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Year: 1869

II coffee be INDUCED in ut all, it
should he drank in the morning, so
that its stimulating effect upon the
nerves may pass away before the
hours OF relaxation and repose. y
single cup of well-made coffee which
has not boiled more than five min
utes-thus giving, not a decoc ton,
but an infusion of the Ara bian berry
will rarely prove injurious to n
great majority OF constitutions and
in hot climates, or hot weather, es-
pecially where heat and moisture are
combined, it acts according 10 Liebig
directly upon the liver and checks
the tendency 10 bilious derange-
ments when a person Is travelling,
and Is thereby exposed to sudden
changes of temperature, the cup OF
coffee at breakfast is of nearly as
much Importance as any article of
food. The wagoner or teamster who
leaves the house perhaps at daylight
III winter, and does not see il again
till nightfall, should not go out from
the place he calls his home without
having his stomach fortified by a
good, smoking cup of wsll-made cof-
fee. 1t is better for him than drink
OF Ghisky, as any man who has
tried them both will testify.


Aware of the desire for change,
common 10 all appetites, other for
Year: 1869

a ROMANTIC STORY.-The Hart
ford (Conn.l Post says lady and
gentleman are now living in that
city who were engaged to be mar
rled more than thirty years ago, and
who are still anXiously waiting the
day when they shall be made one.
In 1S40 they had been engaged for
some time, but did not marry because
each had mother dependent upon
him and her for support. The two
mothers refused to live together, and
their children would not leave them.
but decided to postpone their mar
rlage until one or the other should
die. Both methers are still living,
and the gentleman continues to visit
the lady, their filial duty keeping
them apart. The man has had con-
sumption for several years ,and doubt
less ere either of the now very aged
mothers shall take her departure he
will have gone to his last resting
place. Every day a trembling old
Romeo, leaning heavily on a cane,
with feeble steps, wends his way TO
the house of Juliet, withered maid
en- lady, whose hair is silvered bv
age and trouble. Truly they deserve
happiness fany couple ever did.
Year: 1869

mula of breakfasts are given and
many valuable recipes for the cook
IN the city and country, to whom we
cordially recommend this book
which is free from all technicalities,
and hence iRtelligible to all who can
read.
Year: 1869

CRY Politics. From our latest review by
special reporter it appears that city politics
are at dead low water; that Tammany, with
the bulk of the city spoils under her thumb, is
easy in the consciousness of her strength,
while the republicans over the federal Offices
are wrangling and splitting up into fighting
factions worse than ever before; that having
secured the Governor, Tammany is now laying
her pipe for the Legislature, and that "by
hook or by crook, or by what Tony Lumpkin
would call "the rule of thumb" she expects
to win; but as there is many slip twxt the
cup and lip" all these fine calculations of
Tammany may be spoiled before November.
The question of the adoption of the new
State constitution, for instance, will be apt to
make pretty clean party fight, and outside
of this metropolitan district we know what
that means.
Year: 1869

A SMALL BUsINEss-The continued oppo-
sition of the several departments at Washing
ton to the applications of Mrs. DR.. Mary
Walker for small clerkshp. 1t is evident
that this opposition arises from the facts that
Mrs. DIR. Walker is womans rights woman
that she wears pantaloons and a frock coat.
like gentleman, instead Of wearing hooped
skirt and panier, like lady. But what of
all this? In education and experience in
business affairs she is, perhaps, the superior
of almost any woman in the Treasury Depart
ment, and of most of the men, too. More
over, in the war she did good service in the
Union cause among our sick and wounded
soldiers, and this ought to be enough. We
think, too, that if she will only submit this
claim directly to General Grant she will not
be rejected any more. This trifing and badi-
mage with a poor woman, honest and intelli-
gent and in search of work which she is fully
competent to do, is small business.
Year: 1869

Town AND COUNTRY ON THE FOURTH. The
town flies to the country to escape the noise
and nuisance of re-crackers, and the country
comes to town to see the fun. Hence the pro-
verb that the city on the Fourth is only for the
boys and the greerhorns of the country. In
any event let the American eagle spread his
wings from New York TO San Francisco, and
while drinking the refreshing ice water of
Alaska dip his tail ia the Gulf of Mexico-for
he is the bird TO do it.
Year: 1869

