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Year: 1859

BURIAL PLACE OF RALEIGH.-Sir Walter
Raleigh was executed October 20, 1918, in
Old Palace Yard, Westminster. On the same
day his body was borne to St. Margaret s
Church, and there privately bur Such
was tho fate of victim of the mbecile
tyranny Of King James I--condemned for
treason on account of distant and hardy
and unsuccessful expedition. Some time
later brass tablet was put up in the church.
Year: 1859

A LARGE RAFr.--Among the timber RATS
which ran down the Delaware River this fall
was one of mammoth dimensions, being one
hundred and ninety-fve feet long, sixty 1.-TWO
feet wide, drew three and half feet of water,
and manned by eight men. This is said to
be the largest raft, and drew more water than
any that was ever before shipped on that
river
Year: 1859

A WIFE-MURDERsR SESrES0ED.-John p
Warren, who drowned his wife some time age
and who was put on trial last week in the Tol.
land County Superior Court Connecticut
changed his plea, after the commencement Of
the trial, to one Of guilty of murder in the
second degree, and was sentenced to the State
Prison for life.
Year: 1859

Quite number Of orders have been left with Us
for Machines to be delivered Christmas Eve. Some
20 to wives whose husbands have seen them wearily
stitching, night after night, the endless task OF fam
lily sewing; some to surprise distant friends, and
some to the poor widow who struggles with pinchinE
poverty, who little dreams the Joy and relief which
soon awaits her.


What SO appropriate present as GOOD SEW
ING MACHINE, which is a constant comfort for o
lifetime, and iE many instances means of support.


We deliver Machines at the house of the pur-
chaser, send lady to instruct in its use and
rant and keep in order for three years. s.


Call during the Holidays ut our office,
Year: 1859

lGCgNDIARIsM. --Grace, a servant girl
hired to John J. King. was before the Mayor yes
terday to answer the charge of setting fire to a
bed on the 26th of January, with the intention OF
Burning the house. The girl admitted firing the
bed, but said she had been pursuaded to do go by
her sisters, who threatened to whip her if size re.
fused to do as they ordered. As DO portion of the
house was burned. the accused was convicted of q
misdemeanor, and sentenced to be punished
Year: 1859

FAIR GROUNDS he Executive Com :
mttee Of the Virgi-ia Central Agricultural So.
ciety spent the greater portion of Monday last in
examining the various lots offered to them for
Fair Grounds. Not being able to conclude their
labors they will resume their examination to-day,
and will probably be ready to report BY the Last
of the week,
Year: 1859

THE SQUARE is being dres'ed up. near
the Washington Statue, and will be put in fair
condition by the 22d, at which time not only the
military, bnt citizens and strangers will gather
around the monument to do reverence to the
memory of the "Father of his country"
Year: 1859

A MAN Hung FOR STEALING PIECE OF BEEF
Late Monday evening q crowd collected in
front OF Vandyke ThurbeI's store, attracted by
the cries of thief, who had been caught in the
act of stealing some beef from a store, and was
Immediately arrested. Being old offender, the
crowd determined TO summsrily punish him for
his depredations, and prevent in future the loss
Of property to the citizens. Accordingly a rope
was procured, moose made and ad usted TO his
neck, and being thrown over a high post, he WAS
drawn up by the excited crowd. He was left
hanging until daylight, when the authorities cut
him down aud buried him. We understand that
legal proceedings will be commenced against the
wretcbes.--HastiRgs, Min, Ledger.
Year: 1859

The FLORIDA INpIANs.-Col. Rector, the agent of
the United States, treating with the Seminoss,
has succceeded in inducing some 60 of the tribe
to emigrate. He engaged passage for this mum
her on the return trip of the Magnolia for New
Orleans. They were to go on board at Point Ar
Year: 1859

We are authorized to announce GEORGE DOUGHTY,
Independent Candidate for the office OF Sheriff
Pottawataie County, subject only to the decision OF
the people at the baliotbox the llth Of Oct 1859


County Judge.
We are authorized to announce J. 7. CASADT as an
independent Candidate for the Office Of County Judge
PottawattamIe County.
Year: 1859

A CRiNoLINE JoKE,--At the last carnival in
Paris many attempts were made to ridicule
the prevalent style of female attire. The
most successful one is thus described: t9l.


