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Year: 1869

The Disfranchisers are paralyzed-
Their hopes of building up permanent
State organization on the prescription and
and oppression of the white people Of the
State. to the injury of the blacks them
selves. for whom they have made hypo-
critical professions of regard, have faded.
Their air castles have vanished The
moment the PEOPLE resolved to have the
problems of the day solved by accepting
the ticket and the platform ofthe Liberal
Republicans, the occupation of the Egg
gleston-AIcorn faction was gone.


Universal Amnesty and Universal Suf-
frage, the Oppression of none, and the
Equal Rights of all, is the true republi-
can doctrine which is sweeping the land,
North and South, like food-tide. 1t is
the secret Of the Walker triumph over
the DISTINGUISHES in Virginia, and of the
Senter triumph over the faction which
answers to the Eggleston-Alcorn crew in
this State; and it means Peace, without
which there can be no real prosperity.
This is the line on which the people Of
Mississippi are moving grandly
and triumphantly from the Sea-shore to
the Tennessee line. Inspired by the ex-
ampIes which have delivered seventy-fve
thousand freeborn Tenneseeans from
bondage, and which have removed the
clouds that cast their shadows over the Old
Dominion, let us press forward to the end
There must be no break in the line; NJ
sign of faltering in the column.
Year: 1869

Col. Vaughn, editor of the Oxonian,
Radical paper is attempting to drag the
record of the gallant 18th Mississippi
Regiment, of which he was at one time
the leader, through the political cess-poOl
and filthy mire in which he is now strug-
Cling. 1t is better that he should let the
dead past bury its dead, that to awake
memories of what he was in comparison
with what he is We all once admired
Col. Vaughan, the gallant leader of a
gallant regiment, and we have not words
to express the regret that we feel when
we know that his associates now are COM
posed principally of Confederate deserters
and Federal bummers.
Year: 1869

Referring to the latest and the weakest
of all the lodges Of the Egglestc.--Alcorn
factiOnists to escape the defeat which their
manifold crimes as attested by the iniqui-
tous clauses of their rejected constitution;
by their attempt to force il on the people
against their will, and by their endorse
ment of all the. infamies of the Ames
Administration-will bring upon them,
the Meridian Gazette says:


We suppose the meaning Of this Is TO run
DIR. Compton or some other Conservative on
the Radical State ticket, and distribute q few
offices over the State to those they have been
pleased 10 denominate ''rebels." We rather
like this, and feel gratifed that the Pilot
has declared for universal suffrage and
universal amnesty" We cannot help, how
ever, commencing to the Pilot his ''fhomp-
son" story, and would advise the next time
TO nedr longer coat or stedl a shorter cod .dsh.


On which our plain-spoken cotemporary
of the Iuka Gazette, comments


We should like to know upon what au-
thority our tempOrary mixes up the name
OF DIR. Compton with any Radical swindle.
We have had no interview with the Doctor.
but we take the liberty to say that there Is
not the least foundation for any such charge
against this hi2htoned, honorable gentleman,
ne would not touch one Of the filthy crew
with pair Of tongs.


We have no doubt the disclaimer Of the
Gazette for DIR. Compton is entirely cor
rect. Indeed, toe hare reason TO k,0iO that
It Is. But the Doctor is great joker,
and will have his fun sometimes. Will
our neighbor Of the Pilot tell us all about
the Water Valley conference and the
Memphis caucus?
Year: 1869

Let us hear about the Memphis and
Water Valley conferences, Mr.. Pilot?
What "home folks were there, and how
much do they ask for the use of their
names, in this, the hour of need TO the
Radical party? Tell us whether the
General Commanding will give his
consent to the trade? And if he does,
what does he propose to do with his inn
ported office holders? Come, let US have
it. If you are to be the organ of the
"home folks" do as they do; have no Sc
crets and private meetings in hidden
places.
Year: 1869

Let vote Of thanks be accorded by
the people to every conservative who hav-
ing been designated for place on the
State or Congressional Ticket, will rise
above the temptation, and subordinate
personal preferment to the public good
Of these there are many in our State. -
The Summit Times publishes a commu-
nication recommending Col. StOckdale
for Congress in the Sea Shore District,
by Il statement that he will
not permit his name to he used. "He is7
(says the Tines ''too true n man to his
"friends and his State, to jeopardize the
"interests of either for the sake Of per
"sonal preferment. In good time it will
''be in order to elect such men as Stock
"dale."
Year: 1869

