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Year: 1869

The Cincinnati Gazette has an interesting ac-
count of the Texas cattle trade, which has already
reached lage dimensions and is destined to become
a great traffic. We select the following:


Zone of the striking peculiarities of the Texan
stock is what Texan calls right smart spring Of
horns These appendages are long and slim, and
spring from the head in nearly opposite directions
from each other. As the forms Of many OF the
Texas steers are more like a moose or elk than
eastern stock, 80 their horns are sometimes more
like anters. Though sometimes they more gene
rally measure less than seven feet in straight line
between the tips of their horns. One of their
most common colors is q moose color, though every
variety of tint is found among them. Their LA
bility to stampede renders the drover's occupation
precarious. A large percentage OF every drove is
lost in this way Drovers use swift horses for their
business Several Of the horses and mules are al
ways kept saddled, day and night, for instant ser
vice. A sudden snort and herd Of thousand
spring as though they were but one animal, while
the earth trembles under them as they dash away
with all the speed frightened animal can attain.
The cause is invisible, or they had no cause except
in imagination. Then those on guard mount in
hot haste and chase the frantic herd to get ahead
of them and circle them around. 1t is useless to
attempt to stop them as to stop the How OF the
Ohio river. But with feet horses they can be
gradually led to travel in circle, when they grad
ualy recover their sober senses, and after having
had sufficient exercise, can be brought back to the
starting point. They are also savage ANIMAL
It is dangerous to go among them afoot. As an
illustration of their ferocous nature, l may men
tion that some of the poor and weak frequent,
" get down and cannot rise. You 60 and help
them up, and the first act of the animal, again sci
on his legs is to make an attack on you, and per-
hans runs until he falls from exhaustion.


The Indians along the line have obtained Gus.
tom, since last year, Of levying tax of$l pei
Year: 1869

A LONG ABsENcE.-Thrty-six years ago, a


man living in this county, (then Stokes was ar
rested for some violation of the law. he was tied
and placed on horseback and started off to Ger
mantown, then the county seat. After he WIS ar
rested his wife managed to slip him q knife, and
on the way to prison he cut his bonds and being
well mounted he made good his escape. Nothing
was heard from him after his escape by bis family.


He had been married but q short time, and his
Year: 1869

keep store. In the free high schools Of
which nearly every town in New England supports,
or helps supports colored youth is rarely found.
In and near Stockbridge, for example, there is q
colored population of two hundred, and they have
been settled there for many years but no colored
boy or girl has ever applied for admission to the
high school, though it is free to all.
Year: 1869

No man can do head-work faithfully for
more than four or five or six hours. If
that time is exceeded, all the phosphorus
is carried off, and the man becomes
irritable, broken down, and has softening
of the brain. / have seen this overwork
in lawyers, doctors, clergymen and mer-
chants, who have worked the brain for ten
hours They have dropped under the
burden. You cannot violate the law of
GOD with impunity. Sir Walter Scott did
a large amount of brain work in his day,
but he did not overwork himself In his
latter days, however, he became pecuni-
arily embarrassed, and resorted to his liter
ary pursuits to save himself; but he
worked too hard and completely broke
himself down. One of the best scholars |
ever knew broke himself down in his
younger days, but he lived on to seventy,
though he could only work some four
hours day. After these hours he en-
gagged in vigorous exercises to keep him
out Of the house as much as possible, and
he continued one of the best professors in
the country.-Erchdnle
Year: 1869

be panied to hear, at the same time, that
it has been converted into a shower bath


A prominent metropolitan hotel keeper
is already turning a speculative eye
towards the deep 70 Semitic Valley of
California, which he foresees is destined to
become the fashionable watering place of
this continent. 1t has falls rivaling Mag
ara and such virtues in the way of scenery
and climate that our long-headed land
lord shifts great things in the not very dis
tant future.


