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Year: 1868

When the intrepid Paul Jones was in
the midst of hard fought battle, a
cannon ball from the enemy's ship came
booming into his vessel, and threatened
destruction and disaster to his crew.
His adversaries chuckled with their
temporary advantage, and insolently
demanded a surrender. Surrender"
exclaimed the gallant seaman" No
NEVER the battle has just begun p'
He continued the fight, pouring broad
sides into the enemy's ship until her
entire crew were killed or driven from
the deck, and their ship hoated upon
the ocean dismantled wreck.


Democrats, initiate his example
STAND TO YOUR GUNS till the last shot
has been fired All is not lost. We
have been borne down for the moment
but the cause, thank God, is not lost
The good ship of Democracy will yet
outride the storm of Radical corruption
and crime, and reach the port amid the
cheers OF millions of freemen! CoUR
AGE. Democrats, courage! In the fight
of Tuesday the enemy obtained TEN.
porary advantage. But we must repeat
the disaster ef the fight by reOrganizinG
our forces for the great and final battle
of November next. Never yield. Tel
your insolent foe "THAT THE BATTLE
HAS JUST BEGUN" and our word for it
like the immortal Jones, you will carry
death and destruction into their camp
Again we say, COURAGE, Democrats
courage and erertiOn, and never despair
of SUCCESS.
Year: 1868

In England they are now beginning
to receive some details of the result OF
the observations of English astron-
omers sent out to two localities to
watch the progress of the eclipse of the
sun. which took place the 18th of Au-
gust. Major Tenant from one party,
and Lieutenant Herschel from the 9TH
er. have sent to the Astronomer Royal
and to the Royal Astronomical Society,
an account of the photographed and
spectroscopic work performed by the
two principal English observing par
ties.


Without going into particulars which
would involve the use of technicalitIes
which would not be generally irtelligi-
BILE, we ascertain from these observa-
tions, among other things, that Major
Tenant deduced from certain spectre
scopic experiments, that there was proof
that the solar protuberances consist of
burning hydrogen and sodium. AS So
dunn seems to be an important constlt-
uent of many meteoric bodies, the ap-
pearance of sodium in the solar protub-
erances seems confirmation, to certain
extent, of the theory, which has lately
been held by many students of solar
physics, that the suns heat is derived
from the continual impact of meteoric
bedies upon its surface. Lieutenant
Herschel, writing in 1866, on the pc
culiar condition of the August meteors,
said


"The spectral examination Of the Au-
gust meteors has most certainly brought
to light the existence of an extraordi'
nary quantity of the vspor of sodium
in the luminous streaks; so that many
of the streaks, and especially the most
conspicuous and the most slowly fading
among them, consist of nothing else
but soda flames for great proportion
(that is to say the latter portion) of the
time that they continue visible. Their
condition then is exactly that of flame
of gas in q Bunsen's burner, freely
charged with the vapor of burning So
dium; or, of the flame of spirit lamp
newly trimmed and largely dosed with
a supply of moistened salt"


Major Tenant draws from his obser'
vations the conclusion that the atmos'
phere of the sun consists mainly of non
luminous or family luminous gas at a
short distance from the body of the sun
Year: 1868

Inc Lust Infamous Radical For2ery


The Gazette of yesterday-under enor.
nous headlines, among which were
these: startling Utterance by Gen
eral Blair" General Grant will Neyel
Leave the While House Alive, "Honest
Men Shocked and Disgusted"-pretend.
ed to quote the following extract
from General Blair's speech at st. Louis
on Friday night:


"The point to which desire to bring
you is this, that in this struggle we have
everything at stake; that it is the final
and last struggle for the preservation
of free constitutional government IN
America; that if we fail in it the Re
public falls with us; it becomes mere
appendage of the military chieftain
who is lifted to power in the name OF
the President, but who will never
leave the Presidential mansion alive


Now here is what General Blair real
ly said. 1t is taken from the rerbatin'
report of his speech, on the occasion al
luded to, in the st. Louis Republican
Read it, honest men, and then tell Us
what you think of the Gazette. Here is
what the General said:


