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Year: 1867

When a man has a liking for thing
it's as good as being clever. In very
short time | became one of the best
drivers on the line. That was allowed.
I took pride in it, you see, and liked
Fit. Ne, didn't know much about the
engine scientifically, as you call it; but
| could put her to rights if anything
went out of gear-that is to say, if there
was nothing broken-but / couldn't
have explained how the steam worked
inside. Starting an engine is just like
drawing a drop Of gin. You turn q
handle, and off she goes, then you turn
the handle the other way, put on the
brakes, and you stop her. There's moi
much more in it so far. It's no good
being scientific and knowing the prin-
ciple of the inside; no good at all. Fit
ters, who know all the ins and outs oi
the engine, make the worst drivers,
That's well known. They know toe
much. It's just as I've heard of man
with regard to his inside; if he knew
what a complicated machine it was, he
would never eat, or drink, or run, or dc
anything for fear of bursting something
So it is with filters. But us as are moi
troubled with such thoughts we &C
ahead.


But starting an engines one thing and
driving of her is another. Any one, q
child Almost, can turn on the steam and
turn it off again; but it amt every one
that can keep engine we'll on heroad,
no more than it amt every one who car
ride horse properly. 1t is much the
same thing. If you gallop horse right
off for mile or two, you take the vino
out Of him, and for the next mile or two
you must let him trot or walk. So it il
with engine. IL you put on too much
steam, to get over the ground at the
start you exhaust the boiler and ther
you'll have to crawl along till your fresh
water boils up. The great thing il
driving, is, to go steady, never to lei
your water get too low, nor your fire toe
low. It's the same with a kettle. L
you fill it up when its half empty, i
soon comes to the boil again. Another
thing; you should never make spurts
unless you are detained and lose time
You should 60 up an incline and dowr
an incline at the same pace. Sometimes
a driver will waste his steam, and wher
he comes to a hill he has scarcely
enough to drag him up. When you're
in train that goes by fits and starts
you may be sure that there is a bac
driver on the engine. That kind o
driving frightens passengers dreadfully
When the train, after rafting along, sud
denly slackens speed when it amt neal
station, it may be in the middle of 1
tunnel, the passengers think there il
danger. But generally it's because the
driver has exhausted his steam.-Dick
ems Christmas Story.
Year: 1867

The owner of the omnibus lines of
Gottenburg, Sweden, some time since
provided each of their vehicles with a
water reservoir, from which the pas
sengers can quench their thirst. They
have now extended their courtesy by
providing each traveller with a news
paper giving the latest intelligence, and
which he can read while in the omni-
bus.
Year: 1867

Tn winding watch be careful to have
the tube of the key thoroughly clean,
picking out any lint gathered in from the
pocket, and removing the smallest trace
of dust in it. This is very important;
the slightest particle of dust may fall in
through the key.hole and clog some of
the delicate works. Many watches are
injured from this cause. and requires
cleaning more from this than all other
reasons. A watch should never be wound
or opened when dust is flying in the air,
nor should it be opened with soiled fin
gers. New watches, even of the best
manufacture require year or SO of weare
to get all the parts smooth and in prop
er running order, SO that new watch
can hardly be fully regulated to entirely
accurate time the first year. The moving
of the regulator, when very near the
right point, is SO delicate an operation
thata long time is required to adjust it
exactly; one may sometimes chance to
hit it at first or second trial.
Year: 1867

We met, twas when the laughing spring
Her earliest wreath was twining,
When birds were out on glancing wing,
And skies serenely shining.
But what to me were sunny skies


And April bloom beguilingi
My sunshine was thy radiant eyes.


My spring thy tender smiling.
My feet had trod weary track


And crushed both thorn and flower
Ny future stretched all bare and black;


The Present held my dover,
said to Doubt, / will not fear;


NY faith is clear as morning,
said to Memory fold not here


Your vulture wing of warning.
The days shall be, for thee and me


The nights all drear and lonely,
But now bid your shadow flee;


This hour is mine-mine only.
Hope seemed to breathe in every bloom,
Love in each bud was swelling;
There was no sigh of coming doom,
OF change and parting telling.
No shadow fell, no blossom shut,


No moan rose from the river
To whisper darkly ye have met,


But met to part forever.



