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Year: 1860

DECLINEs.-Senator Charles Sumner au-
thorizes the Boston Daily Advertiser to say
that he could and would not accept the office
of Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial
Court in Massachusetts, if it were tendered
to him-a circumstance of which there is not
the slightest probability.
Year: 1860

INFORMATION FOR CABIsET-MAKERs.-Ac
cording to the latest intelligence from Europe
France and Russia had pretty well made up
their minds to break up the diraHs and smash
the OttetadAs.
Year: 1860

Bad Mnnners.-There IS nothfsg more an
noying to a lady, when passing In or ont OF
church, than to be- rudely stared in the face BY
yonng men who assemble at church doors to
make remarks on the appearance and "style'
of the female portion of the audience. Young
men often indulge in this habit without think
ing of the improperly. A moments reflection
ought to satisfy them of the wrong, and induce
them to give mp the practice in the future.
Year: 1860

Wonder why mamma keeps Bridget at
home from church to work all day, and then
says its wicked for me to build my rabbit
house on Sunday.
Wonder why our minister bought that
pretty cane with the yellow lions head up
on the top, and then asked me for my cent
to put in the missionary box. Don't I
want jewsharp just as much as he wants
n cane?


Wonder what makes pa tell those nice
stories to visitors abou. his hiding the mas
ter's rattan when he went to school, and
about his running away from the school
mistress when she was going to whip him,
and then shuts me up all day in a dark
room because I tried just once to be as
smart as he was?


Wonder why mamma tells pa he is cross
when he comes home at night and says his
tea is weak, and then ties handkerchief
over my mouth so that can neither speak
nor breathe, because happened to say she
was cross?


Wonder what made papa say that wicked
word when Betsey upset the ink all over his
papers and then snapped my ears because
said the same thing when my kite string
broke?


Wonder why mamma told Bridget the
other day to say she was not at home to
Tommy Days mother when she callod, and
puts me to bed without my supper every
time tell a lie?


Oh dear! there's lots of these things I
should like to know! How wish was
man!
Year: 1860

~ The subject of impression at first
sight, was being talked over at the supper
table, when the lady who duty it was to
preside said 'she always formed an idea Of
a person at first sight, and generally found
it to be correct.


"Mamma," said her youngest son, in =
shrill voice that attracted the attention Of
all present.


swell, my dear, what is it?" replied the
good mother.


81 want to know what was your opinion
of me when you first saw me?"


This question gave sudden turn to the
conversation.
Year: 1860

SHORT RULES FOR STUDENT LIFE.-Good
meals at moderate intervals, and the stom-
ach left at rest between. Some interval
an interval Of active exercise is best-be-
tween hooks and food. A leisure hour for
dinner, and cheerful conversation after it.
A short nap, for those who need or like it,
after dinner. Light occupation in the even
ing-literature or correspondence, with
more or less social intercourse, music, or
other recreation. These are each and all
highly desirable; but the most indispensable
Of all is strenuous and varied bodily exer-
cise.-Once O. Week.
Year: 1860

tated publican, 81 have just opened this
house, and it is getting good run would
you ruin its reputation for an accident? 1
will find out the villain who robbed you,
and I will send for tailor to measure
you for your missing garment Your mon
ey shall be refunded. Do you not see that
your temper is useless?''


my dear sir, replied, 81 thank you for
your kindness. did not mean to reproach
you. If those trowsers can be done to-day
I shall be satisfied !; for time is more prec-
ious than money. You may keep the 9th
ers if you find them, and in exchange for
the hundred and fifty dollars which you
give me, their contents are yours"


The next evening, with new inexpressi-
bles, and one hundred and fifty dollars in
my purse, called on my guardian in Phil
adelphia for sixty dollars. He gave me a
lecture on collegiate desertion, that shall
not soon forget.


enclosed the money back to my honor
able landlord by the first post, settled =
bill at old Crusty's, the first public1
got my trunk by mail. -
Year: 1860

