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Year: 1869

The sun is called masculine, from
its supporting and sustaining the
moon, and finding her the where
withaI to shine always as she does OF
a night, and from his being obliged TO
keep such a family of stars. The
moon is called feminine, because sh"
is constantly changing, just like a ship
blown about by every wind. The
Church IS feminine, because she is mar
ried to the State; and Time is mas
culine, because he trifes with the la
dies.
Year: 1869

GOOD PAsTE.-A perpetual paste
may be made by dissOlving an ounce
Of alum in a quart of warm water.
When cold, add as much -four as will
make it the consistency of cream /:
then stew into it half a teaspoonful Of
powdered rOsin, and two OF three
cloves. Boil it to consistency, stir
ring all the time. It will keep for
twelve months and when dry may be
sOftened with water.
Year: 1869

FRENCH SLAw.-I have the cab.
bage as for other slaw, To one pintof
cut cabbage, have three eggs Boiled
hard, mash the yolk with a spoon, and
add gradually one wine glass Of oil,
then pour in one wine glassful of vim
egar, one teaspOOnful of common mus
tard, or a dessert spoonful of French
mustard, salt and cayenne pepper to
the taste. Pour the mixture over the
cabbage, stir it well, and serve It.
Year: 1869

COAL CASA physician attributes
much Of the sickness in winter to the
bad effects Of coal gas. He says in
nine cases Of ten houses that he enters
he notices gas in the air they breathe.
Many times he finds the damper in
the stove pipe closed to save coal, and
the result is a room full of gas, not no
ticed by the inmates perhaps, but by
those who come in from the fresh air.
Year: 1869

The Boston Chief of Police recently
dressed two or three trusty officers in
female apparel, and sent them out to
detect the ruffians who have been In
the habit of insulting ladies while
quietly walking on the street. One OF
the officers reported that more than
twenty-seven men accOsted him.
Some of them move in the most re
spectacle society.
Year: 1869

To LOOSEN NUTS ON BoEFs.-PIacs
the head Of an ak, iron wedge, or other
solid substance on one side of the nut,
and give a few smart blows with
hammer on the other. Wetting with
spirits of tuTpentine or coal oil will
also be a benefit.
Year: 1869

A blanket from an oyster bed.


A key to ft lock of hair.


A bellows to blow a mans nose.


A skiff to cross the river of life.
A mule to ride through the valley
of death.


A feather from the wing of time.


Some tobacco from the pipe Of a
steamboat.


Some splinters from the polls of an
election.


Some gravel from the road to ruin.
Some buttons from the mantle of
night.


A dog whose bark is like that of a
tree.


A scarf for a neck of land.


A hook on which to hang the close
of lecture.


A blacksmith to mend a broken
heart.


A hair from the head of a sheet.
Some hay and oats for a night
mare.


A small air castle to accommodate
a large family of invisible beings.
A portrait Of the man in the moon.
Year: 1869

NEGRO RULE.-The negro voters in Wash
ington city, who clubbed, cut and killed
white citizens for voting against them, sub
sequently held a meeting, at which they
Indignantly and promptly voted down resO-
lutiOns deprecatory of violence at the polls,
and expressive of the right of all citizens to
vote as they please; and finally wound up
by the significant and brutal intimatiou that
they trusted that circumstances would not
again arise to make it necessary for them to
murder men who Obstiuately persist in vot-
ing for opposition candidates.
Year: 1869

WASHINGTON DISCARDED. A writer
complains that the Administration has dis
cardcd from the new postage stamps the
likeness of the great and good Washington,
which formerly adorned them. This is only
consistent. Having discarded the white
man in favor of the negro, it is altogether
proper that the Father of his country, who
fought through a seven years war to found
a white mans government, should be dis
carded. For radical the image of the
King of Dahomey has infinitely more attrac.
tiOns than the likeness of Washington, aud
with US the only wonder is that they did
not place biz buck niger on the new post
age stamp.
Year: 1869

