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Year: 1860

S4p DEATH OF YoCNG GIRL.-The Cincinnati papers
record the death Of young but errng girl, ard the ar
of two men, physician charged with produc-
ing her demise. The Gazette says;


The deceased is Young girl named Caroline Cordelia
Caukins, and with sister came from Philadelphia to
this city about six months since. On their arrival here
they we're employed theatre as ballet girls, and in an
unguorded hour under promise of marriage, deceased
drawn from the path OF virtue and honor by the
nllurnp smiles of A man named Young. On her death
bed she exhibited for her dccever all that lovely feeling
that only woman is capable ofshowing, and when told
that she must die she called Young to the side of her
couch and placing her hand in his with her last breath
begged him to be good man God grant the imprs-
oned soul of the rashy unfortunate whom feed from its
mortal casket, scared aloft to happier and better
sphere.
Year: 1860

Young It is all very well if his watch is at the pawnbo
ksrs when he is twenty hut if he has reached the age
of thirty the watch must indicate the smiling hour
Of success for rrayhared Bohemian always risks beng
corCounded with a rogue.
Year: 1860

TO exhibit


A VERY LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL STOCK OF CLOTHING
manufactured At HOME by VIRGINIA WORKmEN,
under supervision, which guaTsnt to be got
up Good Style any Northern Work, and pledge
ourselves to sell the same at below Northern Prices


Determined to deserve the ge patronage with which have
many years favored shall the present take
measures to satisfy the SOUTHERN MERCHANTS taat HOME
MARKETs equal lot superior to st the North Our facilities
by any house IN the trade, here else~here and
ha heretofore conduct business upon just and liberal
principles.


feiI-1m KENT. PAINE 1 co.
Year: 1860

E@ No man can tell whe;. nor he is rich
or poor by turning to his ledger. 1t is the
heart that makes mar rich. He is rich or
poor according to what he is not according
TO what he has.
Year: 1860

1t is seldom that yourg man sets out in
life with the determination of living vicious
~. His intentions are correct enough, but
be is weak, He mingles with men older
than himself, with whom j. is gratifying to
bis vanity to associate lie finds among
them habits of thought, expression aud -ac-
ton, which in his very soul be loathes; but
he is weak-how can he rosist the evil? Nay
how can he avoid taking part in it, unless he
wishes to make himself appear singular, and
becomes the suhjec. of his companions ridi-
Guile? By degrees the unfeeling or obscene
conversation of his companions becomes less
disgusting and more palataDle, till at length,
words that at first would have made his
cheek tingle with shame or stung his con-
science with remorse, become the woof of his
conversation. The licentious thought, the
coarse expression, the blasphemous oath, is
welcomed with smile, and he is ready to
sneer at others, whose moral nature is still
too sensitive to allow them to do the same.
From being an UNIV Hing hearer he soon be-
comes willing partaker, and the advance is
rapid to clarifying in it, and himself becon-
ing the tempter to others, to lead them in the
same path he has himself trodden. 1t is by
this weakness-this moral cowarlice-that
we are led into sin, despite the promptings
of our better nature. 1t may be that in our
hearts We despise the man by whom we are
led, but we come at last to applaud their
sentiments and adopt their tone.
Year: 1860




Life is short. therefore should be well and
usefully employed.


II thou become offended, let not the sun 60
down upon thy wrath.


A good deed done IN the day is satisfac-
ton to the soul at night.


Kind words alleviate misery and are as a
balm to the afflicted.


Pray unto God for all men, for they are all
members of ons family.


God is unto US kind Father. Him should
we always love and obey.


He that is wise will lead good life that
be may come to good end.


All that we possess in this life is gift of
our Heavenly Father.


Love not the world nor the things in the
world, but love God.
Year: 1860

FREE FROM HRADACHE.-It is quite won
derful 10 see cat jump DOWN nelghts. she
never seems to hurt herself, or 10 feel giddy
with the fall she always falls on her feet,
and these are SO beautifully padded that they
seldom or ever get broken. 1 never knew OF IA
cat breaking its leg from an accident but in one
instance and that was a French cat, which
iell down stairs in the most stupid manner
Why does Lot the cat get headache after her
deep jumps why does she not get concus-
.ion of the braiu as a man or a dog would II he
performed a similar acrobatic feat! IL We
take down one of our dry cats heads off the
keepers museum wall, and break il up we
shall see that IL has a regular partition wall
projecting from its sides, good way inWards,
toward the centre, SO as To prevent the brain
from suffering from concussion. This is, in
deed, a beautiful conirivance, and shows an
admirable internal structure, made in Won
dsrful conformity with external form and noe
turnal habits.
Year: 1860

