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Year: 1860

Repoyted from the majority Of the Committee Resolutions


at Charleston and adopted By the 3dsioS0I Democratic


C0nCentiOD at BdltzaOre


Resolved, platform adopted By Democratic party
tons:


First govsFnment Of Territory organized
Of Congress- provisional and temporary, and during its exist
all citizens the United States equal right to St
tie with their property in the Territory without their ghts,
either Of person property being destroyed impaired BY
gressonal or territorial legislation.


That the duty Of the Federal Government in all
It's departments protect when necessary the rights Of persons
property the Territories and wherever else its eonstitu
Lonsl authority extends.


Third That when the settlers Territory, having ade
quate population. State Constitution, the right Of
eighty and being BY admission into the
Unon they stand equal footing with the people Of other
States and the State thus organised ought be admitted into
the Federal Union whether its Consultation prohibits
niIes the institution Of slavery.


Resolved That the Democratic party In favor OF the acqu


on Of the Island Of Cuha such terms shall be honorable
to ourselves and just Spain, at the earliest practicable mo-
ment.


Resolved That ensctmentS legislatures defeat
the faithful execution Of the fugitive slave law, hostile in
character s1bVerYe OF the Constitutions and revolutionary in
their effect.


Resolved That the Democracy the United States recognize
the imperative duty this Government protect the natu
Tazed citizen in all his rights whether at home foreign
lands to the extent its native born citizens.


Whereas One Of the greatest necessities Of the in pot
cal commercially postal and military point Of view, is speedy
communication between the Pacific and Atlantic coaH therefore
belt


Resolved National Democratic party do hereby
pledge themselves every il their power
the passage BILL to the extent Of the Constitutional
horiy Of Congress, for the construction Of Pacific Railroad
from the Mississippi river the Pacific at Ae earliest
prAeticablemoment.
Year: 1860

THE assortment of CLOTHING and FURNISH
/ ING GOODS FOR MEN AND BOYS, which
we are now prepared to exhibit, will, we trust
not only be quite satisfactory to our friends and
customers but will be in keeping with the elegance
of the premises which we now occupy. As in
the past we have ever endeavored to please our
customers in every respect, so shall we IN the
future continue that course which has secured
US host of friends, to whom we feel duly thank
full for their kind appreciation of our endeavors.


ALFRED MONROE & CO.,
Year: 1860

USFoRruNATE.-A mother and child, on Z
street between Third and Fourth, were yes
terday severely burned. in the following
manner:


The child, about two or three years of
age, was lying on the bed, over which was a
mosquito bar. 1t is supposed that one of the
other children lit a match, as children some-
times do, and stuck it into the bed. At any
rate, the bed was observed to be in flames
The mother rushed forward to rescue the
child, and was badly burned about the face,
hands and legs. She nevertheless took the
child from the bed and extinguished the fire
on its clothing, Pals of water were thrown
upon the bed and the flames put out The
child is burnt on the abdomen to crisp, and
also oD the face. 1t is not probable it will
recover. The woman will get well. She is
the wife OF man named Adam Werener
who appears to be an honest, hard working
man. The accident occurred between 8 and
9 o'clock in the morning. 1t was this occur
renee which called out the engines, but the
fire did not spread beyond the bed. Drs.
Mcguire and Talbot were called to see the
patients.
Year: 1860

PROBABLE CAUSE OF SOME CASES OF INSANITY.
Laurence Souren, native of Ireland, and
aged about 80 years, has been taken to the
Insane Asylum from Columbia. The Times
says: "He has ever been a strictly temper
ate and steady young man. His friends at
tribute his insanity to his having been work
ing under the rays of the sun, during the
present season. without any protection from
their effects. We are of the opinion that
many cases of insanity that occur, in this
State, proceed from this reckless exposure to
the more than tropical heat of the sun. We
are informed that there are four more per-
sons confined in Sonora, in similar condi-
ton, waiting to be taken to the Asylum at
Stockton.
Year: 1860

A MIsER DEAD.-A miser uamed Grishon
Twitchell died recently at Milford, Mass. A
writer in the Boston Journal thus speaks of
him


