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Year: 1860

DENTAL NOTICE-Dr. H. N. <S CASE, office next door to Gov. Conway's UrfYD residence where he is prepared to operate in every branch of his profession Artificial teeth with artificial gums. from one to full set inserted so as to look perfectly natural. All full sets inserted on the suction, or atmospheric pressure principle, feel perfectly natural and easy the mouth, and answers all the legitimate uses of natural teeth.

 Teeth, if taken in time, can be plugged so as to preserve them for life.
Year: 1860

expressed will of a majority of actual
residents, and whenever the number
of their inhabitants justitics it to form
Constitution with or without domcs-
tic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms of perfect equality
with the other States.
Year: 1860

EdltofB Ch1taEo TF1bune:


There is a class Of readers Of your paper that
IL an unmitigated nuisance to another class.
I mean those who 5orrow papers-who arc 40
anxious to see the paper" and Jet arc too PC
nurfous to buy or subscribe for one, They
clamor for the papers of their ncighbors, who
get them lcgttimately, as if they had right to
them. At the boardipg-houses they watch the
hall doors until the papers are thrown in, and
then feast upon "The Durch Case" until bust
ness hours, when the paper is Of little value
to the business map. They arc a nuisance and
wish you would allow me u prominent place
In your columns to tell them SOTO tell them
what all sensible people think of them.


4 SUFFERER.
Year: 1860

POSITION IN SLEEp1Na.-It is better to
go to sleep on the right side, for then the
stomach is very much in the position of a
bottle turned upside down, and the contents
are aided in passing out by gravitation.-
If one goes to sleep on the left side, the op.
Grafton of emptyipg the stomach of its con-
tents is more like drawing water from a
we'll. After going to sleep let the body
take its own position. If you sleep on your
back, especially soon after heavy meal,
the weight of the digestive organs, and that
of the food, resting on the great vein of the
body, near the back bone, congresses it,
and arrests the flow of blood more or less.


If the arrest is partial, the sleep is disturb
ed, and there are unpleasant dreams. If
the meal has been recent or hearty, the ar
rest is more decided, and the various SEN
sations, such as falling over precipice, OF
the pursuit of wild beast, orother i'm.
pending danger, and the desperate effort to
Year: 1860

time for sleep. As I went to bed my en-.
quiry was, Father, do. people never know
any thing more after death?' Yes, they
say SO, and that all good people 60 to Heaven


and live forever happy with God and his an
gels l had but a vague idea Of Heaven,


and knew not the meaning of angels, and
yet treasured the words with the design to
press my enquiry some future day. My


father had mentioned the name of God
He made that brightly beaming, lovely
star, and good people should live forever
with Him. To outlive that star was my
ambition. To do this, I must be good,
and please God, and then I should live,
even though the star might die; but I
would ask God to keep it for me to look at,
and let me go to see it where it is, and may
be he would let it shine always. -


With thoughts and feelings such as these
I fell asleep, determined hereafter to be a
better, and also to become wiser boy. 1t
was childish thing, l know, but the i'm
pressions of that hour remain with me as
wildly as if they had been made but yes
terday. Many sad changes have I passed
since then. Hope has often been crushed
for moment to the earth, when the fear
of being forgotten and the dread of death
have spurred me ur to, renewed exertion.
Those scenes are past The earth may now
forget me-. I care not. For I shall yet
stand up to be crowned as child of God,
the Great King, in the presence of all men.
My name is even now inscribed in His
Book Of life, and no doubt many angels
have read it; and all those earthly friends
who have gone, or may yet gob before me, to
that happy place shall see it, And when
my labors here are ended I shall be intro
duced to the angels of light, who, with the
host of the Redeemed shall
know and remember and love me as one soi
the heirs of ineffable joy, forever and ever
Year: 1860

I shall ever remember my first impress
sions of immortality. 1t was on sultry
summer evening. The tolls of the day were
ended, and I sat beside my father out on
the green to catch the cool breeze just then
beginning to come from the distant hill
tops. As the stars shone out from the
deep blue sky, my childish curiosity made
a thousand queries about them, all of which
save one, with my fathers answers, have
long since been forgotten. That related
to the largest, brightest planet then in
view. 'How long will it be there, fatherT
Long after you and I are dead and gone,
and forgotten, child. Strangers who new
er heard of us will live here then and our
tomb-stones will have fallen down, so that
they will not know where we are buried
and they will plow over our graves; and
then they will die and be forgotten, too.-
But still that star will shine on, as bright
as ever sHow can it father? was my
eager enquiry; to which the kind reply
was, Il do not know how, my son, but God
will keep it shining


