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Year: 1860

RGnTs OF SETTLERS on TIE PUBLIC LANDS
The General Land Office has issued letter of
explanation, in which it says;


The law protects settler upon the public
lands from the moment he enters thereon and
does any act manifesting his intention to pre-
empt it and follow his settlement by perform
ing all the conditions and requirements of
SAID law. person, then, who purchases
the tract after an inchoate right has attached
'on the part of the settler, under the doctrine
of cdyeot empt0r, does so at his own risk. 1t
would be unjust and oppressive to force a
settler to incur the expense of notice to a
litigation with a person who has purchased
his claim of the pre-emption right had at
tached. The rule adopted will therefore not
be disturbed.
Year: 1860

LORD BRoUGHAM ON WAsHINGroN.-ln his
recent installation address to the University


of Edinburgh, Lord Brougham referred to
Washington in the following eloquent words


"In Washington we may contemplate every
excellence, military and civil, applied to the
service of his country and of mankind-a tri.
umphant warrior, unshaken in confidence
when the most sanguine had a right to des


pair; successful ruler in all the difficulties
of course wholly untried-directing the
formation of new government for a great
people, the first time so rash an experiment
had ever been tried by man-voluntarily and
unostentatiously retiring from supreme pow
er with the veneration of all parties, of all
nations, of all mankind, that the rights OF
man might be conserved, aud that his ex-
ample might never be appealed to by vulgar
tyrants. 1t will be the duty of the historian
and the sage in all ages, to omit no occasion
of eommemorating this illustrious man, and
until time shall be no more, will be test OF
progress which our race has made in wisdom
and virtue be derived from the veneration
paid to the Immortal name of Washington.
Year: 1860

MEN OF GENUS AND COMMON HONESTY -
Blackwoods Magazine has the following sen.
sible observations


Genius may prevent a man from becoming
rich; it does not prevent his being scrupu-
lousy honest. Absorption in ideas, the bur
suit of objects not in themselves marketable
must of course limit the income of anv man
who earns his income by labor of brain but
1t does not screen from him the plain facts of
his position. If he is so absorbed as not TO
be perfectly aware that he has not earned
the money to pay for the sherry and mutton
on his table, he ought to be shut up in an
| asylum and il he is aware of it. but disre-
CARDS it, either because it vexes him. or be
cause his sanguine disposition leads him to
believe that the money will be forthcoming
somehow" then we must lay the blame on
his feeble conscientiousness, not on his intense


intellectual absorption. 1t is true that CON
centration of the intellect on any subject in
disposes, if it does not unfit, man for at
tending closely to many other matters tho
one may note in passing, that mathematicians
and poets who could find no time to look
after the small matters of finance in their
own families, found ample time to look after
the finance Of India, and the means of defray-
ing the National Debt.


But granting that genius incapacitatcs a
man from attending to domestic matters, we
must still assert that it by no means absolyes
him from taking care that those matters are
properly seen to; he may resign them into
other hands and only be careful that no So
phistcation misleads his agent. Ghirlandaio
bade his brother manage the house for him
self he would do his utmost to find the money
for it by painting. The same principle APP
plies even to men too poor "to live like gem
tlemen." 1t is not imperative on a man to
live like gentleman only imperative on
him to live honestly If his genius will not
procure him the "common necessaries." !"
(which too often include host of superhui-
ties, and sacrifices to mere show,) let him
earn those necessaries by some other labor
like other men. Spinoza lived by polishing
glasses: and small as the pittance was which
this secured him, it was enough for his neces-
sites, and it preserved his Independence
When a pension was offered to him if he
would dedicate his work to Louis XIV, he
declined, "Eaving no intention of dedicating
anything to that monarch 1t was ascertain.
ed after his death that he had sometimes
lived on two-pence half penny day This
was interpreting the necessities very rigidly
and although it is highly probable that, had
he been an Englshman, his position in So
ciety" would not have been very brilliant on
those terms, it is certain that he would have
troubled himself little about his position in
society, finding in philosophy enough to
satisfy his soul
Year: 1860

':1he Democracy Of the Vest are cery decided IN
their oppositou to Douglas and aci sustain man
toho endorses the doctrine Of SQuatter Sorereignty'
Bulletin.


