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The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-01-27

HIGH ENDORSEMENT FROM THE
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PRUSSIA
The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-01-27

Rsa,nsson = Co.. san Fzans,sse.
Crane q Brigham, san Franeiseo.
R. H. Mcdonald & Co, San Franeiseo,
Justin Gates = Bro, saeramsnso,
And by an Drussl.ts and Country
NJ Merchants. Ily
The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-01-27
Manila Cordage,

A FULL ASSORTMENT OF SIZES.
n For Sale by l3s-3m1 BOLLES & co.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-01-27
Supreme Court---In Probate.

DepuIy tIeIh SUPREME Oourt-
Honolulu, Sept. 9. ls6S.-35-4m
The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-01-27
Fresh Salmon!

TN ONE AND TWO POUND TINS. FROM
Il Columbia River. Splendid Article.
For Sale by [SS-3ml B0LLES & co.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-01-27

luC cpCdhCI5 huO ODJCNtCu u
the proposed subsidy said it was necessary to
keep up 4 government organ of news, but
that it could not possibly be necessary to pay
extra for mere literary composition. To this
NJ. Rouher replied, that this was q most inn
portant part of the paper, for it was the sweet
ening in the cup, the gliding round the pill.
No human being in his senses, he was pleased
to say, would buy a paper merely to have
the pleasure of reading the debates. But if
he was encouraged by getting little literary
fun for his money, he might stray from that
which he liked into that which he did not
like, and when he had got through his review
or story he might, from a wish to kill time,
or from powerlessness TO make up his mind
to put the paper down, go on to read what
the government had been doing, and what
the deputies had been saying
The weak point to the whole system would
naturally seem to be that truth is not likely
to be very much cared for under it. Very
little of any history is true, but the quantity
Of truth would seem certain to be reduced
enthusiastically when history is avowedly
coined day by day, under the direction of a
minister NJ. Rouher, however, whose conr-
age is proof against all TRIALS, and whose self
possession never leaves him, took this bull
also by the horns, and stated that everything
in the -Hohitear was always true. This seems
q most astonishing statement at first, and one
deputy wished to know whether all that the
Ao1titetEr said about Mexico was quite true
But, in the sense in which he used the words,
NJ ROuher was perhaps not very far wrong.
The W0lsitetfr affords the head of the govern
meDt the means Of making almost any state
ment he pleases. 1t contained the issue of
Napoleon's bulletins, and that great man
never made any bones about telling lies of
Il size proportionate TO his own greatness.
But it can hardly be said that the Monifelr
hlizhed a uufrufl n r q series M n Mt ruf
when it issued the bulletins, any more than
the Times could be accused Of want of We
racity when il reported the memorable say
ing, which Napoleon riyalled but never
eclipsed, that almost all the great measures
Of the last quarter Of century have origin
ated with Lord John Manners. The Aonifeur
only says what is true or untrue when it
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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02

The ADJUDICATION OF SSUFF.-Great
complaints Mt present prevail in Ireland
in reference TO the extensive adultera-
ton Of snuff. In an Irish medical jour-
nal an Article has appeared in which the
author gives the proportion Of mineral
matter discovered in 2s specimens Of
snuff obtained from different shops 10
Dublin. Out of this number the least
ndulterated- contained 2l.97, and the
most G0.0I Of mineral matter. The lat
ter sample had been adulterated with
about 30 per cent. Of b~icarbonats of
soda, and many Of the other samples
contained excessive quantities Of lime,
sal-smmoniac, soda salts and potash
salts. 1t is stated that many Of the
Irish manufacturers sell snuff wholesale
at IS cents a pound, while tobacco stalks,
the cheapest part Of the plant, cannot
be purchased for less than 81 cents q
nnnnd-
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02
Dr,ru ~ Oyg or Tus PRrsrpEyr's

