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Year: 1859

THE WEATHER AND CRoPs.-For two or three days, in the latter part of the past week, the weather was singularly cool, so much so that fires were made for comfort. This would, to some extent, affect the cot ton crop. It is now, Tuesday, warm, with a cool, refreshing breeze. Letters from the north west speak of the late frosts injuring wheat in some places, but generally it is represented as doing well. The other crops are growing finely. Taking the whole State, as shown by letters and ourexchanges, the crops, though backward, are generally fine and never known to present a better appearance or to be more full of promise to reward the labors of the husbandman

 New wheat will soon be in market Ar kansas exported great deal of flour last year, and this year will have larger sur plus, at least in the northern and western portions. A great number of steam mills with all the appliances for grinding and bolting fine flour, were erected last year.
Year: 1859

GENTLEMEN: The last number of the Ft Smith Times came to me with an article marked as you see enclosed, to be noticed as you think proper. The idea of Mr. Wheeler is very good one, the only diff ficulty being that we have so few men of leisure to devote the time and attention re- quired to keep up such a society in cred itable manner. The pioneers of Arkansas have passed and are passing away. Many of them I know to be worthy of having their memories perpetuated
Year: 1859

OF the amount in the General Fund, $2,710 90
will have to be transferred to the Interest Fund of
1857 to supply the deficiency


The Public Schools in this District are provi-
ded with excellent rooms, a large and valuable
library, and appear to be in fourishng cOndi-
ton.


The Ferries and Bridges throughout the County
from our personal examination, and the best in
formation we can obtain, are in passable cnndi-
ton at the present time. Weare satisfied, how
ever that IN some cases improvements and re-
pairs are essentially neccssary but as no com
plants have been made to us, and us all ferry
and bridge men are under heavy bonds to the
public for all damages which may occur for nom
compliance with the law, we presume the public
are satisfied with their present condition.


The Roads throughout ethe County are now,
probably, in a worse condition than usual but
we would particularly make mention Of the road
leading from this city to Zabrlskics House as be-
ing one of the most public thoroughfares in the
county, and is not only at the present time
but at other seasons Of the year. the worst road in
the county, and we would recommend that an APP
preparation of one thousand dollars be made by
the Board of Supervisors to be expended on said
road under the supervision of the County Sur
vevor and Road 0yerseers.


We also recommend the appointment of efli-
cieat men as Road Overseers in the different Road
Districts throughout the County, believing that
good roads are most important towards the adj
vancement of new country, and should demand
more attention than has heretofore been given
them.


We would also recommend that an appropra.
ton be made bv the Board of Supervisors for the
purpose of procuring bell to be placed on the
Court House for the Convenience of the Courts


Respectfully submitted.


JNo. C.. FALL, Foreman.


Marysvle, Jan. y, 1859.
Year: 1859

The INJuNcrGoN.-The depression in every
department of business in this county, conse
quent upon the closing of the New Almaden
mines, becomes, says the San Jose Tribune,
more and more perceptible and dscouraging
every day, and before the winter is over we
fear the disastrous effects of the measure will
be still more severely felt by every one of
our citizens The merchants are complain
ing dolefully, and many of them with the
very best reason. From the mining coun-
ties we hear similar complaints in all quar-
ters Quicksilver has gone back from sixty
five and seventyfiye cents per pound to the
old anti-Almaden price Of ninety cents and a
dollar, and the Nevada Democrat prophe-
sizes continuance of these rates until the in
junction is removed. 1t, in common with
many other mining papers, deprecates the act
of enioining the mines as detrimental to the
best interests of California, MS must be eyi
dent to every practical miner
Year: 1859

REPoRT OF THE GRAND JuRY.-This well
written and valuable document was submit
ted, yesterday 1t will be found to contain
much interesting information, and We com
mend it to a careful perusal 1t appears in
another part of to- days paper.
Year: 1859

ions, and save him from being the victim Of
iSms or the lover of untimely reforms, and yet
with a genial enthusiasm for his profession,
which carries him bravely through his hercul-
can labors, and ever keeps his vision undim-
med and his brain unclouded, he possesses in a
rare degree the peculiar combination of gifts,
which make superior photographer.


