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Year: 1865

A FLowING OH WELL-Capt Smith, of
the barque Jeanette, which arrived at this
port last evening, thirty-six hours from
Humboldt, reports to the Call of this morn
ing that the Union Mattole Company struck
oil in their well five days since. The oil IS
said to flow over the top of the well IN sucn
quantities that the workmen finding 1t I'M
possible to preserve it, where obliged to pug
up the well to prevent it from running 70
waste. The report is considered perfectly
reliable by the officers and members OF the ne
company in this city. We trust IT may Dc
true in every particular.-Scient5dc Press.
Year: 1865

THE LAST PArMENT.-The Territorial En-
terprise, urging its readers to invest in the
Government bonds, thinks they are secure to
be deprecated even by the g wreck of matter
and the crush of worldsn Here's blast:


Should the earth continue to be the habi-
tation of man until these bonds become due,
they will be paid in United States gold coin
or its equivalent. The interposition of the
fulfllment of the wonder Of tie Apocalpys
alone could prevent the payment of the obli-
cations of the Government; nor are we sure
that universal wreck of matter would SUBJ
ject the holders to absolute loss, for the debts
contracted in struggle so holy as the one
through which we have just passed should be
assumed in Heaven and guaranteed by ages
CT eternity.
Year: 1865

If little wholesome hanging had been
administered when treason first showed his
hideous head in our Senate Chamber. how
different would have been the history of our
country. Our paucity cost us not only this
rebellion but the respect of Europe Foreign
powers suppose that Government that would
allow treason to be thrown into its teeth, from
its legislative halls must be impotent indeed
Shall we, after four years of sad experience,
repeat our eccentricities !-Gold HUI Ners.
Year: 1865

ABouT PAIR OF SPEcTAcLEs.-We find
the following happy paragraph in the Eleva-
tor:


"Elder 7. NJ. D. Ward presented us with
a beautiful pair of golden spectacles, which
materially assist our thrilling vision. We
hope to use them some twenty years, and by
that time our reverend friend will want them
himself, and we will bequeath them to him.
Year: 1865

He Cor THE MITTEN.-The editor of the
Tuolumne Courier has been courting, and
thus he tells his adventure


A man loves a girl-she lovely or hideons
as craw-fsh, without intelligence enough to
set a rat-trap-simply because he can't help
it. He can no more control his feelings in
that respect than a hen can roost on sun
beam. We know it-we've been there.
We were smitten with a queenly creature
once, and have since striven to foster q big
disgust for her; but it is like preaching the
gospel to a sailor-futile
Year: 1865

Such girl she was too none of your
short dumpy, yellish kind, foot and half
between the eyes and built like a scuttle-
butt-nary. Her form was the incarnation
of symmetry, and every movement was sylph
like and graceful-but nature didn't +" break
the dies" she was moulded in, as there were
nine more in the family her complexion
was that Of the dazzling fairness which all
women sigh for-Gke a snowy white rose
blushing beside poppy; her eyes, of a
heavenly, enchanting cerulian, such as are
seen but once in a creation, into which a
fellow could gaze enraptured, and fancy he
had discovered the only avenue by which
his soul might enter heaven-and then melt
away to grease spot but sometimes, when
she ''got her vinegar up" or bunion hurt
her foot little, those pretty eyes Of blue
would snap like a patent gopher catcher and
flash like a flint lock- and then her mouth
oh! the mouth of her l-um- m the
sweetest, plumpest pair of ravishing ruby
lips that ever mortal sipped loves nectar
from, to which our own have clung in help


lessness of ecstasy, while all the angels seem
ed conspring to stupify us with bliss. But
we were not 'stuck AFTER her because
she was of such queenlv figure and so
personally bewitching it was her Internal
She was possessed of wonderfully develop.
ed spirit of ontrariety-contrary as toe
corn and would 90 mile to participate in a
dispute; she would stop eternity's time-riece
for opportunity. She's gone now. and the
honey flood of those sweet lips is gobbled
up by another She funged u.s."
Year: 1865

THs HoosAc TuSSu.-The work at the Hoosac Tunnel


at present progressing a the rate Of sixty month";
put new machinery and water power s expected null
tply this rate three four times The central SHAFT ia
about two and half miles from the entrance in
. straight line, and Ave by the mountain road The
sha has now been sunk 70 tho depth OF ono hundred
and ten feet and when completed Il will be one thousand
and twenty The west shaft has been sunk the grade


depth OF over three hundred feet and on both faces
nearly four hundred feet have been tunneled Theder
rcks q both shafts driven by stesm and the stone
raised IN elevators suspended by wire ropes and on
10 the dumping places on rallA Tho workmen are d.
vded into three gangs and the labor s continued night
and day. -"
Year: 1865