Written for the Times.
On the Death Of Beautiful BOY.
Now the lovely form is lying,
Cold and still upon his bed,
And against the snowy drapery
Rests the little weary head.
And We know the heart il silent
With its longing after rest,
Since the dainty hands lie meekly
On the fair and quiet breast.
There will be his chair and cradle
Aud the little hat he wore,
And a thousand sad reminders,
or the loved one gone before.
And the baby lips that murmured,
Softly at the hour Of prayer,
And the little feet that echoed,
Their rich music everywhere.
Thrill no more with infant sladoese,
flushed forever here on earth,
Yet, beside the living waters,
Have received Immortal Birth.
Mother weeping by his cradle,
Father sad beside his chas,
Ties OF kindred reach to Heaven,
Lie Is waiting for you there. "
Year: 1860

Tragic Result of Kiss.
You did begin. You can't deny


You kissed me first Don't you remember
How splendidly the moon rode high
And full, That evening in SeptemberI
We two were sitting quite alone,


Your head upon my shoulder resting;
The loving moonlight round us shone,
You pou,ed out your lips suggesting
That | should bend nv head to see


IL you were earnest or but joking;
My lips touched yours. You must agree
That crime MAS Of your own provoking
IL you were vexed why did you stay,


Your head upon my breast reclining!
Or not tell me to take away


The nrm that vas your waist confning!
Twas long ago, and vet it seems


But Yesterday, as now recalling
Our fresh young love, our happy dreams.
The autumn leaves around us falling
We little thought how it would end,


Tia, love our future life was guiding
To where ~e are. this little friend


To our protection thus contidinr.
II can't be helped. We must receive
The charge, while trusifuiiv believing
hat love, in his Young life, will leave
No greater cause than ours. for grievnp.
IL must be 80. The breast from which
The little fellow strength is gaining,
Contains n heart i'm love so rich.


fearless, trust him to your training
Year: 1860

We are reliably informed that Mr. T. G.
Smith, the well-known livery stable keeper
of this place, will soon put passenger train
of one hundred mules on the road between
North San Juan and the eastern slope, by
way of Forest City and the Henness Pass
As soon as the snow on the summit will per
nit, the train will 60 through to Carson City
and the silver mines. An attempt to get
through would have been made next week,
and with every chance ofsuccess, but for the
Intervention of snow storm The route
will no doubt be open in time to accommo-
date the stream of travel which will set in
from the north by the beginning of spring
After the Truckee Turnpike Company shall
have completed its enterprise, and numerous
stations are established along the road, the
Henness Pass route will be kept open through
all seasons, and must be the great highway
for all northern travel. Its superiority as sum-
mer road is already established Mr.. Smiths
passenger train is only preliminary to a line
VI Stt<5SS. " hiNh III run lToIu lulS point
next summer. The citizens of Yuba, Neva-
da and Sierra counties may well congratulate
themselves on the certainty that great
transmontane highway will go through their
midst


In connection with this subject we learn
that Mr.. Smith will establish a station at the
new town of Truckee City, which is situated
at the south point of the Buttes in Truckee
Meadows, where all the northern roads con-
verge, and grass, hay, grain and water are
abundant A hotel is already in process of
erection, and several stores and shops will
soon be put up and occupied better To-
cality for town could not have been select
ed. The land surrounding it is adapted to
agriculture, and already occupied by persons
who intend to put in grain and vegetable
crops and plant fruit trees and grape vines.
Silver, copper and lead have been found in
the adjoining hills, where also pine timber
grows and two saw mills have been erected.
The new town was started, according to the
Marysvile Appeal, by an association of eight
men of means and influence, part of whom
are on the site now, and the remainder in
Marysville, North San Juan and Forest City
Year: 1860

The Democratic State Convention organ
lied on Wednesday, with Phil Moore of Ne
vada county as President. The Legislature
adjourned over one day to give members
chance to attend. We endeavored to learn by
telegraph if delegates to the Charleston
Convention were elected, but owing to the
storm the wires are not in condition to af-
ford any intelligence. Over three hundred
delegates were in attendance, according to
the Union
Year: 1860

MoRTUARY AND VITAL STATIsTIcs-From
the report of the State Registrar we regret
to learn that the law requiring registration
of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, ETC.,
is still generally disregarded. The statistics
returned for 1859 were very meager, and
thirteen counties made no report at ell. The
differences from the few statistics obtained
are very interesting The chief grounds for
divorces were drunkenness, cruelty and de-
sertion. The principal mortuary canse has
been consumption, but the disease was gen
orally contracted abroad. Diseases OF the
heart and throat rank next.


