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Year: 1860

About three or four years ago, moro or
less, 1 was practicing law in Illinois, on
pretty large circuit. l was called oil one
day in my Office by very pretty woman
who, without tears, told me her husband
had been arrested fsr horse stealing, She
wished to retain me on the defence |
asked her why She did not 60 to Judge b.,
an ex-senator of the United States, whose
Office was in the town. told her that |
was young man at the bar, etc. She
mournfully said that he had asked re-
tanning fee beyond her means; besides,
he did not want to touch the case, for her
husband was suspected Of belonging to an
extensive band Of horse thieves and coun'
tarieiters, whose head quarters We're on
Monroe's prairie.


1 asked her to tell me the whole truth Of
the matter, and if it was true that her
husband did belong to such band.


"Ah, sir" said she, "a better man at
heart than my George never lived, but he
liked cards and drink, and I am afraid
they made him do what he never would
have done if he had not drank. fear il
can be proved that he had the horse; he
didn't steal it, another stole it and passet
it to him"


1 didn't like the case. l knew tha

there was great dislike to the gang loca
ted where she named, and feared to risl
the case before jury. She seemed to OBJ
serve my intention to refuse the case, enc
burst into tears.


I never could see a woman weep withou
feeling like weak fool myself. If i
hadn't been eyes frightened by pearl.
tears blast the poet that made them com
into fashion by praisins 'em' y Id neye
have been caught in the lasso of matri
mony. Ny would-bo client was pretty
The handkerchief that hid her streaming
eyes didn't hide her ripe lips; and he
snowy bosom rose and fell like a white gu
in a gale of wind at sea. took the cas-
and she gave me the particulars.


The gang, of which he was not mem
Der, had persuaded him to take the hors'
lie knew that the horse was stolen, anc
like fool, acknowledged it when he wa
arrested. Worse sill, be had trimme
the horses tail and name to alter its al
pearanco, and the opposition could prove i


The trial came on. l worked hard
get jury of ignorant men, who had moi
heart than brain-who, if they could NJ
fathom the depths of argument or folio
the labyrinthine mazes of law, could fe
for young fellow in a bad fix, a weepin
pretty wife, nearly heart-broked and qui
distracted. knowing the use of effect,
told her to dress in deep mourning, al
bring her little cherub of boy, only thr'
years old, into court, and sit as near h
husband as the officers would let her.
tried that game once in murder case, al
a weeping wife and sister made n ju
render verdict against law, evidence al
the judges charge, and saved fellow tn
ought to have been hung as high as Ii
man.


The prosecution opened very bitterl
and inveighed against thieves and counte
feiters, who had made the land terror
strangers and travellers, and who had ro
bed every farmer in the region OF his fine
Year: 1860

SOME men use words as rifmen do bullets.
They say little. The few words used go
right to the mark, They lctyou talk, and
guide with their eye and face, on and on,
till what you say can be answered in a
word or two, and then they lance out a
sentence, pierce the matter to the puck,
and are done. You never know where
you stand with them. Your conversation
falls into their mind, as rivers fall into
deep chasms, and are lost from slightly it:
depth and darkness. They will sometime;
surprise you with few words, that g
right to the mark like a gnnshot, and ther
they are silent again, as if they were reload
ing.
Year: 1860

A YOUNG lad recently ran away from
home and went to tavern, where he was
found by friend, with a cigar in his
mouth. "Why did you leave home ~
asked his friend. ooh, confound it,
said he, "father and mother were SO saucy
l couldn't stand it any longer, and ! quit
em'
Year: 1860

TIE Doc OF The LIGHT HoUsE,-Th he
keeper of Egg Rock lighthouse, in Mass
achusctts Bay, lives upon a barren rock,
but supports his family handsomely and
leads jolly sort of his chief assistant, a
remarkably intelligent dog:


Gone of the most valuable and esteemed
of Mr.. Taylor's family Of pets is his dog,
the guardian of his establishment and the
protector of his children. This dog Ia very
fond of the water, and enjoys himself great
ly in swimming off among the breakers
when the sea is rough. In the winter sea,
son, as the swampscott fishermen come in
from their trips, they will often lash two
or three good sized Goldfish to stick oi
wood, and throw them over for the benefit
of Mr.. Taylor. The dog, who is always
on the lookout, will notice the proceeding
and forthwith swim to and bring in the
prize, though the weather be ever so cold,
and the fish often mile from the rock
In thick or foggy weather, he will station
himself upon the seaward side of the rock
and upon the slightest sound of an ap'
proaching vessel, which he can distinguish
at a great distance, he will set up an in
cessant barking, which has often proved a
warning when light could not be seen.-
Mr.. Taylor thinks the dog quite as usefu
as the light, and we do not see how he
could well get along without him."
Year: 1860

