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Year: 1868

1t Is solemn thing to grow out ofyouth and
not be Christian. 1t is solemn thing for a
young man to grow up into manhood and not
be Christian. 1t is solemn thing for parents
to wait for their children to get into the trough
OF the sea before they attempt to bring them to
the Lord Jesus Christ 1t is a solemn thing
to abandon child to hope, and chance, and
promise, when all growth beyond youth is wrong
growth, buy an old place OF careless man.
and find that the grape trellises have been neg.
lected until the vines have gone in and out. in
and out, twisting themselves around the trellis.
l.look at it for awhile and say to my gardner:
See here; which is the cheapest-to take that
vine and burn it, and plant new vine there,
or undertake to trim this up, and give it a new
start and endeavor to train it right" He would
say that 1t was about six of one and about half
dozen of the other. On the whole, it is bet
ter to plant new root, than to seek to change
the old vine Is not this true in regard to
great many men To undertake to untwist
and unlock those garden branches which are
twired around their life, is it not like taking
the very root out of them? How many are
there who know this from experience Con-
ceive yourself as being again in the state of
child, and your whole life as conforming to the
wish of your Father who is in heaven; what
mighty change would that be ~,
Year: 1868

BLESSED ARE PAYING SUBSCRIBERS
ed is the man who doth subscribe for the Spec
tator and pay therefor. His feet shall not stand
on slippery places; he shall not be forsaken by
his friends or prosecuted by his enemies, nor
his children be seen begging.


Blessed is he that walketh to the office of the
printer, yea even ascendeth to the sanctum, and
payeth year subscription in advance Se-lah !
He shall learn wisdom day by day, and be exalt-
ed above his fellows


He shall talk knowingly upon all subjects, and
his neighbors shall be astonshed at the much
ness of his learning.


He shall not contract bad debts or lose good
bargains.


He shall not pay additional per cent on his
taxes, for his eyes shall behold the notice of the
collector. and he will take warning thereby.


Verify, he shall bring his produce to the mar
ket when the prices are exceedingly good and
withhold when prices descend.


His children shall not vex him, nor his wife
wear the breeches.


He shall live to good old age, and when his
dying hour is at hand, his soul shall not be troub
ed as to its future state.
Year: 1868

Theology is a science religion spirit. The
mere theoogian may prosecute his task in a
logical and exact manner, but the system he
erects may be as dry and lifeless as statue or
a skeleton. v
Year: 1868

seeing that all our experience goes to show that


the worst invariably comes first in San Francis
co earthquakes-and the merchants generally
commenced closing their stores. By 10 A. M.


business was pretty generally suspended, not
because apprehension was felt to any extent of
further damage or danger, but because the ex-
citement was so great that no business could
we'll be transacted. The Stock Exchange met
and adjourned for the day without transacting
any business The streets were filled with peo-
ple-men, women and children" seeing the
sights, congratulating each other that it was
no worse, and chatting and laughing and run
ming about generally, as if at a show or fair
The impression stranger would gain from the
faces of those ON the streets would be that
some pleasurable excitement had occurred
Certainly there was nothing in the appearance
of our people to indicate that great calamity
had befallen them, or that their confidence in
the stability of San Francisco had been shaken
for moment
Year: 1868

Row AT A CE-HoUsE.-Samuel Clark
son (colored) was before the police court
yesterday charged with cutting Pinky
johnson with razer. The witness being
TOO badly cut to attend, the case was CONT
nued until this morning. The officer who
was sent to bring her into court represented
that she was very badly cut in the back and
across her face. She says the wounds were
inflicted with o razor in the hands of Clark
son. The row occurred at ball given by
Clarkson at his dance-house on Cary street,
redolent of bad whiskey and all uncleanli-
ness, and frequently the scene of drunken
brawls. Clarkson states that the cutting
was not malicious, and that the weapon was
not razor, but pair of scissors.
Year: 1868

