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Year: 1869

Iludi w ave, VI uIdICH AOIH say


Packing a dog is one the of novelties of
travel introduced into Owyhee recently ly.-
Mr. Usher, in coming over from Flint, on
Tuesday, fell in with footman accom-
panied by a monster dog, so far as size
goes to constitute monster The animal,
acting the part of a Pack horse, was trottng
along with all the camping outfit of himself
and master securely sinched onto his back
In conversation with the boss of the train,
Mr.. Usher learned that he had travelled
all the way from California to Montana and
back this far, and that his faithful dog had
been his sole companion, packing his
blankets and other little things indispen-
sable to camp life. During his stay in
Montana the Black foot Indians came one
night and murdered the inmates of a cabin
within few hundred yards of his camp, and
prepared to perform the same service to
him, but were overmatched by Tige and
kept at bay. The owner would not take a
thousand dollars for his pack animal
Year: 1869

established expressly to afford tho afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
ane cure oil all Private and Chronic Diseases Cases
OF Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1869

The policy of the Administra-
ton on the subject of resuming
specie payment, and which has
neen a matter of much specula-
tloh' Is set forth in the Presidents
message with probably as much


clearness as could be expected
fro1n that official. The principles


enunclated are sound, and in


strlklng contrast with the views


or that not insignificant class


who have endeavored to prove
the great blessings of paper
currency and who urge a still fur
ther increase in it's volume. With
reference, however, to the plan
Dy which specie payments sho uld
be restored, Congress is wisely
referred to the different. writer's


on political economy for guidance.
The only positive suggestion is
on The! subject of putting a stop
to the Huctuation in the value Of
currency in the interim, to accom-
push which the treasury is to
purchase any Of it's own paper at
a liked price on demand from the
holder, and hold the currency
thus redeemed to be sold again
for gold. In other words. the
Secretary Of the Treasury is to
dictate to the country what it
shHH consider the value of a dol
lar IN greenbacks, and if the hold
ef desires to convert his currency
INTO gold he has but to apply to
the Government and obtain the
specie. Instead of selling a Ger
tam amount of gold weekly OF
monthly, it is to be offered to any
one who desires to purchase at a


hNed premium. That such a
course would check speculation
except III extreme cases would
seem probable, for all speculation
depends ultimately upon the law
OF supply and demand. 80 "
Year: 1869

A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING ladv
employed young girl about fifteen years OF
age TO assist her about her housework. and
one day she was making some cake and wish
ed to put tsome kind OF plums in it; so she
set her dish down on the table with the plums
and told the girl to stone them, and to- show
her how she took up plum and took out
the stone with the remark That is the way .
and then, thinking the girl understood what
sne meant, she put theplum she bad into her
mouth instead of into the dish and then went
away. What was her surprise short time
after to have the girl come into the room
where she was and tell her that she had eat
en- all she could. And when the lady went
into the room where she had been at work
she had put all the stones into the dish and
eaten all she could OF The plums, she think
ing thar the hard pieces-meaning the stones
would soften up when baked in the cake.
Year: 1869

published, they make 8 goodly
show ; but when a few suns have
shone on them, the crystal jelly
melts, the glittering cupola has
vanished, and few meagre fbres
in your memory are all the resi-
due of the once popular author
ship. If you ever tried it, you
must have been struck with the
few solid thoughts, the few sug-
gestive ideas, which survive from
the perusal Of the most brilliant
of human books. Few of them can
stand three readings; and Of the
memorabilia which you had mar
ked on your first perusal, on re-
verting to them you find that
many Of them are not so striking, or
weighty or original as at first you
fancied. But the Word Of God is
solid it will stand thousand read
ings, and the man who has gone
over it the most frequently and the
most carefully is the surest of
finding new wonders there


