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Year: 1860

The JAPANESE AT SAN FRANCIsCo "A boat
load Of sailors, marines and officers from the
japanese corvette came ashore this morning,
and took little tramp around town. The
Captain of the company, who talks English
like a book, was without a hat His head
was shaven on the crown, and straight, black
hair turned upward, tied together, and the
ends compacted by virtue of much pomatum
into one solid round mass, were laid straight
fore and aft on the crown, pointing ahead.
Upon this model most of the Others of any
rank dressed their hair Several dandyish
officers wore broad brimmed white hats, such
as our Chinese sport in rainy weather
cushion was arranged inside to lift the hat
clear of the head. Two stout strings one
passing from in front of the ears under the
chin the other behind the ears around the
front Of the chin, kept it in place, Others
wore straw bonnets of fancy colors, shaped
like an inverted cone,-the cushion within,
sustaining on the shaved scalps all the hats
weight, and the cross strings sustaining it in
position. Others, indeed the marines wore
none at all One brief little old man had
every hair on his head shaven off. The of
ficers were fancifully dressed in very different
styles. One wore a light blue gown and
trowsers the colors of the sky at sunset, SPAN
gled, starred and barred with gold and Grim
son. He carried short sword, worn almost
horizontally, on the left hip, with white shark
skin covered handle and beautifully polished
scabbard. A little below hung longer
sword, got up in the same style. In his right
hand he carried a fan, in his left walking
cane. The dresses of high and low were
spotted with little circular, oval or square
patches with inscriptions of an import quite
unknown to us. Almost every man wore
sandals generally of grass, but only consist
ing of a sole, strap coming up between the
great toe and the next toe adjoining, then
splitting, surrounded the ankle-Buiietjn
Year: 1860

ORDERED TO LEAVE TowN-An Italian beg
gar woman was brought before the Recorder,
yesterday, on the charge of being an impos-
ter. Beggar or no beggar, it appeared from
the testimony that she had been seen in pos
session of considerable amounts Of money at
one time. The Recorder was of opinion that
she was one of the numerous professional
beggars infcsting the country, and ordered
her to leave town under penalty Of being
much more severely dealt with. The woman
has couple of children, who no doubt will
be trained up to the same occupation as that
followed by herself
Year: 1860

a truly extraordinary case is now trying
before one of the French courts A certain
MIR. - died, leaving an express order
to his heirs that he shouldbe buried in church
and a handsome sum paid 10 the priests, on
condition that nobody should laugh while
the service was going on" The intelligent
defunct had observed that undertakers and
priests permit themselves often to take hia.
riouS liberties with death, and he was deter
mined that he should be buried with the
gravity appropriate to the grave. OF course
the odd request got noised abroad all the
village came to the funeral and everybody
keeping an eye on everybody else to see that
nobody should so much as wink, the natural
result followed. A fat priest near the coffin
was the first to break down the choir boys
in the frailty Of their youth, followed the fat
priest; the minor canons, trying to stop the
choir boys, or at least make them laugh out
of the wrong side of their mouths" caught
the contaSion and began to shake their sides
the deacons were off next in a loud suffav:
and finally the cure himself was conquered
and choked in his handkerchief In short
a merrier interment was never Witnessed
1t was the joke of the season. But the heirs
not liking the sport, have refused to pay the
clergy for their roliicking services, and the
matter is now in court, where it will doubt
less cease to be a laughing matter to anybo-
dy but the lawyers.
Year: 1860

The Watertown Democrat gives the fol-
lowing account of the manner in which boy
named Henry Steinfeld, who was nearly
drowned at that place, few days ago, was
restored. He was taken from the water ap-
parently dead:


"The following treatment was employed in
the effort to resuscitate Henry Steinfeld,
which was successful : The boy was divest-
ed Of his clothing, and was Immediately
wrapped in blanket wrung out of hot wa
ter. Artificial respiration was then used for
short time. He was next placed on bar
rel, the face being downward, and rolled
backward ard forward until large quantity
of water and air was expelled. Warm wa
ter was constantly poured on the blanket,
which soaked through, giving him the bene-
fit Of its heat without the risk of exposure
Friction was also constantly kept up. Arti-
fetal respiration was again resorted to, and
again he was placed on the barrel, and in a.
bout II minutes after the treatment CON-
menced, the first signs of life were noticed.
The first efforts at respiration were so feeble
and far between that artificial respiration was
employed to fill up the intervals until the
breathing became matter of fact, when he
was allowed to struggle for himself"
Year: 1860