This section of the East is decidedly in faver of
the nominee Of the Baltimore Convention and will
sustain any one ncninatei there, except they
should unfortunately nominate YANCEY of Alab
ANA in that event they would vote for Bell rotten
and cracked he is of two evils choose the least '
Year: 1860

Ed. OF CAROLINA:


letter appears in the "Courier' Of yesterday
the letters X U Y in which the ritter takes
occasion to go out of his way to abuse and viify
Judge Douglas way not at all ereditable to the
writer is very strange this writer shonld hear
much in so short stay in Washington, it is
very probable think that this "ready writer got
in to the Black Camp where after taking ON a small
quantity of Lager he had all this stuff WHISPERED in his
Don't you think it rather suspicious? Judge
Douglas is head and shoulders above anv other
low flung garbage is cast at him il will re-
coil upon the than senseless pate of all such
writer's as this Y. and is to say the least of
it very bad taste in any paper calling itself nemoc-
sasis eapss e ea35|jeh 80 t. =
very much like it. Who is he. let his name be
Known


DOUGLAS NAN.
Il1nfa h 1890
Year: 1860

- Our friends who are in Town to-day at court
will please call in to Office and see the ''Adde7
and bring in their quarters Every good democrat
should subscribe for five, to send to ad valo
rem Whig, till we get the few who are still
among the ad valorem ranks of the Know Nothings
in this section.
Year: 1860

CARRIED AWAY IT.-Cne of the steamers
from Cork to New York recently, brought less
merely gone DO I'd take leave of heir friends


In like manner Bells nomination effects the
Know-Nothings, but it is not very delightful
after all.
Year: 1860

The Democratic Party is ruined if the Baltimore
convention does not recede from the position took
when in Charleston-C Charlotte Bulletin.
How prophetic. How kind to warn u.s. Demo-
Gratis of North Carolina, unless you go for Yancy,
the disunionist the Bulletin will bolt !! Gewhil-
likens y!


The Democratic party cannot be led by Yancy or
his mad and frutless attempt to ''percpitate the
cotton states into a revolution" The Democratic
party will act at Baltimore irrespective of Yancy,
and possibly may not even be frightened into an
abandonment of principle for fear of losing the
vices of the Bulletin, whose whole aim and work
seems to be bent division of the party. It is
well for that the people of North Carolina think
nationally, for time they compelled to read
little squbs that they doubles laugh at. For our
part we look to Baltimore as to the only Democrat
ic national Convention. Richmond is nothing more
than talkey clustering assembly. We will abide
by the decision of Baltimore and nail to our mast
head its nominee


COL MORRISON-Col. Morrison, of More, our
candidate for the Commons, is doing noble work for
the party, friend writing to says ''The Col.
makes but little fuss, but number of friends" He
gives ad valorem thunder in quiet clear way, dis
it nationally sensibly and to the point Their
whole team (the Opposition) unable to meet him
the stump They all acknowledge his election
by increase vote DIR. Shaw who is the most
popular man in the county. Three cheers for Col.
Morrison and the Democracy of Moore County


- We had no opportunity to notice the cores
pondence of angus" in last weeks issue; but
intend to review them this week. They mastery
productions and worth perusal. They have
given excellent hints to ourself, which will
avail ourself Of editorially, upon ad valorem.
Year: 1860

New MAI. ROUTE TO WEAvERvILLE.-We un-
dersiand that Charles Mclaughlin received in
teligence from Washington by the last mail,
informing him of the establishing of a mail route
between Petaluma and Weavervlle, Trinity Co.,
and that the contract for carrying the mails had
been awarded to him. The route, we understand,
will be direct, via Eden Valley. We make this
announcement with much pleasure regarding the
matter, as we do to be one of more than common
interest to our county and to our town. as IL Will
most certainly result in demonstrating the truth
of our former assertions that the best and by far
the shortest route between San Francisco and
Weaverville is via Petaluma. This fact being
once clearly and satisfactorily proven it will not
be long before we shall enjoy large and lucra'
tive trade with that section of the State.-Petd'
luna Journal.


