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Year: 1860




If you wish your life to end well, spend
it well.


The easiest thing for negro to do.
Keep dark.


Be true to all we may be true to the bad
without being false to the good.


Many man is a perfect stranger to HIM
self, never having had even an introduction.


A woman may speak as many tongues
as she will, but don't let her do it with too
long one of her own.


Many writers profess to teach people
how to live Culprits en- the scahold
would like TO learn.


True goodness is in one respect like the
glow-worm it shines most when no eyes
but those of Heaven are upon it.


The woodman who spared that tree
has run short of wood, and is almost split
ting with vexation to know how green he
was.


Time is the cradle of thought Time
will wear out the clothing Of though. when
reason and common Sense come TO the
fashion.


Old gentleman (affsctionately. my son,
why do you chew that filthy tobacco
Precious youth. (stiffly. TO get the juice
out Of it old codger.


Snooks observed TO Jones that an officer
in the army had left his house without pay
ing rent. Oh exclaimed Jones, you
mean the lctt tenant


A Southern editor thinks that Mr. Lin
coin must be crazy Unqueslionably.
if the picture Of him 10 Harper is correct,
he is physically deronged.


The Philadelphia Gazette, speaking of
new prima donna, says: Her voice is as
soft as roll of velvet, aad as tender as
pair Of slop-shep pantaloons.'


The ST Paul Pioneer says Minnesota
has already had this year an emigration of
10000 actual settlers, ana farming inter-
ests were never more promising.


Profane swearing is now punished in
Pennsylvania by a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars or Imprisonment. not ex,
c"euin5 tuESc nOulhS, OF DOtn, AT the Cls-
cretion of the Court.


A Wisconsin boy has made clock, en-
tireiy of pine except the cogs which are
hickory. AMI the only tool he used was
jack-knife. Besides doing the ordinary
duties of a clock, i! denotes the day of the
week and month.


A Dutchman was relating his marvellous
escape from drowning. when thirteen Of
his companions were lost by upsetting Of
the beat. and he alone was saved. And
how did you escape their fate q inquiieG
one Of his hearers. Il did not 90 in te
bote.' was tie Dutchman's placid answer


A new invention for binding grain in
the sheaf has been made, and is in use in
the western part Of the State. The Roch-
ester Union says of it: 1t is readily at
tached to reaping machines, and By il one
man can easily bind the grain into sheaves
as fast rs the reaper cuts, and all before /;
falls to the ground. The labor of four or
five men can be saved by one of these I'M
plemenis. and the work can be better done
than by hand
Year: 1860

The Republican party, which has now
become formidable monster, gloated with
success in some of the Northern States,
threatens the very existence of our coun-
try, gnaws at its vitals, and unless a check
be put upon it. must inevitably cause its
destruction. Made up of the hacks of ex'
tinct political parties; disappointed aspir-
ants for office; demagogues of every hue;
reckless adventurers who have nothing to
loose, and imagine they have everything
to gain by radical changes; it presents the
its numerical force, but also in its constit-
uent elements. This party is necessarily
sectional. Its object is to array the citizens
of one portion of the country against those
of the other. Fraud and violence they
have used already to effect this end--they
are using them still Their iucendiary
speeches and books. firing the minds ot
ignorant men with ssut;r, instinct caused
them to imbrue their hands in innocent
blood, and when expatiating their crimes
in felon's doom, impiously taught them
to regard theirs a condition Of martyrdom,
and sacriligiously canonized those whose
guilty souls had been hurried murder
stained into the presence Of their Maker
Their emissaries are even now, plotting al
midnight, and maturing schemes of rapine
and murder, endeavoring to instil hatred
and malice, for supposed wrongs, into the
hearts of the ignorant negroes of the South
and to arouse in them a spirit of revenge.
! which murder most FOUL" alone can sa-
liate.


They dare to avow that they seek the
ascendancy of their party only to prosti
schemes of fraud and violence, and to dc
under the shadow of the law, what the,
would not hesitate to accomplish by force
of arms, but they dread the vengeance o
an outraged community. Ever specula
ting on mere hypothesis. treating with the
mere vaporings of over-heaied imagina
tons, dealing with localities, and disre-
garding tangible realities. their sophistry
is calculated to mislead those who are toe
apt to content themselves with alIowina
others TO think for them. Hence we see
/ the Republican party enfolding in its EN-
brace the votares of Spiritualism, Free
loyism and every other ism with which We
are cursed.


