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Year: 1859

There is a very good story in the papers ot
the day of joke ~ which was played by the
Rev. DR.. Caldwell, formerly President Of the
University of North Carolina


The doctor was a small man. and lean. but as
hard and angular as the most irregular of pine
knots. He looked as if he might be tough
but he did not seem strong. Nevertheless, he
was, among the knowing ones, reputed to be
agile as cat; !" and in addition, was by nc
means deficient in knowledge of the noble
art of selfdefcnse p" besides he was as cool as
a cucumber.


Well, in the freshman class of a certain year
was burly mountaineer Of eighteen or nine
teen. This genius conceived great contempt
for the doctors physical dimensions, and his
soul was Mortified that one so deficient in mus
Gle should be so potential in his rule.


Poor Jones-that's what We'll call him
had no idea of moral force. At any rate, he
was not inclined to knock under and be con
troled despotically by man that he Imagined
he could tie and whip. He at length deter
mined to give the gentleman genteel thrash,
ing some night in the college campus, pretend
ing to mistake him for some fellow student





Jones met the doctor crossing the campus
Walking up to him abruptly, Hello, Smith
You rascal Is that you?" And with that
he struck the doctor blow on the side of the
face that had nearly felled him.


The doctor said nothing but squared him
self, and at it they went. Jones's youth, weight
and muscle made him an "ugly customer
bat after round or two the doctors science
began to tell, and in short time he was
a straddle on his chest, with one hand on his
throat and the other dealing vigorous cuffs OF
the side Of his head
" All stop! beg your pardon, doctor !
| Doctor CALDWELL mistake! For heavens
sake, doctor" groaned Jones' who thought hc
was about to be eaten up " really thought I
was Smith 4"


The doc,or replied with word and blow
alternately, {" 1t makes no difference for al
present purposes considcr me Smith ~


And it is said that the doctor gave Jone
such pounding then and there, as probabl,
prevented his ever making another mistake a
to personal identity, at least on the college cam
pus.
Year: 1859




Tho majority of the people in the Northern
States of the Confadcracy are of the Republi-
can party. The preponderancy extends through
all classes of people. Men Of business, work
ing men, scholars. professional men, of all these
the majority are Republicans. Without deny
ing equal honesty and good faith to the men
of all parties, it will be admitted that the Re
pubicans are not behind their fellow-citizens
generally, in intelligence, probity ard patriot
ism that they have adopted the principles
which, in their deligerate Judgment, are best
calculated to advance the public welfare. and
that they mean to support those principles in a
manner that is consistent with the duties and
obligations of good citizens. Whatever rabid
politicians may say, we think no candid man
will deny this.


Well, we are told, by newspapers published
on our own soil, that the Republicans have in
stigated and perpetrated the recent atroeious
folly and wickcdness at Harpers Ferry; we
are told that it is for such violence as this that
the Republican party has been organized and
that it is carried on with a view to Just such
results we are told in effect, and by Northern
papers, that a majority of the Northern people
are incendiaries and murderers that you and L,
we who write these words and you who read
them, that the men who fill our pulpits, the
men in all the Northern States who have been
chosen to fill the most responsible Offices, and
who have received the highest marks of the
public confidence and favor, are band of as
sassins; that the object of all these is to ravage
the Southern portion of the confederacy with
fire and sword. Could there be a more afro
eious calumny than this Could there be a
stronger evidence of the shameful extent to
which partizan malevolence can bear men
against their neighqors and fellow citizens, and
of the INSCRIPTIONS manner in which every
| thing is perverted to the uses Of party!
Year: 1859

Here is fact worth knowing, if true, W.
s. Morgan, of Warren comfy, Indiana. writes
that seed from the butt end Of an ear Of corn
will ripen its product all at the same time, aud
some three weeks earlier than seed rom tho
little end of the same ear. He recommends
farmers always to break their seed corn ears in
two in the middle, and use the butt eads only
for seed
Year: 1859

The NEW SrArE.-The subject of form
Lake Superior has not been given up, and
resolutions are pending in the Legislature
of Wisconsin giving the consent of the Leg
islature to the proposed organization. The
State is to be formed of the upper peninsula
of Michigan and that portion of the State
of Wisconsin which lies above the 45th de-
gree of latitude, or from the mouth of the
Menomenee River in Green Bay. westward.
in nearly direct line. to the st. Croix
branch of the Mississippi river. thence up
that branch, on the present boundary, to
Lake Superior.
Year: 1859

