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Year: 1869

WHITE OR NEGRO CAPITAL.-The necessity of re-
moving the Federal capital must be apparent to all
persons who visit Washington and observe how rap
idly it is sinking into mere negro town. The white
people of the United States will hardly consent when
the fact is made known to them, that their laws shall
be made and the Offices of the Government conducted
under the control and influence and in the presence Of
Overwhelming force of semibarbarous and recently
emancipated Africans! This Glass; thanks to the leg
islaon of Sumner, Boutwell,, &c.,, have absolute con-
troll OF the city government of Washington. They are
rapidly filling up the police with negroes from the Vir
gna plantations and in very few years there will be
no municipal officials but negroes The country ada
cent has been drained by Washington City Of the
greater portion Of its negro population There are at
least sixty thousand now collected there. With rare
exceptions they of the very class of ragged
paupers and vagabonds who have been deluded with
the idea that they well qualified for all positions
as white men, and that it is better to hang around
large city and beg steal for even precarous living
than to work in the fields shops. As New England
insists upon having them in Washington City, let them
stay there but let the business of the Government be
conducted in some other locality where white men at
least preponderate The direction Of the local gov
ernment and control Of the police which to guard
the lives and freedom Of our legislators.


New Orleans Times
Year: 1869

EXTRAORDINARY SELF faMoIArIos.- The following
statement appears in lhe Pail Mall Gazette


All the extraordinary proceedings Of the many fa
natical whose rapd increase has excited so much
anxiety in Russia fairly thrown in the shade by
terrible act of self mmoation which is reported from
the government of Saratow. few months ago the
prophets Of new religion made their appearance in
that part Of the empire preaching sclfdestracton by
fire the only road to salpation and readily
their dreadful doctrine received by the ignorant
and superstitoas peasantry that in large vii
lage less than seventeen hundred persons assem-
bled in Wooden houses, and, having barrieaded
the doors and windows, set the buildings on FIRE and
pershed in theaames The authorities are doing all
they stay the pregress Of this madness, but
their task is obviously difficult one. The punish
ment which the aw eau ihiet must have little terror


for enthusiasts who deliberately choose death so heg-
rble as The true road to Heaven"
Year: 1869

STARTLING OCCURRENCE IN CHIcoT COUNTY, ARKAN-
sAs.-A Mr.. James Reedus, while out hunting in
piece OF land known the Black Hammock, in Ghieot
county, Ark fired charge of turkey shot at rabbit
very short distance off, the whole load entering the
ground, from which there Immediately light
blue flame, and hazy clouds of smoke. Mr.. Reedus
very much alarmed, but advanced near enough to
the place, which emitting sulphurous smell, to
observe that the ground around had assumed the color
OF birthstone and was fast crumbng into the appear
ance of toe nails and crisped hair, in turn dssolvng
into smoke and stencil.


The whole nelghborhood was much excited, and
hundreds had visited the scene now sunk deep into
the bowels of the earth but still emitting occasional
whiffs of smoke. 1t suggested that delegation
of Vicksburg city officials be sent for to make ap
preparation for its filling up but it deemed unsafe
for them yet to get near an entrance to the in
fernal regions.


When our informant left, the excitement was, If
anything on the increase while many families were
removing from that portion of the State. Many may
think this is hoax have gotten up for the sensa
ton OF the hour, but assure them that it is not.
Mr.. 7. S. James, informant, who is from Chicot
county, is stopping at the Washington, and doesn't
look like a man who would deceive a whole commu-
nifty about such trifng thing the discovery Of hell
in Arkansas.


Taking into consideration the many wonderful start
ling and passing strange events that occurring in
different sections of the country, isn't there bare
probability that the predictions of the reverend divine
and the sleeping girl may yet prove true9 Verify "there
things in heaven and edrth Horato, than
dreamt of in your philosophy"


fVicksburg Times Sept. 8.
Year: 1869

Sickness OF THE FRENCH EMPERoR.-In commenting
upon the probable consequence of the death OF Ma
poleon, the New Orleans Bulletin says:


The profund and universal uneasiness created by
unauthorized statements representing him as desper-
ately ill afford the best light which can now be OBJ
tanned for speculation touching the consequences of
his DEATH 1t is clear that the keenest observers and
the most orecasng thinkers in Europe look forward
to the death of the Emperor the signal for great
and extraordinary perpexities and troubles, political
and international. To understand the OF this
belief must be remembered that for twenty years
France has been kept in tranquility within, and with
slight interruptions at peace without, by the mar
velous sagacty and the preemnent tact of one man.
1t is that he has heir yet quite YOUTH to
whom he hopes to transmit the imperial crown. 1t is
true that he has abored and is laborng to the last
with an assiduity and dexterity surpassed to
prepare France for the perpetuaton OF his dynasty in
the person of his son. But still it is not for the
nngest artcer to construct future out of the muta
BILE and slippery elements Of the present. and to take


bond of fate for the insurance of the visionary fabric
Death will lay the imperial artlcer low. In the
grave there is no more working, no more scheming.
On the morrow OF the day which the last of the
Emperor in life only the and things of that NOR
row may solve the problem of the imminent destiny
of France. How much depends on this single life,
and what vortex of uncertainty Swil be opened BY
its extinction was recently illustrated by NJ Thers
when be said-in answer to some one who asked his
opinion about the prospect of the Napoeonc dynasty
g the Emperor is the Empire"
Year: 1869

We are permitted by a friend ia
our town, to publish the following
letter from his son i7 r f--


BATTLE MoUNTAIN, Nevada,


" May24th, 1869 III ElHr


DEAR When wrote
to you last was at Winnemuca in
this State, on the Pacific Railroad.
About three weeks ago 1 left it and
came to this place. This is silver
mining district, and is said to be the
best ia the State, There are several
very rich mines here. The little Gi-
ant mine is the most important one
and is being worked the most, taking
out some twenty-one hundred dollars
every twenty-four hours. The mine
is owned by a company of four men
one of them, Mr.. Fox, is from Tus-
carawas County, Ohio.


Since Ihave been here L have been
working for the little Giant Co.
have had to work hard but so far 1
have stood it very well and am able.
to take three hearty meals day. L
am getting four collars day in
gold, and paying eight dollars a
week for board. This would be call
ed pretty good wages in Ohio where
some men will work for 3 months
for fifty dollars in 'Rags." VI i1TF 7


Alpheus McCane is working for the
same company and gets six dollars a
day and boarded.


The HumbOlt River runs about
four miles from this place, and on
either side is-a-yery fine valley some
-four miles wide. About every 10
miles there is farmer, or what they
call here a Ranch, which consists
of from 160 to 400 acres and which
when properly managed produces
very hne crops. They do not need
to feed their stock unless they work
them. Oxen that have worked hard
all summer and turned out in the
be fall, will fatted and make good
beef in the spring.


Men that have lived here for sew
enteen years say they have not yet
seen a winter, but what cattle would
keep fat running out. By this you
may know that the climate is very
fine apd as a stock raising country is
unsurpassed, from the fact that it
costs.Eothing for feed and plenty of
good water and a very fine range
either in Mountain or valley. -sr


The stock business is very prof
table one here There is a man
here now that has a herd of cattle
on the river about 90 miles from
here. About ten years. ago he start
ed with So, 600 worth afstock, and
to day he has, five hundred head of
EeattIel and has sold So. .080 ofbeef out
of his herd! OF course there are men
who come here, and with good man
agement make fortune but at the
same time there are many others
who come here and will work life
time and make nothing. solely for
the lack of good management.


Beef costs 20 cts per ID. so you see
it is not much more than in Ohio,


There is now direct railroad
| communication between here and
New York CITY, and tho distance
has already been made in five days.
More anon. A. K.
Year: 1869

ANOTHER POLITICAL MUEDER.-Wm. Kcane.
an employee in the New York Herald Office
was shot Yesterday in the Bank Coffee House
kept by the well known Tammany politician
Anthony Miller, situated in Grand street. New
York city. The murderer is James Lee, an
obscure ward politician, employed as a dealer in
the faro bank of Geo. Brown, in the Bowery
Two men were under the influence of LIQUOR and
quarreled about politics. They began a scuiiic
and then came TO blows, and finally Lee pro-
duced a revolver and fired at Keane. The BAL
entered the left side of the head and penetrated
to the brain. Lee was arrested. The Bank
Coffee House has been the scene of numerous
political shooting affairs. The well known poll
dcians Edward Mcconnell, Major Peter Bowe
and Thomas H. Ferris have each been shot there
during the past three or four years
Year: 1869

