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Year: 1868

MODEL QUARTZ MILL.-A Nevada State exchange thus describes one of the model quartz mills in the Reese River mines. The Keystone dry crushing mill of twenty stamps is the best arranged and most effective estab- lishment of the kind we have in this region. The batteries are placed so that the reduced ore is received into chambers on level with the roofs of the roasting furnaces and con- veyed to them by car passing along a line of rails. When the ore is roasted it is dis charged on a cooling floor and thence taken by another car away to the amalgamating room, where the rims of the pans are about on a level with the line of the rails The set tiers are still lower down and with descent of thirty feet from the battery floor to the amalgamating room, the ore in its progress through the mill is all the, time working down hill with the least possible amount of manual labor. With a double discharge through brass wire screens of fifty mesh, the batteries reduce from sixteen to eighteen tons of sulphuret ore every twenty -four hours. The mill is provided with eight reyerberatory roasting furnaces, ten Varney pans, and four settlers. After having been idle for several months, mainly from want of salt, the stamps go into operation once more on Monday morn ing, with abundance of high grade ore at command.
Year: 1868

To BREAK cattle to lead, take two animals of about equal size and strength and tie them together with strong rope by placing one end around the horns of one animal and the other end around the horns of the other and make them fast as for leading or tying up, leaving three or four feet of rope between the inner horns, and turn them into a field free from trees. Let them run, pull and haul, till they are tired of it, and they will walk side by side and feed together. Then take of the rope and they will ever.after lead with the docility of child, even though the first occasion may be years afterwards It is much easier than for man to be jerked around all day by wild heifer or steer, and more effec- tual.
Year: 1868

rATisrICs.-The following clever hits are from the Mobile Nationalist:

 Statistics are all the fashion and the follow ing furnished by fgurst, are very much SO. They may be commended ito keep in the cold"

 Out of 800 persons only five survive long enough 10 mind their own business.

 Out of every ten men in the street not more than one has brains enough to keep from standing gossiping directly in the mid die of the sidewalk crossing.

 Out of every twelve women one dozen make themselves up to attract as much atten- ton as possible and then pretend to be angry if they get it.

 Out of loo persons above five score don't behave us we'll as they require other people to do.

 Out of l5 in street passenger railway car about one will in riding a mile conduct him self all the way just as he ought to do.

 Out of large number of young people who have never seen anything of life or the world. an equal number constantly refer to their experience ! Out of so young women whose experience | of life Is confined to gossipping and flirting | with simpletons like themselves at parties all except none, are generally of the opinion that they have seen an immense amount oi humanity.

 Out of several dozen people only limited number will not talk gossip of their friends and then kindle up if they hear it has beer talked of themselves. 1 There is only one drunkard to every Il per sons, but the liquor which the other a "chev upn daily would keep hale dozen of then drunk as peeps until the next morning.

 Out of 100 persons six reach the age of C years, and of these, five generally behave sC as to make their friends wish they hadn't.
Year: 1868

ExrRAvAGANcE IN MES-There are lots of young men with whom the spending of money is positive disease. They constantly dem onstrste the truth of the familiar proverb. There is sort of fatal profusion in their hab- its. Women are accused very unfairly of be- ing very extravagant. As a rule men are far more so and the account against them is principally due to those who fritter every thing they gain or sell in numberless and narneless trifies X woman has natural title to being well clad--to being, indeed, clad SO as to make the most of her appearance. She has sense for jewelry. T odeny her orna- ments is to stife genuine and reasonable in stinct. But man who parts with consid- ersble portion of his income in order to com ply with every freak of his tailor and who really seems to have only used his brains upon the patterns of neck ties, is one of the most pitiable creatures alvie. A gentleman ought to be correctly and neatly dressed There is something revoltng, as we'll as startling, in the style the unfortunate London cad turns out to air himself on the tops of omnibusses and on the penny steamboats on Sunday. Still the extremes meet. The cad is not, in all probability, greater jackass than the person he mimics. He is also extravagant in his own miserable way. He has given more than he can afford for his laring scarf with its horri- ble brass pin, his embroidered shirt front, and all his vile psraphernalia. Extravagance is not confined to class. Some working men spend approximately as much in beer houses and music halls as those above them do in clubs and at the opera or theatre-Lordoz Reriac.
Year: 1868

