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Year: 1867

"Aunt Dora," in The Peoples Magazine,
gives the following good advice TO young
ladies:


"What is best 10 preserve the bloom of
the complexion? Cold mater; the purer,
the colder, the softer, the better. Many
young ladies fancy that water in any shape
is bad for the complexion; and so, between
their native sense of cleanliness, and their
great anxiety to preserve tho beauty Of their
skins, they are sorely puzzled; and have
seen the triumphs of the latter notion-in
very slight but palpable enamel of not quite
inVisible-dirt-faugh! No beauty can be
maintained for any length of time without
health; and I leave you 10 your natural
shrewd sense to determine whether dirt in
any shape can be healthy or attractive.


No woman on record ever preserved her
bloom any longer than the famous or infa-
nous Diane de Poitlers; and the chief secret
of 1t was a copious and thorough ablution
in cold water night and morning all through
the year, with friction atterward. Nothing,
I repeat is better, either for the skin, the
eyes, or the general health, than good
wash in cold water after the iatigues of the
day. In bitterly cold weather the icy cold
ness may be taken of, but warm water is
mistake, especially in cold weather.


If the skin be dry and inclined to chap in
cold or windy weather, it is very easy to
apply little cold cream, well rubbed into
the skin after the nightly washing; or if
those unsightly things, plmples, should ap-
pear under the skin, know of no more
eflcacious remedy than little eau de cologne
and water to bathe them, in the proportion
of teaspoonful of spirit to a wineglass oi
water. But dpropOs OF pimples; they depend
much on the general health; and the young
lady who maintains simple and regular
diet, takes regular exercise keeps regular
hours, and totally eschews tight ldcing, is
seldom or never afflicted thereby.


Only fancy the Misses Dashington. They
had an idea that a pale, sickly languor was
The Thing; and how do you think they tried
10 acquire tins peculiar charm2 Why, by
drinking vinegar and chewing raw ricel of
course they became pale, hollow-eyed and
miserably thin. This possibly was the end
they had in view; but hardly imagine that
they desire to look sallow, shrlveled and
prematurely old, which was, however, the
natural result at last


Then, again, how many girls fall victims
to tight laciug. Little do they think, poor
silly little things. that veiny hands, red
noses, and blotchy faces, are the unmistaka-
BILE consequences. Oh, how dearly is such
folly paid for And then after all, who can
admire waist like wasp9 1t is only a
delormity, like the totterng, tiny feet of
Iihinnaa hennIY
Year: 1867

AIR AND ExERoisE.-Deprive the labor
ing classes of these, and they must go with
out the most precious (and too often the
only) boon of their toilsome lives. Air and
exercise arc indeed the safeguard of all.
Specially are they so 10 those who can com
mand but small freedom and brief leisure.
For instance, the student, the writer, who
sits bent forward hour after hour, can on
temporary change of occupation, vary his
attitude by leaning well back in his chair Or
by standing erect with well expanded chest,
so as not to rob his lungs of their compli-
ment of vital air one moment longer than is
necessary. When, after long sitting, the
circulation becomes torpid and the brain
weary, he can set his window open for a
few minutes, even in mid-winter; and II a
short, brisk walk out of doors during the
interval be impracticablc, let him go through
series of gymnastics, or wrestle with i'm
aginary burglars in his own sanctum, and
he will not find his minutes thrown away.
1t is better for person in health and oil
sedentarY employments to walk in the rain,
rather than not walk at all. "Blue pill,
madam? Stuff and nonsense, madam, You
can't want more blue pill take exercise


madam not blue pill" cried an hones


doctor to a sluggish patient. "Take exer
else. It's only lazy folks who want so muci


blue pill" Which reminds lis of our ole
friend Abernethy, who, after listening to /


long list of ailments detailed by the anxious


mother OF languid daughter, growled on


as he put on his hat and returned a shilling


of the fee, "Buy her a skipping rope"
Year: 1867

The MANNER OF WEARING SnAwLs.-The
ladies have adonted what is called the Ara
bian style Of wearing their shawls. por-
tion of the article j. drawn into pouch be-
tween the shoulders, like the contriyance
whereby a squaw was habituated to carry
her juvenile offspring. 1t looks as if it were
thrown on with pitchfork. To conform the
same taste displayed in wearing the shawl,
the gentlemen should gather the skirts OF
their coats and fasten them with bodkin to
the waistband of their pants. But the ladies
know that their sway is so despotic that the
most ridiculous absurdity in costume they
can assume will not diminish their power,
and they seem to adopt these oddities to ex-
emplify the fact
Year: 1867