IL appears that in the War Department q
considerable number of Treasury leaks have
been discovered in the matter of the govern
ment advertising, and that there is, or has
been, a loossness in the management of this
business which has enabled the Washington
newspapers so far, by various ingenious
lodges, to make something handsome out Of
the government without special or general
authority by law. We are gratifed to hear
that such discoveries have been made We
know from the Corporation advertising Of this
city how this business is made to support
newspapers which otherwise would soon starve
to death; but as our taxpayers seem to be
satisfied whether our Corporation expenses are
fifteen, twenty or twenty-five millions year
we drop the subject. But the national govern
ment advertising is another matter. The
national Treasury is not 80 fiush Of funds and
and cannot longer afford to indulge in such
luxuries as the squanderinG Of millions Of
money with nothing TO show for It. The New
York city tax levy, with us to have to foot the
bills, makes all right, and If IL grows faster
than the city, our citizens being agreed, there
Is an end Of the controversy. Not 80 is It
with the national Treasury. Retrenohment
and reform must there be enforced, or we
shall some fine day, and within o few years,
have collapse. Hence, we say, let even
these government advertising leaks be stopped,
and II the newspapers concerned die In conse-
quence let them die The government can GOT
on without them
Year: 1869

THE CASE OF DOUGLASS, THE CoLoRED
PRINrER.-The printers society of Wash
ington is still in great tribuation over the
question Of recognizing the eligibility to
membership Of the colored printer Douglass
From the report of the committee of the
Typographical Union on his case, which we
published yesterday, we think 1t probable that
Douglass will come of victorious in decision
that there must be equal rights in labor, with
out distinction of color.
Year: 1869

In PUoKER-The temperance men in
Maine. They are bound to run a separate
ticket which the republicans deprecate, de-
claring that the movement is calculated to
affect only the republican ranks, as the deme-
Gratis have no temperance men in their party
to lose Let these Maineiacs have full swing,
and they will soon find the length of their
tetbpr
Year: 1869

The DAILY HERALD viii be sent to subscribers
for one dollar a month.


The postage being only thirty-1ve cents a
quarter. country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price it Is
furnished IN the city.
Year: 1869

"Poor Pierce'' ON tho Political Situation.


We publish this morning the report of late
conversation with ex-P President Pierce On the
political situation. From this report 1t
appears that he is not satisfied with the re-
construction doings of Congress-that he
thinks we are getting on too slowly towards
specie payments that he inclines to the
diplomacy of Reverdy Johnson on the Ala
bama claims that he thinks we are not pre-
pared for war with England; that he can
not understand the notwithstanding activity
of the administration in regard to Cuba, and
that he has no faith in the women's rights
movement He has nothing to say about
his successors in the White House, in which
he sets good example for Andy Johnson;
and, altogether, as we understand him,
''poor Pierce" has had enough of politics
and is satisfied to rest on his laurels. We
infer that he is still democratic Bourbon


but that signifies nothing 80 long as he is
disposed to keep quiet In the will of the
late ex-President Buchanan it was discovered
that he had not invested a dollar of his
funds in United States securities, and if ex-
President Pierce, Of the same school, is in the
same way of thinking, it makes no difference,
since, according to the latest reported opinion
of ex-President Fillmore, we are drifting to
despotism. The world moves on, and they
who cannot keep up must be left behind.
Year: 1869

THE 'BLAoK PAIL OF LIBERTY. "A Southern
paper remarks that 'the negro is the black
pail of liberty in America" And it might
have added that ifcertain ire-eating Southern
papers had had their way at one time they
would have proved the winding sheets of the
national government.
Year: 1869

THE GREAT DAY IL VIRGISIA-Not this
day, but tomorrow, which, in their State
election, is TO decide whether the republicans
or the opposition conservatives are to rule the
State la its restoration TO Congress and self
government.
Year: 1869

MEssRs EDITORS Having been appoint
ed Justice of the Peace by His Excellency
Gov. Holden, have been frequently called
ON to lay off homesteads under the new Con-
stitution Not long since visited one of
my ne:ghbors for the purpose, and while
preparing the papers, and reading the ex-
emption in the Constitution and the Home
stead act of 1868, the lady of the house
remarked: "Thank God, we now have a
Constitution which protects poor people.
My husband does not owe cent Oh his own
account, but he stood security for his friends,
and but for this clause in our Constitution,
we would now be driven from our home"
And yet this lady's husband and all of her
sons used all their influence and voted
against this same Constitution r X g


