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Year: 1859

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 7.-GOvernor Willard deliver
ed his message to the legislature this afternoon
He recommends the erection of suitable buildings
for the use of the State offices, for the Judges of
the Supreme Court, and for the depository of the
public records of the State. He says that the rev.
enues of the Wabash and Erie Canal have greatly
diminished; that it is feared they will prove made
quate to keep the canal in repair; that the bond
holders are unwilling to sustain the work by any
other means than those derived from the revenues,
having already invested half the entire debt of the
State In the work itself, besides eight hundred
thousand dollars for its completion, and that they
have informed the Board of Trustees of their deter
mination to close the canal and abandon the work
whenever the revenues become inadequate He
calls the attention of the legislature to the necessi
ty of increasing the salaries of the Judges of the
Supreme Court and the Governors salary. He
says that the laws of the State in regard to the
qualifications of voters and election officers are in
adequate, and that law should be passed inhicting
severe penalties on election officers who decline to
receive legal or admit illegal votes. He recon-
mends also an appropriation to be made for the en-
largement of the Insane Asylum.
Year: 1859

Message of the Governor of massachusetts


BosToN, Jan. 7.-Governor Banks was Inaugural
ted to-day and delivered his message to both
branches of the Legislature. 1t is long, exclusively
confined to State matters, and gives encouraging
account OF the material progress of the common
wealth.


The bank returns show, that the specie in banks
has been increased to eleven millions one hundred
and twelve thousand seven hundred and fifteen dol
lars, against three millions six hundred and eleven
thousand and ninety-seveu dollars last year.


The loans have increased in the same time from
ninety-two millions, four hundred and fifty-eight
thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars, to
one hundred and one misions, six hundred and
sixty two thousand, nine hundred and forty
dollars, indicating that the ability and confidence
derived from larger amount of SPECIE has enabled
the banks to increase the amount of loans from
which their profits are derived.


The expenditures of the past year for educational
purposes, was one million, four hundred and seven
ty-four thousand, four hundred and eighty eight
dollars


The number of children between five and fifteen
years of is two hundred and twenty three thous-
and, three hundred and four, of whom two hundred
and eighteen thousand one hundred and ninety eight
have been in attendance upon the schools during
the year, showing an increase in the attendance OF
fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty-seven pupils
on last year.


The school fund from which the system of schools
is supported, is about one million five hundred
thousand dollars


The Governor recommends the school fund to be
increased to three millions, from the sale of land
on the Back Bay


The public debt is one million, three hundred and
fourteen thousand, for the payment of which, as il
becomes due, the most ample provision and secu-
rity has been made.


The message recommends retrenchment in county
expenditures, especially in Suffolk county.
The Governor makes no allusion whatever to ma
tional politics. -
Year: 1859

The totterine, doomed concern on First
street sets IN a periodical howl of BLACK
Republicanism' against this paper 1t hum
drums along for week or two, and then, all
of a sudden shrieks out spasmodically,
oBlack Republicanism !" Coalition" !" Flu
sionl" "Broderck Republican (" and other
set phrases of the parrot Lecompton press.
Marvelously proper it is, too, that shame
less boitinq institution. that is entirely dis
connected aud disseuered from the Democracy
the regular organization, should take to task
tie Acknowledged organ of that same democ-
rncy, for an alleged proclivity to Republican,
ISM When ,cS take instructions as to what
constitutes Democratic principles, we shall
go to a journal which is at least recognized
as Democratic in its own section of the coun
try. Scorned and spit upon, rejected and re
pudiated by the regular Democratic organi-
zation of this county, it is the very height
of brazen faced presumption in that sheet to
talk about Democracy at ALL and We only
mention its charges of Repubcanism against
us, to despise them.


