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Year: 1860

Lord Shafesbnry recently stated in pub
lie meeting in Landon, that from personal
observation he had ascertained that of the
adult male criminals of tha. city, nearly all
had fallen into a course OF crime between
the ages of eight 10 sixteen years: and that
if young man lived an honest life up TO
twenty years of age. there were forty nine
chances in his favor, and only one against
him, as 10 an honorable life thereafter.


Thus is it in the physical world. Half of
all who are born, die under twenty years of
age. while four fifths of all who reach that
age, and die before another score, owe their
death 10 causes of disease which were ori-
ginafed in their teens. On a careful inquiry.
II will be ascertained that in nearly all cases
the causes of moral and premature physi-
cal death are pretty much one and the same
and are laid between the ages OF ''eight and
sixteen years. This is fact of startling
import to fathers and mothers, and shows
. fearful responsibility. Certainly parent
should secure and retain and exercise abso-
lutte control over the child until sixteen it
cannot be difficult matter to do this, ex-
cept in very rare cases, and if that control
is not wisely and efficiently exercised, it
must be the parents fault; it is owing TO
parental neglect or remissness. Hence the
real source of ninety EIGHT per cent of the
crime of country such as England or the
United States lies at the door of parents
IT is fearful reflection !; we throw il before
the minds of the fathers and mothers of our
land, and there leave it 10 be thought OF in
wisdom, remarking only as TO the early
seeds of bodily disease, that they are nearly
in svery case sown between sun-down and
bedtime, in absence froathe family circle,
In the spending of money never earned by
the spender, orening the doors of confec-
tionaries and soda-fountains, of beer and
tobacco and wine, of the circus, The negro
minstrel, the restaurant and dance !; then
follow he Sunday excursion, the Sunday
drive, with easy transition TO the company
Of those ways leading down to the gates of
social, physical and moral ruin. From
"eighs % six,eenw in these few years are
the des.inies of children fixed in foriy-nine
cases out of fifty fixed by the parent! Let
every father and mother solely VOW: SPY
Gods help I'll fx my daughters destiny
for good BY making home more attractive
than the sireet.u- HalPs Journal of Heahh
Year: 1860

The campaign opens brightly
Come fellows one and all
Unturl your banners 10 the breeze
Upon the outer wall.
But ere we charge the enemy
Upon the open plain,
Well shout aloud our battle-cry
For Breckinridge and Lane.
The Douglas holds before us
The squatter sovereign plan,
And fain would cheat us of our rights,
The tricky little man.
But we III teach him. ere he leaves the field
His trials are in vain
TO take the Presidential chair
From Breckenridge and Lane.
For we strike for equal rights TO all
Rights won or many field,
By the blood of sires and brethern,
BY men who never yield.
The li'tle Douglas once deceived,
But can't deceive again,
Now We have braced onr armor on
For Breckenridge and Lane.
Then charge him boldly, comrades
Charge every man and youth
Charge for the Constitution,
For Justice and for truth.
The Toe is fadiug fast away,
Like snow before the rain,
As frrceIy on them fall the men
OF Breckenridge and Lane.
'Hark from the tombs doleful sound, >
We hear mournful yell
Old fogies cry discordant notes
For Everett and Bell.
Send forth squad npon them
And put To aiaht the train
Those fossil men are now too old
For Breckinridge and Lane.
A sombre group approaches next,
A Lincoln leads them OH,
A Teunessean dark is he,
A renegade son.


But renegades are not our choice
The people cry aman,
As hill and dale resound with shouts
For Breckinridge and Lane.
So lovers of the Union,
And lovers of the right,


And honest men of every creed
Are with us in the fight
And victory shall crown The brows
or men without a stain.


