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Year: 1859

COLUMBIA FIRE CoxrANY No. s, Of Girod street,
IL o'clock last night, they had not made their sp
pearance uptown. On the Mexican Gulf Railroad
express trains provided for excursion parties and
the usual hour Of return Of these trains s from half
past seven to eight o'clock. The probabilities q Ne
write this, that the are OF the track some
where, and the boys having nice time OF It with the
mosquitoes.


P. Sat halipast twelve o'clock last night, the
No. boys came up town with Maneiri's band, and
torches and skyrockets and nobody hurt or missing.
The cause Of the detention Was this


The regular train on the Mexican Gulf road LETT
Lake Borgne at the usual hour, 4 o'clock. On the
prairie, mile this side Of the Lake. the loco
motive thrown from the track, By timbers which
some unhung miscreant had laid Az the train waa
not going fast the locomotive only was thrown. It
fell in the ditch by the roadside perfectly wrecked
the engineer and fireman saving themselves by jump
ing, and landing in the mud and water up to their
middles It was considered lucky that nobody Wa
hurt.


The accident caused such delay that the express
train with the remen did not leave till long TINA
was brought back and hiched to the express train
and with the double load and the necessary stoppagss
Of the regular half Of the train it was very late when
| the whole arrangement reached the city.
The No. boys, so We heard, had splendid time
with their targetshooting feasting and frolicking
generally and were not bit out Of humor on account
Of the accident which delayed their return till after
midnight
Year: 1859

Senator Broderick was lately challenged to fight
duel by lawyer of San Francisco, but declined,
on the ground that the challenging party did not
hold position equally elevated and responsible
as himself A miserable subterfuge, certainly.
We are yet to learn that there is anything in the
dueling code to justify federal Senator in re-
fusiug to engage in an affair of honor with any
one save a brother Senator. Every gentleman
who is recognized as such is entitled to satsfac
ton at the hands of the party aggrieving him,
and it will not do for the latter to refuse to 60 to
the field in case he acknowledges the code, tho
absurd plea that his own opponent, although his
equal socially, is below him in official position.
The code recognizes no such principle.


Sun g. Southron.
Year: 1859

p U r Fl LY ETABLE.


These Pills are not offered to the public as a
novelty or a universal panacea for "all the ills
that flesh is heir to " They have been extensively
used, and their virtues are well known to many
who will be glad to learn that the proprietor has
made arrangements to continue the manufacture
on scale equal to the increasing demand The
Pills are all made under his personal supervision,
and can therefore be relied as on those which have
given so much satisfaction to all who have used
them. The oft repeated assertion that in bilious
diseases and the various disorders of the Liver,
there is no remedy but mercury, in blue pill OF
some other form, has been proven false by ample
testimony from those who have used these purely
vegetable Pills. 1t Is true, however that to rem
edy a arrangement Of the bilious secretion, you
must have something to act directly and power
fully at times upon the liver; brt il in not true
that mercury is the only agent capable of pro.
ducing this specific action. The simple combina
ton of vegetable principles in these pills produces
the same positive action upon the Liver as Gallo
mel, and will correct the arrangement of that
organ as surely, without the risk of any unpleas-
ant or injurious consequences, at the same time
they have an Alternative and tonic effect, which is
the secret of their great superiority.


The circumstances under which the formula for
these Pills came into the possession of the Pro-
prietor, some year ago, were peculiar, and induced
him to prepare, from time to time, such quanti-
ties as would enable him to supply the wants of
his friends, but owing to the astonishing results
produced by their use, the demand has increased
so rapidly that he is compelled to manufacture on
much larger scale than was contemplated and
the unsought testimony, from various quarters, of
the great efficacy and uniformly gratifying results
experienced in cases of bilious affections, fever


Al. \ l..
rangement Of the hillary organs, proves beyond
all doubt that these Pills are capable of efecting
the most surprising cures on record, and all who
suffer in any way from arrangement of the func-
tions of the Liver, should have them at hand


Prce--25 cents, 80 cents, and 81 90 per box.


