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Year: 1860

ExTRAoRDINARY DEFENCE OF GRIM
INAL.-There is man named Lottery,
on trial in Richmond, Va, for the muir
der of his sister-in-law, because she re-
fused to elope with him. The line of
defence to be adopted by the counsel
for the prisoner may be inferred from
the testimony, and leads to the belief
that an effort will be made to sustain,
by argument, the proposition that she
did not die from the wound, but in con-
sequence of smelling chloroform to al.
leviate the intense pain caused by the
bullet which entered her body. The in
genuity of legal gentlemen sometimes
tends to strange conclusions on their
part. The Examiner very pertinently
asks: awe wonder if the deceased
would have thought of chloroform had
she not been shot?'
Year: 1860

TEACH THE CHILDREN TO PLANT
An excellent and distinguished horticul-
turist, in closing his inaugural address,
once said: encourage your children to
love the country, where they breathe the
pure air and drink pure water. In
struct them to cultivate the SOIL to i'm
prove it with the aid of science; let them
read and study the cheap publications
on the subject printed in this city and
latitude-for many works on fruits and


vegetables published in the north are
not as well suited to our rich soil and
climate. Show them the beauties and
wonders they can produce by attention
and industry. BY impressing all this
on their young minds, you and they
will receive a rich reward Of undisturb
cd happiness, and that blessing which
health and strength bring with them"
Year: 1860

THE ALCHEMY OF VICE.-The Illinois
Temperance Journal brings to mind the story
Of the Italian artist who meeting with a child
of exquisite beauty, wished to preserve its
features, for fear he should never see such
loveinessagain So epainted the charming
face upon canvas and hung it upon the
walls of his studio. In his somberest hours
that sweet, gentle countenance was like an
angel of light to him. Its presence filled his
soul with the purcst aspirations. 'If ever
fnd," he said, "a perfect contrast to this
beautiful face, | will paint that also, and
hang them side by side, an ideal of Heaven
and He'll" Years passed. At length in a
distant land, he saw, in prison he visited,
the most hideous object he ever gazed
upon-a fierce, haggard fend, with glarng
eyes and checks deeply furrowed with lust
and crime The artist remembered his vow,
and Immediately painted a picture of this
loathsome form, to hang beside the portrait
of this lovely boy. The contrast was perfect.
His dream was realized. The two poles of
the moral universe were before him. What
was the surprise of this artist, when, on
inquiring into the history Of this horrid
wretch, to find that he was once that lovely
little boy. Both of these pictures, the angel
and the demon of the soul, now hang side by
side in Tuscan gallery.
Year: 1860

KEROSENE OIL AND LAMPs.-Both these arti-
cles have grown so rapidly in popular favor, that,
we are informed by the San Francisco papers, it
is impossible for the supply to reachthe demands
of that market. The lamps are now used in
nearly all families; and the oil goes necessarily
with them Franchere & Butler, very fortunate
", provided themselves handsomely with the
former article, before the mania for Kerosene
lamps gained headway, and advertise fine lot
of the same for sale. They also sell the coal oil
at their drug store on Flune street.
Year: 1860

A SCRAP OF .HIsToRY.-It is fact little
known, that for, the first FIVE years of our
Government, the United States Senate ALWAYS
sal in secret The first time the doors were
opened for public discussion was on the con-
test as to the right of Albert Gallatine to
seat in the United States Senate.
Year: 1860

TURKEY SHooTING.-Another turkey shoot
ing event is arranged to come off at Koch's
Brewery tomorrow. Thursday is the Governors
holiday, and those who are not already supplied
with fowl will find this favorable opportunity
to secure one for garnishing the Thanksgiving
spit
Year: 1860

THANKSGIVING BALL.-It will be borne in
mind that Messrs. Berry & Hoagland. of the
Cherokee Hotel, at Cherokee, give their grand
Social Ball on next Thursday evening, Thanks
giving. Their preparations for the event have
Been going forward for some time, and IN such
a manner as to secure large attendance and
brilliant entertainment
Year: 1860

T3'Mr James P. Ewing, and old and esteemed
citizen of North San Juan, took his departure
the other day for Lower california, in pursuit of
business and adventure. May prosperity attend
his efforts, and good fortune restore him soon
again to those who regret the loss of so worthy
gentleman The rife which he carries with him
is a prime one. In the Coast Range of noun
tains. a wear ago. are cut deer down with it at
distance of three hundred and twenty PAGES
Year: 1860