TIE House Committee of Ways and
Means have arrived 10 San Francisco, hav-
ing come through from the East by way of
the overland railroad. We are not apprised
as to the object of the Committee in visiting
this coast, but presume they came for the
purpose of spying out new subjects for tax
alton. The crazy old fanatics who run the
radical party at the East think that there
is wealth enough on the Pacific coast to pay
the National debt, and it is most likely that
it is for the purpose of satisfying themselves
on this point that the members of the Com
mittee have journeyed all the way to the land
of the setting sun,
Year: 1869

Our SENrIMENrS.-The Mountain Dem
Ocrat says: The Gates Wide Open is the
title of a new book, designed to show the
way to heaven. The Gates Wide OPEN
must be the motto of the democratic party
henceforth, to the end that all true believers
may be taken into full communion at once,
without holding an inquest on their antece
dents. Then the book and the party will ac-
complish very nearly the same thing, fol
next to going to heaven when one dies, is
the felicity of living under democratic rule
while sojourning here below.
Year: 1869

LIABILITIES OF LIQUOR DEALERs-It
is required of dealers in spirit not Ouly to
see that all packages sent out on the market
by them bear the stamps and brands which
are required by law to be placed upon them,
but also that packages received by them
from other dealers are properly stamped and
branded before they receive them. The
plea of innocence on the part of dealers will
not hereafter save spirits not properly stamp
ed and branded from seizure.
Year: 1869

WALLA WALLA REPUBLIcANs.-There
is no use Disgusting the fact that when the
republican party OF this Territory nominate a
man from the Sound as their Delegate for
Congress, the Walla Walla republicans make
almost no exertion in his behalf This is
certainly unjust. Our Walla Walla friends
must remember that when the candidate is
one Of their own number they always expect
the Sound country to elect him. We are
satisfied that had there been the same hard
work done in other parts of the Territory
that there was in Jefferson and Kitsap, Mr..
Gar6elde's majority would have been over a
thousand.-P0rt Tounsend MESSAGE.
Year: 1869

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the,
hair where the follicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with pasty sedi-
ment, it will keepit clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent tile hair
from turning gray Or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for a ss
Year: 1869

From Er-Goveraor Cony, Of Maine.
1t twas equal TO fertilizer OF its class used
by me, ant can confidently recommend it as OF
great agricultural utility. Ishall continue to use it
quite largely.
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
for . preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair as soon restored
to ats original color
sciM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

The triumphant election of General
Grant is not only the ratification, but it
is q final interpretation of the war. From


the moment that General Lee surrender
ed to General Grant in the field, there
has been loud debate as to the real
significance of the war, and what was
actually settled by it. The Democratic


theory was that othing had happened


but riot DUNG which slavery had ceas-
ed to exist in the old form. The Presi
dents theory was partly this, and partly


som ething else which was not very intel


ligible. He declared that the States


were suspended, lying in kind of polit


ical catalepsy, from which he proposed
to awaken them by assuming absolute


power, which he did in his North Caro-


lima proclamation. This was, of course,


hopeless confusion, and gradually the
President has disappeared in the Demo
cratic embrace. The Republican party
have contended that with slavery fell
everything that sprang from slavery,
tice and honor, but reason and common
sense, indicated equal suffrage in the re


covered States as the only security Of
order and of the restoration Of normal
situation under free popular govern


ment. +a Ls. Gotta -z9 zs4-1.


- The election was joined upon the is
sue The Southern leaders returned to
the Convention at Tammany Hall, and
took their old places at the head Of the
party. They repudiated everything in
the Republican policy of Recon struction,
declared for the national dishonor, and
nominated candidates that pleased them.


The consequence was that there has
been no obscuritv as to the real point Of
the canvass. Shall the general Con


gressional policy of reconstruction be
sustained or abandoned? was the ques


ton. Are the people of the United
States resolved that they will reconstruct
the Union upon principles agreeable tC
them, or do they prefer that the late reb-
e shall reconstruct it as hey prefer?
Are the people afraid of negro suprsma-
CIV, or do they believe with Gen Long
street, and with the testimony of all ex-
perience, that the cry of negro suprema-
cy is the mere cat call of a canvass?
Do they think that they cannot constitu-
tionally say aword upon the subject of
reconstruction, or is their authority, un-
der the circumstances, supreme? Have
they learned that the Democratic cry of
ssnigger,' which has been sounding for
generation, is merely noise to con
fuse the public mind that it may not see
that ignorance and injustice of every
kind mean endless agitation? Is the
North resolved that its idea shall gov
ern the country as the idea of The South
has governed it for many dreary year?


