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Year: 1859


There has seldom been published anything
prettier, and never anything more womanly,
than the following touching poem, by Miss Proc
tor


Before I trust m! fate to thee,


Or place my hand in thine,


Before let thy future give


Color and form to mine,
Before peril all for thee, question thy soul to'nignt
for me.


break ell slighter bonds, nor feel


A shadow of regret;


Is there one link within the past


That holds thy spirit yets
Or is thy faith as clear and free as that which can
pledge to thees


Does there within thy dimmest dreams


possible future shine,


Wherein thy life could henceforth breathe,


Untouched, unshared by mine9
If So at any pain or cost oh tell me before all is lost
Look deeper still. If thou canst feel


Within thy inmost soul,


That thou hast kept portion back,


While have stsked the whole,
Let no false pity spare the blow but in true mercy
tell me 80.


Is there within thy heart need


That mine cannot fulfill


One chord that any other hand


Could better wake or stills
Speak now, lest at future day my whole life with
er and decay.
Lives there within thy nature hid


The demon-sprit, change.


Shedding passing glory still


On all things new and strange?-
It may not be thy fault alone-but shield my heart
gainst thy own.
Coudst thou withdraw thy hand one day,


And answer to my claim
That Fate, and that to-days mistake,
Not thou-had been to blames
Some soothe their conscience thus; but thou, on
surely thou wilt warn me now.
Nay, answer not-I dare not hear,


The words would come too late;
Yet would spare thee all remorse;
So, comfort thee, my Fate:
Whatever on my heart may fall, remember, s0'uk
risk IL all
Year: 1859

SuCe


If our local department has been better for
the past two days than before, it is to be attrb-
uted to the absence of our regular reporter,
who succumbed for forty eight hours to an at
tack of what in Western parlance is termed "a
gur," in the vernacular, chills and fever. Peo-
pie who have never enjoyed bout with this vig'
orous affection have missed series of sensations
to which all others are as pig iron to doubloons.
The primary symptoms are sense of of gone.
ness'' in the stomach, the diaphragm feeling as
though it were an imperfectly inflated balloon
floating amid space without ballast, altogether
in violation of the physiological unities. at the
same time your head feels as though it were a
bass drum, with four boys humping at each end.
This for about two hours when the chill comes
on. The chill is an institution that would, we
think, have more sorely tested the patience OF
Job than all the "boils" in the universe 1t
commences at the bottom of the spine and slow
Ily ascepds until it reaches the brain. Its prog
ress being about an inch to every five minutes,
the taller the man the liyelier the time he has
of it. When we say lively, we mean that the
teeth for the time being usurp the functions OF
the tongue, and chatter as incessantly Jas beVy
of advanced spinsters at country tea party
The only sound that can equal it is Pete Motifs
race horse solo on the bones. The peculiar SEN
sation of the chill can be family initiated by sus'
pending cake of ice down your back by set
of pulleys, passing over the ears. Draw up the
cord so that the ice ascends the spinal column at
the rate of an inch per hour, and you have toll
erably good idea of "the chill" Of course it is
understood that the experiment is performed
when mercury stands at zero, and you stand up
| to your knees in snow bank. After lying in
| this condition, under the weight of six heavy
quilts-whch impart no warmth whateyer-you


have an interval of rest. Then comes the fever,


and you pass through the opposite extreme OF


heat. You imbibe gallon-more or less-of


lemonade, and then, worn out with the shake,
fall asleep. If you are in a cheap boarding


house, the landlady may, perhaps, send up the


servant, with request that you will "please
| get up and do your shaking on chair, as the
bed isn't accustomed to rough usage" Such


things have beeen done, and may be again. 1t


looks rather unfeeling, but is nothing to what is


endared upon waking from that sleep. Then


comes the misery of the ague. The excruciating


head ache, which still remains. is bad enough,


but not worse than the impotenoy of ones un-


derpinning, the limbs feeling as though every


kneepan had its bottom knocked out, and every
| tire-plug one met in the street was stuffed re-


