April 2, 1858 (4 pages)

rR— — —= as a VOL. 7. NO. 45. NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1858: Che Nevada Fournal. PUBLISHED BY N.P. BROWN & Co. E. G. WAITE. N. P. BROWN. OFFICE—No, 46 MAIN STREET. TERMS Ms os SES ee $7,00 I isis ceccininnns devkstdinccttcns ea 4,00 Dai wipiten Woewedt U0 ee 2,00 RN Ca iiess . o4 ag 3s gt 3 spins ence occ 25 ESE EES licen mn ee Prentictana.—Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, has a world wide reputation for the brilliancy of his wit, and the bold and fearless enunciation ef his sentiments. What is more, he is generally sound to the core. and his big heart beats in unison with the best impulses of the people. We cull from his paper of the 11th February, the following strokes of wit and acute dissection of a modern heresy. Kentuckians should be proud of their able and independent editor. A lady correspondent, who professes to be horrified at the indelicacy of our paper, threatens for the future to set her foot on every copy she sees. She had better not. Our paper has 2’s in it. Locofoco politicians are everlastingly denouncing the “credit system.” Well, during the late panic there was no such thing as credit. How do Locofoco politicians like the workings of their own system ? Three rich farmers of Western Massachusetts have been victimized by a man peddling compost manure. They give their signatures in favor of the mahure, and the reseal wrote money orders over them.— Exchange. We advise these “threé rich farmers bf Massachusetts” to spread a suitable tompost over their brains. It would be a capital speculation We see a good many comments in. the papers upon the affair in the House of Representatives, in which Mr. Keitt figured and was figured with so strikingyMr. Keitt certainly had the floor tipon the occasion, and the floor had him, and the two were unmistakably entitled to each other. There seems, however, to be some little dispute as to whether Keitt fell by stubbing his tod or was knocked down by an enemy or pulled down by a friend. One statement, apparently true, 1s} that Keitt disappeared immediately after rising from the floor. Mr.Grow gained some eclat in the affair, and Keitt lost. Grow grew, and Keitt kited: Keitt grasped Grow by the throat. He is not the first individual that has had a downfall from being to grasping. We are not surprised at thé indignation of the fire-eaters at the knocking down of Mr. Keitt. He is the peculiar representative of the fire-eating party in the House of Representatives. Of course a blow under his ear was equally & blow under the multitiidinous ears of the whole party. alluding to his fall, may appropriately say to his brother fire-eaters— “There you and I and all ef us fell doin’ “While’’ Grow’s huge fist was “flourished over us.” The New York Erening Post, in an article on the disgraceful occurrences in the U 8S. House of Représéntatives, on Saturday morning, says it was rathera pity to knock Mr. Keiit down, for, if his reported behavior was any indication of his bodily condition, he would soon have reached the floor of his own motion. This may explain the seeret of Mr. Keitt’s avowed ignorance as to whether he was knoeked down or not. It is said that the regular New York Dublin Tricks, and others, are very indignant and intend to holda meeting . and give formal expression to their indignation on account of the gross vioiation of the established rules of the ring . in the fights upon the floor of Congress. They declare that the members of the House have forfeited all claim to the title of gents. It is said that members of the Cabinet were seen in daily attendance upon the sessions of the House of Representatives during last week. Such attendance is unusual, but not unnatural. We are glad to hear of it. It is high time that the Administration were laying its ears to the ground to catch the real measure of that rumbling which heralds the advancing tread of Democratic opposition. The Richmond South says that tke growing wheat in Virginia never presented a more encouraging aspect at this season of the year than at present. — Exchange. Then the wheat of Virginia is infinitely better off than her politics, which is full of tears. Levi J. North, the great Cireus rider, is the Democratic candidate for Alderman in the third ward of Chicago. We presume he was selected on account of his well known skill in riding two horses at once. The Democratic editors are very fond of flattering Irish-boru citizens when they think that something is to be made by it, but we see that the Richmond South, presuming that Senator Shields, of Minnesota, supports the views of Douglas, sneers at him as “Paddy Shields.’ That Buchanan organ, in sneering at (ren. Shields’s Irish nativity, sneers at every Irishman in the land. An English paper says that a superbly ornamented whip was one of the presents made to the Princess Royal of ErgJand on her late wedding day. Weare not told whether the bridegroom, upon the making of that suspicious present to Any one fire-eater, in . . . his royal bride; looked scared or not: The richest part of the whip was the butt—so we presume she will give her spouse the other end if either. After the Grow and Keitt affair, Mr. Crawford of Georgia said he hoped the House would never meet again. But the House did meet, and Crawford was in his seat. Why didn’t he set an example in keeping with the expression of his hope? A Lecomptonite in Pennsylvania fell out of a third-story window the other day directly on the top of his head. He suffered no perceptible injury. The New York Herald, commenting on the President’s Kansas Message, says, with as much sincerity as it ever says anything, “there is something truly magnificent in the earnestness with which Mr. Buchanan undertakes the task before him, and the style in which he achieves it is positively sublime.” The editor of the Herald is developing a new element of hischaracter. He has long been known as one of the most unprincipled men in the world, aud he seems determined to make hiniself one of the most ridiculous. Not content with being despised he has evidently re= solved to be laughed at. Judging from the sentence we have just qoted and several other recent attempts in this way, we have no doubt that Bennett will easily succeed in making himself as perfect an objeet of ridicule as he is of scorn. He is, by common consent, a scoundrel of the first water, and we have no objection to his becoming a butt of the same order. The Administration was on Douglas has commenced in Illinois and Indiana in the form of refusing to give the Douglasite editors Federal advertising —Cin. Com. It has tommeneced in every other State, where there 7s a Douglas editor, in the same way=and not only in refusing to give Federal advertising to Douglas editors but in refusing to give any kind of Federal patronage to Douglas men of any class. Douglas and his followers have not yet ventured upon the pretty sternly, atid the muscles of their arms seem at times to swell and writhe in almost a frightful manner. There is no knowing what sights may be in store for our waiting and anxious eyes. Douglas at the South —The Louisiana (Mo.) Herald, a Demoeratie paper, pays Senator Douglas the following handsome compliment : d “Senator Douglas has left your party” is tauntingly thrown in our face every day. No such thing, sir. hat distinguished Ilinoisan to-day is as good a Democrat as he ever was, and we would sooner trust him—although a Northern man—with the institutions »f the South than any of those who attempt to taunt us With desertion: This is equally creditable to the sagacity and manliness of the Hera/d. It is only one of a thousand indieations that the “light is bréaking’ on the Southern Democracy. Had the whole Lecompton constitution been submitted to the people, the adherents of this [the Topeka] organization would doubtless have voted against it, because, if successful, they would thus have removed the obstacle owt of the way of their own revolutionary constitution.— President's Message. Well, what if they had voted against it? Wouldn’t it have been entirely just and proper? Wouldn’t they have had a perfect right to do it? Things lave certainly eome to a beautiful pass, when a President, elected on account of bis especial devotion to popular sovereignty, cites the evident determination of the people to vote ina certain way as iliustrating the impropriety and absurdity of allowing them to vote at all. It would have been an awful crime, . to be sure, if the opponents of the Leugilists, Tom Hyer, Jack Morrissey, . 5 % Ys} compton constitution had voted against it, in the event of its having been submitted to the people. The pith of the President's argument on this point is that the Leeompton constitution was rightfully withheld from the people of Kansas, because they wou'd have voted it down if it had been submittéd to them: If Mr. Buchanan possessed a particle of honor or mantiness his face would be lost in a sea of blushes whenever he recalled this contemptible flammery. It has been solemnly adjudged by the highest judicial tribunal that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the eonstitution of the United States. Kansas is, therefore, at this moment, as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina.— President's Message. Our own opinion is that Kansas at present isn’t a “State” of any sort. A Convenient sort of Man.