Horace Greeley, whom we met in Print
ing House Square the other day, is said to
be developing new and strange traits, in
his old age, which both friends and ene-
mics will regard with something of inter-
est or sympathy. His growing petuiance
is leading him into world of trouble and
his bland, tranquil, almost child like face
is beginning to wrinkle up in a most un-
becoming manner. Mr.. Greeley's life, even
according to his own estimate of it, has
been a grand success; and we write this
in ignorance of what the new Administra-
tion is going to do for him-if anything !;
but to read his features as we recently be-
held them, one must come inevitably to
the conclusion that he was sorrowful
and disappointed man. What has wrought
this miraculous change in our veteran
journalist, whether the outward attraction
is evidence of an inward revolution, and
whether it be only temporary or the re-
suit of illness--are questions we cannot
answer. In this regard we speak alone
from what we saw. 1t comes to us from
others, who know him better than we can
claim to, that the old mans temper is COM
pletely broken, and that he occasional ex-
hibits other and alarming symptoms of in
cipient mental decay.


Great preparations are making through
out this city to celebrated ST. Patrick day
in an unusually brilliant and impressive
manner, some fifty Irish temperance socie
ties being announced as participants there
in. Every one possessing any knowledge
of New York, or who has CHANGED to wit
ness the finale of one of these Celtic festi-
walls in the metropolis, must be aware that
strict temperance is not q feature of the
occasion, and can therefore Judge how inn
posing in numbers this demonstration is
to be, when so small division as its cold
water drinkers is estimated at fifty full So
cieties.


There is trouble in Wall street, and the
bears in that region give evidence, by
their expectant growls, that some down
ward tendency of the money market is at
hand.


Our amusement world is busy and brill
liant; but "gossip of the green-rooms !"
must lay over for the present


WILD EDGERToN
Year: 1869

his mothers neat morning If
this process is stopped, he shows the
strength of his lungs in violent protests,
which so alarm the poor woman for the
character OF the family, that she is forced to
compromise with him by letting him have
bright pin cushion, or her darling gold
watch, or some other generally forbidden
object to console him. This, of course, he
splashes into the water forthwith, and
fights her if she attempts to take it away :
for Trott is a genuine Red Republican in
the doctrine of his own right to have his
own way. Then he follows her up through
the day, knowing exactly when and where
to put himselfin her way, in fulfillment of
his important mission of perfecting her in
patience. If she is going up stairs with
BABY In her arms, TrOtt catches her about
the knees or hangs on to her gown behind.
with most persistent affection


In the kitchen, if she be experimenting
verdant Erin in the preparation of some
mysterious dish, Trott must be there, and
Trott must help. With infinite fussiDg aud
tiptoe efforts. he pulls over on his head a
pan of syrup-and the consequences of
this movement all our female friends see
without words.


Is there company to dinner, and no des-
sert, and stupid Biddy utterly unable to
compass the difficulties of the boiled GUS
tard, then mamma is to the fore, and Trott
also. Just at that critical moment-the
moment of projection-a loud scream from
Trott announces that he has fallen head
first into the rain water butt The custard
is spoiled, but the precious darling Trott
is saved, and wiped up, and comes out
fresh and glowing, to proclaim to his de-
lighted admirers that he still lives.


Thus much on Trott's energy and indus
try, but who shall describe the bound
less versatility ssof his genius ?-AAd1atic
M0nthLu.
Year: 1869

As ONE-THIRD of our existence is spent
in our chambers, in the unconscious hap
piness of sleep, ard as good health is i'm
possible without the habitual breathing
of althy atmosphere, the importance
of inhaling pure air is self-evident No
sleep can be sound and healthful unless
the person is comfortably warm; and
many a man who has gone TO bed in
health has awakened with mortal mala
dy, or one involving lifelong suffering,
by having been exposed to draft of air
upon some part of the body while asleep,
either from an open door, an open win
dow, broken pane, or an unstopped
crevice.


Three things, then, are indispensable to
the healthfulness of a bed-chamber; we
must be comfortably warm, must not be
exposed to drafts of air, and must be sup
piled with a pure air, not very cold. n
great deal has been written about sleep
ing with windows sky-high, so as to let
in all out of doors; none but mOnoma-
MACS or born fools write thus; we know
that many persons have met their deaths
by means Of an open window exposing
them to sudden change in the weather
during the night, and certainly the safe
side is the best.