DEATH OF ONE OF THE PRESIDENTS
H~oRsxs.-WAsHryGroS, July 22.-The
sudden death Of one Of President Grants
fast trotting horses to-day created con.
siderable speculation. Some thought
the animal had been poisoned, but
whether Intentionally or otherwise could
not be ascertained. One theory was
that while pasturing on the White House
grounds it had eaten some poisonous
weeds, whilo n few people suspected it
was poisoned by some malicious person
in revenge, because the public have
lately been excluded from the White
House grounds, and that il was done by
some poisonous mixture thrown where
the animal could get it. The contents
Of the stomach will be analysed to
ascertain whether death was caused by
poison. The mare was valued at Sl5,-
900, and was q favorite with the Presi-
dent, being one Of the fastest trotters
in his stable. He has IL horses left,
mostly fast and blooded stock.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02

"LEr Us HAVE PEACE r"-So says
the League men ; and We nre requested
to officially state that NO interference
will occur to persons willing to work
for four dollars. We are most glad to
make the announcement, and bespeak
for these members q fair showing, and
the dropping Of all prejudice. Let the
past be buried, and lot US all work to-
gether for the recovery of the time that
has been lost-work earnestly and
peacefully-each for himself and for the
common interest,"" with charity for
all, malice toward none, firm in the
right as God gives US to see the right"
We congratulate the members Of tho
League on their wise and praiseworthy
White Pine Nesos, 3lst.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02

WHAT More NEVADA WASrs.-One Of
the Ways and Means Committec-while
here last week, and after an examine
ton Of the Carson Branch Of the Uni.
ted States Mint, and its prospective sup
ply Of gold and silver bricks for coinage
purposes-told US slyly that there were
only several other things which our
State needed, which would call for the
interference of the phoo!-catcher :"
We noe had a Mint, and We only needed
q naval hospital Mt Fort Churchill, a
port Of entry at Dutch Niek's, a fog
bell at Glenbrook, lighthouse at the
DEVILS Gate. The Ways and Means
Committee have taken a very compre-
heusive view Of Nevada's wants, and
time will tell whether they have judged
our wants correctly.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02

SPOILED IN THE SAvrNo.-When the
Federal Inspector was making his
rounds the other day, a gentleman up
town, who had a small cask Of very fine
brandy, bethought him that possibly 1t
had no stamp on. Accordingly, be set
IL down in q largo water cask, and
wedced it down. The Inspector got
through all right, and our friend went
out after a while, without mentioning
to his clerk how the private cask was
bestowed. The water man came along
and dumped his regular five buckets
and left. A small hole in the top Of
the key served rs a port Of exchange,
and in q little while u friend had a
large cask Of the mildest grog, and n
small keg Of the thinnest brandy you
ever saw. He is now in daily confer
anco with mill men and assayers, hoping
to learn some plan Of reduction-some
way of getting the water out Of his
brandy. He has about concluded to
cart It to the foot Of the hill, where
wood is cheap, to boil it DOWN. Waite
Pine News.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02
TILE COMING ELECTION.

The State election will be held on the
first Wednesday of September, which
this year will be on the first day Of that
month. 1t is just q month until that
time. Legislators and county officers
are to be chosen then; but no State or
District officers. II is true there is no
question at issue to excite the people
no national policy at stake, and, indeed,
no special State policy. Tho i%nternecine
strife has ceased, reconstruction Is q
fixed fact, the rebel debt can never be-
come q burden on any Of the people
until the Constitution shall be altered
in that regard-we have a strong Ad-
ministration we'll rooted in the love Of
the people ; and the only question, If
one It can be called, that the voters Of
California a feel any peculiar interest
10, Is what Is known as the Alabama
question. Both parties in their State
Conventions have written on this sub
ject, the Democratic saying:
That the so-called ALABAMA treaty
having been rejected by the treaty.
making power Of the Government, the
Democratic party will now, as hereto
fore, be found ready to sustain all
measures demanded by the honor, dig
nifty and rights Of the Republic in its
relations with oil foreign powers"
The Democracy has no opinion on
that subject, but Is so nicely balanced
on the fence that is prepared to drop on
either side. The Republican party
said:
"That VIC indorse the action Of the
Senate of the United States in rejecting
the so.called alabama treaty. aud
consider It the duty Of tho General
Government to demand full reparation
for the injuries inflicted by the British
Government and her people upon our
commerce during the late rebellion"
Behold the difference The former
eyasive, non.committal, meaningless ;
the latter approving the rejection and
urging on the Government to make a
demand for full r%eparation ely
perion to a Satyr-the housing owl to
the noble bird Of Jore."-Sae. Bee.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02

