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Year: 1860

SOUTHERN TRADE-A letter from New
York says; From the best information re-
eeived from the South, the feeling against
Northern wholesale merchants only exists in
Richmond and a few other cities whose
merchants are taking this opportunity to at
tempt to build up an extensive trade in their
own cities. Those interested, in this way
manage to keep up feeling in the interior
towns by threatening to expose those who
buy Of Northern merchants
Year: 1860

E6~ Vanderbilt has agreed to carry the mails
to the 4th of March next for the postage, the
President agreeing to recommend in his ANIMAL
message such additional compensation as may
be reasonable. The old ocean pirate was brought
to terms by the determination of the Government
to send the mails by the revenue cutters Har-
riet Lane" aud others
Year: 1860

ASswER-Can Il man be Democrat and vet
prefer the election of Black Republican to tha,
of Democrat under any circumstances Can
true Democrat prefer the election of Lincoln
TO that Of either Douglas or Breckenridge 2
Year: 1860

AMUsING.-lt amuses US very much to hear
certain seceders talk about standing up for
Southern rights Southern rights We can
not but remember, when we hear them talk,
that there were men in the National Convention
who owned hundred slaves, and who declared
that they saw nothing in the proceedings to JUS
tify them in boiling and that Stephen A. Doug
las himself owns plantation in Mississippi
upon which he works nearly hundred
slaves. The idea that he, and the delegates to
whom allude, have the rights of the South
less at heart than seceders who never had a
dollars interest in the peculiar institution, y
and, perhaps, never even saw a slave State, is
peculiarly and reireshingy amusing.
Year: 1860




This question is now being discussed, and,
until the day of election, will be more generally
discussed than any other. The San Jose Tribune.
heretofore intensely Administration and Anti
Douglas, says:


We are bound in truth, however to saw.
that as well as we can judge. from the imper-
iect information before us, Mr.. Douglas appears
to be the regular nominee of the Democratic
party.


The Grass Valley National which, for twenty
months had the name of Dickinson at its mast
head, and. like the Tribune, was intensely anti
Douglas, says that, in obedience to its pledge
to abide the action OF the National Conrention.
it must support Douglas and Johnson, and that
the great majority of the Democracy of Nevada.
VIII DO The same, "on the ground that he is
the nominee Of the Democracy, and is now the
only man who can save the country from the
fatal consequences which would follow victor
Of the Republican party


The San Francisco Monitor is particularly
clear and explicit upon the question. We there
fore quote copiously therefrom;


tits quite evident that the object of the ceses-
sionsts was to defeat, at all or any cost, the
nomination of Dougfas and to this end
they were prepared to peril, not alone the har-
mony, but the existence of the Democratic party.
The result is, that we find los seceders pre-
senting the names of Breckenridge and Lane to
the people, while the legitimate convention, in
which liz votes remained after the seceders had
all Withdrawn, unanimously put forward Doug
las for the Presidency and johnson as Vice
The only body authorized TO present candidates
to the people, in the name of the Democratic
party, is the regular convention. To this body
each and every delegate was elected by his con-
s,ituents; his delegated power was to be used
in that convention, and there alone and outside
OF it he had no function whatever to exercise on
behalf of his constituents. In short, each del
egate was sent to the Democratic Convention
for the purpose of discussing the merits of the
various candidates before them, and voting
thereon, but certainly not for the purpose of
segregating from the only body in which they
were authorized to act, and outside of it, pursu-
sng factious course calculated to demoraize
the Democracy Of the country, and to give the
Republicans the sole chance they have OF success
in the Presidential contest which is furnished
ty the insane and factious divisions in the Dem
ocratic Convention. Under these circumstances
the country has to review the action of their
delegates, and to endeavor to cure the evils
which a factonal spirit and selfish policy has
introduced. The nomination of Mr.. Douglas is
the only one that eau he recognized as legti-
mately made, and 70 which the allegiance of the
party throughout the Union is due. 1t has en-
snated, in spite of the secession, from over two
thirds of the original numbers of the Conven-
tion, and this fact alone should concentrate the
people upon the nominee of the Democratic par
ty, chosen in the regular course of proceedings
by the only convention recognizable by thu
public judgment.
Year: 1860




THEATRIcALs IN THE FAR VEST
Western tbsatricals are Of rather an
unique character. We clip from an
Iowa paper the following notice OF the
opening Of the Red Bara


