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Year: 1869

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delighted and surprised and after his own recovery
possible the sole right manufacture
and sell it in the United States.


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the PLANTATION BITTERS exceeded the abilities the prtor supply
Notwithstanding the large importation st. expressly for the
pounding these Brs the quantity inadequate therefore became
that extensive should made and
dispatched St. Thomas for purpose securing and
leasing plantations the productive estates the
island Houses stills and erected as which utterly aston
hed the natives The hand
cured and p'eto PLANTATION position
to supply their laboratory with all the perfectly needed nu
turing the GREAT DysPEPc HaAToa represents
the natives crushing and otherwise preparing for the stills and
As anadoe Agu Ma and
other kindred diseases PLANTATION 5TEas in the
history the world Over million disposed annually. They


adapted old and young and female They agreeable taste and always
~godaee immediate beneficial
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and cfiectual
for preserving tho
hair. Faded or gray
hair as soon restored
to its original color
ariM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

THE Savannah Republican says that it is re-


marked that since Sambo has exhibited his in
ability to control the Southern elections in the
interest of his carpet-bagging Radical friends,
the latter manifest a disposition to drop him.
A while ago it was fashionable to credit the
negroes with about all the virtues, and held
them up as shining marks for the imitation of
the white trash" But Tennessee and Vir-
ginia have been lost to "loyalty" through the
apathy or inability of the colored brethren;
and a correspondent of a Radical paper pro-
ceeds remorselessly TO "smash the ebony idol"
He says the negroes will steal the nails out of
the heel of boot. He also says that their
moral condition is lower than in slavery, there
being no check on illicit connection. Relig-
iously there is likewise decadence; and upon
the whole, in his opinion, the race is going to
the deuce at something higher than 2:4O rate.
Year: 1869

AND "IF."-We clip the following from the
Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald of a recent date:


We are far from being so bigoted as not to
hope from our heart that those who entertain
such sanguine expectations with regard to the
Chinese may see them fully realized But if
they only get a dollar a month at home and
find themsclves-if the facilities for bringing
them here have greatly ncreased-1 there are
400 GOO 900 of them and only about 40,O00,OO0
of us-it the odd 9O.000,0o0 should conclude
they could better themselves in the South-J
they cannot amalgamate or miscegenate, but
merely continue to congregate,-if they remain
population completely intact-if the negroes
are added up at the foot of their long column
it may be good thing for tke country, but
white man will be IA tolerably rare occur
renee. Viewing it as National question. ir-
respective of the present generation, it is not
improbable that in few hundred years from
now a white American citizen will be a good
investment for Chinese Barnum.
Year: 1869

says that


The total amount of claims filed against the
Government for the capture and destruction of
private property during the late war is $685.
100000 A goodly portion of those claims has
been audited and adjusted, but Secretary Bout
well has given orders that not a cent shall be
paid. BY refusing to pay the creditors of the
Government, it is made to appear that the pub
lie debt is reduced.


We have noticed that several Radical pa
pers, among them the Sacramento Union, have
been harping on the fact that the public debt
has been reduced fifty millions since Grants
inauguration. To have its effect on the Fall
elections they publish the statement that fifty
millions have been paid, but conceal the more
important fact that the public debt, instead Of
being actually reduced has in fact increased
notwithstanding Mr. Boutwell's ridiculous at.
tempt to save money for the Government by
shaving bonds-buying them at their highest
market value and paying for them in coin.
Year: 1869

days since, in the Treasury Department:


The rooms were, generally totally vacant. In one
saw brawny negro clerk Z" cutting capitals -
clean sheet of paper wheon either side Of him sat
white ladies, who were adding up long columns of
figures and ut his back was lame white messen-
ger" who holding in his only hand tray bearing


glass of ice water for his friend and brother. In
another room were a couple of white clerks and a
colored sister, all very busiy employed in discussing
the "new Order" called the Deduction" law.


An exchange copying the above, very peril
nently remarks:


There has been much talk about removing the Ma
tional Capital to New York, st. Louis or Chicago We
make suggestions Remove it TO Beaufort, S. G. 1t
could be very well done after such scenes III the De-
partment of the Treasury.


