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Year: 1867

THE Chico FAIR.-Owing to the indsposition
of our associates in the office, and inability to pro
cure requisite assistance it has been impossible for
us to to attend The County Agricultural Fair at
Chico, during the present week. Up to the hour
of going TO press on Friday evening, we have re-
ceived nothing from the reporter We despatched to
Chico. and are are reluctantly compelled to defer
any proper notice Of its proceedings until another
week.
Year: 1867

A dressing which is at once agreeable, healthy, and efectual for preserving the hair. Faded or gray haar as soon restored to ats original color and tue gloss and freshness of youth. Thin hair is thick
Year: 1867

1t is often question among people
who are acquainted with the anatomy
and physiology ofman, whether lying
with head exalted or level with the
body is most wholesome. Most, con
sulting their own ease on this point,
argue in favor of that which they pre-.
fer.


Now, although many delight in boil
stering up their heads at night, and
sleep sonndly without injury, vet we
declare it to be dangerous habit. The
vessels through which the blood pass
es from the heart to the head are al
ways lessened in their cavities when
the head is resting in the bed higher
than the body; therefore, in all disea
ses attended with fever, the head should
DC pretty near on level with the body:
and people onght to accustom them
selves to sleep thus, and avoid dan
ger.
Year: 1867

CHEAP WooD.-About fifteen cords of
wood remain unsold on Broad street be-
tween First and Second. 1t is desired
that this be disposed of early to-day. As
there seems to be some misunderstanding
in regard to the persons for whom this
wood is designed, it may be well to say
that it is for all those who, with the strict
est economy, cannot meet their current
expenses. In this class is embraced many
of tie most intelligent and respectable
people of the city, Tor there are few rich
now who were patriots two years ago.
Those who are not able to buy cord can
get half cord or quarter Of cord. Price
per cord, four dollars.
Year: 1867

THE WEATHER has not ceased playing its
pranks. On yesterday morning very early
there was slight fall of snow, followed by
a considerable fall Of hail, and later in the
day there was enough of rain to keep
lukewarm Christians from church. The
temperature moderated greatly yesterday,
and there is every indication of thaw; so
that we may hope for the opening Of nsvi-
CATION in few days at least.
Year: 1867

NEGRO STABBED.-Two negroes became
engaged in quarrel near the Tredegar
Iron Works on Saturday about piece of
meat, and the result was that one of them
stabbed the other in the neck. The wound
was not serious. The belligerents were
arrested
Year: 1867

North Side of Union Park, N. n.


n HIS HOUSE is KEPT ON THE EU
i ropean plan; it is within three minutes
ride (by horse cars) of the New Haven
Railroad Depst, convenient to all the principal
places of amusement and for Summer travellers
will be found the coolest Hotel in the city.
Every room is provided with running water
Year: 1867

We understand that distinguished men,
ber Of the House was engaged yesterday IN
the religious work Of preparing a bill of
impeachment, which he will endeavor to pre-
cipitate upon the House and country at an
early day, the principal feature of which is
to declare that upon its passage by the
House Gen. U. 8. GRANT becomes President
ad interim. Should such bill pass the
House, the next thing in the programme is
to legalize the transfer Of the subject to the
Senate for trinl after the organization OF the
Fortieth Congress, SO that the ad interim
may consume the remainder Of Mr.. JOHN
sox's presidential term.


The genius who has concocted this bull fol
the gold market has undoubtedly got his
agents in New York to take advantage oi
the rise We hope Mr.. MoCULLocH will lei
the dust" ascend to the natural point where
such dangerous legislation will carry it, il
order that the business community may
learn wisdom thereby.
Year: 1867

We notice that evidences are multiplying
Of the displeasure of the people at the course
of certlin members Of Congress, who are not
only doing all in their power to make the re-
bellion practically success, but are neglect
ing or badly mismanaging the material in
terests Of The country.
Year: 1867

