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Year: 1878

1t is said that there is clock in the
Guildhall Museum, London, of which
the motive power is hydrogen gas, gen
Grated by the action of diluted sulphuric
acid on ball of zinc. The clock itself
resembles large colored glass cylinder
without any cover, and about half full
of sulphuric acid. Floating on the top
of this acid is glass bell, and the gas
generated forces forward this concave
receiver until it nearly reaches the top
of the cylinder, when, by the action of
q delicate lever, two valves become
simultaneously opened. One of these
allows the gas to escape, thereby caus-
ing the receiver to descend, and the
other permits fresh ball of zinc to fall
into the acid. The same operation is
repeated as long as the materials for
making the gas are supplied. and this
is effected without winding or manipu-
lation of any kind. The dial plate is
fixed to the front of the cylinder, and
communicates by wheels, ETC., with
small glass perpendicular shaft, which
rises with the receiver and sets the
wheels in motion.
Year: 1878

up and down, cursing and threatening
while the planters meanwhile were sit
ting inside playing cards and drinking
choice wines. What will become of all
the central factories nOwp | fear the
money spent on them has been thrown
away. Our poor little Garden of the
West Indies lived and bloomed on
through earthquakes and hurricanes,
but l fear it has now received its death
stroke.


"When the Government sent for
help English and French men-of-war
came to the rescue, and the wretched
negroes were hunted among the hills
like deer. You may blame me, but
cannot help some pity for them. As
write the sun is setting, and the sea
around our island is like a sheet of
pearl and gold. Where waving fields
of sugar cane used to catch the CLEAN
of the setting sun when he gave them
his last kiss for the night, there is moth
ing but vast expanse of ashes. The
corn is all burned, and even the negro
villages you used so greatly to admire
are desolate.


"These villages used to be very pref
ty, for the negroes had a beautiful
fashion, handed down from old, old
times, and, believe, originally brought
by them from Africa. Whenever q
child was born, on that day they plant
ed tree as near the house as possible.
They had a superstition that, if
the tree grew and fourished, the
| child would live and thrive; but
if the tree faded and died the
| little one should also perish.
One could see the anxious mothers at
sunset pouring water on the ground,
and watching with eyes sharpened by
affection the small green shoots begin
ming to spring up. Every one had a
different taste. Some chose one sort of
tree, some another, and, as the custom
is such an old and general one, our ne
gro villages were cluster of tall spread
ing tamarind, mango, or sapodilla trees,
with here and there lofty palm. Most
of them have perished, so, after all,
there does seem some truth in the old SUI
perstition. The palms that still remain
seem to wave their heads mournfully
over the blackened ruins of our once
lovely isle. At times feel as if it was
only fearful dream, but, alas! it is a
dream from which one cannot awaken.


"Do you remember Mount Stuart,
with its garden, where flowers from all
parts of the world fourishedP 1t is all
destroyed. A few estates near Chris
tiansted still remain to tell the tale of
former splendor Golden Rock The
Hope and some others.


1--WE are all lost in doubt as to what
will become of us. 1 suppose those
who have means to do so will leave the
island, and Santa Cruz will soon be
like San Domingo--given up to be a
wilderness. ~. Y. Sun.
Year: 1878

The broken Glasgow Bank had a
branch In medium-sized town in the
north of Scotland, and to this branch
orders were telegraphed on the morn
ing of the failure to at once close the
doors. But in this town the post and
telegraph office was presided over by a
canny old lady, who was assisted in the
latter duties by her daughter. Accord
ingly, when the astounding missive ar
rived and was being duly transferred
to writing, the old lady quickly put on
her bonnet, went across to the Hank-a
few doors off-and drew out the whole
of her deposit. Five minutes later she
was with the rest of the little commu-
ominous words, Bank closed.n
Year: 1878

An appreciative mind can throw
world of pathos into a very ordinary
statement. Eyes" said she, leaning
over the fence, in communion with
neighbor, 'she is dead. She died just
as She had got torn up TO clean house.
IL is terrible.n
Year: 1878

Probably 10 portion Of the lu-
man anatomy is 50 delicate, sen
sitive, and at the same time so
capricious in its action as the hl-
man ear. We have known a
woman who could stand up in the
garret looking out Of q dormer
window, and hear her husband kiss
the hired girls in the cellar, eight
rooms and two fights Of stairs
away, and the next night that very
Year: 1878

same woman would take her baby
to church and hold it on her lap
while it screamed and howIed fifteen
minutes of the sermon into oblivion,
and be astonished when she was
told that the dear child had been
CRYING.
Year: 1878

ORC FlN0.


