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Year: 1868

FIRE AT CHURNTowN-A fire broke out
in the store of Mr.. P. Mullee, at Churntown,
at o'clock on Tuesday morning, by which
the building and contents were entirely de-
stroyed. The store room was warmed by
an old. fashioned fire place, and Mr.. Mullee
had placed a large log on the fire the evening
nrevious. He slept in room adjoining the
store room, and on awakening from an
uneasy sleep at five o'clock in the morning,
he arose and opened the door leading into the
the store, and found the room filled with
smoke. The burning log had rolled from its
place during the night and ignited the
floor. Mr. Mullee at once rushed to the
well, obtained bucket Of water, and threw
it on the flames, which had the effect of
stopping the progress of the fire temporarily.
but on hastily lowering the bucket into the
well a second time, the bottom was knocked
cut Of it by the sudden contact with the wa
ter. and before another bucket could be got
ready for use, the flames had made such
hcadway as to render the destruction of the
building a certainty. Mr.. Mullee had lately
received large stock of goods from San Fran
cisco, and he estimates his loss at about
eight thousand dollars. Nothing whatever
was saved from the building. Thus, in the
coarse of few minutes, worthy man has
been bereft of the earnings accumulated by
wears Of close attention to business. Mr..
Mullee deserves the sympathy of every one,
and we hope may soon recover from the
results of his late misfortune.
Year: 1868

DoISG WELL.-The friends of Frank Mo-
zier, who met with a serious accident at
French Gulch, few days ago, will be glad
to learn that he is going well, and will be
able to be around as usual in q short time.
Year: 1868

TIE Democracy of New Mexico are preparing for the approaching election in that Territory A Convention was to have met at Santa Fe on the 3Oth ult., to nominate candidates for the Leg islature. The Gazette is the organ of the party.
Year: 1868

JrBHANr.--The Frontier lader of recent date is joyous. gay, festive and ali that sort of thing. over the result of the election in its town Green River City. Two Democratic tickets were rnn, and nary a Republican one. Mountain air does not agree with Radicals and Cuffee and John Chinaman are not woshipped by people who work for living and sleep in the open air
Year: 1868

and of a truth there is no other town in Arizona that can compare with Prescott. and no country so rich and beautiful as that which surrounds it. Let her people be of good cheer. advance their standards and the wickies of the savages will soon be as scarce as hens teeth. Reader, if you are troubled with the blues, take trip to the country. see what our noble pioneers have ac- complished in a couple of years. and you will come hack satisfied with yourself and the coun- try.
Year: 1868

81 like to attend weddings" said Mrs.
Partington, as she came back from one
in church, hung her shawl up, and re-
placed the black bonnet in the long
preserved bandbox;"I like to see young
people come together with the promise
of love-cherish and nourish each 9th
er. But what q solemn thing is matri-
mony-a very solemn thing, when the
minister comes into chancery with sur
plus, and goes through the ceremony of
making them man and wife. 1t ought
to be husband and wife, for it isn't every
husband thst turns out to be a man. l
declare never shall forget when Paul
put the nuptial ring on my finger, and
said, with worldly goods thee endow'
He used to keep dry goods store then,
and thought he was going to give me
the whole there was in it. was young
and simple and did not know, till at.
forwards, that it meant one calico gown
a year 1t is alovely sight to see young
people 'plighting their trough, as the
song says, and coming up to consume
their vows"
Year: 1868

The Son of the Ex-President Addresses


the Democracy.


Mr.. Robert Tyler, son of ex.Presi1ent Tyler,
genially ana familiarly known as Bob Tyler
during his iaher's term of Office now residing
in Montgomery. Ala, addressed a letter to a
recent Democratic mass meeting in Selma, from
which we make the following extracts:-


