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Year: 1859

B1-Those rough goods at Breene's are
now taking the place Of every thing smooth
They certainly make the most "nobly,' whils
they are the most unique pants ever spot led
here or elsewhere. And then there is an
awful sight Of wear in 'em. Breens has The
latest style Of every thing in the line and h'
has--no rags
Year: 1859

III By reference to a notice IN another col
umn, il will be seen that the law partnership
of Ackerman & Kelley has been dissolved
Where friend AckermAn proposes to hold forth,
we are not advised; he ia an estimable man
and we "wish him luck" wherever be may hang
out his shingle. Mr.. Kelley, who retains the
Office and settles the business Of the late firm
is clever man, and we wish him abundant
success in his business. He is a little indit'
Greet, politically, but on this account we would
not think of turning the back of our hand tC
him He win now be ready to attend to al
who desire the services Of an attorney, and WI
bespeak for him the patronage Of ell such, fel
he is competent and worthy,
Year: 1859

GF paper out in Indiana has at the head
of its editorial column-'Largest circulation
Of any paper published in the County" The
nub to this joke is, that it is the only PaPs
printed in the county.
Year: 1859

GRAIN TnIEvEs.-several farmers in the neigh
borhood of Bellbrook recently had wheat sto>
len from their barns at night One man had
l2, and another IS bags Of wheat taken in one
night. The grain was in bags, and was meas-
ured and sold, and when the men went to the
barn in the morning early TO load up, they dis
covered the loss. Suspicion attached to par.
ties residing in the neighborhood, and they
were arrested, At a preliminary examination
before Justice of the Peace, the men were held
to answer, and in default of bail were put in
Jail. Other parties are suspected, and as the
truth is eliminating it is probable they will
soon be in the same predicament with those al
ready arrested. The thieves are extending
their operations in every direction in the coun-
try from the city, and they will see TO the
loose affairs about residences, while the neigh
borhood thieves attend to the barns.
Year: 1859

D-The reply which the journal makes to our
notice Of its imperlinent and foolish twsddle
about "buncombe resolutions" is just about
what we expected. It comes within "the line
Of safe precedents Becoming ashamed Of the
matter our neighbor makes transition--gets
mad This is another evidence of the desper'
ateness of Opposition affairs in this county


Nailed to the wall at every point, the opposi


tion are getting recklessly desperate. They
are clutohing at every possible thing which
they hope may possibly aid them in making a
divers on from the fate which threatens them


Their malignity will not measure with ouI
principles and our facts--things potent with
the people. Our misfortunes or faults, they
will find, have nothing 70 do with the present
contest, and the desperate, banked malict
which introduces them coarsely and fiendshly
in the discussion Of the Issues now before The
people, will not avail any thing These un


called for attacks only show on their face th'
meanness Of those who make them, and Of thei


inability to meet the questions Of moment now
before the people in q fair and legitimate way
Year: 1859

CHEAP WHIsKEY FOR THE KANAKAs.-Under
this head the Alta California, alluding to
proposed reduction of the duty on liquors
imported into the Kanaka Kingdom, humane
lv hopes it will not be made, out of regard
to the welfare of the people. 1t seems they
cannot resist the temptation to indulge their
passion for strong drink, and the only method
to save them is to keep the liquor beyond
their reach as much as possible. No friend
of humanity can look over their history,
since the discovery of the Islands by Cook,
some eighty years ago, without horror at
the manner in which the barbarous Kanakas
have been scourged by the vices of the civil
lied white man. They have not been killed
by lead and steel, but by far more cruel
means. In four-fifths of century, the pop
ulation of the Islands has been reduced from
400. 900 to 10000, or at the rate of fifty per
cent. decrease every thirty-five years. Is
this rate of decrease not fast enough? Shall
we now give the poor Kanakas scrychnine
whiskey without stint to assist in killing them
off!
Year: 1859

The famous Russian Empress, Catherine
II. commences her autobiography, which has
been recently published, with the following
words:


"Fortune isnot so blind as is imagined.
She is frequently the consequence of we'll
chosen and well-ordered measures, not per-
ceived by the public, which have been the
forerunners of the event. She is in still
more marked degree, dependent upon natur-
al character and personal conduct"


