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Year: 1860

w We regret that " South Side'
came too late for this weeks issue. He
shall have place next week. Though
we BY no means accept the premises
upon which "South Side" bases his ar
guments, we are frank to say that we
like the ingenious and interesting man
ner in which they are presented. We
willingly accept the disclaimer. South
Side and we can't quarrel--both too
good natured.
Year: 1860

See advertisement of Hayes & Co., ST. Antho-
ny. We were in their store few days ago
They are doing large business. We have
bought Of them, and can recommend the store as
a place where good goods can be bought cheap.
Call and see them.
Year: 1860

Our personal friend, J. ii. Chase, has given US
bis advertisement that all up this way may knon
that he still lives" and is selling goods as cheap
as the best Of them Call and see him.
Year: 1860

DEAF MUTE PRINrERs.- The New
Orleans Picayune notices the fact
that the last annual report Of the Lou
isiana institution Tor the deaf and
dumb was printed by the inmates OF
the institution, from the setting of the
type to the press.work. By an act oil
the Legislature approved last March,
the Board OF Administrators were au.
thorlzed to introduce printing for the
purpose OF instrueting the pupils
This was done, and the Board say that
the mute boys engaged in setting type
and n press s.work, have learned with
two-toId the rapidity OF speaking per.
sons under similar circumstances; they
are passionately iond OF the 0ccupa.
tion, and prefer engaging in it to any
of the other recreations. Their teach
ers find that it furnishes an important
auxiliary to the department of finstruc-
ton, a good scholar and a good prin-
ter can ba made OF a mute sooner than
it would be possible to render him
either alone. -...i-" -! E-a.94
Year: 1860

STICK TO A FRIEND.--Never desert
a friend when enemies gather round
him--when the world is dark and
cheerless is the time to try q friend, ~
They who turn from a scene Of dis,
tress betray their hypocrisy, and prove
that interest moves them. Ii you
have a friend who loves you, and
studies your interest and happiness,
be sure to sustain him in adversity.--
Let him feel that his former kindness
is appreciated, and that his love is not
thrown away. Real fidelity may be
rare, bat it exists in the heart. Who
has not seen and felt its powersl-L. L.
They deny its work who never loyttl
a friend, or labored to make a friend
happy. l' l'' %
Year: 1860

We double all the cares Of life by
pondering over them. We increase
our troubles by grieving over them
A scratch becomes wound, a slight
an injury, a jest an insult, SNAIL peril
a great danger, aud a slight sickness
often ends in death, by the brooding
fears Of the invalid.
Year: 1860




CoALsMoUTB, Kanawha, Oct. 25 1860.
To he Editor Of the Wing:


When lett you in Richmond last June promised to
keep you posted in the working things" out in these
parts, and now write you this private communication
after time has shown Enthusiastically what the result Of
the campaign will he with US


have never seen much energy and determination
on the part of the Wings and 70 much despondency and
indifference the part of Democracy. We are more
thoroughly organized than ever before. Our meetings
have been large and enthusiastic while the Other hand
the young men of the Democratic party who seem 10
have taken the matter into their hands, advertise
meetings in different portions of the county and
promptly the ground yet seldom or never speak fer
the reason that DO one aendsn several instances
one but these expected to speak being the ground.
They have been truly and emphatically what you have
termed "mortfcaiiOn meetings"


The official vote of Kanawha WILL OF course only show
the precise vote, yet $50 majority for Bell may be
lied on With certainty Should there not be a rise in
KAnawha River TO let out the flats loaded with coal salt
&c our vote will be increased at least $50. There
not great many Douglas men here though lower down
in Mason Putnam aud Cabc there is every indication
that Douglas will lead Breckinridge by considerable
msjority- especially Cabell and Mason.


shall send you the first authentic returns.


Wishing you health, happness, &c and again return.
ing you my sincere Acknowledgements for your attention
.st summer when In your beautiful city


am, very respectfully,


Your obedent servant.
Year: 1860

DECLINE IN SroCKs-The Baltimore Exchange Of th's s
mo ming says that there was in the New York market
Yesterday another heavy decline in Stocks and the pan
H. which owes its origin apparently to political causes,
even in 1857 IN the tme such a stampede on Il e
stock exchange Since Monday there has been an ave
age decline OF from 10 per cent. in fancy, and 4
very considerable one in Investment seeurilies
Year: 1860

The Christian Law of Amusement" a man.
", vigorous, noble-hearted little book. by
the Rev. Mr.. Corning, Presbyterian clergy.
man in Buffalo; work, Of which it NAV Be
said, with truth, that it deserves to be learned
by heart by every parent and teacher in the
country.


