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Year: 1869


ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though rot always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the lollicles are destroyed,
Or the glands atrophicd and decayed
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of tonling the hair with pasty sedi-
ment, it viii keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from farming gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious TO the hair, the Nigor can
only benefit bat not harm it. If wanted
merely for a
Year: 1869




ACCIDENT ON THE ERIE RAILwAY.--About twent y
minutes before seven O'Clock yeste rday morning the
way train from Sunerns had arrived at point with
in two miles of Hobokus when the rear truck OF the
last car jumped or the track and went jumping
across the ties, rounding curve and crossing two
bridges, one Of which had no other roof than the
ties, which are about two feet apart. In
rounding the curve the end Of the
car swung Off and was sliding down the
embankment when it was dragged up again
and held firmly to the train. There were 1our
passengers In this car who as soon as they felt IL
jerking along left and went into the other car after
which the bell rope pulled and the train stopped
after having proceeded about three-quarters OF
mile In the manner stated There were three pas
senger altogether In the train. The passengers
alighted and after the lapse of half an hour the
was on the track again, the passengers working
vigorously Among them was ex-Mayor O'Neill, Of
Jersey City. The cause OF the accident was loose
wheel on the rear truck. The accident was
q repetition OF the Long Island Railroad disaster,
minus the broken rail- and the consequent slaughter.
II was fortunate for the passengers that the cars
were not connected by the loose couplers which,
until recently, had been in use. In such the
car would have been disconnected from the train
swung down the emoankment about thirty feet, and
the consequences any body may imagine The fact
that the was securely fastened to that preceding
1t by the compression system saved the passengers
and the car and kept 1t in a straight line when
crossing the treste work OF the bridge Such an
escape Is almost without precedent
Year: 1869

NEXT WEEK


promises 20 be very attractive one for visitors at
least. Besides the arrival OF General Grant and
SUITE which is Of course. event in itself, there
Will be the boat race between the first, second and
third classes; three reviews another troopers ride
in the riding hail. and an inspection OF the Cadet
corps by Inspector Schriver Visitors are comipg
up here by every train and steamer and II the influx
should continue day or two longer 1t may be that
by the middle OF next week the hotels Will have
put up their door posts that notification so relish
ed by theatre managers-'standing room only"
Year: 1869

THE TAX ON BROKERS CAPrrAL.-The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue has de-
cided adversely to the brokers In the case
made up and submitted to him on appeal from
the Assessor in this city. Under this decision
the latter official is authorized to carry out the
construction of the law, which subjects the
capital of brokers to tax Of one-twenty


fourth Of one per cent per month upon the
average amount employed for that period, and
in ascertaining the aggregate the brokers are
required to take account not only Of their indi-
vidual or personal capital, but Of such sums as
they may borrow from day to day, known in
the street by the technical term Of call or
demand loans. This is hardly the end Of the
controversy for the brokers are determined to
have the opinion Of the United States Courts
upon the disputed Interpretation Of the law.
Year: 1869

One fact In the natural history of ghosts has
been brought out by the Mumler investigation.
1t is that they are not visible to anybody but
those who see them. Judge Edmonds says he
can see them. Here is an experience of his -
'The other day was in the court in Brook
lyn. was present at the trial of case in
which was an action on policy of insurance.


saw standing up behind the jury the spirit Of
man who told me that he was the one whose
life and death were involved in the policy. He
had died; he had been killed, and suit was
brought to recover the insurance money. He
told me he had committed suicide. He de-
scribed to me the positions and places con-
nected with his death. While saw the spirit
nobody else saw IL. I then drew diagram Of
Year: 1869

