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Year: 1868

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The Chinese Embassy arrived here on the after
noon express train from Albany and were met at the
depot by committee from the Boston City Council
and an immense crowd of people. The party
were transferred to the Bay State Hotel
In carriages, followed through the entire
route by q great crowd Of spectators They retired
early tonight to become refreshed for the arduous
duties Of tomorrow attendant upon the reception in
Boston. The compliments OF Governor Bullock were
rendered through CO0nels Washburn and Bullock,
of his staH.
Year: 1868

Young men troubled with emissions in sleeps
complaint generally the result OF bad habit n
youth,-freated scientifically and perfect cure
ranted or charge made.


Hardly day passes but we are consulted by one CT
more young men with the above disease, some ct
whom weak and enaciated as though they ht
the consumption, and by their friends supposed e
have it. An such yield to the proper and y
correct course of treatment, and in short tine are
made to rejoice IN perfect health
Year: 1868




SINGULAR FACTs.-You may pass
a wet stick, or your naked hand,
previously dipped in water, through
u running stream of molten iron,
cutting it to and fro as you do so,
without the slightest injury to eth,
er. Water, or even Mercury, which
freezes at II degrees below the freez.
ing point Of water, may be frozen
into a solid mass at the bottom of q
platinum ceucible at white heat.
The explanation is that the hand,
and the stick do not really touch the
iron, nor the mercury or water the
bottom of the crucibIe, o cushion Of
steam being instantaneOusly formed
around them which prevents con.
tact with this extreme heat, much
in the same way as a sheet of snow
will protect the ground from extreme
cold. Laundresses try their irons
in this way. If the water on them
rolls off without boiling, they are
too hot, but if it sputters and boils,
they are just ready for use. The
reason of this is that this cushion
of vapOr is instantaneOusly formed
and prevents the extreme surround
ing heat from reaching beyond th'
surface of the water. If the TEN
perature is reduced by cooling of
the furnace by the addition Of NOR,
fuel, the water almost explosively
takes the form Of steam, and in this
way without any doubt, many boil
ers, which have been proved equa
to any other test, have collapsed.
Year: 1868

CLEAR THE SHIP CHANNEL-AN 1MPoR-


TANT. SUGG EsTIoN.-We notice that the
steam dredging machine, tug and dump
ers, belonging to the city, have been hauled
up in the dock for the winter. Before
they are entirely laid by, We would call
attention to a measure the Importance of
which is acknowledged by all persons in
terested in shipping matters. About Its
yards below the ship lock, and directly in
the channel, there is a bar composed Of
round stone and sand, which seriously in
terrupts navigation. At present, on an
average high tide, there are about ten feet
of water, while, if a portion of the bar was
removed, twelve feet could easily be af-
forded. The schooner Lucy D., now in
port loading for Boston, from this cause
will be unable to take on more than two
thirds of q cargo.


II is unnecessary further to urge the Inn
portance uf the measure. But can it be
done? We are assured by those who
ought to know that 1t would take the
dredging machine, with the usual compile


ment of hands, butten daysto remove abou


one hundred yards of the bar OF a width 0
forty feet, and the expense would be trl
| fling in consideration Of the, great good T


be effected. Let our Chamber OF Com


merce recommend to the municipal autho


rites immediate action !; for if any thing


to be done, it is unnecessary to wait unit
| after the spring fresheE.
Year: 1868

A HORRIBLE FRAUD.-The st. Louis cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer
says


"There is no telling the ways that men,
greedy for gain, will not avail themselves
Of to advance their fortunes, especially
during and since the war, as men have
been found willing and anxious to sell soul
and conscience for little filthy lucre. A
few days since an incident occurred which
very forcibly illustrates this. An Irish
man was employed to dig up and remove
some Of the bodies Of Union soldiers in
the Wesleyan Cemetery of this city. In
fitting the collins he thought they seemed
unusually hollow in their sound, and open
ing some of them, found that no bodies had
ever been placed in them at all-nothing
but planks or square blocks of wood. The
mystery to the honest Hibernian was
great, but when it was told him that the
Union soldiers were buried by contract,
the undertaken receiving so much per
coffin, and that the bodies could be sold at
handsome profit to some medical COL
lege, the doubt was at once removed, and
the avenue to large fortune Immediately
disclosed. This was only one of the ways
that the war made men rich"
Year: 1868

