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Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-06-29
NUMBER 5.
LIFE IN THE MEXICAN CAPITOL.

Mexico has great wealth, which is law
ished in all the means of comfort and lux
ury known to civilized life Houses, whose
forbidding exterior Of stone and plaster,
with grated, prison-like windows, little in
dicate the elegance within, are adorned
with all that art and wealth can supply,
brought from Europe and the United States
at fabulous expense Costly carpets, cur
tains, mirrors, chandeliers, pianos, statues,
paintings, libraries and all that goes to
complete sumptuously furnished mansion,
are displayed, oftener with reckless pro-
fusion than in conformity with good taste,
and all suggesting to the calculating Amer
ican valuable market in our nearest neigh
Dor, if we have the sense to keep on good
terms and make our friendly relationship
more intimate. The private equil pages
in the streets are special means OF ex-
hibiting wealth and taste. Most of the
carriages, barouches and the like vehicles
belonging to wealthy families are imported
from Europe, though few are made in the
United States Many of them are elaborate
ly ornamented with silver, as are also the
harness. Mules seem to be in general de-
mand for carriage animals, though fine
span of English or American horses now
and then dash along, the ribbons held by
livered coachman, while behind sits the
footman in all the spendOr of red, blue,
and yellow Principal drives are to the
Pasco de Bacarell, the Basco de la Niga,
along the Grille de los Platoros and the
Alamanda At the last-named place, which
is park of about twenty acres handsomely
laid out with flowers, shrubs, and large
shade trees, the fashionable world of Mexi-
co resort for morning drives and equestrian
exercise and here may be seen some of
the famous Mexican riders in all the grace
and love of display for nowhere does the
Mexicanigentleman feel so proud as on his
horse with his splendid silver mounted
saddle and gaily ornamented serape. On
a fine morning multitude of horsemen
are curvetting along the romantic roads of
the Alemeda, now half hidden among the
foliage, passing out of sight behind the
fountains and wheeling into sight again,
all in apparent confusion, but yet, owing
to their perfect control of their animals,
never coming in contact. Among the
crowd are seen the flashing uniforms Of
French and Austrian officers, trotting their
heavy horses at a jogging pace, holding on
to the reins with both hands, their elbows
squared, feet pointed out at right angles
from the .stirrups, and presenting, in all
respects, ludicrous picture compared to
the elegant horsemanship displayed around
them When one of these warriors (mostly
efeminate-looking gentlemen, with pale
faces and spectacles) comes humping by,
the Mexicans quietly make room, and ap-
pear not to notice the contrast Never an
approach to a smile is seen beneath the
ample sombrero, though doubtless the scene
affords them food for fun in some more
fitting place, where the rules of politeness
would not be violated by a hearty laugh.
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VOLUME XVI.

number of witnesses, and, as it appeared
by testimony before us that Mr. Mexican
had private books and accounts showing
the amount of fees paid during his term of
office, also the amount of fees remaining
due at the expiration of his term, and also
the amount of fees received by him since
the expiration of his term, we notified him
to produce the said books and accounts for
examination A copy of the notice is an
nexed to this report marked "a" Mr.. Nc
X can declined to produce the books and
accounts as desired, and we were compelled
to close our examination without the aid
which these books might have afforded us.
We then adjourned to Tunkhannock to
make out our report After our adjourn
ment letter was received from Elhanan
Smith Esq, counsel for Mr.. Mexican, stating
his desire to submit additional evidence.
This letter is attached hereto and marked 'B'
In reply we informed him we would hear
all the evidence he desired to produce
and sent subpoena to assist him in pro-
curing witnesses Mr. Mexican attended
with one witness and made some further
explanations He also made some remarks
indicating that in his opinion we might get
additional facts if we were again i'll To-
wanda. We then proposed to him that if
he would produce for examination his pri-
vate books and accounts, we would meet
in Towanda again, and hear all evidence
that he desired to produce. This PROPOSE
ton he declined We submit the result of
our examinations, i'll statements annexed,
to which we refer.
We deem it proper to add here that all
fees on judgments marked satisfied IN
the hand writing of Mr.. Mexican we have
included among the fees marked paid. Mr..