THE PROGRESS OF CHURCH REFORM IN
ENGLAND.-Mr. Gladstone has gained another
victory. The divisions have not been so
grandly liberal, but three divisions in one
night, resulting in an unmistakable liberal
success, indicate beyond even chance of
mistake the popular current. Mr.. Gladstone
has a House of Commons under him that is
marvellously obedient, and since the glebe
lands question and the private endowment
question have been so successful 1t may be
taken for granted that the Irish Church Re-
form bill is safe in the House of Commons
The real struggle must be reserved for the
Lords; but the Life Peerage bill and Mr.
Gladstone's reserve of power to create as
many peers as may be necessary to carry his
measure make it doubtful whether or not it is
possible to hinder the Irish Church Disestab-
lshment bill from passing into law. The
presumption is that the bill is safe in both
houses,
Year: 1869

the place at which his death occurred. 1
showed the diagram to the counsel and asked
them if 1t was anything like the place, and
they said it was it exactly. had never heard
of the man or his place before. The appear
ance of the spirit was shadowy and transpa-
rent and could see material objects through
It," Now, there is little contradiction in the
words, she had died; he had been killed; he
had committed suicide;" but that g mere
bagatelle to ghost, and spirit logic is not our
logic. We must take the ghosts word for it
as to the manner Of his death, and on his own
word we maintain that he was guilty of un-
handsome conduct. If he committed suicide
the company was not liable for the policy, and
thus his interference was against those de-
pendent upon him-against his wife and chill
dren. If spirits cannot return to earth for
any better purpose than this they had better
stay away.
Year: 1869

In THE New COMMISSIONERS EAR.--We
hope that the new Police Commissioner will
take notice that the following words occur in
the verdict Of a Coroners jury rendered in
Brooklyn few days since 1.-THE jury, how
ever, in conclusion, regret to be compelled to
say that the evidence establishes the fact that
prisoners are frequently treated with the
greatest brutality and inhumanity, while in the
station house, without the slightest excuse OF
necessity" Indeed, the Commissioner could
not we'll find more profitable reading than the
whole verdict, especially the reference to
clubs.
Year: 1869

The Western frontiers of Kansas and the
Indian Territory and the whole northwest Of
Texas appear to be again threatened by the
savages. They received short time ago
their payment for keeping the peace for
time, and are now again lacking in arms, am
muniton and blankets. In consequence they
are disposed to go into the wholesale murder
business once more and show our authorities
the necessity of buying them off through un-
princped Indian agencies. 1t is proposed tot try
the Penn Quaker dodge on them the next time.
1t will be found that the Indian of to-day and
the one OF the time of Penn is quite different
man. The latter could sell a tract of land the
size of Pennsylvania and not miss it. Game
was plenty everywhere, sire water" scarce,
and nobody felt disposed to philanthropcally
scrape the dirt and vermin off the savage to
study his color or his capacity for
civilization. Now, however, the former
lands of the Indians are cut by rail-
roads, the game is scarce, the hunting
grounds barren, ''fre water" abundant and
plenty of rufians to sell it, and everybody dis
posed to scrape the Indian down to the bone
to see what kind of material he is made of and
how he shall be classified in the scale of hui
manity.


The Indian of to-day is lazy, brutal cut
throat. To deal with him upon any other
supposition is to make him worse. The
method of governmental management in our
Indian affairs is an evil as bad as any that
exists in the country. There are some COM
missioners enjoying salaries for superintend-
ing tribes of Indians that long ago ceased to
exist. There is but one method Of managing
this question successfully, and that is to make
each Territorial government responsible fos
the good behavior Of the tribes within its bor-
der. The frontier men will keep the savages
quiet, only give them an opportunity.
Year: 1869

TIE PRESIDENTS TRIP TO MOUNT VERNON
General Grant, they say, enjoyed his trip the
other day to Mount Vernon, and remarked
that it did him good, Notwithstanding the
serious drawbacks of the rain and the mud.
1t may be understood from this that the head
of the great republic has rather hard time OF
it, when a holiday in the rain and mud is
refreshing recreation. Horatio Seymour ought
to be thankful that he is left at home.
Year: 1869

THE NEW Posi- OFFICR.-The Legislature
has authorized the city authorities to make
the change desired by the government for the
site of the new Post Office, and we trust that
all concerned will push the matter to practi-
cal result. Let us have Post Office worthy
the city as soon as possible.
Year: 1869

General Burnside ON Sprague at Bull Run.


