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Year: 1860

by giving a sprinkling of salt water, they
will be diminished to a considerable degree
This fact will be of advantage TO the farmer
whenever he may be in want of appropriate
fodder.


BY means Of salt, such water as could not
otherwise be used for cattle for drinking.
viii be rendered proper.


The great advantages to be derived from
common salt with regard to the health Of
cattle, have been clearly shown by MANY ex-
periments made by that learned and celebra
ted agriculturist Of Alsace, NJ. Boussincault.
Cattle, by being fed with salt. receive a soft
and glossy SKIN, their digestion and appetite
are in good order. and they increase in flesh
and strength. Cows thus fed Weld much
milk, while those treated otherwise have dull
skins, with rough hair, exhibit less appetite.
produce smaller amount of flash. and Weld
not only inferior quantity. but also quality,
Of milk


Manure from cattle fed with salted fodder
ia also Of better quality.


Finally, manuring with salt will Danish
mosses and hurtlul parasitical plants from
mead0ws.-J. s. Patent OGce Report.
Year: 1860

It certaioly may be set down to the credit
Of Vermont for consancy, that through
trrty fire successive annual elections by the
Legislature, they have retained in Office one
Of the Judges upon the Supreme Bench. The
additional fact (Which is utterly incompro-
hensible and in fact incredible to politi-
clans Of other States,) that he has been,
throughout that time, opposed in politics to


Predominant Party in the State, makes
t,e case no less remarkable Judge Rel
.eld was first elected in 1885 In 1852 he
,acceeded Judge Royce in the chief justice
ship. Recently it has been understood that
he had accepted lucrative offer from the
eminent firm Of law publishers, Messrs.
Little d Brown. Of Boston, to prepare some
law books for the press, and that he would
not be a candidate for reelection


The Legislature accordingly on Welnes-
day elected Judge Poland in his place,-a
promotion which is entirely in accordance
with the precadents, and rendered suitable
ifprecedents if had been lacking, by Judge
Poland's eminent fitness for the place


The election Of Hon. AsAHEL PECK for the
vacant judgeship Is, Of course. gratifying to
his fellow townsmen of Burlington, and Is
the more honorable to himself, from the
fact that the three Judges last elected, in
previous years. had been taken from this
side the mountain, and that other portions Of
the State on that account claimed the honor
for their own men. Judge Peck viii not
be altogether new in the duties Of his post
When, in lS49, the State was divided into
four judicial circuits he was chosen Judge Of
the 81 circuit. and filed the office for eight
years with high credit. At the re-organiza-
ton Of the Judiciary in 1886, the circuit
iudgeships were abolished, and Judge Peck
retired to private practice, now again t. lie
honored by an elevation to the Supreme
Bench As a sound lawyer and an impartial
iurIst he has already an enviable reputation,
and his selection for this position now con
lcrred upon him cannot fail to commend it
self to the favor Of the lar and the people Of
the State.


The supreme Court is now of one political
complexion, the six Judges being sound
Republicans.
Year: 1860

To-day we publish another batch Of revolu-
tonary documents, which are of the most terrible
import. And the terror with which they
are invested is enhanced by the melancholy fact
that the people of the North 10 not realize the
danger which is at hand. They are buying and
selling, and marrying and making merry, as if no
cloud darkenet the horizon, and a if no calamity
were looming up before them. So did the inhabi-
tquts Of the buried cities uf Herculaneum and
Pompci just before their destruction. They id-
died and danced and made merry and pursued
their ordinary av0catiJn- without thought Of the
future, when suddenly they were overwhelmed
from the crater Of Eesuvius with red hot cinders
and scoria and lava, and have only been disinter-
ted from fiery grave after the lapse Of centuries.
W e the brink of a social and political vol
cau0, ana We are luled into perfect security not
withstaudin- The rumbling sounds beneath and
the smoke above that always proceed from fire
The explosion may take place nt any moment,
and yet we are apparently as Unconcerned as II 1t
were q thousand years ahead


Unc0accrned may, utterly unconscious.
Capitalists are investing their precious piles
i'm the stocks of the about~to-be be-explOded
United States Of America, ten millions in a
day. and half "a million bonus for the privil-
eye while the South, as madly bent On her
reciprocal vocation Of borrowing, is here in





OF all-actually selling them Capital, the
most timid and sensitive thing in all ami
mate or iuanImate creation, Is lulled into
profound security, and nobody suspects the
final crash upon which we are rushing, but
the shrieking high-priost of the oracle-and
to him they listen, and laugh 1t gives Us
a cold sweat to think Of it.


