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Year: 1869

More of the Beimont-Tweed Imbrosiio.


Fresh batteries are being brought into play
almost every day by the political cannoneers
who have selected August Belmont, the chair
man of the Democratic National Committee, for
their fire. The ball opened by the Tweed Cen
trail Committee of the Seventh ward is rolling
along, and resolutions are nightly adopted by
the democratic organizations calling upon Bel
mont to resign. Even a German organization
or two seem to be inoculated with the same
spirit and turn against their own country


man in the fight, and to go in for his great op-
however, under Ely, oppose the Tweed move
ment, and in some pungent resolutions de-
clare him incompetent for the position on the
National Committee to which he aspires.


But what of all thisp Belmont is immOvable
in his position, and it will be only by his own
good pleasure and by resigning not only the
craftsmanship, but his place as representative
of the State of New York In the National Com


mittee, that vacancy can be left and an OPP
portunity afforded the friends of Tweed to
buDbtttutc bHcA to*VkAto IA AtS PAoSo' w ROu6t
therefore, as Belmont declines to take this
double step the Tweedites are passing resolu-
Hons to no purpose. If the contagion Of dis
satisfaction, however, spreads, and the desire
to get Mr.. Tweed at the head Of the National
Committee extends to the democracy Of the
other States, such a pressure may thus be
brought to bear upon Mr.. Belmont that he may
be compelled to withdraw altogether from
committee with which he cannot act in har-
mony or unison. But outside Of this city
there is little or no agitation of the subject 30
that the probabilities all point to the failure
of Tweed in this movement of his to super
sede Belmont on the national party COM
mittee. We think, too, that Mr.. Tweed has
already as many irons in the fire as he can
properly manage, and would advise him that
it is an idea among the democracy that two or
three Offices for any one man are enough.
Year: 1869

EXCURSION OF THE CALIFORNIA PIONEERS. -
The men who developed California are about
to come to the Atlantic coast by way of the
Pacific Railroad. These gallant advsnturers
went mostly from the Eastern States to the
Pacific coast in the early days, and they are
now coming to make temporary visit to their
old homesteads on the Atlantic over the grand
land highway across the Continent. The idea
originated with the Sacramento Association of
California Pioneers. 1t is decided that the
party shall leave Sacramento on Wednesday,
the 18th of this month. The price fixed for the
trip is one hundred and fifty dollars, with the pr-
vilege of stopping over for a day or two at such
leading cities as Chicago, Pittsburg and Phila-
delphia, or such places as the majority of the
excursionists may determine. As, according
to the terms, the whole party must start from
California together, they will necessarily ar
rive in New York in batch, and they will
no doubt be received here with pleasant
share of welcome as well as interest.
Year: 1869

How TO KEEr CooI--The following
simple hints, from the Scientific Anaeri-
can, are useful to remember during the
warm weather Of the present season:


ABE spearing in your diet, which
should consist principally of fruits, ber-
ries aud vegetables Avoid everything
of greasy nature; also spices, cOndI
ments and sweets. Chew nothing but
food, chew that well, but do not chew
too much of it. Excess in eating is one
of the principal causes of that lazy, list
less, relaxing feeling experienced by so
many persons in hot weather. Dress
lightly and change often. Wear moth
ing at night which is worn during the
day. Battle the body every morning
with cool or cold water. Keep clean
conscience as well as clean body and
clean clothing, and don't get excited. II
uncomfortably warm at any time, inn
merse the hands, or feet, or both, in cold
water for a short time, or let a stream of
cold water run upon the wrists and
ankles. This will cool the whole body
in short time"
Year: 1869

We the undersigned, Druggist of Ham, burg, do hereby certify that we have sold Dr. E. A. Lowdermills Compound Fluid with great success. and in our stock of Patent. Medicines, there are none that sell so ready or command greater inquiries from our hundreds of customers we have never heard word of aught or eondem- nation of the justly popular Compound Fluid. All Druggist would do well to purchase supply without delay, as there can be no doubt of finding sale for it as soon as introduced.

 k. M. DICKENS X co.
Year: 1869

RESIST THE BEGINNING.-The Arabs have
fable OF a miller who was ore day startled
by canel's nose thrust in the window of
the room where he was sleeping. "Said the
camel: 1T is very cold outside; want to get
my nose in."