A few days ago was called on to lay off
the homestead of an aged gentleman who
suffered severely by the armies. He too was
bitter opposer of the Constitution, which
now protects him and guarantees him a
home, but he assured me he would not be
again deceived, and would, in the future
vote with the Republican party. aI


Thus, thousands who opposed the adop-
ton of the Constitution, now cling to it and
bless our excellent Governor for his efforts
to have the homestead exemption embodied
in our organic law to save them a home to
their wives and children. j. R.


Wake county, March 4, 1869.
Year: 1869

ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.-Mr. Thomas Brooks
near Roxboro', had cutting frolic at his house
last Tuesday, and after the trolic was over one
of his sons about 15 years old, and negro about
20 years old were playing and footing with an old
gun--neither one knowing the gun was loaded
The negro first got hold OF the gun and in play
pointed it at the white man and snapped two or
three times; and then the white man got hold of
the gun and pointed it at the negro and pulled the
trigger and the gun fred off and killed the ne
gro instantly. They were doing all this in play.
The white man, Brooks, was arrested and car
ried before magistrate and tried and acquitted.
So says the Hillsboro Recorder.
Year: 1869

THE GOLD FIELDS OF NORTH CARoLINA.-It
is not generally known, says the Washington
Chronicle, that the gold fields of North Carolina
were the first discovered and availed of for COIN


ing purposes in the United States. The more
receEt and comparatively more productive mines
of California and Australia have served to draw
attention away from these. which were once the
only source of national gold currency; and when
we reflect how completely the South was closed
by slavery, not only to industrious emigration,
but to knowledge of its resources, it may be
questioned whether the productiveness of North
Carolina gold mines was not seriously impeded
BY the same cause. Perhaps under system OF
free labor, and with the renewed energy promis-
ed by reconstruction through the influx of
Northern men, we may speedily sec the mining
operations OF this noble old State revive, aud
find it rivalling its sister on the Pacific in the
quantity of precious metal. h ~ .f3f. ..t


Gold was known to exist in North Carolina
long before the present century, and up to the
year 1927 all the native gold furnished to the
United States mint came from that State. The
largest nugget ever found in the world was found
in Cabaras county, N. c., in the year 1903
weighing twenty eight pounds of pure gold.
North Carolina gold is very fine, and especially,
affected by jewellers, dentists, and other artif-
GERS, for its superiority in working. -s,g
Year: 1869

A correspondent this morning calls
attention to legal objection to Gov
ernor SrEvEsoN's late appointment for
Judge of the Fifth Circuit. In this case
il is claimed that the appointee is in,
eligible because ne is not of sufficient
age. We suppose Governor STEVENSON
acted upon the presumption that the
applicant was old enough for the place,
aud that should he ascertain the con
trary to be the case, he will issue nc
commission. We have no idea that the
Governor made the selection with the
knowledge that the man of his choice
was too young, but think that the
error, if one was committed, was not in
territorial on his part.
Year: 1869

BY reference to our Washington news
it will be seen that another and most
horrible outrage has been committed
there by one of the colored allies of the
Republican party in the exercise of his
peculiar rights and privileges. The
man who can read that statement OF
brStality without feeling his blood
chilled with horror is not to be envied.
When under the course of negro rule
IN Washington such deeds become COM
mon, as they doubtless will, it may be
that the Radical party will sec the folly
of SO distributing political power as to
make 1t an encouragement to crime.
Members OF that party have taught and
are daily teaching the negro that he is
above all laws, Courts or penaltiss
The Legitimate results of such teaohips
are found in the regular occurrence OF
nameless outrages that bring shame 70
the hearthstone and pollution 10 do.
nestic purity and innocence.
Year: 1869

This is q question fast becoming sub
liect of serious reflection, and one o
vital importance to the Western farmer
The cost of bnilding and InaintaininI
fences amounts to nearly the price pail
for the land, which is a serious draw
back to the settling Of the vast prairiet
of our Western States.