An EXPENSIVE WIFE The Albany Courier
states that the wife of one of their wealthiest
merchant princes wore dress at the Academy
of Music ball, the three founces of which alone
cost thousand dollars each the lace upon the
dress costing two hundred and fifty dollars
yard, and was made in that city.
Year: 1860

INSTINCT OF THE HARE.-An old hare
when hunted by common hound, seems to
regulate her fight from the first according to
the speed Of her pursuer. She knows from
Eexperienee that very rapid flight would be
less certain of carrying her out of the reach
of danger than a more deliberate one, and
she carefully expends her strength. . She
seems to have observed thatin grounds where
there are many young shrubs, the contact
of her body leaves behind stonger scent.
Shs therefore avoids all thickets, and keeps
as much as possable on beaten roads; but
when pursued by grey hounds she runs from
them as fast as she is able and seeks for
shelter in woods and thickets Knowing
that terriers, even though they do not see
her, can follow her track, she often practices
a stratagem to deceive them. When she has
run for considerable time in a straight line,
she returns a short distance on the road she
has come, in order TO render the scent very
strong on this space of ground; she then
makes several long leaps, in side direction;
and thereby renders it Difficult. to recover
the scent. BY this means the hounds are
put at fault, and the hare is enabled to get a
considerable way ahead, and thus she fire.
quently makes her escape.
Year: 1860

The horse which Marshal Ney rode was
shot from under him, and scarcely had he
mounted another, before that also sank to
the earth; and SO another and another, until
fve in succession were slain. Then, with
his drawn sabre in hand, he placed himself
determinedly on foot at the head of his torn
and bleeding column. In vain did the artil-
iery hurl Its storm of iron upon that living
mass. Up to the mouths of the cannon they
pressed, and driving the artillery men from
their places, pushed On through the English
lines. But.ust as the victory seemed won,
file of soldiers who lay fat on the ground
behind ridge of earth, Suddenly sprang up
andponreG voliey into their faces. Another
and another followed, until one broad sheet
of fame rolled on their bosoms with such
fierce and unexpected flow, that they stag
gered beneath it. Before the Old Guard had
time to rally and charge, a heavy body of
infantry fell on its left flank, causing it, in
its unsettled state, to swerve to the right
At that instant whole brigade of cavalry
thundered on the right flank, and penetrated
where cavalry had never been before.


The intrepid Guard could have borne up
in concealment, aud would have rolled back





finished the disorder into which they had
niomentarily been thrown, and broke the
shaken ranks before they had time to reform,
and the eagle of the hitherto invincible Old
Guard was pushed backward down the
slope. 1t was then that the army, seized
with despair, shrieked out, sThe Old Guard
recoilsF' and fed in wild dismay. To see
the Guard in confusion was sight which
they had never before witnessed, and it froze
their blood with an unspeakable terror.


For long time the Guard stood and let
the cannon balls pass through their ranks,
disdaining to turn their backs on the foe-
Michel, at the head of these battaliens, fought
like lion. To every demand of the enemy
to surrender, he replied, ''The Old Guard
dies, but never surrenders!" and with his
last breath he bequeathed this glorious mot
to to the Guard. He fell witness to its
truth. Death traversed those eight battal-
lions with rapid footsteps, and they soon
dwindled away to two, which turned with
hopeless daring on the Overwhelming num-
befs tnas pressed upon their retiring fost-
steps.


Last of all, but Single battaliou-the
debris of the column of granite at Marepgo,
was left. Into this Napoleon flung himself
Cambrhl It's heroic commander, saw with
terror the Emperor in its frail keeping. He
was not struggling for the victory. He was
intent on showing how the Guard could die
the Emperor, he cried out, be-
seechingly, "Retire! Do you not see that
death has no need of you y and closing the
ranks mournfnlly but sternly around their
eagles, those brave hearts bade Napoleon an
eternal adieu; and finging themselves ona
the enemy were soon piled with the dead at
their feet.