A hesitating cotemPorary, standing on
the brink of the great popular movement
fol-. the deliverance Of our State from Mil
itary despotism and the restoration Of
civil rule as the basis of Equal Rights to
all, asks if we are mot going too FAST"
Never too fast in the right direction. We
must beat the Bitter-Enders out of sight.
Year: 1869

The Vicksburg Herald advocates a
Democratic Convention, to assemble not
later than the 21st of next month; and
saws that the people will respond to a call
from the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee! Is it possible that the Herald is
ignorant Of the fact that here is no such
committee in existanee, and has not been
since the constitutional election in 1868 2
The idea of attempting Democratic or
ganization now, is simply absurd aud
would be ruinous 10 the State.
Year: 1869

Gen. Ames will not arrive for several
days. He has gone to Minnesota where
he has an interest in a Touring mill. If
he is not more successful in grinding wheat
than he is politics, he will become bank
rupt indeed. His political mill in Mis-
sissippi is sadly out of fix.
Year: 1869

The Holly Springs Reporter in an ar
ticle which appeared some time since, said
that all the signers of the call for the Con
servative Republican Convention, which
met on the 23d of Jtne last, were Pro-
scriptionists during last year. We made
no allusion to the statement then for We
believed that when the Reporter took n
second thought it would discover. that it
was mistaken, and we felt sure that The
Reporter would correct the error it had
fallen into. AS we expected, in its last
issue it corrects the statement so far as
Judge Field, of Lowndes county is con-
cened. We will assure the Reporter that
we know of other gentlemen who signed
that call who were opposed to the Constitu-
ton, as submitted last year And we know
also that most of those gentlemen, in fact
all with few exceptions, gave their time,
influence, and means to defeat the scheme
of the Committee of Five.
Year: 1869

A SPLENDID FURNISHED ROOM, WITH ALCovE
u TO let, to gentleman and wife or single gentleman
with Boar1 hot and cold water in bath the same
floor. Also two handsome Rooms third noor Apply a
i2s East Twenty second street.
Year: 1869

KEEPING PoTAToEs.-It Is n bad
plan to place potatoes against the
damp walls Of a cellar, or TO put them
in large, deep bins, whore they will
be likely to gather moisture If bins
are used, the bottom should be made
Of strips, with small spaces left
between, to admit air. Barrels or
open boxes are also good, as we'll as
convenient vessels, in which TO keep
potatoes, and whenever it is necessary
to look over and pick out decayed
tubers, it is more easily done than
when large number Of bushels are
placed in one heap or bin Cellars in
which potatoes arc kept should not be
too light, because It will, as every
farmer knows, make them turn green,
and ibjuro their flavor and value
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1869

IL Is not every man who can keep a
hotel. In fact not one man in a hnn.
dred is fit by nature or education %
Gil so laborious and responsible po-
sition. The old style Of taverns of the
years agone man might keep and
not hurt him much, providing there
was nothing TO do but entertain two
persons day, raise garden stuff, take
care of horse, keep a hot fire in the
barroom in winter or cool sert in
summer, with an occasional change OF
water in the rinsing tub, pan, pail or
slop.dish.


Hotel. keeping is science. II re.
quires brain and knowledge of human
nature. A man must know his bust
ness TO keep hotel successfully
Folks amt now as they used to be.
They 20 quicker travel faster, and do
not stay so long.


Two thousand miles to day is no m lore
than twenty miles twenty years ago
Men act differently, think differently,
feel differently, are different.


They are bolder, quicker, more reck.
less, more independent, and less caring
for public opinion. They give andre
quire more attention now than then.


There are travellers and stay at
homes. There are men who want at.
tention, expect to pay for it, are enti-
tied to it. If they do not find it at
homo, they do at a hotel, if it is well
kept.


And the hotel.


1t should be neat, clean, in order
The best should always be given, and
in abundance. Then people like to
stop there, and are in less mood to
hasten away. The table should be
neatly set-viands clean, rooms in or.
der with conveniences handy.