"The first night Of the dancing
goat, t,who goes through the intricacles
of the cotillion like fellow-crltter.
The performance Of the goat will be
followed by an exhibition of the math-
ematical attainments of the dog Billy,
a qualruped that reckops up figures
like piece of chalk, and works prob
lens in algebra with one leg tied be-
hind him. Admission = one shilling
No corn taken at the door. T. s.
The free list entirely suspended, ex-
cept the press and ministers oil the
gospel"
Year: 1860

The New York Tribune gives the
following versified description OF a
New York Justice:


The Judge was a very clever man,
and jovial Judge vas be;


The Judge was good at game oil
ball, and just as good at spree;


The Judge was fond OF WHISKY
and every kind Of sport


The Judge was al fmt at every
thing but attending to bis Cour''


The Judge was remarkable mai
in his own peculiar way;
The Judge ne'er forgot 10 neg
lect bis Court, and never iorgo' ni'
pay.
Year: 1860

Grand total, ll39
We of course have no confidence
whatever in the accuracy of this ia
BILE; but We will not attempt to dis
guise the fact that the ladies too Of
ten neglect to acknowledge the little
courtesies Of this kind, which are
frequently extended to them not a
little to the inconvenience of those
by whom it is done. A smile of
gratitude from the lip and eye Of wo-
man is intrinsically Of less value than
a fifty-dOllar bill, but it will buy a
great deal more when true gentle
man stands at the other end OF the
bargain.
Year: 1860

Tho free admissions Of all Nations as well as the
verdict Of the leading Hospitals Of the Old as well
the New World, stamp this powerful remedial Agent
as the greatest healing preparation made known
to suffering Its rENEIRAIivE QUALITIES are
ore than hARvnIors. through the external orifces
of the skin, invisible to tlH naked eve It reaches
the seat OF the external disease and in all external
affections it, aniiinlammaiory and healing virtues
surpass anything else on record, and is Natures
great ally.
Year: 1860

Every form and feature Of these prevalent and
stubborn disorders is eradicatcd locally and entirely
BY the OF this emolient warm lamentations
should precede its application Its healing qualities
will be found to be thorough and invsriable


Both the Ointment and Pills should be
Year: 1860

The 1ucan temperature Of tue winter thus far
is ten degrees hclow that Of last winter. The
monthly mean Of the barometer for the last
three months has exceeded the annual mean by
sixrtuniirei.lls Of IN inch.
Year: 1860

"Sir, please, don't you want cabin
boy?'


L do want cabin boy, my lad; but
what's that to you? A little chap like
you amt fit for the BERTH


"Oh, sir, I'm real strong. can do a
great deal of work, if amt so very DID,"


"But what are you here for? You
don't look like city boy. Run away
from home, hey?" .. '.


"Oh, no, indeed, sir; my father died
and my mother is very poor, and L want
to do something to help her. She let
me Gomez


"Well, sonny, where are your letters Of
recommendation Can't take boy with
out those" I.


Here was damper. Willie had new
er thought of it being necessary to have
letters from his minister, or his teacher,
or from some other person, to prove to
strangers that he was an honest boy
Now, what should he do? He stood in a
deep thought, the captain meanwhile
curiously watching the workings of his
expressive face.


At length he put his hand into his bos-
ON, and drew out his little Bible, and
without one word put it into the captain s
hand The captain opened to the title
page and read:


"Willie Graham. presented as a re-
ward for regular and punctual attendance
at Sabbath School, and for his blameles'
conduct there and elsewhere. From his
Sunday School Teacher. ...


Capt. M'Leod was not pious man,
but he could not consider the case before
him with heart unmoved. The little
fatherless child, standing humbly before
him referring him to the testimony of hi
Sunday School teacher, as it was given il
his little Bible, touched tender spot il
the breast of the noble seaman, and clap
ping Willie heartily on the shoulder, h
said: "You are the boy for me; and
you are as good lad as think you are
your pockets shall not be empty wher
you go back to your mother.
Year: 1860