Mexican protested against this and we an
mex his statement and protest marked &C."
but as he had evidence in his possession to
show the facts which he refused to pro-
duce on notice, we felt it was just to pre-
sumo the payment of that class of fees. In
some few other cases Also for small
amounts, we presumed payment of fees
when we had strong reasons to believe they
were paid, but as a general rule we merely
report the facts as they appear on record.
We have thought best to adhere to the
record as it stands, although the great dis
crepancy between the amount charged and
the amount paid (in most of the years. at-
fords a strong presumption that large
amount has been paid in fact but not marked
paid on the dockets. This presumption is
made stronger by the evidence of witnesses
examined who testified that they had paid
fees which are not marked paid on the
records When payment was thus proved
we of course included it in the fees paid
but it is clearly impossible to find and ex
anime all the witnesses who could testify
in relation to the payment of fees. We
therefore present statement of the records
as we find them with the few variations
made by other evidence as above stated.
All which is respectfully submitted. July
2lst 1864. Signed, S. B. CHASE,
A. r. PECKHAM.
THos J. INGHAM
Statement of Fees charged and received by Allen
Mexican during the entire term of his Office as
Prothonotary OF Bradford Bounty:
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SECRETS OF FREE MASONRY.

Not many years ago, at an Inn in the
west Of England, several persons were sit
ting around fire in large kitchen, thro'
which was passage to the other apart
ments of the house, and amongst whom
was female traveller and a tailor. At
this Inn a Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons was held, and it being lodge night,
several of their members passed the COM
pany in the way to the meeting room. This
circumstance introduced observation on the
occult signs by which Mssons are known
to each other when the female observed
that there was not SO much mystery in Ma
sonry as people imagine, and that she her
self could show any person MasOn's sign.
"What !" said the tailor, the sign of a
Free Mason p
"Yes," she replied, "and Pll bet you a
halfcrown bowl of punch, to be decided by
any one of the members you may please to
appoint, that perform my promise"
Why" says the tailor, "nO woman was
ever admitted, then how is it possible that
you could procure the secret ?"
No matter for that" says she, will
readily forfeit the money | lay if | do not
prove the fact"
The company urged the tailor to accept
the challenge, and the amount of the bet
was deposited. The woman immediate
ly started up and took the tailor by the
coat collar.
Come" said she, follow me" which he
did, trembling as he went along, fearing he
was to undergo some portion of the disci-
pline in initiating Mason, of which he had
heard such dreadful report. She led him
into the street, and pointing to the sign of
the Lion & Lamb, asked him whose sign
that was.
Mr.. Lodges" answered the tailor-as
th6 name of the Innkeeper.
is he a Free Mason? ?"
Yes" replied the tailor.
"Then | have shown you the sign of a
Free Mason" said the lady.
The laugh was so much against the tail.
or. that it was with much difficulty that he
could be prevailed upon to take some of the
punch which was forthwith produced at his
expense.
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SIOK-HEADACHE.

Sick headache is sickness at stomach, a
tendency to vomit combined with pain in
some parts of the head generally at the
left side. 1t is caused by there being too
much bile in the system, from the fact that
this bile is manufactured too rapidly, or is
not worked out of the system fast enough
by steady, active exercise Hence seden-
tary persons. those who do not walk about
a great deal, but are seated i'll the house
near all the time, are almost exclusively
the victims of this distressing malady. 1t
usually begins soon after waking up in the
morning, and lasts day or two more
There are many causes the most frequent
is, the arrangement Of the stomach by late
and harty snppers by eating too soon ai-
ter regular meal--fve hours should at
least intervene-eating much of any favor
ite dish eating without an appetite fore
ing food eating after one is conscious of
having enough eating something which
the stomach cannot digest, or sour-stomach.
Any of these things may induce headache
of the most distressing character in an hour;
it is caused by indulgence in spirituous Ii
quors. When person has sick-headache,
there is no appetite the very sight of food
is hateful the tongue is furred, the feet
and hands are cold, and there is feeling
of universal discomfort with an utter indis-
position to do any thing whatever. A glass
of warm water, into which has been rapid
ly stirred heaping teaspOonful each of
salt and kitchen mustard, by causing in
staneous vomiting, empties the stomach of
the bile or undigested sour food and CRATE
full relief is often experienced on the spot !;
and rest, with few hours of sound, re-
freshing sleep, completes the cure, espec-
ial'y if the principal part of the next day
or two is spent in mental diversion and out
door activities, not eating an atom of food,
but drinking freely of cold water and hot
teas until you feel as if piece of cold
bread and butter would really taste good.
