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Year: 1859

1t is great mistake to plait the hair of
children under eleven of twelve years of age.
The process Of plating more or less strains
the hairs in their roots by pulling them tight,
tends to deprive them of their requisite sup
ply of nutriment, and checks their growth
The hair of girls should be cut rather short,
and allowed to curl freely. When they are
about eleven or twelve, the hair should be
twisted into coil not too tight, nor tied at
the end with thin thread, but with piece of
ribbon.
Year: 1859

81 >- LONDON, june ).


The Daily Neacs says that arrangements
are in progress which will facilitate the united
and vigorous action of the Liberal party as a
whole. In the great home and foreign ques-
tons of neutrality and reform, the present
Ministry have repeatedly, but in word and
deed, followed convictions at war with those
which the nation has unanimously expected,
and the Daily Ne,os says it may safely predict
that in few days the country will have a
Government, which, instead of trying to de-
lude it by covert manifestations of anti-na-
tional sympathies and aims, will sponta-
neously and faithfully reflect the national
WILL


The Times asks of the Liberal chiefs, if
they are successful in their attempt to upset
the Cabinet, whether they can reckon with GER
tainty on respectable majority in support of
a vote of no confidence, what they are pre-
pared to do with the majority 50 obtained,
and whether, in the event of their accepting
office with such a Government is likely to be
compressed under existing circumstances,
they will have more vitality and buoyancy
than they had year ago. when they had
twenty to thirty more supporters than now
Year: 1859

SUPPOSED WRECK OFF CAPE HoRN.-0n the
2lst of March last. the clipper ship Hornet,
Captain Mitchell, when between Cape St
John and Cape Horn, passed through q field
of floating candles. The Captain first noticed
them early in the morning and for several
hours after, the ship kept passing them in
considerable quantities. At the time. the
wind was blowing a heavy gale from the
westward. Captain Mitchell thinks, from the
fact that there were no boxes. nor pieces OF
boxes, or other wreck, in sight, that there
must have been a wreck and the boxes DASH
ed against shore in order to get the candles
in the loose position. At the same time. there
is possibility of their having been thrown
overheard by n vessel in distress, and the
boxes broken up by the sea.
Year: 1859

IT is said that the name of the young Ger
man who attempted recently to commit sui
eide in San Francisco by shooting himself in
the breast with pistol, is not Carl Hauser,
but Henry Melvin. lie shot himself because
n young lady whom he loved, did not love
him in return
Year: 1859

An intelligent writer upon the subject
says that the colored people of Jamaica are
not satisfied with the bare equality of civil
and religious rights, but aspire to their
exclusive enjoyment. Not content with ac,
quiring lands by free sale aud purchase, and
BY squetting on lands which twenty year,
ago we're valuable plantations, though now
abandoned to the first conner, they wish to
force the proprietors of estates still under
cultivation to dispose of the remains Of their
property exclusively in favor Of the colored
''sons of the soil, menacing the colony. in
the event Of continued recusancy, with the
fate of Haiti.
Year: 1859

Wheeler up, but he escaped with her at night,
and it is supposed he went with her 10 Cal
pee. In that case it is not at all improbable
that the unfortunate yonng lady may be sti.i
alive, moving about with Tantia Topee, and
that we may rescue her from her unhappy
fate. There is another Christian half>caste
still alive, who became Mohammedan at
the same time AMI under the same circum>
stances as Miss Fitchett, in pursuit Of whom
the authorities are now most busily engaged.
Line upon liLe, here Il little and ii ere a
little, we shall soon know all that can be
known about that "bloodest record in the
book Of tine.p
Year: 1859

lie sat within silent room


Deaths shadow had been there,
dis heart was filed with grief and gloom.
His head was bowed in prayer;
He strove to shut out memory,


So filed with bitter pain,
But close before his weeping eyes


Her glass was held again.
Again he stood beside his wife


And almost deemed her living
Again be took the farewell kiss


Which she had died in giving.
He half forgot that death had been


Within his pleasant home;
He seemed to feel her presence there


Beside him in her room.
There stood upon the mantel shelf


A vase Of faded flowers,
They had been placed there by herself
In happy, glowing hours;
There sat her vacant, crimson chair,
.t Her shawl across it lying,
1t had been folded round her breast


