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Year: 1860

VALUE OF SHADE TREEs.-Very few own
ers of real estate in country towns seem to
have any idea even of the commercial value
of shade trees. One piece of ground, per-
haps not very eligibly located, commands
high price, while another in n far better po-
sition, is not wanted scarcely at any rate,
especially by those who have the means to
make considerable investment simply be-
cause there are no attractive shade trees,
nothing to make house pleasant out of
doors. Suppose every inland town in the
United State should appropriate the sum of
one hundred dollars annually, to be invested
in this way, in beautifying and enriching
the place, what change ten or twenty
years would produce. Take away the mag
ni6cent elms and other beautiful shade trees
from New Haven, Norwich and other New
England towns, and you would reduce the
value Of real estate at once at least twenty
five per cent. We call attention now to the
subject because shade trees are now appre-
ciated. Those, therefore, who realize how
much pleasure they are denying themselves
will please remember at the proper time, in
the fall or spring. to give the matter their
prompt attention. Reader, man or woman
1--WE say woman, for we have recently seen
three of the finest elms we ever beheld
which were planted by a noble woman
nearly one hundred years ago. whomsoe yer
you are, we mean you.-N. y. Independent.


Our citizens will do we'll to read and heed
the above. Entirely too little attention is
paid to beautifying our city by means of the
cultivation of shade trees. Spring is COM
ing, and we hope to see more interest taken
in this matter than seems to have been felt
hnrnfncnrn
Year: 1860

The Benevolent Association.


The Ladies of the Benevolent Association
will please remember the meeting on Tues
day, the 7th, at half past three o'clock, in
the Lecture Room of Mr. McCarers Church


We hope all the members-but especially
each one of the twelve who have been APP
pointed Managers-will be present Ifthey
can not come, nor labor in their appointed
field, it is desirable that they send in their
resignation, that others may be elected in
their places. Some of that number, we are
glad to state, have been faithful to their
trust, have, through the liberality CT
those who have contributed of their means
to the Association, been the means of re-
lieving many of the poor and suffering in
our midst


The Association would beg leave to in
form the public that they have large guam
tity of CHECK SHIRTS on hand some of which
will be found at Mr.. Sellmans, near the
Postoffice, or al. the Auction Rooms, and at
Kratz & Heilmans Office, on First street.


Will not our citizins, who have any pity
for the poor in their hearts, take these shirts
off our hands, and thereby enable us to go
on in this work of mercy We do not ask
you to give more than thar1 are worth
They are-with the -Nception of very
few-of the best material, and are strongeE
and much better made than any that can be
purchased at the clothing stores. And it is
to be hoped that each member will come
prepared to pay their monthly dues.
Year: 1860

HGy@ We ask those who expect to attend
the Board of Trade meeting, tonight,
whether it would not be we'll to make the
above organization General Business Ex-
change, to comprise all business men P
There is just as much need of our Mechan-
les and Manufacturers having an organiza-
ton and daily intercourse with each other
as our Merchants. In Cincinnati and other
large cities, they have their separate organ
izations, but this place is not large enough
for that, and as the different interests are
not antagonistic, and may work advanta-
gecusly in conjunction, would it not be well
for them to do so?


The Daily Produce and Merchants Ex-
change, in such case, would be Daily
Business Exchange, held at regular hour
each day, at which Merchants, Manufactur-
ers, and Mechanics would meet together
for mutual consultation and business trans
actions.


Reports might be made daily or weekly
of the receipts and shipments of produce,
merchandise, and manufactured articles,
and of anything else of general interest,
which might be entered upon regular books
kept for the purpose. These reports the pa
pers would cheerfully publish, and thus the
business of the city Tor the bulk of it) would
be effectually made known.