ABOUT BEDBUes. to an ar
ticle in the last number of Harper's Mag
azine bedbugs are an American invention,
and have been exported from this coun-
try to all parts of Europe, excepting Ire
land, where bedbug is never to be found.
TIE insect made its appearance in Eng
land as early as 1903, when two noble
men were punctured' by them and the
physicians called in great haste. The
bedbug is a parasite of the bat family, and
is SO tenacious Of life that no degree Of
cold or heat can affect it. Freeze one un-
til you break it in two; thaw the pieces
and they will revive. Freeze the eggs
until congealed in ice; let them thaw and
they will hatch again as usual. Boil both
insect and egg and they will revive as
soon as COOL If they can get nothing to
eat they will live and propagate on what
nourishment they may derive from the at
M osphere. .....s.
Year: 1860

its sure to fail. This agency
in the hands Of any body else would have
been lucky thing; but when / take hold
Of it, it is good for nothing"


Then you think 1t was bad because
you took hold oiit?"


Certainly do; it is all luck"


II don't think So"


"How does it happen that you are
on salary of fifteen hundred year,
while am a beggar? You were on
less salary when we were married."


1T is true, l was"


"It's all luck tell you. You have
had good luck, and have no luck at all.
Everything you touch turns into money"


~ don't understand it So" said Jacob
Greene.


swell, it is so whether you understand
it so or not; l should like to know how
else you can account for the difference in
our situations? You own your house,
and have money out at interest besides;
while | haven't red cent" r


"There is no luck about it."


"What do you mean by that?"


"Instead of sticking to your business
as have done; you have been changing
from one thing to another"


"That was better to myself"


"That was the intention, but very few
of your friends thought as you did. In
this last speculation of yours. Pendant,
you have left good situation to engage
in a business that any reasonable mar
might have known would not pay hi,
salt"


"Then you mean 70 tell me that / had
no Judgment


II don't know what you have got, you
certainly did not exercise any in this last
transaction. Not sensible man in the
community believed that new company
could do anything in Boston. 1t was a
want Of Judgment on your part rather
than want of luck"


"Then you think there is no such thing
as luck"


Il don't say SO; I think chance throws
some opportunities in ones way, but b,
far the larger portion Of all that is called
good luck, is simply attention to business
good Judgment and perseverance,


81 think l have attended to my busi
ness"


81 know you have, Peter, and it is
great pity you should now be ten year
behind your proper situation. You hav
changed your business SO many times tha
you lost your luck
"Do you think so?"


excuse me for talking so plainly"


at is Just what he needs said Mary
E who had been an interested listener t
this conversation. "No sooner does Pc
ter get we'll settled in situation than b
wants to leave it,"
"Musn't do so, Peter, you must site
to your business, and not be deceived b
foolish offers; they are deceitful. Cor
stantly changing has been the fountai
head OF your ill-luck But perhaps yo
are lucky in one thing, for Simpson dis
charged the man he engaged in your plac
and the situation is still untitled
II shall count myself lucky if regal
} the place"


Peter was lucky in spite of his com
plant, for he succeeded in getting hi
, former situation with the resolve ths
nothing short of the offer of large salar
should tempt him to change his position


He stuck to his text in this particula
and year after year, Simpson advance
his salary, and finally gave him an inter
est in his business. He was completed
satisfied that his good luck depended NJ
1 on his constancy, for he is now success
full man.
Year: 1860

" Here is 40 extract from queer article 10
the Journal Of this morning:


The compliment paid DR.. Brodbeck is dis.
tasteful TO our neighbor, The fact that he is q
German is another cause Of unehsiness.


This is exceedingly queer, coming from one
who was "blOOdy Know Nothing" in 1854
and who demanded the slaughter Of thinner,
candidate before the Con mention fer Auditor,
because he was born in Germany We say il ia
queer; it is especially SO when it is known by
every one who knows aHy thing, that in this
matter Of denunciAtiOn Of the foreign born we
opposed the Journal, and was denounced by
that sheet for our advocacy Of the legal and
social rights Of adopted citizens. We have not
changed since. Nor has our crustAceous nsigh>
Dor really changed; he has only put on a nig>
ger jacket for the present; for purposes best
known TO those who compel him to do so OF
slough out.
Year: 1860

D The editor of the Salt Lake City Valley
Tan having commented with Just severity on
the Presidents attempt in his message to concil.
late the Mormon interest by passing over in
silence their characterization end crimes, has
been waited upon by the diguitariss of the
church. and informed thAth he had better remove
from the vicinity. as they would no longer be
responsible for his safety.
Year: 1860