All this Is both appalling and disgusting
enough IN a moral aspect, but 1t Is good and
legitimate fun, in a c0mm0n-scnse point OF
view. The head rogucs know well the trans
rarcncv OF the farce to all business men, or
they would never dare TO howl note of it
for their very ears-ior they have ears, II
their employees have not. Their present
anxiety to prove to their Southern cores
p0nlcnts their extreme s0undness on the
goose, by their caterwauliuSS and the sound
ness Of the New ork community generally,
by frightening a good many silly voters into
the pen, induces them to raise the racket to
an uncommonly bold pitch-but it Is the
old familiar performance after all, at which
actors and audience are alike laughing unu~
sually-the former ,oi course, in their sleeves.
it is little like the dismal music of fune-
raj The sllcmnitics over, on the day after
election the old bag-pipes will strike up a
i0llior strain than ever, to the regular tune
of natural gl0rifcati0n, and the way the peo-
ple have squelched, tabbcrgasted and utter
" put to route the army OF otlce-h0lders,
fossil politicians, brokers and political crOak-
crs, and are marching on to their ever glorl-
Gus and triumphant destiry,-and any quan-
titv more of the same sort.
Year: 1860

The Editor of tho loral column of the Springfield Republican, bubbles over in the following ezubrrantIy saccharine manner:

 Five bright days in succession-a i've railcd fence up between winter and spring rails on which the robin has sat with her tail turned to the departed season, and her voice tuned in praise of the new-rails over which million hearts have lesp"d without touch ing thing"-rails under which the trailing arhntns has smiled it's way through ice rsls-but we rail. There is warm kind of feeling about the heart, on such days as these, that cheats the oldest of us into the idea that he IS young again. It is no mat ter of wonder to us that sugar runs out of a maple tree under such a sun as we have had lately. Tap the veins of man or woman and sugar would flow under the same per snasive circumstances. We saw forty eirls in the street yesterday whose blood would sugar of' splendi'l'y. We tasted sugar in the kisses of our little girls in the morn. ing. and if their fingers were not just little sticky we are mistaken. It is a warm, su gary time all round, and it is very welcome Ho, hum! delicious isn't il?"
Year: 1860

For the Enquirer.

 1NFELICISSIMA. A sigh wells up from my heart

 Laboring painfully; Wherefore, whenever we part

 Clean my eyes tearfully? Listening, up the dark street

 Falling so manfully Steps I so oft long to meet

 Re-echo cheerfully. why should these steps to my car Bring sorrow, not gladness Why are these footballs I hear So full of sadness? Fresh fingers yet on my mouth The scent of his kisses, Softer than gales from the South Perfumed caresses. And that last kiss, rich and warm Remains till tomorrow, Surely it does me no harm There lies my sorrow. IT?
Year: 1860

For the Enquirer.

 THE INWARD MONITOR. What is this feel within me? What this eager restless longing? This looking on to something higher Than Earth's bursting bubbles? 'lis something burns within me Something that 1 cannot conquer Something ever pointing upward To the bright celestial kingdom To the land of the immortals-- Where on the "great white throne" of glory The Lord of glory ever sittcth- Where lifes silvery fountains tossing Glittering drops of crystal upward, Fill the soul with joy and gladness Where the sound of falling waters With their ceaseless silvery chiming Fill the soul with joy and gladness Where bright flowers their buds expanding Spreading round their perfumed breath Fill the soul with joy and gladness-- Heaoenly fire that burns within me: Brighter may thy flames ascend, May their calm, clear light iilumne All the dark, sad, walks of life, Till heavenly brightness beams around me And go on life's journey gladly, Pausing not to look behind me, Pausing not to glance beside me, But forever pressing onward Up that straight and narrow pathway, Up towards that celestial kingdom, Where saints around the throne are gathering Casting down their starry crowns, Where the heavenly choir are singing The new song" of praise and glory, Where joy supreme forever reigneth, Where no sin nor sorrow cometh Where the wicked cease their troubling And the weary are at rest. s. W. R.
Year: 1860