A distinguished author was recently over
taken in a shower and took refuge under a
portico at the West End, London. A young
and beautiful lady, after looking attentively
at him for moment, sent servent out with
an umbrella. The next day the delighted
author dressed himself up to the last result
of the problem of what was becoming, and as
the umbrella was an old one, laid it aside as
a soureair and purchasing one of the costli-
est taste, called on the lady to return her
tlattering loan. She received the new UNI
brella evidently without marking the change,
and after listening with curious gravit, to
the rather pressing tenderness of the dra-
matists acknowledgements. she suddenly
comprehended that he was enamored of her,
and forthwith nairely explained as he stood
in the way Of an expected visit from her in
tended, who wished to come and see her un-
observed, she had sent him the umbrella to
get him of her front steps.
Year: 1860

Professor Hamilton, in an able address on
hygiene to the graduates of the Buffalo med
ical college, denonnces broadcloth as an ene-
my to exercise and therefore to health. lie
says "American gentlemen have adopted as
national costume, broaGcloth-a thin, tight
fitting black suit of broadcloth. To foreign
ers We seem always to be in mourning; We
travel in black. The priest, the lawyer, the
doctor, the literary man, the mechanic, and
even the day laborer choose always the same
monotonous black broadcloth, a style that
never ought to have been adopted out Of the
drawing room or the pulpit because it is
feeble and expensive fabric; because it is in
the North no protection against the cold. nor
is it any more suitable at the South. 1t is
too thin to be warm in winter and too black
to be cool in summer but especially do we
object to it because the wearer is always soil.
Year: 1860

taken the first cargoes of the season, and
sped home with them. The Americans are
green enough to prefer an infusion of Prus-
sian Blue, rendering that article so scarce
and high in the vicinity Of the green teas,
that the natives can hardly afford to use it
on the venetians of their verandahs. If
some hundreds of good ladies, who 60 with
their heads lightly bandaged day or two in
each week with sick headache, and whose on
ly remedy is green tea,' would abandon the
use of green tea altogether, they would find
in the remedy itself the source of the dis
ease"
Year: 1860




What pleases God, 0 pious soul,
Accept with joy, though thundcrs roll
And tempeStS lower on every side.
Tnou knowest naught can thee betide


But plcases God.
The best will is our Fathers will,
And we may rest there calm and still
Oh. make it hour by hour thine own,
And wish for naught but that alone


Which pleases God.
His thought is aye the wisest thought :
How oft mans wisdom comes to nough
Mistake or weakness in it turks,
1t brings forth ill, and seldom works


What pleases God.
His mind is aye the gentlest mind,
His will and deeds are ever kind
He blesses when against US speaks
The evil world that rarely speaks


What pleases God.
His heart is aye the truest heart,
He bids all woe and harm depart
Defending. shielding day and night
The man who knows and loves Alright


What plcases God.
He governs all things here below,
In Him lie all our veal and woe:
He bears the world within Hi, hand,
And so to us bear sea and land


What pieaseS God.
And DER His little flock He yearns,
And when to evil ways it turns,
The Fathers rod oft smiteth sore,
Until it learns to do once more


What pleases God
What most would profit us He knows,
And ne'er denies aught good in those
Who with their utmost strength pursue
The right. and only care to do


What pleases God.
If this be so. then, World. from me
Keep. if thou wilt, what pleaseS thee
But thou. my soul. be well content
With God and all things He hath sent,


As plcases God.
And must thou suffer here ard there,
Cling but the frmer to His care
For all things are beneath His sway,
And must i'll every truth obty


What pleaSes God.
True faith will grasp His mercy fast.
And hope bring patience at the last
Then both within thy heart enshrine,
SO shalt the heritage he thine


