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Year: 1861

APRhGD OF THE PEOPLE.-The refusal of
the secession leaders to submit the Consti-
tuition of the Confederate States to a vote
of the people, for ratification or rejection,
has excited considerable discomfort among
the people of those States. The only rea.
son given in the Conventions of the several
States against submitting the Constitution
to the popular test was fear that the peO-
pie might reject it. The Misslssippian, in
speaking of the action Of the Convention 10
that State, says:


1t is the right Of the people 20 decide whether
or not they will live under the Constitution
which is being provided for them by the body in
session at Montgomery. II it is not their right
to do so, then the theory that they are the
source of all power, and should govern them
selves, is vague abstraction, incapable of ap-
plication, and invented to delude them. It will
not do to say that in voting for separation from
the Union, they arranged the terms of confed-
Grafton with other States or prescribed the plan
of future government. That would be falsi-
hcation OF history which no sane man will ven
ture to be guilty Of.


There is no way Of evading the premises we
have assumed; hence the conclusion at which
we have arrived is unavoidable, viz: That the
Constitution for the permanent Government,
before Mississippi becomes Il party to the COM
pact, must be submitted directly to the vote of
the people OF the State. II it is not done, the
question of the right of the people to form their
own Government may require practical solution
before the new order is fully established. They
will not hold themselves bound by Govern
ment which they will have had no hand in Gre
ating.
Year: 1861

ACCIDENTALLY SnoT.-Col Gray, of Pet
aluma, came near loosing bis life few days
ago in singular manner. A gentleman
With whom he was hunting attempted to
bring down dove. but Instead Of doing so,
put the load of shot through the C0lonel's
hat. Oae shot took effect in lis forehead.
Year: 1861

HOSE HousE.-We notice that the brick
and portion of the material for No. rs house
are now on the ground, and we are informed
that the work on the building viii be pushed
ahead to an early completion.
Year: 1861

At the last General Meeting Of the COMMITTEES, the
following resolution was unanimously adopted;


Resolved That proxies can be conferred only upon
members Of the state Central Democratic Committee
Year: 1861

Is waking up, and the old traitor Buchan-
an receives from this staid and conservative
journal the following bitter and effective ad-
monition, administered under the burning
sense of wrong done to the government by
the hoary headed old miscreant, and which the
Intelligencer feels bound to defend Hear it


"If Mr.. Buchanan has no information upon
which he can depend in support of his belief
that there is no need of reinforcing the forts
in Charleston harbor, in order to secure them
from atteck, we are sure that the country will
hold him TO fearful responsibility for the
policy he has pursued.


1--WE greatly mistake the popular sense of
what is due to "a decent respect for the cause
of the Constitution and of the Union, if the
loyal citizens of the United States can look
with cOmplacency on the conduct Of the Ad-
ministration in the easy tolerance and patron
age which it awards to such among it's men,
bers and subOrdinates as are avowedly aud os-
tentatiously laboring for the destruction of
the Government.


"If but a title of the zeal that has been dis
played in the immolation of such luckess
Democrats as favored the heresy of 'Squatter
/ Sovereignty had been turned to the discour-
agement of those whom the President stig-
matized in his Message as attempting neither
more nor less than a revolution we should
not have had the spectacle of Cabinet Off
Ger, while in the full discharge of his official
duties, inditing an address to the people oil
Georgia, urging them by every consideration
to commit that act of secession which the
President in his Message had solemnly de-
nounced as revolutionary and as without justi-
! ficatinn. Or, if Cabinet officer had wiitten
nm address of this kind on the 9th of Decem
| Der, we should not have ha1 deep regretsl eX-
| pressed on The 8th OF December AZ his with
drawa from Government whose destruction
he was invoking, and from which he was
Withdrawing only in order to work more eI-
fectualy for its overthrow.