FEDERAL OFFICERS IN Tue SOUTH
Speaking of the shooting of Judge Busteed
by the United States District Attorney,
the National IntelHgencer we'll says:


"Now, we cannot see what the southern
people have to do with this disgraceful
affair. Does not everybody know that the
great mass Of the southern people are
utterly excluded from positions under the
Federal Government The vilest negro
may be and does hold important offices,
but the ablest statesman and most virtuous
citizen cannot be even clerk in custom
house, or IL village postmaster, much less
fill such Offices as United States District
Attorney or Federal Judge. The result is
that the Federal Offices in the South are in
the hands, very often, of northerr adven-
turers and of men who make their pre-
fences of loyalty cloak for crime and
knavery."
Year: 1868

A CONSTITUTION CoBBLER CANED.-A
Radical delegate to the Constitutional
Convention entered store on Main street
yesterday to call gentleman engaged as
salesman in the establishment to account
for some offensive remarks in regard to the
political character of the law-maker.
After he had vented his spleen in a most
abusive manner, he was ordered from the
store, and escorted out by a policeman.


Later in the day the two met III the
street, and our friend the salesman pro-
ceeded to give the worthy delegate a
Gaming. OF course there was resistance,
and when the row was at its height the
police interfered, and both parties were
arrested. The case will be investigated
before the Mayor tomorrow morning.
Year: 1868

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAIlRoAD-VoTE
ON THE CITY SUBSCRIPTION. The second
vote of the people Of Richmond upon the
proposition to subscribe s2,00o,000 to the
preferred stock Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad took place yesterday. The
day was very inclement, Snow storm pre-
vailing during the whole day. The vote
was more decisive than the first so far as
the white vote was concerned. The CO.
lored vote, so large at the first election,
was on yesterday about one-fourth less
than the white. The following is the re-
suit in two Of the wards:
Year: 1868

The CALIFORNIA END OF THE PACIFIC
RAILRoAD.-A California correspondent
describes in a graphic way the difficulties
and hardships incident to building the
California end Of the Pacific railroad over
and through the Sierra Nevadas


AT Crested Peak the rugged precipice
towers above you q thousand feet, with its
shattered sides looking dreadfully, as if
they wanted to drop an immense fragment
Of rock on your head. The engineers were
lain to tie themselves with ropes as they
surveyed along here. When the Chinese
were brought to begin the excavation, it
is said the Celestials mildly demonstrated.
They would not object to anything reason
able, but thousand feet Of precipice be-
low them with a thousand feet more above
them, and hanging on by the skin of their
teeth, was a heroiSm of labor to which
they did not aspire. They were encou-
ragged, however, to begin at the beginning,
and as the nitro glycerine hurled the
gnarled rocks down the mountain and
far into the valley, Chinese courage
rose again to its maximum, In winter,
however, work here is simply impossi-
BILE. Ayalanches accumulate on Crested
Peak, and breaking away, no one knows
when, come crashing down the mountain
side. The wagon road, which in summer
winds along just at the foot OF this noun
tain, betakes itself in winter 20 a respect
ful distance. Twenty-Five in all of the
railroad workmen were lost last winter
from this cause. One of the contractors,
who had taken a retaining wall to build
along this steep mountain side, concluded
to work at it under the snow. He actually
dug tunnel through the snow, on the line
of the wall, and worked at the masonry
there in the cosiest manner imaginable.
The accumulation of drifted snow above
him was somewhere from forty to hun
dred feet, and it was backed SO closely
that pick was found Convenient in making
his tunnel. No difficulty was experienced
4 in that Siberian retreat, but some of the
masons met with their death from incau-
tiously exposing themselves in their house
by the roadside to en- avalanche about to
fall. Fifteen were buried, and so caught
between the timhers of the building that
though only few were killed, three only
were able to get out of their hunks and
try to dig their way out. These were
found by rescuing party, and the others
also were saved"
Year: 1868