When lie had seen her dying.
b There was her basket and her books,
38 Her portrait on the wall,
The Bible where her last sweet looks
t On holy words did fall,
A few short years before and he
Had brought her there bride,
But now she was laid down to rest


With her infant by her side.
He did not dream how much he loved


The flower that he had cherished,
Or how she twined about his heart,


Until the bloom had perished.
Year: 1859

A PROFRsSOR ON BRoADCLOTH.-
Professor Hamilton. in an address on
hvgeine to the graduates of the Buffa-
10 Medical College, denounced broad
cloth as an enemy to exercise and
health, but did not suggest substi-
tute. He says: American gentle
men have adopted as a national CO.'S
tune. broa6cloth-a thin, tigh!-fitiing
black suit of broadcloth. To foreign
ers. we seem always in mourning; we
travel in black, we write in black, we
work in black. The priest, the law
yer, the doctor, the literary man, the
mechanic. and even the day-laborer,
choose always the same unvarying,
monotonous black broadcloth; style
and material which never ought to
have been adopted out of the drawing
room or the pulpit; because it is a
feeble and expensive fabric; because
it is at the North no suitable protec-
ton against the cold. nor is it indeed
any moro suitable at the South. 1t
is too thin to be warm, and too black
to be cool in the summer. but especi~
ally do we object TO it because the
wearer is always afraid of soiiing il
by exposure. Young gentlemen will
not play ball. or pitch quoiis. or wres-
tie and tumble, or any other similar
thing. lest their broadcloth should he





rended. They will not go out into
the storm, because the broadcloth
will lose its luster if rain falls upon
! it; they will! not run because they
have no confidence in the strength OF
the broadcloth; they dare not mount
a horse, or leap a fence, because
broadcloth as every one knows is so
faithless. So these young men and
these older men, merchants, mechan-
les. and all, learn to walk, and think
sobelly and carefully; they seldom
venture to laugh to the full extent ol
their sides Scientific american.
Year: 1859

| A recent Quarterly Review con
tains the following article, which viii
be read with intrest:


To be shot dead is one of the easiest
modes of terminating life; rapid as ii
is, the body has leisure to feel and re-
fleet. On the first attempt by the
frantic adherents of Spain to assassin
| ate William. Prince of Orange. who
took the lead in the revolt of tie
Netherlands, the ball passed through
the bones OF the face. and brought
him to the ground. In the instant that
preceded stupiication. he was able to
form the notion that the ceiling of the
room had fallen and crushed him
The cannon shot which ploughed
through the brain of Charles XII
did not prevent him from seizing his
sword by the hilt. The idea of an
attack, the necessity of defense.
was pressed on him by blow which
we would suppose was too tremendi-
Gus to leave an interval of thought.
But it by no means follows that the
inflicting of fatal wounds is accompan-
led by pang. From what is known
Of the first effects of gun shot wounds.
it is probable the impression is rather
stunning than acute. Unless death be
immediate. the pain is varied by tho
nature of his injuries, and these are
past counting up.


But there is nothing singular in the
dying sensation. though Lord Byron
remarked the physiological peculiar
ity that the expression is invariably
that of languor, while in death from "A
stab. the counteBance reflects the
natural character, of gentleness or
ferocity. TO ii e last gasp.


Some of these cases are of interest. to
show with what slight disturbance life
may go on undera mortal wound. till it
finally comes TO full stop A foot
soldier at Waterloo. pierced by a
musket ball in the hip, begged water
of soldier. who Glanced to possess
canteen Of beer. The wounded nan
drank. returned his heartiest thanks
mentioned that his regiment was
nearly exterminated. and having pro-
ceeded a dozen yards to the rear. fell
to the earth, and with one convulsive
movement of the limbs, concluded his
career. "His voice" said the troop
er, gave not the slightest sign of
weakness.


Capt Basil Hall. who. in his early
youth. was present at the battle of
Corruna. has singled out from the
seclusion that ccnsigns to oblivion the
woes and gallautry of war, another
instance extremely similar. which oc-
cured An old officer. who was shot
in the head. arrived pale and faint, at
the temporary hospital, and begged
the surgeon to look at his wound,
which was pronounced mortal.


