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The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-11

The entries at the san Francisco
Custom House have increased largely
since the establishment of the China
and Australian steamship lines.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-11

Lizzie Williams, who graduated at
Na>sar College in lo69, has become a
member of the faculty Of the Leaven-
worth Kan Agricultural College.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-11

G.. L. Van Buren,, a pension agent in
New York city, has been arrested for
having frauduIently drawn and used
Government funds.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-11

Major Wheeler, Of the Engineer
Corps, has been appointed Professor
of Engineering at West Point, in place
of Mahan. deceased.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-11

A. B. DRIESBACH,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Groceries, Provisions.
Wines and Liquors..
FlOu: and Feed,
CrOCkerJ and EinWare.
Hardware and Bolts.
II Tasting ana sporting
Powder,
safety KuSe.
Clothing. tSOotS and ShGes,
California Lime,
Plaster Paris,
Eastern cement.
Eastern k1air,
Whiting,
window GLASS.
Paints and oils,
WALL Paper,
window shades,
EiCsurc Cords.
Patent Curtain Fixtures. /;
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Friday, October 20, 1-T1.
RUNNING UACE--Pdrs-, $40, free
for alI--li-Ir Dash II Ole indie
RUNNING k.-Pur-c SlJ0, free for
all beaten AJTs---Gcst w. IL tuTrc.
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Thursday, October 10, ISL.
TROTTiNG RA Ck.-Purse S4yu. free
for aiI-Ut,t three Ia nye.
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3.IO6 Gold Coin Gifts---S25O, 600!
DAVENPORT. AMlLTON & CO.,
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
Treasurer, Pacific Bank of California.
Eg-Tickets Tor sale at the Pos-oaice Book Store,
Carson City, New. ocIl-td
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RUNNING KACE.-Pu.sr S4JJ, free for
ail-UcsI tnTre III i've.
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>f'E ED "pROGRANME {!

tuesday, October l., LII.
RUNNING RACE.-rHr,, $50, free fox
al turve year u.Is-JvsI I"JI ia three.
* IING RACE.-Purse $40, free
f5r al htrevs owned ii the Stale tAAI have never
beaten three mInutes-Dest w. ia turre in hIg-
uvs>
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1871,

NTATUTES OF THE STATE OF NEVADA
y for ISL, for sale at the State Printers office,
Carson. and at A. L. BANCROFT L co.'s, San
francisco. Price, s..
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the election of our United States Sen
atOrS was a disgrace to a resp ctahle
hurdv gurdy house. In that election,
members of the Legislature-pretend-
ing to an honorable p0>ition-so!d
themselves for a 'beggarly denier' TO
the p%artizans OF
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American Soil ;

The deteriorati ia of American soils has,
for number of years past, been the sub.
ject of warm discussion with agricIlturists. s.d
the conclusion mas been reached that unless
a different system from that heretofore pur
sued is adopted, the products of the cultivated
acres of the country will not more than be
sufficient to feed our own population. The
value of manures appears to be but imper
fectly understood by American farmers gen
orally, the impression prevailing in most OF
the better agricultural districts that it i,
next to impossible to exhaust their vitality.
The continually decreasing crops com
petely explode this opinion, and the efforts
of scientific men are being energeticaly
directed toward the dissemination of more
rational ideas. Were the same system Of
cultivation pursued in the United States as
in China, we should be able to supply a !
the nations of the earth with food TIL,
Chinese, according to late writer's, who have
closely investigated their system of farming,
are unquestionably the best agrculturist
and horlieulturists in the world. Mt d
particle of manure of any kind is allowed t.
90 to waist. Every portion, however minute,
is jealousy husbanded and applied to tn
soil. The result is that the whole country
so far from being worn out or exhausted, II
as fertile and productive as it was in the days
of Confucius, thousands of years ago. Amer
can farmers mig well take lessons from the
Celestials in regard to the cultivation of TIE
earth.-Er0miper
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The Family Altar.

