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Year: 1866

Yesterday, on the park, Mr.. Hohlen-
berg, a Dane, residing in New York,
exhibited, for private qualification to a
select few, the introduction into Amer
lea of curious apparatus for aquatic
exercises, used on the lakes and rivers
in Northern Europe, but never before,
it is said, seen III the United States.
The name of this machine is not def
nitely defined; it is called skate"
for plying, not on ice, but upon water.
1t floats and bears itself buoyantly
and gracefully on its liquid element.
This machine is nothing more mysteri-
Gus than twin boats on the Siamese for
nation. Two little skiffs, each eleven
feet long by twelve inches beam, and
twelve inches apart, bound together
side by side by plank, from the lar
bord of the one to the starboard of the
other, upon which there is chair made
fast In a frame work, the entire appa-
ratus only weighing thirty-fVe pounds


In this chair the skater" sits, his
face fronting the direction in which he
intends to move, and with paddle
seven feet long and feathered off at
eacn emu IKE an oar, ne holds 1t with
both hands in the center of the shaft,
and, dipping the feather right and left,
he glides away with graceful velocity,
and regulates his speed by the slow or
rapid motion with which he plies the
paddle There is no rudder. Stem
and stern are perfectly alike ia fCrma-
ton, and in addition to the central
plank on which the chair is firmly
fixed, the stem.and stern Of each are
bound together with iron rods by which
they are secured from separation.
These little skiffs are SO sharp and the
displacement of water is SO small that
the man in the chair, with his paddle
oscillating like the beam crank of a
steam engine, glides rapidly and grace
fully on the surface. One, and only
one, can enjoy cruise on its timbers
Year: 1866

F-. inimitate preparation Of SARSAPARILLA
~ Iong stood at the head Of the various com
-.lnds Of that valuable drug
bis Compound Of WILD CHERRY has
become a household word through


out the West


and South. His Worm Lozenges,
less than year after their introduction
Year: 1866

What q world Of woe is contained i'll
thesr few words to the poor altizau aud
mechanic! "I'll call around aud pay, y
SAWS the rich MAJ, to avoid the trouble
of going to his desk to get the necessary
funds, and the poor mechanic is obliged
to go homo to disappoiut bis workmen'
and all who depend upon him for their
due. 1t is an easy matter to WORT; the
only real glory in this life is all indepcu


dent Idea Of being able TO sustain your
self by the lalo, OF your own hands,
and it may he easily imagined what
crushing force there is in, "l'lI call around
and pay" to the laboring man who de-.
penis on that pay for subsistence. If
:hose who could pay would pay at once,
it would place hundreds and thousands
in a condition to do likewise, and would
prevent much misery and distress.
Year: 1866

When General Lee was in this city
short time ago he sat for his picture
at Brady's gallery. The fact became
known, of course, and ever since Mr..
Brady has been overrun with orders OF
the picture. It would seem that al
most every family in Washington, and
many in Baltimore, wish to have hang
ing in their parlors a representation OF
the form and features Of the great Con-
federate chieftain, to judge from the
rush there has been for copies Of the
portrait. The latter, Of course, is all that
could be desired in the way OF artistic
excellence. Straws show the direction
of the wind, and it is very evident that
if the time ever comes when the Amer
ican people will be allowed to manifest
the real feelings of their hearts they
will confer upon General Lee such a
testimonial of their affection as will put
to the blush the disgusting toadyism
that is lavished upon Gen. Grant.
Year: 1866

The late King of the BeIgisns gave tho
following opinion as to the ability Of .
woman to assume different station -
az cannot but admire the natural facility
with which women enter into the spirit
of any part they may be called upon to
play in the great drama Of human fife;
for to women to acquire taste, ton, and
even talent, is as easy as to put on new
dress: they are as uncoustrained and as
much at their ease in the robe of kce
or of cashmere as in the russet
gown, and, within month after her
metamorphosis, no trace Of the homble
village girl will be seen in Is grande
dame de Ia Cour.7
Year: 1866

Two fellows recently crawled up under
the depot at Newport, bored a hole up
through the floor and into puncheon of
whiskey drew off sixty gallons, which
they carried away with them, and tet the
rest of the fluid to waste.
Year: 1866

The TRIAL or JEFr DAVIS AGAIN P0rpoSED.--
We have report from Washington that the trial


