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Year: 1860

THE REPUBLICAN GAIN in Vanderburgh
county, since 1856, is one of the wonders of
modern politics. Fremont received 372votes
in the county Now in seven townships
Lincoln received 1878, and Union when
heard from will probably give him enough
votes to make the gain amount to 800 |!
What county in Indiana can beat this p
What county in any State has made a
greater gain in fodr years. We throw
down the glove, and challenge any other
county of equal population to take it up
Year: 1860

B9~ We observe that the New York
Storeis crowded from morning to night and
no wonder. Their good are not only cheap
but of the most Fashionable styles and the
very best quality.


We have never seen their stock of Dress
goods, Shawls, and especially CIoaks and
Fancy Silks surpassed any where. We no.
tice there beautiful piece of Fancy plaid
silk at 30 cents per yard.
Year: 1860

When the sun glides on like golden swan,
With his crimson wings all furld,
Till he sink in sea Of transI arency,


The lake of the upper world [time,
Then the spheres ring chime to the march of
AS the dying day EXPIRES; watchtowers
And earth's guardian powers in their high
Light heavens ethereal fires! 8.
And I come from my rest in the burning West,
The queen Of the heavenly choirs!
My light is fair mid the dreamy air,


The delicious air of even, found,
While the sphere clouds around, in sleep pro-
Are glass'd in the blue of heaven!
Then the moon from afar, like a silver bar,
Spans the breast of the waveless sea!
And the forests deep lie hush'd in sleep
AS still as eternity!
But every eye in the earth and sky


Is gazing alone on me!
0 the West is blest when my diamond crest
Is set in Its sapphire shade,
While there spy from the folded sky


The tints Of daylight fade! [steep,
Thus might angels keep from heavens golden
Their watch over all below; Through,
Through the endless blue where orbs shine
Which mortals ne'er can know!
And lovers say that the orb Of day


Hath not half so soft grace
AS /, when I shine, with light divine,


From my holy dwelling place!
The blackbird sings, with folded wings,


Beneath the greenwood tree,
But It's inspire with the burning fro,


For his eye is fixed on me!
The stream receives through its margin leaves
Mine image sweetly there,
Till the small Birds their folds of green,
Gaze in wonder at thing so fair!
But look most in love from my throne above,
On the child at evening prayer!
But when night draws near through the atmos-


pherc,


AS no other spirit may,
The glory's too bright for my raptured sight,
And faiat and faint away!
And sink down through the dissolving blue,
Upon oceans liquid wave,
Till eve once more its sapphire floor,


With her gorgeous colors pave,
Then shine from afar-heayen s loveliest star,
Love triumphing DER the grave!


II dublin Unircys;jy Magazine.
Year: 1860

A correspondent Of the Oskaloosa (Iowa9
Herald, gives the following method Of keeping
the sweet potatoe through the winter 9ff


81 use dry sand and put them in it does
not matter how the sand is dried-in a kiln,
in a log heap, or in the sun, so that it is dry
that is all that is required. prefer drying in
u log heap, Us it costs four times less and b
Just as good. Any family that has iittle
room with stove in it, may keep box or
two Of eight or ten bushels without much iR-
convenience. The boxes must be raised six
or eight inches from the floor, and they must
not be nearer than four inches from the wall.
Fill the box with potatoes, and then put in
sand cover the potatoes with sand. There is
good deal said about kiln-dried sand,
but il is all fudge. have also known them
to be kept well in buckwheat chaff. In order
to keep potatoes with success, there must DC q
thermometer kept in the room. The mercury
must not sink below 509; if il does the potas
-tees-@ill chill ailslset5- il also must not rise
above 60o, or they will grow. 1 never lost
any OF my potatoes except by letting tAA1room
get TOO cold.' st-irE
Year: 1860

Not at auction, but gone on a voyage OF dis
covery-a voyage Of recreation and pleasure.
Yes, our boss, has gone-for few days basking
in the sunshine fpleasure-free from the cares
that life of energy and unmitigated activity
brings upon the mind, wearing away its vitali-
ty, stealing away its wonted gayety and
sprightlness, and bunting its perceptive
beauty and force of insight. The road to sue
cess through the chair editorial is beset with
many cares and anxieties and he who would
compete successfully for prominence in the posi-
ton of an editor must be content to share many
of the hardships incumbent necessarily on him
who would climb the mount of public opinion
and win the "Well done " of an intelligent
reading people. Though sarcasm, irony and
bitter invective are hurled on his defenceless
head-defenceless save by the kind interposi-
ton of friends in his behalf, aided by truth and
Justice, he must bear the brunt, the invidious
slang and dictatorial criticism of many who,
placed in his position, would fall perhaps far
below the editor in the good work of aiding and
instructing the public mind-of guarding the
interests of its readers-of building up the re-
sources of his country, and lifting the voice of
truth and mercy in the defence of innocence
and for the suppression of immortality.


