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Year: 1869

TRIUMPH OVER EvIL.-We are reward
ed for every triumph we make over temp
tation. l will suppose there are many
who have struggled against the vanity Of
vain pleasures many who have put down
evil thoughts with a strong will many
who, after long, and, it may be an un-
certain conflict with the seduction of the
world, at length have triumphed. Twill
put it to them whether, when they have
combatted and SO prevailed against the
evils their hearts have not melted within
them, whether they have not felt within
their bosoms scraphic influence They
have so felt and so it will ever be. No
sooner shall they have driven from them
the tempting demon of pride, Of vanity,
of anger-no sooner shall the devil nave
left them, than angels will come and min
lister unto them.
Year: 1869

FROZEN PARTs.-Put the frozen part
into water in which there is considerable
portion Of ice in small pieces. The ice
will keep the temperature of the water
down to the requi:ite degree of coldness,
but there will be no danger of freezing
going on while the water remains uncon-
gealed. A thermometer is very conven-
lent to test the temperature of the water.
If one becomes frozen at distance from
house, it would be advisable to plunge
theNand as deep as possible into snow
drift and take some Of that to apply to the
afflicted parts, as it will be at a tempera-
ture much above that on the surface.


Nothing is better settled than that the
frozen portion should not be rubbed, as
flesh would become very sore in conse-
quence. The flesh near to that which is
frozen may be rubbed, however, to good
advantage, as that will hasten the circula-
ton of blood.
Year: 1869

The Chicago Tribune in ft Of canao1
says the following:


If the republican party in Georgia can.
not continue its existence without the aid
of Congress to lcgislats the democracy out
of office, then the party can claim very lit:
tie vitality. If it is ever to stand alone, it
should be required to do so now. Con-
gress has already recognized the state gov
ernmcnt Of Georgia, and we have never
heard that reconstruction was intended to
hold only SO long as it secured republican
ascendency in the reconstructed states, nor
that democratic majority in either Of
those states was to he treated as sufficient
cause for congress to interpose and over
throw the state government. The people
Of Georgia have the right of suffrage that
is the only protection the freemen Of Him
ois have; and with that majority in Geor-
gia must defend themselves. They must
learn to depend upon themselves in politi-
cal struggles.
Year: 1869

Gov. Morton.


The Cincinnati Gazette reviews Gov.
Morton's financial views, and says:


Governor Morton maintains that the
52Os are legally payable in legal tenders,
but he adorns this by saying that specie
payment Of the legal tenders will make
this payability of the bonds Of no conse-
quenee. But if our vast public debt were
really payable in currency which, by the
average specie rate, is worth but about 20
cents on the dollar, and by the guage of
all other prices is not worth more than
so or IS, then it would be monstrous
wrong to add about fifty per cent. to the
debt by shrinking and appreciatins the
money of payment. 1t is simply pro-
position to pay the bond'holders about
fifty per cent. more than they are entitled
to, and to add that much to our immense
public debt. This proposition can not
stand investigation for moment. If our
bonds are really payable in our cheap cur
rency, we should retain the cheap curren.
cy Of payment until we had either paid
them or funded them at the gold value Of
the currency. To make such an increase
of the public debt, for no consideratisn;
would be a calamity and great crime"
Gov. Morton agrees with the Democra-
tic party that the 500 bonds are payable
in greenbacks. The Gazette says If that
doctrine is true ''it would be calamity
and a great crime" to pay the bonds in
gold or to make the paper money more
valuable before their payment. Gov.
Morton and the Gazette are both nearer
right than usual. Yet they will vote for
and endorse a policy which pays the bonds
in gold because the bondholders desire it.
Year: 1869

A rival to Blind Tom has arisen in
Kinds county, Miss, in the person Of u
full blooded negro girl, eighteen years old,
who neither knows single note nor caR
spell the simplest word. She was q house
servant, and as such was permitted to play
upon the piano. She can play any piece,
however difficult it may be, after hearing
it played, and her accuracy and dslicacy
OF touch is really something very remark
able. For the past two years she has been
employed as field hand, and has had no
opportunity of playing, or listening to
others play. ge
Year: 1869

