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Year: 1859

Ne do not doubt that there are few
honest Anti-Slavery Republicans in the
Territory, who believe that the time
has not yet come to organize Republican,
party-that it we're better postponed until
after Kansas shall have been admitted into
the Union as State There may be some
such amongst our readers; and TO them We
have word to say.


On Tuesday. the 9Th of June next, an
election is to be holden in the various coun-
ties of the Territory for delegates to frame a
Constitution for the State of Kansas. This
Constitutions win doubtless be the one un-
der which Kansas win be admitted into the
Union. 1t win not be a work which viii
affect us before our admission into The Un-
ion but afisr-and perhaps for number of
years. This Convention viii apportion the
Territory into Representative and Senate
rial Districts. The Legislature 10 be cleo
ted under this apportionmen; will have the
choosing of two Senators to represent the
STATE of Kansas in the q. s. Senate. There
win also be an election for STATE Officers
and Representative to Congress. underline
new Constitution in October next.


All these things do not affect the people
of Kansas while in their Territorial condi-
ton, but take effect after their admission as
a State. ,s


Ii, therefore it is deemed desirable that
the Republican party should succeed at all.
it should certainly have the Inauguration of
the new State Government, the first admin
istration of which will be the most impor-
tant to the interests of the people of the
State. It should also control the election
of the two United States Senators that the
people of Kansas might be fairly represen-
ted in the Councils of the Nation. So of
the Representative to Congress.


It will not do to trust these Important in
terests in the hands of the mongrel ''insti-
tuition" known as the Free State party
The Democrats are all 'tFree State men"
par excellence now, and where they are
too weak to succeed with their own organi-
zation, they will go into the Free State
party and control its action to as great an
extent as possible. All the independent
Free State candidates for the Territorial
Legislature in Douglas county last fall,
are now Democrats in full communion in
the party. In Leavenworth the result has
been the same-so in other coun ties.


We think these reasons, with others
which they will suggest win meet all the
objections which can be raised against the
of the Republican party at the
present time. The Free State party had
so long been under the control of dema-
gogues that necessity demanded that hon
est men who did not wish to be used as
tools to further the designs of bad men
should come out of it, and form an organi-
Year: 1859

Our recent Biblical researches have con-
vinced us that Job was the first s'liye dar-
key of which we have any authentic rec
ord. We take his own word for it. Hear
him:


"My skin is black upon me, and my bones are
burned with heat BOOK OF Jos, xxx-30.


Poor Jobl He would probably never have
''toid'' on himself if he had known how
discreditable it was to be the wearer of a
black skin The darkies of the present day
and generation have inherited at least one
conspicuous virtue of their aneestor-that
of patience under afiiction and persecution.
Year: 1859

majority Of the Southern States will follow her ex
ample. grave responsibility devoves upon the
approaching Legislature Of the Old Dominion; and
we trust the mother Of States and statesmen"
will meet it as becomes her present position, her
past gores and the great that spreads itself
out resplendenty before her. She has always led
the van; she has the lead now; and she should
continue to lead unto the end, come veal OF come
woe Let her act promptly, but judiciousy firmly
and wisely; for, when she spreads her banner to
the breeze other standards will WOO the winds Of
Heaven and other peoples will be prepared to do
or die by her side


As one way of accomplishing the object aimed
at we trust every Southern Senator and Represent
atve will be prepared to support the doctrine of
free trade and direct taxation. Such a measure,
with undivided Southern support, could be carried
through Congress; for all the Western, and some
of the Middle States, with the South, are becom-


ing tired of paying enormous annual tribute to the
manufacturing sharpers of the Northern Atlantic
seaboard. Irrestricted free trade would do a good
deal towards reducing to practice the suggestions
of our Virginia cotemporary
Year: 1859

SOUTHERN Practical EpUcATIoN.-Citizens and
strangers who in favor Of supporting Southern institutions
should fail visit Dobear Commercial College OF the city of
New Orleans, Story Building Of Camp and Common
which has been tested for quarter century midst
Year: 1859

cause of their peculiarities. Oh, DR.. Liebig !
how we have longed for your skill in an
alytie chemistry What CONSERVATION
would we speedily send among the slattern-
ly butter-makers, revealing the mysteries of
their dirty doings with more than mesmer-
ic facility. +4 g aa' N


And now, what on earth is the reason that
good butter is so great rarity? Is it a
hereditary curse in some families? or is it q
punishment sent upon US for our i'll deserts?
A few good butter makers in every neigh.
borhood are standing proof that it is moth
ing but bad housewifery, mere sheer care-
lessness which turns the luxury of the churn
into an utterly nauseating abomination.