HORSE SToLEN.-Lieutenant Fleming, OF
the Eleventh infantry, lost fine iron-grey
stallion and handsome buggy on Thursday
morning. The horse was standing near
the Lieutenant's quarters at Camp Grant,
when somebody jumped in and drove
off in a hurry. The thief is supposed
to be George Ridgway, private in compa-
ny A, who it is said was seen driving the
horse down Brook avenue on Thursday eve
ming. The police are on his track.
Year: 1868

FOUND DRowNED.-A white man, name
unknown, was found floating in the dock
yesterday. The body indicated the man to
be about forty years Of age, and had appa-
rently been in the water some time, as it
was very much swollen and discolored.
The jury returned verdict of accidental
drowning.
Year: 1868

PosTPoNEMENT.-The race announced to
come off over the Jackson Park Course
Thursday was postponed on account of the
inclemency of the weather, the track being
100 heavy to permit the horses to engage in
the contest. The race is now announced to
come off on Tuesday afternoon next, and
will be one of the most exciting of the sea-
Year: 1868

WASHINGTON, Jan 27.-The new
treaty between the United States and
the Feejee Islands has just been re-
ccived at the State Department. 1t
is rather vague in point of stipula-
tions and eccentric in form, consist
ing of an immense tooth of a whale,
richly variegated in colcr, and to the
side of which is attached a strongly
twisted grass cord, which serves as a
handle or as binding to the treaty.
The Laval agent, who delivered the
tooth, was instructed to say to the
President that it was treaty by
which the King of the Feejees mort
gagged his Islands to the Z. States
for the payment of the instrument or
indemnity due the United States to
continue for three years; the Presi-
dent, on his part, to agree to prevent
the rival Feejee King from levying
war against the legitimate sovereign
during the continuance Of the mort
gage. On being asked how the trea-
ty was to be ratified and exchanged,
the agent said his instructions were
that if the President accepts the tooth
the treaty is established. If he de-
clines the treaty, he is to return the
tooth to the King of the Feejees.-
The tooth was wrapped in rude cloth
made from the inner bark of tree,
without spinning or weaving. 1t is
not known whether this singular trea.
ty will be sent to the Senate for rati-
fcation.-COr. Bait. Gazette.
Year: 1868

a Boston newspaper mentions a
very delicate, ingenious and beautiful
machine, which has recently been
constructed. This machine will take
a portion of a tree, after it has been
CD the right length and width, and
slave II into thin ribbons as wide as
roll of house paper, making one
hundred and fifty to the inch. These
rolls arc placed on walls by paper
hangers with paste and brush, pre-
cisely in the same manner as paper.
The wood is wet when used, and real
J., works easier than paper, because
it is more tough and pliable. In these
days, when variety is sought for, one
can finish house in different woods
to suit his taste. One room can be
finished in birds eye maple, another
in cherry, another in chestnut, ano-
thcr in white wood. Thus there is no
imitation, but the genuine article is
upon the walls. The longer the wood
hanging remains on the wall the more
distinct will be the grain and color of
the wood.
Year: 1868

EXERCISE The development of
Drawn is the muscular Christianity of
these modern times. Few men ac-
customed to outdoor labor know
much of the pains and aches incident
to men of letters. You farmer men,
God gives you the sleep of the child
sound, sonorous sleep. You men
of the anvil and the lathe, you too
seek tired natures sweet rcstorcr,
ballny sleep, with will. But ah,
how different with the merchant, the
lawyer, the clergyman, all profession
al men, and to a large extent conf
mercial men and mechanics. 1t is
hard enough for the editor, for exam
pie, to work over paper, pen in hand
all day and into night, and then when
the Pickering lamp of night grows
pale and sick, to drag himself off to
dozc, to dream Of his task not yet
done, to hear the clamor of printers
for more copy, to ransack papers and
periodicals all night, to stoop over
tile forms, to deal a blow at that evil,
to receive and parry thrust from
this quarter, and then rise in the
gray dawn to jade ones life or to the
end. Now, just so it is in business
of every kind. Sleep is.the restorer
of nature, worth more than all the
doctors Of Christeniom. How to
get it is the question. How to get
it? Nothing easier; get weary in
body as we'll as in mind. This then
is our law. No sane man, who. cx-
poets TO remain sana mems an corporc
sano, ought TO forget that he has two
beings, a natural and Il spiritual one.