A RARE OHASoE.-The attention of the reads
er is directed to the advertisement Of splen>
did dwelling house for sale at auction. The


pay ments are easy and the property is very de
sirable
Year: 1860

R8rAn effort is being made, with some
prospect of success, to have Fair at Zanes>
villo for eastern Ohio, as n rival of tho
State Fair ut Dayton.-[A Monroe County
Democrat


We have not the least objection. If the
people of Eastern Ohio are uneasy, aud uD-
willing that the people of that chilly re.
gion" should see the garden spot of Ohio,
for fear they will thereafter be dissatisfied
with their present place of sojourn, they had
better get up the rival fair. Yes, make it a
RIVAL fair, by all means. The name sounds
well, and that'll be about all there will be
of II
Year: 1860

We find an interesting letter in the


N. Y. Tribune, respecting the climate,


soil, and productions of Minnesota, from


the pen of Judge Meeker, formerly a


resident of this place. Our distant rea-


ders may rely upon the statements made


in this letter, as being strictly true
What he says Of our climate, we copy
to day. 1t is true, every word of it =


The climate of Minnesota is already
Iproverbially good, nor can any thing be
said upon this head not already known
to an intelligent public Its complete
exemption from all those diseases and
maIadies and local to most new
countries and so justly a terror to
all new comers, is conceded by all who
have tested it by actual residence


There Is hardly town, or city, or
Inelghborhood in the State, that is not
able to bear testimony to more than one
complete restoration from chronic dis
ease Of the lungs or some of the varied
types of consumption assumed by that
most subtle of all the agents Of the fell
destroyer. Perhaps no locality on our
continent has less of fever and ngue.
Indeed, if there be any cases of this kind
their origin is readily traced to some
other States or Territories, and but
short residence is necessary to eradicate
it entirely. Hundreds and hundreds of
families are annually driven from other
Sfnfo ta fol-
dence in Minnesota, to escape this Of
fensive and troublesome foe to the en-
igrant and his family. This is not only
true ofone, but of erery portion of the
State and what is very remarkable, it
is just as healthy around the lake shores
and along the valleys of our water cour-
ses, as upon the prairies and table lands
Of the interior.


Speaking of the Red River Valley,
he says


In the North West of the State, heads
the great valley or basin of the Red
River Of the North This is almost
distinct region of country, and has many
peculIarlties in soil and population.
ne valley proper, Is ABOUT thirty miles
in width. being timbered and praire and
of the very richets soil, composed Of al
deep black loan, resting upon clayey
This Is a vast Iuxnriant
grass region-the ancient paradise of
the buffalo herds-from which they
have just been driven by the vanguard
and outspot of our progressive popula-
ton. This great valley is admirably
adapted to the cultivation of hemp,
barley, maizes wheat, oats and Pota-
toes.
Year: 1860

To the exclusion Of other matter in
tended for this weeks paper, we publish
on this page, report Of the interesting
proceedings Of the Festival held at
Little Falls on the 22d February. The
occasion was evidently very pleasant
one, and we wish we could have been
there. Such gatherings are desirable,
and should be more frequent among US
than they are.
Year: 1860

~ There is good opening here for
a new store. Will our friend Knowlton
avail himself of it. by bringing up "A
good assortment Of fresh goods, and
filling our new store room in the j" New
Era" building-sell cheap-sell for cash
and thus do remunerative business ?
Year: 1860

Some enterprising citizens are build
ing Paper Mill at St. Antheny, where
our craft, on or about the first of June,
will be able to buy all the printing paper
they want, without the bother of having
to buy at second, third or fourth hands.
Year: 1860

For PIKE's PEAK.-A party of six
teen young men of this city are now fit
ting out for Pixies Peak. They intend
to start next week, with their own
teams. They take their provisions
along with them and expect to reach the
gold region in about As days.--St. Paul
Paper.
Year: 1860

The Wide Awake Battalion will meet at
Headquarters on Water street, at half past
six o'clock, with their uniforms and lamps.
All who cannot march will please send their
uniforms down for the use of others. They
proceed by short line of march to Mozart
Hall, whore short speeches will be made and
songs sung. At nine o'clock precisely the
procession of Wide Awakes and citizens will
form and march through the city. =
A full attendance is expected. Let all be
on hand for this grand iollifcation.
Year: 1860