—During the last Gubernatorial canvass, Mr Weller enquired of a citizen of Marysville— “Where can we get a convenient, useful sort of man who will do the little mean party work, and ask no questions ?” “Right here,” said the Marysville Man ; “We have one here whom you can kick, from behind, all over town, and next day he'll come back pleased and friendly like, asa bull pup.” “He's the very man we want,” said the future Governor, “we want him in the State Journal!” Andhe went. Trinity Journal. THE Age says :—“The venality of the press” isuo where more plainly exemplified, than in the reckless and unprincipled manner in which the newspaper reporters alter the speeches of the legislators, so as to make them bear the resemblance of common sense. Sueb corruption cannot be tolerated.’ essa espe meena tnemmmameeemmpnmemn aenmnenamenen game soensenneammnemeemesaaemer renee ree te Larrey, the Soldier-Surgeon. If there is any man of whom the Pyrenese may be proud to have given birth. it is he who was pronounced by Napoleon I to be the most honest man in his empire. Endowed witha noble heart, vast intelligence, and a vivid imagination, Larrey was, indeed, worthy of the friendship given to him by the greatest man of modern times His name, too, holds an equally distinguished position at the present day, not only among men of science, but amongst all who are benefactors of humanity. “If éver the ar. my raises a column of gratitude,’ said Napoleon, “it owes one to Baron Larrey.”” This debt has been paid. The Government, the army, all France, has joined in the national labor of love, and the truthful tronze now recalls to us the venerated traits of him whom we may justly term the father of French military surgery ; for. from Amborse Pare—of whose illustrious memories but an in¢omplete fragment has been transmitted to us—up to the first revolution—meditine was in its infancy. In the first days of the Republic, everything had to be done. It was netessary to create, to organize, and the genius of Larrey alone was capable of this immense undertaking. Formerly, our wounded soldiers were carried to a distance from the field of battle. to receive the surgcon’s first attentions ; and many, too many, alas! died before they traversed the route to the ambulances. Lar1éy; séeing the insufficiency and danSer of this system, at once ordéred that the wounded soldier should be cared for, even under the fire of the enemy, and that the military surgeons should share with their comrades the dangers of war. From this arose his system of ambulance ¢arriages, containing every necessary provision for acting on the spot. From this time, the French army-surgeon,; who had before been considered a sort of actessory to the army, gained definitively his place of honor on the field of battle. Larrey formed one of that phalanx of savans who accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt; he was the friend and rival of Baron de Genettes, who immortalized himself by his heroic : ite ae —_ I . eonduect among the plague-strieken at policy of giving the Administration blow . i pia : for blow, but they compress their lips } Jaffa. Jn this rough and laborious eampuign he rendered such services to the French army, that this page alone in his life would have served to hand his name down to posterity. Later, in all the capitals of Europe, his voice was heard among scientific men, and philosophers of all nations came io listen to Iris in. structions. Even Kiags honored him with their friendship. Afier the coronation of the Emperor, when that great captain wished personally to distribute the star of the Legion of Honor, he told Larrey that he intended to name him commander of the order. But, although a surgeon-in-chief, he would not reecive alone this distinetion; and he told the Emperor tiiat he would not accept the honor, without Baron Percy, another eminent surgeon, were atcorded the same itavor. Napoleon yielded, and the two representatives of French medical science were thus named, at the same time, commanders of the Legion of JLonor: This fact pictures the character of the man. Above all else a man of heart, he always remained pure and independent among the courtiers who only echoed the opinions of their master. It ttas not obstinacy, buta free spirit and a truthful disposition Let us see what he did at Esling, when the French army was swrounded and want began to be felt, even in the ambulances. He told them to kill his own horses, and, upon his responsibility, to saerifiee a great number of those of the superior Gficers, to make bouillon for his sick and wounded. . The indignant generals, of course, demanded reparation against Larrey, and the Emperor summoned the surgeon to his presence. “What have you to say to this a¢cusation?” saidhe. “Sire,” replied Larrey, “the sick were my children; I owe to you an account of their lives; under these cireumstanees, I but did my duty. Besides, of what do these gentlemen complain? They have a horse each left, while I have killed all mine’ What could Najiolton do? He could not be angry; he pardoned the man for bis intrepidity and honesty. When the harrassed and maimed relies of the Grand Army were crossing tne bridge of the Beresina, not one stayed to save his general, his friend, his father, not even to preserve his flag. Suddenly, on the middle of the bridge a buzzing whisper ran through the crowd—a name is _pronounced, hands are stietched out, a man is passed from arm to arm, with ail the care affection can suggest; that was Larrey. After the battles of Lutzen and Bautzen, anumber of soldiers were wounded in the hand by ill-constructed weapons. At the same time, treason was suspected in the camp, and the gloomy mind of Napoleon saw in this a fresh proof of it. He summoned his generals to a council of war; they confirmed his suspicions, and, furious with jealous rage, he ordered Larrey to draw up a report upon the matter. Larrey presented it, and the Emperor paced the tent in great agitation, digging up the turf with the end of his cane. “These men are guilty,” he said. “They are not, sir,” replied the in trepid surgeon; “the accusation of treachery is a calumny for which you will have to account to history.” “Begone !”’ said the Emperor, “I will make you know my pleasure.” Larrey, calm in the security of a good conscience, retired, satisfied that he had done his best to save the lives of the innocent. A few hours passed, and at last Napoleon stmnioned him. “Thank you, Larrey,” said he ; ‘alas! why am I not always surrounded with men like you?” Bonaparte spoke truly; ifhe had only been advised by men of such energy and greatness of heart, in the days of his misfortunes, he might never have fallen. We must return to Larrey at Waterloo, where he had gone to d&sist at the obsequies of the Empire: His horse was killed under him; he was wounded in two places; he was crushed on the ground among the flying crowd; fhey had made him prisonér, and the Prussians were on the point of shooting him, when one of the enemy’s surgeons, an old pupil at Vienna, reccgnized his old teacher, and hastened to apprize Blucher. His life was saved, and a guard of honor escorted him to the French frontier. They could scarcely do less for such a man. After the Restoration, he retired into the shade, shut out from the Court. Surgeon-in-chief of the Hospital of Guard, he had neither distinctions nor honors; he was neither Peer of France nor Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor; he had almost forgotten the road to the Tuilleries of the Bourbons. One day, a guard presented himself to him, with a letter of recommendation. _ “What do you wish ?” said Larrey. “I would like to be a corporal; Monsier le Baron.” “Alas!” replied thé surgeon of the Emperor, “1 have made generals in my time, but to-day I don’t know if I have interest enough to make a Corporal.” In 1830, the Hospital of the Guard was on the point of being attacked by the mob; the authorities were unable to check them, when Larrey appeared, and said: “My friends, we have only sick people here; every good Frenchman ought to respeet this asylum.” The crowd instantly retreated, with around of applause to thé gailant veteran. He was an old man, still active and energetic, however, and he felt that but a few years separated him from the tomb, when the irresistable desire seized upon him to révisit Africa, the seene of his earliest labors. The Government yielded to his request, and he set out: His journey across the African provinces was one continuous ovation, an immense tri: umph ; and his son, a savant, worthy of the great name he bears, witnessed how his illustrious father was venerated by the French army. The presentiment entertained by everybody, as to the result of climate and camp-life upon Larrey, soon realized itself, and, on his return to France, he fell a victim to the illness incurred by his devotion. His remains Were conveyed to Paris. The Government of July refused the tomb of the Invalids to the capture of Saint . Helen, but the city of Paris spontaneously awarded a place therein to the citizen who had so well deserved of his country. A crowd of soldiers, sarans, and people; mingled in one mournful procession, followed Larrey to his last resting place. His ntimerous works, . conceived, as it were, under the fire of the enemy, eollected-frem-nature had enriched with ideas the most raré, are mines of information of which France may be proud. Friend of the Emperor, philosopher, a man of excessive energy, noble character, true heart; masculine and imposing