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Year: 1859

Every ono who takes valuable paper, which
they, in the least degree appreciate, will often
regret to see number thrswn aside for waste
paper, which contains some interesting and
important articles. Yet few can afford the
space, in any room convenient Of access for
filing sway number Of papers year after year,
and even when it can be done, the volume is
In quite inconvenient form for reference.


A good substitute for fling is the use Of
scrap book. One Of the proper form may be
bought at almost any bookstore, but if you do
not wish to incur that expense, q very good one
may DO made Of folded newspapers, cut evenly
at the edge, and stitched into pasteboard
cover. The best paste for the purpose is made
OF clear starch, and it should be applied to the
scrap, and not to the leaf of the book. The
oook should be left open an hour or two, to
dry, but not perfectly, as the leaves are apt to
curl up, unless closed while little damp.


One who has never been accustomed thus to
prepare choice articles can hardly estimate the
pleasure it affords one to sit down and turn
over the familiar rages. Here choice piece
OF poetry meets the eye, which you remember
you were so glad to sec In the paper, but which
would long since have been destroyed had il
mot been for your sorap-book. There is q
witty anecdote, it does you good to laugh over
yet, though for the twentieth time. Next is a
valuable recipe you had almost forgotten, and
which you have found just in time to save you
much perplexity. There is a sweet little story,
the memory of which has cheered and encour-
aged you many o. time, when almost ready to
despair, under tb pressure of life's care and
trials.


Indeed, you can hardly take up any paper,
without findins; many choice thoughts worth
perusing. just glance over the sheet before
you, and see ow many valuable items it con-
tains, that would be Of service to you hun .
dred times II, life. A choice thought is far
more more precious than q bit of glittering gold.
That perishes, but thought is immortal
Hoard with care these precious gems, and sec
at the close of the year what rich treasury
you have accumulated.
Year: 1859

Owing to the bad condition Of the track
on the Northern Division west of Sandusky.
and the depressed state of tho business, and
the urgent necessity Of punishment Of ex-
penses, tho trains were discontinued on that
line, west Of Port Clinton on the 30th OF
June, 1858, and west of Sandusky on the
9lst Of December, 1858. The Directors
have felt the importance Of accommodating
and encouraging the growing business on,
the line of the Northern Division, between,
Cleveland and Sandusky, and at the time
of the discon.inuance of the trains west Of
Sandusky, made an earnest effort to effect
an arrangement with Mad River and Lake
Eric Railroad Co., by which one of our ex-
press passenger trains could run each way
daily, over that Company's road, between
Sandusky and Clyde, and a sum that was
considered liberal and remunerative was Of
fered for that purpose. A disagreement,
however arose between the two companies,
and the arrangement was not made.


The rolling stock of the Company, as q
whole, is in good order.
Year: 1859

and, also, the charge that was informed
that the committee would visit the Hosnitol
and faied to receive them and give them in
formation, is incorrect, and they know it to
be so.


| called on Mr.. Paxton several times. and
Mr. Teed once to know when the committee
would visit the Hospital He stated he did
not know; but would inform me at nv Office
before going ont. He did not do so. nor did
any one intimate to me that the committee
would visit the Hospital on the dav it did
DIR. iced informed them where was and
told them distinctly that had no KNOWLEDGE
of their intended visit at that time.


John A. PaXtc replied, 1--WE did not know
1t ourselves until few minutes before we
started AS evidence of their anxiety TO
oo'aln Information from me or any eompe-
tent officers of the institution. regarding its
affairs, | will mention that DIR. Teed who is
well acquainted with all matters pertaining
to the management of the Hospital was there
and offered to accompany them through the
wards and give them all the Information in
his power, but was told they preferred to
make the Investigation without his presence
giving more credence to er parte statements
of disatfected patients than to evidence de
rived from persons only capable of giving re
liable information.


To close, let it be remembered that the in
vestigotion $50 called) of the Grand Jury and
their delectable committee of physicians was
without authority. unprecedented and er
pdrte That DIR. Rice bears me no good will
having been ousted from the position of ex-
amining physician, as he charges by nv in
reference, and also on account of my refus
ing to purchase medicines of him, the firm
having offered to furnish the same twenty
per cent cheaper than they could be purchas
ed elsewhere.


