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Year: 1859




In the report of the proceedings on the
20th in the Sickles trial We find the follow
ing:


Among the letters received by the counsel
one was read this morning by Mr.. Brady
from lady signing herself in Greek char
acters olympia Aiken, and describing her.
self as one of the order of frailty-one of the
simple walters for the wave of some msGcu-
line pocket handkerchief.


The letter is dated from West Randol ph,
Vermont, and asks the counsel's attention
to the following extract from "White Lies:
'1'd have no wasps round my honey; if my
wife took lover, would not lecture the
woman what's the use ? I'd kill the man
then and there I'd kill him in doors or out
I'd kill him as | would kill snake if she
took another I'd send him after the first, and
so on till one killed me-"


Before proceeding to business the Judge
said that there was letter on his desk di-
rected to one of the jurors, Mr.. Wilson, in
care of the Judge it bore the New York
postmark he supposed there was no objec-
ton to its being handed to the juror. AS
sent was given on both sides, aud the letter
was handed over. After few moments the
letter was returned to the Judge, who said
"This letter is handed back by the juror;
he knows nothing about it or the writer. 1t
proceeds from the very worst motives; it
is an impertinent, improper and unwarrant-
ed interference with the courts of justice"


The letter was handed down and examin-
ed by the counsel Mr.. Brady remarked
that the manuscript was similar to that Of
the anonymous letter to Mr. Sickles. Both
letters were examined together, aud the
counsel agreed as to the similarity of the
handwriting in both letters.


Judge-lt is a matter of extreme regret
that the author of that letter cannot be
known.


The letter was kept secret among the
counsel, but it was understood among otter
things to convey slanderous assertions against
some of the counsel After some time spent
in examining the letter, the Judge said be
supposed the best course to pursue would
be to put it in the custody of the District
Attorney.


The letter was handed back to the Judge,
but it was then shown to Mr.. Sickles, and
scrutinzed by him and his counsel. Several
minutes were consumed in this matter, and
inquiries were apparently set on foot to fad
out the author
Year: 1859

SHUN AFFECTATIoN.-There is not any
more beautiful in the young than simplicity
of character 1t is honest, frank and at
tractive. How different is affoctationl The
simple minded are always natural; they are
at the same time original. The affected are
never natural and as for originality, If they
ever had it, they have crushed it out, and
buried it from sight utterly, Be yourself,
then, young friend. To attempt to be any
body else is worse than folly. 1t is an imN
possibility to attain tit is contemplate to
try But, suppose you could succeed in
initiating the greatest man that ever figured
in history, would that make you any the
greater? By no means You would al.
ways suffer in comparison with the initiated
ones, and be thought of only as the shadow
of substance, the echo of a real sound,
the counterfeit of pure coin Dr. john
son aptly compared the heartless imitator-
for such is he who affects the character OF
another-to the Empress of Russia, when
she did the freakish thing of erecting pal
ace of ice 1t was splendid and conspicuous
Wnlle IL IdSteu, Dub lne sun Hoou inO4VNN -
and caused its attractions to dissolve into
common water, while the humblest stone
cottage stood firm and unmarried. Let Che
fabric of your character, though ever SC
humble, be at least real. Avoid affecting
the character, however great. Build W
your own. Be what God intended you tt
be--yoursef, and not somebody else. Shur
affectation.
Year: 1859

USEFUL INFoRMATION.-The washtrwo.
men of Holland and Belgium, so proverbi-
ally clean, and who get up their linen SO
beautifully white, use refined borax as a
washing powder to about ten gallons of boil
ing water. They save in soap nearly one
half. All the large washing establishments
adopt the same mode. For aces, cambrics,
&C., an extra quantity of the powderis used
and for crinolines (required to be made very
stiff, a strong solution is necessary. Boraz
being neutral salt, does not in the slightest
degree injure the texture of the linen its
effect is to soften the hardest water, and
therefore, it should be kept on every toile
table. To the taste it is rather sweet is
used for cleaning the hair, is an excellent
dentrifce, and in hot countries is used with
tartaric acid aud bicarbonate Of soda as :
cooling beverage. Good tea can not bC
made from hard water; all hard water cat
be made soft by adding teaspoonful o
borax powder to an ordinary sized kettle o
water, in which it should boil. The saving
in the quantity of tea used will be at leas
one>ffth To give the black the flavor o
the green tea, add single leaf from tn


black curranttree.
Year: 1859

CooL AND CANDID.-The coolest thing
from Pixies Peak that we have seen, is tho
following from a letter which is going the
rounds of the press:


In Arrapahoe county there are from eight
to twelve hundred poor devils, like myself,
hunting gold but not finding any. At pres
ent, we are preparing to skin the spring en-
igration, which is to be done by dis posing
of town sides and bad whiskey.
Year: 1859

INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SoCIETY.-lt is
better to pass an evening once or twice in a
lady's drawing room, even though the con-
versation is slow, and you know the girls
song by heart, than in club, tavern, or the
pit Of the theatre. All amuscments of youth
to which virtuou5 women are not admitted,
rely on it, are deleterious in their nature. All
men who avoid female society have dell per-
ceptions, and art stupid, or have gross tastes,
and revolt against what is pure. Your club
swaggors. who are sucking the butts of bill
lard cues all night, call female society insr-
i'll to yolel; beauty has no charms for a
blind man; music does not please poor
beast who docs not know one tune from an
otheli: and as a true epicure is hardly ever
tired of wNter-sanchy and brown bread aud
butter, | protest | can sit for n whole night
talking to II well-regulated, kindly woman,
about her girl coming out, or her boy at Eton,
Of the great benefits man may derive from
women's society is, that he is bound to be
respectful to them The habit is of great
good 10 yotr moral man, depend upon it,
Our education makes Of us the most eminent
" selfish men in the worli. We fight for
ourselves, we push for ourselves we yawn for
ourselves. we light our pipes. and say we won't
go out; we prefer ourselves, and our ease
and the greatest good that comes to man
from woman's society is, that he has to
think of somebody besides himself somebody
to whom he is bound to be constantly atten-
tive end respectful
Year: 1859

Il he Is by.
Another little wave


Upon the sea of life:
Another soul to save,


Amid its toll and strife.
Two more little feet


To walk tho dusty road;
To choose where two paths meet,
The narrow or the broad.
Two more little hands


To work for good or ill;
Two more little eyes;


Another little will.
Another heart to love,


Receiving love again:
And so the baby came,
a thing Of joy and pain.
Year: 1859

SUIcIDE-A Frenchman, named Louis
Alexandra Lebouteux, who had been for
sometime in the employ Of Mr.. Shoemaker,
proprietor Of the Revere House, on the Hi
noistown road, committed suicide by taking
large quantity of opium on Sunday night,
the 9th inst. The deceased gave no cause
to suspect that he contemplated self-destruc-
tion-he appearing in his usual spirits before
returning to bed. On being called at the
usual hour on the following morning, and
not answering the summons, and some of
the inmates of the house hearing unusual
sounds from his room, sought the cause, and
found the man just about expiring. A box
that had contained the opium, and soda
bottle that he appeared to have used in di-
luting the opium, were found by his bed side.


The deceased had on several occasions
told Mr.. and Mrs. Shoemaker that he had
a wife living in Paris. After his death the
following letter was found behind the mirror
in his room directed to Mr.. Shoemaker, the
proprietor. In giving the address Of Madame
Lebouteux, it carries the belief of his having
wife living, and that he desired that she
should be informed of his death. Jims and
Sarah, mentioned in the letter, has reference
to Mr.. Shoemaker and his wife:


"'To live any longer alone on this earth
like am can not, now know many peo-
pie will said it is cowardly action for man
to destroy himself and more than that man
is not thirty five years old and when lie is
sure to be rich one day, but to them who
speake like this let me said they have some
body who Love them and some body TO Love
when II X | am alone Only
one soul on this earth will know why | have
Destroy myself when am so young yet but
that is my secret and buried him with me
in the grave.


May God forgive me for my last action in
this world may all those who have offend
ed forgive me, like forgive all those who
have offended Inc.


beg Pardon to you Jims and Sarah for
the trouble | will give to you don't be mad
again me and forgive me.


Know Farewell France my beloved coun-
try. Farewell Jims. Farewell Sarah. Fare
well. LOUIS ALEXANDRA LEBoUrEux.


