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Year: 1860

DULL TIMEs.-Yes, the times are dull and bust
ness is slack. and hence there is more necessity
for advertising than there would be in flush times
Put list of your goods in the Progress If you
wish to sell them. Hand bills, cards and circu-
lars, too, when properly distributed pay ten,
twenty and sometimes An hundred fold.
Year: 1860

POLLOK GETTING GAr.-The piles of new goods
opening on Pollok street is beginning to enven that
fashionable promenade. Nearly all our citizens
who run away from the dog days have returned and
the town begins to look itself again. New goods
are great temptations, and though money is tig ht
we can't blame any lady for teasing her husband or
papa for just new dress for the Fair. And they
will have them-no use trying to prevent that.
Year: 1860

Look TO THE DIREcroRY.-New goods are
opening in every direction and those in want
of dry goods, groceries, toys or provisions will
have no difficulty in being accommodated
Keep an eye to the advertising columns of the
Progress-that is the best business directory
we know Of
Year: 1860

ONE of the gentlemen sent forward bv the
Disunion National Committee to collect funds
in the North and Northwestern States Of the
Union has returned and made a report He
got little or no money, but is said to have
expressed his surprise at seeing how enthu-
sastically the Democracy of the North and
Northwest rally to the flag of Douglas.
Year: 1860

ticket was everywhere by old fellow laoorers
In the cause OF freedom and temperance who nstca ~
giving me their co cooperatou told thai ru'uug
the republican parry II seemed not TO have occurred TO
them that the republican party had ruined them Nor
did seem TO have occurred 70 them that freedom and
temperance were better worth saving than the
party


We do not need TO employ presses and con
vince the people that slavery and the dramshop among
tho greatest crimes and abomEaonS. Tn, people at
ready saturated with this conviction Bat do need
employ them teach the people the true region--the
simple religion of reason and Jesus Christ
had they this religion they woald be drawn 70 rational
and righteous voting naturally ard necessarily the
needle 10 drawn 70 the pole.


You will need fund of two hundred dollars 10
detrAy the OF printing tickets and getting them
into the hands OF suitable deposares In different parts of
the country who In their turn will give them out % the
half dozen in this county and the d, IN that who re
fufe 70 vote the tickets OF any party which s ahesc
70 but for white men, mercees ~ 10 recogns
the awfuness Of slave hunts sunk low Ia it's views
OF human dignity and human decency 10 see in the
drsmshop human want The enclosed draft for ATTY
dollars lis my contribution TO this end.i


Think not that shall be sorry 10 fpd your Convention
fusing TO partke Of my tone Of encouragement shall
joce IT encouragement 10 undertake 10 obtain
considerable vote al the approaching election and II
feel itself warranted 70 entertain the hope OF speedy
political action, stand ready 10 work with your Conven
tion even against hope. To work with those who
endeavorng by peaceful 10 rid the world Of op
preston and intemperance would do good and them
good and the world good, even II the direct objet Of
our work should remain entirely unaccomplished.


Your friend, GERRIT SMITH.


PETRBoRo, August 27, 1850.
Year: 1860

The cattle disease has increased to such an alarming extent in Massachusetts that Gov ernor Banks has expressed himself in favor of a special session of the Legislature to take action in relation to it; and although he has not positively decided to call one, there is but little doubt but that he will do so, and that it will be held as early as possible.

 "A negro in Bridgeport. Con-, lately en- deayored to pass himself off for a spaniard, and gave lecture on the annexation of Cuba. During the lecture some one told him that he was only Boston barber, and on pulling of his wig, the black wool underneath was re- ,ealed, amid the strongly displayed indigna- tion of the audience.