The nose was let in, then the neck. and
hnaily the whole body. Presently the miller
began to be extremely inconvenienced by the
u"gainly companion he had obtained in a
room certainly not long enough for both.


III you are Inconvenience. you may leave;
as tor myself, | shall stay where am" said
the camel to the miller.


The moral of this fable concerns all. When
temptation occurs, we must never yield to it.
We must not let even its nose in. Every.
thing like sin is to be turned away from.
lie who yields even in the slightest degree
Will soon be entirely overcome and the last
state OF that man is worse than the first.
Year: 1869

WHAT Man WANTS HIS WIFE To Know.
There are certain things a man wants his
wife TO know. which are never learned at
seminaiies. and hut too seldom, we fear at
home. One would like his wife to know how
to make shirt. Ever so rich, il would be a
comfortable sensation to think that she made
it; yet there are some who cannot even sew
on n button. To be able TO cook a beef-steaE
properly. or roast aioint to a turn-to make q
savory sauce. or dish up fricassee-to cook
ones husband good dinner, in short, if need
be. what every woman ought to know. and
what very few do know until obliged to learn
it 1t is solemn fact, that not one marriage
able girl il twenty can make a really good
cup of coffee. 1t is all very well to study
French. without ever being able to read or
speak it with any faciity--to learn six or
eight sciences up to confused smattering. un-
available from the fear of making blunders,
to learn music and drawing for the paror and
drawing rom; but man wants more than
this in wife; and the sensible lover is often
frightened away from an amable girl by a
display of accomplishments, which indicates
the lack OF more useful requirements.
Year: 1869

A MINERS VIEw.-The Reese River Re-
rettte says: In order that our readers NAV
see White Pine from every point of view, we
publish slight extract from letter written
at Treasure City on the Sd instant, BY an
experienced miner from this city, who says !:
~" "hite Pine will be the biggest blk on the
Pacific coast when it explodes Excitement
is all that keeps the place up. There is not
a white streak in the limestone for miles
around but what is located for a ledge, and
everybody is ON the sell. The Eberhsrdt
and keystone are very much like the St.
Louis IN Cortez district. The best ore is on
the surface here"
Year: 1869

TIE OVERLAND MAILs.-The Gold Hill! Netcs
has the suhjoined pleasant relation in regard
to the present situation of these mails:


We are informed by.D. L. Bliss, who ar
rived in Gold Hill thiS morning, overland,
that on last Monday there were about four
hundred lock mail bags at She'll Greek Station
on the east side of Steptoe slough, two hun
dred and thirty miles west of Salt Lake. on
the old Overland stage route. The weight of
this mail matter was estimated at twenty tons,
and there seemed to be but little probability
of it's removal for the next three months, un-
less the United States Mail Agent or the mail
contractors hire Indians to carry the mails
over the slough or valley, which is three miles
wide, and is deep bog of soft. tough clay.
and covered all over with about six inches of
water. Bliss Informs US that there are plen-
ty of Indians there who are willing 20 pack
the mail bags over this slough at $40 a ton,
but there is no one at the Shell Greek Station
to hire them to do SO. and we make mention
of this fact particularly, so that if there is
Mail Agent on the Pacific Coast he may know
the reason why the back mails are not COM
ing, and also to inform the mail contractors
of the above facts. Passengers on the stages
are compelled to hire Indians to pack their
baggage over the slough, and to either wade
across or be carried across by Indans-whch
latter style is especially the case with lady
passengers. In this packing operation it re-
quires four Indians. or white men, who have
two poles rugged with gunny sacks, whereon
the passenger is seated. and the poles are then
slung over the shoulders of the men, who
wade and founder through the mud and wa
ter TO small islands in the slough, to rest them
selves. 1t costs $40 to be packed across


Bliss further informs US that some of the mail
matter at Salt Lake was ordered to he sent up
to Ogden and the Union Pacific Railroad, to
be sent by that route to the Central. Pacific
Railroad; but the mails at Shell Creek will
remain there long while, unless the Indians
are paid to transport il across the slough.
Year: 1869

