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Year: 1869

noses appearing to her through the bar.
/ wish l could have told those tender
hearted children how beautiful their
compassion made that hot, noisy place,
and what a sweet picture took away
with me Of those two little sisters Of
charity MerTy's Museum.
Year: 1869

A LITTLE TOO SHARP.-An enterpris-
ing business man of Hartford, Connect
icut, runs two branches of trade, to wit :
a grocery and fish market; the grocery
himself, the fish market by deputy, and
every night the latter makes returns of
the days business to the proprietor. A
few days since the grocer found in his
fish market returns a counterfeit five dol
lar bill. He didn't like to lose it, and
didn't quite want to take the chances of
trying to pass it. So he called an old
darkey who was hanging about the prem
ises, and said to him: Sam, here's a
five dollar bill that's little doubtful
If you'll take it and pass it, I'll give you
a dollar of the. change" Very well,
said Sam, and he took the bill and went
off. Later in the day he returned hav.
ing accomplished the feat, and handed
over four dollars in good money to the
grocer. That night the grocer in count.
ing his cash returns from the fish mar.
ket, was more surprised than delighted
to find the identical FIVE in the pile
Look here" said he sharply to MS fish
market clerk, there's counterfeit bill
who'd ye take it Off Didn't you know
twas bad ?" The clerk took it and look
ed at it moment. ooh! yes " said b,
"I remember now; / took it of Sam
the darkey. l thought it was LITTLE
doubtful, and wasn't going to take it
but he said he got it of you, so / though
it was all right" Further explanation
was unnecessary.
Year: 1869

A BRAVE WoMAN-Mrs Eliza Col
yer, a widow lady living near Apple. H.,
killed wild cat few nights since under
circumstances which showed her to be a
woman of remarkable nerve. The house
dog was making good deal of noise
back of the garden, and on going out to


investigate she saw something jumping
from tree to tree. She returned to the
house for her lantern, and went back to


the grove, when she found that the ami
mal-which proved to be a wild cat of
the largest species engaged the dog
in combat, but Immediately on seeing the
light released itself from the dog and
made spring for Mrs. Colyer, who had,
upon starting from the house the second
time, armed herself with broken-tined
pitchfork. When the animal sprang,
the lady assumed position known In
military language as guard against in
fantry," and in alighting, the varmint'
found himself impaled on the broken
tine of the fork, which had entered the
creatures throat and penetrated the skull
inficting mortal wound.
Year: 1869

lay Of men got as far as the first gang
way, and found two men dead this side
the door. The bodies were in dreadful
state, and showed they had been dead
since early Monday. The black damp is
so strong that the rescuers cannot abide
it long-not more than five or six min
utes, and they always come up gasping
and sometimes insensible.


About o'clock this morning the first
door of the gangway was broken in and
sixty bodies were found there. Their
situation was awful; fathers lay stiff in
death with arms about their sons. Some
were kneeling, as though in prayer;
strong men were hand in hand with their
fellows. The pick axes and shovels,
which they had used in making an en-
bankment to prevent the entrance of foul
air, lay on one side. 1t seemed, then,
that they had fed few steps, when in
an agony they fell in one another's arms,
suffocated by the deadly damp. In an
other chamber every man was without
shirt. They had stripped themselves of
clothes to use them in filling up crevices
and crannies. One man had pushed a
partof his garment into an aperture, when
gust of the gas rushed through and
strangled him to death. Wagon loads
Of cofiins line the road, and litters filled
with sheeted dead pass along the line ev-
cry few minutes. As they are brought
out of the tunnel, an inquest is held the
dead are exposed for recognition, and,
when one is identified, the Justice call
out his name and home his friends take
the body and convey it to their house.


