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Year: 1859

Stratford, three miles the East, and Fair
field OH the West-a visit to either of which
will more than pay for time and expense.


Even we, then, though shut out from Sa-
ratoga and Newport, have here our own
Watering Place of fashion and for health,
just which you shall chose to make it, all
ready and in waiting. You, then, residing
in our inland cities and towns, whose en-
ergies are quite exhausted by attention to
your business and professions, treat your
selves to visit to Bridgeport, and there
breathe in freely the bracing air from old
Ocean, and bathe in its waters. And we
too, who are pent up in our large sea-board
cities, all worn out with the pressure of
city life exhausted nature demands alike
of us, that we should away to the country,
and if we can not find rural inland home
at the base of some mountain, or beside
some placid lake, we can find good home
at the Douglass-H House, with plenty of pure
bracing air and good bathing. The schools
are closed, the summer vacation has come,
and now away to the country. am bound
to 60 somewhere.
Year: 1859

We find the following clever parody on Wood
worths celebrated Old Oaken Bucket' in the
(old) spirit of the Times -
How sweet to the taste is the Irish potato,
As memory awakens thought of the plant;
Its dark yerdant vine-top and beautiful blossom,
In pleasing transition my memory haunt.
Ay, thoughts of the root in profusion once grow


ing,


On the broad sunny hill-slope adjoining the


MILL
AT the homestead, how many were raised there


no knowing,


For some were but small ones, and terc in The


hill


The mealy potato, the Irish potato,
The thin-skinned potato that grew on the hill.
That delectable plant | would praise while I'm


able


For often at noon when returned from the field,
| found it superior to all on the table
The best favored edible nature can Weld
With what eager appetite, sharpened by labor.
piled knife and fork with a hearty good will !;
Alas there are none of the od-fashioned flavor,



None like the real Simons' that grew on the


hill;


The mealy pototo, the Irish potato,
The thin-skinned potato that grew on the hill.
How prime from the ul-heapen dish to receive it,
As poised on the fork it ascends to my mouth ;
Noappeal to the pallet could tempt me to leave it.
Though affected by ." rot" or long summer
drouth
And now far removed from that loved situation,
Where used to partake of the root to my fill,
Fancy fain would revert to my fathers plant,-
ton,


And sigh for the kidneys" that grew on the
HILL


he mealy potato the Irish potato,
The thin-skinned potato that grew on the hill
Year: 1859

. Will you please learn me my verse,
mamma, and then kiss me, and bid me good
night?' said little Roger L, as he
opened the door and peeped cautiously in
to the chamber of his sick mother " / am
very sleepy, but no one has heard me say
my prayers


Mrs l. was very ILL., indeed, her at
tendant believed her to be dying. She sat
propped up with pillows, and struggling
for breath-her lips were white, her eye
was growing dull and glazed, and the pur-
pie blood was settling at the ends of her
cold, attenuated fingers. She was q wild
ow, and little Roger was her only, her dar-
ling child. Every night he had been in
the habit of coming into her room and sit
ting upon her lap, or kneeling by her side
while she repeated TO him passages from
Gods Holy Word, or related to him stories
of the wise and good men spoken of in its
pages. She had been in delicate health
for many years, but never too i'll to learn
little Roger his verse and hear his prayers


"Hush! hushr said lady, who wa:
watching beside her couch; your deal
Year: 1859

mamma is too i'll to hear you say your
prayers tonight; will put you in bed y
and as she said this, she came forward and
laid her hand gently upon his arm, as
though she would have led him from the
room. Roger began to sob as if his little
heart would break.


Il cannot go to bed without saying my
yers-indeed, l cannotp


The ear of the dying mother caught the
sound. Although she had been nearly in
sensible to everything transpiring around
her, the sound of her darling's sobs aroused
her from her stupor, and, turning to a
friend, she desired her to bring him to her
couch and lay him on her bosom. Her re-
quest was granted, and the child's rosy
cheek and golden head nestled beside the
pale, cold face of his dying mother. Alas,
poor fellow! how little did he realize then
the irreparable loss which he was soon to
sustain!


