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Year: 1869

DEMOCRATIC REJoIcINGs.-The Democracy
felt better last night than they have before
since Bull Run. There was free fight in
ward seven within ten minutes after the vote
was declared In the evening there was much
burning of tar, much shouting in the streets
and spouting in City Hall, where the sachems
were assembled.
Year: 1869


Z CUBA.-The crisis of the Cuban insurrection
must now be reached in very short time
The conclusion reached by Captain General
Dulce to shoot all insurgents that are captur-
ed will at least have the effect to give to the
Cuban cause the support of the whole civiliz'
ed world. 1t is not at all strange that the Gu
bans insist upon absolute independence when
the advices from the mother country show tna1
the form of government to be adopted is de-
pendent upon the issue of the intrlgues Oh II
val chiefs and that there is no assurance but
some member of the expelled Bourbon family
NAV be restored to the Throne. Prim himself
ia represented to be in league with the Carl
lists to place the Duke of Aosta at the head of
the government with Prim himself as Regent.
This being the case, independence is all that
can insure the Cdbans against return to the
former home policy which made the island a
humble dependency of Spain, charged with
providing revenues for government from
which it reaped no compensatory advantages
Year: 1869

THE Kennebec journal says that it was
rather "cutting joke" for one of the Augusta
apothecaries to advertise surgical instruments
for sale Immediately after the passage of the
anatomical bill by the Legislature.
Year: 1869

Nor DEAD.-A Palmyra correspondent says
that it was some scoundrel that sent up the
news of the death of Deacon Eph. Batchelder
of that town. He is yet alive and well. Pa
pers throughout the State are requested to
copy this denial. f3
Year: 1869

Split MLK.-As bran new milk pung was
coming up India street yesterday morning it
met common box sleigh going down. The
milk pung turned out little way, b1t not
quite enough, and the box sleigh struck the
rear bar of the pung knocking off the tail
piece and upsetting the cans. The milkman
sung out to the driver OF the sleigh in language
which was sufficiently expressive, but without
extorting either reply or glance from that
impassive individual.
Year: 1869

TENNEY believes that the legislature of
Maine cannot pass retroactive laws in favor Of
human life. Every lawyer and law student
and every man of common sense in the State
knows that it can. But then Tenney is neither
lawyer, law student nor man of common
sense
Year: 1869

For the garden parties, and other elegant
outdoor amnsements of frequent occurrence
at the present season, no dresses are more
general than those of white muslin over slips
of colored silk.
Year: 1869

Beat well together one cupful of white or
nice brown sugar, one tablespoonful of corn
starch, and little salt; then add one pint
of boiling water and let it boil after taking
from the stove add butter and nutmeg to
suit the taste
Year: 1869

TAXES ARE ASSESSED according TO mans
property. If he is poor, he pays little tax.
This being true, is 1t not true that no man
should be permitted to join in making the
laws, who does not pay his share toward
supporting them? The present proposition
that everybody shall be allowed to vote for
city officers, without the payment of their
city tax, is a shallow and transparent trick.
If 1t should be enacted into law will return,
and that very ston, to curse the party that
invented IL.
Year: 1869

We ASSURE THE LEGISLATURE that the
proposed division of the city into nine
Wards is totally unnecessary step, not
called for by the public interests. We have
already six wards, two of which are divided
into two voting precincts. This makes eight
polling places in the city, number quite
ample to accommodate our citizens at cleo
tions. To add another is really making no
change sufficient to warrant general recon-
struction, with the expense and trouble in
cident to it. There can be no reason, to our
perception, which is worth considering in
behalf of the proposition, unless it be that
of mere partizan gerrymandering, and even
this expectation of turning the city into
Democratic control would fail to be realized.
We assure the Legislature that the friends
of the Levy Court scheme, are simply asking
a new partizan job, and that it had better
be left severely alone.
Year: 1869

In REFERRING to the debate in the Senate
on the coin contracts clause of the bill to
strengthen the public credit, the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore San says:-