That pleases God.
To thee forever shall be given
A kingdom and throne III Heaven
And there shall be fulfill in thee,
And thou shalt taste and hear and see


What pleases God.
Year: 1860

ing it by exposure. Young gentlemen will
not play ball, pitch quoits, or wrestle or tum-
bic, or any other similar thing, lest their
broadcloth should be offended. They will
not 60 out into the storm because the broad
cloth will lose its luster if the rain falls upon
it they will not run, because they have no
confidence in the strength of their broadcloth
they dare not mount horse or leap
fence. because broadcloth as everybody knows
is faithless. So these young men and these
older men, these merchants, mechanics and
all learn to walk, talk and think soberly and
carefully. They seldom venture even to
laugh to the full extent of their sides"
Year: 1860

The pauper coal bill; for the current
yesr in this county will not be far If any short
of the snug sum of Eve thousand dollars -
There is On item for tax payers to ponder over
Five thousand dollars judiciously expended
would dsfray one half of the entire paupsr ex
penss Of the county. Citixsns remsn Der this
when paying your taxea
Year: 1860

~ JUsr So We understand that
the ladies-the singls-that is to say the un.
married ladies Of this city are bound TO take
sll legal advantage Of the present leap year.
and get themselves married off before the year
closes There are doubtless many baehslors-
old and young-in this city. who have been
waiting for the past four years. for this aus
pieious period. and will fall Unto the state Of
mstrimony on the slightest hint from any fair
lady. just like rolling of from log. Glad tc
hear it, are We.
Year: 1860

HORSE POWER CoRN SHELLER.-One
Of these labor saving institutions was started
on Front street yesterday afternoon. but owing
to improper Harvesting did not work to .
charm. 1t will when in proper working order
shell one thousand bushels of corn per day with
one horse
Year: 1860

EI The mail arrangement suits Us
to . nicely. Instead Of being compelled to
wait until late in the evening for Chicago pa
pers, We have them Immediately after tea.-
powers that govern the going out and coming
in Of the great iron hanimal, for this arrange
M Mt
Year: 1860

ET 1t is confidently expected that
the firm of Cook 4 Sargent will make state,
ment Of their affairs to the public within a
few days. 1t is surely time, and it is hoped
they will not require their creditors to remain
in the fog much longer
Year: 1860

eV A new fashion which is becom-
ing quite prevalent in this city among all clsss-
es is that Of wearing narrow strip Of flannel
sewed tightly about the throat. Any color
at oil sesms to suit the taste. though white.
perhaps takes the precedence.
Year: 1860

Petersons Counterfeit Detecor sends the following
information regards and dangerous counterfeit


five dollar the Southern Bank of St Louis, Mo,
viz: large steamboat with city in the distance rgh
end Goddess of Liberty pointing to column with the
word Union it; left end word five with male por
trait Better refuse all SIS the bank its branches
this is good imitation and has deceived of our
best Judges.
Year: 1860

that there is no stability In the means Of Napoleon,
but great stability in his ends while the worn-ou
diplomacy of all the other States, except England.
chngs to the traditional use of certain means hth-
erto employed for the maintenance of legitimacy.
As to Germany, we may assert that the meeting at
Baden has not proved useless. The reactionist
party was deeply disappointed at the speech Of the
Prince Regent, whereby he declared to the other
German Princes his firm intention never to change
his interior political maxims and his liberal means,
nor to acknowledge the power, usurped by the Ger
Confederation, to alter the liberal constitutions
of the lesser States. The same views have been
recently expressed by the Prince Regent in answer
to petition against the emancipation of Jews, pre-
sented to him by number of noblamen under the
direction of Count Stolberg. sfsss 8


A strong impulse moreover hassbeen given to
commerce and industry, which until ssecently had
confidence whatever in the DIR <ieGi+of peace.
There is now general tendency tonaras enterprise
and speculation. Any thing may be successfully
offered for insurance except perhaps the Grown of
the King of Naples, reposing on no reliable plat
form either of despotism or of liberalism.
Year: 1860

