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Year: 1859

TIE BANKoF TENNESSEE DISm EMBER- ED.-On and after the first day of Sep tember next the Bank of Tennessee and Branches are required to pay out only such notes as are on the face redeemable in gold at the counter where issued. This bank must obey the letter of the law the Union and Planters bank refused to be governed by the Legislature in this mat ter

 One branch of the Bank of Tennessee can not issue and pay out the notes of another branch of the same bank. Of course it can not receive the other branch notes unless the arrangement is previously made for the redemption of the notes. No bank can continue to receive on deposit and in payment of debts the notes of other banks which they are forbidden to pay out In very short space of time the home issue would be exhausted and all deposit tors would have to pay in gold. By this act of the Legislature the Bank of Ten nessee Is dismembered-it can no longer act as a unit. Each branch is in effect an independent bank relying on its own re- sources-holding the branches as they do other banks, in war enemes-in peace friends.

 The mother bank will probably no lon- ger attempt to redeem the bank notes at Nashville they cannot do this without keeping on hand two dollars in gold for one in paper. This will prevent Nash vile from belng the money centre of the State, and it is probable that all the branch es will be able to take care of themselves and furnish sound currency to the peo- ple.- Clarksville Chronicle.
Year: 1859

ANAwE-sTRUcK BURGLAR.-Last night abou
IL O'Clock, burglar entered house in Henry
street by q rear window, and ransacked The
lower rooms, after which ho proceeded to the
second-story. In a chamber lay the remain.
of child dressed for the grave, and in an in
ner room was the mother, the door connectin,
the two rooms being sufficiently ajar to enabl,
her to see the child without being seen herself
The thief entered the chamber, his hands filled
with booty, and continued his search till he
discovered the dead, when uttering an audible
sigh, he quietly lay down his ILL Cotton burden
and retired from the room and the house as
empty handed as when he entered. The mother
in the midst of her grief, was too much agi
tated to raise alarm.-Brooklyn Star.
Year: 1859

The New Hampshire Senator made an
immense deal of fun over Buchanan's sea-
serpent message, on its reception by the
Senate. He is thus reported


Mr.. Hale said that if the President had
confined himself to an exposition of the re-
lations OF the country, he would not have
taken this opportunity to make comments
but the President had abused his constitu-
tional prerogative, and gone out of his way
to interpolate a history of Kansas not in
accordance with the truth of history. He
did agree most fervently in the Presidents
gratitude that Providence had interposed at
a critical juncture in our affairs. Maybe
the teachings of Providence had been
brought to the Presidents own State and
town, and, like Job, the good man. he feels
the stripes. yet blesses the rod


Mr.. H. rejoiced that our foreign affairs
are so satisfactory, but he had ex pected the
President would enlighten the country as to
the state of our relations with Austria, which
required new Minister SO Immediately af-
ter the Pennsylvania election. Even as the
English maiden, Florence Nightingale, who,
With plastic hand of female affection, tended
the wounded, here we have the President
in similar character, lowering about the
battlefield to pick up the wounded and send
them to the Austria hospital for recovery.
Year: 1859

Nothing is more inducive of pulmonary
disease than cold feet. Cold feet can not
possibly occur if the circulation is properly
kept mp. A sense of coldness in them is
an indication that they are not sufficient
ly protected by clothing. Our bodies
are often oyerburdened with oyercoats and
wrapping-shawls, while our limbs are but
imperfecdy covered. Now there is nothing
more dangerous than allowing the feet to
become damp aud cold. Health requires
that they should always be kept warm and
dry. Il is better to pay the tailor and shoe
maker. and hosier, for preserving your
health. than to pay the doctor for curing
you after your Ill.


Recall some of your past experience. and
you will soon discover that two-tbirds OF
the colds you have suffered from, were pro-
duced By getting cold and wet feet The
Indians. understood this fully In their
wigwams they always laid down With their
feet toward the Ere. When they were trav-
cling in cold weather, and ara compelled to
pass the night In the open air, they dig a
hole in the earth, the centre OF which
they build 4 fire, and then lie down IN cir
Gle. each one hanging his legs into the hole.
In this custom thsy have the simple guidance
Of experience.
Year: 1859

