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Year: 1860

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in recent
discourse, thus draws picture OF that large
class OF men who delight in tempting to ruin
the innocent and unsuspecting =


sit is not the indian alone who loves to car
ry the scalps he has taken in battle there
are thousands of beings male and female, who
love to carry in sight the number of victims
they have seduced or corrupted TO count them
over and boast of their crime. There are men
who love to corrupt young, who love to teach
them fallacious vices, and seduce them into
evil complrances, to put the leaven of perdi-
tion into their souls, and wait till it begins to
leaven the whole lump. They seem to have a
horrible gloat of pleasure in doing this. They
resist all the efforts of their victim TO break
away and if he does get away they pull him
down again-and God lets such men live


Did you ever see spider spinning his web
in the corner! With what delicacy of his
loom does he spin all the web! how it shines
IN the sun and who has spun it all right and
after spinning it he makes himselfa little hole,
in which he goes back and lies in wait for
singing fly that has surveyed and philosophiz-
ed the Universe. He looks upon the web, and
the moment he touches it how the spider rush.
es out to seize him and if he be small in
sect. and large spider, he will bite him and
roll him up in the web; or If he be large fly,
he commences rolling up and preparing by
and by to eat him and if, for moment the
poor little fly turns to escape, how he rushes
out and instantly seiZes him again, and rolls
him up and up, over and over, more closely
than ever, and then drags him down to some
corner,


have seen men treat men just They
spin just such webs, and then sit in some dark
corner till they wind their coils around him
till he is hopelessly entangled in the web;
leading him in their internal work, and rolling
him over and over again in its meshes and
If the poor victim begins to sing and buzy in
his efforts TO break away, how have seen
them rush out again and carry them back and
utterly ruin them in their house of inflmy
Year: 1860

The roads are in a dreadful condition.
Teams have consumed week in making the
Tip from Marysville, and Oh Friday we re-
ceived no mail, from which fact it is reason
able to infer that the roads in the lower
country are as bad as in the mountains
Very few of our exchanges have reached us
this week.
Year: 1860

D,yGruoUs AcclDENr.-Y esterday after
noon. as George Walters, the first engineer OF
the Marysyille Foundry was adjusting the
line shafts, portion of his clothing was
caught in the machinery, and narrowly es-
caned instant death. He was standing on
the ton round of a ladder at the time, and at
a considerable h eight. lie had on four shirts,
linen and flannel together, and these were
stripped from him in second, leaving him
entirely naked from the hips upward. BY
desperate effort he managed to extrieate him
self from the machinery and keep his hold on
the ladder. Coming down from thence, it was
discovered that he was severely injured, his
side having been scraped heavily with the
iron or steel, and his arm badly damaged, but
not broken. lie was Immediately taken to
his house on A steeet, and DIR. Talbert called
to attend him. The Doctor was not pre-
pared to say, during the afternoon, whether
the patient had received any internal injury
or not, but saw no present evidence OF it 1t
it not by any means certain that the injury
will prove fatal, but the Doctor will be able
to Judge Of this long before the appearance
of this account in the paper
Year: 1860

1t is said that there is good prospect of


the passage of Pacific Railroad Bill by the
present Congress. An almost universal SEN


timent in favor of immediate action on the


subject is reported to possess the minds of


Senators and Representatives at Washington.


The news seems only too good to be true


We can scarcely hope that so happy a state


ofthings exists. And yet we can readily be.


lieye that the chances in favor Of road are


better than formerly. The Senate, constitu-


ted as it is Of a majority of Democratic mem-


bers, will not like very well the responsibil-
ty of fasteninga defeat Of the Pacific Railroad


upon the Democratic party, just on the eve of


a great Presidential contest. Neither will


the Republican predominating element in the
responsibility. Both Houses will necessarily
view with marked favor any reasonable prop
osition having for its object the accomplish
ment of this important work, and one will
not allow the other to get ahead of it in any
scheme or measure likely to be at all popu. |
lar The Republican party as early as 1856 |
the Pacific Railroad as q plank in |
their platform, and have made it matter Of |
strong accusation against the present Demo
cratic Administration that it has done moth |
ing toward building this road. If they had
been in power they say, it would have been
different. Well, now, if they can make any
capital by showing strong disposition in
Congress toward the consummaton of this
work, they will do it. And the Democratic
members of the upper House cannot afford to
allow them, in this respect, any advantage,
for it would have telling effect in the COM
ing campaign for President.


