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Year: 1869

oes of the dire catastrophe that has over
whct5sed sristoeraey in the United StatssS
Notwithstanding the importance of the
issues involved IN the late canvass, and the
bitterness of feeling as well as the earnest
ness with which it was conducted, its termi-
nation has happily met with the aequiescence
oi nearly the whole people; and at no time
IN the history of the nation has there been
opened before US brighter prospect of con-
unued peace and increasing prosperity; and
we have no greater cause for universal con-
graduation than that no differences of opin-
ION now exist that can materially mar our
national happiness, retard our onward pro-
gress, or threaten the peace or perpetuity of
our government,


In conclusion, permit me to remark that
the voice OF Pennsylvania, as well that of a
majority of the States, has at the ballot box
proclaimed to the world that all our nation
al indebtedness, no matter how heavy the
burden, will be paid according to 1.-THE let
ter and spirit of the agreements made and
entered into at the time the debt was con-
tracted and that IN this as in all other re-
spects our individual and national honor
must and shall be preserved :" that we
are determined by all honorable means in
our power 10 secure ample encouragement
and protection to each and every branch Of
Home Industry, and every manly enterprise
that contributes capital, labor, skill and in
dustry to our material wealth, social ad-
vancement and political tranquility; that
for all our citizens, the children of the Com
monwealth being also citizens of the Uni
ted States, We demand the fullest protection,
and in their rights and privileges wherever
they may go within the national jurisdiction
or in foreign lands; and that whiis, our f.
nanciai policy shall be such as to maintain
untrammeled our national credit, it is TO be
hoped that it may at thesame time. be such
as will permit and sanction the construction
of the great railways now in progress and
stretching out their giant arms to grasp the
mighty commerce of the Pacific to develop
the untold resources of wealth in the inter-
vehing territories, and to connect the most
distant portions of our country in common
union, not only with iron bands, but by the
still stronger and more iDdissoluble ties of
common interest and common brotherhood.


To lessen the burdens of the people, and
to keep the expenses Of the State as nearly
as possible within the limits of its absolute
necessities, will always be among the chief
objects of wise aud just legislation Let US,
then, with due sense of our obligations
and high responsibilities, endeavor SO to dis
charge our duties as to secure the greatest
good of the community and merit the appro-
baton of Him by whom our Commonwealth
has been so abundantly blessed.


Jan. 6, 1869. JOHN w. GEARY.
Year: 1869

Msn MArrEKs.-During the past week, over a dozen business men Of this place have requested us 10 say something naughty about the mail car riers between Prescott and California, but VIC don't care to do 90, knowing that all we could say would go for naught We're ~e within speaking distance of the Postmaster General we would not hesitate to tell him that the way his machine is run in this Territory is not calculated to fll the minds of our people with gratitude Indeed we are badly humbugged community but. pshawi what's the use of making it known. Have we G government" If SO. why in thun- der don't 1t make contractors live up to their agreements.
Year: 1869

We will now give you few of the
Intentionsn Of the Constitution:


They are to erect edifices for the
benefit of the colored people, and to
look after the interests of the mem
bcrs of the Association, and to unite
our thoughts together, so that we may
better appreciate one another, and
elevate our minds so as to be enabled
TO meet the many necessities that are
almost Ga ly presenting clouds of ig-
norance to us, and 10 see that no
member OF the Association does not
need or suffer for anything, and that
she. or they, receive due and prompt
attention. The Board of Managers
are hound TO see to all of these things,
and if they are found to be not dis
charging their duty, they are liable
to any punishment that may be put
uoon them by the President.


srRs. JORDAN. Mrs. BOOKER,


MRs. McFApDAS.
Year: 1869

Tie inquiry has frequently h""i.
made OF late. why don the Colorru
voters OF Little Rock nominate d tichci
OF their own Tor the next city cleC-
ton, a d appropriate to their own
use some of the good, fat offices that
have heretofore been monop0lized by
a few white leaders? To save our lite
we cannot answer why the DO not.
The colored voters of this city are
largely in the majority, and the, have
heretofore allowed themselves TO be
used only for the purpose OF putting
certain class of white men in office
who have no better}claims to the Off
ces than the coloreh men who do most
all the voting.