SNoRING.-A western statesman, in one
of his tours in the far west, stopped all
night at house where be was put in the
same room with twenty strangers. He was
very much annoyed by the snoring of two
persons. The black boy of the hotel en-
tered the room, when our narrator said to
HIM, 'Ben. will give you five dollars if
you will kill that man next to me, who
snores SO dreadfully." Can't kill him for
FIVE dollars; but If massa will advance the
price, I'll try what can do" By this time
the stranger had ceased his nasal fury. So,
stepping up to the other, he awoke him.
and said: "My friend, you're talking in
your sleep and exposing all the secrets of
the Brandon Bank, (he was directory
you bad better be careful" He was care
full. for he did not go to sleep again that
night.
Year: 1859

In recent lecture on this theme, Henry
ward Beecher gave utterance to some most
beautiful thoughts, some of which we trans
plant:


feopie" said he, 'tcome together with
the most amiable Intentions Admiration
ana kindness call forth the same feelings,
and love calls and echoes bravely through
all the happy days of courtship. Marriage,
"hlcn Should be to courtship what the ripe
cluster Is to the grape blossom, more sweet,
thougn different, becomes, too often, bar
rem vine, with neither blossom nor cluster.
we fall to call out love, and vet expect the
echo; or We call, and, searching for the
echo, ind only the cold side of the cliff-a
voiceless stone. Many a man has married
an angel, and lived with fend OF fool; and
many woman married hero or god. and
lived with brute or monster. r.


persons strongly inclined to friendship,
generally inspire friendship; those who are
cold IN their affections, rarely find them
selves troubled with other peoples love-
Some people are so happily endowed that
they never fail to have troops of friends,
while others have none; as one man will
thread brook all day and not catch a sin
gle trout, while another will pull out one
beside every stone or clump in the stream
Some men catch something everywhere,
and some men catch nothing anywhere.


"Concealments may exist; a man may
hide his good nature; like wheat, he may
be Of good quality, but surrounded with
chaff. Doubtless the first man who saw a
chestnut bur disliked the rough exterior,
but when he got inside to the sweet meat he
altered his opinion. Some people put their
warm affections in the front door, and thus
invite people to enter others hide theirs
like their jewelry in bureaus and closets,
locked up out of sight. How often the most
coarse tempered men are the most exacting!
Il gross man wants the menial services of
love, proud man its homage; to these,
love is slave. Many persons never keep,
and many never lose, a friend. True friend
ship is strengthened by time. The two
minds interchange an unconscious influence,
and they become like the two sides of the
loom; the affections play between them like
shuttles, and life comes forth, at length, like
figured silks, glowing with mingled colors,
and carrying vines and leaves in graceful
sweep all over the surface
Year: 1859

Printing on glass has been successfully
accomplished by a gentleman in New York
City. By new process be is enabled to
print letters and figures, of various designs,
on glass of multi colors, with facility al
most equal to ordinary printing on common
paper. Lables can be printed by this process
directly on bottles of any size or FORM
These have the appearance of having been
placed there by the hand, and are indelible-
Lettering on glass, By the new process, can
be done at less than one-third of the pres
ent cost.
Year: 1859

before the Mayor yesterday, and testified that,
ON Sunday night last, between I'd and 3D.
streets. he was met by John ID. Gentry, who
first stopped him and looked into his face and
then gave him violent blow on the chin with
a stone, which pealed off the rine and caused
the claret to flow. Charley was perfectly sat
issied as TO the identity of the man bnt an
other witness proved that Gentry and himself
were together about the hour named, and not
within one mile of the place that Cooks chin
and stone came in contact. Gentry was, there
fore. discharged; but poor Cook had To go to
iail because his security declined 10 be respon-
sibIe tor him any longer.
Year: 1859

The Fdir.-The7 Fair for the benefit Of the
mission school in the Valley will be con ntinned
at the Committee Hall during the remainder
of the week. We again invoke the favor of the
public for the efforts which the ladies Of the
congregation are making in "A cause which,
however humble, is one which, for its capaci-
ties of usefulness to the poor and neglected,
ought to appeal TO every humane and Christian
heart.
Year: 1859

Sanford's Minstrets are to open their budget
of song and fun, at Metropolitan Hall, to-
night where those who have an Idle hour and
an extra quarter, can readily spend both
Sanford Is TOO well known to require any In
PRODUCTION to the public, and his troupe Is
said TO be composed OF picked mem
Year: 1859

