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Year: 1859

We like to see nice people, that is TO
say, pretty nice, but not to a troublesome
degree We like to see gentleman with
a well-brushed coat; but we would not
advise him to brush it so as to make it
threadbare. We admire pair of we'll
polished boots; but we should not think
it advisable to polish them to such a de-
gree as to form a mirror for all the cats,
dogs, and monkeys to see their faces in.
We think it necessary to every mans
comfort and dccency to have clean set
of teeth; but we should account it worse
than labor lost to brush them so as to
take off the enamel. We like to see a
mans beard and whiskers neatly arrang-
ed but we should think a man poorly
employed who spent all his time in ar
ranging his beard and whisllcrs. We
admire a neat-setting shirt collar; but
we would not have man perpetually
pulling up his shirt-collar to make it set
WELL


We like to sec lady exceedingly nice;
that is, in everything that concerns the
popriety or comfort of her household
In fact, it seems to us that woman can
scarcely be too nice in the matter of
cookery, the arrangements of the table,
and general cleanliness of her house.
In personal neatness she cannot be too
exact: not that she should spend her
time before the glass = which, indeed, is
not apt to be the case with a lady who is
habitually neat.


But, with ali this, we would have a
woman avoid all troublesome and ridicu-
lous nicely. For a lady to-whitcwash
the walls Of her house is both pleasant
healthy, and sweet; but TO whitewash the
wood she burns is more nice than wise
In some part of the country it is Gus
tomary TO sprinkle sand upon the floor.
If sllillfully done, it, in occasional in
stances, looks wonderfully nice = but
then it is exceedingly inconvcnient in a
bedroom, and, after all, il neither more
nor less than a nice speils of dirt. Ii
is very praiseworthy to but things in
their right places; but the disposition
which some nice housewives possess, to
be always putting things to rights" is
monstrously vexatious and troublesome,
when exercised in the sanctum sanctorum
of mans study, by carefully disarranginQ
the papers, and wrongly putting his liter.
ary matters to rights
Year: 1859

IA McCauley, under the decision of the Su-
preme Court has again taken possession of the
State Prison. The efforts of the Legislature to
keep that institution out of his hands have thus
proved without avail, while they have and will
cost the State a round sum of money
Year: 1859

Geo. Gordon, the stage driver. who died in
Sacramento last summer. in his last moments
was heard to mutter, {" am going down hill.
and can't get my foot on the break"
Gaily over the mountain road


The rattling chariot drives,
Freighted full with its JOYOUS load


Of precious human lives
PAINFULLY over the windings steep


The laboring courser5 urge
Threading with fury its summit sweep
Swooping into the gorge.
And down and down in the rocky dell,


Swiftly, but oh with care
On the right is the mountains lofty swell,


On the left the empty air;
And over the perilous height they come,


As an eagle from the sky,
The leaders are drenched in blood and foam.


And onward still they fly.
The chariot sways with its trembling weight,
The wheels their route forsake,
Hold hold in Gods name rein up TToo late


We're lostl l cannot reach the break p'
And so DER the road of life we sweep,


Thoughtless and reckless and gay
Painfully breasting its winding steep,


Passing its summit way.
And down where the canon darklv yawns,


Far down in the gloomy gorge,
Deeper and deeper, and on and on,


With ceaseess haste we urgel
Like an eagle quitting his native skies,


We sweep to the vale below
On the right the SUBMITS of promise rise,


On the left is death and woe.
The governless passions assert their reign,


And spurred by desire or hate,
With foam-fecked name and with loosened rein


They dash to their bitter fate
Till over the dread abyss we hang,


Too late to the truth we wake
One instant-one shudder-one nameless pang,


As we vainly reach for the break.n


EQUINE City, May, 1859.
Year: 1859

NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may
l concern, that the undersigned will make
application to the Board of Supervisors of Shas-
ia county, at their next regular term in August,
for a license for a Toll Bridge across Pit River,
about miles above Hat Creek on the road
leading from Red Bluff ria Fork Crook to Yreka.
myf:4w F. r. & N. McILROY.
Year: 1859