As the people rise in all their might
For Breckenridge and Lane.
Year: 1860

Between the dark and the daylight.
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes pause in the days occupation
That is known as the Children's Hour
hear in the Chamber above me


The paiter of iiltle feet,
The sound of door that is opened,


And voices soft and sweet.
From my study SEQ in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice aud laughing AIlegfa,
And Edith with golden hair.
A whisper, and Their silence


Yet know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,


A sudden raid from the hall
By three doors left unguarded


They enter my castle wall
They climb up into my turret,


Der the arms and back of my chair
If | try % escape, they surround me
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till think CT the Bishop of Bingen


In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhinei
Do yoE think 0 blue eyed banditii,


Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old moustache as am


Is not mach for you all
have yon fast in my fortress,


And will not letyo depart,
But put you down in the dungeons


In the round tower of my heart.
And there will keep you forever,


Yes, forever and day,
Til the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away!
Year: 1860

DoS'r have too much commiseration for
the accomplished, amiable and charming
wife of defalIer, until you know that she
has not by extravaganza and pride, induced
him 10 use money not his own, or ia specu-
late with the view to crafty her wishes.
Year: 1860

How did Jonah feel when he went down
The whales throat


He felt taken in, and was considerably
put out in about three days.


How did he look and think!


He looked down in the mouth and thot
he was going to blubber.
Year: 1860

If you wish to ascertain the distance of
thunder storm place the finger of the
pulse and commence counting the BEATS
If you feel six pulsations, before you hear
the thunder, the storm is one mile away if
Year: 1860

A You've lady was discharged from one
of the largest vinegar houses in Boston, last
week, because she was so sweet that she
kept the vinegar from fermenting. A sour
old maid is wanted TO fill her place.
Year: 1860

DODGE EATING MORE DIRT-The distin-
guished Brigadier General Augustus Caesar
Dodge, in his speech at Baltimore, full
report of which has at length come to hand,
declares that Douglas and the Democrats Of
the North have always been fighting for the
South, and that, if elected President, Douglas
will fuse the army, navy, and every power
with which he may be clothed, for the pro.
lection of the South, and do it justice in the
formation of his Cabinet and the distribution
of his patronage" Such toadyism to the
people of the South is enough to disgust any
decent man. No wonder that the high
minded Southerners spurned the sycophants
Year: 1860

"Slases are regarded AS PROPERTY,
and placed on an EQUAL FOOTING with
all other property. Hence, the owner of
slaves-the same ss the owner of any other
species of property--HAS A RIGHT TO
REMOVE TO ANY TERRITORY AND
CARRY HIS PROPERTY WITH HIM."-
Speech Of Douglas in Neo Orleans, December,
1868.


1t used to be thought that slavery could
only 60 where it was invited by specific local
enactment. That was the old Democratic
doctrine. But Douglas, in his zeal for slavery,
and to conciliate the South, initiated the
abominable heresy that the boundaries Of
slavery are as broad as the Constitution.
Under his Interpretation, slavery may 60 into
every foot of territory belonging to the United
States-law or no law. It is held to be as
sacred and as sovereign as freedom.


Hence his boast that this doctrine had
converted the whole of New Mexico, once free,
into slave territory. And so it did. Why
should he not be rewarded for 80 noble an
achievement?
Year: 1860




Slowly but surely the public mind is
settling down into the conviction of what is
now fixed fact--that the coming Presidential
contest is narrowed down between Lincoln
and Lane. We said so month ago, when
the Baltimore Conventions made their nomi
nations, and subsequent events have con.
irmed our opinion. The New York press,
and most Of the prominent journals of the
country, now concur in this belief. The New
York Herald comes out openly and afarms
this fact. The Washington Constitution
says that ''every candid man who now surveys
the political field, and calculates the chances
of the rival candidates now before the people
for the highest offices in their gift, must come
to the conclusion that the struggle is between
Breckinridge and Lane on the one side, and
Lincoln and Hamlin on the other side"


The Augusta (Ga.) 0Aroniele and Sentinel
says that, ito say the least of it, there is great
danger Of the election of Lincoln. To prevent
it, beyond doubt, there must be . coalition
of his opponents; and we think the most
feasible plan is for the Opposition to let
everything else 60, and devote their whole
energies to the State of New York." .,