Crowned with success in the past, enriched
by so long experience, and possessed of such
special aptitude for his work, DIR. Worcester
has now come to his latest task He pro-
poses to represent the best usage of this
country and of England in orthography and
in pronunciation and to indicate the diff
ferent modes and the highest authorities in
cases OF various, doubtful or disputed pro-
nunciation. Particular attention is given
to etymology, the Importance of which
is becoming more fully appreciated. The de-
finitions are to be numbered and to be illus
trated by choice extracts from standard au-
thors, while the careful explanation of syno-
nymes will aid us in understanding the nicer
distinctions of language. A novel feature of
the work is the introduction of some 1900
wood-cuts to assist us in gaining the true idea
of objects which are not very common, and
which words often fail to describe successfully.
There are other merits of the work, which
we have not space to enlarge upon, but which
will commend it to the reader at once. We
have seen sheets from the portion comprising
the first three letters of the alphabet, and in
them the promises of the publishers prospect
us are fully redeemed 1t is expected that the
volume will be made ready for delivery to sub
scribers in the coming May. We advise our
readers to obtain it by subscription, as they
will thus receive the library edition, bound in
morocco for the same price which will other
wise be demanded for the copies bound in
sheep. The typography, paper, and press
work, are of the finest quality. Subscription
price, 81 so. S. Clough, agent.-ProUidence
Journal
Year: 1859

BOHEMIAN GLASS BLowERs.-A troup will
commence an exhibition in this city, in few
days, of which due notice will be given, Of
fancy glass blowing, in all its various branch
es The exhibition is very curious and in
teresting one, in which great variety of fan
cy articles are manufactured, in presence Of
the audience. 1t has been received with the
highest favor wherever it has been seen, and
we doubt not it will attract crowds at this
place.
Year: 1859

SUDDEN DEATH OF MEMBER OF THE LEG
IsLATURE.-George w. Benson, member of
our State Legislature, and a most worthy citi-
zen, dropped dead at his residence in Lawrence
at O'Clock Tuesday afternoon. During the
recent session of the Legislature, he was one
OF the most useful members-a man of gentle
manly bearing, Of sound judgment, good
debater, and one who enjoyed the universal
esteem and respect of his fellow members.
He was also one Of the Committee appointed
to sit during the recess on the revision of the
statutes. His death is public loss.
Year: 1859

The WASHINGTON UNION newspaper has
fallen into new hands, and its name is to be
changed. Henceforth it will be called "The
Constitution" That paper has never deserv-
ed its old name, and there is no reason what
ever for believing it will establish just claim
to the new one. 1t should be called "The
Presidents Attorney" This name would truly
signify its character and business. No one ex-
poets candid discussion or independent express
sion of opinion from such journal. 1t has
given work to do. Like an attorney retained
to plead cause, it must say what it has been
hired to say and it is ludicrous to suppose it
will advocate any general interest or principle
in conflict with the general wants or directions
of its client. We think there are many other
names more suitable for the journal in question
than "The Constitution" If"The Presidents
Attorney" is not acceptable, why not call it
"The Peculiar Institution" or "The Fugitive
Slave Bill"
Year: 1859

Norwich AND WORCESTER RAILROAD
The earnings of the Norwich and Worcester
Railroad continue to show considerable gain
over last year, and indicate an early resump-
tion of dividends The figures for March are
as follows
Year: 1859

AN effort was recently made at Victoria,
to get up an expedition to Queen Charlotte's
Island. The whole matter however, ended
in nothing The Island is reported to be
rich in quartz.
Year: 1859

GALE AT DETRoIr.-A late Atlanuc paper
has the following:


There was a heavy gale of wind at Detroit
recently. The temporary roof of the tower
of the brick church on Monroe avenue was
carried through the air distance of 100 #.
Begrein, of the Lake Survey, was knocked
down by it in falling and covered by the ru
ms. He was rescued, but so badly injured
that he died that evening. A lady passing
at the time had narrow escape, A frame
building on the corner of the Grand River IL
Chicago roads was blown down. The work
men were, fortunately, absent. Chimneys
were blown down, and the spire of the First
Presbyterian Church was blown out of the
perpendicular, and caused much alarm A
lady, crossing the street with an infant in d
babys wagon, the latter was taken up by
the wind and deposited upside down in the
gutter
Year: 1859

