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Year: 1859

DAcoTAH SuRvEY.-The government
has ordered corps of engineers to
Dacotah Territory to survey into town
ships an extent of country including
seventy miles northward from the
Iowa State line and twcnty-four miles
West, taking the first meridian line
lying to the eastward as starting
point in that direction. But a small
portion of this is to be sub-divided at
present, and that in the immediate vi
cinity Of the Falls.


This survey will include an area of
nearly seventeen hundred square
miles of the richest and most product
i've soil in the Territory. 1t comprises
almost the entire Sioux Valley, from
the southern boundary of Dakotah, (at
which point it meets the Iowa survey
to about Lake Preston on the North,
and as far west as Vermillion river,
including also the valley of that
stream embracing, in fact, all that it
is really necessary to survey out at
the present time, so far as our infor-
nation reaches. Next season it may
possibly be extended westward to the
Missouri, should the emigration to
that point warrant it. We understand
it to be the policy of the government,
at present, however, to survey only SO
much of the public domain as is taken
up by actual claimants, or likely tc
be required for immediate occupation
Year: 1859

Where and in what State will it be
located? Who can tell? If capitals
arc located according to the geo
graphical centres of countries, as they
unuuestionably should be, then it
seems certain that Washington, being
located wide of the geographical CEN
tire of the United States, cannot rea-
sonably continue to be the scat of the
Federal Government. But in remov-
ing the capital-if it ever is removed
the name should go with it. There
can be no substitute for Washington,
name sacred to every American
heart.


Although there can be but little
doubt that within the next twenty
wears q movement will be made to
change the Seat of Government to
some point more central than the pres
ent one, yet it will be with the keen.
est regret that the people of the old
States shall witness it's removal. II
will be difficult task to tear the gov
ernment away from place so init
mately blended with the past history
of the nation. But the great west is
filing up with its millions, while the
old States increase in population bu
slowly, and the west will one day as
sert the right with which superiority
in numbers invests it, and then resist
ance to it's claim will be unavailing.


There are serious obstacles in tn
way of removal, however, which ma.
not be easy to overcome. First, tn
almost fabulous sums of money whic
have been expended in rendering tn
national capital what it is to-day
How could the capital itself be di'
posed of so as to enable the Govern


ment to realize one-fourth of the mol
ey which it cost? What mode can /


suggested by which the public bull


ings conld be disposed Of at tithe
! ! their value, estimating that value b


the amounts actually paid for the
. construction


Cincinnati OF St. Louis, in the orc
Year: 1859

The new FREE Constitution Of Kan
sas elicits the united opposition of the
Democracy in Kansas, as it did the
members of that party in the Conven-
ton which framed it. They see in its
adoption and the admission Of the
State under it, their last hope gone of
reducing her to Slavery. The fruit of
the repeal of the Missouri compromise
turns to ashes on their lips.


The efforts of Douglas to render a
service to the South, by adding Kan.
sas to the dominion of the Slave pow
er, are reduced to naught, when this
Constitution is ratified by the people
and hence it is not surprising, that
the many hued Democracy rally to a
Year: 1859

nary course of events, must soon come
to be the centre of population, and
then we way expect to see those cities
vieing with each ether in the strife for
the possession or location of the new
capital. The great states growing
up on the Pacific shores will clamor to
have the national capital brought
down halfway" and the welfare of
the country may require this to be
done much sooner than we are now
aware.
Year: 1859

A renowned clergyman Of New
York lately preached rather long
sermon from the text, Thou art
weighed in a balance and found want
ing" After the congregation had
listened about an hour some began to
get weary and went out others soon
followed, greatly to the annoyance OF
the minister. Another person started,
whereupon the parson stopped in his
sermon, and said, That's right, gen
tlemen as fast as you are weighed,
pass out" He continued his sermon
at some length after, but no one dis
turbed him by leaving.
Year: 1859