At another Of those balls much merriment
was excited by, the appearance Of young
gentleman Of about twenty years Of age,
slender, fair and guiltless Of beard, who had
attlred himself in the extreme of the prevail
ing feminine fashions. On his head, or rather
o considerable distance beyond it, he wore q
tiny pink satin bonnet, stick on the ends Of
immense steel pins, about half yard long
fastened firmly into the back hair, put on for
the occasion; his dress was Of course enor-
mously wide when he entered the ballroom.
Making his way to the center of the saloon
he proceeded, by means Of some ingenious
hidden mechanism, to develop the ample
folds Of his skirts, and until his gown liter
ally assumed the dimensions of balloon
filling the ballroom entirely from wall to
wall, and driving all the company into the
corners, and forcing them into the adjoining
rooms. .clV ,H- I-tn5 70 'us.l
Year: 1859

House BuRNED.-A house situated at the
mouth of Roger Williams Ravine, in the out
skirts of the town, took fire about two O'Clock
last Friday morning and was consumed. Three
men were sleeping in the house. who were
awakened by the noise of the flames, and barely
had time to save their lives-every th ng in the
building being consumed. An alarm was rails
ed, and two or three hundred persons we're
soon on the ground, but the wind was 10 such a
direction as to carry the flames away from the
buildings 10 the neighborhood, aud the citizens
who had been so unceremoniously aroused from
their slumbers again took to their BEDS The
building was of little value, the principal loss
being the clothing and other articles of the oc-
cupants. The fire is supposed to have caught
from some ashes that had been taken out of the
stove the day before.
Year: 1859

FoR WAsHoE.-A company. consisting OF Eve
or six young men, design leaving Nevada to-
day for the Washoe Valley. The late Hattering
reports in regard to the richness of the silver
mines in that region has produced considerable
excitement n this place; but as general thing
people take the matter very quietly and are
not dis posed to neglect good business for the
prospect of doing better.
Year: 1859

THE SCHILLER FEsrIvAL.-We learn that the
Germans Of this county are making extensive
preparations for the celebration Of the birthday
Of Frederick Won Schiller, on the 10th proximo.
They have made arrangements to procure the
Court House for the ball. and gentleman Of
Grass Valley has been engaged to deliver the
Grafton in German.
Year: 1859

FuRIoUs.-The English papers furious in
regard to Gen. Harneys occupation of the Island of
San Juan. The Manchester Guardian, in an article
on the subject, says;


"The American Generals exploit seems to have
been nothing more than one of those acts of piracy
by which lawess representatives of the United States
are accustomed to settle disputes with weaker and
more barbarian neghbors, but which it is time they
should be taught they cannot safely indulge in
against powerful and civilized nations"


The article concludes as follows:


ave trust the Government of the United States
will speedily disavow the act of its officer else the
English Government will be forced to take immed-
ate steps for the vndication of the honor of the
country and show the licensed rufians of the Fede-
raj army that they must not appropriate British
Territory as coolly as if they were merely cutting
off slice of Mexico"
Year: 1859

Doctor Lardner says:-"It is a startling
fact, that if the earth were dependent alone
upon the sun for heat itwould not get enough
to make existence Of animal and vegetable
life upon its surface 1t tresults from the re-
searches of Pouillet, that the stars furnish
heat enough in the course of year to melt Il
crust of Ice IS feet thick, almost as much as
is supplied by the sun. This may appear
strange when weconsider how immeasurably
small must be the amount of heat received
from any one of these distant bodies. But
the surprise vanishes, when we remember
that the whole armament is SO thickl y sown
with stars that in some places thousands are
crowded together within space no greater
than that occupied by the full moon.
Year: 1859

A very good story, and, it is said, true
one, has been told OF an occurrence at Albany.
On Wednesday last there was large crowd
there in front of the Office of the overseers of
the poor: wager was laid that if the report
were circulated that the Commercial Savings
Bank had failed, there would be some rushing
of the beggars to the bank. The trial was
made. and sure enough thirteen of the ap'
plicants for charity rushed to the bank to get
their deDOsits,
Year: 1859

