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YOL, VI. . - ru3Lisn::D every Thursday morning. GEORGE R. PARBURT. n-»XTOR .VXD PROPRIETOR. -■> Sroa iieay. netrly nppnfife Ih- Tirradwr/ /Rite t.wt Stale and fultnn greets — CJLVMUJA, CAL. TERMS: p*r arinm, In advance SdO(» r - .ths ~4 30 Th . rs inuntlis . I '•43 1 Si) ars T. 10 ?L;:er< sujj'Ued to Agents nt $S 00 per 103 copies. Terms of Advertising. t .T' - inure, ten lines, Ist insertion .S“2 00 { - ibsequent insertion 1 00 . .- To those who advertise by the month a liberal if will be tna le.~C& ‘rancient advertising must be paid for in AD V ' ' and regular advertisers are required to settle to ju-ly. Job Printing* > Hiving furnished our office with a new and hea :ii* i\ assortment of printing material, we are now vre ucl to execute every description of PLAIN AND FANCY as ■zs 1 nh r a t , u in a neat, workmanlike manner, at short notice and on A^.W E NESS CARDS, r; tickets, bi. vcadr. Cl ■ iCATES, ' 'TITC'XIONS, 1 OKS, circulars. PROGRAMMES, DIMS OK FARE, CHECKS. society notices, nvi.AWs, PAMPHI.KTS, P «r?' i, HANDBILLS. ;'3_STIKC IN BRONTES AND COLORED INKS, Krc., ETC. ETC., * V All Job wort I*/-aid for ■when delirered: Av McCHESJS? ■ Taiclaix -ice at Ape -Kience—ca the T 'a‘ .... i, 7U3.m UC.I T’i 'co for To? \ B‘ ST .TICK & WILHOIT, Freighters and Forwarders, StoditOHil GOO 5 COXSIGKED TO CS WILL BE PROMPTLY fo ■ rjri-jd, as desired, at the lowest freights, tree ■of char <•. EOSTWTCK & WILHOIT. V. B -Goods stored in a fire-proof warehouse until ehipper Stock ■ n. Jan. 10, IS57^ n® o>vj:cje:. ij give particular attention to *s. Mortgages, I’ow les «( Incorpor- j • senption ol ' 4e Columbia COLUMBIA, TUOLUMNE CO., CAL., THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1858. Democratic County Convention. At a meeting of the Democratic Coun ty Central Committee held iu Sonora on the 2Lii but , the follovv'ug resolutions were adopted Ji'solv J, that the next Democratic County Convention bo held in the City »f COLLI MBI Ai i' Tuesday the 20th day of July next, at 10 o’clock A. JM. at CardineH’s Theater, for the purpose of nominating seventeen <1 legates to the .State Convention to be held iu Sacra- I menfo on the fourth of August next; one Senator from the tilth district ; four As semblymen and five county Supervisors Jitsolced, that the following be the basis of representation ; Uno Delegate for each Precinct ; One for every fifty votes cast at the last gen eral election lor any candidate on the County Ticket nominated by tiic demo cratic party, calculating in each precinct the highest vote for any one candidate ; and One Delegate for every fraction of twenty five and over, after the first fifty votes. Resoleed, that the Democracy be re commended to meet iu their several pre cincts on Saturday the 17ih day of Julv at t> o’clock P. M , for the election o! delegates to the County ( onvention, and to it the polls be kept-open not less than on: hour. Hesvlred, shat all those who voted for the Democratic ttate Ticket at the last election, and now subscribe to democrat ic principles as laid down in the CINCINNAITI PLATFORM shall be entitled to vote for Delegates. Representation As fixed upon by the Central Committee. PRECINCTS, VOTES, DELE Sonora, North,,... 272, 6 South, 4SI, 11 Down’s F1at,...., 97, 3 Lolin- n’.s Store, 49, I ' -b ier's Ranch, 61, 2 Quartz Mill, 70, » r Flat 41, 1 > r Ylu:jibia, ..960, 20 cingfiJJ, ; 280, ’ 7 -V.a-.-'s Flat, 382, 8 Va. Iteclliil, 97, • 3 Gold Spring? 95, 3 Saw Mill Fiat, HI, 3 Tuttktown, 130, 4 Pino Log, 69, 2 Italiau liar, 43, 1 Goodiiehville 73, 3 Lyon's Ranch, 36, I White’s Flume, 20, 1 Donnell’s Flat, 22, i Jamestown,.. ...--316, 7 V ennont Bar, 21, 1 Curti.-ville, 94, 2 Blanket Creek, 41, 1 Poverty Hill,. 108, 3 Jacksonville, 172, 4 Big Oak Flat, 159, 4 ia an cit e No 1, 63, 2 Garrote No 2, 40, 1 Stevens’ Bar,. 70, 2 Moccasin Creek, 34, i Blythe’s Store, 83, 3 G illespie’s 5t0re,........ 