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Year: 1859

"N.w HAVEN, Cont The Eastern annual con-
ference of the Methodist Church in session here,
Bishop Jayne. presented and passed resolution
unanimously that slaveholding is a sin, and that
the word slaveholding' should be inserted in the
general rules as one of the things forbidden by
them"


This is the same Bishop Jayne who recently
figured SO consIicuously in the Northern Metho-
dist conference in this county, but who took our
rentle hint of tar and feathers, rails, &c, and
left the State considerably ahead Of express
time. Such resolution as that adopted in
New Haven, came up before him while here, but
he advised its being laid on the table for The
present. The worthy Bishop saw that he was
not in his proper element, and would not dare to
advise the adoption of such resolution in this
vicinity. Judging from .he above however, we
see what he would have done could he have ac-
ted with impunity.


We do not think he will visit us again for
some time as his vile abolition nest here is up
turned, and most of the birds have flown North,
where they doubtless can build in a more genial
climate.


Hail, jayne and farewell ,--B5zhon Era
Year: 1859

NO quorum.


Here we find the votes sixteen in fav-
or Of Mr.. Jeffersons restriction to bare.
ly serea against it. and the States divided
sir in favor to three against it. But the
Articles Of Confederation Art. TX. re-
quired at affirmative vote of majority
Of oil the States-.hat is . vote Of seven
S,ates-to carry a proposition; so this
cause was defelted through the absence
OF one delegate from New Jersey. in
spite of vote Of more than two or three
in its favor. Had the New Jersey dele
Year: 1859

NOBLE SENTIMENTS. Condemn no man for
not thinking you think. Let every one en-
Joy the full and free liberty Of thinking for him
self Let every man his own judgment,
since every man must give an account of him
self to God.-Abhor every approach, in airy
kind of degree, to the spirit of persecution. If
YOU cannot reason persuade man into the
truth, never attempt to force him into it.. If
love viii not compel him. leave him to God,
the Judge of all.-John Wesley.


A woman made application to Justice Han
selman, in Cincinnati, on Wednesday, for a
divorce, on the ground that her husband WAS
confouhded fool The magistrate informed her
thet if that were held to be valid reason in
law, half the married women in the city would
be legally entitled to matrimonial separation.
Year: 1859

A PARAGRAPH FOR MoTHERs.-A writer in
Blackwood's Magazine considers the prevailing
idea of toughen;ng infants to enable them to
withstand cold disastrous and destructive
treatment. Although it may be true that
young animals have higher temperature than
old ones, yet it is believed to be facl that
the younger the animal the feebler its power of
resisting cold. The process of" touyhening
may be carried SO far by cold water baths and
exposures to cold air suddenly and seriously
to chill the vital current. Exposure to the
open air and the vicissitudes of the weather in
the process of tonghening ought not to COM
mence until the child has obtained the free use
of its limbs. SO that his own activity may coun-
teract the exposure aud assist i'll the toughen-
ing process. Parents should not commence
this system of toughening when the child is
merely passive in their hands. The principle
is that the child must assist by its own activity
in the process of hardening. This is the true
line"
Year: 1859

ENCOURAGING ABOUT THE WHEAT CROP
A gentleman connected with the Land De-
partment of the Illinois Central Railroad,
whose posi- ion brings him in frequent con-
tact with the people along the lines OF that
thoroughfare, informs us that for the last
week or two he has made inquiry ct every
person he has met from the interior OF the
State as to the state of the growing crop OF
winter wheat, and almost Invariably re-
ceived the answer that the crop is IN the
best possible condition all along the lines o. 9,
the Central road, and that where month
ago it was supposed that much of the wheat
had been sswinter killed." farmers are now
fully satisfied that there fears are ground
less.
As far as present prospects are concerned
there is every reasen to believe that Illinois
will this year raise a full wheat crop.-cAa
caqo Journal, 18th.
Year: 1859