That bogus, boiling, sickly concern, talks
about this papers being under obligations
to support Republieanism. We are under
obligations to support nothing that does not
suit us, and of that we have given good ev
| idence We claim to be fearless and indie
pendent in the expression of our views. At
the same time, we are thoroughly Democrat
ic-we cling to the old, time-honored land
marks of our party-we are for popular SOW
ereignty in its broadest and most liberal sense,
because we believe in the capacity of the
people for self government, and because it is
old fashioned Democratic doctrine. We are
prepared to denounce treason to the Demo
cratic party, and to tell the traitors what we
think of them They may howl back Black
Republication" as much as they like-it is
the trick of the renegade crew-it is the
subterfuge of the flying rogue who cries "stop
thief, stop thief" in order to divert suspi-
eion from himself and to put his pursuers on
the wrong track--it is the miserable resort
of Lecomptonism. in oil parts of the coun-
try, which is afraid to meet the responsibili-
ty of its own damnable position, and seeks
to avoid scrutiny into its true character by
false accusations against the party which it
has left


The Lecompton party has abandoned the
Democracy, and because men who were for
merly Republicans are willing to acknowl-
edge that popular sovereignty is the true
doctrine, they denounce all popular sover-
eighty Democrats as Republicans If they
be in earnest, what idocy If they be not
in earnest, what knavery! We submit to
any sane man which is the better Democrat,
he who abandons popular sovereignty for
Congressional Intervention, or he who aban-
dons Congressional Intervention for popular
sovreignty?
Year: 1859

La PORTE, April 23dI 1907


EplroR DEMOCRAT: Since l wrote to you
on the l4th inst, the weather has been quite
warm and the snow has melted away before
the mild rays of the sum, so much so that al
most all of our miners have commenced work
or will commence on Monday next Our
streets are being thronged with strangers,
and business of every kind will soon wear an
aspect of cheerfulness. As yet there has been
very little gold dust sold or purchased in our
banking houses. The snow is now about six
feet deep, and whilst am writing 1t is fall
ing very fast with strong south wind, but
it is warm and melting very fast Our ditch
es are all full Of water, and the miners expect
a full and long run of water this year. Some
few have sold small lot of the shining ore,
but as general thing there is but little in
the market.


At Howland's Flat and Pine Grove, six
miles east of La Porte, the miners are all do
inI remarkably well. 1t is said that the
Bright Star Company, in working up their





drift dirt, (ths company is at Howlands 5
Flat averaged one hundred dollars per hour.
and they get it out faster than they wash it
up. Other companies at the same place are
said to lie doing full as well.


At st. Louis the mines are all at work, but
how they are doing l cannot say, as there
have been no sales of dust reported yet.


The miners as general thing, in all our
mining localities in this vicinity have com
menced to work and will soon he able to sell
large amounts of the precious metal In our
own locality, as a general thing, everything
looks better and wears the aspect of Spring,
and soon l expect to hear of some large
strikes being made, of which l will keep you
advised.


We have two banking houses in La Porte
in full blast, and another to be opened in
few days by our fellow. w.townsman Dave
Evans


Politics are at stand. Nothing but spec
ulation as TO who will be candidates, or what
party will be the successful one.


Yours, REKLAw.
Year: 1859

EDIroR DEMOCRAT Il would like through
your columns to ask the stupid weathercock
institution known as the California Express,
what side they are on this time and whose
interests they desire to advocate. They seem
to be at loggerheads with the Lecompton
party for can nowhere find in their chang
ing columns any publication of call for an
Administration State Convention. Can it be
that they are trimming their sails to support
the Douglas Democratic ticket? 1t will be
of little avail if they do for it is too well
known that any party can get them which
seems likely to be in the majority | would
advise them to be on one side or the other,
and, if they are Administration, to publish, as
is usual with party organs, the call for the
Administration State Convention. CEDRIC.
Year: 1859

DAMAGEp.-We notice that the fine garden,
belonging to Frenchman at the head of
First street, on the Slough is very much
injured by the late sudden rise in the river.
portion of the waters of the river backed
up over low piece of the garden and cut
out a strip of ground which was covered
with valuable products, totally destroying
everything. The loss is not less than $500.
1t is not likely that the chasm can be filled
up so as to ensure another crop of vegetables
of any kind. during this season.
Year: 1859