The Union Pacific railroad has already
reduced in point Of time the overland
journey TO California one week. How
ever important this reduction is deemed
by those whom business or pleasure
prompts to undertake this journey across
the continent, it is of far greater moment
to commercial and financial operators,
A notable instance of the value of this
saving in time by reason of the railroad
facilities which this company have made
available is justannounced. Dispatches
received here yesterday state that the
mails from China and Japan, which have
heretofore been sent from San Francisco
by sea, and which have occupied from
twenty-five to twenty four days in transit
from that city to New York, left the
former city by the overland route on the
10th ult., and will be due here tomorrow
morning, only fifteen days from the
Pacific coast. Such rapidity of trans
mission is unprecedented, and the fact
that it is now possible is due to the en-
ergy which has been manifested by the
Union Pacific Railroad Company in the
construction of the great national line
which that corporation has had in hand.
The total time from Japan to New York
is now reduced to about forty days, while
the Liverpool merchants may receive
their advices by this route in nine or ten
days more. The industrial armies who
are digging and blasting away for the
locomotive through the Rocky Mountains
and the Sierra Nevada are working as
directly in the interests of New York
and European capitalists and merchants
as of those personally connected with the
railroad companies. In five years hence
the wonder will be, not that any parties
were audacious enough to project and
build Pacific railroad, but that the
business of this city and Of the country
we're so long content to do without it,
Netc York Herald,
Year: 1867

s@~ Even the New York Tribune
turns its back upon the miscegenators.
1t says "We can imagine no circum-
stances under which it would seem to US
fit and wise that white and black
person should be joined in the holy state
of matrimony.
Year: 1867

Rev. DR.. Butler the well.known Metho-
dist missionary who established the mission
of that church in India in 1856, recently
returned to this country. He makes the fol-
lowing statement of remarkable case:


In 1859 British soldier, while bearing
dispatches from one magistrate to another IN
the Kingdom of Dude, passed an unlre
quented ravine, where he saw pack of
wolves, and with them a human being, eYi-
IDENTIFY one of their company Immediately
turning back he reported the circumstances
to the magistrate for whom he was travelling
The latter forthwith mustered number OF
Coolies and went TO the place. The pack of
wolves fed short distance and sought
refuge in sort of cave or den. Beginning
to dig, the party soon discovered the feet of
the wild man, and drawing him forth, sue
ceeding in binding and carrying him to the
town. DR.. Butler has seen him often since,
and says he is evidently man, and al the
time of his capture apparently about twenty
four years of age.


The captured creature at first violently re
sisted the attempt to put clothing upon him,
but after while ceased to tear the garment.
He is now kept by gentleman in the city OF
Thabje-V -Vampore, some eight hundred miles
west of Calcutta. When first taken Ire was
unwilling to eat anything but raw meat, and
has never been able 10 speak or make any
approximation to knowledge Of the alpha
bet. If any one looks earnestly or sharply
at him, he expresses his annoyance by a
halfuttered grunt, Immediately turning away
and settling upon his haunches in a corner
of the room, or lies down. He eats his food
off the ground; and although evidently a
human being, is in habits wolf, with the
instincts Of that beast.


This is certainly an anomalous fact in
natural history, although it is said that four
similar cases are known to have occurred in
India, presenting the same general facts.


Wolves abound in India, where the in
habitants live wholly in the cities and vii
lagos; and at the approach of night all per.
sons employed in the open country retire TO
these clusters OF houses, or huts, and these
rowing and ferocious animals find free range
1t frequently happens that a wolf steals into
house and carries of a child. So frequently
is this the case that in the schedules fur.


nished for recording the mortality in each


place, one column is headed, "Carried of
by wolves"


. DR.. Buffers theory Of this strange case is
that a she-wolf probably carried off thii
person when he was an infant, but that be
fore she devoured her prey, the child in


stinctively searched for food Beginning tt


draw its nourishment, it awoke in the vol


the maternal instinct, which led to the pre-
, servation of its life, and thus the boy liye'
n and grew.
Year: 1867

A cottage residence Of ten rooms, with lot
guar ers of a mile from the heart Of the city,
ami withiu one OcK Of the street railroad In
tersecting every part Of The city, Valued at
S5600
Year: 1867