There are many who will be prompted,
in reading the above, to ask, "Why did not
Mr.. Beecher give this money to educate
the southern blacks, whose need is even
greater than that of the whites ?' But
they who so ask will not usually be those
who give much to educate either whites
or blacks. We venture to guess that Mr..
Beecher has given more and done more
for the education of the freedmen than
any other man Of his means North or
South. h.-Ne1o York Tribune.
Year: 1868

GA New BROOM SWEEPS CLEAN."-
Acting upon this suggestion, and wish
ing to do all in his power to aid the
good housewives Of the country in
keeping their premises clear of dirt, Cap
tain B. G. Cook has put his ingenuity to
work and invented an arrangement by
the aid of which any man may be his
own broom-maker. He has not yet OBJ
tanned a patent for the invention, but, to
prevent others from using it at present,
has entered caveat for right, and will
secure the patent at an early day.
Year: 1868

less of the creek and into this the side drains en-


tered The final outlet is into the creek al the lowest
end of the swamp and the result Is every way sa,ls


factory for the force of the current OF tne ceeh oeoW
the outlet combined with the pressure Oh wafer IN
The tile above give prompt clearance to the great BODY
of tile even when the water III the CREEK Is SOME
thing higher than the outlet. -,


This work has been recently cOmpeteu, ana the
ground is driving rapidly. On a portion corn was
craving but perhaps year or VIII be required Tor
tbe water through the whole field 10 inter INTO the
drains and for the atmosphere 10 act upon tle SOL
and correct its sOuness. have seen n0lhng IN me
Eastern States so much resembling the w abash ana
American bottoms as this field. 1he SOIL has the
same dark color it is equally dry and IN one respect
il is decidedly superior for II contains SAND sucleht
TO prevent packing forming crust, ana can con
ceive Of no condition in which nara suDS9ll can De
formed The depth Is about three ieet ana the DOT
tom is as good as the top Ihe sana IN the
soil coming from decOmpOsed primitive rock
gives as it is generally understood, abundance OIL
potash Flowing can be done when other helds are
in the condition of mortar beds The original cost OF
the land was $3.50 an acre, the improvements nave
cost about 5000 an 1t seems TO me that held
more desirable for growing crops, whetDer OF ROOFS


grain or any description OF small fruits, Is not TO DC
found on this continent.


To give expression to the ideas OF Others, and TO
repeat what is known Is to be follower. 10 seek
ont new WAYS whatever may he the obstacles. and
10 show how bread may be found IN places where
Others seek il in van is TO be a leader IL to hln
his bread is dear he is richly rewarded III knowing
that TO Others he has made it cheap. n. c. NJ.
Year: 1868

Tho peculiar enterprise of The Herald has recently
brought it into an open defiance of law and quarrel


with Guardian of the public health. Not satisfied
with the facilities enjoyed by the other journals OF
this city in the collection Of ship news at Quaran-
tine il has dared to break through the regulation OF
DR. SwinbuIne. the Health officer, and send Its news


collector aboard infected ships thus securing It's
news in advance of the other newspapers. flnding
that its assumed right to override all law was DIS
puted by the Health Officer, The Herald turns upon
that faithful official and in characteristic manner
charges him with acting in the interest OF the west


ern Union Telegraph Company for his own personal
emolument. We have taken the trouble to look INTO
the matter and find that the only foundation for TINS
charge is the fact that DR.. Swnburne obtained the
extension of the Western Union wires to Quarantine
"a measure of great public advantage on the condr


ton of allowing that company to collect news
for the public press. This arrangement not
only met the wants of the newspapers,
but disposed of number OF pressing
applications impossible to be granted from shipping
houses in the city to be permitted to send their
agents on board the shipping at Quarantine. sin
Gle person was permitted to gather and transmit
news from Quarantine under the restrictions estab-


shed by the Health Officer for the protection of the
public health. This arrangement so obviously Wlse
and proper has given entire satisfaction to the pub


lie and to the press with the single exception of The
Herald That journal is in no respect excluded from
the but refuses to receive the news thus
gathered, because in that mode it could not receive
1t in advance of its being furnished to other papers
DR.. Swinbume derives no benefit from The arrange
ment except an exemption from ANNOYANCE and the
privilege of using the telegraph line thus established
without charge While he has thus incurred the
enmitv of The Herald and for which, on the whole


he should be thankful he will receive the acknow-
ledgments of the public when they know the truth
Year: 1868

