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Year: 1859

En-. EMPIRE AS the time is approaching for


the Democracy to select their candidates for the


various Offices to be filed, it would be we'll that


more serious councils should prevail do not


wish TO be understood AZ casting any slight on


the various gentlemen heretofore named in your


paper, although they were apparently put forth


in Jest, yet there are men among them no


doubt, well qualified to fill almost any office in


the gift of the people; but it is notorious fact


that the Democracy of this County, and |


might say large majority of the Republican


parly-indeed the people Of the entire State


have for years demanded the passage of usury


law, allowing the capitalist a fair compensa.


tion for the use of his money, but their known


wishes have been unheeded, or frustrated by
lobbyites in the pay Of brokers, and wild cat


bankers, who systematically attend the si.tings


of the Legislature at Columbus twill not do
to tell us that we ought to be satisfied now, that
the ten per cent law has been repealed. The
simple repeal Of the ten per cent law, without
the passage Of Usury law, was a mere mock
cry and a snare in fact mere tub thrown to a
whale The financial business is unchanged
and am told that the two and three per cent.
a month flourish better now than ever, and


mark their victims with more unerring certain-
ty. Are we then, the mechanical and laborinp
portions of the community, to be yearly cheat.
ed of our votes in this financial matter, and be
told that we know nothing of money affairs.
that It's management belongs to the select few
who have been initiated into the mysteries Of
these latter day saints7 But there is point
beyond endurance which these gentlemen may
yet learn. IL is the yeriest insult to the COM
monost understanding TO say that the most
trivial matter must be regulated by law, and
The theft Of loaf of bread punished with i'm
prisoument, while the fnancers are left free TO
amass their thousands yearly ont Of the hard
earnings Of lahorers Why, sir, petty theft
fades in the distance compared With the prac-
lce sometimes enacted in financial circles 1t
becomes the Democratic party, then, which has
always been the acknowledged guardian Of the
interests of the labOrng masses, To select can,
didaes for the Legislature-determn men,
who know the wants of the people, and will
iearlessly advocate them This financial ques
tion must be met and settled, aud no candidate
need expect a very large amount of enthusiasm
in his favor, who is not square out on this ques.
ton A MECHANIC.
Year: 1859

PRooREss We hasten to inform the busines,
public that we have made material additions L
our already extensive Job Rooms, and are nov
prepared to do all kinds Of Job York in styl,
superior to any Of our cotsmporanes. We will
be able TO prove this beyond doubt on trial
Our prices are moderate--as low as are charged
for the poorest work. We respectfully invite
our citizens to call and examine our work and
prices.
Year: 1859

The FRASKLN RE.oPESED i-Messrs
Scbieble & striokler will reopen the Frank,
lin House tomorrow to the public, when we
may expect a pleasant time These gentle.
men are known to bs as glover men as are
in the hotel business here or elsewhere, and
they have put the Franklin in complete
trim.
Year: 1859

ls the Empire, and its party, any less re-
sponsiblo FOR what the Mississippian says


than the Republican party is for what Mr.
Giddings says


HThe Empire and it's party stand upon
the Cincinnati PLATFORM and we do not re,
cognize those as Democrats, north or south,


sho do not We are just as responsible for
what Giddings says as we are for what the
"Mississippian" says the one is q northern
fanatic and the other is Southern fre'eat,
er, and we do not hold political sentiment
in common with either Giddings, however,
was one of the Godfathers Of the Republican
organization, is now one of its high priests
and ", of course, in regular communion. As
long as he is in fellowship with tho party
and its leaders-as much a Republican as
any other, by virtue of his high iellowship
of course we bold you responsible for his
doctrines We "Can't do any thing else .
If the accountability does not suit you, have
him Tread out"
Year: 1859

The Administration has recently received
such evidence of the good faith of Great
Britain as to satisfy it in the belief that she
is sincerely disposed to fulfil her engage
ments with this country in regard to Central
American questions.
Year: 1859

VALUE OF STATE SEcRET.-The London
correspondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser says the discovery of the secret
treaties between France and Russia is under
stood to lave been made by the bribery
which, with regard to diplomatic "secrets,
is rarely known to fail The rumor is that
it was obtained by the Vienna Cabinet, at a
cost of 100000. and that the price is con.
sidered to be extremely low.
Year: 1859