Already the dozen mules have caused
an insuferable stencil, having swollen
and bursted. The men who go down to
bring up the corpses have to pass these
carcasses in order to get at the dead ;
and the stencil, together with the gas,
which has not yet been pumped out,
makes it difficult to bring them up. The
solemnity of the place is not alone that
which impresses the spectator. The
weeping women and loudly crying chill
dren strike the spectator with sadness :
but the active rescuers and the Provision
Committee, and the police and hucksters
and the Unconditional miners, make it
painfully obvious that the present is a
time for business, and not for mourning
alone.
Year: 1869

, EXTRAORDINARY IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTIFI-
CAL TEErH-rOm wstsons Weekly Art JOnrnaL-Dr h LEE
WITT has always among t. dentists and dentistry over
much to bis researches but his invention Of Suction Gel
ular Plate combined recuaei gold web aud base for artificial
teeth comes perfection than have seen II 50 light


hardly to be weight hand and extremely elastic and strong
By series OF air held mnoTabe In the mouth and so small
and compact does interfere with speech or taste Is Is Toe


bte most ceany that put IN the mouth
,l cous.ouepr We commendn No q East TwESrfErB ST.
Year: 1869

An Italian, giving the name of Anthony Car


roll was taken before Justice Hogan, at the TOmbs,


Saturday and charged with having swinded q large


number gOcor lager beer saloon keepers and others
was 10 negotiate for the purchase OF grocery tailor
store saloon whatever other place of business took
his fancy and offer TO the proprietor Of the place price
above It's real value spulang That he should be given
immediate possession on paying for the same.
Payments were made by checks, drawn
and Traders or Broadway Banks. These checks were
invariably given near the hour OF O'Clock p M, the
hour at which the banks close that the receiver was
unable 10 tell whether II genuine or not. Carroll
would then take possession Of the store saloon the
case might be- and sell ont all the stock he could UP to
the time OF closing for the night lock up the place. and
decamp with the proceeds. On applying at the bank on
the unfortunate OF the place would be told that be
had been victmZed that Carroll had no bank account
there and sadly realizing that he had been 6winded,
would perhaps require the services OF lOcksmith to
enable him 10 once more regain possession of bis
property. Among those thus swndled was Simon Trunk
roll receiving in payment therefor check for S25 on the
Fulton National Bank. During the evening which Car
roll had possession Of the place he sold SIS worth Of beer
and cigars. Jacob Miller having a tailor store in the
building sold out his lease for 81 00 for which he
received a check on the same Bank Sophia GOndea Of
No list Em-st. sold her cigar store for $3.50, and
ceved check for that amount on the Mechanics and
Traders Bank. Elizabeth Mer Of No. 4l9 West Thirty
nnthst Bernard Mybary OF No. 70 Pke-st and 90
Others in Court ready TO make complaint against
the accused The magistrate committed him TO the
TOmbs to await an examination. Carroll s a native Of
Italy. aged 4G years. resident Of Chicago and by trade
gold and silver platter. IL stated in Court that he
had swinded many persons n Brooklyn, East New.
York ndHohoken IN manner smilart to that described
above
Year: 1869

Boston, March 27.-James ID. Martin, late
Cashier Of the Hide and Leather Bank. was to-day dis
charged by order Of the United States Circuit Court in
accordance with President J0hns0ns pardon Two other
indictments charging Martin with embezzlement aud
cOns tracy To defraud were produced by the Government
Year: 1869

INDIANS IN DURAScE.-The people of La Paz have now, for had short time aco) three Indians in prison, whom they suspect ot having taken part in the recent capture of the mail, and the murder of part of the escort We call upon the authorities-ciyil and military, to take immediate steps to trace out the authors of that outrage. If Pima and Colorado river Indians were concerned in it, we want to know it.
Year: 1869

A NOBLE RESPONSE The re
sponse of General Robert &. Lee to
those who invited him to be present
at the Gettysburg sensation, says the
Leavenwor h Commercial, commend
him us a man of excellent taste and
sense as well as lover Of the Union
In his opinion it was wiSest, he said,
mot to keep open the sores of war"
And the reply of General Fltzhugh
Lee was quite as much to the point
when he stated that sit is better to
forget and forgive rather than per-
petuate proofs of the late civil war.
1t will be remembered the object of
this gathering was to inaugurate
movement for the erection of monu
ment or monuments on which were to
be inscribed the varied positions of
the two armies during that battle.
The whole movement of course was
designed for the glorifcation and po-
litical Advancement of those who had
little or nothing whatever to do wish
the Gettysburg struggle, and hence
the refusal of the gentlemen mention
ed above to take part therein, and
their quiet and curt criticism regard,
ing the same seem doubly commen>
dable.
Year: 1869