1t is rather a humiliating confession that
we cannot expect anything from the National
Legislature upon the plain merits of a great
measure like this, but it is nevertheless true
that, nowadays, the fate of the country
itself depends upon the trickery of politicians
far more than upon the wisdom of statesmen
Unfortunately We have only one Douglas in
the Senate and none in the House of Repre-.
sentatiyes.
Year: 1860

The New QUICKSILVER MrNEs.-The Napa
Reporter of the 25th ult., says: There is
nothing of special interest in relation to min
eral discoveries in Napa county or vicinity
There is little excitement on the subject,
and for this reason the explorations and as.
says now in progress will be more apt to lead
to useful results.


The discoveries of copper ore may also
prove valuable, but we cannot speak definite
ly of the richness of any specimens hitherto
examined. The most that can be said is that
they promise WELL Some of our most intel
ligent citizens express their confidence in the
existence of rich silver ore, and are bent on
finding it. As to the discoveries of quicksil-
yer, no one pretends to deny it. 1t will ap-
pear before long whether they are rich
enough to "Pay." For our own part, we be-
leve they will.
Year: 1860

The REAsoN.-The ladies, we find, are
complaining that the gentlemen are not so
attentive as usual Bless their souls, don't
they know it is Leap Year, and that the la
dies are expected to do the agreeable? ? The
ladies must make all the advances during
this present year. The thing is settled, and
any masculine who infringes upon this right
by making any advances himself will lose
caste among his fellows. 1t being leap year
the feminines are expected to leap all barriers


of ordinary custom, and the best acrobat
among them will be the most honored.
Year: 1860

TRIED.-Mara King, Maria Taylor and
Kate Melone, were tried before Recorder
Goodwin. yesterday morning, on a charge of
assault upon Auburn Davy with intent to
kill. They were acquitted, the Recorder re-
marking that the testimony might evidence
assault and battery but not an intent to kill
Year: 1860

S-oo- %


In every instance, the balance to tho credit
of the State was swept clean, and the only
reason why Mr.. Brown did not get moro was
because there was no more to get. In ono
case, at least, the check was sent to the bank
without being filled, with the request that
the cashier would insert whatever amount
stood to the credit Of the State, and pay II TO
the bearer. Under these circumstances, tho
Committee must express the opinion that Dir.
Brown did not obtain this amount, S2.S32 80
in rightful mode. He knew that Mr.. Peck
was defaulter; ho knew that the State was
already deirauded Of very large amount by
Mr.. Peck negotiating these time checks on
one of which, his claim was based, and be
should have known that he had no claim
whatever upon the State for repayment. Mr.
Brown says In defense. that when Peck got
the $4,000 of him in November, In Traders
Bank bills, he said |. was for State uses, and
even promised that Il should be paid from tho
Treasury at the rate Of only $500 week; but
the Committee have to repeat that there
no good evidence Of q single dollar OF IL ever
going to the benefit Of the State, and they DO
not conceive that any Of Mr.. Peck's personal
promises could give Mr.. Brown any claim
whatever on the State for payment Of obliga-
tions thus incurred by him. The Committee
regard Mr.. Browns receipt Of these sundry
checks ut the time and under the eircum.
stances. - precisely parallel 70 the case Of
the Mechanics Bank and thsy therefore REQ
Year: 1860

FROZEN TO DEATH. The Rock
Island Register Gays that a number of Pixies
Peakers passed through that city on their way
to their homes in Maine. few days since, aud
that one Of the number froze to d-a on the
prairie West OF the Missouri river They dug
hole in the ground aud deposited his remsins
there to remain till the last grest trump shall
sound. They represented the weather as be.
irg very cold in th~t direction, and one Of the
number showed us a couple Of his fingers
which had been badly frozen
Year: 1860