 -One wholesome reform has been ordered bythe House of Representatives. It lis decreed that hereafter only those speeches which are really delivered in the House shall be printed n she Congressional Globe.
Year: 1860

The Presidential campaign is now brought
to close, and the people generally are re-
joiced that the political excitement is over
In the principal cities Of the East it will
probably be known some time tomorrow
how the election has gone, but on this coast
we shall have to wait couple of weeks
for the result. The Republicans are over
sanruine that Lincoln will be elected, aud
IL must be admitted that be is the only one
of the four candidates who stands any
chance of being elected by the people but
it is our opinion that no one will have
majority of the electoral vote, aud that the
duty of electing President and Vice Pres
ident will devolye upon the House OF Rep
resentatives and Senate. In that case, the
Senate will have to choose between the two
candidates who have the highest vote
Hamlin will be one of these and we believe
the vote of the Douglas aud Bell Electors
will be cast in such manner as to prevent
the name of Lane from going before the
Senate, thus compelling that body to choose
between Hamlin and johnson or Everett.
The names of the three highest candidates
for President would 60 before the House,
but that body as now constituted would
not be likely to elect either, aud whoever
the Senate elected Vice President-which
would be johnson or Everett-wOuld sue
ceed to the Presidency. If enough Of the
Northern States 90 for Douglas to prevent
the election of Lincoln, the Douglas electors,
by voting for Everett, could give him more
votes than will be given for Lane, thus put
ting it out of the power Of the Senate to
elect the latter Vice President, and render
ing It impossible for him to succeed to the
Presidency. This vas the only hope which
the Breckinrdgers could have had of re-
tanning control of the Federal Government
for the next four years. Unless Lincoln is
elected by the people, the probability is
that Everett and Hamlin will be the two
highest candidates for Vice President that
the Senate will elect Everett to that posi-
tion, and he will succeed as President on
the failure of the House to elect. In any
event, we may rest assured that the country
is safe.
Year: 1860

THE BOUNDARY SURvEY.-Gov. Downey
has declined to appoint Commissioner, in
behalf of the State, to aei with Lieutenant
Mowry in the survey of the eastern bound.
ary of the State, because there is no law au-
thorizng him to make such an appointment.
AS consequence the work will be delayed
until after the meeting of the next Legisla-
ture. 1t is not likely that the survey will
be commenced before next spring.
Year: 1860

A USELESS OFncE.-The Red Bluff Bea-
con advocates the abolition of the office OF
Sealer of Weights and Measures So far as
the wants of the people are concerned the
office is of no earthly use. If man is dis
honest enough 10 use false measures and
scales, be can alter them to swindle bis Gus
toners in Eve minutes after The officer has
nut his seal upon them. The Office should
be abolished, and the use of false weights
or measures made msdemeaDor. II men
are disposed to act dishonesty, no amount
OF official supervision or espionage will
prevent them.
Year: 1860

ELECTION RETuRNs.--In eur next issue,
unless the vote is very close, we shall be
able to give the result of the State election
for President, and for members of the Leg.
islature of this county.
Year: 1860

LIMESTONE IN SoLANo.-Specimen Of
fine limestone have been discovered in Solano
county, which, it is stated, can be made into
strong and durable cement. superior even to
Roman cement.
Year: 1860

SALT WoRKS.-Messrs. Smith x Searles are
putting up works for the manufacture of salt.
in South Cottonwood, Tehama county, about
twenty-eight miles northwest of Red Bluff.
They say the water is excellent and abundant,
some of it is so strongly impregnated that it
will yield three pounds of salt to the gallon.
The average, they think, will be pound and
half
Year: 1860

Without positive knowledge on the sub
5ect, we take it for granted that all reports
which say that Mr. L1ScoLN is preparing
m address to the people of the country, 10
he issued Immediately after election, in
which he will endcavcr to soothc and re-
assure the South, are without foundation in
fact Il may be advisable for him to do SO
when he becomes President elect; but we
nre sure that at the present time he has no
such intention. His moderate but just sen
timcnts arc so well known, his conscrva-
tive inclinations arc so well understood,
aud his course iB so clearly forcshadowed
by lis opinions on record, that no man who
seeks the truth can he in doubt as to what
lis Administration will be. The men in
the South who have reasoned themselves
into the belief tint Mr.: Lincoln is q politi-
cal trickster who has one set Of opinions
for the North and another for the South;
that he will profess anything or deny any
thing for the sale Of increasing his chances
Of 81 Lccess; or that he is nose Of wax in
the hsnds of designing men, certainly
would not be Modified by anything that he
nights say. Sensible men who have not fallen
into the error Of supposing that the Repub-
lican party is m association Of blind and
crazy fanatics who have but one thought
and thnt for tic "subjugation" Of the South,
do not need the assurances which Mr. Lin
coin might give. We know Of no reason
why he should interfere with the march OF
events. He has the utmost faith in the
Justice Of his cause, and We know that he
is not without firm reliance On the good
sense and peaceful intentions Of his oppo-
nent.s, That faith and that reliance are sui.
fcient for any obstacles that he may en-.
counter, alter he assumes the place to
which lie VIII he regularly elected.
Year: 1860