HORACE GREELEY-HGs APPEARANcE-We
find the following in the Standards account
of the reception of Horace Greeley:


Mr.. Greeley is about fifty years age, stands
nearly or quite six feet high and is tolerablv
broad in the shoulders His hair is faxen.
and thinly scattered below the crown and
around the back and sides of his head. The
top of his head is entirely bald His forehead
is broad and massive lie wears a whisker
under his chin, and has eyebrows so white
and delicately defined, that it is difficult at
first sight to discover the existence of that
ornamental portion Of the face His gait is
peculiar. He lifts not only his feet, but his
hips, when he walks, and keeps his head
bent some distance in advance of his body.
These are made, not in derision, but remarks
because so much has heretofore been said on
this head by the Atlantic press, that many of
our people felt curious to know whether the
facts or a mere fiction, had been stated.


Mr.. Greeley's baggage was taken in charge
by one of the Committee of Reception at Fol
som, and hung upon hook in one corner of
the car. 1t consisted of leather carpet
sack containing his cothing that world
wide "old white coat" which, he Gays, he
has had for thirty years-caried with him
through Europe, wore while member of
Congress, and has brought with him to Cali
fornia a cotton umbrella, considerably worn,
and pair Of blankets done up in an oil cloth
cover
Year: 1859

A GREAT political meeting was held at
Melbourn (Australia) on the 23d of May.
The first resolution, condemnatory of the
existing Cabinet, was met by the following
amendment, which was carried by an im
mense majority:


That no meeting of citizens of Melbourne
should assemble to pronounce an opinion on
political parties now struggling for power oil
the approach of Parliamentary elections.
without resolving that no party can secure
popular confidence until they satisfy the
public expectation on the land question,
which is the great question of the elections.
Year: 1859

FELL THRoUGH The proposed balloon
company will turn out to be failure. 1t has
been ascertained that the gas of this region is
calculated to depress rather than initiate bal.
loon enterprises This is curious fact, but
we leave Il to others TO solve the riddle.
Year: 1859

FRUIT IN TIE MoUNTIANs.-The San An.
dreas Independent says:


Notwithstanding the severity of the late
spring frosts and the recent intensely parch-
ing heat there is every reason to believe
that we viii have fair yield of fruit 1t is
yet, in this section, a little too early to see
peaches in the market; but week or two
more, and the rich and luscious productions
of our hilly land will be seen in the fruit
Stalls
Year: 1859

JAMES MoCANN-This man delivered him
self up to the San Francisco Police last Mon
day. He was one of the party in which
VIM. Hamilton was so badly cut and for
whom the police had been looking. He was,
says the Telegram, Immediately released on
his own recognizance to appear and testify
in the examination. Hamilton is slowly i'm.
proving, and will probably recover.
Year: 1859

A COMMITTEE appointed by the San Fran
cisco Chamber of Commerce to wait upon the
Governor in relation to the pilot appoint
ment business. report that no satisfactory an
-swer has been obtained from his Excellencv
Year: 1859

A MULrUM IN PARvo CLocK.-The Express
gives an account of a wonderful clock now ex-
hibting in New York. 1t not only does duty as
iime-piece, but bois the coffee for its owner,
and awakes him in time to drink it. Attached to
the clock. on the right side, is brass plate lying
parallel with the table or shelf on which the clock
is placed, and at the further end is a coffee-pot,
fixed upon frame, with spirit lamp underneath.
Between the clock and the cofee-pot is an alarm
bell The apparatus is thus used: Suppose q
person wishes to rise and travel at O'Clock in
the morning; all he has to do is to set an inner
dial to that hour while the outer or clock dial in
dicates the true time. He also makes certain dis
positions of the lighting apparatus, which are
elf-suggestive. Precisely at O'Clock a lever is
moved, which causes drum to revolve against
friction match, the fame from which ignites the
wick Of the spirit lamp. In half an hour the
coffee is ready, when another drum revolves, ig-
mites another match, and lights candle, and at
the same time the figure of monk pulls rope
and rings an alarm bell, effectually arousing the
sleeper-Erch
Year: 1859