We heartily believe this, not because the
iaperial autobiographer says it, but because
it has the sanction of reason and experience.
The popular doctrine of luck, which is moth
ing less than a species of fatalism, is very
pcrnicious doctrine and is pretty certain to
render unfortunate all who accept it as true,
1t does very well for such characters as the
great Napoleon, or even his nephew who now
occupies the French throne, to profess belief
in destiny and attibute their success to luck.
The tyrants and leaders of the human race
have ever affected to be the special agents of
fate or the commissioned prophets of Deity.
Such claims are part of the means by which
they accomplish their ends. They take pre-
cious fine care, however, not to trust all to
fate, or destiny, but to place their principal
reliance upon such carnal influences as they
know to be most potent. Wallenstein OBJ
served that providence, or luck, generally
favored the strongest battalions; and the
great Napoleon thought so too, not only by
plagiarizing the remark but by concentrating
his forces upon weak points in the enemy's
line 1t is just so in the little affairs of life.
The man whom gods and men fly to help is
the man who puts forth all his strength to
help himself This is almost truism, but
it cannot be too often repeated, and especial
ly in this country, where so many "unlucky"
fellows are mourning over lost chances with
no eyes for those which are infinitely occur
ring. Perhaps there are more disappointed
men in California than in any other country
of an equal population on the globe, and the
majority Of them attribute the failure of
their schemes to inevitable 'bad luck" This
is a spiteful fury that pursues then and can
not be avoided. Weary of her prosecutions,
they sit down amid their ruined hopes and
indulge in melancholy speculations. Up, ye
weary ones! Believe that you have made
some mistake and try again, with sturdy res
olution for your aid.


s.In the worlds broad field of battle,


In the bvouac If life,


De not like dumb. driven cattle


Be hero in the strife!
Year: 1859

CACHE CREEK-Cacheville is the seat Of
justice for Yolo county, twenty-five miles
from Sacramento, in direction nearly due
west 1t is as yet a town of no special preten-
sions except the fact above named. Cache
creek, on the bank of which the town is To-
Gated, is one of the finest streams IN the
State. Its source is Clear Lake, SOME eighty
miles west of this, Unlocked by the coast
range of mountains. The water Of this
creek is clear and pare, and at this point
even, is quite rapid. Singulafly enough, it
"sinks" in the tules before reaching the Sac
ramento river, though it rolls a large volume
of water past this point only some eight
miles from the Sacramento. A vast extent
of country is watered by this stream, and
the whole area is already occupied by an
enterprising population, engaged in stock
and grain growing. The lands on the banks
of the creek are very fertile, and produce
abundantly when the early and latter rains
are abundant. For some miles on either
side Of the creek, are forests, after the man.
ner of the oak openings of the West, only
the swells of those are wanting. The land
here is nearly level.-Christian Advocate
Year: 1859

orator, and week ago the piece was produced at
the Palias Royal Theatre, and was not only NOT
hissed, but proved complete success. 1t is called
"Na Niece ct Non Ows"-"My Niece and Nv Rear
and kept the audience in a roar from the first TO
the last word. 1t is totally unbelievable how a
money changer could find so much humor in all his
body


have had occasion to remark already that in
feminine toilet there is this winter an augmentation
IN rotundity. The ball of the Hotel de Vile only
confirmed the first impression of the fashionable
season. At the same time there is a tendency TO
very low-necked dresses, and especially to low
backed dresses. which has more than reached the
limit of proprety.
Year: 1859

winch we are considering are not so much
the result of vice or conviction as of instinct


They seem to have come to us from our Anglo
Saxon lineage and are perhaps part of the penal
ty which we have to pay for our inherited share of
the restless activity and predominance of the race


There is charming little book by Emile Sourestre


well known in English the "ARic PhHosoDher' -


most delightful, genial picture of simple pleasures
and moderate desires - of humble but serene
enjoyment and homey yet blessed charities
and consultations. | do not however mon