Select cows for quality and not for guam
tity of milk; give them sweet and sufficient
pasturage, keep clean yourself, milk into a
clean pail, strain into clean pans pans
scalded, secured and summed; and, if tin, with
every particle of milk rubbed out of the
seams. While it Is yet sweet, churn it, if
it delays to come, add a little saleratus i;
work it thoroughly three times, sailing it at
the second working. Put it into cool
place, and then, when, with conscience as
clean. and sweet as your butter, you have
dispatched your tempting rolls to market,
you may sit down and thank God that you
are an honest womani .sslEaa5 b slesz
Year: 1859

| Kissiag "A very attractive subject to
all--eyen those in I" the sere and yellow
laef," for those like affectionate salutes
Of their grandchildren. We intend no
disquisition on the subject, but merely to
introduce an odd conceit, which we find
in Servian ballad. A lover invites his
hearts idol to meet him under rose tree
in the garden. Then, he says:


"Thou shalt change to a rosebud fair,


l to a butterfly light as air;


Then as to the rosebud fast cling


Stirring its perfume with 6uttering wing,


People around me will never know


am tasting thy lip that bushes below
Very innocent and proper and the
foundation for very pretty ballad, BY
some of the initiative rhymesters OF the
day.
Year: 1859

LIFE withoat Trials.-Would you wish
to live without a trial Then you would
wish to die but half man. Without
trial you cannot guess at your own
strength. Men do not learn to swim on
atable; they must go into deep water,
and buffet the .surges. If you wish to
understand their true character, if you
would know their whole strength-of
what they are capable-throw them over
board Over with them--and if they
are worth saving, they will swim ashore.
Of themselves.
Year: 1859

10 AEeautiful girl--beautiful in youth
and health and purity-who wakes from
sleep at touch Of morning light as the
flowers do, with cheerful face whose
first tones, like those of the birds. are the
most musical Of the day from whose
brow every trace Of yesterdays wear and
last nights care is swept away. even a.
the face of nature is renewed and bright
ened BY the summer dew--such q girl Ii
hard to find.
Year: 1859

G Show us man free from care, and
we will show you either fool, a lunatic,
or saint in heaven. Every man in his
right mind, and with even a temperate
ambition, must be man of care. He
must have work to do--a responsibility
to bear-a worthy object to live for; or
he will be an unhappy wretch. This is,
anyhow, the constitution of things in our
present estate, and we accept It as the
one best adapted to imperfect humanity.
Still there is such a thing as an anxious,
carking care, which is not only unneces-
sary, but positively hurtful to soul and
body; and this met the condemnation Of
the One who "spake as never man spake."
We live here but once, and for short
time at longest: why then allow inordi-
nate anxiety to cut our heart strings, and
make that short time shorter2
Year: 1859

The Simple Secret.-Twenty clerks in
a store. Twenty "hands" in printing
office. Twenty apprentices in a ship
yard. Twenty young men about vii
lage. All want to get on in the world,
and all expect to do 50. One of the
clerks will rise to be partner and make
fortune. One of the compositors will
own a newspaper and become an infiuen.
tial and prosperous citizen. One Of the
apprentices will come to be master
builder. One of the young villagers will
get handsome farm and live like pa
triarch. But which is destined to be the
lucky individual Lucky2 There is
no luck about it, The thing is almost as
certain asthe Rule of Three. The Young
fellow who will distance his competitors
is he who masters his business, who pre-
serves his integrity, who lives cleanly
and purely. who never gets into debt,
WHO gains friends by deserving them, and
puts his money into the saving bank
There are some ways to fortune that look
shorter than this old dusty highway
But the staunch men of the community,
the men who achieve something really
worth having, good fortune, good name,
and serene old age, all go this road.
Year: 1859




