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Year: 1860

ROBBERY ON WHISKY BAR RoAp.-A
teamster WAS robbed on the Whisky Bar
Road few lars since about mile above
the Cave. He had stopped his team, and
was STOPPING down to drink from a road side
spring, and when he attempted to get up his
eyes met pair of revolvers pointed a, him.
The robbers, two of them, got his money, a
small amount we believe
Year: 1860

The Pony EXPRESS PRoTECTED.-A teFe
graph dispatch states that the party of men
which went out from Carson Valley some
time ago to learn what had happened to the
Express and endeavor to bring it in, met
the Pony this side of Salt Lake, un. ier
the escort of twenty five United States
troops, who had already been ordered on
this duty from Camp Floyed.


Sac. Union
Year: 1860

Readers will perceive the cause Of the
above scurrious trade, to be the difference
between ''sent" and drought" They can
arrive at correct conclusions in the matter
without our indulging in 'the style" of the
Courier. In the above the bite aud antdote
will be found.
Year: 1860

These Waters give the most ms antaneous and perfct
relief and when perscvered with according to directions
fail to effect rapid and lasting cure Thousands
have been restored to perfect health who have tried
other in vain To all classes and to all constitu
tions they blessing and cure-none need despair
no matter how long the disease have existed, OF
however be- provided the organic structure
of the vital organs is not hopeessly decayed Every one
afflicted should give them an impartial trial.


TO VOCALISrS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS these
Waters peculiarly valuable; they will in ONE DAY re
the most occasional hoarseness and their
regular for few days will at all times increase the
power and heXibity of the voice. greatly improving its
tone compass and ceacss for which purpose they ar
regularly used by many professional vocasts.


JOB MOSES Sole Proprietor, Rochester, NY


Price IS cents per box.
Year: 1860

SAKE was poetizing in public, at Trenton, the
other evening, when the gas went out, whereat
SAKE told the audience that if they wouldn't find
fault with his own meter, he wouldn't mention the
defect in theirs.
Year: 1860

The Richmond Dispatch chronicles a
romantic story, derived from gentleman
for many years engaged in the prosecu-
ton of military claims, who obtained the
particulars from descendant of the par
ties that form the subject of the nara
tive. Early in the Revolutionary War,
man named Lane enlisted in compa-
ny raised at Manchester, Va, to serve
three years. The company went north
and joined Washington's army. Taking
part in all the previous battles, Lane was
severely wounded at Brandywine or
Germantown, and during the battle and
after was taken care of by brother sol
dier to whom he had become greatly at
tached, and who belonged to the same
company as himself. The term of serv-
ice having expired, these two soldiers
were discharged and returned home, de-
voted and inseparable friends. In the
meantime the tide of war rolled on to
the South, and they again enlisted to
serve in General Lincoln's army, at that
time engaged in the siege of Savannah.
In that siege they did their duty bravely
At last Lanes comrade was wounded in
turn, and was carried off the field in the
arms of his devoted friend. While under
the care Of the surgeon it was discovered
that his brave and tender companion was
woman! 1t appears that she had form
ed strong attachment for Lane, whom
she accidentally met, but made so little
impression upon him that he did not rec.
ognize her when he afterwards met hei
disguised as soldier. She was in de s.


pair when Lane enlisted, and under the
inspiration of affection she fled from her
parents, donned the Continental uniform
and followed him to the wars. What
ensued was proper finale to such ro


nance. The wounded woman recovered


and as soon as the twain were released
from captivity they became one. They
lived many years very happily together
and left several chiliren. Both the man
and wife received pensions until their de-


cease for services rendered as soldiers.
Year: 1860

Lot me exult in a tumult Of joy;


Blame not my spirit for chanting tune,
Wild as the notes of the froicsome boy


Sweet as the musical mathis Of June!
Nothing in nature should make man sad,


She laughs around in her thunder and rain;
Earthquake and tempest proclaim she is glad
Shaking the cobwebs of care from her brain.
Chirruping crickets that haunt the old hearth
Pewees and sparrows that nest in the caves
Bird, beast, and insect, all over the earth,


Laugh at the lubberly fellow that grieves!
Sunshine laughs out in the gay forest trees
Shadows are laughing aud dancing below;
Meadows are joyous with honey-fed bees