Of Jen Davis viii be again postponed beyond


the October term Of the District Court Of vir-
ginia. The influences that will be used
for I've commencement at the approaching
term Of the court will be ma by the
same obstacles that have heretofore been inter-
posed. This is the report At present In the
meantime the prisoner is kept closely confined,
with no present prospect that bis case will be
heard before any earthly tribunal The


trial Of Davis having placed the executive,
the legislative, the Judiciary and all other
branches Of the government In such guam
Diary, II becomes matter Of doubt whether the
prisoner will ever be tried at al. In this view
Of the case II becomes matter Of serious con-


sderation whether the President would not be
justified In liberating him upon bis parole. To
keep man In perpetual imprisonment with
out accusation, trial or condemnation, 10 q
stretch Of arbitrary power rarely attempted in
the most despotic governments. To put II 10
practice here In this boasted land Of liberty 10
q mockery upon our FREQ Institutions We
hone some branch of he government will have
Year: 1866

THE CONSPIRACY 10 Have JEFF DAvrs-Ia
another column will be found q communcs-
ion from Judge Advocate General Holt, ia
which he denies the authenticity Of certain
letters purporting to have been written By
him, which we have heretofore published, in
relation to an attempt TO suborn witnesses for
the purpose Of duplicating JEFF Davis in tho
crime Of assassinsting the iamented President
Lincoln. We have no desire TO impugn the
motives or TO assail the standing of Judge
Holt, but upon comparing The original letters
with the manuscript Of his denial we arc
forced, in the absence OF microscopic test, 60
pronounce them written by the same hand.
The letters may he seen at this Office, either by
the Judge Advocate General or snv other per-
son who may feel curious In regard 10 the
matter.
Year: 1866

South know that he ksvers the adoption Of tho
constitutional amendment as the speediest way
of restoring the Southern States, the people
will respond to his wishes By all means les
the legislatures of the unrestored States NEST
without delay and pass this healing measure.
Year: 1866

81 The wife OF a returned Ohio soldier was
alarmed lest her husband should lose mas arm,
which had been badly wounded by a musket
ball; but by her careful ursing n was saved.
Eight months after, she gave birth TO a child
one OF whose arms was perfect, but the other
was stump similar 10 one with which the
wife's mind was impressed at the time the
surgeons Were talking about taking on her
husbands. The scar of the bullet-hole. so
visible on the fathers arm, was also visible ON
the child's, at the base of the stump
Year: 1866

TovcHIFG INCIDKNT.-We are informed
that gentleman recently travelling from the


west In sieeplng-car, witnessed the follow
ing scene. In the same car with him was a
gentleman trying to still a crying child by
CARRYING II to and fro in the coach, and which.
by Its screams, finally irritated a man in one
OF tne oertns 70 such degree that he could
endure il no longer, and cried out profaneiy


Nv hat an - is the matter with that youne
eneI' And soon again, "Where is the mother
OF mat child that she is not here to pacify iti,
Al this the poor gentleman in charge of the
child stepped mp to the berth and said, .sSir.
the mother OF this child is in her coffin in the
Our informant saws the grnff
grum bier immediately arose, compelled the
aniicted father to retire TO his berth. and from
that time until morning he took the little or
pnan under his own care.-Nor,caik Reoister.
Year: 1866

We commend to our readers practice which
we have followed with great satisfaction in plow-
ing our corn ground, whether it was sod or stub
bic, namely: by what is called back-furrow
ing commencing in the middle OF the field,
turning the burrows inward, thus plowing the
entire field 'geeing round. Find the middle
of a field with a measuring pole or tape, and set
stake. Then turn ridge OF two ftll'rows In a
straight line from each corner of the field to the
stake These ridges will enable the plowman to
do his work we'll at the turning points. The
advantages Of plowing in this manner are, there
will be no dead burrows in the field. A row OF
corn, if planted in dead furrow, will not a
mount to much, except for fodder. When a
field is plowed by going around the outside and
finishing in the middle, there will be a dead
fi,rrow from each corner to the middle of it,
The team, moreover, must turn on the ground.
which treads down wide strip from the COR
ners to the middle of the field. But when a
field is plowed by beginning in the middle, the
entire team, whether double or single, always
turn on the unplOwed ground, and 1t IS easier
for the plowman to turn out and set IN bis pioW
at the corners, than when he turns the furrow
outward By plowing in this way, the surface
will be kept level and the work performed In a
more wnrkmanlike manner. In order to have
every side of the field finished alike, measure
each side from the plowed ground to the
the outside of the field every day, Then the
burrows may be varied in width, or omitted on
one side, while the plowed plot is small. Aim
always to keep the furrow slices Of uniform
width.-Americdn Ag1JcuItprsss.