; CUR1os1rlEs OF L1rERAruRE.-A gang Of
counterfeiters has recently been broken up
in Essex county, N. Y. Upon the person OF
one of the prisoners was found book con
tanning the rules and regulations of the
"Mystic Circle of Alchemy but principal
ly devoted to an explanation Of the process
es of galvanism and electrotyping. 1t is
supposed that the book has been widely
circulated, and many of the most respecta-
BILE farmers of Essex and the adjoining
counties are suspected of having abandoned
their honest labor for the manufacture Of
bogus coin.
Year: 1859

GREAT FLOOD OF THE PLATTE.-An ex-
press, in last evening, informed us that the
river Platte had risen above its banks and
was rushing down in a flood nine miles
wide. The Salt Lake mail either way, was
unable to cross, and the emigrants for the
gold mines were collected in considerable
numbers on Walnut Greek, waiting tor the
waters to subside. Fort Kearny was stand
ing upon an Island, entirely surrounded by
the flood, and cut off from all communica-
ton with the main land. This fully ac-
counts for the great rise in the Missouri
which is higher than we have ever known
it to be so early in the season,--St. Joseph
mo. y Gazette, Much IL.
Year: 1859

The correspondent of the Cincinnati Gnsettl


says that "the investigation ordered by the


President into the financial condition of the


Post Office Department exhibits much


worse state of things than was anticipated


Brown stated the deficiency to be provided


for at three millions eight hundred Thousand
dollars 1t is found to be actually between


five and six" We presume, then, the extra
| session of Congress, which, it is rumorcd,
will be called i'll July, will witness renewal
of the Presidents efforts to increase the pres
ent rates Of postage. All Mr. Buchanan's S
financial policy seems to be prcdicated on the
assumption that the people and the govern
7 Fment are two hostile parties, with dametri-
cally opposing interests, and that the chief
end Of the governors is in every mode and
manner possible to squeeze out money from
the governed. The precise legal relation
which his political ethics seems to assign to
his administration and the unfortunate coun-
try over which it administers mig ght be de-
fined as that of plunderer and plunderee -
Mr.. Buchanan seems to think that the Post
Office Department should not only sustain
itself, and all the extravagant mail contracts,
let to his favorites, but should also afford some
stealings as well as the other Departments
Tie uses this argument: ''the people should
support their own postal SYSTEM" as if all the
nfhnr pI, nf


those of the Post Office Department did not
come out of the pockets of the people.


The truth is that if the postage rates on
letters were reduced from three cents to one,
and the deficit in the postal revenue occasioned
thereby Gf amy supplied from the other
revenues of the Government, the whole cx-
pense would still be borne as really by the
people as it is now; the only difference being
that in the latter case it would be paid much
more easily. But the real difficulty with Mr..
Buchanan is that he needs all the other
branches of the revenue to support the waste
full extravaganza of his Administration, and
for such schemes as the Utah War and the
Paraguay Expedition, where the immense
military and naval forces of the country went
forth in all the ''pomp and circumstance of
war" to fight, and when they arrived at the
spot found nothing to fight with.


The Post Office Department is the only one
which is of much real value to the people,
and it is now sought to render it as useless
and burdensome as the rest If the Admin
istration persists in pressing this measure of
increasing the rates of postage, they may
expect soon to be instructed to abandon it
altogether and leave it where it properly be-
longs, in the hands of private enterprise.
The government has no right to meddle with
the matter at any rate, and the sooner the
present Administration puts up the rates and
the people blow up the system, the better for
everybody.
Year: 1859

SAMPLE LETTER TO MEMBER OF CONGRESS
The following letter which is published
verbatim, will give our readers an idea of
W hat kind of labor members of Congress are
sometimes calle d on by their constituents
to perform:


"Will you please to inquire in the patent
Office for Inc for patent rat trap that goes
by weight like clock that will catch from
9 to IL rats at one running down Il thin
has to be wound up before it will catch any
more.