Fools only whine at the phantom Of woc
Hail is but laughter, that tickles the side


Of old mother Earth, in her winter of sleep;
Snow is blanket of laughter, spread wide


To cover earth's fun in a jollifed heap;
Stars laugh and wink ut each other ON high
Fun finds place in those far away clouds
Thunder, that carols all over the sky


Nothing at all but the laughter of gods
Year: 1860

Keep cool!-the secret Of success in life
Lies not in haste, excitement hustle, strife
This "bolting dinners" hurrying to and fro;
Keeping up one continued, constant "go;''
Taking your pleasure jaunts at railroad speed,
And never stopping aught to see or heed;
This going to China just to have chat,
Taking but one clean dickey in your hat;
These are the features of the time, own,
That give to modern life its zcst and tone;
But do they bring us real, genuine joy,
True happiness unmixed with base alloy7
Keep coo don't strive for sudden wealth too fast,
Fortunes quick made are seldom known to last
Year: 1860

The judicial statistics of England and
Wales for the year 1859 have Just been
published, and they afford the London


journals fruitful subject of remark
1t appears that there are in the kingdom
no less than thirty-ninc thousand FIVE
hundred and thirty professional thieves;
thirty seven thousand and eighty-eight
suspected persons constantly under the
eye of the police, and twenty-three thous-
and three hundred and fifty-two vagrants
having no visible means of supporter
in all, 104,9S5 criminals at large.


These figures make little impression
on the mind, as they are written on pa.
per; but If the reader will imagine the
whole of them brought together, as ono
of the London journals suggests, he will
get an idea of the number Of depredators
at whose mercy the subjects of her Bri-
tanic majesty hold their property and
lives. Organized in fashion they would
make more than seventy regiments of the
line-placed together in row they would
extend over twenty miles Of ground, -
and good walker would require four or
five hours of steady walking to inspect
the troop. Their direct cost to society,
supposing each man to consume two hun
dred dollars worthy of value year, is
over ten millions of dollars.


But this is only part of the expense
to which society is put on their account.
The police and constabulary forces arc
supported mainly to watch over their
delinquencies, and the greater part of the
prison and Judicial expenditures have the
is estimated that the rogues cost the
United Kingdom about s150,000,000 or
about double the sum spent upon the
Royal Navy.
Year: 1860

MANNERS. = Young folks should be
mannerly; but how to be 30 is qucs.
ton. Many good boys and girls feel that
they cannot behave to suit themselves in
the preserce of company. They arc
awkward, clownish, rough. They feel
timid, bashful and self-distrustful, tho
moment they are addressed by strsn-
ger, or appear in company. There is
but one way to get over this feeling, and
acquire easy AMI graceful manners, and
that is to do the best they can all the
time, at home as well as abroad. Good
manners arc not learned so much as ac-
quircd by habit. They grow upon us by
habit. We must be courteous, agrcea-
BILE, civil, kind, gcntlcmanly, aud manly
at home, and then it will become kind
of second nature everywhere. A coarse
manner at home, bcgots habit of rough
ness which we cannot lay Oft il we try
when we go among strangers. The most
agreeable persons we have ever known in
company were those who were most
agreeable at home. Home is the school
for all the best things.
Year: 1860

WATER. - We take it the Boston
Courier is not exactly an ardent advoctc
Of the Maine law. He says: awe have
been led to think, by what we have seen,
that there is almost natural repugnance
between humanity and cold water, and
that the taste for it is an acquired taste,
like that for olives or tobacco" This il
almost equal to another writer on the
same subject, who said: ave have come
to the conclusion that water is very un.
satisfactory drink, and besides il always
tastes of pills." These New Englanders
must be looked after.
Year: 1860

Judge Field called at our Office few days
since, (says the Culpeper Republican, and
shaved US specimen Of q natural chemical
deposit found in spring at the foot of one
Of the ranges of the Rocky Mountains. 1t
is of whitish cast, granular in its forma-
ton, and has the remarkable property of
spontaneous increase, enlarging its bulk as
it is used. 1t will, as the Judge believes.
make good vinegar, and is, in its natural
state, good yeast. 1t will produce excellent
small beer, which We know from having
drank some which he had with him. The
Judge is making further experiments, the
result of which he has promised to communi-
cate to US
Year: 1860