My mind was now full. I could ask no
further question. But long l sat and
thought-intensely thought-but most of
all on the idea that I should be forgotten
Shall no one remember me? Shall l sure
ly cease to be-? Or shall strangers plow
turn up my fathers grave? All where
will my mother be, then? And brother
and little sister? Will the world forget us
all, and just pass on as though we never
had been? I wish I could get up where
that star is, and then I should be remem-
bered, and may be I could live forever
there


A sharp voice reminded me that it was
Year: 1860


Tread lightly here! disturb him not,
While on this consecrated spot .2,- e.
His manly form in silence sleeps,
And Ger his tomb fair Freedom weeps,
As Ger her noblest son.
He came not as wsyward youth,
To fight for falsehood or for truth
As it might hap: But as 8 patriot sage
He came, fearlessly, to stem the rage.
Of battles frenzied throng. - ..


Then drop tear-one grateful tear,


O'er him whose memory must be dear!
Here Freedoms sons have striven to build
A Monument his fame to gild
But it must crumble to the ground,
And not fragment more be found,
Long ere his name shall die;
II lives in every freeman's tone
Could Freedom die 'twould live alone
In Camden's name-must henceforth, forever be
A watchword of the brave and free,
Mid fercest battle-cry.


Then drop tear-a manly tear,


Ger him whose bosom knew no fear!
Like clouds of fire that morn arose
Not his, alone, but Freedoms foes,
And spread with fury o'er the field,
Where friend and foe together reeled,
And rolled in death.
Twas then in bold relief, he stood,

To stem the torrent Of that food,
That swept and bore them all away,
But not until, in mingling fray,
He had resigned his breath.


Then weep for hints great to weep,


O'er those who thus in greatness sleep!
And when the dreadful scourge of war,
Again our horizon shall mar,
And eagles scream shall tell us where
Has fell the blow, that we must bear,
Or dare repel;
Then, let rs look to freeman's right,
Gird on the armor bravely fight
DE KALB our watchword as we strike
For all that's near and dear, and like
That for which he fell


Then weep Ger him whose name


Lives as your hero-patriot slain!
LEXINGTON, s. c.
Year: 1860

attorney and Counsellor at Law,
WILL practice in the local Courts of this
w District and in the Supreme Court and
Court of Claims. Office at the corner of lndi-
ana avenue and Second street.
Year: 1860

A BOLD Boy TRuMffrER.-A letter from Madrid says:

 In the trumphal entrance of the troops here, the heroes of the day (with the ex cepton of Gen Prim. who was so greeted that he had to deliver halfa dozen speech es as he went through the streets) were a trumpeter and dog. Their glory abscur- ed that of all the army, and they obtained an ovation which will disturb the repose of Espartero at Logrono The trumpeter belongs to the Bourbon regiment he IS only fourteen years, and is of short stature When in Africa, he happened, one day, whilst in the advanced post with his com pany, to be excessively hungry, and he could not get any food At last he per- ceived number of oak trees, and said to himself, " where there are oak trees, there are acrons, and acorns at pinch can be eaten" He accordingly slipped away, and passing unobserved by the sentinels, climbed up the tree and began eating He was suddenly interrupted by strange noise, and to his dlsmay he perceived that the tree was surrounded by ferocious look ing Moors. Flight was impossible, and resistance out of the question: but bright idea struck him, he seized his trumpet and sounded the charge. The Moors, think ing that they had fallen into an ambush; took to flight. This exploit of the trum- peter excited great admiration at the time, and on the entrance of the troops the crowds not only greeted him with enthu- sasm, but he was borne in triumph on mems shoulders, and crowned with laurel. From time to time, at the request of the people, he sounded the charge which had struck terror into the breast of the Moors
Year: 1860

ALL ii U M AN DEEDS AhE 5U ! E4RRORS All human deeds are but errors,

 As endless changes constant prove; Things to-day deemed best of any,

 Tomorrow our progress remove. What one age doth wisely think best

 The next succeeding casts aside, For some better way discovered,

 By which life's wants may be supplied. From the dawning of first knowledge,

 Through every stage which marks it's way, Traces of this truth is written Too plain for any to gainsay. Mind still is busy in exploring