But the intelligent masses cannot be be
guiled by the soft Establishments of those
who in their efforts to raise the degenerate
negro. whom the imperative laws of nature
have assured to be the servant Of the white
would degrade their noble race to leve
with the semi barbarian African.


With the question of slavery in the Soutt
we at the North have nothing to do Eacl
State has right to regulate its own inter
nal affairs, and the only security for the
perpetuity of the Union. depends on sa-
cred adherence to this principle. Once
concede the right of Congress to legislatC
on the domestic institutions of the States
and the harmony and concord with which
the federal compact has been marked mus
be supplanted by anarchy and confusion
" Y. Sentinel.
Year: 1860




An HONEST DENoCRAT.--" When Gen
Jackson was president of the United
States." SAID an aged laborer in the Pres
ideniial garden a few years since. "be
could tell an honest man from rogue when
he first saw him. remember that cer-
gyman with stiff white choker and an
untarnished suit Of black, called upon him
one morning when be was overlooking
some work that was performing in the
garden. and requested au appointment to
some office. saying, General, l worked
harder for your election than many of those
upon whom you have already bestowed
office 'Iou arc a minister of the Gos>
pei . said Old Hickory, inquirincly.


Yes said the clergyman, Twas a min


ser. but thought could do better by
becoming politician. So stumped the
district week days for you, and preached
for the Lord Sundays Old Hickory, sur-
ming short toward him. and looking him
full in the face. said. By the Eternal. IL
you would chest the Lord yo, would cheat
the country. | will have nothing TO do
with you. nor with any like you. Good
morning and he walked rapidly away.
never shall forget the looks of that byro-
critical clergyman. Had the last judgment
been set. and he before the great white
throne. l doubt if he would have looked
more blank and chop fallen"
Year: 1860

These Gums remove all
morbid or bad matter from
the system, supplying in
their place a healthy flow
of bile, invigorating the
stomach, causing food to
digest well, purifying the
blood, giving tone and
health to the whole ma
chinery, re m ing tn e
cause ofthe disease--effect-
ing a radical cure.


Bilious attacks are cured,
and, what is better, preven-
ted by the occasional use
of the Liver Invigorator.


One dose after eating is
sufficient to relieve t h e
stomach and prevent the
food from rising and sour
ing.


Only one dose taken be-
fore retiring. preVen Mt s
nightmare.


Only one dose taken at
night, lOosens the bowels
gently, and cures COStiUe-
ness.


One dose taken after each
meal will cure Dyspepsia.


One dose of two teaspoon
fuls will always relieve SICK
Headache.


Only one dose immediate
lv roIiaUoC TOIiN Wy ilo
Year: 1860

from which mankind suffer over large part of the plob.
Is consequence of diseased action in the SYSTEM
by the poisonous miasm of vegetable decay This exha-
ation evolved by the action of solar heat on wet soil
and rises with the watery vapor from it. While the sun is
below the horizon this vapor fingers near the earh surface
and the virus taken with through the lungs the blood
There irritating poison on the internal vscer
and excreng organs of the body The liver becomes tor
pld and fails to secree not only this virus but also the bile
the circulation and produce violent constitutional disorder
The Spleen the Kidneys and the stomach sympahze with
the liver, and become dsordered aso Finally the instinct
of organism attempt expe the noxous nf-
son concentrates the whole blood of the body the inter
nal excretories to force them to cast it out The
tne surface and ruhes to the central with congesve
violence This the CHILL. But in this effort fails
hen the FEVER follows in which the blood leaves the GEN.
to expe the irritating poison through that other great ex
cretoryhe skin In this also fails and the system aban
dons the attempt exhausted and waits for recovery of
strength repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
are the fs or paroxysms of FEVER AND AGUE Such
sltutonal disorder will of course undermine the health It
is not removed


We have abored to fnd and have found an antidote.


AYERS AGUE CURE,
which neuraizes this malarous poison in the blood and
stimulates the liver to expe from the body should
ana 1t does more rather does what of service to
those subject to this infection. If taken expes
although exposed to the disease it not only
cures but protects from the great variety affections which
are induced by this malignant influence Remtent
Fever Chill Fever Dumb Masked Ague, Periodical Head
acne or Bilious Headache Bilious Fevers Neuralgia Rheu
matism Gout Blindness Toothace Earache Catarh Asthma
Papitatons Painful Affections of the Spleen Mysteries Col





els all of which, when arising from this will found to
assume more or less the intermittent type. This AGUE
the disease.