EXTRACT FROM LETTER WRITTEN By senator
FEssENDES.-A friend Of Senator Fessenden,
says the New York Sun, who has always been q
Democrat, has communicated to US for publics-
ton the following passage from a recent private
letter Of the senator:


81 thank you for your kind words. When
friends are denouncing me in all quarters for the
one act Of my life for which deserve the most
credit, putting at hazard, as did, all my own
honor and interest from an imperative sense of
duty, i is consolation to know that some few
yet believe in my integrity Of purpose. shall
take what you say as earnest and true, therefore,
even Il you are Democrat
Year: 1868




JACKSON, Jan. ll.-In the reconstruction con-
yention a communication was received from the
superintendent Of the gas works, asking deposit
OF money 10 advance or personal security for gas
to be used by the convention.
A resolution adopted to appoint standing
committee Of Eve to consider what legislation was
necessary to afford adequate relief and protection
to this State and The people thereof and that the
committee have power to send for persons and
papers.


A resolution to appoint committee of five, to
take into consideration whether the public lands
may not be disposed of to pay the Indebtedness
OF the State. ETC., was adopted.


A les luton TO appoint committee OF five to
take into consideration the destitute condition of
portion OF our citizens. and the means OF afford
ipg present and permanent relief, was adopted.
resolution was introduced, that this conyen-
tion memoralize Congress to amend the recon.
sIuciiun acts. 70 a. to allow all persons who hold
certificates of reg straiiOn to vote on the Tatca-
ton of the Constitution, wherever they may be.
Laid on the table for reference TO the proper COM
mittee. Adjourned.
Year: 1868

THE METAIRIE HoUsE FOR LEAsE.-That old and
popular restaurant, the Metairie House, situated
on The shell road the track Is for lease,
together with its contents. Here is a chance for
scme enterprising restaurateur to make a fortune.
We invite attention 10 the notice in another
cnlumn.
Year: 1868

Uncertainty is written upon every page
Of the great book ofhuman life. The friend
of to-day may be the stranger of tomorrow.
and anon the implacable. unrelenting enemy.


Men often boast of progress, when they
are moving only in circle and are sure
they are in the right path, because with
every circuit the footprints multiply, when
they are only following their own tracks.
Year: 1868

JAPANESE REvENGE.-A story Is told


BY Tltinga, in his japanese annals. which
shows the rigor of the restraint, the severi-
ty with which small delinquencies are pun


ished, aud the impunity allowed to revenge,
At intervals posts are established along the
public road, and guard set to enforce the
Interdict against the passing of women.
One of these Is at the mount Fakone,
short distance from Mako, on the road to
1edo. An inhabitant of Yedo, named
Fiyosavemon n, q widower, with two children,
a boy and girl, was called to a distance
on business. He was poor, and knew not
now to provide for his children in his alb
sence; and this law would not allow of his
taking the girl with him. He, however,
resolved upon stratagem, and, dressing
his girl in boys clothes, he passed the guard
at Fakone unsuspected. He was rejoicing
In his success when man who knew what
children he had. Joined him, congratulated
him on his good luck and asked for some
thing to buy drink The alarmed father
offered a trife The man demanded a sum
beyond his means. A quarrel ensued, the
man ran back TO the guard, and gave in
formation of the trick that had been put
upon them The whole guard were thun-
derstruck If the former spoke the truth.
and the affair should be discovered, all
their lives would be forfeited. Yet it was
unfavorabe 20 send party to apprehend
the offender, and thus to bring upon them
selves the dreadful penalty. The command
ing officer, however, resolved to save him.
self by another trick.