Anything, for q change, say we. On that one
point we are completely sick of talking, and
having others talk to us. Hardly week passes
but some one importunes the JOURNAL to Z" pitch
into" the mail contractors post masters, post
Office department, or some other source, for non
compliance with duty or contract. If the mail
can be transported from Petauma to Weaver
Vile, over mountains and through snow banks
on horseback, in week or ten days provided
that is the time specified for its transportation, II
will be an Improvement on the manner in which
il ia done now The fact is that our mail facill
ties at present are no better If as good as they
were four years ago Then the mail came tri-
weekly now il comes semi-weekly or semi -occa-
sionally, we forget which.
Year: 1860

He IS ON Ir.-The Sierra Citizen says that Ba-
ker, the man who is confined in Jail on suspicion
of murder, declared to a gentleman who visited
him, that be did not kill Coloney, but that he
stopped Noland, and that be is on it, II is more
than likely that be will be at the end of 1t before
long.
Year: 1860

SINGULAR CASE OF BLINDSEss.-A young girl,
eighteen years of age, was recently struck blind
in the city of Baltimore, under singular and awe
inspiring circumstances. She had been accused
by her aunt OF talsehood, which she positively
denied, calling upon God to strike her blind If
she was not telling the truth. In a moment after
a film began to gather over her eyes, destroying
The sight, and leading her to confess her guilt.
Year: 1860

THE Bulletin, in speaking of the number who
did not vote for President, in that city, says :
ave hear of one man who voted tun Of coal, or
rather an order for one, instead Of the ticket he
meant to put in, and did not discover the mistake
he had made until the man Of the coal yard
confessed how puzzled he was to know what
kind Of an article to send where John @. Breck-
inridge was ordered"
Year: 1860

Here is paragraph from the St. Louis Bulletin,
doubleeaded, and as full of meaning a double
shotted cannon 1--WE hereby take occasion to say
to mpute the lie to this journal, we shall regard
the controversy as removed beyond the sphere of
newspaper discussion"
Year: 1860

A physician in Cincinnati, Ohio, had, for some
time past, been much annoyed by some depredator,
who drank up the milk left on his DOORSTEP at an
early hour. One day last week he left an emetic
in the pitcher, and soon after the milkman had
passed, the doctor found a policeman in a neigh
boring alley, "making his returns"
Year: 1860

REPUBLICAN MEETNG IN THE SEVENTH
WARD.-The Republicans of the Seventh
Ward viii hold meeting on Thursday even
ing. The Wide Awakes will be on hand in
all the glory of their brilliant torch lightpro
cession. Speeches will be made by some Of
our best speakers.
Year: 1860

EXHIBITION OF THE STATUE.-The Statue of
Perry is open for exhibition to-day. Dur
ing the past few days the number Of visitors
has been very large. After to-day the studio
viii be closed until the Statue is completed.
Our citizens and strangers should not fail to
see this splendid work of art. It will well
bear examination. The studio is on the cor
ner Of High and Middle streets.
Year: 1860

E4J- The Shawneetown Ilinoisan and
Princeton Clarion copy our lengthy account
of the burning Of the Pacific without a
word of credit. The omission may have
been made accidentally. We hope it was.
Several papers that ought to know better,
are in the constant habit OF copying items
from this paper without the least acknowl-
edgment. We have spoken Of this matter
before and have got tired o. complaining. 1t
don't seem to do any good. We always
take pains to give credit, but hereafter
shall retaliate on two papers we have IN
mind by playing the same game with them
that they have been Systematically playing
with us. The editors Of these papers will
know who IS meant, for we are confident
that the omission to give the Journal credit
is made Intentionally.
Year: 1860

BUSINESS is very duh in this city. Col
Iections are difficult to be made. Our bust


ness men all complain Of the hard times.
The milling interest is brought nearly to a
stand in consequence of the financial troub-
les. Wheat has declined to soc for red and
81 for white. Flour is worth from S5.25
to SO per barrel according to quality, by
wholesale. There must certainly be some
Improvement soon, as there is no sufficient
reason for all this uneasiness. 1t is hoped
that the liberal course of the New York
and Boston bankers in expanding their


loans when the panic came on, instead of
getting frightened and contracting, viii
have the effect to give new impetus to
restore confidence, and set the
wheels Of commerce again to revolving
This exhibition of confidence on their part
will infuse the same spirit, it is hoped, into
the business men of the whole country.
Year: 1860

MANY of the Southern papers display
turned column rules, mourning for the i'm
pending fate of the Union.-EI.