37, 1 Chinese Camp, 245, 6 Green Springs, 27, 1 Montezuma, 1-17, 4 itod Mountain Bar, 43, 1 Peoria, 69, 2 Hawkin'* Bur, 34, 1 Indian Bur, 61, 2 Don Pedro’s Bar, 169, 4 Slocum’s Bridge, 23, 1 Total, 137 The Democracy of Stanislaus Coun ty me respectfully requested to send Delegates to tiie Convention, to partici pate in the nomination of Senator. T. N. CAZNEAU, Brest. E. R. Galvin, Sec’y. Sonora, May 22, ISSS. A count: y school-master was en deavoring to beat into a pupil’s head the nature of a passive verb. *‘A passive verb,” said he, “is expressive of the nature of receiving an action : as, Peter is beaten. Now, what did Peter do ?” “Well,” replied tho boy with the i vest countenance imaginable, “I ’t l-r>my what he done, without he ■iy Fame.—When the West, some jof the most con- On being iutroduced J statesman, addressed lave read your spelling ...uary, Mr. Webster, but re had the pleasure of your “Wo O-o Where Demooratlo Prinolplos Zioad. M Do Nor Swear.— Next to the power of thought is the power of speech. By these two faculties is man placed above and distinguished from the brute crea lion. But, alas ! how often does he, bv the abuse of the power of speech, ren der himself lower than the brute beast. Do not swear at your horse. It will not lighten his load quicken his pace. "Shall the m ife bps of the poor | dumb animal bear silent reproof to his [ blaspheming, swearing driver ? l>o not swear, if you do rap yonr j fusers with ihe hammer. Never mind, the pain will soon cease, the wound will heal. Do not inflict a greater wound on your moral nature by a cowardly, wicked oath. Do not swear at your business, yonr books, your mining claims or your luck Do not swear at stocks, stones, chairs, tables and all inanimate nature. Do not swear in the street, the place of business, the steamer, on the coach or at home. Do not swear at your servants, your friends, your wile or little ones. Do not swear in all places, on all oc casions, at all things and everybody. Do not mar the beauty of social in tercourse and common conversation by interweaving the horrid, chilling oath. It degrades your moral character, dead ens your self respect and hulls you from t lie high estate of manhood to the very depths of degradation and shame. By the memory of her who taught your infant iips to say “Our Father”— by aH the hallowed memories of home and innocent, happy childhood—by the love you bear your wife and the hope you cherish for your children, I pray you “Swear not at all ” Silas Weight’s Wrath. The Daily Wisconsin, edited by (Tamer, for merly of Albany, speaking of the wealth of the most eminent American statesmen, concludes bis list with .the JuHl£Hhgrcferhuce to Silas Wright: biles Wright, with his estate of 84000, was really wealthier than many others wlio are worth SIOO,OOO. lie owed no man-any thing j be met his obligations with the utmost promptness, and never indulged in any luxury that be could not pay for He was a model of republican simplicity. There was something glorious in wit nessing a great statesmen like Silas Wright, never asking a pecuniary favor —or even accepting one ; yet posses sing only an income that couid support him and bis wife in frugality. When he was elected Governor of the great State of New York, be was known. <o be to poor to furnish his house. Bis rich friends got together, and without his knowledge, made up a subscription, which was tendered to him as a gift, in order to furnish his mansion. This he respectfully but kindly declined, saying with true Reman grandeur, that he, could not consent to receive such a fa vor from any one—even from his roost esteemed friends—he was elected by the people to be Governor of the State of New York, and be considered it his imperative duty to live on whatever in come the people had appended to that office, and he did live on that Income while he was Governor, in good style, but with no ostentation. Such an ex ample on the part of so eminent a man as lie was is one of those precious lega cies that the young men of the present day should bear iu mind—as no true greatness can ever be achieved so long as they are the pecuniary slaves of even their nearest friends. When a public man receives favors that he cannot re pay, he loses that sturdy independence so essential to usefulness and enduring popularity. Live within your income, is more important to one who aims to be an influential and useful statesman than any other maxim. DCP* Barnum, wo arc told, has settled with his creditors, arranged his affairs, and is now a greater millionaire than ever. lie is engaged in procuring sub scriptions for his great season of Italian Opera. Ho has