~ Brown has been sentenced to be hanged
on the fflh Of December next. His remarks
on being asked il he had anything to say why
sentence should not be pronounced. were tame
they were not what we expected of the man at
that painful moment. 1t is rumored that bis
sentence will be commuted to Imprisonment for
life; his bearing on the occasion Of his trial
and the moment before sentence was passed
upon him. would indicate that he entertain,
such hope.
Year: 1859

Ja5- The Washington Star says, the statement
that the appointment of tho Assistant Marshals to
take the census was to be announced in a few
days, having been copied into our columns from
some other source, think 1t proper to state that
these officers will not be appointed before spring
as the details Of the work of the next census will
not be commenced before the LIST of June, 1860.
Year: 1859

EseurN4ux Doe -Mr La Rea, the interesting
lecturer Of the Arctic Panorama, brought his
Esquimaux dOg-with an unproDOuDceable
name7-into our Office yesterday eveping for
the purpose Of showing us the curiosity. He
is very large and heavy dog, is covered with
a warm coat of a cross between hair and fur,
and looks as strong as lion '-''
Year: 1859

CAL. CENTRAL RAIL-RoAD. We
learn from the Bee that the contract for
grading the above road has been let ia
Auburn ravine near Gold Hill, and
about Is miles from Auburn. Fhe iron
for thirteen miles and all the running
stock of the road will be shipped from
New York Immediately. The Bee
thinks in ten months at farthest Neva.
will be within six hours ride of Sacra-
mento.
Year: 1859

Power TO APPOINT The Shasta
Courier raises a constitutional question
as to the power of the Governor to ap-
point Judges to the new judicial districts
The same is also done by writer in the
Union. That paper decides the point
well taken.


We were a little ahead, in calling at
tention to the position occupied by Gov.
Bigler in similar case. But we incline
to the opinion that Gov. Weller has the
the constitutional power to appoint'
Year: 1859

The CnINEsE.-T The Miners about
Shasta, as well as in other localities Of
the State, are red hot for the expulsion
of the Chinese from the mines, and
probably acting in accordance with the
sentiments of his constituency, Mr..
/ Street has introduced a bill into the


Assembly for the purpose of driving the
Celestials out.


Now, however desirable it may be 10
the miners of Shasta to get rid of the
presence of the Chinese, it cannot be
more gracious to those miners than to
! the residents and property-holders Of
every city and town in the State infcst
ed with these Asiatics. They are de-


cide1ly an eye sore and pollution to any


.ity. Their utter want Of care in tie


use offre is enough to Danish them from
any town in climate so hot and Try as
this. Besides their quarters send forth


the most disgusting smells, tanning the


hir beyond the endurance of Caue'sians.


As writer in Blackwood expresses 1t,


Chinese quarters "stink aloud" How
ever cleanly in person majority OF the
Chinamen are supposed to be, theirh0mes
| if that sacred name can be degraded TO


hmean the abode of a Chinaman, are sur
rounded with all the stenches that ami


NAL or vegetable decomposition can


produce. In this particular China


mans offence is rank, smelling a long


distance.


h But offensive as the Asiatics are it is
\ houbtful if we can rid ourselves Of their
1Fpresence. 1t tseems by recent decis-


ion OF the Supreme Court that we can
l'not prevent their coming. They have


right to immigraie to California We


are told. fso, they have the right to
jlabor and live among us it would seem.
ESuppose they are prohibited from labor
hing in the mines-can they not with
! equal propriety be dris en- from cities and
sltowns the property Of whose citizens
they endapger2 And following up the
4 analogy may they not be expelled from
the agricultural lands of the State,
\ and finally from every branch of indus
tryl


If the Chinese have the right to


come among us they cannot be debar-


red from honest avocations. 1ou can't


by any police regulations cleanse the


haunts of the Chinese. A Chinaman


is not in his normal condition in Il pure


atmosphere. He seems TO delight IN d


combination of stin.s as a IoYe-sck


swain in the aroma Of garden of flow


ers. While such is the taste of these
almond-eyed strangers their presence


must be a nuisance which we must
grin and bear" till such time as there


is some power somewhere to prevent


their immigration.
Year: 1859

The convicts set to manufacturing "blan
kets and coarse cloths"


1t only took three of the highest off
GERS of the State to conceive the brilliant
j .ea of erecting labor saring machinery
with the view to furnish labor for about
three hundred state prison convicts and
that to be devoted to the manufacture
of coarse cloths for California market