The Constitutional Convention Act pass
ed by the legislature meets with approba-
tion everywhere. OF course it was expect.
ed that the movement would meet with some
opposition, but as yet We have seen none
from any quarter. 1t was supposed that
the Herald Of Freedom would oppose it.
but that paper of late date endorses it thus


The Constitutional Convention Act. which
We published last week, is fair and impair
tial in every part. and is just such law as
the people wanted. II gives ample time to
the framing of Constitution. and it viii
meet with universal appreciation.


We confidently expect to see even larg-
er majority of votes rolled up ''for Con-
stitution" On the fourth Monday of this
month than was cast against the English
swindle on the second of August last.
Year: 1859

EDrroR News: We offer hear fears ex-
pressed that the sudden and unrestrainable
uprising Of the streams IN this portion OF
Kansss-the iaconsenience of which has
been so severely felt of ,late-will ever
operate detrinentally upon the business
and general prosperity of the country;
while, in my opinion, the fears thus ex-
dressed are without foundstion. either theo-
retically or practically. and that they should
continue for all time, or even for very ex-
tended period, We cannot by any means be
made to believe. --s
Let us for moment look at the causes
which produce these freshets or inundations.
A large portion of this Territory, and the
West generally. is composed of prairie, not
so level as to prevent timely drainage, as
without which the soil would be useless for
agricultural purposes; and l would here
give it as my opinion that the force and du-
ration of these inundaIions is determined by
the manner in which this drainage IS per-
formed While the raw. hard prairie soil IS
made to receive the rains from heaven, and
by this consequent toughness OF the sod
water cannot easily penetrate or become
absorbed, the present state of things will
naturally exist but when. by cultivation,
the toughness of our prairie soil is trans
formed into mellowy substance. SO as to
absorb the watery element, check viii
then be given to drainage of the soil sufi-
cient to prevent these violent and forcible
oyerfoWs.


To prove this theory correct, it is only
necessary to point to the changes that have,


within few years, been produced in older
and more cultivated portions of the West.
once listened to conversation between
two steamboat captains on the Illinois river.
who gave the reason above cited as explain
atory of the change observable in the navi-
gable condition of that stream; and the
opinion was expressed that after the lapse of
few more years there would only be water
sufficient for boats during certain seasons of
the year. Similar observations have been
made with the Ohio and other western
streams.
Year: 1859

We are sorry to learn from TIE CzeaveIand
Herald that Judge McLean's health is evil
IDENTIFY again giving way. On his return to
the Capital he was for few days enabled to
vigorously prosecute his duties, but by last
accounts he was not able to attend the sitting
of the Supreme Court, and it was said he
would soon return to Cincinnati The Her
aid adds that Washington gossip has select
ed Judge BARLEY as the successor of Mr.


Mclean.
Year: 1859

Mr.. L. D. Bailey has some new advertise
ments in another column. He is prompt
and capable business man, and a good law
yer. But Mr.. B. is too well known in this
community to need any recommendation
from US. His Office has been removed to
the room under Masonic Hall, where per-
sons will find him at all times ready and
willing to transact anything in his line of
business.
Year: 1859

for the public veal, regardless of private
ends.


There is no position within the reach Of
an American citizen, that it is not proper
for. that citizen to strive TO attain. While
all are willing to concede to Gen. Lane
the right to secure any position within the
scope of his ambition, it becomes no less
their duty to expose whatever there may
be in his character, or ability, liable to
bring disgrace upon that people who de-
sign comforting honors upon him.


Lanes address, although bearing evil
dent marks of his dictation, gives equal
evidence of the thinning of another
Heretofore he has only condescended to
use his devotees in the draughting of ad-
dresses in reply to Senators, Presidents
and Territorial Governors. That hereaf-
ter he may not be compelled to employ
his friends in the defence of so GRIM
son crime, is the prayer of the friends ol
Justice.
Year: 1859

@The Kansas City Metropolitan was
stricken from our exchange list because Of
its false statements in regard to the Her.
aid of Freedon,-statements which the
editor should, and probably did know
were false. We are glad to see the Osa-
watomie HeraI's correction in regard to
us. We have always been told that its
editor was gentleman, and it would have
been very unpleasant to have seen any
evidence to the contrary.
Year: 1859

@ Nowi is the time to subscribe fol
the Herald Of Freedom. The list is run
ming right up, and we would like to have
everybody commence nOw, so as to get the
iRlole of the JAY-HAwKER.
Year: 1859

That thrift may follow fawning.