SIERRA TURNPIKE.-There are about one
hundred men at work upon this road, which
1T is thought will be completed by the first
day Of July next. 1t is estimated that it will
cost fifty thousand dollars. The amount al
ready subscribed is not known, but it is said
that further subscriptions are needed
Year: 1859

In DASeER.-The grain crop in Shasta
county is in great danger Of being ruined bv
the dry weather. Unless rain should come
it is thought that the produce of wheat, bar.
ley and hay, will be unusually light.
Year: 1859

asa- Time wears slippers of list, aud his
tread is noiseleSs. The days come softly
dawning, one after another; they creep in
at the windows their fresh morning air is
grateful to the lips that pant for it; their
music is sweet to the ears that listen to it;
until, before we know it, whole life of days
has possession of the citadel, and time has
taken us for its own.
Year: 1859

Now Is THE TINE.-Every one who has a
plot of ground, however small, attached to his
dwelling, should beautify it by means of flow
ers. Even those whose yards are wholly COW
cred with bricks may surround themselves
with picturesqueness. a climbing rose whose
roots may be accommodated by removing but
single brick, may be SO trained in two sea-
sons as to cover large fence beneath a
blanket of blossoms that viii gladden. the eye
for weeks together. Many an unsightly shed
or fence might with little pains be covered
with beautiful flowers. Flower seeds may be
procured for mere trife, and therefore every
garden should present a mass of blossoms,
and every spare foot of ground attached to
each dwelling be converted into bed of
flowers.
Year: 1859

a HAY FIELD ANECDoTE.-There is a good
story which may have been heard in more than
one hay field last summer. We heard it one
day while on visit to the country. We went
out to show some men how to s.pitch 20 we
had failed and wilted down under haycock,
and lay flushed and tanning the glow and sweat
from our features in comfortable position,
when one of the jolly hay makers related the
anecdote of old man who was always brag-
ging how folks used to work in his young days,
and challenged his two sons together TO pitch
on load of hay as fast as he could load it.


The challenge was accepted, and the hay
wagon driven around, and the trial commenc-
ed. For some time the old man held his own
very creditably, calling out tauntingly,


ssMore hay more hay ~


Thicker and faster it came, whole cocks at
a time, cloud after cloud overwhelming him.
The old man was nearly covered; still he kept
crying, s'more hay more hay - until strug-
Cling to keep on top of the disordcred and
ill-arranged heap, 1t began first to roll, then
to slide, at last then it went from the wagon
and the old man with it,


'sWhat are you down here for ~ cried the
boys.


81 came down after hay,'' answered the old
man stoutly.


Which was literal fact; he had come down
after the wagon-load, which had to be pitched
on again rather more deliberately.
Year: 1859

1 am practical advocate of deep plowing.


having been engaged fer several years past in
deepening my farm, and having found IL more
profitable to add to my land in this way than


by buying more acres. Ny deed runs down


to the centre of the earth, and | mean to make


the most of it, and have found that this also


gives me another advantage, for the deeper


get my farm, the higher my grain grows, SO I


gain in both directions, and by this means


reckon I've got at least thirty per cent. more


audiiabie space than formerly; at any rate my


seventy dollars per acre land would oow bring


me ninety dollars-but | haven't got to the


bottom nor top of il yet, and L mean to stick


to it. / have found by experiment. that it is


best to run the plow deeper when raising oats


and winter grain, rather than when breaking


up for corn. Corn is an aristocratic plant, as


you might know by its tasseied head, silk
gloves, and long ears, and like such gentry 1t
must have good nursing in the beginning, and
the best living the land will afford. 1t sends
its roots about near the top, where it can find
plenty of food, and where they can grow com