BAYARD TAYLOR AND THE LADHs.-Bayard
Taylor, the eastern papers report is to go out in
| the Asplnwal steamer, which sails on the 5th Au-
gust, under engagement to the San Francisco
Mercantile Library Association, to deliver four
lectures before them. He will visit Sacramento
and other places in the interior, and remain on the
Pacific coast in all about three months. His en-
gagement will be profitable one to the Library
Association, inasmuch as the popularity he has
always enjoyed as lecturer seems to have in
creased threefold since his return from his late
tour to Gambia and other islands and lands in the
Mediterranean and the Greek Archipelago.
Wherever he appeared last winter, whether in
New York or Boston, Cincinnati or st. Louis the
lecture halls, ample they are in all the cities
named, were insufficient to hold all the people
who went to hear him.


The ladies' particularly turned out in overwhelm-
ing numbers, thus giving an effectual denial to
the assumption that they would not forgive him
for seeking wife among the fair-haired frauleins
of Germany, and sighting the multitudinous love
letters he receive from his own countrywomen.
These letters, you may remember, were the cause
of publication on his part about the time he
returned from his last visit from abroad. The
ladies must be very sincere in their admiration of
the lecturer to remain constant after so gallant
display as that was on his part. He is a "deuced
good looking fellow of course has the fame of
a hardy and adventurous traveller, is a poet and
prose author of well sustained pretensions, a
speaker of captivating manner, and had, is said
to have had in early life, love affair so tenderly
romantic that it would have given a writer of
cheap novels stock in trade for three four vol
umes With all these, it must be admitted he
has patent claims to the admiration of the soft'
sex.-Ercb.
Year: 1859

~ The French arguments that are convincing
the Austrians that they must leave Italy are OF
the posteriori order, as we are told that the
Austrian wounded mostly have to turn over on
their faces when their hurts are dressed. Their
dressings in feli and in bed are of the same kind
Year: 1859

his charged that Brigham Young know III
the while that the recently detected counterfeit
ing q United States checks was going on inside
q his premises and Of this there seems to BE-
but little doubt
Year: 1859

THE Hoe NuIsAxcE-Hogs are rapidly on the
increase in town, tearing gates of their hinges,
breeding feas and otherwise annoying people.
We notice that the owners don't harbOr them on
their own premises, but drive them out to destroy
the property Of their neighbOrs. Is there no
protection in our local laws from this nuisanceP
Can't We have . pound and pound master to
look afer themf In the absence Of legal pro-
lection, people are justified in killing them as
Often As they can catch them on their premises;
for We think one class Of people have no right
to afict another class with an evil like this with.
out . remedy.
Year: 1859

FoR THE NoKTH PoLE.-We find the follow
ing in late New York paper


NJ Robert Kennicutt left Chicago last week
on journey overland to the North Pole. He
is an ardent naturalist, and bis object is the pur-
suit of his favorite science. His route u to
Fort Carey, on the Red River of the North,
and thence be will journey with the agents Of
the Hudson Bay Company. He will visit York
factory, on the Hudson Bay, during the Sum-
a Winter trip on dog sledges to Great Slave
Lake, reaching McKenzie's River in the Spring
of 1860, with the whole of that year before
him to pursue his explorations along the coast
Of the Polar Sea. He expects to return ip
1861,
Year: 1859

A CANNON BALL IN THE HAT.-An anony
nous writer, generally supposed to be the
Rev. Henry Ward Bcechcr, after describing
how, when q boy, he stole cannon ball from
the Navy Yard at Charlestown, Mass, and
with much trcpidation. and moro headache,
carried it away in that universal pocket of
youth, his hat, winds up with tho following
IT Elections which, though philOSOphically trite,
are conveyed with force and freshness:


When reached home, had nothing to do
with my shot, did not dare to show il in the
house, nor tell where got it, and after one or
tive solitary rolls. / gave il away OH the same
day to n Prince Strertcr.