Was it not an intimation in so many
words, that the editor was in market, and
could be bought up cheap? We have
marked that puff for future Reference
Bought up by the administration" let
that be written in blazing capitals in the
doorway of him who first gives proof that
he has sold out.
Year: 1859

1t is a we'll known principle of legal
evidence, that when it is established that
a conspiracy, or combination of individ-
uals for any unlawful purpose exists,
proof against one of the parties, or con-
fessions on the part of any of them, is evil
dence against the whole. Each is deem
ed to assent to, or command, what is done
by any other in furtherance of the COM
mon object. Every act and declaration
Of an accomplice in relation to the original
concerted plan, is the act and declaration
of them all, and is original evidence
against each Of them.


1t is but the work of a moment to con-
meet the persons whose names are given
above in common enterprise, and that to
prOlong our Kansas trOubles to the latest
possible period. True, Lane and Redpath
fell out, still it was not because they did
not agree in "the great crusade for free
dOm," as they called it, but, as Redpath
claimed, because he could not enter, heart
Year: 1859

Our present worthy member of Congress,
says the Dubuque Express and Herald we'll known
to be one of the plalnest aud most homespun
dressed members of our Northern State, and al
though not celebrated for his extraordinary
personal beauty, yet celebrated for his sterling
and enterprising spirit, aud by his mild man
ners, exertiug an electric influence over the
male and female seX-latey determined to
take trip to Iowa City, on public business.
AS he never dresses up. even when in ladies'
company, neither does he dress up when he goes
abroad but if people DON'T end him out, he
makes no endeavors to find them out and in
the language of Banks, one of his great polit-
cal "gods," he "lets 'em slide" But to the
story. When he got to Davenport he was rec-
ognized by one of the main officers, who at
once said to the Board "He is member of
Congress from the Northern District, and as a
good stroke of policy, we should give him
free pass.p 1t was no sooner said than DONE
As he was about starting, pass for tho year
was rendered him. He returned his thanks,
and the usual exchange of courtesies took place.
After speeding along a while, and while enjoy
ing a good comfortable chew of tobacco, the
conductor came to him with the usual cry of
Ticket. sir ~ Our honorable member fun
bled in his pockets. and finally produced the
pass The conductor glanced at it, then took
loHg scrutihlzing glance at the owner, and





to say that you are member of Congress- do
you" Completely taken back by this excla-
nation. our worthy member said in haste,
"Well, how much is it, anyhow ~ and pulled
out his pocket-book. The conductor told him,
and the necessary pewter was handed over,
and he said, 'Well. now have great notion
to put you off the cars, anyhow. Do you think
that any decent looking man would take you
for member of Congress?n The Congress
man sat dumbfounded, and did not recover his
thoughts till he met another Honorable, when
he asked him, ''What have done to Cook, at
Davenport, to play such trick on me as to
give me ticket through, and not make me
known to conduotorsY l always dress the
same way, and if was to get new suit, my
wife would not know me and | would rather
she would know me, than a confounded one.
horse railroad, whose conductors Judge men by
their dress more than by their real merits. y
Doubtless when he comes back they will know
him. He is live man aud no dead head, and
we have many more such left up this way, who
can pay their way.
Year: 1859

