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Year: 1867

After showing that this agitation will
lead to war between the North and the
South, Mr.. Seward suggests to the Pacific
States that then would be their time to
withdraw from the Union; he continues:


Then the free States and slave States
of the Atlantic, divided and warning with
each other, would disgust the free States
of the Pacific, and they would have
abundant cause and justification for with
drawing from Union productive no
longer Of peace, safety and liberty 70
themselves, and no longer holding up the
cherished hopes of mankind,
Year: 1867

DANGEROUS JUNP.-The Valparaiso
correspondent of the n. Y. Herald says:


1t is said that q midshipman cannot be
killed. There was an illustration of this in
Valparaiso short time ago. Two young
midshipmen Of the Pensacola procured a
couple of prancing steeds and went out for q
display of horsemanship. They rambled
INTO various places where the flowing bowl
is INDUCED in, and about dusk were career.
ing wildly up and down the streets as if lost
In gale. In one of the streets large els.
tern was being dug. The excavation was
about thirty feet deep and fifteen wide. An
interior wall of brick had been built, twelve
feet high, forming well some ten feet in
diameter in the bottom Of the pit. There
was no fence around the hole, and the mid
shipmen in approaching it were hailed by
the police; but the youngsters, suspectng
that 1t was an attempt to arrest them for
fast riding spurred their horses into gallon,
and IN the darkness plunged down the well.
The excitement caused by the disappear
ance OF the riders in the well was intense
A crowd collected ladders were brought.
and man was sent down with lantern to
eXtrIcate the remains of the dead; but what
was the general astonishment to see both
midshipmen scramble up the ladder unhurt'
Both horses were killed by the plunge
The newspapers made the incident a subject
OF several humorous articles, and the mid
shipments gallop down the well is becoming
one OF the traditions of Valparaiso.
Year: 1867

A SHIP OF DEATH FLOATS INTO A PORT
OF THE SHETLAND IsLANDs.-Since the
time when the ancient mariner told the ter.
rble tale of the curse laden ship, with her
crew of CHASTITY corpses, no more thrilling
story of the sea has been related than that
of the whale ship Diana, that recently drift
ed into one of the Shetland Islands.


A year ago she left the Shetlands on a
whaling voyage to the Arctic regions, having
on board fifty men. From that time nothing
more was heard of her. The friends of those
on board became alarmed. Money was
raised and premiums offered for the vessel
that would bring tdings of the missing ship !;
but all to no avail. Hope was almost aban-
doned


On the ID of April, the people near Rona's
Voc, in one of the Shetland Isles, were
startled at seeing a CHASTITY wreck of ship
sailing into the harbor. Battered and ice
crushed. sails and cordage cut away, boats
and spars cut up for fuel in the terrible
Arctic winter, her decks covered with dead
and dying, the long lost Diana sailed in like
ship from Deadman's Land. Fifty men
sailed out of Lerwick in her on a bright
May morning last year. All of the fifty
came back on her on the ID of April, this
year; the same, yet how different


Two men, of whom the Captain was one,
lay stifened corpses on the deck; thirty five
lay helpessly sick, ard some dying two
retained sufficient strength to creep aloft,
and the other three crawled about the deck.
The ship was boarded by the islanders, and
as they climbed over the bulwarks the man
at the wheel tainted from excitement; one
of the sick died as he lay, his death being
announced by the fellow occupant of his
berth moaning, "Take away this dead
man." On the bridge of the vessel lay the
body of the Captain, as it had lain for four
months, with nine of his dead shipmates by
his side, all decently laid out by those who
soon expected to share their fate. The sur
vivors could not bear to sink the bodies Of
their comrades into the sea, but kept them,
so that when the last man died the fated
ship that had been their common home
should be their common tomb. The surgeon
of the ship worked faithfully to the last, but
cold, hunger, scurvy and dysentery were
too much for him. The brave old Captain
was the first victim, and died blessing his
men. Then the others fell, one by one.
until the ship was tenanted only by the dead
and dying. One night more at sea would
have left the Diana a floating coffin. Not
one of the fifty would have lived to tell the
ghastly tale.
Year: 1867