THE WINTER OF S69-Prof Elias Loomis
OF Yale College gives the following summary
OF the winter months of the present year.
showing that the year has not been SO very
"remarkable" after all, as many seem to think:


The mean temperature of last December
was 80 degrees below the average temperature
Of that month. The mean temperature OF
January was 81 degrees above the average
temperature OF that month so that the mean
temperature of the last three months was 4
degrees above the average temperature of win
ter at New Haven This result is not partic
ularly remarkable, similar cases occurring on
an average once in three or four years. Tho
amount OF rain and melted snow for the last
three months was 1907 inches. which Is but
little below the average fall at this place.
Year: 1869

This question was pronounced in our
hearing, few days since, to man
who had been for several months un-
successfully seeking employment as a
clerk or a salesman in some OF our lead
ing houses. Complaining of his ill-
luck, one OF his friends, who knew he
had mechanical talent, but doubted
whether he could make himself useful
either as a clerk or salesman, put the
interrogatory to him which we have
placed as the caption of this article
The reply was, that trade was not so
respectable as mercantile occupation,


Under this delusive idea, our stores are


crowded with young men who have no


capacity for business, and who, because
of the fancied respectability of doing


nothing, waste away their minority up
on salaries which cannot possibly liqui-
date their expenditures.


Late, too late in lite, they discover
their error, and before they reach the
age of thirty. many OF them look with
envy upon the thrifty mechanic, whom,
In the days of their boyhood, they were
accustomed to deride. The false views
of respectability which prevail in the
soi-disdnt fashionable society of the


present day have ruined thousands
more.
Year: 1869

We know of nothing that is moro dis
heartening to the publisher Of country
newspaper, than TO be told as he often
is: 81 feel too poor to take your pape:.
| take the Herald for some other hug3
weekly and it costs me but two dol
lars year, and contains deal more
reading matter than yours" Does that
man consider thai its receipts Tor ore
week are double the yearly receipts OF
a country paper? Does he consider al
so that if that paper were published a
thousand years it would not benefit
him as much as his home paper does IN
one? That is the thing. See which
will build up your own section; see
which will be the greater benefit to
your own district. 1t is the country
paper that directs the attention of peo-
pie to your farms, and publishes to the
world its advantages, invites capital
and advar ces every interest in its own
and adjoining counties. Besides, is It
true that the huge weekly made up OF
the pondcrous articles of the daily, con-
tains more valuable matter than the
country paper? 1t Is not. 1t is al
ways filled up with lengthy editorials
on some subject foreign to your inter-
es.s and your taste, with long-winded, |,
gusty novels, 1.-THE very bane of the
reading publicly and extended accounts
of this aud that while your county pa
per, if conducted properly, will give
you everyt hing OF Importance in she
most concise manner, and you have
your time left to spend in something
more profitable than wading through
a whole case of type.


Let no one fail 80 take his county pa
per. first, and if he should want a daily
let that be second consideration.
Year: 1869

How sweet is social affection? When
the world is dark without we have light
within. When cares disturb the breast,
when sorrow broods about the heart,
what ioy gathers in the circle OF love /?
We forget the world, with all its ami
mosities, while blessed with social kind
ness. That man cannot be unhappy,
who has hearts that vibrate in sympa-
thy with his own, who is cheered by
the smile of affection and the voice OF
tenderness. Let the world be dark and
cold, let the hate and animosity of bad
men gather about him in the place OF
business; but when he entersthe ark OF
love, his own cherished circle he for
gets all these, and the cloud passes from
his brow and the sorrow fromh his heart.
The warm sympathies of his wife and
children dispel every shadow, and he
feels thrill of joy in his bosom which
words are not adequate to express. He
who is stranger to the joys of kind
ness has not begun to liye.'
Year: 1869

but he knows how to handle that left
hand of his, how to bring the music out,
and how to set the feet in motion and
keep them going.


