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Year: 1867

Immediately following the war there W as
an unusual number of marriages in every
portion of the country. For little time
it seemed probable that all the eligible can
didates for matrimonial honors would be
taken up. The contagion continued for a
little time, and then passed away as sud-
denly as it came. For year and a half
there have been few marriages, and during
the past four months the number has been
smaller than at any time within memory.
There is dearih of marriages that cannot
be accounted for. On every hand we en-
counter single young men and women. All
the watering places are filed with them.
The stores and shops count them by thou
sands. They are found travelling, or
lounging, or doing little or nothing, all over
the land. In fact it seems as if the single
individuals far outnumbered the married
and that of men and women Of marriage
able age. An examination into the cause
of this falling off in matrimonial alliances
presents some facts of sad and startling
character. They call for plain words.


Doubtless the one universal, primal and
all powerful reason why there are SO few
marriages has to do with questions of liv-
ing and sustenance.


In the old time young men and women
did not shrink from sacrifices in starting
life together, and were happy in creating
common home for humble beginners. Now
tide of wealth has poured over the coun-
try, making artificial distinctions, develop
ing unnatural tastes, and throwing around
the best society the iron bands of aristo-
cratic cruelty. Young men and women
love as of old, but they do not dare to
marry. Ifthe young lady happens to have
abundant means,the young man is too proud
to marry until he can match it with his
own abundance. If both are poor, absurd
maiden aunis and gossiping advisers tell
them they are silly to marry till a sufici-
ent competence has been obtained. Croak-
ers sing their old songs about the nonsense
of love in cottage with leaky roof. And
SO the tide sets against marriage from the
most shallow reasons-reasons founded
upon social cowardice and tremulous fear
of demure relatives and advisers.


Many time have we heard this subject
discussed by young men and women. The
latter are almost invariably sensible in re-
gard to it, and are generally quite willing
to leave elegant homes to join with anoth-
er who may be in the receipt of but a
moderate income. But the young men are
SO proud, or so cowardly, or so carried
away with advice from somebody or other
they are almost al unwilling to accept the
extra labor required to support two. They
are far, far behind the young women in
this respect. 1t is now and then We find
young lady SO ETHEREAL and aristocrafic
and 40 much slave to the ideas and edicts
Of society that she asks her lover to wait
until he is rich. But every day and hour
and on every street, and in every house
we hnd . young. stroog handed capable
Year: 1867

which is enough to purchase five cords Of


wood. The Country Gentleman hits this
matter off we'll Especially do we commend


what he has to say to those very polite women,
who reserve their long adieus till they can
stand In the open outside door in a cold day:


''Some persons when they make calls seem
never to have their tongues fairly loosened
till on leaving they get precisely in the door
way-there they stand rolling out long and
easy sentences, each one promising to be the
last, for some two, three, five or ten minutes.


Now, for a very brief calculation of the
waste by this conduct Hold q lighted can
die to the door-the current will sweep the
hame as rapidly as walking with 1t three feet
per second, 1.-TWO miles an hour, consequent
~, through door yard wide and two yards
nigh, cubic yard of warm air passes out
per second through the upper half Of the
opening, and cubic yard OF cold, damp and
enilng air comes In per second through the
lower hall. All this will be proved by holding
the candle first at the sill and then at the TOP.
One cubic yard of warm air thus lost every
second, is sixty cubic yards every minute that
the door is thus held open by the visitor or bv
Betty. This is positive robbery-we leave IL to
our readers whether it should not be indicted
by the Grand Jury. We prefer ventilation in
some other way, and would echo our friends
injunction, SHUT THE DooR@
Year: 1867