Though man of considerable wealth, own
ing one Of the finest and most valuable farms
in Milford. he persisted in living in a state OF
the most abject poverty. On the announce
ment of his death, the overseers of the poor
took immediate steps to secure his estate for
lis legitimate heirs. They found in his hovel
a large amount of silver, deposited in a pine
box, nicely adjusted in layers of dollars,
halves, quarters, and smaller coins. They
also found bag in which there was a heavy
amount Of gold. The specie was taken to the
Milford Bank for safe keeping, Nearly the
last words uttered by the expiring miser
were to request neighbor who stood by him
to leave the room, for fear he would steal the
money. His wife abandoned him many years
ago, ard recently, for a stipulated sum, gave
bonds that she would make no claim upon
any property he possessed.
Year: 1860

In the Nevada Court of Sessions the case
of Victoriana EscobOr the Mexican who was
indicted for an assault with intent to murder
Fisher, at North San Juan, was continued
until the next term, on account of the inabili-
ty Of Fisher to be present and testify on the
trial.
Year: 1860

ratio OF representation in the House of Representatives
win be about 1913, 900.


The census of Illinois show the population TO be
one million seven hundred and thousand seven hun
dred and thirty The ratio of representation will
be one hundred and nineteen thousand which viii give


Illinois fifteen members of Congress instead of nine the
present number.
Year: 1860

FRANKLIN Co., Jan. {, IoOV.


Ma. EnsreR The submission OF Alf
Wilson's name to the Dover Convention,
gives much satisfaction in this county
do not pretend to speak for the whole coun-
ty, but for the upper Mulberry region. and
eastward to the johnson line. In this re-
gion he is popular, and the feeling for him
is general. In proper time, suppose. we
will have a County Convention. when 1
have no doubt, delegates will be appointed
and instructed to go for him.


The subject of Governor, is just begin
ming to be canvassed. We are divided on
several gentlemen. Our first choice is our
fellow county man DERosY Carroll; it is
not known that he will be o candidate if
he is not, HEM1NGwAY has some friends,
also FLETCHER. The two last are but lit
tie known to us. Fletcher seems to have
the strongest hold upon the public mind
talented men in the State, and is said to
possess fine qualifications in other respects.


Although we are in the mountains, and
almost without the pale of the civilized
world, we are not lost to the importance of
the Railroad. The proposition to amalga-
mato the two Railroad Companies, between
Fort Smith and Memphis, is a thing great
ly to be desired !; and if it is done, it will
bring us several years nearer to the con-
sumation of our hopes. We depend upon
the wisdom and energy of the Directors in
Van Burr% to auopr the best measures to
promote the great object which we all have
so much at heart; and our confidence in
the Directory is Of the most abiding char
acter. S.
Year: 1860

meet-the Detective known to the Burg
lar, the Burglar unknown to the Detective
Ito engage in 81 Desperate game, the
issue of which was to be death TO one or
both. Intelligence and honestywcre to be
pitted against cunning and crime. What
was to be the result of this fearful strug-
gle and thirst for vengeance, we Shall be
able to see in our next chapter.


The above is oil of this story that will
be published incur columns. The con-
tinn"tion of it from where it leaves off
here. can be found only in the New York
Ledgtr, the great family piper, which is
for sale at all the stores throughout the
city and country, where papers are sold
Remember aud ask for. the New York Led
ger of january 5, and in it you will find
the continuation of the story where it
leaves off here.


The Ledger is mailed tGk subscribers at
50 n year, or two copies for .$3. The bills
Of all good sound banks in any portion of
the Union taken nt par Address your
letters to Robert Bonner, publisher, 40
Park Row, New York. 1t, is the hand
soonest and best family paper in the coun-
try, elegantly illustrated, and characterized
by n high moral tone
Year: 1860

Some little excitement was oceasioned here on
Friday night last with reference to a suspected
plot on the part Of the negroes to rise and fire
to the town at some day not far distant. What
gave rise to the suspicion that such thing was In
contemplation by them was a revelation made by
negro girl belonging, we believe, to Mr.. JAS.
Lyman of this place. Several were arrested aud
whipped for the purpose Of drawing from them a
confession, Some confessed one thing and some
another; but all their statements corroborated and
went tc prove that such thing was in contempla-
tiOn. Ore or more Of them stated that they had
arranged to fire the town on a Sunday night, while
the people were at tue different churches, and
kill them as they came out-that they had been
melted, or persuaded, to this thing by white men,
who had recently been in the country ard who
told them to keep preparing-that they would see
them again, Nc. One Of the negroes confessed
that he hired a horse at the Livery Stable on Ger.
tain day, ION pretense of going to the country on
some business for his mistress for the purpose
of visiting white man living in Cetoosa or Walk
or county. Who from the negroes statement, is to
assist them in this diabolica movement Upon
going to the stable it was found, as the negro
stated, that horse had been hired by him on the
day mentioned That some black hearted aboli-
tionist, GE Gbolitonists, have been tampering
with the blacks in this place and vicinity there can
be no question, and the owners of slaves and the
city authorities cannot be too watchfu
Year: 1860

