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Year: 1859

to carry the mails and passengers through in given
time they finding the animals and wagons / know
of persons here who will take the mails across now
for sum infinitely less than that paid, Or promised
by the company but they viii require their money
paid on the spot. It is impossible that the company
make it profitable to keep their own animals
and have their own hauling done. In so extended
concern there will always be wholesale robbery and
destruction for who will be sufficiently interested to
hold every teamster and every laborer responsible
for the animals or properties delivered into his keep
ing.


have spoken OF the contract system, and desire
TO allnde to it in another connection. Gentlemen of
wealth and probity, who can give any security for
what they undertake, willing to take contracts
on the road to do work to any amount at reasonable
rates. 1t is mistaken notion that there is no labor
here, for parties acquainted with the subject have
told me better Ten thousand laborers can be got at
any time, provided the proper persons are trusted
with the work and are allowed to regulate their own
laborers. A very wealthy man from the State Of
Chiapas is willing to contract to put upon the road
any number Of laborers, provided the company will
give contract aud allow him TO work away from
white men, Indians do not continue steady, honest
and Industrious long after they brought into con-
tact with dssolute white persons, and therefore the
contractor asks to have his workmen exempted from
such influences. Good animals be had cheap, too,
this sthmus but they must be bought ty contract
| tors and not by the agents of the company 1t


would take the revenues of the Bank of England to


sustain the road If Ignorant consequential selfish
| agents are to be employed to make purchases and


regulate expenditures. But have written enough


for one letter. and will save some of my advice for
| another occasion. ... .a
Year: 1859

machine for the manufacture of ice is now in
oneration in London, which turns out three tuns of
that commodity daily. 1t is the invention of Mr..
Harrison, of Australia. The refrigeration as we
learn from a recent number OF an English Journal is
produced BY the evaporation OF ether in vacuum.
Year: 1859




on this Isthmus, will not allow the head of the eng
neer corps moment to devote to the business he
derstands. And if he directs his attention to &C.
counts why should he be perpexed with engineering
or vice rersa. 1t is mistaken notion, and the
pany has lost thousands of dollars by this attempt to
make the chief engineer the chief bookkeeper.


But have found fault sufficiently let me turn the
tune and become lecturer amendment. With
the amount of money the company has expended here,
a business man at the head Of affairs would have
made good road to Tehuantepec, would have
maintained confidence amongst the natives, (Which
is now entirely lost and would have had the transit
in such condition that had the company ever come
to need assistance the employees here would have
been satisfied to wait for their pay until such time
it could be given to them without inconvenien ce to
the general oficein New Orleans. No aggrayating
suits would have been hanging over its AFFAIRS no
embargoes would have been laid upon its properties
perils would have threatened the certainty of its
regular semimonthly connections, and it might have
bid defiance to the intrigues of its enemies. And
this is what is absolutely necessary It must change
its employees on the Isthmus, it must enter more
largely into the contract system with responsible per-
sons, and it must insist on contractors paying the
natives what they owe them. For instance, in the
transportation department the system might be
adopted here that prevailed in Nicaragua which was
to issue tickets to passengers for land transporta ton
which ticket should represent SO much cash. that
anybody may enter into the passenger business, and
when person has been transported across, the driver
to whom he gave his ticket may present it and get
his pay. Or, a better plan would be to make a con
tract with certain wellknown parties the Isthmus
Year: 1859

ing to do my duty as woman side by side
with other women. The fact that my
hus band is your minister gives me Of
right no position among you, and gives
you no right to demand of me any pub


lie service. IT my husband fails in his
duty, admonish him; but,iu the name of
Justice and humanity, do not establish
any supervision over me. Let my pri-
vate life be as sacrel from intrusion as
that Of any other woman. This have
right to demand, and will be satisfied
with nothing less


Silenccd if not convinced. was Miss
Phube Lane, and she retired in due time
with her committee of remonstrance aud
accusation, t. cir colors trailing upon the
ground. | lost no time in giving my
history of the interyiew,repcatlng almost
word for word the clear, srtong language
Of Mrs. Newton, that she might have
the full benefit of her own statement Of
the case. And | am happy to say there
was common sense enough and right
feeling enough in the parish Of St.
Charity to do her ample justice. Her
husband is still our minister, active, use
full, and beloved; but as no salary has
yet been set apart for his wife, she has
not assumed any duties in the con-
gregation, ,and from present appearances,
| think, has no intention Of doing so.-
But as wife and mother her life is
beautiful; and her example of far more
benefit to the people under her husbands
care than all her more public acts should
be,had she entered upon every duty that
VAS 50 generously assiyned to her.
Year: 1859