1t deserves all praise and gratitude-but in
order to ask you, whether you think the scenes of
such volume could be laid in any part of this vast
continent, which tolls and grows prosperous be-
meath the pressure of AnglO-Saxon energy and
institutions. Can we conceive such book to be
the truthful story of life led within the atmos-
phere OF any great city of our confederaton-a
life OF contentment, in the pettiest fortunes-re-
duced to the first and actual necessities vet bapny
contelnplative, useful, independent respected and
seli-respecting? Surely not. Such things are not
the growth OF the principles under which we live
and move. They could never be developed under
the influence of social and political economy
which infames one half the intelligent manhood of
our country with the hot thirst of public life
whlch stIgmatzes every man as a drone whose ex-
lstence does not burn, like heated axle from the
friction of ceaseess revolution. Their impossihiIi
ty is leading characteristic of our especial race
more than of any other that has ever sweated be-
neath the sun. 1t has given to the great nation
from which we chiefly draw our national descent
and to which we indebted for those immortal
institutions, dyspepsia and trial by jury-its place
OF honor among the mighty ones of the earth 1t
mas swept the forests from half hemisphere
around us, and has filled it with mighty, feverish,
restless. pad people-capabe of everything but
rational enjoyment and tranquil happiness


Is there a nation, think you save ours, on the
lace OF the civilized earth, that has no national
amusements except politics and steamboat excur-
sions?-no manly simple, common sports. which
win WIN crowds on holidays to robust and honest exer-
else and joy?-no links between boyhood and man
hood, in the remembrances of common and innocent
pieasuref We have, of course the exotic enjoy
ments OF music and the drama-though in but
modified degree, since large part of the commu-
nty are too good, and very large part too busy or
TOO bad to take genuine and healthy interest in
them But these have come to us-such as they
are: They are not our own. We have, in fact, no
national holidays, of a political complexion.
and the sports Of those days are fierce excitements
rather, of which the less that is said the better =
do not mention Thanksgiving, because its nrinci-
pal secular occupation is dinner, and that is foo
much OF an Improbable pleasure, as is well known,
time. ~ '"iu"oie


Consider another significant fact. Ours is a gov
Year: 1859

The New York Times says:


Walking down Broadway behind a lady
of evident respectabiIi,y, a day or two
ago, we could look under, not over, her
shoulder, and have, by strange apertures,
a telescope view Of the street beyond and
in front Of the said lady. Nor is this an
extreme case. Quite the contrary. L
appear, just at present, TO be the general
rule of the street costume. Criholihe,
which is stretched at the bottom to doduty
as a volunteer street-sweeper, appears 10
be shrunk at the top in an equal ratio, Till,
like Paddy's blanket, it is lengthened az
one end by a piece-cut of from the other.
This may be all very well for those wild
and reckless individuals whose motto is
"neCk or nothing" but for staid, sober
and quiet folk, it IS a melancholy waste OF
the raw material. In sober sadness, we
seriously and earnestly object to a style so
excessively decOLLete, which is French for
low-necked dress, as a style Of street cos
tune. 1t is conducive neither to health
nor &c morality. It is also in bad taste,
and, instead of exciting admiration in the
opposite sex, only provOkes remarks little
complimentary to those who indulge in 1t.
There it is a mistake, since woman loves
to please, and the sooner 1t Is reformed
the better.
Year: 1859

A young gentleman complaining that a
shower bath had been administered to
him the evening before, at a trial Of one
of our steam fire engines, elected the
remark from Miss y. that he was so
bright, perhaps they took HIM for FIRE,
and that he ought to thank his stars that
they had not utterly exunguished him
Whereupon the young gentleman declared
he was more put out by her remark than
by the ducking he received.
Year: 1859

HAMILTON CONVENTION "A full delegation
we are assured, went from this city this morn'
ing, to the District Convention in Hamilton -
We saw several delegates from the townships
north and west Of us, who were also en- route
for the Convention. We believe the delegations
will be full. Some Of the townships gave
power to delegates to cast the full number Of
votes to which they were entitled, in case Of
the absence Of some of their number.
Year: 1859