The intimate connection between recreation
and physical exercise may be best understood
by those who have inspected the system OF
well-appointed and properly conducted gym
nasium. We mean, however, modern gym
nasium, with teachers and classes in which
pupils are gradually advanced from calisthcn-
les to the apparatus, and not an old-fashoned
affair where boys were turned in loose to
tumble about like young monkeys in wood !;
and where exercise is not to be confined to
mere development Of arms and chest. In
properly conducted gymnasium, where the
principals laid down by European writer's
are closely followed, there is no possible dan
ger of the young injuring themselves by pre-
mature exertion, while it offers as many rem
edes for disease as the Materia Medica. Half
the disorders to which. humanity is liable may
DC prevented by judicious exercise. How
often tho dispeptic or consumptivc patient is
told vaguely to exercise" And SO he goes
out every day walking. Let him 20 to
skillful teacher in gymnastics, state his case,
begin moderately in calisthenics and gradual
ly advance to the bars and other apparatus.
" Not l." exclaimed Aminadad Sleek. "At
my time in life 'twould be unbecoming to
laborer in the vineyard to indulge in such
boyish vanities" Poor fool, as IL there were
any time of life unfit for rational cxertion or
as if there were any sound mental in that
dignity" which could be effected by manly
exertion.


Our remarks have been suggested by read
ing an account of the late opening of the gym
nasium at Cambridge, Massachusetts,. We
have OF late months observed with real pleas
ure that many such schools for rational edu-
cation have been established in many towns.
Let the movement become general. There is
no girl, no man who has not positively fallen
into the decrepitude Of old age, who cannot
obtain lasting benefit from healthy Joyous ex-
ercise. Try it steadily at least for few
months, and then see if you are not better off
for the exertion. See ifyour dyspepsia does
not depart, if you are not habituality more
cheerful, and if the consciousness Of being
able to jump, run and climb like boy is not
an addition to happiness. Most Of all would
we urge the necessity Of such education on
young women. 1t is worth more to them
than the piano, more than French, more than
any accomplishment; and what is more, it
Wilt enable them to acquire more easily all
manner of intellectual gifts. Frank Leslies
illustrated Newspaper.
Year: 1860

The practice which apprentices, clerks
and others have of spending their earn
ngs as they accumulate, is one great
reason why so many never attain posi-
ton above mediocrity in life. A person
who receives but a small compensation
for his services, will, with a little care
over his exchequcr, and system of regu-
larity in his expenditures, find that at
the end of the year he is prepared to en-
counter any emergency or mishap. But
as a general thing they manage to get
rid Of their earnings quite as quick as they
are due, leaving them wholly unprepared
for emergencies, by sickness or other
wise. A system of curtailing unnecessary
expenses, if adopted by our younger folks,
would bring around the most happy and
gratifying results, and be the means of
raising to eminence and standing in So
ciety, many who have now contracted
the habit of parting with their earnings
so readily and foolishly-for the habit Of
keeping continually in debt begets indif-
ference and dissipation, a lack Of self-re-
spect, and utter disregard for future pros
poets. The real cause for great deal Of
crime may be traced to the habit Of fool
ish expenditure of money in early days.
Year: 1860

The TURF-TENNEssEE AND VIRGINIA.
The Memphis Avalanche says:


A gentleman well known to turfmcn
as perfectly reliable to all his transactions,
Yesterday desired us to state that lie
would wager $4,000 that he could pro-
dnce a nag which would beat the celebra-
ted Virginia clipper planet" in a four
mile heat race, to be run over the Mem
phis course whenever the match is made.
We don't know the animal which the
gentleman has in view and would pit
against the acknowledged King of the
turf in this country, but as he is "know-
ing one" and the proposition was made
in earnest we presume that the sun
known" must be crack horse.
Year: 1860

gsY- The female nose in America is
now the subject OF philosophical discus
sion. A German traveller says of our
beautiful ladies: "They cannot be cal
led, in general, beautiful, because they
are wanting in that fullness of form which
perfect beauty requires, and because the
majority of them have long noses" The
Home journal asks, is the length of the
American nose owing to the fact that the
sex, in our country does not allow itself
TO be snubbed
Year: 1860