Let the colored voters of this city
reflect for a moment how UNFAIRLY
they have been dealt with by lhc party
in the bestowal of office. Although
they constitute NINE-TENTHs or more
of the VOTING population Of the party,
they have not received as muc as
oNE-TENTH of the offices which have
been controlled by the party.


1t has been calculated, by gentle
man who is we'll posted on the sub
ject, that, in this city alone, there are
over TWO HUNDRED officials employed
in the United States, State, County
and City service, with salaries and
perquisites, amounting, in the whole,
to over THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS ! OF this great
number of paying offices, the colored
voters hold less than TEN; some of
whom get no salaries at all, and the
rest but mere pittancies. Besides the
Office of City Collector, held by Mr..
Rector, there is not an office in the
city or county, held by colored man,
that pays more than ordinary day
lobor wages, whilst 200 white men
are filling offices worth nearly $3.50, ;
900 90


Now is this just, and fair, and
right? No! it is not; and every intel
ligent colored man knows very well
it is not right. Well, if is is notright,
why do you submit to it? You have
certainly got the POWER to prevent It,
if you will dare exercise that power;
and if YOU do not prevent it in the
future, it is your own fault. The
eolorcd voters hold the POWER, and
they should exercise it for their own
benefit. They have been pack-horscs
for few greedy white Radical lead
ers long enough. 1t is high time the
colored men were beginning to look
out for their own interests. We have
been helping few white men to make
fortunes, long enough. 1t is high
time that some of us should begin to
live iu fine houses, and drive fast
horses. and fare sumptuously every
day. We have got plenty o. men
among us capable of holding all these
fat offices. We have got men among
us who would look and act as well in
the Mayors chair, as our worthy DR..
Hsrtman. Squire johnson is just as
handsome man as Judge Andrews,
and would make as good, if not bet
ter, Police Judge. The Rev, John
Pevton would make as competent a
Recorder as Mr.. Scharef, and SO OF
all the various offices. We can. put
forward honest, faithful. and capa-
Bile men who would command the
confidence and respect OF the whole
community.


Let the colored voters, then, strike
Year: 1869

GOVERNOR WALKER, of Virginia,
declared in Richmond a few nights
ago, in answer to a serenade, that
his election was an endorsement OF
Grants administration and the re-
construction measures of Congress.
Democratic papers in this Territory
are claiming the election of Walker
as Democratic triumph in Virginia,
when in fact no Democrat in the
State could be found willing TO offer
himself as candidate against the
overwhelming Republican majority
known to exist there. Two Repub-
licans ran, the only question being
the abolition OF the iron-clad oath.
Walker, universal suffrage Radical,
being also a universal amnesty Rad
ical, was in favor of abolishing the
oath, and was elected on that issue,
dividing the suffrage of the colored
people with bis opponent and receiv-
a majority of the white vote. Drown
ing men will catch at straws, and if
Democracy has no surer hope than
the one presented in the election OF
Governor Walker, it had better give
up the ghost.
Year: 1869

Among the astounding discoveries of
science is that of the immense pariods that


have passed in the gradual formation of
the earth. So vast we're the cycles of the
time preceding even the appearance of man
on the surface of our globe, that our own
period seems as yesterday when compared


with the epochs that have gone before it.


Had we only the evidence of the deposits
of rocks heaped on each other in regular
strata by the slow accumulation of mate
rials, they alone would convince us of the
slow maturing of Gods works on earth
but when we add to these the successive
population of whose life the world has been
the theater, and whose remains are hidden
in the rocks into which the mud, or sand,
or soil of whatever kind on which they
have lived, has hardened in the course of
time; or the enormous chains of mountains
whose upheaval divided these periods of
quiet accumulation by great convulsions;
or changes of different nature in the
confgurations of our globe, as the sinking
of lands beneath the ocean or the gardual
rising of continents and islands above;
or the slow growth of the coral reefs, those
wonderful sea-walks raised by the little
ocean architect whose own bodies furnish
both the building stones and the cement
that binds them together, and worked
SO busily during the long centuries that
there are extensive countries, mountain
chains, islands and long lines of coast con-
sisting solely of their remains; or the
countless forests that have grown up, -four
ished and decayed to fill the store-house of
coal that feeds the fires of the human race
If we consider all these records of the
past, the intellect fails to grasp chron-
ology of which our experience furnishes
no date, and time that lies behind us seems
as much an eternity to our conception as
the future that stretches indefinitely before
us.-AgasSiz
Year: 1869