The editorial chair is an exalted position.-
If the duties incumbent upon it are discharged
intelligence must needs wait as a handmaiden
on the beck of the editor-not that sckly smat-
tering of little which can make show of a
great deal, but the intricate labyrinth of the
public veal and all questions affecting it must
be familiar as household words. No half
handed knowledge will avail him who has to
draw conclusions of the future from the past
and advise of the public welfare.


To do this he must read, he must think, he
must reflect. Hemust apply every vestige Of
mental power increasingly; and this it is that
dwarfs the pleasure and canlers the joy of an
editors life. Hence pleasure and relaxation
come with added charms to the editor whose
weary head is aching and whose fevered brow
is thirsting for recJEperation and cessation from
toll


The Editor Of the Progress returns this eve
ming at which time we (the Reporter will most
cheerfully resigu the chair editorial, having i'm
bibed long ago, from observation and slight
experience, the idea that its duties were not the
sphere in which pleasure and the performance
of duty could be intern1ngled-the only avo-
cation perhaps in the wide world where thew
cannot.
Year: 1860

COMMERCIAL HoSoR-The Boston Carrier
saws:


AT the present time, when there seems
fear in some quarters as to reputation of debts
BY the Southern trade it is as well to look at
facts. If our merchants questioned, We
shall probably learn that during the last so
years there has been as little loss in the South
-crn business bybad debts as in any other sec
tion-probably less. They know that the pro-
portion of sound, substantial dealers is as great
at the South as in any quarter: that their STAN
dard of punctuaity is as high. Why,
then, should a temporary scarcity Of
money there, and some delay in remit
tance, if there is any, induce doubt of
men who have always met their engage
ments 5? There may be political disunion,
but commercial intercourse will continue, and
the hanor and credit of Southern merchant
will continue as dear to him as it is to any one
in New England. And while we would incul-
cate confidence towards those whom experience
has shown to be reliable in the past we
should hope that cur own standard Of faith to-
ward the South would be quite as high--tnat
bills against Southern produce BE punctualy
met, so that confidence may not be needessly
impaired, and every facility be furnished the
Southern merchants to meet all obligations


The Taunton {Mass.) Republican, Lincoln
paper, speaks out against the Massachusetts
and other Personal Liberty bills. We quote:


$50 long as the clause of the Constitution,
respecting those who owe labor or service in
one State, escaping into another remains in
that instrument and SO long as the Fugitive
Slave Law Is statute of the land, regard it
rs an unfortunate thing that any State should
seem to evince a disposition to render nugatory
n provision Of the Constitution, or to nullfy
an act of Congress. Whatever honor or dis
grace may attach to notification, we desire
may be possessed by South Carolina alone


The most plausible obiec-
zion which is brought against repeating per
senal Liberty laws is this, that their repeal
might appear 10 be the result of alarm caused
by the South to secede, and by the present at
tempts to execute these threats. But we ought
not to be deferred from undoing what ought
never to have been done, lest it should possibly
be supposed that our conduct springs from mo
tives by which we are not actuated"
Year: 1860

The Message, in our judgement, is an incen-
diary document, and will tend still further to
eXasperate the sectional differences of the day.
1t backs up the most evtravagant of the de-
mands which have been made by the South
endorses their menace of Disunion if those de-
mands are not concedcd-and promises the
seeding States that the power of the Federal
Government shaU not be uscd t0' their coer-
cion. The entire North will be doubly indig-
nant by this fragrant dereliction of duty on the
part Of the Executive of the nation, while the
Dsunionists of the South will be stimulated to
fresh exertions in the work of ruin upon which
they have embarked. The country has to
struggle through three months more ofthis dis
graceful imbecility and disloyalty to the Con
Sttuton.


