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Prevention Better than Cure.

The newly invented patent French Safe, sure
preventive against Diseases and Pregnancy sent by
mail. price 81. Address DR.. J. F. GIBBON, GIG
kearny street, near Commercial, San Francisco
Post Office Box 252
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Private Medical Institute,
No. $50 Washington street, San Francisco, Ca
Do not forget the address. See below.


The young man wLo experiences that growing
should stop to consider whence it arises He will
find in the weakness of the back, trembling of the
limbs, disordered digestion, unaccountable failing
of the powers of the mind, distaste for society,
dread of impending trouble, forebodngs of evil,
seepessness, troubled and lascivious dreams ae-
companicd by growing deafness, loss of muscular
power, and numerous other symptoms of disorgan-
ization the positive traces of that terrible and
destructive of all diseases, Seminal Weakness
wasting away his powers, destroying his hope of
life and manhood, and dragging him all the broken
path of his existence toward prema and loath-
some grave. To him who finds his life dribbng
out in the discharge of the vital principle of exist
ence in nocturnal and durnal emissions the mere
cessation Of the causes of its appearance brings no
assurance of relief.
Marriage, that holy office, the safeguard and
hope of manhood brings to such an one no hope of
cure, but adds to his misery in the knowledge that
the who looks TO him for so much of her happi-
ness, is a victim of his evil, and an innocent com
panion of his punishment. He adds to his misery
and disorder until hope leaves him. Consul then,
at once physician whom long practice and care
full research has made thoroughly conyersant with
every phase of the disease. Those who have be-
come the victims of solitary vices, that dreadful,
fascinating and destructive habit, which fills thou
sands of sick rooms with paraytics and consump-
tives, and hundreds of untimely graves with its
misguided victims, should consult, without a mo-
meEt's delay, one who will sympathze with their
sufierings. To such the Doctor would especially
address himself giving to each and all assurance
of a PERFECT and PERMANENT CURE, with
out hindrance from business, change of diet, OF
fear of exposure.
Il
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FRENCH MEDICAL OFFICE.

the ST. J0hn Baptlst society OF oan rrahclsco'
DIR. PERRAULT has pleasure to inform pa
tents, and others seeking confidential medical ad-
vice. that he can be consulted daily, at his Office,
Armory Hall Building, North East corner Mont
gomery and Sacramento streets, San Francisco,
Rooms Nos. g. 10, H. first floor, up stairs entrance
either Montgomery or Sacramento streets.
DR. PERRAULT'S studies have been almost
exclusively devoted to the of the various forms
of Nervous and Physical Debility, the results of
injurious habits acquired in youth, which usually
terminate in impotence sterlity, and permanent
y induce all the concomitants of old age. Where
a secret infrmity exists involving the happiness of
life and that of others, reason and morality die
tate the necessity of its removal for it is fact
that premature decline of the vigOr of manhood,
matrimonial unhappiness, compulsory single life,
etc have their sources in causes, the germ of which
is planted in early life, and the bitter fruit tasted
long afterwards patients aboring under this COM
plaint will complain of one more of the following
symptoms: Nocturnal Emissions Pains in the
Back and Head, Weakness of Memory and Sight,
Discharge from the Urethra on going to stool or
making water, the Intellectual Faculties are
Weakened, Loss of Memory ensues, Ideas are
clouded and there is dsinclination to attend to
business, even to reading, writing or the society
of friends, etc The patient viii probably complain
of Dizziness Vertigo, and that Sight md Hearing
are weakened and sleep disturbed by dreams. mel
aneholy signing, palpitations, faintings coughs
and slow fever: while some have external rheu-
matte pains and numbness of the body; some of
the most common symptoms are pimpes in the face
and aching i'll different parts Of the body
Patients suffering from this disease should apply
Immediately to DIR. PERRAULT, either in person
or by letter. as he will guarantee cure of Seminal
| Emissions and Impotence in six or eight weeks.
Patients suffe ing from Venereal diseases in any
| stage Gonorrhea, elect, Structures, Bubo Ulcers,
Cutaneous Eruptons, etc, will be treated success
fully all Syphitic AID Mercurial Taints entirely
removed from the system.
| DR.. PERRAULT'S Diplomas are in his Office
where patients can see for themselves that they
under the care of a regularly educated practitioner
Patients suffering under Chronic diseases can call
and examine for themselves. We invite investiga
| ton; claim not to know everything. nor to cure
everybody but do claim that in all cases taken
under treatment fulfill our promises. We par
ticuarly request those who have tried this boosted
doctor and that advertised physician till worn ou
and discoura ged to call upon
LOW CHARGES AND QUICK CURES.
Ladies suffering from any complaint incidental
to their sex can consult the Doctor with the assur
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Seminal Weakness.