MR. SPEAKER: 1t is with unfeisned
sorrow that | rise to announce to the
House the sudden doccase of Andrews
Dyer, one Of lis members from the town
of Deblois. lie died at his iodoinps in
this city, on Saturday morning. at 3
O'Clock, of congestion of the lungs, after
an illness of but little more than two
days duration. On Wednesday he was
in this Hall and took the oathx of office
with the rest of us, and in the afternoon
of that day was actively engaged attend
ing to the business of the session. Re-
turning to his loa ,ings, toward niabt he
took to his bed and although every at.
tention was paid to him. and all the rom
o>liss applied that were suggested by the
best medical advice, he got no reliet,but
died as have stated. after expericncins
the most intense suffering.


Sudden de,ths in small communities
are always startling, but particularly SO
to us when we are associated with the
person at the time he is thus selected by
the Great Destroyer to emphasize his
terrible power


In THIS ease hale, vigorous man, ap-
paren,ly in ragged health, on the first
day Of the session joias with us in the
preliminary business appropriate to the
time, and so far as we could see, with as
well-srounded expectation as any of us
ofbcln. able to continue IN the discharge
Of his official duties during the whole
term of the office to which he had been
elected. Bat before the end orthe frs,
week-on the third day of the SESSION
and when we were just entering upon
its mployments-he is rapidly FASTENED
away into another sphere Of existence.
50 sli- hit is the hold the strongest of
US have on lfe God srart that the
mwcIcome messenger may be satisfied
With single victim during the short
period of our remaining here together


had but slight personal acquaintance
with Mr.. Dyer. He was we'll advanced
in years, and sturdy, honest, intclli-
gent man, to whom labor had always
been familiar. Seeing him frequently
before and during his sickness, he won
+ TtbluIS uDUll my SO III tldlulGS, dS nearly
men of his type will always do and when
he died, felt as though had lost an
old friend.


Energetic and undaunted by the APP
ptoach of disease, he persisted in COM
ins here and attending to bis official du
ties when prudence would have dire, te |
his attention solely to himself, and thus
he undoubtedly FASTENED his death. But
he thought he was in the line of his du-
ty, and acted accordingly. although he
left home. one Of those strange prcmoui
tiops t.at sometimes shadow comino
death, had made him feel--he did not
know why,-that it was dou ,tiul If he
ever returned home alive.


Had he lived and acted with us DUR
inp the session he would unlouIteIlv
have fulfilled the inst expectations Of
the constituency who sent him-and
who need do more and by his single
ness of purpnsc and sound Judgment rem
dered himself n useful member Of This
BODY. But the Great Director of afFairs
has ordered il otherwise. and He knows
what is best both for the individual and
tho hodv nolitic
Year: 1859




sad young person to lady, who
81. holding her child, snow what good
VIII all your education do youl You
nave spent so much time in study, grad
uated with high honors, learned music and
painting, and now married only a farmer.
Why do you not teach yhool. or do
something TO benefit the world with your
talents: or, il you choose to marry, why
not take a teacher, or a clergyman. or
some professional man? But as it is, YOU
did not need SO much learning for a ru-
raj life."


The lady replied, ayou do not look
very far into the future. Do You see this
boy on my lap? needed all the study,
all the discipline, both of mind and body,
that could possibly get, in order that |
may train him Alright. You see have
the first impressions TO make on the fair
blank of his pure heart, and unless my
mind was first cultivated, my own heart
first purified, how could | we'll perform
the task now set before me! And, be-
sides, do you not suppose that farmers
have hearts like other men, tastes just as
pure, because they guide the plow and
till the soil for its supports Do YOU not
suppose their minds are susceptible Of
cultivation and expansion as other men
Have they no love of the beautiful, in
their nature, Of art? Cannot good paint
ing be just as much admired on their
walls as Others. or does the evening hour
never pass as pleasantly with them, when
they gather round the piano after days
labor is finished9 All, my young friend
you have made sad mistake in your
reckoning"