RuNAwAY.-Two horses attached to a
wagon loaded with corn, started off on a run
from the corner of Second and Harrison streets.
yesterday afternoon. running down Second
street to Gaines. where they were stopped
The damage was but slight.
Year: 1860

ED- The tide of trade across the
river continues as great as ever. BY the week
ly bridge report we notice that the number Of
persons crossing that structure has materially
decreased since the river froxe over.
Year: 1860

EE Wheat touched 80 cents again
yesterday. We did not expect it would hold
steady at the high figures for which it has
been selling for some days. Eastern markets
for grain and flour would not .upport it, and
they will not allow any profit at 90 cents
Year: 1860

INsURAscE.-But few people have an
idea Of the amount Of business there is done in
this city every year by foreign Insurance com.
paniee Thousands Of dollars is annually sent
East to swell the Golfers of the stockholders of
these companies. OF all the companies doing
business in Davenport, not one is owned or
controlled by individuals residing in this State
they are all teaches drawing the life blood
from our people. There is no reason why we
should not have two or three sound stock In.
suraEce companies located in this city We
would not advise organizing company on the
mutual plan, for we h ave no faith in them
They are only convenient institutions for a few
persons to make fortunes from they will never
settle loss if they can possibly avoid it. We
have plenty Of men in Davenport who are
abundantly able to move in the matter, and
experience demon strates that there is no more
profitable business than Insurance, if it be ju.
diciously conducted. Nearly every Insurance
Company in the United States pays good dvi.
dends, some of them ranging as high as .ffty
1er cent. We say then, that there is no reason
why We cannot do the majority of our insu.
rance business here in Davenport, with Daven
port companies, If the proper steps be taken to
arganize such companies. and by doing 90 re-
tain in our community large amount of mon
ey which now goes Esat
Year: 1860

tunefnl time. awaken and keep alive the prom
Use che SO kindly gave. And though she may
be the injured. not the injuring one-the for
gotten and not tie forgetting wife-a happy
allusion to the hour Of peaceful love-s kindly
welcome to . comfortable home-s smile Of
love to banish hostile words-a kiss Of peace
to pardon all the past. and the hardest heart
that ever locked itself within the breast of
selfish man. will soften to her charms. and bid
her live. as she had Hoped. her ears of match
less bliss, loved. loving, and content-the
source Of comfort. and the spring of Joy.
Year: 1860

Which is free from all unpleasant odor, and il Of
very light color, at SI,25 per Gallon. We
would invite all that are in want Of safe light,
and the best and cheapest light in the world, to
call and satisfy themselves that
Year: 1860

EJ- HUGHES is selling his goods of very
fast for cash, as he has marked goods down
to Unusually low rates. He wishes to do a
cash business, and TO do it on the principle
of large sales and small profits. He mas
been trying the experiment for some time,
and he finds it successful. He has made an
effort to sell cheaper than ever this season,
and he hopes to see all lis old friends and as
many new ones as possible. He is daily
receiving large shipments of goods. He
received Saturday by express some hoop
skirts.
Year: 1860

Bay There was no quorum of the City
Council on Saturday night, and consequent
ly no meeting. Last regular meeting night
it was the same way. On Monday morning
and Tuesday evening last there were calls
for special meetings, but no quorum either
time What's the matter with the "City
Dads" ? They are playing truant. They
will have to be put through course of
sprouts"
Year: 1860

SAVAGE. Some of the Breckenridge men
are very bitter over the prospect of having
to vote for State ticket which, if elected
will be claimed as the result of q Douglas
victory TO injure them in November. They
seem to prefer, if no Breckenridge State
ticket be formed, to stay at home on election
day in October and not vote at all. Here is
what one of them, writing from Wayne
county to the Old Line Guard, says:


VIM. II. Schlater the Democratic candid
ate for Secretary of State, resides in this
county, and was once a good Democrat, but
is now one of the most loud mouthed and
most obnoxious worshipers of Douglas in
the County. l, as we'll as many others, will
not vote for him or Oscar B. Hord, until they
learn to quit their abuse. | would vote a
straghtout Breckenridge State Ticket, as
then | could vote my sentiments. If we
have none, l will remain on my farm at
work, and will not go to the polls at the
State election at all.
Year: 1860