DEATH OF "A FEMALE MIsER IN ALABAMA.
The Mobile papers record the death of sin
gular character in that city, Mrs. Farat Mo-
ran, who was found dead at her residence.
The Register, of late dale, says: "Mrs. Moran
had been living in the house where she died
for some years, and often locked herself up
for days at a time, and never allowed any Of
her neighbors to visit her. Notwithstanding
that she had plenty of this worlds goods, she
lived apparently in extreme poverty. Some
Of her neighbors, not seeing her since Satur-
day last, were influenced to inquire into the
matter. They found her on her bed, dead,
and from the decay of her body she had evil
IDENTIFY been dead several days. We believe
that she was native Of this place, and of
French descent, and about seventy years of
ago.
Year: 1859

The WIDOW OF BALzAc MARRIED. - Tho
widow Of Balzac is married to Gigoux, tho
painter and expert Of tho Louvre. The con-
dition Of the marriage is singular enough.
The lady is to retain the name Of Balzac, even
in singing legal documents, and to be called
in her domestic circle by no other name than
that Of her first husband, from whose glory
she will not depart.
Year: 1859

Gs-The Kingstreo Is. C.) Star of late
date says two struggling printers from the
North were caught at the depot last night in
company with some negroes, and rode out of
town this morning on O rail.
Year: 1859

Is consequently in great demand by persons
travelling, or about to settle in new parts of the
country especially, as well as by many in every
community, where it has become known, on
account Of its various other remedial properties.


In all cases of a Dropsical tendency, it is gen
orally the only remedy required, when adopted
IN the early stage of the disease.


In Dyspepsia maladies, when taken in proper
quantities, as q diet drink, and especially at
dinner, it is found, by uniform experience, to be
emlnently efficacious in the most obstinate cases
when even the best of the usual remedies have
failed to afford more than temporary relief In
cases OF Flatulency, it is an immediate and in
variable specific, and it may be administered in
diluted and proportionate quantities, even to
Young Infants, in all those paroxysms of gripping
pain in the stomach and bowels to which they
are especially subject, as well as in the collie of
grown persons.


Its judicions adoption in connection with the
principal meals, or when sense of exhaustion
dictates its use, fails to relieve the debili-
ty attendant upon protracted chronic maladies,
low temperament and exhausted vital energy, by
whatever cause induced. These are facts to
which many of the most eminent medical men,
both in England and the United States, have
borne testimony, and which are corroborated by
the highest written authorities.


Put up in quart and pint bottles, in cases of
one dozen, with my name on the bottles, cork
and facsimile Of my signature on the label.


For sale by all the respectable Druggists and
Liquor Dealers in California and Oregon.


UDOLPH0 WOLFE, Sole Importer


22 Beaver street, New York.
Year: 1859

TRIAL OF THE WINASs STEANER--The cigar
shaped steamship built by the Messrs. Winans
of Baltimore, has made successful trial trip
Baltimore papers say that with a pressure of hf-
ty-six pounds of steam to the square inch, about
half the capacity of the engine, speed of
twelve miles an hour was attained. The points
of the bow and stern barely touched the water,
and the even progress of the vessel caused no
commotion of the waves, but left a smooth wake
like groove The ventilation below decks was
perfectly preserved during the running of the
machinery, and at no time did the thermometer
rise above CO degrees Fahrenheit Another pa
per says that fourteen miles per hour were made
with a moderate head of steam.
Year: 1859

PRETTY GooD.-The Mountain Democrat saws /:
"a gentleman the other day said to a rosy little
four year old whom he met on the step of the
Cary House, Whose little man are you p


"rm Pike County Cuss, and my daddy's a
Yankeew y was the Young Americans prompt
reply.
Year: 1859

ne1- little girl was told to spell ferment,
and give its meaning, with sentence in which
twas used. The following was literally her
answer


"F-e-r-m-e-n-t, verb: signifying to work
i love to ferment in the garden"
Year: 1859

fB- The Foster Mission School Festival at
Metropolitan Hall on Tuesday We are sosvr to
learn was not 50 generally attended Is it ougtt
to have been but those present eniored them
selves without stint The Light Guard Bald
furnished some delightful music, and the Hall
vas very tastefully decorated.
Year: 1859

4 child grows up proud if suffered to
look into a mirror while less than 4 year
old


ibly-tut the danger Is much great
er AZ a more advanced age


The Growing of hen indicates approach
in- disaster.