The NEW LEGAL TENDER NOTES.-The new
five dollar legal tender notes. it is expected, will
he ready for issue early next week. The new
ffties will he ready about the 1st Of December


and the balance of the seres-twenties, and one
and five hundreds and one thousand dollar
notes-will be ready about the 18th of December
Year: 1869

PoINTED.-At a social gathering, the
other night, gay and festive "cuss"


Of q bachelor asked a young lady al,
when lady omits to take sugar in he
tea, it it considered sign of oldNmaidr
ism, what is it sign of when a young
man fails to take sugar in his tear?'
Flashing upon him her eyes Of remarka-
BILE beauty, she instantly replied: 'ft is
a sign that be needs some one to sweeten
it for him." That bachelor took the
hint, and the young lady's mother will
doubtless hear from him on the subject.
Year: 1869

DIR. Thurston, in addressing the ministers
on the subject of raising means for the sup
port of the missionary cause, said:


+" In regard to the subject of liberal CIV
ing, great responsibility rests upon us who
are ministers. We are to develop the grace
of benevolence in our Churches, as well as
the grace of humility, faith, hope, or any
other grace. Indeed, without developing
this, we cannot, to any great extent, develop
the others. They all have their root in this.
What is mans faith or hope, or profession
of religion good for, who, seeing the heather
destitute of the bread of life, and hearing
their cry for help as it comes sweeping across
the ocean, turns away, coldly saying, BE
ye filed, be, ye saved; Notwithstanding he
give them not those things which he knows
are needful to their salvation ? What doth
it profit? And you and l, brethren, are to
sit in Christ's name, and Christ's stead, over
against the treasury, and see how the people
cast money into the treasury, and see that
they do cast it in. By the same authority,
and in the same breath, that we tell them
their hearts are Christ's and must be given
to him, we are to tell them that their silver
and gold are Christ's and must be given to
him. There need be no more hesitation or
delicacy in urging one duty than the other.
When you have told man to give himself
soul, body, and spirit-it is very little
thing to tell him to put his purse in too. If
done in the spirit of wisdom and meekness,
there need be no reserve in plain and per-
sistent urging of both duties"
Year: 1869

of character, and genius, the American pull
pit has no superior. Were he settled in
London or Edinburg, his congregations
would be equal to those of the most cele-
brated men.


The writer was in company with DIR. Rob
inson recently when the shadow Of great
sorrow lay fresh on his hearthstone. Law
renee Robinson had just gone down to the
grave in the golden light of life's early
morning. He was the last surviving son of
doting mother and confding, affectionate
father. God only knows how many hopes
were crushed when the form of this dear boy
descended to the grave. Far away from his
beautiful, cherished home he died, and at
the very moment of all others when the tu-
ture of this present world was fullest OF
promise. Well might parental tears be
poured over one of whom it could be so truly
said, eff any are noble, so was ne, II any
brave-hearted and generous, ne was their
brothev.r 4 week or TIVE only had passed
since this affective dispensation, when the
writer spent several days in the society of
DR.. Robinson, occupying the same room with
him. 1t is good for the soul to come into
contact with such courage and faith. There
was no repining, no sickly word of complaint,
but the ambassador of God entered upon
the work before him with his accustomed
energy, and strove to hide from every one
around him consciousness of his own great
bereavement. Now and then, burning men,
cries within forced out tear for relief, and
once or twice, with quivering lip, the name
of the loved one was called, but in moment
the countenance resumed its wonted calm,
and the laborer returned cheerfully to his
allotted work in the vineyard of the Master.
None but great head, combined with a
large heart, can hide the presence of mighty
sorrow from the world, while the soul that
is burdened within, sheds joy and gladness
upon all that are without.


