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Year: 1860

The characteristic qualities of woman
when true to the type of her being
her delicacy, modesty, reserve, and chas-
tity in thought and action-her sweet
ness, gentleness, patience, sympathy,
tenderness, dependence, devotion, her
sensibility to beauty and grace, order,
fitness, and propriety in speech, dress,
behavior, everything; her intellectual
faculties-more receptive than produc-
tive thought resting more ON feeling
than feeling on thought making her
more susceptible of culture and refine
ment than apt for grasping the abstruse
and rugged in science and practical life;
all these are charms for men, through
which man gets unspeakable good to his
own nature while mans harder texture
in body and mind-his strength, cour-
age, self-reliance, his grasp, force, and
productive power in the world of thought
and action, draw woman to him. Thus
each finds in the other what each one
needs. The womanly woman feels her
self strong and brave when she leans on
man, and mans manly courage grows
StOuter, ana at Lhe Same Illne Ine rugged
hardness of his nature, is softened by
tender reverence, as with one arm he
supports and with the other protects the
gentle one clinging to his side. In ev-
erything, in short, in which they are
made different, it is that each may find
their counterpart in the other. They
are made different in order that they
may become one Out Of this very diff
ference springs the closest and richest
union-the union of mutual love, whereof
marriage is the outward representation.
Only is this true married union, and in
the house of love that builds itself up out
of it, can the fullness and persecution of
the individual life, dignity, and worth of
each be found and realized.-Dr. Old
ham.
Year: 1860

want human sermon. Idont care
what Melchisadeck, or Zerubabel, or
Kerenhappuch did ages ago. want to
know what l am to do; and [ want some
body besides theological bookworm to
tell somebody who is tempted and
tried and who is not too dignifed to
own it; and somebody like me who is al
ways SHINING and repenting; somebody
who is glad and sorry, cries and laughs,
and eats and drinks, and wants to fight
when he is trodden on-and DON'T
That's the minister for me- I don't
want a spiritual abstraction, with stony
eyes and petrifed fingers, and no blood
to battle with. What credit is it to him
to be proper? How can he understand
me? Were there only such ministers in
the pulpit, [ would not go to church
either, because my impatient feet would
only beat tattoo on the pew floor till
service was over, but thank God there
are! and while they preach shall go to
hear them, and come home better and
happier for having done it.
Year: 1860

Rg"Liberty or death" is a strong
expression, which comes in we'll at the
end of a poetical grafton; but liberty, as
a fnality, doesn't amount to much


People have liberty to work or starve
liberty to sleep in cellar or freeze in
the street. Millions of freemen have
liberty to toll six long days in every
week, for very miserable existence,
with the poor-house and the pauper' S
grave at the end of it!


This is not ''liberty or DEATH is
liberty and death!
Year: 1860

A hap who has been up among the
Chinook Indians has been giving US a
few items in regard to their habits and
manners He says that when a sick In
dian is given over by the medicine man
they proceed to bury him at once. It's
40 use 10 make Il fuss about it--they are
bound to sod him, He says they took
an Old chap out and buried him in spite
o. hi struggles, and left him. The next
morning Mr. Indian appeared again
lie had scratched out, and at last ac-
counts was as good as new. How many
poor devils would scratch out if the y
could, is matter of grace conjecture
San Francisco Letter.
Year: 1860

| r e P l. Y.
Lewis Lee to N b. Watkins.
Ye have stolen all else from the African man,
But the color God gave him to wear;
The South is now stealing that as fast as it can,
Infusing light color and hair.
If your grandsire stole mine from the African


coast,


And stole him to make him his slave,
The right that gives you, sir, to me- is at most;
But the right of the robber and knave:
Or if my father was your grandfather's son;
And your father enslaved his half brother,
Am l your slave by the violence thus done,
To the chastity of my grandmother
Can one-fourth of my blood slave make Of me,
One your courts bind you not to respect?
Still three-fourths of my blood declares 1 am


free,


And your claims to my service reject.
For as oft as one pound of my flesh you can


claim,


My right to three pounds is far BETTER
just as good as your right to your body or name,
A God-gi'n right to the letter.
Now, Shylock, if you your one pound can get,
Without drop of my blood, or give pain,
Your slave code would allow you to take it, and


yet


My own right to myself maintain.
You have advertised me, let me advertise you,
That "Jehovah no attribute hath"
"Can side with oppressors." His justice is due,
And man-stealers inherit his wrath.