That John T. Mclean is, and always has
been uncompromisingy hostile TO me, and
evey one else who, 10y any chance stood be-
tween him and the Hospital contract, and
that notwithstanding his unceasing exertions
to reduce the compensation for the care of
the county sick, has since the parade of his
liberal offers in his most elaborate report to
the Grand Jury, declared that the pauper
patients cannot be properly provided for.
at one dollar each per day, and that he would
not take the contract on such terms.


That the other physician, whose name we
forbear to mention, las the Grand Jury was
well aware) has been engaged in pursuits
other than his profession, and is consequent
ly lily calculated to sit as umpire in matters
of so grave an import as those that appear
in the Report of said Grand Jury, connected
with the Hospital.


Respectfully yours.


WM GFITFR
Year: 1859

one under your charge would not suffer by com.
parison with any ofthem.


As regards the medical treatment do not
deem myself competent To express an opinion. In
truth, as far as my experience would enable me
to Judge. the inmates OF the Hospital are treated
with courtesy, kindness and care, as well by
yourself as by your employees.


lam, Sir, with great respect,


Your obt Servant,


ID G.
Year: 1859

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County OF YUBA:- Rob
ert Gill, being first sworn, deposes and saws. |
am and have been, an employee Of DR.. William
Geller in the County Hospital of Yuba county for
about eleven months, and employed during that
time in the capacity Of waiter and steward and
that part of almost every day during the time
have been employed in scalding and cleaning
the bedsteads and bedding in the various apart
ments Of the Hospital for the purpose of freeing
them Of bugs-that there is now in use at the
Hospital from ten to fifteen wash Dishes There
are three persons kept at the hospital whose busi-
ness it is to nurse and attend to the patients


ROBERT GILL.
Year: 1859

PARrIEs lately arrived from Pixies Peak
state that fearful mortality had broke out
in Mountain City, carrying off as many as
fourteen miners per week. At first the dls
ease was Supposed to be mountain fever out
a close inspection showed that greater
number of deaths we're caused by drinking
poisonous or strychnine whiskey. Aha"t'c
paper
Year: 1859

TIE undersigned would respectfully announce to
his numerous subscribers his intention to credit no
pc son for longer term than FOUR WEEKS for the
DAILY NATIONAL DBMUcRAT 1 am forced to adopt
the above course on account of the increase in nv
delinquent list. JEROMUS RAPALJE


dec6-4wdh Cnrrfer
Year: 1859

WILLIE DCOs . 4oOos


DR. WIN. GELLER-Dear Sir:-Were to con-
suit my own feelings alone, should most respect
fully decline compliance with the request so cour
teously requested by you, and thus spare myself
the annoyances consequent upon taking any part
in a controversy which must necessarily agitate
the feelings Of the community in whose midst
reside Hitherto have cautiously abstaned from
intermeddling in affairs of purely secular or po-
litcal nature, and would gladly, on the present
occasion, pursue a similar course were not CON
strained by a sense Of justice, fairly and canddy
to ex9ress my humble opinion of the management
of the County Hospital during the term Of your
present contract. AS you observe, have had
ample opportunity of seeing the condition of the
Hospitai. and the treatment of the patients under
your charge, for have visited the Hospital al
most every week at least once, and sometimes
have been there twice on the same day. Although
| have frequently passed through all the wards,
and freely conversed with the patients never
heard any one complain Of the regimen or the
treatment received there, until read the report
of the Hospital Committee. | was firmly impress
ed with the idea that the Hospital under your
charge, as far as the cleanliness and comfort OF
/ the patients was concerned, was as well conduct
ed as any other institution OF the kind IN the
State. have. in the discharge of my ministry IN
different parts of California, visited several Hos
pitfalls, and have no hesitation in saying that the
Year: 1859

answer. lie was too deeply troubled il
spirit to assume at the moment cheerful


tone, and he had no wish to sadden the
hearts that loved him, by letting the de
preston from which he was suffering be
come too clearly apparent. But the eyes
OF Mrs. Freeman saw quickly below the
surface.


Are you not we'll, Robert p she inquired
tenderly' as she drew his large arm chair
toward the centre of the room.


"A little headache he answered, with a
slight evasion.


