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Year: 1859

NOISE IN THE Sick RooM.-It is extraorIina-


ry how many persons, unused to the sick roorn,


mistake certain noises for quiet. When such


people have to walk across the room, they do
SO with a balancing sort of movement that


makes every plank creak uneasiy. Their very
dress rattles in way that would make the


fortune Of rattle snake. If anything has to
be said, it is spoken in loud whiung whisper,
that conceals the words but makes the most
irritating Of noises. Now the silence of a sick
room must moi be labored, it must be natural.
Shoes that DO not creak must be worn, and in
walking, the ioot must be put down carefully,
of course, but with firm step, that comes
gently, yet steadily, on the floor. This will not
make the creakIng sound caused by the toe
pointed, gingerly mode of movement so much
adopted by those whose experience ofsick rooms
is small. The dress must be made of som e
noiseless material, wool or cotton silk must be
avoided, for it squeaks with every movement. In
speaking, the pitch OF the voice must be slightly
raised, and the words, instead Of being hissed,
as in whispering, should be clipped short, and
cut distinctly. By tbs means the person
spoken 10 all hear what is said, while the
least possible sound accompanies the word
BarWeiP3 Care of the Sick
Year: 1859




The following we copy from the
Mississippian. 1t foreshadows fully
and plainly the programme Of the
Southern democracy in 1860. and
from that fact possesses much impor-
tance and Significance:


VIII the National Democracy.
when they assemble in Convention at
Charleston. meet the Territorial ques-
tion fairly and squarely. and plant
themselves boldly upon the Cincin-
natl platform. with the Dred Scott
Interpretation that it is the duty OF
Congress to afford adequate protection
to slave as well as other property in
the Territories; or will they disappoint
the reasonable expectations Of the un-
faltering Southern democracy. and
speak in Delphic phrases or with
forked tongue?


If the majority shirk the issue and
shrink from the manly performance
Of duty. then farewell TO the integrity
of the National Democratic orgsnizs-
ton If they refuse to indorse the
decision of the Supreme Court Of the
United States. an impartial tribunal.
uninhuenced by sectional and partisan
prejudice. and looking only to HE
true Interpretation ofthe Constitution,
then they will have forfeited all claim
to a continuation of the confidence OF
the minority. The decision thus rem
dered will afford platform upon
which all can stand who are willing
to preserve the Constitution, with all
its sacred guarantees. and to mete ont
to every State its just rights in the
confederacy. The repudiation of that
arbitration will evince such depar-
ture from the true faith, and such a
repugnance to the proper discharge of
indispensable obligations. as will force
the southern democracy to dissolve a
connection which they could no longer
sustain without compromising their
own honor and sacrificing the rights
of their own section.


The delegates from the Southern
States will go to Charleston with the
Drel Scott decision in their hand, and
ask its Endorsement. Will the North
ern democracy refuse to comply with
a requirement so Just and reasonable?
Upon their answer depends the united
action of the party in the approaching
Presidential election.
Year: 1859

Did You ever know man to be
particularly hard on one vice without
having a pet vice Of his own?


Did you ever know a tobacco-chew
ing christian to feel any compunc-
tion for desecrating the house OF God
with the vile juice of the weed?


Did you ever know man to grow
in grace by feeding on slander?


Did you ever know topper that
wasn't once a moderate drinker?


Did you ever know a grumbler to
possess energy enough to correct or
amend whatever he grumbled ats


Did YOU ever know any body to
get rich by spending fifty dollars a
year for "toddy?"


DID you ever know man to cheat
the printer without coming TO bad
end?
Year: 1859

FoREIHoUGHT-There never was a
wiser maxim than that of Franklin:
Nothing is cheap that you do not
want" yet how perfectly insane many
persons are on the subject OF buying
things cheap.-"Do tell me why you
have bought that cast of door plate?"
asked husband OF one OF these bar
gamers, Dear me-" replied the wife.
you know it is always my plan to
lay mp things against time of need.
Who knows but you may die. and /
may marry man with the same
name that is on the door plate?"
Year: 1859

Transit from Winter 10 Summer.