If the 18th Amendment should be adopted
and the Burlingame treaty ratified, We can
safely calculate on having Cinnamon filling
many important official positions in the course
of few years, and yet Radical papers say that
the introduction of the Chinese will prove ad-
yantageous to the country, from the fact that
it will cheaper labor. Admitting that it does
inaugurate system of cheap labor, who does
it benefit? Certainly not the white laborlng
portion of our population, for they are poorly
paid now, when we consider the high prices
| they have to pay for all the necessaries of life
under the ruinous system of taxation in vogue
under Radical rule. 1t seems like a strange
argument for the Radicals to adopt for the
purpose of securing the support of the labor
ing men OF the country, TO tell them that the
! introduction of Chinese aud other inferior
races into the country, for the ayowed purpose
of cheapening labor will be an advantage to
the laboring class. 1t is equivalent to telling
them that a reduction of their wages is in their
interest; that if they will support measure
which will bring thousands and probably mil
lions Of Chinese to America, TO compete with
the white laboring men of our country that
it will be benefit and advantage to the hard
working white man, who, in order to obtain
employment, will be compelled to work for the
same wages that Chinaman will that instead
of getting 81 day it is 10 lis advantage to
work for 80 cents a day.


The system proposed to be inauguratcd by
the Radicals will certainly prove beneficial, al
least in a pecunary point of view, to the mil
lionaires, bondholders and manufacturers for
by thus cheapening labor it will increase their
already enormous profts-the rich thereby be-
coming richer and the poor poorer If the Ia
boring men of the country, with these facts SO
plainly staring them in the face, should support
and assist in carrying out these ncfarious and
unjust schemes of the Radical party, thereby
forging their own chains, then they deserve to
be nothing more than the white slaves OF a
purse proud, moneyed arstocracy.
Year: 1869

GEN. GRANT is suffering severely from a
swollen face, and thes "toothache." This is a
new name for it. We would suggest that the
best possible remedy for his toothache " is
that capital and popular anodyne known as
picked cabbage.
Year: 1869

RRNovBD-Two candidates for the Board of
Common Council on the Sixth Ward Citizens
ticket, William Morgan and BENJAMIN Pal.
mer, employed respectively in the steam and
civil engineering departments Of the Navy
Yard, were yesterday removed by orders from
the Navy Department
Year: 1869

The advance in prices at the New York
Stock Exchange has enlarged the demand for
money from the brokers, and few call loans are
made under seven per cent At this rate how.
ever the supply % ample for the wants of GOOD
borrowers. The market Tor commercial paper
10 outl, with rates for prime acceptance st
seven 10 nine Per cent; the larger mum Der OF
sales are At seven and eight per cent.
Year: 1869

THE NEGRO CoNGREssMAN.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the New York Tribune
thus gives the cold shoulder to the negro Con-
gressman from Louisiana the first man and
brother elected under the benign and saluta-
ry dspensaton of Radicalism. 1t looks very
much like the Tribune was going back " on
its friends


But the man who attracts most attention in
the House is man not yet admitted. Re
brings no political reputation, and the only
thing remarkable about him is that he is there
st all. He wisely confines his visits to the
Republican side, and even then superfine
Democrats like James Brooks and John Nor
rissev sniff his presence from afar. and send
ND new Jeremiads thereon over the decay of
Democratic institutions-for this man. claim
ing seat from Louisiana District, and not
likely to get it, is negro, with genuine kinky
wool. and complexion that might fairly
enough Tor darkley ennugb) indicate at least
three-fourths African blood. He does not be-
long to the best educated class of French ne
eroes in New Orleans, and be has done Meth
ing marked to earn the distinction of being
the first of his race to sit in body that not
long ago was enacting fugitive slave laws
In fact. he cannot be said to have the entire
confidence of that class of tried Southern Un-
innists and friends to the negro. of whom Mr.
Thomas j. Durant is .he most conspicuous
type. But he had intelligence enough to edit
local raper, and saaacity enough to secure
a nomination for Congress from men not over
willing to give il. We might wish the negro
race better spokesman in its first represen-
tative on the floor of Congress, from the great
CITY which undoubtedly contains the largest
number of intelligent negroes of any in the
Union: hut the fsilure to send the best is not
altogether novel one. E-en New York, |
think. does not display perfect uniformity in
ALWAYS selecting her ablest. most cultivated,
and wisest citizens for her Members of Con-
gress.
Year: 1869