A Significant Fact. Halls Journal
eff Health states the significant fact
one which should cause every lover of
humanity to aid in rolling back the
desolating flood of intemperanco, now
sweeping over the land that "out of
six thousand persons tried during last
year before the New York Court of
Sessions, not more than NINETY FOUR
were sober when arrested"
Year: 1859

HoR.cr GREELY advises the farm.
ers not to "contract" their WOOL
Contractors are seldom willing to
give any more than the pretty sure
coming price. Greely says he hopes
to hear that the price this year 10
fifty per cent higher than last year.
SO We all hope. Wool that was
worth forty cents last year, in the
Eastern city, is now worth sixty
cents. This is certainly cheering
The trouble is the buyers are very
apt to combine and run the price
down during the wool market time,


and run it up after It has passed to
our eastern market. II we were Q
farmer, in the wool business, we
would endeavor to perfect an asso-
citation which would prevent this,
by seeking the Eastern market direct.
Year: 1859

Daring Act of a Railroad Engineer.


The Lafayette (lndiana) Daily
Courier, Of the oath, relates TIE fol.
lowing:--


Night before last deaf and dumb
man--named Lane-met with q
thrilling adventure, and narrowly
escaped the loss OF his life, on the
New Albany & Salem Road, a short
distance below Linden. He was
walking I'm the track as the passen'
ger train came along, and the en-
gineer observed that he had paid no
heed to the warning whistle of the
locomotive, shut down the brakes,
but finding it would be impossible to
check the speed of the train before
striking him, ran forward, and
bracing himself upon the COW catch
or, reached out his strong arm just
lin time to save him. The imminent
danger of the brave engineer was
greatly augmented by the fact that
the deaf and dumb man had an axe
upon his shoulder, from which he
might have received serious injury.
i Lane was not a little astonished at
the unceremonioas manner which he
had been picked up, and without
icomprehending his narrow esoaps
Year: 1859

To the AlIllcted.--Let no false delicacy prevent
the invalid from seeking medical relief-the card of
DR. L. j. CzAPKAY, to be found in another column in.
dicates where to obtain reliable and competent ply
sician. 1t is seldom that called upon to bear
testimony in favor of the skill of any physician, but
sense of duty well as justice demands that we
should not pass Or. Czapkay by, without something
more than a mere mention. Unlike the greater por-


ton those who thrust themselves and their nostrums
before the public, whose practices empirical, DR..
Czapkay is gentleman of rare medical and scientific
atainments having held the position ofchef surgeon
Of the liberating army during the late Hungarian
Revolution, being voted honorary member of the
Philadelphia College of Medicine, and is possessed Of
all the requisite experience and skill for the


full practice of his profession 1t is to the and ad
vice of such physician we would recommend all
suffering from the effects of sexual private diseases
feeling assured that in all such complaints, whether
arising from Infection ndiscreton, sefabuse loss
of vrility he can guarantee from his extensive prac
tice, speedy and permanent cure. To those suffer-
ing from the effects OF physical and mental debility,
we would say let common sense take the place of
false mOdesty, and seek such advice as will save you
from untimey grave, and lead you back again to
pristine health, alt DR.. Czapkay whom cheer
BILE of coping with and successfully eradicatns those
sef-nfcted mseres the evils Of empirical practices
and all diseases of seminal nature DR.. Czapkay's
rooms on Sacramento street, opposite the Pacific
Mail Steamship Co IS Office San Francisco.


decl6-3m
Year: 1859

A CARD.-Itis is well known fact among medi-
cal men, that there has long been wanted good and
reliable preparation of sARsAPARILLA, as nearly
all that manufactured in the East CONTAIN SPIRITS
and some of them MERCURY, although protesting
not to do soconsequenty for all cutaneous diseases,
ETC., they are injurious instead of beneficial. Now in
the preparation We offer to the public willing
to show the receipt to any one-no matter who-DoC-
TOR OR NO DocroR-as every man has right to know
what he is taking:
Year: 1859

We call the attention of old line Wbias
and other citizens who hold the memory OF
Henry Clay in reverence, to the following
language written by Henry Clay, in his re.
port from the Committee of Thirteen, on the
slavery question:


The true principles which ought to regu-
late the action of Congress in forming Ter
ritorial Governments for each newly acquired
domain, is to refrain from all legislation on
tho subject Of sLavery IN the Territory aequir-
ed SO iong as IL retains the Territorial form.
Of gogerRment leaving it to the people of
such Territory, when they have attained to
condition Which entities them to admission
as State, to decide for themselves the ques.
tion of the allowance Or prohibition of do
mestic slavery"
Year: 1859

TnE TEHAMA GAZETTE will appear again in
short time. The editor, John Charlton,
says; Eer


By the assistance Of kind friends, we have
been enabled to save sufficient material to
print paper, which will be forthcoming
just so soon as we get our press out of the
ashes and put in order This we think can
be accomplished in ten days or two weeks
when we shall again be happy to greet our
Year: 1859

The SOUND STEAMERs.-Rumors have been
prevalent for several days that the steamer
Commonwealth, of the Norwich line, had been
sold to the Stonington company, to take the
place of the wrecked Vanderbilt We are in
formed that such is not the fact, although the
Stonington company did offer to buy the Com
wonwealth, and rendered within $25,0O0 Of
what she cost.


Negotiations are in progress for the sale Of
the old steamer Worcester, of the Norwich
line, to party in New York, who wish to use
her as tow boat on the North River The
Worcester has seen her best days. She was
capital steamer, and one of the safest boats
in storm that ever plowed the Sound. We
say this in face of the fact that we came near
freezing to death on board the Worcester on q
certain Winters night.


1t is quite probable that the Stonington boats
will, at no distant day, be transferred to New
London, as consequence of the new Shore
Railroad between Stonington and New London
Year: 1859

20 The old and barbarous system of let
ting out the towns poor to the lopest bidder,
is still prevalent in some towns in Connecticut.
The selectmen of Bridgeport attempted to do
this recently, and an injunction has been serv-
ed to prevent them. 1t is practice extremely
discreditable to any Christian community
The man who takes the poor to board at the
lowest possible bid, cannot give them those
comforts to which many of the paupers, by
reason of age and phys ailment, are entitled.
Whatever may be his desire, he is compelled,
by the very circumstances, to give them as
cheap food, and as little of it, as possible:
while their bedding and clothing will be such
as only beggars obtain.


The obnoxious system to which we refer,
does not, so far as our knowledge goes, at
present exist in Massachusetts. If it does, it
must be in some remote and benighted towns,
where actual and practical Christianity does
not exist. If there are such towns, they
should not escape the attention of the Foreign
Missionary Society.
Year: 1859

We are not quite certain but Gov. Sey-
mour's courteous return of the American fiji
busters, who were wrecked on British Hondu-
ras, was great joke. The present which he
made to our government was one, for which it
is obliged to thank him, and yet hardly any
thing could have been less acceptable. If these
piratical adventurers had fallen into the hands
of the power that they had attempted to in
wade, our government would have been rid of
a troublesome set of rowdies, that it is bound to
punish yet cannot convict, without taking
measures that will offend the supporters of the
administration. If the British government had
treated them rs they deserved to be treated,
there might have been pretext very sorry
one, to be sure, but still pretext for opening
new questions with England, and, bya display
of spurious patriotism and bogus spirit for di-
yerting public attention from domestic ques-
tions, whose discussion is operating with fatal
effect upon the administration.


1t is not the first time that an English officer
has sent an unwelcome present to another pow
er When Napoleon was in Egypt, he fell be-
meath the power that no conqueror ever resist
ed, the bright eyes Of woman. She was the
beautiful wife Of an officer of subordinate grade,
and the affair having proceeded so far that the
husband was altogether in the way, he was sent
home with dispatches. On his route he was
taken by an English ship, and the reason of his
mission being understood for the scandal was
no secret, the commander of the fleet, with a
malicious courtesy, sent him back, to interrupt
the dalliance Of the French general. --Proci.
dence Journal
Year: 1859

RHODE ISLAND PoLITIcs.-The State Re-
publican committee was in session at Provi-
dence, on Thursday, and subcommittee was
appointed to confer with the "American-Re-
publican" committee in regard to a call for a
State Convention. The two committees could
not agree, and so the Republicans will issue an
address to the people and call an independent
convention. The dominant party of the State
"a union of Republicans and Americans-is SO
mixed, that it is difficult to distinguish fish
from fowl
Year: 1859