THE GREAT CIRCUS THAT'S CoMING.-
Our exchanges from the Valley come as
near forming a picture gallery as we ever
knew them. They contain likenesses OF
all the animals on this earth, and some
more imported expressly for that great
circus which is being run by John Robin
son, and which is soon to rest its tired
wheels at the corner Of Fourth and Clay
streets in this city. Besides being the best
geological exhibition that ever travelled
the country, all the newspapers pronounce
it to be the best circus. 1t should be true,
for in the list of performers given We see
the names Of some who are recognized as
being at the head of the profession in the
United States. The street-parade Of the
performers is said to be the finest that the
southern people have yet had an opportu-
nifty of seeing. On the 9th instant, if all
accounts be true, our citizens will see
more elephants, lions, monkeys, tapirs
and other animals, and more graceful and
daring equestriennes, than has ever been
together under one canvas since the days
Of the first circus, which people somehow
always seem to believe gave its first per.
formance the day that Noah's ark was un
loaded,
Year: 1867

- Detective Baker says he buried
Booths body in a cell under the old pen
itentiary at Washington also that Mrs.
Surratt confessed TO me her completely
with the conspirators so far rs the intend
ed abduction was concerned, but affirmed
that she reluctantly yielded to the urging
Of Booth in aiding the plot of assassination.
He insisted that her oath of fidelity bound
her to see the fatal end Of the conspiracy"
Year: 1867

YOUNG MAN OF GOOD ACQUAINTANCE AND
"A hotel experience wishes to purchase interest OF
to In Ist class Hotel In this
city, and win devote his time and attention the business


ddress stating when and where interview may be had
Hotal Herald 0Dlce.
Year: 1867

Across TIE 5, EZRA NEvADAs.-Th.
great tunnel of the Central Pacific Rail
road at the summit of the Sierra nevada
Range is opened. The track is being laid
on tn, eastern slope, locomotive is al
ready running IN the Truckce valley, anil
in few days the road will have reached
the open country of the Salt Lake basin,
after which progress will be rapid ami
easy. This overcomes the only noticeable
obstacle on the Western portion OF tho
through line; and its significance is un.
dcr,too when we are told that the cost
and difficulty of grading the $50 miles
now nearly completed, i. greater than for
the coo miles next following. The
Chief Engineer expects to average mile
a day across the interior valley next year.
The local traffic on the completed portion
surpasscs all previon. estimate, and is lu-
cra,ive without the immense thro ugh
business which we may expect to Aow
over it.


In accordance with the Act of Congress,
the Central Pacific Railroad Company re.
ceive IL large Government subsidy, and
are Issuing their First Mortgage Bonds to
= limited amount. The merits and adj
vantag,s Of these Securities as an invest
ment are fully set forth in lh-ir advertise
mcnt in another column.
Year: 1867

REMARKABIE DELusIoNs. The will oI
a Mrs Tow aytes, an English woman, who
gave her two millions of dollars to II DIR.
Smith an | his brother leaving her, family
''out in the cold" has been set aside by
the British courts on the grou I'd of her
insanity. The charge was more fully
made out than it often is in sucl, cases in
our courts. 1t seems that she was accus
toned to declare ''that she was the Holy
Ghost. the third per son in the Trinity,
and DR. Smith was the Father; that she
was above God seven degrees; that she
sent the cholera or the influenza through
all creation, and that il had TO go through
her first that the brutes had peen at
tempting To poison her. that one stage
of her work was blindness that she had
gone through the new birih-cvcry bone
AMI sinew AMI drop Of blood bad been
made new that if the Almighty lost her,
everything woull 60 to chaos; that she
was about TO bring forth the Savior of
the word : III It she held di ect com
municalun with the Father that
she was the first great cause and the pivot
on which the Whole world hung; that she
bad head dress of hair and u coronal ui
diamonds made expressly for the Julge-
ment Day; that when the work was fin
!shcd she would have Buckingham Palace
and Windsor Castle that she and the
doctor made the thunder and lightning,
and were in their glory in a good ihun-
der Storm; that they were the Supreme
Beings and com nunicated together,
thou h they were absent from one another;
that the judgement Of the worll was TO
take place in her drawing room in Hyde
Park, aud that she WAS to take part in it
with the Lord Jesus Christ in connection
with DR.. Smith. Mrs.T hwaytes provid
ed baby linen in anticipation Of the
birth ui our Savior, and. believing that
her drawing room would pc the scene of
the final judgement, she furnished it elab
orately at the cost Of .fl1, 900.
Year: 1867

Public auction, in McGregor, q guam
tity of whiskey in the name of the
United States, to the highest bidder
will take the proceeds and deposit
them in the National treasury, and the
next Grand jury will indict the unfor-
tunate man who buys at the limitation
of the United States, and mob Of the
''strong-minded' and the weak mind
ed will with impunity, confiscate and
destroy his purchased property. The
officer who sells is in the simple dis
charge of his duty but the practical
working of this cOnfidence-swindle
comes about as near dishonesty as con-
fidence games usually do.


