Year: 1860

HoRsETowN, Feb. 2S, 1861


EDS. COURIER The accomplished and cru
dite Spike of that ilk is doing valuable service
to this community by his faithful details of cur
rent events, but l regret that he has overlooked
/ several important circumstances worthy of es-
pecial notice. IN particular our matrimonial
chapter has been passed over in complete silence,
though it contained within the last month the
incidents of two women whipped, one man whip
! ped by his wife, "a deserted wife, erin con-,
with various scandals of that quality in which
newspaper readers do most delight, and which
all papers interested in the cause of morality so
/ willingly circulate. As citizen of this place,
aud one interested in its fair fame, call upon
Col. s. to give, to the best ofhs knowledge, the
details of the above affairs, not only to vndcate
the truth of history, but also to show the world
that We can not regard such things with perfec,
! Indifference


The chief interest of the week has been the
| advent ola couple of wandering Dutch minstrels
be airing the banjo and the dulcet a-cor- -de-on,
with capacity tor the most execrable music
and as the dancing mania is at present raging
here. stag dances occur nightly, in which Terp-
sichore and St. Vitus hold ." "honors easy" Ger
tainly this thing of dancing is a curious affair
copied as far as | know, from the graceful au-
tomatons of the travelling organ -grinder-yet
am sure he would not permit his decorous fig
ures TO either polk" or shottish" !" TOR well he
knows that such conjunction even among his
hearts of oak, would kndle flame to the de-
struction of the very organ itself; and though
the set" when judiciously composed of cloth
and calico, may be endurable to those engaged
such displays as those of last week-men with
men working that which is most unseemly-
demand the protest OF every admirer of common
sense. But as the academy is about to close
its session, the polka distemper may be expected
to abate, aud may we not trust an all wise Pro-
vidence to pro luce modesty, politeness and mo-
ralty from practice which has little relation
to either? Yet there are various os the alumni
who havh't learned enough to hurt them seri-
ously.


As for the general Stdiu of the vicinity it is
very much in quo. The drouth, like smiling
demon, lays finger upon the city and the field,
and they incontinently dry up-not a cloud even
the size ofa mans hand over all the sea of blue,
to confirm the profits threaten the chariot
wheels of the mountain clippers


We here omit paragraph relative to the
State Convention and a certain delegate thereto
ED. CoCR.


From the Democratic Convention to the Dig
gers rancheria is descent-yet practicable
From the diseased mahalas down 10 the white
monsters of human mould who inhabit, cohabit
and almost assume their habits is so far as to
be immeasurable-clear beyond censure or the
touch Of shame. Shall then denounce the
miserable Digger for eking out starveling ex-
istence by prostitution as unavoidable on their
part as it is hideous? Should not rather de-
nounce the law and law makers who forbear to
make this british connection criminal and the
society which admits within its circle men who
have openly degraded themselves by the touch
of this inefaceable pollution. SIMON
Formerly of Pike county,