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Year: 1859

1t is a peculiar part of the programme
common to high pressure times, when spec,
ulation runs riot and drives reason and pru.
dence into obscurity, that men forsake the
pl ow and workbench and resort to selling
silks and laces, toys and attraps, tobacco,
etc., for living. 1t is useless for man
OF prudence and experience to urge that
bankruptcy is the fate of all such as forsake
the farm and resort to the counter for lv.
ing. inexperienced in the business, their
failure is mere problem in process of solu.
ton the first reaction in commerce and
currency will sweep them overheard and
they will 60 down. A successful farmer
possessing family has no more right to
forsake his we'll secured farm-boat for q
leaky, shabby, cob.web, luce.lined boat,
than he has to resort 10 intemperance and
gambling. Stick to your farms your lands
will never desert you nor cease to supply
your wants, unless you first desert them
The mercantile business is humbug to
whoever isinexperienced in it. Like ganb.
ling, it must be understood to make it pay,
and wo to him who bets on card who can
not tell as well what it is by seeing the back
as seeing the face.
Year: 1859


sometimes have thoughts 10 my lonelisst hours,
That lie on my heart like the dew on the flowers,
or ramble took one bright afternoon,
When my heart was as light as blossom in June |;
The green earth was moist with the late fallen


showers,


The breeze nuttered down and blew open the now.


erS,


While single white cloud, 70 its haven of rest
On the white wing Of peace, noated of in the west.
As threw back my tresses to catch the cool breeze,
That scattered the raindrops and dimpled the seas
Far up the blue sky fair rainbow unrolled
Its soft tinted pinions Of purple and goldi
Twas born in q moment, yet, quick as its birth,
II had stretched to the uttermos ends Of the earth,
And, fair as an angel, II hoated all free,
With wing on the earth and wing on the sea.
How calm was the ocean how gentle its swell!
Like q woman's soft bosom It rose and it fell,
While its light sparkling waves, stealing laughingly


o'er,


When they saw the fair rainbow knelt down to the


shore:


No sweet hymn ascended, no murmur Of prayer,
Yet felt that the spirit of worship was there,
And bent my young head In devotion and love,
Meath the form of the angel that hoated above.
How wide was the sweep Of itS beautiful wings!
How boundless Its circle, how radiant its rings
II looked on the sky, twas suspended in air,
II looked on the ocean, the rainbow was there;
Thus forming girdle as brilliant and whole
A the thoughts Of the rainbow that circled my soul
Like the wing Of the Deity, calmly unfurled,
II bent from the cloud, and encircled the world.
There are moments, think, when the spirit re-


ceiVes


Whole volumes Of thought on its unwritten leaves
When the folds of the heart in u moment unclose,
Like the inuermost leaves from the heart Of rose
And thus, when the rainbow had passed from the


sky,
The thoughts It awoke were too deep to pass by;
1t left my full soul like the wing of dove,
And nutterng with pleasure, and Autering with love
know that each moment of rapture or pain
But shorten. the links in life's mystical chain;
l know that my form, like that bow from the wave
Must pass from tho earth and lie cold In the grave
Yet o! when deaths shadows my bosom ehcloud,
When l shrink from the thought of the coffin an'


shroud,


May Hope, like the rainbow, my spirit enfold
In her beautiful pinions of purple and gold.
Year: 1859

QUESTION FOR DEBATING ScocIETy-A
pickerel was caught the other day, with o
squirrel in his stomach. Query--Did the
squirrel 60 into the water after the pickerel,
or the pickerel 60 up tree after the squir.
rel!
Year: 1859

or There was a strife in congreg CATION
about the location of new church, and a
good old lady said that the upper part Of the
congregation conquered, and so named it
Concord. @ E%... ..
Year: 1859

HIGH FARMING VS. misunderstanding
Of the insects infesting the wheat crop in
this and the old country, the Nark Lane
Express thinks that the production of in
sects is greatly promoted by the defective
system Of agriculture in this country, re-
marking that "when the average produce
Of wheat in Eng land was two and a half
quarters per acre, the ravages of insects
were far more general and destructive than
they are now that the average has risen
to four quarters and half. High farming
i. as destructive to vermin as to weeds, aud
it is rarely that the devastation committed
on highly cultivated land is very serious
Year: 1859

Of his milk which yields him the least but
ter. while he carefully saves all the hes,
part for cream.


