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Year: 1860

CoMING.-Already the great tide Of
emigration westward has commenced. and soon
the white covered wagons OF the prairie bound
travellers will commence crossing the ferry
Many of these emigrants have not decided up
on whst particular section of our State they
sire to awaken our people to the importance Of
inducing them to tsrry here in Scott county
We have thousands Of acres Of land that has
never been turned by the p!ow, nor even
fenced, and this land can now be purchased
for q very reasonable price. Why then should
the emigrant continue on into the interior of
the State, where he will have to endure all
the hardships of a pioneers life. far distant
from any reliable market. where his children
will not for years to come have the benefit Of
good schools, and all this, because land can be
procured for few shilings less than the same
quality can be bought here. in a we'll settled
country9


At this time land Of the bes. quality can be
procured in Scott country - low as six dollars
per acre. This land is situated 10 thickly set
tied neighborhoods, near first rate market,
and good schools within short distance. We
say this land can moW be purchased for six dol
lars per acre, but in year or two it will re-
quire at least five times that sum to buy the
same land. Our county has been prostrated by
mi'fortunes, but she 10 sure to rise, and per-
sons investing money in land at this time, on
which they intend making permanent im-
provements. will find it very easy matter
to dispose Of it short time hence, for Eve
times the price they now pay for it Let this
matter be laid before these emigrants in its
true light. and We think many Of them can
b induced to drive their stakes in Scott
county.
Year: 1860

Edloac Citizens Of tie Senate,


and House of Representatives.:


The people of Iowa have placed in
your hands for the time being the law
making power of the State, and there
fore they look to you that during the
time you hold this trust, such course
of policy shall be pursued, and such
laws enacted as will tend to promote
the honor and the welfare Of the State.


The office to which l have been
elected, and the duties of which l
have lust assumed, associates me with
Won TO a certain extent in this work,
by imposing upon me, among other
duties, that of communicating to you
such information as will in my opin-
ion aid you in the performance of your
duties. aud recommending to you snch
measures as in my opinion will, II
adopted by you, advance the public
welfare.


Under Government like ours. where
the people are the source Of all politl
cal power, the laws are necessarily 8
fair reflex of the intelligence ano
morals of the people, and for this rea
son it becomes of the first Importance
that the standard Of intelligence ane
morality should be raised as high as
Year: 1860

Horace Greeley is lecturing upon the sub
ject of the Pacific Railroad, and never omits
an opportunity to praise California In Phil
adelphia, he said that the naked fact that
California, though but ten years old, pro-
duced enough from her soil to feed her six
hundred thousand inhabitants, was sufficient
in itself to prove her soil one of the most
fertile in the world. 1t was land sunny
and lovely as Italy, and destined in the fn-
ture to hold twenty or thirty millions of our
race. Yes, California was by nature of rich
and surprising beauty, and in this was yet
to be improved, and he hoped her moral and
intellectual greatness would not prove to be
less remarkable.
Year: 1860

TUNIE subscriber takes this method of informing the


n citizens of California that he has refitted his
rooms and prepared to take all kinds of Pictures
known to the Photographic Art, unsurpassed in the
world; that he has made special arrangements for per-
coming from di tant parts of the State and would
say toll such that provided perfect satisfaction is not
given, he will not only not charge for work, but will
pay them for their time and trouble in calling.


Those arrangements have been made in view of the
fact that the country is ocked with unskilful opera
tors whose work not only wanting in chemical effect.
and everything that constitutes good picture, but
owing to the improper of the chemicals employed,
they are rendered perishabe and worthless.


To avoid the impositons practieed; the citizens of
this and the adjoining counties, ard travellers, are
most respectfully invited to call upon him at hrocsDs
iu Grass Valley. where he will be found ready at all


times and in all kinds of weather. to take pictures in
the best style by all the various processes now known
some of which as follows:
Year: 1860

LITERATURE.-"Annien informs the Sacra-
mento Union of the fact that 't is not me-
cessary to read the entire production of any
writer to judge whether he possesses the
glow of true genius, any more than it is to
consume whole sheep in order to Judge of
the quality of the mutton before you.n
Year: 1860