in appearancé, even among the greatest men of the Empire, Larrey is worthy of immortality. — Winter Sketches in the South of France and the Pyrenees. Speakine of the bribery and threats used by Buchanan to rule the country, to which we alluded in our last, the Kentucky editor thus gives vent to ideas that should put every lover of free institutions upon his guard : “Yet, if we may credit the representations of Mr. Buchanan’s confidential friends at Washington, and the most re* served and judicious of them too, he daily addresses his opinions to Congress, with as much authoritativeness and as little concealment as if he were the Autocrat instead of the President of the United States. The language in which Mr. Kingman couches his despatch shows not only that this most unwarrentable praetiee is habitual, but that familiarity has rendered it decent, if not becoming. even to the better class of the President's political friends. Such @ fact, and it is altogether indisputable, is calculated to awaken grave consideration in that portion of the American people who consider anything relating to government gravely. The practice in question is a startling one. Its evident tendency is to pervert the best Government on earth into one of the worst, for; of all forms of political oppression, we conceive a despotism under republican forms to be the most intolerable, embittering the sense of injustice, as it does, by adding mockery to wrong, and speeding the shaftof tyranny with a feather plucked from the vietim’s own bosom. The necessary effect of the executive encroachment which Mr. Buchanan is pushing so unblushirgly is to reduce our incomparable system to such a form. Indeed, the degree to which it bas already advanced or receded in this direetion is as mortifying as it is alarming to every real lover of his country. Under this most reprehensible usage, the Coneress of the United States to-day, in all except mere forms, bears a nearer resemblance to the Legislative Body of Louis Napoleon than it does to the ideal Congress of the Constitution. This is the sober truth. At the current rate of official assumption, it will not be many years before our Congress is stripped of even its present quasi independence, and shall sink to the level of the Imperial Council of the Czar or the Divan of the Sultan. And this as the natural fruit of a species cf executive usurpations inaugurated and earried out by Presidents of the school of politics styled Demoeratic by way of eminence. We do not overestimate the strength of this centralizing tendency. Its fearful expansion is obvious to every observer of affairs at Washington. The new Territoriv] question has brought it into striking view. The repeal of the Missouri compromise was notoriously driven through Congréss under the Exeéutive lash, and, now, the Lecompton constitution has started in that body tnder the samé stimulating appliance. ‘To be sure, to use a homely figure, it has stuck fast in pretty stiff mud at the outset, but that only renders the President’s voice the more imperative, and the crack of his whip the louder. At his behest, every other inéasure of legislation which affects or may possibly affect the success of the Lecomptor constitution; and which his party can control; is made subservient to the triumph of tliat vile swindle. Nothing simply moral staiida effectually inhis way. Neither constitutional obligation nor Parliamentary usagé, neither duty nor propriety, offers the slightest apparent obstacle to his scandalous designs. The admission of Minnesota, for instance, is delayed in defiance of justice and of correct policy, for no other reason than that its admission now would add two Senators and two or three Representatives to the opposition in Congress. The contested election case of Indiana, also, is postponed, merely because its determination at present might perhaps diminish the Lecompton force in the Senate by two. In like manner, the case of Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, in the House, is dragged forward with indecent haste, and pressed witheut regard to pending business, in the hope of ousting the incumbent, and thereby subtracting one from the adverse vote. In addition to this rhameful disregard not only of fair-dealing but of all Parliamentary fitness; the President holds up to Congress, proverbially frail, the patronage of the Government as the tempting reward of subserviency to his purposes; and, through his offieial orgau, thunders, day after day, the terrors of excommunication at the heads of all who have the spirit and the integrity to oppose him. No longer ago than yesterday, the telegraph antounced that the Union had read Mr. Harris, of Illinois, out of the party, and insulted him with denunciatory epithets, for having dared to move the reference of the Lecompton constitution tu a select committee of thirteen, for the sake of obtaining a thorough investigation of the claims of that scheme to the favor of Congress. The Union sneers at Mr. Harris, and the Democrats who voted with him, as a “little corporal’s guard of renegades.” Yes, this degraded instrument, this hiréd assassin of the Executive stigmatizes the Democrats who have barely asked the privilege of looking before they leap; to be heard of no more, into the abyss of fraud and dishonor which its master has prepared for them, as “corporals guard of renegades.” It is a burning shame to human nature that the “corporal’s guard” has not before now swelled to a battalioi. Such is the President’s respect for the dignity and the responsibilities of the exalted office. Nor is this all. Buchanan, it is well known, has extended his corrupting influence beyond the Halls of Congress, to the nation at large. He has, as a géneral thing, asa universal thing, so far as we know, taken away or withheld the Federal patronage from those Democratic editors and others throughout the Union who oppose the Lecompton constitution, and bestowed it lavishly upon those who support that miserable cheat. The Press, of Philadelphia, for example, edited by the man who more than any other living one contributed to Mr. Buchanan’s election, but who scorns to threw up his hat for Lecompton, gets nothing; whilst the Pennsylvanian, of the same city; that takes down Lecoiipton at a single easy swallow, without making a wry face, gets everything the government has to give. So, likewise, our neighbor of the Democrat, who has struck more blows, and more effective ones, for the Democrati¢ party than any other editor or any other man in Kentucky, receives Mr: Buchanan's cold shoulder for his seruples against the pet scheme of the Administration, and bekol#ts the President’s especial and “material” smiles showered upon another, who has no such elaims, and no similar scruples. And thus it is the comntr} over. We of course do not intend to intimate that the support of ihe President through thiek and thin is rendered in every instance or in any particular instance as the price of the Federal patronage, but most certainly that corrupting largess is distributed with the view of securing such support, and for no other purpose. If i does not effect its object, it is not the fault of the President. He has tried and is trying hard enough to bribe the leading men of his party, in Congress and out of it, and, if he hasn’t suecceded, it is only because they are either wiser or better than he is. Now, fellow-citizens. isn’t all this a gloriousillustration of Democracy? Isn’t ita beautiful specimen of christian statesmanship in the nineteenth century 7? Can the annals of free government in the darkest centuries present anything much more flagrant or shameless? We have termed it, in the title of this article, official impropriety. The phrase is milder than the truth willallow. Itis base official corruption.” The Nevada Journal says that Henry Shipley retired from the State Juurnal, leaving it in the hands of “nobody.”— Worse than nobody, Mr. Journal ; only the ghost of nobody, prowling about where the personage ran into the ground. Trinity Journal. Tue Mercury.~The Sacramento Union tells us that the new Administration paper which is abont being born in that eity, is to be called the Daily Mercury. Appropriate name for a Lecomp tonian sheet. Mereury wasthe God of thieves.— Butte Record. As a bird is known by his note, so is a man by his discourse. VEVADA RNAL. WHOLE NUMBER 394, “LIVE WITHIN your Mrans.”