We throw out the above as hints only to
our numerous farmers OF New England. All
are not located alike, hut all must judge as
well as they may Of what Is applicable to
thgir own locality.


Still we venture to urge that calves are
ksp, through the fret summer better and at
les Gus; on hay than on any kind Of gras. /;
and that they are more easily kept through
the following winter, whether they have
any grain or not.


When calves are turned to grass in the
spring. they make poor busines. in the
b,,t Of pastures. They are annoyed hy hies
that hover around them through the whole
day. and give them no leisure to learn how
20 eat grass.
Year: 1859

The late Rowland Hill once said on ob


serving some person enter his chapel to
avoid the rain that was falling "Many
persons are to be blamed for making their
religion cloak but DO not think those
much better who make IL an umbrella" !"
Year: 1859

CHIvALRY-Much of the strange mixture
of ferocious cruelty, with refined galiantry,
denominated Chivalry, which ancient annals
hand down to us, was attributable, undoubted-
ly, to the intercourse of the Christians with
the Moors and Arabs. In the wars of Spain
and the Crusa6 e were learnt those refnemsnts
with which an Eastern Imagination had adorn-
ed the exercise of brute force and animal
courage But be its origin what it might, the
spirit of fchivalry produceda a system OF manners
totally distinct from the Government, and,
forming, as it were, a separate. code, which the
laws of the State had not created, and could
not suppress. The member of an ancient State
could hear himself grossly abused by his fellow
citizens without any obligation to retaliate
otherwise than by words. The noble or knight
of Germany or France was compelled either
to draw his sword against his accuser or to lose his
character in society. No form of law, no
species of tribunal, could dispense with the
necessity of revenge; and from the bay OF
Naples to the mountains of Inverness, he who
had been wronged, by word or deed, thought
himself bound to seek satisfaction in the blood
of his adversary. y. In Italy and IN Southland,
the death of the aggressor, procured by any
means, was considered a. lawful atonement;
and so far was this principle extended, that
not many years have elapsed since judge
was slain at Edinburgh, by the party against
whom he had pronounced "a legal decision
In other parts of Europe, the practice of single
combat was usual, honorable-nay, almost
indispensable; and there can be no better proof
of the supremacy of opinion over law, than
the fact that Louis XIV, who, affixed the most
severe penalties to the offence of fighting a
duel, would allow no man in his own regiment
to refuse challenge.
Year: 1859

OF all the curses of society-and their name
is legion-the one calculated, and often times
intended, to exert the most baleful influence
upon the good feelings of man, is that every
day curse the slanderer. In whatever country,
neighborhood or community you may find
yourself, the slanderer, backbiter and mischief
maker will be found in their midst. 1t seems
that some persons are so constituted by nature
or by practice that life seems to them devoid
of all interest appreciation unless they are
in their proper element, that of retailing the
petty misunderstanding of their neighbors at
the expense of the quietude of good and
respectable citizens and friends, at least SO
esteemed by all except their heartless and
unmanly aspersers.


While this is one of the effects attending
the presence of the petty slanderer of families,
how much more grievous must be the result
of the wholesale actions of persons who take
to themselves all excellence and morality and
ceaslessly vituperate and abuse the whole com
munity or town that may unfortunately be
cursed by. their presence 10


To such persons no character SO high, no
name exalted as to escape their unfounded
and libelous charges. Through their influence
very often their place of residence where they
are generally looked upon as persons without
character and unworthy of confidence, acquires
at distance, where the facts are unknown, a
name to be envied by the most degraded den
of iniquity upon the face of COPS footstool-
Most earnestly do honest, peaceable citizens
strive in vain. The reptile will crawl and
contaminate with its presence whatever may
come in its way.


