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Year: 1869

A peoples sympathies know nolOg-
ic, and sometimes no laws. When
oar war was going on, we demanded
that the good will of all outsiders
should be with US, and were ready to
have q mortal quarrel with any power
that wished well for the rebel arms.
But when there is a rebellion in some
other country, we take the liberty of
thinking, feeling, and acting as we
please. There is an insuFFectiOn in
Cuba, struggle of the native Cubans
for Independence against the hard,
inexOrable, bloody Spanish spirit that
abhOrs liberty so thoroughly, that in
it's ancient home it voluntarily votes
itself into the bondage Of monarchy.
By all rules of logic, we ought to frOwn
on the Cubans and sympathize with
the Spanish authority but we do not
and cannot, do any such thing. There
is an ultimate self-inteTest in the mat
ter. Behind the cordial friendship we
have always cherished for the native
Cubans, there is the notion that Cuba
ought to belong to us, and the pleas
ing expectation that one day it will
belong to us. She is the belle Of the
tropics-immensely rich, transcend
emily beautiful, and as lovely and de-
sirable as wealth and beauty can make
her. She reciprOcates our passion,
and nothing but the hard, jealous grip
of her Spanish lord prevents her from
gathering up her gossamer skirts, and
tripping across the Gulf to throw her
self into Uncle Sans welcoming
arms.


And, sooner or later, this will be
the upshot of it all. The deep blue,
rich Cuban skies, the feathery palm
plumes that stand out against them,
the delicious languor of that gentle
climate, the yielding riches of that
unsurpassed soil, the myriad fruits
that grow there so bountifully that
they may be had for the plueking-
these things cause our hearts to warm
toward Cuba with a passionate ardor
that grows with our growth, and
strengthens with our strenth. In
fact, Cuba is our sweetheart, and we
shall not be satisfied till we have her
bananas. oranges. all
Year: 1869

L1ltteOf oJ l1fODlsDtttC AQCefttSeTs


DEAR SIR:-When a mans diges-
tive organs are out of order he is apt
to look on things in a gloomy light.
Cheer up, lighter days are coming for
Nemaha county than the picture you
draw in your last issue of the ADVER-
TIsER. It is an admitted fact that
railroads are public benefit; so is the
man who raises two blades of grass in
place of one, but whoever thinks of
giving him anything? Our greatest
men have always fought their own
battles, and so can railroad companies.
Capital is always on the look ont for
good investment, and capital being
stronger than labor is ableto take care
Of itself. Then why should labor be
taxed so heavily TO enrich capital I?
$3.50, 600 was too much of tax for the
people of Nemaha county to be given
tO-a private corporate body, and this
is the only reason that Glen Rock Op-
posed the tax. We, as a people, are
in favor of all internal improvement
in our county. Brownville is selfish !;
in my opinion she wants the Nebras-
ka Trunk to run there, she wants a
road from there to Fort Kearney to
intersect the Union Pacific r. r.
Brownville to-day is well situated so
far as itself is concerned. It has COM
municatiOn with the outside world
via Missouri river, andby railroad just
across, she cannot complain. Now
give us arOad through Nemaha coun-
ty, north and south, say continue the
Trunk from Nemaha City up the
Nemaha Valley by Glen Rock, thence
up Rock Creek to Neb. City, then you
have a Trunk Railroad which can be
fed from both sides, and if take strip
of six miles on each side Of the Road,
you then have the best farming por-
ti0n of the county, and with respect
to hauling the producers would have
the benefit. If it is to run to Brown
vile, thence up the river, what better
aIe we? The distance Is no less! So
much for the Trunk railroad as APP
piled to Nemaha Co. Now / would
like to say a few words for Brown
vile. If BrOwnVille wishes a road
west let her strike out either to Glen
Rock and up the little Nemaha to the
Buck Post Office, Nursery Hill,
OtOe Co.. intersect Midland Pacific
there, or run due west from Brown
vile to Tecumseh, thence up big
Nemaha to Lincoln.


If this is done, then Nemaha county
has bright future and will not sink
below her sphere; but will, as she al
ways has, be the first county in the
State.