That leave the poison to crawl through the system,
eating its way into the tissues and Organs beneath
the apparently smooth surface, to burst oUt in the
future with virulence that viii battle the effects Of
medicine, when PERFECT CURES can be OBJ
tanned by consulting physician whom long prac-
tice and thorough Investigation into the causes of
DISEASES Of the URINARY ORGANS enables
TO determine at once the nature of the disease.


In all diseases entrusted to the Doctors care.
PERFECT, SPEEDY and PERMANENT
Year: 1867

Patients residing in any part of the State, how
ever distant, who may desire medical advice on
their respective cases. and who think proper to sub
nit written statement Of such in preference to
holding personal interview assured that their
communications will be held most sacred.


All letters must be addressed thus:
Year: 1867

CEASED TO BE-The last number of the Red
Bluff OJserrer was issued the 18th instant.
In an explanatory notice to patrons, Baker says:
1.-THE support of the paper has been so meagre
that we could not afford TO hire a compositor
and print a good paper. Since last June we
have set all'the type and performed all the labor
connected with the paper, except rolling and
mailing, and have barely kept even. We are
tired of the work, dissatisfied with the appear
ance of the paper and not contentcd with the
remuneration received. About month ago we
received proposition from gentleman at the
Bay to transfer the material to a fourishing town
there This week the trade was consummated
If we can collect what is due us, pay what we
owe and dispose of certain property. shall
leave Red Bluff with the material of the Office on
the 22d inst We therefore request every person
who owes us twenty-five cents and upwards to
come forward Immediately and pay it. Don t
wait to be dunned, for that is an unpleasant duty
and we cannot well spare the time to do it. At
the same time we need every cent that may be
due. Those who have paid subscriptions in ad-
vance will receive n better paper from distant
town, commencing about the first of March next,
for as many months as tht are now entitled TO
the Observer
Year: 1867

Coon TALK.--In a letter to G. A. Gillespie,
General Bidwell thus refers to his candidacy for
s-uhernatorial honors al should feel pride,
beyond what am able to express in mere words,
in being selected by the suffrage? of free peo-
pie to preside over the affairs of our new and
promising State as its Chief Magistrate and If
il is the desire of my friends and they mud me
available, and nothing in the future intervenes.
| am willing to repose my CLAMPS IN their
hand,, and to accept the nomination from the
loyal Union party, and none other, providing
can DO so without entering into combinations
which, if | should be elected, would prostitute
the patronage of the State and destroy my own
self-respect and independence. If am elected


want to be Governor, and not something else.
Year: 1867

ROSE Court OF INQUIRY-NINTH Day
Milton +. Woody, assistant commissioner
of registration at the Third Ward polls,
testified that he saw Colonel Rose good
many times during the third day, and did
not notice anything unusual in his con-
duct. he seemed perfectly sober, and
was not rude to any one in his presence.
He called on Colonel Rose once or twice
during the day to qucll disturbances at
the polls. These disturbances prevented
the registrars from attending to their du-
ties, though witness did not know their
cause. He did not know that Colonel
| Rose interfered with the conduct of the
election, except when called upon to pre-
vent disturbance.


Mr.. Vincent Bargamin testified that he
was at the Third Ward polls on the third
day, and near the colored poll, by the re-
quest Of the executive committee and
with the appreciation Of General Schofeld.
There was disturbance at the colored
poll. Berry Amos got on the table in
front of the colored poll, and called out
that he had Conservative tickets. There
arose on the part Of the colored men cries
Of Rattlesnakc - "Put him off the ta-
blc!" "Won't take his tickets" etc.
All seemed to be bowling, and raised such
noise that it was impossible to near names
of voters inside the polls. The commits
sioners inside complained that the election
could not go on unless the noise was
stopped. Colonel Rose rode up, and say
ing to Amos that he was creating a dis
turbance, ordered him to get OIL the table.
Amos asked that Fitchett be put oil also.
Fitchett said that the table was his private
property. Colonel Rose rode off, and re-
turning, made Amos get off. A Mr..
Smith then came up and said that he was
a northern man, the colored mans friend,
and had never bought or sold slave. He
asked them to take Conservative tickets
from him. He said that Colonel Rose had
requested him to take his stand there and
try to preserve order. The noise was soon
recommended, and in short time Colonel
Rose ordered all the tables to be taken
away. After this there was no disturb
ance. Witness saw Colonel Rose at least
fifteen or twenty times on the last day of
the election. He was as sober as any man
he ever saw. Berry Amos was noisy when
ordered to get OIL the table.