One of the dispatches relating to the


eicknsss of Senator Fessenden, states that


his disease was complicated by the poison


taken into his system at the National Hotel,
Washington, some years ago, from which


he had frequently suffered. Most of our


readers will remember the National Hotel


poisoning case, which created great SEN
sation at the time. 1t occurred in Febru-


ary, 1857, just previous to the Inauguration


of Buchanan, who was among the suffer.


ers. Some two or three hundred guests at


the hotel all, in fact, who had taken their


meals there-were suddenly taken sick


and the hotel was at once deserted. 1t


was believed that the food had been pur.


posely poisoned, though an effort was made


by the owners of the hotel, assisted by the


city authorities, to discredit this theory
The first suggestion was that poisonous


substance had collected in the pipes leading
water to the building, but this supposition


completely retuted, and board of physi-
clans finally reported that the sickness was
caused by accumulation of stagnant water
under the building. This, Of course, could
not account for several hundred persons
being taken sick the same day, and ex-
hibiting all the symptoms Of poison. Some
of them were affected more than others,
and while none Of them died suddenly, all
were convinced that the poison was in their
systems. A number died in the course of
the year, and in 1865 it was asserted by
an Eastern journal that had kept trace Of
the subject that over forty had died from
the effects of the poison Buchanan, among
the others, was seriously affected, and re-
turned to his home in Pennyslvania, but
SO far recovered by the 4th of March that
he was able to 60 through the ceremonies
of Inauguration. 1t was believed, however,
that the poison had weakened his mind,
and rendered him a subservieEt tool of the
oligarchy. There is little doubt that the
poison was the work of diabulical con-
spiracy to get Buchanan out of the way
and place Breckinridge in the Executive
chair but the authorities at Washington
had an interest in hushing the affair up,
and as Congress did not meet for many
months after, no attempt was ever made to
bring the facts to light. Some thought
that an expose would have bad effect on
the public morals; and this feeling, to-
gether with the influence of the conspira-
tors, doubtless had the effect to prevent a
searching investigation. But since the
assassination of Lincoln, the dark hints of
foul play in the cases of President Har-
rison and Taylor have more frequently
found EXPRESSION: and il is useless TO at
tempt to disguise the fact that there are as
bad men living now and in our own coun-
try, as ever disgraced the middle ages of
Europe. Perhaps not less than half the
persons involved in The attempt to get rid
of Buchanan have since died, and the testi-
mony of their friends and physicians has
been that their lives were shortened by the
effects Of the poison. Senator Fessenden
was the latest victim Gazette.
Year: 1869

an active agency at work moulding the
thoughts Of men into new forms and di-
recting them into new channels, and we
would like to know the nature of that
agency and its probable influence upon
mankind. The lecturer who has brains
will find here a splended theme. He who
has none, may as well let lectures alone
Golden Era
Year: 1869

WuIrEwAsHING. In these days of spring
cleaning, the whtewash brush and pail are
freely used by the good housekeeper, and none
too freely, for aside from the effect that white
wash has upon the appearance Of the dwelling
rooms, its use in cellars, outhouses, ETC., is
doubtless Of salutary effect The essentials in
whitewashing are, good lime and good brush.
Freshly burned, hard Jumps Of lime are the
best. Rhode Island lime has long been cele-
brated for its excellence, and is sent for long
distances away from the little State. The
brush should be a gDod one; not cheap affair
made to sell, but with long, good bristles, and
plenty OF hem. The lime is slaked by pour
Ing boiling water upon it, stirring until the
Jumps disappear: more water is added, until a
creamy liquid is obtained, Of proper thickness
for application. The pail should have stiff
wire stretched across the top, against which tl
draw the brush, to remove the excess of white
wash. Commence by sweeping the ceiling an(
walls, to remove all dust: then go over The
surface, making the strokes Of the brush al
in one direction, and parallel; when the first
coat is dried, apply another in direction
across, or at right angles with the former. A