—We don’t like stinginess. We don’t like “economy,” when it comes down to rags and starvation. We have no sympathy with the notion that the poor man should hiteh himsélf to a post and stand still, while the rest of the world moves forward. It igno man’s duty to deny himself of every amusement, every luxury, every récreation, every comfort, that he may get rich. Itis no man’s duty to make an iceberg of himself—to shut his eyes and ears to the sufferings of his fellows—and to deny himself the enjoyment that results from generous actions, merely that he may hoard wealth for his heirs to quarrel] about. But there is yet an economy which is every man’s duty, and which is especially commendable in the man who struggles with povertyan economy which is consistent with happiness, and which raust be practiced, if the poor man would secure his independence. It is evtry man’s privilege, and becomes his duty to live within his means, not up to, but within thém. Wealth does not maké the man, we admit, and should never be taken into the account in our judgment of men. But a competency should always be secured when it can be; and it almost always éan be, by the practice of economy and self denial to only a tolerable extent. It should be secured, not so much for others to look upon, or to raise us in the estimation of others, as secure the consciousness of independence, and the constant satisfaction that is derived from its acquirements and possession. We would like to impress this single fact upon the mind of every laboring man who may peruse this short article, that it is possible for him to rise above poverty, and that the path to independence. though beset with toils and self: sacrifite, is muth pleasanter to the trayeler than any one he can enter upon. The man who feels that he is earning something more than he is spending, will walk the streets with a much lighter heart, and enter his home with a much moré cheerful countenance, than he who spends as he goes, or falls gradually behind his necessities in acquiring the méans of meeting them. Next to the slavery of intemperance, there is no slavery on earth more galling than that of poverty and indebtedness. The man who is every body’s debtor is every body’s slavé, and is in a muéh worsé condition than he who serves a single master. For the sake of the present, then, as well as for the sake of the future, we would most earnestly urge tpon every working man to live within his means: Let him lay by something every day— if but a penny, be it a penny—it is bettey than nothing ; infinitely better than running in debt, a penny a day, ora penny aweek. Ifhe can earn a dollar, let him try, fairly and faithfully, the experiment of living on ninety cents. He will like it. “People will laugh!” laugh. “'Fhey will call mestingy!” Better call you stingy, than to say that you do not pay your debts. “They will wonder why I do not have better furniture, live ina finer house, and attend coneerts and the play-house!” Let them wonder for a while; it won’t hurt them, and it certainly won’t hart you. By-and-by you ean have a fine house; fine furniture of your own, and they will wonder again, and come billing and co»ing around you, like so many pleased fools. ‘Fry the experiment. Srive within your means.—Me. Farmer. Let them Bwauty ano THE Brast.—Women may be said almost to enjoy the monop oly of personal beauty. A good-humored writer thus defines hér position in this respect, as contrasted with the opposite sex: If you, ladies, are much handsomer than we, it is but just you should acknowledge that we have helped you, by voluntarily making ourselvesugly. Your superiority in beauty is made up of two things: first, the care which you take to increase your charms; secondly; the zeal which we have shown to heighten them by the contrast of our finished ugliness—the shadow which we supply to your sunshine. Your Jong, pliant, wavy tresses are all the more beautiful because we cut our hairshort ; your hands are all the whiter, smaller, and moxe delicate, beeause we reserve to onrsélves those toils and exercises which make the kands large and hard. We have devoted entirely to your use flowers, feathers, ribbons, jewelry, silk, gold and silver émbroidéry. Still more to increase the difference between thesexes, which is your greatest charm, and to give you the handsome share, we have divided with you the hues of nature. To you we have given the colors that are rich and splendid, or soft and harmonious ; for ourselves, we have kept those that are dark and dead. We have given you sun and light; we have kept night and darkness. CarawsBa.—Mr. Longfellow, in the Atlantic Monthly, sings the praise of Catawba wine in a most charming manner. The verses seem to have been written con amore, and with as much ease as he would fill up eleven glasses of sparkling Catawha to pledge a friend’s prosperity. Walking, talking or sleeping, there is some one whispering in our ear, “Very good in their way Are the Verzenay, And the Sillery soft and creamy. jut Catawba wine Has a ttste more divine, More dulcet, deli¢ious and dreamy.” Covkr Boquet.—Queen Vietoria invited Sarah Bonetta,an Afrizan princess, boarding at Chatham, to the wedding of the princess and sent her dresses _suitable for the occasion, and also twenty dozen cologne. ote He who enjoys good health is always young ; and he is rick who owes _nothing. pajeninenancestiatiaainanithiiiitaemsbit Silaanariniananstinanincniititinetieselaiiaiiabiteniabersiineiy een nppsnsvessnssseneeh ste eateeatnnnaenntspnnsnsshsiennsnsresisnrnenennae ALEXANDER STEPHENS, Represchta. ae from Georgia, is thus deséribed by a Vashington Writer: is figure is small, sléndér, and deli cate as that of a boy; itis said he wei scarcely a hundred pounds, and his head seems tnnaturally large in proportion te that slight frame. The face is pallid and ghastly, and bearé the distinct impress of physical pain and disease, but his eye is keen, restless, and piercing ag that ofa falcon. See how earnestly he gesticulates with those long, white fingers, While every word he speaks seems to thrill throuzh and through his frail physique! His voice is a shrill treble; heard plainly above the hum and murmut of the House, which, indéed, is somewhat subdued, as his well:knowa eloquence and ability command a deep interest from all quarters. He sinks batk pale and eghausted into his seat} but this debility does not long endure, for the giant powers of his énergetic in« tellect have so complete a command ouer the diseased body, that in tive min: utes he is attain busied in debate: Inptan’s Inga oF Baptism.—At Bt Joseph’s, a few days since, thé rite of baptism was performed on a number of females by immersion in the river. Ag it Was winter, it was necessary to cut @ hole in the ice; and the novelty of the scene attracted a large crowd; oe whom were several Indians, who looke on in wondering silenee. They retired without understanding the nature or ob< ject of the ceremony they had seen; but observing that all the subjeéts of immer? sion were ferales, and getting a vague idea that it was to make them good, thé Indians came back a féw da¥s after: wards, bringing their squaws with them; jor eutting another hole in the icé, near the same place, immersed each and all of them in spite of their remonstrances. “Good for white gal, good for sqtiaw,” said the simple red man. LD PaRAsot, an infidel Frénehtnat; one blasphemously declared that our Lord stole the ass on which he rode inta Jerusalem. After a while the old fel: lo¥ took the cholera, and while two negrpes rubbed him with hot limestone, he exclaimed: “Oh, mon Dieu! rion Dien! ven I tell old Marlow zat Zheézes Christ vas steal zat jackass, vat vas ride in Sherusalem, I vas joke !” ‘Lawyers.—When Peter the Great was in England, he expressed a desire to visit the Old Baily; and witness @ criminal trial. Seeing a large namber of gentlemen with powdered wigs an silk gowns, the Czar asked his interpreter whothey were. “Lawyers” was the reply. “Lawrers? My God! I have only two in all my dominions, ahd I imteud to hang one of them as soon as get home.” Two Quakers in Veitiont had a dis: pute, they wished to fight but it was against their principles; they grasped one another; one threw and sat on the hack of the other and squetzing his head in the mud said : “On thy belly slialt thou go ahd dust shalt thou eat al) the days of thy life.” The other, however, began to deal blows against his opponent’s head, say: ing : , —“Tt is written, the seed of the womatt shall bruise the serpent’s head.” AppLicaBL“e.—Judge Hubbell, of Mil waukie, Wisconsin, having been invited to atterid a mass méeting of the Demoeracy, but being unable to do so, sent & letter Containing his views and expres: sing the opinion that when the doétring that the majority shall rulé is abandoned, republican government becomes the most odious tyranny and Democracy @ cheat and mockeey. He enclosed thé following appropriate sentiment: Buchanan dnd Walker. “And more true joy Marcellus exiled feela, Than Cesar with a Senate at his heels,” The triumph of a woman lies not in the admiration of her lover, but in the respect of her husband; and that is gained by a constant cultivation of those qualities which she knows he most vale ues. PatieNck.—“You can do any thing if you only havé patiénce,” said an old uncle who had made a fortune; to @ nephew who had nearly spent one. “Water may be carried in a siéve if yott can only wait.” : “How long?’ asked the petulent spendthrift, who was impatient for old gentleman’s obituary. : “Till it freezes,” was the uncle's cool reply. _ “Did yov ever go to a military ball 1” inquired a lively girl of an old soldiéé. “No, my dear,” replied the old warrior j “im my days the military balls always eame to ts.’ The oldest married couple alivé are supposed tobe a Mr. Snyder and his wife, who reside at Burnside, Pa: He is 112 andshe 10S years old,and they have been married, about 93 years. Hurry up.—One of our exchanges cealeulates that with their present yearly income, it willtake the Bible soci ties more than 600 years to supply # copy of the sacred Scriptures to each of the several hundred millions in the hea« then worlds. It is said that in the late Mr. Thomas Ritchie’s house, in Washington, D. C,, inkstands were distributed wherever one could well be placed and even ocetipied aplace inhis garden. This was done for the purpose of noting a thought, and by this means the veteran editor pteserved what other men would have lost. A truly great man borrows no IJustee from splendid ancestry. —

