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Year: 1860

The ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAIL
ROAD.-The reports of the rapid construction
of this road are most encouraging. Last
week, sixteen miles and half Of iron had
been laid, and the rails are now put down at
the rate Of a mile per day. One Locomotive,
for running the construction train, is not able
to do the work, and the second one will be
on in few days.


At Randolph, Cataraugus Co., N. Y, a
Fourth of July Celebration will be held in
honor of the completion of the Road to that
point upon that day. The people along the
line the road, rejoice greatly at the progress
made with the work-RaUenna Democrat.
Year: 1860

DEMOCRATIC HlCKoR1Es, you saw
what was done last night you saw the great y
BEAT 1T, you must put yourselves-every
man in readiness for it, and come out FIVE
HUNDRED STRONG at your next parade.
You can do this. Let every democrat come
forward. Let the Democratic Battalion come
fO III
Year: 1860

VILLAINY ON THE MOBILE AND ONO RAIL.
RoAD.-The Mobile Tribune of the 2lst, re-
cords the following: .....


Yesterday evening, as the freight train
No. 2 went up the road, when some few
miles above Whistler, they came in con-
tact with a strap" which was evidently
set for the Mississippi passenger train
1t was log placed on the track in such
a position as to throw the down train off.
Fortunately the up freight train No.
struck it first, and no damage was done,
except the breaking of q water pipe. The
train then returned to Whistler. The
passenger train from Mississippi came in
at the regular time.
Year: 1860

BRAo.-A Disunionist "down south 4"
proposes to bet ten thousand dollars that
Breckinridge will carry all the Southern
States out three. U


We take that bet, and in addition will
go fifty thousand better that Bell will be
elected President over all OPPOSITION
FIRST and SECOND class Democratic papers
please copy.
Year: 1860

POPULATION OF IowA.-The estimated
population of Iowa is in the neighbor-
hood of 100000, which, under the new
apportionment, will entitle that State to
six members of Congress. This will be
the greatest proportionate increase of
representation of any State in the Union.
Year: 1860

gaSn The Boston Advertiser says that
an officer was dismissed from the Custom
House in that city lately who was an old
faithful officer and soldier of the war of
1872. His salary was not large, not moro
than he required. Yet on the 3lst of
August he was assessed $50 for party pur-
poses. Aware that if he refused he
would be decapitated, of course, and
wishing to retain his position, he paid up
promptly. On the first of September he
received his dismissal. Having got out
of him all that it was possible to obtain,
he was turned adrlft, and tho very next
Jay at that. Rather unkind to say the
least of it.
Year: 1860

Are two OF the most common and virulent disorder
prevalent on this continent, TO these the Ointmen
is especially antagonsiie its modns operandi'' is
first to eradicate the venom and then complete
the cure.
Year: 1860

The LAST DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONTENTION
As matter of some interest at this time and for
convenience as matter of reference, subjon the
balotings for the Democratic nominee at Cincinnati
Year: 1860

A GENERAL EUROPEAN WAR EXPECTED
The New York Courier says that their private
advices from Europe are more belligerent than
the general reader would infer from the tone
of the public press; and it should not excite
surprise if, at an early day, general European
war should become inevitable. The bad
temper that is exhibited between France and
England-the warlke feeling Of Switzerland
and Austria towards France - the hostile
attitude of the Pope towards France anc
Sardinia together with other visible symp


toms of discomfort and anilnosity-indicat'
that general war may at any moment breal
Year: 1860

WThe Lafayette Qad.) Courier tells an
amusing story of company OF young ladies
and gentlemen of that place, who took it
it into their heads to adjourn from social
party to walk near the cemetery. As they
approached the ghostly place lady scream-
ed. All eyes were turned to the point in
dicated by her alarm, and saw ghost
coming towards them, appareled in ortho-
dox white. They all ran but one sturdy
woman, of the strong-minded class, who
stood her ground until the ghost got to her,
when she seized it, and thrashed out of his
frightful disguise u mischievous fellow who
had heard the project of walking about the
graveyard discussed, and hid himself there
to give the party a fright. She led him
back to the house, and in reply to the ques.
tions that poured in upon her, said Cant
fool me. I've seen too many men in sheets
to get frightened at theml"
Year: 1860