After brief, but very pleasant
stay at the DalIes, I struck out for
Portland, where remained during
the greater portion Of the following
winter.


In the spring of 1861 the Orc
Fino excitement broke out at Port
land, and having made the &C
Ouaintance of a number OF miners,
I contracted the gold fever from
them. Captain Pierce, an old
prospector, discovered the Orc Fino
mines the year previous. They
are located on Orc Fino creek, a
tributary of the Clear Water, in
Idaho (then Washington Ter
ritory. In the spring | took pas
sage on the first boat for the Cas-
cades, via the Willamette and
Columbia rivers. The scenery
along this route is beautiful in the
extreme, but has been SO often
described | will not attempt an ac~
count of it here. The town of
Vancouver, just opposite the
mouth of Willamette. where the
down steamers land to receive pas
sengers and freight for the Dalles;
Mount Hood, which Jake Mix told
the English officers was once a hole
in the ground; the famous Rooster
rock, and other places equally no
ted, are points of interest which
never fail to attract the attention
oftravelers.


At the Cascades are two very
pretty little towns, one Of which
was once the scene Of a horrible
Indian massacre. The red fends
came upon the inhabitants before
the latter had time to prepare for
defense, and indeed before they
had any reason to suspect the
presence of the Indians. a few OF
the men without families escaped,
but nearly all the women and child
rem were killed and horribly
mutiIated. 1t is said that one un-
fortunate child was lmpaled alive
upon the pointed limb Of a tree.
Geo. Winds, who is well.known in
Chotcau County and other parts
of Montana, was one of the few
persons who escaped the slaughter.
Col. Wright, Of the 9th Infantry,
afterwards captured eighteen Of the
Indians, and hung them all except
one boy, who was first made to wit
ness the execution, and then per-
mitted to go and tell his people of
it.


The Cascades are the favorite
fishing grounds Of the Indians.
The tide water from the Pacific
Ocean comes up to the foot Of the
falls, and the salmon are in fine
condition when they emerge from
the salt water and leap the Cas-
cades to reach their breeding
grounds. When the fish reach the
stream above, they remain for al
few moments nearly motionless,
apparently exhausted after their
wonderful leap, and the moment
is seized by the Indians to spear
them or capture them with net.
10 facilitate the work of catching
the FISH, they have platforms erect |
ed which project out ever the boil
ing torrent and enable them to see
the salmon as they spring up. A
Year: 1878

T wonder what our rights may be,
The mystery grows more deep;
For everywhere some can't agree


What each may plainly keep;
For arguments are risky things


Which turn on pivots small,
And every time the last one brings
A weight that turns them all.
7 wonder why the wrong sometimes
Can counterfeit the right
With such success that error t~lnes
Its tendriIs round it quite,
Until the two as closely grown


Inseparable seem,


And neither are quite fully known


Till Justice comes between
Year: 1878

deep ocean occasionally follow the
tide water up this stream, ard it is
no uncommon thing to see porpoise
and even seal sporting near the
Cascades.


The falls are not perpendicular,
but consist Of two steep rapids,
about seven miles in length, be
tween which there is a whirling ed
dy of comparatively smooth water.
The lower rapid, though very swift
and dangerous, is frequently navi,
gated by canoes, but the most tear
less Indian dare not trust himself
upon the upper fall, which rushes
over the ragged rocks with tremen-
dous force. Yet, in the month OF
May, 1858, the steamer Umatilla
passed over the upper Cascade
with a cargo Of passengers and
freight. The boat pulled out OF
the little cove above to 60 up
stream, but on reaching the chan
mel, the pilot found there was not
a sufficient head Of steam on to en-
able the vessel to stem the current,
and there was consequently no
means of preventing her from going
down stream.