Truly yours,


Rock CREEK.
Year: 1869

The Salt Lake Reporter does not
like to have Brigham Young take the
American eagle for his emblem. 1t
saws: I'VE never could understand
why Brigham Young should take the
eagle for his emblem. That royal bird
is a strict nlOn0gGn1ist; he has one
mate and is noted for his faithfulness
to her, defending her even with his
life. Now, if Brigham had chosen
the rooster we could see the point at
once. We venture to suggest the
change even now. An eagle perched
over a Mormon harem! Bah! 1t is q
sacrilege; an insult TO the bird"
Year: 1869

The Providence Or. II Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
have resolved that 'inO candidate for
membership shall be deemed eligible
until he shall have unequfVOcally and
frankly affirmed his abstinence from
the use Of tobacco, during 50 much Of
the time Of his trial for membership as
shall succeed the passage Of this rule,
nor until he shall have pledged him
self in future to abstain from its use,
except it be for medical purposes"
Year: 1869

GETTING RICH FAsT.-The
Mobile Register says that esti-
mating the present crop Of cot
ton at two million six hundred
thousand bales, and the price
at 80 cents, the clear profits of
the Cotton States cannot be
less than one hundred and ele-
ven millions of dollars. And
when we remember that this
clear capital is realized from c
single staple, to which are tC
! be added other valuable crops
of sugar, tobacco, rice, whea-
and corn, we shall find tina
this people are digging seli(
wealth out Of the soil and lay


ing it up more rapidly thar


any people in the world.
Year: 1869

We do not like the tone in
which some Of our Southern co,
temporaries allow themselves. to
speak of negroes as a class. We
deprecate everything that draws a y
line of hostile demarcation be-
tween them and the whites Re, !,
membering their habitual subor-
dination and fidelity to those
whom Confederate soldiers left .
when joining the army, and know
ing that as a race they win hot,of
their own motion array themselves ,
antagonistically to u.s., we regret
remaks which would lead distant
readers to assume that our condi,
tion is one of mutual malice, hos
tility and hatred. There is a GER
tain kind and measure of respect
due to the lowly as we'll as to the :
good and noble. We owe a de-
gree of respect to those who are
not our equals as we'll as 20 those o
who are on or above our level. It
is unbecoming in superiors to
write about them IN any terms or
tone we would not use towards
them individually. Besides, there
is something unbecoming in level
ing censure and ridicule against,a
class wholly incapable of retalia.
ton, and something which borders
on meanness in harping perpetu-
ally on the characteristic weak >
ness and follies ola lower race
whose destiny is inseparably link,
ed with our own. Instead of re-
Wiling what is weak in them it


would be wiser to encourage what
is good by kind forbearapee and
judicious appreciation. They are ,
not proper game for shots of sar-


casm. Abuse will not develop


their self respect. Ridicule viii


not cure their faults nor win their.


confidence. In the system that is


to convert them into, valuable in.


habitants and to raise them up to 7


q higher state of usefulness, bene-


fetal alike to them and to US, !


newspaper censures from no part. !.


So far as we are permitted to do


it we ought to set before them


motives to improve their condi-
ton and to add to their knowl-
edge. Without sacrificing any


dignity and without running any


risk we may maintain towards
! them anattitude of liberation and
kindness. 1t is well enough to,
! repeat, too, that magnanimity is
: better shown in ones demeanor,
: towards the weak than in that
!, towards the strong.-[N. 0. Bnlle-
i tin. ..r
Year: 1869

q A lawsuit is now pending in
New Orleans in which the point
in dispute is the parentage of
Henry Newsome, late newsboy
of that city. The only fact 50
far arrived at is that he was a
girl. -
Year: 1869

A dairyman was awakened
by a wag in the night with the
announcements that bis best
COW was choking. He forth
with jumped up to save the
life Of Brummie, when, 10 he
found a trrnip sticking in the
mouth of the pump,
Year: 1869

! Oliver Wendell Holmes says
that a man over ninety is q
great comfort to his elderly
neighbors. He is a picket
guard on the extreme outpost,
and Young folks Of so or 70
feel+hat the enemy must get
by him before they can come
near their encampment.
Year: 1869

RAILRoAD.-The Alta copied our rail-
road article of the 1lth, and in comment
ing on the subject remarked:


" A railroad from Shasta to Red Bluff
would probably be good piece of property,
if it were certain to be secure from conpe-
tition of any near parallel line with greater
resources. If the California and Oregon
Road were built only five or ten miles away
it would, on account of its connection, take
large part of the trade, and perhaps not
leave enough to sustain the Shastg and
Red Bluff line"