There are few memories that are so fresh
and powerful in after years as the memories
of the household altar. l can travel back
over the path of forty years and recall the
very tones of my fathers voice, as he reVer
entity read the Bible, and devOutly prayed
in the midst of his family. l can remember
how he prayed for his children, how faith
fully he taught them the lessons of Chris
sian truth and duty in those thOughtless days
Of youth, and bless his memory now for
what did not appreciate then. believe
that the memories of Christian parents and
the early associations of Christian home,
scarcely ever die out of the heart. Some
lines in after life, when the feet of some
hayward man have strayed far away from
the home of youth, and his heart has wan
Tered from his fathers God, some memory
f the past, like the sweet, sad melody Of
;he evening chime, may wake long slumber-
og echoes and stir long sealed fountains
ind afather's dounsels and mothers prayers
viii come up again from the sacred burial
faces of the past with wondrouS power to
oet and win the hayward heart. Yes, a
amily ought to be little Church of Jesus
Christ. The father should be its pastor,
conducting its daily worship and leading the
ear circle in the way of truth and duty.
Every tie which binds one living heart to
mother should be made stronger and more
euder by the influence of common tie to
Jesus. Such household will have happy
ZONE. Their circumstances may be humble
nd their lot may be lowly, bat if they have
Christ in the family there will always be
uushine and peace. That house cannot Sc
ure the highest domestic JOY, which, like
e inn at Bethlehem, has no room for Jesus
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Would Your Loss be Felt9

Live for some purpose in the world. AL
ways act your part we'll Fill up the meas
dre of duty to others. Conduct yourselves
% that you shall be missed with sorrow when
you are gone. Multitudes of our species
re living in such a selfish manner that they
re not likely to be remembered after their
disappearance. They leave behind them
scarcely any traces of their existence, and
are forgotten almost as though they had
,ever been. They are while they live, like
some pebble lying unobserved among a mil
ion on the shore; and when they die, they
re like that same pebble thrown into the
sea, which Just rufles the surface, sinks and
is forgotten, without being missed from the
beach. They are neither regretted by the
rich, mourned by the poor, nor celebrated
by the learned. Who has been the better
for their life? Who has been the worse for
theil death? Whose tears have they dried
up? Whose wants supplied? Whose misery
nave they healed? Who would unbar the
gate of life to readmit them to existence
Or what face would greet them back again
to our world with smile? Wretched, un-
productive existencel Selfshness is its own
curse; it is a starving vice. The man who
Ices no good gets none. He is like the
heath in the desert, neither yielding fruit
or seeing when good cOmeth, stunted,
uiserable shrub.
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Macaulay's Literary Habits.

