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Year: 1859

LOST CHILD FoUND-The Patterson IN. J)
Guardian, noticing the finding of little girl
who had wandered into the woods at West
Milford, and remained from Monday till
Thursday before she was discovered, says:


''When found, five miles away, she was in a
famished condition, and rayenously deyoured
some bread which her discoyerers happened
to have in their possession. Bordering the
house of her. parents Is a spring or brook,
where the family washing is usually done
Whilst the mother was at the brook, washing,
the little one, aged about three and half years,
was playing about the bushes with q child
somewhat older. As the bushes were quite
thick and the country back mountainous and
uninhabted, it proved impossible to find the
lost child and she would undoubtedly
have perished, but for her accidental discoye-
ry bya farmer and his man, who were 60
ing over the mountain to cut little plot
of grass, when they saw the little thing try
ing to get away through the underbrush.-
Her feet were bare, and, with her arms We're
all scratched and wounded by briars and
brush, by which they had been torn. Upon
offering her piece OF bread from their dinner
pail, she snatched it and devoured it almost
ravenously. Her little hood she had kept upon
her head although it had been united all the
nights spent in the woods she had kept this
little hood. She was fonnd in direct line five
miles from home; but how far she may have
travelled in her wanderings to get that distance
away cannot be told. She must have gone
over rocky places where she was in constant
danger of tumbling over precipices, and where
rattlesnakes are 50 thick as to keep men and
boys in fear from their proximity. She had
also forced her way through briars over
swaInps and through thick scrub districts
where only huntsmen penetrate for the coun.


ry throughout is the widest and most impen.
trable. She was SO young as to be without
hunger and from the pains Of her lacerated
limbs.
Year: 1859

aurora Boyealis.-Many of our readers were
completely charmed with the rare beauty and
brilliancy of the Aurora Borealis, on Thurs
day night last. For more than an hour the
heavens were illuminated with gorgeous col
ors more varied than those of a rain bow, and
between the hours of / and O'Clock the light
was so bright that one could almost see to read
by it. While watching this rare phenomenon,
we couid readily picture figures Of birds and
beasts completely formed by the lights and
shades, and at one time the main belt appear
ed as red and glaring "a If q vast line of fire
had been kindled, and the flames were dancing
and skipping from object to object, increasing
in intensity, until they formed one grand
sheet, and then gradually died out. The scene
was indeed sublime and awfulIy grand, and
should be seen to be appreciated.
Year: 1859

EXPLOSION IN TUSSEL-We learn from
the Placer Courier. that an explosion recent
ly occurred in the Rough and Ready tunnel
near Forest City, caused by lighted candles
coming in contact with the damp gas. Three
men were in the tunnel, and all of them were
more or less injured.
Year: 1859

~ Or. > Hh0Naetter's celebrated StO-
MACH BIrTERS, for the cure of Fever and Ague Is
beyond all controversy the safest and best remedy
that could be used by the afflicted for all diseases OF
the above nature. The most violent attacks Of this
dreadful disease have often been prevented by the use
used by the proprietor in extensive practice In the
treatment of Fever and Ague, for q number of years
and its wonderful curative powers are well known
both to the press and the public. Those who desire n
thorough renovation of their entire system should
not fail to the Bitters." For sale by Druggists
and Liquor Dealers. L. WIDEMANN, Agent,


je29-lm Marysyille.
Year: 1859

THE OAKLAND BAR.--A number of the pro-
perty holders in Alameda county, will make
q united effort at the next session of the
Legislature, to have the channel of Oakland
Bar dredged out so that ferry steamers can
pass at all stages of the tide
Year: 1859

New YORK, Sept. lS.-The distractions to the
business OF the Erie Railroad have been removed
an ana over orty OF the rioters have been arrested.
The trains are now running regularly. force of
police and military still remain on the ground
Year: 1859

HOLIDAY STREET THEATRE-To night Mr. and
Mrs Florence make their appearance at Holiday
Street. These old Baltimore favorites will, no
doubt, be received with the same favor which has
heretofore been extended to them on the occasion
OF their visits to this city. They will appear in
Year: 1859

threshng machine took fire last week from
a rather singular cause. A small stone got into the
machine between the cylinder and concave From
the sparks emitted the dry chaff and dust inside
became ignited, and the flames communicated
with the straw passing out, and, rything be-
ing parched up by the drouth, the whole machine,
together with a stack of straw and a stack Of
about one hundred bushels of wheat, was instan-
taneously one mass of fire, there being barely
time to rescue the team from the general destruc-
ton.
Year: 1859