A DARING ACT.-A most remarkable in
stance OF humane daring occurred at neigh
borhood in South Plymouth. called Mano-
met. The high impelling motive was to
save a crew of a vessel perishing before the
eyes of numbers of distressed spectators
lining the shore. The life. boat was showed
off, containing eight as strong nerved and
stout hearted men as ever braved the ee
ments to rescue persons trembling on the
verge of destruction. The sea tumbled and
tossed angrily, the boat was upset, and four
OF the crew found a watery grave in their
sell. sacrificing effort to prevent few
strangers from meeting the same fate. The
gloom and grief this sad accident must have
caused among those who had watched every
motion of the life boat with solicitude, may
be imagined but not described Still, its
object being unaccomplished, and the crew
OF the schooner remaining in the very Jaws of
death, as it were, eight or ten more indi-
vlduals volunteered to make a final attempt
to bring them safely to lard. This time
better fortune followed the men on board
the life.boat, and she accomplished her
noble mission and snatched the exhausted
seamen from their doom. A community
embracing such specimens of the race as
cheeriully manned that life boat at the out
set, and then furnished others to take the
places of those who had just persisted before
their eyes, may well boast of the high type
of moral courage possessed by numbers of its
people. No truer heroism was displayed in
the most gallant deeds Of the late war
Boston Transcript
Year: 1867

AMUSING DUELs-A Havana correspon-
SAYS: An amusing duel took place yesterday
about five miles from the city. 1t originated
in a remark made by man to his friend on
seeing a lady coming out of church. The
lady was unknown to the person making
the remark, but happened to be the others
wife. A slap in the face was the consequence
and challenge came soon after. This was
accepted, and the seconds selected o place.
The wife got wind of the affair, aud immedi
ately took steps to prevent the dreadful
catastrophe. Her first thought was to notify.
the police, but that might have given her
husband the reputation of coward, and she
took better method by going the house of
the other party, where she met his wife, and
a plan was soon concocted between the femi-
mines. This morning both husbands got
up early; wives do. Husbands took car.
riages and their wives-one armed with
FIVE children and the other with three-took
other vehicles in waiting. When the two
duelists arrived at the spot they were some
what astonished at seeing the other two car
riages drive up with their passengers, who
cody informed the men that they also had,
come to fight, so as to make it a complete
family quarrel, each at the same time pro.
duclng an empty purse and package Of
baby linen as their arms and munitions of
war. The little ones had popguns and fire.
crackers, and soon some INDUCED in cry.
1t is useless to add that the boodthirsty
Benedicks made peace en- the spot and re-
turned to Havana. in company with their
seconds, to celebrate the affair over a cham.
pagne dinner.
Year: 1867

A Sing Sing correspondent describes the
ingenious method adopted by convict to
escape from prison:


=" One of the most ingenious men | ever
met found here, by the name of James
Dunn. medium sized, middle-aged, dark
complexioned man. He was here for the
third time, and was kept under stricter sur
velllance than others in consequence of
repeated attempts and contrivances 10 escape,
the most ingenious of which was this About
three months after his second commitment.
having secured a quantity of gutta percha
from the contractor agent, he made water.
tight coat, with hood or head dress attach
ed to it. In the front part of the hood he
securely fixed a small pane of thick glass;
From each side of it gutta percha horns were
extended upwards to the length of ten or ff
teen feet at the further end of each tube
was fixed hollow :" decoy duck"


With this equpage he stole away to the
edge of the river Here he put Stone in
each pocket for ballast, donned the gutta
percha ring, made it tight about his waist
and wrists. and tlking up his ducks be
waded In crouched posture out some two
hundred feet, when he let them CO. On he
Travelled, with the water from two to four
feet over his head, breathing meanwhile
through his ducks which were floating along
about eight feet in his rear. The guards
saw the ducks, and would have shot them
had they not been on duty. With some
inconvenience he reached the upper dock,
where friend met him, furnished with cit
liens clothes, few dollars in money, and
otherwise FASTENED his retreat, not, however,
so but that he was soon overhauled and re-
turned to his old quaters. He was here on
this last time on ten years commitment,
but was transferred, with company of fifty,
not long ago, to Clinton prison.
Year: 1867

The SPIRoNErER.-This instrument meas
ures the volume of air respired by pair of
human lungs, and is an index of health and
vigor. On medical authority, it is stated
that examinations for life insurance have
revealed the fact that persons who habitually
drink ardent spirite between meals have not
power to blow up the spirometer to the
point due to their size and weight. By this
means individuals, not previously suspected
Of intemperance, have been detected.
Year: 1867