The Douglas leaders know this, and many
Of them, in view of this fact, are openly
avowing their preference for Lincoln as
against Lane. A coalition of all the Douglas,
Breckenridge and Bell factions in New York
Is . favorite scheme with some political
gamblers, and the Administration Is using its
influence to bring about fusion of the
Douglas and Breckenridge tickets in Penn
sylvania and New York. But this beautiful
plan is nipt in the bud by the refusal of both
Douglas and Breckenridge to consent to any
such bargain and sale. Breckenridge rejects
t, for it would give several Southern States
to Bell. Douglas rejects it because the effect
Of such a movement, if successful, would
simply be to cut his own throat, and elevate
to power the very men who have made war
upon him to the bitter end. If the plan
succeeded, the election would 60 to the House,
where there would be no choice, and the
Senate would then elect Lane Vice President,
and Douglas would lose everything. We
would like to see coalition. Thousands, in
that event, would drop the fusion ticket, and
vote for Lincoln, who are now intending to
vote for Douglas. But it is idle to talk of
fusion. The National Douglas Committee,
and every Douglas Convention and State
Committee, repudiate the idea. To show the
comp exion of this struggle, we print the
following tables, showing the probable vote
both in the electoral colleges and in the House.
The election before the people, under present
appearances, will result as follows:
Year: 1860

HARD TO BEAr.-The following resolution
was passed by the Council Of city not a
thousand miles from here. 1t recommends
itself, for elegance, clearness and variety of
style, to all the lovers of the beautiful:


Resolued, That the Street Commissioner be
authorized to allow no working man who
works poll tax in Iowa City to work more
than one poll, until each working man who is
willing has worked one poll, and that, when
all who are willing to work have worked one
poll, that he proceed to allow them to work in
the same manner alternately until all the poll
tax ia worked I -
Year: 1860

TDwight Loomis, of o., in his speech
in the House, in May, said that if funeral
sermon should be required on the official
demise of the present administration, he
would suggest the remarks of Buck eye
clergyman at the grave of parishoner.-
Said he-as any man can say on the 4th Of
March next


81 have been begged, importuned, and
don't want to do it. I never knew moth.
ing good of him. He had horses and he
run them he had cocks and he fit them ;
he once had money but he gambled it all
away he had friends, but made them all
enimess. The bearers will please remove
tho body and we will sing the following
hymn:
"With rapture We delight


To saa the c1s8 removedO
Year: 1860

GA conductor on one of the railroads
terminating at Wheeling, Va, was dismissed
from the road last week, for having compli-
mented q lady on his train for the Oinde-
rella-like smallness of foot which she OK
posed beyond the folds of her crinoline.-
The Company held that if the lady had q
pretty foot she was probably aware Of it
if not. it was no part of tho conductor 3
duty to inform her of the fact.
Year: 1860



 NIGHT AIR.-An extraordinary fallacy Is the dread of night air. What ar can we breathe at night but night alr2 The choise Is between pure air from without and foul night air from within. Most peo- pie prefer the laItef. An unacc0unlable choice. What wiil they say if il is proved 10 be true that fully one-half of all the dis eases we suffer from is occasioned by peo- pie sleeping with their windows shut! An open window most nights in the year can never hurt any one. This is not to say that light is not necessary for recovery. In great cities night air is often the best and purest air to be had in the twenty-four hours, l could better understand shutting the windows in towns during the day than during the night. for the sake of the sick.

 The absence of smoke, the quiet, all tend to make night the besttime rairing. One of our highest medical authorities on consumption and climate, has told me that the air in London is never so good as af- ter 10 o'clock al night. Always air your room, then. from the outside air, if possi- ble. Windows are made to open, doors are made 10 shut--a truth which seems extremely difficult of apprehension. Every room must be aired from without, every passage from within. But the fewer pas sages there are in tlle hospital the better.
Year: 1860

The following from Ruskin, the most po-
etic writer on art that ever lived, are as
truthful as they are beautifully expressed.
In his Stones of Venice he says


ave are always, in these days, endeav-
oriDg to separate intellect from manual Ia
Dor; VIC want one man to be always think
ing, and another to be always labOring:
and We call one a gentleman and the 9TH
er an operative; whereas, the workman
ought often to be thinking, and the think
er often to be working. and both should be
gentlemen in the best sense. AS it is, we
make both ungentle-the one envying, and
the other despising. his brother; and the
mass of society is made up of morbid think
ers and miserable workers. Now it is on
ly by labor that thought can be made heal
thy, and only by thought that labor can be
made happy; and the two cannot be sepa-
rated with impunity. It would be well if
all of US were good handcraftsmen of some
kind, and the dishOnor of manual labor
done away with altogether"
Year: 1860