Manufacturers and Mechanics are invited
to attend tonight We hope they will be
there in great numbers, and take an equal
interest with the Merchants in the advance
ment rf the city and efforts directed to that
end
Year: 1860

BE- The Madison Courier thinks the Re-
publicans should have stuck to SHERMAN to
the end. They did stick to him till they
got pretty badly sttck-so tight that they
came near not getting loose again.
Year: 1860

BsaE~ An accident occurred on the Port
land Railroad, near the Canada boundary
line, on the 3lst nit The baggage car of
the train was thrown down eight feet
embankment. The Express Messenger,
Mail Agent, and the Conductor were in
jured, but not seriously.
Year: 1860

their presence in the state would be dan


gerous, and he could not engage to pro.


tect them from their fellow citizens who


had resolved that they must go. Heprom.
iscd Them security while taking their de.
parture, and that their property should be
protected. They say that for the most
part they wero treated politely by those
who have driven them from their homes,
and they have hopes that presently the
people Of Kentucky will take sober tho't


and allow them to return to their several
places of abode an2 accustomed avocations.
We cannot say that We consider the pros
pect Of such n consumation remarkably
f1attering. They believe that many Of
the non Shareholders arc much inconsed at
tho despotic proceedings of the master
class, and they have many warm personal
friends. They trust to these and to re,
action. There are those among the pco'
pie Of Madison county, who recognize the
fact that the expulsion Of such men AS
Fee and Rogers is the very way to make
abolitionists and that tho action taken has
been not only uncaled for but imprudent.
1t is certainly not light matter to drive
out Of State men who build steam saw.
mills, improve farms, keep schools, and Ia.
bor faithfully rs ministers of the Gospel,
and who give no prevocation to any in any
way-who offend against no law-who
make no war upon society-and who
merely hold that slavery is sin, and
teach that it should come TO IN end in
Gods own cool time. The steam mill Of
Mr.. Hanson was doing well until he was
constrained to abandon it. The school of
Mr.. Rogers was in hourishng condition,
having ncarly hundred pupils duriug the
last term, a great portion Of them the
children Of Shareholders. Kentucky can
not afford to drive beyond her borders
The mon who build mills and academies.


The exles seem in good spirits. They
10 not indulge even in unkind words about
those who have made them homeless
They seem to be divided in opinion as to
their course in future. They all hope to
go back to Oil Kentucky, and live, labor
and die on her soil. Some fear they can.
not go back. and think Of looking out for
employment in the free States; and they
have vague ideas of appealing for protec-
tion in their rights and immunities as citi-
zens, to the federal Government.
Year: 1860

Parson Brownlow, editor Of the Vest
Tennessee Wig, thus declares his incxcr
able hostility to tho Democracy, and his
bope that the Southern Opposition in
Congress won't give in: 1--WE, of course,
will not advise Southern Opposition mem.
bers what to do, believing them competent
to preserve their own self respect and to
discharge sworn duty to their country
and their constituents. But wero we mem.
Der of the Southern Opposition in Con
gross, before wo occupy the palfry and
contemplate attitude Of creeping after n
party that had spurned us by its deliberate
acts, we would see the Capitol Of the Ma
ton, and all the territory north and south
Of il sunk to eternal perdition. Nay, we
would see all the political organizations in
America as far in hell rs a pigeon could
hy in thousand years, or forgeham.
mer would fall 10 twice that length Of time !!
Sooner than thus degrade ourselves under
the pretense Of battling for the homes and
rights Of our children, we would see them
all starve to death, and then seat ourselves
upon their co6ins NTH a Southern gentle
man and play push pin for drink Of Ia.
GER beer"
Year: 1860

An AFFECTING SCENE. Not many years
since (says Frazer's Magazine) certain mi-
ners, working far underground, came ups
on the body of poor fellow who had per,
ished in asutiocating pit forty years before.
Some chemical agent to which the body