Of all the occupations, give mo that Of
the farmer. It's the most beautiful; his


life is freer from care, his sleep is sweeter,
his treasures safer. A farmer need not be
slave of any, for he has none to please
but himself. Not so with any tradesman,
mechanic or professional man. They have
more or less TO do with the world at large,
and have all manner of persons to deal
with; so that they need have Of the pa
tience of Job to live They are well aware
that they must not freely speak their
minds at all times, that if they do they
will lose custom; for they depend upon
the people for a living; therefore they
are the servants of all. Then what can
be desired more, what is moro peaceful,
prosperous, honest, healthful and happy
than farmers life.
Year: 1859

Yesterday another trial was he'd of the
celebrated Winans steamer, in order 10
test more fully the improvement recently
made, and thus give renewed satisfaction
10 her inventors and proprietors. She
left the Ship-yard at Ferry Bar, and pro.
ceeded down the river some twelve miles,
to Bodkin Bar Buoy, little below North
Point, where an opportunity was had of
testing her power as sea-going vessel in
rough weather. On her way down her
speed was about twelve or thirteen miles
an hour, the engine making between So
and SO revolutions per minute. One hun
dred pounds of steam with an 'early cut
off," was the greatest pressure she had
on during the trip. All parts of the
machinery were accurately fitted togeth-
er, and worked with perfect ease and re-
gularity. During the entire trip down
she encountered strong head wind, and
when near the mouth of the Patapsco
the water became rough, with consider
able swell.


This state of the water was most OPP
perfume, for it gave the builders chance
of settling by experiment what they had
long ago determined in theory, as regards
the probability of her peculiar formation
causing her to roll from side to side.-
Ever since the vessel has been construct
ed, her rolling propensities have been
subject of speculation, and it was sup
posed by many persons that she would
be more liable TO that motion than any
any other vessel on account of her shape
The trial of yesterday, however, dissipated
all doubts. A number of vessels, both
larger and smaller, were met on the way
down, and while they were all rolling, no
perceptible motion Of similar character
was felt in the Winans steamer. She
seemed TO cleave the water without the
slightest difficulty, and passed over or
through the largest waves and swells
without any effect. Where the waves
were the heaviest, she seemed 10 cut thro'
them like an arrow.


On the return trip, the vessel was pro-
PEELED at half speed, merely for the sake Of
experiment. In consequence of being pro-
vided with double rudders,she was enabled
10 turn around in very short space, and
with great rapidity. Proceeding back
up the river, she was run into the basin,
where a great crowd of people were at
tracted TO the wharves TO look at her
She was then taken back to the ship-yard
al Ferry Bar, and manoeuyred about for
some time, in order 10 practice the engi-
neers in their various duties, and princi-
pally to instruct them in stopping the YES
sci in all positions, as occasion might re-
quire. In day or two another trial will
be made with greater amount of steam
power, when her speed will be materially
increased. The Messrs. Winans intend
making series of experimental trips
throughout the entire-summer, in order
to supply all deficiencies, and to make the
vessel as perfect as possible.


Baltimore Ex., 10th ult.
Year: 1859

PRINTING OTFIcEs.-When DR.. Frank
Inns mother-n-law first discovered that
the young man had hankering for her
daughter, that good old lady said she did
not know so well about giving her daugh-
ter to a printer; there were already two
printing offices in the United States, and
she was not certain that the country wod
support them. 1t was plain that young
franklin would depend for his support
on tho profits Of third, and this was
rather doubtful chance. If such an OBJ
lection was raised TO would-be son-in-
law when there were but two printing Of
fees in the United States, how can print
er hope to get wife now, when the pres
ent census shows the number 10 be TO-
O07?
Year: 1859

AN ITEM FOR BoYs.-It is one of the
besetting sins of the young men of this
extravagant age to endeavor to get rid of
work-to seek for lazy employment-and
the consequence is that many of them
turn out to be worthless vagabonds.-
Boys, avoid this whirlpool as you would
a plague spot, Danish from your mind for
ever the dangerous desire to live without
work. Labor is honorable, dignifed; it
is the parent Of health, wealth and hap
piness; never consider it as burden and
curse. Shun idleness and sloth; pur-
sue some honest calling, and be not
ashamed TO be useful.
Year: 1859