This appears to be a warning TO the fe-
male oratory. We submit the question to
Lucy Stone


Buttonng a coat awry or drawing on a
stocking with the inside out, causes mat
tcrs TO 30 wrong during the day.


OF course-it goes wrong with the coat
and the stocking There's nothing oracu-
lar about that


To rock a cradle when empty is injuri-
Gus to the child


The child is oftener injured by being
rocked while in it.


He who proposes moving into new
house must send in beforehand new
broom and some bread
The more he sends III the better in re-
spcct of provisions and furniture. Nodoubt
OF that
When women are stuiiinc beds the men
should not remain in the house; other
wise the feathers will come through the
ticks


There is a sly meaning in that which we
think We eunderstand-but don't mean 10
tell
When mouse gnaws a gown some mis-
fortune may be apprchcndcd.
No-the misfortune has already hap
pened
If a child less than twelvemonth Old
| be brought into cellar, he becomes fcar-
| full


A dark cellar will frightcn children Of
! almost any age-Boston Iost
Year: 1859

DEAR SIR:-Since writing this letter,
which cannot leave England until the lst
of March, received for the first the news
of my daughters death. As loved her
more than all else on EARTH it came pretty
hard on me; though of course, am not
silly enough to expect other people to
share my feelings. MIKE WALSH.
Year: 1859

also the route which the stock drovers
take to California, and we. give to-day
the amount of stock which Mr.. Thatch-
er proposes to start with the present
fall. But to those who may not have
access to those who are familiar with
the route, they can gain all the infor-
nation they desire from the reports of
Fremont, Beale and Gunnison. Their
point of starting and general direction
is the same, and although their explora-
tons were made for railway purposes,
yet their description of the country is
perhaps the most reliable, to which the
greater mass of people can have ac-
cess.


The trip is usually made by Kansas
City traders, with their heavily laden
wagons, in twenty-five TO thirty days,
and starting any time from the middle
of April to the first of October, plenty
of grass is to be found throughout the
whole extent of the route. The past
season grass was abundant as early as
the first of April, Wood and water
are more abundant than by any other
route, avoiding the wide and treeless
table lands of the more northern re-
gions.-Jour. Conn.,, Ka'asos.)
Year: 1859

Can anything be more exquisite than the follow
ing melody in the Atlantic Monthly, ascribed tc
DIR. o. w. Holmes


Behold-not him we knew
This was the prison which his soul looked through


Tender, and brave, and true.
His voice no more is heard
And his dead name-that dear familiar word


Lies on his lips unstirred.
He spoke with poets tongue:
Living, for him the minstrePs Tyre was strung


He shall not die unsung!
Grief tried his love, and pain;
And the long bondage of his martyr chain


Yexed his sweet soul-in vain
felt life's surges break,
As girt, with stormy seas, his inland lake,


Smiling, while tempests wake.
How can we sorrow more?
Grieve not for him whose heart has gone before
To that untrodden shore!.
Lo, through its leafy screen,
A CLEAN of sunlight on ring of green,


Untrodden, half unseen!
Here let his body rest,
Where the calm shadows that his soul loved best


May slide above his breast.
Smooth his uncurtained bed;
And if some natural tears are softly shed,
1t is not for the dead.
Fold the green turf Alright
For the long hours before the mornings light,


And say the last Good Night
And plant clear white stone
Close by those mounds which holds his loved, his


his own;


Lonely, but not alone.
Here let him sleeping iie
Till Heavens bright watchers slumoer in the sky,


And Death himself shall die
Year: 1859

They found her dead
One snowy morning in the open street,
Her cold cheek resting on the pearly sheet


Around her spread,
And on her lips quite smile reposed,


As if in sleep, life's dream had closed.


She slept the last, last sleep;
Deaths seal was on her brow, and she had passed
Tired and suffering, to her home, at last,


Leaving no friends to weep,
No loving ones to come at sunset hours
70 sprinkle on her bosom tears and flowers.


No warm and gentle hand
Clasped hers in tenderness, as in the night
She went out gently from this world of light


Into the shadowy land,
No earthly watcher fingered at her side
To hear her last low murmer when she died.