ception- chair, will extended arms, imploring


you to be seated. Henceforth we shall never


wish our btterest enemy greater misery than


the ague. Compared to it, all other maladies


become mere whimseys.-North american.
Year: 1859

COULDN'T DEclDE.-The other day, at Squaw
Hollow, IN this county, domestic fare-up oc-
CURED, which bangs anything of the kind that
ever transpired in these diggings On the day
alluded to a gallant young loFyec," accom-
panied by Justice of the peace, repaired to the
abode of his dulcinea for the ostensible purpose
of making himself a Benedict The guests were
all IN attendance and the smiling damsel in
readiness to he given away by the legal mag
nate, when in popped a brother of the intended
groom and claimed the smiling beauty as his
own. Here was a predicamert The lady was
unquestionably engaged to both of the brothers.
and evidently didn't care which of the twain
became her iege lord and master. AT this
juncture the old folks interposed, but only TO
make the matter verse, for they could not agree
as to which of the young gentlemen should be
made their son-in-law The whole affair ended
IN general hubbub the Justice lett disgusted,
and up to the present writing the yeung lady is
still single and Squaw Hollow in perfect up-
roar-P2acerrhe 05seruer.
Year: 1859

-lEA THREE-YBAR 0LD.-The Rome Sentinel
relates that q three-year-old girl accompanied
her father upon a visit to her grandparent in
the country, where blessing is invoked by the
white haired patriarch before each meal. The
custom was one with which our little friend
had not been made familiar Mt home and Of
course on the first occasion she was silent with
interest and curious watc chfulness. But when
the family gathered around the board the Sec
Ond time after the commencement of her visit,
she was prepared for the preliminary religious
ceremony. and observing that her father did
not seem duly conscious Of the approaching
solemnity, she called him to order by saying
with stern gravity, "Bs stiH, papa-er9ua-
papa's IS gotns 70 talk to his plate, pysny
soon ~
Year: 1859

The EVERLASTING PIANo-A writer TO the
Cleveland Herald thus speaks of the pianos that t
NIL the streets Of that city with melody.
through the open parlOr windows, of a summer
evening:


l start to 60 up Euclid street; from the win
dow OF No -, on the right a maiden lady of
certain age and very uncertain voice. attempts
to induce some one to Whisper what thou
teelest, while at the same time, from No. -,
on the other side, young Miss is advising Miss
Lucy - to take her time rush on. and at
No, on the right, two young ladies. with
much voice and less knowledge of SOlfeggio,
are trying TO attract attention by screaming,
~ Hear me, NOrma"-and their brother. with
no very clear conception of either harmony
or tempo, IS folndering through the accompa-
niment.


passed on, and at NO.-a Young lady was
lmplOring some one to Come, oh come with
me over some kind Of sea, while Just oppo-
site am told that some one is Ever dream
ing Of while another informs me that
Fierce flames are raging she RACES
while she tells il, and yet another with nasal
voice is swelling on that ''ponderous' song of
"Gentle Annie is anything but gentle by
TINS time, for the terrible thing. has been
hddied, sung, blown, whistled, footed and
ground till the ear fairly aches in vain attempts
to receive and carry that terrible upper third
In the third measure to the tympanum.
Year: 1859

RooT Crops FOR STOCK FEEDING.--We beg
again to remind our readers. particularly
those who are engaged in dairy and stock
farming, to appropriate full amount of land
to root growing. Carrots, beets, turnips
parsnips, may all be raised with profit, wher-
ever stock is to be fed. For horses, carrots
are invaluable. For milch cows, they not
only furnish milk of superior flavor, butter
of fine color and odor. but when used as a
portion of their food they guaranty health
ful condition. The power of the poetic acid
of the carrot to gelatinize all vegetable mat
ter held in solution in the stomach, puts its
contents in such n condition that the peris-
taltic motion of the intestines can manage 1t.
Flatulence is prevented, and thorough diges-
tion secured. The dung of the horse, fed
partly on carrots, never contains the unde-
composed shell Of the oat. nor large amounts
OF starch unapproprated and it is for this
reason that IA bushel of oats and bushel of
carrots will do more for the horse than two
bushels of oats--and not because the carrot
contains as much nesh-making material as
the oat, but because it causes all the flesh
making material of the oat to be appropriated
instead of being voded with the excretia For
cows and oxen, other roots may occasionally
be substituted with profit, as variety to all
animals is pleasing in their food and no one
should be continuously used Since the in
PRODUCTION of pulping machines, pulpcd roo s
mixed with cut hay, cut straw, and other
cheap material, add much to the economy of
the farm as well as to the health Of the cat
tle.- Working Farmer.
Year: 1859