BERLIN, July ii, 1860


The effects produced by the meeting at Baden of
the German Princes and the Emperor Napoleon
may be now adequately appreciated. tits courtesy
alone which imposes on the Prince Regent the ne
eessity of appearing to be trustful with regard to
the peaceful assertions of the French Emperor
Although this monarch is generally held the most
powerful amongst the European Princess yet it is
doubtful whether he will be able to master the out
burst of those national feelings of the French which
are raised by the italian and the recent annex
ations. The personal interests of Napoleon are
very naturally the principle of his policy, which is
exposed to continual change in its means. The


great mystery, not yet revealed to the intellect of
dplomatists, is, that the difference between the
policy of France and that of the other European
States is very plain Eone, consisting in the fact
Year: 1860

An Arabic Journal Barys, the Eagle of Paris
published at the French capital contains one of its
latest issues, letter written at Damascus by the Emr
Add EKader who is living in retirement in that city,
the state of things in Turkey and Syria The New York
Times publishing this letter. observes that it must have
been written shortly before the Syrian capital the eye of
the whole East" Julian called it, called upon to
bear such fearful witness to the mbecty which the Emr
denounees and depores the orerunner of the fall
of the last great Isamtsh Empire Apart from the
rous interest which attaches to the appearance of the
great Prince of the Desert the character of writer for
the press this letter has striking value the sad and
deliberate verdict of of the ablest of living Mohamme
dams upon the condition of the faith which he processes
and of it's voares contrasted with the state of Chris
tendon The Emir begins by compmenting the Arabian
editor the wisdom he has shown pointing that the
obstinate prendices and the slow adapabty to circun-
stances of the Ottoman functionares great causes
of the impotence of the Sultans Government and then
goes on to say:


Glory to God II have been delighted by all that you
have written in the Brgs on the subject of the Mussu
States You have in truth given good advice and
would be heard if you had spoken to the living but it is
the dead that you have appealed You have based
remarks ON two points You might have mentioned a
third and said that truly Mussuman soyeregns love the
conduct of honest and follow their footsteps in the
ways of justice and contempt of worldly goods for it
high that little should look for example. Alasl we
far enough from doing sO The present state OF the
Mussuman and Christian Empires, every thing that is
taking place to-day, predicted by Mohammed in his
tie and that is what gives such authority to his prophe
ces He has announced the annhaton of the Chosr0es
and there Chosroes he has also said that the
Christian Kings should maintain themselves in power till
the end of tme and that the soveregns of his people
should be abandoned of God by of their injustice
and of the worlds goods lastly he has said that the
world shall not end till the Christians have become the
iory of the human And that cannot fail to
arrive because Mslam the authorized interpreter of
Mohammed, has said they have above ALL four qualities
which their future successclemency in victory
obstnacy in defeat energy in retaliation and charity
the poor the weak and the bereayed will add of my
SELF that they join to these gifts still greater viz skill


withdrawing themselves of necessity from the
injustice and oppression Of their kings
81 weep, o my God the annhiation of Isamism.
We are from God, and to him we return.


At this moment dreadful disorder prevails among the
Marones and the Druses The evil has deep roots every
where Butchery and murder are going on in all parts.
God grant that things maylhave better ending.


Greeting to God, the Mighty, from his poor servant
| DAMASCUS, JUNE TO- ABD-ELrKADER.'' s
Year: 1860

KILLED BY WAD.-On Tuesday night, at Portsmouth,
IN H) Miss Ann Maria Martin, daughter of Mr.. Thomas
Martin died from the effects of singular wound received
on Saturday when salute fired from the yacht Znga
Expecting display of fireworks from the Zinga she
was coming n large number of people had gathered on
the wharf. salute from twopound cannon was fired
on board the yacht The wad Of waste cotton and
course very dense and although the muzze of the
being pointed towards the people, the wad struck Miss
Martini broke several steel hoops in her skirt and of
them cut fearful cash across her body, To who
crowded around her and annoyed her with questions she
replied in great agony: " You do not know how much
am hurt. Take me home that may die with my mother,
Year: 1860

