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The Oldest iowa in the United States.

Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico,
is said TO be the Oldest town within the
limits of the United States, having been
built under the auspices of the Jesuits more
than three hundred years ago. II is the
largest town in the Territory, containing,
perhaps, exclusive OF the military, about
twenty five hundred Inhabitants, of whom
more than three fourths are MexicAns.
Several wealthy Jewish firms are engaged
in trade here, and do large and prOtita'
BILE business, not the smallest item of
which is in army contracts. The native
Americans outside of the army, who are
not Federal office holders or professional
men, generally devote their energies to
selling whisky and gambling The pub
lie and private buildings at Santa Fe,
with the exception of some wooden houses
belonging to the military department,
and the new penitentiary, which Is OF
stone, are constructed Of adobes, or sun
dried bricks; yet some Of them, being
we'll finished without and within, present
neat though far from imposing appear
ance. The majority of the houses are,
however, mere mud novels, with dirt
roofs, ragged walls and earthen floors
uninViting without and squalid within.
Even the cathedral and the dozen OF more
churches in which the spiritual needs Of
the natives are ministered TO, though ex-
hibiting some attempts at elaborate archi.
lecture, are unsightly objects, looking as II
they might at any time tumble down aud
overwhelm the worshippers within their
walla A view of Santa Fe from neigh
boring eminence is not calculated TO I'M
press the bebolder with an idea OF the com
mercial and political importance OF the
town.
Most of the inhabitants OF New Mexico
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-30
" "Father, Come HOme."

Music has drawn many heart back
from yielding to temptation IL was ON
the point of doing, and binds the world
together in stronger bonds of brotherhood
than anything else Of Il humanizing ten
dencY. But how much more effective
when aided by little dramatic effect. A
London correspondent gives an affecting
description of the singing of the pathetic
ballad of Father, Come Home" in one
of the London theatres, which left but
few dry eyes in the house, and must have
nerVed 10 stronger resolutions any present
who were in the habit of giving way TO
the weakness of indulgihg in Intoxicating
drinks to excess. This correspondent,
describing the scene, says that the lady
came in front of the curtain, amid great
applause, and commenced: 4" Father, dear
father" &c. Every word was distinct,
and she sang the ballad with great feeling.
In order, however, to describe the scene
which followed each verse, IL is necessary
TO give little Mary's song:
Z" Father, dear father, come home with me now,
The clock In the steepe stikes one
You promised, dear father, that you would come
home,
As soon as your days work was done.
Our dre has gone Ont-OuT house Is all dark,
And mothers been watching since tea,
With poor little Benny sick in her arms,
And no one to help her but me.
Come home, come home, come home,
Please, father, dear father, come home"
At the conclusion of the last line, the
drOp-scSne drew up, disclosing the father
sitting at the door Of public house, in q
drunken, bemuddlod state, with pipe and
pot before him. Little Mary was trying
TO drag him from his seat, at the same
time pointing 10 curtain behind, and she
took up the refrain from the lady and
tOuchingly sang, Come home," &c.
! The other curtain was now drawn aside,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-30
The Sau Francisco Aerial Steam Car.
riAg6.

The problem os aerial navigation ia
solved. Within year we shall travel
habitually 10 New York, Europe and
China by aerial carriages The trial trips
of the model steam carriage, at Shell
Mound Park, have been entirely and
completely uccessful-exceeding the most
ssnguiue anticipations or hopes of the
builders. The power of the propellers
was greater, aud the resistance of the
atmosphere less than were estimated, and
the speed attained was proportionately
greater. Protected by its patent rights,
we believe that the Aerial Steam Naviga-
Gon Company of California and its
grantees will speedily constitute the most
gigantic single Incorporation interest IN
the United States s--overshadowing the
railroad, steamship or telegraph combine
tions The thing is done: fully, finally
and completely done. Within four weeks
the first aerial steam carriage, capable of
conveying six persons, and propelled at
rate exceeding the minimum speed of
thirty miles an hour, will wing its flight
over the Sierra Nevada on its way to New
York and other remote pSrts.-SdR Fran
cisco NetoS Letter, June 26.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-30
A Story for Moderate Drinkers.