If we were the physician to the asylum
for the insane and were to have one OF
its unfortunate inmates make a propo.
sition SO utterly preposterous and ab-
surd, we should not hesitate to pronounce
his or her case an incurablc one


We enter our protest against this
whole scheme ola branch prison. The
officers and attaches of the present pris-
on, thirty-seveni in Number, cost the State
5000 pc: month, similar number at a
like cost wlcld he required at the branch
when established, to say nothing of the
cost of the buildings that would be found
to be absolutely" necessary.


is strikingly evident that the au-
thors Of This report were i'll at ease on
this branch of their subject, and, like the
cutie fish. seek to lide their short
comings by shedding vast quantity of
inky fluid on the subject of modern be-
nevolence. The mechanic arts, school
teaching and home missions, from all
which we derive but one conclusion
to-wit; that it is of doubtful, not to say
mischeivous policy, to place the Cover
nor of the State who alone has the par
doning power. in too close proximity
with those who are SO deeply interested
in imploring its exercise. In fact Gov.
WeIler's bowels of compass-ol ap-
pear to be troubled with a looseness in
this respect, and such is the fondness
that the poor devils have contracted for
him, that almost every one that he has
parloned has sought the first occasion
to commit some crime that would again
consign them to his fatherly care and
keeping,


The directors say, that at the first
meeting of the Board, they passed a res
olution that none but Director could
hold the office of chief warden, and that
he hould serve without compensation
Now, however, after passing a glowing
eulogy on Gov, Walkup, they say that
SIS per month is inadequate to the
great services he has performed and
commend his case to the tender consid-
GRAFTON of the Legislature Why this !
The law gives the directors power to
appoint warden and to pay him. If
the SO per month that Gov. Walkup
receives rs director is not sufficient, or
if he is tired of Ii ing on buncomhe, why
not rescind that buncOmb res luton, and
pay him what his services are worth and
not trouble the Legislature about it!


1t appears that there has been an in
crease of about forty-fye prisoners with
in the eight months ending with the
year, and the Directors predict, that be-
fore the present Legislature adjourns the
whole number will exceed six hundred
We leave it to them TO explain why
they associate an increase Of state pris-
on convicts with the duration of the
session Of the Legislature
Year: 1859

THAT North STAR ORDER.-The
Nevada National says Senator Lansing
denies having been a member of the
North Star" When was the denial
made Bro. Shoemaker? He said he did
not belong to the "Lone STAR" if the re-
ports Of the Union tie correct, but, far
from denying that he was North STAR
he once acknowledged to gentlemen of
Grass Valley that he was member of
that order But that the editor of the
National may not rel y upon the word of
Mr.. Lansing, we assert positively he
need not go out of his own printing office
TO obtain all the proof he needs to estab-
lish the fact. When our "good natur-
ed'' confrcre has taken slight pains to
ascertain the truth in regard to the for
mer associations of Senator Lansing he
will not call for affidavits that he will


know are obtainable. When the deni-
al comes from the proper source it will
be time enough to pull forth the certifi-
Gates to vindicate the truth of history.
Year: 1859

There was recently duel at Napo-
leon, Arkansas, between doctor aud a
tailor. in which the doctor shot the tail
or through the leg, and the tailor the doc
TOR through the lower extremity Of the
coat. They were made friends upon the
ground, the doctor agreeing to dress the
tailor's leg and the tailor to mead the
doctors coat-tail.
Year: 1859

FRIED BEEFsTAKE.-Take a nice, tender
steak which is about an inch thick. lay il
evenly in frying pan over quick fire; add
salt and little boiling water; cover it close
and boil twenty minutes then add large
piece of butter. and fry both sides until done,
Take on to a hot platter, and sift pepper over.
pour on gravy and serve. This is superior to
broiled steak, as ii retains its flavor more per-
fectly, and is SO much tenderer.
Year: 1859

Miniature EHeiaes-Among the curions and
beautiful pieces of machinery to be exhibited
at the Fair of the Mechanics Institute are
three or four miniature engines, some of them
not much larger than an ordinary hottie
ana all OF them in running order. OF the
number is an oscillating engine made by Mr..


y. BRADLEY, OF Manchester, one of the most
| ingenious mechanics in this section of the
country. Young Mr. KEEsEE also exhibits


two made by himself, which are very small


and very handsome
Year: 1859

The greate:t feats at sh airing used to be
performed by one of the B iff.io brokers. -
H. used to rake down the whole bill. an
make hundred per cent. clear profit n
the transaction. The way he did it was
this:


lie kept an exchange Off :e near the canal
basin. and had 4 lot of counterieits stuck up
on the wall behind the counter with 'Coun-
terfeit Bills in great black letters over them
fers.