PRErARATIoN on grand scale are
Icing made by the committee for celebrating
the anniversary Of our National Independence.
We think we shall be able to eclipse any city
in the Hawkeye State in this respect
Year: 1860

VIZ WERE shown the other day . large goose
berry that was four inches in circumference.
and WAS not ripe. Had it kept on We don't
know how large it would have grown.-M-
line I,,dependent.
Year: 1860

TIE scarcity Of local matter this morn
ing is attr butahle to . want Of energy, on the
part of the editor. to manufacture items. and
also to scarcity of timber from which to pre-
pare genuine article. The papers Of this city
have for q long time been giving more local
reading matter every day than any other daily
papers in the State give in q whole week.
Year: 1860

TOHS LUCK, IS Union street, has now the best as
J sOrtmsnt in Nashville of everything in the above
line which will be sOld wholesale and retail, as low
a good article can be bought anywhere Tie Torches
are something and the best thing introduced
for political PROFESSIONS. augl4-u
Year: 1860

&AUSE OF 4R11 oASA4%s


We still believe in The existence Of con-
scrvatiyc Onion sentiment even among the
people Of the Cotton States. Thus far We
have heard from that section only the raw
in:s Of disuuionists-.of men who have ei-
zhcr openly or secretly, for years past fa-
vorcd disunion and the building up Of a
Southern Confelcracy. This class have
seized upon the electiun Of q Republican
President as i pretext for carrying out
what they had long since set their hearts
upon. VIC have no doubt but that thcy
desired the election Of M1.. Lincoln, md
that they broke up the Charleston Conyen-
ton and divided the Democratic party for
tue sole purpose Of increasing the certainty
Of tha. result From the accounts which
reach us, it would seem that the whole Of
the people arc infected with the same in
sane des:rc-that there Is not vestigc
Of loyalty or conservatism left in the Cot
ton States, and that perfect unity Of pur-
pose and harmony Of action inspire tie
masses in the pursuit Of n traitorous object.
But i: is to be borne in mind that these ac-
counts are brought us By the newspaper
organs Of the disunionists, and by the dis
patches Of the Associated Press, prepared
either by disunitmist in person, OF under
the influence Of the reign Of terror which
prevails in the principal cities and towns
Of tho Cotton States, Our belief is thai
this terrorism has thus far prevented
the concentration and organization ol
the conservative element which un-
doultedly has IN existence in those
States. The fact that the disunionists arc
in such hot haste to carry out their purposes,
furnishes IN additional warrant for this he
lief Evidently they are impressed with
the idea that time and dcliberation would
prove fatal to their projects, and hence
their anxiety to prccipitate the fatal step.
If the leaders in the movement had no fear
Of a rcaclion-of the development and or
ganization Of conservative sentiment OF
sufficient power to ooverwhalm every traitor
to the Constitution and the Union, more
coolness and dclibcr:1tion would mark their
movements. But, however prccipltate
may be their action, we still believe
their purposes will be thwarted-
The solid men Of the South al
already begin to feel the effects Of the
financial pressure which has resulted from
the movement It will grow more md
more stringent every day. Reflection will
be provoked, ,cvcn on thepart Of many who
are now how]ing for disunion. The reac-
ton is bound 10 come. Il may not have
time to he full and complete, but quite
enough 20, VIC imagine, to bring back even
South Carolina to loyalty.
Year: 1860

slavery or not. Aud yet it has been stated
over and over again that ia accepting the
nomination under that platform, indorsed tao
doctrine of squatter Sovereignty. l suppose
you have all heard this repeated thousand
times.
Year: 1860

DEPRESSING THE RICH.-The Sacramento
Euening Post, in an excellent vein of serio-
comicality, complains of the great wrongs
committed againstth the rich men of California,
by the officers of justice arresting them for
every little murder they commit, and SUBJ
jecting them to the inconvenience and ex-
pense of going through the farce of a trial
The POstvery pertinently remarks, that the
cost of rich mans trial, though sure to
end in acquittal, is often twice as much as
would suffice to hang couple of poor dew
lis.