GNeU Eclectic.
Year: 1869

Coon ExAMpLEs.-A paragraph
is gong the rounds Of tho papers
to the effect that one Of Com
modore Vanderbilt's daughter has
actually condescended to teach
her daughter to mend stockings.
There is no doubt that the lady
in question is a woman Of good
sense, who is aware that riches
are particularly liable to take
wings and fly away from Amer
lean holders, but where the won
derful condescension comesin, re-
marks the Cincinnati Gazette, we
cannot see. Every male member
of the royal house Of Prussia is
obliged to learn a trade, that he
may be able to support himself
should want overtake him; Queen
Victoria's daughters arc said to be
proficient in all departments Of
housekeeping. In the eyes Of those
silly females whose idea Of happl-
ness is concentrated on the posses
sion and profuse expenditure OF
money, all knowledge of kitchen
and the needle may seem vulgar,
but every sensible person must
know that it is just as becoming a
man to boast Of his entire ac-
quainlance with business and
manly pursuits as for a woman to
affect contempt for an ignorance OF
the duties Of her peculiar sphere.
It would be we'll if those who are
ostonished at the homely industry
of the Vanderbilts would learn
a practical lesson from their
example.
Year: 1869

FIFTEEN GREAT MIsTAKEs.-lt
is great mistake to set up our
own standard Of right and wrong,
and judge people accordingly.
1t is a great mistake to measure
the enjoyments Of others by our
own; to expect uniformity Of opir-
ion in this world :; to look for
judgment and experience in
youth; endeavor to mold all dis
positions alike not to yield in
immaterial trifes; to look for per-
lection in a fallen world not 10
aim at perfection in our own ac-
tions ; worry ourselves and others
with what can not be remedied
not to alleviate all that needs al
deviation as far as in our power ;
not to make allowances for the in
tirmities Of others; to consider
every thing impossible which we
can not perform to believe only
what our finite minds can grasp
to expect to be able to understand
everything. The greatest Of all
mistakes is to live only for Time,
when any moment may lauuch us
into Eternity.
Year: 1869

Just as Christ is both the ply
sician and the medicine, the priest
and the sacrifice, the redeemer
and the redemption, the legislator
and the law, the dookeeper and
the door, so also is He both the
sower and the seed. For indeed
the very Gospel itself is no other
than Christ Incarnate, born into
the world, preaching, dying, rising
again, sending forth His Spirit;
gathering His Church, sanctifying
it, governing it.
Year: 1869

A writer in the Bennington Banner gives
the following interesting account of the old
"Catamount Tavern, still standing in the
vilage-one of the historical landmarks of
the town: Here stands the 'Catamount
Tavern around which probably cluster more
incidents OF historical interest than any other
building now standing. In it is the little
seven by nine Council Room, ever memoir
able as the sacred place where the Council
of Safety met during the Revolution to ar
range the details of war, and the admission
of Vermont into the Union, and our trying
controversy with n. York Over the thresh-
hold of the southwest door the British Off


GERS were introduced as prisoners of war.
About thirty feet from the same point upon
the sign post, and from hich the house
derived its name, was the stuffed skin of a
catamount. with its head and bare teeth to-
wards the State of New York, in defiance of
her arbitrary demands. In this house was
imprisoned and tried Redding, who, for
criminal conduct, was convicted and hung


Here was also administered the breach seal.
And from under this roof, on the morning
of the day of the conflict, beloved son,
buoyant in health, and strong in strength,
went out to battle, on The going down of the
sun, borne by his weeping comrades, was re
turned bleeding corpse. Says the stricken
father, Show me the boy, that may with
my own hand close the gaping wounds, and
he called him blessed. A devoted wife,
unable to stand the withering blow, ere a
few suns, crushed with grief, she, too, was
borne to lay beside him. and in this house
lived and died for period of one hundred
years, one of the most exemplary families
that ever adorned New England village. y
Year: 1869

The Gentiles are coming thicker and faster.
Brigham sees the threatening danger, and
is struggling desperately to avert it; but the
events of the last few weeks show that the
principle of exclusion is to prove at least a
partial failure. The number of doubling or
disaffected Mormons is larger than generally
supposed, and it is reasonably certain that
if he cuts off all who deal with Gentiles,
he viii perform hat act for at least one-thlrd
of hi, community. And here let me men
ton curious fact, not generally known to
outsiders Ofaii those who have embraced
Morulonistn since its start, over sixty per
cent. have aposratized and lett them. Brig
ham lately stated this fact in one OF his SER
mons, and their own records prove 1t. Their
gains have been grossly exaggerated; as,
for instance, they published, last summer,
an ex pecicd immigration Of twenty thousand,
and the whole number brought over did NOT
reach FIVE hundred.-Sah Late Letter.
Year: 1869