A person cannot take ride over the
beautiful prairies of Thurston county with
ont being impressed with the consciousness
that, Notwithstanding "winter has fingered
in the lap Of spring." yet the green carpet
over which he treads assures him that veg
citation has been going on, and nature is
busy in putting forth abundant pasturage,
and shooting up the cereals and other pro-
ducts Of the husbandmam. The impover-
ished cattle and other stock of last winter
are filling up-recovering from their pros
tration, and are being made glad; the
spirits of the farmer are becoming more
bouyant, and at length the genial sun,
FSmiling through showers of rain and oeca,
sional sleet, gives promise of penetrating
the gloom of the past months, and driving
the storm cloud to bis native home.


Although we have had, strictly speak
ing. no spring at all this season, as com
pared to former years, yet the rapid
growth of vegetation, under such adverse
circumstances, is certainly strong urgu-
ment in favor of our climate, in connection
with the earth's productions.


This season reminds us of what we have
read of still more northern latitudes.-
We are that told that in the Arctic regi.
oGs, the winter terminates gradually sud-
denly, mild and warm weather supervenes,
and vegetation is then as rapidly devcl-
oped as in a hot-house. Such has been in
part our experience this season, although
up to this, the 10th day of May, winter
does not seem to have hidden us final
adieu.


The spring season throughout this terri
tory, and perhaps Oregon, this year, is
nearly or quite three weeks behind the
usual time, and it will take a long series
of warm days, intermixed with due pro-
portion of genial showers to bring up ar
rearages. Shonld the ripening of grain,
&c, be delayed as the warm weather has
been, the rains Of autumn will be apt to
do incOlcuIable damage.


When the sowing of grain and other
like spring work had usually been finished,
it was, this season, hardly begun. 1t is
now too late for the getting in of cereals,
but such crops of vegetables as grow rap
idly under the influence of warm suns
should not be neglected. but put into the
bosom of the earth in great abundance,
even at the risk of failure in their matu-
rity. Everything that can be raised will
be wanted and will command high and
sfBmunerativc price. Food for man and
provender for animals will doubtless be in
great demand next fall and winter and be
the harvests as abundant as they may,
prices will continue at high grade, and
farmers should therefore "plant, SOW and
NOV" all the ground they possibly can
Should the wheat harvest be deficient, as
there is reason to fear it will be, let amends
be made by the farmer, by drawing Iiber-
ally upon the vegetable world, and no suf-
tering or scarcity need be apprelfrnded.
II is true We have had a few days of very
pleasant, and many of fine growing wealth
er; yet zone swallow does not make u
summer" and the season may yet be yet
cold ard backward.
Year: 1859




3, The Lafayette Daily Courier of the s4th
relates the following: -lr....--s. --..--.-s


Night before last deaf and dumb man
named Lane met with a thrilling adventure,
and narrowly escaped the loss of his life.
on the New Albany and Salem road, a short
distance ahove Linden. He was walking
on the track as the passenger train came
along. and the engineer observing that he
paid no heed to the warning whistle of the
locomotive, shut down the breaks, bat end.
ing it would be impossible tooCheck the
speed of the train before striking him, ran
forward, and bracing himself upon a cow
catcher, reached out his strong arm just in
time to save him. The imminent danger
of the brave engineer was greatly augment
ed ky the fact that the deaf and dumb man
had an ak upon his shoulder. from which
he might have received serious injury.
Lane was not little astonished at the un-
ceremonious manner in which he had been
picked up, and without comprehending his
narrow escapes struggled in the arms Of
his deliverer, to the great danger of both.
The train, however, soon came to halt,
and the poor fellow, By signs and gestures.
more eloquent than words, testified his
gratitude for the deliyerance. He was the
same man who was knocked into ditch By
a passing train last summer, at, or very
near the same spot where his brother, also
deaf and dumb, was run over and horribly
mangled the year before
Year: 1859

1t is evident that the Anti Lecompton De-
mocracy of this State have been steadily
gaining ground since the commencement of
the present campaign. The candidates
brought out by them for the various State
offices, are oil acknowledged to be men well
fitted, both morally and mentally, for the
positions to which they were nominated
The Anti Lecompton Convention met with
the determination to select good ticket, and
they did. Judge Currey, our candidate for
Governor besides being man of acknowl-
edged intellect, and an able jurist, is man of
uninpeachable character. From the people
of the State wherever he has has been, he
has won golden opinions"