MacaUlay never wrote In haste, and re-
view everything that he wrote with the
greatest nicely. His first rough draft was
absolutely illegible from erasures and cor
rections 1t was written on official foOlscap,
sith the lines full an inch apart. This,
however, formed but the rough outline of
che essay. When the keel had thus been
aid down, Macaulay began the work OF
duplication and revision, and when that
was complete you could hardly find space on
the page to stick a pins point. Prescott
saw two or three of these pages of the manu-.
script of his history. "You have no con-
ception," he says, 'of the amount of labor
hat one of these sheets of fOolseap repre-
SCENTS. But this manuscript was never sent
tn the printers. 1t was copied out by
Macaulay in hand almost as bold aud legi-
BILE as large plea. Of his habits and hours
f work little is known.
When in London he generally spent most
of the morning in the reading-roOm of the
British Museum, and his evenings at his
esk. His favorite hours Of work, believe,
we're those of the morning. But upon this
Grey. If the work palled him he took up
MS hat and stick and started off for stroll,
generally taking book in his pocket when
in the country. Plautus was his favorite,
and in note to one of his poems he tells US
how he spent many an idle hour rambling
on the beach with his book in his hand, turn.
ing the Rudens of the Roman poet into what
ne supposed to be the original Greek. In
London he varied this diversion by visiting
The book stalls, to pick up rare or original
editions of old books, or by strolling through
the Seven Dials in search of ballads. He
was as fond of these as Sir Walter Scott,
aud spent the whole of one long vacation, it
is said, in stroll through the northern coun-
ties collecting a set.
When living alone in the Albany, Jeffrey
tells US that Macaulay, like Charles Dickens,
often threw down his pen at midnight, and
strolled out into the silent streets, to walk
about for two or three hours. He thought
the silence and solitude of great city favor
able to meditation, and generally returned
TO his desk with a fresh stock of vivid
and picturesque thought. A keen eye, in
looking through Macaulay's Essays, may,
1 think, trace many images and Illustrations
struck out in the course of these rambles.
johnson, in his criticism on Gray, laughed at
this habit of his and Macaulay's, of writing
only when what Byron called the esprit was
on. But it is, l suspect the habit of most
men, with whom writing is any more than
employment. 1t was the habit
of Byron, of Shelley, and of Burns; and it
is habit that is commended by one who
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There are many glorious lights In the ere
alton Of God; but there is none to be com
pared to Him who is the uncreated light.
When, therefore, Jesus said, 81 am the light
Of the world, how thankfully ought those
who heard his words to have rejoieed in it.
But many loved darkness rather than light;
and so it is with many now.
What infinite love breathed in the words
and the works of the Saviour. He beheld
the world lying in darkness; he pitied their
awful state; he came to their dismal abode
that be might bring to them the light of life.
He was ard is "the brightness of the Fathers
glory, and the express image Of his person.
How sad to think that many shut their eyes
sgainst tbs blessed light! Jesus saw this
among those to whom he spoke Therefor,
he said, & Yet little while is the light viii
you" So it proved to them: this was nearl
the last time they ever heard a sermon frou
Him who "spake as never man spake." A
few days after they were gazing on =" Hin
who was cruci6ed." He taught the peOpl'
no more.
How soon the opportunities we enjoy ma,
be gone The child who has piOus parent
knows not how soon they may die, and hOs
soon the voice that now prays for them an
with them, may be hushe5 in the grave
There are many who would tremble, if the,
knew how soon their opportunities Of saliva
ton viii end. Darkness may come to you
at any moment With what feelings d,
many now in the world Of eternal despai
remember the last day of grace they let pa
BY, the last sermon they disregarded, the la
conviction they suppressed.
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How to Spell.


Often, in writing, asimple word is required
of the photography of which the writer Is
not sure. The dictionary may be referred
to, but is not always convenient. An easy
mode is to write the word on piece OF waste
paper, in two or three ways OF which you
are in doubt. Nine times in ten, the
mode which looks right is right Spelling
particularly English spelling, is 50 complete
ly work of the eye, that the eye alone
should be trusted. There is no reason why
"receive" and "believe" should be spelled
differently, yet sounded alike in their second
syllables. Yet write them "recieve and
"beleive," and the eye shows you the mis-
take at once. The best way for young peo'
pie, and, indeed, people of any age, to learn
to spell is to practice writing. Cobbett
taught his children grammar by requiring
that they should copy their lessons two OF
three times These lessons he himself gave
them in the form of letters; and his French
and English grammars are two of the most
amusing books in the English language
Of course clearing to spell" came in Incl
dentally.
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What a Horse will Eat.

The following answer to a correspondell
is from Hearth and Home:
A horse weighing from ten to twelve hun
dred pounds will eat about six tons Of hay
or its equivalent, in year. And we sup
pose the real point our young farmer Cor
respondent wishes to get at is, whether he
can keep his horses cheaper on some Other
product than hay. This is an exceedingly
difficult question to answer-it depends So
much on circumstances. We shall not at
tempt to answer it fully at shis time, but will
merely say that, 8 our opi61on, three and
half tons of corn stalks, and two and half
tons of corn would keep horse year il
fully as good condition as six tons of good
hay. Two and half tons of corn would be
nearly ninety bushels. And if our cor
respondent raises sixty bushels of shelled
corn per acre, he may conclude that it will
take one and half acres to keep a horse a
year-or, what is more practical way of
looking at it, it will take three quarters Of
an acre of good corn to keep horse through
six months winter.
We may estimate also that it will take
three and half tons of oat straw, and two
and half tons of oats to keep horse
year. A bushel of oats weighs thirty-two
pounds. so that it will take over 155 bushels
and three and a half tons of straw to keep
horse year. 1t would take about two acres
of good land to produce this amount.
For the present purpose, we may assume
that fve tons of rutabagas is equivalent to
one ton of good hay; SO that horse would
require thirty tons in a year! As this state
ment may stagger our young friend, it may
be well to say that Stephens, in his Book of
the Farm, says: can OK will eat about
ton (2240 lbs. of turnips every week. A
two year old Short-horn OK will consume
twenty-six tons, and three year old thirty
tons of turnips in $50 days"
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u drp.