LEWIS LEE.
Underground R. R., Jan. %, 1850.
Year: 1860

Fa, mer's Omnibus.


There are pounds of sulphur In every
100 pounds of wool


Carrots consume 1919 pounds of lime to
the acre; turnips but so pounds.


A cubic foot of common arabic land
will hold 40 pounds of water.


It takes five pounds of corn to form
one of beef.


Three and half pounds of cooked
meal will form one of pork.


To add one per cent. of lime to soil
that is destitute of it requires 10 pounds
of Stacked lime to of caustic to the acre.


Clay will permanently improve any
soil that is sandy or leachy. Lime and
leached ashes will also benefit leachy
land.


A tun of dry forest leaves produces
only 500 pounds of mold; hence 500
pounds of muid viii produce tua-etf
plants.


Clay applied to sandy land is far better
than sand to clay land; 16O tuns to the
acre will give an inch in depth.


Pure phosphorus is worth from
$4,000 to $4,000 per tun; and as it comes
from the earth, it shows how scarce it is.


A rich mold formed by rotting clover
is worth more than the same number of
pounds of clover; 400 pounds of dry
plants will yield 100 pounds of mold.


Swamp muck, or peat, when dry, will
take up, without dripping, four times its
own weight of water; hence the necessity
of thorough drainage.


Limestone sand retains the heat the
longest; black, peaty soils radiate heat
more rapidly, consequently cool soonest.
and are first to experience frost.
Packing Eggs to Keep.


Eggs are now abundant, and of course
sell at very low prices. 1t is, therefore,
good policy to pack away sufficient
quantity for the wants of each fa mily, at
the present season. The practice i'll
which we have been quite successful, is
to procure tight barrel and some fresh
lime; slack the lime by pouring on water,
and in quantity until it becomes about
as thick consistency as ordinary paint:
pour little into the barrel, then lay on
tier of eggs with the small ends down,
then pour in sufficient of the lime paste
to cover the eggs, then lay another tier.
again pour on the lime mixture, and SO
continne until the barrel is full. Set the
barrel in cool, dry part of the cellar,
and the eggs will be just as good in Au.
gust as when they are put down.
Year: 1860

A garden is beautiful book, written
by the finger of God; every flower and
every leaf is a letter. You have only
to learn them-and he is poor dunee
that cannot, if he will, do that-to learn
them, and join them, and then go GA
reading, and reading, and you will fad
yourself carried away from the earth to
the skies BY the beautiful story you arc
going through. You do not know what
beautiful houghts-for they are nothing
short-grow out of the ground, aud
seem to talk to man; and then there
are some fowers-they always seem tie
be like over -dutiful chill lren-tend them
ever so little, and they come up, and
flourish, and snow, as | may say, tlfeir
bright and happy faces to you.
Year: 1860

nN AND AFTER SUNDAY, APRIL IsT, $780,
~ lights on the Railroad Bridge will be
ranged AS to show the head and foot OF the piers
on each side Of the draw passage. Boats going
down can see the right and left hand Of the piers
of the draw from Stubb's Eddy, about one mile
above the Bridge. Boats going up see the
right and left hand piers from point in the Chan
mel opposite the foot of the Island, fourth of
a mile below the Bridge.


Tie green Signal Light on the Staff at the foot
of the pier, and the red Signal Light at the head
Of the pier will be continued as heretofore.


