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Year: 1859

than doubt, suspicion, or discomfort, is worse
than the incendiary who fires at midnight
the dwelling that projects helpless house
hold: the one destroys but the body, the
other kindles in the soul a fire of torture that
never dies in life or death"


"Look you, Dudley, am not disposed to
be patient under censorship, I'll do and dare
more than I'll bear and suffer. My blood
be upon my own head-your lecture has
cleared your skirts. Be satisfied, pleasure
is the god of my idolatry and l follow it to
the death"
Year: 1859

Corn BEER.-Beer made by the follow
ing recipe we can recommend ii, being
good having tried it to our 'entire salts
faction 1t is cheap as we'll as palatable.
Try it:


Take double.handful Of corn, boil it till
done, then put it into vessel holding about
three gallons, which fll with warm water !;
sweeten with molasses, and let stand for a
day or two. Itmay be favored with gin.
ger, sassafras or any other favor, by making
a strong tea and adding it. After the first,
cold water may be used, sweeting as before
One boiling of corn will last for month or
two. '.
Year: 1859

What sacred thing is character. and
yet how undtrvalned by the masses
With The ancient Greeks and Romans
character was the only thing worthy Of
the pursuit Of man. A high sense Of
honor characterized the ancient mind-n-
deed their definition or idea Of honor was
vastly more elevated than that existing in
the present age. Socrates, Plato, Aris.
otie, and men Of their age Of darkness
would die rather than perform an ignobe
action. They considered II their highest
honor to elevate human virtues, and Illus
trae their precepts in their life actions.
But amid The blaze of christian light and
intellectual glory, good moral character
fails to be properly appreciated, neither
does It's acquisition command the display
of earnest effort proportionate with It's
value or equal TO its worth.


Possessions. estates, and family lineage
are not to be deprecated as instruments
of or aids to social elevation, but all sink
into nsignIicance in comparison with an
unspoued reputation, a name associated
only with honor and virtue, character
standing like a fortress invulnerabIe ia
successful attack. Character lost is the
severest affliclion that can fall upon any
man or woman. A thousand circumsian
ces Of misfortune may contribute to wreck
fortune :-abject poverty and helpless
penury may take the place of wealth anC
Iluxury, and the doomed victim conscious
OF his integrity may stand on the prov
and gaze unbanched out on the fatal reef
but let character be justly assailed, let the
blight Of dshonor affect II, and no future
efor-no after virtue can repair the ruin
Character lost can never be fully regain.
ed. Says one of bIigb'ed lore,


You may break, you may ruin the vase


If you will,


But the scent OF the roses will hang round


II still"


The same truth is reversely true o.
character. One erring step not onl y can
not be easily retraced, but it will afec
every other IN life's future pilgrimage
Character is the drapery in which We
move in life,-the golden crown which
designate the good. Says Shakespeare
with this great truth in his mind, "he tha,
steals my purse steals trash,


But he that robs me Of my good name
EnriChelh not himself bul makes me poor


indeed"


You see yonder woman. In early
grlhood she lost her character, parted
with her virtue. Years have fled since
then her life has been unmasked with
any other gigantic error she has re.
deemed the past by life of virtue, bnl
that single misfortune has blocked up the
path TO happiness, and closed upon heI
the higher galleries of social refinement.
Sin and suffering God has united, and
though his pardon may be gained, and the
confidence Of the community be again Sc
cured, yet the laws Of physical, mental.
and moral retribution will pour out their
vias' contents upon the doomed victim
through life.


How careful then should we be in our
comments upon the character Of our lcl-
low beings What hercuean efforts
should we pot forth TO establish our char
acrers and then 10 maintain them panOpli-
ed in virtue before the world
Year: 1859

FLAT CREEK, May IL, 1859.


Dear to the American citizen is the doctrine
of the right of the people to protect lfe liberty
and property. In law-tearing land like ours,
there is little danger in preaching its eternal
truth and justice. The danger is in corrupting
the moral sense of the people by declaring that
when every peaceable, legal, patient and per-
sstent effort has been made to procure the repeal
of an unjust and oppressive law in vain, then it
is wicked to resist it fercibly. Te assert that is
to tear our Declaration of Independence to spit
in the face of Human Rights and Civilization =
If the great mass of miners are rebels, SO were
our forefathers of the Revolution. They fought
against oppression and unjust laws, and we, as
the guardians of the rights and privileges they
beaueahed to US, will do the same until our
just demands are satisfied.


