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Year: 1859




al speak for no party, because the only
party | ever belonged TO has ceased to exist
as an organized and militant body, and
speak for no man but myself


As TO the negro question: have always
thought, and often declared in speech and in
print that II is pestilent question, the agit-
atior Of which has never done good TO any
party, section or class, and never can do good
unless it is accounted good to stir up the an
cry passions Of men and eSasperate the un-
reasoning, jealousy Of sections, and by those
bad means ioist some unfit men into office
and keep some fit men out. II is sensitive
question, into whose dangerous vortex il is
quite possible for good men To be drawn
sometimes. But when / see a man, Mt the
South or the North, of mature age and some
experience persist in urging the question,
after the sorrowful experience Of the last few
years, can attribute his conduct TO no high
cr motive than personal ambition or sectional
prejudice.


In my own opinion government that has
no power TO protect the harborS OF its coun-
try against winds and waves and human enc
mics, nor its rivers against snags, sands and
rocks, nor to build roads for the transpurta-
ton Of its armies and its mails and the com
merce of its people, is a poor, impotent gos-
ernment and not at all such government as
our fathers thought they had made when
they produced the constitution which was
greeted by intelligent men everywhere with
admiration and gratitude as government
free enough for all the ends of legal liberty
and strong enough for all the purposes Of
national and individual protection A free
people, if it be wise, will make good consti
tutioni but constitution, however good in
itself, did never make free people. The
people do not derive their rights from the
government, but the government derives its
power from the people, and those powers are
granted for the main, if not the only purpose
of protecting the rights of the people. Pro-
lection, then, il not the sole, is the chief end
Of government.


And it is for the governing power to judge
in every instance what kind, and what de-
gree Of protection is needful-whether ma
Wy TO guard our commerce all around the
world, or an army to defend the country
against armed invasion from without or do
mestio insurreUtiUu from within. OF a tariff to
prnfset our hama industry against the dan
Year: 1859

THE PERILs OF GALLANTRy.-The Wash
ington correspondent of the St. Louis Re
publican tells good story of "almost anoth-
er Sickles affair" at the national capital. A
lady who had been escorted home the previ-
Gus evening by married gentleman of her
acquaintance, took it into her head that she
had been insulted by him, and so informed
her husband The latter, without waiting u
learn the particulars, seized his pistols All


ran to take vengeance, after the manner Of


the New York congressman. But the des-
troyer Of his domestic peace insisted upon
knowing exactly what he had done before
consenting to be shot, and the two went back
to the offended lady for explanations, when
it turned out that she had nothing to say
only that in helping her over mud puddle,
she thought the gentleman had squeezed her
hand rather hard The offended husband
threw away his pistol and asked his friends
pardon, and the latter made up his mind that
it is not safe business to gallant other mems
wives so long as the Sickles mania prevails
Year: 1859

Total al..,,.........l l36 1U4 ~


The nomination of Mr.. Latham was then
made unanimous. A Committee was ap-
pointed to wait upon Mr.. Latham and in
form him of his nomination. He appeared
before the Convention and said:


Mr.. President and gentlemen OF the Con-
vention: l cannot find words to express to
YOU the pride and pleasure l feel on this oc-
casion. This, may truly say, is one OF
the happiest moments of my life; and l can
not give adequate expression to the grateful
emotions that fill my breast at this proof of
your confidence and esteem. We have had
hard, severe, long and an animated
struggle for priority in this political contest;
and it would be vain affectation in me to deny
that the result is to me source OF exulta-
ton. which the consciousness of my own
inetficiency for the high office to which you
have nominated me cannot wholly suppress.
To that gallant and true-hearted body OF
men who have stood by me like granite in
this contest, l return my deep, sincere and
heartfelt thanks. TO the Convention at large,
| can only say that pending the contest or
at its termination, will ever prove untrue
or unworthy of the responsibilities imposed
upon me- Cheers. Gentlemen, | might
content myself with these remarks for the
present-and the more so as intend to adj
dress the people throughout the State from
the 1st July till the 7th of September next,
on the various questions of the day. l will
only. therefore, state as the platform on
which | stand that am in favor of popular
sovereignty as laid down in the compromise
measures of 1854. Cheers. l stand by
the CINCINNATI Platform. stand by the
Administration of James Buchanan. Great
cheering And above all these stand by
the unity and integrity Of the Democratic
party as | value the peace, the happiness and
the prosperity of our common country.
Continued cheers


Let me express wish that you may feel
as do, and that with the close Of this con-
test there may a,so be an end Of any bitter
ness or asperily which naturally accompa-
MES su struggles. Let It's remain true to
platform, true to our party, and we shall roll
up such majority as this State has never
seen upon any former political contest
Cheers. Once more permit me to return
you my heartfelt thanks for the honor you
have conferred upon me, as have no desire
to interrupt you any longer in your business
[Great applause.