The court adjourned until 2 o'clock.
Year: 1867

Ths ladies and gen:lt men who have been IN
vted to assist in sin ing the several pieces on the
occasion Of laying the cornerstone OF the new
Masonic Hall on toe 10th Of December are re-
quesed to attend the second meeting for rehearsal
In the ball room of the Spotswood Hotel this eve
niEg at 5 o'clock promptly.


The leaders OF the several city choirs are re-
quested to suspend their regular practising for
this evening, and be present with their choirs.


TEE COMMITTEE.
Year: 1867

ARRIVAL OF COLONISTS FROM NEW YORK.
The steamer Albemare on her last trip
brought to Richmond twenty persons, COM
posing the families of DR.. William Il.
Bates, Messrs. William Russell, Reuben
Wilson, Theodore Wilson, and Hezekiah
Davenport. These parties have left their
homes in Albany and Greene counties,
New York, to become citizens Of the State
of Virginia. They have purchased nearly
a thousand acres Of land in King William
county, about nine miles from West Point,
and propose to devote themselves to the
cultivation of the soil with view prnci-
pally to the raising of hops for market.


We have been informed that it was not
without much opposition from their friends
in the Knickerbockcr State that these
persons came to cast their lot with us; but
firmly convinced that they could succeed
here, and hoping to be kindly received,
they determined to try the experiment.
Should it prove successful, it is probable
that many more from the same section OF
country will join those who have come out
from among them.


To witness the influx Of intelligent and
entcrprising families such as these seem
to be must be source Of pleasure to
all who properly appreciate the import
auce of white immigration to the future
of our old Commonwealth. We want
here a little of the agricultural skill
and experience Of these tillers Of the soil.
We want an Infusion Of the industry and
enterprise which they have been called
upon to exercise through several genera
tions. None, therefore, can regret to see
northern men of right feeling adopting
Virginia as their home, and tarming-not
politics--as their occupation.


We bid these New Workers cordial
welcome and hearty "God speed"
trusting that they may prove only the pio-
neers of an immigration movement which
will yet result greatly for the upbullding
of Virginia's fallen fortunes.
Year: 1867

The OLD LODGE Room at tile Odd Eel
lows Hall is being thoroughly refited and
re furnished, winch when done, will make it
one of the finest and most comfortable Lodge
rooms in this country, The incroasc ot
Lodges md membership in this city has
rendered this step necessary
Year: 1867

All who have committed excess OF any kind,
whether IL be the solitary vice Of YOUTH or the sting
ing reouke OF misplaced confidence in maturcr years.


SEEK FOR AN ANTIDoTE IN SEASON.
The Pains and Aches, and Lasstude and Nervous
Prostitution that may follow Impure Cotton,


are the Barometer to the whole system.
Do not wait for the consummaon that is sure to fol-
low; do not wait for Unsightly Ulcers, for


Disabled Limbs, for Loss of Beauty
Year: 1867

BrrraLo, jan. 4.
At a meeting of the Board of Trade to day
ahey adopted the GENITAL system from March
LIST. barrel Of -four hereafter will consist
of 200 pounds


A committee was appointed TO obtain an
abrogation Of the tax on white paper.
The plan Of a ship canal across the ST.
Clair Flats was endorsed.
Year: 1867

GA New York paper says the Catho-
lies Of that city have only thirty-two Of
the three hundred and seven churches
in the city, and yet their church attend
ance is nearly as lsrge as all the other
denominations combined.
Year: 1867

When men offer poor excuses for an act,
be sure they have no good reasons to give.-
The Journals betray a lurking dstrust of the
prOpriety of Gen. Grants act III assuming the
War Department by the haste they make to
invent poor excuses for it.