How to go in debt is an art that most


persons learn from bitter experience. In


all departments of labor it is an art easily


taught, but not 50 easily reduced to prae-


teal operation The rule to be laid down
i, that debt should never be contracted for
what VIC consume. A tanner may proper
ly buy hides on credit. for his labor does
not consume them. but gives an additional
value to them; the shoemaker may buy the
leather on credit, for his labor too adds to its
value, but when the wearer Of the shoes buys
them on credit, then neither the shoe-mak-
er. or tanner, nor seller of hides has any
security for the debt. The wear
er of the shoes has destroyed it. So
farmer may buy land on credit, because his
labor on it adds to its value: he may pur-
chase growing stock on credit, because his
grass crop is improving it. But when he
goes to the store and buys merchandise on
,redit, which he consumes, relying upon
crops. and unstaple prices to pay
he merchant, when he endangers his own
security, and that of the various classes of
merchants who are depending upon each
'ther. Capital, to be useful. must be en-
olOyed; and as the labor of most of US is
'ur own capital, our wants demand its
If debt created gives u
hat upon which We may probably expend
'ur labor. debt is blessing; but when it
etters the employment of our labor. it is a
,urse.
Year: 1860

A bud is generally moro elegant and
complimentary offering than full-blOwn
or Over-blOwn flower. If you wish yOur
idea to expand, DO not let the whole pro-
cess of expansion take place in your own
writing or conversation; leave part Of it
for the mind of your hearer or reader.
Year: 1860

A weak man is continually Auttering be-
tween suspicion about the conduct of others
and vast surprise even if his suspicious are
verified. The wise man is less troubled BY
suspicious, and has read too much. and
seen too much. to b, greatly surprised at
anything when it comes.
Year: 1860

Where one friend is content and glad to
be eclipsed by the other. equal nObili-
ty of character is required by both, in tho
one for self-abnegatiOn, and In the other
for not being spoiled by it.
Year: 1860

The MILITIA OF THE STATEs.-Col. Roberts,
of the United States Army, has proposed a
plan of reorganization of the militia of the
several States. He proposes a short term of
and equipped, and disciplined by Congress,
and to be paid for a few days of service each
year, when under instruction, discipline and
drill. He fixes this volunteer force at 200,-
600, and proposes to divide them in all the
States in proportion to their population, be
lieving this division will give to each State
sufficient force to preserve domestic tram
guilty, to prevent insurrection, and to en-
force the laws. When war is declared, the
militia to be subject to the call of the Presi-
dent, to repel invasion, and even TO carry
on offensive and foreign war. The plan is
before Congress for its consideration.
Year: 1860

HARD FARE.-The following is an extract
frou private letter written on the steamer
Golden Age:


~ advise any person about taking passage
for the Atlantic States by steamer, to go
either in the first cabin or steerage. The
treatment of second cabin passengers is
abominable. We have salt water once q
day to wash in, very often without SOAP
The sleeping accommodations are not good
for such warm elimate-no ventilation but
the port holes in the sides of the vessel
The table fare is worse than anything ever
saw during pretty hard experience in CAL
ifornia. The only redeeming feature on
board is, that the vessel is kept perfectly
Clean"
Year: 1860

TRAGEDY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MINERS
There was at Bendigo spot which was res
pected as sacred ground. On Sundays and
holidays people visited it, but there was an
air of mournfui, silent respect in their man
ner as if they conversed with sighs within
the precincts of haliowed tomb. The oath
of the reckles. digger was there never heard,
and the finger of the thief never dared to
touch the various implements strewed around
the grim windlass that marked the scene of
an unhappy emigrant's fate. The party to
whom it belonged came out together, school
fellows, all of them with gentle blood in
their veins. They had moderate joint
stock of capital al landing in the country,
which they carried direct to the diggings to
escape the allurements of city lite. They
were remarked wherever they went to work
as most temperate and Industrious in their
habits, acquiring esteem and popularity from
kind and obliging dispositions. But they
were not faEorites of fortune they always
came down on barren bottom, and their
neighbors came at length to remark on their
ill-luck, and to sympathize in their adyer-
sity. Their capital, under the strictest econ
omy, quickly dwindled away, but they were
too proud to admit their poverty, or ask for
credit; so when their money failed they dis
posed of their little trinkets and jewelry to
lucky diggers in order to procure the merest
necessaries, never in their sorest trials
evincing the slightest gloom or impatience.
Even when the last locket, emptied of its sa-
cred contents, was transferred to the rugged
bosom of an unwashed purchaser, to enable
them to carry out their last experiment they
went to work with all their wonted cheer
fuiness and serenity. On, on they worked !;
down, down they went, with steady rapid
ity as if assured of success and one day,
as the evening hour was approaching, a cry,
tone of exultation, came up from the bot
tom of the shaft, Haul up my boys; the
time is come at last !" And his mates did haul
away with gladstone hearts-the more heart