Far islanded in billowy years


Sleeps that sweet, sunlit hour,
see it sometimes through my tears
The rainbow through the shower.
But dark and slow the waves of Time,
Creep round my life forever,
They cast no pearls, they chant no rhyme
They flash the sunlight never;
The thought that bids their dreary lips
Moan low and saddest ever,
That in them iings dim eclipse


Is that by hill or river,
Where sunshine pours or shadow dips,
We meet no more forever.
Dear love. the sanity dreamerstell
A wild and wondrous story,
That death cannot the spirit quell,
Nor quench its fadeless glory.
need not these, for in my soul


prophet voice is telling,
That Earth knows not a mortal goal,
Nor Love an earthly knelling.
Beyond the stars, whose SILVER feet
Der heavens blue pathway quiyer,
Say. shall not our freed spirits meet
To part no more forevers
Year: 1867

De Tocqueville, in his work on
America. makes this forcible remark: ga
newspaper can drop the same thought
into thousand minds at the same mo-
ment. A newspaper is an adviser who
does not require to be sought; but who
comes to you briefly every day Of common
veal, without distracting your private af-
fairs. Newspapers, therefore, become
more necessary in proportion as men be.
come more equal, and individuals more to
be feared. 10 suppose that they only
serve to protect freedom would be to di-
minish their Importance; they maintain
civilization. y
Year: 1867

A SUGGEsTIoN.-To sort potatoes or
apples, stand upright ard save the back.
ache; it is more healthy. Make plat
form three by three feet, with sides four
or six inches high. Leave gap at one
corner to pour out from. Set the form
on barrel or other support, and pour a
bushel of apples at time on it, and sort
them standing. 1t it easier to lift up
than to stoop down.
Year: 1867

EDITOR oF THE MINER: As the final vote has been cast, and the Capital is now, or soon will be, considered on wheels, and turned loose to find it's way to Tucson. there will De no harm in noticing a few facts connected with the whole transaction

 Early in the Summer of 1863, the Cover
Year: 1867

We are glad to observe that the tickets
to the musical festival which is to come of on
Monday evening at the National Theatre, and
the proceeds of which are to be contributed in
aid of the suffering people Of the South, are
being disposed Of at a rapid rate
Year: 1867

SAYINGS OF JosH BILLINGS :--I like them kind of Boys who are always try ing to lift half ton.

 Let the world understand that you can be spit upon, and you are a spitbox for life.

 It costs more now daze to feed and clothe Get cetera" than any other fel- low in the family.

 Conscienceis nothing butreason more or less educated; conscience is not so strong natural gift as is an ear for music.

 Ifyew are agoing to help man, be lively about it ; promised assistance af- ter while is considered debt.

 Don't never profess much, for if you git it right, nobody will remember it !; and if you get it wrongy nobody will disremember it.

 Some people arc very apt to think that their opinion, backed by pair of horses and eoachman is omnipotence, put Hcf, iluS lai, pu1 iloIc heie ol confidence in brains than hey by long odds in hoss feed.

 Don't forget that every maa is a beg gar in the opinion of God-"Give us this day our daily bread"

 This trying to live on the reputashun ov ded grandfather, is jest about as enterprising as trying to hatch out rot ton eggs under tin weather-cock.
Year: 1867

TRIALs.-An hour in our life will surely come when we shall be enabled to say that we have not had one trial too much, not one that could have been spared; and the heart will become bur dened with the sense of an awful reali- ty, perception of that wonderful fact that the events of life are ill themselves nothing; that they are but the body destined to decay; yet that each, how ever trifing, bears within it the seed that is to exist forever; and we feel that we can yield ourselves passively to any circumstances, whether happy or unhappy; neither wearing ourselves with regrets for the past, nor burden ing ourselves with cares for the future so only that the present moment might add its grain of faith and holiness to the treasure garnered in the hand of God against the great day of account.
Year: 1867