Nine Lebouteux, rue de Rochouard ii
Paris.
Year: 1859

The Broderick Central Committee have a
call in to-day's Herald, for meeting. As
three Of their Assembly nominees have
"backed out" it is presumed the meeting o!
the committee is for the purpose of filing up
the ticket, if sufficient number of Brods
can be found in tie county. We would sug-
gest the propriety Of Withdrawing that tick
ct from the field, as it will have very few
votes-less, even, than the Republican Coun-
ty Ticket.
Year: 1859

We copy the following from the Bulletins
New York correspondence of the date OF
June 7th:


The fight over the transit routes between
Vanderbuilt and the present company seems
to be as far as ever from a settlement, not
withstanding the various rumors to the con-
traly which are set afioat in Wall street 1t
is said that Vanderbuilt put the interval of
month between the sailing of the last
steamer for AspinwaIl and the proposed de-
parture of the next, for the express purpose
of patching up in the mean time some kind
of a truce between the belleeent parties.
But, up to this day, there have been no signs
of concessop on the part Of the Mail Steam
ship line, and it is SAID in some quarters that
the directors have at last come to a fiat
footed MOTTO reconsidered decision. that
they will entertain no further propositions
from the all-grasping Commodore. One Of
the Commodore's last propositions to the
Company, as aul told, is--that they shall
buy not only all the steamships which have
hitherto been run on the California route.
but also every boat, amounting to some ten
or a dozen, which he now holds in his hands
AS two CT three of these ships are totally
unfit, by reason of their enormous size and
costiness for the California business. your
readers will perceive at once that Mr.. Van
derhult has been trying to drive pretty
hard bargain with the other sde-a bargain
which he has been hoping to consummate
oy holding IN te,Yoren, over the fears of the
bther side, his threat OF permanent oppo.
sition line.


But tits an i'll fight which brings nobody
good" as the doctors in the Bloody Sixth
are wont to say while dressing the wounds
of the combatants in the many sangunarv
battles in that somewhat noted neichbor-
hood. And so Of this fight of the Commo-
dores. However much one NAV feel dispos.
ed to condemn Vanderbilt for the all grasp
ing disposition he has all along manifested
in these negotiations, it is undenable that
his failure to coerce the other parties to an
acceptance of his one-sided propositions will
eventuate in great good to the public, and
especially to all who are interested in having
cheap channels of communication open be-
tween our Atlantic ports and our possessions
on the Pacific. This view of the matter be-
comes especially interesting just now in view
of the disastrous failure of the Hargous
Brothers, involving, as that failure probably
will for time, the stoppage of the Tehuan-
tepec route, or at least produce great ire.
gnlarity.
Year: 1859

In DoUBT.-The latest accounts from Or
egon leave the result of the Congressional
election in doubt, although it is believed
Stout, the Democratic candidate, is elected
by majority not exceeding one hundred.
Year: 1859

in the privilege of addressing you with the hope
of being heard or understood. And trembingly
l ask that you my much loved brother. the guide
of my infant joys the long lost friend OF my child
hood, will allow renewed correspondence to
open becween you and your good old home. Oh!
how our hearts have ached for word from your
own pen. Years have passed away since your last
letter reached us-years, that now seem to be life
times. have grieved but never despared, for
/ have prayed the Father that he would restore
you to the path of rectitude-but if he has not
already you will say: All, me! he will never save
me! But say faithfully, he will. Oh, brother
will you not be saved? God sees your heart while
you read these words He knows if there is q Sc
cret wish there to be better man. If there be
but the bud of a resolution He knows-hear Him
say Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all
things shall be added thereunto." Jesus will
raise your head and make you new man. Go to
him, Oh! my brother.


Will you not write a few words to your own
home? 1t may indeed be bitter task but may it
not prove blessing? Do try to overcome every
obstacle; look down deep into your heart and see
if there is not a wish 10 remember your sister,
your own most affectonae and anxious sister,


HARRIET BARTER.
p. S. Please do write dear brother and will then
tell you so many things that will interest you


To RICHARD A. BARTER


Unfortunately there was no envelope
to the letter to indicate to us where it
was written and mailed; but Deputy Sher-
iff Stewart, informs US that while "Dick"
was in Jail here, previous to his escape some
months since, he used to get letters from
Canada, and it is thought his family reside
somewhere in that country.


