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Year: 1869

commando suggestions and recommends
ing qualities and Recommendation as they nay deem proper
which reports shall BE- submitted BY the Secretary TO the


sh1ll be the duty q aid board practicable 70 make
depot belonging 70 the United states and under
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the public WSarvss


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As the number of lieutenant commanders is reduced the
number Of lien shall be increased until the nuber
shall thereafter be the number Of ieutenanss allowed by


The number of MASTER. snsgns authorized BY law is
hereby sed and established At 100 in each grade and en-
assigned 10 duty watch and division officers


This bill abolshes the Objectionable bureau system
which now prevails and the abuse OF which by the
fncumbents, who have held once for the last eight
years, has cost the country vast sum Of money and
nearly ruined the navy. With the Board Of Survey
these abuses can no longer prevail. No sherwood
will be permitted TO carry into practice the absurd
and extravagant theories by means Of which the
which the genius Of naval constructors has con-


rbuted TO the navy in the past three has been
had only to get upon the right side OF the secre
tary OF the Navy, who was the sole arbiter upon all
questions connected with ships, machinery, organ-
cation discipline &C., and the public Interests were
or theories might noursn. Sa % With all due re.
spect LOT tne former lncumDenN Oh Lne niRh
and honorable ONCE OF Secretary OF the NAVY, 1t Is
no injustice to them to say that they had political
and party interests to serve which necessarily inter-
fered with close attention to the duties OF an
ONCE which demands constant application and o
large knowledge OF details, which they civilians
could not be expected to understand. The bill which
provides naval board OF admiralty is intended to
end condition Of things which has already done
an incalcnable amount Of mischief, and which can
not be permitted to exist without danger to the
public interests. The dd interim selection Of Ad-
mira Porter, TO attend to the duties which viii
dev0lve upon the Board Of Survey as soon as the bill
providing for their appointment becomes law, was
an excellent idea OF President Grant, and no one
more heartily acknowledges the very great value OF
does the straightforward and true gentleman who
presdes over the department with honor to his
country his President and himself
Year: 1869

We clip the following article in re-
gard to the usury laws from the
Brownsville Bee:


Our Memphis and Nashville cxchang-
cs are discussing the repeal or amend
ment Of the present usury laws. AS
the law now stands, it only operates to
drive money out of the country. 1t is
folly to tell people that money is only
worth six per cent, when anybody will
give ten, and it is folly to keep law
standing OH our statute books which on
ly operates injuriously. Does the usu-
ry law give to anybody money at six
per cent? Not that any one has ev-
er heard of. Money is worth all of ten
per cent. now, and seldom. if ever, can
be obtained for less. United States
bonds pay more than six per cent. in
terest; and the law compelling men to
lend money to their fellow citizens at
six per cent, simply drives them into
the purchase of United States bonds,
which pay more. Repeal the law. OF
amend it so as to make the legal rate of
interest ten per cent.
Year: 1869

An exchange we'll says there are ma
ny persons who either take no paper at
all, or else take one from distant city,
and when they wish to see what is
transpiring in their own neighborhood,
they beg or steal the local paper from
some citizen more liberal than them
selves. Many men of this kind are ell
gagged in business and frequently grum.
BILE because people do not patronize
"home industry" when they practice
the very thing of which they complain.
Year: 1869

The following is the verdict in regard
to the Avondale Disaster:


That the said Palmer, Steele and 9th
ors came to their death in the Avondale
mines; that the cause of their deaths
was the exhaustion of air ora preva-
lence of sulphuric and carbonic acid
gas in the said Avondale mines, caused
by the burning of the head house and
breaker at said mine, on the 9th day of
September, thereby destroying the air
courses leading from the mine through
the shaft; that the fire originated from
the furnace from the mines, taking effect
from the wooden bracket in the up-cast
air course leading from the bottom OF
the shaft to the head-house.