On the other hand, the Lecompton State
Convention placed at the head of its ticket
the name of man whose moral character
has been impeached before the great bar of
the State. That name rests like dead weight
upon the ticket. The Lecomptonites made a
great mistake in nominating Milton S. La
tnam for Governor. They should have been
more careful. They should have ascertained
whether or not, their candidate for Governor
was vulnerable.


1t cannot be disputed that the LecomptOn-
ties have lost much through Mr. Latham's
nomination. The report of his arraignment
before the people, has gone to every part OF
the State. His accusers have spoken, and he
has replied in his own defense. The defense
and the accusations and the evidence will
alike be weighed, and the people will judge
rs to their respective merits. The fact is
that Latham has lost in popularity vastly
since the opening of the campaign. The
chief ground, we believe, upon which Mr..
Buchanan's supporters in this State base their
hopes of success is In the result of the last
Gubernatorial election. They appear to for.
get that since that time, the Administration
to which they are welded has lost its prest.
age. Since that time, it has lost the conf
denee of the people, to an extent never be
fore witnessed in any other Administration.
1t is emphatically shutting and a quibbling
Administration, the like of which was never
seen before Are we to be told that the
strange freaks of the Administration, dishon.
orable to itself and to us people, will have
no influence whatever in this or any other
State? Let not the Lecomptonites console
themselves with that idea. Though this
State has been ridden by Lecomptonites. with
Gwin at their head, the opposition to the
miss-rule of James Buchanan, as evidenced
in many Of the Atlantic States, gives us good
ground to hope that the opposition here will
not be frutless.
Year: 1859

IRoNMoNeER, THE REPTILE CHARMER Our
antipathy to snakes was considerably lessen
ed upon seeing this man perform with them.
He holds forth in small tent adjoining the
one in which the elephants are on exhibition
where he has in addition to his collection
of venomous serpents, quantity of mon
keys, an ichneumon, an ant eater ferret and
q venerable raccoon. Ironmonger offers to
take rattlesnakes tarantulas, centpedes OF
any kind of poisonous reptiles that may be
brought him, and render them perfectly do
cile at sight.
Year: 1859

WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF LOUIS NAPOLEON p
This question was asked some time ago and
is asked now. 1t was asked ht the time that
he commenced the great work of strengthen
ing the fortress of Cherbourg. At that time,
some said he was making ready for war
with England, and that he intended to pass
over Dover and take John Bull by the horns.
Some diplomatists may then have dreamed
Of his war with Austria, but nobody else did
Since the conclusion of that war, the question
is, what next2 Louis Napoleon is a great
ruler. He is the wire worker in the politics
of Europe, 1t is said that he brought Eng
land into the fight against Russia, and made
use of Russia to keep England in check while
he humbled the power of Austria. Is he now
looking forward to war with England
Some affect to believe that he is. In this
connection we quote the following from the
Cincinnati Gazette:


That there is next in order a terrible retri
button menaced against the ancient enemy of
France, there can scarcely be n doubt. To
march from Lombardy to London is included
among the dreams of Napoleon the Third ;
and, in the words of recent French journal
ist, 'the end will be contested with all the
pride and patriotism. and with all the ambi-
tion to decide the destiny of Europe in new
fields of blood, Of which the present French
Empire is capable"
Year: 1859

STRIKING ON THE LuDIoRoUs.-The latest
crinoline invention is called the non expanso-
expansive last-for ever-le or-out-six-foot
in diameter never bend or break-and sit down
as you please. without injuring-a-spring hoop
skirt Ladies who have worn them state
positively that they are perfect darlings.
Year: 1859

AT the battle of Magenta an ensign of the
Austro-Italian regiment of Sigismund at
tempted to desert to the enemy, with the
flag of the regiment; but the commander of
one of the battaions galloped after him, cut
him down, and returned in triumph with the
precious bit of silk.
Year: 1859