Look at the columns of the county papers
throughout the mining region in this State, and
see the fererish state of the public pulse and
which is only quieted and kept from open vio-
lence by an Ellusery idea that the great doctors
of the Supreme Court will eventually give us
tue relief we so earnestly demand.


Unfortunately, history shows that there are
| always agencies, even in republican governments,
sufficiently powerful to thwart the passage Of
laws desired by the masses of our population
Have we not the right, as miners and citizens to
protect ourselves?


1t is under this view of the case that have
done, what thousands of others have done, and
will continue to do, to maintain our local laws
| passed conscientiously, and thus far supported
firmly yet peaceably. All human laws arr
based upon the law of necessity-of self-protec
ton and self-preservation. And so far this un
alterable law has guided us in our crusade
-against the herdes of Asiatics in our midst Ii
removing the Chinese from the precincts where
the people have decided emphatically that the,
shall not mine, we have acted humanely towards
them-we have allowed them time to collect
their property and take it away with them. In
fact defy any man to say that we have done
them bodily injury or destroyed their property.


If, as the Chinese sympathizers say, they are
popular class of citizens, why is it that the
people of the State murmur and complain of
their presence? Look at the papers of the
State throughout the mining region What
grumblings and angry murmurings come from
the people in relation to this damnable wrong
done to the rights of American citizens. NINo
Year: 1859

SINGLES BEEs--They are about introducing
into the Atlantic States species of the honey
bee which is devoid of that disagreeable appen-
dage of the old-fashioned kinda singer. The
new variety abound in South America, and are
said to produce an excellent article of honey.
Year: 1859

There were three sons of John Brown with
him at Harper's Ferry. Two were killed in
the affray-one was killed in the engine house.


and the other died of his wounds u few days
subsequent to the affair. These two were
Oliver Brown and Watson Brown. The third
one, Owen Brown, escaped, and We have it
from source correctly informed that he Is
safe from the reach OF pursuers. We do not
know where he is, and do not wish to know,
and it we did know should not say even as
much as we have above. for while we can In
no way excuse the actors in that mad toray.
we should certainly let the Virginia of
fcers catch their own insurgents. But Owen
Brown was in the affair." and be is now safe
Whether be was buried in Pennsylvania by
fugitive slaves as was Merriam, who few days
since turned up in Canada, We cant say, but
he got safely away. either on an under ground
or upper ground railway casvsiaas 4ssad.
Year: 1859

It is at times necessary to censure and TO
punish. But very much more may be done by
encouraging children when they do well. Be,
therefore, more careful to express your appro-
baton of good conduct than your disapproha-
tion of bad. Nothing can more discourage a
child than spirit of incessant fault finding on
the part of its parent And hardly anything
can exert more injurious influence upon the
disposition both of the parent and the child.
There are two great motives influencing hu-
man actionsS hope and fear. Both of these
are at times necessary. But who would not
prefer to have her child influenced to good con-
duct by the desire of pleasing, rather than by
the fear of offending. If a mother never ex-
presses her qualification when her children do
well, and is always censuring them when she
sees anything amiss, they are discouraged and
unhappy. They feel that it is useless to try to
please. Their dispositions become hardened
and soured by this ceaseless fretting and at
last, whether they do well or ILL., they are E.
qually found fault with, they relinquish all ef-
forts to please, and become needless of reproach-
es.


But let mother approve Of her childs con-
duct whenever she can. Let her show that
his good behavior makes her sincerely hapty.
Let her reward him for his efforts to please by
smiles and affection. In this way she will
cherish in her child's heart some of the noblest
and most desirable feelings of our nature.
She will cultivate in him an amiable disposi-
ton and a cheerful spirit Your child has
been, during the day, very pleasant and obed,
ent. just before putting him to sleep for the
night you take his hand and say: my son,
you have been very good boy to-lny, 1t
makes me very happy to see you SO kind and
obedient. God loves children who are dutirnl
to their parents, and He promises to make
them happy" This appreciation from his
mother is, to him, great reward: And when,
with more than ordinary affectionate tone,
you say, "Good night, my dear son, he leaves
the room with his little heart full of feeling
And when he closes his eyes for sleep, he is
happy, and resolves that he will always try to
do his duty.
Year: 1859