 Mysterious truths yet unknown; Truths valuable, full of beauty,

 Which gladly yet the world will own. Scarce rule we now can thing of

 Which guided us in former days; In mechanics, laws, and morals,

 Adopt we in our present ways. What in mind is deemed perfection

 Is only relatively SO; What'ere it be of invention,

 Of like name used for it before. Some fault presently discovered,

 Which for while performed its part, Is discarded for better

 By science schemed, and made by art. Thus step by step we are moving,

 And day by day new wisdom learn In the Futures paths before us

 Observed m many ways to turn. Upward, onward is our motto,

 Wisely given at Gods command, Press we must forever forward,

 Pause we never can nor stand. In the ratio of our errors,

 Will we good or bad endure- In the ratio of our knowledge

 Happiness will we here secure. Let us then think well and wisely On what we speak and what we do, the WEAK MANY Instructed are by the STRONG FEW. .-r.~a All things have small beginning, And by degrees assume their size; This valued truth by nature taught In ev'ry thing we realize. In occult life there is scale Too small for microscopic eye, Of things perhaps born with two breaths, The first too live, second to die. A simple atom tossed in space By Gods omniscient hand above, -l May first have formed our pondrous earth, Attracting still as it doth move. Upward onward lever forward From the beginning to the end, Where unerring Wssdom reigneth, Heed well we must and to attend. Always trying, always striving, To wiser grow and better live, Is mans whole task and chief glory, Which God in goodness to him give.

 J. B. B.
Year: 1860

The Convention, in discarding the use of platforms, exact no pledges from those whom they deem worthy of the highest trust under the Government, wisely con- sidering the suresl guaranty of a mans future usefulness and fidelity to the great interests of the country, in any official sta ton to which he may be chosen, is to be found in his past history connected with the public service.
Year: 1860

EDITOR FREss-Dcar Sir: l see an ar
ticle in the SD No. of the Arkansian. owe,
the signature of Observer" .purporting to
come from this place. Said piece is, as it
were. perfect blast against our mass meet
ing Of February 4th. This sanguine writ
er not content with his Misrepresentation
OF our meeting-not content with a eener-
al denunciation of its proceedings, but he
attacks the character of our chairman, than
whom there are none more honorable and
upright. You Mr.. " Soft Soap would not
dare tell parson Mosby that you are author
of said article ; you sneerirgly allude to
the fact that he is preacher Wonder If
you judge other preachers by yourself? II
You do. you undoubtedly have poor opin-
ion Of the clerical profession. 1 never
heard word spoken, nor did ever see a
word written against parson Mosby's
character. until I saw this blast from the
pen of observer alias Soft Soap. I"
who is . preacher himself and quite
envious Is he Of the popularity of parson
Mosby. say I have never heard ANYTHING
said disrespective of him. but have heard
OF preacher who devotes his time to news
paper writing on the Sabbath. Yes, I
know preacher, who, instead of reading
his Bible on the Lords Day, engages in
writing abusive articles for the North West
Appeal and other papers of like stripe, and
he always evinces . weakness which IS only
eoualied by his meannezs Nou NJ &c Oi
server" / will dismiss you, for it was with
great reluctance that I gave you this short
notice.


l felt for . time 1t loss to know how to
answer thing SO coarse and low. hope
you will have the good sense to let this
matter pass off without noticing it, for if L
have to be troubled with further notice of
you, III make you come out over your real
name. Respectfully


Isaac PIrNER.
Year: 1860

the final condition of the company and
said reports shall be consolidated every two
years and laid before the Governor by the


LIST September, and the Legislature at the
next meeting.


SEC. TX. Provides that it shall not be
lawful for any officer of company to en-
gage IN any speculation, or dealing in any
real estate, ON Or along the line, or at either
terminus Of the road until after the road is
completed and every officer of a GONNA
n.y. before entering upon duty as such.
shall take an oath in writing that he will
not knowingly violate the provisions of
this act. and that he will faithfully perforn
the duties of his Office. etc., under the pen-
atty declared against perjury.


Sec. XII Provides that the State NAV
reserve the right to enact by the Leeisla-
ture thereof all such laws as may be deem
cd necessary to protect its interest and Sc
cure 1t against loss in consequence of the
issuance of bonds, but to exercise this right
IN such manner as not to impair the vested
rights of stockholders.