Many of the officers were seen to destroy
rather than live to experience
the modification of defeat. Thus, greater
in even in its annihiation, than any other
corps of men in gaining victory, the Old
Guard passed away, and the curtain of glory
descended upon its brilliant career. 1t had
fought its last battle. /
Year: 1860

Give me back the:days of old
The days of honest labor;
When man to man was frank and free,
And would not wrong his neighbor.
When men were not ashamed to work
And cultivate the soil,
Seeking no other boon than that


Which follows earnest toll.
When truth and right, and honest zeal
Gave all their proper station;
And justice Weighed in truthful scales,
And wisdom ruled thenation.
eOar soldiers they were brave and true,
And neither erestinor shield
Was needed then, to make them men,
In biyouac or 6eld.
But let US not f0tget to pay


The tribute due to otherss
And while we sing of men ef old,


God bless our ancient mothers.
And let us pray that come wlfat may,
The charming days of old,
When right was'anight, and honor bright
Was valued Hore thargold.
Year: 1860

THE New York Times's Washington cor
respondent informs US that official dispatches
received at Washington contained the news
that our Minister to Peru had just received
from the Government of that country pro.
position for the settlement of all existing
difficulties with the United States. Official
information has also been received al Wash
ington from Nicaragua indicating the certain
information by the Nicaraguan Congress Of
transit contract with the old company of
this city.
Year: 1860

The HIGHEST SPEED.-The highest speed
ever attained by horse flesh was four miles in
eleven and half minutes or at the rate of thirty
three miles an hour. The highest speed of the
locomotive well authenticated, on the Eng
lish lines, at the rate of seventy eight miles
hour; and it is said that a Holyhead boat has run
twenty-six statute miles an hour, which equals
the best time ever made on the North river.
Year: 1860

B@IT is estimated that the reception of
the Prince of Wales will cost the Provincial
Government of the Canadas no less sum
than one million of dollars, independent of
the vast amounts expended by the different
towns,
Year: 1860

This gentleman delivered very interest
ing address to o not very large but aPpre-'
ciative audience last night on the subject OF
Education. His remarks were listened to
with the utmost attention, by those present,
and frequently elected applause. We re-
greet that so few of the friends of education
in our city were out. While the mere an
nouncement that there is to be a political
speech never fails to fill Mozart Hall, it
does not arene well for our interest in edu-
cational matters that so few thought proper
to go to hear an address on that subject.


Perhaps our citizens think no improve
ment can be made in their already justly
celebrated system of public schools, and
failed TO attend for that reason. There
were religious meetings in the city which
took away good many that would other
wise not have failed to be present


Mr.. Fletcher promised that next year. af-
ter be had entered upon the duties of the
Office which be would be elected to Gil next
month, he would visit Us again and speak
60 our people on his favorite theme. Ar.
Fletcher is a scholar as we'll as a practical
man, and never fails to interest those who
! favor him with their attention.
Year: 1860

| At a late meeting of the stockholders of
| the Wabash and Erie Canal, it was ordered


that the balance of the unpaid stock be col
! lected forthwith, and that persons be ap-
! pointed to collect new stock to the amount
of not less thanS3, 900. In accordance with
these instructions, the Managers are now
"going ahead and intend to slight no
one, but all are invited to come forward and
aid in pushing forward this great work.
| We hope that no one, who may now be
called upon to pay up old subscriptions, will
endeavor to excuse themselves and delay the
progress of the work, but let all pay
promptly and eheerfully, so that confident
spirit may still continue to urge on our en-
terprising Managers. Cash is needed and
cash must be obtained before the Canal can
be rendered properly navigable.


VIII our citizens listen to the call, or will
they suffer it to pass unheeded To those
who offer the specious plea that there are no
signs of progress, and therefore will not
"fork-up," let me say that the Prince of


Wales would pay large reward to such if
they would communicate to him the secret
whereby he could subdue "Uncle Sam"
Without the use Of POagder. 1t may be posi-
Die that any great work can be sue
cessfully carried through without the aid of
the needful but we must confess our ina
bility to advise as to the proper method to
be pursued. Any information on this
point will doubtless be gratefully received
by the Board of Managers.


But the business men of Evansville, now
especially, are directly interested, and with
them rests the fate Of tbsgreat work The
greater the number of avenues of trade
which center here, in that proportion will
our resources for wealth increase. Dam
up the thousand rivulets, and where is the
mighty stream which so proudly bore the
wealth of nations upon the bosom of its
waters Follow back and you find those
rivulets, combined, still flowing along, but
their course is changed Let US look to it
that our interests do not suffer. Let not
the trade which belongs to US go elsew here.
You who remain quiet and wait for progress,
beware!