"The point to which desire to bring
you is this, that in this struggle we
have everything at stake; that it is the
final and last strggle for the preserva'
tion of free constitutional government
in America; that if we fail in it the Re-
public falls with u.s.. 1t becomes the
mere appendage of the military chief
tain who is elevated to power in the
name of the Presidency. But he will
never leave the Presidential mansion as
long as he lives. have nothing to say
against him personally; have no in
tention of derogating from his great
merits as soldier, and / have no de-
sire to tarnish any of the laurels which
he won in the services that he gave the
country during the late war. But
have just as little design of surrender
ing absolute power into the hands of
any man, no matter how illustrious he
may have made his name in this great
war;"


General Blair declared that if the
Radicals succeeded, they would convert
the Government into military despot-
ism, to be ruled by General Grant as long
as he lives. The Gazette, following the
st. Louis Democrat, changes the mean
ing-alters its phraseology into threat
of assassination of General Grant. Such
is the base manner in which the Radi-
calls carry on the present Presidential
struggle. They carry it on by forgery
and fraud. Hundreds and thousands of
the subscribers of the Gazette will see
this slanderous forgery-never observe
the exposure, and honestly believe it to
be true. 1t is by such rascality and
villainy that so bitter prejadice has
been created against the Democracy
among their opponents.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Year: 1868

THE senior editor of the Detroit Ad'
rertiser, in a recent speech, said: 81
will undertake to say that there are
men IN Congress who were not worth
groat when they got there, who are now
worth a million of dollars, and dc
know they never got it out of their
salaries" And the people have just
been re-electing some of them. Loyalty
is made to pay; and it would not savor
of the "party of great moral ideas" if it
did not.
Year: 1868

THE Louisville Board of Trade has
lately adopted series of resolutions
endorsing the project of railroad to
the Pacific on the parallel of the thir'
tysecond degree of latitude, and calling
on Congress to extend Government aid
Memphis people have also moved in the
same matter; and there can be but little
doubt that the line which first received
the approval of the Government, and
on which work was commenced some
years ago, with q view to having three
termini on the Mississippi River, will
at no remote day, be established as a
competitor with the Union Pacific.
Year: 1868

The army of cormorants and leeches
going around the country trying to get
the people to endorse four years more
of Radical rule, Radical stealing and
Radical oppression are about played
out. The people are disgusted and
have made up their minds to have q
change.
Year: 1868

THE loss of Pennsylvania to the Dem
ocratic party-it lost-was undoubtedly
due to the gigantic colonization schemes
carried out in that State by the Radical
leaders. This will be shown in the
largely increased vote when the official
returns are made public.
Year: 1868

CARRY out the Radical reconstruction
or negro-supremacy idea of the Radical
party, and there is no constitutional
obstruction in the way of electing a
negro President of the United States.
Year: 1868

A plan has been projected to connect
the upper part of the Ohio river with
the Gulf of Mexico by a new water
route. A canal, thirty miles long, be-
tween the Coosa river and the Tennes-
see, will be the principal link in the
channel of communication.
Year: 1868

PERsoyAL-Wc are glad to SEQ
once more in our city our friend,
Col Dalrymple of Williamson coun
ty. He has been absent between six
and seven months on trip through
Northwestern Texas, New Mexico
and Colorado. taking close view
Of those regions We have not had
much time to talk with him, but
we doubt whether tie Colonel saw
anything superior to our own sec
ton, and we trust he will conclude
TO remain among us. He is looking
in fine heallh-may he long CON
tInue So Austin Gazette.
Year: 1868

Thomas G.. Barker, n. Y.-lf those proceed
ngs had been bear. they might have bitten YOU See
second column, eighth page, TRIBUNE, Mays. Now, If
YOU want all the news the whole world, read your
TRIBUNE from page the last column of page every
morning aud thank fortune that you able to get such
"A newspaper for four rents
Year: 1868

The Democratic Convention, to be held in
this city July doubtless great number Of aud
in order to he prepared establishment the halter
No 22 Broadway up doing and be ready the
anticipated great for bis HATS which in style
and quality unsurpassed the vide vide world" Buy Hat of
him aud be satisfied
Year: 1868

shrouds. It varied in intensity, and was
nearly. continuous, and of the character
mentioned. The mountain trembled per-
ceptibly enough during the whole of our
stay. fE