This accompishes by stimulating the excretores to ex
pei the virus from lie system and these organs by degrees
become habed to do this their office of their accord
Hence arises what term acc1aatton. Time may ac-
compsh the end but often life not long enough
sacrificed In the attempt while this AGUE CURE does
at once and with safety We have great to believe
this surer well as safer remedy for the whole class of
diseases which caused by the masmatc Infection than
any other which has boen discovered and it has still anoh
e important advantage to the public which is, that
cheap well as good.


PREPARED


DIR. j. G. AVER a. co.


LOWELL MASS.
Year: 1860

to effect the passage Of q tariff bill, thus
testifying his devotion to the cause he so
ably advocated when in Congress. Such
devotion as he has at all times evinced in
behalf of the interests of Pennsylvania
must necessarily beget in the tosoms of
bis tellew citizens corresponding devo>
ton we feel will be signally manifested at
the polls on the second Tuesday of 0cto-
Der next
Year: 1860

nea- 4 young gentleman Of B),tou, who
had rich father and a rich mother was
lately lett an orphan, His father deman-
ded in bis will that he shall marry no
girl or woman wi ose feet exceed q GER
lain size, aud his mother demanded in
hers that he shall marry no one whose
hair is of a certain color. He will proba'
bly have to advertise.
Year: 1860

Never was money so scarce, every
body says; and everybody, we believe, is
justified in making the remark. Silver
may be plentiful in bank, gold may be
abundant at Frazer river, but neither
can be picked up along the streets by
men too indolent to work, or women too
extravagant to study economy. They
will now discern that,


=" 'Tis very good world that we in,


To lend or to spend, or to give in,


But to beg or to borrow, or to get mans own,


'Tis the very worst world that ever was known"


The proverb is an old one, but just as
applicable to our time as those of our an
cestors. Poverty has not much credit
in bank parlors, though wealth is fire.
quently less reliable, unless accompanied
by honest principle. The only thing to
be depended upon in these days is in
dustry; that is the best financial institu-
ton; it never fails Abstemiousness
and frugality are the best bankers; they
allow handsome interest, and never dis
honor draft drawn on them by their
humblest customers. That's our opin-
ion Of the matter.-OH Jonathan.
Year: 1860

A young man named John Sh6uFer,
about twenty -fveyears Of aga, committed
Suicide last. Monday hight, in Dalton,
by shooting himself through the head
with rife. He was engaged to be mar
ried to voting lady in the above named
place, and in conversation with her on
the previous Sabbath, stated that he
could not marry her, as he was unable
to obtain money he had loaned out, and
was afraid he would not be able to sup
port her. No cause can be assigned for
the commission of the dreadful act, other
than that intimated in the conversation
refarssh Mussiz5on fOl 7fmes
Year: 1860

SUPREME CouRT.-Thc Supreme Court
OF the State of Iowa, commenced its April
term in this city yesterday morning. There
is but two Judges present-Judge Steckto q
being dangerously ILL Itis feared that Judge
Stockton will not be able to take his seat up
on the bench this term, and We are informed
by one of his associates that his death may
be locked for at any moment. He 10 troubled
with combination Of diseases-consumption
asthma. dyspepsia and heart disease.


Asremarked by an attorney. the two Judges
at present occupying the bench, appear to be
very clever men. What abilities they possess
for the positions they have been called upon to
fl we cannot at this time tell


Lewis Kinsey the Supreme Court Clerk 10 on
hand smiling as ever. Kinsey has become .
permanent institution Of this court, and he fills
his Office to perfection.
Year: 1860

The CRY DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
feeling at any Democratic nominating eonven.
ton than pervaded that of yesterday at the
Court House. The only desire which possessed
the minds OF the delegates present was to
nominate the best men, and in this respect We
must claim that the Conventien n was eminently
successful. We present the public this morn
ing with q ticket without spot or blemish and
one that will 60 into the field q tower of
strength.