These were the questions, simple,
sharp, clear, and the answer is tremen-
duous A futile effort was made to OBJ
scure the real point, and to fix the pub
lie attention upon financial questions,
but every man instinctively knew that
the political interest necessarily takes
precedence at such time az this of tie
financial. When a great party, has Ia
Year: 1869

One can find in all large cities with
little trouble, shoemakers with brains,
who work upon principle, who use their
intellect. We know scores OF such; but,
alas! we are obliged to acknowledge that
we know hundreds, who have never car
ried any real brains into the profess
sion. Such men would do TO work by
the rule or sle scale, purely mechanical.
bnt we voald as soon expect to see
sSierstadt, the renowned painter, meas
uring by compass and foot.ru the per-
spective of his landscapes, or Rosa Bon
heur, mapping out her cattle and horse
scenes at SO many inches per animal, as
a good shoemaker resting satisfied with
his preliminaries for perfectly fitting,
easily worn, and durable foot or shoe,
with merely getting the latitude and
longitude of a pair of feet. The tread
of the subject is studied. The peculiar
method and manner of planting the foot
upon the earth is ascertained by the old
and ill-ftting shoe or boot, and the man
of science corrects and perfects. OF
late years all first class boot and shoes
makers have plaster casts taken Of the
feet of their customers, and then last
made to perfectly harmonize in all par
ticulars with this cast, such men are
sure to turn out good work, aud these
artists give character to the profession.


Thought, mind, the necessity of stud
ying anatomy, led to the idea of the
plaster cast, and since this step we have
heard much less of corns and bunions,
and much less Of tight boots and the ag-
ony resulting when worn at an evening
party where one is expected to trip the
light fantastic toe with thermometer ut
eighty degrees. Who of US in times of
old, before the man of science was
found in the ranks of the shoemaker,
has not suffered? If, however, we suffer
to-day, it is our own fault, for shoema-
king has advanced, and brains are as
necessary here as in any other line of
trade in the wide world Hide and
Leather interest.
Year: 1869

Religion in Business.-Mr. Henry
Hoyt, in a conversation with Christian
gentleman lately, said that it had been
his uniform custom, every Saturday
evening, to gather his employees to.
gether to have prayer with them His
testimony was. God had been help to
him in times Of great trouble, and. that
he hal seen more Of God in his business
and in his counting room than any where
else. Need we be astonished that such
q mans labor is crowned with success?
Year: 1869

loyal man In the South, whose property was appro-
pSiated In the same way, should be paid for IT. and
whenever loyal man In the North wonld be paid
for property destroyed In the course OF march or


battle 30 loyal man In the South should be paid
for his properly destroyed In the same way. BY
adopting mere technical rule some money might
undoubtedly be saved; but In the end 1t would prove
to be penny wise, pound foolish economy.


PACIFIC RAILROAD COMMITTEE.


The PRESIDENT then announced the appointment
OF MessrA Abbott and Rice a. additional members
OF the Committee on the Pacific Railroad.


At four O'Clock the Senate adjourned.
Year: 1869

Z


tions, and ask for fulfllment of tht
pledges entered into by the member
of the Legislature when they accepted
nominations on those resolutions. NJ
sudden or extraordinary emergencL
has arisen demanding the ignoring o
those pledges. Therefore, IN behalf
of large number of Republicans


who have never been in favor oi


negro suffrage, we protest against al


attempts to force the Amendment


upon the people until they have had
full and fair opportunity to make
their views known through the bal
lot box. We believe the Repub-
licans of this county ought to
nominate men for the Legislature
pledged to vote against the Amend
ment until the people have had an
opportunity to express their opinion.
We protest against any and all at
tempts to take snap judgment upon
the people. IF large majority of the
people Of Indiana are opposed to the
Fifteenth Amendment, an Indiana
Legislature ought not to approve 1T.
We hope Republicans in all parts OF
the State will make themselves heard
on this question.