1t is impossible for me to calculate ex-
actly, but / Judged that there were from
1000 to 1,500 stones in each great dis
charge-and there were often as many as
eight or ten discharges I'm a minute. The
majority of the stones were small-the
largest, say as large as two bricks, end to
end. The large ones mostly fell back into
the crater, but the small ones being thrown
higher, and more acted on by the wind,
fell in immense numbers on the leeward
slope of the small crater, and on the same
side of the great cone beyond. To my
mind this was a spectacle hardly less
striking than the discharges themselves; at
any rate, il was quite new to me. / have
heard it said that the cone becomes "red
hot" under such discharges But this is
not an accurate description of what saw
Red is not the word, but "golden;"
and the cone was not covered even by
these copious showers The sight was far
more beautiful than if it had been so. The
crowd of golden spots on the dead black
surface-the small ones generally resting
where they fen, while the large ones rolled
through them down the slope, and the
constant change, rs shower after shower
descended, made variegated and beauti-
ful spectacle, such as was of itself alone
worth the ascent. 1t formed a wonderful
pedestal to the explosions which sur
mounted it, and which were naturally the
great attraction. could not calculate the
height to which some of the small stones
were thrown, but it was very great There
was generally one which went far higher
than all the rest, and pierced upward
toward the moon, who looked calmly
down, mocking such vain attempts to
reach her. The larger pieces were, with
rare exceptions, not thrown so high; in
deed, many of them only just appeared
over the rim of the cone, above which they
came floating leisurely up to show their
brilliant forms and intense white light for
a second, and then subside again into the
abyss.
Year: 1868

a Milwaukee paper states that some
eight months ago Mr. T. B. Mason, of that
city, ascertained that he had cancer on
his face the size of pin. 1t was cut out
by DR.. Wolcott, and the wound partially
healed. Subsequently it grew again, and,
while he was at Cincinnati on business, it
attained the size of hickory nut. He re-
mained there since Christmas under treat
ment, and is now perfectly cured. The
process is this: A piece of sticking-plas-
ter was put over the cancer, with circu-
lar piece cut out of the center little
larger than the cancer, so that the cancer
and small circular rim of the healthy
skin next to it were exposed. Then a
plaster made of chloride of zinc, blood
root, and wheat flour was spread on q
piece of muslin the size of this circular
opering, and applied to the cancer for
twenty-four hours On removing it. the
cancer will be found burnt into and appear
of the color and hardness of an old shoe
sole, and the circular rim outside of it will
appear white and parboiled, as if scalded
by hot steam. The wound is now dressed,
and the outside rim soon separates, and the
cancer comes out in hard lump, and the
place heals up. The plaster kills the can
Ger, so that it sloughs out like dead flesh,
and never grows in again. The remedy
was discovered by DR.. Fell, of London,
and has been used by him for six OF eight
years with unfailing success, and not a
case has been known of the reappcarance
of the cancer when this remedy has been
aDDlied.
Year: 1868

the safest place. 1t is dangerous to lean
against a wall, because the lightning. in
passing down the wall, would leave it, and
60 into the body, which is a better con-
ductor.


1t is dangerous to be i'm crowd, because
q mass of people forms better conductor
than one person, and because the vapor
arising from the crowd increases the CON
Quoting power. Any place about twenty
feet from tall tree, building or stream of
water is the safest place.


A person in q carriage during storm
should not lean against the side of the car
riage, but sit up, for the same reason that
we have given why person should not
lean against q wall.


A mattress, bed, or hearth-rug furnishes
good security against Lightning.