In cold weather there should be fire in
an open fireplace all night, and air enough
will come in at the crevices OF the doors
and windows to create a current, driving
the bad air up the chimney. In summer,
a lamp or candle may be burned standing
in the fireplace, unless the door of the hall
is left open; but as most persons, at least
in cities, do not feel safe to sleep with an
open door, the lamp is a good substitute.
A window may be hoisted, but there are
comparatively so few nights during the
year to make it safe TO do so, that the fire
or open inner door is preferable. There
is no advantage liz going TO bed or un-
dressing in cold room all invalids and
sedentary persons should undress, sleep
and arise in room not lower tnan Hity
degrees; and if it was seventy While RS
ing. so much the better. The old, the
sedentary and the sickly should sleep on
feather beds in cold weather If they sleep
on mattresses, il often requires so much
bed clothing TO keep them comfortably
warm that it oppresses the breathing, and
so confines the foul air above the bed as
to make them restless. In a close room,
the first out-breathing contaminstes the
whole volume of air in the apartment, ana
this will 60 on till at last there is not
enough pure air 10 sustain LIE, and the
man dies; but when the hot air comes In
at the ceiling it forces the bad air to the
floor, so that if holes are open in the floor
or around the base board, and the floor Is
furred, this bad air escapes in that direc-
tion, heating the floor in its passage out.
ward, thus effectually preventing cold
floors, which causes cold feet, making our
wives and daughters cross, and enrlchlng
the doctor and apothecsry.-DT.H Hall.
Year: 1869




WE think that nobody can refuse to
Captain Trott the award of industry and
energy. He is energy ITSELF He believes
in early rising, and, like all others who
practice this severe virtue, is of opinion
that it is sin for anybody to sleep after
he is awake. Therefore he commences to
whistle and crow, and pick open the eyes
of papa and mamma with his fat fingers,
long before Aurora crimsons the East"
as the poet says. For those hapless sim
ners who love the dear iniquity of morn
ing maps, Trott has no more mercy than
modern reformer; and, like modern re-
former, he makes no exceptions for cir
cumstances. If he is wideawake and re-
freshed, it makes no difference to him that
mamma was up half dozen times the
night before to warm his milk and per-
form other handmaid offices for his lord
ship; or that papa wss late at his office
and did not get asleep till twelve o'clock.
Up they must get; laziness is not 10 be in
dulged morning maps arc an abomlna-
ton to his soul; and he wants bis break
fast at the quickest conceivable moment,
that he may enter on the duty of the day.


This duty may be briefly defined as the
process of cultivating the heavenly virtue
of patience in the mind of his mother and
of the family and community generally.
He commences the serious avocations OF
the day after a shower of kisses, adorned
by fleeting dimples and sparkling glances
While mamma is hastily dressing, he slyly
upsets the wash-piteber on the carpet, and
sits a pleased spectator of the instant run.
ming and fussing which is the result. Ii
there is box Of charcoal tooth-powder
within reach, he now contrives to force
that open and scatter its contents over his
nightgown and the carpet, thus still further
increasing the confusion. Ii he is scolded,
he Immediately falls on his mothers neck,
and smothers her with sooty kisses. While
sponge, and splashipg the water all over
Year: 1869

committed which are not ultimately oisrOv
cred, and the perpetrators brought 10 punish
ment. In vain are all efforts 10 hide onr ac-
tions from the eve of God, who suffers not
even SPARROW to fall without His notice
You forgot that you were in His presence. %
whom the light Of day and darkness 0i inid-
night are the same, that He Witnessed all
your movements. and that His breath could
cast mp the evidences of crime irom the
bowels of the earth, or the depths Of the
waters, and thus expose you to detection.


The sword ofhumaI justice trembles over
you, and is about TO fall upon you. You
are about to take your final leave n this
world Let me therefore entreat you to seek
for that mercy, and that pardon, which
comes alone from God. The blood Of the
Savior of man is sufficient to wash from
YOUR soul the stains Oi thousand murders
pray TO Him. and endedvOr to selzc upon The
salvation Of His Crown.


The sentence Of the law is that You are TO be
taken from hence to the prison, from which
YOU came, and from thence To The place Of
execution and there, on Wednesday, the IL
day Of May next, between the hours of
twelve at noon and six O'Clock in the alter
noon, you are TO be hanged by your neck
until YOU are dead, and may God, whose
laws YOU have broken. have mercy on your
soul


THE CLOSING SCENE.