The Cisy Council, at its next meeting, will
probably be petitioned by the Hastings Court
TO pass an ordinance giving that body the
power to appoint an Oyerseer of the Chain
Gang. SO that they may have their sentences
enforced on their prisoners. II this power Is
granted. we venture TO cay that conyicts will
gladly obey their sentences, rather than sub
NIT to the coereing power that will be brought
TO bear upon them, and the chain gang will then
become terror to evil doeTs.
Year: 1859

Attempted Meendiarism.---An evening or two
since quantity of partially burnt waste paper
was found under a pew in st. Johns Church,
where it had doubtless been placed and igniied
to burn the church; but luckily the blaze died
out of its own accord. Some one of the bad
boys who make play grounds of the grave
yard, and break and destroy the shrubbery, 10
suspected of being the incendiary.
Year: 1859

On Monday morning last Mrs. Hammond.
wife Of Porter Hammond, of Brighton. New
York, met with strange death. She was in
the act Of carrying two pals of water from the
well to her house, when she stumbled and fell
across a saw buck in such a way as to break
her neck. She was taken up, but expired be
fore she could be carried into the house.
Year: 1859

curious fraud in the sale of hay has been
discovered in Boston. The hay was SO loaded
that person could crawl into hole left near
the bottom of the cart, and in this place a col,
ored msn, in the employ of the hay speculator,
was in the habit of concealing himself while
The hay was being weighed. Some Of the pur-
chasers have paid for him dozen times over.
Year: 1859

UNION FURNITURE RooMs.-A company Of
gentlemen, practical workmen, have taken the
Furniture Mandatory and Sale Rooms, recent.
ly occupied by Col Gillespie, on Main street.
above I'd We know them to be good men and
first class workmen--they have been engaged
in making some of the best work sold in this
city for years past and they are now in po.
sition to reap some of the advantages. Call
at their rooms and examine their work, They
have everything in the line that is desirable,
and theirprices are as low as they can possibly
afford.
Year: 1859

SALT strikes us that local pride should
induce our Mechanics to erect neat struct>
ure on the County Fair Grounds for the purI
pose of exhibiting their haudiwork. 1t could
be done at small expense to each proprieta-
ry mechanic in our city and county, and it
would certainly be an honor to them, and
credit to the city and county. We
hope to see this accomplished before anoth-
er year. What say our friends, the mechan-
ics2 The Indebtedness of the Society will
not permit the Board to erect the various
exhibition buildings they would be pleased
to put up. We must divide the expenses of
these things somehow and we hope every
industrial interest In the county win feel
the Importance Of the success of the Society
and contribute literally to it. A little from
each one will accomplish it.
Year: 1859

Why is il that tbelDayton Journal takes
such particular pains to slur the democracy
for holding meetings at tayerns and grocer
lee, while their candidates are depositing
money in similar places for the purpose OF
treating every body who will vote for them
Is che Journal trying sneakingly to ride the
temperance hobby Do the republican candi'
dates think that they can buy the votes. of
American freemen with so many drinks
apiece, or are all hands among them carrying
water on both shoulders Spit il out men !
don't sneak
Year: 1859

UThe work of preparation at the County
Fair Grounds is being pushed forward rapidly
and will soon be ready for the exhibition.
Every thing is being put in first rate trim, and
we hope to have to report that the Fair was the
best, and most pecuniarily successful ofany yet
holden in this county. 80 mote it be-"
Year: 1859

a5Farmers in this neighbOrhood are gener-
ally pretty we'll through with seeding. The
grain that is up looks remarkably well, The
number of acres put out in wheat viii be great
er than last year. The late warm rains have
been very favorable 10 the coming crop.
Year: 1859

pTak about trading Ed Parott does that
business in political way about as smooth as
any dealer We ever heard Of, He can beat his
cowpeers on the ticket without going to the
Catholic Church on Sunday, and then slipping
through byswsys to get out into the centre Of
tha Citv
Year: 1859

"I believe that he is occupied at this
moment, but will soon be at leisure. He
will come to you in short time. You
will not object to remain here until then?
L would ask you 20 the parlor, but my
Year: 1859