large paint brush will be found useful for cor.
neIs and intricate places. Those who have
never whitewashed must not be surprised tc
see the work look very badly while it is wet
the effect can only be judged of when dry
With Il little practice, the operation can be
done without spattering or letting a drop fall
Stir the whitewash occasionally, dip the brush
In perpendicularly, and then draw it across the
wire above spoken of, so as to leave as much
in the brush as 1t will hold without dropping
Salt, white vitriol, starch paste, and Other
things are added with view to prevent the
was from rubbing off, but there is little white.
wash that VIII not rub Of For nice work, the
lime may be slaked several weeks before it Is
used thin peicle or crust Of carbonate o.
lime will form on the surface, which is to be
skinned off, and then the wash may be poured
off from the gritty PARTICLES which settle to the
bottom,


kALsoMING is a term given to another meth
cd Of whitening walls. 1t is Paris white, which
is very fine whitening or chalk, to be had a,
the paint and drug stores, and put on with
glue size. The proportions are quarter Of 9
pound of arhite glue to six pounds of Paris
white. Put the glue in water enough to wei
cover 1t, and let it stand until perfectly soft
then put the vessel containing the glue into
kettle of hot water, and stir until it is thor
oughly dissolved. Put the Paris white into
pail, add hot water gradually, stirring all the
time, until 1t is brought to smooth creamy
consistence; add the dissolved glue, and ther
water enough to thin 1t sufficiently to work
well with the brush. 1t is applied in the same
manner as whitewash, and is used for hard.
finished ceilings and walls that have become
dscolored. Agriculturist.
Year: 1869

CLOVER. The best time to SOW clover is
probably in August. 1t should then be sown
on well-mellowed ground, with dressing OF
plaster, say 10 bushels to the acre. The kind
of seed we prefer is the medium, or common
red. The pea-vine makes very coarse hay, put
is best for ploughing under green. Sown in
the spring, 1t is best to take quiet morning
in March, when light snow has fallen on
ground that has been bare and has thawed
Glover does very well sown upon winter grain
or with spring grain, but better by itself Suit
able top-dressings for light land plowed in the
spiing to be sown with clover, are plaster,
ashes' any fine compost, Peruvian guano made
fine ana mixed with plaster and soil, or super
phosphate OF lime. 1t Is worth while to roll
the land after sowing. 1t NAV be done anv
time before the first of Nav. or even later.
TAQriculturiSt.
Year: 1869

Who IS to compose the new cabinet? ls


now the great question before the people.


Gen. Grant is 80 fond Of keeping his pur.
poses to himself that no definite answeT can
5e given to this question, and the public are
dependent alone upon the specuatlons oi
newspaper correspondents. 1t is SAID, how
ever, that there is an undisguised feeling Of
uueasiness among the chief radicals lest
Grant should call around him a conservative
cabinet delegation Of influential men
called upon him some time ago and urged
the appointment to a cabinet position of Il
welLknown politician. After listening to
whatthey had to say, he replied in substance
that be looked upon the relations between
the president and his cabinet much the
same as those which should exist between
a general and his staff officers. As he would
not like to have any person or persons select
his staff officers for him, so he hoped his
friends would not be offended if he declined
their recommendations for cabinet officers
lie proposed to select his own cabinet, as he
would be responsible to the people for the
conduct of the administration. He did not
wish to put himself in the position in which
Mr.. Lincoln often found himself, with only
one vote in the cabinet council for the ad
and that one his own.
Year: 1869

The recent telegraphic announcement
from Washington, that Senator Yates had
again made his appearance in costume
resembling that the Georgia major whose
favorte parade dress consisted ola shirt.
collar and pair Of spurs has not been
contradcted by the senator friends. On
this occasion the Illinois Demosthenes is said
TO have added a revolver to his otherwise
rather limited sccoutremeuts. But even
that addition must have been an improve
ment in relation TO the moral effect Of The
spectacle.
Year: 1869