Esfy- Among the passengers" from Texas
by the steamship Fashion, at Mobile, few days
since, were twenty camels. They are as
gentle as pet dog, cost very little in their keep
ing, and can easily carry two bales of cotton on
their backs, at the rate Of twenty five miles a
day over road which would be impossible to
an empty wagon drawn by n pair of mules. It
is for this and other similar plantation services
that they are destined.
Year: 1859

MORAL OF THE GARDEN.-Nothing
teaches patience like garden. You
may 90 round and watch the opening
bud from day to day; but it takes its
own time, and you cannot urge it faster
than it will. If forced it is only torn to
pieces. All the best results of a garden,
like those of life, are slowly but regular
ly progressive. Each year does work
that nothing but year can co. "Learn
to labor and to watt" is one of the best
lessons of q garden.
Year: 1859

The College Of Calyornia.- We
have received a circular signed by
Hon. Sherman Day, President of the
Board of Trustees of this institution,
appealing to the friends of education
in California to come forward and fur
nish funds with which to endow the
the College. A number of students
are prepared to enter college, and the
friends of education must see them
sent abroadto finish their studies un-
less liberalized spirit is evinced by
by the wealthy of this State. The
College is in good hands and is wor-
thy Of encoura cement.
Year: 1859

Walker Again - The gray eyed
man of destiny appears to be about
to try his luck still another time
He seems to have the infatuation of
one who has spent the larger part Of
his patrimony in bucking at the "ti-
ger" This time he may calculate
on the reward of perseverance par
tieularlv as Commodore Paulding has
no show of being sent after him, and,
as Mr.. Buchanan by report counte-
nances the expedition to Nicaragua
about to move. We sincerely hope
that those gray eyes will witness
sights from an elevated position as
other freebooters have justly done.-
For the honor of our country we hope
il
Year: 1859

Eepeal of the Neutrality L0acs.-
The Esening Telegram has enlarged,
and inflated with its own expansion
Is not particularly satisfied with the
contracted boundaries of our common
country. 1t can now talk, as glibly
as any of "pent up Uticas," "bound-
less continents" "Grcenland's farth-
est Cape" "Patagonia's snow extern
ded wilds," "the gem Of the Antilles
"sxtending the area of freedom" &c
It takes it at heart badly that the
universal Yankee nation is obliged to
ehafe and fret within a boundary of
ten thousand miles solely on acc cunt
Of those cursed neutrality laws which
compels the head ola family to watch
his unruly boys and fog them for
trespassing upon a neighbor. Room
for the tiemarch" is the exultant cry
Of the Telegram after shedding its
tight unmentionables and donning the
expansive breeches Of an Arab.


In the opinion of the Telegram
two-thirds of the people of the Uni
ted States are in favor of the repeal
Of TIE neutrality laws. We would
dislike to have so poor an opinion of
our countrymen as that. We cannot
be brought to believe that even a
large minority of the people Of these
United States are in favor of outlaw
~. Because we have a restless,
worthless class of people among us
who prefer piracy to labor and are
ready to make a descent upon any
neighboring nation whose peaceful
habits are sure guarantee that little
obstacle will be offered to the gratifi-
cation of unholy desires, we are not
prepared to believe that our country,
much as it might be blessed by rid
dance of it dregs, is willing to incur
a national disgrace, deep and lasting,
by granting unbridled license in re-
peal of the neutrality laws. 1t is an
abuse oflanguage to cite the cases of
Lafayette, Steuben, De Kalb and
Kosciusco, and argue therefrom that
Walker and every other pirate is fol-
lowing in their footsteps and entitled
to the name Of lover of liberty and
benefactor Of oppressed mankind. 1t
is true there is portion of the Amer
lean people who desire to see the ma
tional boundaries extended, but not,
we trust, by letting loose upon our
neighbors a horde of desperadoes,
thieves and unprincipled scoundrels
of every grade in crime. Had no
neutrality laws ever been upon our
national statute books the case might
present fairer aspect. A repeal of
the neutrality laws now can only be
interpreted by our neighbors as a
commission to the vile of our popula-
tion to plunder. 1t could have but a
sinister object-the acquisition of ter
ritory in the most cowardly and bru-
talized manner. Its direct effect
would to send a licentious rabble
without even the slight restraint i'm
posed by the laws of civilized war
fare, to ravish, and despoil our weak
and unofending neighbors. 1t would
place the United States in the posi-
ton Of receiver OF stolen goods-the
most despicable character on the face
OF the eartL,-too cowardly to brave
the dangers of the thieves, and under
the appearances of respectability
meanly endeavoring to disguise his
real character.
Year: 1859