"A MARRIAGE DECLARED. There was ono
case of some little interest, which came be-
fore th e Court last week, says The Clarendon
Is. C.) Banner, to test the validity Of
marriage. 1t came up in the form of an ac-
ton, to recover from the defendant compen-
sation for the board of his wife Some
eighteen months since, a marriage ceremony
was performed by an Individual claiming to
be magistrate, but who, in reality, was
not, and of toe parties united together, the
"worser half intended the thing as mere
Jest but it was sufficiently evident, from
the testimony, that the woman in the case
was not only herself very much in earnest,
but believed the "galinni gay Loth.rio' to
be equally 50. The honcym m,pn was ecidrd-
ly short one, as all parties admitted and
the ncwly-made Benediek departed after an
hour or so, III conscious that the silkcn
chains of the pseudo magistrate were tied in
too hard knot to be undone but by death.
The case came up on Tuesday, and the Court
very properly decided that the marriage con-
tract was valid and binding, and gave de-


cree for the plaintiff We need scarcely say
that we approve most heartily OF the law Of
marriage, rs it exists in our State. Nothing
further is necessary to establish the validity
of marriage than the consent of the par
ties, expressed before competent witnesses.
The weaker sex cannot, as in other States,
be imposed upon by the fraudulent practice
of designing men. Any one may solemnlze
marriage, and the mere declaration of the
parties themselves, in the absence of auv
precise testimony, is sufficient to es abish
the fact of their marital relation, as our
Courts have decided in various instances,
Year: 1859

The New WAR WEAPON distinguished
military officer having recently delivered q
lecture in which he presented the belief that
the spade in the hands Of the sapper would
be more serviceable in future cohicts than the
rifle in the ranks, Mary Alexander. of North
street, seized upon this as "brllliant idea" 4"
IN the course Of fight she had last night
with Sarah McGinis, and Immediately illus
trated its practicability by welding an iron
shovel over the head OF said Sarah, "to her
great damage and against the peace and dig
nifty Of the commonwealth, inasmuch as the
statute has not yet been amended 90 as to au-
thorize the use Of such weapon in case Of in.
dividual war. Mary, doubtless, fancied that
she was lineal descendant of Alexander the
Great, but was assured of her mistake when
she fell into the hands of the police.-f Bos-
ton Transcript.
Year: 1859

The other night passenger on the boat
leaving Staten Island, was observed hurrying
from cabin to cabin, declaring that he would
drown himself. The captain, finally resolved
to humor his fancy. A rope was according
ly attached to his person, after which he
plunged overheard. His mind now under
went sudden transformation, he padded
Justify about in mortal terror to avoid sink
ing; and finally besought to be permitted to
come on board. After being allowed ample
time to cool down, the signal was given. and
the suicide was hauled on board, willing to
live. lie sneaked quietly INTO a corner, and
was glad to disem bark at New York.
Year: 1859

WASH FOR FRUIT TREEs.-Those who
would save their fruit trees from the visitation
OF destroying insects, are advised by the
Working Farmer to heat sal soda to redness
90 as to drive out the water of capitalization
and carbonic acid then dissolve the caustic
na saaGn and apply it when % cold to the trunk, inks
destroy cocoOns and ova of insects, moses Of
oil kinds, decomposed dead bark, and present
Year: 1859

"THE lTINERANcY." THE long standing
custom Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
which requires its clergymen to change their
pastoral residence every two years, is threat
ened with modification. The propriety Of
extending the time to three and even five
years has been debated at several of the re-
cent Conferences, and there appears TO be q
strong opinion in favor of change. The
subject will be brought before the General
Conference of the whole Church which meets
in May, 1860,
Year: 1859

he will so far improve his apparatus that il
will be capable of printing a speech, which
be written off verbatim. to the great saving of
the labor of Parliamentary reporters. The
Photographic Eng. Netcs.
Year: 1859

do not think it a whit more surprising that
Christ was born into this world, than it is that
any man was ever compressed into the rudimenta-
ry form of infancy. Where did any of us come
from? The fact is we are casting our plummet
into a dark and unknown sea, when we consider
the beginning of any life here.
Year: 1859

If any one ought to be unaffected by the dis
tinetions Of society, and see through all ranks and
conditions of men only the great orb of a common
manhood, surely that one ought to be the minis
ter of God.
Year: 1859