SLEEP. There is no fact more clearly
in the physiology of man
than this, that the brain expends its
energies and itself during the hours of
wakcfuness, and that these are reou-
perated during sleep; if the reoupera-
tion does not equal the expenditures
the brain withers-this is insanity
Thus it is that, in early English histo-
ry, persons who were condemned to
death by being prevented from sleep
ing, always died raving maniacs; thus it
is, also, that those who are starved to
death become insane; the brain is not
uourished and they cannot sleep. The
practical differences are these: ]. Those
who think most, who do the most brain
work, require most sleep. g. That time
saved from necessary sleep is infallibly
destructive to mind, body and estate
3, Give yourself your children, your
servants--givo all that are under you
the fullest amount of sleep they will
take, by compelling them to 60 to bed
at some regular early hour, and to arise
in the morning the moment they awake
and, within fortnight, nature, with al
most the regularity of the rising sun
will unloose the bonds of sleep the mo.
ment enough repose has been secured
for the wants Of the system This is
the only safe and sufficient rule; and as
to the question how much sleep any
one requires, each must be a rule fol-
himself; great Nature will never fail tc
write it out to the observer under the
Regulations just given.
Year: 1860

PET BIRDs.-Caged birds arc a
source of pleasure, and while they give
great happiness if they are kept in
good healthy condition, seem to enjoy
life nearly, if not quite as well as their
mates in the bush or the Wildwood
especially if, either from lack of mem
ory or blissful ignorance, the Gagged
birds do not know what pleasure they
lose. "Whcre ignorance is bliss, tbs
folly to be wise" One of the great
drawbacks to the happiness of birds,
and to the pleasure of keeping them,
is lice, and having recently learned of a
safe and sure way of removing them,
we give it to our readers. The Michi.
gan Farmer says:


clay a piece of Canton or cotton
flannel over the cage, several nights in
succession, taking it off at daylight
Multitudes of the lice will be found up
on it, which are easily killed After a
few days all will be removed. A case
in which this operation has been very
successful has just been brought to our
notice. from a pair Of bobolinks hund-
reds of these little parasites were re-
moved in this way"
Year: 1860

REMEDY FOR SCARLET FEVER
Parents should be very careful about
their children when this devouring
plague seizes them, and every good
mother should be prepared for it with
the following simple remedies:


lst. When a child is taken with the
fever, give it a dose of castor oil; if
the body shows a flush color, have
pot of saffron tea made and give it to
the child to drink This will drive the
eruption out.


I'd. Have warm baths for their
feet; keep it warm, and the room un-
der proper temperature.


Sd. When the eruption is out
grease the whole body with bacon fat
and keep the body open. Then call
for a doctor if the throat should get
sore.
Year: 1860

EFFECTS OF MENTAL DEPREssIoNs.
Mental dopressions, sorrow, grief, de-
spair and fear are sometimes the cause
of deranged and disorderod stomach
and bowels, The protracted operation
of sorrow is exceedingly liable to in
duce dyspepsia and all its consequent
ces There is hardly any part of the
body, or any function, in fact that
grief will not injure or derange; but no
part or function feels its depressing ef-
fects more than the stomach and other
digestive organs, We could refer to
dozens of medical authors who tell us
that long-continued grief and anxiety
of mind weaken the tone Of the stom-
ach, destroy the appetite and digestion,
and occasion great number of morbid
symptoms. Chronic Inflammation,
schirrus, and even cancer of the stom-
ach, will succeed deep and continued
grief.
Year: 1860

To KEEP BUTTER CooL.-Put the
butter into plate; Set it in cool place,
turn over it an earthornware vessel, not
glazed. A hower-pot with a cork in the
hole is the best. Pour water on the top
of the vessel until it is thoroughly wet
1t is better if the butter is put in a
small plate, or saucer, and this set in a
large plate, which should be full of wa
ter.


o IF thus prepared at night the butter
will be cool and hard in tho morning;
and by repeating the wettings of the
crock or hower-pot three times q day,
hard and nice butter may be had at
every meal. A similar plan will keep
milk sweet all day in the hottest weather.
Year: 1860