They tell us the general was obliged, as a
military subordinate, to obey the Presidents
order. If the act was, without any doubt,
good one, why seek to excuse it on the ground
of cOmpulsion When Chase accepted the
Chief Justiceship nobody went about to find
excuses for him. Ah, gentlemen, the act of
Gen. Grant you cannot think good one, else
you would not seek to rob him of his merit
and make somebody else responsible for it.


But we cannot do such discredit to the
leading journals of the Republican party as
to suppose they believe their own statements.
Gen. Grant is the Presidents military sub
ordinate-not a civil one. The President has
a right to order him to report for duty at
Westinghouse give advice on the Indian
war-tO sit on military commission. All
such orders Grant is obliged to obey.


But the President has no right to order
Grant to paint the White House, to take
charge of its garden, prepare a report for the
amendment OF the tariff, or do any other civil
duty.


No". tue war department. Is CIVIL ONCE.
These same journals allege that JohHson can.
not remove Stanton, because that is forbidden
by the civil Office tenure act, thus clearly con.
Tossing that the Secretaryship of War is n
civil office; as, of dOurse, it is. Mr.. john
son might, therefore. .as rightfully order Grant
to hoe potatoes behind the White House as
to assume the War Department. The jour
mails know this. So docs General Grant.


Indeed, the President in his communion
tion to Grant does not order him, but "au-
thorizes and empowers" him to act as Secre-
tary. And although Grants letter to Stans
ton speaks coufusedly Of the Presidents ''di-
Year: 1867

Thomas Hutchinson. of Centre Town.
ship, Pa, while in the act of tying a band
around sheaf Of oats in his field, on Wednes-
day last, vas struck by lightning and instantly
killed. His wife sent little SON to the field
to call his father to supper He returned and
reported his father so sound asleep on the
ground that he could not wake him Onre-
pairing TO the locality, the fact was apparent
that be had been struck by lightning while In
the act Of binding sheaf, Hs leaves 4. ne
and children. -
Year: 1867

Concert of action and unity of pur-
nose among the true Republicans of
North Carolina is of the utmost impor,
tance.


That a live, determined, intelligent
and earnest Republican party already
exists in and throughout the State, there
can be no dispute The existence of
such party has been we'll known, par
ticularly since the important meeting at
Raleigh on the 9th and 29th days of
March last


There were, it is true, thousands of
genuine Rep ublicans in the State long
previous to that meeting, but no event
had transpired until then, by which the
party took definite stand, or assumed
an open and bold purpose.


The Raleigh Convention, notwith-
standing all the criticisms that may
have been poured out upon it, was an
extraordinary one in point Of numbers,
zeal and enthusiasm, and seldom ifever
excclled in political importance. What
ever honest doubts may exist as to the
correctness Of the mode or plan by
which it was convened, yet, it is very
certain that the principles promulgated
did give and continue to give the great
est satisfaction.


The adoption, with unusual demon
strations of applause, of platform by
which the banner of the great Republi-
can party of the Nation was openly
thrown to the breeze, was naturally
calculated to have a ST ignificant and wide
spread effect. This event at once placed
the Republican element of the State in
sympathy and harmony with the Repub-
lican sentiment of the North Nothing
could have been done better calculated
to secure this important end. Had half
way steps only been adopted, and those
present taken counsel of their fears in
stead of following a high sense of duty
and right, the proceedings would have
been diyested of all strength and pow
er.


An irresistible impulse, however, to
take bold and patriotic stand ran
through the whole Convention and the
vast audience present, concentrating the
sentiments of white and colored dele
that was, to have a Republican party in
~ NO:tll-SaEOlllld. 1Hc DutSG vi cutHuSI-
asm that followed, when it was announc-
ed that the committee on resolutions
had determined upon naming the party
by the honored title of REPUBLICAN,
has probably never been excelled in
earnestness and fervor in any political
gathering. No one ofordinary discern
ment could fail to see that the right
chord had been struck.


That this party is destined to 60 on
constantly increasing in strength and in
nuence, there can no longer exist a
doubt. That it will by virtue of the
Soundness of its principles and the ele-
Tated national objects it has in view,
Decome permanently predominant in the
State, we entertain the most sanguine
hopes.-Neac Bern Repu6kcan.
Year: 1867

There cometh glad tidings of joy at all,
To young and to old, to great and to small;
The beauty which once was so precious and rare
Is free for ALL and all may be fair.