WE RETURN TO WOODEN SHoKa.-The Shoe
Hnd Leather Reporter says: The plan of using
shingles in the bottoms of shoes originated
about thirteen years ago, the first lot being
cutin New Hampshire the use Of paper and
straw beard began about the Same time. To
give some idea of the extent of this branch of
This business during the past year, five or six
acres of heavy pine timber nave been used for
wood filling nearly all by the manufacturers
Of Natick, Mass, aud the Joining towns, in
the soles of brogans.
Year: 1860

WEALTH OF GEORGIA.-We learn from the
Annual Report OF the Comptroller General,
for the year 1860, that the total amount of pro-
perty returned on the tax digest for the year
amounts TO the immense sum OF Ss672, 3D., III
According to the census Ct 1850 there was a
fraction over So ,00U free white inhabitants Is :;
and il is u reasonable casc culation that the in-
crease in ten years will swell that number to
al least 55U,0OO. These figures will show the
tact, that if the taxable property in the State
was equally divided among the people, the
amount Tor each tree white man, woman md
child, would be within q fraction Of 1,223.
Year: 1860

THE STOCK PANtC.-The Boston Journal
learns that over million of dollars has been
inyes ted In stocks in the New York market
within d few days, by parties in Boston, who
took advantage of the panic.
Year: 1860

A most remarkable case of suspended
anima alton, which recently occurred in q
house on Povdtas street near the emarket.
has thrown the neighborhood in a state
of great excitement. A young woman
was lying very III with dangerous ail-
ment, from which she was not expected
to recover. and her friends took turns IN
sitting up with her, constantly fearing her
death, as she was reduced painfully, and
her physician did not express hope of
saving her. On Friday evening a sister
and young girl. who were sitting by her
bedside sewing while the invalid had been
supposed asleep, after having taken qui.
citing portion, were suddenly alarmed at
noticing the deathIike appearance of the
sufferer. They laid their hands upon her,
and found the body growing cold. Hold
ing small mirror over the mouth its
polished surface was no, clouded by the
least breath, and; observing every proof
Of dissolution, the grief-stricken watchers
were convinced against their hope that the
soul of the suffering one had taken its
peaceful flight. Obtaining the assistance
of other friends, all Tie sad preparations
'SA eoS al "SiS SoA1iuCuCCOs sduu ScVs
eral of the neighbors who were apprized
of the death came in to sit up with the
corpse. The undeftaker who had been
sent for arrived at the same time, and the
young girl who had been sitting up with
the invalid was sent to, the chamber of
death to arrange it neatly previous to the
entrance Of the undertaken and the friends.
All were Mortified and alarmed to hear a
succession of piercing shrieks from the
young girl;& &.upon hutriedIy entering the
room they saw her lying insensible upon
the floor. and the supposed corpse sitting
up in the bed. asking in weak and trem-
uious voice what was the matter, The
invalid had only sunk into syncope, or
trance. resembling death. and when she
awoke and found no one near her, she sat
up in bed to look around for them; at
which moment the young girl entered,
and seeing the supposed corpse sitting up
and fix staring gaze upon het, she gave
way to terror. and tainted away. Re-
storatives were applied to the invalid and
we are happy to learn that she has been
improving ever since.-New Orleans Bee,
l6M.
Year: 1860

Foul BLooD.-We publish, in another
place, communication from Dr. E. Teegar>
garden on the subject Of the late article in
the California Farmer. respecting the disease
known as "foul brood" among bees. In no.
ticing this article, the other day, the types
made US say foul blood instead of foul brood
But, DIR. Teegarden takes issue against there
being any such disease as foul brood among
the bees in this country.