BO- We hope the Ladies will attend
Prof. Fletcher's Educational Lecture this
evening at Mozart Hall. They are nuch
interested in School matters, and the speak
er will give them complete insight into
the workings of our School System. The
Hall is comfortable and convenient of ac-
cpza
Year: 1860

g LIVE AND LET LIvE.--We would sug-
gest to those of our merchants and others
who, for the purpose of saving two or three
dollars, get their printing and other work
done at Cincinnati, that it is q course caIcu-
lated to give mechanics but little encour-
agement to patronize them-if they expect
to get living in this community, let them
first show disposition to foster their own
people. They ought to remember, too, that
this is game at which others can play.
Dry goods, groceries, &c, can be bought
cheaper from first hands than from them,
and it would be just as fair, just as proper
for mechanics and others TO send abroad for
such articles rs they may need as it is for
merchants to send work out of the city
which properly belongs here Vin. Sun.


The above remarks by the Vincennes Sun
are also adapted to this latitude.
Year: 1860

" feel no reluctance in answering both
your questions in the affirmative Were l
in the Congress of the United States, 1
should most assuredIy give my vote and in
fuence in favor of every proposition for ex-
cluding slavery from any territory acquired,
or hereafter acquired, by the United States.
1 should deem any prospective action of
Congress on the subject both legal and con-
pfituttona1 ~
Year: 1860

Corncd beef, properly sailed, and
cooked as it should be, is dish 1T for the
sovereign people , bui 10 eat salt junk,
such.as Too often exercises the muscles
of the jaws, is a penanee even for mai
tfactor Most OF the beef put up for
winter use, is spoiled by the use Of too
much salt, which destroys the favor, and
makes the meat stringy aud tough


When beef is fresh, il contains consider
able blood, which is drawn out by the
brine. If the meat is left in this mixture
it will require a much larger quantity of
salt to preserve H. particularly through
warm weather. My plan is to make a
brine by using for one hundred pounds Of
beef five pounds of salt, one quarter
ounce of salrpetre, and pound Of brown
sugar. This Is dissolved in just water
enough to cover the meat, and poured
upon It, When it has been in this brine
two weeks, take cut the meat, let 1t
drain, pour a fresh brine over it, and
then It will be good the season through.


The cook who uses COrned beef should
not b.. so ignorant or so indolent as to de-
lay putting It oEer the fire until an hour
before dinner. A good sized piece re-
qures three or four hours steady boiling
to do it Justice. Insufficient boiling must
be made up for by extra chewing Al
ways have the water boiling when the
meat is dropped in; otherwise the sweet
ness will be drawn out into the water. 4
boiling heat hardens the outer surface at
once, and thus keeps in the juices which
give it richness, and which contain most
of the nourishment. An excellent way
of cooking corned beef IS, to have large
boiler, with wire or wooden rack on
the bottom, for the meat to rest on, over
the water. When the water beils, place
the meat upon the rack, and put on the
cover of the boiler. with cloth over it.
to keep in the steam. The heat of the
steam will rise above the boiling point.
and penetrate the meat, and cook it more
quickly and better than could be done by
boiling il In water.
Year: 1860

purposes than decayed leaves. They are
hardly inferior to barn-yard manure
They are abundant everywhere, lying in
the forest and by the road sides and by
the fences in every yard. The wood lot
should not be stripped clean of them but
doubtless every farmers land contains
more of leaves here and there than be
can find time to cert OUT. Gather them
up by rakiug or by sweeping with laFge
birch room. Stack them aud pack them
IN the large wagon, adding side boards
as high as convenient; you will hardlyge
100 heavy a load. Cart them home and
use them as bedding for cattle and hor-
sesi use them for compos, N the stable
yard; use them to protect tender grape
vines, and shrubs and plants in winter.
Strawberry patches will fairly sing for
Joy under such feathery blanket. BY
all means save the leaves and use them. ~
I'm. AgriculfUrist
Year: 1860

If Brother Jonathan were as saving Of
manures as John Bull is, he would be a
better farmer. No one knows until be
has seen it how careful English and En-


ropean farmers and gardeners are Of
everything which can be converted In
manure; and this is one ground of their
superiority in agriculture. Now let us
repeat what we have often said, that few
things are more valuable for feriilizing
Year: 1860