THE rumored marriage Of Commodore
Mutt and Miss Minnie Warren, the sister OF
Mrs. General Tom Thumb, is officially con-
tradicted. II Mr.. Barnum is to be trusted,
the Commodore, when Miss Lavinia War
rcn was married, devoted himself to per-
pctual cclibacy. Miss Minnie is at home
with her parents in Middletown, Massa-
chusetts.-S. +. Times Of Saturday.
The San Francisco papers in many OF
their news items are very much behind
the times. The little Commodore is
not only married, but he has been for
two months past. II is true, he is not
mucbly F." married, but he is married,
and sleeps with bis little wife every
night. He is now on his second
months honeymoon tour, and is slosh.
ing around Carson this afternoon.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02
DISPATCHES
Especial to the Gold It'll Daily New by tho Allan
tic and Pacific Telegraph Linc,l
To.DAY's KILOGRAMS.
From Baltimore.

From Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, July 3l.-A fatal case OF
poisoning occurred yesterdayja drug
gist selling aqua ammonia by mistake
for aqua cinnamon. The jury rendered
q verdict of "gross carclessness .
against the apothecary.
Several seizures have been made oil
cigars for not being in boxes properly
stamped.
An Express Robber Under Arrest.
PORTLAND, Me-, July 3l.-Alvin
Blake is under arrest here charged with
tho robbery Of Adams Express Of
$3.50. He claims to be one Of the
Ocean Bank robbers, but his story Is
not credited.
Cont of Inquiry.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., July .3l.-A
Court Of Inquiry will convene in the
Navy Yard on August Sd, to investi.
gate charges of cruely to seamer
against Lieutenant Commander Seely
of the Pawnee.
From Albany.
ALBANY, July 3l.-The owners Of
property on the piers, damaged by the
freshet last winter, have commenced
suits against the city. The aggregate
Of the damages is $4,000
Supposed Suioido.
HUDSON, August 1.-The body Of q
girl, alleged to have committed sui
eide at the Shaker village Lebanon, in
June, has been exhumed in obedience tc
an order of citizens who suspect foul
play. An inquest will be held.
From Louisiana.
NRw ORLEANS, July 3l.-The Supreme
Court Of this State. has rendered two
decisions adverse to the power to re-
move officers appointed and TO reinstate
other officers which has been freely ex'
srcised by Governor Yarmouth. In
the case Of the Mayor Of Jefferson City
the Court decided that no vacancy er.
listed and The Governor had no power to
appoint. In the case in point q Judge
was removed by Governor Yarmouth
on the ground that the incumbent had
not filed his eligibility oath with the
Secretary of State, because of his al.
LACED disfranchisement under tho Four
teenth Amendment. The Court decides
that tho act Of the Governor was with.
out authority, the section of the Ac,
comforting the power Of removal being
unconstitutional.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02
Seven Fools.

l. The enyious man-who sends away
his mutton because the person next 10
him is eating yenison.
2. The Jealous man-who spreads his
bed with n%ettles, and then sleeps in it.
3. The proud man-who gets wet
through sooner than ride in the carriage
Of an inferior.
4. The litigious man-who goes to
law in the hopes Of running his oppo-
neut, and gets ruined himself.
8. The extravagant man-who buys a
herring, and takes q cab to carry it
home.
G. The angry man-who learns tho
ophicleide because he is annoyed by
the playing of his neighbours piano.
Z. The ostentatious man-who illu.
inmates the outside of his house most
brilliantly, and sits inside in the dark.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02
concnrnins CaurtahIp.