The new temperance party seems to be
proceeding with some energy in the work Of
eiFecting local organization in the different
counties in this state. Ia Lee county, the
names Of quite a number Of influential citi.
lens appear in the list of officers. A preach.
er, Of the name of Hazen, made a speech at
the meeting, saying that "He had ridden all
kinds Of temperance horses, and now he was
ready 10 ride the new party horse Pru-
deuea would indicate the proprjety Of not
mounting too many of such old riders on the
new horse, as most Of the horses they have
ridden heretofore they have ridden to death
Year: 1869

CuEcKisc P1GsrRArioy-Mu Mulutuies
OF women lose health ard lifo every year
in one Of lwo ways; by busyiNg them
selves 10 warm kitchen until weary.
aad then throwing themselves on q bed
or sofa, without covering, and perhaps
in room without Gre; or by removing
the outer clothing, aud perhaps chang
ing The dress for a more common one,
as soon as they enter tho house after
waik or ash6pping The rule should
be inyariRblo 10 go at once to warm
room and keep on all the clothing Es
least fyO or leo minutes.
Year: 1869

The Stockton Independent doesn't seem to
like the remarks we made last week about
the verdict of an Ulster county, New York,
jury which awarded to one Daniel D Bell a
judgment against General John A. Dix for
$4,000. lie says:


"The telegram to the Associated Press
fails to report even a synopsis Of the evidence
in the case. but we infer that our Tuolumne
cotemporary has received the details by
special dispatch, inasmuch as be volunteers
the declaration that the verdict is just one.
Moreover, he seems disposed to apply the
evidence and verdict in this case to others yet
to be tried"


This piece of delicate irony is called forth
by our having called the verdict just one
and expressed the hope that all such acts Of
tyranny would meet with similar punishment.
The abstract merits Of this or any other SINH
lar case have, in our opinion, nothing to do
with the Justice of such a verdict. If Daniel
D. Bell had been accused of treason. or any
other crime. against the U. s. Government,
and had had trial before competent judicial
tribunal and had been convicted we would
have nothing to say against bis punishment.
But, whether in time of war or peace, we deny
the right of military power to arrest and i'm
prison any citizen in State where civil gov
ernment is in fall operation. Therefore We
say that any verdict which Furnishes nen for
the exercise of arbitrary and unlawful power
is just one. The editor of the Independent
thinks we have forgotten to mention certain
exceptions to our "sweeping declaration" ,"
He is confident that we would not like to see
any Confederate officers prosecuted "for ar
rests made in violation of civil law" This
style of argument is neither new nor original.
We have had it poEed at us during the war;
lust as if unconstitutional or arbitrary pro-
ceedings on the part of Confederate officers
could Justify similar conduct on the rart Of
Federal officers In reply, however, we will
state that the only civil law which Confeder-
ate officers recognized or to which they were
amenable was that of the late de .facto Con-
federate Government. Not having been
resident or citizen of the Confederacy, any
arrests in violation of civil law made by Con-
federate officers is no concern of ours. Had
the Confederacy succeeded, it is possible that
the citizens thereof who had been treated like
Bell would have sought redress in the civil
courts. 1t failed, however, and such men as
- Beauregard, Forrest or Mosby" arc pro-
te,ted bv "the-terms cf Lees and johnson s
surrenders." Our government can only
know them as defeated enemies and must
respect the terms made With them at their
surrender.
Year: 1869

Bo.Rp OF SuPERvIsoRs.-The Board of Su-
peryisors met Monday last and continued IN
session three days. transacting the following
business:


In the matter of the petition of Joachim
Deluxe for license to keep toll bridge at
Italian Bar. on the Stanislaus river, remon-
STRANGE having been presented. it was ordered
that further action be postponed until May
oath 1869.


In the matter of the petition of James Wit
tor and others for the location of county
| road commencing near she tep osthe hill be
low the Gold Spring Cottage and running
thence to point on the County road leading
Year: 1869

LONDON, June lO-Telegrams from Paris this morn
ing report that the crowds in the Montmarte district
yesterday dispersed on the appearance of the mill
tary without offering resistance No damage was
done beyond the breaking Of some windows. Many
of the men most prominent in creating disturbance
were arrested.