9Th. By adopting a License Law in
place of the Prohibitory Law, large
amount of revenue will be derived
estimated by good judges sufficient to
sustain the entire poor of the State.


These are a few, among the many,
reasons we might suggest to you why
you shold aid us in electing the follow
ing named gentlemen.


We repeat that you are'not address,
ed as party-men. The question in this
State, as yet, has not become the bant-
ling of either party; yet we cannot
fOrbear the suggestion that If adopted
by the Republican party, and the ques-
tion pushed to its logical consequences,
it will cost that party its supremacy in
Iowa as certainly as it has cost it the
loss of its supremacy in Connecticut
and California and put Vermont and
Maine in jeopardy. No party in a free
country can permanently endure
which builds its fortunes on the per-
sonal liberties of mankind: and to
you, Democrats, we suggest that if you
ever hope to build again the almost
ruined fortunes Of your party, you
must lay its foundations where person
al rights may rest secure. ,..t.


We do not address you as native nor
as adopted citirens, yet we cannot for
bear the suggestion to those who left
their homes in foreign lands that they
might in new Iowa enjoy the largest
liberty in conscience and in person,
that it will avail you little to have es-
capped tyranny of our kind beyond the
sea only to become the victims of a
more repaciOus tyranny here; the
tyranny of fanaticism-the tyranny of
intOlerance-thet tyranny that seeks to
force men to yield up the control of
their personal rights and liberties at
the dictation of impracticable and in
termedling bigots. 1'nafI Il.


In supporting the ticket which we
present, you will not do violence to
your party convictions. At this elec-
ton no political question is at stake
We ask, at your hands, that you will
repeal the Prohibitory Law in Iowa,
and frame our State law in harmony
and not in conflict with the laws of
the General Government, and with
that end in view you will support the
following 1-aI - HM.---- ~
Year: 1867

The decentralization and disorganizationa
at Washington is something for which the I
Democracy may justly disclaim all respon-
sibility. The President was not elected
by them nor has he chosen to affiliat0o
with them. :. In the quarrels between him
and the Radical leaders Of his party, the
Democracy have no interest, save that Of
citizens Of the country. As citizens, it is
their duty to support the Constitutional
head of the country in the exercise OF his
proper authority as conservative men,
they cannot do otherwise than applaud the
efforts of any officer to sustain the Cohsti-
tuition against the assaults ofits enemies.
Beyond this they have no interest in the
President or his quarrels. as. r..,a,b


The business of the democracy is to sus-
tain no man nor clique, but simply to plant
itself on the platform Of tho Constitution,
and fight on and fight ever in the good old
cause of free government and individual
liberty. Crushed by no defeat, disheart-,
encd by no disaster, it must take courage
for each new trial Of strength, relying
with unfailing confidence upon the event
ual triumph Of right and the supremacy Of
reason.


The country looks to the Democratic
party as it's only hope for the perpetuatiOn
of its institutions and the restoration Of
its prosperity, Thousands who withhold
their votes from its candidates, look upon
its final success as the only political safety.
1t is the only obstacle in the path Of radi-
cal fanaticism, usurpation and revolution $
it is the only support cf the principles up
on which our government must rest or
crumble into ruin. 1t cannot, therefore,
identify its fortunes with those Of any in /,
dividual, or stake its success upon the is
sue of any mans quarrel.