already succeeded iu obtaining five hundred subscribers for a certain number of scats for the first season at thr Academy of Music, of forty nights, more or less. He only requires six hundred subscribers, at five dollars the ticket for each person—the same price as her Majesty Theatre, Loudon. Why is a hen, sitting on a fence, like a cent ? Because she has a bead on one side and a tail on the other. No Flattery. A usurious incident occurred at one of the prayer meeting down town last week- Au unctuou brother, who, it appears, is a kind of out door clerk jjr: »>ti . ot the lottery swindles situated in a ‘“roadway base ment not Car from the £ ark. and win has been long noted as one of the hard est kind of character-, aft-r chuck ling out iu nasal spasms a general con fession of his sins, am* exulting over Ids curious ‘ conversion,” h sought the prayers of the assemblybis beliML His request was imnieijtatelv complied with by a voung?r*fcre»h< f, who seeiifiiM well posted on the past iureer and pres ent mode of life ot the-^iy* “convert ’’ This gentlemen instinlly set up a fervid prayer in behal ‘ of “Brother L—-—lie implored for mercy fot the corpulent sinner, though as he averred, “Brother L—"-’s long life of Baud extended beyond I the reach of mercy that was not infl ate in its na ture. ’* Brother L rather winced at this literal compliance with his own solicitation, but quite reg rdicss of this, the sc.ithing supp icitr**#T l t on. “Thou knowest,*’ lie proceeded, -‘.that nU sin ful wretch {lands in greater need of mercy than Brother L ! Forgive him for Ids robbery of tbe widow and the poor ? Forgive him lor his long life of fraud ! Turn his heart this day from lusting after the nefarious profits ot the policy business ! Awaken him to a knowledge of the sinfulness of false pretences, and the of stolen goods, and in>p’re him with a determi nation to pay his debts !” Quilt a lively altercation ensued out side a few minutes afterwards,.between Brother L and the gentleman who had prayed so pointedly in bis* behalf, which would probably have 'terrtinated unpleasantly but for the interference of a policeman N. Y. Paper. wH A KWH rjy A irSJ Money. —Who composed “H Barbie-' re?” Rossini—a J« ! Who is there that admires not the JtPhrt-stiiring mu sic of the “Huguenots” and the “Pro phets?” The composer is Mycrbcer— a Jew! Who not been spell bound by the sorcery of “Die Judin !” byHalvey—a Jew I Who that, at Munich, has stood before the weeping Koningsparke, whose harp silently hung on the willows by the w; ora of Bahv lon, but has coofesstd the band of a master in that almost matchless picture ? The artist of Benemaa—a Jew ! who has not heard of the able and free-spo ken apostle of liberty, Boernc—a Jew ? Who has not been enchanted with the beautiful fictions of lyric poetry, and changed yitli the graceful melodics so to speak, of one «f Israel’s sweetest singers. Heioc—a Jew j* Who lias not listened, with breathless ecstacy, to the melting InasSe of the “.Midsummer N|gfct*s Dream ?” Who has not wept with “Elijah,” prayed with “Paul/* and triumphed with “Stephen ?” Do you ask who Created those wondrous harmo Dies ? Felix 7 Mondelsshon llartboldy, who also, that I must so write rt, was a Jew l-~Bentfaf r i MUullany. Trb Coral Baers of Florida.—At the late meeting of the Boston Natural History Society, Professor Agassiz gave j an account of bis recent visit to the reefs vf Florida, and bis explanations of coialine growths. He estimates the rate of coral growth to be only a few inches iq a century, a tenth or a twelfth part Idss thau has been hitherto sup poscscd, and, supposing the reef rises from a depth of 12 fathoms, he would calculate its age upon its arrival at the surface of the wat«v to be about 25,000 years, and the total age of the four dis tinct concentric reels of the southern extremity of the peninsula to be 100,- 000 years. Professor William B. Rog ers said that the physical conditions could not have differed much in that region a hundred thousand years a*'e from what they now are, and conse quently that such a calculation could reasonably be made upou the data ac cumulated by Professor Agassiz. Dr. D. b Wemland wiledbpttenfion to a fact observed by in Hali, which would involve a more rapid growth oflflK kinds of corals than is He