81 wish to know if there is such patent
tharc when it was patented & when the
time expires also the name of the pateatee
& his post Office address


Il thus oblige yours"
Year: 1859

EB@There are many persons who
fancy themselves friendly when they
are only officious. They counsel not
so much that you should become wise,
as that they should be recognized as
teachers Of wisdom.
Year: 1859

Senator Brown, of Mississippi, made a
speech at the Cuba-stealing meeting in Tam
many Hall on Monday night last. Among
other things he said:


de believed that Slavery was of Divine
origin Applause; that God decreed it from
the foundation of the world [great applause;
that the African was destined, from his Gre
alton, to be the servant of the white man,
CONTINUED applause; and his opinion was,
that every one before him would be better oil
if he had niger to wait upon him. Loud
and continued applause.
Year: 1859

DEMOCRACY" EXEMPILFIED. The trouble
about the election of u. S. Senator in New
Jersey, is the refusal of the Senate to meet
the House in joint ballot. The House is
republican, the Senate pro-slavery, with
enough majority in the House to out-vote the
Senate. So the majority-professing dcmoc-
racy refuse to allow a Senator to be chosen
Year: 1859

SCRAPS FOR THE CURIOUS. III tai
low candle be placed in a gun, and shot
at a door, it will 90 through without
sustaining any injury; and if mus
ket ball be fired into the water, it will
not only rebound, but be aattened. If
fired through a pane Of glass, it will
make hole the size Of the ball, with
out cracking the glass and if the
glass be suspended by thread it will
make no difference, the thread will not
even vibrate.


Cork, if sunk 200 feet in the ocean,
will not rise on account Of the pressure
Of the water. ... s..


In the Arctic regions, when the ther-
mometer is below Zero, persons can
converse more than a mile distant. DR..
Jameson asserts that he heard every
word of sermon at the distance OF
two miles. We have written upon pa
per manufactured from iron, and seen
book with leaves and binding Of the
same material. \. San.
Year: 1859

The Democratic press endeavor to console
Themselves over the triumphant success OF
the Republican party in New Hampshire by
the single fact that the Republican maorities
are not in all cases so large as they were a
year ago. The slight falling off, however,
is easily accounted for by the assurance of
success which allowed many Republicans to
neglect the usual efforts, and by the cold ana
drenching rains which fell all the day of cleo
ton, keeping many away from the polls.-
Besides, the Democrats made it an object of
special excrtion to defeat the present incum-
bcnts in the First and Second Congressional
Districts. The New Hampshire Statesman
says:
Never, since the existence of the State as
an independent member of the Union, were
such extraordinary eXertons put forth in be-
half of candidates for Congress, in labor and
money, as in the First and Second Districts
Money in the utmost abundance was freely
distributed in the before mentioned Congress
sional Districts, and all the machinery ever
put in motion in an election canvass has had
full play, through which to defeat Messrs.
Marston & Tappan. But, thanks to the de-
termination of the gallant Republicans Of
New Hampshire, the purposes of the Demo-
cratic party have been signally defeated, and
the Republicans emerge in triumph from one
of the most important election conflicts for
the last four years.


Tho bogus Democracy are welcome to all
the comfort they can extract from the result
Of the IIew Hampshire election, and if they
can take courage in this State to- "pick their
tiints" and try their chances s-and will be
satisfied with the same amount of glory they
achieved in New Hampshire-we can GER
tainly afford to wish them joy!
Year: 1859

gemmed drapery around him, and has
retired to his regal couch and pleasant
dreams.


The hour is at twilight, when released
from the wasting cares of day, the mind
wanders back over the past, picking up
here and there a peerless gem of hope
which we have lost by the way, and anon,
standing by the silent monitor, the stone,
which marks the spot, it may be, where
lies entombed our best and brightest
treasures. The twilight hour, when stand
ing hand in hand with one we love, and
gazing at the rich, glowing, gorgeous ira
cery of blended vermilion, green and gold
which garnish the western sky, the hands
clasp more ardently, the heart grows ten
der, the eye moist, the voice soft and low,
and the rugged nature Of man vibrates to
the magic influence, and feels all the ten
derness of womanhood as he gazes and
enjoys, and wonders whether Heaven it
self, the abode ofthe sinless, is more beau
tiful.