Coop NIGHr-The charm of the simple COM
mon place expression 'Good night" has been
made the subject of a beautiful paragraph, by
some author who says:


Good night the little child has hsped as it
passed to brighter morn than ours; the lover
with his gay dream of nuptial morrow the wife
and mother, all the fragile threads ofhousehold
cares still in her fingers the father with appeal
ing eye ofchildhood all unanswered Good night,
that seal upon days past and days to come
what hand so rash as to rend aside the veil that
hides its Tomorrow
Year: 1866

THE Hartford insurance companies
have advanced their premium rates
twenty-five to fifty percent on extra
hazerdous risks. It Is stated that they
have added but little to their surplus
accounts tho present year, on account
of their numerous losses
Year: 1866

The craftsmanship of the Radical


Leader.


The caliber Of the craftsmanship that
directs the House of Representatives
was well illustrated in the remark of
the Honorable Thaddeus Stevens, who
said, in late speech, that he was reli-
ably informed that, with free labor, cot
ton could be raised at one cent per
pound. Stevens has been Chairman of
the Committee on Ways and Means, is
now chairman of an important finan-
cial committee, and is looked upon as
the highest authority by the radical
party. We have in him, therefore, a
guage Of its wisdom.


This remarkable declaration is thus
noticed by that intensely radical print,
the Cincinnati Gazette, which says:


This must be on the supposition
that free labor needs neither wages nor
subsistence For, if picking was the
only labor of cotton raising, it could not
be done for a cent pound. The cost
of raising the crop now growing will be
not less than twenty-five cents a pound
which, under the margins now required
to cover expenses and the fluctuations
of the market, is as much as the plant
er wil receive at the present price of
thirty-four or thirty-ive in New. York,
and which will be reduced by so much
as the increased tax"


Stevens reliable informant that
cotton can be raised for one cent q
pound, is probably the same authority
that told Chief Justice Chase that the
bestowal of suffrage upon the negroes
of the South would add $I,000OO0 a
year to the products of that section.
The acceptance of these ideas by Ste-
vens and Chase shows their capacity
for running the goYernment-CiH Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Year: 1866




From the London correspondent Of the New York


News.


ApropoS of this subiect-war-I may
mention a curious invention that | saw
to-day, and that was seen yesterday by
the Duke Of Cambridge Mr.. Gales,
who invented the non-explosive gun
powder, has designed a vast improve
ment on the revolver system The
barrel of the gun Is open at both ends,
between the stock and the barrel he
inserts horizontal piece of steel,
which contains ten cartridges and bull
lets. Bypulling the trigger they may
be discharged in quick succession, and
at the rate of about sixty per minute.
The construction is most simple. There
is no chance of the gun getting out of
order, and it is perfectly safe. 1t is aP-
plicable to large guns as well as small
arms The Duke of Cambridge and
the officers who were with him declared
that in their opinion it was the most
important improvement in firearms
that has been invented for many years
Not being mechanical, l cannot give
YOU fuller description of the inven-
ton, but in q few days, doubt not, q
complete account of it will be pub.
hshed.


The inventor, Mr. Gaels, is stone
blind, yet his description of his weapon
Year: 1866