Prepared by M.'F. Dumas, Main Street, Yazoo
City, Miss.
Year: 1859

A New QUESTION. Cincinnati Enquirer
does not think the Supreme Court, in the Dred
Scott case, decided against squatter sovereignty,
and in cOrrOboration of its opinion, cites the fol
lowing passage, from the opinion given by Judge
Campbell in the case


admit that to mark the bounds for the iurs-
diction of the Government of the United States
within its Territory and of its power in respect
to persons and things within the municipal sub
divisions it has created, is work Of delicacy and
difficulty, and, in great measure, is beyond the
cognizance of the Judiciary department of that
Government. How much municipal power may
be exercised by the people of the Territory, be-
fore their admission to the Union, the Courts of
Justice cannot decide This must depend, for the
NEST part, on political considerations, which can
not enter into determination of a case of law
or equity. l do not feel called upon to define
the jurisdiction Of Congress 1t is sufficient for
the decision of this case, to ascertain whether
the residuary of sovereignty of the State or peo.
pie has been invaded by the 9th section of the act
Of 9th March, 1920 have acted SO far as it &C n
Germs the capacity and status of persons in the
condition and circumstances Of the plaintiff and
his family. ~
Year: 1859

One of our Western villages passed an ordinance
forbidding tavern keepers to sell liquor on Sunday
to any person except travellers. Every man who
wanted snip was seen running around the
next Sunday with a valise in one hand and o
carpet.bag in tho other
Year: 1859

Mr.. AND Mas. SIoKLEs.-Mrs. H. O. C. Hewett,
Southern lady, formerly of Mississippi, is out
with an elaborate defence of the reconciliation of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sickles. We give specimen, as
We find it in the Merchants Record:


And Mrs. Sokles, she may be a blessing to
many Rahab, the worst of women mentioned


in sacred history, was saved, with all her family,
when the city of Jericho was taken, and no other
souls were saved-her father and good deeds
saved her. There is more rejoicing in heaven
over one sinner that repenteth than in the ninety
and nine that went not astray. Mrs Sickes,
though sold like poor little Joseph, has it in her
power to be a deiverer from evil, through grace,
and minister of good to acuing hearts and erring
sisters


We should rejoice that one man at least, has
dared to do right--to return to his wife; and an
erring wife has preferred to take her own hus-
band in preference to those who would gladly
have had her separation from him, in order that
that might try to get her The vomiting up of
their chagrin at the just disappointment would be
amusing, if it was not in such n serious cause.
Cannot some one recommend panacea for their
dist.ess
Year: 1859




The CREEKS AND CHERoKEEs IN OPEN Hos
TILITY AGAINST EACH oTHER-The last Over
land Mail brought copies of the Fort Smith
Times of the 2lst, from which we extract the
following:


A friend writing from Micco, informs us
that great excitement prevails at this time in
the Greek nation, in consequence of some
threats being made by the Cherokees, to have
revenge of the Creeks for some one or two of
their (the Cherokees) people having been
murdered lately by some of the Greeks, and
no satisfaction having been offered in the way
of bringing the offending parties to justice ;
and in consequence, as the Cherokees say, of
no effort having been made to arrest and
bring to trial the parties supposed to be gull
ty


AT the time of writing. our informant says
that some four hundred of the Greeks are
armed, equipped and painted, ready for bat
tie, near the house of Opothleholo, near Deep
Fork, in their own territory, awaiting the
movements of the Cherokees.


We trust that ere this notice will have ap
peared in print, this difficulty will be fully
settled, and the good feeling heretofore exist
ing between the Creeks and Cherokees again
restored. 1t would be matter of no small
Importance, were these two Nations to get
their horns lockee at this time, for each con
tans vast number of fighting men, and the
greatest evil would result to themselves. We
hope that in our next we will be able to an
nounce to the world that peace again reigns
triumphant over the land of our red brethren
west of u.s. and we do think that they would,
every one of them, hope with us-for if we
guess right they, or most of them have al
ready felt the direful consequences of war
and lighting
Year: 1859

REDPATH's ANTECBDENrs.-This person,
who is a noted aboliiionist, was in 1856 a re.
porter for the Savannah (Ga) News, which
paper says of him:


1--WE employed him for time, but found
it difficult to restrain his rampant zeal in the
cause Of the South. Some of his articles on
the slavery question were 50 bitterly denun-
ciatory and SO personally abusive of Greeley
and other prominent abolitipnists, that we
rejected them as out of place in the columns
of Southern paper, suggesting TO him that
if he really wished to enlighten the people of
the North upon subject on which our peo
pie were fully informed and needed no in
struction, he should send his articles to some
Northern journal He did so, and several
able arguments from his pen in defense of
slavery and the South, in which he lost no
opportunity to pitch into the abclitionists,
appeared in the New York papers"
Year: 1859

A CowHIDNG AFFAIR-The San joaquin
Republican gives the following account of a
cowhding affair, which came off near Stock
ton on the Sonora road:


man was accused by one of neighbors of
improper conduct with the wife of another
man, near the scene Of the late camp meeting.
The accused man, August 23d, met his accus-
er, who was driving along in a wagon with
his family. The injured man drew revol-
YER and ordered the other party to aligIlt.-
He did so, and a severe chastisement was adj
ministered to him in the presence of his fami-
ly. The party who was whipped denied
making the offensive remarks alleged.
Year: 1859

THE last story of the bravery of the French
Emperor is that at the battle of Solferno. A
proiectile fell so near as to cause the imperial
charger to stand on his hind legs, causing a
Jealous Cent Garde to rush forward and pro-
test at such exposure of the sacred person.
while Napoleon, with the proverbial calm
common to all heroes on such occasions, SAYS,
Let us silence their cannon, my worthy
friend, and there will be danger to none Of
us"
Year: 1859

A HAPPY TREAsURER-It is stated that the
Lecompton ex.Treasurer of Alameda county,
Breyfogle, who is ROW in Jail at Oakland,
passes his time In alternate singing and dan
cling, evidently relieved of considerable pres
sure on his mind from the late impending dis
closure
Year: 1859

IT is we'll remarked of the late Dr. Cana
liel Bailey that he acquired his great iuhu
ence as an editor and his profit as publish
er by always steadily pursuing his course,
regardless Of the plans of politicians. He
kept himself well free of the influence of even
those public men who were with him on
political questions. lie had no patronage
but that of a legitimate business. and gave
his opinions without reserve in the name of
expediency and without regard for the creeds
ties to which we may ascribe his SUCCESS
His force Of character; his resolution in fol-
lowing the path he marked out for himself,
stand foremost and highest
Year: 1859

THE Discovery OF BALLOONS The way
the balloon was discovered was this: During
the reign of Farthingales, in the second dy-
nasty of Hoops a Partisan washerwoman
left one of these enormous garments on
clothes line in the yard to dry, but left be-
meath it her charcoal pan for the smoothing
iron. The garment, fastened close at the
waist, as it sweled with the volume of hot
air, disengaged itself and rose upwards, as il,
with touch of feminine loveliness in it, it
aspired heavenwards Young Montgotter
saw it rise, and with it an idea arose in his
mindjust as when the apple fell, Newton was
struck with his theory of gravitation, and
the consequence was the invention of the
balloon. Let no man, Viewing this fact, ever
point his finger at crinoline except to exalt
it.-AHaatic paper.
Year: 1859

Chapter L-Once upon time there was bad
fight between cock and lion, and the cock
few into the lions face and pecked his eyes so
that he could hardly see, and scratched his nose
so that it bled badly, while the cock was so
spry that the lion could not catch him nor do
him much harm. But the other beasts were
afraid that if the cock should beat the lion, he
might next fight them, and go some of them
helped him and at last they beat the cock and
broke his spurs, and pulled out his fine tail
feathers, and bit off his comb, until he was a
sad bird to see


Chapter H.-Some time afterwards the cocks
spurs and tail feathers grew out again, and his
comb grew up as fine as ever, SO that if any of
the beasts growled at him he few at them and
taught them to let him alone. One day one of
the beasts that had helped the lion to beat him
got saucy, and the cock gave him a good drub-
bing and drove him back into his den, and took
his dinner from him and ate it himself; but the
lion never once came near to help the beast that
had helped him. Then the cock turned around
to go back to his roost, and as he had stretched
himself up and held up his head to crow, he saw
the lion, whose lair was just beyond the cocks
roost, and the lion was shaking and trembling,
and everybody saw that he was in mortal terror
for fear that the cock was just then coming to
fight him again, when the other beasts might not
care to come and help him as they did before
But the cock, after laughing from ear to ear,
took pity on him and did not crow, but went
quietly home about his business.