But, after all, that six x-pOund, rolled q good
deal Of sense into my skull. think it was
the last thing that ever stole Except little
matter Of heart, now and then, } and it gave
mo notion Of the folly Of cOvctng more than
you can enjoy, which has made my whole life
happier 1t was rather severe mode Of cate.
chiSing, but ethics rubbed in with six pound
shot are better than none at oil.


But see mcn doing the same thing-goine
into the underground and dirty vaults and
gathering up wealth, which will, when got,
roll round their heads like ball and be not a
whit softer because it is gold instead Of iron.
though there is not man in Wall street who
will believe that.


have seen man put himself to every hu.
IUiliation to win proud woman who has been
born above him, and when he got her, he
walked all the rest Of his life with cannon
ball in his hat.


have seen young men enrich themselves
by pleasure in the same wise way, sparinc no
pains, and scrupling at no sacrifice Of principle
for the sake, at last, Of carrying a burden
which no man can bear.


All the world was busy in striving for
things that give little pleasure and bring much
care; and | am accustomed, in all my walks
among men, noticing their ways and their
folly, to think there is man stealing q can.
non ball or, there's man with a bali on his
hcad--I know it by the way he walks. The
money which clerk purloins for his pocket,
at last gets into his hat like a cannon-ball.--
Pride, bad temper, selHshncss, evil passions,
will roll a man Al ifhe had a ball on his head!
And ten thousand men in New York will die
this year, and as each one falls, his hat will
come of, and out will roll an iron ball, which
for years he has worn out his strength in car.
rying.
Year: 1859

The most beautiful flowers soon fade, and
droop and die this is also the case with man;
his days arc as uncertain rs the breeze, This
hour be glows in the blush Of health and vicor;
but tho next he may be counted with tho HUm.
Der no moro known on earth.
Year: 1859

H. The prospectus of the New York Ledger,
the great family paper, will be found In
another column. 1t is scarcely necessary to
say that the Ledger is by far the most pop
ular family paper in the country, having a
circulation of over four hundred thousand
copies. 1t is always characterized by a
high moral tone, and, as will be seen by
reference to its advertisement, employs more
eminent contributors than any other paper
in the world.
Year: 1859

THE GREAT FAMILY PAPER.
THE GREAT FAMILY PAPER.
THE GREAT FAMILY PAPER.
THE GREAT FAMILY PAPER.
THE GREAT FAMILY PAPER.
THE GREAT FAMILY PAPER.
THE GREAT FAMILY PAPER.


2 ROS P E C TU S


OF THE
N ew York Led g er.
Year: 1859

It is a fact well known to all frontiers men
that. when persons are bewildred, they fire.
euently travel in a perfect circle, sometimes
keeping the same track until they have made
half a dozen equal rounds at other times ma
king the circle larger OR smaller each time. IL
is not by any means always the case, when
person is lost; but it is so frequent that 1t Is
within the experience Of every one who has
been much in the woods. In calm and cloudy
weather, and in country of much sameness OF
apnearance the best of woodsmen get so be
viIdere,! as to " take the circle" Persons not
accustomed to the woods will sometimes do so
when the sun is shining and a steady breeze
blowing. On the level or gulf prairies OF this
| country on a calm foggy morning, no man can
| travel without a road. 1t is an incident OF ev-
ervdav occurrence in the Spring and Fall sea


sons that men are thus becamed on the pral


rie as efectualIy as ships at sea ; nor will q


comnass mend the matter, for it cannot be car


ried steadily enough to keep its meridian, ant
the course of its points cannot be kept by nit.


wards if man attempts it he will make CIT


Gle and come back to the place he started from


The circle will be large or SMALL generally il
nroportion to the density of the fog-somt
times hundred yards in diameter; at othe
; times a mile, but seldom more. The eli
cles thus made are perfect. This kind of wande
inc seems to arise from an attempt to go
STRAIGHT course when there is nothing to guld


The senses or when the usual guides of the su
wind. or the general contour OF the country al
: disreearded. 1t rarely befalls children who
g NOT attepnpt to go on course, but only II
d from one visible point to another eqnaaiy p


ceptible.