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Year: 1869

The Nova Scotia House of Assembly, on
Tuesday next, will again discuss the relation
of the Province to the Dominion Of Canada
and to Great Britain. A resolution has been
moved to petition the Home Government
either to restore Nova Scotia to her former
position, or TO absolvc her from her allegiance
to the British throne. The people OF Nova
Scotia feel the degraded position to which
they have been reduced, and ON Tuesday their
sentiments will be sure TO find some eloquent
champions.
Year: 1869

The essential points in the reports Of Gen.
Warren, Mr.. Blckensderfer, and the other
Government Commissioners, as printed
on our second page, add mate
rally to our information concerning
tbo exact condition of the Pacific Railroad.
In general it may be said that the impression
which the reports are likely to produce is
more favorable to the roads than that formed
from previous accounts. Over eleven millions
of dollars, however, are shown to be still neces'
sary to complete the work in accordance with
the legal requirements.
Year: 1869

we should have been so much the
richer, and should have had a
really handsome balance after buying in ten
millions of our bonds, and stopping the in
terest leakage then. Altogether the prospect
for frightening the Secretary into an abandon
ment of his policy cannot just now be reck-
oupd first class
Year: 1869

As far as we can see, the Treasury officers
made very little, either pecuniarily or other
wise, out of their presentation Of an old bill
for ten dollars and half against Gen. Beau
regard. But the Government would have
considerably better balance in its
Petty Cash account if all the officers who
went into the Rebellion would show as clean
hands as the punctilious little Creole, whose
bookkeeping has brought our accounting clerks
10 Oriei
Year: 1869

The correspondence between Judge Francis
of The Troy Times and lis associates Of the
Press, printed elsewhere, is quite as compli-
mentary to him as would have been the pro-
posed banquet. The Judge is soon to sail for
EurODe
Year: 1869

The chance for big premiums on our surplus
Gold has probably passed. Yesterdays sales
only netted us about 1881. If we could have
Jet ten millions slip last week, when the
price was mounting among tue forties,
Year: 1869

That times are hard, at present, in this yi- cinity, is plainly apparent, but that they will continue so for any great length of time, we do not believe. Various causes have com bined to render them -'hard," but the main, grand cause is the fact that our farmers can not, at present, sell the grain raised by them last year, in consequence ef which, many of them, especially those who are indebted to the merchants are depressed in spirits, gloomy and somewhat disgusted with the country. This is all perfectly natural, but would # not be better for them to keep ''astif upper lip, 7" and determine to live through it. We have the assurance of the Quartermaster at Fort Whipple that, before July next, Government will need and purchase every pound of grain for sale in this section of the county The people of Walnut Grove Sksll and Kirkland valleys will find sale for theirs at Wicken- burg, Camp Date Creek and at their doors, to tesmsters. Believing this, we see no good cause for despondency. Had Government taken the 800 tons contracted for at Fort Whipple, at 0nes, as our farmers expected it to do, it would have relieved their wants greatly, but as the authorities at San Fran cisco ordered the Quartermaster here to re- ceive grain only at such times and in such quantities as it was needed at the various posts in his sub-district, the or,ier has to ie complied with. If farmers are wise, they will draw lesson from this 'tightneSs" that will be of great benefit to them hereafter They should see the folly of planting more acres than they can attend to themselves, and then hiring poor hands for from s5O to s1O0 per month to help raise and harvest it. This Is what has put farmers in debt st the stores and what has crowded them generally. Another spring is close at hand, and we ad- wise each and every farmer to break and plant no more land than his own labor and purse will justify. In this way more grain will be raised to the acre, and the laborer and the merchant will not set you crazy by dunn ing you

 The prospects of the country never ap- peared better, the Sterling mine is q success, the placer mines of Black Canyon, and LyDx Greek are paying well, more troops are on the way here, and we look for good times soon. So, be of good cheer. farmers, live within your means, and you will soon be indepen- dent Of everybody. It is morally certain that we will soon have first class Touring mill in this vicinity, and we hope farmers will this year plant less corn and more wheat, for the country is bound to live under cloud so long as it's people have to pay from eight teen to twenty dollars hundred for imported four.
Year: 1869

GENERAL GRANT went into ready made clothing store on Broadway the other day bought $50 coat and paid for 1t like " any other man. -Erchangs.