The mind and the body; weary one,
and it never rests; weary the otlIer,
and it drags down into sort Of COM
pulsivc slunlber the whole man. A
man of letters ought to be in some
outdoor employment six hours out OF
twelve. Seven to exercise, seven to
the mind, seven to sleep, three to
meals, and all to God, is o good rule.
Year: 1868

ISpFCIdf DlspdtCn 70 me Stff-


NEW YORK, Feb. i5.-At meeting of the Union
League last evening it was resolved that the
resolution passed by the club in 1863 on the
subject of a medal in commemoration of the
preservation Of the republic to be struck by
Congress and presented in their names 20 the
surviving soldiers and sailors who served tn.
country during the war, and TO the children OF
those who lost their lives i'm the contest be re-
ferred anew TO a special committee with in
siructions 10 prepare a memorial 10 Congress,
skiing their early and favorable consideration
OF the enactment OF such a memorial of the war
as a national tribute 10 the army and the navy.
Year: 1868

IT did not req lire the late elections
to convince the New York World
that BLA1R's revolutionary letter was
running the Democracy, but it insisted
that he recalled his letter when he
accepted the nomination. A short
time before the election it said:


If there is anything 10 his Broad
head letter inconsistent with the plat
form, he renOunced it when he accept
ed the nomination.


But to this Brick PoMERoY rejoins /:
FRANK BLAIR's letter is a part Of
the platform. Thank God, he is not
Marble that can wabble backward
and forward Fl m platform to plat
form like sick rat for toasted cheese
He wrote that letter for two human
reasons. First. He knew what he
meant, and wished the public TO know
It, too. Second He desired a nomi.
nation and deemed that good way
to get it. He was right, it seems, aud
no man caa more heartily despise the
Journal that insiduously opens the
door for a dishonorabIe retreat than
he"
Year: 1868

We learn from the indianapolis
Journal that Governor BAKER has
received earnest invitations to go to
New York and aid in the canvass
there Although he has earned re-
spite from further labor by his ardu-
Gus campaign at home. it is thought
he will acc pt the invitation, and
make limited number of speeches in
favor OF the Union in the Empire
State. At the close of his joint de-
bate with Senator HENDRIcKs. this
invitation may be considered a great
compliment to the ability with which
he conducted his share of that dis
cussion.
Year: 1868

was accepted .1y the Committee. by
adding to the second clause of the
said article the following words: and
such consent shall not be given by
the General Convention until it re-
ceives satisfactory assurance of a suit
able provision for the support of the
Episcopate in the contempla ted new
Diocese"


The debate contipued up to 3
o'clock, when a vote was reached.


Adjourned.
Year: 1868

Our dispatches this morning seem
to settle the question as to who is
elected Governor. Official returns
from rearly all Of the counties make
Governor BAKERS majority at least
1,000s 1t is probable complete returns
will increase rather than diminish
this majority
Year: 1868

DEMOCRATIC LOVE FOB LABoRING MEN
The Democrats express unboundsd
love for laboring men; their favorite
watch word is, that money good enough
for the laboring man is good enough for
the wealthy aristocrat-a proposition
which nobody disputes, and is therefore
useless buncombe. But the Dem ocracy
love the laboring men so. they have to
keep telling Of it. They showed their
love for laboring men by holding several
millions Of them in bondage. and COM
pelling them to labor for nothing. no,
even feeding and clothing them decsntly.
They made war upon the government.
and committed sll manner of crime and
outrage, to establish this peculiar love on
. 6rm basis, and are now raising howl
because they are not permitted to com.
pei laboring men to work for nothing
They loved the laboring men so dearly,
thst il one went South, be was compelled
to work in composition with slaves. A
man working for wages in competition
with unpaid labor. bad 6ns thing Of il
under Democratic rule. And to-day, 4
the Democratic party were in power.
without forminabIe opposition. not only





the negroes. but the poor white men
would be slaves to the aristocratic rich.
Bot the Democracy love the lsboring
men so. and want them to have the same
ind NJ nonev that the rich man hava
Year: 1868