fortably near the warm surface. If you plow
deep enough to turn up the cold and hard sub
soil, the seed planted at the usual depth will
germinate where they meet with cold recep-
tion, especially if the season be wet. Scarce
any crop seems TO be more benefited by an
early start, or to be more injured by slow
painful growth in the commencement. The
young plants seem to be discouraged, and not
hafIuS iOFCe enodgn 10 ulg down 10 und good
living, they are apt to grow up sickly. In cul-
tivating this crop have therefore practiced
turning up all the soil, gaging my pillow to run
just on the subsOil, and let the corn have the
full benefit of the manure and clover which
were plowed under. The corn crop is fol-
lowed with oats, which can stand wet and
cold soil better. Then drive the pillow deep
er, about an inch, as you recommended in
your last number. The soil, mellowed by the
previous hoed crops, gives the oats good
chance, and they bear the subsoil mixture on
the top quite we'll. The following crop with
me is rye, and seeded down with clover and
especially the former. Now give
the gage another turn. and bring up say anoth-
er inch OF subsoii, and the rye and clover dig
for their liTing-and mine-most admirably.
-COrrespoadent Of the .9neriean .9gricuLtnrist.
Year: 1859

The consumption of gold leaf and plate in
the United States for the preservation and rem
ovation of teeth--amounts to about two and
quarter millions of dollars per annum.
Latterly the use of gold for the plating of ar
tificial teeth has been superseded in some
quarters by vulcanized rubber, which is found
to combine ligbtuess and pleasant degree of
elasticity with cleanliness and durability,
Year: 1859

AIawrence paper says that a clergyman in
that city. during services at his church on
recent evening, fell into SO sound sleep that
it was found necessary for one OF his congre-
cation to shake him in order to wake him at
the close of the service.
Year: 1859

WHITE GIRL ELoPED WITH AN INDIAN.-A
young maiden. 16 years of age, and belong
ing to highly respectable family in Dor
chester. Mass, ran off few weeks ago, with
q wild Indian of the O,d Town and Nomidge
wock tribes. His English name is John
Newell. His tribe had been encamped in the
vicinity, and the girl seeing him often, and
being of a romantic turn, fell in love with
him and took to the woods. At last account.
the old man was on the track of John New
ell with the intention Of roasting him alive
If he caught him. lie was armed with re
volver and accompanied by the Sheriff.
Year: 1859

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald says "In the event of a
collision between the United States and
Great Britain. growing out of the San Juan
affair, Gen. Harney can put the Government
in possession of the fact in fifteen days 10y an
express from Vancouver to Salt Lake City,
and thence to Leavenworth. This may seem
incredible, but there is no doubt but TINT it
can and will be accomplished in case of Il
collision.
Year: 1859

when all the Establishments Of life are ne,
The coward skulks to death-the brave hive on"


The Atlantic papers are full of accounts of
suicides. They are happening all over the
country, in all the larger cities, in all the
small towns, in numerous villages and neigh
borhoOds. Some have supposed that the
prevalence of the evil was more particular
ly apparent in California. Not so. 1t is Of
vast extent and spreads over the Union.
What the cause of this weariness of life may
be, it would be hard to say. Philosophy is
at fault in finding it out.
Year: 1859




A TnRrAT.-The San Francisco Times
threatens to give Mr.. Brodercl's expressed
opinions about Stephen A. Douglas. 1t says:


1--WE happen to know something about that
and can speak that which our own ears
heard, and We can also get plenty of cor
roborative testimony to the same effect Mr.
Douglas is going to Charleston, and intends
to be nominated for the Presidency, and if he
cannot, he will try and dictate the nomina-
tion of one of his own friends. If he sue
ceeds, then large portion of the anti Le-
compton Democracy ofthis State are intend
ing to steal back into the Democratic camp
and 90 in for slave code, the slave trade
and slavery extension. and they are paving
the way for that very course. They there
fore want Mr.. Broderick forgotten as soon as
possible. They do not want his opinions
of Douglas quoted upon them but it must
be- Others may apologize for them for de-
serting their coors and going into the camp
of those who killed their noble chieftain; we
never shall The facts on this matter must
come ont while they are fresh in the memory
of the departed Senator's friends"