He delayed the party to be detached in
pursuit a sufficient time to allow a mes
senger with a little boy to overtake the Of
Tending traveller. The messenger found
FIyosaemon and his children taking food
at an inn. He told of the information
that had been given, of the pursuit and
danger, offered the boy as temporary SUBJ
stitute for the girl at the examination to
come off, and told the father that, when =
the fasehood of the charge should be
proved by both the children appearing to
be boys, he might very fairly fly into such
a rage as to kill his accuser. The plan
was of course approved. The diatory
guard soon arrived, surrounded the house,
seized upon Fiyosa yemon and the children,
and gladly announced that they were both
boys. The intormer declared that some
imposition had been practiced, which the
accused, Indignantly resenting, drew his
sword, and cut off the informer's head.
The guard declared that such liar had
only met his just deserts, and returned to
their post, while the traveller took his
daughter and went on his journey.
Year: 1868

We have from Beadle & Company of
New York, two volumes of their dime pub
lications, - Life of Grant, and the q Base
Ball Player The latter is doubtless a
valuable treatise for those interested in the
national game and the former is no doubt
as good as can be expected for ten cents.
Year: 1868

~ F D..


One Of the worst Radical swindles
vet perpetrated in this State, is the "act
to regulate the publication Of legal no.
tees" The Object and design was not
only to break down old and establish.
ed native journals, but to foist upon the
public a number of miserable partisan
newspapers and to squander the public
monies tn sustain these irresponsible
portable presses. We have heard OF
Que instance where a member of the
Legislature that passed this bill, en-
dcavored to purchase newspaper of
tice in one ofthe counties, the purchas
er stating to the proprietor that if the
trade could be cOnsummated in time,
lie could secure the legal patronage tor
the concern. Every Radical Jeremy
Didler in the State who could lay his
hands on handkerchieffull of old type
has gone into the newspaper business.
In view Of this prescription of the anti
Radical press of the State, We believe
that our people everywhere, and partic-
ularly the merchants of Nashville, will
increase their patronage to the country
press. II by prescription the effort is
to be made to educate the people up to
the beauties of Tennessee Radicalism,
our people should see to it that educa-
ton of another sort is quite as deter
minedly encouraged. We bespeak for
our brothers Of the country press the
most liberal patronage our merchants
can bestOw .-4Nashville Banner.
Year: 1868

From the Nashville Banner!


What in the world do the State all.
thoritics of Tennessee mean by the fuX
ofExecutive clemency which seems to
possess them? Ofcourse We may make
Il partisan point and say, half whimsic-
ally, half bitterly, that, in turning so
many convicts loose, they are prepar-
ing for the Presidential campaign; but,
u truce to such gibes! The matter is
getting to be too serious for that sort
Of treatment The real object cannot
be the manufacture of Radical votes.
Bad as the Radical party is, We should
despair altogether if We thought it at
bad Us that. Moreover, it does not
need to proceed to extremities. 1t ac-
tually possesses fec-simple hold on the
ballot box in Tennessee. Nothing short
ofa complete inundation is likely to
sweep it away. 1t pays no regard to
precedents or justice in the administra-
ton of suffrage, and therefore it is not
brought to require the employment Of
liberated c0nvlcts. Hence, leaving par
ty feeling and interest out of the ques-
ton, we ask in all conscience what mo
tive it can have for this turning loose
upon the community OF hundred or
more of the very dregs OF society?
No good can come of it, and infinite
harm may be its only result. The peace
and order OF the State are essential to
US all, as individuals and as political
or. ization, and, we submit, whether
peace and order are to be encouraged
by the wholesale pardon Of rogues aud
murderers. Such a measure is atten,
ded by two dangers and works with
double effect Whilst it emboldens
Radicals to violence in the expectation
Of pardon it holds out, it renders Con
servatives the more desperate by with
drawing from before their eyes the eq-
uity from which the power of law alone
takes its source. II the law be not fair.
ly administered, if the Courts be not
just, if one side is held to accOunta-
bility while the other side is released
from obligation, men will take tht law
into their own hands. The tendency
to vitiatc justice in the present state of
tue country is woful enough without
being accelerated by the Governor
through gross and indiscriminate use
Of the pardoniny power. We want
peace. The people need repose. We
might live and prosper under Radical
administration, no matter how unfairly
it executed its franchise laws, If it dis.
pensed justice rigidly and impartially.
But at the rate we are going we shall
reach condition Of worse than civil
war. From that condition the Radi-
Gals have as much to lose as the Con-
ssryatives. They had better, therefore,
in view of self interest, II from no pur-
er motive, take the matter 10 heart and
try to reform it.
Year: 1868