We will suppose that q substantial
fence, with the necessary repairs, vii
last fifteen years, at a moderate expens'
of, one dollar per rod. With this for {
basis. it would cost the State Of Iowa
teinolose fts area into eighty acre farms
after allo wing four rods in width on al
section lines Tor public roads, sum ap
proximating one hundred and twenty
nine millions of dollars for fence alone
every fifteen years. Il


If this question were kept in agita
ton as much as some others, of less rea
Importance to the body agricultural, we
should ere, long bo blessed, with statu
tory protection from all kinds of stock
and fsrmers would have shorter road
to competence and the State to agri
cultural wealth.


When it costs so much to fence whole
farms, and so little comparatively to in
close pastures, should not the whole az
ricultural population arise as one man
and demand protection from stock by
law, enabling US to dispense with the
labor and expense of fencing out ouI
neighbours cattle, and permitting us to
expend the same on beautifying Ou
homes and enriching our minds and
soils, besides the qualification Of pre-,
serving ourwoods and groves of timber
for purposes that are absolutely essen
tialf5 E7='.1t IN RIA ~.


Of course there are men that would
be opposed to the passage of such law.
but we believe the friend of the poor
man and of general improvement will
ever be found advocating the right side
of the no-fence question.


L. HANIM.
Year: 1869

It is we'll established fact that fully one.
half Of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, to
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid Of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.
Year: 1869

FEhoONo Adv ANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills will find
in the use Of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instu now life into their veins
restore In n measure the energy and ardOr OF
more youthful days, build up their shrunkeu
forms, and give health and happiness in their
remaining Yenra
Year: 1869

This is the amount authorized but it
! does nut follow that tho whole amount OF
these bonds shall ba issued this gear.
When issued they are to run twenty years,


and are to bear seven per cant Interest," The


present bonded debt of the city, less the


amount in the sinking fund, Is about
! S7,300,UOO.
Year: 1869

The recent lamentabe death Of the repu-
ted wife of Augustus Dickens, the brother
of the great novelist, raised, when the news
was first made public. a storm of indignation
against Charles Dickens. His previous re-
fusal to visit Chicago, where the lady lived,
and his evident disinciination to have any
thing to do with her, we're brought forward
as instances of the long neglect which had at
last brought the poor woman to her grave.
But few days have broEght blight certain
features Of the relationship existing between
Mr.. Dickens and this lady, which put a very
different appearance upon the matter.
Augustus Dickens abandoned his wife in
England, and came to this country with
Miss Bertha Phillips. After obtaining a
divorce in Illinois, he married Miss Phillips
and dying, left her with three children. The
wife who was left behind is now blind and
helpless, and has been since her desertion
supported by Charles Dickens Now We
see Why he would not 60 to Chicago, and
why, whea many newspapersi IN this country
opened a fire Of abuse upon him because he
neither visited nor assisted his sister-in-law,
he bore it all in honorable silence. lie
would not tell his brothers tale Of shame;
he would not say that there was Mrs.
Augustus Dickens in England, and that on
his kindness she depended. No, nor would
be say that this lady in Chicago had been
the companion of his brothers fight. He
brought no contumely upon her nor upon
her children. He bore all the blame that
might be cast upon him, rather than that
be should Increase the trouble into which
his brother had brought the mother OF his
children. Had NJ Dickens gone to the
city in which she lived, be must have either
treated her as Mrs. Dickens, to the injury
ard prejudice Of th- other Mrs. Dickens in
England, or he mu have avoided her, and
in justification for such a strange course,
have told her story,


1t does not appear that the second Mrs.
Dickens was quite so poor as reported, but
she had sorrow enough; and well it is for her
that this sad history wasnot raked up before
her death. Society Is by tar too apt to IN
terfere in private matters, and the press is
often far worse than society Had not
there lived some persons who knew the facts
in this affair, the greatest novelist Of the
age, the author Of David CopperfeId, and
Little Nell, the father Of all those delightful
people who have cheered and charmed SO
many Of US for so many years, would have
fallen from the eminence on which we bad
placed him as a man, and become in our
eyes the indirect instrument Of sister
death. In cases Of public scandal, the &C
eusation, the trial and the condemnation
come all together, ike fash of lightning,
and happy is the man whose Characters not
blasted BY the fiery shaft. Charles Dieken:
to-day stands unscathed.
Year: 1869

and do a deal Of good or great deal Of
harn


Shall man endowed By God with great
business capacity stand still when he has
made few thousand dollars, or leave of
work and 20 to distributing? No. Let him
stick 70 bis business, following his trade. As
he makes money, let him use it in doing
good. By his business talen, he may be
able to supply the needy with cart loads OF
tracts and thousands Of Bibles annually.