Read the interesting letter in another part Of
this paper from our correspondent at the COM
Portable little city of Providence, in the war
like little State of Rhode Island. The testi-
mony of General Burnside in reference to the
substantial services of the First Rhode Island
regiment, as contrasted with the extraordinary
style of fighting practised on the bloody field
of the first Bull run by the then Governor
Sprague, turns the tables against Sprague
completely; for it thus appears that while the
regiment was hard at work on ''the perilous
edge of the battle" the Governor, though he
fought like lion, it was ''like a scared lion,
racing out at tremendous speed on horse to
the line of fire, then as suddenly wheeling
round and racing back to get drink then
racing out to another point and racing back
just as fast to get another drink" until
finally, after his last drink on the field, when
things began to look blue, he slipped off to
Centreville and got there in advance of the
regiment, which was the rear guard Of the re-
treating army. This is the testimony of Cen
eral Burnside, and to rebut it Senator Sprague
must bring forward something more to the
purpose than his forty-six columns of letters
in the Congressional Globe. We fear, indeed,
that, as at Bull run, the Senator has been
again riding his high horse up and down q
little too fast
Year: 1869

FLOODS IN MIssIssIPPI-THE COTTON AND
THE Corn CRoP.-Large portions of the best
cotton lands Of Mississippi have been flooded
by the recent heavy rains in that quarter, de-
stroying the cotton planted and making re-
planting necessary. But If the planters are
quick about it they may still, by replanting,
secure fair crop. But If the subsistence of
the overflow will make it too late for the cot
ton 1t will not be too late for the corn, and the
South cannot raise too much corn. With q
rousing crop Of Indian corn, though every
thing else may fail, the Southern people will
be rich. They have heretofore too much
neglected this life-sustaining staple. The les
SONS which they learned in the late confederacy,
however, Of the vital Importance of good
crop Of Indian corn, they have since turned to
a good account for their corn crop Of last year,
If we are not mistaken, made their cotton crop
clear cash, or very near it, on the costs of the
two crops. Let the planters of the cotton
States, then, remember that where it may be
too late TO replant swamped cotton field,
they may still be in season for good field of
corn.
Year: 1869

HENS RIeHTs. There is movement in
high chicken quarters, started since the poultry
show, to have the hens assert themselves
before the world in series of resolutions
pointing out that the roosters do all the
growing and fighting and roost on the highest
perches, and yet lay no eggs, and that this is
oppressive and unjust to the hens.
Year: 1869

STEAM IN THE STREETS. Legislature
leaves room for hope to residents on the upper
end of the island by refusing to pass Law to
prohibit the use of steam on the streets. An
attempt made in the horse car interest was
defeated by that refusal, and there is yet .
hope that locomotive may hustle weary
man from Wall street to Harlem in fifteen
minutes, and thus save him an hour aud Q
quarter in a horse car.
Year: 1869

PROMISING. Boutwelrs speech to the
brokers on Change was model of good
promising for the country if not for those who
heard it. If he performs half he promises he
will make hole in the debt that the country
will like great deal better than his hole in the
okv
Year: 1869

SPoILINe SPoRT-Cowpers declaration that
he would not make the man his friend who
would wantonly tread upon fly goes little
too far for the rough and-tumble Of life; yet
IL is evidently the motto on which Mr.. Bergh
executes the law for the prevention Of cruelty,
&c. IF this gentleman would restrict his
activity to that sphere in which IL is eminenty
called for he would find fewer disappontments
there we believe but he makes capital against
himself and the law by indiscriminate action.
He cannot make Pythagoreans of all New York
ers, but he can have their sympathy in war
against brutality.
Year: 1869