attend serv ,e salvation in these unquiet times
We are so Nuncerned at the suffering which he
must undergo, that we forget to be frighten.
ed by tho novel threat the Union will be dis
solved and tie South will put the cotton in
terests under European protection. We remember
only the spiritual embarrassment aud lament that
blindly trusting that there will be always enough
hungry gentlemen in the South to take federal
offices, and hold the Union together, by the sheer
force Of emoluments.


It may of course be possible, after all, that it is
not the salvation of the negroes the Methodist
clergyman is in pain about, but the salvation OF
the Democratic party. We do not more than hint
this unkind suspicion. If it be grounded in fact
VIC have no comfort to offer, for we think the case
is beyond human sympathy.
Year: 1860

EXTRAORDINARY FUNERAL CUSTOMS IN
BRAzIL.-When person dies in Rio the
front entrance of the house is closed-the
only occasion when such thing happens.
The law requires the body to be buried in
twenty -four hours. If the deceased was
married, festoon of black cloth and gold is
hung over the street door; for unmarried,
lilac and black; for children, white or blue. or
gold. Collins for the married are also black.
but for young persons they are red, scarlet,
or blue. Fond Of dress while living, the
Brazilians are buried in their best, and.
punctilious to the last degree, they enforce
etiquette after death.


Formerly it was the custom in Rio, and
still is 80 in the interior, to carry Young
corpses Upright in procession through the
streets, when, bit for the closed ewes, a
stranger could hardly believe the figure
before him, with painted cheeks, hair blow
ing in the wind, in silk stocking and shoes,
and his raiment sparkling with Jewels,
grasping palm-branch in one hand, and
resting the other quite naturally on some
artificial support, could be dead child.
Large sums are occasionally expended in
dresses and jewels for the dead. Mourning
is long affair, and widows never lay aside
their weeds unless they marry; yet clusters
of small purple flower are known as
widows tears" They bloom but once a
year, and soon dry up. @
Year: 1860

TIE RULING CLAssEs IN FRARoE.-The two
classes that rule France at the present mo-
ment are the soldiers and the aristoeracy OF
the wealth, and Louis Napoleon is a favorite
with botb-with the first, because he has led
them to victory in the field; and with the
second, because his strong arm is the best
protection Of the rights u property. io,a.f3
Year: 1860

Keep good company or none.


If your hands cannot he usctully
employed, attend to the cultivation of
your mind.


Live up TO your engagements.
Keep your own secrets, if YOU have
any.


When you speak to a person, look
him in the face.


Good character is above all things
else.


Your character cannot be essen
TALLY injured except by your own acts.


If any one speaks evil of you, let
your life be 50 that none will believe
him.


Drink 70 kind ofintoxicating liquors.


Ever live (misfortunes cXccptcd)
within your income.


When you retire to bed, think over
what you have been doing during the
day.


Make no haste to be rich, if you
would prosper.
Small and steady gains give com
potency with tranquility of mind.


Never play at any game of chance.


Avoid temptation, through fear you
may not withstand it.


Earn money before you spend it.
Never run into debt unless you see
u way to get out again
Never borrow, if you can possibly
avoid it,


Never speak evil Of any one


BE Just before you are generous.


Keep yourself innocent if YOU would
be happy.