Constitutional Presbyterianism in Ken
lucky owes lasting debt of gratitude to
Stuart Robinson. God raised up one man
with nerve, enough to write and publish a
Declaration and Testimony" while anoth-
er was prepared, and ready to hand, to en-
dorse and defend all the great principles
which the instrument contains. These two
men have been fit co.laborers Abuse, in
endless quantities, for season, was poured
upon their heads, but it fell as harmless as
the dust from the wing of an insect These
Titan brothers moved evenly forward amid
the barking of "Tray, Blanch, and Sweet
heart" only as kick, now and then from
either, sent the little animals whining back
to their kennel


We shall attempt in future paper to give
your readers sketch of Rev. s, r. Wilson,
D. D., author of the Declaration and Tes-
timony." N. l.. Y.
Year: 1869

A man standing near the north pole, and
feeling few warm rays of the sun strug-
Cling in upon him, would naturally think
that it would be good to go near their source.
He might in fact conclude, as he feels the
power of the unrelenting frost, by which ne
was surrounded, that he could not get too
near body emitting such genial and reviv-
ing beams. But if he should proceed south
ward, he would find that body lifting itself
from the earth; and as it rose in height
above his head, pouring down rays whose
concentrated fire he could in no wise endure,
the uncovered and vertical sun would reveal
itself to him as very different thing from
the luminary he saw parallel with his horizon,
and whose rays only came to him through a
long journey of earthly mist and frost.


The sinner, as he feels the rays Of Gods
benevolence falling upon him in world
where his eyes are dimmed with earthly mists,
and all his sensations are blunted by the
chilly fogs of his own and others selfshness,
thinks it no difficult matter for him to love
God; and in his Shortsig ghtedness imagines
he should love to be near him. But if by
any means he gets closer and more un-
mixed perception of God as he is, he finds
that his character burns upon him with a
consuming intensity which he would hide
himself in the centre of the earth to escape.
The moment God comes near him with the
blazing beams of his infinite justice and holi,
ness, he is in hell. Immediate contact or
near approach to such being are of all
things what he cannot endure.


There is one mode by which the sinner
can come near to God, so as to be partaker
of his light and life, and yet not be consum-
ed. God of his infinite mercy has provided
that way. Sheltered in Jesus Christ, the
infinite Saviour, he may draw near with
"confdence," yes, with boldness, and be
warmed into life and comfort.


With propriety, then may Christ be called
the "Ark of Safety" "our Refuge" and
our Crock" sheltering us at the same
time from the power of this world and the
great adversary, and from the consuming
justice of the Infinite One. And yet sinners
slight that Saviour, and yet protesting Chris
tians bury themselves in worldly schemes
till they are saturated with worldly spirit,
and become half torpid to the power of the
SaYiour's love-
Year: 1869

The last written words of Washington
Choate, brother of the late Rufus Choate,
forcibly express that conviction of the i'm
portance of religion, to which, at least in
his late days, the conscience of the great
lawyer and statesman promptly responded.
On the morning of his death, Washington
began to dictate letter, in these words =
"There is one subject, Rufus, on which We
must not be dumb, so that we speak not; or
deaf, so that we hear not; or blind, so that
we may not see. 1t is not subject upon
which" there he paused, and the sentence
was left incomplete. But surely we shall
not do violence to the spirit in which it was
conceived, if we add enough to say, cit is
not a subject upon which it is permitted any
man to remain Indifferent" Itclaims of every
man his mosScareful and profound thought.
The final destiny of the soul is connected
with it. All our hopes or fears for that in
finite and unknown future upon which the
living generation is so soon to be launched,
are entwined about it. All schemes of
earthly ambition, all the plans of worldly
enterprise, all the rewards of earthly toll,
are dwarfed to insignifcance in presence of
it, The mind, in its broadest range of spec
ulation, finds no other subject of such per
sonal Importance. No theme of thought or
meditation is entitled to take precedence of
the claims of religious duty. Everything g
else appears triaing, when man like Charles
James Fox asks, "My lord, what do you
think of the state of the soul after death p


Over the lodge of a college at Oxford,
England, there is sun dial, on which are
engraven the words, "Pereunt ct imputae-
tm"-the hours perish and are imputed
One who hears the words, cannot shake of
the conviction of their truth. We are re.
sponsible for the use we make Of these feet.
ing moments. They are fashioning the soul
and imprinting upon it the lines of its fnal
destiny. If they are given up to irreligion
if they are surrendered to trifing pleasures
if they are withheld from that high and holy
service to which they should be consecrated
and by which they are consecrated them
selves-then are they worse than lost. They
become a curse to the soul. Every moment
of them dragS it downward. Every moment
loads it with new weight of guilt. Anc
who can think of answering for their abuse
and misapplication, without being appalled,
But will any man say that, with such capac
tiles and opportunities as he possesses here
he can use them aright-use them as hii
Maker designed he should use them, while
he neglects almost utterly the great ends fol
which time, as the preparation season fol
eternity, has any value?