there noticed branches of a species of madre pore from 3 to 5 inches above the surface ot the water, which must have grown during the short winter of three months when the water is high. —Boston Trav eler. Stop in Time —Young mm —\«m who take your glass of grog because u is fashionable—accept a friendly warn ins' of your dunsrer, ami slop in rime The custom is fraught wi’li danger, and so sure as you persist in if s » sure will you-hecoino a slave to the bottle Yon may think that there is no danger in this that. you are so strong within yon:sell ■ hat you can s*op at any point rn fln road to rnin, and retrace your steps with ease. Deluded man, you may sec yom error when it is too Into—for there is a point upon the dangerous road from be yond which few have evei returned, and these lew’have performed the feat, with almost supsjhnman struggles. You can break the habit vow —its fetters are not rivited as yet, and now is the time to break loose from n custom which will inevitable ruin you if you persist in its practice. You are strong enough to slop row, and you peril your life and your soul hy risking the threatening danger any longer. Your helphss weakness will come upon you in an hour when you least expect it—you will be in the inid't of a debauching revel, and then gaunt danger will suddenly stand out-, before you, and you will then feel your helplessness and want of power to grapple with a curse the most afflictive that ever scourged humanity. Stop in time. S&* A short time since we published an item stating that the unfinished mon ument to Mary, the mother of Wash ington, at Fredeticksbutglr, Va., was going to ruin, and was used as a target by the boys. The Louisville Jokshil has the following exportation of its be ing left in such a condition ; A New York widower, wealthy and very vain of his wealth, was courting, a few years ago. a young lady connected with the Washington family. A monu ment to the mother of Washington was at that time talked of, and the amorous .•vioewor, ko a uisplit of licbes and win the favor ot hi,"* ludy-Lvc, 1 claimed the privilege of buiding it with his own resources. Ky the expenditure of several thousand dollars, he raised it rapidly to its present height, but be did not rise in Miss C.’s favor so briskly as the stone structure rosy in the air. In fact, sbo absolutely discarded him, ami then, us was to bo expected, be indig nantly' refused to pay for the laying of another stone. Of course, the struc ture, as no one else saw fit to take hold of it, has ever since remained at just the height it had reached when the widower was jilted. Old Times, ok 103 Years Ago.— Tho following advertisement, c »pied from tho Pennsylvania G >zrHe of Feb ruary 1 llh, 1755, exhibits the state of 'lie mail faciltios between the cities of Philadelphia and Poston 103 years ago flic Deputy Postinastet General was Benjamin Franklin, and the Comptroll er bis son, William Franklin ; General Post Office. I Philadelphia,,Feb 11.17-55 J It having been fouu I very inconven ient to persons conce rn'd in trade, that the mail from “Philadelphia to New England” sets out but owe n. fortnight during the winter season, this is to g>.re notice, that the New England mail will henceforth go once a week the year round, whereby correspondence may be carried on, and answers obtained to let ters between Philadelphia and Poston in Ihrte weeks ; which used in the win ter to require six weeks. Py command of D.qtTy Postmaster General. William Franklin, Comptroller. Capt. Kidd on the Island of Per im. —This little island, of so much impoi lance now in European diplomacy, is thus alluded to in a small volume called “Notes of Travel,” published at Salem in 1854.:—“Having been drilled about by light winds, it was not untill the third morning after leaving Aden that we passed Pub-el-Maudeb Peak, rearing its lofty summit of black, crumb ling rock 800 feet above our beads, and entered Pab-cl-Mandeb Strait, or the Gate of Mourning Wc passed through the narrow s.tiajt, which is about a mile and a fourth wide between Pab-el Man deb Peak and Perim Island. Speaking of Perim Island, it will be remembered that Capt. Kidd, who, in 1697, sailed from New York in tho Adventurer galley, in search of bucaneers, near hero captured a rich Quedah merchantman. |He landed upon