SWAMP MUoK.-Swamp muck is begin
ming to create quite an interest among agri
cultural men throughout the country. Som,
of our farmers in South Jersey have thou0
ands of tons of swamp muck, in many places
from three to six feet deep. Some have ex
perimented with it, and believe it to equa
our best mari as fertilizer, and it can b,
used at much less cost. Mr.. Jesse Barratt
near Shiloh, used it dried ADD pulVerized OF
his corn last summer, and, Notwithstanding
the dry weather, says he never had better
crop. He has since constructed in his swamp
a railroad and car, and has taken out large
lot to use the present year. Many Others
have large quantities on their own farms
worth many thousands of dollars. The Cos
of nature has placed it at our own doors
aud all we have to do is to dig it out.
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should be all manly and noble, with these
dreadful pictures of sin and guilt.
1 have said nothing about those poisonous
books-low and vulgar-that sometimes find
their way secretly into some boys pocket
I trust there is no need to caution you
against these. Never, never, read anything
you would blush to have your mother or
sister see. Read but pray be careful what
YOU read.-Hearth and Home.
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JAMES ARMSTRONG & co.
81, 90, & 81 Concord st 8, 8, 10 W Falls Avenue,
BALTIMoRE, MD.

81, 90, 81 Concord St 8, 8, 10 W. Falls Avenue,
BALTIMORE, Md.
Manufacture and keep constantly on hand their
celebrated brands of FAMILY SOAPS, embracing
BEST FAMILY, MAMMOTH LAUNDRY, CHEMICAL
OLIVE, AND woMAN's FRIEND &C.
All of which are warranted pure and equal to any
Northern soaps now on the market.
ap 26-6m
CALL AND SEE THE LATEST STYLES OF
RICH JEWELRY and SILVER WARE, now
opening at NOWLAN & CO.'S. New Sets Pins
and Ear drops, Enameled Bands, Handkerchief Hold
ers, Bosom and Sleeve Buttons, and superb Silver
ware, for bridal presents, Pitchers, Spoons, Forks
Goblets, &C., &c, corner of Main and Tenth SITS.
THos NoWLAN. RoBT. E. MACoMBER
NOWLAN g. CO.,
Corner Main and Tenth Streets, above Post Office
RICHMOND, Va.
Diamonds, Fine Watches, Jewelry and
Silverware.
ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS.
Special attention given to the Repairs of Fine
Watches and Jewelry.
p6~ HAIR JEWELRY made to order.
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A USEFUL HINT TO MILKERs:-A lady
correspondent of the PlOughman recommends
the application of a strong decoction OF tan
min, as speedy and efectual cure for sore
ness in the teats and udder of COW. 1t
may be obtained at the drug stores, and
few cents worth is sufficient. In places
where the prepared drug cannot be readily
obtained, strong tea made of oak or hem
lock bark, and applied twice day for few
days in succession will be found to answer
the purpose nearly as well
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Central Qresbpterian.
Office No. 1015 Main street, nearly opposite
the Post Office.
TIE r ms.


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party sending can make the estimate by counting
eight words to line. Payment Invariably in adj
UGnce.
ADVERTISEMENTS. Presbyterian paper offers
SO good medium for this purpose in Virginia and
West Va. Terms moderate: Circulars furnished Oh
application.
CONCENTRATIONS AND LETTERS or BUSINESS
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Il. Richmond, Va. -
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IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR LAND
SURVEYING.
INVENTED BY

]. M. LILLEY, staunton, Virginia.
THIS INSTRUMENT has been adopted al the
United States Military Academy, West Point; Wash
ington College, Va, and many of the leading Insti
tutions of learning of the country, and is recon.
mended by the Professors of Mathematics and En-
cheering, and by Practical Surveyors who have
used it, as superior to any instrument in use for
the purposes for which it is designed.
Send for Circular containing description of In.
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Orders filed promptly.
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Or the following Agents: Messrs. StacIpole &
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isville, KY, A. S. Aloe, st. Louis, Mo.
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ESTABLISHED IN 1874.
BOOKS, STATIONERY, PIANO FORTES
AND MUSIC!
Book Bindery and Blank Book Mandatory
PAPER BOX FACTORY!