And shall any worldly acquisition or emf
nence warrant the sacrifice of what will a
last be regarded as the only thing of rea
account? Will riches, slipping like sane
from your cheated fingers, compensate 70.
the loss of the soul? Will it quiet the fore
bodings of conscious guilt, to be told tina
your name will find place on the page o
Year: 1869

history? Will the future be made lighter
when the shadows of guilty pleasure from
the past have been thrown over it? Will a
Dives count his final lot more tolerable that
he once sat down to sumptuous feasts, orw was
clothed in purple and fine linen? Who does
not feel the force of the words which Bacon,
an eminent sculptor of the last century, Or
dered to be engraved on his monument
"What l was as an artist was of some i'm
portance to me while l lived, but what L am
in Christ Jesus, is all that concerns me now?
The great question that will at length alb
sorb the interest of every other is-what
hope is the soul warranted to cherish Tor
eternity, or what preparation has it made for
that world where, without holiness, it is bank
rupt and ruined forever?
Year: 1869

He took shaft both strong and straight,
A shaft he had polished with labor great
He hinged it with sweet eloquenee,
With learning and with subtle sense.
Boldly he drew, and he aimed with care;
But it wounded only the idle air.
A second he took, both straight and strong,
Winged with passionate sense of wrong.
He drew it stoutly and aimed it true;
The mark he aimed at was plain to view.
Swift it fed, yet it lighted wide;
For it touched on rock, and it swerved aside
He reachedhis hand, and took from above
A slender arrow, barbed with love.
He aimed it with but little art,
Yet it touched and wounded human heart.
His last, his lightest, was winged with prayer,
And he shot it forth through the yielding air.
No careful aim the preacher took,
For he turned to heaven his upward look;
Yet it pierced a heart both hard and proud,
The hardest heart in all the crowd.


GS,mday at Home
Year: 1869

The wEArHER.-The following record will show
the changes In the temperature for the past twenty
four hours, In comparison with the corresponding
day OF last year. as indicated by the thermometer
at Hudnuts Pharmacy, HERALD Building Broad
way, corner OF Ann street.
Year: 1869

A CHANCE FOR TREASURE HUSTERs.-Iti is stated
that Frank Reno alone knew of the place where
was deposited the 800, 900, the proceeds of one
of his many robberes. His sister visited him
some days before he was murdered and tried to
induce him to tell where this hoard was con-
cealed; but he refused, telling her that if be
could not live to enjoy it no one else should.
The secret died with him, THE Cocos Island
company can start in the search, at once, for
this hidden hoard
Year: 1869

CUBA.-Latest advices from Cuba are so con-
fictng that it is almost impossible to get at the
exact situation of affairs there but there is
some encouragement 10 hope that the patriots
have not only held their own but have made
some advances against the Spaniards
Year: 1869

PoLITICs AND TEMPERANCE.-The Chico Good
Templars have issued an address in which they
declare they will support no candidate for office
at the approaching election, who is a drinking
man, no matter of what party he is member
Temperance societies had better let politics alone
for the present.
Year: 1869

to the velocpede


The sidewalks are too narrow for them to
move with any rapidity, aud, except on wooden
pavements, the streets not to be Travelled by
them. The novelty of the veocipede is worn
off, and people have come to look with something
like contempt upon big, lubberly fellow, who
looks as though he ought to be out cbopping
wood, straddling a two-wheeled car in the mid
die of the day, making his laborious way through
the streets.
Year: 1869

THINK We WANT WAR.-An editor of the Lon
don Star, in letter to this country, describes
the English as believing that our government
and people desire war and that we made our
demands extreme in order to bring it about,