Save when you arc young to spcnC
| when YOU are old.
Year: 1860

NAMING A CoUNTY-A member of the MiSsis-
sippi Legislature at one of its late sessions, in
troducrd a bill to change the name OF certain
county in the State to Cass County. One of the
opposition moved as an amendment, that the let
ter C be stricken out OF the proposed name This
motion created some laughter at the expense of
the member Offering. Nothing daunted. however,
the first instance that has come to my knowledge
in which member has had the assurance, upon
the floor of any Legislature, to propose to name
a comfy after AilnSelfO
Year: 1860

NATURE will be reported All things are en-
gagged in writing their own history. The plant
and pebbles 60 attended by their own shadow.
The rock leaves it scratches on the mountain
side, the river its channel in the soil, the animal
leaves its bones in the stratum, the fern and the
leaf the modest epitaph in the coal. The falling
drop makes its sepuchre in the sand or stone
not il footstcp in the snow or along the ground,
but prints in characters more or less lasting, ii
map of its march.
Year: 1860

Dox'r-" If you want to keep your town from
thriving, refuse to take your home paper Turn
IA cold shoulder to every young mechanic or begin
ner in business look upon every new conner with
IA jealous scow. Discourage all you can if that
won't do, descry their work, or rather 90 abroad
for your wares rather than give them your money.
And don't advertise"
Year: 1860

BrLEHEAD-ERs.-An individual fell through
San Francisco wharf a few days ago and drowned.
The verdict of the jury of inquest was to the
effect that deceased drowned because the city
hadn't Bulkhead.
Year: 1860

YoUru.-IIow beautiful is the spring time of
life when the faculties Of the human soul are ust
bursting into blossom how brilliant the eye !;
how rosy the check how elastic the step how
vvacious the spirit Ills season OF delicate
beauty and radiant promise. But, alas, tits short
and neeting. Even while we gaze it puts on the
deeper coloring Of meridian life, and quickly
passes on to the autumnal shade. The beauty of
the spring time has waned and gone-the gor-
geous beauty of the summer has departed the
rose on the cheek has faded, and the brllliancy
of the complexion is lost. The step once 50 firm
and elastic, is unsteady. The covering of the
{" vital spark" gives signs Of decay. 1t is pre-
pairing to fulfil Natures great law" Dust thou
art and unto dust shalt thou return" How is it
with the immortal spirit within? Does it still
retain the vigor and freshness Of youth, improved
and strengthened by the advantage Of experience
in more mature years? Does the beauty Of the
cultivated mind supply the place Of the waning
beauties of the flesh? Has the vivid brightness
Of the youthful eye given place to the steady
beaming light of intelligence and love While
the body gives signs of dissolution and decay,
does the spirit give tokens of glorious emanci-
patton lis it ready to part with the body as
with garment that is worn out and prepared
to put on the beautiful garments Of righteousness
aud praise aud taking up the soag OF the ransom
ed, join in the great anthem Of praise to our
Creator God !-IksperiaR.
Year: 1860

it spring forward into grand career of
prosperity and progress, The change for
the better rests almost entirely with the
young men of the country. 1t rests with
them more thar all other classes to saw
whether this country shall descend still
lower in its path to Brutality or rise high.
er than the standard ofits Hottest dreams.
The deyotees of sense themselves have
greatly lost their power for good ard oom.
paratively few will alter their course of
life.


Woman will be pure if man will De
true. Young men, this great result abides
with you. you could but see how beau
titul flower grows upon the stock Of
self-denial, you would give this plant the
honor it deserves. If it seem hard and
homely, despise it not, for in it Sleeps the
beauty of heaven and the breath of an.
gels. lfyou do not witness the glory of
its blossoming during the day Of life, Its
petals will open when the night of death
comes, and'gladden your closing eyes With
their marvellous lovelness, and Ill your
soul with their grateful perfume
Year: 1860