"Some of the papers of West Florida are
agitating annexation to Alabama"


This is very good move. Florida was first
settled near 800 years since, it was admitted
into the Union as State before the recollection
of good portion of the present generation, it
has an area about eight times as large as Mass
achusetts, yet has never had the amount of
population, required by the Constitution, for a
representative to Congress If West Florida
should be annexed to Alabama and East Flori-
day to Georgia, it would probably be a public
benefit all round
Year: 1859

SPURR's SALooN.-spur will celebrate the rising and
the going down of odays sun, his spacious saloon
corner Of Main and Foster streets The hungry and thirs
y from every quarter invited attend partake
the bountnl supply of eatabes which will be up
Magnificent times at Spurr's tonight.
Year: 1859

The PRosrEoTs OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD
BILL In Congress, are anything but fattering.
1t may pass the Senate, but there is little or
no chance for it in the House. So the proba-
bility is that this important subject viii go
over TO the next Congress-
Year: 1859

WORCESTER MOZART SooIETY.-We desire
our readers to bear in mind that next Tuesday
evening the privilege will again be offered to
them of listening to another concert of the
Mozart Society. 1t will be the third of the
series of four, which were promised us this
season. Of the two we have had, we need
say no more than that they did credit to the
Society and its accomplished leader; but the
next will be in new field We are to have
some of the choice music of the Operas. with
the choruses in which more than one hundred
voices will join. While the airs of many of
these are generally familiar, but few in COM
parison know the effect of the chorus when
full justice is done. The "anvil chorus" which
viii be one of the selections, will also be an
illustration of our meaning. Lovers of good
music, and all who favor musical progress
among and from ourselves should be there.
Year: 1859

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BoLroN.-The Clin-
ton Courant states that early Friday morning,
the large mansion of Mr.. E. Reed, on the Lam
caster road, in Bolton, with all its furniture,
out-buildings, farming tools, grain and crops,
was destroyed by fire. Mr.. Reeds family had
but just time enough to escape, saving none
of their clothing. He was awakened in the
morning, at quarter to five o'clock, by the
smell Of smoke, and upon going down stairs
and opening a door in the kitchen, he was
driven back by the rush of flames, so that he
was obliged to finish his toilet in the snow
The fire took at the South end of the house,
and being furiously famed by the wind, did
its destructive work very shortly. The man.
sion was the largest in the neighborhood, and
has long stood as specimen of the capacious
houses of former days The amount of loss
and insurance is not stated.
Year: 1859

How A RAIN CLeUp EoRMs-Prof Wise,
describing his last balloon voyage, says: We
plainly saw that the southeast wind below
which drove us little to northeast at start
ing. had now supplied the atmosphere with
moisture enough to make growing rain cloud.
Slowly but interestingly the yapor assumed 4
milky hue. Presently it assumed the appear
ance of a vascular cloud then it spread out
and bulged down in the middle, and soon it
had the appearance Of a great udder, with the
water oozing through it, but more eopiously
ut and around its protuberant centre. 1t was
an interesting phenomenon, and it seemed as
though nature was unbosoming her mammal
to give the thirsty earth some sustenance. l
have noticed these udders and water spouts
before,
Year: 1859

AN AMERICAN SYSTEM OF FRAUD.--A few
days since gentleman belonging To Lloyds,
London, and who has Tor h2d) n son residing
in the United States, received a letter, pur
porting TO have been written by the sons wife,
vehemently urging him to send over Gl0 by
return mail, III order to save his son from
starvation, or at all events to prevent his last
breath from being drawn in the midst of pen
ury and want. The writer addressed her fa-
ther- law as her dearest friend although
he was quite unaware of the fact that his son,
who was single on leaving England, had since
married. Moved, however, by the apparent
earnestness of the appeal, he fastened to
close a fi0 Bank of England note in letter
which required further information; but there
was, nevertheless, a faint dawn of suspicion
on his mind as 10 the source of the appeal,
and before posting the letter he men toned the
fact to gentleman of his acq quaintance, and
like himself a member of Lloyd's. To his sur
prise this gentleman stated that he had re-
ceiyed a precisely similar letter from the Uni
ted States, and that another gentleman with
whom he was acquainted had received a third
AS it appeared to be impossible that the SONS
of these three gentlemen should at one and the
same time have been reduced TO Il state of des-
titution in different parts of a strange eoun-
trv. it was mt once concluded that the whole OF
the letters formed an organized scheme to OBJ
tain money by fraud; and the gentlemen al
first referred to, conseq uently posted his let
ter requesting further information, but with
out forwarding the f10 note which he had al
first enclosed,
Year: 1859