To the slanderer there is no moral guide
Shame is stranger to his soul and the blush
of conscious guilt never plays over his deprav-
ed features. Be wary of him. Do not trust
yourself in his power, else ere long you will be
numbered with his victims and the venom of
his sting enter your soul, your good name tar
nished and your hitherto pure character black
ened beyond thehope of ever being replaced IN
its former state of excellence and purity
There is many devils that walk this world,


Devils great and devils small. -s
Devils with tails and devils without;


Devils who Whisper devils who shout,
Devils who mystify, devils who teach:


But the CALUMNY DEvIL-as hard to reach
AS the snail, who safe some distant beach
Is digesting the core of my favorite peach


Is the shabbiest devil of ALL


-KaLidd Sentinel.
Year: 1859

p9-A Schenectady paper speaking Of the
effect of squall ON canal boat, says, "when
the gale was at the highest, the unfortunate
craft keeled to the larbeard and the captain
and another cask of whisky rolled overheard" I"
Year: 1859

Would to God, for your own sake, that L could
say something to you in this solemn hour that
might wake YOU to consciousness and feeling
that [ could make you, in some measure, at
least, feel and understand the atrocity of the
crime you have committed. feel my utter
inability to do SO. 1 must leave this to other
and far ADLER lips than mine-to the ministers
of God, yho are appointed to tell to you the
Year: 1859

MOUNTAIN PAsTURAGE.-With reference to
the adaptability of numerous mountain val
leys to grazing purposes, the San Andreas
Independent has the following, which will ap-
ply as correctly to all the valleys lying along
the summit of the Sierra Nevada, or below
it, as to those in Calaveras county, which
are here specially described:


tFor four or FIVE months in the year thou
sands of sheep and cattle may be subsisted
and fattened on these valleys. The snow
entirely disappears from them by the middle
of June, when the bunch and spire grasses
shoot up with great rapidity and continue
green until covered by the SHOWS of Decem-
ber. Springs of water abound all over the
natural pastures. Immediately before and
after the summers solstice-from the 10th
of June to the 10th Of July-the nights are
usually exempt from frost but later than
July, though the days are often warm, the
nights are cold and frosty, and fire becomes
necessary. Persons engaged in raising cat
tie and sheep as a business, could not man
age better than to drive them up to these
valleys about the lst of July, at the season
when the low hills have been pretty well
shorn of their verdure by the scorching
sun. By the time snow and cold re visited
the mountains, they would be as fat as if
stall-fed. There is scarcely any limit to the
range which these high attitudes furnish for
summer and fall pastuTage. From the Big
Trees to the very summit of the mountains,
cattle and sheep might thus be fattened for
FIVE months, at the very season when our
home resources fail"


The truth of this statement has been de-
monstrated in Nevada coanty, whose sum-
nit valleys are every year resorted to by
stock raisers with the greatest advantage
Cattle that are driven up in a lean aud de-
bilitated condition, come down at the close
cf summer looking fat, sleek and strong. and
command at once nigh price. Some of the
pasture valleys are not deserted even at the
approach of winter, but remain numerousay
inhabited by parties who have there huilt
themselves homes,
Year: 1859




Nor A PEooF.-There is now going the
rounds Of the press an extract from Lardners
lectures, which recounts and describes the
fact that total change of the constituent
materials of the body takes place periodically
some say every thirty days, though the
period was once thought to be seven years


In spite of this physical change, Lardner ar
CUES, there is something within the body
that docs not experience mutation, which is
not atomic I'M its constitution and which must,
therefore, be spiritual. The argument is
beautiful, though not new, but is hardly a
clear proof of the Immortality of the soul, as
some claim, unless we are willing to admit
that the inferior animals also have immortal
souls. The horse and the OK, the dog and
the cat, undergo the same process of physi-
cal renewal, and retain, like man, their men
tai characteristics and personal identity as
individuals unchanged. Memory remains
in them as in man, though every particle
of their material organism has been changed.
If memory is a proof of freason-and Broug-
ham so considers it-and reason is immortal,
there ought to be heaven for quadrupeds.
Year: 1859

If the present ruler of Prussia is controlled
by the same aversion to popular rights that
actuated friedrich William in lS47, there is
little probability that Italy will fnd him on
her side in the struggle now waging. The
royal old fogy alluded to thus declared.