svlt is now pretty we'll ascertained that
the Homestead Bill will be vigorously opposed
in the Senate by the leading Democrats
thereof. Messrs. Mason, Hunter and others
declare that the bill prop ,ses the increase Of
free States, and that the slave States will not
have ghost of chance under its operation.
Those gentlemen are partly right. Slavery
can only flourish where the wealthy few have
a monopoly of the soil. The Homestead Bill
proposes to limit donations to 160 acres to
each person entitled to pre-empt. Slave labor
cannot thrive on small farms, and therefore il
is not at all strange that the Democracy desire
the defeat of the Homestead Bill. Will the
people bear these facts in mind?
Year: 1860

IT WoN'T Do.-Douglas' friends in Wash
ingtcn City are scattering broadcast over the
South his late speech in reply to William II.
Seward. There are few persons at this post
who have not been thus favored, and some of
them received as many as three or four of the
Public Documents, Gentlemen, it won't do !;
all the physicking in the world will not make
Squatter Sovereignty lay on the stomach of
the South. Ipecacuanha is not more nauseous.
Squatter Sovereignty was intended for North
ern and this speech for Southern consumption.
We doubt whether single copy of the latter
has been sent to a man north Of Mason and
Dixon's line, and the expense of having it
printed might have been saved, so far So any
good to Douglas c,n be accomplished by
sending it outh.-Memphis Aoalanche.
Year: 1860

~ The New York Tribune figures on the
probable result of the balloting for President
in the Charleston Convention. 1t makes out
that Douglas will be nominated on the second
ballot May be, and may be not.
Year: 1860

WARNING TO TRAVELLERS. - The Utica
Herald cautions travellers on railway cars
against taking hold of the horizontal wheel
used for Tightening the brake, which pro.
jccts above the railing on the platform of
the cars. The reason for this action is thus
stated:


"Several of the railroads are beginning
to use new kind Of brake, which, in case
Of emergency, can be set almost instantly
~ithout the presence of the brakeman
Should such an emergency arise while a
passe niger was steadying himself by one o.
the wheels, it would, without the least warn.
ing commence to revolve rapidly, and he
would lose his hold and run great risk O.
falling between the cars"
Every person should remember this eau
ton. 1t may save his life.
Year: 1860

"OLD ABE" ON SNAKrs.--The following il


one of Lincoln's illustrations in his late speech


at New Haven. Speaking of the rights ane


wrongs Of slavery, he said:


''The other policy is one that squares with


the idea that slavery is wrong, and it consists
IN doing everything that we ought to do if il
is wrong. Now, don't wish to be misun
derstood, nor to leave gap down to be mis-.
represented even. don't say that we ought
to attack it where it exists. To me it seems
that, if we were to form a government anew,
in view of the actual presence of slavery, We
| should find it necessary to frame Just such O
government as our fathers did; giving t, the
stakeholder the entire control where the
system is established, while we possessed the
power to restrain it from going outside those
limits. Applause. From the necessities of
the case we should be compelled to form just
such government as our blessed fathers gave
us; and, surely, if they have so made it, that
adds another reason why we should let slavery
alone where it exists.


"If saw a venomous snake crawling IN the
road, any man would say might seize the
nearest stick and kill it.; but, if found that
snake in bed with my children, that would be
another question. Laughter. might hurt
the children more than the snake, and the
snake might bite them. Applause. Much
more, if found it in bed with my neighbor's
children, and had bound myself by solemn
compact not to meddle with his children under
any circumstances, it would become me to let
that particular mode of killing the gentleman
alone. Great laughter. But, if there is a
bed newly made up, to which the children are
to be taken, and it was proposed to take
batch of young snakes and put them there
with them, take it no man would say there
was question how 1 ought to decide.
Prolonged applause and cheers.