VETE have just received another supply Of Coal Oil Lamrs
w among which vey handsome patterns for par
lors all fitted with the Collins burner which the last improve
is mmeaSuraby superior any other Lamp be-
the public for soness and esdness Of fame freedom Om
smoke simplicity in construction beauty and elegance fnish
cleanliness and economy One Lamp will give the light Of four
candles and does not cost much The Oil have i'm
ported to burn these lamps clears beautiful article free
from any offensive oOr grease spot when split upon
carpet clothing, and will not explode


RAINS, BROWN < CO.,


Wholesale and retail Druggists No. 10 Public Square,
uarIS-u Nashville, Tenn
Year: 1860

Can any one tell how Il is that during
these hard times, when every merchant
manufacturer aud mechanic is doing his ut.
most to keep his nose above water, our nu,
merous drinking saloons are well sustained
and even new ones startingp


Can any one tell why men, who absolutely
cannot pay small bills, can always find
plenty of money TO buy liquor and treat
when happening among their friends2


Can any one tell how young men who
dodge their washer-wOmen and are always
behind with their landlords, cap play bill
lizards day and night, and are always ready
for game Of poker" or "seven upT'


Can any one tell how lawyers who have
no practice manage 10 make the ends meet,
or meet the ends2


Can any one tell how men live and sup,
port their families who have no income and
do not work, and why otherS who are in
dustrious and constantly employed, half'
starve2


Can any one tell how it is that man who
is too poor to pay ten cents a week for a
good daily paper, is able to pay fifteen
cents day for tobacco and cigars, to say
nothing of an occasional drink


Can any one tell what interest we have in
asking these questions which we know no
one can answer
Year: 1860

The MASSACRE OF THE WHITE SLAVES AT


LAwRRRCE,-As fact after fact connected


with the Lawrence massacre is developed,


the conviction becomes still stronger upon


the mind that the responsibility Of the calam,
ity-the blood, the tears, the groans, the


agoDies Of the victims-must rest solely and


entirely upon the wealthy capitalists who


built and owned the mill, and attempted to


patch it up in the penny-wise and pound


foolish manner for which Massachusetts
manufacturers have been notorious any time
these twenty five years back 1t appears
distinctly from the evidence, that the walls
were too thin, that the foundations were in
secure, and that the general weakness of
the building was so far understood in Law
renee that many operatives refused to work
in the mill at all, while some who had been
employed there gave up their places
through fear Of their lives. One Of the
owners of the mill testi6es that he did
not know it was insecure, and that it
was the intention of the company to make
it as strong as possible, He is obliged to
confess, however, that the weight of the
machinery was too much concentrated and
from his statement it would seem that the
accident might have been caused by diff.
ference of quarter of cent a pound in
iron, The conviction that the white slaves
of Lawrence were massacred in carrying
out system which was supposed to be the
most effective in enrlching the fine old Bof-
ton gentlemen who furnish the Sharp's rifles
for the extension of their delightful institu-
tions, including free white labor in the Ter.
ritories, and who helped John Brown in his
work" is quite irresistible And so, while
the white slaves at Lawrence are mourning
over their kith and kin, slain by their philan>
thropic masters, the black chattels of the
South are making merry with their holiday
festivities In the name of truth and COM
mon sense which position, that of the cotton
picker in Georgia, or the cotton weaver in
Massachusetts,, is the preferable one.-[N.
Y. Herald.
Year: 1860

A MONsTER.-In Indiana, Pennsylvania,
last week, demon in human form, named
Stuchel, was on trial for cruelty to his son,
boy eight years Of age, in which the evi.
dence developed such systematic brutality
as we have never before heard Of 1t was
shown that he at one time suspended the
boy by his thumb from a rafter compelled a
younger brother to kindle a FIRE under him,
and kept him in this position until terribly
burnt Again he laid him upon a heated
stove, and afterwards compelled him to stand
barefoOted upon it. The child was in
Court, and exhibited on his person the evil
dence of this in human treatment.
Year: 1860