Mr.. CHoATEs ELoQUENCE.-At the trial of cele-
since, Mr.. Choate's concluding argument, which
occupied whole day in its delivery, was heard at
tentively by of the largest audiences ever
crammed into the court room. The heads, if not
the whole speech, were written out in that wonder
fully crooked chirography of his, on numerous
slips of paper When he came to the end of bis last
stately and electrical sentence the spectators, a
fected by the fire and enthusiasm of the speaker,
seized upon the manuscript tore it into shreds and
distributed it among themselves, so that there was
scarcely person who did not carry away memen-
to of the great Boston lawer. This aneedote was
related to the writer by one of the counsel en-
gagged in the cause, and there can be no doubt OF
its authenticity
Year: 1859

on, therefore, sending some skirmishers up to the
plateau who found themselves received with rifle
pals from the houses at the bottom. The column
faced round, and having disposed its guns to bear
on the thlcSet it advanced toward the plateau and
succeeded, although not without severe loss in
gaining the height, and at the same time messen-
ger was sent to hasten the advance of the next
brigade


Before this could arrive however the Austrians
had brought up fresh troops, and the Piedmontese
were driven from the position they had taken up
When the fresh brigade had come up another at
tempt was made to get possession of the heights,
which, however, did not succeed, and the Piedmon-
tese retired, to form again and to await the rein
forcement oftwo fresh brigades. These, the Bri-
gades Aosta and Camou, arrived about p. NJ, and
then effort made. All the guns were
united into one large battery, to throw down the
houses at the foot of the plateau, and three col
umns formed an attack. Although dead beat by
the rapid march, they scaled the heights and final
lv not only maintained their position, but followed
the enemy close to PozzolengO. Their loss was
very severe, about 900 killed and wounded. They
had for their adversaries the entire corps d'armee
OF Gen. Benedek, and therefore terribly over
matched. No doubt, they would have had even
greater difficulties had it not been for the success
at SolferinO and Cavriana, which imperiously COM
PEELED a retreat on the right of the Austrian army
as well. Two PedmOntese generals are wounded
and almost every colonel of the regiments engaged.


During the fight message came from the other
wing 20 send division toward Solferino, to act on
that side.


must interrupt my letter, for the mail leaves
More Tomorrow
Year: 1859

The large stock of goods held here at the correspond


ing date of 1857 kept in store to await the reduc


tion in tariff that then took place The stock has
than doubled within four months the total value the
1st of March of the year being only $5502 00S which
the smallest total of foreign goods held in bond at
this port since record commenced An unusual
large proportion of the present stock consists of gen


era merchandise of which form of the leading
Year: 1859

SUBSTITUTE FOR IMPRIsONMENT.-A correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Commercial writes from Jefferson
county, Texas:


"Ths is not a county seat, but it is necessary to
have some place of confinement for criminals; and
as substitute for Jail, the people have provided
a large stone, weighing over three tons, placed in
the public square, with large iron ring and long
iron chain fastened to it, and when poor fellow
commits crime, and the sentence is Imprisonment,
he fastened to this chain by the anklq and there
remains night and day; but if his crime be light,
and he had previously borne good character, the
Judge in his mercy often allows him to carry an
umbrella to protect himself from the rain and
storm.
Year: 1859

BosToN, July l9.-In the slave habeas corpus case
before Judge Metcalf, there was no appearance
against the slave, who was promptly discharged
She will probably return to her master.
Year: 1859

MANA SAHTB.--The London Star OF the 22d De-
cember, SAYS:


very curious piece of news has reanhed MS by the
last mail from India; indeed curious that we will
at once mention our direct authority before re-
minding our readers of its inherent probability.


An officer in command of a cavalry regiment
who is in full pursuit of Tantia Topee and has been
within four miles of him, expresses his full convic
ton that Tantia TOpee is other than Mana Sahib
himself The rumOrs of the Nana's immediate ap-
pearance were, it seems, universal just before Tan
tia Topee's crossing the Nerbudda and the prison
ers and deserters, of whom the officer in question
had spoken with several, he being excellent YER
nacnlar scholar, are, he SAYS, unanimous on the
point that it is Mana Sahib who is lodging our
columns in Central India under the name Of Tantia
Topee.