NO DfvoBcE.--ln South Carolina, there is
no divorce after marriage wed for life must
be the fact in law when an instance Of divorce
has never been known there Il has been
authoritatively settled that no judicial tribun-
al in the State has authority to declare de-
cree Of divorce for any cause whatever. If
the power exists at ALL it is in the Legislature,
which has hitherto never thought proper to
exercise the power. Further il has been de-
tcrmined by the courts of South Carolina.
that marriage solemnized in that State is
indissoluble by the sentence Of any court in
sister State so as to affect the rights or con-
ditions Of the parties in South Carolina 1t
will be seen then, that it is much easier to
tie the knot then to undo il. with rare ex-
ceptions' the ceremony Of marriage, is in fact.
performed by a clergyman but the indissolu-
bility Of the marriage contract is not only part
Of the law, but it is the fixed and habitual
sentiment Of the community on the subject
of divorce.
Year: 1859

A correspondent Of the Boston Journal
writing from Rutland. VT. gives the follow
ing account Of visit to the frozen we'll at
Brandon


"a visit to the frozen we'll at Brandon.
seventeen miles distant and the tertiary de-
posit OF brown coal in which fossil fruit is
found, will reward one for the trouble Iron
ore Of excellent quality remarkably white
and pure pipe clay. and bed of manganese.
make together with the brown coal. a com
bination Of deposit curious and valuable. The
frozen well is dug on the casterly side. near
the foot Of high gravelly knoll, probably
glacial moraine, through which the road has
been cut, showing beds Of clay Of three or
four feet thickness intorsporsed among the
gravel. The well was dug in November last,
through twenty-five feet of gravel and fifteen
feet Of frozen earth. when water was found.
The well was then stoned up and has been
frozen ever since. Last winter it was neces-
sary to descend and cut with hatchet a pas
sage for the bucket to the water beneath the
ice. BY the aid of a mirror. the sun light
can be thrown into the WE'LL and about three
feet from the bottom q rim of ice, at least six
or eight inches thick can be seen projecting
from the sides. leaving barely room for the
bucket to pass through The stones for six
or eight feet are encrusted with frost and ice.
Occasionally current Of air can be felt, cold
as a snow bank, which may como from below,
or may be the outer air suddenly cooled.
The water is oxceiient--romarkably pure,
and of course icy cold This we'll is 'puz-
zlcr to the sayans. some Of whom, at Bur
lington, have appropriated $500 TO investigate
the phenomenon, and propose TO sink one or
more wells in the vicinity, to see if the same
result follows. Whether this ice is formed
by chemical combinations in the earth, wheth-
err it is caused by currents of air passing over
water, producing rapid evaporation and con-
sequont refrigeration. or whether an iceberg
stranded there long ages ago and was covered
subsequently by accumulatons Of clay and
gravel, being thus preserved from melting
away-who knows
Year: 1859

DEATH OF AN EooESrRIc MAN.--Jesse
Bennett Esq, an old resident of the city of
Oswego, n. Y, died there very suddenly on
Saturday night, of the heart disease. About
ten years ago Mr.. Bennett caused stone
coffin to be made for himself, which he kept
in his house, and which was consumed in the
great conhagration there a few years ago.
His original inteuuon was to be enclosed in
this stone marble coffin after his death, and
be sunk in the depths OF Lake Ontario, but
this intention was afterwards abandoned by
him. When the coffin was destroyed by fire,
he remarked if it could not stand such heat
as that it would not answer his purpose He
then procured another one, in which he was
finally buried ltused to be the old mans de-
light to visit the room in which the coffin lay,
and inspect its beauties. 1t is said that he
frequently lay down to ser how his body fitted
its final receptacle. This summer he erected
an iron railing around his cemetery lot 1t
was completed the day before he died, and
when in apparent good health, he exhibited
the key TO IT, saying This is the key to my
homestead little thinking, at the time, that
he was so soon to occupy that Homestead.
Year: 1859

~ A writer in the Religious Telescope
approves of the recent introduction of steam
in "propelling" church organs, because steam
never winks at any one across the room Just
before the piece is started never filters and
laughs at each turn of the music never
bushes or sticks up its fan before its face,
nor hangs its head; never whispers during
the sermon never turns over the note book
to find the tune during the prayer, nor gazes
over the congregation to see who is kneelng
never writes notes and passes them while the
minister is preaching "For these reasons
says the writer, ''if singing is to be done by
proxy, by all means let us employ steam.'
Year: 1859