GoDBLING UP LAND.-It is of the
first Importance to the.pcOple of this
Vall'y that we should attract immi
grafton from abroad, aud to do this it
Is necessary that it,,sbould be UNDER
stood that We have public lands open
to settlement, and that the new com
ers will be afforded every facility in
securing homes. We refer to this
fact, for the reason that q certain
speculator-a man who answers to
theEcharacter of Shy hylock-has recent
ly been entering large amount of
Government land. The party we
refer to has never been known 10
make an improvement outside Of
building China houses, and hence the
the only inference is that he is tax
ing up these lands to speculate off
Immigrants There is no law to
reach a heartless, soulless creature
like this, save that of public opinions,
aud it is to that end we direct atten>
tion to the fact that the most desir>
able lands in the Valley are being
eOb6led mp forpurpOses of speculation.
The land grabber aud monopOlist is a
curse to an old and settled commun-
lty, and much more so to a new coun
try, where without immigration every
Interest must Wither and die out.
This much by way of rebuke to the
heartless mOnopOlist, who only cares
to line his own nest, little recking Of
the misery or injury he iuAicts on the
community.
Year: 1869

IMMIGRANT TRAINs.-The Over
land Railroad Company is now run
ming immigrant trains through from
New York to San Francisco. Time
IA days; price of tickets $50. AT
this figure all the more desirable
class ofimmigrants will find their way
10 the Pacific coast. The man who
can not raise $50 to make the trip,
hasn't much git-up about him, and
we advise all such to stay at home
We might further add that represent
atives Of the class who live by their
wits are not wanted. We have an
abundance of these already So, too
oflawyers and doctors, although we be.
lieve a limited number of thoroughly
educated physicians, to take the place
OF the "quacks" who now infest the
country would do wGI. Than the
Pacific coast no country has been so
entirely cursed with empires in medi-
cine, and hence we can in good faith
invite educated physicians to come
and join US; but Of the other class we
have an abundance already, and any
new importation would only find an
overStocked market. But of honest,
hard-hauded laborers there is a
scarcity, and these We invite. and
promise a hearty welcome.
Year: 1869

POSTAL AGENT.-Our Willamette
exchanges make frequent references
to Postal Agent Underwood, and
arge him to do this, that and the
other for the benefit of their respec,
tive localities. We fear all these ap
peals amount to little more than a
waste of time. Underwood, as we
have taken his measure, has about as
much to do with regulating the mails
as the figure head has With the sail


ing of the ship, and is just about as
useful. We presume that Williams
had him appointed as q reward for
dirty work-either performed or to
be performed-but so far as the Post


office is concerned, he is nothing
more than an ornamental appeudage.
Year: 1869

Loon CREEK MINEs-From all we can
gather relative to these mines, we are
lead to infer that they have fell far short
of early expectations. The mining ter.
ritory seems to be very limited, and from
the geographical features of the country
in that immediate section, it is improb,
able that gold exists to any extent out
side of the districts already 9rospected
and owned, which embrace a narrow
strip of the flats and creek bed, for a
distance of two or three miles. But
there would seem to be no question that
some those claims are very rich. The
weather has already set in cold, and
many persons are leaving for the pur
pose of winiering elsewhere Oro Grande
is improving some, and those who in>
tend to remain during the winter, gen.
orally own interests there, from which
they expect to realize handsomely in the
spring .-Oiryhee Ardlanche.
Year: 1869

A RADICAL friend, the other day,
bOastingly called our attention to the
fact that after all the talk about A.
j. Buffers immense wealth, bis es
tate had turned out insolvent. The
answer was that Spoon Thief Butler
administered on the estate, and as
matter of course gobbled it up.
Year: 1869

Hon. D. W. Voorhies said in 9
speech before the Indiana democratic
State COnyeatiou, after stating that
the magnificent plantations were
worth over one thousand four huns
dred millions, while all the real es-
tate Of New England was appraised
at four hundred and seventysfve
millions:


"Where now is all this mighty
wealth of the South Where is her
corn, her Gotten and her cattle ?
Why do her gigantic resources invite
none of the world Why does her
business enterprise turn away from
this natural paradise of trade +? Why
does the emigrant, in search of a
home, go to COLDER harder and poor
er regions There. you can look
and behold the reasons for yourselves.
The radical Congress has killed
the life, hope AID the prosperity of
the best portion of the Republic.
Once it poured into the lap of
fostering and protecting government.
astream Of treasure as deep and strong
as the current of its own Mississippi.
Now it hangs like paralyzed limb,
a helpless incumbrance, poor pen
sioner aud burden upon the pa
tience and bounty of the rest Of the
body. Its fields are smitteu with an
unnatural sterility. Every produc.
tion has withered and died, as if
some vast upas tree cast its shade
over all. A fatal and desOlating
blight is upon the land, upon the
mountains, and upon the new vine,
and upon the oil, and upon that
which the ground bringeth forth, and
upon men, and upon the labor of the
hands " In her ancient glory and
strength she could meet one half of
the taxation which now dArkens
the face of the land She could
take from your shoulders one half the
load that now bends you to the earth.
The South, in natural condition
of prosperity-the child of protection
instead of oppression-an OBJECT of
love and not of hate, spoiation and
vengeance on the part of the govern.
ment-cOuld pay two hundred and
fifty millions a year as her share of
the revenue. Under the present
murderous policy, however, towards
her, ii costs two hundred and fifty
millions a year to govern, crush aud
destroy her, making a difference of
five hundred millions. an amount
almost equal to the entire expenses
Of the government The radical
policy has not only set fire to and
consumed one,half of The graberies,
the stack and harvest fields of the
United States, but it likewise taxes
what is left, to keep a standing army
over the ghastIy and smouldering
ruins il has made.
Year: 1869

The ball season is at last on the wane. Fewer
balls are announced to come during the next i've
nights than during any previous week since the
commencement of the season, and there is already
quite perceptible diminuton In the number Of
people attending these festive gatherings. The
Lenten season may to certain extent have some-
thing to do with the slim attendance; but 1t is now
well nigh time that the votaries OF saliatorial exer


cses grew about tired OF their nimble footed sports.
Terpslchore during the present winter has held high
carnival in our midst and from the 1st Of January
to the present day-Just one month and half-no
less than l20 balls, large and small have been held
ia this city alone, not 10 mention the many brilliant
were given by our cousins over the water In Brook


eyn ana Jersey City. Ii Is estimated that not less
and receptions, at cost of about $685. 900. Nearly
all the larger and more fashionable balls have
already been held but some few yet remain to come
OF, TO the delight no doubt OF the numerous dis
ciples Of the dizzy waltz and stately sober quadrile
Year: 1869

President Grant, in letter to Rob
ert Bonner, the latter having asked
him to deny any completely with the
late gold gambling transaction, says:


81 had no moro to do with the late
gold excitement in New York city than
yourself. or any other innocent party,
except that ordered the sale of gold,
to break the ring engaged, rs thought,
in a most disreputoble transaction"


We give this denial for what it is
worth. As general rule, such de-
NAL from President Of the United
States ought to be deemed sufficient -
.NlLl.aluIm
Year: 1869

contribute but little to the necessary
expenses of the campaign.


While we have largely reduced the
majority against the Democracy oflast
ycai, yet it would have been the easiest
matter to have changed the majority
against us 20 one equally large, if not
larger, i'm our favor.
Year: 1869

in the world. In his palaces are canary
bird cages worth thousands of dollars
each; and upon his estate there is in pro-
gress an artificial lake. which has already
cost upward of five millions


The Des Moines Qowa) Register says
there IS a family living near that city, Gin
which there are thirteen children, all of.
whom are deaf and dumb. The family is
a good one, and one much respected in the
community We doubt whether there is
another family on earth with as much still.
ness in it as this"
Year: 1869

ASPIRATIONS OF ST. LOUISA st. Louis
dispatch says that quite an enthusiastic meet
ing of citizens was held Friday night to discuss
the question of removing the capital of the ma
tion to st. Louis. A number of speeches were
made and various propositions considered, but
no definite action taken other than instructing
the chairman to request the City Council,
County Court, Merchants Exchange and
Board Of Trade to call a mass meeting Of the
citizens generally to devise the best means to
carry out the project
Year: 1869