this island, and who knows but long sought after buried 1 treasures «f tho daring bucaocer may yet be unearthed at Perim Island ”* A Hkauiikhi. Smile —A beautiful smile w to the female countenance what •he sunbeam is to the landscape. It emhelislu s an inferior face and redeems an ugly one. A smile, however, should not become habitual insipidity is the result ; nor should the month break into a smile all on one side, the other re* mailing passive atid unmoved, foi this imparts an air of deceit and grotesque" mss to the (aco. A disagreeable smile distorts the line of beauty, and is more repulsive than a frown. There are many kinds of smiles, each having a di'tinclivc character; sonic announce goodness and sweetness; others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride ; some soften the countenance by their languish ing tenderness; others blight in it by their b: illfant vivacity. Gazing and pormg before n. mirror cannot aid in ac quiring beautiful smiles half so well as to turn the gaze inward, to watch that the heart keeps unsullied fiotu the re flection of evil, and illuminated and boautifled by sweet thoughts. Largesr Diamond in the World. —'l he \Vfv>, ling, Va , Pimm says : Mr. G. P. IMa-thews, of this State, claims to have the largest diamond in the wot Id. It is about an inch and a half in diame ter, and nearly an inch in thickness It is surpassingly brilliant, particularly by gas light. Its estimated value is two millions of dollars. Mr Matthews says he has been offered for it £24 000 It was found hy the father of the present possessor in the gold mines of Buekirg ham county, Va , about seventy years «ooc. It has remained in the rough state ever since, until a few weeks ago, when Hr M., b« ing satisfied by every test that it was in reality a diamond, took it to New York and hod it dressed. The orecioL gem weighs 144 carats The Kohinoor, if ve remember* weighed but 100 carats. Et.Ecrntcwv op Ktssys Learned wonivrt In Ea-t on, electricity, and glass stools and communicating with a batt.>-r, in viting gentlemen to kiss them. As the faces come together an electric spark id disahargod from the lenretiine’s unsc, which usually ends the experiment.— W e have seen the experiment tried, omitting the battery and stool, and, al though the shock was dreadfully try ing on the nervous system, the experi menter usually requested a repetition. The electrical kiss—without the battery and stool—is said to be something like the application of chloroform ; after the first disagreeable sensation is over, the patient has a di-position to continue the application until if is sometimes the death ol him —'Privily Jjvrnul. IX-P* A beautiful woman never looks so attractive, as when she is engaged in >o ne useful occupation—when the ‘Slan der fingers” are nimbly and deftly occu pied iu some hotter way than killing time, merely. Many men have first felt the infill neo of the tender passion. on surprising some fair damsel in the midst ot tin* duties of the inning*.. la ting connection, we will give a 4 complimen tary proverb : ’ Men fl ittcr beautiful women, and admire intellectual women, but useful women they love. A Costly Pai >tino —-The French papers state that the Shah of Persia, who is a grert amateur of Arabic cali graphy and of water color painting, is having prepared, under his immediate and personal superintendence, a magni ficent edition of the Arabian Nights’ Kutert am meats. During the last seven years tho most celebrated Persian pain ters have boon engaged in the illustra tion of this work, which has a’rcady cost SQO.OOOf., and will be a production unique of its kind. Strong Testimony. —At a trial be fore a justice of the Peace in this town, last week, a witness called to testify as to the identity of a certain cow, declared himself so well acquainted with the ani mal that, to use his own language, he would ‘‘know her ashes in h—l.” Ho was not cross examined ~~CrMint City Herald. t^ - The Admin atratioa democrats of Alameda county in convention held on Saturday last, gloriously triumphed over the piebald faction who opposed them. Men of the right stripe will be elected to the State Convention. The Broder tekites “bolted,” of course. That is part of their arrangements. We shall soon see what they will do hero,— Uvm% Democrat NO. 36.