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Year: 1860

The Eastern Shore Railroad company has
been organized to continue the line further
south, and has put its first section to Salisbury,
under contract. We have every reason TO be-
lieve that they will continue their road, at once
to Princess Anne ; and, soon, TO its southern
terminus at Somer's Cove, on the Tangier
Sound.


This will realize the idea of Southern route
of travel by the most perfect line. But, as it
Is not within the power of this company TO ex L.
tend their road beyond our own State limits
your Board has steadily kept in view. as direc.
ted by repeated votes of the stockholders, the
making such route by boats down the Nanti-
coke river, and thence to Norfolk. We expect
to be able next spring, in connection with the
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad company, To
put on one or more boats between Seaford and
Norfolk. That company has built very ele.
CANT and commodous boat expressly for this
line, and will follow her with another as soon
as the business shall require it. We have.
therefore, every prospect of Southern penin.
Sular route at an early day, such as was con-
templated by you from the beginning, and that
soon to be supplied by more perfect one over
the Eastern Shore Railroad in connection with
ours.


We will not enlarge on the advantages Of
such a route to the peninsula, or to our COM
pany, as these topics have been often presented
IN our reports. All the Delaware Railroad now
wants is time-time to develope the resources
of the country, which is being stimulated to
productive exertion by the means it affords of
making production profitable.


Considering it very important both for the
safety of travellers, and the proper operation OF
the road TO procure telegrap ph line to be built
over it, the Board. by resolution, authorized the
increase of our stock for that purpose. such in
crease not to exceed ten thousand dollars, and
to be placed on footing with other stock sub.
scriptions. Books for this purpose have been
only recently opened, not yet long enough to
decide the success of this movement.
Year: 1860

commercial relations--peace in our party poll


tics-peace everywhere. Again and again the


truest Patriots and Statesmen of the country
have seen the impracticability of the extreme
views of either section, and have compromised
and healed the fostering sores on the body poll
tic, and give the agitated country peace
Would that some intellectual giants like Clay,
Webster and Clayton would again spring forth
and redeem our National Halls from the do
minion of the Pygmies.
Year: 1860

You've MEN IN SEARCH OF OFFIcE.-The
failure Of the House to ORGANIZED has had pecu-
liar tendency on the faces and pockets OF sew
eral hundred able bodied young men who have
followed in the wake of members to Washing
ton, in the hope of stepping at once into some
office of position of small trust and large steal
ings. There are in Washington to-day two
thousand young men, setting out to be polit-
clans. waiting for the House to organize, or for
something to turn us. Some have good promi-
ses, cheap consolation, and about as reliable as
Chatham street clothing, but the greater part
are here to run their luck, which will assuredly
be, bad, as there are at least twenty applicants
for every position. Hundreds of them are here
dead broke, without money sufficient to pay o
weeks board, and no means of returning, living
on their friends Washington States.
Year: 1860

No wonde, men are unhappy in tile
world. There is always clashing when
the machinery is out Of gear. There is
always trouble when the wheels are "off
the track" Man seeks to live for him.
seif--God made him to live for other.
How swells that mothers heart for iov
when she can make her children bannv,
What thrill Of delight comes with that
look Of gratitude, that tear of Joy, and
that one Of love, which are all that ,be
widow and the orphan can render to their
benefactorl Tho cup of happiness is an
over flowing cup, 1t is like bubblino
fountain, ever rouring forth its blessings
to refresh the weary and fain,ing, and


made pure only by its own overflow
1t is like the quiet meadow rill, fripped
all along with flowers, yet concealed bv
the very exuberance Of beauty and YER.
dure itself doth nouri,h.
Year: 1860