- - LAR0KEtsS F" "ASAGO'


1t may suit the Times and Herald to ex-
cuse its ill-timcd and improper advice to
the la1,orcrs of this city under half a column
Of persiNagc, Of which the TRIBUNE is the
subject; but the laborers themselves who
are deceived and cut off from the chances
Of profitable employment for the winter,
by its Misrepresentation willnot treat that
sheet as lcniently as we do. After election
is over, aud Douglas Is ingloriously beaten
in city, county and State, and these men
find Themselves here without work, ut the
the beginning Of ii hard winter, they will
wonder why it is TINT they have been SO
grossly deceived Let them settle with
those who have misleG Them, as they may
Our duty TO them is discharged
Year: 1860

sETTLE EsQlt gives me great pleasure state that
Ter trial Of Of the vper Gas Lamps in my study for
weeks past observing closely for the length
time, tie experiment lighting "Union Tent"
lamps, have entire confidence in their efficiency 1t
they afford all the advantages Of the best lights thosz
who live out Of The cides and large towns.


The process Of preparing and lighting the lamp is readily
learned. the fixtures simple and little liable
Of orsr the Of the light comparatively te and the
whole free from all danger that It need only acquain
the part OF the public with the Yesper Lamp
bring them into general throughout the country.


Yours truly, STUART ROBINSON.
Year: 1860

NOW Oh NEVER,


AL now IN the city and s epgagi in selling county rights
for the State Of Tennessee, for the manufacture and sale Ct
~ Batent Improved Be- Hives the virtue and superiority
ofEheh have been to BY hundreds Of the most worthy and
is simple, and promise It is the only Hive in The world known
which proof against the bee mOhe Persons desrous Of pur
chasing either family rights for the best Bee Hive in
the world, End me oF few days at the Auction Rooms Of
Aes53 HARDY Broth4rs where viii be haRpy g see sen
juD2O-a JOSEPH KENT.
Year: 1860

The WIFE.-lt is astonishing to see how
we'll man may live on small income. who
has handy and industrious wife. Some
men live and make a far better appearance
on six or eight dollars week, than others
do on fifteen or eighteen dollars The man
does his part well, but his wife is good for
nothing. She will even upbraid her hus-
band for not living as his neighbor, while
the fault is entirely herown. His neighbor
has neat, capable, and Industrious wife.
and that makes the difference. His wife.
on the other hand. is whirlpool, into
which great many silver cups might be
thrown and the water would remain un.
changed. No Nicholas the diver is there
to restore the wasted treasure. 1t is only
an insult for such woman to talk to har
husband about love and devotion.
Year: 1860

THIS popular and favorite Hotel has recently
L been fitted up in good style, and is every way
calculated for the comfort and convenience OF the
travelling public, "and the rest of mankind, " and
the proprietor having had some experience in cater
ing the public, hatters himself that he cannot be
outdone by anv first class Hotel in Northern Mich-
gan The rooms are large, airy and convenient,
and second to none in the State, which makes 1t a
very desirable house for gentlemen on business or
pleasure.


The table will at all times he furnished with the
Injuries of the season. ms well as the substanas, for
the inner man; in fact, the proprietor means that
the Webster House shall be the ne plus ultra OF
the Saginaw Valley. In connection with the house
a little something is kept for the "stomaeh's sake
and thine often infrmities." Also, good barn and
stabling well supplied with hay and grain.


.I LESTER CROSS.