THE ARTILLERY SCHOOL AT FORTRESS MoS-
RoE.-A few days since the examination
Of the scholars at the artillery school took
place. 1t is reported to have been very severe.
The studies have been in practical and theo-
retical artillery science, engineering, ordnance
and gunnery, military and civil law. The
importance Of such school can hardly be
overrated, and In time Of war its graduates
will be invaluable to our military arm. 1t is
as easy to educate young man in military
school as in the ordinary colleges Of the coun-
try and the graduates Of the former will be
far better fitted for ordinary business pursuits
than the latter. West Point may look to its
Iaurels if the Fortress Monroe school is sus-
tanned as It should be.
Year: 1869

1t is law maxim, that ignorance of the
law is no excuse for crime. The law will
acquit no ono on the plea of ignorance of
its provisions, for its infraction. How i'm
portant is it, then, that the State should
publish the laws, that all may know what
they are. How shall men become ac-
quaintcd with the statutes unless they are
made public And in what better way
can they be made public than through the
medium of the public press9 The last
Legislature resolved to publish the revenue
laws in four of the newspapers Of the State.
This was step in tho right direction, as
far as it went. But it did not 90 far
enough. All the general laws ought to be
published throughout the State, and the
local laws in their respective localities.
And this publication should be made in
the newspapers, that all might have the
opportunity to read and understand for
themselves. Now, if you want to know
what the law is, in any given case, you
must fee some attorney, with five oi
ten dollars; whereas, if the laws were pub
lished in your newspapers, you would have
a volume of laws, at every succeeding
Legislature, and all for the price of YOU
newspaper subscription only. Then thu
State would exhibit some show of reason
in holding its citizens to be acquainted
with its statutes, having published then
for their information.


This is course pursued in the State @
Maryland, and its effect is seen and fel
to be an advantage to the people. Th
law is spread before them, and they ma
acquaint themselves with it, if they will
without going to an attorney with V or a
X in hand for the desired information.
they have carefully preserved their papc
upon fle-sticks, as they should, they ca
turn to it and read FOR themselves, wher
ever they desire to know what the law


in any particular case.


This arrangement in Maryland was or
of the fruits of the editorial convention o.


ganized in that State, some years ago, whic


brought the subject to the notice of tt


Legislature, and urged its passage in IL


form of law. And it has proved to


great public convenience, one that wou


not willingly be dispensed with.
Year: 1869

1T is PROBABLE that the Secretary of the
Treasury will rescInd the order issued yester-
day fixing the office hours of that Department
from Q q. m. to p. m, and return to the old
on stOm ~ q In
Year: 1869

GENERAL RoBRrT L. LIE left Washington
this m orning for Alexandria. He took passage
at IL O'Clock on the steamer City of Washing.
ton, and as the boat was moving OFF stood on
the outer deck. where he remained for several
minutes with his arms folded, looking over in
the direction OF Arlington, his old homestead
He was accompanied to the wharf by a lady
relative and her son.
Year: 1869

CRoP PRosEcTs. Within the past few days
we have conversed with quite a number of
farmers from different portions of the county
in relation to the condition of the growing
crops, and were surprised to learn that the
prospects for a plentiful harvest are decided
ly unfavorable. Wheat barley and oats a-e
commencing to head out short, and the stem
is generally stunted and slender. Plenty Of
rain seems to have fallen, but it did not come
at the right time. The cold winds which
generally prevailed this spring for several
days after rain falls, s,.also injured and retard-
ed the growth of the crops. 1t is hoped
however. that the unusually large amount OF
ground sown this year will make up the def
cheney occasioned by the unfavorableness of
the season.
Year: 1869

STILL LEAvING-Chiname still continue
10 leave this county. Ninety CelestIals from
Shasta went below on the last Red Bluff
boat. Sheriff Greene says at least one-half
the license paying Cinnamon have left the
county within the last five weeks. They sag
they ar, leaving because they can make,
more money working on the railroad than in
the mines.
Year: 1869

D. We'll & BRo.-We have been requested
by this firm to- state that they wish to dis
pose of the good will and stock of their
Horsetown store, as their business in this
place requires all their attention. This is a
good opening for an enterprisiug man with
small capital.
Year: 1869

PEoPLE's VoIcE-We are informed that
the Union Central Committee of this county
will adopt measures to allow the Union voters
of the county an opportunity to express their
preferences as to the manner Of nominating
the next county ticket.
Year: 1869