RETA1LING GocDs AT Wholesale PRICES
l-Wcstervelt & Co. have marked down all
their piece goods that are usually sold at
less price per yard by the whole piece-so
that now you may buy just what you need at
as low price per yard as you could if you
purchasedF Forty yards fany kind. They have
determined hereafter to sell goods al retail
at wholesale prices, thus giving to customers
who wish only Two or Three dollars worth at
one time advantages never before offered IN
this or any other town-and you have already
learned that they mean what they say-and
tI,cy Nercr deriafe in Iice.
Year: 1867

1NsUEANCE-PerSonS wishing TO insure
their property in first class stock companies
will consult their intesest by calling on J. G.
Osborne, at his Office, east side of Michigan
street first block north of the Parker house.


n33m1
Year: 1867

Docs Several weeks ago VIC called the
attention of the corporation authorities to the
frightful prevalence Of hydrophobia in many
localities of TIC State, and in view ofthc fact


suggested the propricty of an ordinance to
rid our town of several hundred worthless
dogs that infcst the highways making night
hiieous with their yells Hydrophobia ia
is again on the increase in Chicago many
cases have occurred, and we ask if dogs in
Plymouth are not aa liable 10 become rabid
as they are in Chicago, Lafayette, Indianapo-
lis and other places where hydrophobia cX


isiss Complaint. are made by many because
no measures have been adopted to render the
citizens safe from the bites Of the canine
! population should any of them become mad.
There are too many dogs on the streets, anu
If the authorities will not take the matter in


hand the citizens will, and a general cxter-
mination viii follow We were severely
bitten in tllc hand by dog a few evenings


since, from which We have been unable to


work ever since, and can assure dog owner S
that there are no very pleasant sensations
connected with n wound of this nature when
the danger Of .ydrOp phobia resulting is CON
sidercd. Dogs that meet us by night hereaf-
ter will not crowd us off the sidewalk we will
say this much for the benefit of those owning


valuable dogs. Ii they value their dogs they


rius' keep them oil the streets or muzzle them.
Year: 1867

RENovAL.-Thc undersigned has removed
his place of business to his new Office near
his residence on the east side of Michigan
street, north of the Parker House.


Those wishing TO see him on business will
please take notice and govern themselves ac-
cordngly.


Sem L J. G.. OSBORNE
Year: 1867

Tomorrow evening viii be given the long
talked of hop al Corbin & Bensons Hall
Music by Iifcrs full Quairillc Band The
managers have made arrangements for a
pleasant time, and it is thought the crowd
will be large
Year: 1867

The RAILRoAD.-The Willamette Val.
ley Railroad seems to be fixed fact. Ar
raDgementS have been made by the COM
pany here with Eastern capitalists, by
which the money to build the road is TO
be furnished on mortgage of the road
and rolling stock. The material for the
first section of twenty-five miles is ahea-
dy purchased and probably on the way


by this time AS soon as the bonds are
completed, which the company are now
preparing, and sent East. additional ma
teriaf will be shipped. There is one sat


isfaction about this arrangement, at least,
the people of Oregon can lose nothing,
as the builders are secured only by mort
gage on the road, which will be utterly
worthless until the road is built. A friend


who has recently returned from Salem,
SAYS that afrer a careful investigation of
the whole matter and an examination of
the eompany's books and papers, he has
concluded that we are soon to have rail-
road. AS to where tho road will run, no
definite information can be had, as there
has as yet been no authorized or definite
survey. IF it is to be Willamette Val
ley RAILROAD it will be built in this part
of Oregon, ifnot it is perhaps as likely to
lead off from the head of navigation on
the Columbia. Oregon City Enterprise.
Year: 1867

This beautiful poem, by an American writer
MISS PRIEST. has commanded the admiration o
ell readers during the many rounds II has made o
tho newspaper apd magazine press tho last teI
years.l


Over the river they beskon to mo,


Loved ones who'VO passed. to tho other side
The CLEAN Of the snowy robes SEQ,


But their voices are lost in the dashing tide
There's one with rlnglots Of sunny gold,


Aud eyes the reflection Of heavens own blue
He crossed in the twilight gray and cold.