The pilot was q brave man, OF
great presence Of mind and mas
ter of his profession On finding
the boat was bound to 60 over the
Cascade, he swung her head around
and allowed her to plunge bow
first into the boiling waters, guild
inc her as well as he could among
the huge boulders and rocks until
reaching the eddy below, where
she remained long enough for
small boat to put out from the shore
and rescue the passengers. One
man, who became frightened as the
steamer passed over the Cascade,
Jumped off and was drownol, bqt
all the other passengers were say
ed, and the boat itself was after
wards recovered and made a fortune
for her owners during the Frazier
river excitement. Dennis Halpin,
now living at Fort Benton, was a
deck hand on the Umatllla when
she made her famous voyage over
the Cascades.


This mishap was lesson to other
boatmen, and such precautions
were taken that similar accidents





did not occur again. Our own
steamer landed in safety within
the beautiful little cove below the
rapids, where horse car railway
conveys the passengers around the
portage to another steamer above.


We arrived at the Dalles IN the
evening, where the scramble for
cayuses, pack saddles, etc, began.
Many ofthe 'web-feet, as the Orego-
means were called in those days,
brought their rigging with them,
but the old Frisco forty-niners, Of
which there were many seeking the
new gold fields, had their outfits to
get.


The distance from the Dalles to
Walla Walla is $50 miles, and as
far as the UmatiIla crossing over
the same road / had travelled with
the emigrant train. It was a sight
we'll worth Witnessing to see the
fortune hunters stringing out along
the route. Many Of them were
wholly unused to this mode Of
travelling, and the struggles with
obstinate pack saddles and bucking
cayuses would have made mule
laugh. It was not until after pass
ing John Days river that the
horses and their masters seemed to
have come to q proper under
standing Of the situation, as up to
this point the trail was marked
with gold-pans, picks, shovels, and
provisions Of all kinds, which had
been left behind BY the frisky
bronchos, owing to the unskillful
manner in which their packs had
Year: 1878

this party Of experienced miners,
and was in high spirits WhenI left
Walla Walla in their company.


Our journey was not unattended
with difficulties. On arriving at
the Touchie, we found the creek
very high, and were obliged to re-
sort to the method of double pack
ing the animals in order to keep
them from being washed away by
the current while fording the
stream. The next trouble was at
Two Canyon, where Kennedy's
spotted cayuse parted company
with his pack, but the accident was
not Of a very serious nature and
was soon overcome.


In due time we arrived at the
Snake river ferry, then owned by
Craig and Tom Bell, and from this
point we travelled up the south
side of the Clear Water, crossed
the Pot Latch, and kept on to the
foot of the mountain between the
Clear Water and the Orc Fino
mines. Here our difficulties
commenced in earnest. The noun
tain was very steep and the snow,
which was falling more or less
nearly very day, made the ascent
extremely hard on nFman and beast.


A short distance from the sum
nit we came on a camp Of stam-
peders who had abandoned their
horses and were carrying all their
worldly possessions on their backs.
At this point the snow had been
thawing during the warmest part
Of the day, and the lara was turned
into swamp soft enough to mire
saddle blanket. We Ave- ever were
not inclined to aban i. eur horses,
and concluded to ca if It'll morn~
ing, hoping that Il ght's frost
Would harden the r0adrsuficientIy
to give the animals footing. This
delay was well advised. By day
light the following morning we
were riding over hard ground, and
We made good progress before the
sun again turned the snow into
soft slush. Another camp, and an
other mornings march over frozen
ground, brought us to Bummer's
Hill, overlooking Pierce City.


Bummer's Hill at TINS time con
tanned over one thousand inhab;-
tants, all prospectors, or persons
seeking ground for mining pur-
poses. There was not a single
permanent habitation on the hill,
the most pretentious dwelling be
ing nothing better than small tent
or brush tepee. The hill was
covered with snow to the depth Of
several feet, except where it had
been trampled down, or turned
into slush by tile action Of the sun,
and the weather was only occasion
ally agreeable. During the day
the boys would scatter outover the
country in search Of claims, and in
the evening would come to the
camp, tired and worn outswith the
days exertions, and compare notes
of their search for coveted wealth.