Scarcely was Mr.. Freeman seated, ere
pair of hands was busy with each foot
removing gaiter and shoe aud supplying
their place with soft slipper. There was
not one in the household who did not feel
happier for his return, nor one who did not
seek to render him some kind office.


ltwas impossible, under such burst oi
heart-sunshine for the spirit OF Mr.. Freeman
long to remain shrouded. Almost imper.
ceptlbly to himself gloomy thoughts gave
place to more cheerful ones, and hy the
tins tea was. ready he had half forgo tten
the fear which had SO haunted him through
the day. Rut they could not be held bac k
altogether, and their existence was marked
during the evening by an unsual silence
and abstraction Of mind. This was observed
by Mrs. Freeman who moro than half
suspecting the cause, kept back from her
husband the knowledge of certain matters
about which she had intended to speak to
him, for she feared they would add to his
mental disquietude. During the evening
she CLEANED from something he said, tie
real cause of bis changed aspect. At once
her thoughts commenced rnnning in new
channel. BY few leading remarks, she
drew her husband into conversation on the
subject of home expenses, and the propriety
OF restriction in various points. Many
things were mutually pronounced super
fiuous and easily to be dispensed with, and
before sleep fell sootbingly on the heavy
eyelids of Mr.. Freeman, that night an entire
change in tkeir style of living had been
determined upon-a change that wou Id
reduce their expenses at least one half.


4 see light ahead were the hopeful
words Of Mr.. Freeman, as lie resigned him
self to slumber. T..


With renewed strength Of mind and body
and confident spirit, he went forth the next
day-a day that he had looked forward TO
with fear and trembling. And it was only.
through this renewed strength and confident
spirit that he was able to overcome the
difficulties that loomed up mountain high
before him. Weak despondency would
have ruined all. Home had proved his
tower of strength, his walled city. Strength
ened for the conflict, he had gone forth
again into the world and conquered in
the struggle.


4 see light ahead gave place to The
morning breaketh y Orange Blossom.
Year: 1859

Let 1t never come to you. Live so that
good angels will protect you from this terri
ble evil-the winter of the heart.


Let no chilling influence freeze up tho
fountain OF sympathy and happiness from
its depths-no cold burthen settle over its
withered hopes, like snow on the faded
flowers; no rude blasts of discomfort moan
and shrek through its desolate chambers.


Your life path may lead you amid trials
which for time seem entirely to impede
your progress, and shut out the very light
OF heaven from your anxious gaze.


Penury may take the place of, ease and
plenty; your luxurious home may be ex-
changed for single lowly room; the soft
couch for the straw pallet, the rich Wand
Sfor the coarse food of the poor. Summer
friends may forsake you, and the unpity-
ing world pass with scarcely a word of com.
passion.


You may be forced to toll YEARLY, stead.
'ly on to earn livelihood. you may en-
counter fraud and base avarice. which
would extort the last far,hing, till you we'll
nigh turn in disgust from your fellow be.
ings


Death may seven the dear ties that bind
you to earth, and leave you in fearful dark
ness.


The noble, manly boy, the sole hope of
your declining years, may be taken sudden
~ from you, while your spirit clngs 10 him
with a wild tenacity which even the shadow
OF the tomb cannot wholly subduc.


But amid all these sad trials and sorrows.
DO not come to the conclusion that nobody
was ever so deeply afflicted as you are, and
abandon every sweet anticipation of better
days in she. unknown future.


DO not lose your faith in human excel
ence because your confidence has been be-
trayed; nor believe that friendship is only
delusion, and love bright phantom
which glides away from your grasp.


Do not think you are fated to be miser-
able because you are disappointed in your
expectations and baffled in your pursuit.
DO not declare that God has forsaken you
when your way is hedged with thorns, or
repiue sinfnlly when He calls your dear
ones to the land beyond the grave.


Keep holy trust in heaven, through
every trial bear adversely with fortitude, and
look upward in hours of temptation and
suffering. When your locks are white
your eyes dim and your limbs weary-when
your steps falter on the verge of Death s
gloomy vale, still retain the freshness and
buoyancy of spirit which will. shield you
from this winter Of the heart.
Year: 1859

The Board of Education recently en-
acted that any Board of Directors
shall have the power to purchase u
District Library with the temporary
school funds, which shall have been
apportioned to their district by the
County Judge. The Secretary OF
each district is to act as librarian for
the purchase of books, and perform
other duties under the direction of the
township board. As it is a matter Of
great consequence to have a good Ii
brary, we give 4 short list Of what
are regarded as the most standard
works in the department Of history,
biography, travels, poetry, agricul-
turc, Nc, together with the retail
price of the same. Who could csti-
mate the future benefit that would ac.
crue from the study Of such Il list OF
books, 10y the young and old, in every
school district in Iowa? We apprc.
hcnd it would be impossible. There.
fore, we cannot refrain from urging
upon district boards to procure libra
ries as soon as possible, and let THEN
collections embrace the very best
works in our Waterloo
Register.