As Mr. Latham retired from the platform,
he was greeted with three tremendous cheers.


The next business in order being the nom
ination Of Lieut.. Governor, Dr. Downy,
of Los Angeles, and Mr.. johnson, of Sierra
were placed in nomination. Mr.. Johnson
declined to ran. DR.. Downey WAS then
nominated by acclamation.


A motion to appoint a member from each
judicial District as a Comm.tte on Plat
form and Resolution, prevailed. Convention
adjourned uutil Friday morning at 10
o'clock.


The nominations made on Friday, will be
found in another column.
Year: 1859

The western part Of this county is now
undergoing the same infiction the northern
counties have been suffering from for the
past few weeks. Grasshoppers have made
their appearance in myriads, aud are making
sad destruction in gardens and orchards.
Many Of the finest trees have been entirely
diyested of bark as well as foliage, and or
chardists have cause to regret the less OF
some of their best trees. The grasshoppers
NAV be found on fences, houses and barns,
in countless numbers and in low or wet
ground where vegetation has not been parch-
ed by the sun, the ground is said TO be actu
allv covered with them. The amount OF
damage already done to our farmers has
been very great. The operations OF the hit
tie pests seem not to have extended out OF
the plains but have been confined to the
country below the timber on the foot hills
None have made their appearance IN this
vicinity; and the prospect is favorable that
our gardens and orchards may escape the
visitation
Year: 1859

The ladies of California, have entered
with so much spirit in the design of secur-
ing Mt. Vernon to the nation, to be by it
protected and cared for, that we would not
be surprised if the Golden State yet made up
the whole purchase money. The Lady
Managers, in pursuance Of their labors,
must at times meet with some amusing ad-
ventures, but probably none more humor-
Gus than occurred recently to two ladies, who
do not reside outside Of Placer county, who
have been very successful canvassers.


Visiting a party of Greek miners, who
understood the English language imperfectly,
they explained the object of their visit as
we'll as they could to be to collect money to
purchase the house and home of Washing
ton. This was evidently all Greek to the
Greeks, as will be seen from the construc-
ton they put upon the language Washing
ton they construed into washing done;;" and
supposed the ladies wished to 60 into the
laundry business; and "buying the house"
was an appeal, on the part of two industrious
but poor women, to the generosity, of the
miners, to enable them to purchase house
in which to carry on the business. A Cali
fornia miner never turns the poor and needy
away without relief, and accordingly our
Greeks in true spirit Of benevoence, do
mated literally to to the poor wash-women
to start them in business.


As an American, we feel it to be our duty
to draw the veil over the immense indiona-
ton expressed by the Greeks when they af-
forwards aseertained they had been giving
money to buy the house and ranch of a
military feller" who has been dead more
than half a century. 1t is said they "cussed'


We have told this story at the risk of be-
ing shot 10 death with broomsticks. We
shall meet our fate like martyr
Year: 1859

daring on the overwhelming number that pressed
their retiring footsteps


Last of all, but single battalion, the derbis of
the column of granite at Marengo, was left. Into
this Napoleon flung himself Cambronne, it's
brave commander, saw with terror the Emperor
in his trial keeping. He was not struggling. for
victory; he was intent only on showing how the
Guard should die Approaching the Emperor, he
cried out: 'Retire-do you not see that death has
no need of you !? and closing mournfully yet stern
ly around their expiring eagles, those hearts bid
Napoleon an eternal adieu, and finging themselves
upon the enemy were soon piled with the enemy at
their feet. Thus greater in its own defeat than
any other corps of men in gaining a victory, the
Old Guard passed off the stage, and the curtain
dropped upon its strange career"
Year: 1859