In the Eastern Slope newspaper we find a
report o. many Of the curiosities and the great
riches of the Black Rock country. in the
northwestern portion of California. The re-
ports o. the singular, features of that section
are of many years standing, but are SO mar
velous that they have seldom obtained cred
ence. Among the wonderful stories we have
heard is one that there is a petrifed tree
there seven hundred ieet in length The
present report in part confirms previous state
melts, and establishes the fact that Black
Rock is one OF the wonders OF the Pacific
cost, like the Yosemite, the Big Trees, the
Geysers, etc. Besides the curiosities there
appears TO be an abundance of silver at Black
Rock, but the ore is said to be of an unusual
variety and very difficult to work; but it has
been worked with very good results at the
mills at Washoe. The quantity of ore is so
great that it is said it will justify the erec-
lion Of a thousand mills A gentleman
who visited the section, has exhibited
to the editor of the Eastern Slope verv
many natural curiosities peculiar to the coun-
try, strange pelriHCaliOns from the ravines,
curious waler-worn pebbles from the noun
tain tops; knives, aTroW-heaGS and daggers
manufactured by Indian skill from solid flint;
a superior quality. apparently, of oil black
ing, said to contain six hundred dollars in
silver to the ton pebble tin, with its curious
fracture, that admits no change of form, and
a thousand strange and new things The
editor says: He also tells US of many strange
| things that be saw but could not bring with
him, and many stranger things he heard of
but did not see. Among the latter list Of
wenders is great basin that contains q pet
rifed forest apparently foated there, many
vast trees Of solid stone ranging from six to
fifteen feet in diameter, and from three to
six hundred feet in length. Doubtful as this
tale may appear, shall we dare to dispute its
correctness when we know this strange coun-
try has boiling spring of fresh water, fifteen
! ieet in diameter, that can not be sounded,
from which no drop of water ever runs; that
in the same vicinity there is a flowing stream
OF cold and apparently good water, the drink
ing of which induces venereal disease, and
that any water found by digging, is as salt
as salt can make it; that a hali-dolar de-
posted in the soil is eaten up by the salt,
and sitter thirty days no vestige Of it can be
found.
Year: 1866

WITNESS the phenomena of capitalization,
to appreciate which we need 60 no further
than the freezing of water and the formation
of snow. Prot Tyndall deity and delicate
ly diSsects a block of ice by means of
beam from his electric lamp, pulling the
crystal ediice to pieces by accurately re-
verSing the order of its architecture. Silent
Iy ard svmmetrically the crystalizing force
had built the atoms up; silently and symmet-
Fically does the electric beam take them
down. Here we have a star. and there a
sIaF, aud as the action continues, the ice ap-
pears TO resolve itself into stars, each one
possessing six rays, each one resembling d
beautiful six-petaed flower BY shifting the
lens to and iro, new star. flowers are brought
INTO view; and as the action continues, the
edges of the petals become serrated, spread
ing themselves out like fern leaves. Probab-
ly few are aware OF the beauty latent in a
block of common ice.


0nly lhins, continues our eloquent coun-
tryman, of lavish nature operating thus
throughouh the world Every atom of the
solid ice which sheets the frozen lakes of the
north, has been fixed according to this law.
Nature lays her beams in music" and it is
the junction of science to purify our organs
so as to enable US to hear the strain. To
many persons a block OF ice may seem of no
more interest and beauty than a block of
glass; but, in reality, it bears the same rela-
ton to glass that an oratorio of Handel does
to the crier in a market place. The ice is
music; the glass is noise. The ice is order;
the glass is confusion. In the glass, mole
cular forces constitute an ineAtricsbly entsngl-
ed skein in the ice they are woven into a
symmetric web of the wonderful texture
Just described.-AH the Year Round
Year: 1866

The Union Convention of the 9th Con.
gressional District met to-day and unani.
mously nominated General r. P. Buck
land for reelection to Congress. This we
expected, and we welcome the result as
not only proper reward for the services
of a faithful Representative and earnest
Union man, but as an assurance of the
steadfast and unwavering loyalty of the
of the Ninth District to the
great principles of the Union party of the
nation.
Year: 1866

answer, but his Honor reconsidered the de-
cision, and concluded that he would give
him the privilege Of leaving the city. But
the pOmpOus darkey stood on his dignity
and commenced denouncing the Court and
all connected with it, to such an extent that
the deliberations Of the Court were disturb
ed His Honor ordered him to he closely
confined In a cell at the station house, and


heoriginal sentence to be carried out, which
will give this equality darkey" a chance to
''wiggle OUT Of a base swindling operation
before the City Court. He is the most i'm
pertinent darkey that has turned up in this
section for a long time But we hope that
he win learn thing or two" before he
shakes the dust Of the Gulf City from his
"mud hOoks.7
Year: 1866