No Notwithstanding all that is
said about the non-enforcement of the prehibi-
tory law in Massachusetts, State Constable
Jones publishes letter in which he respect
fully invites any candid and fair individual to
point to him an open bar in the State, and he
pledges himself to abate such nuisance forth
with" On the other hand tie Boston anti
prohibition papers point to the fact that twen-
ty persons are brought before the police court
In single morning for drunkenness.
Year: 1869




To the Editor of the Press:


The friends of VIM F, Moody. Esq of Ken
nebuukport suggest him as proper person to
be sent to the Senate from that portion of
York County next January. This town has
never received the slightest consideration at
our County Conventions. No Republican resi-
dent of that town has ever been chosen to a
State or County Office sinoeths organization OF
the party II We wait fifteen years more no
better man can be presented by that town for
recognition than Mr.. Moody.
Year: 1869

If such an amount of paying traffic can be derived from local business, upon an average distance in operation of less than 700 miles, there can be no possible doubt of the road having all it's carrying facilities taxed to the utmost when the whole line Is finished, to move the vast local and through freight which will then be offered. The work of construction is not stopped large force is engaged that the gap of about two hundred and fifty miles now re- maining between the tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific will be closed, the whole line to the Pacific ill operation by the early days of the ensuing summer. The project, which was so ridicuied during all the years when 1t was simply proposal, so discouraged when its projectors urged 1t upon the attention of moneyed men in l862-'65, and so maligned by those envious of it's success since that success was assur- ed, will then be a magnificent fact, beyond contradiction or cavil

 The bonds of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, which are for $1 1000 each, pay ing per cent. gold interest, and principal redeeinable in gold, are, by act of Congress First Mortgage upon the entire line. The security is ample, the profit good, "specie payment" absolute, and it is not strange that more than twenty millions have been sold of these securities within the past eig hteen months. Further information concerning them may be obtained in the advertisement of the Treasurer of the Com pany in another column, who announces where subscriptions may be made.
Year: 1869

in any other way t#

 The best Boston and New York references given as to the reliability of our house, and that our business is conducted in fhe fairest and most legitimate manner possible, and that we give greater value for the money than can bs obtained in any other way,

 All goods damaged or broken in ttansporta- ton replaced without charge.

 Checks describing articles sold sent tu agents in Clubs at lates mentioned below We guarantee every article to cost less than il bought at any New York or Boston Wholesale House.
Year: 1869

Tie last bulletin of progress upon the Union Pacific Railroad gives some remak able facts. The first Is that one thousand miles are finished aud in operation west of Omaha, reaching across and beyond the Rocky Mountains and into the valley of Great Salt Lake. Great as is this fact, 1t can only be duly appreciated when we con sider how short has been the time within which 1t has been accomplished. Three years ago only forty miles were built, two hundred and sixty five miles were added in 1866, two hundred and seventy-five in 1867 and about flee hnndsed miles in lS68 Such rapidity of construction has had no parallel in all the history of railroad engineering But even these statistics, startling as they are in the1r magnitude, do not tell the whole story. It is when We bear constant ly in mind the fact that the starting point of this road had no railroad communica- ton wheE the work was begun; that the road was built out beyond settlements or Improvements; that 1t has carried its own resident population, and made its own business in a country totally devoid of de- void of development before the locomo- tive penetrated therein, and that the great CT part of its material has been carried more than one thousand miles before reaching tue point of it's employment, that we get any clear idea of the vastness of the undertaking which has been carried on so wonderfully across the plains and noun tains. Such great results could only be attained by tue use of an army of laborers such as have been in the service of the Union Pacific Company, organized and managed with consumate skill.

 Another fact, of still greater interest to the fnancier and to all who are concerned in the material growth of our western country, is that the Union Pacific road, as yet incomplete, and dependent, as we have said, upon the bushes which it has itself created or stimulated, earned, in the year 1868, more Man Ji0e million dollars, the de-