SPIRrTLEss.-The Union learns from gen.
tleman who was present at the late Lecomp-
ton meeting held at Angels Camp. that the
whole affair was a slim and spiritless one.
The speakers found it an up hill business, and
were unable to arouse spark of enthusiasm
or elicit any applause The people are sick
of Lecomptonism, and disgusted with its ad-
V0cataa
Year: 1859

The ELEPHANTS The learned elephants,
in connection with the circus, drew q large
audience last night The performances of
these animals are truly astonishing. They
perform again this afternoon for the accom-
modation of families and children, and at
night will make their last appearance here.
Every one should see them.
Year: 1859

A correspondent of the London News says,
that fresh Piedmontese troops are going to
Romagna to maintain order and take from
the Pope all hope of recovering it by the
help of his Swiss Guards.
Year: 1859

The French Minister of Public Instruction
has ordered all the official bulletins from the
army to be read aloud to the classes at the
College, and then posted up in the play
grounds and refectories
Year: 1859

A GRIZZLY BEAR. weighing from six to eight
hundred pounds, was lately caught in a trap
in the Northern part of San Mateo county. by
Messrs Wall and Roberts His bearship had
been killing stock in that vicinity.
Year: 1859

HORACE GREELEY, in his Pacific Railroad
speech at San Francisco made use of the fol-
lowing language:


Iron resolution and determination alone
will build it. Let your voices be heard
everywhere, until it shall be a fixed fact
Take hold of it as an enterprise worthy of
the great nation to which you belong. My
voice shall ever be heard in its advocacy. |
hope in ten years time to come to Califo MIA
in ten days over the Pacific Railroad"
Year: 1859

was summoned to the hospital to attend ;
wretch just brought thither. So, to The
hospital l went, although after all, l waI
unable to be of any use to the poor fellow
who was dying when l arrived" !"


"What was the matter?' inquired Mrs
I lWoodham. - ....f
! "Why, it was bad case Of delirium
tremens but | think that long exposure
to this bitter weather was the more i'm.
mediate cause, acting unpon an undermined
constitution. TWAS one of the saddest exam
| Piles of intemperance ever saw--the unfor.
tunate man raved wildly and unconnected-
ly, yet in language which led me to sus-
pect him to have been ordinarily far above
the common class of drunkards. But he
was delirious up to the very moment of
death. He must have been splendid
looking young fellow once, for l never
saw finer head or nobler features, even,
though intemperance had left its stamp
everywhere"


could you not ascertain who he was p


awe found his name on a few memoir
anda on his person, after death-what was
it, now Strange that should forget
lOE IcmcuUtT bUO bliuC U6iHS
sed with the idea that it was rather an un-
usual and romantic name. o! have it,
now. 1t was nghan--St. James Efing-
ham, -.r


A sudden pang shot through Lilly's
heart as her husband spoke the words !;
but it was no sorrowing affection for the
dead man--merely tribute Of memory
to the beautiful being of other days, to
her had been long corpse in the burial
vaults of the past. And she drew nearer
to her husbands manly form, silent
Thanksgiving went up from the depths of
her soul, that she had been blessed with
his deep love and tenderness that life in
stead of being irrevocably linked to the
stormy existence and dark fate Of him
who had that night passed into eternity.


"My darling wife" said Woodham, 81
have made you sad with this professional


"No,7 she said, tenderly, laying her
check against his shoulder, II was only
thanking heaven that our lives have been
S bright while so many around are
wretched." ..........


Meanwhile the wintry blast walled sadly
and wildly around the lonely room where
lay the ice cold corpse of St James Eff
ingham another victim of the monster
lntcmperance,
Year: 1859

themselves TO the shoulders of somebody
else; but, however this may be, it is the
duty of those whose accounts arc overdue
to exert themselves to discharge their obi
cations, TO farmers is to try TO get out Of
dobt and keep their names names rs far as
possible off the store books, if they wo'd
be independent and happy. We are firm
ly of the opinion that consumers should
never 90 in debt; certainly thcv should
not buy on credit anything they can do
without. Credit bcgets extravaganza, and
extravaganza is responsible for much Of the
distress that prevails ia the world.
Year: 1859