New Coal DISCOVERIES learn from
the Rockford, Ind, Democrat, that a mag
nifceut vein of coal has been discovered on a
farm about three miles west of that village.
The vein is from three to three feet and a
half thick, and the quality Of the coal is
claimed to equal that of the Pittsburg mines
The same paper says another vein, being siI
feet thick of pure coal, has been found about
three miles and half southwest of that
town. This vein is only fifty feet below the
surface of the ground, and can be mined
with very little difficulty.
Year: 1860

owe had been uuwell for two or three days
past, and on entering our room this forenoon.
We observed note from "a. v. H." referring
TO an article in the Journal Of yesterday, from
which we infer that the Journal writer was
unable to discriminate between the editor and
a correspondent Of nswspSperl We do not
deem any further notice q. the matter necessary
at the present time. .aHaiir.1 O 10 .iaoe esaft
Year: 1860

BOYS, HELP YOUR MOTHERS We have seen
from two to six great hearty boys sitting by
the kitchen stove, toastipg their feet and
cracking nuts or jokes, while their mother
slender woman, has gone to the wood pile for
wood. TO the well for water, or to the meat
house to cut frozen steak for dinner. This
is not as it should be. There is much work
about house too hard for woman. Heavy
lifting hard extra steps which should be done
by those more able. Boys, don't let your
mother do it all, especially if she is a feeble
woman. Dull, prosy homework is irksome
enough, at best 1t is long work too, it be.
ing impossible TO tell when it is quite done,
and then on the morrow the whole is to be
gone over with again. There ia more of it
than one is apt to think.-JMorning Star
Year: 1860

TIE DETROIT Mass MEETNG.-It is particu-
larly desirable that full delegation should
go to Detroit to attend the great Seward Mass
Meeting one week from tomorrow The Wide
Awakes will leave here one week from to
night. '
Year: 1860

DEATH BY DROWEIEG.-The son of Mr.. John
Goodman, jeweler, aged II, was drowned
while in the lake bathing last Saturday af-
ternoon at the foot of Case avenue. He
went in beyond the piling, while the waves
we've rolling high and fierce, and probably
swallowed q sufficient amount Of water to
strangle and disable him from reaching the
shore alive.


Ysung Goodman was the pet Of the family
and universally respected and beloved. He
was an excellent scholar and was to enter
college this fall. Morally. socially, and IN
telleetusIly, he bore an unexceptiOnable
character, and his sad loss Is one that will
deeply touch many heart.


A younger brother was bathing with him,
and started for the shore, expecting his
brother was following. On looking back,
and seeing nothing Of him, he ran 70 the
house to give The alarm, giving the family a
terrible shock, as may wen be imagined. In
their deep affliction they will have the sym
paties of all hearts. -i
Year: 1860

In coming to New York, if you have never
done 50, let me advise you to take the Erie
Railroad; then you viii experience the per
fection of railroad travel. You are aware
that the scenery along the whole length of
the road is fine, often grand, and ever vary
ing. You need never take book to While
away the hours, for you cannot read-your
eyes will wander, never weary, along the
slopes of lofty elevations, into dark ravines,
over lovely valleys, up and down quick run
ming rivers, till you have no time left in
which to think of fatigue. And then
you are borne along with amazing
speed, and so quietly withaIl, in the wide,
nicely ventilated and luxurious cars, that you
feel regret when you are at last set down at
your destination. Since that gentleman with
the big salary went out ::the management of
the road is what it ought to be. You can
feel, as well as see, that different rule exists.
The rolling stock of the road is in the most
perfect order-all the trains are run and kept
under the eye of the managing head-the
busy telegraph communicates hourly the sit
uation. of every train, and ne wholeEast ma
chinery works with marvellous harmony. A
notable improvement is being adopted which
viii add largely to the comfort of passengers
land that is the substitution of a new patent
chair in the place of the old for the ends ofthe
rails. Wherever this new chair has been put
down the cars run as smoothly as over what
is known as the continuous rail. The COM
pany have recently placed on their route at
a cost Of $4,000, probably the finest sleep
ing car in the world. It has seats for sixty
persons, which can be converted into double
or single births for ffty-four persons. Ithas
two elegant wash rooms, with every cOnYe-
nience for the making of the toilet A body
of water under the car is forced up on either
side into a recess where it breaks like the
spray Of fountain, falling into the reservoir.
The air entering the car passes through this
water, being cooled and purified from all
dust. By patented arrangement the heat
is thrown equally over the whole car. 4 /.