STOCKS OF PoRK.-There is probably now
the largest stock OF pork held in the seaboard
marl.ets ever known in any preyieus season.
and it must certainly seem strange to those
who honestly believed last winter that there
would be Il great scarcity of the article this
summer, where these immense supplies came
from. The exhibits for the lst of August. as
regards New York and New Orleans, stand as
follows for few years back:
Year: 1859

Itwould be well for young men to ponder
we'll the following experience Of Charles
Lamb, as written with his own hand:


"The waters have gone over me. But
ou. of the black depths, could be heard,
l would cry ou, to all those who have set
a foot in the perlous flood. Could the
youth to whom flavor nf tho first wine is de-
licous as the opening scenes of life, or the
entering upon some newly discovered par
adise, look into my desolation and be made
to understand what a dreery thing it is
when he shall feel himself going down a
precipice with open eyes and a passive will
to see his obstruction and have no power
to stop it, and yet feel it oil the way eman-
ating from himself; to see all godliuess en-
ptied cut of him, and yet not able to forget
q time when it was otherwise; to bear about
the pitious spectacle of his own ruin: could
he see my fevered eye, feve-ish with the
last nights drinking, and feverish looking
for to-night's repetition Of the folly; could
he but feel the body of the death out of
which cry, hourly with feebler ou,cry. to
be delivered, it were enough to make him
dash the sparkling beverage to tha earth in
all the pride of its mantlIng temptation "
Year: 1859

1t is the duty devolving upon every mem.
Der of family to endeavor to make all be-
longing TO il happy. This may, with a
little pleasant exertion, be done Let every
one contribute towards improving grounds
belonging to his house. Ii the house il
cold and uncomfortable, let each exert him
Sc If to render it better and more pleasant.
If it is good and pleasant, strive to adori it
let the Towering shrubs and trees be plant.
ed, and woodvines be trained around the
doors; add interesting volumes to the family
library; little articles OF furniture to replace
those which were wearing out; wait upon,
and anticipate each others wants and ever
have pleasant smile for all and each.


Make home happy! Parents ought te
teach this lesson in their nursery, and BY
The fireside; give it the weight of their pre-
cept and example. II they would, oul'
would surely be happy and most virtuou
country. Drunkenness and profanity ant
other vices would soon die away--they woe
not live in the influence of lovely and re-
fined home.
Year: 1859

TIE BIBLE.-Out of it have come all
the pure moralities. Forth from it have
sprung all sweet charities. 1t has been
the motive power of regeneration and re-
formation to millions of men. 1t has
comforted the humble, consoled the
mourning, sustained the suffering and given
trust and triumph to the dying The wise
old man has fallen asleep with it folded upon
his breast. The simple cottager has USED
it for dying pillow; and even the innocent
child has breathed his last happy sigh with
bis fingers between its promised-freightet
leaves.
Year: 1859

What has become of the movement for the aboli-
tion of the preposterous system Of fees now paid
to the County Clerk, Sheriff, Register, &c, in this
city, Do the Legislature intend to do nothing to
correct the enormous abuses now existing Is it
their purpose that the people Of this city should be
used in the present to enrich small clique of poll
ticians1 Do they mean to indorse the doctrine
that because Mr. John Kelly spent $50, 900 10 get
ting himself elected Sheriff, the county should be
compelled TO reimburse that expenditure, and q
great deal more into the bargain Let US have a
little light on these questions. The public want to
know what the Legislature is going to do in the
premises.
Year: 1859

The temperature softened yesterday, and the
snow rapidly melted under.the effects OF warm air.
During the evening there was drizziy storm OF
rain from the eastward, and the streets were in
most detestable condit Oh, filled with soft sush and
almost impossible to pedestrians. The little
sleighipg that was left in the morning within the
bounds Of the city was used up before noon, and
that in the country in this neisbborhood must be,
by this time, quite finished.