The readers mind has already jumped
to the conclusion that there must be 4
loving couple lurking somewhere about
the place at such time. 1t is even so,
kind reader, and it is fact which we
have no disposition to conceal. Indeed,
we are somewhat anxious to introduce
them to your favorable notice.


Within few yards from the cottage
door, a lady and gentleman are standing
near each other. The shadows of night
is deepening around them, yet it is still
light enough to perceive that they are
both young. The young man has seen
about twenty-five years, is tall, we'll
formed and muscular, with manly and
Intelligent cast of countenance, though it
is somewhat bronzed and darkened by
exposure. The lady is about twenty
years old, of about medium height, pos
sesses form of unexceptionable symme-
try and grace, her large, full dark eyes
glow with unwonted luster, her head is
crowned with fine glossy hair of velvet
black color, and as she lifts her fair face
upward and gazes at the imperishable
stars as they come twinkling out from be-
hind the curtain Of day, We are led to
| exclaim:
Year: 1859

Several Of our exchanges in this Stale have re-
Gently published Jaw passed by the Legislature of
1856, entitled, " An act to secure medical fees up
der certain circumstances, the first section of which
is as follows:


SEC. l. BE ii enaeted By the General Assembly of
the State Of Tennessee That the owners of hired ne
groes shall be responsible in all cases for medical
attendance on their negroes to the pbysieians who
may render such service and no contract which The
hirer or owner may make the subject shall release
the latter from his obligation to the medical attend
ant: Prorrded, it shall be the duty of the hirer to
employ such physician as the owner of said hired
negro or negroes may designate.


The Columbia KTror having published this law
says: We were under the impression that it was in
the Code, and published it two or hree weeks ago.
but upon investigating the matter, we find the fol-
lowing to be the law in reference to the medical
bills of hired negroes. 1t will be seen that the one
to whom the negro is hired is responsible for them
instead of The owner, as is stated above:


The hirer of slave shall employ such physician
the owner may direct in case of sickness of the
slave, and shall be responsible for the compensation
of such physician. But if be is unable to pay the
same, rbe owner shall be liable"


every trustee to whom a slave is conveyed
shall be liable for medical attention to the same out
of the frost fund"


The first section published above cannot be found
in'the Code, although may have been passed by the
last Legislature in the commencement of the session
But it conflicts with the second section, which is
the only law the subject to be found in the Code
it is null aud void, and the second prevails as the
following sentence in a section of the Code will
show:


"And in case of any conflict between the acts Of
this session and this eOde the latter shall be con-
rolling" See sec, Al, Of revised Code


For the above second and third sections, see
J, 569 and GA Of Code
Year: 1859

G A. Morris and J. F Gray broke out of the Jail
at Lawreuceburg on the 18th. The Lawrenceburg
three months since, for stealing money, a gold
watch, and some other articles, from a citizen Of
this place. and Gray had been arrested and impris-
oned for horse stealing Morris is a Dutohman and
would be lead to think, after hearing him con-
verse upon his past history that he had been in time
a rather conspicuous individual" He says be
has occupied several poss of honor in his native
country, had always been considered not only an
honest man, but finished gentleman and cannot ac-
count for how he happened to get into his present
difficulties only as he says that the devil had got
into him" We trust he will be apprehended, and
that a few years service for the State will have
tendency to bring the " devil" out of him"
Year: 1859

VALUE or REAL ESTATE w had occasion
some days since 80 not ice the favorable feel
ing that was entertained in our city in regard
to real estate, and that many lots had recent
ly changed hands We remarked that the
number of dwelling houses was altogether
inadequate to the increasing demand for
them, and that a number OF families had for
weeks been vainly seeking for tenements IN
which to live. The existence of this fact
viii stimulate our builders TO provide, during
the coming season, for the necessities Of the
citv-and there can surely be for them no
safer and more certain Investment Money
lending, to say the least, is very uncertain
business, and men are very often severely
bitten in the securities they have taken
where they believed they were eXactng those
which we1o undoubted Losses occurring
thus are Of greater or less magnitude, and
too frequently press heavily upon persons
who least expect or desire them.