A VETERAN SoLDIER's BoAsr.-The Duke of We
lington, in his private Explanatory Letter to Mr.
Canning, in regard to misunderstanding between
them in 1927 used this language: 81 am not In the
habit of deciding upon such matters hastily or In
anger; and proof of this is that IneUer had guar
rel l0ith any IN my life
Year: 1859

PRAIRIE STREEr-MEEFINa LAST EVENING
The citizens of the Fourth Ward held an ad-
journed meeting at the Deluge Hall, last eve
ming, for the purpose of insisting that Prairie
street. should be opened for the use of the pub
lie.


A Resolution was adopted, instructing the
Trustees of that Ward to accept of no proposii
tion of the Railroad Companies, and that moth
ing short of the immediate opening OF that
street. would satisfy the ciliEeus who own
the property. or live in that vicinity; when the
meeting adjourned to meet on Wednesday even
ing of next week.
Year: 1859

D-A Main street tobacconist Informs the
Cincinnati Commercial that he sells upwards
Of two hundred pounds of snuff in the course
of mouth, to ladies ~ who chew it in lieu Of
the weed in the leaf state


T. st $ che o heugh-gi
Year: 1859

He that Lspires 10 be the head Of party
must see some appearances that do not exist.
aud be blind to some that do.


People often say Of a man that he is cum
ming fellow This can never be true. for, If he
were, nobody could lind it out


Mediocrity Is always disgusting. except per.
haps, rnediocfity Of stature in woman


Honor is unstable and seldom the same for
she feeds upon opinion aud is as hekle AS the
food,
Year: 1859

TTA gen tleman Of noted SoAAptry was seen
at a late hour last night nehr the canal on Main
street, with lAdy's bonnet 90 his arm inquir
ing very diligently for it's owner We hope
he succeeded in safely returning the lost article
and received maDy thanks for his perseverauee
Year: 1859

aJ- James Bracelin, the tool man, who always
deals on the square, whether selling pocket
rule or a circular saw, has just received sup
ply of everything desirable in the tool line
Since his removal to his new quarters on sec>
ond st O'Brien's old stand, near Jefferson }
he is better than ever prepared to supply the
mechanical public
Year: 1859

" The murderous dogmas Of Giddings Co.
seem 10 be in exceeding bad odor with the res
publican and opposition party iu this section Of
the State. The latter sustain Chief Justice
Swan, and denounce the negro polyfoxers.-
The Germantown nondsseript, who advises one
class Of citizens to murder another, seems to be
a COMMITTEE Of one"--a very small dog with
a dilapidsted oyster can tied to his fly brush
He is doubtless looking ts the Convention TO
relieve him of the apeudage-a hope which we
Judge from present indications is doomed to
deferment.
Year: 1859

A terrible AToNEMENT.--Alfred Hood, aged
thirty five, was recently sent TO the Insane Asy-
lum, near Cincinnati, having been crazsd by re-
morse on account Of former tho great int timacy
with the wife Of another man. He thoaght the
husband was pursuing him to take bis life. On
the 4th he fsncied that the husband was about to
drag him to hell, and thinking his life would be
an atonement for what be had done, he severed
His head almost entirely from his body with q
razor. sAA @
Year: 1859

favorable this afternoon, and trust 1t will, the
Great Council Of Red Men, now in session in this
city, will make public parade threush some of
the principal streets. Their striking regalia, %
novel to our citizens, will prove highly attractive
and no doubt induce many to join the Order who
are not members now. The Red Men, as w have
said irsa former notice, are banded together for
charitable purposes, and by keeping watchful vigil
over the wants of their needy members, are con-
tinually effscting vast deal Of good. Rsmem-
bering the widow and the orphan 10 their Iabors,
they guard them against want, and make them
feel that they are neither frisndless forgotten.
After the parade they are to partske of COLLATION.
at Corinthian Hall, where the evening will be
spent In social epjoyments.
Year: 1859

LATE AND INTERESTING FROM HARPER's FERRY.
The New York Post publishes the following
incendiary letters. which are supposed to have
been found in old Browns carpet sack at lIar-
per's Ferry:
Year: 1859