A Washington lettersays: Women used
TO be in the habit of entering the President 5
house with scissors TO clip down the lace
curtains. and several respectable looking
ones were sent to the station house. Some
men unscrewed the bronze cherubs from the
private stairs of the House and Senate. Rog-
ers' door has been mutilated in two or three
places by some scoundrels. The destructive
energies of the nation are far in the advance
of our creative enthusiasm
Year: 1869

Probably the most contented postmaster
in the world lives at Petropavlovsk,i In Kan
schatka Only one regular mail is received
there annually; sometimes the mail misses,
as mails do everywhere, and then the post
master has nothing to do for two whole years.
This happy official enjoys salary of three
or four hundred roubles.
Year: 1869

In reply to a request to describe the Gulf
Stream, an applicant for teacher position
at a recent examination wrote: 'The Gulf
Stream is branch of the Atlantic Ocean,
and fire and smoke issue from it, and it is
situated east of Florida
Year: 1869

Recorder Hackett, of New York, suspend
ed sentence in a case of petty larceny, the
other day, the prisoner having pleaded gull
ty, saying that it was so decidedly refreshing
to fud q man in that Court who spoke the
ruth, that he really felt it necessary to
sigualize the occursnce by an act Of elem,
Year: 1869

The gigantic nature of the labors of the
Congressional Investigation Committee
will be at once understood when it is stat
ed that 1000 pages of f olscap paper "a
proper kind to use have been employed
in taking down the evidence. In printed
form the volume containing this evidence,
and which is destined never to be read
except by the proof-reader, will contain
two thousand Congressional pages, The
evidence amounts to a steady atfirmal of
certain facts upon one side, and steady
denial upon the other. and has been a
perpetual sce-sawing ofcontradictory and
cumulative testimony from the com
mencement of the trial to its present
stage. It's now thought that the com
mittee will end their labcrs in few
days.-N o. Times.
Year: 1869

IMMIGRATION The subject of Imn,i
grafton is one which is at present great
" exciting the Southern mind, and is
worthy of the most serious consideration
The old system of labor is forever ex-
ploded. There may be individual and
isolated exceptions; but the general rule
will hold good that free Negro labor is
not sufficiently practicable and reliable
for the full development of Southern re-
sources and industry, We must have
white labor. We must have intelligence.
We must lave reliability. We must
have population. TO obtain these re-
quisit.s, we must off,r inducements to
capitalists and laborers. We must con.
struct railroads. We must dig canals.
We must buiid factories We must de-
velop our resources of soil and climate,
and apply tlem to practical uses. If We
do this in the right wa v and at the right
time, We shall soon build up our section
to as grand prosperity as its most de-
voted sons and daughters could desire,
and regain that political power i'll the
Union which we have lost by the for
tunes Of war, and the tyranny Of politi-
cal trickStcrs and political rulers. - Ban
her of the South
Year: 1869

If we are to credit Werstern papers,
| fully fifty thousand Chinese laborers are
now EN- route for Southern cotton fields.
There is no doubt but California and the
territories on the Pacific slope will do
all they can to stimulate this emigration,
as ii relieves them OF troublesome incu-
bus and gives to the South its greatest
want When first We alluded TO this
labor tide, which was to sweep down
the Valley of the Mississippi we did not
uuderrate either its vastness or its i'm
portance, but We own that the speed
With which it has been prrcipiated has
exceeded our most ardent hopes and ex-
pectations. In the countless beneficial
results to accrue to the South and to the
nation, when the Clinaman fills the
hiatus lett by negro labor, We can see
the solution of all our present difficulties,
the only sufferer being tile negro himself
The dearest L. borer in the world, he must
go to the wall when brought into contact
with the cheapest. His doom is over
taking him sooner than we expected


n. q. Times.
Year: 1869

1t is said that before the expira-
ton of President Johnson's term of


Office every living participant in the
murder of Abraham Lincoln will be
set at liberty. The "vindictiveness'
with which traitors have been punish
ed in America will thus receive a
most striking illustration. The Press
well says that it will only remain to
pension DR.. Mudd, Spangler and Ar


mold, and to prosecute Boston Cor
bett for murder on account of his
atrocious conduct in soothing Booth
Year: 1869