"The Young Senator Bayard, of Delaware,
spoke strongly against no. only this section,
but the whole bill. His voice, style and ges-
lures are exceedingly like his fathers and
his reasononing was also precisely similar


-Dutiful Son Illustrious Sire !-Of one
thing we feel confident, the speech was
more generally heard than if the old gentle
man had staid to deliver it,
Year: 1869

ALL THE TAXES placed upon railroad and
canal companies by the bill now pending in
the Legislature arc in addition to the ten
cent. tax already in dispute. 1t is the inten-
tion of the Legislature, if they gain the suit
now pending, to collect not only the taxes
proposed to be imposed but the passenger
tay olcp
Year: 1869

IT SEEMS reasonable suggestion that if
Congress can afford to pay Winnie Ream ten
thousand dollars for a very bad statue of
President Lincoln, it can hardly refuse five
thousand dollars pension to the widow of
the dead President
Year: 1869

WE NOTICE with pleasure that company
has been chartered TO build railroad from
Georgetown to Gumboro, in Sussex county.
Such an extension of the Junction and
Breakwater Railroad, southwark, we urged
long ago, and VIC hope the enterprise may
preston would have been in favor of run
ming the proposed road on the west side of
the Great Cypress Swamp,-say to Frank
ford,-but we suppose those interested know
Year: 1869

TIE REPUBLICAN, MAJORITY in New
Hampshire exceeds the figures at first stated.
1t will probably be over four thousand,a in
crease of fifteen hundred since tho Slate
election last wear
Year: 1869

Two-tax bills have been at last presented
in the Legislature. One refers exclusively
to the railroad and canal companies, and the
other is general bill, covering nearly or
quite all the manufacturing interests of Will
mington and the adjacent portions of New
Castle county.


THE RAILROAD BILL
lays n tax of - per cent. on the net earn
ings of railroad and canal companies, and
provides that where the road is partially
located out Of the State, the assessment to be
taxed shall be in the proportion of the length
of road inside to that outside the State 1t
also taxes each locomotive, one hundred
dollars per year; each passenger car twenty
five dollars; each freight car ten dollars. 1t
further lays tax of onc-half per cent. upon
the actual cash value of each share of stock.
Heavy penalties are imposed for failure to
comply with any of the provisions of the
Year: 1869

since her disappearance a letter was re-
ceived from lady in London making
inquiry about the runaway, who was then
stated for the first time to be girl. She
had left her situation without acquainting
her parents, who thought her dead. From
the shop of grocer, which was one OF
the places the prisoner was charged with
breaking into, two old checks were stolen,
and these were found in the pocket OF a
coat the prisoner had left at her lodgings.
This led to the prisoners apprehension
by one of the Kent county constabulary,
who found her sitting at home with her
parents at Greenstreet Green, nursing a
baby. He charged her with committing
the burglaries (the only booty of which
was the two old checks). This she at first
denied, but afterwards admitted that she
was the person who committed them, and
wished It to be understood that no one
assisted her. He took her into custody,
and on searching her box he found it
contained quantity of male attire, a
riaemans uniform and accoutrements,
some false boards and curls, and num-
ber of other things used for disguise: She
was then wearing female attire, and said
she committed the burglaries because she
wanted money, as she collected ten shil.
lings for missionary society and could
not pay it. She took the checks, think.
ing them to be good ones. Since she had
left home she had gone by the name OF
Henry Peck, and had for some time sold
brooms about the country disguised as q
man, with false beard and curls. AT
Brenchley she was paying her attentions
20 a young lady in the neighborhood.
Year: 1869

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Year: 1869

streets, and sharp hills, he rose to his eli
max:


Z" / have been democrat all my life /;
but this is no longer question of poll
ties. 1t is simply country or no country.
| have favored every honorable compro-
mise, but the day for compromise is pass
ed. Only one course is left for us, WE
WILL STAND BY THE FLAG OF OUR coUN-
TRY, AND APPEAL TO THE GoD OF BAT
tiles