DUTIES OF AN EDIToR.-The Philadelphia
Inquirer gives utterance to a vast amount of truth
in the following a . ''i-&


The responsibilities of those connected with the
press are second to no others known to society.
They are not crumscribed by any narrow limits.
They as broad and as full as the world and as
numerous as facts themselves. The tyro in ltera-
ture may fancy that he, can comprehend them
intuitvely, but he will discover his mistake, when
he is obliged from day to day to bend all the pow
of his mind to the sefsacri6cing task of weigh
ing and Judging rumors and facts, of applying the
precepts of moral and political philosophy conscien
tiously to new propositions and suggestions, and
Of surveying the whole field of daily history with
the patience and impartiaity of Judge sustained
by no other forces than those of truth and Justice


1t requires lifetime of observation to become o
tolerable journalist, and there are few minds swift
enough in action, or liberal enough in constitution
or spirit, even to read the public journals with
judgment to make selections for reproduction, to
say nothing of enunciatng opinions which may
have serious results upon the happiness of indi-
yiduals or society Is t..r...,.e- 4. ,s.rl.


The duties of an editor, as we view them, arc
as numerous they important. At times
they try every energy of mind ana body, absorb
ing the entire powers ef the former necessarily
during the day and night, and taxing the latter
to such an extent that the most careful study is
requisite to preserve health even in a vigorous
constitution Yet arduous as the labors which
thus make their exactions upon the intellectual
and physical system, is it not strange that men
who have never prepared themselves for the tasks
and responsibilities of journalism, should fatter
themselves that they are such pastimes as may
be INDUCED in upon a caprice, or through the
instigations of necessity for daily bread? rs ..S


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DI At dinner in Massachusetts, lady sent
Year: 1859

SHARP TRicK.-Out in Indiana, farmer who
had horse of very homely color, recently sold
him to gang of gipsies for mere song. A few
days after. he was offered fine dark brown steed,
for which he willingly paid round price, but was
shocked to find, after short time, that he had
bought back his ola sorrel, with the addition of a
thick coat of paint.


The Mississippi Legislature has passed law
granting divorce to all parties who have lived
separate for three years. A tide of emigration
may be expected to set towards Mississippi. In
diana is about going out of the business.
Year: 1859




YOUTH AND BEAUTY.
Fair Beauty called on Youth one day,
With pleasant smile and tone,
And said in her own winning way,
Come worship at my throne.
I'll give thee a rich gem to wear,
All other gems above,
The diamond in the mine is rare,
But rarer still is love-
To every charming thing below,
will thy ear attune,
That it may hear the music flow
From flowers hearts in June -
That it may list in shady crypt.
Where streamlets leap along,
BY lily and by crocus sipt,
The fairies vesper song
Or while upon the dripping leaf
The zephyr's footsteps fleet
Be quick to catch the secret grief
Which makes her strains so sweet
I'll take the mist from off thine eve,
That it may read afar,
Within the pages Of the sky,
The romance of the star.
Or mid the clouds of golden hue,
That veil the suns last light,
The peaceful hosts of angels view,
Who usher in the night.
Youth yielding then to Beauty's whim,
Knelt meekly at her throne
And earth and sky had charms for him
To age for aye unknown. n. X. E.
Year: 1859

AroruING lNcIDENr.-rhe New Orleans
Advocate givces the following incidet related
to the editor by Il Methodist clergyman,
which occurred during the ravages Of the
yellow lever in that city. II wenistake not
the young man belonged t, this city. The
preacher was called u attend the funeral Of
young man Of whom he says Before
his sickness he was stout, buoyant manly
youth He was IRON the State of Maine ,and
had been here hut short time. lie was
attacked by yellow fever, and soon died with
no mother or relative to watch by his bed.
side, or to southe him with that sympathy
which none but those oi our own dear kin
dred blood, can feel or manifest He died
among stranger and was buried by them, -
W hen the funeral service Was over, and the
strange friends who had ministered to him
We're about to finally close the coffin, an old
lady, who stood by, stopped them and s,il,
Let me kiss him for his mother = We have
yet to find the first man or woman to whose
eve this simple recital has not brought tears.
Year: 1859

AN EPISODE IN THE "PATRIoT WAR
/ We came more than once very neal
fighting. said the Canadian Co.ohtl, 4s
we watched the first "regal..x.stfain,
crossing the Niagara Suspension bridge,


About the Caroline affair, do you
mean :


No, That was not the most critical
time, though Sir Francis Head the most
wrong-headed fellow in her Majesty S
service, did his best to put things into a
muddle.'