A gent for .he Orleans County Marble Works at
Barton, would return his thanks to the public
for their patronage the last eight years aud would


say that he is now prepared to finish
Year: 1869

All Unseen hand has swung the door,
Ny pilgrim feet go in,
My first step to the Masters shrine
Shuts o,tt the paths of sin.
seem to hear the Omnific word,
That woke creations void,
As Ger chaotic darkness passed
The fiat of Cpd.
My untaught vision scarce can bear
The glory of the hour;
How bright, oh Master, is thy face,
/ kneel before thy power.
Faint are these emblems of thy might,
Which only seekers know,
In thee, oh, God, 1 put my trust,
And travel on below.
/ struggle for that greater light
Which shot across the sphere,
And mid life's rough and rugged road,
l think to find it here.
But still the angel finger points
Adown the sacred page;
l follow where the guide shall lead
Upon my pilgtirhsge.
A brothers hand is near mine own,
Why should fear the way?
The light of love is in my path,
While still watch and pray.
And overhead the starry sky


The Masters power displays;
l bask amid the noon Of night,


tread the Masters ways.
Year: 1869

~There is no good reason why
the taxpayers should continue to pay
the taxes of the Bondholders. Vote the
Democratic ticket and have done with
this odious offspring of Radical mis-
rnIo
Year: 1869

ows and his own stupidity, and it was a
relief when his wife intimated that they
had better 60 home. aud the poor cava-
lier skunk away like whipped school
boy. We trust the lesson will be last
ing one to him.
Year: 1869

THIS Hotel has been rcftted recently, and
i is now in first rate order. The table is
supplied with the best, and the traveller will
find his lodgings superior to most country
hotels. The stabling is new. ejl5y.
Year: 1869

brace a Brother Briton, and know that.
besides the common ties of humanity,
thers is still stronger obligation to in
duce him to perform kind and friendly
Offices In fine, the sacred tenets of the
order are go entirely incompatible with
impiety and immortality that none but q
truly good man can be q GOOD MASON
n. Y. Mercantile Journal
Year: 1869

NEw-ORLEANs, June 1.-The President of the
Chamber OF Commerce has received dispatch rOm the
Secretary Of War stating that the views Of the Govern
ment as the importance OF improving navigation ae
the mouth Of the Mississippi River In accordance
with those OF the Commercial Convention and that the
suggestions relative TO the dredgeboat now at the mouth
Uf tie Mississippi will be complied with. The dispatch
response To the resolutions elegraphed by the
Presid ent OF the Convention.
Year: 1869

During the heavy thunderstorm at Paterson,
on Monday night Military Hall was struck By lightning.
German society holding ball there al the time.
party OF ladies thrown from wall seat, but were
not injured Policeman Rice was pTOstrated but speedily
recovered The Hall injured In the moor ahd gas
piping. Several Of the adjoining houses were damaged
and one naD had bis hair singed.
Year: 1869

BosToN, June 1.-THE petition of the citizens
Of sonery for the annexation of that town TO Boston
and another petition for the annexation Of all the terri
tory south OF Charles River within six miles Of the City
Hail 10 Boston, have been reported upon by the Com
mtee OF the Legislature, TO whom they were referred
and is recommended that they be referred to the next
General Court,
Year: 1869

power sprang; and in the speech Of yes
terday he reiterates once more his con
fidence in the sincere exercise of univer
sal suffrage" Even the bitterest oppo-
nents of the imperial dynasty admit that
the principle of universal suffrage has
obtained permanent hold on the French
mind and with that principle the empire
is popularity identified. To our critical
English taste there may be something of
hyperbole in the assertion that "the
masses arc etaunch in their faith as in
their affection, and, if noble passions are
able to rouse them, sophism and calumny
scarcely rufie their surface" But to
French audience such statement carries
with it no favor of exaggeration and
the practical truth of the declaration,
that the masses are still con nstsnt in their
attachment to the empire and Indifferent
to the attacks by which it is assailed, is
a matter, not of opinion, but of fact