"The effect was electric. The audience
sprang to their feet and gave cheer after
cheer for the old flag, for Major Ander-
son, and for the maintenance of the I'm
ion at whatever cost. Captain Grant
was present. Though he had known
Rawlips as the attorney for the leather
house, he had no intimate acquaintance
with. him, but this speech SO thoroughly
expressed his own feelings, that from
that hour his heart went out to the young
orator"
Year: 1869

ANY amount and every class of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies.
and at low rates at any agency in the country.
Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1869

Hundreds suffer on in silence, and hundreds Of
others apply vainly to druggists and doctors, who eli
ther merely tantalize them with the hope of cure
or apply remedies which make them worse. would
not assert anything that would do Injustice to the at
hicted, but am obliged to say that although IL NAV
reproduced from excessive exhaustion of the powers
of1fe, by laborious employment, unwholesome air
and food, prouse menstruation, the use OF tea and
Coffee and frequent childbirth, it is far ofener cans
ed by direct irritation, applied the mucous mem-
brane of the vagina itself.


When reviewing the causes of these distressing
complaints, 1t is most painful to contemplate the at
attendant evils consequent upon them 1t is but sim
pie justice to the subject enumerate few of the
many additional causes which SO largely affect the
Hfe health, andhappiness OF woman in all classes OF
society, and which, consequently affect more or less
directly the welfare OF the entire human family The
mania that exists for precocious education and mar
rage, causes the years that nature designated for
corporeal development to be wasted and perverted
In the restraints ofdress, the early confinement of
school, and especially in the unhealthy excitement
of the ball room. Thus, with the body hall clothed
and the mind unduly excited by pleasure perverting
In midnight revsl the hours designed by nature for
sleep and rest the work of destruction is half accom-
plished. 6i9d9a u. dNH4 fc.e2If


In consequence Of this early strain upon her sys-
tem' unnecessary effort is required by the delicate
voary to retain her situation in school at later day
thus aggravating the evil. When one excitement ia
over another in prospective keeps the mind morbid
ly sensitive to impression while the now constant
restraint of fashionable Dress absolutely forbdding
the exercise indispensable to the attainment and re-
tention of organic health and strengths the
to night air; the sudden change of temperature the
complete prostration produced by excessive dancing,
must of necessity produce their legitimate effect At
least an early marriage caps the climax Of misery
and the unfortunate one hitherto SO utterly regard
lees OF the plain dictates and remonstrances OF her
delicate nature, becomes an unwilling subject of
medical treatment. This is but truthful picture of
the experience Of thousands of our young women


Long before the ability to exercise the functions OF
the generative organs they require an education on
their peculiar nervous system, composed of what is
called the tissue, which is, in common with the fe-
male breast and lips evidently under the control Of
mental emotions and associations at an early period
OF lfe and as we shall subsequently see these emo
tons when excessive Iead long before puberty, to
habits which sap the very life Of their victims ere
nature has self-completed their development


For Female Weakness and Debility, Whites or Leu
corrhea, Too Profuse Mensruation, Exhaustion, Too
Long Continued Periods, for Prolapsus and Bearing
Down, or Prolapsus Uteri we offer the most perfec
specific known:
Year: 1869




FEMALES, owing to the peculiar and important
relations which they sustain their peculiar organiza
ton, and the Offices they perform, are subject to
many suferings. Freedom from these contribute in
no small degree to their happiness and welfare for
none can be happy who ill. Not only SO, but no
one OF these various female complaints cln long be
suffered to run on without involving the general
health ofthe individual and are long producing per-
m anent sickness and premature decline. Nor Is it
pleasant to consult physician for the relief Of these
various delicate affections, and only upon the most
urgent necessity will true woman SO far sacrifice
ner greatest charm as to do this. The sex will then
thank us for placing in their hands simple specifics
which will be found eficacous in relieving and cur
ing almost every OF those troublesome complaints
Year: 1869

THE "IMMOLATORS."