"That is just the case The new Territories
are the newly made bed to which our children
are to go, and it lies with the Nation to say
whether they shall have the snakes mixed up
with them or not. 1t does seem as if there
could not be much hesitation what our policy
should be-" [Applause.
Year: 1860

NJ A pile of ties was laid on the New
York Central Railroad track, last Friday
night, near Pembroke, to overwhelm the
westward lightning express, which was mar
rowly saved. The engineer had only few
rods warning, by reason ofthe curve, but he
reversed the engine hard, put on the power
full action of the Creamer paten: brakes, and
brought the train up so chock that not even
the cow-catcher was damaged. 1t took half
an hour to clear the track SO that the train
could proceed, and while all the passengers
tremb!ed as if in the presence of the danger
itself, the brave engineer broke down entire
" and lost all the nerve that had sustained
him in the fearful moment.


~ A six-footer from Rochester tell INTO
the hands of Peter Funks in New York, last
Saturday, and at once lost $40 in the pur-
chase of bogus watch. When he discover
ed the trick and had been laughed at as
fool he coolly locked the outside door, put
the key in his pocket, stripped of his coat'
and proposed to settle "that little matter he
was a-talkirg about" The $40 were handed
, back.
Year: 1860

so peculiarly that every interest Of free labor
shall be held subordinate to it No p
Where are you going then We tell you
that no party in this country can prosper, or
can even live ten years, that is not on one
side or the other of these questions. There
is no middle ground, and you have got to be
either Black Republican or Niger Dri-
yer. You may fool around, as some of our
Old Wings are now doing, and try to strad-
die this question, but it won't amount to any
thing.


V. What are you going to do ?-Spring-
field RepublicaM.
Year: 1860

The three negro boys found on board of the
SLAYER VIM. r. Kibby, are in Jail in New York CITY
awaiting the action of the government The World
says that many persons in this country are desirous
of educating the boys and bring them up. If they
were white would they do it
Year: 1860

A feud has long existed between certain mem
bers OF the Presby byterian church at JERSEY City,
and at the session of last Thursday evening it broke
out into open war, two of the membership being
arrested at the instance of the PASTOR who charged
them with rotOus and disorderly conduct
Year: 1860

SLooP- WAR PowHATAN.-The usual inspection
of this vessel was made on Thursday, by the off,
GERS of the yard, and she was found to be in excel
lent condition. The stripping will commence as
soon as the vessel is hauled in, and when that is
completed the will be discharged 1t is ex-
pected that they will be paid off about the middle
of next week. Under the late excellent arrange
ments of paying off the and-sharks are kept at too
great distance from the crew to enable them to
finger much of the "ready. y."-PhH Bulletin
Year: 1860




How A COMPANY WAS SAvED.-We
have been iufo or,neI, says the Kentucky
FYag. by an officer OF the y. 5. army, OF a
most remark bic instance OF ingenuity and
presence of mind in Sergeant Of the ar
my, which occurred few weeks ago, by
which he saved his life and that Of his par
tv. A Sergeant with about % soldiers,
had been sent out some miles from Fort
Defiance, New Mexico, to guard some
stock which was sent TO Craze, when, un-
expsctedIy, they found that the party was
surrounde by about four hundred hostile
Navajo lniians The brave and skiIlul
sergeant took position on an erninence,
and, by voIey from the long shooting
rifles Of hi. psrty, at first drove Oft the
savages, who, however, soon rallied, and
were preparing to storm the little party
on both sides The sergeant, in taxing
his brain for An expedient by which to
convey intelligence OF the desperate peril
in which bis little party was placed, took
little dog which had accompanied the
party, fastening to his collar note writ
ten with a pencil, informing the comman.
der at the fort of his situation, took a tin
cup in which some pebbles were confined
with piece of cloth over the top, fastened
it with a string to the dogs tail, and star
ted the dog loose, knowing that he would,
in his alright, run to the fort lie dash
ed with the greatest speed to Fort Defiance;
the note was discovered and read. A
marty was straightway sent to their relief,
and arrived just N tiae to save the lives
of the whole party. The Sergeant justly
merits a commission, which, we hope, will
be awarded him BY the President.
Year: 1860

rEA backwoodsman, who had never
seen pair of sugar tongs, being invited
to a tea party, requested person, who
unfortunately sat next to him, to give some
information respecting their use. at is
a very ingenious instrument" said the wsg,
and has lately baen invented for blowing
ones nose. 1t is now in use in genteel
society, and it is expected that the disgust
ing custom of using the fingers will be al
to gether abolished" The sugar bowl
was handed to him. The unfortunate man
of the forest seized ths sugar tongs, and
the polite part Of the assembly were as
founded at TIE strange application of the
instrument and the tremendous report
which followed.
Year: 1860