SERVED HIM RIGHT. = As the
steamer Armada was taking freight
at Mount Vernon, the other night,
the attention of officers and passen-
gers was attracted by the shrieks OF
woman apparently in distress. The
sounds proceeded from house on
the edge of high, steep bank. With
the gallantry which characterizes the
officers of that boat, they at once
rushed to the rescue, led by Captain
J. B. Hall, lantern in hand, and fol-
lowed by nearly a score of passengers.
Upon reaching the top of the bank,
they found creature, who disgraces
the form of man, engaged in beating
his wife. They at once seized the
cowardly and brutal husband and
heaved him over the high bank and
landed him near the waters edge.
Then other passengers caught him
and hurried him on board fat that
lay at shore and were about to duck
him, but his wife intercedlng for him,
they let him CO. We are told the les
son had a good influence On him. and
he has not spoken cross word to his
wife since.
Year: 1867

SUGAR SUGAR!! SUGAR +
People who are buying sugar for fam
lily use or for putting up fruit, will do
we'll to call on Parsons, Scoville 4
Co., and examine their stock and
prices before buying elsewhere. They
buy their sugar direct from the re-
fners and are prepared to sell in
twenty five or one hundred pound
lots, or by the barrel at wholesale
prices, and deliver free of charge.
These are veritable facts which they
will prove to you if you will call aud
see them at the New York Grocery,
Y Main Street jy1S
Year: 1867

THE IRoN-CLAD MINsTRELs-By
an advertisement elsewhere it will be
seen that the famous 8 Iron-clad Min
strels" who have afforded so much
delight to the people of Henderson,
open in this city on Monday night
We shall have more to say on this
snbiect hereafter.
Year: 1867

Nor CORRECTIVE are assured by
the lessees of the Crescent City
Springs that there was no fighting at
that place on Sunday last, as we were
led to suppose Several persons with
broken heads were seen coming from
that direction, as we were informed
by two reliable gentlemen, and they
supposed their heads were broken at
that popular resort
Year: 1867

REPORT OF THE RELIEF COMMITTEE
OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE Re-
PuBLIc.-The following is the report
of the Relief Committee Of the Grand
Army of the Republic, since its or
ganization in this city. But few
organizations, and perhaps none, have
done more in charity than is shown
In this report:


Conden ed report of the Relief Com nit
tee of the Grand Army of the Republic, for
the nine months ending July 9th, 1867:
Year: 1867

ANOTHER DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.-
Yesterday afternoon two of the sneak
thieves who infest this city by scores
entered the residence of Esquire Fin
ney. some four or six miles from this
city on the Mount Vernon road. and
robbed it of two or three watches and
other property. Mr. Finney upon
discovering the robbery, mounted a
horse and started in pursuit He
overhauled the thieves near the Ma
rine Hospital, and with more zeal
than prudence demanded their sur
render They quietly drew their re-
volvers and coolly told him to go to
h-ll, and then started off. He came
to the city and informed the Sheriff,
who. with a considerable force, was
about starting in pursuit when we saw
him. We have not learned what sue
cess he met with. As we have above
limited, this city is just now flooded
with a gang of precious scoundrels,
who can be seen daily and nightly In
couples and quartettes on the corners
of the streets and elsewhere. These
scoundrels are we'll known to the
civil authorities, but thus far have
managed to elude their vigilance. The
City Council should pass stringent
vagrant ordinance and promptly bring
to grief, and set to work on the streets,
those, countless loafers who from day
to day infest our streets. and wear fine
clothes and never work, and if that
does not suffice, the San Francisco
code should be put in force. The
matter is becoming serious, and it
behooves law-abiding citizens to
awake from their lethargy before the
"swell mob takes possession of the
city 1t is not healthy for a city to
grow too rapidly in crime
Year: 1867

STRENGTHENING THE JAIL.-The
work of strengthening the County
Jail is being pushed forward with
vigor, and will soon be completed. The
plan devised was to line the walks with
sheet iron from top to bottom; over
this is placed two inch oak plank, Sc
curely fastened to the wall with bars
and bolts running through the walls.
When this is completed, it will defy
the ingenuity of all Jail birds to break
out Cutting through the planks
would be the work of weeks, and then
comes the sheet iron, which would
only yield to the cold chisel and ham
mer.
Year: 1867

MATCH GAME OF BASE BALL
The Quickstep Base Ball Club, of
Paducah, will arrive by the steamer
Quickstep this morning, to play the
return game of the First Nine of the
Evansville Club They will break
fast on board the Quickstep, and at
half past o'clock will proceed to the
grounds Of the Evansville Club
when the game will be called prompt
ly at 10 O'Clock. After the game is
ended, the Paducah boys will be en-
tertained at the Sherwood House by
the Evansville Club, and the Quick
steps will return to Paducah on the
same steamer at 4 o'clock p NJ.