In view of the Importance to science, and
even to the every day interests Of society,
of the registration law, the noncompliance
with it is not hattering to the intelligence of
ou- people. We hope it may not be re-
pealed, but that some method may be found
for insuring fuller complia nee with it. IF
every newspaper publisher in the State
would send copy of his paper regularly to
the Registrar, great mass of valuable sta
tistics would be afforded that officer even if
the people continue to disregard the law as
heretofore. No doubt a request to this ef-
feet would be cheerfully granted.
Year: 1860

THE LITTLE PloNEER.-This is the name of
handsomely printed and illustrated month
ly for little folks, published at San Francisco
by Hutchings and RosenGeld, and edited by
some genial writer who calls himself ''Uncle
John" The Little Pioneer is really clever
production, compares favorably with the
best serials Of its class in the East, and is
per year. We hope this commendable effort
to establish juvenile literature Of our own
to give California children an acquaintance
with whatever is peculiar and pleasing in
the wonderful State of their birth, will be
sustained as it deserves.
Year: 1860

Speaking of the fast driving of the Over
land coaches, the San Jose Reporter says:


These dry-land clippers come and go with
a velocity which is almost incredible The
horses are so thoroughly trained to the road
and are so accustomed to making time at
full speed that they do not wait for the driv-
ers to crack their whips, but at the very in
slant the reins are tightened they-start off
at run. They DO not merely lope. or can
ter, but they literally fly over the earth like
race horses.
Year: 1860

Who IS Ir?-Some sensible fellow who
appreciates merit has sent US a copy of APP
pleton's encyclopedia of Biography
very book we intended 10 buy pext These
encyclopedias are wonderfully useful to wri-
ters for the press, who are popularity sup
posed to know everything except how to
make money and keep it. If our modest
friend will send US his name we will add it
to the list of immortals in the cyclopeda
Year: 1860

Is most urgently recommended Already has it fonna
its way into the principal public and private Hospitals


in the country, and wherever it has been oacr used 4
forthwith becomes necessity
Year: 1860

An extraordinary falIscy is the dread OF
night air. What mir do We breathe but night
air: The choice is between pure night mir
from without, and foul air from within.
Most people prefer the latter. An unuc.
countahie choics. What will they say if il
is proved To be true that fully One-half of
all the diseases We suffer from, are occa
siopod by people sleeping with their win
dows shut! An open wInd0w most nights
in the year can never hurt any ono. This
is not to say that niPhT is not necessary for
recovery. In great cities night air is often
tho best and purcst TO be had in the twenty
four hours. l could better understand d
shutting tho windows in towns. during the
day, than during tho night. for the sal OF
the sick. The absence OF smoke. the quiet,
all tend to mako night the best time for air
ing the patient. One of our highest medi-
cal authorities on consumption and climate.
has told mo that tho air in London is never
80 good as after ten O'Clock at night Al
ways air your room. then. from outside air
it possible. Windows arc made to open
doors are mndo to shut--a trutb-whieh
seems extremely difficult of apprehension,
Every room must be aired from Without
every passage from within. But tho fewer
passages there arc in hospital tho better
Florence Nightingale.
Year: 1860

The following aneciote is related of Hugh
Miller: when employed as q mason, 10
was usual for his fellow-workmen to have
an occasional treat of drink. and one or
two glasses of whiskey fell to his share. which
he swallowed. When he reached home. he
founder opening his favorite book--Bscon's
Essays-ihat the letters danced before his
eyes. and that he could no longer master
his senses. "The condition" says he. 'into
which had brought myself. was, I felt, one
of degradation. l had sunk by my own act,
for tho time. TO lower level OF intelligence
than that on which it had been my privilege
to stand and although the state could NOT
have been very favorable for forming res-
olution. in that hour determined that
should never again sacrifice my capacity Of
intellectual enjoyment to drinking usage 7;
and. with Gods help. Was enabled to bold
by the determination.
Year: 1860