Rv the nSe of
Year: 1867

Fancy the thrilling effect of the Scrip


lures If read as Kean, Murdoch, or Booth


reads Shakespeare or recites Macauley.


And why should we not have it so? Is it


right and proper that every book for public
reading should have justice done it except


the Bible !? And that while every other
subject IS allowed the advantage of natu-


raj and impressive delivery, religion, which
! Is the most important Of all, should be de-
MED by ali The monstrous fallacy with


which well nearing but obtusc people have


been beguiied, or have beguiled themselves,
is, that such reading and reciting would be
theatrical, and that theatrical exhibitions
are not becoming in the house of God. To
this hollow and ridiculous fallacy may be
traced most OF the execrable pulpit reading
and delivery that rob the Scriptures of hall
their power, and have often made the dull
ness OF a sermon proverbial. Set Murdoch
to read the song Of Miriam, or the fight be-
tween David and Goliah, or the story OF the
Prodlgal Son, or of Christ's denunciation
OF the Scribes and Pharisees or to recite
one OF Chalmer sermons, and you will see
the people who had begun to adjust them
selves IN the corners of their seats for their
accustomed snooze, sit up and listen 20 him
very close, with eager eyes and bated breath
And all this simply because Murdoch would
do justice, that is, read it naturally and as
il ought to be read. On what possible
grounu, either OF common sense or good
taste, can objection be taken to the natural
delivery of at least the sermon? If Garrick
could set even the grim soldier who was on
duty at the corner Of the street, blubbering
Ike child; aud if Mrs. Siddons could SO
overpower the tragedian Young. that he
could not refrain from sobbing aloud, though
he was himselfon the stage acting the william
OF the piece at the. time-and all this time
merely uttering the words of fictitious
character. what overwhelming effects in the
way of sinners and pressing home the mes
sage Of the gospel, might not be introduced
by men who are giving utterance. in their
own character, to the most sublime and
soui-stirring truths
Year: 1867

The Westminster Rerie,c pronounces Lin
coin 5 Gettysburg speech as the finest that
ever fell from human lips. In view of this
iaet and that 1t is even more pertinent than
1t ever was, We need make no apology for re-
publishing 1t. We give it below:


-Four score and seven years ago our fa-
theTs brought forth upon this continent a
new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedi-
Gated to the proposition that ali men are
created equal Now We are engaged in a
great evil war, testing whether that nation,
Of any nation so conceived or dedicated, can
long endure. We are met on great battle
held Of that war We are met to dedicate
alportlon Of it as the final resting place of
those who here gave their lives that the ma
ton might live. 1t is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this But in a
large sense We cannot consecrate, we cannot
hail0w this ground The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled here, have conse-
Grated it far above our power TO add or de-
tract The world will little note nor remem
Der long what we say here, but il can never
forget what they did here 1t is for US, the
living. rather to be dedicated to the unfin-
Shed work tha, they have thus far so nobly
carried on. 1t is rather, for US to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before
us-that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to the cause for which
they here gave the last full measure of de-
TTotlon-that we here highly resolve that the
dead shall not have died in vain-that the
nation shall, under God, have a new birth
Of freedom, and that the Government. of
'3e people, by the people, and for the peo-
PIE, shall not perish from the earth.
Year: 1867

measure. General Shoneld, on the contrary
had done this.


The attorney general further expressed it
as his opinion that Gen. Sheridan had ey-
ceeded his authority, but that this would
be duly rectifed, without prejudice to those
who have been excluded in the meantime.


He also stated that no election that
might be held would be valid unless q pro-
per registration had previously been made
OF all qualified voters. The omission of
any duly qualified, that is, would vitiate
He intimated, however, that his close and
constant preoccupations in the case of the
injunction taken out in behalf of the State
of Georgia, and other business, would pre-
vent him from giving formal decision on
the registration question for couple Of
weeks.


In reply to the remark that such delay
might tend to prevent a proper registra-
Ition, MIR. Stanbery stated that the necessary
steps would be taken to cover that point
also.


subsequent interview which the same
delegation had with the President, Mr..
johnson expressed the fullest accord with
the opinions Of the attorney general and
with the positions he had laid down.
| He reassured them that no necessary
executive interference would be found lack
ing for the purpose of maintaining all rights
secured under the reconstruction acts.