Night has its songs. Have you ever
stood by the sea at night and heard the
pebbles sing and the waves chant Gods
glories? Or have you never risen from
your couch and thrown up the window
of your chamber and listened? Listened
to what? Silence, save now and then q
murmuring sound. which seems sweet
music then. And have you not fsncied
that you heard the harp Of God playing
in Heaven? Did you not conceive that
yon stars, that those eyes Of God looking
down on you, were also mouths Of song
THAT every star was singing Gods glo-
ry, singing as it shone its Almighty Ma
kers and his lawful, we'll deserved praise?
Night hath its songs. We do not need
much poetry in our spirit to catch the
songs of night. and hear the spheres as
they chant praises which are loud to the
heart, though they maybe silent to the ear
the praise Of the mighty God. who bears
up the unpillared arch Of Heaven, and
moves tho stars in their courses.
Year: 1859

Don't be afraid Of little fun at homet
gond people! Don't shut up your houses
lest the sun should fade your carpets; and
your hearts lest s>hearty laugh should
shake down some Of the musty old cob
we bs there? II you want to ruin your
sons, let them think that all mirth and So
cial anjoymcnt must be left on the thres-
hold without, when they come home a.
night. When once home isregarded IS
only place to eat. drink, and sleep in.
the work is begun that ends in gambling
houses, and reckless degradation. Young
people must have fun and relaxation
somewhere; if they do not End it at their
own hearthstones, it will be esought in 9TH
er, and perhaps in less profitable, places.
Therefore, let the FIRE burn brightly at
night, and make the home nest delightful
with all those little arts that parents so
perfectly understand. Don't repress the
buoyaDt spirits OF you children; half an
hour OF merriment round the lamp and
freight Of home bluls out the remem-
brance Of many care and annoyance du-
ring the day, and the best safeguard they
can take with them into the world is the
unseen influence Of bright little domes"
tic sancum.
Year: 1859

FRIENDSHIP RECoGNIzED.--W have been pro-
voked, on several occasions, to deal harshly with
contemporaries who unnecessarily assault us-it is
always disagreeable to us and our readers, and
we had much rather be deprived of quarrelsome
cotemporary. But there are others who have
ever been kind, appreciative and encouraging,
and who have, perhaps erred in partially.
Among them are the Napa Reporter and San Jose
Tribune, whose editors have spoken so frequently
and kindly, that we beg permission to thank
them in this brief paragraph
Year: 1859

MUD FEEDERs.-A contemporary is alarmed at
the voraciousness Of rivers; they are gnawing at
the base of mountains until they become so
" filled up' that they cannot carry the loads laid
on them by commerce. Our friends speculations
are not unfounded; and if he will follow the trib-
utaries to their source, his apprehensions will
rather increase than diminish. He will be aston
ished at the inroads which the avarice of man has
forced water to dig in the hills. In some places
" deep cuts" of one, two and three hundred feet
in width have been pursued into the mountain
until they present perpendicular " face" of one
hundred feet. All the earth, removed by the
united strength of men and water in four or five
years, has gone down the hill to the nearest creek
and is there worrying its way onward. Thousands
of these mud tributaries are daily pouring their
sluggish contents
Year: 1859

SUSPECTED TREACHERY.-There are multit8des
uncharitable enough to believe that the Father
of the Pacific railroad" has not been really so
solictous for its infant welfare as he made be-
lieve. 1t is believed that Notwithstanding bis
annual bringing forth of a speech, that Gwin was
all the time aware that it would amount to moth
ing. We do not readily credit the existence of
such devilish duplicty, although aware that great
overland travelling facility would deeply injure
the Senator in his nautical possessions 1t seems
strange that person reputed to be in high favor
with the President and prominent men of the
nation should not have been able to secure at
least decent attention to that celebrated measure.
There is a great mystery about this which, per-
baps, his peculiar journals can illuminate. We
suppose our DOCTORS railroad constructiveness
will not be required much longer.
Year: 1859