The wholesale rObberies Of the State and
National treasures, the increasing burdens
upon the people, the corruption and reck--
lessness every where rampant, the destruc-
ton Of national harmony, and the peril Of
onr political institutions-all unite in de-
manding an entire and radical change iny
the official administration of the country,
These are issues vast enough to occupy
the attention Of any political organization;
and the reformation Of the fearful political
evils impending ever US, is the great duty
to which the energies Of the Democracy
must be directed. - Utica Obsesrtr. 'iie 7'1'
Year: 1867

and the infiction of heavy penalties, pecu-


mary and personal, in all cases where
adulteration is detected. Is it not shame
that the common poisoner and the dealer
in pure preparation should only be held
to the same accountability by the authori-
ties? And yet this is the case under the
present liquor laws?


There are many forms of diffusive stim-
uli used by the medical profession, and the
great object of the trustworthy physician
is to obtain them unmixed with
any deleterious article. Is it just, is it
fair, is it for the greatest good Of the
greatest number that the law should place
thess valuable medicines on q par with
"fghting rum?' What sort of legislation
is that which makes no distinction between
a health giving tonic and Alternative and
life-consuming bane? Truly, both Con-
gress and our State Legislatures have
much to learn upon this important sub
ject, and the sooner they begin to profit by
the palpable lessons of the hour, the bet
ter it will be for the moral and physical
health of the people. Under the present
contradictory, incongruous and short sight
ed general and State laws affecting the
liquor question, Intemperance, with all its
horrible consequences, is as sure to in
crease and multiply as the sun is to gener-
ate miasma from swamp, or flame to
grow tiercer ly feeding it with turpentine.
The subject s,too broad to be discussed in
a single article. and will be taken up again
in these columns. with view to throw
more light upon it, Temperance in all
things is a noble motto, and it is sad
fact that the zealots in good cause are
sometimes very intemperate. &"
Year: 1867

"THE DEVIL RIGHr."-A prosy lay
of the church rose in meeting and
said:


''My friends, the devil and l have been
fighting for more than twenty minutes
He told me not to speak tonight, but l de-
termined that I would. He said that some
of the rest could speak better than I, but
still felt that could not keep silent
He even whispered that spoke too often,
and that nobody wanted to hear me but
l was not to be put down that way-and
now l have gained the victory, must tell
you all that is in my heart.'' Then fol-
lowed n tedious harangue.


Coming out of the session room, the
pastor inclined his head so that his mouth
approached the ear of the militant member
and whispered,-''Brother, l think the
devil was right
Year: 1867

Salt, pepper, turnit over, serve and eat"


-Erchange.


Maybe the above recipe for beefsteak
cooking is o. K, but we don't sign it. The
hammering or pounding zee got in school
made us good deal "tuffer" than we
naturally were: we have no reason to
think that piece of meat can be made
more tender by hammering! On hunt
ing or fishing "spree and oh how we
all enjoy such pleasures-we cut the steak,
the bass, the duck, or the woodcock in
slices-that is to say, we draw a knife sew
eral times through the thickest part Of the
g critter," rub into and all through it the
proper seasoning, cook it about half done,
and pretty soon you see nothing but bones
on the table!


Conventional home-cooking is nonsense,
generally. We are no epicures on the
seat" we doubtless have other weak
nesses which will suggest themselves to our
readers, but we do think that a well-fixed
dish of flesh is nice article to set before
a hungry person. To cook steak proper
ly cut it an inch thick, use knife to make
chess-board of it, take pepper and salt
and run it in we'll. have plate of butter
on your stove to swim the steak in, throw
your steak on live Goals, let it crisp or burn
just a Hitchcock it about half, swim it in
your butter plate, place it on your table,
and then if it is not agreeable, please send
for some one attached to the TINES office!
Year: 1867

Article |. This District shall be known and
designated as Township No. Quartz Mining Dis
trict. and the boundaries shall be those OF the
township.


