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Year: 1860

Poison OAK ANTIDorE-The San Mateo Ga
zette says that almost invariably near the oak
vine, SO much dreaded, may be found plant,
the leaves of which, simply rubbed upon the
parts effected by the poison, will Immediately
remove all irritation and injurious effects This
plant is called " wild NORWOOD" but for the
better information of those who do not know ID
by this name. we will describe it. 1t grows
about two feet high; its aroma somewhat re-
sembes that of wild mint; its leaf Is about four
inches long, is narrow, and forked The color
Of tie leaf is dark green on the surface, and
underneath is whitsh. When the wormwood
is applied to the affected part Immediately after
contact with the poison oak, it will be necessary
to make a strong decoction and apply with
cloth.
Year: 1860

New AMUSEMENT FOR LADIEs-An Eastern
paper remarks


Ladies "parlor skates" are noticed for sale in
Boston. They are made, to all appearance,
like ordinary skates, but have in the runners
little brass wheels, nearly covered with leather
so that the wearer can skate over an ordinary
floor with ease and safety. 1t is said that ball
room skating is to be the rage at the watering
places this summer
Year: 1860

LIME POINT, AND THE ADVANTAGES THAT WILL
RESULT FROM ITS PURCHASE" Whatever may
be our estimate of the motives of Senator Gwin
for recommending it, the purchase of Lime Point
by the Government is measure of no little i'm
portance to California. Without fortitication on
the north side of the Bay, San Francisco harbor
and the Navy Yard at Mare Island, were at the
mercy of any hostile squadron that wlled an
entrance through the Golden Gate."-Napa Re
porter.


A great variety of views have been INDUCED
in by the press of this State, and more especially
Of the Bay city, in conneXion with the Lime Point
purchase-most of them condemnatory of the
measure, and of Senator Gwn, who has the credit
of being we'll paid for his maneuvering in the
matter. Leaving the old man out entirely, we,
like the Reporter, ~ see nothing but advantage in
the purchase" and when we look back and re-
member how foolishly Government and State
thousands and hundreds of thousands have in
many instances been expended without receiving
any equivalent. we are led to believe this pur-
chase Of Lime Point most eommendable one.
Six miles of Bay frontage will be acquired there
by, and when Lime Point is fortified as proposed
by Government, the harbor of San Francisco will
be one of the best fortified in the world impeF
vous to any fleet which might attempt entrance
through the Golden Gate. We believe Govern
meut never made q better bargain.
Year: 1860

JAPANESE on AMERICAN PoIITIcs.---A cor
respondent of the New York Times, (who is sus-
pected of being Howe the Pasha,') indites a
second epistle purporting to be written by one
of the japanese ambassadors to his friend
Moonsk


"But the government Of the country, oh son
of Frum, is that which has most filled the souls
of thy cousin with wonder The people choose
a tycoon from among themselves once in four
years. In making choice they do not say Has
this man wisdom? Have the planets rained
their treasures upon him? But they say Can
he run? Thus, one party has chosen man
whose legs are longer than the mandates Of
Mikado for they say: Behold, he can run like


the bird of the desert. And they say of him, he is
used to the splitting of rails. In the wonder of
my soul | said to Gen. Scott Kam, Is rail
splitting one of the qualifications Of the tycoons?
And he made answer that this people designed
to fence this country in, and that Honest Abe
will do it. Another party desire TO have a tycoon
whom they call Dug.a-l las bnt the people say he
cannot run we'll which must be true, as his legs
are exceedingly short and his stomach is round.
Another party say that for tycoon they wish a
great scribe whose name is Ever-at-et. He
delineates the sentiments of his soul upon q
paper called the Led,ger, and he signs himself
BONNER 1t was this great scribe who wrote
that Book called the Gun-maker Of Moscow, as
thou wilt remember is translated into the
language OF Niphon, and which the Grand Lame
reads with joy"
Year: 1860