There is much sound sense, as we'll as
much conclusive logic, in the waggsh argu-
ments of the Post 1t is not an easy thing,
in this our California, to hang or even i'm
prison a rich criminal He can always Sc
cure the most acute, the most indefatigable,
and the most unscrupulous legal assistance;
and if, notwithstanding the obfuscations
thrown around the case by tire s'lamd sharks, y
the jury should find verdict of guilty, and
the court pronounce sentence, the opulent
rascal can still hopefully look for a reversal
by the Supreme Court, or, at the worst, for
an act of clemency from the Executive 1t
is not in the nature Of our Jurisprudence that
wealth should expiate its homicides in the
same cell, or on the same gailows, with vul-
gar and friendless poverty. Where, then, is
the use or the policy of arresting and in
f1icting the solemn mockery Of g trial upon
one of these moneyed felons, when our rea-
on and experience so conciusively satisfy US
that to punish him, otherwise than BY ma
king him disgorge his money into the pock-
cts of his lawyers, is something not to be
expected? 1t is said that, in England
though we scarcely know what to think of
1.-THE courts deal out equal and exact just
ice upon rich and poor, high and low, with
out fear, favor or affection. If this is really
so-thouga it appears incredible TO an in
habitant of the Pacific Coast-it only shows
that England is in an effete state of ciyiliza-
tion, and lacks our admiration and worship
of Mammon.
Year: 1860

From Fred Coz,ens author Of the spsrrows,s PsPer,"


greatly interested by this story OF the Mobile
heroine and that the story viii produce sym
pathetic preston the public mind There not word In


nor a phrase In t. that have meed and measured Over
so method of telling the story the story itself wins
commands controls the symPsthss of the reader This take
Il, il the highest test Of excellence"
Year: 1860

Several men were severely injured in the
bace ing mill. at Lewiston, by the breaking
Of chain IN the elevator. The men were
being lowered by the elevator at the mo.
mgut Of the accident.
Year: 1860

Thy star shall shine out when the proudest shall


fade


Unchlled by the rain. and unwaked by the wind.
The lily lies sleeping. through winters cold hour,
Till Springs light touch her letters unbind,
And daylight and liberty bless the young flower
Thus Erin, oh Erin, thy winter is past,
And the hope that lived through it shall blossom


at last.
Year: 1860

''Oh could we from Death but recover
Those hearts as they bounded before,
In the face Of high heav'n to fight over
That combat for freedom once more.
Could the chain for an instant be riven
Which Tyranny flung round us then,
No, tits not in man nor in Heaven
TO let Tyranny bind it again"
Year: 1860

We have read somewhere, that Language
was given to US that we might speak pleasant
things to each other )" but, alas how often it
is usel for other and haser purposes A kind
word, or even an affectionatc lock, is balm to
the wounded futtering heart, when it turns
toward you for consolation in the hour Of mis-
cry Were we to moderate our voice to a
slvery tone and thought only of the good we
see struggling up in those who surround us,
brothers and sisters in humanity, how much
like Paradise would this world become A
harsh. iliy7advised expression or adjuration has
crushed many an aspiring spirit-wounded to
the death many noble soul-and the utterers
have passed on their way, unconscious, per-
haps, or the evil they have done. Let US aim
then, at pleasant thonghts, and, above all,
pleasant speech for it is the langnage of the
angels, and has more virtue 10 it than wine of
Cypress, or balm of Gilead.
Year: 1860

I suppose there is modicum of romance in
most natures, and that if it gathers about any
event it is that of marriage. Most people
marry their ideals. There is more or less fic-
tion and fallacous glory resting upon the head
of every bride, which the inchoate husband
believes in. Most men and women manufac-
ture perfection in their mates by happy pro-
cess of their imaginations, and then marry
them. This, of course wears away. By the
time the husband has seen his wife eat heartily
of pork and beans, and with hair frizzled and
her old dress on. full of the enterprise of over
hauling things, he sees that she belongs to the
same race as himself. And she, when her
husband gets up cross in the morning, and un-
dertakes to shave himself with cold water and
dull razor, while his suspenders dangle at his
heels begins to see that man is very prosaic
animal In other words, there is such thing
and while the moon-shine lasts, the radiance OF
the seventh heaven can not compare with it
1t is very delicious little delirium-a febrile
mental disease, which, like measels, never re-
turns.