ODD FELLOWS HALL.-Miss Emma Heywood's
farewell concert was not very largely attended, but
was very delightful affair. Miss Haywood sang with
all that remarkable and almost unrivaled sweetness
and art tor which she is famous and her auditory
perfectly enthusiastic, becoming selfish in their ad
miraton and by persistent encoring forcing her te
do more work than was in the bargain. AS we said
before, we now repeat that we do not know more
pleasing ballad singer than this lady, and we cannot
conceive that she can be surpassed, with her power
fal and purely melodious voice and her exquisite
artistic skill.


TIE VARIETEs.-" Second Love" and "Forty
Wnks " were repeated to a slender house.


THE AMrHITnEATREs-Tha surprising boy, Louis
Aldrich played Shyioch again. He is a tragedy pro
dizzy, and no mistake and his destiny which we hope
he will not contrve to disappoint points him lofty
place in his profession His capital of talent and
knowledge is almost sufcientto start him in business
as an independent star now, but he had better stay
where he is for a long while yet.
Year: 1859

Though barren in the production of corn, wine and
Oil aud milk and Eoney, the land of Palestine is in
modern times scarcely less productive than when the


spies OF Israel went forth from the camp of the taber
nace to spy out the tness of that promised Canaan
Its hills OF rock and its deserts of sand are being
tlnually worked over by book makers and newspaper
correspondents and the nexhaustible resources are
never suffered to be moment idle but are ever con.
trbutng to the stock of narrative literature as done
up IN all manner of shapes by the scribbng pilgrims
The tied has been well worked that our special
correspondent in Palestine" " must be person very
handy with bis wits and pen to attract attention or
even to be so bearable that our readers will not
give his lubricaons wide berth as the Pharisees
did him who fell among thieves" going by on the
other sde And by the way, it is the so very usual
fate of our correspondents to fall among thieves
in the now Unhoy Land, that the tourist who es.
capes such experience is considered to be wronped
IN suffering such deprivation of lively incident and
to have had rather slow and uninterestng time OF
it, to say nothing of his not having pretext for
abusing the American eagle for not extending its
wings for his sheltering, if the bird of liberty had
not enough urgent business to attend to at home.
without looking after the safety and comfort of stray
proteges who may wilfally go vagabondizing in re.
mote and dangerous climes, knowing when thew
started that they did so at their own risk.


The latest OF the corresponding ramblers who is
hoeing over the worn out plains of Palestine is Col,
Brooks, senior editor of the New York Express and.
as he Wlelds the pen of the letter.wr;ter with the
happy facility that he does that of the editor he is
successful IN gathering rather an agreeable crop of
gossip, remnscence and incident from the oft-reaped


field OF research to be transferred to the columns of
his paper per next steamer" These letters ore
really readable, astonishing it may seem, for there
are few writers who could be more than unbearably
prosy in serving up rehash of Palestine which has
been cooked over SO many hundred times that he
is artist of the first water who can do it into new
dish with any novelty of flavor We watch the
cookery of COL Brooks with no little interest.
Year: 1859

II man fail to the amount of million it is all
rght--he is a Rentleman hut let him fail TO the
amount OF bis board bill Oh then he is scoundrel!
lite an epitome Of society, like an Inverted coae-
the wrong end uppermost.
Year: 1859

IF a man were to see quarter OF an
inch. Of worm put in his cup Of coffee, ne
could not drink il, because be knows that
the whole cup would be impregnated. Il
a very small amount of some ylrulent
poison be introduced into glass Of water,
the drinking of it might not produce IN
slant death, but that would DOT prove that
it was not hurtful, only that there was not
enough of it to cause a destructive result
Immediately.


We sicken at the thought Of taking the
Year: 1859

The reason why a sailor is called d tar
is because he is constantly pitched about
by the ocean


If young lady is not able to sport a
riding habit, she should ADOPT walking
habit.


A lady was dreadfuliy afronted the
other day because a gentleman accosted
her as an Old friend.


A celebrated cock who died recently
has had his epitaph written BY some
cockneys "Peace TO his hashes"