TAKE CARE OF YoUR LEGS, BoYs.-RobeTt
Henley, an able barrister, raised to the WOOL
sack in the early part Of the reign Of George
the Third, had been in his youth q hard
drinker. Shutting into his place in the
House of Lords, tortured by the gout, one
day, he was heard to mutter: 'Oh, dear it
had known that these legs were one day t'
carry Lord Chancellor, Ia taken better
care of them when was young
Year: 1869

MRs. CoaNoDoRE MEADE makes affidavit
thar her husband Is not only affected in his
intelert. but IN one leg also. The New York
San remarks that man might be blind of
one eye without being crazy, but it is readily
perceived that If be is lame of one leg his
walk 10 liie must be somewhat derauged,
Year: 1869

For some months East, new feature in the American character has been in process of development This comes ia the spirit of a religious excitement brought about, perhaps, by the reports of the coming Ecumenical Council in Rome: Some fifty ministers of the Protestant Episcopal church have issued pro- test against certain religious principles which they contend are not canoaical and have ten dency to mystify; the Presbyterian church is undergoing revolution in the shape of 're union" and all the ether denominations are more or less disturbed, The canker of Re- ligious fanaticism which long since blasted every social feeling, in the Dominion to our north is, doubtless, imparting contagion to our adjacent territory.
Year: 1869

We are in receipt of the first number of the Rio Grande Gazette, published at Las Crnces by our late partner, Mr. H. W. Sherry. The Gazette is sheet of sixteen columns three of which are advertisements We wish our juvenile contemporary every success and give it place on our exchange list
Year: 1869

months since, declared that these gentlemen, by investing capital in the Apache Pass mine, were on the straight road to ruin. Already, a party is preparing to commence work On the La Paz Silver mine, and much inquiry is on foot regarding the Lee < Scott mine.

 We do not entertain any fears that all this growing excitement over the treasures of mother earth will end as ifnany others-in stale rumor. It is too real Fundamentally too we'll sustained for that, and se nail it as the hamburger of golden harvest
Year: 1869

WE WANT no CLOSE UP ALL


our accounts at the commencement
of the new year, and wish all who know
themselves indebted to please call and set
tie. and obIige


jana vICKERY BROTHERS.
Year: 1869

In other words. we will sell ONE DOL
LARS WORTH of any and all goods In
our store FOR s5 CENTS. to be paid II,
cash or its equivalent at the time Of purchase.


We propose to sell, as heretofore, as low
as any other house in the city: and in
addition, as an inducenent to buy for
cash, we will throw of cents for every
dollars worth you buy at retail.


This is no humbug or deception, as those
who have known us for the last fifteen
years will readily believe; and strangers
who wish to be convinced have only 81
try.


WE EXCEPT NO GOODS. -
Staples and Fancy Goods will share alike
in the slaughter. Bring your cash, so as
to be prepared to get Is cents back for
every five dollars worth you buy.


Jan4l vICKERY BROS. 7s Main st.
Year: 1869

"Well, to make a long story short,
never blew brakes till the engine was
opposite the station. Then l shut off,
blew one whistle, and went sliding up
the road. Just as we stopped, the ex-
press, whose station whistle had heard
Just behind me, came up to the depot,
and stopped where the trains usually do.
If had minded the gong or stopped in
front of the depot, I'd been smashed.


"You see there was no way to do but
to run for for it We hadn'ta red light
for the rear car. We hadn't a lantern,
nor couldn't get one, to send back to sig
nal the flag men were on strike, and
the express didn't stop anywhere till ii
reached Poughkeepsie, and she had got
SO close on to us when the engineer cut
up as he did, that we couldn't stop at 8
station and send man back. Before
he could have got far enough away
they'd have been so close that the.
couldn't have broke up in time, bu
would have come into us.