Edward Everett, the finished scholar
the accomplished diplomatist. the orator
me statesman, the patriot, became over
heated in testitying in n court room on
MONDAY morning, went to FaneuiI Hall
when was cold, sat In q draft of mir nntiI
ms turn came to speak; but nv hands
ana feet were lee, my lungs on FIRE In
this condition, | had to 90 and spend tbraa
hours In the court room. He died in less
than q week from this checking of the
persplrauon. 1t was enough to kill anv
man.


Professor Mitchell, the gallant soldier.
and the most eloquent astronomical le.tur-
er that has ever lived while in a state Of
persplration in yellow fever. the certain
sign OF recovery, left his bed, went into
another room, became chill ed in moment.
and died the same night.


Ii while perspiring, or while something
warmer than usual, from exercise or a
heated room, there is sudden exposure
IN stiffness, to n still, cold air, or to raw.
damp atmosphere, or to a draft. whether
at an open window or door. or street
corner, an inevitable result is violent and
instantaneous closing Of the pores of the
SKIN by which waste and impure matters
which were making their way out of the





through some other channel and break
through some weaker part not the natural
one, and harm TO that part is the result
The idea is presented by saving that
the cold Is settled in that part To illus
trate:


lady was about getting into a small
boat to cross the Delaware: hut wishing
first TO get an orange ut a fruit>stand. -he
ran up the bank Of the river. and on her
return to the boat, found herself much
heated, for 1t was summer; but there was
= little wind on the water, and the cloths
ING soon felt cold to her The next morn
lng she had a severe cold, which settled
on her lungs. and within the year she died
Of consumption.


A stont, strong man was working in a
garden in May. Feeling a little tired
about noon, he sat down in the shade Of
the house and fell asleep. He walked up
chilly. Inflammation Of the lungs follow
ed, ending, otter two years Of great suffer
inc, in consumption. On opening his
chest, there was such n decay that the
yellow matter was scooped out by the
cupful


Multitudes Of women lose health and
Ite every year, in one or two ways by
busvInG themselves in n warm kitchen
until weary, and then throwing themselves
on bed or sofa without covering, and
perhaps in room without Il fire or bv
removing the outer clothing, and perhaps
changing the dress for a more common
one, rs soon rs thev enter the house after
a walk or a shopping. The rule should
he invariably to go at once to warm room
and keep on all the clothing ut least five
or ten minutes, until the forehead il per
tect!v drv. In all weathers, if YOU have
to wall, or ride on any occasion. do the
riding frst-HGHs s Journal of Health
Year: 1865

a Danish writer speaks of hut so
miserable that i5 did not know which way
TO fall, and go kept standing This is like
the men that bad such a complication Of
diseases that he did not know what to dio
with, and 80 lived on
Year: 1865

Most heartily do we congratulate the cham
pions Of Equal Rights and Equal Laws in Iowa
on the noble triumph they have won for the
cause of Freedom anti Humanity. Their State
Coaycn ion saw iit to place the Union party
openly, unreseryedly, on the platform OF In
partial Suffrage for loyal men without regard to
Color; and on this ground they solicited the
sufIrages of the people. Their opponents, keep
ing the Democratic name and organization out
of sight, held Soldiers Convention, and there
by presented ticket headed by Gen. Thomas
II. Benton (nephew Of Old Bullion himself a
prolessed Republican. who had been State
Superintendent of Education, had a good mill
tary record, and was every way calculated to
run well. The ticket was made up mainly of
such as he, with the least possible Copperhcad
taint, and the platform had one plank-No Ne
gro Suffrage Col. Stone, who headed the Re.
publican ticket, took the bull squarely by the
horns. avowing himself Al adToOats Of In
Year: 1865

partial Suffrage, aud asking support on that
ground; and he is reelected by 5000 majority,
while the residue Of the ticket will average
90 900. Iowa has thus passed the dead.point,
and has nothing further to dread. She has
taken her position on Principle and Right, and
need no more dread the influence Of vulgar
Prejudice and groveling Meanness. In all the
West, her banner floats highest and proudest,
and the honorable prominence she has so fairly
and bravely won will be remembered with pride
by her sons in generations yet to be.