If in the open air at the time, the best
thing person can do is to stand about
twenty or thirty feet from any tall object
and get wet to the skin, because wet clothes
form better conductor than the fluids of
the body, and the lightning, therefore,
would more readily pass down the wet gar
ments.-Erchdnge. n
Year: 1868

From book entitled "Six Months in
India" recently published in England, we
make the following extract:


To no part of the community is the pos
session of purer faith of more importance
than to the woman of India. While their
educated husbands and male relatives are
gradually making efforts to escape from
thralldom, they themselves are strongly
bound by it. Fror. The first to the last
day of residence in India, the point
which most painfully strikes the mind is
the position of Hindoo women. This
seems to affect every part Of society, both
native and English. The mere fact of
women being uneducated is one which
may be remedied by the introduction of
schools, and the affording proper instruc-
ton. This, though important, does not
remove the evil. The injustice done to
woman, by treating her who is created
equal, though different, as an inferior
by depriving her of the possibility OF de-
veloping the powers which God has given
her. and of discharging her duties, and of
fulfilling her destiny, meets one at
every turn. None can be more alive,
to the evils of woman's present position
than enlightened Hindoos themselves, who
perceive in it not only the loss of that

high domestic happiness which they have
learned to aspire to as their own natures
have become more elevated by education,
but also the grand barrier to the improve
ment of their FACE, and their own emanci-
patton from the thralldom of superstition.
" 1t is my firm conviction" writes one of
these, -" that India can scarcely take high
position in the scale of civilization with
out raising the social condition of women
in general. Women as class are unedu-
Gated, and are treated as little better than
slaves in India" A native poet sings of
female serfdom" as the only term which
can express their present condition. And
yet, by remarkable kind of retribution,
while woman is thus debarred from the
exercise. of the powers given her by the
Creator, and from taking her place in so
ciety, she exercises remarkable sway
over those who are enthralling her, and
binds them down with the very chains of
superstition with which she is herself en-
tlralled
Year: 1868

Oyster raising, as q science, with us, is
yet in its infancy; our domain is so exten-
sive, and the growth of these shell-fishis so
rapid, that the simple planting of few
stakes to mark the boundaries of each own
er, and the scattering broadcast of shells
or young seedlings, gathered from the pub
lie beds, Is all that is thought to be required
To surround great sea space of many
leagues with costly wall of granite, in
closing parks where many thousand men
can cultivate their oyster beds with the
nicely of flower garden, as they are do
ing near the Island of Rhe, at La Rochelle,
France, or as it was done many centuries
ago by the Romans, is a work that but few
of our oystermen would think Of doing.
In some of those parks, the oyster spawn
Is taken from the mother as soon as laid
and stored up in vats. After the spawn
has developed itself into the tiny oyster,
it is spread on sand beds as level as floor.
Upon these the salt water is let on with
great care so as not to disturb them too
violently, and thus smother the young seed.
Weeks of watching with the cautious
solicitude of the gardner watching his
tender hot-house plants, are given to this
interesting and most important part of the
oysterman's duty. When these are about
two years of age they will again be trans
planted to other beds and finally gathered
for the market. The age of the oyster can
be easily told by the rims or successive
layers on the shell, as with the rings on
the trunk of a tree, each ring or layer
marking years growth. AT four years
of age they are fit for the market, and
though they increase in size up to their
eighth and tenth year, epicures think the
fOur-year-old the best.


The oyster is never so palatable as VIII z
eaten directly from the shell, in its own
liquor, without addition of any sort Chief
among the enemies Of the oyster is the
star-fish, which float down in swarms, and
do great damage in short time to the
beds. The whelk. or small periwinkle, is
pest which bores its way directly
through the shell, and thus sucks the life
blood of the bivalve.


The oyster is found all along the eastern
and western shores Of your continent, as
far north as Maine, and south as the Equa-
tor. Great natural beds abound in the
deep waters; off the coast of Massachu-
sets and of Georgia beds OF shells are
found sufficiently large enough to form
break-waters, and to wreck vessels On
the Pacific coast, inland, great beds of pet
rified oyster shells are found, some of
which are thirty miles long and sixty feet
in depth. Epicures consider the American
oyster the finest IN the world. The annual
supply of the Lon lon market is set down
at sO0,OOO,00O year. In Paris the an
nual supply reaches over 200,OOO,OOO
bushels year. The color of the oyster
shell varies with the locality in which it is
found. Those on muddy bottoms are
usually dark; on rocky beds they will be
dark-gray, sometimes with bright vermil.
ion streaks. The French oyster is green
ish without and within; while those of
the Eastern seas are sometimes of all the
colors OF the rainbow. The oysters in
which pearls are found come from the
tropics|and the mother Of pearls is shell
of the oyster.-Erchange '-i'i ,.f'
Year: 1868

-Celedon, the latest fashion in color, is
O mixture OF pea green and orange.


