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The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-10-09
The Highest BaIloOn Ascension.

| The fo' owing account of balloon sScen-
 sion made ny Messrs. CoweII aQd Glaisher, from
 Wo verkampton, ugland, which came neal
 proving fatal to the aronauts, is condensed
 from Opce a Weel:
 One dull day in August, just afternoon, a
 bal oon rose in the air at the foot ofCete Hills
 on the western edge of the central plain of
 Eng gland It was inflated with the lightest of gases which chernca skill could produce. and it arose with amazing velocity.
 A mile up it entened a stratum of clouds more than 1000 feet thick. Emerging from this the sun shone brightly on the air ship and ihe sky overhead was the clearest and deepest blue, and be ow lay cloudland-an imneasur> able expAuse of clouds, whose surface looked as solid as that of the earth now lost to view. Lofty mountains and deeR dark ravines ap- peared below; peaks and sides of those cloud mountains next to the sun glittered like snow, but casting shadows as black as the solid rock. Up rose the balloon with tremendous velocity. FoHr miles above earth pigeon was let loose; it dropped down through the air as if it had been stone. The air was too thin to enable
 it to fly. It was as if 8 bark, laden to the deok, were to pass into an inland, unsa aliQe lake; the bark would sink at once in the thinner water Up, up, still higher What a silence profound The heights of the sky were as still as the deepest depths of the ocean. where, as was found during the search for the Atlantic cable, the fine mud lies az unstirred from year to year as the dust which imperceptibly gath hers on the furniture of deserted house. No sound, no life-only the bright sunshine falling tbro' a sky it could not warm
 Up-fye miles above the earth, higher than the inaccessible summit of Chimborazo or Daw. angiri Despite the sunshine everything freezes. The air grows to thin to support life, even for 8 few moments. Two men only are in that ad- baloon-the one steering the air ship the other watching the scientific instru- ments, and recording them with rapidity bred of long practise. Suddenly, as the latter looks on his instruments his sight grows dim he takes a lens to hel lpsight, and only marks from his falling barometer that they were still rising rapidly. A flask of brandy lies within fost of him he tries to reach it bat his hands refuse to obey his will He tries to cnll upon his comrade, who has gone up into the ring above ;;
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SOROSIS.

The shades of night were falling fast, As through an eastern city passed, A blooming maid in kloomers dressed, With this device upon her crest,
 Sorosis Her brows were kind beneath her veil Her eyes blazed like comets tail And like martial bugle rung The tones of that outlandish h tongue,
 Sorosis In happy homes she saw the light, Where hope aadlov made all things brightS Without the night was dark and bleak, And from her lips escaped the Shriek-
 Sorosis "Try not the polls ! o maid beware The scheming politicians snare" Twas all in vain the old man cried, For still that ringing voice replied,
 Sorosis 70 stay,' the young man said land rest Thy waterfall upon my vest!" A tear stole down her painted cheek, But still she answered with squeak,
 Sorosis Beware the baleful company Of Francis Train and Susan Br' This was old Greely's warning knell A voice replied, you go lowell
 Sorosis At break of day, as through the street, The watchman walks his lonely beat, With heavy eyes and sleepy yawn, A voice cried through the purple dawn,
 Sorosis Next evening, on rostrum high, The maiden stood with blazing eye, While from her lips. serone but pale, A voice came. like northeast gale,
 SoroSis
 -Somefellow-z
The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-10-09
Tucson, A. T., Saturday, Octobkr 9, 1869

a whisper in that dee bssillness would suffice bns no sound comes fsm his lips-he is voice. less The 4ersman tomes down into tbecar. he sees his comrsde ira sWoon, and feels his own senses failing him.
 He saw at once that life and death hung upon few moments, and seized or tried to seize the valve, in order to let out portion of the gas His hands are purple with intense cold-they are paralized-they will not respond to his will He seized ibe valvewith his teeth and opened it little-once, twice, thrice. The balloon began to descend. Then the swooned marksman returnsd to consciousness ard saw the steersmap standing before him. He looked at his instruments; they most have been near ly eight miles up; but now the barometer was rising rapidly-the balloon was desce lding Brandy was used. They had been higher above earth than mortal man or any other living being had ever been before.
 One minute more of inaction, or compulsory inaction, on the part of the steersman, whose senses were failing him, and the air ship with it's intensely rarifed gas would have been AOat- ing unattended, witl two corp5es in the realms approaching space
The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-10-09