SAGINAW CITY Julv 26 1860
Year: 1860

has won for itself such rcnown for tho cure OF
every variety of Throat and Lung Complaint, that
il is entirely unnecessary for us TO recount the
evidence OF its virtues, wherever it has been en-
ployed. As it has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
assure the people its quality is kept mp TO the best
it ever has bacn, and that it may be relied on 10
do for their relief all it has ever been found to do
Year: 1860

Is a preparation which is compounded upon scientific
principles, and with great care by once thoroughly
acquainted with the medical qualities and effects of
each article separately considered rs well as the
whole in its combined state.
Year: 1860

Snrsapara is Tropical Root too well known ms
one of the best antidoes possess for Scrofulous
Complaints to need commendation But rs sIiiiin-
gia Is an article of more recent use in Scrofulous
affections We give below the statement Of
Year: 1860

A1A ACRES OF LAND, SITUATED OR LYING
on both sides of the road leading from Green
vile to Newbern. and just three miles from Greenye.
The contains All of land about goo acres is
cleared part Of il is grown up in pine busiest the
lack of force to cultivate it. t---. t--


About As 80 of it is rich swamp, and be
vtry easily drained. On of the swamps Mr.. Wiley
Bell and Mr. William Brooks have cleared or
next of their part of the swamp which brings from
ten to twelve barrels of corn to the acre.


Nearly all of the up land Of good clay foundation the
very of land to manure and improve upon. Manure
that put upon amply shows for itself large POr-
ton of it is well adapted to cotton and wond be valua.
BILE plantation if owned it who had force enough
to improve it. and put it in good state of cultivation.


The land has good dwelling house upon it. surrounded
with beautiful oak grove, splendid well of pure water.
and is very pretty place to live at DC Said land has
also an orchard Of ine fruit trees.


Persons wishing to purchase land would do well to look
and examine for themselves before purchasing elsewhere
l am determined TO sell.


June l3. 1860. E-6m.
Year: 1860

1t seems to us that statement settles the
question bat he afterwards, and in the same
speech. cliaches the nail, therein driven home
to the head In reply to Senator Clay, of
Alabama, Douglas said


Now the Senator from Alabama, asks me
whether the Southern people, under the Con
stitutiOn, have not the right to carry their
slaves there answered yes-thc same
right that. you have to carry any other prop
erty Then you ask, hare they not right
to hold It there 1chen they get It there II
answer, the same right that you have to hold
any other property, subject to such local laws
as the local Legislature may enact


There is the doctrine in Mr. Douglas own
words. Slaves are carried to the Territories
and held there under the Constitution on the
same footing as horses. And the Territorial
Legislature has no more right under the COn-
stitution to prohibit the introduction of slaves
or to confscate slave property or to discrimi-
nate against it, than it has TO prohibit the
or discriminate against them.


If Douglas maintained the opposite doc
trine at another time and in another place,
he may be expected TO lake his choice Of the
two hereafter, or assume a third one, incon-
sisteEt with either of these. But after this
presentation, we hope tbs editor Of the .I9nr-
nal will admit that we did not lie, but that
he was mistak en.-Gate City.
Year: 1860

81 believe that it is the right of the South
to demand and the duty of Congr ess to eX-
tend protection to persons and property OF
every kind Cnclading slavery in the Terri
tories during their Territorial State. This
is no new opinion. advocated the doc
trine as far back as l84S in the Senate Of the
United States. you have any curiosity to
see the argument, refer you to my speech
on the Oregon bill, delivered 9TH of July of
that wear, and reported in the Congressional
Globe How unjust, therefore, are the insin-
uations with which you intersperse and in
terland your editorial comments that all are
in favor of squatter sovereignty who happen
not to agree with the Seceders from the
Charleston COnvention! lrepel the insinu-
alton so far as it may be intended to apply
to me, come from what quarter it may, and
plead my own record in vindication."


Mr.. johnson has always been a Southern
extremist and not long ago declared his be-
lief that "the Capital Of the land, should
0ocn the labor of the land" Now where is
the practical difference between Douglas and
johnson and the other faction? And in the
face of these inevitable orclusions, is It not
the duty and interest of every free man of the
North, whether he has hitherto been Demo
crat or Republican, to vote for the triumph
of freedom and free labor? Then shall the
moral, social and political curse, and enemy
of our liberties, slavery, be forever limited to
its present bounds and the Constitution and
the Union brought back to the harbor of lib
erty justice and equal rights, where they
were built and moorcd by the fathers. II.
Year: 1860

Y WILL leave for the eastern cities l shortly to buy my Fall and Winter stock ant am compelled to have Cash. most respectfully call upon all that know themselves indebted to rnt to come and seftle up A. POLLOCh.

 N B. am selling off my stock of su MMER GOODS at greatly reduced prices A.