From the way many of them affect to dc
spise the Union, we should think they
would display chicken cocks as a sign of
exultation over the prospect of disnnion.
Year: 1860

WHEN DO THE ELECTORS VoTE.-The
act of Congress Of 1892 requires electors
for President and Vice President, to vote on
the first Wednesday in December. Our
State statute fixed the FIRST Monday Of De
cember. The electors ought to vote on
both days, so as to have no danger Of fail
ure
Year: 1860

sss" We are requested to state that there
is half-wTtted pauper, who is in the habit
of sleeping in stables and out-houses, in the
upper end of the city. If the proper au-
thorities do not take charge of him, it is
feared he will freeze to death some cold
night.
Year: 1860

THE JAPANESE GIFT TO THE PoLICE.-In your pa
per day you stated that the magnificent gift the
part of the japanese princes to policemen was
based on strictly mathematical calculation, but
the actual amounts accruing to each of the four
cities is as follows
Year: 1860

Cumberland is about to take step backwards
the City Council on Wednesday held meeting and
determined to dispense with the use of gas for
lighting the streets, and to substitute coal oil in
its stead
Year: 1860

A pedder named Simon Lord is wanted to
answer the charge of bigamy in Michigan. He is
supposed to be in New York somewhere. He has
some seven wives living-the last one young and
very interesting daughter of a wealthy farmer
Year: 1860

The shadow Of large tree, which stood
a few yards distant from the end Of the
building, fell upon the platform and nearly
halt of the stair steps. A brilliant moon
| light rested on the yard and all other objects
on that side of the tavern.
Just as MIR. Saunders stepped out on the
platform he saw man come round the cor
ner OF the house, and walk in the direction
Of the steps. He had large butcher knife
IN his hand, and looked wistfully around
him as he advanced. As soon as he came to
the bottom steps, he began to ascend the
stairs with slow and silent tread. In ap-
pearance, movement and weapon, he was the
exact counterpart of the image seen by Mr..
Saunders in his dream.


What was the traveller to do, unarmed as
ne was, to escape the menacing perils He
iett glued to the spot upon which he stood
by the very lmmnence Of the danger which
apparently confronted him. The leap from
the platform to the earth would imperi both
LIE and limb. A face to face encounter
with an armed man could only end in his
being desperately wounded or Immediately
killed. Nor was there even time to escape
through the room with the hole in the floor,
for the desperate had already mounted to
the highest Illuminated steps, and vas only a
few feet distant from where Mr.. Saunders
was standing.


summoning all the resolution he could
command, cried out ..as... .a


" Who comes there :"


Startled by the voice. the man threw up
his face, and Mr.. Saunders at once recog-
nized him as the landlord OF the inn. With
ont saying word, he turned, almost ran
down the steps. Mr.. Saunders hurried to
the outskirts of the village, where, after
some enireaty, he procured lodgings for the
night.


Early next morning he sent a messenger
for the horse, with the money to pay the bill.
He made no mention of the occurrence of
the previous night, and as soon as the horse
was brought, mounted bin and resumed his
Journey.


Some years afterwards he met his former
host, face to face on one Of the streets OF
Columbus, Ga. They Immediately recog-
niZed each other, but in moment the guam
dam landlord threw his eyes down, seemingly
much abashed, and hurried quickly by, With
out saying word.