Nine times in ten the cause of sick head
ache is the fact that the stomach is not able
to digest the food last introduced into it,
either from its having been unsuitable or
excessive in quantity. When the stomach
is weak, a spoonful of the mildest, blandest
food would cause an attack of sick head
ache, when ten times the amount might
have been taken in health, not only with
impunity, but with positive advantage.
diet of cold bread and butter, and ripe
fruits and berries, with moderate continu-
Gus exercise in the open air, sufficient to
keep up very gentle perspiration, would,
of themselves, cure almost every case with
in thirty-six hours. Two tablespoontuls Of
pulverized charcoal, stirred in half glass
of water, drank, generally gives relief.
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GENERAL SLocUM ON THE PRIVATE SOLDIER.
Major Gen. Slocum was welcomed to his
home, in Syracuse, n. Y, on Thursday last
In response to an address Of welcome, he
paid the following compliment to the sol
diers:
"The field of battle is not the only test
of courage and manliness in the life of a
soldier. The long and fatiguing marches,
the labor in trenches, the short allowance
of food, are all tests as severe as any pre-
sented by battle. | have seen the men Of
my command, after working waist-deep in
water, building bridges over the rivers and
roads through the swamps ofthe Carolinas.
go quietly to their tents, and, without q
change of clothing, make an ear of corn
supply the place of the usual ration. |
have seen this frequently, and never yet
heard a word of complaint. Happily, all
these things are now over The soldiers
work is done. They return to you better
men, physically and mentally than when
they left you; and am confident you will
find the great mass of them uninjured in
morals
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5el&ftsd 2petrg.
ROCK ME TO SLEEP.

!. suarl. turn backward, o Time, in your flight
4 T.. LIE a child again, just for tonight!
4 ,r come back from your echoless shore,
4. b. me again to your heart as of yore
(. nom my forehead the furrows of care,
4 nh the few silver threads out of my hair,
4 Fl nav slumbers your loving watch keep,
d j, me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep!
d wand. flow backward, 0 tide of years
1 s., weary OF toll and of tears
n without recompense, tears all in vain
N . these and give me my childhood again!
i ,s. gown weary of dust and decay,
d ..ry If finging my soul wealth away;
n .yy Of sorrowing for others to reap
u ng, to sleep, mother, rock me Sleep
r ,I ot the hollow, the base, the untrue,
N .rr. 0 mother my heart calls for you
N ..ra summer che grass has grown green,
n ,oned and faded, our faces between
!. with strong yearning and passionate pain,
d as Tonight for your presence again
81 ar from the silence SO long kept and deep,
R NE to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep!
81 4 u.y heart in days that are flown,
n lose like mother-loye ever was shown,
N gtler worship abides and endures;
n AllI uuseltish, and patient, like yours
NJ b, like mother can charm away pain
n %. the sick soul and the world-weary brain,
Srl-byrs soft calm o er my heavy lids creep,
h NE to sleep, Mother, rock me to sleep!
g.. let your brown hair, just lighted with gold
NJ over Your shoulders again, as of old,
Il j, fall over my forehead tonight,
81 ling my weak eyes away from the light;
Fc With lis smny-edged shadows once more,
& j. will tlmong the sweet visions OF yore,
Il u,, softly, its bright billows sweep;
RI mr to sleep, Mother, rock me to sleep!
.-rr, dear mother! the years have been long
Nh WIS last hushed to your lullaby song;
Sn then. and unto my soul it shall seem
N4aIhoods years have been but as dream
o. ped in your arms in n loving embrace,
VII Your light lashes just sweeping my face,
NJ hereafter to wake or to weep;
Rn uc to sleep, Mother rock me to sleep.
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TURNING GLAss-A writer in Chambers
Journal says Glass may even be turned
in lathe. Strange as it seems, thia is
literally true No special tools even arc
needed any amateur turner who has opeFr
ated on either of the metals may chuck
piece of glass on his lathe, and turn it
with the same tools, and in the same way,
as he would piece of steel. only taking
care to keep the chips from his eyes
This strange discovery was made almost
accidentally, in the early part OF 1860, 10y
one of our most celebrated mechanical Ell,
gineers, and might have been patented.
but the inventor contcnted himself with
simply putting it on record, and generously
presented it to the nation, The conse-
quence was that no one cared or thought
about it, and the idea has been suffered to
lie nearly barren, though capable OF being
turned to great account.
