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Year: 1869

dent 10 satisfied that they have established do
fGct0 government The Cubans should pre-
pare tor this without delay by organizing .
regular government in place Of the provisional
one, and send representative to Washingtoa
as regular minister. The insurrection has
acquired sufficient strength and covers ground
enough for such decided action. OF course
the United States must have some facts
to act upon, but will not be slow
to recognize the belligerent rights or the inde-
pendence of Cuba as soon as the facts are pre-
sented in proper manner. In the meantime
our government should send commissioners
to ascertain the true state Of affairs on the
island, for it cannot depend upon the news
that comes from Havana. Both sound policy
and humanity demand an active interest o.
the part Of the United States in the CubaA
struggle for independence.
Year: 1869

FLATrERY OR DELUsI0N. Friday there
was meeting Of a clan Of men interested In
opposition to the passage of certain bad law
now before the Legislature. They met to take
steps to defeat the law, and very remarkable
are the steps they propose. They held that
money was not necessary" Here is new
thing. Money not necessary to people apply
ing to the Legislature! How, then, do they
think legislators are to liver Are these men,
who seem to have faith that there is honesty
and intelligence in the Legislature, merely fiat
tering that body, or are they deluded, or if
there really change In the character Of the
Albany magnates2
Year: 1869

MUNICIPAL TYRANNY AND HARDSHIP
the respectable old ladies and gentlemen from
Ireland who keep peanut stands and candy
stands and occupy all the odd hooks Of the
sidewalk are to be turned out of those COM
Portable franchises by the authorities. We
predict that this will cause revolution. These
privileges have been especially extended to
the aunts Of our Aldermen since the days when
"the Irish vote" became big thing among
us, and the old ladies are tenacious Of privi-
leges.
Year: 1869

NATURES JUsrIoE.-H was supposed that
the ancient horrors Of the emigrant passage
could not be repeated at this time, but the
story Of the ship James Foster, Jr., proves the
contrary; and yet this ship is the property Of
merchants whose fair disposition and humanity
no one can doubt. II seems but simple
piece Of retributive justice that the captain
and mate are down with the fever that broke
out In the ship through their barbarous treat.
ment of the passengers.
Year: 1869

ing the Mormons at every settlement until they
are crowded out


Nor Is ii by any means certain that this re-
moval or absorption Of Mormonism, involving
the wiping out Of Mormon polygamy, will be
effected without bloodshed. The lessons ot
the bloody Mormon expulsions from Missouri
and Nauvoo warn US Of the danger Of q
bloodier expulsion from Utah. The Mormons,
through their admirable system Of industry,
have made their settlements In Utah sufficiently
attractive in their substantial elements of COM
fort and wealth to tempt the cupidity of the
frontier Goths and Vandals to organize raids
upon Mormon polygamy as upon an intolerable
abomination. In truth, we apprehend that
from and after July next there will be no
safety to the Mormon saints except in the i'm
mediate presence Of q detachment Of the
United States army.


This is matter worthy the serious considera-
ton of General Grant. Various schemes have
been proposed in Congress for the removal Of
this unsightly excrescence Of Mormon poly
gamy. One member proposes the division Of
the Territory Of Utah among the neighboring
Territories, so that the Gentiles may outvote
and vote out the saints in their local govern
ment Another member proposes military
government, another-the Mormon delegate
the admission of Utah as q State. This last
would be disastrous experiment to the saints
and cannot be entertained in Congress. Nor
can we safely wait till the anti Mormon popula-
ton of Utah shall be strong enough to outvote
the Mormon population of hundred thousand.
Nor, II it could be done, would it be the wisest
course to buy out the Prophet and his followers,
and buy an island for them in the Pacific and
settle them on It; for the skilled industry Of
these Mormons is too valuable to be lost.