1t is almost impossible to travel mile or
two in any direction through these noun
tains without passing over spots where from
three to ten acres of good land may be OBJ
tanned for a home-a vineyard, orchard and
garden-corn and wheat fields are not to be
desired here, and you need no fenced pas
lures where Nature has covered the valleys
and mountains all around you with perpetual
pastures for your flocks and herds. The
man with patch of ten acres well cultivated
in such productions as are best adapted to
our climate and market can also turn his
attention to sheep and stock breeding, min
ing and fill up all his time the year round,
in pleasant and profitable labor.
Year: 1860

1t is the PURE TINCTURE JUMPER, distilled from
the BEST BARLEY that can be selected at any cost.
1t favored and medicated not by the common harsh
berry but by the choice botanical variety of the Ro
MATIC ITALIAN JUMPER BERRY whose more vinous ex-
tract is distilled and rectied with its sprituous sov
ent and thus It becomes concentrated TINcruRE OF
EXQUISITE FLAVOR AND AROMA although trauscendant
in its CORDIAL and MEDICINAL PROPERTIES to any lloL
LAND GIN in the World.


Since the introduction of the celebrated
SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS,
the proprietor has submitted to the


WHOLE MEDICAL FACULTY
of the United States. Over


THREE THOUSAND ENDORSE 1T,
over their own signatures. to be the


Purest Alcoholic Shmulont noac IN Use.
They also speak of the GREAT SUCCESS they have met
with in their practice in Gravel, Gout, Chronic Rheu
matisn distractions of the Kidneys, Bladder and Ur
nary Organs Persons travelling in the Southern and
Western States should always have supply on hand



Preventive against Ague and Ferer
and change of water The Physicians in New Orleans
and st Louis prescribe it with great confidence in
Of Cholera account of the Purity ofue Article
Year: 1860

WOMEN AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE


Women never have been, and never will be,


debarred from praeticing medicine openly or


on the sly. 1t is so natural to them, and so
irresistible while they live in families and
have the charge of the sick, that no remon-
STRANGE or ridicule has ever availed to put a
stop to female quacking. The best informed
and most rational physicians have always
seen, and the most courageous of them have
always said, from that day to this, that the
only cure is in making physicians of some
tice, and the infinite mischief of meddling
with the delicate organization of the human
frame without all the knowledge that can be
obtained of the structure and action of It's
various parts. The time has arrived for this
reform to begin.-Harriet Mdrtinedu in 0nct
n Wax ...f .
Year: 1860

New YoRK, August 6.-I hear that the
Peruvian Minister who has gone to New


York, is instructed by his Government to
return home, in case our Minister at Peru,
Mr.. Clay, should suspend his relations there
on account of the refusal of that Government
to comply promptly with the demands. OF
Year: 1860

From THE SIMLKAMEEN.-Reports Of a
rather discouraging nature concerning the
Simikameen mines have reached here dur
ing the past week, but as the Oregon pa
pers lately received contain nothing to con
firm these rumors, we are inclined to doubt
their truth. The report, which is to the
effect that the mines are failure-no gold
THERE'S said to have been received at
Vancouver, from party which left that
place some time since for these mines, and
lately returned. The above information
received currency here through Mr.. L. VAN
VLEET, of Vancouver.
Year: 1860

New CoINAGE.-The Director Of the
Mint having been interrogated as to q ru-
mored change in the devices Of the several
silver coins Of the country, replies that
there will be no change in either the half
or quarter dollar pieces at the present time.
The dime, hSwever, will appear in new
and improved dress in 1860. The present
wreath on the reverse will give place to a
more appropriate and national one, being a
festoon composed Of the chief productions
of our country, interspersed with oak
leaves, as emblematic of strength and dura-
bility. The legend United States Of
America" will be transferred from the re-
verse of the coin, where it now appears, to
the diverse or principal side. The device
on the diverse is not otherwise changed,
but the execution Of the dies is somewhat
improved. The devices upon the half dime
will conform in all particulars, except the
denomination of the coin to the dime.
Year: 1860

ES- A Connecticut chap announces that
next spring he intends to cross the She
tucket on rope with two men hanging to
his hair-one on each side. He is now
busy, day and night, letting his hair grow
for that purpose.
Year: 1860

SroFT BY SNow.-It is rumored here that
the party which left Seattle some time
since for the Similkameen mines, ria the
Snoqualmie pass, have been stepped by
snow in the mountains. We doubt its
truth, being unable to see how the news
could have been received here so soon.
Year: 1860

y-A Yarmouth malster hired an Irishman,
ga green hand,'' to assist IN loading his sloop
with malt. Just as the vessel was about TO set
sail, the Irshman, who was ''jingling the prIce
OF his days work in his pocket, cried out from
the quay:


F'Captain lost your shovel overheard but
] cut big notch on the rail fence around the
starn, right over The spot where it went down
so you Can find it when you come back"
Year: 1860

The importance ofspellihg correctly is seen
by the following, especially the necessity of
spelling Lager Beer as at should be. A coun-
Try rumseller wishing a supply of that beverage
wrote as follows
Year: 1860

NsW Market HoHSe.-The i'm portance of ex-
tending the Second Market-house TO broad
street is admit ID by all, and will eventually
carried out by condemniug the necessary
property, unless another central site can be
stcurtd. on which to place a new BUILDING
he nnanceS CT the city at this time may not
justify Tue cessary outlay for such i'm prove
mentS as the growth et the city demands bat
TIE Council, Ia laying T. Nes nex' ear, should
nave an eye TO such Improvement and put
them nigh enough 10 secure The necessary
tund' To meet The general wants
Year: 1860

builder of Norfolk, Va, while arranging a
windlass IN the fourth story OF a building, ieli
To The first floor, striking with terrible force
on hls head and Que shoulder. Miraculous to
say, hot a bone was broken, although there
are half Z dozen or more severe cOntusons GA
his head and the injury TO the shoulder is
OuitA serious
Year: 1860

IGNoP ihCE.-Ignorance is often the source
Of the most intrepid action, and the most i'm
picit faith, since there are none SO fearless as
those VINO have not light enough 10 see their
danger, and none so confident as they whO
have not ufficient knowledge to discover heir
own errors.
Year: 1860

BE TRUE TO YoURsELF.-The history
of the world, rs well as the biography of
those who have played an active part in
its concerns, are worthy Of everlasting re-
membrance. 1t assures us that it mat.
ters little what form of danger may as
sail man if he be true to himself. Pow
erty may lay its chilly hand upon him,
and freeze up the brightest fountain Of
his hope-disappointment may meet him
at every step, affection may strike down
those who are dearest to his heart---the
breath Of slander may attempt TO sully
his name and tarnish his rcputation-still
let him be true to himself-let him main
tain stout heart and clear breast and he
will eventually out-ride the storm.
Year: 1860

May God save the Union God grant IL may


stand,


The pride Of our people-the boast Of our land
Still, still mid the storm may our banner float


free,


Unrent and unriven DER earth and DER sea.
May God save the Union! We trust in Its might
In the time Of the tempest, in fear and in fight,
Wen fail not wen faint not, il still in the sky
We can see ALL the stars in the azure field fly
May God save the Union! The red, white and


blue;


Keep our States still united the dreary day thro'.
Let the stars tell the tale Of the glorious past,
And bind us in Union, forever to last
May God save the Union Still, still may it


stand,


Upheld by the prayers Of the patriot band!
To cement it, our fathers ensanguined the sod,
To keep il, we kneel to merciful God.
Year: 1860

No one can have read the statement of
the clerk of the steamer, which went
down on Friday night, without being
struck by his description of the bearing Of
the ladies. "They were pale but silent;
there Was not cry or a Shrek" The
fortitude and resignation of men may
have failed, but theirs failed not. So
is it always in the great exigencies which
women are called TO meet. When
troubles or danger are but slight, they
are more excited and alarmed than men.
But let an overwhelming calamity bury
the fortune and hopes of the husband
or father or brother in sudden night, let
disease or accident strike him down and
stretch him on the bed of keenest suffer-
ing, then when strong mems hearts fail
them, when their nerves are unstrung,
when quaking fear or hopeless despon-
dency takes possession of their souls, the
frail, weak woman rises with calm de-
termination to meet the demands of the
terrible emergency, and with untrem-
bling hand and cheerful voice she has
tens TO perform those blessed ministra-
tions, for which the might of men was
inadequate. How many scenes of danger
have we heard described, confagrations,
assassinations, shipwrecks, in which wo-
men have with heroic patience and SUBJ
mission bowed meekly to their fate, and
have taught the sublime lessons of Chris
tain resignation to the husbands and
fathers who were with them. In the
hour of trial her weakness becomes
strength, her sensibility is swallowed up
in faith. There were men of renown on
the Lady Elgin, men, whose names are
known through the wide world but none
of them ever did braver or more heroic
deed than was achieved by those noble
women who sat in silence awaiting their
doom. Eastern Paper.
Year: 1860

