
there as if they had stood there from the begin
ming.


The Deacon was summoned and as he bcheld the
blushing bottles he exclaimed


"Well, l declare, that is curious, sure enough 1t
must be that old Bains left them when he went
out OF this ERE house thirty years ago"


"Perhaps he did, returned the carpenter, "6ut
deacon the ice in the pitcher must have been trlz
| rsishty hard to stay all this time"
Year: 1859

REMovING.-The free colored people of Louisiana
are leaving the State in large numbers. On the
10th of May three hundred took their departure
for Hayti, carrying off large amount OF property.
Most of them were fiom the rural parishes, where
they possessed land and slaves
Year: 1859

THE Great Western Plains are literally CO.
vered with buffalo. The number each year
seems to increase rather than diminish. They
90 in immense herds, and at times seem to cast
a dark shadow over the valley
Year: 1859

A EN-.
There's not heart, however rude,
But hath some little flower
To brighten up its solitude,
And scent the evening hour:
There's not heart, however cast
BY grief and sorrow down,
But hath some memory of the past.
To love and call its own.
Year: 1859

There reports on Saturday Of the existence OF
yellow fever in several localities in the city, bat an eS'
animation by the Health Officer proves that there
was no just foundation for the rumor. The dsase waS
bilious remttent fever.
Year: 1859

SENT TO STocKToN-The unfortunate girl
Margaret Slater, whom we noticed some time
since as going over to Capt. Welche's house,
Of the police and informing him that Father
Gallagher intended to make way with her,
and that he had her name registered in "The
Book of Life" has been sent to Stockton.
she was for while taken in charge by the
Sisters of Mercy, but they could do her no
good and finally she had to be taken away.
She was sent up on the boat last evening to
the Insane Asylum.-S T. Telegran,, We'd
Year: 1859

Its doomed defeat in the next Presidential
el'ctIon rs so tar apparent as to be virtually
conceded by the more candid of the party.


One of its most intelligent organs has re-
Gently had the candor to predict that the
Charleston Convention will never meet, or.
if it does. that it will be only to disagree and
separate without a nomination. No compro-
mise that could now be patched up would
prevent defeat. This the leaders see, and
therefore there will be no compromise. With
the spoils lost, the only cohesive power will
be gone, and they will lack the motive for
even serious effort TO prevent the party from
crumbling. as il WILL into unavailable frag-
menis. All see that the unity OF the party
can only be preserved by the South yielding
to the new Donglas dogma of non-interven-
tion. This the South would be little likely
to do for any thing short of certain victory
certainly not for the sake of barren contest,
and of according to Mr.. Douglas such a bril-
liant personal triumph over the Southern
leaders. Neither will those leaders SO yield
Tor the purpose of according an amnesty to
either Mr.. Guthrie or Mr.. Brecknbrldge, who
In their over eager aspirations after the nom
1uation are attempting to force the obnoxious
dogma upon the Democracy of Kentucky.
they will be suspected of making this at
tempt Tor the purpose of forestali;ng and pro-
piliating Northern support in the convention
TO the prejudice of their numerous compet-
LOTT. ulS t0ose leaders VIII De disposed to
resent rather than reward.


Should such a split in the Democracy oc-
cur. the better part of its Northern members
WI! flock to the Union party. Even should
this split not occur, its Northern wing, upon
common principles of party tactics. will vote |
the Union ticket in those free States where |
there is no hope of benefiting their party |
than by thus aiding to defeat the |
Republ can candidate. In This way, and in
his worst aspect of results. the election may |
De thrown before the House of Representa-
ives, where the candidate of the most central
md conservative party must succeed.


Tue prospect is bright and cheering for
'reaking up these two pernicious sectional
lrties, whose iuterminable wrangles over
mere distractions about slavery brought us
II SO to the very verge of civil war, and
whose best ultimate result would be peace
bile severance of the Union. Much depends
pon the elections in Kentucky and Tennes-
ee. Victory is before Us if the Union loving
nen of those States will exert themselves as
alriots should when their country is in dau-
er.


A NATIVE
Year: 1859

Oh George, well love to sit, 3.
And lei my memory Ioam
Der many year, long past and gone
When we were girls at home.
Life then was sunny way,


No care or grief e'er come
To cloud our path or chill our hearts
When we were girls at home.
All no we lived in sweet content,


Nor thought of years to come,
When we no more should gather meath
The old roof tree at home.
But time hath fed, the band is broke
Aiar we all now roam,
And strangers own that dear old place
Our happy girlhood home.
Ah sister mine, we little thought


That we should ere become
As staid and matrouly as now,


When we we're girls at home.
That line should thread our hair with grey
Should rob our cheeks of bloom,
And FL our hearts with many care,
Ne'er known when girls at home
Bot life hath many a changing way


And all meath heavens blue dome,
We knew and loved in days gone by,


When we were girls at home.
We can but weep 10 think they died


In all their glrIhood bloom
But. ah we've lost those dearer far,


Since we were girls athome.
But. sister, life hath nothing sure


JOY, toll or grief may come
I've learnt TO meet with patience all,


Since we were girls at home.
Ard ever as the spring time comes,


Our summer flowers bloom,
My memory wanders sweety back


To our loved girlhood home.
l thought, see it all again,


And DER each loved spot roam
As we were wont TO DO years gone,


When we were girls at home.
Year: 1859


Close the door lightly,
Bride the breath,
Our little earth angel,
Is talking with death
Gently he woes her,
She wishes to stay,
His arms are about her
He bears her away.
Music comes floating
Down from the dome,
Angels are chanting
The sweet welcome home;
Come, stricken weeper,
Come to the bed,
Gaze on the sleeper
Our Idol is dead.
Smooth out the ringlets,
Close the blue eye
No wonder such beauty
Was claimed in the sky
Cross the hands gently
Ger the white breast,
So like a wild spirit
Strayed from the blest.
Pear her ont softly.
Year: 1859

Some fifteen years ago, Rev. John N.
Maffit, then in his prime, delivered o
lecture which closed with the following
fine PASSAGE: -..- a'.' .-d' .-a--l-


The Phoenix, tabled bird of antiquity
when it felt the chill advances of age
built its own funeral urn and fred its own
pyre by means which natures instinct
taught.


All its plumage and its form Of beauty
became ashes; but ever would rise the
young, beautiful from the urn of death
and chambers OF decay would the hedg-
ling come, with its eye turned towards the
sun and essaying its dark velvet wings,
and sprink led with gold and fringed with
silver, on the balmy air, raising little
higher until at length, in the full conf
dence OF flight, it gives cry of joy and
soon becomes glitteting speck in the
deep bosom of the erial ocean. Lovely
voyager OF earth, bound ON its heaven
ward journey to the sun!


So rises the spirit bird from the ruins
OF the body, the funeral urn which its
maker built and death fires. So towers
away to-its home in the pure elements of
spirituality the intellect Phoenix, to
dip its proud wings in the fountain of
eternal bliss.


So shall dear, precious humanity sur
vive from the ashes of a burning world.
So beautifully shall the unchanged soul
soar within the disc of Eternity's great
luminary, with undazzled eye and un-
scorched wings-the Phoenix of immor-
tality--taken to its rainbow home and
cradled on the beating bosom of eternal
love.