E A printers apprentice say, that At
the office they charge him with all the ps
they do find, and at the house they charge
him with all they don't find. lie cannot
understand that kind of logic.
Year: 1860

There is dreadful ambition abroad for
being "gentsel." We keep up appearances.
too oten at the expense of honesty; and
though we may not be rich, yet we must seem
to be SO. We must be "respectable,"
though only in the meanest sense-iu mere
vulgar outward show. We have not the
courage to go patiently onward in the condi.
ton of lie to which it has pleased God to
cali US; but must needs live in some fash.
ionabe state to which we ridiculously
please to call ourselves, and all to crafty
the vanity Of that unsubstantial genteeI
world of which we form a part. There is
a constant struggle and pressure for front
seat in the social amphitheatre; in the midst
of which all noble self denying resolve is
trodden down, and many fine natures are In.
eviably crushed to death. What waste,
Whist misery, what bankruptcy, come from
all this ambition to dazzle others with the
glare Of sppsrent worldly success, we need
not describe. The mischievous results
show the nselves in a thousand ways-in
grand frauds committed by men who dare to
be honest, bat do not dare to seem poor,
and in the desperate da'hes at fortune, in
which the pity is not 80 much for those who
fail, as for ths hundreds of Innocent families
who are 50 often involvei in their ruin.


Nj. Hume hit that remark when he stated
il the House Of Comm ons-thn his words
were followed by 'laughter"-that the tone
Of living in England is altogether too high.
Middle class people are too apt to live up
TO their incomes, if not beyond them; aitee.
ting degree OF "style" which is most un.
healthy in its effect upon society at large.
| There is an ambition to bring up boys as
| gentlemen, or rather "genteeE" men;
| though the result frequently is only to
make them eents. They acquire taste for
dress, style, Iuxuries, and amusements'
which can never form any solid foundation
for manly or gentlemanly character, and the
result is, that we have a vast number OF
gingerbread young gentry thrown upon the
world, who remind one of the abandoned


huls sometimes picked up at sea- with only


monkey on board.
Year: 1860

"When General Jackson wos President
of the United States" said an aged laborer
in the Presidential garden lew years since'
she could tell an honest man from q rogue
when he first ,aw him. remember that a
clergyman with stiff white ChOker and an
untarnshed suit OF black, called upon him
one morning when he was overlooking some
work that was performing in the garden
and requested an appointment to soue office
saying, General, I worked harder for your
election than many OF those upon whom you
have already bestowed Office 'You are q
minister OF the Gospe = said Old Hickory.
inquiringly. "Yes,' said the clergyman, Il
was minister, but I thought I could do
better by becoming a politician. So
stumped the district week days for you and
preached for the Lord Sundays Old Hick.
ory, turning short toward him, and looking
him full in the face, said. BY the Eternal, il
you would cheat the Lord you would cheat
the country. / will have nothing to do
with you, nor with any like you. Good
morning. and he walked rapidly away.
never shall forget the looks Of that hyPocrit'
icsl clergyman. Had the last judgment been
set, and he before the great white throne,
doubt if he would have looked more blank
and chop.faIlen."
Year: 1860

came to a dead halt. Joe quickly divested
himself OF his boots. and crept s;euIthIy up
to the first OF the band which stood quietly
holding in his mouth the amputated tail of
his former conductor.