The action of the Democratic Leg
islators. in running before they had
received the first fire of their oppo-
nents, and thus abandoning much
important legislation that could have
been acted upon, has demonstrated
their unworthiness, and they ought
to be permitted to remain at home.
Vanderburgh County would materi-
ally improve her interests by electing
three Republicans pledged to do all
they could to defeat the amendment,
but who would not abandon the most
important legislation lest a measure
they opposed should come before them
for consideration. The reelection of
the Democrats who have resigned
accomplishes nothing towards defeat
ing the amendment. 1t only puts the
State to great expense, with certainty
Of a second stampede and another
special election and special session.
The election of three Republicans,
opposed to the amendment, would be
protest against forcing the amend
ment through the Legislature that
the party could not avoid regarding
with consideration which would re-
suit in good.


In former days the people framed
policy for the Legislatures and Con-
gressmen. Is it not time that the
old custom should be restored2 1t is
a dangerous precedent for Congress
or the Legislatures of the different
States to assume that they are elected
to fix the politics as well as to make
the laws of the people.
Year: 1869

We will publish, tomorrow morn
ing, the Address of the Republican
members Of the Legislature to the
People, in which are set forth con-
siderations and circumstances which
stamp the recent action of the Demo-
cratic nssmbers as most unwarrant-
able and unnecessary. The wanton
waste of the whole session, the i'm
mense expense, and the embarrass-
ments of which the end cannot yet be
seen, are exposed in a manner which
must command the attention of the
whole State, and especially of our
County, which must shoulder fresh
tax to pay for this freak of its repre-
sentatives. We need not commend it
to the careful consideration of our
readers, for the crisis created In the
administration of the State Govern
ment is too serious to allow any fact
which fixes the responsibility for the
evil, to be viewed with indifference.
Year: 1869

A certain political speaker closed an
address in behalf of his party with the
following forid peroration: Build a
worm fence around a winters supply of
summer weather; skim the clouds from
the sky with a teaspoon; catch a thun-
derbolt in a bladder; break hurricane
TO harness; ground sluice an earthquake;
bake HI in an ice-house; lasso an ava
lanche: hive all the stars in a nail keg;
hang the ocean on a grape vine to dry;
put the sky to soak in gourd; unbuckle
the belly>band of eternity, and paste To
let on the sun and moon; but never, sir
never for a moment, sir. delude your
self with the idea that any ticket or par
~ can beat our candidates.
Year: 1869

d = REwARD-FoR THE INFORMATION THAT WILL
pO lead 70 tue recovery OF small female Black and Isr
tip split and wearing small leather collar brass mounted
around her neck taken from the stoop 56 Fulton street
Saturday afternoon. Apply as above.
Year: 1869

This gentleman, SO long connected with
the North Carolina press, has disposed o.
his interest in the Newbern Journal 0j
Coa20aerce to his sons, and removed to Nor
folk. Col. Pool has endearcd himself to
the good people of the State by the dlgnl-
ty, ability and sterling integrity with
which he has battlcd for their rights and
welfare during the most trying and event
ful period of their history. We wish him
most unbounded success in his new home
and his new enterprise.
Year: 1869

JURISDICTION OF JUsTICEs-JUDGE OF THE
SPECIAL CoURT. append the following
decision of the Supreme Court in the case
of Mary McLaurin, from this county,
which we are kindly permitted to copy by
Judge CantwelI. It will be seen that it is
decided that in cases of larceny Justices of
the Peace have no Jurisdiction. Hereto
fore it was only by a very strong inference
OF what the law meant that they have been
able to try these cases.


1t will be seen also that the judge of the
Special Court has no right to issue a writ
of habeas corpus in case beyond the iu-
risdiction of his Court, which extends not
to cases of larceny. The defendant mistook
her remedy in not applying to a Judge of
the Superior Court for the proper writ


The decision is as follows:


NORTH CAROLINA SUPREME CoURT-JUNE TERM. go


mary MeLaurin' ,ci1a 7s, n Hanover


Opinion.
DICK, IA Justice of the Peace has no iuris.
diction to try person charged with the offense
OF larceny. State va. Jarvis, at this term
The defendant was therefore. improperly CON-
victed, and imprisoned but she has mistaksn her
remedy She ought to haAe appealed to the
Year: 1869