And the hotel keeper


He should be a good natured, social,
well informed man OF dignity, yet able
to give and take a joke. He should
know of human nature from contact
therowitb. Heshould be a good heart
ed man, who can introduce himself to
guests, and make old people and timid
ones from the country somewhat un-
used to travel, to city and hotel ways,
to feel perfectly at home.


There are those who never stopped
at hotel before-who do not under.
stand just how to act--who are timid
in asking for what they want, or for
information. The genuine landlord
win care for all such with extra at.
tention.


And he should be able to give infor-
nation about roads, routes, best time
to goand come, cost of going, &c. And
he should do this without erumbling
-as If 90 do so with pleasure. And
he should give more Information, new
or less than asked for.


Aud he should act as If those who
were his guests were ladies and gen.
tlomen, till he knows to the contrary.
Should greet them kindly, be not in
quisitive, nor yet distant, bold, haugh-
ty and stuck up, as if all he wanted
was the money.


And he shonld be in the dining room
before and at meal times. A word
here and thero-a little Of this one
aud that oue-a looking TO see that
all are well served, and the poor wait.
cd on with the rich. And then he should
speak and act as though his guests
were his friends, and be interested in
their happiness and comfort Such
men know how to keep hotel. Who
Of our landlord readers can GIL the
bill 7 We know many who cana
few cannot.-Brick Pomeroy
Year: 1869

CIGARMAKERs' INTERNATIONAL CoNyRN.
rIoN.-At the session Of the Gigarmakers' In.
ternatonal Convention In Chicago this week
resolutions were adopted "that the President
OF The International Union Is authorized To
issue an amnesty proclamation TO the unfair
men OF our craft" and "that each local union
snail, upon the pas sage OF this resolution, open
their books for the imitation OF all unfair man
working under this jurisdiction upon the pay.
ment Of the Initiation fee. This shall in no
case allow a local union TO elect cigarmakers
VINO may have money indorsed upon their
cards" Eighty.seven unions are Represented
in this convention
Year: 1869

ASSAULT AND BATTERY AND RESISTING AN
OFFIcER.-Yesterday Jane johnson, colored,
was arrested by Oficer Marks for an assault
and battery on him, and he took her before
Justice Maryman, who committed her to iail
for court 70 answer the charge of assault and
battery and resisting an officer
Year: 1869

The TnACHRRs OF the public schools met
this afternoon al the Miller School Buildin z
and were addressed by Superintendent Rich
ards relative to the government Of the schools,
&c. There was quite large attendance, and
considerable interest was manifested.
Year: 1869

Miss Anthony nor any other woman
pleases to face the censure of her own
sex She wants to wear more natural
dress, and is prevented not by tyrant
man, but by tyrant woman


We respectfully submit that until wo-
men become sufficiently independent OF
each other to dress as their taste and
judgment dictate, they will hardly make
any vigorous assault upon those laws
and customs which affect their political
position. As long as woman will wear
q bunch of foreign hair on her head be-
cause it is "the fashion" no matter what
her own judgment may dictate, men will
be very anxious to know whether it will
be fashionable to vote before extend.
ing the suffrage Miss Anthony de-
clares that women are slaves. If SO they
are slaves to an idol of their own crea-
ton, "the fashion" When they muster
force enough to break that idol, and
emancipste themselves from that slavery,
they need fear no other.
Year: 1869

Read directly then read nrst anu tniru an
second and fourth lines Of each verse, and 10
the difference.
The bliss of him no tongue can tell.


Who in q woman doth coDfide;
Who with a woman scorns to dwell,


Unnumbered evils will betide.
They fill each leisurable day


With joy and innocent delight;
With cheerless gloom and misery,


Are none possessed while in their sight.
They make the daily path of life


A pleasant journey. strewed with howers;
A dreary scene Of painful strife


They quickly change with matchless powers
Domestic joys will fast decay


Where female influence is unknown;
Where ere a woman holds the sway,


A man is in perfection shown.
She's never failing to display


Truth in its native loveliness.
A heart inclined to treachery.