An AFFECTING SCENE" Not many years
since" says Froser's Magazine, " certain miners
working far underground came upon the body Of
poor fellow who had pershe6 in the sHffocatng
pit forty years before. Some chemical agent to
which the body had been subjectcd~an agent
prepared in the laboratory of nature-had effect
uaIiy arrested the progress of decay. They
brought 1t to the surface, and for while, till it
crumbled away through exposure to the atmos
phere, it lay there, the image of fine sturdy
young man. No convulsions had passed over
the face in death---the features were tranquil ;
the hair as black as jet. No one recognized the
face-a generation had grown up since the day
on which the miner went down his shaft for the
last time But totterng old woman, who had
hurried from her cottage at hearing the news,
came up and she knew again the face which,
through all these years, she had not quite forgot.
The poor miner was to have been her husband
the day after that on which he died. They were
rough people, of course, who were looking on a
liberal education and refined feelings are not
deemed essential to the man whose work it is to
get up Goals. or even tin but there were no dry
eyes there when that grey.headed old pilgrim
cast herself upon the youthful corpse, and poured
out to its deaf ear many words of endearment
unused for forty years. 1t was touching
contrast-the one so old, the other so young.
They had both been young these long years ago
but time had gone on with the living and stood
still with the dead"
Year: 1860

A JUsr REBUKE-Senator Sumner of Massa-
chusetts, called Hon. Jere Clemens, of Alabama,
a slave owner. in late speech. in reply to which
that gentleman. among other things, says:


at may surprise Mr.. Sumner to learn that l
have never been the owner Of a slave. l have
never been engaged in any pursuit or avocation
ia which slave labor would have been the slight
est benefit to me, and | Eave never been able to
buy slaves for the mere purpose OF waiting on
me- There is negro man here with whom
was raised-one who has lived with me great
deal, and who was with me throughout the Mex
lean war, but the title to him was not in met
was in my father and if Mr.. Sumner will ask
any of the surviving officers or soldiers of the
Ninth Infantry (all Of whom were from New
Engand) | think that they will tell him that it
was matter of some doubt whether | belonged
to the negro, or he belonged to me. At all
events, if Mr.. Sumner will send here in one
month double the sum that negro would bring if
offered for sale, he could not induce him to touch
it, with condition annexed that he should live
in Massachusetts as freeman"
Year: 1860

THE GLORY OF BoSToN COMMON" GoNE.-A
heavy storm at Boston, on the 3Oth of june blew
down the great elm tree which every one who
has ever visited the Common grounds will re-
member Abiding to the occurrence, the Boston
Journal says:


There is not native Bostonian who will not
depore the loss of the Great Elm. 1t is ass ocia-
ted with the sports of childhood, and is as famil
lar to the sight as the dome of the State House.
1t has grown with Boston from its earliest infancy,
and seems as much part of it as the very pc
nnsula upon which the city is founded.
Year: 1860

HOPE AND MEMoRY.--Hope writes the poetry
of the boy, but memory that Of the man. Man
looks forward with smiles, but backward with
sghs. Such is the wise providence of God.
The cup of life is sweetest at the brim, the flavor
is impaired as we drink deeper, and the dregs
are made bitter that we may not struggle when
il is taken from our lips.
Year: 1860

DoN QuIxoTE E-LIrrLED.-The Spanish jour
mails record a most remarkable case Of wasted
labor in the chirographical achievement of
certain Senor Marta, who has cOntrived to write
out the whole novel of Don Quxote upon a
single sheet of paper, such as the Spaniards use
for making their cigarettes. The task occupied
two years of bard work with the microscope, and
has cost the writer the sight of one of his eyes.
1t would not be easy to imagine worse misuse
Of time and patience than this.
Year: 1860

BoTToM OF THE OcEAN.-Mr. Green, the famous
diver, tells singular stories Of his adventures
when making search in the deep waters Of the
ocean He gives some sketches of what ho saw
on the Silver Banks near Hayti;


The banks of coral on which nay diving9, mar
rated in the previous chapter, were made, are
about forty miles in length, and from ten to
twenty in breadth


On this bank of coral is presented to the diver
one of the most sublime and beautiful scenes the
eye ever behed. The water varies from ten to
one hundred feet in Depth and so clear that the
diver can see from two to three hundred feet
while submerged, with little obstruction to the
sight.