"Now is the accepted time, now is the day
of salvation" Look to your own and the
welfare of our thriving city. Shall this
great undertaking, to which you are called
TO lend a helping hand, ago down or up
Let your deeds be sufficient reply.


Since writing the above, we learn by Mr..
SMYTH, the efficient superintendent; that
fifty men or more have been engaged, the
past week, on the canal, from Port Gibson
to Newberry. And we will further state,
that many of these men have labored gra-
tutiously for the purpose of advancing the
work.
Year: 1860

SLAVE INoREAsE-The new census will
probably show the number of slaves in the
United States to be over 100000. This
is on the computation that the rate of in
crease will be not less than it was from
1910 to 1850. The addition to the numbers
within that period was TIC, 756, the rate OF
increase nearly 90 per cent moro precisely
$3.50 per cent. At this rate of increase,
which is not likely to be less, computations
have been made of the future numbers OF
the slave population within few years.
The figures are, indeed, startling, frcm their
magnitude. 1t is very certain that within
the first quarter of the next century it will
be at least fifty millions.
Year: 1860

AS in the light of cultivated reason, on
looking abroad and seeing a wealth of


beauty, a profusion Of goodness, in the


works Of Him who has strewn flowers in
the Wilderness, and painted the bird and
enamelled the insect, in the simplicity
and universality of his laws You read this
lesson: An uneducated man dreams not
of the common sunlight which now in its
splendor floods the armament and land
scape; he cannot comprehend how much
of the loveliness of the world results from
the composite character of light and from
the rejecting propensites of the most
physical bodies. If instead of red, yell
low and blue, which the anal lysis of the
prism and experiments of ABSORPTION
have shone to be its constituents, it had
been homogeneous simple white, how
changed would all have been The grow
ing corn and the ripe harvest, the bios
som and and the fruit, the fresh green
ness offspring and the autum's robe of
many colors, the hues of the violet, the
lily and the rose, the silvery foam of the
rivulet, the emerald of the river and the
purple of the ocean would have been un-
known. The rainbow would have been
but pale streak in the gray sky, and
dull vapors would have canopied the sun
instead of clouds, which, if the days of
flaming brilliancy, curtained his rising
and going down. Nay, there would have
been no distinction between the blood of
children, the flush Of health, the paleness
of decay the hectic of disease, and the liv-
idness of death. There would have been
UNMARRIED, unmeaning leaden hue, where
we now see the changing and expressive
countenance, the tinted earth and gorge
Gus armament.
Year: 1860

If education is the great buckler of bu


man liberty, well developed industry il
equally the bucker and shield of ndivid


ual independence. AS an unfailing re
source through life, give your son equa


with a good education, good honest
trade. Better any trade than none though
there is ample fold for the adopting O
every inclination in this respect. Learn
ed professions and speculative employ.
ments may fail a man but an honest
handicraft seldom Or never-if its posses.
sor chooses to exercise it. Let him feel
too that honest labor craft is honorable
and noble. The men Of trades-the crea
ture Of whatever is most essential to the
necessities and welfare of mankind can
not be dispensed with; they above all
others in whatever reputa they may be
held by their moro iasti3ious fellows,
must work L. ssc OaG Of l.,EnGn progress
or all is lost But few brown handed
trade workers think of this, or appreci-
ate the real position and power theycom
pass.


Give your son q trade, no matter what
fortune he may have or seem likely to in
herit. Give him trade and an educa-
tion-at any rate. With this he can al
always battle with temporal want, can
always be independent, and better is in
dependence with moderate education
than all the learning of the colleges and
wretched temporal dependence. But in
this free land there can be ordinarily no
difficulty in securing both the education
and trade, for every youth thereby fitting
each and all to enter the ranks of man
hood definite of those obstacles which in
timidate SO many tradeless and profess
slonless young men, Such are the pc
culiarities of fortune that no more out
ward possession can be counted SO abso-
lutely secure or protective to man. -
Hoarded thousands may be swept away
in day and their once possesssors left
with neither the means of independence
or livelihood.