The work the people are waiting to have
done this convention may greatly help, II 1t
will elevate itself above sectional passions,
ignore all party schemes, despise the sordld
and petty scramble for Offices and fairly rep
resent the national instinct. It's action can
net fail TO be beneficial to our country. The
passions generated in a great and divided
people by lOngand bloody civil war are deep
and formidable They are not confined
TO one seetion-the yictors as well as the
vanouished are swayed by them. They con-
meet themselves with the purest and tender
est sensibilities Of our nature, with our love
of country, with our love Of those who have
laid down their lives in the contest, with the
suferings which war in multiplied forms al
wavs brings to the homes Of men, and still
more 10 the homes Of women, and which
civil war, most Of all, brings to the homes
cf all; and these great continued pas
sions and the sharp and ready tools Of party
spirit, Of selfinterest, peryerslty, and, most
Of ali. of that fierce infatuation which ends
in hatred, and its only enjoyment in revenge.
No statesman who Is acquainted with the
nature Of man and the necessity Of all civil
government, can contemplate such passions
without the deepest concern, or fail TO do
WuaE he ully may 70 dAlag lASLAs AAaAN
enough the work will prove to be at the best,
but a scrupulous regard for the rights Of all
and magnanimOus clemency are twice
blest; they both eleyateand soften the power
ful, and they reach and control what law and
bayonets cannot control. believe there is
now a general conviction among the people
that this great and difficult work is practica-
bic. That it will long remain so if the pre-
sent state Of things continues l have not the
hardihood to trust. l lock to this conven-
ton with the hope that it will do much to
help onward this instructive desire Of the
people ofthe United States for harmony and
it will assert strongly and clear
ly those principles which are the founda-
tons Of our government, that 1t will exhibit
the connection between their violation of
the present distracted condition Of our
that it will rebuke the violence Of
party spirit, and especially Of that spirit Of
hatred which is as inconsistent with true
love Of our country as it is with true love
Of our brethren, and that it viii do much to
convince the people Of the United States
that they must act soon, in the wisest way,
or suffer evils which they and their posteri- |
.y will long deplore.


With great respect.


/ am your obeydient servant,


b. 4. CURTIS.
Year: 1866

In one-fourth Of the time that it takes with the
old mode of treatment. In this treatment no
medicine is taken internally. You receive the
baths seated on your chair, with no Inconvenience
whatever
Year: 1866

Young married ladies whose misfortune it has
been not to bring forth in due season, remember
God has said you should multiply and replenish.
If this is your desire, you can consult me either
by letter or in person. No lady over thirty-fve
years Of age need make application. All cOmmu-
nieations by letter person strictly confidential.
Year: 1866

strating, as the representative of the monetary


and mercantile interests, against dissolution of
Parliament in the present state of the county


He reminded the Chancellor of the ExcheQuer
that trade and commerce were only just emerging
from state Of disastrous pressure and panic that
the greatest caution and prudence were necessary
the part of those whose duty it was to regulate
the course of exchange, and to give the accom-
modation required for carrying on the trade of
the country, and that very slight circumstance
or unforeseen accident might again shake public
confidence, and cause another and more aggrava-
ted commercial panic. The Governor pointed
out chat general election always accompa-
MED by large sales of government stocks and Sc
curities, and by the withdrawal of heavy balances
frora the London and county bankers. He there
fore urged that the present was most inoppor-
tune moment for dissolution of Parliament
There is no doubt that this opinion of the Cover
nor had considerable influence in deferring the
decision of the Cabinet
Year: 1866

A SCENE NOT IN THE PRoaRAdME.-A California
paper tells the following of Lieut.. Derby, "John
Phoenix" the humorist "One evening at the
theatre, Phoenix observed man sitting three seats
in front, whom he thought he knew; he requested
the person sitting next to him to punch the other
individual with his cane. The polite stranger did
so, and the disturbed person turning his head
little he discovered his mistake-that he was not
the person he took him for. Fixing his attention
steadfastly On the play, and affecting his uncon-
sciousness of the whole affair, he left the man
with the cane to settle with the other for the dis
turbance, who, being wholly without an excuse,
there was Of course a ludicrous and embarrassing
scene, during all of which Phoenix was profoundly
interested in the play.


At last the man with the cane asked, rather in
dignantly, did mt you tell me to punch that man
with my stick?"


Yes ........


"And what did you want?'


I wanted to see whether you would punch him
or not"
Year: 1866

Seven hundred and sixty-nine bills have been
reported and one hundred and eighty joint res
olutions during the present session of Congress,
a number greatly in excess of that acted on by any
preceding session.