 There, now; that settles it. We had an idea that the General WAS plain, economical man, and saved his money to buy cigars, but the idea is now "dispersed.r The paper for. got to tell us whether Mrs. Grant knew it whether the coat fit him, or whether it hurt him mach to pay for it like any other man.
Year: 1869

FoR some unexplained reason, the laws passed by the recent Legislature have not yet been published, and officers and people are left in the dark as regards their provisions. This is not as it should be. Government al- lows ample funds to the Secretary of the Ter ritory to pay for printing the laws in some newspaper in the Territory, and they should have been laid before the people long ago.

 Had the session been held in Prescott the people would long since have known all about these new laws, for we would have published them even without pay. What a shame that the capital of Arizona, which claims nearly all the wealth and intelligence of the Territory, cannot support printing office capable of printing the journals of the Legislature and the laws. And yet this same capital town has the cheek to ask Congress 10 appropriate money to be squandsred there in building a mud house Co be styled the |" Capitol of ArizoHsr' and, with the aid of the delegate whom they have sent to Wash. ! ington, expect to get it But even should their prayer be granted it will do them but very ! little good, for Mccormick will sell to the | Government, for a capitol, his si0,0O0 CD mud house in Tucson, for three times it's value, put the money in hts pocket, and, as like as not, go to intriguing for the removal of the capital to some other point.

 ! Congress, however, knows better than to throw away money in this way. By looking at map Of tLe Territory it's members will see that Tucson is situate in remote corner of the Territory, cut of from tho white set dement's by long stretches of desert II is, too, the siekliest place in Arizona, and can never become place Of any importance.
Year: 1869




| Reader have you mite, one solitay atom,
Of common sense? If you have, be persua-
ded to made healthful use Of it and com.
mence on the instant. As soon as spriug
begins to set in, almost everybody has more
or less feeling of lassitude; there is less
buoyanoy, less of an appetite, less disposi-
ton to exercise some are 50 indisposed that
they have to keep in the house, and num-
bers take to their beds. All this is vour
own fault; it's because you have cot no
sense, not particle; or, ifyou have, you do
not make use Of it. You can readily under
stand that now, as the weather is warmer.
you do not require as much fire ia the
house and may be you arc wondering wby
the servants will persist in making the
house hotter now than in the depth of win
ter they are only burning as much fuel now
as IN mid-winter, and they have not the
sense to know this, or at least they do not
care to think The human body is house
to be kept warm; and, to be in health. its
heat must be maintained at the same fem
Is
ninety-six degrees. The stomach Is, in a
sense, the furnacs; the food put into it the
fuel; the lungs set it on fire. Why, then,
do you eat in warm weather as much as in
cold weather? On spring day, when
scarcely any fire is needed in the house, you
cram as much fuel into your stomach as in
the depth Of winter You see now that
you have not as much sense as Biddy; she
is only trying to burn up your house, you
are trying to burn yourself up with fever.
A baby not three months old has too much
sense to poke its little finger into the candle
twice. yet you are poking your whole glut-
tonous hulk, head foremost, every day into
the furnace, and yet actually don't know
what hurts you. You don't think; or, if
you do, they are such diluted, milk and wa
ter thinks, that dime a load would be
a bad bargain to the purchaser


Iu adult life all the food we eat serves two
purposes; it sustains and keeps warm For
the latter object meats, oils, buffers, gra-
vies, and sweets are used; hence, in warm
weather, comparatively small amount of
these things should be eaten; but in their
place take breads, fruits, vegetables, melons,
and berries. Natures instincts call loudly
for the acids Of berries aud fruits, and for
the earliest tender vegetables, the greens"
and the salads of our gardeners. II is be-
cause they have no heating qualities; they
are rather cooling in their nature. They
who spend much of their time indoors,
would enjoy an exemption from a great
many bodily discomlorts if, upon the first
day Of spring, they would begin to have
meat for only one meal in the day, and in
lessening quantities as the summer comes
on.-HalPs Journal Of Health
Year: 1869