AN old friend of the late Judge Fletcher,
of Boston, related to the wIiter, many
years ago, the following characteristic an
ecdote Mr.. Fletcher when young man,
boarded in the old Exchange Coffee House.
len in with the drinking fashion of the day,
30 far as to have glass of spirits and
water brought TO his room every night, to
be taken on going to bed as "a night-cap."
One night an unusual press of company
prevented the barkeeper from carrying up
Mr.. Fletcher's usual night dram. The
Squire didn't regard it as quite the thing
for him To go to the bar and get his grog,
and 80 he went TO bed without his night.
cap" But tn sleep, he could not All
night long he tUmbled about for lack of
his accustomed drink. And as he did 50,
his active and discriminating mind worked
most diligently The fruit of his retlec.
tions appeared next morning, when, on
getting up, weary and worn by his hard
restless night, Mr.. Fletcher went directly
To the bar-keeper: "Mr. -, you didn't
bring up my brandy and water last night,
and as a consequence have slept little or
none all night"
The bartender was very sorry. This
neglect should not occur again. "Not 3d."
rejoinel Mr.. Fletcher. "Never bring me
another drop of liquor unless | order it. If
It has come To this, that | can't sleep with
out the help of tumbler of tOddy, IL is
high time that l stopped drinking, and
broke up the dangerous habit"
From that day Mr.. Fletcher became a
thorough-going temperance man.
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disclosing wretched room, with the
poor mother sitting on the ground with q
sickly-looking boy In her lap, and in the
act of feeding him with spoon. Stimuli.
Aneously with the drawing Of the cur
tain, the light was brought TO bear upon
the tableSux, giving them truly startling
effect Af(er moment or two, the act.
drop came down, and the lady proceeded
father, dear father, come home with me now,
The clock In the steepls strikes two;
The night has grown colder and Benny IL worus,
But he has been calling for you
Indeed he Is worse, mother says he will die,
Perhaps before morning shan dawn,
And this IL the message she sent me to bring
Como quickly OF he will he gone.
Come home, como home, como home,
Please, father, dear father, come home"
The act drop rises again, and now the
child has hold of the pewter pot trying tn
take il from the drunken parent, and as
she continues the last two lines, "Come
home" g., the other curtain is drawn
aside, and we next see the child stretched
out in its mothers lap, and il Just raises
its little head and falls back with gasp
With the lime light rejecting strongly
upOn IL, there was n reality about the
whole. terrible tn view. Sobs were heard
from all parts of the hall, coming from
the female part of the audience, while tears
trickled down many male cheek Even
the lady who sang the song was affected
and could scarcely proceed with the third
verse:
" Father, doar father, como home with mo now.
The clock IN the stccpc strkes threci
/ The house Is so lonely, the hours are so long,
For poor weeping mother and me.
Yes, we are alone poor Benny is dead,
And gone with the angels of light
Aud these are the very last words that he said
i want to kss papa good night
COne home, como home, come home,
"a HtanV Iuf haNt
Again the drop rose, and displayed
little Mary on her knees appealing to her
father, who, with pot elevated, is in the
act of striking her with it, when she sings,
"Come home, and then the back curtain
draws aside, showing mother praying
over child's coffin. But now the sobs
break out more freely, and two females
are carried out taiuting. The scene was
most truly narrowing.
An additional verse was sung about
"poor Benny" being with the angels
above. The drop rose the father, sober
now, is weeping over the cotlin, with little
Mary ON his knees, singing, "Home,
home, fathers come homer At this
minute the curtain is drawn aside, and
little Benny is suspended over the cofliu
with wings, smiling down ON them and
pointing upward. The father falls for
ward upon his face, the act drop descends
and for minute all is hushed save the
sobs of the audience. Maya
| cine
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"I will try not to depart from it," said
Peter.
At this there came an invisible hand
that took of his old smoked glasses and
put on new ones, made of pure crystal,
which let the light through Just as 1t came
down from the sky. But oh what q
change they made to Peter He went
home, and as soon as he entered the door
his house seemed like another place to
him: 1t seemed filled with blessings.
"Is 1t possible" he exclaimed, "that
those glasses have kept me from seeing all
these beforel"
The next morning when he got up he
told his wife what had befallen him and
how he felt in consequence.
"But," said she, with loving smile,
"how about those badly-ironed collars and
the pins and the weak coffee ~
"Oh," he cried, show could l ever let
such trifles trouble meS"
"And then," she continued, "here is the
carpet wearing out, and the boys shoes
and the girls dresses"
"As for them," he said, tive will hope
TO get more when they are gone. But
even if we should not have half our pres
ent comforts ana indulgences, with you,
my dearest and our precious children,
about me, trust may feel too rich ever
again to utter one complaining word"
80 the sunshine came into Peter Crisp's
house, and he and all his family led q
happier life because of his new glasses,
which were thankful heart.-Lippin-
c0tts Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-30