However improbable this NAV look at first sight
little consideration will show that there are MANY
circumstances which coincide so well with the
statement as to render it, on second thoughts most
probable that it should be true. 1t is now several
months since We had any authentic information of
Nana Sahib, and it is incredible that, after hav-
ing been prominent and restless at first he should
have suddenly become quescent, or would have
been suffered to do so amid the peris of his party
with lakh of rupees offered for his head. On the
other hand, Tantia TOpee becomes prominent Just
when Mana Sahib vanishes; his army is ALWAYS
styled ''the army of the Peishwa;" and finally in
the Cawnpore story of the half-caste it is stated
that Miss Wheeler is not dead, but with Tantia
Topee. Why with Tantia Topee? What can he
have done to require such hostess to save his life?
If Tantia TOpee be the Mana, there is no mystery
about it; and perhaps other Europeans may turn up
besides Miss Wheeler, when his pursuers overtake
him. 1t becomes, now, however, doubly important
that they should do SO, on the presumption that
their enemy is Mana Sahib in person; for if he
could once reach the Deccan. and unfurl the stand
ard OF the Peishwa, it might be the signal for new
struggle of the most serious kind
Year: 1859

ARTIFICIAL PEARLs.-A very remarkable result of
ment of the Meurthe, when, from a small stream,
the enormous weight of $4,000 kilogrammes of
bleak was taken during the last season. The scales
OF this hsh are used for making artificial pearls By
an ingenious process they are reduced to kind of
lustrous paste called essence d'0rient and the
French artificial pearls are simply small hollow
glass balls coated inside with this paste and filled
with white wax Gal,gaanPs Messenger.
Year: 1859

1t is my earnest DESIRE in furtherance Of the financial
system which hope to establish with the concurrence
your honorable body that joint resolution be entered
no that hereafter lery shall made in any one
fceToang me tlH Of one hundred cents the one Inn
area dollars With rigid adherence to rule of his
SORT ana liked determination the part of the repre-.
senaVes OF the people to Orego all appropriations like
y 10 interfere with its operaon and reduce the esti
mates as much below this standard Extraordinary
wants of the city from time to time will Justify it
be doubted that capital will be attracted ourcty and
fresh impetus given to the march Improvement


In order the clearly present the actual condition
of the city enumerate the bonded debt for which tba
treasury is directly responsible and on which the
interest is provided in the absence of returns
the investments for which it was contracted


Stock purchased in Bait. and Ohio Railroad


Company, ,Susquehanna Railroad Co. and


llde water canal per cent. 456 Tl3 II
ne F! per cent court house Stock l60,754 81
w Per cent STOCK other than Court House. 905421 81
New Jail stock issued to date =. Sl57, ,594 O3


amount to be issued. ............ 92,406 81
Year: 1859

"Sho has no mothcrw


What u volume Of sorrowful truth is
comprised in that single utteranco-no
mother!


We must 70 down to the hard rough
path Of life, and become Injured 10 care
and sorrow in their sternest forms, before
We can tako home TO our own experience
the dread rcallty--no mother-without a
struggle and a tear.


But when il is said OF a frail young Girl
just passing from childhood towards the
life Of woman, how sad is the story
summed UP in that one short sentenced


Who now shall administer the needed
counsell-who now shall check the way
ward fanciesl-who now shall bear with
the errors and fuilinga Of tho motherless
daughterl


Deal gently with the child.


Let not the cup Of sorrow be overflow
ed by the hgrshncss Of your bearing or
your unsympathizing coldhess.
Is she hoedloss OF her doingsl Is she
forgetCul Of her dutyl IL she careless in
her moyemontsl Remember, on remem-
bcr "sho has no mothcrW
Year: 1859

thing essential to their happiness and we'll
being they are independent. They are very
differently treated from what our fathers
were prior to the Revolution to the immense
advance in liberal ideas since l776. Up To
that time the world was governed by force
now it is, to good degree, under the gov
ernment of opinion The loyalty of the
Canadians is matter of free-will of choice,
not of coercion. When the time comes-if
1t ever cOmes-when they would be abso
lutely independent, they have but to will it,
and it is done. That time, however, will
probably never come; but the day may
come when the British Empire shall have
its greatest power and wealth and population
on this continent; and all this to be the
result of quiet and steady progress.