PROVERBS WORTH PREsERvING.-
Hasty people drink the wine of life
scalding hot Death is the only master
who takcs his servants without a char
acter. Content is the mother of good
digestion. When pride and poverty
marry together, their children are want
and crime. Where hard work. kills
ten, idleness kills q hundred men,
Folly and pride walk side by side. He
that bCrrows, binds himself with his
neighbor's rope. He that is too good
for good advice is too good for his
neighbOr's company Friends and
photographs never Hatter Wisdom is
always at home to those who call
Tine frmost friends ask the fowost fa-
vors.
Year: 1860

The shoemaker sat amid wax and leather,
with hislapstone over his knco
Whore, snug in his shop, no dehed all weather,
Drawing his quarters and sole together;


happy old man was he.
This happy old man was so wise and knowing,
The worth of his time he knew;
Ho bristled his cuds and he kept them going,
And i0lt Co each moment stitch was owing,
Until ne got round the shoe.
or every deed that his wax was sealing,


Tho closing Wa8 firm and fast,
The prick of his awl never caused D feeling
or pain TO the toe, and his skill IA heeling


Was perfect aud true to tho last.
Whenever you gave him q foot to measure,


With gentle and sldllnul hand
He took it's proportions with looks Of pleasure,
ASH you were giving the C0stiest treasure,


Or clubbing him lord Of tho land.
And many one did ne save from getting


iover, or cold, or cough
For many foot did he save from wotting,
Wheni whether I'm water or snow twas sitting,


His shooting would keep them on.
Whom he had done with his making and mondng


With hope and peaceful breast,
kosgunE his awi, az his thread was ending,
Ho passed frum his bench to the grave descending


A5 high as the king to rest
Year: 1860

The editor of the Albany Flag gets
off the following squib:


Why is the editor of the Louisville
Journals career through life like a
celebrated tune? Because it is the
Rogue's March.


Prentice, who is a dead shot, loaded
his piece, and, taking aim let the man
have it right in the teeth after the fol.
lowing manner, to-wit:


Why will the editor of the Flag, al
the close of his career through life, be
like tune of Paganinis? Because he
will be executed on a single string.
Year: 1860

Gerrit Smith, says The n. Y. Tribune,
continues to improve in health All
the old vigor of mind has returned
He cannot however, bear much excite
ment or fatigue, as his physical system
is yet weak. A few months will doubt
less find him perfectly well, and if the
dyspepsia, which was mainly the cause
Of his temporary insanity, is porman-
emily cured, he may enjoy even better
health than for many years past. So
much for a good constitution, well
guarded by life of strict temperance
Year: 1860

As the season for making hay is ap-
preaching, we will give few words Of
caution in advance. Don't dry your hay
too much. Hay may be dried till it is as
worthless as straw. AS good coffee
maker would say, "Don't burn your cof-
fee, but brown il" so we say, don't dry
your hay, bus cure it. Our good old
mothers, who relied upon herb tea in
stead of 'potecary medicine gathered
their herbs when in blossom, and cured in
the shade. The sugar of the plant, when
it is in bloom, is in the stalk ready to
form the seeds. If the plant is cut earlier,
the sugar is not there: if later, the SUI
gar has become converted to woody mat
ter.


Hay should be well wilted in the sun,
but cured in the cock. Better to be a
little too green than too dry. If, on
putting it into the barn, there is danger
of heating in the mow," put on some
salt. Cattle will like it non ethe less.


Heat, light. and dry winds will soon
take the starch and sugar, which consti-
tute the goodness Of hay, out of it; and,
with the addition Of shower, render it
almost worthless. Grass cured with the
least exposure to the drying winds and
searching sunshine, is more nutritious
than if longer exposed, however good the
weather may be. If over cured, it con-
tains more woody fiber and less nutritive
matter.