Now, all you little boys, don't you think that
Waterloo rs aUenged?-Boston Post.
Year: 1859

Nearly all Of our great men, in their old age,
have borne testimony to the fact that the pleas
ure attending success in political life is, after
all, but most hollow happiness. Like the
experience of Solomon their experience utters
the sentiment: "All is vanity and vexation Of
spirit" And the most of them have said to the
young men Of the country: Keep aloof from the
anxieties of public station-avoid, as far as pat
riotsm will permit, the responsibilities and vex-
atoms and esce-destroying anxietes of public
life.


But few men, however, are willing to heed
these words of WISDOM" uttered by the lips
of age and experience, until they too have had
the sad lesson engrayen, by the iron pencil of q
sorrowful experience, upon the tablets of their
hearts. And then generally it is too late-they
are in the whirlpool of political strife, and to
continue to go round and round and round they
find at once the source of all their miseries and
of all their joys. Having acquired the step OF
the treadmll, and q love for the foul air that
surrounds their prison house, they find it i'm
possible when set at liberty to walk erect and
straight forward upon the green earth, or to
breathe the pure air that comes to them from
the green fields and verdant forests ladened
with the perfumes of flowers and vines and
blossoming trees. They are miserable, and,
like the dog which returneth to its vomet,"
can only find comparative contentment by re-
turning to the source of their miseries.


These are solemn truths, well worthy the Sc
rious attention of our young men, one-half of
whom entertain some sort of political aspira-
tions. Let them go to Webster, to Clay, to Cal
houn, to Benton, to Cass, to Buchanan, and
coming home to our own State, to Gwin and
Weller and Broderick, and ask of them what
their experience teaches on this subject. With
out exception they have borne testimony to the
fact that there is no joy in the possession of
place and power that at all compensates for the
accompanying harrassings and anxieties. And
now we have the evidence of another, whose
name is familiar to the civilized world, bearing
on this point-John G. Fremont. In a recent
letter, declining to be considered candidate
for the Republican nomination for the Presi-
dency in 1860, he says:


l consented to hold that relation in 1856 a.
gainst my better judgment and will, but was
assured that those who would rally around me
possessed the power essential to my election
and | confess the " bauble" as it might have
been called by Oliver Cromwell, possessed at
fractions which I could not we'll resist But I
would not again encounter all the vexation,
modification and annoyance then encountered,
if the reward were to be ten thousand Presi-
dents.
Year: 1859

SHALL Be ONE OF THEM.-How divinely full
ofglory and pleasure shall that hour be, when all
the millions Of mankind that have been redeem
ed by the blood of the Lamb of God shall meet
together and stand around him, with every ton
que and every heart full of joy and praise How
astonishing will be the glory and the joy of that
day, when all the saints shall join together in
one common song of gratitude and love, and of
everlasting thankfulness TO their Redeemer
With what unknown delight and inexpressible
satisfaction shall all that are saved from the
ruins of sin and hell address the Lamb that was
slain, and rejoice in his presence.-Dr Ratts
Year: 1859

RtS~ Nearly every pleasant evening, says the
States, Gen. Cass can be seen sitting in the door
of his mansion. When we gaze upon the Illus
trious statesman, our mind travels back to the
time he crossed the Allegheny Mountains on his
way to the wilderness of the Far West Then
he was an unknown adventurer. Now his rep
utation is co-extensiye with civilized society,"
His best eulogy is his country's history.


Gen. Cass is in his seventy-seventh year, but
the amount of labor he daily performs is truly
astonishing. We need not say that he manages
our foreign relations with consummate ability.
May he live thousand years.
Year: 1859

RS~ A beautiful truth is contained in these
lines:


There's not hearth however rude,
But hath some little flower
To brighten up its solitude,


And scent the evening hour
There's not heart, however cast
By grief and sorrow down,
But hath some memory of the past,
To love, and call its own
Year: 1859

suInYu ELECTRICITY used for the extrac-
ton Of teeth and for the relief VI neuralgc pains.
Teeth filled with chemically pure gold, or with quartz


filling the color Of the tooth, which is perfectly harm
less and very substantial I am also inserting q
Self-exhausting skeleton Atmospheric
Plate, which, for actual use and comfort to tho
patient must give entire satisfaction. It occupies but


very small portion of the mouth, nd does not rock
affect the speech, as is the with the old style
Of plates, and is cleanly and natural.