rR— — —= as a VOL. 7. NO. 45. NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1858: Che Nevada Fournal. PUBLISHED BY N.P. BROWN & Co. E. G. WAITE. N. P. BROWN. OFFICE—No, 46 MAIN STREET. TERMS Ms os SES ee $7,00 I isis ceccininnns devkstdinccttcns ea 4,00 Dai wipiten Woewedt U0 ee 2,00 RN Ca iiess . o4 ag 3s gt 3 spins ence occ 25 ESE EES licen mn ee Prentictana.—Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, has a world wide reputation for the brilliancy of his wit, and the bold and fearless enunciation ef his sentiments. What is more, he is generally sound to the core. and his big heart beats in unison with the best impulses of the people. We cull from his paper of the 11th February, the following strokes of wit and acute dissection of a modern heresy. Kentuckians should be proud of their able and independent editor. A lady correspondent, who professes to be horrified at the indelicacy of our paper, threatens for the future to set her foot on every copy she sees. She had better not. Our paper has 2’s in it. Locofoco politicians are everlastingly denouncing the “credit system.” Well, during the late panic there was no such thing as credit. How do Locofoco politicians like the workings of their own system ? Three rich farmers of Western Massachusetts have been victimized by a man peddling compost manure. They give their signatures in favor of the mahure, and the reseal wrote money orders over them.— Exchange. We advise these “threé rich farmers bf Massachusetts” to spread a suitable tompost over their brains. It would be a capital speculation We see a good many comments in. the papers upon the affair in the House of Representatives, in which Mr. Keitt figured and was figured with so strikingyMr. Keitt certainly had the floor tipon the occasion, and the floor had him, and the two were unmistakably entitled to each other. There seems, however, to be some little dispute as to whether Keitt fell by stubbing his tod or was knocked down by an enemy or pulled down by a friend. One statement, apparently true, 1s} that Keitt disappeared immediately after rising from the floor. Mr.Grow gained some eclat in the affair, and Keitt lost. Grow grew, and Keitt kited: Keitt grasped Grow by the throat. He is not the first individual that has had a downfall from being to grasping. We are not surprised at thé indignation of the fire-eaters at the knocking down of Mr. Keitt. He is the peculiar representative of the fire-eating party in the House of Representatives. Of course a blow under his ear was equally & blow under the multitiidinous ears of the whole party. alluding to his fall, may appropriately say to his brother fire-eaters— “There you and I and all ef us fell doin’ “While’’ Grow’s huge fist was “flourished over us.” The New York Erening Post, in an article on the disgraceful occurrences in the U 8S. House of Représéntatives, on Saturday morning, says it was rathera pity to knock Mr. Keiit down, for, if his reported behavior was any indication of his bodily condition, he would soon have reached the floor of his own motion. This may explain the seeret of Mr. Keitt’s avowed ignorance as to whether he was knoeked down or not. It is said that the regular New York Dublin Tricks, and others, are very indignant and intend to holda meeting . and give formal expression to their indignation on account of the gross vioiation of the established rules of the ring . in the fights upon the floor of Congress. They declare that the members of the House have forfeited all claim to the title of gents. It is said that members of the Cabinet were seen in daily attendance upon the sessions of the House of Representatives during last week. Such attendance is unusual, but not unnatural. We are glad to hear of it. It is high time that the Administration were laying its ears to the ground to catch the real measure of that rumbling which heralds the advancing tread of Democratic opposition. The Richmond South says that tke growing wheat in Virginia never presented a more encouraging aspect at this season of the year than at present. — Exchange. Then the wheat of Virginia is infinitely better off than her politics, which is full of tears. Levi J. North, the great Cireus rider, is the Democratic candidate for Alderman in the third ward of Chicago. We presume he was selected on account of his well known skill in riding two horses at once. The Democratic editors are very fond of flattering Irish-boru citizens when they think that something is to be made by it, but we see that the Richmond South, presuming that Senator Shields, of Minnesota, supports the views of Douglas, sneers at him as “Paddy Shields.’ That Buchanan organ, in sneering at (ren. Shields’s Irish nativity, sneers at every Irishman in the land. An English paper says that a superbly ornamented whip was one of the presents made to the Princess Royal of ErgJand on her late wedding day. Weare not told whether the bridegroom, upon the making of that suspicious present to Any one fire-eater, in . . . his royal bride; looked scared or not: The richest part of the whip was the butt—so we presume she will give her spouse the other end if either. After the Grow and Keitt affair, Mr. Crawford of Georgia said he hoped the House would never meet again. But the House did meet, and Crawford was in his seat. Why didn’t he set an example in keeping with the expression of his hope? A Lecomptonite in Pennsylvania fell out of a third-story window the other day directly on the top of his head. He suffered no perceptible injury. The New York Herald, commenting on the President’s Kansas Message, says, with as much sincerity as it ever says anything, “there is something truly magnificent in the earnestness with which Mr. Buchanan undertakes the task before him, and the style in which he achieves it is positively sublime.” The editor of the Herald is developing a new element of hischaracter. He has long been known as one of the most unprincipled men in the world, aud he seems determined to make hiniself one of the most ridiculous. Not content with being despised he has evidently re= solved to be laughed at. Judging from the sentence we have just qoted and several other recent attempts in this way, we have no doubt that Bennett will easily succeed in making himself as perfect an objeet of ridicule as he is of scorn. He is, by common consent, a scoundrel of the first water, and we have no objection to his becoming a butt of the same order. The Administration was on Douglas has commenced in Illinois and Indiana in the form of refusing to give the Douglasite editors Federal advertising —Cin. Com. It has tommeneced in every other State, where there 7s a Douglas editor, in the same way=and not only in refusing to give Federal advertising to Douglas editors but in refusing to give any kind of Federal patronage to Douglas men of any class. Douglas and his followers have not yet ventured upon the pretty sternly, atid the muscles of their arms seem at times to swell and writhe in almost a frightful manner. There is no knowing what sights may be in store for our waiting and anxious eyes. Douglas at the South —The Louisiana (Mo.) Herald, a Demoeratie paper, pays Senator Douglas the following handsome compliment : d “Senator Douglas has left your party” is tauntingly thrown in our face every day. No such thing, sir. hat distinguished Ilinoisan to-day is as good a Democrat as he ever was, and we would sooner trust him—although a Northern man—with the institutions »f the South than any of those who attempt to taunt us With desertion: This is equally creditable to the sagacity and manliness of the Hera/d. It is only one of a thousand indieations that the “light is bréaking’ on the Southern Democracy. Had the whole Lecompton constitution been submitted to the people, the adherents of this [the Topeka] organization would doubtless have voted against it, because, if successful, they would thus have removed the obstacle owt of the way of their own revolutionary constitution.— President's Message. Well, what if they had voted against it? Wouldn’t it have been entirely just and proper? Wouldn’t they have had a perfect right to do it? Things lave certainly eome to a beautiful pass, when a President, elected on account of bis especial devotion to popular sovereignty, cites the evident determination of the people to vote ina certain way as iliustrating the impropriety and absurdity of allowing them to vote at all. It would have been an awful crime, . to be sure, if the opponents of the Leugilists, Tom Hyer, Jack Morrissey, . 5 % Ys} compton constitution had voted against it, in the event of its having been submitted to the people. The pith of the President's argument on this point is that the Leeompton constitution was rightfully withheld from the people of Kansas, because they wou'd have voted it down if it had been submittéd to them: If Mr. Buchanan possessed a particle of honor or mantiness his face would be lost in a sea of blushes whenever he recalled this contemptible flammery. It has been solemnly adjudged by the highest judicial tribunal that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the eonstitution of the United States. Kansas is, therefore, at this moment, as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina.— President's Message. Our own opinion is that Kansas at present isn’t a “State” of any sort. A Convenient sort of Man.