WEAKNESS AND DEBILIrY.-All who suffer from
weakness debility, where there is a want of en-
ergy, should at once have recourse to Judson's
Mountain Herb Pills. They Immediately purify
the blood and act upon the handspring of life, CIV
ing strength and vigor to the system. Young per-
sons entering into womanhood, with derange-
ment of the functions, and to mothers at the turn
of life these Pills will be most efficacious in cor
recting the tide of life that may be on the turn
Young and elderly men suffer in a similar manner
at the same periods, when there is always danger.
They should therefore undergo course of this
purifying medicine, which ensures lasting health.
This great Household Medicine ranks among the
leading necessaries Of life, as it is we'll known to
the world that 1t cures complaints other remedies
cannot reach; this fact is as we'll established as
that the Sun lights the world. Judsons Mountain
Herb Pills are sold by all Dealers in Madi"i.e.
Year: 1859

~ In an article on the Harper's Ferry
tragedy, the Philadelphia North american
aud United Stltes Gazette makes the follow
ing truthful comment on the the attempt of
Democratic journals to make party capital
out Of it "The attempt to make political
capital out of such an event is little short of
the offence itself, and those who have embark
ed so eagerly in that disgraceful work, deserue
equal reprobation aoith the criminal confsder-
ates Of Bromn. So far as we have seen, the
whote Republican press, aoith one accord, has
denounced the act aoith as much emphasis as
tim press Of any other party at the North on
South. 1t is matter which of no division
of opinion among right thinking men, and
those who have attempted, with super service
able zeal, to set the start by raising partisan
cry, are utterly unworthy Of confidence Of
respect"
Year: 1859

The FIOUaING BUsINEsS.-This season is
the last that will witness the import of flour
into our city OF State. The tables are turned
and we have surplus for export. Every
mill in the country is ta>ked to its utmost to
grind up the grain brought to it. Our
own mills in the city here are crowded with
business, and lack the capacity equal to the
custom forced upon them.


1t is rumored that certain parties with cap
ital sufficient for the enterprise design erect
ing a steam grist mill in the lower part of the
city, next season, capable Of turning out $50
barrels of -four per day. 1t will be finished
in time for next falls harvest.
Year: 1859

Hp The work on the Capitol at Washing
ton is proceeding rapidly. Considerable ad-
vance has been made on the dome the hea-
w work of the first story is mainly done, and
the foundations of the next tier of columns
are preparing. The marble stairway in the
north wing is expected to be ready for use at
the beginning of the next Congress. The
new Senate Post office is quite handsome
affair. 1t is built of birds-eye maple, and is
perhaps the best specimen Of that kind Of
carpentry in the world. The corridor, through
which you enter the Senate on the east front
is nearly completed.
Year: 1859

This foreshadowed Territory, which has
just been electing for itself Governor and
Legislature without saying to Congress :" by
your leave," is mainly composed Of the west
ern or southwestern half of Utah; its popula-
ton being mainly located in or about Carson
Valley. We presume Congress will consent
to its organization, though perhaps with some
modification of its self defined boundaries
1t is likely to increase rapidly in population.
because of its recently discovered mines of
silver and gold -..
Year: 1859




The following important item of news is ia
ken from the Liverpool Daiiy Necs of the 9th
of October, copy of which was obtained by
the steamer North America !:


1.-The public will learn with overwhelming
grief that the splendid steamer Royal Charter,
was totally lost yesterday in Muffared Bay,
near Bangor. The melancholy intelligence
which reached late last night was brief,
but we fear Is only too true, of upwards #
400 persons who were on board, only ten are
said to have been saved. There is however,
some hope, that this statement is eXagc rated,
but under the circumstances the loss of life,
it is feared to have been great.


The Royal Charter had about halfa million
in gold aboard


When the disaster took place is not known,
for the telegraph hal ceased to work and SO
destructive had been the storm along the
coast yesterday, that the Chester and Birk-
enhead Railway had been destroyed in two
places.