And the pale mist hid him from mortal view
We saw not the angels who met there,


Tho gates of the city wo could not soc
Over the River, over the River,


My brother stands ready TO welcome me.
Over the River tho foatman pale


Carried another-tho household pct;
Her bright curis waved in the gentle gale


Darling Minnie. see her yet
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And fearlcssly entered the phantom bark
We watched II slide from the silver sands.


And all our sunshine grew strangely dark.
We know she ~ safe on tho otncF alnes


Where all the ransomd angels DO;
Over the River. the mystic River.


Ny ehildhood's idols arc waiting for me.
For none return from those quiet shores


Who cross with tho Boatman cold and pale
We hear the dip Of the golden oars.


We catch the CLEAN Of the snowy sail,
And 10 they have passed away from our heart
They cross the stream and are gone for aye!
We cannot sundeF the veil apart.


That hides from our vision the gates Of day
We only know that their barks no more


Shall sail with ours on iife's stormy sea
Yet somehow on the unseen shore.


They watch and beekon and wait for me.
And I sit and think when the sanset'a gold
Il flushing river and hill AMI shore.
I shall one day stand by the water cold.


And list TO the sound Of the Boatmans car
shall watch for the CLEAN Of the Tapping sail.
shall hear the boa, Il gains the strand.
I shall pass from sight with the Boatman pale
To the better shore Of the spirit Land.
I shall know the loved who have gone befoye,
And joyfuliy sweet will the meeting be.
when over the River. the peaceful River,
Tho Angel Of Death shall carry me!
Year: 1867

A WOMAN TRIES TO BLOW HERSELF
UP WITH A CANNON BALL.-0ne of the
most whimsical and unheard of means of
'shufiling off this mortal COLL" occurred
in this city recently. A woman living in
the lower part of this city, named Meyer.
who from the ill.treatment of her husband
had become disgusted with life, attempt
cd to make away with herself in the fol-
lowing manner: She took a six pound
cannon ball, which her husband had
brought from Vicksburg as relic, and
which had been on the mantel piece for
years, and having n rather indistinct con-
ception of the terrible effect of the pro-
jectile and the manner of using it, she
hit upon an idea. She went to Edward s
grocery and purchased fifty cents worth
of powder, returned home and procuring
breakfast plate she placed it on the
floor She then poured the powder upon
the plate and put the cannon ball on top
of the powder Having thus got her ar
tillery in position and everything in read
mess, she then sat down over the loaded
plate, and with burning taper in one
hand fired the powder The effect of the
explosion may be imagined. The ex-
ploding powder burned and blackened
the woman's lower extremities, while the
ball which she vainly expected would end
her miseries did not stir from its position.
The unfortunate victim of this insane at
tempt at self-destruction is lying in pre-
earious condition from the effects of her
foolhardy attempt upon her own life


st. Louis Republican.
Year: 1867

To FIND the value of currency, in coin
multiply the amount of currency by
the price of currency, and the result viii
show the value in coin.


To find the value of coin, in currency,
divide the amount of coin by the price of
currency, and the result will show the
amount of currency that given amount
of coin will buy.
Year: 1867

ExPEer-If spoons were made with a
likeness Of Butler on each one, says the
La Crosse Democrat, they would look SO
mean that the brute might not steal them
Except to keep his hand in
Year: 1867

A Loss-From the Fairfield Democrat
We learn that there was pretty severe FIRE
in that town few days since in which III.
Davenport Fire Insurance Company Of this
city lost $1,000. Better luck next time.
The loss will be proaptly paid.
Year: 1867

Brsr. - The entire farming force all
through this section Of country was never
more completely occupied in putting in
seed The season is unusually late, and
there is not . moment TO spare. A large
81 are Of wheat seeding viii be done this
week
Year: 1867

SUGGESTIONS TO MAPLE SUaAR MAX
ERs Use the half inch bit for tapping,
but be sure to keep it perfectly sharp,
and no danger Of splitting the wood =
Bore from half to iye-eights deep;
that will give quarter of an inch for
freshing without materially damaging
the tree.


Use the alder spile in preference TO
any metal spile. If properly cleaned
every spring, with your pans or buck
cts, there vail be no danger Of soured
sap, My plan is to hot lime-juice them,
with good rinsing.