There are men now doing business in New
York, or who have retired FROM active life,
who could easily build and enlow a college
every year.


In view Of these facts, is it right, is it
Christian to inveigh against those who
honestly make money--eYen millions? Nol
we say, most emphatically.


What is wanted now is more good men,
more God fearing, money makers, more
money IN the treasury of the Lord, and more
hard work consecrated to the Most High.
Then look for the Millennium.
Year: 1869

Of all the noble works Of God, that ofthe
human mind has ever been considered the


grandest. It is, however, like all else crea-


ted, capable Of cultivation, and just in that
degree as the mind is rendered pure, isman


fitted forrational enjoyment and pure hap


piness. The person who spends whole ex-
istence without g realization of the great
ends for which he was designed; without


feeling a soaring Of the soul above mere
mercenary motives and DESIRES not knowing
that he Is portion, as 1t were, Of one vast


machine, in which each piece has part to


perform, having no heart beating IN COM


mon with those Of his fellow men, no feel


ings in which self is not the beginning and


the end, may well be said not to live. His


mind is shut in by a moral darkness, and he
merely exists blank in the world, and goes


to the tomb with scarcely regret. Such
beings we have seen and wondered at
wondered that a mortal, endowed with so
many noble qualities, and capable Of the
highest attainment Of intellectually, should
/ .lumbor on through a world Like ours IN
which is everything beautiful and sublime,
! to call forth his energies and his admiration
"a world which affords subjects for exerci-


sing every lively attribute with which We are
gifted, and opens scene of the richest vari-
ETY. to the eye, the mind and the heart and


of such diversified character, that we may
never grow weary. II, then, you would
wish to I;re, in the true sense Of the term,


cultivate the mind, give vent to pure afec-
tions and noble feelings and pen not every
thought and desire in self Live more for
the good of your fellow men, and in seeking
their happiness you will promote your own.
Year: 1869

4 Mr.. Keeler is lecturing in Boston on
the subject of his undertaking to make the
grand tour" of Europe upon the sum of
one hundred and eighty one dollars in
greenbacks, his starting point being Toledo,
Ohio 1Ir. Keeler Is evidently a Toledo
blade Of great keenness. He got a free ride
to the seacoast, bought a steerage ticket in
New York for London, got a glimpse of the
World Fair in the great city, saw the
Emperor fete in Paris. and at length ar
rived in Heidelberg. where he took lodgings
in sky parlor at a rent Of two gulden or
eighty cents month. Here he pursued
his studies at the University, and sustained
decently comfortable existence upon break
fast, four kreutzers, or three cents a piece,
dinners that cost eight cents, and suppers
that came to four cents for each one. Be-
ing graduate of an American college, his
tuition fees at the University were ten doll
ars the half year. He Travelled over Ger
many in the disguise Of a tradesman's ap-
prentice, which secured him good fare at
the lowest possible cost Three times he
was reduced to nearly his last sou, and three
times he was saved by remittances from
newspapers to which he had sent contribu-
tions. One morning he found himself on
the Poat Neuf, in Paris, when he had not
centime to bless himself with, and had eaten
nothing the day before, and was saved from
suicide only BY falling IN with an unfortunate
girl, who had reached the spot intent upon
her own destruction. He made the tour
,riQmphantly, and now he is at home.
Year: 1869

So1E employments may be better than
others; but there is no employment 50 bad
as the having none at si The mind viii
contract rust and an unftness for every
thing, and man must either fIl up his time
with good, or at least innocent business, or
it viii run to waste--to sin and vice.
Year: 1869

A FELLOW who has some music In his
soul, says that the most cheerful and
soothing Of all freside melodies are the
blended tones Of cricket, a tea kettle, a
loving wife, and a growing baby.