A STRANGE FAcr.-It seems strange that
there is not barley enough grown on this
continent to supply the demand. 1t is
said to be fact that the consumption of
ale and beer has become so great in this
country, that brewers are compelled to i'm
Fort barley from abroad to supply the in
creasng demand. Canada has already
been drained of all her surplus barley,
and still the cry is for more. A brewery
firm near Cincinnati have been buying
barley in Germany, and recently. received
$500 bushels direct from Rheinpfatz.
The German barley weighs eight pounds
more to the bushel than that grown in
this country. The United States ought to
raise barley enough for its own consump-
ton. and not be dependent upon foreign
country to supply the deficiency.
Year: 1869

She will vote, will be of some use in
the world, will cook her own food, will
earn her own living, and will not die an
old maid. The coming girl will not wear
the Grecian bend, dance the German, ig>
more all possibilities of knowing how to
work, will not endeavor to break the
hearts Of unsophisticated young men, will
spell correctly, understand English before
she affects French, will preside with equal
grace at the piano or washboard, will spin
more yarn for the house than for the street,
will not aespise her plainly clad mother,
her poor relations, or the hand of an
honest worker; will wear bonnet; speak
good, plain, unlisping English; will darn
her own stockings will know how to
make doughnu:s, and vii! not read the
Ledger oftcner than she does her Bible.


The coming girl will walk five miles a
day, if need be, to keep her cheeks in q
glow; will mind her health, her physical
develOpement and her mother, will adopt
a costume both sensible and conducive to
comfort and health will not confound
hypocrisy with politeness will not place
lying to please above fraBkness will have
| courage to cut an unwelcome acquaint-
ance; will not think refinement is French
duplicity; that assumed hospitality, where
hate dwells in the heart, is better than
condemnation ; will not confound grace of
government with silly affection will net
regard the end Of her being to have a
beau.


The coming girl will not look to Paris,
but to reason, for her fashions will not
aim to follow foolish fashion because
milliners and dress-makers decreed it,;
will not torture her body, shrvel her soul
with querilities, or ruin it with wine and
pleasure. In short, the coming girl will
seek to glorify her Maker and to enjoy
mentally His works. Duty will be her
aim and life living reality. Church
UniOn
Year: 1869

Are made strong by the of either Of these
dies. They will cure every case Of NAEASMUS,
without fail.


Thousands of certificates have accumulated in tha
hands Of the proprietor, but space will allow Of the
publication Of but few. Those it will be observed,
men If note and of smch standing that they must
bO believed.
Year: 1869

i1s You call is wine as you sip it at
your lunch table, lady with the level
ed fingers and bright eyes. You call
1t brandy, who have it OF the best after
dinner, as you think a man always
should. You call it ale, patcriamilias,
as you fil' the family glass. And you,
champagne Charley, have your own
bright name for it but it is the same
thing, this that you like so well, only
at higher price, herhaps, as that which
dragged the drunkaid yonder to the
gutter, the beggar to the corner and
the murderer to the gallows d; and like
The phantom woman of the old ballad.
1t has power to drag you to as terrible
doom, If once it winds Its arm about
you, this horrible, terrible, fiend-given
aGcursed alcohol.
Year: 1869

That there are dishonest men
in the Republican party, that
there is cheating upon the Re
publican side we do not doubt.
But that is no reason for hon,


est men of the other party to
1eny against all knowledge and
testimony that the great frauds
are practiccd by Democratic
leaders for the advantage of
the Democratic party. Nor
can any intelligent man excuse
his Indifference to the subject
by saying both parties are
equally guilty. For The man
who does not know that the
policy and pleas of the Demos
cratic party commend them


selves to the most ignorant
and worthless part of the pop
ulation, is not aware of one of
the most obvious and signifi-
cant facts in our politics. He
may 60 into any part of the
country upon an election day
and he will be sure to find that
niDe>tenths of The drunken and
most degraded part Of the pop
ulation vote the Democratic
ticket, and that the more
thrifty and intelligent the
Year: 1869