Whether the President be convicted
or not; whether We are to have a Pres.
idential election this year or 4 farce;
whether We are to have continued
peace (such rs 1t is) or another civil
war; whether the crisis he only q dsy
distant or a whole year--one thing. st


least is certain--one duty isplain. And
this one plain duty Is: the thorough
organization Of all true men.-organi.
zation right here, and throughout the
State, and throughout the South. and
throughout the whole country--orga.
nization of all true men. ofa men who
propose to remain in this country, OF
al who have wives and families. of all
who have children to whom they would
not willingly leave heritage Of woe,
of all who have faith, ofall haze en-.
ergy, Of all who have heaven born in.
telligence--organizatiou thorough, open,
honest, oil men that do not fear the li9ht,
democratic organizations in short.


The uncertainty of all things else
makes this one duty the more certain.
The doubtfulness Of all else makes this
duty the more obvious. Our present
inability to help ourselves or others IL
chance offer, makes this duty the more
imperative. t'


Here is a present duty, unquestioned
and unquestionable. Let all join in it;
let each urge it upon his lukewarm
neighbor Let the press join In one
chorus, and cease not until it is accom-.
plished.


We know not what ga day may bring
forth" But we do know it can bring
no good to us, unless we be ready to
seize and make use Of it. II the storm
breaks on US unorganized, we are like.
ly to find ourselves the sport of the el.
ements.
Year: 1868

Whatever may have been the views
of the planters in this State, month or
two ago, with regard to planting cotton
the coming season, it is now quite eyi-
dent tina. tue well sustained advance IN
the price of the saple has induced dis.
position to increase rather than dimin-
ish the breadth of land to be devoted
to this purpose. Spectators who are
now holding heavily scout, as matter
of course, such an idea, but from the
cotton growing sections Of Middle and
West Tennessee, we are almost daily in
receipt of trustworthy reports Us to the
crop prospects. Those who are 10th
to accept the dethronement of King
Cotton, will give him nc least one more
trial. They hold that the States south
Of US caunOt rrach tho yield Of last year
by many thousand bales. owing TO Sc
rious financial and political drawbacks.
which are not felt here and which will
indirectly operate to line our pockets
with greenbacks il properly understood
and duly provided for.-Nashsilis Ban.
N<r.
Year: 1868

No charge Will be made for extracting where Ar
tihcial Teeth are inserted, although the@
patient will be required to pay for thedp


will be deducted when the Teeth are made. The
Associatien 10 now prepared to mate Teeth on
phia and Boston prices. All persons wishing den-
tai work done can have 1t cheap as In the above
named cities All work will be done in the peatest
and best manner, and warranted to give entire
satisfaction. Persons will do we'll to call and
Year: 1868

A few persons were collected around a blind
man, who had taken his station on a bridge
over London canal, and was reading from an
embossed Bible. Receiving from the passers
by OF their carnal things, he was administering
to them spiritual things. A gentleman, on his
way home from the city, was led by curiosity to
the outskirts of the crowd Just then the poor
man, who was reading in the fourth chapter of
Acts, lost his place, and while trying to find it
with his finger, kept repeating the last clause
he had read-"None other name-none other
name"


Some of the people smiled at the blind mans
embarrassment but the gentleman went ayav
deeply musing. He had lately become con-
vlnced that he was a sinner, and had been try
ing IN many ways to obtain peace of mind. But
religious exercises good resolutions, altered
habits, all were Intellectual to relieve his con-
science of its load and enable him to rejoice in
God. The words he had heard from the blind
man, however, rang their solemn music in his
soul-"None other name" When he reached
his home and retired to rest, these words, like
evening chime from village tower nesting among
the trees, were still heard-''None other name
none other name-none other name % And
when he awoke in more joyful measure like
maun bells salutlng the morn, the strain con-
tnued--''None other name-none other name
none other name -