In our article we did not advocate the
simple building of road from Red Bluff
to Shasta, but endeavored to show the ad-
vantages of extending the California and
Oregon Railroad to, and through this town,
on the line of the original Elliot Survey
We want the California and Oregon road
to pass through here on its way to the
Oregon line, and if we fail to get our first
wish, then we are going in as strong as
possible for an extension of the Vallejo
road to this point
Year: 1869

Sec. 10 Every white male citizen of the
United States, and every white male citizen of
Mexico who shall have elected to become
citizen of the United States under the treaty of
peace exchanged and ratified at Queretaro on
the 3Oth OF May, lS48, of the age of twenty-one
years, who shall have been a resident of the
State six months next preceding the election
and the county or district in which he claims
his vote, thirty days, shall be entitled to vote
at all elections which are now or hereafter may
be authorized by law


Sec. H.. For the purpose of voting no per-
son shall be deemed to have gained or lost
residence by reason of his presence or absence
on the service of the United States, nor while
engaged IN the navigation of the wates of this
State or the United States, or of the high seas
nor while student of seminary of learning
nor "niie Kept at an almshouse or other asylum,
nor while confined in any public prison.


Sec. IL. No idiot or insane person or persons
convicted of any infamous crime, shall be en-
utled to the privileges of an elector.


oec. 49, A crime shall be deemed infamous
wnlch Is punishable by death or by imprison-
ment In the State Prison
Year: 1869

OK THE SQUARE.-The Union Central
Committee of of this County have promptly
walked up to the Captains Office and settled
their printing bill This action shows that
the Committee is composed of gentlemen
men who are prompt and on the square
Year: 1869

SOUTH FoRK-We understand that a
San Francisco company have made the
South Fork ledge owners proposition to
erect mill in that District, and that the
proposition will probably be complied with.
Those mines are bound to "come out soon
er or later.
Year: 1869

Sec 90 No person shall be allowed to vote
except at the polls held in the election district
where he resides; nor unless his name is en-
rolled on the poll list where he offers his vote
in such district. for local or representative
officers, unless he shall have had his residence
for thirty days next preceding within the terri
torial limits prescribed for the election of such
officers. If any person enrolled on the poll list
whose vote shall be objected to on the day of
election by any qualified elector, shall be
proved to the satisfaction of the Board of
Judges, either by his own oath or
by the oath of any qualified elector and house
holder of the district, or by any other clear
and competent evidence, not to be legally quail
flied and entitled to be enrolled on said poll
list, or if it be proved as aforesaid that he is
enrolled on more than one poll list, when he
offers his vote, or is otherwise not legally
qualified to vote at such election, his vote
shall be rejected.
Year: 1869

WE are surprised to see the State
Sentinel so indignant over the fact
that a small clique or Ring" as it
calls it, Of Democratic politicians Sc
lected as the delegates from that town
ship to the Democratic State Conven-
ton. We thought the proprietor Of
that paper was sufficiently blight to
know that is the way the Democracy
usually manage little affairs Of that
kind Down here there is no resist
ing the inevitable, and the party
meekly accepts whoever suits Messrs.
GARyIN, WHITTLEsEY and RUDD.
The Sentinel should not essay to lead
a party with whose praotic it seems
to be so little acquainted.
Year: 1869

la this country we.have at different sea
sons OF the year the tenn pera1ure of three
climates. Our Springs and AutumnS have
q sOftness and mfldneSS that belong only
to the Temperate Zones; our MidSummers
are torrid, and our MidwInters almost arc
tic In their frigidity. These changes, in.
volving q variation of from ninety 10 one
hundred degrees of Fahrenheit during the
year, are upon the whole conducive to
health and long life. but they tend to en-
tail upon US some distressing complaints
which can only be escaped by the exercise
of due care and the use Of proper anti
dote when the system is predispcsed to
noying of these disorders is dyspepsia,
once supposed to be incurable, but which,
since the Introduction OF HOSTEFTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS. now about twenty
years ago. has proved TO be perfectly
manageable disease.