Rather than prOlong this, my letter, and
be voted bore, prefer to dry up and sub
scribe myself as ever, the DEACON.
Year: 1860

OYER NIAGARA FALLs.-We have occasion
ally heard story of a dog coming out all
right after going over the Falls, says the
Gazette, and used to read Goldsmith's story
of Indians venturing over with safety; but
few people. however, ever believed either, if
they knew anything about the cataract. We
don't hear of Indians trying the experiment
nowadays. but it was proved day or two
ago that dog may make the passage in
safety. John, the drayman, (who by the bye,
must be hard hearted cuss) threw his dog
into the rapids near Goat Island bridge, and
Immediately afterward went to the foot OIL
the ferry stairs, and found him but little in
jured by the tremendous leap. The expert
ment was tried 70 convince some incredulous
persons John thinks his dog superior
navigator.
Year: 1860

Poison FOR SALE CHEAP.-We are glad to
observe that some of our contemporaries join
with us in advocating law to restrict the
sale Of poison. We are aware that the re-
spectacle druggists favor the enactment of
stringent laws on this subject In every
civilized country save our own, laws are en-
forced restricting the sale of poisons. In
France gnd in Germany, for instance, every
grain Of poison sold is reported to the Chief
Of Police. with the name and residence of the
purchaser. Here there are no restrictions /,
a child may procure arsenic or stryehnine by
the pound without question. II is to be
hoped that the subject will receive the atten-
ton of the next Legislature.-S Francisco
Nation
Year: 1860

MAN SHOT IN TEHAMA CoUNTY.-On Thurs
day night of last week, at the residence of A.
b. Darlington, near Red Bluff, two men were
discovered endeavoring to get into the stable
for the purpose evidently of stealing horses
Mr. Darlington and man named Rogers
were watching for them. Rogers being very
near them told them. says the Beacon, to
speak or he would shoot. Receiving no an
swer, he fired, and one of them dropped like
a stone to the ground, and the other escaped.
Mr.. Darlington distinctly saw him founder.
ing in the brush, after the rifle was fired but
it being rather too dark to venture near
wounded man in thicket, the concluded to go
to bed. In the morning they expected to
find him dead, but he could nowhere be
found. He was easily tracked, by immense
quantities of blood. to foot log across Deer
Greek, less than fifty yards from where he
was shot. But no further traces of him could
be found, and it is the general impression he
fell off the log and was drowned.
Year: 1860

SEVEN AMERICANS BURNED TO DEATH BY In.
D1ANs.-We extract the following from let
ter published in the Union, and dated yir.
ginia City August 10th:


About the Sd or 4th OF May last. Norman
IL. Canfield, of Butte county, California. who
had then recently arrived in the Territory
with party, composed in all of seven per,
sons, left Stones Crossing of the Truckee at
big Meadows with the intention of visiting
"inheinucea at his camp at Pyramid Lake,
and endeavor to obtain his peaceful permis-
SION to prospect for silver in the vicinity Of
the Lake.


A short time afterwards the bodies of seven
men who had been slain were discovered w.
ing together between the Truckee and Red
Buns, and though too far decomposed or
mutllated to be recognizable. were supposed
TO oe those of the Garfield party and as such
thelr names were published at the time the
remains found were not then buried and a
subsequent examination proved the error of
their supposed Identification


few days after the volunteers were with
drawn from Pyramid Lake, the regulars then
stationed there some of the latter discovered
among the cottonwood, below where the In
dian village had stood, and near the place
""Ci0 'Ho 1ruckee enpUeS into the Lake
tied to as many trees, the bodies or charred
remains, OF seven men who had been burned
to death. Two or three had been fastened
to the trees with log chains, and the flesh
had been entirely burned from them; the
others had been tied with raw hides and the
upper portions of their bodies bore traces of
identification, particularly that of Garfield,
who was a robust and powerful man,
remarkable in form and feature his lower
limbs and the lower part of his frame had
been consumed, with the evident design to
protract susceptibility to pain, till the bones
were charred but the upper part of the
chest, the arms and shoulders and the head
were entire; even the trim military whiskers
worn by the victim were unsinged Further
description and detail have also been fur
nished, but the revolving hideousness of the
picture forbids elaboration. Suffice it that
the evidence leaves to the friends of Mr.. Can
held and his com panions no possibility of
doubt as to his identity, and the horrible pro
cess of his and their death.


The remains of the victims of this terrible
auto da te were all carefully inferred in one
grave, beneath large cottonwood tree near
the spot on which they died, by the soldiers
under Captain Stewart