JOHN +. TRACY, Superintendent


Davenport, March 23d, 1860. mar26 -d3m
Year: 1860

GAs.-At the last meeting of the
Common Council Of the city of Rock Island
Aid Davenport introduced q resolution order.
ing the City Marshal to notify the Rock Island
Gas Co. to discontinue lighting the lamps Of
the city after the lst day of April. 1t was
voted down, five against two.
Year: 1860

RIvER.-There was not great deal
done at the river yesterday. The Canada ceme
down from the vicinity Of Lake Pepin and the
Minnesota Belle came up from St Lonis. There
was considerable throng Of people about the
leves waiting for something to turn up prob
ably,
Year: 1860

We understand that the Township
Assessor has nearly com pleted his assessment
for the present year. The figures will not be
quite as stiff as they were last year, though
the difference will not be as large a might be.
Year: 1860

Hook AND LADDER.-It will not do
to forget that Ball of the Hook and Ladder
Company at the German Theatre to morrow
night. The boys want q good alarm II, and
take this method of raising the means to pur-
chase it. The Ball is. therefore. a matter in
which all citizens are more or less interested,
Year: 1860

Be5 Gentlemen can procure equally as
fashionable and fully as we'll made clothing
house in New York


As he receives fresh goods every week
from New York, and most of his clothing is
gotten up expressly to his order at Devlin's
Excelsior clothing house, he is prepared to
furnish his customers with first class cloth
ing, at reason able and uniform prices.
Year: 1860

NATIONAL MANA Dram Lincoln is i'll
favor of carrying out the compromises Of
the Constitution in good faith. We hear it
stated that in his Cincinnati speech last fall,
he asserted thai the South was entitled by
the Constitution t" an efficient Fugitive Slave
Law, and that she ought TO have it, Under
his ADMINISTRATION, our Southern brethren
will get alt their just rights without hesita-
ton or grudging-
Year: 1860

NEW IcE CREAM SALooN--We would al
wise onr friends, who wish To keep cool this
hot weather to go TO BRICKLEYs s New Ice
Cream Rooms, and try some of his delicious
lee Cream-on Second street, between Main
and Locust streets. See his advertisement
Year: 1860

/ often think each tottering form


That limps along in life's decline,
! Once bore Il heart rs young, as warm,


AS full OF idle thoughts as mine
And each has had its dream of joy,
His own unequald pure romance;
Commencing when the blushing boy


First thrills at lovely woman's glance.
And each could tell his tale OF youth,


Would think its scenes of love evince
More passion, more uncarthly truth,
Than any tale before or since.
Yes, they could tell of tender lays,


At midnight penned in classic shade,
OF days more bright than modern days


And maids more fair than modern maid.
OF whispers in q willing car,


OF kisses on ii bluShing cheek,
Each kiss, each whisper, far too dear,


Our modern lips to give or speak;
Of passion, too, untimely crossed,


OF passions slighted or betrayed
1Ot kindred spirits early lost


And buds that blossom but to fade.
OF beamine eyes and tre3ses gay,


Elastic form and noble brow.
And forms that have all passed away,


And left them what we See them now.
And is it thus-is human love


So very light and frail thing?
And must youth brightest vision move


Forever OH Times restless wing
Must all the eyes that still are bright,


And all the lips that talk of bliss,
And all the forms so fair to sight,


Hereafter only come TO this
Then what are earth best visions worth,


If We at length must leave them thus
If all, we value most on earth


Ere long must fade away from us
Year: 1860

engineer on the New Jersey Central road, was in
stantly killed this morning, a train running over
him. He was single man, highly esteemed ant
considered one of the best engineers on the road
He was well known in New York
Year: 1860

In lot of Peruvian guano, received at Peters


burg, Va, has been found the remains of the hand
| of a human being, about twice the usual size of


that member of those living; which shows


that of men Of extraordinary size once in
habted that mart of the world
Year: 1860

The following copies of a document and pro-
clamation received from Annapolis yesterday by
Sheriff Dutton in the matter of the removal of
Judge Stump from the position of Judge of the
Criminal Court of Baltimore city:
Year: 1860

A YoUNG PARLIAMENTARIAN.-The present Page
of the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
first appointed to office by Speaker Boyd, is said to
be of the best parliamentarians in the country
knows perfectly all the rules of order and the rou-
tine of business, is acquainted with every member
of the House, and is very useful to the Speaker in
the discharge of his duties. He is lad, only nine
teen wears of aUa
Year: 1860

IIoT WEATHER IN MoBILE.-Thc Mobile Tribune
SAYS No June has ever entered Mobile 80 fercely
ms this; and what with the heat and the drought
and the consequent dust there is no comfort to be
found anywhere, except in the patient endurance
which was exhibited among the old martyrs. They
burned and sang; and that is what VIC have got TO
do, in order TO keep cool
Year: 1860

,AsnTADULA COUNTY, (O.) Aug. 10, 1850.