Don't quarrel with your Conscience
Own up when she accuses-be ashamed
of your wrong doings, and reform, and
thus escape her upbraidings. 1t is true
that conscience mskes towards Of us all,
but the fault is with ourselves, and not
with conscience. Deal justly with all
hearts, pay for your newspaper. and be
assured that conscience will permit you
to sleep as sound as when you were q
nesting on your mothers bosom.
Year: 1860

There are some things which it Is al
lowabIe TO write, which had better not be
printed; some things which one may
speak in very private conversation,
which be would not commit to paper !;
and some things which he may think Of.
which he would not utter TO his most in-
innate friend and finally, some things
which it is shame even 10 thiBk Of
Prof Park.
Year: 1860

it fifty per cent; for the world, and espe-
cially ourselves, would, nevertheless, be
obliged to buy their Cotton, rice and tobac-
co. The European nations would not OBJ
ject to this mode of taxation, as their pro-
dncts and manufactures would be admitted
free of duty.


A Southern Confederacy is thus a very
practicable thing, and the ambitious Re-
publican leaders will find the brilliant do
miuiou at which they grasp perish in their
hot breath, before their hands have touch
ed it.


The South has been driven by the North
into cold analysis of the worth of that
grand Union which had a halo Of immortal
ity about it, and they are on the very verge
of declaring, that, in the present condition
of the Northern mind, they are better out
of it. The brave and gallant Douglas, af-
ter having made an unprecedented canvass
of the Atlantic slope, and Of the Lake and
Mississippi valleys, has gone to the Gulf
States, risking everything, to assure the ex.
cited people of that section that the North,
whatever the appearance may be, will in the
end return to her Constitutional obligations.
Shall his words be sustained?


The Republic might still be saved intact,
if the North would at once look the danger
full in the face. The dread view would
warn US and save US. 1t is true that much
of the evil that now throws its gloom ath-
wart the country, is traceable to the crazy
intermeddling of the wretched old man now
at the head of Government, but our cour-
ageous and enlightened people should show
themselves superior to any ma-Administra-
ton.


Shall future history say that this splendid
year of 1860 was the elimination of gi-
gantic but shadowy glory? Or, wise in
our own day, as our fathers were in theirs,
shall we again warmly grasp hands as in
every previous agitation, and move forward.
accelerating even our present progres as, of
thousand men a day, hundred miles a
year? We have been so prosperous, with
nothing to let or hinder us-with such no.
BILE sympathies in the hour of calamity, in
the day of war, and victory, and peace =
We have felt ourselves every man sover-
ereign, when we trod Europe's old, stifled,
soil an American has been re
coguized as carrying in his individual sphere
an epitome of his glorious country. And
it is all gone? Has tpassed away? The
best and purest patriots South believe it
and he is a madman that does not fear it.


To create the Union was God .like-to
destroy it is Devilish.


Your fellow citizen,


GEORGE n. SANDERS.
Year: 1860

The banner of our land we love-


The fire, eyed eagle strong and bold,
That sits in glorious state above


Our azure stripes and stars Of gold
But ere the rights we hold most dear,


Shall under .swinish feet be cast,
The flag of golden stars we'll ,are


Aud fling its fragments to the blast
The memory of our gallant dead


The grand old patriot band who stood
In Glory's van, and bravely shed
, In freedoms cause their dear life blood =
A common heritage we claim


We honor every moss-grown tomb.
But more than cen this spotless fame,


We love the affairs of our Home!
For Home our last life-drop we'll pour


The Switzer on his mountain strong
Ne'er loved his sun-kissed glaiers more
Than we our land of flowers and song!
Then let US draw our sabre bright


For Home with love and gladness lit =
Nor sheath it from the bale-ire's light,
Til victory on its point shall sit!
When neighiug steeds to battle call


A thought Of Home will light each eye
We will not view our al,ars fall


We dare not see our heartb-fires die
When the deep drum and bugle shrill


Pour Wars wild music on the air.
A thought of Home each heart will fill
With strength to strickland zeal to dare
S. c., November 7th, 1860.