The subscribers have had in operation for the last
twenty years, in connection with their Bookstore;
first class Book Bindery and Blank Book Manufac
tory and within the last three years they have es
tablished Paper Box Factory.
They are now prepared to furnish Banks, Bank
ers, Merchants Insurance Companies, Judges, Law
yers Clerks of Courts, Treasurers of Counties,
Sherifs, Colleges Schools, Registers, Assessors,
and all other persons,
BLANK BOOKS,
of any style or size, made in the best manner and
at reasonable prices. They are also prepared to
make to order at short notice, and in large or small
quantities,
Paper Boxes of any Size or Pattern,
Such as are used by Tobacconists, Druggists, Con
iectioners, Grape Growers, &c
We are making every effort in our power to build
up and sustain the trade and manufactures OF our
city-give employment to our own people, and keep
our money at home as much as possible We there
fore feel justified in inviting all persons who need
any article in our line of business to give us call,
assuring them that we will do our utmost to give
satisfaction, both in the quality and price of our
goods Respectfully,
&C l2-Sm WO0DHOUSE & PARHAM
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CURE FOR Hay FEvER.-The Rev. H H.
Wood, curate of Hemigford, Abbots, Hunt
ingdonshire, England, writes that this shay
fever" may be instantly relieved by bathing
the nostrils, and the closed eyelids with
spirits of camphor and warm water.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
TO
CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS.
all Retail Orders amounting to $50 and Over Deliv
cred in any part Of the Country Free of
Express Charges.

HAMILTON EASTER & SONS,
OF BALTIMORE, Nd,
In order the better to meet the wants Of their Retail
Customers at distance, have established
SAMPLE BUREAU
and will, upon application, promptly send by mail
full lines of Samples of the Newest and most Fash
onable Goods, of FRENCH ENGLISH and Do
MESIIC Manufacture, qua anteeng at all times to
sell as lot0, if not at less prices, than any house in
the country
Buying our goods from the largest and most cele,
brated manufacturers in the different pats of Eu
rope and importing the same by steamers direct to
Bait more our stock is at all times promptly sup
oiled with The novelties of the London and Paris
markets.
AS we buy and sell only for cash, and make no bad
debts We are able and willing to sell our goo Is al
from TEN TO FIFTEEN PER CENT LESS PRoFIT than
if we gave credit.
In sending for samples srecify the kind of goods
desired. We keep the best grades of every class Of
goods, from the lowe to the most costly
Orders unaccompanied by the cash will be sent
G. o. D.
PRoMP PAYING Wholesale BUYERS are invited
to inspect the Stock in our Jobbng and Package de
partment. Address
HAMILTON EASTER SON,
1877, 1879, POI and 2O3 West Baltimore ST..
oc 19-ly Baltimore Md.
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1T IS A PLEASANT THOUGHT that for Chris
tians there are "heevenly places" where
they are blest with
If they be heavenly, .ney must have some
thing of heaven about them; so that, while
on earth, we can have foretastes of the life
to come. Amid all the sweet influences of
the Gospel, Christians have right to feel
they are in the enjoyment of heaven begun.
As compared with what will be, it is very
small; but the quality is the same. The
JOY beside the throne is the joy of heavenly
places here below, only that it is infinitely
increased. In good Christian homes where
there is family altar, in the prayer meeting
or any social religious circle, but most of all III
the house of God at the communion table,
are found the heavenly places The pity
and the surprise is, that SO few are found to
frequent them.
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STANDARD PERIODICALS FOR 1871.
Republished by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,
l40 Fulton Street, New York.
|. The Edinburgh Review.

INDISPENSABLE TO ALL DESTROYS OF BEING WELL
INFORMED Of THE @ Eat SUBJECTS OF THE DAY.