The world is fpll of people who can't imag-
inc why they don't prosper like their neigh
bors, when the real obstacle is not in banks or
tariffs, in bad public policy nor hard times, but
in their own extravaganza and needless esten-
tation. The young mechanic; or sleFk ftssffies
and takes house, which he proceeds to fur
then his wife, instead of taking hold TO help
him earn livelihood, by doing her own work.
must have hired servant to help spend his
limited earnings. Then yeafs afterwards; you
will find him struggling under double load Of
debts and children, wondering why the luck
was always against him, while his frietas re-
gret his unhappy destitution and financial aisA=
bility. Had they from the first be en- frank and
honest, he need mt have been SO unlucky--
Through every grade of society this vice Of
inordinate expenditure insinuates itself. The
single man, =" hired out in the country at ten
to fifteen dollars per month, who contrives to
dissolve his years earnings in frolics and fine
clothes the clerk who has three to five hun
dred year, and melts down twenty to fifty of
it into liquor and cigars, are paralleled by the
young merchant who fills spacious house with
costly furniture, gives dinners aDd drives fast
horse, on the strength Of the profits he expects
to realize when his goods are all sold; and his
notes all paid. Let man have genius for
spending, and whether his income be dollar
q day or dollar a minute, it is equally GER
cain to prove inadequate. If dining, wiDlnef
aad party giving wont help him through with
it, building, gaming and speculation are sure
to. The bottomless pocket will never gil no
matter how bounteous the stream pouring into
il. The man who, (being singie) does not
save money on six dollars per week will not
be apt to on sixty; and he who does not lay
up something in his first year of independ-
ent exertion, will be pretty like to wear
poor mans hair into his grave.--Greely.
Year: 1859

Friendship is one soul in two bodies.-Aris-
totle


Time never sits heavily on us bat when bad
ly employed.


We may live by forms, but there is no dy-
ing by forms.


Time is like verb, that can only be used in
the present tense


The very stars are nearer to as than to-mor-
row.-Sidney Ye,adys.


A misses is but human version of the turn
spit dog, that toiled all day to roast meat for
others eating.


The good heart, the tender feeling and the
pleasant disposition. make smiles, love and sun
shine everywhere.
Year: 1859

In an article some weeks ago, says the Fin
castle Wing, speaking of the number of bears
the present fall in this county, we remarked
that they were NEARLY as plentiful as squir-
rels" Some reference has been made to our
statement by large number of our cotempor-
aries-some whom, in sporting way, seem to
doubt its correctness. We have not q word
to take back In confirmation of our first
statement, we now announce the fact that there
were si1teen bears killed by two persons in this
county last week-and we hear of several other
gentlemen who killed from one to three each.
We have no doubt that there have been at
least one-hundred bears killed in Botetourt
county in the last sixty days.-Virgin'o Er-
change
Year: 1859

Hush tell il not TO the flowers and trees
Whisper it not 10 the birds and the trees,
Let not the blossoms of crimson and blue
Hear the sad tale though its burden be truey


Summer is dead
Hush for the sea has suspended its breath,
Fearing catch the first summons OF death,
And the bright clouds that passing away;
Fain must drop tears could they hear what you say


Summer il dead
Aye though her mantle of glory be still
Spread over garden and meadow and hill
Though the rich bloom hath no touch Of decay,
And the bee tolls through the long sunny day,


Summer is deadl
Aye 1t is ended from the forest and glen,
From cities alive with the conflict of men,
From the grass at feet, for the silent bird,
From earth, and sky, our spirits is heard,


Summer is dead
So much of our glory and gladness is left,
We sigh not those Of her presence bereft
Her crown and her garlands unfaded are hung
Where they dropped when aside they were careessi!
fling:


Summer is dead
Year: 1859

know that rank Old Federalist is iiow seated
in the Presidential Chair, the acknowledged
representative of Democracy. And now, MIR.