The Presidents Message is attacked by the
Press on all sides for its want of independence,
and decision on the agitating questions of the
day In fact with the exception of the intim-
alton that it will be his duty to enforce the
collection of the revenue in a seeding State
he leaves the whole subject of providing fer
the exigencies of the time to Congress which
appears to be in no frame ofmind to meet them
calmly.-Nortok Herald.
Year: 1860

The TTtGNae OF TINS morning says:


There decided improy in the stock market
to day, and prices at the first board advanced from to


per cent throughout the list of active shares
some instances even per cent closing prices yes
terday. There not much excitement, but steady
demand, which carried up quotations with scarcely
break the way. The purchases are now made with
better judgment than fortnight since, and the bear
movement although signal failure, has evidently
some good in shaking stocks out of weak hands
making the speculation less violent. The market for
foreign bills is dull with better supply of commercial
5.l3A.


The June report of the Central Ohio road shows the
earnings to have been sS2 Ill 81
80. SOC. So
Year: 1860

The matter of the late Senator Broderick's will
had been up in the Probate Court in San Francisco
and an expert witness had testified that the document
was forgery. This witness was corroborated by
others.
Year: 1860

ANOTHER TURSPIKE.-It is a notorious fact
that we can not 60 oct Of town any considerable
distance in any direction and escape the toll
gatherer All our roads are terned into turn
pixies and the people have to pay to get out of
town and in. Another turnpike stili is proposed
leading from this city to Rough dnd Ready.
Whom that is completed, to get out Ct town
without paying for the privilege viii be iTpos-
sible unless undertaken on foot across lot; or by
means of balloon. However, We hope lhe last
turnpike will be built and prove source of profit
so its proprietor The more roadg VIC have the
better, only let them be good ones.
Year: 1860

MILLISERY--Lubec, determined to be not the
last in the race, has opened millinery and dress
making establishment in connection with his
dry goods store: Mrs. Ryan and Miss McCarty
arc the popular ladies of taste engaged to meet
the wants of the community in the millinery
and dress making line.
Year: 1860

On Tuesday evening the procession IN NeT
York city, the Union against the Sectional
candidate turned out in astonishing numbers,
perfectly sclipsing anything, of the kind eyer
before got up there or anywhere else, probably
We, see by the New York papers that there
were by count in the i4iFo9 q q. 5FGt :
Year: 1860

ROAD TO WusuoE-The rain that has been
falling here took the shape of snow higher
up in the mountains. From Mr. Beard, who
came passenger in the stage from Jackson's
Ranch, which arrived last evening, we learn
that although the snow had been falling
quite briskly from Eureka eastwardly. it is
so light that it melts very fast, and that it
does not exceed six inches in depth anywhere
on the road from Eureka to Virginia City.
Everybody speaks in the highest terms of the
Henness Pass road. Mr.. Sale, we believe,
will not substitute stage coaches for his sad
die train, between Jackson and Virginia City
until next spring, when the Henness Pass
road will be completely inished-Nepada
Transcript.
Year: 1860

The Fall River Press relates an odd afaire
da caar which lately occurred in that city
Two young ladies fell equally and deeply in
love with gentlemen who visited them fire.
quently Being mutually acquainted with
each others passion, and being withal strong
friends, they romantically resolved to draw
lots to decide which should have him. The
fortunate one lost no time in making known
to him the result of the drawing, and he then
informed her that he was alreddy engaged
TO third lady.
Year: 1860

SnooTING LA TRAvIs-There is no doubt,
says the Sacramento News, that there is
plenty of pluck at Rio Vista. On last Friday
evening one of the residents of that favored
locality made a bet with another that he
could not shoot him with single barrel shot
gun loaded with No. shot, distance seventy
five yards. The challenger blazed away and
put FIVE shots into the person of the challeng
er, and would have killed him had he not
followed the advice of the referee and fallen
back about twenty five yards. The wager
was simply for four drinks-a small wager
for one to run the risk of being killed out
right, and the other of being stigmatized as
murderer.
Year: 1860

A WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.-On Satur-
day evening, a small dwelling house in Ne
vada, occupied, says the Transcript, by Mrs.
Maria Smith and her two young sons caught
fire and was rapidly consumed. The body
of Mrs. Smith, horribly burnt and disfgured,
was found amid the ruin An inquest was
held on the body of Mrs. Smith, and several
witnesses examined, touching the cause of
the fire, it having been surmised that it might
have been the work of a villain, to cover up
a deed of robbery and murder. The jury,
from the testimony, were led to consider it a
case of pure accident. The deceased leaves
behind her two very fine looking boys, of
the ages of nine and ten At the breaking
out of the fire, the deceased is supposed to
have been alone in the house, as her two boys
had gone to attend place of amusement.
Year: 1860

ACCORDING to the San Jose Telegraph
John b. Weller in a late speech at that place
said; l don't know whether Lincoln will be
elected or not; but do know that if he is
elected and attempts to carry out his doc
trine, the South will assuredly withdraw
from the Union; and l should consider them
less than men if they did not
Year: 1860

WE are informed, says the Call, that the
Bay District Society, owing to bad manage
ment, will not come out even. Sufficient
money, it is said, was received to meet all
liabilities; but too much management has
left the Society in straits from which it is
feared it cannot emerge, and which may re-
suit in considerable annoyance to stcckhold-
Year: 1860

The rumor that Stevens would send out
one half of his $41 900 for the purpose of
assisting Gwin TO the Senate, turns out to be
incorrect He does not intend to throw his
money away SO foolishly-Nation.
Year: 1860

BAD BUSINESS. The editor of the Cayuga
Chief auburn, n. W writes to his paper from
the West, as follows


A young well-dressed gentlemanly appear
ing man, with lovely wife and child, had
journeyed on the same train with us from
Buffalo, At, in spite of the earnest
and fearful protestatUns Of bis wife, he
would leave the depot, as he said on busi-
ness. From the wife's manner, we readily
guessed what she thought his business was.
For long hour sue stood with her boy in
her arms awaiting his return, tie tears in
spite of her efforts, silently dropping upon
the cheek Of her sleeping child. He came,
just as the train started, drunk. He lurch
ed towards the platform, fell upon the rail,
and his head was severd from his body
Never in life shall we forget the expression
of the wife'S countenance as she stood mo-
ment, her features pale and gastly, aud then
fell senseless upon the CORY and smoking
form of her husband The wall of the father
less boy touched every heart, for not one
who looked upon the scene could refrain
from weeping. ra-r


We looked upon that woman as she was
takenlike one dead from the headless corpse,
her heavy hair bood-clotted With that that
had just jetted from the pulseless heart, and
felt fresh hatred against damnable bust
ness and all its apolegists and abettors.
Year: 1860

I age remarkable for " wars and minors of


i wars, of intri gue and blood shed for cool rsas
oning and bad conduct, for sound rules and c,rr,r,
manners, when vrtne fills heads but vice our
hearts "iien those who would persuade us that
they are quite sure of heaven. appear to be in no
greater hurry TO go there than others. but pnt on
the livery of the best masters only to serve the
worst; IN an age when molesty herself i. NOR
ashamed OF detection than Of delinquency when
free thinking not in thinking freely, but in being
free from thinking; in age when patriots will
hold anything but their tongues-keep anything
but their words-iose nothing particularly except
thelr characters To improve such an age must DC
dIfheult-to instruct such an age must be danger
Gus, In an age like this call the attention of
he public TO.
Year: 1860

The following is a funeral sermon
lately preached in Ohio by Buckeye
Clergyman 81 have been begged
importuned and cntreated to preach
this sermon, but don't want to do it
never liked the man never knew
any good of him. He bad horses and
he run them he had cocks and he
fit them | have heard that he was
occasionally good at fires. The hear
ers will please remove the body aul
sing the following hymn:


With rapture we delight to SEQ
Year: 1860

A man on passing through gate
way in the dark hit his nose against
the post. " wish that post was III
hi" said he.


Better wish it somewhere else"
ssid a by-stander, "you might run
against it again"
Year: 1860

How MucH Milk FOR A PoUND OF BuT-
TER ?-As the result of two expert
ments made this winter, at intervals
of about ten days, we found by actual
measure and weighing, that the cream
Of lOA quarts Of milk produced one
Year: 1860

"a different and reasonable construc-
ton that result can be avoided.