Be this as it may, however, nothing is
more certain than that-a mighty empire is
growing up on our northern border, closely
assimilated with and closely united to our
own. 1t is not possible, however, that, in
population, wealth, commerce, or available
territory, it can ever rival the United States.
Its access to the Atlantic is through a stormy
and dangerous gnlf, and its principal avenue
to the great central valleys and to the Pa
cifc, will probably ever be through our ter
ritory. But in this there will be no him
drance to the growth and prosperity of
British America, for it will be but fair and
equal reeiprocity-our people having already
equal rights with the Canadians themselves
in the navigation of the ST. Lawrence and
the ship canals of Canada -s
Year: 1859

will not attempt to report cur talk on this
sui ject. because, unlike what have above given,
i assumed somewhat the character Ct disputa-
ton, and | could hardly give it impaFtay; but
one remark made by President Young think
can give accurately and it may serve as sample
of all that was offered on that side. 1t was in
these words, / think exactly "If | did not con-
sider myself competent to transact certain busi-
ness without taking my wfe's any woman's
counsel with regard TO it, think ought to iet
that business alone" 10


The spirit with regard to Woman, of the entire
Mormon, as Of all other polygamic systems, is
fairly displayed in this avowal. Let any such
system become established and prevalent,
and Woman will soon be confined in hutetns;
and her appearance in the stree: witt
unveiled face will lie accounted i'm
modest. Ijoyfully trust that the spirit Of the
Nineteenth Century tends to q solution of the
problem of womau's sphere and destiny radically
different from this. Ii. o.
Year: 1859

Two men stood forth prominently at the time of


the Great Reformation. One was Erasmus, tho


other was Luther. Both were substantially
agreed in opinion both had received the Same
light both shared the same conviction, and ack-
nowledgcd that it ought to become general. But
Erasmus, a man Of scholarly wit and learning,a and
the cleverest intellectual perceptions, was morally
timid and back kward. lie was afraid Of hurting
himself; he was afraid Of disturbing excessively
the social order, and of overthroving more than
wse the popular faith. So he kept bis truth
prudehtlY back and discouraged others who would
get it delivered for him. lie let it ooze out in ele
CANT L1tia phrases. artfully chosen and seasouaby
printed but be never allowed is to break ont id
strong German speech that would reach the ears
of the hungering people, Luther, the other
hand was almost fercey outspoken. The word
had come to him, and should not by him be with.
held To speak it, every time the right time.
every place the right place, every audience the fit
ting audience, and the popular language the best
language The people should have the Bible in their
own tongue. lie would have no twilight; he
would use no vaugue or doubtful speech neither
silence nor equivocation suited him. And though
his "battle" words kindled fires in cities and
reused nations to arms, he Numbered them forth.


Which of these men did most for the reforma-
ton? need not answer. The name Of one of
them is n tower Of strength to all truth-speakers
to-day. The name of the other many Of you may
never have heard of before this morhng.-O. b.
rockingham.
Year: 1859

con6scate the same. My horse is mine, whichever
side Of geographical line may happen to ride
him. SO of the stakeholder and his slave, and we
ought each to have equal constitutional protection
| Tru0 American,
Year: 1859

Bey-At the time of the kidnapping oe DR.. Doy,
his Charles and thirteen coloied people, on
the prairie, twelve miles from Lawrence, and tax.
ing the entire party into Missouri, the confinement
of Day in the Platte county jail and the selling
of the negroes into slavery, it suspected that
some person who had pretended to be friend
had sold the party, and betrayed them into the
hands of the enemy; but the suspicion was not
fastened upon any one in particular, until at an
election this spring young man named Huzzy
who had taken active part in assisting Doy and
his party off, had attended the meetings, PRETEND
ed to be friend and even contributed money for
the purpose, was found to work assiduously for
the Of the Democratic patty in that county.
IIc distributed tickets with Democra,supon them,
doing all ne could to defeat the Republicans. This
excited suspicious, and charges were made against
him Of his guilt, which he strenuously deuied.
til few days since, when he came out in full
confession of his guilt and connection with the
betrayal Of the party intc slavery.
Year: 1859