A writer in New York paper enters upon
some curious speculations concerning tie ori-
gin of the obseryances Of Christmas now In
vogue, which will not be devoid OF interest at
this time;


Ard yet. delightful as are the associations
Of ,he day, it claims dubious, ii not an idol
otrous origin. For eighteen centuries that
vast agglomeration OF churches and sects call
ed Christianity has somewhere about this pc
riod of the year celebrated the birthday of
the Redeemer; yet we are lost in uncertainty
as to the actual date Of that event; and it is
much to be feared that the early church lent
itself to pious fraud by giving out that the
birth of Jesus took place near the time OF the
winter solstice, in order to throw an air OF
sanctity over the pagan orgies wherewith the
ancients were wont to celebrate the return
ing march of the sn-orgies which the elders
of Christianity found themselves powerless to
suppress. A recent writer says: "ln most
nations of ancient and modern times, the
period of what is popularity called the
winter solstice appears TO have been
recognized as season of rejoicing
The deepening gloom and the increasing
steriity which have followed the downward
progress of the suns place in heaven would
generally dispose the minds of men to con-
Year: 1868

I SOMETHING FOR SWEARERs.-A
gentleman once heard a laboring
man swear terribly In the presence
of member Of his companions
He told him it was a coWardly
thing to swear SO In company,
when he dared not do it by himself.
The man said he was not afraid to
swear at any time and at any place.


II viii give you ten dollars, "
said the gentleman, " if you viii 60
into the village churchyard, at ~
o'clock tonight, and swear the
same oaths which you have uttered
here, when you are alone with
your God"


" Agreed r. said the man" /" lis
an easy way of earning ten dol
larsI' n


Well, you come to me to-mor-
row, and the money is yours. "


The time passed ON ; midnight
came. The man went to the
graveyard. It was night of





pitChy darkness, AS he entered
the graveyard not a sound was
heard all was as still as DEATH
The gentleman's words, " all alone
with God" came over him with
wonderful power. The thought Of
the wickedness he had committed,
and what he came there to do,
darted through his mind like a
flash of lightning, He trembled
at his folly. Afraid to take another
step, he fell on his knees, and In
stead Of the dreadful oaths he came
there to utter, the earnest cry went
up God be mereiful to me a.sin-
Year: 1868

above remarks of his corIespon-
dent, says " An exhausted tobac-
co, corn or cotton field, viii gain
in carbon and mold twice as fast
by the rotting of a ton of clover in
the field where it grew, as by the
return to the field of all the ma
nure made by it's consumption"
Year: 1868

Apaches may be quieted, the railroad in process of construction. and that a process to work our rich sulphuret ores may be discovered and pnt in operation. Then, with peace, justice, equality in all the States and Territories. and none but white men to rule America, we may soon look forward Co the day when Arizona will have place on the Starry Banner of our Country.
Year: 1868

administration last summer when our
worthy President pareded over the coun-
try abusing Congress. But we had no
difficulty in beating the administration,
popular influence and all, We admit
that this new deed OF the President loses
much Of its unpopularity by the fact
that Gen. Grant is the instrument of its
accomplishment. We know that but for
the influence of Grant, the President
to-day would be powerless for evil, and
that he would not have dared to put his
finger upon Mr.. Stanton. Grant, on the
side "of the administration is a strong
opponent. We are sorry to find him
there But it is well that his friends
are frank about it that we may
know whittier we are steering.


From tho Tribune, August II, 1851


People tell us with wise
mutterings that Grantis sagacious, that
be bides his time, that the politicians
will not trap him, that he will run un-
committed, that if be takes the Presi-
dental office he will do as he deems best,
and rise above party. Probably General
Grant can afford to be deaf-and.dumb
candidate, but this country cannot afford
to elect a deaf-and-dumb President. If
these were ordinary times of peace, and
the executive Office meant the appoint
ment of tide walters, postmasters, and
consuls, we might be content to see
Grant in the office, even if he never had
an opinion. If the country were in the
condition it was when johnson was
elected, we might say take Grant" he
is available, aud we shall have an easy,
pleasant canvass, and no bother" But
we re now confronted with problem
more serious than ever before known in
our country. 1t is a problem that will
not permit of conservatism or compro-
mise 1t must be radically treated and
we must have man whose soul braves
the work. A timid, hesitating, unsym-
pathetic President, would bring disaster,
especially if his policy were masked by
the dazzling and seductive splendor of
military fame. He Grant can
not carry our banner unlesslhe wears our
uniform. He cannot lead this party
unless we know where he means to go.
Year: 1868