A FEW DAYS AGO, TWO AMBROTYPEs were
N found In the Railroad Camp, Sutter county One
is that Of young man, and the other that of mid.
die aged woman. The owner can have them by paw
ing for thisadyertisement. oc57'u
Year: 1860

From the following extracts, it will be seen
that there was great unanim;ty ut oas time
among the Democracy on the power of Ter
ritorial Legislature over the question OF
slavery:


The people Of Territory. like those of a
State. shall decide for themselves whether
slavery shall or shall not exist within their
limits. JAMES BUCHANAN.
Year: 1860

We noticed at our ratification meeting


the other night scora of grey-haired and


venerable men who cast their votes 1or


Andrew Jackson in the memorable CAM
pagn OF lS2S. They tell US that they


never since felt so enthusiastic for any man
as they now feel for '' Young Hickory" of


illinois. These old aud venerable men


recognize in Stephen A Douglas the proto-


type Of the iilustrous sage of the hermit
are. With all his undaunted courage he,


like jackson, dares assume responsi bili,y
and do right without fear or favor These
veterans of the democratic army well re-
member when Jackson crushed the nulifi-
ers and at this epoch, when TIE sectional
fanatics at the north are rampant and dis
un!onists at the south are forming conabi-
nations to destroy the union, they say
Douglas IS tie man for the crisis. AS
jackson crushed out the nullifers so will
Stephen A. Douglas put to flight the ene-
mics OF the constitution. and the men who
are anxious for a northern and southern
All the old Jackson men in
Old Seneca are up in arms for the Little
Giant" Let the young men of the country
let every conservative man opposed to
either north or south, rally
under the flag Of Dogalas and the quietus
will be given to discord in this fair land of
ours .-Seneca Chi0 AdrsT..ss7.
Year: 1860

What is called political preaching has
been the subject within some Years, OF
much an:n.advers;on and prejudice. We
are no advocates of any preaching tia:
shall dictate with wha, party = man shall
act or how he shall vote. We think this
is neither right nor necessary. Where
the conscience Is awakened and the mind
stored with principles for lis guidance, the
application OF those principles. under the
direction OF his conscience Is the province
of each individ uai for himself; and where
the former part OF this work has been
done. we believe the latter viii in general
be safely done. Every just end. then,
sought TO be obtained by political preach
ing, NAV be as well, and better, accom-
plished by making political duties, and
not political action, the theme tor the nu.-


Nothing Certainly can Ia u IIIore PGoI'r.
theme. If religion is TO be applied 10 life,
If eligious principle is 10 regulate secular
pursuits. there is room for giving peculiar
emphasis to :, duty SO important. as that
which the citizen discharges OF should dis
charge at the ballot box Both the coun-
try and religion have ali intrest in il II is
the ballot box which gives character 10 the
laws and their administration; aud what
ever destiny Is IN reserve for the country
is 10 be r!eteG out by the ballot box. W hat
can be more proper than that this grand
duty Of the citizen should be urged home
upon his conscience? that he should be
taught that he cannot forget his religious
principle in its performance? that it should
be enforced upon him that he should not
only vote,-for where every other man has
the right to vote. it is the duty Of every
right minded man 10 cast his ,otc-a vote
kept from the ballo:-box is vote given
to the opposite party, since it enables
them to triumph with one vote the less
but that he should vote upon his personal
individual responsibility, showing no un-
due Difference TO party or to person, and
discarding every Influence which is oppos-
ed TO conscientious judgment upon the
intrinsic merits involved? For this pur-
pose ne should investigate, carefully and
with painstakins, making it his business
to seek that light which SO much pains ID
taken, in some cases, to convey to him


1t is easy to see that in proportion as
these sentiments are enforced and acted
on, will the intelligence and conscience OF
the mass of the people be quickened, the
Fictitious eXciteUeuts of an electioneer-
ing canvass be rendered unnecessary, and
the general rectitude OF the result 10 be
reached be insured. II.
Year: 1860

THE Republican press arc very much
troubled at the many occasions which the
people are giving to Judge Douglas to ad-
dress them They think that he is lower
ing the dignities Of the Office for which he
is running, by opening his mouth until the
campaign Is over. They hold up the ex-
ample Of Lincoln as one eminantly fit to
be followed. The Quincy Herald tells the
reason why Lincoln has had SO little to
say:


If Lincoln hasn't made any speeches
since he became a candidate for President
it's because his friends were afraid to let
HIM expose himself They got him out last
Wednesday. at Springfield, and he made q
miserable failure-he attempted to make
speech, and literally fzzled out. His
own friends are ashamed of the abortion
that came from him in the name OF
speech. The friends of Judge Douglas are
not thu. humiliated They know him to
be a statesman of commanding intellect
and of broad, conservative, national prin
ciples, and they know there's no sort
danger of his making an ass OF himself, =
Lincoln would if he were turned loose
few dayA
Year: 1860

THE COUNTY PRINTING. 84


Notwithstanding the course
pursued by the Treasurer & Re-
corder the county in letting the
tax sale, has been such that the
proprietor of this paper" would
have been justified in the eyes Of
all candid men in excluding
the following communication
yet as it presents the ground on
which the Treasurer justifies his
conduct, we give it our readers
with such comments as the facts
in the case demand If the Treas
has any justifable grounds for
his conduct, we will not prejudice
the public mind against him by
Withholding his defence. But hear
him in the opening of his case;
scrutinize the fimsy and hypo-
critical gauze with which he
would give a false coloring to the
facts, as they have transpired, and
see how easily aplain tale robs
deception of its mask.


To THE TAXPAYERS OF Howard Co.


On account of the course pursued by
the Editor of the New Oregon Plain
dealer. in reference to the publication
of the "Tax-list,' 1 feel it but just to
myself to explain my course, which has
so bitterly called forth the anathemas,
and stirred the ire Of th> Plasndea1er.


Some time last spring, Mr.. Mead and
I had some conversation about the pub
lication of the Tax-list, in which he OK
pressed perfect willingness to publish
the list at legal rates, and I, supposing
it to be worth the amount allowed by
law, promised the job to him provided,
no Republican paper was published in
the County: in which case should give
it to the Republican Press. With this,
he expressed himself quite satisfied.


Here comes Misrepresentation,
No. l. But why such exceeding
generosity and why give us the
tax sale if no republican paper
was established The fact is Just
here. The Treasurer in tho CONVEX
sation alluded to, censured the
County Judge, for not having the
School Law published as the law


required, intimating that the rea-
son was owing to the politics of
our paper, and intimated tina t he
should have the tax sale published
as the law required whether there
was republican paper in the
county or not. ........


Misrepresentation No. 3 says he
expressed hiuself quite satisfied"
but with what! Here was a con-
versation in which he had spoken
of the action of Mr.. Sabin in the
Legislature with that Of the en-
tire republican party with here
and there an honorable exception
giving out the State printing to
the highest instead of the .lowes t
bidder. DR.. Cowan said if he had
beenin Mr.. Sabins place he should
have voted to give it ts the low
est responsible bidder, and that
he should give the tax sale of the
county out in that manner, but
that ifthe rate charged by each was
the same, he should prefer the
Republican paper.


With this last statement, we ex-
pressed ourself satisfied, but nev-
fer with so absurd a prosition as
| is involved in pa wing G75O for
Year: 1860

Seeing crowd gather IN the
Park before one wing Of the City Hall, thi, after
noon, stepped over to investigate, and found q
fre-sseqpe on exhibition. 1t was nothing but a
canvas sack. extended from the roof TO the ground
by ropes the lower end being held by several
men, and the upper end distended by hoop, swAI-
lowing little boys like very ogre. There seemed
to be no ipterEai organs the boys being shot out
Of the lower like wads from a pOpgun, IN
damage except. usually, by the loss Of their caps
How the thing was frst reared to the roof I did
not probably by lowering a rope AMI hauling
itup. If some expeditions method of raising it is
available, such a IRE escape would be, in many
cases, useful for the saving Of property well as
life If the canvas is prepared so to be in some
sort incombustible, that it may not be set on fire
by flames from the windows, many things might
be sent down from upper stories after the lower
r--s ve a Uuliulng was all in flames. There an
however, it is easily enough done by she friction
Of ones arms held against the inside, when de-
scendins coolly, but that would not be thought Of
by frightened person, and in the case Of a verv
tall building, the rapidity Of the descent, or rab-
er the suddenness Of the stopping, would be rath-
er dangerous.