Thus has ended the career Of one Of the
most desperate Of the horde of bandit;i with
which our highways have been infested, but
his death is but poor compensation for the
loss of such man as George NJ. Martin.


Dicks companion is described, as about
feet 10 inches high-havingblack, bushy,
curley hair, long body and short legs-dark
complexion and sunken eyes. About 20
years of age He went by the name of
George" His hair was little thin on top,
but thick OF bushy behind


We learn the masonic fraternity have
raised ample means to pay expenses of pur-
suit, and a reward of $3.50, for his detection
and delivery to the Sheriff of Placer County.


Mr.. Martin was buried on "Wednesday
morning with Masonic Honors, and was fol-
lowed to the grave by the greatest number
of people that has ever attended funeral
in the county.


Mr.. Iohnson's wound in the hand although
a painful one is not serious
Year: 1859

Music NoTATIoNs. hen children are learn
ing music, they experience much difficulty aays
the Scientific American, ID fixing on their mem.
orics the names Of the notes. and their several
positions on The scale and many child, or
even adult, becomes Discouraged before they
have acquired the ruiiiinents of the science and
give il up in dispair. To facilitate the learning
of music, and the reading of it at sight, blind
gentleman, Mr.. Cornelius Mahoney, the teach
er of music in the Institution for the Blind, in


Ibis city, has invented system of notation that
deserves to come into general use. He has the
name OF the note cut in tho note itself, show
ing white in the black notes and black in the
white ones, 30 that at u glance the name Of the
rotc can be seen. The same gentleman il aso
the inventor of embossed music for the blind.
by which my blind person can read the music
BY touch, and will not require second person
to read them, as formerly the case--tLus plac-
ing this charming solace and divine eonsoler
(sweet melody within the reach of that class
who need it most--the blind. This ia yalun-
BILE and humane invention, and we hope it will
be adopted in oil the Institutions for the
| Blind.
Year: 1859

/ HAVE bought the patent of Mcssrs. w. F. 4
i c. J. ProYost's Iron Screw and Le-
ver Press, for the Parishes of East and West
Feliciana and Ponte Coupee. This press is now
ahead of all others in use, for durability econo-
my strength, &C.. and it is the same that took the
premium at the Mississippi State Fair, in 1858.


The sale of the patent Of this celebrated Press
for the different counties in the Southern States
has been Unprecedented and it is generally pre-
dlctcd that in few years, they will supercede
all other cotton Presses known.


4 word as to the cost of these presses: 1t has
been proven beyond the least possibility Of a
doubt, that there has never been Press invented
that can begin to compare with this one for cheap
ness. Therefore. if there is anything in economy,
they must certainly find great favor with the cot
ton planting portion OF our community. They
seldom get out of repair, are easily fixed, and
taking all things into consideration, no Press
has ever been thought of by any mechanic. that
Is destined to prove of so great benefit to the
cotton planter, as 'Provost's Iron Screw and Lc-
yer Press"


In the language of the Messrs. Provost, s.We
claim for this Press many advantages over all
the Presses in use. The Press is well adapted to
any style of Gin House, as it can be worked in
or out OF the lint room taking up but little space
requires but little timber and must be durable,
as all OF Its working parts are of iron. of great
power, as 1t combines both the lever and the
screw, and 50 simple that the negroes can work
It with dispatch. We can press any weight of
bales required with ease"


As it is more easy to convince persons of the
superiority OF this press by showing it in full
operation, this is to let planters know that have
one IN Bayou Sara, and will take pleasure in
showing it 70 any who may desire to purchase.
l will also contract to put up these Presses on
any plantation in the parishes of Pointe Coupee
and East and West Felicana Orders particu
iariy desired as | wish to show planters the
great superiority of Provosts Press over all others
IL existence. je11. H. TEENEY
Year: 1859

HoN. P. B. STARKE.-This gentleman deliver
ed an address on the BeYes question before his
fellow citizens of YszoO county at the Court
HOUSE in this city on last Monday the 29d inst
While We cannot endorse the views expressed by
him On the occasion of his speech we must never
theless do him the justice to say that he presented
the arguments in favor of the levee system in a
very creGitahs manner. He was earnest aud
forcibe yet courteous to those opposing the sys-
TEN. We regretted, in eommUn with his whole
audience, that his speech was for a short time
interrupted by an attack of vertigo, which may
possibly be the harbinger of illness.