lily from the great weight coming up. But
alas alas when it came to the surface, in
stead of bucket of gold it was the body of
their dear companion. He had struck the
barren bottom during his spell below, and
detaching the bucket, he fixed a moose round
his neck and was strangled by his dearest
friends.
Year: 1860

Mariposa Holmes says "the time has come
at last when q stranger can ride into Big
Oak Flat without exciting the attention OF
every man, woman and child in the place
made manifest by rush to the windows"
Year: 1860

Once / knew little maiden,
Blooming as if fresh from Alden,


And she sat beside the door;
Then she smiled, ah such sweet smiling
Then she spoke, ah words beguiling'


Never heard / such be fore.
Once, but once again I met her
Would that I could quite forget her


And / sat beside the door
And her little foot was tapping,
And her little foot was rapping,


Tapping on the parlor floor.
Did she smile /? Oh, never smiled she,
Did shespeak? Nomore beguiled she


With the words she spoke before.
With frown her brow was couIded
With frown her eye was shrouded


Closed her lips forevermore.
VIII she no more smile upon me
Will she thus forever shun me
/ Shall sit beside the door
Sea her little foot thus rapping-
Sec hor little foot thus tapping.


Ever on the parlor floor
Tell me, tell me, gentle maiden,
If thou art indeed from Alden


From that bright, seraphic shore
Have thy smiles forever vanished
ShaA | thus be always banished


From thine eyes forevermore
Year: 1860

EXCITEMENT AMONG THE PoLIcE-A GER
MAN SUPERsTITIoS.-The other night, SAYS
the Philadelphia Ledger, a citizen on, ap-
preaching Eighteenth and Oxford-streets,
saw several men digging at the intersection
Of those streets. When he was within ten
or fifteen feet of them, one cried out shoot;
upon which tho man ran off at full speed.
The first policeman he met was apprised OF
the occurrence, and they went together TO
the place. When short distance off, the
word shoot was repeated and the policeman
told the men he would shoot too. Seeing
the star, the men ran away, and were too
feet to be overtaken. A light was then OBJ
tanned, and the earth taken from hole which
was being Just filed up. A short distance
beneath the surface a small piece of board
was found, and Immediately under it small
looking-glass, in a gilt frame, which had
been placed face up, and which rested on the
earth. On the face of the glass was some
writing in German, which could not be
translated. 1t is supposed that the men were
trying an old German mode of discovering Il
thief the superstition being that, if look
ing-glass be buried at a certain place, and in
a particular manner, the face of the criminal
will be seen in it upon its being taken up.
Year: 1860

THE WREcH or TmE STEAMSHIP HUNGARIAS.-A Craw-
ford writes from Darlington, on the 29th u, as follows


have just returned from the wreck and found moth
ing above water but the sarboaTd bow from the break
Of the forecaste All abaft of that is gone except Is
feet of the stern close afr. Both parts are lying with
heavy lift No more bodies have yet been found, and
from what can learn from the fishermen, they must
have all gone to the eastward about Port Laour. From
all can see or learn Of the goods nothing has been ta-
ken on shore whole The packages have been all bro
ken up and taken into the boats In pieces ana carried 10
the fshermen's houses | have not whole case
or bale all around Cape Sable Island ! have found a
great many loose letters the different hshermen's
houses and have had them collected and brought here.
There are also twelve or fifteen bags at the post office,
which open.