But did she die alone?
Nol not alone. One friend kept watch with her
One gentle voice, one loving smile was near


The desolate unknown
One hand of mercy led her Ger Deaths foam,
Into the land, to friends and home.
Year: 1859

Quick WoRK.-H. J. Booth d Co., of the
Marysville Foundry, received an order, two
weeks ago yesterday, for complete steam
engine of thirty horse power, and yesterday
delivered it finished into the Lands of the
persons who had ordered it, Messrs. Hartwell
d Brett, of this city. The work is as perfect
as anything that can be made, and the Won
der is that it could have been completed in
the short space of two weeks No such work
has ever been done in this State, under one
months time. Messrs. Hartwel q Brett in.
tend using the engine in their fine Touring
mill at American Valley, some so miles above
this place Their mill has hitherto been run
by water, but they think they can make bet
ter expedition by steam. The region in which
their mill is located is a fine grain growing
country, and will furnish exhaustless material,
in conjunction with Indian Valley and other
valleys adjacent for the operations of the
mil. The engine will be started up for its


destination this morning.
Year: 1859

AT last accounts, convention of eolored
men had met in Boston, their object being to
consider the best course to pursue during the
next Presidential canvass and provide meas
ures for the advancement Of the negro race
in its moral, social and political condition.
Year: 1859

A large number ofthe papers that oppose the
regular Democratic Organization, say that the
Administration and the whole party are re-
sponsible for the views of Senators Davis, Brown,
and other Southern hot-fieads on the question
of furnishing slave code to the Territories
While they do this, they at the same time
quote from many of the leading Southern DEM
ocratic'papers-to wit: the leading Democratic
papers in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Geor-
gia, Louisiana and even in South Carolina-to
prove that they endorse the position assumed by
Douglas, and condemn that taken by Davis.
Brown, and others. They even 60 further, and
quote from the records to prove that certain
leading Democratic Statesmen, all through the
South, have heretofore uttered sentiments pre-
cisely in accordance with those proclaimed by
the great Douglas on the 23d of April last. And
they IN no instance, if we except Brown and
Mason, show that these leading Southern DEM
ocratic statesmen have changed those views.


Now, we respectfully ask these gentlemen, II
the leading southern democratic papers, and a
majority of the leading southern Democratic
Statesmen are opposed to the views enunciated
by Brown, Davis, and others of that ilk how
can they make it appear that the Administra-
ton and the party arc opposed to the position
assumed by Douglas?


The fact is, these editors desire an excuse for
opposing the Democracy. The greater number
OF them have, the most part of their lives fought
the Democracy, and they desire an excuse for
doing the same again. And having no legiti-
mate excuse, they seek by the use of ingenious
sophistry to create such.


We have no doubt, if some prominent Demo-
cratic politician were to turn Mormon, that these
same men would argue that the Administration
and the Democratic party was becoming Nor
monized What if half o dozen Southern hot
heads do proclaim themselves in favor of Con-
gressional interference to protect slavery in the
Territories Have not the same sort of men
you therefore argue that the Southern Democ-
racy is in favor of bursting up of the Republic?
y large number of men in the North are Alb
olitionists Will you therefore argue that the
entire North is Aboltionized ? By no means
! Why then,-because few Southern Democrats
favor the furnishing OF slave codes to the Ter
ritories by Congress, while, according to your
own showing, much bigger number oppose the
idea,-do you assert that the whole Southern
Democracy and the Administration are pledged
to this new slave code doctrine The fact is,
as we said before, these gentlemen are simply
endeavoring to excuse their desertion from the
| Democratic ranks. We have never, in the course
of our life, known a man to leave the Democratic
party, who did not assert that the Democratic
party left him.
Year: 1859

few days ago the Indian boy who set fire to
the house of Col. Stevenson, was taken from the
custody of Sheriff Dunn, by a number of citizens,
and hanged! The Sheriff had taken him to the
Court House and left him in room adjoining
the Court room, and while absent for few mo-
ments, the boy was taken by the mob. This is
really HORRIBLE and reflects 40 credit upon the
parties concerned The Beacon condemns the
act in very severe manner, by alluding to it in
eloquent silence" The boy was but twelve or
fifteen years of age. What good will the hang
ing of this stripping accomplish? Will it deter
other Indian boys from committing a similar
act? If so, the act is defensible. If not, what
then That the boy deserved hanging, if he
was capable of appreciating the magnitude of
his crime, is very true but why not let him be
hung in legal manner? There was no danger
of his escaping.