Art 2. The jurisdiction of the following laws
shall extend to and define the rights and prv-
leges Of those who may locate claims upon veins
or lodes OF quartz or other rock containing gold,
silver, cinnabar, or copper, within this district


Art. 3. Any citizen or qualified person shall be
entitled to locate. or own by the location OF 9th
ers. but two hundred feet along the line, or upon
the same vein or lode. Every claim OF two hun
dred feet or less shall include all dipsspurs angles
and variations of the main lode, together with the
crossing parallel veins or lodcs. within twenty
feet of the samo upon both sides; provided that
the dip OF any parallel vein or lode, so included,
follows the dip Of the main vein or lode Any
person locating vein or lode. within this district,
may claim at ieht angles ilom The main lode,
and wholly upon the one or partly upon both side,
two hundred feet Of surface ground iorconvenient-
ly working the mine; but such claim OF surface
ground shall not include others than the vein or
lode provided for in this article nor prevent h
er parties from working such vein on lode.
Art. t. The discovercr OF u vein OF lode shall
be entitled to locate two hundred feet in addition
to the rights and privileges accorded 10 others by
these laws.


hundred feet in the same lode, except as provided
for in Article 4, and except by actual, bona fde
purchase, shall be considered abandoning all


cet in excess of the first two hundred feet loca-
ted in his name and such excess may be claimed
and recorded by any other party not owner by To-
cation on the same vein or lode.


Art. 6. Upon the location of a claim or claims,
notice shall be posted upon the lodes which
shall clearly have written the name or namespi
the locators, the general direction OF the veil1'r
lode the surface ground. il located upon onJpr
10th sides Of the main vein or lode.


Art I. A copy of the notice provided for in
Article Shall be recorded in the Book OF Records
in this district, within ten days after being posted
on the vein or lode. The record shall also state
| the boundaries of the claim. its locality in the
District. and that the claim is first, second ect


northerly or southerly. easterly or westerly, from
| the first location on the same vein or lode; but


no record shall be made of acclaim containing
more than three thousand feet of the lode.
Year: 1867

There are various opinions in reference
to the beneficial or injurious effects of
sais on the human or animal system
Doctors differ on this subject as they do
on many others; some declaring that a
reasonable quantity of it is necessary to
preserve health and prolong life, while
others affirm that it will produce disease
and cause death. They assert that it is a
deadly poison and should not be used in
any quantity whatever. Judging from
experience and observation we should saw
that if it is a poison, it is certainly very
slow one; like tea and coffee, it may
shorten the lives of some whom it NAV
not constitutionally agree with, but if it
takes seventy or eighty years to kill per-
son it is not likely that any life insurance
company would object to insure on ac-
count of the use of salt.


The above remarks were Suggested
from the circumstance of several large
and handsome buttonwoo1 trees being
killed in front of onr Office from the eff.
fects of salt having been poured into the
Sect from ice cream freezers. Another r
OF the 1.ses was cut dow~~ on Monday
last, and so completely dead was = that
when it fell to the ground it broke into
hundreds of pieces. This proves that
salt is death on trees.
Year: 1867

Since the passage of the military reconstruc-
tion billby Congress, there has been consider
able uneasiness in the public mind as to wheth-
er the Supreme Court would not attemptTto set
it aside and thus throw the country again into
confusion. A case involving all the essential
principles of the bill has just been decided by
that court, in which they affirm that they are
entirely without jurisdiction in the matter and
cannot interfere to prevent the President from
executing its provisions. This virtually settles
the whole matter, for if he cannot interfere in
one case he cannot in another, and indeed the
course of the President latterly gives indica-
tious that he intends to carry out in good faith
the provisions ofthat act. Whether the bill is
the best one that could be deised, we will not
pretend to say, butwe are sure that any plan at
all llreaching upto the case is better than con-
slant vaccillation; and so we hail this decision
with pleasure, for the South now knows exactly
what it must work up to in order to secure the
reconstruction it desires.
Year: 1867

The latest European accounts look to the
prospect of a war between France and Prussia.
OF Louis Napoleon for such d war, and if he
enters into it, it Will be without the sympathy
of the other great powers. twill be wise in
him to remember that ambition destroyed his
uncle and the recent developments Of his folly
in Mexico; and now in reference to Prussia
appear TO point to the same result.