Roger, my son, my darling child" said
the dying mother, repeat this verse after
me, and never, neger forget it: When nsy
father and mother .fofSake me, The Lord
shall take NE up" The child repeated it
distinctly, and said his little prayer He
then kissed the cold, almost rigid, lips be-
fore him, and went quietly to his little
couch.


When he arose in the morning, he sought,
as usual, his mothers room, but he found
her cold and still!-wrappcd in her wind
ing-sheet That was her last lesson He
has never forgotten 1.-THE probably never
will! He has grown to be mana good
man-and now occupies post of much
honor and distinction III Massachusetts,. /
never could look upon him without think
ing about the faith so beautifully exhibited
by his dying mother. 1t was not mis-
placed. The Lord has taken her darling
up.


My little reader, if you have God for
your friend, you need never tear; father
and mother may forsake you-the world
may seem to you like dreary waste, full
of pitfalls and thorns-but He can bring
you safely through trials, and give you at
last a golden harp and snowy robe, like
those the purified wear in heaven. He
can even surround your death-bed by an
gel visitants. He is all-powerful-an ever
present help in time of trouble. VIII you
not, then, seek His friendship and keep His
commandments ? Southern PRESBYTERIAN.
Year: 1859

9 And what are Watering Places?' the
uninitiated might enquire Little would they
suppose them to be places dotted about the
country, by seaside, or mountain and lake
side, to which the elite of large cities resort
in summer time for health and recreation,
preceded or followed always by another
class for employment or better pay an
indispensable to the very existence of a
Watering Place.


Why say these uninitiated, Water
ing Places we have always supposed were
places, where the herdsman waters his flock,
and the teamster stops, as he journeys to
water his team Not so, the term under
stood in fashionable sense is now classic
term, and refers to all the numerous places
throughout the country, of resort in sum-
mer by the fashionable of the cities, and by
some who are not so fashionable.


They derive the name of Watering
Places, either from the facilities for sea
bathing which some ofthem afford or from the
mineral springs furnished by others; which
are found, or considered to be, beneficial te
health. And yet, many places, popular
resorts in summer by rusticators from the
cities, and as deserted in winter, as thronget
in summer, furnish neither but they arr
all, nevertheless, Watering Places.


These fashionable places are as numer
! Gus, as they are considered indispensable
Year: 1859

Ny sorrow is no dream-the earth has none
Whose bosom-chords are quivering for me-
II the unending universe bears one,


Nv mother-oh my mother it is thee.
and since the dark grave veiled thee from my


sight,


have endured the loneliness Of years;
Then let ne gaze on thee this restless night
Come, invoke thee with spell oftears.
know not of thy spirit; sighs float far,


To lose themselves amid the shades of space;
Thought wanders wildly on from star to star
But docs not reach its final resting place.
Well, let Eternitya strong barriers rise,


And mock the madness of my midnight prayer;
For though love rushes to the shadowy skies,
1t shall not seek to lure lost light from there.
No, no-I lend lone and listening ear


When every song-bird's weary wings are


turled


Then speak one world will not ask to hear
The mournful music of the angel world,
| gaze through darkness, but It's not to view
The far-of glory Of the spirit shore
DIiuE Tue JtsIrtlcsS bcduCl luhl hHcM


Ere life was clouded-I will ask
All my mind wanders, for the grave is deep,
And they have laid thee with its lovely dead;
| tremble when the moaning night-winds sweep
Above that place of silence and of dread
For icy earth-dews have o fearful power
They fall on lips and brow to leave no trace,
nd not onf spell that stirs this haunted hour
Can call them from oblyons dark embrace.
Oh. then, if earth nor Heaven viii ere give back
The beauty and the spirit that have flown
Ii none retrace the souls ethereal track,
III must bear life and the world alone
Then let my childhood's dreamy memories wake,
And chill the brow, or agonize the brain;
| care not though my heaving heart-strings break,
For then thy lost love viii be mine again.
Yet gaze on me, my mother when days light
Is fading from the crimson clouds of even,
And when the quiyering stars of the solemn night
Light the blue lonelines Of their far heaven,
And murmur to me, though hear thee not,
When skies are dark. and autumn winds are


wild.