At Penmanawe twenty of the bodies of the
dead had been washed ashore. The bay in
which the catastrophe occurred is two or three
miles westward of Putin Island, and six or
seven miles northwest of Beaumaris. 1t has
shallow sandy beech for several miles, with
prOmontories at each end of the bay. The
country around is wild and there are but few
houses in the neighborhood.
Year: 1859

tv The Kennebec journal says that a
few years since the wife OF the then American
Minister to England received from friend IN
New England box of Autumnal leaves, Sc
lected for their beauty and their variety OF
tints. The lady wore them as ornaments
and they attracted much attention, and were
greatly admired by the English people. Since
then these leaves have been in demand there,
and every autumn packages OF them are sent
over in the steamer, and fash their beauty
in the high circles of London.
Year: 1859

sw While repairing the break in Croton
water pipes in New York, it was discovered
that the pipes all the way from Croton Lake
to the city, have been swimming pond for
the fish. Numbers of white and J elbow bass
were found, and as fast as found roasted by
the laborers at the great rosin fires kept up
during Friday night and eaten with avidity.
One of the fish thus caught was nine inches
-,
Year: 1859

~ Geological fOrmatlOnS are going on at
the present day, the same as ages past
Large swamps Of the vegetable matter are
changing into peat peat is hardening into
Ignite, and Ignite is being transformed into
COAL In some places, rocks are being formed
by deposits at the bottom Of the ocean in
other places rocks are being slowly pushed
above the level of the side.
Year: 1859

N~ The Boston Courier, the organ OF
Daniel Webster's remains, is trying to sell
the Old Line Wings to the Democracy. On
the other hand the National Intelligencer
the legitimate organ Of the Old Line Wings,
protests earnestly against the sale.
Year: 1859

The only persons throughout the cou ntry
who regard the outrages at Harper's Ferry
with feelings of joy and satisfaction, are the
miserable set Of Democratic demagogues who
hope to make political capital out OF the af-
fair. All others regard them with feelings of
unmingled horror and regret
Year: 1859

COLLECTION OF LICENSE FEEs.-During the
past Sumner officer Church has been speci-
ally detailed to attend to cases of violation OF
the License Ordinance, and prosecute offend
ers The matter was rigidly attended to, and
those who had been trying to evade the pay
ment of their licenses were brought up to the
scratch. Many hundreds of dollars in fines
and license fees were thus got into the Trea-
sury which would never have got there with
out the special vigilance Of the person COM
mssioned to attend to it. 1t is proposed now
to continue this branch of the service-as it
not only ,uppo, Is itself, but produces revenue
to the city. a good idea. Nothing should be
neglected which subserves the interests of the
city In that line.
Year: 1859

The TALLEsT CHIMNEY IN THE STATE
The chimney stack now being erected to the
Hastings Foundry and Machine works, is des-
tined, says the Independent, to be the tallest
chimney in the State. Nor is this all. The
machinery in the works will rival, if it is not
superior to that of any other establishment
in the State. The shop will probably be in
operation in the course of month. Good for
Hastings.
Year: 1859

Tap. discovered, too late for correction at the


was three typographical errors, in one para.
rmcr of our yesterday publication of paper
; the pning the Governors reasons for the par.
cs- Sf Addington. The word affect is twice
ligh- rinted "eftect, and the word fright" is
drei instead Of rights No amount of care
IS efficient at all tines to prevent these slips
eighhc type; and where they arc so palpablc aS
ththiS instance, VIC a,e accustomed to leave


correction entirely To our readers. In the


&c, however. Of official documents, We deem


best To correct such errors, even at the risk
5 being considered 0vcr-careful. The follow


Jg is the correct reading Of the paragraph in



In answer to this. reply, that the Executive
las no more to do with the case Of divorce. than
ihe trial Of the prisoner had TO do with his al
,eged cruelty to his WIFE Tf the prisoner is
now entitled to pardon, or ought to be dis
charged, the Executive cannot look to the legal
effect Of this right upon case pending before
a judicial tribunal, whose sole province it is TO
decide upon that legal effect The pardon will
legally affect the power of the Court or it will
not. Ifit does not there is no reason to delay
the pardon on that account If it does and
Kill affect the legal decision ms is stated; if it
will make it imperative on the Judge to deprive
the prisoner of his conjugal rights, has the Ex-
scutiYe the rightful authority to add TO his
Year: 1859