Seminal emissions, the consequence of self
abuse. This vice, or depraved sexual indulgence,
is practced by the youth of both sexes to an al
most unlimited extent, producing, with unerring
certainty, the fol owing train of morbid symptomt,
unless cOmbatted by scientific medical measures,
viz: Sallow countenance, dark spots under the
eyes, pain in the head, ringing in the ears, noise
like the rusling of leaves and ratting of charots,
uneasiness about the loins, weakness of the limbs
confused vision blunted intellect loss of confidence
ditfidence in approaching strangers, dislike to
form new acquantances, disposition to shun So
ciety, loss of memory, hectic fushes, pimples and
various eruptions about the face, furred tongue.
feted breath, coughs consumption, night sweats,
monolania and frequent insanity If relief is not
obtained the sufferer should apply Immediately.
either in person by letter, and have a cure eff
fected by his new and scientific mode of treating q
this disease, which never fails of effecting quick
and radical cure. DR.. G. will give One Hundred
Dollars to any person who will prove satisfactorily
to him that he cured of this complaint by
either of the San Francisco Guacks.
DOCTOR G1BB0N is responsible and will give
to each patient written instrument, binding him
self to effect a radical and permanent cure, or make
charge,
Persons at a distance may be CURED AT HOME
by addressing letter to DR.. Gibbon, stating case
symptoms, length of time the disease has continued
and have medicines promptly forwarded, free from
damage and curiosity, to any part of the country
with full and plain directions for use, for Ten Dol
lars, sent in registered letter, or through Wells
Fargo & Co.
Address DR.. J. F. GIBBON, GIG Kearney
Box 252.
Consultation FREE
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ImpOI tant to Females.

When a female is IN trouble afflicted with dis
case, and requires medical surgical assistance
the enquiry should be, Where is there physician
who is fully competent to administer relief, and
AID whose respectable Sti..l~ir il society recon-
mends him to the coEaLC13c ti t-e community
The Doctor, understanding how imperatvely ueces-
sary these requirements are. feels called upon to
interpose and by calling the attention of the aflict
ed to the fact that he has been PROFESSOR OF
OBSTETRICS AND FEMALE DISEASES for
twenty years, and is fully qualified to administer
in all cases. both medically and surgically, not in
superficial manner, but in thorough a manner as
years of study and practice-both in hospitals and
private families-can make, to them from the
hands of the unqualified, unscrupulous and design
ing. Therefore, families rely upon him upon
a father. All in affiction can find in him who
can feel and sympathize with and befrend them in
trouble-one in whose secrecy the utmost confidence
can be placed. CONSULTATION (by Letter or
otherwise) FREE. See address below
THE CELEBRATED FEMALE REMEDIES,
compounded from the private prescriptions of DR..
YOUNG, have now obtained a most extensive pop
MARRY nm, are correctly viewed to be the safest
and surest remedies for the complaints for which
they are applied. The constantly accruing test-
mony of their efficacy declare them to be pre-em-
nently superior in their action.
No Lady should be without these Renoyating
Agents.
None genuine unless prepared at this Office.
Sent by Mail Express, to any part of the
State THE GREAT FEMALE MEDICINE
PREVENTIVE POWDERS FOR MARIE D
LADIES. New, Safe, and Infallible, lasting from
four to six months. Price SO. FRENCH LU-
MAR, OR FEMALE MONTHLY PILLS. For
suppressions. After fifty years of use these pills
stand unrivalled in efficacy. Price s. per box.
To Correspondents.
Patients residing in any part of the State, how
ever distant, who may desire medical advice on
their respective cases. and who think proper to sub
nit a written statement of such in preference to
holding personal interview, are assured that their
communications will be held most sacred
All letters must be addressed thus
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W BENZ F. JOSELYN, NJ. D., [stamI
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NO CURE, NO PAY.