The bottom of the ocean in many places on
these banks is az smooth as n marble floor in
others it Is studded with coral columns from ten
to one hundred feet in hight, and from one to
eight feet in diameter. The tops of these more
lofty support myriad OF pyramidlca pendants,
each forming a myriad more giving the reality
to the imaginary abode Of some water nymph.
In other places the pendants form arch after arch
and as the diver stands on the bottom Of tho
ocean and gazes through these into the deep
winding avenue, he feels that they fill him with
as sacred an awe as il he were In some Cathedral
which had long been buried beneath " old oceans
wave" Here and there the coral extends oven
to the surface of the water, as If those lofter
columns were towers belonging to these stately
temples now In ruin.


There were countless varieties OF diminutive
trees, shrubs and plants in every crevlcc OF the
corais, where the water had deposited the least
earth. They were all of faint hue. owing to
the pale light they received, although of every
shade, and entirely different from plants am
familiar with that vegetate on dry land. One in
particular attracted my attention IL resembled
q sea fan OF immense size, OF varegated colors,
and Of the most brilliant hue.
Year: 1860

Next week the freemen of the United States
will 60 to the polls to elect President and
Vice President. This is the gravest duty which
can be devOlved upon a free people, and we
hope it will be discharged in manner
worthy of ffreemen-wiihout fear, favor or af
feetion.


The People of the United States are free.
men-possessing the glorious privilege ofchoos.
ing their own rulers Every man is sentinel
of the public liberty, posted on The watchtow-
er. Let them 60 to the polls on Tuesday next
every man of them-and bravely discharge
their duty like patriots. The times are preg-
nant with important events. Great RESPONSE
bty rests upon the exercise of the elective
franchise; but no one can escape it even if he
were SO disposed. Every elector must vote for
the man whom he would have to preside over
the des'ines Of the country, or ignobly prove
himself unworthy the rights of a freeman
Year: 1860

NOVEMBER AND OYsTERs.-November and
oysters are synonymous. 1t is said that BIZ
valves ought not to be eaten in any month
which has not an K in it, but we will 90 fur
ther and say that they ought not to be eaten
until October or November, for then they be-
gin to fatte0. become juicy and are in " robust
health" We are pleased to notice that they
are getting plenty in our market, and of un:
usual good quality. The only regret have
is that the stiffness of prices and the tightness
of the times prevent many from enjoying often
er the luxury of dish at supper. But if all
our readers cannot enjoy the oysters, they can
at least enjoy the music of the following hard
she'll lyric, set TO music by FRY:


Strike the resounding Tyre


Bring roses from the plain
Rejoice ye young--let's all get sprung;


Oysters have come again!


The summers past away


OF that cont complain;
Its flowers have died-but let 'em slide


Oysters have come again!


sought foI joy in clans


Awhile they eased my pain
But now all clans seem stuff and fams-


Oysters have come again.


Now let us sail with Joy


Over life's stormy main;


Crack on the ship and let her rip


Oysters have come again!
Year: 1860

ADvERTIsEMENTs.-We have several adyer.
tisements on hand, intended for this issue,
which we have been unable to get in, owing
TO the arrangement of our office by the late
FIRE. We hope our friends will pardon the
delay-aHother week will bring us up on this
score all right.
Year: 1860

public meeting will be held at Wards
Hall on Friday evening next, at O'Clock, for
religious exercises. In community of some
twenty-five hundred souls let US show o the
world that there are many possessed of that
same spirit which animated Caleb and Joshua
of old-prepared to fight the battles Of our
GOD, and ready and willing to meet together
in all brotherly kindness, love and chartr.-
And why should not we have at leat one night in
the week devoted to the praise of our common
GOD, and to prayer for ourselves and our fel-
low men! And what can be more profitable
to US town and community than to meet in
this capacity, with no other name but hat OF
Jesus upou our banner, and with no other mo-
tive but that of Christian love in our hearts
As an humble citizen make this appes 10 the
intelligent and thoughtful. When we o's serve
what other communities, much more United
in numbers and resources than ours. are doing
we believe that there is life and heart enough
in Smyrna 10 sustain such meeting.