The New Testament is extraordinary beyond all
other books in the heroism which it inspires in
men, in reference to suffering. Other books have
taught how to avoid suffering; the New Testa-
ment teaches us how to wear it and to glorify IT,
1t alone of all books faces the universal fact of
suffering and tells what to do with it..
Year: 1859

Suffering sclhshly borne 10 often extremely
mischievous. think it is Of the most terrible
things in this world to suffer and not to bc made
richer and more mellow by it, To suffer and
grow hard-to have suffering work on the lower
parts of your nature instead Of the higher is one
Of the most terrible things in the world. But
su Herring turned into benevolence ripeps mon fast
into Gods very nature.
Year: 1859

If you are afflicted, 80 to work for other mon
In your hours of rest you may shed as many tear,
as y,u please, God never grudges tear, and II
Christ were with you, lie would weep with you
too, but don't let your weeping prevent your
working.
Year: 1859

TAE SKELETONS, AoAN.-We spoke yes
erday Of three Skeletons having been found
in gravel bank at Woodland Csmstery.-
Yesterday on digging still further in the
bank We learn that seven more complete
skeletons were found and the bones of quite
large number were come to- still further
in the bank--how many was not known
when our informant left the workmsn. Il
Is now rendered almost certain that large
number Of the AboriginAlS were buried
In that place. How long they have remain
ed there, or to what race Of Indians they
belonged, may never be known.
Year: 1859

GJ-A lady advertiSes in the Journal this
morning for husbandR Bless her little mod
est soul, plenty of them can be had without the
asking certainly without parading the demand
for one in the advertising columns of news
paper She has evinced one good trait, in the
business-she pays the printer for the insertion
Of her advertisement
Year: 1859

~ The Montgomery Guard and Lafayette
Guard will parade in our streets on the 4th.-
They will also picnic on the County Fair
Grounds. The Turner'S will picnic in the
gr owe adjoining the Fair Grounds, on the 9TH
t is probable that other exercises will be had
hero on the 4th at least enough to interest those
who remain at home.
Year: 1859

across from one side Of the rayine to the
Other, to another train, Mr.. Pardee inn
proved the interval Of three hours in visiting
and examining the scene and the wreck, and
in attendance upon the sick and wounded.
Year: 1859

At the spot where the disaster happened
a small stream or branch is crossed by the
road, on an embankment 20 or 80 feet in
height. Here, for the passage Of the water,
is good stone culvert, which has heretofore
proved Of sufficient capacity to carry through
all that descended the creek. In the after
noon and evening before the accident, that
locality was visited by rain-stOrm Of extra
ordinary severity. The water fell in tor
rents, raising all the smaller streams, RAeT
the lapse Of a few hours, to an unpreoedent-
ed height. II is supposed the drift wood
carried down by the little branch Of which
we speak, accumulated on the upper side Of
the oulvert and caused an obstruction that
every chip, leaf and floating limb made more
serious, until the passage Of the water was
almost entirely stopped. The water thus
damned up, attacked the embankment which
Of sandy loam--more sand than loam--and
soon dissolved and carried il of, OF made


it so soft and yielding that as soon as the
weight Of the train came upon il, it gave
way,


Formerly tressle work occupied the place
Of the culyert and embankment; but Il was
removed for = more permanent structure
which was supposed to be equal to the pur-
pose for which it was made. The oulvert has
been built several years, and up tOl this time
no one doubted its sutiiciency.


Mr. Pardee, whose statement we give be-
low, is from Bloomington, III. He was re-
turning from the East to his home, in the
train next 70 the illiatsd one, and which left
the scene Of the terrible disaster. He ar
rived there at O'Clock in the morning, but
as the baggage, &c, bad all 70 Be carried
Year: 1859

HoRsE THIEF KILLKD.-A few nights since, a
farmer living near Danville, Livingston county.
Ill, hearing noise in his stable, armed himself
with club and went there, when he found two
fellows in the act of leading forth valuable horse.
One of the thieves drew pistol, and was about to
fire, when the farmer struck him on the head with
his club, killing him instantly, The other rogue
then fed, when the farmer examined the body of
the slain man. and found thereon s400 in good
money, but no clue to his identity. .....r
Year: 1859