—During the last Gubernatorial canvass, Mr Weller enquired of a citizen of Marysville— “Where can we get a convenient, useful sort of man who will do the little mean party work, and ask no questions ?” “Right here,” said the Marysville Man ; “We have one here whom you can kick, from behind, all over town, and next day he'll come back pleased and friendly like, asa bull pup.” “He's the very man we want,” said the future Governor, “we want him in the State Journal!” Andhe went. Trinity Journal. THE Age says :—“The venality of the press” isuo where more plainly exemplified, than in the reckless and unprincipled manner in which the newspaper reporters alter the speeches of the legislators, so as to make them bear the resemblance of common sense. Sueb corruption cannot be tolerated.’ essa espe meena tnemmmameeemmpnmemn aenmnenamenen game soensenneammnemeemesaaemer renee ree te Larrey, the Soldier-Surgeon. If there is any man of whom the Pyrenese may be proud to have given birth. it is he who was pronounced by Napoleon I to be the most honest man in his empire. Endowed witha noble heart, vast intelligence, and a vivid imagination, Larrey was, indeed, worthy of the friendship given to him by the greatest man of modern times His name, too, holds an equally distinguished position at the present day, not only among men of science, but amongst all who are benefactors of humanity. “If éver the ar. my raises a column of gratitude,’ said Napoleon, “it owes one to Baron Larrey.”” This debt has been paid. The Government, the army, all France, has joined in the national labor of love, and the truthful tronze now recalls to us the venerated traits of him whom we may justly term the father of French military surgery ; for. from Amborse Pare—of whose illustrious memories but an in¢omplete fragment has been transmitted to us—up to the first revolution—meditine was in its infancy. In the first days of the Republic, everything had to be done. It was netessary to create, to organize, and the genius of Larrey alone was capable of this immense undertaking. Formerly, our wounded soldiers were carried to a distance from the field of battle. to receive the surgcon’s first attentions ; and many, too many, alas! died before they traversed the route to the ambulances. Lar1éy; séeing the insufficiency and danSer of this system, at once ordéred that the wounded soldier should be cared for, even under the fire of the enemy, and that the military surgeons should share with their comrades the dangers of war. From this arose his system of ambulance ¢arriages, containing every necessary provision for acting on the spot. From this time, the French army-surgeon,; who had before been considered a sort of actessory to the army, gained definitively his place of honor on the field of battle. Larrey formed one of that phalanx of savans who accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt; he was the friend and rival of Baron de Genettes, who immortalized himself by his heroic : ite ae —_ I . eonduect among the plague-strieken at policy of giving the Administration blow . i pia : for blow, but they compress their lips } Jaffa. Jn this rough and laborious eampuign he rendered such services to the French army, that this page alone in his life would have served to hand his name down to posterity. Later, in all the capitals of Europe, his voice was heard among scientific men, and philosophers of all nations came io listen to Iris in. structions. Even Kiags honored him with their friendship. Afier the coronation of the Emperor, when that great captain wished personally to distribute the star of the Legion of Honor, he told Larrey that he intended to name him commander of the order. But, although a surgeon-in-chief, he would not reecive alone this distinetion; and he told the Emperor tiiat he would not accept the honor, without Baron Percy, another eminent surgeon, were atcorded the same itavor. Napoleon yielded, and the two representatives of French medical science were thus named, at the same time, commanders of the Legion of JLonor: This fact pictures the character of the man. Above all else a man of heart, he always remained pure and independent among the courtiers who only echoed the opinions of their master. It ttas not obstinacy, buta free spirit and a truthful disposition Let us see what he did at Esling, when the French army was swrounded and want began to be felt, even in the ambulances. He told them to kill his own horses, and, upon his responsibility, to saerifiee a great number of those of the superior Gficers, to make bouillon for his sick and wounded. . The indignant generals, of course, demanded reparation against Larrey, and the Emperor summoned the surgeon to his presence. “What have you to say to this a¢cusation?” saidhe. “Sire,” replied Larrey, “the sick were my children; I owe to you an account of their lives; under these cireumstanees, I but did my duty. Besides, of what do these gentlemen complain? They have a horse each left, while I have killed all mine’ What could Najiolton do? He could not be angry; he pardoned the man for bis intrepidity and honesty. When the harrassed and maimed relies of the Grand Army were crossing tne bridge of the Beresina, not one stayed to save his general, his friend, his father, not even to preserve his flag. Suddenly, on the middle of the bridge a buzzing whisper ran through the crowd—a name is _pronounced, hands are stietched out, a man is passed from arm to arm, with ail the care affection can suggest; that was Larrey. After the battles of Lutzen and Bautzen, anumber of soldiers were wounded in the hand by ill-constructed weapons. At the same time, treason was suspected in the camp, and the gloomy mind of Napoleon saw in this a fresh proof of it. He summoned his generals to a council of war; they confirmed his suspicions, and, furious with jealous rage, he ordered Larrey to draw up a report upon the matter. Larrey presented it, and the Emperor paced the tent in great agitation, digging up the turf with the end of his cane. “These men are guilty,” he said. “They are not, sir,” replied the in trepid surgeon; “the accusation of treachery is a calumny for which you will have to account to history.” “Begone !”’ said the Emperor, “I will make you know my pleasure.” Larrey, calm in the security of a good conscience, retired, satisfied that he had done his best to save the lives of the innocent. A few hours passed, and at last Napoleon stmnioned him. “Thank you, Larrey,” said he ; ‘alas! why am I not always surrounded with men like you?” Bonaparte spoke truly; ifhe had only been advised by men of such energy and greatness of heart, in the days of his misfortunes, he might never have fallen. We must return to Larrey at Waterloo, where he had gone to d&sist at the obsequies of the Empire: His horse was killed under him; he was wounded in two places; he was crushed on the ground among the flying crowd; fhey had made him prisonér, and the Prussians were on the point of shooting him, when one of the enemy’s surgeons, an old pupil at Vienna, reccgnized his old teacher, and hastened to apprize Blucher. His life was saved, and a guard of honor escorted him to the French frontier. They could scarcely do less for such a man. After the Restoration, he retired into the shade, shut out from the Court. Surgeon-in-chief of the Hospital of Guard, he had neither distinctions nor honors; he was neither Peer of France nor Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor; he had almost forgotten the road to the Tuilleries of the Bourbons. One day, a guard presented himself to him, with a letter of recommendation. _ “What do you wish ?” said Larrey. “I would like to be a corporal; Monsier le Baron.” “Alas!” replied thé surgeon of the Emperor, “1 have made generals in my time, but to-day I don’t know if I have interest enough to make a Corporal.” In 1830, the Hospital of the Guard was on the point of being attacked by the mob; the authorities were unable to check them, when Larrey appeared, and said: “My friends, we have only sick people here; every good Frenchman ought to respeet this asylum.” The crowd instantly retreated, with around of applause to thé gailant veteran. He was an old man, still active and energetic, however, and he felt that but a few years separated him from the tomb, when the irresistable desire seized upon him to révisit Africa, the seene of his earliest labors. The Government yielded to his request, and he set out: His journey across the African provinces was one continuous ovation, an immense tri: umph ; and his son, a savant, worthy of the great name he bears, witnessed how his illustrious father was venerated by the French army. The presentiment entertained by everybody, as to the result of climate and camp-life upon Larrey, soon realized itself, and, on his return to France, he fell a victim to the illness incurred by his devotion. His remains Were conveyed to Paris. The Government of July refused the tomb of the Invalids to the capture of Saint . Helen, but the city of Paris spontaneously awarded a place therein to the citizen who had so well deserved of his country. A crowd of soldiers, sarans, and people; mingled in one mournful procession, followed Larrey to his last resting place. His ntimerous works, . conceived, as it were, under the fire of the enemy, eollected-frem-nature had enriched with ideas the most raré, are mines of information of which France