The London Standard, of the same
date, observes


What the Emperor says about the mil
tary resources of France is certainly not
without Importance. He says that the
constant object of his efforts is attained,
that the military resources of France are
henceforward upon level with her des-
tiny in the world-a sort of truism which
has usually found its chief veri6cation
in the overthrow of small States whose
military resources were exactly on a
level with their helplessness, and proved
quite comformably with the destiny of
subjugation. But if the Emperor's lam
guage is not particularly happy or full of
meaning, there is no denying or disre-
ga riding the Importance of his state
me nts that the ornaments of France
are rendered perfect, that her arse
nails and magazines are filled, her
reserves exercised, her Garde Mobile
in course of organization, her feet
transformed and her strongholds in good
condition. Whether this development of
the power of France was, as the Em.
peror says, necessary, is question
upon which we will not, of course, enter;
but the Emperor, we may be sure, has
not exaggerated in this description OF
the military resources of the empire;
and the Berlin war Office, which boasts
of being able to call million of men to
arms by short telegram, and IS fond of
talking as if General Won Moltke had
already mapped out an advance upon
Paris, will do well to keep in mind the
assurance the Emperor gives that France
is quite ready for war, and will not be
eaug ght mapping in 1869 as in 1865.
Year: 1869

Senator BENTON once said, apropos OF
wholesale removals from office, thas
"party is too tremendous an engine TO
pse against a poor clerk, whose salary
was all that stood between his family
and starvation" So do not think the
mighty men who manage the Depart
mept machinery at Washington, and
with whom the discharge of clerk be-
cause be votes for a white man in pre-
ference to negro is the most nataral
and proper act imaginable, Loading
a cannon to shoot q fly" involves, in
their opinion, neither abSurditS' cruelty
nor waste of ammunition
Year: 1869

General CANDY is arresting and put
ting upon trial certain Virginia employ
ers for threatening TO discharge their
negro workmen who vote for WELLS.
The General styles this unparalleled
proceeding of theirs, "intiHidating the
voters" In Washington men were
discharged by dozens from Government
employment for not voting the negro riot
ticket at the late municipal election in
that city. We have heard Of no prose
cutions for this sort of Intimidation"
Under loyal ruling it's all right to
turn a white workman ont of his place
Tor not desiring negro Government, but
if Virginia farmer or planter talks of Sc
lecting his employees from those who
desire white rule, he commits a grave
offence and has the gentle corrective Of
the bayonet applied.


We condemn, as much as any can
all efforts on the part of employers to
control the votes of their employees
We think it an unjust practice, whether
attempted in Connecticut, as it often
has been, by Radical manufacturers, or
i'll the South by farmers and planters
But the Government itself has set the
example, under circumstances for which
there is no justification. In Virginia
the same thing is talked of by men who
feel that with the success of / he WELLS
ticket. and the advent Of negro rule,
their last hope of prosperity perishes
No VirGinisn has done any more than
declare that he will not employ those
who vote to degrade him and destroy
his business. The position taken is
thst if the negroes are to control public
affairs in the interest OF gang Of plum
derers and for the destruction of the
State, they must look for support where
they bestow their votes. This may be
a very improper method of self. defence,
but it has not heretofore been consider
ed crime by any save those who man
age the machinery of "the best Govern
ment the sun ever shown on"
Year: 1869

THE Buffalo Express hopes that the
CHASE movement at New York will be
vigorously prosecuted until 1872, at
which time what there is left of him
will be turned out to grass with TRAIN
and DANIEL PRATT.
Year: 1869

WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use Of either Of these
remedies. They will cure every case Of Ma.
RASMUS, without fell.


Thousands of certificates have accumulated
in the hands Of the proprietor, but space will
allow Of the publication Of but a few. Those
Il will be observed, are men OF note, and Of such
standing that they must be believed
Year: 1869

1t is a we'll established fact that fully one
half Of the female portion Of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, to
use their own expression, never feel we'll.
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme.
ly nervous, and have no appetite.
To this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand Of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil now life into their veins
restore in MEASURE the energy and ardor Of
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
Year: 1869

Health Is most important and the afflicted
should not use an advertised medicine, or any
remedy, unless its contents or Ingredients are
known to others besides the manufacturer, or
until they are satisfied of the qualifications oi
the party so Offering.