Says the San Bernardino Guardian Our little burg was considerably exercised, at least some of the inhabitants thereof, on Tuesday last, by the report of new and rich gold dig gings having been discovered in the vicinity of Lyte Creek, Some 40 or 50 persons have left town altogether for the new placerS, and as many more hold themselves in readiness to go as soon as the locality is known. All sorts of rumors are afoat, as to the extent, and prob- ab le richness of the new golconda. To satisfy the public mind in regard to the discovery, we prosecuted our search until we found out every thing about them We learn from authentic sources that the placers are close about and between the headwateEs of the San Gabriel and Colorado rivers Numbers of our readers are aware that a great deal of prospecting has been done in that section of the country and claims have been found that paid as high as four ounces to the hand per day.
The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-10-09

The Elko Independent says that long trains of emigrants may bealmost daily seen winding their slow and tedious way through that place to California. A journey of 2,OOO miles thro desert and wilderness, seems something strange in this age of rapid locomotion. Second class cars and cheap fares will prOpably close out this mode of reaching the Pacific coast by another year. The Silver City Avalanche, of later date says that terrible destitution and suffering exist among that portion of the emi- grants on their way to Oregon. Indian depre- dations, sickness and accidents are the cause of the sufering.-AppeGL.
The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-10-09

REFORMED :-'I shall tell you now it was i: put my hand on mine head, and there was von pain. Then put my he ad on mine body and there vas anoder. There vas very much pain in all mine body. Then I put mine hand in mine pocket oOn there vas nothing. So joined nit de temperance. Now there is no more pam in mine head, the pain in mine body vas all gone away, put mine hsnd in mine pocket there vas twenty dollars. So I stay init the temperance.
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rF WEEKLY ARLZONAN
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The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-10-09
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-02-20
co M M Il h CIAL.
New York stock and Money Market.