During the past few days some fifty thou
sand dollars worth Of real estate has change,
hands, and at figures which evidence mos
decidedly an upward tendency in its value
In another column vii be found list Of some
Of the sales
Year: 1859

mony of Gods Word being only in note, the AS
sembly Of 1894 had no business to put it in line
Book" consequently, its insertion was not the
work of the Church consequently, neither was it's
expunction This is an improvement. blinking
the original blinker, somewhat as if McCormick's
reaper should be so improved as to reap down it,


self, or the common scythe SO amended as to cut
off the legs of the mower instead of the grass 10
the multitude of words there wanteth not sn but
he that retrancth his lips lie wiso.-Independent.
Year: 1859

nent candidate; but on the other
hand, he would elicit warmer and
more effective support.


The Presidential battle Is realty to
be fought IN advonce Of the ,somsina-
tion,-and the decisive campaign is to
be IN the ranks Of the Democratic par
ty. If that party makes a sectional
nomination we shall have a sectional
canvass, a sectional triumph, and Z
sectional administration and the
North will be the victor. 1t Mr..
Douglas is nominated, by the act or
even the cordial acquiescence Of The
South, he will be presented to the coun,
try as national candidate, and will
have very fair claims to that distinc~
ton. So far as his political career is
concerned, he has offended both North
and South alternately, and is not like.
ly to be claimed AZ the exclusive friend
OF either and his position in favor
OF popular sovereignty is certainly a
very fair compromise between the
Northern claim that Congress. must in.
tervene to exclude Slavery from the
Territories, and the Southern claim
that it must intervene for its protection.
Year: 1859

We have the original in our pos
session, and those desirous Of inspect
ing it, can have An opportunity by
calling at this office. Mr.. WINDOWS
Know Nothing brethren in Ohio, were
not altogether satisfied with his false
denial Of being their associate, and
they sent the original along as a re-
minder.


We now submit to a s'candid pub
lic." Who is the Liar? William
Window or the Pioneer G Democrat s
1t is true, we don't belong 10 church
and Mr.. Window does, but that makes
no particular difference in determining
this question. VINO Is THE LIAR p
Pioneer d Democrat.
Year: 1859

A NovELIsT's MISTAKE CONCERNING THE
PASSION He INSPIRED IN A RUSSIAN PRINCESS.
A Russian Prince and Princess, who were in
Paris during last season and dazzled the weak
eyes OF the Parisians with their splendid way
of living, gave large dinner party, soon after
their arrival. They invited novelist, whose
tastes have often been admired. They did
not know him, except by reputation, nor did
he know them; still, the invitation was ac-
cspted. The literary man, who is as fond of
admiration as woman, soon took the floor
and kept 1t, for he is really charming talker.
The dinner over, both master and mistress
complimented him in the most hattering man
ner on his success, and repeated to him the
most delicate praises they had hoard their
with joy. AS he was going out Of the room,
tho Princess went up to him, expressed again
to him her profound admiration, and slipped
q sealed note into his hand.


"By Jove!' thought the literary man bow
ing profoundly to and looking tepderly at the
Princess. "My usual luck-she is dead in
love with mel Poor thing!' He put the let


ter in his pocket, and as he went home he
kept thinking: "Egads! these Russians have
taste Of the Great Catharine still in their
way VI nahipg loVe' HOW evluent u was 1
captivated her from the first! How she lis
tened to me Well, the little woman is rather
agreeable, is so-soish, III try her any how !"
By this time he had reached home, and after
he had taken off his coat he said: "Let's see
now how she writes" He carefully opened
the note and found bank note for five hun
dred francs Imagine his annoyance, vexa-
ton, humiliationl The Princess paid him as
she would have paid piano forte player. He
sent back the note in letter which he strove
to render ironical, but which he only succeeded
in making vexed.