We know Of no better plan than that Of q
sort of military government over Utah, for the
protection Of the Mormons and the suppress
sion of polygamy at the same time. A law
imposing heavy internal revenue tax or upon
the Mormon for his second wife-with two on
hand-and with heavier tax the luxury of q
third. and so on, still increasing the tax up to
the Prophets maximum Of thirty-nine wives,
would be apt to have q good effect. But it
would be vastly improved with premium to
every single man marrying surplus wife Of .
saint and adopting her children. After what
has been done for the Southern blacks in the
name of the Freedmens Bureau, extending to
the marriage relation, we do not see why the
Territorial system here suggested might not be
adopted for Utah. At all events, in view Of
the coming dangers we have indicated, we
commend the subject to the earnest considera-
ton of General Grant.
Year: 1869

AMONG BAsKERs.-We are glad that the
inanciers In faro indulged their natural in
stincts on that little occasion when the man
who won from the bank was beaten and
robbed by the bankers. That is all as Il ought
to be. But where were the police when this
little piece Of gambling was In progress ?
Were they too busy in their pursuit Of babies
In Brooklyn pitching buttons 10 attend 10 this
little game on Broadway1
Year: 1869

Step Nerthward.


It was represented in Washington on Friday
by some prominent Nova Scotia citizens that
the feeling in that province is almost unanimous
in favor of joining their interests with ours
and forming one OF the stars upon our flag.
There is no doubt but Nova Scotia, in opposi-
ton to her interests and opportunity for pros
perity, is held as an integral part Of the Do
minion Of Canada. The protest Of the people
In 1866 against the virtually forcible entrance
of their province into the Canadian confedera-
ton was neither listened to by the colonial nor
the English home government; and when the
question Of uniting themselves to the Dominion
was submitted to the Nova Scotia Assembly it
was strongly denounced IS in opposition
TO the wishes Of the province. An old dodge
was res0rted to by the Canadian gov
ernment, and the Great Western Railroad Of
Canada and other financially fat concerns were
bled to supply . bribery fund for the Nova
Scotia Parliament. All to no purpose, how
ever. Failing in their bribery plan. the gen.
eral government dissolved the Parliament and
afterwards forced the province into the moth
erly fold.


1t is now stated that the people will apply for
. release from the confederation, and, falling
to obtain this, will make an earnest appeal to
England to be relieved from their political
position. At the same time request will be
submitted to the United States Congress pray
ing for admission to the United States as a
State.


The effort OF Nova Scotia to form part of our
Union is very natural, and that she is the first
of all the British territory to the north Of US
to apply earnestly for this is due to her geo.
graphical position, which is peculiar with re-
ference to ourselves and Europe. New Bruns-
wick and Nova Scotia extend to the northeast
from our territory like great bastion, point
ing towards Europe and reaching far of in
that direction. A continuous railroad connec-
ton between New York and the eastern ex-
tremity of Nova Scotia, with line of steamers
to the Irish coast, would put our mail and passen
ger communications one and half days nearer
Europe than we are now. There is no doubt
that the day for the completion Of this connec-
ton is very near at hand In this alone 1t is seen
how very closely allied are the interests of
Nova Scotia with the United States. Nearly
all their trade on this Continent is or should be
directly with US. They have scarcely single
sympathy or bond in common with their forced
Canadian countrymen. Even Prince Edward
Island, lying to the north Of Nova Scotia, feels
that she has more In common with the United
States than with Canada. This is the reason
that she also has steadfastly refused to enter
the Canadian confederacy.


Nova Scotia has an area, including Cape
Breton Island, of 1916 square miles, and
population Of about $4,000 Of Industrious,
hardy, energetic and intelligent people. As q
State in the United States we should be proud
of them, for they would undoubtedly do us
honor.
Year: 1869


The DAILY HERALD will be sent to subscribers
for one dollar month.
The postage being only thirty-fve cents q
quarter. country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price it is
furnished in the city.
Year: 1869

This is one of the phases of the petticoat
suffrage question now being agitated. Once
armed with the ballot, the duty of sitting
on juries will be Imposed upon" the ladies.
Now it is notorious fact that men are far


more lenient and merciful to female GRIMM


ais than women are toward each other out


side of the court room. If they will not
spare a weak or frail one now. what will
they do when clothed with the rights Of
jurorsl Imagine young and pretty woman
/ who has stopped to folly" brought before
ajury in which are several irasciblc and
elderly spinsters, who. hold the balance of
power, is it difficult to say what the verdict
will be2 Would the prisoners beauty OF
tears of repentance touch them2 Verify, no