A large attendance of the ladies
and gentlemen Of the city is expected.
Year: 1867

Crops IN TENNEssEE.-Capt. Dun
can informs us that there is no longer
danger of famine in Tennessee, or
northern Mississippi. He represents
the corn crop as presenting the most
fattering prospects. The extent of
ground planted is greater than ever
known, and the stand and growth is
excellent When the Phantom left
Eastport last week, the corn was in
tassei and would soon to be fit to
gather With good wheat and corn
crops the people of those regions may
defy famine


CLEANING UP.-The work of re-
moving the sand and gravel from the
powdered streets still goes on, and
Second Street, from Vine to Syca-
more, and First Street from Division
towards Fulton Avenue, are recelv-
ing the polite attentions of the Zapp
brigade. The streets. when cleaned
up, are very handsome, and are free
from dust and mud 1t is a pleasure
to live on such a street.
Year: 1867

No horse is naturally vicious, nor was there ever horse that was not made so by mismanagement. The more noble and high-spirited the horse is, the more cautious he is of danger. Now, if we attempt to subdue him without first getting his confidence, and eradicating that fear, the process will be slow indeed. He is constantly ex- cited, and leaps and plungcs, and per- haps throws himself, in his madness. The common way of breaking colts fully illustrates this.

 Suppose we take altogether differ ent course, and cntice him into the yard, and then alone quietly commence his education; and when he finds him. selfalone with his enemy, he will watch very narrowly all our movements !; slowly and cautiously we approach him; soon we see by his restless eye that he is afraid; we stop awhile, then again proceed, being careful to go slow, that his eye will show no fear; when within his reach we carefully put out our hand towards him, he reaches out his head and smells, we then commence to pat and smooth him on the nose and neck, which he is as fond of as a cat |; step away from him, and to our won der he follows us; we gently caress him again, and we soon find he will follow us anywhere.

 Then we put on halter, and we find that he is already halter-brokeh you may handle him as familiarity as you choose, and he will not kick nor bite {; and, if you take the same careful, gen. tie course in his education, you will ncSer know him to resist any demand which he understands. Having once established our friendship in his mind, we should never frighten him by at tempting to make him do anything he does not understand. Never attempt to harness or mount colt suddenly the first time, for it will surely frighten him, and you will lose his confidence. Horses are made vicious by bad usage !; and the man who can abuse noble and confiding horse, and spoil his disposi- tion, should be the only one to suffer from the teeth and hoofs of the same animal.-[ Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1867

safety. We utterly abhor all schemes of ven
geance on the discOmlited SecesslOnists,
whether that vengeance be disguised as
execution, confscation, or otherwise. But
-Four Millions Of loyal Americans cannot
be put under the feet of those who fought
to divide the Union in order to tighten the
shackcs of those Four Millions unless by that
Democratic party which sympathzcd through
out with the Rebellion in its essential ideas
and impulses, though not in the specific means
whereby it sought to achieve them. If ever
q Southern State rcappcars in Congress with
Constitution which gives her Whites supreme
power over her BaclIs 1t will be Demo
cratic majority which secures and votes
her such admission. And if our next
President shall favor such admission, he will
be chosen by the Democratic, not the Rcpub-
lcan party. His name, his vocation, his past
history $50 that it prove him honest and patri-
otic), are immateral or at best of secondary
consequences but there will be no Republican
chosen President who favOrs the Sham Demo
cratic doctrine that Black men, because they
are Black, shall, in the lately Rebel States
have such rights only as the Whites OF those
States may see fit to accord them.
Year: 1867

We call the attention of our readers to the
communication addressed by the Citizens AS
sociation to Chamberlain Sweeny. 1t there
appears that the City Chamberlain receives an
annual salary of $4,000 for performing merely
nominal duties in the receipt and disbursement
of the public money. These duties consist Ill
but depositng the public funds in the Broad
way Bank. The warrants of the Controller
upon the Chamberlain are mere checks upon
the City and County funds in the Broadway
Bank. Mr.. Sweeny does not have much If any
of his time occupied by his duties as Chamber
lain, for he does not even sign the checks or
warrants. They are drawn upon him at the
Broadway Bank, and the Bank pays them as
it does other checks. 1t has been well known
that it has been the custom of the Bank
in which the City and County funds are de-
posted to allow the Chamberlain a percentage
upon the average deposits for the use OF the
public funds in the Bank. These percentages
have been estimated to vary between 100000
and 100000 per year. We are glad that this
matter is being agitated and we trust that the
Citizens Association will not let the matter
drop until every cent received by the Cham
berlain for profit on the City and County
funds is transferred to the public treasury


We think that $23,OOO per annum as salary
for doing nothing should satisfy the npacity
of any man, however great but this does not
seem to be the case.