AuToMAToN MEcHANtsM.-A beau
tiful piece of mechanism has just been
completed, and will short y be brought
out for public exhibition in our State;
it was made at Chips Flat, in this
county. by four miners. This splen-
did piece Of work represents the whole
system of mining operations in tunnel
and sluicing diggings, quartz mining,
etc with the men at work at their
different vocations. The machinery
of this work is so perfect that every
branch of mining is fully delineated.
A quartz mill is connected with the
affair, worked by steam. 1t is won
.derfully and beautifully gotten up
and will elicit much praise from the
public. to whom it will soon be intro-
duced.-Sierra Citizen.
Year: 1859

The NEW SENAToR.-The question
is often asked in our hearing, of what
use will Judge Haun be in the SEN
ate of the United States /? Gentle-
men, be not too inquisitiYe and save
your bushes. The painted port
holes in the side of ship relieve a
blankness that would otherwise be
there. True, they are but counter
felt. but some things are made more
for looks than use. IL was fitting
that the State should elevate dumb
monument at the national capital on
which the world might look and be
reminded Of the loss Of Broderick.
Year: 1859

How To BE HANDSOME IF the


young ladies knew how much their
habits of life have to do with their


beauty of form and feature, they


would venture to set aside some of
the customs of fashionable life to se>
cure so desirable an end. 1t is per-
fectly natural for all women to be


beautiful. If they are not so, the


fault lies in their birth, or training,
or in both. We would therefore re-
spectfully remind mothers that in Po-
land, period of childhood is recog-
nized. Their, girls do not jump from
infancy to young ladyhood. They
are not sent from the cradle directly
to the parlor, to dress, sit still, and
look pretty. During childhood
which extends through period Of
several years, they are plainly and
loosely dressed, and allo wed to run,
romp, and play in the open air.
They are not loaded down, girded
about, and oppressed every way with
countless frills and superabundant
t1ounces, SO as to be admired for their
much clothing. Plain simple food,
free and various exercises, abundant
sunshine, and good moral culture du-
ring the whole period Of childhood,
are the secrets Of beauty in after life.
Year: 1859

The Distance Of the Sun Increas-
ing. A German has given the
calculations to prove that the dis
tance between the earth and the sun
is annually increasing, and attributes
to this fact the Increasing humidity
of our summers, and the loss cf fertil-
ity in the soil Of the formerly most
favored regions of the earth. The
vegetable and animal remains found
even in the recent strata within the
Arctic circle show that degree Of
heat formerly prevailed there which
equaled that Of the equatorial regions
at the present time, and although
many ingenious theories have been
started to account for this desolation
of a once sunny region, none seems
so rational as the very obvious one OF
gradual withdrawal of the great
source of light and heat. Egyptians,
Chinese and other Dations, have trae
ditions that at a very early period of
their history the apparent diameter of
the SUN was double what it now is,
and according to the tables Of the
German savant, in the course Of 5000
years more the disc of that luminary
will have diminished SO that we shall
receive but one-eighth part Of the So
lar influence which we at present en-
joy. the whole earth being covered
with eternal ice.


1t is now admitted BY the most orr
thodox school of science that the earth
andother planets were thrown Of from
the sun, SO that our globe has confess
edly travelled already one hundred
millions of miles from its birthplace,
and no absurdity exists in the suppo-
sition that it has not ceased receding,
though at constantly diminishing
rate, which may or may not reach the
D point before it arrives at such dis
tance as to be uninhabitable, when
following the analogy Of all other
known perturbations and excentrities
among the different bodies Of the uni
verse, it will undoubtedly retrace its
steps, to point much nearer than
any it has occupied during the historic
period, and so move back and forth
like mighty pendulum forever.
measuring off perhaps thousands of
ages at each beat. Or psrchance
having run its course it will fall back
into the sun-as man who springs
from the dust, returns to dust again
to be again evolved in the form of ne
bulous matter, and again condensed
into a habitable globe.-Ne,c6aryport
Herald. 5
Year: 1859

Kansas.-Late news from Kansas
renders it almost certain that the
people have adopted the Wyandotte
constitution at the late election, and
will ask for admission into the Union
under that instrument. Senator Gwin
has promised to vote against her be-
cause she spurned the English bribe


But his word is not worth much, it has
been found.