The active determination Of Postmas-
ter General IIoLT to elevate the standard
of political morality in his Department,
by rigid investigation of alleged abuses
and removing or reporting for removal Of
those officers who are found guilty OF
mal-administration, is appluded by the
whole democratic press of the country,
and the more candid of the opposition
press is constrained to give praise where
it is so Justly due. As an example of
this praise, we take paragraph from
the Philadelphia NORTH american:


at certainly does not become those
who have heretofore complained of the
wastefulness in this Department to sneer
or carp at efforts which are intended to
introduce a necessary and wholesome re-
trenchment. On the contrary, such
praiseworthy endeavors should be gener-
ously seconded, not only from sense of
justice, but as a means of ellecting in
portant results, at which the upright
men of all parties aim. What encourage
ment has public officer to address his
abilities and apply laborious investigation
to SO large and ramified subject as the
errors or abuses whice have insidiously
crept into the postal service, unless sus-
tanned by the community for whose bcne-
fit they are mainly directed? F? The princi-
pies announced in Mr.. Holt's letter to
the President, in Mr.. Westcott's case,
are such as must attract the respect of
the country, and help to restore to the
Department the confidence which has
been heretofore sacrificed by its conver-
sion into mere machine for promoting
political objects or personal ambition
The whole country is interested in an up
right and efficient administration of the
Post-ollicc, and nothing but .bigoted
partisanship would consent to withhold
a full and becoming admission of such
services, no matter by whom rendered"


Mr.. HoLT need not fear that he will
not be sustained by the country in the
work in which he is engaged. Let an
administration exercise all the care it
may, and some bad men will creep into
office. 1t is eminently to the credit Of
the administration that it is prompt to
correct any error it has fallen into in this
respect. The American people will soon
know how to rightly estimate the persis-
tent efforts which the more reckless and
unscrupulous of the opposition press has
made to create distrust of the perfect in
tcgrity of Mr.. BUcnANAN's administra-
tion.--Free Press.
Year: 1859

ut tins season many persons contem-
plate travelling; to do SO with the large
amount of comfort and advantage, physi-
CAL social and mental, the following sug-
gestions are made:


Take one-fourth more money than
your actual estimated expenses.


Have good supply of small change,
and have no bill or piece higher than 10
dollars, that you may not take counter
felt change.


SO arrange as to have but single ar
ticle of luggage to look after.


Dress substantially; better be too hot
for two or three hours at noon than 70
be two cool for the remainder Of the
twenty-four.


Arrange, under all circumstances, to
be at the place of starting fifteen or
twenty minutes before the time, thus allow
ing for unavoidable or unanticipated
detention on the way.


Do not commence days travel before
breakfast, even if that has to be eaten by
daylight. Dinner or supper, or both, can
be more hcalthfully dispensed with than
good warm breakfast.


Put your purse and watch in your vest
pocket, and all under your pillow, and you
will not be likely to leave either.


The most, if not secure fastening of
yor,y cllamher door is common bolt on
- East Saginaw. -
Year: 1859

EH "A Boston paper states that Of
nine hundred and fifty-thrce clergymen
attending the late ANNIVERSARIES in that
city, but seventy-threc wore the profess.
ional badge, the white cravat. The
growth of hair ON the faces of many OF
divincs was another sign that they arc
willing to stand as men among men, and
to find their appropriate distinctions in
something of more consequence than pc
culiarities Of costume,
Year: 1859

A correspondent writes 10 the Scientific
American .>-.


In late number of your paper you state,
in answer to some correspondent, that you
have no confidence in the report that "when
man is lost he will travel in circle" In
this you are certainly mistaken; it is fact
we'll known to all frontiersmen, that, when
persons are bewildered, they frequently trav-
ell in perfect circle, sometimes keeping the
same track until they make dozen equal
rounds; at other times making the circle
larger or smaller each time. 1t is not by
any means always the case, when a person
is lost !; but it is so frequent that it is within
the experience of every one who has been
much in the woods. In calm and cloudy
weather, and in country of much same.
ness of appearance. the best woodsmen get
so bewildered as to "take the circles" Per.
sons not accustomed to the woods will some.
times do so when the sun is shining and
steady breeze blowing. On the levelo
gulf prairies of this country, on calm, fogE
gy morning, no man can travel without q
road. 1t is an incident of every day occur.
renee in the spring and fall seasons, that
men are thus becalmed on abe prairies as ei-
iectually as are ships at sea; nor will COM
pass mend the matter, for it cannot be car
ried steadily enough to keep it's meridian,
and the course it points cannot be kept for
fifty yards; if man. attempts it, he will
make circle and come back to the place he
started from. The circle will be large or
small generally. in proportion to the density
Of the fog-sometimes only hundred yards
in diameter; at other times mile, but sci.
dom more. The circles thus made are per-


feet. This kind of wandering seems to arise


from an attempt to go straight course when
there is nothing to guide the senses, or when
the usual guides Of sun, wind, or the gene.
raj contour of the country are disregarded.
1t rarely befals children, who do not at
tempt to 60 on a course, but only run from
one visible point to another equally percep-
tible,
Year: 1859