may be proud. Friend of the Emperor, philosopher, a man of excessive energy, noble character, true heart; masculine and imposing in appearancé, even among the greatest men of the Empire, Larrey is worthy of immortality. — Winter Sketches in the South of France and the Pyrenees. Speakine of the bribery and threats used by Buchanan to rule the country, to which we alluded in our last, the Kentucky editor thus gives vent to ideas that should put every lover of free institutions upon his guard : “Yet, if we may credit the representations of Mr. Buchanan’s confidential friends at Washington, and the most re* served and judicious of them too, he daily addresses his opinions to Congress, with as much authoritativeness and as little concealment as if he were the Autocrat instead of the President of the United States. The language in which Mr. Kingman couches his despatch shows not only that this most unwarrentable praetiee is habitual, but that familiarity has rendered it decent, if not becoming. even to the better class of the President's political friends. Such @ fact, and it is altogether indisputable, is calculated to awaken grave consideration in that portion of the American people who consider anything relating to government gravely. The practice in question is a startling one. Its evident tendency is to pervert the best Government on earth into one of the worst, for; of all forms of political oppression, we conceive a despotism under republican forms to be the most intolerable, embittering the sense of injustice, as it does, by adding mockery to wrong, and speeding the shaftof tyranny with a feather plucked from the vietim’s own bosom. The necessary effect of the executive encroachment which Mr. Buchanan is pushing so unblushirgly is to reduce our incomparable system to such a form. Indeed, the degree to which it bas already advanced or receded in this direetion is as mortifying as it is alarming to every real lover of his country. Under this most reprehensible usage, the Coneress of the United States to-day, in all except mere forms, bears a nearer resemblance to the Legislative Body of Louis Napoleon than it does to the ideal Congress of the Constitution. This is the sober truth. At the current rate of official assumption, it will not be many years before our Congress is stripped of even its present quasi independence, and shall sink to the level of the Imperial Council of the Czar or the Divan of the Sultan. And this as the natural fruit of a species cf executive usurpations inaugurated and earried out by Presidents of the school of politics styled Demoeratic by way of eminence. We do not overestimate the strength of this centralizing tendency. Its fearful expansion is obvious to every observer of affairs at Washington. The new Territoriv] question has brought it into striking view. The repeal of the Missouri compromise was notoriously driven through Congréss under the Exeéutive lash, and, now, the Lecompton constitution has started in that body tnder the samé stimulating appliance. ‘To be sure, to use a homely figure, it has stuck fast in pretty stiff mud at the outset, but that only renders the President’s voice the more imperative, and the crack of his whip the louder. At his behest, every other inéasure of legislation which affects or may possibly affect the success of the Lecomptor constitution; and which his party can control; is made subservient to the triumph of tliat vile swindle. Nothing simply moral staiida effectually inhis way. Neither constitutional obligation nor Parliamentary usagé, neither duty nor propriety, offers the slightest apparent obstacle to his scandalous designs. The admission of Minnesota, for instance, is delayed in defiance of justice and of correct policy, for no other reason than that its admission now would add two Senators and two or three Representatives to the opposition in Congress. The contested election case of Indiana, also, is postponed, merely because its determination at present might perhaps diminish the Lecompton force in the Senate by two. In like manner, the case of Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, in the House, is dragged forward with indecent haste, and pressed witheut regard to pending business, in the hope of ousting the incumbent, and thereby subtracting one from the adverse vote. In addition to this rhameful disregard not only of fair-dealing but of all Parliamentary fitness; the President holds up to Congress, proverbially frail, the patronage of the Government as the tempting reward of subserviency to his purposes; and, through his offieial orgau, thunders, day after day, the terrors of excommunication at the heads of all who have the spirit and the integrity to oppose him. No longer ago than yesterday, the telegraph antounced that the Union had read Mr. Harris, of Illinois, out of the party, and insulted him with denunciatory epithets, for having dared to move the reference of the Lecompton constitution tu a select committee of thirteen, for the sake of obtaining a thorough investigation of the claims of that scheme to the favor of Congress. The Union sneers at Mr. Harris, and the Democrats who voted with him, as a “little corporal’s guard of renegades.” Yes, this degraded instrument, this hiréd assassin of the Executive stigmatizes the Democrats who have barely asked the privilege of looking before they leap; to be heard of no more, into the abyss of fraud and dishonor which its master has prepared for them, as “corporals guard of renegades.” It is a burning shame to human nature that the “corporal’s guard” has not before now swelled to a battalioi. Such is the President’s respect for the dignity and the responsibilities of the exalted office. Nor is this all. Buchanan, it is well known, has extended his corrupting influence beyond the Halls of Congress, to the nation at large. He has, as a géneral thing, asa universal thing, so far as we know, taken away or withheld the Federal patronage from those Democratic editors and others throughout the Union who oppose the Lecompton constitution, and bestowed it lavishly upon those who support that miserable cheat. The Press, of Philadelphia, for example, edited by the man who more than any other living one contributed to Mr. Buchanan’s election, but who scorns to threw up his hat for Lecompton, gets nothing; whilst the Pennsylvanian, of the same city; that takes down Lecoiipton at a single easy swallow, without making a wry face, gets everything the government has to give. So, likewise, our neighbor of the Democrat, who has struck more blows, and more effective ones, for the Democrati¢ party than any other editor or any other man in Kentucky, receives Mr: Buchanan's cold shoulder for his seruples against the pet scheme of the Administration, and bekol#ts the President’s especial and “material” smiles showered upon another, who has no such elaims, and no similar scruples. And thus it is the comntr} over. We of course do not intend to intimate that the support of ihe President through thiek and thin is rendered in every instance or in any particular instance as the price of the Federal patronage, but most certainly that corrupting largess is distributed with the view of securing such support, and for no other purpose. If i does not effect its object, it is not the fault of the President. He has tried and is trying hard enough to bribe the leading men of his party, in Congress and out of it, and, if he hasn’t suecceded, it is only because they are either wiser or better than he is. Now, fellow-citizens. isn’t all this a gloriousillustration of Democracy? Isn’t ita beautiful specimen of christian statesmanship in the nineteenth century 7? Can the annals of free government in the darkest centuries present anything much more flagrant or shameless? We have termed it, in the title of this article, official impropriety. The phrase is milder than the truth willallow. Itis base official corruption.” The Nevada Journal says that Henry Shipley retired from the State Juurnal, leaving it in the hands of “nobody.”— Worse than nobody, Mr. Journal ; only the ghost of nobody, prowling about where the personage ran into the ground. Trinity Journal. Tue Mercury.~The Sacramento Union tells us that the new Administration paper which is abont being born in that eity, is to be called the Daily Mercury. Appropriate name for a Lecomp tonian sheet. Mereury wasthe God of thieves.— Butte Record. As a bird is known by his note, so is a man by his discourse. VEVADA RNAL. WHOLE NUMBER 394, “LIVE WITHIN your Mrans.”