There can he no doubt of the position, that
all the profit on the public funds should 90 to
the public aud not to the ofncial having their
temporary control.


We hone that speedy steps will be taken to
settle this matter, and to give the City and
County the benefit of all percentages paid by
the Bank. We consider $4,000 per annum
large amount of money and il is worth being
sued for.


We would also call public attention to the
surreptitious manner in which Chamberlain
Sweeny had $4,000 added TO his salary. BY
virtue of his position as City Chamberlain, he
is County Treasurer also During the last
hours of the session of the Legislature of 1861,
he got u provision introduced into the County
Tax Levy law giving the County Treasurer a
salary equal To that of the City Chamberlain.
I'm the hurry of business attendant upon the
close of the session, this provision was allowed
TO stand. the majority of the Senate not
knowing that the County Treasurer and City
Chamberlain were one and the same individual.
Mr.. Sweeny will succeed in getting this addi-
tional $4,000 but we hope and expect that 1t
will prove the means of correcting the great
abuses that have prevailed in the office of City
ChaubeIan
Year: 1867

Certain journals having seen fit to assert that
the Editor of this journal had demonstrated
with the Fire Commissioners for their resolve
whereby Firemen are forbidden to serve on
any party committee or act as delegates in any
nominating conventions we are impelled to
pronounce the assertion utterly gTOundlesS. In
our view, the Commissioners have done exactly
right Firemen are citizens, and their Right of
Suffrage is sacred but the only machines
that it is proper for them to run are those
which they run exclusively. We counsel them
to yield a cheerful and hearty obedience
to the Commissioners salutary inhibition.
Year: 1867

Not many months ago woman of Brooklyn
was killed by an enormous dose of a deadly
DOison through the criminal carelessness and
Incidence of the attendant in a drug store.
The lesson was startling one to all who hold
in their hands--through the holding of SINH
lar positions-the safety of the community.
For few weeks we presume that this sad case
was in the minds of such persons whenever
they prepared prescriptions, and they used un-
usual prudence lest another death should he
laid to their charge. But time weakened the
force of the warning, and on Saturday last
there was another victim to inexcusabe stu
pidty or carelessness A physician prescribed
morphine as a sleeping draught for his patient;
a person in charge of drug store put
two grains of the poison into one powder;
the woman took it, slept, and never
woke again. We are told that the person who
put up the powder feels keenly his situation"
There is abundant cause but his keen regret
will not restore the dead mother TO her nine
children, nor shift from his shoulders the awful
load of having brought this woman to her sud
den death. The public may well be alarmed
at these successive warnings of the death that
not only turks in the fanciful jars upon the
apothecary's Shelves but is likely TO be trans
ferred therefrom into their own households at
any hour Ii is useless to say that " accidents
"wil happen" These clerks are employed
expressly TO see that accidents shall not hap
pen-that lives shall be saved, not lost. In
neither of the cases we have cited was there
the poor excuse of ignorance of the nature OF
the dose prepared. 1t was worse than igno-
rance, for it was crime, and two women lie
dead in consequence of that crime of negll-
gence, where constant vigilance is the one
essential requisite.
Year: 1867

A North River ferry-boat yesterday crashed
against the pier adjoining the ferry-slip with
such force as to crush the heavy timbers and
create a wild panic among the women and
children on board. The introduction of a
schOoner's bowsprit into one of the cabins at
the same time did not tend to allay the alarm.
The pilot had attempted to the vessels
bow, and the above was the result. These llt-
tie eccentricities of our ferry employees will
serve to amuse the travelling public until an
other Ferry Investigating Committee comes
down from the next Legislature. and goes back
with pleasant remembrances of the hospitality
of the ferry managers.