For cleansing your syrup, after strain
ing through double wooden cltth iftto a
tub, let it stand two hours in order to
settle; then draw off by a faucet, in
serted in the side Of the tub one inch
above the bottom, that will give the
clear stuff. Then place over the fire,
and on coming to boil, add pint of
new milk to every twenty gallons, to
slack it; and skim well as long rs any
thing comes to the top.


STIR your sugar for one hour, whiis
it is cooling and granting in large wood
en- trays or bowls, with thin wooden
paddle, and you will have as white,
nice sugar as you wish.


If you would economise time and
wood by all means have tight sugar
house over your furnace, for cold gust
of wind blowing on the surface of wat
er, will stop the boiling, as the watery
yapor is thrown back by Ids into the
syrup. Try it for moment with lid
then raise your lid and see the water
back The faster the evapo-
ration, the more and better sugar.
Year: 1867

The DRUNKARD's BoY-A little boy
was seen Fastening through
the streets of large city one cold, star
less midnight. Faster and faster he
ran, as though he feared some lurking
spirit of evil would find him ont. His
conscience was not his own; it was an
others! He was being forced to do
that which he hated. One of the ten
thousand evil effects ofrum! His faith
er had came home from the tippling-
house almost insane He had fallen
asleep, but had wakened raving.- .--
More, more, MORE |" he shrieked.-- ~
Water was offered him, but he dashed
the glass away III fury and demanded
rum until the neighbors, hearing the
frenzied cry, ran to see the cause His
little boy, shiyering with cold, crept
from the straw in the corner, too much
frightened to lie still. His father in the
height of his madness, saw him, and or
dered him to go for rum. When the
boy hesitated, ,he threatened to kill him;
and the poor little fellow took up the
old tin pail, of which he was heartily
ashamed, his mother slipping her last
piece of money into his hand to pay for
the accursed stuff Oh :? what load
of guilt upon that mans soul, to send
that boy on such an errand, to purchase
ttcing death for every soul akin to him.
Year: 1867

100000
Each Certificate of Stock Is accompanied with
BEAUTIFUL STEEL-PLATE ENGRAVING,
WORTH MORE AT RETAIL THAN THE COST OF


CERTIFICATE,


An asO nsures TO the holder
PRESENT IN THE GREAT DISTRIBUTION.
Year: 1867

not been bled sufficiently, that enough


of public money has not been poured


out into New Mexico and gone into the


hands Of favorites and of contractors


We ore yet engaged in grave debate tc


determ inc whether this military exper.
iment Is to be continued or not.


General Sherman says in his report,


made last November, that it Is inn


possible to go on with this system; that
if ii is TO be pursued application must be
made to Congress, and n special and
large appropriation for this particular
object must be made; that as lieutenant
general of our armies, and to some ex-
tent responsible for what is taking place,
he is not in favor of diverting tho funds
of the War Department to this object
in such an enormous stream of expen-
diture.


The amendment of the Senator from
Ohio Mr.. SHERMAN continues the
control of the War Department until
the lst of next July. / should like to
terminate it Immediately but it is bet
ter to fix that limitthan to fix no limit
at all and permit this system of abuse to
go on without any check whatever from
Congress. If Congress shall permit it
to go on, it will become just as guilty as
if it had ordered this experiment to be
undertaken originally and had deliber-
ately and willfully maintained and
encouraged it upon full knowledg of all
the facts.


Now, sir, do what any sensible man
would advise you to do; do what was
proposed by good authority in the be-
ginning of this experiment; allow these
men of the mountains and forest to go
back to the place of their former resi-
dence, and supply such protection as
is necessary TO the frontier. In former
times before we acquired New Mexico,
the amount of military force used for
the defense of the inhabitants was quite
small and that we who claim that our
modes of administration are superior to
those which wesupersededin in that county
should fall into such system of abuse
as this and continue it for years. is to me
most surprising. Our outlays upon
this object are not necessary, nor even
useful. On thecontrary, they are waste
ful, improvident, corrupt, and scandal
Gus. Let us end them, and restore the
control of sound sense and the practice
of economy to our administration of
affairs in a distant but interesting Terri |
tory. The amendment, as amended,
was agreed to,