II feel urged to make the solemn deciara
ton that no earthly power will ever succeed
in deciding me to convert the natural and
solid relation between King and people into
a conventional, constitutional one, and that
will never allow, never, that there intrude
between the Lord in heaven and this coun-
try, written bit of paper, second provi-
dence, so to say, pretending to rule by its
paragraphs, and supplant by its means the
old, sacred faith
Year: 1859

England is about to erect a Patent Office
building on the plan of the one in Washing-
ton, with a museum for models and all the
other departments which we have in Amer
ca. The Scientific american says the Patent
Office is about The only department under
government which is not dependent upon the
income derived from the custom house for
its support. is actually making money,
and its receipts must be over $4,000 per
week,
Year: 1859

Sir Moses Monteiore failed to obtain an
interview with the Pope, for the purpose of
representing the injustice of his Holiness in
retaining the boy Mortara He was told by
Cardinal that the question is entirely
closed.
Year: 1859

Professor Agassiz is said to have received
from Brazil butterfly that measures ten feet
from the tip of one wing to the tip of the
other fit is really that large, it cannot be
but-a-fy.
Year: 1859

The fire which destroyed Chips Flat was
transferred to Forest City by several of the
lower country papers. The mistake was
probably occasioned by the telegraphic des-
patch conveying the intelligence being dated
at Forest City.
Year: 1859

Italy is only about twice the size of New
England, yet it contains population nearly
as large as that of the United States. 1t is
dreadful to think what must be the horrors
of a war conducted in such populous
cnunfrH.
Year: 1859

g5 If you would have an idea Of the
ocean in a storm, just imagine four thou
sand hills and four thousand mountains,
all drunk. chasing one another over a
newly plowed grornd, with lots Of cav
erns in it for them to step into now and
thp0
Year: 1859

Let II never come upon you. Live 90 that
good angels may protect you from this tor
rible evl-tho winter of the heart.


Lot no chilling influence freeze up tho
fountain of sympathy and happiness from
its depths; no cold burthon settle over its
wiihorod hopes, like snow on the faded
flowers no rude blasts of discomfort moan
and shriok through its desolate chambers.


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


Ponury may take the place of ease aud
plenty; your luxurious home may be ex-
changed for single, lowly room-tbe soft
couch for the straw pallet--the rich vands
for the coarse food Of the poor. Summer
friends may forsake you, and the Implying
world pass you with scarcely word of COM
passion.


You may be forced to toll weariy, steadily
on, TO earn livelihood; you may encounter
fraud and base avarice, which would extort
the last tarthing, till you well nigh turn in
disgust from your fellow-beings.


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


Tho noble, manly boy, the sole hope of
SoHr ueCunlhB years, may Oe taken from
you, while your spirit clings to him with
wild tenacity. which oven the shadow of the
tomb cannot wholly subdue.


But amid all these SORROWS, do not como
to tho conclusion that nobody was ever so
deeply afflicted as you are, and abandon
every sweet anticipation OF better days" in
the unknown future


Do not lose your faith in human excel
Ience because your confidence has been be-
trayed, nor believe that friendship is only a
deIusion, and love bright phantom which
gide3 away from your grasp.


DO not think you are fated to be misera-
bio because you are disappointed in your
expectations and bafflod in your pursuits
DO not declare that God has forsaken you
when your way is hedged with thorus, or
repne sinfully when he calls your dear ones
to the land beyond the grave.
Keep holy trust in heaven through
every trial; bear adversely with forttude,
and look upward in hours of temptation and
suffering. When your locks are white, your
eyes dim, and your limbs weary; when
your steps faltor on the verge of death's
gloomy vale, still retain the freshness and
buoyancy of spirit which will shield you
from tho winter of the heart.
Year: 1859

BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT Life bears on like
the stream of mighty river. Our boat at
first gldes softly down the narrow channel,
through tho playful murmurings Of little
brook, and winding along its grassy borders,
the trees shed their blossoms over our
young heads. and the flowers on the brink
seem to offer themselves to our young
hands we are in hope, and we grasp eagerly
at the beauties around US, but the stream
hurries us on, and still our hands are empty
Our course in youth and manhood il
along wider and deeper food, and annie
objects more striking and magnificent We
are animated by the moving picture of en-.
joyment and industry that is passing before
us 4; we arc excited by short-lived success, OF
depressed by some shortlived disHppoint-
mont. But our energy and dependence arc
both in vain. The stream bears us on, and
our joys and griefs arc left behind US We