A Canaller would rush into the office and
ask for change for bill. Old Specie would
take the bill very blandiy. put on his spec
tsces aud give look at it. The moment
he did So his whole countenance would
change With An indignant look he would
petrlfy his astonished customer; and grin in
silence. still keeping his eye on the canaller.
he would feel for the wafer box-stick a
couple of waters on the back of the bill
turn around and fa>ten it among the coun-
terfeits with An indignant jtm-then. turn
ing; he would open his mouth, and assail
the wretceed culprit 10 the manner following
to-wit: You miserable scoundrel! what do
you mean by Offering me bad bill? II
there's an officer in sight I'll have you arrest
adi with which address he would make as
IL he would sally from behind the counter
whereupon the canaller would incontinently
flee for his life-snd the old gentleman
would sweep the bill into his m onev drawer.
and rest from his labors.'
Year: 1859

SINGULAR FREAK OF LISHTsIsG.-A sin
gular freak OF lightning happened a. Gin
ton Locks, in Park county, yesterday af-
ternoon. As the rain commenced a party of
emigrants stopped at the point named d-the
womel and children taking shelter IN a house
hard By, and the men under trees. An old
gentleman, some sixty years old. put himself
under All elm tree, scarcely had he done so
when fl ash of lightning struck the top Of
his shelter glancing off. and then struck the
ola man at the loot of the tree striking him
on the back of his neck. running down the
middle OF his back. dividing at the hips, fore
ing its passage down his legs. and tearing the
boots from his feet. and throwing one of them
some thirty feet from him One would
think this enough to kill the old man
not so Afer laying a few minutes in the
stupor of death. he gave signs of returning
life and in a short time was conveyed help
less along in his wagon.--Newport Hoos,er
State gtk.
Year: 1859

from which mankind suffer over large part Of the
globe is the consequence OF diseased acflon IN the
system induced the poisonous niasm of vegetable
decay This exhaatio Is evolved by the action OF solar
heat soil, and rises with the watery vapor from
it While the Is below the horizon this vaPor


fingers the earths surface and the virus IS taken
with through the lungs the blood. There acts
irritating poison the internal viscera and ex-
creting organs II the body The liver becomes torpid
and fails only this virus but also the bile
from the blood Both the virus and the bile accumulate


in the circation and produce violent constitutional
disorder. The spleen, the kidneys, and the stomach
sympathze with the liver and become dsOrdered also.
Finally, the instinct of organism If ia attempt
expel the noxous infusion, concentrates the whole
blood of the body n the internal excreores to force
them it The blood leaves the surface and
rushes the central organs with congestlye violence
This is the CHILL. But in this effort II fs Then the
FEVER follows, in which the blood leaves the central
organs and ushes the surface If in another effort
to expel the irritating poison through that other great
excretorythe skin. In this also il falls and the sys-
TEN abandons the attempt exhausted waiting for the
of repeat the hopeless effort another
day These the fits paroxYsms of FEVER AND
AoUE- Such constitutional disorder will of course
dermine the health If II i not removed.