Gen. Stark is gentleman of zeal and ability,
with no small oratOrcAl talent. The more the
pity that he is wrong on the leyee and other i'm
pOrtant questions. Ho will find it impossible to
convince our people of the justness of that tax
which has been saddled upon them by the last
Legislature, for the sole purpose of assisting to
protect lands in which they are not interested.
Year: 1859

Cor. S1NGLEToS's SPEECH.--Tho editor had a
full report, in brief of the very able address Of
our distinguished representative, but was unable
to write it out on account Of being unexpectedly
called away from town We are iAdebted to the
kindness Of friend for the notice taken from
memory which is published in this weeks issue.
Year: 1859

Can mother forget? Not morning,
noon or night but she looks into the cor
ner of the kitchen where you are reading
Robinson Crusoe and thinks of you yet as
boy. Mothers rarely become conscious
that their children are grown out of their
childhood. They think of them, they ad-
wise them, write to them, as if not full
fourteen years of age. They cannot for
get the child. Three times a day she
thinks who are absent from the table, and
hopes that next year at the furtherest, she
may have F.just her own family there;" and
if you are there look out for the fat lamb
or a chicken, and that coffee which none
but everybody's own mother can make.


Did Hannah forget Samuel? A short
sentence an full of household history, and
running over with genuine motherly love,
is telling beautiful. g. Moreover, his moth
er made him little coat and brought it
to him from year to year, when she came
up to her husband to yearly sacrifice"


A mother mourning at her first born's
grave, or closing the dying eye of child
after child, displays grief whose very sa-
credness is sublime. But bitter, heavier
than the death stroke is the desperation of
a son who rushed over crushed heart, in
to vices which he would hide even from
the abandoned and the vile.


Napoleon once asked lady what France
needed for the education of her youth, and
the short, profound reply was "Mothers ~
Year: 1859

While almost all other crops have turn
ed out, or promise bountifully throughout
the West, the grass crop is uniformally re-
ported light, especially the cultivated
grasses upon the uplands and prairies pro-
badly not generally more than from one
third to one half crop.


Though not so serious loss as would
have been our wheat or corn crop, still
with our almost certainty of a long, hard
and cold winter. it is serious matter, and
one that should be provided against in all
practicable ways as etfectually and fully as
possible. And to do this every farmer
should save his straw as bright and good
as possible, and to be sure to stack it Sc
effectually as to keep it SO, beyond all per
adventure. Good oat or wheat straw
pro perly kept, and cut and fed as it can
and should be, to a stock, is absolutely
worth more than ordinary marsh hay, fed
without cutting. Of the truth of this
there can be no more doubt than of any
other proven fact.


Then another great and highly valuable
item that is too often wasted, is the corr
stalks and fodder. Properly saved, they
are even superior to any other forage RAISED
except it be good clover. They contain {
large amount of saccharine and starchy
matter, and when run through good feec
cutter, with the new patent crushing roll
ers, constructed not unlike animal teeth
as they roll together, reducing the previou:
hard corn stocks to broken soft anC
sweet mass, that is eaten with great avidity
and his highly nutritious. Prepared il
this manner, the very corn fodder of man,
large prairie farmers, would more than hal
winter their stock. Cut stalks, straw anc
hay, with proper sprinkling of Indian o
any other coarse meal or bran, will caus'
a stock and teams to thrive, in way tha
none but those who have tried it under
stand or appreciate. With the best ma
chimes of the present day for the purpose
the feed can not only be cheapiy and read
lily cut, but the grain can also be ground a
every good farmers barn, without matcgia
loss of time or much expense. We shai
publish we'll authenticated articles, betwee
now and winter, to show that such cuttin
and grinding, is an absolute saving of froI
one-fourth to one-third of all fodder an
feed, and that over and above all expense
of cutting and grinding. Meantime W
would say to all good and economical f,r
mers, save carefully all your straw an
coarse fodder. p.