He was a wise Scandinavian King who
declared that his sons must learn useful
trades or to be cut off from their expect
ed princely fortune. They demurred but
obeyed the decree. The eldest as the
easiest trade to learn applied himself to
basket making. In time he reigned in
his fathers stead. In time also revolu-
tion came upon, and over threw him, and
he fled disguised, wandering and com
panionless save his wife and children, his
sole source for livelihood recurrence to
his humble, but honest and useful trade


The son of the rich as well as the poor
should be strengthened by this possession.
If never used beyond the learning no
harm is done-while possibly it may be
of incalcuable good. 1t is weapon of
assault or defence, Silich only fairly seiz-
ed, can never be taken from q mans
grasp. Think of it parents; examine
your boys bumps, or rather study the
bent of their minds and taste, and as the
best and most lasting service you can do
for them, apply them to the learning of
honest trades.
Year: 1860

En- 10y the present, whatsoever it may
be, and be not solicitous for the future;
for if you take your foot from the present
standing, and thrust it forward towards
to-morrow's event, you are in reckless


condition; it is like refusing to quench the


present thirst by fearing you should want
drink the next day. If it be well to day
it is madness to make the present misera-
bic by fearing it will be i'll tomorrow;
when your belly is full of to-day's dinner
to fear you should want the next days
supper; for it may be you shall not, and
then to what purpose was this days af-
Fiction? But if to morrow you shall
want, your sorrow will come time enough
though you do not hasten it; let your
trouble tarry till its day comes. But if i:
Chance to be i'll to day, do not increase it
by the cares of tomorrow. Enjoy the
blessings of this dag if God send them,
and the evils of it bear patiently and
sweetly; for this day only is ours-we are
dead to yesterday, and we are not yet
born to the morrow. He, therefore, that
enjoys the present, if it be good, enjoys
as much as is possible, and if only that
days trouble leans upon him, it is singu-
lar and finite. Sufficient to the day."
said Oh list, sis the evil thereof" suffic-
lent, but not iutolerable. But if we look
abroad and bring into one days thoughts
the evils of many, certain and uncertain,
what will be and what will never be our
load will be as intolerable as it is unrea-
sonable.-Jeremy Taylor.
Year: 1860

No more healthy or delicious fruit is
grown than the currant; but great por-
ton of our farmers seem to be uncon-
scious of its value. First, then, to have
a good supply of this fruit attention must
be paid to the bushes, 1t is very often
the case, that if these are found at all up
on the farmers premises, they occupy an
old obscure corner of the garden. close to
the fence, and completely bound out by
grass; the bushes do not thrive, and pro-
duce but small amount of inferior fruit.
But we think they do as well as can be
expected under the circumstances, and the
farmer should not complain. Our advice
is, give the the bushes better treatment
Set them in a position that the ground
can be worked with hoe, and manured;
keep the earth around the roots well
drenched with soapsuds, and you will
have a good quantity of choice fruit,
which is luxury, used as fruit, OF
sauce, or pies, and for making jelly OF
domestic wine, has no equal.
Year: 1860

Coon NAME.-Always be more solicit
GUS to preserve your innocence than con-
cerned to prove it. 1t will never do to
seek good name as primary Object
Like trying to be graceful, the effort to be
popular will make you contemptible.--
Take care of your spirit and conduct.
and your reputation will take care of
itself. The utmost that you are called
to do, as the guardian of yoar reputation
is to remove injurious aSpersions. Let
not your good be evil spoken of, and fol-
low the highest examples in mild and
explicit standardization. No reputation
can be permanent which does not spring
from principle; and he who would main
tain good character. should be mainly
solicitous to maintain conscience void
of offence towards God and towards man.
Year: 1860

LlNcoLN's STRONG PoNTs.-It appears
from various documents which have come
to light since the nomination of Mr.. Lin
coin for the Presidency, that the follow
ing are the strong points


l, That he is a selfmade man.


2. That he was first rate wood chop
per.


3. That be was for time engaged in
a still house in the manufacture of whisky.


4. That he could beat any Of the boys
at wrestling, running foot race, pitching
quoits, or tossing copper.


5. That he could ruin mere liquor than
all the other boys of the town together.


G. That he presided over a fist fight or
a horse race in a style which excited uni
versal admiration and praise.