This verdict of the inquest explodes
the suggestion that the terrible disaster
was the work of an incendiary.
Year: 1869

The New York ErpresS has an article
on the opening of the Fall Trade, from
which we quote. After referring to the
activity in business, the writer con-
tinues:


The steamship and railroad lines are
pressed with freight. more especially
those leading to the South. The most
remark able feature in general trade,
thus far, is that the Southern merchants
are again the best customers which our
city jobbers have. The line of goods,
however. which the South now buys,
differs very materially from olden times.
In dry goods the Southern merchants
generally purchase only staple and plain
fabrics, having totally ignored the cost
ly and fashy Styles which characterized
their bills previous to the rebellion.v--
Again. in regard to tiIling the, soil. a
wonderful revolution has taken place
in the Southern States. The Southern
planter now buys only the most i'm
proved Agricultural implements, and
the crops of the South are raised upon
the same scientific principles as those OF
the North and West. BY this means the
cost of production has been lcsscned
and the profits of the planters increased.
The South. in fact has been transform
ed from q life of Incidence to life of
industry and economy, and therefore
the wealth Of the Southern States has
been largely increased within the past
two years. In fact, the Southern States
have been raised from abject poverty to
independence and wealth. 1t is easy to
see the reason why Southern buyers are
now so generally courted by the New
York city merchants. The South pro-
duces the only staple which always
commands gold in the markets of Eu-
rope, and which the civilized world can
not dispense with. The Southern peo-
pie know this fact well, and they are
now among the closest buyers of goods
in this market The Southern purchases
in this city last season, which were
largely for cash, undoubtedly saved the
New York merchants from a most dis.
astrous season. Their purchases thus
far this Fall have been the chief cause
Of the present activity in trade.
Year: 1869

A case of scan. mag or Grim. con. is
to Ben. Butler delicious tit-bit. savo-
ry morsel. His experience and prac-
tice at the bar have so sharpened and
whetted his legal appetite for this sort
Of mental pabulum, that lie has not
been able to withhold his opinion in
the Byron calumny, and has rushed in
to print in four columns Of Boston
paper, in which he cross-examines Mrs.
Stowe and riddles her story with his
rules of evidence so completely as not
to leave that elderly female anything to
stand upon. He carefully and ably re-
views the character of Byron and all
the incidents of his life, and proves con-
clusively the falscncss and improbable
ty of her ingenious canard. 1t has
been the habit of Daniel to come to
Judgment, but now comes Benjamin,
and, wonder of wonders, in the cause
of truth and morality! The report that
Butler was seen at camp-mceting
lately, must be true, for his action in
this matter is proof positive that he has
experienced a change of heart. After
all, it can now be said with some show
of probability, that "the devil is not as
black as he is painted for here is But
Ter in his great, daring act (never be-
fore attempted in America) of the Mo-
raj Reformer and the Friend of Inno-
cancp
Year: 1869

The workmen in the Washington ma
Wy yard are to be docked for lost time
on the day Of Secretary Rawlins' fu-
neral; this, Notwithstanding. the Sec
rotary of the Navy ordered the work
shops to be closed that day. These
workmen think they have as much right
to be allowed for the day as the clerks
in the departments, who got the holiday
and are not locked
Year: 1869

If the Commercial keeps on printing
such editorial paragraphs as this, we
shall have to count it in among the Cop
.perbeads:


"His Holiness, we are informed, is
about to undertake the conversion OF
the negroes of this country. We could
point him out much more prolific, If
not so encouraging field. Let him
address himself to those impracticable
Radical carpet-baggers, who have nei-
ther wit, wisdom, nor mercy, and don't
know even the alphabet of salvation.-
Satan himself would second any effort
to keep such pestiferous fellows out Of
Year: 1869

The fashion of tight lacing, which
seems to have excited the special ire of
the London Lancet recently, has been
practiced by the women (and some-
times meW of the European continent
for 1000 years. Stays, properly con-
structed, are no no doubt beneficial to
health. Those who go without them
are often afflicted by dyspepsia in con-
sequence by the injurious effects of
STOPPING upon the stomach.
Year: 1869