Yes, if thy early anguish is forgot


Pity my own, and smile as thou hast smiled
Year: 1859

Near North Bloomfield, Nevada county,
On the 10th inst, bloody AID fearful deed
was committed, which one Of our Mountain
correspondents, writing from North Bloom
field, informs us Of as follows:


At place three miles from this, called Re-
lief Hill, at II o'clock to day a man by the
name of Ollnets killed another, his brother
in law, by the name of Pole in the bOr-room
of boarding house kept by Mrs. Todd. The
following information was obtained from a
man acquainted with all the parties nvol-
we'd, and the causes which led to the killing


The man Pole and his wife about year
ago whenliving at, or near Sweetland, parted,
in consequence of disagreement, the wife
charging him with having wantonly, and
cruelty administered to her person upon sew
eral occasions, corporal castigations. Some
time after the separation, Pole went to Re
! lief Hill to work at mining, and some two
months ago, Ollncts went also TO the same
place, and for tee same purpose, and took his
sister, the wife Of Pole, to cook and keep
house for him. Pole, bis wife being brought
in the same vicinity, took occasion to speak
unmanly and unkindly of her, traducing her
character as a virtuous woman; this very
much exasperated Ollnets, her brother, and
last night he having come to North Bloom
field to attend a Ball that was to have taken
place, but did not in consequence of non.
attendance of ladies' was further informed of
the i'll report circulated by Pole against his
sister; and to day upon his return to Relief
Hill, went to the boarding house where Pole
was, who was about to go to dinner when
Ollnets entered the bar-room. Ollnets sat for
few moments, then said to Pole, "Yo ou have
been lying about my sister again." Pole
said, that is a lie." Ollnets stepping to the
door, said, eff you come out here l can whip
you or any other man that will back you,
taking off his cravat, and asked Ollnets if
he intended to fight him fair fight Ollnets
answered by swapping a six shooter, of which
the cap only exploded, whereupon Pole
rushed upon Ollnets, and in the scuffle the
pistol was discharged, and the ball passed
into the floor: the pistol was dropped, and
0llnets drew knife, and getting Pole down
gave him four stabs in the breast, the knife
passing through to the back at each thrust
then another! ,!cutting four ribs in two, and
the heart also then another which severed
the breast bone in two distinct pieces; then
another upon the neck, and one upon the face
extending from the right eyebrow to the
mouth by this time Pole was dead and
Ollnets said that he would give himself up to
the people of that place, or go to Nevada and
deliver himself, and was permitted to go,
which he did, accompanied by another man,
and has not been heard of since


J. W. Denison, Magistrate of North Bloom
field, went up and transacted the duties of
Coroner, and took with him Dir. NJ Emerson
who made post mortem examination of the
body.
Year: 1859

CHIE-The revolution in Chile is Mt an
end. The last of the insurgents have laid
down their arms. A treaty of commercial
reciprocity between that country and Bel
gium has been established
Year: 1859

The Attorney General has decided that he
cannot reduce the service on the great Over
land route 1t will continue to be performed
twice week each way, at 100000 year.
The average number of letters conveyed on
each trip is 1000 The cost of conveying
each letter is SO the sum paid to the Gov
ernment is three cents
Year: 1859

! to note ana compare the appearance ana con-
dition of the masses there, with those of our
town and county. st noon and at night
young men from the shoe factories may be
seen walking home under cover Of fine broad
cloth. end gilt buttons, and peep at the
end of the coat sieve would disclose hand
so black, as to lead one to recognize it as
belonging to a Pompey or II Ceasar. Every
one is independent. One young man said to
me as he threw himself back in his chair
after a days labor I've earned three dollars
since : o'clock this morning. Girls in the
tailor shops earn $225 or S3o,per mo. Among
the women 'high and low, rich and poor,
there is a display of dress neat, rich and
attractive, but without gaudiness and
without meanness which is characteristic Of
too many of our country towns.