ONE drop Of foul water will pollute .
whole cup OF fair water; but one drop OF
fair water has no power to appreciably
improve cup Of foul. Sharp pain, pres-
ent In tooth or toe. will make the whole
man miserable. though all the rest Of bic
body be easy but. II an the rest ot ths
body be suffering, an easy toe OF seo'h
will cause NO peroepibie alleviaiioa'
Year: 1860

As the grand campaign Of the Democracy
against the Republican Party, with the prize of
the Presidency in view, is at hand, and as the
Contest will be long. strong and bitter one, and
us the NATIONAL DEMocRAT will sustain the Dem.
ocrate Flag by whomsoeyer bprne, 50 that he be
the Legitimate nominee of the Party, we deem it q
ftti-g time, to call upon the friends Of the Demo
cratic cause throughout the country to come to
our support. The larger she circulation of our
Weekly in the interior. the more shall we be able
to do for the benefit Of the Party, and we hope to
see the friends of Popular Sovereignty, Conserva-
tism and the Union rally around u.s. They can be
assured that we shall never abandon their cause
nor betray their confidence nor prove laggard
In the advocacy Of their principles.


The WEEKLY DsMocRAr contains in every issue
TWENTY-EIGIIT columns Of reading matter a
due portion Of which is devoted to political dis.
cussion, and the res: 20 news, foreign and domes.
tic, and to literary topics. In short, we shnll en-.
deavor as heretofore, to make the WEEKLY DEM
ocRAT not only staunch and reliable Political
Journal, but paper which shall be welcome 10
the families and homes of our fellow citizens.


Our terms, in advance, will be fund below -
Year: 1860

HoMEsrEAD.-We are indebted TO Senator
Parks for copy of his bill regarding home.
steads recently introduced into the Senate.
We have not had time to examine the bill
particularly, but presume that the objects of
it is to limit the privileges now accorded to
the owners of homesteads. If this be the
case, we are free to say that we think it bad
policy. The homestead law, as it now stands.
secures sure support, in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred, to the wife and children of
married citizens. 1t is to the interest of So
ciety that this security should be given. The
impro' idence of the husband should not be
allowed to wholly subject his family to want
and misery. All governments should look
to the protection of the helpless. Families
should not be left homeless They should
always, and against all vicissitudes, have
rooftree to shelter them.


The very Constitution of our State pro-
vides that the legislature shall protect, by
law from forced sale, acertain portion of the
homestead and other property of all heads
of families. The present law was enacted in
pursuance of that provision and secures to
every head of family a homestead of the
value of five thousand dollars Whether he
have ten acres or twenty or a hundred or
simple lot in a city, he is entitled to retain.
for the support and protection of his family,
and they are entitled to retain, after his
death, real property to the amount of five
thousand dollars The amount we think. is
sufficiently small, and we do not desire to
see it curtailed.


So soon as we can command the time, we
shall examine this bill of Mr. Parks with mi.
nuter attention.
Year: 1860

PUTAH GOLD MNEs.-The Knights Land
ing News Of Saturday. says that the party
which left that place few days since for the
Putah gold mines, have returned; they did
not meet with much, if any. encouragement ;
they report that the most any are making is
not more than 81 so or 81 per day. to the
hand. They say the great drawback to the
successful working of the mines is the ex-
treme scarcity of water
Year: 1860

J. G. BYRNE-This old time resident and
merchant Of Marysville has recently been on
brief visit to our city. lie is now doing a
large business at San Francisco. He is the
same genial gentleman as ever.
Year: 1860

RAILROAD FROM FOLSOM TO LINooLN.-It is
stated that the grading to Lincoln will be
done in about ten days, and that the rails
will be laid to that place before the first Of
March. 1t is thought that by the first Of
May there will be forty houses built and oc-
eupied in Lincoln. Building has already
commenced there.
Year: 1860