The radical party we'll know that it will be
quite impossible to find a more peaceful and
patient population than ours OIL the face of the
earth; and they further know that for Southern
men to engage, under these circumstances, In
civil violence and rebellion, would simply show
that every man who did 30 was an idiot. They
know all this well enough, but in their extre-
nifty they have resorted to this political fraud to
nerabe record. Their unceasiug effort is to
escape from their own acts. When asked to ex-
PLAIN what has become of the billion and a half
OF the peoples dollars they have collected and
by way of answer, ITO the front, boys in blue, y
Forward. Tanners," up with the fag,"
"Hurrah for Grant" When asked why,
after declaring radical reconstruction q perfect
ago, they now admit II to be disastrous failure,
they at once cry out that Toombs aud Cobb and
Wise and Hampton are conspirlng to incite
another rebellion" When asked why the
public debt is increasing in volume and why the
public credit is sinking lower and lower. they
bee:n to declaim frantically about the horrors
OF Confederate prisons and to weep tears over
the dead of the war. They dare not allow the
minds of the people 10 consider calmly the real
issues of the canvass and to form an unexcited
and deliberate judgment upon them. They dare
not in other words, answer to the people for
their extravaganza, corruption, usurpations,
revolutionary aspirations, and individual and
public immoralit'es


The matter which vitality concerns us is to
ascertain whether the people can be thus de;
]uded and betrayed into q position OF dreadful
peril from which they may not be able to escape
in safety when at last undeceived, or, fearful
thought it is to ascertain whether the people
bave themselves become SO corrupt as volun-
tarily to lay down the franchises of freemen,
and to put on the badges that shall mark them
as the servile subjects of a centralized despot-
ism. A few weeks longer aud the fate of our
country will have been settled for veal or woe.
When the sun sets on the Sd day of next No
vember the American Union will have acquired
a new promise of hope and regeneration in the
success OF the national Democratic party, or it
will have assumed form of government un-
known to the constitution of our fathers whose
powers, first partitioDed between the General of
The Army ana an IRRESPONSIBLE CONGRESS, must
speedily become consolidated in the hands OF
Congressional oligarchy or of a military dicta-
tor, as the struggle between them shall deter
mine.
Year: 1868

l make it point of morality never to
find fault with another for his manners.---
They may bt awkward or graceful, blunt or
polite, polished or rustic, / care not what
they are, if the man means well and acts
from honest intentions without eccentricity
or atfectatiou All men have not the ads
vantage Of good society, as it is called, to
school them in all its fantastic rules and
ceremonies, and if there is any standard of
manners it is founded in reason and good
sense, and not upon those artificial regula-
tions. Manners, like conversation, should
be extemporaneous, and not studied. |
always suspect man who meets me with
the same perpetual smile on his face, the
same congeening Of the body, and the bame
premeditated shake Of the hand Give mo
the hearty--it may be rough-grip Of the
hand, the careless recognition, and when
occasion requires, the homely but welcome
salutation, How are you, my old friepdP'
Year: 1868

1t is gratifying to notice the general
condemnation that is measured out to
those asinine individuals who make
themselves censpicueusly ridiculous by
doing some ridiculously conspicuous
thing in payment of an election wager.
Recently Senator of the United States
walked through the streets of Leaven-
worth bareheaded, in fultillment of a
promise to do so in the event of Grants
election, and it is universally conceded
that the silly performance not only
showed that he was bareheaded, bat
also emptyheaded, and that he had as
sparse a quantity of brains inside of his
Uranium as he had covering on the out
side. Such exhibitions are in most
cases merely advertising dodges, and
are only performed to give publicity to
the actor. Their object is to make no.
torious what otherwise could not at
tract the public eye. The business of
the party doing the foolish act is of
course stated, and he gets a tirst-rate
advertisement gratis, at the expense
of his own personal self-respect and
amidst the jeers and gibes of every sem
sible person in the community. The
public can easily put an end to such
follies by taking ne notice of them, but
simply leaving the performers Severe
" alone. ."-4ge.
Year: 1868

IT'S sad, vet sweet, to listen


To the soft winds gentle swell,
And think we hear the music


Our childhood knew so well;
To gaze out on the even,


And the bouudless fields OF air,
And feel again our boyhood's wish
To roam like angels there.
There are many dreams Of gladHess
That cling around the past,
And from the tomb of feeling


Old thoughts como thronging fasti
The forms we loved so dearly


In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful and lovely,


So fair to look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens,
Who seemed 30 formed for blis5,
Too glorious and too heavenly


For such n world as this
Whose dark, soft eyes seemed swimming
In o sea of of liquid light,
And whose locks Of gold were streaming
Der brows so sunny bright.
Whose smiles were like the Sunshine
In the spring time Of the year
Like the changeful CLEANS Of April,
They followed every tear.
They have passed-hke hopes-away,
And their lovelinesss has fed;
Oh many heart is mourning
That they are with tho dead.
Like the brightest buds Of summer,
They have fallen with tho stem;
Yet, OH it is o lovely death