This sentence was most impressively,
solemnly delivered by Judge Bowers, who
was deeply affected in givingit it, at its close
Walters resumed his seat, and after few
moments of conversation with Mr. EdmoEd-
son he arose with some degree of nervousness
and said q The sentence has been pass
ed. but am innocent | know ] am, and
God knows ann His voice faltered and
failed him as he spoke, and he sat down,
with a look and air Of painful dependency
which was agonizing TO behold During the
whole trial the Court house has been dense
ly crowded, and more interest was manifest
ed in the case by the citizens generally than
we have ever witnessed in any capital case
| in this city. The best of order was mani
| tested throughout, and the general belief
and it is quite unanimous-is that an i'm
partial trial has been given the unfortunate
man, and that the verdict of tho jury was
/ jusl-the only verdict which they could have
| jnstly rendered


| IWe learn that his counsel will appeal the


case to the Supreme Court, to obtain ne"


trial. That Court will sit in August
Year: 1869

A MAN residing on the banks of the
Hudson one day went 10 q bay on the
river to shoot ducks or geese. When he
came to the river he saw six geese beyond
shot. He determined to wait for them to
approach the shore. While sitting there
he saw fox coming down to the shore,
and stand some time to observe the geese.
At length he turned and went into the
woods, and came out with q very large
bunch of moss in his mouth. He then en-
tered the water very silently, sank himself,
and then keeping the moss above the
water-himself concealed-he f1oated
among the geese. Suddenly one of them
was drawn under the water, and the fox
soon appeared on tho shore with the goose
on his back.


He assembled the bank, and found a hole
made by the tearing up of tree This
hole he cleared, placed in the goose, and
covered it with great care, strewing leaves
over it. The fox then left and while he
was away the hunter unburied the goose,
and closed the hole, and then he resolved
to await the issue.


In about half an hour the fox returned
with another foxin company. They went
directly to the place where the goose had
been buried, and threw out the earth. The
goose could not be found. They stood re-
garding each other for some time, when
suddenly, the second fox attacked the
other fuIiously, es if offended by the trick
of friend. During the battle he shot
them both.-Murrays Creation.
Year: 1869

IT is a pleasant thing to make soap
bubbles, il for no better reason than that
we can have rainbOws about us at any
time. But there is an art about making
these short-lived toys as in everything
else. The best way to make them 10 TO
take three-quarters of a pint OF water
that has been boiled and become cold, and
put into it quarter of an ounce OF Cas-
tile soap, cut up fine. Put this into a
pint bottle and set in hot water In a
saucepan, on the fire; there let it remain
an hour or so, now and then giving Il a
good shaking, till the soap is dissolved.
Let the fluid stand quiet for a few hours
for the impurities and colOring matter OF
the soap 10 settle; then pour on the fluid
and add to II four ounces OF glycerine, and
your soap-bubble solution Is ready.


In an ordinary way you may blow the
bubbles easily with clean tobacco pipe,
but If you wish TO obtain scientific per
fection, you had better employ glass pipe
or tube. BY adding larger quantity OF
Year: 1869

ing, fuel, light salaries and inciden,als.
The cost to the State per pupil is about
fi.90 a week, the proceeds Of the farm
equalling about $1.S0 each week to every
inmate of the school.


II is confidently believed that as the farm
becomes developed the institution can be
made selfsustaining. The addition to the
building authorized by the Legislature Is
now in course Of erection, and will very
materially enlarge the capacity of the in.
suution, which has hitherto been entirely
too small for the purpose designed.
Year: 1869

WHEN a bouquet is received, / at once
sprinkle il lightly with fresh water, and
then put il in vessel containing soap suds.
This win keep the flowers as freshly as if
lust gathered. Then every morning take
the bouquet out of the suds, and lay it
stock entering irst-into
clean water, replace il in the soap suds,
and it will bloom as fresh as when first
gathered. The soap snds needs changing
every three OF four days BY observing
these rules, a bouquet may be Kept brighs
and beautiful for at least a month, and
viii last still longer in a passable state
Hpchdaae II sfn flissa
Year: 1869

glyccrine you may make these bubbles so
strong that you can play with them by
knocking them about. You may, Of
course, make soap bubbles IN an easier
way, but they win not be 20 brilliant as
by the above process - Ercbdnoe.
Year: 1869