A woman never did possess.
That man true dignity will find


Who tries the matrimonial state;
Who pours contempt on womankind,


Will mourn his folly when too late.
Year: 1869

Some people suppose Riale Bros. are selling
out-beoause they are selling off their Dry goods
so cheap-much less than New York cost But
it is not so. Their Grocery trade became so large
that they found they could not attend to both,
and do justice, so the went to selling off their
Dry. Goods at what they could get. They are
now prepared to do a very extensive Grocery
trade, and We would advise those wanting goods
in their line to give them call. We noticed
small amount of Dry goods on their counters
which customers were carrying away at their
own price.
Year: 1869

The Ladies of the Episcopal Church in this
city hsvs the pleasure To announce that, through
the generous kindness of the proprietor of the
Clifton Hotel, that splendid establishment, with
all Its superb appointments, is placed at their
disposal for the purpose OF giving grand oyster
supper and festival on Wednesday evening the
sd Of February next There will be no efforts
spared on the part OF tine ladies to make this the
granjest and mos. successful affair of the sort
ever offered in this city. The public are respect
fully invited to attend.
Year: 1869

'Ths Cheap Sale" has commenced at Anrray's
All the ladies as we'll as purchasers generally Of
Ottawa and vicinity understand what that
means. As the winter season is about to close,
this firm have q custom, as preparatory to tho
opening spring trade, Of rushing off their winter
goods at reduction Of from Is to 40 per cent.
There is NO humbug about this but it is bona
Jds affair, as all their customers understand. To
them it is only necessary to say, the cheap sale
has commenced, and will continue 80 DAYS.
Year: 1869

ICE.-Mr. Newton Ward, who last summer
bought ont Mr.. Marsh in the ice trade in this
city, availed himself of the favorable weather of
the past week to lay in his crop for the next
summer. The ice is about IA inches thick, and
nearly double the quantity put up last year mas
been slowed away in superb condition.
Year: 1869

The ARrEsIAN WELL.-As . preliminary
movement towards tubing the artesian well in
the Court House yard in this city, the expert
meat Of exploding torpedo at the bottom was
tried on Friday of last week, with view to en-
larging the aperture below and increasing the
flow of water. The torpedo was a success
There was sudden rush Of column of clear
water to 10 go feet above the surface, succeed
ed by foaming, fzzling ebullition, as if a
cyclopean soda fountain had bsen opened Then
all was quiet, and the water ceased to fow On
letting down the pluuger, it was found that for
apparently 125 feet from the bottom the aperture
was closed with sand rock and debris. This was
removed, when the stream came up stronger than
ever. We believe it is not the purpose to sink
the well any deeper.
Year: 1869

In all $4,000, leaving $4,000 to make up
$4,000, the sum needed Ottawa thereupon
agreed to take the balance, and the bargain was
closed.


The Committee thsreupon proceeded to have
bill drawn up. to be presented to the legislature
for passage, to enable the various towns to meet
the terms of this arrangement or agreement.
That bill was placed in competent hands, and is
doubtless by this time before the legislature.
Of course it needs but the endorsement Of our
members to secure its passage and it may be as
well that our members understand that,
should itlfail to pass they will be held response
BILE. The people of the towns interested are in
dead earnest about this business. They are as
ready to pay as play and they will brook NO dis.
appointment in the matter. The fat has gone
forth BY the LIST Of April, at farthest, the
Illinois river bridge shall be free
Year: 1869

Town collectors are informed that we have lust
Pr'n'ea and now tor sale at our counter, any
quantlty OF Tax Receipts. Orders promptly at
tended to and sent BY mail to any part of the
Year: 1869

In closing the accounts of the Nationa al
Broadway Bank of this city, there was
a mistake of one cent. A draft was
drawn by Treasurer Spinner for the
balance in the bank, amounting to Sls,-


45o. TO- which was honorc,i, and in the
letter Of transmittal the bank cashier
notified the Treasury that there was
still due the Government the sum of one
cent. An examination Of the ledyers
and cash accounts was instituted, and
the error was discovered. The amount
should have been $ls, 45O.ll. Forthwith


Treasurer Spinner notified the Cashier
that he could forward draft for the
amount. A press copy of the letter was
made, and a proper record of il
kept. In due time the bank respond
ed, inclosing draft for enc cent.


The Cashier in Transmitting the draft,
adds that he Is happy to say that the
transfer was made without disturbing
financial circles. The letters and draft
were received, the necessary records
Year: 1869

can let him down and boil him in one
of these natural kettles.