TENHIS Celebrated Institute has enjoyed on this
coast an uninterrupted success of fourteen
years and has become of the renowned Hospi-
tails of the age. What the celebrated Lock Hospi-
tai is to London and the no less renowned estab-
lshment of Rcord is to Paris, the Institute HI
become to the Pacific coast. The thousands annu
ally received and cured place it in point Of number
of patients among the very first of the world, and
the of its treatment ranks it second to
Private Diseases III Males, and Irregular
tiles in Females, the great destroyers of
health. They insidiously attack the system, and
gradually undermine and destroy it they drive the
bloom from the check, the lustre from the eye, the
strength and vigor ON the frame; they give to the
world puny and diseased offspring, and poison
through successive generations, the race of man.
The marks can be in Scrofula, Consumption
Crpples, the Idiotic the Paralytic, the Insane
There is no more terrible scourge to the human
than those diseases arising from the contami-
nation of Venereal Poison. The mildest FORMS by
retreating to the blood, hold ever over the one af
icted the sword of destruction that is liable at any
moment 20 fall and blight--to utterly destroy-al
earthly hopes.
MERCURY, recognized as the most fatal enemy
to man, combining with the Venercal doubles his
dangers. Those who have been treated with that
pernicious mineral poison not cured; the dis
ease has only assumed form.
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DO not be satisfied with Partial Cures

That leave the poison to crawl through the system
eating its way into the tissues and organs beneath
the apparently smooth surface, to burst out in the
future with virulenee that will battle the effects of
medicine when PERFECT CURES can be OBJ
tanned by consulting a physician whom long prac-
tice and thorough investigation into the causes of
DISEASES of the URINARY ORGANS enables
to determine at once the nature of the disease
In all diseases entrusted to the Doctors care,
PERFECT, SPEEDY and PERMANENT
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Cures are Always Guaranteed.

In Syphilis and its adjuncts Gonorrhea and
its accompanying diseases all disorders Of the
Bladder, Kidneys and Prostate; Seminal Weak
ness; Diseases of the Heart and Lungs Dyspep-
sia, Indigestion, Impotency, Incipient Consump-
ton and all diseases of the urinary organs in either
sex, cure always warranted, OR NO PAY RE-
QUIRED, at the
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Horrible Diseases.

How many thousands of persons, both male and
female, are there who suffering out miserable
existence from the effects of secret indulgence, or
from virus absorbed into the system. Look at
their pallid, emaciated and dsfgured faces and
their broken down constitutions disqualifying
them for the happiness of marriage or the enjoy
ment of life In this horrid situation thousands
suffer until death closes the scene. Let parent :,
guardians and friends attend to those who suf-
fering with any of these horrible, life-destroying
maladies-see that they cared for and cured
before it is too late. Send them Immediately to
DR.. Gibbon, physician who has made private
diseases his special study for years, and who is
certain to the most inveterate cases, without
mercury any injurious drugs. 1t is important
to those afflicted, to those who interested in
the welfare of their friends, be careful of the
many pretended doctors who infest al cities, pub
fishing their skill in curing all diseases in few
days, imposing upon the public by using the names
of eminent physicians from Europe and other
places. Be therefore careful and make strict
inquiry or you may fall into the hands of those
charlataus.
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To THE UNFORTUNATE.
NEW REMEDIES. NEW REMEDIES.
DR.. Gibbons DiSpenSarv.
Tibbon's Dispensary,