We know but little about the disease, but
believe it is a disease which causes young
bees to die, the result of which is that their
bodies rot in the hives and SO poison the at
mosphere that the old bees cannot work,
cannot make honey and finally have to aban.
don their cells American writers on the
subject of bees have all along declared that
no such disease was ever known in the United
States; and they have doubted very much
whether there is really any such disease at
all. Young bees have died in Europe and
other portions of the Eastern Continent, but
they may have died from other causes than
that of specific disease to be known by the
somewhat vague title of "foul brood"


BE this as it may, the Bee men, of this re-
gion, emphatically declare that there is no
foul brood" complaint up this way, in any
event.
Year: 1860

How Lone WILL IT LAST ?-The San Fran
cisco papers are making great man out OF
Gov Downey. Every morning, the matuti-
nal hernlds sing praises to his name for the
veto of the Bulkhead Bill. and every evening
the vespertine prints take up the wondrous
tale Never was a man so glori6ed. Never
was a man so pure, so incorrupt so immacu-
late. The papers vie with each other in de-
flying him. We do not say that their praises
are not properly bestowed but how long
will it be before these same journals are emp
tying their vials of abuse upon the head of
this same man Will they accord him the
same high character, hereafter, if he cross
the path of their desires2 Will they give
him the privilege of differing with them, in
their views and notions, in the same degree
that he now agrees with them? Time will
show.
Year: 1860

EplroR DEMOCRAT: IL see in your paper
notice ION the authority of the California
Farmer) of a very contagious disease among
the newly imported bees. Your paper calls
It the "foul blood" Now, have read the
writings of most of the eminent Apiarians.
and must say that this seems TO be new DIS
ease Perhaps there are new diseases among
bees as well as the human family. We all
know that the Asiatic cholera never made
its appearance in the United States till 1882.
| think, however, there is some mistake in
the name 1t must be "foul brood" instead
of foul blood" noticed a few days ago n
paragraph in the Farmer, seeming to intimate
that there was a disease among the newly
imported bees and that most or all of them
had gone to Marysville. AS am one OF the
largest importers to this place the last sea-
son, have right to know; and as the dash
is made at the Marysville apiaries, think |
have a right to refute anything which know
to be false My bees are all healthy, and
will warrant the assertion that there are no
native bees in any better condition. l am
acquainted with nearly all the bee men in and
about Marysville, and l am well satisfied
that there is not stock of bees that has
either foul blood or foul brood in them.
mean to convert mine all into the pure Ital-
ian bloods. as expect shipment of Italian
bees by the 18th of May, direct from Lom-
hardy, in Italy.


This insinuaton must have been thrown
out to injure the sale of our bees. l will
warrant all the bees l sell to be clear Of the
cholera, foul blood or even foul brood.


E. TEEGARDEN
Year: 1860

New BoAT.-We learn. says the sacramen-
to Bee, that the California Steam Navigation
Company are constructing at their ship yard
in San Francisco, new and magnificent boat
for the Sacramento and San Srancisco trade.
She is larger than any Of the boats now in
use on this river, and will be fitted up in a
style infinitely superior to anything ever
seen in California, and equal at least to the
best of the celebrated lake boats. She will
probably be ready in May next, to take her
place on the route.
Year: 1860

The Marshal of Marysvlle, the other day,
turned loose pound full Of cattle He could
not sell them, according to law, because an
advertisement of their being impounded is
previously necessary, and there is no city
official press in which to advertise. That
city is about to oe governed to death by her
present Board Of thick headed Aldermen.
Serves her right for electing such impracta-
bles.-Sae. Bee.


: Well, these Aldermen catch it, right and
left from all the papers, nearly, in the State.
Why, in the name of God, don't they come to
some sort of reason?
Year: 1860

RACE TO DAY.-There win be q race this
afternoon at o'clock, at the Marysville
Park. As the track is the finest in the State,
the admittance to the gate but twenty five
cents and three fast horses entered, it ought
to be well 7atronized. For particulars of the
race see advertisement
Year: 1860

FowLER.-We are ayerse to puns, unless
they are either very good or very bad. OF
q dubious quality is the following, by an
Alderman of the Second Council On being
told that the repeal of the ordinance regard
ing City Printing was foul act, Yes" he
replied, "but the man who vetoed the repeal
was touler" Mayor Fowler)
Year: 1860

A CORRESPONDENT of the Evening Gazette
says that at Georgetown. the late storm has
killed nearly all the fruit there. including
peaches One man had one hundred trees
four years old, and there will hot be as many
peaches on them all as there would be on
three ordinarily
Year: 1860

MACHINERY FOR MExIco.-The brig Pontiac
will sail in a few days from San Francisco 70
Mazatlan. A part of her cargo will be a
crushing mill, to be used in a rich silver mine
situated about twenty five miles from the
see eoRst
Year: 1860