NB- 1t is important to know where to
secure the most desirable dry goods suitable
for the season, and at the same time get the
full value or worth Of our money. Call at
HUGHRs's on the corner of Main and Second
and you will find that every article he
keeps hesells at the lowestcash price. He
has large stock of Fall and Winter goods.
His stock of shoes is always of the best
quality.
Year: 1860

81 We expected fall returns from war


county before this time, but have been
ppointed- We suppose the heavy, back,
locratic townships are not done voting


We shall certainly get the full vote
Year: 1860

DEATH OF A DWARF FROM THE RUDE SPORT
OF BoYs.-Paul B. Drake, forty inches high,
who had been connected with several timer
ant shows, met with an untimely death in
Columbus, in this State, the other day. A
number of boys got him into grog shop
and sat him upon the counter to make fun
for them. Shortly afterward he fell over
backward on his head, and died of his in
iuries ... F.. .-'
Year: 1860

A DUEL Prevented BY SISTER OF ONE OF
THE PRIXoIPALs.-A late New Orleans paper
says


This morning two young gentlemen, who
got into u slight dispute on the election
Question yesterday, made arrangements for
hostile meeting this morning, and were on
their way to the Metairie Ridge, when a
widowed sister of one, hearing of the mat
ter, got carriage and drove to the premedi-
tated scene Of conflict, and quickly sue
eeeded in making an amicable adjustment.
Year: 1860

REPUBL1C OF THE PACIWC-Veneraiing that
school of American politics of which HcnrvClay
and Daniel Webster were the ilustrouS expo


nents, we so much reverence the Uaion OF tn"
Republic as to think it next to criminal to admit
the possible contingency OF its dissolution True
1t is the history of all nations proves that some
time or other we must all reach our eliminating
point Of power and usefulness, and like all who
have preceded us, decline and decay. We are
sangAinc enough to hope that the day OF our ruin


is afar off. Hence, when We see ii preached that
in the event of dissolution Of the Union, Cali
fornia and Oregon would make very nice Re
public of themselves, we naturally suspect a


lurking wish on the part of those who make this
prudent suggestion. for dissolution as well as a
too feeble faith in the Union. "Snilicicnt for
the day is the evil thereof" IF it must be that
folly shall soon triumph over wisdom in This Re
pnbic and that the South shall separate from
the North, when the ''eyil day comcth," aud not
till then, we shall have our say about - Re
public on the Pacific. - sun 1Adrals independent
Year: 1860

SAD CALAMTY,-We are panied to learn that
Judge wilkins, of Santa Rosa, met with dis
tressing accident few days since, and from the
effects of which he will probably never recover.
near the fire, he thrust his feet into the burning
Goals, and before his situation was discovered,
they were so badly burned that it is now sup
posed he will be cripple for lifc.-Petaluma
Journal.


We know Judge Wilkins well, and sincerely
deplore his misfortune. 1t will be remembered
he was one of the most brilliant and able mem
bers of the last Legislature. Demon Of alcohol !
thy tempting cup has murdered more fine intel
lects and lost more genius TO the world than all
the other passion furies combined.
Year: 1860

ANOTHER 8" MnL"-A brutal display of muscle
took place recently in England, between Pad
dock. an old bruiser, and once champion of the
English ring, and a young man named Hurst,
who was much superior to his competitor in
every point, and in six rounds Paddock was
completely used up, having been severely pun
isbcd each round, while his opponent escaped
with only single blow. The fight was gotten
up to raise the fallen fortunes of the ring" but
fhe act Of beating an old man half to death for
such purpose, is species of sport which Ameri-
cans fail to appreciate
Year: 1860

EVERYBODY SHOULD DO IT." Do what ~ ask
halfadozen at once. Why, send the JOURNAL to
father, mother, or whoever may be interested
in you in the old home. Some persons have
notion that the beginning of tie year is the best
time to commence such subscription, aud we hope
all will remember that there will be only two
more issues Of the JOURNAL previous to the in
coming of the new year. Eastern people, espe-
cially those who have relatives aud friends here,
feel an interest in what is taking place. The
receipt Of your county paper is an evidence Of
continued health and prosperity to the folks at
home. In matters OF niormation relating to
the State, generally, the prompt newspaper is far
ahead of the ordinary letter and is a saving of
time and money. We should like to see our At
lantic list doubled, and when it is considered that
fair equivalent for the five dollars paid, is fur
nished anxious ones far away, it is wonder that
more do not invest in that manner.