FERocITY OF DEsPAIR.-In coming TO this
State, we met an old Missouri man whose only
son had been killed by Indians on Pit river He
was in paroxysm of grief and anger, and min
gled prayers and oaths in marvellous compound
of pety and fendishness. AS he related his sto-
ry his eyes, filled with tears, fairly glowed with
passion, and lifting his thin, trembling hand, he
swore, between broken sobs, the most ferocious
oath of revenge that we ever heard from human
s--defying the Living God to prevent him
from tearing out and roasting the heart of every
Indian that ever came before his rife. The poor
old man was crazy parting with him at Las
sens we heard of him no more
Year: 1859

Nor IMPRovED.-Wc had supposed that the
beating recently administered to "Old Tom
Dryer" would have modified bis rough language,
but be is still abusive as ever. He is like the
most formidable of small quadrupeds-the more
he is beaten the worse he s-t-n-k-s.
Year: 1859

RoADs.- Generally, the roads in the basin are
'u better condition than we have ever before
known them. The bridges between Weaverville
and the wagon road junction are bad, of course,
aalIhopgh road overseer Adams does his best to


Keep Them in repair.
Year: 1859

The Majority of farmers do not know hoss


to break steers correctly therefore viii sur.


gest few things that will be very useful Il


rightly performed


1t is the custom With many farmers to voke


up their steers before hand-sled. with a rore


around their horns, and if they can not hold


them to jump on the sled and let them rum
This is not right by so doing they form hab-
it OF running away, and it takes a long time
to break them of it. My way is to take yoke
OF steers of any age, and put them on a barn
floor, or, in case this is not handy, to build .
small yard with very high fense, so that they
cannot look or get out. Let this be the first
thing done with the steers then, with d ver1
good whip, begin to tap the nigh steer gently
on the right ear-this will make him walk
close to you--and then serve the other in the
same manner. By this time they will be SUBJ
dued enough to put on the yoke very carefully,
which should take at least half an hour. Be
sure to learn them not to fear the noise of rinps
After they are yoked and gently patted-thus
assuring them that You are not going to hurt
them-begin to drive them yoked as you
would separately, and in short time they will
start and stop at the word. After they thor
oughy learn this, then learn them to back
BE sure to yoke and uDyoke until they do il
with ease; after that you VIII have no trouble,
about yokiug them After training them
about two days in the barn, take them into an
open field, and commence drawing small loads,
gradually increasing them. After the third
day, rightly managed you can drive your
steers with caae. The reason for putting them
in barn, instead of breaking them out Of
doors, is that they cannot get out, and at once
yield and are under your control


BY strictly following these instructions I
think any farmer can break yoke Of steers"
and have them ready for very light work in
three days. From the beginning, be sure
to speak, and treat them mildly, as this is
great p rt in breaking steers WE'LL Be very
careful also not to excite them. One that
to pound and to scream can not
break steers well, and ought not TO try it,
Cor. Rural Ne.o Iorker.
Year: 1859

Here is one day in seven, the rent of which
God has given you. On this day God says to
the world, stop your drum and trumpet and
the great roar of the city ceases One of the
most impressive things to me, as l stand out
there on the heights where l now live, is to
hear that harsh but musical roar that never
dies, day or night. There is not an hour, night
after night, in which cannot hear the great
city below After II o clock on Saturday night
the roar dies away, and in the bright early hours
about the hour that the cross on Trinity looks
like star in heaven--it is still like sleeping
infant How beautiful that institution that
says to the world One day in seven be still. -
Let men forget their cares ; let them be let
alone this day. Every seventh day God lifts
up men as on the Mount of TRANSPORTATION,
and enables them, as it were, in the light of
His countenance, to review the past and deter
mine the lines of their future conduct for the
coming week would deliver you, my dear
people, from any Pharisaic Sabbath. Rut God
forbid that this sweet island of the week, that
is never without vertr,re and flowers-this sweet
mountain top that is more substantial even
than that on which Christ pressed his feet in
the Holy Land, should ever be sunk in the sea
or cast down and desecrated for when we lose
the Sabbath we lose the charm by which we are
to forget our passions, and be lifted by sweet
fellowship into higher range of moral feelings
and there settle the truths that are to be our
everlasting salvstion.-E. e. CHAPLIN.
Year: 1859