In relation to the above, we shall require
"the corroborative testimony" in case any
alleged opinions of Mr.. Broderiell derogatory
to Douglas are given. Not that we have any
doubt as to the intention of the editor of the
Times to state the truth, but it is well known
that fanatics are almost wholly unable to
state the truth on matters at all connected
with eul ject upon which their minds are
distorted. They see everything through n
false medium and are much afflicted with
acoustic illusions


That the editor of the Times is a complete
fanatic is evident from the insane charge
which he makes against the Anti Leeompton
Democracy, accusing them of a determine
tion to ego in for slave code, the slave
trade and slavery extension" in case that
Douglas or Douglas man is nominated by
the Charlie ton Convention. A mind not
wholly mad with the peculiar tenets which
possess it, would see at once that there could
be no shadow of truth in SO preposterous a
statement.
Year: 1859

SUFFERING on THE PLAIYs.-Mr. w. Frost
and his son, Thomas, both from Pottsville.
Pa, were lately found in starving eondi-
tion at an unoccupied station on the plains
between Leavenworth and Pixies Peak
They were found by two soldiers, who were
on their way on express duty, from Prarie
Dog Creek to Fort Riley. The Frosts were
on their way to the Pixies Peak mines, and
when found ty the soldiers, were delirious
aud so weak they could scarcely stand. A
little tea, bread and bacon was left with
them, by the soldiers, and in three days af-
terwards further assistance reached them
from Fort Riley. letter from St. Loui:
says of them:


1t appears that they had lived upon grass.
hoPpers and mildewed corn picked IN from,
among the excrements left bv the animal.
which had fed at the station Providential-
ly, II few young shoots of corn were found to
be springng up about the station, and dried
skull of buffalo had been thrown aside
They caught from twenty TO thirty grass
hoppers every morning, while the dew was
on the grass, until they became too faint to
procure this scant supply of food. which
they had to husband in order to make a stew
of grasshoppers, buffalo hide and Young
corn stalks in small tin cup, to eat at night
to promote sleep and prevent delirium.
Year: 1859

pronounced by good judges to Re free from all deleteous
foreign and consequently it should tOte e place
Of al poisonous GdmiUres, which nwsoesome
influence upon those them where they
ALL The noxous beverages that generally intended for
Whakey imposition and a curse,
Year: 1859

The following dispatch was sent by teie-
graph from San Francisco to Gilroy, sever
al hours after the departure of the Overland
Mail from the former place, and was receiv-
ed here this morning through the Post Of.
ReDorfer
Year: 1859

By late Overland Mail we received the wedding card of two old schoolmates and friends in New Hampshire. The sight of such an attribute ofhuman happiness, coming from those with whom we walked the rosy morning of life, caused us to realize more than ever before, that we were fast approaching the mel ancholy condition of an ''old bachelor!" The years that so silently wing their way into eter- nity, bring changes that we scarcely note at the passing moment, but some day they come upon us with startling, effect.

 To our young friends, now one in lifes portion of joy and sorrow, we send happy greeting across the continent, with the ardent wish that the golden chain of affection which binds their youthful hearts, may strengthen and brighten with each succeeding year.
Year: 1859

THE OVERLAND MAIL.-It is very gratifying to know that the refusal of Congress to pass the Post Office Appropriation Bill will not in any manner retard operations on the Overland Mail Line. It is the only medium of commit nication with the States and its embarrassment, even, would seriously affect the business and prospects of the Territory Although not com pelled to carry newspapers, by their contract, the company supplies the inhabitants of Ari- zona with newspaper mail every week, We must again express our thanks to the proprie- tors, for transporting our paper, and to the conductors for its prompt distribution. We should feel additionally grateful if the gentle men connected with the line would see that our exchange papers from the States are allowed to come through without delay.
Year: 1859

or children under twenty-one years of age the right and fee shall nure to the benefit of said infant child or children. No individual has right to make more than one entry, and the land is not to be liable for the satisfaction of debts contracted before the issue of the patent

 This bill goes over until the next session of Congress, when it will undoubtedly pass the Senate.