To fade from earth like them!
And yet the thought Is saddening
To muse on such as they,
And feel that all the beautiful
Are passing fast away,
That the fair ones whom We love
Grow to each loving breast
Like the tendril of the clinging vine,
Then perish where they rest
And we can but think Of these.
In the soft and gentle spring.
Where the trees are waving DER us,
And the flowers are blossoning;
And we know that winters coming
With his cold and stormy sky,
And the glorious beauty round US
Is budding but to die!
Year: 1868

TIE 4rmy and Nary Journal tells q
story of one Of Sherman's soldiers, who,
at the close of the war, when he had
returned victorious to his home and
household gods, never was able to ac-
custom himself to the soft luxury Of a
feather bed, and was fain to stretch
himself, if he would sleep at all, on
mother earth. One night q chance pis-
tol-shot wakened the veteran, when he
instantly turned over and began to in.
trench himself, scratching up the ground
with his hands.
Year: 1868

WHERE the carcass is there will be
the eagles. Now for the distribution of
the spoils. No man is to remain twenty
four hours in office after the 4th Of
March; whether lifelong Republican
or Conservative. The pap must go
around. The loyal tanners and the
loyal leaguers; the Army of the Repub-
lie aud the new recruits must have q
chance. The trouble will be in the
classic language of the late lamented
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, that there are more
pigs than teats.
Year: 1868

THAT'S true. PRENTICE says: Let
the Democrats say what they please
about the destruction of freedom OF
speech in the South; q man can speak
lust as freely there as he can in any part
of the world-if he is only a negro.
And what right have folks to be whittier
Year: 1868

effect that q sound mind and body are the 1aCst
necessary requisites to promote connubial hap
piness Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrlmagei the
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mlnG
the melancholy reflection that the happiness q,
another becomes blighted with your own.


.-.... DISEASES OF IMPRUDENCE.
Year: 1868

TuE IMMoRrAL.-We wonder at the May
fly, which is born in the morning and dies in
the afternoon. Yet why should we wonder ?
Its little life is brimful of happiness 1t looks
to no future; it dances out its little existence
in the sunlight, and perhaps more happiness
is crowded into its few hours Of being than in
to the lives of creatures which live longer
and it does not startle us that fly should live
fy's life. But how extraordinary-how
difficult to reconcile with Gods goodness, if
to man, made for immortality, with thoughts
and feelings reaching far beyond this lower
world, were allotted only life as brief as
"the vapor that appeareth for a little time
and then vanisheth away" We will not be-
lieve it. God will not leave us in the dust.
His own promise and invitation is" Thy
dead men shall live; together with my dead
body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in the dust for thy dew is as the
dew Of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the
dead" Isaiah xxxvi.; l9.) Do we then
put contempt on the present life? Far from
it. 1t is bright with a light thrown back up
on it from eternity. But shut out that light,
and show great is the darkness - The
| Quirer
Year: 1868

Don't write there" said one to lad who
was writing with diamond pin on pane Of
glass in the window of hotel


"Why2" said he.


" Because you can't rub it out"


There are other things which men should
not do, because they cannot rub them out. A
heart is aching for sympathy, and cold, per.
haps a heartless word is spoken. The impress
sion may be more durable than that of a dia-
mond upon the glass. The inscription on the
heart may last forever.


On many mind and many a heart, sad
inscriptions are deeply engraved, which nc
effort can erase. We should be careful what
we write on the minds of Merry,
Museum.
Year: 1868

WoMAN's lNFLUENcE.-Ilere lin the cir
Gle of home) without transgressing that mod
esty which is heavens own gift and woman's
brightest ornament, you may exert benign
but mighty influence, Here you have but to
speak word, and one chief source of woman's
sorrow will, throughout the circle in which
you move, be dried up forever. And more,
the families around you win feel the influence
of your example descending on them in bles-
sings like the dew of heaven, and drunkenness,
loathsome, and brutal drunkenness, driven by
the moral power of your decision from the
abodes of reputable society, will be compelled
to exist only among those vulgar aud ragged
wretches, who, stunning the society of woman,
herd together in the bar room, the oyster cel-
lar and the groggery. DR. NoTT.
Year: 1868

"A Rabbi reached city late in the eve
ming; the gates were shut, and he must sleeT
outside in the open air What God does /,
the best for me, said the Rabbi, and laid him
self down to rest.