In the Spring and Fall, but more espe-
cially in the Fall, the symptoms of dys-
fuse expenditure of the animal HuldS
under the burning sun of Summer is apt
to leave the stomach weak and 1ndolent,
and incompetent to the task of perfect
digestion 1t requires tonic which viii
rouse it from it's lethargy, and brace ana
invtgorate without irritating or tn1am1Hg
It, This tonic has been provided in the
wonderful preparation which has replaced
in great measure all the old palltattves
formerly prescribed by physicians, under
the false idea that the disorder could not
be radically cured The success OF HOS
TETTER'S BITTERS In all the varieties
OF dyspepsia, acute or chronic, has effectu-
ally exploded this fallaey, and 1t is now
recommended as a specific for indigestion
Oy some OF the most eminent members OF
the medical profession.
Year: 1869

We have been at great pains TO obtain
the facts and circumstances attending the
remarkable life of this most extraordinary
man. who has been mainly instrumental
In developing the greatest crimes commit
ted In this country, and bringing their
authors TO Justice, besides rendering in
valuable service 10 the Government dur
ing the late rebellion.


The BIOGRAPHY of Liza Y PINKER-
TON is truly a ROMANCE of LIFE, and
the demand for 1t In all parts of the coun-
try will be 50 great that those who desire
TO secure copies, and who live at a dis
tance, should either subscribe at once or
notify the newsdealers from whom they
purchase that they may obtain A FULL
SUPPLY ON THEIR FIRST ORDER.
Year: 1869

How He CANE TO BE tbs LUCKY MAN.-It
has Just been discovered how it was that
Jud Se Cavis happened to win the nomination
of District Judge from this county, at the pri-
maries last Saturday. An outspoken Repub-
lican. and a distinguished member of the par
ty, says that Cavis was given the preference
" "because he is able on the stump, and can
appeal to the passions Of the people, and arouse
the enthusiasm necessary to carry the cleo
ton" That this is the true reason, no one
can doubt but we have yet to learn that abl-
ity on the stump, and the power of appealing
to mems passions are necessary qualifications
for judicial officer. 1t has usually been
supposed that honesty, cool judgment and le-
gal acumen best fitted a man for such a posi-
tion. The people of this Judicial District will
decide to let Judge Cavis remain at home and
will place the ermine on more worthy shoul-
ders- Stockton Gazette.
Year: 1869

NATIVE LANp.-W. II. Seward and party
sailed on the steamer Actire from San Fran
cisco on Monday last for Alaska. He an
nounced "his motive for coming hithor was
to see for himself bis native land, the whole
of it from New York to Alaska" 1t is to be
presumed that the venerable statesman will
be pleased with his real estate purchase,
however much doubt there may be of the es
timation in which be will hold the native to
the "manor born" of this part of his native
land. He is expected to return by the first
of September next, when he will proceed to
the east by way Of Mexico, where be will pay
a visit TO President Juarez.
Year: 1869

THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The Re.
publicans of this county meet to-day in
Convention to devise ways and means for re.
tanning some kind of a grip on our public af
fairs. If there should be no more unanimity
among them when concentrated, than when
separated, it will be labor of love performed
with prospect of effecting nothing more
than hearing themselves talk and make a
noise. All we can say is that whenever the
Democrats have blundered their opponents
have ont blundered them and do not expect
they will break oyer that rule to-day. We
are glad they show some signs of animation,
we want some apparent opposition to keep us
in good working order.
Year: 1869

CATHOLIC FEsrIvAL.- The citizens of Sono-
ra and vicinity are requested to remember,
that Catholic Festival will be given by the
ladies on Friday the Goth of August next, at
the Turn Verein Hall. The object for which
the festival will be given, is for the purpose
of raising means to rebuild the fence around the
Cemetery, and for repairs inside the Church.
The Cemetery fence is in very bad condi-
ton, it is rotten, and broken in many places,
afording poor security against stock break.
ing in and tramping over the dead. The OBJ
ject Of the Festival is a worthy one, and ap-
peals to all our citizens who have kindly re-
collection of the departed ones, it is to be
hoped that the appeal will not be in vain,
but may result in furnishing the required
means for 30 sacred purpose.
Year: 1869

Our readers are probably
aware that long sections of the
Central Pacific Railroad are
covered with sheds to protect
the tracks from the snow
This defense is but partially ef-
fective. Travel was seriously
interrupted last winter both on
the Central and Union Pacific,
by snow, and we presume the
same thing will happen every
winter. But if the roofing in
of a road were a remedy against
snow, it is a remedy worse than
the disease. Sheds may pro.
tect the road from snow, but
what will protect the sheds
from fire? The event recorded
on Thursday last, answers the
question. The sheds have all
been swept away by fire, and
the road itself so seriously dam.
aged that the trains have STOP
ped running. 1t may be a
week before travel is resumed.
The category of railway casu-
alities is now enriched with a
class of accidents peculiar to
the Pacific Railroad. The tray.
eler may see the shielded road
metamorphosing itself before
his eyes into a huge serpent of
fire which it would be death to
approach. A road which is
overwhelmed by snow in the
winter and scourged by fire in
the summer does not answer
the essential conditions of a Pa
cific Railroad.
Year: 1869