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THE Man OF INTEGRITY. love to gaze
upon some beautiful planet in the heavens,
and watch its course every night as in
majesty it travels on among the stars. We
are filled with admiration; and like our
selves thousand are gazing on the same
planet, filled with inexpressible emotions.
Like planet in dark sky is a man of
unbending integrity. We look upon him
with the same feeling of love and admira-
ton, as we watch his daily course among
his fellow men. In troubled times his
light goes not ont, though it may burn
feebly. He still exerts the same glorious
influence, and hundreds gaze upon him
with delight No seats of honor dazzle
him, no wealth can seduces him, He push
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'es straight onward in the path of duty
The fear of God is continually before him,
and he feels the Importance of every mo-
ment's work to lead mankind to the foun-
tain of truth and purity Behold The man
thus filled with the love to God and his
creatures Every act tells nobly for the
cause, justice and humanity Every deed
is living epistle to the truth.
Would you share in his glory Labor
in the same field. Would you lessenl the
tolls of humanity, and assist immortal be-
ings 60 reach the skies Initiate his ex-
ample, and walk in the same virtuous
paths
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TOWER OF BABEL--A writer in the recent
issue of Blackwood's Magazine thus de-
scribes the Tower of Babel as it appears to
travellers at the present day:
After a ride Of nine miles we were at the
foot of Bier Nimrood. Our horses feet
were trampling upon the remains of bricks,
which showed here and there through the
accumulated dust and rubbish of ages Be-
fore our eyes uprose greatmound of earth
barren and bare. This was Bier Ninrood,
the ruins of the Tower of Babel by which
the first builders of the earth had vainly
hoped to scale high heaven. Here, also, it
was that Nebuchadnezzar built, for bricks
bearing his crime had been found in the
ruins At the top of the mound great
mass of brick work .pierces the accumula-
ted soil. With your finger you touched the
very bricks, large, square shaped and mass
i've that We're thoroughly" burned the
very mortar--the slime" now hard as
granite-handled more than four thousand
years ago by earth's impious people,
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-i'''or General Of Pennsylvania.
d, Undersigned auditors appointed by
-''Et Of Common Pleas Of Bradford
r.! Ill pursuance of an Act entitled ::
-,5' u, IN relation to the accounts of
4, ,Aehean, late Prothonotary of Brad
'IA'y approved April IA, 1868, and
"a ,IIef the provisions of the supplement
~ Act approved the 9th day of April
.g'pc.cttully report. That in pursu-
W SaId appointment We commenced
>'"L!Aalon Of the accounts of Ale /
d" IN June 1868, and continued the
'a'I The first of July 1868, when, at
tueSt Of Mr.. Mexican we suspended
'sNugatlon to enable him to go into
SIe SI service on the call of the Cover
i, .% a. Mexican remaining in the service
T''' ,, The time limited in the act for
...+, ~+aAe report had expired, and we did
.,- -'nG our examination until the sup
...5 .,i ABOVE referred to authorized US to
on the Goth of June last, after
,"ye 10 Mr.. Mexican, we met at To-
%lI; - paa concluded our examination of
''''c records. We then examined a
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rrRMs OF PUBLICATION.

.r,.. REPORTER is published every Thursday Morn
- O, GooDmcH, at 81 per annum, in ad-
vance
,,,.rPTISEMENTS are inserted at TEN CENTS
I;,. for first insertion. and FIVE CENTS per line
~, ,.,,,nent insertions. liberal discount is
4 ,,orsons advertising by the quarter, half
'" w year Special notices charged one-halt
I'd" :, ra,,ular advertisements. Allresolutions
JUG ,;,+ions communications of limited or in
\ 1,,, interest. and notices of Marriages and
~. svceeding five lines, are charged TEN CENTS
.r line. ,voor emo mo
r,Iur,n. $50 S35 $40
uN' :, ..........30 % Is
..,r,ra. ..........10 u
o4' ,.iistr,tor's and Executor Notices. 50 90
Nv I;t,r', Notices .....................2 5O
aa',4ss Cards, five lines, (per Year, - 90
u chants and Others advertising their business,
.'I. charged SIS. They will be entitled to
,,, confined exclusively to their business, with
yilege Of change.