The man who is obliged to be constant
ly employed to earn the necessaries of
life and support his family. knows not the
the happiness he prays for when he de-,
slres wealth and idleness. To be con-
stanlly busy is to be always happy. Per-
sons who have suddenly acquired wealth,
broken up their active pursuits, and begun
to live at their ease, waste away and iie
in very short time. Thousands would
have been blessings to the world, and ad-
ded to the common stock of happiness, ii
they had been content to remain in an
humble sphere, and earn every monthful
OF food that nourshed their bodies. But,
no; fashion and wealth took possession of
them, and they were completely ruined
They ran away from peace and pleasure.
embracing lingering death. Ye who
are sighing for the pomp and pleasures Of
life, beware. You know not what you
wish. No situation however exalted; no
wealth however magnificent; no honor
however glorious, can yield you solid en-.
joyment while Giscontent turks in your
bosom. The secret of happiness lies in
this--to be always content with your lot,
and never sigh for the spendor of riches.
or the magnihcence Of fashion and power.
Persons who are always busy and go
cheerfully to their daily tasks, are the
least disturbed by the fluctuations Of
business, and at night sleep with compo-
sure.
Year: 1860

She is modest, but not bashful;
Free and easy, but not bold;
Like an apple-ripe and mellow;
Not too young, and not too old;
Half inviting, halfrepulsive.


Now advancing, and now shy;
There is mischief in her dimplc.
There is danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature;
She is schooled in all her arts;
She has taken her diploma


AS he mistress of all hearts:
She can tell the very moment


When to sigh and when to smile;
o, a maid is sometimes charming,
But the widow all the while.
Are you sad? how very serious


Will her handsome face become;
Are you angry? she is wretched,
Lovely, friendless, fearful, dumb;
Are you mirthful? how her laughter,
Silver sounding, will ring out;
Size can lure, and catch, and play you,
AS the angler does the trout.
You old bachelors of forty,


Who have grown so bold and wise,
Young Americans of twenty,


With the love looks in your eyes,
You may practice all your lessons
Taught by Cupid since the fall,
But know little widow,


Who could win and fool you all.
Year: 1860

MANNLR OF WALKERS DEATm-The exact
manner of Walkers taking off is thus given
by an apparently well informed correspond
ent Of the N. Y. Times: Gle marched from
his cell to the place of execution with a
steady step and unshaken mein chair
had been placed for him with its back to-
wards the Castle. Having taken his seat he
was blindfolded. The soldiers stepped for
ward to within twenty feet of him and dis
charged their muskets The balls entered his
body, and he leaned Il little forward; but it
being observed he was not dead, a fourth
soldier mercifully advanced so close to the
suffering man that the muzzle of the musket
almost touched his forehead, and being there
discharged, scattered his brains and skull to
the winds. Thus ended the life of the gray
eyed man of Destiny"
Year: 1860

A RECIPE FOR OLD AGE.-Ralph Farnham
the Bunker Hill hero, writes TO the Boston
papers of bis safe arrival at his home at Ac
ton, Me. lie thus sums up the causes which
have contributed towards his attaining SO
great an age;


Though l am in my 105th year. am not
past all usefulness | split my own kindlng.
wood and build my own fires. l am the first
one up in the morning, and the first one in
bed at night. l never sleep or lie down in
the day time, but rise at and retire at 7
oclock-and this l continue summer and
winter. | have always been temperate, and
for over thirty years past have not tasted a
drop of spirituous liquors, or even cider.
was never sick in my life SO as to require the
attendance of u physician About 25 wears
ago broke my thigh 10y falling on the ice.
and had a doctor TO set 1t, but this is the only
time physician ever attended me. | live on
plain farmers det-drink tea and coffee, and
eat very light supper, never eating meat at
supper. Ihave no doubt it is owing to these
abstemious and regular habits and the avoid.
ance of medicine at all little ailments, that
my life has been so prolonged. | voted for
Gen. Washington for President, and have
voted at every Presidential election since
and hope to vote at the next election This
is the duty of every Christian freeman.
Year: 1860

A "WHIGHT" MAN AND FRED DOUGLAS


The New York Times of October 26tb
contains an amusing correspondence, in which
Fred Douglass, the colored pet of the Aboli-
tionists refuses to allow his daughter to be
made happy. A fellow named Charles Hapnv
writes the following from Auburn, n. Y:


81 take the opportunity to address Won n
few hues as follows: | have been informed
that you had an onely daughterand that Won
desire her to marry a Wright man. where
upon you give $4,000 or $4,000 dollars TO
any respectable Wright man that would
marry her and cherish her through life If
there is any truth in this report, =. S. let me
know and | will marry your daughter on
those conditions, and will endeavor to make
myself agreeable"


Fred. Douglass responds as follows:


You are an entire stranger to me, and di
rect me to no one from who can learn your
real character and responsibility. This, if
no other difficulty existed, would seriously
em6arrass me in making favorable answer
to your proposition, You should have at
least given me one respectable reference.
Ihe fact that you have not done go, with
SN"SA NiiNuhiStiilCtS COllnOctetl WlJn your
letter, makes it quite doubtful whether /
could honorably accede to your proposition.
Y ou date from Auburn, and tell me to direct
to you at Auburn, but do not name the street.
Pardon me for regarding this as suspicious
circumstance. You may be an inmate of the
State Prison, or on your way there-a fact
which you see would interfere with the full
tillment of your part of the proposed bar
gain, even if | could fulfill the part YOU as
sign to me. You want $4,000 or $4,000.
This is a common want, and you are not to
blame for using all honorable means to OBJ
tain it. But candor requires me to state,
thatif you were in every respect suitable
person to be bought, for the purpose named,
have not the amount to buy you have
no objection TO yolr complexion but there
are certain little faults of grammar and spell
ing, as well as other little points, in Your
letter, which compel me to regard you as a
person, by education, manners and morals, as
wholly unfit to associate with my daughter
in any capacity whatever You evidently
think your white skin of great value. /
don't dispute it it is probably the best thing
about you Yet not even that valuable quail
ity can commend You sufficiently to induce
even so black a negro as myself to accept
you us his son law.
Year: 1860

n EFFECT OF THE ExcrrExExr.-The in
sane proceedings Of the people of some Of
the Southern States. are beginning to
have their effect. A panic is seizing mp
on the commercial interests Of the conn
try. and business is everywhere becoming
prostrated. Every branch of trade ia
becoming dsranged. and terrible crash
is imminent. The people of the South
must suffer perhaps vastly moro than
those of the North. They certainly must


perceive this yet. thus far. they have
not shown themselves possessed Of sufi-


eient spirit to crush out the fanatics and
mischief makers who have bssn system
aticslly at work for months to bring
about the present state Of affairs. and who
are still exerting their utmost energies to
hasten the impending calamity. .s
Year: 1860

You smooth the tangles from my hair
n itb gentle touch and tenderest care,
And count the years ere you shall mark
Bright silver tire ids among the dark
Smiling the while to hear me say,
You'll think of this again some day,


Some day
l do not scorn the power Of Time,
Nor count on years Of fadeless prime,
Butn no white CLEANS will ever shine
Among these heavy locks Of mine;
~, laugh as gaily as you may,
You'll think Of this again, some day.


Some day
Some day I shall not feel as now.
Your soft hands move about my brow.
l shall not slight your light commands
And draw the long braids thTo my hahus'
shall be silent, and obey, -,
And you-you will not laugh that day


Some day
7 know how long your loving hands
viii 1inrer with these glossy ban ds.
Wien you shall weave my latest crown
OF these thick braidings, long and brown;
But YOU VI u see no touch Of gray
Adown their shining length that day


Some day
And while your tears are falling hot
Upon the lips which answer not,
You'll take from these one treasured t-ess.
And leave the rest TO silentness-
Remembering that I used 10 say,
you'll think Of this again some day


SOME DAY
Year: 1860

LEGISLATIVE JoURNAIs.-We received, two
days ago, copies of the Senate and House
Jorr as for the session of Oct. 1852. They
are from the press of E. P. Walton, Montpe-
lier, and at a hasty glance, strike us as issued
in rather better style than usual Through
whose fault it is that they come out only
eigAt months after the session closed. we do
not know. If Legislation is necessary 10 iu-
sure more prompt publication Of the Jour-
mails than has been made for some years past.
we hope it will be applied. The State ought
to pay enough for its printing to insure its
being well done and promptly done, and
then see to it that it is SO done.
Year: 1860

DR.. Adam Clarke, who had strong
aversion to pork, was called upon to say
grace at a dinner, where the principal dish
was roast pig. lie is reported to have said
"Oh Lord if thou canst bless under the
gospel what thou didst curse under the law,
bless this pig.
Year: 1860