JANIS NJ. DALzELL. our candidate for Mayor,
has been long and most favorably known to the
people Of this city Is q man of the mest strict
integrity. Of sound. far seeing mind and as
firm friend Of the city and her best interests
He is also q SQUAD, consistent and unsw ervisg
democrat. With such man at the head Of
our City Government the taxpayers will find
that their burdens will be diminished, and that
their loud calls for justice and economy in con-
Quoting the affairs Of the city will not be
treated with contempt, but be met with
prompt and 81 eedy attention. He is nominated
to be elected. and will be, we believe, % sure
as election day comes


The candidate for the Office Of Marsha is II.
W. MITCHELL. He has once before served the
city in the capacity Of Marshal and to the en-
tire satisfaction of tie city, aud We predict
that he will have the opportunity of doing
that work again. His qualifications for the po-
sition no man will doubt for q moment. We
look Tor large majority for Hank.


For Treasurer that noble old citizen JAMES NJ i.
Bovine ives placed in nomination by ACCLAIM
nation. He 10 too we'll known in this city to
require any introduction at our hands There
he is-look at him-an honest, worthy, highly
esteemed fellow citizen. No man can be named
in whose hands the purse strings Of the city
would be more safe. We look upon his election
as . fixed fact.


For tho Office Of City Clerk our young f,iend
friend F. II. SHEPHERD has been nominated.
He is in every way calculated to fill the duties
Of the office With acceptance to all. May his
election be as his neutrality-suspicious..


The ticket is in the field, and now it becomes
the duty of the Democracy to elect it. We
81 not aware that this will be hard thing to
do. Already are the people perfectly salts
fed that a change is necessary, and We are
sure that the candidates thus plscsd before
them will suit the majority.
Year: 1860

Project 80 Capture Fort NIouItrIe - The


Garrison 60 be Saerthced-The Charles


tOnians Erecting Hostile Batteries.


This letter is from the wife of an officer
stationed at Fort MOultrie to her sister in
New York: saHa


/ feel too indignant can hardly stand
the way in which this weak little garrison is
treated by the heads Of Government. Troops
and proper accommodation are positively
refused, and yet the commander has orders
to hold and defend the fort. Was ever such
a sacrifice ian intentional one) known2 The
Secretary has sent several officers at differ
ent times to inspect here, as if that helped.
It is mere sham, TO makA believe he will
do something. In the meantime q crisis is
very near. | am to 70 to Charleston the
first of the week. l viii not 60 farther if
can help it.


Within few days we hear-and from so
many sources that we can not doubt it-.that
the Oharlestonians are erecting two bat
teries, one just opposite US, at little village,
Mount Pleasant, and another on the end of
this island and they dare the Commander
to interfere while they are getting ready to
fight sixty men. In this weak little fort
suppose President Buchanan and Secretary
Floyd intend the Southern Confederacy to
be ,cemented with the blood of this brave
little garrison.


. These names should be handed down to
the end of time. When the last man is shot
down, | presume, they will think of send
ing troops. The soldiers here deserve great
credit-though they know what an unequal
number is coming TO massacre them, yet
they are in good spirits, and will fight des.
peTately. Our Commander says he never
saw such brave little band.
Year: 1860

a progressive suggests that in this
age of improvements. old Father Time
should be represented with Yankee
clock in his hand. and seated on a
steam moving machine. Was he
thinking of Railroad disasters?
Year: 1860

DRowNED.-on Saturday morning the
hands on board the propeller Mohawk dis
covered body floating in the river, near
the foot Of Bath street. Coroner Hartman
was called and an inquest was held at How
lands. The body had been in the water for
several days. There was no certain proof as
to his name and place of residence, but it is
supposed to be Oliver Baily, Of Columbia,
LOrain County, who came to this city on
Tuesday last, and stopped at the William
Tell House, on Bath street. He was intoxi'
Gated during the day and disappeared in the
evening. Several notes and other papers
were found in a wallet in his pocket, which
led TO show that this was his name. He was
about Ss ysars ofage. The jury returned q
verdict in accordance with these facts.
Year: 1860

OUT Door CONCERTs.-Leland's Band gave
another of their public concerts upon the
Square en- Saturday evening. The number
in attendance was very large.


The music stand has been removed from
the north to the south side of the Fountain
It is now on higher ground than before and
consequently more pleasant.
Year: 1860

Franklin tells US the lace Of the greatest
safety during thunder storm, is on bed,
in a cellar, or in hammock suspended from
ceiling. In escaping from burning house.
if the rooms are filled with hot smoke and
flames, it is the best to crouch near the floor
while moving off, as current Of cool air
will generally be found there. In railroad
Car, the safest place is in your seat; the latest
accident on the excursion train in Wisconsin
demonstrates this.