After good nights rest, the traveller
rose to d nice hot breakfast and spent
the day in quiet enjoyment Uf tle Baths.
1t is a charming place. If there were
no healing waters there, the scenery
around AID the walks by the riverside
and along the iyy@groWn activities
would make the spot delightful, But
the waters, to whose well-attested vir-
tues we need add no word of our own,
make it the very home of Hygeia; and
the Messrs. Peyton. by nature, by tram
ing and by experience, are as we'll fitted
as landlords can be to make it the sum-
mer of Virginians, and particularly Of
ladies in feeble health. For such we
know of no place IN the mountains Sill
perior and few If any equal to the Rock
bridge Baths.
Year: 1869

To cure hoof bound, rasp the top of
the hoot very thin for an inch or NOR Q
all around the hoof, SO as TO bring a lit
tie blood. AS the hoof grows it will
give room for the fun play of the JOINT
in the middle of the hoof. Hoof bound
is caused by contraction and lack of
elasticity of the outer rim of the hoof.--
1t takes about a year for horses hoor
to become entirely new. Six months
will remedy the lameness caused by
hoof bound, if trea5ed as suggested
AYn, Stock Journal.
Year: 1869

S.A. Ladd, in Journal of Hortic,dture,
destroys the apple borer when he is in
the tree too far TO be reached with the
point of knife or a wire, in this way:
Take piece of haIf-inch lead pipe, say
three feet long; bend one end TO nearly
right angles, and fit the same to the
borer's hole, the main nlength OF the pipe
standing perpendicular; place funnel
in the top and fill the pipe with boiling.
water; the borer will soon be dead,
while the tenderest tree will not be in
jured by the process.
Year: 1869

A physician writes to the Dublin
Journal of Medicine in support of the
old notion that people sleep much bet
ter with their heads to the north. He
has tried the experiment in the case of
sick persons with marked effect, and
insists that there are known to exist
great electric currents, always crossing
in one direction around the earth, and
tina. our nervous systems are in some
my ysterious way connected with this
electrical agent. Let the beds all head
towards the north pole.
Year: 1869

SERIOUS TRoUBLEs.-An American sauant
has discovered that there is danger to be ap-
pretended from digging the Isthmus Canal
He thinks the Gulf Stream, which is now de-
hected toward Europe by the coast, will act
unhandsomely and irrationally, flow through
the gap in the Isthmus and leave Northern
Europe to freeze. Since the demise OF the
man who spoke disrespectfully OF the North
Pole there has been nothing SO culpable as
this expression of distrust with respect to the
Gulf Stream, which has never in any way
misbehaved itself and has entitled itself to
the confidence and gratitude of mankind
But II the man of science is right and the
Gulf Stream has fell purpose to oppose itself
10 the spirit of the age and to the improve
ment of the worlds commercial facilities, yet
the danger is not very imminent. The power
having jurisdiction on the Isthmus has not
yet fully assented to the American project,
nor has our Senate yet ratified Mr. Cushing's
treaty.


There is another case of great Importance in
reference to the building of canal. "Three-
fourths water and one-fourth land,'' we learn
ed in our biographies. One would think that
with this liberal provision for supply of
liquid surface there need be no contention
about it. But the proposition to connect the
Lakes with the Mississippi by digging canal
between Lake Michigan and Illinois river,
with Chicago for the lake terminus, excites
great apprehension. 1t is said that such a
canal would divert an immense volume of
water from its natural channels and make
Huron, Erie and Ontario ponds, and the st
Lawrence q mere creek
Year: 1869

How BEECHER PREPARES HIS SER
MoNs.-Some one asked Henry Ward
Beecher If he made special preparation
during the week for bis pulpit services.
Mr.. Beecher replied; "Well, no. don't
ask my bread or beef what it is going
to do for me when l eat it. They go
into the stomach, and are made into
muscles, and nerve, and blood, without
my watching the process. So read and
see, without my asking what my read
ing and seeing are going specially TO do.
l make my sermons in this way: When,
in the course of reading or thinking,
some object outlines itself before me, es-
pecially adapted to pulpit use, l make
memoranda of it, and put them in a
drawer that / have. Then on Sunday
morning, about half an hour before ser
vice, / open the drawer, and spread
them before me, and chose the one
which / am in the best mood to preach.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, do the
game for my evening sermon. This is
not the best way for great many, but
/ have found it best suited for me. and
every man must determine for himself
the mode through which he can obtain
the highest success"
Year: 1869