"When the Democratic party, at its
Charleston Oonvention, had broken up i'll con-
Year: 1861

fusion, and was threatened with chronic disrnp-
ii n grave and deliberate Statesmen in the Ma
tional Councils paused from their off ia labors
to ,dite and issue an appeal in behalf Of Po-
litical Cancellation and reunion. But when.
at the psesent day, the Union is in danger and
the Government on the brink of ruin. these
came high councillors have no measure of
craftsmanship to suggest, so entirely do they
seem to have given to party what was meant
for all mankind Fertile in expendienls for
the rescue of the Democracy. they are impo-
tent and dumb only when it is the country
that calls Gor help. What wonder is it that in
prospect of these things, the patriotic of all
parties cry out in tones OF indignant depre-
cation and remonstrance? The voice of i'm
patient patriotism reaches US from every hand.
calling aloud upon the nations lu'ers and
legislators, whether from the North or frcm
the South, and whether belonging to one par
ty or another, to show at least some signs Of
interest in the country, if they have no Wis
dom equut 10 its present emergencies.
Year: 1861

We know not beforehand when and how. or
hy what means We. or others, shall I've brought
to death by what road we must go the way
whence we shall not return, what disease or
what disaster viii be the door TO put us into
the house of appointment for all living.


We cannot describe what death is: how the
knot is united between body and soul, or how
the spirit Of man goes upwards. 10 be we know
not what. With what dreadful curiosity
docs the soul launch ont into the vast ocean Of
eternity, and resign itself TO an uniriegl abyss
Let MS make it sure that the gates Of tlcav-
en- shall open to us the other sda of death
though it is way we are TO go but once.


We have no correspondence at all with sep
aratc souls, nor any acquaintance with their
estate, it is an unknown, undiscovered region
to which they are removed we can neither
hear from them. nor send to them. While We
arc here in world of sense. we spCrk of a
world Of spirits as the blind do Of colors. and
as we move thithcr we shall be amazed to find
how much we have bcen mistaken.
Year: 1861

We hold it to be one of the first of temper
al duties, that an individual should not suffer
his annual expenses to exceed his income
This may often call for the most rigid econo-
my and self-deuial, bat this sacrifice must evi-
IDENTIFY be made, or somebody must be wrong
ed. The ability to get more than one has the
means means OF paying for. is founded on
credit and as every person is presumed to
to know the state of his own finances better
than others know ii, TO buy without the
reasonable prospect Of being able to meet
fully the expectations of the creditor, deserves
no higher name than fraud.


Extravagance in living is prominent cause
of debt and embarrassment /; and that pride
which is unwilling to come down to ones ac-
tual circumstances and which seeks to hide
poverty by a show of wealth. is a principal
source Of this extravaganza Yet man al
ways commands the respect Of the world, who
conforms his style to his real condition-look-
ing the latter full in the face himself, and not
unwilling that others should see it as it is
A man Of character can afford to do this the
fictitious sensibility and the false shame be-
long to the pretenders Of gentitity.


We were Impressed with these thoughts in
q pleasant call which we lately made on
young man of our acquaintance. The
young man belongs to one Of the liberal pro-
fessiOns, and his resid.nce is within sight Of
the elegant homestead, richly furnished with.
and surrounded by amp and shaded grounds,
where his early years were passed., and where
his parents still reside. His young wife was
brought up tenderly, and to a character Of
natural delicacy adds the charm of social cul-
ture and refinement. They occupy their own
house-and what is it's style2 The simplest
and cheapest of all cottages containing, We
believe, Eve little rooms, all told-the whole
structure costing less than themRnnual rent
Of hundreds of houses in this city which are
built to rent But affection, intelligence and
taste, preside over that cultivated home, max
ing it more attractive to an appreciative Wis
itur than a, palace would be without these ac-
cessorieS, and TO its inmates it is fragrant
with the breath of their first born child. 1t is
their own house and be their prospects never
SO hattering, nothing can be more sensible
than this simplicity and as it is all which is
tented and cheerfu!-happier far than the Oc-
-upants of splendid dwellings who cannot pay
their bills We commend the example to
fast" young men and ambitious bellies, if there
are any such among our readers, reminding
them that hardly any social specacle is more
delightful than a graceful conformity to al
humble style Of living, in one who is fitted by
early training TO adorn the most elegant
Congregational Herald.
Year: 1861