One of the reporters for the New York
Tribune tells q curious and instructive story
of his experience with the beggars on Broad
way. 1t is to the effect that in walking down
that street the other day he saw a man ap-
pearing to be drunken sailor walk up to a
blind beggar woman sitting on the curbstone
and who, by the way, had often excited
the reporters sympathy y-and deliberately
kicked her over. Ofeourse she made ter
rible outcry, while her assailant made his es-
cape. The feelings of the crowd were great-
ly excited, and the result was handsome
shower of small change into the lap of the
afflicted and abused female. Presently, aided
by little girl, she moved down few blocks,
where, in few minutes, The drunken sailor
turned up again, and precisely the same scene
was re enacted This performance was re-
pcaed two or three times, after which the
unfortunate blind woman walked into dark
alley way and restored her sight, by remoy-
ing the bandages and some necessary prepa-
ration, and then proceeded to her home, in
Water stseet, or rather to a beer shop there.
whittier the reporter followed her after little
time Here he found her and her drunken
sailor oppressor costly chatting with another
case of terrible sore>eye blindness, which had
also frequently aroused his sympathy up town,
and about which he had thought there could
be no mistake or imposition, now thoroughly
cured all enjoying their glass of whiskey
toddy, and rejoicing over their good luck for
the day
Year: 1868

SUGGESTION FROM HoN.J, S. CARLILE.-
My Dear Sir,-Would it not be we'll to set
tie by constitutional provision the question
Of suffrage so that in future it could not be
disturbed either by State or Federal authority,
thus removing from both the State and Fede-
raj governments all agitation of the subject !;
and would it not be advisable to substitute
such provision for the DISTINGUISHING [''dis>
qualifying" is what Mr.. Carlile means, we
suppose, clause of the fourteenth amendment
so that when adopted it would stand in lieu
oft clause referred to? Such provision
declaring that all male citizens twenty-one
years of age and upward shall be entitled to
vote at ali elections, State and Federal that
no test oaths, POLITICAL or religious, shall be
required and no persons excluded except for
crime after conviction, or for mental incapaci-
ty, ascertained by competent judicial authori-
ty would place it beyond the power of either
race, in States where the one or the other
might be in the ascendant, to deprive the
other of the right of suffrage, and it seems to
me, would command the approval OF the great
body of the people South as well as North
Your friend,
Year: 1868

Snoopy SHoEs.-The Salem Gazette says
that in neighboring town shoes are made
up in one Of the worst forms of shoddy, in the
shape of inner soliDg made of straw and lea,
ther chips. The leather presents very
plausible appearance to common observation,
and would, perhaps, wear tolerably well in
dry working g. But on wearing through the
thin outer sole, exposing tho inner to the
moisture of the wet ground, the sham stuff
will soften to pulp and come to piecies, rem
dering the shoe utterly worthless.
Year: 1868

= The sudden flow Of emigration to the
Shenandoah Valley has had tendency to
increase the price of property there very rap
idly recently. We heard of one instance last
week where, less than eighteen months ago,
a gentleman from Dauphin county was offered
a tract of land of over 800 acres, near Win-
chester, at thirty dollars an acre, which he
refused to give. The same tract sold few
days ago for one hundred dollars per acre
an increase of over three hundred percent
Instances of this description are undoubtedly
rare, but this one sale shows the prosperous
condition of portion of Virginia which suf-
fered terribly from the war.


Ha,visburg { Pap Telegraph.
Year: 1868

1t should be known to all that the germs
of scarlet fever will remain active IN blankets
carpets and curtains, for many months. a
case is reported in which some new blankets @
having been infected by scarlet fever were
nut away uncleansed in wardrobe, Fourteen
months afterwards the mistress OF the mouse
had these blankets taken out and put on her
own bed. In few days she took tie ie'eF
and died