We are pleased to learn that a
movement is on foot in this town
among our school officers, to procure
a library as fast as the funds will ad
NIT of it, and that beginning is tc
be made at once.
Year: 1859

Late in the day, about two weeks
after this, Paul Graham might have
been seen hurrying along through
street after street, apparently uncon-
sclous of his course, and reckless of
personagcs on the pavements, or dan
gers at the crossings. His air was
naughty and fierce, making people to
step aside unconsciously as he APP
preached. With his hairso long about
his neck, his broad collar, and flash
ing eyes, he was taken by some for a
mad poet, or madder spiritualist, an
artist bent on suicide, or u discarded
lover Of the Byron sort.


\ discarded lover he was. After
waiting fortnight in the utmost i'm
patience for the chance, he had made
an egregious simpleton of himself, by
proposing to Miss Mordaunt. OF
course she rejected him. He had
thought that his God-given genius had
constituted him her equal !; and she
had tlattercd his vanity until the offer
of his heart and hand We're made with
scarcely more passion than pride and
assurance. He was so like an Apollo
in his youthful pride and BEAUTY, that
Miss Mordaunt almost hcsitated, her
heart throbbing a beat faster, before
she concluded to resign him but she
was as ambitious as she was devoid
of conscience and SO, very gently,
and in very lady-like manner, as
was her custom, she rejected him.
Despite of the sweet morsels in which
she rolled up this bitter pill, Paul did
not swallow it calmly, as many of her
suitors had done. He saw, in a mo,
ment, that he had been duped anger
struggled with his love. At the mo
ment he regarded her as immeasura
bly, his inferior, in having been guilty
Of SO much duplicity, and being SO
vain and cold OF heart, and he poured
forth such trade of scorn and con-
tempt, that the beauty was fairly sub
dued.


All at once the remembrance of his
unfaithfulness to Ellen rushed over
him. taking the wind out OF the sails
of his contempt, tying his tongue, and
Year: 1859

Thhe character Of the young men
Of community depends much on that
of the young women. If the latter
are cultivated, intelligent, and accom-
plished, the young men will feel the
requirement that they themselves
should be upright, and gentlemanly,
and refined But if their female friends
are frivolous and silly, the young men
will be found dissipated and worth
less.
Year: 1859

tlnct idea, intimately associated with the his
tory of the delightful country which we have
the happiness to nhahit and for which il is
! the sacred duty and lofty privilege of the Leg
lslatlve authorities to provide WISE equitable
and salutary laws


The slightest examinations of the seal will
disclose to the Honorable Council the EAGLE.
the proud and appropriate emblem of our ma
tonal power bearing in its bcak an HtdiQu ar
ro'c, and clutching in its talons an unstr,,pq
bo'c; and, while the idea thus dclicatcly evol-
we'd Is 50 well calculated to make the eve glis-
ten with patriotic pride, and cause the heart
10 beat high with the pulsItions of conscious
superiority, it nevertheless presents touching
appeal to our manly senshilitics. in Contem-
plating the drcary destiny of II declining race
nor should it fail to admonish us of the i'm
menSc Importance Of improving in every point
OF view, that vast inheritance which il was
their peculiar misfortune to uudervaluc and
neglect.


The Honorable the Legislative Council will
pardon the freedom of these reflections. which
the occasion ricits If it docs not Justify and
demand willie have the honor to remain. as
heretofore, their very obcdirnt and rcspcctful
servant, and yours.


WM, b. CONWAY,


Secretary Of the Territory


This communication was referred to
a committee, who reported the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted


Rcya'reI, That the seal submitted to the
Council by the Secretary of the Territory be
adopted 10y the Council as the - Great Seal of
the Territory Of Iowa"


The seal is one inch and fivc-einhths
IN diameter, and the word Great is
not upon the sea notwithstanding the
Honorable Secretary in his commnni-
cation, and the Council in their rcsOlu-
ton, have it preliXed.