Indeed, feared So" he responded
with impeded utterance. "and yet
| should wish very well to live little
longer, if it were possible.'


lie laid his sword upon stone at
his size. las gently" says Hall. "as
if the steel had been turned into glass,
andimmediately sank lifeless upon the
turf"
Year: 1859

How TO LIVE LoNG.-More people
die annually from want of sufficient
Framework than from an excess of it.
Good health Of body and mind de-
pends, on each having its full share
of exercise and work, and it would
seem from history that we can better
afford the body to be in a state of las.
situde than allow the intellectual
powers to lie dormant. There may
be physical cause for this. from the
fact that much thought induces
temperate life; but the exceptions to
such a rule would be found so enor-
nous as to show that it was not the
only secret. We are rather inclined
to think that the most general rule
and the one capable of the broadcast
application by which to attain to that
great desideratum, "a green old
age" is to give the mind full play
to expand the powers of thought by
reading and observation. and to ban
ish the fear of death, resulting from
an exhausted "knowledge-box." We
have shown to what ages the old
philosophers lived. Calico and Rog-
er Bacon both lived 10 rs. Button
died at 81, Goethe and West were 80.
Franklin and Herschel lived to 81,
and Newton and Voltaire did not
finish their labors until IS. The as
tronomer HALEY was sc at his de-
cease. and Sir Hans Soane was 93.-
Michel Angelo and Titan. the great
masters Of art, lived to Sc These.
surely, are instances enough to stim-
ulate the individual who wishes to
live long not to forget to cultivate
the intellectual faculties and imagi-
nation, while lie is attending tn the
physical aids of exercise, cleanliness
and temperance. We all think too
much of the body and neglect the
higher and diviner part within us; we
cleanse the temple and adorn its pill
lars, but we forget that the dweller
therein also requires attention and
care.- Scientific American.
Year: 1859

Mr.. DouGLAs.-We have for some
years looked upon Stephen A. Doug
las as a man having few well defined
and fixed ideas on political questions
We have regarded him as one having
crude notions which he has never
elaborated into a harmonious whole
to be called a political creed, every
point of which he could defend clearly
and logically. His speeches for the
years since he began to figure as one
of the most prominent men of the
nation we have carefully collected
and kept. and in view of party with
which to unite eur political for
tunes, we have examined the course
and the opinions of the leader of the
Anti-Lecompton party, as exhibited
in these speeches, carefully and earn
e.tly. Unless we are sadly mistaken,
and we hope we are, no man on the
political stage needs the benefit of a
statute of limitations oftener than Mr,
Douglas. His speeches on his own
favorite theme of Popular Sovereignty
are strangely incongruous. Even his
speeches in the great debate in The
Senate on the 23d Of February last,
do not seem to harmonize in sentiment
with his article in the September
number of Harper's Magazine. 1t
we have understood him at all he has
maintained, at several times hereto
fore, the right of slave holders to take
their slaves with them into Terrific
ries We have understood him to af-
firm it to be right guaranteed by
the Constitution of the United States,
a right in which they are to be pro-
tected. Afterwards--in the FIeeport
speech and in the great debate OF
February--we understand him to urge
the paramount force of the local law
of Territories with a right of appeal,
by the aggrieved parties, to the SUI
preme Court. Now, we read him to
say the local Legislature is absolute
in the disposition of all rights not
guaranteed by the Constitution of the
United States, and the object of his
article in Harpcr's Magazine, seems
to be to prove the Constitution has no
power to interfere to protect property
in Territories.


We had intended to quote literally
from the speeches of Mr.. Douglas from
the passage of the Kansas-Kebraska
Act, down to his last illumination in
Harper. But we have not the room
for an exposition of the whole matter
and besides we care not, on serious
thought. to expend the time necessary
10 60 over the extensive ground again
Year: 1859

Oregon papers state that the San.
tian lead mines are likely to prove
very valuable. The lode is from
FIVE to eight feet thick, andis suppos
ed to extend throughout the who'll
range of the Cascade mountains
Yet nobody with sufficient capital
can be found to engage in working
them!
Year: 1859