Editor, what claim has this party to the title it


has assumed of being the same old Republican,


party. A REPUBLICAN OF YoRE.
Year: 1859

We witnessed, on Thursday last, an expert
ment made by gentleman in reducing sui
phurets from quartz rock. The test witnessed
by us we consider highly flattering, as going
to prove the practicability of the working of
the system, The piece of rock crushed weighed
eight and a fourth ounces, which contained
quantity of sulphurets, aud had no appearance
whatever of being gold-bearing quartz. After
crushing the rock, be added chemicals to the
powder, which had the effect of decomposing
the sulphurets contained in the rock completely,
leaving simply the fine quartz, sand and gold.
No one would have believed that rock, the
appearance of which gave not the slightest
indication of gold, would have proved to con-
tain so much. Quartz from the same lead is
now being crushed by mill in the vicinity of
Dutch Flat, from which they obtain about eight
dollars ton; In fact, about one hundred dol
lars to the ton can be obtained from rock by
this process that would not pay to work in any
other manner. Several witnessed the expert
ment who are said TO be good judges Of quartz
mining, as well as gentlemen who are expe-
rienced chemists, and all expressed themselves
thoroughly convinced as to the practicability
of the process, and satisfied as to the result
The discoverer has already made application
for patent for his discovery, and intends
erecting machinery, in short time, for the
purpose of testing his system to such extent as
to preclude the possibility Of failure until
which time he is desirous that his name should
not be made public. We understand that he
has tried some of the quartz taiings in different
localities, and the result has been highly sat
isfactory to all parties.
Year: 1859

HNHE undersigned, having a Ranch to which he


desires to give his wkoe attention offers for sale
an undivided, unencunbered one third interest in
set of NLUICE DIGGINGS on MOON eIIINE CREEK
near Freeman Crossing The Diggings are supplied
with unlimited quantity of FREE WATER. ail the
year round are In working order and easily kent so
and paving at the rate of from $40 to 500 to the
share clear OF expenses every week. The claims are
large. and wi last for many years


Ptrti-s wishing to purchase obtain further in
formation by applying to the owner or of Derrick
sen BRO, at Freeman's Crossing


TIMOTHY O'SIEL.
Year: 1859

A BARON MUNcnAusEN AT Pixies PEAK
About the tallest specimen of lying that has
lately come under our observation, VIC copy
from an exchange. 1t is ns follows


young gentlemen afflicted with the Pike s
Peak fever will be interested in the follow
ing statement from reliable gentleman in
the new FL Dorado, Of the manner of gather.
ing gold in the diggings. A man takes a
frame work of heavy timber, built like stone
boat, the bottom of which is composed Of
heavy iron rasps. The framework is hoistcd
up to the top of the Peak, and man gets on
and slides down the side of the mountain.
AS he goes swiftly down, the rasps on the
bottom Of the framework scrape of the gold
in immense shavings, which curl up on TO the
machine, and by the time the man gets to
the bottom, nearly a ton of gold is following
him. This is the common manner Of gather
ing it."
Year: 1859

he must go on--could not delay
and offered the officer $3.50 IL he


would put him on the train. This
strange demand and strange offer
caused the Station Master to hasten
to do what he could. The fire was
not out in the engine that had drawn
the train to that point; the bargain
was settled; draft given on New


York for the $3.50, and in ten min.
utcs the traveller started with An
engine to overtake the flying Ex-


press. After rushing on for thirty
or forty miles, some connection gave


way about the engine. The engine


was stopped--the Engineer found
lthe difficulty, and in very few
mi autes had 9noodan pin whitfield


out and fitted to supply the def
cheney. With this, on they flew


The train had, OF course, many miles
the start OF them. and despite the


wooden pin, the Engineer crowded


on steam and tore through the coun.


try at a fearful rate. Thirty miles


of the distance passed was run in


t'oenty Secen minutes; but the en-.


gagement was that they should over.
take the train, and do it they must,
and do it they did, but not until
more than 100 miles had been run,
and they were approaching Toledo.