--Water-cars are run regularly on the
Atlantic street horse railroad line In Brook
lyn. A huge vat on car-truek, drawn by
two horses, follows the passenger cars up
and down the track, sprinkling The pave
ment thoroughly, etfectuallY laying the
dust and making travel ON this route more
comfortable than ever before
Year: 1869

ury at the earliest moment, deeming its
retention there a gross blunder, and while
we hold the payment of some form of indeDt-
edpess the only proper use of ii, we think
more good can be effected by buying up and
canceling bonds than in any other way sup
pose the Treasury were quietly to purchase
Seventy Millions of outstanding bonds (Which
ever of them could be bought to the best ad-
vantage) with Sixty Millions or less of its sur
plus coin, Is it not certain that Gold must
thereupon fall because of its abundance, Whlle
Bonds would suddenly and largely appreciate,
because of their relative scarcity7 Strike Sew
enty Millions of bonds out Of existence and
throw Sixty Millions of Gold on the market,
not for a day, but for all time, and the pre-
MUM on gold and the discount on the gold
price of bonds must both fall immensely. Now
offer a four per cent. non-taxable gold bond
having forty to q hundred years to run, and IL
is scarcely possible that it should rot find pur-
chasers at something over par, propided we
shall have so adjusted Revenue to Expenditure
as to have clear, constant surplus OF the for-
mer, which we shall continue to use IN buying
up and canceling bonds. Rusumpton VIII tnuS
come as naturally as flowers in May.


We agree with Mr. Bowen in deprecatlhg
contraction Of our Greenback Currency prepara-
tory to Resumption. After Resumption, the
oold- Gamblers may run the Treasury for gold
if they choose. provided they have the Where-
withal. Mr.. Bowen says


ct can at this moment name ten men who could ana
nrobaby would arrange within one week after resnmp
lion on your plan to take out OF the hales rom MY 70
one hundred millions OF gold, aud ioek u p behind bolts
ond bars so tight that power on earth but military
nower could touch IT. This would cause a panic here
snch as never was known IN the history oI ue W0Iiu
amount TO hundreds OF millions OF dollars annually ana
they know exactly what they are about They can ana
do engage ~ operations which Involve more MONEY ,ho t
time those institutions suspended specie payments.
They can at pleasure make money ISpt II s high tine
our legislators and theorists UNDERSTOOD lhi9'


We trust Mr. Bowen agrees in our assump-
ton that such state of things should not Do
endured one moment longer than it must be-
and that Resumption would dethrone these
moneyed despots, or deprive them of their
power to do evil but he does not seem TO see
as we do that from the moment of ReSump-
ton, far more Capital would be interested In
sustaining the National sOlvency than in trying
to subvert it.


Once more we say explicitly that we very
much prefer an earnest trial OF Mr.. Bowens
panacea to the do-nothing policy which has so
long held us spell bound. 1t might fail, but to
whose harm7 The true principle of using at
once and evermore every spare dollar IN enc
Treasury to extinguish some form of National
indebtedness till the last dime is paid oil, com
binos honesty with benefcence in an eminent
degree; and VIC pray COngreso not to dissolve
without embodying it in the law of the land
Year: 1869

In the full details which our report gives OF
Gen. Grants doings, and sayings, and surround
ings in Baltimore yesterday, readers will not
fail to observe, as the most notable feature
the fact that the General gave special attention
TO the mode of collecting Internal Revenue on
Tobacco. He will soon have need of
all the knowledge on that subject he
can possibly acquire. But his military expe-
rience has already taught him-and bis success
has taught us that he profted by the lesson
that the way to get work honestly done is to
appoint honest and capable men to do 1t, and
then to give them the fullest support. That is
the open secret for collecting the Internal
Revenue, and we do not doubt that we may
count on soon seeing it reduced to practice.
Year: 1869

At tho annual election for officers of the Union
Leagno Club, held on the 14th inst. 465 votes were
cast. OF these large majority were given for the
regular ticket styled account of the color of the
paper on which it was printed the pink ticket BY
clerical error in tho canvass tally of 81 votesal
regular-was omitted This made no difference in
the result except in one name that OF Col Frank E.
Howe, who was declared defeated. On srecount of
the votes the error was discovered, and at a special
meeting OF the Club held yesterday evening the
port of tho canvassers reconsidered, and an
amended report unanimously adopted electing Col
Howe by majority of A. This result will be graft
flying not only TO the friends Of Col Howe at home,
but throug houtthe country whore his disnterested
services TO the nation during tho war gratefully
remembered and appreciated