We laoo.ed O find, found, antldote,
Year: 1859

E@ Jenny Lind recently gave charity
concert in London which W Is not advertised.
and only the aris.oeracy were admitted by
special invitation. The receipts were So
900. She was in full health and sang With
all her power.
Year: 1859

An old man, living alone in a sol
itary house in WeStchester county,
was disturbed the other night by a
strange noise which seemed to come
from different parts of his domicil
Taking a light, he cautiously search.
ed the premises, and finally found a
pair Of cowhije boots dangling in the
chimney, 10 which the intended
burglar was inexsricably wedged. =
The old man went quietly TO bed
and the next day, with the aid oi
his neig ghbors, removed some Of the
brick work and let the bird out,when.
Notwithstanding his lattempts to
prove that il VAS only friendly Wis
it, he was lodged in Jail.
Year: 1859

The society Of a German church
in New Orleans are divided into two
opposing parties. one fighting for, and
the other against the resident pastor
Those opposed to him are in the ma.
jority, aud their wives recently, with
the evident sanction Of their hus-
bauds, met the reverend gentleman
as be was entering the church, tried
to prevent him. ant not succeeding
assailed him with eowbides, pepper,
salt,and gypsum, forcing him to save
himself by fight.
Year: 1859

A dangerous young widow Of
thirty, in Ludlow, Mass, with four
dead or discarded husbands, has torn
a young lad of eighteen from his
afflicted parents in the same town,
and taken him to bed and board as
number five. The parents locked
up the boy, bat the widow was too
smart for :hem, got him out, and fled
With him to Palmer, where they
married. ~ ~
Year: 1859

FROM 1INi y JuHINtt ~ IIcutH.


II a man were to see quarter Of an inch
of worm put in his cup of coffee, he could NOT
drink it. because he knows that the whole
cup would be impregnated. If very small
amount of some yirulent poison be introduced
into glass of water, the drinking of might
not produce instant death, but that would
not prove that it was not hurtful. only that
there was rot enough Of il to cause dis.
tructive result Immediately.


We sicken at the thought Of taking the
breath Of another the moment it leaves the
mouth, but that breath mingles with the air
about the bed in which two persons lie; and
il is rebreathed, but not the less offensive j.
it in reality on account Of the dilution, except
that it j. not taken in its concentrated form.
but each breath makes it more concentrated.
One sleeper corrupts the atmosphere OF the
room by his own breathing, but when two
persons arc breathing at the same time, twelve
or fourteen times in each minute. each min
ute extracting all thenutriment from, gallon
of air. the deterioration must be rapid indeed
especially in small and close room. A bird
cannot live withouta large supply ofpure air.
A canary bird hung up in curtained bed
stead where two persons slept, died before the
morning.


Many infants are found dead in bed. and
it is attributed to having been overlaid by
the parents; but the idea that any person
could lay still for a moment on baby. or
ANYTHING else of the same size, is absurd
Death was caused by the want Of pure air.


Besides, emanations, aerial and more or
less solid, are thrown out from siery person
thrown out by proc,"se" nature because
no longer fit for life purposes, because they
are dead and corrupt-but if breathed into
another living body, it is just as abhorrent as
of we took into our mouths the matter oi
sore or any other excretion.


Tho most destructive typhoid and putrId
feyers are known to arise directly from
number of persons living in the same small
room.


Those who can afford it should, therefore.
arrange to have each member of the family
sleep in separate beds. Ifpersons must sleep
in the same bed, they should be about the
some age. and in good health. lfthe health
be much unequal, both will suffer, but the
healthier one the most-the invalid suffering
for want of entirely pure air.


So many cases are mentioned in standard
medical works where healthy, robust infants
and larger children have dwindled away.
and die in few months from sleeping with
grandparents OF other old persons that il IL
useless to cite special instances in proof.


1t would be u constitutional, moral good.
for married persons to sleep in adjoining
rooms, as general habit. 1t would be .
certain means of physical inrigoration. and
of advantages in other directions. which Will
readily occur to the reflective reader. Kings
and Queens and tie highest personages
of courts have separate apartments. 1t Is
the bodily emanations collecting and con
centrating under the same cover which are
the most destructive Of health--more dis
tructive than the simple contamination Of an
atmosphere breathed in common. .r..
Year: 1859

of the First Ward, in order that they might Sc
lect location for the bridge.


Report of Committee on Streets and Roads To
whom was referred sundry petitions asking for
the construction of road crossings on various
streets, which report recommends a crossing on
South line OF Third street and across G one on
the North line Of Third and across D, and on the
Western line OF b and across Second; and one on
tne eastern lne OF ID and across Sixth street. Re-
port received and resolution adopted DIRECTING
crossings named in the report with the exception
of the one on Sixth street


Report of the Powder House Keeper read. and
received Council adjourned.