father lighted his torch and
started i'll 10 explore as usual.
He had gone about twenty-five
leet, looking all the time 10
SEQ if there was anything
when suddenly the bear struck
the torch with his paw, and
put out the light. Father got
out of that as quick as posi-
BILE, and told Shidler what had
happened, and that the bear
was lying in a very difficult
place TO shoot, for it was
around the corner of a rock
which he could not pass, and
the hole was very small. But
father determined to 60 in
again, and told George to stand
at the mouth of the hole, and,
if the bear came out, TO shoot
it. He lighted his torch again,
and got as near the bear as he
could, and fired, but only
wounded him. The bear start
ed for The mouth of the hole,
right toward father, who had
just time to lie down flat on
his belly, when the bear rush
ed over HIM, tearing his clothes
pretty badly, and leaving
marks of claws on his back
that he carried to his grave
Shldler was ready at The mouth
of the hole, and when the beal
came out, gave him an ounce
Of lead that settled him. They
dressed the bear and it weighed
three hundred and ninety
pounds. My father killed as
many as seven deer in one
day, and that often, He also
killed elk and a few buffaloe|
alter we came here, but the
buflaloes left very soon.
think the last one seen in this
region was in Bedford town
ship, Meigs county, in 1915
where it was wounded. Wher
| was young man | have
stood in one spot, behind
large tree, in Lodi township
and killed three deer as fast az
| could load ald shoot. My
brother, Thomas Bobo, killed
twelve deer the year he wa
twelve years old.
Year: 1869

IT is said that the grape dis.


ease has almost entirely disap.
peared from the Island Of Ma
dierra, and that the natives
are again deyot!ng themselves
to the production of the wine
which once made MADEIRA so
famous in the annals of gas
tronomy. For many years
past the genuine article has
been attainable only in the
small quantities yielded by tho
cellars of wealthy men, as they
one after another departed this
life, and then it brought an
enormous price. sI..t
Year: 1869

Henry Smith, newsboy on the Kentucky
Central Railroad, has recently fallen heir to
the handsome fortune of $l38,OO0, which
has been left him by an uncle in Germany


Boys will understand that Henry's good
luck comes not by reason Of his being q
news boy, but because he had rich uncle
Year: 1869

The Governor of Iowa thinks that there
is a rebel negro in the wood.pile of the
movement to remove the capitol to St.
Louis. If the leading men in the move
ment are to be "red handed traitors" he
can't be induced to commit Iowa to the
movement. If it can be made to appear
that it is a loyal movement, to be directed
by loyal men, he might be induced to toler
ate IT,
Year: 1869

The political campaign was opened IN
Mississippi at Corinth on last Saturday by
a speech from Judge Dent. He put HIM
self on the platform Of universal amnesty
and universal suffrage. He also urged the
colored men to join their fortunes with the
people of the south instead Of csrpet.bag'
gers, the former being their natural and
hast friends
Year: 1869

The Secretary of State announces that in
stead OF delegate" the official reading should
be- "for member of the Convention to revise,
alter or amend the Constitution of the State
of Illinois,
Year: 1869

TERRIBLE MINING ACCIDENT On last
Wednesday a terrible mining accident oc
Cured in the Gold Bluff Mining Companv's
claims. Manzanita Hill. San Juan. by which
G. jones lost his life and Reese Nichols was
scverely..injured. On Tuesday the parties
had put in blast of giant powder, which
did not explode. They afterwards got out all
the powder they could and put in another
blast of gunpowder near the same place. on
Wednesday afternoon This charge went off
and did satisfactory execution. Ia the after
noon, when they came to work, Jones sound.
ed the rock with sledge, when a fearful
explosion followed. killing him instantly
Nichols, who was severely injured, aged
to crawl some distance and give the alarm
when assistance was obtained. Nichols
injuries are of serious character but it is
thought he will recover. The explosion is
supposed to have resulted from a small
quantity of giant powder which remained in
the hole, and was exploded by the blow up
on the rock. We understand that both these
parties are industrious men and highly
esteemed, and the misfortune has cast gloom
over the locality in which they reside.-Ne.
rada Transcript, AprH IA.
Year: 1869