reside In towns or villages, OF the architeo.
ture Of which that Of Santa Fe is a fayorA.
BILE specimen. Timber suitable for boards
Is very scarce. Lumber enough for doors
and castings, shelving, and the flooring of
the more pretentious ediflces, is obtained
with much cost and difficulty, and is found
In but few favored localities in quaint
ties sufficient for the building of frame
houses. Kiln burnt bricks are very rare,
the ordinary building material being
adobes. These are made of mud in which
straw or hay has been mixed, nodded to
the dimensiols OF 4xSNl6 inches and dried
IN the sun. In building, the adobes are
laid together with mud. When the walls
have been carried 20 the proper hight.
they are spanned with cigds-beams of
cottonwood or pine, as may be the most
conveniently obtained; upon these are
closely laid sdjudrrds the strong wooden
ribs OF the giant cactus, or straight willow
poles, or, more frequently, bushes and
branches of any kind upon these is placed
a layer of straw, hay or rushes, and lastly
three or four inches of earth. The roof thus
formed, having very slight slope, sheds
most of the rain that falls upon II, but is
rarely altogether water.tight, and re.
quiros frequent repairs The house Is
finished by putting in the doors and
windows, and by applying to the walls a
smooth coating OF mud, inside and out
the latter operation being performed by
women. An aristoCratic mansion usually
receives coating of whitewash upon the
walls, and of dark colored paint upon the
doors, windows and castings, by which its
appearance is much improved. But the
majority of the buildings are not aristo.
| cratic, and the monotonous brown of their
mud walls and wood work is relieved by
either paint or whitewash. A building
upon which the mud plastering is renew.
ed as frequently as il is rendered neccs.
sary by washing from rain, will last for
many years but il the walls and roof are
neglected, il will soon fall to decay.
Few of the houses, except in the Pucbla
lndiaD towns, have more than one story
Many have but one room, although
others possess halt dozen or more rooms
arranged ia a square, which also in
cludes the stable and corral; the space
between the buildings being occu
pied by high adobe walls. Tn,
larger towns have regular streets and pub
lie squares-the Tldsd of Santa Fe being
quite pretty, though small but the smaller
towns and villages have only labyrinthin,
alleys, through which stranger woulC
find some difficulty in making his way
Western M0nkIV for AiDUSt.
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The Wrong HAS Ia the Wrong Place.

A FEW days since, a young couple, Just
married at Waterbury, Conn, got on
board train on the Naugatuck Road,
bound for Bridgeport They had sweet
time, billing and UOoing in proper style,
until the train reached the junction.
While waiting there, the groom took
stroll on the platform, and the bride also
improved the time 10 walk ~ the forward
emo of the car As the train started. she
returned, and seeing her husband, as she
supposed, she popped into the same seat.
and lovingly rested her head on his shoul'
der, while the cars passed through the
covered bridge. Unfortunately she had
mistaken her man, and as the cars
emerged from the bridge trembling
voice whispered in her ear that he didn't
quite comprehend the situation. Looking
up, the bride found an unknown, blushing
youth, while her liege lord was standing
. in the aisle, with look Of blank aston.
ishment on his face, not knowing what to
make of "such conduct as those" The
error was corrected at once, but the fun
was too much for the occupants of the
cal, and every sleeve contained an enur.
nous though quiet laugh.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-30

have In former years caused the most yio.
lent disturbances in the various artificial
as well as natural electric apparatus Of the
world we live iu, and which, 10 sneak Of
the least Of all its possible effects. might
AZ well a. not happen some day 20 throw
the electric condition Of every teleRrapbic
cable on our planet, under the sea or
above II, Into the most dire confusion. and
send down telegraphic companies' shares
TO zero In lump, even II they did not
contrive 10 telegraph 10 as, after some
strange inarticulate fashion, that shares in
All public companies, even in that very
limited public company, the human race,
are, ia physical pc.st Of view, of very
doubtful value, indeed" - Washington
Star -
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l)ottrp.
By AND By