Was murder really meditated 10 this
case: And was the dream which aroused
the intended victim a yeritable premontioa
sent TO rescue him from impending death


These are questions which the writer will
not undertake to answer. lie can youch,
however, for the literal truth of the facts
herein related. They were communicated
to him by the Rev. X. NJ. Saunders, Of Ala
bama, son OF the gentleman 10 whom the
mOnIt0ry dream was rouchsafed.
Year: 1860

TRADE WITH JAPAN.-The first fruit of the
treaty with Japan has ripened in the shape
of large expectations of an excellent quail
ty Of tea and of an amount of raw silk,
estimated to be worth 100000. The
whole amount Of the purchases from this
country of Japan productions is estimated
to exceed FIVE millions of dollars. This,
for six months, is pretty heavy business.
OF course Japan will need something that
this country can furnish, to counterbalance
this outlay.
Year: 1860

RIPENING ToMAToEs IN WINTER-At a
meeting of the Rockpert (Illinois) Horti-
cuitural Society last winter, Mr.. Ordway
brought q specimen Of tomatoes, red and
yellow, small and large, but all perfect,
which had been ripened in his cellar, accor-
ding to the following method:


!" Plant late in the season, and pull up
the vines in the fall before they are injured
BY the frost; fasten bag about the stock,
two inches above the root, then hang them
up in o cellar by cord tied around the
vine above the bag, and Gil the bag With
moist dirt. When the bag is tied over the
root, leave q small hole at the top for the
admission of water, which should be used
occasionally to prevent the roots becoming
dry. The more light in the cellar the bet.
ter They should be hung clear from the
wall on every side, and where the sun will
strike them from o window, if possible,
and swing the vines up, with the roots up
permost."
Year: 1860

New YORK, Dec 2O.-The Times pub
fishes n letter from President Buchanan 10 a
citizen of Philadelphia on secession. Il is
very long. 1t cites various articles in the
Constitution, stating that they are entirely
inconsistent with the alleged supremacy OF
State laws, and the claim of absolute sove-
reignty IS entirely irreconcileable with the
Constitution.


1t is clearly his opinion that no State can
secede from the Union, as it is impossible
to destroy the Union except by. revolution.
have after grave reflection determined not
to pursue that line Of conduct, which, al
though it might be legal, would end in civil
strife and the overthrow Of Our present
form OF government. Although it wouid
appear that my line Of duty was plain and
rugged, vet am firmly persuaded that in
stead Of restoring order and obedience J
would have caused war. 1t is massacre at
the South the seizure OF the National
Capitol, constitutional overthrow, aud
military dictator appointed, perhaps to end
III the formation OF q constitutional mon
archy. The only means have now
at my command center in exhortation to
the people as a nation to imp,ore assistance
from an overrling Providence, to avert the
dangers which now beset our beloved land
Year: 1860

A Coon LAw.-The Supreme Court Of Mis-
sissiPPi has decided that the law making It q
penal offence to sell liquor to drunken man
is valid, and that the owner Of the establishment
is responsible for the act Of his bar-keeper. II
such a law existed and we're enforced here, we
should have fewer murders and less manning, with
much more peace and quietness.
Year: 1860

Scientific men and others who have thoroughly
tested the merits Of the Yesper Gas Air Light,
pronounce the best and cheapest light now known.
NumbeTless testimonials are being received daily
from ali quarters vOuchiDg for the excellence OF this
light a few of which given below.
Year: 1860

In this great world of sunshine aud
shadow, We are constantly casting shad-
ows on those around us, and receiving
shadows from them in return. There is
no pathway in life which is not some
times in the shade, and there is no one
who walks over these paths, it matters
not which way they tend, who does not.
now and then, cast shadows on the rest


How often do we, by mere thoughtless
word or careless act, cast shadow on
some heart which is longing for sunlight


How often does the husband, by cold
greeting, cast a gloom over the happy,
trusting face of his young wife, who. it
may be, has waited anxiously for the first
sound Of his footsteps to give him a joy
Gus welcome to his home How often
has the parent, by harsh reproof, chill
ed the ever flowing spirit Of confidence
and love which is bubbling up from the
fountains of the heart Of the innocent
prattler at his knee. How often are the
bright rays of hope torn from the cling
ing grasp of the souls of those worn out
by poverty and by the never ending con-
flict Of life. by the singing ridicule, or
the sordid avarice of those whom the
world honors-aye, loves to honor. How
often does the child, even after it has
grown to the full bloom of manhood, and
is clad in garments of strength and beau
ty-bring sorrow to the parent already
totterlng on the brink of eternity. Then
beware, lest you cast deeper shadow
over those which are already darkening
his happiness. The shadows We cast
can We escape them? ? Can we look back.
as we walk on lite's journey. and see no
shadowy marks about our footprints