TEE Wet S1Dn UsloS Dkro1.-Ne learn
TINT 1t last the purchase has been finally per.
fected Of the tract Of two blocks Of land On the
West Side. between Madison and Adams and
running from the river to Canal street, for the
depot grounds Of tho West Side Union Rail
road Depot.
Year: 1860

A LAW TO COMPEL PEOPLE TO VoTE.-
A petition is to be presented to the Legis-
lature of New York, by Silas NJ, Stillwoll,
a citizen of that State, in which the pass
age of law compelling every legal voter
to vote at every election, is asked The
petitioner presents at some length his rea-
sons for the enactment Of this law, the
principal of which is that as Democratic
governments are carried on by majority
Of the people, unless all vote there is no
practical application of the doctrine.
Year: 1860

LEAF YEAR.-Those ladies who are par
ticularly desirous of entering the state of
matrimony, will have the present year the
privilege of making love to any of the
opposite sex on whom they may fix their
affections.
Year: 1860

And the platform of that Union party
will be the Union, the Constitution and
the Enforcement of the Laws. And if it
should be necessary to form such party,
and it shall be accordingly formed, an.
nounce myself in this place, member of
that party, whatever may be its component
elements"
Year: 1860

the country was sufficiently disgraced by
the election of an abandoned tradueer of his
friends and a corrupt renegade, to the dig
nifed office of Clerk of the House of repre-
sentatives. But this neither suficed the Re-
publican party nor the apostate CLERK. He
was called upon to make speech, and he
spoke. If anything had been req Tired to rub
in the disgrace and ;.sult consequent upon his
election, it was that speech. From the be-
ginning to the. end, it was conceived in the
lowest strain of black-guardism, indicative of
the pot-house debauchee, who neither had re-
spect for himself, his country, his Office, or
the Chief Magistrate of the Nation. He
thought it great occasion to abuse and villify,
taunt aud SANDER the very man of all men to
whom he owed the success of his life. And
he did this as a braggart and vulgar bully,
with boasts and falseLoods. Devoid of shame
"a stranger to all gentlemanly feeling
despicable and contemplate in his motives,
he made use of the nations Office to outrage
the nations magistrate, and infict a disgrace
upon the nations capital.


Some foolish people, aside of the Republi-
cans who think Forneys elections triumph over
Mr.. Buchanan entertain the opinion that the
presence of the Clerk before the president will
be most disagreeable to the latter Why the
truth is, no miserable NANCY cur, cuffed by
all and cared for by none, has ever skunk f ON
the grae of man as this fellow will stink
from the look of the President. The migrate
before his benefactor, the traitor in the pres
ence of the betrayed, the falsifcr in view of
the one he has injured, the slanderer in the
presence of the sandered. the Clerk standing
before the President of the United States clothed
majesty of thirty millions of people. guiding with
the the destinies of nation on which the eyes of
the world are held in fixed admiration, con
scious of his integrity, with an unspotted life
and unsullied name animated with the purest
and loftiest intentions-who of these two,
when in the presence of each other will cover,
whose knees will give way, whose cheek will
pale, and whose coward eyes will seek the floor?
Will it be the apostate Clerk or the President? !?
Whose face will be blazoned over with yilliany,
and whose tortured mind will betray sithe con-
scious paugs, the future miseries that await the
apostate"


Since Forney has been paid for his treach-
cry to the Democratic party and his foul course
towards his benefactor, we shall be free to
prove his abandonment of the very principles
which he accuses the President of having
abandoned. We shall prove him traitor, SO
that all his curses heaped upon the venerable
head of Mr.. Buchanan may come home to
roost. We shall do this from his own record
when we have done it, we shall demand of the
public of this country verdict which will
forever disgrace not alone the apostate Clerk,
but those who partake in his baseness by re,
warding his perfdy-Pennsylcdnian.
Year: 1860

DANGER IN THE cup.-In our police report
to-day, says the Rochester Democrat Of the
9th ult., will be found the name of young
man who not long ago was occupying a respect
able position as salesman in one of the dry
goods stores of Rochester, but who unfortunate
ly contracted the dangerous habit of indulging
too frequently in social glass, and has descend
ed to the condition of confirmed drunkard