There has been ono emotion in Paris dur
ing the last few days, created BY the sudder
temperance 10 the world of Paris Of th,
Yleomte de -, one Of the quondan
tavorites, who had left the city in the great
est condemnation aud disgrace some sever
years ago, and who returned bronzed anG
hardened, both in mind and person, to re-
sumo the place among his friends which not
they but he declared he had forfeited by hi.
own imprudence and folly.


by the kindness Of a relative he was ena-
bled to steam away for New Grenada, where
he had been able to obtain a situation as
clerk to the engineer just then employed in
the construction Of line Of railway through
the country.


In this position be fulfilled his small du-
ties with the most perfect exacitude for
more than three years, and at the end Of
that time, the railway being terminated, was
ordered to another duty in another part Of
the country. The way was over the steep
est mountains. He had already gut through
the greater part Of his journey when, one
day, overcome by the heat, he laid himself
down by the side of a running stream, which
refreshed him both by sight and sound aud
foll TO mu>iug on the hard fate which had
tornhim from his relatives and friends to
wander thus lonely exile in foreign land,
wher his attention was suddenly called from
these high fights to circumstance which
vas taking place immediately beneath his
eye, and which had escaped him while gaz-
ing On the heavens.


The phenomenon was this: Close to
where his head was lying amid the grass and
foweH, the running water formed an eddy,
which after turning in tiny whirlpool, pro-
ceedcd to fall into a narrow aperture, whence.
on examination, he beheld no issue. His
curiosity was aroused, and he raised him
self up to gaze down into the hollow, the
sides of which he found to consist of two
blocks of stone, so worn down and polished
by the continued rush of the current that he
could see TO the very bottom The sight
he there beheld made him stagger and fall
back, almost without consciousness on the
grass In that single hollow had filtered
for centuries the gold SAND carried by the
current from the bed ofthe river some miles
higher up, where gold washing had been
carried on for many generations.


There lay before him one glttering pile
of the precious ore, cleaning at the bottom
ofthe limpid water, and demanding only a
strong hand and resoIute will, both of which
he possessed, to draw it to the surface.
Needless to say, he retraced his steps to the
place whence he had departed, and soon
returned, bringing back men and maehin-
cry, and, as he says, when telling the wond-
rous tale, you may believe me if you
choose, but in less than three weeks l had
become the richest man in the whole repub-
lie. - What bears out the assertion is the
purchase he has just made Of one of the
mansions at TIE Barrere de I rEtoile, and the
splendid style in which he has mounted bis
ez+Rblshment
Year: 1869




There are some people who are not con-
tent to let us eat our bugs and worms and
dirt in peace. They worried at us with tri.
chime horrors until we gave up much Of
our pork-Wbich was a good thing. Now
they have leveled their compound micro
scopes at the brown sugar barrel and are
driving US, With their pictures of crigqly
crabs, into the use of white sugar-which
real economy ought have led US to long ago.
In brief, their story is that all raw, or brown
sugar, is infested with minute insects some
times large enough to be seen By the naked
eye--whieh live on the foreign albuminous
matter in the sugar As many as I00, 600
have been found ina single pound. They
are lively, rapid, ersb-like fellows, and first
cousins, ifnot nearer relatives, of the insect
which burrows under the skin, and produces
the disease known in humble life as the


itch. That these are never found in re.
fined sugar is due to the fact that the very
process of refining removes them as well as
the aihnminnns i,aar.,,-it;es on rghiah fhAu
feed. That tie sugar reiners may have in
terested themselves in throwing light on
this subject is quite probable, but the facts
seem to be undoubtedly as stated. Two
comforts present themselves: the first, that
twill no mere hurt us to eat several millions
more Of the sacqri saccltart than the several
millions We have already eaten, and, secondly
that white sugar is probably cheaper dollar
for dollar and sweetness for sweetness, than
the populous brown sugar.
Year: 1869

A French paper gives US the following
dog story, which will fully match anything
we have lately met With


NO dogs admitted, sir, said the porter
70 gay ~eoonblago, as young man aud
his dog appeared at the entrance


You must leave him behind if you go
in. F."