The editor of the Progress with his aceus'
toned disregard totruth, pretends in his last
paper to understand that we meant to threaten
him with ussusSindtiou. No one knows better
what our real meaning was, than the meIsuacious
slanderer who has constituted himsel; the censor
of the moral and political opinions of the people
Of st. Landry. The only danger OF bodily harm
that he has incurred III our opinion, is that his
scurrility and iinpIllence might have cost him a
coyGhiIiag, bat it seems that remembering the
source from which it comes no Que notices 1t
more than they would the barking Of any other
cur What we did mean this, which we
have from tn. most unidentified authority. that
he tthe editor alluded toy barely escaped by the
skin of his teeth sharing the honorable company
of his friend III the Guard tent of Co. ST sta
toned here ard further if he ever dares to utter
the same incendiary language in public address
es which he has been in the habit of doing and
denying, such check up is certainly in store
for him This is what We meant when we said
his power for further evil would most likely soon
be stopped for the future, and as for asSassina-
ton if he only fears it from those who look upon
him with loathing and contempt he may rest
easy. Southern gentlemen are not III the habit OF
hunting up skunks.
Year: 1867

prestige and endorsement that cannot be over
come. And even should the destructionists still
triumph in those States in which office-holders
and the weight of heretofore unconquerable
majority give them SO great an advantage it Is
evident that reaction is going on i'll the public
sentiment in the North and West, which if it has
not yet reached its climax. will inevitably do so
before the next Presidential election, and sweep
before it the united influence of a corrupt Con-
gress and venal press. Such reactions as are
now going on are common things in our country,
although the causes which have produced and
the principles Involved in them were trivial and
nnimportant, compared to those which now agi-
tate the Union; and consequently it is rational
and logical to predict that the effect will be much
more lasting and effective, and when once pro-
duced, give for some time at least quiet to the
country, and peace and prosperity to the people
at large.
Year: 1867

The following is the concluding portion pf an
able editorial of our highly esteemed cotempora-
ry, the New Orleans Pieayuae, paper we have
constantly perused whenever it was possible
since its first establishment, and as constantly
admired for its conservative sentiments, always
ably and clearly expressed. The views and feel
ings of the "Picayune" are in meaning and nearly
in words the same we, and almost every other
conservative Editor in the State, have so often
expressed, views which we have an abiding faith
will yet be understood and adopted:


'Meanwhile we watch and wait We wish no
harm to the black man; we are the black mans
friend. We wish him civil rights and that he
may learn to perform his civil duties. IL we do
not rejoice over his emancipation, we would not
have his servitude restored, alike on our own
account and his. We wish him educated morally
and intellectually. We wish him to have indus-
try and skill and to receive the rewards of it
equally with the white man. We would protect
him as much. He is Southern man, and we
would have him feel and act as such, and be
prosperous as part and parcel of the South But
we are white men, and the Representatives OF
white men. We love our own race more than
any other, and cur land more than any other,
our own section more than any other, our own
State more than any other. We ask not to gov
ern or control others; but we do ask to govern
and control ourselves. Our own duty is first to
our own household. He that is not thus hath
denied the faith and is worse than an infidel'"
Year: 1867

Native Americans of '63, who in the Republican
ranks were the srankest Abolitionists;, J., vo'e @
against it and may safely say that II ali men
woulI vote against it, it would receive but about
one.cighth Of the vote in its favor. If the ne
groes of the South could but understand the
motives of the men who so violently advocate
what is termed their rights, they would hesitate
long before they went blindly into any party or
measure. Although the Democratic party is not
in favor of negro suffrage, find many men IN ITS
fold who desire to see the eoiored mans conai-
ton bettercd by .judicious legislation, and the
elevation of the race by education but they are
spoken of by the Radicals as q balance Of power
which will keep them in office, do not find
that either party here understand the true con
diticn of the South, regarding either white or
black, and think it safe to say that neither par
ty care what becomes Of us, SO that they can get
into power; and our best policy seems to be to
keep clear of both. and when the time arrives
organize a national party OF our own, which will
hold the balance of power between these two.
Year: 1867

We are told that cur honorable contemporary
with some Of his sweetsmelling associates. are
getting up another petition for our removal from
the office of Post Master. We don't know but
that if they should succeed they would do us a
benefit instead of an injury, the Office costs
considerable more than it comes to, but the
gentlemen, as they viii find out in time, are
taking great deal of pains for very little profit
as before we are removed by any action of theirs,
the progress" and its party will be numbered
with the past.
Year: 1867