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Slaves


One day last week a gentleman of this city
hailed an up country boat. the Cora Ander-
son, as she was passing Greenville, Miss,
whittier he had gone on business, to return
home.- Shortly after being under way our
Nachez friend observed pensive-lool1ing lit
tie girl, aged about 9 or 10 years, whoseblack
hair and yeIlowish brown skin would indicate
that she was mullattrcss. There was some
thing about her that interested him, and he
inquired of the captain concerning her. He
was Informed that she was slave belonging
to a man on board, whom the captain pointed
out, who said he was taking her to New Or
leans to sell her, he having bought her for
$3.50 in Northwestern Missouri, on the bor-
ders. Our Nachez friend eyed the little girl
and the border man SO closely as to attract
the attention of the latter, with whom he was
soon engaged in conversation CO ncerning the
child, interrogating him in such a manner as
to elicit answers not always agreeing With
previous statements, and evidently alarming
him. This was suspicious. The little girl
was taken aside and examined. She said she
was an orphan, and had been taken from an
asylum in New York by this man that her
ndf WIS llSnI duu kboV CoilIDlcAtOn OlOIhto
that this nun told her he was going South
with her. where, as his adopted daughter, she
would have a good home; that black hair
was preferred in the South, and prettier than
hers, and that he had taken her to barber
and had her hair died black. He also told
her that if she would allow him to put some
yellow die on her skin that her complexion
would become much whittier in few days, and
that be had pat some stain on. Gu hearing
these statements, the child was taken in
charge by the captain, and potash, soap and
water being applied, the dyes were taken of
and the light hair and light complexion were
brought to light. The pretended master was
seized by the excited passengers, who were
about to deal with him summarily, but il was
finally arranged to lock him up in a state.
room until the boat should land. In the
meantime the boat bad passed St. Joseph, and
when u few miles below that town rounded TO
take on wood. At this point, how or in what
manner is not known, the border ruffan es-
capped from the boat, leaving his baggage be-
hind. The girl was taken by the captain Of
the boat to New Orleans and placed in one of
the asylums of that city.
Year: 1861

So lately dead so soon forgotten 'Tis the
way of the world. We flourish for a while
Men take by the hand, and are anxious
about the health of our bodies, and laugh at
our jokes, and we really think like the fly on
the Wheel that we have something to do with
the turning of it. Some day we are buried.
The sun does not stop for our funeral; every
thing goes on as usual we are not missed in
the streets men laugh at new jokes one or
two hearts feel the wound Of aflction, one or
two memories still hold our names and forms
Il but the crowd moves in its daily circle, and in
a short time the great wave sweeps over our
steps and washes the last vestige of our earth
ly TO tsteps.
Year: 1861

EloquentIy doth dead tree preach to the
heart of man touching its appeal from the
myriad forma of the life bursting about it J.
Yes, the dead oak of a wood, for time, gives
wholesome check to the heart, expanding and
dancing with the vitality around. In its calm
aspect, its motionless lood, it works the soul to
solemn thought, lifting it upwards from the
earth.
Year: 1861

In 1910, in reply to threat that Georgia
would secede, Mr.. Clay said:


Now, Mr. President stand here in my
place, meaning to be unawed by any threats,
whether they come from individuals or from
States. shall deplore as much as any man
living or dead, that arms should be raised
against the authority of the Union, either by
individuals or by States. But, after all that
has occurred, if any one State or a portion of
the people of any one State, choose to put
themselves in military array against the Gov
ernment Of the Union, am for trying the
strength of the Government. Applause in
the galleries. am for ascertaining whether
we have government or nOt-practical, eff
cient, capable of maintaining its authority,
and of upholding the powers and interests
which belong to government. Nor, sir, am
to be alarmed or dissuaded from any such
course by intimations Of spiIling of blood. If
blood is to be split, by whose fault is it p
Upon this supposition | maintain it viii be
the fault of those who choose to raise the
standard of disunion, and endeavor to pros
trate the Government and, sir, when that Is
dOne so long as it pleases God to give me a
voice to express my sentiments, or an arm
weak and enfeebed as it may be by age, that
voice and that arm will be ON the side Of my
country for the support of the general author
ity, for the maintaiance of the powers of this
Union. Applause in the galleries
Year: 1861

twelve feet square, and is entirely devoid OF ar
rangements for ventilation, which Is the more to
be deplored, as during the evening they have to
encounter the heat and foul air of three farnlng
burners right over their heads, every door and
window being shut by which breath OF pure
air could possibly enter. The bedrooms are
equally uncomfortable, no fewer than Elk persons
being huddled into one, and four into another


1t is impossible to contemplate the condition
of this class Of work-women (as disclosed by the
facts quoted) without keenly sympatising with
il and wishing that something might be done to
mitigate its evils and misery.
Year: 1861

The committee on the Judiciary, to whom was
referred


A bill 10 transfer the general supervision and
government of the State Agricultural College
from the State Board OF Education, 10 q State
Board of Agriculture with amendments repor-
ted.