Having at length overtaken and
stopped the train and hurried on
board, the traveller went eagerly to
berth in the sleeping-car, and took
thereirom carpet-bag containing
His treasure was safe
none had molested it, and, dismiss
ing his faithful courier, he went on
his way rejoicing at the success of
his perilous and exciting adventure.
Year: 1859

Tue Milwaukee NsaSs states that
they have recently formed a military
company in Chicago, and that after
drilling only six times q week
for not more than q year. they can
now form q straight line, BY leaning
against a fence,
Year: 1859

AT the Farmers Club OF West
Cornwall, Connecticut, ono of the
members observed that no talking
should be allowed while milking was
going on. Another said that he had
discharged man because he would
talk and interrupt the milking in
his dairy, and that in three days the
increase o. milk was equal to tho
mans wages.
Year: 1859

HEARING WITH THE TEETH. Lay
a watch upon table, glass side
downwards, then stand 80 far from
it that You cannot in tho ordinary
way, hear the ticking. Now place
one end Of a small stick, say abou,
six feet long, upon the back of the
watch, and grip the teeth to the 9th,
er; with the fingers close each ear to
exclude all external noise, the bea,
Of the watch will then be as audible
as il placed against the ears. All
other sounds can be conveyed in the
same manner, no matter how long
the stick be; for instance, if one enc
be put upon a-piapo forte in cit,
a.irg'room fronting o garden, anc
the stick be thirty feet long, extend
ing outside the window into 4 lawn
if the instrument be ever so lightly
played, "the tune" will be instantly
distinguished by any person apply
ing the teeth to the opposite end Of
the stick.


Again, il a light bar of iron or any
other metal be suspended by a thick
string held between the teeth, and
then struck with any hard substance
the sound will appear greater than
by hearing with the ears.
Year: 1859

from which mankind suffer over large part Of
the globe, II the consequence of diseased action
in the system, induced by the poisonous miasm of
vegetable decay. This exhalation ia evolved by
the action of solar heat on wet soil and rises with
the watery vapor from IL. While the sun is below
the horizon this vapor fingers near the earths sur
face, and the virus is taken with it through the
lungs into the blood. There acts as an irritating
poison on the internal viscera and excretng organs
OF the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
serrete not only this virus, but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
IN the circulation. and produce violent constitl-
tional disorder. The spleen, the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathze with the liver, and become
disordered also. Finally, the instinct OF our or.
garsln, as If in an attempt to expel the noxious
infusion. concentrates the whole blood Of the body
III the internal excretores to force them to cast Il
out. The blood leaves the surface. and rushes to
the central organs with congestive violence. This
i the CHILL. But in this effort 1t fails Then the
FEVER follows, in which the blood leaves the CEN
tral organs and rushes to the surface. as If in
another effort to expel the irritating poison through
that other great excretory the skin. In this
also 1t fails, and the system abandons the attempt
exhausted and waits for the recovery OF strength
to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
the fits or paroxysms of FEVER AND AGuR.
Such constitutional disorder win of course under
mine the health if it Is not removed.


We have iabored to find, and have found, an
autidote
Year: 1859

The Cry PASSENGER RAILwAY.-We learn, from
authority which may be relied on, that there is no
foundation whatever for the report, to which some
of the newspapers have given circulation, that a
number Of the complanants, in the injunction case
against the Passenger Railway assignees, have ex-
pressed their willingness to withdraw their opposi-
North and Sharp streets. So far is this from being
the case, that explanatory order obtained,
yesterday, from the Court, directing the single
track if constructed at all to be placed precisely
upon the central line of the street. This precau-
tionary movement, no doubt suggested by the
prevalence of a rumor, that the assignees Intended
to build the single track upon the northern side of
the street. was, We learn unnecessary, it not being
the present intention of the parties enoined to lay
Year: 1859

As Alfred Rule, lamp-lighter of the western dis
trict, was passing vacant lot on the corner of
Madison and Dolphin streets, he discovered the
body of colored male child, sewed up in some
rags, lying the lot. Coroner Greentree held an
inquest, and the verdict was death from the hands
of some person unknown.


Yesterday evening at seven O'Clock, Coroner
Sparllin held an inquest over the body of man
which was found floating in the dock the foot of
Fells street. The body was dressed in black pants
and light colored vest. There was no coat on but
white apron was tied around the waist, with two
large pockets, in one of which was the sum of SO
cents. The body had the appearance of having
disco lored, and no person was able to identify it,
The jury rendered verdict of death from acciden-
tai drowning.