Enter upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


elf any person shall willfully make, or give,
under oath affirmation, false list of his her,
or their taxable property, false list of taxable
property under his, her, their control such per-
son shall be deemed gnilty of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor as
is by law provided for the punishment of perjury
and any property willfully concealed, removed,
transferred, misrepresented by the owner or any
agent thereof, to evade taxation, shall upon dis
covery, be assessed at ten times the amount of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon it and fifty per cent of the amount
OF such additional tax, when solicited shall be paid
to the person persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property so conceal
ed transferred, removed or misrepresented and the
remaining fifty per cent, after deductlng the usual
per centage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State


Attention is also directed to the following section
Of the Act of 1866, relating to Shasta county:


" The Assessor of said county is authorized and
it is hereby made his duty to collect all the poll
per capita tax except the road poll tax, and the
taxes upon all movable personal property and upon
the entry of any assessment of movable personal
property, to any person, firm, corporation, assoeia
ton. company. who does not own real estate
sufficient in the opinion Of the Assessor to insure
the payment of such tax within the county, to de-
mand the payment of the taxes upon the same ;
and if such person, frm corporation, association,
or company shall refuse or neglect to pay such
taxes, the Assessor shall, by virtue of the power
herein vested in him, proceed collect such taxes
in the same manner prescribed by law for the Col
lector''


If Tax Payers were to have list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them, they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, well as facilitate my work.
A. z. LADD,
Assessor of Shasta County.


Shasta, April 8, 1869. aps
Year: 1869

Established expressly to afford rhs afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases Gases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1869

The following is a correspondence, said
to have taken place between an interesting
couple, which displays much ingenuity:


MADAME Most worthy of estimation,
after long consideration and much medita-
ton, of the great reputation you possess in
this nation, you have won my admiration,
and if such oblation is worthy of observa-
ton, and can obtain consideration, it will
be an aggrandization, beyond all calcula-
tion TO the joy and exultation of


Yours, SANS DISSEMINATION.


SrR:-I perused your ovation with much
deliberation, and little CONSERVATION, at
the great infatuation of your weak imagi-
nation, to show such veneration on so
slight foundation but after examination
and serious contemplation, suppose your
animation was the fruit of recreation, or
had sprung from ostentation to display
your education by odd enumeration, or
rather multiplication of words of the same
termination, though Of great variation in
each respective signihoatfon. Now with
out disputation, your laborious application
to SO tedious an occupation deserves COM
mendation, and thinking imitation a suf-
ficient qualification, | am, without hesita-
ton, Yours, MARY MODERATION.
Year: 1869

1t is said that horses age after he is
nine years old may be ascertained in the
following manner: After the horse is nine
years old, wrinkle comes on the upper
corner of the lower lid, and every year
thereafter he has we'll defined wrinkle for
each year over nine. By adding the num-
of wrinkles to nine the age of the horse is
Obtained
Year: 1869

BE ON YOUR GuARD.-In company set a
guard upon your tongue; in solitude upon
your heart, The most ignorant have
knowledge enough to discover the faults of
others; the most clear-sighted are blind to
their own A great talker never wants
enemies; the man of sense speaks little,
and hears much. Though the ways of vir-
tue are rough and craggy, yet they reach
to Heaven.
Year: 1869

DANGER OF DELAY We copy az follows from tie
Cincinnati Commercial:


lncds nts connected with the burning Of the steam
boats and their cargo.s wharf Yesterday morn
ing, show how dangerous DELAYS sopetmps are. One
party completed shipment of about fifteen hundred
dollars of the boats and had his bis of lading
sig ed about O'clock The insurance. company with
which he was in the habit OF placing his risks not be-
ing on bis direct route home, he concluded to send in
his proposition for insurance the next morning The
next morning there was property insure. Another
party had about $1,000 in value on board one of the
boats. 1t was only part of the shipment he MAX


ing. He had intended insurng all the next day when
the shipmeat was completed, but did not notify any
company OF his intention, that whatever might be
on board would be insured. His delay cost him about
one thousand dollars Five parties from down-river
towns purchasing at one house, and all shipping
by the boat Three of them insured, and two
said they would decide about nsurng the next day. as
the boat would not leave before that time The three
had their bills duplicated yesterday and their goods
will go forward by Saturdays boat the insurance COM
pany paying the bills. The other two return without
their goods, having been customers, buying for
cash, and not prepared ask for credit There are
doubtless many other showing the danger of de-
lay in attending to insurance.
Year: 1869

New ORLEANS June 1.-The President Of the
Chamber of Commerce has received dispatch from the
Secretary of War, stating that the views Of the Gov
ernment to the Importance of improving navigation
Of the mouth of the Mississippi river in accordance
with those of the Commercial Convention, and that the
suggestions of the latter relative to the dredge boat
at work will be complied with. The dispatch was
in response to resolutions teegraphed by the President
Of the convention.