Was it when we caught the poor fool
NJ Leod, ard came so near hanging him =


No. 1t was before that. Both gov
ernments had time tp get cool, and saw
that j: was folly to go to war about
him.


Still if he had been found guilty of
the murd, OF Duffy, we must have huns
him and as your government had as
sumedd The responsibilities of the affair,
how could you avoid making it case OF
war"


a little diplomacy settled all that
We agreed to find witnesses who could
swear to an abb, and YOU agreed to be-
lieve them. Upon my honor, l think
you undertook the more difficult task


How and when was it that we came
so near coming to blows and what pre-.
vented the catastrophe p


1t was prevented by a bottle of bad
brandy. The affair is portion Of the
unwritten history of the times, and is
worth the telling.


How was it Colonel y


1t was not long after the burning OF
the Caroline, and there was excitement
enough on both sides of the line. We
had couple thousand of men, and the
Patriots were encamped on Navy Island
We had no very definite information as
to their numbers. Some said there were
Ave hundred; others gnessel them three
times as many. But few or many, they
had plenty Of artillery and small arms, ,as
once came near finding ut to my cost
when approached the Island in com.
mand of rcconnoltering force. They
peppered away at US, and it is wonder
that we were not blown out of the water.
We had fitted out an armed aotlla, CON
sisting of two schooners and a couple OF
scows. for the purpose of covering land
ing upon the Island But as we could
not at the time command sufficient
number of boats, our squadron lay mac
tive in the river few miles above
Your government had in the m antime
sent General Scott to the frontier to Try
and keep the peace. A noble fellow is
the General He has saved you and us
more than one war Don't you think
your government is acting shabbily
about few dollars, more or less :


1T looks like it Colonel. But depend
upon it, all will be right at last. The
country knows too we'll what il owes to
Year: 1859

The shore end of the Atlantic cable has
been laid at Velentia, and when lhe small Ca
BILE was underrun, the men discovered kink
leaving the conducting wire exposed to the
writer, and therefore injuring to some extetit
the conducting power OF the wire.
Year: 1859

HE Boy PREAcHER.-At the solicitation of
q young female acquaintance, whose winning
graces must always prevail over my weak
nature, l went, on Sabbath evening last, to
hear the prodigy of the western pulpit, Rev.
}. b. Fuller. This is the "boy preacher" who
has lately created so great sensation in this
State, and Of whom you have doubtless read
and heard much. He is said to be but six
teen years of age, yet his physical and men
tai powers are developed to a degree truly
wonderful He has been aptly termed "the
Spurgeon of the West" His style of oratorv
is strikingly original and Overwhelmingly
captivating His frame would, at first glance
seem to be delicate but one soon discovers
that he is full of wirey texture, and has abun-
dance of vigor and strength The features of
this boy are somewhat feminine, until you
ascend to the forehead, which is high, broad
and massive. Large liquid black eyes, de-
noting great earnestness and self reliance, is
not the least notable ornament of his physi-
| cal person. He has a most delicious voice.
being clear, full, distinct and surprisingly
musical. As n portion of the service on the
occasion on which had the pleasure of hear
ing Mr.. Fuller, he read the last and we'll
known chapter of Revelations concerning the
Water and the Tree of Life. Never shall
forget the effect which his rendering of those
startling passages had upon the audience. |
have myself read the chapter time and again,
though confess | never knew its real beau
ties, or its immense force, until they were
presented by the boy Preacher" Ills open
ing prayer was exceedingly impressive and
touching. lie pours his whole heart and soul
into his appeals to Heaven, and hangs upon
the judgment seat of mercy with zeal, an
earnestness and q devotion which can hardly
fail to secure a favorable response to his sup
plications. His text was from Deut XXI, 9.
Unlike most pulpit orators, Mr. Fuller starts
out fresh, fervent and powerful. The picture
he drew of Heaven, at the commencement of
his discourse, was the most charming thing
ever heard lie speaks very rapidly, 50 much
so. indeed, that the hearer at once becomes
fixed in his attention, careful al the while
lest, in the speakers hurry, Il word may be
lost. This is evidently the secret of the boys
great success. He takes you completely cap.
tive before you are aware oft, and hurries
you forward at perfect railroad speed, over
and through all the beauties that the heart
could wish, or the mind conceive You are
delighted, enchained electrified. Such is the
boy Preacher" He is of course an out and.
out Protestant, though do not believe he is
assyet welded to any particular church of
that body. He has excited much interest and
curiosity. and as may be imagined has many
pulpits rendered him. He is, believe, n ma
tive of Missouri, where he first Frustrated
himself at the sacred alter and enlisted as a
soldier of the cross. He is said to be but six
teen, though his appearance would indicate
eighteen or nineteen.-St L0nis cor s. r.
Telegram.
Year: 1859