Dakota Territory will soon be knock
ing at the doors Of the Union. Villages
are said to be springing up there rapid
ly. More than five thousand persons
have emigrated to the territory this
summer. The present population is
reckoned at twenty thousand. and for
ty-seven thousand acres of land have
lately been taken up under the home
stead and pre-emption laws by actual
settlers.
Year: 1869

Those who are anxious to go to farm
ing on Government land can feel at
ease Oh securing all they desire by pay
ing a small sum. On the 30th of June
last, Uncle Sam had-not counting
Alaska-more than a thousand millions
Of acres undisposed of.
Year: 1869

MAN AND WoMEN-There is to-day a
great deal more promiscuous association of
men and women in the affairs of life than
there used to be in the old chivalric days,
when women, in the best estate, were con-
fined in castle, or in the days of barbarism,
when the women did the work, and the
men spent their time in fighting, hunting
loafng and drinking. And in proportion
to the progress in association of the sexes
in the affairs Of life, has been the progress
and elevation of both man and woman
Woman holds a higher position here to-day
than she does shut up in Turkish or
Mormon harem. People who croak about
the decentralization of society" do no
read history. Society as whole is purer
to-day, more alive to every vice that affects
woman's purity, than it ever has been be
fore. Andrew johnson, bad as we think
him, is a saint compared with Aron Burr
We don't elect men of the Burr sort to the
Vice Presidency now, and England grum.
bles at the Prince of Wales as she never
grumbled at Henry the uch-wived.-[St
Louis Democrat.
Year: 1869

SAN FRANCISCO MECHANICs.-Carter's
heal Estate Circular says the complaint is
general among those who erect bouses in
San Francisco, of the incompetency of
many OF the mechanics. Not more than
one workman in four is master of his busi-
ness. Between ignorance of their trade.
general desire to do as little as possible.
and the fact that mechanics exact ten
hours pay for eight hours work, those who
employ them find it most costly business.
The original cost of building is frequently
not near so heavy, proportionately, as the
after expense of making repairs, which
would not have been required had the
work been properly performed at first.
lhe lncompetents are the most impudent
and exacting, too. aud vii least tolerate
any remonstrance about their work being
improperly done.
Year: 1869

We seen young farmer who knew
little OF the arts of the schools, tame the
wldness of nature, and write the poetry
OF his heart upon the soil. He chooses a
hillside overlooking lake Elms which
time had fostered, he preserved He grad
ed the hill to picturesque declivity. He
set out orchards and planted garden Out
OF flowing spring and pearling stream he
fashioned IA pond, and its waters leaped u
rom a graceful fountain. Sheep and cat,
tie roamed about his fields In autumn.
grain and yellow fruits brought him profit.
while they give color and variety to the
scene iils barns were neat and comely.
ills walks were graded and graveled. and
led by pleasant paths to his modest home,
overlooking the whole and half hidden ir
Ieaty wealth. Industry and taste have
made the most of nature there, and that
hillside in the rich autumn sun is brighter
than the colors of Claude Lorraine.


Of the humdrum Of life we all have full
enough. By the sweat Of our brow we
must all earn our daily bred Most Of our
time must 90 III caring for crops and the
dairy, IN providing for daily necessities-
Ii L have not spoken of such topics. il Is
because more practical subject has come
before me. 1t is serious evil that our
young men drift away from production.
and people OF every age desert the country
for the town. Youth has reason for if.
Business, and professions, and science and
art, are painted in glowing coIors But
has not science its first sphere where soil
is made and vegetation commences? ? Does
not art begin in Transforming barrenness to
beauty, and decorating earth with foliage
and lowers and fiuit? Well as it NAV
be to be an artist, is it not better to be
both producer and artist


by such ii tone aud temper of thou yht,
mingled with the practical toll of every
day HE, 1t seems to me the largest profits
may be made out of agriculture. New
value will be given to the farm, and a
higher interest thrown around our ru4l life.
Fields will be better titled, and the harvest
more plentiful. Better yet, the crop of
men and women on the soil will be i'm
proved Our best youth will be kept at
nome; our prosperous families will vie
with each other in beautifying the old
homestead. Pardon me then, if [ have
used this hour in suggesting now agricul.
lure may conduce most to the culture of
men how worthy youth may become in
tercs1ed IN raising crops how souls as well
as truits may grow ripe and mellow This
ls. The sraa search for the golden feece.-
Address of Ellis Ii. Roberts.
Year: 1869