The Peach Prospect. t.-Intelligcn peach
growers in this vicinity concur in the opin-
ION that there will not be more than half a
crop this year. Fully one half Of the buds
have been killed by the rigors of the win
ter.
Year: 1868

A young lady, whilst out sleighing the
other night, near Pittsburg, was thrown
out of the sleigh, her head striking so
violently that she was insensible for some
time. The physician who was called gave
it as his opinion that had it not been for
her waterfall she would have been killed.
Year: 1868

Fearful that they would be beaten in
Florida, even over the bayonet and over
tho negro vote, the Radical managers at
Washington caused the negro and car
pet bag Legislature to pass an act vest
ing in themselves the choice of Presi-
Dental Electors, and taking it away
from the people altogether! One of the
electors is negro. There is no language
in which such an act of rascality can
be sufficiently condemned. Only the
most scandalous party would entertain
such an idea for a moment. 1t is rob
berry of the people of their highest and
dearest rights. What would have been
thought if the present Democratic Leg
islature of Ohio had refused to allow
our people to vote for President, and,
| like that in Florida, had chosen the
Electors themsslvesf Such an act would
have led to forcible revolution among
our population.


But this disfrancisement of Florida
by coup detdt upon the part of the so.
called Legislature is worthy of the par
ty which totally DISTINGUISHED Virginia,
Mississippi and Texas by pretended
act of Congress; and which, in Tennes-
see, Missouri and all the old slave
States, rules by the power of the bayo-
net and other acts Of revolutionary vlo-
lence. There is nothing that this party
will not do to retain its Ill gotten and
usurped power. 1t has the desperation
of the old French Jacobin organization
without its honesty or manliness.
Year: 1868

Very few of the sudden deaths which
are said to arise from disease of the
heart do really arise from that cause.
Te ascertain the real origin of sudden
deaths an experiment has been tried in
Europe, and reported to a scientific
congress at StrasbuTg. Sixty-six cases
of sudden death were made the subject
of a thorough post mortem examina-
ton: in these cases only two were found
who had died from disease of the heart.
Nine ont of sixty-six had died from ap-
oplexy, while there were fortysix cases
Of congestion of the luugs-that is, the
lungs were so full of blood that they
could not work, not having room enough
for a sufficient quantity of air to sup
port life. The causes that produce con-
gestion of the lungs are cold feet, tight
clothing, costive bowels, sitting still
until chilled after being warmed with
labor or a rapid walk, going too sud
denly from a close room into the air,
especially after speaking, and sudden,
depressing news operating on the bloed.
These causes of sudden death being
known, an evidence of them may serve
to lengthen many valuable lives, which
would otherwise be lost under the yer.
dict of heart complaint. That disease
is supposed TO be inevitable and incura-
BILE; hence, many may not take the
pains they would to avoid sudden
death, if they knew it lay in theiI
power.
Year: 1868

The Ohio Farmer, of last week, gives
the following account of the slaughter
of sheep in a portion of that State:


The sheep hoeks of Ohio are being
slaughtered at terrible rate. From
all quarters we have the same reports
the farmers are discouraged and disgust
ed with the sheep business, and are
determined to get cut of it in the same
way that the warrior in old times un'
tied a hard knot-by cutting their way
out, in cutting the throats of the sheep,
This is q very direct aud sure way OF
settling the business, IN u way that IL
will stay settled, until the tide shall set
in the other direction, when they VIII
rally back into wool growing as reck'
lessly as they now rush out of 1T, by
cutting the throats of their cows, hoSs,
or whatever else shall stand IN the way
of their next change.