CORRECTION Last week. in noticing the
destruction by fire of the store Of Ii. SymaD,
of Cottonwood, we stated that bis loss was
fully covered by insurance. Mr.. Syman
writes us that such is not the case, and
that were he insured for twice the amount he
would still be loser
Year: 1869

PERILoUs ADvENrUBE.-A young lady,
about sixteen years of age, named Miss Coff
man. last week was followed by large
California lion for long distance through
the woods near Gilrov. She steadily eyed
the beast and steadily retreated toward a
neighbours house about a mile and hall
distant. At times she was 40 close to the
lion that she could place her hand on him.
Year: 1869

recently, in the course of speech which he
delivered in the Senate, made a coarse and
malicious assault upon General Burnside
and Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island
Indignant at the slanders uttered by Sprague
against their favorite soldier and political
leader, five thousand Rhode Islanders have
signed petition urging Burnside to accept a
public reception at Prov sidence in his especial
honor
Year: 1869

INDIAN ToM.-The manner IN whlcn this
desnerado effected his escape proves that he
is far more sagacious and enterprlslng tnah
the majority of his race. The cell in which
be was confined is built of brick, inside OF
the iail building. and lined with sheet iron
The floor is of three inch plank, spiked down
with eight inch spikes. Between the cell
\ wall and the outer wall of the Jail is space
of about four, feet, which is filed in with
earth up to the plank roofing. The ends of
several of the sleepers on which the cell floor
is laid have nearly rotted off where they en-
tered the wall. This SO loosened the plank
next to the wall that Tom was enabled to pull
three of them up. He then dug a hole
through the cell wall. below the line of the
floor, tunneled through the four foot space
between the inner and outer walls, dug under
the outer wall at point four feet below the
surface Of the ground on the outside of the
Jail, and gophered his way to the surface
The only implement be had to aid him in all
this work was one of the eight inch iron
spikes used to fasten down the floor. The
work was performed at night, without light,
aud with shackes encumbering the legs of
the operator.


The next night after bis escape the des-
perado made bis appearance at rancheria
near George McFaflin's, on Flat Creek. and
ordered an Indian to go into Macs black
smith shop and get file to take his shackles
off His demand was complied with and he
soon filed off bis irons, got some food, and
left after telling the Indians to tell Billy
Jackson that he was all right again.
Year: 1869

1t is stated that Secretary Boutwell, threat
cned to resign his seat in the Cabinet if the
administration had refused to support the
Radical ticket in Mississippi and Texas.
The public had but little to lose in the con.
tingency; tor if the administration should
support the Conservative candidates they
would probably be defeated, and getting rid
Of Boutwell, in the Treasury Department,
although great desideratum, would hardly
compensate for so great disaster.
Year: 1869

The Republicans ofMobile got up negro
riot few days ago, and then peti,ioned the
Governor OF the state to declare the city
under martial law, that being the condition
most favorable to the grow of the true Re-
publicanism. But the Governor on taking
counsel of better people declined acceding
to the request.
Year: 1869

The New York Times thinks there is
something very rotten about the Republican
ism of New York City, and says: at is
time for Messrs Pierrepont and Grinnell and
Jones and Cornell, and gentleman who are
in o position to settle the canons Of the Re.
publican Church. to give this subject their
attention"
Year: 1869

The wires were badly mixed between hero
and Chicago to-day, and only one wire was
working hence, as the company receives
pay for our report whether i is transmitted
or not the working wire was monopoliaed
with business dispatches.
Year: 1869

The New York Times says that the stories
about the organization of Vigilance Commit
tees, said to be going on in that city, are all
moonshine. Nothing of the sort is in progress
or intended. The trouble about vigilance
Committees there is that every one of them
would be under the control of the scoundrels
and roughs. The gangs OF rufnans would Dc
seized with sudden spasms OF virtue, and
would constitute majority Of every commit
tee. The honest citizens would find them
! selves at the wrong end of the rope.