The Indifferent reader will most probably
glance over this little essay, and lay it down
without perceiving its merit. The attentive
reader will see that there few words of more
than one syllable in it. To appreciate the in
gentity of such an effort one has only to try to
initiate it


Rest Is sweet. When day has closed and
sounds of toll are heard more, Night draws
her dark robe around, theearth and sets it with
stars Man, worn with The toll and strife of the
day, goes to his home, and soothed by the full
is wooed to rest Now, as he lies on his couch,
thoughts that vexed him by day throng his
mind. tits sweet to muse the joys of life,
ouf loves and our hopes, Sleep weighs down
the lids of eyes and sheds its sweet balm
o'er the worn frame. One by one our limbs
yield to his touch ; thoughts dance round us in
a wild, mixed waltz-then one by one they leave
us ;sthe mind makes one fond grasp at each
loved shade as it fees, but fails to seize it the
brain whirls, the mind acts no more, and we
" sink down and cease to be-


This is sleep SO like is it to Death that some
have called them twins. But death fear,
while Sleep seems to us kind nurse who takes
to her lap the vexed child. We know that
death bears us on his breast to the world we
know not but which We may not leave when
once our feet have touched its plains; while
SIeep leads us but to the world of Dreams.


The bright world of Dreams. At night we
rowsour bark ON its lakes and of glass !;
our feet tread its shores and we walk mid its
cells. Brooks sing to us as they leap on their
way Bids with bright plulnes greet US from the
boughs,, as we pass through the groves No
fraa fI,.sre c those that in
the land of DIR, ,as no flowers SO rare as those
that spring from the glad soil as We draw near.


Towers crowned with gold throw back to the
sun the light he gives, and we glide on through
halls thronged with loved ones of earth, or those
who passed from long since to the world of
shades. Night by night We talk to the loved
ones there, and list to the tales they breath in
our ears and our hearts swell with the bliss
we feel But e en- the throb with which the
heart greets the joy is its dirge for we wake to
weep for the joy that lives not but in our dreams
and is too sweet to be known earth


How wisa a gift is sleep! In the hush of
night sleep is born ond rest comes to man.
Morn comes with the dawn he leaves his couch
aud goes forth to toll with zeal as strong
man to run a race Each day of toll has its
night of rest. Thus it is through life, till at
last death comes and man sleeps to wake to
new life of joy or shame. As in sleep there is
no work, SO there is none in the grave. To one
worn with toll the night of death must be sweet


But there is change there '' as the tree
falls so it must lie If then the day of life
be lost, how sid the night. For when the trump
shall sound to wake from this last long sleep,
we shall be Judged for our works he that has
done we'll shall rise to joy that ends not. he who
has done i'll to shame and woe. Work then,
while the day lasts, for the night comes when
no man can work. .''-WILLIAM P. BAKER.
Year: 1859

That exercise oonduces very little towards
taking on flesh, while quiet assists materially in
Fastening the operation of fattening, is well
known, and should ever be taken into account
by those who would fit any animal for slaueh-
tering The following, from the Amer1oGn Ag-
rieolturis,, is worthy the attention of farm-
ers


From observation extending over a dozen
years or more, made in villages and the rural
districts, we have noticed that the fatteet'
and best pork is made in the former, where
one or two pigs are usually kept in small peus
The villager has but small room, and crowds
his pig into narrow quarters for the year. II


is fed on slops for eight months and for the last
four is GRAINED with scalded Indian meal, He
gets pork of decidedly better quality than he
can purchase, and gets it cheaper. The whole
energy oC the animal is forced by his training
into the production of flesh and fat.


TIL, pigs of the farmer on the other hand.
run in pasture or on the common, for six or
eight months and shut up dozen or more In
a large pen to atten, because ne has plenty Of
room. The energy Of the animal has gone
very much to the development of snout and
feet, and the propensity to run and to rect
is not circumScribed very much in his roomy
pen BY Christmas he is not more than two
thirds fatteucd, aud be has consumed quite as
much as the village pig, which is ready for the
knife. We have two yearling pigs, good for
four hundsed and fifty pounds of pork by
Christmas, that have never been out Of pen,
eight feet by twelve since they were eight
weeks old, Small pens kept dry aud regular
feeding is the secret of their thrift"