Marshall Potter, who murdered his aged
mother and two brothers, at Lee, Maine, to
get some money they had, has made the toll
lowing terrible confession:


l am guilty. came home about 10
o'clock Wednesday night; my mother was
up; she told me it was a fine time of night
to come home; one Of my brothers told me
] had been over to Mr. Hanscom's, and car
ried bottle of liquor with me; told him
that j had not been there; he told me that
had; | told him did not want any more
stuff from MIN, or something to that amount !;
he told me then that it did not keep still
L should go out doors | told him shouldn't t
go out; } went out into the other part of the
house and got shingle maui IAN instru-
ment made of hard wood, l2inches long and
six in width aud breadth, with handle
about a foot long in the end), with which
took the lives of them all; | went in and
struck Alexander with the shingle maui;
hit him in the face and on the head, and
struck him n number of times.


| then struck Oliver several times on the
head and face; they neither of them strug-
gled after struck them. Ny mother came
into the room and got hold OF me; swung
round and struck her with the maui, and she
fell she did not struggle. The candle was
sitting on the wood box by the side of the
stove; tipped it off the box into the box
of shavings; the shaving took fire, and |
did not try to put the fire out; then left
the house, and went ont round it; | staid
out there till it got pretty well afirej then
went over to Mr.. Hanscomb's, called him up,
and told him the house was burning and all
there was in it; he got up and he and
went over; when we got there the house
was pretty much burned through


killed Albert This nephew, boy ten years
oldl; killed them all think ! didn't
strike Albert on the head; struck him on
the side of the face with the maui; he didn't
struggle then; heard him make noise af-
forwards; he was lying on the bed but
don't know as he was asleep. don't know
how the shavings came in the box; they
were there before; mother was up and sit
ting by the stove when | came in; my two
brothers were in bed. We had some quar-
reling before, but nothing but words.
Year: 1859

A Philadelphia correspondent of the Ian
easter Union, of April 18th, says:


"One of the most extraordinary decisions
ever enunciated from the bench has Just
been promulgated by the Supreme Court of
this State, and the whole business commu-
nifty of this city stands aghast at the conse-
quences which must inevitably flow from il.
The case is so simple and compact that you
will have it all in small compass. Some
twelve years ago one Chapman sold to two
very estimable gentlemen of this city, Messrs.
Fell and Morris, two hundred shares of Buck
Mountain coal stock for which they paid
him in cash the price agreed on. Some
years after Chapmans DEATH the two sons
commenced suit in equity against Fell and
Morris to recover back from them the two
hundred shares of stock, alleging that the
same had been held in trust and that as the
trustee had not applied the proceeds of the
sale TO the uses OF the trust, but had con-
sumed them for his own individual wants,
the purchasers were, consequently, liable to
them for the full -alue of the stock. The
Court decided in favor of the defendants,
and the plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme
Court.


Ii was here attempted 10 DC SHOWN that
the purchasers of the stock not only knew
that it was held in trust, but knew also that
the trustee was misapplying the proceeds.-
But on the latter point the evidence showed
that the heirs actually received the proceeds
of the sale. Yet, strange as it may appear,
the Court reversed the decision below, and
decreed the defendants, Fell aud Morris, to
pay back the full value of the stock, to-
gether with all dividends and interest on
the same, being more than the plaintiffs de-
manded. This decision has produced deep
alarm in the moneyed circles here, and must
! unsettle many large transactions long since
believed to be closed up. Ii establishes the
principle that the purchaser from trustee,
whether of stock, real estate or merchandise,
is bound, for his own safety, TO see that the
purchase money is honestly applied by the
trustee-a duty which few will trouble
themselves to undertake. Ii trust property
is to be governed by so strange doctrine as
this, its saleable value must be greatly de-
preciated in the estimation of all who dis
| like the purchase of a law suit.
Year: 1859

The decision at Washington that colored
men cannot pre-empt public lands, as under
the Dred Scott decision, they are not cit,
zens of the United States, is a legimate con
sequence of the Infamous doctrines preach
ed by the locofoco party. We have this
class of people amongst US, and they must
remain here, and yet they are denied all
civil rights, and every means of subsistence
cut off. They cannot even retain the fruit
of their daily labor. should the decision be
strictly enforced that they have no rights
which white men are bound to respect!-
Detroit advertiser
Year: 1859

SLAVERY IN ARIzoNA.-The slavery ex-
.ensionists are endeavoring to force slavery
into Arizona. They say It is a fine cotton
growing country, Notwithstanding it is most
ly upland. In that case it is lust the coun-
try fer German and other free lahorers TO
grow cotton in. one of the most profitable
business there is
Year: 1859