Dear Sir: Herewith transmit to Won the pistol
which came into my possession during the contest
tor freedom of slaves at Earper's Ferry send it
pressed wish to get possession of it. believe
that this pistol is one of considerable value. and
that would be justified in making it available to
the cause OF freedom rather than return it to its
iormer virginia possessor, (COl. Washington but
my regard for your noble stand in defence Of I'M
man liberty prompts me to send it to you, with full
permission to dispose of it as you may think best.


AS my name viii not be necessary in this matter
beg leave to withhold it, and subscribe myself
yours, truly,


mn A FRIEND OF LIBERTY.
New York '
Year: 1860

JEFFERSON COUNTY, (VA.) Oct. Is, 1860.


Sir 1t affords me pleasure to acknowledge the
receipt of the pistol and also the accompanying
letters. T' 10


BE assured l shall never be unmindrul Of the
courtesy you have done me, and should anv simi-
lar occasion be presented to me it shall not be per
mltted to pass without a full reciprocity on nv
part The pistol OF itself is of no intrinsic value
as compared with the improved arms of the present
day; but 1T bears mystic value, as having been
presented by Lafayette to Gen Wasbinptnn at on
early period Of our Revolution, and used bv the
General during that conflict. Feeling myself IN he
only the custodal possessor of this relic its his
tory being national, | can only transmit il TO mos
terity with the injunction with which Gen. wash
ington handed down to his nephews his five swords.
VIZ "That they should not be unsheathed for the
purpose OF shedding blood, save in selfdefence or
IN defence OF their country, and then the possessors
shall fall but not renquish them."


L would to God that the interest of our common
country was more harmonious than the perturbed
condition of sectional and political strife finds it;
that we were acting as a band of brothers for our
general advancement, and not as fraterna foe
VINO cast lasting stigma sires who fought
SIDE by side in congenial harmony for the purpose
OF transmitting to their descendants Constitution
Tor the protection Of which they might rally As
around their hearthstOnes, and glory in its pre-
servatOn.


still trust that the reflection of sensible men of
our country will present to them the inetfabe dis
grace which must ever attend and abide with the
vandal hand which first causes tear to be made in
the parchment which is written our present
glorious Constitution


am, sir, very respectfully, yours
Year: 1860

PARRICIDE IN FRANCE.-A dreadful murder ,ras
committed short time since at Senailly, near Di-
JON, by young woman named Lucie Migniot, on
the person Of her father. 1t appears from the con
years of age, that she and her father had auarreed
on the previous night, respecting her projected
marriage with man of whom her father alt6geth
er disaPproved. Irritated by this opposition of
her Wishes she came to the desperate resolution of
waited till he was in bed and fast asleep she took
a chopper and struck him repeatedly on the head;
then, suddenly relenting, she drew her victim out
oi bed to the top of the stairs, near an open win
body back again to the bed and screamed for help.
When the neighbors came, she acknowledged her
guilt, and was taken into custody. On the follow
ing day she conrved to elude the vigilance of the
gendarme who had her in charge and threw her
sell INTO well. She was, however, got out al
most unhurt, and afterwards lodged in the prison
of Semur
Year: 1860

A SINGULAR DEsIRE.-A citizen of Berlin, Prus-
sa, man in comfortable circumstances, is peri
odically attacked with desire to knock off hats.
He afterwards makes up the loss to the astonished
victim of this strange fancy by the payment of
three thalers. According to the calculation of his
family in the past year he has been obliged to make
good the loss of two hundred and sixty seven hats
At a recent musical festival fty-three hats were
sacrificed to this curious frenzy, and for the eve
ning's entertainment he paid hundred and ffty-
nine thalers.
Year: 1860

On account OF the heavy swell at the bar, the
Vanderbilt did not leave for Europe on Saturday,
but sailed on Sunday afternoon, carrying with her
the news of the embarkaton of the Prince 1or home
The Vanderbilt is expected to reach England some
days before the arrival of the Enghsh squadron
Year: 1860