Mr.. EDlToR My attention has been called
to the following paragraph in Inning editorial
of the st. Landry Progress:


''Tne second visitor was the town constable,
who having an alleged fine of So to collect from
the sick editor, tor an alleged violation of the
quarantine ordinance, has lowered, the whole
week, around his pretended debtors residence,
seeming to fear that sickness might carry his
twenty-five dollars away. SO We sometimes see
a good shepherd keep watch around poor lamb,
for fear that a wolf, by rayishing that prey,
would deprive him OF his chance to fleece in the
future the innocent creature"


The reputation of the Progress for mendaeity
is such that might well be spared the necessity
of noticing what it says of me: but as public
officer of the town, it may. not be improper
in me to expose falsehood even emanating,
as it does from SO contemplate source. The
editor knew when writing the above paragraph
that it was false. His natural disposition to lie
was SO great that he could not, while speaking
of the town or any OF its officers, refrain from
using his filthy weapons of falsehood and cal
umny. Where the editor is not known his SLAM
ders might obtain some credence, and therefore
ought to be noticed; but here he has been throw
ing his ordure in the air SO persistently, every
one knows that his filthy missiles fall upon no
object more loathsome than himself.


As an officer of the town, and under its police
and quarantine regulations, made a visit to the
house of the colored woman with whom the edi-
tor was boarding, to acquaint myself as to the
sanitary condition of the establishment, both in
regard to black and white. On the invitation OF
the attending physician, | entered the room Of
the editor, with all the decorum due to the occa-
sion. found him petulant and irascible; and
he commenced to whine about some municipal
fine against him, and Immediately told him, in
presence of his physician and another gentleman
In attendance, that my visit had no relation ut
all to this matter, and soon afterwards left.


/ will only add that as | am responsible to the
corporation for my acts as an officer, am no less
personally accountable to the editor or any other
slanderer whose falsehoods may be compelled,
as in the present case, to denounce.


CHARLES THOMPSON.
Year: 1867

laws; for they are rathsr framed to tear down
great monopolies than to build them up. Our
public subscriptions should be for the public
good; the Distinguishing Of Auy one sect Is a
blow at our repubicanism; the support of any
denomination by the public funds is, to tho
citizen who does not believe in the sect for
whose benefit the appropriation is made, an
insult to his religion and plundering Of his
money, which the government Of his country
has taught him is not subject to such expendt
lures. A broad legislation viii give US "ths
greatest good to the greatest NUMBER" but ws
have for q long time been denying the practice
Of the maxim. We want no more Of this mal-
appropriation Of our treasure, either for any
Protestant or Catholic faith for every contriba-
ton made is blow struck ct their morals and
at our institutions Let the State see to this
reckless drain upon the treasures Of nearly
every city in its boundary. New York alone
is bled as much as is at present dared; each
year the treasure flows more freely. Tho
curse Of the religious sects in the Old World
has been the wealth that has corrupted themS
so in the New World we are to go through the
same RISE corruption, disgust with and fall oe
what we call Christianity.
Year: 1867

In another column will be found special
cable telegtam to The IiERALp from London,
giving TIE latest news from Brazil and the seat
o war on.tho Parana. The Brazilian govern
ment hal declined, with thanks The mediation
Of the United States. and the commsnder.in-
chief OF tho allies was preparing 70 make
another attack upon the position Of the Para
guayan army, as soon as the forces Of the