WITH THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE
w New Year wish to return my hearty thanks
for the liberal support and eneouragementthat has
been extended to me IN my business for the past
two years. This office was opened here about two
years ago, not with the expectation of realizing
fortune, but with the hope of contributing some
thing towards the settlement and improvement of
this beautiful valley, by of direct personal
effort, and by furnishing information to those at
the East who were seeking homes and occupation
at the West. have endeavored TO keep steadily
in view the FutuTe Of this totrR and country, and
by means of considerable labor and expense, re-
gardless of present profit. my business is now es-
tablished upon firm and reliable basis; and
can offer TO all who entrust their business to my
care, an intimate knowledge of the country its in
habitants. and their circumstances, derived from
extensive travel. and constant intercourse with
settlers upon and since their arrival, / claim to
be thoroughly conversant with the wants and ca
pabili6es Of this country, and shall never advise
correspondents emigants aught they cannot
realize. Ny facilities for the transaction of bust
ness are unequalled by any Office in the Seosho
Valley. shall attend all the
Year: 1859

The best capital for young man TO begin
life with. is capital young wife.-Er.


That's fact. We know of some young
men who CONNIE need business that way,
and doubled their capital the first year.


Seraphina wants to know il eating horse
cbesinuts at the opera is "the thing" 1t
depends entirely upon your position in So
ciety. IF your father has been successful
in raising hemp or packing hogs, you can
do what you please with impunity. In this
enlightened country it is money that makes
"good blood" and, of course, good blood
sets the fashions and guides the aristocracy.


Heiress writes to US that she will be
worth FIVE hundred dollars in cash, and an
undivided half of an old negro gardener
when she becomes Of age, and wants to
know how she can tell whether a young
mar is after her, or her property. |, is hard
to tell, but it is always safe to be on your
guard against fortune hunters.


What is the difference between maid OF
sixteen, and maiden of sixty! OF course
you give it up.


We'll, the frs, is careless and happy,
while the second is hairless and eappy.


ABEL T.-There is no harm in your pre-
senting to your sweethear. a gold watch,
Sut it is very indiscree, to give her much
jeweiry, unless you are certain of marrying
her and getting it all back.
Year: 1859

A young school teacher had one large boy,
chief. The first day lie managed to make
the school a scene Of roguery and confusion.
The poor teacher went home with heavy
heart. The next day she thought if she
could gain the confidence of this boy, and
have him on her side, she should have but
little trouble with her school. As i, closed
in the afternoon, she spoke kindly to him,
and asked his help to close the school-r pom
door. He readily complied. As she turned
homeward, Joe followed. At length she in
quired,


Have you sny sister, Josephr


The right cord was touched.


Il had Dne sister, he said, little Mary,
but she died;' and thus encouraged by the
ready sympathy of his listener. he went on
to tell that Mary was his only sister, and
.hat he used to take care OF her, and carry
her out OF doors, and draw her in the wagon
he had made for her, and that she loved him
more than any one else did, and always
used to run to the door to meet him when
he came home. But she is tead now he
added, 'and have not anybody to take care
of me. She mad fever, and she did not know
me when | spoke to her, and in just week
she died. Her grave is right over here,' he
continued, 'and perhaps You would like to
sec it some time.'


The teacher went willingly with him. ask.
ing him still further about little Mary as
they passed along, till at length, as they ap.
preached the grave and sat down upon
stone near it, potr Joe could no longer wipe
away the tears as he had done, when, one
by one, they trickled down, for the .oun.
tuins within were broken up. He coveree
his face with his hands and wept aloud.


'Sne's dead he exclsimed again, and no
body cares for me now


Il will care fol you, Joseph said the kint
teacher, us she laid her hands upon the nov
uncovered head; and she spoke to him o
Heaven. and the happy meeting of tho.
whom death has scv srs' mud of O,e wh
''''' w. Us more than all earthly friend.
and who will help US if we wish to do righ,
i Then, as he grew calm, and they had rise
to 60, she told him Of all her own SORROW
Of the father whom sha had lost--o
her ionellness-o. her wish to be useft
| Thilo she supported herself by teaching
how hard the Wes,brook school seemed ,
her, and how she meant to do The best III