had been subjected--an agent prepared ia


the laboratory of nature-had eflectual-
ly arrested the progress of decay. They
brought it up to the surface, and for a
n while, till it crumbled away through
exposure to the atmosphere, it lay there,
the image of a fine sturdy young man.
No convulsion had passed over the face
in death the features were tranquil the
hair was black as jet. No one recognized
the face generation had grown up since
the day on which the miner vert down
his shaft Tor the last time. But totter-
ing old woman who had hurried from her
cottage at hearing the news, came up, and
she Knew again the face which through all
these years she had never quite forgot
The miner was to have been her husband
the day after that on which he died.
They were rough people. of course, who
were looking on "a liberal education aud
one feeling are not deemed essential tc
the man whose work it is to get up coal,
or even tin but there were 10 dry eye,
there When the grey-headed old pilgrim
cast herself upon the youthful corpse, and
poured out TO his deaf ear many words O


endearment, unused for forty years. II
was touching cortrast-the one so olC
the other so young. They had been young
these long years before but time hat
gone on with the living and stood still


with the dead" r-- afi r..lrH q
Year: 1860

"A Story TO MAKE PARENTS WEEp.-A
little bright four year and half old boy of
Newark, N. j., William Henry Findlay, was
lost on the 9th inst, and on the 10th - all
search meantime being unavailing-his dead
body was found in narshy meadow in the
suburbs of the town. The little fellow had
no doubt followed the band, with which he
had last been seen on that day, to the pic.
mic ground little distance further on, and
starting for home, tired with his long walk,
had taken the nearest way across the mead
ow, and stepping between the bogs had
become so deeply mired that he was unable
to extricate himself. His legs were firmly
iinbedded above his knees in the marsh, and
with all the exertion that lie could have
made, he could not possibly have freed him
self without assistance, so that he must have
pershed from sheer exhaustion and exposure.
A colored msn, living some Two hundred
yards from where the body was found, says
that during that night-which our readers
will remember was dark, stormy aud dismal
he heard a voice of child calling ''mam
ina, mamma" but was not able to discover
from whence it came, and it soon ceased
altogether; then it was, no doubt, that the
poor child breathed his last.
Year: 1860

93The honesty Of "Old Abe'' is
we'll illustrated by the following from a
correspondent Of the Newark IN. J.)
.Advertaser


l will tell you Lincoln anecdote
which | forgot when writing to you the
other day. 1t is connected with the
personal interview with Mr.. Lincoln I
then described. My business at Spring.
field on that occasion was connected
with lobby affair in reference to the
Illinois Central Railroad, perfectly
legitimate, and I was anxious for those
whom represented to enlist Mr.. Lin
coins services before the then sitting
Illinois Legislature. l will not say
what fee was authorised to Offer him.
but enough be it to disclose the grounds
on which he declined its acceptance
"Excuse me-" he substantially said,
''from hearing the details, since COM
'prehend the scope of your suggestion.
l have adopted an invariable rule never
to have anything whatever to do with
engineering affairs that belong to the
Legislature. Having been well known
member Of that body is to me an ar
gument strong enough to object to any
attempt at personal influence there
but, besides this, I hardly think such
things strictly professional. have
long since turned the matter over and
over in my mind, and without censur-
ing any body who thinks or acts differ
emily, l, for my part, think it is the
best way to keep aloof from such
things"
Year: 1860

A SOUTHERN PAPER ON SOUTHERN MAN.
Here is sample of the feelings entertained
toward those who differ from Southern people
politically. Hon. Edward Bates is a Southern
gentleman. and has never lived elsewhere.
He is Virginian by birth. But, because he
has had the manliness to speak fearlessly ard
honestly his feelings, he is thus mcanly spoken
of by Southern men, whose souls are smaller
than mustard seed. We copy from the
Atlanta (Georgia) Locomotiee:


OLD DADDY BATES. = This old Black
Republican passed through here, yesterday.
He took the Georgia train. He looks very
venerable, having tolerably white whiskers.
We felt such an utter contempt for him that
his presence was painful to US. We do not
like to see the fanatic tribe polluting our soil
We hope he may never come to Atlanta again
if he can make it convenient to 60 around the
place. That the State of Missouri should
suffer so foul an apostate to remain in her
borders is an everlasting stain on bel
escutcheon.
Year: 1860