In the night storm arose which extin'
guished the light Of his lantern, and lion
came and devoured the ass on which he rode
Still the Rabbi said What God does is best
for me.


At daylight he found that band Of rob.
bers had plundered the city in the night and
murdered the inhabitants. Said | not, con.
tinped the Rabbi, what God does is best for
me


We sometimes learn in the morning why
God put us to Inconvenience the night be-
fore.-1he Taimud.
Year: 1868

The record Of aman's moral and inteilectu-
al ilfe is written IN his face in such indeiible
and striking lines that anybody tolerbly well
skilled IN the science Of physIogu0my can
quickly aud accurately measure subtle, unseen
character There Is an old maxim that
blood tells and it does reveal its gentle
or b00rish, Its virtu0us or vicious nature 10
physical movements Of the body, aud modes
Of expression and also in prevailing and re-
lated ideas. SO likewise character Is perpe-
tual.y struggling against the bonds of res
traIBt and pushing out into the broad day.
light ST actual recognition. By a careful re-
ticence at the right time, and a sort of
negative habit Of life, combined with
shregd management, a man may pass cur.
rent for altogether more than his actual value
But sooner or later the muscles Of the face
and the speaking eve let out the secret Of
interior life.


1t Is a great study, these human faces
looking up from the audience room. the
social circle, the street, the car beaming
out an efuigence Of sympathy and wornuess,
or frowing under the rigor Of disappoint-
ment or flashing our contempt and defiance
for the source Of their discomfort. The
young man who aspIres TO nothing higher
than the character Of a universal bruiser.
may forget that his coarse passions are
photographed upon his face in such man
ner as that all discerning people can read
him through at almost the first glance
We cannot see ourselves as others see US -
and that explains away very much of the i'm
pudence and swager Ofthe multitude, which
passes for genuine energy and life If you
would know more Of an acquaintance than
age, occupation, capacity and temper; if
you would inspect the secret sources whence
he draws support Of impulse and comfort
along life S toisome and dusty highway,
look into bis face aud read the whole Ella
b0Tate story Of his stTlvlngs, his loves and
aversions, his triumphs and failures.


Ii is all there locked up 10 feshy charac-
tcrs in the folds and furrows made by the
plowshare of time and toll, or the exhaust
Ing stimulants of license and pr0digality. We
literally turn ourselves inside out through the
face The love, composure, the passion,
the unrest, the haired and revenge, the
strength and the weakness, the angel and
best Of our natures, all collect and come TO a
focusin the face, and make disclosures which
no cunning magical arts can conceal And
it seems % US that when the great Apostle
said some men S sins are open beforehand,
going before to Judgment, he must have
been looking into the hypoeritical faces of
the old scribes and Pharisces Throughout
all her wonderful array of diversity and
magniicence. Nature abhors coHcealment,
and this accounts for and magnifes the rev.
Citations Of character shining through the
human face divine
Year: 1868

No genius that deals with human life Is
complete without including both the mascu.
line and the feminine elements. One away
from the other, issues into no living product
but Is doomed to die. Nor merelvthi one
away from the other does rot unfold its own
fullest nature; each, by itself il not only
barren but stunted The genius which in
eludes them both, and develops both. Is
ike those plants that have the two sexes IN
the same flower, in which the blossom thar
gives delight by its beauty, gives, at the
same time the promise Of coming fruit and
Of deathless seed.


IL may be said that this VIII hold as well
Tor genius IN woman as in man. and that II
genus In man must include the feminine
element, genius in woman must include the
masculine element We grant the position.
but we grant Il with Q certain modification:
Z IS this. that, as the mascuhne cement
should pTedomiDate In the genius of man,
the feminine element should predomidate ia
the genius Of woman; 4 contrary order i
not excellent, but unnatural-is not delight
ful, but disagreeable.