Say, Brothers, shall we meet there.
Year: 1860

A VISIT TO THE TOMB OF Col. HAKDEN-
On their return from the funeral obsequies
of Gov Bissell, the Quincy City Guards
stopped at Jaeksonvillea and paid visit to the
tomb of the lamented Col Harden. The
Quincy lFhig and Republican, gives a touch
ing gaccount OF the event, from which we copy
the followirg:


Compelled by those around him, Capt.
Prentiss stepped 10 the front, the tears run
ming down his cheeks like rain. |" Guards, !"
said he. al wish could express to you
what feel, but cannot. No man knew
John J. Harden better than | did. We
have slept in the same tent, under the same
blanket; often have seen him crawl out
from nnder our blanke and come around
and tuck the blanket under me to keep out
the cold blast. Again and again | have
seen him go out in the storm, among the
tents of his men, to see that all were made
comfortable as possiblc, without disturbing
them. lie took me from his ranks and
made ME his Adjutant, and afterwards got
me promoted to the command of a compan Y
in his own regiment. Capt Morgan and
myself were the last persons who ever
I touched the body of that glorious man


We put him in the box that he was brought
here in This sash around my body is satu.
rated with the last drops of his blood"
Year: 1860

R<S~W We copy to-day from the Indianapo-
lis JOurltat an account of the operation of the
Paid Fire Department system in several of
the Large cities. 1t seems that there is in
creased safety and actual economy in the
new system, to say nothing OF the better
state of morality which it induces.
Year: 1860

EUROPEAN AFFAIRs.-The New York
Courier says that their private advices from
Europe are more beIligerent than the gener-
public press; and it should not excite sur
prise if at an early day general European
war should become inevitable. A friend
writes us" The general quiet may remain
undsiurbed for months it is certainly
within the chapter of probabilities that
there may be no war. Butt tell you frank
ly, all the probabilities are against any
such suppositiou and you must be prepared
for an explosion at any moment. In my
Judgment general war is inevitable
Year: 1860

States than the late John Brown meeting
at Boston.


\ few determined wicked men can make
a great deal of trouble, as these perverse
and obstinate South Carolina leaders
prove Their disunon agitation has al
ready cost the nation more than fifty South
Garolinas could make good in fifty years.
1t has already produced more bad feeling
than any event in our history. In all
parts of the nation, at the South as well
as the North, their preci pitation is alike
execratcd. Fit depended upon the votes
of the people, we do not believe that there


is man, woman or child that would not
willingly let South Carolina go where she
might please 1t the constitution could
be so amended as to allow any number Of
discontented individuals to withdraw at
their own will, it would find universal
approval so far as these are concerned
Everybody is heartily tired of their va
porine. bravado and nonsense. But, un-
fortunately, the question is not one of per-
sonal feelings; it is question of consti-
tuition, of laws. of traditional rights; and
it ought to be met with the cautious, pa
ticnt, far-secing, dignifed wisdom which
alone is appropriate in the conduct Of the
critical affairs Of states.-Ereniny Post.
Year: 1860

Rev. Mr.. Halls fifth number in
the series entitled, Missionary Life in
the Northwest, will appear next week
We invite attention TO these interesting
papers. The author was among the
first settlers on the shores Of Lake SUI
perior thirty years ago. Combining
accurate scholarship with so thorough
an acquaintance with his subject, these
"reminiscences from his pen will be read
with unusual interest
Year: 1860

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Year: 1860

THE UNDERSIGNED BEGs TO INFORM THE PUBLIC


that the which these Lots be purchased
leased have been modified that under certain restrictions
and regulations description of Building be erected
thereon being the desire and object Of His Majesys Gov
to have the said Lots occupied quickly possible
facility viii be granted to intending occupers and by
consulting with the undersigned they will find that their views
wiz be met in far consistent with the public
interests.