The true art Of hay making, then, con-
sists in cutting the grass when the starch
and sugar are most fully developed, and
before they are converted into seed and
woody fiber; and curing it up to the point
when it will answer to put it in the barn
without heating, and no more.-O Far
nner. . N
Year: 1860

The following scrap of philosophy,


morals, religion and good sense, as well


as good breeding, is well worthy of care
rul reading, attentive consideration and
practice. The idea which prevails among
a certain class of brainless snobs that a
"hlred girl' is the slave OF Ter employer
and not fit to set at the table with the


family, and suitable only as companion


tor the kitchen stove, and the pots and


kettles, begets feeling of social degra.


datlon which is often ruinous to this class


OF the laboring community and is destruc-
tive to that better sense of virtue and


equality which is the duty of all in supe-


rlor situations in life to cultivate in those


whose fortune is adverse to wealth and


ease. Labor is honorable as the employ


ed make it honoroblc. L. is Just as re-


spectacle to work in the kitchen as to
pump apiano'forte in the parlor, and it
is Just as honorableto dig bitches or plow
the fields as it is to puff the quality of
dry goods behind the counter or practice
any OF the many professions, and so soci-
ETY. will thus pronounce the verdict when
ever common sense, religion and truth


unite in harmonious action to stigmatize


the frppery of fools and judge men and


women by the standard of intellectual
and moral worth and not by dollars and
cents. 1t is convenient to be opulent and
wealthy, but disgraceful and criminal
when common sense and virtue are made
to yield obedience to "fools in vanished
gear" The scrap alluded to reads as
follows: ..


"Heads of families may contribute
much to the welfare and virtue of society
without going beyond their own threshold.
The domestic in their employ presents a
claim to kind considerations which too
many overlook. An eastern paper says:
Young women compelled to 60 out to
service, TO hire in other peoples families
to do housework, are too generally kept
at a distance. They are not permitted
to sit with the mistress or her children;
and what is too often, and too generally
the consequence? We are sociable be-
ings, and must have society; if we can.
not find good we are apt to take up with
bad, and the consequence often is degra-
dation and ruin. Why not permit your
hired girls, when work is over, to sit in
the same room with you and your child
rem! There they might learn what is
good and useful, and 60 into the world to
make virtuous wives and mothers, and
bless you for your kindness and consider
alton. A little culture and consideration
might, and no doubt would, save world
Of degradation, crime and misery. None
of us know what may be the future situ-
alton of our children. They too may at
some future day be apprentices and hired
domestics, and as we would they should
be treated. so should we treat lose whom
Misfortune or necessity has thrown into
'ur employ.
Year: 1860

A very successful dairyman writes to
the New England Farmer, that one of
the greatest essentials in the management
of cows is good milking:


Each cow should have a steady mil.
ker, be MIXED as fast as possible, and
all the milk drawn. I am satisfied that
there is loss of one-third in many
dairies, by the lazy, haphazard way in
which cows are MIXED. I have known
persons to sit-down in the milking yard
and go through with some long yarn. .and
be from ten to twenty minutes milking
one cow, when it should be done in less
than FIVE.
Year: 1860

EgA London correspondent Of the
New York Post writes: Heenan is soon
to commence bis harvest by giving exhi-
billions. He goes to Liverpool this week,
and appears in London next week, and
may be assured of coming money by his
mill for months to come. He is burning
for another fight, but it is considered GER
tain that Sayers would be whipped, and
it will not be permitted.
Year: 1860

While on board the Powhatan, one ol


the sailors, who did not 60 to Japan foi


nothing, exhibited to us sample Of Japa-
nese mice, which were of various colors
some pure white, others spotted. They
are perfectly docile, and may be handled
without being the least alarmed. 1t ap-
pears that In Japan mice are quite a do
mestic creature and perfectly tame; they
are entirely of a different nature from our
mice and are much smaller. In fact,
these little creatures may be considered
quite curiosity, as they can be kept in
open boxes without any fear of their run.
ming away. This sailor had about doz-
en- of them in a shallow box, with par
tition in the centre, and three or four
small holes in it, large enough to let them
pass through, which they did continually,
now and then catching hold Of each 9TH
er's tail, forming complete circle, and
running with such speed that it was i'm
possible to distinguish their heads from
their tails. In another corner was a
small box (inside Of the large one, the
lid of which had two holes in it. They
would enter this in one hole and pass out
the other as quick as thought-all for
their own amusement. We were also in
formed, that whenever the band played
these little mice would dance and run
round, keeping exact time with the music.
and would stop whenever the music stop
ped. Stange, but nevertheless true.
Honolulu I'D.