OF course, the Copperheads for want of some
thing better, will talk of their gains-as if they
had expected to be beaten by Thirty or Forty
Thousand, or as if any one had imagined that
the majority Of President Lincoln could be
polled at an election which does not call out
nearly so full a vote. Please look at the aggre-
gate vote of Iowa in recent memorable eec'
tiOns:
Year: 1865

There is, We understand, some misapprchen-
sion on the part Of some Of the Inspectors OF
Registry and Elections in this city as to the
duty required of them by the Act in making up
the list of persons entitled TO vote. Irthoy viii
carefully read the Act-and no man has properly
qualified himself for the important office TO
which he is nominated until he has done So
they cannot he at a loss to understand its re-
quirements in this and all other particulars.
We have already given a clear synopsis of the
law, and shall not, therefore, so over theground
again, but shall confne ourselves to the sin
Gle point which seems to be misunderstood.


The Inspectors for New-York and Brooklyn
are to meet first on Tuesday (to-moTow) three
weeks preceding the election. They are TO or
sanize in the usual way and then proceed to
make a list Of voters. The Boards may sit two
days for this purpose, Unnecessary, proYidcd the
number of voters in the district in the next lSe-
ceding election exceeded four hundred.


The Boards shall meet again on Friday pre-
coding the election TO reyisc and correct tho LIT
of voters, and shall continue in session on theb
and the following day, from s a. M. to9p. IN.


They shall also meet again on the Monday
before the first Tuesday of November-elcctiOn
day-at a. m, and continue in session till .
. D. M, and shall then revise, correct, add to
and subtract from and complete the saii lists"


These are the times Of meeting Of the


Boards. How they are 10 perform their


duties and make the Registry List IS the next
important point and that on which there seems


to be some doubt 1t is easily settled, for the


law is perfectly explicit. Section says; "No
addition shall be made to the said Register of
the name Of any person, nor shell the name of
any person be placed thereon, except of one
who shall have appeared in person before the
said Board" In other words. the Board can
enter no name upon the List Of voters at
their first meeting except upon TIE per-
sonal application of the voter himself,
nor can any name bc add ID To
that list at the subsequent meetings, except
upon a like personal application. TIE duty
OF the voter, therefore, to appear before the
Board and see to the entry of bis own name, and
the duty OF the Inspectors not to enter any
name except upon such personal appearance and
application, arc imperative. new Registry
list is thus TO DC made every year IL this city
and Brooklyn. As to who has the rieht to vote,
and therefore the right to I've registered, it Is TO
be presumed the Inspectors will inform them
selves by careful reading Ofthe Act. Voters
Go tomorrow, enter you names, and thus dis
choroe vour first duty.
Year: 1865

be rendered accordingly This Is not So 1t not so
in the Of the testimony Of white man. All tfia1
Of questions Of fact are BY jury. The jury w IN al
white black II they think he tells the truth they
will find verdict accordingly. II they do not credit
his testimony their verdict will not be affected BY it,


On the question of suffrage Gov. Hamilton
has nothing to say in this address.
Year: 1865

f0JR PROPERTY Is MORE VALUAALE


II you Sustain your County Pape.
YOUR PROPERTY IS MORE VALUABLE


If you Sustain your County Paper.
YOUR PROPERTY IS MORE VALUABLE


If you Sustain your County Pader
YOUR PROPERTY is MORE VALUABLE q


If you Sustain yeur County Paper
iOUR PROPERTY is MORE VALUABLE
If You Sustain yoSr County Paper
loUR PROPERTY is MORE VALUABLE
If you Sustain your County Paper
YOUR PROPERTY IS MORE ivALUA UABLE


If you Sustain your County Paper
iouR PROPERTY is MORE VALUABLE : g


If You Sustain your County Fa6Af.
YOUR PROPERTY rs MORE VALUIBLF


II yOu Sustain your CousT fsp3
Year: 1865

W. Hope for the Afiicted.-In another part
of this paper will be found the advertisement of the
celebrated Institute established by DIR. J. c.
YOUNG, in 1850. In this age of deceit and char
latanism it is a boon to the suffering to point out
to them where they are sure of obtaining the wished
for relief and cure. Under the care of the skillu
Doctor the sick and troubled can dvest themselves
of their burdens of pains and shame lay aside then
cross, and secure health and happiness. IF you
are sick or in trouble, do not hesitate. Read the
advertisement and follow the advice. Do not for
get the number nor the manner of directing you
letter. CONSULTATION OFFICE, $40 Washing
ton street, San Francisco.
Year: 1865

In Marysville, and that he is prepared to
accommodate all who may call upon him.