WORK SUSPENDED.-It is reported
that the workmen on the line of the CAL
lfornia and Oregon railroad in Suffer conn
ty, have been driven from their work by
some OF the farmers, armed with double
shot guns, refusing to permit the construc-
ton OF the road across their farms untll
the right OF way shall be paid Tor. OF
course, the workmen don't like to stand
lre, and they leave. The company gen.
orally, IN locating this road, have run it
around parties who will not give them the
right OF way, and of course, the work must
cease until new line can be run around
these pugnacious farmers. If the rail-
railroad company really desire to progress
with their road on the line where they are
now at work, it is probable they might
make headway by little judcious might
work, and appropriate the right of way
from these contumacious farmers who till
their land with double-ba shot guns.
instead of gang plows. 1t looks, however.
as though the company had progressed in
that direction further than they supposed
they would be obliged to before Mr.. Bin
ney would give them the Oroville road,
and as 1t contumaciously refused to rain,
there Was no way of stopping work except
by airing somebody to drive the vorkmen
OF VITA doube-barrel shot guns Crossing
the river was well enough, because branch
road to Colusa would be very good thing;
but the pretence of making that the Oregon
hne, does not appear to bring the Oroyile
road to terms. and some excuse vas nee
eSsary to stop work. Binney don't sell
worth cent, and it looks as though the
California and Oregon Company had lost
Its narrative in their own ira p Butte
Record
Year: 1869

The following is said to be one Of
the bost puddings ever used in tho
Metropolitan hotel Of New York
Five tablespoons Of corn starch to one
quart Of milk; dissolve the starch in
. part Of tho milk, and heat the re-
mainder of the milk to nearly boiling /;
having salted il little, then add the
dissolved starch to the milk; boil three
minutes, stirring it briskly; allow it to
cool, and then thoroughly mix it with
three eggs, well beaten, with three Ia
blespoons Of sugar, favor to your taste,
and bake for half an hour.
Year: 1869

There is no process Of working or
washing that viii secure good article
Of butter, or that will get al the but.
termilk out till it has stood . short
time. when it must be worked over the
second time, after which it will keep :
long time, Butter that has not been
worked the second time will not keep
more than two or three days in warm
weather. No matter how much pains
you take with it, the buttermilk that
is left in The butter, becoming sour,


makes tho butter rancid.
Year: 1869

CEDAR FALLS
NOOLII Mills.
Are now ready for Custom
Work. They viii manufacture
Wool into almost any variety
of Cloth, Blankets, or Yarn,
with neatness and dispatch.
Will exchange Cloth for Wool,
so that customers can take
home with themselves the value
of their Wool the same day, in
such goods as they may select
from the largest variety OF
Woolen Goods kept by any one
house in the West.


1t is surprising to see such
Fine and Durable Goods made
in Cedar Falls. The Company
have now in store Ladies' Cloth,
hard to beat. Also, Delicate
Patterns for Children's Cloth.
ing. Also, Heavy Double and
Twist Goods, for Farmers
wear. In fact, it would be
difficult to describe the quality
and kind of goods that crowd
their store. All are cordially
invited to examine before pur.
chasing elsewhere. Likes