Prof Gamgee, England, denies that
rare-cooked beef is healthier than that
well done.


The French method of making fine,
fancy leather has remained an undiscoy-
cred secret, Notwithstanding all the skill
OF chemists, and all the devices of practi-
cal tanners to discover the process


-Youatt, the well known veterinary
surgeon, who has been bitten eight or ten
times by rabid animals, says that crystal of
the nitrate OF silver, rubbed into the
wound, will positively prevent hydropho-
bia in the bitten person or animal.


To make paper transparent-Dis
some rosin in spirits Of wine. Dip into it
a camers hair brush, and with it go over
as much of the paper as you wish to make
transparent, doing it on both sides. A
colored drawing or engraving may be
made by this application transparent in
those parts where moonlight or fire-light
is intended to be very bright. Afterward
they can only be seen to advantage with
light behind them. The same applica-
tion is used for transparencies painted on
linen or thick muslin stretched on a frame.
An eminent German oculist has recon-
mended that for the use of mechanics and
Others whose work exposes their eyes to
minute flying fragments of stone or metal,
mica should be substituted for glass in the
manufacture of spectacles Mica, il is
said, has the advantage of being a non
conductor Of heat, and will keep the eyes
cool, is light, transparent and tough, and,
moreover, cheap. If this suggestion proves
available, it will be beneficence to many
whose living depends upon their eyesight
The following is said to be sure test
| of death: Produce blister on the
finger or toe, by means Of candle held
for several seconds in contact herewith, a
thing which always takes place on the liv-
ing or dead, if the candle be held long
enough. If the blister contains serosity
(the water Of the blood) it is positive
sign of life; if on the contrary, the blister
only contains air, or vapor, it is certain to
be cdddrre. In other words, for dry
blister, death; for a wet ono, life"


The devotion of some scientific men
to their profession is illustrated by the
testimony of a medical expert in poison
ling case lately tried in France. He found
no difficulty in detecting poison in the
stomach Of the deceased, and acknowl-
edged that he had observed symptoms
which he attributed to that cause before
the death of the gentlemen whom he had
| attended. On being asked if he had adj
ministered antidotes, he replied: mo,
for their presence in the stomach would
have masked the presence of the poison,
which could not, therefore, be proved at
the inquest" Thus an extraordinary de-
vction to his profession had probably pre-
vented the administration of antidotes
that might have saved the patients life
Year: 1868

ample in point If it is not Theoretically
sealed down in tin cans, it deliquesces, and
loses all its crispness. 1t is as well to know
that this is the purest of all sweets-being
absolutely clarified sugar, and therefore
the most wholesome for children. On the
other hand, peppermint drops are the
most open to sophistication. They should
be made of crushed white sugar, mixed
into paste with gum. But the tempta-
tion to adulterate is too great for the dis
honest trader to resist; consequently, in
order TO supply the cheap market, one
half plaster of Paris is mixed with cheap
sugar. One can quite understand the
sickness that overtakes children some
times after sucking these comfts; the
wonder is that such mass of plaster does
not interfere more signally with their di-
gestion. Jujubes, those flexible lozenges
which stick to the teeth, contain large
portion of gum. They are poured into
tins to cool, stored for several hours,
sliced into sheets, and then cut by scissors
into the well-known diamond shapes
Erchdnqe 1874
Year: 1868

During thunderstorm, it is very dan
gerous to be near tree or lofty building
also near river or running water, because
any tall object will frequently discharge a
lightning cloud, and if any one were near
by at the time the lightning might glance
of. and pass through the human body.


The most dangerous parts of dwelling
during a thunder storm are the fire place,
especially if the fire be lighted, the attic,
and cellar. 1t is also imprudent to sit close
by the walls, 10 ring the bell, or bar the
shutters during thunder storm. -


Fire places are dangerous, because heat,
air, and SCOT, especially when connected
with stove or CRATE, are conductors. at.
tics and cellars are dangerous, because the
electric fluid, as we have already told you,
sometimes passes from the clouds to the