The Cincinnati Commercial never
put words together to more purpose
than in the following statement Of
what has kept the old hulk of Demo
cracy together for the past several
years:


''The Democratic party has long
found its most powerful leverage in
the meanest prejudices of the masses,
But for the advantage it has had in
working unserupulously upon the
fears and the passions of the iguor-
ant, or those SO poorly informed as
to he easily persuaded that some class
Of the populace was about to rob them
of their peculiar privileges as Ameri-
can citizens, the party, loaded down
as it has been with all that is odious
in slavery, secession and rebellion
would have crumbled in pieces long
ago, and wholly disappeared as pOlit-
cal organization.'
Year: 1869

DEATH OF FEMALE MIsER.-Ann Kelley
died suddenly yesterday in one of the miserable
rookeries in Baker street, PHILADELPHIA She
had lived there for half a century or more, and
was supposed to be poverty stricken. The sur
roundlngs warranted this, for the apartment she
occupied was small, badly lighted, and wretch
ea.y InInishsd; 4 strip o. ragged earpst, a
ed the furniture. The body lay upon the bare
moor, and was almost devoid Of clothing. 1t was
emaciated, and weighed less than forty pounds.
A little half starved dog stood guard over the
lifeless remains of his departed mistress When
the Coroner investigated the attending circum-
stances 1T was found that instead of the deceased
being poor and helpless, she was possessed of
property valued at many thousand dollars She
had an agent employed to collect her rents and
attend to her banking accounts
Year: 1869

10 PRESERVE CABBAsE.-Cabbage Is pre-
served in variety of ways, SAYS the Gardener n
Monthly. IL a few dozen oniy thew NAV he
hung up by the roots in a cool cellar. or buried
in the soil, heads downward, TO keep out the
rain, or laid on their sides as thickly as they can
be placed, nearly covered with soil, and then
completely covered with corn-stalks litter or
any protecting material. The main object in
protecting all these kinds Of vegetables is 10
prevent their growth by keeping them as cool as
them moist = ~f-e
Year: 1869

The DEAD BEATS who have been making
charges against the management of the Gov
ernment Insane Asylum, with view to getting
control of the institution themselves, have, since
the report of the examining committee left town
with such haste as to forget to pay their board
bill. The history of their attempts to black
mail, to manufacture evidence, &C., would
make a curious exposition OF rascality.
Year: 1869

A NEW Use FOR FAT CAPTAINs.-Pinpuitude
IN captains will be at a premium among owners
steamer ran head on into the boat of a 90
FOUNDER, Captain T. A. Scott, and when she
subsequently backed out terrible aperture wa
judgment and intrepidity rarely eaualled. man
fully set himself down in the breach, spreading
himself out to the fullest extent. By this heroic
acflon the boat was enabled to reach the slim.
and Captain Scott slipped out of his hole again.
and the crew aud cargo got OFF scot free.
Year: 1869

THE FRANKING PRIvILEGE.-Pestmaster
General Creswell writes a letter to the Chair
men of the Post Office Committees in the Senate
and House of Representatives in which he uses
the fact that the German Confederation has
found it necessary to abolish the franking privi-
lege as an argument in favor of similar re-
form in this country.
Year: 1869

ATTORNEY GENERAL HOAR FOR JUDGE OF
THE SUPREME CoURT--The nomination of At
torney General Hoar to the vacant seat upon
the bench of the Supreme Court of the United
States was sent to the Capitol yesterday, but
the Senate being engaged upon the eulogies of
the late Senator Fessenden, Gen. Porter did not
interrupt the speakers to deliver the message;
hence il was sent in to-day.
Year: 1869

. The INTERNATIONAL ExPosITIoy-It will
be seen by our Congressional report that the
bill to encourage and promote the International
industrial Exhibition, to be held in Washington
city in the year 1871, was reported to the Senate
this morning by Mr.. Hamlin, chairman of the
District Committee, with several amendments,
as mentioned in The STAR of yesterday, but at
the suggestion of Mr.. Summer the bill was laid
over for the present. The action OF the House
Committee on the District of Columbia this
morning is noted elsewhere.