SIC. XVII. Provides that in all cases
where bonds may be issued to . company
The State shall be entitled to two directors
therein to be appointed by the iGovernor.


SEC. Xxx. Provides that no road shall
'e entitled to State aid unless it shall. with
Year: 1860

A Vermont farmer writes to the Worcester Spy,
that he has discovered remedy for the cattle dis
casa spoonful or two of spirits of turpentine
poured into the nostrils of the creature when the
first symptoms of the disease appear
Year: 1860

DISTRESSING CASE OF SUIcIDL.-A distressing case
of suicide occurred in Westmoreland county, a
few days since-the victim being niece of Sheriff
Houston, of Greensburg aged twenty years She
visited the barn, and endeavored to hang herself
with plough line, but the knot slipped, and she
had recourse to razor, with which she cut her
throat from to ear. The deceased was bright
and promising girl.
Year: 1860

AMENDING THE CoNsTTUroN.-Ex-G Governor Nc
Donald, of Georgia, writes to the editor of the
Macon Telegraph, urging the necessity of so amend
ing the Constitution of the United States as to
provide greater security for private property and
remedy evils that are found to exist in the present
political arrangements of the country. He desires
the Georgia delegation at once to introduce such
amendments in Congress
Year: 1860

AWFUL ALTERNATIvE.-The last will of a queer
old miser who has just died is much talked of at
Vienna. He cut off all his nearest relatives, and
made very distant one, an extremely handsome
young girl, sole heress of his considerable proper
ty. SO far there is nothing extraordinary; but
there is condition added to it. The testator was
a hunchback, and had a club-foot, which defects
probably had obstructed many attempts of his to
marry. He has made it, therefore, condition,
sane qua non that the heiress is to get the property
only when she marries man shaped as he was
She is, besides, to live in convent three months
in each year to pray for his soul. The heirs a-law
have attached this odd last will, on the plea that
when 1t was made the testator must evidently have
been mad As there is, however, no equity iuris-
diction in AUSTRIA they may find their task not an
easy one.
Year: 1860

Sowing his wild oats"-ayc sowing them


deep
In the heart Of mother to blossom in tears,
And shadow with grief the decline of her years.
Sowing his wild oats" to silver the head
OF the sire who watched his first pulse beat with


JOY.
And whose voice went to heaven in prayer for


''the boy"


Sowing his wild oats" to spring up and choke
The flowers in the garden of sister. whose love
Is as pure and as bright as the blue sky above.
Sowing his wild oats" Aye. checks shall


grow pale,
And sorrow shall wither the heart of the wife
When manhood thus squanders the prime of his


life.


"Sowing his wild oats" Death only shall reap
With his keen sharpcned scythe the fruits viii


be found
In the graveyard near by, meath that grass-cov


cred mound.
Year: 1860

HORSEMAN, SPARE THAT TREE.
Hoseman. spare that tree.


'Tis not a hit hing post
Though in its infancy.


Yet soon twill shade host;
Then spare. oh, spare that tree.
For he who placed it there
Meant not that it should be


By beast of thine gnawed bare.
Year: 1860

PUGILIsTIc ExH1BITIoN.-Matt. Tracy, the
Hghtenger," who is to have pugilistic combat
with Blackfcrd in this county somewhere, on the
Sd proximo, had sparring exhibition at the
Theater in this place on Saturday evening"
One would have thought the celebrity given to
the P. R. by Heenan and Sayers, to say nothing
of the prestige which ought to be inspired by
disappearance. of regularly backed and ptted
champion, would have secured crowded attend
ance. But such was not the fact. The drum
mers drummed, and the ffers flied; Sam Wag-
ner taxed his best powers of street eloquence in
setting before the public the many wonderful
feats to be enacted-all to no great purpose
The entertainment was protracted to a late hour
in hopes of an augmented audience-which did
not arrive and at last, to those who had hon
ored the occasion with their presence, few les
sons of the manly art were exhibited. After
much inquiry we could only learn that there were
several set-tos with the gloves, none of which
produced any particular amazement or excite
ment. There was no rowdyism-nothing of an
outrageous character done-which is to be set
down to the credit of the affair; and this is all
we know about it.
Year: 1860