Very well, said the young man stay
about here, Prince, till come back


BY and by the young man wished to
refer to his watch, when behold the chain
had been snapped in two and the valuable
time piece was gone. He considered the
case a moment and then sudden thought
flashed through his mind So stepping out
he whispered the fact to the porter, and
gained permission to take his dog in for a
minute or two.


Look here, Prince, said he, you
knowing dog, my watch is stolen" and he
showed him the empty pocket and the cut
chain "Do you understand, old fellow
Where sir, is the thief? You find it my
good doggie, and I'll give you famous
treat You understand, do you ?"


Prince wagged his tail, and gave his
master a very knowing and cute look, and
then the two stole quickly into the place.
Quickly the dumb detective glided around
among the people, smelling away at this
one S coat and that ones chain, until at last
he set his teeth firmly into the coat-skirt Of
a genteel-looking man, and could not be
shaken off,


The yeung man quickly made known the
case to the bystanders, who had gathered
around him, and had the thief's pockets
duly searched. Six other watches were
found on him which he had gathered up in
the course Of the morning, and which the
frightened owners we're glad to get their
hands on.


Prince selected out his masters property
in twinkle, as that was all he cared for,
and gave it to him joyfully. Itwould have
taken a very keen policeman to do the work
so neatly and so quickly, and all agreed that
he merited as good dinner as = dog could
have. A good beef bone and a bowl oi
milk, however, abundantly satisfied all his
wants, and then he was just as ready to dc
the sanae favor oyer again.
Year: 1869

| MUST pity that young man who, with a
little fnery Of dress andrecklesshess of man
ner, with his coarse passions all daguerreo-
typed upon his face, goes whooping through
the streets, driving an animal much nobler
than himself, or staggering into some
haunts of show and call it enjoying life. !"
He thinks he is astonishing the world; and
he is astonishing the thinking part of it, who
are astonisbed that he is not astonished ct
himself For look at that compound of
flesh and impudence, and say if on all this
earth there is anything more pitiable He
know anything of the true joy of life? As
well say that the beauty and immensity of
the universe were all enclosed in the field
where the prodigal lay among the huskI and
the swine. Chdpin.
Year: 1869

From Peters Musical Monthly

Ny good mamma, she feels so sad,
And says am a airt,
Because / 60 to promenade
All in my walking skirt;
She thinks ought to be ashamed
To go out in the street,
With clothes, she says, all fused and fixed
To show my little feet.
We want the sanction Of the gents
In all our style of clothes;
Aud yet love to please mamma,
Bat more to please the beaux.
And everthus you Il find it is,
When ladies' walk the street:
They'll Try and manage some good way
To show their pretty feet!
Our bonnets now are but "mite,
Though mighty dear they cost;
Beneath our furbelows and bows
Our little forms are lost;
The tiny heels upon our shoes,
They are so gay aud neat,
And solely made, you may be sure,
To show our handsome feeti
With paraso above me held,
And our mamma to see,
fascinate the darling men
Where er chance to be.
"Oh what charming, lovely girlH'
hear them Oft repeat
To make their hearts 60 pit-a-pat.
show my pretty feet
CHo. .-Ain't / sweet, amt / sweet?


know I'm sweet, and have a right
To promenade the street,


And glad there is a style


To show my pretty feet.
Put out thy talents to their use
Lay nothing by to rust;
Give vulgar ignorance thy seorn,
And innocence thy trust
Rise to thy proper place in life
Trample upon all sin,
But still the gentle hand hold out
To help the wanderer in.
So live, in faith and noble deed,


Till earth returns to earth
So live, that men shall mark the time
Gave such a mortal birth.
Year: 1869

Iris not the painting, gliding and carving
that make good ship but il she be a MIN
bic sailer, tight and strong 10 endure the
seas, that is her excellence. Il is the edge
and temper Of the blade that make good
sword not the richness of the scabbard and
so it is not money or possessions that make
O man considerable, but his virtues
Year: 1869

To be free from desire is money to be
free from the rage of perpetually buying
something new is certain revenue to be
content with what we possess constitutes the
greatest and most certain of riches.
Year: 1869