NEW YORK. Feb. 19.-The Money market has be-
come extremely easy; after meridian offerings in
creased rapidly the banks and foreign bankers ap-
pearing. on the market as liberal lenders; rate on
brokers' while in the Government bond market loans
were made as low as per cent. These extreme
rates hardly far criterion OF the market, how
ever, but is accounted for BY the free nnux OF cur
rency from the interior and increased demand Tor
Foreign Exchange, which relieved bankers very
much. Prime business paper in more demand at
9 per cent. Sterling Exchange active, decline in
doio having stimulated tree purchases in on the part
OF Importers prime bankers 100 q 1891; short sight
1921 q 1893; bond bills sold at a concession of a
from thes quotations but are growing scarce as are
having withdrawn all support to the premium which
has fallen as low as 33f, but closed at 33a 1 33s.-
Henry Clewes q Co. furnish the following 4.3O quo
tations Coupon 6,s 1881 1ls5 q 11s3; do 52Os 1862,
1I43 al 114t; do 1854 Ill q Hit do 1866 1121 "a 1f2s
do new. f1O4 a 110a; do 1861 11ok a 11Os; do 1863
11oi "a 1iO3; iO-4O's, 1904 q 1O9t.
Ror1er State bonds frmer; MissouIis S74 "a s71 /:
new Tennessee's, 65a a &C.; North Cardinals, Sci "a
GO: virginia's, 61t; Louisiana leyee 6's s. g 6sf
Stocks strong and higher with Pacific Mail and N
Central as the features. Pacinc MAI advanced
from 106I to 1O7f Rock Island Michigan Southern,
North Western and Fort Wayne were next In inter
est In the afternoon the announcement OF reeuc-
ton on freight to chicago to 25c per cwt i9r sne
heaviest matter had depressing enecg anu =.
Pacific Mail went to 1851. Alter the last call there
was firmer feeling and prices recovered, closing
quite steadily. The following are $50 prices "a
ciic Mail, 1861 a 1865; Western Union Telegraph
36A a 81; New York Central, 1854 q 1881; Elie, 80
Hudson, 1876 "a 1856; Harlem, 1861 q 1877; Reading
92k q 92s; Fort Wayne 119a "a 100; Michigan Cen
trail, III; Michigan Southern, 94b @ 94s; Illinois
Central, 143; Toledo, 1913; Chicago Rock Island
127k@ 121s; Chicago & North Western, s2f q 3d.; dc
preferred, 500 g 90t.
The balance at the Sub-Trsasury to-day amount
ed to $s9, 942, 124.
The elearances at the Gold EXCHANGE Bank to day
| amounted to $4,000, 900.
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Especial Dispatch by International Line.l
1HE TRIAL OF THE CLEVELAND MURDER CASE
BANGOR, Feb. 19.-The evidence in the Cleve-
land murder case thus far is circumstantial,
merely showing the discovery of the murder
two weeks after it was committed, the move
ment of the prisoner before and after the time
that George was missing, his arrest in Boston,
and the finding of the watch and other articles
belonging to George in his possession. 1t was
also shown by witness that defendant Dor
rowed large pistol on the day preceding the
murder, and returned it in day or two after
wards The prisoner appears entirely uncon-
cerned, although listening attentively to the
evidence with the air of an interested specta-
tor. The case will occupy tomorrow and
Monday. J.SR.
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WASHINGTON.
THE DEMrsER ASSAULT CASE.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 19-Several days ago
Mr.. Dempsey, of the firm of Dempsey &
OToole, who attacked Gen. Duncan, Assistant
Commissioner of Patents, on account of some
thing the latter reported disparaging to the
former in the Department of the Interior sta
tionery contracts with that firm, appeared be-
fore magistrate and acknowledged his assault
on Mr.. Duncan, and was fined five dollars.
This action on the part of the magistrate was
urge by Mr.. Dempsey's counsel as a reason
why the Criminal Court should not proceed
against him; but Judge Fisher overruled the
plea and after examination fined Mr.. Dempsey
300, with ten days imprisonment in jail.
AMERICAN VESSELS In CUBAN WATERS.
Sec'y Seward has addressed to Philadel-
phia firm the following letter.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18th, 1859.
Gentlemen: L received your letter of yester-
days date on which as citizens of the u. States
you make a request for special protection for
vessels and other property on the side of the
Island of Cuba, in the harbors of Lunas Trini-
dad and Cienfuegos. appreciate the anxiety
which you in common with other merchants
having large interests in Cuba, feel at the pres
emit time, and since the receipt of your letter
have conferred with the Secy ofthe Navy, who
informs me that at at least one half of the YES
sells under command of Admiral Hoff, are now
in Cuban waters, and the Admiral has of late
been fully and frequently instructed to be
vigilant and active in extending every proper
protection to American interests, in the re-
gons referred to, which are supposed to be es-
pecially exposed to danger.
am your obedient servant,
WIN. HI. SEWARD.
CABINET MEETING.
All the members of the Cabinet were pres
ent at the regular meeting today. The ses-
sion was short.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS TO ATTEND
THE INAUGURATION BALL.
The Presidential Electors now in Washing
ton, held meeting at the National Hotel this
P. M, for the purpose of arranging for attend
ing in body the forthcoming inaugural cere-
monies. Electors were present from Mass, Ne
braska, Tenn. Iowa, Ark, and Indiana.
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WEST INDIES.

CUBA.
New YORK, Feb. 19-the following special
is published
"HAvANA, Feb. 18.-The Captain General
has issued decree, under which all Cuban
ports where there are no Custom Houses are
to be closed.
The government has taken measures for the
cleaning of Havana.
Twenty re-captured Spaniards have arrived
here, including Nedata. Ex-Governor of Baya-
mo, and nephew to Ex-Captain-General Lers-
undi and Col. Low.
Two thousand Chasseurs are expected from
Spain.
col. Zufvos mas arrived at JIgua1n1 nom
Santiago, having fought his way the whole dis
tance The insurgent Gen. Cespedes's horse
had been killed. Count Talmazeda is at Jigu-
ami. The insurgent chiefs are constantly ON
the move.
A despatch from Sagua, dated the 18th, says
there is no sugar in that market, and that the
insurgents have burnt the railroad to La Cru
ces.
A despatch from Santiago, dated the 18th,
says that more estates have been burnt, that
the cholera is raging and that % deaths have
occurred. Many of the troops are in the hos
pitfalls.
Advces from Guantanamo state that sugar
is arriving rapidly and that three vessels have
cleared for New York. The presence of the in
surrection reduces the crop 10000 hogsheads,
and no tobacco can be procured.
A despatch from Manzanillo, dated the 14th (,
says Col. LOn0S column mad arrived from
Bayamo with 1000 men. The troops were har-
assed all the way by the insurgents. The
| column was to leave on the 18th with convoy
| to bring the remainder of the refugees from
Bayamo.
Gen. Smith and Sir Charles Bright sail on
Saturday for New York.
HAVANA, Feb. 19.-The insurgents hold
Guarogos, part south of Roman Gays. They
have fortified the town, and have batteries
mounted with brass cannons, and manned by
Americans. The water in front of the posi-
ton has depth of 8 feet, and the guns bear
upon narrow channel by which the town can
only be approached from the sea-
The government at Havana is equipping a
| hotilla of launches for an attack ON Guaraga.
| A landing has been affected by rebel ex-
| petition at Cochirese.
| 1t is whispered here that Sec'y Seward has
made strong representations to the govern
ment at Madrid in regard to the death of Mr..
| Cosner, and other outrages which have
occurred in Havana, and that condigr
punishment will be visited upon the perpetra
Il tors.
Transports arrived here yesterday with 100(
troops from Spain. and others arrived to-day
| with 1000 more. Orders have been issued re
| curing citizens to deliver to the authorities
all private arms.
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XLth CONGRESS Third Session.


SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb 19.-Mr. Stewart, from
tne Committee on the Paclfic hailroao, SUI y,
mitted report in opposition to the views g. Of
the majority on the Omblbus hailroau piii
lately reported
Mr.. Wilson introduced bill to repeal the
act fixing the headquarters OF the General OF
the army at Washington, and requiring all Or
ders of The President and Secretary OF War to
be issued by him, and in case OF his inability
hv the next in rank, and providing that he
shall not be released from command or assign
ed to duty elsewhere except at his request
without the approval of the Senate; and that
all contrary orders shall be null and void.
Mr.. Pomeroy introduced bill to abolish and
forever prohibit peonage in New Mexico.
Mr.. Grimes called up the bill relative to the
captures by Farragut's fleet on the Mississippi,
which passed.
The bill to compensate the officers and crew
OF the Kearsarge was called up. 1t gives Com
mander Winslow and his crew $4,000.
The morning hour having expired the Indian
appropriation bill was taken up, and several
additional amendments reported by the Indian
Committee were adopted.
Gently passed the House transferring the con-
troll of the Indian bureau to the War Depart
ment was called up and rejected.
The appropriation bill was then passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE,.
line House COOk up LILO ducuuu6nIS report
ed by the Committee OF the Whole to the army
appropriation bill. All amendments reducing
the ordinary appropriations were agreed to-
The Rock Island item provoked considerable
discussion, which was participated BY Messrs
Blaine. Price, Schofield, Phelps and others,
after which the House proceeded to vote on
the various amendmentc.
The amendment striking out the sum for
military surveys was agreed to.
The amendment reducing the Rock Island
appropriation from 81, OOO,00Oto 100000 was
disagreed to-yeas 70, nays 90-nnd the appro-
priation remains at 81 100000.
The question was then taken on the substi-
tute offered by Mr.. Blaine yesterday for the
conjoined amendments of Messrs Dodge and
Butler, and the substitute was agreed to by Ill
to GA. The bill then passed.
The New York election frauds came up, and
a resolution was adopted directing the SER
geant.at-arms to bring the recusant witnesses
before the bar of the House.
The House soon after took recess.
After recess, the Post Office Appropriation
bill was aaken up, but there being no quorum
abe House adjourned.
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e U r. o p e .


LONDON, Feb. 19.-The Times in an article
on the Alabama treaty says the want of a
land to the rejection of the convention by the
United States. This point should be kept
clearly in view, in the event of offers for fur
Their negotiations. England now awaits pro-
posals from America. The Times continues
we have done our best; we have gone to the
verge of rational humiliation to secure set.
Element of the questions at issue. We shall
now wait for propositions from the new Ad-
ministration under Gen. Grant. 1t is admit
ted that the claims are of fair subject fol
friendly arbitration,
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HELMBOLD,S
extract Buchu