THERE is wimmin who arc az easy to
court as lint.
Glove at FIRST sight" is like eating
honey. It does seem MS though you
could never get enuf NV it.
This kind NV luv is apt to make blum
dsrs, and is as hard to back out Nv as q
well.
But there amt no SIGH thing a pure
matbematix in counting. If it IL all
nacher 1t is too innocent for earth, and
IL it is all science II is too much like q
job.
Perhaps the best way to court is to
begin without much ov my plan where
you are going 10 fetch up, and see how
you and she likes il, and then let the
thing worry along kareless, like throw
ing stones into q %mill-pond.
You will find one thing to be strictly
true, the more advice you try to follow,
the less amount of good counting you
will do,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02

NIcorIS AND TASSIS.-Tobacco smok-
ors have been recommended to place in
the bowls of their pipes a little powder
ed t~annin, or a sponge saturated with
extract of tannin. It is asserted that
the smoke will thus be deprived Of its
characteristic aroma and Of all tho va
porized nicotine, which is the ~intoxicat-
ing principle. At first the smoke will
be entirely free from all taste and smell
of tobacco, bu. as tho sponge becomes
charged with the nicotine the odor will
reappear. By changing the sponge fire.
quently, it is asserted that the smoker
may indulge in the habit without injuri-
Gus effect.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-02
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIL.
ROAD.

Somebody who feels interested In the
great waste Of the public lands, and
curious to know how they have been
disposed of, has tracked out, through
the laws Of California, Of Congress,
and of the Interior Department, the
transactions of the Southern Pacific
Railroad, aud made the facts discovered
public. From all of which we learn
that this company was incorporated in
1865 under the general railroad law Of
California, to build a road from the Bay
Of San Francisco, through certain u
ties, to the State line /; thence to con-
meet With n projected road to the Mis-
s~issippi. On the faith Of this location,
it obtained from Congress a grant Of
lands in the "Atlantic and Pacific T"
Railroad Act. But finding the land
along the route comparatively valuele's,
the company quietly changed the Local
ton, and fled with the Interior Depart
ment a map Of their route, which, in.
stead Of passing through Los Angeles
and San Diego, the principal points
named in their charter. does not run
within sixty miles of the former, nor
within one hundred and fifty miles of
the latter. In 1867 Secretary Browning
ordered the reservation Of the lands on
this route. so that one hundred and
fifteen millions Of acres Of the choicest
farming lands in California are thus
withheld from sale and from set.
Element. The squatters" on the
land who wished to secure home
steads, and others who wished to buy
tracts from the Government, brought
the matter again, last year, before the
Interior Department. Mr.. Browning
reconsidered his action, and ordered
the restoration Of the lands to market;
but the order was suspended for q time,
at the instance of General R%osecraus,
at least in respect to lands southeast Of
San Jose. The company now demand
that the reservation be enforced, and
the settlers persistsutly oppose them.
The papers and reports submitted BY
the company's agents themselves show
that the railroad is really a mere land
speculation; the capital paid in is NOM
inal, and the work is carried on slowly,
without thorough surveys, and only as
bonds are sold. It Is said that the COM
pany mean to give up their franchise to
any one who will build their road, and
retain the land as their own spoils. 1t
is quite time that railroad grants of
public lands were stopped. The prae-
tice is corrupting to those who give and
those who receive. Doubtless most of
the grants made have been as needless
as the one thus exposed, and like this,
have brought no compensation to the
country tor the lands thrown away. It
is not too late to stop the waste of pub
lie property in the interest of the
" Southern Pacific Railroad" since
their action appears to be plainly Illegal
but many millions moro of our national
domain are already irrevocably given
over to great corporations; and another
Congress like the last two would suffice
10 deprive tho country Of its chief
means Of stimulating emigration, aud
of offering homes of plenty to industri-
Gus laborers from Europe, during the
next century.