" The traveller on the European Continent
must have bis passport, with its indispensable
viSe and it must pass the inspection of the
police from place to place before the bearer
can pass The present fearful crisis of the
slavery agitation appears to have created,
by sort of spontaneous combustion, pass
port system in our Southern States and for
the especial benefit of our New York mer-
chants But we find, from an example before
us in the Weekly News, published at a place
called Enterprise, Miss, that Southern
passport to our merchants may pass a good
many in the lump, and that the vise of a local
newspaper editor will make it all right
Thus the editor of the paper aforesaid gives
rise TO the passport of over half dozen New
York firms, in this fashion: "W We indorse
the above named gentlemen as being entirely
sound on the niger question, and connected
with good and reliable houses" Our South
ern newspaper editors may Ethus very often
do good service to the New FORK merchant
and we are happy to recognize the friendly
Endorsement aforesaid of our Mississippi CO.
temporary"
Year: 1860

WHATEVER he may be now, Henry Ward
Beecher, according to his own confession
was not heaveny-minded yonth. In a re-
cent discourse he thus portrays his early feel
ings:


If l had not been more afraid Of hell than
| was of heaven, should have wished not to
90 to heaven. 1t was only second in rank
among the places where did not want to
he = y The idea that picture OF
heaven is no more agreeable now than when
was young. But have put away child
ish things. We are not to praise God as II
we were so many parasites, SO many cour-
tiers, whose interest and duty 1t Is to say
grandiloquent things around the throne
Year: 1860

THIS is the season for Governors Messages
Governor Wise, of Virginia, is for Disunion
right away. Governor Moore, of Alabama
is for waiting till after the next Presidential
election, and so is the Governor of FLORIDA
Governor Magofin, of Kentucky is satisfied
to stay in the Union and fight for Locoioco-
ism. lie is by far more sane than his broth
ers-BdLt Patriot
Year: 1860

In these days Of degenerate patriotism # IS pleasant
to see 80 many friends Of the Union in this ctv Yor
can scarcely find any one in Marysvllle in favor of
the dissolution OF the Union. Harry and Little John
being both true patriots hereby extend an invitation


to AL Undn-iovng citizens TO meet regularly at thei
place of holding forth and there consider matters of
internal interest. UNION SALOON,


jill If 81 d street
Year: 1860

Tne undersigned would respectfully announce TO
his numerous subscribers his intention to credit no
pc son for a longer term than FOUR WEEKS for the
DAILY NATIONAL DEMOCRAT. l am forced to adopt
the above course account of the increase in my
delinquent list. JEROMUS RAPALJE,


decG-4wdh Carrier
Year: 1860

The MILK THAT WE UsE.-A writer in the
Tuolumna Courier says that threefourths of
the milk which is sold in our markets, after
the summer grasses dry up, is eliminated
from the poison oak-Rhus toricodendron-
which then constitutes the food of dairy cows.
The strong flavor of the plant is impaired to
the milk and it becomes more highly CON
centrated in the scanty yield of cream Many
is the infant life which has been sacrificed by
this diet which is almost if not quite, rs fa-
tai as the distillery milk of large cities.
Year: 1860

ANOTHER INvENTIoN-The Los Angeles
Star has the following notice of an air pump
ofpeeular construction, invented by Mr.. Chi
chester of that place.


1t is used for the purpose of drawing off
wine from one cask to another, without NOV
ing the casks or taking up the settlings-and
at the same time keeping the wine free from
contact with the atmosphere. 1t is a double
action bellows, a wooden frame covered with
leather having gutta pereha valves, and is
worked horizontally by a lever or handle
The pump may be set any distance from the
casks to be operated upon, as also the latter
from each other. A hose is placed in the
bung hole of the casb to be emptied, and the
pressure of the air on the wine forces it out
at the faucet. whence it is conveyed where
ever desired Theadvantage of this machine
is, that it obviates the moving of casks, saves
labor and keeps the wine free from atmos-
pheric influence, which cannot be done in the
old style of siphon and force pump. With
this pump, a cask of 1870 gallons can be
emptied in about five minutes.