O''D aHh DBbib lIto ~ -OC-
casionally contemporary journal cop
les from the first page of the Pass
without proper credit matter thst is
either original or has cost much edi-
torial labor; and said matter is some
times credited subsequently to the
paper that pnrlnined it. We would
not complain Of such trifle but for
this reason. 1t is so unusual for edi-
torial to appear on the first page of
country weekly, that when cofem-
poraries see it in ours they may think
it is stolen matter loaded, and appro-
pirate it as snch. Now because we
have never resorted to this trick, and
do not want to be thought guilty of it
by newspaper men, we make this APP
peal for them to 'give the devil his
due. ."-Hydraulic Press


1t is indeed unusual for editorial to
appear on the first page of a country
weekly. and for that reason the gull.
ty contemporaries who take Brother
Avery's articles without proper credit
may be measurably excused. Broth
er Avery himself, however, sometimes
gets misled, like the cotemps he men,
ito ms. In the paper containing the
above extract we find the folio wing
without credit from one of our back
numbers. We don't complainant a
word it. 1t cost us some labor to Gull
the ideas contained in it from one of
those cotemps who probably stole it
himself. We were bored nearly to
death reading a long article from
which we extracted the pith. 1t
cost us some labor to get the essence.
But Brother Avery knowing that la
Dor Is not generally one of our fail
ings was very liable to be mistake ken.
We '.absorbed" the ideas from some
body, who "bo rrowed" them proba-
bly, from somebody else. and Brother
Avery did us the compliment to
"adopt" our fanguage-It's all right.
The most triAing circumstances some
times serve to point a moral. The
item is good to be remembered as it
may convey a fact hereafter of great
importance in the worlds history:


Paper from Tale.-A German has
discovered a mode by which good
printing paper may be manufactured
from tule. The great trouble hereto
tofore in the manufacture of paper
from this article has been that the
dark coloring matter could not be re-
moved. The German alluded to has
discovered process by which the
difficulty can be remedied. We may
expect to obtain indigenous rags
enough to supply the W orld with pa
per. if tule can be made available.
Year: 1859

Sta66img.-T Wallace stab
bed Sanford Chandler at Red Dog on
Sunday evening last. They had
quarreled during the day. The knife
striking a rib glanced around and did
not enter the thorax. Had the knife
been held differently the stab must
have proved mortal, as it was doubt
less designed to be. Wallace i'm
mediately fed.
Year: 1859

SEWING MACHINES The "Song Of
the Shirt" is no longer reality as
Hood sang it The woman he saw
in ''unwomanly rags"


Plying her needle and thread.


With fingers weary and worn


With eyelids heavy and red,
who over the buttons fell asleep.


And sewed them on 10 a dream.
is one Of the remembrances of wo-
mans dark ages. Sewing machines
have snatched seamstresses from
early graves. They have stopped
that "sewing with double thread"


shroud as wen as shirt.


Woman can now sit down TO pret-
ty article of furniture and in few
hours do the work her poor sister was
won't to steal the night to accomplish
in time. The poor girls who stitched,
stitched. stitched like things Of death,
are superseded by a never weary
sewer which gives to all about per-
vading air of life. The lrishman who
first saw steam paddy. after wit
Messing its hercnlean labors for some
time with astonishment and dismay,
discovered one consolation left him
the steam paddy couldn't vote, p



Let some cunning Yankee invent
machine for washing and ironing,
which shall do its work we'll. and we
are not sure that the old fashioned
sewing machine,


.One of the kind that man can love-
That wears shawl and soft hid glove
Has the merriest eye and dainty foot,
And sports the charmingest gaiter boot;
And bonnet with feathers, and ribbons and loops,
With an indefinite number Of hoops.


will not be relieved of the inability
SO consoling to Patrick. What will
a woman do but plunge into the dis
sipation of politics Who is not
afraid these ladies labor-saving ma
chimes are furnishing time to plot rev.
olutions Perhaps some of us Ben
edicts may live to see the time when
permission will have to be obtained
from our better halves to wear our
breeches. Who knows :!