—We don’t like stinginess. We don’t like “economy,” when it comes down to rags and starvation. We have no sympathy with the notion that the poor man should hiteh himsélf to a post and stand still, while the rest of the world moves forward. It igno man’s duty to deny himself of every amusement, every luxury, every récreation, every comfort, that he may get rich. Itis no man’s duty to make an iceberg of himself—to shut his eyes and ears to the sufferings of his fellows—and to deny himself the enjoyment that results from generous actions, merely that he may hoard wealth for his heirs to quarrel] about. But there is yet an economy which is every man’s duty, and which is especially commendable in the man who struggles with povertyan economy which is consistent with happiness, and which raust be practiced, if the poor man would secure his independence. It is evtry man’s privilege, and becomes his duty to live within his means, not up to, but within thém. Wealth does not maké the man, we admit, and should never be taken into the account in our judgment of men. But a competency should always be secured when it can be; and it almost always éan be, by the practice of economy and self denial to only a tolerable extent. It should be secured, not so much for others to look upon, or to raise us in the estimation of others, as secure the consciousness of independence, and the constant satisfaction that is derived from its acquirements and possession. We would like to impress this single fact upon the mind of every laboring man who may peruse this short article, that it is possible for him to rise above poverty, and that the path to independence. though beset with toils and self: sacrifite, is muth pleasanter to the trayeler than any one he can enter upon. The man who feels that he is earning something more than he is spending, will walk the streets with a much lighter heart, and enter his home with a much moré cheerful countenance, than he who spends as he goes, or falls gradually behind his necessities in acquiring the méans of meeting them. Next to the slavery of intemperance, there is no slavery on earth more galling than that of poverty and indebtedness. The man who is every body’s debtor is every body’s slavé, and is in a muéh worsé condition than he who serves a single master. For the sake of the present, then, as well as for the sake of the future, we would most earnestly urge tpon every working man to live within his means: Let him lay by something every day— if but a penny, be it a penny—it is bettey than nothing ; infinitely better than running in debt, a penny a day, ora penny aweek. Ifhe can earn a dollar, let him try, fairly and faithfully, the experiment of living on ninety cents. He will like it. “People will laugh!” laugh. “'Fhey will call mestingy!” Better call you stingy, than to say that you do not pay your debts. “They will wonder why I do not have better furniture, live ina finer house, and attend coneerts and the play-house!” Let them wonder for a while; it won’t hurt them, and it certainly won’t hart you. By-and-by you ean have a fine house; fine furniture of your own, and they will wonder again, and come billing and co»ing around you, like so many pleased fools. ‘Fry the experiment. Srive within your means.—Me. Farmer. Let them Bwauty ano THE Brast.—Women may be said almost to enjoy the monop oly of personal beauty. A good-humored writer thus defines hér position in this respect, as contrasted with the opposite sex: If you, ladies, are much handsomer than we, it is but just you should acknowledge that we have helped you, by voluntarily making ourselvesugly. Your superiority in beauty is made up of two things: first, the care which you take to increase your charms; secondly; the zeal which we have shown to heighten them by the contrast of our finished ugliness—the shadow which we supply to your sunshine. Your Jong, pliant, wavy tresses are all the more beautiful because we cut our hairshort ; your hands are all the whiter, smaller, and moxe delicate, beeause we reserve to onrsélves those toils and exercises which make the kands large and hard. We have devoted entirely to your use flowers, feathers, ribbons, jewelry, silk, gold and silver émbroidéry. Still more to increase the difference between thesexes, which is your greatest charm, and to give you the handsome share, we have divided with you the hues of nature. To you we have given the colors that are rich and splendid, or soft and harmonious ; for ourselves, we have kept those that are dark and dead. We have given you sun and light; we have kept night and darkness. CarawsBa.—Mr. Longfellow, in the Atlantic Monthly, sings the praise of Catawba wine in a most charming manner. The verses seem to have been written con amore, and with as much ease as he would fill up eleven glasses of sparkling Catawha to pledge a friend’s prosperity. Walking, talking or sleeping, there is some one whispering in our ear, “Very good in their way Are the Verzenay, And the Sillery soft and creamy. jut Catawba wine Has a ttste more divine, More dulcet, deli¢ious and dreamy.” Covkr Boquet.—Queen Vietoria invited Sarah Bonetta,an Afrizan princess, boarding at Chatham, to the wedding of the princess and sent her dresses _suitable for the occasion, and also twenty dozen cologne. ote He who enjoys good health is always young ; and he is rick who owes _nothing. pajeninenancestiatiaainanithiiiitaemsbit Silaanariniananstinanincniititinetieselaiiaiiabiteniabersiineiy een nppsnsvessnssseneeh ste eateeatnnnaenntspnnsnsshsiennsnsresisnrnenennae ALEXANDER STEPHENS, Represchta. ae from Georgia, is thus deséribed by a Vashington Writer: is figure is small, sléndér, and deli cate as that of a boy; itis said he wei scarcely a hundred pounds, and his head seems tnnaturally large in proportion te that slight frame. The face is pallid and ghastly, and bearé the distinct impress of physical pain and disease, but his eye is keen, restless, and piercing ag that ofa falcon. See how earnestly he gesticulates with those long, white fingers, While every word he speaks seems to thrill throuzh and through his frail physique! His voice is a shrill treble; heard plainly above the hum and murmut of the House, which, indéed, is somewhat subdued, as his well:knowa eloquence and ability command a deep interest from all quarters. He sinks batk pale and eghausted into his seat} but this debility does not long endure, for the giant powers of his énergetic in« tellect have so complete a command ouer the diseased body, that in tive min: utes he is attain busied in debate: Inptan’s Inga oF Baptism.—At Bt Joseph’s, a few days since, thé rite of baptism was performed on a number of females by immersion in the river. Ag it Was winter, it was necessary to cut @ hole in the ice; and the novelty of the scene attracted a large crowd; oe whom were several Indians, who looke on in wondering silenee. They retired without understanding the nature or ob< ject of the ceremony they had seen; but observing that all the subjeéts of immer? sion were ferales, and getting a vague idea that it was to make them good, thé Indians came back a féw da¥s after: wards, bringing their squaws with them; jor eutting another hole in the icé, near the same place, immersed each and all of them in spite of their remonstrances. “Good for white gal, good for sqtiaw,” said the simple red man. LD PaRAsot, an infidel Frénehtnat; one blasphemously declared that our Lord stole the ass on which he rode inta Jerusalem. After a while the old fel: lo¥ took the cholera, and while two negrpes rubbed him with hot limestone, he exclaimed: “Oh, mon Dieu! rion Dien! ven I tell old Marlow zat Zheézes Christ vas steal zat jackass, vat vas ride in Sherusalem, I vas joke !” ‘Lawyers.—When Peter the Great was in England, he expressed a desire to visit the Old Baily; and witness @ criminal trial. Seeing a large namber of gentlemen with powdered wigs an silk gowns, the Czar asked his interpreter whothey were. “Lawyers” was the reply. “Lawrers? My God! I have only two in all my dominions, ahd I imteud to hang one of them as soon as get home.” Two Quakers in Veitiont had a dis: pute, they wished to fight but it was against their principles; they grasped one another; one threw and sat on the hack of the other and squetzing his head in the mud said : “On thy belly slialt thou go ahd dust shalt thou eat al) the days of thy life.” The other, however, began to deal blows against his opponent’s head, say: ing : , —“Tt is written, the seed of the womatt shall bruise the serpent’s head.” AppLicaBL“e.—Judge Hubbell, of Mil waukie, Wisconsin, having been invited to atterid a mass méeting of the Demoeracy, but being unable to do so, sent & letter Containing his views and expres: sing the opinion that when the doétring that the majority shall rulé is abandoned, republican government becomes the most odious tyranny and Democracy @ cheat and mockeey. He enclosed thé following appropriate sentiment: Buchanan dnd Walker. “And more true joy Marcellus exiled feela, Than Cesar with a Senate at his heels,” The triumph of a woman lies not in the admiration of her lover, but in the respect of her husband; and that is gained by a constant cultivation of those qualities which she knows he most vale ues. PatieNck.—“You can do any thing if you only havé patiénce,” said an old uncle who had made a fortune; to @ nephew who had nearly spent one. “Water may be carried in a siéve if yott can only wait.” : “How long?’ asked the petulent spendthrift, who was impatient for old gentleman’s obituary. : “Till it freezes,” was the uncle's cool reply. _ “Did yov ever go to a military ball 1” inquired a lively girl of an old soldiéé. “No, my dear,” replied the old warrior j “im my days the military balls always eame to ts.’ The oldest married couple alivé are supposed tobe a Mr. Snyder and his wife, who reside at Burnside, Pa: He is 112 andshe 10S years old,and they have been married, about 93 years. Hurry up.—One of our exchanges cealeulates that with their present yearly income, it willtake the Bible soci ties more than 600 years to supply # copy of the sacred Scriptures to each of the several hundred millions in the hea« then worlds. It is said that in the late Mr. Thomas Ritchie’s house, in Washington, D. C,, inkstands were distributed wherever one could well be placed and even ocetipied aplace inhis garden. This was done for the purpose of noting a thought, and by this means the veteran editor pteserved what other men would have lost. A truly great man borrows no IJustee from splendid ancestry. —