When the vessel has settled down in O
sandy bottom, it is preserved for many
months from breaking up; and its posi-
tion may be much the same as it would be
when tloati7g in calm water, if it be not
tilted over by any under current drifts
The light, Of course, depends q good deal
upon the depth and upon the nature Of
the bottom but where there is no chalk
TO give milky thickness to the water, the
diver pufsues his work in a kind of gloomy
twilight By the aid of this he can see
and feel his way round the ship, but when
he ascends the deck and winds down into
the principal cabins, he finds everything
pitch dark, and has nothing to guide him
but his hands. This is the most difficult
and yet the most frequent labor he has to
encounter; the danger being that in Il
large vessel where the cabin stairs are deep
and the cabnsaro long and broad, he may
get his air tube twisted round some unfa.
miliar projection. and so squeeze off his
supply of life from above. In positions
such rs this he requires all his nerve and
self.possession, all his power of feeling his
way back in the exact road that he came
He may have got the precious casket to
which he has been directed to- in his arms
but what of that, if he die before he can
find the stairs? The cold, helpless mass.
ess that bump against his helmet, as they
float along the low roof over his head are
the Gecomposed corses OF those who were
huddled together in the cabin when the
ship went down. A few of these may be
on the floor under his feet, but only when
pinned down by an overturned table or a
fallen chest. Their tendency is ever up,
ward, and the remorseless sea washes
away the dead infant from its mothers
arms, the dead wife from her dead hus.
band S embrace. If the wreck be in the
Channel the small crabs are already begin
ming to fatten on their prey. The diver
disentangles himselffronl this silent crowd
and ascends the welcome stairs to the deck
The treasure he has rescued Is hauled VI
into the diving-boat, and he turns
again TO renew his work. He seldom
meets with an accident under the water,
never perhaps with death, and the chief
risk he runs is from getting some heavy
piece of ship lumber overturned on his
long train of airspipe. Even in this case
he feels the sudden check and the want
Of air, cropes his way back to the otstruc.
ton, removes it, signals to his compan-
ions to be raised, and reaches the boat
exhausted and alarmed, but not so much
so as to give up his place in the trade
His earnings mostly take the form ofshares
in what he recovers If fortunate, his
gains may be large if unfortunate, they
may be small but no man can grudge
him the highest prizes it is possible !or
him to win. May Whitstable always have
the honor of producing such bold and dex-
terous men as plentifnlly as she has hith.
erto done, and may they have the wisdom
to keep what they get.-Dicken's Al He
Year Round
Year: 1860

There are moments Of sadess,
When the mind wanders back
In a search FOR lost treasures,


Over Life's dusty track
When it looks for some token
Ola joy that had birth
Ola joy that has perished


Like the flow ers Of earth
In the dim, misty distance,


AS we gaze through our tears,
We can see but the fragments
That nave gone with the years
All the flowers have faded.


And their perfume is gone;
In their beauty they perished,
Leaving ashes, alone!
In these moments Of sadness


Fen our future grows dark,
And we move as in midnight


Moves a composites bark;
We are blind to Hopes beacon,
Though it glitters on high,
For we gaze upon nothing


But the clouds in the sky.
Year: 1860




A STAB.-The Sacramento Union
gives our railroad project another
stab. Perhaps it was done unwittingly.
we hope it was. But it ought to
quote us correctly. We object to be-
ing made a party to the attempted
fratricide by the blunder Of that
sheet. Let Nevada have justice done
her. That is all we ask from a pa
per which derives large amount of
patronage from our citizens. We de-
mand it.


The Union of Monday, speaking of
our railroad project used the following
language. The italics are ours:
A survey las been made and prac-
ticable grade of not over eighty feet
to the mile reported. No doubt seems
10 exist as to the practicability of
building road. # the means can be
commanded. The subscriptions to
make the survey do not appear to have
been so promptly paid as was expect
ed, as the Journal calls upon Grass
Valley to pay up the amount calcula-
ted upon from that town.


1t would be difficult to stab a prof
ect more adroitly than is done in the
above paragraph: Doubt seems to be
thrown upon the ability of the COM
pany or the county to procure means
to build a railroad in this direction
But worse than all the onion goes oat
of its way to misquote us. We never
called upon Grass Valley to pay a
cent. We.merely mentioned the fact
that Grass Valley had not shelled out
as expected. We did so to acquaint
our own citizens that a good chance
was open to give evidence of their
liberality. For our own part we new
er expected or desired Grass Valley
to pay a dollar.


The Union, after looking awry npor
the railroad ente.prlze to this place.
turns upon its darling scheme, the
road to Placerville. and ends as fol-
lows:


Provision has also been made by
the people of Placerville to have a
railroad route surveyed from Folsom
to that mountain city, and an engineer
has been employed to perform the
work. 1t is believed that practical
bic line can be found upon which a
road to Placerville could be built for
about million of dollars.


cit is 6eliered that practicable
line can be found to Placerville "
There is no eff" about the means
being commanded on the old route, of
course. If a practicable line to Pla-
cervllle is reported it will be so.