Baron de Herval were ready to join the con-
tingent sent to the Upper Parana to aid him in


making division In that neighborhood. On the
Year: 1867

1t requires but taste and enterprise to make
| New York, with its suburbs, the very queen oil
cities Nature has here been lavish of her
outing the jewel which nature has supplied, 1t
is not too much to say that fifty years hence
the upper part Of the island and the surround
ing suburbs will present attractions, If equalled
certainly not surpassed, by any of the great
cities of the world. The city itself must be-
come more and more hive of busy industry;
but this is not incompatible with the growth of
taste on the part Of the people, and with the
development Of that taste in their business
establishments. The city must grow more
beautiful, just as its citizens grow more
wealthy. The rule certainly does not always
hold good, that taste follows on the heels of
wealth; but in spite of the exceptions, 1t is
still the rule. We oan discover nothing
In the condition or prospects Of the
Empire City, barring the hope that it will
yet become more and more "a thing of
beauty" 1t viii not be the city proper, how
ever, which will chiefly reveal the wealth and
taste Of the citizens. These will best be seen
in our suburban retreats In the upper part
Of the island art is already come to the aid Of
nature, and is adorning Ter with new beauties.
In another part OF this days HERALD we pub
lish description Of Washington Heights and
tho residences OF soms Of our merchant princes.
What with the Park and the new Boulevard
which will by and by be opened up, and the
adornment Of the heights at Fort Washington,
Manhattan Island will soon compare favorably
with the finest cities of Europe. The advan-
tages enjoyed at Fort Washington, and the i'm
proyements there gong on, are but specimens
of what may be seen on Long Island, on Staten
Island and on many parts of the Jersey side Of
the noble Hudson. In many places in the Old
World nature has been marred rather than
mended by the hand Of man. Let 1t be our
object to avoid these errors. Where art is ap-
piled let Ii be to decorate, not to deface; to
improve, not to destroy.
Year: 1867

The recent death of one Simon accelerated
public executiouer in the South of France,
but who, OUTLYING his fame, like many other
artists, has died in tie hospital at Carcassone,
has. brought up the subject Of death upon the
scaffold once more in Fran,e. This Simon had
been the hero OF many adventures in the course
of his career. Oae OF these is recorded as be-
ing the original cause of the abolition Of the
punishment Of branding An unfortunate cul-
prit being brought up to be marked on the
shoulder with red hot iron By Simon, the
latter let the Instrument fall just when he had
applied it to tbefesh, so that the mark was
not considered valid. Once more did he heat
bis iron, and once more did he miss the mark.
Again third time did be try amid the terrible
yells of the sufferer, and the shouts OF execra-
ton Of the p opu!ace, until the unhappy wretch
tainted away and was borne from the scaHold


The affair made great noise at the time, e,and
a young advocate of Montpelier, where It hap
pened, took the poor wretched conVlct's case
In hand and sued the executioaer tor damages.
Tbe facts were palpable. The man had been
burned to the very bone, So the Tribunal con-
demDed the awkward executioner to 800 francs
damages, which, the recipient being a convict,





made BY, Simon was in the case OF a priest con-
demned to death for the murder OF a woman a.
AK. Simon's hatred of the priesthood was
we'll known, so that the unfortunate manner IN
which helet fall the knife, cutting away por-
ton of the skull only, was attributed to ven-
geance rather than to accident; and the turbu-
lent shrieks OF the spectators so troubled the
executioner, that on trying second time, ne
let 90 the cord too soon, and cut OFT the hand
of his assistant


This time the Court condemned its singular
" unfortunate officer to three months imprls-
onment aud five hundred francs fine. The
next failure was at Baume, where young
preacher had been condemned for the murder
of garde chasse. Simon being unable to
compete either in strength or skill with the
criminal, fnghtful scene took place on the
scafo d, the account of which has prevented
the sentence of death from being passed since
that time in that same city. The struggle en-:
ded in the defeat of Simon and his two assist
ants. and the culprit was conveyed back 10
town. This time the parques of the South re-
solved that though fyrbilden to a,olish the
punishment of death they were not forbidden
to abolish the executioner, and dismissed Simon
from his office But the love OF his professor
was strong upon him to the last, and he would
oficiate as amateur whenever the pro. essionai
was prevented from attending. His previous
instincts were satisfied at last by his appoint
ment to place as attendant at the dlssecung
room of the hospital Of Lyons where he re-
NAMED until, worn out and in6rm, he went to
die at his native place. Victor Hugo had
made this man celebrated Tor a time by his
LAST Da;s of Condemned Convict, but
the temporary publicity given to his name had
faded long before his retirement into the o.
security for which it is evident he was best tit
ted