II the young thing happened to be the plain.
tiff in, q suit for breach of promise agains,
a handsome, nch young swell, would sh.
win her suitg Truly, no. Could the ladie,
on the jury find it in ther hearts to give
verdict against a'such a nice young man p
Bless you no. Thus it evident that will
crinoline in the jury box neither would ge
Justice.
Year: 1869

A machine for engraving the cylinders Of
copper or brass employed in printing woven
fabrics and paper hangings, is an invention
of French origin. The voltaic current is
used to determine, by means of electro- mag
nets, the slight Simultaneous advance or
withdrawal Of any number of engraving
diamond points from the Vanished surface
Of the copper rollers to be engraved, accor-
ding to the position Of corresponding me-
tai contact point on the non-conducting sur
face Of prepared pattern The pattern and
offender to be engraved are moved mechan-
ically in concert, and the proportion of their
relative movements can be varied BY me
chanical adjustment. The engraving points
have slight vibrating motion given 70 them
which snatches off the varnish whenever
brought into contact with it, and produces
a aserits of zigzag lines, which facilitate the
retention of the pasty coloring matter used.
The prepared pattern determines the move
ments at which the contact occurs and the
concert between the movements of the. pat
tern and the rollers produces similar agree
nent between the pattern and the figures
engraved, which may clearly be made larger
or smaller than the pattern in any desired
proportion. and in; any required number.
The copper when exposed, is afterwards
etched by an acid bath. N-'' ~ tf -
Year: 1869

How AND WHEN TO USE MANUREs---The


best method of using stable or barnyard


manure for corn or potatoes, Is to haul 1t
fresh from the cellar in the condition which


it rests in the vaults, spread it upon the
plowed field, and harrow it in, with Geddes
harrow. This is whatwe call "long manure"
and form which, according to the opinions
of many farmers is unsuited to immediate
use; also, it is objected, that in spreading
fresh manure upon plowed fields and cover
ing it specifically with earth, much of it is
lost by evaporation, or, more correctly speak.


ing, certain volatile, gaseous constituents
rise on the breeze and are waited away. In
our view, both of the notions are incorrect.
The excrement of animals must undergo a
kind of fermentation, or putrefactive change
before it is assimilated by plants, and it is
better that this be carried forward in the
field, as there it is in contact with the soil.


which is greedy to absorb all the products
of the chemical change. Creative power
ha' bestowed upon dry earth prodigious alb
sorptive capabilities. If a lump of fresh
manure as large as peck measure is placed
upon plowed field uncovered, or allowed
to ferment or decay in the open air, the abb
SorPtiFe powers OF the earth are such that it
will actually attract towards it ammoniacal
and other gases, and thus rob the atmosphere
Of its natural volatile principles. A film. of
earth no thicker than the rind of an orange
placed over lump of manure will effectual-
ly prevent loss of manurial products under
all possible circumstances. It will be agreed
then that harrow is equally as effective as
q plow In protecting manure in the open
field. 1t is better to have the manure near
the surface, as the rains can reach it, and
dissolve the soluble salts, and by percola-
ton carry them down to the hungry roots
OF plants. ..--.-.-. -.


/ Long manure is not lost when deeply
turned under by the ploW, but the farmer
Year: 1869

From the n. 7. Evening Post


The new bonnets are trife larger than
those of the summer; very high on the top
and with the trimming dropping backward
from the centre over the back hair, instead
Of forming a coronal, as the past season.
Feathers will be extensively used for fall
bonnets, some having two small ones on the
top, with long one curved and falling be-
low the neck at the back. Lace scarfs are
fashionable upon bonnets, the latest and
most striking being that of one scarf. A
piece of lace yard and half long or more
is stitched to one side and brought around
the neck, and the end drawn through falls
at the side. These folds of lace lie loosely
around the neck, and are becoming to a
pretty face, and help to improve even a plain
Year: 1869

A rich bonnet of plain colored velvet is
trimmed with feathers and lace and q
cluster of velvet leaves. This droops low
on the forehead, as do most of the new bon
nets. Nearly all of the new styles resemble
more round hat than the pretty little bon
nets of the past g-g .-s.-f. ..-4r-.
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the Country Gentle
men says that hand friction-always rub
bing down-will certainly keep wind gals
from increasing, and if well applied for
half an hour at a time, twice day. will re-
move new one, or materially check one
of long standing
Year: 1869