BY all I had read or heard, before Wis
iting the Geysers, I had supposed them
to be volcanic, and that fire was the
cause of all this heat, and that it must
not be very far from the surface Of the
earth, and that the Geysers were really
safety valves for tne prevention Of earth
quakes. A very short examination
convinced me that my notions were all
wrong,-that they are not volcanic, but
great chemical laboratory.


found hero iron-that which makes
the inky water-alum, ammonia, sui
phuric acid, nitric acid, sulphur, EPSON
salts, In large crystals; acid water,
which, sweetcned u little, makes good
lemonade; magnesia, soda, aud one
spring said to be extraordinary in its
effects as an eye-water. The alum
spring 10 one hundred and seventy-six
degrees by the thermometer, and the
Witch's Caldron, one hundred and
ninety five and one half degrees. Now,
fill these great mountains with these
several chemicals, and let in the water
upon them, and let what is left Of it
make this little Pluton Brook, and you
have all the phenomena which you find
here. The whole region, abounding in
sulphur springs and hot springs, is a
hidden treasury of chemistry. Not far
from the aeysers is Clear Lake, where
they dredge up the bottom mud and
find clear, beautiful, crystalized borax,
and can get, if they can sell, six tons a
day.


There is no place in the world where
borax so pure and so abundant can be
found that found in Thibet comes
nearest to it, but the borax is far inferior
in quality and in quantity, and SO in
China.


To me it seems clear that the day is
coming when Science will come here
and uncover these hidden things, and
bring out, most likely,'in almost fabu-
lous quantities, the treasures here now
concealed. can almost imagine some
Yankee standing over the DEVILS Ink
stand and dipping up ink enough for
the use of continent. Here, or near
here, undoubtedly Is sulphur enough to
furnish nation with gunpowder; and
1 write down the Geysers, not merely
as place where men will go to be hor-
rified, but where they will go, at future
] day, for materials to be used for the
,ooJr ooJr.e.men; and these that now seem
to be the breathing g-noie, tl.e pa. art
only the way-inarks by which God
shows us where to look for these chem
icals, laid up till called for.


am aware that this view destroys
much of the romance of the thing; for
it is far more romantic to feel that we
have stood over volcano, just ready to
burst out, or over regions Internal, where
demons are painting, and struggling,
and groaning, and you can almost hear
the clanking of their chains, than to
feel that you are in huge chemical
shop, where the chemicals have got
thrown together, and water from the
hydrant.has broken out, and continues
to run in among them. But that under
this covering there are rich hidden
treasures, which will one day bless the
world, / have not doubt.
Year: 1869

ATTEMPT UPON THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT


MELGAREJO.


lFROT OUR own CORRESPONDENT


CoBIJA, Feb 20.--FTom the Capitol we learn
that the typhoid fever spreading alarming extehi'
and that in La Paz the deaths during the past ten days
have averaged per day per cent OF the persons
that taken down with the fever In Coba the yellow
fever raging earfuy most OF the proving fata
for the want part OF proper medical attendance md
In part for the scarcity OF food which, OWING 10 the fever
has ceased to be brought here by the traders aud as We
are entirely dependent upon them for supplies, for
nothing produced here IN the OF food and water Is
only obtained to limited extent that the situation 10
becoming every day more desperate.


An attempt has Just been made ON President Melga-
rJ0s life IN the public street and when his EXcellency
was surrounded by the Ministers and guards by young
man named u. Il. Oliden. This incident has been made
the preteN OF BY Captain General MelgaFeO suspend
the Constitution aud assumethe Dictatorship.
Year: 1869

A physician writes to the Dub.
lin JOurnaIof Science in support Of
the old notion that people sleep
much better with their heads TO
the North. lie has tried the OK.
pertinent in the case OF sick per-
sons with marked effect and insists
that there are known to exist great
electrical currents, always crossing
in ono direction around the earth,
and that nervous systems are in
some mysterious, way connected
with this electrical agent. Let the
beds all head toward the North
Pole.
Year: 1869

"You had better lay in your coal
soon, said Spriggs' wife 10 him the
other night when he was starting
down street and Spriggs obeyed.
He came home intoxicated and laid
in his coal all night.