SNow-BALLING.-Somep people love this sport,
over and above all outdoor recreations.-
We are not of the number. A broken nose in
early youth, from this cause, reminds us that
white and red-snow and blood-haye atfinities
as well as some other things in nature. On
Christmas day the boys had rare and amusing
time of it. They carried the thing to an excess
i've point, and closed it with brilliant effect upon
the minds of large number of spectators. The
snow was of very watery consistence, and left no
bruise where it struck, which was an invitation
to the many who participated in the sport, which
was indulged from one end of Main street to
the other, and throughout principal portion Of
the day.
Year: 1860

1t is not our custom to invite a quarrel
with a cotemporary, nor to attempt to in
struct or reprove him for opinions which he
may think proper to express on any subject
of public nature; but we hope the Marys-
vile Express will pardon us for venturing
few remarks on the course it has thought
proper to pursue with regard to secession.
No editor in the State has written more on
the subject, given it more thorough sitting,
or produced articles elaborated to.a greater
extent, than the editor of the paper to which
we allude. We cannot say that he is seces-
sonist; but his proclivities and sympathies
point that way. If hewere publishing the
Express in Charleston, South Carolina he
would have delighted readers and perhaps
more apprecative ones than at Marysville,
in the county of Yuba, State of California.


Now, we simply wish to inquire what OBJ
ject these ably written articles are intended
to subserye? Is it desirable to ALLEVIATE our
citizens from their fcyalty to the Union?
Are the sentiments of that papers readers in





temper of the times demand such course
or is the editor simply writing on a prolific
subject to amuse himself, in the absence of
other matter to employ his pen?


1t strikes us that secession doctrine is not
the doctrine of any considerable number of
the people of California. The general pros
perity which prevails; the- ample remhnera-
ton to labor; the excellent system of laws
under which we live: the common enight-
eminent, and the numerous avenues open for
the attainment of distinction all preclude
suei,'a thought. Nor is that other heresy of
a Pacific Republic, less Objectionable, in any
point of view. The great majority are salts
we think, to hazard any experiment which
might entail upon them woes unnumb bered-
if it did not eventually, obliterate their
existence from the history of independent
States.


We have not charged 4be Express with
being avowedly in favor of secession-oniy
a covert advocate of its denominations. The
onous without the odor, attaches 10 it, In
this respect it is like the wife of Caesar
suspected, if not absolutely guilty. In other
words, the wish is very plainly father to the
thought. The suspicion against the Express
will, sooner or later, result not only to its
pecunary injury, but its loss ofpolitical in
huence. Forour own part, we shall'read
no more of its insiduous secession articles.
We deem them uncalled-for, and incompati-
bic with the sentiments of the people of Cal
| ifornia, upon whose minds they are calcu
lated to produce a pernicious effect. We
love the State and its institutions. When
ever we become dissatisfied with these, we
shall not seek to undermine or overthrow
| them, but remove to some other section or
country more inviting and congenial.
Year: 1860

EGG-NoG.-Custom seems to have selected
Christmas times peculiarly appropriate for
the manufacture and consumption of this de-
hghtful beverage. That is-delightful in small
quantities, prudently taken but wo unto him
who indulges too freely An egg-nog drunk-or
rather sober Immediately succeeding the drunk
what shall it be compared to But there is
no use hunting after SMILES. Many of you
have tried it; and it may be, that at some period
in your lives, you have been visited by neuralgia
in the head. Well, that affection is bad enough;
but neuralgia as compared to an egg-nog sober
why there's no room for comparison.


Our intention, however, was to say, that Sell
kirk & King, of the Knickerbocker, and Brown
& Clark, of the Bank Exchange, dealt the article
out on Christmas morning by the ladle-full; and
although their supply seemed copious, it was not
many hours till the whole was disposed Of
There were thirsty throats that day, all the more
so from the inclemency and dampness of the
weather. A large amount of outward
covering, promoted an intensity of inward heat,
which begat thirst, and thirst passion for egg
nog. If one of the branches of the Yuba had
run egg-nog, it would have been just the same.
The demand would greatly have exceededed the
supply!
Year: 1860

SLEIGHING.-We had an abundance of snow
on the ground several days of the present week,
but it was so completely saturated with water,
ard underlaid by deep mud, as to afford but lit
tie chance for sleighing. On Christmas day
Steve Southwick hitched double team to a
jumper" and took tturn round the streets,
to the admiration of numerous spectators and
on Wednesday we observed sled standing in
front of the Knickerbocker saloon, to which its
owner had very prudently attached yoke of oxen,
looking forward to "contiag N.Y." In view of
all the facts, that mans head was right.