hundreds suffer on in silence, and hundreds of
others apply vanly to druggists and doctors who ei
Their merely tantalize them with the hope Of a cure
or apply remedies which make them worse wou,d
not assert anything that would do injustice to the at
hioted, but obliged to say that although IL NAV
reproduced from excessive exhaustion of the powers
ofiife, by laborious employment, unwholesone air
and food, profuse msnstruation, the use Of tea and
coffee, and frequent childbirth is far oteuer cans
ed by direct irritation, applied the mucous mem.
brane of the vagina ITSELF
When reviewing the causes of these distressing
complaints, it is most painful to contemplate the at
attendant evils consequent upon them. 1t is but sim
plejustice to the subject enumerats few of the
many additional causes which SO largely affect the
He health, and happiness OF woman in all classes of
society," and which, consequently affect more or less
directly the welfare OF the entire human family The
mania that exists for precocious education and mar
rage, causes the years that nature designated for
corporal development to be wasted and perverted
In the restraints odress, the early confinement of
school, and especially in the unhealthy excitement
Of ball ROOM Thus, with the body half clothed,
and the mind unduy excited by pleasure, peryertne
In midnight revsl the hours designed by nature for
sleep and rest the work of destruction is half accom-
plished.
In consequence of this early strain upon her sys-
tenn, unnecessary effort is required by the delicate
yotary to retain her situation in school at later dav
thus aggrayating the evil. When one excitement is
over another in prospective keeps the mind morbid
ly sensitive to impression, while the now constant
restraint of fashionable dress, absolutely forbddne
the exercise indispensable to the attainment and re-
tention of organic health and strength the
to night air; the sudden change of temperatures the
complete prostration produced by excessive dancing.
muss OF necessity produce their legitimate effect At
least an early marriage caps the climax of misery
and the unfortunate one hitherto SO utterly regard
lees Of the plain dictates and circumstances of her
delicate nature, becomes an unwilling subject of
medical treatment. This is but truthful picture of
the experience of thousands of our young women.
Long before the ability to exercise the functions of
the generatve organs they require an education OF
'neir peculiar nervous system, composed of what is
called the tissue, which is, in common with the f.
male breast and lips evidently under the control of
mental emotions and associations at an early period
OF lfe and as we shall subsequently see, these emo
fnns. Whan Axes-s'A l--.s r..b.-..r =.
habits which sap the very life OF their victims ere
nature has self-completed their development.
For Female Weakness and Debility, Whites or Leu
corrhoea, Too Profuse MensruatiOn, Exhaustion Too
Long Continued Periods, for Prolapsus and Bearing
Down. OF Prolapsus Uteri, we offer the most perisc
specific known;
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MADAM ARMAND.

T ATE of New York, wishes to inform the ladies'
IL OF Portland that she has just opened her New
Establishment, at 400 Middle street, oPPoslIH
ry on the Newest and most
Fashionable Styles in Dress & Cloak Making
and horss Inv kesning the Latest and most Fashion
able Patterns ALWAYS on hand, and strict attenpI
business to be able to suit Der Customers, 1"N
ceiye the patronage Of the Ladies OF for'A"N
EW- Apprentice wanted.
dQr0
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TENNESSEE.

MEMPHIS, Feb. 19.-John Davis was shot by
the Arkansas militia men at Mound City, Ark.
on Saturday and died on Wednesday. The
perpetrator of the deed was arrested by militia,
tried by Court Martial on Tuesday, and con-
demped to be shot Wednesday
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WestbrOok Manufacturing Co.

'JlHE westbrook Manufacturing Company having
removed their place of business from the store OF
Jonas H. Perley to the store occupied by the under
signed on Central Wharf, offer for sale the various
Ships Duck, Ravens Duck Sail and WTapIIhkf
Twfne Sheetings Mariners Stripes. Drills, Vah s
Jeans, &c., at the lowest prices in the MAJ narrowed
MACHINERY tor the manufacture Of sH r,'cIs wbich
which they believe VIII insure the oest PENDED to
can be made. All orders prem e WOOD. Treas,
NUTS No 10 Central Wharf.
pn,tlana Ian 9Th 1869. nuu
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MISCELLANEOUS.
WOMAN.

FEMALES, owing to the peculiar and important
reiatons which they sustain, their peculiar organza
non' and the offices they perform, are subject to
many sufferings. Freedom from these contribute in
no small degree to their happiness and welfare, for
none can be happy who are ILL., Not only so, but no
one OF tnese various female complaints can long be
sunered to run on without involving the general
neai'n ofthe individual and are long producing per-
mAnene sickness and premature decline. Nor is it
pleasant to consult physician for the relief OF these
various delicate affections, and only upon the most
urgent necessity will a true woman 50 far sacrifice
her greatest charm as to do this The sex will then
tnanA US Tor placing in their hands simple specifics
WHICH viii be found efcacous in relieving and cur
ing almost every one OF those troublesome mpaints
peculiar toSthe sex.Ea