We regret to state that this gentleman met his
death in New Jersey, on wednesday morning, by Q
sad accident. He crossing the railroad track at
the Bergen tunnel, and while endeavoring to avoid
ono train OF cars another, coming from opposite
direction, ran upon him suddenly. He was thrown
with great force against the Morris and Essex Rai
road train, and sustained injuries which resulted
fatally within Q few hours. Mr.. Walbridge was q
native Of this State, lawyer BY profession and at
one time Justice OF the Supreme Court. In 1851
he was elected Representative to Congress- serving
one term, when he retired TO private life.
Year: 1869

out having given Sufficient provocation
for the apprehended deadly assault, by
the use of brick or any other weapon
anticipated the same, and killed his an
tsgonisf, then he would be excusable on
the grounds Of self-defense. But if the
conduct of the deceased was provoked by
an assault first committed by the defend
ant, with q weapon or instrument capa-
BILE of producing death, the defendant
then must be guilty of msn-slaughter. A
homicide can never be justified on the
ground of selfdefense, except when the
party slain was in the very act of COM
mitting felony, by force or violence,
upon the person or property of the slsy-
er, without any or without sufficient pro-
vocation on the part of the slayer. Ner
is it excused in one who is himself in
fault, until he has sought honestly to
avoid the necessity of killing, and has
done all he could do consistently with a
proper regard to his own safety; and Of
this necessity the jury are the judges.
Threats of personal injury cannot miti-
gate the killing, unless the party show
that he had previous knowledge of those
threats, nor even then, unless the person
threatening was in the act of executing
his threats.
Year: 1869

From the Press and Timesl


Some months ago we had occason to


write at considerable length various &C.


counts of strange discoveries made in


the immediate viciuity of Nashville, and


up the banks Of the Cumberland as far


as Stone river, showing conclusively
enough that this vicinity must have been
the site of a once large and magnificent
city.


1t is now generally conceded by the
few learned men among US that formerly,
beyond the period of even European
records, mighty race dwelt on this con.
| tinent, and that vast cities and an i'm
! mense population fourished on the hills
and plains now covered with what we


consider the primeval woods. Nashville,


in particular, is rich in the remains OF
this mighty race


Two days ago an adventurous student


entered the cave which is known to run


under our city, in West Nashville, near


the residence of. Mr.. Hines, on Knowles
street; and having travelled in south
erly direction for over mile, until he
found himself somewhere under the hill
on which Fort Negley stood, he COM
menced a rigid exploration of the inte-
rier of the cavern as he returned. He
found earthern vases in profusion, some
of them capaeious enough to hold bar
rel of water, and of undoubted Eastern
style of construction. He also found
stouc coffin or sacorphagus, nine feet
long on the outside and seven feet long
on the inside. 1t was laid upon a natu-
raj ledge Of rock, and bore certain char
acters on the side of it, which be was
unable to decipher. Within was nothing
but small sprinkling of dust and about
half an inch of pasty mud. He also
fousd regular steel knives, with very
long handles of some sort of composite
material, which he assures US is pottery.
On these the craven characters are yet
quite legible. He brought forth from
this grave of centuries several specimens
of his dicoveries, which are no less
curions than wonderful. He is making
preparations for series of explorations,
which he intends to extend over several
weeks. They will be undertaken with
view of writing an exhaustive and cor
rect account of all the arch@ illogical
which are TO be found around
this CITY.
Year: 1869

The case of Robert a. Cartmell, charged
with numbering John R. Voolfolk, was
concluded in the Circuit Court at Jack
son last week. The jury returned a YER
dict of mot guilty" The following ex-
tract from Judge Bonds charge will be
read with interest:


To excuse homicide on the ground Of
self-defense, the danger must be actual
aud imminent, or justly be believed to be
so. No contingent necessity will avail;
and when the pretended necessity con-
sists. Of the, as yet, unexecuied machina-
tions Of another, the defendant is not
allowed to justify or excuse himself by
reason Of their existence. If the conflict
was in any way premeditsted by the de-
fendant, the plea of self-defense will not
avail. II death ensue from a wound
given in malice, but not in itself mortal,
but which being neglected or misman-
aged, the party dies, the party giving the
wound is responsible for murder, unless
the proof make it clearly to appear that
the psrty's own misconduct or neglect,
or the malpractice of the surgeon or ply
siciaD, was the sole cause OF the death.
Or when the wound was not Of itself NOR
tai, and the party died in consequences
solely of the improper treatment and not
at all Of the wound, the party ibaicting
the wound will not be held responsible
But if the wound was in itself mortal or
dangerous, aud death ensue, the person
giving the wousd cannot shelter or ex-
cuse himself under the plea OF erronesus
treatment by surgeons Ifyou find that
during an angry alteration the deceased
accompanied his insulting language 6y a
motion indicating an intention to draw a
deadly weapon, aud the defendant, with
Year: 1869