The music entered his soul, and he awoke TO
new life. Il see it all [ see it ALL have
been trying to be saved by my own works-my
repentance, my prayers-my reformation. I
see my mistake. 1t is Jesus who alone can save
Io him will look. Neither is there salvation
IN any other. For there is none other name
none other name-under heaven given AMONG
men whereby they may be saved -
Year: 1868

What is Christian character? Character that
conforms to the teachings and example of our
Lord Jesus Christ. 1t is important for us that
we adopt this only right standard of Christian
character We can find it nowhere else. 1t is
not to be found in the recorded or unrecorded
history Of the visible church her teaching may
De lnfall1ble her practice is marked and marred
Dy lmperfectlon. 1t Is not to be found in the
examples OF even the best of our religious ac-
quaintances. Some seem to approximate per-
lection; all true believers are going on toward
t;-but there Is only one perfect example be-
fore the world Character is beautiful, attrac-
tive, potential In influence in proportion to it's
conformity to this standard Alas, that there
should be so little of beauty, attraction and
power In the church now! Christian doctrine
IS truthtully, and often eloquently preached
Christian benevolence is we'll organized Chris
tlan machinery is worked with treless activity.
But Christian character is sadly lacking. The
average church member is very respectable
person, but he lacks force he lacks enthusiasm,
energy, inspiration. He is merely respectable.
he Is not power He does not burn or shine
He Is part Of a great machine, and revoves
with 1t, keeping pace with its sluggish motion
As an organism, the Church was never so well
furnished, never so abundant In external agen
cles and facilities as now, while at the same
time 1T IS losing its power to attract and move
the world. Ihe cause Is to be found In the
fact that Christian character is diluted and
feeble and defective Under the enfeebng and
perverting influences of a materialistic, grasp
ing sceptical age Christian experience has be-
come superficial Christian faith weak, and
Christian character low Like food the tide
OF worldliness has overhowed the barriers and
deuged the Church. Worst of all, it seems
that many Christians have convinced themselves
that this result was inevitable, that a high
standard al Christian character cannot be main
tanned during such times as these What
fatal mistake This is the very time to let our
lights shine brightly. The very temptations
which have overcome US, the very influences
which have dimmed and weakened our Chris
tian character, should have been the means
merely Of testing, developing and revealing to
men the graces which adorn Christian lite and
bless the world These times are calculated
either to dwarf or destroy the elements of true
Christian character, Or to bring them to their
fairest and fullest Development Yea, one or
the other of these results must be realized by
every one of us. The Christian character which
IN our day is not strong, earnest, aggressive and
progressive, offers a resistance to the spirit of
the age no more efectual than would pleasure
yacht to the destructive rush of tidal wave
amid the throes of South American earth
quake.
Year: 1868

The following mournful refrain inspired by the
dropping of Natures efflorescence, while it walls
of decay, sings of rejuvenescence, and institutes
a rather pretty comparison between the giants O.
the wood and the lords of creation:


NOVEMBER.
There is a mournfuI musicin the breeze,
The wild autumnnal wind thai sobs
And sighs and walls among the forest-trees,
The giants of their green dress robs.
The leaves that in the summers balmy breath
Hung quivering in the rosy light,
Now flushing with the hectic hue of death,
Drift down before the chilling blight.
And now from them the aisles that thread the


wood


Lie broader to the sunshine's track;
But in their fall they sow future good
That shall arise when spring comes back.
The fields have yielded up their store of grain,
Now housed and sheltered from the blast
For all the toll and care is labor vain,


If tbs not garnered at the last.
Thus man will, ripened by the frosts of years
In the blest sunshine of good deeds,
Be safely gathered from the storms he fears
And find the refuge that he needs
And when good man falls shall rise a host
More numerous than his life had known,
Who, as they drop the friendly tear, shall boast,
''His death more than his life hath shown