We have the names of four men, In
three townships of the county OF Lo-
rain, who are slaughtering fifteen thou
sand sheep at this time. The sheep are
bought up in whole tlocks-good bad
and iudifferent-at all average price OF
about sixty-fye cents per head. Among
these are fat wethers and good breeding
stock of fair grade Merinos. In conse-
quence of the early and abundant
growth of fall feed since the rains OF
August, sheep are in good condition,
and they are put into the cauldrons all
together, reservipg only the hams of the
best conditioned sheep, to be cured aud
sold for meat. The principal object is
the pelts, which alone pay fair profit
on the whole purchase, leaving what
ever is made from hams and tallow as
a surplus profit.


We learn from our Western ex-
changes. that the slaughter is being
carried on in that direction, much after
the same fashion as in Ohio.


All we have to say i'll the matter is,
if a farmer has flock of good sheep,
which he has carried over until this
time, and now thinks of throwing them
away after this manner-doat you do It !!
Year: 1868

In one of the hydraulic mines III Cal
ifornia, stream of water struck man
named Edward Tyler and threw him
down and broke his neck. His body
below the neck was completely paraly-
zed at once, but the head lived for three
days and felt as well as ever.
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people 10 be self-rsliant, and shall do what we
may be able 20 induce the establishment OF
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
ducis. To this end we will pay special attention
% the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
aad exert ourselves to encourage the diversil-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent of Southern resourcos
Year: 1868

CANCERS They have had an extensive Prae-
tice and wonderful success in the treatment Of
Cancers, which they cure without eating them out
or using the Knife. Let those who have Tum0rs
and Swellings or a red spot, lose no time in haV-
ing it attended to, as timely treatment may save
cathem from the horrors, suffering and death OF
Year: 1868

THE MIXTURE OF RAcEs.-Agassiz, in
his lately published work on Brazil, has the
following on the mixture of races:


"Let any one who doubts the evil of this
mixture of races, and is inclined, from mis-
taken philanthropy, to break down the bar
riers between them, come to Brazil. He
cannot deny the deterioration consequent
upon an amalgamation of races more wide
spread than in any other country in the
world, and which is rapidly effacing the best
qualities of the white man, the negro and
the Indian, leaving mongrel nondescript
type, deficient in physical and mental energy.
Alta time when the new social status Of
the negro is a subject of vital Importance
in our craftsmanship, we should profit by
the experience Of country where though
slavery exists, there is far more liberty. to-
wards tho free negro than he has ever en-
joyed in tho United States. Let us learn
the double lesson, open all the advantages
Of education to the negro, and givo him
evory chance Of success which culture gives
10 tho man who knows how to use il, but
respect tho laws Of nature, and let all our
dealings with the black man tend to preserve
as far as possible, tho distinctness Of his M.
tional characteristics, and tho integrity Of
our own"
Year: 1868

The negroes in tho negro Republic Of
Hayti are never at rest. Some new Revo-
luton Of a bloody character is always the or.
der Of the day. The latest news from that
model African government is interesting
The war between Salnavc and the Cacos is
still raging. The Cacos made an assault up
on the chief city Of the Island on the morn
ing of the Sd inst. and were repulsed with
heavy loss. All of the prisoners captured
were butchered by the troops in the most
expeditions and approved negro fashion.
Salnave had endeavored to effect a compro-
mise with the southern rovolutionists upon
the condition that they should unite with
him in rcpelling the Cacos. The PROPOSE.
ton was Indignantly rejected, and the happy
and highly civilized negro republicans were
still vigorously at work slaughtering each
other at the last accounts.


This specimen Of African civilization and
capacity for government must commend it.
self strongly to Gen. Grant and the support
ers of the infamous Chicago platform, which
pledges the Republican party to the estab-
lishment and perpetuation of negro supre-
macy in ten States of the Union.