It was the jolliest crowd | ever
camped with. The old miners
would keep the pilgrims in q state
Of constant excitement, with their
extravagant stories Of the Califor
MA or other mines, and it was no
uncommon thing for party Of
greenhorns, after listening to tale
Of discovered wealth related pur-
posely for their benefit, to start of
at midnight and locate claim IN
some barren spot which they had
been told was rich in yellow metal
There was also considerable rivalry
among the experienced hands, but
there were few really bad charac-
ters among them and quarrels We're
not Of frequent occurrence. The
day after our arrival I lad the good
fortune to meet with one Of old
Year: 1878

rIf -


Probably the Democratic :majority
in the House of Represen tatives will
not be more than ten to twelve. 1t
will be enough for all practical pur-
poses, and will make great deal Of
care necessary to keep the party har-
monious. 1t will almost make the
re. nomination Of Mr.. Randall for
Speaker, necessity. With a majority
of 60 or 20 there would have been
several candidates among the Demo
Gratis, and one of them might have had
some chance against even so capable
and acceptable an officer as Mr.. Ran
dali. But. as the next House will
stand, no experiments will be tried.
Mr.. Randall is jut the man for the
place. ..aA41 rruo 'i,


1t is stated upon good authority
that the Administration is now defu'
itely committed to the "stalwart',
policy of treatment for the South.
The Administration was of so little
account in politics that this is of no
importance politically But it may
mean much of mischief and disaster to
the South. Mr.. Hayes, though with
out influence in his party, is actually,
at the head of the Government, and
could have saved that section from in
Vulnerable undesarved hardships.
What form his Interference with its
affairs will take is not known. He is
said to use considerable violence in his
language when speaking on the sub
ject. Zach Chandler and Don Cam
eron were closetsd with him for two
hours the other day, and his CONVEX
sion was announced Immediately there.
after.


The Radicals are making
great noise about what they call the
reclamation of New York" The
claim is delusive and will have but
short run as an inspirer Of the rural
Radicals. 1t is true that the Repub-
licans carried the State in what they
call sweeping" manner, and that
Senator Conkling viii doubtless be re.
elected as the result. But it is not
Republican victory; it is Conkling
victory-that, and nothing more-and
no Democrat will detract one iota
from the honor that belongs to Mr..
Conkling as a party leader, however
radical and uudomecratic he may be.
1t is just as true that no Democrat
with judgment looks upou the result
there as 10 the least dishesrtening in
a party sense. Mr.. Conkliug will not
be a part of the issue next year, nor
for some time to come. and they have
nothing to fear against any other Radi-
cal, for nobody except be could carry
the State against the well-knovn
Democratic majority. New York
rxn be counted Democratic 10 the next
Electoral College, beyond question.


REX.
Year: 1878

A colored man named Richard Lang,
living near Hillsborougb, just across tho
Que,n Anne's county line, shot and killed
his wife on Saturday night. She was
killed almost instantly by the discharge of
shot gun, the load taking effect in the re.
gion of the heart. She dropped dead almost
instantly after the discharge of the gun,
and as there was no one present but the
man and his wife, there was no evidence
before the Coroner's jury but that of the
husband, whose ties imony wSs that his
wife being sick requested him to 60 to the
woods and kill her q squirrel; that he had
taken down the gun for this purpose and
while handling 1t an explosion of the cap
occurred, and the killing of his wife was an
accident. Ten of the jury were for render.
ing verdict of accidental death, but the
two Others raising objections, the man WAS
sent to Centreville Jail to await further
hearing yesterday Denton Union.
Year: 1878

have endeavored to deserve the handsome SUD-

 port they have thus received, by the careful discussion of all matters of public interest: by seeking to diffuse trustworthy intelligence and by diversi!ying the paper with all that va,

 ilety of information and entertainment which US columns could obtain
Year: 1878

The regular Gospel Meeting at the
Religious Book and Tract store, No. 602
Market street, will be held this Thurs
day evening All are cordially invited to
attend


A prayer meeting will be held in AS
bury tomorrow morning at six o'clock to
which all are invited. Working men are
earnestly invited to stop on there way
to their work. Come and let us pray to-
gether for q revival of the work Of God
In this place. The day will also be OBJ
surved as a fast by this congregation
Service also at 7.30p IN.
Year: 1878

THE GOLD and greenback party say


the Democratic party in Delaware is not


in favor of "honest money" Silver
money, they say, is not 'honest money"
, 1t is strange that the gold people and the