There is picture in the following, that
eager pursuers after wealth or high position,
may ponder over with benefit - '


We often see an old, weather-beaten man.
who never had any success in his life, who
always knew more, and accomplished less
than his associates, who took the quartz and
the enterprise, while they took the gold; yet,
in old age, he is the happier man-all his life
long he was the happier man. He has a
sun Of hope, and they of despite and greed;
aud amidst all his misfOrtunes, and these
mysterious providences, he had that within
which rose up and carried his head above all
troubles, and bore him up like the old ark
upon the deluge.
Year: 1859

There is nothing more beautiful in
the young man than simplicity Of char
acter. IL is honest, frank and attrac-
tive. How different is afFeetationl The
simple-minded are always natural
They arc at the same time original
The affected are never natural And as
for originality, if they ever had il, they
have crushed il out, and buried it from
sight utterly, BE yourself then, young
friend To attempt to be anybody else
is worse than folly. II is an impossi-
bility to attain IL. II is contemplate to
tryl But suppose you could succeed in
initiating the greatest man that ever
| figured in history, would that make you
any the greater2 BY no means, YOU
would always suffer in comparison with
the initiated one, and be thought Of
only as the shadow Of a substance--thc
echo Of a real sound-the counterfeit
of pure coinI DR.. johnson aptly com.
pared the heartless imitator--for such
! is he who affects the character Of anoth.
er-to the Empress Of Russia, when
she did the freakish thing Of erecting
a palace of ice. Tt was splendid and
conspicuous while it lasted. But the
sun soon melted it, and caused its at.
fractions to dissolve into common wa.
ter, while the humblest cottage stood
firm and unmarried Let the fabric Of
your character, though ever so humble


be at least real Avoid affecting The
character of another, however great


Be what God intended you to be--your
seE and not somebody else. Shun af
| fscfqtiOnl
Year: 1859

The following rules Of etiquette are
laid down by Southern journal:


1st Before you bow to lady in the
street permit her to decide whether you
may do so or not by at least look Of
recognition.


I'd. When your companions bow to a
LADY, you should do the same When
a gentleman bows to q lady in your
company, always bow to him in re-
turn.


In giving them publicity, the Albany
Atlas and Argus makes the following
timely and truthful comments:


Nothing is so lily understood in
America as those conventional laws of
society so well understood and practiced
in Europe. Ladies complain that gen.
tlemen pass them in the street unno-
ticed, when, in fact, the fault arises from
their own breach Of polteness. 1t is
their duty to do the amiable first, for ii
is a privilege which ladies enjoy of
choosing their own associates or ac-
quaintances, No gentleman likes to
risk the "cut' in the street by a LADY
through a premature salutation. Toe
many ladies, it would seem, don't know
their trade of politencss Meeting Ia.
dies in the street whom one has casually
met in company, they seldom bow un.
less he bows first, and whenever a gen.
tleman departs from the rule Of good
breeding, except occasionally, by the
way Of experiment, his acquaintance
do not multiply, but he stands probably
charged with rudenoss A lady mus
be civil to gentleman in whose com.
pany she may casually be placed, but q
gentleman is not upon this to presume
upon an acquaintanceship the frst time
he afterwards meets her in the street
IF it be her viii, she gives some token
Of recognition, when the gentleman
may otherwise he must pass on
and consider himself stranger. Nc
lady need hesitate to bow to a gentle
man, for he will promptly and politely
answer, even if he has forgotten his fail
saluter; no one but a brute can do 9th.
erwise; should he pass on rudely, his
character is declared and there is q
cheap riddance. PoIiteness or gooC
breeding is like laW-''tho reason Of
things"
Year: 1859

BAD LUCK.-Bad luck is simply a
man with his hands in his breeches'
pockets and a pipe in his mouth, look.
ing on to see how it would come out.


Coon Luck Is a man of pluck to
meet his difficulties, his sleeves rolled
up, working to make it como out right.
TEX.