I didn't know whether I'd killed Macl
or not, and took the owl train back
and found him all right as regards death
but very sick from the dip I'd given him


The company gave me this watcI
when they heard of it."-Neao for
Clipper.
Year: 1869

a white face and three white spots on her
off shoulder, but the cow they killed had
none Of these. Mr.. Mann suggested the
possibility that his COW might have
caught her bell strap on hook or stub
and torn it Of, and in the burnt piece
might have blacked her face and shoul-
der as to make her appear as perfectly
black cow. These suggestions followed
by one that they go and dig up and ex-
anime the hide, struck Mr.. Ide with such
force that he repaired to the spot with
shovel in hand and on examination in
broad daylight, found surely enough he
had butchered his own COW. He was
greatly perplexed and wondered why
things had taken such an unfavorable
turn with him. He reviewed the circum-
stances of Mr.. Mann's hesitation when
he first made the proposition Of the
absence of all the cattle in the settle
ment of the strangeness of his cows's
leaving Mr.. Mann's and wandering off





alone to the other settlement of her
losing off her bell which was suspended
by strong strap round her neck of
her getting so badly crooked in the places
where the hair was white, but none where
the hair was originally black, and Of Mr..
Mann's readiness to return to him half
the carcass as soon as the purported mis-
take was discovered. He queried wheth-
er it were possible that all these things
had happened accidentally or whether
Mr.. Mann had betrayed him, and in
concert with others had pfrposely made
him kill his own cow. He was in bad
spot. He could not raise courage to
charge it upon his neighbor. If Mr..
Mann had betrayed him the people of
the other settlement knew it. He feared
to meet them, and although no one al
luded to the unpleasant circumstance
yet he avoided society, and in verifica
ton of the proverb that "the wicked
flee when no man pursueth," he stealthi


" left the town and was not heard o.


afterwards. II.
Year: 1869

A JuDIcroUs WIFE.-A judicious
is always shipping off from her husbands
moral nature little twigs that are grow
ing in the wrong direction. She keeps
him in shape by continual pruning. If
you say anything silly. she will affection
ately tell you. If you declare you will
do some absurd thing, she will find
means of preventing your doing it. And
by far the chief part of all the common
sense there is in this world, belongs un-
ques,ionably to woman. The wisest
things which man commonly does are
those which his wife counsels him to do.
A wife is the grand wielder of the moral
pruning knife. If Johnson's wife had
lived, there would have been no hoard
ing up Of orange peel-no touching all
the posts in walking along the streets
no eating and drinking with disgusting
voracity. If Oliver Goldsmith had been
married, he would never have worn that
| memorable and ridiculous coat. When
| ever you find man whom you know lit
| tie about oddly dressed or talking abb
surdly, or displaying eccentricity of man.
ner, you may be tolerably sure that he
is not a married man for the corners are
rounded off-the little shoots are pruned
away-in married men. Wives general
| ly have much more sense than their hus.
bands, especially when their husbands
are clever men. The wife's advices are
like the ballast that keeps the ship steady


they are wholesome though painful
shears, shipping off little growths Of self


conceit.
Year: 1869

"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
THAN THIs."--A Wall street broker, re-
lated touching incident at Henry Ward
Beecher's prayer meeting, last Friday
evening. He lately visited the soldiers
burial ground at Nashville, and seeing q
man planting flower over one OF the
hundreds of graves, questioned him and
found that he was thus cherishing the
memory Of no relative. Further inquiry
brought this story When the war
broke out lived in Illinois. l wanted
TO enlist; but was poor and had q
large family Of children depending upon
me for their daily bread. Finally, as
the war continued I was drafted was
unable to procure a substitute, and made
up my mind to 60. After had got
everything in readiness and was just leav-
ing to report for duty at the conscript
camp, young man whom / had known
came to me and said: You have big
family and your wife cannot support
them while you are gone; l will 60 for
you.' In the battle Of Chicamauga the
poor fellow was dangerously wounded
and was taken back to hospital at Nash
vile. After lingering illdess he died
and was buried here. Ever since hear
ing of his death have wanted to come
tn Nashville and see that his remains
were properly buried. Having saved
enough money came on yesterday, and
have to day found the poor fellows
grave" And as he ended his story the
man took up small board and inserted
it at the foot of the grave. It bore only
these words He died for me"
Year: 1869