Witty WOMEN UNLovABLE.-It is gen.
orally the fate of witty women to be unloVed.
has q hump on her back, you may safely
conclude that in youth she had reputation
for brilliancy. No man would offer himself
to young lady who would call him an owl
because he looked somewhat serious before
asking to be allowed to support her and pay
her millinery bills; nor would any man
marry woman when the possibilities and
probabilities were, that she would place
boots with hot mush in the morning. by way
ofa joke. If ever you have lady ac-
quaintance who desires to introduce you to
an intimate friend of hers because "s6e is so
original and so witty, that you'll be sure to
like her" plead business, and respectfully de-
cline the honor, or say thatyou have noSun-
day clothes.
Year: 1860

KfTE-FLYNG AMONG THE CHINEsE.-A cor
respondent writes from China: "The Chinese
do not consider any pursuit SO frivolous as to
be denied the best advantage of science, not
even the flying of paper kites. 1t is strange
to see sober sedate merchants tugging away
at long string guiding kite very effect
ually in the air. Some are made sin the
shape of birds, and the lowering of the kes-
tral or the quick dive of the sparrow-hawk
of the string. The first saw was at Shanp-
hal, and it appeared so real that got down
rifle and tried TO shoot, but was told it was
only kite "To be sure it is; why not have
shot at it ?" and it was some time till un-
derstood it was paper not bird kite. The
Chinese beat US all hollow in these things,
especially in the messengers" they send
spinning up the string. They send up pret-
tily-painted gigantic butterflies with out
spread wings, at the back of which is a SIM
pie contrivance to make them collapse when
the butterfly reaches the kite and as soon as
they collapse down comes the butterfly


sliding along the string, ready to be adjusted
for another flight. - -
Year: 1860

MODE OF RIDDIEG A PLACE OF RATS
Take box, say two feet long, one foot deep,
and one foot wide, or less. Fix a lid On
witha couple of leather hinges. Put into it
some good bait; a little aniseed sprinkied in
is all the better. Prop the lid up with a
stick six inches long, to which fasten string
OF considerable length, the end of which
place in the hand Of some dirty-faced little
urchin, that you want to PUT to some practi-
cal use, and set him to watching the box
around a corner. Pay him about three cents
head for rats-this is an important part
of the contrivance-and whenever he sees
few Of them jump into the box he will Jerk
the string, and the rats are prisoners. Some
times half dozen may be taken at a haul.
A day or two of such work will clear ordi-
nary premises Of the "varmfnts," unless they
find too much to eat elsewhere than in the
box. By that time, Jack will have acquired
such taste for rat-catching that he will
probably set up as t-catcher-generalfo for the
neighborhood.
Year: 1860

AN INDIGNANT New YORK MATRoN.-The
fashionable bellies of New York are all in
dignant at the fact that Miss Harriet Lane
President Buchanan's niece, has been invited
to go all the way from Washington to open
the Prince of Waless ball, and dance the
first set with his youthful Royal Highness,
"a New York Matron" thus protests, through
the press, against inviting lady from WASH
ington, charming and elegant though she be,
to open a,ball given by New York gentle,
men: .


"New York ladies are admitted to possess
much grace as those of any city In the
Union, and while do not seek the honor of
dancing with so distinguished a guest, for
which honor, thirty years ago, might have
had the right to compete, yet in Justice to
my young townswomen, l must enter this
protest" .... ......
Year: 1860

AMoNARCHIoAL A MODEL FOR AMERIoA.-The
Spartan King, Cleomenes, would have been
an unfortunate auditor of long speech.
When the ambassadors of Samos came to
him for assistance against an enemy, they
asked it in long and polished Grafton, to
which the monarch thus responded:


"The former and middle parts of your ad-
dress were too lOng, and have forgotten
them. With regard to the latter part being
uncOnnected in my memory with what you
said before, do not see the propriety of it.
and therefore shall not grant your request"
Year: 1860

AN ExPRnssIYE ARrIsr.-Decamps the
artist who lately met with fatal accident
was unquestionably the most poetieal of the
great colorists Of the modern French school
of painting, Of whom Balzac said he would
paint the broom which had served as an in
strument of murder, so that you you'd see
the murder ia the handle.
Year: 1860