BAPTIST CHuRcH.-Thc plastcrers will finish
their work ON this edifco this week and the seats
will bs put in next. In finish the Baptist
church is destined to be superior to any other in
the city, OF mountains. The walls are made TO
present the appearance of large blocks of sand
stone. The dome shaped ceiling, besides being
n great relief to the eye, will render the church
one of the finest rooms to speak in to be found
anywhere. The gallery is commoiious for the
choir and the whole is free from that great fault
of most Standardization ventilation. We
are not aware when the house will be open for
public worship.
Year: 1860

WE ought to have made an apology for the
very small amount Of reading matter in our last
weeks issue Twelve and half columns OF
DELINQUENT tax list is no small job to be put in
type by the regular force of our office. Noe1tra
printers being in the city,. is our apology, for
the meagre quantity of reading matter in the
number fer last week.
Year: 1860

BopY RExorsp.-It is the intention OF
the Superintendent of the City Cemetery to
remove the remains of the late John G.
Bell. A,semblyman from the county of Ell
Dorado, from where they now rePose, to
the lot in the same eemetry selected by the
committee appointed for that purpose by
the last Lepislature.-Sdc. Bse
Year: 1860

FRESNO QUICKSILVER MIyEs.-We are in
formed that the quicksilver mines in Fresno
county, in which Daniel Glib, of this city,
is an extensive owner, arc yielding prodig :
iously, and promise to be as important and
productive as Almaden. The assertion that
the suspension of Almadcn operations
would cut off the supply of quicksilver, had
no good Mirror
Year: 1860

PLEASING IKcIpExT.-A large majority of
the Young ladies of the Female Institute,
Santa Clara, seem to be favorable to the
principles of the Republican party. On
Thursday evening of last week, after the
reception of the news of Lincoln's election,
the young ladies made application to the
Principal for permission to illuminate the
College building, Consent being given,
they entered into the project with spirit,
furnishing funds for the lights, and making
the arrangements with their own hands, all
being done SO quietly that the town was
taken by surprise, when the brilliant tapers
in the many windows of the college attract
cd public attention. The young men of the
village, and some students in the University,
gathered in front of the Institute, lighted
bonfres, cheered, and swung their hats in
token Of sympathy, until they had time to
procure the attendance of the Santa Clara
Band, when cheers and hurrahs gave place
to the inspiring strain of music, and the re-
joicing was kept up several hours, much to
the qualification of all concerned.


1t is something for any party to be proud
of that its principles are such as to enlist
the sympathies of the best and most intelli-
gent women of our country. Men are often
Influenced in their political action by mo-
tives of policy, or what they consider to be
policy, though the course they follow may
be neither the highest nor truest; but wo-
men adhere to the right, act with the just,
and sympathize with that which seems most
| truthful and worthy.-.Sdn Jose Mercury.
Year: 1860

MINERS UNION. = We understood
yesterday that the coal miners Of Rock Island
and Henry counties had formed Uaion, for
the purpose OF standing by each other in de-
they get frmly established, We expect to hear
Of another advance in COAL and probably q
"strike"
Year: 1860

Which i. free from all unpleasant odor and is Of
. very light color, at sI,2o per Gallon. We
would invite all that are in want of safe light,
and the best and cheapest light in the world, to
call and satissy themselves that
Year: 1860

BLEssEDNEss IN SoRRow.-Thcre arc
times when some great sorrow has torn the
mind away from it familiar supports, and
laid level those defenses which in prosperity
seemed so stable-when the most rooted
convictions of the reason seem rottenness,
and the blossoms Of our heavenward imag-
ination goes up before that blast as dust
when our works, and joys, and hopes, with
all their multitudes, and pomp, and glory,
seem to go down together into the pit, and
the soul is left as garden that hath no wa
ter, and as wandering bird cast out of the
nest-in that day of trouble, and of tread
ing down and perplexity, the noise of viols,
the mirth of the tabret, and the Joy of the
harp, arc silent in the grave. Blessed is
the man who. when cast into this utter
wretchedness, far away from all creatures
and from all comfort, can yet be willing,
amidst all his tears and his anguish, there
to remain as long as God shall please
British Quarterly.
Year: 1860

CINCINNATI PLATFORM Constructive
have heard much about the northern and
southern construction Of the Cincinnati
platform.