BY communication which appears in ano-
ther column, it will be perceived that the Rich
mond correspondent of the '.Lynchburg Re-
publican" who has been permitted TO Use the
columns of that Democratic paper for the prr-
pose of an unjustiiiable assault on the Cover
nor OF the Commonwealth, is well known
Know Nothing of the Bolts category. II can
hardly he supposed that the Republican" is
ignorant Of the political sentiments of its
regular correspondent Nor is it new
thing for Democratic newspapers, the par
tisans of some politicians Of the party
who for the last two or three years have
evinced uncompromising hostility to Gov. Wise
and factious opposition to his administration, to
cooperate with the enemies Of the Democratic
party in Il common effort for the injury Of its
representative man. The same game has been
repeatedly played, az We we'll know, by other
papers than the Republican" The double
machinery of Democratic and Opposition
presses has been combined, the materials Of
assault sorted out-the more artful weapons Of
attack reserved for the armory Of disatfected
Democrats-anf every instrument which could
not he employed by these, quietly handed over
to supply material for the more abusive but
less injurious attacks of Opposition organs.-
Yet these are the men who preach edfying dis
courses on the peace and harmony of the par,
ty," whenever the Enquirer lifts pen to OK
pose their Vaccinations or to rcpel an assault.
As if there could be peace and harmony, when
one faction of the party habitually co-opcrates
with the common enemy, to strike blow among
their own ranks. There can be, and there
shall he no peace-until this unnatural combi
nation is dissolved and its purpose abandoned.
Governor Wise's enemies in his own camp shall
have war-oprn and declared war; We will
not resort to their mode of bush fighting o


which the publication in the Republican OBJ
viously furnishes an instance. But for the sake
of fair play and for the sake of the integrity OF
our party, We will charge boldly on every am
buscadc, and give no quarter to oprofeSsed Demo
Gratis standing shoulder to shoulder with the
merccnarics of the opposition.
Year: 1859

punishment in the manner of hisvcry pardon,
by Withholding his discharge from a sentence
to Infamous punishment, the proper infction
Of which is very questionable atleast, in order
that thatvery imperative effect my produced?
] think not On the contrary, il to be weighed
at all, which deny, it is rathe: another, and,
perhaps, the strongest reason FIR granting the
pardon. The question Of divorce is one which
ought to address itself to the Court and not
the Executive, and to the discretion Of the
Court. and not to its constrained power.
Year: 1859

EDIToR NATIONAL DEMOCRAT Il notice
that the question is being discussed as to the
policy of getting up County Agricultural
Society, the meeting to be at Marysville


That such society is needed no one who
is interested will pretend to dispute, and
society of such dimensions that it can be con-
trolled by the honest working classes, and
become useful and entertaining in a variety
of ways, and abound in good to all members,
while it rebounds to the benefit of the whole
industrial community, isstrongly wished for;
and 10y many who have reason to complain
of the partiality and unfairness of the State
Fair last fall Whenever a small circle of
| congenal acqnaintances meet there Is sure to


be accord and mutual good will, particularly
so when every man counts one and feels and
acts his part A County Agricultural Socie-


ty, if rightly composed and controlled 10y its


members, will be eminenty social. An Ag-


ricultural Society, made up of horde of
officers alive to all principle-whose interest
is dollars and centS-whose most prominent
knowledge of agricultural matters is that
certain grains and edibles contain Stdrch
Ito say nothing of their capability of being
converted into whiskey) and whose ample ex
perience in all such matters consist in plouing
the biggest kind of a tttrroac, finding mar
ket for cabbage, &c.-who are surrounded
by few or more outsiders to look on with
their hands in their pockets and their mouths
wide open and filled with praises of such
magnificent show" Such mutual admi-
ration society" conducted on the "you tickle
me and III tickle you" system, to the very
abundant satisfaction of tie fer, is all mighty
fine. "And faih," says Pat, 'Jaih, and
what is to hinder?'


But the time has con e, here in California,
when true worth is beginning to be apprecia-
ted Labor holds high place in society,
and that lazy kind of diggng-whch doesn't
harden the hands-called dignity, is being
considered nearly equal to the real native
character. They who labor know how to
estimate labor, and such can control their
own affairs. The working men of Yuba
county want a society. They can have one
they can compose it-they can be its MEM
bers and they can be its officers Official
duties can be performed for reasonable
recompence, and be done with dispatch, jus
tce and honor. The man that can do the
most and the best work should hold the high
est office in such society.


AS flies love honey and mouse loves
cheese, SO does that very smoothe genus
biped" very affectionally hover round and
help the farmer sample his productions Let
all such be marked; and let such as sit at
the working mans table" do as they can do
at home, just help themselves, and all is well
the thing is done. H.