Isn't THIS NICE Such was the exclamation
of little beggar girl, one cold, rainy, clustering
evening, short time since, as she stopped upon
the grating over the orifce whence escapes the
hot air and steam OF one of the many engines
that burrow beneath the sidewalks of Ann and
Nassau streets, New York The ragged little
creature was bare footed; her feet we're red with
cold, and the genial warmth of the grating and
steam sent such a thrill of satisfaction to her
heart, that she involuntarily gave expression to
her delight. " Isn't this nice y There was con
tent-dcligh ght-in the tone; and We could not
help thinking. as we passed along, how small and
humble a matter will 5estow happiness when the
right thing happens to be applied in the right
place. Reader, you can feel "nice" over an
iron grating as well as by the side Of the parlor
stove.
Year: 1859


[At the funeral of young man who died of Il
I'D lady came forward as the coffin was about
De closed, and made the above request. ~
"Let me kiss him for his MOTHER
He is friendless and alone;
BY his death couch stood no brother,


Breathed Ger him no mothers moan.
Strangers hands have smoothed his pillow,
Strangers lay him in his grave M
Came there not across the billow


Whispered prayers the loved to saver
Was not that fond mother pleading,
= Mid her cares through silent night
Or was she unwarned, unheeding-


Shadowless her spirits light?
May the hand of Jesus hold her


When this wave of sorrow breaks;
May the Fathers love enfold her,


Blessing even while he takes.
&c Let me kiss him for his MOTHER


For bear mothers heart;
Tenderly, though for another,


I can act the mothers part.
Age upon my frame is creeping,


But my heart is yet unchilled;
These old eyes are dim with weeping,
For the heart so lately killed.
I" Let me kiss him for his mother"


On nay lips her love shall rest;
Let me kiss him for his mother"


Ere the turf lies on his breast.
Year: 1859

She sits in the window high and dreary,


And night is stealing across the park;
She searches until her eyes grow weary .
The mystery under the deep'ning dark.
There is an oak in the far-of darkness,


Rseth aloft like giant old,
And right above in the dusky nearness


Frowneth turret dark and bold.
The shadows fall like heavy fingers


Upon her eyes in the dreary room;
She shuts them-the wasting image fingers


Of all she saw in the growing gloom.
All who is near? what hand in greeting


Has she clasped unhidden between her own?
And her heart though never quickly beating,
Is beating in marvel and fear alone.
The hand of the night is very dear to her,


The arm of the night is about her form,
The lips of the night are very near to her,


And the breath of the summer night is warm
His unseen locks are upon her forehead,


How humanity waving and soft and light!
And sudden resstless impulse carried


Her lips to the lips of the shadowy night.
She must have been dreaming sitting lionel.
Willing away the dreary hour;
The land is dark, for the young moon only


A crescent of silver hangs over the tower.
She must have dreamed-the world reposes


So silently under the starlight fair,
And-the fairies lift the three white roses


That fell on her hands when she loosed her hair
Year: 1859

party of hunters from St. Joseph, Mo-. while
ont hunting in that vicinity, heard one Of their
thicket; and on rushing thther, they found him in
the coils of a huge serpent. They soon killed the
snake which measured over thirteen feet in length:
The poor dog was so badly crushed that they had
to shoot him to put him out Of his misery.
Year: 1859

DETER's WoRsTED SToRE.-The ladies will be
glad that this popular institution is in full blast
for trade proprietor receiving the e
giant goods wosted embroderies and all material for
fancy work. personally selected by himself in Europe. His
well the ladies' and apprehend that they will
his select from the beautiful assortment We
ask their attention to his advertisement.
Year: 1859

Or WHAT rs SALT A SYMBOL ?-of fdeE
ity; man who has partaken Of salt with
you is bound to you by the laws Of hospital:
ity; and thus bread and salt are eaten at the
ratification Of a bargain or treaty to make it
binding on all parties. Salt is also an en-
blem of desolation conquered cities were
sown with salt. In Scotland and ireland
salt appears to have been considered to rep
resent the incorruptible spirit; and was,
therefore, laid above the heart of a corpse !;
and in some cases a platten was so placed
containing small portion Of salt and earth
unmixed, the one to represent the Immortal,
the other the mortal part. In former days,
when it was the custom for all the house
hold of nobleman or gentleman to dine to
gether, the large salt cellar which was pls-
ced in the middle of the table was the boun-
dary of distinction between the family and
the menials.