The President is becoming dlsgusted with the
mischevous tattle and frivolous allegations that
are trumped up by rival aspirants and retailed to
the Senate committees in order to defeat the
confirmation of the persons whom he has seen
lit to nominate for the most important offices.
Scarcely any one is spared from this terrible or
deal. No matter how clear from blemish ones
reputation has been hitherto, or what places of
public trust he may have faithfully filled, let his
name but be sent to the Senate, and the
whole pack of rivals is at once in full cry
to the Senate to defeat his confr-
nation. Gossip, inuendo, family relationship,
defamation and false accusations are unsparingly
used to accomplish the desired end. All such
means, however, are pretty certain to react upon
their inventors and authors for it is well under
stood that General Grant has arrived at the de-
termination that he will in no case where the
defeat is thus assured allow it to result to
the immediate benefit of the delamers. lie
wisely concludes that such course Is necessary
to correct this alarming and rapidly growing
nOlitical evil,
Year: 1869




WASHINGTON, April 10.
The Senate aud the White House.
When the Senate met this morning the attend
anee of both Senator's and spectators was very
slim. The interest seems to concentrate now
about the White House and the departments,
which are overrun with persons in quest of Office,
and with parties who have been confirmed by
the Senate and who are now getting their in
structions.


The Eight-IIOur Law.


delegation of the Trades Union is here, and
called upon the President to-day, to urge upon
him the importance of setting aside the order of
the Secretary of the Navy relative to the eight
hour law. They ask that the President suspend
it, in accordance with the recommendations of
the House Committee on Naval Affairs.
Year: 1869

From the st. Joseph MO-. Herald June Isl


On Sunday last Lucen Ashford, OF schuyler
county, Mo-. was murdered by X. b. Lane. A difli-
Guilty had existed between them for some time, and
Lane had repeatedly threatened to kill Ashford; but
as he was known TO be considerable OF braRgart
no particular notice taken OF his threats either
by Ashford or his friends. About q week previous
TO the murder they had met and renewed the quar-
rel, and Lane again swore that he would kill Ash
ford. During last week Lane wrote out challenge
to Ashford TO fight duel, but could get no
one TO carry II 10 Ashford. On the day ol
the murder Lane went to the residence OF
Ashford, armed with large butcher knife, and chal-
lenged him to deadly conflict, using any weapon
he might choose. Ashford picked up prick and
struck Lane blow that caused him to measure his
length on the ground and then sprang over the
fence and alighted almost upon his murderous foe.
by this time Lane had partially recovered from the
effects OF the blow from the brick. and as Ashford
struck the ground he u4anel raised his body partly
mp and thrust the butcher knife into the bowels OF
Ashford and then sprang up and dealt another blow,
infictng terrible cash IN the shoulder Of the fall
ing victim, then mounted his horse and rode rapidly
away. He was pursued as soon as the fact OF the
murder and flight was known aud traced 10 Union
town, Scotland county. where all traces OF HIM were
lost. Ashford lived until Monday.
Year: 1869

One Saturday morning 1 strayed into
Jewish synagogue at the time of service.
Curiosity alone prompted me at first; but
as joined the throng of worshippers enter
ing the sacred walls I resolved to become
one of them, to be, for the time, a Hebrew
with the Hebrews. And when prayer was
offered, though in an unknown tongue to
me, the worship of my heart went up to the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


1t was hard to leave out of my petitions
the name of Christ. hardly knew how to
frame prayer; but tried to think of him
as coming Messiah, and to drop from my
belief the divine character of Jesus, the son
of Mary.


O what an utter blank remained!


No Christ through whom to present our
wants at the throne of the Father.


No cross, where, his body having hung,
we have hope of forgiveness through his
blood


No lowly life of sinless perfection to
which we may look for our Example and
our Guide


No High Priest, "touched with the feel
| ing of our infrmities," to sympathize in our
griefs


The thought was insupportable. could
not be Jew, and left the synagogue abruptly.
My first breath in the open air was thanks
giving for my own religion, a religion with
Christ in it-Christ already come, a present,
precious Saviour.


May He who is "thh Way, the TRUTH
and the Life" open all blind eyes to see him
thus, and incline all hearts to believe
Christian Banner.