1t is provided in Section 3 of the
same article as follows: "Aftcr the
first election under the Constitution,
the Board shall be divided as nearly
as practicable into two equal classes,
and the seats of the first class shall
be vacated after the expiration of two
years, and one-half of the Board shall
be chosen every two years there
after"


Under this section. the People must
at the election in this year elect mem
bers of the Board to fill the seats of
the first class vacated under its pro-
visions, and the persons so elected
will hold their Offices for the term of
four years, and yet if the bill under
consideration becomes law, they
will be deprived during their whole
term of service of performing the du-
ties which they are chosen by the
people to perform. | cannot believe
this to be the intent and meaning of
the Constitution.


Section Of the same article pro-
vldes as follows: The educational
interests OF the State. including com
mon schools, and other educational
institutions, shall hc under the man
agcmcnt Of a Board of EluCation,"
&c. The power Of the General As
scmbly over the matters thus entrust-
ed to the Board of Education is the
power to alter, amend, and rcpcal".
what has been done by the Board, and
the extent to which the power can be
exercised by tue General Assembly is
doubtful and uncertain. 1t seems to
me that In the present condition Of
our common school system, it is too
hazardous to this important interest
Of the State so to lcgislate as to rem
der very probable great confusion and
difficulty III its management. either
10y reason Of the want of legislation
on the part of the Board of Education
which clcarly y can lcgislate' on the
subject, or by reason of doubts of the
power of the General Assembly to do
that which necessity may require t.
he done.


SAMUEL j kIEKWOOD
Year: 1860

Co.. Hardee.-This accomplished officer has
won the esteem of all who have become Ac-
quainted with him, during his soiourn here
He is perfectly familiar with all the dnties Of
an agreeable gentleman In his intercourse
with others. The gallant Colonel 10 entitled
to the thanks of the public for coming here 70
instruct our troops in the art military.
Year: 1860

expressed will of a majority of actual
residents, and whenever the number
of their inhabitants .justiicS it to form
a Constitution with or without domcs-
tic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms Of perfect equality
with the other States.
Year: 1860

THE Richmond Wing says it is a fact
worthy of note, that during the Breckin-
ridge State Convention in Virginia. the name
OF President Buchanan was not once men
toned, nor was any reference whatever
made to his administration.
Year: 1860




Our readers doubtless still retain REM
nant of the great curiosity they felt at the
time of its delivery to read the speech OF
Mr.. Corwin on the spcakcrship contest,
which lasted two days, and created so
much merrmcnt, and, what is better, soft
encd down so much ill-feeling excited by
the angry debates preceding it. The long
delay in its publication, and the termina-
ton of the contest which evoked it, and
the many events that have since interEen-
ed, have abatcd the curiosity somewhat,
but there is more than enough left to relish
the fun and force of its best passages. We
have therefore taken the pains to select
such extracts as will most fairly indicate its
spirit. and explain its genial influence ON
the House. The argument cannot easily
be presented, as it embraces so many top
les, and treats them with so little method,
and it is so often broken in upon by inter
ruptiuns and consequent explanations-
And, as the argument is not so much what
our readers are curious to see as the char
acteristic humor and cloquence ofthe ora
tor, it is of less consequence that it can
not be easily presented without copying
the whole of the twenty-five columns it
fills After some remarks, evidently not
intended to be the Introduction of Probab-
bly, the greatest effort of his life, for it is
well known that he had no purpose to make
such an effort when he began, he gave the
following very Characteristic mixture OF
fun and cloquence,
Year: 1860

at the crime which you have committed against
the innocent" He rose as he spoke, and hast
ened down the dark, winding stairs.


But the count passed him His wife's es.
cape from death was, in that superstitious age,
sufficient proof of her innocence; and besides,
at the moment when she seemed absolutely
lost to him his fury cooled, and he began to
be sorry for what he had done.


Already ropes had been procured. A SER
want of the countess fastened one end about
his waist. gave the other to a stout soldier, and
let himself down over the rock. He alighted
among the bushes, took his mistress in his
arms, and they were drawn up together. The
count himself received his wife, and bore her,
quite insensibls, to her own chamber, where
he helped to chafe her hands. and bathe her
forehead with perfumed waters!


She was i'll long time; and when she re-
covered, she became nun in the convent of
Fischingen; for she ceased to love the husband
whom she had found to be so passionate and
cruel.


Before she left the castle, the raven was
proved to have been the cause of the mischief,
and was punished with death for his thievish
tricks