CHARLESTON CONVENTION of
the number of delegates, each State will
have only the electoral vote in the Conven-
ton for nominating Democratic candidate
for the Presidency. One delegate from a
State can cast its vote, according to the re-
cognized rule, as well as FIVE hundred. A
two.t thirds vote has, heretofore, been re-
quired to secure a nomination. A new rule
is proposed, which may be interpolated upon
the Democratic doctrines at Charleston. 1t
is insisted by the Virginia leaders that the
nomination of a candidate shall receive
to be valid-the sanction Of a majority of
the States that are decidedly Democratic in
their political character. Ii is said to be
wrong to give the nomination OF candi-
date to the delegates from States that have
no power to aid in his election. This rule
would give the control of the Convention to
the slave States.
Year: 1859

eay. The Lafayette Courier says that an
attempt was made TO destroy that town by
fire on Friday night No less than FIVE fires
were started in different parts of the city
within twenty minutes, all of which we've
extinguished without much damage.
Year: 1859

A very remarkable circumstance attend
ing the nebnlH and clusters of stars is, that
they are arranged in strata, which seem to


run on to a great length It is considered


probable thatt they may surround the whole
of the apparent sphere of the heavens, not
unlike the milky way. which is undoubted-


ly nothing but a stratum of fixed stars. As
this latter immense starry bed is not of equal


breadth or luster in every part. nor runs in


one straight direction, but is curved and
even divided into two streams along very


considerable portion oft, The greatest vari
ETY. is naturally found in the clusters of the
stars and nebul@. One of these nebular
beds is SO rich that Herschel. with his tele-


scope. in passing through section of it,
only in the time of thirty-six minutes de-
tected no less than thirty-one nebule, all
distinctly visible upon blue sky. Their
situation and shape, as well as condition,
denoted the greatest variety possible. It is
very probable that the great stratum, cal


led the milky way. is that in. which the sun
is placed. though perhaps not in the very


centre of its thickness. This. would seem


to be the case from the appearance of the
galaxy, which seems to encompass the whole


heavens, as it must certainly do if the sun
is within the same. Philadelphia North
american. a 2 .
Year: 1859

have a fine sand bottom, and here the
bathingis delightful.


The wter is of a light green color
for ten or twenty rods; then ''deeply
darkly, beautifully blue" No fish can
live in it; no frog abides in it; few birds
are ever seen dipping into it. The
rugged mountains in and about it
just such scarped and scanned and gull
lied precipices as have been describ-
ing ever since reached Denver, have
a little fir and cottonwood or quaking
asp in their deeper rayines or behind
their taller cliffs, but look bare and des-
olate to the casual observer and these
cut the Lake into sections and hide
most of it from view. Probably, less
than third of it is visible from any
single point. But this suffices.
Year: 1859

THE USES OF CR1NoLINE.--A writer
in the Rochester Union, who saw De
Lave walk. the rope on Tuesday OF last
week, says his estimation of the value
of crinoline is wonderfully increased
since that event. just as the rain
storm commenced he saw beautiful
and fashionably dressed lady coolly
take off her bonnet and deliberately
fasten it underneath her skeleton skirt,
then tie handkerchief upon her head ;
and after the storm her bonnet reap
peared as good as new.
Year: 1859

SEVERITY NEcESsARY.-Assault,s shooting and
stabbng seem to increase in frequency. The Sc
vcrest penalties should be apportioncd the trans
gressors, or the condition Of society will soon be
uncomfortable. Gaming, cOwhiding and slapping
of faces are indgnities 10 which no white man
should submit severe penalties should follow
such provocation, as well as the consequent re-
sentiment individuals disarmed by the law
should be protecte from outrage by more pow
erful assailants but now any well dressed buck
may slap plain mans face or knock him on the
head with club, and escape with a trifling fine
for assault. Properly protect all men from per-
sonal indgnity, or allow every one to be his own
avenger. Imprson and disgrace the brutal as.
sailant, as well as madened retalator. The com
mon penalty Of assault is far to lenient there
are many large minds in small and helpless bod
les which may be easily beaten down and trod-
den on by greater physical proportion. The law
does not protect the weaker he sees his enemy
lightly punished and dismissed he obtains
knife or pistol and thereafter undertakes to re-
dress his own wrongs


This is subject for thinking law repairers to
reflect on. Manslaughter and assassination, with
their long record Of blood, imperatively demand
reflection.