The recent destruction Of a tenement house, and
accompanying loss of life has turned the public at.
tention to such things, somewhat, as well as to
the better construction of such buildings. that
i've minutes Of fire may not destroy the only
means Of escape from the upper stories


stepped into the Tribune Office, this afternoon.
to see the ten eyLiader printing press. Those who
have not seen such a machine can have no ade-
quate idea of the Whereby they get their weekly
number Of the Tu5uHs-their one of the 2I4 900
that are now printed every week of that king-no
pres'dent-and that's not much of a compliment
either that chief Of American newspapers. Ctbe
Herald despite its brags is no account nowadays
Why, the press is as big as house, makes as
much noise as a cotton MILL and eats up white pa
per like-but ats own self must be its parallel"
1 watched its motions for half an hour, saw the
printed sheets come flying out at the rate of
eighteen thousand hour. I counted thirty sheets
laid down by one flyer in one minute, two seconds
for sheet, and there are ten cylinders. so that
three hundred sheets were printed while | was
counting,-and turned away doubtful what to
wonder at most, the machine, the man that invent
ed 1t, or the paper that uses it Passing out. the
clank Of machinery in another room caught my
ear, and 10 another BIZ p7ess, six cylinder,
running at full speed to print the evening edition
Of the Daily Tribune, and only less ravenous of
white paper than its brother because not so large
How many more such slowed away in other
corners, don't know came away full enough
Of printing machinery for enc while L.
Year: 1860

The Windsor Journal hoists the name Of
Judge Collamer as a Republican candidate for
the Presidency, subject to the decision Of
the National Convention at Chicago, May l6.
All that the Journal says OF the personal and
statesman-liGe qualities Of Judge Collamer.
will be readily endorsed by the people of
Vermont. and for no man IN the country,
probably, would Vermonrers give a
heavier vote than for him, If nomin-
ated. As for the opinion Of the
Journal. that if nominated - not one rc0rd
could Be sad against hlm, we think 1t rather
extravagant The Journal levidently does not
know, as it ought to, the Democratic press
of the country. Why, even the Age, in the
very town where Judge C. has resided so
many years, would proceed at once
make him out not fit to be any
where else than in the States Prison :;
and all the rest Of the tribe would repeat its
lying and abusive statements, and vouch for
their justness and truth.
Year: 1860

persist in the assertion. In other matters such


conduct is called malicious SANDER But it was
done in the hope ofcarying some of the State cleo
tons, then close at hand and failed. If any one
thinks he can by slandering woman make her
love him, or by vllifying a man make him vote for
him, let him try it.


The South says the Supreme Court ha, decided
the Constitutional question in their favor. Saying
nothing of the lawyers distinction between decis-
ion and dietum, [ admit that DIs decided in a
sort of a way-in a divided Court, by bare ma
jority, and they not quite agreed to the reasons
and on a Staken statement of fact; for the right
Of property in a slave is nol0Rsre distinctly and
express y affirmed in the Constitution" To show
this is ,asy. If such decision is not adopted as
a rule of political action, will you have the Gov
ernment broken up?


The South declares that, upon the election Of
Republican President the Union shall be destroyed,
and the blame will be upon us highwayman
demands my money or my life; and if don't give
up my money I shall be a murderer, because he
will shoot me Ny money was my own-but no
more than my vote is my own; and in what does
the threat Of death to get my money, differ from
the threat Of destroying the Union to get my vote


What will satisfy the South ? Not the most Sc
we're letting alone; nothing short of pulling dowa
our Free State Constitutions and surrendering our
selves unreservedly to the full support Of Slavery
True, they do not yet demand this; but they can
stop short of nothing eIsei We think slavery wrong
but are content TO let it alone where it is from the
necessity which its presence imposes; but can we
suffer it TO invade the National Territories and our
Free States Let US be diverted from our duty by
no sophistical contrivances-by no Union-saving
appeal, beseechng true Union men TO yield to Dis
unionists, thus calling aotsrners, but the righteous
to repentance. Let US believe that right makes
might, and fearlessly and firmly DO our duty to the
end as understand it.


have given you but meagre sketch Of llr.
Lincoln's speech. Not even the full report gives
full idea of it, for it lacks the force that the
presence Of the man alone could give to it. The
South, if taey viii, listen to his words to them
for much to my surprise, the Herald has verbatim
report this morning. But the South will read and
believe the lying editorials on the other page, in
preference. It is really ludicrous to see the mis-
statements and perversions Of fact, and obiquity |
of argument displayed in them


I recommend Mr.. LincoIn's speech to your care
full perusal It should be powerful campaign
document Yours, L.