He is now suffering all the horrors of mania a
potu. Being fatally unfit for use at the Peni-
tentiary, he was sent to Jail to be. cured of his
disease, Bis case affords warning to many
who are commencing life under what appear to
be promising auspices, but whose habits augur
i'll for their future happiness and prosperity.
Year: 1860

We make the following eloquent extract
from late speech of Sentor HUNTER of
Virginia. Inspeaking of the.possibihty of the
efforts of the Republicans to overthrow the
Government proving successful; !; he said:


"Sir, in that event, the accusing voice Of
human history will ring through all the ages
to impeaeh them at the bar of posterity for
having destroyed the noblest scheme of consti-,
tutional liberty which the wisdom of man has
ever devised and upon that fearful issue each
of the succeeding generations of men will re-
cord its verdict Of guilty against them. Their
own descendants will heap reproaches upon the
names of those who disappointed them of the
destiny which would have been the richest
inheritance that one generation could be-,
queath another. But when it il asked upon
what view of the Constitution; Spen what
consideration of religion. or philanthrOphy;
upon what calculation of interest, general or
sectional, the fatal decd was done, where will
the satisfactory answer be found, and who
shall arise in that day to defend their name
from the foul reproach? 9 Hs


'sMr President, when I think Of what it Is :
that may be destroyed by this narrow spirit of
sectional hate and bigotry, turn away from
the contemplation with feeling of almost
indignant despair; but will not, as yet despair
of my country. will yet hope that the great
army. ..of. Northern Democrats and conservatives
will arise in the might of a noble cause, and
expel the intruders from the seat of power.
will trust in the influence of truth, whose en-
pire is felt in every human heart when once it
has touched it. I will put my faith higher yet
in Providence, for it cannot be that God will
permit such scheme of Government as this,
freighted, as it might have been, with the high
est hopes of humanity to be weckcd in the
wild orgies of madmen and fanatics"
Year: 1860




How SHOT ARE MADE-The Dubuque
Herald tells how shot are manufactured at the
Dubuque Shot Tower, as follows: @


"The tower is one hundred and thirty feet
high In the lower rooms are the furnaces,
engines, sorting and polishing machinery and
putting up The lead is melted and one
pound of arsenic added to every hundred
pounds of lead. 1t is then drawn up the
top Of the tower and poured into sieve, from
which it falls to the first floor in a reservoir of
water. From the reservoir it goes on the dry
er. and thence into a revolving cylinder, in
which it is polished. 1t is then taken out and
poured on an inclined plane. At the bottom
of this is another inclined plane which is sepa-
rated from the first by a distance of a couple
of inches The pellets that arc perfectly spher-
ical will gain momentum enough in passing
down the first inclined plane to carry them over
the space which separates it from the one be-
low. IF pellet is little lame however, it
comes down very slowly, aided mayhap a, little
by boy and brush, and falls between the two
inclined planes into a box, and is again to be
re-melted. They are then taken out and put
into sort of sitting machine This looks
like a chest of drawers. The top drawer is
perforated a certain size, the next below size
smaller, and so on down. The shot is poured
into the top and the whole machine driven
backward and forward by machinery. Of course
all the pellets below certain size correspond
ing with the holes in the top drawer will drop
through, and So ON down each drawer retaining
a CERTAIN sized pellet, say tsBB," No. /, &c. 8.


The machinery for the establishment is driv-
en- by three horse power engine. The tower
has been in operation little over two weeks.
and they have manufactured over nine thou
sand pounds of shot" 7
Year: 1860

b@The Cincinnati papers say that an anti
slavery clergyman of that city actually wrote
letter to Gov. Wise, soon aft + the eonvic-
tion of John Brown, begging the privilege of
taking Browns place on the gallows. He set
forth that Brown was hero, and his life
should be spared for future brave deeds. If
toat could be done, he (the minister) was ready
to sacrifice himself, and would gladly tie the
ignominous death. The answer of Governor
Wise was to the effect that it was out If his
power to save the life of John Brown, but if
the minister was very anxious to be hanged,
and would come to Virginia, the governor
would try to have him accommodated
Year: 1860

The following letter from one of the most
distinguished clergyman of the Southern States,
was written in reply to an inquiry from Hon..
Edward Everett, as to the effectof recent anti
slavery movements upon the condition of the
slaves in the Southern States