Life is but Death vestibule, and cur pill
grimage on earth is but journey to the
grave, the pulse that preserves our being
beats our dead march, aud the blood which
circulates our life is floating it onward to
the depths of death. To-day We see our
friends in health to morrow we hear OF
their decease. We clrsped the hand of the
strong man but yesterday, and to day We
close his eyes. We rode in a chariot OF
comfort but an hour ago, and in few more
hours the last black chariot must convey us
to the home of all the living. On, how
closely allied to life is death The lamb
that sporteth in the field must soon feel the
knife. The OK that is in the pasture Is fat
tening for the slaughter. Trees do but grow
that they may be felled. Yes, and greater
things than these feel death. Empires rise
and flourish, they flourish but to decay, they
rise but to fall.


How often we take up volume of histo-
~ and read of the rise and fall of empires?
We hear of the coronation and death of
kings. Death Is the black servant who rides
behind the chariot of life. See life and
death is close behind it. Death reaches far
throughout this world and has stamped ter
rcstial things with the broad arrows of the
grave Stars die, mayhnps, it is said that
conHagrations have been afar off in the ether
and astronomers have marked the funer-
ais of other worlds-the decay of those
mighty orbs that we have imagined set for
eyer in sockets of silver to gisten as the
lamps of eternity. Blessed be God there is
one place where death is not life brother,
where life reigns alone, and to lise' is not
the first syllable which is to be followed by
the next, to die There is land where
deathknells are never tolled where winding
sheets are never woven, where graves are
never dug. Blest land beyond the skies.
To reach it we must die.
Year: 1869

What business man has, in this world
to be selfish, in the strict sense of that word,
we do not exactly see; for if We were to
give him credit for all he fancies himself to
be, he would be no more than n very small
thing among a vast multitude Of other small
things so completely mixed up and huddled
together that i; is difficulty at times to dis
tinguish one from the other. The airs
which some men put on in the intercourse
with others, are infinitely disgusting, to say
the least Of them, and when we see one
holding himself So far above his fellows and
trying to ape greatness which he cannot
even approach we are inclined to think that
he is trying to follow the example of honest
Dogberry and write himself down as an ass.


Such is the irresistible conclusion and such
is the fact He could save himself the trouble
of writing, however, for it is already written
and the animal appears in corpus, with its
long ears, familiar bray and ambling gait
1t is noticeable ia ct that the selfish self
opinionated man, who thinks he knows
great deal more than others, is, when fully
fathomed, the most shallow and soft brain
ed of all. The world knows it and shrewd
men observe it, but he does not, and hence
the ridiculous figure he displays among
them scarcely less laughable and peculiar
than that of the renowned Don Quixotte in
his famous adventures in defense of his
Dulceinea. When placed along side of real
merit he dwindles into nothing We have
such men in Clearield, and we presume,
that they can be found all over the world.
Year: 1869

DIR. A NJ. HILLS desires TO inform his patients
and the public generally, that he has associated
with him in the practice of Dentistry S P SHAW
d. ID 5 who is a graduate of the Philadelphia
Dental College. and therefore has the highest
attestations of his Professional skill


All work done in the Office | will hold myself
personally responsible tor being done in the most
satisfactory manner and highest order of the pro-
fession


An established practice of twenty-five years IN
this place enables me to speak to my patrons with
confidence


Engagements from a distance should be made
by letter few days before the patient designs
coming lClearield, June 3, IS6S-ly-
Year: 1869

The author of the following original CO.
nundrum is now confined in calico straight
jacket, his feet in wooden box, and his
head in honeycomb poultice: when is
lover justified in calling his sweetheart
honey? When she is Jee-loyed,