THIRD READING or BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS.


A bill 10 authorize fractional school district
No. l OF the townships of Shelby and Sterling,
in e county of Mscomb. TO issue bonds


Passed. Immediate effect


The House took a recess till two o'clock in the
afternoon
Year: 1861

The UNco GuDE-The "unco guide" would
have nothing in the year of mans life save
winter. Man must be always sad of face, OF
frosty manner, and of doleful speech; he
must not caper, or dance, or joke; be must
not tell stories or sing 5songs,-or if he does
sing, it must be psalm, at least something
like psalm; he must not so to opera or play,
and concert is but barely tolerated; he may
work as hard as he can six days out Of seven,
but the seventh must not be . day Of free,
healthful, and grateful rest; it must be one
ofhard routine and ritual servitude; in short,
human existence must be at once penance
and q toll, wearing by turns the sackcloth Of
a sinner and the garment of slave; regar-
ding the earth only as place of bondage for
the living and place Of burial for the dead
looking to the heavens only as the roof Of 4
wcsk-house or tho dome Of sepulchre.
Year: 1861

USINrESroNAL JoKEs.--One day at the ta-
bic of the late DR.. Pearce, just as the cloth
was being removed, the subject of discourse
happened to be that of an extraordinary NOR
tality among the lawyers. "We have lost, y
said one gentleman, mot less than six emi-
nent barristers in as many months" AT
this moment the doctor (who was quite deaf
rose and gave the company grace, "For this
and every other mercy, the Lords name be
praised" This ludicrous combination was
not intended by the doctor, and the more lu-
dicrous on that account, because the objects
connected were all the further removed. We
have many such freaks of nature. We see
her occasionally blowing off the hat of some
solemn man, if he turns corner, and send
ing him zigzag chase along the road after
it; or we see her make modest man give an
involuntary sneeze, during an impressive
pause in choral song; or making donkey
bray outside the window. just as some coun-
try minister has opened his mouth to speak.
Year: 1861

xditorial Corrs.pondsses a AZ Pioneer and Democrat


se ~, WASHINGTON, Feb. IL.


The federal capital never presented q
more sombre aspect than now. Not, in.
deed, in its more outward appearance, for
the weather is delightfully."- balmy but the
chill resting upon the hearts Of the people
produces gloom which even the genial sun
Is powerless to dissipate. Every one wears
an anxious expression. The sole topic Of
talk is the condition Of the country J; and
allspeculation is directed to schemes for the
preservation Of what remains to us, and for
the restoration of what we have lost Nor
is this speculation, inquiripg and anxious,
confined to the members Of any political
party or section. Noble, patriotic men,
Republicans as well as Democrats, from the
South as well as the North, in disregard of
partizan or sectional animosities. unite with
heart and soul, and every faculty Of mind
and body, to save at least that which is left
of the glorious old Union. Only the ultra
Republicans, unhappily majority, and the
'rabid Secessionists, stand aloof, and seem
willing, if not desirous, that the Republic
should 60 to utter destruction.


While, however, thick darkness seems to
overshadow the land, I think rays of light
and hope beam upon us, both from the
North and the South. The Republican
party, whose success on sectional grounds
has been made the occasion for the disrup-
tion of the country, is, like the country, dis
rupted itself. Under the lead of SEWARD,
CAMERON, WEED, KELLoao, and others,
whose hearts are big enough to take in the
whole Republic and its interests, large
fraction of the Republicans will undoubt.
edly before long, be found standing side by
side with the Democracy, in patriotic efforts
to reconstruct the Union. There in hope in
this. These men will be reviled, but the
Union will be ultimately saved. I think there
is promise, also, in the choice of DAVIS and
STEPHENS as President and Vice President
OF the Southern Confederacy. Of STEPHENS
devotion to the Union there can be no doubt;
and DAVIS has, for the last six months,
shown himself the least ultra of the seces-
sion leaders. The Southern movement will
hereafter be under their control, and if they
are met in any spirit of cancellation on the
part Of the North, a year hence will see the
Union reunited and prosperous. To this
end every man who has stake in the coun-
try, and any care for its interests and honor,
should labor, until harmony and its attend
ant blessings shall be restored to all parts of
our distracted country.