II thou Dearest slight provocations with
patience, it shall be imputed unto thee for
wisdom and if thou wipcst them from thy
remembrance, thy heart shall feel rest-thy
mind shall not reproach thee.
Year: 1869

THERE is nothing which SO surely takes
all the heart and strength and nobleness of
character out of man as the habit of doing
from morning till night and from day to day,
just what he likes, and only because he likes
Year: 1869

A HOUSE built on sand IS, in fair weather,
Just as good as if builded on rock. A cob
web is as good as the migbtiest cable when
there is no strain on it. 1t is trial that
proves one thing weak aud another strong.
Year: 1869

Why was it commanded in the Law,
''Thou shalt not curse the deaf" because it
is an extremely unjust and cruel thing to
attack those who, since they do not hear
the accusations brought against them, have
not the means of defending themselves.
Year: 1869




A late Greek paper mentions the discov-
cry, in the course Of some excavations in the
island of Cephalonia, of a statue of Her
culcs, entire in all its parts, and better pre-
served than almost any known relic of Gre
clan art 1t appears to belong either to the
very highest period of that art, the days Of
Phidias and Praxiteles, or, at least, to an
age but little later than theirs. The posture
is said to be very admirable, the body lean
ing toward the right, With the left shoulder
little elevated, the LETT hand wrapped
around with the lions skin, and the right
closed With grasp expressive Of mighty
strength. The right foot rests firmly on
the pedestal, while the left only touches it
on tiptoe. The whole expression is intense
ly life like, particularly that of the head
The hair and beard are thick and curly, and
the eyes full of brilliant expression.


A GOOD WFE.-We can always tell what
sort of woman a man marries, by the way
he treats the printe. If be gets a common
wife he forgets the printer altogether If
he gets a tolerably good wife he win send in
the notice of his marriage If he gets a
very good one, he will send the printer a
slice of cake accompanying the notice If
he gets an extra good one, be viii send a
greenback With the notice. And if be gets
a glorious, angelic creature-all affection
and goodness-he Is sure to send the printer
gold or silver dollar with the notice Of his
happiness No good wife allows her hus,
band to owe for his paper, and il their worse
half uoes not attend to these things, it is a
clear case of deception; because man that
won't pay for his paper viii deceive his
wife, and we have our opinion of SUCH
Exchange
Year: 1869

AN old woman received letter, and sup
posing it to be from one of her absent sons,
she called on person near to read it to her.
He accordingly began to read, Dear
mother then making a stop to find out
what followed las the writing was rather
bad), the old lady exclaimed, ''Oh, It's my
poor Jerry; he always suffered !"
Year: 1869

Wherever l have wan
dered in my missionary labors, whether in
the East. West, North, or South, have
always observed that where the newspaper
was taken BY The family. there thrift, mo-
raIity, and general intelligence were to be
found. In the log cabins Of the West, as
soon my eye caught eight Of the news
paper, I thought to myself, Here at least,
I will find morality, intelligence, courtesy,
and welcome, as garden ripe to receive
the gospel seed !" and l was seldom mis-


taken. On the contrary. where neither
newspapers nor good books were to be seen
there ignorance, bigotry. superstition and
grossne<s were found in all their forms


Yes, l have often thought that the news


paper was the pioneer Of civilization, and
did much TO make the way easy for tht
successful labors Of the home missionary
LORENZO Dow.
Year: 1869

CHEERFUL PEopLE.-God bless the
cheerful person Imam, woman or child.
old or young, il!iterate or educated. hand
some or bo,neiy. Over and above every
other trait stands cheerfulness. What the
sun is to nature--what God is to the
stricken heart which knows how to lean
upon Him. are cheerful persons in the
house and by the wayside. They 60 un-
abtrusively. unconsciously, about their
silent mission. frightening up society
around them with the happiness beaming
from their faces. We love to sit near
them; we love the glance Of their eye, the
tone Of their voice. Little children find
them ou. oh so quickly, amid the den
ssst crowd, and, passing by the knotted
brow and compressed lip, glide near, and
laying coufi.in2 little hand ON their
knee, lift their clear young eyes to those
loving faces Western Home.