Mere emotion and sympathy in woman
separate from sound thinking. leaves her a
slmpleton or senumentalist; mere intellec,
IN man, separate from sensibility and iptui-
tlon, leaves him surly cynic or a reasoning
machine; but we can hardly tell which Is the
more intolerable a lachrymose man or a
logical woman. The feminine element Is
not only important in literature for the com
4 pIeteness Of genius; it is also important be-
cause Il Is by that element that genius OBJ
talnS the sympathy OF woman; and without
the sympathy Of woman, no literature that
deals with humanity can be said to live.
1he literature that can last must have
common interest for man and woman: but If
lt lean TO either side, it should be 20 that of
the woman; for the life of woman IS ALWAYS
nearer to nature than that Of man; her in
stlncts and sentiments arc more primitive:
her sense Of sex Is more vigilant and tena-
elousi her thoughts are more spontaneous,
rapid, and direct, and the whole constitutes
an inward character that maintains a wou-
dertul unity amidst the numberless varieties
OF her sex, and a continued identity, which
Is neither lost nor obScured throughout the
manifold changes Of history or the world.


The literature, therefore, which not only
has DO feminine element, but still worse.
which has no feminine interest, wants the
most vital element Of humanity. If so it be
with simple exclusion, what must it be with
the literature which depreciates woman
scorns her, mOcks her, ridicules her, and
| satirizes her? The one she will neglect, tbs
other she win detest. What woman read:
Rabelais? What woman reads Montaignt
or Bayieg W hat woman reads Alexander
/ Pope or Jonathan Swift And, Withall the
/ genius Of these writers, they can hardly b,
said TO have any living interest in the
world.
Year: 1868

The Round Table has the following:
saThe street is not private smoking room.
One man has no more right to void his to-
bacco smoke into the face Of another than
he has to void his saliva If he has; why,
in the name Of sense? Because the smoke
is less disagreeable2 That is matter for
individual preserence; and beside, man
has no right to do the least disagreeable
thing. Why may not a man appear on
Broadway with long stick strapped hori-
zontally across his back, or with on open
package of asafGtida in his pocket, or car
rying a pole-cat in his arms, or with his
clothes dripping with kerosene oil, or with a
rattlesnako coiled around his neck, with as
much right as he may smoke therel Be
cause it is not customary to carry asaiGtlda
in the pocket-nobody thinks about it; it 1t
only were the custom we should hear a fear
full cry from the smokers themselves If a
man treads upon anOthcrs's foot, he apollo
gizes, but be will carelessly void offensive
smoke into his very throat and never think
he has done anything reprehensible. If a
man dislike smoking he can keep out of the
street. But the right of the tobacco -Eater
in the street is equal to that Of the tobacco
lover; to refrain from smoking in public
places is not granting a concession, but not
to refrain is violating a right. Upon actual
right, without reference to the sanction of
custom, a man would be perfectly justifa-
bic in reseDting the smoking Of tobacco near
him as a personal atfr0nt
Year: 1868

DoCToR's CANES. was formerly the
practice among physicians to carry cane
having hollow head, the top of which
was gold, pierced with holea like pepper
box. The top contained small quantity of
aromatic powder, or Of snuff; aud on entering
a house or room where disease supposed
to be infections, prevailed, the doctor would
strike his cane on the floor to agitate the
powder, and then apply it to his nose
Hence all the old prints Of physicians
represent them with canes to their noses.
Year: 1868

4 WoRD FOR NEWSPAPER. Nothing
Is more common than to hear people talk Of
what they pay newspapers for advertising,
etc, as so much given in charity Newspa-
pers, by enhancing the value Of property in
their neighborhoods, and giving the locali-
ties in which they are published repu-
tation abroad, benefit all such, par
ticularly if they are merchants or real estate
owners, thrice the amount yearly of the
meagre sum which they pay for their sup
port, Besides, every public spirited citizen
has laudable pride in having a paper
which he IS not ashamed Of even though
he should pick il up in New York or Wash
ington A goodlOoking, thriving sheet
helps to sell property gives character to the
locality; in all respects is q desirable public
convenience If, from any cause, the mat
ter in the local OF editorial columns should
not be quite up to your standard, do not
cast it aside and pronounce 1t of no account,
until you are satisfied that there has not
been any more labor bestowed upon it than
is paid for. il you want a good, readable
sheet it must be supported. And it must
not be supported in a spirit of fcharity either
but because you feel 4 necessity to support
Year: 1868

MOTHER Young mani Thy mother is
the best earthly friend The world may for
get the thy mother never; the world may
persecute thee while living, and when dead,
plant ivy and the night shade of SANDER
upon they CRASHES grave, but thy mother
viii love aud cherish the while living, and
If she survives thee, viii weep for thee when
dead, such tears as none but a mother knows
how to weep. Love thy mother