The widest among the Russian fanatics
are the Morclshchiki, or Immolators -
The leading idea is to mortify the flesh
tor the sake of saving the soul, and in or
der TO do this efficiently they have recourse
to various mutilation and DEATH Sects
intoxicating the virtues of suicide and
murder do all they can TO keep their exis-
tence secret, but every now and then a
forrible story comes from the interior of
some gloomy forest or dreary waste, which
tells how some of these wretched people
have died. Sometimes a pit is dug in
the earth, and half filled with wood and
straw. This is set alight, and when the
whole mass is in blaze, the miserable
creatures leap into the pit and are con
sumed in the fire, wildly singing hymns
as they burn. AT other times they meet
in a wooden house, round which they
have piled heaps of straw and in it they
deliberately burn themselves to death,
their neighbors looking quietly on the
while, for the act is sacred one the
victims are undergoing "baptism by fire"
Some years ago, says Haxthausen, con.
gregation of lmmolaiors assembled ut a
SPOT on the left bank Of the Volga, and
agreed to put each other to DEATH But
after six and thirty of them had fallen,
''the desires OF life awoke in young wo-
man, and she fled to neighboring viii
lage. The people repaired to the scene
of action, an1 founl two of the murderers
still alive, and forty>seven persons dead.
The two We're taken We're knouted-exul-
ting at every stroke at the martydom they
were undergoing 1t is to this sect that
the Scoptsi belong, of whom we have
spoken in previous chapter.


THE "SCOURGERS."


Next in singularity to these people come
the Khlisti, or Scourgers the Flagellants
Of the Middle Ages-whose notion of Il
religious service is wild dance accompa
MED by severe castigation. In the middle
OF the room in which they meet, stands a
vessel containing water, and to this they
90 from time to time, in order to wet their
heads or to drink out of their hands -
They then resume their stamping and
their hogging, until they fall down utterly
exhausted, or convulsions sez, them, dur
ing which they utter rawlings which they
call prophecies Every Easter night, one
of his secretaries told Hexthausen, the
fanatics ''all assemble for great solem,
nifty, the worship of the mother of God.
A virgin, fifteen years of age, whom they
have induced to act the part, by tempting
promises, is bound and placed in tub OF
warm water ; some old women come an !
first make large incision in the left
breast, then cut it off, and staunch the
blood in a wonderfully short time. Other
barbarities follow, too shocking to b. told.
During these operations mystical picture
of the Holy Sp rit is put into the victims
hand, in order that she may be absorbed
in reg riding it, Afterwards wild dance
takes place around the tub, kept up 10y
the whole congregation until their strength
is exhausted. The girls who have beer
thus mutilated are ever afterwards con,
sidered sacred. At the age of nineteen oil
twenty they are said to look like womcr
of fifty or sixty, and they generally die
before reaching their thirtieth year.
Year: 1869

AZ The North West, has the best
prospect for large wheat crop known
tor ten years. Harvesting for early
pieces has already commenced Cotton
has improved wonderfully and with q
good fall we will send to market three
times the amount cotton we did last seas
on. Corn meal at 81 25 per bushel ought
to admonish our farmers OF the folly of
planting all of one crop--cotton. A
good farmer, will have everything to sell
in the produce line, and nothing to buy.
Year: 1869

1D Another example of reducing doc
trine to practice has been given by the
Radicals. A parson has been removed
from a fat post in the Boston Custom
House to make room for negro soldier


Like Dan Sickles, he lost leg, land
was ono Of the first two colored men ever
elected to the Legislature" The white
soldiers who left their legs and arms in
the South play hand organs, and tickle
into comic antics, for a living
Year: 1869

EJ-Sheriir ANDERSON, having finished
and moved into his new house, his lady
gave a large party to the Judge and the
members of the bar generally in attend
ancc on the Circuit Court, on Thursday
night last. Tho attendance was large
and the supper elegant; the young folks
danced till broad day light 1t WAS g
pleasant party and all seemed to enjoy it
Year: 1869

SAFE DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT OF THE NATIONAL
PARK BANK.-The most recent one of the kind, in the
construction of which tho Directors have ayailed
themselves of all the experience up to the present
which has enabled them to produce moro secure ar
rangements than heretofore attained. In the Bur
glar and Fire Proof Vau in their Fire Proof Batdng
they have Safes of various sizes leach secured by
Combination LocI1 where tenants can place securities
of every description for q small annual cost. The
officers will take pleasure in showing the Yauls
Year: 1869