How TO PRESERVE SMOKED MEATS
IN SUNdER.-Take black pepper and
grind it very fine, the finer the better ;
then wash the hams or beet, and rub
while damp, thoroughly, with the black
pepper a sufficiency will adhere to them
To protect them from the flies and bugs
through the summer. In the cure of
hams omit rubbing the skin side. Two
pounds of pepper are sufficient for thir-
typounds of meat. 1t may remain hang
ing in the smoke-house during the sum-
mer. This will also imparat fine flavor
to the meat.
Year: 1869

ANY amount and every class Of Insurance required
can he nIaced Mt this Office in the best Companies,
and at as low rates as at any agency in the country
Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1869

More Astonishing Developme nts I'm Both Cases.


HARRISBURG, April 9-Among the persons who
visited the Governor on behalf OF Twitcheu was Ait
gelt, the witness who swore that he saw two men
leave the of the murder. An aunt OF Twitchell
was also at Harrisburg Not the least singular fea-
ture OF the matter the conduct OF Giberson and
Dyke, two OF the jurors who convicted the accused


On the oath of March, 1869, they signed paper
alleging informality mpropriety in the trial. and
1t was sent to the Executive on the 2Tth of March
three days afterwards They sent private letter to
Governor Geary urging him not to pay any attention
to their first statement. The pressure upon the
Governor was intense, but the appeals lacked the
one great essential, viz. evidence


The OF the Executive was marked with
courtesy, and every opportunity was given to those
who desired to change his views From the day OF
the verdict he has seen no evidence to shake his
faith in that verdict. Every human probability has
asserted the guilt Of Twtchell.


In the case of Eaton strong appeals were also
made.


Eaton was the associate Of thieves, and was him
self runner for gambling houses and an instrument
for reckless characters II this class OF men who
asserted his innocence, and here in the case OF
Twitchel, all the appeals for mercy were unsup-
ported by shadow OF evidence Heenan, the pugi-
list, and brother OF the murdered man. telegraphed
on Wednesday to the Governor on behalf OF Eaton
but his EXcellency deemed the safety and good
order OF society required the execution. Since that
event threatening letter has been received at the
Executive department, declaring that the death of
Eaton will be avenged The letter shared the fate of
all anonymous communications
Year: 1869

We have had many fire-damp explosions and
mine-floodings in England, and occasionally a
calamity of the kind in this country, but there
has never been as yet, we believe, an accident of
the nature occurring on Wednesday morning last
in the Nevada gold mines, at Gold Hill, in that
State. So far as the kilograms give any particu-
lars OF this terrible affair, the timber-works in
the shafts and cuttings of the Kentuck mine
took fire in some unexplained way, and thence
the flames spread to the Yellow Jacket and
Crown Point mines, with the result at latest dates
OF thirty-tiye of the unfortunate miners being
literally roasted to death underground. From
some OF the few details in the dispatches we are
inclined to suppose that, though the shafts are
not deep, the hosting machinery was SO entirely
destroyed In the first ravages of the fire as TO
haye a number of miners TO perish within very
sight of their companions above. AS the flames
were subdued in the Kentuck mine eight bodies
were taken out of the shaft and others were
seen at the bottom of the shaft. 1t is stated that
this ia the most dreadful calamity ever Occurring
in the Western mining regions, and IL might be
SSdded, or in any other in any part of the United
States.
Year: 1869

CLOSE OF voLUNE.-The present is the last number of the MINER that shall be sent abroad among the people, this year, and, consequently, the last of volume six. During the year, we are sorry to say, we missed publishing our'paper two weeks, and that accounts for the fact that the present issue is numbered 50 instead of 52 But. it was not our fault Paper, which we ordered from San Francisco in ample time to reach here, did not make the connection, and, of course, prevented us from doing so. We have. however, more than made up to our readers for the loss of the two numbers, by the great amount of read ing matter published during the year. At the close of volume, it is customary for editors and publishers to parade what their respective sheets have done in the past, as we'll as what they intend to do in the future. but we do not care to say more than that, in the past we have done almost as well as was in our power. and in the future. we mean to work still harder to reuder the paper more useful to its supporters and the sparsely populated Territory in which 1t has to scratch graveln for an existence.