Ills in all its forms, Seminal EEx&EkgA
Weakness, Impotency, etc ~ SASFs
Skin Diseases (of years stand = a
ing) and liberated Legs, sue cSN--Li---A-z--s
cessfully treated
DOCTOR GIBB0N has the pleasure ofannounc-
ing that he has returned to this State, after an
absence of one year, during which time be has
visited all the principal hospitals of Europe, among
them those of Dublin, London and Paris The
following celebrated hospitals of London are anon
those visited by the Doctor: GUYS High street.
Borough; St Bartholomew's Smthfeld; St Luke's,
Old street; ST. Mary's, Camb. Place, Pad. Lock
Harrow Road: University, Cover street West
minister, Broad Sanctuary; Charine Cross Agar
street, Strand; London, Whitechapel road Royal
Free, Gray Inn road Kings College, Portugal
street.
DOCTOR GIBB0N has also visited DR.. Acton.
of London, Parker of Birming gham England and
Ricord of Paris, who considered the best phys-
icians and surgeons in the world and whose author
ity Is acknowledged to be the highest in the treat
ment of Sexual diseases
DOCTOR GIBB0N has obtained from them their
new mode Of treatment which cannot be surpass-
ed.
DOCTOR GIBB0N has spared neither time nor
money in seeking out new remedies, and has return
ed with new facilities for the alleyiation of human
suffering.
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ACCIDENTs.-A French statistician.
has recently made some curious re-
searches into the frequency and nature
of accidents, in Europe and the United
States. The proportion of fatal acct
dents to the population is given as fol-
lows: England $50 to the million; Nor
way 679; United States SIS; Russia 20l;
Spain 202; Denmark 232. In England
violent Commissions and such like Injuries
cause the majority of deaths. In the
United States, as might have been ex-
pected from orr frequent boiler and
other explosions, burns and scalds are
most frequently fatal. In most other
countries drowning is the cause of more
fatal accidents than any other. Next
comes falls from some height, and then
burns, crushings and asphyXia.
In Russia and Sweden the number Of
deaths resulting from drunkenness is
greater than in any other country
Many more women are burned to death
than men, significant warning that
the nature of a woman's dress requires
particular care to guard against this LA
bility. The statistics go to prove that
accidental deaths increase every where
more rapidly in proportion than does
the population. Children constitute
large number of those thus destroyed,
and the summer is a much more fatal
period than winter. It also appears,
singularly enough, that the ratio of ac-
cidents in Europe is greater in the coun-
try districts than in towns.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-15

LAZY NEGROES, living at white peo-
pies expense, still throng the sittings
ofthe National Legislature. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Uorl0writes
to that paper ofSaturday, that "the Sem
ate gallery is dark, dense, every day
with well-dressed darkies, who are fair
ly greasy with government rations, and
one cannot walk a block on Pennsylva-
MIA avenue without encountering some
poor soldier, minus an arm or leg, who
begs for dime to get something to eat
or, perhaps, to drink-it matters not;
it shows he is in need of so small Il sum
as one dime. Let him take the thanks
SO generously bestowed upon him by the
Senate, and leave such trities as land and
money to the black saviors ofthe repub-
lic."
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-15

New ENGLAND PuLPITs.-Itls repor-
ted that not less than 800 pulpits in New
England are vacant for want of proper
support, and that 800 are so poorly sup
ported as to yield q bare subsistence to
the clergy. In Connecticut, last year,
according to the Independent, over one
fifth ofall the pastors were dismissed, and
only II ordained! We trace good share
of this religious apathy and Indifference
to the radical politics which have been
proclaimed from the New England pull
necesa M" tru is o the MY Md anan nd
Western States. Politics in the pulpit
are as much out place as Satan in the
pulpit.-N. YErpress.
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Il R0dicat's Description of the Pres
ideat---IIis Great POaUer and 1bii-
i'm (ynnr1<1>xy