BI and byl We say It softly,
Tn mixing Of a tender hope.
stirring always In our bnsops,
Where so many lonsings grops.
BY and by on love shall greet US
In time that is to come.
And the fears that pOts defeat us.
Ihen shall all be stricken dumb
BY and byi The mournful sorrows
Clouding DER our sky to-day,
Shall be gone In glad to .morrows-
shall be banished quite awayi
BY and by We say Il gently,
Looking on our silent dead
And we do not think OF earth-life.
But OF Heavens sweet life instead,
BY and by We look in We arning
Toward the Larbor of the blcst,
And we zee the beacons burning
In the ports Of perfect rect
BY and byi Our ship shall anchor,
IL the tide and wind run fair,
Some day in the port Of Heaven,
Where our lost and loved once are.
BY and byi Oh say II softly,
Thinking not OF earth and care,
But the bg aud by OF Heaven,
Waitin for us OUtr MereI
-Ope, N Month
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A FREECHMAN, Monsieur Blum, has
adapted TO his velOcipede pair OF sails,
and in fair wind skins along like q ter
restrial nautilus, at rate exceeding the
greatest speed hitherto attained with the
ordinary vehicle propelled by the feet.
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Fresh Supplies.

Fresh Supplies.
nUTCH HERRINGS.
~ Fresh Country and Mountain BUTTER,
Pink-Eye and Peach-Blow Planting Potatoes,
Fine Goshen CHEESE, at G. DIERCKS,
Jan 23 At the Sign Of the Watch.
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act except as. to5 tie teeth T ead
had one tooth, missing ron leach thiypA of
the mouth, ,sand this fact having been
called toa1ista attention. Riehard insisted
chat she.ha lost but one when he saw
her; but it was highly probably the
other had been forced out in the strug-
gle which robbed her of her life, and the
physician, for the first time making q
minute examination, found that the
tooth upon the right side had been
forced from its place. but was still nd
herring to the gum He easily pushed it
back to its proper position, and there
was the head without a discrepancy be-
tween it and the description of Ada Ri
chnrd.
The detectives found other witnesses,
and among them the hairdresser. who
had acted in the capacity for Ada Ri
chnrd during many months, who in COM
mon with all the others, fully confirmed
the evidence of Charles Richard. The
identity of the murdered woman was
therefore established beyond question.
Naturally the next step was to solve
the mystery of her death. The detec-
Gves went to work with utiusual eau
tion, but persisted in the task they had
assigned themselves, and were slowly
gathering the shreds of her life, to weave
from them thread that would lead to
the author Of her tragical death, when
they suddenly "aoored" to use their
own energetic confession. Ada Richard
herself appeared at downtown New
York hotel, in perfect health and un-
scathed in perso-l.
The explanation was simple. The
whim had suddenly seized her to go to
Now Orleans, and she had gone without
leave taking or warming. It was no un-
usual incident in her wandering life, and
her speedy return was due only to the
fact that she found the Southern city
only 8 military camp, under the iron
rule of General Butler, and therefore an
Improbable feia Tor her.
The ghastly head became more of a
mystery than before. The baf1ed detec-
tives could again, only look at it help
lessly, and send descriptions of it over
the country. At last it was seen by a
woman named Callahan, living in Bos-
ton, who was in search of daughter
who had gone astray. She instantly
pronounced it to be that of her child,
and she was corroborated by NIL the mem
bers OF her family and several of her
neighbors. The Identification was no
less specific than before, and the per-
picked authorities, glad at last to know
something certainly, gave Mrs. Callahan
an order for the body. Before, however,
she had completed her arrangements for
its transfer to Boston, q message reached
her frca the daughter, who was lying
sick in Bellevue Hospital, and SO the
deed once more became a mystery. And
such it has always remained. The body
told that female who had been delicate
ly reared, who had Jared sumptuously,
and had been arrayed in costly fabrics,
had been foully done to death, just as
she was stepping into the dawn of wo-
manhood-and that is all that is known.
Her name, her station, her history, her
virtues, or it may be her frailties, all
went down with her life, and were ire
vocably lost. There is every probability
that her case will always be classed as un-
finished business.
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Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta r. R.
E ~ UJ HapIHfSaq PASSENGER Trains
G44 42 4sais ssitt.--S7iEx will run as followe:
GOING NORTH.
Leave Augusta, at. at................. 7.40 a. m.
g Columbia, s. c., at.......... 1.25 p. nj.
Arrive at Charlotte, N. C........... $40 p. m.
COMING SOUTH.
Leave Charlotte, n c., at........ SEQ a. m.
g Columbia, $. c., at......12.50
Arrive at Augusta. Observation-Disclosures. 6.15 p. M
Through Tickets on sale for principal points
North and South. Baggage checked through.
Closeconnections made North and South.
June % CALEB BOUKNIGHT, Sup't
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Land and City Properly for Sale.
FFRETQI AQS VJYrY. rY.RE6IDEMCES. n q In