The devices upon the seals for the
" Supreme Court" "District Courts"
Commissioners COurt,' and PRO
bate Courts were all designed by the
Honorable Secretary, and were all as
appropriate in their several spheres
as that of the seal of the Territory.
This latter seal was never adopted by
the Legislative Assembly, but by the
Legislative Council, the higher branch
thereof, which held their sessions in
the lower or basement story Of old
Zion Church, in Burlington.


There are some "reminiscences con-
ncctcd with the early history Of this
seal which must omit, as well as the
history Of the seal of the State, which
latter | will continue in another pa
per. L. ). PARNIN.


We will add, that those who may
desire to procure a cut of the genuine
State Seal had better delay doing 50
for the present, as Gov. Lowe assured
us that he was about to have new
and different design for a State Seal
engraved, and will present it to the
next Legislature for adoption.
Year: 1859

1t is somewhat remarkable that the
Great Seal Of the State Of Iowa is so
little known both at home and abroad.
1t is generally supposed that the seal
representing an eagle with an arrow
in his bcak and an unstrung bow in
his talons is the correct seal of the
State. Not so. That was the old
Territorial Seal, and yet book and
map publishers, newspaper editors,
&c, are constantly using it. No type
founder or dealer i'll printing materials
makes or furnishes any other seal for
the State.


Finding that there was an error in
this matter, we took especial pains
recently, when at Des Moincs, to i'll
vestigate it. We were surprised to
find the State Library deficient in
records of the early history Of the
Territory, and especially Of any work
that should throw light upon the sub
.jcct in question. Applying to Mr.
kinscy, Clerk Of the Supreme Court,
we found in his library volume Of
the Acts of the first State Legislature
of Iowa, in which was law which
we copied as follows:
Year: 1859

An Act author zng the secretary Of state procure
Il State Seal


Sec. |. BE ii enacted By tie General AsseHtJly
Of the State Of h,rd, That the Secretary of State
be, and he is, hereby authorized to procure
seal, which shall be the Great Seal of the State
of Iowa, two inches in diameter, upon which
shall be engraved the following device. sur
rounded by the words, 1.-The Great Seal of
the State of Iowa. sheaf and field of stand
ing wheat, with a sickle and other flaming
utensils, on the left side near the bottom a
lead furnace and pile of pig lead, on the right
side the citizen soldier with a plow in his
rear, supporting the American flag and liberty
cap, with his right hand, and his gun with his
left, in the centre and near the bottom the
Mississippi river in the rear of the whole, with
the steamer Iowa under way an eagle near
the upper edge, holding in his bcak scroll
with the following inscription upon it: ''Our
liberties we prize, and our rights we will
maintain -
Year: 1859

BY GABRIELLA.


1fcctionatelst dedicated to t'Sue.'' .
srhoro vvnq thing noticed at the table; it wa
an empty chair, before which set small gIIf
md silver goblet. | paused as if waiting for tie
rwner when the lady looked up to with
PRESTON shall never forget, saying" Mr.. - you
leed not wait for that chair to be filled its occupa
S in Heaven. Of u IraveIler..
l sadly gazed at the vacant chair,


That little empty seat;


I thought of the one that used to be there
With her sweet blue eyes wondrously fair


And the pat of those little feet


As she took her place at her fathers side
That bright little girl who since had died
turned my glance to the mothers face


And saw the trace of PAIN


Then again looked to the empty place
And tho't of the one who had finished her race


Who ne'er would run again;


And tear stole forth that could not hide,
AS looked at the chair by the fathers side.
o, tell me said this lost child's name:
She answered-Gabrelle;
| And never shall see her face again
Her for whom have suffered such grief and pain
| My child loved so well.
And ever since my darling has died,
That chair has stood by her fathers side.
! should think the constant grief, 1 said,
Of the little empty chair,


Would increase your grief you think of the


dead


Of the beautiful girl with her curly head,


Who used to be sitting there.


She answered, that seat now is occupied
By the angel form of my child that died
That bright little face, though invisible now,
Is beam1ng on me with love- :
And angelic brightness is stamped on her brcal
She has drank of the waters that thro' II OF
flow, VI Sd


And now she is singing above; Isu%
Except wh en- meals come around she is tfhe'
Still filling her seat in that little arm chair Y
Many years have passed round since then; I


Now weary with sorrow and care
will soon seek repose in some earthly glen,
Yet as these thoughts flow from my feeble pen-,


think of the little chair,
And hope that in heaven I'll be by the side :
OF that little earth angel who long ago died