Whatever plausibility there may have
been heretofore for this charge of double
construction, there is none at all now. The
northern democracy construe it to mean
popular or local sovereignty, and as such
defend and uphold it. The southern fire
eaters have hundred times, within the last
three weeks, said it means the same thing
and as such they denounce and "bolt" It
The only pretext that they urge for seeding
from the convention is, that the majority
forced upon them "Squatter Sovereignty
Platform"


Thus have the fire.eaters been forced to
admit that the construction which they
professed to put upon the Cincinnati plat
form was all sham and a pretense; and
that to get rid of Squatter Sovereignty they
must get rid of the platform. m.-Keokuk Daily
Journal.
Year: 1860

It's all Habit.


AS an illustration of this fact, we heard
a good story the other day, of an eminent
railroad man as well as political manager,
who is rather addicted to profanity on any
and all occasions, whether in buying or
selling cargo of grain, in a convention of
railroad managers, or political wire -pullcrs.
Our railroad friend in walking down Wall
street one day with a venerable and devoted
member of the Board of Brokers-one who
keeps his large pew in Trinity, attended
the ''stated prcachings of the Gospel regu-
larly, and who, on the whole was religious
ly inclined, but not so much that he could
not drive good bargain among the bulls
and bears on week days, when the CONVEX
sation took a heavenward turn. Lecturing
our railroad official on the immortality OF
the habit Of swearing it's influence on the
young, when coming from one holding so
prominent position, begged of him to try
and leave it off. The good natured, jolly
railroad man listened attentively to the
good advice, acknowledged its force, medi.
tating, by whistling along, rubbing his
nose, turning to his venerable lecturer and
said: "Oh, h-ll! you pray good deal
and swear some; but we don't either OF
US mean anything"
Year: 1860

tW- The St. Louis Republican, speaking
of the popular gatherings that are taking
place in the South, to repudiate the mad
attempt Of the seceders at Charleston to
break up the Convention and disorganize
the Dem. party says:


When Mr. Yancey declared in front of
the City Hall at Charleston, on the evening
of the day he and his comrades bolted,
that perhaps at that moment the pen was
making which was to write new Declara-
ton of Independence, and that it was not
improbable that st. Andrews Hall was to
be another independence Hall, he thought
little of that storm Of honest indignation
that was to arise from one end of the coun-
Try to the other to put down all such trait
orous doctrine. But he will feel it keenly
enough before the 18th of June next, or
we greatly mistake the signs Of the times.
Year: 1860

A New TEXT FROM ScRlPruRE.-Itis is pref
ty evident, if the following story be true,
that some politicians are not very well pos
ted in Scripture. We copy from the Gin.
Enquirer: a.~ s.a.


A fussy delegate from Alabama, during
tho progress of the discussion on the plat
form, kept whispering to delegate from
the Northwest that his State would be
obliged to secede if the majority report car
ried. When it was adopted he picked up
his hat and declared his purpose Of going
that he could not stay any longer in the
Convention. His Western friend said the
only consolation he could give him would
be found in the fifth chapter and seventeeth
verse Of Matthew, or in the seventeenth
chapter and fifth verse, he did recollect
which. sr--. .......,


"What is the passage?' said the Alabam-
ian.


"Secede and be d-dr' was the reply.
Year: 1860

sD- A railroad conductor who wore a
long, roomy white linen sack coat, with a
standing collar, and buttoned up to the chin,
had dispute with female passenger
The lady won the victory gloriously by
the following brilliant and destructive
charge: .v


"You are purity fellow, amt you? You
are the first conductor ever seed agwine
about among a passel owe decent wimmin
folks IN has shirt TAIL Amt you 'shamed
owe yourselve?'


He probably was, for he left that car
quickly, and unbottoncd the shirt tail coat.
Year: 1860

aDThe following paragraphs faith
fully represent quite too large percent
age of mankind. How much pleasure
such persons lose in this life, to say
nothing Of the amount of unhappiness
they directly or indirectly cause others:


A young man once picked up sover-
eign lying in the road. Ever afterward,
as he walked along, he kept his eyes
steadfastly fixed on the ground, in hopes
of finding another And in the course
of long life he did pick up at different
times good amount of gold and silver
and when he died a rich old man, he
only knew this fair earth of ours as 9
dirty road to pick up money as you walk
along.