We may attend party. a prayer meeting
or concert,a promenade, a bail or circus; we
see and hear the young, middle aged and old
men, speak, walk. sing and dance, and con-
clude this one is u dandy, a singer or dancer,
that one a minister, or lawyer ora physician,
bat they are all Shoe Maksry. think we
mav salty saw the nr,.neritv Of llayerbill
rests upon the fact that her business is a
Lome business in another sense. She has
New ENGLAND for furnishing house and
New Fnslrnd for hetmarket. At the same
time the whole world IS her patron. Her
mea Of cluea:ion and wealth appreciate and
manifast their interest in those in humber
but as useful life. hll respectable classes
work and associate together. The son Of
manufacturer IS j9grneyman in his Gtthers


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Year: 1859

Joint manifesto proclaiming the fixed resolve OF the
Union to have Cuba, but especially to clutch It IN
moment at whatever cost. in case Spain should ever
attempt to emancipate the slaves held in that
island. The Cincinnati Platform demands the ae-
quisition Of Cuba. Mr.. Buchanan indorses the
demand in his letter Of acceptance his special mes
sage, ard in every way. Indeed, he told South
ern admirer in 1856 that if he could only acquire
Cuba and settle the Slavery question (Sgnihcant
coucatenaiiOn ,. he would be willing to die ana let
Mr. Breckenridge take the Presidency. lie has
since sent TO Congress Special Message on the
subject asking to be put in funds for the medtated
negotiation; and Mr.. SlideIls bill proposing to place
Tbirt, Millions 81 Dollars ct the Presidents dsPo-
sal TO this end. viii soon be directly before the
Senate for second time. If that bin, or its equiv
alent ia not passed before the Presidents term
expires, it will be because the Republicans are
strong enough to defeat it, And nobody on earth
can honestly pretend not to see that the acquisition
Of Cuba is calculated and obviously intended to
strengthen immensely the Slave Power in our
Union.


Now if our would.be conservatives really desire
to see agitation respecting Slavery queted, why do
they not frankly say to the Slave States that the!
must stop intriguing for more Slave Territory, aud
especially for that which is likely TO cost US long
and bloody war; Il Slavery is to cease to be
bone Of contention, must not such schemes as TINS
Of acquiring Cuba be given up How Is II poSsl'
! bic to have peace while the Free states are aa''y
subjected to new pretenses and exactionsl If we
are ever more to be at peace respecting Slavery,
must not the statu quo be maintained and fresh
projects for the aggrandizement of the Slave Power
be discarded We speak as unto wise men, and
ask them TO judge whether peace IS attainable
through that easy acquescence in every demand
Hhch is certain to invite fresh exactions' VIII
our Union-savers tell US frankly just how far they
will go and where they viii stop 10 their Difference


to the pretensions and e1actions of the slaveholdns
interest
Year: 1859

turn on the question whether the majority OF the
country shall govern il under the Constitution, or
whether the Democratic party shall be allowed, IN
the event Of its defeat at the polls TO overthrow the
Constitution, disrupt tie Union, aud plunge the
States into civil war, the Republican party will be
fou1d firmly planted on the immsveable ground OF
the Integrity of the Nation and the supremacy OF
the laws. Thus, bearing at once the banner OF the
Union and Freedom, the advent Of the Republicans
to power will bring with it the restoration to the
Republic Of peace and prosperity at home, and Of
dignity and respect abroad.
Year: 1859

Careless contractors received a severe rePrmand
in the Supreme Court yesterday. The case was
one in which a child had been killed By rock
weighing $50 pounds, which was thrown by a heavy
blast through the roof Of the plaintiffs house.
The Jury awarded the parents $4,000 damages. A
.e,r such verdicts would cause a sensible decrease
in the number of dreadful accidents from careless
blasting in the upper part of the city
Year: 1859

The South Carolina Legislature has adopted the
resolution appropriating 100000 for the purpose
Of military preparation to protect the citizens OF
"the State and their property from every enemy.
And the Senate has sdoSted a resolution urging the
Southern States to initiate dissolution OF the
Union, when South Carolina will promptly second
fhe movement.
Year: 1859

We stated yesterday that in consequence of a
reduction of wages, large number Of the hands
employed at Jones' Lock on the Cape Fear River
had ceased to work. We made the assertion on
what we knew to be good authority, gentleman
of reliability from Wilmington. Mr.. Gallagher, the
contractor informs that mistaken.