Greenback party should be so far apart


in political sentiment when they are vir-
tually so near each other. The gold peo-
pie want no money but gold and green
backs. The Greenbackers want none
but greenbacks. AS there is only about
one hundred millions of gold coin to be
relied on for circulating medium, there
is only that difference between the gold
people and the Greenbackers. The
Democratic party is in favor of gold and
silver; and the gold people say silver is
so plenty that it becomes "nuisance. ;"
Very well, we prefer the silver nuisance
to the greenback nuisance, with only one
gold dollar to redeem seven greenback
Year: 1878

IT WAS hardly necessary for the Re
publican to print its long and prosey ar
ticles to prove the negroes would rather
lose their votes than promptly pay their
taxes. The Republican leaders found
out long ago that they had to carry the
negro vote If they used il. Col. Lohand
knew this when in Kent county he paid
their taxes, poqketed the receipts and de-
manded the nomination for Congress on
the strength Of their possession. The
late Republican candidate for Mayor
shufiled the same cards and played the
last deal. There is nothing more use
less than the whining of the Republicans s
black and tan political iipper.
Year: 1878

WOULD it not be a good idea for the
Government to buy gold bullion and coin
it, as 1t buys silver, instead of coming
gold for nothing. Any one who attempts
to sell gold will find that it will not COM
mand anywhere else than at the Mint
within 25 per cent. of its worth when
coined. The mint coins gold for nothing,
and hence the price of the gold bullion
is kept up. But the people are taxed to
pay for this work for the rich gold miners
and brokers. Let gold be coined on the
same terms with silver if the govern
ment can make twenty per cent. by this
certainly the bondholders who want thei
bonds paid in gold ought to be willing t.
help such economy in gold as well as il
silver.
Year: 1878

Quick WoRK.-Bridge building has
been brought to such perfection that an
iron bridge So feet long was erected on
the West Chester and Philadelphia Rail-
road few days ago in two hours. 1t
cost $3.50. The old wooden bridge had
to be torn down before the erection of the
new one, the time for which is included
in the two hours. The work was all
done between train time, and the loco.
motives and trains passed Immediately
over the bridge in safety : the whole
work being completed before night The
small cost is not less surprising than the
quick work of the affair.
Year: 1878

SOME TINE ago the Republican want
ed to ''bury the dead past;" but now it
insists that the "bloody chasm" must be
bridged again. We are anxious to get
rid of all the questions arising out Of the
persecution of Democrats, and so long as
we have no personal knowledge Of the
guilt, we deem it slightly inconsistent to
attempt an affirmation of pardon.
Year: 1878

We are informed that the surveyed land in the Santa Cruz valley near Tu bac and about the junction of Sonoita creek with the Santa Cruz, has been temporarily suspended from entry When the Surveyor General become: satisfied that surveyed land is claimed under grants from Spain or Mexico, hC is authorized to suspend it from entry and we understand the land referred to is mostly if not all so claimed Whether or not the claims will be found valid on the rigid investigation they will have to undergo before con firmatiOn by Congress, is another mat ter; but to prevent possible conflicts oi title, it is perhaps best that there be nc further entries permitted until the validity or invalidity and exact area of these claims be ascertained. Sever al weeks ago, TIE CITIZEN published Article Six of the Gadsden Treaty which imposes additional conditions with respect 10 the validity of private land claims over those imposed by the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty, and as many of our readers are interested in these claims either under the treaty or public land laws, that article is here given again:

 Article 6. No grants of land within Territory ceded by the first article ot this treaty bearing date subsequent to the day - September twenty-fifth - when the minister and subscriber to this treaty on the part of the United States proposed to the Government of Mexico to terminate the question of boundary, will be considered valid or be recognized by the United States, or will any grants made previously be respected or be considered as Otliga- tory which have not been located and duly recorded in the archives of Mexico

 THE CITIZEN has also heretofore shown that a thorough examination of the records, made in pursuance of a resolution of the United States Sen ate in 1873, failed to discover any rec ords of private land claims within the territory ceded, in the archives of Mexico. But for all this, parties in- sist they have valid claims, and until the contrary be shown, it may be the Surveyor General is justified in sus- pending the said land from entry.