U We call the attention of our readers to
the professional card Of Col. TiltOn, in to days
paper. The Colonel is an old resident, and a
good lawyer, and in every way responsible -
We are happy to learn that his health, which
was seriously damaged in the Mexican War. is
in great measure restored. and that he will
hereafter devote his exclusive attention to the
business Of his profession.
Year: 1859

FIRST DAr OF WINTER.-This is the first day
Winter. 1t opened very inauspiciously. For
a time this morning darkness seemed To have
covered the earth as with a mantle, and for q
while it was impossible to see small objects
type, for instance-without artificial light. II
there is any thing in the old adage that ''the
first three days of December rule the winter
months" we will have rough time for about
30 davs.
Year: 1859

WATER FOR SAoRAMENro.--The Union ac
knowledges the success Of the Artesian well
in this city in furnishing abundant water for
Marysville, but doubts whether the big pump
OF the Water Works at Sacramento could be
supplied from similar source. Well, we
have heard the same parties who supplied the
Water Works of Marysville say that they
can do the same thing for Sacramento with
out any further difficulty than is usually re
quircd in boring. They can supply even a
bigger pump than the Sacramento one with
all that it can possibly draw, and furnish the
entire city with pure water.
Year: 1859

STR John Franklin was destined by his ia
ther for the ministry, by nature for the sea.
While at school he walked twelve miles TO
see the ocean for the first time. lie was sent
on trading voyage to Lisbon to cure him of
bis bent-the voyage confirmed it.
Year: 1859

SOME twelve or fifteen deer were brought
into market yesterday. They were killed in
the Coast Range some fifty miles Distant
They were brought in by young man
dressed in buckskin who looked as though
he would have reIished the primal days,


"Wild in woods the noble savage ran"
Year: 1859




Henry Waid Beecher and Theodore Par.
ker are thus spoken of in substance from
the radical stand point by Rev. George F.
Noyes, in his discourse on the Modern
Infdel, !" delivered recently in New York.
at Hope Chapel:


Hear how Henry Ward Beecher, that
splendid bundle of sublime Inconsistencies.
that orthodox radical. that evangelical trans
lcendentalIst; q man with head partially
lined with medieval theology, and heart
full of the best juices of the century, in
theologic theory conservative. in practice
one of Gods pioneers; a man noble, brave
and eloquent, with little logic but great in
spiralioD; hear how he talks about this
kind of infdelity. Il did me good to listen
to him in that crowded assembly, as he
swayed to and fro on the boiling waves of
his own enthusiasm, and filed the whole
house with his eloquence.'


when Theodore Parker de-
elared the authority of Gods present rev.
elations of truth and duty to the human
soul. the Doctors of Divinity were too wise
| in their day and generation TO challenge
him to open discussion. They did not at
tempt to argue with him; alas that the
truth is thought by some to be too weak
and tender to bear so free and bold hand
ling. But they called him infdel very en-
ergetically, and then washed their hands
from all sympathy with him in the sight
of the people. Many good persons won
dered how he could hold up his head after
such an accommodation. But truth does
not thus desert her children. Forth from
those heratical lips came noble protests
against wrong. eloquent vindications of the
true and real in religion, mingled with sof-
ter utterances of faith in God and trust in
immortality.


These utterances have caught the eal
of the century, and turned the breasts and
the sympathies of many of the best men
and women in this country towards the in
valid now seeking elsewhere the health be
has sacrificed on the altar of duty. Thus
the discharge of that theologic gun, direct
ed SO persiStently against him fifteen Yeas
ago. was dangerous only in the recoiI.
served rather as a warnng-gun to awaker
the people to the fact that new propheI
had come to address the nation.''
Year: 1859

Messrs. Totten & Greene. two experien-
ced brick makers from lawrence. have been
here for several days prospecting for mate
rial TO make brick, with view. If their eff
forts proved successful. of Immediately
commencing the brick making business at
this place. We are happy to announce that
the very best of material has &been found
and that hands will be set to work immedi-
ately to prepare brick yard, and at no
distant day we will have a good supply of
this very necessary building material. the
need of which has been so sorely felt by
those VINO have erected buildings in our
town. A small kiln will be burned at first,
after which, if the demand warrants it. a
larger one will be burned. We hope to see
several brick buildings put up in town this
fall
Year: 1859