TUE Secretary of IKE Navy has issued the
following general order, namely:


No order will be given to the medical
officers of the Navy to render professional
aid to any person who is not attached to the
Naval service, or on board n man of war;
The Department will confde in their human
ity, to respond to any appeal for their assist
ance, whenever the requisite aid connot be
obtained elsewhere. An exception may be
made in favor of vessels in distress when, il
necessary to secure the requisite medical aid,
the authority of the commander may be in
terposed.
Year: 1859

The LATE DUEL-Ihe Shasta Courier (Ad-
ministration) says, with mnch propriety:


We regret that Judge Terry, when, after
the accidental discharge of Mr.. Broderick 5
pistol, he had his life in his hands, did not
show himself a magnanimous man by firing
into the air. We think he ought to have
done so. We think there was no good rea-
son why the duel should have been fought
We think the cause of difficulty. considering
the circumstances, was not of a character
that could not be settled without resort to
arms even under the most stringent inter
pretation of the rules of the duello.
Year: 1859

BIG SrRIKE-Dunlap, of Junction Bar, on
the middle fork of the American river, took
out of his claim last week, says the Placer
Courier of September 22d, the handsome sum
Of $4,000 Mr. Dunlap is the sole owner of
the claim, and will probably realize from it
in the course of the season fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars clear of all expenses of
working it.
Year: 1859

tue lion made a fish-hook of the bayonet bv
the same blow that he sent the man senseless
into the bushes that bordered the wayside. 1t
was done with the same ease that man would
push stone out of his path. Then, seeing the
way clear, and the water running bright before
him, he started off for the woods Of El-Bhar,
by the ford where l had posted the Arabs.


AS long as he remained on the opposite bank,
my brave men stood firmly at their post shoul-
der to shoulder, with their long barrels gleam-
ing at the foe they were resolved TO conquer or
to die. But the moment the lion dashed into
the water, with his name on end, murmuring
low thunder, they vacated the ground with a
most admirable unanimity. The lion then
crossed over on the very path on which they
had been standing. and disappeared in the
woods.


The ford that was watching was so far UP
the stream, that could not reach the place un-
til too late to do any good, although | learned
from the Arabs that the lion walked on three
legs, and staggered very badly as he went into
the woods. | signaled to the Arabs to advance
and was about following up the trail, when
messenger came to me to say that the litter, TO
carry Rostain to Guelma, had arrived, and that,
suffering very much, he wanted me to 90 with
him. | fastened to his side, and accompanied
the slow-moying cortege that bore him and the
two wounded Arabs, until it arrived safely at
Guelma.


The next day I came back to Meiez-Amar
and the wounded lion, and for ten consecutive
days we beat up and down the woods where the
royal beast had lain down to die without find
ing him or any signs Of his body At last
saw the vultures sailing aloft in the dim air,
slowly circling over the woods. Gradually,
they narrowed the orbit of their fight, and sank
down lower and lower, to a particular part Of
the jungle. They told the tidings clearer than
words. the wounded lion was dead The hun
ter's mission was now accomplished; left TO
the Arabs the task of finding the body and re-
turned home.


The two Arabs who were hurt recovered from
their wounds, thanks to their thick burnous,
and the weakly condition of the lion but Ros-
tain only came out after eight months siege in
OF AmamS Scontin; and when he appeared again
among his fellows, he wore wooden leg, that
he sometimes pointed at to prove how he had
bearded the lion of Mcjez-Amar.