 July
Year: 1860

In reply to frequent inquiresI would say, that prepared to travel to any part of the state, and will go prepared to do everything in the line oi my profession in the neatest possible manner. Per sons wishing my services will please drop me line to that effect, as shall not have time to go except where have caIls and will only charge the regular Memphis and eastern prices, same as charge in my office. N CASE, Dentist.

 ittlo Rocl Ark Eeh 03 ,aQ=ly
Year: 1860

the State and to their honor aud glory be
if said. that never did any boys improve
faster in any school than my boys did IN
the school of military instruction at
Charlestown. say again, that on Tie
first step being taken, the first gun hred,l
would have marched across the line
through the Western Reserve of Ohio. |
would have swept away Black Republi-
csnism on either side of the road and have
assaled the British Lion himself IN hls
den. Applause. And, gentlemen
tell vou this. that YOU may understand
what fighting the Union is. Laughter.
| hope You understand it now. But with
out going to Canada, the fifteen or SIX
teen hundred men accomplished mainly
the purpose whcH ! had in view, as your
nurposes will be always accomplished
when YOU have the law and the right on
your side. Il deferred inva<ion-i' held
ihe enemy bdck-n gave the confidence
of security to our peopIe-iI gave proper
direction TO irdignarion at the South; II
put the conservative element in tie North
in motion.
Year: 1860

SLAVES IN New YoRK.-Within the Last few days
two slaves have arrived in New York, and they are
still here, walking about, under no control or
guardianship. What the abotionists about,
and the Republicans who nulify the fugitive slave


law, that they do not induce these men to assert
their right to freedom, especially as they have
been brought here by their masters, not merely in
transitu, as was the with the Lemons, but on
pleasure tour to the free States? We allude to the
two musicians who came here with the military
company from Savannah during the last week.
One attempt was made by the abolitionsts to kid
nap them; but they for their lives, as if some
thing dreadful was to happen them, and never
stopped till they under the protection of their
masters, who gave them free permission to leave if
they desired it. But these young men could not
be induced to accept the offer. They prefer the
kind OF slavery to which they subject rather
than such freedom as the abolitionists would give
them. What a comment upon the humbug anti
slavery agitation carried on for so many years at
the North, and now carried into the Presidential
election by the Republican party !-Ne,o York


Herald, July 23. .Is
Year: 1860

An exchange says the most profitable use that
ninetenhs of all the dogs in this country could be
applied to is to mix about five dogs with a barrel
of lime and ten cart loads of muck in a compost
hean.
Year: 1860

The gift money of the Japanese Embassy was
divided among the Philadelphia policemen on Sat
urday. Those only who were on duty at the time
of the reception received any of the funds, each
one of these getting SIS 80
Year: 1860

Wilkes SPIRIT Of the Times very gravely inti-
mates that the reason Heenan was denied the Eng
lish belt, was because the British government be-
came thoroughly alive to the great political injury
1t might work to English prestige should the people
of the continent, over whose races she had always
domineered in physical comparison, behold some
stalwart stranger from beyond the seas bear off the
emblem of her superiority in prowess
Year: 1860

REACTION IN THE SHIPBUILDING TRADE.-For some
time past the complaints of dulness in the shipbud-
ing trade have been frequent ami doleful Busi-
ness In that line seemed to be totally suspended all
the winter; the dockyards had been converted into
so many deserts, the sound of the hammer was
heard there no more But there appears to be
sudden reaction, for the ship-yards are all alive
again, and they are now, we believe, some eight
or ten large vessels ON the stocks This, no doubt
is the result of the growing activity of commerce.
and trade generally, and the cheering prospect of
an abundant harvest, which instils new life into
every branch of business.-M z HernM
Year: 1860

Judge Law must really be e slippery
customer, SO far as his political position is
concerned. We learn that the Enquirer is
getting shaky in his support. We have
noticed that that paper has not been in the
habit of supporting him very warmly. The
reason we presume, is, that it is really un-
certain about his position.


We understand that its editor, last even
ing, on the street, stated that if Judge Law,
when questioned, should fail to declare him
self unequivocally for Douglas, he would
take his name down from the head of hi;
paper.


How is it Is the Judge so uncertain
as this? Who will be so good as to inform
the public how the Judge really stands
Let a purse be made up as a reward fo
any one who will make the discovery.