may DO shpwrecked, but wo cannot anchor
our voyage may be hastened, but we can
not be delayed-whether rough or smooth
tho river hastens towards its home; the
roaring of the waves is beneath our keel
and tho land lessons from our eyes, the
floods arc lifted up around us, and we take
our last leave Of earth and its inhabitants
and of our future voyage there is no witness


but the infinite and tho etornal.-BishOp
Heber.
Year: 1859

VALUE OF WIT.-We take the following
excellent passage from a review of The
Autocrat," in "The Century" the weekly
paper recently established in New York; ~
wit is a priceless man for community not
a scandal monger, a heel bitter, detractor,
a cynic, whose own happiness in life being
spoilt,is bent upon making others miserable,
but genial, benevolent reformer. a whole.
some and winning though caustic surveyor
of events. People breathe more freely when
they know there is such a man in the ascen-
dant for wicked men will be afraid of him,
weak men will strive to be stronger, and
quacks will not have it all their own way
Society is continually in need of the exploits
OF that knight errant, the wit. Evils creep
in unawares some good, but very foolish


man, perpetrates a good deal of nonsense
which is tolerated and even admired BY vir-
tue of his goodness. and fixed as all institu.
ton before lis Inconvenience is fully suspect
ed. Honest sentiments with errors sticking
to thom are gradually heaped up into q
monstrous aggregate of prejudice. Some
bloated and oyerfed truth weighs society
down like huge nightmare, till the wit
comes along to tickle tho sensorium and
wake us up once more into daylight with
sensation of free honest living. or the old
moraIites of the world get dull aud COM
monpace, worn. trte and battered, tho etii-
pies nearly off from them. The wit is
general refurbisher, re-castng the old coin
and presenting it TO us again current with
tho image of to-day.
Year: 1859

selected in each township, with reference to
his ability and willingness to discharge this
duty lot tho several Boards of Education
do all in their power to aid in tho work /;
and, above all, and in connection with all
this, let the people feel and manifest lively
interest in their schools, and it will not long
bo truo that Gcauga is not keeping pace
with her sisters counties, in tho improve.
mcnt in her educational advantages.
Year: 1859

Whone'or noble decd is wrought.
Whene'er is spoken noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise


To higher levels rise.
Honor to those whose words or deeds
Thus help us in our daily needs,


And by their overflow


Raise us from what is low!
Year: 1859

AMONG the unmarked and unhonored
graves in the rural cemetery at Camden,
Arkansas, is that of brother OF the illus.
trious Henry Clsy-his only monument
an oak tree, with the initials of his name
rudely carved in its rough bark. He is
said to have been an humble and devoted
minister Of the Gospel.
Year: 1859

The annual State Fair opened at Sacramento on
Tuesday the 18th, and win close day after to-mor-
row. The people of the State seem to have taken
unusual interest in the Fair and the attendance has
been unprecedented. A large number of people
from Nevada and vicinity have gone down to wit
ness the exhibition, and those who have returned,
speak in the highest terms of the manner in which
the Fair has been conducted The Sacramento Bee
of Saturday thus alludes to the appearance of the
city during last week


The streets up town and the public places down
town look in many respects for the last few days,
much as they did in the golden days OF lo49-5O.
The houses are better the streets BETTER the red
and grey and blue shirts have given place to white,
and coats and "stovepipe" hats to be the fash
ion now. But the new faces the stir, the excite
ment of those days are to very great extent upon
MS. We have music in our saloons. banners float
ing, canvas signs flying, "rondo" and other games
in full blast, canvas houses and tents in the upper
portion of the city, exhibitions of every kind ra-
ces regattas and in fact all the glories of the past
with comparatively few of its evilsfor sobrety is,
so far as we have observed, distinguishing feature
of the present. In fact the liquor Saloons or that
portion of them which may be termed extra, that
were established for the occasion only, complain
that their business is not such they had reason
to expect it would be- yet few Of them seem to be
doing thriving business. But accident has oc-
CURED to mar the harmony of the exhibition or
cloud the enjoyment of the numerous visitors. Or
der and gentilty have reigned in every department.
The visitors take care to give oense, and the Of
fcers are on the lookout that none shall be given
them Everything goes on admirably, and with
proper spirit exhibited it will so continue.