A BAD SlGN.-One of the most significant
indications of the weakness and discourage
ments of the cause OF Douglas, is the going
under of his old home organ, the Chicago
Times, which has been consolidated with
SHss Herald, formerly an Administration or


gan and Utter opponent of Douglas but now
50; porting him. The old editors Of the
Herald will have control of the consolidated
Year: 1860

WoN'r CoME Our.--The Douglas men Of
Pennsylvania are very anxiously calling on
Foster, the Democratic candidate for Governor,
to declare his preference for President. Up
to the present time, he has been trying to
strad1le the fence between the factions
Forney called upon him, a few days since, to
get him to define his position on the subject
Of compromise electoral ticket. But Foster
has not yet spoken. Forney is determined
to smoke him out.
Year: 1860

Stir quiekly large table spoonful Of
fine salt into half a glass of cold water,
and once in every FIVE minutes drink q
swallow. At the same time cool the
chest, with application OF cloths wrung
out ofcold water, and keep quiet, breath
ing regularly, and as gently as possible.
An erect posture is generally preferable,
Year: 1860

CAN'T AFFORD Ir.-We received note the
other day, stating that a resident of Yuba
county had been offered $4,000 for two in
terests in Washoe silver claim, and enclos.
ing gold dollar to pay for the item. We
cant't afford to puff so valuable claim for
so small sum and if the individual will send
us his address we will return him his dollar
If the offer was really made, we should have
no objection to stating the fact, and would
do so without charge. but we have suspicious
and will say nothing about it.-Nevada DEM
Ocrdt
Year: 1860

RULE OF CoURr.-The following rule has
been made by the District Court at Sacra-
mento: Cali persons required by decree of
Court to interplead, shall be regarded as
plaintiffs as against each other, and each
claimant or all claimants united in interests
and in Court, shall, within ten days after
such decree, (unless the time be enlarged, J
file his or their complaint setting out his or
their cause of action. Any adverse party
may demure or answer such complaint within
ten days after notice of the filing thereof and
all matter stated in a complaint verified &C
cording to statute shall be deemed and taken
as true against all parties not denying the
same in an answer with like verifcation.'
Year: 1860

FALL OF THE NAPA BRIDGE.-The San
Francisco Herald learns that on Sunday last,
the County Bridge at Napa fell under the
weight of about hundred head of cattle,
which were precipitated into the stream be-
low, a distance of nearly one hundred feet.
Several were killed outright, number had
their legs broken, and were obliged to be
killed and four were drowned.
Year: 1860

TRUE CHARITY BEGINS AT HONE. We learn
from the Democrat, that the net proceeds of
the ball given in Nevada last week for the
benefit of the family of M. II. Casson, amount
ed to S24l, which has been handed over to
the family The timely assistance was CRATE
fully acknowledged by the recipients.
Year: 1860

How TO WATER PLANTs.--As rule, water
should never be given, until the further with
holding of it would be detrimental to the
plants. Habitual watering does, in the ma
iorty of cases, more harm than good. Plants
left to battle with the drouth, send their
roots down deep in search of moisture, and
when rain does como, they benefit more by It
than those that have regular waterings all
along
Year: 1860

RIO DE JANERo, which is said to be the
third city in size on the American continent
has no system of underground drainage. A
company has just been formed for the pur.
pose of remedying the troubles which neces-
sarily spring from the want of subterranean
drains. The refuse and offal have been here
tofore carried away in kegs by the negroes
and thrown into the sea.
Year: 1860

GARIBALDL-The San Francisco committee
for the subscription of one million muskets
for General Garabaldi, have addressed let
Ter to that parsonage, in which thew saw.


fersevere General, in your magnanimous
course: use that influence which Won hnuo Us
rightfully acquired, in order that the work
OF emancipation may not be arrested in its
progress and though, by the intrigues Of
European diplomacy. you have been com
PEELED to pause in the middle of your brilliant
career, we earnestly pray that once delivered
from IRON the entanglements of the diplomatists
you may put yourself at the head of the nao'
pie, and in the name of Liberty, wave the
trl-colored flag upon the Roman Capitol-
and thus announce to the children of Italy
scattered over the world, that the twenty five


millions of Italians, united in fraternal bond
ana released from all foreign oppression, have
ton. -"
Year: 1860