43uQ ana Clty EroPorty 1cE cHl0.
4 = 4,aTKSsTS Kss ass p1rY nEsIDEAoEs. sso
72d Glass City Residences. 8 % 10 Rooms,
asssis Sissis Baaldn4 Basd Ea., on Msis street
8. 10 "Lots, in other parts OF the city.
8,,9Lerge Lots in YaTerley,..
* VI ErSc@ Land, within miles OF Columbia,
from ten acres to 1000,
8. The Hopkins T. Q. Plantation, I, ,4S0 acres,
9. 2,422 acres, neaFKings willie, one Of the best
cotton and stock plantations in the country,
10. 0 Other Plantations in Richland-some Of
them very;deefrabte,
II. 10,0OO acres in Edgefeld-several tracts,
IL. Mill and Planting Property in Lexington,
Is. $4,000 acres in Charleston-phosphatea and
other Lands,
IA. $500 acres Farming Lands in Eairaela a
Is. 1,700 acres near Greenvill Court HohSesa
16. 5000 {" in Laurens-seyeral tracts,
II. 1000 " in Kershaw,
18. 1000 &C in Marlboro-a No. place,
10. PIG E" in York-rich in gold,
20. Fine Plantations in Abbeville.
21. IS, 900 acres Of Land in Florida.
Parties desiring to purchase or sell property
will find it to their interest to consult us. : We
have correspondents in New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, to which points we constantly
send descriptive lists Of property for sale.
March s. G1BBES d THOMAS.
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N|iIes Arrive Ieavc ArTive Toa,
Greenville and Columbia Railroad

SUPT's OFFICE, COLUMBIA, April 10, 1869.
Do 12 as@SE asss2l@S daily except Sur day, CON
necting with Night Train on Charleston Road:
I've Columbia 100 am I've Grecnville G. 90 am
" Aston 9.55 =" 9" Anderson 6.45 &C.
Newberry 1926 " " Abbeville s.45 "
Arr Abbeville $50 pm &c Newberry 1.25 pm
'Anderson Sis " Z" Aston 800 I"
"Greenville 600 " Arr Columbia 500 pm
Trains on Blue Ridge Railroad run as follows:
I've Anderson $40 pm I've Walhalla 400 am
+" Pendleton 6.20 " g Pendleton $40 1"
Arr WalhaIla 500 " Arr Anderson GAO"
The train will return from Bolton to Ander-
son on Monday and Friday mornings.
JAMES o. MEREDITH, General SIp't.
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Office North Carolina Railroad Co..

@ JEDI saheaaie daaiHllS%i1s for Passen IS sne
ger Trains over this road:
Leave Charlotte. $50 p m Arrive. .5.45 p m
Greensboro 1.55 m and Las M
Raleigh $50 a. m. and G. 20 p. m.
Arrive Goldsboro 1920 a m Leave. 2.20 p m
Through Passengers by this line have choice
OF rontes ria Greensboro and Danville to Rich
mond, or ria Raleigh and Weldon to Richmond
Richmond at same time by either route. Con-
nection made at Goldsboro with Passenger
Trains on WILMINGTON and Weldon Railroad to
and from Wi mington, and Freight Train to
Weldon. Also to NcSberp. on A. Il N. C. r.