Crescent City Slaughter. House company, under the
Presidency of F j. Pratt and Superintendency Of S.
P. Griffin iaugurated its new establishment to. day,
and have already received two thousand cattle. This
institution chartered under the act of the recent
Legislature, providing for the removal Of slaughter
houses from above the city Water Works. New
slaughter houses on the opposite side Of the river
below the city.


New ORLEANS June 3-A submarine diver, named
Robert Spencer, drowned at Southwest Pass to-
day while wrecking steamship Pantheon. The face
gass of his broke and he became fouled among
the timbers and it was impossible to haul him up.
man tamed W. E Buck, descened in 26 feet water,
without armor, and recovered the body.
Year: 1869

The GREAT METEoR.-The Norwich (Conn) Courier
gives the following description of the great meteor
seen in that city:


surrounding objects distinct Looking out into the
street, it if thousands Of tons of gunpowder
had exploded in some building. Folowingit closely
loud rumbling sound from the SOUTH as if some
mighty wave breaking the beach. The people in
the vicinity Of the plain say that trembling of the
earth at this time pereeptible Many were of the
opinion that earthquake about to visit u.s. No
pen describe the magnifeence of this brilliant
phenomenon Nothing similar to it has been seen that
we have record of, for centuries Monsrous meteors
have flashed across the heavens frequently and other
AERIAL phenomena have been visible at times but moth


ing has been seen peculiar in shape so beautiful in
its effects, as this.
Year: 1869

Grant and Borie have been to Annapolis to review
the middes at the Naval Academy. With what pride
the latter have pointed the rows Of aspiring


little blue jackets and said in the words of Cornelia
the Roman mother, Behold here are my jewels p
How his tough old salt junk heart must have warmed
and thawed at sight Of the graduating Glass; to
taste Of that stormy life the blue the bright the
ever free" where he had spent many years as he
sailed as he sailed" and had wisdom beat into his
Bunsbian head with ring bolts and marine spikes. We
have doubt Borie tall this-aye, and looked it..
But is it not sad commentary on republican nstitu
tons to know that net of these mischievous pow
der monkeys which the Boreal Secretary examined,
but his superior in knowledge Of the requirements
of the service. As he sat there in front Of them


ing hia gouty and looking owly wise be simply
"a humbug-a fraud on the Office he fills, and should
have been at the tail end of the last class He super
Intend an examination indeed.


I. New Orleans Times.
Year: 1869

CONSERVATIVE CoaMITTEEs.-As will be
seen by an advertisement in another column
4 joint meeting of the City Conservative
Committee and the Hcnrico County Con-
Scrvatirc Committee will bc held this eve
ming at halt-pa>t o'clock. As this will be
very important meeting it is expected that
every member will be present.
Year: 1869

on all public or private sales Of real estate made
m'Wccn the first day Of january and the first day
sent year but on all sales between the first day oi
July and the thirty-irst day Of December the
seller pays them
Year: 1869

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The total number OF men now on board the Ver-
mont awaiting transfera TO sea-going ships s 2o5
The marine guard stationed on board number sixty
men. Their duty is divided between guarding the
buildings on the Cob dock and doing sentry on the
Vermont. This ship is IN admirable condition, and
for discipline and cleanliness as wen as general
fitness Tor the purposes to when II Is assigned, can
not be surpassed.
Year: 1869

A YOUNG WIDOW OF THE HIGHEST REsPECrA-


"A bty moving In the first society and belonging 10 the
first families In the city and State wishes 10 form the
quaintance OF gentleman OF culture and re6nemen with
plenty OF money and good moral standing, with to.
nairimony. Address Beautiful Herald once.
Year: 1869

Biliousness. Indigestion, General Debility, and
all the complaints which proceed from . want of
proper action in the liver, the stomach and the
bowels. are eradicated by course of this great