FROM CRESCENT CTrY.-The Herald of oath
OF March has the following: The late dis
eoveries of minds of quartz, gold and opper,
both Immediately about Crescent City, and in
the interior must operate favorably on bust
ness and trade the coming season. We have
been informed that parties are now engaged
IN building steamer on Puget Sound some.
thing on the style of the Sea Bird, but lar
ger, and that they intend running her from
San Francisco to Crescent City, touching only
at Mendocino We hear that there are at
present about two hundred men at Gold
Beach, and also that all engaged in mining
there are making very good wages
Year: 1860

ANOTHER CHINESE SUIcIDE-On Thursday
night miserable, emaciated Chinaman hung
himself from one Of the roof timbers of a
mean hovel in which he had been living
alone, back of Wooster's store, near Flume
street. He had formed moose with q por-
ton OF his own garments, passing it under
his chin and up by his ears, and allowed his
weight to deperd from it while his toes
touched the ground. He had been suffering
from hernia of the worst description, aggra-
waited by an attempt he had made to procure
relief by cutting the parts with razor DR..
Webber had very kindly attended him of
late,. but John preferred DEATH An inquest
was held on Friday morning by Justice Far
quhar, and the poor devil consigned for
burial to his countrymen, who seem to care
more Cor one another when dead than when
alive and in need of aid and sympathy.
Year: 1860

AS everybody knows, and as the infallible
astronomers predicted, there was nearly
total lunar eclipse last Monday evening
Old earth looked at her shadow on the silver
disk of the moon, and the moon herself
looked as if she was in her first quarter and
had strayed around to the east, oras ifsome-
body had been polishing her argentiferous
splendor with brick dust
Year: 1860

Our PAPER.-Owing to welcome increase
present our readers this week with anything
more in the shape of reading matter than
what is nearly altogether local. This makes
but little difference, however, in a commu-
nifty which peruses two or three hundred
daily papers.
Year: 1860

WILD DUCKs-About two dozen wild
ervoir at an early hour Thursday morning.
As this sheet of water is in the very midst of
a town of ten or fifteen hundred souls, the
circumstance. They were only frightened
off by stick being thrown at them.
Year: 1860

HONEY LAKE.-According to the Plumas
Argus this lake is still dry, and likely to
continue so, except for a short time each
spring. We suppose, says the Aryus, that
should this prove true, and the former bed
of the lake be transformed into well kept
meadows and cornfelds, the prosperity of
the valley would not be materially retarded
thereby. The population of the valley is
about eight hundred. Considerable mining
excitement obtains, and there is probability
of hostilities with the Pi-Ute Indians.
Year: 1860

BREAKDowN.-A young man, commonly
known as Buckeye Bill, was driving a horse
in a sulky very rapidly down c street, when
he made too sudden turn into second street
and caused the spokes instauter to fly out
from one Of the wheels. The consequence
was that the sulky came down, and Buckeye
Bill rolled on his back The horse was
readily stopped, Bill was not hurt, and the
crowd had their excitement
Year: 1860

AS vet we have read the concluding part
only Of Judge Douglass great speech on the
subject of invasious Of one State 10y citizens
of another. the entire production not being
contaiued SO far, in any Of our eastern ex
changes. He contends that Congress should
pass law not only punish actual invaders
but to punish citizens of one State who con.
spire against the peace Of another. We find
as usual, both Republicans and Fire Eaters
arrayed against him, and denouncing his po-
sition. Anything which will tend to alay
i'll feeling and to bridge over the threatening
gap of disunion, is poison to each class Of
sectionalsts. II they cannot trump up one
objection, they will another, and thus we
find them making lnbored speeches against
the sound, Democratic and conservative doe
trines advanced by the Senator f. ON Illinois.
/ They will, however meet with the respect
which they deserve at the hands Of the ma
jority of the Democracy and of all Other


Union-loying citizens