The proprietor feels confident that the reputation
of the house under his former management and
under the late proprieors, of being the best hotel
in the city, will not suffer under mis- future control


Omnibuses will convey passengers from the
steamers and cars to the Hotel free of charge.


Attached to the. house is a large and well selected
Library, to which guests have free access.
n5 w. C. STOKES.
Year: 1865

The Atlantis Telegraph Compahy
have again commenced working in
earnest. No time has been wasted in
useless regrets over the past failures,
but those failures have been utilized
with q view to future success. Fari-
Gus precautions have been taken and
Improvements resolved upon, whereby
all weak points arc SO guarded against
as to render accidents well nigh i'm
possible in the next attempt to sub
merge the cable. A new cabls has
been ordered and its Manufacture al
ready commenced. AS at present ar
ranged, it is intended that the Great
Eastern shall sail from Valenua in the
last week OF May next, with the new
cable on board. This cable will be
laid to Now Foundand and when that
operation is completed the Great Eas-
tern will return to the spot where the
bouy was placed upot! the broken end,
and no doubt is felt that it will be
found. A splice will then be made,
and the rest Of the cable necessary to
complete the line to New Foundland
will bo laid. ..


There is every reason fdf believing
that by the Autumn Of next year two
cables will be in full work across the
Atlantic. The facts whereon this be.
lief is based have been advanced in q
statement drawn up by gentlemen
who have taken an active part in the
recent and previous attempts to lay
the cable. This statement established
twelve points, which plainly demon
strate that the obstacle, which have
hitherto prevented thcaccoinplishment
of the scheme are only of temporary
nature, and that the knowledge bought
By experience in the past will infinite
ly reduce the risk in tho future opera
tions. The main facts deducble are
that the insulation and conducting
power of the cable are improved by
immersion in deep cold water; that
the superior steadinoss of the Great
Eastern will enable q cable to be laid
irrespective Uf weather; that faults can
be Immediately detected and made
good; and that, even if the cable dc
part, it is possible with proper tackle
to recover it uninjured from the depths
of the Atlantic Ocean.
Year: 1865

Slake the lime in the usual way,
mix one gill of flour with alittle cold
water, taking care to beat out all the
Jumps; then pour on boiling water
enough to thieken it to the consisten-
cy Of common starch when boiled for
use, Pour it white hot into a bucket
Of the Stacked lime and add one pound
of whitening. Stir all we'll together
A little indigo mixed with water, i'm
proves it.
Year: 1865

D0"Faith can do more than remove
mountains it can still a clamorous
conscience, make a bad conscience
good, and soften hard heart, bend a
stubborn will, and bring God and man
together.
Year: 1865

The On FEvEK.-The Petroleum Report
er, published at Titusville, Pa, says the
tide of travel to the oil regions is swelling
all the time. Every train on the Oil Creek
railroad is crowded beyond its seating ca
pacity, and frequently every foot of stand
ing room is packed. The hotel capacity
of Titusville has been largely increased
during the past season, and yet, with all
the packing, for which they have become
famous, they are utterly inadequate to hold,
much less accommodate, all that arrive.
From ten to seventy are turned nightly
from every house after it has been packed
to its utmost capacity. After making the
the rounds of all the houses, the unfortu-
mates are fain to return to the original place
and take sleeping places in arm-chairs or
upon the floor. "


Cherry Run continues to be the centre of
attraction for the oil pilgrims. The fact
that of all the wells completed to proper
depth on the run, not one has proved a
failure, gives feeling of security which
adds greatly to the value of Cherry Run
territory. About twenty wells are now pro-
ducing in this location.
Year: 1865

The NATIONAL BANK Norss.-We have
noticed, within the past few days, that a
considerable quantity of the National bank
paper is coming into this market. These
notes are very different in appearance and
origin to the familiar greenbacks. Every
denomination Of these National bank
has different engraving on the back,
each illustrating some event in the National
history. The twenty-dollar note, for in
stance, has beautiful copperplate engrav-
ing of the baptism of Pochahontas, printed
in black, but surrounded with very hand
some green border. These notes are the
issue of the National banks established in
all the loyal States, East, by act of Con-
gress. They form the great mass of the
currency in those States, being accepted BY
the citizens as legal tender in all cases, and
by the Government in all cases except in
payment of import duties.-S. F. Flde.
Year: 1865