When the honeymoon passes away, setting
behind dull mountains, or dipping silently into
the stormy sea of life, the trying hour of mar
riage life has come. Between the parties there
are no more Illusions The feverish desire OF
possession has gone-vanished into gratifca-
tion-and all excitement has receded Then
begins or should begin, the business of adapta
ton. If they find that they do not love one
another as they thought they did, they should
double their assidous attentions to one another
| and be jealous of everything which tends in
the slightest degree to separate them. Life is
too precious to be thrown away in secret re
grets or open differences. And let me say tc
every one to whom the romance of life has fled
and who are discontented in the slightest de
| gree with their condition and relations, begir
this work of reconciliation before you are
day older.


Renew the attentions of earlier days. Draw
your hearts close together. Talk the thine
all over. Acknowledge your faults to one an
other, and determine that hencelorth you vii
be all in all to each other; and, my word fo
it, you shall find in your relation the sweetes
Joy earth has for you. There is no other wa,
for you to do. If you are happy at home yol
must be abroad !; the man or woman who ha
settled down upon the conviction that he O
she is attached for life to an uucongenial yoke
fellow, and that there is no way Of escape, ha
lost life ; there is no effort too costly to, max
which can restore to its setting upon the be
som the missing pearl amothy 11tconab.
Year: 1860

Look on the bright side. II is the right
side. The times may be hard but it viii make
them no easier by wearing a gloomy and sad
countenance. It is the sunshine and not the
cloud that makes the flower. There is always
that before or around US which should cheer
and fill the heart with warmth. The sky is
blue ten times where it is black once. You
have troubles, it may be. So have others
None are free from them. They give sinew
and tone to life-fortitude and courage TO man.
That would be dull sea. and the sailor would
never get skill, where there was nothing TO dis
turb the surface of the ocean. It is the duty
Of every one to extract all the happiness and
endowment he can without and within him. and
above all he should look on the bright side of
things What though things do look a little
dark? The lane will turn, and the night will
end in the broad day. In the long run the
great balance rights ITSELF What is i'll be-
comes well ; what is wrong, right Men are
not made to hand down either heads OF lips;
and those who do, only show that they are dc
parting from the path of true eommon-sense
and right. There is more virtue in one sun-
beam than whole hemisphere of cloud and
gloom. Therefore, we repeat, look at the
bright side of things. Cultivate what is warm
and genial-not the cold and repulsive, the
dark and morose. The Iron Duke was right.
Don't neglect your duty look to the bright
side; live down prejudice.
Year: 1860

Twenty clerks in a store. Twenty hands in
a printing Office. All want to get along in the
world, and all expect to do SO. One Of the
clerks viii rise to be partner and make for
tune. Que of the compositions will own a
newspaper and become an influential and pros
porous citizen. One of the apprentices will
come to be a master builder. One of the vii
layers wiu get handsome farm and live like u
patriarch But which is destined to be the
lucky individual? Lucky? There is no luck
about it. The thing is almost as certain as the
Rule of Three. The young fellow who will
distance his competitors is he who masters his
business, who preserves his integrity, who lives
cleanly and purely, who never gets in debt, who
gains friends by deserving them, and puts his
money in savings bank. There are some
ways to fortune that look shorter than this old
dusty highway. But the staunch men of the
community the men who achieve something
really worth having, good fortune, good name,
and a serene old age-all go this road.
Year: 1860

One of the most excellent qualities of mind
is integrity. Let US aim to cultivate this trait
of character, and we add too much to our
worth in whatever department of life a varied
scene we may chance to mingle. man can
not long prosper, Or what is of more impor-
tance secure the respect or love of his fellows
without integrity. 1t is the base of credit
the security to which the world will look in its
dealings with individuals, and open the account
accordingly. A thousand devices are needed
by the artful man to cloak his designs or hide
his failures, of which the honest upright man
knows nothing. 1t is on the principle that a
number of falsehOods are necessary to prop
single untruth, that it may not fall. The man
of integrity stands right up in the proud con-
sciollsness of h's own moral WORTH he needs
not the darts of malce-the breath of slander
cannot harm him, his word has the efficiency
of bond. An exchange says i'll regard TO
this subject:


"Reproaches have no power to affiict the
man of unbemished integrity or the abandon
ed proffligate. 1t is the middle compound
character which is alone miserable, often the
man who has hot irmness enough 10 avoid
dishonorable action, has feeling enough to be
ashamed off IT,"
Year: 1860

If happily we are born of a agood-nature if
liberal education has formed in us gener-
GUS temper and disposition, well regulated ap-
petites and worthy inclinations, It's well for us,


and SO indeed we esteem it. But who is there
endeavors to give these to himself, or to ad-
vance his portion of happiness in this kind p
Who thinks of improving, or so much of pre-
serving his share, in world where it must of
necessity run so great hazard, and where we
know an honest nature is so easily corrupted !?


All other things relating to us are preserved
with care, and have some act or economy be-
longing to them; this which is nearest related
to US, on which our happiness depends, is alone
committed to chance; and temper is the only
thing angoverned, while it governs all the rest.
Year: 1860

TuE EVILS OF RUM-A young man, only just out of his teens, was arrested at Newark New Jersey, recently, on a charge of drunk enncss, at the instance of his father, who used this as the last resource to reclaim him Scarcely year ago this young sot left home to commence his studies for the ministry. He is possessed of considerable natural ability and a tirst-rate education
Year: 1860

This town and vicinity was visited, last Monday, with more snow, which came down thick and heavy for half hour or more. The ground was so wet, however, that it did not remain visible but short time
Year: 1860

The company of miners which is being formed here, under the supervision of Mr. Anderson, will shortly be ready for work. We will give a somewhat lengthier account of lheir plans next week
Year: 1860

This subject, also, is one of great interest. Nothing enlists the philanthropist and patriot more than the cause of education. The time and labor of the educated citizen, is more val uable to himself and to his government, than the benighted tolls of one living in unculti- yated ignorance.

 On the rising generation, bred and educated at home, we must rely, in future, for the defense and maintainancc of Southern h. stitutions

 For the want of proper home schools, the youth of Arkansas are being educated abroad often so far North as to loosen the ties that bind them to the institutions of their native land

 Early education gives the impression to manhood and though Northern hostility, dis played by the Northern tutor to the Southern pupil will not eradicate hisattachment for the peculiar institutions of his fathers, yet that hostility is made more tolerable by positive contact and continued association.
Year: 1860

III A first conviction for murder I'm the second
degree took place In New York on Saturday In
the Court Of Oyer and Terminer This was the
case Of lager, charged with the murder of one
Pebler The sentence is imprisonment for life
The counsel for the prisoner desired the Judge 70
instruct the jury to make some allowance In the
prisoners favor on account of his being intoxi-
Gated when the Court remarked s'that the original
rule was that IL man choose to reduce himself to
the level Of wild beast by placing himself be.
yond the exercise Of the mind and feelings of a
reasonable being, the act being voluntarily, he
az though he retained his faculties clear and nm.
Impaired. That was by far the better rule Later
decisions, however, did undoubtedly give some
weight to the fact Of intoxication and eonseQ
would ever excuse an act plainly malici Gus, and
long an the stopped short of insanity
the person must be held RESPONSE blen
Year: 1860

On WKLLs.-The distant public has been sur
prised at the accounts of oil springs In western
Pennsylvania but they seem to be widely di ased
In the West. The following is from the Parkers-
burg (Va.) Gazette: "The Oil fever continues to
spread In the region Of country about twenty or
thirty miles east Of this place, In the vicinity Of
the Northwestern railroad. and Of the Staunton
and PaIkersburg turnpike. Indeed, we are not
surprised that such should be the case from the
abundance of those oil veins Preparations are


now being made to operate quite extensively an


old oil well on the Staunton turnpike, from which
tits believed an inexhaustible supply Of oil may
be obtained''
Year: 1860

EPFKcrs OF THE LATE FRosrs UPos TOBACCO.
From all accounts the effects Of the frosts Of the
latter part Of last week upon the tobacco crop
have been most disastrous, involving the Loss,
perhaps, Of about one eighth Of the crop In the
tobacco-growing region Of the southern portion
OF the State Some reference In made thereto in
our commercial columns this morning Louis
vile Journal. a. .- f-