Office ON ID steeet, bctvveeM Third, and
Fourth, Marysvllls. ie2myis
Year: 1859

his tent. The night ended in scene Of
Joy and revelry which twiued their hearts
together forever. The memory Of Lieut.,
r., who shortly afterwards fell at Montcr-
ey, and his noble character, arc cherished
in thousand hearts. OF this gallant
American officer il was said that no man
was his superior, Lis word was law among
bis friends, and which no man dared to
question.
Year: 1859

THOSE, who hold that people should
a a,comodate themselves to the policy Of
their rulers, might as well teach that a
man should be cut and clipped by his tai
Ter to cut and fit his garments.
Year: 1859

BOGUS CoIN IN ALBANY.-Our city is flood
ed with bogus three cent pieces. They rea-
dily pass current with those who dom take
the trouble to examine them closely. The
bogus ones that we have seen have no milled
edge-the stars surrounding the letter c are
very indistinctly cut-the bunch ofrods tied
together in the lower bow and the leaves in
the upper bow of the { are wanting in the
bogus coin. On the reverse side of the coin
the star is very badly executed-the points
being almost rounded, instead Of being dis
tinctly and finely cut, as in the genuine.


A lady friend of ours to whom we showed
the two coins, turned out the contents of her
port -monnaie, and out of eleven three cent
pieces, ten were bogus.-ABany Journal.
Year: 1859




a SPECIAL PRoyipENcE.-IheW Washington
Union considers the deaths of postmaster re-
neral Brown and his third assistant Marion
ns Judgments, inflicted to show the disploas-
uri Of heaven because Congress did not pass
the post Office appropriations. This seems
hardly Just IN the powers above, but here is
tI'e Unions opinion


The outrage upon the constitution which
the expired Congress has inflicted in refusing
to provide for one arm of the federal service
tho coincidence of this first act of rcvoluti-
nn with the thrcc-score-a d-tenth anniversary
OF the establishment of the government-thc
signal manner in which the same Providence,
whose sustaining hand has from the first been
SO manifest in the history OF our country, has
marked this event by the sudden DENIS, of the
two chief officers of the department suffering
the revolutionary blow from Congress; these
notable circumstances and condolences have
male a deep impression upon the mind the
Christian people of our country


We do not hear of any Christians who are
troubled about this matter, but if there are
any it may help their difficulty to know that
Marron's heart disease and Browns phcumo-
MIA wero of long standing, and so could not
havo originated in the defeat of tho postal
bill. Besides. Toomhs wa. the guilty man
and the vengeance should have lit on him
any body.
Year: 1859

The greatest feats at sharing used to be
performed BY one Of the Buffalo brokers'
lie used to rake down the whole bill, and
make one hundred per cent. clear profit on
the transaction. The way he did it was
this:


He kept an exchange Office near the canal
basin, and had a lot of counterfeits stuck up
on the wall behind the counter, with Coun-
terfelt Bills in great black letters over them
while on the counter stood box OF wa
fers.


A Canaller would rush into the office and
ask for change for a bill. Old specie would
take the bill very blandly, put on his spec
tacles apd give look at it. The moment
he did so, his whole countenance would
change. With an indignant look he would
petrlfy his astonished customer and grin in
silence, still keeping his eye on the sanaller,
he would feel for the wafer box-stick a
couple of waters on the back of the bill
turn around and fasten it among the coun.
terfeits with an indignant jam-then, turn
ing; he would open his mouth and assail
the wretched cul prit in the manner follow
ing, to-wit: "You miserable scoundrel
what do you m can by Offering me bad bill
If there's an officer in sight lll have you ar
rested !" with which address he would max,
as if he would sally >fsom behind the coan
ter, wherenpon the canaller would inconti
nently fee for his life-and the old gentle
man would sweep the bill into his none.
drawer, and crest from his labors."