Ten Of said Lots having been engaged only Of the
choice situations remain be disposed Of that early
plcation will be necessary to secure them.


w. L. GREEN, Agent for the sale


l9n and lease Of the Waikahaluu Lots.
Year: 1860

TRIUMPH OVER EVIL - We arc re.
warded for every triumph we make
over temptation. will suppose there
are many who have struggled against
the vanity of vain pleasures many
who have put down evil thoughts with
strong will many who, after a
long, and, it may be, an uncertain
conflict with the seductions of the
world, at length have triumphcd. l
will put it to them whether, when
they have combated and SO prevail,
ed against the evil, their hearts
have not softencd and melted within
their bosoms a seraphic influence ?
They have so felt; and so it will ever
be. No sooner shall they have driven
from them the tempting demon Of
pride, of vanity, of angcr,-no sooner
shall the devil have left them, than
angels will come and minister unto
them.
Year: 1860

SrcCEss.-Every man must patient
ly abide his time. He must wait, not
in listless idleness, not in useless pas
time, not in qucrulous detection but
in constant, steady, and cheerful en-
deavor always willing. fulfilling and
accomplishing his task that when
the occasion comes. he may be equal
to the occasion. The talent Of success
is nothing more than doing what you
can do well, without thought of fame.
If it comes at all, it will come be.
cause it is deserved, not because it is
sought after. 1t is very indiscrect
and troublesome ambition which cares
ST. much about fame about what the
world says Of US; to hr always looking
in the face of others for approval to
be always anxious about the effect OF
what we do or say; To be always
shouting to hear the echoes of our own
voices.-Longfii0r.
Year: 1860

LITERARY Men AND THEIR WIvEs.-I
do maintain that wife, whether
young or old, may pass her evenings
most happily in the presence Of her
husband, occupied herself, and CON
scious that he is still better occupied,
though he may but speak with her
and cast his eyes upon her from time
to time that such evenings may be
looked forward to with great desire,
and deeply regretted when they are
passed away forever. Wieland, whose
conjugal felicity has been almost as
celebrated as himself, says, in let.
ter written after his wife's death, that
if he but knew she was in the room,
or if at times she stepped in and said
word or two, that was enough to
gladden. him. Some of the happiest
and most loving couples are those who,
like Wieland and his wife, are both
too fully employed to spend the whole
of every evening in conversation -
! Sarah Col9idge.
Year: 1860

THE Loss OF THE HUNGARIAN.-0n Monday last the
daily papers contained the distressing intelligence
of the loss of the steamer Hungarian. Captain De-
lano, Of the American ship Pocahontas, happened
to enter the office of Messrs. Nash, at Cardiff when
one of the members of the firm mentioned to him
the painful intelligence he had Just read of the
steamer little imagining that the unfortunate cap
tain had wife and child on board. The conster-
nation and anguish depicted upon the countenance
OF Captain Delano soon told the tale of sorrow to
those who happened to be present 1t appeared
that the captain brought his wife and child from
America to Liverpool and on leaving that port he
sent them back again by the above named ILL
fated steamer, rather than expose them to the
hazards of long voyage to Rio de Janeiro.-IStar
of GIrent,
Year: 1860

The Hen. Caleb Cushing says that whatever may
have been done on board the James Gray in regard
to the Palmetto flag, done 'without any orders,
knowledge or privity on the part of either of my
brothers or of myself; and that first and only
knowledge of the matter at the time was derived
from the telegraphic statement as it appeared in
various shapes in the newspapers of Boston,
Year: 1860

The members from the cotton States do not gem
orally seem to relish the idea of permitting the
states that are expected to be Immediately injured
by the ascendancy of irrepressbe confctiSm in
the Government, to share in their counsels and
influence their action in the premises Those rep
resentlng the latter States the other hand, seem
to be almost unanimous in demanding unanmity of
action on the part of the South. We have so far
found but one of them disposed to surrender the
interests OF the border slave States in the crisis
into the keeping of South Carolina, by iustifying
her SO evident purpose of compelling the whole
South to foil low her example, by leaving them no
alternative but to do so, while family protesting
that she is acting but for herself
Year: 1860

Her Majesty's ship Bulldog arrived unexpectedly
in killybegs harbor ON Sunday afternoon, under
the command of Captain Sir Leopold McClintock
having encountered very severe weather on her re-
turn from the Arctic regions and North America
We understand that the important work intrusted
by the government to the charge of our distingu-
ished fellow-countryman has been carried out to
his entire satisfaction; and we may therefore hope
that when his report of the several soundings be.
tween this country and America, via the Arctic
coast, has been laid be fore Parliament, the long
lookedtor telegraph, by means of which the Old
and the New World will be united, will be a work
OF mere mechanical nature. Sir Leopold McClin-
took will probably pass through Dublin on his way
to London.