\ ~ A1vsrtising in all cases exclusive of sub
. -priou to the paper
,,p PRINTING of every kind in Plain and Fan
r,rs done with neatness and dispatch. Hand
I Ranks. Cards. Pamphlets, &c, of every va
,,..nI ,tve. printed at the shortest notice. The
4 4 rrr. OFFICE has just been re-itted with Power
.. and every thing in the Printing line can
4 ,-,utad in the most artistic manner and at the
4 . rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH.
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IN l9tellanGou4.
REPORT OF THE AUDITORS.

p O. GooDmcH, Editor Brodford Repor-
Dear SIR i am constrained to ask
p TO publish the following extract from
{ report Of the Auditors, appointed by an
q Of Assembly to re-audit the accounts Of
NckEAS, late Prothonotary of this
nay As this subject has beer the
pr Of much misrepresentation, | feel it
y to myself that this spublication be made,
. the public may know the facts. |
y to ask its publication, in your paper,
it, Publisher of the Argus has refused
l4.hsh the report, although he had re-
a,ctIy promised me he would do so when
d report was finished. Il allude to Mr.
D. Es.
4 will be rccolIectcd that in 1860, an ar
d. appeared III the Bradtord Herald, al
that COL MckEAN was indebted to
le State for excess Of fees received during
evca years Of his term, in the sum of
Ail50, made up az follows
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SUE your neighbor as seldom as possible
Most Writs are Writs of e&or.
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Fees received since the eXpl-
ration of his term of office 81 G2
Mr. Mexican in his protest
claims for satisfaction fees which
he denies having received a
mounting to S234 "a
The Auditors say In addition to this
Mr. n J. Keeler, clerk in the office under
Allen Mexican and who assisted him in
setting at the close of his office, testified
that in his opinion more than one thousand
dollars had been collected since Mexican
went out of Office and it might be three
thousand dollars"
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DoN'r CoMPLA1N- Don't complain of
your birth, your training, your employment
your hardships; never fancy you could be
something if you only had different lot or
sphere assigned to you. God understands
his own plans, and knows what you want
better than you do. The very things that
you most deprecate as fatal limitations and
Instructions are probably what you most
want. What you call hinderances and dis
couragements are probably Gods oppor-
tunities, and it is nothing new that the pa
tient should dislike his medicines. or any
certain proof that they are poisons. No. a
truce to all such impatience Choke that
devilish envy which gnaws at your heart
because you are not in the same lot with
others; bring down your soul, or rather
bring it up to receive Gods will, and do
his word, in your lot i'll your sphere, un-
der your cloud of obscurity, against your
temptations; and then you shall find that
your condition is never opposed to your
own good, but really consistent with it.
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How BODIES ARE EMBALMED.-By cmbalm--
ing, people generally are apt to imagine
that the modern process consists Of satura-
ting, filling and surrounding the dead body
with spices, gums and other indestructi-
BILE and preservative substances, as is un-
derstood to have been the process practic-
ed by the ancients. Such, however, is not
the case. The modern process is about as
follows: The blood is drawn of through the
iugular vein. An incision is then made up
on the inside Of the thigh through which
chemical liquid is infested by mechanical
means. This Equid permeates all the veins
and arteries, taking the place before oc-
cupied by the blood, and in short time
renders the entire body as hard as stone,
and as rigid as a statue. A portion of the
scalp is removed and the brain scoOped out
The chest is opened and the heart, lungs
and viscera are distracted When the
process is completed, the body is reduced
to mere empty shell, having only the out
ward senblance of the departed individual
How long body thus prepared will re-
main unchanged we cannot say. The pro-
cess has only been employed for a few
years-since the war commenced, we be-
lieve-so that time sufficient has not elaps-
ed to test the indestructibility of bodies
thus prepared
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THE ToyGuE-A white fur on the tongue
attends simple fever and inflammation. fel-
lowness of the tongue attends derange-
ment of the liver, and is common to bilious
and typhus fevers. A tongue vividly red
on the tip or edge, or down the centre, or
over the whole surface, attends inflammation
of the mucous membrane of the stomach or
bowels A white velvet tongue attends
mental disease A tongue red at the tips,
becoming brown, dry and glazed, attends
tvphus state.