The above figures include t5o32 Of specie IN the first
nine months Of 1867 and So72GO OF specie in the
period Of 1868 We also statement OF exports OF
domestic produce reduced to gold value at the port OF
Year: 1869

young man named Samuel d. Talbot a resi-
dent of Boston, committed suicide i'm BROOKLYN,
after attempting to shoot young lady who had re-
fused to receive his addresses The lady was living
with her sister, and Mr.. Talbot was visiting at the
same house; at about two O'Clock in the morning
he went to the sleeping apartment of the young
lady and Immediately after entering fired at her,
the shot grazing her temple and badly wounding
her left hand. Talbot then returned to his room
and shot himself through the head.
Year: 1869

1t was a pretty conceit of romantic father
whose name was Rose, and who named his
daughter 'NVik," so that she grew up under
the appellation of wild Rose" But the TO
nance of the thing was sadly spoiled when
she married man named Bull
Year: 1869

The following facts are derived from correct
sources of information on the question how to get
rid of the worms. Baron Won Tschudi, the we'll
known Swiss naturalist, says: sWithout birds, sue
cesstul agriculture is impossible They annhate
in few months greater number Of destructive
insects than human hands can accomplish in the
same number Of years. Among the most useful
birds for this purpose may be classed the swallow
wren, robin redbreast titmouse, sparrow and
finch" Tschudi tested titmouse upon the rose
bushes of his neghbor and rid the same in an hour
of innumerable lice. A robin redbreast killed in
the ncghborhood of eight hundred flies in an hour
a pair of night swallows destroyed i'll fifteen min
utes an immense swarm of gnats pair Of wrens
flew to their nests thrty-sX times in an hour with
insects in their bills. He considers the sparrow
very important, n pair of them carrying in a single
day three hundred worms or caterpillars to their
nest,-certainly good compensation for the few
cherries they pluck from the trees. The generality
of small birds carry to their young Ones during the
feeding period, nothing but insects, worms, spiders,
etc. Sufficient interest should be manifested by all


TO prevent the use Of fire arms in the vicinity Of
chards vineyards and flower gardens, as thereby
the useful birds become frightened. London Far
mer's Advocate.


GRASS. 1t is often question which meadow to
NOW first Usually, we prefer to cut that first
which is newest seeded, because the grass and co-
Yer will start up at once and no harm will result 10
the roots should drought come on next month
Where there are great many daisies, they must be
cut when just coming into blossom. This not only
destroys many Seeds but the daisies make very good


hay; whereas, if cutting be delay ed, in very short
time they are quite worthless, and every seed i
ripened. Orchard grass and June grass preced(
Timothy, and accompany clover in time of fitness
TO cut. Red top and grasses of its kindred are
later. and fields where redtop is in excess are usll
ally best left until the last. 1t is much better to Gu
grass little too soon than too late. The hay is
little lighter, but it is all eaten; otherwise, thema
nure heap is increased at the expense of the NOW
The experience of last summer warns us to prOVd,
hay caps; and those who were obliged TO get in
their hay before ii was dried to death, according to
CUSTOM may also have learned lesson not to over


dry hay. That cured as much possible in the cocl
Is sweetest and best Agnculturist.
Year: 1869

HWe wish to call particular atten'
ton to the new advertisement in our pa
per Of Mr.. L. GRAFF. He is offering for
the next 30 days his stock for cost. His
goods were bought low and first rate bar
gains may be obtained by giving him
call at the Post Office.
Year: 1869

ET The Clinton La. Democrat states
that resident of that place gathers a
sufficient quantity of tea leaves from the
Chinese tea plant grown in his garden to
more than suffice for the requirement Of
his house hold.
Year: 1869

Ey The Commissioners of Internal
Revenue decides that money used by
bankers is liable 70 tax Of one twenty
fourth of ono per cent rs a capital 1t
will bring IN from ten to twenty million
dollars yearly Of income.