II ANttSCW > DCSC1tDLtON ~ AtC ATeS-
iNeht---IIis Great POaCer and 1bit-
ity Conceded.
The Hon. John ID. Baldwin, Member
of Congress from Massachusetts, writes
this description of Andrew johnson and
his late speech. Baldwin is of the Sum-
ner-Stevens stripe in politics:
4 < What the President said
is before the country. How he said it,
my poor words may fail to tell. For
the first time 1 stood near and looked
closely on the man. In the course of an
eventful life have seen many men of
wiful power and force, but never before
have looked on one so thoroughly en-
bodying the evil spirit of revolution
1t will not do to uhderrate Mr.. Johnson.
He is terribly in earnest and withal
most vindictively cool. A thoroughly
paced demagogue, his inconsequential
logic, his egotism, his repetitions, his
thorough belief in himself, and his pop
ularity are all elements of strength when
he faces such assemblages as were ar
rayed about him yesterday. Andrew
johnson is an able man; how able, [
never realized till yesterday. All re;
suits are involved in his policy. Had
the dire results which the near future
would bring could hardly be named
now. We stand on the verge of fierce
strife, to meet which the country should
gather its strength and grid up its loins.
This man is no weak Buchanan, and he
means to crush Congress or be crush
ed.
Mr.. johnson is man of stalWart
mould. Just above middle stature, he
is so broad shouldered, firm set, and
deep chested, as almost to seem belOwit.
He has large head. 1t is a compact
home for his fiery will and brain. His
face is marked, strong oval outline,
powerful under jaw, well defined but
rather sharp chin; a wide straight
mouth, full flexible lips, skin coarse in
texture but firm, complexion swarthy,
hair coarse black, streaked with grey,
a nose small at the root, but full and
large at the nostrils, which expand and
lift as he speaks, broad, roomy forehead,
beetling bushy eyebrows, beneath which
are pair of the coolest, hazel grey eyes
ever saw in a human head; these are
the outlines of Andrew johnson.
His voice is clear, harsh, powerful
and penetrating. When he seems
speaking with most excitement, he is
evidently the coolest man in the world.
| watched him with the awakened in
terest of one who felt the magnitude of
the crisis the speaking was creating, and
am convinced that all he said was weigh
ed and measured, and meant to bring
about certain results. When the tll-
multi of applause which greeted his
strongest denunciation and most viru-
lent attack was surging around, those
cold eyes and that crafty smile could be
seen calculating the entire scene and it's
accessories.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-15

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." OF THE NEGRO
RAcE.-If Thad. Stevens were furnished
with an accurate map ofnegro graveyards
around this city; of those at Helena; Of
corpses from the pest houses, which pave
the bottom Of the Mississippi, and the
disfgured, CHASTITY victims Of loathsome
diseases everywhere encountered, were
carted into the House ofRepresentatives,
Radicalism would confess that the term
is properly applied. The negro race is
to be destroyed root and branch.--H en-
phis Bulletin.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-15

A Measure recently proposed by Sen
ator Brown, of Missouri, "for an absorb
ton by the Government of thetelegraph
ic business of the country, and cheapen-
ing it like the mail throughout the
Union," opens most important subject
for legislation. We thoroughly agree
with the advocates Of the measure that
we ought either to have a freer compe-
tition in telegraphing, Or the Govern
ment should take the monopoly into its
own hands as part of the great mail and
postal system of the country. We be-
lieve the interests of the people would be
protected and greatly advanced by this
change. The enormous charges and in
cessant abuses of the present organized
system, of acknowledgements have
been long enoug borne with. The YES
ted rights involved in the various pat
ents for Geographic communication will
soon expire.
Cheap telegraphing is DIS necessary and
indispensable as cheap postage. The
poor have as frequent need OF the teie-
graph as the rich, but they are now ex-
Guided from its use by the present enor-
nous tariff Of charges which is imposed
by the monopolists. We hope ere many
years that we shall have penny postage
and cheap Geographic facilities for the
masses.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-15

He WENT.-Nice young man, Il little
worldly-minded, walked to church once
with u very pious young lady. Arrived
at the church door, Worldlyminded
young man declined entering. Where
upon pious young lady sliced his hat and
placing it under her cloak, sailed into
church, leaving the Worldly-ininded
young man standing at the door, minus
his hat. The last heard OF WOrldly-min-
ded young man, he WAS seen vending
his way down The church aisle rs denlure-
~ as If nothing had happened.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-15

THE NEW York TRIBUNE Of Satur-
day says: sit is reported that a delegi,-
ton of leading Democrats from this city,
among them Mayor Hoffman, Gen. Dix
and Judge picrrepont, go to Washington
to-day to wait upon President Johnson
and to assure him OF their support.n
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-15

On Friday John ". Forney, Esq, re-
ceived by Express box. which looked
as ii it contained something nice, but on
opening it he found that some conside-
rate friend had sent him a ''dead duck. ;"
not.a canvass back, but an ''ornary' pud-
die specimen.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-15

| would rather have newspapers with
out government said the great ,jetfer-
son, THAN government without news
papers. y