In case of an a!:rm of fire in church or
theatre the safest place is your seat. By
rushing out precipitately you only insure
yourself or others being hurt or killed; a
door of four feet in width can only permit
a certain number of people to pass at once.
and by trying to get faster people only pre-
vent any getting out at all. If a man with
a revolver, were stationed at every door Of
egress in such cases, to shoot every man who
attempted to crowd, in almost every case
the audience would escape without accident.


1xtizan.
Year: 1860

DISEASES AMONG SnEEp.-Iho California
Farmer states that in its opinion a conside-
rabl portion of the disease among sheep,
called scab, is nothing but manure scurvy;
that sit is the same kind Of disease that
aillcs great portion of mankind, and is
known by the more f.niliar term Of dirt
and the sovereign remedy is water and
cleanliness" The remedy is to move the
corral often, or cover it once a week with
deep layer of straw.
Year: 1860

Don't BE IN llAsrE.-Referring to the
Washoe excitement, the Sierra Democrat
remarks: There is gold on the other slope
and silver-but not for the immediate wants
and far too little for the chimerical desires.
of the thousands who are going to Washoe.
The people who went there to settle perma.
nently before the mineral discoveries were
made, are not those who are now flaming
the flame of excitement and publishing the
extravagant stories which now attract the
longing gaze of so many thousands whe
could do well where they are.
Year: 1860

A GRACE.-Dr. Adam Clark, who had a
strong aversion to pork, was called upon to
say grace at dinner, where the principal dish
was roast pig. lie is reported to have said:
90 Lord, if Thou canst bless under the
Gospel what thou didst curse under the law,
bless this pig"
Year: 1860

BEAUTIFUL DEFINITION OF HOPE.-
Among some of the south sea Islanders the
compound word for hope is beautifully ex
pressve; it is manaoana, or the swimming
thought-faith floating and keeping its head
aloft above the water, when all the waves
and billows are going over one-a striking
beautiful definition Of hope, worthy to be
set down along with the answer which a
deaf and dumb person wrote with his pencil,
in reply to the question, "What was his idea
for forgivness" "It is the odor which flow
ers yield when trampled on"
Year: 1860

A friend of mine was an eve witness of
an instance of Yankee ingenuity, winter be-
fore last, in Northern Vermont AS it is
fully an infalible method to make such a
horse pull, and as it may be of use to many
of your subscribers in a similar case, give
i: to YOU as follows:


As my friend was riding along one dav
on horseback, he saw two men, each, with a
heavy load of wood upon his sled. One of
the horses of the team behind becoming
very obstinate, a variety of ways were tried
to make him draw, but without avail. lie
would pull backwar.s so as to prevent the
other horse from drawing. After coaxing,
whipping, &c, in vain, the following method
was very successfully tried. A stout rope
was made fast to the obstinate animals tail,
and then passed under his belly in such
way as to pass between both the hind and
the fore legs, and the other end was made
fast to the front team. When all was ready,
the horses of the front team was started, and
no horse, will venture to say ever pulled
better. Let others try the same method,
and they may he assured, that if it does not
work successfully, it is because the animal
does not care enough for his tail, to follow
it. ". h. Farmer.
Year: 1860

Diego Herald, Of late date says:


People here are SO cursed lazy that no
one has ever had the enterprise to plore
the coast, and we doubt if the surety of an
independent fortune would induce the fitting
out of a party to do so. A people in a
climate like this, with soil not excclled for
productveness on the globe who send 70
San Francisco for their flour, potatoes, onions,
BEANS barley, &C., would not move from the
Plaza for all the guano in the Pacific, unless
there was the additional induceluent Of a
fandango or a horse race.
Year: 1860

tracks in less than no time. or he would get
out warrant against me as a common cheat
and have me sent to prison. Is by all odds
the meanest man have seen yet. Never
will SO near him again.


No. SIS policeman. Says although
you profess to publish neutral paper it is
not so. Thinks he has seen considerable
squirting toward the side he is opposed to,


The collector concludes with 90 accept my
resignation, and strike me from the list of
agents. have been called a swindler, ras-
cal, villain, bloodsucker. These are some
of the names they think proper to bestow
upon me. tried fighting awhile, and
thrashed some of your patrons like blazes.
but occasionally got licked like thunder
myself