WHAT Would be THE REsULr.-The New
Orleans Commercial Bulletin declares that
a breaking up of the Union would not
only cause the ships to rot at the levee, and
bankruptcy and ruin to follow in the train
Of disasters, but the real estate of New
Orleans would not be worth twenty-five
cents on the dollar to what it now is; cot
ton would 90 down to such figure that it
would not pay to cultivate it, aud the pail
OF general stagnation, the wings of dreary
desolation would rest upon the land torn bv
internal dissensiuns, and drenched in civil
and iraternal blood. Mexico is but faint
picture OF what our condition would be
upon gigantic scale"
Year: 1860

A Traveller PuzzLED.-A distinguished for
elsner who is stopping ore of cur best hotels
found some boiled Indian corn on the table one
day at dinner, a dish to which he was unaceus
toned. Following the example set around him.
he ate ofthe corn, and liking it much he passed
the cob to the waiter and asked to have some
more corn put on it. The waiter was wagSish.
and he took thccob and returned a fresh ear. so
the traveller knew he had done just right
Boston Post.
Year: 1860

a N ORDINANCES, to amend Section G. Of
of Marssvne.


The Common Council of Marysvile do ordain as
follows


Section 6. The city Printer annually to he selected
by the Common Council, shall publish Except at his
option on Snndays) daily newspaper in said city and
it shall be his duty


First: TO print and publish in said newspaper, all
Ordna ces, resolutions and contracts whether before
or after being proved or pa sed, and to print and
publish all notices, hand bills posters advertisements
reports ana messages Of the corporation officers and
all other matter which now is which may be here
after required by law, or by any ordinance resolution
motion of the Common Council to be printed, pub
shed and done.


Second To print, publish and bind the Ordinances
of the city when the shall have been codifed and
presented to him by the city Attorney city Clerk
similar to the book OF Codifed Ordinances now in use
by the Council with marginal notes TO print and pub
lish in said book # Ordinances the city Charter and
all amendments thereto and the standing rules and
orders for the government of the Council and any 9TH
matter thing that may be required by the Coun-
Gil to be printed and published in said book of Ord-
nances, and to furnish all labor and materials
ssary for the same.


Third. To publish all advertisements and notices for
the sale property, for all taxes and assessments
and no charge shall be made therefor against the
property advertised or the owner thereof


Fourth. To furnish the materials and to print and
bind in such book form as may be required by the
poraon officers, all blank licenses, warrants and re-
ceips, whenever ordered by the said officers, and also
to print end furnish all blanks required in the Recor
ders Court and by the corporation officers.


The city Printer shall receive for such services Of
printing and publication, and for all labor and mate
rias furnished by him and for all other duties and
work done by him, snch city Printer such sum- to
be paid quarterly, the Common Council shall con-
tract for, not to exceed eight hundred dollars per
mum.


All Ordinances or parts Of Ordinances, il conflict
with this Ordinance be and the same are hereby
pealed.


This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its
passage.


The above and foregoingis an Ordinance introduced
into the Common Council of the city Of Marysvlle at
its meeting, the 11tl of March passed first and
ond reading, laid over under the rules and ordered
published.


mh1s FARIsu City Clerk
Year: 1860

A MINISTER OFFERING HIMSELF A SACRIFICE
1t is said that certain minister of this city
who is radical on the slavery question, act
ually wrote letter to Gov. Wise, soon after
the conviction of John Brown, begging the
privilege of taking Browns place on the gal
lows lie set forth that Brown was a hero
and his life should be spared for future brave
deeds. If that could be done, he (the minis
ter) was ready to sacrifice himself, and would
gladly die the ignominious death. The an
swer of Gov. Wise was to the effect that il
was out Of his power to save the life of John
Brown, but if the minister was very anxiou:
to be hanged, and would come to Virginia
the Governor would try to have him accom-
modated - Cincinnati Times.
Year: 1860

The Ohio State Journal says; The follow
ing is copy of an order to an expressman,
received day or two since "Send me 10
gals of your best gin for $40. l want it
for my mothers wake and funeral. She is
on her last breath Sometimes she knows us,
and something's she don't Send it this even.
ing precisely