Cedar Fails WOODEN Mills.
Year: 1869

To BURY friend in winter Is kind of
trial that connects strange inward emo
tions of feelings which it is difficult to mas
ter. We have cleared away the snow, and
hewn a passage down through the solid
pavement of the frost, and then in that
inhospitable place we come to bury our
departed; be it child, or wife, or mother,
or much loved friend, our heart shndders
SiE feeling Is protesting, The soi'smnisy,
so-called, goes on, and before we have
gotten our own consent the "tribute of
respect" is ended The frozen chips Of
earth. loosened again by blows, are piled
on the loved ones rest, and we turn 10
20. "Will it storm tonight The wind,
alas is bowling even now in the trees,
and the sleeting has already begun. .
God, it shall not bel We were going to
be fools, we see, but now the spell is
broken. Our departed is not in that grave
and we scorn to say our farewell over it.
Let the SHOWS fall heavy, If they win, and
the winds rage pitiless and wild above,
ours it shall be to thank thee, Father, Lord
Of the warmer cline, that our dead one


lives with thee" Practically, almost
nothing will more surely compel faith in
Immortality, even if one chances TO be
unbelieving, than to bury friend In win
ter And, as a matter of fact, it is not in
the fresh, unbursting life of the spring, or
in any other softer season of the year,
that we think of immortality with half the
tension that we do at winter funerals. We
ask It instinctiyely, as we do a fire for
the cold.-Dr. BuShHdI.
Year: 1869

As an amateur orchardist, have noticed
an evil which is extremely common in the
orchar6s of this locality, and / presume
of others also. l refer to the manner in
which he trunk of the tree divides itself
into branches This division is often at
SO shap an angle that the bark in the an
gle sndt the dirtlodging there arecaught be-
tween the two branches as they grow, 50
that, instead of a solid, woody union in
the angle where the branches seem to
unite, crack is formed, holding the bark
which has been pinched in, and deepen
ing " ith the growth Of the tree. Thus,
while the lower siei. Of the limb, Is firmly
bound, to the tree, by its fiber passing tato
and becoming part OF the trunk, the
upper side Is cut of by cleft filed with
dirt and rubbish across which no fbers
psss, though il may seem to the careless
eve q perfect union The weight Of its
load of fruit, or the violence of storms, is
sure in time 70 split of such limb, often
to the utter ruin of the tree.


The remedy is, first and best, allow no
division Of the young tree with such an
giles 70 take place. But if you have old
trees in which the evil already exists, pick
out from the crotch all the loose bark, and,
with q sharp knife, pare the bark where it
would be likely TO pinch, till you come to
the green bark, but by no means reach the
inner bark, or separate il from the wood.
Even il q cleft has slready been formed
you can, if 1t Is still shallow, clean 1t out
and -,re it smooth The angle will then
I'll up with q woody growth that viii bind
the branches solidly together Such
branches are saf5; they viii generally
break before they viii split apart


Once or twice each year, every tree
should be visited, The divisions of all its
large branches carefully examined, and
everything removed from the angle which
can By any possibility become pinched In
as the branches grow. BY this means the
ruinous breaking and splitting Of trees
now 90 common, may be almost wholly
prevented.-Cor. Western Rurd.
Year: 1869

A GENTLEMAN in Auburn recently drop
ped his wallet and several hundred dol
lars In the morning, while going out OF
his yard. His dog saw it drop in the
snow, and stayed by it all day, until the
masters return home, when the faithful
animal attracted his attention, and pawed
II from under the snow.
Year: 1869

A ruffian, who was recently confined
in Jail in Beesancon, oontrived to saw
through his prison bars, whence he es-
capped to the outer walls, which he
scaled like II cat, and let himself down
plump into the street below. The sem
try on guard sighted him, and shot at
him. but the Chassepot, which did such
wonders at Rome, was Intellectual with
n real criminal. The rutlian rushed
along the Seine, with the hue and cry
after him, till he arrived at a parapet
overlooking fearful abyss one Lundred


feet deep. A policeman came up with
him, fierce struggle ensued, and the
ruffiaH hurled him like feather into
the yawning chasm. A second tried a
fall with him, but he was also tossed
down upon the rocks below. BY this
time the troops arrived, and as he did
not like the looks of them, he bounded
with yell into mid air, and fell man
gled corpse beside his two victims, one
of whom was found still breathing,
with both legs and several ribs broken.