1t is hopeless race, when the mails
are backed against lightning, and so do
not write you Of the details Of legislation.
But, as find matters which the lightning,
in its haste, will be apt to overlook, 1 shall
jot them down, and let them drag their
slow length along, by mail and coach, to the
columns of the PIoNRRR. H.s.a.
Year: 1861

SACRAMENro May S'h.
SENATE Resolution relative to eXi.tii &
difcu'ties between the people of Honey
Lake Valley and Utah Territory, laid Oh the
table


Mr. Harvey offered a resolution that a com
mttee be appointed to visit the State Insane
Asylum during the interim Of the Legisln
ture and report condition of same at the next
session, Adopted


Amendment to The Constitution to change
the boundary line of the State. discussed and
laid ON the table.


ASSEMBLY House concurred in resolution
relative to the state Capitol


Assembly lill granting to Thomas Hare
man and assigns the right TO lay a railroad
track along certain road within the city
and coanty of sacramento. passed.
Year: 1861

THE INvINcIBLEs OF CoMMoN LIFE
What a glorious troop might be formed Of
those men who have won their laurels in
the campaign of life; fighting not against
sword and bayonei, musket and cannon,
lance and sabre; bat against hardships and
circumstances; natural defects and the ridi-
cnle or opposition of their fellow men,
Nor has the tight been against visible or
tangible foe alone; these men have had
themselves to conquer. their ignorance or
incidence; their natural leaning to evil; the
bad habits Of early days, or even their poY-
erty, and the lowness Of their social station.
Year: 1861

The telegraph advises us of the almost
complete destruction of the North Missouri
Railroad for a distance of near one hundred
miles. The villains commenced their work
ofdestruchon eight miles south of Hudson,
the junction of the North Missouri with the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Road, and have
rendered useless the road south to Warrenton,
a distance OF one hundred miles. They have
burned the bridges, burned the wood, and
water. tanks and ties, and torn up the track,
and destroyed the telegraph line for the dis
tsnce named Who or how many were en-
gagged in this work is not known, but it is
plain that the whole thing was preconcerted,
and that very large number of men were
concerned in it. They must have been men,
too, living somewhere near the line, as well
as rebels from Prices army, sent there for
this purpose, and all of them ought to be
made to suffer for this villany. General
Halleck will, of course, give prompt atten-
ton to the plan of the rebels, designed, Of
course, to prevent him from transporting
troops along the road by which to preserve
the peace of that section of the State.
Year: 1861

To the Editors Of the Daily Press:


Any thing that relates to the early times
in the West may be interesting to the read
ers of the Press. The following was related
TO me by one ofthe actors;


In 1906 Israel Brown, afterward Associ-
ate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of
Hamilton County, was hauling load of
-four from Piquato ST. Mary's While on the
way they saw panther lying in a large
branch of tree. They having no gun with
them, agreed to, if possible, kill it. Hav-
ing a dog along, they got the dog to attract
The attention of the panther, while one was
prepared with club and the other with a
large knife (Which every person carried in
early times for self defense.) As soon as
the panther should spring on to the dog, the
one with the club and the other with the
knife were to attack it, which they did, and
killed the panther, but not until it had
nearly killed the dog. They put both into
the wagon, as the dog was not able to walk
for some time afterward. Such was the
courage of the pioneers of the West.


Yours, @. TOBEY.
Year: 1861

A member of the Academy Of Science


stated at one of the sessions last week, that
he had discovered simple and inexpensive
process for rendering musliAs, laces, and
all sorts of light stuffs iRcOmbustible. It
simply consists Of adding to the starch used
in stiffening them one-hAlf Of its weight of
The carbonate of lime, usually known as
Spanish White" Ladies who wear huge
crinolines, and are in danger of being
destroyed by fire, should snake note" of
Year: 1861

TIE steamer Atlantic arrived at New York
on Friday last, from Port Royal, with a
cargo of 10000 pounds of Sea Island cotton,
picked by the negroes under direction of
Government agents. Four hundred thou
sand pounds of this staple had been secured
up to the time the Atlantic sailed, and would
be forwarded by the next steamer.