3 A KIND-HEARTED BACHELOR ROBBED BY A
FEMALE IN DIsTREss.--A certain well-known
bachelor of Burlington, Iowa, was, as usual,
sitting up late in his room reading-heard a
knock at his door-opened it-in stepped a
strange woman-said she had just come off a
boat-didn't know where to go-was at
tracted by the light in his window. and
begged to stay till morning. Bachelor was
puzEled-didn't like to turn her out-didn't
like to escort her that late hour to hotel
didn't like to leave her in possession of his
room, and finally concluded to let her stay,
surrender his own bed and he would sleep
on the floor. Strange woman agreed to the
rrangement-bachelo fell into snooze on
the foor-didn't wake up till morning, and
then found his visitor had left and taken
with her whatever things in his room she
could lay her hands on. Bachelor now de-
clares that no woman shall ever again abuse
his hospitality, and it is dangerous to say
unknown guest" in his presence.
Year: 1860

MAKING ONES TOILET IN A TUSNEL-AMus-
ING BLUNDER OF AN ENGLIsHMAN.--An En-
glishman who could not speak good German,
was riding a few weeks ago on the railroad
from Dresden to Leipsic, when he asked, as
well as he could, how long it took to go
through the tunnel. The person he spoke to
thought he asked how long before the tun-
mel would be reached, and so he answered,
"In. half an hour" When they approached
the place the Englishman threw down his
carpet-bag and pulled off his coat. In a few
minutes all were enveloped in the darkness
of the tunnel After some ten minutes q
streak of light appeared, and the ladies, op-
pressed by the heavy atmosphere, seemed
inpatient to be again in pure air. Soon the
full light came, every one took long
breath, when suddenly the ladies gave a
simultaneous shrek and pulled their walls
over their faces, to hide from them the disas-
trous condition of the Englishman. The poor
man thought the passage through the tunnel
would take thirty minutes, and had been sur
prised by returning to light in the midst Of
his toilet, which he had not been able to
make at Dresden, and for which he thought
he would take advantage of the supposed
half hours darkness.
Year: 1860




George Sand Madame Dudevant) ha,
written of the Burns of France:


There were two men in Beranger, as in
almost every great man., the one born of the
other, but often in contradiction and con-
troversy with each other. There was the
victorious poet, excitable, passionate, believ-
ing strongly in himself, scorning nothing
but the bad; there his scorn, the terrible
irony of his muse, was merciless, the aveng-
ing cry of the historian and the patriot
And then there was the outside man, the
man Of the world. He was never fond of a
crowd; but have seen him in select circle,
after short silence and hesitation, take the
lead with certain jealousy to be heard, very
legitimate ON his part.


This man had q dazzling wit, biting, even
cruel in its sportiveness, but he would check
himself al once IL he felt he was woundine
you in the person Of an absent friend. He
wished to make people laugh, and nothing
more. He would laugh himself; he was
lively, he had a certain exuberance of life,
which prevented him from thinking before
he spoke, or wrote in his familiar letters
And, then, too, he was a born singer; and
when he had poured out his soul, and ex-
hausted his strength, in the high warble OF
the nightingale, or the loud cry of the eagle,
he was constrained to alter his notes, and To
pipe like the blackbird-a very good mu-
sician still, but who sings all the evening
about the village song which is more like
a street-ballad than a poem.
Year: 1860

An INFAMOUS PROJECT RETIvED.


The party Of Dcspotis1n in Marylanaa arc
cndeavoring to secure friends and support
crs for the Infamous project brought for
ward in their last Legislature for enslavins
the free black population Of that State, and
to the eternal disgrace Of the American
narnc, be it said, they arc meeting with no
inconsilcrable success. We need not say
that this measure finds its most ardent
friends amongthc 1'rcckinridge men, though
not few Of the Douglasites arc warmly
secondins the atrocio-s thing.


In the name Of all that's sacred, what has
become Of the idea Of Liberty by which the
Fathers were animated: What fearful
judgments arc in store fer this nation that
law which is 50 defiant Of human justice
and Heavens will, should meet with 1avor
anywhere under tile shadow Of the Amcr:-
can flag: What madness possesses the
South that her people should suppose that
such things can he consum1nated in the
face Of day, and not in due time awaken
feeling that will wipe out slayery cycrwhc,e c
as with sponge, leaving nothing but blood
stains and ashes In the place where it
brooded