This the hunter seized and commenced
gently pulling upon it. First one hog start.
ed, then another and another, until soon.
like train of cars all were in motion, and
without pausing to rest for single instant,
Joe led them quietly into huge pen near
his residence, where they were soon slaugh-
tered, and the city waS savsd.
Year: 1860

and the last time he ssiled with me, he re-.
fused the command of a new barque because
he would not be separated from me. But
he is a captain now, and one Of the best this
country affords. Such, is my experience in
government and discipline on shiP.boord.
Year: 1860

The PRESENT MoMENr.-There is no mo-
ment like the present. Not only so, but
moreover, there is no moment at all-thas
is, no instant force and energy, but in the
present. The man who will not execute his
resolutions when they are fresh upon him,
can have no hope from them afterwards
they will be dissipaled, lost, and perished in
the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk
in the slough of Incidence.
Year: 1860

city OF Washington to his memory, which
is to be five hundred feet in height; and il
should be the wish of every rue.hesrted
American that his virtues and his services
may not be forgotten before it is completed
In which case their remembrance will en-.
dure forever.
Year: 1860

heretofore Having Important advantages IN thc pur
chase OF our goods extensive preparations and
rcuce than In the manufacture and


sale OF ue believe otter desirable styles and bet
Ter wormanshp same lower prices than other
house trade Devoog the whole Of our attention 20 this
tp Of business alone TO build the trade Of
our y great induce those OF any house In
any market In this country. - . ....,
Year: 1860

should reflect that sound body necessary
requisites promote connui4 happiness Indeed
the Journey through life becomes pilgrimage the prospect
hourly dakeus 10 the view the mind becomes Swallowed with dis
pair and ri with the melancholy happiness Of
another becomes bhglted with our OWL


OFFICE No. Z SOUTH FREDERICK STREET.
Year: 1860

"What do you give your horses to keep


them in such fine condition 2" said a
young farmer to his neighbor, whose


team of bays was the pride of their owner,
and the admiration of the village.


Goats, carrots and plenty of brush y
was the reply.


There is little need of insisting on the
necessity of good food, and plenty of it,
to have a horse remain vigorous. Every
one knows that bone, sinew and muscle
are manufactured from hay, oats. corn,
etc., and that the raw material must be
supplied to produce the strong limb,
elastic step, and noble spirit, which make
fine horse the universal favorite he is


But the important part which the skin
bears in the animal economy, and the
necessity of properly cleansing and keep
ing it in healthy condition, are not fully
appreciated. Rough staring coats, grease
or scratches, inhammations, and awhOle
catalogue Of diseases find their origin IN
neglect Of proper grooming.


The skin Of the horse, Ike that Of
other animals. not only affords protection
to the parts within, but by the pores affords
protection to the parts within, but by the
pores affords an outlet to large part of
the waste Of the body. In outdoor life,
the natural state of the horse, this men,
brane becomes thickened and tough,
capable Of resisting changes Of tempera-
ture and by continual exercise, the pores
are kept open, giving free exit to all the
exhalations. But this alone will not give
the smooth glossy coat which adds so
greatly to the animals beauty. Confn-
ing the horse 10 the stable, as is general
ly done for at least part of the year,
renders his skin tender, especially when
he is kept warmly blanketed. Expose
him now to great change of temperature
take him out and drive him till heated,
return 10 the stable, and let him stand
uncarred for over night, even for an hour,
the sensatiye skin is rapidly chilled by
the evaporation of the sweat, the pores
are suddenly closed, and often cold, a
rheumatic Stiffness or other disorder re-
suits. Proper grooming prevents tins,
by toughening the skin, keeps it in healthy
action, equalIzing the circulation, remov-
ing obstruction from the pores, and what
is of great importance, by rousing the
action of the muscles at the surface, in
some manner compensates for the want
of exercise consequent upon stable life.


Currying and brushing should not be
done in the stable; the dust and scurf
will be scattered in the manger to mix
with the horse feed, besides keeping the
stable uncleanly. Take the animal into
the open air, tie him securely, and handle
him so gently that he will enjoy, rather
than dread, the application of the comb
and brush. A sharp currycolnb, roughly
scraped over the tender skin, is anything
but pleasant, as the shrinking and resist
ing animal will soon show. Apply this
instrument lightly, and depend mainly