A young in our employ, who has been
working at Jones' Lock gives statement of the
facts He says that number of laborers from
Wilmington come up sometime since with the un-
derstndng that they to receive one dollar per
day and board for their services Mr.. Morris the
Engineer and Superintendent went to the Locks on
Tuesday settle with all tic men eIurioycd.


The whole force, with .he exception OF those from
Wilmington paid one dollar and twenty five
cents per day they paying the Company forty cents
per day for board These men from " ilmin.ton
paid according contract for The space of time
they worked. But the Engineer wanted them to
continue to work for the same wages they paid the
others. They would not agree to do SO however AS
far can gain information in regard to the mat
ter all left with the exception Of two three The
Company is unwilling to pay what they adver-
tised in the papers. Hence it is nothing more or
less than a reduction of wages.


If the above statement is incorrect, trust some
interested will correct We have no idea OF
doing the Company injustice, but if the above are
facts the public should know it. There shouldfeer-
tainly be uniformity in the wages paid.


Wilmington men not entitled to more wages
than any other laborers for their services, neither
should they receive less wages than the balance
the force. If the Company do not intend to pay
the wages they propose to give, they should let it
be known before the laborers commence opera
tons
Year: 1859




On tomorrow, four months will have elapsed
LINIAN was issued. Whatever doubts misgiv-
ngs may have had as to the succesa of the I'M
dertaking, have been removed from minds.
Four months have been sufficient to demonstrate
to us the practicability and success of the under
taking What then was experiment is a
fixed institution. 1t is unnecessary at the lapse of
SC short time to review our course in the publ
cation Of this paper. sul birshday-. -Sircsld ~s
live to see another, will De etter and more ap-
propriate occasion to retrospect


We have thought proper at this time, in justice
to ourselves and generous public, to refer to
prospects, and thank them most cordially. for the
support they have given thus far. Our pros
poets are indeed truly encouraging. We can now
point exultingy to the fruits of our labor. The
support we have received from a discriminating
public exceeds most sanguine expectations,
and if the present 81 gns of the times indica-
the encouragement and patronage have
received will be continued in the future. It will
be constant aim to publish paper which will
be acceptable to the masses. and worthy of the
people and community in which we live.


Our friends have done well, but they might do
better. We do not complain, but only suggest that
little more exertion upon their part would be ac-
ceptable and encouraging to us. Our Subscription
books are still open for the reception of names
and we trust that our friends will fit to exert
themselves in our behalf
Year: 1859

In neatly furnished apartment in a
quiet, but pleasant locality, in the city of
Wilmington, sat young man and his wife.
The young man appeared to be about twenty
two years of age. He was, indeed, one OF
natures nobemen, in all the fair proportions
that constitute an athletic maA.s Young, with
muscles properly developed, and frame that
had performed just enough physical labor to
properly develope it, he was fine specimen
of the genus homo.


His wife was lady some four years his ju-
nior, of fragile texture and conading look.
She was young and artless, and she was mar
ried at an age that educated her to look to her
husband as the only man uponlsarth on whom
she could rely; he was her home, her house:
Year: 1859

mittee meet in the Mayors office, in the City
Hail. It will not take us long to go there"


The wife cast one look at Frank-as much
as to say, "you are not going out tonight
are you 2"


Frank saw the imploring look of his wife,
but he did not fully appreciate it; if he had,
he would have given stern refusal to the
proposition at once. But instead offully un-
derstanding the meaning of his wife's look, he
put on his hat and the two retired together,
to report OIL political canvas.


We shall not follow them to the meeting OF
the committee, or note their sayings and do
ings for the present.
Year: 1859

have for long time intended to write a
story founded upon the current events that
have been, and arc continually transpiring
around us, but never till now did the oppor-
tunity offer to carry out the earnest wishes
of my heart. In the present story hope !
shall interestsome young man, who has never
been communicated by the Vaccinations Of the
ofIice-seeker. Iftheiris one rock ir the stream
of life more dangerous than another, it is the
political one-it is the rock upon which so
many bright hopes have been split. 1t shall
be my aim to delncate faithfully the true
character of the ofiice-seeker, and show in the
true light the evils of man neglecting his
business, to place in official position, men
who care nothing for their interest as soon as
the election is over. With this short preface,
throw this little story before the public to
survive or perish as it deserves.