Lace has subtle and peculiar charm,
quite independant of its costliness. 1t has
a mysterious beauty which partakes of the
charm that lies in the wonderful wood car
wings in Gothic cathedrals. Lace, old lace,
is product of art, not of manufacture; hu-
man life, human volition, is expressed in
every inch of the delicate mesh which
makes the costly ground to set forth the pat
tern. There is individuality impressed up
on each kind of lace, just as there is upon
each great school of painting for the artists
in each put their seal on their work. 1t
took lifetime to produce even small guam
Valenciennes," as they were called, required
so much labor, that some workers could only
produce twenty-four inches in a year. The
changes in the atmosphere and the tiuctua-
tions in the health of the workers told on
the finer kinds of lace; and it was we'll
known fact, that if a piece We're begun In
the city of Valenciennes and finished outside
the walls, it would be inferior, though 1T
might be the work of the same hand, made
with the same thread, and on the same pill
low The fax of which the old Brussels
and the point Alencon were made was cul-
tivated on purpose +; it was chiefly grown IN
Brabant, Halle, andGourtrai, and had to be
spun in underground cellars, because contact
with external air made the thread brittle
The thread was so fine as almost to elude
the sight; the spinner had to go by the
sence of tuoch, examining every inch as 1t left
the distaff, and at the slightest irregularity
stopping the wheel The room was kept in
darkness, except for one single ray of light ar
ranged to fall on the thread, which was
thrown up by a background of dark paper.
As it was in the sixteenth century, 50 it is
now The wheel and distatf are still used
to spin the fax for lace thread, and under
the same conditions. No machine has yet
been invented to equal the work of the train
ed fax spinner and her distaf. AT the pres
ent day, the hand-spun thread is often sold
at e240 sterling for one pound of ayerdupois
of thread and at the French exhibition in
1859, it was stated that sometimes the price
runs as high as e500 for the kilogramme.
Fine lace may well be costly London A
theuel9p
Year: 1865

The Pittsburgh Chronicle, specializing on
the formation Of petroleum, says


1--WE may set it down as an axiom that
nature is not only capable of producing now
all articles that she has ever produced, but
that she is and will continue to produce
them until she substitutes something better.
Perhaps our meaning will be better under
stood by applying to single article
Suppose, for instance, we take the one In
which we all have so deep an interest-pe-
troleum This is known to be hydro car
bon, composed of two gases. These gases
are primary elements, indestructible and in
exhaustibIe in quantity One of them-hy-
drogen-is constituent of water, and of
course, is as inexhaustible as the ocean,
The other is constituent in all vegetable
forms and in many of our rocks One hum
dred pounds Of limestone, when burned,
will weigh but sixty pounds. The part driv-
en- off by burning is carbonic acid. Under
lying the ''oil rock is a stratum of lime
stone of unknown thickness, but known to
be upwards of one thousand feet in depth.
The water falling on the surface and perco-
lating through the porous sandstone that
underies the oil rock, becomes charged with
salt, potash, saltpetre, and other chemical
Ingredients, and, finally, reaches the lime
stone rock and discomposes 1.-THE carbon
in the rock and the hydrogen of the water
uniting to form oil, while the oxygen
is set free to ascend to the atmosphere
to unite with minerals and form oxygen.
The reverse of this process is seen in burn
ing the oil in a lamp-the oxygen in the at
mosphere uniting with the carbon in the oil,
forming carbonic acid and with the hydro
gen forming water-thus completing the
circle The question is frequently asked,
"When viii the oil become exhausted ?'
We may answer when the ocean is, and not
before
Year: 1865

Crushed coffee is said to be better than
ground. Savarian roasted pound of coffee,
divided it in equal parts, ground one part,
poundad the other in mortar, poured on
each an equal weight of boiling water, treat.
ed them alike excepting in the grinding and
pounding. The unanimous opinion of HIM
self and several other good judges was that
the pounded coffee was the best.
Year: 1865

SHERMAN's soldiers while on the march
through Georgia, learned how to rob bee
hivs without the penalty of singing. The
plan was, to rapidly approach hive, take
it up suddenly, and hosting it upon the
like thunder. The bees hustle out, and fy
back to the place where the hive stood. The
honey belongs to the boys who win it.
Year: 1865

1t is expected that the seven-thirty loan
will all be taken by the lst Of April. Less
than two hundred million dollars remain un-
sold and the demand of several millions per
day is constantly increasing.