Is your fat, good-natured
old grandfather living on fat
beef and pork, white bread and
butter, buckwheat cakes and
molasses, rice and sugar, till he
has lost all his physical energy,
and desires to sit from morning
till night in the chimney corner
or at the register, saying moth
ing and caring for nothing p
change his diet, give him fish,
beefsteak, potatoes, and unbolt-
ed wheat bread, or rye and In
dian, with one half or three
quarters Of the carboniferous ar
ticles of his former diet, and in
one week he will cheer you
again with his old jokes, and
call for his hat and cane.


Is he lean, and cold, and rest
less, and irritable?-give him
the fattest meats, with the best
of butter, and rs much sugar
and molasses as he desires, not
taking away entirely food for
the brain and mucles. but adapt-
ing them to his circumstances.
Perhaps his brain has been
over-worked, and exhaustion
and fitful action follow. If SO
he needs some phosphate food
to which he has not been accus-
toned, as oatmeal porridge or
oatmeal cake, with milk, or a
diet of fish, and pearl barley,
or pea soup. Or perhaps his
restlessness comes from inactivi-
ty of the bowels; if so, he
needs fruits, vegetables, unbolt-
ed wheat bread, ETC., with care
to keep his mind at ease, and
to have only such company as
is soothing and agreeable.


Or perhaps his iaitability
arises from the use of too much
meat aud other phosphate
food; if so, keep him on a diet
in which the phosphates are de-
icient, as rice, -four, bread and
butter, ETC., with other food
adapted to his other conditions
and habits. But that a regard
to these different conditions,
and an adaptation Of food to
conform to them, will very
much contribute to comfort and
happiness in the declining years
of life, there is not a shadow of
a doubt.
Year: 1869

Josh Billings says


The mackrel is a game fish.
They ought to be well eduka-
ted, for they are always in
schools.


They are very crazy tew bite,
and are caught with a piece of
red flannel pettycoat tied onto
q hook.


They aint the only kind ov
fish that are caught by the
same kind of bait.


Mackerel inhabit the sea, but
those which inhabit the gro
cerys alwus taste to me az tho
they had been born and fatted
on salt.


They want a good deal of
freshning before they are eat.
en-, and want a good deal of
freshning afterward.


I'll can hav plenty of mack
rel for breakfast, I can gener.
ally make the other two meals
out ov cold water.


Mackrel are considered by
menny folks the best fish that
swims, and are called the salt
of the EARTH
Year: 1869

Do not estimate the worth
of a young man by his ability
to talk soft nonsense, nor by
the length of his moustache.


DO not imagine that an ex.
ira ribbon, tied about the neck,
can remedy the defect of a soil.
ed collar or an untidy dress.


If your hands are brown by
labor do not envy the lily fin
gers of Miss Fuss.and Feathers,
whose mother works in the
kitchen while she lounges in
the parlor.


If a dandy, with a cigar be-
tween lis fingers, asks you if
smoking is offensive to you, tell
him, emphatically, Yes The
habit should be, even though
tne odOr may not


Do not waste your tears on
the imaginary sorrows of Alon-
70 and Melissa, nor the trials of
the dime-novel heroines. Seek
rather to alleviate the woes of
the suffering ones on earth,


If your dress is inconven-
iently long, and a gentleman
steps upon it, don't be angry,
but meekly beg his pardon, as
you ought. Always cherish a
partiality for the smell of dish
water; it is more conductive to
health and far less expensive
than Bouquet of Eden
Year: 1869

Did you ever see one OF
these here hoop snakes ? asked
Mr.. Ferguson. Me and my
hired man was down there, in
the home lot, by the side of the
road, and we see something
rolling down the hill, and, says
|, I guess that must be one
of them hoop-snakes coming
along My hired man, he was
Altered, and elm up a tree
but | took my hoe in my hand,
and went out and stood side of
a tree in the road, and when
he come along 1 stuck out the
hoe-handle, and he hit a slap,
and he made a noise jes like a
pistol; and, sir, it warn't more'n
minnit afore that are hoe.
handle was swelled up as big as
my leg