Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1858 — A Sensible Girl. [ARTICLE]

A Sensible Girl.

As a stranger was traveling through the mud out West, he discovered a young maiden standing in the door of a small log house. He rode up in front of the house and asked the maiden for a drink of water; ho drank it, and she being the first woman he had seen for several days, offered her a dime - for a kiss. The yqung maiden accepted the offer, and received both the kiss and the dime. The traveler was about to resume his journey, but the maiden never before having seen a dime asked: “What am I to with the dime!” “You may use it in any way you wisn,’" he replied, “it is yours.” “That being tho case,” said she, “I’ll give you back the dime and take another kiss!” The traveler wilted! never did anybody good. It hurts the-child—it hurts the parent —it is evil everywhere and always—in short it is like a spark dropped on gunpowder, on the magnitude of the heap depending the result of the explosien.

following document is genuine. It is a literal copy of a bill introduced into the California Legislature. by an honest gentleman from the mines, whose educational opportunities appear to have been regulated by Democratic poliey: AS ACKT To prevent niggers kummin to Kallyforny. Th» people uv the Stnit of Kallyforny, rep- '■ rezented in the Seqnit and Assembly, du enact az toilers; Section 1, No nigger not now an inhabbitent uv, in, and legal voter in this stait, shall be pemitted to liv, rezide, or stay in this stait enny longer.[ \ Sec. 2. Enny nigger hoo wilfully or axidently violats the furst seckshun ov thisackt shell be transported from this stait and sold to the highest bidder, Chinamen excluded. Sec. 3. Niggers who kum with their masters tu sojurn temperarily shell not be inklewed in the provizions uv this act; provided: such sojufning don’t exseed 40 years. If enny ship gets recked on the shoars uv this stait, with a nigger on horde; and if such n, £g er shell tri tu swim he shell be pushed under the wotter. Sec. 4. All ackts or part uv acts contravenin this, is repeeld. Enackting Claws.—A nigger is herebi deklared an obnokshus newsans, not to be permitted, and cvry Sheri/ in this stait may be a nigger driver if lie chuses.