This section of country was visited on
Wednesday afternoon last. by one of the
heaviest rain storms we ever saw. It was
accompanied By quite hard storm of wind
no other damage that we have heard of.
Year: 1859

To give an idea of the force of the late
tornado in the central part of this State. il
Is stated that ''a school house, 20 By 80
feet in size. was. with heavy limbers and
ali. carried away and cannot be found
Illinois Paper
Year: 1859

.NIlL attend promptly to all demands upon


W his professional services. He will be much
obliged if bis friends win make their application
for bis service in the fore part of the day. when
practicable and release him from the labor of ri
ding at night as much as possible.
Emporia, May 9TH, IS59-tf
Year: 1859

To young man away from home, friendless
and forlorn in great city, the hours of peril
are between sunset and bedtime, for the moon
and the stars see more evil in a single hour
than the sun in his whole days circuit; the
poets visions of evening are all comp osedof
soothing and tender images. 1t brings the
wanderer to hiE home, the child to its m others
arms, the OK to his stall, and the weary laborer
TO his rest. Bat the gentle hearted youth who
lie thrown upon herocks of pitiless city, and
stands homeless amid thousand homes, the
approach ofeyening brings with itan aching
sense of loneliness and desolation, which com es
down upon the spirit like darkness upon the
earth. In this mood his best impulses become
ssnare TO him, and he is led astray because he
IL social, adectionate, sympathetic and warm
hearted. If there be young man thus circum-
sssncsd within the sound of my voice, let me
ssy to him that books are friends of the friend
less, and that q library is the home of the home
less. A taste for reading win always carry you
into the best possible company, and enable You
70 converse wit men who will instruct you by
their wisdom and charm you by their wit, who
will seoths you when fretted, refresh you when
weary, counsel you when perplexed, and SYM
pathise with you at all times. Evil spirits, in
the middle ages, were exercised, and driven a
: way by the bell, book and candle--you wan
but two ofthese agents, the book and the can


dle.-Geo. s. Hillard.
Year: 1859

The following story from the Hermit in
Edinburgh,' conveys an excellent moral


and there are few who cannot profit by its
perusal sWhen | entered life,' said the
contented man. Il was mortified enough h to
find baronetcy actually dropped by our
family, on account of not having fortune
enough to support it; and it was so pleas
ant to me to see the estate of my ancestors
sold and parceled out to a grocer, law
yer, and broker. should have liked very
well to have been a private gentleman, do
ing nothing, or to have put on a red coat,
for which | had vast ambition; but | was
too poor for the former, and my family had
not military interest enough to put me for


ward in the latter. 1t grieved me to see
my cousin Adam in the golden-lac trap
ping of his regiment, to behold the grocer
keeping a pack of hounds on our estate,
and to find that my half-brother was ma
king a rapid fortune in the law; and / was
cut to the quick, after leaving school, to
see one school-fellow going into the navy,
another into the army, third fitted expen-
svely out for India, a fourth obtaining all
easy and lucrative place under government,
and so on. Trade offered a road to inde-


pendence, but my family's pride forbade me


to enter into it, and my capital was too
small for anything else. AT last, took to
to studying the classic deeply, and became


q regular domino, a teacher, a tutor, a
translator to anybody. In this, my occu>
patton, met with many a humiliation;
| was pestered with the tempers of my pupils,
oppressed by the arrogance of my employ


ers, often out Of place, and once made to sit
down at lords second table, whom had
often helped at school, and with whom
had been most familiar. These were Bit
ter pills to swallow, but they were whole
some for the constitution of the mind
Walking one day in Princes street, met
an old school-fellow, who had been married
twelve months to rich heiress; he had
not shilling which he could call his own,
at his set out in life, SO that he was still
poorer than myself, but his handsome per-
son was his fortune, and through il, he mar
ried woman of title, and drove his coach
and four. 'Ah, Jenny said he to me,
'come and dine with me to-day, lad. II
| viii be treat to me to have an old friend al