The mysterious circumstances attending the
death of Fannie White, New York celebrity.
have been investigated by the coroner OF that CITY
The matter created much excitement among the
Gothamites, it being supposed that her death was
caused by poison. The verdict of the jury was,
that death was induced by apoplexy
Year: 1860

REWARDS OF VIRrUE.-Virtue may be
mis- represented, prosecuted, consigned to the
grave; but the righteous wake not more as
suredly to the reality Of their hopes, than does
virtue to an immortal remembrance.


nF The most important lesson Of life ia TO
known how to be happy within ourselves,
when home is our comfort aud all in it. DO
not refine away happiness by thinking that
which is good may be better.
Year: 1860

HOLD ON.-Hold on to your tongue when
YOU are just ready to swear, lilo, or speak
harshy or use any improper word.


Hold on to your hand when you are about
ready to strike, pinch, scratch, steal or do any
improper act


Hold on to your foot when you are on the
point Of kicking, running away from study, or
pursuing the path Of error. shame and crime.


Hold on to your temper when your angry,
excited or imposed upon, or Others are angry
about you.


Hold on to your heart when evil associates
seek your company, aud invite you to join in
their games. mirth and revelry.


Hold on to your good name at all times,
for 1t is of more value to you than gold, high
places or fashionable attire.


Hold on to the truth, for it will serve you
well, and do you good throughout all eternity.


Hold on to your virtue.-it is above all
price for you in all times and places.


Hold on to your good character, for il is,
and ever will be, your best wealth.
Year: 1860

The Milan correspondent of the London
Times relates the following romantic story
in which originated the report of Garibaldi's
marriage:


When Gen. Urban advanced with over
powering forces, the Caceiatori delle Alpi
had to- abandon their position on the Lago
di Como and fall back towards Vareso-
The town of Como and all the neighborhood
we're in CONSERVATION at the prospect of a
visit from the Austrians; the employees and
all those who were for Que reason or another
against the movement which had taken place
were raising their heads, the mass, timid and
without organization, was what masses un-
der these circumstances usually are; and
yet it was important to inform Garibaldi of
the state of things, and to give him like
wise details about the position of the Aus,
trians. But there was no one who would
expose himself to the risk of undertaking
this ticklish embassy. A young lady, not
twenty-five, the daughter of a neighbor,
ing proprietor, offered herself, and partly on
horseback, partly on foot, succeeded by cir,
cuitous mountain roads, in reaching Garibal-
dis camp. The General had gone out with
his chief of the staff to the outpOsts when
they met the courageous young lady, who
not only delivered her message, but took
back another equally successfully. This was
the beginning of their acquaintance. After
his resignation Garioaldi went to visit the
Iady's family at tLeir country place, near
the Lake of Como. His visit was to have
been short, but by strange coincidence he
had, shortly after bis arrival. fall with his
horse, in which he hurt his knee, and which
obliged him to remain in the house. He is
still there, but much better.


If the on dts prove true, this circum-
stance in the life of the General will not be
less strange than many others in his inter-
esting and cheekered career.
Year: 1860

A BEAUTIFUL ExTRACT.-The following
paragraph is from the Wisconsin Farmer:


To the majority of men we are satisfied
that the soil is nothing but dirt but to the
chemist who knows it's origin, its nature
and its capabilities it is wonderful mixture
of those beautiful elements, which, in their
ever varying forms, becomes the ambient
air, the liquid ocean, the precious opal, the
umethist, and the still more precious diamond;
or delicate blue bell and the violet, the
amaranth, the lilly and the rosebud, the
spear of blue grass and the cedar Of Leba-
non; or again the ruby lip, the lovely eye,
noble, palpitating heart, and yet more wonS
derful brain These are jewels of which
the soil is composed, and out Of which the
husbandman strives to force the food hun-
ger Graves. Hencsforth, as be turns the
furrow of the field, let the sleep of his
thoughts be broken by the reflection, this
earth be stirred up by ploughshare, is
doubtless composed in part of the ashes of
ancestral heroes, whose deeds are the his-
tory of the past, aud whose mortal remains
are the plastic material out of which we are
building the bodies Of men to-day.